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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 3

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BROOKLYN EAGLE, WED MAY 16, 1943 RusseL Freed Local GIs Tell Of Nazi Camp Horrors PROBE POULTRY BYPASS OF CITY FOOD TERMINAL George Currie's broojuvm Markets Commissioner Henry M. Brundage has launched an lnvestr Camp Kilmer. N. May 16 Brooklyn arid Queens veterans today added their first-hand testimony to the long list of Nazi atrocities! meted out to prisoners of war. They were among 3,098 American soldiers gation to determine why only 18,000 of the 100,00 pounds of live poultry For long years, now, Mr.

Currie has been wondering which came into New York Cuy just returned, the largest number so yesterday went through the munici about Holmes Private Ambulances, which is at 486 far brought back. I 7 pal terminal at Long Island City through which all live poultry is required by law to pass for inspec Flatbush just around the corner from the Brooklyn' Sam Lwaerman 30, of 357 Rockaway Parkway, told of pnson- Doagers ana the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and just across ers being forced to march miles. the street from Bond Bread. In fact, it is just around witn very I little clothing or food. tion and weighing.

Yesterday receipts there marked an all-Mine low giving rise to rumors that the ter tuiuH iuo, irom me rrospeci rars siauun me t. m. i. Coddling Here Denounced minal was closed. Jack Kranis, counsel to the Re What did it mean? Yesterday afternoon, accompanied by a sweaty I Coddling of Nazi prisoners in this anri country was denounced bv iSirhard Tartanrlia.

32. of 1810 W. tail Kosher Poultry Dealers Asso ciation, members of which have re unnecessary topcoat (the weather predictions being what! 6th pfc. saivatore Mini, 26, of fused to handle poultry since May 7 in protest agaiast black market pricing by wholesalers, charged thai J. Donald Holmes ii'.

wrrou ana nc, ionao they were), I ambled into the office. Mr "7ML ''a the terminal was being by-passed by some dealers ppurchasing and slaughtering poultry in New Jersey XMKUUi. 01. in oi-jl ouiu ou, Ma.sneth. ThPy urged that Nazi prisoners be treated "in the Russian manner." "In Germany many of us, privates especially, were put on commando work of repairing roads and railroads," Tartanella declared.

"When and bringing it to their shops The black market was also blamed for causing an unprecedented of 90-02 181st Jamaica, a fine broth of a papa of four children (two boys and two girls, who range from 13 to 7, in the stepladder manner of young fry), greeted me. He has plenty of brown hair and blue eyes and a philosophical outlook upon ailing humanity. He purveys to his suffering public everything from rental crutches to ambulances that will take you to Florida. His father, George Chapman Holmes, became a full-fledged "male nurse" at Bellevue on July 25, 1893. And a qualified R.

nf t.hp Ilnivprsitv nf thp Rtntp nf Npw Vnrk nn 11 shortage of frankfurter meat just one of our men was too weak to i i at a time when the demand for work, German guards would beat him over the head and back with frankfurters was at its highest be gun butts." "Marching 700 miles in sub-zero weather, with lit 1 protection cause of the shortaee of other meat. Reporting the situation acute," Leon! Wollenbei executive director of I the Affiliated Restaurateurs, offered the explanation that bull1 meat is now sold in the black mar-; i Ji LIIir 'Mr- 1 1 A 1906. It was the late George who founded the rental business su one i of the hardships I sulfcied." said Pvt. Raymond Brown, 22, of 464 1 10th St. How Nazis prodded and clubbed captured American airmen with bayonets and hounded them with Kei oecause it Dtm.s a mgncr price as meat than in the form frankfurters.

Aggravating the short jc of protein foods was a drop the c.iy's supply of eggs to the lowest po.nt in six months, with stores Hmi'iag purchases to half a dozen to a in Jiyuu. "He was the first, so far as we know, who turned an automobile into an ambulance," said J. Donald. The present Mr. Holmes, who is not a R.

in his spare time is a Brother Elk, a Dodger fan and a deep sea fisherman. Mrs. Holmes, the former Victoria Verity of the Park Slope, goes in for moving the furniture around on a rainy day and riding herd on the little Holmeses; also cooking and gardening. DON'T DISTURB Pfc. Michael Montognino of Brooklyn digs into his chow with relish following his arrival at Camp Kilmer, N.J., with latest contingent of Yanks liberated from German prison camps.

dogs on a three-mile inarch on the run to a camp from a railroad stop was described by Tech. Sgt. John M. Turner of Wichita Falls, Tex. 64 Bayonet Holes Corroborating his story, Turner showed a GI undershirt, taken from Blaze on Docked Ship Fire, believed to have been spontaneous combustion, was discovered early today in a cargo hold of the But, naturally, I hadn't traveled out there to hear about MattreSS -Ticking TriO Wonderful thing to take on a sun-seeking week-end! Blue and hite mattress ticking edged in bright red riorac for a bra and skirt, 7.95.

And for a shirt-band-collar jacket with a parade of silver)' buttons, 5. Sizes 9 to 15. Juniors, Fourth Floor. that. S.

S. African Dawn, a 5.000-ton ship docked at Jersey City. No one was a comrade, with 64 bayonet holes in it. The Nazis were after the prisoners' Red Cross packages, Turner said. "If a man held on, they kept after him, prodding him with a bayonet every chance they had," he declared.

"If you fell behind a big dog lit into "What about these oxygen tents you say on your windows you have to hire out?" said Mr. who has never been in hurt and the extent of damage to Fake OPA Writ Holds 4 Boro Men jihe rargo of cotton bales was not immediately learned. an oxygen tent. "Oh," said Mr. Holmes.

"We are on call for 24 hours a Four you. Civilians lining the march. Brooklyn men are awaiting OPE. TIltUSDAY TILL 9 uajr, a jrcai. ai.u wucii luiiw nctu an vajbch tne Tpxan SBid laughed and a hearing in Felony Court on tinder the in a nuny, inai is wneu uiey ieauy neeu it.

'sometimes tney would spit on us. icharps of extortion iftni n.MAitinn nf rn tr rv L'ilmof i A He said there had been a rise in cardiac cases men wil recpive a furlnuirh of, Apcnrrtinir tr Mk According to Mrs. Lena Fuller, 60 days Instead of the usual 21. of them were, understandably, mothers worrying about their children in the service. "The telegram from Washington," he explained, compassionately, "is often hard to take." He showed me the oxygen masks.

One, the "BLB," had a black rubber bulb or something, and the other, the "OEM," proprietor of a candy store at 909 Livonia Moe Cohen, 27, of 331 Hopkinson representing himself as an OPA agent, served her with a summons on a charge of violating price ceilings on cigarettes. Later three other men told her she would not have to go to court if she paid $75. After talking to police, Mrs. Fuller paid Cohen in marked bills and the men were The letters are manufac-l Hindu Inventor, Scientist Disagree On Cure-Ail Bulb The trial before Federal Judge Inch and an all-woman jury to determine whether Dinshah P. Gha-diali's Spectro-Chrome cures all had a white rubber something, turers.

"You must have seen them," he said. "The fighting men use them in the stratosphere. They are a very handy gadget." Arraigned in Felony Court vester- i I Coiien was held in $5,000 bail III Ul IS A UclUU pienpiLtlltU A rtrlV scientuic Dattie about ngnt toaay. in( his alleaed contcderates in i-j i ty nii poff nmra rrmn nifinrr miionic in i ouiuuiaiiwo "j's ine nrst expert to oe caitea tor.s2.0c0 bail They were Martin nospitai. iney nave also gone iorm wim one paiient, ana.tne uovernment, ur.

MatthewLondon 24 of 567 Cleveland St. arrivprl at "pmprBpnrv" with a brand new natient. makine'Luckiejh, science director of the'navid lnd'on. 30 of the same ad two. He beamed "We have had lots of babies born in ourtric Max zweben, 42, of 917 he said.

taio, 11c oaiu, j-iiic uuco moiou Bttwn wwoii uuu-watt DUio containea me As one -family man to another, Mr. C. smiled, too. Candy Executives Talk About Returning Vets Spectro-Chrome Is an ordinary commercial bulb with a big head. Mr.

Ghadiali, in crass-examination, unrolled a huge colored chart depicting lightwaves and rays and The firm has brought patients from the Thousand Islands; has taken them to iMami, Fla. Once they took a lady to the Chicago Fair, in 1933. "She traveled 25 miles Problems of returning service men were discussed at a meeting of the one day, or 300 miles, the next, he explained, "it was cheaper than a special train." Sometimes, on the long runs, ject. The Spectro-Chrome, In Its b'ai'uyt 1 7 Mi f. i i Jlndustries in the Bossert Hotel last night.

Uim LDUI1IL. Ull irgfl mounted on casters, squeaked noisily the patient arranges to stop off and visit friends along the way. "We have to make up regular schedules for them," Baid Mr. Holmes. He wagged his head, beaming pleasantly.

when it was rolled before the jury. After the Cleveland scientist had -Peters -i ilkened t.hp firwtrn-Phrnmp hulh tn Fin Repairing and Recreating i 1 4 mm 9 une 01 nis joos was 10 muig uuck six suivivuis uum those in the courtroom lamps and; Asbury Park, N. rescued from the burning S. S. Morro opined it had no curative signifi- Castle.

A Brooklyn doctor, in the party, had insisted the cance bv llsplf- Ml- Ghadiaii de-, nn jmanried to know if he had ever local authorities call him up. jtuciiod the physiology 0f the hu- A pleasant lob for Mr. Holmes is Ebbets Field. "I know'man body and its construction. The a lot of the boys," he says.

"We took Medwick and Petejf trtW'Jht Eeiser and Frenchy Bordagaray to the Caledonian Hospital and color on the human body?" after they had been beaned." That reminded him of a story, asked the inventor. The answer was THE DIAMOND HOUSE Ex-Raid Wardens Asked To Join N. Y. State Guard I Maj. Paul C.

Raborg, public relations officer of the New York "One of our cars was coming back from a job out on Bedford he related. "The radio was on and the driver heard that Mickey Owens had been beaned. So he just drove right into Ebbets Field and picked him up. Larry MacPhail never got over it. Mickey was on his way to the hospital while they were calling us on the phone, ordering the ambulance." Quality Jeweler itna 1900 1 jf I I'M Guard, today appealed to recently released air raid wardens to Join the organization.

"The New York Guard, made up of State troops, Is functioning to 1 So I looked at the rental wheel chairs and the commode Major needs Chairs and the beds for invalids that did everything but rve internal security," u. a ah co, hqh Raborg said. The Guard Mrmhrn or tho Amfrkan National Retail Jffwcien AMorUlion nd llorolo(lcl Inntllut of A merle 480 Fulton Brooklyn fNftt to Lnrtrr'ii) TRiancIt Open HiartdiT tie US 5,000 men. There is a great pool of available men in recently released air raid wardens." open Thursday to 9 two clients. And felt a lot better, just in case this old carcass Should suddenly get more weary than the spirit which tries to animate it.

They really do have things around town, waiting to pitch in. For I know that Mr. Holmes' place isn't the only one. But the next time I go to see my adopted rosebush child in the Botanic Garden, or the Dodgers whale the daylights out of the Giants at Ebbets Field, that Holmes place rates a nod from the Currie book. Now that I have finally been inside it.

FULTON ST. ot HOYT BROOKLYN 1, N. Y. TRiangle 5-5700 Li a in in EYEGLASSES Brooklyn Store Open Thursday Night 'til 9 i1 5.95 Complete glasses, including frame, lenses and a thorough eye examination, as low as 5.95. Either far or near vision.

An outstanding value. Satisfaction fully guaranteed. NAMM'S OPTICAL, Street Floor Also at Loeser'i Garden City Last 3 days! Sale of open Thiimdai to 9 Good ool Gatardmes The name AMERICAN WOOLEN COMPANY stands for something pretty special in gabardines smooth and soft and every thread pure wool. So isn't it just like Riraseks, the store that's famous for gabardines, to bring you four different styles in this famous gaharclinc? Besides the round-necked cardigan shown here there's a V'ttechi cardigan besides this shirt-collar suit there's a classic collar suit and you can take your pick of such made-in-heaven colors as sentiment blue, frosted lime, dream gold, Irish green, American beauty, and brown! Sizes from 10 to 30, J35. Marylin Third Floot.

a 111 in tatwnery we'll buy your old drop-head "SINGER" SEWING MACHINE 18.75 (rcgardle of eg or condition) for Thursday, May 17, through Saturday, May 19 th last three big days! Now ia your chance to itock up on these essentials everything from vitamins to stationery, from soap to moth preparations. And you'll pocket wonderful savings! Don't Miss Our May Fine Foods Fair! All items, Lotier'i Street Floor If it's a drop-head model regardless of age or condition just write or phone us to call for it. No dealers. XAMM'S Third Floor nsse Plinr Tnlnntfle 5-3700. Ext.

95 8100 BROOKLYN 1. N. Y. FULTON at BOND TRiantle 5 GARDEN CITY FRANKLIN at NLNTll-Garden City FULTON ST. at HOYT, BKLYNR USSEKS FULTON AND BRIDGE STREETS, BROOKLYN "vIimH''L Jl'-1' LLuuJ illiUJlAlil ulilliilllilLllI uilu UU illUii.

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