Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1945 — Page 8

Writer Loses 'Lots of Face’ In Ride on Tokyo Express|

By GERALD R. THORP Times Foreign Correspondent a pass from center, TOKYO, Sept. 10.—The Tokyo| She stayed that way for five min« Express ‘is an electric train that|utes. Then a Jap next to her travels more from side to side than gighed wearily and lifted her pack forward. so that she could move back into But it's one way to get from the seat, We didn't know until “Yokohama to the Japanese capital then that it had been too heavy for if you're not particular about your her to raise from the floor: pride or your shins. We reached the Tokyo station o Three of us made the trip to- | at midnight and remained acutely ~-gether at night. — What we learned | aware that-we were-Americans-still makes “The Perils of Pauline” read none too popular there, Two Jap like sissy stuff, [officers turned their backs and In the first place, that old saw faced the wall as we passed. Anabout the politeness of the Japa- other clutched his nose with his nese can be scratched off the books. | thumb and forefinger, not too deliWe started to board the train,|cately. We felt very lonely. smug With confidence, Find Railroad Guide In two seconds I lost lots of face| And then we met Casper, the rail-

ike a quarterback ready to take

CHURCHMEN ON FOREIGN DUTY

Dr. George Walker Buckner, the Rey. Virgil A. Sly and the Rev. E. K. Higdon, all Disciples of Christ officials of Indianapolis, are now fulfilling missions abroad,

Dr, Buckner is in Geneva, Switzerland, to aid the world council of churches in the field of publicity and to assist in the rehabilitation and strengthening of the European churches. En route to Switzerland, he stopped in England as a fra--ternal delegate from the -international convention of the Disciples of Christ to the churches of Britain, The Rev. Mr. Higdon is in the Philippines making a survey of the missionary casualties of war—both in the numbers of pastors killed and the church properties destroyed or

but not by falling on it. I landed | g on the other side of a victim with | Toad Eide, Something Of of a Pree an ingenious elbow technique which | [0 he scraped, he smiled, be the little people here employ with | ed earnestly and feelingly of the surprising dexterity. beautiful new American-Japanese Three Clutch One Strap relationship, But more than that, But at least we got on the train,| he offered to lead us to the Imperial the three of us clutching the one|hotel, our destination. available strap. The motorman| we stepped off the dimly lit stamust have just finished the life|tion into the heart of Tokyo, the story of our late lamented engineer, | blackest I've ever seen. -Great office Casey Jones. The things he did to! buildings rose menacingly like forthat train I wouldn't try with my|midable walls of a great canyon son’s electric Lionel. along the streets. Not a light was We all soon felt at home for next| burning, Not a soul was stirring, to us was the usual subway drunk,| our jittle guide assured us he in this case a Japanese soldier with would get us there and that “the a bottle of Saki, ; Imperial hotel was 10 minutes.” He talked loud asd long, in a Thirty minutes later, after the most tone that made us quite uncom-|ionely walk of my life through the » fortable. world’s fifth largest city, we found

His buddies glanced nervously in {the Imperial, Japan's most modern our direction from time to time, | quake-proof hotel,

probably thankful that we couldn't! 1 has one very excellent feature understand Japanese, So were we. | which our office will appreciate Eventually Got Beats | They won't take money for any-

The crowd thinned out and wel thing. You just sign little chits eventually got seats. A woman | 81ving your name and place of birth,

across the way, with a huge bundle nex of kin, and amount of inon her back,.suddenly slipped off |Surance, Ti her seat and kneeled_on the figor | Copyright, 1945, by The Indianapolis al)

The Chicago 1 Dally, News, Inc. Savage Treatment Is Given Yanks in Kobe Prison Camp|

By WILLIAM McGAFFIN

from Singapore and Hong Kong. Times Foreign Correspondent They were unfitted for the extremes KOBE, Japan; Sept. 10.—Ameri- of the Japanese winter which they cans received more savage treat- | had to endure with scanty clothing and scantler rations, ment than their. Australian and des: towards the end| 25 Per Cent Died British ‘eamra | Some ex-prisoners estimate that of their imprisonment in the main) {as high as 25 .per cent of their SSOBE: CRD; Ionmenon SORE THEI ied that fst winter from ter of this burned-out industrial] ¢a vation and exposure, They accity. {cuse the Japanese of “willful negVerbally and through diaries, y| Se " have been given stark details of life | Japanese - bestiglity was typified in this unit, one of 14 camps in the hy the conduct of Col. Murata, a Kobe-Osaka area which held an. | “Prussian type” of Jap with mean estimated 17,000 inmates. { visage, shaved bullet head, crafty Col. Murata, commander of this| | eyes, Hitler mustache and steelchain, is now in American hands. | rimmed spectacles, A very humbled 1 have talked with two Americans man, he was summoned before two who sald that a Jap guard asked of the young American captains them, “Are you American or Eng- | whom he once hazed. lish?” Replying “Americans,” they! Murata used to swagger in and were beaten ‘into unconsciousness tell the inmates that he did not like with bamboo sticks, belts, fists and | their attitude, He warned those rope and bucket. { Who did not do their best for Japan Beat Others, Too {and mainfain complete humbleness They said that this treatment | !O%AId thelt Saptors iat bisey wonlla was given to numerous other Ameri- ro ® 3 Fo er x & chance to join cans as well. Why, they did not|YOUr loved ones. know, unless the Japanese realized Takes Orders Now that America, more than any other | He would say: “Our people will nation, was responsible for their not forget that you shot at our defeat In the Pacific. | brothers and sons . . , for this you Other allied prisoners, however,| must pay your toll very heavily.” suffered equally with the Amer- | This same Col, Murata is now jcans through most of the imprisonment and kept records.of their he was interrogated he behaved in plight which they kept hidden un-| | obsequeuous fashion, bowing humbly til now. land obviously- trying to curry favor. According to these records, the| If those responsible for these conAmericans and their brother allies| ditions are not executed, our boys, agreed that their Arst winter in| Who have suffefed under him, are camp — that of 1042 — was their|B0Ing to wonder why, Many former worst. prisoners are disturbed by the idea All had come from the tropics—| that Murata and his gang may be the Americans from Corregidor and |2ble to fly the coop.

First of 822,000 Refugee Poles to Start Home Soon

By EDWARD P. MORGAN Times Foreign Correspondent it WIgeBADEN, Supt yea Jim With more than half of the total ed number of 1a 824000 relugee,,. their Lands. the British wie Poles In western Germany are

hedul : I ' | anxious to get repatriation started scheduled to start on their long, | {from their zone because life in the fateful journey home within 10

[ crowded displaced persons camps days. They will travel in box CAS, | tig winter, with only the barest carrying their children and worldly | | minimum of heat, food and blankets, belongings in their arms.

{could easily produce seriou - An army announcement said to- | P 8: pron

day that a new plan had been Jems not only of health but of unarranged to repatriate a maximum | rest. of 6000 a day by .rail from the| A British source has reported that American zone through Czechoslo« 60 per cent of the Poles indicated, vakia. {in August, that they wanted to go But, according to the best esti-|home, mates, It will be an extraordinary| But that number is dropping piece of luck if more than a small steadily, he says, as delays increase percentage of the Poles who want [And the uncertainty of how they will to go can be evacuated from the be able to survive the winter western zones of Germany before | | deepens their confusion as to what winter comes. [they will find, both politically and Haye Urged Action physically, when they get home

| Copyright, 1945, by The Indianapolis Times Necessarily crude transport fa- | and The Chicago Dally News, Ine calities, and scarcity .of food and

warm clothes would make mass mi- | MINISTERS _ T0 HOLD gration in bitter winter weather | OUTING TOMORROW

dangerous, if not Impossible. American and - British authori- | Entire families will attend the ties have been straining to get the [picnic of the Indianapolis Ministe« operation going long before this pia associntion but difficulties in sommunlcating 1, HeOve rom $108 pm with the Warsaw provisional gov- Sinorrow. en the grounds of the ernment and lack of facilities for | North Methodist church, transport through the Russian| Mrs. Albert Parker Jr., wife of Dr. mone have caused repeated delays. | Parker, president of Hanover col- € new arrangements apparently |... win “ stem from conferences between Gen.|or" the Minister» Mus Brose the daughter of the.late Dr. Cleland

t D. Eisenhower and Marshal McAfee who was for many years

Gri K. Zhukov on the urgency of the situation during the general's secretary of the board of foreign missions of the Presbyterian church

recent visit to Moscow. i the U.S.A.

_ Once the Czech route opens, the Americans hope to be able to evacu- The Rev. Ralph O'Dell will lead games and recreation for the pic.

te a similar number through B and Gorlitz but several de-| vo. oo the North church will aie ind to be worked out with)... a non-profit dinner. Dr. DalRussia las L. ‘Browning, host pastor, and 280,000 in U. 8. Zone: the Rev.“E. PF, Roesti, minister of! There are an estimated .280,000/the Broadway Evangelical ‘church, ‘Poles. in the American zone of [are iif charge of arrangements The Rev, I. Albert Moore, pastor

occupation, 50,000 in the ¢ Prenes and of the Jones tabernacle, African

462,000 in the sin In addiBaveanous 35. 3 x Riou Episcopal. Zion chureh, is| dent of the ministerial| tion,

these may be Included in the impending repatriation,

whom the Ger-

taking orders, not giving them. As|’

impaired, The Rev. Mr, Sly is following the tributaries of the Congo river in the Belgian Congo, Africa, to ascertain the needs of mission stations in that part of the world, He first visited the posts supported by

Disciples along the Congo.

L+. Yoyles Gets Army Discharge

FIRST LT. CHARLES T. VOYLES, employee of The Times advertising department, on leave, wis discharged from the army air corps recently : and will return to ‘his job

Sept. 17.

Lt. Voyles lives at 536 N. Eastern ave, with his wife, Jane, and their

~3 = year -~—old

daughter, Judy. In the army ; since April, 1041, he served Lb Voyles overseas in the air force, and returned to the-states last September to act: as a bombardier instruc tor at Davis-Monthan fleld, Tucson, Ariz. He holds the distinguished flying ' cross, the air medal with three oak leaf clusters, and three battle stars, ‘The stars were awarded for air offensives in Normandy, northern France and Germany.

-118 still giving off secondary radia-

PLANTS MAY TEST ATOM DEATH TALES

? By Science Bervice WASHINGTON. ~Plants, reported growing already on the sites of the Japanese cities blasted cby atomicl bombs, <should be examined by trained geneticists for possible clues to the truth or falsity of the “deathray” stories diligently propagated by Japanese as a bid for sympathy. If the soil, in which they are growing, really was so impregnated with radio-active substances that it

tions dangerous to human and other life, effects should show up in the plants, as a higher-than-average oc~ currence of mutations or “sports”— sudden. evolutionary changes—appearing in seedlings from seeds of the plants now growing. Changes of this sort have been induced experimentally in the past, by bombarding the seed-forming organs of plants with X-rays, radium radiations, etc, .If such changes do not appear, or are not! unusually numerous, additional doubt will be cast on the Japanese

“horror-ray” stories.

are some questions from G. 1's who have just returned from overseas:

about’ two ‘weeks and want to get started back to college for this fall semester if possible, that getting the government to send us to school involves a lot of red tape and that I might not be able to make it in time, suggest as the fastest possible meth. od of making application, and do ‘you think I will be able to make it for the coming semester?

YOUR G.I. HTS ++ By Douglas Larsen ih Education Needs—They Can Be Solved in Speedy Manner

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—Here your certificate of discharge or

release, Q—I've been looking around for {8 job for the last couple of weeks and although there are plenty of openings there isn't anything that just suits me. What unemployment compensation 1s due me as a veteran in case I want to keep looking for a while? i A—You can get a maximum weekly allowance of $20 a week while you are unemployed. De- ‘| pending upon your time in the service, you can get this for a maximum of 52 weeks.

Q—The government has refused to give me my readjustment allowance because they claim I turned down a good job that was offered to me. Can they do this legally? A—Yes, if they prove you actually did turn down a good job.

QI will be out of the army-in

They tell me

What do yqu

A—If you meet all the qualifications for the educational benefits there is no reason why you can’t get your application approved in time. Go to your nearest veterans administration office and fill out and file veterans administration rehabilitation form 1950, with the regional office. The application must be accompanied by a certified photostatic copy of

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USE INDIAN "POISON

“T0 COMBAT POLIO

By Science Service CHICAGO, Sept. 10.—The use of curare, the old Indian arrow poison, in the treatment of infantile

paralysis is reported by Dr. Nicholas |

S. Ransohoff, of Long Beach, N. J, in ‘the forthcoming issue Journal of the American Medical association. The arrow poison was tried in four consecutive cases at Monmouth Memorial hospital. “Striking ime provement -of the symptoms” was obtained, Dr. Ransohoff states. Physicians do not ordinarily ree port on the value of a treatment that has been tried in only four cases, but Dr. Ransohoff states thag he is making this “preliminary” ree port because “there is a great deal of infantile paralysis in the country at the present time and it is hoped that other observers will use this drug.”

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