FULTON COUNTY MAN
CAPTURED BY GERMANS
Tells of Inhuman and Brutal
Treatment Received While %
in German Prison
Gamp Pike, Mch. 1.— Enos
E. Fra/*''!- believed to be the
only Arkansas boy held a pris
oner by the Germans for five
months, before his discharge
here, revealed another chap
ter of the story of German
brutality toward American
prisoners. Frazier fought in
the Chateau Thierry drive,
and now he has just left for
his home at South Fork, Fulton
County, where a widowed mo
ther, from whom he has not
heard since May, 1918, is wait
ing to greet her son.
In relating his experiences
to interested groups of listen
ers at Camp Pike, Frazier dis
played wonder at the newspa
per references to criticisms of
the Y. M. C. A. “A ‘Y’ man
helped me to get out of Ger
many” he said, in telling of
his capture and escape.
Frazier was captured on the
fifth day of the Chateau
Thierry drive while under an
apple tree trying to loosen a
shell which had got stuck in
his gun.
“Something hit me on the
head,” said Frazier. “I turned
and saw a bunch of Germans
who had slipped around and
got to me from the back. I
tried to fight back, when one
of them—an officer, I think,
hit me with a club. Our sec
ond wave was coming on and
the Germans who caught me
were dropping around me.
Yelling 'swine’ they beat and
kicked me and when our sec
ond wave was near they grab
bed me and partly dragged me
toward their line, one of them
holding a pistol on me. I knew
they’d kill me if I tried to fight
longer. When they got me to
their line they grabbed my ra
tions, and went for the food
as though starved. One of them
a sergeant probably, put his
heavy pack on my back and
then, shot up as I was, I had
to walk live miles with that
pack on my back. I tried to
walk straight, because when 1
didn’t they’d beat me up and
kicked me.”
Then he and three other
Americans were taken to a
hospital where he suffered
terribly all night with a
wounded foot, which was not
dressed until the next after
noon.
How inconsiderate the Ger
mans were of their patients
was indicated by Frazier when
told of the operation by the
German surgeon. “He came in
and began sharpening his
knife, and then began cutting
my foot, getting out the broken
bone; and I just had to sit
there. They didn’t give an an
aesthetic or do anything to
stop the pain. I wouldn’t com
plain for anything because
that was what they wanted;
to hear an American cry out.
When the surgeon finished he
wrapped the foot in paper
bandages.”
Frazier was taken through
Berlin to the prison camp for
the English at Stargartt, where
he was held for three months.
He developed lockjaw and was
saved only by an English phy
sician in the hospital. Later,
he was removed to Aldham
and finally to Stettin, where he
was when the armistice was
signed.
l ney didn t want to give
us any clothes,’ ’said Frazier.
“They said we could go as we
had come. I had been strip
ped of my uniform. At one
place they took my blouse, at
another my breeches and my
puttees, so that by the time I
had reached the hospital I did
n t have anything. We fussed
around with them and finally
they gave us each a blouse and
a thin pair of pants, and we
had to go barefooted.” He
says that the German inter
preter at the hospital treated
him kindly. The interpreter
said that he had not gone to
the front and did not intend to
do so. He was coming to Am
erica he declared.
“All we had to eat was
bread made of potato peeling
and sawdust, and barley wat
er. I nearly starved until we
got packages from the Red
Cross; and later the Y. M. C.
A. sent us packages from Co
penhagen every month. The
Germans did not have any
more. They would go out and
hunt for potato peelings and
eat those. They were wearing
paper clothes, most of them.”
After being released, Fra
zier and his companions cross
ed the Baltic to Copenhagen,
whence they went to Leith,
Scotland. From there they
went to England and then to
Brest, France. Frazier was a
member of Company F, 163rd
Infantry and left Camp Beau
regard May 29, reaching Fran
ce in June.
SEED CORN
In some parts of Arkansas
the corn crop last year was a
failure and where there were
fairlv yv,.ju yields the grain in
most instances is of poor quali
ty and shows the effects of the
severe summer drouth. This
means that good seed corn for
spring planting is going to be
scarce. If Arkansas is to have
a good corn crop in 1918 the
farmer must have good seed—
seed suited to the climate and
strong in germinating quality.
Farmers who have their
seed put away should this
month test every ear for ger
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that fail to show vitality. This
is a simple process. Every
school boy should know how
to germinate grain. A wet
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hours and by the sprouts you
may know the ears from which
the grain came. A bulletin on
the testing of seed corn and
the selection of varities may
be had by writing to the Col
lege of Agriculture at Fayette
ville.
Where there is a scarcity of
seed corn the farmers of the
community should get together
and arrange to order in car lots
so as to get the best price and
the best freight rates. It is
going to be difficult to get
good native seed corn. The
Extension Division, College of
Agriculture, Fayetteville, the
U. S. Bureau of Markets Little
Rock, Couty Agent and the
State Bureau of Mines, Manu
factures and Agriculture will
assist the farmer in locating
supplies of good seed corn.
JIM G. FERGUSON,
Commissioner of Agriculture
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COLLECTOR'S NOTICE
The undersigned, Collector
of Revenue for Independence
County, Arkansas, will attend
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of the townships in Indepen
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And after the last named
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1919.
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