Evening Star Newspaper, June 17, 1924, Page 12

SCORES ARE KILLED AS SPIES IN RUSSIA Twelve Condemned to Death on Single Sunday by Soviet Authorities. Blind Youth Wins Law Degree With High Distinction By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 17.— George Henry Weinmann, twenty-four . years of age and blind tince Dbirth, was the honor man yester- day at the sixty-sixth annual THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON ‘D. 11,280,000 FRANCS BUYS RARE PEARLS Once Property of Mme. Thiers, Wife of Former President of France. By the Associated Press. to Mme. Thiers, wife of a former President of France, was sold at auction yesterday for 11,280,000 francs. They had been bought some fitty years ago for less than 250,000 francs, and were bequeathed to the Louvre Museum by Mme. Thiers. Buyers of precious stones from all over the world were present, but Antonle Hemsi of Paris outbid the agents from other countries, favored by _high exchange. Mme. Thiers’ pearls will remain in France—for the time being at least. respectively, were sold separately. They brought from 20 to 40 per cent higher than the value placed upon them by the Louvre Museum wg:n insuring them, Honorary Degree for Robinson. CLAREMONT, Calif., June 17.— Henry M. Robinson, prenident of the First National Bank of Los Angeles and a member of the Dawes commis- slon on Germaay's ability to pay reparations, last night received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws ~C,=TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1924. PARIS, June 17.—A collection of | The collection numbers 153 pearls, | from Pomona College. Thi: pearls in the form of a necklace,| weighing 2,137 grains. The strings, | third time in the Sistory of To cole composed of three strings, belonging | comprising 49, 43 and 55 lege the degree had been conferred. commencement ceremonies at Northwestern University. He was graduated with distinction and the ovation given him by some 4,000 persons when he was led forward to receive his diploma dwarfed the most thunderous acclaim ever given to a hero of the gridiron. - Weinmann, who recently passed the Illinois state bar examination with a high mark, won two schol- arships in his four years at North- western. et R ve been executed for es- “My mother is my eyes, ain- age. and twelve additional death| mann said. ‘She read my courses e ees were pronounced last Sun-| nisht after night for four yesre ds I had only to do the typewriting for the examinations.” ew Service to o e charged with selling secret docu-| = P wents and information relating to the red army to M. Tshechovitsh, a| ment on forty-two red army officers E iember of the Polish mission at |and civilians allegedly involved in an Leningrad, who escaped death only |espionage organization directed by v Neeing Ruseia They are Com- |Gen. 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