Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-05


Mrs. Gertrude M. Baden of 2235
Shannon place Sc, is home on
furlough after liberation by the
Americans April 2.
Corpl. Bladen praised the chap
lains in the German prison camp
in their attempts to keep up the
morale OF the men there He said
that two days before they were lib
Grated rumors were spreading around
the camp that the Americans were
approaching and they were going
to be liberated. The rumor was
killed and on April 1-Easter Sun
day-the camp was down in the
dumps However, the following
day American tanks rolled up to
the camp and I'VE were free"
His description of the way the
Germans measured the food was
bitter. They had starvation down
to science" he said. Each person
was allowed SO many grams of food
a day, and then after the contents
were measured they would be put
together for SOUP"
He was graduated from Mckinley
High School and attended BENJAMIN
Franklin University and the Amer
lean Institute of Banking. At the
time of his induction into the Army
in 1943 he was working for the
Morris Plan Bank. He went over
seas in October. 1914.
A brother, James E. Baden, cleo
trlclan 1/c, also is home on leave.
Pvt. william P. Fleharty, 81, son
OF Mrs. S. Vinton Hurdle, 54O6 Forty
first street NV, is recovering from
dysentery and malnutrition in an
American hospital in France after
being liberated from a German
prisoner of war camp April IL. he
Informed his mother in a recent
letter.
Pvt. Fleharty, native of the Dis
trlct and son of the late Ralph B.
Fleharty, former corporation counsel
here and prominent lawyer, had
been missing since December 10
during the battle Of the Belgian
bulge. Mrs. Hurdle received a post
card from her son March 80 with the
first information that he was a pris-
oner of the Germans. This fact was
confirmed few days later when
the War Department sent her a
telegram. In the postcard Pvt.
Fleharty said that he was in Stalag
Alb, outside of Dresden.
In the letter, dated April 10, Pvt.
Fleharty told his mother that he
had lost so pounds while a prisoner
OF war. He originally weighed 1853
pounds, according to his mother.
He also said in the letter that when
the American armies drew near the
camp where he was confined the
Germans moved them east, only to
be driven back by the advancing
Russians. He estimated they were
forced to march 300 miles altogether.
Pvt. Fleharty, who has been in
the Army since January, 1914, is a
graduate of Woodrow Wilson High
School. He was sent overseas as a
member OF field artillery outfit last
November.
Pvt. Paul E. Bennett of Rockville,
Md, has written his mother, Mrs.
Helen Bennett, from q hospital in
France that he has been liberated
after spending 20 months in a Ger
man prison camp. Pvt. Bennett, a
veteran machine gunner, saw action
in Africa and Sicily before his cap
ture at Salerno during the initial
beach landing in September, 1913.
Pfc. Philip A. Harmon, son of
Verne E, Harmon, 1921 Harvard
road, College Park, Md, has been
liberated, the War Department an
nounced today. A story was carried
in The Star April 80.
The following men were reported
liberated in dispatch from Lee
McCardell, Baltimore Sunpapers
war correspondent.
Sergt. Herschel w. Dodd, "a, was
taken prisoner in December, 1913,
when his plane was shot down over
Germany. He is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Herschel H. Dodd, 1855 Monroe
street NE. Sergt. Dodd's wife, Mrs.
Zoe Dodd, lives at 4911 Calvert road,
College Park.
Sergt. John E. Feeney, 80, son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Bella Feeney, 3016 r
street NV, had been imprisoned a
year when he was liberated with
others from Stalag 17-B. A native of
the District, he was sent overseas