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The Coolidge examiner., 1942-02-13
Loucks Hosts
Friday Night

Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Loucks were
hosts to a group OF friends for a
covered dish dinner in their home
on Friday. Cards furnished the eve
ning's entertainment.
Those present were Mr.. and Mrs.
c. ]. Wells, Mr.. and Mrs. Dalton
Cole, Mr.. and Mrs. w. r. Elliott,
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Talla, Mr.. and
Mrs. N. G. Murray, Mrs. Harvey
Smith and F. p. Jameson.
The Coolidge examiner., 1942-02-13
Clements Hosts
On Friday Night

Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Clements
were hosts to a group Of friends
for a covered dish dinner and eve
ming OF cards in their home on
Friday.
Those present were Mr.. and Mrs.
Leon Smith. Mr.. and Mrs. A. l..
Novel;. Mr.. and Mrs. w. ID. John
son. Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Wrenn
and Mrs. f. c. Stocker.
The Coolidge examiner., 1942-02-13

Q Mrs. Howard Babst and Mrs.
Clifford Chin. both of Los Angeles.
left Thursday after weeks visit
with their husbands, army engi-
neers. who have been here for
some time Mrs. Babst and Mrs.
Chin were guests at the New San
Carlos Hotel.
The Coolidge examiner., 1942-02-13
Celebrate Birthdays
At Relief Society

Members OF the Ids. Relief So
ciety met at the home of Mrs.
william Pew on Monday. where
the birthdays OF Mrs. William Ray
and Mrs. Lund OF Florence were
celebrated.
Mrs. John Langford and Mrs.
Bruce Moody were hostesses.
Mrs. A. X. Osborn was welcomed
into the society as new member.
The next meeting Will be at the
home OF Mrs. Moody on Monday.
The Coolidge examiner., 1942-02-13

Q Mr.. and Mrs Chester Jones OF
Superior. Mrs. A. A. Williams. A.
c. Gerald and Billy Jo williams.
and Mrs. John Coyle and baby
Carolyn. all OF Chandler. were
guests OF Dr.. and Mrs. c. r. Jack.
son on Sunday.
The Coolidge examiner., 1942-02-13

. Young Ronnie PottebaHm OF Cha
Bend Is visiting Mr.. Mrs. Herbert
Hanna at their ranch home. Ron
ME is Mrs. Hanna's nephew.
The Coolidge examiner., 1942-02-13

OMr. and Mrs. Pete King OF Flor
ence adopted a baby girl last
week. Mr.. King was formerly en-
ployed at Hines Drug Company
here for three years and both he
and Mrs. King have many Coo
lidge friends.
The Coolidge examiner., 1942-02-13

OWord has been received by Mr..
and Mrs. C. ]. Moody that their son
Charles Moody. who is training at
an air base in California, was the
first cadet out of class 230 to solo
in one OF the new basic training
DlaQes
The Coolidge examiner., 1942-02-13
Local Happenings

. Tom Fl. Walker OF Deming. New
Mexico, visited the r. w. Chad
born's from Saturday to Tuesday.
Mr.. Walker Is Mrs. Chandborn's
nephew
The Coolidge examiner., 1942-02-13

Q Mrs. f. c. Stocker has recently
arrived from st. Louis TO spend the
remainder of the winter here. Mrs.
Stocker. who made friends in Coo
lidge on a previous visit, is staying
at Vah-ki Inn.
The Coolidge examiner., 1942-02-13

Q Mr.. and Mrs. F. T. Wylie return
ed Friday from Los Angeles. Cali
fornia. where they went to attend
the funeral services OF their daugh
ter Mrs. W. II Mosley. who passed
away there on Monday.
The Coolidge examiner., 1942-02-13

OMrs. Phil Neese and baby daugh-
ter Sandra Kay of Douglas arrived
Sunday for a weeks visit with her
parents Mr.. and Mrs. John Skrla.
Mrs. Neese is former Coolidge
resident
The Coolidge examiner., 1942-02-13

Q Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Cohen and
family. Mrs. A. Culver Golden OF
Brookline. Massachusetts. and Mr..
and Mrs. Emil Meyers OF Casa
Grande were dinner guests OF Mrs.
Cohen's father A. Kaufman in
Tucson Sunday. Roswell Fine. Mrs.
Cohen's nephew who is a student
at the University OF Arizona, was
also a guest
The Coolidge examiner., 1942-02-13

Little David at the Craig home
is improving after serious illness.
but Mrs. L. S. Craig Is now quite
ui
Evening star., 1942-08-10
Jops Refuse Kow|oon Prisoners Medicine
Or Permission to Bury Dead Outside Camp

the book suppose, 1t Is under
stood all debts will be paid after
the war
Within the first week the men
began to come down with dysentery
The disease began to spread
Not Party to Pacts, They Say.
One of our officers asked the Japa-
nese for medicine to fight the dis
ease. They answered:
Japan is not a party to either
the Geneva or the Hague agree
ments concerning the treatment of
prisoners of war"
Men died. I do not know exactly
how many. 1t is hard to tell.
When the men were dead, the
officer asked the japanese for per-
mission for detail of our men to
bury our dead in the ground outside
the prison barbed wire.
The answer of the Japanese was
the same. Permission was refused
We had to bury our dead inside the
| barbed wired inclosure of 1900 by
1900 feet,
I am Al years old. I was physically
hard when the japanese took me
prisoner. I weighed 1876 pounds and
did not require as much fuel to keep
me going as bigger, heavier men.
But there were other men in the
! prison, big men, used to eating
/ pound steaks. to whom the bowl of
rice meant next to nothing.
Each of the 1000 of us in Sham
shuipo. the japanese military prison
/ camp in Kowloon. had been living
for 18 days on Is tablespoons Of
rice a day when some of the men
| began to look around for something
else to eat
There were two huge. mongrel
Chinese dogs running around the
prison yard.
One Dog Disappears.
There were two men in the camp
who kept looking at the dogs quite
a bit. They were husky men who
were used to eating three square
meals day. They were both
army privates and were members
of an anti aircraft unit which haG
been stationed in Hong Kong.
One day one of them said to me:
IF I had a sharp knife I'd skir
one of those dogs and we'd have 9
meal"
I was hungry, but I didn't fee
like taking him up. But while
later I noticed that there was only
Evening star., 1942-08-10

did not think 1t would work. They
had been on rice for so long that
1t seemed better not to try anything
I talked to a priest about 1t. ]
will not give his name. He is stu
in the camp. and you cannot tell
what the japanese will do to a
priest.
He said:
You know what it means II they
get you"
I said that I knew. They would
kill me. Then I rolled back what
was left of my shirtsleeves AND
showed him my arms.
They were so thin that I coulc
put thumb and forefinger arouno
them above the elbow. There wa:
I no flesh on them. 1t seemed thai
/ there was no flesh on me anywhere
/ I knew that when I was taken prls,
oner 1 weighed 1856 pounds. 1t die
not seem to me that could welgf
more than a hundred now.
L will have to make some kint
OF a break pretty soon,' I said
IF I wait much longer I will b.
too weak to make the try or I vii
be dead"
Evening star., 1942-08-10

But their voices were always
strong and I remember wondering
how far across the harbor or across
the mainland those 1000 voices
could be heard. And I wondered II
our wives and children could hear
us wherever they were in the Japa-
nese internment camps.
The other thing I did was to play
bridge. One of the men in my mess
had pack Of cards which made us
luckier than any one else in the
prison. We played until the cards
were so worn it was barely possible
to read them. We played for 10
cents hundred. We did not have
any money but all winnings and
losses were regularly entered in a
book which was kept by Mr..
Coates, a volunteer naval officer.
He is still in prison. He still has
Evening star., 1942-08-10

one OF the dogs running around the
camp.
I asked the man about it later on
He told me that he and his COM
panion and a few others had killed
it and roasted the meat over one OF
the fires on which they boiled the
rice.
That was the way things went
in the Shamshuipo camp for the
80 days from December 26 to Jam
uary "a. There were no lights what
ever inside the barbed wire and at
dusk, which usually came at that
time of the year at about 7:45 or
s o'clock. 1 would lie down on the
floor of my quarters and try to &C
to sleep
But all of this time, no matter
what I was doing, I was thinking
of escape. There were rumorS
around the prison that all OF us
were 10 be taken into Japan anc
l knew that once this happened
there would be even less chance OF
getting away than there was here
And it was bad enough here.
| Late in the afternoon OF January
"a the short, squat men with the
long arms and machine guns ane
/ bayonets came for us. We were
lined up in the prison yard. Oul
own officers conferred with Japa
nese officers and their interpreters
there were always interpreters. Th'
men with the machine guns stoot
slouched and hunched.
A Wholesale Transfer.
It was a wholesale transfer. All
naval officers, men and Canadian
were to leave the camp. We Wer'
to leave at once. That was all.
The japanese would not sa,
where they were taking us. w
were leaving. That was all the,
would say. So most of us though
it would be Japan and we began
trying to figure out some way t.
make break for it. But the brown
men kept close to us with the bayo
nets and machine guns. We didn'
have a chance. And we had beer
living on l6 tablespoons OF rice TO
80 days. We had all we could do t.
walk and to keep our bodies ava.
from the bayonets.
Evening star., 1942-08-10
Meade Sergeant
Visits Elephants
|OnSundoyLeov

BY the Ass oclst ted Press.
MASSAPEQUA, N. Y. Aug. 10
Six days a week Acting sergt.
Nicholas James goes through his
duties at Fort Meade. Md, but on
the seventh-Sunday-he gets all
slicked up and comes home to see
his three girl friends.
Life in the Army isn't so bad, he
said yesterday, but if he couldn't
get Sundays off to see Trixie. Maud
and Cutie he wouldn't know quite
what TO do.
No, insisted Sergt James, he
doesn. mind committing" couple
of hundred miles weekly to visit his
three heart throbs and If they run
little to plumpness that's the way
he likes 'em, that's all.
Before Sergt. James was drafted
last June he was elephant trainer
at the Long Island Jungle Camp
here and because his whole life has
been nothing but training one
pachyderm after another he can't
stand being away from the three
elephants, his former charges, for
more than a week.
So far it's worked out flne-the
sergeant has been able to get SIX
of the last seven week ends off
usually getting away at noon Satur-
day, riding by bus to Baltimore,
taking a train for New York and
spending the night at his Brooklyn
home before coming here to put the
three elephants through their PAGES
on Sunday.
Sergt. James spends most OF Sun
day mornings and most OF the
afternoons with Trixie, Maud and
Cutie, and then hies himself back
to the fort by the II pm. curfew.
Evening star., 1942-08-10
(Second OF a Series.)
BY BENJAMIN PROULX
CAS- Told to Carl B. WAlh.


After the japanese had been feed
Ing us with one bowl of rice a day
for three days, the British doctors
who were in the prison camp posted
q warning to the 1000 men which
read like this:
ut will be possible for the average
white man to live only about six
months on the diet which we are
receiving. Extreme caution must be
exercised in order to live even for
this length of time. 1t is therefore
necessary that all men physically
exert themselves as little as possible.
If you are 40 years of age or above,
no physical exercise whatever-not
even walking about the camp-is
advisable"
So there were two things that we
did after a while. One of them was
this:
Scattered around the barracks, We
found 48 hymn books, Then we
managed to find bits of pencils
among us and scraps of paper. Then
ss many of the 1000 men as possible
would be split up into groups of
about 40 or so.
One of the men in each group
would be given hymn book. The
other men would sit around him tai
lor-fashion in a circle.
Then the man with the hymn book
would read out loud the hymns
which had been selected and the
men around him would write then
on the scraps of paper,
We would do this all week so that
by Sunday morning we would have
the hymns copied on nearly 1000
pieces of paper.
1000 Sing Hymns.
And then on Sunday morning each
man would be given his copy of tht
hymns and be able to join in tht
singing. On those cold clear Sun
day mornings all of the men would
sit on their launches in great
circle and sing the hymns. The
japanese outside the barbed wire
with their bayonets and machine
guns would watch us and their faces
would be blank.
But I remember the faces of oul
men with the cold morning sunlight
on them. They were white and tense
and worn out and some of then
were so wasted that they would have
to lean against the man next te
them even to be able to sit up.
Evening star., 1942-08-10

We shuffied down to the water
front. And then I saw that 1t was
not to be Japan after all, for they
were loading us into small launches.
All the way across Victoria harbor
to Hong Kong Island, our small
boats were under the guns of Japa-
nese patrol boats and with us were
the ever-present little men with the
bayonets.
At dusk we were being herded
through the barbed wire of the
North Point prison camp on the
northern end of Hong Kong Island.
I had heard about this place before
For the last two years Chinese
refugees had huddled there in
flimsy wooden hutS. I guess they
thought they would be safe there
from the japanese invaders.
l don't know what happened to
them when the japanese came to
Hong Kong. They weren't there
when we got there but the wooden
huts were, and there was blood on
the floors.
Prisoners Crowded In.
When the Chinese lived there ir
the huts there had been less thar
1000 men, women and children
The japanese put 5000 of us in the
same huts. The camp was about
/ one-third the size of Shamshuipo
1t was rectangular in shape anc
about the same layout. There wa'
barbed wire around three sides ant
sea wall on the fourth. There were
the same machine guns and sentrie!
with bayonets.
The rice was the same. Every
thing was the same. The days, th
nights. the mornings Only now W
did not even have hymn books t.
copy.
But on the afternoon of my secon'
day in the North Point prison,
began to see a way in which al
escape might possibly be made.
| talked to MANY men about it, The
Evening star., 1942-08-10

The doctors had told us we could
live for six months on the rice diet
If We took good care of ourselves.
I had already used up 80 days.
(copyrisht. 1a4e, by Field Publiestton)
Evening star., 1942-08-10

HoD are the japanese treating
their prisoners OF ,Dar7 A pdriety
OF accounts OF atrocities, mostly
from, Hong Kong. hdue been
printed. Here q French Canadian,
,Dho escaped from Hong Kong
military prison. tells his story.
and it is not a pretty one.
Evening star., 1942-06-02
School Now Prison

The boarding school in Bavaria
where "Maedchen in Uniform" was
filmed has been made prison camp
for Belgian soldiers.
Evening star., 1942-06-02
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATA Raj BOMBER COMMAND
BASE, June 2-The greasy, grim
ming ground crews sang We're Of
to Bomb the ferries" to the tune of
THE Wizard of Or" as they loaded
incendiaries and high explosive
bombs into the four -motored
thunder birds preparing for last
nights raid on Essen and the Ruhr.
Scores of Strings, Halifaxes and
Lancasters dotted the landscape.
Mechanics, filters and armorers
swarmed around them. You could
hear them whistle with admiration
as the big bomb loads came out.
The air crews sat around in the
sun and talked about everything but
the war.
An earnest Scot demonstrated the
Bobby Jones swing. Leonard john
son from Corpus Christi, Tex,
boasted about Texas University foot
ball teams. Johnson was going TO
fly one of the bombers. The Scot
was wireless operator and gunner in
another. 1t was his tenth big show.
There was no speculation on what
the target was to be. Every one kept
his eye on the weather, though. All
felt in their bones that there would
be a scramble" if it remained clear.
The only time they talked of the
war was when a long string OF
Evening star., 1942-06-02
BY DREW MIDDLETON,
Associated Press War Corresponden

WITH THE R. A. F. BOMBER
COMMAND, June Listen brother,
there's not a damned thing left in
Cologne
1t was a 21-year-old Texan, Bud"
Cardinal of Fort Worth. speaking
and Bud ought to know, for he was
one of the first r. A. F. airmen to
fly over the now-ruined German
Rhineland city in Saturday nights
1,250-plane raid.
You had to line up as though 1t
was a movie" he elaborated I'VE
went in plane by plane and when the
boys really got swinging you couldn't
see the explosions of the bombs be-
cause the fire down there was so
big"
Bud. who came out of Texas to
join what he called "the Royal Texas
Air Force" in Canada. was among
the 6000-odd British. Scotch. Aus
tralian, Canadian and Barbados
airmen who wheeled the big bombers
over Cologne and its industrial
environs.
Jock" a 19-year- -old Scotch
Cologne was his 18th big
raid-said the huge Hohenzollern
bridge across the Rhine must have
been blown to bits; nothing could
stand in what we gave them"
Targets Outlined.
All the pilots agreed that the
R. A F. tactic of sending in bombers
to drop incendiaries first had out
lined the targets in flames and made
the job easier for those who came
later with the 5000 tons of explosive
There's a guy named Honychurch
from Brooklyn who was in on the
raid said Cardinal. He isn't
around just now but he says his
ship came in slow, let go. then turn
ed off. He said the bursting bombs
looked like about a thousand big
guns firing"
Honychurch formerly was an en-
Evening star., 1942-06-02
139 Killed at Cologne,
Berlin Radio Declares

BERLIN from German broad
casts, June CP.-The Berlin radio
quoted dispatches from Cologne last
night as saying 139 civilians thus
far had died as a result of the
British raid, and that "the night
mare of Sunday still is weighing on
the Cologne population"
Far reaching measures were
taken for those who have lost their
homes" the West Deutsche Beo-
bachter said, "and the homeless are
showing much discipline although
many have lost their entire property.
The British bomberS carried out
a terror attack which resulted in
great damage to property. Indis-
criminately residential quarters were
attacked in all parts Of the town
The regional headquarters of the
National Socialist peoples welfare
organization, for instance, was COM
pletely destroyed. Likewise, big de-
partment stores and schools were
destroyed. The police headquarters
fair buildings, business houses and
schools as we'll as three churches
and two hospitals were heavily dam
aged. The roofs in particular
caught fire in many districts
80 : The population is profound
ly indignant and enraged at this
British atrocity. If the British be-
lieved that they could call forth
panic or disintegrate the will to
offer resistance by their terror at
tack they have attained the op-
posite.
g" The attackers achieved
nothing in military way. = May
Churchill do whAt he wants, the
final victory is ours"
Evening star., 1942-06-02
There's Not Damned Thing Left in Cologne,
Says Texan, One of First Men in Big Raid
P. Wirephotos.

correct" said johnson. But after
the way they organized this raid and
carried it out take of my hat to
them"
They got CUTS, too" Cardinal
put in. Though they don't go
around hollering about it.
"A kid in my plane got machine
gun bullet through his leg Saturday
night. We didn't know about it
until he collapsed getting out of the
plane.
The British learned this business
the hard way and the right way
And say, these mass raids are the
| thing.
Those krauts didn't know what
to do the other night. Fighters and
f1aks all fired wild. II we keep
rollin' and our air force comes in
we'll end this war sooner than you
think"
"That1l please Honychurch, ''
johnson commented. Then he can
get home to Brooklyn for the World
Series"
Lengthy Preparations.
The ground crews which prepared
the big kites" for the raid confessed
they didn't know where they were
| going.
1t was only when the planes began
dropping on their fields that they
learned of the magnitude of the as
sault on Cologne and Happy VAL
ley" as the Ruhr is known to Brit
ish airmen
These men who get the planes
ready worked 48 hours almost with
out pause over the week end
I'VE worked all day Saturday, saw
the planes off and as socn as they
came back we worked until they
we're ready again" said one officer.
Evening star., 1942-06-02
Lack Of Gunners Reprieves
Zoos Fractious Elephant
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, June 2.-William
Gully, Swope Park Zoo director,
thought his troubles would be over
when he found an elephant gun. He
has the gun now, but no one to
shoot it.
The gun was loaned by Henry
Bundschu, who collects firearms in
stead of shooting them.
All Of the gunners hereabouts who
are stout enough to stand the recoil
Of firing the contraption at Temple,
the zoos fractions elephant con-
demned to death, are too stout to
make safe and quick getaway if
they miss.
The ones fleet enough to make a
getaway in case they miss, probably
wouldn't be able to after firing the
gun, Mr.. Bundschu warned as he
handed over the field piece.
So Temples still the zoos prob
lem child, getting her three squares
daily.
Evening star., 1942-06-02
Cologne Casualties
Put al 10000 Dead
And $4,000 Wounded
Mass Migration Reported
Under Way From Rhine
To Munich District
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 2-The record
r, A. F. raid on Cologne killed "in
the neighborhood of 10000" persons,
wounded $4,000, 20 per cent of them
critically, and put in motion a mass
migration from the Rhineland, the
New York Times said today in a re-
port credited to private advices
from competent neutral observers in
Berlin"
Three -flfths of the inhabitants of
Cologne-total population roughly
800.000--are being evacuated, mostly
to the area of Munich, where they
will be housed in emergency bar
racks erected in the last "a hours,
the newspaper said.
The entire populations of Aachen,
Dusseldorf, Wuppertal, Mainz and
other cities have started a mass mi
grafton from the Rhineland in fear
of further bombardment, it added.
OF the damage in Cologne, the
New York Times said:
Although details are lacking, it is
understood from Berlin neutral
quarters that roughly five-sevenths
of Cologne's chemical and fine ma
chine-tool industries have been COM
pletely wrecked"
Special detachments of the Ger
man Army sanitary forces were said
to have been dispatched to the city
to aid the local services in prevent
ing the spread of disease.
Evening star., 1942-06-02
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
AN ADVANCED ALLIED BASE.
Australia, June l delayed LIT.
John c. O'Donnell, 22-year-old
bomber pilot from Oakland, Md,
was suspicious of his left engine on
a recent mission over Lac, New
Guinea, but it has his OK. now.
Japanese Zero fighters jumped 1t.
ODonnell's -engined plane and
its flying mates over the target,
starting a running air battle which
lasted IS minutes.
The right engine was machine
gunned and cannon-shelled into
silence, but the suspected left one
kept the bomber in the air while its
two gunners shot down four Zeros.
Then it pulled the plane home
safely despite hits in the tail and
other places. Never before has a
bomber of this type been known to
fly so long on one engine.
Three Enemy Planes Bagged.
1t. O'Donnel said Tail Gunner
Pvt. Ivan w. Henderson of South
Bend, Wash, bagged three of the
enemy fighters and Sergt. Harry
Berg of Cedarville, N. j.. downed
the other. Lt Louis McCord, "a. of
Montgomery. Ala, was co-pilot.
Bombardier 1t. r. L. Galloway, 26,
of Seguin, Tex, said:
when Henderson reported he had
shot down three Zeros we asked him
on the phone what it was like. He
shouted: Just like shooting clay
pigeons.
The navigator. 1t. Cecil E. Riddle,
"a. of Ashland, KY, reported an ex-
citing moment for himself and the
radioman, Corpl. A. J. Capello of
Rochester, N. Y.
"A bullet came through the fuse
lage," he said, land Missed around
like a Fourth of July pinwheel. 1t
spent itself without touching either
of us" .
Edges Along Coast.
Still long way from base and
having a difficult time coaxing one
engine to do the work of two, 1t.
O'Donnell radioed he probably would
have>to make forced landing Too
short On power to climb over noun
tains. he edged along the coast in
order to crashland on the beach if
| necessary.
/ Back at the home runway, officers
had about exhausted their hope and
scanned the sky just once more,
then scored 1t. O'Donnell's plane as
missing. But in a few minutes, he