Evening Star Newspaper, October 8, 1930, Page 20

7500 N HORDE RAVAGING KIANGS Southern Province City of Kian Burned and Others Seized by Reds. By the Associated Presa. SHANGHAIL Octeber 8.-—Southern Kiangsi Province was being ravaged to- day by a Communist horde numbering 75,000. Forty thousand reds were reported to have captured and burned the im- portant City of Xian and to have taken numerous smaller cities in the vicinity. ‘The fate of the inhabitants was not determined. * Numerous British missionaries are ac- tive in the Kian area, but no Ameri- cans are believed to be there. Smaller numbers of well armed Com- munists were within 10 miles of South | Wi Nanchang, increasing the tensifon in Nanchang, the provincial capital. Started Week Ago. 8igns of Red activity in Kiangsl ap- peared about a week ago, when 40,01 armed Communists were reported mo ing into that province from Hunan. Red forces a few weeks previously had ' looted and burned a large section of Changsha, Hunan capital. Defense trenches were hurriedly thrown up about Nanchang when fears arose that the 40.000 Reds would attack the capital. There were but 2,000 troops available for its defense. Ameri~ can and British residents were said to be anxious to leave Changsha in the face of a continued Red menace, but BALTIMORE WINS SPELLING BEE WHEN “ACOLYTE” STOPS FOE Capital City Team Now Even With Waverly Club in Series of Four Matches.’ Although the word “acolyte” can legitimately mean “a novice,” it can- not, by any stretch of Websterian in- dulgence, be spelled in novice manner. is inescapable little fact settled the issue of an old-fashioned spelling bee last night between the Waverly Spelling Club of Baltimore and the Capital City’ Spelling Club of Washington. ‘With two matches divided, Washing- ton having won the first tilt and Balti- more the second, theoutcome of the deeisive third match hinged upon the correct. gelung of the word “acolyte.” Miss Elizabeth Dulin, the last sur- vivor of the local team, confronted b: threeword-minded Baltimoreans, trippe over the last syllable, spelling the word with an “L.” A moment later Francis E. Old, jr, supported by Edward L. Koontz and Carroll A. Royer, spelled the word correctly. A silver cup, contributed by the local team, was awarded the Baltimore club, The contests, held twice a year for the past two years, are now all square, having won both of the 1929 events and Baltimore having coun- tered with two victories this year. Dr. George B. Woods, dean of Ameri- can University, presented the list of contested wore ‘while the contest was portation Reds above Hankow yesterday at-| tacked the United States gunboat Panay, which was on patrol near Yochow. The Reds fired with trench mortars from behind dikes, but the Panay silenced them with 3-inch guns. There were no_casualties aboard. Communists between Kiukiang and | Hankow continue their indiscriminate firing upon passing boats regardless of fers virtually the only route of trans-| to Yi | | judged by Mrs. Rita Morris, K. W. Krause and Willlam H. McCormick. The contests will be resumed next April and October. . WILL ROGERS WILL MISS HASKELL-KANSAS GAME Sends Telegram Saying “Us Injuns Has Got to Stick Together”—S8till Has Hopes of Getting Country. By the Assoclated Press. LAWRENCE, Kans., October 8.—Will Rogers would like to join the rest of the Cherokees Friday in watching Haskell Institute break a foot ball truce of _.early three decades with the Uni- versity of Kansas. The cowboy humorist will miss the game and two-day pow-pow of the tribesmen here because movie-makign forbids. “"How's ¥our foot ball team?” gers asked officials of Haskell, a Gove! ent Indian School, in a telegram yesterday. “That's about all-there is in colleges nowadays. But anyhow us Isjuns has got to stick together. I still got hopes of us getting bacl: the country some day. The“ Republicans can’t make a living on th Just Think of It— The Star delivered to your door every evening and Sunday morning at 1%c per day and 5¢ Sunday. Can you afford to be without this service at this cost? 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