Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 October 1943 — Page 12
On Murder of WAC in Hotel Room.
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|coroner, today declared that his :. investigation clearly showed that | |“the key to the whole crime is the . {mysterious woman in black.” | “Find her and you will solve the | lwhole mystery of the murder,” Dr, TE. {Storms said. “I am convinced the —— | |woman in black either killed Cpl. SE BRE SMEAR Ridings herself’ or she knows who Maj. W. H. Burke (left) of the prison industries branch of the war | 4 xii her” production board, Governor Schricker (center) and A. F. Miles, Indiana | v.. «woman in black” was among reformatory superintendent, hold .the national WPB national service [., 4. “suspects” called to the award presented to prisoners yesterday for theeir war effort,
| rs gr attention of Indianapolis detectives TURKEY TO AID | Brooklyn Woman
when they found the mutilated body To Get Sorghum
of Cpl. Ridings on the floor of BALKAN PUSH? OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 5 (U.
Room 729, Claypool hotel. P.).~Governor Robert 8. Kerr
: Bellboy’s Story A hotel bellboy said that a woman . { said today he can understand the Allied ‘Invasion Won't Be piignt of anyone plagued for 29
dressed in black was sitting on the bed in Cpl. Ridings’ room whea nti i years by memories of sorghum Until Spring, Informed | | Cc ind po Jodbum SE Observers Believe.
: he deiivered six cokes and a pail will have to be depersonally a gallon to a Brooklyn (decision to be made. The (u,quINGTON, Oct. 5 (U. P.).—
glided whether to pay everyone the same scale, regardless of whether
of ice to the WAC at approximately woman.
4:48 p. m. The murder of Miss Ridings was discovered a few minutes after 8 p. m. that evening. No The woman, Mrs. Emma Brad- ; : uld be taken ! ner, recently wrote to Kerr comfrom the ¢ Inmates VY the prison | Tas ey Sisiaiad on! plaining that easterners had no {would not invade the Balkans this
clew to the identity of the woman tndustries. appreciation for the finer delicaMaj. W. H. Burke, chief of thei, "nat when they do—prob-
in black has been found. Dr. Storms’ formal verdict stated that the principal cause of death cles such as sorghum and asking (was “the severance of the left ptison ustries ch of the war | _ ,{ for the name of an Oklahoman jugular vein with extensive hemorpo on board, Who presented oy join § Sri emma | who would sell her half a gallon. |rhages and a blow on the head by the award to Warden A: PF. Miles, | y 1 'e this fall is! Mrs. Bradner said she used to a person or persons unknown.” ; in his praise of the! A Balkan o ensive is Ia | live in parts wheré people recog- . Reo 2 NE En reformatory and | impossible, according to these offi-| 04 rohum as a tasty joy, but Cut After Death | other state institutions. |Clals, because Balkan roads—ost that for 29 years no drop of the | The verdict stated that the murWe jof them little more than trails—| stuff could she find. Kerr prom- |gerer “cut the wrists and rad Said State Leads {will be impassable for motorized | ised to get a gallon somewhere |arteries after death.” : He said Indiana institutions led equipment after Nov. 1. Gerfarys| ang send it to Brooklyn. Then he . those in all other states in working | Invasion of that area Was In the remembered he will be in New in behalf of the war effort. | ng. ’ | York on Oct. 16 and decided to The reformatory up to date has | But an ‘allied offensive next| deliver it in person. Et ae i n, 15,300 side o sh a | Mo bra fo the ry. 100 prepa avoir diplomat sia: | THREE - STREET BIDS 7 units {tion with the Soviet Union, observ-| Bi siate_ schools and has canned ers predicted. They pointed out ACCEPTED BY BOARD 65978 gallons of food so far this} that Soviet Russia always has con-| Bids accepted by the works board year. And the canning is not aly sidered Mie pul hey Aptiere oon three street resurfacing projects done yet. te ree. a y the Were announced today as follows: The reformatory is supplying sev- felt the same way use of the ’ “ eral other state institutions with | long reign of the Ottoman empire Central ave. between 38th and 52d food. over that area. ean Rapharee et at oar Asphalt Paving 0., 631.26; Says They Earned It : Russia May Object | Grady Bros, $57,264.40. ture,” the! Turkey and the Soviet Union,| Pennsylvania st from 16th to 22d hd A Me voix to the consequently, have been more or less sts., asphaltic concrete, Indiana tation ceremony. “This is not Suspicious of each other's aims. Rus- | Asphalt Paving Co., $6677.32; Grady PE to please you but be- |Sla’s century-old desire for an out-| Bros, $8211. being have earned it.” {let to the Mediterranean, through | Twentieth st, between Talbott : Sy. Or ed that the the Bosporus and the Dardanelles,’ sWo. and Bellefontaine st, bitureformatory - had oversubscribed also conflicts with Turkey's deter-| minous-coated aggregate, Grady its bond quota four times, buying |Mination to maintain control of pros, $5158; Indiana Asphalt Pay$15.48 in bonds, Approximately those strategic straits. ing Co., $6819.15. $9000 of that amount was purchased oh There Rave been reposts for tome eet rato s— {time that Turkey's desire to have by the employees and guards and JTC Le TRY ech wapteto MORE WOMEN SOUGHT ihe governor also sid that in-[COunteract Russia's probable de-| TO DRIVE CONVOYS donated 948. pints of | mands in the Balkan and Aegean . of them having donated area—probably would force her to| An appeal for more. women vol- . Ld ‘unieers who are capable drivers wo assist in navy convoy duty was Is-
Dr. Storms said his autopsy showed that Cpl. Ridings had consumed about 10 ounces of 100-proof whisky shortly before her death, | “A broken whisky bottle found near the body was believed to have /been the murder weapon.
lator who was questioned in the murder of Cpl. Maoma L. Ridings at Indianapolis Aug. 28, was returned to the Michigan City state prison today after escaping from a parole officer. Dearmond fled from the officer last night as they emerged from a cafe where they had eaten dinner, but he was captured shortly afterward by Deputy Sheriff Norval Neas and Officer Ben Powell who found him crouching near a railroad shack west of town.
CIVIL SERVICE SEEKS WMC JOB ANALYST
An examination to fill the position of occupational analyst in the sixtn regional office of the war manpower commission was -an-
__|abandon her ‘neutral status and {join the united nations. A high
LEBANON, Ind, Oct. 5 (U. P.).— Robert Dearmond, 40, a parole vio- |
WAR PICTURES STUDIED
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J, Oct. § (U,P).~Palmer Hoyt, director of
5 domestic branch of the office of
war information, told the Néw Jer-
'united nations official revealed last month that the United States and {Great Britain were supplying Turkey with military equipment for eventual use against Germany, The sources who predicted that
sued today by Mrs. Richard Wall, chairman of the drivers’ corps. of the Marion county civilian defense council, Convoys to Chicago will continue twice a week from now until Nov.
nounced today by the U., 8. Civil Service commission. Legal or voting residents of Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin are eligible to apply. The position pays $3146 annually. Applicants must have at least three
~ sey Press association last night, dur- | Turkey would join the allies in the ing a discussion of pictures of Balkans said that there were two American war dead, that the “only [other factors that might prevent way we can keep ourselves free of any immediate action: Turkey's the charge of propaganda is to run | weakness in military equipment the whole story of the war in its and the present proximity of Gerproper perspective.” man air bases to Turkey.
10 to transfer 750 trucks. The convoys are in charge of Lt. Cmdr. Thomas McGuire and a plan for using local volunteers was worked out when he conferred with Mrs. Rex Schopp, a member of the civilian defense motor corps.’
years of responsible experience in industrial establishments leading to familiarity with personnel practice and personnel assignments and must have demonstrated ability to meet and deal satisfactorily with the public.
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J 4 ’ By BRYDON C. TAVES ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, beheading of an allied flier captured by the Japanese in New
He described the victim as a ‘captain or flight lieutenant in the air transport corps, one of two members of the crew of a plane shot down near Salamaua on March 18. (The dispatch did not state whether the flier was American or Australian, but the designation of his command as the air transport corps raised the possibility that he might have been Australian. There is no rank of captain in the Australian air force and no flight lieutenant rating in the American air force.)
Recall Tokyo Incident
THE ONLY OTHER known case of its kind was the execution of several American fliers who were taken prisoner by the Japanese after the April 18, 1942, raid on Tokyo and other Japanese cities, The Japanese said at that time that every American participat-
says:
ing in future raids on their territory “has -a special pass to hell.” ~ { The entire Japanese garrison at Salamaua assembled to watch | their commander wield the Samu- - ral sword on the 23-year-old flier, bound and surrounded by the fixed bayonets of enemy guards, A verbatim translation of the diary, made public at Gen, Douglas MacArthur's headquarters, gave this account of the execution: ~ ” n
‘Samurai’s Death’
“MARCH 29; we are all assembled in front of headquarters | at 1500 hours. One of two mem- | bers of the crew of a Douglas plane downed by anti-aircraft fire on March 18 has been returned to Salamaua under guard of a tai (generally applied to an officer with the rank of captain “or higher). PE 2 “The tal commander told us personally that it had been decided to execute him. He was to be accorded a Samuraj's death, so the commanding officer of the Komai Tai was to decapitate him with his favorite sword. “We were assembled to- witness
the executiofi. rives. The prisoner is given a
house, The chief surgeon, the commander of the Komai Tai,
commander with the sword came from the officers’ mess.
‘The Time Has Come’
“THE TIME has come, The of war totters forward with his arms tied. His hair is cut close. I feel that he suspects what is afoot, but he is more com- | posed than I thought he would be. | “Without more ado, he is put on ' the truck and taken to the place of execution. The prisoner of war sits beside the chief surgeon and | about 10 guards accompany them.
along the road in the hush of twilight. The sun has set. Columns of clouds rise up before us. Dusk . has descended all around. I glance at the prisoner; he seems to be '
SCAN HIGH SCHOOLS FOR FLYING CADETS
“Indianapolis high schools will become the testing ground tomorrow for an intensified program to recruit army aviation cadets from every high school in Indiana. With the co-operation of Dr. C. ‘T. Malan, state superintendent
Morgan, superintendent of schools, Maj. Walker W. Winslow, Indiana wing commarider of the civilian air patrol, has announced that convo-
schools within the next few weeks. The schedule is Broad Ripple high school, 10 a. m., tomorrow; Washington, 10:15 a. m., Thursday; Crispus Attucks, 10:15 a. m., Friday; Technical, 10:15 a. m., Oct. 13;
ridge, 11:45 a. m., Oct. 19, and
Howe, date to be announced later. CAP and army air force officers
STUDENTS RECEIVING
“You Are to Die’
“WE ARRIVE at the execution
ground. The Komal Tal commander faces the prisoner and
“‘You are to die. I am going to kill you with this Japanese sword according to the Samurai code.’ : “When the Tai commander says he will allow the captain two or three minutes to prepare himself
for death, I hear him. (the pris
oner) mumble something which sounds something like ‘one.’ “The Tal commander's face is stern. Now the time has come. The prisoner of war is made to sit on the bank of a bomb crater which is full of water. The precaution 1s taken of surrounding him with guards with fixed bayonets, » » n
Prisoner Is Unshaken
“BUT, THE PRISONER remains unshakéh to the last. When I put myself in his place, the hate engendered by this daily bombing yields to ordinary human feelings. “The Tal commander draws his favorite sword, the famous osamune. The sight of the glittering blade sends cold shivers down my spine. “First, he touches the prisoner's neck lightly with the sword. Then he raises it overhead. His arm muscles bulge. The prisoner. closes his eyes for a second, and at once the sword sweeps down, “Shh—it sounds at first like the noise of the cutting, but it is actually made by blood spurting from the arteries. The body falls forward. - _ : :
All Is Over’ .
“EVERYBODY STEPS forward as the head rolls on the ground. Dark blood gukhes from the trunk. All is over. There lies the head like a white doll. I realize that the emotions I felt just now were not personal pity but a manifestation of the magnanimity that becomes a chivalrous Samurai. “A superior seaman from a
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| medical unit receives the sword | from the surgeon.
body onto its back.
“‘Here’s something for the
i other day. Take that’ he says,
Cmdr. Tsukioka.
“‘These thick-headed white «= = «= = =» « are thick-bellied, too,” he remarks. - - : “There is not a drop of blood left in the man’s body. The seaman gives it a kick and then buries it. “The wind blows mournfully and the scene prints itself in my: mind. We set off back. Darkness descends. In front of headquarters we got off the truck. “If I ever get back alive this will make a good stdry to tell “N. B.:' The prisoner killed today was an air force tai (captain or flight licutenant) from Port Moresby. He was a young man, aged 23, an instructor in the ‘A. T. C. at Moresby.” The announcement of the be-. heading from MacArthur's headquarters identified the officer who performed the execution as SubLt. 1st Class Komai. The next senior officer responsible was Lt.-
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