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C NAZI MASS EXECUTIONS Underground observers coming out of Germany have reported that the Nazis already have begun the systematic elimination of the vast army of slave labor imported from Russia France Czechoslovakia and various occupied countries Details of the story are so ghastly I that they hardly can be believed I 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 matter matter mat mat- ter of official record It is estimated that the imported slave labor inside Germany totals about Either because Hitler fears their sabotage and rebellion rebellion rebellion re re- re- re bellion or else because they are a adrain adrain adrain drain on Germanys Germany's food resources machinery has been devised to ro kill them off The number killed so far faris faris faris is estimated at around though this is a very rough esti esti- mate Absolutely definite however is the fact that mass execution depots depots depots de de- de- de pots such as that at Lublin already are set up in various parts of Ger Ger- many These have been witnessed Reason for the cold-blooded cold system of mass executions is explained explained explained ex ex- as follows by underground underground underground under under- ground observers who have come out of Germany Originally Original Original- ly Iy storm troopers were given give a list of 15 to 20 persons and told to shoot them with their revolvers revolvers revolvers re re- re- re in the night Sometimes this included whole families with children So not even the S. S S. S men could take it They suffered nervous coIl collapses apses had to be besent besent besent sent to As a result the mass execution execution execution 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. U S. S army the most distressed over the war departments department's departments department's departments department's de de- de- de demobilization plan are the men over 35 years years year of age They get no extra retirement points because because because be be- cause of age In fact some of them because of bad health and inability to get overseas may be among the thelast thelast thelast last to leave the army following V day Stranded in camps throughout the theU U U. U S. S A. A they have become the Lost Battalions Many were snapped up by selective service ice ce in the early davs days of the war e d-e despite pit pit-e d deafness a ess blindness in one eye and shortage of fingers fingers all all at ata a time lime when the army was in a rush to get almost anyone Now many of these men are doing semi- semi menial tasks At Fort Meyer Va one group is daily assigned to grave digging at atthe atthe atthe the National Cemetery Others count socks and shirts for the quartermaster quartermaster quarter quarter- master corps are now becoming psychological problems for the army Some found that infirmities when they entered have become aggravated aggravated aggravated ag ag- since but will never be I recognized as having received disabilities disabilities disabilities dis dis- dis- 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 department department de de- also admits that it had hatt to stop somewhere and that since the WAC WAG recruiting program program pro pro- gram grain failed it is now necessary necessary necessary sary to retain the year olds to make up for the scarcity of V ACs ARKANSAS F FARMER RIER IN LONDON II 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 vas Arkansas head of the Farm Security administration before comI coming com com- log ing to congress so traveled widely I in hi rural England was amazed by bythe bythe bythe the economy of land use Heres an island about about- third one-third as large as the state of Texas Hays said but with people And it is growing two-thirds two of all its food The British wont won't keep on growing growing growing grow grow- ing so much food after the war Hays says but what they're doing with their land right now is lous And they like it even though gh most of them never worked in the fields before I didn't talk to a single one ne who wasn't tickled that we had sent them less food and plenty of fertilizer and farm machinery They're really proud of what they were able to do and glad they haven't had to eat nothing but handouts handouts hand hand- outs DUts from this country CARTEL MYSTERY STORY Last month wrote a letter lettero to o Secretary of State Hull told him Keep your yes eyes on this whole sub- sub lect of international cartels Now Wendell Berge assistant attorney attorney attorney at at- torney general in charge of trust- trust ousting Dusting has written quite a detective story of his own It is a book entitled entitled entitled en en- titled Cartels Challenge to a Free World If you want to understand tome ome of the major traps into which the ilia coming peace may find itself en- en its it's worth reading |