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were beaten on the face and body,
and latter a doctor dressed their
wounds, the Japs took sticks and
beat them again.
Men literally were worked to
death; it was not unusual for 20
per cent of work detail to die,
and in one instance, rs per cent
were killed that way"
Mccoy reported that when two
Army officers and Navy officer
were caught trying to escape from
Cabanatuan, their Japanese cap
tors beat them about the feet and
legs till they could no l,nger stand,
then kicked the officers and Jump
ed on them
The next morning the three
Americans, stripped to t h e r
shorts, were taken out on the road
in full view of the camp, their
hands were tied behind them, and
they were pulled up by ropes from
an overhead purchase, so that
they had to remain standing, but
bent forward to ease the pressure
on their arms" the report said.
They were kept in this position
in the blazing sun for two full
days. Periodically the japanese
beat them with two-by-four, and
any Filipino unlucky enough to
pass that way was compelled to
beat them too. If he failed to beat
them hard enough, the japanese
beat him. After two days of this,
one of the officers was beheaded
and the other two were shot.
"The Japanese made every ef-
fort to humiliate their prisoners
Of war. They would force them to
stand and call them vile names
When one older American colonel
turned away, from a Japanese re.
Wiling him, he was knocked I'm.
conscious with a blackjack. Ameri.
can flags were habitually and de-
signedly used as rags in the Jap
anese kitchens.
The death rate at Cabanatuan ir
June and July, 1912, was 80 Amer
leans a day, the three officers
reported the rate in August more
than 20 day, and in September
IS a day-"because by that time
most Of the weaker men were al
ready dead" During October il
ranged upward from is to 10 q
day and was increasing wher
Dyess, Mellnik and Mccoy left Ca
banatuan.
by that date" said the report
5000 of the 12,200 Army, Navy
and Marine corps prisoners at Ca
banatuan had died. There were g.
500 in the hospitals, and the Ameri
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spent, hungry American and Fill
pino soldiers on Bataan as soon
as they surrendered with what the
survivors later called 1.-The march
of death,'' said the report.
e The report was assembled from
statements made by Commander
Melvyn H. Mccoy, U.S.N., 1925 La
Sale street, Indianapolis; 1t. Col.
S. M. Mellnik, coast artillery, OF
Dunmore, Pa, and 1t. Col. Wll-
liam E. Dyess, air corps, OF Al
bany, Tex.
Dyes was killed in crash OF
his fighter plane at Burbank,
Calf, recently while he. was pre-
pairing to return to combat against
the japanese. Mellnik is now with
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's COM
mand in the Southwest Pacific,
and Mccoy is on duty in the United
States.
: While the report was based ex-
clusively on the records of these
three officers. the joint statement
said other Americans known to
have escaped from japanese pris-
on camps in the Philippines in
clude three officers and one en-
listed man of the Marine Corps
Major Michel Dobervitch, of Iron
ton, Mimi, Major Austin c. Shot
ner, Shelbyville, Tenn, Major Jack
Hawkin of Roxton, Tex. and Cor
poral Reid Carlos Chamberlain. Of
Ell Cajone, Calf.
Dyess told the Army that
Though beaten, hungry and tired
from the terrible last days Of COM
bat on Bataan, though further re-
sistance was hopeless, our Ameri-
can soldiers and their Filipino
comrades in arms would not have
surrendered had they known the
fate in store for them"
The March of DEATH" Dyess
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+, said began when thousands OF
prisoners were herded together at
| Mariveles airfield on Bataan at
daylight on April 10, 1912, after
their surrender.
Some of them had food, he said,
but the guards would not permit
any of them to eat; they were
searched, their personal belong
ings taken, those with japanese
tokens or money were beheaded
and then-in groups of 500 to 1000
men-the prisoners were marched
along the National road off Bataan
toward San Fernando in Pampan-
ga province.
Those who still had personal be-
lodgings were stripped Of them,
and the japanese slapped and beat
them with sticks as they marched
without food or water on hot
day, the report said.
Dyess, describing ''The March of
DEATH" said that a Japanese SOL
die- took his canteen, gave the
water to a horse, and threw the
canteen away; men recently killed
were lying along the roadside,
many run over and flattened by
Japanese trucks; patients bombed
out of hospital, dazed, wandering
in pajamas and slippers, were
herded into the marching column:
the prisoners marched the second
day without food, but at noon were
permitted to drink dirty water
from a stream beside the road; no
one was allowed to help prisoners
who collapsed and fell; on the
third day, the prisoners got their
first taste of "sun treatment, "
forced to sit in the boiling sun all
day without cover.
1--WE had very little water; our
thirst was intense" Dyess report
ed. MANY of us went crazy and
several died. The Japan e
dragged out the sick and delirious.
Three Filipino and three American
soldiers were buried while still
alive.
The story continued:
Filipino civilians who tried to
help were beaten; A colonel and
Filipino soldier who picked up
three soldiers who had collapsed
an put them on cart were
seized by the Japanese and they
and the three soldiers, in coma,
were horsewhipped; six Filipino
soldiers, half-crazed with thirst,
made a dash for a roadside well,
and all six were killed.
Il. made that march of about
IS miles in six days on one mess
kit of rice" said Dyess. "Other
Americans made The March of
Death in II days, without any
food whatever. Much of the time.
of course, they were given the
sun treatment along the way
The report said that prisoners
taken at orregidor a month later,
among them Mccoy and Mellnik.
had no experience quite like the
death march
However, 1000 Americans ane
5000 Filipinos were concentrated
on a square of concrete about zoe
yards on each side, kept there
without food for a week. There
was only one water spigot for the
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Army. Navv ReleaseTale OF Jap Brutality To US.

II, 900 men. After seven days they
got their first rations-one mess
kit of rice and a can of sardines.
At Camp O'Donneil, said Dyes
statement, the Japanese command.
ing officer made a speech to the
Americans and he Filipinos tell
ing them they were not prisoners OF
war but captives without rights or
! privileges.
The camp had virtually no wa.
ter facilities prisoners stood in
line from six to ten hours to get
a drink. The principal food was
rice, meat came twice in two
months-enough to give one-fourth
of the prisoners piece an inch
square, and a few times they had
comoties, type of sweet potato,
many Of them rotten. There was
intermittent raioning of potatoes
one spoonful per man. Once or
twice the prisoners got a few man.
60 beans, a little flour to make a
paste gravy for the rice, and a
spoonful each of coconut lard.
Some Japanese operated black
market, selling a can of fish for
S.. After one week, the death rate
among American soldiers was 20
day, among the Filipinos $50.
had increased to so a day among
Americans and 500 among the Fill
pinos.
One dilapidated building was set
aside and called a hospital, but
there was no medicine of any kind
the doctors had not even water
to wash human waste from their
patients. Once the Japanese al.
lowed the Red Cross at Manila to
bring in quinine-''hoW much, the
prisoners never found out
There were thousands of cases
of malaria, and men afflicted with
dysentery remained out in the
weather near the latrines until they
died" Frequently, for no apparent
reason, prisoners were forced to
line up and stand in the sun for
hours.
About June l, the American pris-
oners at Camp O'Donnell were
moved to Cabanatuan concentra-
ton camp, where Dyess joined
Mellnik and Mccoy. He found con-
ditions there slightly improved,
with adequate drinking water and
water for bathing from muddy
seepage wells. But japanese bru.
tally continued, and rice was still
the principal diet.
Officers were not forced to work
at Cabanatuan, but enlisted men
were, and frequently were beaten
numerically, Dyess reported.
When two Americans were caught
getting food from Filipino they
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miles inland and to the edge Of
the historic Appian Way. Steady
progress has been reported since
that time, and it is safe to as
sumo that the Appian Way has
been cut in at least one place.
Apparently the Hermann Goer-
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force its way up to clear this main
traffic artery between Rome and
the coastal sector of the main
Fifth Army front. A Navy an
nouncement that Allied warships
were heavily Smelling the highway
around Terracina and Formia in
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-16

Runaway boys and girls and youths who leave home to obtain work or to follow the soldiers are the chief source of increasing ju- venile delinquency in war expanded communities, according to the Ma tional Probation Association in one of its special community reports | just issued. This three months study of juvenile delinquency in San Diego, Calif., community expanded by war industries and military and naval camps, was made at the request of the county board of supervisors and the proba- ton committee.
 The study shows that the popu- lation of San Diego went from 203,- 341 in 194O to 309,871 in 1943, an in- l crease of 52 per cent. In the same period arrests of resident children and youth under eighteen increased 537 per cent, but arrests of run away and nonresident children jumped 400 per cent. The increase was greatest among girls. The re- port says, Some of the girls were found in cheap hotels and were known to entertain a stream of men visitors. Such a manner of life is not acquired in a few days. The neglect and delinquency of many of them has rather been transferred to community to which they have been attracted by the glamor to the uniform and by the departure of their boy friends from their home communities. The fact that many of the girls are very young must add to our concern for them. Some, arrested for having become prac- tically prostitutes, were only twelve years of age when apprehended here"
 To insure proper treatment of these unfortunate youths, and to better protect the public, the re- port recommends full-time juve- nile court judge and expansion of the probation department, with trained workers; a new juvenile court building with adequate deten- ton quarters to prevent the fre- quent detention of children in jail; a temporary shelter for non-delin-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-16
|BUS PASSENGRS
 FILE COMPLAINT
Aldermen Demand C. R. & L. Co. Remove Snow at
 All Bus Stops

Presence of snow at bus stops of the Connecticut Railway & Lighting Company was called to the attention of the Board of Works by an alder manic committee at a meeting last night, and the committee on streets was instructed to consult with the corporation counsel on possible &C., tion.
 Protests on the condition of the streets at bus stops were voiced by Alderman Henry Minicucci, who ap- Reared at the works board meeting with Aldermen James Abercrombie and Martin Sullivan. He suggested that the city bill the bus company for removal of snow if the company does not do the work itself. The board was told passengers have dif- ficulty in getting into busses because of the piles of snow near the side walk curbs, and the busses are un- able to stop close to the curbs.
 Street Superintendent Herbert Scott-Smith and Mayor John s. Monagan said the small number of city street department workers make it impossible for the city to un- dertake the task of clearing the streets at bus stops. The board com- mittee was asked to study the sit- uation and report at the next meet ing.
 Hearings will be held at the first meeting next month on laying out and grading of Lydia and Marlboro streets and establishing building lines. Hearings regarding Francis
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-16

siderable attention aS both com poser and a conductor in many parts of the continent before his engagement in 1887 as associate conductor of the Minneapolis Sym phony. The following year he served as guest conductor of the Boston Symphony. Since 1S40, he has lived on the west coast, devoting all his time to composing and motion pie tuue scoring.
 Tn De Profundis Clamavi," the composer seeks expression of the emotions, hopes and dreams of the men of his generation who saw only wars and revolutions and wit messed the brutal enslavement not only of bodies but of souls" Amti- theatrof employs the entire first violin section as narrator
 The program will include RimSky- KorsakovS Spanish Caprice" Stra- vinsky's "Petrushka" suite and Tchaikovsky's Solitude"
 LeningradS heroic resistance to the two-year German siege, as told in dispatches by CBS correSepond- ent James Fleming, is dramatized on ColumbiaS "Dateline" program Friday. February IS. (WABC-CBS, 7:l5 to 7:30 p. m., EWTO. Subtitle for the broadcast is "Dateline: Leningrad."
 The program reveals the agony the city went through when it was cut of, save for a part-time ice road over Lake Ladoga, from the rest of the Soviet Union. The dram atiz&tion includes the recent Rus sian drive in the north which finally lifted the siege.
 "rsateline' is produced by Paul White, CBS director of news broad casts, and directed by Marx Loeb. Cotumbia's Of Men and Books"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-16
COLIN M'INTOSH
 FINISHES TEXT
Long Range Flight to Be Published By American
 Airlines Navigator

Colin H. Mcintosh, chief naviga- tor for American Airlines, has just finished the text on a new book Long Range Flight which McGraW Hill will publish this spring. MT. Mcintosh should be able to write with authority on long-range flight he was navigator for the Amer ican Airlines crew which flew the first C-54 across the Pacific to New Guinea, and was on the company's first flights to India and Greenland. A previous book of his, Radio Navi- gation for Pilots, also published by McGraw Hill, was adopted by the Navy last June as it's official text book on radio navigation and is now being reprinted in paper-bound edition.
 The pilots Technical Manual by Dixon Speas, official selection of the Airlines War Training Insti- ute, has recently been republished by McGraw Hill under the title Airplane Performance and Opera tion. MT. Speas is assistant to the vice president of engineering of American Airlines and the winner of the Air Transport Association award last spring for the best orig inal work on some phase of airline operation.
 Ernie Gam, pilot for American Airlines since 1889 and now flying on the transatlantic routes which the company is operating under contract to the Air Transport Com mand, has just turned in the man. uscript of his new book Position Unknown, fictionized story of his experiences up north for the ATC. Viking will publish the book in April. MT Gam has already had three books published, the most be- ing Getting Them into the Blue (Thomas Y. Crowell, 1942), a popu- lar account of the development of aircraft in this country.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-16
Juvenile Delinquency
 Survey Report Filed
Increasing Number of Boys, Girls Leave Home to
 Obtain War Work or Join Men in Service

quent transient youths that is sep- arate from the detention quarters of the children in custody; more individualized guidance work in the schools as the most effective method of preventing juvenile de- linquency, and the setting up of a child guidance clinic with compe- tent psychiatric personnel to serve the schools and other agencies as well as the probation department of the court.
 The section Enforcing Parental Responsibility" stresses education rather than punishment of parents to curb delinquency and describes the San Francisco School of Par ent Instruction" as "a hopeful ef- fort to supplement the court work with individual parents and chill dren."
 The detention of court children, according to the report" is no easy problem and few communities have solved it in a satisfactory manner" " In San Diego, forty-two children and youths under eighteen were in the county jail during July 1943. Some of them had been there sev- eral months. Between December 1922 and September 1943, sixty-six children were detained in the city jail. In the latter group was a seventeen-year-old boy from Texas confined nearly six months while awaiting financial arrangements for his return home. A more prompt disposition of the cases of children is imperative to shorten detention periods.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-16

The Budapest quartet returns tc the New Friends of Music Beeth- oven Cycle on Sunday, February 20 broadcast over WQXR from 5:30 to IF D. m. The program includes Beethoven's String Quartet in D Major, String Trio in G Major, opus g, No. l, and String Quartet in c Sharp Minor. This marks the quartet's last appearance in the 1943-44 Beethoven series which con- tinues until March 5.
 The world famous Budapest Quar- tet is comprised of Joseph Rois- mann, first violin; Alexander Schneider, second violin; Boris Kroyt, viola, and MiScha Schneider, violoncello.
 The String Quartet in D Major, Opus 18, No. 3, despite its number ing is the earliest of all the Bee thoven Quartets. The form is vir- tually that of Haydn or Mozart. However, Beethoven had already be- gun to ask more of his players than chamber music composers before him and the sorority and tonal range of the work is individual.
 It is interesting to parallel the development that lay between the D Major Quartet and the Quartet in c Sharp Minor, Opus 131, which closes the program. Written some thirty years later, 1t is equipped with innovations of technic and expression even though 1t was writ ten in an astonishingly short time.
 Song star Benay Venuta proves that she's equally ear-pleasing as an actress when she is starred in a dramatization of Romeo and Ju- liet'' on tonight via Star for a Night" on the Blue network. Benay has the distinction of being the first ssstrdctlv radio" nerstnnaiitv Tn ara faFf a Nst | s t1f til
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-16
WAVELETS
By ED LEAMY

The world premiere of Daniele Amfitheatrof's De Profundis Clamavi" ("Out of the Depths I Cried"O highlights a program by Russian-bor composers to be pre- sented by Leopold Stokowsh and the NEG symphony orchestra on the General Motors Symphony of the Air" Sunday, February 20 (NBC, 500 to 500 p. m., EWT). The bill includes works of Tchaikooovsky, imsky- y-Korsakov and Stravinsky.
 Amfitheatrof was born in St. Petersburg in 1901. He studied in Russia and Italy and earned con-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-16

Puzzled about national politics? Whats happening below the Rio Grande? How much are the WACS part of our regular army2 Does President Roosevelt spend much time on military details of the war, or does he just decide the broad patterns of the struggle such as when we shall open a second front?
 These and other pertinent ques- tions are answered by WNEW'S Washington correspondent Tues days and Fridays from 9:45 to 10:00 p. m. on news-packed program called Ask Washington" It is a WNEW War Service Presentation bringing the answers to questions
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-16
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