Mrs. Mize
HAWAIIAN NURSE SPEAKS AT LIONS CLUB MEETING
Mrs. Mize, Hawaiian-born nurse, who witnessed the bombing of Pearl Harbor and Hickam field, gave a most interesting and inspiring description of the untold horrors of that raid before Lion members, their wives, and guests at the dinner-meeting held last night at Lake Prairie school in West Creek township.Mrs. Mize, a native Hawaiian, unfolded the story of terror and confusion caused by the unexpected Jap attack, and how she, with all other available young women and girls, working under martial law, spent several weeks in helping to remove the wounded, dead and dying soldiers, sailors and civilians from the bombed sections. Women were used almost entirely for this work, she explained, to relieve men for other duties. In her effort to impress on her audience the fact that there was a war going on in other parts of the world, Mrs. Mize unflinchingly described, to the smallest detail, the terrible experience she had undergone. Needless to say, there wasn't a person in the audience who wasn't visibly impressed by her display of courage in bringing the realities of war to them in such straightforward manner.
Mrs. Mize and her five-year-old son are at present living in Gary with her husband's parents. Mr. Mize, a prisoner of war, is being held by the Japs at Manilla.
The club again owe a vote of thanks to Merritt D. Metz for arranging another very interesting program. Miss Esther Barkley again favored with several songs, accompanied by Mrs. Morris Gilbert.
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