Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 August 1945 — Page 19

‘THURSDAY, AUG. 16,

Jap Captives

“(This is one of a series‘df stories about the 38th division, written Just before the Japanese government surrenderéd:) By SIDNEY B, WHIPPLE Beripps-Howard War Correspondent MARIKINA Luzon

afternoon of a recent 38th division Jap hunting patrol, there were three prisoners in the 10-by-10 barbed wire stockade, and a

(Delayed). | —When I reached the command | post of L Company, late in the |

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and Japanese characters, It was his surrender pass, a leaflet dropped from a Cub plane. This pamphlet illuminated the advantages to be gained by giv-

fort of being blown all to hell by our shells—or starving to death, or dying by any one of & hundred ingenious diseases invented by the jungle to keep down the human population.

and inscribed with both English

ing up, as opposed to the discom-

’ Still Jittery

These leaflets, it seems, do have their effect. We give our word that prisoners will be treated humanely, fed and clothed, and subject to none of the fancy torture or death provided for them, in imagination, by their lying officers, And we keep our word. Nevertheless, this little group of prisoners was still jittery. Eervy time a G. I. or. an officer approached the stockade, for whatever purpose, the three jerked to their feet like puppets | on ‘a string and, with hands tightly held to their sides, made a long series of staccato bows. While their self-appointed lead-

filthy, bedraggled trio they were. There was no fight left in them. They were full of humility apd fear. One, who seemed to have taken command, since he had a few words of English ad was apparently y of superior in- . telligence, sat Mr. Whipple on the ground a pace or two in advance of the others, He nursed to his hollow bosom a dirty piece of paper printed in red and black

Gasoline Is Seen Powering Cars fot a Long Time Yet

{ By Science Service WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—Your first post-war car and its succesors for a good many years to come will run on gasoline, not atomic ower, it appears from the conclusions of a committee appointed to look nto its possible peaceful uses. Within 10 years practical non-military se of this power could be expected, but only for “special purposes.” The committee's conclusions were —— r eleased by the war department a good .probability that nuclear ere with other technical informa- power for special purposes could be jon about tlfe atomic bomb. Mem- developed within ten years and that ers of the committee, appointed plentiful supplies of radioactive y Maj. Gen, L. R, Groves in the materials can have a profound ef111 of 1944, were: Dr. R. C. Tol- fect on scientific. research and peran, California Institute of Tech- haps on the treatment of certain ology, chairman; Rear Adm, E. W. diseases in a similar period.” . fills, U. 8. N, with Capt. T. A] Still Other Possibilities

olberg, U. 8. N, as deputy; Dri pogictive possibilities of nu- - K. Lewis of Massachusetts In- clear power were also considered. tute of Technology, and Dr. H. D. Improvements in processes of promyth of Princeton university and ducing source material and in its ithor of ‘the technical report. | 00 are pelieved reasonably certain. Disagree on Growth |The energy released in splitting the “While there was general agree- uranium atom corresponds to the ent that a ‘great industry might utilization of only about one-tenth rentually arise, comparable, per- of 1% of its mass. This might be ips, with the_electronics industry, stepped up by the “conceivable fuere was disagreement as to how ture discovery of totally different ipidly - such an industry would methods for converting matter into ‘ow; the consensus was that the energy. On this point the commit‘owth would be slow over a period tee warned: many years,” the committee re- “Should a scheme be devised for ried. converting #%o energy even as much “At least there is no “immediate as a few per cent of the matter of ospect of running cars with nu-| some common material, civilization ear power or lighting houges with would have the means to commit dioactive lamps although ‘there is suicide at will.”

MORE LOCAL MEN ARE NEARING HOME

T. 5th Gr. Charles H. Alford, 710 . Murray st., is due to arrive in|

Woman Wears Victory Garden

MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 16 (OU,

peared among loop celebrants of

LEAN-UP PROGRAM ‘0R STREAMS URGED

Che state stream pollution con1 board has urged cities and {ustries throughout, Indiana to wt a “clean-up” program to nbat the “grossly polluted condi1 of many streams.” \so recommended was the imdiate employment: by the board an engineering firm. Construe1 of a sewage and industrial ste treatment plant is planned the board,

P.)—Tokyo radio said funeral services were held today for Gen. Korechika Anami, Japanese war minister who committed hara-kiri Tuesday night. Services were conducted by Vice War Minister Lt. Gen. Tadaichi Wakamatsu, Tokyo said in a broadcast recorded by the United Press.

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ww York today aboard the Robert : : victory over Japan garbed inter, and eight Indianapolis men shorts and half-socks and draped e scheduled to arrive in New York | with vegetables from her victory Saturday. garden. The men arriving - Saturday “To heck with victory gardens,” oard the Samuel Johnston are| g¢he gaid. ‘The worms got one . Norman Terry, 310 N. Walcott| half and I have the other.” : M. Sgt. Robert Hinkle, 1139 N ——————————— ssouri st.; S. Sgt. Dewey McNeal, |. ; 5 W. Vermont st.; T. 4th Gr. YANK AIR HEROES : hn Glover, 402 W. 28th st. and| t. K. C. Radford, 716 Bouleer PRAISED BY KENNEY vt. Jack B. Secor, 6207 College », and Pvt. George Rusher, 2732] MANILA, Aug. 18 (U. P.).—Gen. Adams st, are to arrive aboard |George C. Kenney, commander of >» Alston, and Pfc. Paul Stahmer; the Far Eastern air forces, .paid i8 Nowland ave, is aboard the| . \ iam. Barry. tribute yesterday to the army and navy airmen who had died in the war, “After more than 3'; years of the worst warfare that man has ever been called upon to wage Japan has surrendered,” Kenney said. “The brave young men of the army and navy air forces gave their lives for this day. “They fought on the sea, in the jungles, on bare Coral 1island. They fought the weather, flak, and ‘enemy fighters in the air, - They fought so we could have air bases ever cloesr to Japan." Kenney said the airplane would change from a “terrible instrument TORO of destruction to a great instruANDIT CAUGHT WITH men for peace” )JODS IN PARK HERE SERVICES HELD FOR . robber in Garfield park last| -JAP WAR MINISTER ht was arrested by police. Paul Summers, alias Simmons, 25, of 8 Nelson st. admitted holding two young couples earlier in evening. He is charged with bery and vagrancy. ound in his pocket was a bill1 belonging to John Jurczyk of naval armory, who reported 1g robbed in the park Tuesday ht.

16.—Here |guaranteed to finance it? A~There is no reason why you can’t provided you meet all the qualifications. = However, you will personally have to take an active part in the feed store. You can't devote all your time to the firm and have someone else run the feed store. g Q—I understand that under cerfain circumstances you can get a loan guaranteed which exceeds the $2000 limit. Is this true? - A—No. There are no circumstances which permit the guarantee to exceed $2000. Q-—-My husband was killed in Germany last winter. 1 have a chance to start a beauty parlor g a'gainful occupation.” with. a woman who just got out ~I have just gotten out of the of the WAVES, She can get a /. 1 own a farm’ and it is loan guaranteed and I am wonrding me a good living al- dering whether I .can get a loan gh it became a little run S| Sata too, being the widow Le 1 was in service. I havé a of a veteran? , ok

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er made earnest attempts to answer questions, the other two continued kowtowing until a disgusted G. I told them, for God's sakes, to sit down. ; In the corner of the pen was a

_four-foot bamboo pole to which a | attached. |

dirty white rag was

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Whenever the prisoners thought |

they were going to be moved out

of the pen, one of them clutched | the flag and held it over his head |

as a symbol of surrender.

Recollect Cruelty This is all ‘a nauseating spec= tacle for the G. 1.’s, who have had too many and too vivid experiencés with the stupid Japanese fiendishness when the situations are reversed, to be much im-

disemuoweled ‘by such a. group as this. Any inclination to pity the cowering little dif-hards vanishes upon recollection of their own cruelty. The two soldiers were less unkempt than the leader, Their uniforms were in fairly good shape, though dirty. They looked to be in good health and they certainly weren't starving. The other little man, ron the contrary, had no soldierly

functionary and not a warrior. He was buck-toothed and be-

| spectacled. His frame was a mere

| skeleton . and was a nondescript jacket and a {

pressed with this show of humility. |

The other night these brought. hack the body of a little Filipino guerrilla who had been

boys |

his only clothing sort of red bellyband: He had no shoes, his body was a welter of cuts, bruises. and scratches from the bamboo undergrowth, and his

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feet and arms were swollen and | sore from beri-beri and jungle in- | fection. : He was quite willing to talk.

| i | | {

| There are three kinds of Japs’ ° | versity, where he had learned to

| conversationally - speaking-—those

who are dumb, those who play |

{ dumb, and those who chatter. He

was one who chattered.

JAP CAPTIVES WEEP

prizes of war at Kenedy,

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AT SURRENDER. NEWS

| DALLAS, Tex. Aug. 16 (U, P,).— | Young’ Japanese officers, among the broke

down and cried when they heard of ‘the surrender of their homeland,

{eighth service quérters reevaled today.

command -head-!

Officers at the prisoner camp said | that the older prisoners, however, remained philosophical and were a

|steadying influence on the youth-

{ful officers.

Ven VR a FANE -ary = . \} CS EE | SN 7 “0 Y A AIRE

Under the questioning of the |

official interpreter, he told this story: : He was a graduate of Kobe uni-

read and write English, Unable, for physical reasons, to join the

{ army, he had been sent to Manila { to assist in the distribution of went |

propaganda movies. All

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rather than be killed. For many,

| many weeks; now, he had been

well with him until we landed on |

Leyte and then the panicky Japanese’ ‘general staff sent ‘out a

male’ citizen and shoved him,

| dragnet and rounded up every |

willy-nilly, into the defense forces.

Get Clean Uniforms

Of course he, himself, never killed an American. No, no!

rape and burning of Manila. no! And when the Japs retreated into the hills, he had gone along

No,

Neither had he taken part in the | | said

running one mountain to other stripped, “washed. treated med-

mountain and along river until

sick.” \ Ear

Gen. Stilwell

MANILA, Aug. 16 «U. P.).—Gen. | trees in the hills, can see what is

Joseph W, Stilwell, who was re-

heir Cruel De

| fed.

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At the 38th division P. W. stockade, the prisoners were

jeally, given clean uniforms, and And, expanding under the warmth of this treatment, they

| become even more voluble.

Refuses Medals |

called from his army command, |

in China after a dispute with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, today - declined China's award of blue sky and white sun medals. “I have not accepted any foreign decorations whatsoever,” he whene informed of the awards. 4 Stilwell 10th army.

now commands the

The men of the 38th division knew that hundreds of Japs, looking out of their caves and

going on down below at.the first prisoner of war collection point. So they liked to put on an act. They are very polite to the captured. They give them cigarets: and water and sandwiches. This paid dividends, for the watching Japs in the hills decide that life as a prisoner isn't so very bad after all. They gave themselves up and

| that means our boys had fewer i to blast out of crevices.

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