Des Moines Tribune from Des Moines, Iowa • 16

1G PES MOINES TRIBUNE MAY 1, 1943. Offi Defeat IMazi lciais s. 'WW li i 'ill 4 lJ JIM V-7 3 jr 1 A Little Looter American troops entering the. Leipzig town hall found the burgomeister, Alfred Freyburg, lying across his desk, his wife hanging over the arm of a chair and their 18-year-old daughter, a Red Cross worker, collapsed on a couch. All three were dead of poison taken apparently in a suicide pact when they believed Germany beaten.

WIREPHOTO UP). I4 'v. 4 I I if- 7 1 I Martha Wilkerson, 26, of Los Angeles, the Jill" whose VJ1 Jill program of chatter and phonograph records reaches thousands of servicemen every theater of war, reads some of the fan mail forwarded to her in Chicago, 111- She was scheduled there in her first broadcast for home consumption. WIREPHOTO UP). ALONG ROAD OF DEATH Burgomeister Erhling Simke, 40, mayor of Tarthun, Germany for six years, lies in bed with blackened eyes and aching head after being beaten by five Poles following their liberation from a Nazi concentration camp during the Allied advance into Magdeburg.

Simke said he was hurt by this "ingratitude" by the Poles who worked on his farm and can't understand why he is not loved by them. DESTINATION: SUICIDE ST''. i Mrs- I 'i9i3 1 TZT. 11 A little German girl is weighed down with an armload of shoes as her parents go about looting a shoe store in Hannover, Germany, after American forces liberated the city. From the appearance of her own feet, the family was in need of the shoes.

Memorial to Mistreatment Like his calloused elders, this German boy has seen so much death in his brief span of life that he walks unconcerned past rows of dead that lie beneath the trees at elsen concentration camp recently captured by the British. Thousands of political prisoners died here. (- 1 f'k' yTt" 'jtC'. tovjl'" r-s i 3 1 Members of a visiting American delegation to Buchenwald concentration camps stand before temporary monument erected in main courtyard in memory of prisoners who died under Nazi mistreatment. Wreath surrounds figure recording deaths in excess of 51,000.

In group is Clare Boothe Luce, Republican representative from Connecticut. General Eisenhower invited several such delegations to witness the Nazi horrors. 4 Victim of brutal treatment at Belsen is this young girl prisoner. Allied liberators of the German concentration camp found some 60,000 persons suffering from phus and typhoid. Huts capable of housing 30 people were occupied by 500.

Renowned for her cruelty to women inmates at Belsen was this fraulein overseer. She is Elizabeth Vokenrath, 25, who hails from Schoenau, Germany. She was a hairdresser in civilian life and an SS girl in the Nazi regime. A Japanese pilot, bent on suicide with a U. S.

warship as his comes in at near-deck level. The maneuver was unsuccessful, the navy said, and; the plane fell into the sea alongside the ship. Action was described as "somewhere in the WIREPHOTO UP) from U. S. ravy..