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MARRIAGE rICENSFS

freeman @. conan,. as: Agnes NJ. a,
Routhler, 40
John G. WEBSTER, n; Margaret
Mur1ek, 10
Arthur Il steffen. 4s; Mae A.
Harvey W. Rempp. az Thelma l.
Thompson. 20.
Andrew oddo Jr.. IS Mary X. Fried
James Il. Psttss. isi Irene cs,,sr
sam C. Mocsri. rs; Virginia Dallas,
Norbert c. Pshner. y; Mary }.
Joseph Tomko, Is: Mary Jsnko.
A. Livingstone. 80; NJ. Nesbitt. IS.
Herbert II. Benning. AZ Rae Kelly
80.
william ooodson. 80; Helen German.
2T
Frank Hoig. 25; Betty Stephens. 10.
Jack Neal, p, Jacqueline 81. Auhin,
1a
william c Goodwin, p; Lois e.
Walker, ~.
Thomas A. Gies. 10. Airline Marion
Anthony Msrcurio. As. Josephine
Vincent, AZ
Lawrence LNng. -; Rose stsrski.
81
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DEATHS

William J. Henry. 1880 Warwick
road. So
LOUISE Kruss. 1925 Indiana. ~,
Augusta Mundt, 3s72 Harding, So
John H. VanderVoort. 1894 Ashland
81.
Fred Deeg 1852 Vermont 90
Albert Dieuch, Fort Morgan, Colo.
g.
Fanais e,s.sA- Maxwell, 9a9G ynaet
mite. II
Arthur NJ. George. 1898 Pingree. a2
Catherine Rouiter. 7i77 Churchill
70
Prank Keulor. 97s Parent, windsor
ont. Can, 50
Charlotte Onkin. TAG Coui0gVood 80
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DEMERs Laurefte. hGe 49, tld-
denly; beloved wife OF Hspe dear
mother 81 Rodger, Glraff Lr1 OIL.
bert and Irene Funeral services
"wednesday fym late residence 1908
Fsirvew. SD a. m a., 81. Margaret
Mays Church s3fa Montreal
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RADIO sTRVtCT

CALL Vine l-s26s for guar. radio
service. Prompt pickup. delivery 90
arc. Sinai rhGloA-
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$50 hlnse Charge u repaired free
cnegk4p az store: Elsf Calls 81.
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DIVORCES

Margaretta A. Cass from John ~.
Jessie PiotrOwEki from Arlene.
David Davidson from Anna.
Zella McMurran from William r.
Pauline Kruger from Charles It.
Cora Mae oliver from Luther.
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Death notlreS

BIRI - FEB. 20. Emma. beloved
mother of Carl Harold ana Mrs.
Ohve stanton, gfauamuihrf nt 'Hf
don p stanton Funeral from resi-
dence, lT2is GrEEF Tuesday a. z
m Burial ~ Noodtawn.
DANIDGE Sadie Fsn. 20 beloved
Wne Of Fred dear mother a 6af-
con. Mrs Marjorie Mcdonald and
four grandchildren Funeral services
from the Carl O Hall Funeral Homo
1917 Holden TUESDAY 3, m.
Toronto papers please copy.
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REFRIGtRAT0R SERVICE

Al. ALL MAKES fe-yiced parH,
labor guaranteed TO s-f7s3
COMMERCIAL ara domestic. any
MAKE EIar parts serv TO 1912.
GUARANTEED Iaa all makes re-
paired cityelds service. licensed.
o-dct Esst SIDE Refrigeration.
Pr 1890
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LOST AND FOUND
TRADE scHooLs-MALE
TRADE ScHooLS-FEMALE

BUTLER switchboard ethl.L moving
Monday larger offices. lJZf
paVa stott Bldg
GIRLS Free beauty culture training
HyEfnlC School $3.50 Twelfth
Madison 1888
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FUNERAL DIRECTORS

Fred G.. Marshall Sons. Inc.
HOME FOR FUNERALS
af62 r. JEFFERSON Ft. ZiTs-T9
Evening star., 1944-01-28

"ROAD OF DEATH"-Broken
line from Mariveles to San
Fernando indicates the route
over which thousands Of
American and Filipino soldiers
were forced by the Japs to
walk in what survivors called
"the march of DEATH"
"A. P. Wirephoto.
Evening star., 1944-01-28
LOST RATION COUPONS.

Lesmsn Anderson, 5sos Ai 1st I'd. i''TaS nortS b.
!. a. Gas BOOK il found return to Ed
"a" GAS RATIoN BOOK, issued to Ben
e G. i, Kaufman. as4s Myrtle 'V1 ave. assn1a me-.
SgAs6LiSE S5smii a.,.cn,s akAMoN EooK a; issued to
GAsoIIifSSiE RATION TICKETS "A", issued
in wallet also Containing money. y.1 permit Iit
and Marine Corps Identification. Phone
GAs GH GaeE RaTioN MI HOOKS TsSs Hs snd RyiEa E
Ghsyy Gas nGffoN Ghfss Nd Cooks ~ issued to 2S, W.
GAS RATION BOOK "a" and supplement
Y;l.r, ssi ~g% issusd ss to Mrs. Anna L. Babcock,
Ss: iiSS Sss.sss sSoE Mo- No . ;S
RATION fo BOOK So. e' 3, issued to W. A. co Cole
Man. Ma 1904 Highland drive. Silver Spying ps.s
RATION BOOKS No. 3 and No. 4, issued
to Robert NJ. Forkish. 42o4 34th St. Mount
RRaatnier aTin;, Nd DIP Phone Union 345a
Mdred wsda Ro3ks snS So 4 issued te Mrs
45os Isrling lane. Bethesda. Md. oL. sS$s
BATON BOOK NO. 3. issued to Regina M
sTkRa'rsfd. spTins. Md so1s Fairview rd' 81! sllyer
RATION BOOK No. 3. issued to Silas NJ
Sreech, r@ 517 Goddard road, Bethesda,
RATION BOOKS Nos. 3 and 4, for Jean
e Erickson. s027 Eastern ave. Silver
RATION BOOK, C. issued to RICHARD j.
RATION BOOK NO. 4, issued to Virginia
M. Murray. $40 Greenwood ave, Takoma
RATION BOOK NO. 4, name Lemuel L.
Aldrieh, 530s Riverdale rd., Riverdale. Nd
RATION BOOKS 3 AND 4, issued to Julia
James and Thomas James, 1910 sth st. n "
RATION BOOK NO. 4, issued to clifford
Hurley, All Ellsworth drive, Silver Spring,
War RATION BOOK NO. 3, chss T..
Hhillips; 1O n. Greenbrier st., Arlington,
Evening star., 1944-01-28

from windows or from behind
houses. Those who were caught
were beaten. The Japanese had
food stores along the roadside. A
United States Army colonel pointed
to some of the cans of salmon and
asked for food for his men. A Japa-
nese officer picked up can and hit
the colonel in the face with it, cut
ting his cheek wide open. Another
colonel and brave Filipino picked
up three American soldiers who had
collapsed before the Japs could get
to them. They placed them on a
cart and started down the road
toward San Fernando. The Japa-
nese seized them, as we'll as the
soldiers, who were In coma, and
horsewhipped them fiercely.
Along the road in the Province
OF Pampanga there are many wells.
Half -crazed with thirst, six Filipino
soldiers made dash for one of the
wells. All six were killed. AS we
passed Lubao we marched by a
Filipino soldier gutted and hanging
over barbed-wire fence. Late that
night of the 14th we were jammed
into another bull pen at San Fer
nando with again no room to lie
down. During the night japanese
soldiers with fixed bayonets charged
into the compound to terrorize the
prisoners.
lis in BOxcar,
Before daylight on April Is we
were marched out and lis of us were
packed into a small narrow-gauge
boxcar. The doors were closed and
locked. Movement was impossible.
Many Of the prisoners were suffering
from diarrhea and dysentary. The
heat and stencil were unbearable.
We all wondered If we would get out
OF the boxcar alive. At Capiz Tarlac
we were taken out and given the
sun treatment for three hours. Then
we were marched to Camp O'Don-
nell, prison camp under cohstruc-
ton, surrounded with. barbed wire
and high towers, with separate inner
compounds of wire. On this last leg
OF the journey the Japanese per-
mitted the stronger to carry the
weaker.
Il made that march of about IS
miles in six days on one mess kit of
rice. Other Americans made the
march OF death in IL days, without
any food whatever. Much of the
time, OF course, they were given the
sun treatment along the way"
The prisoners taken at Corre9idor.
among whom were Comdy. Mccoy
and Col. Mellnik, had no experience
quite like the death march. But
after the surrender, the 1000 Amer
leans and 5000 Flipinos were con.
Evening star., 1944-01-28
Jap Coptors Horrible, :
Escaped Major Says
y the Associates Press,

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Jan. 49,
Marine Corps Maj. Austin c. Shot,
ner Of Shelbyville, Tenn, home
again after a dramatic escape from
Japanese p1eson camps in the Phil
ippines, last night described his ex-
perience as a captive of the jap
anese as horrible.
Referring to the brutality of his
captors, Maj. Shofner said 'I saw
much of it. was taken on Cor
regidor," he added, however, that
he was not on the terrible march
of death" Of American and Filipino
prisoners described by some of the
others who escaped.
He was prisoner at Cabanatuan
and was in number of prison
camps, he said.
Maj. Shofner has been in the Ma
rine Corps since 1887. Going to
Shanghai, China, in the spring of
194l, Maj. Shofner remained there
until November 81, 1941. He landed
in the Philippines on December /,
1941, going to Bataan and from
there to Corregidor,
Evening star., 1944-01-28
Regoins IS Pounds
Lost as Prisoner of Jups

been separated since they evacuated
the Philippines late In 1910.
Comdr. Mccoy well remembers
the Cavite bombing-Mrs. Mccoy
sees to that.
II had just sent him my photo
graph" Mrs. Mccoy said laughing
ly, "the first I'd ever had taken
In a studio. But do you think he
got my picture when the bombing
started? No! He grabbed a set
OF golf clubs that he'd bought in a
pawn shop for $8."
The commander offered the in
terviewer two explanations:
First. he didn't think the picture
did his wife justice, second, the
clubs really were useful-for prac-
tice on the Corregidor airfield be-
tween bombardments.
Evening star., 1944-01-28

centrated in a former balloon station
known as the Kindley Field Garage
area-by that time only square of
concrete about 100 yards to the side,
with one side extending into the
water OF the bay. The $4,000 prison.
ers, including all the wounded who
were able to walk, were kept on this
concrete floor without food for a
week. There was only one water
spigot for the 10000 men and a l2-
hour wait to fill canteen was the
usual rule After seven days the
men received their first rations-one
mess kit of rice and q can of
sardines. ..
The Corregidor prisoners were
forced to march through Manila on
May %, 1942, having previously been
forced to jump out of the barges
which brought them over from the
island while they were still 100
yards from the beach. Thus, said
Col. Mellnik, I'VE were marched
through Manila presenting the worst
appearance possible-wet, bedrag-
gled, hungry, thirsty and many so
weak from illness they could hardly
Stand" Comdr Mccoy added, how
ever, that the Japanese purpose Of
making this a triumphal victory
parade was frustrated by the friend
illness Of Filipino civilians.
All during the march through
Manila, j." said Comdr Mccoy, "the
heat was terrific. The weaker ones
in our ranks began to stumble during
the first mile. These were cuffed
back into the line and made to
march until they dropped. If no
guards were in the immediate vicin-
ity. the Fflipinos along the route
tried to revive the prisoners with
ices, water and fruit. These Filipinos
were severely beaten If caught by
the guards
Col. Dyess' sworn statement de-
clared that the Japanese officer
Camp O,Donnell, where
the survivors OF the Bataan death
march were imprisoned, delivered a
speech to the American and Filipino
soldiers. telling then that they were
not prisoners Of war. and would not
be treated as such, but were captives
without rights or privileges.
There were virtually no water
facilities at Camp ODonnen.
Prisoners stood in line for s to 10
hours to get drink. They wore the
same clothing without change for
month and a half. Col. Dyess waited
50 days for his first bath, and then
had one gallon Of water for 1t.
The principal food at Camp
oDonnell was rice. The prisoners
received meat twice In two months,
md then not enough to give as
Evening star., 1944-01-28

ESCAPED JAP TORTURERS- Col William E. Dyess who
escaped japanese prison camp the Philippines later was
killed in California air crash is his wife dur
Ing visit to his home town. Albany Tex last Dyess
story of atrocities Jap prison camps with those of two
others who made their to freedom jointly released by
the Army and Navy last night. "A P Wirephoto
Evening star., 1944-01-28

American prisoners were forced to
act as porters for military equip
ment. Such treatment caused the
death of a sergeant in my squadron,
the 2lst Pursuit Patients bombed
out Of nearby hospital, half dazed
and wandering about in pajamas
and slippers, were thrown into our
marching column of prisoners.
What their fate was I do not know.
At 10 o'clock that night we were
forced to retrace our march for two
hours, for no apparent reason.
AT midnight we were crowded
into an inclosure too narrow to lie
down. An officer asked permission
to get water and japanese guard
beat him with a rifle butt. Finally
a Japanese officer permitted us to
drink water from a nearby carabao
wallow.
Before daylight the next morn
ing, the 1lth, we were awakened and
marched down the road. japanese
trucks speeded by. A Japanese SOL
dier swung his rifle from one OF them
in passing and knocked an American
prisoner unconscious beside the road.
Food Lacking.
Through the dust clouds and blis-
tering heat we marched that entire
day without food. We were allowed
to drink dirty water from a roadside
stream at noon. Some time later
three officers we're taken from our
marching column, thrown into an
automobile and driven of. I never
learned what became Of them. They
never arrived at any of the prison
camps.
Our guards repeatedly promised
us food, but never produced it. The
night of the 18th we again were
searched and then the march re-
sumed. Totally done in, American
and Filipino prisoners fell out fire.
quently and threw themselves,
moaning, beside the roadside. The
stronger were not permitted to help
the weaker. We then would hear
shots behind us.
"At 3 o'clock on the morning of
April IL they shooed us into barbed
wire bullpen big enough to accom-
modate 200. We were 1900 inside
the pen-no room to lie down, hu-
man filth and maggots were every
where.
Throughout the 18th we were in
troduced to a form of torture which
came to be known as the sun treat
ment. We were made to sit in the
boiling sun all day long without
cover. We had very little water; our
thirst was intense. Many of us went
crazy and several died. The Japanese
dragged out the sick and delirious.
Three Filipino and three American
soldiers were buried while still alive.
"On the 18th each of those who
survived were given mess kit of
rice. We were given another day of
the sun treatment. At nightfall we
were forced to resume our march.
We marched without water until
dawn of April IA, with one two-hour
interval, when we were permitted to
sit beside the roadside.
AAie 'eAy PdAS VI Jul IHdTCn was
a torture. Sometimes we had to 20
very fast, with the Japanese pacing
us on bicycles. At other times we
were forced to shuttle along very
slowly. The muscles of my legs be-
gan to draw and each step was AMI
agony.
Filipino civilians tried to help
both Filipino and American soldiers
by tossing us food and cigarettes
Evening star., 1944-01-28
Mojor Who Fled Jops
Confirms Mistreutment
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FORT WORTH, Tex, Jan. 2s.-
Maj. Jack Hawkins, AZ, a Marine
omcer mentioned in the Official re-
lease from Washington as among
those who escaped from the Philip
pines, said Il did not participate
In the March Of DEATH but I know
from talking to other prisoners that
the details of mistreatment are
true"
Maj. Hawkins is here with his
wife, the former Miss Rhea Ritter
Of Detroit, to whom he was mar
ried December %, 1943, in the Naval
Academy chapel at Annapolis.
Evening star., 1944-01-28
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Evening star., 1944-01-28
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, Jan. 28.-Comdr. Mel
vyn H. Mccoy of Indianapolis, one
Of three American officers whose
reports OF Japanese atrocities in
dealing with war prisoners has been
made public. now commands naval
radio activities on Bainbridge Island
in Puget Sound.
The 37-year r-old officer said he
has regained IS Of the pounds he
lost during the 11-month ordeal as
q prisoner and still is gaining.
He went to the Philippines In
1910 as radio materiel of1icer at
Cavite.
The escaped oflcer, who assumed
his present command this week, re-
sides on Bainbridse Island with his
wife and two daughters, Anne, IL,
ana Jeanne, I, from whom he had
Evening star., 1944-01-28
Continued From First Page.)

Gen. Macarthur, Comdr. Mccoy is
on duty in this country.
The three officers stated that sew
eral times as many American pris-
oners OF, war have died, mostly of
starvation, forced hard labor, and
general brutality, as the japanese
have ever reported. At one prison
camp, Camp O'Donnell, about 1900
American prisoners died In April
and May, 1912. In the camp at
Cabanatuan, about 5000 Americans
had died up to the end of October,
1912. Still heavier mortality oc-
CURED among the Filipino prisoners
of war at Camp ODonnell.
While this report deals exclusively
with the records of Comdr. Mccoy,
Col Mellnik and Col. Dyess, other
Americans known to have escaped
from Japanese prison camps in the
Philippines include Maj. Michel
Dobervitch of Ironton, Mimi; Mai.
Austin G. Shofner of Shelbyville
Tenn; Maj. Jack Hawkins Of Rox-
ton, Tex, and Corpl. Reid Carlos
Chamberlain Of Ell Cajone, Calf,
all of the Marine Corps.
Campaign Of Brutality.
The calculated Japanese campaign
Of brutality against the battle-spent,
hungry American and Filipino SOL
diers on Bataan began as soon as
they surrendered, with what was
always thereafter known among its
survivors as THE March of Death" !"
Comdr. Mccoy and Col. Mellhik,
who were taken prisoner at Corregi-
dor, did not take part in this, but
Col. Dyess, who did so, said:
Though beaten, hungry and tired
from the terrible last days of combat
on Bataan, though further resist
ance was hopeless, our American
soldiers and their Filipino comrades
in arms would not have surrendered
had they known the fate in store for
them"
"The March Of Death" began when
thousands of prisoners were herded
together at Mariveles air field on
Bataan at daylight on April 10, 1912,
after their surrender. Though some
had food, neither Americans nor
Filipinos were permitted to eat any
of 1t by their guards. They were
searched and their personal belong
ings taken from them. Those who
had Japanese tokens or money in
their possession were beheaded.
Marchers Stripped.
In groups of 500 to 1000 men, the
prisoners were marched along the
national road off Bataan toward
San Fernando, in Pampanga Prov
ince. Those marchers who still had
personal belongings were stripped of
them; the Japanese slapped and
beat them with sticks as they
marched along without food or water
on scorchingly hot day. Col Dyess,
In middle group, gave this descrip-
ton of THE March of Death:
"A Japanese soldier took my can
teen. gave the water to a horse and
threw the canteen away. We passed
Filipino prisoner Of war who had
been bayonetted. Men recently
killed we're lying along the roadside,
many had been run over and fiat
tened by Japanese trucks. Many
Evening star., 1944-01-28

(See TEXT, Page A-12D
Evening star., 1944-01-28
FOUND.

BRING DESERTED, STRAY ANIMATS 9ro,,
Vicinity Coneress Hts. and Anacostia to
M,sas An,msi 7rotectiye Association. 5000
NO phone this site at present
DOG, white. with brown markings on face,
Es,Ssu. lo3ks IKE collie. but smaller; found in
EYEGLASSES, horn rim, found ON QUE
st., near 14th NV; in Shah T. Shah On
teal 90. case. Call at 1881 Que st. NV,
ask for Miss Horton.