The White Falcon - 16.12.1944, Blaðsíða 6

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Ann Southern, “Maisie” of
the screen, presented her
husband Robert Sterling,
former actor and now an
Army Lt., with an eight
pound, two ounce girl this
week .... Jackie Cooper,
now in the Navy, and his
Hollywood sweetheart, act-
ress; June Horne, announced
they would marry this week.
Cooper was recently acquit-
ted on charges of contribut-
ing to the delinquency of
two young South Bend, Ind.,
chicks .... Walter Winchell
has had to admit that Mrs.
W. has scored a “scoop” on
him. Walter was told to keep
his big mouth shut about his
wife adoptinga three months
old baby girl — their second.
They also have an adopted
son.
Adele Jergens, featured re-
cently as White Falcon pin-
up, was chosen for a role
in “Together Again” because
of her ability to undress. The
strip-tease, the shapely one
maintains, is only a matter
of using psychology which
causes the bays to whistle.
She puts it this way, “The
excitement of the strip-teas-
ing business is more a matt-
er of how it’s done, than of
how much is done.” That,
of course, is a statement for
debate.
Sweater girls are back in
the good graces of the Hays
office. There is one proviso
which must he met, though.
The knitted articles must be
loose and roomy! .... Lew
Ayres is a chaplain’s assist-
ant on Leyte .... Buddy
Roger’s going to do the
“Sliiek” for United Artists
when hi^i Navy discharge
comes through .... USO-
Camp Shows, whose “Fun
Fest” is playing the Rock at
this moment, celebrated its
third birthday this month.
At present, 173 units are
touring the battle fronts and
outposts overseas — with 837
people involved.
Bob Hope received the
1944 Poor Richard Club’s
award for “outstanding
achievement.” The club is a
Pliiladelhia organization . .
. . Alice Faye is going out
on tour with husband Phil
Harris before returning to
the screen .... Hedy La
Marr kisses Paul Henreid
for 42 feet of film in “The
Conspirators” — liigh-time
record for the amorous
clinch on the screen. The
movie will soon be on IBC
circuit.
NEW BILL WILL
GRANT VETS 90
DAYS TO APPLY FOR
PREWAR JOBS
Legislation has been sign-
ed by President Roosevelt
extending from 40 to 90 days
after release from service
the time in which World
War II veterans may apply
for reemployment in their
prewar jobs.
The act also permits veter-
ans hospitalized immedia-
tely upon release to apply
for employment 90 days aft-
er discharge from the ho-
spital, providing that hospi-
talization lasts no longer
than one year.
In the meantime, the War
Labor Board has asked the
Selective Service headquart-
ers to decide whether or not
a veteran, who had been
serving his apprenticeship
at the time of his induction,
may qualify for automatic
promotion to the journey-
man wage rate without com-
pleting liis apprenticeship
upon his return to civies.
TAKE 691,989 NAZIS
At least 691,989 prisoners
— the equivalent of 69 Ger-
man divisions — have been
captured by Allied armies
on the Western Front since
D-day.
War Refugee Board, In Official
Report On German Terrorism,
Verifies ‘Gas Chamber’ Stories
The War Refugee Board,
made up of former Secret-
ary of Slate Cordell HullJ
Secretary of War Stimson
and Secretary of the Treas-
ury Morgenthau, with John
W. Pehle as executive di-
rector, has just issued a re-
port compiled from eyewitn-
ess accounts of German pris-
on camps in Poland. Some
of the horrors they describe
(none, it is suggested, per-
petrated against Americans)
are:
A lethal gas chamber built
to resemble a shower room.
A crematorium equipped
with peepholes for the “ent-
ertainment” of guests. Use
of prisoners for experiments
in sterilizing by X-ray. At-
tempts at artificial insemi-
nation of women. Excessive
blood transfusion to augm-
ent plasma stocks.
The War Refugee Board
says it has “every reason to
believe” the testimony of
three informants who escap-
ed separately from the camp
at Auschwitz and Birlcenau,
in Southwest Poland. Al-
though prepared independ-
ently, the stories agree in
every important detail. The
trio included two young Slo-
vakian Jews and a non-Jew-
ish Polish major — whose
names have been withheld
for their protection.
“The Germans have deli-
beratedy and systematically
murdered millions of inno-
cent civilians — Jews and
Christans alike — all over
Europe, the Board wrote at
the outset of its 25,000-word
report. “This campaign of
terror and brutality, which
is unprecedented in all hi-
story and which even now
continues unabated, is part
of the German plan to sub-
jugate the free people of the
world.”
At least a million-and-a-
half Jews from various Eur-
opean countries are believ-
ed to have died in the Birk-
enau gas chamber and cre-
matoria during the two-year
period beginning in April,
1942. The entrance to the
gas room was arranged to
look like the ante-chamber
to a bathing establishment.
“From there a door and a
few steps lead down into
the very long and narrow
gas chamber,” one of the
informants related. “The
walls of this chamber are
also camouflaged with si-
mulated entries to shower,
rooms to mislead the vict-
ims. The unfortunate prison-
ers are brought into the hall,
where they are told undress.
To complete the fiction that
they are going to bathe, each
person recives a towel and
a small piece of soap issued
by two men clad in white
coats. Then they are crowd-
ed into the gas chamber in
such numbers that there is,
of course, only standing
room. When everybody is
inside, the heavy doors are
closed. SS men with gas
masks then climb onto the
roof, open traps which can
be hermatically sealed from
the outside and shake down
a preparation in powder
form out of tin cans label-
ed, ‘Cyclon — For Use Aga-
inst Vermin/ which is manu-
factured by a Hamburg firm.
After three minutes, ever-
one in the chamber is dead.”
Of the “sick building” was
said: “All prisoners inca-
pable of working were sent
there. There was no medical
attention. Twice weekly the
camp doctor indicated the
prisoners who were to be
gassed and then burned.”
GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRIAL
LEADERS CALL HALT TO ILS
RECONVERSION TREND—CITE
CONTINUED NEEDS AT FRONT
Writing off all propects
of peace in Europe by Christ-
mas, U.S. government and
industrial leaders are putt-
ing the damper on recon-
version plans and rushing
ahead with the production
of more war materiel.
In Washington, Pres.
Roosevelt urged that every-
one engaged in war work
must remain on the job,
while Chairman J. A. Krug
of the War Production
Board declared that $500,-
000,000 worth of new facili-
ties must be built immedia-
tely to expand output of criti-
‘BABY-SELLING’
LATEST BLACK
MARKET ACTIVITY
Most recent black-market
activity in the U.S. to earn
the indignation of American
citizenry is being called the
“baby-selling racket.’’Charg-
ing that more than half of
America’s illegitimate child-
ren are being bought and
sold through commerical ad-
option agencies, the Wo-
man’s Home Companion
(the current issue of which
gives considerable attention
to the matter) urged the pas-
sage bf state laws to discour-
age mothers from getting rid
of their unwanted babies.
Supporting the “baby-sell-
ing racket” is said to be an
unprecented demand for
children on the part of Am-
erican womanhood. One wo-
man who heads ah adoption
agency in an eastern city
boasted recently — accord-
ing to the magazine article
— that she was making $20,-
000 a year in “baby-selling.”
cally-needed mortar-shells.
Krug indicated that there
could be little reconversion
to non-military production
until after Germany had
been defeated — saying that
the plan of his predecessor,
Donald M. Nelson, for limit-
resumption of civilian pro-
duction already had been
abandoned.
In agreement with this
new outlook, a group of U.S.
industrialist, returning home
after a recent tour of the
Western Front, said they are
convinced that there is too
much optimism in the U.S.
over the war. “None of us ex-
pects an early finish to the
European war,” said Charl-
es Kendrick, president of the
Schlage Lock Co., “and even
after this, we’ve still got
Japan.”
COST OF WISHING
GERMANS A MERRY
CHRISTMAS: $32.50
PER WORD
Any GI in the 80th Inf. Div.
will be fined $65 for saying
“Merry Christmas” to' a Ger-
man civilian, reported Lt.
Col. Richard C. Croft, Div.
Military Government Offic-
er.
Col. Ci’oft was approach-
ed by a delegation of young
German women who asked'
that the strict nonfraterniz-
ation rule be relaxed on
Christmas Day. He turned
them down, saying, “The
same rules will apply Christ-
mas Day and that means a
$65 fine for those talking to
enemy civilians.”
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