jWecInesHay, January 16, 1946
THE NEBRASKAN
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for a year. .
He intends to board the first
stateside ship, but would like to 1
hear from Francis, Phelps and
"any of the old
meantime.
in the
"any of the old boys '
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BY SSGT. NORRIS ANDERSON.
(Marine corps Combat Corre
spondent, former sports editor of
The Nebraskan.)
TIENTSIN, China. (Delayed).
W. H. "Bill" Wallace used to look
on with pride at the Ail-American
grid and track accomplishments of
his fraternity roommate, Sam
Francis, at the University of Ne
braska. Recently liberated from the ci
vilian Japanese prison internment
camp at Weishen, Wallace now
wants to contact his old room
mate. Playing Football.
"Haven't heard from Sam since
the Japs moved into Tientsin
about six years ago," said Wal
lace today in his office at the British-American
Tobacco company
here. "I think he was playing
pro-football somewhere then."
The son of Mrs. W. F. Wallace
of Exeter, Neb., Wallace lived
across the street from Thurston
Phelps, the 1937 Cornhusker pas
sing mainstay. "We used to toss
a football around the vacant lots
in Exeter," recounts Wallace "and
Thursty always had a terrific
arm."
Japan slipped into control 1 of
Tientsin so gradually seven years
ago, according to Wallace, that
foreign occupants of the city
"hardly realized the extent of the
war until Dec. 7, 1941." Then
citizens of enemy nations were re
quired to wear identifying arm
bands until removal to Weishen
in March, 1943.
Japanese occupation of Tientsin
' brought tremendous inflation and
lowered the Tiealth standards: of
the city. Wallace said it was a
common sight to see Japanese sol
diers carry a satchel full of "home
made money" when they went
night-clubbing or dining.
Among the 1800 internees in the
Pharmacy College
Purchases New
Type of Apparatus
Pharmacy college recently pur
chased a new type distiller-extractor
apparatus to facilitate re
moval of drugs and oils from
plants, according to Dr. Arthur
Schwarting, pharmacognosist.
The apparatus is ten feet high
v and covers ten square feet of floor
space. Dr. Schwarting stated that
it would be useful in completing
research on pyrethrum, a flower
from the daisy group which looks
like a "black-eyed Susan" and
produces an extract which is one
f of the principal ingredients of
powerful commercial insecticides.
The extractor will be placed in
operation about Feb. 1.
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civilian assembly with Wallace
at Weishen were 400 Catholic
fathers and nuns They shared
the same food allowances of two
ounces of scrap per da and re
ceived unbiased treatment. Wal
lace started working in the kitch
en and eventually moved up to
"head cook." .
"It was mostly a matter of dis
guising the spoiled food with
heavy spices and converting
scraps into cake," grinned the 33
year old Nebraskan. "Anyway, I
should make some girl a versatile
cook."
News Scarce.
News from home was scarcer
than caviar at the Weishen mess.
Wallace did not hear until 1945
about the wartime lethargy into
which Cornhusker football had
slipped.
"When I bumped into that
string of Indiana and Minnesota
54-pointers, I really rubbed my
eyes," said Wallace. "It still
doesn't seem possible because the
last thing I heard, Nebraska was
in the Rose Bowl."
Received No Mail.
A member of Sigma Alpha Ep
silon, Wallace has been employed
by the British-American Company
since his graduation in 1937. He
has not been home since and has
received no mail from the states
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