Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 September 1945 — Page 11

aT e he a Inside Indi IT MAY NOT BE long before Indianapolis will beseeing some of those. crack basketball teams at the Butler university fieldhouse again. Just a few days ago Lt. Cmdr. Paul D. (Tony) Hinkle, who's -known nationally for his coaching ability, got:-the go sign for his release ' : from the navy from his commanding officer, Now the release | has to go through Washington = and then the navy has to send a re= placement to the Pacific before Tony will come home. Butler exs | pects him back here by Christ mas— just in time to get in the thick of the basketball season. , . . Lt.

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° : 4 “ Lis Butler’s Hinkle Yeoman 2-¢ J. C, Maloy, who sailed into the bay before the official signing of the Japanese surrender terms. Yeomsn Maloy Wrote his folks that his ship was carrying a rear admiral who was to be present at the signing. ° The ship also was transporting several hundred soldiers troops. ) postmarked Sept. 2. ‘wrote, they fixed up their own special stamp.

tall and an inch, wide. It shows an archway with a map of Tokyo Bay in the center and a Jap looking on, A similar stamp, called a Tokyo Bay cancellation stamp, is on the front of the envelope with the words, “First Landing U. 8. Troops” printed below the map Yeoman Maloy said he mailed the letter as soon as|”

her own on her son’s whereabouts since he went to sea. .She has placed thumb tacks at Manila, Leyte, Saipan, Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Kwajalein and five other spots. The other day she pushed the 12th tack into Tokyo.

‘Buzz Bomb’ Alarm

their hands the other day, 2523 ‘N. Olney st., was drving along on Sherman dr. when a police siren started screaming right beside . his car, It just about scared him to death and al-

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who were among the first occupation er arrived here Monday and was On the ship, Yeoman Maloy It’s ‘the back of the envelope and is about three inches

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reached port. . .. Mrs, Maloy has kept a map of

POLICE almost had a “buzz bomb” accident on Capt. Robert Hawkins,

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at Butler until

he entered the gony Hinkle . . . his name spells navy about four :

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expected back in his old job before Christmas. Lt. Barnett is stationed in Washington, following the sinking of ‘his LST at Mindora a few months ago. . .. Other Yuletide bundles for the university include the return of Maj. Merwyn Bridenstine to the economics department. The major at present is stationed in Texas. . . . Joe Breeze, business manager of The News, was all worked up yesterday when his wife called and said their young son was lost. He rushed ‘out of the office to his home at 4415 Broadway and then started the hunt. He cruised around for two hours before the youngster finally was found at 44th and Pennsylvania. The two-and-a-half-year-old tot had been to the grocery on College ave., and also tried to find his Sunday school, When found, he was much calmer than his dad. Gf

First Mail From Toky : MR. AND MRS. James F. Maloy, 616 Eastern ave. have what perhaps is the first letter to Indianapolis BRN SR IR RC RITZ TRIE ; Ss nS 3 .-

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ap dadism KOBE, Sept. 12—To understand why the Japanese behaved as they did toward American and allied prisoners, you have got to know Freud. Quite possibly the inferiority complex of the pigmy people can be blamed for ab least some of the Japanese brutality, These frustrated little men resent our greater height. When they got our boys where they wanted them-—help- . less in prison camps and unable

; to strike back—they took it out on them. : : Se Then, - life always has been

‘cheap in the Orient and cruelty commonplace. And finally, there seems to be a definite sadistic trend running through part of the Jap army, especially among the professional officers, who can best be described as Prussians.” Prisoners to whom I have talked in the KobeOsaka area, where one of the largest concentrations of prisoners in the country is now in process of being evacuated—agreed that “the army were b but the civilians treated us pretty well all the way through.” Japanese civilians were not without self-interest, the prisoners explained. Civillans were having a difficult time of it, too, in the way of food and clothing.

Had Reason to Be Nice’

«THEY WERE nice to us because they knew that we were running a black market of food and clothing which they couldn't get anywhere else,” said the

Yanks. ; Towards the end, when it sank home that they were definitely losing the war, the Japanese military started treating the prisoners better. Here are some incidents, related to me by different prisoners, examples of what happened before that realization: A Japanese interpreter by the name of Tagagai deliberately misinterpreted remarks of prisoners so as to get them in trouble with the authorities. He

Science

THE TIME has come when diphtheria can be vir- . tually eliminated from the life of the nation. This ’ is the opinion of statisticians of -the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., who have heen comparing conditions in this country with those in Europe. In this country, the death rate . from diphtheria has continued to decline during the war years so that today it stands at a record | low. By contrast, Europe suffered f widespread epidemics of the disease during the war as a result of the relaxation of public health controls. The figures show that Europe, exclusive of the Soviet Union, had approximately 2,000,000 cases | of diphtheria in 1943 and 1944, The number of deaths from the

“Japanese

100,000.

diphtheria was practiced on a wide scale,

Less Than One Per 100,000

trolled in those days.

My Day

HYDE PARK, Tuesday.~I have a telegram today which I think is really important. In Chicago, from Oct. 1 to 4, the Veterans of Foreign Wars will hold

their 46th anniial encampment and they will have large delegation \of world war II veterans, They tell me that as honor guests there will be representative | combat veterans from all the United Nations. These men are to be chosen for exceptional oravery which has already brought them recognition from their gov~ ernments, The hope is that bringing to-

most caused him to lose control of his car, Hawkins had been overseas when the Nazis buzz bombed England. Our police siren and the buzz bomb raid warning signal, he says, sound exactly the same. The policeman didn't even notice the scare, though, and went right on chasing his speeder. . . . A woman and her two little girls attracted quite a bit of attention on Block's escalator recently, dark-skinned and the mother was wearing a sari (a traditional Hindu dress) of pale salmon silk with a silver thread edging. Over the Bast Indian costume was an ordinary raincoat. were drawing the stares, they, too, were staring, Next to them was a high school boy wearing a hay fever device in his nose—something they had never seen before. . . . Mrs. Jack Bevan has more than one reason for hoping that the slugging wave here is stopped. She'd like to feel safe on the streets at night but also would like to see her husband, Detective Jack Bevan, at the dinner table more often. Detective Bevan has been working on the Hamilton slugging case with Detective Charles Burkett. They've’ been at the case 16 to 17 hours a day and sometimes miss meal time alto-

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disease in those two years is estimated at more than

An epidemic of these propdrtions compares to the type which occurred in both this country and in Europe a generation ago before immunization against

THE GREATEST increase in diphtheria reported from Europe was among adults who had never been tmmunized against the disease. Apparently they owed their safety in the years before the war to thé tact that outbreaks of the disease were promptly con-

In this country, on the other hand, the death rate from diphtheria fell to a figure less than one per 100,000 of population in 1043, the first time in the

‘By William McGaffin

was a civilian, who had been interned by the British

and hated the white race in general.

A Japanese army doctor at one camp, 2d Lt. Mietaka, used to hold roll call three or four times in the middle of the night. When the prisoners answered he would pretend not to hear. “Louder,’ he would demand, Then, if they didn’t shout loud enough to suit him, he would personally beat them. Other cruel beatings were administered for trivial or trumped up offenses by Dr. Nosu and Sgt. Maj. Huryo, whose favorite expression was “I'd like to kill

someone.”

Huryo, who was pay sergeant and administrator of the Kobe camp, nearly gratified this wish during an entertainment the prisoners were putting on one day. One act was a satire on the black market, which American and allied prisoners were running with goods left on the dock, Some of the Japanese with a sense of humor had asked the prisoners to include this act in the entertainment as a com-

mentary on Japanese life.

Had No Sense of Humor

BUT ‘SGT. HURYO had no sense ‘of humor. He stomped to the stage, stopped the show and personally beat up the four men, who were putting on the act, Three of them were taken to the hospital uncon-

scious.

Prisoners said that Huryo represented a strange combination of beast and cultured, citified human being. He was greatly interested in music and sometimes used to sing Japanese songs to the prisoners. At another camp, S. Sgt. Furia indulged himself

in uncalled for beatings. But as bad as this treatment was, in general

was not so severe, prolonged or torturous” as that meted out to American submariners and B-29 crew-

men with whom I have talked.

Of all the prisoners with whom I have talked, only one has volunteered a kind word for any Jap connected with a prison camp. An American doctor captured in the Philippines gave high praise to a Dr. Ohashi, with whom he worked in the prison hospital at Kobe. He didn't know why Ohashi was so nice un-

less it was because he was a civilian,

By David Dietz

history of the nation that the rate had gone below

one per 100,000.

However, the disease strikes chiefly among children and in their age range the death rate was aApproxi-

mately five per 100,000.

Since 1935 the death rate from diphtheria has been cut by 70 per cent and the prevalence of the disease by more than 60 per cent. The picture, howe ever, is not entirely rosy. There are still large sections of the country in which the disease is much

too prevalent.

Statisticians point out that in the 25 states with] the highest death rates from diphtheria, the rate was more than five times as high as that in the remaining

states. Need Research Extension

...MOST OF the states with low mortality from diphtheria are in the northeast and Middle West while the states with the worst mortality records from this

disease form a solid belt in the southern part of country extending from Virginia south, and as west as Arizona.

public health measures and medical research now

world war II has come to an end. The marvelous ad-

vances made in military medicine during the

with peacetime diseases,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

fore, In meeting the problems of the present and the future they must think primarily as citizens and not

merely as veterans.

a And now to lighter matters,

through thick underbrush and trees.

that nature strews all around us.

Capt.

They were

But while the threesome

More than 1000 children lose their lives annually ia this country from diphtheria. The company’s statisticians believe that this loss could be stopped by the nation-wide application of immunization to those susceptible to the disease and‘by the prompt use of anti-toxin in all cases of the disease that occur, The situation with regard to diphtheria should bring home to the nation the necessity of extending

must now be matched with equal strides in dealing

This is a gray day and the sky looks as though at any moment it might open up and weep. But in the woods this morning, as 1 walked Pala, the grayness” only seemed to give an added depth to the mysterious feeling that one always has as one walks along a road which is cut

Fala kept darting off to chase some wild thing I

"denly’ became more aware than usual ofthe beauties

Along the edge of the road for long stretches there of a delicate fern-like growth with a little

1. Smashing of the atoms In the bomb that blasted Hiroshima .resulted from a vast store of information about the atom and the way atoms are constructed. The idea of the atom dates back to ancient times. In about the year 375 B.C. in Greece, Democritus, the “laughing philosopher with an untidy gray beard,” taught his students that a stone is built up of very small particles, just asa temple is cgmstructed of stones. He called these particles “atoms” and

said they were the ultimate of

smallness. They could not be divided further. .

2. Through the Dark Ages of Europe and the Renaissance, very little was added to the knowledge of the atom. Alchemists dreamed of making gold by breaking up and combining common materials. They puttered around their laboratories, mixing, boiling and distilling strange concoctions. Their work generally ended in dis-

"appointment.

3. Then toward the end of the 18th century came the dawn of modern science, - In the 19th century, great advances were made in the science of electricity, highlighted by the invention of the in-

candescent lamp. In chemistry the idea of the atom became well established. John. Dalton, the English chemist, showed how chemical compounds are formed by the elements, such as hydrogen, oxygen,'iron and copper, by

HOW WE MADE THE JAPS WANT TO QUIT (One of a Series)

Defeat Does Not Always Mean

By MARJORIE VAN DE WATER

enemy's military strength proves to be hopelessly superior. Surrender comes only when the armed forces have no more will to fight. In an army of fanatical fighters such as the Japanese, trained from earliest childhood to revere the emperor as God and to regard death in his service as a great honor and personal surrender as unspeakable disgrace—the difference be-

tween certain defeat and the laying down of arms may be very great indeed. So, defeat does not always mean surrender. It was brought about by a carefully planned program of psychological warfare based on thorough knowledge of Japanese character, ! history and ways of thinking. as...» CAPT. Ellis M. Zacharias, of the U. 8. navy, and the small group that helped him plan this psychological campaign took it for granted that the Japanese leaders are realistic people. They knew that they faced defeat. But they were on the spot; they could see no way to get out of a war which meant only a daily mounting toll of Japanese lives and property: . Capt. Zacharias knew that the objective of his psychological campaign must be to solve this prob~ lem for the Japanese, Surrender would have to come from the top, because it is a fixed habit of Japanese minds to be unable to act without orders from above. The emperor himself must be the one dealt with, » » "

a host 6f unexpected problems.

gives some of the answers.

SEVERE pr opt moeiareeefitsiovgsiancaldapan. has. given. the, United. States

to control them and how to re-educate them are questions in the minds of many readers. This timely series on Japanese psychology

The Japanese are shrewd; how

But the broadcasts were only one

tool.

They were backed up by military

events, carefully planned for their psychological effect,

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FIRST, Capt. Zacharias reasoned,

an emperor who wanted to get his people out of a war must know

what leaders would be acceptable to the enemy to negotiate the peace. And so the first broadcast by Capt. Zacharias was filled with names. They were not suggested as negotiators. In the first place, you don't speak so directly when talking to the Japanese, In: the second place, “face” would not permit the emperor to use or trust men forced on him by the enemy. And so the wording of the broadcast was like this: “I have always acted as a friend of the Japanese people and have done everything in my power to prevent the catastrophe which has already begun to envelop your home: land. Those among you who know me personally, and there are many in the highest places, will- confirm this fact.

» ¥ ” “ADM. YONAI will recall our many conversations after his return from Russia as a language officer, Adm. Nomura Kichisaburo will remember my frank discussions, both in Japan when Adm, Nagano often attended, and on his way to Washington to his last official assignment. “Mr. Kurusu will know my regret in the loss of his son who as a

THIS he did, step 'by step. As principal tool, he used a series of radio broadcasts in which he spoke in Japanese and also in English. His voice was well known in Japan, for he had been for many years in Japan as attache in the U. 8. embassy and is personally acquainted with members of the royal family and most: of the present naval and military leaders -of Japan.

young boy 1 often patted on the head. Gen. Matsumoto, Washizu, Teramoto and Hirota will remember my frequent advice, “Likewise Mr, Debuchi, Wakatsugi, Horinouchi and the staff of late Ambassador Saito. “Your Premier Adm. Baron Suzuki ‘may remember our meeting when he was chief of the naval general staff. My impression of him was fully confirmed by his recent sympathetic statement regarding

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Return of More Army Units to U. S. Scheduled

PARIS, Sept. 12 (U, P).~Today’s redeployment timetable of U. 8. army divisions: 45th Infantry and 17th Airborne:

U. 8. in 1831." :

cast. was equally indirect, but equally pointed. :

any statement about these men, mediately came out with the news

announcement that Prince Takahat= su was appointed to represent the

our loss in the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, » " ” “AND finally their Imperial Highness’ Prince and Princess Takamatsu will recall, when, as their aide-de-camp, I accompanied them during their tour of two months in the

The Japanese reply to this broad-

They did not go on the air with

But the Domel news -agency ims

emperor at official functions and Adm. Yonal had been appointed to a position of increased authority in the Japanese government. What better indication could we want that Japan was ready to talk terms—and our terms. That was in May 1945.

war?

defeat,

truth had been kept from them.

broadcasts.

surance that

death in battle,

over again in later broadcasts. “It means providing for the re

Unconditional surrender does mean the extermination or enslave ment of the Japanese people,” » n . BLAME the military leaders, th

” " . WHAT other, help would the emperor need to get. him out of the

Obviously, his. people would have to be informed of Japan's military

They knew nothing of this; the

This little mission of popular education was thoroughly taken care of by the U, 8. navy and air forces in attacks on the Japanese mainland—attacks timed to back up the

The emperor would need reas“unconditional surrender” would not mean the crush« ing or annihilation of the Japanese people—a fate worse for them than

This reassurance was given in the very first broadcast in an official statement by the President of the United States, reiterated over and

turn of soldiers and sailors.to their families, their farms, their jobs ,. . not

the union of discrete atoms of these substances. The elements were considered to be the fundamental building: materials of the universe.

4. By 1805 chemists had done wonders with light, electricity, the chemical elements and other mechanisms of nature to produce many startling phenomena, and to add to the comfort of living. To many persons of the Gay '80s, scientists seemed to have arrived at successful formulas for every

Surrender

They are responsible for the catastrophe that has overtaken Japan. They are infires md«incipabient leadifig Japan. Names and words of patriotic Japanese were mentioned in the: broad casts—men who had advised against Japan’s pathway into war, Tell the people about these men, was the suggestion implied. The Japanese are realistic, the broadcasts stressed. A patriotic Japanese leader is willing to face facts, to acknowledge past mistakes and about-face to pursue a wiser course to save Japan, : n » ” % . THE BROADCASTS provided the emperor with the means he needed for face-saving before his people. The outcome of modern wars is determined, Capt, Zacharias told him, not by the bravery of the fight ers or the people but by superior “war potential,” which means superior industry for making the tools of war, To acknowledge defeat and sure render is patriotic and dignified— to go on fighting when all is lost would indicate lack of bravery and “shallow emotionalism.” Finally, since the Japanese are a historically minded people -—- and need to have their actions justified by past precedent--Capt. Zacharias provided the emperor with chapter and verse from Japanese history in which one patriotic leader of the people surrendered honorably to another in order to save his clan from destruction, By surrender, Satsuma was saved to : become the most ~prosperous province of Japan. " ~ » CAPT. ZACHARIAS also read In full a letter written in 1805 by Adm, Ito’ to the Chinese Adm, Ting, a personal friend, whom he advised to surrender for the best good of his

ple. § On July 21, 1945, broadcast No. 12 went on the air, All that remained was to assure the Japanese that the United States offered unconditional surrender as a humanitarian gesture — that they might assume that it would be the United States who would enforce the formula and insure the peace, that the Atlantic Charter and the Cairo declaration would apply. On July -24, Dr, Inouye officially answered -that Japan would surrender. Twelve broadcasts — 180 minutes on the air helped to save 500,000 American lives,

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D

awaiting shipment Sept. 14; Regiment on high seas.

transfer to United Kingdom Sept 17 for shipment home. 103d Infantry: Le Havre, will clear for States by Bept. 15.

Havre. 14th Armored:

Last States yesterday, command. |

command, moves to port of em barkation toddy.

15.

ing area; some elements loading.

On high seas. 69th Infantry: 271st and 272d Regiments in United Kingdom

273d | frights, {injuries to the mother before the|not change in Pathologists tell[If they are extensive, attempts at/may cover s removal are unsuccessful, but spe- skin. d cial cosmetics can be used which | while others are smooth. One vas vessel developments whose resem- will make them inconspicuous. o blance to animals, ! fruit, or other ob-

63d Infantry: 254th and 255th |pirth of her child. Regiments at Le Havre awaltingl,. pithmarks are moles or blood |

Loading at Le 4 United

6th Armored: Loading at Le

elements sailed Mom Marseille for United

70th Infantry: At assembly area Sth Armored: At assembly area 9th Armored: At assembly area command, moves to port by Sept.

99th" Infantry: In Marsellle stage

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plained by

- tendency toward|removal. redness of the! As birthmarks cause self-con-Dr. O'Brien gi, during -warm | sciousness, they should be treated weather, The “strawberry " mark” |before personality changes develop.

shows more color than the rest

blood vessels.

emperor was advised—always with subtle indirection. Get rid of them.;

THE DOCTOR SAYS: 'Strawberry Mark' Explained

Birthmarks Are No One's Fault

Skin of the face and neck may bones, and organs. Increase in size

" a how a port wine stain at bigth. THMARK, saused by | BIRTHMARKS are not cau bY | Color is due to engorgement of require surgical treatment,

unpleasant experiences, OF|g ya] dilated veins. These marks do .|are light or dark brown moles which

mark” which bé-

correctly exthe

the skin because it contains more

NEXT-—Psycholagical Warfare Still

* invisible X-rays and could ‘see

a AST) 57 an o” Siva By RUTH MILLETP™™*

natural occurrence, such as the force of gravity, the burning of fuel, generation of electricity, and 3 the hehavior of light. Then Wile helm Konrad Roentgen in Gers many startled the world with his

through” solid things as the bones of the hand on a photographie plate in utter darkness.

TOMORROW—Radium, Another Stepping-stone to the Atomie Bomb,

We, the Women—— ° Service Wives Make Appeals To Congress

PARENTS don't think thelr 18-year-old kids should have to go to the army now that the war is ended are making their voices heard through their congressmen,

They don’t want their boys to “have their : lives Interrupted” at this point.’ ih

1t is only human for them

to see the ° 2 problem from their point of view. But they might be more willing to see Johnny get into uniform if they stopped to look at the situation from somebody else's point of view. Let them look at it for in stance—from the point of view of a war wife, whose husband has already put four years overseas, broken only by one twoleave. He is still overseas,

® a 8 ‘ HIS WIFE has lived alone for four years and for four years has had full responsibility for brings ing up ‘their son, who was A chubby 2 -and-a-half - year-old when his Dad was shipped out of the country before America was at war, ¥ Now he is a tall kid, going off . to school. He needs. his Dad at home far more than parents need their grown sons around the house. " " ” FURTHERMORE that man, als ready set in his profession, had bis life interrupted by military serve ice much more drastically than would any young man’s life be in= terrupted who hasn't even finished. his education. There is one pile of letters on congressmen's- desks that have & perfect right to be there. The ones from wives whose men have served long periods of time overseas and are still writing home, “I don't have any idea when I'll get out of here.” But however much parents pers sonally may hate to see their boys who were fortunate enough to miss action in the war get into uniform. to help maintain peace--logic, justice and necessity aren’d

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INFANTS may be born with small | different shapes. jects is coinclden- i, ‘medium sized, flat or projecting, red to purple blood vessel develop The old tale of ments in the skin of the face, lips, “strawberry larm, or in the tongue. They grow to a certain size then stop. Sometimes they develop after the child is several months old. Parents should consult their physician about | birthmarks so he can plan for their

Port wine stains are sometimes associated with extra blood vessel development through the muscles,

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of these vessels in later life may The other varieties of birthmarks

mall or large areas of Some have rough surfaces riety resembles a bathing trunk in distribution while others are of

n ” » SMALL moles which develop bes fore or after birth are flat or raised, colorless to deep black, and somes times have rough surfaces. They are usually found on the face, neck, and back, and the average person has about twenty to thirty moles on his’ body. . When should moles be removed because of the possibility of cancer? A mole which is irritated, or one which starts to grow, or one whieh = becomes darker or itches, burns, or is ulcerated should be removed preferably by surgery with the ins cision going well into, normal skin lon every side. Moles on the soles of the feet are removed befo signs of irritation develop becauss. of their greater tendency to cafle cerous change. a A Personality of those with birthe marks 1s always affected if al are on the face or on parts of thes body which show. If a cosmetic do not mask the mark, or if it pe removed, adjustment must | {developed by sympathetic un standing. wi Parents of children with & ; marks should not blame themselve ks to an