Show Escapee Tells H How w Japs Jap's Shot U. U S. S Prisoners Veteran of Bataan Saw Yanks Lined Up Waiting Dea Death h HOUSTON Tex Dec 4 UP IP- IP Thirty American 1 prisoners lined up at the rail of a ship waiting waiting waiting wait wait- ing to be shot to death They had been recaptured after an almost mile four swim for liberty liberty lib Jib lib lib- erty following the torpedoing torpedoing- of a Japanese pris prison n ship off anga peninsula last Sept 7 The 30 were roped together and their hands were bound behind them Then the Japs began shooting shooting shoot shoot- ing them one by one shooting them in the backs and there were grim splashes when the bodies bodies bod bod- ies ies- tumbled into the sea Tw Twenty nine nine nty of these bound and helpless and hopeless men were killed The other got away just as death was closing in on him Tells Story Monday that man year old T T Denver R. R Rose home with his parents in Houston told the story of his miraculous escape Veteran of Bataan Bataan- and Corregidor dor and one of the tho thousand sand prisonerS prisoners prisoners pris pris- on the terrible mar march h of death Rose lost 70 pounds during two and one half years in hi a Japanese Japanese Japanese Japa Japa- nese prison campH camp H He weighed little more than pounds when the ithe enemy enemy transferred trans trans- him and other ther captives from on n part pars par of f th to toan toa a an- an oth r. r There rIi re were we're of ps ofis us crowded into a sm small ship H he lie relates reates When a torpedo hit us us many were caught b below low decks In the hold and n never nerl erl had bad a chance The Japs turned machine guns on those who got hit water Caught aught Again We Vc started swimming for shore four miles mUes away I was within 50 yards of dry ry land lahd when the h Japs laps came up in small boats and caught 30 of us They tied our hands b behind hind us They took us out to another prison sh ship p. p We Ve were all aU roped together all aU 30 O of us standing in a line along the rail raU They started shooting shooting shooting shoot shoot- ing us one by one and I was fourth in line Using his sword a Jap cut the rope rop to loose the first man in line He was taken to the stern of ol the boat and shot in the back He fell feU Into the water Then they cut loose the second man and took him back bacIc to be shot I found the frayed end of a steel cable on the rail behind behind be be- hind me I rubbed the ropes ropes' across the sharp edges until I got my hands free I still have the scars on m my ray ha hands ds Hears Shots I 1 decided Id I'd just as soon be shot trying to get away as like a sitting duck so I made a break Continued on Pate Pace Column One alaan V Yet Vet f Tells Ii f Nip Hip r Atrocities a r Continued from Page Pue One Jt it t I ran to the front end of ship and slipped sUpped down into the theor ther hor r tor or hole I hid there about 20 utes hies They were searching the j i for tor for me I heard more shots w While Ue the shooting was going 41 ll rI let myself down GOwn into theer th the er er I treaded water very softly not to stir up the ce c ce Gradually I moved away n the ship and tin finally ally lit out shore More e e swam four miles to shore hore fellow doesn't know how h he can do until he gets in a ait at at t it fix like that and has to he helain hell ll lain lains ns I I dont don't believe I could m even one one mile now n n reaching I land md he he joined 82 era irs who had escaped from the ship Natives took care them hem em for forr several weeks Then Theny y were picked up by U. U S. S naval es native of Ft Smith Ark Rose Rose working for an on oil oil company co n n Il he decided to enlist late in 9 9 He went back to Ft Smith signed up in the coast artillery July 1940 1910 his outfit went to regidor n the march of death he saw y iy 1 comrades beheaded or shot out tout mercy Lat Later r in the prison always looking p Japs were an excuse to finish us off hes he's he hei s 's I i because they were afraid of i They kept us starved half-starved for same same reason ow bw such worries are behind e E. E He wonders how he will willid rid nd id the in back pay he l red ed d Educator Dies Ill Hi Dec 4 INS era eral services s for Dr David icy ley president emeritus of the of ot Illinois who died day at the age of 83 will be bed ber d' d r Wednesday in Smith Memo- Memo hall on the university campus |