Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 March 1942 — Page 10

"RANGOON IS LEFT

RAVAGED SHEL Japs to Find City No-Man’s ‘Land When Final Torch Is Applied. By LELAND STOWE Con JL og pO Times | MANDALAY, March 6.--Accord-

ing to British and American eye-

~ witnesses who have just. arrived

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: | s a 9 o os : | \ » : 3 p AA Japanese in Hawaii Loyal To U. S., Author Declares Hawaii, only 273—and by no means escaped from one of the disabled offered their blood outnumbered all , Japanese—have been | two-man submarinés found a Nisei|other racial groups combined. anese in Hawali have proven loyal detained as suspicious characters,” |in American uniform waiting to| Many an American fighting man, | London Evening Standard published take him prisoner when he swam wounded during the raid, 18 DOW), renort today that white women

able to man his gun or fly his plane Japanese members of the Uni- [because he very literally has Japa had been driven into military broth-

By Science Service NEW YORK, March 6.—Jap-|all of them

to the United States since the first|the professor said. . bombs fell on Pearl Harbor, de-! pirst evidence came while the|ashore.

clares Prof. Blake Clark of the bombardment was just starting he University . of Hawaii whose eye-|explained. Alen-born Japanese versity of Hawail faculty immedi. nese blood in his veins.

witness book, “Remember Pearl servants in the house where Prof.|atel os . y put themselves at the service Harbor!” hat just been: published. Clark lives were first incredulous,(of the FBI Japanese surgeons Not only: the Nisei, American-|then stricken with horror and grief, treated the wounded Americans,

BLACKOUTS CUT READING PACIFIC GROVE, Cal. (U. P.).—|statements made in-the House of

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SAY JAPS PUT WHITE |e. mer be ade rita trenmens ant are conditions which WOMEN IN BROTHELS | ea StPiued Brith iter) ifn pesmers of She So pone

+ JJONDON, March 6 (U. P.).—The

YOU CAN STILL GET GLASSES ON EASY CREDIT TERMS DR. DAVID TAVEL Registered : ; Optometrist

els by Japanese military forces oc-

cupying Hongkong 4 “Information fully confirms the

born. of Japanese parentage, but|at the treachery of their fellow-| Qutweighing these deeds of cour- {Circulation of books at the public Lords by. Lord Stal

their alien-born elders who cannot |countrymen. become citizens, have stuck with During the raid, two Japanese response of the Japanese commun-

he said.

dun dier to man a machine gun. People of all races and classes vol- [because of blackouts, “Of all the 425,000 people in

The Japanese naval officer who'unteered, but the Japanese who'Joseph Belloli reports,

here after veiwing the last days of|

Rangoon, Burma’s capital is now virtually uninhabited and uninhabi) ~ itable as a result of the ruthlessly thorough work of the demolition squads. and also as a result of

The city is by fires

Mr. Stowe where - materials

were destroyed and the central|

streets littered with debris so that

enter, would find little more than a

the Japanese Tar they might|

ravaged shell where half a ‘million people once lived. I In the dock area pll the stocks which could not be moved have * been fired. Several hundred unassembled trucks, cars and jeeps in shipping cases have been burned in the past week. . Wholesale Ldoting

| q Other immovable materials were

' dumped into the harbor under the supervision of British demolition officers and such gaspline supplies as were not removed were ignited

at the dumps. Aside from these organized acescaped

tivities, several hun criminals, aided by some unruly natives created . chaotic conditions by wholesale Tooting. The largest department and luxury-goods stores in Rangoon were ransacked ai night when complete police control was

smashed what they could not take and dumped quantities of abandoned goods into the streets. The authorities were obliged to shoot a _ score or more pillagers| to check the looting. Order was restored in all sections where mniilitary or police supervision was maintained to the last minute but this had to be con- ! fined to certain districts which were _Amost important, Final Torch Awaited

Consequently, the stre other sections piled up giving Rangoon the aspect of a ked city in which, in any case, the Japs could seize little of resl value. Today Rangoon is a battered kind of no-man’s-land awaifing only the final torches in a few places where demolition work will be carried out only as a last resort. Only a few thousand old people remain aside from such lawless individuals as are hiding there. It is assured that the Japanese will have a major problem in reorganizing the life of the city whenever, if ever, they occupy: it.

Se a ORGANIZE. DEFENSE BOND SALES GROUP

Edwin J. Wuensch of the Indianapolis Bond and corp. today was named head of the Indianapolis’

“district, victory salés council, of the Indiana defense savings staff. At the same time J. Dwight Peterson, chairman of the council, named John W, Jordan, H, Foster Clippinger, Thomas D. Sheerin, J. Floyd King and Otto Frenzel, to serve on the committee with Mr. Wuensch to perfect an lization which will contact individuals, industries ‘and institutions which potential buyers of large blocks of defense bonds. 1 All of the committee members are “banking and investmenf, men. The Indianapolis district ins ludes Boone, Hamilton, Madison, Hendricks, Marion, Hancock and Morgan counties. | | . Mr. Peterson said’ the| council had named 13 other men district heads for Indiana counties. |

TWO TALK SATURDAY AT S. W. 0. C. MEETING

» Members of the 1 workers organizing committee will hear addresses by Russell W. McDermott, chairman of the county defense savings staff, and Maj. .. Robert H. Tyndall, county defense director, here Saturday. i , district | director of h | that Gen. Tyndall would speak to the convention in the C. ol hotel at 11 a. m. Mr. McDermott, he said, would talk to the group at 3 p. m.

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