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Evening star., 1944-01-29
Captain Reveals Men of Botoon
Beaten Numerically by Jops

looked like starved, skinny buns
but the skinniest bum you ever
saw along a railroad track would
look better than the best of us.
The guards were changed often
enough SO that they were always
fresh, but we were forced along with
bleeding, blistered feet and enact
ated bodies. They even counter
marched us for IA kilometers one
day, for no reason have been able
10 fathom other than some more
brutality.
'The rest of that march is still lust
a bloody haze
In all that time the only food any
OF US got was slipped to us by Fill
pinos, who risked torture and death
to do it. Some of them I saw caught
doing this were clubbed across the
face with rifle butts.
The Japs never gave any prisoner
the slightest medical attention
Sometimes when boy would COL
lapse they would bayonet him right
before our eyes. This isn't heresay
Il saw it.
I'VE had to stand guard over the
garbage pits to prevent starving men
from eating the rotting refuse. Nc
wonder, I guess, that on one single
day I counted 500 Filipino bodies
being carried out for burial"
Capt. Grashio. 1t. Col. William E.
DyeSs and hundreds of others were
taken to a camp northwest of
Manila in June, 1912, and in the fol-
lowing october to Bilibid Prison in
the city. Conditions were slightly
better there; in other words, you got
a little more rice"
Capt. Grashio escaped from the
prison camp in Davao last April by
means which he was not permitted
to relate.
Evening star., 1944-01-29
Mason Chronister, Track Star,
Believed Victim OF Jap Sovogery
Baltimore Mother
Told of Sons Death
In Prison Comp
By the Associated Press.


BALTIMORE, Jan. 29.-First 1t,
Mason Chronister of the marines,
the University Of Maryland's crack
mile runner, who q few years ago
thrilled fans with his bids for ma
tional racing honors, is dead-p,s-
sibly a victim Of the Japanese bru-
tality exposed by the War Depart
ment yesterday.
His mother, Mrs. Anna Chronlster,
Baltimore, said she had received a
telegram from 1t. Gen. A. A. VAN
degrift, Marine Corps commandment,
dated January 81, telling of his
death, and a subsequent letter ad-
vising her he had died in a Japa-
nese prison camp December IS.
1t. Chronister was reported miss
ing in action May II, 1912, after the
fall of Manila. A few days later he
was listed among group Of 80 ma
rines either known or presumed to
be prisoners, of war"
The track star made his bid for
fame while an undergraduate at
Maryland. In 1888, while a sopho-
more, he ran a close third to Glenn
Cunningham and Archie San Ro-
mani, the top milers of the day, in
the Governors mile race at q meet
in Baltimore.
He was the anchor man on q
Maryland team which took the
Southern Conference mile relay
title in 4:15.
An advanced ROTC student at
Maryland, 1t. Christopher enlisted
in the marines Immediately after
his graduation in June, 1910.
Commissioned in February, 194l,
he arrived at Manila four days be-
fore Pearl Harbor.
Besides his mother he leaves a
sister, Mrs. Edmund A. Bowen, jr.,
Baltimore.
Evening star., 1944-01-29

Il am glad the Army and Navy
released that material on atrocities"
he told me. "Torturing of American,
British and Chinese has been going
on since the war started. 1t Is right
that the people back home know
how the japanese are treating our
people in the Far East, especially
the way they are treating the mil
itary prisoners"
Mr.. Powells own story is an ex-
ample OF the treatment of which he
speaks. Long regarded as an enemy
because OF his sympathy for the
Chinese and his outspoken editorials
in their behalf, the Japanese threw
him into the Bridgehouse on Decem-
ber 20, 194l.
From that day until March, 1912,
he lived in 12-by- 18-foot cell with
40 other persons, most Of them Chi
nese.
Rugged Knees to Chest.
twenty-five people could have
sat in that cell fairly comfortably I"
he said, but we were forced to sit.
day in and day out, with our knees
hugged closely to our chests.
we received regular beatings
even If there was no disobedience
On the first day Of March, 1912,
Mr.. Powell was taken to Kiangwan
and put in solitary confinement
until the latter part of May. He
was forced to write letters to friends
in Shanghai to the effect that he
was being well treated and we'll fed
despite the fact that his daily ration
OF one bowl of rice had been cut
in half.
by that time I was more dead
than, alive. Gangrene had set in
my feet because of malnutrition
cold weather and also because of
the way I was made to sit. I
finally became unconscious with
pain and was taken to the General
Hospital, where my feet were ampu-
tated."
Evening star., 1944-01-29
British Press Calls
For Punishment Of
Japs for Crue|ties
Ey the Associated Press.


LONDON, Jan. 29-The London
Daily Express asserted today that
the revelations Of Japanese atroci-
ties against Allied prisoners should
dispel any last doubts that Britain
would hurl her full might against
Japan when Germany is defeated.
IF there fingered in any mans
mind thread of doubt that Britain
would throw the whole weight of her
military power against the Japanese
the day Hitler is dead, 1t must snap
now" the paper said.
The British press as whole
lashed out against the Japanese,
calling them barbarians and savages
and demanding retribution.
When the Japanese are beaten
back to their own savage land" said
the London Daily Mail, 1et them
live in complete isolation from the
rest of the world as in a leper COM
pound, unclean.".
The Daily Herald suggested that
delicate though the situation is" a
dlrect approach by the Russians to
the japanese might have a chance
of remedying the situation, If the
Russians felt it wise to make such a
move.
Echoing the sentiment Of the
Daily Express, the News Chronicle
said that never was there any
doubt that Great Britain would
throw the utmost strength against
Japan as soon as she settled ac-
counts with Germany. Stories made
public of japanese treatment OF
military and civilian prisoners make
that assurance doubly sure"
Are they (the Japanese) hui
mans?" asked the Daily Mirror, and
the Yorkshire Post denounced them
as "a nation of savages tricked out
deceptively in modern dress"
Evening star., 1944-01-29
Service Vote Debate
Expected 10 Continue
=
On Fourth Term Note
-f-t i
BY J. A. OIEARY.

A proposal by Senator Bridges,
Republican, of New Hampshire
to require the names of presiden-
tial candidates to be printed on
the Federal ballot for service
men is expected to keep the
fourth term issue in the fore
front of debate on the soldier
voting bill next week.
As the Green-Lucas bill stands,
the simplified ballot would consist
of blank spaces on which the men
and women in uniform could write
in either the name of a candidate or
a party designation. Republicans
contend that would give President
Roosevelt an advantage If he runs
again, because many of the younger
fighting men will not remember any
other incumbent in the White House.
Will Suggest Early Sessions.
Although the Republicans will
meet June 26 to nominate their
ticket, the Democratic National
Committee has left the date Of its
convention open.
When debate is resumed at II a m.
Monday, Senator Bridges will sug-
gest that the Democrats hold their
convention early enough to permit
the printing of candidates names
on the servicemen's special ballot.
1t is doubtful, however, If the
Bridges amendment would require
the Democrats to meet any earlier
than they would without it, because
the simplified Federal ballots could
be transported in bulk by cargo ship
late in the summer, or even be print
ed in foreign war theaters.
Monday will mark the opening of
the second week of Senate debate
on the new Green-Lucas bill, with
out vote on any amendments, and
Senator Green, Democrat, of Rhode
Island, said today that If we don't
start voting Monday on some of
the amendments, I think the public
will be justified in concluding that
q f1libuster is in progress"
Both Houses Jockey.
Actually. each branch of Congress
has been engaged in parliament
ary contest for a week to see if the
other chamber would act first. In
the Senate, advocates of State con-
troll of soldier voting believe the
House should express itself first on
the States-rights bill already passed
by the Senate. On the other hand,
supporters of the Federal ballot
believe that If the Senate has an
other chance to vote, it will reverse
its previous action, and possibly
change the situation in the House
The battle is due to start in the
House Tuesday, with the first test
aimed at amending the rules to in
sure roll call vote on the Federal
ballot plan.
Evening star., 1944-01-29
$4,000 Citizens Slain
by Nazis in SarnY,
Moscow Radio Says
By the Associated Press.

by tne Associated PreSS.
LONDON, Jan. 2s.--More than
10000 citizens of Sarny. 4 town In
old Poland recently recaptured by
the Red Army, were slain by the
Germans, the Moscow radio said to-
day.
The broadcast, recorded by the
Soviet monitor, said the atrocities
included "23 men killed in a Ges-
tapo torture chamber, two ortho-
dox priests smothered with tar and
burned to death on a bonfire, 1000
youths driven away to slavery in
Germany and 400 houses burned" !"
Gan FEC recording of che
broadcast said evidence was COM
piled by a. number of the sur
viving residents, including
clergyman. two doctors and
woman teacher, who cited, spe-
'cifically, the torture of two coll
lective farmers of Sarny, Peter
Kalinovich and Alexander Ku-
kharsky. The Fascist barba-
rians poured gasoline over them
and burned them on BONFIRE"
their statement Said.)
Evening star., 1944-01-29
BY FRANCES LONG,
Associated Press Stan Writer.

NEW YORK. Jan. 29.-The Japa-
nese not only executed American
flyers captured after Jimmy Doo-
Titles famous raid on Toxic, but
also tortured at least six of them
numerically beforehand, J. B.
Powell, former editor of the China
Weekly Review, said today.
Mr.. Powell. prisoner In the no.
torious Bridgehouse in Shanghai at
the time, now is in Presbyterian
Hospital here.
I'm the next cell to us were six
American boys" he said. "At first
we thought they were marines who
had tried to escape from concentra-
ton camps, but later we found they
were aviators captured after the
Doolittle raid.
They were tortured numerically
daily. The Japanese seemed to de-
light in torturing them, more than
the civilians. That was because, I
suppose, they refused to divulge any
military secrets. Later two or three
of them were taken to Japan and
executed"
Drab, Brown Building.
The Bridgehouse. near the bridge
which joins Shanghai proper and
Chapel, is a drab. brown building
which used to be known as "the pub
lie residence of the virtuous neigh
bors."
Little was known about what went
on behind those brown walls. There
we're rumors. but there was no
definite information until some OF
the prisoners were repatriated to
this country in June, 1912.
Mr.. Powell is one Of those who
came back. When I was Mr.. Powell's
assistant before the war, he was a
cheerful, slender man of 157 pounds.
I saw him today in Presbyterian
Hospital, a changed man: Haggard,
nervous, embittered He has lost
both feet. His weight today is 120,
gain of As pounds since his
repatriation.
Evening star., 1944-01-29
Brines Calls Brutality
Key 10 Jap Campaign
By the Associated Press.


RICHMOND. Jan. 29-Japanese
atrocities against war prisoners, re-
vealed in recent Washington and
London announcements, are part of
deliberate campaign to subdue "all
who come within Japans feudalistic
empire" Associated Press Core
spondent Russell Brines told the
Virginia Press Association today.
Mr.. Brines returned on the last
voyage OF the exchange ship Grips
holm after being interned for l9
months in civilian camps in Manila
and Shanghai.
These atrocities" he said, "are
more than vengeance, although that
is one reason for them. japanese
militarists, whose sole philosophy is
force. believe that only ruthlessness
will bring them the compliance they
demand among the native peoples
and the, Occidental civilian internees
and war prisoners under their con-
troll"
The correspondent said these
militarists would not be restrained
by any possibility of reprisals against
Japanese war prisoners, because
from their viewpoint such Japanese
are beyond redemption. They
should have committed suicide in
stead of allowing themselves to be
captured"
Mr.. Brines served with the Asso-
ciated Press for two years in Toxic
and was assigned to Manila a few
months before war started.
There is possibility" he warned,
that these stories may bring re-
prisals against those men, women
and children still in captivity. There
is greater probability that, once
the japanese begin to lose heavily,
they will turn their wrath against
their prisoners"
For that reason, he urged in
creased efforts to repatriate as many
Americans as possible, particularly
women and children.
Evening star., 1944-01-29
Defense Honor Planned

A citation of merit for achieve
ments of its War Service Committee
will be awarded the Anne Arundel
Defense Council at pm. Tuesday
at ceremonies in the House Of Dele
gates chamber Of the State House
at Annapolis. It has been announced.
Evening star., 1944-01-29
Ey the Associated Press.


LOS ANGELES, Jan. ga story
OF studied cruelty inflicted by Jap
anese on American fighting men
after the fall of Bataan was re-
lated here last night by a pale
young Army Air Forces captain who
escaped after experiencing more
than year in the successive hells
of Nipponese prison camps in the
Philippines.
Capt. Samuel C. Grashio, Is, OF
Spokane. Wash. talked for three
hours at an Army-sponsored press
conference. The details were so
narrowing that several women, in
cluding Mrs. William Dyess, widow
Of his commanding officer in the
Philippines, were ushered from the
room.
The slender captain, husband of
Devonia Montgomery Grashio and
son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Anthony G..
Grashio. Spokane, Wash, stood on
a chair and traced on a map the
route over which he said he and
the others were beaten, starved and
clubbed until they wound up in the
Davao penal colony on Mindanao.
Can't Restrain Tears.
There was little AAF boy lying
out there" said the captain. Tears
came to his eyes and he looked into
space. A short recess was called
and then he continued:
He was lying naked out by gar
bage pit. He was nothing but skin
and bones. He was almost gone from
chronic dysentery. The flies
were literally eating him alive.
Il asked if 1 could do anything
and he -. he showed he still had
his American decency and pride,
even If he were existing like the low
est animals by then. He said he
wanted me to take him away some
where SO the other boys wouldn't see
him dying like a rat"
The slender captain told of the
march of DEATH" to which the War
and Navy Departments referred in
releasing the story Of Jap atrocities:
Nineteen kilometers beyond our
defense lines, as we plodded along
without food or water under gruel-
ing sun and under almost constant
beatings with fists and rifle butts,
we came upon hundreds Of bodies OF
Americans and Fflipinos.
Murdered in Cold Blood.
They had been shot or bayo-
neted. That far from where the
fighting had taken place. the poor
fellows could only have been mur-
dered in cold blood. s-
"Dysentery started the second
night. We still had no water or food
There were fewer of us on our feet
as time went on, but we got moth
ing. When we'd stagger along past
a water buffalo wallow and men
would try to scoop up a handful OF
the filthy, muddy water the Japs
would club us back into line with
their rifle butts.
THE dysentery, diarrhea, malaria
and tropical ulcers were becoming
more general by the third night,
when we got to a place called Her
mosa.
"Hermosa! That's the place where
a Jap superior private dubbed me
across the face for no reason at all
with a bamboo stick which broke
two OF my teeth and split my mouth
open.
IF they'd shot me it would have
been blessing. We were starved
exhausted, dirty, crazy for q mouth
ful Of even the filthiest water. W.
Evening star., 1944-01-29
Congress in Brief
By the Associated Press.

BY the ASsociRteo Press.
Senate:
In recess until Monday.
Labor Subcommittee nears end OF
white collar" inquiry.
Conferees continued work on COM
promise tax bill.
House:
,sIn recess until Monday.
Evening star., 1944-01-29
Chile Moy Export to U. S.

SANTIAGO, Chile, Jan. 20 (R.-
Ricardo Heatley, subsecretary of
commerce, announced today negotia-
tions would be completed next week
Tor sale Of excess Chilean agric,ll-
tural products to the United States
Evening star., 1944-01-29
Ex-Chevy Chase Mailman
Sentenced in Letter Theft
Ey the Associated Press.

- sAAe nosoSiAteu EIesS.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 3o.-Federal
Judge William g. Coleman imposed
an eight-month sentence yesterday
on William Charles Mccormack,
mail carrier attached to the Chevy
Chase. Md, branch Of the Wash.
ington Post ONCE, after McCor-
mack admitted that he had taken
five 81 bills from a letter Decem-
Der 2.
James Earl Proctor, Oxon Hill,
who pleaded guilty to possession
OF an unregistered still, was SEN
fenced by Judge Coleman to six
months and ordered to pay q $500
fine and court costs.
City Post ONCE officials here re-
fused to reveal McCormack's adj
dress. They said he has not been
working for the post once "for
kome time" I
Evening star., 1944-03-19
Chevy Chase Neighborhood News
Variety OF Entertainment
Marks Society Actiuities

1t. Col. and Mrs. L. A. Haslup
were hosts at dinner last evening in
honor of Pfc. Richard Hedges of
Camp George G. Meade who is visit
ing his parents.
Mrs. Sumpter Smith and her
daughter, Miss Seine Smith, who
have been residents of Morrison
street. Chevy Chase, left Friday for
Birmingham, Ala, where they will
make their home.
Mrs. S. D. Butterfield and her
daughter, Miss Margaret Butterfeld,
have returned from a visit to New
York. While there they were en-
tertained at luncheon by Mrs.
Josephine Daskan Bacon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Maurice Dawson
have as their guest their nephew,
Corpl. Walton Gibb, jr., from New
port News.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie O. Cricken-
barger entertained at buffet sup
per and musical Friday evening.
The guests were Mr.. and Mrs. Hill
leary Rose, Mr.. and Mrs. Alden
Jones, Mr.. and Mrs. John Fletchall,
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bodholdt, Mrs.
Louise Tolar and Miss Florence
Dalton.
Mrs. George V. Graham enter
tanned at luncheon Wednesday in
compliment to her house guest, Miss
Catherine Gaynor of New York.
Her guests were Mrs. William Henry,
Mrs. Harold Dotterer, Mrs. August
Koehler, Mrs Albert Woodson and
Mrs. Lawrence Williams.
Mrs. Thomas E. KloSterman en-
tertained at luncheon and bridge
Thursday for Mrs. Arthur Planken-
horn, Mrs. Raymond Norris and
Mrs. Walter Linder.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chris L. Chappell
have as their guests the latter's
sister -in-law, Mrs. H. B. Webb, and
her daughter Sue from Waynesboro
| Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Austin Latimer
have as week end guests their
daughter-in-law, Mrs. John A. Lati-
mer, jr, and Mrs. Charles Morrow
of Hagerstown, Md.
1t. q. g. Philip Hurt, who has
been in the South Pacific, is visiting
his wife and small son, Philip Law
renee Hurt, at the home of Mrs.
Evening star., 1944-03-19
IPOrtfa KabIer
ITO Be Married

Mr.. and Mrs. Paul H. Kahler an
nounce the engagement of their
daughter, Miss Portia Aileen Kahler
to Mr.. Edward D. Meares, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert L. Meares of
Washington and Greenville, S. C.
Miss Kahler is attending the Uni
versity of Maryland, and Mr.. Meares,
who is now based at Fort Mon
mouth, N. j.. also attended the Uni
versity of Maryland.
No date has been set for the we'd
ding.
Evening star., 1944-03-19

Hurts parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. E
Lawrence.
Mrs. S. F. Webb is spending the
week end in Philadelphia as tht
guest of her sister, Mrs A. B. Craig
Miss Catherine Fisher of Auburn
N. Y, is visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. H. Cochran Fisher.
Mrs. and Mrs. J. A. Fitzwater art
spending the week end in New
York visiting their daughter-in-law
Mrs. D. H. FitZwater.
Mr.. and Mrs. James F. Lynn are
on vacation in Detroit, visiting
Mrs. Lynn's mother, Mrs. Lawrence
GotfredSon,
Evening star., 1944-03-19
ee.Lunche0u

Mrs. John L. Reinartz of North
Arlington had as guests Wednesday
for luncheon and bridge Mrs. Orville
Aylor, Mrs. Edmund Lambert and
Mrs. Oliver Timpe.
Evening star., 1944-03-19

MISS A. M. HARVEY.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence w. Har-
vey announce the engagement of
their daughter, Miss Alice Mar
garet Harvey, to Ut. Andrew WAL
lace Allen, jr., son of Mr.. Allen of
Arlington and Mrs. Mabel E. Allen
OF Highpoint, N. C..
Miss Harvey is Junior at Beth
any College in Bethany, w. Va, and
1t. Allen now is on duty overseas.
No wedding date has been named.
Washington Journal., 1944-04-14

Citizens of German blood in this
war, as in every other war in which
the United States have had a part,
certainly should not let themselves be
out-done by other groups. We are
all American citizens and we stand
as one in the defense Of our nation.
Washington Journal., 1944-04-14
We Are All Americans

We hold all wars to be
deplorable. Once a nation
is drawn into war, however,
unless an honorable peace
may be secured betimes, it
would be disastrous to be
beaten in that war. There
fore we hold it the duty Of
all loyal American citizens
to do all in their power to
help our country, the United
States Of America, to win
its present war.
Washington Journal., 1944-04-14

Unsere Regierung hat die Wehr-
macht unseres Landes yum Schutze
ihrer Rechte und Freiheiten aufge-
boten. ALE Amerikaner ohne Inter
schied der Geburt und Herkunft,
darunter die Landesburger deutschen
Blutes, stehen in diesem Kriege elm
mitig hinter ihrer R%egierung. Anne
rika list unser Land, das Land unse-
rer Kinder, das zu schitzen jetzt
unsere h0chste Aufgabe ist.
Washington Journal., 1944-04-14
Wir sind allie Amerikaner

Wir betrachten ale Krie-
ge ais bedauerlich. Aber,
wenn elm Volk NIT Krieg
iberzogen wird und bis es
einen ehrenhaften Frieden
erringen mag, ware es YER
heerend, zu unterliegen. d.
her halten wir es fir die
Pficht aller treuen ameri-
kanischen Burger, allies in
ihrer Macht zu tun, unserem
Lande, den Vereinigten
Staten Won
znm Siege I'll verhelfen.
The Nome nugget., 1944-08-04

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