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FOURTEEN BEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Monday, July 7, 1952
Estimated 100 West
Laborers Under Reds
Citizens Said Slave
Berlin (U.R) An estimated
100 American, British and
French citizens who for various
reasons decided to try life under
the Communists are reported to
be virtual slave laborers in East
Germany.
"According to information
reaching here, these Western Al
lied citizens, many of them sol
diers, live in an Allied colony in
the Soviet Zone City of Baut
zen near the Czechoslovak bor
der. They are forced to work in
factories at starvation wages
and may not change their jobs
or leave thecity. Soldiers who
escape and return to the West
tell of constant police surveil
lance, frequent arrests, interrog
ations and beatings.
Some Deserters
The colony consists of some
Allied soldiers who deserted,
seme who strayed across the bor
der and fellow-travelers who en
tered East Germany to test life
under Communism.
Names of only a few Allied
jesidents of Bautzen are known.
This makes it impossible for the
Allies to demand their return.
The Russians pay no attention
to such demands unless they are
accompanied by the full name
and serial number of a soldier
believed to be in Soviet hands.
Soldiers who escaped reported
"many" Western Allied citizens
and deserters live In Bautzen.
A West Berlin organization
which gathers information about
East Germany estimates there
are 100 Americans, Britons and
French in the city.
Issued Cards
These Western Allied citizens
are given East German identity
cards and ration cards. They
work in Bautzen factories along
side East Germans and live in
boarding houses, according to
the returned soldiers.
Some residents are reported
to have married German girls
and become fathers.
Latest reports on Bautzen were
given- by Pvt. Ray B. Schultz
of Batavia, N. Y., and a British
soldier who escaped from the
city last month and returned to
West Berlin.
Schultz, who entered East Ger
Germany after breaking out of
an American Army jail, was sen
tenced by a court-martial last
week to five years imprisonment
and dishonorable discharge.
Followed By Police
Both soldiers told authorities
they were free to go and come
as they pleased in Bautzen but
were always followed by plain
clothes police trying to prevent
their return to the West.
Schultz said his take-home pay
of 180 marks (S9) a month from
a cotton factory did not leave
him enough money to buy. a beer.
But there was no such thing as
trying to find a better job.
He said he and several others
were kicked, beaten and slugged
with gun butts during his six
months in the Soviet Zone when
ever the Russians tried to get in
formation from them.
A few Allied residents were
said to get good treatment be
cause they made propaganda
speaking tours for the Reds.
Among those reported in
Bautzen are Pvt. 'Sidney R.
Spraks of Tenniville, Ga., and
Pvt. Charles J. Scott of Decatur,
111. Both broke out of jail with
Schultz.
Hole Cui in Roof
To Free Big Boa!
St. Louis U.R) William
J. Schmidt feels like a man who
painted himself into a corner.
He built a 14-foot runabout
boat in his attic and then found
he couldn't get it out of the
door or windows.
"I took down the door, the
framing and all the molding,"
Schmidt said. "I tried the win
dows. There wasn't any b i g
.enough. My ears were burning
because I was getting plenty
of criticism from my wife, who
had been skeptical from the be
ginning." .
Schmidt finally decided his
only alternative was to cut a
hole in the roof.
"I got four relatives to help
me and we made a 6-by-2-foot
hole in the roof," Schmidt said.
"We lifted the darn thing out
of the attic and lowered it by
ropes to the backyard. We spent
the rest of the day replacing the
sheeting and asphalt shingles."
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New Egland Quads Born Alive; Second Sel in 19 Months
MAY BREAK THE RECORD The S. S. United States backs from pier a New York to start her'
maiden voyage to Europe in what may be a record-breaking crossing. Margaret Truman, the Presi
dent's daughter, was among the 1699 passengers on board.
Portland, Maine (U.R)
Quadruplets three girls and
a boy were born alive Mon
day to a carpenter's wife, the
second birth of quadruplets in
New England in 19 days.
Mrs. Elizabeth B. Pinkham,
35, gave birth to the latest set
of quads in Osteopathic hospital
during a 45-minutes period start
ing at 3:31 a.m.
Dr. Edwin F. Morse, who per
formed . the delivery, said the
multiple births were entirely un
expected though the mother
had believed she might have
twins. He said the mother and
her babies were "doing fine"
and that the latest set of quads
were "good sized, unusually so
for quadruplets."
Third Set
. The quadruplets born to Mrs.
Pinkham were the third set born
in New England in a year and
a half.
Quadruplets occur only "once
in about 680,163 births and the
set born to Mrs. Pinkham fol
lowed by 19 days the quadrup
lets born to Mrs. John J. Man
ning, South Weymouth, Mass.
The father of the new set.
Guatemala Experiment To
Aid Production of Coffee
Washington (U.R) "Opera
tion Hedgerow" is making agri
cultural history on a scenic plat
eau in Guatemala.
The experimental project at
Finca Chocola is aimed at boost
ing coffee production Latin
America's bread-and-butter crop
and the United States' largest
agricultural import. It is headed
by 37-year-old Dr. William Cow
gill, go-getting Agriculture De
partment horticulturist.
Cowgill's "Operation Hedge
low" is an innovation in coffee
growing that is astonishing pro
ducers. He hopes to raise yields
from 100 per cent to 200 per
cent in Guatemalan coffee trees.
Some of Central America's
foremost scientists are also at
work at the lofty research sta
tion, which since 1946 has been
the scene of the joint U. S.
Guatemalan project. A volcano
smokes lazily in the distance but
the inter-American team is kick
ing up plenty of dust of its own.
They have developed a rot;.
tion system of planting coffee
trees separated by 10 to 15 feet
of soil-protecting and improving
legume crops. After the coffee
trees reach the end of their most
productive life span, they will be
uprooted and the rows planted
to legumes. The old grass strips
then will be replaced by hedge
rows of new coffee trees.
Simple as it sounds, the sys
tem is revolutionary in Guate
mala and other Central Ameri
can coffee producing areas
Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicara
gua where coffee makes up 67
per cent of all annual exports.
Until now, the Indians have
planted their trees in orchard
fashion, spaced at irregular in
tervals and grown under large
shade trees.' Success of the
hedgerow method may enable
them to dispense .with the time
honored practice and grow trees
in direct sunlight, as it is done
in Brazil.
The researchers have found
that while coffee trees exposed
to full sunlight are more pro
ductive, their life span is ap
parently shorter than shaded
trees. They are now trying to
solve that problem by extensive
use of fertilizers and sprays.
Guatemalan coffee growers,
accustomed to "doing it the way
their fathers did," were cautious
about adopting the hedgerow
method. One by one local pro
ducers have tried it out and the
idea is gradually spreading, in
trial plots, to other plantations.
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Silas Pinkham, 45. was at the
family's home in Standish, Me.,
when the multiple birth occur
red. There was no telephone in
the house so relatives carried the
news to him.
Dark-haired Mrs. Pinkham is
nearly 6 feet tall and weighed
about 160 pounds before the
births.
President Truman Slips Into Senate; Makes Talk
Washington U.PJ : President
Truman' slipped unexpectedly
into the Senate ' Saturday, and
made a short speech saying that
he had spent some of the hap
piest days of his life there.
The President, who had just
dined with Senate Secretary
Leslie L. Biffle, told the sen
ators: ' '
"I hope after next January
you will let me come in and
have a square meal once in a
while, because they will be hard
er to get than they are now." '
For several minutes after Mr.
Truman entered the Senate, it
went on about its business,
which happened to be a eulogy
of Sen. Tom Connally (D-Tex),
retiring Saturday after 35 years
in Conress.
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