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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1952
Page
2
American MPs captured seven top Communist leaders from Koje Island prisoner compound 77 amid a brutal sequence of kangaroo court executions. At least 15 prisoners died in compound 77 and 38 in compound 76 as more bodies were found in wells and ditches.
Report describes plans to move prisoners with details on what to carry while guards debated informing inmates. An officer warned delays risked violence as Compound 77 reportedly had 12 hours warning. Bodies in 77 c allegedly bore tips from anti-Communist prisoners who escaped or were moved past barbed wire exits.
The body of James Roger Hudgens, 23, will arrive in Tucson tomorrow for funeral services and burial. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Hudgens of 1360 East North Street and was killed April 25 by an explosion in the gun turret of the USS St Paul during shelling off the eastern coast of North Korea, where thirty crewmen died.
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