Hawaiian Chaplain Will Come To Camp Shelby

(by Associated Press)

Honolulu, T. H., June 9 — Hawaii's first chaplain of Japanese ancestry to enter the armed forces is Masao Yamada, 36, a practical Congregational minister who says “God and guns will win the war for the United Nations.”

A first lieutenant in the army chaplain corps, he will join American soldiers of Japanese ancestry now in training in Camp Shelby, Miss., for combat duty.

One of the first advocates of an American army of volunteers of Japanese ancestry, he is well acquainted with the background and training of Japan's military machine

A graduate of Auburn Theological Seminary in New York, his studies took him to Tokyo for seven years where he had a ringside seat during the uprising “when the militarist failed in their attempt to assassinate Emperor Hirohito and set up a strictly military government. The gangster warlords went unpunished and have steadily tightened control over a weak puppet (the emperor) and the people.

“The people of Japan pay Hirohito the respect we Americans pay to God. In America such a thing couldn't happen. We are free to worship as we choose. It is to preserve the principles of freedom we are fighting Japan and the rest of the four axis aggressors.”