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Japan Typhoon Kills 22, Blows Out to SeaDampens Security Force Strike ActivitiesStorm CutsPicketingTOKYO, Sept. 14 (SS) — Onrushing Typhoon June put a clamper on strike activities by Japanese national employees at military installations in southern Japan yesterday.A union directive reportedly authorized discontinuation of the strike in areas where the impending storm was most likely to hit.At 11 a.m. yesterday pickets at Camp Chiekamauga in in Kyushu suddenly walked off the picket lines and returned to work as did strikers at Camp Kara on Southern Honshu.Stayed On dobFEAF said that employees at Ashiya AB were not on strike, but that the union had set up a loudspeaker at the gate. Reports from Brady AB said that an estimated 600 employees stayed on the job in the face of Typhoon June but that approximately 90 to 100 pickets were lined up outside the base .gate.Here in Tokyo relatively few incidents were reported in the 48-hour strike for an increase in retirement allowances which began yesterday at 6 a.m.An injury occurred yesterday at Grant Heights when a picket jumped on the hood of a jeep which had followed a sedan through the picket line. The sedan had halted and then was allowed to proceed but | pickets climbed atop the jeep,’ driven by an Army sergeant, and then fell off as it proceeded.The demonstrators reportedly scuffled with the sergeant when he alighted from the jeep to examine the extent of one of the picket's injuries but was not hurt in the melee. Thestriker - hurt his left foot and arm and was taken to a nearby hospital.Some 125 pickets participated in blockade activities with the assistance of 70 Koreans at the Tokyo Ordnance Depot. Army officials claimed that (Continued on Pfte-7, Col. 1)SEGREGATION ENDr-White and Negro 10th grade students at Technical High School In Washington, D.C., attend class together for the first time as school began yesterday* School officials said there would be members of both races in virtually every school in the District of Columbia and that teaching staffs of both races were also in many of the schools for the opening of the first term. This was the first school opening for more than 100,000 students In the nation’s capital since the Supreme Court ruling May 11 declared segregationunconstitutional. (AP Radiophoio)25th to SailFor HawaiiIn 4 GroupsSEOUL, Sept. 14 (SthArmy)Remaining troops of the 25th Div. are scheduled to leave Korea for Hawaii in four groups of approximately equal size, Eighth Army Headquarters announced today.The first group is expected to leave on the USNS General Collins Sept. 17. The Collins, which will also carry 1,080 regular rotatees, will stop at Hawaii and then continue to Seattle.The next contingent will sail from Inchon on the USNS General Muir Sept. 19,The final two groups will leave Inchon Oct. 3 on the USNS General Stewart and the USNS General Gordon, theship which sailed with the first contingent of the division onSept. 10.Saiiada to Cut KoreaUnit by ChristinasOTTAWA, Ont., Sept, 14 (AP)—-Canada will withdraw two-thirds of her infantry brigade in Korea before Christmas, it was learned today. An official announcement is expected tomorrow.PERON RECEIVES MENON .BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Sept. 14 (UP)—President Juan Peron today, received the president of the Indian delegation at the U.N., V. K. Krishna Menon, in Government House.The announcement for Canada, to be made by Defense Minister Campney, will list which units wall be withdrawn and in what order.The announcement will be made In a joint statement by Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand. The four commonwealth countries have maintained a division in Korea and plan to cut its strength by two-thirds. Britain and Canada maintain a brigade each while Australia and New Zealand form another brigade.Diem OrderStill IgnoredSAIGON, Indochina, Sept. 14 (UP)—A power struggle be-June Injures93LostTOKYO, Sept. 14 (SS)— Typhoon June, which yesterday left a wake of death and destruction as it tore across Kyushu, today was blowing itself out in, the Sea of Japan as a new typhoon brewed in the Pacific near Guam.Casualty reports from the Japanese National Police listed 22 dead, 93 injured and 19 missing as rescue workers continued to search flood-swept villages for more victims of the fading storm.Death ThroesJune; which prowled the Pacific for more than a week, was in its death throes this morning as Tokyo Weather Central downgraded it to a tropical storm.At 3 a.m. this morning June was 75 miles west of Miho on Honshu in the Sea of Japan traveling on a north-northeasterly track at a 25-miIe-an-hour clip.Weather observers said winds, which had reached a high of 140 miles an hour, this morning had decreased to 60 miiesan hour as the storm skirted the western coast of Honshu. June was expected to be off the southwestern tip of Hokkaido in the Sea of Japan tomorrow and dissipate into a low pressure area.Alerted ThousandsTokyo, which had alerted thousands of rescue workers in anticipation of possible disaster, will be hit with winds not exceeding 50 miles an hour this afternoon. Occasional rains will accompany the winds andlittle damage is expected.Weather reconnaissance aircraft today located a tropical storm 310 miles northeast of Guam which was apparently building up to typhoon proportions. Winds near its center were 65-miles an hour as it lazed toward the west at 12 miles an hour.U.S. Army authorities reported no injury to American military personnel and no damage to U.S. bases in Japan. Some 350 dependents were evacuated from housing areas at(Continued on Page 6, Col. 2)
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