Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 September 1945 — Page 2
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Long-Range Occupation Pol PLAN ELIMINATES HEAVY INDUSTRIES
Restrictive Measures Over Nip Economic and Social Structure Expected to Remain in Force’ ‘Indefinitely.”
By OWEN MORGAN United Press Staff Correspondent ¢
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—The United States has completed a long-range occupation policy for Japan.
The program calls for elimination of heavy industries, rigid control over the powerful Bank of Japan and step to!
better the lot of the Japanese An informed source said . nomic and social structure would be ‘maintained “for an
indefinite period” and leave no foubt that “we are the government.” The new directive was dispatched to Glen. Douglas MacArthur several days ago after approval by the joint chiefs of staff, It represents combined war, navy and state departjaent views and replaces the preliminary directive issued at the time of Japan's surrender, 7-Point Directive The directive was said to call for: 1. Elimination of heavy war industries as in Germany and shifting of production emphasis to peacetime consumer goods 2. Specific controls of the bank of Japan, nerve-center of all Japanese government antl private financial dealings. 8. Abrogation of legislation which limited freedom of speech and as sembly and the rights of labor to organize. 4. Removal of high political offi=| clals and industrialists from their present positions. 5. Complete control of the Japanese, press, radio and other communications. 8. Encouragement of the formation of trade unions among both industrial and agricultural workers. 7. Teke over technical and reséarch laboratories. MacArthur already has announced the formation of an economic and scientific sec{ion to “look into every nook and cranny of Japanese business and 2000 Officers Trained Some 2000 officers have been especially trained in this country for the job of “running” Japan. They will supervise execution of the U. B. economic program by “lower-level” Japanese on a prefectural, or pro. vineial level. In such institutions as the Bank of Japan, for example, they would use the technical employees after cleaning out the board of directors, The economic phase of the directive would carry out one of the major points of American policy toward Japan as outlined yesterday by Acting Secretary of State Dean Apheson. That policy is that “the present economic and social system of Japan, which makes for a will to war, will be changed so that that will to war will not continue.”
Doubts 200,000 Troops Are Enough
- MELBOURNE, Sept. 20 (U, P) = The Melbourne Sun said flatly to ~day that it doubted if 200,000 American troops were sufficient to police Japan, and sharply rebuked the Australian government for not officially stating its position in the matter,
st, Apt. 13, was treated for cuts after his car collided with one driven | by Eddie L, Reedus, 26, of 2117 Columbia ave, at Benate ave. and North st. |
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or better entitled to do its tactful best to influence America regarding this matter,” the newspaper said in an editorial. “Gen, Douglas MacArthur's opinion that 200,000 troops will suffice for the occupation will be enthusiastically endorsed by bored and homesick American soldiers and it is inevitable that political pressure will be exerted by the families of | the occupation troops eager for re« | turne of their menfolk. But under-| standable and sentimental considerations should not over-ride hard realities,” the editorial added. 1 The Melbourne Argus said, “The basic question is whether the occu | pation of Japan is an allled matter | of purely an American one. There | can be only one answer if the idea of world co-operation has tri-' umphed. Unless this idea triumphs | there can be no real security or real | peace.” |
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Detective Injured in Squad Car Collision,
Four persons, including a city detective, were injured In trafic] accidents in Indianapolis yesterday, Detective Charles Cavender, 37, of 2160 Oarroliton ave. .recelved | hand and leg injuries at 5:30] Pp. m. yesterday when the squad | car in which he was riding collided | with a car driven by James W.| Hurst, Terre Haute, at Alabama | and North sts. The squad car was driven by De- | tective Casper Flelfgen. A pedestrian, Henry L. Lelve, 80, of 3420 E. 10th st. is in the City | hospital with a broken hip received when he was struck by a car driven | by Frank J. Curran, 47, of 207 N. | Randolph st., last night. The ac | cident occurred when Mr. Curran! was backing out of a filling station | at 10th and Dorman sts, and struck Mr. Lelve. Mrs, Lulu Bell, 2251 N. Dearborn st., was arrested on charges of réckless driving and fallure to give a pedestrian the right of way after she struck Mrs, Gladys Core, of 324 E.-16th st. at 16th and Alabama sts. Mrs. Core was slightly injured and her two-year-old daughter, who was’ walking with her, escaped injury, Otis Davis, 34, of 317 W. Michigan
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NEWSREEL BARES NAZI ATROCITIES
' ‘By SHERLEY UHL
LUENEBURG, Germany, Sept. 20 critics of the Indianapolis Railway (U. P.)~The silent testimony of a New fare schedule may demand
| service commission,
of ok broken Sentiment challenging the P.8.C.
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} { was unfolded before a British® mili-| tary tribunal today at the atrocity | jelling among taxpayer, civic an trial of 45 Nazi prison guards. labor groups. .
A ripple of shocked surprise ran
the picture unreeled, but the de-|10 or more persons,
fendants looked on in grim silence.
Two of the 10 women guards on
heads away. Their fellow-guards period which began Saturday. watched unemotionally, The documentary film was taken by British cameramen immediately after the|
camp was liberated last Apri,
sion officials said, no«formal pto tests have been lodged.
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Public Hearing May Be Demanded on City Railways’ New Fare Schedule
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Under Indiana law, the new rate] structure can be contested in pub-| if railway company revenue reports
through the darkened court-room as| lic hearings upon the complaints of
In answer to a question, Comms- | the old schedule, sion Chairman LeRoy (Toby) Yoder! , ° said complaints can be filed at any| Structure permanently. the defendants’ bench turned their time during the three-month trial|
“entirely. within its rights” in aps’ out a prior public hearing. He said { sumption the rates are “temporary” { only,
¥ At the end of the three-month
\corpses into a mass grave at Belsen |, ccortion that the new rate schedule| trial period, the commission may— benefits the public reportedly is!
ONE: Hold public hearings on the d| new fares if complaints are filed. TWO: Extend the trial period. THREE: Adjust the rates further
indicate adjustment is needed. The
| commission could place them back
FOUR: Approve the new rate
Not Public Record Tariff Director Bailey asserted
Thus far, public service commlis-|the commission asked the railway
«| company to submit monthly reports on its income, based on the trial
Public Utility Tariff Director J |fares during the next three months |B. Bailey sald the commission was|He sald these monthly statements!
'are not
ever, » Indications were that the railway company may request a three-month extension of the trial period. Public Service officials explained the long-pending street railways case was finally negotiated in private conferences as a means of reaching a solution rather than “stringing it out” in numerous public hearings. The case was instituted back .in December, 1943. A series of public hearings on the public counselor's attempt to reduce the rates were held. But the railway’s version of the proceedings were never aired in public. Neither was the present fare schedule.
Actually, the commission dismissed the old case and began an- | other one. This was the one that!
public record.- He said the|resulted in the present “experimen-, | It appeared possible today that|proving the trial period fares with- {otal three-month revenue break- [ .down would be announced, howa his opinion was based on the as-|
tal” fare schedule. The new rates were announced following a series of closed, confidential parleys between public service commissioners and street railway officials.
The public service act reads:
“Upon a complaint made against any public utility by any mercantile, agricuitural or manufacturing soclety, or by any body politic or municipal organization or by 10 persons, firms, corporations or associations or 10 complainants of ‘all or any of the aforementioned classes, or by any public utility ... that any rates, tolls, charges or schedules are in any respect unreasonable or unjustly discriminatory ... the commission shall proceed with or without notice to make such investigations as it may deem necessary or convenient. “But nog order affecting said rates, tolls, charges, schedules, practices
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or act complained of, shall be entered by the commission without a formal public héaring.” or Mr. Bailey said the fact that the present fares were announced as “temporary” during a three-month trial period, exempted the commission from the obligation of a public hearing.
CONTROL OF ATOMIC BOMB IS DISCUSSED
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (U. P.). —President Truman discussed the atomic bomb and its future control, and the entire field of development of atomic energy today with three members of the senate foreign rela tions committee. He conferred with Chairman Tom Connally (D. Tex.), Sen. Arthur E, Vandenberg (R. Mich.), and ‘Sen, Scott Lucas (D. Ill). They would supply no details of the discussion,
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