The Idaho Statesman from Boise, Idaho • 3

Boise Idaho Saturday Morning February 5 1944 Page Three The Idaho Daily Statesman Death March Begins Dispensary Receives Sacramental Wines OP A Moves Against Watch Black Market County Receives Recall Petitions The Talk of Town JYein in Brief J)eath March Starts With Japanese Punishing Injured Colonel Dyess Relates How Officer Was Killed For Having Jap Money Stolen Car Sought Boise police are attempting to locate a 1937 model Ford V-8 sedan reported stolen from Mrs Rosalie Beyers of Boise The Idaho liquor dispensary has received 50 cases of sacramental wine and it will be distributed over the state for use by ministers who place their orders with state liquor stores Superintendent Leland Rawson said Friday Raws on said there had been a heavy demand for the wine which includes port tokay angelica an-gelican muscatel and sauterne PRISONERS BEGIN DEATH MARCH OF BATAAN ON APRIL 10 142 Ada County Clerk Otto Peterson said Friday 50 petitions containing a total of approximately 1000 signatures seeking the recall of Governor Bottolfsen have been filed in his office He said it would take his staff some time to check the names against registered voting lists for certification to the secretary of state At the same time Secretary of State George office reported a total of 15 recall petitions bearing 260 names have been filed by county clerks They came from these counties: Blaine 40 signa tures Camas 56 Gooding 147 and Idaho 18 The late Col I Dyeae an American officer who eacaped from a Japanese prison camp has told In previous articles of the surrender of the American forces on Bataan Today he begins the shocking details of ths Death March of Bataan Colonel Dyess died In an airplane accident last Dee 22 Use Statesman Classified! It pays The office of price administration Friday set ceiling prices of from 3850 to $17 for certain types of women's Swiss watches and from 310 to 31850 for watches of the same design District OPA Director Anderson said the ceilings were ordered to protect men who have been purchasing serious black market has in certain types of Swiss watches Anderson said jobbers have been the prime source of black market operations and inflated retail prices Many retailers have purchased their supply from peddlers without permanent places of business pre-war years the great bulk of imported watches came directly from Switzerland and was sold by Importers directly to retailers In the last 18 months many of these watches have been imported from South America by jobbers or retailers as well as by watch importers No Response Flight Officer Frank Miahaga said Friday it appeared he woud have' to start catching up on the work of a year and a half He explained that no response has come from his appeals for the return of a brief case containing records and official documents which he left in a taxicab The fight officer who said the missing papers represent the work of a year and a half can be reached by telephone at 5320-J or at extension 545 at Gowen Field Return from Trip Mr and Mrs Norris of Art and Gift shop have returned to Boise from an extended buying trip Finish Training Pvt David Williams son of Mrs Elmer Williams and Pvt George Reese son of Mr and Mrs George Reese have finished their basic training at Camp Barkley Texas Private Williams was sent from there to a surgical technician school at Fort Sam Houston Texas and Private Reese was sent to a dental technician school at Riley General hospital Springfield Mo Both were graduated from Boise high school last May Son Born Capt A Roberts who is with the Army in England waa informed by cable Friday of the birth of a son Bruce Laidlaw Roberts in Boise Friday morning Mrs Roberts is the former Miss Annabell Laidlaw daughter of Mr and Mrs James Laidlaw LOS CONCHINOS CLOSED From Jan 23rd to Feb 14 MRS FRENCH'S BEAUTY SHOP 1213 Harrison Phone 760 MONIAW South China SMILES rTOP THE START of the Death March of Bataan Is told in the legend on this map Lundy Promoted Word has been received in Boise of the promotion of John Lundy from a first lieutenant in the Army dental corps to captain Captain Lundy is the son of Mr and Mrs Lundy of Boise and the husband of Mrs Peggy Pierce Lundy He has been stationed a year in the Earnings for Your SAVINGS Father Dies Dave Dolenar has received word of the death of his father in Kansas City and has gone east to attend the services gings was completed Then the Jap guards began pulling some of the huskiest of our number out of line These were assembled into labor gangs to remain in the area I doubt that many of them survived the hail of steel funs later laid down on the eaches and foothills of Bataan his eyes only a sort of unseeing glare private a little squirt was going through the pockets All at once he stopped and sucked in his breath with a hissing sound He had found some Jap yen held these out ducking his head and sucking in his breath to SHEZSSufy Federal Savings AND LOAN ASSOCIATION Nine Two Three Idaho St Get 2 current dividends for your savings plus insurance backed by an instrumentality of the Government Remember the Judge 111 Judge Alfred Budge of the supreme court has been in the hospital for the last week with His condition has been re-orted as improved but will not be his office for several days ir Club to Meet The Boise Stamp club will meet Thursday at 8 at the Hotel Boise An auction of a Twentieth century mint box is to be the feature of the evening The public is invited In Boise Since 1868 attract notice The big Jap look- These were men who for months ed at the money Without a word I had faced American iron thrown he grabbed the captain by the at them by Jap guns shoulder and shoved him down to I Now it appeared they were to his knees He pulled the sword die under American iron thrown out of the scabbard and raised it into their midst by American guns high over his head holding it with As the remainder of us were both hands The private skipped marched off the field our places to one side were taken by other hundreds of prisoners who were to follow us on the Death March of Bataan East on National Highway We turned eastward on the national highway which crosses the southern tip of Bataan to Cab caben and Bataan air field then veers northward through Lamao Balanga and Orani From there it runs northeastward to San Fer- Head Chopped Off we could grasp what I was happening the black faced giant had swung his sword I remember how the sun flashed on it I There was a swish and a kind of I chopping thud like a cleaver going through beef head seemed to I jump off his shoulders It hit the Burglar Sought Boise police Friday were hunting a burglar who took about $30 in cash Thursday night from a service station at Tenth and Grove streets An unsuccessful attempt was made to open the safe investigators found Send Telegrams Telegrams were received here Friday from Richard and Franklin Smith sons of Mr and Mrs Franklin Smith of Boise Richard a student at the University of Idaho said he had been inducted through selective service and Franklin a private first class said he had completed an engineering course at Baylor university in Texas and would leave immediately to start a dental course at the University of Iowa Warning Voiced A Fredericks acting director-attorney for the rent control program in Ada and Elmore counties pointed out Friday that landlords still delinquent in registration of their properites on Feb 15 will be required to rebate to tenants all excess rents above the ceiling since Jan 1 1943 If properties are registered within the deadline no such rebates are required but rents are restored to the levels existing Jan 1 1943 Detective Named Harold Short Boise police patrolman Friday was appointed by Mayor Austin A Walker to the position of detective filling the vacancy created by the resignation of Clarence Rigney who has volunteered for the armed forces ground in front of him and went I nando the rail junction and bank-oiling crazily from side to side ing town in Pampanga province between the lines of prisoners I Ordinarily the trip from Marl "The body fell forward I have Veles to Cabcaben field is a beau-seen wounds but never such a I tiful one with the grandeur of high gush of blood as this The heart I greenclad mountains on the north continued to pump for a few sec-1 and a view of the sea on the right onds and at each beat there was The white of the road contrasts another great spurt of blood The I pleasantly with the deep green of white dust around our feet was I the tropical growth on either side urned into crimson mud I saw But on this day there was no hat the hands were opening and beauty Coming toward us were closing spasmodically Then 1 1 seemingly interminable columns of ooked away I Jap infantry truck trains and I looked again the big horse-drawn artillery all moving Jap had put up his sword and was into Bataan for a concentrated as-strolling away The runt who had sault on Corregidor They stirred the yen waa putting them I up clouds of blinding dust in into his pocket He helped him-1 which all shape and form were self to the dead posses-1 lost Throw Off All Restraint This was the first murder Snatched Out of Line Every few yards Jap noncoms IN BONBON PASTELS By LT COL DYESS L'alted States Army Air Forces As Told to Charles Leavelle Copyright: 1944: by the Chicago Tribune North of the narrow flying fielc stood Mount Bataan its jagged crater rising 4600 feet above us into the clear cool sky From these upper reaches came the drone o' Jap dive bombers circling endlessly To the south smoke still was rising from the rubble which a few dys before had been the little faport town of Mariveles Three miles away across the blue green waters the rocky eminence of Corregidor stood unconquered still guarding the sea approaches to Manila that had fallen Grayish smoke puffs blossomed along the sides and pinnacles the Rock as high Jap uombers dropped their jds Japs Wheel Up Artillery The dust that enveloped Marive les field was being stirred up by the wheels of trucks and gun carriages Jap artillery was preparing to open fire on Corregidor from the protection of sunken rice paddies and nearby ridges From the pall of smoke and dust new prisoners American and Filipino soldiers emerged in lines and groups to join those of us already there awaiting the pleasure of the imperial Japanese army The first thing I heard after our arrival was an urgent whisper in which came to us from all sides rid of your Jap stuff Jap stuff?" we whis pered back money souvenirs Get rid of We did so without delay and just in time Jap noncommissioned officers and 3-star privates were moving amqng us ordering that packs be opened and apread out They searched our persons then went through the other stuff confiscating personal articles now and then Shoved Cuffed and Boxed I noticed that the Japs who up to now had treated us with an air of cool suspicion were beginning to get rough I saw men shoved cuffed and boxed This angered and mystified us It was uncalled for We were not resisting A few ranks away Jap jumped up from a pack he had been inspecting In his hand was a small shaving mirror he asked the owner The glass was stamped: in The soldier nodded The Jp stepped back then lunged living his rifle butt into the face he yelled and lunged again The Yank went down The raging Jap stood over him driving crushing blows to the face until the prisoner lay insensible A little way off a Jap was mashing his fists into the face of tother American soldier who nt to his knees and received a thudding kick in the groin He too It seemed had been caught with some Japanese trifle Beyond Understanding We were shocked This treatment of war prisoners was beyond our understanding I still get It even after some one explained to me that the Japs assumed the contraband articles had been taken from the bodies of their dead I was totally unprepared for the appalling deed that came next I was too far off to witness It personally but I saw the victim afterward We had known him A comrade who had stood close by told me later in shocking detail what had taken place The victim an air force captain was being searched by a 3-star private Standing by was a Jap commissioned officer hand on sword hilt These men were nothing like the toothy bespectacled runts whose photos are familiar to most newspaper readers They were cruel of face atalwart and tall Sort of Unseeing officer looked like a giant beside the Jap said my informant who must he nameless because he still is a prisoner of war big face was as black as mahogany He seem to be paying much attention There was no expression in SWEET AS CANDYJ materialized like gargoyles from threw off all restraint They beat and slug- 411 our PersonaI The Japs made no move to feed all watches fountain pens money Few of ua had anything and toilet articles Now as never to eat aince the morninff ofApril )ef ore I wanted to kill Japs for I Many had tasted no food in four ure a I days We had a little tepid water The thing that almost drove me our canteens but nothing else crazy was the certainty that the1 officer who had just been murdered have taken those ren from a dead Jap He had been charge of an observation post 'ar behind the lines I doubt be ever had seen a dead Jap The ditches on either side of the road were filled with overturned and wrecked American Army trucks fire gutted tanks and artillery our forces had rendered unusable At intervals we saw mounds of captured food bearing Improves Bill Mulvania 25 Kuna whose right foot was amputated after he caught it in a hay chopper was reported slightly improved and in condition Friday at St Alphonsus hospital Leaves Hospital Walter Peterson vice president and trust officer of the Idaho First National bank recovering from a recent) heart ailment went home Friday from St Alphonsus hospital Skiers Ask Rides The Bogus) Basin Ski club Friday reminded! skiers with cars to register at the chamber of commerce office in order to provide transportation for those without cars on trips today and Sunday to the ski area 18 miles from here Those without) cars will contact the chamber and make arrangements direct with those who register their vehicles Gradually I got control of my- familiar trademarks These had self By going berserk now I would fallen almost undamaged into Jap only lose my own life without I hands lope of ever helping to even the I As we marched along I rounded I up the 110 officers and men of the 500 Herded on Landing Strip 21st Pursuit I know yet The score Just now was far from I what the score was but I felt we being in our favor This was the I WOuld be in a better position to morning of April 10 1942 Bataan help one another and keep lad fallen 24 hours before The I morale if we were together 180 officers and men who remain-1 Bumor Factory Begins We walked far when the rumor factory opened up In a few ed of the 21st Pursuit squadron were assembled with about 500 American and sol Slim-hipped smooth-fitting slacks in your favorite Strutter Cloth the spun rayon that holds a press and a crease like woof Adjustable waistband handy side pockets Sizes 10 to 20 in aqua rust beige brown red green navy and black $595 other Filipino minutes it was in mass production iers on the landing strip Amer- oorts force ad built by widening road immediately Mariveles at the southern tip The American and Filipino soldiers with whom I was assembled the air field that first morn-ng were of all grades and ranks north of peninsulas I CC San Fernan(j0 and entrain for a distant concentration camp Trucks were waiting just ahead to pick us up We doubted the last rumor but hoped it was true The sun was nearing its zenith They were dirty ragged unshaven and fjje penetrating heat was rap-and exhausted Many were half idiy taking the strength out of us starved I To make matters worse the road Swirling chalky dust had now wag rising in a sharp zigzag whitened sweat-soaked beards ad- At the top of the hiI1 lay ftttfe ding grotesquerie to the scene lt Baguio and the blackened ruins of would not have been hard to be- hospital No 1 which had been ieve these were tottering veter-1 bombed heavily a couple of days ans of 1898 returned to the bat- egrounds of their youth We stood for more than an hour in the scalding heat while the search with its beatings and slug- bombed heavily before Among the charred debris sick and wounded American soldiers were walking dazedly about There was no place for them to go Colors good enough to eat in skirts with "oomph" in every line! 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One Whole Week STARTING Wed March 1 Belirap 8 Davla Their only clothes were hospital pajama suits and kimonos Here and there a man was stumping about on one leg and a crutch Some had lost one or both arms All were in need of fresh dressings And all obviously were suffering from the shock of the bombing Wounded Forced to March They looked wonderingly at the column of prisoners When the Jap officers saw them these shattered Americans were rounded up and shoved into the marching line All of them tried to walk but only a few were able to keep it up Those who fell were kicked aside by the Japs The Japs forbade us to help these men Those who tried it were kicked slugged or jabbed with bayonet points by the guards who stalked with us in twos and threes For more than a mile these bomb-shocked cripples stumbled along with us Their shoulders were bent and the sweat streamed from their faces I can never forget the hopelessness in their eyes Eventually their strength ebbed and they began falling back through the marching ranks 1 1 know what became of them (Continued Tomorrow) Hotfs enough to wantMber'buaineM Men enough to appreciate it Mummm! what colors and what wonderful things they do for your complexion Like our aqua for instance or baby blue that marvelous chartreuse Chocolate brown too to team up with powder blue skirts All wool in those nice nubby knits with long push-up sleeves $595 Fancy Milk Fed A aliB VEAL ROASTS 29' 7 Points Rules on Marriages 1943 pre-marital blood test law does not invalidate common law marriages in Idaho Atty Gen Bert Miller said I I Friday in an opinion for Carl Beck superintendent of the Fort Hall Indian reservation The attorney general pointed out the 1943 law does not forbid marriages without a license and does I not forbid marriages without health certificates that it merely forbids a county auditor from is- suing a marriage license without a certificate of health Oysters Fresh Western Point Free Pint Salt Pork Light Weight Bellies 2 Pts Pound sporlsvcear second floor Young Fancy Fine for Fricasse LB HENS RADIO SERVICE Phone 1600 Eighth Main IFmiK'S You will be surprised at the variety of meat which Is point free We have all types of poultry The fresh fish Includes Halibut Salmon Black Cod Red Snapper Smoked Finnan Haddie Fresh Smelts Oysters Salt and Smoked Fish DIES AT SPOKANE SPOKANE (IP) Mrs Agnesi Nelson of Clayton Idaho formerly of Wallace died here at the age of 55 Mrs Nelson was the wife of Alfred Nelson foreman of the 123 So 9th.