Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 21, 1945, Winnipeg, Manitoba Wyto Peg free press saturday april. Bims Page eleven funeral is held for Prendergast hosts of friends associates of Bench and bar and relatives came to pay their final respects to Hon. James Emily Pierre Prendergast chief Justice of Manitoba for More than 14 years and for three score years Active in the political literary end judicial life of the province. Members of the Royal Canadian mounted police formed a guard of Honor at the court Roo where or. Prendergast s body had lain in state from 9 . Saturday until the time of the funeral. A procession of friends and associates thronged the courtroom where for so Many years. Prendergast had presided. As a tribute to i. Prendergast there Wasno sitting of the City police court and the usual daily court session was adjourned until monday. Requiem High mass was Sung saturday at 10 in St. Mary s Cathedral. Following which the cortege proceeded to St. Boniface Cathedral where a Short service was conducted. Burial was in St. Boni face Cathedral cemetery the honorary pallbearers were Premier Stuart Garson . G. Optometrists opticians painting and decorating reasonable prices free estimates Taylor painting and decorate info company. Limited 331 Donald phone 1104 c. Maclean mayor of St Boniface or. Justice r. M. Or Justice w. H. Trueman or. Justic w. J. Major or. Justice h. A. Berg Man. Chief Justice e. A. Mcpher son or. Justice a. K. Dysart i Justice j. E. Adamson or. Justic w. J. Donovan or. Justice s. E Richards Hon. James Mclenaghan senator j. P. Howden. Judge a p Roy b. C. Parker Albert h. War Ner j. H. Bourgouin. A. J. Andrews Hon. Sauveur Marcoux judge j Bernier a. C. Lariviere g. Char Ette and j. C. Davis. The Active pallbearers were 1 Beaubien Hon. P. A. Talbot w Raymond a. C. M. Kyle a. C Christie. Or. J. A. Trudel Arman Bertrand and t. H. Jones or. Prendergast died Early wednesday in St. Boniface Hospital and in his death Manitoba has lost great Public servant and across Canada among hundreds of friends there will be fragrant memories o a polished scholarly gentleman whose Charm and Courtesy Wil Long be remembered. Moke about Amaron continued from i Uffe one serve but the evidence was then and i believe it. Prisoners in this Camp wer convicted of desertion thefts sex Ual offences or the political crime of speaking against the govern ment or defeatism. The soldiers lived and died on a diet of Black Oread watered soup and an occasional potato they worked Long hours digging peat from surrounding bogs o making aircraft parts in a near by factory. Men died out there on the Moor collapsing from hunger. They wer toys for the brutal guards we pummelled them Hose and whips with Rubbe and who received five Marks Bonus each Tim they broke the Hose. We saw Thos hoses and those whips. Men escaped but there was n1 escape in Germany and 98 be cent were recaptured. Since 1940. 600 men have die in the Camp. The Camp doctor an austrian political doctor said Mal nutrition was responsible for the majority of the deaths although that never appeared in the re cords. Death always was attributed to pneumonia or some other cause protect your Home or business from flood damage the installation a sanitary safety valve in your sewer will positively prevent flood water from backing up into your basement. A sanitary safety valve can be installed on your premises at a very Small Cost. Phone 47 644 for full particulars. Sanitary safety valve Mac. Co. Winnipeg Manitoba in state in the Law courts building the body of Hon. J. E. P. Prendergast former chief was viewed saturday morning by friends and officials of the City and province shown above is the casket flax by an . Guard of Honor. At the right is or. Justice w. J. Major As he approaches to pay silent More about Churchill continued from faxe one and affection of the great English speaking nations of the world. Now we Are reaching the period when the germans will be conquered completely and Europe will be entirely liberated from their Thrall when they will be added to those Long melancholy and humiliated streams of prisoners that hav ing done their worst against the world have no Hope but in its earlier Churchill hinted. That he might be the defeat of Germany. Retirement hinted in a speech accepting the Freedom of the City he said that he. Or whoever stands in my would have to ask War weary Britain for a new leap Forward for a new lilt ing of the soul and body to defeat Japan. Churchill said that in the event there was a new prime minister he would support him whoever it May but did not elaborate fur ther. However a general election will be held after be Day. We have the japanese to finish Churchill said and we have to stand absolutely with our great american ally in paying off at the other end of the world debts As heavy As Ever were inflicted on he called on Britain to help prosecute this second War to a conclusion free from any Churchill said Britain had been an absolutely United nation during Lis five years As prime minister and praised his labor minister Ernest Bevin a Laberite whose recent denunciation of conservative party policy had threatened to break up he coalition. Ing of a Long journey so far As Europe is said. All our armies Are in action and Brit ish armies in Holland and Germany Are marching against the enemy and Are today advancing sometimes in Long strides on the Elbe. We will soon be on the Baltic and we shall soon be at the Guider Zee and we shall be Able to bring Relief to the Gallant starving people of Holland. This is no time to talk of celebrations. We might easily give vent to Well founded rejoicing and then to Morrow or a few Days water have to go into Battle and find ourselves facing further losses of now we Are coming to the end we sincerely appreciate the splendid co operation of the hundreds of Home managers who have already placed their season s ice order with us. To those who have not already ordered May we respectfully u re you to do so at once. Don t your season s ice top a owing to the continued emergency and the shortage of experienced delivery salesmen we earnestly suggest that you mail your order in the business reply postage paid envelope recently delivered to your Home or if More convenient to do so Telephone 42 321 As we Are putting on our full equipment on May 1st, Only those who have placed their ice order for May 1st delivery can be assured of uninterrupted service. 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Please note conditions of contract As the summer ice season late the any Case terms or broken periods Are charged discontinue the ice Supply in cases or tent i authorized to alter prices or rules Mace other than those specified. Arctic ice co. Ltd phone ice keeps food fresher brought from the Cook House eat ing within a Yard of corpses dead for Days unconcerned by the death beside them or by the stench from slow burning heaps of rags. Outside one of these huts within a barbed wire compound i saw a smouldering Heap of rags and under it the half burned body of a Man dragged out with the rags and undiscovered until the gradually consumed waste disclosed this one time human being among the ashes. Inside this hut i saw and heard something else. Inside this hut i choked and cried. What once were men Lay on the floor clothed in rags. Already they Lay in the same Gro Tesque macabre attitudes of the corpses on the heaps a few Yards Way. Maj. J. P. Fox of Dublin Eire commander of a Field hygienic unit told me nothing can help these poor wretches. We can t even feed them. They Are too far gone to re Tain any food. They Are dying and there is nothing we can do about we could see the Light of deliverance Flash in those dying eyes. One or two feeble wasted Arras came slowly up and make a v sign the officer took me to the Cook House and introduced me to a polish woman who for several years had been in German prison and concentration Camps. She had been in Belsen seven months. Some habits remain some habits remained. Women stood naked cleaning themselves with cans of water unconscious of their Flat empty nakedness. Men equally naked also remembered the habit of bathing. Cloth ing to these people meant warmth nothing else. I saw children walking about in this hell. First i saw i la never rub out of my mind. A boy perhaps seven and his sister maybe five. The knobs of their joints bulging through their thin clothes faces like mummies timor Ousby sneaking up with pails to wards a water truck their great fierce eyes intent on a Chance to Rush in water. And steal pails full of obviously they were unable to comprehend something being freely Given. I saw . Men and once the torturing brutal guards of this Purgatory beyond imagination put to labor loading the bodies of the people they had killed into trucks. I saw them at the pits unloading these human carcasses dragging them through the Sand and dump ing them into a great Hole half tilled with dead. I saw. The living and dead lying beside each other in filthy Long Barracks like living no More Able to Rise than dead. Children burned alive this is what i heard Josef Kramer . Commander of Belsen now under arrest previously commanded Auschwitz in Poland where children were taken from their mothers and burned alive where a Gas chamber killed thou Sands where Kramer kept his own orchestra to entertain him with Strauss Waltzes while abominations were Practised. At Belsen Kramer s predecessor also of. The . Was considerate prisoners had enough to eat and proper medical care. The vileness began with Kramer s arrival five months ago. He instituted starvation As punish it up As a habit. I heard that occasionally men starving in Belsen watched the dying with hunger and As soon As they were dead Cut out their hearts livers and kidneys and devoured them to sustain their own vanish ing lives. I heard from Madame s lips that one Man seized in cannibalism by the ., was forced to Kneel publicly holding in his Teeth the ear of a Corpse the entire Day. I heard that their sadistic Joy in watching the slow disintegration of humans into something less than beasts was not always enough to satisfy Kramer s devils and witches chopping off fingers and other glittering Sav Geries gave occasional zest to their jaded Appe tites. What i saw and heard at Belsen is something never seen or heard of in the world before the nazis created concentration Camps of their own bestial incomprehensible kind. Robbery murder rape these twisted warped unhappy instincts any Man who paused to examine himself can find buried in his own nature. Normally there is a balance and the explosion never occurs. But Here in Belsen there was a deliberate calculated Effort to Force Man kind Down the ladder. More about prison hut continued from pare one All they were Worth. I fought my Way to a window and got through and then i Dove through the barbed Vire in that Gap you see and there was so much smoke i guess they did t see to hit me. I got across the Field and and then i ran Over to he next Carnap and hid among other russian prisoners a sobbing old Mujib Andre Tamoosh 64 years old from Cher Igo province stood beside us Star ing through teary eyes at the bodies and wringing his hands. Yes. So it he kept saying. It was just that it seems there originally were 1.000 prisoners Here in no. 3 works. But most of them had been marched away to the East just before we arrived. Those remaining included about 75 russians 50 French a few italians some poles and yugoslavs. We could stand up in any court of jaw and give evidence that would hang any . Man who was around Here two Days ago. Some photographers showed up to Register the scene. Women s Camp Hundred and 60 women two mostly ill. Remained in the women s Camp at the Hasa factory North of Leipzig and near Erla today to Tell their grim in believable tales of slavery at the hands of Europe s quondam masters. They included Betty " countess Henri demo Duit a native of Stoughton mass., a Pris Oner since 1943 because her husband fled to France to join Gen. De Gaulle and mme. Marcelle Brech Esmacher Versailles whose Hus band As herself is an intimate Friend of Gen. Brehon b. Somervell chief of the . Army services of Supply. The women s Camp was populated by 6.000 females before our arrival. Last Friday and saturday All but 260" were marched off to the East in two great columns trudging alone on foot. The second column was nearly caught by the american pincers movement and the guards forced a fast Pace on the women. From the second transport those who escaped stated laggards had been shot. Roberta Lauri comtesse Demon Duit told the Story of her incarceration to an army of . Newsmen. So did natives of Manchester. Eng land who had been arrested in Lwow Poland because they had been teaching English there. All testified to the horrors of the women s prisons at Lublin and Ravens Bruck. Comparatively Pale their tales were Pale compared with what we have seen with our can eyes in the last few Days. Six years ago they would have made you sick to the stomach. They finally showed us one of the . Women who had remained be Hind when the others left. She emerged from one of the dungeons for prisoners of this same Camp All tears and Shivers a Stuffy 18-year older with glasses named Rosie virion from Luxembourg City i never wished any Good to Ger she said. I was simply working in a factory in Vienna when they demanded 90 girls to work in the army and i was one. I have such a tremendous lot to say but i just can t say so you found yourself feeling sorry for an . Girl and strangely enough so did the prisoners. Don t do anything to they said. Was always a Good and so they led Rosie Back to her underground cell. We came Back to our press Camp realizing better than Ever that this is going to be a very difficult situation to sift out. More about War loan continued from take one .4. Street at the Portage Avenue inter Section embodying the figure Viii. On the upright lines in the figure will be shown the amount reached in the Campaign to Date the amount required and the amount obtained during the corresponding period in the last Victory loan Campaign. Here a Victory loan ceremony will be held each Day at noon Dur ing the Campaign. The total to Date will be announced and each 000 in subscriptions will be marked by one round from a Field gun of the 33th r Field regiment Man red by artillerymen from the a3 Centre at Shilo. Each of the three armed services will Supply person Nel for the noon ceremony for one week the army for the first week. The Navy for the second week and the . For the third week changing of the guard the changing of the guard will be carried out during the noon ceremony Esch interviews will be conducted with returned scr Hifp personnel. Different pieces of War lamp ment will be on View at the main Street and Portage Avenue inter Section. The Al robot bomb Wil be from sunday morning unti wednesday noon. One of the army s Mobile Laun dries will be set us. Wednesday afternoon and will be seen in action washing soldiers clothes unti1 the end of next week naval equipment including sear used in invasion operations will be blur info april 23. The week Star Tiff for the final week of the Cam pain. Starting 6. The will operate an Ai drome flight control Tower at the and Mair intersection with the operator maintaining conver men flying in plane.1 Over the City More about russians t 4. Violent fighting raged at Koenig Wusterhausen three Miles from the Southeastern Edge of the City at Bernau four Miles from the North Eastern Edge and a number of other Points at Berlin s Gates. One russian army by nazi account broke through Berlin s South Eastern defences in the Cottbus area and wheeled Northwest against the capital. It plunged a spearhead in Wossen 11 Miles due South of the City. Within two Miles of City London newspapers quoted a nazi broadcast As saying the rus sians had battered within two Miles of Berlin at the ring motor Road around the City. The German High command gloomily conceded that in the great Battle Between Stettin Lagoon and the sudeten mountains the russians had torn open the front line at several Points and in the depth of the Battlefield the germans were struggling to Stem powerful soviet onslaughts. In the area East of Berlin bitter fighting rages along the Bernau Fuerstenwald the German command reported. This constituted an official acknowledgement of the soviet Progress to the Gates of the City and the closing of a half Moon assault arc on the entire Eastern Side of the City. Fuerstenwald lies 14 Miles East Southeast of the City on the Frank Furt Highway East of Angelsberg where the soviets were seven Miles or less away from Berlin. The nazi communique said the germans were locked in fierce defensive fighting Northwest of goer Litz the russians had smashed within less than 20 Miles of dres Den toward the american 3rd army was driving. The communique acknowledged that the russians drove spearheads to the area of Kamenz 19 Miles Northeast of Dresden As reported by the soviet High command in an earlier announcement. Lightning thrust Between Spremberg and Cottbus. Powerful soviet armoured forces raced northwestward to outflank Berlin from the South in a Light Ning thrust to the area of Juet bog 30 Miles Southwest of the City. The attack extended to the lower Oder where the soviet command said the russians were trying to break across the River Between Stettin and Schwedt. Thousands of soviet guns and planes were pouring steel and explosives into the devastated City in a steady rain. . Mosquito joined in the bombardment with six separate Block Buster raids Dur ing the night. The muffled Thunder of the bombardment was. Audible to american 9th army troops along the Elbe River 45 Miles West of Berlin a front despatch from that area said. A bbl broadcast said that american and russian patrols were Only 25 Miles apart in an unidentified sector of Germany. The re port was attributed to messages reaching Moscow. A British United press despatch from Moscow yesterday said patrols already May have met the nazi Tran Ocean Agency said the first soviet shells were hitting the built up area of it said Goebbels. As defence commissioner had ordered berliners unable to reach their Normal places of work through Lack of transport to report immediately for War All of Canada set for drive Onawa april 21. An army of workers will swing into action Day of Canada s eighth Victory loan with the object of obtaining a mind mum of an All time High Mark and above the objective of in the seventh loan Campaign last autumn. In the forthcoming loan the mini mum objective sought from individuals is an increase of Over their quota in he seventh loan. Increased emphasis is being placed upon the Sale of Bonds to individuals National War finance committee officials said. In the seventh loan total sales amounted to of which in Bonds were purchased a individuals. During the last few months in Tensive organizational work has carried out in each of the 600 loan units throughout Canada and the units Are making every Effort o increase the number of applications for Bonds which in the seventh loan amounted to about preparations have been made for an even More intensive payroll can Vass. Of an estimated loan workers have been appointed in Industrial plants to carry out he canvass of employees designed to obtain applications for Bonds through deductions from payrolls. Moke about Western front continued from Tare one aging at least 45 trucks and killing 140 enemy soldiers. Front reporters with the ninth army on the Elbe said the Thunder of russian guns East of Berlin was Learly audible and growing louder 3 the hour. Unconfirmed Moscow reports re Ayed by the London radio said the american and russian lines were Only 25 Miles apart this morn ing but it was not Clear whether they referred to the ninth army or the . First army farther South. It Gen. George s Patton s american third army rammed a half dozen armoured spearheads up to and across the czechoslovak Border on a front looping in to within 38 Miles of Pilsen and s8 Miles or less West of Prague the last main escape corridor Between Northern and Southern Germany the czechoslovak City of Asch was captured and Patton s troops also entered Arlberg 10 Miles South of Asch. The . Seventh army struck South and southeastward from Nuernberg captured Friday within less than 70 Miles of Munich Northern Anchor of the nazi saurian line. The French closed in from the West to a Point barely 30 Miles from Lake Constance Western shoulder of the bavarian redoubt. The French and the . Seventh army also sent converging columns racing around Stuttgart from the Southwest and Northeast to envelop that stronghold the 13th City of the Reich. At the top of the Western front the British second army seized control of a 20-mile stretch of the Elbe River s West Bank Southeast of Hamburg and fought their was into Harburg. West Bank suburb of the great port. Units of the British seventh armoured division battled through the streets of Harburg. Within sight of Hamburg and their Bie runs be Gan pounding the battered seaport St almost Point Blank Range. Nazi a boat trapped in the Nort were reported trading gunfire with the British across the River. -.ft? invest in the beat buy Victory Bonds Fry Cadbury Ltd. J ;