Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When 30 Japanese police tried to arrest her, they were met by a one-man banzai charge by 380-pound Futubayama, until recently Sumo wrestling* champion of Japan. Once subdued (it took 30 minutes), Futubayama renounced the goddess. Jiko-san was judged a religious paranoiac, and released. But the continuing popularity of her brand of paranoia was affirmed when the unofficial "New Masses Party" loosed two assassins on Labor Leader Katsumi Kikunani, whose Tokyo unionists were preparing a general strike...
...Cawnpore, where militant Communist-and Socialist-led workers have developed some new bargaining techniques. They locked a labor inspector in an office and made a factory manager stand bareheaded in the sun for four hours until he agreed to reinstate four discharged employees. When the district magistrate ordered the arrest of 100 labor leaders, workers marched in protest, women in front. Police used lathis. Workers threw stones. When the police opened fire, six were killed. Last week 100,000 Cawnpore workers were still...
Only explanations offered by the thief are that he "enjoyed a good time" adding later that his robberies were done to aid a girl-friend to cure her of the drug habit. Only visitors to see him since his arrest have been his father and lawyer, and no further details have been available...
Since Newton, a graduate of the Law School, assumed chare of the case last Wednesday, a shroud of silence has contrasted with the earlier flurry of reports that attended Parkhurst's arrest...
...large collection of illegal drugs was seized in a police raid on Parkhurst's residence, 1572 Massachusetts Avenue, immediately after his arrest outside a Newton liquor store one week...