anaheim-gazette 1944-02-03

Number of Anaheim Youths Now Held in Jap Prisons Although official government reports of at least seven Orange county youths who have died in Japanese prisons include none from Anaheim, there are many young Army and Navy men from this city who are now incarcerated in Jap prisons, and from whom cards come at rare intervals to anxious parents and relatives. Listed among North Orange county men who have died since capture by the enemy in the Pacific area, is Pvt. Douglas Shaw, Jr., whose young widow lives at Buena Park. She was the former Betty Wells, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bert M. Wells of the neighboring community where Mr. Wells is manager of Southern County bank. First word reaching relatives here was that Pvt. Shaw had been taken prisoner. Then just two days before Christmas the War Department notified them that he had died in prison camp. They have no means of learning whether he was subjected to the tortures dealt out to other American soldiers, but since he was a member of the 21st Pursuit Squadron, from which a few men escaped to bring back tales of almost unbelievable atrocities on the part of their captors, the relatives feel that perhaps death was a welcome release. While deaths of only seven county youths have been officially reported, the list of those held prisoners has mounted to approximately half a hundred. Listed from Anaheim are both civilian workers and those in the military forces. Among the former is Lawrence Wedin who was engaged in construction work at Wake Island. Two Brothers And Lifelong Friend In Armed Services Writing to the Gazette from Norman, Okla., and expressing his pleasure in receiving the Gazette and its home news, John R. Monroe, Seaman I/c. asks to have the paper transferred to his new address, which is Class 2—A-4, Barracks “C,” Naval Air Gunners School, Jacksonville, Fla. Seaman Monroe, who is the 17-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Monroe, 1222 Pearl street, enlisted last July from his studies at Union high school. He graduated recently from the Navy's Airplane Ordnance school at Norman, and now at his new station in Jacksonville, will train as waist gunner on a bomber. His older brother, Richard Monroe, who entered military service last spring with the Parachute Troops, has trained at Camp McKall in North Carolina. Upon completion of his training he was assigned to a field artillery battalion and is now awaiting call for overseas service. Richard's boyhood chum here, Howard Dorr, the son of Mrs. Rose Bureta, 117 North West street who entered the Army While deaths of only seven county youths have been officially reported, the list of those held prisoners has mounted to approximately half a hundred. Listed from Anaheim are both civilian workers and those in the military forces. Among the former is Lawrence Wedin who was engaged in construction work at Wake Island. Howard Dorr, son of Mrs. Rose Bureta, was in the Philippines with the Medical corps when Bataan fell, and is now in a prison camp in Manchukuo. Russell Delos Chamberlin, son of Mr. and Mrs. William F. Chamberlin, and who was pharmacist mate in the Navy going out to the Philippines in April, 1941, was missing in action a full year before his parents had the happy news of his being alive. They have had three cards from him, the regulation forms that the Japanese permit, but his unmistakable handwriting is on them and his parents know that he is in Philippine Prison Camp 3. Floyd Singer and Lieut. John Messmer are two other local youths reported as prisoners of war. From Fullerton are Larry Ruills a civilian construction worker on Wake Island; Pfc. James Cowan who was stationed at Clark Field in the Philippines, and Cpl. William Herbert Adams. Buena Park men held prisoners include Harold Howerton who spent four months in a hospital after being wounded in the Philippines, and was then taken prisoner, and Staff Sgt. Thomas E. Watts, who was at Corregidor, and who has sent cards to his relatives from a prison camp in the Philippines. Prisoner lists include three from Garden Grove. Omer L. Van Neste, chief water tender, was officially reported a prisoner on June 16; Seaman Austin Murdock was captured at Cavite, and has been reported as still living, and Leroy Doig, Jr., who was at Cavite in a civilian capacity, finally got word to his parents after a full year during which they knew nothing as to his welfare. Early reports on the cash farm income for California growers in 1943 indicate they made approximately 8 percent of the national farm income, though California has less than 3 percent of the nation's waist gunner on a bomber. His older brother, Richard Monroe, who entered military service last spring with the Parachute Troops, has trained at Camp McKall in North Carolina. Upon completion of his training he was assigned to a field artillery battalion and is now awaiting call for overseas service. Richard's boyhood chum here, Howard Dorr, the son of Mrs. Rose Bureta, 117 North West street, who entered the Army Medical Corps in September, 1941, and signed for overseas service in the Philippines, was one of the unhappy victims of Bataan. Long months passed when Mrs. Bureta had no knowledge of her son's whereabouts or of his fate. Then two months ago she had a card, the first and only message she has received from her son since his departure. This card informed her that Howard was taken prisoner by the Japanese when Bataan fell, and is in a prison camp in Manchukuo. Its meager information included the fact that he is well and is receiving good treatment. Former Resident Dies in Monterey James P. Wagner of Loma Linda, a former Anaheim resident, who had lived in California for more than 40 of his 81 years, died early last Thursday morning near Monterey after a brief illness. He had been in the northern city only a few days. He was prominent in Seventh Day Adventist church, and Elder N. C. Peterson, pastor of the church at Loma Linda, officiated at funeral services Wednesday afternoon, assisted by Elder Forrest L. Abbott, pastor of Fullerton Seventh Day Adventist church. Services were conducted in the Hilgenfeld chapel and burial was made in Westminster Memorial park. Mr. Wagner is survived by his widow, Mrs. Margaret Wagner of the home, three daughters, one son, two step-daughters and one step-son; two half-sisters, two half-brothers, 14 grandchildren and 12 great grand-grandchildren. His daughters are Mrs. E. V. Hervey of Fullerton, Mrs. Mary Burdick of Kentucky, and Mrs. Ralph Walsh of Orange. His son, J. W. Wagner, lives in Compton. 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