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Evening star., 1927-04-29
TALE OF ACADIE'' IS REPEATED
IN BLASTING OF POYDRAS LEVEE
Prophesy of Basil the Blacksmith Con-
corning "Perpetual Peace" Is Dis
proven by Strange Coincidence.

State engineers. Instead of applying
the torch to the abandoned, spectral
cottages and settlements in the low
lands of the modern Acadie. he touch
ed off a battery Of dynamite sticks
buried in the levee near Poydras.
A deafening detonation, a volcano
of earth and water, q roar Of untram-
meled waters and the subjugation of
Louisiana's picturesque French-Ca-
madam settlements completed.
Basil the blacksmith was wrong
His prophecy Of perpetual peace and
contentment on the Bayou of Plaque
mine, where after your houses are
built and your fields are yellow with
harvests no King George shall drive
you away from your homsteads, burn
ing your dwellings and barns and
stealing your farms and your CATTLE -
has not held true.
Let Longfellow end this 1927 tale
of Acadie:
This is the forest primeval: but
where are the hearts that beneath it
leaped like the roe, when he hears in
the woodland the voice of the hunts
man?
Waste are those pleasant farms,
and the farmers forever departed. Scat
tered like dust and leaves, when the
mighty blasts of October seize them,
and whirl them aloft, and sprinkle
them far DER the ocean,"
Thus ends the sequel to the original
Tale of ACadie" "
Evening star., 1927-04-29
Children to Undergo
Tests at Many Clinics
For Physical Defects

Children will be examined for
physical defects and rec0mmen-
dations for corrective measures
Saturday, Child Health day,
from 8 TO | o'clock, at 13 clinics
throughout the city, according to
DIR. Hugh j. Davis, chairman of
the Child Health day-May day
committee Of the District of
Columbia. The clinics are To-
Gated as follows:
Child Welfare Board Clinic at
Children's Hospital, 1915 V
street northwest.
Tenleyt0wn School. WiscOn-
sin avenue at Grant road.
John Burroughs School. Eight
zenith and Monroe streets north.
east.
Miner Normal School, Georgia
avenue at Euclid street.
Nine child hygienic stations
Of the Health Department, Dis
trict Of Columbia: Georgetown
University Hospital, Thirty fifth
and y streets; 925 Twenty-second
street, $50 G street, 408 r. street
southwest, 800 Maryland avenue
northeast, 1865 Pennsylvania
avenue southeast, 1901 Talbert
street. Anac0stia; Freedmen's
Hospital, Sixth and Bryant
streets, and 1921 Georgia avenue.
Evening star., 1927-04-29
COMMUNISTS SENTENCED.
Four, Including Woman, Captured In
Raid, Given Terms.

PEKING, April 20 LP).-Four Chi
nese Communists, including one wom'
an, captured in the recent raid by
Chang Tso.Lin's agents on the Soviet
embassy compound here, were SEN
fenced by a special court today to IL
years imprisonment. Six others were
given six years each.
The sentences followed the eXecu'
ton by strangling yesterday of 20
other Chinese, one of them a woman,
arrested during the embassy COM
pound raid.
The wife and two daughters of Ii
Ta-Chao, one of those executed yes
terday, were released today. together
with number of others. None of the
Russians detained by the raiders have
yet been sentenced.
Senator Hiram Bingham Of Connec-
ticut, after an Interview with Marshal
Chang Tso-Lin, the Northern Chinese
leader, yesterday, was the guest of the
Anglo-American Association at lunch
con today. He said he was keenly in
terested in the present situation in the
Orient. and hopes to visit various
Yangtze ports and the Philippines be-
fore starting for home
Evening star., 1927-04-29
LARCENY Is CHARGED
TO ROBBERY "VICTIM"
Report of Hold-up Made to Cover
Alleged Shortage in Employers
Accounts, Police Say.

John Cartright KeeJa, 80 years old,
OF 230O Eighteenth street. who report
ed to the police January 10 that he
was held up at the point OF a pistol
in rear of his home. robb d of $3.50.
is reported by the police to have ad-
mltted the report TO cover up an al
legged shortage. He is said to have
made the admission when arrested
lsat night by Detectives b. w. Thonp
son and George Darnall on charges Of
embezzlement and larceny after trust.
keeie was in the employ of William
r: Yost, lumber merchant at 1894
Eleventh street southeast, and fs
charged with having converted s73 OF
ms employers money to his own use
Inc other charge is that he kept sl25
en e,1 rusted 10 his keeping by George
Stewart, 1911 North Carolina avenEe
northeast, also an employe of the hIrn-
ber firm.
Evening star., 1927-04-29
MRS. SNYDER SOBS
|. ON WITNESS STAND
Breaks Down After Her
Counsel Calls Her to
Accuse Gray.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
QUEENS COUNTY COURTHOUSE
New York, April 29.-Mrs. Ruth Sny'
der broke into tears on the witness
stand today while laying the blame for
the murder Of her husband on her
lover, Henry Judd Gray.
Mrs. Snyder took the stand calmly
and was sworn. Justice Scudder re-
minded her that she did not have TO
testify unless she wished.
Edgar +. HaZelton. her counsel, re-
piled that she wanted to testify and
then he began questioning her.
She answered questions in a cool.
slow voice that could be heard
throughout the room.
Gray Looks at Floor.
Henry Judd Gray. her codefendant
and former lover. kept his gaze on
the floor as she spoke.
The first questions dealt with her
life before she was married
She told Of meeting her husband
and of the places she lived with him
in a voice Of ordinary conversational
when did you have your first
trouble with your husband?"
about two months after our mar
riage"
"Did you know his first fiancee' who
died?"
'I heard Of her"
what did he say about her?'
"He said she was the finest woman
he had ever known"
Named Boat for Her.
''He named his boat for herr"
''Yes"
Were there pictures of her in your
homer"
Eyes"
AS the questioning went on Mrs.
Snyder's voice became lower and sud
denly she burst into tears.
She quickly got herself in hand and
the questioning went on.
did you and your husband quar-
rel after the child was born?'
Constantly"
The witness voice was harsh now
and there was bitterness in her tones
as she told of having no servants and
doing all the housework herself.
Evening star., 1927-04-29
Diplomatic and Consular Jealousy
Brings Changes on Personnel Board

BY giving the consular service
equal representation with the diplo-
matte service on the important Per-
sonnel Board, the State Department
has endeavored to remove a cause for
personal jealousies between the mem.
bers of the two services.
While State Department officials
say that the changes in the Person
mel Board were made in accordance
with the rules governing it, consular
officers have made no attempt in the
past TO conceal their dissa atisfaction
over alleged determinations shown
against them in the matter of foreign
service appointments. This controver.
sy reached head recently when Law
renee Dennis, former charge daffairs
In Nicaragua, submitted his resgna-
ton.
William r. Castle. jr.. Assistant
Secretary Of State, replaces j. Butler
Wright, newly appointed Minister to
Hungary, as a member OF the board.
Evening star., 1927-04-29
THREE GET Is YEARS EACH
FOR ROBBING GROCERY
Fourth of Band Given 10 Years.
Had Escaped to New Jersey
in Stolen Car.

Justice Hoehling in Criminal Divi-
sion / today sent three colored youths.
George Butler, Alvin Jordan and
Lewis Simms, who robbed a Sanitary
Grocery Store March 5 and escaped
in a stolen automobile, TO the peniten.
tiary for Is years each. and one for
10 years. Bernard Higgs. This SEN
tence was imposed on the robbery
charge and on the six other charges
of stealing automobiles, the four were
given a total of 10 years to run con-
currently with the robbery sentence
After robbing the store the negroes
were caught at Camden, n. j., and the
local police notified.
Justice Hoehling declared that rob-
berry with the aid Of a deadly weapon
is but one step short of murder. Had
any of the three clerks in the store
attempted to defend himself he might
have been killed. Such crimes, the
court said, are too prevalent in Wash.
ington and he is determined to dis.
courage them by giving severe SEN
tences in cases coming before him.
Evening star., 1927-04-29
HEADS D. C. ARTS CLUB.
Frederick v. Coville Elected Pres.
ident for Ensuing Year.

Frederick V. Coville was elected
president Of the Arts Club of Wash
ington yesterday for the ensuing
year. AT the annual meeting of the
club, held in the evening, the result
Of the election. in addition to the
choice Of Mr. Coville, was announced
as follows: William I. Deming, vice
president James Otis Porter, record.
ing secretary; William Partridge, cor.
responding secretary; Edward Hood
Watson, treasurer.
The following were elected mem
bers OF the committee on admissions
for their respective classes of mem.
bership: For architecture. Osgood
Holmes; for drama, Ella l.. Ostrander;
for industrial arts, NJ. Lillian Burke;
for lay members, Mrs. Waldon Faw.
sett; for literature, Theodore f. Gan
non; TO" music, Mary Alsop Cryder
for painting. Annie d. Kelly, and
ICt sculpture, Mrs. William Penn
Gre "son.
Evening star., 1927-04-29

William J. Norton, consul general,
is the new chairman of the board, re-
placing Hugh Wilson, now Minister
to Switzerland. G.. Rowland Shaw of
the diplomatic service takes the
vacancy caused by the promotion of
Mr.. Norton.
other members of the board are:
Joseph c. Grew, Undersecretary of
State; Wilbur J. Carr, Assistant Sec
retary of State, charged with the
consular service. and William Daw
son, consul general.
AS constituted the board now has
IN it two representatives of the diplo-
matte service, two from the consular
service and two who belong to
neither. In that respect it Is re-
garded as an impartial board 1t is
understood that Mr.. Dawson, how
ever, soon will be given an appoint
ment abroad, thus leANfng another
vacancy 10 be filled in the near
future.
Evening star., 1927-04-29
BLOSSOM PICTURES
BY AIR SETS MARK
Evening Star Serves Win
chester Throng in Few
Hours in Rush Flight.

Photographs OF events at the apple
blossom festival at Winchester, Va,
taken late yesterday morning were
returned to the Valley City a few
blossom edition Of The Evening Star,
transported from Washington in 40
minutes in the big monoplane of the
Potomac Flying Service, Inc, at
Hoover Field here.
Pilot Herbert Fahy. who valiantly
fought a high wind the previous
afternoon in an effort to get the news
papers to their destination by air, was
more successful yesterday. He carried
load of 900 pounds, distributed in
bundles of so papers each, in the two
cabins Of the big ship
Quick Trip for Pictures.
The photographs We're rushed to
Washington in the Flying Services
little Waco passenger plane, piloted
by Lowell Tarding, former Army
and air mail pilot. and carrying Henry
a. Berliner, president of the company.
The Waco left for Winchester about
$3.50 o'clock and returned with the
plates shortly before noon. The
as minutes.
In addition to giving The Stars
readers in Winchester up-to-the-min-
ute facts and photographs of the big
annual event, the airplane arrange
ment created a precedent for CONNER
cial aeronauticS, as far as Washing
ton Is concerned. In the past mill
tary planes have Cooperated with
The Star in flying papers and pho
tographs because no commercial or
ganization was in existence here to
undertake the work.
While such flights as pilots Hard
ing and Fahy undertook for The Star
yesterday and the day before occur
almost daily in the Middle West and
Far West where commercial aviation
is in the lead, the Flying Services
performance is believed to be the first
of its kind ever demonstrated here.
First of Rush" Flights.
Mr.. Berliner today expressed pleas
ure with the undertaking and pointed
to it as being only the first. of many
cross.country and rush" flights that
commercial aviation in this vicinity
is in a position to accomplish.
"Such flights" he declared,
should serve to impress upon the
people of Washington the need for an
airport to house commercial aviation
and the need for an airport close to
the center Of the city" Mr.. Berliner
is president of the District Chapter,
National Aeronautic AsSocia ton,
which Is actively interested in obtain
ing the swampy land between Hunter
and Gravelly Points. opposite Hams
Point, as the site for Washingtons
future airport.
Evening star., 1927-04-29
MAN EXONERATED
IN WOMAN'S DEATH
Fall Down Steps Fatal to
Mrs. Frances Thomas,
q Coroner'S Jury Finds.

After hearing Robert Lee Mating
". "95 Second street southeast, recite
the occurrences during his visit Tues
dav Ia the home or Mrs. Frances
Thomas. 81 years old. who died last
night In George Washington Univer-
Sjty Hospital from injuries sustained
~ fall down the cellar steps Of her
home. S52+ Benton street, Tuesday
afternoon. a coroner's jury at an in
quest today eNonerated Mattingly
from blame in the death, pronouncing
il accidental. due 10 the fall.
Asattirc(y, taking the stand before
Coroner hewitt az The instance Of his
counsel. Bertrand Emerson. jr.. stated
ghat he made the visit TO inquire into
the health of Oscar Thomas. husband
q tne deceased. who had been Ill for
some Ipe as the result Of an opera:
s5on.
Tells Of Having Drinks.
While there he said he had two
drinks and Mrs. Thomas had three
drinks of liquor, He had broken
sett>n by sitting on il and was fixing
& when Mrs, Thomas left the room,
sa5~c presumably 70 bed, having COM
planned ~ feeling sick.
IN route - his home, he said. he
te.r that ihe liquor might have been
poison. ANA accordingly sent a tele.
phone message 10 the husband. At.
icvUv John S!rica was associatd with
defense counsel and Assistant United
States Attorney Albert A. Stern rep.
resented the Government.
Found by Husband.
Nrs. Thomas was found by her hus.
band and l2-year-old son, Oscar Thorn.
= a fNfNe .NT {vH
her home Tuesday afternoon, suffer
Ing from q head injury. A cash in
The scalp had resulted in the loss of q
large amount Of blood. She was TAX.
an 10 George Washington University
Hospital. where. from the outset. ply
sicians held out little hope for her
recovery.
An anonymous telephone message
had brought her husband TO the scene.
lie was at the time below Four Mile
Run, working on a dredge of a sand.
dredging company, and 1t took him
three hours to reach his home. Dur
ing this time, it is believed, Mrs.
Thomas was without assistance
Mattingly, former neighbor of the
Thomas family, who was located by
Detectives Cole and Messer from the
description furnished the husband by
Benton street neighbors, was taken
into custody at his home Tuesday eve.
ming. He admitted sending the tele.
phone message. but declared that
when he left the house he was under
the belief that Mrs. Thomas had been
made Ill by something she drank and
had gone upstairs to bed. His visit, he
told the detectives, was motivated by
neighborly interest. and Capt. Thomas
also told detectives that Mattingly
had been accustomed to visit at their
home about a year ago, before the
Thomas family moved from the South
east section to the Benton street resi-
dence.
Mrs. Thomas is survived by her
husband and two songs. Thomas, 10
years old. and Oscar, 12 years old.
Evening star., 1927-04-29
CAN'T BREATHE YET,
GASPS ROANOKE BOY
Boothe Enters Ninth Day, With
Friends Still Propelling Arms
to Send Air to Lungs.
BY the Associated Press.

DS tHS AosOcldtEu 1IBSSs
ROANOKE, Va, April 29.-Walter
Boothe. the 1S-year-old farmer, entered
the ninth day of living through artifl-
fetal respiration at noon today.
Just before last midnight he took
a turn for the worse. Doctors rushed
to his bedside and one of the most
proficient team of workers was put
into service. He soon rallied and at
2 o'clock this morning said: I'm feel
ing fine"
Young Boothe is serene. He strives
with every ounce of his strength to
take air into his lungs and to make
them resume their normal functions,
but he simply cannot do it. Workers
have ceased pumping his arms for as
much as five seconds at q time, calling
upon him to breathe.
Il just can't do it, he gasps.
A pulmotor was used. too, but 1t
proved of no avail. Physicians said it
would be helpful, they thought, if he
were unconscious. When conscious
the subject has muscular reactions
which cause the epiglottis to close
over the larynX.
Evening star., 1927-04-29
HANKOw CONDITIONS IMPROVE
Hough Reports Foreigners Urged
to Reopen Business.
Br the Associated Pres.

BY the Associated Press.
Although anti-foreign agitation pre-.
vailed yesterday at Hankow when the
foreign banks failed to open their
doors, general conditions at that port
are improved, Admiral Hough, COM
manding the American patrol on the
Yangtze river, advised the Navy De-
partment today.
Chinese and Nationalist officials
were trying to persuade foreigners to
resume business, realizing that the re-
opening of such business now is prac-
tically the only source from which
their government could obtain money,
the dispatch said.
Admiral Hough said little confidence
was being placed upon the promises
and assertions of the Nationalist Off
cials TO protect foreign business
concerns.
Evening star., 1927-04-29
FALL KILLS PUGILIST.
Jazwinski Drops From Train--At-
tended Legion Meeting Here.

DUNCANNON. Pa. April 30 L4o).--
James Gus" JaZwinski, 1yweight
boxer of Grand Rapids, Mich. was
killed last night when he fell from the
observation car of the Red Arrow ex-
press at Cove Allen. near here.
The boxer, with his manager and a
group of other athletes, was en- route
West from Washington, where they
had attended an American Legion
meeting. Reports differed as to how
the man came to fall from the train,
and at first the report was considered
a practical Joke.
Evening star., 1927-04-29
GOODWILL FLYERS
ON WAY TO LANGLEY
Abandon Plan to Visit Washington
and Are Going Direct to
Virginia Field.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
WILMINGTON, n. c., April %
The pan-American goodwill flyers,
finishing their long journey through
out South and Central America. hop
ped off at 1920 o'clock this morning
for Langley Field, Va.
The flyers had some trouble getting
into the air this morning, due to a
southwest wind. The first plane got
off from the Carolina Shipyards.
where they were moored overnight
at 1905 am. and 1t was 1920 before
the fourth was in the air.
Maj. Dargue had planned to hop
directly from Wilmington to Wash
ington, but at the last minute an
nounced that he had received orders
to stop at Langley Field.
Evening star., 1927-04-29
Blind Ex-Attorney Sentenced.

Louis G.. Taylor, blind former mem.
Der OF the bar, was sentenced today by
Justice Hoehling in Criminal Division
| TO serve three years in the peniten-
tlary. The sentence was suspended
ana Taylor was placd on proba zion.
Before his disbarment, Taylor embez-
Zled $4,000 of the estate Of Herman
Markovitz which came into his hands.
L1S ADMITTED the charges f.&a
Evening star., 1927-04-29
Heads Calvert Schools.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

HYATTSVILLE. Md. April %
Frank d. Day of Hyattsville. since
1920 a member of the faculty of
Hyattsville High School, has accepted
the position of superintendent of
schools for Calvert County. Md. AT
the local school he taught agriculture
and served as an instructor in agri-
cultural education and as n critic
2cher at the University of Maryland
He also has taught in the Summer
schools of that university each year
since 1920. In addition to instructing
at Hyattsville High Mr.. Day has been
director of athletics and a successful
coach.
Evening star., 1927-04-29
COTTON MEN TO ASK CASH

LIVERPOOL, April 29 Cp.-A re.
port was current here TODAY that a
movement was on foot for the cotton
brokers and merchants to combine
and sell raw cotton for cash instead
Of the usual credit.
The contemplated step, It was said,
was brought about by abnormal con.
dltions in the cotton industry. with.
drawal Of loan money from the mills
and repeated reference to morato-
RUINS.
Evening star., 1927-04-29
GALES CLAIMS ABILITY
TO QUELL OUTBREAKS
Mexican President Tells Labor
Delegates That Present Agita-
tion Is Not Important.
By the Associated Press.
NTEyICn C,TTV N,,,,;t

MEXICO CITY. April 29.-President
Gales told a group of delegates of the
Regional Confederation Of Mexican
Labor last night that the agitation
disturbing the country at present
was unimportant and that the govern.
ment considered itself strong enough
to quell the disorders and punish the
guilty.
The delegates called at the nation
al palace to deliver protest against
the recent Guadalajara train outrage,
and TO offer the president labor's &C.
tive support. Acknowledging this of.
fer he said the government would
seek the active cooperation of labor
when it faced a real menace. but
meanwhile he asked the Regional
Confederation to assist in wedding
out undesirable elements.
Evening star., 1927-04-29

Continued from First Page)
have been taken In the raid. At the
headquarters of Marshall Chang Tso-
Lin it was stated that some OF the
documents contained instructions for
hiring "spies" at the British, Amer
ican and Japanese legations to OBJ
tain information.
Others were pointed out by the
Northerners to show that the Com
munists were seeking to bring about
the bolsheviZation of China by or
ganizing the peasantry. by economic
strikes and by the development of a
political anti-imperialistic struggle.
COHT1TU'NVSTS cENTENCEn
Evening star., 1927-04-29
CHARGE AGAINST SINGER
DISMISSED IN FLORIDA
Allegation 81, 100000 Was Obtain.
ed by Land Frauds Held
Not Sustained.
By the Associated Press.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, April
29.-Charges of obtaining $500, ,00O
sider false pretenses against Paris E
Ginger heir to the Singer sewing ma.
chine fortune and president of the
Palm Beach Ocean Realty Co, were
dismissed today at a preliminary hear.
ing before T. NJ. Houghton, justice of
the peace.
The charges, which were made by
investors in property sold by the realty
company last year, were not substan.
tiated, it was held.
The complainants alleged that fraud
existed in the sale of the lots in Palm
Beach Ocean, Palm Beach sllbdivi.
sion, because Singer had not com.
pieted improvements on the property
Evening star., 1927-04-29
WOMAN IS ATTACKED.

Suffering from n severe wound in
The right side of her head and pos
sibly a fracture of the skull Mrs.
Nettie Witherspoon, colored, As years
old, was found unconscious in her
home at 1880 Eighteenth street about
1880 o'clock this morning. She was
found by her mother, who notified
the police. She was taken to Emer-
gency Hospital.
Police examined the Eighteenth
street premises and found hatchet
had been used in an attack upon the
woman. Her husband is sought by
the police for questioning.
Evening star., 1927-04-29
SHERIFF AND II DEPUTIES
SEIZE GANGSTER BlRGER
Machine Guns Taken Along, but
Illinois Outlaw Makes
No Resistance.
BY the Associated Press.

HARRISBURG, H., April %
Charles Birger. gang leader, was rear
rested at his home here today by
Sheriff James s. Pritchard of Frank.
lin County and II deputies, armed
with machine guns, and taken to Jail
at Benton, where a new indictment
has been returned against Birger in
connection with the murder of Mayor
Joe Adams of West City.
Birger made no resistance. He was
out on $4,000 bond, pending trial at
Benton on a charge of completely in
the murder of Mayor Adams, who was
friend of the rival Shelton gang
sters
Evening star., 1927-04-29
BAND CONCERT.
TOMORROW

BY the United States Soldiers Home
Band Orchestra, at Stanley Hall, 5:45
o'clock, John S. NJ. Zimmerman.
leader; Emil A. Fenstad. second leader.
This will conclude the indoor concerts
Outdoor concerts will begin Monday,
May 16, at the hospital bandstand
Evening star., 1927-04-29
Other Defects Reported.

In addition to these three principal
kinds Of listed defects, the other per-
centages, DR.. Fowler reported. were:
Nasal obstruction, 1872 per cent de-
fective vision, 1875 per cent; ortho-
pedic defects, 1916 per cent; anemia,
81 per cent; parasitic or skin diseases,
Sc per cent; pulmonary, per cent;
speech, 3.8 per cent; chronic nasal
catarrh, 81 per cent; nervousness, 3.4
per cent. and heart trouble, % per
cent.
DR.. Fowler said he was particular.
ly interested in diptheria immuniza.
ton for all children of the District.
He also wished to commend the Pa
entTeacher Association for its pre-
school roundup Of children, under
which parents will be urged to have
all children going to school next Fall
examined in the child hygiene clinics
Of the Health Department. or the
Child Health Center at Children S
Hospital for possible defects, and
their suggested correction.