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parents of Camille Rizzuti Learn He Is Safe and WellLo**al Han PrisonerIn Japane*** (lamp In til#* Philippine*“Your is lt;4ife and in goodhealth/*Thaw arc the cheering wordswhich came to Mr and Mrs. Paul A Rizzuti of 161 Pleasant street this week. From two sources they learned that their son. Carmille. a prisoner of war of Japan sincc December, 1941, is alive and in the iest ofhealth. I j ||1 f| :|j| Jjt|Recently Mrs. Rizzuti ueeived a letter from R H. Hubbard, jr., of Rye, N. Y.. informing her that ;e had received her address from her missing son before leaving Los Banos InternmentPhilippinesMrcamp in t heHubbard saidRIZZVTIII More Local \nd Vicinity Men \rrive ()\ erseasCarm,' as he was known to his lrlends, was in good health and spirits when he * Hubbard» left, although. of course, eager to have Unde San. no out there and turnhim looseMe, Hubbard *roie m t lit letter. Truly the worst part of internment is the feeling of the futility of it all and the realization of tlic time being wasted to no goot. enc. butmorale throughout tiie camp remains high in spite everything. Carm'. as well as everyonemore Bradford and vicinityr m notified their parents of•iigrafe arrival in various parts ofj*wrld as member* erf the Armed r^res. They were as follows 3ELAND Slt;r. Kenneth C. ®es Corp Carl Lindahl. StaffSft. Clyde Jamisor.E N* G L A N D~Pv: Robert APairooer. William Sheldon, seaman W class. Set Geonre Green. Set.Carles F Kennedy. rNDIA—Lieut. Seth G Blause:. IRELAND — Corp William ieachem- Staff Sgt.chafes at inability to communicate with the people at home and we were all upset at having lit!lei or none of the mail we knew wa* being sent us from home reach us.”A fern- days later, after receiving the Hubbard letter Mr Rizzuti received a letter from L. C Reynold.'.manager of Trans-Pacific Divisionof Pan American Airways system, in regards to thelf former I Bradford man. | 1Tlie letter in part saic Recently we received a report regarding our men and women in Japanese internment camps from R J. Stansfield. who was repatriated on the last tripof the S. 8. Gripsholm. Mi^eddinj's-Trothrt \i. Mf NT 'ilary Ann Valvo to Char let S.LoerBarbara Pfohl, Beech wood to Lt. Bojimin C Bymside. r., Oak Hill.WTaML’git Smith. Pon Allegany, to l*r Derruret jr.. Port Allegany. Itth Irene Deschier Portvllie. toSaffian Edvard HullNORTH AFRICA -ohn P. Gorton. ............._........_......._............^.............._ ^UNDISCLOSED -Pfc Gerald , field was interned at the Japanese Grander Sgt. Harry Hand 1 camp at Santo Tomas and later at--I Los Banos near Manila. His reportincludes information regard mg vour son. Carmille. which we quote as follow's: ‘Was in srood health and working in* the camp labor pool. TheRev. Harry K Johnston, also repatriated on the 8. S. Gnpsholm was interned for considerable time with several members of our PanAmerican family at Kobe. As hi.* report of conditions draw a very close picture of camp life there, we are enclosing it with the knowledge thatit will also be of interest to you.Our inquiries are being continued. and you may be assured mat when we are able to gam further information regarding your itwill be forwarded to you *Carmille is a native 01 Biadiord.He attended the local public schoolsand graduated from the BradfordSenior High school, class of 1926. For a number of years he Alt;ts affiliated with the offices of the Forest Oil corporation in Bradiord before being sent by that companyto Texas in 1938 In November. 1941, Mr Rizzuti accepted a position as an accountant with the Pan American Airways system oelng assignedto Manila. He arrived in the Philippines on November 29. 1941, abouta week before tlie Japanese urprise attack on Pearl HarboiOn Christmas Day. 1941, Mi. andWEDDINGSto Pfc. RobertreW». Oil C;Mn. Gladys Hess to Sgt Robert4tBsn^eona Carlsoi, to Pfc. Ci.anes H. 'aVirginia Veroclie to Corp Josepha ESdrec ^t. Rose Lee Beneoict. Lewisfc* to Ueut. James \v WrigI a Cross WisMrs. P. A Rizzuti received a cablegram from the Par American Airways statuig that Carm was a Japanese prisoner of war. Since then the lamily has been unable toget any direct word until the above incident
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Bradford, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Jan 27, 1944
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