1947-06-14 — Page 4

OPERATION "OLD LACE"

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by DENIS MARTIN

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TWO men-one who fought however, will be the documents of Hitler from the gunpits of the various organisations, with their distribution lists, which betray Britain's light ack-ack exactly who among the rank and file batteries, and the other a Ger- knew what was going on. man Jew who suffered under As happened with Goering and

case will the terror-are about to ring up his colleagues, the

by personal statements, the curtain on a new drama in proved

directives and operational orders. the British zone, Operation "Old

Only members of the Gesinpo, Lace,"

worst offenders of them all in war crimes and crimes against humanity, are optimistic. In the certain know- ledge that little of the organisation's neliviiles was ever put down paper..

They are plain Mr Jack Rathbone, a former London solleitor now in the legal division of the Control Com- mission, and Dr Meyer-Abich, one of the mont distinguished members of the pre-Her German Bor.

: 20,000 On Trial

'As directors of "Old Lace" they are to supervise "fair and just trials" by the Germans themselves of 20,000 diehards of the dread organisations declared criminal by the Nuremberg tribunal

All the 20,000 accused belonged at one time or another to the leader- ship corns of the Nazi Party, the

Gestapo the S.S. Itself.

the Security Service of the

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THE PARKERS

YOU STAIN THE DINING ROOM

AND ILL DO THE LOUNGE,

FOR MICE-

FOR

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These men, roughly 1,000 of the total, will certainly be the hardest to convict.

When Operation "Old Late" was British - mapped out, the first

bring many thorities expected to more than 20,000 men to trial.

It was discovered, however, that a large number of the men interned in the camps had been compulsorily transferred to the SS, and were not subject to the Nuremberg judgment.

Straight Issue

both in

han been considerable Germany and abroad, not only of conditions inside but of the fact that for the camps nearly two years the prisoners were held without trial.

To ensure really will sit in judy

that the German man- .

There in-the street ment, the British authorities have criticism directed that each of the 100 courts established for this purpose consist of one legally qualified Ger- znan judge and two lay members of the German public.

shall

The delay arose, of course, from

Behind the barbed-wire compound's the prolonged proceedings at Nuree of the six interament camps of the berg, and now that the issue is clear British zone where the accused are cut and straight-forward, it is the Intention of the British authorities kept in close custody, preliminary examinations are almost completa that the irials should bo justly and and the first trials are about to be fairly disposed of with the greatest

possible speed. gin.

They Will Fight There has been no change of heart

EVERY READER

AND MEN MEN

HE United States Depart-

ment of Agriculture once commissioned three mon to find out all they could about the different varieties of cheese, and after years of research these men got out a list with 492 names on it, ranging from Abertam to Ziger and Zips.

Abertam is made of ewes'

BERNARD WICKSTEED HAS

FUN FINDING OUT ABOUT

THE

CHEESES YOU CAN'T GET

A combination of these fac- man, who lived in the days be- milk, Ziger of whey and Zips of tors that led to very good fore churns and milk bottles, goats' milk. Ziger has only five Camembert might be hopeless had some milk left over and put per cent. of fat and Zips has 60. for Stilton.

In between the As and the Zs there are other cheeses made from the the milk of mares, Short-hom from buffaloes, llamas and yaks.

Cheese also varies according to the breed of cow from which

it in the stomach of a calf he'd slaughtered.

Most of the best Stilton comes

When he looked at it next milk summer

of morning he found it wasn't COWB fed in the milk any more, but cheese.

This discovery put the dairy- pastures of Belvoir Vale, in Leicestershire. There's some- ing industry on its feet because does. Zoroaster, the ancient thing in that union of cow, milk doesn't keep and cheese

have lived in the wilderness for 20 years on one cheese.

Short-circuit

Stringent precautions are in force fo guarantee the legal rights of every man coming before the courts.

The prisoners have the privilege in the hard core of Nazi aristocracy.

So far, not one of the accused has of objecting to the Judge and lay the milk came, tho time of grass, water and weather that's Persian philosopher is said to admitted his guilt, and there are members on the grounds of personal numerous Indications that each man blas or motives of political revenge. will fight tooth and hall when, hts.

Defence counsel has access to the camps for consultations, and there case comes up for hearing.

in the right of appeal on conviction.

their criminal character and activi-

ties.

properly, or a fine.

Fish.

SIDE GLANCES

Purging An Evil

will cost

The Americans tried to make and Stilton in Ohio and Wisconsin, and the results were

year the cow was milked and just right. what it ate for breakfast. Frieslans, Ayrshires Short-horns give bet ter milk for cheese Sum- than Jerseys. mer milk makes richer cheese than

want to know about

so unsuccessful that THIS is perfectly possible if it was a cheese of the Par- even they gave up.

they mesan variety. Parmesan takes Of course, wouldn't admit that years to mature, and is so hard cows that you test it for ripeness American couldn't do something with a hammer. British cows could so they blamed the wen- ther.

hilly

If Zoroaster ate half a pound of his cheese a day it would originally have weighed some- thing over a ton and a half.

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YORKSHIRE NEWSLETTER

By B. C. DUNTHORNE

Within a short time of Lord Wavell opening,-in Leeds, an appeal for £25,000 as a tribute to Yorkshire soldiers, a sum of £14,758 had been promised.

The bulk of the money will be de- voted to the funds of the Army Benevolent Fund, the Soldiers,'

ZUGEBENSESIELT VARIERADZTANI Sallors' and Airmen's Families As50- clation and the Commandos Benovo" lent Fund.

World's Fair For Women

Chicago-À "world's fair" of women's fashions and beauty products will be held In Chicago from September 19 to 28,

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A committee of fashion and cosmetics manufacturers nounced they hoped to make the show, known officially 13 the National Women's Exposition, an annual event attraeiing at least 300,000 persons,

I will be the first complote exposition of products for women held. In America. Exhibits' will Include clothes. furs, shoes, millinery, lingerie, accessories and beauty aids.

Experts will demonstrate the cosmetles, and mannequins will model the clothes,

In place of the conventional style show. however, the expost- 1lon committee is planning to Install "Wheel of Glamour," a ferris wheel upon which "the most beautiful models ti the country" will ride.

PEIPING IS

A CLEANER

CITY NOW

Poiping is much cleaner than it was two months ago when the city-wide clean-up cam- paign was launched under the

joint auspices of the municipal bureaus of health, public works and police, reports a correspon-

dent.

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The Introduction of the five-day week into the coal mines was matter of more than passing interest In Yorkshire with its huge mining communities, who for years have been campaigning for this reform.

While the miners wore beating their target in the first of the short weeks, it was announced that as a result of a reduction in atreet light- Ing Shemeld would save 0,000 tons of coal per year, and that Leeds was to resume the heating of its open air bathing pool at Roundhay by electricity,

The Ministry of Fuel and Power sanctioned the Leeds healing propo- ant.

Lance Todd Trophy

Bradford Northern's stand-off half, William Thomas Harcourt Davies, s this year's winner of the Lanco Todd Memorial trophy, the most coveted trophy in the Rugby League as tar as the individual player la concern- ed. It la awarded annually to outstanding

tho player in the Rugby League Cup Final by judges, and this year Davies had an a panel of overwhelming majority of votes.

Davies is a Welsh International, graduate of Swansea University, who has been playing in International Rugby since he was 18. He is master at Bingley Grammar School and became a professional a months before war broke out. went with the 1946 touring 'aldo to Australia.

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News of another stand-off half is about Pat Dovery, the Australian test player. He has turned down an attractive offer to play for Hudders feld Rugby League club, preferring to wait for the possibility of a visit perhaps next year. to England with the Australian side,

Ackworth School

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into operation a long term policy to There is a proposal on foot to put modernise the school buildings Ackworth School, Pontefract, at

were originally

cost of 285,000.

The buildings

Armed with the "bible" of the Nuremberg trial-the bulky volume that contains the judgment of the

Operation "Old Lace" four-Power court-the prosocution. will seek to prove that the accused more than £1,000,000 at the prewar were members of the four convicted rate of exchange, and this will be a

winter organisations, with knowledge of charge on future German Budgets. The German people are being kept Informed of the progress of the trials, milk, and the quality On a verdict of guilty each man which will be open to the public of the pasture and the will face a maximum, sentence of ten and press.. years' imprisonment, or forfeiture of In the words of the Deputy Mil-weather have such an tary Governor, Lieutenant-General effect on the finished dairy-

The original Gor- But proof of the knowledge of Sir Brian Robertson, Operation "Old product that criminal acts, an was discovered at Lace" indientes "the intention of the maids, migrating to

gonzola was made on

At a meeting held at the Wagons- erected for a Foundling Hospital in Nuremberg, is very hard to estab- British authorities justly to purge an

Even this is not impossible. Lits Hotel to mark the hot Italian plains evil inheritance of the past and thus other lands, often find

the successful 1753, and they no longer conform to The trump card in the hands of to concentrate all energies on re-themselves quite un-

»7 didn't have ang and then teken up to In 1921 there was a cheese on conclusion of the campaign, General the required modern standards, par- the German prosecuting counsel, construction for the future."

able to repeat the

fun Anding out all the cool

to exhibition in Chicago

leularly in view of the fact that that Tang Yung-yen, director of the the number of scholars is now about cheeses they used to

treat weighed 12 tons and looked bureau of police, reported that during 400, Co-education is that cheese,” mature. This

also being By Galbraith make at home.

like a gasometer than the past two months 2,110,000 tons brought into being. It's interesting to examine ment was just what it needed. more some of these factors that give. But nowadays it's made all over something to eat. It took 70 of garbage had been carted

The greater part of Mr A. Holdsworth, of Leeds, cheese its variety. For a start, the place, and the ripening is tons of milk to make it or as from the city. why do you get better cheese hastened by sticking wires into much as you get from 7,500 this garbage represented a heritage deputy area general manager of the from the Japanese occupation days. North east Division of the National Coal Board, has been elected presi- The total cost of the campaign dent of the Yorkshire branch of the from, say, Ayrshire milk than it.

Stilton takes three or four

A few years ago a group of was estimated at CN$12,000,000,000. National Association of Colliery Jersey when Jersey is much the

months to ripen, and during richer?

that time it is turned over and scientists suggested that it About 180,000 men were mobliised Managers.

for the work, and some 5,340 trucks, every day. Cheese might be possible to short-128,000 carts and 68 railway coaches

When the Freedom of Darling was altogether and were requisitioned for the campaign. presented to Mr Winston Churchill brushing-is-a-full-time job in make cheese direct from grass.

he was saved-the-trouble-of-making- Those who assisted in the campaign the Journey to Darlington by the the Belvoir Vale.

One of the reasons for brush. They said an acre of grassland included the heads of the various Mayor, Councillor J. Alsop, who would produce 600lb. of crude wards into which the city la divided, journeyed to London to make the protein from which it would be Each will receive a citation from the presentation, possible to manufacture cheese, municipal government, while pollee

and men and street sweepers. There are several other Yorkshire will each get a cash reward of Boroughs who have decided to Have you ever wondered how

If that day ever comes I vote CN$20,000. The directors of publle honour Me Churchill with "Free- cheese mites get from one cheese we do what the cheese skipper's health and police have been recom- doma," Shefeld among them, and

and mako to another? All those jokes doing about them walking and taking extinet. the cheese along, too, are not, borne out by scientific observa- tion. The truth is that they go by nir, clinging to the leg of a fly.

COFI, 1847 BY WEA SERVICE, DIG. 3. M. RIG U. K. PAT. OFF.

"I sure fooled all my friends-married six weeks and still

In love!"

Droplets Of Fat

TT mostly has to do with the lit tle droplets of fat in the milk. The smaller they are the better for making cheese. Big drop lets rise to the top more quickly and many get lost before they Small droplets can be curdled. stay around better and more of them get incorporated in the cheese.

And as the milk of Ayrshires has smaller droplots than the milk of Jersays it retains more of its fat in the process of be- coming cheese. Simple, really.

brushed

ing Stilton is to get rid of the cheese mites so dreaded by vegetarians.

The kind of fly mostly used for these journeys is called the cheese skipper. It's very small and humble, but it knows that some cheeses are richer and better than others, and it lays its eggs in these only.

These droplets - 100,000,000 to one drop of milk, Mr Chap man Pincher says are them selves made up of nine or ten different kinds offat, and their

The policy of the Govern- exact composition depends on ment is making life difficult for such things as the kind of grass the cheese skipper, for it refuses the cow cats, the soil it grows to lay eggs in factory-made on and the nature of the water Cheddar on the grounds, per- in the district.

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LAST WEEK'S BOLUTHIN',

haps, that it's better to become extinct than bring children into such a hard and unattractive world.

Extinct Cheeses CHEESES themselves become

extinct, too. The Banbury cheese is one. It was soft, rich and round, and about an inch thick.

Besides the recently extinct varieties there were prehistoric cheese that developed into those eaten by the ancient Egyptians and the Greeks, and the ones mentioned in the Bible:A

No one quite knows who mado the first prehistoric cheese, but there's not much, doubt about how it happened. Most kinds of cheese are made with rennot, the stuff you get from the stomachs of calves and lambs and use for making Junket (which is really nothing more than cheese in an early stage); So you can picture the scene! quite easily. An early dairy-

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ourselves National

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the it is now suggested that he might com- receive these in the same way that

he did that from Darlington,

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