THURSDAY. FKRRTTARV i8, 1954
HERALD ANP NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
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By . RUTH KING
An .v.wlrmBii declared bv
th. ti:oi Hanartmpnt In llQVQ been
u casualty on Corregldor, who
fought throuBh some of the tough
est battles o: worm war ju aim
vA. tuhn th death
march from Bataan, Japan's tough
est prisons, a hell ship." and by
a quirK or late, aeaui in a. piuik.
crash, in now a resident of Klam-
aUi Falls.
Ho is W. L'. Harris, 31, a native
of Oklahoma, now employed by
Foster and'Klelser, Klamath Fans
sign concern. His wife Marie, a
MR. AND MRS. W.. L. HARRIS
1C,UIVU "
for bravery under fire as a cap
tain in we Army nurse iorps um
(nir hnth wars is employed by Dr,
Ralph W. Stearns.
The story of Harris' miraculous
escapes was learned this week af
v.a rioityi th Art rvntpr 1227
Main, to view an exhibit of pencil
sKetcncs Dy aen aieeie, nuut,
...ant hi-niiryr thtt cam YnPl-lnrfi8
that Harris knew in World War II.
Steele, now post arts and crafts
director at Fort Riley, Kansas, lost
his first drawings while a prisoner
on a ship, taking captured Ameri
cans to Japan's mainland. Later,
hi- Ml.... h. pnmnMn)
the drawings now in Klamath Falls
from memory, so vivmiy, tnai
New Nerve Gas Antidote To
Be Stockpiled By Military
By ALTOtf L. BLAKESLEE
Associated Press Science Reporter
V NEW YORK, Feb. 17 W7 Ti:o
life-saving antidote for frightening
nerve-gas war now can be made
artificially, and there is already
enough to treat 400 million per
sons, it was disclosed today.
The drug is atropine, until now
obtained only from, plants grown
mostly In Iron Curtain countries
. conn-oiled by Russia, .
The synthetic drug, made with
chemicals from petroleum, frees
this country from dependence upon
foreign supplies.
Synthetic production of atropine
Is announced by Winthrop-Stearns,
Inc., of New York City and Rens
selaer, N, Y.
Nerve gas blocks or paralyses
nerves, causing death unless
quickly counteracted. Atropine is
the best known antidote, for it
neutralizes the paralyzing chemi
cal in nerve gas. .
The firm has supplied 330 pounds
et atropine for Defense Depart
ment stockpiles. A life-saving dose
ts only l-150th of a grain of atro
pine sulfate; Thus a single -pound
of atropine is enough to treat more
than one million persons. The drug
can be stockpiled, in ampules
ready for Injection, at strategic
locations for military or civilian
use.
Atropine Is obtained naturally
from atropa, belladonna and datura
stramonium. The biggest pro
ducers of these plants are Czech
oslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Ro
mania and Yugoslavia, with some
now beginning to be grown in
Australia.
"There Is evidence that large
quantities of natural atropine have
been disappearing recently behind
the Iron Curtain," said Dr. Theo
dore G. Klumpp, president of Win-
uuop-o Learns.
About 1,000 pounds of atropine'
are used annually in this country.
mostly as an anti-spasmodic to re
lax muscles in treating gastroin
testinal disorders, and for eye
drops In eye examinations.
synthesis of the drug was
achieved bv research teams of
Sterllng-Winthrop Research Insti
tute, Rensselaer, and Winthrori-
Stearns, building on developments
oy omer scientists.
Forestry Expert
Elected To Post
BERKELEY, Calif. Wl Elec
tion of Stephen N. Wyckoff to be
executive vice president of the
Forest Genetics Research Founda
tion here was announced Wednesday.
Wyckoff recently retired after 35
years as one of the top research
men oi tne u. 8. Forest Service:
Before coming to California he
directed forest service research in
the Pacific Northwest and in the
Rocky Mountain region.
NEWS BLANKET .
MANILA P The U.S. Air Force
has clamped a tight security on
its newest airift operations from
Clark Air Force Base near here
to Indochina.
Brig. cen. John W. Sessions said
he -was under instructions not to
release any information on .the
movement of supplies for 250 U, S
technicians sent to Indochina.
Local Resident Tells Of Miraculous Escap
es During Yars; Once Listed Dead
Unionists To Run
For Labor Post
SALEM Iff! Herbert E. Barker,
secretary of the Salem Trades and
Labor Council, win oppose s. Eu
gene Allen, Portland, for the Re
publican nomination for state labor
commissioner. .
Barker, who has been In the
labor movement in Salem for 36
years, announced he would seek
the position being vacated by Wil
liam E. Klmsey.
Allen, a state senator, also is a
member of the Portland School
Board.
Victims Of Crash
In Good Condition
HILLSBORO W) Four children
and the driver of the school bus
hit by a freight engine Tuesday,
remained In a hospital Wednesday
where they were reported in
"good" condition.
Hospital attendants said they as
sumed some or most of them would
be released In the course of the
day.
The driver was Donald Morrison.
The children were grade school
pupils who had been en route to
school when the accident occurred
west of here.
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Harris was -able to identify some
of the victims. '....
A third man, Ben Davis, of Ok
lahoma, who was with Harris in a
CCC camp before enlisting in the
army, and a buddy of Harris
through tiie war years, was lost in
a plane crash following his release
from prison as be was enroute to
the United States. . 1
Harris, then 18, with consent of
his father, a physician and surgeon
In Oklahoma, enlisted and went
overseas with the 59th Coast Artil.
lery, battery H, before the war
with Japan. His battery was sent
to Corregldor and took the brunt of
the early fighting following the ini
tial attack. . . - t
Harris recalls there was little
ammunition to fire against the ad
vancing enemy. . Troops were not
permitted to fire a shot without
orders from "the tunnel." and
these orders were Irregular.
Troops, like sitting ducks, died un
der the terrific assaults.
Two meals a day were, issued.'
Coffee was made from salt water
after the fresh water supply was
knocked out by Japanese planes.
Corregldor fell. i .
Harris and his fellow Americans
were stripped of all valuables and
their cash, marched to a seaport,
loaded onto skiffs, barges and rafts
and started on the death march
that ended in misery and death for
most of them. ' Their destination
was Bilibld prison.
His family was notified of his
death on Corregldor. His name
was placed on the honor roll of
dead.
For three years, seven months,
one week and three days he wac
a prisoner of war, without writing
a letter home. .
That inarch and the terrible.
days that followed, have been poig
nantly recalled by the crayon of
Ben Steele, in the series of pic
tures, now at the Art Center. The
exhibit, by publlo demand, is being
held lor another week and Is open
at all times to the public. t
Steele drew on every available
scrap of paper. His fellow prisoners
ncipea Keep nun supplied. He re
corded the gaunt laces, the tat
tered clothes, the hopeless ex
pressions, living conditions, deaths
and burials of the men about him.
Then came the horrors of the
death ships enroute to Japan when
men were given a teaspoon of dry
rice twice a day. , . were sprayed
with salt water from a hose above
to lessen the unbearable heat.
There were 1034 emaciated, starv
ing men, packed Into the hold of
the ship carrying Davis, Steele-and
Harris to the copper mines In
Japan. The trip took 17 dnys. Hun.
dreds did not live to lana. Of five
ships in the convoy, two were tor
pedoed with all on board lost,
On landing, five hundred were
singled out to work in the copper
mines at Sindi. Fate of the others
was never learned.
The hopeless months dragged on
until the day when an American
army jeep entered the barbed wire,
compound and World War U was
over. i ' - !
Harris was assigned to a plane
for the return trip home, his close
friend Ben Davis, to a boat. Be
cause they wanted to continue to
travel together, they sought a
change of orders, which were
mixed by army headquarters. In
the final shift, Harris was put on
a boat and Davis on the plane orig
inally assigned to Harris. Some
where in the Pacific that plane was
lost with all 48 men on board. .
Harris returned home to find his
name on the honor 'roll of dead.
That was in 1946. i . -
Two of his younger brothers
Joined the army. "W. L.," to be
near them re-enlisted and went to
Fort Lewis where he broke an an
kle. -- .. , ;. .-, '
The war in Korea flamed and the'
three brothers were sent across,
"W. L." as mess sergeant on a hos
pital train, bringing wounded from
the front lines to hospital care at
the rear, His trains were frequent
ly under heavy fire, one engineer
was killed at the throttle but Har
ris rode unscathed. ..
' Then . . , romance came rldin?
I (he rails, . t . . . ,. : ;
a pretty nurse who had also won
battle ribbons in World War II in
the . European theater, came
aboard. Her first morning, most of
the food had been served to the
wounded men and breakfast cooked
by the mess sergeant for her was
fish and crackers. He learned her
name, Caotaln Marie Hall, native
of Canada, a naturalized citizen In
the U. S. ' ,
Their courtship blossomed under
gunfire. He took her dating, a gun
in the crook" of an arm. They were
missed by snipers as they strolled
across "the bullet-shredded land,
learned about each other's family
through the din of big guns. :
. Eisenhower . became . president
and the' war was ended,
Miss Hall and Harris came back ,
to the United States, wars married. (
A year ago they came to Klam
ath Falls to make their horn at
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