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...that 45,880 families had been affected in the Kansas-Missouri area, and that of these 17,075 are completely dependent on the Red Cross for rehabilitation of their devastated homes and possessions. Representing the Summer School were Miss Dorothy Chestnut of Springfield, Mo., and Aaron Butler of Pittsburg, Kan., both of them teachers in the winter near stricken sectors...
...soliciting to sign up with Sue Davis, secretary, in 1 Sever Hall. No quota has been set for the school as a whole, although the original Cambridge goal of $7,000 was doubled yesterday as a result of special appeals from Red Cross officials in Wyandotte and Jackson counties, Kan...
...told one story of a rascally old warlord who gave his favorites land belonging to others, slyly called it the first "land reform" movement. His listeners grinned delightedly. After a few more such stories, Kan mysteriously disappeared...
...months later, Kan reappeared in Nanking explaining limply that he had been "re-educated by the magnanimous people's government." He went back to his storytelling, but somehow his heart did not seem to be in it. Then one day he told his fans the story of a legendary outlaw who had killed a tiger by slamming it against a rock. "That mountain cat was tough," grinned Kan, "but no match for that rock." His audience rocked and rolled with laughter, for in Chinese the word for cat sounds very much like Mao (as in Mao Tse-tung...
Last week, Peking announced that Kan had been executed for "spreading rumors and disturbing the peace...