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...July 1941, a commandant at Auschwitz arbitrarily selected ten men to be starved to death in reprisal for the escape of one inmate. Francizek Gajowniczek, one of the ten, cried out for his wife and two children. Father Kolbe, 47, a political prisoner, offered to take Gajowniczek's place. Consigned to a basement cell, Kolbe survived about two weeks without food or water, consoling his fellow victims with prayers, until a prison guard finally killed him with an injection...
...Branford, Conn., 750 mi. from Chicago, Lieut.-Commander Thomas G. W. ("Tex") Settle, pilot of the Navy bag and winner of last year's race from Basle, Switzerland, was far in the lead. Then out of the wilds of Quebec, bearded and exhausted, trudged the Polish entrants, Captain Francizek Hynek and Lieut. Zbigniev Burzynski. They had descended about 102 mi. northeast of Rivére Á. Pierre, followed moose paths and bashed through thick forests to Lemieux on the railroad. Their flight was estimated at about 1,050 mi. (The record...
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