WAR
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came into the diet until we
were holding what little weight
we had left.
The beatings had stopped al
most all togethtr after we had
there a few months, but once
in a while something would go
wrong either inside or outside
the enclosure and we would be
lined up facing the Jap guards
armed with short pick handles,
and then get hell knocked out
of us until we couldn't stand up
to take any more blows. Usually
it was the fault of one or more
of our men getting caught sleep
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ing or trying to steal something,
from food to wood or cloth mu
i terial. Nobody ever told on them
I as we knew they would prob
ably have been shot, if they had
| been found out.
A word for our officer in ch
arge of us; an enlisted man young
in years with a corporal’s rating.
' The only one who could speak
'the jibberings of the monkeys
land understand it. Many were
the times he was called out to
betray some one or group of us.
First the Nip would jabber, then
the corporal would answer. After
a minute or two of this the Nip
j would rain blows on the corpor
al'SgJiead and shoulders until he
passed out. A couple of our boys
would bring him in after the
Nips left and we would doctor
him as best we could. There was
no medicine.
We were and still are grateful
to you. Jesse, for taking the
blunt end of the stick to keep
us on top of the ground.
With the end of hostilities in
August 1945, the Japanese began
feeding us in the mess hall and
took the guards off the Camp.
Onlj a small group of Japs were
left including one officer to meet
the paratroopers and surrender
the Camp in the honorary tradi
tional manner. The others had
all disappeared.
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With the coming of the U. S.
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Armed Forces, came also the lib
eration of many prisoners in
Camps all over Japan. But!
••Were we free?” We were given
anything we wanted: “cigarettes,
tobacco, food, clothing," and also
“a specified area” to stay in
with U.S. guards with orders to
shoot any of us that took off.
Orders: "Shoot to Kill!"
* . . '
Two weeks later we were pla
ced aboard a U.S.A. transport
and returned to the U.S.A. for
hospitalization, rehabilitation and
discharge from the Service.
fs
Since my discharge Nov. 1945.
1 have rejoined my family, a
wife and little daughter. who
moved from New York state to
my home in Seattle Washington,
where I bought a small acreage
and home furnished on the G.I.
Bill of Rights. My family now
a daughter, a baby boy born on
June 28th 1947. two days before
my own birth date. 1 was horn
in 1921 on June 30th.
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Employment is hard to got in
the U.S. and when i did find
work the wages wouldn't cover
the bills so I am going to sea
now. and in the past six months
have paid till my old debts in
cluding five months back pay
ments on our home.
I agree with my wife that the
sea is no plaee for a man to
be all the time, since the man
had been away four years before,
unless he was single. A man with
a family to support, and the
famed "one out of a million for
a wife, should by till that's right,
be with them.
We both agree that through
our past years’ experience we
can't stay out of debt if I' stay
home and get a job. because be
ing young yet and with six
years in the army. I don't have
experience for work. Like thous
ands of other young men. we
had experience going through
hell for the Cappitalist and now
when we want work and a liv
able wage, we’re told we lack
experience.
How in hell can a person get
experience unless he has some
thing to get experience from.
This last paragraph is the
voice of several thousands of
j men today!
At least give them a chance
jto gather the knowledge and ex
perience. Who, among the great
dollar men. men in business, got
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their experience in school or out
of a book?
The End.
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to nAiak. A plane at Aniak ac
companied him to Holy Cross
where Tucker for the first time
met Shuster and presented him
with the check for the plane.
Boarding the Aniak-owned air
plane Shuster flew into McGrath
where an Alaska Airlines plane
had* wailed 30 minutes for him
to make the connection. He ar
rived in Anchorage at 7 P.M.
Meets Pilot and Mrs. Bedford
A taxi drew up and from it de
scended Miss Pritchard and Mrs.
Bedford*, the former returning to
Chicago and Pennsylvania and
the latter starting for Great Falls
Montana.
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clearing and commenced logging.
I think if they discovered water
in the first spot they tried, they
would be flabbergasted.
Ray is drawing plans for a
woodshed he is going to build
one of these o'ays. He is as care
ful with ’the plans for it as he
was the plans for the house, and
his house is the “shipshapest”
little place you ever saw.
Ray and Annetta met in Ketch
ikan during the war. where Ray
was in the Coast Guard and An
netta with 1he U.S. Weather Bur
eau. And it was when Harold
was in the Coast Guard there
that he and Ray became ac
quainted. 'Harold and I came
right back to Sewaro* from Ketch
ikan at the end of the war. Ray
and Annetta were married in An
netta1.s home town. Butte, Mon
tana, and then lived and worked
in Seattle a year before setting
out via the Alcan for Fairbanks.
Somewhere along the way they
changed their minds and finally
wound up in Seward.
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PTA MEETING
MARCH 10
•C;
The regular Parent-Teacher
Ans'ii meeting for March will be
held in the school auditorium at
8:00 p.m. March 10.
The children of the Jesse Lee
Home will present a play for our
entertainment during the social
hour. Refreshments will be serv
ed’ by the 5th grade mothers.
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09,000.000 pounds.
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If ibis is not possible, the mop should be
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In ter nation'11 Longshore men's
and Warehousemen’s Union
Local
Meets First and Third Tuesday a:
- p m Union Hail
Piesident — L. Rogers
Vice-Pres. — A. Coring
Secretary — L. Dick
Marshal —- J. Chilleago
Disratcter — D. McMillan
Dispatcher — L. Rogers
United Brotherhood of
Carpenters ami Joiners
Seward Carpenter's Union 2304
Affiliated With A. F. of L
Meetings 2nd anr 4th Tuesdays
— OLD USO BUILDING —
.las. McCracken, President
A. G. McRae, Financial Secretary
REDUCED FREIGHT RATES ON
SOME GROCERY ITEMS HERE
Reduced freight rates on a
number of grocery items wlli be
reflected by tariffs issued Febru
ary 27th the Alaska Steamship
Company announced today.
The reductions will be intro
duced through the elimination of
the optional method of assessing
charges on a weight or measure
ment basis for grocery items. Af
! ter April 5th freight charges on
such items will be computed on
a strictly weight basis effecting
some saving on practically all
groceries presently moving on a
measurement basis and an appre
ciable saving on those items of a
light bulky nature.
These reductions are in accord
ance with the Alaska Steamship
Company’s objective of reducing
rates on town freight whereever
that is economically possible.
TYPICAL EXAMPLES OF REDUCTIONS IN FREIGHT
CHARGES EFFECTIVE APRIL 5
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Item and Size
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Coffee 24—1
Jello 48
Grape Nuts 24—12oz.
Peas Cnd. 24—2Vfe
Pork & Beans Cd. 25—2Vz
Raisins 8—41b.
Spaghetti 12—24 oz.
Shortening 12—3
Lima Beans 24—2
Wgt. Meas Pres. New
33 lb. 1-3 .72 .43
10 lb. 0-4 .19 .13
19 lb. 0-9 .43 24%
55 lb. 1-2 .67 .63
54 lb. 1-2 .67 .82
35 lb. 1-2 .67 .40
26 lb. 1-0 .57% .80
43 lb. 1-3 .72 49%
51 1-3 .72 ..58%