The Daily Sun (Goose Creek, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 56, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 18, 1945 Page: 1 of 8
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LATE NEWS IULLETIN
MANILA. il'Jfl—14. (ien. KsIswrigM, whs
sun-reded lieu Mar Arthur on < orrrgidor
In INI and negotiated the American sur-
render, may he llherated hy the Kussiao
armies driving Inta Maurhurl*.
GOOSE CREEK, TEXAS,SATURDAY, AUGUST 18. IMS
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FIVE CENTS COPY
REDS MAKE NEW KOREA LANDINGS
Meat Rationing May End In Fall
Army To Halt Set-Aside Program Soon
WASHINGTON. Aug. 1A—CJh— meat supply and demand warrant
All food except sugar and fats may removal of meat rationing,
p* ration-free within a f*w weeks. He forecast an average of about
[it appeared today. us pound* of meat per person for
The government already has the last quarter of this year com*
t(natal rationing of canned fruits pared with 130 pounds thus far
Ud vegetable*
Now I he army is reported to
||gw told Secretary of Agriculture
Iflinton P. Anderson that It la
■through asking for special sot-
■aside, of beef, veal, lamb, butter
|Md ehe.se
I Anderson predicted an end of all
|snay meat set-asides In September
lind said that if an indicated heavy
Iftai of beef mate rial Ixei meat rm-
|tioning can end this fall.
I Sugar and fats, however, are ex-
Ipeeled to remain scarce for a eon-
Udersble period.
Anderson told reporters that
9.400 a week ago and 13,700 on the
same dale in 1944 Reports listed
19.400 sheep In stockyards yester-
day. 1.1,400 a week ago and 20,000
on the corresponding date Inst
year. —. ww.mviMMT vinai ni
If It It Necessary Fo,
control, were i.ftJd inr » g*"* >f,u*rd*y *bow thai the Him To Kill Himself
Yagi Blames
Zap Defeat
On Jealousy
Technology Chief Asks
controls were lifted for a time
from meat
Anderson has the power to end
food rationing but said he would
not declare any commodities ration
free without full diarunaion first
with the Office of Price adminis-
tration.
He cited reports from 13 prlnel-
pal markets as evidence that eattle
361,000,000 pounds of beef In ator-
....."'JSn.L tsyra s*N muctsca Aug. is
a......a. .... ... . _/IIP i u:__j! ip__i
for the
veiwnbv iiwi tillin' nvitiv iiiiiit, ini*
I* moving In growing quantities report contained encouraging pork
from the range to the butcher's trows.
previous August high at the end -*-(U.P.I — Dr. Hirncji Yagi,
of World War l Hy #2,000,0(10 former president of thp Jap*
r,m‘nd'1 anew board of technology,
Although pork ig in compnra- blamctl Japan’s defeat today
lively short supply and is likely 0n her internal fuedalism
to remain so for some time, the
counter.
There fcere 12,000 cattle in stock-
yards yesterday compared with
Usually during July the pork
supply drops off some "0,000,000
pounds.
B.v CHESTER ROGERS
The ‘sweetest" hobby fit Goose
Creek is the one Unity Striekland
enjoys.
He has 1,800,000 bees working
for him.
Strickland, who used to patch up
wrecked automobiles at Thad Pel*
ton s, has been doing war work for
the Consolidated Machine company
in Houston. He lives nt i |3I North
Second.
In his spare time he worked with
his hoes for a bobby, feeling they
would be a cushion when war work
was over.
„ > ,, —*“•••— * uuuaiioHi He has 3# hlvea of an average of
and offered to commit hara* bees io the hive. They are
kiri for his own failure to jocaini at p,-My. Cedar Bayou
Couple Have 'Sweetest' Hobby
tauny Stricklands Planning Bee Business
Japs Complete Plans
For Emissaries To
Contact MacArthur
Enemy Missions
Carry Emperor's
Cease-Fire Order
produce a victory weapon
Unlike other Japanese officials
who huve committed suicide for
their failure to win the war for
•he emperor. Vagi prudently ask-
ed first if it was necessary fur
him to die: _______ „ ______
“If t have to die to atone my-
self," he wus quoted by Radio
t “I m
Tokyo as saying,
Japanese Ordered To
Quit Fighting Quickly
IMAMLA, Aug. 18. —(U.P.)—Japan's surrender mission ***/
will take off from the enemy homeland for Manila at 7 a. hv united press
Jm;tomorrow (5 p. m.) CWT today) Tokyo announced to* Japanese^mlssions members of
I day, but armistice negotiations may not beifin until Mon- 'h,> imPfrinl were telling
I day. ” Japanese troops in Manchuria and
At the same time, an Okinawa dispatch reported that ww-fire'^rders. ^TheTussUis
jAmerican occupation forces were preparing to move into !pf' Japan >'rs,<‘r,in.v and it prob-
IJapan with complete combat equipment, “ready for any 'l’.1!! !oni. "f !}vo
leventuality,” A Tokyo
Ibroadiast said the occupa- n . «• . ,
|non troops were expected KOdfu fl0r6 L6lS
First Contracts
Jspate.w general headquarters
[notified Gen, r-jgku MacAr-
supreme occupation com-
KTt ASdaiow Of $20,700
t*o unarmed, twin - engined, At Mann Authorized
Wng!c-v ing attack, planes .with
Hh* assigned whit* and
_ - —_ .. . green
purling* •
The mission, headed by an au-
Ithorfici; reprejentatlvrnf the Jap-
mosj (mperor. government ami
jenera! headquarters, will receive
»hst McArthur has called "cor-
kin requirement*.for carrying in-
►n effect the terms of; the sur-
lier" io take back to Tokyo.
.The Japanese message num-
ror 10 of a series directed to Mac
IMhur said the planes would
i« ojf, weather permitting, from
P*raru airdrome at 7 a, m. to-.
,arrow Tokyo time, pass over
to* Misaki on the southern tip
i nyti-ihu at li r. m. and arrive
■ uie American air base on Ie
wand near Okinawa i;20 p. m.
fikio p. nu CWT Saturday.),
on route, the planes will paps
Nakano, Taknra and Tiri
,B“* in the Ryirkyiis,. Tokyo
«id. MacArthur already has an-
^J«E3urrendcr. Page ti
dfiys for them to reach all units.
Hostilities had ceased in Chinn,
but were continuing in Manchuria.
On northern Luzon, Japanese
troops refused to believe that the
emperor had ordered their sur-
render Thirty-three Americans
in the Sixth division have been
killed or wounded in the Klangan
area since 'Japan’s first peace
move.
An Australian army announce-
ment said Australian forces in
New Guinea, New Britain and
The $1,500,000 building program
in the Goose Creek Independent
School district has been started.
isss^v "UheiMntS .0
let bids for construction of $20,- ,llrrcnder. Japanese patrols con-
Bougainville have received .......
dication yet from the Japanese
die, When I assumed my post
president of the board of techno-
logy, I was determined to devote
my life to the tusk of defeating
Anglo-American material with
scientific weapons.
"But my all-out effort was
frustrated by numerous obstacle*
and I had to resign."
He said luul tuil jealousy, feutl-
alislie sertii nali-in and narrow-
mindedness prevented Japanese
scientists and technical experts
from carrying mil coordinated
research.
Similar sectionalism and Jeal-
ousy popped up in every branch'
of the Japanese war effort, he
said.
Ho advocated 'freedom of press
and of association" as the basis
for Japan's national reconstruc-
tion.
"The past way of suppressing
all criticism of the government
must be amended if a new and
broad vista for national recon-
struction is to be opened up for
the Japanese people,” he said.
The Japanese Domei agency
(See Vagi Blames, Page 2)
... «Msiar nayou,
Highlands, Toady and Goose Creek.
They "pay off" too in the amount
of golden honey-they pour Into the
combs which Strickland in turn ex-
tracts and puts into jars for dis-
trfbution to his customers.
He intends to go Into the hnsl-
"hcsH in a blg wuy soon, and has
much new.equipment, ready.
Strickland, a native of New
nm ready to "Braunfels where he worked aV a
youth for bee keepers, has studied
•ecs as a hobby for many years.
He has found that they are im-
portant to countless agricultural
products as pollinators, their num-
ber has been depleted by inseeti-
•oldestn field cultivation and bees,
pj'jUectcd as they are, can be prnp-
"n<t made pmre important
ns pollinators.
Strickland suggests that in the
future bees will play an increas-
ingly more important rrile in agri-
culture as domesticated pollinators.
"Voti can handle bees, take care
of^iiem, protect them and encour-
age propagation, none of which
you can practice with ordinary
field insects still wild and impos-
sible' to domesticate," Strickland
pointed out.
Strickland predicts that bees will
Soviets Seek
To Trap Jap
Land Forces
Russians Promise To
Keep Attacking Until
Enemy Lays Down Arms
LONDON. AuK. 18- —(UP.)
— Kiiwtian nmph i b i o u n
fmwH wertrreported swarm-
ing ashore at a number of
new points on the Korean
coast today in a furious
drive to envelop the defiant
Japanese Kwantung army.
Is’ldif! Khilhfl rut'll!/ unln« ik.
Radio Khabarovsk, voice of the
Soviet high command in the far
NAN CTtANfltMX), Aug. I&—iflRt
Murshail Alexander H. Vu||.
exMo, *OVi< t anil) -—-pniti r
in the Far Fast, has sent Rus-
sian |Janes (u Harbin, Manchuria,
to bring the chief of *tmtt «f
Japan's Kuantung army baofc to
Soviet headquarters for a per-
sonal interview, radio Khabar-
ovsk said today.
Mr. and Mrs. Ijuiny Strickland
tie moved from one orchard o* field
to another during the spring flow-
ering period with the important
assignment of proper and adequate
pollination.
Strickland's first assistant in this
bee business is his wife. Mrs.
Strickland, who taught school 17
years, finds "bees arc quite fas-
cinating "
WLB Gives Up Wage
Increase Controls
(
lot Is Right,
1102 Degrees
I JcU,IV,ri8ht' W*s the
I;™?1 ,la>' of the year In Gooae
Ilf™- *"<• PWudMy the hottest
|i« Monger time than that,
rhe nu-reiury rose to 1(« de-
700 in- improvements at Horace
Mann Junior High school with
work to start immediately,
An addition will be built to the
cafeteria which serves the junior
high school and Anson Jones
Elementary school. It will be a
kitchen which will extend outside
the presenf building; A kitchen
Inside the building has made most
inconvenient both-tbe-prepefatjon-
. and the serving of food.
Covered walks from Horace
Mann and Anson Jones, long a
need at the schools, will also be
built.
McGough Brothers, builders of
most of the war houses in Mor-
rell Park, will construct the cafe-
teria addition. A' bid of $15,000
was accepted by the board. The
of Houston’s low bid of $5,700 for
construction Of the covered walk
was accepted by the board.
This action was taken at a
special meeting of the board last
night. After this business, trus-
tees interviewed a prospective su-
perintendent whose name was
withheld.
tinued aggressive
In the Ryukyus, teams of Nisei
and Japanese officer prisoners-of-
war were, being organized into
special surrender teams to talk
Japanese forces on by-passed is-
lands in the Okinawa nrea into
laying down their arms.---
The Japanese army and navy
also broadcast orders over Tokyo
radio to tfieif scattered Jorccs to
New Bus Service
Opens To Houston
WASHINGTON. Aug. t« I'p.
The War Labor board today sur-
rendered ail control over wage
increases not requiring higher
prices but hung onto its right to
rule on wage-euts.
Route Via La Porte And
South Houston Planned
obey closely their emperor's orders
to lay down their arms io- sur-
render.
“You must not lose the faith of
the world by commlting actions on
your own free will," the broadcast
said. “To lose the confidence of
the peoplcof the world would in-
crease further immediately after
the conclusion of the war the
-hardships- of ~ your Brethren, the
(See Enemy Missions—Page 2
Hospital Fund
Now Near $20,000
Rocket Motor Coaches. Ltd., ro-
eently granted a permit by the
state' railroad commission to op-
erate between the Tri-Cities and
Houston, via the Morgans Point
ferry, La Porte and South Hous-
ton, wijl begin operations Monday.
The Houston terminal will be at
the Bowen bu^ station, and the
buses will come here by way of
Pa rk' Place, South Houston, I .a
Porte, Morgans. Point, Belly,. Goose
Creek and Baytown.
Fare from any point in the Tri-
Cities will be 55 cents plus eight
cents federal tax.
The permit had been granted for
the new line several months ago,
but start of the schedule was held
up by refusal of the Office of De-
fense transportation to make gaso
Wage increases which will force
employers to raise their prices
must sttll he -approved by - the
WLB and . stabilization director
William H. Davis under the gov-
ernment’s new reconversion wage
policy.
Today's action will mean imme-
diate raises for approximately 1,-
000,000 workers whose 16,207'em-
ployers have already asked the
.WLB for permission to. grant
them increases. The board direct-
ed its regional board to tell the
employers it was okay "to put"the
raises through.
WLB Chairman. George \\* Tay-
lor said all of the nation's other
employers may also increase
wages as much as they wish pro-
vided they do not ask for higher
prices.
_He said there is now no. "little
steel" ceiling on such pay boosts.
He indicated that this wartime
• ynn
the WLB in dispute eases if net
essary to correct any wage in
Americans Go
On Wildest
Buying Spree
Hast, announced that the Jap-
‘unose still were fighting on de-
spite their eni|N*ror's. surrender
pm. lamation, .although tens of
thousands of Manchurian puppet
troops, were deserting.
"Until the enemy lays down his
arms, our blows will continue with
undiminisning strength," Khab-
arovsk said
It reported that Soviet shock
troops, backed up by the big guns
of the Red fleet and swarms of
Bed army planes, had effected
new landings at undisclosed points
on the Korean coast.
"Mar,hips and planes *re con-
tinuously in action, blasting
ports anil at lacking Japanese
shi|ts wherever they can be
foun t," the broadcast said
Russian amphibious units al-
ready had seized the Korean coaat-,
nl ports of Yuki, Rashin and
(See Kcdx Make, I’age 2)
BY I MTKII I’KKSS
Americans, freed from the bur-
dens of war. swarmed into the
nation's .department, grocery ami
shoe stores in unprecedented num-
bers, in the wildest buying spree
of many years, a Dinted Dress
-survey rcypnlod -today.
Motorists virtually wiped out
the ,journal stocks of gasoline as
they fan their automobiles into-
.tiding- stations and for the first
Yank Warplanes
Run Into Jap Flak
Reconnaissance Craft
Suffer Three Casualties
OKINAWA, Attg. 18.
Jnnaissance
nan
tt'.Rt Amer-
planes again
enuitiej
Ti
Taylor emphasized that permis-
sion was granted only to inc rease
wages and not to decrease them
He said all wage reductions still
must he submitted to the board
for approval.
-add
The
years
Employment Situation Good
Harris County Industries Optimistic
P....._ „ „ „. ODT Decides 35-Mile
Speed Limit Useless
Voluntary,ifts „ Sa. J.duU, t
|»nM
■> r"nr<l breaking mercury
It™"" bached its peak around
IV',*rol » didn’t recede a
I”, ,0 <toHng the afternoon
uriulmum laxl night was
.degrees, It was 71 at 7 a. nt.,
I0UND TOWN
Beulah Mae
’"off to Mexia for a well
rest , "Waa»" A-r/i.iii-,,
22 ,rest,' ' ■ “Moon" M'blllns
Chef,' ° * f8V0r- and luick
1 roll 0f 1 Rogers carrying a
" ' Somc claim It
" • Trl-Cltians
‘ browa and crowding
'urv ,tilrnt*rs M 01d Man
^d£bVVPandowen0
, MishbCtriCal l®wnm°wei4 has
m “nd 8Aeps bai:k on
Gram, S. 2-C. ar-
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18. —(t’Kl—
The nation-wide 35-mile an hour
speed limit was lifted today by
the Office of Defense transporta-
tion.
ODA Director J. Monroe John-
son has notified all state gover-
nors that the ban has been re-
moved effective tomorrow.
Johnson urged motorists to
"think twice before attempting to
increase regular driving speeds in
old cars no longer capable of high-
speed operation."
Memorial Hospital today almost
hit $20,000 as new gifts were an-
nounced by Hugh Echols, Jr.. treas-
urer. and residents of the area
were having their first glance of
the hoapitul as proposed by trus-
tees,
A large scale elevation view of
the hospital, pictured in the Daily
Sun yesterday, is now on display
at Culpepper's. All residents of the
area are invited to view it,
The fund today went to $19,403.50,
Gifts acknowledged ....., ----- —
Mrs. M, D. Cnthbertson .
Goose Creek Rotary Club $500,00
Mr. and Mrs. Hick T. Latham $25.00
Mr. ami .Mrs. Chester Rogers $50.00
Baytown Drug Fountain . $25.00-
< Total received ....... $19,403.50-
nounced, the operators lost no time
in getting ready to operate.
Partners in charge of the busi-
ness will be George Wright, for-
mer Tri-Cities man. and Guy
Smith, former employe of Texas
Bus lines. Wright, son of Rev, and
Mrs. S. P. Wright of Mont Bcl-
vieu, formerly attended Robert E.
Lee High school,
The line will have a Baytown
station at the Humble Waffle shop,
in Pelly at kcBgett’s Drug Store
* 61000 “"f ,n G0°‘S<‘ Crcek at the .Victory
HOUSTON, Aug. IK, (f.l’i Caught
unprepared by the sudden sur-
render of Japan officials of many
of Harris county's 900 industrial
plants were pulling the loose ends
of their problems together today in
an attempt to speed up recon-
version and postwar planning.
While a survey among factories
brought reports from company ex-
ecutives that "there is no possible
way at this early stage to determ-
ine exactly what we plan to do or
how quickly we can do it," an
optimistic note as to future em-
ployment was sounded by Frank
c. Smith, chairman of the Harris
WPB Lifts Controls*
On Plumbing Supplies
Newsman Sought For
State Department Job
. £
i
pi
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18. -(Dpt
Thp War Production board todav
revoked controls over sales of
plumbing, heating and cooking
equipment.
The order was issued originally
In April. 1942. to conserve the lim-
ited supply of this equipment for
the most essential needs.
; With manufacturers now return-
ing to civilian production,' distri-
bution contrcls ‘are no longer con-
sidered necessary, the WPB said.
It pointed out. however, that this
equipment won’t be available for
several months.
May
.«va| bas(
Thursday
‘ ai«l the n<
i J*re doing
hMipital
! * for ,
»ferguson and
go for a
ambassador to Germany, and Field Mar-
will appear among the list of Jap war crimi-
_, ...... *“
JAP HUIODE PLANE
KNOCKS OUT CARRIER
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18. -(III!) '
The escort carrier Sanghamon,
which has seen service from
North Africa to Okinawa, was
knocked out of action by a Japa-
nese suicide plane, the navy re-
vailed today.
The converted tanker, one of the
irst of the navy's ‘‘babyfiattojts
suffered casualties of 12 dead, 13
missing and 18 wounded. She was
swept by raging fires for five
hours.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 18. (I’.lll
Secretary of State • James F.
Krynps base been looking for a
man with newspaper experience
to be.assistant secretary in charge
of public relations, it was learned
I today.
Some have /been informally ap-
proached about taking the job
but none has accepted to date. '
The post is a new one created
hy 'congress last December and
has been held since then by Arch-
ibald MacLeish whose resignation
was announced date yesterday by
President Truman;
The President also accepted the
resignation, of assistant secretary
of state Julius C. Holmes who has
been in charge of state depart-
ment and foreign service admin-
istration since last December.
County committee for economic
development.
"There is no indication of a mass
unemployment problem in Harris
county after the labor dislocations
are shaken down," Smith reported.
"Harris county is fortunate in
not having many ’war babies’
among these larger concerns, most
of which expert to continue nor-
mal operations or expand." Smith
declared.
James H. Bond, regional director
of the War Manpower commission,
said that more than 183,000 former
war workers will be directly or in-
directly affected by the .shutting
down of war plants in Houston
and other Gulf coast cjlies.
More optimistic was Pat S. Till-
man, Houston WMC director. He
said of the 80,563 war workers
listed in Houston, only about *16,-
800 would be laid off by.contract
cancellations.
"We fdel that after a. brief trans-
ition period, the 16,800-unemployed
workers will be absorbed by the
city's and county’s expansion pro-
gram," Tillman stated.
Cancellations in war contracts
in the county thus far amount to"
$20,600,000.
Most of they big companies Will
(See Harris Employment, |»ag(> 2)
i more than tliri
ay. 'if ill Vr i j j i V
buying spree started ns
soon a.s department, grocery and
shoe stores were opened after the
livo-day victory holiday. Store of-
ficials were unable to explain the
fraction, except m the eases of
canned /foods and gasoline freed
.....fi’otti ra t idhiiigT~......... —.............
Only a few cities reported nor-
. mol conditions
The react ion is Washington was
typical of most of • the nation.
Holidaying government workers
snapped » up everything front
household goods to furs and jew-
els Ling lines formed outside ‘
stores Shoe stores were jam-
med as customers told clerks- they
were not worried about spending
then; coupon since, "rationing is
going to end soon anywaja" .
It was just as bad for Washing-
ton grocery store.,. They wei’e
jammed as housewives got their
lir.-l crack at canned goods since
they were made point free. Many
stores were cleaned out..
Gasoline filling stations in
Mashington did a rush business as
increased joyriding became appar-
ent
In sonic sections of the notion,
resorts reported increased busi-
ness.
18 Fliers Die In
B-29 Collision
Jap 'Sure Victory'
Party Is Dissolved
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18.-(i’l!i
T.i'c Japan Political association—
Nippon's totalitarian "sure vic-
tory” parly—has boon dissolved,
radio/ Tokyo said today, specu-
lating that four now. political
parties uill emerge in postwar
occupied Japan,
Senator Demands Proof Casualties Total 1,070,138
Draft Is Necessary Fina! Figures Yet To Be Reported
(UP.)
(D-
Youth Injures Hand
In Power lawn Mower
James Slone, 16, mangled his
right hknd in a power lawn mower
while cutting grass late Friday at
the home of his parents, Mr. and
1 Irer J; C. Slone at Woosterf
Three fingers were almost cut
off and it may be necessary to
amputate the ring finger, Slone
said. .
■ ' ■
.... ■■
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18
• Sen. . Sheridan Downey,
Calif.), today demanded proof that
continuation of the draft is neces-
sary beyond tire end of the Jap-
anese war.
The question of continuing the
draft is expected to be one of the
first issues to confront congress
when it returns next month. The
war department wants to continue
drafting 80,000 men a month to re-
lief long-service veterans
Downey, a_ member_o
ate military" affairs committee,
said he has an open mind on the
question. He said, however, that
he will "have to be shown that
further draft is necessary."
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18, (KB)—With final figures yet to be compiled,
BjjSj *'jvothal ^rasualtios in World War' ll as officially recorded here
The total did not include the cruiser Indianapolis’ 1,196 casualties
nor a few thousand army and navy loSses still to be reported from
the. Pacific arid added to the lists here.
The 1,070,138 figure included 282,146 killed. It represented an in-
crease over a week ago of 2,534 casualties.
Army losses thus far complied total 922,757 as comstared with 147,
381 navy marine corps, and coast guard casualties. T
The table:
Army
199,183
-870,997-
33,653
118,924
922,757
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encountered heavy Japanese anti
nit" raft fire tody over Japan and
American casualties were reported.
■Americn P-38 and B-32 photo
reconnaissance planes were sent
over Kyushu today and, as was the
case yesterday, encountered oppo-
sition from Japanese ground bat-
teries.
........-First- reports siiRTTRe anti-air-
cralt. tire came from Osaka and
Nagasaki, It was said to have been
heavy at both cities.
< >nc American was reported
killed and two were reported
wounded in one of the B-32). ' ,
Yesterday a flight of four B-32s
was damaged considerably by aek-
k shells but made'its home base
kafely.
WEATHERFORD, Aug. 18.
Eighteen men were killed,
others were injured and one man
was. missing today after two B-29
Superfortresses 'collided high over
Weatherford ' last night, disinte*
grated and y'rashed in flames.
The collision was visible from 60
miles away,
f)ne of. t,lte planes, ’was from
Alamogordo, N. M„ air field, while
the other was baser at Clovis, M.
M, air field, Both presumably'
were on routine training flights
and carried crews of H and
men.
The two injured men parachut-
ed to safety and were taken to a
Weatherford hospital for emer-
gency treatment and then moved
to the Camp Welters station hos-
pital
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