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The

Story Of Tokyo Ike

【SAAC SHAPIRO went on a solo camping trip in Japah when he was 14. That was four years ago, and he hasn't been home since, He wound up this your ne a freshman at Columbia University to begin the last chapter of one of World War 11's strangest stories.

An anonymous U.S. Marine the last chapter, of Ike's story. anonymous to Ike; it's just

colonel really, wruto The Leatherneck ́im't that young Shapiro, who

Isang Shapiro: Yokohama to Army to Marines, in college.

We've Thrown Away Our Victory Sign

HAMBURG.

BY SELKIRK PANTON

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́HE British in Germany aro

rapidly becoming the poor,

three times everything costs. relations of the Germans.

mich:

This absurd and artificial The decision by the Kiel trado change is very close to the rate unionists to cold-shoulder

protest which Hillee ran his Reich, But 7.209.30 p.m. against a Military Government decl 25 marks to the pound, far closer protest Hitler at least gave tourists 20 to sion) is the latest symbol of a to the present real value of cent change in Anglo-German tela- tlons.

HER LOVE WAS AN EXOTIĆ TRAP!

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Even the word "Victory' seems to be denied to the British now.

They had their "Victory Club” in Hamburg, which was opened when the British Army took the elty Recently the Germans hinted that they did not like it: It was, perhaps, not in the best of taste, no?

Down came the two-foot high letters, and the British Rhine Army- now goes to the renamed Hamburg

House.

Then

+

gets up

Herr Erich Klabunde, Bery young Socialist lender, in the Hamburg Senate and tells the British to get out of their Garrison Theatre. The Germans

He want it back, he says. that there have been some the cial irregularilics" in

management.

marks.

the.

have

con-

The Germans geta monthly ration rivernging 15 gallons à car at the prowar price of 3s. ♫ gallon. A private British motorist in Germany gets 11 gallons.

The German, If he runs short of petrol, can buy nìl he wants on the

black market at about 5s, a gallon-

a serious offence for any Briton save caught trying it.

Germany The British in been told to cut their petrol sumption by 50 percent, to dollars. Not so the Germans,

They are excused the call for the austerity. The ght to halt dollar debt of £300 million a year. for the imports of food, petrol, oil, feeds. and fertilisers which are given

to them is not a German worry,

So cheerfully they ask the Anglo- American Biporite Board in Frank-

petrol as fort for as much

they want. The British demitur, and say it could be cut by 30 percent with out harming the German economy." ལྕམ་

But the Americans, not short of petrol and with plenty of dollars, it." And the hints say: "Let 'em have "doan- Germans get . British

He is applauded by the Germans That is right, kick the British about, It is the latest German political sport. The British do nothing, but stay put-for the time being,

אן

Too dear

Hamburg-there-is-an-Anglo- German club, started by the Batish to improve relations with tho

י

So the German official or bust- ness man when he travels goes by cor.

The British official is forbid- den to do. this except in urgent cases. His best hope is to endge it from a German friend going the

same way,

to

the have

Even in the matter of visas the German has the advantage. Neatly

now going 4.000 Germans are

month. Since Britain every

brides wor 14,000 German gone to Britain to marry. But they paid nothing for their visas to en- ter Britain-a monthly loss of about

£2,000 to the British Treasury.

year.

|

to

mnds some light- Mining - like? moves fromh Japanese fort fled zone the US Army to the Marines, doesn't want to put his benefactor on the *spat.

After all..

Ike

points out, it WAS good Marine sales-

manship that got him

where he

right now..

ITEM camping trip began

SOOR.

after Japanese armistice, when Ike got restless over

months

fied zone. The

Ah Yokohama's forti-

camping ideo: Was an excuse to get his father's. permission to leave horse; instead, lo, scumpered off to Tokyo to sec what the Yankees looked like...

He hadn't seen ondo before, as Ike'a for as he could remember. White Russlan father is a 'cgillat and conducts the Tokyo Sym- phony, hle mother a planist; they kept their son fairly well shel- tered at home und in Japan's pa- rochial schools. But he learned English, as well as: Jabaneso","and. Russian.

When Ike got to Tokyo, the U.S.. Army almost got him. • Outside

almost twice as much food as last MacArthur's headquarters, he helped out an Army captain who couldn't understood into a make himself

officer Japanese bus driver. The offered Ike a job as interpreter. and even took Ike into head-

his

prospective quarters to meet boss.

Every German-whatever his ration scale can. buy vegetables and fruit without restriction, Eggs, potatoes, #coffee, and spirits are cheaper on the black market than et the controlled price, and there is a

Klui of potatoes,

They eat-

Marines Take Over

The off-ration food shop windows display turkey and goose at 76. Od.

was on the way out of the a lb., chicken at Gs. a Ib. On-the-building, a few minutes later, that ration there is a choice of 30 dif- the Marines took over. A fast-talk- ferent sausages.

ing Leatherneck fleutenant, with whom Ike stopped to chat, sold him on the idea of the same job, plus better food and

at the quarters, U.S. Naval Air Base at Yokosuka.

One week lator, the base became commandant, the colonel, an all-Marine operation. Ike's new to stick around, Ike's been sticking around, so to speak, ever since,

THE restaurants, at prices slightly,

higher than I used to pay in Ger- a-plenty. "Mein herr has no ration many before the war, offer meals coupons? Ah, that is quite simple, You pay perhaps an extra is. on the bill."

..

"If you are British you cannot en- joy any of thle food fegally. It is forbidden to buy or consume any German produce.

fold him

The colonel-interpreter relation- ship ripened into a warm friendship between a war-wise. officer and a youngster. And willing-to-learn -the colonel decided to do something:

about Ike's future..

When tho was transferred to Outside, the traffic in the narrow Honolulu, the colonel sent for Jke, streets is awful That queue over and got him into a Hawalian-high recorded there? They are the British wives school. The report cards who have been to the family shop nothing but "A," and the colonel and are now waiting for a bus to began a letter-campaign to get Ike

Into a U. S. college. take them home. It goes every half

in hour.

The British, of course, pay a few Of course, It is intended only for to enter Germany. It is worth pay- the food in Germany. and Ing to see business purposes. Pleasure week-end motoring without special The Germans admit they are better permits is forbidden. But if you are fed than at any time since the war, caught? The fine ranges from 3s. possibly since before the war. to 30s.

British and Arcerlcans are importing cars.

Il can be a cold wait, too, be cause passing Germans can The be expected to offer a lift in their

hardly

Now Iko has seltled down to the four-year grind at Columbia, and the colonel salled off, for a tour of sen duty.

There will be a whale of a two- man reunion come June, 1952.,.

How Films Were Invented In London

Germans. Now senior British TOW many of today's vast

officials find. It is too expensive for them. But the Germans can still. afford it. The British embarrassed.

Henemy of

officials are that they owe their entertain- ment to the discovery of an The Germans ask them to their Englishman whose name today homes, or to German restaurants, is almost forgotten.

for six-course meals unknown 1 Britain. When the Briton wants to return this hospitality, what can he do?

Ho cannot afford the German restaurant prices at the present ex- change rate. He is ashamed to In- vite the Germans to eat Army rations

AT 2:30, 5.00, In British messes or clubs.

Two reasons

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Edison is widely credited in Amerlen with being the inventor of cinematography. On the Continent the claim is made for the brothers Louis and Auguste Lumiere. of France.

to

Hustling the constable laboratory Greene said: "Just wall a show minute and I'll you the most wonderful thing you ever saw."

into his any

He threaded some 50 it of celluloid film on to.

recl Fulling out the light

sold:

"Now Greene watch."

A fascinated policeman watched the filckering screen as it showed u But the distinction in fact belongs man walking through William Friese-Greene, who Hyde Park dragging a patented the first moving-picture camern and projector using celluloid small boy, followed by pedestrians. Allms in London In 1889. -

Jelsurely open-topped buses, slow- THERE are two reasons for

Not until two years later did going hansoms a typical new relationship. ONE is the Edison bring out his famous Peep- Sunday morning parade. top-level "Woo

It was the world's flest the · Germans" | show, the kinetoscope, says policy, which credits them with Allister in "Friese-Greene: Close-up, film show, lasting barely being nearly always right.........

of an Inventor" (Marsland Publica- minute. tions 12s. 6d.), just published.

**

this

balance,"

Ray

THE OTHER Is the German cur- rency reform. This has sent every Friese-Green was born at Bristol production graph leaping upwards, in 1855. youngest of seven chlidren. hos Alled the shops with goods, His name was, Green, but when he brought out the food from the farms, married he added his wife's name, and given the people fairly stable and a 'final "e" to the Green "to alve. money to spend.

He came to London in 1885. His Even the British and Americans wonderful studio, photographs" who carried out the reformare were all the rage, amazed by its effects." Industrias; production is now 70 percent of the 1030 Agure the boom year when Coering started his "gund instead of butter, production drive, y

But Greene, spent more of his sime working on a pet idea--a moving picture camera which used celluloid Alms.

One night in 1089,"a London

་

Greene that night went home and celebrated with But the champagne. camera

nover brought him a fortune.

A few months Inter ha was so hard pressed for cash that he sold the patent for £500 to a London mer“, chant, Harry Chester Maxier.

Records, show that it lapsed 'In 1804 for want of a renewal fee of

and vision.

1283,

So he wrole to Edison Ing of thn industry representatives.

** a brother scientist in the Connaught Rooms, London.. and inventor" suggesting "Wer" had broken out between ren-

ters and exhibitors. they should pool brains.

their

All ho got In reply was.n formal acknow- ledgment from one of Edison's staff.

י

"If only I could be the peact- maker....

." Greeno kept repeating

to friends.

In the midst of the hubbub he rose to speak. With tears streaming down his face, he pleaded for com- Years Inter Edison promise. dented ever having been told about Greene's offer.

Then he slumped, and friends; go-

But it was not long being to his help, found him dead...:...

fore one of his nasistants

greeted him with a flm show one morning.

The manager's face was flashed on to n screen as the great in ventor entered his offer and a recorded voice said. "Good

morning, Mr

Edison."

Between 1891. and 1010 Greene was do- clared bankrupt

times...

Greene's

#

three,

All the money he possessed found in his pocket, is, 10d.

But in death he achieved his pur- · Pose, Lord Beaverbrook, who pre- sided at the meeting, as appointed to act as intermedlary between three committees which were set up to represent sections of the industry. Peace had come at last.

the

The film irade, shaken by tragedy, set out to give Friese- Greene in death the honour it never

pald him while he lived,

At three o'clock on the day Greene. Was buried In Highgate Cemetery, next inven- Cinemas

throughout Britain -

cute

from

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First fim made on tion was process for served a two minutes, silence... celluloid. Hyde Park printing by photography. Along the funeral route

He sold it to Sir George Golden-square the whole

num Indus Newnes, the publisher, try turned for £3,000,

founder out to pay homage to its: today the In Highgate Cemetery today his

Jale Sir Edwin Lutyens memorial! to Friese-Greene rives the patent. number, No. 10301, or Greena's first. noving-plcture camera,

The

About this lime Greene forczow To the dorman this means policeman on boat in Brooke-street, the possibilities of synchronising prosperity. To the Briton it means Holborn, was startled by Greeno sight and sound on aims talkies. Doverty; he used to get 40 marks to dashing up to him crying: "I've got Edison's phonograph, gave him the AT 2.30, 5.20, the pound, now he gots-13%, And 11

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On Christmas Eve in 1915 an old friend, visiting Greena and family in Brighton, had a shock;

They were without food ordre, After giving them all the money he had he returned to London and ap pealed to the film trade for funds for Greene.

All he collected was £136 0s. 20. One May morning in 1921 Greene, now 60, set out to attend a meet-

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