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Detroit evening times., 1945-11-04


David Hahn 8, who lives next door to Gen. Wainwright
sands of silent Japs and Chinese, staring
at us as if we were freaks.
At 8 p. m. we arrived at our new prison
camp, "beautifuP' Karenko. 1t was large
square of about $50 yards formed by
barbed wire.
We walked into the prison enclosure
gingerly, waiting for some sign to show US
how good or bad it was going to be. We
did not have to wait long.
They lined us up in front Of the bar
racks and some one shouted at us to sur
render all our hand luggage. When the
soldier came to me tried to keep my toilet
articles, but he pulled them away.
| looked around with a sinking SEN
sation This was definitely going to be
worse. A Jap officer strobe up to one of
my men, ripped open his luggage and,
with a look of triumph, extracted roll Of
toilet paper. He had the manner Of man
who has discovered secret papers.
GLOWLY he began to unWrap the roll,
~ peering first at one side Of each sheet
and then at the other He continued to un-
roll the paper, holding it up to the light oc-
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-04
Forced to Pose
For Jap Artist
Painting Of General Made for Emperor
4irohto's Pal ace

crossed. which were covered with short,
hard mattress of rice straw. The pillows
were 12-inch by 6-inch sacks of rice.
The first duty of each squad was to
organize several members to go to the
kitchen, about 100 yards away, and bring
back our dinner. While my group was gone
| discovered, as did the others, that we
would be required to eat with chopsticks
out of jap army mess bowls. Our own mess
kits, knives, forks and spoons would not be
returned until our baggage had been more
thoroughly inspected.
Our carriers returned about Z p. m.
with bucket of rice and a bucket of wat
cry vegetable soup and, famished as we
were, we set to work on the rice with our
chopsticks was bad at this and never got
much better.
TOMORROW: Gen. Wainwright
gives a dramatic account of mOnstrous
privations at KarenkO)
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-04
Maritime Strike Set
To Rush Vets Home

HOUSTON. Tex, Nov. , fUP)
A nationwide strike Of the Ma
tiOnal Maritime Union Vii he
called Dec. ! on all ships not in
volved IN troop movement or sup
ply. Howard Mckenzie, NMU vice
president, said today
lie said the strike would DC ito
force the government 10 put every
available ship IN service 10 get the
CT home by Christmas"
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-04
Refuse 10 Strike
To Spare Public

CINCINNATI, Nov. , rP)-A
threatened paralysis OF the Gin
cinnati waterworkS system failed
10 materialize today as union en-
ployeS voted in secret session not
10 strike as planned because OF
the hardships a strike would inl~
hiCt upon the public.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-04
Times Photo

in SkaneateIes, n ". standing by while the hero of
COrregidOr gives up his autograph to his admrer.
casionally, until yards and yards of it were
scattered around his feet Then in disgust
he threw the rest of 1t away and walked to
the next officer.
Eventually he unearthed a frst-aid
packet The packet was of the type which
must be kept hermetically sealed to protect
its contents. The officer looked it over
carefully and then insisted by gestures
that it be opened
The American explained through an
Interpreter that the package had been
sealed at the factory, contained nothing Of
a military nature and would be ruined if
opened. We had so few medical supplies,
and so little hope of getting any from the
Japs, that the little packet was an impor-
tant part Of our equipment.
But the box had to be opened. When
the Jap saw its contents, he threw the
precious stuff away.
When every item of baggage had been
taken away from us we were moved out
to the center Of the parade grounds. There
we were forced to strip down to our shorts,
if we had shorts. We stood there like hu
man ScdIoClOWS Willie Jap LIS pe(lO .
slowly went through each bundle of cloth
ing, searching pockets, seams and Innings.
In time our clothes were given back to
us. but our shoes were kept. We were given
wooden Jap clogs, none of them proper
fit, and told to put them on We put on our
clothes and hobbled and clacked back to
the barracks. When some Of us started
inside upon orders, we were stopped an
grily and told we must not wear the clogs
indoors.
THE Karenko barracks lower floor con-
Il sisted of two big squad rooms and
number of smaller rooms apparently de-
signed originally as offices and storerooms.
The upper floor held six squad rooms. Jap
hunks, too short for any American of aver
age height, were ploced side by side along
the walls of most of the upstairs rooms.
They were made Of metal Stats, criss-
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-04
Guard Destroys
Precious Medicine
Prisoners Shoes Taken Away as The>
Reach New Comp
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locked harbot at Fakao. on the west coast
Of Formosa. The hills along the shoreline
had been cut through by canal and ap-
-pafentlE what was new the harbor had
been loW-lying ground or a swamp area
which had been dredged. There were no
docks in the harbor, which was, indeed, a
striking one
Our ship came in through the canal
and anchored just off the stern Of the old
President Harrison Of the President Lines
The Japs seized this fine American liner
in the early DAYS of the war after it went
aground, while trying to escape, on one of
the small islands below Formosa.
We were put in small boats and trans
ferred to small coastWlse steamer an
chored nearby.
My cabin travelling ended there, and
so did Kings. We we're herded below
decks into the forward hold with 80 others.
The $50 others in our party were similarly
iammed into another hold. The matches
were Immediately battened down and the
temperature in the holds rose to far over
100 degrees. At dusk we were ordered to
close the portfolios and draw the blackout
curtains, which made our black holes that
much more suffocating.
Our hold was alive with bedbugs.
There seemed to be millions Of them crawl
ing over us the rest of that miserable
night, and there was so little air IN the
place that many of us feared death by SUI
location. 1t was o'clock the next morn
ing before we were permitted to open the
porthoes to suck in some air and to gain
enough light to see and pick the vermln
from our bodies.
THE next morning | was led out on the
Il ships deck and, over my protests, made
to pose for Jap artist. He was doing a
painting of my surrender to Homma. 1t
was to go to the imperial palace in Tokyo
when completed.
It was an ambitious affair." for at
Manila | had been forced to seat myself at
a table-formerly the University Clubs
main dining table-and arrange Beebe,
Pugh. Dooley and Carroll about me, as we
had been on the day we met Homma.
Many photographs of us had been taken
that day at Manila, to help the artist now
making sketches of my face. He was
pretty overwhelmed by the fact that the
painting. when finished, would be pre-
sented to Hirohito ] remember saying to
myself, as | sat there posing on the little
fteamer going to Karenko:
Douglas will get that painting one
of these fine days"
We picked up our luggage were
formed into a column and marched
through the city 1t was depressing eX-
perience. The streets were lined with thou
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-04


locked harbor at Fakao, on the west coast
Of Formosa. The hills along the shoreline
had been cut through by canal and ap-
-pafently what was now the harbor had
been loW-lying ground or swamp area
The Wrangell sentinel., 1945-09-28
SECRET NORTHERN BASE
 IS N0W MAOF KNOWN

COLD BAY. Aug. Delayed )- Nearly loo small American war ships were delivered to Russian crews here at this secret base on the tip of the Alaskan peninsula before Russia declared war against Japan. This base, and delivery of the ships. was one of the most guarded secrets of the high north country Marine guards were post ed troughout the area to insure the secrecy of the project.
 Small patches of ships. eight to Is at a time, were transferred here under lend-lease to Soviet sailors. They included patrol craft. mine sweepers. destroyers and landing craft.
 Russian infantry crews boarded the ships here and were taught a short course in administration by American officers. then the small flotilla would set out for Siberian or Kamchatkan waters across tn north Pacific, presumably for the Sea of Okhotsk
The Wrangell sentinel., 1945-09-28
AT THE H0TFT.

Among guests registered at Wrangel Hotel the past week were: j. ]. Stewart. Joe Barney. Norman Slagle. J. F. Peele E. N. Copstead A. II. Johnson. ". n. Smith. W. J. Storie. R. A. Hajny. L. Nieklin. N. Cunningham Mir. and Mrs. Henrick Bean, John Jos eph, Mrs. Fanny King. Florence Bean. ]. c. Calvin. L. (. Radcliffe Mrs, NJ. Strong. R. E. Randall, A. Horrocks. W. A. Boroks William A. Sharp. Alfred L. Buchanan. L. P. Renard. H. E. Ward J. ". Gucker. Terry Ison. Edward L.. Keithahn, B. Smith. G. Folta. Slim" Walter. Cpat. D. W. Jones, Jr., Virgil Hulse. ". McNeil. Clar- ence Uden. R Barker, Roger Will Hams. Lee Annisket. Tom Ryan l.. Rideret. Rosie Cooday Mr and Mrs. Newton Cooaay. Agnes Coodau Isobel Chandler, Edna Cabot. Janey Klein. C. Mason, Walter Simpson. Robert H. Rock well. Tony Schwamm, Charlie Jackson, Hazel Coffin. Elmer Bak- Ike.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1945-09-28
NEW COMMANDER OF
 COAST GUARD IN KETCHIKAN

kETCHIkAN- saying that he has always liked Alaska and is glad to be back, Commodore Nor man H. Leslie. USCG. arrived here this week to relieve Captain Gordon " MacLane as District Coast Gua.I officer at the end of the month. Capt. MacLane, ending 16 months of duty here. will be assigned to he retirement board of the service in Washington, D. C
 Accompanying the commodore was Mrs Leslie. who was born at Valbez. where she lived for sever- al years. They also have a daugh
 ter who is in school in the states
The Wrangell sentinel., 1945-09-28
CHRISTMAS PARCELS
 FOR ARMY OWE
OVERSEAS

Persons planning on sending Christmas parcels to Army per sonnel overseas are again eau toned by Postmaster E. K. sharn- broich that October l5 is the deadline for acceptance of the packages. After that date pack ages can only be sent if the send CT can present a written request from the soldier for the package. Patrons are urged to get their Christmas package for the sold iers ready and into the post of flee as only two more weeks re- main in this Christmas mailing period
The Wrangell sentinel., 1945-09-28
NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that Carl Thygesen has made application for a homesite under the Act of May 2G, 1884, GAS Stat. S09l Anchor. age Serial No. O1OO4O, for a tract of land situated on left bank of Harding River at it confluence with Bradfield Canal about 30 miles SE of Wrangell Alaska. Plat of '. s. Survey No. 2623. containing 4.76 acres. and it is now in the files of the [. s. Land
The Wrangell sentinel., 1945-09-28
htN, J, D, WtUoJCIi ' do IUI DAUGHTER BORN
HOOP" MELONS NEW
 BUSINESS AGENT-SEC'Y
 OF CANNERY WORKERS

Hubert Hoop NeIlons, "eI known Wrangell man was appoint ed new business agent and seere- tary of the Cannery Workers In ion this week replacing Charlie Sadler who resigned. Joe Herman dez replaces Mrs. Sadler as vice president.
 Mrs. Sadler left for the south some time ago and MT. Sadler eN- poets to join her shortly.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1945-09-28
Anchorage, Alaska.

Office, Anchorage, Alaska.
 Any and all persons claiming adversely any of the above men toned land should file their ad- verse claim in the district land office within the period of publi- cation OF thirty days thereafter, or they will be barred by the pro visions Of the statutes.
 Florence l.. Kolb
 Register Date First Publication Sept. 2I, '45 Date Last Publication Nov. l6, '45
The Wrangell sentinel., 1945-09-28
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Morning Worship, Il a. m. sun day school 10 a. m.
 Wednesday 7:SO Prayer meet ing.
 Thursday 6.OO p. m. High schoolers church night
 the Rev. J. L. Webster, Pastor
 DAUGHTER BORN
 Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gunderson are receiving congratulations this week on the birth of a daughter. Nancy Diane, in Seattle on Sep tember 19. The baby weighed six pounds one ounce at birth and mother and daughter are reported progressing nicely.
 Sharing in the congratulations are Mir and Mrs. Ole Gunderson, pioneer Wrangell residents. grand parents of Nancy Diane
The Wrangell sentinel., 1945-09-28
GARD OF THANKS

We wish to express our sincere thanks and appreciation to our friends for their many acts of kindness and for the beautiful floral offerings in the bereavement of our beloved son and brother. Melvin Skelton We especially thank the Elks lodge for conduct ing the impressive funeral service
 MRS. B. CHRISTENSEN
 MRS. L. BAHONEC
The Wrangell sentinel., 1945-09-28
OuT OF SERVICE

Elmer Copstead. formerly of the Coast Guard and skipper O. the Manana, was through Wra.us5I this week back in civilian clothes after receiving his honorable dis charge from Uncle sam. Copstead, former Ketchikan man, was bound for that town where he will again make his home
The Wrangell sentinel., 1945-09-28

It. Bernard Iversen, Wrangeu Army flier, left last Monday by plane for Truax Field Wisconsin. after a weeks furlough with home folks here. BarneHs hoping he'll be home again se#n-but not in uniform. He eXpeels to be dis charged by the first Of the year.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1945-09-28

FOR SALE - Monarch range. complete with oil burner. See Wal ter J. Larson.
 41-4tp
The Wrangell sentinel., 1945-09-28
SALVATION ARMY
Maj. E. Koerner, Officer in Charge

IUIISuLs 1UU NIEINE-
 Sunday Il a. m. Gods Way. 3:30 D. m. Sunday school. 10 D. h.. "A Short Walk.
 Wednesday 3:30 D. m. Jua.9r Legion; 7:0o D. m. Young Peo- ple's Legion.
 Thursday 7.15 D. m. Home League Cat Quartors1.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1945-09-28
PeriSCODe
Continued from Page One)

to be present when Bill Holzheim- CT and Bill Franks give that other party 25 years hence on the oc- easion of their 10oth birthday. Some of them probably will. too Periscope salutes the two young est 75-year-old men in Alaska - Bill Franks and Bill Iolzhoiaer.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1945-09-28

Children attending the pre- school class this morning at the library were: Carol Bird, Aurora 'aris Grant. sHsa0 Ilay. Brian Eslick and Alieky Prescott. Mrs. Joyce Hay was in charge.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1945-09-28
TO KETCHIKAN

Mrs. E. J. Whoee. wa pa senger aboard the Princes Louis' this week bound for Ketchikan.
Evening star., 1945-08-01

dressed tomorrow by Acting Secre-
tary of War Patterson.
A memorial service led by Col.
Alfred G. Oliver, jr., Army chaplain
who served with Gen. Macarthur
and recently was freed from Jap
prison camp on Luzon, will high
light the three-day conclave.
Brig. Gen. Robert N. Young, COM
manding general, Military District
of Washington, will address Legion
delegates Friday night.
Sessions will begin at 8 o'clock
each night.
Shepard, who pitched three inn
ings for the Senators against Brook
lyn in a Red Gross relief game here
July 5, was recruited by Leo Steinen,
commander National Cathedral
Post No TO-
Evening star., 1945-08-01
5000 File Tax Returns
As DeadIine Is Reached

An estimated 10000 personal prop
erty tax returns were still due from
District residents yesterday as the
deadline passed for filing returns.
This figure did not take into
account the number of returns that
will be received in the mail today
and postmarked before midnight.
approximately $4,000 returns have
been made this yeear, James A.
Martin, assistant tax assessor, said
yesterday. The District expects rev.
enue of about, $3,500,000 on personal
tangible property.
Bills will be mailed to property
owners, with payments allowed in
two equal installments in Septem-
ber and March of next year. The
number of delinquent returns was
said to be not unusual.
Evening star., 1945-08-01
1t. Shepard 10 Join
Legion During lis
Convention Here

1t. Bert Shepard, a discharged
bomber pilot who lost a leg when
his plane crashed in Germany, but
who overcame his disability to win
a player-coach job with the Wash
ington Senators, will take his oath
as Legionnaire when the District
American Legion holds it's annual
convention at the Hotel Mayf1ower
here tomorrow, Friday and Saturday.
Col. Raymond J. Kelly, Army Gen.
eral Staff officer and past national
commander of the Legion, will swear
It. Shepard into the organization
tomorrow as a World War II member.
The convention, the only major
Legion gathering this year because
of travel restrictions, will be ad-
The Apache sentinel., 1945-01-26
NEGRO LEADERS BACK
MARCH OF DIMES:

Some of the Nations outstanding
Negro leaders in all walks of life are
The Apache sentinel., 1945-01-26
"Morch of Dimes
Goes Into FinoIe
With Birthday Balls

Final Fort campaigning in the
March of Dimes drive climaxes with
the Presidents Birthday Balls. to be
held at the Officers Lakeside Mess
on Saturday. January 9th, and at
the Officers Mountainview Mess
and Service Club No. l on Tuesday.
January 80. OF course, pay tables
will hold containers for Gil. donors
on January 81 and theatre boxes
will be open through that night.
Last year, the nation experienced
the second worst epidemic of infan-
tile paralysis in its history. Many of
those stricken were the wives, sons
and daughters of U. S. servicemen.
Funds for. their relief were made
available throu g h the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis,
which has committees in every
county in the nation.
All funds which are collected in
the Nation go to this committees S
headquarters and are distributed
among the counties ON. the basis of
need, without regard to race, creed
politics. Il
Give your ten cents worth in the
fight against the dread disease
which causes SO many children to be
handicapped for life
Another Fort attraction for the
raising of funds to fight the disease
will be Monte Carlo Night to be
held at the Fry USO on Monday
January 29 All funds realized from
chances taken by GIs will revert to
the campaign.
The Apache sentinel., 1945-01-26

voice, the new Chaplain thrilled the
audience who came to hear him
preach his first sermon with the
gospel style of his preaching.
Before his enlistment, Chaplain
Carter was an A. M. E. minister,
having paStored churches in Kansas
City, Colorado, and in Arizona. He
came into the service from the pulpit
of the Prince Memorial A. NJ E.
Church in Tucson, Arizona, a church
which he had built himself.
Chaplain Carter's Army service
has been mainly with the Air Corps
He came to Fort Huachuca directly
from Camp Kerns AAF Base, Utah.
He has served, however, in the
Greenville, S!C.A.A. Base, at Mac
Dill Field, Tampa, Fla, and at sew
eral other air fields in Florida.
An organizer from his heart,
Chaplain Carter. in the first ten
minutes after his sermon was fin
ished, had organized 15-voice choir,
and supervised the election Of Off
GERS. The choir meets Friday eve
ming, TOO p. M, at the Chapel in
the new cantonment next to the Red
Cross building. Prayer meeting will
be held on that same evening at
800 p. m.
Chaplain Carter will preach next
Sunday at 1920 on the topic:
Things That Do Not Change" He
invites all Post personnel, both mill
tary and civilian, to attend the
service.
Colonel E. N Hardy, Post Com
mender, and Lit. Col C. F.. E. Nelson,
Special Service officer, attended the
first service conducted by Chaplain
Carter and congratulated him upon
his services, as we'll as promising
him full cooperation i'm his en-
deavors.
The Apache sentinel., 1945-01-26
| and { Program
Given New Impetus

A shot in the arm to the Infor-
nation and Education program at
Fort Huachuca is being injected by
Lit Lawrence D. Freiberg, 9th Service
Command, who is on It'd from Fort
Douglas, Utah, to accomplish just
that mission.
A graduate of the I. and E. course
at the Army School for Personnel
Services, Lexington, Va. It. Freiberg.
has travelled over many Of the in
stallations of the NSC, helping them
to make their I. and E. programs
more vital.
One of his chief accomplishments
at Fort. Huachuca has been his set
ting up daily bulletin on 1.-The War
Today" In getting out the bulletin
a mimeographed sheet of significant
news from the battlefrol1tS, he has
enlisted the aid of S/Sgt. John B.
Hasty, I. and E. Branch; TIA Lew E.
Davis and Pvt. Arthur Randall,
Apache Sentinel; and Pfc. James
Hicks, Special Services Division.
The Apache sentinel., 1945-01-26
Major Harris Acts
As Chief Prosecutor
In Paris Loot" Cases

Leveling legal guns at the soldiers
who have been engaged in black
market activities in Paris, France, is
none other than Fort Huachuca's s
own Major CarmOn Harris, who was
Staff Judge Advocate at this Post
for about one year from May, 1943,
to May, 1914
He is the officer who served as
trial judge advocate in the recent
Paris trials which netted thirteen
u. S. soldiers some of the toughest
S e II t e n C S cOurt-martial ever
handed out for such crimes, the SEN
tenceS ranging from 35, 40, As or so
years Imprisonment at hard labor
Revealed Conspiracy
In view of the evidence which
Major Harris introduced, the court
martial officers decided that some of
the looting which had been carried
out 6. wasn't simple stealing; it
was conspiracy that bordered on
treason
Major Harris, who holds the posi-
ton as chief prosecutor, is holding
some additional 200 more officers
and enlisted men for trial, and he
recently stated that big racketeers
are yet to be arrested. Presumably
theE+a are high American Army Off
GERS and French civilians. The
French civilians will be tried by the
French Army.
Was HonOred Here
Major Harris, who received COM
nlendations from the Ninth Service
Command for the excellence of the
Judge Advocates Department while
The Apache sentinel., 1945-01-26

heading the campaign for all-out
support of the worthy March of
Dimes Infantile Paralysis fund
They were especially high in their
praise Of the $171 900 fund set up by
the National Foundation for after
effects treatment of polio victims at
Tuskegee Institute Infantile Paraly-
sis center, which is a 36-bed unit
affiliated with the j. A. Andrews
Memorial hospital there.
The Apache sentinel., 1945-01-26

excellence in its own field.
Typical of the requests which
have reached the Fort asking for
the group S services are excerpts
from the following letters:
National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis,
COchise County Chapter,
January Is, 1945.
Dear Col. Hardy:
The Bisbee district is planning a
Presidents Birthday Ball on Sat-
urday, January 9th. AS in past
years, the dance is sponsored by
the COchise County Chapter of the
National Foundation for InfantiIe
Paralysis, in connection with the
annual fund raising drive.
A lot of the success Of last years
Ball at the Country Club was due
to the excellent music furnished by
"a dance band from your Post. 3.
We sincerely hope you will be able
to arrange for a dance band to
assist us this year and you may be
sure such assistance will be most
gratefully accepted.
Sincerely,
r. Y. Meeker, Secty.
The Apache sentinel., 1945-01-26
Was Honored Here

Major Harris, who received COM
nendations from the Ninth Service
Command for the excellence of the
Judge Advocates Department while
The Apache sentinel., 1945-01-26
Busy Winter Is Forecast
For Special Service Group

If the Special Service Divisions band and
comply with all the requests for their services file the Fort
Fuachuca Special Service officers desk they will be
emey busy bunch of soldiers during the few months
Working each night the Post, in conjunction with
morale building activities the group has been called upon by
The Apache sentinel., 1945-01-26

he was stationed at Fort Huachuca,
is from Oklahoma City. He has
wife and one child
The Apache sentinel., 1945-01-26
New ChopIoin Is
Gospel Preacher

Preaching a vigorous sermon on
the topic of "A Good Man." Chap
lain (1st Lieutenant) Julius c. Car
ter made an auspicious debut as