Total Civil War
Threatens China
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after Harbin was occupied.
Asked when government troops
would move into Dairen, Russian
occupied city scheduled to become
a jointly controlled open port un
der terms of the 1945 Sino-Soviet
treaty, Hsiung replied “I am more
anxious about that than you.”
The Chinese press in Nanking
said Chiang would persist with
his plan to hold the national as
sembly Nov. 12 as scheduled, irre
spective of whether the Commun
ists and minor parties are repre
sented. The Reds already have
said they would not attend unless
a nation-wide truce were affected.
The Democratic League has taken
the same stand.
Sitka Cathedral
Sold For Taxes
SITKA, Oct. 2. (#*)—Historic St.
Michael’s Russian Orthodox ca
thedral, the orphanage and other
church property here was auction
ed by the town clerk today to An
drew Hope, boat builder and ter
ritorial legislator, to satisfy a fed
eral court order for delinquent
improvement assessments. Hope
bid $714.28 for the cathedral. Title
will not pass for two years, dur
ing which the original owners may
redeem the property by repaying
the sales price plus 8 percent in
terest.
A quarter-inch frog, the small
est in the world, is found in Cuba,
which boasts also the world’s
smallest bird.
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NEWS IN BRIEF
VANCOUVER, B. C., Oct. 2 (/P)
Re-opening of sockeye fishing is
expected to be high on the agenda
for discussion when the interna
tional salmon commission meets
at Bellingham this Friday, James
MacDonald, secretary of the sal
mon canners operating committee,
said today.
MacDonald stressed, however,
that “the operators would rather
have an assured 10,000,000 (sal
mon) in four years time than half
a million more now.”
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2. (JP) — j
President Truman backed the
$170,000,000 community chest
campaign today, declaring it rep
resents “the very elements of
unity" toward which the United
Nations are “patiently striving.”
Appealing for “prompt, whole
hearted and universal support” of
the chest fund drive as well as the
USO, the President said in a na
tionwide radio talk last night: “we
need to demonstrate to ourselves
and to the world that unity and
good will are not just words.”
VICTORVILLE, Calif., Oct. 2
(i^P)—A coroner’s jury failed last
night to establish the cause of a
Union Pacific train wreck near
here last Thursday which killed
six persons.
Engineer Perl Parker testified
he had reduced his speed from 60
to 35 or 40 miles an hour, ap
proaching a slight curce near the
Mojave river where the derail
ment occurred, Conductor Joseph
Murphy said the limited had cov
ered the 3.6 miles between Oro
Grande and the wreck scene in
four minutes.
LONDON, Oct. 2 (TP)—The Lon
don Star said today Scotland Yard,
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called on by the American FBI to
help prevent leakage of atom sec
rets, raided a leading west end
hotel recently and searched the
luggage of a newly arrived Amer
ican. The story did not say what
the outcome of the search was. I
Scotland Yard said it had no
knowledge of such an incident.
TACOMA, Oct. 2. (/P)—Taco- (
ma’s transit strike went into its
second day today with 75,000 lo
cal residents still hoofing it to
work. Day long conferences yes- •
terday failed to bring a settlement |
of the dispute which the union
alleges was brought on by viola- j
tions of their contract.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 2. (JP) —
Gravely ill Cordell Hull counseled
the Big Five powers on his 75th
birthday today that they must re
place “dangerous” differences
with mutual confidence or face
“incalculable disaster.”
The frail former secretary of
state offered his advice even as he
carried on a personal struggle for
time and health to make a final
contribution to world peace.
TOKYO, Oct. 2 (/P)—Japan was
threatened today with one of the
strangest strikes of its newborn
labor movement, a nation-wide
news blackout — unless General
MacArthur prohibits it. The news
paper, news agency and radio i
workers’ union voted to strike
Saturday to support demands for
reinstatement of 31 employees of
the Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri,
discharged in a dispute over edi
torial policy.
SEATTLE, Oct. 2{/P>—The 1947
Olympic team ski-jumping trials
will be held at the Milwaukee
Road ski bowl in Snoqualmie
Pass, Dr. Edmund H. Smith, pres
ident of the Seattle Ski Club, an
nounced today. The tourney will
be held March 22 and 23. The site,
scene of the national ski jumping
championships in 1941, is the
same hill where the late Torger
Tokle leaped to an American rec-1
ord of 288 feet.
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