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HIMMLER’S FAMILY FOUND-vRoundupPreservation and reconstructionof industry and feeding of the Austrian people are the most important economic problems facing Austria’sprovisional government, Clianceilor Karl Renner said yesterday. He said that other Austrian problems included restoration of ahe country 'sindependence, eliminationtraces of Nazi laws from commercial and administrative cod s. andcoc s, ana reestablishment of Austrian currency.The food situation, he said, is causing some anxiety within the provisional government.* * mWhile a widespreadMembers #1 the Norwegianernment, including the King and Crown Princess Martha, are expected to leave London this week for Oslo, Reuter’s said yesterday. The Norwegian Government gave a farewell reception in LondonTuesday night,* * *According to Reuter’s, Norway is facing a very serious coal and housing shortage. More than 40,000 houses are needed—such a serious shortage that it may take ten ycai s to restore the country’s housing toprewar standards.* + *tapo chief, his wife, Margaret, and daughter, Gundrun above) were found by 5thArmy troops at Bolzano, Italy.lt;APS Photo by Sgt. Cheater G. Rcisbar)A new daily newspaper, called the Berliner Zeitnng, began publication yesterday in Berlin, the Moscow radio said. The paper carried a report on the current meeting off the Berlin municipal eil and announced Berlin radio programs. Berlin’s variety theater has also reopened, and Soviet films are being shown at many oftiie movie houses.* * *Captured Julius StretcherPersonified Nazi BestialiG re ek Cabin e t y estc r t passed a law putting all industri:production in the country under complete control of the state, the Greek news agency said. Raw materials will be provided by the state at low prices. Luxury-goods production was prohibited.* * amBERCHTESGADEN, May 24—Juhus Sireicher, former Gauleiter of Franconia, has been captured by troops of the 101st Airborne Division on a farm in the Bavarian mountains—News Item.MOne’s inevitable react ion to the news that Julius Stretcher has beenWhat washe found his way into the leading ^i«ticaptured, on a farm is: he doing there, torturingBecause that’s the kind of man this notorious, bull-necked sadistic JewT-baiter w'as throughout his life. When times were good for him— and under Hitler they were very profitable indeed—-he was the typical Nazi bully—swaggering, drunk with power, brute-faced. A sadist since his early days as a school teacher, he loved pornography in its most sordid and obnoxious forms.ranksdays.He is figuredthe Nazi party in the earlyreported to have personally out the techniques of murder and torture used with such success in the concentrationcamps,easily bclieveable if you know his background. He has already been dieted as a war criminal.Col. Christian 31 even, ffirmer chief of staff to the Dutch military government, has been appointed ♦‘General Commissioner for DutchEconomic Interests in Germany, Holland radio announced yesterday. The commissioner’s jobwill be to arrange for return of property stolen by the Germans and to obtain replacements from Germany where stolen goods cannot be found.He,more than, any other single Nazi, personified what the Hitler regime stood for—brute force and utter disregard for human rights, feelings or decency.Streicher founded the Nurem-burg branch of the Nazi party in1921 and took part in the beer hallputsch of 1923. With Hitler’s advent to power in 1933, he became Gauleiter ofBut there are those who think:e a more appropriate in mind for Streicher than the firing squad or the gallows. Years ago he drove hapless Jews through the streets of Nuremburg with degrading signs around their necks.Perhaps they should set him looseamong a few hundred political prisoners at Buchenwald or Dachau, with a sign around his neck simply stating, **I am Streicher.’' It would be quite enough., PETER FI RSTLeon E. Tree let* Belgian Minister Labor, will leave Brussels May to attend the meeting in Quebec of the Governing Board of the International Labor Office, Reuters reported. Troclet will confer with the U. S. Secretary of-Labor in Washington before going to Quebec.* m mHis greatest claim to infamy— and to the gallows—was his editorship of the filthiest smear-sheet inthe world. Der Stuermer’s pornography-filled pages adorned every important building in every city,town and village in Hitler’s Ger-McNarney PresentsIn Paris, an agreement between the French Government and trade union representatives averted a threatened strike of “white collar” workers. The agreement raises the wages of office, bank and department store clerks from 3.109 to 3,999 francs a month, based on a- month-a-year calendar.* * *Honor Medal Heremany.There was not a single obscenity, not a phase of human degradation.and sexual perversionnot find its way into its the greatest possible de-(Continued from page 1)wire screensmashed) inwpagesla i 1.Exhibited under a (glass was too often peeial showcases all over the nation, Der Stuermer told Germans :n graphically illustrated hate articles how — according to the Nazis Catholic priests spent their timeraping nuns, how fat, hairy, ugly Jews — shown utterly naked by Der Stuermer’s gifted cartoonists— played havoc with fair Aryan maidens in sinister backrooms adornedwith the Communist hammer and sickle emblem and Mportraits ofJoseph Stalin and the late PresidentRoosevelt.But Der Stuermer did not stop there. After all. it was one of the Nazi party’s most cherished educational ‘ mediums for German schoolchildren, and though widely deplored .and attacked in church circles, it carried its program of indoctrination and utter destruction of morals through to the last word on the last page, even to describing in the greatest possible detail howrape was conducted.Undoubtedly, Streicher and his friends must have enjoyed reading his brainchild, for Streicher himselfsmall group of former 45th Division officers and enlisted men from the Center and praised the partthe division played in winning victory in Europe. Each, man then personally congratulated and shook hands with their division luro. Oneof them, Cpl. Jack O'Dell of Eaton Ohio, had been in Lt. Fisher's company in the 45th Division.When told of aThe Allies are studying documents in German embassies in neutral countries, Reuter’s reported from London. The German capitulation included surrender of all embassies, ministries and property in neutral countries.IATar Departmentruling that Medal of Honor holdewill be discharged upon request, LtFisher said he did not at present plan to ask for the discharge. He said he expects to be sent home shortly. The lieutenant has 87 discharge points.Lt. Fisher enlisted in December, 1.934, and rose to master .sergeantreceiving his commission atCamp Wheeler, Ga„ in July,He served five years in the Panama Canal zone. He came overseas in January, 1944. was assigned to theDivision, then lighting in Italy, and made the southern France landing with the division: The decoration ceremony was followed by a review of the 8th Replacement Battalion of tne 1CTC. by General McNarney, Bug. Gen Lawrence C, Jaynes, commanding general of the Replacement... and Training Com m and, M TOU 8 A.Gen. Arthur H. Rogers, chief of training. Retilacement and Train-ometeor-11 isandgood f i lend, the ologist, bent studiously over meteorological apparat us emerged with the prediction of fairand* continued cool w e a t h e r throughout Italy today, while his observations of the upper air indicated clouds in the mountain areas. No mention was made of those pretty cumulus, which, we finally learned, are wool-pack orcauliflower clouds, described asdome shaped on the upper surfacewhile the base is generally horizontal.Maximum temperatures forcasted for today:Homo 81; Naples 80; Bari 85; FogglatoBariFlore .nee ForriaNaplesPisaYesterdayMm70M h x Hi69Itf!O #5890HO67
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