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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
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By HAL BOYLE
LIMBURG. Germany, April 10.—
(AP)—American troops have discov-
ered a German murder factory.”
* rivalling any house of horror
dreamed up by fiction writers.
avhere it is estimated 20,000 persons
"Viewed by the Nazis as "undesir-
ables,” were systematically slain
Located in an asylum near Lim-
burg. the terror-filled establishment
was in charge of a tall, scar-faced
70-year-old Nazi surgeon, assisted
Shy a husky 45-year-old chief wom-
ans nurse and middle-aged chief
warden. Allied officers said On the
staff were SS (elite guard) officers
from Berlin.
Tales told by German residents of
the village of Hadamar, four miles
Shorth of Limburg, led U. S. First
army officers Lt. George Walker of
Deshler, Ohio, and Capt.-Alton H.
Jung of San Antonio, Tex., to ques-
tion officials in the village, and re-
sulted in locating the asylum.
Maj Harvey M Coverly, Sausa-
♦ to, Calif., ordered the arrest of the
three in charge of the "factory,"
said by the officers to be one of six
set up by the Nazis inside Germany
to dispose scientifically of unruly
slave laborers or those who had
outlived their usefulness.
" German civil authorities estimat-
ed 15,000 victims were gassed and
cremated and another 5,000 killed
by drugs or poison and buried in
communal graves.
The stench of burning bodies
caused Hadamar residents to
• complain, and the bishop of
Soviet Charges
Muenster lodged protests with
the asylum officials. That caus-
ed the Nazis to switch from gas
to hypodermic injections and
from cremation to mass burial.
The slayings were described as
mercy killings’’ authorised by a
(Thunderbolt) division was one of
the hard-hitting outfits to have i
pinched off the Germans in the I
1939 Nazi statute.
Two investigators, Capt. Brinkley
Hamilton, a British officer attach-
ed to an American infantry divis-
ion, and Lt. W R. Johnson. Love-
land. Colo , told a macabre story of
death and torture and ghoulish
Nazis Slaughter.
577,000 in Latvia
LONDON, April 10—(P) — The
feasts by drunken executioners in
the asylum, where 300 crazed in-
mates were permitted to run free
in underground dungeons.
"Nobody would believe it,” said
Johnson. "It had underground
chambers with dripping water, bats
flying around and little crazy men
who jumped out at you at every
step ”
Of the Nazi surgeon in charge,
Johnson said: “I never saw a
tougher looking man in my life."
The job of the chief nurse, he
added, "was to put the death needle
into women patients. She was about
six feet tall, built like a football
player and as ugly as a witch.”
The head keeper, "a mousey-
looking middle-aged man who had
been promoted from driving victims
to the asylum to the actual job of
doing away with them," gave the
officers the first indication of how
the asylum operated, Johnson de-
clared.
The officers learned that from
six to 20 bodies were dumped into
each grave. |
Capt. Hamilton, a veteran of 20
years at London's Bow street police
station, said that on one day 500
Russians were taken into the asy-
lum and not one came out alive.
After their 10,000th killing
the SS men had a drinking
orgy," Hamilton said. “They
cleaned out the skulls of some of
their victims and used them as
drinking cups. Townspeople
— and former employes at the asy-—
lum testified to this."
He said some of the victims were
Nazi government and the German
high command were charged today
by a Soviet investigating commit-
tee with the merciless slaughter of
*77,000 men. women and children
in Latvian concentration camps
A 6,000-word report broadcast by
the Moscow radio said an addition-
"young children who were half
Jews."
Most of the victims appeared to
be Russian men and women workers
who coudn’t stand the strain of
hard work and little food, the offi-
al 175,000 Latvians were deported
as slave laborers, and on explicit
orders of Nazi officials and the
Military a ruthless destruction of
factories, public utilities, libraries. I
museums, hospitals and homes was
cers said. Many Poles and some
Dutch were killed, but there was no
evidence to prove that Belgians or
Acting Supervisor
Named for Hospital
BAIRD, April 10— (HW)—The po-
| sition as Callahan County hospital
superintendent, held by Mrs Stella
Smith since 1940, and who recently
resigned, has been temporarily fill-
ed by Mrs Lorena Shelton, head
nurse, following action of the coun-
the armed forces or sufferers ty commissioners’ court A perma-
Mail checks or bring them to The Reporter-Newa All gifts will be
acknowledged In the newspaper. Make checks payable to. BLOOD
PLASMA FUND.
. Use the form below to enlist as a blood volunteer and mail it to the
"Battle for the Bulge . will be hail- Reporter-News. Each person who enrolls will be contacted by wives of the
ed with pride in many communi- I doctors, members of the medical society women's auxiliary, to arrange the
ties throughout the United States.
It is an all-American division, ’
drawn from New England Texas. |
the Pacific Coast, Chicago and the
Midwest. New York, Florida and the
South-representing practically the
entire 48 States. Its soldiers are of
all categories of age and civilian'
background It is believed to be the
SLAIN IN GERMAN CAMP—Maj. John R. Scotti of Brook-
lyn, N. Y., a medical officer in the fourth armored division,
U. S. Third army, inspects naked bodies of slain internees as
they were found in a woodshed of a concentration camp at
Ohrdruf, Germany, nine miles south of Gotha. Lt. Gen. I
George S. Patton Jr.'s men overran the camp. (AP Wire-
photo). ' ..
Dr. Scarborough-
---(Continued From Page One)
1899 to 1900.
Scarborough received an honorary
doctor of divinity degree from Bay-
lor in 1908 and an LL. D degree
from Union university in 1927
He taught at Baylor and in
the public school system at
Mexla before the turn of the
century. He was ordained at
- Cameron, Tex., in 1896. He was
three sons. George Warren Scar-
borough of Fort Worth, Lawrence
nent superintendent will be named
shortly. Judge Lester Farmer an-
, nounced
The pigtails which were so com-
mon in China years ago are now al-
most extinct.
! time for each person to appear at the hospital: ,
I wish to enroll as a volunteer to give blood for Abilene's
blood plasma supply, to be used by any person whose physi-
cian prescribes, and without cost. I will appear at Hendrick
Memorial hospital Sunday, April 29:
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first such U S. armored division in | annRPSS
battle, having a large proportion of ADDRESS
ASTP students in its ranks They
joined the division as fillers last
spring after the student training
program was curtailed
The division was activated in
August 1942 at Camp Polk, La.,
where it was stationed until July
1943; around Abilene, Texas, near
Camp Barkeley, "home" of the
11th after summer maneuvers
in 1943; and on the Pacific
Coast, where the 11th‘s triangu-
lar shoulder patch became a fa-
miliar object in the vicinity of
Camp Cooke, Calif., the divis-
ion's base from February until
September 1944, where it re-
mained until its departure for
a port of embarkation.
Division officers noted: "It was
the success of an operation like the
Bastogne Bulge that reflected the
Rutland Scarborough of Edinburg,
and Lt. William Byron Scarborough ,
of Fort Worth, now serving over-!
seas with the Navy; three daugh-
ters, Mrs. Foreman, Missneppie
Scarborough of Fort Worth, and
Mrs. Ada Beth Johnson of Hous-
ton.
pastor of the First Baptist
church at Cameron from 1896
to 1900 and of the First Baptist
church at Abilene, Tex., from
1901 to 1908.
From 1908 until 1942 Dr. Scar-
borough held the chair of evangel-
ism at Southwestern seminary.
Survivors include the widow;
Ex-Pastor Related
To Abilene Women
Dr Scarborough was a brother-in-
law of three Abilene women, Mrs.
Eugene Wood, Mrs George L. Pax-
ton and Mrs E N Andrews, who,
with the late educator’s wife are
daughters of the late C. P Warren
When Dr. Scarborough came
to Abilene as pastor in 1901, the
First Baptist church was locat-
Telephone Number
1 would prefer to appear at 7..,. a.m.—p.m. o’clock
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- Gentle-acting PEPTO-BISMOL helps
rd at North 4th and Cedar,
George Anderson, one of his
deacons then and a lifelong
friend, recalled this morning.
During his tenure here. Dr.
Former Stamford
Resident Succumbs
STAMFORD, April 10 Funeral
arrangements are still incomplete for
J. C. Rogers, 69, resident of Stam-
ford until six months ago. who died
of a heart attack in Lubbock early
Monday.
A farmer, Mr Rogers had lived
in the Stamford area for 25 years
i before moving to Lubbock
He is survived by his wife and five
children by a former marriage The
sons are Cam of Las Vegas, N. M.,
Scarborough secured the lots on
which the present church plant
is built.
A good friend of what is now
Hardin - Simmons university. Dr
Scarborough was a leader in secur-
ing Anna hall (now the library),
and Cowden hall which later burn-
ed and part of which is now Includ-
ed in Ferguson hall He was also ac-
tive in bringing the late Dr O. H
Cooper here as president of Sim-
mons college, Mr Anderson said.
"He was one of the greatest." Dr
M. A. Jenkens, pastor of the First
| Baptist church, said this morning
I in tribute.
eldon of Amarillo and Lee of
, Stamford The daught rs are Mrs
Johnny Griggs of Amarillo and Mrs.
E E Ellis ol Kilgore
relieve after-meal distress, gas cm
stomach and heartburn. Recom-
mended by many physicians. It’s
non-laxative, non-alkaline. Tastes
good and does good children like
it. When your stomach is queasy,
uneasy and upset, ask your druggist
for soothing PEPTO-BISMOL.
A NORWICH PRODUCT
Make This Home Recipe
To Take Off Ugly Fat
It’s simple. It’s amazing, how quickly one i
may lose pounds of bulky, unsightly fat
right in your own home. Make this recipe
yourself. It’s easy - no trouble at all and
and help regain slender, more graceful
curves; if reducible pounds and inches
of excess fat don’t just seem to disap-
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Just go to your druggist and ask for four
pear almost like magic from neck, chin,
arms, bust, abdomen, hips, calves and
results of many months of diversi- ! ounces of liquid Barrel Concentrate Four
fied training, enabling a fresh di-
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this into a pint bottle and add enough
quit itself well in its first contact
with the enemy, and giving resi-
dents of numerous areas throughout
the United States reason to be
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If the very first bottle doesn’t show
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Quality Merchandise
French were slain.
The surgeon, confronted by evi-
dence and testimony on operations |
of the murder factory, was quoted |
by Capt. Hamilton as saying: "I
have always been a doctor of hoc-
carried out during the German oc- or.”
cupation. .--------——
Home From England
“The German fiends murder-
ed men and women, healthy and
• sick, children and old people,”
the report said. In the central
prison in Riga they murdered
more than 2,000 children whom
they had taken away from par-
ents, and in Salaspils camp
. they killed more than 3,000
• children
The commission said that in the
Salaspils camp the investigators
found nine grave-pits covering a
total area ofmore than 3.600 square
yards More than 56,000 civilians
owere tortured to death in the camp,
• as charged
Residents of Riga and its
suburbs were taken into near-
by forests and massacred, the
report asserted. In Kikernek
forest on Riga’s outskirts 46,-
a 500 civilians were shot One wit-
ness was quoted as saying that
the bodies of the women and
children bore traces of torture.
In the first days of the occupa-
tion of Latvia the Germans drove
Jews into synagogues, then set the
@places of worship afire, the report
"said In October 1941, 35,000 Jews
were confined behind barbed wire
in a Riga ghetto, and the next
month “the Germans picked out
4,500- able-bodied men‘ and 300
women, and shot the rest on Nov
40 and Dec 12, 1941."
T-Sgt Harold Beasley son of Mr
and Mrs. H O Beasley of 1109
Jeanette, has returned from about |
a year's duty as a radio operator on |
a bomber based in England
He came Sunday and will be in
Abilene about a month
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