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Show WASHINGTON fire, or through vivisection In the name of German science. There is even one picture showing show-ing the collection of one wife of an SS guard who made a hobby of collecting the skins of tatooed persons. Whenever a prisoner had a distinctive tattoo he was taken before this lady and if she Wanted that tattoo to add to her collection collec-tion the prisoner was killed and skinned to satisfy her. The exhibit accomplishes its purpose in making us aware of the type of people our men had to fight, which was General Eis- railroad centers and see the conditions con-ditions under -which returning veterans must sometimes travel for long distances realize that it was demandatory that the Office of Defense Transportation prohibit pullman travel on trips of 450 miles or less. This ruling went into effect Sunday and will provide sleeping space for 20,000 soldiers nightly, it was announced by the Pullman Company. Cutting the pullmans from' the short trips will alone make some 5,000 more cars available. avail-able. This may meet the demand but it is predicted here that if this cut does not provide sufficient space to care for these veterans then civilian travel will be cut FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN W. K. GRANGER : : enhower's desire when he saw those atrocities. Such crimes against human decency could have occured only in a nation whose people had lost all democratic rights. But the political philosophy to which the German people succumbed suc-cumbed had its roots deep in German history. The myth of the "master rae", , the urge for world domination, the belief in German military invincibility ' were part and parcel of the Reich's tradition. trad-ition. Travel Those of us who are In large - - Lest We Forget The one thing that has perhaps caused the greatest stir in Washington Wash-ington since General Eisenhower's return, is the exhibit of life-shie photographs of the horrors of the German prison camps, at the library li-brary of congress. ' ' .' This exhibit is entitled: LEST WE FORGET. The pictures are reproductions of actual photo, graphs taken by army photographers photo-graphers at the camps. They clearly picture the results of every means of extermination used by the Germans, whether by beatings I administered by SS guards, by starvation, by strangulation, by further, although the railroads are of course trying to avoid priority travel. National Service Insurance The life of National Life Insurance Insur-ance policies, originally set at five years, was exteneded to eight years through legislation signed by President Truman. Benefits to members of the armed forces carrying such policies were extended extend-ed automatically until December 31, 1948. Premium rates remain unchanged. |