A church steeple lays on feet from the church in Frank- lin. Louisiana. It was blown
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there by the winds of Hurri- cane Hilda Sunday. Loss from the storm was estimated to be
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The storm was blamed for at least 30 deaths.
in millions of dollars.
Giant Industrial Empires In Japan Stage Comeback
By AKIO OGAH‘A TOKYO UAW—Japan‘s industrial empires. which United States occupation forces disbanded as u ndem ocra‘tic after the Second World War. are staging a vigorous comeback. shadows thev cast on industry are almost they were two ago. although minor industrial groups have emerged in the post-war years.
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century. each of the three fame
giant 1 ilics began to build up a cluster thefof corporations.
Each covered almost every branch of business
*—banking. insurance. chemical,
t e x t il e. electric. machinery.
‘shipbuilding and shipping.
The government gave the
1families every aid in an effort
The two decades. however. 1 have brought a b o u t some. changes.
Managing systems at the top especially have. undergone dras- tic changes—from “family dic- tatorship" to “consultations” among top executives.
Until the end of the war. a handful of families. merchants by origin. held tight control of Japanese industrv
Outstanding a m o n g them were names like Iwasakl. Mit- sui and Sumitomo. Thelwasa- kis were better known as "Mit subishi” ithree diamondsiwthe brand carried bv scores of cor- porations directed by the fam-
ily. In the latter part of the 19th-
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to catch up with advanced West- orn nations. especially in heavy industry.
COPIED WEST
The government built factor- ies copying those in Western countries and gave them to the privileged families for a'lmOst nothing.
These powerful families later came to be known as “Zaibatsu families" and the corporations gathered under their control were called “Zaibatsu cor-ora- tions."
The Zaibatsu installed their members as the highest execu- tives of other firms and held enough shares. in some cases up to 100 per cent. to control them.
By the time Japan bowed to the Allied forces in 1945. Mitsui controlled 204 firms. Sumitomo directed 120 and the Iwasakis
64. all the top ones in Japan‘.; industrial setup. These figures did not include many subsid- iaries run by the Zaibatsu.
The Allied forces branded the Zaibatsu industrial empires as "monopolistic, u n d e mocratic and feudalistic."
The occupation forces purged the Zaibatsu families from the Japanese industnial picture and confiscated the shares they held to control corporations.
Another blow was in store. The Allied forces ordered giant Zaibatsu corporations be- longing to the three families broken up ond their subsidiaries freed. The 16 included such giants as Mitsubishi Heavy In dustries. Mutsui Mining and Sumitomo Electric.
HOWever. as Japan began re- building ibs economy from the postwar shambles. the former z a i b a t s u corporations em- barked on a search for unity.
The former Zaibatsu lieuten- ants and managers got together or regular consultations on various levels. beginning with the chairman and president evel
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As. unity has returned. some
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disbanded corporations have M- merged. The most. conspicuous was the
rebirth last June of Mitsubishi
Heavy Industries.
Three firms—Shin Mitsubishi Shipping and Engineering- merged into what they were be~ fore the war. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
The new firm enjoys 63 per cent of the market. in paper- making machinery. 46 per cent in boilers for power plants. 40 per cent in boilers for factories. 28 per cent in shipbuilding. ml the biggest shares in Japan.
Earlier this year. another dis- banded firm. Mitsubishi Shojl ttradei. staged a spectacular comeback. Its annual sales to- tal close to 53.000.000.000. equiv. alent to one-third of Japan's national budget. The. firm's branches are scattered the world over.
FOLLOW LEADER
The Mitsui alnd Sumitomo groups have also followed Mit- subishi's suit on a bit smaller scale and with a slower tempo.
Last May, the Japanese had an opportunity to see just now far the giant economic groups have. come back.
Top executives of each group closeted themselves for trade talks with Soviet Deputy Pre- mier A. I. Mikoyan who was here on a two week visit as a leader of a Soviet parlia- mentarian delegation. One after another. out the Kremlin official on trade opportunities in the Soviet
nion.
Newspapers front-paged the meetings as epoch-making in that the big firms were showing their unity in public and also
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PROS To Be Dropped From Most Formations
By DAVE McINTOSH'
OTTAWA (CPI —- Full-time armed forces public relations officer-I will be withdrawn from most commands. formations. stations and service colleges, defence department officials
said here.
Public information offices will be maintained by the depen- ment at H a l i f a x. Montreal Ottawa. Toronto. Winnipeg. Ed-
monton. Vancouver. the In- fantry Brigade in e many. RCAF Air Division in Europe. North American Air
Defence Command at Colorado Springs. Colo.. Northern NORAD region at North Bay. Ont.. and with the Canadian contingents serving with the United Nations in Cyprus and mt
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The move by the department to integrate its public relations organization will reduce the num r of personnel to 76 from 210. Of these 76. there will be 37 armed forces officers and five civilian officials.
The new public information organization will be responsible to Deputy Defence Minister El- gin Armstrong. 0 n w. service public relations officers have been responsible to their individual services. ‘
me officials express con- cern that this switch might re- sult in a heavier political in- fluence in the handling of de- fence information.
Though full - time public in- formation officers are being
Withdrawn rom com- mands and stations. officials s a i d individual commanders
will appoint a staff member to act as a public relations officer,
They said the new establish- ment will entail more travelling by full-time public relations of- ficers. For instance. there will be an office at Montreal only to handle all defence activities in Quebec. This would require a public information officer to travel to Quebec City for any special activities there.
each group sounded 811
Little Progress Is Reported In Veterans Hospital Change
OTTAWA (CP) — Dr. J. N. Crawford. director - general of treatment services for the vet- erans affairs department, said here little progres has been made in transferring vet- erans hospitals to local admin- istration.
Dr. Crawford told the Com- mons veterans affairs commit- tee that some provinces have balked at the department‘s re- quirements for retaining con- trol over admissions so suffi- cient beds for veterans would be ensured.
Others have said they might
able to meet the require-
good boarding or nursing homes and 64 per cent in a chronic disease hospital.
Veterans Affairs Minister Teillet created a stir in March with his statement on the aims of the program. Some Commons members claimed the veterans would receive insufficient care or that hospital beds would be unavailable to many.
Dr. Crawford said the Ridge
Close London’s Oldest Nude Act
LONDON (AP) ——‘ London's girly strip clubs have ceEded where Adolf bombers failed. They down the curtain on the capi-
tal's oldest nude show. that Windmill Theatre. i Its non - stop performances
during the German air raids of the Second World War‘earned it the proud motto “we never c] OI
osed. But where the bombs failed rival strippers have won. I
Sheila Van Damm. managing director of the 32 - year - old? theatre, told reporters that. due] to falling attendances. she has? bee forced to sel out to a} cinema firm.
The theatre. known to hun-i dreds of thousands of Common-I wealth and U.S. servicemen for‘. its high - kicking chorus Iinej and statuesque nudes will showi movies after Oct. 31.
“We began to lose business almost immediately after that strip clubs opened in London in 1956 ' iss ’Van Damm told a press conference.
MUST STAND STILL
"The girls in the clubs can move. As a theatre our nudes} were bound by law in staudi still."
Asked by a reporter why s‘iei didn’t try to compete by chang-‘
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ing into a club. Miss Van Damm said: "I never wanted that We
had a tradition. I have. nothin_ against strip clubs—but I would not want to do it."
5 Van Damm refused to say how much she had been paid for the theatre by the Compton Group Limited. Brit- ish film producers.
She took over the family bus. iness of running the theatre when her father died four years
The rhinoceros prefers to live’ alone and often travels for days
Krupp Regains Lost Big Firm
'Of Old Empire
ESSEN. West Germany (AP) Alfried Krupp. Bole ruler over 0 Germany’s biggest in- dustrial empires. has bought back the last major firm of which Tie had to divest himself
'after the Second World War on
orders of the Allies. Krupp in- formants reported .
Krupp regained control of Westfaelische Draht Industrien (Westphalian Wire Industries) at Hamm. one of Germany's biggest wire - makers. the sources said.
Following the Second World War. the Krupp empire was ordered broken up. Alfried Krupp was sent to prison for his firm's war-time use of for- eign slave labor.
He served only a few years of a 10-year term.
After his release. he took con- trol of what was left of his 01 coal and steel holdings.
Since 1953. when he was forced to divest himself of large chunks of his huge coal and steel holdings. Krupp has slowly regained control of all the ma- jor branches of his old empire.
is confined to her home In'ongli illness.
Mrs. Harold Taylor. was a visitor to Charlottetown on
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Mr. Leonard Andrews. York. is a patient in the P.E.I. HOSPI.
Friend- of Miss M a r s h 1: Swan are sorry to hear that she is sick with virus pneumonia.
Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Higgins. Hunter River. were the recent nests of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Crockett. York.
Mr. and Mrs. Claude CrosWeu. Winsloe. were the recent visitors of Mrs. Gordon Crockett. York.
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h lottetown were visitors to York on Sunday.
Mrs. Royal White from Mur- ray River accompanied by Mrs. Oliver Hume and sons. Larry and Wendell of Charlottetown. were guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Whiteway. York.
Mr. and Mrs. Melville Higgins. South Melville. were recent vis- itors to York the guest of their niece, Mrs. Donald Crockett and Mr Crockett.
Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Allen. have returned home from Lun- enburg, N.S. where they attend- ed the Fisherman’s Exhibition.
YORK
Mrs Harry Swan has return< ed to her home in York after being a patient in the P.E.1. Hos ital.
Mrs. James Moore. Hunter River was a recent visitor to York the guest of her granddau- ghter Mrs. Donald Crockett.
Mrs. Arthur Johnson. has re- turned to her ome in York af- ter being a patient in the P.E.I Hospital.
Mrs. Gordon Crockett. York is confined to her home with pneumonia.
Miss Patty Simpson. has ne- turned to her home after being a patient in the P.E.I. Hospital.
r. an Mrs. John Mechan- nan. Glen Valley Were recent visitors to York. the guest of their daughter. Mrs. Laken Le- wis and Mr. wis.
Friends of Mrs. Richard Ves- sey are sorry to hear she is confined to her home through sickness.
Mr. Frankie Lewis. York. salesman of R.T. Holman's. left by plane Sunday on a business trip to Montreal.
Friends of Miss Linda An- drews are sorry to hear that she
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wood Health and Treatment Centre in Saint John 5 o be operated by the provincial workmen's compensation board. The centre. equipped with re- habilitation facilities. has only
30 of its 100 beds occupied. Dr. Crawford said the New
Brunswick provincial command
of the. Royal Canadian Legion
was informed of each step of.
the arrangement in Saint John;
ments with federal financial help he adde .
The director defended the aim of the policy change. Veterans hospitals were becoming unat- tractive as medical-teaching in- stitutions to young interns since
y five per cent of cases call for active treatment.
He so a recent check wed 31 per cent of present tents could be cared for in
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ignoring U.S. disapproval in dealing with the Soviet Union.
The reorganized industrial empires have begun to speak up again.
classes may be held.
NIGHT CLASSES ACADEMIC SUBJECTS
Registration for night classes for some aca- demic subjects will be held in the Alberton Reg- ional High School on Friday evening. Oct. 9 at 7:30. Sufficient numbers must enroll so that
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