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Show ' . . . . m mm' Mmffm- I Curt Reiss Joins U. b. Utticers in unearrning Merman Goering's $200,000,000 treasure Pf Curt Kiess, author, journal Jst, and expert on German affairs. af-fairs. r4s in Europe on assignment assign-ment for NEA Service and ' Daily Herald. Here is another Sbt his ' exclusive dispatches, - cusciosing now uoering s art .treasures were found. , By CURT BIESS Copyright, 1943, NEA Service, Inc. BERCHTESGADEN, June 31 From the very start, this correspondent-was in on the entire hunt for the fabulous art treasures treas-ures hidden away by Hermann Goering. The collection, valued conservatiely at more than $200,-000,000, $200,-000,000, . is now on display in a requisitioned hotel here, for the benefit of American soldiers. Maj. Huh A. McGettigan. of Newton, -Mass.; discovered Goering's Goe-ring's hiding place more than 50 feet underground, after several days. Of tracking down, numerous leads. This correspondent can say that his knowledge of the German Ger-man language as well as of the psychology of the population helped to bring about' the sensational sensa-tional find. Major McGettigan and I investigated in-vestigated a number . of "suspicious" "suspi-cious" houses and questioned inhabitants. in-habitants. One house which particularly par-ticularly interested us was a bungalow on the estate reserved for the staff of Goering. Mase of Corridors r This house had an extremely large and. deep air raid shelter. Investigation showed that the shelter had been started about two years ago, about 30 feet below be-low the surface. Last fall Goering Goe-ring ordered that a deeper shelter, shel-ter, about 60 feet deep, should be started. Today, it is a maze of subter ranean corridors and caves cut out of the rock. You can wander there for hall an hour, though the ceilings are low and you have -to Stoop. The whole system, which never was finished, is dampened by water dripping from the walls. Altogether this subterranean arrangement ar-rangement is something you read about in mystery novels, but don't expect to encounter in real life. McGettigan. upon first inspecting inspect-ing this air raid shelter, exclaimed: exclaim-ed: "I'll bet this hasn't been built Just for air raids." While following up this hunch. I talked to quite a few people in the neighborhood about that particular par-ticular house and the role the air raid shelter might have played. While most neighbors professed to know nothing, I finally encountered en-countered one old woman who acted wry nervously after I mentioned men-tioned the cellar. She finally confided: con-fided: "Two days before the Americans came there was some PAGE 12 wuSiSSSSSt?a "DAIIT HERAEP ." . ' 'v v ' - . n .. .1 .. .in in i m mi '' , v v. ; s $ . 1 - .v x I--; , i'3L Hir-, r - ; : art-'iV. .AatoaoiLi-x:wj. .w-.. ... . - ......... 1 Surplus Property Board Chairman Resigns Position WASHINGTON, June 1 U. Guy Gillette, chairman of the surplus property board, submitted submit-ted his resignation to President Truman Wednesday.- Gillette, former Iowa senator, announced his action as he left' the White House after a conference confer-ence with the president. He said the president did not Indicate whether he would accept ac-cept the resignation or when it might become effective. It was evident, however, that Gillette expected it to be accepted. Gillette said that he had ac cepted the appointment last year, only ' with the understanding that it be temporary. He said he ex pects to remain in his post at lesat for a couple of weeks. Gillette, a democrat, was de feated for re-election last No vember. War Prosecutors ProYO Teacher Enjoys Experiences as Guide at San Franci sco Conference Out of one thousand San Fran- talk to little boys and high school Among treasures retrived by Yanks are valuables like these trays of antique jewelry, gold and silver snuff boxes, and ornamental caskets. Soldiers guarding the treasures are 1st. Lt. James J. Rorimcr, left, New York, and Sgt. Antonio Valin, Salida, Calif. zation. The next step was a new inspection of the shelter. McGettigan McGet-tigan decided that it might take weeks, if not months, to find anything any-thing which might have been hidden there behind new walls. Therefore, another approach was decided upon. The man who had built the shelter, an architect, was sought. When found, he was asked to pro duce the plans of the air raid shelter. He declared that he did not have them any more. Wouldn't Talk I then proceeded to ask the ar chitect if he could inspect the air raid shelter with us and let us know whether or not anything had been changed, and to tell us if new walls had been built. The man seemed uncertain that he could do this. While mutter cisco teachers who took a special examination for selecting special aids and guides to delegates of the United Nations peace conference, Mrs. Josephine Strong, of Provo now on leave from the Brigham Young university training school faculty, was one of fifty who qualified. She has been acting as hostess on special guide trips for the delegates dele-gates and has been on duty in booths set up to give information to the visiting men. In a recent letter to Miss Her-mese Her-mese Peterson, principal of the training school, she wrote, "I am having some of the most wonder j Ki - 4w Ifr hi'ful experiences. Two afternoons a mei Le"!C:eweek I am in the . information - - u . 1 . lUuuui wiicic must ui uic vuuiui Americans came there was some-i"" ' T", ,T w ence meetings are held. From my thing done about this shelter. InjI had the same feeling, that the n r h th delegates from nearly every nation na-tion of the world. "Three nights a week I am at the Mark Hopkins hotel booth. At the middle of. the night a truck (man knew more than he wanted drove up. Some men unloaded ajto say-Jot say-Jot of chests and brought them Therefore, McGettigan didn t into the shelter. I don't know 'pursue the matter, but seemingly what, they did, but they worked there all night, emerging the next noon." The woman" was terribly worried, wor-ried, lest I would repeat this and ahe might be killed by the werewolf were-wolf or some other secret organi- r1 mm? nwlim rrifL. (XL mi r (tmftm t i W without interest turned away Later that evening I paid a second sec-ond visit to the architect. I told him that we had proof that he had come back to the air raid shelter only days before our entry into Berchtesgaden. What had he been doing? The man said he couldn't say. He was ordered to keep silent. McGettigan, who joined us, told me to tell the man that he would proceed to blow up the whole underground structure in order to find out what was being hidden. hid-den. Now the man broke down. "Please don't blow it up," he begged. "You'll destroy priceless price-less art treasures." Then he told us the whole story. Here it is. Days after Hermann Goering was arrested by the SS and taken away from Berchtesgaden. Berchtes-gaden. his friends and employes in Berchtesgaden remembered that a train of nine freight cars loaded with belongings of Goering. among them stolen art treasures. I was standing on a side track near Koenigssee. They decided, under the leadership of Undersecretary Goernnert of the air ministry, to hide most of the precious mas- i ternieees. Thev broueht them into the air raid shelter and put them into a room blown into the rocks. After having deposited the treasures trea-sures there, they had the architect archi-tect design a new wall, hiding the entire room. Since all the surrounding sur-rounding walls were dripping wet anyhow, and some of the walls were covered with timbers, this newly finished wall wouldn't have been especially visible. Then the architect showed us the exact location of the wall and our soldiers at once began to dig This went on most of the night, with torches keeping the subterranean subter-ranean tunnels light. Treasures Damaged Next moring we began to take things out of the cave under special supervision of Major General Taylor of the 101st Airborne Air-borne division. We came in the nick of time. A few days more in the wet cave would have ruined countless paintings .tapestries, .tapes-tries, etc. Even now some have been badly, bad-ly, damaged, partly by water and partly ' because they were shoved into the room in the greatest haste, and were torn or cut. - I saw paintings by Cranach, who was one of Goering's favorite favo-rite artists. There were masterpieces master-pieces by Reubens, Titian, and Brueghel. There were old French, tapestries, wooden madonnas by Riemenschneider; sculptures ; of the middle ages, of the south German and Tyrol schools; gold and silver plates, and Persian and Chinese rugs. In addition. Goering had collected col-lected painted church windows, antique arms. Rembrandts, Van Dykes, Bouchers, Watteaus. Fra gonards and Goyas. These paintings paint-ings are fabulously valuable. The least valuable item in the art col lection was one water color, standing somewhat forlorn 1 y among the great masters. The natme of the picture is "Haus Mit Weissem Zaun," (House With White Hedge.) The man who painted it is Adolf Hitler. girls who flocked to get their autographs. "Molotov and his delegation have been very interesting. He is a very short, plump man and the first few days he had 20 guards. So many in fact that by the time you spotted him in the center, they were -gone out of sight. His guards were all very tall men with loose fitting khaki uniforms, with wide red bands down the sides of their trousers. As they passed you could see each carried a submachine gun. After the first week, when he found out no one wanted to take a shot at him, these guards disappeared and he was accompanied by two or three plain clothesmen. Molotov is a very iolly little fellow, smiling at every one and looking over the top of his glasses. He has been very popular here." "Perhaps the most colorful group are the Arabians with their Mississippi Far Ahead In E-Bond Sales Campaign WASHINGTON. June I (UJ3 Mississippi is far ahead of the rest of the nation in E-bond sales, the treasury s war finance divi sion reported today. Nationally the $4,000,000,000 E- bond goal is 41 per cent 'subscribed 'sub-scribed with sales totaling $1,-656,000,000. $1,-656,000,000. Mississippi's quota is better than 60 per cent achieved. Individual purchases of all types of seventh war loan bonds total $2,823,000,000, slightly better bet-ter than 40 per cent of the $7,-000,000,000 $7,-000,000,000 individual goal. War finance officials said Montana Mon-tana is second in the E-bond race with 57 per cent of its quota filled, fill-ed, Alabama third with 52 per cent and Iowa and New Mexico tied for fourth with 44 per cent New York. Pennsylvania. Mich igan and Illinois are keeping up with the national average. New England and California are lagging. .... II TV 1 t....w,-' 1 a - 1 - we could see that each carried a diamond studded dagger." FROM PAST EXPERIENCE SEATTLE (U.R) One ration said this hotel many important delegates dele-gates stay. Anthony Eden, Lord Halifax, Mackenzie King, China's Mr. Soong, little old Mr. Jan Smilts of South Africa delegates from India, Lebanon, Liberia, Luxembourg and Syria. The first few days of the conference these men hurried past our booth looking look-ing very grave and worried, looking look-ing neither to the right or left. They all seemed so distant and "Please don't slam the door." formal. It didn't take them long to catch the spirit of informality, of Americans though, for in a few days they were stopping to Navy's Labor Policy Blamed For Shortage WASHINGTON, June 1 (U.R) sen. Wayne Morse, R., Ore., charged that the navy's labor policy was responsible for the critical shortage of workers in west coast repair yards. He said west coast senators have demanded demand-ed an explanation. Secretary of Navy James For- restal yesterday made a plea for 15,000 additional skilled workmen in pacific coast repair docks to handle vessels damaged in Pacific battles. He told a news confer ence that since V-E day workers The three men above will aid in bringing to justice Europe's war criminals. Top: Maj.-Gen. William J. Donovan, chief of Office of Strategic Services; below, left, Assistant Attorney General Francis Shea; below, right, Sidney S. Alderman, general gen-eral solicitor for the Southern Railway. They will serve under un-der Supreme Court Justice Robert Rob-ert H. Jackson, chief U. S prosecutor. SHORTY FINDS RIGHT PLACE INDIANAPOLIS (U.R) Shorty. a short-legged dog of doubtful pedigree, was homeless a few weeks ago, but he "strayed" to the right place. It was 'the Hirst dog food shop and the owners. Mr. and Mrs. W. R.' Hirst, nave grown deeply attached to the "pup who came to dinner. PLUMBING DID YOU KNOW THAT MOST PLUMBING NEEDS NO PRIORITY?. 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A sign on the door reads, Since World War I. private re pair yards from San Francisco north have paid an 11.6 differential differen-tial for their work, Morse said, and despite the fact that "historic- Colorado was named 80 years, ally and factually there is ade- beforc the Pilgrim fathers landed quate basis for this differential," on Plymouth Rock. . I the navy has failed to pay it. Chicle is the solid if i the Central American sa pod ilia iree, ana is ine case substance of chewing sum. LET'S PICK COTTON AT PENNEY'S STORE HOURS: Monday Noon to 8 p. m. Other Days 1G a.m.-6 p.m. If us for Girls Young daoghtera will look like gay butterflies flitting through the house and out into the sunshine when they're wearing these full-skirted cottons! Pert checks, colorful florals, tie ucrUp. bows Jo vbackVs Sizes 3 .to 6X. and 7 to 14. 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