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Show i- ft. 12"Friday, Sept. 12, 1947 Notebook Of Army Colonel Reveals Tragic Days In Japanese Prison Compounds By ANN SIIEPARD , United Press Staff Correspondent f MADIGANvARMY HOSPITAL, Wash., (U.PJIt took a middle-aged -army colonel seven small cardboard-covered notebook to describe the ways in which several sev-eral thousand men died, i .. The dirty; closely-written pages pag-es ' were . completed during ; 40 months in five Japanese prison camps from D'Donnell in the Philippines to Mukden in Manchuria. Man-churia. .,. ;" ; ' . i Notebook one it's, the same ' kind of notebook given to second grade pupils for practicing penmanship pen-manship has an entry written in a - warehouse shortly after the Bataan death march. "We are sleeping in shifts since there isn't room for everyone to lie down at the same time. This morning the Japs got mad because be-cause of the dirt on the floor aiid made some of our soldiers get down on their knees and eat thfe .filth?' - l i Col. Harry Skeery of the army engineers turned the page and looked up. . Day by Day Story . f t "There's xeally not much in here just the day by day story of how we. lived, and the names , of the men I knew in Wain-: Wain-: Wright's amy. When word reached reach-ed me that someone had died, I lotted it down for the record." S The colonel was at Madlgan - hospital op a final check by army doctors before reporting to an armv retirement board. "I'm eoina through the note book again just to see if there's anything written down that I've forgotten that should have been reported to -4he war department," he said. "There's one part in the last notebook I'll nevejr forget. It was two years ago this month at Mukden. Muk-den. They sent paratroopers into the camD. We thoukht maybe they were. Dutch soldiers, foecauseAve'd a a a ' -.V, a m llebrasita ioives Gaelic Problem LINCOLN, Ne)4.- U.R The. sec? retary. of state was hard pressed for a Gaelic translator, apparently as scarce in these, parts-as shamrocks sham-rocks in the Nebraska sandhills. i But newspaper stories about the problem interested -Dr. Desmond-Reilly. Desmond-Reilly. who came to the rescue of the secretary's corporation clerk, Harold Woten. i.tThe trouble began when the state officially - recognized the trade mark and society emblem of the Ord Ro-Onorac dAl gCias de tea gLac Pironpsas Tautmu-manThe Tautmu-manThe state recognized it, but pa one else did. Woteli sought.to file the organi zation's documents. But under what letter? Where could he put them to insure their being found by future corporation clerks? - It helped not at all to know the papers were filed by Reamonn -Moultop Sean an Brianac Prion-nsa Prion-nsa na nDal gCias na Tautmuman, sovereign grand master and chief executive officer of the OJR.-i O.D.GJ5.T.G.P.T. , Catholic priests, cityr libraries and University of Nebraska professors pro-fessors shook their heads. They . could not translate. Then Reilly read the news-pa news-pa per stories. He is a bio-chemistry professor at Creighton university uni-versity of Omaha, and one year removed from Dublin. "Simple," said Reilly. "The society's name- is the Most Honorable Hon-orable Order of the Dalcassians of the House of the Province of Munsteri - 'The executive officer's name Is Raymond Moulton, otherwise John O'Brien, prince of the. upper up-per area of the Province of Mun-ster," Mun-ster," translated Reilly. Woten filed the papers under tnree cards one under u as in "Order, one under "D." as in "dAl gCais," and one under the pure Gaelic phrase i Who are the Dalcassians? They "are one of the two families from whom .all the. Kings of Munster were chosen. The, other family is named Eoghanachts. Spanish Custom "nv X 'Argentina's President Juan Peron, left, gives a hug and a medal to Spanish ambassador Emilio Martos in picturesque ceremony at Buenos Aires. . Pure Linseed Oil ; OUTSIDE WHITE First Quality A r( PAINT Gal TOu This Week Only REYNOLDS PAINT & WALLPAPER CO. 54 North 4 West Prov K" kV XX-, DAILY HERALD never ' seen paratroopers before. When the Japs let them walk out of the camp alive, we knew something some-thing was up. Two Caps of Rice "That night we got two cups of rice apiece the most we'd had since we were r captured.. Then they let us have some Red Cross boxes the first we'd seen." ' Official notice of the end of the war came from a. Russian colonel. The diary describes it: r "The Russian officer raised his right arm and shouted something. The interpreter. -translated it. He said, 'From this, moment you area free - ! "Then he said. I bid you a good night thefirst you have enjoyed in many years.' "What a day this has been . ... Good night, my dear family, "and good night, my departed comrades," com-rades," the page ended. -The colonel has been awarded the distinguished service cross. the silver star, bronze star and legion le-gion of merit. 7 Still a Little Tired "I'm still a"! little tired, I guess." the colonel said. His skin is still marked from beri beri. "The thing that has tired us all the most was the senseless things they did just to make us act like! i i t-1 . i . i iiumau. so many iiimgs, jaisi iu degrade us. But you can't degrade Americans, you know." The colonel col-onel settled his gold-rimmed glasses glas-ses more firmly. "There's just one thing that bothers me about being back. Now all my civilian friends think I'm a military expert. The other day, a man in Portland said. 'Harry, when do you think we'll drop the next atomic bomb?' "If anyone asks me that again I think I'U punch hty nose in." Labor Party Margin Cut In Recent Vote LIVERPOOL, England, Sept.' 12 (U.R) The labor party's record of winning .every parliamentary by- election since its landslide hi 1945 remained : intact today, but its margin over-the conservatives in the latest balloting was down sharply. The first test of strength between be-tween the Conservatives and La-borites La-borites since the economic crisis under the Labor government became be-came critical, ended with both sides claiming a moral victory. Laborite A. B. Irvine squeezed by with an edge of 1,953 votes in the Edge Hill district of Liverpool Liver-pool yesterday over Conservative J. R. Bevins. The latef "Dr. K. Clotherow, Laborite member of commons whose seat was being filled, won by a majority of 6,039 in 1945. , . The vote in. the predominantly working class district was Irvine 10,827, Bevins 8,874, Sir Hubert Young, Liberal, 910; D. Gibson, Independent Labor, 154, and C. Foster, Independent, 48. The minor party candidates drew such scant attention that the election shaped up almost wholly as a test between the Conservative Con-servative and Laborite candidates. candi-dates. In" a post-election statement Irvine hailed the, results as "a great vote of confidence for the government." Chinese Set Fire To Catholic Church SHANGHAI, Sept. 12 (U.RV-The government - controlled Central News agency claimed today in a dispatch from Kalgan that Chinese Chi-nese communists had set fire to and 80-year-old Catholic church and seminary and kidnaped 150 Catholics, including f o r e i g n , priests and nuns in a raid on a Hopei-Chahar border town The raid was said to have taken place Aug. 30 at Yangchiaying. Raiders were believed to have been remnants of a communist force dislodged from Chahar. province last spring, Central News said. The agency also said Hhe fire spread to the town and wiped out more than 400 civilian houses. Damage to the church was said to have been more than $200,-000 $200,-000 (U. S.) HINTS PNOTvw4m4 Al tm dag. to haaMuar tin M , wight UPfKS naaa IW mtmm af faad daily P pt4 af waiaht. Diviaa 1 mamma, Man i taadmot. MATUtt DOGS normal) faquir af an auaca af MOt-PC far' I pmmi af woh. Sana ro- varl)r in ana avanint. maat va aauelfr far mow aa ff. S X. r foptosurSckenky 6tatstitoJt Now You Sqc It; Now, Ybu-:-Sec It Again aWMLs3HMMUi I k, - r'" Smoke and debris (top) obscure a huge air raid shelter and flaktower In Berlin's Tiergarten, as British army engineers blast the building with 50,000 pounds ofTNT. Members of the German press crouch in the left foreground for protection, But when newsmen examined the result (bottom) they found that the explosion failed to destroy the tower, which was marked for destruction as part of the Allied demilitarization program. Wild Vest Hero May be Subject Of New PHOENIX, Ariz. (U.R) Movie writers, here in search of material for a film-story, have re-awaken ed memories of one of the West's most romantic and colorful, but little-known characters. He was Col. Amelio Kosterlitzsky- cap tain of a rOving: "police force" some 40-odd years ago known as the Mexican Rurales. Under the leadership of the swaggering, Russian-born colonel a "dead shot" with either hahd the Rurales built up a reputation reputa-tion for effectiveness and cold deadliness that was second to none. They were a blend of the courage of the Texas Rangers and the tenacity of the Royal Ca nadian Mounties. plus full por tions of Oriental patience and cruelty instilled in them by their leader. For a turbulent period in our history, when cattle rustling was a business a-nd not the theme of a 'SalW to Paris Buster keaton, sad-faced comic j) XJ -lMlllliICA S ' JAVOIt V who is almost as obscure as AaiiaxiAWivxmw " X Garbo to movie-goers, turns up rf (l and0;? FrSchrfSa MotTling MmW IS the fboSOl salute the hard way- f j S ) r fcf; I - II . U VAJL1J1V JJIJ 1 W fl"r"',n'r,'w" ! Saturday picture show, they represented rep-resented the only force of law and order among the rollicking mining min-ing camps and "cow towns'' along the border. . No Borderline The international line, as such,' did not exist for them. Their jurisdiction extended as far north or south as it took their swift horses to overtake a fleeing ban-dito. ban-dito. To them, flight was evidence of guilt, and the trial was in the chase. Their badges of authority were bristling mustachios and the bandoleras slung from each shoulder which formed a bullet-studded bullet-studded and unholy cross on their chests. ... Rustlers and robbers, who gambled at the same table with Hollidav and Wvatt Earn irtfwho knew Colonel Kosterlitzskv. Tombstone, shied clear of the Rur als. They rightfully held them in the same respect as tbey did the fierce Apache and Yaqui Indians. In-dians. Colonel Kosterlitzsky, fortun ately for the movie writers, lent this bold band a comic-opera touch which immediately suggests such an actor as Nelson Eddy for the role. Little is known of his background, back-ground, except that he served for a brief time with the United States Army before transferring his allegiance to the Mexican government. Some say he was the ne'r-do-well son of a noble Russian, Rus-sian, who came to the West in search of adventure. It is to be regretted that there is not authentication authen-tication for the story, for it would provide him with the only heroic; quality he lacked. RESERVE tan Pn-Vt r QwBty IImM Vhidwy, M arati IS trail " - f" I, 1 t v, "1 ' 4 s 4 i Picture When he gained full stature in the legend of this section of the country, which apparently is the first record we have of him, he was of middle age and greying slightly at the temples. He was tall, gruff-voiced, and manifested a fastidiousness . of dress which must have given him a striking. distinguished aspect among the cowboys, miners, Indians, and va- queros with whom he associated. Opinions of the dashing colonel vary radically among the persons now living who remember him. To be fair to history and to ignore ig-nore temptation, it must be ad mitted there are those who recall him as a "damned Cossack." On the other hand, Mike Cunningham, Cunn-ingham, Phoenix, an old-timer - nsays: "He was a great man, well-lik ed, respected, and feared in the community. If someone wanted a man hanged, he and his Rurales would do it. They followed him without question. "Men either liked him or hated him. 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