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1side Indianapolis NO use trying to get ahead of the cy Railways in the new Streetcar, trolley and bus They already have a solution at hand if pas8 decide to buy a supply of tokens at the four~quarter rate before fares go up Sept. 15, Here's way Mr. John Q. Public might figure it on the is of two rides a day for a six-day work week: If I buy a three months’ supply of tokens now (the trial period for a new rate), it would only cost me $9.75. That same supply of tokens would cost $10.72 it bought after transportation rates go up to 8 tokens for 56 cents next week. Therefore, I'd save 98 cents, If all of the Railways’ 1,000,000 tokens were bought up that way, the utility would lose about $6200, So they've decided that if a run does begin between now and Sept. 15, all old tokens will be cancelled” and new “bugs issued. The hoarded tokens then would be redéémed at the old four-for-arquarter rate... . You Just can’t get ahead. , , . Len Royer, 520 Eastern ave, . already has his spring hat problem solved for next year. His two sons, Arnold and Lee, sent him an unblocked Puerto Rican palm the other day from Manila, where they're serving with the army. It came in a bamboo case about a {wot long and nearly two inches in diameter. Arnold's wife, Mary, also got & similar gift. Her hat box was somewhat larger, to fit the wider-brimmed mddel,

Reconversion for Amateur Radio Men

WITH THE END of the war Indianapolis’ amateur radio operators once more are buzzing. They've been off the air since Pearl Harbor when the fed= eral communications commission banned their operation. Probably among the city’s oldest operators are terial to appear on the market, Bill Leuth, 6031 E. Pleasant Run pkwy., and D. J. 3 : Angus of the Esterline-Angus Co. They've been send- Rome Callin ig : ing and receiving over short wave sets since back in MISS VIRGINIA BENJAMIN, 5304 Madison ave., 1926. Mr. Angus has a set in his room at the Y. M. wouldn't budge from her telephone for more than an C. A. and another on his boat on Spring lake in hour yesterday, An overséas operator had called her Michigan where he spends most of his summers. , . . the day before and said Lt. Kenneth Steinmetz of

Bill Leuth . . . one of the city's first short-wave operators,

fs ‘among operators who are doing a lot of station planning on paper. He sold most of his equipment to the army signal corps and is waiting for new ma-

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their old sets or else waiting for new equipment to a. m. The call was late and Miss Benjamin was come in. Just recently the FCC authorized a 90-day Dearly a nervous wreck. Finally the phone rang at temporary permit for amateurs to operate in a lim- 11:45. The call came to the Polar Ice & Fuel main ited area. Mostly local contacts are made now cov- office, 2000 Northwestern, where Miss Benjamin 1s a ering a 10 to 20-mile area. . . . Mr, Leuth was presi- secretary. She and Lt. Steinmetz talked for about dent of the Indianapolis Radio club in 1938 and is five minutes but the connection was not too good at " treasurer of the grou) this year. He tells us that times, she said. Among listeners-in was Miss Benjaeven ‘during the war, however, amateur operators min’s boss, Henry Dithmer Jr....If it were only didn’t get out of practice. About 60 operators and 46 true, was Li, Vernon H. Beaver’s thought when he stations were lined up for the war emergency radio read a squib in The Times. The story said that he service. ‘This service furnished communication facill- was a motor officer with the 4052d truck company of ties between the district air raid wardens. Pire sta- the 47th mobile quartermaster battalion stationed in tons mainly were used as district stations while port- Indiana. In a letter from the amazed lieutenant. the * able mobile units were installed in automobiles. And other day he said: “My mother was rather anxious —gverrthough-the city was lucky enough-to miss having when she read this in your paper as I have been over-

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From the day Okinawa

sky. Gone was arrogant vision of a “Greater East Asia.” An aggressor who

once had roamed the Pacific almost unopposed found himself fighting for existence. © The show was over. Just 50 days after resistance was wiped out on Okinawa, Japan cried “Enough.” Already the VU. S. navy had fought its last battles. In the war's final days, when Adm. William F. Halsey's 3d fleet roamed triumphantly within view of the imperial islands, there was no engagement worthy of the word “battle” The Japs lacked the strength to fight back. Two weeks before the Japs gave up, Adm, Halsey pronounced their fleet “routed, beaten and broken.” Our forces, he sald, were “ready for the final plunge into the heart

kinawa Sealed Fate of Japs

By NED BROOKS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer HE LAST seven weeks of the Pacific war were weeks of terror for the Japs. In the loss of Iwo Jima and Oki nawa was written the enemy’s doom,

fell, the Japs’ industrial ma-

chine and the remnants of their fleet and air force weve at the mercy of vastly supérior strength on the sea and in the

forces. They had strained themsselves for years to build their war machine, gambling on a quick knockout, unprepared for the war of attrition which was to confront them, For the final thrust at the Imperial homeland, the Japs most feared and hated enemy was al the navy’'s helm. (Bull) Halsey took over, relieving Adm. Raymond A. Spruance, the hero of earlier Pacific conquests, Vice Adm, Marg A, Mitscher, boss of task force 58, yielded to Vice Adm. John 8, McCain, another carrier expert, and Vice Adm, Harry W. Hill replaced Viee Adm. Richmond K. Turner in charge of amphibious operations, » # .

WITH MOST of its fleet gone, .the

fanatical suicide bombings.

Jap defense was reduced to the The

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‘THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1945

Vice Adm. John McCain || the strategic blows that virtually

torpedo plane attacks in the Macassar strait, where thinly spread U. 8S. naval forces had fought heroically in January, 1942, before they were overpowered in the Java sea. » ” ~ THOUSAND -plane raids from Adm. Halsey's carriers while B-28s in clouds of 500 to 800 roayed from the Marianas land bases,

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damage of the Kamikaze corps was

The 3d fleet edged. closer and

‘of the empire”

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an honest-to-goodness air raid, the operators got plenty of practice. . .. Ray Shigley, 4021 N. Tacoma,

Joy of Freedom

YOKOHAMA, Sept. 6. — The 18 pretty nurses, dressed in their smartest army uniforms, lined up on the platform at Yokohama station. A platoon of tall soldiers from the 1st cavalry division drew

up a guard of honor. Then a train of eight decrepit cars “stopped . and through the doors emerged 456 cheering, crying men. They were heroes from Bataan and Corregidor, released after more than three long years of tortured imprisonment in Jap camps. : We were the first Americans they had seen for 40 months and * they were hysterical from joy. Ragged, tattered, clutching pathetic little bundles of personal * pelongings they thronged around *- us, grasped hands, holding tight and pinching themselves in the fear that it was only a dream. Spectators’ eyes filled with tears at the emotional outburst, particularly . when they observed a homemade American flag sewn from parachute cloth which the prisoners had borne proudly from the prison camp and waved from the window throughout the day-long journey from the prison camps. They hugged the nurses who smiled to conceal their tears. The nurses passed out candy and cigarets.

Call Cavalrymen Angels ONE GRINNING marine from the famous 4th regiment, captured in the Philippines, said: “This is the greatest thing since Pearl Harbor. Them guards look like angels”—which probably was the first time a cavalryman was ever called such a polite name. Names of those released cannot be made public until the next of kin” have been notified. The stories of all were similar, They had alternate tofture and decent treatment, but throughout

“Aviation

BALTIMORE, Md. Sept. 6.—With wartime restrictions vanishing, the airplane industry is launching its race to provide the peacetime public with better, faster, safer and more comfortable airliners. And in the picture is the three-cent-mile fare, compafable to railroad coach prices. - An example is the newly-de-signed Martin 202 thirty-passen-ger, twin-engine, low-wing, passenger cargo transport. According to engineers of the Glenn L. Martin Co. this’ airliner is definitely aimed at the three-cent mile. It will cruise at from 275 to 300 miles per hour, according to ‘ fiying conditions and altitude. Water injection for additional bursts of speed and a special jet- A type engine exhaust which adds about 20 miles per hour to cruising speed also are features. The plane has safe single-engine performance up to 16,000 feet altitude. “and, other wartested devices add greatly to safety in flight. Double~ slotted wing flaps of Martin design and log drag laminar air foils also add to cruising efficiency and safety. Ceiling on two engines is nearly six miles up.

Powder Room Facilities IN THE large mockup here, there is an indication that milady’s comfort is given as much importance as it is by the automobile industry. She

My Day

HYDE PARK, Wednesday. —Congress, which re-

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convenes today, will come, back to its labors after only ~ faith with the people of our nation. There is a ‘Second bill which I think is equally important, Senate Bill

a short holiday in a very long of ion 1050, which is a bill to provide “national security,

reads a great deal of criticism of the accomplishments 101th and public welfare.”

especially interesting to me is that public health. Again and again,

seas for 21 months and am at present in Calcutta, India.” Lt. Beaver’s home is at 2906 E. 22d st.

By Sidney B. Whipple

their imprisonment they worked 12 hours a day in the copper mines near Ashio. : f In the camps, the men said, the food was inadequate. Without Red Cross parcels—they got three a year—they believed many would have died. The instances of brutality, while numerous, were not so marked as in many other camps, although sick men who were unaple to work were frequently beaten. One marine, a 22-year-old Mississippi boy, said: “I thought I'd blow my top unless I kept busy, so I wrote a book. First I put down the names of all the friends I'd like to see. Then all the songs I'd like to hear. I have never heard ‘White Christmas’ but the name sounded pretty, so I put that at the top of the list.

One Boy's Dream Menu “THEN I put down all the clothes I'd like to buy.

I figured I'd spend about a thousand dollars on;

clothes, beginning with a sport suit. Then I put down dates to remember, such as when we were captured, when we moved from camp to camp, my mother’s birthday, and Nov. 10, the marine corps’ birthday. Finally I wrote pages of menus of what I would eat when I returned home.” The first information these men had that the war ‘was over came when Jap guards, listening to a radio, turned away crying. The next day there was no work in the mines. The guards became polite. They brought more food and clothing, Then U. 8S. planes flew over on Aug. 20 and dropped great packages of supplies, The men knew something of the progress of the war from newspa smuggled to them occasionally by some friendly guard. They heard about a “weird bomb,” but they could hardly believe it. Finally their camp leader, summoned to the city, returned with the news and soon they were put aboard a train by Jap guards, on the way to freedom, The men were “processed” at a huge warehouse at the dock where the hospital ship Marigold is berthed. They were given baths, deloused, issued fresh clothes, fed, and taken aboard.ship for rest. Preliminary medical examinations showed the men in fairly good health, despite hard labor and lack of food.

{Jap islands or the China mainland.

and the weight of Russia's entry into the war speeded the end, but American armed might already had moved in for the kill. The 82-day campaign on Okinawa ending June 21, had opened the way for an attack either on the

And the Japs were tog weak to mount = adequate strength at all their points of critical defense. ” ” » IWO JIMA and Okinawa had been won the hard way—our dead

were counted at more than 15,000 in the two campaigns. But the two islands were to earn their

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ities cared to admit. Adm. Mitscher dismissed the “Divine Wind" squadrons as “not more than 2 per cent effective,” but the navy’s summary described them as “serious opposi-

tion.”

Suicide raids reached their great-

est intensity in the last eight or 10 months of the war. The navy for a long time avoided mention of the new threat and many of the major losses were not disclosed until after

the war was nearly over,

Heavy damage inflicted in January on-the carrier Ticonderoga and in February on the carrier Saratoga was kept secret for six months, The

closer to - the home... islands, fi-' nally sailing boldly into the waters between Honshu and Hokkaido. In Washington, Navy Secretary James B. Forrestal observed: “We now control the sea right up to Japan) While carrier planes raked airflelds on Honshu and Hokkaido, battleships and cruisers from the 3d opened up on Kamaishi, 275 miles north of Tokyo on -Honshu, wrecking the giant Imperial Iron and Steel Works, The battleships Massachusetts, South Dakota and Indiana, the cruisers Chicago and Quincy and a protecting force of 12 destroyers ranged along Honshu’s coast’ unmolested.

keep—Iwo as a fighter base and stopover for Superfortresses operating from the Marianas, Okinawa as a base for both air and sur- not issued a complete summary of

* Even before Okinawa fell, the most of the 25 ships sunk and 45 Japs’ airpower was estimated to damaged in the Okinawa campaign have been reduced to 4000 combat planes and 600,000 air and ground

More than 17,000 planes had been destroyed and the Japs were no match for the U. 8. in providing

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| Kamikaze losses, it is known that

were suicide bomb victims, | The ring which had been closing on the enemy from all sides was tightened by the mid-July invasion of Borneo. The 7th Fleet, under Adm. Thomas ©. Kinkaid, covered

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Wisconsin blasted the Nihon and Wanishi steel works, On July 16, the 3d moved north to Hokkaido, wrecking the great iron works at Muroran. Two days later, joined by the British battleship King George V, the Iowa-led force moved to within 10 miles of the shore to strike munitions and steel factories at Hitachi, Takahagi and Mito, Superfort's devastated 26 cities,

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fire bombs and TNT. The over-| powering strength of the navy and] air forces made their apparent lack of co-ordination a matter of small strategic consequence. » » »

WHILE soupy weather obscured the results of both forces, the same targets were blasted by navy guns and air force hombs in the final, shoot-the-works stages of Japan's Pdemise. a pt The remnants of the Jap ‘fleet, the world's third largest in 1841, had now been drawn info the oncegreat base at Kure on the Inland sea, On July 24, carrier planes from the 3d ranged over Kure, inflicting heavy damage on a large carrier, two converted carriers, four smaller craft and sinking or damaging 85 cargo vessels. In the 10 days preceding the Jap surrender offer, ‘3d fleet destroyers entered Suruga bay to shell . the aluminum center of Shimizu, 12 more Jap cities were marked for death by the air forces, carrier planes sank or damaged 41 more ships and the naval base of Malzuru and Inland: sea shipping was paralyzed by a mine blockade. . me BY AUG. 10, wien the Japs sued for peace, what was once their navy bad not a single usable battleship remaining. According to latest U.S. navy reports, the Jap fleet which for a brief period after Pearl Harbor had ruled the Pacific had been reruced to 21 serviceable warships-—12 destroyers and nine coast defense vessels.

and Adm. William F. (Bull) Halsey are shown mapping one of

{criuser Sakawa, crippled in the final

battleship, the Nagato; three cruisers and three aircraft carriers. Everything else was gone. The

week, was the last big Jap vessel in action, In 45 months of war, according fo the U.S. navy, “the Imperial Japa~ nese navy was reduced from a firsts class seapower to a naval non= entity.” The tabulation listed 318 enem ‘warships as sunk or crippled dir ing the war — 12 battleships, 15 carriers, 4.escort carriers, 16 heavy cruisers, 20 light cruisers, 126 destroyers and 125 submarines. Thousands of smaller craft were added to this toll.

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THE NAVY summary added: “Hand in hand with this destruetion of combat vessels has gone the elimination of almost all of Japan's 5,600,000 tons of merchant shipping. This is probably the first time in history that a major power has lost her navy and merchant marine during the course of a war, “This great victory, the greatest ever achieved in modern history by one navy over another d the course of a war, did not come without great cost to all America, If cost lives, it cost ships, it cost money, it cost enormous labor. “The sea road from Pearl harbor to Tokyo was a long and bitter one, but not so long nor so bitter as would have been the road from Japan to Pearl harbor to the shores of the United States.”

can divisions: 35th Infantry Division, Regiment—On high seas. terday. iment—On high seas.

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By Max B. Cook

no longer has to stand in the rest room ‘clutching fixtures in bumpy weather while gazing into the mirror to fix her hair and apply makeup. A low

mirror and a leather-covered, cushion seat allow her | 17th Airborne Division—Moving

perfect comfort while making herself beautiful. When this plane ‘gets to flying, there will be no long waits before personal baggage is delivered after landing. Mr. and Mrs. will be enabled to pick up their light bags from a special passenger baggage compartment almost opposite the door as they leave the plane. Two 2100 horsepower Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engines take the plane off in 1950 feet if necessary, and can do it in 1750 feet with water injection. Only 3750 runway feet are necessary for landing at sea level, thus making this type plane available for , many small airports.

* Luaurious: Seats

REVERSIBLE pitch propellers of Hamilton Standard four-blade type will be used, adding an addi~

tional landing safety factor, enabling the pilot to

come to a stop much shorter of the average distance required. Luxurious and comfortable reclining seats occupy two rows on each side of the fuselage, nicely balance. ing the airliner. It 1s predicted that the first 202 will be produced some time early in 1946 for its CAA tests, should be coming off the line late ‘in 1946 or early in 1047, it is predicted.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

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the practice of issuing powdered sulfa drugs to be placed in wounds and of sulfa tablets to be swallowed ah by injured persons, The powder was found to act as an irritant in some cases, Man has searched through the years for an antiseptic which would sterilize infected wounds and hasten healing. When the sulfa drugs were

Dr, O’Brien discovered it was believed the quest had been successful, but as evidence accumulated it was apparent that! wound healing was being helped! by other factors. »

# " OPEN wounds heal best when cleansed of foreign material, cleared of dead tissue, held together, and placed at rest, Open wounds favor the entrance of dirt and bacteria. The latter enter from the skin, clothing, and surrounding atmosphere, When wounds ware cleansed with running water and tissues are cut away, healing is more apt to occur than when antiseptics! are placed in the wound. | Open wounds soon become red! swollen, hot and painful. This is un effort on the part of the body to get rid of germs, toxins, and foreign material. The natural defenses are usually adequate In the average case, Healing starts rather promptly as the floor fills with small red granules of tissue, The small red dots are tiny blood vessels bringing in white cells and young scar cells. The skin grows in from the edges as scar res places the injured tissues. If the skin covers over too slowly, skin grafts may be used to help healing, » » n REST 18 important in wound healing. If the severed parts are held together after being thoroughly cleansed, healing Is more prompt.

If you sustain an open wound, stop the bleeding by pressure on the artery which leads to the bleeding point. : Do not put anything in the wound including antiseptics. Cover the part with a sterile dressing or clean cloth. Do not inspect it or allow anyone else to do so before your physician examines it, » » » SUCCESS in the treatment of infected wounds is due to proper first aid followed by careful cleans-

(replacements for either air or sea the Borneo operations, beating off |burriing out 127 square miles with Damaged beyond use Were one THE END 2 U. S. Divisions |THE DOCTOR SAYS: Do Not Put Anything in Wound We, the Women Embark for U. S. | I d d I Reconversi. oro o> | Cleanliness and Rest Speed Healing || on P P By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D. splint or cast puts it at rest and ing of the wound, and removal of Snar Is Faci ng PARIS, Sept. 8 (U. P).—Today's! THE army medical corps toward this helps new tissues to fill in the dead tissue at the first opportunity. H » . redeployment schedule of Ameri- | the close of the war discontinued °PeRing. This permits surgeons to operate ousewives,

under ideal circumstances in the repair of severed tendons, nerves, muscles, and organs, Tetanus germs ‘introduced with dirt are counteracted by injections of tetanus toroid given previously or tetanus antitoxin given at the time. If in spite of these measures wounds become infected, they can be reopened and drained to the outside. Sulfa drugs and penicillin are used in the treatment of internal complications of infected wounds.

WILLIE and JOE—By Mauldin

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By RUTH MILLETT

THERB is one group of Americans who have a reconversion problem facing them in the near future—and perhaps don't even realize it. . The group? America's housewives, Thou. : : sands of them soon will find themselves with more time to spend intelligently or to waste than they have had since the start "of the war,

Many of them who have held down jobs while employers have been beg~ ging for help, or because keeping house with a husband overseas wasn’t a full time job, are going to being full time housewives.

And many women who have been full time housewives throusxh= out the war are going to find themselves with time on their hands, once their work is eased by such small but important timesavers as having the car for running errands, being able to shop without tiring searches for scarce articles, being able again to get marketing done by one daily telephone call, and no longer being needed for volunteer war jobs,

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WELL, what are they going to do with the time? Are they going back to killing it with long sessions In beauty salons, afters noon-long bridge parties, ineffec~ tual women's clubs?

Or will they be too smart—now that they know how capable they are, how much work they can turn out, and how much satisfaetion there is in using time instead

“I shouldn't accept yer horshpitality, gents. .I'm s'posed to be arrestin’ sojers . . .”

of killing it, to go back to the old boring ways?

Now is the right moment for

them to look ahead and make up thelr minds what they want make of themselves and Ww

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