Brutality to Prisoners Reported by Manila Internes
Washington reports reveal Japanese mistreatment of American and Filipino war prisoners from Bataan and Corregidor. In Santo Tomas camp in Manila civilians brought food to internees while Japanese officers beat back with blows. Some prisoners were confined at gendarmerie headquarters in Manila for varying periods. Roy Bennett and Theo Davies endured long jail terms before returning home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell Brenes
Washington
Bataan
Corregidor
Manila
Shanghai
Santo Tomas
Roy Bennett
Manila Daily Bulletin
Fort Santiago
Theo, H. Davies
Philippine Free Press
Mercy of Secret Police in Occupied Asia Torture Claims
A graphic account describes brutal gendarmerie torture across occupied Asia. Victims report beatings, rack, water cure, kneeling, and other methods, with deaths and mutilation. Noted cases include Kuangson Young in Manila, a British businessman in Hong Kong, and a detective from Shanghai. Prisoners endure denial of medical care and summary executions, while thousands remain unaccounted. The piece warns of Japanese whims dictating prisoner treatment and potential retaliation against inmates and internees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asia
Occidentals
Shanghai
Kuangson Young
Chungking
Manila
Hong Kong
Anthony Dean
William Hutton
Eacerines Road
Eter Hutton
Santo Tomas
Eden
Malay
Netherlands East Indies
Japan
Argentina seals Axis break by seizing Transocean unit
Argentina moved closer to breaking with the Axis by government seizure of the Nazi Transocean news office in Buenos Aires. Authorities closed the agency and took all equipment under a presidential decree banning Axis propaganda. Naziphile and Italian papers in Argentina used the Transocean service, distributed free by the Reich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Axis
Nazi Transocean News Agency
Transocean
Reich
Local Notes on Residents and Visitors
Ill at home Eagle Bridge Miss Marjorie Moses. Miss Catherine Curtis spent the weekend here. H P Hoods completed the ice harvest storing about 4000 tons. Miss Edna Bodenstad works at Mrs Jennie Robertson. George Gould returned from Bridport VI. Henry Roberts back from Bridport Va on business. Miss Lois Weatherbee of Greenfield Mass visited her parents. Stewart Weatherbee returned to Camp Pickett Va after leave. Corp Edward Moses returned to Camp Adair Oregon after furlough at his parents’ home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marjorie Moses
Catherine Curtis
H. P. Hoods
Edna Bodenstad
Jennie Robertson
George Gould
Bridport
Henry Roberts
Lois Weatherbee
Greenfield Mass
Roy Weatherbee
Corp
Stewart Weatherbee
Camp Pickett
Edward Moses
Camp Adair
Oregon
Hugh Moses
Hoosick Falls Kiwanis reviews postwar planning focus
Hoosick Falls Kiwanis Club met to discuss postwar municipal planning led by James M. Brahan editor of The Standard Press. He urged private industry as the main remedy for wartime employment slack with public works as a secondary option and local projects cited include sewers streets sidewalks highway work and revitalizing riverfront areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoosick Falls Kiwanis Club
Elks’ Club
James M. Brahan
Standard Press
Brahan
Mechanic Street
Hoosick River
Nuns Seek Air Instructors Course Near Pittsburg
About fifty nuns from the Pittsburg Diocese, urged on by Rev. Michael Carmody, a priest pilot and St Vincent College instructor, visited Bettis Airport to study aviation. They enroll in a 100 hour program covering aerial navigation meteorology civil aeronautics and aerodynamics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International News Service
Pittsburg
INS
Bettis Aiport
Michael Carmody
St Vincent College, Batrobe
United States
Father Carmody
Marine Pilot Strafes Japs But Spares Horses
Marine dive bomber Second Lieut. John A. Allen of Cross, California, spotted enemy horse-drawn carts during a Bougainville recon. He strafed the carts but intentionally spared the horses, explaining he would not shoot them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Solomon Islands
John A. Allen
Cross
Cal
Bougainville
Allen
Post nuptial shower and local police cases in Petersburg
A post nuptial shower for Mrs. Merritt Grogan, formerly Miss Mary Church, was hosted by Mrs. Edward J. Smith in Stillman Village with a large group of relatives and friends. Separately, Corporal W A Nennstiel charged a Cambridge outpost officer with using switched license plates after stopping Bourn for a missing headlight. Deputy Sheriff VanDerkar arrested Lawrence Bushee for disorderly conduct. case adjourned to tomorrow. Also noted are the Noble and Wood Machine Co annual meeting today and Mizpah Class church gathering at the Methodist parsonage with host Mrs. Mark Kelley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merritt Grogan
Miss Mary Church
Edward J. Smith
Stillman Village
Elizabeth Bierwirth
Joyce
Ronald Bierwirth
Harrison Osgood
Ethel Osgood
Albert
Iler Osgood
Chauncey Church
Addie Jones
Mildred Jones
Emeline Palmer
Edward Watrous
Oakleigh Brenenstuhl
Sylvester Church
Orange Church
Wiliam Yorke
Bennington
Noble[#and Wood Machine Co
Methodist Church
Methodist
Mark Kelley
Bride Receives Gifts at Smith Nuptials Amid Games and Music
A wedding at the Smith home featured Arlene and Shirley Ann as honored children, with Mr. and Mrs. Edward Smith as hosts. Guests enjoyed games and music, and refreshments were served from a table centered by a bridal cake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arlene
Shirley Ann
Edward Smith
Soldier Held As Lovers' Lane Killer
A U S Army private, held at Fort Dix, allegedly confessed to three Lovers' Lane murders on Duck Island and reenacted the crimes for police, who also seek a buried shotgun. Victims include Mary Mytovich and Vincenzo Tonzillo in 1988, Katherine Werner and Frank Kasper in 1939, and Carolina Maricont and Louis Kovacs in 1940, with other nearby attacks under investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trenton
WN. J
Lonely Duck Island
White Horse
Fort Dix
N. J
Delaware River
Mary Mytovich
Vincenzo Tonzillo
Tuogine
Katherine Werner
Frank J. Kasper
Strenton
Cypress Lane
Duck Island
Carolina Maricont
Louis Kovacs
Joseph Tranatti
Morrisville
Fighting Seabee Killed 12 Japs
Fireman first class Aurelio Tassoe of Milford Massachusetts, a Marine Corps combat correspondent and Seabee, was identified as the sailor who killed 12 Japanese soldiers by driving a twenty ton bulldozer into a pillbox during the invasion of Mono and Stirling in the Treasury Islands in the South Pacific. The pillbox lay near the shoreline and had drawn no fire despite multiple passes as Tassoe cleared a road with the bulldozer before a blind spot approach was found by Lieut. Charles E Turnbull.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Pacific
Navy
Aurelio Tassoe
East Main Street
Milford
Mass
Treasury Group
Mono
Stirling
Mitford Seabee
Charles E Turnbull
Abbeville, & C
Serial crime tale links 1940 and 1942 shoots near Morrisville
Police traced a gun barrel serial number after Howard Wilson, 19, and an unidentified girl fled a Negro near Morrisville on Nov 2 1940. The same suspect wounded Pvt John Testa of Bristol Pa and tried to club a companion near Tullytown Pa on March 7 1942.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Wilson
Morrisville
Wilson
John Testa
Bristol
Tullytown
One Man Attack Destroys Japanese Gun Position
Tassone led a daring assault demolishing a Japanese gun nest with a single, decisive charge. He approached cautiously then roared in, pulled levers, spun, and stacked earth over the pillbox until the structure collapsed. No Japanese survived. twelve bodies and the gun were recovered. In another report, Emerson Chalers, 56, died from burns after a gas tank exploded while he was welding Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tassone
Penn Yan
Emerson Chalers
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Pepsi-Cola Company
Long Island City
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Pepsi-Cola Albany Bottling Co., Inc
Beth Israel
Orhodox Brotherhood
Jack Weinstein
Solomon Moseson
Isaac Teicher
Albert Stanger
Jacob Streichman
Reuben D. Cohen
Samuel A. Sax
Hoosick Falls
Bert Baker
West Hoosick
Albany Hospital
Woman's Benevolent Society of the First Baptist Church
Herbert N. Hamilton
Classic Street
Lulu Johnston
H. J. MacMurtrie
Cheney Public Library
Oscar the Seal
Anna Hogan
Hoosick High School
Judy Bullock
Joseph Walsh
Jean Taylor
Vermont
Herman E. Bourn
South Londonderry
Justice For the Peace
D. Smith
By Galbraith
NEA Service, Inc
T. WL Reg
Pat
Petersburg
United Press
Sergt
Gordon D Marston
Congress So
Stoneham
Marine Corps
Western Electric
G. G
Frears
Fulton
Carter
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