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NewspaperCorrespondents Did NotOverexaggerate GermanPrison Camps Description___* LIVE • * •:*kv Ben McKelway Associated Editor of the Washington Evening Star,Written for The Associated Press . ;rwPUBLIC OPINIONNATIC 111., May —Receip market s largely S pared Fi steady.PARIS, May 5 — Members o£ a partv of 18 newspaper and magazine editors and puolishers are returning to the States after a 12-day visit to France and- Germany at Gen. Eisenhower’s invitation, convinced that newspaper cor re-spondents have been guilty 0corn cum icatlons In this col-gmn expre*3 nUrely the optniOn of th« writers thcrosoJv« and not «ec-.ssarily the cdrtorial views ol th ■ newspaper. Realizing tj»* 1,h«‘* ueuallv is moro than a nipple aide of any question and that t-iere frequently are'honest differences of opinion, the Mor.ltor-Inder and Democrat offers to Its readers the privilege of airing them In tJiis manner. All communication® MUST BE SIGNED, otherwise no attention will be paid them, vommumSpondents have -been gunly uj c‘at”onB ^ust be ehor: and couched no exaggerated descriptions of, ln language.German concentration camps. H lt;dilutes can not be giventheir stories erred, it was ontneir siunea —the side of understatement.From what these newspapermen saw on their inspection trips to Camp Bucbenwald, near Weimar, and Dachau, near Munich, it is impossible to describe conditions there in a manner that would give Americans any adequate conception of me things the editors saw. 1Members of the party talked to many officers and soldiers 01 the veteran. 4oth Division, which liberated the Dachau camp, ana were told that in two years of combat service they had seen nothing approaching what t.iey had witnessed inside this camp. Their reaction was a burning hate for - the, Germans, unlike anything they felt for the soldiers who opposed them in oai-tle -One GI with the 45th put it pretty well when he said: I always thought they were exaggerating to make us hate the Krauts. Now I knew these things are true/’ That sums up the conclusion cf the editors.We went through the camp at Buchenwald more than a.in -------personal disputes can not be given bdCc; neither can subjects of purely controversial or frivolous nature.Municipal Plant Advocate Favors the Franchisecatt:none. Cc day: St closed w steady: sharp fl steers st Choice 1 lb.steerslb. steer mixed 3 heifers J good be bulls 51replacer for wee steers S steers $ and me choice 1 lings $: $13.50 t $12.50; $14.25;Editor the Monitor-Index:You have before the people of the City of Moberly an election: beef co, next Tuesday on the question 01 and RoC whether or not to give the Mo- to $13 t ber'ly Power and Light Company $15lt;75 a franchise for the next ten SR£}years. Your paper is carrying. ed ^advertisements from both sides g]auR pro and con. *As I started a fight for Municipal ownership in 1929 and spent $24,000.00-out of my own pocket to have a municipal owned plant,. I think I should tell thevoters how I view the situationt0lt;Lny’l929 labor was plentiful, material and equipment were plentiful and cheap; the Lipit Company had a francmse that did not expire until 1931 If we had built a municipal plant then we cculd have taken over the operation cf the municipal plant, serviced the customers, and could have told tnc - Light Com-Slaughi higher; choice ness 01 grades: choice slaughl medium mostly ped la: and ch $16; m $14.75; grade and go bulk r ewes $ to $7.5at Buchenwald more than a. %Q t out 0f town. We did week after its liberation and i t do Uiat so the-Light Corain the interval it had been pjmy has stayed here ^because cleaned up to some extent by [ lhcy vvaute(j to. being the first the Americans. We saw Dachau re£s0nf and because the Public four days after its liberation and gervjCe Commission would havelUui yjcij J f - —---— - .lt;0 frightful were the conditions 'of overcrowding, disease and death that the soldiers had little oportunity. to do anything beyond making food and drugs available. In a camp population of about 33,000 examination of a portion of the inmates re vealed 800 cases of tuberculosis. 291 cases of typhus and 115 of pneumonia, with more than 100 deaths, each cay.The Germans had run out of coal for their incinerator at the camp and /more than corpses were stacked there. Col. G. J. Hathaway, lath Corps surgeon, said the prison inmates had been fed about one-fourtnService Commission would have compelled them to, being the second reason, and have served the customers for fourteen ears and by that have established the right of estoppel. •The citizens cannot build a plant now any way, they could not get the material or the labor. This the city comiCR ; consider-ed when they submitted me franchise to the people Our Mayor and City Council are live hard-headed, common sense,honest and fearless public men; they know every phase of tnc re.a-tionship bctwen the Power Company and the City; they realize that if we give the Light Company a ten-year franchise now,had been fed aoou. one-iuuxp»ny aof the diet supposedly neces- that at the end of this-tfmcmse v . . nnr Aivn nlailt andsary to keep a man alive.Living a Form of Torture ThereThere were conflicting stories about sadistic practices in the camps and there were no eyewitnesses. From what we gathered from interviews, no eyewitnesses to such things survived. •But living under the camp conditions was in itself a form of torture, apparently designed to reduce gradually the strength and the spirit of the prisoners until they died a naturaldeath.” 4 _Thirty-four thousand out 01 a total of 125.000 at Dachau between 1933 and 1942 had cued “natural deaths” and 13,1 o9 others have gone the same way since Jan. 1, 1945.’ There was no attempt by the editors to suggest a form of punishment for German war criminals, but their observations would indicate that after this war it is going to be a hard thing to find a German _ who will admit he was a Nazi, believed in the Nazis cr knew anything save rumor about the existence of the concentration camps.The editors interviewed many German civilians in Essen, in the Ruhr and in the destroyed city of Munich in Bavaria. None would admit anything but greataiai rtl liu: w. *•— , . .we can build our own plant and we can put the Light Company out of Moberly for the reason that their contracts will have expired and the Light Company will not have the benefit of theCHI Cash stead} Estim Cor noon $1.11 1-4 tc $1.14 ycllov vellov rcceif Ca1 ceiptt Bai nomiiST.grainWhCoj2 ye] 1.17VOa’NE Stock tri3ls Bo imprt Co miss:Will JlVt ^ —-----_ „doctrine of estoppel. Futher-more, under this franchise m the next ten years the Light Company will pay the City S135,-000.00 in license.Everyone knows that I do not . represent the Light _ Company, but to vote against this franchise W{ would be like the old woman who cut her nose off to spite ner face.Sincerely yours,BED1CK O’BRYAN, McCormick Hospital.W1 covei Co Rbuyi: CaSgt. George Perkins, Salisbury, WoundedTech. Sgt. George H. Perkins, son of Jim Perkins. Salisbury, is among Missourians announced publicly today by the War Department as Army wounded m the European regions. His xain-er received previous official notice. _in connection with the concentration camps for civilians and political prisoners, he undoubtedly succeeded and perhaps be-would admit anythin* but great i yond ^ f/^toiltatior.ses^sSKTWa SSS'esssss S.-S? s-ssas j sjsJUNINSSJJuniat fThinwasstag*forrrclubraticWhisporcamps.If Gen. Eisenhower hoped to convince the editors of the trutr. of the German atrocity storiesFOUR-ROOM HOUSE; spo,-lessly elc-an; fuU basement; I lots, 623 Franklin ave., $1650, and others. J. F. Humans, 8X6 b. Morley. -•that an ordinary peace-loving American civilian car understand. For nothing like tnese camps has ever been known to modem western civilization, and there are no available standards by which they can be measured in terms of human depravity and crueltyDFMoberly Moniior-IndexAn* Moberly EveniD* Democratr
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