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U.S. Policy i in Mid East

Looms as Urgent Problem

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By GEORGE WELLER Times Foreign Correspondent JERUSALM, April 23.--Amerl- Straten ean foreign policy in the: Middle power, is East is believed to face ons [block any within thesnext three months whith at may determine whether the 1 States shall be a worldwide merely a& hemispheric power. Germany's collapse and Pre Roosevelt's death are making parative commitments long ferred by Washington, It here that the Truman admini tion cannot merely momentum gathered by leadership, which was itsell biguous as to our the Middle East, Every great power in Furopg and Biv: tO every satellite cluster of A : 8lav minor states wants to Know = en's jrgently whether the United States if means to maintain ils fluence Ww! its bombers spread their wings, intention is to withdraw the western hemisphere,

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Choose Officers 13 T6 RECEIVE DEGREES AT 1. C.

i Vale wil Be aie at Commencement.

Dr. Roy Ewing {of the general assembly | Presbyterian church, U. S. A, and [pastor of the Tabernacle Presby- | tevian church, will give the commencement address at Indiana CenFeral college at 10 a. m, Wednesday: | Dr. I. Lynd Esch, president of the college, will confer the degrees at the 40th annual commencement exercises in the college gymnasium, Of the 24 candidates for degrees, 13 will receive their degrees on the day of commencement, six at the close of the fist. summer term, July 1. five on conipletion their college work at. the close Lhe term ending Aug. 18. Graduates Listed Candidates receiving degrees this week include:

Ralph Bowman Frances Ruth i

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association at Southport high hyllis Hall and Betty Roquet and Mary Lou Hickman, | of South= ||; ed gymnasium’ A. B Emily ‘Leck, Paulding, O.,

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school, The Senior Mothers’ will be . held ‘in the school cafeteria May 18; Syt the Junior-Senior reception, May 29 in the Riviera club; Class day, June 8; Baccalaureate, June 10, and commencement; June 11.

CLUB TO ENTERTAIN The 1940 Worthy Matrons, will entertain Past Grand Matron Nelle S. Johnson of Perrys- . : Wie adr ast Grand Deputy-Reha Wii A Masten at a luncheon at 12:30 p. m. of Mrs. Minnie Richhart, R.*R. {tomorrow in Hotel Washington. | Box 118.

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Frank L. Reissner, son of Mrs Emma D. Reissner, 111 W. 40th st, has been awarded a battlefield commission to the rank of second lieutenant for outstanding leadership in battle with the Tth.army in Germany.

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By WILLIAM McGAFFIN | Then—with beautiful hangovers— Times Foreign Correspondent _. [hey are ready for the “sacred misABOARD AN AMPHIBIOUS sion.” FLAGSHIP, Okinawa (Deélayed) | The story of the kamikaze, Japan's| special attack corps of suicide pilots,

u n ” I WAS riding with «Vice. Adm. Marc A, Mitschers fast carrier force last October when-the first kamiI do so now from personal experi- kaze pilots anyone had ever seen ence with the came sweeping out of the cloud-| “sure hit, sure mottled: midday sky. death” boys, as Two of them had broken through | Fleet Admiral the combat air patrol which covered Chester W: Nim- us as we cruised off the Philippines itz calls them. in’ support of Gen. Douglas Mac- | Actually, a Arthur's Leyte landing. ei 4 great many of the One of them chose a ship aboul suicide dives a city block away from us and| never reach their [started down about 8000 feet in the target and some most sharply angled dive I had ever of the pilots have

; \® Tg seen, survived: to be- ik " come. very willing Mr. McGaffin WE ALL began ( captives of the Americans. mendous barrage-—~but the Japanese I think I know the kamikaze Kids flew right through it. His machine as well as ‘any correspondent, I 8uns spit out a frail of slugs that witnessed their first attacks during only perforated the wake of the

our early landings in the Philip- ship he was heading for | pines last October. It was impossible to fly through

Since then I have met up with Such a wall of steel’ without getting hit, | | A few target,

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firing up “a tre-

now hundred yards from his|

he began to flame

Pacific—recently at Iwo and at Okinawa. ¥ 8 Hae But he kept on coming like a fall- | THE JAPANESE have #$hrown an jhe star, and. a few seconds later! hocus-pocus around this we saw him strike the ship. attack corps whose name, “kami-| yy, our breath

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landing full on the deck. Some of the vessel's crew casualties but she was not damaged.

held but it was Our. har |

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RINE ae “attempt ye SES the old "legend about the ee wind” which in Japanese lore destroved Kublai Khan's - invasion force off the shores of Japan centuries ago. " 8 o As Nimitz points out, the suicide, A FEW SECONDS technique is simply an attempt to our turn. The second crash. planes on the decks of our plane started down on us. ships. other ships in the force But the Japs have built it up with everything we had. The stage effects into a propaganda on for ‘several weapon designed to have strong ef- feet fects both at home and abroad. Then he suddenly leveled ofl and a un flew away.’ Our heavy barrage had JAPANESE pilots who make "this changed his mind. one-way journey are reported'to be This was first tip volunteers. suicide corps had human According to the Japanese radio, And since then--as Nimitz notes they wear special black and yellow many of the kamikaze fliers have silk uniforms. and a Japanese flag survived and are now prisoners, wrapped around their heads. They 8B pledge themselves in a sake toast IN RECENT months, not to come back. kaze pilots have varied their They are treated to a‘ week's tics. ,| TATE Well binge-in-~Tokyo-with geisha Finding themselves not toq suc-| | girls and all they can drink. | cessful

were seriously |

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coming thousand

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~ Jap Suicide Pilots Often Fail

tried sneaking in low = water and climbing the last moment in an

they have over the slightly at

elsewhere on our decks. They used to attack singly, Now packs of as many a§ hall a dozen will attack the same vessel at once, They have sunk some of our ships, including destroyers. But Nimitz reports that they have not succeeded in sinking one battleship, fast carrier or cruiser. He a I KNOW of one ship that was hit by four kamakaze planes at once, She was damaged but remained seaShe steamed back for: repairs at the remarkable clip of 20-0dd knots. Here at Okinawa I have seen kamikaze alrcraflt slip in to attack

| worthy.

| the very center of our forces. Some

of them hit and some of them [ missed. Someé of our small craft “have Leen sunk and some of our troops killed as a result of their action. Most of the. suicide fliers, how=ever, never get within scores of miles of our ship concentrations. EJ 8 Np THUS, in general the kamikaze plan has failed utterly as evidenced by the relentless, on-schedule progress of our invasion forces. gives one new. respect. for. the , BE; ars men. when {5 Fs ae technique -born of desperation The kamikaze corps is the direct product of two things: 1. The fanatical nature Japanese heightened by we have them in. 2. Their weakness hombing procedure. bombsioht Even us attacks, bad hi

of the. the spot

in. orthodox They have no to our own. ing their own eves in suithe Japanese .often mistakes. * One Jap plane on the bare on little atoll--damaging but himself—after mistaking the island in the twilight shadws for an aircraft carrier.

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