Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 March 1945 — Page 7

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abaca fields from about 7 to 11:30 in the mornings and from 2 to 5:30 in the afternoons.” One Jap guard watched 10 prisoners until. a céuple of the men escaped, the major recalled. Then there was a guard for every three men, - During his two months’ stay at Furikoa .Maj. Knapp had malaria three times, His physical condition in June, 1944, was further weakened

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

“Maj. Knapp Tells of Dedth, ig

the Philippines

by rice poisoning which he got working in the rice fields at Davao. Planned Escape About this time, however, the

MacArthur was getting ready to come back to the Philippines. “Another officer and I decided that MacArthur would come into Mindanao first,” Maj. Knapp said. “We thought that if we were going to escape, wg would have to make a run for it when the Japs moved us away from Davao. “Our escape was all planned but the Japanese surprised us. Instead of letting us walk down to the harbor to he put aboard transport ships, they. loaded us into tfucks very early one morning. “About 600 were moved out at 4:30 a. m, on June 5. I was in the second group of 600 who were loaded into trucks at 7:15 a. m.

Tied Into Trucks

trucks, wound heavy rope around each prisoner's waist and blindfolded us. We had to put our hands on the shoulder of the men in front

news began circulating that Gen.|

“They shoved us into the back of | |a girl friend when a police vice

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SUITS CHARGE FALSE ARREST!

Attorney Accuses Police of Intimidating Witnesses. (Continued From Page One)

by the police department. Mr, Daw= son sald he will confer today with Jeremiah Cadick, bar association president, concerning information he has obtained. Inspector Don Tooley of the police department denied the charges. “It's the other way around,” he said. “Some of his witnesses are trying to coerce our witnesses. “We have evidence to show that we were perfectly within our rights in making these arrests. We are gathering all possible evidence, it 1s true,. against the plaintiff's witnesses. We have sufficiént evidence, I think.” The suits filed today allege that the girl was in her apartment with

squad arrested her about 1:25 a. m. March 8. The swt further alleged that police had no warrant to enter the

of us and if we took them down, the Japs struck us.’ From the trucks Maj Knapp and the rest of the Yanks were loaded into the hold of a transport ship. Two men. jumped overboard and |

guerrillas in the hills. | “The sick and well were all crowded into the same hold.” the| major said. “We were “fed two| handsful of rice a day per man and | ‘had a pint of water each.

No Food for 24 Hours

escaped, making their way to the |

{premises at the time and that no

warrant had been prepared, It was said a warrant was prepared after the squad returned to police headquarters with the girl,

Held at Hospital

The girl charged she was forced to change clothes in the presence of

[a police officer. She was taken to

{ police headquarters on a “vagrancy” charge and held 10 hours before being taken tothe isglation hospital where she was held four days, the

“We were ordered to turn in all|Suit charged.

our matches since there was gasoline

below us in the ship. When two or| three didn’t obey the order, all of us |

were punished by having to go without food for 24 hours.” On June 28 Maj. Knapp arrived

{men were taken to Bilibid, where

{bound for Japan. It was this load of prisoners that | was sunk by allied fire. Only a few of the men survived. Maj. Knapp is still among the

“There was no evidence of any sort that this girl ever had a venereal disease,” Mr. Dawson as- | ser ted. Named in the malicious prosecution suit for $5000 damages is Ray-

x1 {mond Porter, a police officer. The

false imprisonment suit was filed against Police Officers George Martin, Daniel Newman, Thomas Flan-

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Marcal canal and the lower Raab i - river. oJ .. The’ Raab in this area is only Request Filed by Lewis les f the Austri . SPOUt 20 miles from Me Asian With Government.

frontier. (Continued From Page One)

German reports said fighting was very heavy. The 15th air force hit rail yards in Bratislava, the Czech- |1apnor gisputes which threaten seriAustrian border city toward which ouqy to interrupt war production.” the Red army is driving, 35 miles east of Vienna, the Szombathely yards in western Hungary, the] Straszhof yards in Austria, the|; Bruck yards, 30 miles south of| ’ 4 Vienna, and the Wiener Neustad | owe, of hy kind: could arise, yards, 30 miles southeast of Vienn All together, 1,000,000 Red army h men and thousands of tanks were on the march in the new offensive on both sides of the Danube river toward the Austrian and Ba- | varian Alps, where the Nazis have been plotting a stand to the death. Lewis again pledged to “work dili-

Within Mile of Danzig gently and forthrightly for the enFar to. the northeast, Marshal suri ing 30 days to prevent, if possible,

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cation must be’ transnijfted now in order to avoid any accusation of either failure or refusal to comply with the statute.” As in his bituminous stiike notice

White Russian army drove through so vital to the prosecution of the the third and last outer defense|war in which our country is now enbelt protecting the Baltic port of | gaged and to which we pledge our Danzig and was within a mile west full devotion.” and northwest of the city.

The third White Russian. army HEAD OF NURSING ey res nl HOME IS ON TRIAL

German pocket southwest of Koenigsberg in East Prussia into thel wzys Jane Smith. South : Ln, port nursmarshy Kahlholz cape. Some 21,000 ing home operator, went on trial on a manslaughter

Germans were captured Monday phere today {charge growing out of the death of

alone in the pocket. Fighting flared . anew along the an inmate during a fire at her ini stitution on Nov. 5, 1943.

Oder front 30-odd miles east of | Berlin preparatory to the Red| The first witness, Mrs. Elizabeth army's big push toward the enemy | Lockhart, a neighbor, said she had capital | been ordered by Mrs. Smith to leave | the flaming home after she had nery, Ernest Lepper, Clinton Auter! {helped to remove patients. She and Porter, all members of a vice | further testified she did not see a squad except Porter and Flannery. | {lock on the door of a room in which Damages totaling $10,000 were a patient was burned to death. asked of the city, Mayor Tyndall, | She declared, however, that she Safety ‘Board Members Paul Rob-| had seen the door locked at other ertson, Smiley Chambers and Wil- times : liam Remy; Dr. Herman G. Morgan,, Walter Pritchard is special judge

Miss Helen Daniels, city isolation |in the case, being tried in criminal hospital official, and Police Chief court before a jury of eight women

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{ Knapp's weight dwindled to 110

{us first,” the major said. “Snakes, { dogs, rats | when you were hungry.”

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living because he had amoebic dysentery at the time the prisoners | were moved from Cabatanuan and | was-left behind Lost Weight During his imprisonment Ma}.

pounds. He now weighs 170 and gained 45 pounds in five weeks after | his liberation. r “We ate anything that didn’t bite

. they all tasted good

Although the prisoners were sup- | posed to receive a Red Cross box| a week, Maj. Knapp got two in| February, 1943, and four in Febru- | ary, 1944. He got one box from| his father but sold its contents for corn | When the rangers came to liberate | the: Yanks, Maj. Knapp was in| Cabanatuan. ‘Thought We Were Doomed’ “At first we thought the Japs had cone to liquidate us when we heard the shooting,” Maj. Knapp said

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the rank of captain was awaiting him. His first trip was to see his wife, Marjorie, and son, “Skeeter,” in San Antonio, Tex. Then the three | Knapps came to Indianapolis to see | the major's parents. Many Decorations

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Knapp wears the pre-Pearl Harbor campaign ribbon, the Philippines

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