Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 March 1945 — Page 13

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CHICAGO, March 15 (U. P.)—! . Capt. Arthur Wermuth, the one-man army of Bataan, has suffered brutal | treatment by the Japs since he was | taken prisoner nearly three years ago, Pfc. Louis Zelis, one of the prisoners rescued from the Cabanatuan prison camp, revealed today. Zélis, who is. home on furlough, | ‘sald the Jap. guards once beat Wermuth until’ he was unconscious because he demanded better working conditions for his men. a Wermuth spent several weeks in| the hospital recovering from the brutal attack, he said. s

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Zelis said he was a member of| Wermuth's' detail in the Cabana-| tuan prison camp before the captain was transferred to Bilibid. He said! it was believed that Wermuth since!

| 4 h, 3 Ro opti { \ - had been taken’ from Bilibid to = A | { 7 : o, NA {0 Japan, i ai } nN 3 ; i

Prisoners long since had learned!

that the next stop after Bilibid was | the Japanese homeland, Zelis said. |

| Wermuth's sister, Talila Wermuth | Frere ay bn : re 1 —a Hawaiian dancer at the Bis-| ERE lh {ARR : > o A : marck hotel here—said she hadn't F eR, a ‘ ; ; / \ BE 3 - § heard from her brother since Jan- 3 ; 4 2 . uary. At that time she received a p : oat, [7 { ; TA umn: 4 NL i ® - i card from the Cabanatuan camp.) j Gl Wry A E> ) Ls Fa / ; £44 . : it was dated July 15. | AF of i fb . 4 gi ’ . 1 : § Killed 136 Japanese HRW FB : E: RVR ky 5 iE YY /

| Wermuth, a former Chicago sales- |

man, won the title one-man army ; 0 A BC JOG. SEE _— La Cn wn When a young man’s faney turns, make before the fall of Bataan. He was] i ate SEER MA RE TRY ; ® : i BS, - r| : : r . / credited with killing 136 Japs be- >, : ke BARRO PN k 2 sure it turns your way, by wearing one

fore his outfit surrendered. ~ roat Nae rsa Zelis sald Wermuth “didn’t know : A Fw N A bE ~ : of these gayest of dresses. One and two the meaning of the. word fear. He 8 25 TEA 2 (8 j / a pieces styles that you’ll love to wear every-

was always fighting to get us bet- ; : ‘ ~ x Sic, : a ter treatment. where from Church on Easter morning to

“One day one of our details was| AT CRESS er A x ; the USO on Saturday nights. assigned to carry.800 pounds: of) Ee nr ; ¢: 21 4h i J fertilizer, four men ‘to a load. Many | » dc “Dial BY PRES TE 2, 2 pe i ; > of the men were sick and dying and a i» ; © i fig i : a A-3 mC Darlings for Daytime, Capt. Wermuth got sore and de-| . ; J 4 4s engi 1 fray E34 Vr Dates or Dictation! manded that the loads be lightened. | y : aly Le iy EY 1. ¥

Kicked Until Unconscious

“One of the guards we had nicknamed ‘Smiley Joe’ put a judo grip on Wermuth and knocked him to the ground. The rest of the guards then joined him in kicking Wer- : muth until he was unconscious. He 1 Bl spent several weeks in the hospital recovering from the brutal attack. “But he continued fighting for us when he got out. The first thing

he did was raise a rumpus about i A R | R our not having any shoes. - £s

“Our feet were cut terribly by the weight ‘of the loads we carried over

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“Wermuth raised so much hell that we got the shoes, tog.”

Zelis, a fcrmer tank cOrps man, SB 3 : ® said he thought the reason Wer- . 3

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muth never tried to escape was because he was afraid it~ would éndanger the lives of some pf his fel-low-prisoners. “The Japs organized prisoners

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