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To OnCGOZi STATESMAN. Salem. Oregon, Sunday Morning, September 13. ItlZ ajuvs disappear as sentence Ut Death is Pronounced on Do olittle Flyers;: ust About Give Up All Hope of Life KestJ Editor's Notet The snack JesUce f a Japantae eooxt-aurtlal as experienced by the eaBtarad rwwiiitti. Jacob Do Shesar ef Salem, k described la the foUewtnc. eixbta chapter ef their story ef 41 month la jp hands. Br Capt. nert I R1U and M. Set. Jaeeb De Shaaer -'": ' ' Chapter s (Wrtttoa excluatvol? tor latenuUomal New Special Sorvtoe) (World copyright and all righto roaenrod) 1-- Torture isn't limited to physical punishment Solitary confinment In a filthy little cell can be more horrible than even the moit fiendish physical torments, i , We found that out after our first court-martial. Aug. 29, 1M2. We were placed in solitary in the civic center prison In ShanahaL and we had no idea of what the Japs had in store for us. We had nothing to read, no one to talk to, nothing to write with. Our cells were narrow cubicles with an open hole for a toilet in one corner. Once a day we were allowed to exercise for a half hour, but we weren't in physical condition to da much. We had been systematic ally starved for 70 days while we on vet? ia. we weren't permitted to wash ourselves that morning, and that made us suspicious. An interpreter had told us that when prisoners were to be exe cuted they were first made to dig tneir own- graves were in Shanghai's bridge house prison, before our transfer to the ivic center.1 - We had our second court-martial ',"' Extension Heads Hold Meetinqr Officers from 19 Marion coun ty home extension units mat Fri day in the auditorium of the Portland Gas and Coke company. The purpose of this meeting was to install unit officers and new county committee members, give meetings and make plans for the coming year. Approximately 60 were present. The Marion count t - home extension committee mem bers were hostesses and install ed officers. -; . Mrs. Floyd Fox, president of the committee, presided. Mrs. Azalea Sager, state home dem onstration leader from Corvallls, was a guest During the morn ing session she led a group dis- i cussion for chairmen and vice chairmen and during the after noon gave instructions in con ducting a business meeting and In parliamentary procedure. Miss Marjorie Tye, Marion county home demonstration agent in stalled new members of the county committee and led a . group discussion for secretaries. Singing for the day was led by Mrs. Glenn BriedweU. 1 Miss Eleanor Trindle. new emergency assistant for Marlon county, was presented .to the group. Beta Siopiq-hiv To Meet Monclay Its chapter of Beta Sigma Phi, International educational soror ity, will meet Monday for the first semi-monthly business ses sion of the faU at S o'clock in the Cherrlan room of the cham ber of commerce. Miss Hazel ShuU, the new president will take over her duties from the retiring presi dent. Miss Hattie Bratzel. Cabinet officers are Miss Ethel I; Redden, vice president; ; Mrs. I Paul Nelson, treasurer; . Mrs. Leanerd Nesseth, recording sec- ' wrl M TX-. 1 : reiary, ana mi iwa vunucu, : corresponding secretary. Social affairs-wiU-be under tha direc tion of Mr F.' Alan Wright and publicity. Miss If yla Phillip. Mrs. J. A. Wiltsey" will con tinue as director. . ' Plans for expanding the chap ter's postwar charitable and so cial activities will be the main topic for discussion Monday and committees will be aniMMtncedUV- Parochial School . ' Opens Week Laty . SILVERTON Opening' of St, Paul's parochial sehooC which was postponed from September 17, will be Monday for the regular class assignments. Father John Walsh baa announced. Postpone ment was due to the seasonal work with which the-pup&a were as sisting. - i'f. not That morning w saw some fellow: walking : arounc with shovels and, spades, and, we wondered if our number had come up, , It was a gray, foggy day, about 9 o'clock that uuMiuu kjiuu Capt. H1U of! guards, dressed in their best uniforms and armed with rifles and sabers took us out of our cells one by one. . Planned to Make Break Though we were in separate cells and had no chance to talk to each other, we had all come .'. -"s to cne same ae- . . .... cuion u we ver dict was execu tion we were go lf tag to try to make a break. We did have much ji chance, we knew, but we might j make it and any- 1117 tv m nvwu probably get some of the Japs. It was a strange thing, but most of &4&nni ourselves Set. Deshaser with our tooth brushes. We figured we might jab a guard in the face with a tooth brush to start the break. : We were marched out of our cells and". Into another banding about 50 yards away Suddenly we realized there were only five of us ourselves, Capt Nielsen. Lieut. Barr and Lieut Meder. Hallmark, we knew, was in bad shape from dysentery and had been taken back to the bridge house prison after our first court-martial, while we were kept in the civic center prison. Two More Missing But where were Lieut Farrow and Sgt! Spate? We recalled that we had heard cell doors opening the night before Oct 14 and heard men marching. They could have been Farrow and Spate, who had been! exercising with us regu larly. But they weren't present now. . : We dont know what has become of our three companions. We have never beard from, or of, them. But nearly three years later when we were liberated at Peiping one of us (Sgt De Sharer) was given Lieut Farrow's wrist . watch by mistake and we saw Sgt Spate' leather Jacket ki the pile of cloth- ins: which belonged to us. . You will recall that the Japs announced some' of tha Doolittle flyers were executed. Perhaps that was the fate of three swell guys- Dean Hallmark, of Dallas, T Bill Farrow of Darlington, S. C and Harold Spate, ot.Lehoe, Kan- Editor's note: The war depart ment stated in Washington that an Intensive hunt is underway irjonnnnooonaonnnnononnnoD throughout aJl prison camps for the missing flyers.) I Plenty of Tension 1 When we realized that our pals weren't with us our determination to make a fight of It if they sen tenced us to death was strength ened. ,'You could tell the guards sensed what was in our minds. Plenty of tension was in the air. The trial didnt last more than three minutes, if I " - u ' i There were several high-ranking Japanese officers in tha tiny court room. They constituted the court and there .were 15 or 20 guards. We lined up before the bench and looked our judges straight in the There were a ! few words In Japanese, and then an interpreter began, to read from a paper he held in his hands. The sweat was pouring down "his face and his hands; trembled. He was plenty nervous. ! : i; I Tor bombing and strafing school areas you have been sentenced to death," hi read and then he paused..- I- ! i- - - I- Every one of us crouched a little and the guards moved nervously, their hands on their swords. But in an Instant the interpreter con tinued reading: j , I - 'Special Treatment' ! j "Bui through the gracious maj esty of the emperor you have been spared to life imprisonment with special treatment" This business about bombing and strafing school areas was an out right lie, of course We hit our targets steel mills In Tokyo and airplane plants in Nagoya right on the nose,! and we never even fired our machine guns. ' ! , f;Then we were marched pack to our cells Snd put in solitary once more. It took a long time to realize what life imprisonment: could mean. . -f.;,; .. ' .J- .-.,, Our lives had been spared, but We believed that nobody 1 in the states knew " our : whereabouts we were wrong because word of us had, trickled out and we knew that the Japs could stick us away iq some remote area and we might not be found even when the Japs were licked. i - ' - ' -1 ' S ' Nerer Lost Hope ! I "But we never lost hope. We had a chance to talk to each other a little during our exercise 1 period each morning, though we had to be careful because the guards would strike us if we talked too much. But even these short talks buoyed us up. j We couldnt let ourselves get down. A man will lose bis mind quickly ia solitary confinement If hi loses hope. : -' , . . . They kept us at the civic center Jail until April IT, 1943. We were hungry all of the time, though the food was a little better than at bridge house small amount of rice and a small bowl of soup with a few vegetables in it three times a day,;.' -'X: -u-ll-'y ,;.VI On April IT, 1943 we were blind folded and flown to a specially con structed prison in Nanking, where we were again placed la solitary. This was our noma for two years and" three months. (Copyright IMS by King Features gyndloaU) - TAGS rXEVEH Tuesdays Dew liemt Barr gw Che Jap Vaards a boxing lesson s4 get the; stralghtjackeC penalty.) DID YOU i i iaidi7?( iThat pneumatically installed Rock Wool Insulation and - Metal Interlocking Weather 'Stripping will save up to 40 in fuel bills I I '" j 4AND ALSO j. ;make yew home to IS Idegrees eeeler ta sammer. I St MONTHS TO PAY I ' ! 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