Killings Admitted in West German Court; More Nazis Face Trial; Reds Sentence 8 (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) the key defendant who had been earlier than nearly 30 years COBLENZ — Two more de- CID chief in the Rhineland after Sohnitz killed himself. fendants in the trial of 14 for- Palatinate, told the court he LONDON, (JTA) — Eight mer S'S officers and men on had been at least "partly guilty" charges of murdering 70,000 in the killings. Frank Stark, Lithuanians have been sentenced persons in Nazi occupied White born in St. Louis, but raised in to death in a joint trial at Russia in 1941 admitted Wed- Germany, who was charged with Kovno, in the Soviet Union, for nesday they had participated murder in 4,652 cases, admitted the mass murder of more than to active participation in mass 10,000 Jews there during the in the mass killings. Johannes Feder, a former SS executions of Jews on two oc- Nazi occupation in 1941, ac- officer and a Criminal Investi- casions. He said that as "a con- cording to Moscow dispatches gation Dept. inspector in Co- vinced Nazi" he never gave received here. The leader of the group, logne after the war, said he had the orders or their execution Matthew Mitsius, confessed dur- "merely supervised" the trans- "a second thought." On Monday, R. Schlegel, one ing the nine-day trial before a portation of Jewish men, wom- en and children from the Minsk of the few defendants who did high court that •he personally not find a postwar haven in the had killed 300 Jews. Ghetto. Witnesses at the trial testi- He testified he had seen the West German police force, gassing of Jews in . specially- cited a large execution where fied that, among the slain, were built vans and how subsequent- victims were forced to lie down Jews who had been brought by ly the bodies were thrown into for execution and said, "I was the Nazis to Kovno from Czech- a ditch for disposal. The -indict- stationed at the ditch and I oslovakia and Austria. Mitsuis, ment against the 14 ex-Nazis also shot." The indictment showing no regret over his charges that they killed more charged Schlegel with the mur- deeds, told the court he was only sorry he had not succeeded der of 5,280 persons. than 30,000 Jews. in escaping abroad and de- * * * A. Merbach, 50, charged scribed how Jews were herded with murdering 24,000 per- BONN, (JTA)—Plans for a from the Kovno ghetto into Sons, admitted guilt in the new trial of former Nazis in Flirt Seven, a German army murder of some 5,000 Jews mass murders of Jews during encampment on the outskirts of whose execution he said he the war were disclosed this the city, and ordered to lie in had to witness. He said that week in Freiburg. At the same open graves. There, the Jews in the spring of 1942 he had time, the prosecutor of a were shot down, he said. taken part in the execution of former concentration camp The executions lasted 24 1,000 Jews and that on anoth- commander filed an appeal hours, he stated, saying "we er occasion when 10,000 per- against a Hamburg jury's shot some, rested a while, took sons "had to be killed" with- verdict of acquittal. a drink, then continued our in three days" he was in Freiburg officials said nine work." All of the eight men charge of their transporta- former Gestapo members were had been members of tion. He testified that after under arrest in preparation for a convicted special Lithuanian battalion each shooting the riflemen a trial of a number of such organized by the Germans for were supplied with alcoholic former Nazis on charges of mass the purpose of killing Jews. drinks. slaughter of Jews in Nazi- Previously, George Heuser, occupied Poland. They said many witnesses in West Ger- Haifa Stevedores many and abroad were being Strike; Israel Seeks MORTGAGES questioned for the forthcoming to Free Port Tieup trial. APPLICATIONS FOR (Direct JTA Teletype Wire The Hamburg appeal con- to The Jewish News) VA or FHA cerned Willi Dusenschoen, the TEL AVIV — Haifa stevedore S ARE NOW BEING TAKEN former commandant who was widened their slowdown into a On New or Existing Homes acquitted-of the charge he had full strike Tuesday and the driven to suicide Dr. Fritz Sol- Israel government prepared for QUICK SERVICE mitz, a Jewish Socialist poli- emergency action to end the Phone Us Today tician and Lubeck newspaper crippling port tieup. FRANKLIN editor, in 1933. A number of The dockworkers began their MORTGAGE CORP. Hamburg political and trade action on Oct. 14 in protest Approved FHA Mortgagee union leaders expressed regret against what they claimed were 915 First National Bldg., Det. 26 that the proceedings against excessive prices for meals. As WO 3-4890 Dusenschoen were not initiated citrus and other export ship- ments piled on the docks, the stevedores rejected all demands by the Histadrut that they end their slowdown while their grievance was negotiated. The workers quit a few hours after Kol Israel Radio announced the end of the slowdown, an an-. nouncement based on reported readiness of the dockworkers to accept some face-saving compro- mises proposed by the Haifa Labor Council. The compromises included an agreement that the workers would pay a flat rate of half an Israeli pound (17 cents) for a hot meal. The understanding collapsed when the Histadrut said it would consider the compromises only after the dockworkers returned to normal work schedules. 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CURTIS 24711 COOLIDGE at 10 MILE Across from Dexter Davison Closed Saturday -- Open Sundays & Eves. BALTIMORE, (JTA) — Beth Tfiloh Congregation, one of Baltimore's largest, announced plans to build a new synagogue, school and community center on a 58-acre plot in suburban Pikesville. The $2,000,000 structure will include 20 classrooms and a 1,500-seat sanctuary, The main auditorium will serve as a ban- quet hall and theater. Situated next to the synagogue kitchens, it will seat 600 for dinner or 1,200 for other occasions. The synagogue has been at its present location for 41 years. Lutheran University Seeks Jewish Adviser MONTREAL, (JTA) — The Canadian Jewish Congress has been invited to appoint an official Jewish pastoral adviser to cooperate with the chaplain of University College at Water- loo Lutheran University, Water- loo, Ontario, to serve the needs of the university's 90 Jewish students, it was reported here. The invitation was extended by William J. 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