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WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 25, 1944 SECTION 1 THE COURIER-JOURNAL, LOUIS VILLE, KY United Nations May Meet 8fe i Early In 1945 to Rati fy Pact Murder of Thousands From Warsaw Charged Moscow, Oct. 24 (AP) A horrible aftermath of Warsaw's lost fight for freedom is being staged by German executioners at Oswiecim, the notorious concentration camp 150,000 Jewish Survivors In Romania Face Famine Br JOSEPH M. LEVY. By Wirls to The New York Times and The Courier-Journal. Istanbul, Oct.

24. Out of the 270,000 Romanian Jews who survived massacre, deportations and forced labor camps, 150,000 face starvation or death from cold. They are without clothes or food and without a roof over their heads. A vast majority of the children are undernourished and rachitic while parents verge on tuberculosis. Medical supplies are nonexistent and most of the sick are left to die.

shellings, fire, famine and epidemics. 250,000 Still Left. About 250.000 still were alive when the Germans compelled capitulation of the liberation forces. The Poles at Pruszkow and those removed from the ruins the capital this month were divided into two groups, those fit for labor in Germany and those not. At Oswiecim, meanwhile, the German SS management began on October 7 "making room" for vast numbers of new inmates.

About 13,000 Poles were killed as a kind of 'practice" for truly large-scnle slaughter soon as the Warsaw survivors began to pour in. The first caravan from the Warsaw area was unloaded at Oswiecim on October 14. They were led in batches of hundreds into low-ceilinged, airtight concrete disinfection chambers. While the guards watched through glass windows, they were killed methodically with poison gas. systematic massacre in which thousands of them were slaughtered but those who escaped death at the hands of the Romanian and German hooligans lost all their possessions as a result of bombardments.

Today there are about 30,000 Jews in Jassy without resources. This writer was shown a heartrending appeal for urgent relief from the Jewish community in Jassy to a Hebrew congregation in Bucharest but the latter was unable to respond since the more than 100,000 Jews in Bucharest are destitute. Copyricht. 1944. thirty miles west of Krakow.

Reports received from underground channels today said the first Polish civilians evacuated from Warsaw after the insurrection there was ended reached Oswiecim October 14 and were killed in gas chambers the same day. It is estimated that this group totaled 12,400, mostly women and children. Soviet Poles Give Version. All Polish males between the ages of 16 and 60 capable of physical labor were sent on to Germany for slave-gang service. The Soviet-Rponsored Polish Committee of National Liberation today gave this version of what happened to the people of Warsaw: Of the original population of more than a million, there were 400,000 Jews.

These were exterminated during the years of German occupation. When fighting broke out inside Warsaw August 1, the Germans removed up to 250,000 civilians to the Pruszkow camp on the road to Lodz. A quarter of a million Poles are believed to have perished in the city during the 63-day struggle. They died from bombings, Nine-Tenths of Jews In Greece 'Disappear' Athens, Oct. 24 (INS) Only fl.OOO of Greece's 90,000 Jews are accounted for, authorities revealed tonight, adding that the "fate of the others is unknown but they are presumably dead or deported to Poland." Buy War Stamps xvM If I lap I Queen of Nazi Orgies Occupies Dutch Cell By EDWARD V.

ROBERTS. Maastricht, Holland, Oct. 24 (UP) She was the toast of the Gestapo's orgies in the days when the Nazis were masters of Europe, but today blond Mme. Aldegonda Zeguers sits in a cold prison cell, a ragged blanket around her feet, awaiting a sentence that probably will be death. Dutch Underground leaders nt trmUMna Photo.

WHILE HER SON, Bobby, age 2 stares at the camera, Mrs. Robert Eppler, 1700 Cypress signs the Pledge for Peace at the Louisville Free Public Library. Ar Wlrephet. Mrs. Gertrude a Legendre, Charleston, S.

is, according to a representative of the family, "no doubt" the person described by a Berlin broadcast as the "first American woman captured on the Western Front." She went to Europe a year ago with the Red Cross. in Liege night clubs and always Madame Zeguers, beautifully gowned, was the toast of the orgies. She had spent money lavishly until her husband was jailed. Then she turned to other sources for income. She contacted the Underground and said that despite her associations with the Nazis she was a loyal Hollander.

For certain sums of money she arranged for the release of some Underground men picked up by the Germans. 1,300 Dutch Nazis Held. The Underground decided to take a chance. Madame Zeguers did secure the release of men. Then she demandd more and more money "much more than was necessary for the work we asked of her," a member of the Dutch secret police told me.

The Underground became increasingly suspicious. Before it could act two of their leaders were betrayed and sent to a concentration camp in Germany. "We know they were betrayed by Madame Zeguers," my informant said. In the prison with her are 1,100 men and 200 women of the Dutch Nazi Party. Library Helps Arouse Peace-League Backers Taking an active "part in a plan for postwar organization, the Louisville Free Public Library has on display its books on postwar planning, and a pledge outlining eight points necessary for the abolition of wars.

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petial The New Tork Times and The Courier-Journal. Washington, Oct. 24. Invitations for the full-dress United Nations securities conference to indorse the charter framed at Dumbarton Oaks may be sent out in December and the conference itself convened this coming winter, Edward R. Stettinius acting secretary of state, indicated et the State Department today.

He said that the unfinished business left over from the Dumbarton Oaks conversations must be settled before that time, but that they would not necessarily require another meeting between Marshal Stalin, Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt. Such questions, he declared, could also be dealt with in three ether ways, either by a conference of Foreign Ministers, by another meeting "on the humble official level," as the Dumbarton talks were described by Sir Alexander Cadogan, or by an exchange of views through regular diplomatic channels. President Is Busy. Any one of these methods, Stettinius pointed out, will take some time, and would preclude the calling of the general conference before the year end. In the way any immediate meeting of chiefs of state, he said, was the fact that President Roosevelt is going to be very busy during the next few weeks and that after that he would be entitled to some rest.

To get other machinery for the settlement of outstanding questions, he said, would take time, but in the meantime the charter will be under examination by all the Governments to be invited, and public discussion in all countries will help the delegates toward a rapid decision once they meet. Stettinius expressed the hope that the exchanges of views would be accomplished so that the invitations could be sent out in December. Armour Meets Diplomats. Asked whether any special consideration had been given to Latin-American views on the security organization, Stettinius recalled that on the conclusion of the Dumbarton Oaks conversation a full outline of the proposed charter had been communicated by the State Department to the interested Governments, and that on Columbus Day after their visit to the White House diplomats from the Latin-American nations were received by Stettinius and were given detailed explanations cf the accords. Since that time Norman Armour, former ambassador to the Argentine and at present chief cf the Department of Latin-Ameriran Affairs, has been conferring individually with the representatives of Central and South American countries.

Secretary Stettinius announced that he was planning another meeting with the American diplomats as a single group to discuss the security projects some time during this week. Delay Unaroldable. Though President Roosevelt in his address to the diplomats on Columbus Day pronounced for the setting up of the United Na- tions peace organization promptly "without waiting for the end of hostilities," the statement by Secretary Stettinius makes it evident that it cannot be accomplished until well into next year. CPTMht. 44.

91 Hurt As Trains Collide. New Orleans, Oct. 24 Eleven persons were hospitalized and eighty suffered minor injuries or bruises when two passenger trains collided at Shrewsbury, a few miles west of here today. fee I necessary to prevent Germany and Japan from preparing for another war. Clarence R.

Graham, librarian, said that the display will be left up for about two weeks, and that anyone who signs the pledge may leave it at the desk, where it will be mailed by the library to a representative from Kentucky in Washington. "It is necessary," he said, "for people to show that they have more than a vague interest in postwar before the war is over." Wednesday's Victory Suggestions Ar finked Lake Trout, Special 28c Chicken Croquettes, Peat in Cream a 20c Pumpkin Pie 8c Mexican Shuc 4c Neiv Cabinet Is Announced By GreeU Premier Athens, Oct. 24 (A) Premier George Papnndreou announced tonight the formation of a new Greek Cabinet, and at the same time his Finance Minister disclosed arrival of "large amounts" of gold from London to help stabilize the drachma. The new Cabinet, in which Papandreou will hold the Ministries of War and Foreign Affairs, includes representatives of eight political' parties and two independents. Only three of the seventeen members served with the Greek Government in exile in Cairo.

When in 1940 Marshall Ion An tonescu promulgated a law calling for a "romanlzation" of all personnel in every profession and business, scores of thousands of Jews were dismissed and sent to forced labor camps. Homes Seized By Aryans. With the overthrow of Anton-escu regime these camps have been abolished and those Jews who survived hard labor returned to their respective towns hoping to resume their old jobs. But to their consternation they discovered that they had neither jobs nor homes to go back to. Both had been occupied by "Aryans." Although six weeks have elapsed since the Romanian armistice was signed, all appeals to the Government to enact a law forcing employers to reinstate Jews in their former jobs remain unheeded.

Even leaders of the Communist and Social Democratic Parties who are the so-called banner bearers of "justice for all" in Romania refuse to intervene on behalf of these Jews. These leaders are now courting non-Jewish Romanian wage-earners "who must not be antagonized," I learned during a recent visit to Romania. The Jewish community of Jassy was in a most deplorable state. Not only were they exposed to Lights Go On In Dusscldorf Anil Cologne Br Wireless to The, New York Timet and The Coa.rier-Jaarna.1. Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force, Oct.

24. The lights have gone up again in parts of Germany. Two major German cities have turned on their street lights for at least two nights recently. Despite the constant peril of bombing, lights shone on the nights of October 18 and 19 in Dusseldorf and Cologne, within forty miles of the American First Army front. The reasons for this display, reported for publication here tonight, are unknown.

It is surmised that the Germans may have decided, for the purpose of expediting work and transport, that the advantages of having light outweigh the dangers of air attacks, which come nonetheless. Copyricht. 10(4. SlavH Reveal '1 1 Slaying Of 7,000 By Germans London, Oct. 24 U.R) The Yugoslav radio said today that German occupation forces slaughtered more than 7,000 inhabitants of Kragujevac on October 21, 1941, in reprisal for the kill- Ling of twenty-three Nazis in a skirmish with Partisans.

The recent capture of Kragujevac brought to light the story of the mass reprisal. Among those reported shot were Miloje Pavlovic and Iazar Pantelic, headmasters of colleges. and Ail-Wool Shirts 595 JJ9S 1000 Incorporated Market at Third uiiit ii iiit tiiiifti tiiiiiiiiiiiii iitriiiiitiiiiiiitiiiiiif tiiiiiitiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiitiitiiiitiitttiiiiiiiaiiiitiitttiiiiiiti The pledge, written by the War Writers Board, proposes that a world organization consisting of the United Nations and neutrals be set up; that Axis powers and their sympathizers shall be on probation until they are admitted; that no nation have the right to wage war or secede from the world organization; that a primary goal for the organization be the abolition of economic and political imperialism throughout the world, and that the organization execute whatever measures are Louis Renault Dies In Paris Paris, Oct. 24 l) Louis Renault, -63. head of the Renault Motor Company, who had been charged with collaborating with the Nazis, died at a hospital here today.

Renault was charged with being a collaborationist because his automotive plants allegedly were employed in the manufacture of equipment and material for the German Army during the occupation. He was arrested September 23. As his arraignment, the judge permitted him to be placed in a hospital. At the time of his arrest, the Government announced that his plants, frequently the target of Allied bombers, would be nationalized as a vital war industry. Renault declared that he was forced to permit his factories to work for the Germans to prevent machinery and employes being transported to Germany.

NO TAX on this lavishly -fur-trimmed Woman's Coat Sizes 38 to 44 39 95 said that the comely, 33-year-old woman betrayed two of their men to the Nazis and that while other Hollanders were cold and hungry she was entertaining German officers at wild parties in her home. Nazis Arrested Husband. Through a tiny peephole of the ancient prison in which she sits in solitary confinement, I saw today the woman who for four years had shocked this staid community by her conduct. She was huddled in a chair. The collar of her coat was turned up.

A ragged blanket kept her feet warm. As I looked, she turned her face toward the door. She was a woman, her blond hair neatly curled despite the fact she has been in "solitary" for fourteen days. She had a husband, a notorious Black Market dealer who suddenly and inexplicably was sent to a German concentration camp. Then she became the sweetheart of the notorious Major Strobel, head of the SS in Maastricht.

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