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...laden trucks moved through gutted Tokyo's waterfront area. A group of Jap officers barked orders to bewildered laborers, who unloaded the trucks, dumped heavy metal bars into the bay. One worker overheard the officers discussing a treasure in gold, silver and platinum worth 30,000,000,000 yen ($2,000,000,000) "for use in building up a greater Japan after things quiet down...
Undergraduates with a yen for journalism are invited to appear at 14 Plympton Street Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock for the start of the Crimson's spring competitions for the news, photographic, and business boards. More complete details will be found in Thursday's issue...
...travelers, he maintained concentration camps. He was an honest man, scorning the traditional "squeeze." Once he discovered a close friend's malfeasance, invited him to dinner, had police arrest him, testified against him in court, had him shot. Friend and foe said of Tai: "Sha jen pu cha yen citing-He can kill a man without blinking...
Tokyo's police began diligently searching for a suspect. Conspicuously missing with 600 yen of Nizaemon's postal savings was the servant girl's brother, a pale, stringy youth named Iida who served as the actor's make...
Four days later police found Iida. He was calmly reading a newspaper account of the murder in an out-of-the-way country inn. Sure, he admitted, he did the job: Nizaemon had refused to let him use his sister's 15,000-yen inheritance. It had taken him, he said, only one stroke of the ax to kill Nizaemon, but rather more to cut off his wife's head. He never had liked her; she had refused to give him more than his regular ration for supper...