Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 November 1945 — Page 21

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Surprise Fire Truck j SHELBYVILLE 18 in for a ‘big surprise this’ week, The fire départment there has had a brand new. fire

LL truck ordered for some time and it will be delivered

in one. that will have all aluminum red truck was up at the war afternoon for the fire drill exIndianapolis firemen don't permanently, some of them it for a few days. The truck at New Jersey and South sts,

Persistent Issues By Wallace R. Deuel

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.—America and Russia are just managing to break even in their attempts to settle four of the most important issues that face theni, {t seemed-clear here foday. . =~ s Here are the four issues, and the progress—or lack of progress—made to date in deal- 3

‘.. Occupation of Japan: Ground -has actually been. lost in: the negotiations on this. 2. Withdrawal of Russian and

vakia: Solution of the - problem

“In more detail, this seems to i) be ‘the state of the negotiations on these issues:

Japon :

FOR A TIME, the Soviets, apparently, were willing to vote for a four-power control council fer Japan in the United States would have the deciding ble.to Washington.

advisory commission not sitting in Washington. The commission continues to hold meetings anyway. However, nobody seriously pretends that the commission can get very far without any Soviel representation,

Far be it from me, in

- Dec. 1, This is now planned.

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bureau employees, picked a whole handful of straw-

berries from some of her own bushes last Saturday.|

Since Monday was a holiday she saw no point in

This is one of the problems President Truman and Generalissimo Stalin talked about in their recent exchange of letters. SP. = Truman that both the Soviets and the United States withdraw their troops frem the country. The Russians seem to have approximately 200,000 men in Czechoslovakia, The United States has two divisions there, : ; * Stalin agreed with alacrity, and himself suggested that all of both countries’ troops be withdrawn by

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THE SOVIETS want to have as much to say about

these areas as any of the other major allies does.

reasons for doing so would be produced a ig voliq

States says Russia ought to have freer access straits, The Russians say they still want bases.

- By Major Al Williams

other jobs were, ‘In many cases, those who couldn't fighter

Executives Run Risk , L DON'T see how any executive could dare run the Fisk of shutting out invaluable personnel. The suc-

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cause for hope.

REPORT ON THE WAR. . By Gen. George C. Marshall

~~ Why We Landed First in N

The ‘Merr

, By GEORGE WELLER Times Foreign Correspondent eight days of their red Odyssey from Manila to Japan, 300 American prisoners were dead. The toll was mounting daily. > But those remaining found

At least the hell ship into which they had been sunk. The prisoners. were back on land

Mr. Weller and water drawn from d{oilet in. takes. ¥ On the night of Dec. 23, 1044, four Red Cross boxes for 1300 men

came down from Manila, There was hope. On the same night several of the most ill were evacuated back to Bilibid prison in Manila: 4 = =»

AT 3 A. M. of the day before Christmas the men were routed out to march to the railroad station. An aged locomotive awaited them with a string of 26-foot freight cars. The wounded were piled on top of the cars. One American counted 107 men in and on his car. Mr. Wada, the Jap interpreter, soon explained why. the wounded had been placed ‘on top. , “If the American planés come,” he said, “you must wave to them and show. your bandages. The train—thus *‘protected”—was loaded ‘with ammunition and military supplies.’

J Bu outside the prisoners could *~ the indefatigable . Filipino Neekin yelling to the wounded on Merry

The train stopped anid wreckage

that was still smoking. But no! man was allowed to leave the

train. THAT NIGHT the train crawled

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from strafing ammunition-laden train.

aked prisoners were on their way to Japan on “cruise of death.”

UISE OF DEATH (Seven Weeks of Hell for American P.W.s)

Chree-eestmas’ of’

i bas possible the first day.

were put on top of tin ve their bandages to keep AmerDirty, half

SanFRernando (del Union)

Lingayen Gulf

northward. At 3 a.m. it reached Dearing American |

the town of San Fernando del Union on - Lingayen gulf. ~ The filthy, cramped men tumbled

It was bitterly clear to all. Thev

and Olengapo, where the hell ship was sunk.

hope of rescue by Gen. MacArthur. They were going to,

Japan,

THEN the sun came up. Again

the skins of the weakened men be--igan to etirl with sunburn,

Omdr. Prank Bridget begged the

Japanese for drinking water. finally. obtained permission from the Japanese forthe men to enter the bay to bathe their blisters.

They were allowed 5 minutes in Many were so dehv-

the water, drated that they scooped the salt water into their mouths,

n Japanese - issued drinking . water: One canteen cup for 20 men. It worked out to four) tablespoonfuls “for , each thirsty mouth. After 90- minutes more in

FINALLY

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the sun you could have another four ' tablespoonfuls. “We want you to be warned.” said . Mr, Wada, the Jap interpreter. “You are sitting on a gasoline dump, If we are bombed —well—" Toward nightfall a detachment the soldiers drove up, unlimbered shovels and began” to dig. Mr. Wada, for once, had been telling the truth. Drum after drum of gasoline was uncovered from directly under the prisoners. The drums were loaded and driven away.

. . . THAT NIGHT between midnight and dawn the

were marched along

Bid,

In the dark the guards

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¥ THE JAPANESE were sudden in fearful haste. ° Mr, Wada would say, “get in the barge quickly, quickly, You must hurry, hurry.” N ; The sun was just coming up as the prisoners climbed the iron sideladder of their new vessel. Its. pro. pellers were already impatiently turning over, All this haste was for reason. ; American submarines had become specialists in night attacks. At Lingayen the Jap ships were out of range of scourging air attacks by day. If the ships sailed by day and lay up by night, they had at least a fighting chance to beat the American submarines — whose deadliest strikes were. made by darkness. ¥ J ” WHAT the Japanese now wanted to do was to get out at dawn and

widen the aircraft range as much

Two freighters were leaving. One | was a big vessel of about 8000 tons marked “No. 2” on its superstructure, The other of about 5500 tons ‘was marked “No, 1” on its funnel. The first bargefuls of men were crowded aboard the “No, 2” in the midships hold, which had two levels. As the 1000-man mark was

moved down the harbor, The _remainder—some 234 men

sick—were hustled aboard the “No.

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This is the fifth of 42 installments of selected from General Marshall's report on the winning of Wagld War ll. i -

ice, ‘and the admitiistration of IN JUNE, the Prime Minister and . — i were acce as Pema tii. 0 ae] ILC USL LL Were seeped The President and the prime] turned to Washington for a further minister, with the advice of the! discussion of SLEDGEHAMMER combined chiefs of staff, made the| and ROUNDUP, and a possible opdecision at this first conference eration in the Mediterranean, that our resources would be con- | centrated first to defeat Germany, the greater and closer enemy—and| took a more serious turn, culminat-

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{Gen: Sir Alan F. Brooke, chief tof the imperial general staf, re-

During these

| ing in the loss of Tobtuk.

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orth Africa

discussions, the allied situation in North Africa

| “The discussions thereafter were | devoted almost exclusively to the to proceed 10) measures to be taken to meet the by Mr. Hay | threat facing Cairo, for a conference With Whe forces having been checked with

war cabinet, qimeulty on the El Alamein line, chiefs of staff, re-!

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i Purther advances by his Afrika tive plan for the gorps, with its Italian reinforce8 CTOss- | ments, and German successes along

man pressure from the Red army. #nd would materially improve the

It was therefore decided with the approval of the President and the prime minister, to mount the North Africa assault at the earliest possible moment, We had to accept the fact that this would mean the abandonment of the possibility for any operation in Western Europe that year. It would also mean that the necessary build-up for the cross. channel assault could not be com-~ pleled in 1043.

» ” » GEN. EISENHOWER was then established with his headquarters in London, directing the planning and assembling of American re-

sources, 5 With thé “generous acceptance of the British government, he was appointed commander-in-chief of the British and American forces which were to carry out the landings in North Africa. On Aug. 13 he received the formal ‘directive to proceed with the operation.

The target date was fixed for early November, WE HAVE since learned that the German plan at that time was to

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critical situation in the Middle East. |

i Holdon | Labor Parley = . | Upset by C.1.O.

The line-up on this decision was significant. The rules coimmittee has eight members, four

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