Lubbock Avalanche-Journal from Lubbock, Texas • Page 21

Wichita Falls Sets Gala Plans For'Lost Battalion'Celebration WICHITA FALLS, Oct. zens of this Northwest Texas metropolis, to a man, will throw open their doors and their hearts on October 28 and 29 to visitors from throughout the nation when survivors of the Texas 131st Field Artillery's famed Lost Battalion" gather for a homecoming which, during more than three years in Jap prison camps, seemt'd bej'ond their fondest dreams. Joining in the homecoming will be families (from almost a hundred Texas town) of Lost. Battalion heroes who will never return. Together with the families of all servicemen in this area who gave their lives for their country, the visitors will gather at a solemn service in Wichita Falls' Memorial Auditorium on Sunday night, October 23, to pay tribute to their valorous dead.

Salute To Other Services The two-day program, which promises to be the biggest thing that has happened here since the Burkburnett boom days, also will be a salute of appreciation to all servicemen and women, both living and dead, from northwest Texas and southwestern Oklahoma. Patriotic prelude to the homecoming itself on Monday, October 29, will be the Wichita County Victory Bond drive. To give tangible pro'of of this appreciation, County Chairman Everett McCullough promised plans to top the victory loan quota in a five-hour whirlwind bond drive from 7 a. m. to 12 noon on that date.

Gov. Coke Stevenson this week proclaimed October 29 as Lost Battalion day in honor of this hardy military organization, members of which withstood beatings, starvation, and other tortuous treatment in Japanese prison camps for more than forty months. The Governor also designated Wichita Falls as the official place where all Texas will welcome home the returning heroes. From eighty-eight communities in Texas, survivors among the 624 Texas National Guardsmen of the 131st Field Artillery who went to Java, their families, and families of those who gave their lives have been invited to attend the homecoming. Invitations also have been extended to the mayors and citizenry of the sixty-three corporate towns where Lost Battalion soldiers live.

The list of places where large groups of them Wichita Falls, 62; Jacksboro, 162; Abilene, 82; Decatur, 46; Lubbock, 26; Amarillo, 25; and Plainview, 22. Mayor L. E. Newton, of Rotan, where live seven soldiers liberated from Japanese prison stockades in the Philippines, contacted chairmen of the Wichita Falls event Friday to ask that a citizens and their returned heroes participate. The names of the seven soldiers will be added to the list of those being paid tribute.

Houston Survivors To Join Also expected to join their comrades with whom they endured the filth and torment of Jap internment are the survivors of the first USS Houston, Navy cruiser sunk early in the war. These Navy men will take part in a Navy day celebration in Houston on October 27, and plans are being made to have them fly here the reunion after they complete their activities in the Texas city. High ranking government officials, including President Truman, members of Congress, and representatives of all branches of the armed services have been invited to come to Wichita Falls by Mayor W. B. Hamilton.

A steady stream of acceptances was being received Saturday at the headquarters for the celebration. Opening October 28 with the services for all those lost in the war, seats will he reserved in Wichita Falls' mammoth Memorial Auditorium for Gold Star wives and mothers and other kin of the honored dead. Choirs of nearby will be asked to join with choirs of Wichita Falls in providing a great for the service. At least jne chaplain liberated from a Jap prison camp will be on the memorial program. News Briefs Sock and Builcin, dramatic club at Texas Tech, officers for 1945-46 elected recently are Mary Findley of Hale Center, president; Eddie Aryain of Seminole, vice- president; Imogens Bagwell of Claude, secretary-treasurer; Bea Green of Lubbock, reporter; and Dell McComb of Big Spring, sergeant-at-arms.

Plans for ilde year's work of the Fine Arts group of the American Association of University Women Texas Tech will be made at first fall meeting, scheduled 7:30 Tuesday at the home ot Mrs. Lattimore Ewing, 2509 Twenty- fifth. Concrete Reinforced witn tverymmg Yank POW Did Great Job In Jap War Plant In Manchuria Officers Alphi Psi elected Omega, recently for national dra- matie fraternity at Texas Tech, were Jodie Wofford of Plainview. president; Maxine Hennersdorf-of Lubbock, vice president; and Louiss Ince of Spur, secretary- treasurer. A.

B. Davis, manager of the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce, and M. D. Fanning, assistant manager, who have been in South Dakota on a pheasant hunting trip, are expected to return to the city Monday. A.

C. Jackson, manager of the Lubbock Independent School district, is in Austin on school busi- faculty members have contributed ness. Students and at Texas Tech $650 toward the goal of for the Lubbock County National War according to Dr. A. J.

Bahm, associate professor of philosophy and sociology, who is directing the campus drive. No separate goal was set for Tech anc their contributions are added to the county fund. Sgt. Rex Jackson, former principal of the Lorenzo schools, has been transferred from Long Beach, to Fort Dix, N. J.

He was formerly stationed at Lubbock Army Air field and later at Bryan. He is a graduate of Texas Tech and has been in educational work in the Army. Formation of an auxiliary of American War Dads here will be discussed in a regular meeting of the Lubbock chapter of AVar Dads in the American Legion home, Tuesday nigM at 8 o'clock, it was announced Saturday. All war dads are requested to bring their wives to the meeting, F. W.

Gorce, secretary, said. IN CONTEST Sawyer on her horse, Belin, who will be featured in a cutting horse contest in the Leveuand Rodeo arena this afternoon si 2:30 o'clock. Cutting Horse Contest Is Scheduled Today In leveSiand Arena LEVELLAND, Oct. 6 (Special) Fern Sawyer of Cross Roads, N. nationally known rodeo contestant will meet Tom Standefer oi Bledsoe, equally known, in a cutting horse contest Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the Levelland Rodeo sirena.

Both contestants will cut ten head of cattle, with U. D. Sawyer, By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press StsH Writer WASHINGTON. Oct.

6 What I have is a head cold and a story can prisoners Japan such as nobody ever heard before. I think you're going to bf; as happy to resd it as I arn proud to write it. Cold and story came from Anthony Caducini of Philadelphia, spent three r.r.d a yerrs as a slave ior the Japanese in Manchuria. Tony was my seat mate on ths Globster during its flight from Muiila to San Frsiicifco. Between sneezes and time ou: for swigs of coiiee ami chaws on aerial choco- bars Tony me how he and a couple of hundred other Americans spsnt three and a half years in a Manchurian machine shop, which to turn into a nightmare for their cantors.

Factories Covered Acres Let's let Tony tell the story: "It was about the biggest machine shop I ever saw with the equipment in factories covering acres," he said. "All of us prisoners were expert machinists, or -S' we'd told the Japs, and they had to take pretty good care of us 01 their machinery wouldn't work. "The first thing they said ior us to do was build a reinforcec concret-L' foundation for a giant planing machine, which must have really fine foundation. poured in the cement and we reinforced it with typewriters, cuspidors, coat racks, filing cabinets (with the papers still in 'em), wheelbarrows, electric light fixtures, a couple of wash basins, a motorcycle, some new olsctric motors, clocks, 150 the manager's new overcoat and probably some other stuff I overlooked. "Elegant Foundation" "Every night we'd smooth the concrete down; next morning we'd start a new layer, reinforcing it with everything loose in that whole factory.

It certainly was an iour.t'.axion. "The Japs appreciated it, and while they searched our quarters for the missing stuff they never blamed us. So cams the ticklish job oi mounting the planing machine. "It was a whopper and we had to move it by winches and overhead carefully. Yeiy carefully.

The slightest bump and that beautiful piece of machinery would be ruined. Managed Tci It "Somehow we to drop it. Clumsy, I the Japs we sure were sorry, but that accidents would happen. We prom- machine '-V2 up for it could go to work. On the day peace was declared they still were working on it.

were hundreds of-other machine tools in operation. The Japs didn't seem much about "ein and we dici our best to help 'em out. I mean when a machine ret we'd shut her down, take out a piece, show the how crooked or bent or whatever it was and throw it Then we'd replace it with a piece out cf another machine. Mosi Machines Knocked Out "It wasn't long before hardly a machine in the place wr-uld work. This made us pretty unhappy, as you imagine, and we spent a great deal of time buildins new pieces to replace the missing These new pieces always seemed to break, somehow, and shoot chunks of metal into the gears.

"So the war ended and the Jap interpreter called us together to hear "a final speech. He said, I want to complement you on the finest job of sabotage the history of this We told MKVOCX, VFW Urges Nation To Keep Atomic Control CHICAGO, Oct. I CJ.P The Veterans of Foreign Wars recom- today that information on atomic power should be controlled exclusively by the United States. Delegates to the VFW conven-j tion adopted resolution endors-j ing U. S.

in an in-' ternational association of nations but opposing the transfer of atomic power to other nations. The veterans dodged action on trie admission of WACs and WAYEs to membership the VFW but passed without discussion resolutions on peacetime compulsory military training, and bonuses for veterans of World War II. SttnSay, Oct. In Grecian dram-i queens purple and white; trther were allowed to wear only saffron or frog green. -Buy A Bond TODAY' him it was a pleasure." Tony sneezed a couple more times, so did and we both went back to sleep.

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