Jackson Urges Trial Of Many More Nazis For War Crimes

Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson called today for the imme- diate prosecution of many top-flight Germans whose war crimes, he said, remain unpunished.

In a report to President Truman- Issued by the White House almost coincidental with the execution of 10 of Hitler's chief aides and the suicide of Herman Goering—Justice Jackson urged a new series of trials for “a very large number” of ex- Nazis.

Justice Jackson cited industrialists, financiers, leading cabinet ministers, diplomats, police officials and mili- tarists who so far have escaped retribution.

Their guilt, he said, does not dif- fer from those already convicted in the Nuernberg trials “except that their parts were at lower levels and have been less conspicuous.”

Schacht Acquittal Decried. Justice Jackson, who served as

chief American prosecutor at Nuern- berg,- said the industrialists and financiers certainly could be tried mi such specific charges as using slave labor. He called it “regrettable” that the tribunal acquitted Financier Hjalmar Schacht and Diplomat Franz von Papen.

The jurist added, however, that he is opposed to any further four- power trials, which he characterized as “inevitably the slowest and most costly method of procedure.” Instead he recommended swift trial of “our own cases” in the American-oc- cupied zone, letting the Russians, French and British handle their cases separately.

Praising the fairness of the Nuern- berg trials. Justice Jackson declared they established “standards of con- duct * * » from which future statesmen will not lightly depart.”

"These standards by which the Germans have heen condemned will become the condemnation of any nation that is faithless to them,” he said.

"There can be no responsible de- nial of these crimes in the future and no tradition of martyrdom of the Nazi leaders can arise among informed people.”

Justice Jackson's report was dated October 7. two days after Senator Taft, Republican, of Ohio asserted in a speech that the Nuernberg ver-

dicts were a miscarriage of justice which the American people would long regret.

Senator Taft centered his criti- cism on the contention that Amer- ican legal procedure does not per- mit convictions under a law not in effect at the time the crime was, committed.

Without referring directly to the1 Senator's criticism. Justice Jackson! said one of the chief obstacles at the trials was “the lack of a beaten path” of precedent, but declared:

“No one can hereafter deny or

fail to know that the principles on i

which the Nazi leaders are ad- judged to forfeit their lives con-

stitute law—and law with a sanc-

tion.” Justice Jackson reported that

Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor, his deputy on the prosecution staff, is

preparing a program of prosecu- tions against representatives of “all the important segments of the Third Reich” including a considerable number of industrialists and finan- ciers, leading cabinet ministers, top SS and police officials and mili- tarists.

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the public by the conference had: prevailed for months, Mr. Byrnes said.

The merit of the conference, as

the Secretary saw it, was that it made it possible for the Council of Big Four Foreign Ministers to com-

plete their peace-writing task know- ing the opinions of other Allied states. He said he believed the For-

eign Ministers will be able to reach agreement with regar dto the trea- ties. because he still has confidence in the power of world opinion.

He said he believes recommenda- tions which received the backing of; rwo-thirds of the conference cannot; be ignored by the Foreign Min- isters.

Hopes Yugoslavs Will Change. j Referring to Yugoslavia's refusal to j

take part in the final session yester- day and the announcement by Ed- ward Kardelj. chief of her delega- tion. that the Tito government would not sign an Italian treaty along the lines approved by the conference, Mr. Byrnes said he hopes the Yugoslavs will change! their view.

He could understand, he said, that men who have very strong opinions can be disappointed when these opinions do nftt prevail. But time is a great healer, said Mr. Byrnes.

The Secretary saw no justification for the criticism that the peace treaty with Germany should have been taken up before those with former Axis satellite countries.

The United States hoped, at the time of the Potsdam agreement,; that deputies could shortly begin doing spade work on the German! treaty, which presumably would! take longer than the satellite | treaties as it involved a bigger prob- lem, he said,

Sees Start on Reich Pact. When the Big Four found them- t

selves deadlocked on the satellite j treaties, it was entirely impossible ! to agree on starting in to consider the big problem of Germany, he added.

The Secretary said he was con-

vinced that opening deliberations of the Peace Conference to the press had been the right thing to do. It is essential, he said, for the people to! know directly the points of view of the various States involved rather than to have that knowledge de-

pendent on the reports of foreign ; ministers.

Mr. Byrnes declared the day is <

passed when the people will be j satisfied with a peace concocted by a few men behind closed doors. His only regret, he added, is that abso- lute freedom of the press is not uni- versal.

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Sketches of Nazi Leaders HERMANN WILHELM GOERING,

the No. 2 Nazi who thwarted the gal- lows by suicide, was considered, next to Hitler himself, the most power- ful man in prewar Germany. As Air Minister, Goering built up a pow- erful air force with which Ger-

many dominated the skies until late in the war.

During World War I Georing be- came an outstanding flyer. In 1917 he was a squadron leader and re-

ceived Germany’s highest decora- tions. With the death of Baron von Hichthofen in 1918, Goering was

regarded as Germany's leading ace

and succeeded to Richthofen’s com-

mand. He had been a friend of Hitler

ever since the “bder cellar" putsch and often was called the Fuehrer's “Iron Fist.” When the Nazis came

into power in 1933. it was Goering who organized a secret police pat- terned on the Russian OGPU—the dreaded Gestapo. Goering was ruth- less in stamping out opposition to Hitler and, like the Nazi chancellor, an uncompromising anti-Semite.

Goering. who traced his ancestry back to 1570 and was related to the former ruling houses of Hohenzol- lern and Wittelsbach, was 53. He loved uniforms and wore his many decorations constantly. He was, among many other things, presi- dent of the Reichstag, and the press, bewildered by his various titles, often called him “minister-presi- dent colonel-general."

JOACHIM VON RIBBENTROP, Hitler's foreign minister, the most

prominent internationally of the 10 who were hanged. Like Goering. Von Ribbentrop fought in the first World War, winning two classes of the Iron Cross. Toward the close of that war, he was transferred to the Gorman embassy at Constantinople, where his doplimatic talents soon

became apparent. Hitler was attracted to von Rib-

bentrop at once, because of the diplomats knowledge of interna- tional affairs. Von Ribbentrop spoke English and French with hardly an accent. He was one of the first prominent Germans to

espouse Hitler's cause, and the leader rewarded him with increas- ingly important assignments until von Ribbentrop became foreign min- ister, a post he held during most of the years the Nazis were in power.

In the period between wars, von

Ribbentrop was a champagne sales- man, but he used the experience to learn the ways of other countries. His first important job for Hitler was to head the German naval dele- gation to Great Britain in 1935. From that came his first great suc-

cess, the Anglo-German naval agree- ment. Ribbentrop was made ambas- sador to London. Later he was

credited with a major share in Hit- ler's achievement in negotiating the most conspicuous success of von Rib- “appeasement of Munich.” The bentrop's career as foreign minister was regarded as the nonaggression pact with Russia which was nego- tiated shortly before the outbreak of the European war.

ALFRED ROSENBERG, called the philosopher of the Nazi movement, wrote or directed most of the Nazi propaganda which engulfed Ger- j many and spread over the world. He was head of the Nazi Foreign Af- fairs Bureau and editor of the party organ, the Voelkischer Beobachter.

He was born in 1893 and studied architecture at a technical insti- tute at Riga. Becoming one of Hitler s most ardent followers, Ro- senberg preached the racial doc- trines of the Nazis through every modern medium of expression. He was regarded as the “genius” behind the movement, and organized the youth movement and all the other means by which Hitler's idea were forced on the people.

After World War II started, Ro- senberg was made a general in the SS and became Reich minister for the Eastern occupied territories.

FIELD MARSHAL WILLIAM KEITEL, chief of the German high command, was present at two cere- monies which will go down in history and signed the documents that rati- fied them. .One of them was the armistice which marked the defeat of France in June, 1940. The other was the unconditiora1 surrender of Germany to Russian Marshal Zhu- kov at Berlin May 9, 1945.

With Hitler's rise to power, Keitel became the chief political general. Heading the high command, he re-

organized the German Army and made it the power that dominated Europe for years.

Keitel was born in 1882, son of a

big landowner. He was a captain at the outbreak of World War I. He became general staff officer before the close of the war and afterward was assigned to the War Ministry. During the Nazi regime. Keitel

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COL. GEN. ALFRED JODL. as

German chief of staff, signed the document surrendering the German forces in the west to the Allies at the schoolhouse near Rheims May 7, 1945. During the war he drew many of Germany’s war plans.

Jodi had an important influence in Hitler’s inner circle. He was an

artillery expert in World War I. He was made a major general in 1931 when he was 39. He was promoted to colonel general in 1944. and in January, 1945, succeeded Gen. Heinz Guderian as chief of the joint general staff. Jodi was wounded in the 1944 bomb attempt on Hitler's life. Jodi also was author of a 10- point program for the annihilation of Britain and the United States.;

JULIUS STREICHER was' known as Hitler’s “chief Jew baiter.” Be- cause of his fanatical anti-Semitism. Hitler chose him to lead crusades against .the Jews in Germany and the various satellite countries. Streicher said Jews were “a mixture of Nordics, Mongols and Negroes, i carrying in their souls thet>ad quali- ties of all three races.”

Back in 1924, when Hitler was still an obscure figure, Streicher turned! over to the future Fuehrer the small anti-Semitic party which he had founded, and Hitler used its doc- trines to advantage in his rise to power. Streicher served in World War I. In 1940, when he was a

power in the Reich, he disappeared j mysteriously from the German po-: litical stage. The word was that he had been tried before the supreme party court for “real estate opera- tions.” He was captured by Ameri- can troops May 23, 1945. on a Ba- varian farm, where he was posing as a painter.

Ernst Kaltenbrunner, chief of thei Nazi security police, was an obscure figure when he succeeded Reinhard Heydrich, “the hangman," as dep- uty protector of Bohemia-Moravia in 1943. Kaltenbrunner was made deputy chief of the Gestapo and head of the special security division. A correspondent once described this Nazi as “a gigantic Prussian officer in the ominous black uniform of the Elite Guards.”

Kaltenbrunner was born in Aus- tria. He received a Ph. D. from the University of Prague, practiced law and became a judge at Salzburg. During the war he visited many concentration camps, and. according to testimony at the Nuernberg trials, he and Himmler agreed to the gas chamber method of whole- sale executions.

WILHELM FRICK was minister of the interior in the Hitler cab- inet. He was an early Hitlerite and. while the Weimar republic still gov- erned Germany, he organized the police of Thuringia as an armed force for the Nazi Party.

As Hitler's minister. Prick organ- ized drives against Social Democrats, Communists, Monarchists and Jews. It was he who first urged large “Nordic” families, saying, “a big hereditarily healthy family will finally decide the life of the German people in the heart of Europe.”! When Heinrich Himmler became in- ; terior minister in 1943, Prick was made protector of Bohemia and Moravia.

Hans Frank, as governor general of Poland during the German oc-

cupation, was held responsible for the slaughter and ghastly mistreat- ment of hundreds of thousands. Be- fore that, he had been Reichstag president and commissioner of jus- tice.

In the years following World War 1, he was a Reichstag deputy, little known outside his district. By 1933, Hitler had made Prank Bavarian minister of justice. The Nazis re-

garded him as a foremost jurist and made him president of the Academy for German Law. In that post he “regenerated” German law to con- form with Nazi practice.

When he was captured by Amer- ican soldiers, Prank was listed ** Poland's No. 1 war criminal.

ARTHUR SEYSS-INQUART.was a leading Quisling in the Hitler hierarchy. His early role in the Nazi conquest was to pave the way for the annexation of Austria by get- ting himself appointed minister of interior and security in that coun-

try. He was a lawyer in Vienna and one of the first Nazis there. Hitler made Seyss-Inquart governor of Austria after the annexation.

Later he was named vice governor of Poland and in May, 1940, he be- came Reich commissar for the con-

quered Netherlands. In that ca-

pacity he directed the policies of oppression and terror which pre- vailed in Holland until the libera- tion early in 1945.

FRITZ SAUCKEL was known as the Nazi labor boss. This meant he was the Simon Legree of foreign slave labor which was poured into Germany during the war. He was, in fact, charged with being the prime mover of the policy of im- porting forced labor from the con-

quered countries. Before Hitler’s day, Sauckel was

an unknown. At the beginning of World War I he was a seaman on a

German schooner when it was cap- tured by the British and was made a prisoner of war. He rose to prom- inence as a Nazi party leader in his home province of Thuringia.

Goering <Continued From First Page.)_

the prisoner’s, dock and, smirking and rubbing Jiis hands, said:

“Doctor, you were wonderful. I am

so glad that you quoted the old Ger- man proverb to these people—’The Nuernbergers hang no one before they really have them.”'

Goering, said the lawyer, did not doubt that he would be condemned to death. Dr. Bergold's conclusion:

"Only a person who had a secret or a surprise in store could have made this remark in such a situa- tion.”

Searched Over 100 Times. Armchair detectives seeking a

solution to this international "who done it” before they came to the end had these facts to go on:

Goering's captors took a capsule of potassium cyanide away from him when they first searched him. Since then, his person, his clothing and his cell had been searched at least a hundred times.

In the prison, lights in his cell were kept on and a guard stood out- side 24 hours a day. Sleeping, Goer- ing was required to face away from the wall and keep his hands out- side the covers.

On visits from his wife and daughter, he talked to them across

a table and through a screen while guards watched on either side.

In the courtroom, a guard stood within 3 feet of hjm and he never

was permitted to hand anything to his counsel except through the guard.

Going to and from the courtroom, two soldiers escorted him.

Slept “Nonchalantly. Goering “seemed to be sleeping

nonchalantly” 45 minutes before his suicide. His fat hands rested out- side the counterpane of his bed. but “his right hand was clenched,” ap-j parently holding the poison that robbed the gallows of their No. ‘I victim.

Goering’s suicide cheated his con-

demned fellows of the right to walk with hands free over the 70-odd yards frpm their cells to the execu-

tion chamber. All were manacled in their cells immediately after Goering's death. The manacles were removed on the gallows—only to be replaced by leather cords.

How Goering guessed today was his day of doom was a mystery. He swallowed the poison just as the prison commander walked across the prison yard to read the death sen-

tences to the condemned. He took poison on an empty

stomach. He missed the last meal served from midnight to 1 am. The menu was. Canned pork, tomato and potato salad, canned cake and coffee.

Five Have Taken Lives. With the suicide of Goering. five

key men of the Nazi regime have taken their own lives to escape punishment for their crimes."

Hitler, who led Germany into World War II, is believed to have killed himself with a pistol as Berlin fell in May, 1945.

Joseph Goebbels, his propaganda chief, took potassium cyanide in the same debacle.

Heinrich Himmler, Gestapo head, crushed a cyanide vial in his teeth after the British captured him that I same month.

Robert Ley, Nazi labor boss, hanged himself in a toilet in the Nuernberg jail in October, 1945.

Goering Suicide Captures Imagination of Germans

BERLIN, Oct. 16 UP).—Flamboy- ant Hermann Goering, even In self- inflicted death, captured the imagi- nation of many Germans, some of whom denounced him today as “a scoundrel, who certainly should have hanged.”

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Nuernberg over their radio* early this morning. Later some morning papers published special editions.

"I knew it,” exclaimed a young blond stenographer when told of Goering's act. “I never was a Nazi, but I've always thought that ‘If Goering hangs, my name isn’t Inge.' I knew he'd cheat the gallows some

way. Throughout the trial his mind seemed more alert than thoee of the other defendants.”

Said a middle-aged housewife: “That’s a shame. That scoundrel, of ail people, escape hanging.”

A workman ducking into a sub- way station to catch his train said: “Too bad. They should have hanged Goering. He certainly deserved it.”

Dozens of Germans voiced the question: “How did he mange it? Who slipped him the poison?" Some expressed the suspicion that his family smuggled it on their farewell visit.

Several Germans expressed relief that the long Nuernberg drama was over.

But even as they heard the broad- cast news of the. executions, they also heard on the Russian-con- trolled Radio Berlin a demand that more trials should quickly follow “to convict the capitalist and indus- trialist war criminals.”

Nuernberg i Continued From First Page.)

opened envelope waa found on

Goering’s corpse. It contained three messages written in pencil, one of which was addressed to Col. Andrus.

The poison Goering took was con-

tained in a vial concealed inside in a copper tube made of an old cartridge.

Goering never heard his death sentence read to him as did the others shortly before they died. Col. Andrus was on his way to Goering’s cell when the last act of Goering s! life was taking place inside the jail. Col. Andrus continued about his grim task, however, completing the reading of the conviction and sen-

tence to each man at 11:54 p.m. A little while later the march to

the gallows began. The executions were carried out

with madhine-like precision. While one hung from one gallows—his body concealed inside the structure of the scaffold—another was brought in.

Every one of the 10 men ap- proached death bravely once he entered the room and saw the grim appurtenances of the hangmen. Some quailed and approached hys- teria before they entered. Sauckel refused to dress at first and screamed at the top of his voice when soldiers handcuffed him.

Asks Permission to Smoke. With the bodies of Rlbbentrop

and Keitel dangling in death, an; American colonel directing the exe- cutions asked the American general representing the United States on the Allied Control Council's Com- mission if those present could smoke.

An affirmative answer brought cigarettes into the hands of almost every one of the 30-odd persons in the room, Mr. Smith reported. Of- ficers and soldiers paced about ner-

vously or spoke to each other in hushed voices as correspondents scribbled their hurried notes.

An American and a Russian doc- tor, carrying stethoscopes, disap- peared beneath the one curtained side of the first scaffold and emerged very shortly afterward to speak to the American colonel. The colonel turned, snapped to attention, and informed the witnesses:

“The man (Ribbentropi is dead.’’; The executioner, climbed up the

gallows and cut the rope with a

large, commando-type knife as other soldiers lowered the body to s

stretcher and quickly carried it be-1 hind a curtain at, the rear of the room.

“Cigarettes out, please, gentle-; men,” said the colonel who then turned and called “Okay.” The exe- j cutions proceeded steadily, inex- >

or ably.

Smith (Continued From First Page.)

Goering's place at the head of the 10 men who died on this gallows All went with apparent stoicism.

They made brief statements on the "long live Germany" pattern so familiar during their trial of more than 10 months. None collapsed.

Most of the executed men en-l deavored to show their bravery. Most of them were bitterly defiant and some grimly resigned, while others begged the Almighty for mercy.

The only one, however, to make any reference to Hitler or the Nasi ideology in the final moments was

Julius Streicher, the Jew-baiter of Nuernberg.

Streicher screamed "Heil Hitler”! at the top of his lungs as he was

about to mount the steps leading1 to the gallows.

Ribbentrop, weasel faced and1 sparse of hair in his final appear- ance before humanity, spoke his last words while waiting for the black hood to be placed on his head. In loud, firm tones he said: “God save Germany.

"My last wish is that Germany realize its entity and that an under- standing be reached between the East and the West. I wish peace to the world.”

As the hood was placed in posi- tion before the trap was sprung.

Ribbentrop looked straight ahead, his lips were tightly set.

Hie 10 once great men in Hitler’s Reich that was to have lasted for a

thousand years walked Up 13 wooden Steps to a platform 8 feet high which also was 8 feet square. Ropes were

suspended from a crossbeam sup- ported on two posts.

Only one of the condemned men was brought in at a time. The same

procedure was adopted in each case and when the trap was sprung, the prisoners dropped into the interior of the scaffolding, which was boarded up with wood on three sidek and shielded by a dark canvas cur-

tain on the fourth. Knock Precedes Entry.

Von Ribbentrop, the always arro-

gant diplomatic double-crosser of Hitler's Germany, entered the ex- ecution chamber at 11 minutes past 1 o’clock this morning, Nuernberg time (7:11 p.m. E8T yesterday).

His trap was sprung at 1:U a.m

and he was pronounced dead at 1:32 a.m.

Seyss-Inquart, whose execution ended the proceedings, stepped into the gallows at the end of The line and was pronounced dead at 2:57 a.m.

Streicher, whose “Heil Hitler" wrote a chapter in history all its own, appeared in the chamber at 12% minutes after 3 am.

As in the case of all the con-

demned. a warning knock by a guard preceded Streicher’s entry through a door in the middle of the hall.

An American lieutenant colonel was sent to fetch him from the death row cell block in the nearby prison wing. He returned first with Streicher close behind him.

Streicher wore a threadbare suit, a well-worn bluish shirt and no tie. He was renowned for his flashy dress in the old days of Nazi power.

Streicher was stopped immediately inside the door by two Army ser-

geants who closed in on each side of him and held his arms, while another sergeant who had followed him in from behind removed man-

acles from his hands and replaced them with a leather cord.

It was originally planned to per- mit the condemned men to walk from their cells to the execution chamber with their hands free but all were manacle in their cells im- mediately following discovery of Goering s suicide.

Screams “Hell Hitler.” Streicher’s screams of “Heil Hit-

ler” sent a shiver down my back. As its echo died away another

American colonel standing by the steps of the scaffold said sharply: “Ask the man his name.”

In response to an interpreter's query, streicher answered "You know my name well.”

The Interpreter repeated his re- quest and the condemned man

shouted: "Julius Streicher.” Guards then started moving

Streicher up the steps. As he mounted to the platform, the beady- eyed Jew-baiter called out:

“And now I go to God.” Streicher was swung around to

face the audience in front of him. He glared at Allied officers and the eight Allied correspondents repre- senting the world's press who were lined up against a wall behind small tables directly facing the gallows.

With burning hatred in his eyes Streicher looked down at the wit- nesses and shouted: «

(Purim is a Jewish springtime festival to commemorate the de- liverance of the Jews from Haman, who was hanged by order of King Ahasuerus (Xerxesl for his plan to massacre the Jews of Assyria.)

Calls for Wife. An American officer near the

scaffold then asked the man if he had any last words and Streicher snarled:

“The Bolsheviks will hang you one

day.” Just as the black hood was about

to be placed upon his head. Streicher said:

"I am with God.” And as it was being adjusted.

Streicher s muffled voice could be heard to say:

“Adele, my dear wife.” At that moment the trap was

sprung with a loud bang. When the rope snapped taut and the body swung wildly a groan could be heard distinctly from within the dark in- terior of the scaffold.

In order to get the executions over with quickly, security forces would bring in one man while the prisoner who preceded him still was dangling at the end of the rope.

The execution hall was a room

approximately 33 foet wide by 80 ieet long, with a bare and well- trodden wooden floor and partially cracked plaster walls beneath an arched wooden ceiling.

Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel had shown the same stoicism in his ap- proach to death that had marked his demeanor in court and in prison., The Prussian field marshal entered: the execution chamber with his j head held high and looked around: while his hands, manacled behind; his back, were being tied with leath- er cord. v

He walked with military bearing between two guards to the scaffold »nd mounted slowly but. steadily. His last words, uttered in a full clear voice, were:

"I call on God Almighty to have mercy on the German people. More than two million German soldiers went to their death for the Father- .: ■

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Ribbentrop was able to maintain; his air of aloofness to the last. He | walked steadily to the scaffold after passing by the American lieutenant- colonel who had supervised removal j of his manacles, and he did not! answer when first asked his name at the gallows.

When the query was repeated he almost shouted “Joachim von Rib- bentrop” and then mounted the steps without any sign of hesita- tion, flanked by his two guards.

When he was turned around on

the platform he seemed to clench his teeth and raise his head with the old arrogance. But his last re- marks came as a surprise. When asked whether he had any final message he said "God protect Ger- many” and then added:

“May X say something else?” The interpreter nodded and the

former diplomatic wizard of Nazi- dom who negotiated the secret Ger- man nonaggression pact with Soviet Russia on the eve of Germany’s in- vasion of Poland then voiced his wish -for international understand- ing.

ltaiienDrunner wore sweater.

Ernst Kaltenbrunner, once head of the Nazi's security police, entered the execution chamber at 1:36 a m., wearing a sweater beneath his blue, double-breasted coat. With his lean, haggard face furrowed by old duel- ling scars, he had a frightening look as he glanced around the room.

He wet his lips as he turned to mount the gallows, but he walked steadily. He answered his name in a calm, low voice. When he turned on the gallows platform he first faced an American Catholic Army chaplain attired in a Franciscan habit.

Kaltenbrunner was asked for his last words and answered quietly:

“I would like tp say a word. "I have loved my German people

and my fatherland with a warm heart.

"X have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge.”

As the black hood was about to be placed over his head Kaltenbrunner, still speaking in a low calm voice, used a German phrase which trans- lated means: “Germany, good luck.”

His trap was sprung at 1:39 a.m. I

Government Printers May Get Raise Smaller Than They Voted Down

Government printers may be com-

pelled to accept a wage increase less than that offered commercial print- ers which they helped vote down in a union referendum last week.

Yesterday the Public Printer offered the 1,600 Government Print- ing Office printers an increase of 14 per cent, or 22 cents an hour, lifting day work scales from $1.57 to $1.79.

But only last Thursday an over-

whelming majority of the GPO members of the Columbia Typo- graphical Union voted against a proposed $1.87 an hour settlement to the dispute between 500 com-

Aiercial printers and the Graphic Arts Association.

It was obvious from their vote that the GPO printers expected a

better offer from the Government, and some observers believe they in- jured their cause by voting down the $1.87 settlement proposed by the GAA and Elmer Brown, second vice president of the International Typo- graphical Union.

Jesse B. Manbeck, Columbia Typo- graphical Union president, differed with this opinion. He said the GPO members vote in last week's ref- erendum proved beyond a doubt that the members would not be satisfied with the Government's offer.

Powerless to strike because of Government regulations, the GPO printers will now await the public printer's offer of similar agreements to 11 other crafts.

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First the girl then the ring from A. KAHN INC. the perfect gem to

make a perfect moment live forever. Our extensive -selection assures finding the modem or traditional design that suits her taste and a flawless diamond, out-

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Diamond Solitaires 125.00 to $10,000

Diamond Wedding Rings $16.50 to $2,000

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