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Jail Is Luxurious
To Soldier AWOL
Seventeen Months
CAMBRIDGE, Ohio, Dec. 19—1
Pvt. Elza Mclntire found the ac
commodations of Guernsey Coun
ty jail luxurious in contrast to
the caves and tree branch huts in
which he said he had lived for the
last twenty months.
Sheriff Wilmer Oliver said the
thirty-nine year old soldier was
being held for army authorities,
who reported he had been AWOL
from Fort George Meade, Md.,
since March 13, 1944.
Taken into custody in a wooded
area in northern Guernsey Coun
ty, Mclntire said he had been sub
sisting 09 ground hogs and other
small animals. He wore four coats,
three pairs of trousers, old shoes
and overshoes. His beard was sev
eral inches long and he admitted
he had not taken a bath during
the twenty months.
Mclntire was quoted by the
sheriff as saying he “ran away
from the army because I didn’t
like it.”
Navy Ammunition
Truck Explodes;
Many Homeless
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 19——7
persons were hospitalized, one of
them with serious injuries, and
approximately a thousand others
were left homeless when a flam
ing Navy ammunition truck trailer
exploded with a terrific blast on
the highway fifteen miles north of
here.
All the homeless are residents
of Torrey Pines Federal Housing
project close by. Possible loss of
life was averted when the driver,
John Ayala, discovered his gas
tank was aflame and jumped out
and warned authorities at La Jolla
junction, one hundred fifty yards
away, of the danger.
Kai-Shek Returns
To Nanking,
Prewar Capital
SHANGHAI, Dec. 19 — (JP) —
Chiang Kai-Shek returned trium
phantly late yesterday to Nanking
the prewar capital from which he
and his government were driven
by the Japs in 1937. Accompanied
by Madame Chiang, he flew there
in a Chinese manned C-47 from
Peiping, where he told correspond
ents he was glad President Tru
man had “reaffirmed the original
United States policy toward Chi
na. I admire him, because he has
shown he understands the situa
tion in this country.’* .
Chiang said meanwhile that
Shanghai prepared to welcome
General Marshall tomorrow. The
new American Ambassador will
probably fly to Nanking Friday.
The story is told that an Italian
prisoner of war was working on a
peanut farm in the South and re
cently told the owner that Musso
lini had told the Italians that they
would soon be marching across
the plains of the United States.
“What he didn’t tell us,” the pris
oner said, “was that we’d have to
pick up peanuts on the way.”
ATTENTION MASONS
Annual Election of Officers
Thursday. Dec. 20, 1945.
W. H. CAMERON. W.M.
PIONEERS ATTENTION.
A regular meeting of the Pio
neers of Alaska will be held at
8:00 p.m., December 19, at the
Whaley House.
ROBERT BALDWIN. Secy.
Masaharu Pleads
Innocent
MANIL/v, uec. 19 — Lt. Gen.
Masahura Homma pleaded inno
cent to atrocity charges of the
cruel Bataan march of death and
other crimes against Allied civil
ian prisoners of war in the Phil
ippines. Homma was arraigned be
fore the U. S. military commis
sion. The former commander of
the Japanese Troops in the Phil
ippines was charged specifically
with the ghastly death march in
which more than seventeen thou
sand American and Filipino pris
oners died.
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