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TWO ALUMNI OF UNIVERSITY ARE IN CHINA Plumner Mills and H. B. Refo Having Adventures with the Chinese FORMER "Y" SECRETARY Carolina Man Was in Hankow When Cantonese Cap -usc Plumner Mills and H. B. Refo, alum ii of the University of South Carolina, are having adventures in the midst of the Chinese situation at the present time. Mr. Mills was formerly Y.M.C.A. sec retary of the University. He has bee. stationed at Hankow and was there when the city was captured by the Cantonese recently and went through the riot and bombardment subsequent to the taking of the city. He was the last European to leave the city, staying with some Chinese friends after all the other Europeans had been evacuated by the British and American troops. Mr. Mills tho'ight that lie could re main in the city and possibly protect sonic of the property of the Y.M.C.A. there. He found however that his efforts would be in vain and fiially escaped the city disguised in Chinese garments. He is now located in Japan waiting to see what development comes from the pres cnt situation. Mr. Mills is known to a good many of the students :in the upper classes of the University from his recent visit to the University where he spoke in chapei wiile on furlough to America. Henry Refo is stationed at Canton, in the midst of the home of the revolution He is touching at the Cantonese Christ ian college. Part of the money for Mr. Refo's expenses is furnished by the Uni versity Y.M.C.A. each year. The Y sent Mr. Refo a check last November, but the check was never cashed. Inquiries were sent out to see what had become of him as it was known that there had been some trouble at Canton. The latest reports say that lie is still at Canton. The college has been forced to close it's doors for the time being oii account of the trouble. Most of the women mis sioiaries have been sent out to a place of safety but the men are remaining to see if there is any thing that they can do. Mr. Refo has had a number of ad ventures since lie went to China. He served as a Red Cross main during the first part of the present trouble. A let ter to friends tell of some of his adven tures there. He went swimming ont between the lies of the contending forces. Both sides mistook him for one of the other And began firing on him. He owed his life to the fact that could swim a long way under water and to thie poor marksmanship of the Chinese fore es. He finally managed to get out about a mile from where he had left his clothes. He lost his clothes but was supplied with more by Chinese friends. Mr. Re fo graduated at the Universits in 1920. He served on a niumb)er of Y conimittees while at the University. HeI began to thliink of the foreign field in 1919, while at Blue Ridge and finially decided to go to China. Uponi reachinig such a dlecision., he went to the Student Volunteer con ference at Des Moines. He was boxing champion of the Univer sity andh servedl 11 months in France (luring the war as a dloughboy. Press Club Pulls Party Last Night Six Cars Carry Merry Crowd to Dance at Adams' Pond The Press club held its annual out ing at Adam's pond last night. Theli six cars did not leave the campus until nearly nine o'clock. 'On arriving at the pond, a p;honio graph was produced and there was (lancing andl swimming. The p)arty b)roke tip at eleven. Mrs. Beard, matron at Melton Hall, was chaperone. Among those present were: Misses Louise Thomias, Irene Shaver. Eiiily J. Hughes. Mayre Wall. Elizabeth Phillips, Sura Wolff and [Toy Eargle ; Lee Crocker, W. J. Trhoimas, Lawrence Murden, Harold Hent., Whitney 'Thiar in, Burton Shook, Ben Kaplan, and W. B. Moor. National Delegate Speaks to Women Only South Carolina Represen tative at Cornell Meet of Women's Association Miss Eirene Mayers, who attended the fifth National Conference of Ameri can College Women as the only repre sentative of Soath Carolina, spoke to the Women's Athletic Association, Mon (lay afternoon in Davis College. The meeting of the Association was held at Cornell University, beginning on April 21st, and continuing through April 24th. The two hundred and fifty represein tatives, from one hundred and ten col leges and universities, were met at the station by the Corneli girls who took then to the campus, where they were as Sig-fied to rooms and made to feel at home. There were meetings at which the business of the Association was con ducted, some of the meetings under discussion were: finances, inter-collegiate athletics, aid the point system. Var ious standards and idealr were decided upon and summed up at the conference. 'lie sixth National Conrference will be held in 1930 at the University of Mich igan. The long hours spent in the meetings of the conference were more than com pensated for by the teas, banquets, and dance given for the delegates. The Cor neli students also presented the dele gates with tickets to a baseball game which was played in: the snow. Another enjoyable part of the stay of the delegates, at Cornell, was a trilp to Fnfeld Glen, where a lunch was served to the delegates after which a trip to the falls was enjoyed. Phone 6061 Service CHARLIE A McGHEE Tonsorit WELCOME CAROI Where You Meet Your Frien 1128 Lady Street MEI I ~This)I Stay In P PP or we make it -il|El The custom of se inilii g now been extended MMM|'those in the lower cla cient industry to pas: To know what to students' own express Duofold Pen and Pel To have earned the is our reward for serv terest. 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