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May 22, 1945 MINNEAPOLIS MORNING TRIBUNE BUT IKE HAD A 'DOUBLE RUSS TO TRAIN NEW CZECH ARMY CyeiuitnedA ike Wan, FIANCEE WAITS FOR GABRESKI Kay Sits by Phone; Won't Make Plans miltary secret, will be the Soviet-sponsored Czech army corps formed In Russia during the German occupation. Gen. Ludvig Svoboda is commander in chief and Gen. Josef Bocek is chief of staff. The prewar Czech army numbered approximately 1,200,000 men and was armed with the latest French 'Plot' to Kill Eisenhower Just an Old German Hoax LONDON UP) turning: to Soviet Russia for PARIS UP) A gigantic hoax perpetrated by the Germans, aid and guidance, will establish a at the time of the Ardennes offensive last December was taken new Soviet-trained and equipped equipment.

so seriously by the Allied command that a double replaced army of undisclosed size, the Eisenhower in the latter's official car and a drastic curfew was! Czech news bureau announced By STAFF CORRESPONDENT th Minneapolis Morning Tribin PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, WIS. 200 STARVING POLES clamped on the Paris area to foil would-be Nazi assassins. ln- In an atmosphere which x- -x- -X. The Czech government considered it essential that a new officer corps be trained at once because the Germans had executed most of the Czech general staff and had destroyed the national military academy at Hranice. Kay Cochran, 20, fiance of Lt.

CoL Francis S. Gabreski, was sitting close to her telephone here Monday night, with her fingers crossed. Monday night. The announcement emphasized Russia's new westward influence among the smaller nations once welded by France into the prewar "cordon sanitaire." Plans for the army were disclosed on the heejs of the return to Prague of Czech president Eduard Benes, who, with other members of the government-in-exile, had spent several weeks in Moscow. Before the war the Czech army was trained by France.

Now, She was expecting, momentarily, A creased steadily in intensity, military police patroled the streets of the capital and at least 43 roadblocks were set up covering all approaches to the city. Hundred of arrrnta were made and there were numerous casualties as SO-callber machine-guns ripped Into vehicles which Ignored the roadblocks. The story of the Nazi "plot" to a call from Gabreski, leading American flier in the European Seymour By GIDEON SEYMOUR For month the Germans, retreating doggedly in the east and west, moved political prisoners out of the concentration camps they had to abandon, to camps farther toward the German interior. In the last wHki of Nazism, transportation and management In Germany were In auch chaos that efforts to move political prisoners out of reach of the Allied and Russian armies became holocausts of starvation and death, and finally were abandoned entirely. Buchenwald, one of the big German concentration camps, Is eight miles or so from Weimar on what was formerly Prince von Bismarck's estate.

The name means "beech forest." It consisted of brick-and-stucco dormitories for SS guards and one-story cau AT 6278 FOR PERSONALIZED FUR STORAGE theater, who arrived in New York Monday on a 60-day leave after L.T. COL GABRESKI new circumstances and Czecho Aid hero "salutes" slovakia's new mutual assistance his release from a German prison camp. FINGERS CROSSED Her fingers were crossed, she said, because she was thinking of agreement with Russia made it desirable to accept military aid and advice from the Soviet. tiTut last July when she was waiting A ILCI N1C0 kill Eisenhower and other high-ranking Allied officers one of the top secrets of the European theater became public property only last Thursday, after the U. S.

Seventh army captured Lt. Col. Otto Skorzeny, aide to gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler. 'BAND OF HOLLERS' Censors permitted the disclosure for the colonel to come home on a scheduled leave. They had plan Basis for the new Czech irmy, whnae size will remain a ned to be married when he ar EYEWITNESS Gideon Seymour, executive editor of the Minneapolis Star-Journal and Tribune, has Just returned from a visit to Europe with 17 other American editors to inspect German concentration camps, at the invitation of the war department.

This is the third of a series of reports by him which are appearing daily in the Minneapolis Morning and Sunday Tribune. frame barracks, painted boxcar red. for political prisoners. Originally it was built for Jews and had a capacity of about 11,000. Estimates of its capacity in its final days ranged up to 46,000 (the fleeing SS burned all the records.) Almost none were Jews.

They had been exterminated or moved to make way for political prisoners from conquered countries. The first batch of prisoners we aaw at Buchenwald were some 200 starving Poles, all beyond GI'S WATCH SLAVS WITH EAGLE EYE Tito Asks Unity in Trieste Dispute LONDON (UB American reinforcements have moved into the Gorizia-Trieste area at the head of the Adriatic where an estimated 60,000 Yugoslav troops are assembled, dispatches from L.T. COL. BALDWIN B. SMITH Posed as Eisenhower's double that Skorzeny, who effected the spectacular rescue of Mussolini from Italian custody in 1943, was reported to have planned to lead a band of picked killers wearing (km rived.

Gabreski was shot down over Germany July 20. "We're not making- any plans now after that. We're just waiting," she said. Her fingers were crossed also because of a short paragraph she read Monday morning in a news dispatch from Paris which quoted Gabreski as 'saying, "I want some of that Pacific," when asked about his future plans. WON'T ARGUE "I sure won't argue with him if he wants to go," she said, but it wasn't hard to tell how she American uniforms In a bold foray into the Allied rear at the height of Von Rundstedt's "bulge" the Eighth army front said Mon day.

The Belgrade radio broadcast a dispatch from the Belgrade FRENCH, SYRIANS CLASH; 8 DEAD DAMASCUS (JP) Acting Premier Djemil Mardam Bey announced Monday Syria and Lebanon had refused to negotiate with France on current difficulties, and Home Minister Assaly declared eight persons were killed newspaper Borba asserting the Yugoslav government considered an Immediate agreement possible between Italy and Yugoslavia on From Our In an official statement Monday, Col. H. G. Sheen, chief of counter-intelligence at Allied headquarters, said: "We know now that this was only a story and never at any time did Skorzeny or any of hi people plan to carry out such an operation." Evidence now has been gather the "present difficulties" at Tri felt about the matter. Miss Cochran, an office of price administration clerk here, said it had not been decided whether Gabreski would visit her here, whether she would go to his Pennsylvania home, or whether they would meet elsewhere.

este. According to a Yugoslav broadcast, Yugoslav leader Marshal Tito made a 70-mlnute radio address Monday night, in which he discussed the need for unity on the Trieste prob and 25 wounded in a clash with French soldiers in Aleppo. The premier said French troops had landed in Syria and Lebanon and that the French ed, he said, which shows conclu sively the Nazis planted the story of the assassination plan among their own forces to increase their Galleries Gift (IjR morale and to sow confusion among the Allies, who were cer tain to get wind of it. SKORZENrS STORY saving. Two died daring the SO nlnvtea we spent In their barracks, which was the former brothel maintained by the SS, with its own castoff mistresses, for deserving inmate.

These Poles had been starved not In Buchenwald itself, but while being moved to Buchenwald from a camp on the eastern front- It had taken weeks instead of days to move them in open coal ears over the faltering German railroad system. Hundreds Di in Transit Hundreds had perished in transit come said 3,500 out of 10,000, but we had no way of verifying that. The others, on arrival, were too far gone to restore even by Intravenous feeding, because of the diseases of starvation which afflicted them. They were so gaunt that you could put the thumbs and forefingers of your two hands around the thighs of almost any of them a foot above the knee. Of the Poles who had been in less bad shape on arrival, medical treatment by American army doctors saved most.

Almost all had dysentery, but it proved to be starvation dysentery, not epidemic, and it was cured in a week by Injections of plasma and saline solution. Starvation of the prisoners was hot for German lack of food, for German civilians were well fed clear up to the end of the war, and large stocks of food were found In German warehouses even in some of the concentration camps. It could only have been deliberate. Soup Without Any Meat The standard Buchenwald diet was turnip soup on weekdays and potato soup on Sundays never with any meat In It; an ounce ot margarine five times a week; a loaf of heavy dark bread daily to each six men not enough to sustain life indefinitely. CoL William Wiliams of the IT.

S. medUeal corps, put in charge of feeding at Buchenwald, had the rations increased with captured German food, so Include soup with meat broth and dehydrated vegetables, milk, butter and a little chocolate, and to this was added United State army bread. The diet was not yet up to 2,000 calories a day, because most of the inmates had to be got back gradually to a fairly normal diet, but that standard was being approached. American soldiers in the field get 3,600 calories a day, and German prisoners-of-war in France are fed 2.80Q calories a day if they work, 2,200 if they don't. On the other hand, Skorzeny at the time of his capture last week was quoted by the service newspaper.

Stars and Stripes, as saying lem. Belgrade radio said Tito was greeted by cheering crowds in Zagreb. Eighth army headquarters disclosed extra American troops have reached the area of Gor-izia, 21 miles north of Trieste. Sunday an American battalion withdrew from Trieste. United Press correspondent James Roper said that in Trieste a "tense tactical situation" forced Eighth army troops to remove all goods from the city as soon as they landed for fear full warehouses may be raided by the Yugoslavs.

The last word she had from him, she said, was in a cablegram received Saturday night in which ho said he was well and would see her "soon." The couple met four years ago in Hawaii. Gabreski was stationed there then and so was Miss Cochran's uncle, Col. N. G. Ross, a regular army officer, with whom she resides.

The flier and Miss Cochran have been three and one-half years. Miss Cochran moved to Prairie du Chien with her uncle and aunt last June. he actually had planned an at tempt on Eisenhower's life. The American officer who volunteered to serve as a decoy and government would be held responsible for the consequences. He asserted the troops presence affected the independence of both Lebanon and Syria.

Syrian tribal leaders were said to have offered their services to the government. Senate Confirms TV A Chairman WASHINGTON OJ.PJ The senate Monday confirmed reappointment of David E. Lilienthsl as chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Lilienthal's confirmation became a foregone conclusion when Sens. Kenneth McKellar Tenn.) and Tom Stewart his principal opponents, gave up their fight against him.

23 Billion for Navy Approved by House occupy Eisenhower's official car Jnisstiiiguisiecl Lamp Hand Ornamented China Base in Blue and Pink Shade Blue and White Ruching on trips between St. Germain and Versailles was Lt. Col. Baldwin nmn ot cnicago, who bears a striking resemblance to the Alllied commander-in-chief. "When Smith sat In the gen 27" eral's car you couldn't tell the difference," declared Lt, Albert Buonnana of Cranston, R.

I GOB SAILS 73 FEET AS JEEP HITS GIRDER; LIVES TO TELL IT A coast guardsman from Minneapolis sailed 73 feet through the air after his jeep smashed into a steel girder on the aerial lift bridge at Duluth Monday and lived, Associated Press reported. The guardsman is MMM 3c Bluege G. Green, about 25, 5844 Thirty-first avenue a veteran of seven Pacific invasions. He suffered a possible skull fracture in the crash, but had regained consciousness and hospital attendants said he appeared to be in fairly good condition Monday night. "Their smiles are Identical and from the rear they look exactly alike." ttaltmrd Jmucelar aii X.

Jacobs Company WASHINGTON U.E The house approved unanimously Monday a conference report to give the navy $23,421,000,000 for its operations in the year beginning July 1. The senate has yet to act on the measure. Tor Gjesdal, director of the Norwegian information service. (Tomorrow: Tanned Human Skin at Buchenwald) Dachau's Torturers Gone But Death Blight Remains DACHAU, GERMANY (IIP) It is 25 days since the Dachau concentration camp was overrun. But death still stalks the crowded, darkened hospital wards.

So well did the German torturers do their work 'that between 60 and 100 men die every day while helpless doctors look on. NORSE CENSORSHIP DENIED OSLO UJ5 Reports that Norwegian government officials were trying to establish a censorship on news of Vidkun Quisling, the Jailed former Nazi puppet ruler of Norway, were denied Monday by tims were too near death when the Germans fled to have hope of recovery. In a dozen crowded wards there ere rows of double-decked bunks of men whose emaciated bodies are atrophied beyond the point of receiving benefit from nourishment, whose eyes are dulled beyond hope of revived life. 1st 3ASOLmE' A MODERN TRACTOR TRACTOR TOILS. A.

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