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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1945)
Klamath Marine Tells Of Nip Atrocities While POW By LOIS STEWART Thmu aro Miiixl mid ImuI Jiiiis ii IIiIh world but Cpl. Lloyd 10. Driiinpiickor (it tliu United SUiIuh nurliiu ciii'im riocim'l want uny nolo, tliunk you! Thu 24-yuni'-ol(l lonthcrnock In mvlnu IiIh fli-Ht Thiinklvlii lomu In mivon yourii, Ihrcu yuiirs Unit 1 1 ti to MiK'iil in Jnp pilnon riiiiipu In tho Philippine unci In lupiiii primer, llu in the son of Mr, mid Mm, I vim Crumpuckor ( 2100 MikIIhoii. C'jil. Cruinpueker, fllllnu out tilu iiiuilnu Hieons, urrlvud honiu t'uamliiy. Today liu woiKMa lliii iKiuudw, u unlit of (ID pounds xliico V-J Day. llu fools u lot bottor tliun when hu wont down to U4 pounds Willi tho aid of burl burl. Nip Tortumi Tho murliiu In uunlUlunt that whun bltiKur and butlur torturuH ru tliotmlit up It will bu tliu Japa Unit will bu lit thu bottom of it, I'll la la thu ntoiy lie told u Her. did und tiuwt rupurtur tho oilier cloy: "I onllatocl July 20, 1040, In tho murlnct corps at Portland and took my Irulnlnu In San Dlciio with thu 7lllh platoon, Wo wont ovmcus uulobur 4, 11)40, and my outfit waa biinucl ut Cavllo, Wo worn tho lat Supurutu Mn- rl.w. Iwillnll.w, "On becumbor 7, wo woro at Cavllu, Tho first bumblnu waa Uvcumbor 10 whun tho Japa truck at thu Cavllo navy yard with carrlor bused planua. They bombed SiiukIo Point on Uocom. bur 10. They camo over ot ubout 11 a. m. 1 waa on town patrol at tho tlnio. Wo left for Manila on Cliristmaa ovu, December 24. Tho dock urea of Manila waa bombed that day. Wo pulled out nun ovenmu 111 auotu i:au ana went to Human Into Marlvelua where wo not organized with tho 4th marines and 1 waa put in Co. M. On December 20, wo wont to CorreKldor on MacArthur'a ordora and were asslxncd to boach defunao. On December 20, tho Japa bombed Corrcgidor luruiiK at lv.aa a. 111. and lmuli inu up about 4:15 o. in. "Thoro waa no beach defenso on Corroiildor whatsoever. Tho mnrlnea took up tho beach de fense aUirllnn at ubout 7 o'clock that ovontnii und apllt up into plutooni. I waa attached to on antl-ulrornft battery ut topsldo garudo iirounda as a part of tho th platoon, 1 buttery of tliu OOtli coaat uriiucry. Taken Prisoner "I waa taken prlaoner at 11 . m. May 0, on Corrunldor. Wo'd been bombed and ahellcd all tho tlmo after tho aurrender, "On tho morninu of tliu 7th wo mot tho Jnpa at tho middle aide of "Tho Hock." That after noon on the 7th of May tho ma riuca und navy men woro lined up from tho aoutlt end of Mulln da tit It. There we wore auppoaed to bo aliot. They removed our Identification tana and clothes and tied our hnnda behind us and atood ua at tho edtfu of a cliff which dropped 108 feet down to tho aca. "Tho machine guns woro lined up and they wero ready to pour it on ua. Juat then a Jnp officer camo along and knocked off a few hcada and called off tho order. They returned our clothes and put 10,000 of ua In tho 02nd garage area on Monkey Point. ' Disease Appears "Wo woro there until May 23, with vory little food and water. Dlscaao began to appear, Includ ing tropical ulcers, Inteatlnnl dis eases und bronchitis. Tho rainy season had Just begun. "On May 24, tho Japs put us on four British merchant marine ships which had been captured at Singapore. They moved us to Manila and put ua in Billbid prison. Wo stayed over night there and then they put us In groups of 100 and on May 28, shipped us to Cabanatuan by boxcors which are nbout hnlf tho slzo of our American box cars. "Wo lost six men In travel by suffocation In our car alone. Tho stronfi ones would stand, the wonk would sit. "Tho next morning we left Cabanatuan and marched 23 miles to Camp 3, at that tlmo built as a Phlllpplno army camp. Wo left Camp 3 on July 30, 1842, for Nichols flold. Treatment Brultal "Treatment at Nichols field was brutal. For singing or whistling they govo you tho nccdlo torture. They strapped your nrms on a desk In front of you placing nocdlcs In your arms and fingers and leaving them. They beat you with pick handles, shovels, sabres, Iron rods, any thing. "In our group there was a PFC who wont ovor the hill. Tho rest of us took his punish- 1mm fiaseie KSiaSStS AMtfHD Them's nothing shamoful bout having plltii. (Oim-thlrd of the population has tliom, ac cording to mod leal rnports.) , ttutit'aahamaluttoaulternaad hn pain, Tho makers of Unguontln odor a nationally recognised , Jiroduct-UNOUKNTINI RKCTA1 CONKS a special formula to. rollave tho Irritation, sorenau end burning pain of simple plies or hemorrhoids, Mllllonihavo been sold became they holp relieve pain . . . fight infection, promote healing. VntuanUna Rectal Canal Xaty 10 unttanHaiy,JrMptulva, tile si airnalfl intir miinnv . ink If nal Mllafi' M drag alirn Tfio.. l (:V is I 1 1 . atfn: eat'iMr. 1 1 ill an nn n',ifff 1 fl Cpl, Lloyd Crumpacker Kennell-Ellla mont. For 34 hours wo were not allowed food but every half hour jtorccd to eat one table spoon of aalt. Tho follow waa captured and brought buck after lour auys. 110 waa Ktuect. "On November 10, I came down with berl berl for lack of vitamins. On December 2, 1 had gono from 170 pounds to 111 pounds. Leaving isienois field I went to u prison hospital at Blliblcl. This was conducted by American medical officers and navy pharmaclats mates. On December 12, 1042, I loft Billbid Camp 1 for Cabanatuun. For once In my prison life food waa sufficient. Tho commanding officer of tho camp had saved tho life of a Jap officer who needed medical care and in re turn demanded and received medical supplies and food for his men. "On July 23, 1 left Cabanatuan No. 1 for Japan, g6ing by way of Manila and on tho 24th leaving by boat by way of Formosa and Okinawa. Wc landed at Moji on, August 10 and woro uikcn by .... tA nmi,in rnfv,M 1 1 ti.ir.u Is a coal mine. I was there work ing in tho m'ncj for 16 months Lived on Hopes "Wo lived moro on h jprs than anything olae. "The treatment was brutal. If your work was not up to their expectation!! and It inc. lull you wero Inefficient they gave it to you. They worked us in 12-hour shifts. I went on at 4 a. m. and quit at 4 p, in. Wo had two rico bulls a day which wo took to tho mine. Tho Japs called them 'bentoss'. "One day down In the mine we were sitting eutlng und I was talking about hunting and fish ing back in Klamath Falls. Tho section leader of our 50-man squad loaned forward and said 'are you from Klamath Falls so am I. My nama is Joo Law son.' ((Lawson is now In Klam ath Falls) Wo suro had a good talk nbout homo. "We didn't get any Red Cross packages. They wero broken up and divided among the men ac cording to the work they put out. "On December 2, 1044, wo left Omuta for Camp I Fukuokn to the northwest. Wo wero thero about two months working at an airport moving dirt. Tho Jap method of brutal treatment con tinued. On Junuary 20, 1045, we left Fukuoka and wero sent to Moji on the coost to do steve dore work, loading and unload ing army supplies. Wo wero nblo to got in a little sabotage and stnlo enough food to keep up. Wo loaded 150 to 200-pound COCA-COLA 665 Spring St. socks or as tho Jups call them, uo to U'l Kilos. Work on Tunnels "In Anrll. 1045. wo started working on civilian air ruld tun nels, liuiua were increasing in Intensity. In May I met a Jap family In un nil night raid, Thoro wero 10 In this family. From then on, off and on every other day, they would get a meat ration twice u week and would glvo mo two pieces of meut equivalent to ubout one pound It was cooked beef, They also slipped mo extra rice und cigar ettes. It kept mo going. Thoro wero six or seven English prlS' oners and these lower class Jni iuie.10 families adopted them and uki 1110 samo thing for them when wo met In tho raids, I was tho only American that I knew that got this kind of help. "Tho first heavy bombing, In cendiary bombs, fell at Moji Juno 26. starting at 10:35 p. m. and ending about 2 a. m. Tho bombs hit fnctorles, worehouscs, destroyed food supplies and homos and installations. Thero was n heavy loss of life. Tho next bomblnK wns at nearby Monnnskl. Wo were out, In groups of 10, fighting tho fires our own bombers started. "On July 11 wo saw 235 B-20s In flight formation circling Moji but they bombed another town. A town wo never learned tho namo but nearby on tho coost. Hear of Bombing "Wo heard of tho atomic bombing of Hiroshima on the second day and learned thot when wo smuggled in a news paper. Wo heard of tho bomb ing of Nagasaki tho next day after that happened. "When the heavy bombings started in Japan the Japs eased up on their brutal treatment. "On August 26 we took over our camp. Wc broke out all tho stacks of Red Cross packages and wo ate. After leaving Moji wo possed through Nagasaki and nil 1 can say Is that they haven't described it enough, It looks like a desert as far as you can sco and steel buildings were melted like candles. "We met tho Red Cross ot Nagasaki. They had coffee and sandwiches nnd Ice cream, tho first I'd hnd since December 23, 1041. It tasted good. We took the ship, tho USS Chenango, an aircraft carrier, to Okinawa. They treated us like kings. There were about 1600 of us. "Wo went on to Guam on the Rlxcy, on APA, and from there shipped out on the Caparn for San Francisco. We had our first medical inspection. I was under weight and after reaching San Francisco on October 19. was treated at Oak Knoll hospital. I have to have an operation for a dislocated right shoulder. Right now I havo'an 11-day furlough. Dislocates Shoulder ."The dislocated shoulder? That's another story. We were on CorrcgJdor and I was helping with the wounded when a shell hit a big boulder and It grazed my head and shoulder. When I was working in the mines I taught one of my buddies to put It back when my shoulder slipped out." That's all of Cpl. Crumpack er's story. Some of It he was lontho to tell. Other parts he said he wouldn't tell. There was too much of the horror stuff, he said, to tnlk about. The young marine wears the icht Coughs tie to colds . . . eased without "dosing". VSCKS BlJJ;I.V!H.m:rin;M;M-I.i:Ma' N BOTTLING COMPANY OF KLAMATH -fc Hoar Morton Downoy KFJI, 9:15 a. m. -fa Purple Heart, Prosldentlol Clta-J lion of tho urmy given to mo mu rine corps, the Marino Presiden tial citation, tho Good Conduct medul, tho Amerlcun Theater of War ribbon with one star, tho Philippine Defenso ribbon with three stars, tho Asiatic Pacific theater ot war ribbon with two sturs. Coming up are five others, tho Marino Expeditionary ribbon, tho Legion of Merit, tho Victory Cross, thu MacArthur modal and mo Latter ot uommenduuon. Young Crumpacker said ho didn't think ho could got around much turkey tomorrow. His stomach is still a bit touchy. But joining him at tho family feast will bo his sister, Betty June Crumpackor of Wulla Walla, Wash,, wn'im he bus nt seen In five yeori. Koontz Funeral Services Held LAKEVIEW, Ore,, Nov. 21 Funcrul services wore held Tuesday afternoon for Charles P. Koontz, one of Lake county's oldest citizens and respected pioneers, who died Sunday at tho homo of his daughter, Mrs. Keith Honnald, in Lakevlew. Tho rites were conducted at tho chupcl of the Ouslcy funeral homo with the Rev. Albert Place of the First Methodist church officiating, and Inter ment was in Sunset Park ceme tery. Mr. Koontz was born July 12, 1855 at Eugene, Ore., and came to this community about 35 years ago. He is survived by his wife; one son, J. C. Koontz of Millbrae, Calif.; four daugh ters, Mrs. Keith Honnald of Lakevlew, Mrs. Archie Edcs of Plush, Ore., Mrs. J. H. Stotes bury of San Francisco, ond Mrs. Ira Durst of Brookings, Ore. At Tuesday's rites, memorial services were also conducted for Mrs. Grace Koontz, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Koontz, who died August 22, 1044, in Honolulu, T. H. She was born February 13, 1003, at Pendleton, Ore., and after leav ing Lakevlew was a resident of San Francisco before going to Honolulu In 1042. Waterway's Group Will Oppose CVA LEWISTON, Idaho, Nov. 21 OP) In a resolution adopted at the 12th annual meeting of the Inland Empire Waterway's as sociation, the group yesterday voted to oppose creation of a Columbia valley authority. The resolution opposing a CVA proposed that Columbia basin resources be developed by existing 8 1 a t o and federal agencies. All officers were reelected by the 64 attending delegates from Oregon, Washington and Idaho, utm GARDEN Wind controls to make your garden comfortable . .-. and pretty, too, are described in November Sunset, an!mmmmmmmm Navy Men Board Cold Cargo Ship PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 21 (A') Five hundred sailors and Seubecs were bound for Cali fornia today In the ship they dubbed the "U. S. S. Pneumonia1' when they rebelled at being packed Into unhcated holds for tho transfer voyage the navy said would speed their dis charge. Tho cargo vessel, ordered Into transport service because of shortuge of railroad transporta tion, was cleared ' by naval physicians as "liveable and habitable" after the demonstra tion hero yesterday. Lt. Commdr. Edward F. Gal laghcr said Inspection by 13tn naval district officers revealed the lower No. 3 hold which sailors branded a "refrigerator" had a temperature of 65 de grees, although It was unheated. 1600 Blankets He said the ship had 1600 blankets two for each of the 800 passengers originally or dered aboard but the army cote had no pillows. The officer declared the ship was pressed Into service as a choice between uncomfortable travel or- no travel at all but that the 300 men crossed off the U. S. C. Procyon sailing list would be sent home by Novem ber 24. He reported 30 of the veterans were missing, but be lieved they would report at separation centers near their homes. The ship was held at its berth here until shortly after noon yesterday by river fog but was expected In San Francisco in 72 hours, the navy officer reported. Meanwhile, Mayor Earl Riley of Portland said he had asked the national officers of the fed erated veterans council to inter cede for thousands of other veterans due here and at other west coast ports in the next few months. . He proposed the coun cil request railroads to allocate all equipment available to speed the redeployment before the holidays, to shunt civilians off the rails "if necessary for the next five weeks." UTILITY DISTRICTS EYED SALEM, Nov. 21 (VP) Peti tions for creation of Peoples Utility districts are being circu lated In Marion, Harney, Klam ath and Lincoln counties, Charles E. Stricklin, state engi neer, said today. SHORTS Boxer Type FULL ELASTIC TOP Sizes 30 to 40 $1.65 UNDERSHIRTS lace 1911- J DREW'S MANST0RE 733 Main St. BUY BONDS FALLS Phone 5632 L Chief Of Hotel Greeters Gloomy PORTLAND, Nov. 21 (P) The president of the Hotel Greet ers of America ambassador extra-ordinary of cheer and hos pitality was gloomy today. Here on a national tour of hotels, Arthur F. Landstrcet, Memphis, Term,, said war-time travel would be exceeded by Peacetime travelers already "go ing for a change of scenery," That would be fine for hotel- men except conditions will not allow hotel expansion for sev eral years, he reported. U. S. Ambassador To Spain Will Retire WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (P) Tho White House reported today that Norman Armour, ambassa dor to Spain, is retiring from the foreign service, Charles G. Ross, press secretary, told a news con ference Armour is expected to return to Washington within two weeks. American diplomats who know have told rcborters the U. 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