The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-06-24

the colonel as the son of one immi-
grant to the SON. of another, and
pinned on his coat the city's gold
medal of honor; the aviator talked
/ briefly to the throng through the micro
phone; his mother was called to the
front and introduced to the roaring
crowd, and the procession resumed its
march to Central park. At the Eter-
nal Light at Madison square there
was pause while Lindbergh laid a
wreath at the base of the memorial.
At the Mall the colonel was met by
Governor Smith who presented him
with the state medal of valor.
Colonel Lindbergh spent most of the
week in. New York and sswas enter
tanned extensively, though he found
some time to. rest. Early Thursday
morning he unexpectedly flew down
to Washington and returned to New
York in few hours with his trans
atlantic plane, and on Friday he flew
in it for. St. Louis, where another
rousing welcome was accorded him
lasting three days. Lindbergh says he
hopes to visit many American cities
in the Spirit of st. Louis" for the
purpose of boosting commercial avia-
ton. To date he has signed only one
contractor a book describing his
fight to Paris.
Chamberlain and Levine spent a
jolly week in Germany waiting for
their plane to be repaired. They Wis
tied various cities and were hand
somely entertained. Commander Byrd
had his Fokker monoplane America
all ready at New York for flight to
Europe with Bert Acosta as his COM
panion but was delayed by adverse
weather. conditions. Hope for the res
cue of Nungesser and Coli sprang up
when reports came that flares had
been seen in the wilds of northern
Quebec, but unhappily the stories
were soon discredited. Commander de
Pinedo, Italian -four continent flyer"
completed his tour, returning from the
Azores to Italy via Portugal and
Spain.
Lieuts. F. B. Mcconnell and c. An
derson of the army were killed during
air maneuvers at Langley field when
their plane crashed and burned.
G OVIET RUSSIA'S rage over the
~ murder of her ambassador to Po-
land, following the break with Great
Britain, was enough to cause grave
concern to European statesmen, and
it was aggravated when the Polish
court before which the assassin of
Voikof was tried found the youth,
Boris Kowode, guilty but sentenced
him to life Imprisonment instead of
death and requested the President of
Poland to commute the sentence to
fifteen years. Kowode's lawyers
turned the trial into one of bolshevism
and its terrorist activities rather than
one of the slayer. The Soviet rulers
seem actually to he trying to intimi-
date the enemies of communism, for
they are executing scores of men many
of whom they accused of being spies
in the pay of other governments, and
then gloatingly announcing the execu-
tions to the world. They also decided
to exile many thousands to Siberia.
The Russian territorial army reserves,
numbering some 100000, usually called
out for three weeks practice, have
been notified they are to stay in the
service four months, and as most of
them were being concentrated along
the Polish frontier Poland was frankly
alarmed Members of the League of
Nations council, which met in Geneva,
considered taking formal collective ac-
ton denouncing Russian communistic
propaganda abroad, but abandoned
the plan at the request of Poland
TINE league council discussed the
l. prospects of the projected disarm-
ament conference and decided the Sec
ond reading of the preparatory plan
| should be held early in November.
| Only Herr Stresemann, German for
eign minister, criticized the lack of
progress.
II regret the inability to advance
solution for the problem, and even if
the second reading does not result in
failure, solution seems delayed to
the distant future. The covenant of
| the league says all nations must re-
duce their ornaments" insisted Herr
Stresemann, voicing the German gov
ernments thesis that if the rest OF
the powers cannot agree to reduce
their armament to the level imposed
on Germany by the Versailles treaty,
then Germany should be permitted to
/ arm herself up to the same general