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Show The Cache American, Logan, Cache County, Utah Fasre Seven NEEDLEWORK PATTERNS Crochet Lovely Heirloom Doily The Irish crocheted doily is 14 inches in diameter, has 19 "roses around monds rose. To obtain complete rrochrt'n tmlrim- -' for the liritloom Dolly (I'attrra N. 20 ernu In coin. oui name, SIM) trnd HUMAN tidal wave, headed for almost any sort of sporting competition, has struck baseball in a record sweep. All past records are being submerged In the way of attendance figures, even on the part of those teams who are conceded A INSTALLMENT EIGHT Considering only military effective. the miracle 1 that any German soldier wsa able to let foot on Ruailan solL They were able to penetrate to the auburb of Moscow and Leningrad and range aa far aa the Caucasus (1,500 miles from Berlin) not only becauae of Russia's technical poverty and the disorganised state of her Industrial development, but also because at the time the Red Army lacked experienced officers. Her initial air force, for Instance, could not compare In quality with that of the Germane. Much of It was smashed In the first tew weeks of fighting. If the Russian air force Is primitive, this Is no reflection on the skill of Russian pilots, who rank among the world's best But Russia lacks the skill to turn out good planes. Of all branches of any air bombers such as force, the British Lancaster and the American Fortress and Liberator require the highest degree of Industrial skill for producUon and operation In large numbers. They are almost totally absent In the Red Air Force. long-rang- e Russian pilots world's best ranked among The men who plan the Red Air Force have skillfully designed it around the countrys many shortages; they have concentrated on production of the Stormovik, a slow, low altitude strafing plane. Since this efficient little tank buster usually operates at treetop level, the Soviet fighters which protect It have no need for high altitude equip- ment Of the 10,000 planes which America has delivered to the Soviet Union the Russians like best the Bell which is a light, low altitude, plane, similar In ground It Is function to the Stormovik. standard Red Air Force procedure immediately to remove all high altitude flying equipment from most American planes, replacing the weight with extra ammunition. Lacking night fighters and radar, Soviet targets within range of the Luftwaffe are particularly vulnerable to night bombing, and the standard Russian method of defense Is batground fire from to was used as such protect teries, Moscow. However, lacking radar to guide their fire, the gunners can shoot only at the sound, which Is a rough Indication not of where the bomber is, but where it was several seconds ago. Therefore, to be effective, batteries must be massed about the target, vomiting continuous fountains of fire during a raid, an expensive procedure. Katyn Forest is near Smolensk and Is the grave of some 10,000 Poles, mostly officers, who were shot In the back of the head. Whether this slaughter of helpless war prisoners was done by Russians or Germans, there is violent disagreement and evidence both ways. To understand the complexity of the case, a little history is necessary. When in 1939, the Germans sod Russians divided Poland, the Russian share of the loot Included more than 180,000 prisoners of war, of whom 10,000 were officers. A few were generals. The most distinguished of these, Including General Anders, were confined to Moscows Lubianka prison. The rest of the 10,000 officers were sent to three prison camps In the Russian towns of Starobielsk, Kozielsk, and These camps housed twelve colonels, Polish generals, sixty-nin- e lieutenant colonels and seventy-tw- o In all 5,131 regular army officers and 4,096 reserve officers. Few of the last had been captured in combat. Most of them had not yet been called up for duty, but, when Russia occupied her half of Poland, obeyed the Soviet summons to Aira-cobr- a, anti-aircra- ft Osta-szko- , v. The Polish officers were reasonably well treated at the three camps until April, 1940, when the Soviets begin evacuating them, telling the men they might be sent back to their homes. They left in groups of from twenty to sixty every few days during April and early May. What became of them after that, the Poles have a few clues. Most of tho 10 000 vanished from the earth except for 400 who were finally taken to a camp at Gryazovets. On June 22. 1941. Hitler attacked Russia. The Polish government In London immediately offered the hand of friendship to the Soviets, suggesting the formation from prisoners of war In Russian bands, of a Polish army. The Soviets accepted. General Anders was released from his prison cell, installed In a comfortable hotel room with apologies, and with Soviet cooperation began forming his army. released from Poles, prison camps all over the Soviet Union, began flocking to his headquarters, but there were almost no officers. General Anders was at first not alarmed, believing that they probably had been transferred to some Arctic labor camp and presently would turn up. But as months went by and not one additional officer reported he became concerned. November of 1941, Polish Ambassador Kot interviewed Stalin on this perplexing problem. The Marshal appeared genuinely astonished. In Kot's presence, he rang up the NKVD and said the prisoners who had been In those three camps should be released at once. A month passed, during which the Poles were collecting, from the 400 survivors of the three camps, a list of the names of their missing brother officers. On December 4, when Stalin received Generals Sikorskl and Anders, they took with them an Incomplete list of 4,500 names. This time Stalin expressed no surprise or Indignation. The Poles felt he answered evasively, suggesting that the 10,000 officers might have returned to German occupied Poland or fled over the Manchurian border. Knowing how closely the NKVD supervises all travel in Russia, It was difficult for the two Polish generals to believe such a large number of officers could have accomplished this Journey undetected. Picking up his telephone. Stalin called General Pamfllov at NKVD headquarters, again issuing orders to release all Poles who had ever been In the three camps. More time passed but not an officer turned up. A really disturbing rumor began A few months before to circulate. the German attack on Russia, the NKVD assembled several Polish staff officers. Including a Colonel Berling, and suggested to them that possibly a Polish army might be organized to fight the Germans. At a conference with Russian NKVD officials, Beria and Merkulov, Colonel Berling agreed, provided It was organized Irrespective of political and then added that, at creeds, the three officers' prison camps, "we have excellent army cadres. Whereupon, Merkulov answered quickly, with some embarrassment, "No, not these men. We have made a great blunder in connection with them. Only rumors, perhaps, but they disturbed the Poles. Then on April 13, 1943, the German radio announced that in Katyn Forest, near Smolensk, which they then held, they had discovered mass graves of about 10,000 Polish officers, each killed with a bullet through the back of his head. They said Russian peasants in the vicinity told them these prisoners of war were murdered by the NKVD in the spring of 1940, giving dates corresponding closely to the time the prison camps had been evacuated. The Germans also claimed that letters and papers found in the clothing, as well as the condition of the bodies, indicated that the men had been murdered in the spring of far-awa- y munists unknown to the people of Poland. The Red Army reoccupied Katyn, and on January 22, 1944, Issued a communique saying that a Soviet Investigating commission had been called to settle, once and for all, the Katyn Forest dispute. The Russian Commission was a 100 per cent Soviet picnic. Their Russian experts distinguished academicians determined that the Germans, following their occupation of Smolensk, had carried out the mass shootings in the autumn of 1941, and In 1943, "calculating to set Russians and Poles at loggerheads, tried to ascribe this crime to the Soviet government" The Russians charged that In the spring of 1943 the Germans had even brought to Katyn Forest Polish bodies from other districts, and had used 500 Russian prisoners of war In the work of removing from the Polish bodies all documents which would Incriminate the Nazis and substituting documents which would tend to Incriminate the Russians, after which the Germans had shot the Soviet war prisoners. The evidence of German guilt gathered by the Soviet Commission answers all questions but this one: If the Polish officers were still alive In the summer of 1941 and could be captured by the Germans, why were the Poles not told this at oncef Why were Important Polish government officials allowed to go all over the Soviet Union for nearly two years In search of their armys officers, when the Russians knew the men were already In German hands? An observant reporter noticed that one Polish body was clad in long, heavy underwear, and mentioned It to the Soviet doctor In charge. The doctor remarked that most of the bodies wore either heavy underwear, or overcoats, or both. That pointed to the theory that these Poles must have been shot during April, 1940, as the Germans claimed, rather than In August and September, 1941, after the Germans moved In, as the Soviet government was contending. When this point was raised with the Soviet conducting officers, there was considerable confusion and the Russians finally argued that the climate of Poland is uncertain, so that fur overcoats and long underwear might be worn In September. If a reporter would write "I AM NOT A MEDICAL EXPERT BUT DOCTORS SAY the condition of these bodies proves they were murdered by the Germans, the censorship would strike out the qualifying phrase (capitalized), leaving only the bare charge. Also stricken out were all phrases Indicating any doubt in the correspondents minds such words as or "in my opinion, "probably, "evidence we were shown would tend to prove, with the result that the stories as received In America were as firmly damning of the Germans as Pravdas editorials. h In 1939, when the Military Mission was In Moscow trying to negotiate an alliance with the Soviet Union one of the Soviet de-Anglo-F-renc- 1940. Names announced over the German radio corresponded with those of Polish officers missing from the three camps. Radio Moscow took cognizance of the German charges In a bitter broadcast saying These German lies reveal the fate of Polish officers whom the Germans employed In construction work In that region. Russian news agency, Tass, issued a communique explaining that these Polish prisoners, who had been employed by the Russians on construction work west of Smolensk, had been captured by the Germans durRussians improved the technique ing the Soviet retreat In the summer of paratroops that they created. of 1941. This explanation did not satisfy mands was the right, under certain all Poles. Their officers had been circumstances, to occupy the three evacuated In April, 1940. Ever since Baltic States. n break In June of the The British demurred. When I had was in London In February of 1940, 1941, the Polish government been trying to get from the Rus- an intelligent young man In their sians some hint as to where they foreign office gave me their posihad been taken. Only after this Ger- tion. man broadcast do they learn from "Here we are, he said, supposthe Soviet government that the of- edly defending the rights of small ficers had been taken to the Katyn European nations. We could hardly Forest region, with the additional start by delivering three of them to statement that In 1941 they were cap- the Russians as a price for their altured and murdered by the Ger- liance. We have to consider opinion mans. in the States. What would you peoOn April 26, the Soviet governple have said to that? ment broke off relations with the They would have been In favor Polish government In London, and of almost anything you had to do set up in Moscow her own Union to win tbe war without their having of Polish Patriots" which, accord- to get in, I said, and I still think ing to the London Polish govern- I was right. (TO BS CONTINUED) ment, was mde up of Polish Com Russo-Germa- audios ami paiirrn number. Du to an unuiuatty larr drmsnd and eurrrnt cninli'inna, am'litly mor Urn la required in tutin ord.ra fur a te ef U mual popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: nothing better than sixth place. It would not be surprising to see the newly bedecked Yankee stadium, under the operation of Larry crowd MacPhall, SFHIVO CIRCLE sixth Ar. Enclut 20 cent 111 ( i Nrr.DI Kti KWORK York, N. Y. tor pattern. Kama the two million mark before the edge and 13 'alradiate from the center Octo-- b Amir-- .a r reports. The Yankees are practically sure to set count at an the busy turnstiles, with the Tigers not too far away. The HEARTBURN I all-tim- e Cubs and the Fattfrn No. 51M one of the most HERES crocheted doilies ever Dodgers also should t made it's an heirloom piece lent who collects lace. surpass their best year, with many me by a friend thousands added to the list. A sporting crowd I willing te take a heavier beating than any other section of the human race. i AU these (renxled multitudes ask is a chance to buy a ticket, then let These nature take Its course. The Baking Powder crowds make the sardine look like spaces, a rover In the wide-ope- n with with room to spare. BALANCED Double Action The Kentucky Derby set a new So probdirections. in several high Clobber Girt is loday'i baking powably will the Louis Conn intermingling at the Yankee stadium in the natural choice tor the der June. modem recipe. Its balanced double W'A).. la aiaataa ar dauhta yaar anaay bach Md as pmiatvL IHwiw wmmttf lot fftt. ftotsr sioMttt Mwi barur, f prw-rthe fssiwt ytfig awtUMMi like Uws li lial4 NwflbltilM yiRptntlN Uiaur M-I Tttxetj. hnaft Jiffy or 4jh rwuf j fcarft mm rtlwt b m m. m til RaBaead FOR BETTER BAKING the -- ... The Rush to Sport action guarantees fust the right oction We have been asked to explain this overwhelming rush to sport. After all, we have few who can match In ability and color the headliners of the Golden Age following the First World war. I am referring again to Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Bobby Jones, Man o War, Bill Tilden, Tommy Hitch-cocDevereux Milburn, Walter Earl Hornsby. Rogers Hagen, Sande and Red Grange. We have no such galaxy of famous names with which to conjure, although Williams. Nelson, Hogan, Arcaro, Blanchard, Davis and a few others may be Just as good. It may be that the glamour of past years takes on too keen a hue and glint. But that Golden Age of Sport produced a pretty fair collection of talent and color. No such talent has been proved in this present postwar era np to date, but it may happen later. It may be that the coming season in various sports will give us champions that can match the Old Guard of the lost and golden era. We dont believe so. But we know that sport will give us greater crowds than ever were known in the past. We know that there will be more money than ever before wagered on the races through the mutuels and a total surpasstbe bookmakers ing 2 billion dollars. New York alone will pass 500 million through the mutuels. In this era of peace following the blackness of the worlds greatest war, there are two details that make this possible: (1) the reach the excuse for taut for release nerves and (2) more widespread cash than this country has ever known previously. It is the same in England, even more so. This is no knock against the human race. It Is only a natural reaction, even If It isnt the wisest and the sanest reaction. When was the human race ever sane or wise? in the mixing bowl, plus that final rise to light ond fluffy flavor In the oven. k, Some Big Questions The season will soon begin to unroll a number of answers to various important questions. No. 1. How will the Yankee pitching staff make out? Will it be consistently good enough to be even fairly close to the pitching strength of Tigers, Red Sox or Indians? Or the Senators? No. 2. Can the Tiger infield hold up well enough to give Steve ONeills crack pitching staff the chance to win again? No. 3. Can Leo Durocher find enough pitching to keep his Dodgers u; with the Cardinals and Cubs? Especially the Cubs. No. 4. How far will the Cardinals be in front by the first of August?, someNo. 5. Will the Giants what jittery defensive play crowd Mel Otts team out of the first division? No. 6. What about the seasons pitching duel between Bob Feller and A1 Newhouser? No. 7. Also the A. L.s all around batting championship among Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio and Dick impending Wakefield? No. 8. How many home runs can Hank Greenberg deliver to offset the natural and expected deficit in foot speed? No. 9. To what ball clubs are a few of the Cardinals pitching surplus headed? No. 10. How will Pesky and Doerr of the Red Sox compare with Rizzuto and Gordon of the Yankees? No. 11. What are the odds on either Phillies or Athletics leaving the ancient and moldy telir? No. 12. How will the old New York - Boston argument concerning the ability of Joe Gordon and Bobby Doerr work out? No. 13. How far up will Billy Southworth be able to lift the Braves in his first Boston season? : i. M'lML lHIUr.lihliCg MUSCULAR ACHES STIFF JOINTS THED MUSCLES SPRAINS STKA1NS BRUISES IS LINIMENT, Back from the Battle Fronts to Save You Motors, Breakdowns, Money New FRAM Filcron Oil Filters With production delayed, you may be driving that old car, truck or tractor a long while yet. 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