davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-27

pinched expression and furtive look"
couldn't keep anything on his stom-
ach-especially at night when his
upset digestive system sometimes
got him out of bed as much as 20
times. He was an able worker out of
a job; the ones he did get didn't last
very long.
Even so, Mr. Q lacked one malady-
maker in his-life for which he prob
ably was grateful in his meek way.
He had married an orphan, so he
didn't have the mother.in.law trouble
that often isn't the joke it's cracked
up 10 be but probably turns many
hulking husband into steady income
for his doctor.
The two daughters, Catherine
and Agnes, were diagnosed as having
heart trouble and Agnes was serious
ly undernourished because she had a
mysterious fear of eating.
If Catherine, the younger sister,
hadn't gone TO the clinic TO consult
about heart palpitation DR. Richard.
son and his colleagues might never
have met the Martin Qs and helped
solve the puzzle of their many and
varied complaints.
Even then-because hospital rec
ords frequently are such cut-and.
dried affairs putting more emphasis
on the specific disease that picked off
grandpa or grandma than the emo.
10 Nav ~. IDf5
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-27

the rest OF the family She also had
bad teeth and a stomach ulcer TO com
plain about.
Doctors didn't have TO delve far
10 find another cankcr; this was the
loss Of a job
If a family like this had lived in
the time of the horse-and.buggy doc.
tor he would have known the skelc-
tons in their closets and treated them
for personality upsets
But the country practitioner, like
Humpty Dumpty. has been broken
into many pieces never to be patched
up again. In his place are a host OF
specialists who have 10 pool their
knoWledge-uSing the whole family
as the unit they are going 10 cure
If the world is 10 be healthy.
That's just what happened with
the Martin CS. The parents had theiT
teeth fixed and Mr. Q's stomach be
haVed as soon as he got a regular job.
Catherine recovered when she stopped
struggling so hard with her school
work, and the retiring Agnes learned
TO talk back 10 people who bossed
her and finally married a sailor, with
her mothers approval.
Or. Richardson points out that even
an infection can be picked up because
an emotional upset weakens a per
son so that germs take hold easily.
Not all illness can be blamed O.
your family, it's true, but along with
his supply of penicillin and sulfa
drugs every modern medico needs 10
stock up on remedies for disagreeabl-
relatives, il seems.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-27

tional upsets in
a patients own
everyday life -
it took several
years to learn
that rivalry be
tween the four
QS was one of
the things that
made them sick.
Although Mrs.
Q actually had
the other three
u n d @ Z h @ r
thumb, her hus-
band used his
stomach trouble
and very ba d
teeth as a means
of getting some
of the prestige
in the household
that his loss of
the position of a
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-27

~ i l | e u
against each
other, each try
ing TO win her
mothers affec-
ton by being
like Laura.
Cathc rim @,
the 16-year.old,
though not a
natural scholar,
did her best TO
always get per-
feet marks at
school. This
overwork, and
a fear of fail
ure, brought on
the heart pal-
pitation That
took her 10 the
clinic and con.
vinced the fam
lily that Cath
G in g, like
Laura, surely
would die of
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-27

X l c n a + dSOn ex-
plains in his new
b ook, Patients
II aV e Families, "
published by The
c o m m o nwealth
Fund. And, by in
t @ r e n ce, his
makes a case for
the old ia m lily
doctor who knew
all about the pa.
tents home life.
The Martin Qs,
for in s a n e,
would have been
as transparent as
cellophane TO him.
They were a
family of four
with a plu m p,
anxious but dom
ineering Mrs. @.
at the controls.
Her husband, "a
little man with
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-27

But IL didn't work
out as well as thc
girls Su b con S cious
mind expected
Mrs O saw only her
own failure in Agnes
For Mrs. Q, in spite CT
her overhearinG ways,
did consider herself =
flop. She bolstcred up
her ego bV manacinr
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-27

Vic, a grouchy grand.
mother or a kid sister
who can't get along with
her school work.
Modern doctors are just
beginning to realize what
a tremendous role rela-
tives play in making a
person sick, DR.. Henry B.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-27

lF you have chronic indigestion, pal
pitation Of the heart, or even in
fected tonsils, your trouble may be
due TO mean mother.in-laW, a bossy
Evening star., 1945-02-01
Late Bulletins
Girl Dies in Office

A 21-year-old Government
employe, Florence Isabelle
Sisson, died today in an office
in the Farragut Medical Build
ing, police reported. Mrs.
Charles E. Hunt, landlady at
4318 Fourteenth street NV,
where Miss Sisson lived, said
she was from Haynesville, Va,
and said she believed her
father was Leonard Sisson.
Miss Sisson was under treat
ment for a sinus condition.
II Overcome in Garage
Eleven mechanics employed
by the Capital Transit Co.
were partially overcome by
carbon monoxide gas while
working on a bus in the COM
pany garage, Fourth and p
streets S.W., today. They were
removed to Emergency Hos
pitai for treatment. None is
reported in a critical condition.
2 Minesweepers, LIST Lost
Loss of two minesweepers
and a tank landing ship from
enemy action in the Philip
pines was announced this
afternoon by the Navy. The
landing ship, LIST 759, was
commanded by Coast Guard
1t. John A. Baybutt, 3731
Thirty-nin street NV, who
survived, the Navy said. The
commanders Of the mine.
sweepers also are safe.
Evening star., 1945-02-01
Partial List of Men
Rescued in Raid on
Luzon Revealed

Names of American prisoners
of war rescued from a japanese
camp in the Philippines are be-
ing received. via the Associated
Press, from Gen. MacArthur's
headquarters on Luzon, and the
following partial list will be sup
plemented in later editions of
The Star:
Pfc. Don H. Adams, Artesia, N.
Mex.
M/Sergt. Ermon r. Addington,
Harrison, Idaho.
Pfc. William c. Ahlschwede, Thay-
er, Nebr.
Dean w. Albee, civilian, Eureka,
Mont.
M/Sergt. Louis B. Albin, San An
tonic, Tex.
Pvt. John S. Afford, Pensacola,
Fla.
Capt. Frederick C. Amos, Hum
boldt, Kans.
Sergt. Harold M. Amos, Alton,
Iowa.
M/Cunner Sergt. Harry Arold,
Liberty, Mo.
Pvt. Uriah S. Ash, Fairmont, w.
Va.
Sergt. Robert J. Baker, Valdosta,
Ga.
Evening star., 1945-02-01
Cold 10 Hang On,
Forecaster Predicts

The cold which has frozen Wash
ington and much of the Nation for
several days will continue until the
end Of the week, the Weather Bu-
reau said today.
The low this morning was II de-
grees. A disturbance in the Atlantic.
which started strong wind blowing
over Washington, kept it from going
to the expected 10 degrees, the fore
caster explained.
The wind will continue tonight
and will slowly diminish tomorrow,
the forecaster said.
At Richmond q low OF 13 was
recorded this morning. Lynchburg,
Va, reported II degrees. It was zero
through much Of the Ohio Valley
and 10 at Pittsburgh.
The Great Lakes region was colder,
with Chicago registering below
zero.
Evening star., 1945-02-01

lieved the airmen's red flares were
artillery flashes.
Officially, Moscow placed the
closest Soviet approach to Berlin at
So miles, but an Associated Press
dispatch from Moscow virtually con-
firmed the German reports of a
much deeper advance.
Kustrin, a 18th century fortified
town of $4,000, is on the east bank
of the Oder and on the north bank
of the Warthe at the confluence of
the two rivers.
DNB, German news agency, said
this key town, one of the chief de-
fenses of Berlin, was approached by
Zhukov's forces on the north side
OF the Warthe, which captured
Landsberg and then moved on to
Beyersdorf, So miles northeast of
Berlin.
Big Oder Battle Imminent.
1t was about Frankfurt. a city of
$4,000 on the west side of the Oder
II miles south of Kustrin, that the
Germans had grouped their
strongest Notifications along the
line of the Oder to protect COM
munications between Berlin and
Breslau in Silesia.
With his wings spread out on a
70-n1ile front, zhukov was preparing
for mighty battle along the Oder
which might break German re-
sistance and let the Red Army flood
into Berlin.
The Germans were reported
dynamiting, shelling and bombing
the Oderin frantic effort to break
up natural ice bridges.
The Russians quoted German
prisoners as saying large elements
Of the German air force had been
stripped from the Cologne and
Aachen sector of the western front
as the Nazi high command threw in
everything to stop the Russians.
Tough Oder Defenses,
Toughness of the Oder defenses
before Berlin was suggested by the
fact that several days have now
elapsed since the Russians have re-
ported any appreciable progress from
their Oder bridgeheads on both sides
of Breslau in Silesia.
The Germans continue to declare
that Soviet spearheads there had
been stopped.
Even the fact that zhukoy
reached the Oder was source OF
amazement to London military quar-
tiers. who noted that he had sue
ceeded in bringing up supplies and
heavy arms, although he had driven
tSee RUSSIA, Page A-14.)
Evening star., 1945-02-01
II Raiders Killed
In Attack Is Miles
Behind Luzon Line
BY C. YATES MCDANIEL,

GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD
QUARTERS, Luzon, Jan. 81 (De-
layed). In a daring raid Is miles
behind the japanese lines, 400
picked men of the 9Th Ranger
Battalion and Filipino guerrillas
last night rescued 513 veterans
of Bataan, Corregidor and Singa-
pore from an enemy prison camp.
The raiders took japanese guards
completely by surprise and emptied
the prison camp, in Nueva Ecija
Province of Eastern Luzon. The 513
men found there-486 Americans, %
Britons, Netherlanders and l Nor
wegian-were all that remained
Hundreds of others had been sent
to work in Japan. Other hundreds
had died.
All but two of the men were
brought out alive by the 121 men of
the 9Th Ranger Battalion who
stormed into the prison stockade
under command of 1t Col Henry
Mucci of Bridgeport, Conn. The
elllGtUleQ IledItS Ol tIle TWO men
fickered out when they were in
sight of American lines.
The Rangers attacked with such
merciless precision that not one of
the japanese stockade guards was
left alive or able to resist. And they
attacked with such care that not one
of the prisoners was scratched.
25-Mile Journey.
Within matter of minutes all
had been released and were on their
25-mile journey to freedom, walking,
carried on backs of husky Rangers
or riding in carabao carts.
Nearly 100 we're so weak from
malnutrition, disease and three
year-old wounds that they could not
walk when they we're cut loose from
japanese bondage.
The rescue cost the lives of q
Rangers and Filipinos in a guerrilla
unit led by Maj. Robert Lapham of
Davenport, Iowa, who fought off a
savage tank-led Japanese attack
along the escape corridor.
The raiders killed 523 Japanese
more than one for every prisoner
released-and knocked out II enemy
tanks.
This first mass liberation of Allied
Evening star., 1945-02-01
1t. Bliss and Col. Oliver of D. C..
Among Liberated Prisoners
Families Overjoyed
At News They Are
Safe in Philippines

Two Washington families were
made supremely happy today by
news of the liberation from a
japanese prison on Luzon of 513
American veterans of the 1912
stand in the Philippines.
Mrs. Raymond w. Bliss, wife of
Brig. Gen. Raymond W. Bliss, as
sistant surgeon general, spent the
longest two hours of her life this
morning at her home. 1888 Reno
road NV, after she heard a radio
flash that 513 veterans of Bataan
and Corregidor had been freed in a
daring raid by Rangers and Filipino
guerrillas.
She was waiting prayerfully for
the name of her son, Second 1t.
Raymond w. Bliss, jr, 20, one of
the hardy band captured on Bataan
nearly three years ago.
The broadcast didn't give any
names. so just sat here and hoped
the telephone would ring and some
one would tell me that Raymond
was one of the boys rescued" she
said.
The telephone finally did ring. A
reporter told her the good news.
Her son was among those rescued.
Meanwhile, similar joyous news
came to Mrs. Dell Lake Oliver, 1920
Co.. rT yCC
Evening star., 1945-02-01
Death for McF ar|and
Demanded by FiheIIy
As Case nears jury
Defense Says Marine
Now in Pacific Could
Clear Defendant

The Government today asked
the death penalty for Marine
Pfc. Earl Mcfarland TO rthe mur-
der of 18-year-old Dorothy M.
Berrum. Shortly thereafter, de-
fense Counsel P. Bateman Ennis,
in his final plea to the District
Court jury, accused the Govern
ment of failing to bring back
from the Pacific "the key witness
who could definitely clear this
boy" of charges of criminal as
sault and murder.
The witness referred to by Mr..
Ennis was E. S. Takacs, whose
name was stamped in the regulation
marine belt found near Miss Ber-
runs body in East Potomac Park
in the early morning of October 6.
Government witnesses have testified
Takacs was a marine patient in an
Australian hospital when Mcfarland
was there, and he is now some
where in the Pacific.
Justice James M. Proctor said the
jury of II men and house
would get the case after a final
argument by United States Attorney
Edward M. Curran.
"Key to Story of Belt"
Mr.. Ennis contended in his closing
argument that Takacs was the key
to the story of the belt" an i'm
portant Government exhibit.
Suppose Takacs came back year
from now and said he didn't have
the belt in the South Pacific or that
he had scratched his initials and
not his full name on it?" demanded
Mr.. Ennis. Before this Govern
ment should be willing to ask for
mans life it should exercise every
resource in its power to bring back
a witness who could definitely clear
this boy"
Insisting that the defense was mot
inconsistent" in contending in
nocence as well as raising the pos
sibility that Mcfarland had COM
mitted the murder while suffering
from malaria psychosis," Mr.. Ennis
told the jury that it was Sitting on
the threshold of a new doctrine in
medical Jurisprudence" -
Stresses Doubts in Evidence.
He asked the jury how it would
feel If it disregarded malaria psy-
Ghosts" in this case and a year from
now, when thousands of other vet
erans come back, read of the cases
of men acquitted of crimes because
of malaria psychosis."
Mr.. Ennis devoted most Of his
argument to efforts to prove there
was a reasonable doubt in the Gov
ernment's case, which, he said, was
based wholly on circumstantial
evidence.
Mr.. Ennis asked for the marines
acquittal, but added that If the
Governments case did not create a
reasonable doubt of McFarland's
guilt, that the jury should give
credence" to the testimony of de-
fense psychiatrists that Mcfarland
was "a sick man."
Mr.. Ennis admitted Mcfarland
was mo Sunday school boy" but
described him as "a patriotic boy
willing to sign up and fght our
common enemy"
In making . plea for the death
penalty in his summation Of the case,
1see MCFARLAND, PAGE AID
Evening star., 1945-02-01

prisoners of war in the Western
Pacific was accomplished by an all
night forced march east of the
American lines to the Cabantuar
prison camp at Cabu.
Japs Completely Surprised.
The Commando force, made up Of
the III Rangers and 286 Filipinos in
the guerrilla unit, left American
lines under protection of air cover
and reached the prison camp with
out detection.
Their swift, fierce attack caught
the guards completely by surprise
The japanese struck back violently
and persistently as the rescue col
umn headed back toward the 9th
Ranger camp and freedom for the
valiant men who had been at the
mercy of japanese guards for nearly
three years.
The heavy, disproportionate Japa-
nese losses were inflicted in batter
ing down these tank-led attacks.
The Commando raid, ordered on
short notice when intelligence re-
ports disclosed the whereabouts OF
the camp, was such a success that
Gen. Macarthur decorated every
man in the force.
The lean and ragged captives re-
ceived the homage of thousands OF
American soldiers now fighting to
redeem the islands for which the
veterans fought SO valiantly and
hopelessly. The youthful GIs formed
" n impromptu honor guard, flank
ing a military highway down which
The rescue party passed after it re-
turned to American lines.
1t was the last of many marches
for the rescued men-marches which
began with the brutal "death march
of Bataan."
The freed men showed their hap
piness, despite their sores and ulcers,
wasted bodies and ragged clothes.
Some looked helplessly up from
litters. Others were proudly erect.
There we're old men with gray hair
and dazed, sunken eyes. Some were
surprisingly young and almost at
their normal weight. Others were
limp from beri-beri.
Their shirts were tattered. Shorts
were patched and repatched. Sew
eral officers still proudly wore their
emblems of rank. There were bat
tered campaign hats, overseas caps
and one prewar type helmet.
Their sentiment was expressed by
Capt. James B. Prippe, Los Angeles,
former provost marshal on Corregi-
dor. He said:
'The thrill of seeing those green
clad Rangers storm into the prison
camp last night will never quite
leave me-"
Evening star., 1945-02-01
BY RUSSELL BRINEs.

NASseSAoeoo EAcsS WAL SOfIeSpOnQeQG.
SIXTH RANGER BATTALION
CAMP, Luzon, Jan. 81 Delayed -
There is a long twisting lane near
here which should become a war
monument, for today it bridged two
worlds. It leads across the plain
from the death camp where 513
prisoners of war were rescued by
American Rangers and Filipino
guerrillas.
A convoy of ambulances and
trucks transported the rescued cap
tives back to safety and freedom
except for two of the 5l3 who died
en- route. No men ever received more
sincere homage than these lean,
ragged captives who had come back
from death.
For four miles they followed a
lane outside the American lines,
Evening star., 1945-02-01
Base on Subic Bay
Taken, Yanks Push
Closer 10 Manila
PiIIboxes Found Empty;
Little Correeidor'
Island Is Captured
MAP on Page A-3.)
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD
QUARTERS, Luzon, Feb. 1.-Su-
bic Bay and its naval repair base
of Olongapo, dotted with pill
boxes, but inexplicably aban-
doned by the japanese, were
back in American hands today
as unblunted Yank spearheads
to the east rolled clear of a dan
gerous bottleneck passage only
% road miles from Manila.
Wellfortified Grande Island, the
Little Corregidor" guarding the en-
trance to Subic Bay, was taken with
out opposition Tuesday by 9th Army
troops. Units of the 7th Fleet then
steamed into Subic Bay.
Other elements of 1t. Gen. Robert
Eichelberger's 9Th Army moved by
road along the inner rim of Subic
Bay to capture the Olongapo naval
base which, before the war, was an
American depot.
Gen. Macarthur said in his COM
munique today that I'VE are now
using this excellent anchorage, and
development of naval base is al
ready under way"
Pillboxes Empty. -rv
Olongapo was well outfitted with
japanese dugouts and pillboxes-
empty. Similarly, Grande Island
was abandoned by the enemy, its
American guns pointing disconso-
lately out to sea-" in the words
of Associated Press Correspondent
James Hutcheson.
Meanwhile, 9Th Army troops IS
miles to the east reached the town
of Calumpit, 28 road miles from
Manila, in a drive down an easily
defensible stretch of highway
f1anked by huge swamplands.
Failure of the japanese to put up
a fight in this natural defense zone
was as puzzling as the enemy's lack
OF opposition at Subic Bay.
The Americans crossed the Pam
panga River, just north of Calum-
pit, to swing free of the swampy
corridor and aim down the starlight
Manila highway. They were ap-
preaching Malolos, % road miles
from Manila.
One column of 9Th Army troops,
which has been moving southwark
from Lingayen, turned westward on
the Bataan Peninsula road from
San Fernando and captured Lubao.
This represented a 10-mile advance
Evening star., 1945-02-01
100 Killed, 10 Injured
In Mexico Train Wreck
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 1.-About
100 persons were killed and 70 in
jured in the wreck Of special train
Of pilgrims early today near GAIA
dero, 100 miles north of here.
The nine coaches loaded with
pilgrims were swept of the track
and three quickly burst into flames
The National Railways, which an
nounced the preliminary casualty
list. said a freight train crashed into
the rear of the pilgrims train, which
left here yesterday afternoon.
The pilgrims we're bound for San
Juan de Los Lagos, south of Aguas
Calientes and about 800 miles north
west of here. They were to attend
a religious festival.
A relief train with doctors and
was sent from here and
most Of the injured already have
been taken to San Juan del Rio, 20
miles from the wreck, where there
are hospital facilities. Cazadero,
near where the wreck occurred, Is
only hamlet.
Evening star., 1945-02-01
BY ]. A. O'LEARY.

The limited national service
bill to make men Is to As liable
for assignment to war work is
expected to pass the House to-
day on the urgent plea of ad-
ministratien leaders that it is
needed to hasten victory.
Although several hurdles re-
main to be cleared, the measure
appeared to have weathered its
worst storm yesterday, when two
major amendments were beaten.
These were:
The anti-closed shop amendment
of Representative Wadsworth, Re-
publican, of New York, to give draft
ed workers the right to join or stay
out of unions, which also preserved
organized labor's right to collective
bargaining and wage-hour control.
It went down on two test votes of
1863 to 125, and later, 178 to 142.
Other amendments rejected were:
To take registered male nurses into
the Army with commissions, to sub
ject all war contracts to renegotia-
ton, and to exempt honorably dis
charged war veterans from the
compulsory features. The bill al
ready allows local boards to put off
calling returned veterans for essen
tial jobs until all available non-
veterans have been called.
The anti discrimination amend
ment of Representative Clason,
Republican, of Massachusetts,, which
sought to give statutory backing
to the Fair Employment Practice
Committee. This was defeated, 148
to 113.
The House will vote early today
on the substitute of Representative
Harness. Republican, of Indiana to
continue voluntary recruiting of war
workers, with a direction to the
War Manpower Commission to in
vestigate wastage of labor already
available in war plants.
Other voluntary plans may be
offered, but If the Harness motion
fails, as administration leaders con-
fidently predict, the bill is expected
to move quickly to final passage.
It's fate then will rest with the
(See MANPOWER, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1945-02-01
Father of Toby Wing,
Actress, Is Among
Prisoners Rescued
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
92nd EVACUATION HOSPI-
TAI, Luzon, Friday, Feb. a.
Maj. Paul R. Wing, 54, father
of Toby Wing, movie actress,
said he was quite we'll" when
rescued from a japanese prison
camp.
Happy and tanned, Maj. Wing
declared he felt as if he had
already regained half of the 40
pounds he lost while impris-
oned. He told of his pleasure in
receiving picture of his grand
son. The child is with his
mother in Miami, Fla.
Maj. Wing. an Army signal
officer, was captured at Cor
regidor.
Evening star., 1945-02-01
Rescued Prisoners, Still Proud
In Rags, Can't Believe It's True

riding in vehicles and grass-lined
Filipino carts Thousands of SOL
diers from the reinvasion army
formed an impromptu parade in
their honor, fanking both sides of
the return route.
No men ever tried more valiantly
to regain the pride which the Jap
anese had smashed and to control
their emotion as these captives
whose first glimpse of the almost
forgotten outside world came this
evening.
Behind them, was the awful hope
lessness of Bataan and Corregidor,
and nearly three years of unbeliev-
ably brutal Imprisonment. Finally,
stunningly swift rescue and an all
night forced march of Is miles, the
last of several marches for them.
(see BRINEs. Page A-60