Sailor Tells How He Eluded Japs For 2 Years
Navy aviation machinist mate J S Watkins of St Peters Fla describes escaping a Japanese prison camp system on Palawan and surviving two years and two weeks with guerrilla help and native allies. He and fellow American prisoners endured hunger disease and near-constant danger before rescue in October 1944.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fla
Navy
Watkins
St. Peters Fla
Philippines
Corregidor
Tkins
Forbes
Wise
United States
Ndt
Palaman
Aviation Ordnance
Joe Paul Little
Seattle
Ash
Atkins
Luzon Island
Ney
Palawan Island
Little
Palawan
George Marquez
William Wiefield
St. Petersburg
Mary Hoeft
Lacy Returns to Trial Details in Corpiubury Case
Reported revelations show seven defendants confessing to parts of the Corpiurcy plot. Beck allegedly offered money for whiskey resales and the group planned to rob a blind man for cash and alcohol. Murder linked to the premeditated crime, with five others named as co conspirators. Salmon Norris escaped convicts involved. others include Carroll, Agner, Bennet, Thompson, and O Connell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beck
Salmon
Norris
Herbert Carroll
East Green Street
High Point
Henry H. Agner
Wise Street
Raymond “Groundhog” Bennet
Triangle Lake
Samuel H. Thompson
Trinity
Bob O'Connell
Florida
Major New Naval Action Continues In Pacific Front
The article notes ongoing major air and naval engagements as U.S. forces press on toward Japanese bases on the Asiatic mainland. It reports Adm. Nimitz summarizing the Third Fleet raid on Formosa with 33 ships sunk, 80 damaged, 37 planes destroyed, and shore targets hit, while four U.S. planes were lost. Nimitz confirms the sinking of the Musashi and damage to Yamato in late October battles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asiatic
Nimitz
Third Fleet
Formosa
William F. Halsey
U. S
Japan
Ben Ini
Musashi
Philippine Sea
Yamato
Patriot Tailor Gives Up Job to Sell War Bonds
Granite City tailor and farrier Harry Sabol, aged 63, has become nation’s top War Bond promoter by selling bonds across Missouri and beyond. He left a retail job to run his own shop, pledging to sell as many bonds as possible after Pearl Harbor. Sabol, with three sons in service, holds national notices for his efforts and has promoted unique bonds offers including a $100 pledge to Russian soldiers crossing German lines.
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Granite City
Harry Sabol
Sabol
Pearl Harbor
Saboil
Sabo
Washington
United States
United States Treasury Department
St. Louis
Warsaw
Poland
Ben
Allen Sabol
Army Air Forces
Europe
Ray Sabol
France
American Forces Press Luzon Advance and Air Strikes
American ground units push toward Clark Field and Manila with tanks likely to be used in the planned Pacific battle. Air and naval forces strike Japanese positions as 50 enemy barges are destroyed near Vigan and raids target railways and supply lines from Manila northward. Private Ether Davis from Louisville delivers ammunition under fire to keep law’s gun supplied.
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Munique
Clark Field
Manila
Bayambang
Pacific
Luzon
Vigan
Lingayen Gulf
U. S.S
Rosario
Gulf
Agno River
Tarlac
Pozorrubia
Aguilar
Santa Barbara
Mapandan
Manila Bay
MacArthur
San Jose
del Monte
Grace Park
Akan Province
Lingayen
Pvt
Ether Davis
Louisville
Outlaw
Outlaw and mates hold ridge against German assault
U S Army record of action shows MT OLIVE gunners led by Outlaw firing 5 000 rounds. He reports 12 Germans killed the first night and more on each attack. Sgt Alphone Myers assisted with binoculars as artillery and mortars shredded Foxhole lines and communications deteriorated. Platoon leader Donald Butcher then assigned riflemen to repair wires.
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Outlaw
Alphone Myers
Amsterdam
N. Y
North Carolina
Donald Butcher
Zionsville
Ind
Senator Hooper Involved In Highways Incident
A witness reports at 5 30 p m Thursday a maroon car blocked a highway as Hooper sat slumped in the right front seat of his car partly off the pavement. A man stood by Hooper’s door and then entered the maroon vehicle after it pulled to the road’s west side heading south.
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Springport
Hooper
Bandits Hold Hill Family at Gunpoint in Nighttime Burglary
Sheriff Shore reported bandits forced entry during a home invasion in Hill’s residence. Hill’s wife mother-in-law and three children, including an infant, were present as the trio fled in one of Hill’s three cars after a threatening demand to remain silent.
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Shore
Hill
Bulgars Hear Prince Cyril Deny Rage Behind Illness
Hints suggest illness was not caused by a violent quarrel with Hitler. Crowds outside the Peoples' Tribunal heard Prince Cyril recount that in 1942 the king warned relations with Germany were strained. He claimed no political aim and said regency arose by mischance after his brother’s death. Court Councillor Gentchev noted Boris threatened death or abdication and spoke of death as he left for Berlin.
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Hitler
Peoples’ Tribunal
Cyril
Germany
Gentchev
Boris
Berlin
U S and British Bombers Strike Mandalay In Massive Raid
In Southeast Asia on January 13 the United States Army Air Forces and the RAF mounted a record air strike on Mandalay. A largest concentration of heavy bombers joined fighter bombers dive bombers and escorts to attack Japanese camp areas with hundreds of tons of high explosives incendiaries and fragmentation bombs. Weather conditions were reported as perfect.
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U. S. Seventh Bombardment Group
Southeast Asia
Eastern Air Command
Mandalay
U. S. Army Air Forces
RAF
Russians Press Offensive From East Prussia Through Czechoslovakia
Berlin reports three Soviet offensives push from East Prussia toward Königsberg and from Slovakia toward Budapest, with 40 airfields and 1,000 guns massed. Soviet troops capture Szydlow Stopnica Chmielnik Busko and threaten Wroclaw, Krakow, and the German heartland as paratroopers land in Slovakia.
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Czechoslovakia
Berlin
Losone
Lucenec
Kassa
Kosice
Budapest
Omsk
Siberia
Slovakia
Moscow
Schlossberg
East Prussia
Poland
Szydlow
Stopnica
Chmielnik
Busko
Skrzelczyce
Kielce
Warsaw-Krakow
Chmielnik-Busko
Pasturka
German Silesia
Pinczow
Nida
Vistula
Zagosc
Wislica
Silesia
Krakow
Reich
Brzostkow
Nowy Korczyn
Many
Germany
Koiiev
Allied Push in Ardennes Drives German Forces Back
British and American units push toward the Ourthe river as Hodges in the First Army and Patton's Third Army strike the Ardennes front. U S troops seize Langlir woods and Petiestailles while advancing near Houffalize and Mont-le-Ban. German counterattacks are repelled as logistics and reserves strain on both sides.
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Monschau
Aachen
Rhine
Alsatian
Strasbourg
U. S
Courtney H. Hodges
Stavelot
Malmedy
St. Vith
Belgium
Houffalize
Third Armored
83Rd
Langlir Woods
Mont-le-Ban
Salmchateau
Second Armored
Petitestailles
Doughboy
Tommy
Ardennes
Ourthe
Laroche
Wibrin
Ortho
Beaulieu
Laroche- St. Hubert
Vilage
Erneuville
Third Army
George 8S
Patton
Salient
St. Hubert Woods
Lavacherie
St. Hubert
Bastogne
En- Patch
Seventh Army
Bitche Salient
Vosges Mountains
War Crimes Commission Astounds Foreign Office
London reports that Britain's Foreign Office rejected the United Nations war crimes plan to try Adolf Hitler and Nazi leaders in an inter Allied court in London. The Express says Eden conveyed the stance, while other commission members, incl American Sir Herbert Pell, supported trial plans, raising fears of the commission's collapse.
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Richard Kasischke
London
Sunday Express Today
United Nations War Crimes Commission
Adolf Hitler
Express
Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Napoleon
Anthony Eden
Cecil Hurst
the Express
Herbert Claiborne Pell
Pell
Washington
United States
Foreign Office
Bly
7Rist
Soviet Plans for Outflanking Warsaw and Krakow
Fragmentary text describes a Soviet maneuver aimed to turn northward against Warsaw and southward through Krakow into Czechoslovakia while other Soviet units near Losonc in southern Slovakia sit about 110 miles from Krakow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tion
Warsaw
Krakow
Czechakia
Losonc
Slovakia
Forces clash along Alsatian front near Bitche and Wissembourg
Reports describe fierce fighting around Hatten and Rittershoffen as German forces push tanks into night operations. Fronts held north and south of Strasbourg show no position changes amid heavy activity south of Bitche.
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Wildenguth
Bitche
Hatten
Rittershoffen
Wissembourg
Rishoffen
Strasbourg
Gen McBride Dies in Jap Prison Camp
Frederick Maryland reports Brig. Gen Allan C Bride, who served in the Philippines in 1941, has died in a Japanese prison camp. His sister Mrs M Stanley Shafer and widow Mrs Avis Mc Washington confirmed the death, stating he died May 9 1944 at age 59. Maj George Parker, also interned in the same camp, relayed the news.
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Amerin
United States
Watkins
North Africa
San Frank
Dodd Wayne Watkins
Java
Squadron 102
Giskanen
Zambales
Philippines
Dodd
Charles
Bataan
Fort Hughes
Little
Manila
Japa
Corregidor
Watkin
Bayonne
Frederick, Md
Allan C. Bride
Philippine Islands
M. Stanley Shafer
Prove Innocence at an Advanced Mand Post on Lozon
Three Pines suspects of collaboration were brought to a forward post on Lozon last night for questioning. Enemy planes appeared suddenly forcing all to dive into foxholes. After the raid the unit checked the panicked companions in their trenches.
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Lozon
Qing
Used Fat Saving Must Go On Until Japan Defeat
The message urges continued Fat Saving campaigns until victory in the Pacific. It proclaims the defeat of Germany and the end of the war and calls for extending wartime fat collection until Japan is conquered and commercial fats are reclaimed.
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Germany
Vacu-matic Carburetor Promises Extra Gas Mileage
Thousands of motorists and vehicle owners are told they can gain up to 30 percent more mileage, plus smoother running and more power by installing the Vacu-matic carburetor. The Wauwatosa firm offers free particulars to interested readers via penny post card requests.
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Vacu-matic Carburetor Co
State St
Wauwatosa
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MT. Olive
U.S
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Soviet Arme
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Ebenrode
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Rominten Forest
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Memel River
War Crimes Commission
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Oklahoma
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Missouri
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