Asiatic Situation
I -
(Continued irom Page One*
against con'iinued Russian occupa
iton of Manchuri* mounted
spite Generalissimo Chiang Kai
Shek’s acfrmonitior. to the natan
nol to be too coweerned.
i/P) correspondent Spencer llka
vis tour* d Mutolen and said the
city had been stripped of macbin- j
ery and “any hope of China’s ■
'Central Government may have,
had of taking * over a ready-iniade '
industrial empire in Manchuria”
has bwn shattered,
a _
r
TOKYO. Feb. 27, f/FV-Saparies
cabinet, applying General Mac
Arthur’s final political purge list,
today barred from public office
the tup officials of mdustnal and
banking coiporations along with
“tens of thousands” of other war
time leaders, large and small.
In this far-reaching blow against
the ’wartime industrial hierarchy
of Japan, the new cabinet ordin
ance also disqualified officials of!
at least 14 industrial control asso- j
ciatiuns and government, ccnftrol- j
led orga nr/at ions.
The order also provided for re^ |
mov.il from office or disquali'fica-:
tion of vvaj criminals, era reel mil
itary and naval officers, members
Of army and navy secret police,!
influential members of 118 specif-!
icalb mined patriotic societies
leaders 6! wartime totalitarian
pbliU.'Etl organizations, officers of
Rare War Quelled
In Tennessee
'COLUMBIA, Ts-nn., Fen. 27, (/Pi
A tense ffiuietner.s prevailed here
today as state guardsmen and
highway patrolmen patrolled the
cfl.y to prevent a recurrence of
the shooting touched eftf by racial
friction in which 10 persons were
wounded.
All automobiles, buses and
trains entering this- agricultural
center of 11,000 population were
checked by patrolmen, who, with
the militiamen, were virtually the
only persons remaining on the
streets during the night after
Mayor Eldridge Jenham proclaim
ed an overnight curfew.
'About 300 weapons, including
various types of firearms, knives
and razers, haa been confiscated
t>y the guardsm.-n and patrolmen
in a house-to-house search of sec
tions of the city in another move
to prevent a repetition of *the
Trouble.
The loll owing ad appeared in
a country journal:
Lothi. One front tooth. Finder
pleath return immediately, be
cauthe it ith impairing the uwn
er'th‘ ttpeech
financia l and development organ- j
zationt which had a role in Dap- j
inese aggression, and governors,!
political advisers and other offi-:
cials ril formerly occupied areas.
STRIKES
At A Glance ...
Continuing labor disputes Xeep
nearly 1,000,000 workers idle. Ma
jor developments:
Automotive — Ford MoVr Co.,
and CIO UAW sign a new con
tract giving a w?ige increase of
eighteen cents aj< hour to three
thousand employees throughout
the nation. No progress is report
ed in the negotiations between
TJAW and General Motors. Efforts (
to settle the n£ lion’s longest ma-;
jor stroke.
Aut*. Parts—Negotiations break
down over a new contract. At
tempts to settle the 38-day-old i
strike of 14,000 employees of the
Timken Roller Bearing Co., Can
ton, Ohio. The company offers i
a I8V2 cents wage hike, but no
agreement has been reached on
security demands.
Transportation — New York’s
transit system operated for the
first time in a week, free of the
threat of the strike of transit
workers, after CIO transport
workers union withdrew their de
mand for collective bargaining
right for 32,000 employees of the
municipally owned subways, trol
leys, elevated railroad and bus
lines.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 27, (VPt
Federal conciliation service sought
to bring together representatives
of employers and CIO waterfront
workers m an effort to avoid tht
threatened strike ot eo^st ports
CIO international longshoremens
union. Ir accordance with the
Smith-Connally act, they notified
the gow*rnmnet of its intention to
strike. The walkout to take about
22,000 longshoremen from the wa
terfronts of. nine major Pacific
coast ports. The ‘union asked a pay
rai!tt of 35 cents an hour.
WHERE, OH WHERE?
LOGANSPORT, Ind., (/P) — Te
Earl Wilsons didn’t know for two
years where their collie dog had
gone, and still don’t, but their pet
is back home. The dog disap
peared early in 1944. A few days
age it returned with its toe nails
worn off, apparently from a long
journey.
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