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Show Who's News This Week By Delos Wheeler Lovelace Consolidate Features. WNU Release. NEW. YORK. New word that the Germans are systematically exterminating ex-terminating war prisoners either by outright murder or by inhuman forced la- NaziTreatmentof bor, comes War Prisoners Is from Niko-Murder, Niko-Murder, He Says J- surgeon of the Red army who has been loaded with honors for his servicesto science. He is a Hero of Socialist Labor (recipients of this title receive simultaneously the Or der of Lenin and the Hammer and Sickle) ; member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR; and winner of the Stalin prize. When the latter honor was conferred con-ferred Burdenko said that it was a tribute to the whole of Russian science. He boasted then that 70 per cent of all wounded Red army men had been returned to front line action during the early phase of the war. Nowadays Now-adays this figure Is surpassed. Grandson of a serf, son of a clerk, Burdenko worked at various jobs to educate himself. During the Russo-Japanese Russo-Japanese war he volunteered in a medical unit. Afterwards he completed com-pleted his studies at Yuriev Derpt university, and during World War I served as a surgeon in front line hospitals. In 1938 he organized Che famous hospital for treatment of neuro-pathological cases. Sixty-five years old now. Academician Acad-emician Burdenko Is still indefatigable. inde-fatigable. He says that mortality mortal-ity in German prison camps is 20 to 30 per cent, and believes that German treatment of their prisoners should be adjudged ordinary or-dinary murder. WHEN peace comes, the watch dog of the national purse, the comptroller general, looks for claims galore growing out of ican-celled ican-celled war Comp.-Gen.Warren contracts Popular in Capital that may Despite Pie Deo0?1 a much as 50 billion dollars. He looks also for leaks, startling even in these days of astronomical costs, and is asking congress for the final say on all such items. Claimants, however, hardly need worry, for Lindsay Carter Warren was once called "the fairest minded man in the house 1 of representatives." The speak-. speak-. er was a Republican, and Warren War-ren is a Democrat, which makes it all the better. He resigned from the house in '41 to become comptroller after serving serv-ing from 1925. Solidly built, easy speaking, he is popular on Capitol Hill. At one time he ran the house restaurant and brought it triumphantly trium-phantly out of the red by charging 15 cents for pie. Between Washington, D. C, and Washington, N. C, where he was born In 1889, lie years of steady climbing. Graduating In law from the University of North Carolina, he practiced for a time; became county attorney of Beaufort county, went on to the state senate and thence to the country's capital. Married since 1916, with three children, he is a great family man. Nevertheless, there are rumors of at least one poker game, He is said In one week-end session to have trimmed FDR himself. PRANK M. SWACKER is prob- ably the only lawyer between Maine and Miami who can talk deep-' deep-' sea diving with the lead-shod profes- p mm r. , sionals. He Frank M . S wacker once worked Came to Bar by on the Span-Roan Span-Roan dabout Road sh fleet toat Sampson sunk. That was after a bout with yellow fever in New Orleans had made him eligible for the Second U. S. Volunteer Infantry, Hood.'s Immunes, in the Spanish-American war. But it was before he swung a sledge on sprouting -railroads ha South and Central America. Mr. Swacker wasn't admitted to practice until he was 35. But he was no sooner in than be was a special assistant to the U. S. attorney general and up to his waist In the New Haven antitrust anti-trust proceeding of 1914-17. The railroads, employers and hands recently received the Swacker dissenting report on the claims of some 600,000 operating employees em-ployees for a wage boost. The majority of the emergency board of three recommended a 4 per cent rise. The Swacker recommendation advocated 1 per cent. The law problems of railroads have kept Lawyer Swacker pretty busy throughout the years, and railroad rail-road labor problems have been his avocation the word is his own the nearest thing to a hobby that he will admit indulging in. He attends to them, and his law practice, at a not too tidy desk in a Manhattan office, double .walled with his law library. He is not so attentive that he misses vagrant amusing Items, a quirky "e" in a typewritten letter, let-ter, maybe. He first saw the light of day in St Louis, Mo., 64 years ago. i |