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f' r.: r* •- "V/%, Thursday, September 7, 1944 r#^-^ ^rv-sf; ,*'f/•#.•?: TBS McHEHKY PiJLlNDZALXE " r ^v5 r S * ' ' ^*4 S'«/ Ppge Three Jews of All Ages Washington Di9cs1j Are M u r d e r e d by . . . . . . . . : Mass suffocation imperial Hopes May Linger Never in History Has There But Where Will Nazis Flee? Been Such Barbarism „ As Poles Suffer. CHICAGO.--How Jews of all ages and both sexes have been asphyxj* ated en masse by hot steam in a deathhouse at Treblinka, Poland, was reported in detail to the Polish government in London by a former Polish policeman, an eye witness, Jacob Apenszlak, editor of "The Black Book of Polish Jewry," declared here. Both Apenszlak and Dr. Moses j Polakiewicz, one of his $>-editors. Spirit May Be Nurtured in Foreign Haven to ftreak Forth Again; Few Countries J Willing to Offer Foe Refuge. KNOLLWOOD ••• I I •••••••••••• I H HH By BAUKHAGE Nems Analyst and Commentator', WNU Service, Union Trust Building, Washington, D. C. v Returning to the capital after a werTTere as gueste of ^6^0 1 *_!le JSJfjl8 district of the American Federation for Polish Jews, of which J. H. Trauss is the district president. They told how "the book was written from "blood and tears -- our own tears," and from what sources they had compiled it, in a conference with representatives of the press and of various Polish-American groups. "There never was such ruthless barbarism in history as has beer, going on in Poland," commented Dr. James M. Yard, executive director of the Round Table of Christian? .and Jews. Ruthless Nasis. "It is hardly believable that' the things occurred that have occurred in Poland," said Corporation Coun sel Barnet Hodes. "When I read of the Japanese horrors I am wonder jng if the Japs didn't learn a lesson or two from the Nazis in Poland, and if their friends the.Nazis did not lay out the pattern." Apenszlak pointed out that some of the materials used in the "Black Book" were drawn from German Nazi documents, for "the Nazis made no secret of their intention to exterminate the Jews of Europe, using Poland as a death chamber." The story of the mass suffocations at Treblinka, he said, was taken from an official report submitted to the Polish government. It concludes with a warning that perhaps a similar fate is being prepared by the Nazis at Treblinka for non-Jews, since already some pon-Jews have been destroyed there. Method of Execution. "The new deathhouse provides," this passage reads, "for the liquidation of 8,000 to 10,000 victims. If we consider that right now 2,000,000 murdered Jews, or the greater part of Polish Jewry, are already buried in the area of Treblinka, the disturbing question arises: for whom do the S. S. men intend that new house of death; who are to utter their last breath in that slaughterhouse." The method of execution was described as follows: The Jewish prisoners, arriving at' Treblinka, are confronted by an ironical . sign: "Have confidence in your future." They are told to strip for a bath, are driven into the deathhouse with ! whips, till the deathhouse is crowd- ) cd; children are tossed in over their | heads. The execution chambers are closed; the steam issues into the ! death chambers through numerous ! vents of pipes. j "At the beginning, stifled cries 1 penetrate to the outside; 15 min- j utas later the execution is complete. "Due to the steam, all the todies ! have become a mass, stuck togeth- J er. To make it possible for the j gravediggers to get out single 1 bodies, cold water is poured over | the mass. After the ditch is filled, the gravediggers quickly cover the bodies with earth and the digging ! machine nearby prepares the next! grave." Air Hero Killed Saving Civilians From Crash A UNITED STATES FIGHTER j BASE, ENGLAND.--Lieut. Charles i F. Gumm Jr., a fighter ace who j was the first Mustang pilot to shoot ! down an enemy plane over Europe, died a hero's death eight days ago to save civilians from his crashing ' plane, it was disclosed. ! The story of his heroism in refus- ; ing to parachute from a plane which ! Vould have fallen in the English ! town of Nay land was told by Canon ! W. L. Wright of Nayland, who came to this base to tell the pilot's bud- i dies that the townspeople were j deeply touched by his sacrifice. ; He said many persons saw Gumm's plane falling toward the village, when an engine of his fighter failed during a test flight. There was no doubt in their minds, he j said, that Gumm could have bailed . out safely, but the plane would-have crashed into houses. Instead, Gumm stayed with tht ship, fighting it clear of the town It neared an open fieid, but was so low a wing caught a tree, flipping the plane over and throwing Gumm from the cockpit to his death. dream of empire was melting, it is htord to adjust the ear, caressed by the whisper of mountain brooks and sighs of the wind in the pines, to the staccato click of the news-ticker. Nature's sounds are organ-sounds, rising, falling, not sharp and metallic-- even the crack of the lightning merges into its obligato of thunder. Today as I pulled the first sheet of text from the teletype with its continuously exciting recital of the end of an epoch--it occurred to me that epochs, like the manifestations of nature, have no sudden ends, they may seem to disappear like a river which plunges under ground. But they are bound to appear again. Today we have evidence that the two forces which have sprung from two opposing elements in Germany, as I reported in an earlier column, are attempting like the lost rivers to seek a cour:" below the surface. The Prussian military caste, purged as it has been and soon doubtless to be stripped of its one source of income, the great estates of East and West Prussia, will surely try to continue its existence in refugee colonies. This is not a new phenomenon. The followers of dethroned kings have done this in the past. Where and how will this group seek to keep alive the will to achieve such a goal? Time is not the essence of what they believe to be their contract with destiny. They can wait generations, centuries. All they need is space, space in which, undisturbed, they can propagate their kind and their faith. And as the thinned ranks of German Junkerdom (only a tiny percentage of the German people) desperately plan their future an even more desperate group, at the other end of' the social spectrum, plans theirs. The Nazis have demonstrated that it was not Germany as a nation or Germans as a people in whom they were interested, but both as a means to the creation of a great, brutal, sweeping movement-- followers of an idol and an ideology. The fanatical Nazi spirit will try to hide and live and rise again. Where, in all the world, can these two movements find asylum? Not in Germany's neighbor states where hatreds have been sown which will take a century to cure. It is highly probable that the republican elements in Spain will gain the ascendancy and give short shrift to the former friends of Franco. Sweden surely, having maintained neutrality in this war, is too wise to harbor either group. Turkey perhaps. Where else might a German go and face least resentment? It is natural to answer with the name of the nation which was least willing to join in a solid anti-Axis combine -- A r g e n t i n a . J " T • • . ? • • • \ Foreign Spirits Grot* £ In Latin Instability ? "It is a mystery to me," said 'a man who has spent many years in Latin - America, "how Vargas (president of Brazil) or anyone else could keep the elements in the south satisfied as long as rfe has." "Of course it has been done," he went on, "the nation has been held together by a dictatorship and because the money has been pouring in from the United States. "When it is the ambition of most Brazilians to get a government job, and 60 per cent at a time manage to do it, it's natural you have; to change governments pretty often to ; give the other. 40 per pent a chance." Of course this cynical comment | must be taken with a grain of salt. But there is some truth in the 1 allegation. One of the things which kept the Third Republic of France together as long as it was, was the method of giving out government jobs which ' worked for stability and continuity, v The person who had the right I to sell a certain amount of tobacco ' was not permitted to use a shop or restaurant which he himself ran, in which to sell it. So he had to givfe a cut to the cafe-owner where the i goods were sold. The cafe-owner could not employ any one of his own family to handle the sales -- there were, other complicated regulations the result of which was that three or four families were benefitting by the single government license. Of course it is not the quality of instability of Latin-American governments in itself which disrupts our statesmen, but the fact that such instability makes foreign influence easier to achieve. We know what a foothold Germany had obtained in South America, and maps have been discovered showing the territory Hitler expected to control which placed all of South America up to and into southern Brazil under German domination. The power of Argentinian influence on the other South American countries was strikingly revealed in the recent move which caused the resignation of Foreign Minister Aranha of Brazil as a protest against his pro-United States policy. Enemy Broadcasters Without a Country The time grows shorter until Lord Hawhaw, Mr. Kaltenbach, Mr. Best, Miss Drexel, et al, take their places at the microphones of the Berlin radio to spread their futile propaganda over the ether for the last time. Here are three reminiscences: When I was broadcasting from Berlin for the NBC at the beginning of the war in 1939, there was only one of the staff of the German broadcasting station there who was provocatively Nazi. He was a tall, handsome blond, much given to riding boots and golf clubs. He had studied in England and his English seemed perfect to me. He was an announcer who read the news beamed on England. Then came the British declaration of war against Germany. There was naturally considerable excitement in the studio. It was not until I was going home that I missed. my. blond friend. No one seemed to know where he was. Then I heard the story. It seemed that when war was declared all enemy aliens were interned. The Gestapo, much to the surprise of his colleagues, picked up my blond anglophobe, explaining they had known all along that he was a British agent. Later he was brought back and forced to continue reading news bulletins in English. Number two in my gallery I never saw -- he is the man -- Best -- who mouths Nazi platitudes in a southern accent. But I understand the accent is all that is left of the man--he is--or was an American newspaperman who got into one of jjlhose European social impasses. A woman, of course, and an older and more determined one. He finally found his escape in drugs. That was an easy case for the Nazis. Now we come to exhibit number three: Constance Drexel. That name will be remembered by magazine and newspaper readers of some two decades ago. It is • pseudonym chosen because, I imagine, her real one would not Fred didn't bother taking the horse off his. Otto and Emma Pyritz pitching a little woo on their veranda. Ain't love grand? Joe O'Connor overhauling his furnace. ~ reproduction of it and I hope it will! help the whole community: . i fiidugftUKi! WE 00 OUR PART 1 W oim v # ¥ ft t can take a dig but--will you dig By "Yardstick" Labor Day, Oh! Labor Day you have come and gone. By now the children are all settled in their school rooms,' Pop is beginning to worry about the winter's fuel supply, Mom is digging the red flannels out of the cedar chest and surveying the damage done by the moths. It wont j be long now and old Jack Frost will j be out with his brush doing a paint I job on our trees that even Messrs. | Hubsh and Caverly could not hope to duplicate. The McCullom Lake community club held its annual meeting Sunday* at Horn's, at which an election of officers was held. Those elected for the next term were F. W. Bailey, president; P. J. Struck, vice-presi- 1 dent; Mrs. A. M. Bailey, secretary; I Mrs. L. Braun, treasurer. The .new I directors are Mike Schmitt, Mrs. W. i Doran. Jos. Wagner, Ed. Walton, and , E. J. Doran. Trustees, Al Horn, Aw- | ton Wike and Barney Graflf. The I proposed road repair program was ! received with enthusiasm by the ! members present, who numbered eighty-six. A surprising number of! new property owners signed up at j this meeting. It is the aim and|" / Malarial Sites purpose of this club to make our j Malaria occurs where the warmth • community a better place te live'arM^ dampness permit the right in and, where there is smoke there ki»d of mosquitoes to develop and js j where there are human beings with i " . malaria from whom the mosquitoes That genial gentleman from the | may carry the infection to other I south, Leo Sales, informs us that | people. In some counties in the (his sailor son, S 2-c Bob Sales, is; United States the rates have been enjoying the sunny skies and warm i reported as up to 100 for each 100,000 ; gulf breezes at Gulfport, Miss. Do- i people.' •ng golfing at Gulfport, Bob? J The McCullom Wild Cats played ; Harm Vegetables the Seavangers Sunday. It was a' iPomafoes may be bothered by tense moment in the eighth inning when Bill Hecht hit a fly ball and racing to second base when he banged into a tree that someone had planted there while he wasn't looking. So, he just sat down and listened to the birdies. The scavanjrers cleaned up with a score of 6 to 5. U. S. Revives Interest In Ramie, Tough Fiber . During the past few years considerable interest in ramie ,has been revived in the United Staifcs. This plant, a perennial shrub, was intro- Joe Schaeffer joy riding in his over- duced into this country in 1855 by land sub-chaser. j the department of agriculture. It is Geo. Harker. Among the missing. J extensively cultivated in China and Art Miller. Looking for p gallopy j Japan and to a, limited extent in Infor Douglas Arthur to practice on. ' China, it was one of the Adios. I Principal fibers used for making j cloth previous to the introduction of In reply to "Yardstick", about theI *nt° country about 1300 Burma shave sign, I was putting up, one Sundav afternoon. Here is a ! • th°"sand ye«s ago the slaves oi the Pharaohs dragged the huge stones for the building of the pyramids with unbelievably strong ropes made from the tenacious fibers of ramie. By way of contrast, the sheer wrapping cloths that were wound about their mummies and which through the ages have retained both strength and fineness, were made from this fiber. The name "ramie" is generally used by English-speaking people to designate the plant Boehmeria nivea. It belongs to the nettle family but does not have stinging hairs for a sigh . Here s hoping to see j growing from perennial rootstocks, it you with on®, and good luck to your, sends up herbaceous shoots or canes three-quarters of an I Find Many Slaughtered | Cows Carried Calvter H Is good practice to have valu- ; able cows examined for pregnancy ; before they are sold for slaughter. I According to a report recently re- T ceived from Oregon, about 20 per cent of the dairy cows ar.d heifers ,r sold as sterile for beef in that state were found to be carrying calves. A good many other cows thought to be barren are also found to be in ' calf when killed. A high per cent of these animals are heifers but' j some are good cows, quite a number of which would go on as top pro- • ducers for several years. A few cows continue to show heat periods even after they are in calf. This , naturally fools the person who is in charge of the herd. ! When an attack of breeding trouble strikes a h«rd, the chanced of getting adequate returns from the herd are greatly reduced. It is only by regular calving every 12 to 14 ,. ! months that good lactations can be/- maintained, and this usually makes,/ j time and money spent on periodic: examinations.. an excellent uivest- -1 , ment, * H. > t-t •i, ' ' vj ' * } **[ >. 'J* '{ ' , . JM * i: column', .we really enjoy it, PETE LEONARD. one-half to Inch in diameter to a height of five1 to six feet. These canes bear nearly rather thick in texture, dark green iabo\% and woolly white on the under surface. At maturity they produce near the tops branched clusters of very small greenish-yellow staminate flowers and later still higher up on the stems clusters of pistillate or seed-hearing flowers. | tomato worm, flea beetle and potato j beetle, and may also require Bor- I deaux or other treatment lor control of diseases. Cabbage worms {on cabbage, cauliflower, brussels , sprouts, broccoli, and Chinese cab- I bage can be controlled by either a I poison dust or spray, or by , J rotenone. Cabbage maggots can be Frank and Alice Souhrada ami i stopped by using tar-pa per pads Grain Corn To increase grain corn production, either plant part of the corn acreage round or heart-shaped leaves, 1 with a variety early enough to ma-: ture grain, if not all of the acreage is needed for the silo, or plant a variety for silage that will mature grain for corn in a good corn-growing season. ' " ' J'lr" \ I ^ •'< 1 Clean Wallpaper When cleaning wallpaper, Remove dust with a soft wall brush. Ordinary soil on wallpaper can be removed by using homemade or commercial cleaners. Work slowly, using even strokes. their two beautiful daughters, Joan and Jean, spent a very pleasant week at Jerry and Betty Cermack's house. They also spent plenty of what it takes on some "also rans" at the Washington Park race track last Wednesday, we hear. Joe "Bubbles" Horn didn't do so well either. Inhere was one shirt less in his laundry this week. Better luck next time, folks! Extra! He's back. Who's-back? You're esking me so I'm tellin'. It is no one else but that friend of the mothers who would mind their abies while they watched the boat races at McHenry Sunday. That great humanitarian who spent a week's vacation at the Riverside in McHenry, Jim Pupik. Better return the towels and silverware, Jim. Welcome home! Mr. and Mrs. Martin N era tad received a letter from their son, Pfc. Peter Nerstad, of the U. S. marines, informing them that he is convalesing at a naval base hospital in Guam from wounds received in the southwest Pacific. We all wish you a speedy recovery, Peter. It ha\ been two long years since the Nerstad family has seen their boy. It is our prayer that you may soon be reunited. Mr. and Mrs. Hilmer Carlson and their lovely daughter, Edna, of Chicago enjoyed a very pleasant weekend with the Larsons in Knollwood. Pfc. Jack Burgeson is enjoying his 11-day leave from Camp Fannin, Tex., at the home of Miss E. Buch here. Jack will be transferred to Camp McCoy at the expiration of his leave, so we hope to see him more often. Lee and Lill Sawdo are enjoying the company of Lee's mother, Mrs. S33..T. " K P'""nL 5 Ph"*" ! Annie Sawdi. of S,ur*«>n B.> : Wi..'. delphia where she worked on a 1 newspaper. She had interviewed the Queen of Spain and other notables in her day (that dates her), but had started going to seed when she called on me hoping for an assignment from the syndicate for which I worked in the middle '20s. She still had some of her youthful good looks and knew how to make the most of them. The next time I ran across her was in the Potsdammer station in Berlin, shortly after the war started. I was returning from Switzerland and my office had told me Constance Drexel would appear on one of my periods and I was to edit her script. She showed it to me as we rode to my hotel. I read it. It was innocuous. She looked no younger but better fed. Said she was in Europe doing some syndicate articles. She made a broadcast which I did not hear and 1 never saw her again--never heard of her until I had returned to America and caught a broadcast of hers over the shortwave from Berlin, extolling the virtues of Nazidom. Hatpin She Swallowed j Removed by Oper*tfc>n 1 WILLIAM°PORT, PA. - A twoinch hatpin was removed from the stomach of Ann Dclores 'Steinbacher, 14, through an abdominal operation at the Williamsport hospital. Miss Steinbacher, freshman at St. I Joseph's high school, had placed the^ pin between her teeth while removing her hat and swallowed it. Her condition was described as satisfactory after the operation. , B R I E F S 'by Bauhhage A national campaign is underway to get employed high school students to go back to school. • • • There-were 4,756 convictions for violation of the selective service act in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1944. There have been a total of 10,872 such convictions since the draft law went into effect in October, 1940. The army buys enough baseball equipment every yjear to outfit 50.000 baseball teams and 100,000 softbal] .teams; the navy enough for more than 11.000 baseball, teams and 22,- 300 softball teams. Christmas mail pibrifh for all service personnel overseas will be the 30-day period between September 15 and October 15. Help Wanted Maintenance Mail HUNTER BOAT Begins With Soap ^Civilization begins with soap. Galveston Times. Malaria Widespread Altogether more people are probably affected by malaria than by any other known disease. In 1931 nearly 18,000,000 people were reported to the League of Nations to be under treatment for malaria, yet the number of those going without treatment was far greater. j who is here for an indefinite vacaj tion and is Ma having a good time! : We simply adore your permanent, 1 Ma. On us it wouldn't look so good. • Mrs. Warren Barber left Monday to visit her folks in Brighton and i Fort Madison, Iowa. Warren had to | return to his business in So. Bend, i Ind. We are going to miss the activity at the Barber manage these , next two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Wortman have J done a grand job at beautifying their ; corner. We admire you Chuch and Pam for your artistic ability. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Kaminski en- : tertained Sgt. Michael Antosiak-, Rose's brother, last Saturday. That new baby pt the Kaminski home is ! Genevieve W iesseg, Rose's niece ' whos& mother is visiting' in North Carolina. And it's a grand time little Carol Ann is having with her little cousin. If the loud snoring disturbed any ! of you folks last Sunday blame it ion those three Norwegians. Knute ! Knudsen. Try*? RonjstaJt and Erling Olsen, who were sawing the timber at the Ron.*stadt home. That also ' explains why Fred and Marge Thom- I sen and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Osterby sat around with ear muffs on when ; the thermometer registered 90 in the i shade. ! It was a great surprise to the j Freisinger family when their boy, | Pfc. Leo Freisinger, of Camp Swift I in Texas, walked in on them last Sat- ! urday to spend his 12-day leave. Pfc. | Leo is a former C. Y. O. skating champion and also starred in the Sonja Heine Ice Carnival in Chicago last year. We are mighty proud of you, Leo. Al Horn* informs us that it is a good omen to find a carterpiller in your house or cowwebs on the wall but when you see a girl with bow legged eys it is high time that you throw a horseshoe over your left shoulder. ,The Sunday Pacing Parade Barney Graff digging for buried, treasure in his back yard. Otter Ebert waving a lace hankie at some sweet young thing passing by. Lee Sawdo, Pete Kaminsky and Fred Tbomsen pitching horseshoes. about the stems of the plants or by dusting the stems ^before planting with a calomel-9orn-starch mixture. Dry Soybeans I Dry soybeans are very easily | cooked but must be previously soaked. An overnight soaking peri- j od gives the best results, although I • shorter period may be used. Since the dry beans increase from 2 V* to j 3 times in size, it is necessary to i use enough water for the soaking; : three cups of water for each cup of dry beans will be satisfactory. Aft- ' er the beans have been hydra ted, ! they can be cookt-d either by boiling for 1 to 1V» hours in salted water ! or in a pressure cooker at 10 pounds ' pressure for 10 minutes. One and j one-half cups of salted water to ore cup of soaked bcar.s is enough if ' the pressure conker i* used. Always Dvtlfal J Women military nurses attended | the sick and wounded in our early ! military history. As far back as 177V, | devoted mothers, wives and sisters of the "ragged Continentals" nursed j Washington's men back to health; i they scrubbed floors and made beds; [ they looked after the provisions; I and they prepared the food. Their pay was about $25 for 10 weeks' ! work, plus rations. i EoUshes Jewels i A single strand of nylon polishes j jewel bearings for navy precision instruments in a new use in which ! the synthetic monofilaments are re- , placing wood or copper wire. ; Fifteen-thousandths inch in diam- | eter nylon in one-inch lengths was ' found ideal for the delicate operation of giving the tiny bearing holes j in the gems a highly polished finish. Nylon did not chip the jewels, held I very well the diamond dust used in I polishing, and had superior life. Ex- 1 apiination under 20x magnification I showed surfaces polished with nylon j scratch-free. Two other firms have i now adopted nylon for the same op- ; eration. Preserves Love "Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness preserves it." ! dison. »•••*••••••••••••••••••• >••>>»»• » > t Mi l »»M»M »M > » » » Heml why Mom f«y*rtlWS*> wmm wvvmi GIZZARD CAPSULES wnai rmrm mimiim mtamll «w( Mos JMtMta, l ma m*i mM4mi4 MSH Mr YOU. KM*1** • Won't Ttfsrau serves ta w Bolger's Drug Store Green Street McHenry -- FR I T Z E L ' S -- RIVERSIDE HOTEL is now prepared to serve appetizing meals, whether it is a delicious luncheon or l full course dinner. Business people can be accommodated here for lunch at the time of day preferred. Make it a habit to eat at FRITZ EL'S, the name that identifies good food. <• « * . • .1 ; !, '•>> i <•' EVEftY FRIDAY--All tHc PtrcK you c«n c«t $1.00 - SPECIAL EVERY SUNDAY - Home Cooked Chicken ind'Dumplingt We also cater to Parties and Banquets THE OLD JUDGE SAYS... •rG^y. \ "Judge, would you mind tellin' Charlie here, what you told me the other night walkm' home from lodge. 1 can't word it just the way you did." "Sure thing. Tim. Here's what I told him, Charlie. There's no such thing as votm' a 2ition, a state, a county, or even a amiunity dry. We had proof enough of that during our 13 years of prohibition. What you really vote for is whether liquor » going to be 90ld Itgaliy or ilUiaUy... whether the coipmunity is going to get needed taxes for schools, hospitals, and the like, or whether this money is going to go to gangsters and bootleggers. TTxat's the answer, boys simple as A-&£ " . •T * - '***£ i I Stmny In S : .-j!