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up 70 prevent giddy.headed reveIerr
from marrying one day and annuIl-
ing their marriage the next, pro.
vided that three days" must pass
between an application for q mar.
rage license and the issuance Of
the license itself. This delay. the
legislators believed, would enforce
cool and calm elaboration.
Now. however. under an interpre-
tation by Attorney General u. 8.
Webb. the three-day period doesn't
begin TIL midnight Of the day Of
the application, and ends at mid,
night Of the third day. Since few
applications for licenses or mar.
riages can be performed ct that
hour Of the day the Interpretation
really places q four-day moratorium
in effect.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-08-19
Cats Meow Leads To
Founding Baby
In Hall

NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-the
neowing Of a cat in the hall
way of his home annoyed Ed
ward Sullivan, who went out
to chase the disturber.
Beside the cat, Sullivan found
a S-day-old baby boy, drapped
in a Turkish towel.
DR.. Dunno, Of the Long IS
land College hospital declared
the child in perfect health, and
it was removed to the Found
ling ward Of the Kings County
Hospital. Police of the Hamil-
ton Avenue station are search
ing for the haby's parents
Evening star., 1927-04-20
DOWN ON ICE, MESSAGE SAID.
Graham Had Searched in Vain In
Relief Plane.

SEATTLE, Wash, April 20 R).-
Capt. George III. Wilkins, who was re-
ported safe today at Beechey Point,
Alaska, about $50 miles southeast of
Point Barrow, had not been heard
from since March 80, when he sent a
brief wireless message that he was
down on the ice, 125 miles from Point
Barrow.
With Carl B. EieIson as his pilot
wilkins set out March 20, in a Stin-
son plane, for an exploration flight
over the unexplored Arctic Ocean
north of Alaska The plane had suf-
ficient fuel for a 14-hour flight, and
he had planned to fly out 500 miles
from his Point Barrow base in search
of the mythical Arctic continent.
A relief plane, manned by Alger
Graham of Detroit and an Eskimo
guide, made several flights from Point
Barrow in search of wilkins and Eiel-
son, but found no trace of the ex-
plorers or their plane.
Graham returned last week to Fair
banks for supplies, and planned to fly
back to Point Barrow to continue res
cue attempts, although Wilkins had
left specific instructions that no rescue
expeditions should be organized If he
did not return within three days.
Wilkins and Eielson carried food
for about two weeks on their plane
and expected to live off the country"
by shooting game if they should not
reach civilization by the time their
supplies were exhausted.
Evening star., 1927-04-20
Conscience Causes
Man to Confess to
Hold-Up Shooting
Rv the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, April 20. - Stating
that his conscience gave him no
rest, Victor Bohac. %, of Aberdeen,
s. OAK, surrendered to police here
last night and confessed shooting
an oil station attendant during an
attempted holdup in Sacramento,
Calf, March 10.
Bohac said he had held up and
robbed more than a dozen oil sta
tions and two stores in other West
ern and Middle Western cities in
the past nine weeks. Police wired
Sacramento for Yerification of the
mans story.
Other cities where the man said
he had staged robberies are Sioux
City, Iowa; st. Joseph, Mo-; Kan
sas City, Denver and Salt Lake
City.
Evening star., 1927-04-20
Civ to Abandon
Old Leper Hospital
OnAnacostia River

The District Health Department
was authorized by the CommlsSion'
ers today to abandon the nt,le
brick Ieper hospital on the oanks
of the Anacostia River. when was
long the home of John Early, tne
Tar HeeP' 1eper, who recently es-
caped from the Public Health SerV'
ice leprosarium at Carville, La.
The building and its equipment
according to the Health Depart
ment's report TO the Commission
ers, is deteriorating because OF dls-
use and it is no longer needed pe'
cause any leper found In the DIS
trict in the future can be accom-.
modated at the Gallinger Hospital
quarantine station. The building
eventually will have to be denoi'
ished to make way for the extern
sion of Massachusetts, avenue
southeast.
The Commissioners also gave
the Health Department authority
to utilize any articles of furniture
in the ieper hospital which may
be of service in the smallpox hos
pital.
BURNSVILLE, n. c., Aprn ~
(P.-John Early, western North
Carolina leper. who escaped 10 days
ago from the Federal leprosarium
at Carville, La, and headed for his
old home at Tryon, to visit his
family, is encamped on the South
Toe River, about miles from here.
The town is agog with excitement.
Sheriff f. H. Banks declared to-
1ay that he would await word from
Raleigh before taking any action.
''I will have him run out or the
county, or shoe him away in some
manner, If the State wants me to-"
Sheriff Banks said.
Evening star., 1927-04-20
SETTLEMENT OF OIL
DISPUTE PREDICTED
Sinclair Official Sees Early Peace
in Controversy Over New Mexi-
can Land Laws.
Ru thn Assnniated press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 20.-An early
adjustment of the controversy be-
tween the United States and Mexico
over oil lands was predicte here last
night by A. E. Watts, president of the
Mexican Sinclair Petroleum Co. and
vice president of the Sinclair Consoli-
dated Corporation.
Mr.. Watts returned from Mexico
City, where he had had several audi
ences with President Gales and LUIS
Morones, minister of industry, COM
merce and labor. While he said the
bone of the contention, the new laws
operating retroactively upon Amer
lean holdings in Mexico, had not
changed, he found no intention on the
part of Mexico to conflscate Amer
lean holdings, and said the problem
was now being approached calmly.
Evening star., 1927-04-20
g KILLED, 1OOHURT
IN ILLINOIS STORM
Towns LeveIed in Line Squal.
Property. Damage Estimated
at $1,000, 900.
By the Associated Press.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, April 20
Line SQUALLS that extended like inyis-
ibIe tenacles from Greene County yes
terday, one striking southeastward,
the other northeastward, left known
death list of %, others listed as prob
ably fatally injured and about 100
less seriously hurt.
Property damage In the fiye coun-
ties where the storms took human
life. and in half a dozen other coun.
ties which felt it's force in diminished
violence, was roughly estimated at
ST 900 900. Many buildings were de-
stroyed and considerable damage was
done to crops.
Greene county, almost directly north
of st. Louis. suffered most heavily in
casualties. Nine were killed there.
Another death resulted few miles
west. in Calhoun County.
The main series of squalls bounded
northeastward, taking four lives in
Sanganon County and four more In
Logan, which lies just north OF Sanga-
mon. Damage was reported nearly
as far north as Milwaukee, Wis.
Teacher Is Killed.
The Greene County toll was distrib-
uted in four small communities. Miss
Ann Keller, teacher OF the Centervllle
rural school near Carrollton, lost her
life when caught under debris. Al
though none of her pupils was killed.
She had ordered them to take snelter
beneath their seats.
At Wrights in Greene County four
died. including a mother and her baby,
while three others met death not far
away at Woodyville, and another
death was Athensville.
Sangamon County had three deaths
In the little hamlet of Buffalo Hart
two men and an infant. One was
killed at Loami, where five persons
also were reported suffering from in
juries which may prove fatal.
Two school children were killed at
Chestnut, in Logan County, while
father and son lost their lives at
Mount Pulaski, in the same county.
CornIand and Buffalo Hart virtually
were levelled. At Cortland two grain
elevators were all that remained
standing. Starr Center in Calhoun
County, where the storm struck first
in Illinois, was flattened.
Roads Are Impassable.
Roads in many places were impas
sable. due to trees felIed across them
by the levelling winds. News OF the
disaster in many places was carried
by men on horseback. Communication
lines having been wrecked.
A methodical check Of the stricken
sections was under way today, with
Carlos Black, adjutant general OF Illi'
nois, directing it. Relief measures
were in the hands of the Red Cross
and other agencies.
Evening star., 1927-04-20
More Than $50 Cases of
Measles, Whooping Cough
and Mumps Reported.
8 MORE DIKES BREAK;
NO RELIEF IS IN SIGHT
100 Dead, $4,000 Homeless in
Devastated Territory - Heavy
Toll Feared in Clarendon, Ark.
~ tha Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Three more broken levees added TO
the spread of the flooded Mississippi
and it's tributaries today and from
little Rock came reports that an
endemic of measles, mumps ana
whooping cough had broken out III
raf,,eee camps at Wynn, and Parkin'
.Arlr. There were said to be 800 cases
hg measles and whooping cough ana
80 to 75 cases of mumps among 'he
crowded refugees
combs Ievee, on the Illinois RlVer
at Beardstown, ILL.,, was abandoned 10
high waters and that city faceo d
,enatition of last years disastrous
food. p,.o,. ,ayaa
at Clarendon, Ark, spread uis9seg+ So
bv breaking levees. the preah .tI, Ss1,
+erdav in the st. Johns levee' nor ~ "a
IF New Madrid continued 70 lee
through tide which has an uIlotoAIl' f.II
syeen of a hundred miles to the Soutn-
east before it. The breach at ClaIen- ItIi.
don resulted in a very bad SITUATION
there. AL, added
IN the seriousness OF the situa1.uil 1,,n
slong the Arkansas River. ,Ilie 1ne
town of Levy and part of North Ai''ie'
Rock were flooded.
pine Bluff, Ark, one third OF WIllci,
was under water, looked for aooitloilal
trouble when reports said that heaVy
rains to the north had threatened aiA
levees.
Evening star., 1927-04-20
1ANGTzE STEAMERS FIRED ON.
Chinese Evacuate HsinIkwan When
Pukow Shells Hit Town


LONDON. April 20 Control Of
Wuhu, 60 miles UP the Yangtze River
from Nanking. has fallen into the
hands of the Peasants Union, says a
Hongkong dispatch to the Exchange
Telegraph Co. It is reported that
steamers passing Tatung on the
Yangtze. midway between Wuhu and
Nanking, have been fired on.
The Chinese civilian population hur-
riedly evacuated Hsinkwan, the dis
patch adds, when a few shells dropped
on the town from Pukow, on the north
bank of the Yangtze, opposite Nan
king. 1t is reported that the north
bank of the river from Pukow to
Shikerhwei is held by the Shantungese
troops, while the Northern troops of
Marshal Sun Chuan-Fang, original de.
fender of Shanghai, hold positions
from Shikerhwei to Tungchow.
Further reinforcements for the
British Shanghai force started from
various points in England today for
Southampton, port of embarkation.
They comprise a squadron of the
Royal Air Force, two batteries of field
artillery and a company or the Royal
Army Service Corps, with 81 six.
wheeled trucks capable of carrying a
whole Infantry battalion at a speed
of from 80 to 40 miles an hour.
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Evening star., 1927-04-20
WILKINS IS SAFE
|NALASkA TOWN
Arctic Flyer, Missing Since
March 29, Makes Return
to Beechey Point.
BY A. M. SMITH.
DI "A. 4Is DNEA KIT
Radio to The Star and the North Anlert'
ra.1 Alliance.

By Radio to The Star and the North Ameri-
can Newspaper Alliance.
POINT BARROW. Alaska, April 20.
Capt. George Hubert Wilkins and
his pilot, Ben Eieison, reached Beechey
Point, Alaska, safely April IA after
walking 20 miles over the ice from
the point where their plane failed
them on their flight to discover pos
sible land in the Arctic. Eielson's
fingers are frozen, but not seriously.
The men had been alone in the
Arctic since March 20, when they.
took off from Point Barrow. The
news of the flyers safe return
reached Point Barrow today when a
dog team arrived from Beechey
Point with a letter from wilkins.
wilkins plane was down three times.
The first time the flyers landed about
500 miles northwest of Point Barrow,
more than 400 miles beyond the limits
OF previous exploration. The Third
time on the return wilkins and
Eielson were 100 miles north of Point
Barrow, but they drifted east on the
ice to a point almost directly north
of Beechey, 100 miles east OF Point
Barrow.
copyright. 1927. in United States. Great
Britain and all countries by North American
Newspaper Alliance. Reproduction pro-
hibited,)
Evening star., 1927-04-20
Rolling Pin Murder" Trial Looms
As Husband Dies and Wife Sobs

It in self-defense while he was beating
her.
Mrs. Mumford was reading news
paper account of the Snyder murder
trial in New York when Jail War
den John Mcneil approached her cell.
The story of her husbands death had
escaped her attention.
The woman burst into tears when
Mcneil broke the news that Mumford
was dead.
poor Joe, poor Joe,' she sobbed.
"IIe was a good man when he was
sober. but when he was drunk-"
An eyewitness of the fight told po.
lice both Mumford and his wife had
been drinking prior to the Quaxrels
Evening star., 1927-04-20
OFFER OF $50 TO GIVE
BLOOD FUTILE; MAN DIES
TRANSMISSION Operation With 144th
Volunteer Fails to Save
Albanian, Ill 4 Years.
nv the Aasociated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, April 20.-T. A. Kend-
ley, in whose behalf $50 persons Of
fered their blood, died yesterday from
an illness which had its start four
years ago.
A month ago an Atlanta newspaper
presented Kendley's case to the pub
lie, explaining that despite the re-
sponsibilities of a wife and daughter
he had suffered brayely and would
die unless his blood could be matched
perfectly and the supply replenished.
Many responded, but not until the
Hath was examined did physicians
agree to the TRANSMISSION. The opera
ton was successful, but a weakened
condition refused to rally. Kendley,
5S, was an employe of a utility cor
poration.
Evening star., 1927-04-20
Pet Tom Cat Dies,
Saving Eight Lives
From Asphyxiation
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 20.-A pet cat
today gave its life to save eight per-
sons from death by coal gas asphyxia-
ton. Scratching on a bedroom door
of one of the apartments in a six-story
tenement house in Monroe street, the
cat awakened an 1s-year-old boy, who
detected the fumes and spread the
alarm.
Three persons were rescued uncon.
scious, but were revived by pulmo'
tor crew, and five others were given
medical treatment.
The cats body was found under a
dining room table. Efforts to revive
him failed.
Evening star., 1927-04-20
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PerTsBURGH, Pa, April 2o.-The
stage was set today for Pittsburghs
first rolling-pin murder trial.
In a cell in the county jail Mrs.
Roxie Mumford was notified OF the
death last night of her husband, Jo-
seph Mumford, from a fractured
skull suffered in a fight between the
couple. About the same time blood
stained rolling pin was turned over
to the homicide squad as the death
instrument. At preliminary hear.
ing, before Mumford's death. the
woman testified shs strue3A hsaa with
Evening star., 1927-04-20
ECKENER COMING TO U. S.

BREMEN, Germany, April 20 R.--'
DR.. Hugo Eckener, Zeppelin expert,
left for New York today on the liner
Berlin.
DR.. Eckener was last reported seek
ing additional funds to finance COM
pletion of the Zeppelin now building
in Germany for use in the air service
between Spain and South American
countries, to be started next year.
Evening star., 1927-04-20
REJECTS
SOVIET DEMANDS
ON EMBASSY RAID
Refuses to Return Seized
Documents on Russian
Activities in China.
PEASANTS UNION TAKES
CHANGSHA AND WUHU
Cantonese Capture 1000 "Red'
Prisoners in Canton Area--Six
Communists Are Executed.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, April 20.-Rejection by the
Peking government of the demands of
the Russian Soviet government in
connection with the raid on Soviet
buildings in the embassy compound
at Peking is reported in a dispatch
to the Indo-Pacific Agency. The raid,
on orders of the Northern Chinese au-
thorities, was carried out on April 6.
Embassy Officials Recalled.
Three days after the raid on the
Soviet embassy compound in Peking
the Soviet government ordered all the
embassy officials to leave, and in
note, delivered to the Chinese charge
d'affaries at Moscow made series of
demands. These included immediate
evacuation of police from the COM
pound. the release of all those arrest,
ed in the raid and the return of all
documents seized, together with all
money. personal property. household
goods and books taken by the police.
What was described as the "per-
haps the most illuminating document
seized in the raid was made public
officially Tuesday by headquarters of
Chang Tso-Lin, the Manchurian war
lord, in control of the Peking govern
ment.
Moscow tTnstructions. Seized,
The document, marked strictly
confidential, purports to be Mos
cows instructions to the Soviet EN-.
bassy in Peking relative to the policy
toward China. AS quoted by head
quarters, it urges the stirring UP of
mass animosity toward Europeans.
particularly the British, and resort to
any means to provike internationa in.
tervention in China, even to the ex.
tent of looting and numbering for.
eigners.
The official communique setting
Iorth the contents says the document
is written in Russian and has been
partly burned.
Evening star., 1927-04-20
Demand for His Renomina-
ton Seen in Poll of Party's
National Committee.
ONLY ONE OF MEMBERS
SEES "3D TERM" DANGER
Others Minimize Precedent as I'm
portant Issue in Coming
Campaign.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

The demand for the denomination OF
President Coolidge, evidenced in tbs
first group Of answers to The Stars
poll of the Republican national COM
mittee, is continued in the second
group. published today.
The so-caIled "third-term" issue is
minimized also by the responses OF
the members Of the national commit
tee. They do not see the issue as q
serious obstacle eitht- to the nomina-
ton or reelection of Mr.. Coolidge.
Some of the committeeman specifically
assert that If the "third-term" issue
is the only issue which the Democrats
may have against Mr.. Coolidge, the
reelection of Mr.. Coolidge is assured.
Three Questions Asked.
The questions put to the committee
men and committeewomen follow:
1. In your opinion, would another
term of Office for President Coolidge
constitute third term" as the
phrase is generally understood?
2. In your opinion would the So
called third term" issue be a serious
obstacle either to the nomination or
reelection of President Coolidge in
1928?
8. In your opinion is President
Coolidge the logical candidate of the
Republican party for President in
1928?
The second group Of answers to
these questions includes those Of
representatives on the committee Of
nine additional States. The new States
are Delaware. Nevada, New Mexico,
New York. North Carolina, North Da-
kota, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wyon-
ing.
Evening star., 1927-04-20
TWO KILLED BY LIGHTNING
One Woman Victim Found With
Uninjured Child in Arms.

RUTHERFoRDToN, N. c., April
90 GA mother and her daughter
were killed by lightning at their
home near here yesterday.
Mrs. James Morrow. At, was In
stantly killed while she was lowering
a window and a few minutes later
her daughter, Mrs. George Reayis,i
was found dead in the next room.
An uninjured child was in her arms.
The house was not damaged, except
for two planks which were torn from
Evening star., 1927-04-20
STORM HITS ONTARIO.
Buildings Demolished and Trees Up
rooted in ChesIey.

CHESLEY, Ontario, April 20 P1.-
Buildings were demolished and trees
IL inches in diameter were uprooted
by a windstorm that swept over part
of this town last night. Parts of a
wing of a large factory building were
blown over the tops Of buildings
across the street.
Evening star., 1927-04-20
RADICALS CONTROL CHANGsHA.
Give Orders to Military in Human
Province Port.

SHANGHAI, April 20 CP.-Respon-
sible foreign sources reported today
that the Peasants Union was in con-
troll in Changsha, giving orders to the
military and civil officials. Changsha
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column 60
Evening star., 1927-04-20
"FrOns Press to Home
Within the Hour"

The Stars carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi-
ton is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
Evening star., 1927-04-20
WEATHER.

fU s Weather Bureau Forecast.l
Fair and colder tonight; tomorrow
partly cloudy; slightly colder.
Highest, sS, at noon
today: lowest. 62. at am. today.
Full report on page 3.
Evening star., 1927-04-20

tcontia0sd on Page .. Column ~ !
Evening star., 1927-04-03
BY HERBERT Il. ELLIsFON.

Correspondent of The Star and North AmeTi-
can Newspaper Alliance.
PEKTNG. China. April 2.--The cap
ture of Soviet diplomatic pouches,
containing dispatches from Soviet Of
ficials to Borodin. Russian adviser of
the Cantonese government, was an
nounced today by Marshal Chang Tso-
lin. who granted the correspondent Of
The Star and North American News
paper Alliance an exclusive interview
in which he cited his proofs of Soviet
participation in the Chinese National
ist movement.
Among other evidences related by
the Manchurian war lord were the
seizure of the Soviet boat Oleg. vary
ing munitions to Gen. Feng Yu-hsiang
the training of Nationalist officers by
Russian officers. the execution OF
Yang-cho, one of Chang's own officers.
for accepting Russian money to stir
up strikes along the Chinese Eastern
Railway, and documents seized from
radical students in close touch with
the Soviet embassy.
Chang Tso-Lin has just received a
dossier Of the documents seized with
three Russian diplomatic couriers and
Evening star., 1927-04-03
Enemies of Stiff Collars In France
Ask American Legion to Aid In Fight

League for Hygiene and Aestheti-
cism," says he looks to America. the
land of the free and the home of the
brave" to free mankind from collared
misery. He admits that the attitude
of American men thus far puzzles
him.
When reminded that the sport shirt
style had come and gone in the United
States. he was undismayed He said
American men quit showing their
Adams apples for lack OF beauty
courses Women make themselves
as pretty as possible he said. why
not the men also? The master hair
dressers of France are awakening to
the need of neck treatment which will
make 1t possible for men to show their
necks without blushing.
Evening star., 1927-04-03
MAY HAVE FALLEN OVERHEARD
Norfolk Police Also Have Theory OF
Possible Foul Play.

NORFOLK, Va, April 2 Lp.-Rela-
tives here could throw no light on the
mysterious disappearance Thursday
night from the Old Bay Line steamer
State of Virginia of Mrs Mary BAN
ber Marshall of Norfolk, wife of Capt.
S. 3. Marshall Of the barge Ports
mouth. Although her disappearance
was discovered yesterday morning
when her stateroom was found locked
but empty, the fact did not become
known to her mother and two children
here until today. Mrs. Marshall's berth
had not been slept in. Her pocket
book, containing $40, a fur neckpiece,
travelling bag, toilet articles and a
letter addressed to a niece, a Mrs.
Whittis, at the Blue Ridge Sanitarium,
in Virginia, were in the stateroom.
The toilet articles had been re-
moved from the bag, suggesting that
Mrs. Marshall had been prepared to
retire. The letter was merely a
tion obtained by Norfolk police.
Mrs. Marshall telegrap phed her hus-
band that she was coming to New
Haven, Conn, evidently to return
with him on the barge, as she had
done several times before
Water Rough Thursday.
Mrs. Marshall was taken to the
steamship dock by party of friends
and her mother, Mrs. Ella Crime
stead. The party left the steamer
just before sailing time.
Two theories suggested by local
police are that Mrs. Marshall either
went on deck for fresh air and fell
overheard, or that she met with foul
play and was thrown overheard. AS
far as can be learned locally, no
one on the State of Virginia heard
an outcry during the night, nor had
fellow passengers seen anything of
Mrs Marshall.
Though the ships ratings are
high, It is thought possible that the
missing woman may have fallen
overheard, as there was a stiff wind
Thursday night and the water is
said 10 have been unusually rough.