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3 oe — iy ; rE INDIANAPOLIS mies ii : 8 — ii — Coli THURSDAY, AUG. 0, 5 g Spirit of Apathy Shown in HOOSIER FIRST Neighbors Refuse fo Believe |i mutt" * "WELL WE GOT HERE— 7 World's Worst Bombed City| INTO JAP BASE Pfc. Bob Colby Is Murderer ‘No Bloodshed or Violence
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Her boys, now in service, and Colby were fast friends. Vernon Chittick, chairman of the church board of trustees, has
room and eat his mother's fried chicken,
Shaffer, a friend who dropped in. the tales of inflation we had heard, told me:
ed of this foolish war. have been jailed and beaten for my He added that he was glad “that it's over.” Another exception were the Japanese children who waved an cheered at us as we drove along the dusty roads in the outskirts of
Tokyo. The adult Japanese did not cheer. They stared without expression and,
; especially since we had come from ““I'm glad to see you.’ I never ghanghaj where the Shanghai dollar | I now is exchanged for American
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dollars at the rate of 100,000 to one. |
Using Okinawa Money The Americans are using the sa
{occupation ‘money. here as they did| d/in Okinawa but the rate has been ican commanders reported the oc-/
Indianapolis Man Raises Flag at Yokosuka.
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|vhanged from 10 to 15 yen to the cupation was going ahead smoothly.
dollar.
Despite the pulverizing bombing, William F. Halsey the water supply and electricity | early this afternoon and drove in|
| were working in Tokyo and there &
in a while, you could detect | Was telephone service in part
a flicker of hate in the eyes of these people who were our enemie: until a few days ago. - 1 talked to man{ people in Tokyo today and found almost as many, different attitudes as there were, people. * One of the most worried | men I spoke with was Jorge Vargas, ambassador here for the puppet Philippines regime. | Wonders a Bit {
1 Vargas, a short, chubby man with gray hair, sat in the luxurious living ‘room of the villa which the Japanese gave him for an embassy and said he had stayed behind and worked with the Japanese because “certain responsible people” wanted him to. But he wondered what Gen. Douglas MacArthur would think of his actions. One thing made him happy. He had been given some American cigarets when he visited Atsugi airfield yesterday. American cigarets made some of the Japanese happy, too, when they tasted them for the first time in four years. There was a look of wonder in their eyes as they fondled, the °cellophane-wrapped packets. They don’t have much left in this bomb-wracked land. The food situation is very bad. We were told that the famous earthquake-proof Imperial hotel served the best meals in Tokyo. But the lunch we had there today was terrible. It started off with some kind of cereal soup, a kind of fish cake and] some very, very ersatz spaghetti with broiled cucumbers. That meal cost a little under two dollars for four persons.
the city.
g and a very few busses running. For |
every trolley moving along t
tracks there was another one on an naval leaders inspected the desert-| had been caught in a raid and burned where
adjoining track which
it stood.
The suburban electric trains from Yokohama to Tokyo are running {but the Tokyo terminal, the central
station, has heen burned out.
At some points we saw improvised
station platforms on bridges. Look Healthy
The Japanese on the stree
looked healthy despite their ordeal.
But they were very poorly clothe
Instead of the gay kimonos which
they affected before the war tl
| Japanese women wore a baggy kind
of pantaloon slacks.
Like the men and women of anv nation they smiled at the sight of
the strange foreign uniforms
We drove into Tokyo from Yo-
kohama where Gen. MacArthi has his headquarters in Grand hotel There used to be a
Yokohama. All that's
the
city left
name
mediately adjacent to the Grand hotel. The rest of it lock after block of rubble wit rusted tin shacks built on ruins.
That's where the Japanese who their the
living—in look like home used t
stuck it out are little shacks which kind tramps back
{build in their “jungles” on the out-
skirts of town.
New
of it are several blocks of buildings imNew is
the
W. Nimitz and went ashore
Adms. CHester
Japanese . limousine through | of [cheering lanes of marines drawn
I saw a few trolley cars [up in the Yokosuka naval base.
A’ handful of Japanese guards | attention as American | |
he stood at ed and badly battered naval sta- | tion. From daybrea until long after nightfall a steady stream of marines, soldiers and bluejackets | poured into Yokosuka and Atsugi.| Both towns rapidly were taking on | the appearance of an American | base, | United Press correspondents who | landed with the troops found the | Japanese courteous but impassive. The G. Is got their biggest kick | out of the midget Japanase cars| they found at Atsugi. By mid-after- | noon, they were deserting their own | jeeps and whizzing delightely abouf | the field in the tiny cars. Fleet Stands By The bulk of Halsey's mighty 3d] fleet maneuvered inside Tokyo bay | off Yokohama during the landings, | ready to back up the marines if] d necessary, 3
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the church draws better than a 200 membership from the area. » » » FROM people in the vicinity is drawn the Colby .'. . typical of other youths n a community which neither knows or understands crime.
Born and reared at Geetings- |
ville, he quit high school after a
in general farm work, carpentry and painting. Meanwhile he continued to read and study on his own time. His room {is just as he left it the day he went “into service Jan. 5, 1943. His clothes hang in the closet. All is typical of the American youth. Airplane and pin-up pictures vie for spots on the walls. His books and magazines are of chemistry, engineering, math, popular science, physics, news, poetry and religion. n = » HE DID little dating, preferring to spend his time with other youths of his age. They called themselves the “Geetingsville Gang.” Most of them went into ‘serve ice. Some are dead. Their big times came on week-ends when they would “go to town” at Frankfort. Otherwise the gang's quarters was the modest home where they would
headColby tinker
with radios in young Colby's |
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service, the boys still would come and work in his room or talk with me as I handled the telephone exchange,” his Mrs. L. O. Colby, said. “I just ean't believe that Robert
| | “Long after Robert went into I
mother,
| could do such a thing as commit
murder if he were in ‘his right mind,” she ‘said. “Nothing like
|- that ever h » year and a half to help his father ever has happened in our
family. ’ ” » o “! AM sure that if Robert is guilty his mind must have snapped temporarily from all the combat he had been through. He always was a good boy and his letters were full of concern for us.” Colby tried to enlist in the marines in Jan, 1942, but was turned down because of sinus trouble. Called early in '43 he shipped to Africa in December. > V Later he was transferred to England and on D-Day his battalion was among the first to land on Normandy. From there he fought his way through Belgium,
and into Germany where he helped build the last. bridge thrown over the Rhine river, = » ~ in at
{ only
DAILY neighbors drop
{ the Colby home to see if there
is anything they can do to help,
These and others in the area have | of the |
the finest to say youth, “He is a very fine boy,
forward said the Rev
straightMr.
| meeting and two pages of names
| obtained a pass from his Furoe | pean base to investigate.
{ that. Holland, the Battle of the Bulge |
| the words:
known the youth since birth. Mr. . Chittick, who has three sons in service, led the spontaneous prayer meeting-Sunday for Colby. ” » ” “HE IS a regular American boy,” he said. “I've seen him work in the fields and at other
jobs. He is no slacker but a good worker. I never have known him to do a mean thing let along commit a crime.’ And so the community swarmed to Colby's aid. More than 75 attended the: prayer
signed the letter to President Truman vouching for the youth's character, Meanwhile cables are flying back and forth across the Atlantic to determine the exact status of the case and an army cousin, Pfc. Victor E. Colby. has
As Mr, Chittick turned to the Lord.” The prayer meeting proved
said, “We
And prophetically on the out- | door church bulletin board are
“Commit Lord.”
thy way unto the
Organizations
"replied.
The B'nal B'rith youth organization, Aleph Zadik Aleph, north side chapter, 1 is opening a month pledge drive today | in honor of one of its gold star mem- | ber, Milton Olshewitz |
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rounded MacArthur as he stepped from the plane, among them a Japanese cameraman. The Americans pushed the Japanese back out of camera range.
MacArthur laughed and told the Americans they would have to get their Japanese competitor to capitulate. Lt. Gen. Robert Eichelberger, commander of the 8th army, greeted MacArthur, MacArthur's first words were: “Hello, Bob.” y
“Hello, General,” Eichelberger |
“It's been a long, hard road | from Melbourne to, Tokyo,” Mac- | Arthyr said, “but this looks like | the payoff.” Eichelberger ents: /
“This is the beachhead where I was supposed to land in the invasion of Japan. Gen. MacArthur gave me this area. I certainly never expected to get here by plane without a shot being fired at me.”
Flew With Aid For the first time in the war MacArthur was accompanied in | the same plane by Lt. Gen. Richard Sutherland, his chief of staff Never before had they taken the risk that both might be lost in a single plane crack-up. Others who rode with the generals were Brig. Gens. Bonner
told correspond-
| cob pipe.
| Japan,
| erations,
Fellers and Charles Whitney, and Col. Roger Egeberg, his aid. The plane was piloted by Lt. Col. W. E. (Dusty) Rhoades, Palo Alto,
| Cal, former chief pilot of United
Airlines who has been MacArthur's pilot for a long time. Hundreds of G.l.'s surrounded MacArthur a few moments after his plane landed. They cheered and shouted and MacArthur smiled and waved back at them, MacArthur puffed at his corne He wore hig usual dark glasses. In Japan Before It was not his first trip to He had been here almost 40 years ago as a young lieuten ant just out of West Point. Aside from the Japanese newse-
| paper photographer there were | no Japanese on hand to witnets
the general's landing. MacArthur paused only momentarily at the
| airstrip, glancing at the operations tow where there was a ts
sign: * gl airdrome base ope 3d airdrome squadron, first in Tokyo.” Before getting into a car and driving So his new Yokohama headquarters, MacArthur said there was every indication the Japanese were acting in good faith. He said they had disarmed
| and demobilized some 300,000
troops in this area although 13 armed Jap divisions are still bee
lieved to be in the vicinity.
In the outlying war theaters, he said, the war has practically
' ceased.
But there was no fight in the Japanese. The few officers remaining in Yokosuka were almost fawning on the leathernecks. h Within a few minutes after the landings, all U, 8. naval personnel and correspondents were restricted to the immdeiate area of the base, while the Japanese were being evacuated. The handful of Japanese troops permitted to stay were armed with grenades, pistols and short swords.
Final Goal Reached
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From Yokohama to Tokyo there] are 18 miles more of that—Ilevel ground covered with dust and cement from the great factories tha‘!
Rear Adm. Oscar C. Badger, commander of Task Force 31 which led the way into Tokyo bay, broad-
once stood there.
cast a step-by-step account of the
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landing to the officers and men of | his fleet. “This landing which I describe | brings the 3d fleet to its final goal,” {Badger said as the first devildogs | swarmed over the side of their {landing craft and raced across Yo- | kosuka's deserted wharves." “Goodby and good luck,” he concluded. “Mom, we'll be home soon. | This correspondent went ashore ‘at 10 a. m., 30 minutes after the vanguard of the Fourth regiment— the famous Fourth whose original members were killed or captured
They went in with guns at the ready, backed by the big guns of the 3d fleet and hundreds of carE | rier planes thundering overhead. { No Opposition But not a shot was fired in the surrender of Yokosuka or its protecting Ft. Okahodai on Cape: | Futtsu, directly across Tokyo bay. Fifteen Japanese officers and 15 | interpreters, one of them a beam- | ing chauffeur who announced he {had driven a taxicab in New York {a decade ago, greeted the Yanks |at Yokosuka. | Everything was in order when the | marines came ashore and at 11:20 a. m. formal control of the great {naval anchorage was passed into { American hands by Rear Adm. {Michitara Tozuka. { The admiral, a fat-faced little {man with baggy eyes, handed a plain white envelope to Rear Adm Robert Carney, U. 8. N., chief [staff to the 3d fleet's skipper, Adm .| William F. Halsey. Brief Ceremony The brief surrender formalities were completed on the dockside in the shadow of the American cruiser San Diego, Badger's flagship and the first Yankee man o'war to tie up at” this newest American naval base Tozuka took the surrender document from one of three Japanese {aides, who looked ready to burst into tears. He handed it over to |Carney, and the American tore open the envelope and began reading the few lines, typewritten neatly in | English. { Then Tozuka and his aides saluted smartly clambered back into an old sedan bearing a Domei news agency press card on its windshield. Badger, Carney William Clen.ent, Richmond, Va commander of the marine landing force, entered a car. and began an of the navy vard Simultaneously from the U the
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and Brig. Gen
walling inspection tour a boarding party S. destrover Bass seized Japanese battleship Nagato, lying partly awash, but still float off Yokosuka. I'he bluejackets were led by Cap! I" J, Flynn, executive officer of the battleship Iowa, who’will command the Nagato .prize crew,
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February, 1944, being assigned to the Cowpen the following July. “He was home on a 15-day furlough in April,” hls mother said today, “and he was wearing flve*battle stars, but he couldn't tell 'us any- | thing about it then.” He was mar- | ried during the furlough to his girl friend of high school days. His wife is employed by the Universal Gear Co. Pfc. Moore has {wo younger brothers, James, 14, and Donald, 9; and-“three sisters..Mrs. Helen Scarbrough, 715 Mickley ave. and Mise Mary Alice Moore and Miss Hazel Louise Moore, both living with their parents. ; | “We haven't had any mail from him fof six weeks,” his mother said. “I'm glad to know he's all right. My,
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