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(Special Republic Dispatch)BERLIN. Oct. 10—The spreading practice of mercy killings,” quietly advocated by certain Nazi quarters, has come into the spotlight in Germany.An officially approved film. Ich Klage An,” (I Accuse) has made the question of killing menial defectives, invalids and the Incurably sick, because they are unproductive under the Na2i concept, one of public debate.Practice Denounced At the same time the outspoken bishop of Muenster, Count Clemens August von Galen, has made an expose of Na2i mercy deaths and denounced the practice. Some months ago the Lutheran bishop, TheophU Wurrn of Wuorttemberg, also attacked ‘‘mercy death” teaching in a letter addressed to Adolf Hitler.Bishop Von Galen, who unhesitatingly speaks his mind and of late has even defied the Gestapo {secret police), warned that If the principle of killing unproductive fellow creatures” is recognised, then even the lives of crippled war veterans and the aged aren’t safe.*‘I have been assured that in the ministry of the interior and in the office of the reich’s leader of physicians (health director). Dr. Leonardo Cdnti, no secret is made of the fact that a great number cf insane in Germany already have been deliberately killed and in the future are to be killed, he declared as recently as August 3 in a sermon at St. Lamberti’s Church, Muenster, .Westphalia.Takes Wile’* life Hie film, which received widespread and extensive press notice, had its premiere in the presence of Dr. Conti. It is a story of a doctor and his young wife who is wracked by an incurable disease. Unable to find the means to check her illness, the doctor takes the life of his suffering wife with an overdose of poison upon learning she has only two months to live.The film deals at length with the court trial of the doctor on a charge of murder, but ends without the verdict, leaving that to the audience. The course of the evidence is an appeal made to the human side of the case and a suggestion of a change in the present German law which would, for example, permit , medical commissions to decide whether a person should legally he given a mercy death.The film undoubtedly was : designed to do the necessary'By KIRKE L. SIMPSON The Nazis’ announcement that they have broken through the Moscow defense lines on a front 300 miles wide sounds ominous. •A gap that wide in Russian defenses would be almost double the distance from Vyazma to Orel, which has been considered the extremities of the central battle front. Measured on an air line, it would expand the German drive(RJev,^rr,^/?hfav1?fniU-11ofithrcalenln? t0 sur§* lt;?astwRrdnorth of Vyazma, to the \idnit\o lueen the two main Russian armiesKursk, something less than luumiles south of Orel.If the SOO-mile figure Is based on a curved front, bulging northeastward between 1 yaxma and Orel, it would indicate that Tula, ISO mile* almost dueauu win ue neia at a— — —- - ^— r — * — ^ ^ ^ vo'clock this afternoon from theGrimshaw Mortuary.Services will he conducted by the Rev. C. Vaughan Rock, pastor of the First Southern Baptist Church. Burial will be in Greenwood •‘Memorial Park.south of Moscow, has been captured by the Nazis. That aw rumored but unconfirmed in Berlin.It would be against normal military practice to estimate the width of an attack in any but air-line measurement terms. Stated in mileage which followed the contours of an irregular front, the figures would be meaningless. Width at the base of a salient and depth of penetration are the prime geometrical factors in military mathematics. Attack Widen*There is a hint from Moscow, reported by London, that the German attack has widened northward to Rjev. If so, Moscow is definitely menaced from the northwest as well as the west and southwest.Rjev is an important river town on the Upper Volga and a rail junction from which the Vyazma “pocket”, where several Russian armies are said to be trapped, could be widened and deepened. Moscow reports some of those Russian forces have cut their way out of the pocket eastward.Southward from Orel, there seems to be an opportunity for Hitler to deal the Russians another shattering blow if he has the men and machines to do it A thrust from Orel to Kursk along the two railroads available for it would unhinge the recently re-established Russian defense front west of Kharkov.Menace Donets Basis From Orel Nazi forces are menacing Kharkov and the Donets basin from the north. They are alsoon the Moscow and Kharkov fronts.Provided there is no general Russian collapse in the center, Moscow still promises to be a tough nut to crack by siege, tougher even than Leningrad and Odessa. If Hitler can gain his own slated main objective in Russia, destruction of Red armies in the field, without attacking Moscow, he would be likely to do It His generals certainly would urge itHe has formally proclaimed achievement of that purpose against Russian armies in the center. According to official German reports they are still caught, and sure to be annihilated, in the Vyazma and Bryansk pockets.New* I*. MeagerThere has been no mention yet in German war bulletins of the situation on the Kharkov front east of Kiev, but news from Moscow indicates the Russians are planning to retire to a new line of defenses there. Aside from that there is little to show what is aetualiv happening from the Upper Desna, southwest of Bryansk and far west of Orel to the Russian Vorskla river line in the Poltava-Kremenchugsector, more than 200 miles to the south.By Hitler's own thesis, there are greater prizes than Moscow to be sought southward from Orel. Encirclement of Red armies holding the Desna-Vorskla line is one. The other is the Don-Donets basin, already in gravest peril from the Nazi thrust eastward along the Sea of Azov coast. Attacked also from the north down the Donets valley and the Moscow-Kursk-Kharkov-Rostov railroad, Russian armies on the south flank could be caught in a German vise or forced to fall back behind the Volga, opening a wide door to Nazi invasion of the oil-richCaucasus.A native of Kentucky. Mother Barnett came to Phoenix in 1920 and a few years later began cooking for the YMCA cafeteria. When the cafeteria closed in the summer, she went in the same capacity to the boys camp each year.Tough Camping at Startbe taken away and in a short time tive countrymen,’ and who are to deprived of their lives. The first transport left the Institution at Marienthal near Muenster In the course of this week (July 31).Sick Are Transported “No. 211 of the reich's penal code still has the force of the law whichaccording to these judgments, they belong to ‘unproductive countrymen.’ One judges that they no longer can produce goods, they are like an old machine which no longer runs; they are like an old horse which has become incurably lame; they are like a ccw which no long-pr ■ milk ”Instead of the $40,000 permanent plant, which the association now owns in the Bradshaw mountains. Mrs. Barnett started out in the days when the camping was tough. Campsites were used near Prescott, on the Verde river near Fort McDowell, on the Salt river near Granite Reef Dam, and on Sycamore creek, near the Mazatzal mountains.Sometimes the tents stood against a storm. Sometimes they went over. Mother Barnett was there every day of camp, cooking inside or outside as weather dictated. There always was an extra snack for the lad that came in from n long hike and simply could not wait until supper time.In the earlier days, the YMCA summer camps did not have a registered nurse and doctor on the staff. More than once it was Mother Barnett who looked after the first aid because all of the camp leaders were away when some boy came to grief with a jackknife or broken tree limb.Mothered Lonesome Boy*She mothered the youngest fellows who were inclined to be lonesome the first day or so away from home. She always was optimistic, regardless of how hard the work. All of “her boys” will testify to that and they are proud to claim the foster-mother relationship.Mr*. Barnett lived to see the permanent camp built and cooked there the first year, but the load was too heavy for her in spite of help and she gave up all work in 1939. spending in all 14 years with the YMCA and being in charge of the cooking at the summer camps for 12 years.She Is survived by a son,' A. C. Barnett, Phoenix, and three daughters, Mrs. G. £. McDonald and Mrs. Ned F. Hester, Phoenix, and Mrs. Evelyn Louderbeck, Biloxi, Miss,
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Arizona Independent Republic
Phoenix, Arizona, US
Sat, Oct 11, 1941
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