Evening star., 1945-02-09
1akoma Park Couple
Hear Of Broadcast
By Son in Manila


Countless Washington residents
are waiting anxiously for word from
relatives who they hope were lib
Grated when American troops recap
tured the Santo Tomas internment
camp from the Japanese. Only q
few names of those liberated have
been contained in news dispatches
and the complete list of the persons
freed still is awaited.
It Is likely, however. that the
prisoners already have read notes
written last fall and forwarded to
the Philippines, according to the
Red Cross.
Red Cross ofIicials. cooperating
with the Army Civil Affairs Section
on Luzon, delivered 400 messages
from home to 2,708 Americans at
Santo Tomas and an unestimated
number to those interned at Bilibid
and Santiago.
Those messages for civilian in
ternees were held by Red Cross
workers in the Philippines for
prompt delivery upon liberation.
Airmail stationery also was distrib-
uted for replies and messages These
will be flown by the Army direct to
censors and thence to the United
- States.
Broadcast Is Heard.
Among the Washingtonians who
are awaiting definite word from
Manila are the Rev. and Mrs. I. H.
Evans of TOO Butternut street NV,
who have been informed that their
son, Arthur Evans, spoke on the
radio from Manila Wednesday night.
They did not hear him, but Mr..
Evans said the broadcast was heard
by DIR. H. w. Miller of Mount Ver-
non, Ohio, whose wife telephoned
daughter here. The daughter, in
turn, informed friend of the Evans
Arthur Evans was quoted as say
ing he was we'll. He had been in
termed at Santo Tomas. Before
the fall of Manila he had been en-
ployed by the Philippine govern
ment as an expert on tariff sched-
ules, and in the battle for the Phil
ippines he served as a liaison man
between Gen. Macarthur and the
government.
Mrs. Effie Stoneburner of TIC Ma
pie avenue, Takoma Park, has
searched the dispatches for news
Of her daughter, Miss Edna Stone
burner. a nurse Of the Seventh Day
Adventist Mission. About 10 days
ago the General Conference of the
Seventh Day Adventists received
cable through the Red Cross saying
the missionaries were well. Miss
Stoneburner was one of IA whose
names were given as signers of the
cable.
Held at College.
Miss Stoneburner attended Wash
ington Missionary College and went
to Manila about a year before the
japanese attack. She was held by
the Japanese at the Philippine
Union College in Manila. Seventh
Day Adventist institution. Miss
Stoneburner's sister, Miss Ella May
Stoneburner, is a nurse at Wash
ington Sanitarium in Takoma Park
Mrs. j. NJ Watson, 902 Flower
avenue, Takoma Park, whose hus-
band is in the Internal Revenue
Bureau, is seeking word of Mr..
and Mrs. Roy Barcal, residents of
Manila for a dozen years or more.
Mr.. Barcal was in the printing busi-
ness in Manila. Mrs. Barcal, who
is Mrs. Watson's cousin, was secre-
tary for business firm. Mrs. Wat
son has had no direct word from
the Barcals. but about year ago
she heard through radio broad
cast picked up in Alaska that they
were interned at Santo Tomas.
Four priests who were ordained at
the Augustinian College in Washing
ton and who were teaching at 1lo
lilo on the island of Panay before
the japanese attack, are believed to
be among those at Santo Tomas.
They are the Revs. Alfred j. Monte
OF Philadelphia. Henry c. Carr of
Alden, Pa; Leo j. Mccarthy of Bel
mont, Mass, and John v. Casey Of
Lawrence, Mass.
The Augustinian College has had
no direct word from the four, but
some time ago word was received
through Spanish Augustinians that
the group was well.
Amt Lives Here
William Lawrence Hebbard, State
Department economist who went to
Manila in July, 1941, with Commis-
sioner Francis B. Sayre. is another
of whom word is awaited He is the
nephew of Mrs. A. l.. Roberts, 2806
Twenty-sixth street NE, and the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. w. J. Hebbard
of Ishpening, Mich.
Mrs. Roberts said Mr.. Hebbards
mother had had word he was well
and that he had been transferred
from Santo Tomas to the University
of Manila in Laguna Province.
Earl C. Dudley, who was held in
Santo Tomas with his wife and
daughter, is the son of Mrs. Nettie
Dudley of 915 North Taylor street,
Arlington, and the sister of Mrs. F.
M. Caulfield. 271l South Veitch
street, Arlington. He was civilian
ernploye at the Cavite Navy Yard.
His Arlington relatives were in
formed that his wife suffered the
amputation of a leg as the result
of being struck by bomb fragment
on the first day Of the Japanese
attack, and that son, Earl c., jr.,
was slightly hurt.
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