Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 July 1943 — Page 10

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Men Without Names

Catholic Vicar in Belgium Tortured and Executed for Befriending Underground

(Ninth of a Series) By NAT A. BARROWS

LONDON, July 15.—Abbe Courdonnier, Catholic vicar in the little Belgian border town of HenriChapelle, has paid the German price for his Christian hospitality. Up against a wall in one of the prison camps, he uttered a prayer, lifted his head high and fell before a Nazi firing squad. His execution—just revealed by Belglan officials in London— gi brings to more than 100 the Bel- E gian estimates of § their Catholic priests shot since the war started. The Germanse§ kept Abbe Courdonnier in prison for a year, intermittently suspend-

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ing him by the wrists for hours]

or breaking his fingers with fiendish inventiveness. They went through

the mockery of a court hearing,| His martyrdom is another glowing the deepest cut on the side most

trying him on the charge of helping the Belgian underground in ar-

ranging hideouts and escape for allied airmen. Never did he divulge { one word about underground methlods or channels of escape.

Betrayed by ‘Friend’

The Nazis learned nothing from Abbe Courdonnier. | Often the abbe had said to his { underground friends: “Christian | charity makes it my duty to prac- | tice hospitality, to comfort my | fellowmen—even if I have to suffer for it.”

cution of Abbe Coudonnier, Belgian officials here are able to reveal the names of five other Catholic priests recently executed by the Germans for assisting the underground: The Abbes Salman, DeBacker, Magniez, Denecker and Firquet. Details of their deaths are lacking at the moment. Belgian sources estimate that at least 500 priests are now enduring imprisonment on various charges of aiding the underground and helping captured allies escape. An unstated number of Belgian

The 69-year-old abbe was beltrayed into the hands of the | gestapo by a German who had long | [posed as a friend. The Germans| | eagerly imprisoned the priest, re- | membering how he had fought | their attempts, after the fall of Belgium, to annex the parish of Henri-Chapelle into the jurisdiction

priests have disguised themselves as workers and gone to Germany with forced labor battalions, defying the German edict, which did not permit chaplains to accompany deportation roundups.

COUNCIL TO INITIATE

lof the German bishop across the | border in the Rhineland. He re- |

| fused to recognize any diocese other |

| than that of the bishop of Liege.

Five More Executed Abbe Coudonnier gave his services [to the Belgian army in the last | war and in this war gave his life.

| episode in Belgian resistance. In addition to reporting the exe-

Capitol City council 53, Daughters of America, will hold an initiation for candidates from Indianapolis and Knightstown at 7:30 p. m. today in the hall, 572 N. Illinois st.

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By DAVID DIETZ Scripps-Howard Science Editor CLEVELAND, July 15. — William L. Batt, vice chairman of the war | production board, has added his] voice to the growing chorus of distinguished authorities who favor the creation of post-war stockpiles of strategic materials as insurance against a possible world war III. Mr, Batt makes his plea in the concluding paragraphs of an article which he contributes to Mining and Metallurgy, official publication of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. In the article Mr. Batt describes how bottlenecks in raw materials were overcome by the creation of the combined raw materials board of the united nations. This board functioned so well that today the united nations are solvent as to raw materials.

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In Mr. Batt's own words, “A steady | supply, reasonably sufficient to meet |

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agreed needs, can keep flowing to| | the war plants, and in turn to the | battle fronts, as long as the war | lasts.” Students of international history are well aware of the fact that |in world war I the allies worked {out an amazingly efficient set of | international agencies for the conduct of the war. Problems of ship-| ping, food supplies, munitions, strategic materials, etc, were handled splendidly. But after the armistice this majchinery was allowed to disintegrate | with the result that the situation quickly deteriorated and before very long the seeds of world war II were being sown.

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Competent authorities are warning of the necessity of continuing adequate international co-operation after world war II. The combined [raw materials board will be able to ido much to solve the serious raw

| materials problems that will exist |

{in the post-war world, Mr. Batt thinks. He warns against the possibility |

{of a wild race for these materials | (in the post-war world, a race which | would have disastrous consequences. |

“Such a scramble can result in | complete demoralization of supply, |

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Experimenters Discover ‘Way to Save Stale Coffee

By Sclence Service WASHINGTON, July 15.— Fresh coffee flavor depends on shutting moisture and air out of the package rather than sealing aroma in, state A. Cornwell Shuman and Lucius W. Elder Jr. of General Foods Corporation, in a report to the American Chemical Society. In a series of experiments, the aroma of freshly ground coffee was swept away continuously by a stream of nitrogen gas. After, nearly eight weeks of such treatment, expert tasters pronounced the flavor unimpaired. Hence, no flavor can escape into the air space of a sealed container while it is sitting on the grocer's shelf, the scientists conclude.

Next the experimenters shot a stream of moist gas through tee coffee for about seven weeks. Re-

sults were nearly the same; only a slight staleness developed, and that during the first seven to nine days! of treatment. Moisture without the] continuous breeze brought on stale-| ness more rapidly. |

Oxygen of the air was confirmed as being the real villain of the piece. Small amounts of oxygen and water sealed into the package with the coffee made the coffee stale most quickly. From the experiments may well come a method for salvaging stale coffee—no small feat in these days of limited supplies, Coffee exposed to oxygen for nearly three weeks was brought back to comparative freshness by sweeping inert gas through the coffee for a week. At least part of stale flavor must be due to compounds which can be evaporated off, the researchers report. But after the coffee was 32 days old, oxidation had gone so far that the gas treatment caused no improvement,

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BRITISH LAUNDED BY NEW YORK OFFICIAL LONDON, July 15 (U. P.).— Frieda Miller, industrial commissioner of New York state, today praised the British attitude of making everything subsidiary to the war effort.

She is in Britain for a six-week

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