Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 September 1945 — Page 12

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Bataan Hero Saved Fellow Prisoners on Bombed Ship

- » By GEORGE WELLER many lives after the Japs allowed Times Foreign Correspondent the bodies to be taken ashore and ALLIED PRISON CAMP NO. 17, cremated, - Omuta, Kyushu, Sept. 14.—As un-| Lt. Curtis Beecher, a fighting maflaggtngly bold as a prisoner of war| rine officer, who is a member of

I . i jhe Chicago Explorer's club, hanas he was when a jungle sniper on| 41.4 the situation above the Jap

Bataan, America’s one-time “one-| guarded. -holds and won the priviman army,” Capt. Arthur W. Wer-|lege of an honorable burial ashore muth, saved many lives by his cool-{ for the American dead.

| Copyright, 1945, by The Indianapolis Times ness aboard a bombed Japanese “PyTEPL 1 Chicago Daly id s, nc. freighter carry- ———————

ht [FRANKFORT MAN TO | \ | GET PURPLE HEART

A bomb fell in the forwards od William C. Timmons, electrician’s Americans while g mate 3-¢, of Frankfort, who enthe Japan-bound listed Sept. 14, 1942, at the navy freighter was in recruiting station here, will receive Takau harbor, the purple heart award at the same Formosa, January place today at noon. Lt. Omdr. W. 6 this year. 1 A. Chapman Jr, officer in charge ” Pproumaiely Mr. Weller |of recruiting; will present the medal. 2 Americans Timmons is one of the survivors yore kileg, ip Jy ollevieloy a minesweeper lost during the who s invasion of Borneo, Bataan. After the bodies had lain| ee untouched by the Japanese, who, refused to allow them to be moved The J. B. Miller Co. from the hold, Wermuth seized We Business and Realty Brokers situation below decks. { * Specializing in Apartment Despite light shrapnel wounds in! Buildings, Hotels & “Restaurants the legs, he was able to organize aly 305 Merchants Bank Bldg, burial detail for the bodies piled LL 2678 under the hatch, Bargains for Medicine

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