The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-24
Wages, Prices Funds, Etc. Controlled
 Jops Forbidden
 To Engage in
 Atomic Study

| NICl1. AOuS4do NA0S&AA VAAe@ day froze all Japanese funds outside the home islands, stripped newspapers and news agencies of government control and banned research into atomic power. ' In an eight-point directive blueprinting Japan'S post war domestic economy, he al- so ordered strict control of wages, prices and rationed goods, halted all aircraft, naval and other war produce tion, and urged maximum output of civilian necessities of food, clothing and shelter.
 Truman'S Policies
 The orders put into effect some of the major policies outlined for Japan by President Truman in his directive to MacArthur.
 The generals sweeping financial order was seen as a step toward securing reparations from Japan and toward thwarting attempts Of Japanese war profiteers to unload their wealth in an effort to escape war guilt trials.
 President Truman directed that separations would be secured in part through the transfer of Jap anese property outside the home islands.
 Program
 MacArthur's financial order speci- fically directed the government to amend its laws to prohibit:
 l. Export to or import from any foreign country of gold or silver coin; gold, silver or platinum bul- lion; currency, securities, checks. bank drafts, bills of ex- change, powers of attorneys, proxies. or any other evidence of the indebt- ness or of property ownership.
 2. Transactions within Japan ila gold or silver coin or gold, silver or platinum bullion.
 3. Transfer of assets ahroad owned or controlled directliy or an- directly in whole or part by any person within Japan,
 1. Transfer of property which nov or which has been since December . z, I94l, owned or controlled by any person outside Japan.
 5. Transactions in foreign ex-l change.
 Macarthur said the orders wsEe aimed lat freezing traffic in Ctlr- rencies and all negotiable assets within the country which Will ln turn facilitate the fingerpy1nting Of the nations' assets here and abroad. z
 Tn his new press directive. Mac- Arthur ordered the government forthwith to eliminate gtate-created barriers to dissemination of news and to remove itself from direct or indirect control of newspapers and news agencies"
 Donei Stripped A The government was ordered to 2 strip the heretofore official Dcmel News Agency Of all special priv- ileges and make 1t subject to compe~ tition from whatever news services o choose to enter the field. {. No preferential treatment will n be accorded any news service now 4 existing or which may be created 4 futureiy in Japan," the order said. V Foreign news services of all nations ? will be permitted to serve the press '' of Japan to the extent that press desires.
 c "All communication facilities ilga- T der government control shall be f equally available to all national and - international news agencies. Dlg- | A.kk AH sseAktA - anese home islands will not be the special privilege of one controlled e organization (DomeD." 1 MacArthur ordered the govern Is ment to reScind its prohibition on ,- reception of foreign news by radio e by any agency except the ministry 5 of communications.
 a He said the present system Of "a news distribution within the home "a islands would continue under strict V censorship until ."Such time as pxl- vate enterprise creates acceptabie substitutes for the present mon '' opoly." <: Atom Order .s Tn specifically banning research "a which might lead to Japanese pko~  i. directive said no work would be v permitted which has as It's op@
 ject the effecting of mass separas
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 or effecting mass separation Of any
 radioactive unstable substances"
 Last July, Japanese newspapcx1
 has reported that Japanese ecien.
 tists were working on atomic bonak > and hinted they shared some q T Germany's war research in the flcld
 Japanese finance minister. Jalcn r. Tsushima called on MacArthuK fQ' le e half hour Sunday to explain Ja' l- pans financial problems. Tho is also probably discussed MacArtlziir'| i- order of Saturday for . cci1ple' In accounting of Japan's finances.
 It. Gen. Gen. Kenji DoihaTas tN' i. Lawrence of Manchuria" wanted H| ,A occupation authorities as Q po4Gini' er war criminal, surrendered to tn' - 0th army at 4:30 D. m. yeSteroo' at Yokohama after Q conference q q. the Japanese war ministry z .,s Tokyo.
 " Delhara, appointed comnaude " of the Japanese First oeuefN ls Army only last week, may have D44. De responsible for the torture Of A1nef 's. ican airEnen downed in china ip
 human treatment of prisoners #a i- intensified after his visit to CanfH se early in 1914.
 od ne also was credited with it ating" incidents which ted te v, anese occupation Of ManehpIIs ca other parts Of China during f5
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