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THE RECORD-AMERICAN MAHANOY CITY PENNA SATURDAY MARCH 26 1932 Bell Phone 1-1 Page Six PRISONER IN Excerpts from the Diary of Corp Arthur Jenkins of Miami Florida formerly of Mahanoy City late of the 110th Inf A captured in the Second battle of the Marne and held a prisoner by the Germans for a month after the signing of the Armistice Take Advantage Of These SATURDAY SPECIALS Big Values in Hosiery Underwear Shirts Blouses Ties etc etc NOTE From that fateful day In July on the Marne battle front which was to make his capture by the Prussians and incarceration In three German prisons for a period of five months until the day of his discharge from the 110th Infantry A Corp Arthur Jenkins faithfully recorded his dally impressing observations and experiences In a diary which he has kindly loaned to the Record-American for publication the first Installment appearing today Not only Is this a timely document but one which teems with interest for Corp Jenkins is a keen observer and in reporting incidents of his enforced residence in Germany treats most entertainingly of his hazardous experiences and prison hardships Grand Opening 1932 Dance Season Easter Monday Presenting the Nationally Famous Doc Pevton and his celebrated WGY Radio Band Peyton went over so last summer at Lakewood 'that the daneers talked about him long after he twas gone Biggest band in region for Easter! 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Kay Kyser Tal Henry Ace Brigade MIKE KRAVETZ CELEBRATES AUTOMOBILE RECOVERED The Dodge sedan property of William Boris of 217 West Maple Street which was stolen from town about one Friday morning was recovered near Girardville late yesterday according to advices received at the local police headquarters The car had been abandoned by the thieves following a minor mishap It was towed to town Michael Kravetz well-known West Pine Street businessman is celebrating the twenty-second anniversary of his arrival from Europe today Mr Kravetz who is a native of Czecho-Slovakia located in Sharon following his arrival but in 1914 located in town where he has resided since Friends of are joining in the celebration 49c Ladies and Misses Rayon Silk i A Mesh Hose -tv' $100 val Full Fashioned A Qn Silk Hose 59c Ladies Rayon Silk Fashioned QQn Hose $125 Ladies Full Fashioned Pure Silk HHp Chiffon Hose (3 pr $200) 6 6 $125 Ladies Full Fashioned Service wt UHo Silk Hose (3 pr $200) 19c Mercerized Lisle 1 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Shirts On -f A QKf QQ 00 (Cl AO 2 for OKp OKc QKn A 1 A OKc QCk SELLS SLEIGH FOR 50 CjBALITYPWNTlNQ SerVlsS A sleigh of the old design which in the hey day of the good old times was worth $50 or more brought 50 cents at public sale at the property of Oscar Schleig in Shamokin saying the event had not happened in his barracks Knowing that none of our men were guilty we denied the charge and as a result both the English and Americans were paraded on the large parade ground (part of which was used by the Frogs as a tennis court) The Adjutant soon arrived and after telling us what had happened informed us that we were to be punished half an hour in the morning and the same length of time in the evening The punishment assigned was that the English were to march past their sergeant major and salute him and that we should march past our sergeants and salute them The sergeant major very wisely 'and probably through fear of his men and our sergeants refused to do this giving as a reason for their refusal the fact that the men would not stand for anything like that As a substitute a far worse punishment was assigned namely that the adjutant directed that the English should march past and salute a Jerry private known to all American prisoners as and while we saluted the little four-eyed private whom I have mentioned as having inquired into my financial affairs the day I arrived from the We passed these two men singly in twos in fours and lastly in squads several times some of the salutes hendered these two dumb Dutchmen would have done credit to any Dutch comedian while the pet names and remarks hurled at them in a far from quiet tone of voice were anything but complimentary This as he supposed slick trick increased our bitterness toward the sergeant major One (I believe Sunday evening) he was in the Australian barracks making himself obnoxious to them They were gathered around him i- a circle Suddenly one reached over his shoulder and erected a large shanty on his eye There were only two blows struck the Australian struck him and he struck the floor He jumped up and never stopping to inquire as to what or who had hit him from the building The shanty was a a great credit to the builder thereof The sergeant major on being asked as to he got that explained his he got that explained his improved appearance by saying that a mosquito had stung him the evening before He gave that building as well as the Australians a wide berth thereafter We also had a miserable cotorie of men in our barracks and I am sorry to say they were or claimed to be Americans Corporal Barnes and his brother of the 102nd Infantry a (Jew that hailed from the West Side New York City) an Italian named Sulla of the 102d Infantry besides about 28 others making thirty-two out of a detail of thirty-five attached there permanently for work at the aviation station One of the Barnes brothers the corporal while the Perlmutter by name (I do not know whether he is any relation to the firm of Perlmutter and Potash or not) was an interpreter a fawning cringing servile creature who was deathly afraid of the Jerries but not afraid in company with his confederates to rob us his unfortunate fellow prisoners of food (in the very small inadequate issue of bread and French Red Cross rations) continually and to make life as miserable as possible for us They were loaded down with good food tobacco and cigarettes but aside from about three none offered us a crumb a bit of smoking tobacco nor a cigarette butt One man from Kansas Private Presser a prince of a man gave freely of his store (Continued on Monday) CURTAINS 88c FOR SATURDAY Beautiful Extra Quality Scrim in Cottage Styles 5-piece Ruffles Priscilla and Plain Tailored Styles All Colors $150 values (Continued from yesterday) I have already stated that we had here some French Africans as well as two Chinese prisoners of war the latter probably captured from some labor battalion The majority of the English were a distressed looking lot of human beings many of them had been severely wounded most of them were emaciated and their clothing hung from them as though carelessly hung on hooks They all showed the effects of their confinement combined with poor food worry etc The men who had been wounded (strange to say) aside from some others were almost immaculate in person and cloth ing no matter how ragged or patched their garments were Many of those who had not received a scratch were dirty and filthy in the extreme and made no endeavor to be neat and clean either in person or clothing Captain Ryan (now Major Ryan) British Army bayonet instructor at Camp Hancock Georgia and his assistant an English sergeant major were continually boasting of the spick and span appearance of His (King George) troops at all times under all conditions I wish he could have seen some of these men Both Captain Ryan and the sergeant major also told us of their many trips the and through No Land during which in their many bayonet charges they killed so many men the sergeant major claiming that he single-handed had killed forty men in these expeditions I am mistaken it was Captain Ryan himself who had killed the forty men while his assistant also had a fine lot of which he dispensed quite lavishly at all times It now develops that neither of these men were ever near the front lines that the major had always been a bayonet instructor and the sergeant major a man unfit for active service verily if was music these two men would have had band beaten to a frazzle I have seen at Blequin France some immaculate Englishmen some of the Northumberland Fusileers (remnants of the almost annihilated 34th or Checkerboard Division) the Black Watch 1st Scottish Rifles and the Tvnside Scottish these men were Tynside Scottish these men were both men and soldiers as were these poor forlorn prisoners of war who had probably lost all heart The English prisoners of war here had a good custom and one that I had not seen in vogue amongst the prisoners of other nationalities Jost of them were in receipt of regular weekly packages from home which their loved ones in most cases at a great sacrifice to themselves sent them every week All of them were not fortunate enough to have loved ones to send them these packages and the others upon the arrival of their packages lay aside an article of food all of these contributions would be laid in a pile then lots were drawn for the articles two men to a tin of or whatever the package might contain This custom did not prevail amongst the others unless it was the Australians and French although I greatly doubt if it did among the latter (I learned that the Austrians did have the same custom a very commendable one) The other prisoners to my knowledge received nothing from any charitable organization the Italians especially Two of the latter used to shave us and were as delighted (if not more so) to receive a couple of biscuits as pay as we were to get shaved The Italians were a nice clean set of men as clean and neat in their person and attire as the one class of French whom I have described but devoid of the sickening femininity of the latter The Australians were fine fellows happy go lucky smiling joking and singing and dancing almost continually and without a single exception as neat and clean as a new pin They bitterly despised the English We did not become intimate with the other prisoners The English sergeant major who was in charge of the English at this camp was a contemptible little cur I believe he belonged to the West Yorkers or York Regiment Instead of making things easier for his own unfortunate comrades he toadied to the Jerries and made life as miserable as possible for them The English Australians and Americans hated him cordially and many were the threats as to what would happen to him upon their return to Merrie England made against him The Australians also uttered many threats Samples of his meanness follow: Whenever the English those who remained in the barracks all day after the daily working detail had departed were ordered out on another working detail he would try to it on our by including us in the order involving his men alone He astripped up in this move and shown up as a dirty little contemptible liar much to his discomfiture Another time when a German officer entered an English barracks some of the men who were lying down did not leave their bunks nor make any effort to come to and remove their head dress Jerry reported this and upon being taken to task he lied like an English gentleman and laid the blame on us CENTS THREE GOVERNORS SEE A $5000000 VESSEL Guests of honor at the Christening of the new Grace liner Santa Rosa at Kearney were left to right: Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania A Harry Moore of New Jersey and Joseph Ely of Massachusetts President Hoover sent the liner down the ways by pressing an electric button at his desk in Washington Lh res IOOO is the first prize 500 the second prize 200 the third 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