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During the civil war against the Reds, Wei was made chief of the anti-Communist campaign in nine Manchurian provinces. At this point something snapped in General Wei's mind. Of his own accord, he abandoned his garrison in hard-pressed Mukden and fled to Canton, under an assumed name, with his second wife. The furious and disillusioned Gimo had him arrested and sent to Nanking to face charges. For a while, Wei dropped out of sight, but after the fall of Nanking in the last days of Chiang's mainland rule, Wei turned up in Hong Kong...
Both the varsity and the Larries from Canton, N.Y., have one NCAA game left to play. It the Committee decides to wait until the entire eastern schedule has been completed, the final selections will be postponed until Sunday, when the three committee coaches will meet at the Kenmore in Boston...
...victory gave the Crimson a 15-1-1 record in NCAA competition and may have finally clinched its first national title bid. Its two contenders for the NCAA eastern invitations, Clarkson (15-3) and St. Lawrence 915-1), meet tonight in canton...
Providence College which upset Clarkson, 4 to 3, last Saturday, played St. Lawrence last night, and the Larries and Clarkson meet tomorrow night in Canton, New York...
Died. Sol Butler, 59, onetime (1920) U.S. running broad-jump champion, one of the first Negroes to play professional football (on the Canton Bulldogs in the early '20s, with Jim Thorpe); of gunshot wounds; in Chicago. Butler, a bartender, was shot down by a customer he had thrown out for annoying a waitress...