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have “carfare home,” in case they
* ‘ don’t find the Territory acceptable
as a home. Bartlett said he and
the Governor also asked the Pres
ident to intensify on agricultural
research in the Territory to de
termine just what are the agri
cultural possibilities.
fn (r M Dispute
y. President Truman has inter
vened in the General Motors
strike by appointing a fact-finding
board to consider the dispute. He
announced he would name a simi
lar board soon in an effort to head
of the threatened strike in the
^ steel industry.
The General Motors strike has
made some two hundred thirteen
thousand persons idle throughout
the country and crippled nearly
half of the motorcar industry’s
production of new cars.
The CIO United Steel workers
union has called a strike of its
^even hundred thousand members
' for January fourteenth. The strike
indusrty spokesmen estimate will
affect more than forty per cent of
the nation’s workers through its
effect on related industries.
President Truman disagreed
with the views of organized labor
that the fact finding procedures
might result in long delays in the
settlement of union demands. His
action came in the face of direct
opposition of the leaders of the
striking CIO United Auto Work
As involved in the General Mo
tors dispute, and the CIO United
^kteel Workers.
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C-rporal C. A. McCrary, of Centrdia, Illinois, ex'. ' its a r»an-ect:ng
f<asr, 12 fret I •- • c:ncJ weighing 250 pounds, which he ki-'cd in Myitkyina,
Burnsa* The Regular Army, which offers a .'venture, seer y, ond a career,
no-./ is accepting enlistments from qualified civilians Itt to 34 years of
are, inclusive.
\\ ar Crimes
Suspects Entering
Tokyo Prison
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TOKYO, Dec. 12 —(A5) —Grim
Sugamo prison opened its gates
to a steady procession of Jap war
suspects, headed by aged handle
bar mustachioed Prince Nahimoto
of the Imperial family. Foreign
Minister Yoshida meanwhile told
the Diet that Japan had already
broached Allied headquarters on
the question of resuming diplo
matic relations with the rest of
the world.
Fifty-nine top ranking Japs
who were given until midnight
to surrender as war crimes sus
pects, laden with baggage and
bedding, began checking in at Su
gamo in five minute intervals.
Nationalists
Enter Mukden
TIENTSIN, Dec. \2—(/P)— Chi
nese military sources said Central
Government troops entered Muk
den, while other forces began
landing by plane in the Territorial
capital at Changchun. These
sources said Lt. Gen. Tu Li Ming’s
northeastern forces entered Muk
den without opposiiton. The move
is said to be in line with the new
agreement with Russia under
which Chungking’s troops are to
ocupy these two important cities.
Gen. Patton Noi
worried About
Broken Neck
HEIDELBERG, Dec. 12—</P)—
The condition of General Patton
“remains good” an official bulle
tin said tonight. *Mrs. Patton after
seeing her husband again today
said he “was not in the least wor
ried."
General Patton, whose neck was
broken in an auto accident Sun
day, spent a “good night,” but his
condition “remains grave,” a bul
letin said. An earlier announce
ment said the general was con
scious and rational and was tak
ing nourishment. He showed “nor
mally active” tendon reflexes.
The doctors reported no signs of
improvement in the paralytic con
dition.
Fighting Flares
Anew On Java
BATAVIA, Dec. 12—(^—Fight
ing flared at several points in cen
tral and western Java as British
authorities brought fresh rein
forcements to the strife torn island
despite the Indonesian threat that
such action would be answered
with a general uprising. The Brit
ish took over all main railway sta
tions at Tandjong, Pricj, and Ba
tavia to facilitate the movement of
supplies.
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"oup of civil i.u and military ex
perts, appointed a year a o, who
have .iust made a reconc! r
their Euro > .01 stn
"ho bloodchilling nc<>::nt of the
horrors modern war vl its on ci
vilians, Member- of the survey
are now making a similar study in
Japan.
The German report discloses
that fire was the great killer in
air raids and that an estimated
five hundred thousand persons
died in German cities under the
air attacks.
High Command
Thot Japs Would
liomh Seattle
WASHINGTON. Dec. 12 —The
U. S. high command expected the
Japanese to bomb airplane factor
ies in Seattle and San Diego,
rather than Pearl Harbor, in 1941,
General George C. Marshall dis
closed.
Questioned by the joint Con
gressional Pearl Harbor investi
! gating committee, the wartime
Chief of Staff testified that he and
other high oficers thot that way
early in December of that year. “I
assumed Guam would be taken,
and probably Wake, though the
taking of Wake island would be
more difficult. There was a pos
sibility that an effort would be
made to strike at the Panama
Canal, and our airplants in Seattle
and San Diego.’’
Gen. Marshall said he thought
“the most improbable” form of
the Japanese assault would be
what actually happened—a blow
at Hawaii.
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Je*i!l h Program
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12—f/P)—
Pacific Coast states and Alaska
will have nearly eight and a half
million annually for the construc
tion of hospitals and health cen
, ters, if the Senate approved fed
I eral hospital bill becomes a law.
They will have to match federal
; funds. It provides Alaska with a
Federal allotment of thirty-seven
thousand, if it contributes the
same.
\ ictory Bond Sales
Top Quota
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 —The
Treasury department announced
Tuesday that sales in the Victory
Loan to date total seventeen bil
lion, two hundred seven million
dollars. This is 156.4 per cent of
the eleven billion dollar overall
goal.
Seattle Paper
i Strikers Negotiate
i SEATTLE, Dec. 12— (/P) —No
' issues were settled, but a union
strike committee said “satisfac
tory” progress was made yester
day in the conference between
the publishers of the three strik
bound Seattle papers and the
members of the striking AFL Ty-«
pographical Union.