Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1926, Page 34

3¢ THOUSANDS DYING INCHINESE FAMINE Bandit- Infested Areas Hit as Relief Funds Go for Military Roads. By the Associated Press. HANKOW, China. January Lack of rain in the central provinces | has created a condition of poverty. ! starvation and actual famine rarely | equaled in this agricultural The worst sufferers are the of Hupeh, Yunnan and with Kweichow and Hunan a second, in numbers of stricken square miles of parched unproducing Jand. The province of Honan may be in clnded in the famine districts. but for causes other than nat Ho nan’s misery is due entirely to hordes | of bandits, whose depredations have driven the farmers from their homes. | In the provinces of Yunnan and Hunan. which are also bandit-infe ed. there is indescribable distress. Tel- egrams and letters tell of thousands of persons dying on barren farms: of children being stolen and sent into hondage. of suicides, highway heries and pillaging St ing f: ers are flocking into the cities, creat. ing a grave situation In Hunan there is not a cent in the relief treasury, although the pro. ‘\n(‘M' government has received hun dreds of thousands of dollars for re- lief. Virtually all the money has heen spent in building military re Three months ago the Chinese mer. chants of Changsha donated a train 1nad of rice to the people « flicted as of Hunan time 1t ain left the tion r been heard of it destination ax is heing am\lloni ovinces according t surtax being 10 per cent 5 per cent in and | It A customs in’ the needs in some others the provinces and TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. National—"American farce, | at $:20 p.m i Fruit,” drama. at | 3orn Belasco—""Stolen iz Para and 8:20 pom. { rk — “Shooting Shad- | at $:20 pm. Petrova, vaudeville. a1 | m |5 Choos tinuous i motion | Wardman ows." mystery § Keith's—0 and § Earle—G vaudeville 11 p.m Strand—Spanish ville, continuous from 12:1 Gayety— lesque, at 2 Ly Step Along. from 1 tol Follies,” vaude and 11 p.m sst Show in Town,” bur and A:15 pm Mutual— nd the Town,” lesque. at 2:30 and S:20 p.m Realto—' Lady Winderm at 11:25 am., 1225, 335, 5 945 p.m Columbia—"The (¢ the Waiter 5 4:25, 6:10, 7 Metropolitan Infatnation a.m., 12:20, 2:20, 320, & ol nd Duchess and | a.m., 12:4 3 fike.” at 11 nd 2:45 pm “indere Kiss for ( 35 p.m Ambassador— “Infatuation.” at 6:15 8 and 9535 p.m (»mr.«l— 1 Aliey. 230 tain tion < p.m HAT need in See our from 2 —do you Books FIR E. Morrison Paper Co. 1009 T Use Our Auto Service Tory i selecting _your apartment Duildings in desirable Ineations moderats rantale /Baldness Causes $500 -Cash— THE EVENING STAR. BANDITS KILL ONE | ESCAPING POSSE | Deputy Sheriff Slain by In diana Gang in Brief Gun Battle. Will Be Sought by Scientific Means By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 25.—The ‘auses of baldness and other de. teriorations of the human thatch are to be souzht scientifically. An initial donation of $5,000 toward establishment of a “college on hair research” was announced by les Nessler, president of the American Master Hair Dressers’ A member of the fac By the Associated Press. | NEW ALBANY, Ind., | Five bandits escaping from lLanes- { ville. 10 miles weat of here, where | they had (ried to rob a bank before daylight vesterday morning, were in- | tercepted in the sireets of New Al- bany by a posse formed after local police had been advised of thefr ap- proach. In a brief gun fight which ensued Daniel Mayfield. 58. a deputy sheriff, was shot and Killed. A bullet fired by a member of the posse struck the driver of the first of two cars in which the men traveled. It swerved sharply. colliding with a tree. Two PeL ¥ _ | men jumped from it Into the second STOCKHOLM, Sweden. January 25 | prngit car and escaped toward In- (). —Crown Prince Gustavus Adol- | gianapolis. phus and his wife, Princess Louise vho are to leave for a tour of the nited States in May, will visit many | { the large cities of that cou as well as i enic wonders. hey expect to remain in the United States January v {8 too important a factor in the life. health and happinese of humanity.” the donor sald, to suffer longer the results of hap- hazard handling PRINCE COMING HERE. Swedish Throne Heir to Be Washington Late in May. in | Huge Soft Coal Production. Production of bituminous coal at high levels only occasionally reached [in the industry was reported b UnIiAuRBE L when they willigde (1 e, EEUSUEY S e repontacuby it part /for! the Orient fiom Ban: Eran- | ihe total anits e e s st otal diring the seven dayvs ended cisco, visiting Japan. 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