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Will Negotiate
Truce With
Indonesians
BATAVIA, Java, Oct. 15—</!>>—
Dr. Humberuts Van Mook, lieu
tenant governor of the Dutch East
Indies, who acted to quell upris
ings which imperilled one of the
richest colonial empires in the
world, offered to negotiate a truce
with Indonesian rebel leaders.
Neta, official Dutch news agen
cy quoted Van Mook as stating he
is willing to meet the leaders of
all groups of Indonesia, including
Soekarno, the self-styled presi
dent of the “Indonesian republic.”
In a dispatch from the Hague
Aneta said Tjarda Van Starken
borgh Stachouwer had resigned as
governor general because he was
“unable to be the bearer of the
government policy” in the Indies.
He arrived in the Hague last
month after being liberated from
a Jap prison camp.
Previously the government had
refused to negotiate with Soer
karno, who is accused of being an
“opportunistic Jap puppet.” It is
not clear immediately whether
Van Stakenborgh Stachouwer is
in disagreement with the new
government policy or the old gov
ernment policy of ' negotiation
with the insurrectionists.
A Reuters dispatch quoting Ba
varia reports, said fifty thousand
Dutch women and children were
“surrounded by wildly excited In
donesians in the area of Batavia,
were cut off from Allied forces.”
The dispatch added the women
and children were “being held
virtually as hostages, and the na
tives are said to be inspired by
the Japs.”
Vinson Objects
To House Tax
Cut Measure
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 15—(tf*)—
Secretary Vinson advocated a five
billion dollar tax reduction for
1946, but opposed the House pro
visions, which he said would cut
off another two billion. The Sec
retary of the Treasury testified
before the Senate Finance com
mittee, renewing recommenda
tions he made originally to the
House Ways and Means commit
tee for 1946 of a tax cut of five
billion, one hundred seventy-five
million dollars.
The Indians call Los Angeles
“Yang-Na.”
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TASTINC FOOD “Gen. Omar Bradley, newly appointed
veterans administration chief, samples food in the main kitchen
at the veterans hospital, Northport, L. I. Alice E. Griffith, chief
dietitian, is shown at left.
Russian Tank
Industry Has Been
Abolished
MOSCOW, Oct. 15 —UP) —The
huge military tank industry of
the Soviet Union, which did so
much to win the war has been
abolished and its personnel trans
ferred to the new Commissariat
Transport Machine building by
decree.
This is the biggest peace news
since the two orders were issued
for the demobilization of a large
section of the Red Army. This is
believed to have possible bearing
on Soviet Russia’s request for a
six billion dollar loan from United
States.
Louis To Defend
Title In 1946
NEW YORK, Oct. 15 — (/P) —
Heavyweight champion Joe Louis
has signed a contract to defend
his title in June, foryt-six, under
the auspices of promoter Mike Ja
cobs. The champion has agreed to
meet Billy Conn, now considered
the leading contender, or any
other suitable opponent desig
nated by Jacobs.
Kai-Shek Wants
Marines To Leave
North China
CHUNGKING, Oct. 15—(/P) —
Chiang Kai-Shek said, in his first
postwar press conference that the
United States Marines would be
withdrawn from North China
“very soon.” He said they will
start leaving as soon as they are
relieved by the Chinese Central
government.
Forces of Marines were sent to
North China recently to help the
Chinese authorities disarm the
surrendered forces. Chiang said
also he hopes to visit United
States, Britain, Russia and France
“as soon as time permits.”
He said he felt certain Soviet
forces in Manchuria would be
withdrawn according to the pro
visions of the Sino-Soviet pact.
NAMES DRAWN TO COMPLETE
GRAND JURY PANEL
Last Friday morning the fol
lowing names were drawn to com
plete the Grand Jury panel, which
convenes on October 29: Gust
Cremidas, Joe E. Dexter, George
Geamalis, Harry Hagen, George
A. Jones, Jack Kelly, C. F. Yen
ney.
Strikes At
A Glance
Strike idle are slightly below
four hundred thousand.
Coal and steel—Some two hun
dred thousand miners are out on
disputes over recognition of fore
men’s union. Conference continues
as steel plants, hampered by lack
of fuel lay off employees.
Transportation —The Common
wealth of Massachusetts seizes its
Massachusetts Eastern street rail
ways, where a strike of eighteen
hundred tied up transportation
for a million people in seventy
one New England communities.
Shipping—Cargoes begin mov
ing from the Port of New York
as AFL longshoremen return to
the docks after a two weeks’
strike.
! MQtion pictures—The powerful
Screen Actors Guild gives limited
1 support to the film workers walk
1 out.
Lumber—The northwest lumber
strike of sixty-one thousand con
J tinues, but union circles say a set
j tlement is imminent.
Explosion Kills
JSix On Okinawa
Western Japan Fleet Headquar
ters, Pearl Harbor, Oct. 15—(/P>—
Six enlisted men were killed and
twenty-three injured in an unex
plained explosion at the Navy re
seiving station on Okinawa Fri
day. A court of inquiry began an
investigation. The Navy also re
ported seventy missing and four
hundred twenty-three injured
during the typhoon storm.
Rayon is used to make the
foundations of rubber tires.
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Demobilization < )f
Japan (Completed
On Schedule
TOKYO, Oct. 15 — <7P)—Japan
slipped quietly with mingled feel
ings into military oblivion, as its
demobilization was completed on
schedule. For the first time in his
tory these islands held no combat
or military force, either in fact
or in name.
The fighting force of seven mil
lion soldiers and sailors, home and
abroad have been reduced to
nothing with the exit of the de
feated and discredited warlords.
Jap political leaders stepped onto
the national stage and put in ef
fect the list of democratic princi
ples prescribed by Allied head
quarters.
Prince Konoye, one of the Em
peror’s close advisors, said in an
interview: “His Majestiy is anx
ious that revisions be made” in
the constitution to bring about the
reforms decreed by Allied head
quarters. Konoye, who has been
boomed for head of a new politi
cal party, added the constitution
al revisions are under considera
tion to curb Hirohito’s almost un
limited power over his seventy
seven million subjects, to give the
Diet some supervision over the
expenditures of the Imperial
household, Japan’s incubator of
imperialistic schemes since eight
een seventy-eight.
The Imperial General Staff
headquarters was dissolved for
mally yesterday, and the general
staff went out of office today in
accord with the Potsdam declara
tion of the terms of Allied head
quarters, General MacArthur said
in a broadcast to United States at
three p.m., PST. Sunday.
JAPS USED LIVE PRISONERS OF
WAR FOR BAYONET PRACTICE
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TOKYO, Oct. 15—f/P)—'The use
of live Allied prisoners of war for
bayonet practice targets while Al
lied officers were forced to look
on has been fully established by
General MacArthur’s headquar
ters. The new period of atrocity
was developed by secret Allied
translation by the Interrogation
section of Allied headquarters,
which worked through the war
interviewing Jap prisoners and
sorting documents seized in the
battle zones.
The secret unit, whose existence
was undisclosed until last week,
included many Japanese Ameri
cans who worked, often while
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shells were still blasting across
contested positions.
One of the worst of the bayonet
practice atrocities occurred at
Guadalcanal, where two Europe
ans and one Eurasian were used
as practice targets while Allied
officers were forced to stand in
line and watch for six and a half
hours while the three were horri
bly mutilated and tortured by
the stabbing and jabbing of the
Nipponese.
The announcement said enlisted
prisoners were periodically pa
raded past the scene so they could
| see the death agonies.