sings, “uyseieiy . ponements PAGE 2, THE HERALD, Tuesday. December 4, 1977 More Tales of W.W. II Horrors DUESSELDORF, West Germany (AP) — “When a Jewish boy tried to run away from the gas chamber, she killed him with a pistol buliet in the So testified a Polish woman recently against an Austrianborn former New York City h eni mre Braunsteiner Ryan, 58, one of 14 defendants in what might become the longest Nazi war-crimes trial. Mrs. Ryan is one of five women and nine men accused of murderin the alleged mass shooting, fatal whippings, gas- hangings and deadly injections of prisoners at the Maj- danek concentration camp in Lublin, Poland, in the Second World War. At least 250,000 men, women and children— most of them Polish Jews—are reported to have died there in 1941-44, The trial here entered its third ior late last month and it is expected to take at least 18 months more before verdicts are handed down. The longest war-crimes trial to date, lasting 3% years, ended in 1976 with a Hamburg court acquitting a former member of Hitler’s elite guard, the SS, of killing prisoners in = Nazi- occupied Poland. At the Duesseldorf trial, the white-haired Mrs. Ryan wept as the Polish woman testified about the shooting of the Jewish boy. Prosecutor Wolfgang Weber said later that her tears were the only sign of remorse shown by any of the defendants in the first two years of the trial. So far 135 of more than 200 witnesses have testified in the roceedings, which are ar. behind schedule because of defence requests for and requirement that all testimony be translated into German, TOO MANY MEMORIES Some survivors said they suffered stich trauma at the camp that they refuse to come to West Germany for the trial. The court is travelling to Poland, Israel, Canada and the United States to take testimony from them. West German t elevis marked the two-year anniversary of the trial’s start by showing a decumentary Nav.27, Included were color films of what was described as Majdanek’s seven gas chambers, cre- matorium ovens, mass graves and barbed-wire enclosures. About 18,000 prisoners are alleged to ave been gassed there Nov.3, 1943. In one of a succession of interviews with sur- vivors, a Polish woman told West German TV that she watched as chil- dren were torn from their mothers. CHILDREN TAKEN “The mothers knew their children were bein; taken to be hurne alive,” she said. ‘‘the mothers stood there frozen until they feli down and started praying.” “The goards were plain sadistic,” said a Polish man speaking in Ger- man. “If someone got weak and fell down, a ard would throw a ard across his neck and stand on it until the in- mate suffocated.” Mrs. Ryan was 6x- iradited to West Ger- many in 1973 after sur- rendering her U.S. citizenship, which she had obtained by con- cealing her Nazi past. She is the first resident of the United States to be tured over to West Germany for warcrimes prosecution. The U.S. government has started eportation hearings against several other accused Nazi criminals. Trade Minister Busy In Japan TOKYO (AP) Donald Phillips, British Columbia's economic development minister, asked today for Japanese co-operation for the possible development of coal and pulp resources in his province. Phillips made _ the request in a one-hour meeting with Minoru Masuda, vice-minister for international affairs in the international trade and industry ministry. Phillips, accompanied by B.C. Forest Minister Thomas Waterland, also discussed with the Japanese official ways of increasin Japanese imports of coking coal, B ip and copper from ritish Columbia under long-term agreements. “Japan might reluctant to increase its imports of these products now because it is in a business slump, but from the long-run point of view, Japan needs to import raw materials and Canada wants to he a stable raw material supplier to Japan,” a Japanese official quoted Phillips as saying. Phillips later met with Hisao Makita, president of Nippon Kokan K.K, (NKK). They discussed the possible development of natural resources in British Columbia, NKK officials said. Phillips and Waterland arrived Saturday for a one-week visit to discuss ways of expanding economic relations hbe- tween Japan and Canada, including Japanese capital investment in British Columbia. Auto Sales Vary Two of the major automakers General Motors of Canada Ltd. and Ford Motor Co. of Canada Ltd., reported higher car sales for November compared with the same month last year. But Chrysler Cakda Lid. and American Motors (Canada) Ltd. sold fewer cars and trucks last month compared with Novem- ber, 1976. GM also tcok a drop in truck sales, reporting deliveries of 13,075 for the month, 5.3 per cent below the record of November, 1976, Ford continued Its sales surge, reporting in- creases in both car and truck deliveries. _ Ford had an 18 per cent increase in car sales, going from 13,665 in lovember, 1976 to 16,-137 last month. Truck sales hit a record 9,412, a boost of 52 per cent over the 6,184 trucks sold in November of last year, Ford’s combined car and truck sales were up 29 per cent from the same month last year. For GM, their dealers sold 32,307 cars last month, up 1.8 per cent from the same month last year, the second highest November in the com- pany’s history. Meanwhile, Chrysler reported car sales of 14,796 for November, compared with 16.722 in November, 1976, off 11.5 per cent. Their truck sales hit 3,112 compared with 4,219 in November of last year. To d te, Chrysler has sold 190,183 cars, off five per cent from the first 11 months of 1976. American Motors sold 1,700 ears compared with 2,104 for November, 1976. Jeep sales fell to 587 units from the 630 sold in November last year. AT THE RACES: A pack of street stock Honda Civics take the green flag at Mosport year. The Honda-Goodrich series was designed to create a brand ot . Park, Ontario, in one of the Inter-Provincial Cup races earlier this acing which anyone can afford. Anita Bryant KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP} — Anita Bryant, professing love for omosexuals, says she now is more interested in getting Bible reading and prayer back into U.S. “There is so much emphasis on that (homosexuality) when there are so many things to be concerned about” abortion, pornography, drug use, things that desperately need our attention,” Miss Bryant told news conference unday before appearing at the Revive America Crusade here. ‘I have love in my heart for all homosexuals,” she said. Miss Bryant became con- troversial when she led the movement that repealed a homosexual civil-rights ‘ordinance in Dade County, Fla. She said she plans to begin a program en- couraging school prayer. Larry Flint CINCINNATI (AP) — Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt says he plans to return to Cincinnati this week ‘‘to sell my magazine on the streets and force them to arrest me again. hi ynt is appealing his conviction in Cincinnati for pandering obscenity and conspiracy, He was sentenced to seven to 25 years in prison. His magazine also has been banned from sale in Hamilton County under obscenity laws. Flynt told a Washington, D.C., con vention of the Speech Communication Association on Saturday that another Hamilton County trial would be different because a Cleveland judge earlier this fall struck down Ohio's organized-crime statute under which he was convicted, Mrs. Korchnoi | LENINGRAD, U.S.5.R. (AP) — The wife of chess grandmaster Viktor Korechnoi, who defected to the West 17 months ago, says Russian authorities have refused permission for her and r son to emigrate. Mrs. Korchnoi said in an interview here that she now fears their 19- year-old son will be drafted into the armed forces, which would delay any possible emigration by at least seven years. Korchnoi, who defected in July, 1976, while on.a chess tour in the Netherlands, now leads 3%-114 in the world chess semifinals in Belgrade against Boris Spassky, another Soviet grand- master. Mrs. Korchnoi said she still hopes to' emigrate and join her husband, who now lives in the Netherlands. Paul Solon ARLINGTON HEIGHTE, Ill. (AP) — Paul Solon's centuryold clock is ticking off his neighborhood and the village ‘fathers. He wants to put the 444- metre (15-foot) 1,500- und street clock in the ront yard of his home, which sits among dwell- ings in the $95,000 to $115,000 range. But some neighbors complained, arguing that curious people might start driving by, invading the peace and lowering property values, and that the clock with two faces would just seem out of | place. And what if it fell on a child? they asked. Solon, 33, a clock collector, is threatening to go to court after making little headway since. June with the zoning and village boards in this suburb northwest of Chicago. a “As it stands now, I’ve been charged $200 in ’ hearing fees,” said Solon, who values the clock, with its cast iron base, at $10,000. ‘It boits down to a zoning board meetin next month to decide if ean have a commercial variance for two square feet in my front yard for a base to put ‘the clock on. “It seems ather suburbanites can put up - basketball hoops for their kids, bird baths and stat- ues, Santa Claus and his reindeer, but I can’t put up my clock.” Solon said he had been looking for a street.clock for seven years and finally ran across one in Gates Mill, Ohio. He trucked It home and spent a year and $5,000 having it restored. “The clock doesn’t chime and isn’t lit,” Solon said. “It’s accurate to within one minute a month. I even painted ita brown tone to blend in with the color scheme of my home. A street clock is just something I've always wanted in front af my house.” Jon McDermott SYDNEY, Australia (Reuter) — A Canadian who has taught in Australia for the last four years will face an ex- tradition hearing here next Monday on a charge of escaping custody, a Sydneymagistrate decided today. Jon Donald Mc- Dermott, 31, is alleged to have committed seven armed robberies in Can- ada and to have escaped from custody at Victoria, ‘Magistrate G.H. McLennan set the hearing date teday after the federal attorney- general gave his ap- proval Sunday night for the hearing to take place. McDermatt, who has: taught under the name James Crown at various Sydney schools, was ordered held in jail until next Monday. ~ Sharon McNerny MARQUETTE, Mich. {AP) — ‘I still loved him, right up until I shothim,” says the second Michigan woman to go free in recent weeks after killing a husband or former husband who beat her. Sharon McNerney, acquitted of second- degree murder last week in the Feb. 12 slaying of her husband, George, described him in an in- terview as a man with a tough-guy reputation that he couldn’t—or wouldn’- t— shake. “He hated life, hated the heaviness of it,” she said. ‘He would have been completely happy living in the mountains by More People in the News himself without the frustrations of bills an jobs and people;” A Marquette County circuit court judge said the state failed to prove that Mrs. McNerney, 42, was not acting in self-de- fence, She has returned to work as a secretary. Last month, Francine ‘Hughes of: Lansing was, found Innocent. by. reason. of insanity in the arson death of her former hus- band who, she testified, beat her during their marriage and continued to do so after their di- vorce. Mrs. Hughes has been found mentally competent and was freed from custody. BEATINGS STARTED Mrs. McNerney said her husband, 45 when he died, started beating her when she was 16 and engaged to him. “He apologized and cried and said he’d never do it again. I forgave him because I believed him,” she said in the interview with the Detroit Free Press. But the _ beatings became more brutal and morefrequent—an average of one a month. Sometimes, she said, McNerney would go for one of their three children and "Td intervene and get the brunt of it.” On the day she shot him, she said, McNerney slapped her around and warned her,‘‘OK, you bitch. This time you won't be able to tell the cops because I'm going to kill you.” Mrs. McNerney said she thought he meant it. She got a shotgun from their bedroom and fired twice. Then she went to police and confessed. New York Stocks Quiet At NEW YORK (AP) — Present and possible future takeover can- didates came in for most of the action Monday as the stock m rket posted a Moderate overall loss in quiet trading. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials, which fell 20.44 points last week, dipped 2.95 more to 821,03. The New York Stock Exchange composite index of more than 1,500 common stocks was down 0.22 at 52.12 and NYSE volume totalled only 19.16 million shares compared with 21.16 million Friday, Wh t stocks did Mon. Fri. Advaked 591777 Declined 853640 Unchanged 466475 Total 1,9101,892 J. Ray McDermott jumped 6% to $564, ee. company said Friday al hy Unijed Technologies nad ex -pressed an interest in ac -quiring it, United said it had made no specific plafs for an offer for Mc- Dermott, but added that it “continues to evaluaz ll possible ac -quisitions.” McDermott and United recently were colm- petitive bidders for another company, Bab- cock and Wilcox. Mc- Dermott wound up with a chunk of Babeock and has recently been negotiating to acquire the rest. United's shares rose %4 to $365 Monday. Bab- cock slipped 5% to $574. RECEIVE OFFERS Meanwhile, Ser- . vomation climbed 1% to $2634 on word from the company that some of its holders had received offers for their stock. Start of Week Sycor, subject of a merger agreement in rinciple with Northern elecom, jumped 33, to $19%, while Northern Telecom lost % to $2544. Otherwise, analysts said it was difficult to get a clear picture of over-all market sentiment in the midst of year-end tax manoeuvring by in- vestors. They said tax selling had been par- ticularly evident in blue chip issues such as those in the Dow average, which have ranked among the market's poorest performers this year. British Petroleum Jed the active list, off 14 at $15%. Blocks of 800,000 and 233,600 shares traded at that price. U.S. Industries fell '» lo $73. The company said it would buy 2.6 million of the about seven million shares it received under an offer to repurchase some of ils own stock. Among Camiudian issues on the NYSE, Bell ‘Canada was up ': at 341, MelIntyre up ?z at $23 and Dome Mines up ta at Oy, Campbell Red Lake was down “hy at duty. 5 Day NFU Convention By ALLAN BARTLEY SASKATOON (CP) — “The president of the National Farmers Union said Monday that Ca- nadiaf7griculture policy has consistently opposed the interests of the farm community. . Roy Atkinson, speaking at the opening sessions of the NFU’s _ five-day convention, said the rural community is in decline, farmers are losing their battle to maintain a decent income and there is increasing concen- tration of agricultural re- sources. “It angers me to say this process seems to be perfectly in tune with the philosophy of the federal overnment,’’ he told 350 elegates. Earlier, the NFU released a re prepared by one of its committees that called for a federal royal commission inquiry into land use. Atkinson, outspoken leader of the 8,000. member union since its creation, said farmers are demanding a better organized, orderly and well-planned market economy. His speech, which received a standing ovation, streased the NFU’s policy of an or- derly m rketing system for agriculture products, Programs had been in- troduced in the last few years that encouraged an agricultural production system which produced food for profit ‘while greater depopulation of Tural areas ea a growing lan en take hold,” he said, SEES DOUBLE | STANDARD Atkinson said the “free market elite” is prepared to reduce or eliminate competition and accept government interference in the economy when such involvement in- creases corporate ; profits—a form of double Standard. _. He cited $11 billion in deferred" unpaid cor- porate income taxes, income tax reductions to farmers which have benefited machinery companies, government- supported farm loans and elimination of com- petition between CP Rail and Canadian National Railways. “Tt seems damn clear to me that the so-called free market economy does not exist in the corporate sector.” Atkinson said =a national meat authority, advocated by the NFU, is asolution to the problems of livestock producers. “We must not be- content to accept half- baked solutions that seem to always end up leaving us in more trouble than we started with,” he warned, “There are these who aje content to settle for less,”’ ALLEGED BLACKLIST Atkinson said , NFU's opposition to government policies has apparently led to it bein included on an alleg RCMP blacktist. ; “We're going to go to the royal commission on the RCMP and ask to see | the files on ‘our organization, if indeed there are files, and we're going. to ask that this surveillance be stopped.” _ Departing from a prepared text, Atkinson said he was beginning to understand how facism had developed in Italy and Germany. He said that unless the population understands issurs “‘il's easy." n “People must — un- derstand the implications - of a police state. You can't have freedom by destroying it." The reference td the ROMP was the only segment of the speeels to provoke questions from - the audience. Atkinson said in response that no matter how tine police are ats individuals, they must whey orders from . people in power, KAR FHQUAKE In ain average year, the world can expect at lras: one “great” eartlnyia ke, registering a niaguite. of eight or more os on, Richter scale :