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Show . WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Japs Prepared for Occupation; Industry Given Go-Ahead Sign; Revamp Agriculture Department Released by Western Newspaper Union. (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these coluititis: they nrc those of Western Newspaper Union's news Analysts nnd not necessarily of this newspaper.) rJ?7 r rrs J&& Ifs y ih 4 i y V 4 r -Afc. $ j Ji v "fit Tn, wT, $ Tlie war over, industry turned to the big job of reconversion. Getting: a head start, this stove plant in Detroit, Mich., already is turning out gas ranges on a quantity basis. JAPAN: Occupation Readied The Japanese government having made every preparation to avoid disturbances, powerful American armed forces were scheduled to take over occupation duties in Nippon, Nip-pon, with air-bome sky-troopers the first to land in the bomb-shattered islands. Having striven mightily to coi.trol lanatical die-hards. Premier Higa-shi-ICuni's new regime moved strong Japanese garrisons out of the Tokyo area where U. S. landings were scheduled to take place to prevent outbreaks. Meanwhile, the population popula-tion was warned not to fraternize frater-nize with the occupation forces. With plans for the U. S. landings and signing of the formal surrender to General MacArthur in the Tokyo area worked out at preliminary conferences con-ferences at Manila, the Jap newspaper news-paper Asahi said the American delegation del-egation headed by Lt. Gen. Richard K. Sutherland treated Nipponese envoys en-voys fairly and displayed understanding under-standing in drawing up occupation arrangements menaced by die-hards. Though the influential Jap. news agency Domei declared that Japan's capitulation must be considered a surrender in every sense of the term. Lieutenant General Kawabc presents pre-sents credentials to Lieutenant General Gen-eral Sutherland at Manila surrender conference. it added that the Potsdam ultimatum ultima-tum evinced leniency to the extent of permitting Nipponese soldiers to return peacefully to the homeland; allowing non-war industries to op erate and participate in world trade, and limiting occupation to certain areas. Elation over the formal signing of the surrender in the Tokyo area was dampened by the threat of civil war in China, where the northern Communist faction headed by Mao Tze-tung worked as a separate governmental gov-ernmental unit in defiance of the central regime of Chiang Kai-shek. Backing Chiang, but seeking an amicable settlement of differences between the two elements, U. S. Ambassador Patrick Hurley worked strenuously to bring the dissidents together. RECONVERSION: Bars Down With government removal of most controls except those designed to assure as-sure equitable distribution of scarce materials to speed up all-out production, produc-tion, manufacturers were given the green light on reconversion. At the same time, the department of agriculture abolished limitations on the amount of fluid milk, light cream, buttermilk and chocolate milk that distributors could sell to civilians, and the office of defense transportation lifted restrictions on the operation of inter-city buses and permitted travel on railroad passenger passen-ger trains returning after troop movements. In taking down the bars to civilian output, the War Production board declared the sky was the limit in' the manufacture of refrigerators, radios, stoves, electric fans, wash ing machines and other laundry equipment. Restrictions also were lifted on production of distilled spirits, trucks, oil furnaces. construction machinery, ma-chinery, metal furniture, motor-cycles,- photographic film, storage batteries, caskets, flashlights, silk and cotton duck, matches, paper cups and food containers, waxed paper pa-per and sanitary napkins. In addition to removing controls on civilian consumer output, the WPB also acted to speed up manufacture manu-facture of such industrial and commercial com-mercial items as machine tools, shipping containers, pulpwood, dental den-tal burrs and other dental equipment, equip-ment, jute and allied products and many chemicals. In line with the government policy of maintaining close supervision over scarce materials to help speed up output, WPB revealed that control con-trol would be retained over distribution distribu-tion of textiles for manufacture of women's dresses until supply balanced bal-anced demand. Manufacturers producing pro-ducing apparel certified as essential by WPB will be given priority on material. |