Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 April 1945 — Page 5

PAHURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1943

Rds s Neutrality Port... With Japan Ends April 24,

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and Japan has aided Germany in the war against the Soviet Union. In addition, he sald, Japan is at war against Great Britain and the United States who are the allies of the Soviet Union. Therefore, he told Sato, the pact of neutrality “has lost its sense” | and it is impossible for it to be continued.

Text of Statement

The text of the Radio Moscow announcement follows: “Today at 3 o'clock in the afternoon the people's commissar for foreign affairs of the U.S. 8. R. received the Japanese ambassador, Mr. Sato, and in the name of the Soviet government made the following statement to him: “The pact of neutrality between the Soviet government and Japan was concluded April 13, 1941, that is before the attack by Germany on the U. 8. 8. R. and before the outbreak of war between Japan on the one hand and Great Britain and the United States on the other. “Since then the situation has radically changed." “‘Germany invaded the U, 8. 8. R. and Japan, an ally of Germany, is helping the latter in its war against the U. 8. 8. R. “‘In addition Japan is at war against Great Britain and the U. 8. A, who are allies of the Soviet Union. In such a sitpation the neutrality pact between Japan and the U. 8. 8. R. has lost its meaning and the prolongation of this pact is becoming impossible, “‘On the strength of this and in accordance with article shree of the aforemeritioned pact, providing for the right of denunciation one year prior to the expiration of the five-year-term of the pact, the Soviet government hereby declares to the government of Japan {ts desire to cancel the pact of April 13, 1941’ “The Japanese ambassador, Mr. Sato, promised to inform the: Japanese government about the statement of the Soviet government.”

LONDON, April 5 (wv. P.) ~The German D, N. B, and Transocean news agencies circulated without comment today the text of the Russian denunciation of the neutrality pact with Japan,

prospective Russian participation »| might shorten the Pacific war. When the Russian participation

terms of the pact, it will remain -in force until April 25, 1946. Cornered Japan might, however, provoke hostilities before that date, This possibility was based on these facts: ' ONE: Japan's home islands are now directly threatened and are highly vulnerable. TWO: She may be expected to make a last stand fight from Northern China and Manchuria.

THREE: To secure these areas, she might try to seize flanking areas of Siberia with ‘the strong forces she has built up on the continent,

FOUR: As she proved at Pearl Harbor, Japan believes in the military wisdom of seizing the initiative withouterespect for diplomatic nicitles. ,U. 8. Is Pleased

On the other hand, the Russian] Far Eastern forces also are strong, !

trouble with them.

was received happily here. Speculation immediately arose that Russia's denunciation of the treaty may have contributed to the downfall of Premier Koiso's cabinet. The new development was well timed from this country’s viewpoint. Contrary to popular belief at the time, U. 8. military authorities did not especially want Russia to go to war against Japan in the months after Pearl Harbor, The arm chair strategist's theory then was that the United States would be greatly benefited by Siberian bases from which to bomb

Japan. But military leaders knew Action Expected that Russia had

The Russian artion had been| against, Germany and that we could preceded by a number of indica-|not then defend such bases. tions that the pact would not be Positions Improved lon at the point 2s Now, however, with Germany raised immediately when the Yalta reeling toward disaster in the west conference announced the meeting and tide turned against Japan in of the U. §. at San Francisco, the east, both Russia and the strategically located on the Pacific | | United States are in a greatly im on April 25, the day following the proved position to exploit whatever due date of the Russo-Japanese | new situations may develop. pact. Some observers thought that The Soviet press, taking an in. Russia's action might bring home creasingly stern line with the Jap- | 10 Japanese leaders the folly. of! anese, had provided another clue as Fighting $0 the Bister end, had the action of Marshal Stalin! Many ; in denouncing the Japanese as financiers and business leaders, alaggressors in his October revolution ready have ‘been reported to be

|W y w address last November. eary of a war, which is producing 3 steidily mounting destruction on

® line once supplosedly { home islands. - There is no thought here that : As Threat to Japan "I Russia will make any’ ‘direct move WASHINGTON, ‘April 5.—Rus-|for. war with Japan at this time. sia’s denunciation of her neutralify | pact with Japan was hailed by ob- |in the area where hostilities might | servers here as meaning that she break out if Japan decides to jump will ultimately join the allies in War | the gun. against the island empire.

U. S. Hails Russian Move

The | contributing to allied success in the

will begin remains to be seen. Under |

and Japan may not want to tempt

| News of the U: 8. 8. R.'s action

to concentrate |

Japanese elements, notably |

invulnerable |

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SLOWY: S: ARMY:

Showdown . Battle for Naha Is Developing. |

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their high velocity, point blank fire | was the best way of hitting strong enemy emplacements. “Apparently we have reached the| outposts of enemy defenses in the south, where a force of as many as| 60,000 Japanese may be concealed)’ United Press Correspondent Edward L. Thomas reported from an advanced command post on Okinawa. He said ' Japanese strong points appeared to be scattered through the hills. around the villages of Kaniku, Tsuwa and Tanbaru, Approaching them, the Americans overran several preliminary lines of resistance in‘ advances of 500 to 1500 yards down the 3':-mile-wide isthmus separating central and, southern Okinawa, The hills command much of southern Okinawa. Troops pushing through a misty rain toward one 600-foot heighth guarding the approaches to Shuri ran into heavy

| The Journal Medical | attention today to a problem that

|artillery, machine gun and mortar Te. | The campaign was 12 days ahead jot schedule with the Americans controlling 80 square. miles, ap-| proximately one-sixth of the island. | Carrier planes and big guns of | (the invasion fleet supported the| ground forces driving toward two {airfields and the -capital.

Advance Two Miles

Sixteen miles to the north, marines drove two to two and a half miles through light opposition beyond Ishikawa in the narrow neck {of land separating south-central {and central Okinawa, Carrier planes attacked airfields and other installations in the Amami islands just north of the |Okinawas Tuesday, destroying 45 lenemy planes'in combat and two on the ground. They also destroyed or damaged 25 small craft. General Douglas MacArthur, announcing that the Philippines campaign had reached the final stage with seizure of Masbate island— said that Japan's entire stolen empire to the south had been isolated.

Island Invaded Masbate, a 1262-square-mile island off the southeastern tip of Luzon, was invaded Tuesday by units of the 48th division. Little opposition was reported and the American force was rapidly securing the entire island. Heavy swarms of bombers and fighters continued sweeps across the China seas from the Philippines, maintaining a blockade of the Southwest Pacific. Huge fleets of B-29's left five target areas in flames in yesterday morning's raid on Honshu island, headquarters announced today. Pilots reported setting fires at four aircraft plants around Tokyo and {at-one 85 miles solithwest of the capital.

| Pacific war all along by ‘keeping!

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Their presence has had the! of immobilizing at least]

Russia, in fact, has been! equally large numbers of Japanese of the state farm Tuesday, | said.

| troops.

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“Neat,” Alcohol Works the Same |

CHICAGO, April 5 (U. P).—= of the American

Association ‘turned it's

has been troubling tipplers ever since the first bartender started a drinker on his way to a hangover. The question before the Journal was whether the reckless fellow who mixes whisky, beer and gin gets to the singing stage sooner than his saner companion who sticks to one beverage at a time. The Journal said—in effect—no, he doesn't. ” THE MATTER was brought up by one “M. D., Pennsylvania” and answered. for the. Journal by a “competent authority,” who said:

“Despite the general belief in the greater potency of mixed drinks, it is probable that the differences are really quite small and that an equal amount of. alcohol, taken in the same total volume of liquid, would produce practically equivalent effects.” “The concentration of alcohol in the blood and brain. is determined chiefly by the amount of alcohol consumed,” the article went on:

» “HOWEVER, the rate of absorption. also. affects the concentration reached, since if it is slow some of the alcohol may be destroyed or excreted before the peak 1s reached. “Many experienced dr inkers claim. that mixing drinks accélerates their absorption and the rapidity of onset and depth of drunkenness. “It is possible that the olfactory and gustatory (pertaining to smell and taste, respectively — Webster) effect of mixed drinks may be to accelerate the gastric emptying and hence absorption.” The Journal added that “it also has been reported” that mixing drinks “hastens the oriset of unpleasant after-effects,” but took no stand on this angle of the problem.

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» ” 5 THE JOURNAL'S opinion has the backing of Harry McCall, the Drake hotel's 79 - year -old teetotalling bartendér. McCall doesn’t know as much as the medical profession about the inward effects of liquor. But he's been observing the out= ward effects from the other side of the bar for 63 years. “It makes absolutely no difference,” he said, “they get drunk just as fast one way as another.”

APPETITE BRINGS ESCAPEE'S CAPTURE

A hungry refugbe from the In-|

!diana S¥te farm was back behind {bars today. Herschel McCurdy, 45, jof 2230 W. Morgan st, was ré- ~cap[tured by police @s a result of his

Both countries have large forces sizable numbers of troops in Si-|quest for food, this morning at the

Anna Modack, 2204 McCurdy broke out police

home of Mrs. Thornberry st.

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DOUBTS NAZIS |

Gen. Eisenhower Sees Hard Guerrilla Fight.

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except unconditional surrender now or unconditional surrender later. Stimson praised the rapid progress of allied armies along the entire Western front. He laid particular stress on the approaching liberation of Holland, which he said would result from the Britifa and Canadian drive. He also pointed out that the U. 8S. 1st and 9th armies have placed a noose around 100,000 German troops in the Ruhr, while the U. 8. 3d army is more:than half- | way between the Rhine and Berlin. Gen, Eisenhower's letter “to the President was dated March 31. The further the European campaign progresses, Gen. Eisenhower wrote Mr. Roosevelt, “the more probable it appears that there will never be a clean-cut military surrender of the forces on the Western front.” “Our experience to date is that {even when formations as small as a {division are disrupted,” he said, | “their fragments continue to fight |until surrounded. This attitude if

(continued will likely mean that a |.ormer critics last month and fit state in a nation-wide educational

|V-E day will come about only by {a proclamation on our part rather {than any definite or decisive col|lopase or surrender of German re- | sistance.

“Projecting this idea : further, it

T0- SURRENDER

would mean that eventually all the,

Premier, Jap: Cabinet Resign AS

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might i the first step toward peace. The text of the board of information announcement on the resignation of the Koiso cabinet, as quoted | |nation, were Mamoru Shigemitsu, by Tokyo, was as follows: {foreign minister and Greater East

"In view of the gravity of the war (Asia minister; Field Marshal Gen situation, the entire Koiso cabirfet|gugivama, war minister: Adm

decided to resign en masse. Premier |Mitsimas Yonal, navy minister:

Koisq, after having assembled the| | Shigeo ®&dachi, home minister, and} resignations of the cabinet members, Juichi- Tsushima, finance inten |

presented them to the throne to- eh a Raids Roused Critics NO MEAT BUT HE

day.” The Koiso cabinet came under | GOT $300 IN 2 oh

particularly heavy fire of elder Japa-| “Got any meat?” was the over-!

nese political ‘leaders, including a Worked query put to Grocer Eddie, number ' of former premiers ana | Scheer at his store at 607 E. 1th

| st. yetserday. members of both houses of the! ooking up to reply, Mr. Scheer Japanese Diet, following" the start stared pointblank into the muzzle of B-29 raids.on Japan. of a revolver. The quizzer took $250 These leaders pressed for a more rom Mr, Xhest's packels, Seooped vigorous prosecution of the War, in- ih Tom the cash regisier, fled the cluding total mobilization-of Japan’ flof dough. Test, BU. with plenty manpower and resources, and openly

SPACES Mat 1 <alisa the laxity | VICTORY" GARDEN | WEEK PROCLAIMED

The government took a number | of steps toward meeting the de- | ; April 23 to April 30 has been pro-| mands and appeared, to have satis- claimed Victory Garden IE in| {Indiana by Governor Gates. The

fled its critics up to the time of [governor urged a vigorous usage of

nks. Be the members of thie Koiso government, sworn in July 22, 1944, | only five days after Tojo's resig-

the invasion of Okinawa,

A new totalitarian political party, {hoes and spades to assure the state! the Political Association of Great | jan ample backyard vegetable crop. Japan, was formed with Koiso's | He also designated April as “Can- | blessings by the more rabid of his cer Control month,” enlisting the

(was possible that any new govern- crusade:

areas in which fragments pf the German army, particularly paratrooper, panzer and 8S elements, may be located, will have to be taken by the application of or the threat of force. This would lead into a form of guerrilla warfare which would require for its suppression a very large number of troops.” ‘Brigands or Pirates’ Gen. Eisenhower added that if the German government or any group that could take political control would make a national surrender “then all armed bodies remaining in the field would, in my opinion, no longer be classed as soldiers of a recognized government but would occupy the status of brigands or pirates.” “Since if captured under these conditions, they would not be.entitled to protection afforded by the laws of war,” he said, “it is my conviction that, except for extreme fanatics, they would largely surrender. “But so long as any-ef-the Hitler gang retains a semblance of political power, I believe the effort will be. to continue resistance not only throughout Germany but in all of the outlying areas including the western port areas of France and Denmark and Norway. | Revolt Possible | “To counteract - this eventuality jour local propaganda stations are! constantly pointing out to the Germans- that they should now be bpfdnting crops for next wirifer’s food instead of fighting. In addition, I am hopeful of launching operations at the proper time that should partially prevent a guerilla control of any large area, such as the southern mountain bastion.” Gen. Eisenhower conceded that it was “always possible” that there “a sudden upsurge of popular reseritment against the war” which would lead to easier pacification of Germany. “My opinion,” he added, “is based upon the supposition that our experience to date provides our best basis for future prediction. At best we should be prepared. for the eventuality described.”

Finds Dead Jap Just Camouflage

WITH U. S. MARINES ON OKINAWA, April § (U. P) (Via Navy Radio).—S. Sgt. Paul 8S. Peters, marine combat cameraman, was about to turn away after examining a dead Japanese in a cave when he noticed some-

thing that made him reach for his pistol.

a couple of extra arms and legs, and one of those arms was grop= ing for a grenade.” He emptied his pistol into the live Japanese who was lying une der the dead one. Peters formerly was a photogarpher for the Houston Post.

THIEVES ASK CIGARET

A couple of obviously optimistic | thugs asked William Foster, 28, of 506 Fulton st, for a cigaret last midnight. They then pounced upon him, robbing him of $200. The incident occurred in the 800 bleck on Park ave, Mr. Foster said.

SLUGGED BY BANDIT Cab Driver William A. Rutherford, 32, of 516 N. New Jersey st., told police today he was slugged and robbed of $19 by a man he had driven to 21st st. and Carrollton ave. shortly before dawn.

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