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VOL. IV - No. 4 TREASURE ISLAND, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. MARCH 10, 1945

Victims . of Nipponese Brutalities .. Return Home

First Navy Men Released
Pass Office From Jap Prison In P. I. AIR TRANSPORT
Gives Lowdown
Reach Treasure Island ~~~T::~E:~ND
On Rationing They look old beyond their years,

In an effort to attack the gasoline the first Navy men to log in at The Air Transport Command
rationing problem from the oppo- Treasure Island after being liber- Band of Hamilton Field will appear
site end, the Treasure Island Pass ated from a Japanese prison camp on the stage of Theatre No. 1 at
Office has issued a few suggestions in the Philippine Islands. 1945 Monday evening, March 12, for
for better care of your automobile. The men, six in number and all one show . . The band program will
It is recommended that every chief petty officers, regained their be given following the showing of
car be lubricated and greased every freedom on January 30, when the the movie, "Eadie Was a Lady."
6th Infantry Ranger Battalion
800 miles and at that time the The orchestra is one of the top
seized Prisoner of War Camp One,
spark plugs be cl-eaned. It is im- swing bands in the armed services
located at Cabanatuan, 75 miles
portant that the work be performed and is directed by Joey Stabile,
regularly, the reason being that north of Manila. popular saxophonist. The comple-
the quality of lubricants is no long- The chiefs spent three years as ment also includes, other noted per-
Japanese prisoners of war. Two
. er as high, and that gasoline which form,ers from name bands, viz:
normally would not cause ineffici- were captured at Corregidor, three Johnny "Trombone" Shuman, form-
ency in operation until about 8000 at Fort Hughes, and one in Manila. erly with Glenn Miller; Benny
miles will now almost ruin the During their internment, all suf- Stabler, formerly with Woody
plugs at 1200 miles. fered from malnutrition. Carl Sil- Herman, and Tris Hauer, trum-
LI BERATED-Six chief petty officers pictured above recently arrived verman, ACMM, still walks ~with a
The automobile situation' is this: peter from Charley Spivak's orch-
at Treasure Island aner being freed by ranger battalion fr,om Japanese heavy limp, beri-beri has swollen
There are only 200 cars allotted to prisoner of war camp in Philippine Islands. They were interned three his leg so. estra.
California until the end of the war. years, saw fellow Americans beaten and sh,ot by Jap captors. Daily
Fifty are allotted to the bay area. ration in camp was one-half pound of rice a day per man, and all suf-• James B. McCarthy, CY, who
fered from malnutrition. was chief yeoman to the com-
There are 88 ration boards in the NEW CIVILIAN BADGES
mandant of the Sixteenth Naval
bay area to allot the 50 cars. Out District, which comprised the
of this 50 must come all of the Auto Mechanics Badly Commodore Cary to Philippines, told of the· execution AT T. I. PASS· OFFICE
new police fire department, and by the Japanese of four American
necessary public vehicles. As a re- Needed On T. I.; Be Heard in Treasure soldiers in May, 1942, for attempted It has been announced that ef-
sult, all others will be negligible. escape. This occurred at Camp fective March 12, 1945, the yel!ow
Gasoline for civilians to carry on Good Wages Offered Island Broadcast Three, where most of the chiefs Treasure Island civilian employee
business has been cut to the abso- were imprisoned before being badge will no longer be accepted as
lute minimum. The tire outlook is Have you a friend or a relative The Treasure Island radio pro- transferred to Camp One. admittance to Treasure Island and
the worst yet. who is an auto mechanic and who grams, broadcast each Sunday "I talked to the soldiers two days Y erba Buena Island.
would like to do something more to morning at 1115 from KGO, San The new civilian badge may be
The Pass Office recommends the before they tried to escape," Mc-
help win the war? If you know Francisco, are proving more pop- obtained now at the Pass Office.
following rules to make your car Carthy declared. "They were at
such a person in the bay area get ular as the weeks go by, according
and your tires last as long as pos- Fort Drum when it was taken, and
in touch .with him (or her) im- to comments received here. a squatting position, so that they
sible: they told me that after going
mediately and tell him to apply at could neither stand nor sit on the
1. Arrange a definite rider-pool the Civilian Personnel Office on the In next Sunday's 15-minute pro- through 48 hours of horror there,
plan if possible. island. gram Ernie Smith, news commen- they had resolved not to remain ground. Their caps were taken
away. For two or three days they
2. Lubricate and grease your tator, will interview Commodore prisoners of the Japs at any cost.
The Civilian Personnel Office is R. W. Cary, USN, Commander, U. crouched there, their heads ex-
car every 800 miles. "They made good their escape posed to the boiling sun. They
3. Be sure to have the plugs issuing this appeal, via The Mast- S. Naval Training and Distribution simply by walking out of the prison
cleaned every 800 miles. head, to all station personnel. Auto Center. A part of the citation cere- compound. Unfortunately, they fell didn't receive a mouthful of food
4. Rotate your tires regularly. mechanics are needed badly at the mony which took place on the is- into the hands or a Jap patrol so far as I know. We were for-
Always keep in mind that the ra- Public Works garage, where all of land March 3 will also be broadcast. which brought them back to camp. bidden to go near them.
the vehicles you see dashing about
tioning of gasoline is not expressly "The J11;ps tied them to stakes in Continued on page 2
on the Treasure Island streets are
to save it-rather to save the even
more precious automobiles and given periodic face liftings. New First Aid Course
tires. It has been estimated that Lt. Chris C. Febiger (CEC), who First Wave On Treasure Island Detached ...
there will be no more new cars is transportation superintendent, on Inaugurated at OTS
for at leas~ three years. the island, told something of the
work done at the garage to illus- Operational . Training School is
Visitors' Regulations
If you are not sure just what trate the drastic need for additional now offering a course in first aid
civilian mechanics. which teaches men the basic prin~
the procedure is for obtaining gate
passes for civilians, the Pass Of- "We maintain approximately 645 ciples of first aid including bomb
fice points out that they have Navy vehicles here," he said, "and blasts and burns, fractures, artifi-
copies of the official pass regula- we follow a program of 'preventa- cial respiration and sex hygiene.
tions for Treasure Is~and. To avoid tive maintenance,' meaning that in- Those instructing this course are:
delays in obtaining passes, it would sofar as possible we give each L.A. Hall, PmM2c; W.W. Wood-
vehicle two kinds of inspections and man, PhMlc; and R. D. Wilcoxson,
be well to pick up a copy of the thousand PhM3c.
regulations at the Pass Office, lo- check-ups-one every
cated outside the main gate in the miles and another more complete
Administration Building. job every 6,000 miles. This takes a
lot of mechanics and we need more ST. PATRICK'S DAY
immediately."
Lt. Febiger said that many
FARRAGUT HOUSES vehicles on the island are driven FROLIC ON TAP
the 1,000 mile mark every week
PRISONERS OF WAR and upwards of 4,000 miles every FOR TONIGHT
month. · All hands are reminded that
G~rman prisoners of war-more
than 200 of them- are now quar- At the present time, he said, the the station dance will get under
tered in the Butler Overflow section only reason the work gets done at way at 2000 this evening at Gym
outside the main gate at Farragut all is because there are 40 sailors No. 1.
Naval Training Center, according working in the garage who should The decks are cleared for huge
to a recent issue of the Farragut be at sea and whom the fleet needs numbers of colleens invited from
News. very badly. There is a turnover in the surrounding vicinity who will
An Army unit will be in charge the enlisted personnel, too, which be Treasure Island's guests for
of guarding the prisoners, but Navy creates a problem. Lt. Febiger said the evening.
seamen guards will conduct groups that the garage should and must Aside from attractive dancing
of the prisoners in working parties eventually be manned completely partners there will be food-as
on the Center. by civilian personnel.
The qualifications are simple, the much and as often as you want
The News said Navy spectators it-and the "make you wanna
were impressed by the slight main requirement being that an ap-
stature of the "supermen," few of plicant for a job should have at dance" rhythms of the Treasure
least 18 months of practical experi- Island band, all of which couldn't
whom seemed to be more than five
ence in automotive repair. add up to anything but a thor-
feet, six inches tali. -oughly enjoyable evening.
Many a Treasure Island sailor The Public Works garage works
will recall Butler"' Overflow or three shifts and wages are based Just in case your name is
"B.0." as the place where men at- on the 40-hour week, with time and O'Leary, Maccarthy, -or perhaps HONOLULU BOUND is Lt (jg) Lois E. Wilson, who receiv~s her ship-
one-half for overtime. Top wages ping out orders fr.om Lt. Commander E .. M. Moore, TADCEN personnel
tache.d to the Outgoing .Unit were Shannon, the decorations will be
for the day shift are $1.26 per hour. officer. Lt. (jg) Wilson first reported to Treasure Island in November,
housed, when the regular O.G.U. in true Kelly green.
1942, and was the first Wave aboard. Since that time she has se·rved as
barracks wer-e full, Continued on page 2 assistant personnel officer for TADCEN.