Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 August 1945 — Page 2

~ RESCUE OF POW'S

Yank Prisoners Show Scars

Of Japanese Brutality .

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mitted to treat fellow prisoners although Japanese medical aid was uate, Asked if Japanese camp officials had expressed any remorse, Stassen sald: “I just can't analyze what a Jap appear: to be.” The tales of torture spuired Anierican rescue squads rushing relief to others among the 30 war prisoner camps clustered about the Takyo area. Doctors and nurses worked withoul rest to care for the hundreds whp poured aboard the U.S. S. Beahevolence. Most of the men who have been freed so far came from sefen prison camps near Tokyo. Hundreds, naked and starving, had trigd frantically to swim out to meet thelr rescuers. They kept shouting, “Thank Gal, you've come. Thank God, you've come.” a Rescue Teams Weep The rough-tough rescue teams, who up until now have landed in the face of shrapnel and bullets, found their new assignment almost more than they could bear. Many ofjthose who stormed ashore to aid the sick and weak were openly crying. They could only reply, “Take it easy, boys. We'll get you alls Take it easy.” Complaints mounted rapidly eglhinst the treatment accorded prisoners, and there were numerous charges of systematic beatings ad-

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J ese officials. ost of those now liberated came from the Omori, Shinagawa and Kawasaki camps, all within six miles of Tokyo. Many of those rescued appeared in fairly good physical condition at first glance, but Cmdr. Stassen said that except for the most recently captured prisoners, 100 per cent of those liberated were suffering from malnutrition and 80 per cent of those showed serious dietary deficiency. “Suffering Not in Vain” “The last two days really have betn an occasion to feel and witness the highest extremes of emotion I have ever known,” Stassen said. “The extremes of jov on the part of the liberated prisoners and the extreme feeling of disgust at the condition to which they were subjected—an extreme feeling of determination that what they have suffered will not have been in vain.” ‘Cmdr. Roger Simpson, who with

|Stassen led the naval rescue ships to the camps, appeared deeply shaken by what he described as j“one of the worst hell holes in history.” ' | Simpson said that hundreds of wildly cheering half-naked men had {rushed out on a long pier when his vessels approached the shore. They had danced a hundred different jigs, despite the obvious stiffness of their joints, and many waved flags of the United States, Great Britain, and the Netherlands. Transfer Speedy Most of the weary, happy prisoners were aboard the huge hospital ship Benevolefice within 12 hours

after the special naval rescue missions landed on the shores of Tokyo bay, Among them were some of Amer{ica's greatest war heroes, including Maj. Gregory (Pappy) Boyington, 32, marine fighter pilot ace from Okanogan, Waslr, and Cmdr. Arthur L. Maher of Chicago, gunnery officer aboard the valiant cruiser Houston. Cmdr. Joel Boone, medical officer for Adm, Halsey, led "the rescue {mission with Stassen and Simpson, {The cruiser San Juan, accompanied by the destroyer Lansdowne and the destroyer transports Reeves and Gosselin, carried the rescuers. 180 at Shinawaga

Simpson ordered the 516 prisoners irescued at Omori evacuated immediately while Stassen went overland by truck to Shinawaga and quickly freed 180 others. Omori was considered a “show camp” for Japan, and conditions there were slightly better than ithe other camps. Former Premier | Hideki Tojo visited the camp last December. Many new prisoners were added {to Omori after Aug. 15 as the Japanese, fearful of allied recriminations, began to attempt cleaning out their worst camps. { The worst cases were those of B-29 crewmen who had been sent {to special camps where they re‘ceived more severe treatment than the average prisoner. Subject to Indignities Even at show place Omor 1, American officers were made to carry slop buckets and to clean latrines. When any became ill they were immedigtely given only half their daily food allowance. The daily ration consisted of small quantities of grain and watery soup Most of the prisoners had to steal food, while laboring outside the camp, to keep alive. Some even ate grass to get nourishment, At one Japanese hospital allied patients were obliged to watch the cremation. of their dead fellowprisoners, their beds were flat boards supported by two-by-fours.

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Internal Crisis Back of

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(area were “in good condition and {American headquarters was raplidly being installed in these buildlings. ’ tinuing. The Leftists, however, had| already seized certain passages to! support their campaign against the [government's position on Edda. . : These repeated attacks threat-|Only a few government agencies, ened the ‘position of president of the police and the official news the confederation, Edouard von service are functioning. Steiger, and also the head of the poreign delegations which will be department of justice and police. present at the surrender ceremony The federal council decided to get Sunday were arriving today. The rid of Edda. Russian and Australian and several The Swiss government realized,| other groups were due in. They however, that if Edda Ciano fell wil] be housed at the New Grand {into the hands of the Italian re- hotel and a number of American sistance movement her fate would|ofeers were moving out already be that of her father's last mistress, to make room for the dignitaries. Claretta Petacci. Therefore, Edda Japanese military police were was handed over to allied military authorities. She is now on her way pers, apparently “to make certain to a British camp in Terni where that there would be no display of her mother, Donna Rachele, and her | open hostility by the populace. young brother and sister are de-| Most of the Japanese watchéd the tained “for their own protection.” Americans with expressionless faces, From the little town of Monthey, put occasionally one of them would in Valais, to Chiasso on the Tessin make a grimace. ¢The official Jap: border, Countess Ciano traveled by|anese line appeared to be that the train accompanied by female mem-|war was all “a mistake.” ber of the Swiss secret police and | her lawyer, Max Brand. Her large, | gray eyes were hidden by black] glasses to avoid recognition and! manifestations in anti-Fascist Tessin. Children Left Behind A friend who saw her off described her as accepting her lot fatalistically. She had no word of blame for the Swiss but looked distressed when she spoke of her three children, Fabrizio, Raimonda and Marzio, who are staying behind. Also in safety in Switzerland remain: the five precious copybooks in which her husband wrote his daily record. When crossing the Swiss border at Chiasso, Edda turned back and looked at the high mountain peak by which, dressed as a peasant! woman, she entered Switzerland in

Tokyo Quiet Tokyo is at a complete No shops are open and

Life in | standstill,

Overrun 20 Towns

Fifteen to 20 towns and villages south pf Tokyo had been overrun by American air-borne troops, | marines and bluejackets as the oc|cupation of Japan entered its second day. More than 100 Superfortresses from Tinian and an escort of 50 or 60 fighters from Iwo circled over the Tokyo area on watch for any sign of Japanese treachery. ~All guns were loaded and manned, But there still were no reports of

the large-scale landings began shortly after 6 a. m. (4 p. m. Wednesday, (Indianapolis time). Japanese soldiers and civilians alike were passive. : (Radio Tokyo said MacArthur will move his headquarters tomorrow to

many | modern buildings in the downtown’

| patrolling the streets in large num- |

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EXPULSION OF ‘Allied Forces Are Joined in | TRUMAN ORDERS 2d Day of Jap Occupation

| the former residence of the manager ot the Rising Sun Petroleum Co.). MacArthur Gives Orders He already was giving orders to Japanese genera] headquarters, the Japanese government and presum- | ably Emperor Hirohito through liai- | son staffs rather than by .radio as formerly {a . Adm. William F.' Halsey, whose This office’s informational funce 3d fleet flagship, the Missouri, will “ons, along with OWI's foreign be the scene of Japan's formal sur-| render on Sunday, raised his fourstar flag over the surrendered Yokosuka naval base headquarters. | partment. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, com-| MI Traman instrucied Byrnes mander in chief of the Pacific fleet, | © abolish this temporary service

OWI ABOLITION

Suggests New Agency to Spread Information. (Continued From Page One)

last week as an assistant secretary of state,

new temporary international information service in the state de-

and Halsey made a two-hour in-| : spection tour of the base and re- | Peary Is expected » have pre’ ported that it was “only in fair Pr » a program or, Sonam shape, with much equipment in BD ae Se alh of OWI | poor or wrecked condition.” % poor. Ni ed S dition, | President Truman praised the work mitz Scornful {of Elmer Davis, former news com-

Japanese installations. He said! there was no evidence that thelits birth by rexecutive order on Japanese had taken precautions to!June 13 1942.

have the station in a proper state Weapon Against Enemy

lof cleanliness for the occasion. Most of Halsey’s remarks were], Declaring that OWI had made unprintable. During the tour. the | “20 outstanding contribution to vicJapanese automobile provided by |!OTY," Mr. Truman added: [the enemy for the two admirals| Our military commanders have

| stalled. {acclaimed its psychological warfare |” Japanese War Minister Gen.

{work as a powerful weapon against Sadamu Shimomura reported in a the enemy." {Tokyo radio broadcast that the : : : surrender of Japanese forces was | Which “consisted primarily in re. progressing smoothly on all fronts (leasing information about the govHe called on all officers, men | ernment’s war agencies, have been and civilian employees of the army of “invaluable Service,” the Presito caryy out faithfully any terms dent sala. {imposed by the allies. Plans for Ravis, who has been the target of the disarmament of army units in | almost unceasing criticism by con. the home islands will be completed 8ressmen suspicious of the agency's

with the formal signing of sur. |2ctivities, has just returned to

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STORM HITS LOGANSPORT

LOGANSPORT, Ind. Aug. 31 (U.| P.).—Cass county's worst storm in

went an operation. Notice to Employees “I am very glad,” he said, “that

years disrupted Logansport com- there is every prospect that the! received to spend $167,320,724.54. Of LONDON. Aug. 31 (U. P.).—BBO

operations, are now merged in al

iby ‘Dec. 31, by which time the sec- |

Nimitz looked scornfully at most|mentator and a Hoosier, who has|Obeisance to their emperor.

And OWI'S domestic functions, ©

render terms Sunday, he said. Washington after an absence of tered ? fo rt snes , § five weeks during which he under. } V2 dismissed will receive 30 days’ speech he had made earlier in

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| FRIDAY. AUG st, 1945 Japs Do Abrupt About-Face-From Bayonets to 'So Sorry

sidewalk waiting to leave for home. [ They had been disarmed. Only sentries guarding buildings | ? ._ still had their rifles, but other sol- ; jlding which for- Su 3 | The poms, ne Press and | diers and gendarmes carried sw ords. er y oy ican agencies before the| From various conversations I had ot ey Aretics } Bee! But we could With Japanese, I gathered that the {wa appease investigate We were intelligentsia had expected the war afrald the Pontiac sedan which to end for some time

¢ : The consensus was that advisers { ", u 1S~ |e J Denese hau placed at out d close to the throne decided after | posal w : ‘

/ ; y could not go on, i 0 . ational | Okinawa that they cou awe 11 He Oe HH 'The atomic bombing raids and Rus y ou : | war were e | tered, but it otherwise appeared all

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held Radio Tokyo, which guarded by Japanese sentries,

was

sia’s declaration of [final straws. : . 2 : Lo. | The great mass of the Japanese We re towand Bmperoe Hiro} people, however, had no idea that hito's Paice . all M mbers | the end of the war was at hand. 20-fdot high stone Wall. eH eI They had been told that their alr of the palace subg Bening | fOT€ and navy were. intact and (Supe nop re wall o an were being saved -to ward off inva{them we o { sion. | handsome palace buildings. | J. Kasai, former member of the | A lone Japanese was in Hie park | Japanese parliament, burst into the | where loyal subjects ma 2 | lobby of the Imperial hotel while Swe were at lunch and welcomed us.

been director of the agency since head was bowed low in the direc|g, 14 ne had graduated from the

ton of the palace. { University of Chicago in 1913 and Streets Not Crowded [studied international law at HarDespite the size of the city, vard. | Tokyo's streets were not crowded., He was wearing khaki shorts and | At least half the inhabitants wore | carrying a crowbar, He explained a uniform of some kind. A few|that he was repairing his bombed | men wore only loin cloths. ~8Some | house. : | rode bicycles. Others walked or! Kasai claimed that ite had tried { crowded trolley cars. [to talk both former Premier Gen. | One time we passed almost 1000 Hideki Tojo and former Foreign Japanese soldiers sprawled on the Minister Shigenori Togo out of : — warring against the United States plementary to the activities of pri-| just before Pearl Harbor. vate organizations in that field.” “In the middle of November, As of now, OWI employs 8835 per- 1941, I told Togo that swe must sons, including 3749 in this country not go to war with the United jand 5086 overseas. How many of States,” he said. “He agreed with these will be transferred to other me. Then I went to Tojo. ... But agencies of the government could he wasn't interested.’ not be estimated immediately. | Kasai said he had been arrested | In any event, OWI said, those to when the war began because of a

separation notice. {regard to the Japanese-German | Charles M. Hulten, deputy OWI pact. | director for management, said that

since its beginning the agency has|

REPORT 100 DEAD

{munications and power lines and United States will continue to have | that amount it has, in the course! said today 100 persons were re

wrecked several automobiles last) a foreign information service suited night. | to the needs of peacetime and sup-

about ported killed when an ammunition {train exploded south of Ancona,

lof the year, turned back | $16,000,000 unspent.

January, 1944, two days before her husband was shot. She had hoped to find peace and freedom. She was mistaken. The Swiss first put her into a convent where the only visitor she received in six months was the papal nuncio, Msgr. Bernardini. Prom there she was transferred to Dr. Repond’s clinic Valais. To the few persons who approached her, despite the gestapo and Swiss police; she repeatedly said that her one desire was to live a quiet, retired life and forget she had been the daughter of Mussolini and the wife of Count Ciano. Now the fate of this erratic passionate woman is in the hands of the allies,

GRASSHOPPERS TAKE SOUTH DAKOTA TOWN

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yesterday and would be used as hopper bait. The chemical, believed poisonous only to grasshoppers, has {been long used on adjacent farms {as an insecticide. | Giving Wasta residents some hope but dooming them to more days of keeping their doors and windows tightly closed, Mears said the poison probably wouldn't rid Wasta of the hoppers for a week. Thefarm expert said the hoppers were so thick they were two and three deep, and made walking! almost unbearable. Mears said some Wastanites thought they could get rid of the grasshoppers by setting their chickens on them, That didn's work because one chicken could only eat three or four of the big cornhoppers at a meal. , “There are just too many hoppers,” Mears said. “And, anyway, a young pullet will think twice before tackling a hopper that big.” CRITICIZES UNRRA PITTSBURGH, Aug. 31 (U. P.).— Rep. Samuel A. Weiss, recently returned from a tour of European and ‘middle eastern countries with an ll1-man congressignal committee, declared today that he was *“thoroughly disillusioned” with the work of the United Nations’ relief and

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