Pa e Ten DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Le al Chronicle r- Negro College Fund Reaches $29,667.86 Sigler Backs Bonus Petitions REPORT FROM GERMANY Friday, June 7, 19 46 Detroit's quota to raise $50,000 in the third annual United Negro College Fund Campaign is far be- hind schedule. This is due to the failure of certain groups to raise their respective quotas. Charles H. Mahoney, local chairman, urg_ es groups and citizens of Detroit "The bonus should be a gift of to complete their pledges and the people, approved by their pop- make their contributions to this ular vote, not a political foothill drive so that the drive will have used as bait by any party or in_ a successful ending. dividual," asserted Sigler. "I am The groups which arc lagging happy to have been able to draw up this petition and organize the behind are churches, insurance, drive for signatures as I firmly organized labor and professional believe the bonus should and will workers. be paid now." Beth El To llold Annual Meeting. The 96th Annual Meeting Congregation Beth 1l will bp of held on Sunday, p. m., in the June 9, at R:fy) Brown Memorial Chapel. In addition by Dr. B. Benedict to the report, Glazer atvi By drawing up and having cir- culated petitions for a soldier's bonus, Kim Sigler, Republican candidate for Governor, has shown his determination to keep the bo- nus question out of politics. By IRVING BAYETT Jewish Chronicle Foreign Correspondent (Copyright 1946, All Rights Reserved) This series of articles tells of the War Crimes Trials in Frankfurt, Germany. TILE MALMEDY MASSACRE Article 21 "Der Fuehrer wants to give the German people a Xmas present and that is why he is sending you gallant men into battle." One week before Xmas, December 17, 1944, the Eifel Offensive, the last big, decisive, stand of Hitler's Armies began. The object was to cut off the Americans from their Allies and to cut them of from their supplies. Hitler staked all on one last offensive, the Bat- tle of the Bulge. On December 16th, 1944, on the eve of battle, the High Command of the 1st Pioneer Panzer Division had a meeting of the company and battalion leaders. Speeches were made — exciting pep talks — and encouragement. "Der Fuehrer wants to give the German people a Xmas present and that is why he is sending you gallant men into batttle. You will have air support, 2,000 planes and 4,000 cannons will fire. NO PRIS- ONERS OF WAR ARE TO BE TAKEN. PRISONERS OF WAR WILL BE SHOT." As we all know, for a time the Battle of the Dilqc went had for the Americans. Many of our boys were cut off and taken pris- oner. Near Malmedy, Belgium, there is a crossroads at the town of Baugnez, about 5 kilos from Malmedy. At the crossroads an Ameri. can truck convoy was cut off and surrendered. The American boys were lined up — disarmed — hands raised -- they were searched and all watches, jewelry, cigarettes and rings were taken from them. They were then ordered into an open field, lined up 20 in a row, seven or eight rows deep. There were few survivors of the 150 boys in that truck convoy but six of them were here in Dachau — brought here by the War Dept.— and testified to what they lived through. Lt. Lary, Jr., of Lexington, Ky., testified to what happened to the truck convoy and then walked down the witness dock, gazed at every face in the dock — the prisoners watched him intently as he looked into each face and broke out into cold sweat. He could only identify one man and that was the first one to fire on the Ameri- can PW's in the field — Lary pointed his finger at one of the prison- ers and said, "That's the man that fired at us in the field" and pointed to Georg Fleps. The courtroom was tense and it was quite dramatic when Lary pointed to Fleps. Then Ford, Daub, Kingston, Ahrens and Dobyns testified to tho same thing. Describing just what happened to the Americans. I'll let Dobyns tell it in his own words: "One German soldier stands up in the tank, he takes his pistol and points it at the crowd and waves it around two or three times and drops it to his side. Then he raises his pistol again and waves it around again two or more times and then some American prisoner who was lying in the field, I don't know who he was, hollered, "Stand fast". The next time he pulls the pistol and takes deliberate aim and fires. I see a man center ways of the front flank go down . . I was hit through the right arm, through the right ankle, across the hand and across the hip. My combat jacket had ten holes in it where the bullets never touched me. . . Then the machine guns began t fire. After everyone fell to the ground, they raked the ground over several times. How long it was I can't say because in a position like that, minutes seem like hours. Then after, as the tanks passed on down the road, members of the armored outfits stood up in the tanks and took pot shots at us. Then some Germans come into the field, two or three or four, that I seen personally and they were shooting the wounded that were crying for help. I saw them shoot one wounded soldier hollering for help, crying that his legs were para- lyzed and calling for help and the medics. I saw that. He was laying less than five feet from me. They shot him in the back of the head. Then after the Germans went back on the road everybody was really quiet in the field. I thought I was the only one alive. So, I planned to lie there and continue to play dead until it got dark and try to make my way into Malmedy. I can't remember how long we stayed in the field after they went up the road. Suddenly one American PW jumps up and says, "Let's go." So, it looked to me 15 or 23 gets up and makes a break for it. After we crossed the first field, being my right ankle was fractured my progress was slow and so I was on the tail end of it. After we got up over In the 2nd field the Germans who was at the intersection seen us and opened up on us again with machine guns and small arms fire . . . Something told me to get away from the crowd so I turns to the right and heads for a woods. Two more survivors also travelled with me. One was shot through the hip and the other was shot through the jaw and was bleeding plenty. After we entered the woods we must have went one mile or so and lost all sense of direction. We met a Bel- gian civilian and asked him to show us the direction to Malmedy which he did. The guy who was shot in the jaw was growing real weak from loss of blood and he said that he would have to have medical aid and that he would go down the road and take a chance and maybe run into some Americans. He goes down the road and me and the other guys stay in the woods. Fifteen or twenty minutes later an American soldier come up the path with a pistol on his shoulder and said, "Take it easy, boys, I'll have you back to the aid station in just a few minutes." There are 74 SS men — most of them members of the LSSAH, (Leibstandarte SS Adolph Hitler) among them are General Dietrich, General Kraemer, General Priess and Colonel Peiper -- all on trial for the murder of 150 American boys. There is a seven-man General Military Government Court on the Court, with General Darhey as President. There are six members of the Prosecution, with Lt. Col. Ellis at Trial Judge Advocate. There are six German civilian attorneys and seven American Mil- itary attorneys on the Defense, with Col. Everett as Chief Defense Counsel. There arc 100,000.000 American citizens that are sitting as spec- tators to the trial of the murderers of their boys, unarmed, and sur- rendered — as a Xmas present for Hitler. The petitions circulated by the Michigan Veterans Bonus Com- mittee, headed by Hon. Harry S. Toy, former Supreme Court Jus- tice, provide for a payment of 815 for each month of service by Michigan men and women in the armed forces from December 7, 1941 to January 1, 1946. It is t!.e committee's aim to obtain over 200.000 signatures by July 5 and have the bonus issue on the No- vember ballot. Leonard T. Lewis, president of thy Congregation, the members wil l act on of irnpor matters. a number C1-1:1**0-1:8:HXH:t00-0-0 O 00 0000*oo Direct Mail Advertising From the Original Idea to the Post Office. HUGH ALLEN, Advertising CA. 5893 710 Farwell Bldg. John H. Schneider, attorney and counselor, announces the re- 1 :1-atu:8:10-31- trocroct000000 0000na MOVES OFFICES moval of his law offices from the Detroit Savings Bank Bldg., to 1942-44 National Bank Bldg., RA. 7338. 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