Word: wermuth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Arthur William Wermuth, 32, rough, tough, erstwhile "One-Man Army of Bataan"; and Patricia Steele, 23, Denver parachutist; he for the second time (not including a Filipino nurse whose claim that they were married in 1941 he has persistently denied), she for the first; in Wheatland...
Major Arthur W. ("One-Man Army") Wermuth was all set to marry a lady parachute-jumper as soon as his wife got her divorce; he had a farm and filling station in Hill City, S.D. Said he: "I'm going to raise horses, cattle, and kids...
Major Arthur Wermuth, the erstwhile "One-Man Army of Bataan," now touring with an air circus (though he was not a wartime flyer), flew higher & higher. Mrs. Fred Steele of Denver announced that he and her daughter-a parachutist with the circus-were engaged to be married. No word came from the Filipino nurse who claimed he married her in 1941 (she's suing for an annulment). Word did come from his Traverse City, Mich, wife of the past ten years-"Well, that does befuddle...
Major Arthur Wermuth, famed "One-Man Army" of Bataan, announced that in Michigan he would be a candidate for the U.S. Senate. In Manila one Olivia Josephine Oswald, shapely Filipina, announced that she was Mrs. Arthur Wermuth, sued for an annulment (and 200 pesos a month). He had married her, said she, on the roof of a Manila hotel in 1941; as parti i evidence she produced a group photo of herself, the one-man army, and another couple. She called it a wedding-day picture. Major Wermuth, married to a U.S. girl since 1935, called it just a picture...
...cheering word that men long believed dead had survived. Three hundred men of the cruiser Houston, unreported for the three-and-a-half years since their ship was sunk in Sunda Strait, were discovered alive in Thailand. Vanished heroes came back as it were from the dead: Captain Arthur Wermuth, the "one-man army" of Bataan; Commander Richard Hetherington O'Kane, of the missing submarine Tang; Commander Winfield Scott Cunningham, naval commander at Wake Island...