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...single Chinese province of Anhwei, 250 miles remote from Nanking, 3,000,000 Chinese were last week reported starving. "It is distressing to walk the streets these days with misery and Death everywhere," reported George Birch, China Inland Mission worker. "Two-thirds of this area is without food and the remainder is approaching the same condition. I hear such things as five of a family of seven starved to death. A man climbed a hill to cut fuel and fell dead. Women with babies, exhausted and despairing, laid down to die." *The President's adopted son, James Lin, postgraduates...
...Golden Anniversary Banquet of the Inland Daily Press Association in Chicago, Publisher William Allen White of the Emporia (Kans.) Gazette observed his own golden anniversary as a newsman by saying: "In these 50 years we have seen what seemed a successful system grow slowly and mount steadily to a fair approximation of justice. Then out of God knows where came the change. . . . Where did the money come from? And where the devil has it gone? I am without rudder, anchor or compass. I don't know what is the matter...
...Canberra, the bleak inland capital that has already cost Australia more than $50,000,000, a "southerly burster" caught up with Gloucester, raised floods that temporarily marooned him in Great House, gave him a case of catarrh. He had to cancel a few engagements with the "outback country...
...China were the John C. Stams. Both children of Protestant churchmen, they looked remarkably alike: serious, firm-jawed young people with tortoise-shell glasses. Married 14 months ago, Mrs. Stam had her first child, a girl, by a caesarean operation, last September. Outposters of the interdenomi national China Inland Mission, they taught the way of the Lord in Tsingteh in Southern Anhwei Province, 200 miles from Nanking, which is Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's stronghold of law & order...
...curious situation about Lane is that he started his life on the Varsity as a tackle, and remained as such until after the third game of the season. Then Adam Walsh decided that there were plenty of tackles and not enough guards, so Mr. Lane moved inland...