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April 2, 1945
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Monday Evening, April 2, 1945
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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
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Survivors’ Statements, Captured Documents S how—
, Manila Atrocities Ordered by J
J this week by
president. The
(Editor’s Note: Most of the
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Manila atrocity stories herein
summarized were reported by
the Associated Press as they
were discovered ' during the
fighting in the city. The fol-
lowing is a summation as com-
piled by American military units
and sworn to by civilians who
‘survived them or by soldiers who
discovered them. The complete
$ reports, most of them in affi-
davit form, were disclosed to-
day.)
By FRED HAMPSON
MANILA, April .2—^—Captured
Japanese documents bearing dates
Otween last Dec. 23 and February
14 strongly suggested today that the
wholesale atrocities on civilians in
Manila were the result of battle
orders issued to the Nipponese gar-
. rison.
* The atrocities were not, the
reports indicated, the work of
isolated groups of Japanese who
took matters into their own
hands, although at the time a
good many of them so appear-
ed,
‘$ Included in the ducumentary re-
ports of Japanese slaughter of help-
less’ civilians in the downtown bat-
tlefield were Nipponese documents
and orders captured by soldiers of
, the U. S. Army’s 14th corps, some
of them mimeographed and bound. । newly brought in today.
* * * “Feb. 9—Burned 1.000 guerrillas to
One Japanese message book con-
tained the following order issued to
the Kobayashi group, then inside
the walled Intramuros, on Feb. 13:
“All people on the battlefield
with the exception of Japan-
ese military personnel. Japan-
ese civilians and special con-
struction units will be put to
death.”
The following is a paragraph from
a Japanese battalion order dated
Feb. 8, captured in the Intramuros
by 14th corps soldiers:
“When Filipinos are to be killed,
they must be gathered into one place
and be disposed of with the consid-
eration that ammunition and man-
death tonight.”
The pattern of the atrocities as
described in the affidavit reports is
so similar as to indicate strongly
they were by general order to all
Japanese troops
Some of the cases rival the most
brutal of history’s inquisitions and
tortures. Perhaps the most horrible
is contained in the report of atroc-
ities at Fort Santiago, inside the
Intramuros, sworn to by Col. J. D.
Frederick, commander of the 129th
infantry of the 37th division.
Probing in the rubble of the des-
troyed fort, Frederick and his men
found a dungeon-like room partial-
ly below the ground whose only exits
were sealed by tworseven-foot steel
power must not be used To excess.
Because the disposal of dead bodies
is a troublesome task, they should doors bolted, from the outside.
be gathered into houses which are
scheduled to be burned or demolish-
ed. They should also be thrown into
Inside, they found the decom-
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A diary, presumably belonging to
a member of the Akatsuki force in
Manila and captured by 14th corps
troops, contained the following
items:
posing bodies of between 250 and
300 oriental civilians. The only
window in the' five-foot thick
walls was partially sealed.
Frederick, thinks most of the vic-
tims starved to death, but that some
of them suffocated. Thirty bodies
were sprawled around the steel
doors. They died trying to force
the doors.
Throughout the Intramuros Fred-
bed and killed 10. 1 erick and his men found smaller
“Feb. 8Guarded 1,164 guerrillas' piles of corpses, of both sexes, many
"Feb. 3—150 guerrillas were dis-
posed of tonight. I personally stab-
with their hands bound and bear- WASHINGTON, April 2 — (PP)—
ing bayonet wounds. • 1 John L Lewis dispelled the threat
Carolina Coruna, 22-year-old stu-of a nationwide coal strike today
dent nurse working in St. Paul's by a zero hour extension of the
hospital, related in an affidavit thatexpired bituminous contract through
early in February the Japanese is- April .
sued leaflets ordering civilians to His action came after the War
remain in their homes under pen- Labor board ordered an indefinite
ally of death and set up machine-continuance of the agreement be-
guns at street intersections. yond its Saturday midnight dead-I
•'All male civilians from 15 to 60 line with any wage adjustment to
were put on the wanted list,” her date from April 1. -
affidavit said, "since the Japs ac- The operators, who had asked for -
a 30-day limit on their restroactive
cused all males of being either guer-
rillas or American sympathizers—the pay obligation, agreed uncondition-
Japs would go from house to house
gathering1 men and boys and then
shoot them down on the public
streets.
“Twice I was an actual eye-
witness at the killing of an es-
. timated 75 to 100 civilians. On
each occasion, the Japanese fir-
ing squads. Composed of about
10 soldiers armed with automa-
tic weapons, lined up civilians
and mowed them down.
“Women of the victims who ran
up to the firing squad to plead for |
mercy were likewise killed, usually
ally to the boards order.
But Lewis, irked over the loss
of retroactive wage increases in the
seven-month controversy of 1943,
imposed the until-May 1-only res-
ervation on his acceptance.
This set the stage for another
possible crisis in a month, but
both miners and operators were
hopeful they could work out a
new contract before then. “-
€ gotiators, who planned to re-
sume their conferences today,,
reflected this optimism despite
Lewis's statements at the WLB,
hearing on Saturday.
The UMW president told the
before they reached the soldiers " .he JM. .......... ....
Several Army doctors attested to board that a month of negotiating
treatins numerous women and chil-had failed to bring the parlies to-
dren—some small babies—for bay- gether on any of his 18 demands,
onet wounds. They said most of | and that future-meetings with the
these told them they had survived
group killings by Japanese.
producers appeared fruitless
However, Lewis agreed to further
conferences "out of courtesy, if
nothing else," when Edward R
Burke, representing the, Southern I
Coal Producers association, suggest-
ed that some of the issues could |
BRITISH WARSHIPS JOIN YANK PACIFIC FLEET—Part of the British Task Force "opera ting in the Pacific with the
American Pacific fleet in battling the Japs rides at anchor at a Western Pacific base. At right is bow of HMS King
George V and in background two British aircraft carriers. Photo by AP Photographer Charles Gorry on assignment with
The Wartime Still Picture Pool. (AP Wirephoto). .
Private Rudd To
Glider Command
Pvt. David H. Rudd, son of Mrs.
Morris Oliver, 1265 North 17th, has
been transferred from the Infantry
1
PVT. DAVID RUDD
to glider command, with the 17th
Airborn division, somewhere in
France.
Private Rudd enlisted in the Ar-
my Special Training program in
March 1944 and was stationed at
Baylor university, Waco.
A-graduate of Abilene high school.
Rudd attended Hardin-Simmons
university in the fall of 1943.
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U. S. Diplomats Working to Avert
Showdown With Soviet on Poland
WASHINGTON. April 2.-0)
United States diplomats are working
at top speed to avoid a showdown
with Russia over Polish participa-
tion in the San Francisco United
Nations conference. C.
High officials here hope the Po-
j lish national unity government
I agreed upon at Yalta in February
1 still may be set up in time to resolve
| the controversy.
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Should it appear in the next
few days that this hope might
be transformed Into a probabil-
tty with additional time, the op-
ening date of the conference
may be delayed two or three
weeks beyond April 25.
These officials show little incli-
nation at the moment, however, to
favor a prolonged postponement.
The Polish issue actually involves
two closely related questions:
1. Reorganization of the present
Soviet-sponsored Warsaw regime to
include Polish "Democratic ele-
ments" from both inside and outside
the country. The United States and
Britain have counted heavily on get-
ting former Premier Mikola jczyk of
the exiled government at London
into the new administration
2. Representation for Poland at
the San Francisco conference This
became an open controversy Sat-
urday with disclosure that Russia
had requested and Britain and the
United States had vetoed an invita-
Won for the present Warsaw gov-
despite the fact that the United
States, Britain and practically all
other United Nations do not recog-
nise it.
ernment
The Russian action was based on
the expressed possibility that reor-
ganisation of the Polish government
might not be achieved in time for
Poland to have any part in the
conference. Therefore. Moscow con-
tended, the invitation should go to
the administration now in power
Normandy Landing
Veteran Also There
For Iwo Jima Job
Veteran of D-Day operations in
Normandy, 20-year-old Norman C.
King, radioman third class, has re-
A British foreign office
spokesman said the soviet prop-
osition. and a State department
official termed it unacceptable
That apparently passed the next
move back to the Soviet govern-
ment, and there was considerable
speculation here over what Moscow
might do. It ranged all the way
from the possibility of prolonged de-
bate to a Russian threat to with-
draw from the conference
All indications are that both Lon-
don and Washington have decided
firmly against yielding to Moscow
in this case. ———
Elderly Woman
Of Clyde Dies
CLYDE, April 2— (SpD)—Mrs Wil-
liam J. Gabbert, 84, died at the home
of a son, Guy Gabbert of Clyde, at
12 20 a. m today.
She had made her home with him
since July, 1944. For the past four
years she had been an invalid
Mrs Baggert was born March 13,
1861, in Hempstead, Ark. The for-
By Weddington
Four air heroes of the Abilene
1 Army Air field who have partici- I
pated id many exciting overseas
air battles. Sunday received War
department awards in a special
Easter holiday ceremony held in
the office of Col Harry Wedding-
ton. commandant '
1 With members of his staff in at-
tendance. Colonel Weddington, him-y—
self a veteran pilot presented the
following members of his command
combat awards:
First Lt Jack M Wainwright Jr.
23, Birmingham, Ala, the Distin-
guished Flying . Cross and. Air
Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster.
First Lt. Dale R. Garrets, 23, Dil-
ler, Nebr., the Air Medal with one
Siler Oak Leaf Cluster and one
Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster.
First Lt Glenwood W. Eaton, 23,
WA Distinguished Flying Cross.
NSicas J Capt Roy E Henry. 29, Altus,
®W *= v ® Okla Distinguished Flying Cross,
DECORATED—Second Lt. Charles R Garret t, 10.33 Vine, is N Medaloitpurni ^Jf*' Clus-
shown above as he is decorated with the Distinguished Flying Colonel Weddington lauded the
Cross at his Air Transport base in India The award was valor of these men assigned to
made upon completion of 300 operational hours in India-duty at the West Texas Combat
China, over the Hump. The award was made for the period | TTennep psioeatonna as men
of services from Sept. 3, 1944 to Jan 14, 1945. in his praise- for the traditional
-------------:--— - Army Air forces spirit you have
shown' to win these awards.”
Jap Losses in Philippines
Fighting Climb to 307,000
be ironed out, thus narrowing the
problems for the board to dispose MANILA. April 2—American
of. | troops, clearing the Japanese out of
, %* *---,the Philippines on a dozen fronts.
If today's conference should de- T a 10 971 additional enemy
termine that further collective bar- counted 10.971 additional enemy
WLB dead in the last five days.
This brought Japanese dead
gaining were hopeless, the
would be asked to take over the
whole show in an effort to resolve
the case by May 1.
WLB Chairman George W Tay-
lor said the board would not make
an issue now of Lewis’s limited ac-
for the entire Philippines cam-
paign to some 307,000—against
an announced American toll of
dead, wounded and missing of
around 30,000.
Gen Douglas MacArthur's Mon-
Lt. Col Eugene F Elliott, di-
rector of administration and sta-
tion services, read the citations for
the awards.
Members of Colonel Weddington’s
staff witnessing the ceremony in-
cluded Maj. Roy C Rowland, ad-
ministrative inspector: Maj. Rich-
ard F Decker, director of train-
, , ing: Capt Grover K. Coe, adjut-
200 tons of explosives and dropped ant; and Lt Frank R. Cerra, public
109 tons of bombs along the Sulu relations officer.
archipelago, southwest of Mindanao
Fifth air force bombers con-
tinued attacks on Formosa, Jap-
anese bastion just south of the
now-invaded Ryukyu islands
Seventh fleet Navy Liberators,
joining in the attack, sank sev-
en loaded Japanese luggers off
the east coast.
Mitchell bombers attacked ship-
ping in Yulin harbor on the south
coast of Hainan, off the China coast.
They sank or damaged one destroy-
I He trained at Camp Wolters, and
| Ft Meade, Md , and has been over-
seas since February 1945.
ceptance of its directive. The main
thing, he said, is that the contract dav communique, reporting the five-
has been extended: the problem day count, said 185 Japanese were
of the May 1 expiration will be dealt captured. American losses for the
wit a en we come_____a_______- period were given as 340 killed, 48 ship: and six smaller vessel. One
missing, and 919 wounded.
American gains on all fronts were
announced. 1
Japanese counterattacked ele-
ments of the 25th division in stub-
born fighting on northern Luzon
but were beaten off The 25th con-
Large Crowds
Hear Sermons -
Attendance at Sunday, evening's
service of the Highland Street
church of Christ revival meeting
exceeded normal seating capacity of
the auditorium.
Ellis McGaughey, of Washington,
D. C., the evangelist is preaching
at 3 30 p. m and 8 p. m. services
daily through this week
McGaughey spoke Saturday eve-
er escort, a medium sized merchant
MP
Survivors include his wife; a
daughter, Betty, 5; his father, John
F Corder of May; two brothers,
John F Corder Jr of Abilene, and
Eugene Corder, overseas; and two
sisters. Mrs Vera Sudduth and
Mrs Mabel Lancaster of Rising
Star.
bomber was lost. YOUR khtk
Far behind the strategic front, HAIR unruly hair in place.
Australian troops on New Guinea Gives lustre Big bottle,
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nese at the Inland Maprik supply —:----------------------
tinued mopping up by-passed posi-
tions along the Villa Verde trail.
Thirty-Third division troops,
pushing towards the Philippine
summer capital of Baguio in the
Benguet mountains, advanced
two miles from Naguilian to the
outskirts of Burgos. The 113th
Infantry was led in this push by
Lt. Col. Arthur Collins of Bos-
8
ton, Mass.
First cavalry troopers, tightening
vice on Japanese-held San Pablo,
cently added Iwo Jima to the list ning on Things for Which Jesus south of Laguna de Bay in southern
of his actions
Letter from him to his parents,
Mr and Mrs. O. G King, 1018 Gra-
WH
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base in the Wewak area They were
encountering strong opposition.
Rebuked Men Among those things Luzon, used loud speakers and
he listed the practice of doing one scattered leaflets in efforts to get
thing scrupulously and neglecting the trapped enemy to surrender
something just as important that on Negros island, invaded Thurs-
Christ commanded Many people day, 40th division doughboys ap-
art deeply concerned with worship- proached the outskirts of Talisay
ping regularly but are not so in-
terested in character, he declared
Asa Corder Rites
Conducted Here
Funeral for Asa Corder, 39, resi-
dent- of Abilene for the past two
years who died Saturday, was to be
at 3 p m today at the First Bap-1
tist church in Wolfe Valley, his
former home, Elliott's funeral home |
was to be in charge ,
— Mr Corder had been employed
by a construction company here
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Many people cling to the traditions On Cebu the America! division
of their fathers, whether wrong or advanced five miles on the coastal
right, he declared. He related that road from Lahog to Consolacion
now, as in the days of Christ’s min- against moderate resistance Other
istry on earth, men draw nigh to units reached the foothills of the
Him and honor Him with their lips central mountins, northeast of, Par-
but their hearts are far from Him do and Guadalupe Japanese artil-
Too, he declared, many overlooklery from the hills was heavy
Thirteenth air force bombers at-
Rugs and Upholstery
from
their own faults and magnify the
_____ _______lacked enemy installations at Le-
“Bring more interested in our- gaspi, southeastern Luzon port with .
faults of others.
selves than in others is a great fault
NORMAN C. KING
ham, disclosed he had come through |
of Christians,' he declared "If A
there is one thing for which Jesus I How women and giris
can criticize the church today as --- PE 59
in its early day it is selfishness-
not being interested in saving the
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dated March 19, came after nearly - y notation churl.
Ben L Cox In corporation court
today. Two $10 bonds for similar
a month of silence.
King was an Abilene visitor last
October when he returned to the
states after 10 months of duty in- . 1
the Atlantic. He earned three battle to forfeit Seven dollars in traffic
sarts in operations in the European dines WAS collected.
m" Mary Anna Stewart, she was three youthful sailor also has . ,
married in 1877 and in 1879 came year of Army duty to his credit
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