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‘Suicide Battalion’

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THURSDAY, AUGUST

V.J DAY—PLUS TWO YEARS—John R. Korjenawski; R.R.

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Photo by John Spicklemire, Times Staff Photographer.

, Box 212-M, was at a special WAA spot sale

for veterans on the anniversary of V-J day today.’ He idly the rafts he inspects here for a peacetime vacation: possibility in a much different selfing than on Aug. 14, 1945, in a base in the Souihivest Pacific.

Pact Revealed

Vanderbilt Secretary

Latest of Six Victims

By ROBERT BENNYHOFF United Press Stal Correspondent

RENO, Nev, Aug. l4.-—~The sui-|-

cide of the. male secretary PA

Today, two years after jhe end of

~hy suich ‘The ‘mos pécent victim of death by his © Roberts, 27, personal secretary of Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr, and a former secretary of Winston Churchill.

Probe Bares Pact

The story of the suicide agreement came’ out when Mr. Vander» bilt appeared before a coroner's jury investigating Mr. Roberts’ death. Mr. Vanderbilt told the jury that | the eight hungry and miserable men, who spent four years in a Japanese prison camp, had formed 8 “sort of suicide battalion.” Mr. Vanderbilt said Mr. Roberts recently fold him the story of ey strange vow. The secretary had told him, Mr.| Vanderbilt said, that ®*five of the| men already had killed themselves| because ‘they could not find happiness in the post-war world. Mr. Roberts was found dead at| 8 swank dude ranch, a bottle of! sleeping tablets in his room.

Died on Aug. 9 The young veteran died Aug. 9. It was on Aug. 9, 1945, that Shel eight were liberated. On Aug. 9, 1946, Mr. Vahderbilt| said, the first of the group com- | mitted suicide. Mr. Roberts should have been a

- happy man, Mr. Vanderbilt said. He |

had ‘a good job and he was re-| ted’

HE ‘did a stint as secretary tol §

fir. Churchill during the states-| man’s most recent visit. to the U. 8. and Mr, Churchill described him as “an outstanding example of a young Canadian who had done his duty.” But Mr. Roberts had been * ‘used | 8s a guinea pig” by Japanese medi- | cal experimenters, Mr. said. He frequently: had * ‘horrible | dreams” about his long internment and the experiments.

Very Much Upset Cv '! On the day that Gen. Mark,

Clark spoke in Reno on U. 8. rela-| §

tions with Russia, Mr. Vanderbilt sald, his secretary became much upset.” Mr. out and bought a of sleeping pills. After hearing Mr. Vanderbilt, the! jury found that Mr. Roberts had taken his own life “as a result of his harrowing experience.” But actually,” the jury added, “this death should. be considered an honorable war casualty.”

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Amusements. 22, Ruth Millett 19 | Mi . 2

hand was Melvin ©.

Vanderbilt |

“very | t Roberts went; 8 “large umber’, 4

Making Success of Farm.

How One Pacific Veteran is Making Good

KNOWS NO HANDICAP—Former M. Sgt. Fred Hensel, only U. S. world war Il "basket case,’ operates a piece of equipmant on his 143-acre farm in Jefferson county, Ala. Although he has four artificial limbs, with special equipment like this he has made his farm one of the best in the area. He works from sunup to sunset

| and spends any spare time hunting and fishino. American Weds | Jagane Girl

TOKYO, Aug. 14 (U. P.).—Frank | K. White, 27-year-old’ ex-army officer from Somerset, Pa., went]

through the second of three wedding | | ceremonies today with Pia Kurusu,

| daughter of Saburu Kurusu, Jap-|

|anese envoy to America at the time |

lof the Pear] Harbor attack, Mr, White, dressed in a brown jacket and army trousers, was. ex-| tremely nervous as he went through the 11-minute ceremony at the of-| fice of the American consul. His 21-year-old bride was smiling and happy as she watched Consul Doug{las Jenkins sign the papers that made the marriage legal, She was dressed all in white. The service at the consulate merely recorded a Japanese civil | ceremony held previously. No vows were exchanged. The Kurusu family | said a religious ceremony would be| held later. The bride, whose mother

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Some Showers, Some Cooler

LOCAL TEMPERATURES Sam. ...7T am... 8 Tam... lam... 0 Sen. m...... 76 12 (Neon) . 89 fam... 0 lpm. 8

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Scattered Showers early this eve[hing were expected to bring some

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Acme Telophoto COURAGE, PAYS OFF—Mr. Hensel is shown with his wife, Jewasll, reading ‘mail.” People still ‘write to tell him how they are inspired by | his courage.

War II's Only "Basket Case’

things off. By ROLAND DOPSON, Ufited Press Staff Correspondent | The weatherman: said tomorrow * BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Aug. 14.~A year has passed now since world would be fair and cooler. war IT's only “basket case” started ta prove to himself -and others The cobler ‘weather headed east that arms and legs aren't really essential to a farmer... . “|trom the Dakotas Apparently was Prod ee wi had is are tnd lt Dow off by the Jape on coming in on. schedule, the wepther SETH 4% Dearny Mt. Pinson | burst sid. ’ Yoajerdaye, highest “temperature Fe a 93 degrees but the mer-

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- FORECAST: Scattared mins tonight; cooler tonight; fair and ogi tomorrow,

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‘Ia tree and escaped in the police

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a the rear seat of the black Ford ‘privileges, but after obser

Mr. Fuller in a “strangle ho) . one took Mr,

relief to central Indiana, cooling!

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FINAL . | HOME

Entered as. Second:Olags Matter at Postoffics

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Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday

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14, 1947

| High Jinks of Our Army Brass—

Pomp and Show : Overshadow Work In Italy Command

Story of the Colonel's $500 Fine for Keeping A Mistress—Other Serious Charges Dropped

7 Felons Bind Guards, Flee In Police Car |

Fugitives: Escape While Crosing Indiana

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. Aug. 14 (U P.).—Two escaped Michigan convicts—being returned from Mis- | souri ~- overpowered guards near

Fourth of a Series

By "ROBERT c. RUARK, “Seripps-Howard Stan ‘Writer

They handcuffed the guards to LEGHORN, Italy, Aug. 14.—Lt. Col. Carl N. Mayo of |

automobile, The ‘prisoners freed themselves months ago from the United States.

Wing Heine In or rear Jat of He was to be tried on the charges of cohabitation; mis8 pois car. TY ros ny use of surrendered enemy personnel (not prisoners of war—there's a fine!

guards to -drive to a lonely grove, After handcufing them to the distinction); impeding investigation; misuses of government vehicles ands ™

tree, they drove away. misuse of government property, bi - State police immediately set up It was charged that the colonel had forced Germans to dd private a road blockade for the men, de- work for him, and that he had shipped his mistress’ furniture from

scribed as being “heavily armed.” | h rn to Naples in an army truck. The convicts were identified as| esha woman, ne Rita I

Earl Halstead, 20, burglar, and Ken- salaries of the accused and of the heth C. Root, 20, who was serving 4 “id Col. Mayo was the father of \,0.q cost the government thouterm for assauit with intent to rob,|her 8-months-old child, and that sands. Found by Farmer she was upstairs with the baby | It is practically impossible to A farmer found Assistant Deputy when the men came to move the “misuse Government property” in| den M. L. Patrick of the Toni, | furniture. {Ttaly today—if you are an officer. | bids e reformatory and Undersheriff A couple of full colonels were It is done daily with full sanction, Leo Fuller of Ionia county, Michi sitting oA the court-martial, And because the pattern of misuse is gan, still handcuffed to the tree— | there were some silver-leafers, too set on high and funnels.down to! nearly two hours after the convicts| eY deliberated a long time and the second lieutenants. escaped about 9:45. [game up with the verdict that Col.| Lt. Gen, John C. H. Lee's com-| Mr. Patrick said the prisoners Mayo was only guilty of “cohabi- mand is so impregnated with the were being returned to Michigan | Aton." They fined him $500 and old peace-time theory that the from Springfield, Mo. where they | Save him a reprimand, and sént Army is a happy gravy-train that had been recaptured after a recent! (him singing away! | Army work becomes secondary to, escape from the Ionia reformatory. The trial, Including the transpor- show and pomp and the fevered, The four men left Springfiel 4 | tation from the States and the! feathering of individual nests,

Woerday, spent last night st You Can Run a Privilege Into the Ground The prisoners. were handcuffed As a former officer 1 always It costs four bucks a year to and bound with “restraining” bejts SMugly believed that rank had some join the Fellowship, which intends

[lordly living of Gen. Lee end his terest to the 3 in Nome to pro Suddenly one of them le. and | 200% 1 am about to change; my mote cultural and social activities | said iy Mind. You can run a privilege to as As may be appropriate, ete.; nnd to gun. jhe found. Seeman when It “is Uentake po a xersiie any Wrmsts They took the keys from the U8ed for completely selfish purposes, | which oifiters. freed thomas a ane ne | But by ho stretch of thé imag: of the' Bhjeits is the: he PAs | pau the men" to drive off ‘the In diana ination can privilege be excused] Because Gen. Lee has “expressed highway 43 onto a gravel road. when it {8 used to blackjack en-|/his keen desire that every mean of]

listed men into joining organiza- | his command” in this flu Convict Loosens Strap tions against their will, as in the ‘nothing, I am on that oe] Mr, Patrick said one of the case of the “Fellowship of U. 8.- pressure has been put on whole prisoners apparently managed to | British Comrades,” an organiza-|groups. In one case, there was a loosen the restraining strap. [tion which promises nothing defi- [veiled b(t definite threat of trouble

Mr. Patrick and Mr. Fuller sald nite beyond friendship between if one whole pfMce didn’t sign up they tried unsuccessfully to free the two countries, | 100 per cent, themselves from the small tree in|

Niemer's grove. George Nowatzke, Happy Hunting Ground for Desk-Bound Brass

herding some cattle and heard them shouting. He returned to his home, obtained 'his four fish, is A new synonym for a hacksaw and freed them. {the English. They are now called |, 0 jie a combination of junket, Mr. Patrick said the convicts “our four-dollar friends.” There has | political shakedown, misuse of Gov“didn’t try to harm us.” He said been one party threwn with the ernment material, maltreatment of ney took $50 from each of the! | funds, and nobody below the rank subordinates and a happy hunting officers. Halstead and Root escaped during jexcept in the capacity of flunkey. | |spent most of its war at home, and the night of July 27 from Towa | Membership in the Fellowship has’ is now trying to embalm its rank reformatory. They were picked up been pretty sketchy, since it offers! abroad. ee {In Springfield on suspicion last. nothing concrete except a lapel pin, | (Copyright, 1947) | week. in fle areas not directly under | Tomorrow: Officers’ wives cause Their escape today took place Gen. Lee's eve. It is considered growing rift between officers and

only a few miles from the Indiana 'to be a a Joke, but in Leghorn you | men, in Italy. state prison here. -

Hurricane Reported Sisters, 8 and 5, Injured Near Sult Coast Taking Bits of Ice Off Truck

Fo er buleav's advisory North Side Children Hurled Into Busy Street While Engaged in Childish Prank

hurricane in the west gulf of Mexoo. or ' short distance Wie Suit. Two tiny North side sisters are bruised but wiser today after a stolen | Tampico around noon? ride on an ice truck landed them in City hospital. The storm was reported 120 miles Patricia Dryburg, 8, and her little sister, Karen, 5, were in front of their home at 1014 Park ave. in the sweltering mid-morning heat B| when an ice truck pulled yp and parked. |

east, southeast of Tampico, movin repor ported near the storm center were The two brown-haired, blue-eyed girls waited until the driver looked | the other way. Then they scram-'

estimated as high as 90 miles an [ove with squalls reaching out for bled on the back of the truck to {nearly 300 miles. search for a stray chunk of ice. Bur lars trike | Small craft from Corpus Christi Flung Into Street to Brownsville, Tex. were warned

|to stay in port. Then &t

ship has given the GI so far, for ing-out sooner or later. It may be an army that Gen. Lee is running, but to me it looks

happened, The truck

Maryland Fair Queen

|Must Do Farm Work TIMONIUM, Md., Aug. 14 (U. P) p=—It isnt enough in these parts for {A girl to be merely beautiful and a

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But before the little girls] safely .down it jerked into! Burglars struck again in the busiaction. They were flung into the ness district in the 3800 block on N middle of busy Park ave, (Illinois st. last night, hitting the A southbound auto screamed to! Melody Inn tavern for the fourth alluring. stop and the driver, Kenneth lime this year. To stand a show of winning a Moore, 24, of 2053 Park ave. jumped’ Thomas Hiner of 8090 N. Meridian {beauty contest to be held here gat. (Out and picked up the imp form | st., owner of the tavern, said he ob- { urday she also must be able to milk | Of the dazed 5-year-old and hurtied served two suspicious looking ei a cow, slop the pigs, and perform | Der to a nearby lawn. Otha Bed- “casing” the back door shortly after| other farm chores proficiently, The | "ell 1964 Park ave, who witnessed midnight and called police. He said | winner will be Baltimore county's | {he accident from his front window the pair had been in the tavern candidate for the title of state farm 'ushed out and picked up Patricia. earlier with a third man. queen. ' Meanwhile the fice truck driver| pgirolmen Ernest Haught and T.| {had continued on, unaware of the 5 Kiein said they drove past the | 20 HURT IN V IN VENEZUELA jtwo stowaways. place periodically after that time | CARAOCAS, Venezuela, Aug. 14 (U. | Driver Absolved and Mr. and Mrs. Hiner also kept | P.) ~The toll of those injured in| City hospital ambulance attaches q watch until after 2 a. nm. About clashes between police and striking found both girls with minor cuts ¢ a. m, the patrolmen observed a pusmen today stood at 20. and scratches but apparently with-| man running in the alley behind ilar, iE MRD out serfoys injuries. They were the tavern. Upon investigation they ’ Laken ta the hospital for observa- found the establishment had been | | on { broken into, Good Eating— Police investigating the accident! The burglars had removed a sald the driver of the ice truck.ijarge section of the bar and had Meta Given presents her | Leonard Heldmaty, 32, 1660 Kelley carted the safe out of the build- * menus for next week . . . {st learned of the emishap later as ng on a merchandise truck. They featuring fresh fruits. jhe returned by the spot. He was apparently .were interrupted In’ the Barbara Broeking wrijes absolved of any blame, police said. act of hauling the safe to a stolen

about peach-canning time. Sw odes Oust | Russi |car found parked in a parking lot

i Virginia MacPherson interVrpma Hollywood ar | STOCKHOLM, Aug. 24 (U. P.).—| Mr. Hiner said he believed the ratewr who advocates The Swedish foreign office spokes- holdup, two burglaries and one -at- . cooking for fewer divorces. {man today disclosed that Alexis tempted break-in which have taken “There are other food ar- Bakaurski, Soviet military attache! place since January were perpeticles of interest to every left Sweden a few days ago afteritrated by different persons cach housewife. Breda. requesia Bis eos 5 because, time. The three seen in the tavern an cto 1a yiersst, {Fasettay. vets Straugors w him, hg Turn to Page 25. “Swedish military affairs.” ewids

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Probe of Gen. Lee

Promises Full Quiz on Ruark Disclosures

Eisenhower Says I's News to Him

~ Read Hoosier Forum letters on Gen.’ Lee, page 12.

" WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 #J. P). —James G. Fulton <R. Pa.), a member, of the house foreign affairs

. . : y le of committee, today promised a thorJersey City, N. J.,.was brought back to Italy a couple [push {iiVestigation ‘of ‘charges: that

U. 8. occupation soldiers in Italy are being mistreated in a flagrant abuse of the army's castesytem, Rep. Fulton, a world war IT vet eran, sald he will look into the charges of Scripps-Howard Column=« ist Robert C. Ruark when he goes to Italy soon with a four-man foreign affairs subcommittee. The group will study occupation policies of the army. Mr. Ruark charged “there are abuses condoned . and fostered by {(Lt. Gen, John C. H) Lee that {make any of the wartime cafte|system howls mighty puny.” Gen, Lee is commander of U. 8.

{forces in the Mediterranean the-

{ater of operations. Eisenhower Will ‘Check’ In his series of columns from (Italy, Mr. Ruark charges that the morale of enlisted men was being {broken by harsh discipline, poor food and abuse-of officer privileges. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, army chief of staff, said in Seattle yesterday that Mr. Ruark's charges were | news to him but that he would fhiedk into them. ; there have. been any ll. founded charges, we won't have to walt for congress to investigate,” he

i i the aomy has not A ad hd an investigation,” ton; who, served a8 ‘a naval oh in. Pacific, de{scribed the columnist’s accusations as "very serious,” and sald they “should be probed to the bottom.” | Mr, Ruark had shid that Gen, Lee's {discipline was so strict “you can get joourt-martialed for blinking an eye.”

Lee’s Normandy Luxury Revealed

By EARL RICHERT

~H d Staff WwW WABHINGTON, Aug. 14" Ten

days after the invasion or Normandy, when the fighting was at its peak, several tons of housekeeping equipment arrived” on Omaha beach for Lt. Gen. John ©. H. Lee's headquarters, according to a former army captain who made a report. on the goods and kept a copy. The former captain, now a civillan, furnished his list of the goods to the Scripps-Howard newspapers, following disclosures by Robert C. _<_ |Ruark of Gen. Lee's current kingly life in Italy, Listed were: 520 pounds of vegetable and meat dishes, 240 pounds of large and small platters, 840 pounds of cups and 850 pounds of saucers, 180 pounds bf half-pint

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725 Cases of Brandy Dumped in Lake

MILWAUKEE, Aug. 14 (U. P.).— Notice to Lake Michigan fishermen: If a little perch walks into your | boat today or tomorrow and slaps {you in the kisser, bité him. He may be full of brandy. A Milwaukee liquor corporation dumped 1725 cases of Portuguese brandy into the lake off Jones isand yesterday, with the approval of U. 8. customs officers. Company officials said it was cheaper to dump the liquor than to try to sell it. They said it was

|“cloudy and flaky,” and ft would

have cost the company $53 a case to filter it.

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