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Show The Cache American. latre Two Cache Countv, Utah Generous Treatment of Axis Prisoners in U. S. Improves Conditions for Captured Americans Red Cros Reports Men in Nazi Hands Well Fed and Housed IUla4 by Western Newspaper Dy HARROW LYONS VN If luff Cor rvpandnt In some 30,000 families throughout our land today the folks are thinking of some soldier from home who has fallen into enemy hands now a prisoner of war far away. When our troops make the great push against the mainland of Europe, there will be more boys taken prisoners. In the war prisoner camps within the United States, we hold some 175.000 enemy soldiers captured mostly on the battlefields of Africa, Sicily and Italy. Of these, 125.000 re Cermans, 50,000 Italians. Only 118 are Japanese. Vnluo. HERBERT HOOVER AND POLITICAL HISTORY TO ME the dominant character In America, tha man whom I, person ally, should most lika to sea as President of tha United States, is Herbert Hoover. 1 hava no expects lion of seeing him again occupy the White House. I know he does not want a nomination to any public of' fica and doubt if ha would accept an for any office if it were tendered, Jlis place in America today is that ef an influential citizen; to me, the outstanding elder statesman. With that statement as an Introduction, I will recount some bits of political history in which Mr. Hoover figured and as I saw them in the makuig. In the 1932 campaign, Mr. Hoover knew long before the votes were counted that he was beaten. Much gainst his personal wishes, he took to the stump in an effort to soften the blow as much as possible. Mem bers of the Republican old guard in charge of that campaign were even less than disinterested in Hoovers election. They were devoting their efforts to their own cause, and several of them were not successful. Four years later, at the Cleveland convention, I spent a portion of an afternoon reading an address Herbert Hoover was to deliver before the convenUon that evening. After reading it, I said to him: "You do not want the nomlnaUon to be made by this convention but you will have it If you do not leave the platform and the building im mediately after the completion of your address this evening." He did not agree with my state ment as to the effect of the address on the delegates, but he did leave the platform and the building the In stant the last word of that address was spoken. The demonstration that followed was a tremendous ovation. Competent political experts assured me that had he remained and so inspired the continuance of that ovation, he would undoubtedly have been the nominee. Again, four years after Cleveland, at Philadelphia, Hoover was to, and did, address the convention. An element, with a favorite candidate, remembered the Cleveland incident. They knew it was not the way Hoover said things, but what he said that swayed his audience. They were taking no chances on the effect on that audience of delegates. The Instant the Hoover address began, the loud speaker system went out of commission and remained out until Mr. Hoover finished talking. No one in the auditorium heard what he said. It marked the end of any Hoover influence on that convention. From his hotel. Immediately following the completion of his address, Hoover announced he did not wish to be considered a candidate for the nomination and his name was not presented. The evidently planned failure of a loud speaker system had marked the end of the political ambitions or expectations of a great American. To me the loss was that of the nation, but as a distinguished citizen, as an elder statesman, Mr. Hoover exerts a tremendous influence on American thinking. Six months before the Philadelphia convention, Representative Joe Martin, then chairman of the Republican National committee, asked me to name my choice for the nomination. I named Herbert Hoover. "If he could be nominated, we could elect him, Martin said. Some one, or some group, had taken no chances on a dark horse nomination. Many protests have been made to army authorities, because of the good treatment given these prisoners. Lot of people don't understand why enemy prisoners should be given the same comforts, the same medical altention. the same food as our own soldiers. But there Is a reason so compelling. that none can complain when It is understood. It is not for the sake of the prisoners, but In the Interest of our own soldiers held by the enemy. They are the real object Tbe first German soldier to be taken prisoner in Iceland was of our forbearance and solicitude. Manfrak, who balled out of his Junkers plane after it had been hit honor naUonal our of course, And, U. 8. army fighters. lie is shown at Intelligence headquarters, enby Is Involved, for we agreed to give joying the rations an the tray before blm, despite a bandaged arm and prisoners the same food and care numerous bruises. Prisoners as our own men under the of War convenUon signed and raU-fie- d Ians who escaped from a branch at Geneva on July 27, 1929. camp at El Paso, part of the Lords-burN. M., camp, and one German Good Treatment. Reciprocal Reliable reports made to the army who got away at Crossville, Tenn. There has been complaint from indicate that the good treatment we have accorded prisoners has won organized labor lately because we for our own men in German prison have used some of the war prisonDoughboys of the Seventh Infantry camps condiUons that are at least ers for tasks in lumber camps and division who captured Kwajalein as good as those under which Ger- on road work, where there was no and other Islands of the Kwajalein American labor available. General atoll man soldiers live. during the invasion of the MarThese facts were revealed for the Gullion gives labor assurance that shall islands literally had to dig the first time to your correspondent by prisoners of war are not being put Japanese out of the ground. CoL to work on any job where civilian Syril E. Faine, Infantry, of New Maj. Gen. Allen W. Gullion, provost labor is available In adequate supStraitsville, Ohio, who is now in the marshal general of the army, who has general supervision over prison- ply. Prisoner of war labor isthea United States, acted as deputy chief relieve of staff of the division during the six-da- y ers of war. The actual guarding of temporary expedientof toman existing power. shortage He said the Japathe prisoners Is a function of the The United States at the nese campaign. defenders of the prison camp commander who Is un- Geneva convention agreed to all return coral base had taken refuge In hunder the control of the commanding prisoners of war to their own coun- dreds of shell craters by the time general of the service command. tries at the conclusion of the war, the first waves of infantry hit the Censorship reveals that letters hence the fear of competition with shore on January 31 (February 1, from relatives and friends express free labor is groundless, the gen- Pacific time). much gratitude and happiness over eral says. "It was just like killing rats," he the way' we are treating their men. Prisoners Cut Pulpwood. declared. "The whole island was "We are Informed by the InterPrisoners have been in logging nibble, after the preliminary bombnational Red Cross that the Gerwhere American workers ing and shelling. The Japs had mans say that because of our good operations the woods to work in ship- crawled underground wherever they treatment of their soldiers, they have left shops at much could, and the infantrymen had to are giving our men more liberties yards and machine he wages, higher explains. They stop at every hole and fire down and better treatment, General Gulhave been useful- - in cutting and into it, or throw grenades into it." lion told your correspondent. "The needed critically Playing Possum. Geneva conventions required that peeling pulp logs for containers in civilian industry The were up to their each prisoner be given the same and for newsprint, of which there usual Japanese went on Colonel food as soldiers of the capturing is a tricks, nasty shortage. Prisoners have been power receive in base camps. Ac- used also in maintaining roads in Faine. Even after they were hopecording to the reports of Swiss ob- some areas where other manual la- lessly defeated, they refused to give servers, the Germans are living up borers are very scarce. The tre- up. At one point in the action, an American aid station was estabto this provision; our men in some mendous of road mainof three apinstances are getting even a little tenance, inimportance view of the heavy traff- lished close to a pile better food than the German sol- ic, is obvious. parently dead Japs. Only two of diers, although the German faciliPrisoners have been used also In them, it turned out, were really ties do not compare with ours. laundries. Nearly everyone today dead. The third, at the bottom of "I think there can be only one has suffered inconveniences because the heap, pulled himself up after answer to the complaint that we are of the shortage of laundry labor, playing possum for a long time and treating the prisoners we take too and can understand this expedient fired one ineffectual shot at an American officer. Other Japs blew well. One gets it when one asks the The story of Japanese prisoners question: Is it better to yield to a is less happy. When a Japanese themselves up with grenades. The landing on the Marshalls, very natural, vengeful impulse to soldier is taken prisoner he is Colonel Faine said, was preceded take it out on our prisoners, or to ob- washed he never wishes to reone of the most intensive bomserve our treaty agreements and pro- turn to up Japan for he is disgraced by bardments of the war. Both army tect our own men?" forever in the eyes of his countryand navy planes participated, and Few Escape. men. deWe have in this country scarcely later, warships pounded the Jap There have been complaints also One airstrip on the Wotje fenses. a more hundred than that the prisoners we hold have not Japanese pris- atoll was so chopped up, Colonel been sufficiently guarded; that too oners, and General MacArthur has Faine said, "that not only couldnt few a hundred accordto only more, have become a many escaped FOR LAST OCTOBER THE NAthe Japs get a plane off it, but you menace to the home population. ing to General Gullion. TIONAL CONFERENCE board reeven have run a wheelbar couldnt General Gullion points to the facts. They are given the same food row along it. ported that a fraction more than Of the 175,000 prisoners we now hold and accommodations as our own me of each two people, men, worn-;- n Warfare. Amphibious in this country, about 100 have es- soldiers, because we hope by acand children, in the United States The aerial hammering kept up as caped, but all except three have cording such treatment to ameliojvas gainfully employed. The total been recaptured and are in custody. rate the lot of our own 18,500 men the invasion armada, containing of 63,612,000 had a paying job of more ships than there were In oui some kind. It is these workers of The only men at large are two Ital- - held by the Japanese. whole navy at the start of the war, today and those of the tomorrows swept over the horizon. As the who must, in time, pay off the nalandings started, Seventh division in- tional debt. On October 31, 1943, fantrymen who had received special the average for each worker amountamphibious training drove their own ed to $2,595. What the workers of FEW JAP PRISONERS HAVE BEEN TAKEN BY U. S. "alligators" and ducks toward today do not pay will be left as an shore, and later ferried supplies inheritance for their children, the back and forth from the mother workers of tomorrow. At the presships. ent time the debt is increasing at The doughboys had relatively easy about $100 per worker per month. JAPANESE 400 going when they first hit the beaches aioaaooQiijiifiaoaaiftio advancing 1,300 yards on the first WHAT WE DO, how much we acday. On the second day, they began complish, is a subject for pride, not to run into lines of pillboxes, against how much we spend. The fact the which they advanced with combat government spent 88 billions of dolGERMANS 111,000 engineers right behind them. With lars in 1943 is not, of itself, someflamethrowers, grenades, and other thing to boast about though it is n m mr m m t tauk m m mm V5 m rm m Aft Mnn weapons, the infantrymen calmly an all time spending record and repms fill nff'31 'ft Aft' VI cleaned out each pillbox as they got resents more than the total cost of to it. The engineers used 400 tons government for all of our first 150 ITALIANS of dynamite on two islands alone, 170,000 years, including the financing of all levelling everything on them. previous wars. Ser-ges- g, nt Yanks Had to Blast Japs Out of Holes On Marshalls mid-Pacif- Jacket, long yarda 39 Inch material; alreves. 3' yard. demand and Du to an unuuUy Ur current war condition, slightly more tint la required in tilling orders lor a lew of the moat popular pattern number. Send your order to: ewivo riarut pattern dept. MS New Moatfomery Street gas Francisco Call!. Enclose 10 cenU In Coin tor eacb pattern desired. 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