Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 September 1945 — Page 7

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PROBE NAZI POWER IN PATTON'S ZONE

Military Government Charges Lag In Denazification of Bavaria, Where Hitler Movement Got Its Start.

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tion of alleged Nazi elements

Bavaria, the picturesque

Patton Jr. has become the major political troublesspot of the American zone of occupa-

tion, Indications are that a thorough housecleaning of the provisional government is impending, involving ; i possible , removal of Minister-Presi-dent Fritz Schaeffer and several of his cabinet ministers. Military govern« ment officials al ready have ousted ¢ his “confidential adviser” and four ministers. But one responsible source Mr. Morgan gajid that the whole complexion of the administration might have, to be changed before it would satisfy the rigid denazification requirements decreed by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme American commander, and Lt. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, his deputy military governor.

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MUNICH, Sept. 25.—A military government investigatration of the province of Bavaria is in progress today.

where Hitler got his start and which is now under the military command of Gen. George S. (“Old Blood and Guts”)

P. MORGAN Correspondent

in the German civil adminis-

patch of southern Germany

Although the current investiga tion is concerned primarily with thé composition of the provincial government, and not with Patton's command, it 1s an open secret that Patton more than once has differed with Eisenhower and Clay on the application - of the denazification program, Patton Differs This point was somewhat sensationally confirmed on Saturday when Patton, in his first interview since taking over his occupation as-|

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William McDougall, United Press war correspondent, has“just emerged from three years and five months of captivity in the jungle of Sumatra. He was captured when the Japanese swept down upon the Dutch East Indies. His is one of the great adventure stories of the war.

By WILLIAM McDOUGALL United Press Staff Correspondent

What's a G.I, Joe?

bomb? A rocket plane?

Warned to Leave

INDIANAPOLIS TIMES | Just Now Learns Roosevelt

SINGAPORE, Sept. 25 (U. P)— Rip Van Winkle had nothing on me. After three years and five months in’ the isolation of a Japanese prison camp in the jungles of South Sumatra, I have returned to a strange, new world, I have learned in the last few days that. President Roosevelt is dead. Wendell Willkie is dead. Hitler and Mussolini are gone. What was Harry Truman doing before he became vice president? An atomic

Who are Frank Sinatra and Veronica Lake? I have been living on borrowed time since March 7, 1942, when Japanese planes sank our. ship, the “Poeloe Bras” in the Indian ocean. One thing kept me alive then—my mother’s words, “Don’t forget, son, I love you.”

It was March § when I telephoned my home in Salt Lake City from Bandoeng, Java, Dutch army officers had warned that the Japanese were coming uncomfortably close and I had better get to Wynnecoops Bay in South Java where the last ship was waiting for evacuees. The chances of getting through were 50 to 1. Witt Hancock of the Associated Press decided to go along with me. I had a hunch things might be sticky so I phoned my home. Those last words of my mother coming across the Pacific rang in my ears days later when I was swimming in the sea with waves breaking in my face, the water strangling me. They kept me swimming, We boarded the 10,000-ton Netherlands Line “Poeloe Bras" and sailed the night of March 6. There were 232 passengers. Hancock and I were the only Americans. All the other American correspondents ale ready had left Bandoeng. Provisioned Lifeboat The following morning at 9 o'clock a Jap reconnaisance plane circled us. Our ship's stern gun as well as 10 machine guns mounted on the deck rail fired away, but they could not shoot the plane down. We figured Jap dive bombers

Bandoeng.

would get through.

o'clock.

Japs

fly away. Saw Ship Sink

water, Alongside the ship was damaged lifeboat, half awash.

deck.

would arrive within two hours. Life

ship's bridge speaking calmly to

Then we sat in the saloon, praying for a change in the weather and trying to convince ourselves we But the sun shone brightly and nine Jap dive bombers appeared punctually at 11

Our guns opened up again and kept firing until our ship went down. But that didn't do any good. The machine-gunned the decks, lifeboats and swimmers in the water. Hancock and I waited as long as possible, hoping the planes would

Finally I ran to the rail. A plane swooped over as I jumped into the

climbed in and pulled a few others after me. We tried to push away, but the ship was settling so fast the boat was washed back onto the

Then there was a little scene that is etched in my brain. A woman leaned casually on the rail of the

, Willkie, Hitler, Duce Are Dead belts were issued, lifeboat places assigned. The ship's bar opened wide up, Hancock and I purchased all possible bottles of soda-water and

stowed men in our lifeboat along with tinned foods purchased at

joined the woman.

and swam

tom.

ship plunged, Van Ness Saved

al|by some freak of fate such as

I have been saved,

face like a bullet, cued him.

boat. nearest point on the Java coast.

flying officer named Van Ness who was in the washed up boat. Van Ness stepped out of the boat and

I dived overboard a second time away with all my strength. All my life I had wanted to see a sinking ship go down, I turned, treading water, to watch the “Poeloe Bras” dive to the bot-

Then I was amazed to see Hancock braced against the forward rail. Why he did not jump I don't know, unless he was wounded by the machine-gunning plane that swooped as I jumped. The ship's bow swung upward until the vessel was nearly perpendicular, Then the

I never saw Héncock again, but Van Ness lived to tell me the tale later in the Sumatran jungle. For that reason I've always hoped that

submarine miraculously appearing, or a flying boat, Hancock also might

Van Ness sald he went down with the ship but shot back to the surA lifeboat res-

I swam for the only visible lifeWe were 250 miles from the

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caught up with the hoat 8 hard swim, but the occupants refused to take me in. ~~ “We're full, No more Get away from the side,” they i “Give an Amesican & break,” I pleaded. “I can’t swim to Java Drowning Seemed Certain They didn't reply, but just rowed away from me. I couldn’t keep pace. That was the bitterest moment of my life, but strangely, I felt no re< sentment. The boat obviously was loaded to capacity. Drowning seemed a certainty. The heavy swell made it difficult to keep the water away from my face, although I was wearing a lifebelt. But my mother's last words kept me swimming, conserving my strength, for I didn’t know what. ‘As the hours passed I seemed to be two persons. One detachedly observing and analyzing the other’s actions and emotions. Also, as the hours passed my confidence in rescue increased. I fully expected some miracle to save me. It did.

COMMITS HARA-KIRI TOKYO, Sept. 26 (U. P)~Lt. Gen. Kumaichi Teramoto, director of Japanese army aviation headquarters, committed suicide by hara-kirl in his office Aug. 15, it was revealed today.

signment, told 10 correspondents at his headquarters at Bad Tolz that he never had seen the necessity of making our denazification policy: so sweeping. Asked to comment on the widespread criticism that the provincial government was pro-Nazi and reactionary, Patton replied: “What do you mean, reactionary? Do: you want a lot of Communists then?” The man whose hell-for-leather exploits against the Wehrmacht from Sicily to Czechoslovakia will make military history, said that he knew nothing about politics and indicated that he cared less. Law and Order First But both the general and Col. Roy L. Dalferes, in a subsequent interview, left correspondents with the firm impression that they were more concerned about restoring

“law and order” in Germany than listening to the Toms accuse the Dicks and Harrys of being Nazis, Patton said emphatically that he was satisfied with the way “normal conditions” were being established in Bavaria and added that the way it was being done would save the American taxpayers billions of dollars, which otherwise might have to be spent to feed and clothe the Germans. Impatiently brushing aside ques-| tions as to whether this might not be too materialistic and short-term a view, which would allow Nazis to roost in high places and low, for the sake of “getting things going,” Patton made it plain that he thought the only alternative to this approach to “normalcy” was anarchy. At another point Gen. Patton said that he, “like other soldiers” would like to go home. No Parties Licensed

Later, discussing the purge of the Bavarian government, Col. Dalferes said that he operated on the principle of “kick ‘em out when | they go Bolshevik.” He hastened to explain that he meant “when they go Bolshevik in the sense that they won't co-operate.” He denied that the eastern district followed the rule of expediency first, and denaszification second. As a matter of fact, the tempo of denazification in Bavaria is regarded as notoriously slow by certain officials at the U. 8. F, E. T. headquarters in Frankfurt. Admittedly, there is a delicate and complicating clerical problem involved. Bavaria is 80 per cent Catholic. Before 1933, Schaffer was chairman of the strongly Catholic Bavarian People’s party. Political parties are rapidly being formed in other parts of the American sone, but in Bavaria none yet has been licensed, although Dalferes sald that seven applications to organize had been received from various parties.

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