Envoy Kurusu’s son killed in air battle
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15,000 Briggs strikers won’t return to work until 15 are rehired
Management claims discharged men organized walkouts – Chrysler tie-up ends
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Simms: Americas make real progress in Mexico City
Collective security, better world mapped
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor
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CIO asks Biddle to save Bridges
Wants deportation charges dropped
By Daniel M. Kidney, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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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
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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.
Stark tragedy left in path of Hitlerism
Rehabilitation may take years
By L. S. B. Shapiro, North American Newspaper Alliance
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Wrecked bridges check Allies at banks of Rhine
Large force will be needed to attempt difficult crossing, McQuaid says
By B. J. McQuaid
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Might impresses Nazi civilians
Yanks screen people in captured town
By Gault MacGowan, North American Newspaper Alliance
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