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11 War Criminals I
Pay Penalty In
Nuernberg
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(By THOMAS A. REEDY)
NUERNBERG, Germany, (/P)—
Hermann Goering, who ended his
life mysteriously in the agony of
poison, and ten other top Nazis
who died on a hangman’s rope
.were taken to nameless graves on
*Wns bleak, cold morning in final
expiation for the colossal crimes
of Germany.
Grim and manacled, because in
some unexplained fashion Goer
ing had been able to escape the
ignominy of the gallows, Joachim
von Ribbentrop started the death
marches and plunged to eternity
1:14 a.m.
How Goering get the poison,
kept it, and took it, were myster
ies the shrunken fat man perhaps
took to his grave.
The other ten died stoically,
plunging into an inclosed trap that
hid their death pangs from the
eight newspaper correspondents
^ and 30 other witnesses. None col
lapsed. All but Alfred Rosenberg
made brief statments, the main
t^eme of which were “Long live
Germany.” Most endeavored to
show bravery.
Julius Streicher, the bald tor
mentor of the Jews, screamed a
spine-tingling “Heil Hitler” as he
started up the 13 stairs to doom.
He was perhaps the most defiant
of all and the only one to mention
the name of the German Chancel
lor believed to have died with his
capital, Berlin.
By his manner of dying, Goering
flamboyant to the last, not only
took the last spotlight away from
his colleagues but created a breath
taking mystery which had army
intelligence officers laboring in an
effort to determine how he got,
concealed and took the poison.
When .the last body had been
cut down, Col. B. C. Andrus, pri
son commandant, emerged with
the first news to the world that
Goering had taken his own life.
“Goering was not hanged,” An
drus announced, “he committed
suicide at 10:45 p.m. last night by
taking cyanide of potassium.”
NEW YORK — Emmy Goering
broke down and sobbed today
when she was told ho'w her hus
► band, Hermann Goering, cheated
the gallows by swallowing poison,
^Erf Haaker of N.B.C. said in a
Nuernberg broadoast. Haaker said
Mrs. Goering denied she had
smuggled the deadly capsule to
her husband during her last visit
to the prison.
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houidn't gladly exchange the silent “bergs” and cool breezes for the noise and summer heat of home.
Two “Dead** Find
Each Other Alive
In New York !
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NEW YORK, i/P)—Drama was
not confined to a Times Square
movie theater yesterday.
Out front Arthur Gross-Polesi-1
uk, 46, a Czech who had spent:
years in a concentration camp and \
came here on a visitor’s permit I
to demonstrate an invention he i
claims rendered gasoline non-ex- j
plosive was looking up at the!
bright lights when a man seized j
his arm.
He was Irving Gray, a brother
in-law who had thought his dead, j
They embraced and wept.
“If only Erika were alive too,”
Gross-Polesiuk said, recalling his
pretty blonde daughter whom he
thought the Nazis had killed in
1937.
“She came to America with me
six years ago,” Gray exclaimed.
“She’s meeting me here.” •
Just then Erika, 19, came out of
the crowd.
At the fadeout, amid tears and
laughter, Erika explained to re
porters she and her father would
live together in Canada until he
could reenter the country under a
regular quota.
Wherry Challenges
Trumans Veracity
MINNEAPOLIS. (/P) — Senator
Wherry <R.-Neb.) today challenged
the truthfulness of President Tru
man's statement that the so-called
profiteering amendment to the
OPA bill passed by the Congress
last summer was his measure.
The Senator also declared Mr.
Truman had maliciously charged
him and Senator Taft <R.-Ohio>
with maneuvering to break down
price controls.
He said the black market was
responsible for failure of OPA
control of meat, and added that
Mr. Truman decontrolled meat be
cause he feared the next Congress
would abolish the entire OPA.
The decontrol action came at
this time, he went on, because
breakdown of meat regulations
was hurting chances of Democrats
presently running for Congres
sional seats.
EINER HENRY RECOVERING
FROM INJUREIS
Friends of Einer Henry will be
glad to know that he is improving
from injuries sustained last Mon
day when the Road Commission
truck which he was driving turned
over on the Bessie Road near the
Wien hangar.
Mutual System
Refuses Time To
Answer Truman
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NEW YORK. i^P)—'The Mutual
Broadcasting system announced
last night it had refused the re
quest of the Republican National |
Committee for free time to ans
wer President Truman’s speech
speech on the lifting of meat con
trols.
Robert D. Swezey, vice-presi
dent and general manager of the
chain, said the network did not
regard the President’s speech as a j
political talk. He said the Presi- \
dent made a report to the people,
in a period of emergency.
The American Broadcast i n g
Company agreed to give free time
at 4 p.m. (Nome time) tomorrow,
the Republican speaker to be an-1
nounced today. The Columbia
Broadcasting System gave free
time last night to Carroll Reece,
chairman of the Republican Na
tional committee.
JESSIE PATERSON
ENROUTE TO KOTZEBUE
Jessie Paterson arrived on the
Pan American enroute to Kotze
bue where she will teach school
this winter. She is stopping at thej
Wallace Hotel.
Peace Conference
Ends; Byrnes
Leaves For Home
PARIS, (/P>—Secretary of State
Byrnes, taking off for the United
States this afternoon, announced
he would make a broadcast report
Friday night on the 21-nation
Paris peace conference.
Byrnes and his wife left Orly
Field in President Truman’s plane,
“The Sacred Cow,” at 3:57 p.m.,
after a news conference in which
he expressed confidence that
Yugoslavia eventually would sign
the peace treaty with Italy.
The secretary said he thought
I that on consideration Yugoslav
leaders would realize that no one
I power could make the peace, and
| would bow to the opinions of the
other 20 Allied Nations.
He emphasized that there has
been no change in American for
| eign policy.
Giving correspondents his views
on the 21-nation peace conference
which came to an end yesterday
with Yugoslav delegates boycot
ting the final sesion, Byrnes said
he felt the 11-week-long parley
, had accomplished much important
work in registering world opinion
i on peace treaty issues.
Asked how he would describe
current Russian-American rela
tions, Byrnes said he would put
that in his talk Friday night.
The Secretary commented that
after trying out the new method
of diplomacy whereby the press
was admitted to committee meet
ings, he was still al lfor publicity
on conferences. He said some dif
ferences might have been exagger
ated by publicity, but that it had
permitted the people to learn di
rectly how decisions were taken,
rather than learning from a few
foreign ministers, whose accuracy
might be subject to doubt.
He said he regretted that such
conference publicity was not uni
versal, that in some countries
there was no pretense at such
publicity, making it impossible for
people in those countries to pass
on the views of representatives of
other nations.
Byrnes, Soviet foreign minister
V. M. Molotov and the others on
the four-power foreign ministers*
council—Georges Dibault, French
President and foreign minister,
and Foreign Secretary Ernest Be
vin of Britain—are to meet in New
York City Nov. 4 for final action
on the satellite treaties and pre
liminary work on the German
pact. They originally framed the
drafts from which the peace con
ference worked.
Since July 29, in commission
and plenary sessions, delegates
had written treaties for Italy, Bul
garia, Hungary, Romania, Finland.