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Firnkfurt, Mär, 17. heavier than that of a normal The bodies of Hermana, Goèr- German cremation casket, and ing and the 10 top Nazis excut. cach took more than an hour. jed at Nuremberg were cremated It was 11 pm before the and dispersed in the elty where work was finished. An Américan Nazidom started and finished officer took the 11 heavy ums Munich.

and the military party left the This story of how the bodies, crematorium. which came to Munich early one The Germans had not exactly narning and by midnight had been fooled. As soon as they become ashes to be poured into heard the news they speculated the river from their chopped and the need for Investigating Goer- Įshattered metal urns, has beening's suicide probably delayed complied by United Pres cer the arrival two hours. It was respondents in four German cities known in Nuremberg that morn- after weeks of checking cum-ing that examination of his body petent and reliable sources, caused the trucks to leave

be-

The time,

data and precise location of the next scene is not exactly known.

In the Ostfriedhof (ouu) of hind schedule. Munich) German civilian Semc tery there is a grey stono build {ing 40 feet wide, some 80 feet

eng and

three as high as a

At least three Americans—a storey house, surrounded by high army _security officer, £ six-foot stone wall which con mortuary officer and civilian tains a chapel and, in the base undertaker were present. It ment, a gas oven for cremation was broad daylight In the little

Will the new Franco-British Intente Cordiale be a joint in

It reportedly is the only crema-suburb of Solin, scuth of Munich. .urance? 1 would at least be

torium now operating In Bavarin The European Theatre mor- altogether too superficial to say Corpses some times backlogs tunry No. 1 at Heilmannstrasse that it is a valueless insurance many as 40 or 60 in the base-25, formerly the vilio of a wealthy against the possibility of aggres-¡ment, its attendants say, and merchant, R. Oberhummer, la a sion by a

Germany is tomo 3.500 bodies have been re bg, white stucco house with a corpse.

duced to ashes there in the pasi red tile roof and white stuce prostrate and powerless today!

10 menths. Eleven were cremat-¡ wall, standing on ☐ 60-foot cliff but so she was, in the view of ed on October 18, the day of the above the Isar River. A stairway miany, in 1918, and experience Nuremberg executions.

winds down the cliff and 30-yardın shows that wise statesmanship An American officer arrived from the foot is Crick Wenz, a should never reckon on the old fat 5 am, that day, not even two cicek barely a mile and a half hours after the bodies had been long, which rises from springe in Adam to be permanently defunct viewed by Nuremberg, and told the hills and flows by fits and either in men or in nations. The the German attendants that starts through occasional Jeep

would arrive at 7 nm pools down to the Isar. new Treaty is to last, for 50 years, trucken

with the bodies of 11 American and it would be foolish to assert soldiers kliled and buried durine Wenz Creek, across a footbridge Seventy-five yards beyond the that for all that time it will be the war, whose ashes had been spanning its shallow 12-foot a dead letter.

requested by their families, width, run two placid branches The next question is whether Actually it was 0 nm. before of the Isar River, some 30 yards;

crema. wide one the natural bed and the Treaty is superflonus. Some guards surrounded the

| torium to separate it from the the other like the Wenz Creck think su because, as the

cemetery. grounds. and twe power canal. The original Herr Treaty itself so fully recognizes, į trucks disgorged 11 heavy wooden Wenz had dummed the creek for it is within, the framework of army caskets to be carried down power for a paving block factor

basement. I may have been the creek or the United Nations, upon whom to the oven in the

Ex one of the two Isar branches, bu Fires already were going. is_to_devolve the main responsi-

cept for-two German. firemen I was somewhere on the isolated

17:Ly

w Loot heels and their con tenta sifted into the water, which eventually finds its way into the muddy grey Danube.

Judgment of the victor nations out-Unlied

SENATOR SUNTON SMELT

Math.

By Dick Turner!

"Hereafter. Miss Miggs, when you hear my making wild promises to a` visitor, will you please tell me whether he's a constituent or a solicitor?“

Congress Divided on

'Invasion' of Greece

Snapshots Of Earth's Magnetism!

By A. L. BLAKESLEE

Selentista for the frst time have been gotting__"ahapshot" pictures of the earth's magnet. tem at both the North and South Poles at the same split Recond.

Those picturen aro measuFC-2 ments of earth's magnatic. field taken twice daily at Little Amerlea near the South Magne- tle Pole alimultaneously by pro arrangement with measure- menta at Thule, Greenland, near the North, Magnetic Polc.

They will answer one.ques- Hon in the great mystory of "arth's magnetism--are con- stant changes In the strength of earth's magnetism world- wide at the same time, or do they differ at the two Polest?

The answer can be important for various instruments affect-

by magnetism, for radio.rc- ception, even for modern pro-. pecting for oil and minerals y magnetic detectors. Exact- y what magnetic force in.: why arth has it and where it comes from Is unknown.

Magnetiam. however, varies constantly in strength and often changes very rapidly. It also is known that sunspota cause magnetic storms which have motion and which cause barriera .or "blackouts" to radio and communications re-

Four U. S. Naval ordnance laboratory scientists headed by M. F. Davis have been making They are, dlready quoting measurements here, of how Eliah Root. that the Monrot much and how often the mag- Doctrine rests upon the right netic field changes. These will of every sovereign state to probe compared later with met- teet itself by preventing condition of stairs in which i will be

too late to protect itacit.

surements taken at the Thule weather station where identical equipment was

installed last

Aummer.

Washington, Mar. 17 in the days of wooden ship ception. Nationalists and internation- and Iron cannon-balla. hility for preserving peace. But and a German technician, gonty |river, plain that 11 bright alists with party lines shatter-

Too Good that world organisation lisa handful of American officers aluminium-cylinders, some 16 ed are girding today for a hardly yet been fully created or

were present. The caskets were inches high and six inches in mighty battle in Congress over not opened.

diameter, were lined up in mix-President Harry Traman's pro- in any way tested; and even The cremations lusted all day, ed sand in high grass along the gramme for financial and mili supposing it fulfils every fiepe, Except for a slight overlapping water. They were tightly sealed.

lary aid, not only to Turkey its architects expressly recognised the even eduld handle only one One by one the cylinders were the value of regional arrange-coffin at a time, the wood being chopped with axes, smashed ouer iments. That is why there has been much talk about a Western European blos, dra-United States of Europe, without any disparage- ament of or conflict with the can. ception of a larger organisation. This Treaty, which recognises | the special cominon interests u two Western European nations is thus neither superfluous nor cynical. It has, after all, hech drafted and endorsed by the blood of some 3,000,000 French and British men.

Sanity In

The Modern

had been carried 'Press.

LEWIS WARNED!

All this sounds good to thi Democratic leaders, who envir age President Truman in the mantle of President Monroc sweeping to victory in the 1948 elections as the author of the "Truman Doctrine."

to spot

under

BY ARTHUR SEARS HEHNING

The measurements are made and Greece but to all other

heart of the magnetic alr by a detector oil which is the countries menneed by the Ras

borne detector-called "MAD" sign Communists.

for abort. MAD was t wer- Congress is again divided, as

time development of the U. S. it was before Pearl Harbour.

Naval ordnance laboratory, Again the internationalists.

In any event, if the country taking up where radar left off led by the converted isolationist should be at war or threatened

Hubmarines Republican. Senator Arthur

with war in 1943. the Democra- water. In pencetime MAD IB Washington, Mar. 18 Vandenburg, Chairman of the tie slogan would be, as in 1940 being used by the Navy for The Supreme Court has in Senhic Foreign Relations. Com- and 1944, We do not swop magnetle mapping to airplane affect told John L. Lewis that; mittee, und by Canadian-horses while. crossing the no March 31 coalstrike will be born Republican

and ship navigation and', to Representa-river." tive Charles A. Eaton, Chair-

prospect for oil. By detecting tolerated.

Its ruling commands Lewis man of the House Foreign contending that Communism or

Again the nationalisiЯ gre changes in magnetism. MAD can indicate areas of likely an obvious and eternal harmany. cently and decided. 3 to 2; that to cancel his notice terminating Affairs Committee, are con] any other philosophy or re- geological formations for oll There have been, let it be frankly she had all her buttons-which the softcoal miners contract tending that unless the United ligion cannot be destroyed by and it has been used in Alaska, r

with the Government and to States mans the ramparts of armed might, that Russian Wyoming, New Mexico and off state, and there may still be, eles more than they would notify the miners that he has Europe and Asia another total Communism will defeat itself the coasts of Louisiana, Texas

the Atlantic or a certain Soviet / Bone so, under pain of a US ¡itarian power-this time Rus- by its failure, to yield the fand Maryland.

World

London, Feb. 27.

Nor is it superfluous in the Five brain trusters gave Bri- sense that it merely puts on paper taln a sanity test in public re.

years,

take

for a certain republic across ments in both countries whose re-

$2,800,000 fine ciprocal feelings are far from ex-

against thesia will sweep on and on uneconomic benefits promised, and In the job here, the MAD United Mineworkers-Associat- it encircles and threatens that all America needs to do lá detector coll sentially fraternal. On the whole. Į state.

WOS buried in the Entente had been valid Before the BBC broadcasted Press.

the extinction of this country to maintain national defence snow to measure rather slow In the forthcoming delato, capable of stopping any possi- variations in the magnetic. throughout its life of over 40 sesalong broke up in an argu- That is technically, truc, | ment, philosophers Bertrand

the internationalists intend to bic Russian aggression make much of the arguments America's ocean outpoata, hut no flood of sentiment should Russell and C.E.M. Joad joined drown the fact that for most of educator Margery Fry in giv-minplies, announced today a small proposes in this atomic age is that what President Truman the period between the two wars, ing qualified "yes" answera to additional

the 6.785 tons for the first hall of merely global extension of the thanks to faults on both sides, the the question: Is Britain Entente was highly uncordiai: only sane country left in the 1947-far short of requests filed Monroe, Doctrine proclaimed to

by some 20 countries sharing the | safeguard

hemispheric world? and that is one of the main rea-

fia allocation-Associated Press. security of the United States sons why there was a second Their fellow-experts on, BBC's world war

"brains trust"

Washington, "Mar, 10. The Combined Tin Committee reporting a deterioration in world

allceation totalling

the

Programme BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

It may be said that we are diplomat Harald Nicolson and| tying ourselves to a France both atom scientist Edward Andrade, weaker and more unpredictable cocked sceptical eyebrows.

Russell who has resumed The first answer is that we are.

both, unhappily, wenker. The his seat in the House of Lords teaching second is that if the second war, after

in New York,

has taught us both anything, it carcer

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By Shepard Barclay

“The Authority on Authorities”

Nationalist View

at field. By "low" in this case

is meant changes which several seconds to occur. The fluctuations are recorded on a paper graph..

It is the view of the nation- alists that Russia, even if she should obtain the atom bomb The Davis group has been uя- sceret, cannot expect to matching other Instruments to men- America's production of this sure even swifter wariations in weapon and the necessary giant the magnetic field, photogra bombing planen or other phic devices which record varia launching mechanism within tions of many cycles in a fifteen to twenty years because second.

of her industrial backwardness, Dr. J. Herbert Howe and Lt. while America would be able to Charles A. Schone of the U. B. Survey annihilate Russin from distant Coast and Geodetic bases at the start of any ag- have been measuring absoluto gression.

intensity of the magnetic field The nationalists Aay that and of extremely slow varia, has, taught us that those who Philadelphia and elsewhere have common ideas about denio the U.S.-set the tone of the

- BOTH STRONG South only 300 points, a nig. Russian power would find it no lonis. All these studies prd- dicussion:

AND WEAK

gardly amount to accent inualer to get at Amerled across mine to add increased under- cacy, liberty, and civilisation ."'I think the Scandinavian

place of the game dealt to its ocean barriers than it was atanding of the puzzle of ter should stand together. As for

JUMPING your partner's

them.

for Hitler to cross the English restial magnetism-Associated France being "unpredictable," countries are completely anno

. North had a pericet hand for Channel at the moment the Bri. Press, M. Thurez, the Communist lea. As far as I know, Holland is original ault bid to game at sane. But I think that perhaps your firat opportunity is win.

a jump all the way to game na tish had suffered at Dunkirk ning bridge whan holding a der was very far from Dunkirk Britain is the only large coun hand which is at the same time soon as he heard South Bid the greatest defeat in history. in 1940, but as Deputy Prime try that la sane we are more both strong and weak. That spades. It was

a very alight Having no great hope of de

Truman's Minister he is now a party to this sane

President than any of the other. Treaty surely a proof that great powers."

is, atrong in support of, the overblu, In case Sauth hold a feating trump suit because of great since his own hand was so in-nationalists are concentrating minimum, but sound strategy proposals in the Senate, the whatever the political future sí Without so much as a pausa distributicinal values, and wank | different on defense against any upon resistance in the House. France, her friendship for Britain for American and Russian

on defense against a sult can is as predictable us anything in radios to be turned off, Joad tract by your opponents. Juman affairs can be. It is; of declared:

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course, true that treaties, to be "I think there are people fo effective, must reflect truths; the world who know more about but all the evidence is that this the art of-living-than we do Treaty is a beau geste, not an the French, obviously, and the ephemeral gesture. There is the Chinese but I think we know

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H. G GRY D. GJ 87 W EDA 1043 joint view of the rights of man, together in society than the largely complementary econo-

other people,"

G 2 S C. 10 8 6 Then the argument began--| c. A.5

8 2 mies which the economio clause with so many interruptions and of the Treaty recognises. These protests that tho BBC are solid grounds for the hope that stenographer recorded "confu- the marriage between an empiri- sion of volces" and gave cal and a logical nation will be trying to keep the record happy and enduring.

straight.

ANGLO-DUTCH INCIDENTS

London, Mar. 17.

Nicolson, Just back from Paris, said that it was "typical ly English" to say that Britain had a corner on Democracy.

In the background, Miss Fry could be heard saying she be floved the British had'a “rather

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•London, Mar. 17.

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DAYLIGHT

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London, Mar.. 18. Britain moved her clock forward one hour today under the daylight saving programme, Mr Hector McNeil sald today.special quality of cooling the that Britain has twice seat re other side of a question while in

begun onrller than usual, this quests to the Netherlands for Andrade asked sardonically in was bid at one of those two

year to conserve power as a re an explanation and assurances

New York, Mar. 18. ault of the industrial tie-up that the halung of British car England's devotion to dog rac- ways at overy table. Whore

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