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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1944
Page
2
A wartime memoir describing Col. Dyess recounting the surrender at Bataan and the infamous Death March. The narrative covers dwindling food, fierce fighting, evacuation efforts, and the brutal march that followed the peninsula’s fall, ending with capture by Japanese forces and the start of a long, deadly ordeal.
Col Carlos P Romulo recounts grim history of Manila Fort Santiago dungeons. He details torture of American and Filipino civilians under Japanese occupation, including FB Rogers, Gesten Willo, and a U.S. signal corps captain's daughter, as well as Tomas Confesor's resistance in Panay.
Fragmentary OCR describes a medicated salve named Penetra for colds and aches, claiming to blend old fashioned mulet with modern medication. Mentions supply of two bottles and references to traditional remedies used by grandmothers, with uncertain product naming and spelling.
An advertising notice urges readers to use Allen's Foot-Ease for daily standing and long hours in front of machines. It claims quick relief from burning, tired feet and toe pinch, and promotes broad availability at druggists.
Feb 3 report from New Delhi cites a Reuters broadcast alleging vivisection of Allied captives by Japanese officers. Diaries say vivisection was a common Allied and enemy torture method with civilians and soldiers subjected to extreme cruelty. One Indian officer was claimed to be vivisected as an after dinner amusement at an officers’ gathering.
Grover Hennett of Hill Texas nominated by President Roosevelt to be undersecretary of agriculture succeeding Fat Appleby who moved to assistant budget director Hennett currently serves as first assistant War Food Administrator and assistant secretary of agriculture
Russians, hardened by Nazi occupation reports, were shocked by the U S account of atrocities against prisoners in the Philippines. Izvestia Pravda and Red Star carried the story with full detail including the death march and beatings on the front and back pages and Moscow radio repeated it. No editorial comment accompanied the reports.
Darryl Zanuck of 20th Century Fox announced the wartime project Purple Heart about General Doolittle's Tokyo bombing raid and the eight American fliers captured. He aims to inflame anti-Japan sentiment while honoring the fliers and plans to release it by month’s end once U S policy allows public atrocity depiction.
The army announced Masa nabu Hata a 27 year old California born Jap was ejected from the coast zone after buying watered gas without a permit. Lt Gen Delos C Emmons said the expulsion would warn other Jap Americans. Hata was arrested at Blythe California last week and released from a Jap relocation center at Jerome Arkansas but had no permit to enter the coastal zone. Last night polices escorted him across state lines to Ehrenberg Arizona. He claimed to have come from St Louis to Lac Vata near Los Angeles to fetch his automobile and had received 140 gallons of gasoline from a rationing board for his return.
A health tale urges readers to check for kidney and bladder issues when back pain and urinary symptoms appear. It promotes Doan’s Kidney Pills as a long trusted remedy, claiming decades of relief by clearing toxins and improving urinary health.
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