Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 November 1948 — Page 38

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Wants fo Replace School, Church

TAKUO MATSUMOTO, a sur- £° _vivor of the second atomic bomb § which blew up Hiroshima, is try- ¢ ing to raise $1 million from the

people of Indianapolis and the nation to rebuild a school and church destroyed in the blast,

A Japanese Christian minister,

America last week. The small, balding Methodist minister headed the Hiroshima School for girls, In the Aug. 6, 1945, atom bomb blast Dr. Matsumoto lost his wife and saw his Jogakuin school) © reduced to stones and timbers by the fire that followed the bombing. . . » HE EAGERLY unfolded water color drawings of the new school he hopes will be erected in the Plete

in contributions for the school and feet church which will further the] spread of Christianity in Japan.

than Japanese clothing,” Dr. Mat-|

ago.

school. could see the purplish, weird flash. |

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“THEN I found myself in com-

rolling hills near the former Waist down under the timbers of school site, His goal is $1 million the fallen building. About six

I heard no sound but!/foot from flying glass.

Takuo Matsumoto . money for Hiroshima.

darkness, pinned from the

away another teacher was

killed instantly. It was nothing Dressed in a conservative busi- Short of a miracle that I did not ness suit which “is easier to wear share the same fate.”

After an hour’s struggle to exsumoto spoke freely of the. blast |tricate himself, Dr. that rocked the world 39 months hurried

to his home on t

0 campus about a block away. There It occurred at 8:15 a. m,, Jap-he met his wife who was appar-| anese time,” Lie said. “I was about (ently unscathed and his daughter|death of a heart stroke when =p 0 "i" oocer resurrection i to sit down at my desk in the/who suffered cuts from head to|she was pushed and trampled by inn barracks classrooms built

New temporary high school structure dedicated Aug. 6,

and returned to the school to aid, the other victims.

LATER HE heard of his wife's 'less than 100 bandaged students

{the crowd seeking to escape anHe took them to a nearby park! other ‘attack of “ enemy” planes.

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PRESENT enrollment of the {school is 1600. girls who come from the city and neighboring {towns and villages. “The Bible | is a regular course,” Dr. Matsumoto said, “and we have Chris-| tian chapel services after the first morning class.” Dr. Matsumoto came to the United States in September on an invitation from the Methodist Board of Missions, New York City, which is eonducting the contributions campaign for the rebuilding of the Hiroshima school.

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The 60-year-old minister was graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University with an AB degree in{f¢ 1914. He attended Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, N. J. and received the MA degree fron the University of Pennsylvania {Ohio Wesleyan honored him with a Doctor of Divinity degree inf 11934.

<i 2 : THE SON of oh of the first {Methodist ministers in Japan, Dr Matsumoto has a son, Shigemi.| and a married daughter, Yuko} | Kato. :

+ % | Although not professing to be} “* ‘an expert in world political} ‘affairs, he believes atomic energy { should be used “for medical and humanitarian purposes.” “Humanitarian and Christian

1948. 1947, the second anniversary

in the buildings were erected ory the peoples must be the world’s goal,” 2s

‘he concluded.

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