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PALACIOS BEACON. PALACIOS. TEXAS
General MacArthur Receives Emperor Hirohito
-WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS.
Chart Economic Reform for Japs;
Back Vets Rights to Old Jobs;
U.S.Acts to Settle Oil Strikel
, Released by Western Newspaper Union. .
(l l)Hoit S NOTE: When opinions sre expressed In these eolumn*. they are those of
Western Newspaper I'nlon’s news analysts and not necessarily of this
newspaper.)
Japan's emperor went to meet Japan's conqueror, General of the Arm*y Douglas MacArthur. It was the
first time in 2,000 years of Japanese history that a mikado had left the royal palace to be received by a
foreigner. Emperor Hirohito, "The Son of Heaven," was dressed in formal morning attire, not in his flam
boyant dress of admiral or marshal. The conquered ruler bowed to American correspondents.
Uncle Sam’s Most Expensive Private First Class
Pfc. Arthur Grlser, insert, whose wife and 11 children are shown awaiting his return from Europe to their
Pitcairn, Pa., home. They have been married 12 years and have three sets of twins among their 11 children.
Their army allotment of $280 a month is believed to be the highest paid to any private first class. Grlser is
just as anxious to return to his family as the paymaster is to be relieved of this expensive soldier.
It’s a Long Walk Up to the Top | Football Gains Speed
View of crowded Empire State building lobby after elevator strike
went into effect. Workers seem hesitant about climbing stairs to their
offices, and have backing of health authorities who put limit at eight
flights for workers under 30 years old.
Stricken Brothers Await Death
wimm “
An example of the quality type of
football being displayed this season
is demonstrated by Dan Dworsky of
Sioux Falls, S. D„ who will play
fullback for Michigan. The end of
the war has released many stars.
Pearl Harbor Counsel
The three Pinion brothers, Billy, 15, left; David, 19, on bed; and
Lloyd, 12, right, all crippled by muscular dystrophy, a rare disease, usually
fatal, shown as they await their sad fate at the home of their widowed
mother, near Salisbury, N. C. The boys were recently taken to Duke
university hospital where doctors said they could do nothing for them.
Out on strike of elevator operators' union In New York, girls picket
Empire State building. As a result of walkout, thousands of workers were
forced to toll up flights of staircases to reach offices.
JAPAN:
Economic Checkup
To Gen. Douglas MacArthur went
the task of supervising the economic
reformation of Ja-
pan as a part of the
U. S. program to de-
stroy Nippon’s war-
making potential
-a and promote wide-
ly spread opportunity
/ in a nation formerly
dominated by four
great business
gjhouses.
As MacArthur
bent to the task, the
Hirohito prospects rose that
Not a Pauper the personal fortune
of Emperor Hiro-
hito would be divulged, revealing
him as one of the world’s wealthiest
persons. Though the Mikado's as-
sets are known to only a select few.
the imperial famHy maintains - a
four-story concrete building com-
plete with staff on the palace
grounds to keep its accounts.
Indicative of the vastness of Hiro-
hito's holdings, the emperor pos-
sesses stock in every Japanese
enterprise, since a bloc of shares
are allotted to the emperor by a
corporation upon organizing. Of the
300.000 shares of the Bank of Ja-
pan. Hirohito reputedly owns 140,000.
Besides the Mikado, the great
business houses of Mitsubishi, Sumi-
tomo, Yasuda and Mitsui possess the
greatest holdings in Japanese enter-
prise, with their share estimated
at over half the total.
Under the U. S. program, steps
will be favored for the dissolution
of these politically influential insti-
tutions with their grip over banking,
industry and commerce. Policies
will be pushed for a wider distribu-
tion of income and ownership of
productive and sales facilities, and
encouragement given for the devel-
opment of democratic labor and
agricultural organizations.
In stripping Japan of its war-
making potential, the U. S. will pro-
hibit the operation of industries
adaptable to war production. As in
the case of Germany, manufacture
of aircraft is to be prohibited and
shipping is to be limited to immedi-
ate trade needs. U. S. authorities
also will supervise Japanese indus-
trial research.
As MacArthur’s staff undertook
an accounting of Japanese assets as
the first step in the implementation
of economic reform, the general or-
dered Premier Higashi-Kuni’s gov-
ernment to institute immediate wage
and price controls and ration com-
modities to head off extreme priva-
tion among the country’s 80,000,-
000 people.
With Japanese experts figuring it
would take Nippon from two to five
years to get back on its feet, they
proposed that the U. S. sell the coun-
try 250 million pounds of cotton with-
in the next year in addition to 60 mil-
lion pounds of wool; 3 million tons of
rice; 2 million tons of salt; 500 thou-
sand tons of sugar; 3 million barrels
of oil, and 3 million tons of steel.
FOOD:
So Curb Output
Declaring commodity production
goals should reflect consumer de-
mand rather than maximum abili-
ty for output, Secretary of Agricul-
ture Clinton Anderson indicated that
he government’s 1946 farm pro-
gram may call for smaller harvests
in view of decreased military and
civilian needs. •
In making his views known in a
conference with farm bureau repre-
sentatives in Washington, D. C., An-
derson also raised the possibility of
imposing marketing quotas to re-
strict the heavy output of certain
crops.
At the same time, Secretary An-
derson joined President Truman in
assuring the farm bureau men that
the government would back its com-
mitment to support commodity
prices at not less than 90 per
cent of parity for two years after
tlie official end of the war.
VETS:
Job Rights
Clarifying the rehiring provision
of the selective service act, draft
officials declared that a returning
veteran has an absolute right to his
former position, or one of like
status, even if it means the dis-
charge of a worker with higher
seniority.____
At the same time, the officials
stated that no veteran would be re-
GERMANY:
I Occupation Progresses
Following close on General Mac-
Arthur’s announcement that no more
than 200,000 troops would be needed
within the next year to occupy
Japan, it wns revealed that U. S.
authorities hoped to trim the post-
war force in Germany to less than
400,000 by next spring and reduce
it to skclelonal dimensions wlthic a
few years.
Disclosure of occupation plans far
the shattered Reich coincided with
reports that the co-operative attitude!
of the defeated Germans will permit
the early election of local govern
mental officials with balloting on a
county and state level following.
Meanwhile, the army revealed that
it was training hand-picked German
prisoners of war to aid in the ad-
ministration and policing of occupied
territory. Selected after careful
screening, the PWs are taught Amer
icun and German history, the Eng-
lish language and military govern-
ment, and also ore being accli-
mated to democratic surroundings
BIG FIVE:
/Vo Results
Failing of settlement of one Im-
portant problem, the Big Five coun-
cil of foreign ministers meeting in
London to map postwar Europe
moved for adjournment, with possi-
bilities that the creation of peace
treaties with former axis satellites
may be directly negotiated between
the U. S., Britain and Russia.
The magnitude of the task of rec-
onciling the conflicting interests of
the Allied powers in the European
theater was reflected in the difficulty
of disposing of pre-war Italian col-
onies and strategic islands of the
Mediterranean; reshaping the Ital-
ian-Yugoslav border; drawing up
peace treaties for the Russian dom-
inated Balkans, and internationali-
zation of the vital waterways.
While the foreign ministers of the
Big Five were scheduled to reas-
semble in November to receive the
recommendations of their deputies
on settlement of the thorny issues,
Russian opposition to French and
Chinese participation in the deliber-
ations raised the possibility that di-
rect negotiations between Washing-
ton, D. C„ London and Moscow may
be established as an alternative.
UM16RANP StSCUITS
WITHOUT BITTER TASTE!
says Aunt Sass/a
New ROYAL S.A.S.
Phosphate Baking
Powder makes light,
tender biscuits—no
hitter aftertaste.
They’re grand)
U. S. Gets New Auto
In further lowering the point
score for overseas duty, the army
revealed that enlisted men whose
rredlts or age, as of September 2,
1945, equal or exceed 36, or who
are 37 years old or 34 years old
with more than one year of serv-
ice, will be exempt. Also exempt
are male officers with 48 points;
army doctors and dentists with 45
points or 40 years of age; vet-
erinary and medical administra-
tive officers with 30 points or 35
years of age; dietitians and phys-
ical therapy aides with 18 points
or 30 years of age, and nurses
with 12 points or 30 years of age.
The most colorful mass produc-
tions of World War II, Henry
Kaiser announced arrangements for
his entrance into the low-priced
automobile field in league with the
Graham - Paige interests at the
sprawling Willow Run plant original-
ly set up for manufacture of B-24s.
To effect the greatest efficiency
and economy, Graham - Paige will
also produce its medium-priced car
and line of tractors, farm imple-
ments and rototiller along with the
new vehicle at Willow Run. Joseph
New ROYAL
Pleases 4 W»ys||
vlow Cost
V Double Action
vNo Bitter Taste J
V Grand for
All Baking
flS* ROYAL
S.A.S. PHOSPHATE BAKING POWDER
Contains Ho Cream of Tartar
MONEY CAN’T BUY
aspirin faster-acting, more dependable
or hotter. Demand St. Joseph Aspirin,
world's largest soller at 10c. Why pay
more? Dig 100 tablot aizo for only &>o.
Although the Germans manufactured
and used synthetic rubber in volume
long before America, a general
superiority of the American synthetic
rubber over the German product has
been established by technologists.
To obtain enough rubber to
make a tire for a low-priced
car, two rubber trees must bo
tapped for a whole year.
Longer, more uniform tire life, con-
stant goal of tire manufacturers. Is
now being achieved through use of
a new type of synthetic rubber de-
veloped by B. F. Goodrich.
Steering wheels of post-war
cars may be cushioned with a
covering of synthetic rubber.
William Dewitt Mitchell of New
York, a lifelong Democrat who
served as attorney general under
President Hoover, has been appoint-
ed counsel for Pearl Harbor quit, j
^ETTERMEN:
A survey by the American Col-
lege Publicity association shows
that only 4 per cent of college letter
men were turned down as physical-
ly unfit for military service, thus
debunking the Impression of a high
rate of rejections kmong athletes.
According to th<| survey, only 358
students out of la total of 9,635
letter men In 119|mlleges and uni-
versities in 1941 w^^lpund unfit for
service.
quired to take union membership in
regaining his old position, since the
law makes no provision for such
conditions as a basis for his re-em-
ployment.
In handing down its ruling on vet
job rights, draft officials directly
clashed with the unions, which have
stood for the rehiring of soldiers on
a seniority basis, but opposed their
re-employment in preference to oth-
ers with longer working records at
affected plants.
LABOR:
Fuel Threat
Secretary Lewis Schwellenbach's
new streamlined labor department
received its first real test as federal
conciliators moved to bring about
settlement of the CIO oil workers’
demands for a 30 per cent wage in-
crease before a growing strike threat
imperiled the nation’s fuel supply.
Early negotiations were snagged
by the union's demand that discus-
sions be held on an industry-wide
basis and the companies' equal in-
sistence that agreements be effect-
ed by individual refineries. In ask-
ing a 30 per cent wage increase,
the oil workers reflected the general
CIO aim of maintaining wartime
‘‘take-home’’ pay by bringing 40-
hour-per-week wages up to the total
of the former 52-hour week.
In other labor trouble, 60,000
northwest AFL lumber workers
struck to press demands for a $1.10
hourly minimum compared with the
present scale ranging upward from
70 cents, while 15,000 AFL elevator
operators and building service em-
ployees paralyzed service in over
2.000 New York skyscrapers by
walking out In protest of a War La-
bor board grant of $28.05 for a 44-
hour week instead of the $30.15 asked
for 40 hours.
Push Fight on Polio
In the mounting drive against
polio, the National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis allotted
the unprecedented total of
$4,157,814.15 for research, edu-
cation and the treatment in the
year ending last May 31.
As yet no preventive or cure
for polio has been found, al-
though it is generally recognized
as an infectious, communicable
disease caused by a virus.
Joseph W. Frazer (left) and Henry
| Kaiser,
W. Frazer, president of Graham-
Paige, will act in the same offi-
cial capacity in the new company
to be called the Kaiser-Frazer cor-
poration, and Graham - Paige will
share in a 250,000 purchase of stock
valued at $5,000,000 in the new firm.
Indicative of the cost of establish-
ing a modern mass-production auto-
mobile factory, Kaiser-Frazer will
invest $15,000,000 to be received
from total private and public stock
sales as follows: $2,000;000 for ma-
chinery and eouipment; $1,750,000
for tools, dies, jigs and fixtures; $1,-
500,000 prepaid expenses; $1,750,000
deferred charges, and $8,028,800 for
general corporate purposes.
ATOMIC BOMB:
Future Use
While congress worked up steam
over the future of the atomic bomb,
Pres. Harry S. Truman disclosed
that the lawmakers would be given
full responsibility for the control of
the devastating explosive.
Mr. Truman's decision to submit
the issue to congress came as Rep-
resentative Arends (Rep., 111.) told
the house that he had learned that
an even more destructive missile
than the one which razed Hiroshima
had been developed. Calling upon
the government to establish a sci-
entific board to devise a defensive
weapon against the atomic bomb,
Arends said one such explosive
could kill millions of city-dwellers.
Meanwhile, Senator Downey
(Dem., Calif.) asked that the U. S.
turn over the atomic bomb to the
United Nations organization so that
general possession would lessen the
chances of its military development
while at the same time encouraging
further scientific research for an
adaptation to peaceful usage.
Church Warning
Meanwhile the Federal Council of
the ChurchUs of Christ in America
called upon the government “to
stale now its intention to place the
new discovery under a world-wide
authority as soon as all states will
submit to effective controls,” and
to ‘‘press for such controls.”
The statement also warned that
unless international control can be
achieved in the short period while
the United States alone possesses
atomic bombs, it may be difficult or
impossible to achieve.
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