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THE INDEPENDENT- -MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1946 Page 10 THIS IS HOW Yank fighters rout out Jap snipers who choose to make a last ditch stand rather than surrender. Flame throwing amphibious tractor at the right has released a blast against an enemy infested cave on Peleliu. As black smoke pours out, marine sharpshooters move in for the kill -ready to shoot the Japs if they try to break out or to wipe them out with grenades or TNT If they remain Inside the burning cavern. This is an official United States navy photograph. (International) Tortured by Nazis, But She Didn't 'Tell' BRUSSELS More men and women, who reporters, editors and than 200 worked as printers of for four years.

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McCoy's Ointment obtainable from any of these Long Beach drug stores: Caneer Pearson, 140 Pine Winsor Treon, Ocean and American; Bell Drug, 4th and Orange; Wagner Drug, 7th and Redondo. the famed underground newspaper, La Libre Belgique, owe their freedom and possibly their lives to a woman whom the Gestapo couldn't make talk. She is known as Madame Ruse. Once she was a beautiful woman with raven hair and a figure that might have belonged to a goddess. But 18 times in the Gestapo torture chamber within three months changed all that.

When you look at the photograph on the piano in her home and then at woman who sits bent and broken before you, it seems incredible that they are one and the same. The woman before you stares out of- dull eyes that tell a story of pain. Her hair is white. Most of her teeth have been knocked out and those that remain are broken and jagged. When she tries to smile only one side of her face reacts.

The other is paralyzed and out of proportion. The Gestapo did a thorough job on Madame Ruse but she didn't talk. She didn't disclose one single name in the vast organization that kept the freedom of the press alive in Belgium during the bitter days of Nazi occupation. It will take a long time to really piece together the story of La Libre Belgique in this war, for no single living man or woman knows the complete history of how it managed to come out twice a month for four years. But Madame Ruse Tests Show It Pays ITHACA, N.

-(INS) -What the right food can do for human beings is strikingly illustrated by Cornell students who eat at the university's special diet table. The United States school of nutrition, in, cooperation with the University clinic and the State College of home economics, maintains the table. Diabetic students, those with severe allergy problems, ulcer cases, and others who could not otherwise comfortably stay in college, eat there regularly throughout the academic year. Many more students come to the diet table, on advice received at the clinic, to correct overweight, underweight, and malnutrition caused by bad eating habits. The results have been so good that the diet table has a long waiting list.

In the words. of Dr. Charlotte Young, trained dietitian in charge, "even to an experienced dietitian, the changes in human beings which can be wrought with good feeding of a cooperative subject are breathtaking." Take the case of Jim, an abundantly alive, -assured, attractive young man with a sparkle in his eye: "I wonder if you would believe that a year ago he came to us a scrawny, red eyed, unthrifty looking, mousy chap with scarcely a word to say or a spark of animation? And yet he did; now he, along with 20 or 30 others, brings pride to our hearts." Next is Jane, whose bouncing 125 pound body, clear skin, and changed appearance bear little resemblance to the 108 pound, tired girl of a few months back. Begide her is Susan, who, in spite of her newly diagnosed duodenal ulcer can go comfortably to college, eating with a congenial crowd and, by seeing others, realize that she Navy Pilot's Life Saved by Big Feet WASHINGTON (TP)--Ensign Carl Smith, pilot of a navy carrierbased fighter, is alive today, he says, because he has big feet. After a raid over a Jap island, Smith's Hellcat fighter was damaged, and he received a signal from his carrier to bail out.

He rolled his plane on its back and bailed out, but his chute caught on the edge of the greenhouse. Said Smith: "I kicked like a mule and was out in the clear. Then I pulled the ripcord and waited for the jerk. I got it all right, but it wasn't like the book said- I was jerked by my feet! So there I was, looking up at the water and down at the sky. My harness had been yanked off my shoulders, but it miraculously caught around my large By a herculean effort Smith managed to secure a hold on the harness and finally hit the water in a sitting position.

Ten minutes later he was picked up by a destroyer. Said Ensign Smith: "Good old feet!" GEN. DOUGLAS MacARTHUR is shown above in that historical moment when he returned to the spoke to the people of islands from the islands nearly three years ago, American forces there, he returns of freedom-Gen. Douglas MacArthur to Eat Right Food alone doesn't get all breaks. the bad Miss Young's enthusiasm Ruth matched had by made the "beautiful students' own, was ress" at the diet table her proge was better, her hair had more skin and she had gained 15 life the which world made in all her the difference pounds, in general appear ance.

After her final meal at the table, she commented: "You diet Miss Young, I never used know, dates and do things, but to have now 1 never walk home from alone." class -Buy More War Bonds Rudolf Hess, POW, Now Mental Case By JOHN A. PARRIS JR. many with 2000 other political Writing for (Distributed Combined by U. INS) S. Press prisoners.

Belgian railway workers knew about the human cargo bound knows the complete history of how it managed to come out twice a month for four years. Madame Ruse knows a great deal of the story. She was the contact between reporters and editors, editors and printers. Five months ago, the Germans arrested Madame Ruse. They really didn't know for sure but they suspected she worked for the underground press.

They took her to Gestapo headquarters and questioned her. They didn't treat her too badly that first time but they made it plain that it would be worse the next time they questioned her if she didn't talk. They sent her back to her cell. beat The her' next with time it was worse. They rubber hose.

They slapped her in the face with their open hands. They put slivers of wood under her finger-nails until she cried out. But she wouldn't talk. Just when she thought the Gestapo was satisfied that she didn't know anything, they would drag her from her cell again and start all over. This went on until four weeks ago.

Madame Ruse had got to the point where she didn't feel any pain any more, She had got to the point where she wanted to die. "What was one person's she said, drawing a shawl about her shoulders, "when hundreds of others were at stake. Nothing could have ever made me turn Finally the Germans put Madame Ruse aboard a train bound for Ger- Fire Destroys Famed Riverside ClubhouseRIVERSIDE, Nov. (INS) The clubhouse at Victoria Country club, scene of Riverside social events for more than a quarter of a century, was completely destroyed by fire early this morning. Fire Chief Ray Allen, who said the blaze had gained such headway when equipment from three fire companies reached the scene that it was impossible to save anything, estimated the loss of the building and contents at $50,000.

Mrs. Thelma Clark, an employe of the club who lives nearby, turned in an alarm after she was awakened by the flames. She received burns about the arms and face when she attempted to check the blaze with a garden hose but was reported out of danger at the Riverside Community hospital. Officials of the club said the loss was completely covered by insurance and the building will be replaced with a new structure as for Germany and shunted the train from one line to another. Allied air forces helped, took train three days to get about 15 miles from Brussels.

By that time the Germans were fed up 8. and ordered the train returned. It arrived the night before the British entered the capital and the prisoners were set freethe Germans were thinking of their own skins and fled. But Madame Ruse had grim satisfaction for the torture the Gestapo inflicted on her. At Malines she saw two British soldiers carrying a man out of a house on a stretcher.

The man was the Gestapo agent who had questioned and tortured her. -Buy More War Bonds- Pike Gallery Loses Four .22 Remingtons Four .22 caliber Remington automatic rifles were stolen some time during the early hours of yesterday morning from a shooting gallery at 121 West Pike operated by Josephine Clark, according to a report made the Long Beach police by L. J. Adams, an employee. The rifles are valued at $30 each, he said.

SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND -(INS) -Rudolf Hess is today a broken man. According to discreet gossip in this village near the military hos. pital where the former deputy Germ man fuehrer is incarcerated as a prisoner of war, it is possible he will be found unfit to plead in the event he stands trial as a war criminal after hostilities. The once arrogant nazi, who thought he could sell the British the idea of supporting Germany in a "holy war" against Russia, is reported to be a mental case whose condition is slowly getting worse, In the many months which have passed since he parachuted into Britain in May 1941, his guards have watched him become so sunk in melancholy indifference to the world around him that even the recent attempt on Hitler's life is said to have failed to stir him. Hess is captive in a special nex to the military hospital near this pleasant village, seeing no one day after day but special military.

guards who are mental specialists. Almost his sole recreation is walk ing, under guard, within the parke land around the hospital. ly; there is no news of his tion, the circumstances of his cone finement or his future. In spite of the closest lance, however, some facts have leaked out. Hess can speak and read Enga lish passably well.

In the first years of his captivity he followed the news regularly. As news of German successes multiplied he lost his earlier gloom, grew more confident, and had moments of arrogance which made him difficult to handle. Then the long months of monote onous solitary confinement began to tell. The news of German re verses in Russia became regular and the confidence of Hess was shaken. He at times declined to listen to the radio news bulletins or read the newspapers, angrily claiming they were fraudulent.

He frequently upbraided his guards in German. Gradually they got used to hane dling him and instead of "wanting to punch him in the nose," ingly soothed him during his moods. However, his periods of mental disturbances are becoming more and more frequent and he has withdrawn more and more into brooding silence. -Buy More War BondsGoing into business? Consult the Independent's business tunities section of the classified, Buy United States War Savings Bonds LONG BEACH FEDERAL SAVINGS 328 AMERICAN AVE. (Next to Post Office) Philippines and for the first time their own land.

Evacuated from when the Japanese overtook the to broadcast: "This is the voice speaking!" (International Soundphoto).