Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 September 1945 — Page 10
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Army Plans to Return Some
Civil Airports.
Will Stout Field be returned civil control?
No one concerned could. answer that question today, despite a joint army and navy announcement in _ Washington Saturday that many civil airports may be released as
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soon as their military use is over.
Stout Field officials said the army forbidden them to express opinions on ‘the future of|. they said, would come from Washington and would be announced in due time.
had virtually
the field. The decision,
William H. Book, executive sec retary of the Chamber of Com
merce, said that comment on Stout Pield could be only guesswork, “City officials had the impression some the army will fetain Stout, but that is
months ago,” he said, “that indefinite.” Depends on Circumstances According. to. the statement, the release of air bases to civil controls would depend or such factors as the internationa
armed forces.
The ‘statement continued that those airports designated during the war primarily for supporting the aviation = program would not be released for peivaie or
armed forces’
commercial purposes.
It concluded that, pending final decision on airports now held by | the military, some facilities may be opened by permit to joint military and civil use when such use does
not interfere with military operations.
WOMAN INJURED BY
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Mrs. Elizabeth McVay, 85, of 233 Massachusetts ave, was Injured slightly today when- shes walked into the side of an automobile at Pennsylvania and Market sts. The ¢ar was driven by Lewis Swisshelm, 1041 Villa ave, Mrs. McVay was taken to City hospital Where her condition is not serious.
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G. Bertwistle, MAJ, GEN. Paul L. Williams was engaged today in his new duties as head of the I troop carrier command, which has its
headquarters at Stout field. Arriving Sunday by air, Gen. Williams was chief of the air component of the 1st allied air borne army who brought his troops carrier forces through six major invasions in Europe. He 1 sacceeds Brig. Gen. Willlam D.
Old, who has left for an undis~ closed assignment after heading the command for over a year. Commander of troop carrier forces during the mass air landings in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, ' Normandy, southern France and Holland, Gen, Williams has received the distinguished service medal, the distinguished flying cross, the legion of merit and the French legion of honor, The 51 -year- ~old general
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/ Commander at Stout Field
New commanding general of the 1 troop carrier command, Ma). Gen. Paul L. Williams, who arrived Sunday at Stout field. Shown greeting him are (left to right) Lt. Col. K. W. Holbert, Col. John W. OBerdorf, Col. Harry E. Generous, Gen, Willlams, Col, Robert L. Copsey, Col. Glynne M. Jones and Col. Owen
born in Detroit, but as a boy moved with his family to the West, coast. He graduated from Stanford university and entered the then new and experimental army air corps, and was sent to . Rockwell field, Cal, for training. In 1919 he met and married Miss Bertha Reed of San Diego, Cal, who has been residing with their two daughters, wives of AAF officers, in Newport Beach, Cal, ‘
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where. It is like the battlefields of Normandy, wheré the bodies of Germans were left to bloat in the summer sun, The living—-and Japanese doctors tell us that many of them soon also will be among the dead-—-are dazed, unable to comprehend the disaster that has overwhelmed them, They poked through the piles of stone and wood that once were thelr ihomes, They knew thay had little {chance of finding anything salvag-| Fable, btit- somehow those piles—of rubble represented a link with the past—and with sanity. Filled With Hatred In their eyes when we passed us was hate—all the hate that it is possible for a human to muster. Our guide was a young Japanese naval lieutenant who was born in Sacramento, Cal, and whose father still lives there, His mother brought him to Japan 11 years ago after
} [he had spent 12 years in the United
States. . 1 ssked him: “How do the people here feel aboutus? Do they hate us or do they think that it's the fortune of war?” He answer simply and frankly: “They hate you.” And we could read confirmation in the survivors’ eyes. Coming into Hiroshima we saw buzzards roosting in the trees. They were symbolic of what has happened here,
Talk With Survivor ~
From a local Japanese named Hirokuni Dazal, who returned to
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Hiroshima from Tokyo just 40 | minutes before the bomb fell, we | obtained a description. Dazal's wife was injured but he | managed fo evacuate her and the! couple’s two children: to the outskirts of the city. He then sent a message to Tokyo {through the police station, telling! of the blast. “I told Tokyo the whole city was| burning,” he said. | At about’ 4 .p. m. he went into the center of the city and found {the fires still burning briskly but |
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gree, It was hard today to tell where they might be living. I saw only one streetcar running and there may have been 30 persons aboard |it. There were a few other people
seeing look in their eyes, wWe talked to Dazal a short disi tance from Hiroshima in what had beén a motorcycle manufacturing plant,
civilization which was established by the gods must be destroyed by this weapon.”
Hiroshima never. knew what hit it, Dazai said. An air raid alert had sounded earlier but the all. clear came before the. bomb fell and no one was in shelters. Many persons were in their homes cooking breakfast.
Mountains Seemed- Aflame
“I saw sparks like an electric ‘arc running across the sky,” Dazai said. “After a second or two I félt the shock. I was in front of my house.”
He was wounded in the head by a falling timbér from his house and wore a bandage over his wound,
Dazal sald frantic calls for assistance were sent out to nearby towns but because of the raging fires it was not possible to reach the main part of town until late afternoon.
Military authorities evacuated as many persons as possible by boat. Hiroshima's own relief agencies were destroyed by the bomb.
On the edge of town you ean still see a fire house with its trucks (burned out inside the ruins. At another place stood the charred remains of an ambulance,
Dazal sald that even the moun(tains in whose shadow Hiroshima lies seemed aflame in the first awesome blast,
ROOSEVELT CHILD BORN NEW YORK, Sept, 4 (U. P) —A
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most of them injured in some de- |
East Indies Fleet Sails 10 admitted naziness
{on the streets and even fewer pok-| ing in the ruins with a dazed un-
“Tm afraid,” Dazal’ “sald, “that the |
BRITISH DUE AT SINGAPORE
Japs’ Stolen Island.
KANDY, Ceylon, Sept. 4 (U. P.).
--Crack British marines were expected to land today as vanguard
the great naval base of Singapore, after Adm, Sir Arthur Power triumphantly led his East Indies fleet into the famous harbor yesterday. The material spoils-of war in the formal occupation of the-island will be far out-weighed by the spiritual satisfaction . of Great Britain's fighting men. Their re-entry into Singapore wipes out the. bitter humiliation of one of the worst defeats in British history. Japanese
forces captured the stronghold three years, six months and 17 days ago.
Although the Japanese also used Singapore for a naval base, only the battered hulks of a.few enemy
wafships. remain. These limped into the shelter of the island after being - mercilessly . pounded by
United States naval and aerial might in the battles of the Philip~ pines. ‘ Ghosts of an imperial past— where immaculate Englishmen in evening dress rubbed elbows with
East—awaited the returning troops. | The town of almost half a million | population, founded by Sir Thomas
British colonial customs and power. The first British
withessed
of Gen. Tokoyuki Yamashita.
tragic days of the fight against Japan. A southeast Asia command coms munique announced that Power, commander-in-chief of the East Indies station,.arrived in his flagship, the cruiser H. M. 8. Cleopatra, at 11:40: a. m, Indian standard time, yesterday (10.10 p. m., Sunday, Indianapolis time). He was accompanied by light fleet units and minesweepers in returning the British Union Jack to the port
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which the Japanese had renamed |
of the empire’s might returning tol
hundreds of different races of the |
Stamford Raffles, was one of the! last pre-war holdouts for old-time
units entered ! Singapore harbor only a few hours | before Lt. Gen. A. E. Percival, the | defender of the naval base in 1042, | the "unconditional sur- | render at Baguio in the Philippines It was Yamashita who inflicted that defeat on the British in the early, |
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though is to be self-supporting,” she confided. For 12 years her brother, who is ill himself, has supported her and is- now paying for their home. “I'd like to take that load off him, and have some money left
can’t even use their nands or
ordained a. minister since she be-
Add Jap Crue
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These letters were written in the summer of 1942. . One bears the date Aug. 8, 1942, ‘.»
Prisoner recovery from camps is moving ahead with almost unbearable slowness. Thanks fo the Jap- | anese thick-skinned indifference,!
ply feeling thelr way in the dark. They are beginning to find out where the camps are. Americans who. simply blazened 2 way through their guards -and
{reached Tokyo have furnished them|
{with some leads. But their frankly has caused such lerrors as dropping food from planes on non-existant or long abandoned camps. Japanese police even -claim that about 20 of their nationals have been Killed by. falling food.
Col. A. D. Shanze, of the 8th army, holding a joint conference with {Naval Commander Harold E. Stas(sen, said that food enough for 40,000 men for 30 days had been dropped. It is estimated that there are 39 camps with 36600 prisoners, of which 8000 are Americans. Seven camps in the Tokyo area have been cleared by the navy since it first picked- up a blinker signal last Wednesday asking immediate succor.
Japanese kids got their first sight of American jeeps today and with
over to help othérs—some, who
see,” added the woman who was
8th army recovery groups are sim-|
came a cripple. Refusing to take any credit for the happiness which she brought to the Leaver family, she was only full of thanks today for the. Indianapolis people- who have offered them help, money and . clothes. Suggesting that Hoosier Forum readers join the contributors to the Leavers, the “Watchman,” a _ Forum contributor, sent to. The Times a letter and check for $20.
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pn elders were extremely curious over the little vehicles, Everywhere one stopped crowds | gathered to look them over. The Japanese are very motorcar consci- { ous.
The streets of Tokyo are lined
{ with bomb shelters built under|
| sidewalks in. front of shops, dozens {to the block. Vegetablé gardens are planted on top of many, both as camouflage and to raise needed food.
Copyright, 1045, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. ———————————————————
WAR FINALS ABOUT .NOV. 1 WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 (U. P.). —Supreme Court Justice Robert H. ‘Jackson, chief U, 8S. war crimes prosecutor in Europe, said today the Nuernberg trials of 24 major
German war criminals probably would. begin about Nov, 1.
JAPS ON GUAM GIVING UP GUAM, Sept. 4 (U, P.) —S8ixtyeight Japanese officers and men— the largest single day’s prisoner of war haul on this base—surrendered today after more than a year's hiding in the jungles.
ORDERED OUT OF TANGIER PARIS, Sept. 4 (U. P.).=Delegates of the Big Four powers announced : today that Spain has
been instructed to evacuate Tangier and restore the zone to its pre-war international status.
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