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RESCUED IN PHILIPPINES.

Three Missourians Among Group
Removed From Islands.

General MacArthur’s Headquar-
ters, Philippines, Oct. 22 (Delayed).
(AP)—The names of the first
eighty-three American prisoners of
war to be rescued from the Philip-
pines were released here today.||
They were on a torpedoed enemy |i
transport and were hidden by guer-
rillas until removed from the is- ||
lands.

Three men from Missouri were |}
among the eighty-three. They were
Lieut. John -C. Playter of Joplin, |({
Lieut. James K. Vann of Winona|}
and Cpl. E..A Motsinger of Webb
City. |
Also. included in the list was|)
Lieut. Ralph R. Johnson, whose ad- |;
dress was given as Springfield, O.|/
He is the brother of Mrs. Robert |!
Dodds, 3325 Farrow street, Kansas
City, Kansas. —

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PLANE BULLETS HIT TOWN.
Carey, Ind—Residents of Carey
recently had a taste of. war when
more than 100 50-caliber machine-
gun bullets tore through houses and
ricocheted from sidewalks. It was
later reported that the bullets came.
from planes firing at a towed target
at 20,000 feet. Fortunately, no one
was injured.
ee er nS
Not a Plane of Armada ‘of
2,500 Is Lost.

Lonpon, Oct. 23.(AP)—Achiev-
ing complete mastery of European
skyways, 2,500 American and Brit-
ish planes roamed hundreds of
miles into Germany yesterday at-
tacking six separate targets with-
out a single loss.

It was the first time an ne
of this size had escaped at least
some minor tage casualties. Only