U.S.A. AFFAIRS

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 April 1943, Page 5

U.S.A. AFFAIRS

ARMY AND POLITICS.

NEW YORK, April 7. “General George Marshall, Chief of Staff of the United States Army, has issued new regulations prohibiting men on active duty from seeking or accepting public positions,” says the “New York Times’s” Washington correspondent. “A War Department spokesman described the order as a routine one without political implications. However, political circles in Washington express the opinion that the regulations might be aimed at General MacArthur, who is considered a possible Presidential candidate for 1944. At a Press conference to-day Mr Roosevelt declared that he had never heard of the regulations, and he wanted to know at what they were supposed to be aimed.”

The Washington correspondent of the New York “Daily News” says: “The,sudden Army decree is interpreted in the capital as a direct declaration from the White House that General MacArthur must be considered as a candidate in 1944.” The correspondent points out that General MacArthur will be 64 in January, 1944, and may be forced to relinquish his. combat command because of the compulsory retirement law, but will not be prohibited from engaging in political activity.

“BLACK” MARKET IN MEAT

NEW YORK, April 6.

A nation-wide ring of black market operators in meat was revealed when a Federal grand jury at Newark, New Jersey, indicted seven Middle West and New Jersey corporations and 11 individuals on charges of conspiracy to violate the price regulations and quota restrictions. The defendants are alleged to have brought 10,000,0001 b of meat to the New York’ area, costing consumers 2,000.000 dollars in overcharges. An investigation uncovered an elaborate black market structure in which slaughter-houses and packing establishments were purchased by a ring of conspirators and huge quantities of cattle illegally bought, slaughtered, and sold throughout the country.