JEEP FIRETRUCKS FOR ALASKA CIVIL DEFENSE
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Seven Jeep Civilian Defense fire truck units of a movement of seventeen at Alaska Steamship
Co.. Pier 42, enroute to Alaska. One of these units is destined for Nome and is fully equipped with
t- pumps, hoses, portable fire extinguishers, ladders and a tank trailer for carrying chemical.
Death Marches, Semi - Starvation
And Brutality Described By
Second Lot Of Returned G.Ls
FREEDOM VILLAGE, Korea, UP
—Accounts of Bataan-style death
marches, semi-starvation, and cal
culated brutality came today from
the second handful of Allied sol
diers returned from Communist
prison camps.
And stories of many more dan
gerously ill Allied soldiers still in
Red captivity indicated the Com
munists do not plan to free all
sick and wounded as they had
agreed to do.
Tuesday’s reports recalled the
shocked words “incredibly small”
uttered two weeks ago by Rear
Adm. John C. Daniel, the U.N.
truce delegate, when the Reds
told him 600 sick and wounded
would be repatriated.
The new development sugges
ted that the Communists were
failing once again on a solemn
agreement.
The returned prisoners said the
treatment improved after the
truce talks started in July, 1951,
but varied since with the ups and
downs of the negotiations.
Death marches over frozen
highways in bitter winter weather
were reported by two American
soldiers. Pfc Roger Herndon of
Jacksonville, Fla., and Cpl. Or
ville R. Mullins, of Covington, Ky.
told of separate agonies in 1950
and 1951.
Herndon was captured in the
frigid winter of 1950. He said
some 40 American and Turkish
soldiers perished in a nine-day
forced march north from Kunu,
where the U.S. Second Division
met disaster in Nov., 1950.
Of 100 men who started, only
60 arrived at the Red prison, he
said, and related:
“We were not allowed to stop
for any cause—not even to- go to
the latrine. If you did, you would
have to look out for yourself.
“One night 17 of us were put
in a small room. Next morning
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i when I woke up there were only
I two living.”
Herndon, who had a wounded
I hand amputated by Chinese doc
! tors eight days before the march,
| said many died from pneumonia,
j He said all they had tor eat on
the march was “cracked corn and
' millet . . . one bowl a day.”
Mullins told of a match north
from Pyongyang in Aug. 1951,
j just as the truce talks were be
ginning. He recounted an incred
ible tale of cold-blooded brutality.
“We passed two jeep-loads of
Russian soldiers,” he said. They
j stopped us on the road and tried
to get our guards drunk so' they
would shoot us.
Mullins said the Russians were
armed and in uniform. He said
he knew the Russians wanted the
guards to shoot because “they
made motions.”
Sgt. Mitchell said about 20 ser
ious hospital cases were left be
hind: “Medical attention was no
good at all, very few guys got
any.”
His story was confirmed by
Pvt. Louis Kerkstra of Byron
Center, Mich., who contracted tu
berculosis.
“Some of the TB patients in
my hospital were in worse condi
tion than I was.” he said.
“The way I see it, they took
me because I was in a little better
shape and knew we would hit the
press first.” -
His statement tended to confirm
a growing suspicion that the first
Allied troops, at least, are only
“showcase samples” of better
Communist treatment. It raised
the sinister possibility that the
Reds have buried or concealed
their mistakes.
The United States has 29.3 tele
phones for every hundred people;
Sweden 25.2; Canada, 22.1; Switz
erland and New Zealand 19.9.
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Ingenious GIs Find
Solution To Water
Shortage In Arctic
LADD AIR FORCE BASE —
American servicemen’s ingenuity
again scored a hit at the far
northern outpost of Cape Lis
borne, proving the “Yankee GI”
i is always capable of making the
most of what is presented to him
—even the weather.
Water Shortage
The airmen on outpost duty
there are faced with an annual
water shortage every winter and
are forced to endure their not
too - favorable living conditions
with even less conveniences.
As a source for water they have
constructed a dam across a
stream, which furnishes an un
limited supply of water during
the short summer season. During
the winter, however, the dam
freezes over and cuts off their
natural water supply.
With a preview to the long win
ter season, a great amount of
water, sufficient for minimum
sustinance, is pumped into large
storage tanks before the “big
freeze.” This amount of stored
water is not sufficient to provide
“lavish comforts” such as flushing
latrines and laundry facilities. To
help alleviate the winter water
shortage, the combined genius of
three men contrived a machine to
conquer their winter assailant:
to wit, a snow melter, which pro
vides an additional source of
water.
Simple Machine
The snow melter is a simple ma
chine constructed from a half ton
cargo trailer, an oil burner-heater
and a force pump. The machine is
capable of melting snow to the
tune of 650 gallons of water an
hour, which provides sufficient
water for a laundry and the lat
rines. It is a completely mobile
unit and can be moved to a ‘snow
source’ by tractor. It can even
operate while being moved to'
new location.
On arrival at a new source, the
snow is scooped into the melter
with a • power shovel, and the
melted down snow can either be
pumped into storage tanks or into
a mobile trailer.
The inventors are Captain Elton
V. Loomis, the assistant detach
ment commander who is a native
of Duncan, Okla.; S/Sgt. Jack E.
Herndon, an electrician who hails
from Gladden, Mo., and S/Sgt.
George A. Thomas, a plumber
from Hutchinson, Kas. They esti
mate that the entire modification
of the trailer cost about $150.
ARCTIC OIL DELIVERY
Phone BLACK 76 (Shop) ot MAIN 52 (Residence)
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SUNDAY SCHOOL
AT HOME — BY MAIL
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go to Sunday School no matter how far they live from a Church
or if illness prevents their going. If you can't come to Sunday
School, you can attend right in your own home—by mail.
WRITE A CARD OR LETTER TO —
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