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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-20
SENTENCE UPHELD.
Tribunal Explains Failure to Impose
Death Penalty.

WARSAW, Poland, June 20 R).--
Explaining the grounds on which Sorts
kowceda, young Russian student, was
sentenced to life Imprisonment for the
ASA ssination of the Russian envoy to
Poland, Peter Voikoff, the special tri-
bunal which tried him declared that
the death penalty was only proper
when a crime threatened to become
epidemic; that koweedas crime did
not give rise to such fears, and there
fore life imprisonment was sufficient.
1t was pointed out that. according to
his own declaration, Kowceda was
"avenging Russia's millions of vic.
Tins"
In connection with the court s
recommendation that the sentence be
committed to Is years Imprisonment,
the tribunal said there were extern
uating circumstances, like his youth,
and high moral character. The tribunal
was certain that after undergoing
punishment Kowceda was capable of
becoming a useful member of society.
M. Voikoff was shot and killed at
a railway station in Warsaw, June Z.
The assassination aroused a storm of
protest in Russia, and there was fur
Their indignation when it became
known that the student was not SEN
fenced to death.
Kowceda during the trial admitted
killing the envoy, but said he was not
guilty of murder. describing his act
as one of revenge for what the Boil
-shevists had done in Russia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-20
T|LDEN VICTORIOUS
IN STRAIGHT SETS
Easily Beats Pratt of Eng
land at WimbIedon-Harada
Eliminated by Landry.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WIMBLEDON. England. June 90
With only two matches of the open
ing days card in the Wimbledon
lawn tennis tournament completed.
one of the much heralded of the
eight international stars who were
seeded in the draw had been elimi-
mated .se. ~t
Takeichi Harada. Japanese, who
ranks No. in the United States, was
put out by Pierre Landry. fifth rank
ing French player. William T. Tilden,
American star, came through the first
round in easy fashion, defeating G.. A..
Pratt of England.
In the next match, Rene Lacoste
quickly disposed of the American
schoolboy, Sidney B. Wood, 6-1, 6-3,
6-1.
Tilden raced through the first round
in 40 minutes to win In straight sets
at g.. 6--1, 60.
The match was hardly more than a
practice one for Tilden, who was at no
time extended. He appeared in Won.
derful physical form during the first
two sets. but began limping slightly
in the third, and fear was expressed
by Americans among the large open
ing day crowd that his knee had again
gone back on him.
When questioned about it after the
match, however Tilden said: TITS
quite all right. There is only a slight
stiffness, which will wear off after a
few more matches"
Watson M. Washburn, veteran
American internationalist, was elimi.
mated by Hans Thinner of Holland,
6-1, Sc, S-6.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-20
EXPLORER TO SEEK
MANS PARENT RACE
DR.. Torrance, in Expedition to
Africa, Also Will Make Study
Of Tsetse Fly.


BOSTON, June 20.-Dr. Arthur
: Torrance, explorer and scientist, fel.
low of the Royal Society Of England,
who Is in Boston for brief visit,
told something today of his plans for
his expedition to Africa next Fall in
search Of the parent race of human.
kind. A secondary object will be a
study of possible methods of eliminat.
: ing sleeping sickness by efforts to ex-
terminate the tsetse fly.
The expedition, which is expected
to start from Boston about September
80. is the sequel to DIR. Torrance s
discoveries of strangely formed ma.
tives in his six months exploration
of African Jungles in 1924 and 1925.
The region which he will revisit is
in the vicinity of Lake Chard in
Northern Nigeria.
DIR. Torrance said that the normal
members of the tribe which he visited
as well as those showing abnormal
physical formations were tall in
stature. but very primitive and Of an
intelligence inferior to many other
African tribes. He had advanced the
theory that this may indicate that the
start Of the human race was in the
African jungles. He will take an X-ray
machine to aid in his study Of the
physical peculiarities.
DIR. Torrance, who is an American
and a graduate of New York Uni
versity, plans to assemble a party OF
five scientists and three big game
. hunters. 1t is expected that the
Smithsonian Institution and the Ma
tional Geographic Society will be
represented in the expedition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-20
LIEUT.. COL. DAVIS
T0LEAVE MEXICO
Officer Transferred Without
Prejudice, Says Department
About Orders.

Lieut.. Col. Edward Davis, United
States Cavalry. has baen relieved from
duty as military attache at the United
States embassy, Mexico City, and as
signed to the LIST Cavalry Division,
with station at Fort Bliss, Tex, but
before assuming his new duties will
come to this city for temporary duty
in the office of the chief of staff, War
Department. Col. Davis was recently
called to this city to confer with the
officials of the State Department in
regard to the alleged theft and
forgeries of several important commu-
nications from the department at
Washington to the embassy in Mexico
City, for whose safe custody he was
said to have been responsible. Tie
results of the investigation conducted
by officers of the State Department
were not made publ" and at it's con.
clusion Col. Davis returned to his post
in the Mexican capital. 1t that time
officials Of the War Department con-
fined themselves to the statement that
it was a matter for the State Dep;,rt-
ment entirely and so far as the War
Department was advised. Col. Davis
was not personally involved in the re-
ported irregularities.
Even in the issuance today of orders
for the relief of Col, Davis, both de-
partments declined to discuss the case
in any of its phases. The State De-
partment again declined to make pub
lie the results of it's investigation of
the matter and the War Department
confined itself to the following brief
statement on the subject:
THE War Department has no com.
ment to make, except that the relief
of Col. Davis has been effected with
out prejudice against him, for the
best interests of all concerned"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-20
PICTURES TO STRESS
RELIGIOUS THEMES
University Music School Proposes
Promotion of Fine Arts in
Church Worship.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June 21.-A larger place
for beauty in church worship is the
purpose Of a conference on fine arts
in religion, called under the auspices
of the Northwestern University School
Of Music for a five-day session at
Evanston, beginning June q.
Music and art a., the principal
themes. Minister'S directors of re-
ligious education. organists. choir
masters, church music committees
and directors of church pageantry
will attend. Fl. Augustine Smith of
Boston University is director of the
conference.
A t>.nple Of religious art will dis
play a thousand pictures j., religious
themes. Classified for every church
use, they will include sections for
children, Madonna section and gaf-
leries bearing on the life Of Christ and
Old Testament Psalms.
Many Of the pictures are reproduc.
TONS Of Titan, Da Vinci, Raphael and
other masters.
A symposium on music will set
forth the best uses of melody in wor.
ship. Practice rehearsals for church
choirs will be conducted, and printed
forms of church worship will be ex'
hibited.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-20
NORTH INDIA STORMS
HALT NONSTOP HOP
Hoare Tells Commons Further At
tempt Will Be Made About
Early Autumn.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, June pa further at
tempt by the royal air force to make a
nonstop flight to India before Autumn
is now being considered, Sir Samuel
Hoare, secretary of state for air, to-.
day told the House of Commons. bur
that as far as he could see it would
not be possible to make another at
tempt before early Autumn because OF
storms in north India.
The air secretary, who made MS
statement in reply to a question from
the floor, said that he thought that, on
the whole, 1t would be better 10 wait
for a time when no unnecessary risks
would be run.
An attempt to set up nonstop
long-distance flight record to india
was started last Saturday by Fllght
Lieuts. G. i. Carr and p. il. Mac
worth The aviators' big bombing
plane however, was forced to descend
about 100 miles from it's starting point
wheu trouble developed in the oil feed
systefn. Lieut.. Carr in a previous at
tempt to reach karachi, India, in May
was forced down in the Psyvian 4Gulfa
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-20
SIX MORS: SMALLPOX
CASES REPORTED HERE
Total Since Recent Outbreak
Reaches 3O-Five other Sus-
poets Guaranteed.

The District Health Department to-
day reported six more cases of small
pox over the week end. making a total
of 80 since the outbreak which fol
lowed the visit in Washington of q
travelling show, believed to have
brought the original case.
In addition, five suspects were re-
moved to the smallpox hospital and
quarantined.
All of the victims are colored and
all of them had been exposed to per-
sons who contracted the disease after
the outbreak
The new patients follow: James
Washington, so Patterson street
northeast: Donaldson Truehart. 629
Rhode Island avenue; Mildred and
Ana May Jones. 1903 North Capitol
street; Kueles Hopewell Gil Brewers
court, and Daniel Brooks, 113 Bowling
road.
The latter two were inmates of the
District Jail at the time a prisoner
there developed a case of smallpox.
but they had since been discharged
and kept under observation by Health
Department physicians.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-20
BUS FARE INCREASE
HEARINGS CONCLUDED

The Public Utilities Commission to-
day concluded it's hearings on the ap-
plication of the Washington Rapid
Transit Co. for authority to charge
a fiat 10-cent cash fare on its motor
bus lines.
+. j. Merrill. president and gen
eral manager of the company, the
principal witness, answered with a fiat
denial the recent charge Of Clayton
Emig, acting chairman of the public
utilities committee of the Federation
of Citizens Associations, that the
financial reverses of the company
were due to inefficient management.
Also, in answer to question by
George p. Hoover. counsel for the
company, Mr.. Merrill declared that
with 10-cent cash fare the company.
by certain economies. which it plans
to put into effect, could give addi-
tional mileage and improve service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-20
THREE BABIES DIE
| OF POISON; FIVE ILL
Food at Illinois Redemption
Home characterization
Also Affected.

By the Associated Press.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, June 90
Three babies are dead, another is be-
lieved to be dying and five others are
seriously i'll of food poisoning at the
Springfield Redemption Home, an in
stitution for infants under the care
of the courts.
Rose Ann Norbert and Betty Berg
man, both years old, died last night,
while the third death occurred early
today.
Food Is Blamed.
Food served at the Sunday morning
meal was blamed for the illness, which
affected half the children at the home.
Samples of the food have been taken
for analysis.
The home matron, Minnie Manley,
and the housekeeper, Alice Pauk. also
became ill, but their condition was not
regarded as alarming.
The Bergman baby died at the home
shortly after the illness appeared in
died at the hospital. to which she was
intendent of the home.
Under Doctors Care.
Five children remained under ply
sicians' care at the home. They were:
Ross Rusher, Lehta Miller, Margaret
Miller, Grace Reeves and Paul Wilt
sang. all under years old.
The Springfield Redemption Home
is an institution to which are sent
babies who come under the custody
of the courts here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-20
BLAZE IN CONDUIT
CUTS ELECTRICITY
Fire Occurs Outside Potomac
Electric Power Co.'s
Satisfaction.

Fire in the conduit under the street
just outside the Potomac Electric
Power Co.'S substation at Fourteenth
and G streets early this afternoon
baffled firemen and affected service in
the downtown section. Firemen were
forced to stand idle while great clouds
of smoke poured out of manholes, and
powerhouse employees worked to cut
off the high voltage travelling through
the burning cables. The lines affected
carry current from the Benning plant
to the substation.
Chemicals were finally poured into
the open manholes and the flames
were gradually subdued.
&. Melvin Sharpe, assistant to the
President Of the Potomac Electric
Power Co., said it was impossible to
ascertain the exact damage which
had been wrought or the extent of
the disruption of the lines until the
tremendous heat had subsidized and a
minute examination had been made.
He declared, however, that users in
the residential sections probably would
not be affected by the fire.
While the fire ragged thousands of
workers out for their lunch hour jam
med Fourteenth street and it's ap.
proaches.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-20
BY JUNlUS h. WOOD.
By Cable to The Star and Chicago r
News DOWNRIGHT 1927

By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright, 1877.
MOSCOW. June 2O.--The recent
executions by the Ogaypayoo tpoIiti.
cal police) following the assassination
of Soviet Minister Voikov in Warsaw.
Of which 20 have been announced, are
justified by leading editorial in the
Moscow pravda. the official organ Of
the allUnion Communist party. and
by data purporting to show that in
the last two years 1873 peasants
have been killed in 40 different coun-
tries.
Equal space is given to an exhorta-
ton to citizens to renew the fight to
wipe out Christianity within the
country as the enemy of the Soviet
system. The anti-religious fight ought
to be directed chiefly against the
Roman Catholic and Protestant de.
nominations for the naive reason that
Lloyd George, President Coolidge and
Henry Ford, all Baptists, are heads
of these new religions"
Borah Is Enshrined.
The misinformant does not mention
the religious affiliations of Senator
Borah, who is enshrined as the ideal
American in the Bolshevik pantheon.
THE 1927 world reaction and the
increased white terror are becoming
more rapacous and more dreadful"
says the Apologize. "In Bulgaria $50
persons nave been killed. In Eng.
land 1928 persons were beaten dur
ing the general strike. In America
in the first half of 1926, AZ persons
were killed and SEQ injured, while
2.07S were arrested. In Picking the
Communists were strangled. In the
Dutch Indies revolutionists were
asphyxiated by poison gas and in
Lithuania they were tortured by
electricity"
The brief statement that none
died, although several persons were
suffering from injuries, was the only
additional information published re-
garding the Leningrad bombing on
the evening of June Z, when the
Havas Agency enormously reported
26 killed.
The theory that the bombing OIL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-20
L|NDBERGH RESTS
AS OvAT|ONS END
100, 900 st. Louisians Cheer
Flyer in Last of Welcome
Home Receptions.


ST. LOUIS, June e6.-Sheltered
from the acclaim Of roaring crowds.
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh rested to.
day after one month of unparalleled
praise, following his transatlantic
flight in the Spirit of st. Louis.
The conqueror of the north Atlantic
air is tired. Last night, when 1900
of his fellow citizens crowded the Mu-
nicipal Theater, he sat through the
first act of princes Pat" and then
left, but not before he had been coax
ed to appear for a moment upon the
stage.
Today was the first that he was
not at the beck of q welcoming COM
mittee; the first when he was not a
part of deliberately planned cere-
monies; the first when he was able to
step down from the spotlight of UNI
divided public attention into that of
"Slim" Lindbergh, flyer and son Of a
beloved mother, Mrs. Evangeline
Lindbergh.
Little Time for Rest.
With the possible exception of the
week spent by Col. Lindbergh on the
cruiser Memphis, which brought him
from France, he had little time for
rest. The plea of st. Louis news
paper that he be given time to fiddle
with his beloved Spirit of st. Louis,
or lie upon his back upon shady
lawn, or 'roost on rail fence some
where" was the spirit evinced in his
home town today.
The last whirl of greeting ended yes
terday when more than 100000 per-
sons gathered at Forest Park, most
beautiful and historic spot in st.
Louis, to see Col. Lindbergh fly his
silvered plane in widening circles and
later to hear him speak Of the future
of aviation.
Today he had planned short con-
sultation with his hackers If he feels
like it. He had thought even of look.
ing over some of his mail, of which
there are more than $4,000 pieces
awaiting him.
Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Lindhergh
planned to return to Detroit today,
while Col Lindbergh will make his
home at that of Harry F. knight in
st. Louis County for few days until
his plans are more definite. Then
he expects to find a place to live in
st. Louis.
Silent on Future.
He has made no announcements
concerning his future. Thousands of
invitations to fly his ship to other
cities lie unaccepted. Tuesday night
he will attend a banquet of the indus
trial Club here. In an address here
yesterday he gave a hint of what his
future course may be, when he said:
est. Louis is in position to be the
center of air lines in the United
States. With cooperation, we can
put st. Louis where it belongs as the
center of aviation in this country"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-20
CONFEDERATE VETERAN
WEEDS IN OLD SETTING
Gen. r. A. Cornwall, 81, Marries
Widow, rs, in Ante
War Atmosphere.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
DALLAS. Tex. June 20.-Gen
r. A. Cornwall, c. s. A., 81, and Mrs.
Lizzie Walker, rs. widow of a Confed-
crate soldier, were married here at 4
o'clock yesterday afternoon in an ante
bellum setting in which the Stars and
Bars mingled with the Stars and
Stripes. A fouryearold romance
growing out of Gen. CORVALLIS critical
illness at the last Confederate reunion
at Birmingham, Ala. in which he was
nursed by Mrs. Walker lay behind the
colorful wedding.
Bridesmaids and flower girls in
crinolines; banked greenery studded
with daisies; strains of "She Was Bred
in Old Kentucky" the generals favor
lite air, and massed files. Of gray-clad
veterans. members of Sterling Price
Camp, U. C. ", of which Gen. Corn.
wall is commander. created an atmos-
phere of the old South.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-20
EUROPE AIR MENACE
DISCOUNTED BY FRIES
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, June 20.-Those per-
sons who saw in the transatlantic
flights of Lindbergh and Chamberlin
a potential means of attack by cont.
mental powers We're badly mistaken.
in the opinion of Maj. Gen. Amos
A. Fries. chief of the Chemical War
fare Service Of the United States
Army, who is attending convention
of the Sojourners Club here.
Gen. Fries is president of the So
journers' Club, an organization Of
Masons, who are officers in the Army,
Navy and Marine Corps. A number
of distinguished visitors are attend
ing the three-day convention which
opened yesterday.
Enemy airplanes will never come to
this country except on airplane car
riers. and it is presumed that the
Navy would discourage such a prac-
tice as that. Gen. Fries said.
"Lindbergh and Chamberlin had all
they could do to carry enough gas
to get across" he said. Even should
enemy planes be able to reach this
country it would only be a case of
one fight and the ships would be lost.
They couldn't possibly carry enough
gasoline to go and return"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-20
De VALERA PARTY PLANS
MARCH ON DAHL ElREANN
Orders Reported Issued for Thou
sands to See Republican
Deputies Take Seats.
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
DUBLIN, Ireland, June 20.--Orders
are reported to have been issued from
the headquarters of the Fianna Fail
de Valera partly to the branches
throughout the country to attend in
thousands at Leinster House, Dublin,
on Thursday, when the Republican
deputies arrive to take their seats in
the Dali Eireann. Young men are
urged to march from the rural dis
tricts into the city and, when possible,
to requisition all kinds Of vehicles.
The orders include the statement
that if the oath barrier can be broken
down the Fianna Fail will win at
the next election, which, it is declared,
must take place this year or in IL
months time"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-20

the route their disapproval of the
project appeared to increase.
After making the pilgrimage along
the Maryland side the members of the
Maryland commission left, and the ma
tional commission met the members of
the Virginia commission at Chain
Bridge in the afternoon, visiting vari-
Gus areas along the Virginia shore
and pointing out to the members just
how their beautiful scenery in their
metropolitan district would be wiped
out.
1t was generally conceded that this
area should be made a great national
park. and it is said to possess all the
elements needed for the establishment
of such a project, but under any
circumstances, it should not be allow
ed to be destroyed by the DEVELOPMENT
of water-power.
Look to Return.
Several members of the commission
pointed out that the expense of such
a water project would make it neces-
sary that those behind it should get
a return on their investment when it
is completed. Upon completion of
such plant there would have to be
a market for the current, and it would
be ready in such volume that it
would mean that it would have to be
followed by such great industrial de-
Velopment of the area within the eco
nomical transmission distance that the
area would Immediately grow up into
one of great industries. On the other
hand, it was added, if the industrial
development did not come to take the
full supply of current, thent there would
follow an Increase in rates to the
actual users, which in the end would
wipe out the argument OF cheap
power.
Those in the party at various times
yesterday were: Maj. Edgar Jadwin,
chief of engineers and chairman of
the National Capital Park and Pan
nlng commissions; Lieut.. Col. U. ;.
Grant, Sd: Stephen r. Mather. W. b.
Greeley, Maj. w. f. r. Covell, J. {.
Nlchols. Frederick Law Olmstead and
Milton B. Medary. all members of the
national commission; Maj. Carey H.
brown. engineer; Charles w. Eliot,
Sd. city planner. and Fred G. coldren,
secretary of the national commissions;
Maj. Glen e. Edgerton, chief engl'
neer, and Maj. P. $. Reinecke. assist
ant engineer of the Federal Power
Commission; George p. Hoover, mer:'
Der: J. Bond Smith, general counsel:
and Wade B. Hampton, secretary OF
the Maryland Planning Commission;
senator Frank l.. Ball. Douglass
Mackall. Harry X. Green. Charles r.
kinchelow. W. l.. Bragg, Charles
King, Charles Henry Smith, Frank
Campbell. members, and III. carlton
Hanes. secretary of the Virginia PAN
ming Commission, and Fl. II. Shirley
state highway commissioner Of Nir'
GiniA,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-20
TORRENTIAL RAINS
FALL UPON CHICAGO
Traffic Tied Up, Downtown Section
Under Water and Cellars
Are Flooded.
By the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, June 20.-Torrential
rains fell upon Chicago last night
and early today to the accompaniment
of incessant lightning flashes and
thunder.
Five hundred householders notified
the fire alarm Office of flooded base
ments. Street car and automobile
traffic was halted when the rushing
waters formed lakes on the streets
dipping under railroad viaducts.
Automobiles were stalled in the
middle of the streets, the rain falling
in such torrents that ignition systems
of many motor cars were soaked and
made useless.
Through downtown Chicago the
water rushed ankle deep, overlooking
drains which were not adequate to
handle the sudden flood A section
of Upper Sheridan road caved in, the
street level dropping several feet.