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Carrollton Man Is Jap PrisonerstGiBincfa. Corp. David S. Ladd Wa§ C At ManilaU1■ in ill!t0rejfhmtiiCARROLLTON. March § (Spe-I rial) -Corp. David S. Ladd. 39 U. S. Army Engineering Corps , son of Mr. and Mr*. L. O. Ladd of x I Carrollton. wa* report ad today by . | the war department a* a priaoner , 1 of the Japan e*e. He I* the flrtt Carrollton man reported captured . by the Jap*.HI* parent* were notified by the government January 25 that he had heen taken priaoner and that f they might eommunleate with Mm through the Japanese Red Oro** at Tokyo. Since that time letter* have heen *ent to him by member* of hi* family, but nothing ha* been heard from him.Corp. lJidd wa* employed at the Undaey hotel here before being Inducted into the army April 25. 1941. Upon hi* completion of hi* training he sailed from San Fran- ! H*co for the Philippine* the flr*t JJ week In October, tftl. While on , hoard ship he wrote a tattar to his mother, which wa* the last the ha* received from hint, * j though in a later letter to a friend he told of letter* to hi* mother which rite did not relt;e#ve. He 3 also gave hi* location at that time j I* which was Ft Sti.le*enburg north j •lt; of Manila. Since the third week in November. INI, letter* which the Ladd family have written to Corp. Ladd have been returned to them, with the eaception of the one* they have sent through the falt; ititle* of the Red Croa*.The Ladd* «*l*o have another •on in the armed force*. William Edward Ladd who it stationed at Fort Ord. Calif.In addition to hi* parent* and the brother In California Corp. (add ha* a *i*ter. Mr* Warren Boflm. Carrollton, and another brother. Earl lodd, of Pacific,Mo.Hhi•tJlt;•vLtcr*elt•cbiIfft!
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Alton Evening Telegraph
Alton, Illinois, US
Mon, Mar 08, 1943
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