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
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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)
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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.
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