The Hemphill County News (Canadian, Tex), Vol. TWELFTH YEAR, No. 29, Ed. 1, Friday, March 24, 1950 Page: 2
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BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET
Nazis1 Process of Selectivity
Outsmarted by Polish Scientist
By BILLY ROSE
Whenevcr Im In the mood for gargantuan gab I hie myself over
to a Russian tea room ndar Carnegie hall where refugees of a dozen
nations sit around and give out witji tall talk about the old days be-
hind them and the new days coming up
To give you a fitting forfnstanc the other midnight I beard a maca-
bre yarn from a gent who used to teach science In Warsaw and while I
dont know whether iti history or hokum It strtkoi me as being worth my
allotment of white space today
During the last year of the war
there was a small concentration
camp In east Ger-
many which had
been set up for
two purposes
a to build an
underground ma-
chine shop and
b to make avail-
able the required
number of human
guinea pigs for
certain experi-
ments being con
Billy Bote
ducted by distinguished Nazi scien-
tists
By S3 STANDARDS the method
of selecting these guinea pigs was
scrupulously fair Each morning
before breakfast the SO men in
each of the wooden barracks would
stand at attention until the com-
mandant appeared with a list of
their names He would read off
the top name on tha list and the
prisoner whose name was called
would step forward
The commandant would then
hand twosmall leather disks one
marked with a white circle and
the other with a black to the
trustee of the barrack for ex-
amination Then the commandant
would drop the disks Into his hat
and the prisoner would draw one
of them
ht picked tb on with th
whit circl b uat taf until hit
nam cam up again 50 days
latert if b drew th black on b
would b sbipptd out that Saturn
day night
In December of 1944 my tea-
room friend the scientist from
Warsaw was cattlecarred to this
concentration enmp and assigned
to a barrack occupied almost ex-
clusively by captured Russian sol-
diers lie was asked the usual ques-
tions and when the Russians found
the newcomer was a Pole they
quickly let him know that the fra-
ternity of races as preached by
Mo scow was confined to Kremlin
publicity handouts
And when he further admitted he
had never joined the Party not
for any big Ideological reason but
simply because he was a scientist
and had no interest in politics
the Red army men decided he was
an enemy of the state and began
to plot against him
THE FOLD however was more
worried about the disks In the hat
than the whisperings going on
about him Under the lottery sys-
tem it would be almost two
months before his name was
called and since news had fil-
tered Into camp that the Russian
forces were only a few weeks away
he kept telling himself that libera-
tion might come before the date
for the drawing But as the days
turned Into weeks and still no
sound of faraway cannon he re-
signed himself to taking his 5050
chances with the hat
The night before the fateful
morning the scientist was lying
had grown a beard The friend pro
vlded dye and Knolton changed
the color of his hair from light
brown to black
Six months later Knolton
now known as Carl Hcdman
with no trace of the onetime
clerk showing beneath his per
feet disguise rode leisurely
back toward the scene of his
crime
The lumbermen gave him no
more than a passing glance
Satisfied that he had not been
recognized Knolton followed the
river to the mouth of the tributary
nn
ACROSS
1 Mast
IS On top
9 Coin
Turk
10 A young
salmon
11 Ravine
12 Employs
for
wages
14 Anlndenta
tlon of the
sea
15 Double
Bot
16 Began
19 Type
measure
20 Roman
money
21 A sum of
money
23 Biting
26 Poets
27 A color of
ahorse
28 Breeze
29 Music
note
30 Province
Can
J4 A covered
way
S7 In what
manner
38 Reprove
19 Very
large
nail
tl Girls name
12 The glass
ofawlndou
13 River of
underworld
14 Settlement
BW Arabia
DOWN
I Gush out
2 One of
Canary
Islands
A JpW wsiRFH
THE HEMPHILL COUNTY NEWS CANADIAN TEXAH
Strmmge
AIehem
AM amazed to find th pain and grief
I By tome strange alchemy if bravely borne
Become a power vital beyond belief
To bless and comfort
other hearts that mourn
I did not dream through those far lonely days
Those bitter hours when pleading for release
That God would move in His mysterious ways
To make those hours a means to others peace
That ones own darkness
For hurt bewildered ones
With pounding heart he mounted
the ridge and paused to look It was
as If a hand had suddenly reached
out and was squeezing him In a
powerful grip He stood rooted
mouth ajar staring in stuplfied
incredulity at the country befott
With a sense of horror he realized
what had happened The entire
area had been logged by the lum-
ber company swept bare of every
standing tree and piece of timber
Every tree stump looked alike
none was larger or different from
Its neighbor He surmounted great
piles of slash tearing at them fran-
tically hunting for the stump the
stump of the great pine tree
Thus unmindful of his direction
he came again to the river bank
And when at length he reached the
top of another hill he paused to
rest overcome by fatigue Too
late he felt the slash pile beneath
him slipping away Too late he
realized tljat the slash had been
thrown on the brink of a precipice
overhanging the river
Knolton with a pitiful cry on his
lips went over the brink Far far
below he lay a broken human
body on the Jagged rocks
SSWORD PUZZLE
21 Price
of
passage
3 Portion of a 22 Biblical
curved line city
4 A cheer 23 Tapestry
5 Plant Insect 24 Forces
6 Thin tin 25 Radium
plate sym
7 Odd Scot 26 Apron
8 Make top
believe 28 Malt
11 Fuel beverage
13 Dispatches 30 Antelope
15 Godof
pleasure
Egypt
17 Shower
18 Mans
nickname
Afr
31 River
lEur
32 Memento
33 Solemn
wonder
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sa
LAST WEEKS
ANSWER M
35 Yowng
horse
36 A con-
federate
39 Resort
40 Cushion
N 4
may become a 1
Yet out of pain is often born a white
tis Strange to me
Undying flame of love and sympathy
The power that comes to dry anothers tears
Was generated through long bitter years
GRACE NOLL CROWEIX
awake In his bunk when he lelt
a tug at hll blanket It was a young
Czech who had been badly ms
treated by the Vustee and who
had often mumbled about getting
even
According to the kid the com-
rades had figured out a plot to
make certain the Pole would be
ihlpped oft to the Nazi expert
menters The trustee had cut a
leather disk from his shoe and
ACT was the result
KNOLTONS
of two years of planning
There was little chance that any-
thing would go wrong He had
served as clerk at the lumber
camp tor two long years And
from the moment he first saw the
payroll left unguarded in the of-
fice while the bank guard went out
and a camp paymaster came In
from that moment Knolton knew
that some day hed steal that pay-
roll and make a getaway
The day that Knolton had chosen
tor the robbery was not unlike a
thousand others At exactly noon
the payroll car
drove up A guard
stepped Into the
office and depos
ited the heavy
bag by Knoltong
chair Knolton greeted him care-
lessly nodded at the bag and bent
to his work The guard went out
The moment the door closed
Knoltons head came up He lis-
tened intently Outside he could
hear the bank guard In converse
tlon with Raymond the camp pay-
master There wasnt a moment to
lose
Quickly Knolton lifted up the
cover of his desk removed from
Inside a bag almost Identical to the
one on the floor and equally as
heavy He made the transfer deft-
ly unhurriedly
VThe door opened and ETay
rnond came Inside lie nodded
briefly to Knolton picked up
the decoy bag and went out
again
Knolton stepped outside and
walked leisurely toward the river
Unobserved he climbed into the
canoe which was hidden there and
pushed off
By mldafternooiv Knolton
reached a tributary and turned off
the main stream He paddled up
this smaller waterway for more
than a mile
He set the canoe adrift and
headed inland twinging southward
By dusk he had come to a virgin
stand of timber mighty monarch
of the forest as yet unscathed by the
lumbermans axe His steps led
him to a huge pine larger than the
rest with thick undergrowth at
the base He parted the growth
pulled at a tuft of dirt Tho tuft
came away revealing a shallow
hole Knolton had dug the hole
months before allowed the under-
growth to grow over It so that no
trace of his recent visit would be
In evidence
He deposited the bag In the hole
and carefully replaced the dirt
TT WAS A MONTH before Knolton
1 reached his destination a tiny
village hundreds of miles south of
the lumber camp Here he paused
to rest with a friend By now he
made a black circleon it and
when the commandant asked him
to examine the disk his plan was
to palm the one with the white cir-
cle and substitute his own so that
either would mean death to the
nonParty man
For s long momtnt tb trim
list looked up Ml lb lUt tttllng
of lb bunb sbov him Tbank
you b finally laid to bit frltnd
I tblnk Ill b dbl to tnsnsgt
Next morning when till name
was called he saw the trustee
palm the whitecircled disk and
substitute another But he pre-
tended not to notice and when the
commandant held out his hat he
smiled and selected a disk White
or black he said Im going to
have one good meal In this mis-
erable camp And before the of-
ficer could stop him he popped the
bit of leather into his mouth and
swallowed
The SS man frowned Crazy
Pole he said what good will
that do There Is still a disk left
In the hat It it Is black you picked
the white if It Is white you picked
the black
That is quite correct
said the scientist
Slrv
INEZ GERHARD
TDA LUPINO currently feen in
1 Woman ip Hiding Is the first
motion picture actress to shatter
the calm of James Hilton English
author associated with Hallmark
Playhouse Recently she was to
play an Italian role on a Playhouse
broadcast A perfectionist in the
pictures she produces as well as
those she acts In she hired a voice
coach and worked so hard that her
doctor told her to let upFinally
less than 24 hours before air time
she threw over the whole Idea
said she couldnt master those
Italian intonations A new script
was hastily prepared for her and
Hilton was a candidate for the
ShangriLa which he Invented years
ago
Ralph Edwards has a large staff
for getting details of the lives of
people used on bis NBC This Is
Your Life but anyone may sug-
gest a candidate Need not be a
well known name either To be a
talent scout for the program you
need only write a note to Ralph
Edwards In Hollywood outlining
the reasons why your friend or
neighbors life would make an in-
teresting story
Bing Crosby who has no love for
appearing at big shindigs will at-
tend the dedication of a new ath-
letic field Bing Crosby stadium
at Front Royal Va this spring A
poll of the 7000 citizens chosehlm
as The Most Popular Entertainer
of the Half Century and he ac-
cepted Crosby will appear for
good causes not for mere advertis-
ing or publicity
Louis Calhcrn la growing
younger In Nancy Goes to
Rio be appears aa Jane Pow-
ell grandfather but In The
Tender Hours he will be seen
as her father Ann Harding re-
turns to the screen as Janes
mother
Bob Hope fought to record bis
shows but lost out Then Charles
Luckroan his sponsor president
resigned So Hope hoping again
tried ajaln and again lost out with
the new executive Ills show will
be taped only when neaearw
PJit > KSU
What Price Socialism
TirHAT XOQICAL EXCUSE can
be offered for the promotion
of the welfare state that some-
thing fornothlng land so ardently
being sought by those who believe
we should have a greater distrlbu
tlon of the wealth of the nation
There Is an abundance of evidence
to demonstrate the present distri-
bution of the luxuries and conven-
iences among the American peo-
ple a distribution made possible
by those who are willing to work
at the opportunities offered by our
private enterprise economic sys-
tem provides for all more abun-
dantly than the distribution of any
other land
We have In America 48 mil-
lion homes and of that 43 mil-
lion families 35 million own
passenger automobiles proved
by the number of registrations
In the several states In those
48million homes are found 30
million automatic regr Itera
tors 63 million radios and that
latest luxury still an expen-
sive 6ne television While It
can be used only within some
50 metropolitan areas which
tnclndes only some 22 minion
homes It Is selling faster than
It can be produced
Such figures do not Indicate that
we Americans are a poverty strick-
en people Those figures represent
the ownership of expensive lux-
uries they are not purchased by
people who are homeless and hun-
gry and who can exist only through
the bestowal of government doles
Those more than four million tele-
vision sets bought during 1049 were
purchased at an average price of
better than 300 per set
When to such luxuries there are
added the millions of homes that
enjoy the luxuries of electric light
and electric power and the mil-
lions that have telephones we get
a picture of American affluence
that cannot be duplicated by any
other nation on earth a nation in
which there can be small need for
government doles the welfare
state or socialism A careful In-
vestigation would undoubtedly show
many families now receiving gov-
ernment doles numbered among
those now enjoying automobiles
automatic refrigerators radios
television and other luxuries many
of them paid for with the doles the
government has handed out so gen-
erously
We are people of affluence
for which our private enter-
prise economic system has pro-
vided the opportunity to do for
ourselves If each one will
More than 60 million of our
workers have jobs Our fami-
lies have Incomes averaging
far better than 3000 per year
which certainly does not mean
hunger and want It Is far
above any average known In
any European socialistic nation
or communistic Russia When
we as a people are enjoying
such arfluence where Is the
need of the welfare state or
any redistribution of national
wealth Socialism can offer
nothing other than disaster
Our private enterprise economic
system has provided all with op
portunities to do for themselves
to our farms or a business of their
own which the Introduction of
cialism would only take away from
them We want the freedom that Is
so much a part of our American
way of life the freedom to work
at what we wish where we wish
and at what wages we can get
Socialism can operate only
under a dictatorship and a
dictatorship would tell each of
us at what we would work
where we would work and
when There would be no priv-
ilege of sitting around on park
benches awaiting the arrival of
the mail man with a dole check
There would be no doles or
nothing with which to pay
them
Then why all the effort to pro-
mote the welfare state and so
cialism Why not keep what we
have that which has given us our
prosperity and affluence as well
as our freedoms
The national industrial confer
ence board reports 99467 taxex
empt organizations filed returns
with the bureau of internal reve-
nue for 1946 Those tax exempt or-
ganizations did a business for that
year of nearly 10 billion dollars
Those taxexempt organizations
consisted of farm coops or those
purporting to be farm coops
churches hospitals and libraries
nonprofit clubs and labor unions
friend I received a copy of a chain
From an especially appreciated
letter It requested that I make a
small contribution to a cause
which X was glad to do and that I
mail a copy of that same letter to
10 people or if not willing to do
so return the letter to him Over
that I hesitated but finally com
plied Of the 10 letters I mailed
seven were returned by the recip
ients The other three were pre
sumbably compiled with The net
result to me I lost 10 friends In
eluding the three who complied
Never cfiiLn
FRIDAY MAROI 24 150
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mainspring
A new durapower
for watcher developed at Elgin
HI from a new allby metal ig
completely resistant to ruat A
of the new spring
dramatic test
was provided Inadvertently when
a Florldlan recently lost his
in waters of the Gulf of Mexico
recovered one week later
When
all steel parts were rusted beyond
repair but the malflsprng was
good as new
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Miller, Othello Ontje. The Hemphill County News (Canadian, Tex), Vol. TWELFTH YEAR, No. 29, Ed. 1, Friday, March 24, 1950, newspaper, March 24, 1950; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth47649/m1/2/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.