Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 January 1946 — Page 2

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on the Street’ Here ‘Backs Truman's Main Aims

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For Bataan Torture Trek By WILLIAM C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent

MANILA, Jan. 4—Lt. Gen. Masa~- {department of journalism.

Homma was accused by one his former staff officers today of |g. C._ Garrell,

PLAN ——- OF | |" JOURNALISM TRAINING

Directors of the Hoosier State Press association will meet tomorrow at Indiana university to formu-

training facilities at the university, Association directors: will confer with I. U. President Herman B ‘| wells, Vice Presideent H. T. Briscoe, Assistant Treasurer J. A. Franklin and Prof. John E, Stemple of the

Officers of the association are: Pulaski Democrat,

ring the Bataan “death march.” | president; Marion T. Ayres, Shel- + “Col. ‘Michio Kitayama, who|pyville ‘Republican, vice president; in charge of communications gawin V, O'Neel, Hagerstown Exrailroad transportation Ininonent secretary, and C. Walter

ORS 2th army group, test- |), - the U8. ‘military som- Meares. Indianapolis News, treas

trying Homma for war). that his chief knew there transportation.

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streamlined affairs brought 64,207! people to Indianapolis. When the ban of get-togethers was on during the first six months of 1945, 131 meetings attracted only

55,000 attended 172 -meetings. i Far ahead of recent booking his- | tory, the convention bookings are

To attract more visitors, a

late plans to increase journalism |

Gen. Short did not have, on interception of messages instructing Japanese Ambassador Kichisaburu Nomura to deliver the final Japanese note to Hull at 1p. m. on Sunday, Dee. 7, 1941 | Earlier, the committee was told that the original copy of the Roberts commission report on the Pearl Harbor disaster cannot be found in official government records. Chief Counsel William D. Mitchell reported to the committee that he has been unable to locate the original document filed by the commission appointed by the late President Roosevelt in 1942 to investigate the disaster, The comission was headed by for mer Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts,

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th Is Proved Practicable by Army, Navy Resea

. The navy did not disclose -the specific identity of the disease with which it conducted its research at the University of California for “security reasons.” It did say the disease “is centuries old and one of the greatest killers.” That might mean choléra, bubonic plague or typhus. ‘Influenza was ruled out by the navy’s admission that it had announced it was conducting flu control tests as a means of covering up its actual bacteria research. The navy sald it had developed special suits with self-contained

9700 visitors, but after September, |.

: solid for the first six months of |

the results of vestigation by mill

were available: Developments Since 1936 The Japanese army, the war deparment sald, had fostered offen-

still actively engaged in this work when the war ended. “These efforts were pursued with energy and ingenuity,” the department sald. “While definite progress

.| was made, the Japanese had not at

the time the war ended reached a position whereby these offensive

Mr, Merck, who headed the war research service, warned against peacetime neglect of this still un-

against ‘possible attack with germs. eguards were thrown around supplies of water, milk and food,

“lon the mainland and fn Hawali, the

Caribbean, the Canal Zone, and finally in overseas theaters. But offensive measures were inevitably considered, Mr. Merck said, since “it was clear that the possibility of retaliation in kind could not be disregarded.” Mr, Merck indicated that small stockpiles of biological warfare agents may have been created.

early Utah in the summer of 1044. “It is important to note that, une like the development of the atomis

. perhaps under the guise

of legitimate medical or bacterio« logical research,” the Merck reporf emphasized.

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able to. provid ing, it becom of governmen primarily is a terprise to do.’ Almost Predicting n

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Mr, Truman 1 tend the price as possible. TH He remarke tended the se only six mont request for 12 further extens down in cont