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Anniversary of Fall of Balaan Recalls Riller
Memories of Early Defeats in World War II
f CONRAD MUV.
luff KrtUr, Th 'iH
7yley I !' Itdl anniversary
W Hit M of IUtaaremm
bered by many Salem art rtl
Vols Ihn weak e a tu point fur
Ameike mele I lh early,
iery day a( World War 11,
"Tlx herol tpie af Beieaa pen
insula emlrd yesterday," rd
th front psi lead (lory f T
V.btm m rrWey. April I,
JMJ, 'wild tht Japanese vk-torl-MM
Ihrouih IN ihrrt everwhelm
n wetkhl ef horde ef fretf
trw-tn."
A)!houk th M-l W the lo
.of IN battle rged peninsula
M tna amilhef a lip of Luu la
IK 4 h. lupine we abetter,
(tatcimia readers were sot
act) lair by eempMe surprise.
War Yeeag
The war wee yaung and rnul
ef th war I w bad ta Ihoe
' dart, m a dad bee aim the at-
a. ta m faarl Harbor four meolha
previously All through March and
arly April headline told af th
relenllete march at tht Japan
ha the Pacific-Burma India artaa
ad t)a Germaa advance la Af
rica and la Russia.
A false aote of nop was etruck
In aa April 1 dispatch whir aald.
t AmerVaa resistance la rising la
tha I'hiiipplne ... and only la
Burma is th Japanese enemy
making progeria at consequence.
But thia we not tha way things
looked ta tut Laird, ao a
Salem attorney, who la April,
1M2, waa going through the Ba
tata debet aa aa army major.
Sheet af feed
"We bad been abort of food and
uppllea lor months," Laird taid.
"Mo of aa knew we vara at tha
end ef our ror. and that It waa
a maittr at tima befor IN ae
1D"
While matter vara reaching
rlimai aa Balaan, Salem arra
residents vara dividing their In
terests between tha war news and
war-lime ectlvltiee.
Salem merchants and civilian
defense leaders eteged a "Victory
r trade" ea April I. proclaimed by
PreeMent Rooamlt aa "Total
War Day." Soma 234 Japanese
Amertcan wara being evacuated
from thli arta. Woman ware r
ttterinf at tha YWCA for "Kaep
Jn Tit for Dtfcaaa" claaata.
Caldaara Aaked
Movia actor Lav Ayraa arrived
t a conadentloua ob)ectan camp
at Wyeth, Oregoa. Gen. Douflaa
Mac Arthur la aa Carter mewaft
from Australia aaked for "divine
guidance." Prk control for all
caaiamtr good ai being
planned.
Mickey Rooney la tha "Court
ahip tt Andy Hardy," and Johnny
K
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CageM Laird, (aleai alieraey aad aarvrrar of lb a "Death Marrk" aa Bataaa raadl 14-year-eM
iateaaaaa telllag al (ad i Ik FhUlpplM aealaaala aa April f, ItU. Ulrd aarvrred ngara at ll-4ay
tank I apead aaaatka la Japaa arlaaa ramp a. Car, Elm Bmltk baa declared laday aa Bataaa
Day. Paper Laird la beWlag a la lella af eiaer Alia gala ha rarlflc war. iSutetsaaa pb4.)
Welatmuller la "Tanan'i Secret
Treasure," were packing them la
at local theatre.
' April headline "Invader!
Preaa At New Bataaa Line."
It wu announced that Mri.
Jonathaa Wainwright, whoa em
battled Army general husband
wu ea tha verge of turrendering
hti exhauatad troop on Balaan.
would broadcast a greeting to her
husband from San Francisco. The
general'! dog. It also waa reveal
ed, would be givea chance te
tlve a short bark to hla be
'trured master via ihort-wave
radio.
A bus line from Salem to Camp
Adair wu being planned by city
fathers for the announced two
fold purpose of bringing mere
business ta town and to qualify
Salem for defenae bousing. Mayor
W. W. Chadwtck organlied a "de
fenae recreation program" for
troop In thia area.
AprU 10 headline-"Heroic De
fenders Driven From Bataan."
"Cut off from reinforcement,
outnumbered by five, six. seven
or even tight to on, tragically
deficient In sir power, and ex
hausted by short rations, disease
and constant battle, i courag
eous band of fighting man was
forced to I bitter but Inevitable
defeat," read the newsstory.
Spotlight Shifts
The news spotlight In proceed
ing days shifted to Corregldor
snd to other battle spots. Little
new was forthcoming on the fate
of the "31,833 American and Fil
ipino troops slain or facing cap
tivity" on Bataaa.
But those days iftrr the sur
render will never b forgotten
by Laird, or by Walter Cadmus,
now t Turner area farmer, but
formerly i field artillery officer
on Bataan. Or ty Harold Steven-
ifcvrfo mate rougli snd rugged work easy I
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a daraaaed
They all made tha horrible and
murh pulillrliad I later y "Death
March" up I he Balai penlmul
to nmy priaua rsmp.
hurnvmg I he Death March
only to lurcumb In s prion ramp
waa tha Rev. Richard t artwrry,
Army chaplain, and former pta
tor at lilverton's Csibuli church,
rsaky Realdeal
Ktraruited from Islaaa jut
before Its surrender wa LI. Col.
George Clark, ( furmrr I'anhy
area resilient.
"We heard of th surrender
order about 7 a m. on April I,"
said Ulrd who had been fight
ing wilh th Mrs! rillplno divis
ion since Christmas Diy of 141,
"We were ordered to walk to
the nearest road, which we did.
There we were takea over by
the Japs "
Meanwhile the sinking of Ba
taaa beneath h wavea of Jap
anese sdvanres In In Philippines
(Corregldor fell tha peit month)
helped spark th civilian de
fense program In Salem.
Asabltleas fragrant
"We mapped out sa ambitlmis
program la defense against In
cendiary bombs and poison gas,"
said Paul Hendricks, who wa ap
pointed Salem's Air Raid Pre
caution warden la early April of
that year.
"With the Navy practically'
gone from the Pacific and the
j.ntncic vanlHIw f.blna .... Ika I
Philippines the west coast. In
cluding Salem, became worried
over possible enemy air raids '
Today Is to be t public holi
day In the Philippines The mem
ory of the thousands of American
ami Filipino troops who died
will be honored by appropriate
ceremonies.
It will also be a day of mem
ories for the msny veterans of
Bataan and for the relatives of
men who did not come home.
Moral Appeal
I('(iicstc(ll)y
Sec. Mil chell
fldlTUN i- I.alMtf'lUi-reiary
Mill hall said Suiuley lha "real
hai" fur Amaru a i "ajipaal la j
th UruMiimllled ai1e of Itiel
world , , , raa be but ana level
VilMinlu Tnlrlrh Sjnir Krfnim r Slalr Hluinjiln
MACI r Ml AM", N i - laie H.e laav.a
).e kafauvar IM.nat has b H I'K
....a k..a lm hit en.ig.tu- H.t.u..y a-d pa..d l Ma h.'
..M,,.l(illh - pcthafa llammalal.akir.g U r.h In buy a
frill Iwillla of Vitailil ,'U
II. tallti) fiif
anl waUrfil ena .il ,H
.U nwiraJ ooe, lha lrllual
Miti hall II4 a cornmuiA'ia
braaklaal f 14. rramla ct alaa
soti.ty, a Itiimaa (aiMi news
papermens aiam-isium, that lha
no lunger la "the aula (mm
lairthead of lechnlial kneH-rfge
or frrhnual aliiuty."
'The luriiinuniat wwld," ha
said, Va inatih u Irsctor fir
Irador la many place, la any
economic contest, they have a
disciplined, regimented, and flied
army of workers available fur Im
mediate action "
This, he said, "should cause a
redirexlien la aome af our own
thinking. W have all loo bmt
bea In th kabit of assuming thai
lb measure of the eurreae of our
political snd moral Ideals la the
amount of material wealth pro
duced within our borders.
"We as a nation must look be
yond 0i might of our production
te discover Ihe real basis of our
appeal te the uncommitted peo
ples of the world. That basis can
be on but on level th moral
one. Ihe spiritual one, As we ap
proach Ihe world, thai is the
strength of our argument."
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