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‘BANZAP BELIEF “FATAL FOR JAPS

Nip Fanaticism Assures U. S. of Sure but Costly Victory. Two United Press war corre-

Jpondents who have returned from the Marianas have written

the following description of the

American campaign there and of the {ype of enemy our men are faeing.

By MAC R. JOHNSON and RICHARD W. JOHNSTON United Press Staff Correspondents PEARL HARBOR, Aug. 17 (Delayed).—The fanaticism that sends the Japanese soldier to a charging, “banzai” death assures an eventual American victory in the Pacific,

But that victory will not be cheap.| -

Of this, we are convinced after covering three campaigns in the Marianas—Saipan, Guam and’ Tinfan. The Japanese is a strange enemy because he desires death. Always, in the back of his mind, there apparently is the dream of an eventual celestial reunion with the, warrior dead at the Yasukuni shrine. That morbid outlook, however, does

Cite Salpan Slaughter At Saipan, for instance, when the marines closed in on the main: Japanese force in. the mountains the Japs ceased to be a fighting | military unit. Instead they became! a collection of saki-crazed individ-| uals intent on death.

There, the Japanese made a des- |

perate, futile banzai attack on the morning of July 6. When {it was over we counted 4300 enemy dead compared with less than 1000 American casualties, and two days later organized resistance ceased. On Tinian, the enemy staged a banzai attack and then fell back in disorganized fighting and never were able to make a stand.

Same Thing at Guam They tried another banzai charge on Guam which carried them deep out of their lines, but it was like sticking a hand into a lion's mouth. | The Americans riddled the enemy | with rifie and machinegun fire | The death toll was 2760 Japanese dead. No Jap escaped alive, There-| after, the Japanese resistance decreased steadily. The Japanese do not have the,

spiritual belief, the civilized prin- |

ciples, the military thinking, the common sense, or the instinct to) quit when beaten. Thus, it appears likely that the remainder of our Pacific campaign will be a bloody battle of annihilation. It will be costly to the United | States but much costlier to the enemy.

WORKS HARD FOR NEPHEWS

FITCHBURG, Mass, (U. P.)—Although totally blind, 81-year-old suffering

i {their flags in tribute to their son,

(fighting in the South Pacific, and Mr, and Mrs. King unfurled a ban-

Pam on the coast of Normandy.

{the flags seem to establish a bond between them and the men and

Daily Flag Rating Ritual 5 3 Families

Here Fulfills Promise to

By DONNA MIKELS °°

A two-year-old boy in a kiddie car comes to attention; a greying mother en route to her war job steps into a neighboring yard; a, | middle-aged couple steps to the flagpole fronting their white bungalow. And as each of the group pays silent tribute to a member of his family serving overseas, three American flags are raised over the service star-studded homes. Such is a daily scene at the 200 block on E. Hoefgen street as three families honor a trio of men fighting on far-flung fronts. The vigil is more than an act of patriotism or tribute. It is the fulfillment of a promise to keep the flags waving until the trio returns, and it is an exhibition of faith that the men will return,

A New Pole

A flag was drawn to the top of the newly constructed pole in front of the Earl A. White home, 265 E. Hoefgen st., in September, 1943, as Mr. White left for the navy. Keeping her promise to her husband, Mrs. White has raised the flag every day since his departure, bringing it in only at sunsét and in inclement weather, On receipt of word that her husband, a carpenter's- mate 1<c¢, had arrived" in ~~ New Guinea in March, Mrs. White began teaching their small son, Earl Jr, to stand at attention as the flag was put on display. The ritual began at the Harry Sherman home, 248 E. Hoefgen st, and the George King residence, 238 { E., Hoefgen, on D-day—June 6. Marine in South Pacific and Mrs.

Mr. Sherman raised

Pfc. Charles E. Sherman, a marine ner for a son, Sgt. George C. King, who at that time was with an army air force squadron pounding Nazi Families of the men agreed that

that Old Glory waving daily seems to keep their courage alive.

Earl A. White Jr, braces himself in his kiddie car as he comes to atlention in salute to the flag being raised for his father, Earl White, carpenter's mate 1-c, serving on New Guinea. Mrs. White (left) raises the flag and Mrs. Harry Sherman (right), a neighbor, stands nearby. |

. THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

INFLATION HITS SPANISH LABOR

|wages Up 67%, Living Costs 250% but Somehow People Get Along.

By EDWARD P. MORGAN Times Foreign Correspondent

ON THE SPANISH FRONTIER— A chambermaid at the Palace hotel in Madrid does not make enough money for a day’s work to cover pos- | tage on an airmail letter to the

Men Overseas

WASHINGTON, Aug. commerce of the future will have to compete against the low rates of surface transportation. This means that flying boats, which are'boats will be much larger than more economical to operate, will ‘be used on long-range international routes in preference to the speedier lang planes, Capt. C. H. Schild- he states. * hauer, assistant director for Plans overwater transportation the tlying and . Logistics, Naval Air Transport Service, points out in Aviation mag|azine. A flying boat weighing 175,000 pounds costs $375,000 less to operate global air routes will go around |for the useful life of the plane than ja land plane of the same weight, {polar regions. states Capt. Schildhauer. This fig-; 'be some express air service over

Flying Boats Given Edge for Post-War Cargo

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ure is based on an over-all cost atthe North Pole, but the bulk of the routes will follow the path beaten by ships through the temperate zones, where the mass of the popu= lation is located. The world’s populations, except : many ocean-going vessels; they will{for the Central-Eurbpean area, live be strong; and they should ride|in the belt around the world berough water, given a fair chance,” [tween latitudes 45 degrees north : . I believe that for |and 20 degrees south, and where the population is, there also is trans= port business, he states. - There are few land areas which do not have ample water in the form of rivers and lakes, so that transcontinental as well as transoceanic service with flying boats would be practicable, Capt. Schildhauer advises.

depreciation, maintenance and crew pay. “The hull of the future flying

boat effects a distinct boost in the morale of the passenger.” Contrary to some conceptions, Capt. Schildhauer predicts that

the world, rather than across the There will probably

United States. She earns about 3 pesetas—30 cents at the official exchange rate —plus a small amount in tips. This wage scale is not an innovation of the Franco regime; such levels have existed in Spain for generations. Technically, labor is getting more money now than under the republic, t actually, the working man is suffering acutely from wartime inflation — a circumstance which cannot wholly be blamed on Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Since 1936, general living costs in Spain have increased roughly 250 per cent, while wages have advanced only 67 per cent.

Eggs $1.40 Per Dozen "Eggs cost 14 pesetas ($140) a dozen today; poultry from 16 to 22 pesetas a kilogram, or up to around {95 cents a pound; good leather shoes " |(they are not rationed), 70 pesetas lism) and up; cotton shirts 30 pesetas ($5). ° It is hard to see how the people live. Yet most of them do and | somehow a large number find | spending money besides. | The great bull ring in Madrid is | {

jammed even for ‘“novilladas”— {amateur performances—with people | of every class.

One of the answers is increased government service, A workman { . imaking 14 pesetas ($140) a day

| may get seven extra in insurance | security, depending on his family | status, plus two months extra pay in a year, and vacation. Frequently a man two jobs, working one in the morning,

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“land the other after the siesta, {as is so often the custom in Latin America. There is a black market. Spain has three Cia of bread ration-

e poor.

By ROSETTE HARGROVE NEA Staff Writer | COUTANCES, Aug. 23. — You { might have expected recrimination | and bitterness and complaint. You| might have expected hatred of the | | allies, whose bombing attacks have | | wrecked almost every one of the

NEA war correspondent weari 11000 homes in this martyred town. nd

How do the French, as they survey their bomb-shattered vilJages and civilian dead, really feel about paying the price of “liberation?” , , . How do they feel about the allies who sweep in mechanized force over their land? . + . Only another French person could be sure of learning the unadorned truth—which is why special significance may be attached to this dispatch from Rosette Hargrove, herself French, now returned to her native land as an

h he last get-three times as much as the rich and not quite twice as much as the “white collar class.” The bread ration is small but it is | enough so that some poor families manage with the rations of one or two members and sell the rest to the black market. This provides added income.

a U. S. army uniform.

| Only the beautiful Coutances cathedral, with its slender twin spirer,| Though they still suffer from shock, ! miraculously escaped annihilation. | | they are preparing to tackle the vast Yet, despite the devastation and | work of reconstruction ahead of) which liberation has! them. They face the future with

Mrs. Clara Anctil of Fitchburg has! brought to this once smiling Nor- | calmness and confidence.

knitted 58 sweaters for her 20 mandy province,

pephews in the armed forces.

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Cigarets Out of Reach

“We are so gled you are here,’| Tobacco, also rationed, is often they would invariably sav. sold the same Way. perionses. There are entire fami. | lmported American cigarets, out lies in both St. Lo and Coutances Of the reach of the poor, sell for who have been completely wiped around 8 pesetas (80 cents) a pack‘out. Others have lost trace of their age,

{children in the shuffle of hasty ev ac- Soap Is extremely scarce and ex-

uation. pensive and even at the best hoIt seemed incredible that only a tels, you have to buy your own prishort while ago the town had been’, ... ‘cake Olive oil, important to the scene of a fierce attack. | spanish cooking, is very hard to

There were only a handful "of t and then is usually of r people gathered on the Place du Fo y boo

Parvis in front of the cathedral, | The government is accused of

where 1 found the mayor, Dr. Henri | having worsened the inflationary Guillard. | spiral of prices by allowing Germany Liberation Is Costly to buy, particularly in the early | years of the war, goods which Spain As T sat in his office and listened | | desperately needed itself, notably to his story, I realized what a price so stuffs. these people had had to pay for | Today there is a potato shortage. their liberation. But at the ‘same, |Now, of course, not much of any-

{thing is being sold to Germany. time I felt that the flame of patrio- As the government controls the

tism burned brightly and fiercely. | price of the peseta and imposes rigid There is a tri-color flag on the! restrictions on the movement of spire of the cathedral, It was | foreign exchange, there is a black placed there by the town watch- | market in. pesetas, supported .by maker when the first Americans spaniards who want credits in dolcame. The Germans were less than jars or pounds. 300 yards away. | You can sometimes get almost Coutances was bombed on D-day | twice the official rate in these dealwith two attacks which lasted seve ings, of 20 pesetas to $1 instead of eral hours. Seven days-later, our 10 and foreigners who do, can live planes attacked again, dropping in- | {in Spain in comfort without tremencendiaries. That was when two hit| dous expense. Denied this conthe nave of the cathedral, but by) venience, most of them, including great fortune were immediately ex-| diplomats, would find it hard to live tinguished. {at all . Dr. Guillard recounted how he| Menus ‘Gorgeous’ started his first amputation at 9 o'clock at night and worked on| To a traveler, the menus of a steadily for 40 hours without a | Madrid restaurant are gorgeous after break, though his house had been|the copious but uninspired army completely demolished and he and’ messes in Africa or Italy, or the his nny escaped death by o0| restricted fare of England. and oD Tents py oo hee” | You rediscover such articles as night. caramel sundaes, strawberries with ‘ | whipped cream, banana splits and chocolate layer cake. Butter is scarce but obtainable at times; steaks are good and numer(ous; trout is excellent. A sumptuous meal with wine costs upward of 50 pesetas ($5). Accurate unemployment statistics

Nazis Pillage Houses

The Germans systematically pillaged every house in the town. They | even took away ‘live stock. Many | of the inhabitants had hidden their most precious possessions, linen, | silver, wine, soon after the occupa- |... imnossible to obtain in n tion. Few will ever find them again. |p; yy; ginessmen say that the tam I talked to Madame Gilbert, wife|y.. or jobless today is not large. of the local engineer, who said that! o,0 firm recently needed scme it had taken her 15 minutes to lo- temporary laborers in Barcelona and cate the spot on which her house gyoted the supposedly prevailing stood. Another told me how she wage. Nobody showed up. The was the only woman left in the | company finally got its men after town and had worked as stretcher |raising the ante by about 3 pesetas

bearer. She had helped bury 75] dead, working day and night for 72 hours without any sleep at all. Coutances is without light or water. Most. of the people have only the clothes they stand in or what they could carry away in a small suitcase. No civilian is allowed back in town.’ The houses that are stilkstanding have not yet been. cleared of booby traps.

Feed 15,000

The problem of evacuation was a tremepdous one for Dr. Guillard. All but 100 of the 8000 people in Coutances - have been sent to Coutainville, -a little family seaside resort that had been almost entirely requisitioned and taken over by the Germans as a rest center. Here, at least, they had not had much time for pillage. Soup kitchens were immediately

started. Before long, the population |

Swelied to 15.00, ‘as people of neigh~ boring villages and small towns

"flocked there.

. HY you think you are not getting all

a day. They Make Laws

In a quiet restaurant off “Plaza Mayor,” where they used to hold bullfights in the open square, I asked the waiter how he was making out, and if the government was helping labor?

“They make laws to protect the working man,” he said, “but then

the benefits and you ask for them, you are likely to be brushed aside. If you persist you will be called uno de los Rojos—one of those reds. “If I am out of & job, I go to the syndicate. Theoretically, I wait my turn and get the first one for which I am qualified. But actually, if I not belong to a clique that

-—He- eloquently. “It wasn't much different under the republic,” he added.

is in “with the syndicate and the} party (falange), I do not get a job.” | :

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