Evening star., 1945-08-30
u. 5. Flyers Released
In Shanghai Describe
BrutaIities Of Japs
BY the Associatec Press.

SHANGHAI, Aug. 30.-Storie!
of brutal japanese captors whit
beat them with bambo sticks anc
metal rods until they were blacl
and blue from knee to hip ane
could hardly walk, were relatee
here by eight American flyers.
One airman said he had his wrist.
tied behind him and had been huns
by his thumbs in efforts by tht
Japanese to force him to revea
American plans to invade Japan.
All are in good condition, anc
their wounds are healing. They still
are held by the japanese who
Threatened correspondents with bay.
onets when they first tried to in.
terview them in the YMCA here
Entrance was gained after a 15-
minute delay. The city of Shang.
hal still awaits its official release
The prisoners are:
Second 1t Harold H. Eifer, Chi.
cago, pilot of an Army B-24 bomber
Second 1t. William r. Martin, jr.
Colorado Springs, Colo, and Sergt
Clyde J. Sellers, Mount Pleasant
Mich; Navy Flyers ANN 1/c Walter
Pallack. Chicago: ANN &c Hbanl
Maratea, Chicago; AOM &c Tee
Hauser, North Hollywood, Calf. anc
Seamen l C Jens Martinsen, Brook.
lyn. N. Y. and Richard C. Warner
Dalton, Ill.
Shot Down in Nav.
1t. Eifier and his bomber crew
were shot down May II. The Navy
men were on plane which crashed
June 26. following an attack on a
japanese convoy of three destroyer
escorts, picket boat, three cargo
transports and two troop transports
north OF Shanghai.
Pallack said antiaircraft knocked
the bomber out of the sky and it
crashed near the convoy.
When japanese rescuers picked
them up, Pallack saw about 1000
men swimming around from a troop
transport that had been sunk by the
bomberS
AS the Japs picked up the SWIM
mers each greeted us by slugging
us" Pallack related. we were
locked in vegetable bins and beaten
every couple of hours.
"rI'ha navf Ia,, p,o
hal We were really beaten up by Jap
enlisted men taking turns hitting us. -
Other tortures included the tying
OF their hands behind their backs
and then being raised with a cord
around their necks.
With our hands tied that way
they would give us four or five
socks" Pallack said.
1t. Eif1er, refusing to provide the
japanese with information, was
hung by his thumbs for half an
hour
Six released American prisoners of
war, survivors Of Wake Island, like
wise told of japanese brutalities.
They were Edward Cook, San
Francisco, and Amos j. White. Rah-
way. N. j., civilians, and Marines
Corpl. Robert E. Lee, Taylorsville.
III; Pfc. Leroy Moritz, Sedro
Wooley, Wash, and Sergt. William
D. Beck, South Gate, Calf.
The japanese hit them with quirts
quite lot they said.
Marine 1t. Col. J. P. S. Devereaux
and about l.l00 Wake survivors were
transferred to Japan last year, the
six told correspondents here
Among American prisoners of war
freed here was DR.. Charles Boyn-
ton, Yale graduate and principal of
the American School of Shanghai.
He had been held by the Japanese
almost three years.
Survived Ordeal Well.
The elderly mission worker, noted
throughout the Orient. survived the
ordeal surprisingly well.
This was our menu week after
week DR.. Boynton said:
Breakfast, nothing; tiffn, two
beetS: supper, nothing; breakfast
nothing; tiffin, two onions: supper
nothing. We usually got bread but
1t was made so atrociously some of
the people put cold cream-actually
cold cream-on it to make it edible. =
DR.. Boynton predicted the Jap
anese Emperor would welcome the
arrival of the Americans
He has been under the domina-
ton of the military for several years
but he is a liberal" the educator
said. He welcomes nothing more
than chance for about the same
power as an ordinary king.
The Allies should destroy the
japanese Emperor sun god myth.
When the Japanese see that the
Emperor has to take orders from the
Allies it may help destroy that
myth"