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M311 This Lower Priced Store Has fit OSSW Others White Sport In horrid solitude, the command- camp at Landsberg stands amid whose dying binds an ever-living nt of the German concentration the murdered dead the manner ol shame upon the name "German." 1IKPOI.T ON TOUR Congressmen Verify Atrocities SHIRTS Senate Democratic Leader Alben W. Bnrklcy of Kentucky, spokesman fly ALLEN DRURY (t'nited Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, May 16 (UP) for the committee, said: "Through the sickening spectacle Congress heard at first hand Tues In which prisoners slept on triple-decked shelves. Each shelf was about 12 feet square with 16 prisoners to a shelf. The clearance height between the shelves was a little over two feet. He said prisoners were given six weeks before being graduated to the "reeular barracks." which had dor which we nave witnessed wm CONVERTIBLE COLLARS day a part of the terrible story of come ultimately a firmer realization that men of all nations and tongues must resist encroachments of every Nazi methods of rule by extermlna tion.

tiuory and ideology that debases mankind. A 12-nian committee of both houses, fresh from a tour of German concentration and slave labor camps, verified many of the worst mitory rooms approximately 42 by 23 feet and about 10 feet high in which, since the war, 250 persons were 'made "A Just and more enduring peace may arise upon the ruins and from the sacrifices which the human race has endured through one of the rip atrocity stories. They told a tragic tale of filth disease, starvation and murder. rr.ost crucial Derlods of its history. The 12-man committee, invited by Declaring the concentration camp to sleep with less than one blanket per person and no heat.

The "hospital" at Buchenwald, Barkley said, "was a place "where moribund (dying) persons were sent to die." No medicines were available and typhus and tuberculosis were rampant Five to 20 persons died a Gen. Dwlght D. Elsenhower, to see the results of Nazi treatment of nnlltlcal prisoners and slave labor COTTON PINAFORES ers, visited camps at uucncnwaia practices to be "no less than organized crime against civilization," they demanded "swift, certain and adequate punishment" for those responsible. But despite the cruelty and horror they saw they held torth hope of future Justice. Nordhausen and Dachau.

day. Members were Barkley. Senators The "medical experiment build ing" at Buchenwald was used by Walter F. George D) of Georgia Elbert D. Thomas D) of Utah, Wayland Brooks of Illinois, scientists from Berlin who came down to inoculate "guinea pigs" with deadly diseases.

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Lack of fuel in March prior to the more than 100 such concentra the arrival of the Americans in tion and slave labor camps in Ger Gay Spring Note! manv. CamDs were largely con terrupted the cremations, Barkley said. He said the committee saw a ducted and controlled by SS troops truckload of 60 bodies, with about 25 additional bodies near it, standing and the gestapo either acting under orders from superior or "given wide discretion in the methods they were near the crematorium. Elastic Top SLACK SOCKS to adopt in perpetrating these hideous and inhuman sufferings." Starvation Diet Barkley said the committee was He reassured the senate at the Informed that rations at the camp were between 600 and 700 calories a outset that American prisoners of war were not incarcerated in any of the concentration camps. lib' as He said the committee based Its dav and consisted of very weak soup and a small piece of bread.

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summer, now. camp is smelled that anyone can have complete appreciation of the depth of degradation to which the German Nazi government and those responsible for it and Its agencies, organizations and practices had dropped In their treatment of those who have failed to embrace the doctrines of the 'master race because "eyewitnesses to the pro ceedings In the torture chambers seem always to have been done away with. He said the committee saw with Its The Nordhausen camp, Barkley own eyes: I Aqua Blue Melon Gold Black Brown 1 "The barracks, the work places, the physical facilities for torture. said, was a combination factory and starvation center. Slave laborers were systematically starved to death, meanwhile being forced to work long degradation and execution." hours at an underground factory which produced V-l and V-2 bombs, airplanes engines and munitions.

FRESH AS MAT Is this flower wrist 2 "The victims, both dead and alive, of the atrocities practiced at these camps." 3 "The progress of liquidation by starvation which was still going on." 4 "We saw the Indescribable filth and smelled the nauseating stench before it was cleaned up, and At Dachau. Barkley said, the com tl 5 let charming above pretty hands. And even busy hands can be soft and lovely If baby's own gentle Swan mittee saw about 300 bodies of those who had died that morning. The Dachau gas chamber, he reported, could dispose of about 100 men at Soap pampers them In the dishpan. we saw a number of victims of this a time.

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