JUNE1960

OVER THE MOUNTAINS of Western China, a Curtiss C-46 Commando approaches its destina-tion on a route flown by the India-China Division, Air Transport Command. In January, 1945,this division put more than 44,000 tons of freight into old Cathay by air. U. S. Air Force photo.

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Ex-CBI ROUNDUP, established 1946, is a reminiscing magazinepublished monthly except AUGUST and SEPTEMBER at 117South Third Street, Laurens, Iowa, by and for former membersof U. S. Units stationed in the China-Burma-India Theater dur-ing World War II. Ex-CBI Roundup is the official publicationof the China-Burma-India Veterans Association.

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Road Coolies• The picture On page 2(May) is a good study inprimitive labor. Imaginehaving to utilize the servo'ices of thousands of coolieswith hoes and little basketsto carve a roadway out ofjungle and mountain? Isuppose the ro,ad wouldnever have gone throughwithout them, tlhough.

HAROLD HANSEN,Minneapolis, Minn.

June, 1960Vol. 14, NO.6

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• This month's cover shows a street beggar in Kun.ming, wearing tattered cl'Othes and carrying a care.fully.guarded can in which t'O receive alms. Plhoto byH. Wm. Seigle.

• Although slow to start, we believe "The CBI.er'sExchange" announced last month should :be a goodfeature. Since tlhe May ,issue was mailed, we've hadsevera'l inquiries as to whether tlhe exchange is limitedto articles from China, Butma or India. The answer is"yes," inasmuch as Roundup is a CBI publication. Re.member, there is no charge for these notices.

• It's like losing an old CBI friend to learn that the"gooney bird" is On the way out. .. lowly. After all,tlhe C.47 did play an important part in our wartimelives, and hundreds of men were closely associatedwith it. Here's what Air Force Times says about thiswell.known plane:

"WASHINGTON-Headquarters last month authorizedcommands to phase out C.47s 'in least satisfactorycondition.' The more complete C.47 retirement programis under study and ,has not progressed far enough forany definite 'conclusions, an official spokesman heresaid.

"The 'legendary twin. engine transports pre.dateWorld War II by about five years and hold the AFrecord for the longest continuous operational duty.Flown first in 1935, tlhe gooney's life spans nearly halfthe total era 'Ofpowered flight."

G. I, Cemetery• The military cemeteryat Barrackpore, picturedtwice in tlhe May issue, wasas beautiful a cemetery asI have seen anywhere. Ithink it was perfectlyawful to disinter thoseAmerican soldiers after thewar and return their bodiesto the States.

DOROTHY G. GRAY,Sacr,amento, Calif.

BARBER shop at Kunming,China, with customer in chair.Photo by Jim \\7ilkinson.

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CHOWRINGHEE ROAD in Calcutta, near Firpo's well-knownrestaurant. Photo by Joel H. Springer, Jr.

NEW RUNWAY under con truction at Kunming Air Base In1944. Coolies are shown carryint: r '. P to by Thomas F.Lynch. . .

Karachi ,Gharry Nag• The horse attached tothe gharry, shown on page5 (Apr.) 'looks like a racehorse, compared to the nagsI saw in Karachi during thewar!

HAROLD M. STARK,Boulder, Colo.

Iowa Basha Elects• New ofJ!icers of theIewa Basha, CBIVA electedat the spring me~ting atWaterloo April 30 and May1 are Ker.mit Kuh'1man ofCol e s bur g, commander'William Leichsenring ofAmana, vice commander'Ra~ Alderson 'of Dubuque:adjutant and finance 'Of-ficer; Donald V. Do'yle ofSioux City, judge advocate;Ben Hopkins of Montezuma,chaplam; Harold Hawk ofDes Moines, public rela-tions officer; Herman Vest-ing of Tripoli, sergeant atarms; and John Lee ofWashington, Henry Hertelof South Amana and Wil-liam Lei c h sen I' i n g ofAmana, members of theboard of directois. The fallmee ing will be at MasonCity with _larvin Boyenga(_lar Task Force) incharge of arrangements.

RAY ALDERSON,Dubuque, Iowa

Copy From Friend• A &:iend of mi e recen-,ly ent me a copy of y:>urEx-CBI Roundup. I wa-very much interes ed as Iserved three years in theCBI as a member of the432nd Sig. Const. Pn, Ispent four months in Indiasix mon1Jhs in Burma andthe rest of the time inChina. The copy of Round-up which I received is a1956 edition. If you are stillpublishing it I wculd likevery much to subscribe. Ithink it is won'derful, andit bri~gs back so manymemones.

PATR~CK CHAMBERS,Mackmac Island, Mich.

Out of East China• Anyone who sen-ed inEast China at the time wewere losing airfields cO theJapanese will want to ethe new mJVie, "The _loun-tain Road," starring JameStewart as an Americanmajor. It's from he best-selling novel b\' Tedd\'White, who was "in Chinaduring the war as corres,pondent for Time magazine.As an "old China hand," Ican truthfully say this isthe best CBI movie thus far!

CHARLES MATHORN,Los Angeles, Calif.

Killed in Germany• Army Sgt. Frank A.Cotoreno of Mount ClemensMkh., was killed April 28in an auto accident atMunich, Germany, as heheaded toward an airportreuni'On with his wife andtwo sons. The 37-year-{J.Jdcareer soldier, who servedduring World War II in theCBI theater, hadn't seen hisfamily for more than ayear. He had recently o~-tained government 'livingquarters for them, andthey flew to Germany to bewith him. They alightedfrom the plane at Frankfort,expecting to be met by Sgt.Cotoreno-instead there wasan Army chaplain with thetragic news of his death.

LAWRENCE C. CA E,Detroit, Mich.

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Capt. Grimes Passes• Capt. Harry Grimes,under whom I served atHastings Mill, Calcutta,passed away last week. Hiswife said death was causedby cancer.

MARION I. HELD,Kansas City, Mo'.

498th Pay Day• Would like to hear framsome of my 'old buddies ofthe 498th Air Service Squad-ron, 44th Service Group.Hey, you guys; if it hadn'tbeen .for me you wouldn'thave been paid on pay day!

LELAND F. GRUBER,507 W. ReynoldsSpringfield. Ill.

Bishop Quinn Dies• The Most Rev. WilliamC. Quinn, CM, 54, RomanCatholic bishop of Yukiang,Kiangsi, Red China, died inMarch at Kaohsiung, Tai-wan, Formasa. He went to'China in 1934, was conse-crated as bishap lin 1940,and hid in the mountainswith other refugees duringJapanese occupation ofWorld War II. He was ex-p'elled from CommunistChina in 1951, after beingunder 'house arrest by theReds fcr twa years. -

ALFRED C. ~IARTO_',San Gabriel. Calif.

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basket picnic is being plan-ned fcr June in Oincinnatiat which time there will beelection of 1960-1961 of-ficers.

RELATIVES are shown carrying a body to the burning ghat atAgra, India, for cremation. Photo by W. E. Cantrell.

Ohio Meeting• You just can't beat theco.mbination of a fine Aprilevening and go:::d CBIVAfriends. The bi-montlhlymeeting of the Dept. ofOhio Basha was held inC'Olumbus, Ohio, Saturday,April 23, with a good at-tendance of members andguests. Thanks to tlheefforts of the ColumbusBasha folks for the manyarrangements. Welcomingand h03pitality began at 6p.m. A pot luck supper ofdelici'Ous dishes preparedby the ever-lovin' OhiJ.mems(l!hibs was followedby a business session, twofUms On India, one of whichwas recently used on TV'sSee It Now program, andthe amusing results of thebidding in the silent auc-Hon br.ought the evening toa close. Refreshments andelbow bending continuedall during tihe evening intypical CBI style. A big

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Between U.S. and Communist Chinese

The Army Red China Fears MostBy GERALDINE FITCH

Reprinted From The American Legion Magazine

"One daes not use goad iran to' makenails, nar gaod men ta make saldiers."This was a praverb af Old China.

Taday this cann::>t be applied to' thearmed farces af the Republic cf China anTaiwan (Farmasa). The chief 'Of theArmy Sectian af the U. S. :\Iili arT As-sistance Advisary Graup L\IA..AG) 'there,Brigadier General Lester S. Bork. saysthat these farces are appreciably betterthan they were even 1 manth aga.

Ohiang's armed farces -odav number600,000 despite the fact tha a 'few \"earsagO' 80,000 cambat ineffecth'es were reotired by a pragram unique in the langhistary 'OfChina.

Let us cansider this new thing undertlhe Sun befare attempting ta evaluatethe present efficiency 'Of Chiang's Army.

Faur 'Or five years ago military ob.servers and fareign 'carrespondents in-specting the armed farces of Free Ohinawere reparting: "Chiang's army is get.ting taa 'Old to' fight!" Same Isaid: "Thesame Naticnalist s::lldiers-nine yearsalder!" Others added: "TaO' many 'Oldand HI!"

These charges were not altogethertrue, but there was enaugh truth 'in thec1'idhes to' make them serve as prapa-ganda against Free China. Washingtanwas warried.

In the face af a cammunist buildupalong the mainland ceast appasite Que-may and Matsu, nO' questian loamedlarger in Sina-American military caap.eratian than this af the average and de.bilitated army which had maved withthe gavernment frem the mainland t'OTaiwan lin 1949.

COMBAT READY troops standing at attentionare admonished to serve their country.

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CHIANG Kai-shek inspects artillery units innorthern Taiwan.

1''0 bring Free China's armed farcesta a much higher peakaf efficiency, andta take care 'Ofthe ill, average, and ather-wise ineffective men as a first step int'hat pracess, the United States trans.ferred $48 millian ta the Republic ''OfChina f,;:}r a veterans prcg:am. Thismaney had been allacated to' Indachina,but was still unused when Vietnam fellta the cammunists.

The pragram !Set up under this grantwas called the Vacatianal AssistanceCommission far Retired Servicemen, orVACRS far short. Wlhen Ameri.cans think'Of veterans programs, they 'Often think'Of pensians and the GI Bill 'Of Rights. Saa myth arase in the U. S. A. to' tlhe effectthat the aId saldiens 'Of China were beingpensioned ,off at a liberal rate witlhmoney supplied by the American tax.payer. Natlhing cauld be further fram thetruth. There is nO' pemian in VACRS.Officers, and afficers only, receive a lumpsum-ance only~an separatian fram thearmed forces.

The VACRS pragram proViided far themedical needs 'Of the ill. It made pas-sible such things as new TB sanitariumsand new additians an 'Old anes; a darmi-tary to' -hause 100 leprous soldiers at thegavernment's La Shan Leprosarium; anda 616.bed veterans haspital, comparableta madern haspitals in tlhe U. S. A.

Besides fitting retired servicemen intO'tJhe ecanomy 'Of Taiwan wherever jabswere available, VACRS gave vacatiana!ltraining to' those whO' knew nO' craft, andin-service training to' athers. Taday thesemen are reclaiming marginal 'Of tidallands, 'Opening up mineral wealth 'Of cut-ting timber in mauntain areas, buildingroads, etc.

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11his is a quick survey 'Of the value a;ndefficiency 'Of tJhe VACRS program, whIchhas had 'Only one approp'Iiation of U. S.foreign aid. It prevides faciliti~s that arebeing used over and 'Over agam for theappreximately 5,000 men released an-nually fl':J,m l1he armed ferces 'Of the Re.public of China on Taiwa~.

Anot/her question often raised in A.me:--ica is: "Where does Chiang get hiSrecruits?"

This ques:'ian, usually: aske.d withraiJ:,ed eyebrows by Amencans, IS neverasked of Australia, which Ihas a compa-rable population. It is taken f'Or grantedthat they can build an army. The~e aremere than 10 million people on the Islandof Taiwan today. And tJhere is a universalmilitary train'ing program.

Actually, nearly half l1he army 'O.f ta-day is made up 'Of island. barn Chmese(usually refe:red to in America as Tai-wanese 'Or Farmosans). And there areprobably 250,000 'Of them in the :reserves.

There were als) dire predictions inAmerica about tJhe Taiwan.born recruits.They would be 'Of "dubious loyalty"croaked the Toronto GI'Obe and Mail."They are 'Of untested political reliabil.ity," dagmatized a Far East .expert atColumbia University's Amencan As-sembly. .

But that was befare they were testedunder fire in the defense 'Of Quemay.Mare t/han a hundred newsmen from all'Over the warld foregathered in Taiwanat that time, and mest 'Of them riiSkedthe heavy bombardment :t'O caver l1~evest-pocket war. As 'One 'Of tJhem put It:"Quemoy's bap11ism 'Of fire has put thena tive- born sans at the front ta a severetest. They Ihave dispelled all previa usanxiety; they displayed c~:)Urage andca:lm. The Taiwan-born recruIts ... haveshown they were net 'Only unafraid, butextremely brave and duty.cansciaus."

Since Quemay, it wauld be difficult tamake the label 'Of "dubious layalty"stick.

Free China's Minister 'Of Defense, YuTa.wei, educated in the best sclhoolsafEurope and America and taps 'in mili-tary acumen, told me persanally that heregards the new replacement system farthe armed farces as "j1he greatest singlemark 'Of pragress since the removal taTaiwan."

It came 'O'llt in answer ta my questionan the average age 'Of tJhe !S'aldiers. HisMinistry gives 'it ''Officially as 26.6. But,as he says, this figure i's 'illusive becausemost 'Of the alder men (largely 1:ihemain-land saldiers) taday 'Occupy technicalposi tions-camm unica tieniS, training, etc.The men an the frentJrines 'Of Quem'Oy

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and Matsu are muclh yaunger; half 'Ofthem are Taiwan draftees wha averagefrom 20 to 22 years. On Taiwan itselfthe average is higher, probably abaut24.5 years.

The canscription law. pas,ed five yearsago, provided that all able-lx;?ied, 20-year-old males be drafted and gl\'cn faurmontlhs' basic training. They are thenchanneled inta the variaus active divi-sions and -sent ta 'One 'Of nine trainingcente'rs where they receive 20 manths'additianal training. After twa full yearscf training, they are released to the re-serve p:ol. Tlhis bady is areanized intoreserve divisians, fI'am which '.he menare called up far 'One manth',s refreshertraining eadh year far five years.

Recent amendments te the !law nawrequire every plhysically fit male to re-port for ,military training when hereaches 19. Studen~s may finish college,but then must serve their two years be-fere oontinuing graduate ''Or t,echnicalwark. At all times tlhase in (raining-inthe active army 'Or in the reserves-aresubject ta mobilizatian in case 'Of na-tiona'l emergency.

Na Ohinese connected with the armedfcrces, and the same can be said 'Of theAmerican training 'Officer. make, anydistinctbn between sons 'Of mainlandersand the island-barn. They are all Chinese.

"What ,matters," Dr. ,Yu said, "is Ihatthe new replacement system is makinga madern army-and a medern China.On the ma'inland it was a transitianal

CHINESE Nationalist trainees exerci e withrifles at Fengshan.

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army-some well-organized units, somemcdern weapons, some modern tlaining.Today we have a modern Army, a gOJdNavy, and a superior Air Force." .

That vest. pocket war on Quemoy Inlate 1958 testified to tlhe present efficien-cy under fire of the atmed forces ofFree Ohina. The bombardment cpenedon August 23, when 41,000 high explosiveshells fell witlhin two hours. There wasno pan'ic, even though this was a. terrifibaptism of fire for untested recrU! s, anddespite the loss of three generals in hea's'sault.

Concentrated shelling continued. reach.ing a peak of 59,888 round_ on 'he 11 hof tlhe bllowing .month .. los 0' he year'record of 548.192 artiller. - - e Is hurledby tlhe reds agains Quemoy e, in thethree-month period fol owing Au"us' 23<:1.Newsmen who had co\-ered 0 er ':a._said that there was no ::uc. u.a'ionshelling without letup a . 'ew Guinea ;>,Kwajalein or in Kor.ea without directassault.

In the straits war, the Chinese Armyknocked out 252 communist guns; de-stroyed 113 gun positions, 56 emplace-ments, 23 ammunition dumps, and 4 bar-racks; and sank many seagoing craft.The Nati'onalist Navy sank an additional38 Chinese Oa-mmunist vessels; 'on Sep-tember 2 it sank an entire flotilla of 11torpedo boats.

The fina'l 'score of the pilots of theOhinese Air FOI'ce was 32 communistMIG's destroyed (a probable 12 moredamaged) 1:> the loss of one F-86. Tiherecords of the Army and Navy .may nothave been quite as dramatic as that ofthe Air Force. but they were equallycom-incing as to the efficiency of tlheirtraining.

NICKNAMED "Sharks of Quemoy," these frog.men undergo tough training before they canqualify for assignment to special sea duties.

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All 'officers I have talked with (bothChinese and American) agree on onepoint: no army ever leaches the s~'J'Ppingpoin, in training. New weapons, newtechniques, new Istandards, clhanges incharacter of the enemy-all ca'll forcontinued efforts. There are several "for.ward-look" divisi'Ons, combat-preparoed(not fully combat.equipped yet). Theyare capable, efficient, and well trained.And t.heir anger at the atrocities tlhat tihecommunists have committed on the main.land gives them a will to fight. For war.fare in Korea, Laos, the Plhilippines, oron their own mainland, they are far bet-ter prepared than any U. S. 'or Allieddivision in the w'Drld. This 'I have on tlheauthority of American military officerswho know that the Ohinese commande:sof today know how to use their staffsproperly, how to command, and how to-rain their units for combat.

ender pressure of the straits crisis, thepro\'ision of more modern equipment wasaccelerated to Taiwan. The Chinese AirForce was trained to handle F.l00's, andsince the Quemoy batNe has received anundisclosed number of supersonic RF.l0lVoodoo jet pihoto.reconnaissance planes.The Navy was augmented during thecrisis by the addition of amphibious craft,and since then by a re.equipped Benson.class destroyer.

Perhaps the most slgnificant ,mark ofU. S. oonfidence in t1he Army of the Re-public 'of China is the presence on Taiwanof a complete Nike-Hercules battalion.It is completely manned by Chineseofficers and men. American confidencein the abHity of the Chinese to take overwas justified when t1hey proved ready ineight months' time, instead of tlhe nor,mal18-month training peri'Od.

A word Should be added about theOhinese Air Force's Thunder Tiger team,invited by the World Congress of Flightand the USAF to fly in acrobatic ex.hibitions in America with tlhe Blue Angelsof the U. S. Navy, tlhe USAF's Thunder.birds, the Red Devils of Italy, and theDutch Dash Fo'ur. Tihe Chinese team wastlhe youngest in point of organization,having been formed in 1954. Their squad.ron commander, Colonel Lo Hwaping,'says precision flying and teamwork areimportant factors in winning any battle.They are not doing acrobatics merely forsh'Ow, but to gain flying skill and to im.prove combat tactics. Last year in theQuemoy war, James Cary of AP calledthe Ohinese airmen "tlhe best :fliers inthe wo,r!ld."

I have asked a number of officers oftop echelon why t1he Nationalist forcestoday are so mudh superior to what they

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ARMORED UNITS stand in formation await-ing inspection by President Chiang.

were on the ,mainland, since there wa:>an American training program there tao.Tlhey say that the American traininggraup then was handicapp,ed by lack cfweapans, lack 'Of a gaod replacementsystem, and (far eight crucial monthsduring the fight against the reds) bythe arms embarga of tlhe Marshall Mis,si'On. China had to buy arms whereverit was possible to get them. On Taiwanin 1950, when Nati:malist heaps werebeing withdrawn fram Hainan Island,bringing their weapans witlh them inorderly evacuatian, I myself saw Cana-dian, British, American, Czech, German.and Japanese weapans-all neatly stack-ed on the docks at Kaahsiung. an amaz-ing conglameration!

Major General L. L. Doan. Chief ofMAAG, po,ints out ;.hat today new weap-ans are canstantly replacing old types.Recruits arrive to fill up the units. Tlhereare na gaps in strength anymore. Therear~ training schaals for ordnance, artil-le,y, ,e~c. Maintenance wa:> natoriauslypaor in the 'Old days. The talents of theChinese lay in tJne fields of schalarly at-tainment, nat in mechanical and tech-nical matters. But taday they are in anew league, a s::phisticated leagu,e froma technalagical standpaint.

Taday the armed farces of the Repub-lic of Ohina are much better trained andequipped than tho,se 'Of the Chinese Cam-munists. This 'Ought ta go a long way tamake up far the disparity in numbem.Their communicatians system is better;their marale is telPS, and Americanofficers are confident they would givea gaad accaunt of themselves in battle.

One of MAAG's high-ranking 'Officerssaid to me: "If the Natianalists returnta the mainland during my term 'Of dutyIhere, I know 'Of not one single adviserin the Army Section (nat speaking forthe ather branches) who wauld notvalunteer ta accampany the Chinese

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leaders and their staffs witln me. GeneralPeng, Chief of Staff. Genera'l La Lieh,cammanding the Army, the two' fieldcammanders, and the 'Off 'share islandcommanders ari? all splendid leaderswith Win'am we have the finest under-standing."

Majar General L. L. Doan. speaking ofthe vigaraus training program that hasbeen carried On fGoreight years now. said:"Tihe armed forces 'Of the Republic ofChina have attained a state 'Of excellentefficiency. They are patent forces. andtheir deterrent capabi'lities were evi-denced by the defeat of the cammunistsin 1958, and the resolute determinatianwith Which they defend the Republic ofChina."

Admiral Raland M. Smoot, chief 'Of theU. S.-Taiwan Defense Cammand, is onrecard as saying 'On many 'accasians thathe cansiders the farces 'Of tJhe Republicof China "highly efficient." During theQuemay crisis I heard him give highpraise to China's Defense Minister, YuTa-wei: "A finer and mme capable mili-tary man I have never met."

I thaught of former Secretary Achesanand Adlai Stevensan saying the aff-s:1.ar,eislands were "not warth a single Amer-ican life." I remembered hearing Presi-dent Chiang saying: "If you will give usthe same material aid that Russia giveshe Chinese CommunistS', we will da our

::W'1 fighting."At Quemoy, Chiang's armed farces

proved that, given the stuff. thev caulddefend their offshare islands withaut "asingle American 'life." Whe:eas. if theislands are eitlher tak,en 'Or given nway,American boys will die for the defenseof Taiwan ta which we are pledged bytreaty.

Free China's armed farces are J,n thefrantline taday. and they are the bufferhetween the U. S. and the CammunistChinese. They have so stabili:ued the sit-uatian in the Far East that the U. S. hasnat faund it neccessary ta send troopsto figiht in the Orient for nearly five years.

While interviewing Defense :\Iini'terYu, I referred b Khru hchev', \'i it tomy cauntry and his probable pur e ofbuying time.

Dr. Yu wauld not criticize m\- cauntrv,but he did say: "SomeTime" I wonderwhat America will da if Khru he e\- callsthe tune in a dazen coun -es all averthe world at 'One and the _a:ne time-civil wars 'here, military co there-in Sautheast Asia. Sauth' America. Africa.What will your country da in ca_e ofOperatian PANDEMO."I ",f?"

I'm still thinking that one o\-er.-THE END

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Saturday Will Be Governor's Day

Ce ar apids o '601Saturday, August 6, of Vhe forthcoming

13th annual reunion 'Of Ohina-Burma-India ve'~erans (CBIVA Family Reunion)at Oeda" Rapids, Iawa, will be Gavernor'sDay, with GJ,vernar and Mr3. Herschel C.Loveless of Iowa in at'~endance.

Danald Doyle, Iawa Basha judge adv:J-cate, who is a state representative fr: mSiaux City, made the arrangements fD.Governor Laveless 'ta attend.

After the closing business session ~Y1Saturday marning, all t'hase attendingthe reunian will ga tc the Pas: Comman-ders' Luncheon which will feature Chi-ne3e fa:Jd. Gave:nor Loveless will give alS/hJ,rttalk at this lunchean, and all pastnational cammanders will be introduced.

At 3 p.m. there wiII be a MemarialService at the plaza 'Of the VeteransMemarial Caliseum. This servi'ce will beconducted by nhe CBIVA na'tlianal chap-lain, Father Edward R. Glavin of A'lbany,N. Y.

If there are enaUglh children at the re-union under 10 years of age, there willbe an opportunity far paren'ts ta Itakethem to the Bever Park Zoo and Kiddie-land bus at 4 p.m.

One 'Of nhe highlights 'Of Vhe reunionwill be Ithe annual Cammander's BanquetSa'turday evening far all adults, with achildren's banquet planned at the sametime. Follawing the banquet program willbe the Commander's Ball, with music bythe Joey ParadiSe) Orohe3tra framDubuque, Iewa. Music with "toe-teasin'tempos" in Italian style will be featured.

There will be a Saturday night flo'arshaw featuring 1:'he Hennenberry Family,comedy juggling and unicycling; Burn& Whi'~e, musical comedy, singing anddancing; Lee & Rita, comedy magic,trunk escapes and audience participatian:Denny White, master 'Of ceremonies; andHarald Sho.ver, pianist.

Fram the 'Opening cocktail party Wed-nesday evening, August 3, /thraugh Sat-urday night, a camplete program 'hasbeen planned for the reunion.

The reunion cammittee asks thosecaming ta Cedar Rapids to. bring westernattire for the Thursday night westernparty and dance; swi,m 'suits, goU clubs'Ortennis rackets far the Friday afternoan"Carn Bail" picnic; and Oriental costumesfor tihe Friday evening Puja Parade andBall. Despite an announcement madelast month, members of the cammittee

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JOW A'S Governor Herschel C. Loveless, whowill attend the 1960 CBJY A Reunion on Satur-day, August 6. ' ,

say rental castumes will nat be availablein Cedar Rapids.

Total registra1tion fee for the faur-dayreunion will be $20 far adults, with twamare meals than usual .included, and$7.50 far 'Children under 14.

Rates for most I1J>amsat Hotel Raase-velt, the reunion hotel, are said ta be$7.25 single, $9.25 dauble and $12.25 far'twin beds, witlh no raom charge far chil-dren under 14. For thase 14 or (J'ver, thecharge rar a rallaway bed is $3. All reomshave air cDnditianing and television. Thehatel alsa 'Offers free overnight parking,So;J, it is possible ta have a car parkedin the garage fram Wednesday afternaonta Sunday marning for 'anly $1.50.

At the CBIVA eX'2cutive baard meetingheld May 7 at Cedar Rapids, it wa':; de-cided to cantinue with the plan ta printa camplete me,mbership roster with the1960 reunion pI1:J'gram despite the fact<'hat ('nly a few $10 ads have be€n re-ceived 'from members to pay costs ofprinting. The June 1 'deadHne far theseads has been extended ta June 15. Theymay be sent ta G. L. Gallaway, P. O. Bax188, Laurens, Iawa, befo're that 'time.Copies of the roster and pragram will goto all CBIVA members.

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Missionary's Life Can Be Exciting

Pant er Leaves ScarFrom the Des Moines Tribune

By JANE BOULWARE

PELLA, IA.-The Rev. C. A. DeBruin,62, home here 'On furlough from hismission post -in India, can testify that amissionary's life can be exciting anddangerous.

He 'has scam on his back from woundsleft byelaws of a panther.

Butlhe Rev. Mr. DeBruin (pron:mncedDeBrine) and his wife a:e eager to return

REVERENCE and thankfulness of an Indianwoman are captured in this picture, "TheFellowship of Prayer," from the album of theRev. C. A. DeBruin of Pella, Iowa, missionaryhome on furlough. It was taken in a field atDheenabandupuram.

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to Vellore, India, where they have servedthe Reformed Churcn since 1926.

"We'll be going back next June for ourlast ter.m," he said. "We have enjoyedhaving a part in building the Church ofSouth India, and in putting the churcheson a self-supporting basis as saun as theyare able. The road has been difficult, buteach term (about 672 years) has beenprogressively better."

On Way to ChurchThe encounter with a panther occurred

a few years ago in a small Indian villagewhich the DeBruins passed through ontheir way to conduct 'services in a near-by church.

"We n::l'ticed crowds of people 'on thestreet as we went through in the morn-ing," the missionary recalled. "When wereturned about 4 p.m., after the service,1!he people had knotted in one mass andabout six policemen had arrived.

"'Panther locked in house!' was thereply we got to an inquiry. The pantherhad been l'aving the village since 4 a.m.and 'had bit and clawed five people, allin the hospital. He was now locked 'in ahouse that had no one in it.

"I had a high-powered rifle wi1!h me,and joined the effort to kill the animalbefore he could get o'ut of the house.Some of us climbed to t'he thatched roofand opened a hole in the straw andcocoanut leaves. We hoped to shaotthrough the hole when the opportunitycame.

"Nothing happened until about 5 p.m.,when the panther leaped through a holeof his own, and escaped from the house.

Moved Like Lighbing"He en tered five houses altogether.

Villagers, terrified, climbed to rooftopsor trees to watch the proceedings. Onceagain, we thought we had him corneredin a hause. I was poised ou~side, readyto shoot on the panther',s exit, when hesuddenly leaped on my back. He movedlike lightning, and no one could antici-pate his moves.

"I had tWJ' thoughts-will 'someonecome '-0 ,my assistance and how soon willit fasten its fangs in my neck-whenit turned and left me. As it turned I fireda parting shot at it. I learned later thatthere was another shot, fer my wifeheard two. But I was so deep in thoughtthat I did nat even hear that one 'shot,Which I learned later was that of a

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policeman. Actually, when he filed hisshot the panther left me.

"I drove 15 miles to one of our doctorsand wa:; given first aid. Then I drove an-other 40 miles tJ< our hospital where Ispent 15 days. Since there was a possibil-ity the animal might have been mad, mytreatment included a series of pa'infulrabies 'Shots. •

"As for the panther, he was founddead four days later, four- miles away."

'District' EvangelismVellole is 88 miles south and west of

Madras. The Reformed Church operatesVoorhees College and a Christian medicalcollege and hospital there. "District"evangelism is practiced in th:; area, inwhich many village c::mgregation3 makeup one church organization. The DeBruinshad charg,e of 50 village CJngregationsand four churches.

"Last January, about five months be-fore we were to leave on furlough, theyasked me to take another 22 churches. Iprotested, but finally consented whenthere appeared to be nJo one else avail-able. In seven Sundays, I vi:;ited all 22congregations."

When possible, DeBruin traveled by 'caror jeep, but much impassible territoryhad to be negotiated on feat. He haswalked as far as 15 miles to get to achurch.

Indian nationals have been taking over

pa3tcrates as soon as they are qualified,DeBruin said. This is a gO:::ldthing, he,:;aid, because ,missionary recruits havebe:;n dwindling in numb2f.

"Fer one 14'year-iJeriod, from 1926 to1940, we added nct a single ordainedmissiJ.nary to t'he staff. The staff has beenreduced from 50 to 25. S:;ve.al have reo-ired."

The church of South India. Supp;):tedby s2veral American denominatio:ls, is aunited Protestant church of abcut a mil-lion members. It has 14 dioceses, govern-ed by a general syncd and extendsfnm central India to tlhe northern pa t ofCeylon. The church has its own liturgy.

The desire for ecumenity comesnaturally te persons of non-Christianbackground, the Rev. Mr. DeBruin said.

"They say, 'Is Ghrist divided?'"The Rev. Mr. DeBruin is a nativ'20f

Pella, v/here his m.ot'her, brothers andsisters still reside. His wife has workedespecially wEh illiterate women of India,teaching them hymns and prayers. Bothshe and her husband speak Tamil, thelanguage of the area.

The DeBruins ,have a daughter. Joyce,also married to a .missionary, the Rev.J. W. Dunham. The Dunhams. who havejust cempleted their first term as mis-sionaries to Arabia, have two children,2 years and 2 weeks old. They als:> areon furlough in the states now.

EARLY MORNING Communion service is conducted by the Rev. C. A. DeBruin, serond fromright, with two Indian pastors. The occasion was a ministers' fraternal re:reat at J 1 enabandu-puram.

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Turning Back the Years to 1944

Seems Like Only Yesterday

Attractive Book BinderHolds 24 Copies

Ex-CBI RoundupP. o. Box 188 Laurens, Iowa

ccmpany 'Of error in exhaust stacks in ad,receives seven free Zipp'o lighters-Lt.Cal. Frederick Borth suggested shippingtoilet paper over'Seas in bales instead 'Ofrolls, saved carga 'Space equal to that 'Ofa Liberty ship in nine months 'Of sailing-Americans in Burma jungle get air.drapped reading matter t'O 'Occupy theirwaiting periods; included are a manua'lan 'Operating farm plaws, Hints on SxialEtiquette, and three French novels(written in FrenClh)-American news.paper editars predict war will end in 1945,and Japan will succumb quickly afterGermany is defeated-PFC Berlin L.

wgen poses with 14.foot python shatnear the Ledo Road.

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Again we lo)k back to Roundup; thistime for May 1944: Sherman tanks hitJaps in Burma-Col. Rothwell H. Brownawarded Silver Star by Gen. Stilwell-Virginia Mayo poses delightfully-"IfMi,os Malaria catches you with yaur neup" (cartoon: mosquito sees net up)"She'll Ihave yeu with your pants down"(cartoon: stabs exposed rear end -paoeof photos depict wark of pho '0 uni inCal. \YiIliam P. Fi her's Libera or u i'in China-sec:md anni\'er-an' of S il.well' 21.day retrea fram Burma wi h114 followers-Briti ':1 take offen ive inKahima sectar-Frank Knox dies, Jame::;V. Forrestal may be next Se.cNav-set 'OfOhinese.Yank team pictures in Burma-Major Graham Batchelor uses chopsticksat Chinese mess-Cpl. Wesley Dickinsonflies hame with 'Callecti'O'n 'Of venomaussnakes far Wa!~lhington, D. C., zoo--14thAF bombers Ihit Nip bridges 'over YellawRiver-AACS Sgt. Johnny McNally re.vealed as former AlI.Pro football great,played under name Johnny Bloed-Wash.ington third. baseman Buddy Lewis, nowa captain flying aver Burma, gets blackeye in touch.football game-Gen. Pattonin England stirs up new storm withspeech saying Great Britain, UnitedStates, and Russia are destined ta rulethe world-EAC downs 243 Nip planes inf'Our mcnths-Nati:mal Safety Councilreparts mare U. S. deaths fram accidentsthan war casualties-Captain JohnGeorge finds paper in :\Iagaung Valley,has Jap wards translated, learns it isU. S..dropped prapaganda leaflet-Po K.Wrigley Co. annaunces all gum producedwill g() to GIs averseas-Sg. RaymandDetwiler, APO 689, builds new laadingramp to !facilitate laading tretcher.borne patients into Air.Eyac planes-Gen. Wil'liam D. Old and Col. PhilipCachran awarded Briti D~O for workin recent Wingate Air Commando land.if,lgs in Burma-EAC de- ray- 22 Japal~craft-Errol Flynn named in paternitysUlt-:-the monsoons are arting-girlweanng sweater 'Ordered t'O leave Suopreme Court hearing-Senate Committeeapproves 'G. I. Bill of Rights-Alliedbombers double tempo 'Of blows atGermany -Sgt. Gerhard Neumann readsZippo ad depicting P.4Q.B, natifies Zipp'::>

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News dispatches jrom recent issuesoj The Calcutta Statesman

CALCUTTA-T!ne West Bengal Govern.ment has decided to open two more blcodbanks to meet requirements in ruralareas. The heavy ca'll on the Calcuttablood bank has necessitated the open.ing 'Of separate establishmenus in thedistricts. Last year tihe blood bank sup.plied 29,944 bottles of blend against28,275 in 1958. The bank's annual reportfor 1959 mentioned the lack of responsefrom those in the "middle income gnup."

NEW DELHI-Negotiations are underway with the Ford Fcundation to providetelevision sets for all .secondary scho:>lsin Delhi.

RAWALPINDI-T!he Pakistan Govern.ment has announced that it has decidedto liberalize facilities for foreign travel.It said Pakistanis could have the basictravel quota of foreign exchange for Mid-dle East 'cJuntries and countries in theAfrican continent excluding the PersianGulf sheikhdoms; Europe, South andNorth America, Canada, the Philippinesand Far East countries; and SoutheastAsia excluding India and Burma.

NEW DELHI-Police have arrestedseven persons for allegedly employingminors for begging. The arrests are thefirst to be made under a new section in-corpora ted into the Indian Penal Code,Which .makes the abduction of minorsand their use for begging an offensepunishable with imprisonment for aterm which may extend to 10 years.

MADRAS-Many candidates who ap-peared in the Madras Public Service Com-mission examination recently did notknow how to punctuate and spell, writesentences without a finite verb, and wereunaware that the first word of everysentence should begin with a capitalletter.

NEW DELHI-An LA.C. plane was un.able t'O land recently at Imphal becausea large number of cattle had "invaded"the airfield. It was reported that support.ens of the agitation for "restoration of reosponsible government" in Manipur haddriven the cattle into Imphal airfieldshortly before the plane was due to land.

JUNE, 1960

BULANDSHAHR~An u n ide n t i fie d"child eater," w!hich has killed six chil-dren and mauled an equal number, islurking around six villages in the Buland-shahr District of Uttar Pradesh. It is re-ported to be a fleet. footed nocturnalanimal that attacks Jnly children. Thepank-stricken villagers stopped sendingtheir children to school, and the womenand children started sleeping indoo: s.

CALCUTTA-Bhutan will shortly haveprinted laws and a press in Calcutta ishalfway through p:inting the State's lawsin Bhutanese language, it is reportedhere. Hitherto the theJcratic system ofgovernment in the Himalayan State en-forced laws from religious books.

CALCUTTA-Only 9.3 per cent of thewo.men in Calcutta are literate.

CALCUTTA-The crisis in Calcutta Portcaused by the continually deterioratingHJ'oghly, the 'signs of which were evidentat least three years ago, "is alreadyupon us," according to representatives cfaLmost all '3hipping interests connectedwith the port. If the depth of the riverccntinu,es to dimini!:1h for the next twoyears at the same rate as it has for thepast three. they said, Calcutta will ceaset:> be of any use to ocean-going ships.

CALCUTTA-There are many ruralareas in West Benga'I where peopleexperience difficulty for want of shedsat burning ghats or buria'l grounds. TheGovernment has decided to help localpeople provided they agree to bear partof uhe expense for the constructkmofsheds, each costing about Rs 500. About200 sUClh sheds are likely to be 'builtduring the current financial year.

RAIGANJ-The mango crop of MaIdaDistrict, West Dinajpur, has been totallydamaged this year. Rain during lihe earlypart of March came as, a death blow tothe blJssoms which had been in abun.dance.

CALCUTTA-Mr. Thomas J. Bata, presi-dent G'f Bata Develop.ment Ltd., London,recently said here that India, wi h its400 million people, was "a challenge tos'hoemakers." Shoewearing in India isstill at the very low'rate of one pair perhead every three years again- threepairs a year in Europe and he UnitedStates.

NEW DELHI-The SUITe,' of India hasmade considerable progres" in aerialsurveys and the mapping of he borderareas, and the first set of the tandard

.map of India will be issued soon.

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Take Home Pay $21 Monthly

cientist's Suicide Stirs Up Criticism

Joseph hasloak at thegJvernmentbeen faund

BY HENRY s. BRADSHERAssociated Press Writer

NEW DELHI-He :held a doctor's d,egreefrom Fordham University, New York. But'he earned only 245 rupees ($51.45) amonth-and after variaus deductions hegot enly 10J rupees ($21l.

He couldn't support his wife and fivechildren ,on that. So Ihe took them to livewi lh his parents and returned alone tahis reom near the Indian AgricuHuralResearch Institute, where he was a teach-1ng assistant.

He fixed 'same telephone wire to theceiling and hanged himself.

The suicide of Dr. M. T.stirred India to take a hardconditions under whichscientists work. A lot haswrong.

One newspaper said money is "beingspent lavis1hly 'on palatial buildings forresearch, while less attention i's paid toscientific equipment, the least attentionbeing paid to the reasonable needs (}f themen who work in the buildings and usethe equipment."

Only a few days before Joseph'ssuicide, Pflime Minister Jawaharlal Nelhruhad appealed to Indian scientist'S to workat home instead of accepting jobs abroad.Many foreign-trained expert's have stayedoverseas.

The gave-nment has promised to im-pr: ve conditions for scientists. A fewsteps already have been taken.

BUREAUCRACY BLAMEDSeme major complaints of Indian

government scientists are: low pay, in-adeq ua te recogniti:m 'Of qualifica tions,too much red tape beth in scientific workitself and in personnel administration,and such a rigid bureaucracy that meritand linitiative are buried.

A scientist who received a master's de-gree at the tap of his class earns barely200 rupees ($42) a manth, "but if thesame person abandons science and joinst'he administrative service he starts <D'nmore than double that salary." an expertpointed out.

The case 'Of Dr. Joseph illustrat,ed manycf the complaints.

He started working at the institute in1945, holding a bachelar of sC'ience degree.Tlhe pay scale was 80 to 220 rupees($16.80-56.20). He earned a master's de.gree in 1954, but his job stayed the same.

In 1954 he oJbtained an assistantshipat Fordham and went to New Yark to

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earn his d'Octorateo The Indian govern.ment kaned him money for passage andkept ,him an part pay far 28 manths.

.Josep'h returned with his Ph.D. in July,1958. All the institute had to, offer wast'he same type job he had before.

Joseplh submitted 17 applications farbetter jobs. But, a report to Parliamentsaid, he perfcrmed unsatisfactorily in aninterview with the Un ian Public ServiceCam mission. The institute did not fn:r-ward some applications far outside jobsbecame Joseph sti'llowed the govern-ment money. Official recads describedhim as having only average ability.

INJUSTICE UNDERLINEDFrustrated, unable t,1)earn more money

after 15 years service 'Or 'to obtain a jobwarthy 'Of his doctorate, Joseph took hislife.

"The real trouble" with gavernmenthandling of scientists, a newspaper edito-rial said, "is that this sort 'Of thinghappens sa often. Dr. Joseph's case wasonly dramatized by its tragic conse-quences."

11he suicide "has made the nation deep-ly conscious 'of the injustice being doneto scientists and gavernment uneasilyaware of the wrongness of its system-if it could be so called-c.,f administeringits scientiric personnel," another news-paper commented.

As a result of this case, the governmenthas decided tJ. give merit promotions orpay rais,es to persons who return fromabroad with !higher academic qualifica-tions. It is considering liberaHzation 'Ofrules on study leaves.

More consider'ation for the perSJ'llS in-volved and less cc1dly-impersonal, slowpaper shuffling is also promised.

Government scientists hope these stepswill improve conditbns. Thev know thatthe large number of educated unemploy-ed in India keeps up a pre3sure belhindthem to 'hang 'Onto their jebs despitecomplaints.

On a personal basis, the government ishelping Joseph's family. Several privatefunds for the.m have been collected.

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ADMIRAL TOGO. By Georges Blond. TheMacmillan Company, New York, June 1960$4.95.

Fast. paced, exciting, and colcrful bio.graphy of Japan's admiral of World WarII. High adventure, sea battles, and per-si;)nalheroism. It is also an effectlive nar.rative of Japan's rise to world power.

ALL THE EMPEROR'S HORSES. By DavidKidd. The Macmillan Company, New York, June1960. $3.50.

The author married the fourtlh sister ina Chinese family 'of eleven, and 'in aseries d vivid family portraits, heachieves a keen un'derstanding in theleader of the old, proud Ohina before theCommunists.

MY LIFE WITH A BRAHMIN FAMILY. ByLizelle Reymond. Roy Publishers, Neu' York,April 1960. $4.50.

TIhe experiences of a charming French.woman who lived as a member of thefamily in a Brahmin home in India from1947 to 1953. Among 'other things, shevisits a hermit.teacher in the Himalayas.

NO HIGH GROUND. By Fletcher Knebeland Charles Bailey. Harper and Brothers, NewYork. June 1960. $4.00.

The dramatic true story of a raceagainst time-the winners and the !losers--'in a tense narrative of the mont,hs pre.ceding the unleashing of the atom bombover Hiroshima.

THE RASCAL AND THE PILGRIM. ByJoseph Anthony. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, NewYork, June 1960. $3.75.

A moving and exciting account of aKorean war orphan, now a college stu.dent in Quincy, Illinois. American sO'I.diers got a special public law passed forhis entry inn:>the U. S.

A PUNJABI VILLAGE IN PAKISTAN. ByZeki)'e EgIar. Columbia UnizJersity Press, NewYork, April 1960. 6.00.

A descriptlion of the life of villagepeople in the Punjab by a Muslim wholived t,here for more than five years andis at present at the Harvard Center forMiddle Eastern Studies.

JUNE, 1960

EAST WIND RISING. By Relmall Morill.Alfred A. Knopf, New York, May 1960. $5.00.

The winner of two Pulitzer prizes fornewspaper work writes of experiencesand observations from the time he wasa student in China in 1929 up to Ihisimprisonment by the Japanese in Saigonin 1941.

HUNZA LAND. By Allen E. Banik. IF'hite-horn Publishing Company, Long Beach. April1960. $4.95.

A Nebra,ska doctor's experiences in theHimalayan kingdom, where, he reports,men live for 120 years, and women of 80look no older than American women of40. Maybe we've found the mountain ofyouth.

INTRODUCTION TO ORIENTAL CIVILI.ZATIONS. Edited by William de Bary andothers. Columbia University Press, New York,June 1960. $22.50.

The three volumes deal with thesources of Japanese, Chinese, and Indiantradition. More than 3,000 pages. Theboxed set will sell for $18.00 if 'Orders arereceived before June 27t!h.

IN SEARCH OF INDIA. By Ross Smith. TheChilton Company, Philadelphia. April 1960.

6.50."This book probes deep into the soul of

India and finds some of the springs thatmake these people gre'}t and enduring,"writes Supreme Court Justice William O.Douglas. Enough sa'id,

CHINA. By Chang-tu Hu and others. TaplingerPublishing Company, New York, April 1960.$10.00.

The result of five years of research andwriting by more than 40 Chinese andAmerican scholars-a massive resume 'Oftoday's China. Eighteen major univer.sities make up the organization that pro-duced this study.

TO THE EDGE OF SPACE. By MyronGubitz. Julian lIfessner, New York, May 1960.$4.95.

The story of the rocketplane X-15,which is expected to take a man 100mi'les up at 4,000 miles an hour. Anaccount of tlhe pilots, engineers. scientists,and technicians who are doing thegroundwork.

THE DEATH OF AFRICA. B P.:c' Ritner.The Macmillan Company, Neu' Yo'; ,1 rill960.$4.95.

On the basis of three mon~ _ in blackAfri'ca in 1959, the 33-year-o d authorwrites like an angry young man, OldAfrica is dying, a new is be'ng born. Hefears catastrophe unless orne hing isdone.

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Alphabetical Confusion In New Delhi

Phoning Is Still An ArtBY WALT FRIEDENBERG

Chicago Daily News Foreigll Service

NEW DELHI-The most talked-aboutbook in India's capital this week wouldundoubtedly be a best-seller, if it weren'tbeing given away free. It's the new tele.phone directary.

The newspapers gave it enthusiasticreviews. The Statesmen Ihailed it as "agreat improvement on the old models'-'The Hindustan Times headlined it a_"'handy."

And among Delhi's 31.000 telephonesubscribers, the 1960 editi:>n i a com'er-sation piece in gc\'ernment offices andover dinner tables.

THE SECRET of success is the newarrangement 'Of names in alphabetical'Order. The old directory toyed with thatidea; the new 'One has adopted it zealous-ly. The zoo, for example is now listedunder "Z" instead of under "M"---'forMinistry 'Of Agriculture and Faad-as be.fore, and there is now telephaning with.aut tears.

Mr. Lakshmi Jain is naw faund under"J" instead of "I," for Indian Co.'Opera.tive Union, whe:ehe I3 general isecretary.

This shift frem the man in his 'Officeprinciple to the citizen in his home hasmeant less angry shouting at the Enquiry(Information) 'Operatar.

THE ELEMENT of mystery and theC'ha'llenge to the 'imaginatian 'have nJ,tentirely disappeared, however. Where isPalam Airpart listed, far example? Ex.perts in DeIlhi telephonemanship. usingboth logic and intuition, will find itunder "C"-far CivH Aviatian Depart-ment.

By dropping degrees, honors, and titles,and hJ'lding Hstings to one line, the newdirectary has been able ta reduce itselffrom 578 pages ta 454, while adding 5,000new listings.

(The Chicaga directory, about 2.milliancapies of which are distributed yearly,uses 1,788 pages ta list about 1 millionnames).

THE NEW DELHI BOOK has lost SDme'Of its personal flavor. In the 'Old boak,far example, a six. line entry related thatChopra, Dr. P. N., studied in Bengal,Landan, and Bostan, U. S. A., was a memober 'Of the homeopathic enquiry cammit.tee of the ministry 'Of health of thegovernment of India in 1948.49, is amember 'Of Delhi Homeopathic Baard,

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and lives at Flat Na. 18.A, Central Mar.ket, Connaught 'circle, New Delhi.

The new one-liner simp'1y gives hisname, address, and phone number. 11heold foreign-trained, public-spirited Dr.Chapra has disappeared.

The alphabetical list runs from A. A.Bengal Taxi stand ta Mrs. Zutshi, Sheela,and it quietly includes Nehru, Jawa-'harIa!, prime minister 'Of India, at histwa home numbers, 35023 and 35333. He'Occasionally picks up the phone andanswers it himself.

THERE ARE 'Only twa Joneses andthree Smiths, but columns 'Of Anands.Bhatias, Chapras, Sharmas, and Singhs,common names in the Punjab and UttarP,adesh, the twa states between whichDelhi is located. T'he names show thatowning a phone is largely an upper.caste and thus upper-income affair.

Most of Delhi's 1.5 millian inhabitantshave never used a phone, much less'Owned one.

'I1he listings also revea'l that the ex.panding government of India has broughtIndians from all parts 'Of the country toits capital dty: Kauls from Kashmir,Subramanians from Madras, Chatterjeesfrom Bengal, and others.

THE DIRECTORY is in English, whichis the only nationwide language, even 'ifknown by only 1 per cent of the popula.tion. But that raises a prablem because aMadras name like Murthi may also bespelled Moorti, Moorthy, Murti, Murty, orMuthy, depending on the way Mr. Murthi(or Moorti, etc.) likes it.

The yellow pages are green and few innumber, but they show an increasingnumber of architects, incame-tax consul.tant3, cycle dealers, advocates, and air.conditianing companies-all signs of thenew times.

Delhi's 31,000 subscribers pay $2 amonth "rent" plus one rupee (21 'cents)far every 12 local calls. Standing outsidethe booth, so ta, speak, is a waiting 'list30,000 names long. And there are 'Onlyabout 190 "public call boxes" in the city.

THOUGH INDIA got its first p!hone in1881, just five years after its invention,there were only 114,000 phones in theWhole country in the Independence yearof 1947.

Today the total is 350,000, but India isstill one of the 'lowest "telephone-density"nations in the world. Nearly half of thephones are in the four big cities, Calcutta,Bombay, Madras and Delhi.

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VIEW of Calcutta traffic from a rickshaw. Photo by Joel H.Springer, Jr.

PERSONNEL of U. S. Naval Group China (SACO) are shownon a range in China, instructing Chinese in the use of the M-Icarbine. Members of this group operated with the Chineseforces from 1942 until the war's end. Their first activity, theforwarding of weather information, was soon expanded toinclude intelligence work and the training and equipping ofChinese guerillas for missions against the Japanese. Knownfirst as the "Friendship Project" and later as "Sino-AmericanCooperative" (SACO), the group was under the command ofRear Admiral Milton E. Miles, USN. Photo by W'illia:n J.Peacock.

ChCllmales'Deathe Sorry ta learn in Mayissue 'Of the death of TamChamales. I have felt thathe was unjustly criticizedfar his statements onChiang's government, whichhe had proven with variausdocuments. I realize theappanents 'Of Chamales'views felt he was stirringup a harnet's nest in ourrela tians with Chiang.

ERNEST ROSS,Boston,' 'Mass.

ICalcutta Traffic Cop• I remember the trafficpoliceman on the May issuecover, not by name, buthaving se,en this calo~fulcharacter an ChawringheeRaad while an my way tathe Hindusthan Bui'ldingeach day.

MARVIN E. SOHN,Jersey City, N. J.

Karachi Visit• Certainly enjJyed read-ing of William B. J. Cum.mings' recent revisit taKa:achi. I was surprised tolearn that Karachi is nalonger tlhe capitcl of Pakis-tan. I envy anyane wha hasthe time and money to re-turn ta the Far East far avisit. Hope to do it myselfsome day.

STANLEY W. HARRIS,Braaklyn, N. J.

DUDLEY TEMPLET,Belle Rose, La.

29 Months in CBIe Spent 29 manths in theCBI theater ... am vervmuch interested in the CBl.Just yesterday a friend ofmine gave me the address'OfEx-CEl Roundup ... I amsure I will enjay it verymuch.

A. D. HANSON,St. Paul, Minn.

New Burma Road?• I read dn the paper lastweek that the Red Chinesehave built a road fromTibet into Kashmir ~J' 'sup-port their claim to tha tterritory. During the recentruckus between India andRed Ohina on the borderdispute, I wondered if tlheChinese were not repairingthe 'Old Burma Road farthat same purpose?

JOHN A. BRIGGS,Oma1ha, Nebr.

Commanding General• An afJiicer wha servedin CBI during Warld WarII has been in cammand 'Ofthe Seventeenth Air Force,with headquarters at Ram-stein, Germany, since lastN'avember. He is Maj. Gen.Gabriel P. Disasway, whapreviausly headed the 12thAir Farce. A 1933 West Pointgraduate and a pilat since1934, he 'led the 312thFighter Wing in China in1945.

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With $5,000 and Three Months

He Would Return to India(Reprinted from The Denver Post)

BY BARBARA MOORE

Given $5,000 with three months' sparetime and tlhe yen for exotic climes, aresolute traveler could take a never-to.be-forgotten tour of India.

For that price and in that time youcould travel the length of India from itsregion of bizarre temples in the S~uthto the seldom-visited land of Nepalbordering !it in the Nort'h, stay inluxurious hotels, sample strange fo;xls.shoot tigers from the back :f an elephantand come home bulging with suchsouvenirs as -.ld brass and copper ware.Ihandlcomed c1:;th, carpets fmm .' epal orstar sapphires from Colombo.

You could wander off the tourist routesto stay in Dak bungalows in small towns,watch shadow plays and puppet 'shewsin villages or have your past and futuretold by a turbaned astrologer. Along theway you would mix with tthe Indianpeople, scaking up their history, cultureand outlook.

F'D.rJohn Miller, the soft-spoken, Okla-homa-born manager of American Ex-press' Denver branch, not even a trip tothe moon could top such a vacation.

When asked abJut India, he's apt tosmile a bit sheepishly and dip ,into thelower left-hand drawer of his desk Wherea collection of books and folders containdetails about nearly every aspect of hisfavorite foreign ccuntry. He calls it "mymemory drawer."

For Miller is an old hand at India. Hisfirst assignment upon joining AmericanExpress ,in 1951 was Bombay, and helived and worked in B~mbay and NewDelhi until 1958.

"But I'd like to go back to do the thingsI didn't get to do When I was workingthere," he says.

Heading his list are a tiger hunt, tripsto Nepal, the Khyber Pass and thefrescoed EUora and Ajanta caves in SouthIndia and a swing tlhrough Colombo andCeylon on his way home.

Preferably he'd fly over and return byship, the ship being necessary because."I'd be loaded dO\vn with souvenirs thistime," ihe says.

"I'd go any time I had the chance," hegrins, "but I'd prefer the months ofDecember, January and February. I'dhave to be in New Delhi Jan. 26 forRepublic Day, Which is by far the big-

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gest and finest celebration you'll seeanywhere in the world, except perhapsthe coronation of a queen.

"I'd travel the Indian train system-it's slow, but sure and good. The heat?It wouldn't bot!her me. After all, peopletravel to Phoenix 'in the summer."

His preferred tour could be done forS3,000, but Miller doesn't believe in stint-ing as long as he's wishing. He prefersa luxury trip with all the trimmings,adding, "It costs almost $2,000 frer a goodtiger hunt witlh elephants."

Miller has had a yen for India sincehis high schOJl days, When reading Kip-ling and studying about maharajas gothim intrigued with tth2 idea. And whilehe lived there he found himself attractedby the people and tlhe pace cf life.

"It's a slower pace," he explains. "Thepeople are not bothered with all theAmerican 'cDnveniences' which tend tomake our life complicated. They're notbethered with TV-Maverick doesn'tenter in:o their lives at all. And thehusbands don't have to give up theirfree time to ,mDWthe lawn."

Miller doesn't know when he'll be ableto take his Indian vacation. It might notcome until he's retired. But ihe's prettysure he will return -some day-an Indianastrologer told him sO.-THE END

Ex-CBlersExchange

This column is intended to bring togetherCEI-ers who want to sell, buy or trade arti.cles from China, Eurma or India. There is nocharge for this service . . . send your noticesto the editors for inclusion in next issue.

WANTED-Antique nickel-plated flint-lock rifle, used by Kachins in Burma duroing World War II. Chester Moore, 969 S.Pearl, Denver, Colo.

WANTED-If a history of the 7thBomb Group has been published, Iwould like to obtain a copy. George W.Dellinger, 379 York St., Manchester, Pa.

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GOATS sacrificed to the Goddess of Kali in Calcutta. Youngspectator at left seems to be taking considerable interest inthe proceedings. Photo by Joel H. Springer, Jr.

EN ROUTE to market, these Chinese operate sampan on Kun-yang Lake, near Kunming, China. Photo by Jim Wilkinson.

RUSSELL W. HALL,New York, N. Y.

J. R. JIM REID,Frederick, Md.

CBI Paraphrase• Arthur Kiener sure hiton a go)d paraphrase in hisletter (Apr.). "Old soldiersnever die, they just remi.nisce!" This certainly wouldapply to CBI veterans, if noone else.

JACK COROTHERS,Scottsdale, Ariz.

Too Far in Hills• Enjoy all the articleswhich appear in Ex.CBIRoundup. Sorry our bunchdid. not get t'O read Ijjheoriginal Roundup while inChina with Navy GroupChina (SACO). I guess wewere too faT back 'in thehills.

projects. The country wasso rundown when handedover to Ne'hru that it wouldhave been notlhing short ofa miracle to witness a majorchange in the country in soshort a time. But, given an.'other two decades of time,India will emerge as amajor power in the Orient.Her influence is alreadybeing felt around the worldtoday.

terrible riots and murdersfollewed partition of thecountry. But today, after adozen years of independ-ence, India can bo-ast ahigher percentage 'Of lit.erates and hundreds ofworthwhile public works

Changing India• . .... I cannot help butmarvel at Ihow India 'ischanging-for the better, ofcourse. When India gained'her independence in 1947,experts from some quarterswere of the opinion thecountry was far better 'offunder British rule. Especial-ly was tlhis true when the

Great Purpose• The war years seem sovery far back, at times Ifind myself asking if Ireally spent nearly threeyears of my life in thejungles 'OfAssam and Nor, hBurma. Your fine littlemagazine serves a greatpurpose to us CBI veterans,keeping us reminded of themany unusual experiencesencountered in tlhe Orient,at a time when mostAmericans didn't know theCBI Theater existed. I re-main an ardent reader ofEx-CBI Roundup.

STEVE ORRENSON,Baton Rouge, La.

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Commander's

Message

by

Harold H.Krelchmar

National CommanderChina- Burma- India

~.;etel'allS A::;SIl.

Sahibs & Memsahibs:

On t'he 7th o.f May, I and the membe!sO'f the national executive committee,. Inattendance, meet'ing in Cedar RapIdswere privileged to get a s~al.l sample oftJhe wonderful Iowa hJtSplta!Ity we canlook forward to next August.

Incidentally, I kept my record intact inl'egard to weather I've enccun~ere~. TheCedar Rapids area had over fIve mches'Of rain preceding and during OUr meet.ing. On the drive ba~k !home on ~unday,mc,ming I 'had to dnve a short dIstanceover flooded Ihighway.

One of the pI'incipal functions cf themeeting wasta, go 'Over tJhe reunion pro-gram and to recopcil.e ti~e funcNon. o,fthe national organIzatIOn In the reUnIonprogram with the program arranged bythe reunion committee. This was acco,m.pUshed with tihe minimum 'Ofeffort sincethe reuniO'n commlittee had set up thepT'Ogram with our part in mind. !heexecutive committee made some mmorrecommendations but little else since wewere generally agreed tlhat t'he programwas excellent and warranted very littleadditions or deletions. We concluded thatthe program was one which .will pmvidemaximum pleasure and satlsfact'lOn forevery delegate, wife or husband and childwho are fortunate enough t'O attend

Every man who has served as com-mander of the CBIVA has hoped that histerm of o,ffice wi'll be culminated witih asuccessful and joyous reunion. I am con-fident that my term will end with oneof tJhe best if not the best that we haveever held.

At the meeting we 'had an opportunityto discuss hotel accommodations, arrange.ments, costs, etc., with the ~ales managerof the Roosevelt Hotel, headquarters forthe reunion. We found that costs will bemore reasonable than in prior years andthe service is as good or better thanf,ound in most 'of the larger hotels ofthe large cosmop'Olitan cities. The Roose.velt 'Offers more of the personal tOUdh.

As you probably read in 1Jhe last issue

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of this magazine. and as I mentioned inmyprevio,us message, Bin Zieg1lerhassuggested that we establish an archivesor HbralY lin 'Our national headquartersWherein members and 'Others may contri.bute momentos, books, papers, magazines,and histories of CBI units for the generaluse and inspection 'of tho,se visiting 'Ourheadquarters 'offices in Milwaukee. Theexecutive committee voted to establish'such an archives. If any of you salh'ibsand memsahibs ,have such material youwould ,like to donate, it is suggested thatsuch contributions be sent tr>Gene Brauer,P. O. Box 1848, Milwaukee 1, Wise.

To the bashas and members who antic-ipate making or proposing resolutionsamending the constitution and by-lawsof our crganizat'ion, nominating membersfor office, or recommendations to thenorninating committee for appointiveofficers, this should be done as early aspossible. These should be sent to GeneBrauer. Bv doing so the committees ap-pointed to act on such recommendati'Onshave arnple time to give fun considera-tion to the suggesNons.

No~e by my mail that one of our newestbashas is putting out a mimeograplhnewsletter. This 'One comes 'from theMahoning Valley Basha fmm the Youngs.town, Ohio, area, and it is a very finepublication. This new-born basha is notletting any moss gather on its backside.Have met a few of 'its members andhaV'ing known Joe Nive.rt its commanderf'Or a number of years, this iis undel'.s,tand.able.

We learned at the exec meeting tJhatthis year's reunion has one 'Of the Ilargestadvance reservations in the history ofour reunions. For those of you who aresure of attending, I urge you to get yourreservations in as early as possible. l1hehatel has set aside sufficient rooms tomeet the number cf reservations used inPhiladelphia last year, but 'indicationsare that the attendance tlhis year willsurpass an previous records. To assureyourse'!f of rooms in tJhe headquartershotel, write for reservation, now.

HAROLD H. KRETCHMAR2625 Arthur Ave.Maplewood 17, M'O.

This space is contributed to the CBIV A byEx-CBI Roundup as d service to the manyreaders who are members of the Assn., of whichRoundup is the official publication. It is im-portant to remember that CBIV A and Round-up are entirel)' separate organizations. Yoursubscription to Roundup does not entitle youto membership in CBIV A, nor does your memobership in CBIV A entitle )'OU to a subscriptionto Roundup. You need not be a member ofCBIV A in order to subscribe to Roundup andvise verJa.-Eds.

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A RIDE on the Bengal & Assam Railroad was an experiencemany American soldiers will never forget. Here's a locomotiveon the B & A right of way. Photo by Joel H. Springer, Jr.

CHINESE TROOPS move on Bhamo behind artillerv barrage.U. S. Army photo from Charles Cunningham, M. D:

Ha,te to Miss One• Enjay getting and read-ing the magazine SO' 'muchI hate t'O miss even 'Oneissue. When are yau gaingto' da an article 'On1877 Eng.Avn. Battalian?

JAY CISSNA,Lawrence, Ind.

Now in Costa Rica• Just received a letterfrom ex-Chaplain MarionF. Woads, now 'in CostaRica, with whom I warkedas chaplain's assistant dur-ing my service at the 96thField Hospital. His addres'sis Calegio Metcdista, Apar-tad'O 931, San Jase, CastaRica. His job at present ispast-:}r 'Of the Union O:1urch'Of San Jose, pastor 'Of theSan Pedro Spanish congre-gatian, and with sameclasses in both the Metha-dist school there and thetraining 'Scha:)1 far minis-ters and deaconesses inAlajuela. So' yau see he isdaing his utmo t ta carryan the good wark for hisLard. He and Mrs. Woodare enja~ing their faurchildren and I'm surewould be pleased ta 'hearfrom all whO' remember hisvery a'ctive work in theArmy.

THEODORE CALKINSTroy, Pa.

every base in In'dia andabaut every 'One in Ohinaand Burma. We former ATCmen don't seem to' be writ-ing enaugh about ATC. AsI see it ours was abaut themain eU:}rt in CBI-to keepChina alive. Am I right 'Ornot? Keep up the gaadwark with the magazine ...hope t'O see you in CedarRapids.HOWARD WARRINGTON,Hampshire, Ill.

'Fl~e Over India'• Another new movie anIndia wortJh seeing is"Flame Over India."

JACK FERGUSON,Glendale, Ariz.

Seagrave Story• Haw can we but praisea man like Dr. Seagrave,wha gave and 'is still givingso many years of his life tothe people 'Of Burma? Hisname is legend to CBI-ers,especially 1'hO'sewho servedin Burma.

JOHN D. STONE,Coral Gables, Fla.

3d Air Trcrnsport• Read Roundup fromcover t'O cover each ,month,and h'Ope ito never be with-'Out it. For the ,first tl:ime I>have seen a name of 'One'Of my fellow members ofthe 3d Air Transport Squad-ran, 'Of which I was a partw!hen we armved in CBI-iland. S'Oon afterward Itransferred back ta ATC,which made me happy, as Ihelped t'O 'Organize some 'Ofthe 'Original ATC squadrons'here in Fl'Orida and Tennes-see. I knew ,men all alongthe line-South America,Africa, etc.-alsO' men intl:he engineering secti'Ons an

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These striking black cranes(Rice Paddy Birds, to you) arehand-carved with amazing skillfrom the horn of lndia'n WaterBuffalo. After carving, the hornart is highly polished and mount-ed on a rosewood base. Each hastiny ivory inlaid eyes.

Y:ou'll agree these beautiful cranes are won-derful conversation pieces. The low prices beliethe stunning appearance and workmanship.Excellent for the mantle or fireplace. .,

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