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DES MOINES REGISTER APR. 10, 1943. 8 Yanks Find Concentration Camp Murders From Nazis Used Asylum for Murder Mill per cent of their salaries In a foundation retirement system, have the option in the senate bill of paying into or staying out of the system. lletirement Age Is 65. Retirement age is 65 except for employees who were 65 before Jan.

1, 1946. They'd have to work 2Ys years more for a public employer before they could retire with benefits. Gov. Robert D. Blue proposed the general pension for public employees system early in the session.

A school code bill proposing a school teacher and other school employee pension system has received no action pending a stand on the governor's bill. PENSIONS Conf inued rom Pars 1. tion needs only a simple majority vote. Patterned closely after the federal old age benefit and survivor insurance system so the federal social security board could absorb it any time the states consent to taxation of their employees the system, if it gets house approval, would go into effect Jan. 1, 1946.

Claude M. Stanley, member of the employment security commission which would administer the system in connection with unemployment compensation, has estimated that between 40,000 and 60,000 Iowa public employees would be covered by the act. He also has estimated it would cost $5,400,000, half borne by the employees and half by all the public bodies, in full operation, plus $100,000 a year for administrative costs. 1 Levy Starting in 1946. Third Floor; West Says Negro Proves He Can Wage War WASHINGTON, I).

C. T) Truman K. Gibson, civilian aide to Secretary of War Henry Stimson on Negro affairs, asserted Monday "certainly the record being made by Negro soldiers gives the lie to any charge Negroes cannot and will not fight." By Hal Boyle. WITH THE U. S.

1ST ARMY IN GERMANY OP) A Nazi "murder factory," where 20,000 political prisoners, Jews and slave laborers were put to death, has been discovered in an insane asylum near Limburg by the 1st Army. A macabre story of death and torture and ghoulish feasts by drink-sodden executioners was told by the investigators, Capt. Brinkley Hamilton, a British officer attached to an American infantry division and Lt. W. R.

Johnson of Loveland, Colo. Scientific Extermination. Three Germans ran the asylum a 70-year-old doctor, a 45-year-old chief woman's nurse and a middle-aed chief warden. The asylum was one of six "plants" set up. by the Nazis inside Germany to dispose scientifically of slave laborers who were unruly or had outlived their usefulness.

German civil authorities estimated 15,000 victims were gassed and cremated and another 5,000 killed by drugs or poison and Public employees, including school teachers and all other school employees except some pro fessors, would pay in 1 per cent of the salaries beginning in 1946 and 2 per cent in 1949 and there fats make Waste kitchen gunpowder. after into a fund which would be PRINTED COMPACTS New Designs Large Selection matched equally by the employing bodies. After years, employees would be fully insured as to benefits for their own retirement, for their wives and children and for their widows and children. They would remain fully in buried in communal graves near jtfx' AND UP the asylum walls. Complained of Stench.

After residents of Hadamar, four miles from Limburg, complained of the stench of burning' In 3 LOUNGE COAT 14.95 "Love Bird" is the name bird print on rayon challis, crisp eyelet embroidery trim. White birds on aqua, blue, or sunset rose. Sizes 12 to 20. Robes: Third Floor; West MAIL ORDERS WELCOME or phone 4-1 1 12 sured as long as they stayed in public employment, but changed from job to job. If they left public employment, their benefits earned at the time would come to them at age 65.

Benefits computed on a formula based upon years of service and amount of earnings could not exceed $85 per month either for the employee or his surviving widow and children. Some professors at the State MM 402 Srvrnlh St. mmmmmm, BABY'S ft Murdered in cold blood by their Nazi guards, these slain victims of Fascism lie scattered about the grounds of the German concentration camp at Ohrdruf. The camp was captured by troops of the U. S.

4th Armored Division of the 3rd Army. Ohrdruf is nine miles south of Gotha. Relieve misery direct -without "dosing." University of Iowa and Iowa State college, who contribute 10 Name Nazis In Butchery Of 577,000 Ji- I 4 5 1 A Gift Book! Walkin' Preacher of the Ozarks By Romney Wheeler. LONDON, ENGLAND (JP Two Wehrmacht field marshals and 86 other Germans have been named responsible for the death of 577,000 persons in concentra tion camps in Latvia and the deportation of 175,000 others as slave labor. A report Monday I by a Soviet investigating com-1 1 mittee makes the charges.

Field Marshals Walther von Model and Ferdinand Schoerner, Over countless miles of highway and backwoods roads in Missouri and Arkansas, Guy Howard walked each year to preach in meeting houses and schools. This is his simple and appealing story. uuuies aiiu tne zisiiop oi naunsier protested, the Nazis switched from gas to hypodermic injections and from cremation to mass burial. The slayings were described as "mercy killings" authorized by a 1939 Nazi statute. Political prisoners and slave laborers who became too weak to work FIRST WERE STARVED, then declared "HOPELESSLY ILL," and slain.

Three hundred crazed inmates were allowed to run free in the underground dungeons. "The underground chambers were dripping with water, bats flying around and little crazy men jumping out at you at every step," Johnson said. A Heidelberg Graduate. "The director in charge," he continued, "was a big tall Nazi surgeon, about 70 years old, a graduate of Heidelberg with sabre scars on his face. He was gray-haired, Dut I never saw a tougher looking man in my life.

"The chief nurse her job was to put the death needle into women patients was about six feet tall and built like a football player. She was as ugly as a witch. Head Keeper's Duties. "The head keeper was a mousey-looking middle-aged man who had been promoted from driving victims to the asylum to the actual job of doing away with them. "The head keeper told us the asylum never held more than 500 patients and showed us that there were only 481 graves in the cemetery.

"There were three fresh, empty graves, and when we asked him about them he said, 'WE ALWAYS KEEP THREE GRAVES "The graves were seven feet or more deep and bulb-shaped. Most German graves now are only a few inches deep. Instead of one body in each grave, there were from six to 20. Doctor Favored Starvation. "An attendant said the doctor was a kind man because if a victim fought against taking the hypo needle, the surgeon would not let the attendants beat him into submission.

He just let the man go without food until he was too weak to object." The "murder factory" started in 1941. The gas chambers and army group commanders, were blamed for the crimes in the report, which a Moscow broadcast said was made by a group of prominent Soviet Latvians and Russians. Destruction. MAIL ORDERS Books: Balcony, First Floor; East. Inspecting naked bodies of slain internees, as they were found in a woodshed of a concentration camp at Ohrdruf, is Maj.

John K. Scotti of Brooklyn, N. Y. Via Signal Corps Radio. RAYON CREPE PAJAMAS 4i95 road, the road to death, German beasts snatched small children from their mothers' hands, seized the mentally diseased," the report said.

It cited three instances in which German SS police removed more them by the feet AND KILLED THEM BY SMASHING THEM AGAINST POLES AND B'ENCES." A Gift Set! Mexican Luncheon Set, 1.69 The committee said Jews were shot in Kumbul forest where they were forced to strip to their underwear and march to their graves to be killed. Those who attempted to resist were j1 It beaten with rubber clubs. Butcher-boy tailored coat model pajamas of basket weave rayon crepe in small floral print. Sky blue, shell pink or cloud white. Sizes 32 to 40.

Lingerie: Third Floor; West MAIL ORDERS WELCOME or phone 4-II 12 The committee reported the Germans had destroyed factories, libraries, museums, hospitals and homes, had ransacked libraries and art galleries and had slain many Latvian intellectuals. At least 170,000 civilians, including women and children, were slaughtered in mass extermination camps near Riga, it was charged. "The German fiends spared no one," the report said. "They murdered men and women, healthy and sick, children and old people. "In the central prison in Riga they murdered more than 2,000 children whom they had taken away from parents, and in Salas-pils camp they killed more than 3,000 children." In this camp, the commission said, it found nine grave-pits covering a total area of more than 3,600 square yards, and had established that the Germans tortured to death more than civilians in the camp.

Killed 1'atient. "In the first and second psychiatric hospitals they killed all Typical Mexican design in center, backgrounds of green, blue, orange, yellow or white with multicolored borders. 36x36 cloth with 4 napkins. Just Like Sketch than 2,450 mental defectives from the hospitals in 1942 and "shot all of them in Bikernik forest" on the outskirts of Riga. A hospital doctor testified he was instructed to note on the sick lists simply, "evacuated by SS police." Witnesses' Story.

A witness was quoted on the shooting of the Jews at Riga: "People with little children, old men and women, poured out into the streets where they were lined up. They were dispatched in busses but most of the people were driven on foot. In endless columns, the Jews plodded along the streets. The exodus lasted from 5 p. m.

Saturday all through the night and ended on Sunday evening. "The streets were covered with ices, and people fell and were shot on the spot. The streets of the Ghetto became red with blood. Children and mothers were shot mercilessly. "As people traveled their last Texas House Votes Ban on Closed Shop AUSTIN, TEX.

(JP The house Monday finally passed, 68 to 63, and sent to the senate a bill outlawing the closed shop in Texas. The bill was urged by proponents as a means of guaranteeing jobs for returning veterans without the necessity of joining a labor union and was attacked by opponents who claimed its one objective was the destruction of labor unions. Latin American Shop: Fourth Floor; West. (MAIL ORDERS WELCOME) 0 fl T- .3 crematorium were operated by jVfc-j SS men sent from Berlin. "After their 10.000th killing, 11111 the SS men had a drinking orgy' Hamilton said.

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