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MOBERLY MONITOR-INDEX AND MOBERLY EVENING DEMOCRAT VOLUME 27 ASSOCIATED PRESS A3TD 'WIDE WORLD FULL LEASED WERE SERVICE MOBERLY. MISSOURI MONDAY, SEPT. 17, 1945 HOBERLT ESUBX, JEST, I01II MOBERXY DEMOCRAT. MONITOR, ESTABLISHED NUMBER 68 Truman Renews For Unemployment Bill President Returns to Washington After Visit To Old Home; Takes Up Congressional and Labor Problems at White House Conferences WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.

(JP)--President Truman urged Congressional leaders today to redouble their efforts to expedite the broadest possible unemployment compensation bill. With" the Senate scheduled to take up the legislation tomorrow. The President reviewed the outlook with his Capitol Hill Big Four and Chairman George (D-Ga) of the Senate finance committee. He also discussed labor troubles with his Congressional visitors but only in a general way and very briefly. He planned to look into this problem more specifically in conferences with labor advisers later in the week.

Senate Majority Leader Barkley (Ky) said the conference also dealt with the so-called full em- 1 ployment bill, legislation setting up a single surplus property administrator and a measure to give the President authority to reorganize government agencies for the postwar period. "We went over the situation regarding the unemployment compensation bill, coming up in the Senate tomorrow," Barkley told reporters. "The President is most anxious' that we get an effective bill through as soon as possible. He wants it to cover as many workers as nossible and to be as effective "as possible to meet the emergency created by the recon- version problems. We are hopeful that we can get some effective legislation.

There will be some amendments offered and the legislation will have to be fought out on the floor." Favors Original Proposal Barkley emphasized that the President said he still wanted his original proposal--compensation up to a maximum of $25 a week for a period of 26 weeks. He also wants coverage of federal employees and some other groups not, not eligible for compensation. Others who talked with the President were Senator McKellar, president pro tern of the Senate, Speaker Rayburn and House Majority Leader McCormack of Massachusetts. McCormack said the President was "very hopeful that an effective unemployment bill to meet can be worked out." He added that the wage situation was discussed in a general way but told reporters it was not a legislative matter. Meanwhile.

Mr. Truman pre pared the answers to the long asked questions about plans fo a shift in the War Departmen command and other changes ir his administration. Some these, he said he proposes to an nounce at a news conference p. m. CWT) tomorrow Returning at 7:55 p.

m. las night from a flying trip to Mis souri for a weekend with his 92 year old mother, Mrs. Martha Truman, and friends and neigh bors in Jackson county, tin President told reporters he knew of no plans for tackling labor problems during the day. He said he had had no infor mation on the labor situation as yet because he had waited unti his return to look into it. Calls Labor Secretary President Truman today summoned Labor Secretary Schwellenbach to lunch at the White House to talk over reconversior labor problems, already marked by strikes and layoffs of thousands of Schwellenbach, personal friend of the President, submitted a plan on August 10 for reorganizing the Labor Department and strengthening the U.

S. conciliation service, but the President as not vet acted on it. Under the Schwellenbach Navy Pledges to Release 835,000 By Christmas Recruiting Bill in House May Stir Up New Fight on Draft WASHINGTON, Sept 17 --The Navy promised senator today it will put 764.000 enlisted men and 75,000 officers back in civilian clothes by Christmas. This pledge was made by Vice Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, chief i daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. John of personnel, as the Senate mil- Canote, Clifton Hill; and Ver- Storm Sweeps Carolina After Lashing Florida Hurricane Toll May Reach $50,000,000 in Southern Peninsula Nominees for Bullesta Queen--Myrtle Ornburn. (left) 17-year-old MIAMI Fla. Sept 17 (fP) daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

W. C. Ornburn, Route 4, Moberly, and The tropical storm that swept Sue Broaddus, 18, (right) daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gray Southern Florida with an esti- American Occupation Forces In Japan Will Be Cut to 200,000 in Six Months itary committee resumed its inquiry into why service discharges aren't coming faster.

Previously Undersecretarj Gates told the senators the "situation in the Pacific is not sufficiently stable and secure to justify the early return of all naval forces and. the activities which support them." Denfeld said that demobilza- tion is moving as swiftly as military needs, transportation and separation facilities will permit. "I wish to make it clear," he "that I am not here indicating any desire or intent to schedule demobilization to fit our convenience. "I am sure you will agree that we' have a clear-cut responsibility not to strip our ships and our bases-- -nor those hero-' nelle Million, 20, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Dysart Million, RFD Cairo. Judges for the contest are: Mrs. Willo Mclntyre, inspector in styles Stephens and merchandising, College, Columbia; Broaddus, Huntsville, are two of the IS contestants for Queen of the Bullesta, to be selected at Thursday night, Four additional Randolph coun- ty girls have entered the Moberly Bullesta Queen contest, bringing the total contestants to 18, the Chamber of Commerce announced today. Judges of the show also were announced. The new entrants are Margaret Leeds, 18, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs, A. M. Kilgore, Cairo; Betty Frances Stark. 18, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Ed B. Stark, Mt. Airy; Eula Mae Canote, 20, Lynn Phillips, field director for Stephens College, New York City; and Leo Van Coutren, Harzfeld's, Columbia. The judging will be done on the Midway of the Bullesta at 8:15 o'clock of the first night, Thursday. A rehearsal was held yesterday afternoon in the Merchants Hotel.

Mrs. Louise proprietor of the Tot Teen Shop, assisted in directing the contestants. plan, in addition to taking over the National Labor Relations Board for bookkeeping purposes, the Labor Department would administer the U. S. Employment compensation payments.

This last proposal has met with considerable opposition on Capitol The President and Schwellenbach also were expected to discuss the possibility of hastening the projected labor-management conference in view of the strikes in such vital reconversion areas as Detroit. The conference now is planned to begin October 29 or November 5. Mayor McCormick and Councilman Slater on Moose Hunting Trip Dr. F. L.

McCormick. mayor of Moberly, and Councilman M. O. Slater "left Sunday for Canada, where they will stay "until we get a moose." They expect to be gone at least two weeks. at home which support Detailed Plan Ready Soon, Senator Burton Ohio, brought out in questioning that, unlike the Army Navy doesn't let men out of uniform because they are needed in re- conversion.

Burton said there are a lot of technical men in the Navy that industry could use. Gates said a detailed plan on Navy demobilization will be ready soon for congressional naval affairs committees. "These plans could not be crystalized, in detail required, until the Navy could evaluate the immediate results of the cessation of combat," he said, adding that long before the Japanese "called it quits," the Navy and begun release of officers and men and this was continuing, Denfeld told Senator Guerney South Dakota, that the Navy had reversed its course in the training of high school students who signed up to learn about radar. Previously these students had been offered the alternative of taking on a four-year hitch in the Navy, or being moved out of the classes. Denfeld said all now will finish the classes under the terms of their original enlistment.

Offer Recruiting Bill A "red apple" Army and Navy New Reports of Jap Atrocities Reveal Slaying of U. S. Fliers Only Six of 3,550 British, Australian prisoners Taken to Borneo Are Known to Be Alive; New Details of Wainwright's Abuse Disclosed By The Associated Press Five Americans were killed simply because they were fliers, and three others were beheaded after they were inarched through Japanese streets bearing signs, "These Are the American Devils Who Bombed Us," Maj. John A. Singlaub of Sherman Oaks, related at Hong Kong today in one of a series of fresh atrocity stories.

An Australian army -intellig- ence report issued at Melbourne sc.id that of 3,550 British and Australian prisoners taken to Borneo, only six are known to be alive. mated $50,000,000 property damage has moved across the coast to South Carolina with the center near Parris Island, the U. S. weather bureau in Miami reported at 9:30 a. m.

today. The storm appeared to be losing its fury as it headed north, and the weather bureau said hurricane warnings would be lowered at noon today s.outh of Cape Hatteras to Brunswick, Ga. "Storm is now centered over land about 30 miles west of Charleston, S. moving almost due northward," the advisory said. The U.

S. weather bureau at Atlanta said there was a strong likelihood that the storm would spend itself in South Carolina and that the upper eastern coast would not be affected. At its peak, the hurricane reached a velocity of 143 M. P. H- in roaring across the Florida Keys to Key Largo, hit 99 M.

P. H. in Miami, took a toll of three known dead and wrecked or damaged thousands of homes. Blimp Base Destroyed The great three-hangar Navy blimp base at Richmond, 30 miles from Miami, was destroyed when fire broke out during the height of the storm. NAGASAKI SUBURB--A Japanese pulls a hand cart past wreckage and debris along a street in a suburb of Nagasaki, second'Jap- anese city to be devastated by an atomic bomb.

The suburb is located more than four miles from the citj' proper. (IP) Wirephoto). January, the Melbourne report said 203 prisoners died of 450 sent on a death march through the Borneo mountains. Another death march claimed 353 lives out of 536 men and the others died later or were killed. At Darwin, Australia, Pvt.

J. Larkin, in an interview, gave new details of the abuse of Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright, commander at the surrender of Corregidor, and Lt. Gen.

Sir Arthur Percival, commander at the fall of Singapore. (Wainwright has declined comine: on beatings he and other high.ranking Allied officers were said to have received.) "Generals Often Struck" "All -f them, including Wainwright and Percival, had to go or. morning parade with the rest of the prisoners of war and were often struck by the sergeant Harold Wiley Freed From Jap Prison Pfc. Harold Wiley, prisoner of the Japanese since the fall, January 14, 1942, of Clark Field, north of Manila, was released on September 9, according to official notice sent by the War Department to his mother, Mrs. Beryl Smith of Kansas City, formerly of Moberly.

Young Wiley, a student at Moberly Junior College before enlisting in the Army, is a grandson of Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Yates of Yates and a nephew of Mrs.

Taylor McGinnis of Moberly. The message indicated Wiley was in fair health and is to be Five Moberly Men on Ships From Europe Sgt. Kenneth E. Pollard, Pfc. Benjamin Hall, Pfc.

William K. Rutherford, Lyle D. Coble and Pvt. William Phillips, are now in processing camps on the East Coast awaiting furloughs with their families in Moberly. Two of the Moberly men arrived in the States over the weekend, one is due in to- The hurricane" "was described day and two are due tomorrow, as "a small but intense storm." Due today aboard the Marine The velocity of its winds, about Angel is Sgt.

Pollard, 741st 60 miles per hour with gusts Tank Battalion, veteran of two nr-ar the center exceeding 75 and four months, in.the E. miles, was expected to increase x. O. Pollard, husband of the along the Carolina coast. Residents from Brunswick.

to Hatteras, North Carolina, battened down or prepared to evacuate low lying coastal areas as twin red and black hurricane signals were hoisted between the two points. The weather bureau said indications were the center of the storm would strike inland this forenoon on the South Carolina coast from Charleston northward with hurricane fury and high tides. The howler, which lessened considerably as it limped northward through the Florida peninsula Sunday, regained momentum and force after passing into the Atlantic near St. Augustine lats night. Winds up to 70 miles in gusts were reported.

Little structural damage or citrus crop losses were reported from the devitalized storm as it TM sergean ma: 01, was received ried a bamboo cane, said Was ill ictir ljetiUl CII1U. AS LU uc i i H1C wt returned home in due time. moved through central and northern Florida, but south Florida counted scores of injured, hundreds of homeless and damage in the millions in the wake of The last letter received from him was dated February, 1944, vinr i -nr who alwavs car- and was written from Camp No. WHO aiWayS Cdl vifvl- recruiting bill comes up today in the House. Indications are it will touch off a battle over the draft and present discharge systems.

Written by House military committee in an effort to sidetrack proposals to halt inductions and force speedier demob Ization the measure seeks to induce men now in the service to re-enlist. kin. He was liberated from a Formosa prison. "The general had to stand at attention whenever a Jap passed, irrespective of his rank. One day, when Maj.

Gen. Keys had charge of a working party consisting of generals only, he ordered them to stand at ease when a Jap private happened to be passing. 'The private walked up to Keys and slappec' him on both checks. When Keys later complained to the Jap commander he received a trouble." beating for his by Mrs. Smith until September the blow.

8, 1945, the day before his release and 19 months after it had been written. Mrs. Patton Suffers Hip Fracture in Fall Mrs. Ella Patton, 532 West Logan street, sustained a fracture of her right hip about 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon when she fell on the bathroom floor at her home. She is receiving treatment in Woodland Hospital.

The mother of Mrs. Veta Val- At Sydnev, Sgt. A. M. Blain, The mother of Mrs.

Veta vai- member of Australia's House i lely and of Miss Josephine Pat- The idea behind it is that (Continued on Page 2) ope Pius Receives J. S. Congressmen VATICAN CITY, Sept. 17 (P) --Pope Pius gave an audience oday to six members of a Uni- ed States House of Represen- atives sub-committee on war ppropriations. In the group were Represen- atives Francis Case (R-SD).

J. Juell Snyder (D-Penn), Albert Engel (R-Mich), William F. Norrell (D-Ark). Joe Hendricks Armed with" number oi guns. (D-Fla) and Harve Tibbott (R- the two have gone north of thej Penn Canadian National Railroad to a country only reached by rail.

Baptist Brotherhood Elects Officers Tonight An election of officers will take place tonight following a 6:45 o'clock dinner served for the Brotherhood of First Baptist church at the church. Tonight's program will be built around preparation for the week's revival to be held ai; the church. beginning Sunday, September 80. T. Sgt.

Jerry Megee Home After Four Years In Pacific Theater Tech. Sgt. Jerry Megee. only son of Dr. and Mrs.

Otto Megee. arrived yesterday after almost four years' continuous service in the P'acific Theater Megee was a member of the Third Battalion of the 24th Division. This is the first time he has seen his family since he entered the Army more than 4 years ago. of Representatives. charged "every Japanese guard is a war criminal guilty of appalling atro- ciiies." Recently freed from a prison camp In the Singapore area, Blain said he lost 72 pounds, dropping from 170 to 98.

Won Battle of Wits The Melbourne radio, in a broadcast recorded by NBC, said Colonel Suya, "responsible for all the 600 prisoners of war graves in Kucking cemetery," had killed himself with a table knife a' Army he- dquarters. Major Singlaub who led rescue paratroopers landing on Hainan Island Aug. 27. so befuddled Japanese officers in a battle of wits that he and his men gained (Continued on Page 2) Weather MISSOURI Fair east and south: considerable cloudiness northwest this afternoon and east tonight and Tuesday: with rain extreme northwest this afternoon; somewhat warmer east and south tonight and Tuesday: highest temperatures Tuesday in lower 80's. near 80 in the east.

CENTRAL MISSOURI--Most- fair through Tuesday, warmer this afternoon and tonight, little change in temperature Tuesday. Temperatures: 8 this morning. 57. Maximum yesterday, 79. Minimum yesterday, 51.

ton, with who mshe made her home. Mrs. Patton has sustained Greatest damage-- between Meat Rationing Will Be liberal' If It Continues Decision on Duration Depends on Foreign Needs, Anderson Says WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (JP) --Secretary of Agriculture Anderson said today the duration of meat" rationing depends upon the extent of food commitments abroa.d. Leaving a White House conference where he went over the rationing and subsidy programs with President Truman, Anderson told the reporters: "If it is necessary to continue meat rationing, it will be a liberal one, equal to a normal peacetime consumption in this country." He said there is enough meat 476 East Rollins street, trained tllis coun to meet the former Miss Mildred Thompson, landed in France on D-Day and fought across France into Germany.

The 4-year Army veteran is the son of Ernest Pollard and brother of Miss Vera Pollard, Highways 63 and junction. Pfc. Hall, one of three service sons of Mr. and Mrs. L.

M. Hall, with the 138th Infantry Regiment of the veteran 35th Division. He entered service almost five years ago and spent two years in the Aleutians with the 138th, was returned to the States and sent to the E. T. O.

the first of the year, where he served with the 65th Division of the Third Army. His two brothers in service ar.e Albert Hall, fireman, first class, and John Hall, seaman first class, both Naval combat veterans. Pfc. Rutherford, 411th Regiment of the 103rd Infantry Division, has been in the E. T.

O. since October, 1944. His wife lives at 443 Woodland avenue, and they have three children. $80,000,000 and 0 0 10 Christine, 4 years old Kay, was reckoned at the Richmond and seven Pfc. Naval Air Base 30 miles south normal domestic needs without the necessity of rationing.

Anderson said he was hopeful all subsidies could be termi- Gen. MacArthur Credits Greatest Military Gamble Troops Will Be Sent Home As Fast As Ships are Available TOKYO, Sept. 17 tory's greatest military gamble --the American landing in armed Japan--has paid off so handsomely that occupation forces probably- will be cut to not more than 200,000 within six months, General MacArthur said today. As a result of the successful penetration of this conquered nation, he added in a formal statement, troops will be returned home as rapidly as ships are made available. Regular army forces, he "said, probably will be able to maintain unaided the win permit complete demobilization of our citizen (draftee) Pacific forces." "There was probably no greater gamble taken in history," his statement explained, "than the initial TOKYO, Sept.

17 newspaper Asahi reported that Lt. Gen. Yoshio Shinot- suka, member of Japan's supreme war council, committed suicide today by cutting his throat with a samurai sword. Shinotsuka formerly was president of the army officers' school, the "West Point" of Japan. He' was a classmate of Hideki Tojo, the war time dictator ground forces were outnumbered 1,000 to one by armed Japanese.

But, he added, "the stakes were worth it." MacArthur's estimate of 200,000 occupation troops is just half the niimjjer which Lt. Gen, Robert L. Eichelberger, commander of the U.S. Eigth Army, recently said would be necessary--and Eichelbergei's figures were at that time considered low. At the start, some 800,000 men--including air forces- were scheduled to participate.

Only Saturday, however, Eichelberger forecast that the entire occupation might be "washed up" within a year if it continued as smoothly as it had started." Would Have Required Millions MacArthur's statement said nated by next June 30, with the statement saia Pn tinr, of that on tnat the unknown quantity at possible exception of that on i flour. Longer Sugar Rationing There probably will be a need for sugar rationing in 1946, he said, but he was a little more hopeful that rationing of fats and oils may be terminated by January 1. He said that final decisions of Miami where three towering blimp hangars burned at the collapsed and height of the Storm killing Harry M. Schultz, of Miami, civilian fire chief at the base, Fifty sailors were injured battling the blaze but only a few required hospitalization. A furniture factory fire Miami, whipped out of control by 99-mile winds that sideswiped the city, caused $150.000 damage.

South Florida growers listed the fruit and vegetable crop loss in the rich Redlands Rutherford will see Billy for the first time upon his arrival home. The soldier's mother is Mrs. W. N. Rutherford, 1007 her second severe fracture in district at more the past two years.

million dollars. than half a 'Beastof Belsen' Denies Guilt As 45 SS Nazis Go On Trial LUENEBERG, Germany, Sept. 17, (jp)--Josef Kramer, the "Beast of Belsen" concentration camp, and 44 other 1 SS henchmen pleaded innocent before a British military court today when they-went on trial for war crimes and conspiracy to commit mass murder. The court overruled defense counsel pleas for separate trials for 27 defendants, and for a separate trial of 12 defendants who also are charged with crimes at the Auschwitz horror camp. gas chamber Kramer, the sullen commandant at Belsen, smiled in ihe glare of photographers' flash bulbs as the trial got underway.

But one of the 21 female SS guards, blonde Herta Ehlert, collapsed as the prsoners stood in a box facing the court. She was revived quickly and was helped to a seat by another woman SS member, cold-faced Irma Grese, who served for. three years at the i ill-famed camps at Ravensbruck and Auschwitz, Poland, before I going to Belsen. The accused originally numbered 48, but three were removed from the list on medical grounds. Most of the first day probably will be consumed in arraignments, with the trial expected to last about three weeks.

Conviction can mean death by hanging or shooting, or at the discretion of the court, imprisonment up to life, confiscation of property or mere fine. The court room is a remodeled gymnasium which will accommodate 500 persons. Uncensored horror films of Belsen and Auschwitz are part of the prosecution's evidence, and the courtroom is' equipped movie projectors to flash them on a screen. The court was convened by order of Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery under royal warrant authorizing a military court, similar to a field general court martial, to try war criminals.

It is presided over by on subsidies and rationing will be made in conferences with Chester Bowles, OPA administrator, and William H. Davis, director of economic stabilization. His visit to the White House, Anderson said, was for the purpose of getting "up to date" on the President's ideas about a schedule for terminating rationing and subsidies as rapidly as North Morley street, formerly conditions permit. He said de- of Cario, Rutherford's outfit, I partmental committees have the 411th, received acclaim for W0 rked up proposed schedules. taking the Brenner Pass.

He and Hall are due tomorrow at New York aboard the Thomas Barry. Tech. Cpl. Coble, son of Mr. and Mrs.

C. C. Coble, 319 East Rollins street, formerly Route 2, Moberly, is a member of the 2202 Quartermaster Trucking Company. He has been in the European Theater 18 months. Coble is a grandson of Mrs.

Lavina Coble, also 319 East Rollins street. Coble a rrived at New York Saturday aboard the Eliphalet Nott. No address is listed for Pvt. Phillips and the local Selective Service offices have no record of his induction. He arrived Friday at New York on the Aquitania.

Also aboard the -ere Staff Sgt. Joe Aquitania K. Watts. Centralia: Tech. Sgt.

Manford R. Logue, Marceline: Pfc. Kenneth C. Burton, Atlanta; James F. Dunham, Mexico: Pfc.

Thomas B. Ubison, Shelbina; Pfc. Ardie L. Welch, Route 3, Mexico; Pfc. Joseph A.

Ward, Paris; Robert A. McClimen, Holliday; Laurence D. Courtney, Monroe City; Also scheduled to arrive aboard the Marine Angel are Major Benjamin Goodin, Columbia: Sgt. Freddie C. Llweellyn, Macon: Pfc.

Delbert P. Way. Centralia; and Pfc. Vincent P. Broker, Mexico.

Listed aboard the E. B. Alexander due yesterday at New York are Staff, Sgt. Loris E. Whelchel.

Huntsville: First Lt, David H. Robertson. Mexico: and H. P.B^ney-Ficklin, Walter W. Bryant, Colum- two brigadiers and two colonels.

bia. The secretary predicted that rationing of a good many items would be dropped within the next few months, as would many subsidies. Subsidies, he said, still are being paid on peanut butter, feeder cattle, sugar beets and cane, flour, dairy products, vegetable shortening, grapefruit juice, chedder cheese and other items. On the question of meat, Anderson reminded reporters that a delegation from the "food for freedom" organization was following him into the President's office to urge that food be sent to hungry people overseas. "It Will be Liberal" "The supply is available to take care of pretty well all domestic needs for meat," Anderson said, "but the full extent to which it will be available depends on how much must go abroad.

In any event, if rationing continues very long it will be a liberal one, and may even be above the supply available before the war." Asked whether he could fix a date when all forms of food rationing would be gone, Anderson said he was unable to say. He said while he could speculate that subsidies would be out of the way by next June 30, he thought flour subsidies might have to be that date. continued beyond SMALL DAMAGE IN FIRE The fire department was called to Mac's Bar 105 West Reed street, at 1:05 o'clock Sunday morning to extinguish a fire under the counter. Small damage was reported by. firemen.

the outset of the occupation was whether a military government would have to be established. This would have involved several million troops, he said; but by working with the existing Japanese government, purposes of the surrender terms can be accomplished with only a small fraction of the men, time and money originally projected. "This situation involved grave initial risk but successful penetration and subsequent progress of the operation now assures success of the venture," he said. Once Japan is disarmed, he' emphasized, a force of 200,000 troops "will be sufficiently strong to insure our will." Questions involved in the strength of occupation forces, the supreme commander explained, are entirely independent of the future Japanese politico governmental This problem, he explained, is waiting completion of the military phase'of the surrender-and is one that unquestionably will be determined "upon the highest diplomatic level of the United Nations." Expand Naval Occupation (Shanghai dispatches today said that the swift, quiet expansion of American naval occupation along Shanghai's waterfront -was expected by Wednesday. Minesweepers already are at work clearing the poo river U.

S. Eighth Army headquarters reported that roundup of the 46 war-crimes suspects wanted by MacArthur was proceeding with equal smoothness --with the Japanese government making the arrests. Twentynine already were in custody;" (Continued on Page 2) First Shipment of Malayan Rubber On Way to England SINGAPORE, Sept. 17 "(S)--Th first shipment of rubber from major producing areas was on its way to England today. Allied experts surveyed the exfent of Japanese exploitation of the Malaya-Netherlands East Indies rubber plantations.

Some estimates- are that year of 18 months will be required to restore neglected plantations..