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By GEORGE WELLER Times Foreign Correspondent THE last day of their long “* journey was about to begin for the dirty, wounded and sick American skeletons. They were on their way from Manila to prison camps in

Japan. ; They had suffered almost to the limit of endurance—but their tale of horror had not yet been spun out. Between 800 and 900 men were _ now -alive of the 1600 plus who had marched out of Bilbid prison in Manila precisely a month before, Many of them— wounded and untended, were at the very gate of death. To move them was to doom them. But ‘the Japanese wanted them moved—and not slowly. » - =» -@ONCE AGAIN the sentries try was “Hurry, hurry.” A barge was alongside to take them to another prison ship in the harbor of Takau, Formosa. There were intestinal hemporrhages, extreme shocks, amputations. How could such men be moved? American medical corpsiien figured out a bos'n’s chair to get them out of the hoid. They put a Spanish bowline around each leg and a square knot around the waist to steady the torso. And up went the groaning man-—hauled by 16 of the pairs of hands still able to tug. . = . ” WHEN it came to moving the men who could not be held upright, the corpsmen took a hatch plank.

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Mr. and Mrs. William Ebert Wiegle . « . He had a real welcome home,

Patient Sees Green . MRS. FRED JOSLIN, 6316 Central ave., was quite surprised recently when she was a patient at Methodist hospital and noticed that the surgery room and gowns on the nurses and doctors were green instead of white. Although hospital’ rooms and uniforms usually are associated with white, Miss Vesta Walker, surgery supervisor at Methodist, says the green isn't Anything new. She says they have used the color for at least 10 years. The surgery room walls are pale green and the uniforms and surgery linen almost a Kelly green. The green is said to be much easier on the eyes than white. , . . The next time you hear “Hal McIntyre and his orchestra, you might hear a familiar voice doing the vocal honors. Miss Jeanne Rutledge, a John Herron art institute student, has recently been signed up as vocalist. She left In-| dianapolis for Pittsburgh Saturday where she will make her debut with the band. The first Week in December she will sing at the Hotel Commodore in New York. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rutledge, of Elwood. Besides singing, she also paints. Some of her oil paintings are on display at John Herron.

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‘Hot’ Billions WASHINGTON, Nov. 20~Official Washington gets the shakes whenever “hot money” is mentioned. “Hot money” is more than 275 billion dollars of , : . use it at a moment's notice. highly liquid assets that is burning the fingers of Wage-earners and professional people have 18 consumers — individual and corporate — demanding pjjiions and farmers have five billions in checking to be spent. It is the accumula- accounts, obviously held in instant readiness for use tion of war-time savings that, un- ® as soon as desired goods appear in automobile showJat fb Randied. wisely, sould rooms and on store shelves. . cause new spasms of dangerous ; fnfiation. SL Could Start Inflation | In five and a half years the ..... INDIVIDUALS have 25 billions in savings accounts

By S. Burton Heath

Individuals have 24 billions of cash in their pockets ang their safe deposit boxes; in tea canisters, under mattresses, behind the clock, where they can

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After sundown

slipped out of Takau toward China.

THE DEATH RATE took a wild jump upward. George says: “I counted 47 dead in all on the first day out.” : It immediately grew colder. A few straw mats were in the hold, | but only enough for about onethird of the men.

From the first

began to suck through the hold. It came from the ventilator in the Japanese quarters just astern. On this wind of death the lives of many Americans rode their way out.

MORE THAN once Lt. Col. (now Col.) Curtis Beecher pleaded with the Japanese to allow the prisoners to stufl one of their straw mats in the ventilator. The Japanese always refused. ”

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pneumonia—a new visitor.

The hatch in

hold, covered with a tarpaulin, led to the deck below and was opened. A "It lay theré bare to the sky, with the cold draft sweeping and swirling over it, . The rain and later snow and hail fell through it, fell on the

14 men who’ reached the new ship never saw its hold. They died on its decks. #

ON THE new ship—an undersized freighter—the shrinking party was again forced all into a single hold. The bays or shelves here were divided stanchion by stanchion apd were about 15 feet long by about 10 feet deep. Each bay accommodated about 20 men, Two positions were possible: To sit with legs extended, or to lie down with knees drawn up, Standing, or lying down at full length was impossible.

Jan. 13 the ship

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on the hatch, The dead were piled there

wete moved there by the corpsmen, it was the equivalent of euthanasia or

dead whom you soon would join.

their prisoners by thirst.

the principal harbor of Formosa, whose been filled to the brim. But while the prisoners received one-half ®8° canteen cupful of rice daily, of water they received spoonsful daily.

that they were in the submarine zone. Three days from Takau the Japs picked up a crippled, torpedoed ship and towed it for a day.

to turn back for another distressed ship. They towed that one for two days. ’

give, but they had plenty to sell.

ways between the bays there were two open gratings, through one of which swept the so-called “wind of death.” These gratings were the trading center.

tle left to offer. The keepsakes a man parts with last began to go. wedding rings, the solid gold kind.

would bring you five canteens full of water,

CRUISE lo) F DEATH (Seven Weeks of Hell for American P. W.'s) !

Winds of Doom Off China

each end and slowly tugged him through the hatch.

. . '» IF YOU moved to the hatch or

mercy death. You were so far the food of those who It. placed you neighbor to the dying on the hatch were also ed on covetously by the shivermen in the bays, who were al mentally dividing up their

Jt was unmistakable from the

Here was a freighter fresh from

water tanks should have

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soon found

Then the prison ship was ordered

The Japanese had no water to

At the rear of the two passage-

J . » BY NOW the Americans had lit-

The Japanese liked American

For a thick, heavy ‘one a Jap

Hs and 58. billions. in government._securities, able or cashable bonds, available -

bonds. - Much of this probably is intended as longfor quick spending, grew from a mere $81,500,000,000 to the pres-

term. savings. But much, also, was invested as a ent $275,500,000,000 as of last June

They fixed a scaffold knot around

patriotic privilege and duty, with the idea that it would be used at the first opportunity for homes, automobiles, refrigerators, washing machines, cameras and other consumer goods not available during the War. = This “hot money” is counted upon to start an in-| dustrial boom as soon as reconversion permits; to make possible the employment of most of our eager workers; to finance the paying of record-high wage

only $6,400,000,000 of currency 1y- . ing around. On Juge 30, 1945, there was $25,000,000, 000 in cash’ waiting to be spent. ”

‘Waiting to Be Spent

“On

(This Is the eighth of 42 installments of material selected from General Marshall's report on the winning of world war IL)

But, competing at auction for a temporarily inadequate supply of consumer goods, that same finger-

* ‘Government . obligations — held by individuals — most of them cashable on demand-—grew from $27,100,000,000 to $151,000,000,000,

Where would Uncle Sam find $15,000,000,000 in cash, in short order? Who would buy new bonds, to provide money to pay off on all those war bonds?

placed in operation; at least six aire fields had been captured and were being prepared for use. Allied aircraft gave close support to ground operations, flying up to 1200 sorties each day. Heavy bombers knocked out the serviceable

By David Dietz

; few ajrdromes remaining ORANGES and grapefruit, ripened on. the tree, package. The situation can be extremely complicated. | he gneiny, The grog troops will soon be finding their way to your breakfast table Not only .moisture but oxygen and carbon dioxide “0 ee under the with all the freshness and flavor they possessed at the must both be considered. Mal operations ange moment of picking. New developments in the tech- “Por example, in the packaging of ham and bacon, MGHETTRICOR Silieg a cos nique of packaging will soon permit the American it is necessary to provide a package that will retain, (®F BY Mr. Chie! Mofsia) 31% quality a ray: " -_ She. origina aygen. and Jevent ny 48 otamader of the Northe ad ay Kom We froth & Rr says. Sonn oh fons the past in ® large variety of | “The packaging of coffee requires the minimum of| Vest At foods. | ir gd oxygen and carbon dioxide transmission while the! All ¥S. bombers weit okqaniiod So says Dr. R. P. Dinsmore, - packaging of free meat euts and such tropical fruits| inte ie sissiegic 8 gs under vice president in charge of re- as mangoes requires the optimum oxygen and carbon | M8) “James 3 Dou " rh TY EEE : BY JULY 16 the battle line ran rom '&

one-quarter of the

Coffee 1 'in a rapid thrust across the western "to exude carbon, Gloxide feu | *|end of the isiand occupied the key “Dinsmore believes that these new developments | Port of Palermo. “will be of the greatest economic impor-| Further east the troops forged whole world since suitable packaging will [steadily ahead through” rugged mountains stubbornly defended by the enemy. By the end of July only the .| northeastern corner of the island ained to the enemy. ’ Fd « x = “chemical supplies, and| ‘CATANIA, the east coast bastion ~ ; ~ which had held up the advance of delicate the British Sth army, fell early Germans and Ifallansg were thdrawing across the under heavy air bombardment and continued pressure by our ground forces. : On Aug. 16 patrols of our 3d

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sive of banking institutions, could write checks for burning money could easily set up a cycle of disas- the frst tuo davy of the ine 500,000,000 over-drawing their accounts’ _ _trous inflation. . .... . vasion ‘of more ‘ Big wws B peg Bel "And the treasury has one more secret worry. What {men, 7000 vehicles, and 300 tanks = Jumped from $15;300,000,000 tip to $27,100,000,000 dur-- Wold happen if everybody decided to cash in his war | had ‘beer landed. a iE ing the war, bonds at once, inorder to buy things he wants?| Several small ports had been

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REPORT ON THE WAR + + + By Gen. George C. Marshall he Italia

iim 240 Miles so Operation avalanche . . ; abled allies to capitalize on collapse of German

Russian or French fronts and completed allied control of the

Meditesranean, sistance ceased. In had

39 days the Sicilian campaign

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divisions from being diverted to

At the same time, he was directed to co-ordinate his plans with the requirements . of operation OVERLORD," . » » ” ‘ at the QUADRANT conference also conceived the operation t Southern France designated tion ANVIL and arrived at "these conclusions: 1 “Offensive operations against Southern’ France (to include the

_ {use of trained and equipped French

forces) should be undertaken to establish a lodgraent in the ToulonMarseille area and to exploit north. ward in order to create a diversion in connection with OVERLORD,

‘| Alr nourished _ operations in the

southern Alps will, if possible, be initiated . . .” » . ” ON SEPT. 8, the day before Amerfcan troops landed on the Italian mainland, the unconditional sure

two cans of tomatoes or salmon, or a handful of tangerines.

through the desolate islands off the Chinese rivers—hiding by night against prowling submarines. The prisoners began to die at the rate of 20 or more daily.

Cmdr. Maurice Joses Monica, the regular navy doctor

the entire party, called to his side Boatswain Clarence M. Taylor of Cloverdale, Va. diarrhea or dysentery. Even for its own commanding officer the party could do nothing.

of sulfaguanadine tablets obtained

| Ty,” said Joses. “I don’t think I'll {be able to make it through the]

German forces in Northern Italy.

Coast

As the freighter wound her way

THE FIFTH day out of Takau,|' of San‘a

» who was in nominal command of

Joses was suffering from extreme

" The last of the hoarded handful

from the Red Cross at San Fernando Pampanga was gone days

“I'd like to talk to you a little,

night.” | Taylor gave him the usual re- | assuring encouragement, But the doctor was right. When first light came through thé hat:h, their commander was gone. =

WHEN SNOW f{éll, the thirsty prisoners caught what they could in their unwashed messkits. They waved them back and forth under the hatchway like magic swords to}, trap individual snowflakes, The hatch, lying barely eight féet below the wind-swept deck, became known as “the zero ward,” When a man knew ‘that his strength was ebbing, he would say quite openly, “well, boys, I've had enough. I'm going out onto the zero ward tonight.” Almost all who lay there ended in the sea. . ’ But Gene®®rtega of Albuquerque slept there through all the voyage

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render of Italy was announced. On Sept. 9 and the succeeding days the principal elements of the Italian fleet surrendered. Compelling reasons had devel. oped for the invasion of the Italian

The ' operation (AVALANCHE) would enable us to capitalize on the” collapse of Italian resistance. It offered a field for engaging German divisions which otherwise might operate against the Red army ng against the forces In

It would provide airfields from

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Shot in Arm

Of Conference

Seripps-Howird Staft Wriler WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.-=Its

I go out to chat? Yes, with this sugkd ; gestion: Hang your clothes on this or that, but don't go near the guestion.” A St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial writer aimed this gibe at the conference refusal (co far to discuss wages and prices in other than a lofty: and detach:d manner. But it applies also to such fundamentals as what's to be done in preventing strikes or lockouts after conciliation and all other good-will methods fail

vigorous. 3 was evident that the German high command had decided that its only hope of salvaging the situation arising from the surrender of the Italian government lay in holding the allled forces south of Naples until fresh . dispositions could be made, , On D-day the Germans made sev eral local tank attacks. By Sept. 13 the German XIV Panzer corps was in action, and both the American and the British corps were under heavy attack. The situation was critical.

(NEXT: Entrenchment In Italy)

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WASHINGTON, Nov, 20.—~Former G. 1's have sent in the following

YOUR 6.1. RIGHTS . .. By Dougles Larsen Reserve Officers Promoted -

n Inactive Duty

my brother who is a reserve officer

Wa, the Women-— Priorities Not Answer to G.l.'s

By RUTH MILLETT . THREE and a hall years overs seas, .now back- and a civilian,

His wife and kids ought to be happy, it seems. ~~ = == But for them the separation has ended. His work

is in a differ. ent city from the one in which they made their

isn't an unusual story. We are getting the men back home, but

that is no assurance they can

Maybe the answer in part to such unfairness can be found in transition, just as war workers the bill Rep. Wright Paiman of Texas proposes to introduce in Congress. The bill would