Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 September 1945 — Page 2
La Parte Flier Among Y anks Treated Royally by Thais During Internment |
“HARD FORESEEN By MeqUOWN WRIGHT ; His B-20 was shot down while on last April § when his Mustang was| area where he met a number of Japanese equipment was available! ~-. 4 i - Co rete Staff Correspondent ‘a mine-laying expedition over pj by grotindfire - 20 miles north-| other Americans but missed meet- | for sdle on the black market.. He : Fation-tree gasoline and aging UTTA; Sept, 1 (Delayed) —|Sattaheed bay on May 8, 1044, The | . | tried to purchase a J is | west of Bangkok. He baled out and ing one of his buddies housed else- p apanese ma‘motor cars emphasize the school | ix U, 8. army fliers, looking, any-| plane crashed from 250 feet when | | chine gun, but failed because he _ traffic problem this year. | thing” “but weak, sickly -or mal. [NIE by flak from a gunboat and af *prehetiont by Thai police | Whiere, | dia not have enotigh money. {and the pilot escaped death. who placed him in an internment | st Lt. Dean Winer of the sam With public and parochial schools | | treated,’ arrived here today from » pe Fumes ®/ First Lt. James K. Kintz of the
. v Their life jackets kept them {camp located on a school ‘campus! group of Sheridan, Wyo., was shot | 33d air group, whose home is Chithrodighout the - cily opéning | {internment in Bankok; Thailand. | bit Kinsey eventually lost| the heart of Bangkok, |down the same day while flying a .ag0, 111, was flying-a Lon
- They reported they had lived on| There were 32 other internees in{Mustang, and suff : Wednessay for the rst peacetime | wonderful ifood” and were treated | fei ras, copa, Js ha Bangkok in ton to the five rib, Thai police Ee Ti Hao ney BA Onan. a - semester in four years, the ques- | [reyally by their anti-Japanese Thal, | with him, he said, including 19 attention, he said. i by machine gun fire. THe bailed : : Ld :
{eight hours later and pi up and | _ tion of ‘added care on the part of [captors | taken, to % “Thal naval. spital | TOV&l air force personnel, two| Wimer was taken to the gover- out and was taken to Bangkok by
motorists was stressed by Lt. Al- tn ps insisted oe caring 10F where he was treated for burns Chinese and five Thais Who said rior’s office up the river at Meking| Thai police. ‘He discovered that the bert, Magenheimer, safety’ diréetor | protin navinypiom A ne Sap«) from his waist down. | they were U. 8. army privates. [and thence to an internment camp! Thais were ready for an uprising of ‘the police" trac department » m, and gave them |. yo remained in a hospital for two 1 0¢ Thais were extremeiy?kind,” where he was allowed to operate a| against the Japanese, -but were reThere Hive eh ibe . ak [nee lent hospital treatment when | months and was moved to an {n- je said. “The diet consisted of | radio which was smuggled in to Him | strained by allied broadcosts® ex- : ; S18 SAVE Town ho ; ats - is By. |ternment camp. Through the Swiss 'ic¢ Porridge, curried rice, fresh and hidden beneath the flooring’ of | horting them to remain calm. go a , pol ge 1 20 s i a n at | he only explanation the feds | consul he sent three cables to his| Peel, chicken, green vegetables and [his room. The Japanese interro-| “The Thais couldn't do enough for SIE RA TR ED RE a return, excellent ks provided by ture, but the Thais insisted on care! First Lt Theodor “on duty in the last 15 years. war with Thailand despite the lat-| 7he monoton th 44 3 Ja, Theadore B. o } y of tong confine- | e Thals.” Some of the internees and confinement of allied airmen, | th hy ne Jutving to gonlitueo os Japanese-inspired declaration | ment was ‘killing, he sald, “but 1llearned to play cricket, he said. he said. ' a 0 an Yer Madson, 70, air ; ie Fecond, TL agi hei id mid agai aoe Suited eater. rot ih was = hickier than some of the | All of the camp personnel were| First Lt. Malcolm MacKenzie of Ore. was shot down by anti-aircraft x ; e | others.” | Thals, he said. After announce-|the second air command grou tire while flying a P-. schooler. Jralie cops will hear w bomb group, 9th squadron, of Capt. Albert Abraham of the 2d ment of the Japanese acceptarce of | whose home is Greenville, 8, C., Mi 1945. He a In hi, Io = In ctions om Putiae, experts ay | oPorte, Ind, a ball turret gunner | air commando group whose parents surrender terms Abraham was al- he believed that Thais had been !said, that he considered his stay at ie thn ng school at police head- on a Liverdtor, spent close to 16} live in Marshall, Tex. said he was lowed to leave his prison and visit |fooling the Japanese for a long time | the camp “the same as a welcome qu ‘months in internment. participating in a noon raid on another camp in the New Harbor "and learned that every kind of rest.”
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