The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-14
0KlNAWANS help
POLICE ISLAND
By VERN HAUGLANn

now helping to police their islard
under American military govern.
ment.
Those selected, often torms,
mayors of villages, are given d;,.
tinctive red helmet liners and vel.
low arm bands. They are ASSIGNED
to aid the American military mn
lice.
eve hope eventually to have .,
to so of them in each OF our IA
camps established for Ohinawa ri.
vilians,'' said LIST 1t. Edward UaIir
of Chicago, ILL.,, army officer win
the AMG public safety department
The department head, Armv
Capt. Arthur H. Hanson of St. PAM
Mimi. is also assisted by NAVY n
Edward H. Ewing of San Francisc,
AMG, whose problem of admins.
tering affairs of more thar a QUAR-.
ter of a million natives is second
only to the American iob of turn.
ing the island into huge nIli4s1v
naval and air base, has divided
Okirawa into three military dis
tricts
The largest is under Army If
Col. John c. Underwood Of Mem.
phis Tenn.
His executive officer IS a Nav
man, 1t. Cmdr. Albert c F. West.
phal of New York, N. Y, former
member of the Columbia univer.
sity faculty. Army and Navy men
are intermixed throughout the com.
pick organization.
Other interests of the natives al.
so are kept in mind by such meE
as Navy Its. Donald Blackburn of
Toledo, Ohio, and Louis IIosch of
Chicago, ILL.,. welfare officers.
Blackburn's specially is reuniting
broken families through an inter.
district exchange, he said:
We've had some very heartrend.
ing scenes when parents who have
given their children up for lost
are joined with their families
again. These scenes refute the gen.
eral impression that Okinawans
are emotionless and stoical, and
immune to the horrors of war
Army 1t. Col. Kelvin Forderbru.
gen of Mankato, Mimi, is in charge
of labor in Underwood distr;c.
Carpenter mate 1-c Daniel B.
O'Connor of Manchester, N. H.,
said women do most Of the work
in Okinawa's society.
THE men are not too good as
laborers, generally. partly because
they are not accustomed to Amer.
can tools" he explained.
Army Capt. Arthur E. Messner
of St. Louis, Mo-, and Navy 1t,
Gg) Arthur Barrows of New Lon
don, Conn, handle the districts
supply problems.
BarroWs has the unpleasant but
important job of opening sealed
of Japanese caves and salvag.
ing the stores therein. In one area
he recovered six tons of provisions
In excellently-fa shioned self-sealing
rubber sacks.
1t. Lloyd G. Roberts of Oklahoma
City, Okla, charged with transpor.
tation-a tremendous job in its in
itial ses-has recovered and re-
conditioned several japanese
trucks, motorcycle and Japa-
nese jeep. Much of the movement
of civilians has been by LIST and
other amphibious craft.
Army Capt. Harry L. Hart of
San Franc SEQ, an engineering Of
ficer, enlisted Roberts help when
he had to move $4,000 civilians
from the Katchin peninsula within
a week.
Pharmacist Mate &c Joseph
Schiavello of Bronx, N. Y. one
of those charged with disinfecting
civilians as they came into the
shelters, said the natives eagerly
welcomed the DOT spray and read
lily bent their heads for treat
ment'.
District adjutant and finance Of
ficer is Army 1t. Richard c. Harms
of San Mateo Calf, former en-
ployee of bank at San Francisco
All enlisted men in the org2ri'
cation gre naval personnel. Trey
include:
Cos Henry Ross of Huntsville
Greenwood Springs, Miss; l-c
Hugh McClanahan of Hollywood
Calf; Y Y &c E. Wilson Seasie,
Baltimore, Md; Y l-c John d.
Diviney of Kennett Square, Pa
Y &c J. Dean Nofsinger OF ~
tawa, Kas.; Y &c W, J. Petiak
Of Hopkins, Mimi; Y &c \" T.
Glatt of Kane, Pa; SIX &c WIZ
liam D. King of Memphis, Tenn
S &c Clarence Dickey OF ROCK
Falls, Ill; SIN 1--c Emmett Rusn
OF Indianapolis, Ind; Ledell Hul'
fington Of Mobile. Ala; Erhart we
Der of Scion, Ohio; MCH-M l-c
Alfred E. Bourgette of Central
Falls, R. I.