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VFC SGT HELPS TO BREAK HUGE JAP BLACK MARKET
 FUKUOKA, --One of the largest black market rings in Japan was broken up last week by a V Fighter Command sergeant.. Headquarters public relations office announced this morning.

The sergeant, Frank J. Oliver, Jr., 23, of the 35th Fighter Control Sq. posed as a member of the gang for the past six weeks and lead military police of the 32nd Inf. Div to a rendezvous where for Japs were arrested after a down payment of 55,000 yen had been given to the sergeant for two truckloads of illegally confiscated Jap military goods. Two other Japs were arrested later at their homes.

  Upon information from the Air Force sergeant, MP's and previously placed guards in a small village warehouse containing approximately 150 truckloads of material extimated to be worth more than $1 million on the black market.

  Working with MP Sgt. Verdayne G. Schachwer, 20, Oliver uncovered evidence during his six weeks meetings with the gang that the Jap ring had planned to raid "five or six or een more" villages after the first deal was completed successfully VPC intelligence and 32 Div MPO officers sad today.

  The scheme oliver said the jabs outlined to him was to have the sergeant Pose as an MP, and with Schacher and other Americans and trucks which Oliver told the Japs he could furnish, represent himself as an authority from the US Redistribution c
Center and demand from Jap Village officials that materials stored in their warehouse be turned over to him.

  By working with the Jap racketeers, aided initially by MP Cpl John A Dpouglas, later replaced by Sgt Schacher as a pretended active member of the game, Oliver gained the confidence of the Japs enough to plan some of their activities. Oliver in turn represented his Commanding Officer, Capt. Samuel M. Arthur, using the name and authority as a possible reason for being able to obtain American trucks and drivers.
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^[[Japanese Black Market Ring Broken]]

[[image: photo of three men and an MP holding a pistol, nightime]]

[[image: photo of five men, nightime]]

Three lieutenants of the 35th Fighter Conrtrol Sq, Herbert D. Wilkinson, Wnedell Ware, and James F. Madden, were selected by Capt. Arthur to pose as truck drivers and work with Oliver.

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[[image: night photo of two men in foreground, and two MP,s in background, one holding a pistol and the other in a helmet; two civilians off to the left]]
Sgt Frank d. Oliver, 25 (by Capt Blane)
and MP Sgt Verdayne
G Schacherr, 20 posed
as members of the Japanese
blak market gang.

[[image: photo of a bearded man in a hat and black coat with a cane setting on the steps of a large stone monument.[in white on the photo: [[?80G HQVFC 11 NOV 45 UAP PEASANT, FUKUOKA]]

[[image: two men in uniform, one with two bar captain emblem on cap, one with one bar.]]
[[
[[Caption under the captain on the photo]] Capt. Blane, Yale S.

[[image: street scene, white lettering in the photo: [[?78]] HQVFC  11 NOV 45  STREET SCENE FUKUOKA]]

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