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PIONEERS ON TRAIL A group of modern day pioneers
are shown as they left Mission, Kan., on an 80U-mile Jour-
ney along the Old Santa Fe Trail. They expect to complete
Former Inmate of
Nazi Death Camp
Sees Self in Film
New York-flJFD-Marc Berko-
wltz sat in a Manhattan movie
house and watched in hor
rified fascination as he came
face-to-face with his past.
Berkowitz, 2, was looking
at the documentary ,"Mein
Kamof." about; the rise and
fall of Hitler. .
His eyes -fastened on the;
hollow face,-of a pitifully
starved, bpy, shown being lib
erated from, the infamous
Auschwitz death camp in Pol
and after "the Russians had
seized the - area from the
Nazis.' i it
Suddenly Berkowitz scream
ed: "It's me! It's me! My God,
it's me!" He didn't care that
scores of people in the dark
theater were staring' at him.
Through the cooperation of
Columbia Pictures, Berko-,
witz was able to gt a clip
from the film and examine
the picture closely to confirm
that the 12-year-old boy at
Auschwitz was Indeed him.
Relives Honor ' v v...
Today he decided to relive
the horror of his past '.'so that
this dreaful' thing the tor
ture and killing of mlHJonSrM
will not be1 repeated.'
1 And so Berkowitz, now
salesman, ' happily married
and the father of two', told In
a auiot and almost . emotion
less voice the story of his
fight to stay alive in the death
camps of Eastern Europe.
In 1941, when he was only
9, Marc, his parents, three
sisters and' a brother' were
herded into their first deten
tion camp in his native Czech
oslovakia. Others in the camp
were forced into trucks at
night and dumped Into a river
to drown, but the Berkowitz
family somehow got transport
. ed across the river -into Po
land, where they managed to
stay together a few months.
The Jewish ghetto in which
they lived was in Chotkow,
Poland, where on every "dark
Monday," many Jews were
marched into the town square
and shot. Marc's brother Ban-
dl nd his father Bernard
were shot the same day. '
Wears Christian Cross
"From that point on, I took
off tny star ofDavld and
wore the Christian cross.
Berkowitz recalled. "My
mother told me that we must
keep alive, and so unknown
. to her, I stole food daily,
When she found out, we set
out on foot for our home town
of Slatlnsky DolU in Czecho
slovakia." !
The Berkowltz's lived oft
the land, stealing food, pluck
ing scraps from pig troughs,
eating raw birds. The trial of
privation led only to the
Czech prison,, however.
Then came the concentra
tion camps of Poland, first
Blrgenau, where Berkowitz
and his twin sister were used
as human guinea pigs by Dr,
Josef Mengeis, the notorious
"experimenter.
"We were six days on that
filthy train to Blrgenau,"
Berkowitz said. "Many died.
When we arrived, there was a
table set up in the railyards
and behind It were Mcngele
nd Adolf Elchmann.
Bent to Laboratories
"They ordered most of the
passengers to get into trucks
heading for the crematoriums,
others Into trucks heading for
the laboratories. My sister and
I were sent to the labs, where
we lived for several weeks
with SO or 40 other sets of
twins being used for experi
ments.
"Then, one day, in the long
line of Jews being herded to
ward the ovens, I saw my
mother. She looked Into my
eyes and we said nothing.
There was nothing that could
; be said. She hnd stopped liv
ing years before."
In November, 1944, the Al
lies and the Russians were
crushing the Nazis and the
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Germans blew up the camp
at Blrgenau and .forced all
those they were . unable to
burn into a death march to
Auschwitz. Again, Marc
Berkowitz survived and in the
following January . the Rus
sians released him and took
the films that this week came
back to haunt him.
"The Russians gave us guns
and hand grenades and told
us to help them kill our cap
tors," Berkowitz said. "They
didn't understand. There had
been enough killing. I had
seen so much of lt. I threw
down the gun they gave me.
'That is why . It Is import
ant to bare these old scars.
talk about the terror and
hardship of my boyhood. So
the killing will stop, every
where. I don't even want
Elchmann killed or even
Mengele if they ever catch
him." i , .
GOLD DRAIN IMPROVES
Washington-flJPl) - The 'gov
ernment reported Wednesday
substantial improvement . In
.the gold-and-dollar drain but
said the nation,, continues to
be "vulnerable' In this area.
The . Commerce Department
estimated a net loss of gold
and . dollars trf foreigners in
the first three months of 1961
of about $300 million. It was
bill, luteal unibci.j uu.ibii
in the U.S. balance of pay
ments since 1957. . I
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the trip . by May 20, providing the trail enthusiast! have
good weather on their trip to Santa Fe, N.M.
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MAKES FRIEND C. B. Roy,
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Park in Chicago, has become good friends with many squir
rels, but none have the confidence of Myrtle, who often
jumps up on his shoulder to take a peanut from Roy's mouth.
Roy has been training Myrtle
eventually sat still long enough
her picture. ' -
New York Hotel Keept
New York- (UPI) -Guests In
the lobby of one New York
hotel at last have found out
from the manager . why the
electric clock in the lobby is
three minutes fast. --
An executive of the hqtel
'Si ' '
T
a frequent visitor at Lincoln
for many months until she
for, a photographer to take
.. (UPI Telephoto)
Guests on Schedule . '
explained that the clock is
"purposely fast to allow guests
extra time to keep their ap
pointments. "In the long run
the guests will always thank
us for helping them to be on
time." he said. '
MEDFORD MAIL
Capitol Memo
Pearson Considered
As Most Powerful
In Legislature
BytOUGLAS GRIPP
Salem (UPD If you follow
the Legislature at all, then
you have heard of Waiter J.
1 Pearson, state
v. man alnii a n si
tUBMl
P o r t land
Democrat.
He is con
sidered the
most power
ful single
legislator, and
in some quar
ters, the most
eared.
Douflai Grlpp
He is like most legislators
in that he wants certain
things. . He differs from most
in that he usually gets what
he wants, .
Always outspoken, Pearson
was more so the past three
months because he didn't get
Sen. Morse Urges
Fish Study Funds
Washington-UPD-Sen. Wayne
Morse-' (D-Ore.) Wednesday
urged appropriation of $1.6
million for a "crash" research
program to solve fish passage
problems at dams on -the Mid
dle Snake river.,.
Morse made the proposal to
a Senate appropriations sub
committee along lines recom
mended earlier by Interior
Secretary Stewart Udall.
"The reason we require a
crash program today is to
properly protect tomorrow's
salmon runs and water re
sources about which we did
too little yesterday," Morse
said.
Morse .criticized the Idaho
Power Co. for "complete fail
ure" to solve fish passage
problems at its Bxownlee and
Oxbow projects.
"Rather than pledging full
efforts to correct the situa
tion which it created, the Ida
ho Power Company has sug
gested that the cost xl facili
ties that would safely pass
fish will be so large it might
be better to forget them," he
said.
.Morse ' suggested that a
"louver system" of fish pas
sage in operation at Tracey,
Calif., offered hope that fish
passage problems could be
solved. ;. , - .V' J..
DISMISS PREMIER t- .'
London-fllPD-The premier of
the Soviet Union's Kirghiz Re
public has been dismissed the
Tass news agency . reported
Wednesday. The Soviet agen
cy gave no reason for the
firing of Kazy Dikambayev,
but it was believed caused by
agricultural failures in the
Asian republic
TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
what he wanted most: The
controversial three-way work
men's compensation bill. It
cleared the Senate but the
House labor and industries
committee buried it.
The short, beefy insurance
company president is at home
in a controversy. '
Pearson, 57-year-old former
state treasurer, is considered
leader of Democratic con
servatives in the state and has
feuded bitterly with Oregon
Democratic chairman Robert
W. Straub and other liberals.
The most recent blowup
was the struggle for presi
dency of the 1961 Senate be
tween Harry Boivin, Pear
son's close friend, and Alfred
Corbett, backed by Straub.
Pearson and Boivin, with
Republican help, won.
The only effective bloc In
the 1961 legislature was the
one composed of conservative
Democrats and Republicans
in the Senate.
Pearson, known as Bud to
his friends, was Senate presi
dent in 1960. He made head
lines while acting governor in
1960, taking command of the
emergency over the Roseburg
explosion and making a per
sonal inspection of the disas
ter scene.
He caused an uproar later
also as acting governor - by
commuting the life sentence
of a prison inmate - the son
of a former legislator - over
objections of the parole
board. -
.
While billed as a political
ogre, he is generous personal
ly and a devoted family man.
There is speculation he
may enter the primary in
1962 for the Democratic
gubernatorial nomination.
His 'reaction to this talk,
with ! a smile is: "I'm not a
candidate now. But I might
become one."
' He recently accepted a Ken
nedy administration post, a
part-time job as a member of
the board of directors of the
Federal Panama Canal com
pany. He is expected to con
tinue as a member of the
powerful state emergency
board - the legislative body
which decides on emergency
allocations of mpriey between
legislatures.' . , .
His enemies - and a strong
man makes many - keep ask
ing themselves how influen
tial he remains, . They should
n't have to ask. ' '--M.-
COOPER DECLINES
Hollywood-fllPD-Actor Gary
Cooper, stricken .'with ad
vanced cancer, continued to
decline today but not radical
ly, his physician reported.
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Eichmann Said In
Jerusalem-UP&-After being
on trial for his life for almost
five weeks, Adolf Elchmann
eats heartily, sleeps soundly
for eight hours a night and
has a normal blood pressure,
it was learned today.
Details of Eichmann's daily
routine 'were given to United
Press International by David
Ofer, assistant commandant of
police, who is in charge of the
prisoner. ,
Great Reader'
Eichmann is a great reader,
he said, and currently is in
terested In a German transla
tion of George Bernard Shaw's
"Politics for Everyman."' He
also has read Andre Maurois'
biography of Marshal Lyau
tey, French conqueror of Mo
rocco. The prosecution evidence in
the trial swung today to the
fate of Jews in Norway and
Italy. As usual, Elchmann
showed no Interest In the wit
nesses or what they had to
say, but followed documen
tary evidence closely. Defense
counsel Robert Servatlus sup
plies him daily with pertinent
documents and Eichmann
carefully tabulates and anno
tates them with red and blue
pencils.
The prosecution offered
testimony today -that only 12
out of 750 Norwegian Jews
who were shipped by the
Nazis to concentration camps
survived.
Earlier, the prosecution had
introduced an affidavit prov
ing that Eichmann went to
Copenhagen at the time the
Germans decided to round up
the Danish Jews. This was
designed to strike at his
story that his only function
In the-Nazi terror was to ar
range the trains and direct
the traffic as the Jews were
moved across Europe to their
deaths.
The Danish Jews received
a warning of the impending
roundup and most of them
escaped by boat to Sweden.
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