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Freeport Journal-Standard from Freeport, Illinois • Page 5

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3. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1945 THE FREEPORT JOURNAL-STANDARD PHONE WANT FOUR ADS 3100 PAGE FIVE Ohrdruf Mayor And Wife Hang Selves After Touring Camp BY ALVIN STEINKOPF Ohrdruf, Germany, April -Col. Hayden A. Searl. whose armored forces discovered the scenes of horror at the Ohrdruf concentration camp, thought it a good idea for the German citizens of this town to see what SS (Elite Guard) brutality had done in their midst.

The Chestnut Hill, officer rounded up 40 leading citizens for A tour of the camp, where several hundred bodies of slain foreign workers are still In evidence. They saw bodles sprawling in the open space between the barracks, piled like timber in one building. and heaped in a tangled mass in a wide pit in still another place whore apparently some effort had been made to burn them. At first the Germans expressed disbelief, insisting "the SS isn't like that." Later they volced disgust, Now She's Walking On Air Every day, people who really suffer from tired, thrilling burning comfort feet that are lies learning in a jar the of quick, Mint. Under the touch of this frosty-white cream, you can actually feel tired muscles relax, as your feet respond almost instantly to its refreshing coolness.

To help soften corna and callouses, there's nothing better than medicinal Ice-Mint. So get a jar today And enjoy the blissful feeling that comes with all-day foot comfort. At all druggists. with one doctor saying It's the work of beasts." The next morning the Nazi mayor of Ohrdruf and his wife were found hanged. The army said it suicide.

Germans Change Attitude Ohrdrut. sald by foreign workers to have the reputation of being A fanatically Nazi community. got. a different slant on their former ruljers. Allied military government ficials who found it difficult to get.

Ohrdruf citizens to co-operate sald that now there are plenty of volunleers. News of the camp's discovery has! spread down the front, and many hundreds of American soldiers who can get away from their war chores are visiting it. They leave grim mood. Col. Scarl says the army is ton busy to clean up the mess and that it may serve A.

good purpose if as many American soldiers as possible see the unmistakable evidence of Nazi concentration camp management One Russian survivor Asserted that 4.700 internees were killed or died most of of them in maltreatment in the camp. recent weeks. American officers regarded that figure as high, but estimated that 1,400 to. 1,700 was conservative. Unionization (Continued from Page 1) far as could be learned, also called for: 1.

A $75 vacation payment, representing A compromise between Lewis's demand of $100 and the present $50. 2. Termination in one year instead They're "Non Rationed!" SOFT SOLE INFANTS' SHOES $1.29 and $1.79 Be sure your little one's feet are fitted right for normal growth. Carefully made over improved patterns. White.

Sizes 0 to 4. PHONE: MAIN 565-566 SEARS ROEBUCK AND CO ADDRESS: 8-10 WEST STEPHENSON ST. of on 20 days' notice as Lewis proposed. 3. Second and third shift ditferentials of four and six cents An hour, respectively, Lewis had asked 10 and 15 cents.

Reportedly the $1.50 average daily increase will result from an agreement on a seven -hour day with time and a hall for all additional time spent. underground. Overtime NOW starts the eighth productive hour 111 one day and the 40th productive hour in one week. The miners are working a nine -hour day, 54-hour week during the war, The seized mines, where work stoppages have forced A partial shutdown of plants producing wArPennsylvania and Kentucky- -where 24.000 miners were idle yesterday--Ohio. Tennessee, In taking Over the pits AS solid Virginia, Indiana and Alabama.

fuels ndministrator, Ickes said the work stoppages were "estimated to be cutting into sicel production at A rate which represents mately 100,000 tons" weekly. "Stopping work at this time is intolerable and unpatriotic," he clared. "It is threatening the production of munitions And war cquipment just when our armies need our full support to win victory In Europe. Every ounce of production strength must be used to reduce the threatening coal deficit of 40,000,000 tons." Ickes ordered the seized mines to open for work tomorrow morning, designated executive heads of the mining companies as federal operating managers and instructed the managers to raise the American fing over their pits. He called 011 the mine workers to return their jobs and keep coal moving to war factories.

President Roosevelt clirected Ickes to return the mines to private management as soon As he determines that government operation no longer is necded for "the successful prosecution of the war." IT WAS A SCIENCE The skill of A scientist was required to fire the Big Bertha guns used by Germany during World War I. Curvature of the carth's surface and rotational speed of the earth had to be considered. HOW TO COME HOME WITH Extra Red Points! Just remember to take that can of used fats to your butcher. Get 2 red points bonus for each pound. Keep Saving Used Fats for the Fighting Fronts and the Home Front.

SAVE MORE PAPER The Scout Oath: "To Help All People At All Times." of Proceeds of Next Waste Paper Collection April 28th GOES TO WOUNDED VETERANS Recreation Fund 120 Poy Scouts must collect 68,000 pounds of waste paper by the end of this month to qualify for the General Eisenhower Award. A beautiful med, DOUBLE PROGRAM al showing these boys have helped their country in a vital way. IT FOR THE SCOUTS AND FOR THE WOUND. PACK ALL PAPER IN BUNDLES AND SAVE SAVE WASTE PAPER ED VETERANS' RECREATIONAL FUND. TO SPEED VICTORY HOLD PAPER UNTIL THE ABOVE DATE TO AID VETERANS AS TRUCKS ARE NOT AVAILABLE UNTIL OR LOCAL PROJECTS THAT TIME.

Where Do We Stand On Cancer? Research In Diet Effect May Help Lead To Cure For Cancer (This Is the second of four Articles, summing up the progress and hopes of the fight to control cancer.1 RY HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE Associated Press Science Editor New York, April 11-(A)--'The Idea that cancer may be prevented, probably by nutrition, is one of the four outstanding hopes of this national cancer control month. No cancer has been prevented yet by nutrition, not even in an animal. But animal cancers have been made worse, or more numerous by diet. And some groups of human beings have more cancer than others can be classified as overenters and underexercisers.

Maybe that is only A coincidence. These are slender bases for cancer prevention hopes. However, chemical analysis of cancer tissues had shown many slight chemical differences which might be affected by nutrition. Extra stores ol vitamins have been found in some cancer cells. Lack of vitamins, 01' vitamin, unbalances, have been found in other cancers.

Leukemia has shown extra Amounts of vitamin B-1. Biotin, the vitamin which Is the most potent of all vitamin, substances, causes liver cancer regularly when their diet Is controlled in one special manner. Avidin, a substance found in raw egg white, actually has caused temporary withering of cancers in hutman beings who ate huge quantities of egg white. Use of sugar and oxygen differs in cancer tissues from that in normal tissues. Dr.

Van R. Potter, of the University of Wisconsin medical school, SAys that life insurance record hinve shown that people who were over- Wed In Puerto Rico Capt. Henry Surum of Warren, 111., and his Puerto Rican bride. Their marriage took place Feb. 24.

Warren. April was recently, Capt. received Henry here of Surum, the mar- 5011 of Mr. and Mrs. O.

J. Surum, of Warren, to Miss Lydia Gatell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Juan A. Gatell of Miramor, Puerto Rico on Feb.

24 in El Morro chapel nt Ft. Brooke, Puerto Rico, Capt. Gorskl. chaplain, officinted. The bride's sister, Miss Esther Gatell, was maid of honor, and Lieut.

Robert Abramson, of Seattle, was best man. A reception was held at the home of the bride's parents in Miramor. Capt. and Mrs. Surum have taken up residence in the San Paturio section in Santurce, P.

R. Capt. Surum recelved his A. B. degree from the Mayville, N.

college of commerce. He 18 A member of the Alphi Psi Omega fraternity, and taught commerce at Peterson, for one year before entering the army In June, 1941, Ho has been stationed with the coast artillery in Puerto Rico for the past weight at the time insurance was taken out were more liable to cancer in later life. He speaks of human over-nutrilion and -exerelse and that when animal diets are controlled under certain conditions AnAlogous number to of that animal of civilized cancers man, increases. the In his laboratory mice fed high calory diets got more cancers from the effects of ultra-violet. rAys did mice fed less calories.

He Also learned animals how certain Injuries tend to promote cancer. These experiments are step forward In A bunt for the regulators that normal tissues possess to restrain their own growth beyond useful bounds. Cancer seems to lack such regulations. "Animal expertements." he states in the Journal Science, "provide us with 81 definite toward the prevention of cancer in humans. 'The answer may consist in eating no more than we need in 'keeping physocally fit, with the addition of proper medical care so that any chronic Irritations are eliminated.

Timing Important In A Smother Play BY WILLIAM E. McKENNEY America's Card Authority, (This is the third of six articles on the smother play, the most difficult play in bridge to recognize.) In execuling the smother play, the most. important thing is the correct timing. That is why it is very diffcut. to recognize this play, W3 very often you lose the timing before you find out.

the possiblifty of the play. In today's hand, the declarer ruffs the second round of diamonds and leads the Jack of clubs, which East of course refuses to win as he does A 8765 1053 965 Q7' None AK432 QJ6 074 KQJ1. A 10 8 2 A 10 2 4 49654 1 Dealer A 109 VAK82 3 83 Duplicate--Both vul. South West North East Pass 2 N. T.

00 Pass 3 Pass 4 Pass Pass Pass Opening- K. 11 not want to create two entries for the declarer into dummy. Another club is led and East wins this with the ace and returns a diamond which South ruffs. A club is then led to dummy and trump finesse taken. South then cashes the ace and king of henrts atid lends small henrt.

West 1s forced to win and must now lead a diamond or a club. At this point dummy and East hold three trump while the declarer has the ace and queen of trumps and the six of hearts. Whatever West leads is trumped in dummy and you cAn see East's predicament. It he trumps low. dummy will be allowed lo hold the trick, while if he trumps with the king, declarer will over trump with the ace.

So, once agaln East 1s smothered out of his king, However, If the defense had been alert, they could HALL TREES 101 BASEMENT FREEPORT HDWE. CO. 28 months. That's how For De Luxe is that's A SLOW BUT SURE why Fox De Luxe always wins the race to produce a finer beer. Only the finest malt and hops DE BEER LUXE Slowly, lection Never thoroughly bitter.

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1945. By United Syndiente, Committee Decides To Work Out Compromise On Radio Libel Law Springfield, 111., April 'The senate Judiciary committee hins decided to work out A compromise on radio libel legislation and thus satiafy sonIc brondcasters' oppoCommittee members agreed last night. to consider amendments mitted by Senator Richard J. Daley to soften or eliminate some provisions termed "too harsh and drastic" by spokesmen for numerous downstate and Chicago stations. Senators T.

Mac Downing Macombl and William J. Connors the bill's co-sponsors, hopo that "all sides CA11 get together." Opponents contended legishave defeated this hand, 85 I will show you tomorrow. Intion did not. offer adequate safeguards ngainst. possible libelous statements during such "unconbrondcasta A9 political speeches, network programs and formal interviews.

They said exceptions should be made to fit "peculiaritics of radio." There were 110 witnesses testifying for the bill at the hearing. Last week, however. spokesmen for WON, Chicago, urged its passage. The legisiation provides criminal penalties of a year In jail nnd $500 fine for convictions. A similar measure Is nt.

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