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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, SEPT. 27, 1949
Official Bulletin
Sept. 27. 1949
Quill club. 7 tonight, East room,
Union. Bring any manuscripts.
Y. M. C. A. Funfest. 7:15 tonight,
Recreation room, Union.
Jewish Student Union "Get Acquainted" meeting, 4 p.m. today, 1247 Ohio.
Sigma Kappa Epsilon business meeting, 7 tonight, 402 Lindley. Sigma Delta Chi, 7 tonight, 107 Journalism.
Notice to former Boy Scouts and members: Alpha Phi Omega, 7:30 tonight, Kansas room, Union.
Women's Rifle club, 7 tonight. 107 Military Science building. Those interested in becoming members are invited.
Jay Jane rush tea, 3-5 p.m. tomorrow, Kansas room, Union. Alpha Chi Omega, Chi Omega, Corbin, Carruth and Independents at large are invited.
Bacteriology club, 7:30 p.m. Wed.nesday, 417 Snow. First meeting of the year.
YWCA Cabinet, 4 p.m. Wednesday East_room, Union.
El Ateneo se reunira el jueves 29 de Septiembre en el cuarto 113 del Strong.
Carruth hall hour dance, 7-8 p.m.
Wednesday.
A. I.E.E. meeting, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, 426 Lindley. Dr. Wilson soaker. Refreshments.
Le Cercle français, sept heures
et demie, mercredi, 113 Strong.
Tous d'ux qui s'interessent au francais sont invites.
Independent Women's Senate, 5 p.m. Thursday, 107 Strong.
Applications for Business School association chairmanships of professional, social, publicity. Jayhawk News editor, service and membership committees are to be made with Miss Ewing, 214 Strong hall before Thursday.
American Institute of Chemica Lindley auditorium. Dr. J. O. Maloney, speaker. Former members and new students in chemical engineering.
K. U. Amateur Radio club, 5 p.m.
Thursday, radio shack, E. E. Lab.
All licensed amateurs. Election of
officers.
Two Men Attend Industrial Course
Domenico Gagliardo, professor of economics, and Arthur Inman, chemical research engineer of the University research foundation, are attending the industrial mobilization planning course that began Monday in Kansas City under the auspices of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.
This course, given in 16 regional centers of the nation this year and in 1950, runs from Sept. 26 through Oct. 7. Study and class hours are four hours daily for two 5-day weeks. The Industrial College of the Armed Forces prepares military officers and civilians for important industrial mobilization assignments. The college studies all phases of national economy, logistic planning and interrelation with political, military and psychological factors. It also studies peacetime and potential wartime governmental agencies and organizations.
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Pharmacy Junior To Get PW Bonus Of $1,206
How would you like to do heavy manual labor for a half a cent an hour?
Francis Bell, pharmacy junior, labored with pick and shovel for 10 hours a day, seven days a week for approximately 1,206 days. He received 5 cents a day as wages for a period of about a month, and then no compensation for the re mainder of this time.
He did this during the 40 months he was a prisoner of war in Japan. As a result of his experience, Bell will receive roughly $1,206 from the was crimes commission.
Bell said that he had not thought much about the money he will receive, but that he would probably use it to help him to finish school. He lives with his wife and two-year-old son at 1230 Haskell in Lawrence.
Bell, who is from Wellsville, Kan., was captured with the 59th coast artillery corps on May 6, 1942, when Fort Mills, located on Corregidor island, was surrendered to the Japanese.
"After being captured, I worked on various air strips in the Philippines for about a month or so," said Bell, "For which I was paid 5 cents a day. This was my cigarette money," he added.
A short time later he was sent to Sendai, on northern Honshu, and was required to work in the lead and zinc mines there.
"There was at least four feet of snow on the ground when we arrived at Sendai, and the only clothing we had to wear was that which we happened to bring with us from the Philippines," he said. "And we lived in cold barracks and slept on plain wooden boards that were fastened to the walls," he added.
"Our meals weren't too bad," Bell remarked. "Our diet consisted of a pound of rice a day together with a few green of some sort. Sometimes we had fish, and occasionally they served us caribou, which tasted similar to beef," he said.
Bell said that the kind of treatment received in the prison camp was entirely up to the camp commander.
"I guess I was pretty lucky," he said, "because our camp commander was fairly decent." "The guards were always telling us of all the battles their country had won, how many prisoners they had taken, and so forth. Two or three times we were given lectures and newspapers, printed in English, telling of all of the Japanese victories and other propaganda," he added.
About a week or so following V-J day, Bell said that they were all assembled by the camp commander and told that the war was over. One of the American officers was then placed in charge and the Japanese abandoned the camp.
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"We stopped work immediately and, after contacting the American forces, we headed for Tokyo," Bell said. "A few of us flew to the Philippines in an air force B-25 and later caught a navy transport to the United States," he added.
After being discharged from the army on March 30,1946, Bell returned to Wellsville and operated a gasoline station. In the fall of 1947 he enrolled at the University in the school of pharmacy.
"When I graduate," Bell said." I would like to manage a drug store somewhere, but as of now I am not sure where I want to locate."
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