Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 August 1945 — Page 2
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1. S. DENAZIFYING | 7000 GERMAN BOYS |
Mass Re-Education of Y
outhful Prisoners of War
In Democracy Includes Banning of All Militaristic Habits.
( First of
a Series)
By EDWARD A. EVANS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
“ATTICHY, France, Aug. -
-13.—~The world's first mass
attempt to educate Nazi youth in principles of democracy js going forward behind barbed wire in the U.S. army's huge prisoner-of-war camp near this village.
The pupils of this unique not one of whom was more {
came to power. Their teachers, like tliemselves, are prisoners of war, carefully selected by the Americans in charge, to make sure that their sympathies! apd political beliefs are anti-Nazi. Most of the boys are 16 or 17 years old. But there are py of younger ones, ranging down to] two tiny, homesick ehaps of 12.
THE SCHOOL was started last | April. It has grown, partly by accident, but largely through the | sympathetic interest and efforts of | two American of ficers—Maj.| William" “ H. Mec- | Grath of Balti-| more and Capt. A. C. Johnson of Moscow, Ida— who have com.manded the! prisan camp since January, For many| months, while the fighting was on, | captured German soldiers, young and older, had to be herded in this camp—Prisoner of War Enclosure No. 15—and in others. For vatious reasons the close association of boys | and men was undesirable, t J » 2 SO, AS soon as he could, Maj. | McGrath, then in command here, | set aside two sections of the 300- | acre camp—the “baby cages,” 4as| the G. 1s call them—for youths of | 17 or younger. ‘There were then 66,- | 000 prisoneérs in the camp, of whom | 3000 were youngsters. Since that! time the total number of prisoners here has fallen to 40,700, but boys transferred from ‘other camps have raised the population of the “baby cages” to 7000. As a first step toward unlearning the stern lessons ground into them | in the. Hitler Youth organization | and the German army, the boys were freed from all military duties | and formalities. Saluting was abolished. Instead these young Germans now ~ doff | their caps and bow politely when| they see American officers. But this | gesture is voluntary. They are not rebuked if they omit it. | - » 2 THEY ARE not required to stand at attention when talkigg with] Americans, or to march in step! when they move from class to class or go on weekly walks—in groups of 200—through -the surrounding " countryside. They wear salvaged U. 8. yniforms, with the letters “P. W.” —for “prisoner of war”—painted in white on coat backs and trouser seats. “ But they are encouraged to’ dress up these uniforms with individual touches; a flower in the cap; a scrap. of colored cloth on coat lapel or at shirt ‘collar. Evén their bugle calls are nonmilitaristic—snatches of old German folksongs. The call that sends them to bed at night is a tender strain from the Brahms “Lullaby.
, Mr. Evans
THEY GET tree sls a day of standard prisoners’ rations. It is mostly dehydrated food; powdered | milk and eggs, a little canned meat, potatoes, canned fryit salad, white bread from the camp bakery, sometimes lemonade.” They are thriving on this diet. At first, all but a handful of the
school are 7000 German boys, han 5 years old: when Hitler
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Helps Veterans
Levi C. Noakes, former veterans representative in the U, S. employment service office at Richmond, Ind, has been appointed veterans representative at the Indianapolis USES office. He succeeds- Harvey C. Stout who has joined the state bureau of veterans affairs.
WANT A YACHT? WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (U. P.).
CITIZENS URGED TO STUDY TAXES :
Public Budget” Hearings To Be Held Soon.
Taxpayers today were urged to attend public hearings on governmental budgets and to insist upon economies wherever possible. Walter T. Horn, executive secretary .of the Indiana Taxpayers association; declared that many budget items can be pruned if taxpayers will take an interest and .will attend public hearings. He called attention to a “definite trend toward much higher property
| taxes next year.”
County councils will meet Sept. 4 for the adoption of county budgets city councils and town boards Aug 27, and city and town school boards Aug. 30, Mr. Horn reminded. Welfare Budgets Up “Public welfare budgets for 1946 ask for a total of $28,110,782.” the taxpayers official asserted. “Final appropriations for this year amounted to $27,452,629."
Mr. Horn said the welfare
{estimate for next year would re-
quire an average property tax rate of 20 cents. At least 65 counties, he added, wi! ask for increased welfare tax rate over rates in effect this year, “Reductions Possible”
“We are confident that county councils and adjustment boards can | make substantial reductions, if the; !serutinize these budgets carefull and reduce budget estimates tha!
! are not needed to finance their programs,” Mr, Horn said.
He asserted that proposed spend{ing for direct poor relief is highe: Hin many fownships than circumstan®es justify. “Direct pdor relief costs are much higher than they were in 1929, when there was no such thing as publi welfare in Indiana,” the taxpayers
i secretary concluded.
CENSORSHIP TO EASE HONOLULU, Aug, “13 (U. P.).— Censorship of civilian mail, cables radiograms and radio-telephone calls originating from Hawaii will be discontinued when President { Truman officially announces victory
army over Japan, the army said today.
boys were in bad condition. Most of them were ‘undernourished. Many had trench-foot and other ailment Now 95 per cent of them are said to be physically fit, ” o » HOW MUCH their mental attitude has changed is impossible to judge. - But - Capt. Johnson who has been at the camp from the outset and .who became its commander. when Maj McGrath {moved on to become deputy provost marshal of this Oise’ section, is optimistic “Remember that we're trying to teach democracy to boys in cages,” he says. “Considering that, I think | we're making real progress.”
NEXT: What the young German prisoners study.
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ON RUSS-JAP BORDER
LONDON, Aug. 13 (U. P.) —A dispatch in the Sunday Obsérver said yesterday that it was understood that the late ‘President Roosevelt and Pr emier Stalin before the Yalta conference last February had agreed
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
[REPORT AGREEMENT
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN stead of all over the lot. They, nited Press Staff Correspondent finally figured out a deal whereby WASHINGTON, - Aug. 13.—SpelliT could hold an electric light bulb “radar” backward and what do you|in my hand at the top of the Washget? Confusion. inn Sone} (which already . has got -a light) and you could The army published 200 pages i. on your dynamo in Alexandria, yesterday explaining the the atomic | ya 20 miles away. My bulb would bomb, but it read like double-talk glow, without wires, black capes to me. Now the army comes along mirrors, ‘anything, ;
on a five-point program regarding Japanese-occupied territory border-| ing Far Eastern Russia. | The dispatch listed the following conditions: 1. Russia was to re-acquire the Chinese eastern railway, sold to the puppet Manchurian government. in 1935, ; 2. Outer and inner Mongolia were to be united into a republic under. Russian sphere of influence. 3. Manchuria was to become an independent republic, but also would
jand says it will
{Scooping. you; {stuff on‘radar:
issue the inside dope day after tomorrow’ on radar, Bouncing Elecfgicity? That current was traveling
which is a widget that can see through fog and the black of night through the ai without even squinting. | 58 {he alr Yom your genere. {tor to my bulb. The inventors were I have no confidence ‘in the ited about thi army's ability to explain radar to|°X¢‘e@ @bou his, as you ean imagine, and ey were talking over their coffee about the happy
my satisfaction and I have consulted the old professor for the 2 day when every house had its aerial
truth about radar in words that make sense, Pardon me, army, for here's the straight| They even mentioned the possibility some day of electric automobiles, with meters on em, to run Power B : i ’ ower By Air with juice from the air.
be ainder the Russian sphere. 4. The Portsmouth treaty of 1904 was to be annulled, voiding Japan's | annexation of Korea. | 5. Southern Sakhalin was to be| returned to Russia and part of the| jrorth Kuriles isle would be leased | to Moscow tongive direct access to [the ice-free port. of Petropavolsk.
A few years before the war the| You're wondering what this has boys in ‘the back room of a couple got to do with radar? Haw? There of universities and three big elec- ‘was an odd thing about squirting tric manufacturing plants were a stream of electricity through kicking the gong around on the! |space, like water from a hose. When subject of sending electric power | the stream bumped into something without wires. This would save a at the other end, like me on top lot of wire, not to mention poles. lot Washington monument, some of The tuck was to make their the electricity bounced back to
to take in electricity from the air.
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MONDAY, AUG. 13, 1945
Othman Fira Radar So Even He Can Understand It
Don't ask me why. The army will | country will be melted down for go into that Wednesday. Anyhow, |pennies. Honest, that's what he we're still in Alexandria, lighting | says. up my bulb on top of the monu-| Okay, army. Take it away. ment. You've got a small screen |see you explain it better, on top of your dynamo and, for| better or worse, you can-see me, my bulb and the tip of the monument in it. That, friends, is radar.
Let's
NEWSPAPERMAN N OF . MICHIGAN CITY DIES When the war came, the Scientists
forgot about wireless power trans- MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, Aug. 13 mission as such and took up the | (U- P.) —Herbert Roy, Misner, 68, sideline business of picture-making, | |pioneer Michigan City newspaper= which seemed to be more impor-/man and Florida hotel owner, died
tant. So it is that an admiral on &a| battiecship can peek at his screen| °F a heart ailment at his home last
and see through the night in all Pi€bt. ‘ - directions. Mr. Misener was a native of a Michigan City. He joined the Television Simple Michigan City News as city editor If there's a Jap bomber anywhere | after graduation from high school around he can tune in on it, sharp- and later became a junior partner ly, and see it, too. ‘And so on. Our|in the firm of Robb and Misener, boats carry radar. So do our air-|publishers of the paper. Mr, Mis= planes and the lads who sail 'em!ener sold his interests to the Mich can see as well by night as by day, |igan City Dispatch association and like owls, only better. the Inland Press association. My professor says that radar some| His wife, Zeola Hershey Misener, day will become television, without former chautauqua lecturer; a son, scanning discs, synchronous motors, | Richard H, Misener, St. Joseph, and all the other complicated in- Mich., and a daughter, Mrs. Doronards now in use, - Some day also|thy Jurney, Washington, D. C, the radar fellows will get back on newspaperwoman, survive, the. beam with those electric autos,| Funeral arrangements have not while the copper wire stringing the 'been made.
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