The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-01
 IN ANOTHER
 BOLD MOVE
Financial Institutions Tak- en 0ver- Seized Assets
 Quest of Search
By RUSSELL BRINES Associated Press Correspondent

TOKYO, Oct. - American oc- cupation authorities today began a quest for untold millions of dol lars in gold, silver and currency which Japan was believed to have wrested from the larids it overran in it's try for world domination.
 The search paralleled other probes into imperialistic financing, made possible through General MacArthur's bold, secret seizure to- day of 2l governments controlled financial institutions in Tokyo and six other large cities, and the olst- ing of their officials.
 The Bank of Japan, the nations largest financial institution, one quarter owned by the Japanese imperial household, was closed by an order of the Allied command.
 It will open tomorrow, said Col. R. P. Kramer, MacArthur's eco- homie and scientific chief, If the Japanese provide full cooperation" in locating the assets of the seized institutions which had office space in the Bank of Japan building.
 Bank officers pleaded last night that they had had insufficient time to produce the requested assets and records. They had received instrue- tiens from the Fhlance Ministry earlier, however, to have the re- quested material on hand by last night.
 Troops On Guard
 American troops on guard around the bank assured depositors, many of them women sobbing in fear that that they might lose their life savings, that their funds were safe.
 Two other banks closed by Mac Arthur the Yokohama Specie Bank and the Hypotec Bank -re- opened today with Allied permis- sion after check of their records
 Allied Headquarters said no trace was found in the three institutions of hard money" removed from the Philippines and The Netherlands East Indies during the Japanese occupation.
 Some gold and gold stocks ear marked for Siam and Indo- China, and some gold set aside for the Federal Reserve Bank of North China were reported found in the bank of Japan.
 Hunt For Missing Funds
 The hunt for the missing funds that once belonged to the Philip pines, China and other nations began with a conference of Col. Kramer and Viscount Keizo Shi- busawa, Governor of the Bank of Japan, and other leading Japanese financial figures.
 The Japanese denied that the Bank of Japan held any foreign money, denied any knowledge of a possible hiding place. and nmin- tained they had no control over financial activities of field mili- tary commanders.
 The militarists, the bankers said. had the power to either sell their footed assets and place the money in a special disbursement fund of the Finance Ministry. Or keep the assets for themselves.p
 Other Developments
 Shibusawa declared he knew of reported transfers of gold and currency from the Philip pines to Japan.
 There were these other develop ments:
 Shigenori Togo, Foreign Minister at the time of Pearl Harbor. who was scheduled to surrender yester- day, suffered anoher heart attack at his home. An American doctor ordered an examination.
 The First Marine Division ans of Gtiadalcanal, Palau and Okinawa-landed at Tientsin in China to help the Chinese disarm 25O.000 unconquered Japa- nese troops. They moved 28 miles upstream from Takli