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East of Taiyuan, General Chen Yi, conqueror of Tsinan, finished mopping up Shantung province and formed for a southward drive on Suchow, main Nationalist stronghold across Shantung's southern border...
...testimony before a congressional committee of a onetime U.S. Communist, who declared that she had been bribed and decorated by Moscow for spying on the U.S. while the two countries were wartime allies. In London, a handful of Czech and Hungarian athletes expressed their feeling for their conqueror by refusing to return home after the Olympics and seeking asylum in Britain...
Affectionate Tone. But General Eichelberger's real triumph lay in his dealings with the Japanese people as boss of the occupation forces. At first the Japanese had feared him as a tough soldier who would probably be a hard-heeled conqueror. He showed that he could be firm; he also showed them that he was going to be fair...
Battling Nelson, the Durable Dane, lightweight champion from 1908 to 1910, conqueror of Young Corbett and Joe Gans in boxing's palmy days, shuffled out of Cook County Hospital, Chicago, after a five-day bout with pneumonia, back to his job as a mail clerk...
Died. Gertrude Atherton, 90, shockproof, indefatigable novelist and social chronicler; in San Francisco. She scored her first success in 1902 with The Conqueror, a novelized biography of Alexander Hamilton, later established her name with her historical novels and social histories of California. In 1923 she hit the jackpot with her top bestseller, Black Oxen, which described her own sexual rejuvenation by X-ray treatment...