America at war! (1941–) – Part 4

Envoy Kurusu’s son killed in air battle

15,000 Briggs strikers won’t return to work until 15 are rehired

Management claims discharged men organized walkouts – Chrysler tie-up ends

Simms: Americas make real progress in Mexico City

Collective security, better world mapped
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor

CIO asks Biddle to save Bridges

Wants deportation charges dropped
By Daniel M. Kidney, Scripps-Howard staff writer

California bills provide for G.I.’s


Ohio Valley fears new rise in river

By the United Press

Nurses treated as civilians in Jap camp

Victims only of reduced rations
By Earl Richert, Scripps-Howard staff writer

WASHINGTON – An Army nurse freed in Manila after nearly three years internment said here that, as far as she knew, none of the captured nurses had been assaulted or harmed by the Japs.

The nurse, 28-year-old Lt. Phyllis Arnold of Minneapolis, was taken prisoner on Corregidor and held in the Santo Tomas prison camp in Manila until February 3, 1945, when she and 67 other Army nurses were liberated.

She said:

We were fortunate enough to be treated as civilians.

But please don’t think that the prisoners of war were treated the same. The stories told about the atrocities committed upon them are true.

Life was “not so bad as prison camps go” until the Japs cut their rations last fall.

The nurses’ rations were cut to about 800 calories a day (About 200 calories are needed daily for the average person).

The nurses lost weight steadily. Lt. Arnold dropped from her normal 125 pounds to 100.

She said the thing she noticed most in flying back from Luzon was that the farther away from the front lines one got, the more optimistic the people were about the war being over quickly.

“In the front lines,” she said, “the boys all say that the war is a long way from being over.”


Vise clamped on Japanese in North Luzon

Filipino guerrillas capture province

Devil’s cauldron seethes on Iwo

Sulfur fumes stem from crevices
By Lisle Shoemaker, United Press staff writer

WITH U.S. MARINE ASSAULT TROOPS ON IWO (March 3, delayed) – This volcanic terrain in Iwo’s mining district is the most horrible, grotesque and devilish ever imagined. It is what one would think the entrance to Hell looked like.

White clouds of sulfur fumes steam up from every crevice in the twisted crags and depressions of the nightmarish landscape.

Setting for ‘Macbeth’

This northern end of Iwo would make a perfect setting for the witches’ scene in Macbeth. It makes you think that all the witches in the world are crouched over a pot of devil’s brew on the other side of the next hill.

Half-obscured figures of Marines creeping through the evil-smelling clouds of sulfur fumes look like weird figures in a bad dream.

There are many dead Japs scattered around this fantastic spot just past captured airfield No. 2. Only a few sticks of charred, shattered wood mark the site of the house and sulfur mines of Motoyama.

Earth is warm

The earth is warm because of the sulfur boiling and bubbling underground. The troops who fight here merely dig down a little deeper when they are cold during the night.

There are a few dead Marines in sight, too. It takes only a glance at their bodies to realize that this hellhole is real and not a ghastly nightmare.

Yanks captured heights in Italy


Two Swiss cities bombed – 5 killed

Charles W. Bryan dies at age of 78

Was Governor of Nebraska 3 times

Science hailed ‘fifth freedom’


Doomed kidnapper loses final appeal

Ohioan awarded Medal of Honor

Stark tragedy left in path of Hitlerism

Rehabilitation may take years
By L. S. B. Shapiro, North American Newspaper Alliance

Wrecked bridges check Allies at banks of Rhine

Large force will be needed to attempt difficult crossing, McQuaid says
By B. J. McQuaid


Might impresses Nazi civilians

Yanks screen people in captured town
By Gault MacGowan, North American Newspaper Alliance

Two patrols cross Rhine under heavy shellfire

Yanks forced back before Nazis blow up spans, receive Silver Star awards
By Ann Stringer, United Press staff writer


Grave for every mile of new road to China

Editorial: German ‘enslavement’?

Editorial: They’ve done a good job

Editorial: Overseas Easter mail

Edson: Supplies for two wars keep Army stepping fast

By Peter Edson

Ferguson: Slovenly workers

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

Background of news –
300 billion dollars

By Bertram Benedict