Show LI l. A 1 CHINATOWN DUE TO VANISH Space Included Included in in I Civic Center enter LOS ANGELES Deco Dec 11 AP los Angeles Angeles' Chinatown and celebrated cele- cele I cele-I rated Plaza each rich In colorful history of ot the early days are facing I I destruction as the hand of progress moves mO onward The Tho two are within the forty blocks where will be bo spent on a a. civic center and union I i railroad terminal the plans for tor which call for demolition of virtually all aU buildings now standing and re reconstruction reconstruction reconstruction re- re I construction so as to conform in architectural design It was on the Plaza that the MexIcan Mexican Mex Nex- ican governor Felipe De Neve Senora Senora Senora Se- Se founded El EI Pueblos Pueblo's De nora De Reyno Lo La LOs Ls Angeles September 4 4 1781 It was the scent scene of the marriage of ot Pio Pico Ca California's Cali Cali- fornia's fornias famous Mexican governor donor r- r Here it was that the official docu dono document ment was read making Los Angeles instead of Monterey the a athe capital orthe or ot the state In 1849 a weary road-weary courier shouted from the Plaza that gold had been discovered In northern California T Two days later the dusty throat of Pass was choked with wealth seekers and only twelve persons personS' were left here Life Lite about the Plaza has not al- al always al always ways been happy Eighteen Chinese Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- nese were wera hanged here in 1871 during during dur dur- Jn ing a n. race raco uprising Chinatown wn adjoining the paza Plaza contains Fergusons Ferguson's alley Apablasa and streets where young Chinese trade with tourists nd old men sit silently puffing putting at stemmed long-stemmed pipes Ten years will be required to com- com the reconstruction reconstruction program program but already demands are being made to to td save the Plaza It appears certain however that the old tunnes tunnes tunnes tun- tun nes and underground chambers to which the Chinese settlers fled at any suspicion of r recurrence of t the he heI massacre of 1871 must roust surrender I I to steam shovels the secrets they have hoarded for decades I |