Black Market Profits
Alluring to Americans
By Russell Brines
Tokyo, Nov. 18 Wi Increasing bitterness over the dollar-yen
exchange rate and the chance for easy profits have sent many
Americans here into black market operations of varying de
grees. Their operations paral
lel similar activities reported
early In the occupation of Eur
ope. Self-styled big time op
erators smuggle or otherwise
acquire a variety or products
from the United States for re
sale. Sometimes they steal from
quartermaster warehouses.
The little fellow who says
he is just out to stretch his
dollar Into something resemb
ling 50 cents sells his cigarets,
soap, candy and tinned goods,
purchased from post exchanges
and commissaries. He wants
yen for Japanese amusements,
to buy souvenirs, and, in some
Instances, to pay servants' wages
and other household expenses.
The wealthy Japanese liter
ally have money to burn be
fore war profit taxes take it
from them. Their expensive
tastes, long throtted in the war
years, are returning. They
will buy virtually anything
from penicillin to long under
wear at sometimes fabulous
prices.
Little Sense of Guilt
There is little sense of wrong
doing attached to any but the
niost flagrant operations. A
reeling of , justification began
early in the occupation when It
became clear that the legal ex
change rate of 15 yen to $1
was so low that it penalized
anyone buying yen with dol
lars. Fiscal experts estimate
the yen's present purchasing
value at 75 to 85 to $1. Ja
panese prices in yen are at
about that level.
No one has seen fit to ex
plain the reason for the estab
lishment of the 15- rate, or the
maintenance of it.
More than $35,000,000 of ar
my funds was bought with il
legally acquired yen and sent
to the United States before the
army recently changed its fiscal
policy. Yen no longer are con
vertible into dollar money or
ders. The army is attempting
to reduce GI needs for yen
with some success while mili
tary police try to minimize
large scale operations.
But the army tacitly has giv
en up Its effort to stamp out
all black marketing, so long as
the unequal exchange rate
makes it so widespread.
At the present exchange rate,
black market cigarets sell for
$20 a carton. Japanese whis
key is more than $30 a bottle
and sugar is $3 or $4 a pound,
or higher.
Military police have arrested
many Americans and Japanese
lr large scale transactions in
volving, generally, stolen wares.
The army is scrutinizing com-
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Two States Searched
For Stolen Airplane
Tacoma, Wash., Nov. 18 u.R
A two-state search was under
way today for a single-engined
silver Luscomb monoplane stol
en from the Sky Harbor air
port here yesterday.
Ben Barry, airport operator,
said he discovered the plane
was missing when he reported
for work and that the craft
had carried enough gasoline for
about two and a half hours' fly
ing. The plane bore license
number NC-28783.
Washington and Oregon state
patrolmen were checking air
ports for the missing plane.
Poison Held Cause
Of Burklund Death
Portland, Nov. 18 (JP) State
police reported today a Wasn
ington county coroner's office
autopsy revealed poisoning
caused the death of C. W. Burk
lund, elderly man whose body
was found in a field near Hu
ber. Students off the St. Mary's
home for boys discovered the
body late Saturday.
missary purchases to prevent
resale of foodstuffs, and has
placed soap, cigarets and other
critical post exchange items on
strict rationing.
Respect for Decency Low
But the casualness with
which regulations against these
operations are being flouted
has had an effect in reducing
the soldier's respect for other
regulations. It has become
part of the general problem
over GI behavior here, as else
where in the orient.
The Japanese have been de
pendent upon black markets
since 1939 and regard them as
a normal part of daily living.
But they fear military police
and the sentences that follow
convictions in military courts.
Although large operators find
it more difficult than formerly
in capitalizing their yen pro
fits, some of them engaged in
the profitable business of send
ing souvenirs home for resale.
The black market In money
consistently is active, bringing
rates as high as 75 to 1.
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Rise of Thye
In Eight Years
By Jack Mackay
St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 18 n
Election of Edward J. Thye
places in the United States sen
ate a Minnesota farmer with
genuine appreciation of the
problems of farmers, coupled
with a deep interest in such un-farm-like
subjects as Interna
tional Organization for Peace
and improvement of labor rela
tions. Friendly, distinctly of the
people, Thye is regarded as one
of the most popular of Minne
sota's chief executives. When
he was elected for his second
term of two years in 1944, he
received the biggest vote and
the biggest majority ever given
a governor in Minnesota. In
the recent election to his sena
torial post, he got nearly two
thirds of the votes cast.
Eight years ago Ed Thye had
never held any office higher
than member of the township
board and member of the local
school board. Harold E. Stas
sen, then Minnesota's governor,
induced him to take a position
as deputy commissioner of agri
culture. In 1942 Stassen persuaded
Thye to run for lieutenant gov
ernor. The following April,
1943, Thye became governor
when Stassen resigned to go in
to naval service.
He was unusually successful
in settling labor disputes.
He went out to farm gather
ings and meetings of all kinds
and gave a report of what the
state government was doing.
Visiting county fairs, he usual
ly could be found out in the
cow barns.
"He's just one of us," far
mers would say.
When he went to the mines,
he went underground and visit
ed with the men as they came
off shift.
Thye's interest in world or
ganizations for peace has been
based, in part, upon conclusions
gained from his experience in
the air corps in World War I.
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His Interest I:i national mea
sures to improve labor relations
springs largely from his ex
perience as governor in apply
ing so successfully Minnesota's
labor peace law.
He has a charming wife.
Myrtle Thye, and a 19-year-old
daughter, Jean.
Skeleton Finds Home
In Dental College
Portland, Nov. 18 "Meat
Shortages" the male skeleton,
recently offered for sale by the
war assets administration, has
found a home. Recently declar
ed surplus to government needs,
the complete skeleton was pur
chased by the University of Ore
gon Dental school in Portland.
No longer faced with the
housing shortage, nor destined
to be just another skeleton in
the closet, the $108.75 item will
become a permanent member of
the dental classroom.
180 Days in Jail
For Beating Child
Portland, Nov. 18 W A jail
sentence of 180 days was given
Joseph Mahitka. 40, charged
with beating his 5-year-old son
with a table spoon because he
thought the boy was slow at
learning his ABCs.
Sentence was given by Mu
nicipal Judge J. B. Seabrook
after examining the bruises on
the boy's legs, body and face.
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A permanent sizing has been
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Student Play Postponed
Jefferson The student body
play, "Going on Seventeen,"
has been postponed until De
cember 6, instead of November
22, as had been planned.
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