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Father McCormack Tells of Imprisonment,
Trial at Hands of Chinese Communists
Editor'! note: Following Is the
econd of two articles by Father
Joseph P. McCormack on his ar
rest and lmprsionment in Com
munist China. In Monday's in
stallment. Father McCormack
said that he considers a ded
icated Communist as a man with
out a country, inasmuch as the
Indoctrination causes the man to
become cruel and to lose his
nationality and Individuality.
So I finally took a week I man, that you like the Chi-
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HORNBROOK
Residents Make Trips
Br KATHERINE CHAPMAN
Hornbrook These sum
mer days find a number of
Hornbrookers on the go and
far-afield.
Returning last week from
a camping trip as far south
as Truckee, Calif., was Fred
Mills, who tried out the camp
ing trailer he built himself
during the winter months.
Others arriving home last
week were Mr. and Mrs. Har
ry Chapman. A 17-day motor
trip took them through north
ern California, across Nev
ada, Into Utah, southern Idaho
and eastern Oregon.
Enroute they drove through
Lessee national park, spent
two days at Zioa national
park and also drove to Cedar
Breaks national monument,
and through Bryce national
park. In Reno, they visited
with friends, Mr. and Mrs.
Gene Houston, former Horn
brook residents.
During their stay in Salt
Lake City, they attended the
CBS Sunday morning broad
cast of "Music and the Spok
en Word," and two other or
gan recitals, all at the Mor
mon tabernacle. A Gray line
sightseeing tour took them to
the Utah State capital build
ing and other points of inter
est in the city. They also
apent a week with their
daughter and her family, M
Sgt. and Mrs. E. R. Burtner
and four children at Moun
tain Home, Ida., where Burt
ner is stationed with the Air
Force.
A vacation with a true
Western flavor was spent by
a group of friends last week.
The group included Mrs.
Frank Cardoza, Jeanie and
Frankie Cardoza and a friend,
Gary Ramos, of San Jose,
Calif., Mr. and Mrs. Lauran
Paine and son, Lornie Jr. and
Loren Cummins and son, Lor
en Howard.
Leaving Hornbrook Friday,
July 25, with nine horses and
a truckload of gear, they
drove to the Marble moun
tain primitive area, where
they made their headquarters
at Kelsey creek. From here
they rode to Skyhigh lake,
and made a side-trip to Kud
dihy lakes. '
Fishing was good in all the
lakes and creeks, and an ad
vantage of their camp - site
was a built-in freezer in the
form of a snow-bank in which
they stored their daily catch
es, and fresh meat and sup
plies. But in spite of the nearness
of snow and snowbanks, the
water was warm enough for
swimming, and a dip in the
lake was a part of each day's
program. The group returned
Saturday evening, Aug. 2, and
all reported it was fun to
"rough it" once in a while
but it was also good to get
back to some of the conven
iences of modern civilization.
Bob Paine, older son of Mr.
and Mrs. Lauran Paine, is
spending the summer with a
survey crew of the engineer
ing department of the U. S.
Forestry service at Happy
Camp. He spent this past
week end at home, where his
grand-father, Roscoe Conklin,
of Van Nuys, Calif., is spend
ing the balance of the sum
mer. Mrs. Loren Cummins and
Lauran Paine took two car
loads of boys and their gear
to the Boy Scout camp at
Lake of the Woods on Sun
day. Spending the next week at
the camp are Lornie Paine,
Loren Howard Cummins,
Douglas Bennett, Randy
Peters, Mike Turnbow, Steve
Farmer, and George Chad-wick.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Wyatt
and sons Tommie and Ron
nie had a week's vacation
which they spent in Portland,
Ore., visiting his mother, Mrs.
Tom Watt, and her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Rubisch.
They also visited Watt's uncle
and aunt, Mr. and M r s.
Charles Wooley, in Astoria,
and spent some time at "The
Tides" in Seaside, Ore.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Paulsen
of Oakland, Calif., became
first-time parents when a
daughter, Debra Lynne, was
born July 30 at the Siskiyou
General hospital in Yreka.
The baby's mother, the for
mer Jo Ann Burns, has been
at her parent's home here the
past month, awaiting the ar
rival of her baby. She and
her new daughter plan to re
turn to Oakland by train next
Friday.
George Sloan is convales
cing at home now from a com
bined heat stroke and heart
attack, which kept him hos
pitalized at Yreka for two
weeks. His friends are all
wishing him a speedy recov
ery, and are looking forward
to seeing him back in his jeep
and on the job again.
In the absence of the Rev.
E. V. Hargreaves, Judge
James McAdams of the Mon
tague judicial court, conduct
ed the services at the Metho
dist church here Sunday mor
ning. The Rev. Hargreaves
and his family are on vaca
tion. House Guests at the home
of Mrs. Grace Quigley last
week were her niece and
family, Mr. and Mr. Lawr
ence Kaiser, and three child
ren of Glenn, Calif. On Wed
nesday, they all drove to Ash
land to visit relatives there.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Oh
lund Jr. and children, Paul,
Patty Jo. and twins, Cheryl
and Carol, of Portland, Ore.
were visitors last week at the
home of his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Ohlund, of Cot
tonwood Creek.
Other visitors in town from
Portland were Mr. and Mrs.
Charles LeBrun and three
children, who spent the
week at the home of her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Bear and sons Leonard and
Ermin.
Bob Anderson of Santa Ana,
Calif., called on friends here
Thursday, enroute to his par
ents' home in Medford. Bob
attended school here at the
time his parents were oper
ating the Henley Way store.
Miss Sharee Walsh, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. L. C.
Walsh, is spending the week
at Burns, Ore., as the guest
of Miss Sally Smith. The two
girls have been friends since
their grammar school days at
Riddle, Ore.
Mr. and Mrs. Andy Hansen
of Oakland, Calif., have been
visiting for some time at the
Matt Johnson home.
Lieut. Harry Scott and
Lieut. Oliver Baker, of the
U. S. Coast Guard at Portland,
were Saturday visitors at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Bear. Baker is a son-in-law
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Local Companies
Of Army Reserve
In Exercises
Headquarters company of
Medford and E company of
Grants Pass, members of the
2nd Battalion. 413th Inf. of
the 104th "Timberwolf" Army
Reserve Division, are par
ticipating in field exercses at
Yakima Firing Center, Wash
ington.
The local unit, commanded
by Lt. Col. Roberts A. Elliott
of Medford, arrived at camp
Sunday evening. The advance
party under Lt. Barton Garred
arrived Thursday.
The local unit is camped
at the Coffin Ranch site with
the remainder of the 413th
Infantry regiment. The divi
sion is functioning as a self
supporting unit, with the local
men filling their normal job
requirement. E company of
Grants Pass, commanded by
Lit. Richard De Armond, is
training in the field and re
sponsible for instruction in
the 60 mllimeters mortars.
Second Battalion is operat
ing a separate motor pool di
rected by Sgt. Ted Botefur
and also is operating a field
mess hall for both first and
second battalions with Sp-5
Carl Keith as mess steward
Immediately on arrival at
camp. Lt. Robert Kelley, the
adjutant, and SFC John
O'Hara, battalion sergant maj
or, started to take care of all
unit correspondence and re
ports.
During the first day of
training, Major Glen Allen,
the battalion executive officer,
gave 60 millimeter mortar
gunners tests to the regiment
al mortar men. Local men
placed especially high in
these tests. The unit will re
main at Yakima until Aug
10, when it will return to
southern Oregon.
Bank Debits Show
Slight Upturn
University of Oregon A
slight upturn in business in
Oregon" was evidenced in the
bank debit reports for June,
A total of $1,660,602,574
was tallied by the 167 report
ing banks and branches. This
was up over the previous
month by 0.9 per cent and up
over June, 1957 by 3.2 per
cent.
Bank debits, which repre
sent the dollar value of checks
drawn against the deposit ac
counts of individuals and busi
ness firms, are generally re
garded as good indicators of
current business activity. The
University of Oregon's bureau
of busines research collects
the debits monthly from
banks of the state.
The 11 banks of the South
western Oregon counties of
Curry, Jackson, and Josephine
showed a total of $66,986,923
for a gain of 2.2 per cent over
May, but a loss of 3.5 per cent
from June, 1957.
By J. P. McCormack, M. M.
(Written for United Press
International)
It was in June of 1953 that
the Communists arrested me
in Shanghai. For two reasons:
I was a Maryknoll priest, and
I was an "American.
My house-boy had tipped me
off, so I sat there on my front
porch one beautiful summer
evening waiting for them. And
sure enough, they came, and
led me off to police headquarters.
They brought me into a
large room which had been
set up for a special tribunal,
with ten people in military
uniform sitting along the left
wall; in front of them, five
women and an interpreter. In
the center of the room was
a table, lined with my judges,
and at the doorway, a rather
young looking girl holding a
machine-gun. I sat down in
a low slung chair that was
obviously meant for me. That
was about 9:30 at night.
I was still sitting there at
5 o'clock the next morning.
They kept firing questions at
me, and I fired answers back
at them as best I could. In a
way this confused them, be
cause the judges would frown
at one another, then have a
whispered conference, and
make new charges. All of the
accusations had something to
do with illegal financing or
espionage. Altogether, in that
first session with them, they
changed the charges against
me 20 times. By the time they
led me to my cell I was pretty
tired, and I had the feeling
that they weren't too sure
why I was arrested.
Looking back on it all now,
I still can't think of any rea
sons, within Chinese law, for
my imprisonment other than
the fact that I. was an "unde
sirable" a priest and an
American.
The prison conditions were
rough. I had to lie flat on the
floor of the cell, completely
still and without uttering a
single word. Armed guards
stood over me to make sure
I didn't make the slightest
move with my hands or feet.
The food, when I got it, was
a soft mushy kind of some
thing, and pretty strong smell
ing. But I was hungry. And
ate it at times, with an
appetite.
I had been in prison about
three days, when the interro
gations began. There were 72
of them altogether, each one
lasting about two and a half
hours. It was hard at first,
but I got used to them, in the
beginning, centered on the 30
seminarians, m y bringing
them to Peiping, and then
shipping some of them to
Hong Kong. I told the Com
munists the straight story
about it all, but they weren't
convinced.
Later, the line of question
ing switched to the entire
rdiocese of Fushun and the
work of Maryknoll in Man
churia. They wanted to know
statistics on converts, the
number of mission out -stations,
and the names of clergy,
religious and seminarians. I
gave them as many wrong
answers as I could. But they
kept pressing me for more.
off, asked for pen an paper,
and wrote in my most legible
handwriting, a full "confess
ion." It was right off the top
of my head and not a shred
of truth to it. But I was quite
proud of it when I handed it
to the judge, and he gave me
a big smile, as if to say, "Ah,
McCormack we always
knew we could scrub your
brains clean."
Ten days went by. Evident
ly they were studying my
manuscript, because they left
me to myself, and I was able
to catch up on my sleep. But
then I figured it was time to
call it quits, so I told the
guard I had another confess
ion to make. He hopped up
stairs and brought back one
of the secretaries a girl
we had named "Pigtails" who
had two long braids hanging
from her temples to her
knees..
I dictated for about 20 min
utes, denying everything in
my written confession. "Pig
tails" just sat there, stone
faced; when I had finished,
she whisked "upstairs. Another
10 days went by. Finally the
judges summoned me, and
when I appeared before them
they asked: "McCormack,
why did you write this bundle
of lies? Why did you deceive
us?"
I looked right at them and
said, "Because you kept press
ing me. Press, press, press
these last months and I'm
not one who can keep my
mouth closed." Which was
true.
Sessions Taper Off
That was toward the end of
1955. About this time, the
brainwash sessions tapered
off. Then, after all those
months, they filed formal
charges of "espionage and
sabotage for American im
perialists" against me.
The trial itself lasted about
eight weeks. "We are not try
ing you as an imperialist or as
a capitalist," they said. "We
know you are the son of a poor
of the Bears, and Scott is
Chief executive of the Port
land branch of the U. S. Coast
Guard.
The two men, friends since
Boy Scout days.were enroute
to Alameda, Calif., for two
weeks' active training at the
command school.
Rubber consumption in the
United States amounts to
about 20 pounds per person
each year which is far more
than the world average of
only about one pound per
person per year.
The average .supermarket
contains more" than one-half
mile of shelves and cases. It
stocks more than 5,200 items.
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nese people, that since you
were born in Ireland, you
must be anti-British. And we
thank you for that. But you
have allowed yourself to be
used by the capitalists, and
for that reason you must be
punished."
It was for this "crime" that
received my five-year sen
tence.
A few months later, about
the beginning of 1956, 1 asked
for an interview with the
prison officials. I explained to
them that I was a sick, stupid
old man. Which was partly
true. I was, actually, very
sick. My entire body was
swollen and distended because
of the prison diet. Lack of vi
tamins, I suppose.
To Sleep in Bed
They talked this over
among themselves, and decid
ed to send me to the prison
hospital we called it W ard
Row and that meant I'd
sleep in a bed for the first
time in three years. Of course,
the big reason for allowing
me to go to the hospital was
obvious too many priests had
already died in the jails and
prisons of China. They didn't
want that to happen to me.
The treatment at the hos
pital was adequate. I received
injections once a month, but
the swelling of my body and
limbs still continued. Even
now, my stomach still ex
pands about six or seven inch
es every day.
In June 1956 my health im
proved considerably, so I was
shown "leniency," and they
moved me into a small house
on the other side of Shanghai,
where I lived with several
other American priest-prisoners.
One of the priests there
was Father Cyril Wagner, the
Franciscan from Pittsburgh
who had been framed on
charges similar to mine. We
were eventually released to
gether. The food was terrible there.
We would have all died had it
not been for Red Cross par
cels, and the parcels from
America that the Red Cross
managed to get to us. So we
lived, until the day of free
dom came.
Since I've been back, near
ly everyone has asked me
about the Church in China. Is
Christianity surviving?
And I tell them this story.
It's true it happened not
too long ago wnen the Com
munists launched a big cam
paign in Shanghai to kill all
the sparrows around the city.
The people were mobilized
and told to keep a constant
racket going, by beating pans,
blowing horns and lighting
firecrackers. The idea was to
frighten and kill all the spar
rows. Hid Under Eaves
Well, the sparrows took it
all in stride. They hid under
the eaves, or flew to the high
est trees; sometimes they mov
ed their nests out into the
suburbs. When they couldn't
get worms, they ate insects,
MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Tuesday, August 5, 1958 A
When the ponds and puddles
of water were closed off, they
survived on dew. After sev
eral days, the fanatical perse
cutors were worn out and
the noise and fury died down.
The sparrows? Today in
Shanghai, there are almost ai
many sparrows as befort
stronger ones. The sick and
the weak died. The healthy
survived. .
And that'i the way it ii
with the Church in China.
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