Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 11, 1945, Strasbourg, Alsace Hundred year occupation of Japan urges Pacific general october 1945 stars and Africa mime East persian Gulf Page 7 i think United should keep an air Force in Japan or the next Hundred years Barney Giles delivered himself strongly of this opinion before representatives of the press Early this week in a con Ference held at amet head Quad at which his twin Benjamin com manding general of was also the visiting general is Deputy commander of the United states strategic air when i made that statement to the press in Washington shortly lifter an nonstop flight in a b29 from Tokyo to Chicago they thought i was i was not joking then and i am not Jok ing i believe if we had stayed in Germany for 25 world ii would have been impose and by the same if we leave Japan they will regroup their forces and move Back into Manchukuo and this of is my personal japs Volunteer for up although the general believes in rigid and Long lasting occupational he nevertheless indicated things were running along As smoothly As could be expected in Defeated lie to flew to hokkaido before any Oiler of oar forces had landed we met by the japanese commander who immediately removed his troops and turned the Post Over to the Jap soldiers Wero so anxious to help out that they even volunteered for up which naturally pleased soldiers very much the commander seemed equally convinced on another controversial question in America he is very definitely in favour of a Bugle department of National de with the Navy and air Force subordinate coequal and when queried about the destruction caused at Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the atom bombs Gen Giles replied that although he had Only seen the from the they appeared to be completely devastated but not much of n bomb Crater was Hie bombs Are not intended to make he said but directly lilt Cash the explosion the depression was other areas in Japan were completely in Tokyo i believe there were less than a copse in an area that once housed and fed approximately seven in referring to his inspection tour of Payne the commander said he wished he had some like it in Japan where Only one Field is suitable for his and thai was built to enable the to lion a our coasts in one Way Kaim Kasi Benjamin amet and his twin brother Gen Barney head of the strategic air forces in the meet this week at a Cairo press signal corps photo by Public health nurse heroine in ship fire off port said Frederick associated press correspondent port Arlene Wald of the United states Public health one of the last to leave the refugee ship Empire patrol which caught fire off this port last told of an eight hour Battle to Transfer nearly 500 elderly people and children to a British aircraft Carrier m a Roll ing from modestly underplayed her own in the Rescue but officers of has a baby praised her untiring efforts to help the refugees Enro Ute to the dodecanese after three the Empire patrol left Here sat urday with 497 of which Tiomi 50 Are still unaccounted it caught fire Miles offshore from an undetermined but it is believed to have started in Cabin used to heat milk for the children children rescued the fire started about when Waldhaus heard screams coming from the she called the major for help in taking women and children out of the one deck below pro Menade one i women was so badly burned they took her to the dining room and smeared butter Over her body and she and he baby were taken Over the Side in a Waldhaus said she was reasonably sure All children wore when the flames raged so badly the lieutenant was forced to Eva Cuate the lower she went to the promenade deck where most lifeboats and rafts Many were already lowered and people started jumping within a half hour All were launched and after the first mad scramble the passengers settled Only ship to Aid the Rescue was the which arrived about three and a half hours after the sos was sent the sea swell was so High lifeboats were unable to get very close to the Empire patrol picked up those in the later passengers were drop Ped Over the Side with rope slings under their shoulders into the Lifeboat is there no medical equipment on the refugee the lieutenant she went among the Passen Gers helping them Over the Side find tried to maintain a not leaving the liner until that evening when there was Complete darkness except for the Light of the blazing ship on the Waldhaus paid High tribute t0 the Navy men on the who immediately turned out hundreds of sandwiches and oranges to feed the the worst among the injured Lay in army cots on the deck which ordinarily houses medical Aid was quickly made available and morphine administered to those worst in need of the refugees were taken to the transit Camp at port Cairo will always seem the next Best place to Home says this released Row by Ralph Viggers Cairo will always seem like the next Best place to says Theodore who is being restored Back to health at Camp hucksters 5gth station hos Pital after 3 i years of severe imprisonment in sobe rattling Colo Nel Doroe tap prison can on the outskirts of the 43yearold one of the few leather necks to pass thru Cairo Enro Ute had been interned since the time of the raid on Pearl Harbor when the nips closed the consulate in Shanghai and disarmed the Small detachments of marines stationed at tientsin and piecing As guards for the China Dedmon bad soldiered at tientsin since 1939 before i during his Long the old campaigner 14 years ser vice in the lost nearly go pounds but is filling out again by taking it easy and eating Good grub at where already he has on 26 you people the american Poyns at can won were running out of that precious stuff known As Hope when coerced chinese prison guards rushed into their rickety wooden Flung open the barred sex War you flee peo ran go Kru Side the japs also used formosan prison Sam ids who seemed As Happy about the Allied Victory its the them in relating Bis experiences gun Ner Dedmon tells Many stories of atrocities inflicted upon american War prisoners who were and shot in for lighting cigarettes after Dedmon and his prison mates have Given to army authorities the names of the worst Jap officer most vicious of All was ferret faced Odora who ruled the horror prisoners diet consisted of Mea Gre Rice they were allowed three weedy cigarettes after three a half years of imprisonment in a Jap Camp near Shanghai on a stingy diet of Rice and food at Tho red Cross snack bar sure tastes Good to Theodore Dedmon of the Marine Here he seems More concerned with attractive corp Ruth Van but its Only a pose to please signal corps photographer Charlie after Tho picture was taken he sent Mohamad after More ignored con tinued1 suffered dysentery and when Dedmon was released he wore the same clothes As when to gis electrocuted with picks and shovels bit Terly reflects the we built a Mountain 40 meters High and goo meters we walked to and from the Miles it was both then on top of that we sometimes worked 14 hours a we wondered what in hell the Damn Mountain was turned out they used it for Rifle Range practice the Marine also saw four Gle in labor Batalion electrocuted while being forced to excavate drainage ditches too close to the electric Fence surrounding the Jeri it was charged with 1800 volts and according to Dedmon there was no Good reason Why the ditch could not been dug a few feet further away from the Mur Derous wire not yet knowing How Many Points he has accumulated and not seeming to give a Hoot Way or the other because he intends to Hanfor Tough till eligible for re weary Dedmon i just want git Back to fort Worth As fast As i can git changes listed in leave skeds with he arrival of certain changes have been made in fur Lough and leave schemes for personnel of the Cairo Here n Brief Roundup of Headquarters flight leave plane schedules As a leave closes on last flights to Alex Are scheduled for saturday and the 13th and effective Only the monday plane will Fly to Cyprus each week and the quota presently assigned for that flight will remain in the Friday plane has been can Tel Rome is far As amet ites Are the final Home flight kit Payne fiend last tues Yarden for pm although there will be no change in the monday flight to Palestine at the the leave Center at Tel Litwinsky has been closed enlisted men As Well As officers will stay at the Yarden hotel in Tel daily expenses for lodging and meals will run something Over a the Yar Deris daily rate is exclusive of arc is to remain in Tel Aviv As an information helping to Billet leave personnel when the gardens Accamo nations Are those particularly Fine weekend trips to Luxor Are under consideration and initial flight will probably take Early in nov definite information regarding resumption of these flights will be forthcoming new York a new Center for the study of near and Middle East civilisations and languages will open Here this Alvin Johnson will be the Joel Sayres pc Book rates High critical Praise in Usa Iran Joel Sayres colourful and readable series of articles on the Persia which created Large amounts of enthusiasm among the commands gis when they appeared in the Neil last have been made into a Book that is drawing High critical Praise in the blessed if the Book Doest turn into a Best it wont be because of Lack of publicity in stateside news papers and it has been getting plenty of that since it was published a month ago and the verdicts of the critics Are unanimous its a swell that is strictly in keep ing with the one passed on the Book by the men who should know Best the honesty and accuracy of Sayres for the who ran the Railroad drove the operated the ports and did Amir Abad boys Are buying Nail polish by John Baggerly Bobbie Nail polish and other female notions have been thrown on Sale to officers and men of Ami Rabid at the Post Exchange All items at the ladies counter were on the Forur Lesonly the announcement of broader Fields for the male buyer did not state whether the change was Cau sed popular demand or the re cent and Lack of the monthly ration of nearly All other articles has been that does not include cigarettes and two of the most popular items at an army other important jobs in the pics Aid Orussia Mission Long ago turned thumbs up enthusiastically on Sayres in the gis liked it so much that the Laflas Branch of the pics office of technical information got permission from Sayre and the new yorker to republish the four articles in a Booklet which waa Given free to the men still in the served in the persian Gulf command now is a highly prize Possession of several thousand it contains a number of other items of including a hilarious map of Iran by Frank now of the China the Only drawback pacers could see to the Story when it de in the series of four articles was that the Magazine didst have a big enough circulation for Sayres read accurate yarn of the com mands Busy even if the Book Doest become a Best it will take care of the circulation problem for scores of lengthy views summarizing the Book Al ready have appeared in the larger stateside time Maga Zine alone gave it More than a largely a summary of the verdicts of the better known Book reviewers include Sterling North in the Chicago Sun and the new York Post one the bes written and most entertaining books to come out of the Eaga of Little men doing a very big Al Hine former respondent in pc in the Satur Day review of literature it la the first Good record of an orphaned Supply try old persian Gul utes Haneit presentation of their 5
