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Japanese Share Credit for Orderly Occupation of Land AUG. 13, 194T. DES MOINES TRIBUNE G.I.'s in Japan Get Life in Rape YOKOHAMA, JAPAN (JP) The 8th army Wednesday said three American Boldiers had been sentenoed to life imprisonment by court-martial after being convicted of kidnaping and raping a Japanese. They were identified as TVS A. Mullinnlx, Alexandria, La.

rfc. Jack C. Ale, Birmingham, Ala, and Pvt. Maurice F. Jensen, Omaha, The rase is subject to review by I.t.

Gen. Robert 1 Elchel-berger, 8th army commander. The soldiers were convicted of kidnaping Hatsuko Kanai June 7, forcing her into a weapons carrier, driving off and raping her. The vehicle bogged down in mud and the soldiers forced the girl to accompany them to a farmer's house where they stayed overnight. The girl escaped and told police.

stitution and said: "It's not a very good translation." MacArthur has given the Japanese civil liberties. But few Japanese know what civil framework of democracy as Americans know it. when asked why she didn't discipline half-a-dozen young hoodlums who were terrorizing her classroom, said "It wouldn't be democratic" Multiply these two incidents by thousands and you have some idea of the average Japanese conception of democracy. To the Japanese, American democracy is embodied in the jeep, in the big, sleek automo biles that are making their appearance on Tokyo streets in increasing, numbers. It is not, to them, a political philosophy.

Obviously, it is not fair to Judge the progress of democracy in Japan by what has happened in the past two years. War Scars. The marks of war are still fresh on Japan and its people Its econ Food factor In Discipline omy is shot, its productivity prostrate. The black market is thriving and the primary concern of the people is food. In one of his more conservative moments, MacArthur himself phrased it best when he said: "I don't mean that this thing called democracy has been accomplished.

The process of democratizing is one of continual flux. It takes years." (Copyright, 1947.) But, if the democratic skeleton is here, there is as yet very little meat on it. One has only to go among the Japanese people and talk with them to realize this. A Japanese bride decided she wouldn't have a baby for at least three years because "it wouldn't be democratic." A Japanese school teacher, liberties mean, although perhaps in time they will. MacArthur has liberated Japanese schools, initiated land re This ia tha third artvcl in a teries on occupied Japan.

By Keyes llmh. Special to ths Chico Pa'lv Newi and Th Df-a Moinea Tribune.) form, emancipated Japanese women. In short, he has laid the TOKYO, JAPAN Any appraisal of the two-year occupation of Japan that did not point to the major accomplishments of General MacArthur's regim would be groesly unfair. At th mmm tlm, It 'Is fair to consider these accomplishments In the light of thlr relation to tb nature and psychology of the Japan people. Visitor to Japan go away Im FIFTH AND LOCUST DES MOINES Fifth and Locust Dej Moines, la.

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34-40. which Japan's army was demo- blitzed; on tha amazing lack ofi resentment toward tha conqueror; on the apparent ready acceptance i of democracy. OredH panes. Much of the credit for these and ether achievements belongs to MacArthur. But, perhaps a greater ahars belongs to the Japanese people.

It requires only an elementary knowledge of Japanese history to know that the Japanese are the best disciplined people In the world. So long 84 Ihey were fed and no one Is more appreciative of the political value of food than MacArthur they -rrf ready to do as they were told. And. with few exceptions, they have been doing as they were told pince American troops landed on Japanese soil Aug. 30, 1945.

Under MacArthur's benevolent guidance, the Japanese have been i given a new constitution under I which, in theory at least, all men are equal. This constitution, among other things, forever re nounces war as an instrument of national policy. JMdn't lis. But it is pure hypocrisy to say, as some occupation offeials do, that the Japanese diet wel comed this constitution or had tJiy real voice in writing it In effect, the Allies went to the diet with the constitution In one hand and a paddle in the other and said: "Take this or papa will spank." Japanese cyinics read the con- Asks a Drive On Sex Crime WASHINGTON, D. C.

(UP.) J. Edgar Hoover, head of FBI, Wednesday called on rape victims, their families, and the press to help curb sex crimes. He said such crimes are 49 per cent more numerous than before the war. Many sex offenses never are reported because "the victims and 1 their families remain Bilent to avoid publicity," Hoover said. In such cases, he pointed out, the criminal remains free to assault others.

Treat wen I. "The offenders," he continued, "should be trested, instead of as criminals, as individ uals needing medical attention. So known sex offender should be permitted to go free unless it is certain he is cured." Hoover said 373 cities of 50 million total population reported 6,694 rape cases last year, a 44.4 per cent increase over 1939 and 89 per cent over the 1939-41 average. Rural Area. The increase has ben evn greater in rural areas, Hoover said.

Raps in rural areas rose 17 per cent in 1P1 over 1945, for example, while increasing only 4.5 per cent In citi, ha said. Fot these figure. Hoover con tinued, "give no clues as to how many rapes may have been com mitted but never reported. Hoover said parents never should permit girl children to go out unescorted at night. Deploring victims' reluctance to testify in court.

Hoover said sex offenders usually repeat if left at liberty. Example. He told of a 30-year-old New Torker who got a suspended sen tence for one rape, was impris oned for another, and subsequent ly paroled. He went to south Min neapolis 8nd there committed an other rape. He now is serving an 80-year sentence in Minnesota.

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