Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1946 — Page 1

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FIRMS, UNIONS

SEEK INDUSTRY

AT EVANSVILLE

Jeam*Up to Get More Plants Established; Point to Labor Record.

By FRANK R. FORD Editor, <i’ Evansyille Press -

EVANSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 2.—This industrial city hasnt achieved the millennium in employer-labor relations, but we're working on it and can report progress. The Chamber of Commerce board has just adopted a- resolution commending ‘the Centrals Labor union for civic achievement, The Céntral Labor -union which is ‘made up of all local A. F. of-L. unions, has retaliated by taking out 2 membership in the Chamber of Commerce. The development: is not without precedent in t h i s community, where “labor trouble” has been relatively rare. The late ' William Byington, of the Typographical union, was a Chamber of Commerce vice president, and individual union members are active on all] — civic boards such as community]

* fund, Red Cross, USO, draft and!

ration boards. But this is the first time that the labor body and the Chamber have come out officially with recognition that each may be a community asset and maybe they had better pull together. The labor unions took the initiative when John G. Soucie, Central Labor union president, bought space for an.ad in the Chicago Journal of Commerce.. “Treat You Right” “ “We Treat You Right in Evansville, Ind.” was the caption of the quarter-page ad Mr. Soucie wrote. Inviting new industries to locate

Chamber of Commerce can fell you about location, population, transportation, civic facilities,” etc., but labor is our .business.” ao American Federation of LaJ” the ad continued, is “the dominant union in Evansville.

“Throughout the war it had con-

Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co. Shipbuilding division; International Steel Co. and Bucyrus-Erie Co. “The shipyard alone employed nearly 20,000. It was the biggest producer of LST's in the country and the most economical. Twelve A. F. of Li craft unions operated in the yard under one blanket contract. ‘ “The important thing is, however, throughout the war, in all A. FP. of L. plants in Evansville, not one manhour was lost because of work stoppage, walkout or strike. “Can Support. Claim” “We can support this claim with management affidavits. “The A. F. of L. building trades have a blanket agreement with all building contractors, Address all inquiries to John G. Soucie, president, Central Labor ‘Union, 210 N: Fulton ave., Evansville, Ind. “We ask a fair day's pay but we give you a fair day's. work for it. " .It hadn't occurred to the Central Labor union president and his associates that they were doing anything out of the ordinary. The shipyard has finished its navy contract and other employers of A. PF. of L. unionists are out of war production. Jobs are in -demand and

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RELIEF FROM COLD WAVE IS SIGHTED

““HOCAL TEMPERATURES

6am....14 10am.... 20 7a m..... 14 1llam.... 22 Sam... 15 12 (Noen)., 23 9am. 18 lpm..... 24

Relief from the latest cold wave was sighted by thé weatherman today as temperatures started climbing slowly from a low of 14 degrees at 6 a. m. The local forecast was cloudy and warmer tonight and tomorrow; light snow or freezing rain tonight. Light rain tomorrow. By noon the mercury atop the federal building had risen to -23 degrees. A full day of sunshine yesterday cleared Indianapolis streets and sidewalks of virtually all snow and jce. Driving was back to normal on practically all state highways.

TIMES INDEX Amusements. 6|Mauldin ..., 11 Business 8 |Ruth Millett . 11 Churchill . 12 Movies ...... 6 Comics ....., 17 |Obituaries .., 4 Crossword ... 17|Dr. O'Brién . 11 Editorials ... 12|Fréd Perkins 11 Fashions .14]Radl0 ....... 17 Mrs. Ferguson 14Richert ..... 12 Forum ...... 12 | Mrs. Roosevelt 11 Paul Ghali., 11|Scherrer ..., 12 Meta Given.. 14|Side Glances 12 ‘Carl Groat .. 12(8ports ...... 16 Burton Heath 11 | State Deaths. 5 Ernie Hill ... 7 Stranahan.;.. 16 In Indpls, .... 3|Troop Arrivals 20 Inside Indpls. 11|Leigh White. 11 Jane Jordan, 17|Al Williams . 11, Gen. Marshall 10° Women's News H

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[SEiprs HOWARD VOLUME 56—NUMBER 255

Russell B. Faux

Times Circul

Appointment of Russell B. Faux as circulation manager of The Indianapolis Times, was announced today by Henry W. Manz, Times business manager.

Mr. Faux, who began his new.

duties yesterday, succeeds’ James Allo, who has been circulation manager of The Times for 10 years. Mr. Faux was promoted from city

circulation manager. He has_beén !

with The Times as country circulation manager and city circulation manager for nearly 10 years and with Scripps-Howard newspapers for 25 years. Before coming to Indianapolis he was with The Akron Times-Press as country circulation manager. Prior to that time he was with the circulation department of The ‘Youngstown Telegram. ‘Mr, and Mrs. Faux live at 1733 N. Meridian st. Mr. Allio, who resides at 5241 Cornelius ave. has not announced his future plans.

Judge Suspends Bondsman As-Court's Rule Is Violated

Professional Bondsman Marty Prankfort, influential figure on 8, Alabama st. bondsmen’s row, today was suspended from Judge Niblack’s municipal court 3 for 30 days— "maybe longer.” Judge Niblack, meanwhile, advised Bondsman Frankfort and others: “I don't need the-help of professional bondsmen or lawyers to run

this court courte The state pays me e $7500

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REVEAL HITLER MURDER ORDER

Nazis Were ve Told i in 1942 to Kill Commandoes.

By ANN STRINGER United Press Staff Correspondent NUERNBERG, Jan. 2.—Adolf Hitler issued an order in October, 1942, that all American—and other allied commandoes be “slaughtered” to the last man upon capture, the war crimes tribunal was told today. The order applied to all commandoes, whether they were dropped on German-held territory

inf Europe and Africa by parachute, or whether they were landed by ship or airplane.

| _“From now on all enemies on so-

called commando missions in Europe or Africa challenged by German troops, even if they are to all appearances uniformed soldiers, or demolition troops armed or unarmed in battle or in flight are to be slaughtered to the last man,” the order read. Issued After Dieppe

Hitler's order was issued a few weeks after the British and Canadian commando raid on Dieppe, in which a few American Rangers participated. It was dated shortly before the Anglo-American invasion of North Africa. ; The order was aimed in part at wiping out allied agents and sabo-

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SEES JEWS PLANNING EXODUS FROM EUROPE

UNRRA Chief Says Surge to Palestine May Be Near.

NEW YORK, Jan. 2 (U, P.).— Dr. Stephen 8. Wise, president of the American world Jewish congress, sald today that the statement of an UNRRA official charging European Jews with a mass exodus plan “savors of Naziism at its’ worst.” He said he would bring the “incredible” statement of Lt. Gen. Sir Frederick E. Morgan, UNRRA chief in Ger-. many, te the attention of a special meeting of the congress. °

By JOHN B. McDERMOTT United Press Staff Correspondent FRANKFURT, Jan, 2~Lt. Gen. Sir Frederick -E. Morgan, UNRRA chief in Germany, said today that the Jews in Europe apparently had formulated ap organized plan for a mass exodus from the continent to Palestine. : Morgan said ‘at a _ press conference that he was unable to put a finger on the purported organiza-

Spokesman for the world Jewish . congress denied allegations that a “secret Jewish force” was trying to manipulate a mass exodus of Jews from Europe to Palestine. A. L. Easterman, official observer for the congress at the Nuernberg and Belsen: war crimes trials, said Lt. Gen. Sir Frederick E. Morgan’s charges were completely untrue and were designed to preJudge the findjngs of the AngloAmerican Palestine Inquiry commission.

tion -around which such a Jewish movement revolved. He said he beleved that the organization was camouflaged carefully, “The Jews seem to have an organized plan that can become a world force—a weak force numerically, but one which is generating power for getting what they want,” the British officer said. “Their. positive plan is to get out of Europe.” _-Morgan said he was becoming ‘more ‘and more convinced that reports of pogroms, and atrocities

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a year to do it. I intend to do so.” Judge Niblack, long a thorn to

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STG PINCH TO BE TOPIC OF

Is Scheduled for Jan. 18.

3 Authorities from all walks

the state’s severe housing problem at a public’ forum Jan. 18 in the Ipdiana house

chamber. Federal agency officials will at-|

vise, accept suggestions and listen to the “beefs” against the present

{ bondsmen and “helpful” attorneys, declared Frankfort broke the court's {rule that no bond over $500 may be | signed by a professional bondsrhan without permission. * The: development came in the [case of Joseph Jenkins; 37, of 1424 | Buclid ave, charged with drunken-! Iness, resisting an officer, and assault and battery. Patience Exhausted

Police were told Jenkins returned | home early Christmas morning, unable .to drive his automobile into! the ice-covered driveway. After sev- | eral trips around the block trying] to “ge* the range,” he. said patience was exhausted when his wife, Pauline, criticized him about ! his condition, \ Police said they found Mrs. Jenkins with two blackened eyes, and furniture. and dishes broken. Patrolman Omer Bear and Clarence! Lohman further declared Jenkins attempted to whip them. He eventually left with them, they said.

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tmeals served.” © Out on Bond He was amazed, however, when he called the case today to see Jen-

courtroom, apparently a free man. Then, the lid blew off. Bondsman Frankfort was suspended = after Judge Niblack learned he had re-

"ceived $100 from Jenkins, whose bail

had been set at $2000. Instead of placing him on probation today, as he had intended, Judge Niblack sent Jenkins back to the county jail, continuing the case until Friday. The bond was raised 10"$2500. Po,

How Are You Feeling Today, Celebrators?

By ROBERT C. RUARK Secripps-Howard Staff Writer A HANGO is the unpaid balance on easy-credit ecstasy. There are many kinds of hangovers, according to the quality and quantity of the booze, of the soul'and the stomach—and whether or not the victim went to bed at all. Or, so the boys have been telling me since New Years = THE LEAST Wl: type is the inexplicable hangover. This is the one you get twice a year. You never get {it oftener, they say, or you would quit drinking. / It strikes you suddenly, generally after ‘a night when you thought you were taking it easy.

® » ” “THIS hangover is standardly equipped with headache, nausea, and delusions of mice in bed. Only..time or a pistol will cure it, Cold vater makes you sicker.

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WAR OVER, 20 JAPS IN HIDING LEARN;

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2 (U, P.). —Twenty Japanese soldiers and sailors who had been hiding in caves on Corregidor island in Manila bay since February -have surrendered -to’ an amazed American graves registration detail, Melbourne radio said today. The Japanese said they were chased underground by the Americans’ ‘bombardment “that preceded the island’s' recapture in- February, and. learned of Japan's surrender from an old newspaper they found a few weeks ago. They had plenty. of cenhed food ang, left the caves only al night to get water. .

MINE TO BE SEALED

PINEVILLE, Ky. Jan. 2 (U.P).

Work was to-begin today on the sealing ‘of the Kentucky Straight ‘Creek Coal Co, mine at Four:Mile near here where fires have been raging since explosion Dec. 26.

At least-s24 ers’ lost their lives in the mine disastgh, ; Lis,

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Niblack’s plan to

til today, giving him “some idea of A the smell of a jail and the fine

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the state|«

housing program, or the lack

| thereof. -

| Sponsored by the Indiana Economic council, the hearing will in- |

|vite the participation of spokesmen,

|including mayors, from every city and town in Hoosierdom. The pub- | | lic, as well as 5 polis officials, will be | ‘given opportunity to vent expres|sions on the home. cramp. First State Discussion It'll be the first time any state has volunteered to go to the mat

\with its housing puzzle in a public, |

| no-holds-barred, exhibition. . Prime purpose of the hearing will |be to “clarify confusion” over the {home shortage, according to Gover{nor Gates, in whose office the ses- | sion was announced. “The situation is in a terrible state of flux,” the governor said. | “We're receiving numerous queries from all over Indiana. This will be another state service furnishing local communities with the best possible assistance.”

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start at 9:30 a. m. Listed

and organizations whose representation is requested:

thorities, housing committees, of commerce, city plan commissions, development agencies (Indianapolis). State Agencies—Indiana economic coun-

commission, administrative building council, Indiana university, Purdue university, State Teachers college. * Federal Agencies — National housing agency, federal housing administration, federal public housing authority, federal home loan bank, office of price administration, office of war mobilization and

PUBLIC FORUM,

State-Wide Meeting Here

tend the statehouse session to ad- |

The discussion is scheduled to NE oR]

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Citi nd ns—Mayors, housing au- . - Nes ay Tow 3 AIRS tens | the navy had evidence of “unusual

re-| Japanese interest in Pearl Harbor

cil, state housing board; veterans affairs

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JAP QUERY ON HARBOR BARED

Ship Locations.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (U. P).— Adm. Harold R. Stark said today

moorings a.‘month before the 1941 sneak attack -but gave the evidence no particular significance at the time. Adm. Stark, former chief of naval operations, told the Pearl Harbor investigating committee he did not

reconversion, Wilson W. Wyatt (h expeditor), surplus property administraon, civilian production administration. Building Industry—Indiana construction industry policy committee, Indiana chapter associated general contractors of America, . Indiana Jumber and builders supply,

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KOREAN AGREES T0 HALT OPPOSITION

Action Follows C Conference! With U. S. Commander.

By PALMER HOYT JR. United Press Staff Correspondent SEOUL, Korea, Jan. 1 (Delayed) Kim Koo, leader of ~the Korean provisional government,” announced tonight he had called off demonstrations and strikes against a Big Three agreement on a trusteeship for Korea,

The announcement followed a two and a half hour conference with Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge, commander “of U. 8. forces in Korea, who previously had indicated he would take a “strong stand” against any assumption of power by the “provisional government.” Edrlier in the . day Kim Koo's government made ‘an unsuccessful attempt to take over the police force in ‘what military svurces described as the first move py Kim Koo's group to assume rule iw

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (U. P.). ~The Pearl Harbor investigating committee today selected Seth W. Richardson, former assistant attorney- general in the Hoover administration, as its new chief counsel. He will succeed William ‘D. Mite! will stay at’ hid post until the testimony of Adm. Harold R. Stark has been completed. Richardson is a Republican.

| recall even seeing . ‘an intercepted | Japanese message dividing the Hawail harbor into five sections. for espionage reports on ship locations. Committee records show the mes-

decoded at Washington on Oct. 9, | 1941, nearly two months before the Pearl Harbor disaster. Earlier Adm. Stark told the com-

and was very much surprised when it happened. But, he said, he felt that the fleet had been properly warned against |

mander, ‘Adm. Husband E. Kimmel, in late November, 1941, were ‘intended 'to convey such a warning. Adm. Stark admitted that, in

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COAL FOR HONG KONG TOKYO, Jan. 2 (U. P.).—Allied headquarters announced. today that 16,000 tons of, coal will be shipped to Hong Kong from Kyushu ports this month,

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clothes. ‘Here goes: London, Nov. 4-—Notified by telephone to return to Paris immediately. Oh, happy day. Alerted for redeployment. London, Nov. 5 = Planes grounded. Can't get -a seat for. four days. Boat train booked up for three days. Everybody scrambling to get back to the conti-

back or .miss the shipment. No a ride with 8th air. fi Tatts, Nov, 1—Made it with 4

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t Takes Longer’

By RICHARD LEWIS Reporter on Leave

on the redeployment process which

is a strange and complicated experience involving #% good deal of frusIt is like being born, only it seems to take a little longer. It Jf order to show the inside, outside and backside of the .only known process whereby it takes six ‘weeks for a man to change’ his

r— cargo of radios. Transferred to a signal service battalion which is moving out in four days. The 3908th, or is the 3809th? Oh, well. g Paris, Nov. 11--Unit delayed. Nobody knows why. Still trying to figure out what to do with my third duffle bag. Trouble with

nent. Everybody screaming he’s | me, I can't throw anything away. alerted. Paris, Nov. 14—Trouble, trouble. London, _Nov. 6 — Desperate. | Had showdown inspection for Notified I have 24 ‘hours to get ammunition ‘today. Illegal to.

carry ammunition.

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Life Dull in 1945, So Girl Kills Herself

WILMINGTON, Cal, “Jan. ‘2 (U. P.).~Wanda E. Williams kept her only 1946 New Year's resolution by hanging herself—at 18. Her reason, as disclosed today by suicide note: Nothing happened last year to make life worthwhile, » » » MISS WILLIAMS ended her life in the garage of her Wilmington home while watching the end of a year which failed to bring ~her the joy she Soughigihe deserved. The pretty telephone operator's strange suicide “pact” was dis-

closed “ in an_ eight-page letter to. her mother, * Mrs. - Mildred Johnstone.

~ » . - “A YEAR AGO exactly I made a sort of bargain with God or fate and this is my part of the bargain,” the note read. “I agreed that if something didn’t happen in the past year— 1945—to make life worth living,

sage, sent from Tokyo to Honolulu | Sept. 24, 1941, was translated and

mittee he did not expect the Japa- | nese air attack on Pearl Harbor

such: a possibility. He said that | messages sent to the fleet com-|

that at the end of the year I'd quit living. “That wasn’t ‘asking too much, but I didn't get it. . 2 = = v “PLEASE don't think this is | something brought on.-by late events,” the girl's” note assured her mother. “Suicide is a coward's way.out, s0 I'm a coward. “I Just don't have the courage it takes te go on just existing.” w ~ F J CARLTON JOHNSTONE, Wanda’s stepfather, said he did not

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MARSHALL MAY AGT [AS ARBITER

Report Geroral's Aid to Be Sought in China War.

CHUNGKING, Jan. 2 (U, P.).— A government spokesman said today that the Central government planned to ask Gen. George C. Marshall to serve as chairman of a three-man committee to arrange procedure for ending China's civil war, The spokesman said Gen. Marshall would be approached to form the committee if Communists accepted the government's proposal

-|to cease fire and let Gen. Mar-

shall serve as referee’ in the Na-tionalist-Communist™ dispute. Other members of the committee would be one Nationalist and one Communist representative, - 4 The spokesman added that Nationalist forces were taking over Jehol province, north of the Great Wall; as “a matter of course” and that © this action did not conflict with the cease-fire. proposal. He said that, as in Manchuria, there were no Communists in Jehol

prior to the Japanese surrender. He

Forgot all |said the government had no intenabout that:60 rounds I put in an tion of taking over the Communist-

[held Kalgan. area oye of Péip-|-ing. :

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| The supreme court today set aside

Union President Feed a 'Bare Butcher’

16 against the nation’s meat packers to enforce for a 26-cent hourly wage increase. : Lewis J. Clark, international president of the said that 95 per cent of the workers in industry would join the walkout, whi Armout, Wilson and Cudahy, the big four of the ment ing industry, and a of independents.

SAYS: KIDNAPING

LAW MISUSED

High Court Rules i in Test of :

Plural Marriage Case. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (U, P).~

kidnaping. convictions against three

_ {members of a Utah religious ecult|fo

believing in plural marriage. Justice Frank Murphy wrote the 8 to 0 opinion. Justice Robert H. ‘Jackson’ did not participate Nine members of the cu!.—known as the Fundamentalists—had: appealed to the high court. Three had been convicted under the Lindbergh kidnaping act, the other’ six

case of the six, The Lindbergh law convictions were reversed in the cases of William Chatwin, Charles F. Zitting and Edna Chriutense. They were convicted after ale legedly taking a 15-year-old girl, Dorothy Wyler, to Juares, Mexico, for the purpose of marrying Chatwin. Murphy sald the court was not called upon to determine or char- | acterize the morality of their ac- | tions. Outlaw Kidnapings I “Nor are we concerned here with | their liability under any ‘other statute, federal or state,” he added. Murphy said there is no indication that congress “desired or contemplated that the punishment of death or long imprisonment, as authorized by the act, might be applied to those guilty of immoralities lacking the characteristics of true kidnapings.” “In short, the purpose of the act was to outlaw interstate kidnapings rather than general transgressions of morality involving the | crossing of state -lines. And the broads language of the statute must be interpreted and applied with that plain fact in mind.” The.njne were convicted in U. 8. district court for Utah. They appealed after the federal circuit court at Denver affirmed the convictions. &- Religious Issues. The cultists contended the prosecutions implied that their religious beliefs reflected “prostitution and debauchery.” They argued further that the federal government cannot regulate marriage. The government replied that “celestial” wives had been paraded across state lines as “mistresses, and concubines” and that the kidnaping violation came when the girl was removed from Utah to avoid “lawful custody.” Appealing on Mann act convic{tions were Heber Kimball Cleveland, | David Brigham Darger, Vergel Y. | Jessop, Theral Rx Dockstader, L. R. Se Follis Gardner Petty. |

linois Man Attends His Own_Inquest

STREATOR, Ill, Jan. 2 (U, P). | —The Huber family got off .to & somewhat - confused but happy new year today. Alfred Huber wasn't dead. He said so at the inquest they held for him. Mr. Huber, 31-yéar-old army veteran, went to nearby Ottawa, Ill, to celebrate New Year's eve. When he returned to Streator yesterday, he was told by a friend to “hurry up or your inquest will over.” we ” Te ” MR. HUBER hurried. He walked into the Howland Funeral home as the inquiry was well underway. His mother, Mrs. Lulu Huber, ~afid "his “tw0 sisters, Mrs. Prank. Reed and Miss Mary Huber, became joyfully hysterical. Brothers Jack and George dust stared.

THE INQUEST Had been con-

under the Mann act. The court to-| day ordered new arguments in the

'A. Gromyko, Soviet ambassador to

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telegraph and electrical industries in addition to the meat

gest in the nation's history. Edgar IL. Warren, conciliation service director, planned to confer today with officials of the General Electric and Westinghouse Electric companies in an effort to avert 8 strike of 200,000 employees of those companiés and General * Motors Corp. electrical division. Virtually ‘Inevitable’ Officers of the United Electrical and Radio Appliance Workers (C. I. 0.), who will meet Saturday to au- * thorize the walkout, have informed Mr. Wiérren that strike action is virtually “inevitable.” Federal conciliators met today with company and union officials in last-minute attempt to prevent a strike, scheduled for tomorrow, of Western Electric employees in We York and New Jersey. The Western Electric Employees’ association is affiliated with the Na= tiohal Federation of ~ Telephone Workers, which was asked to call

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RED ENVOY TOU. S. ON JAP POLICY skin

A. A. Gromyko Will Help Advise MacArthur. LONDON, Jan. 2 (U. P.).—Andref*

Washington, will“ be the Russian | representative on the Far Eastern commission “to formulate Japanese occupation policies for Gen. Dougs las MacArthur, the Tass agency ans nounced today. = The council of people's commis sars selected Gromyko' for

the control of Japan, lice the § sians had abstained from ship in the Fur East advisory @ ol

vened over a body taken Monday “The I