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Show Washington, D. C. NAZI MASS EXECUTIONS Underground observers coming out of Germany have reported that the Nazis already have begun the systematic elimination of the vast 1 army of slave labor Imported from Russia, France, Czechoslovakia and various occupied countries. Details of the story are so ghastly that they hardly can be believed. Yet the accuracy of the observers has stood up in the past; also the wholesale slaughter methods of the Germans at Lublin is already a matter mat-ter of official record. It is estimated that the imported slave labor inside Germany totals about 10,000,000. Either because Hitler fears their sabotage and rebellion, re-bellion, or else because they are a drain on Germany's food resources, machinery has been devised to kill 1 them off. The number killed so far is estimated at around 1,500,000, 1 though this is a very rough estimate. esti-mate. Absolutely definite, however, is the fact that mass execution de-' de-' pots, such- as that at Lublin, already I are set up in various parts of Ger-! Ger-! many. These have been witnessed. Reason for the cold-blooded system of mass executions is explained ex-plained as follows by underground under-ground ' observers who have come out of Germany: Originally, Original-ly, storm troopers were given a list of 15 to Z0 persons and told to shoot them with their re-i re-i volvers in the night. Sometimes I this included whole families with children. So not even the S. S. j men could take It. They suffered nervous collapses, had to be sent to sanitoriums. As a result, the mass execution execu-tion system was worked out at Lublin, and now at other places. It takes only a few men to handle the lethal chambers, and enough personnel can be found to perform the gruesome work without becoming insane. LOST BATTALIONS Of all soldiers in the U. S. army, the most distressed over the war department's de-partment's demobilization plan are the men over 35 years of age. They get no extra retirement points because be-cause of age. In fact, some of them, because of bad health and inability to get overseas, may be among the last to leave the army following V day. Stranded in camps throughout the U. S. A., they have become the "Army's Lost Battalions." Many were snapped up by selective serv-I serv-I ice in the early days of the war ! despite deafness, blindness in one : eye and shortage of fingers all at a time when the army was In a j rush to get almost anyone. Now I many of these men are doing semi-I semi-I menial tasks. I At Fort Meyer, Va., one group Is daily assigned to grave digging at the National Cemetery. Others count socks and shirts for the quartermaster quarter-master corps, are now becoming psychological problems for- the army. Some found that Infirmities when they entered have become aggravated ag-gravated since, but will never be recognized as having received disabilities dis-abilities in service. The war department points out that "theoretically" men over 38 had an opportunity to leave the army more than a year ago, if they had job opportunities in war Industries. But the war department de-partment also admits that it had to stop somewhere, and that since the WAC recruiting program pro-gram failed, it is now necessary neces-sary to retain the 35-year-olds to make up for the scarcity of WACs. ARKANSAS FARMER IN LONDON What most impressed alert young Congressman Brooks Hays of Arkansas during his London trip was the farm miracle the British have performed during the war. Hays was Arkansas head of the Farm Security administration before coming com-ing to congress, so traveled widely in rural England, was amazed by the economy of land use. "Here's an island about one-third as large as the state of Texas." Hays said, "but with 50,000,000 people. And it is growing two-thirds of all its food. "The British won't keep on growing grow-ing so much food after the war," Hays says, "but what they're doing vith their land right now is miracu-"us. miracu-"us. And they like it, even though most of them never worked in the ieids before. I didn't talk to a single me who wasn't tickled that we had sent them less food and plenty ef fertilizer and farm machinery. 1 hey 're really proud of what they A-ere able to do and glad they naven't had to eat nothing but handouts hand-outs from this country." CARTEL MYSTERY STORY Last month, FDR wrote a .letter to Secretary of State Hull, told him: Keep your eyes on this whole subject sub-ject of international cartels. . . ." Now Wendell Berge, assistant attorney at-torney general in charge of trust-busting, trust-busting, has written quite a detec-'?,f00f detec-'?,f00f his own. It is a book en-j en-j 'Ued: 'Cartels Challenge to a Free world. If y0U want tQ understand ome of tne major traps into which the coming peace may find itself en-mared. en-mared. it's worth reading |