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Japanese Return To Iwo Jima
To Salvage Scrap From War
By WILUAM J. WAUGH
TWO JIMA <JPi The Japanese
are back or, Iwo Jima, the suphur
pocked island which in World War
II cost the U. S. Marines 20,000
casualties to win.
Two hundred and fifty Japanese
workmen are salvaging junk left
over from die fighting cine years
ago to ahip back to Japanese fac
tories.
They aro working under an
agreement between the U. S. mil
itary and a Japanese firm. Amer
ican salvage firms turned down
the project as uneconomical be
cause of tie distances involved
and present U, S. scrap prices, j
Atop Mt. Surabachi, the Amer
ican flag flics where it was planted
Feb. 23, 1345—0ne of the few spots
where the Stars and Stripes are
never lowered.
"We use about one flag a week,”'
said Maj. Harry M. Edwa;As of
Gleason, Tenn., executive’ officer
at an Air Force base used by
transpacific planes.
Nearby are four shrines for the
23,000 Japanese defender* killed. |
Japan was permitted to send re
ligious groups to build them. j
Looking down on the black sands
of the invasion beach from atop:
Surabachi, it is hard to believe
that any force could storm up that
open stretch in the face of 135
dug-in positions commanding every
inch of the approach.
Japanese workmen have rev
moved almost every sign of the !
heavy casualties. Still being re !
moved, however, is a landing ship
which had been washed high up on
the beach, then covered by the
sand.
Workmen are digging it out and!
cutting it up with torches.
There still is plenty of evidence
of the beating Japan took. The gun
ports and block bouses along the
cliffs bear multiple marks of ma
chine gun, rifle and grenade at
tack.
The stench of volcanic sulphur
still dominates the air but the
scenery has changed. New foliage
has appeared. Some spots have a
jungle appearance.
One of the island’s three air
strips, with a 10,000-foot runway,
remains in use. The Air Force
keeps a 350-man force there.
High grass today covers the area
where the sth Marines cut across
the southwest end and isolated S
Surabachi.
The Amphitheater and Death!
Valley, the two points where the'
lighting stalled for a time, today
a. j p-:tj of the big landing strip.
A U. S. Coist Guard long-range;
navigation station stands on the!
northeast corner, where the Japan-j
ese made their final stand and
where their commander was slain.
On a sandstone cliff in this sec-1
tor is a cut-out replica of the flag- 1
raising ceremony on Surabachi.!
Rich, 3lst NCB (Nvy Construe-'
tion Battalion) July 27, 1945.”
The Japanese junkyard is on the'
beach opposite the invasion beach.!
A Japanese workman is cutting up
the remnants of a Japanese Zero
plane. The metal is taken to a 1
small plant and compressed into!
bales.
One huge stack of compressed
metal was made from beer cans!
discarded by the Americans.
Also in the junkyard are tanks
rolls of barbed wire, rusting veh
icles, plane parts and amphibious
craft.
Once baled, the metal is moved
to the SS Eastern Pilot, a rusting
hulk rammed into the beach and
forming one section of a break
water. There it is lowered into
boats and taken to small Japanese
steamers offshore.
Donna Zimmerman of Ashtabu
la, Ohio, was the only woman to
bowl a 300 gune in league com
petition in the 1952-53 season.
The Little Theatre
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SHOWING TUESDAY
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Heavy Smoker
Needs 2 Chest
X-rays A \ ear
! WASHINGTON The Ameri
can Cancer Society’s statistical re
search director says that a heavy
smoker “is very foolish if he does
not have a chest X-ray taken
twice a year”—although there is
no proof smoking causes cancer,
i Dr. E. Cuyler Hammond, the
director, gave the advice in a copy
righted interview w r ith the maga- i
zine C.S. News & World Report, j
| And the magazine described him
as smoking during the interview.
Dr. Hammon said a heavy
smoker should take the rec
jOinmended precaution "so long as
i there is even a strong suspicion
ithat amoking causes lung cancer.”,
i But he also said everyone, es-;
pecially those over 45. should have
an X-ray at least once a year,
and he added:
' ‘‘lf you are a timid soul, then!
you should also give up smoking 1
at least until the facts are known.”!
Dr. Hammond indicated the kind
of facts he is after by saying, “If
[we should find that the death rate;
[from lung cancer is much higher
!among heavy smokers and the
death rate from other forms of'
[cancer is not one bit higher among
[heavy smokers, then I’d say the;
evidence would be extremely;
strong that there is a cause-and
effect relation.”
He said his "personal guess
right now” is that there is such a
relationship between smoking and!
lung cancer, but he does not know;
whether the smoking effect is
“trivial” or so important that
cigarette manufacture should be
stopped "until we find what’s in
them that is bad and remove it.”
He said there were some indica
tions cigarette smokers were more
susceptible to lung cancer, while!
cigar and pipe smokers were morej
likely to develop lip, tongue or
mouth cancer.
As for his own smoking, he said,
"I am not £oing to let it (the
problem he is investigating) have
any effect on my personal habits,
until all the facts are known.”
Dr. Hammond is in charge of a
research project under which 22,000
volunteers have been interviewing
204,000 men 50 to 69 years oki t
[about their smoking habits. Each
;year, the causes of any deaths
among the group are medically
| investigated.
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j DENVER Lf—A radio station
there celebrated WasF,!’’ rr V"\-
[Birthday by awarding a prize to
I William E. M*u
[the biggest fib submitted by hope
ful liars.
Murphy’s story concerned l’aul
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[built the world's biggest railroad—'
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INSPIRING AFFAIR
Editor, The Citizen
There occurred Tuesday night in
this colorful City of Key West sub
lime beauty that brought inspira
tion and fulfillment to all who were
there. The Knights of Pythias in
stalled for the first time in this
city, The Princes of Syracuse,
young men 14 to 18 in their own
ne Hall. To see the glow in the
eyes of these young men was most
inspiring. This first installation
ejected the following:
C. Sam B. Curry 11, Prince Re
gent: Joseph Jones, Vice Regent;
Joseph W. Curry, Monitor; Ray
mond Garcia, Warden; Waldo Ve
liz, Minister of Records; George
Stewart, Minister of Finance; Lau
rence Bailey, Acting Captain Gen
eral; Wayne Carey, Guard Cap
tain; Wayne Williams, Guard Lieu
tenant; Merle DeLand, Pianist;
and Martin Curry, Captain Gener
al (Elected Captain General, (ill)
; Among the distinguished persons
present were the following who
made uplifting speeches inspiring
the thirty Prince of Syracuse mem-[
bers:
Mayor C. B. Harvey; Judge Ray
mond Lord; 'Judge Eva Warner
Gibson; and Gerald Saunders.
Many Knights of Pythias were
there with families, their faces -
glow with keen satisfaction, for,
the privilege of helping get Ke-
VVeFla Lodge 253 started in our
front free City. Truly they deserve
the blessings of all Key West folks
who love our youth.
Much credit belongs to Dannie
N. Darley, Chancellor Commander,
James Deland and Winfield Rus
sell.
To place beauty, truth, honor
and courage into the lives of our
youth is to remember and record
the teachings of the Great Master,
who 2000 years ago said, "Suffer
little children to come unto me.”
I compared the beauty I witness- \
ed this night to the great outdoors
of this tropical city where Nature
in ail her splendor has flowers of
every hue blazing forth their exo
tic perfume in a riot of color
; breath-takingly beautiful this 16th
day of February, 1954.
WILLIAM MEYERS
Hotel La Concha
Sightseeing Guide.
Ireland, Jerusalem, Australia
& Southern Indiana.
In keeping with the holiday
Murphy won ’a cherry tree from
a local nursery and a hatchet do
nated by a sporting good* firm.
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IN THE WONDER OF STREOPHONIC SOUND!
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Big Catch Of Dolphin
WILL SMITH, OF UNIVERSITY CITY, MO., brought in this big catch of dolphin recently. He was
fishing from the charter boat Gilda, Curtis Ryan, captain. Fishermen say dolphin have been scarce
this season, but the annual migration now seems to be in full swing. The difference between the
male and female dolphin can be seen in tins photo. The male has an enlarged forehead while
the female has a smoother brow.
Dust Storm Wanted
DALLAS, Tex. tfl—Prof. Naoiti
Kumagai of Japan, probably that
country’s foremost’ geophysicist,;
arrived here yesterday to start a
Texas tour and said he was un
happy he missed last week’s se
vere dust storm,
| "I am always the student of un
usual soil formations,” he ex
plained.
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CHARLESTON W Ya ? -
When jailers came to that part of
Dan Cunningham’s commitment
slip calimg for “valuables,” the>
hesitated and then wrote,
j “One baby.”
I Cunningham, 25. was arrested
yesterday on a drunk charge. !e
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