The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 3, 1945 Page: 3 of 10
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THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1945
THE PADUCAH POST
• Broadmore News
(Charline Sexton)
Mrs. Valeria Henderson and
children of Amarillo spent the
week end with Mr. and Mrs. John
Hendersoi]*
Mrs. Cl/de Sexton and Charlene
•spent the past two weeks with
Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Green of Sul-
phur Springs, Texas.
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Wilson and
Mr. and Mr.s Alvin Green visited
Mr. and Mr.s S. E. Carr Friday
night. . . _
Everyone is cordially invited to
attend Sunday school here every
Sunday at 10:30 o’clock.
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Royall and
Betty Jean of Kirkland spent Sun-
day with Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Roy-
al.
Miss Cora Carr visited Mr. and
Mrs. S. E. Carr last week.
Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Royal visi-
ted Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Sexton
Sunday.
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So don’t trust a trial and error
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done properly without injury to the
garment.
MODEL TAILORS
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Hawk, Operators
“Give What You Can Spare That They Can Wear to Help The
United Clothes Collection Campaign.”
Dr. P. A. Preslar, Optometrist
Eyes Examined Glasses Fitted
Services Warranteed
FEES CASH
Call or Write for an Appointment
Box 869 Phone 684
Office Hours: 9 a. m. to 5 p. m.
411 Ave. B, Ne. Childress, Texas
Only 5 American Prisoners
Survive of 1805 on Jap Ship
Over 1,800 American prisoners
of the Japs were jammed in the
floating hell of a prison ship when
an American torpedo struck amid-
ship.
Of '1,805 prisoners, only five
lived to tell of the horrors of the
prison ship and how the prisoners
prayed for de.ath to release them
from the agonies of their confine-
ment.
Master Sergeant Calvin Robert
Graef of Silver City, New Mexi-
co, a sui-yivor of the Bataan ‘death
■march,” tells* graphically of their
.experiences in “We Prayed to
Die” in the April issue of Cos-
mopolitan magazne.
When Admiral Halsey’s Third
Fleet carrier-based planes struck
in force at Luzon for the first
time, the Japs began transporting
American prisoners to Japan.
“You’ve read of Hellships,”
Graef declares. “Well, this little
tramp was the No. 1 hellship of
all time. The No. 2 hold, into
which 1,805 Americans had been
crammed, wasn’t big enough for
200 men. There wasn’t room to
sit on the floor much less lie''
down.
“The Japs gave us eight five-
gallon cans for latrines. The place
was alive with lice, bedbugs and
One of five out of 1,805 American
war prisoners who survived the tor-
pedoing of A Jap prison^'Ship on
which they were being transported
from the Philippines to Japan, Mas-
ter Sergeant Robert Graef of Silver
City, New Mexico, is shown as he
appears in the April issue of Cos-
mopolitan magazine.
GERMAN MURDER CAMPS
IN NEWS REEL AT PALACE
roaches; the filth and stench be
neath the tropic sun were beyond j According to a letter received'
description. iby Mr. Simpson from Metro-Gold-
“While men were dying of wyn news reel he is receiving
thirst, Jap guards, heaping insults .„nt| will show Sunday, Monday,
upon us, would empty five-gallon May sixth and seventh at the Pal-
tins of fresh water into the hold. ace Theatre contains shots of Ger-
Men caught the water in pieces ol man Murder Camps, showing some
clothing and sucked the cloth dry. 0f horrows of German brutali-
Men licked their wet skins. It was ty
hell. Men went mad.”
After ten days the men began
to pray that the prison ship would
be attacked and sunk. They didn’t
have long to wait for deliverance.
On October 25 an American tor-
pedo struck amidships.
“Men died in that moment as
others cherred madly,” Graef
states. “The Japs hastily slammed
the hatch covers on the No. 2 hold
so we would drown like rats. They
cut the rope ladders leading into
the coalhole.”
With the strength born of des-
peration, .the emaciated prisoners
forced a hatch cover and streamed
onto the deck.
Kids who couldn’t swim a stroke
.leaped into the sea and were
drowned. Those who couldn’t get
off the prison ship perished when
its boilers exploded.
•With four others, ‘Graef man-
aged to fashion a makeshift raft
which eventually brought them to
thet China coast. Friendly Chinese
escorted them to an American
airport, from which they were
flown back to the United States,
five survivors out of 1,805.
OLD MAN SOL WILL
BEAR THE BLAME
This earliest spring in almost
a generation was blamed on the
sun by Dr. Charles G. Abbott,
Smithsonian Institution astro-
physicist.
Abbott’s theory: There are 14
periodic changes in solar radia-
tion all fractional parts of 23
years. These changes “came to-
gether” n 1922-23, causing ab-
normal weather, being repeated
in 1945. .
Dr. Abbott predicts weather
years in advance. He sees a post-
war world in which outdoor
events won’t be spoiled by rain
because you will 'be able to
choose your date months ahead.
Droughts in the Northwest In
1975 and 2020, he says, will be
so severe they will lower the
Great Lakes’ level.—Pathfinder
Magazine.
W. A. Fish was in Dallas last
week end looking after business.
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ON THE
MOUNTAIN
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The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 3, 1945, newspaper, May 3, 1945; Paducah, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1015280/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bicentennial City County Library.