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Toast to Victory in Europe
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Gen. Omar Bradley of the 12th C. S. army rroup, left, and Russian
Marshal Ivan S. Konev clink classes as they toast victory over the Nails
at a banquet C'ven shortly before V-E Day, at a country house near
Berlin. Not I one after the German military machine was utterly crushed,
and Earepe was free acain.
Dons Civvies for First Time in 8 Years
Pvt. Wesley Wilson of Johnson City, Ttnn., purple heart wearer, and
who rates III points under the new point system, dons a civilian coat for
tho first time In almost eight years, as buddies at Fort Diz, N. J., look
on. Wilson Is leaving the army for good.
AH Is Not Fighting on Okinawa
There Is work toe reus end eld alike ea Okinawa island and this
young native (below) is proud te do his share. And an important task
it is. lusting water to other natives near Kim. Upper left: Marine Clar
ence J. MeFartand, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, amuses native hoys as a basket
porter. Horseplay of this type has won friends for the marines among the
Wend folks. Upper right: No red points needed for this Okinawa pig,
killed by shettflre (it says here). Leathernecks are, Corp. P. E. Allen
(left). Lake View. Ore., and Corp. Victor Howard. Philadelphia. Pa.
President Truman's Mother Arrives by Plane
The M-year-eM utter ft fiwlltt Tnmu Is Am, eeater, el the
miM to WuktadM bM learn Ctty to ri?Jt her few?? e?. At the
toft to Wee Mary Truuw, the Prwtoeat'i eUter, ?to aeeetnyaaied her
hJeTtt?t FreeU?t Tiewee, rifhl, |iwlil thew at the Watt
Rattler Surrenders
Id command of escort carrier L'SS
Guadalcanal, which attacked and
captured U-boat 545, was Capt. Dan
iel Gallery of Chicago, shown here
on conning tower of the sub. The
carrier is known as the "Can Do"
ship,
Doolittle Knighted
King George of England presents
the "Knight Commander of the
Bath" award to Lt. Gen. James B.
Doolittle, commander of the IT. 8.
8th air force, which played a major
role in hammering Germany to her
knees.
Hero -Objector'
Pfe. Desmond T. Doss, N, ?( Nor
folk. Vs., and his wife. Doss, a con
scientious objector, who spends his
Saturdays reading the Bible, Is the
new hero of Okinawa, after saving
75 lives. When heavy losses devel
oped on a Jap position Doss climbed
an escarpment and stayed until he
had lowered an the wounded men
to safety.
Cocky Cockerel
Here Is Chanticleer II, perched
rrimtjr en the uderearriace of a
railroad eeach. The ehiekea entered
the doebtfnl distinction ef beta* the
mtj "hebe" erer to carry a eeah.
Bare Brutality
In Death Camps
Allies Uncovering Ghastly
Story of Mass Murders
In Germany. >
LONDON. ? Belsen, Buchenwald,
Breedonk and Vught are destined to
be among the blackest names in
German history, (or they represent
German concentration camps where
thousands of young and old men,
women and children have been tor
tured and killed.
Part of their story is becoming
known now as Allied troops from
the west sift the evidence left be
hind by the Germans. And these
were only four of the concentration
camps?as differentiated from pris
oner of war camps. In the concen
tration camps the Germans held
civilians of their own and occu
pied countries who were suspected
or convicted of "crimes" ranging
from curfew violations to merely be
ing considered dangerous to the Ger
man state.
Breedonk is near'Malines in Bel
gium. It is relatively small, yet by
the British army's official account
350 persons were executed there,
and more than 1,000 at the national
camp near Brussels. There are no
figures for the number who died of
starvation or passed through these
camps. These are only 2 of 18 pris
ons or execution depots in one small
country.
Beatings Break Bones.
At Vught, a concentration center
in Holland, 30,000 persons, at a con
servative guess, died at German
hands. Some were beaten until their
bones were broken. Others were tor
tured in special chambers and then
shot and then thrown into limepits.
Vught housed as many as 35,000
at one time. Many of them were
sent to Germany just before the
camp fell to British troops of the
First Canadian army.
According to one estimate there
were nearly 40,000 in Belsen near
Bremen, when it was overrun by
the British Second army, and 30,
000 had died in the last few months.
But figures so far are merely based
on what prisoners have told cor
respondents and the published ap
proximations vary widely.
This is understandable because
of conditions described by one ob
server:
"There was a pile 60 to 80 yards
long, 30 yards wide and 4 feet high
of women's bodies."
5,tOO Seriously 111.
At Buchenwald, near Weimar, 21,
000 were in the camp when it was
overrun by the United States 3rd
army. Five thousand were seriously
ill. It is estimated 60,000 to 75,000
persons have died there and the
records show 18,000 died since the
camp was opened.
Thousands, however, were killed
there who never actually were in
mates of the camp or were recorded
in its register. They were simply
brought there to be killed.
The latter two camps were peo
pled mainly by civilian captives
from erstwhile occupied countries
and by anti-Nazi Germans.
A sample captive at Belsen was
a German professor who had made
rude remarks about Hitler.
Mrs. Booth Tours Camp.
Representatives Clare Boothe
{ Luce (Conn.), John Kunkel (Pa.)
: and Leonard Hall (N. V.) viewed
i the horrors of Buchenwald concen
; tration camp along with 10 members
j of Britain's parliament. The visits
; of the two parties of legislators co
I incided bv accident.
Mrs. Luce saw stacks of bodies
l of Buchenwald's victims and de
clared:
"The most important thing to re
member is that this could happen to
us in 20 years."
Fhi Vaccine Promises
Big Things for Mankind
NEW YORK. ? A new influenza
? vaccine, with 10 times more im
> munizing potency than usual com
mercial flue vaccines, is announced
; in the Journal of Experimental
l Medicine of the Rockefeller institute.
The vaccine has been tried on hu
. man beings. Unpublished reports in
dicate that the results are most sat
I isfactory.
The vaccine was developed under
the auspices of the medical research
committee of the Office of Scientific
Research and Development, Ameri
ca's scientific war agency.
The studies which led to the vac
cine are reported by Dr. Wendell
M. Stanley of the Rockefeller In
stitute, Princeton. The experiments
were made with the aid of Miss
Josephine M. Stafford and Miss
Mary Elizabeth Eshelman.
The vaccine includes the viruses
causing each of the three present
known strains of flu. These are Porto
Rico, Lee and Weiss. The vaccine
affords some protection against all
of them, and more against the Weiss
form than other reported vaccines.
U. S. Infantry Outfit
In Line for 500 Days
ROME. ? The veteran United
States 34th infantry division claimed
a record for American forces in this
war recently when it completed 500
I days of actual combat.
As a matter of fact, 5th army
| headquarters announced, there are
some Iowa, Minnesota and Dakota
national guardsmen, who made up
the eriginal 34th, in the division who
have been in line more than 600 days
and ?re still going strong.
Jap Workmanship
Is Found Mediocre
Wasteful Use of Material Is
Reported by Experts.
WASHINGTON. ? The Battelle
Memorial Institute ot Industrial and
Scientific Research reported that
metallurgical examination of cap
tured enemy war materiel shows
that Japanese workmanship is "con
sistently mediocre" while German
craftsmanship "is just as consistent
ly good."
The report, covering studies for
the army ordnance and United
States navy departments, described '
the Japs as being "copycats" in
their workmanship but said, "im
pressed by the need for metal con
servation, they can afford to lag in
design and to accept inferior stand
ards in the production of their war
materiel."
The studies have shown the Japs
are using an abundance of vital
alloying metals, indicating they had
adequate sources or stockpiles at
the time the products were made,
the report said.
"German war material, on the
other hand, shows definite shortages
of some metals," it added, "and
many of the new materials, proc
esses, and designs which the Ger
mans originate are answers to the
shortages in critical materials."
The research experts reported it
is generally considered the Ger
mans are short of copper, nickel,
molybdenum, vanadium, tungsten,
chromium and manganese.
"Significant in Jap war material,"
the report said, "is the wasteful use
of steels made from scrap carrying
a high level of residual metals. This
indicates either indifference to
waste of alloying elements or inabili
ty to control steel-making well
enough to use them."
The report also said Japanese
lack ol experience with technology
and precision manufacture is shown
in the manufacture of highly
stressed parts of airplane engines.
Old Jewish Manuscripts
Recovered From Germans
WITH UNITED STATES 3RD
ARMY IN GERMANY. ? A large
collection of Jewish manuscripts,
paintings and other cultural articles
stolen by the Nazis in various parts
of Europe was discovered by the
5th division recently at Hungen, 10
miles southeast of Giessen.
The collection, which includes
some things dating from the 14th
century; was the second treasure
trove found by the United States 3rd
army in three days. Gold bullion
worth $100,000,000 and paintings and
other things of value were found in
a salt mine at Merkers.
The Jewish collection served as a
basis for pseudo-scientific attacks by
Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, notorious
Nazi propagandist, on world Jewry.
Most of the manuscripts and books
were believed to have been taken
from the Oppenheim museum at
Frankfurt am Main, the Jewish His
torical museum at Amsterdam and
museums at Paris.
Lt. Robert Schoenfeld of Brooklyn
led the detail which found the collec
tion. Most of it was in an old castle.
Great Mansions at New
York on 'For Rent' List
NEW YORK.?"For Rent" signs
appeared, figuratively, on the J. P.
Morgan and William Guggenheim
suburban mansions shortly after the
Charles M. Schwab town house and
William K. Vanderbilt country home
were registered similarly with the
city's vacancy listing bureau.
Both the $1,500,000 Morgan house
?4# bedrooms, 21 baths, 2 kitch
ens?and the relatively cottagelike
Guggenheim mansion?20 rooms as
sessed at $380,000?were offered pri
marily for foreign government mis
The 75-room $3,000,000 Schwab
mansion on Riverside drive had
been offered for a $75,000 annual
rental. A spokesman for the Chase |
National bank, custodian of the
Schwdb show place, did little to en
tice tenants.
"There is not a piece of furniture
in it," he said. "It takes about 10
tons of coal a day to heat it in the
winter, and it could be made suit
able for accommodating a number
of families only at great expense."
What a Pal Was This!
Now Johnny's in Pickle
GREEN BAY. ? A Green Bay
schoolboy had a pal and, he be
lieved, a good trick until?
When the boy's report card wasn't
much to bring home the pal would
sign the name of the boy's mother.
Recently the boy began to get extra
assignments and asked his teacher
why.
The teacher showed him the card.
His ex-pal had written: "Please
give my son more homework.
Mrs. B."
Wealth Goes to Things
He Never Cared About
BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND. ?
Arthur W. Keep, wealthy export
er, who died last November, left
the bulk of his fortune of more
than $400,000 to the city of Bir
mingham for sports fields, swim
ming pools, and bus and trolley
shelters. Associates said he never
had shown any interest in sports,
never learned to swim.
Kathleen Norris Says:
^ Your Marriage Is Worth Saving
B?Q Syndicate.?WNU Feature a.
"Dorothy is a completely changed creaturet and I don't uant to take on a stranger
for my wife. She and my mother are like two girls together. . . .**
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
IT MAY take you six months,
it may take you a year to
rebuild, when that man of
yours comes home, but mar
riage is worth six months or
twelve months of doubt and
pain. True marriage is a mir
acle, and to cheat yourself out
of wonderful years of com
panionship and planning just
because things are difficult now,
is an expensive mistake.
"I'm completely bewildered,"
writes William Martin, in a letter
that illustrates this point. "I've
been two years overseas. When I
left her my wife was a sweet, shy
girl who had no friends in my home
town and cried bitterly when she
came to join my mother for my ab
sence. Just before I left Dorothy
had the sad experience of losing a
new-born baby, so that my memory
of her is of an exiled, scared, tear
ful, bashful little thing who assured
me that she could not hold her head
up at all until I came back.
'Completely Changed.'
"Well, I got back six weeks ago,
and if you ask me, I'd just as soon
return to France. Dorothy is a com
pletely changed creature, and I
don't want to take on a stranger for
my wife. She and my mother are
like two girls together; laughing all
the time. They play cribbage every
evening, gabble at every meal, and
trot off to work still chattering. They
work part-time in the same foundry.
Dorothy has picked up a lot of
friends, most of them daughters of
my mother's old crowd; she wants
me to go on week-end parties, where
she is a great favorite, and she
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Tvaxjvo iaj udvc uicm in ior im
promptu suppers and games. She's
perfectly amiable about everything,
anxious to make me happy, says
she'll give up work the minute I'm
established, hopes we'll have a' lot
of children someday,?this doesn't
sound so bad. I wonder if I'm get
ting over to you what I mean?
"I mean that a man likes to be
important in his own house, he likes
to have the say. If I suggest this,
Dorothy is all attention; what would
I like to do? Well, the truth is I
don't want to do anything, except
sit around. I don't even want my
mother or wife near me, part of
the time. I always wanted to take a
forestry course, but after two
years of college I quit, and got a
job, so I could marry. Then the war
came. I have no money now, and
I'll be darned if I want my women
to support me. Shan-I just get out
of their lives, go off somewhere,
and work it out myself?"
? ? ?
No, by no means do that, Bill.
Your marriage is worth saving, with
such a woman. Instead of running
away, as so many of our people do,
today, work it out yourself?but at
home.
I think you'd make those two
women supremely happy if you an
nounced that they had to support
you until you finished your forestry
study. Your -government will help
you, and aU it wiU amount to will
be that they take care of them
selves for another year or two.
Then go to work with a ven
geance, and see how fast you can
beat the regular term time.
The moment you're hard at work
the whole world will change for
?-. . /?
Finu* xwr forestry e<mree ... ^
HOLD ON A LITTLE
WHILE
Another returning soldier has
found his wife changed. When
he left she was timid and shy,
and depressed by the death of
their first child. Now she is gay
and happy, interested in parties
and entertainment, and quite a
social favorite. She lives with his
mother and works in the same
foundry on a part-time shift. The
two women get along very well,
and are always laughing and
"gabbing."
While Dorothy is affectionate
and anxious to please, she is no
longer dependent and clinging.
William feels somehow that she
is a stranger . . . not the woman
he thought he married. He won
ders if he should try to "make a
go" of this marriage . . . maybe,
he thinks, he had better get out
of it for the benefit of both him
self and Dorothy. He left college
in order to marry her, and now
he wonders if it were the sensi
ble thing to do.
The separation and the experi
ences of war change both hus
band and wife, replies Miss Nor
ris. One will mature more than
the other, but when there is no
fundamental disagreement, time
will harmonize the differences,
and the original happiness can
be regained.
you. Work is the supreme panacea.
There isn't going to be a household
in America, in the next year or two,
that doesn't face this or some more
serious problem. The problem of
our physically maimed and wounded
isn't going to T>e the worst of it;
it'll be the mental, the nerve, the
psychopathic cases that put a heavy
burden on us all. Lift your burden
off the great total by accepting the
unexpected gaiety and independ
ence of this wife of yours; add to
her capability, her completeness, a
new capability and completeness
of your own.
Normal Pattern fffil Return.
Once you're well started, and the
first baby likewise, the whole pat
tern will fall into normal lines, and
this restless, dissatisfied, resentful
phase of home-coming will seem
only a dream. You have the mate
rials for an unusually happy mar
riage here; don't throw them away.
Postwar marital problems pre
sent every variation of trouble to
which human hearts are heir. The
returning husband who grows be
yond his wife, and finds her unex
pectedly dull, less pretty, less dear
than he remembered her. The wife
who hardly knows the boy with
whom she danced so merrily into
wedlock, and who doesn't like him
much, on later inspection. The re
turning soldier jealous of his baby.
The waiting wife all ready with
plans for divorce. The criticisms
of her because she lived with his
mother, or because she didn't. The
discontent because she worked, or
else she didn't. The wounded prob
lems and the problems of the
maimed and the blind.
Make a fresh start, Bill, and
solve yours yourself.
Value of Victory Garden
A good home garden is first of all
a source of fooid. It is important
from an economic standpoint as it
supplies fresh foods in season and a
surplus for canning. It Js also im
portant from the standpoint of
health and family morale. Working
in a garden is a source of recre
ation and education for all the fami
ly. It develops team work and
fellowship between family members
of all ages. It also gives youngsters
an appreciation of the land and its
marvelous products.