Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 February 1945 — Page 5
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{réached O'Donnel another Jap Teen canteen, a juke box dance | noticed them and took them away. | Boor show at Christian center. That was the last we saw of them. "| Pvt. William Duncan, Troutville, | {Va., was also on the death march.| The
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Heavy Death Toll : Northeastern Homemakers.
Among Japs’ Captives
“The courageous citizens of Kus-
trin chased back a Soviet tank de- “Barricades are being built fever- |
ishly in a number of streets, in-
{ats=the prison camp because one|residence of Mrs. Frank Fivecoats.”
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and army; other Nazi spgkesmen warned grimly that no weakening wili be tolerated ,in this critical hour of the war, : They quoted Adolf Hitler's ‘recent pronouncement: “He who fights hénorably can thus save his own life and the lives of his ioved ones, but he who. because of cowardice or lack. of character, turns his back on the nation shall inexorably die an ignominious death.”
Nazis Vague
The Nazi propaganda ministry reiterated its familiar but vague reassurances that new counternieasures are being taken to halt the Red army before Berlin, | In the same breath it admitted that German militafy’ operations on the Eastern front still are in a “state of flux.” : Swedish dispatches from Berlin, meanwhile, reported that the Germans were stripping ‘the capital of its defensive shield of anti-aircraft artillery and rushing the flak bat-
tachment which was trying to cross the ~Oder, destroying six of the tanks and damaging others,” the| commentator, Wilfred von Offen, |lockeers. : said in a German home service pep| “The explosions from blowing up talk. bomb-wrecked houses are adding
Moscow dispatches said Zhukov's | to the fateful atmosphere, and
flooding across a broad, reach of |Of guns in the east. the German border east of Berlin. “Berliners are deeply impressed They now were closing in on|py the sight of marching Volks- | Frankfurt and Kustrin to éXploit|sturm (home guard) units with’ the gains of armored spearheads | their rifles and temmy guns. A
many’'s “Rhine of the East.” | tear newspapers from the hands of Both flanks of the Red army | the vendors.” which had raced from the Vistula to| the Oder in three weeks were fan- | ning out in strength as the forces | The Soviet high command placed at the center of Zhukov's offensive 1s advancing 1st army in strength front massed on the Oder. {only at Libenow and Duhringshof, | Stockholm Dispatch |60 miles northeast of Berlin and 18
The German Transocean news| miles northeast of Kustrin. agency reported that “new and; Both towns were captured yes- |
Thaw Reported
[tremendous battles” were imminent | terday in a seven-mile advance
in the Oder-Warthe bend northeast|{rom Landsberg. of Berlin and in Silesia. Berlin claimed that a thaw had Both sides were throwing in fresh |slowed the Soviet advance, turning forces and decisive tests of strength | frozen roads into quagmires of were prospective, the agency said.|mud. The Nazis, however, held out Stockholm relayed a dispatch [no hope that the Red army could from Berlin saying: be halted short of the Oder, if there “Berlin now is a front line city “feverish haste.”
line. “Travellers reaching southern | Sweden from Berlin in the last few days were quoted as saying that unmistakeable signs of panic were beginning to appear in the city for the first time.
List More Hoosiers Among ~ Yanks Rescued on Luzon
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Transportation facilities were reported swamped by the inrush of | refugees from the east and the | equally-heavy flow of Berliners try- |
ing to escape to the south. {fi
The German Transocean news| agency said Berlin was A re] with troops and that trenches were | .. being dug outside the capital “in | feverish haste.” “After their day's work, Berliners who have not yet been sent to the front are being trained in the use of anti- tank weapons and machine | guns,” Transocean said. | The Swiss newspaper Gazette de Lausanne, in a dispatch reported to O| the office of war information, said | Berlin is being fortified for a street- | to-street and house-to-house de-|
{of Mr. and Mrs. William .C. Ramme,
{department of General Motors Corp. of Alfred Oliver IIT, 15621 W. 15th st. |i the town of Iloilo on Panay isLT. HARRY M. BROWN, son of [},4 "|e and Mrs. Elmer Brown, Vest | Bon ‘in Union. county.
to Indianapolis as a boy and atCOL. JAMES DUCKWORTH, ia i : Hormerly of Martinsville. | tended Shortridge high school. He
has two other brothers, Herman of pyr. CARL. SMITH, Oakland Crawfordsville, and Lawrence of
LT. WILLIAM C. RAMME. son Liberty, and a sister, Mrs. Fanny Gookins of Osgood.
| Terre Haute. | «Lt. Brown was sent to the Phil-| Relatives and friends ‘of the res- | ibpipes in 1941. He entered the
cued prisoners have been rejoicing army after completing his intern- |
{over the good news ever since they ship at City hospital. His wife,
[first heard that the 513 interned|Mrs, Irene, Phillips Brown, former | {men had been freed.
| supervisor of the Eli Lilly research Mr. and Mrs. Knapp received a| {department at City hospital, en{telegram yesterday from Capt. [listed in the army nurse corps in| |Knapp’s wife, Marjorie, of San An- | December, 1943, and is now in the
{cluding the center of the city in| | the presence of the bewildered on- |
armor and - mobile infantry were might soon merge with the fhunder |
blazing the Soviet trail: to Ger-'general tension is noticeable. People |
he came |
In Philippines.
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‘to kecH the.starving priseners from eating them, ‘he said. “The Japanese laughed at the sight,” he added: ! Hibbs served with the 31st in-| {[fantry at Bataan and was adjutant lat the O'Donnell camp hospital] under Col. James W. Duckworth of. San Francisco, Cal., doctor-hero of |
of the prisoners rescued from Ca-| banatuan.
~ Japs Become Alarmed
Duckworth, {the rescued
senior officer among prisoners, confirmed! that ‘250 prisoners were dying daily lat Camp O'Donnell for a brief period after the surrender of Bataan] in 1942. “The Japs were panicky over the {death rate,” -he said. “They sent me there and allowed me to take 68' truckloads of our equipment and supplies. “Within a month, the death rate was cut to 100 a day, and during the second month to 15 or 20.”
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Duckworth said his personal deal-
“lings with the Japanese had been
‘satisfactory,” but reported that “many hundreds” of war Hrisoners | were buried at Cabanatuan. Maj. Emil Reed of Brownsville, lex, formetly regimental com-| mander of the -26th (Filipino) |
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“Témployed as manager of the truck cavalry, said some American soldiers |
at Cabanatuan had been beaten
until they died. Cruel Treatment
Pvt. Alfred Jolly of San Francisco sajd the Japanese “used to treat us pretty cruel.” “We had to snap to or they used rifle butts on us” Jolly said. . “Occasionally the Ju@8 would slaughter a carabao but they gave: {us only the head and bones. They gave us 30 cans of évaporated ie} a week for the invalids.” At one time, he said, there had | been 6060 prisoners at the camp but he believed most of them had [been taken to Japan, Formosa ang China,
{He said the Japs once-shot 10 re will meet Wednesday at the:
| man had escaped.
Another time] Miss Janice Berlin will be
[tive were shot for the same reason, | guest.
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|tonio, Tex., saying that the officer China-Burma-India theater. fense. |was safe. He had been interned Col. Oliver's home is in Three defensive rings, starting in| g,00 the fay) of Bataan. |ington, D. C.. where his wife, Mrs. | the eastern suburbs and extending The Booth family~veceived -a Dell Lake Oliver, and his daugh-|Or be-killed. They returned later | back to"the Potsdamer platz in the| 10000 from Mrs. Vernon Booth, ter live. The 60- -year-old officer With supplies. During the last heart —of—the-—eity —are—being—con~ gr 1ucteen Intermed Tir Manila. wa€-rominent—in-1ason work for three-weeks-the prisogers.said. they structed for the soming siege, the vine «we are well” - Mr. Booth, a ‘he army and was an army chaplain [ate better than ever before. One| hewspaper said. (prisoner in camp 3, Bilbedad, Ma- at Ft. Harrison form 1932 to 1936, Prisoner , claimed he gained 50 Reports that the Japanese em-| i. pag goné to the Philippines in|He was head of chaplains in the Pounds on the diet. {1934 as a U 8. soldier and stayed | Philippines at the time of his! Survives Death March |
bassy staff in Berlin had. left for| parts unknown were denied by the (there . after his discharge. He was | capture when Bataan fell. =f . — Pfc. Siprano Griego, Albuquerque, | |N. M., who made the death march
Tokyo radio, which asserted that the Japanese foreign office had | been in communication with its] Y k C | O M i] : from Bataan to Camp O'Donnel fruit. Made with the loving care you'd give Berlin diplomats last night. anks os/ n g n aniiqa said: ru “They are, we are happy to re- “I'd hate like hell to repeat some
them yourself... Sanforized to be fruit-fresh port, still in Berlin,” Tokyo said. Two Ways Afte r 3d Landi I ng of the things I saw. I saw the Japs
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Two days before the Libissven] Wash- landings the Japs left the camp,| warning the prisoners to stay there |
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(Continued From Page One) {nnique said the 37th’s patrols [who were too weak to move The! Alan Hooker, Columbus, O., vice
were operating freely throughout! ‘ " prise landing 13 miles below the | D 8 ¥ _lnroug men screamed ‘Please don't’ = So
the area. |the Ja 2 ¢ Pp ps ordered the others to hit, the Theosophical®society, will speak [mouth of Manila bay. This indicated that the Japanese! {them on the heads.”
on “Theosophy, the Gospel of Wis-| Amphibious forces of. the, U. 8. were making no attempt at a de-| « dom,” at 8 p. m. Sunday in the lodge 8th army knifed into the enemy's termined stand abov BW thE capital. | awe ent, our 4 ays rosaries rooms, 38% N. Penn, st. -Avis A |thinly-held west coast defenses for! Caught between the two American | we and everyone tried to get a | Barnett, president of the Indian- the third time in 48 hours. | columns, the Japanese in Manila |grink but they bayoneted or hit ..|apolis lodge, has invited the public; They swarmed ashore early faced the prospect of retreating jij gun butts anyone who got out to attend. Wednesday at Nasugbu bay, 41 \southeastward around the shares | miles southwest of Manila. lof Lagunade bay within the next | . [few days or being trapped and anThe landing: was completed with | nihilated inside the city, out loss. Their only other alternative Was: At -last reports the “Americans a flight to Corregidor for a death were advancing inland through stand on “the Rock.” weak opposition at a pace that may| As the battle for Manila moved | already have carried them tp the into its final stage, fierce fighting | shores of Manila bay. This is With- continued in the foothills of the | in artillery range of Corregidor. | Zambales mountains 50-odd miles Troops of the U. S. 11th airborne to the northwest, division carried out the 'new inva-| Several thousand Japanese there |
Ph WAN YOU 0 { sion. were being bombed and shelled out They
captured Nasugbu town, °f the hilltop positions just west of | liberating a
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. : mile-wide base of Bataan penin- | first three weeks of the campaign.) |. from the recaptured Olongapo
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The enemy accounts contended VAnsuards of the 8th were re-| that the main Japanese forces on Ported nearing —Dinaluhipan, 13
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The new thrust broker open the [He peninsula thereby joining 6th
; army forces moving down from back door to Manila, already men- | ; " sl 1 ated by U. 8. 6th army: veteran ubac, 10 Lubac, 10" miles to the northeast.
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