Show RUSS PRISONER I SERVED UNDER SALT SAl T LAKE BOY Member of U. U S. S Army Detach Detachment pt Captured I Iby by Re Reds s Saw Utah Corporal Cor Cor- Shot Down Dawn t I I After six mont months R in a adark adark adark dark un underground e prison In Moscow I having haYing s or Qt t of death pro- pro I which they lived In I dally daily dr i V an order to I face a n. d ThomaS Thorna J J. J Hazelwood Ila- Ila zelwood 29 2 t s jf Roodhouse Ill a former meni mern ii iier f er r of th the A. A E. E F. F I force is hI staying in Salt Lake a few days dus en route to Los os Angeles I from e 1 10 1 According to his I is one of six Amen Amen- cart can soldiers a who survived d I Amerl-I a surprise surprise sur sur- prise e att l hIlO guarding Rf Red Rl RedCross l Cross 0 versta about miles east of of M Moscow scow In January I 1920 I served served in the Canadian I forces in th the the j- j rh part of the great war He HP Heas was as discharged In Winnipeg Winnipeg Winnipeg Win- Win j after pervIn two wo year ears in inFranco I France Franco and Immediately joined the j I nr y y of the United Stat States I After the armistice ho he re enlisted in the rep replacement cement outfit company I j C C. C Twenty seventh Infantry at Dall Dallas Dal- Dal i l las Tex Tax and anti w was s sent to Salt San FranI Fran Fran- I cisco He sailed from the latter I port for Russia December 15 1919 WERE GUARDING PROPERTY I Immediately after arriving at Vladivostok in in the early part of January Januar 1920 Hazelwoods Hazelwood's compan company com corn pany pan in ln command of Captain W. W J. J Jones of Green River Wyo was detailed detailed detailed de- de tailed to guard property along the theline theline theline line of the Trans-Siberian Trans railroad It was while on this guard duty the little detachment of seventeen men was attacked and almost wiped out When the red army first approached approached approached ap ap- ap- ap and anel opened fire we re returned returned returned re- re turned the shots 1 said in describing the The enemy were armed with rifles and hand grenades Corporal Charley Williams a n. Salt SaIt Lake boy said ald Hazelwood was killed early in the engagement engagement engage engage- ment men When we had lost five or six men Captain Jones told us we would have to surrender He took out his handkerchief and waved it but he lie was shot down before the surrender could be effected The Th Russians closed in hi on us and six of us were captured alive The wounded wound d o of our detachment were killed where they la lay as as the Russians Russians Rus Bus said they were not taking any wounded prisoners We were taken to Moscow in a few days and confined confined confined con con- fined in an underground chamber TRIED BEFORE CHEKA Every day for foe a month we were I taken into the courtroom before the Cheka supreme soviet s secret ret tribu tribu- nal Interpreters told us we were I charged with espionage e of the soviet forces I II I Three months month's later after they had forced us to worK In the streets s of Moscow under guard a woman II Int interpreter w who o said she sho was Emma Goldman came to u In and told us she was sorry to have to tous tell us wo had been sentenced to death Miss Go Goldman told tod of ot her deportation from this country and paid said she sho wished she he co could ld return here j She could gl give ve us no no Idea of when the death sentence nce would be put into effect but ehe fhe explained e the they would first read raad us a court or orI order order or- or der del which would contain the charge I and fin ln Every Ever day for three more months wo we looked for It but It j I never came PRIEST AIDS CAPTIVES r II Finally Father Ducko tyPo tyPo- Po Polish lish priest vho tho r I sInce been executed sewed the the names names of ofus ofus I us us six Americans H tn the lining of th the coat coM of a F. Polish s soldier r and when he he was exchanged he notified the American consul at Warsaw I It was not long after that before we were released releaser and taken to Reel Rovel Ito Ro- el vel in the ne new state of ot Esthonia I Later we e were vera taken taleen to Coblenz and d I attached to the American forces on I the Rhino RhIne command nd of ot General General Gen Gen- eral Allen I h lizard heard ard that the P Polish priest was yas later executed j jIn I In describing the daily i rations doled out to the in Moscow Moscow Moscow Mos Mos- cow said Haid it made him Indignant just lust to remember food A About out a R. quarter of a n. pound of bread 2 ounces ounces' of ot coffee cortee I a 1 small portion of at stew made of j I and e vegetables eta les and a bowl bol bolI j I of soup was the dally daily allowance e. e j Every day was like tie the one before and antI th the tho diet was not changed j I Hazelwood will leave lea for Los AnI Angeles An An- I geles In 1 a a. few days He hopes to toj j I find some one who Is rated to toI I Corporal Charles Williams before i 1110 ho goes I |