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Show Prisoner of Krauts Radios Message - The L. B. Waddingham family last Saturday received further good word concerning their son, Lieutenant Albert Thorpe Waddingham, Wad-dingham, former pilot of a Liberator Libera-tor bomber operating from Italy and a prisoner of the German government for nearly a year after bailing out over Hungary. The good word came in the form of a telegram from the provost marshal general's office in Washington Wash-ington and stated "Following enemy broadcast from Germany has been intercepted: "Dear mother mo-ther and dad: Everything allright here, health good, write soon and send packages. Tell all hello. Love.' Lieut. A. T. Waddingham, O-691012.' This broadcast supplements supple-ments all previous reports. Lerich, provost marshal general." ! The broadcast message appar-' appar-' ently was heard by others in addition ad-dition to federal authorities, for many corroborating messages from other listeners followed soon after the Washington wire. Not all of the listeners caught Thorpe's lastj name correctly and letters and cards bore various spellings of Waddingham. The kindness and 1 thoughtfulness of so many would-be would-be friends is deeply appreciated by the family and friends and all of the messages will be acknowledged. First message to arrive following follow-ing the official wire was an airmail air-mail letter from Sanford Lowe, an independent short wave monitor located in New York City. It indicated indi-cated that the message had not been spoken by Thorpe but by a Bobbie McDonald, probably speaking speak-ing for a group of American boys, if the Germans follow the custom cus-tom of Tokyo, which has been heard frequently by The News editor. edi-tor. Lowe's letter also indicated that this was the 16,321st message j forwarded by him to relatives of I of .prisoners by him to relatives of ! prisoners put on the air by Berlin ' and Tokyo, the airmail stamp for I the Waddingham message having been furnished by a Mrs. Anna j Kaplowitz of Brooklyn, who also i received a message from her son, similarly a prisoner of the Germans. Ger-mans. Additional corroborating letters and cards have been received from Antrim, New Hampshire; Plain-field Plain-field and Iselin, N. J.; Boston and j Upton, Mass.; Bloomsburg, Con-, Con-, nellsville, Jenkintown and Carbon-1 Carbon-1 dale, Pennsylvania; and Middle-i Middle-i ton, Patchogue, Brooklyn, and New York City, New York. |