Janesville Daily Gazette from Janesville, Wisconsin • Page 5

Chapman, Grant Return to City hi; in (Continued from Pape 1' prisoners, who arc considered cial prisoners." Shortly after arrival there, Sgt. Grant was coi fronted by several Japanese guard: who asked him how many mission: he had flown over Japan, told them he had flown 33. and turn WHS beaten 33 times with, a large club one of the Japs carried. After spending about two weeks in the "hellhole," as he describes the camp, Sgt. Grant was transferred to Moral Prison Camp wrfere conditions were somewhat better.

On August 15, the Japanese evacuated the camp leaving the prisoners alone. Two later several planes came dropping notes telling them to on and that help was coming. 4 p. m. on August 29, Sgt.

Grant describes it as Hie happiest moment of his life, several small "Higgins" boats came to shore and took the prisoners to the "Benevolence" which was at anchor in the bay. From there he was flown to Okinawa, the Philippines and finally to Seattle and home. hold At Cpl. Richter, Once 96 Now Weighs 163 Carrying 13 more pounds of weight than ever before in his life, Cpl. Lloyd Richler of Company 192nnd Tank battalion, arrived in Janesville Thursday afternoon as a surprise to his sister, Mrs.

Millard Ellis. It was his first sight of Janesville in more than four years, his last visit having been in May, 1941. Cpl. Richter said he could add little to the stories already told by returning Bataan veterans regarding the rough treatment and privations of prison life. His average weight of 150 pounds wasted away to 96 pounds while lie was under Jap supervision and he suffered diseases common to that section of the world.

After liberation, Rood American food restored his weight and upon his arrival Janesville. he tipped the scales at 163 pounds but he calls it ''soft fat." He survived the infamous Death March well and was able to assist some of his less fortunate companions, thrived on the food provided him while he was employed on construction work In the Manila area but became ill due to malnutrition while working nt Nichols field from December, 1942, to July, 1944. Good American beef was served him occasionally in the Manila area where he was a truck diMV- er A couple of months at Cabanatuan. where he went at his own request because he wanted to meet some of the Janesville men. taxed his strength.

While working at Nichols field, he suffered malaria for five days and was apparently cured when he suffered a re'apse about three weeks later confining him to bed for four weeks. He also contracted a kidney ailment there which slill bothers him and is being treated in army hospitals this country. He left the air field in Julv, 1944, arriving at camp 3 of the Osaka area in August where he remained until the liberation Sent 10, 1945. After a 21-day leave in Janesville, he will return to Mayo General hospital, Galesburg, 11 for further treatment. otn- members of 1 he he "ear.

the Presidential citation with two stars, Philippine defense ribbon, Asiatic-Pacific ribbon th two stars and the Philippine liberation ribbon. 30 Letters, 8 Boxes Received by Sgt. Knox Home for 21 days after 3V. yeais as prisoner of the Japanese, Forrest Knox, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Ross Knox, 2223 Riverside drive Beloit set out Friday to visit all of the' people in and around Janesville he has thought about in the more than three years since his capture with the 192nd Tank battalion on Bataan. Among those he called on were his cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Knox, 432 N. Bluff street.

Sgt. Knox, one of three sons two of whom were imprisoned by the Nips after the surrender of the Philippines, is looking hale and hearty at 135 pounds, having regained the 25 pounds dropped in the period beginning with the Death March on Bataan, and ending with thfi Jap surrender in August. "We were working," Knox recalls, "when the big news came. You could see by the looks on the Japs' faces that it was true and they were glad' enough to quit, they'd been lighting a long time." "The Yanks' airplanes followed us all the way from the Philip- piness." th.e tankman grinned. "Shortly after we were removed fYom Los Banos in September, 3944, the Yanks moved in; we gortoFor- mosa and the big fellows came over, and finally they were over Tokyo itself." The former Jaliesville man thinks that Los Banos was the worst of the Jap prisons in which he was held.

"It was run by the same bunch who had charge of Nichols Field and Camp O'Donnell," he explained. "After a while the Japs stopped being completely unmerciful. They discovered that if you put a man in the hospital, he can't work any more." Sgt. Knox worked in a sugar mill THE JAXESVILLE DAILY GAZETTE Saturday, October 27, 1945. Women Will Sell Bonds Nov.

12-20 in Formosa, following the sea iourney from the Philippines when I he men were loaded on transports with accommodations peculiar to sardine. "Of 18 transports which aegan the trip, six got to Formosa and we were aboard one of the lucky ones," he In the sugar mill," Sgt. Knox was able to catch up on a few lost calories by eating the product. "I wasn't able to find out in my nine weeks there what they were doing with the sugar, they just kept shifting it back and forth." In answer to queries about his companions in confinement the sergeant reports that John Wood, Whitewater, Emil Schmidt and Thomas Samek, also members of the Janesville battalion, were in the same sugar mill. Samek, unreported since the war's-end, was probably taken to a Japanese army hopsital for treatment, according to Sgt.

Knox. "The last time I saw him was on the dock at Meji, in southern Japan, a concentration point for Nip troops and supplies going south and returning from the south," Knox said. From his arrival in Japan in February 1944, Knox drove a truck and worked at.an airfield at Tokyo. During hjs internment he received some 30 letters and eight boxes. Three of them, in the spring of 1943, were Red Cross parcels.

"I did better than average on the mail," he says, "even though all 30 letters arrived within a month, during the spring of 1944. They must have been sent on the exchange liner, Gripsholm. I saw anything of a Red Cross official until after the surrender was signed. Then, a Swiss representative went' 1 rtrough the camp." Rumor mills were on a 24-hour day. Sgl.

Knox said. "Every three 'months, almost from the time we were first taken, the tale got around that the Germans had surrendered. Is it -any wonder we thought it was just the same old story when the great day for us really came?" The sergeant said the Japs hesitated not at all in telling the prisoners the death of the late President Roosevelt, and celebrated in the belief that the end of the war was near. One can recognize a former tank men by the shoullder patch of the Philippine department, a while on a blue field, and the two clusters on the Presidential Unit citation worn on the left side of the tunic. Knox' other decorations include the Good Conduct the Philippine Defense ribbon and The American Defense ribbon, each with one bronze battle star, and the Asiatic-Pacific ribbon witli two stars.

Evansville Man Heads County Bankers Group Forest Durner, Evansville, was elected president of the Rock County Bankers association at its annual meeting in Beloit Thursday night. He succeeds Arthur Adams, Beloit. George A. Ward, Janesville, was chosen as vice president to succeed Durner. William Buchholz, Edgerton.

was renamed secretary-treasurer, a post he has held for many years. H. S. Lovejoy, chairman of the publicity and scholarship committee, reported on the work of that group. Prof.

F. O. Holt, business manager, and Dean Elwell, of the school of commerce, both of the University of Wisconsin, addressed the bankers on scholarship programs. Elwell praised the association for its support of the new commerce school and for its interest in education as revealed by its scholarships. He said the new commerce school will offer valuable assistance to business, especially smaller businesses, and that instruction In banking is rapidly being developed.

Holt said that the recognition of young men and women of ability, and extending assistance to them to obtain an education, is of first importance in any educational program. Scholarships, he said, have wide Implications in the future of the state and country. He scored regimented economy which he added is now the tendency of mosl nations in post-war programs. Only America is the single and outstanding example of true democracy. "A former high government official stated that the great battle of the world today is not in far flung combat places, 'but in the minds of our boys and girls.

Scholarships will help to bring out the inherent qualities which is our future salvation." William Canary, Footville, reported on the association's proposed participation in a show for SIDNEY J. THRONSON and JOHN T. ROETHE announce' the formation of a partnership for the practice of Law under the firm name of THRONSON and ROETHE with Offices at 29 W. Milwaukee St. Janesville, Wis.

Tobacco Exchange Bank Bldg. Edgerton, Wis. photos HOME every train arriving in Janesville from Chicago seems to carry members of the 192nd Tank battalion returning to their homes after an absence of five years. Four of the men who were liberated from prison camps in Japan are shown in these photos. Top Sgt.

Forrest Knox is shown with his mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Ross Knox, 2029 Kivei-side Drive, Beloit. They are awaiting the arrival here of his brother, Lt. Henry Knox, who is believed now on his way to the middle west from California.

Center Cpl. Lloyd Richler, extreme right, who arrived home' Thursday afternoon with Sgt. Knox, tells some of his experiences to his brother. Pvt. Henry C.

Peterson, Edgerton. left, who Is home from Ft. Bragg, N. and his sister, Mrs. Millard Ellis.

502 Linn street. Below Sgt. Wesley Elmer, left, and Sgt. Philip Parish were found by the Gazette photographer in tiie postoffice where Sgt. Elmer had gone Friday morning in search of Information about hii relatives.

A telephone call to a brother-in-law, Bernard Stibbe, lit Emerald Grove provided the information, and a ride to Beloit, where his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Elmer, had moved from E. Eastern avenue here. Sgt.

Parish was reunited with his parents in the Arthur Parish home here Thursday evening after he and Sgt. Elmer had traveled from California by automobile almost without sleep. $20 Tax (Continued from Page 1) cause of lower bond interest requirements in 1946. All other items in the budget remain the same for the coming year, County Tmx $113,200 The total budget requirements for 1945 were $972,127, while the amount requested for 1946 is $1,051,226. This represents an increase of $79,099.

However, due to a revision in estimated receipts for the 'coming year, the net amount to be placed in the tax roll is $463,206, a decrease of from the 1945 levy. Preliminary budget figures for Rock county indicate an increase of $147,000 of which Janesville will be assessed approximately $37,300 more or about $183,200 as compared to $145,924 a year ago. It is pointed out that a substantial reduction in the county levy two years ago made it possible to reduce the Janesville.tax rate from $21 to $19, but because of the expected county increase this year, the $20 rate is proposed. The Janesville tax rate was lowered to $22 in 1927, to $20 in W31 and to $18 jn 1932. In 1933 it increased SI and was increased to $21 in 1935 to remain there until the reduction to $19 for 1943 and 1944 Holstein breeders to be held in the future and recommended the appointment of Scott Hake, Janesville, as chairman.

The women's division of the Campaign Army will start its lousc-to-house canvass ot Hie resi- lenlial ot Janesville to sell Victory Loan bonds on Monday, Nov. 12. Their portion ot the drive will continue through Nov. 30. Plans for the division's participation in the campaign to sell "iOO worth ot bonds in Janesville between Oct.

29 and Dec. 31 were made at a meeting ot lieutenant colone-s and majors in the high school Friday with Kenneth Bick, acting city chairman; Mrs. A. C. Hough, who will be in cliargc of the women's division in the drive; and Mrs.

M. A. Bircnhollz, who directed the Campaign Army participation in the last drives but, with staff of the Campaign Army, now preparing for the Community Chest-War Loan campaign here in January. The women's division is expected to play an even greater part in the Victory Loan drive than it did in the pas't when it solicited hundreds of thoysands of dollars worth of purchases. This is due to the fact that, with reconversion in progress in this city, many of the factory workers who would ordinarily buy bonds through the payroll deduction plan at the plants will now make, their purchases at home.

The block workers have continued their beneficial work through the three and'a half years of war, selling bonds during the seven Wai- Loan drives and working on many other campaigns. This is the last bond drive in which they will be asked to participate and, in the future, they will make solicitations on only one drive a year, the Community Chest-War Fund campaign. Kick-off for the women's division drive of the residential section will be a WCLO radio program Nov. 12 in which heroes of World Wars 1 and II will be honored. Majors and lieutenant colonels will receive their supplies for their workers at a ceremony Monday, Nov.

5, in the Janesville high school when awards will be presented to volunteers of Janesville who have devoted 500 hours or more to volunteer work. Honor ribbons will be distributed to the workers. Mrs. Jol'n Keck, Watertown, who has created great enthusiasm for the purchase of bonds through talks she has given all over the country, will be the speaker at the ceremony to which the public, particularly servicemen, are invited. The Janesville Federation of Women will operate a bond and stamp booth in the Kresge 10-2jc store througout November and December.

Tank Co. Men Arrive on Anniversary of Sailing lor Bataan Two more members of the 192nd Tank battalion are due to make Iheir first appearance in Janesville almost five years Saturday afternoon when they will come home on a pass from Mayo General hospital, Galesburg, 111., where they have been patients since the first part of this week. They are Joseph O'Connell, Janesville, and John Wood, Whitewater. When O'Connell learned Friday night that he and Wood could leave the hospital at 7 a. m.

Saturday, he telephoned his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William O'Connell, route 2, who left home at 1 a. m. in order to be there the minute he could leave.

O'Connell's younger brother, David, accompanied them. The two men will arrive in Janesville on the fourth anniversary of the date of sailing for the Philippines in 1941. Approximately 40 children of Tank Company Auxiliary members and Boy Scouts were on the streets Saturday morning selling tags in memory of the day. Proceeds from the sale will be used to erect a memorial. Working at headquarters in the Milner hotel were Mmes.

Helen Wallisch, Walter Write, Clara Tubbs, Ruhel Madison, Ethel Ryder and J. W. Brackin. (Continued from Page 1) cal corollary- It may be a corollary we dislike intensely, but it still is logical. Every great power has its zone of influence, if you stop and check up.

So we don't have to go to war over zones of influence as thus far constituted. That doesn't mean that we have to take any rough stuff lying down. As Bishop Oxnam says, we don't have to use adjustments in practical affairs mean compromise." And as Erien remarks, "We need cool, calm and understanding leadership." There are more ways of dealing with over-ambition than by a gun. It is with no feeling of undue optimism that your columnist repeats his theme song: "War is not inevitable." However, we have grim months witness British CHOOSE YOUR MEMORIAL From Our Large Display! See the Marker or Monument You Are Purchasing. 'The Home of Cemetery Memorials" JOIES GRAMKE GRAMKE MONUMENT WORKS 1620 N.

WashiBgtoD St. Opposite Cemetery Phone ROBERT CUNNINGHAM MEAD J. Cunningham who, as city'chair- man, has led Janesville through six of the seven War Loan drives with outstanding success, will again serve as chairman for the Victory Loan campaign for $1,102,500 in individual purchases which opens Monday throughout the nation. Because of his illness it will be in an honorary capacity for this, the final drive, how-' eyer, and Kenneth Bick will be the acting chairman. Mr.

Bick and Leo J. Ford are co-chairmen. During the six drives, Mr. Cunningham has devoted hundreds of hours to planning the campaigns, assisting in promoting sales through talks and special events and all the other courttless responsibilities which his job entailed He is improving at his home at 753 S. Bluff street but doctors have ordered him to curtail his activities for the present.

Harley Hackett. Whitewater City Employe, Drowns T. Hackett, 71, a well-known city employe here for the past 26 years, died by accidental drowning Friday. It Is believed that he fell into the pond in back of the Wisconsin Dairy Supply where he was disposing of leaves from the city streets. fie was a member of the itreet department.

The son of Abraham and Mary Hackett, he was born in Whitewater Aug. 14, 1874, attended city schools and was married to Myrtle Rockwell, Jan. 2,,1901. They lived on a farm near Whitewater until after he was struck by lightning in November, 1912. After that he was unable to continue working on the farm so they moved to Whitewater in the spring of 1913.

He was a member of the Methodist church. Survivors are his wife; four daughters, Mrs. Ethel Warner and Mrs Hazel Collins, Whitewater; Mrs. Evelyn Marek and Marion Hackett, Madison, and Mrs. Irene Menot, Granton; three sons, Glendon and Allyn.

Whitewater, and Carroll, Chicago; 11 grandchildren, the eldest of whom Is Sgt Rober Marek who is now in Germany; three listers, Mrs. Alice Fonda, Whitewater; Mrs. Katie Clark. He- brtn, 111., and Mrs Nellie; Gilbert, Elkhorn; and half-brotner, aia- ney Hackett, Whitewater. Funeral services will neia at 2 p.

m. Monday in the Skindings- rude and Lein funeral home, the Rev. Alfred Hoad, pastor of the Methodist church, officiating, with burial In the Hillside cemetery. Friends may call at the home Sunday afternoon and nJgnt. Rabbit Hunting Is Legal Nov.

3 Rabbit hunters will open the new season at noon on Nov. 3, with the season to continue until Jan. 15. The change from war time to standard time automatically moves shooting hours for the first day one hour earlier, Conservation Warden Royce Dallman said today. There appears to be a large number of rabbits in the country, he said.

Foreign Secretary Bevin's statement of commons yesterday that hunger and privation in Europe may bring "a further prolific human loss more devastating than the gun or atomic bomb." That suffering is likely to add to the political difficulties. But we shall come through all right if we don't lose our heads. Carl 'Stark Dies in Edgerton; Once Member of Council Edjerton Carl Herman Stark, 83, died at 8:45 a. m. Friday in Edgertjn Memorial hospital where he had been a patient for several months.

He was born Oct. 15, 1863, ermany and came to the- United States with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Stark, in 1876. In 1886 le was united in marriage to Au- usra Waldo, who preceded him death in 1926.

Mr. Stark was an active member of St. John's Lutheran church and served as an alderman for several ears. He was engaged in the to- business most of his life. He was an ardent lover of flowers and took great pride in his flower garden.

Mr. Stark celebrated his 83rd birthday in Memorial hospital, where many friends and relatives called on him during the day, and his room was decorated'with flowers and an angel food cake ornamented the table. He was known as "Grandpa" to all the nurses in the hospital. He is survived by two Mrs. August Strieker and Mrs.

Adolph Christiansen, both of Edgerton; one son, Hugo Stark, Janesville; one grandson, Floyd Strieker, serving with the armed forces In Germany, and one brother, Albert, Janesville. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p. m. Monday at the Ruben Tellefson funeral home and at 2 p. m.

at St. John's Lutheran church. Burial will be in Fassett cemetery, the Rev. A. M.

W. Wahl officiating. Report Collision at Austin School Cars driven by Paul Melvin Grangaard, 17. route 1, Brodhead, and William Clark, 220 S. Franklin street, Janesville, were Involved in a collision at 8:15 p.

m. Friday near the Austin" school, one and one-half -miles west of Janesville on Highway 11. Grangaard, who made the report to the sheriff's department here, said the struck Clark as the latter was making a left turn from a side road. Passengers wert unhurt. 91-Year-Old Rock County Farmer Dies Brodhead Calvin St.

John, 91, died at 11 a. m. Friday in Beloit Municipal hospital after a.week's illness. Born in Attica, Green county, May 14, 1854, he was the son ot Thomas and Olive Stewart St. John.

On July 4, 1889, lie was married to Martha Pashaw and the couple ret sided on a farm in Avon township. Rock county, all of their married life Mr. St. John did not leave the farm until going to the hospital a week ago. Surviving are a foster son, Ernest Wilson, Beloit, and several nieces and nephews.

His wife died in June, 1933. Mr. St. John was the oldest of a family of three sisters and one brother, who all preceded him in Funeral services will be hem. at 2pm.

Sunday at the Everson funeral home, Brodhead. The Rev. J. W. Zimmerman, retired pastor of the Evangelical church there, will officiate.

Burial will be in Greenwood cemetery. EFFBCTIVe 2 A. M. OCT. 28 Chicago and Northwestern Railroad coming from Chicago: Lv.

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1:10 p. m. instead of 12:10 p. m. (Saturday only); going to Chicago: Lv.

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Ben W. Smith. Registered Pharmacist (Formerly of the Smith Drug Co.) Will be in charge of our Prescription Dept. We welcome you to stop at "the friendly little store across from the hospital." Open Doily and Sundays. 7 a.

m. to 9 p. m..