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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-04-23
Tuesday, April q, 1918.

John S. Wadleigh left Monday aft
ernoon on a business trip to Boston.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-04-23
Opera House Vaudeville a Big Hit
at the Opera House.


| All promises were again fulfilled at
the Opera House yesterday at which
time the patrons were treated to a
splendid program of exceptional pic
lures and as fine vaudeville bill as we
7 have seen here in months.
The vaudeville program is headed by
Harry Adler, clever chap with a line
of stories and parodies that proved a
riot Of fun at each performance.
The musical Shirleys more than made
good with the audiences. They have 4
line of musical novelties in instrumental
playing, a variety of instruments, com
mencing with saxaphones and introduce
ing many other novel and interesting
instruments with catchy musical num-
bers galore.
Fisher and Hartwell are a duo Of Mod
ern Naudevllians with a line of clever
comedy singing and dancing, a very
classy offering that appealed to all.
The pictures besides comprising a va
riety of kinds with Mr.. and Mrs sgd
ney Drew in comedy and mutual news,
have the tremendous big Clara kimbali
feature entitled The House Of Glass;
This picture was easily one Of the most
powerful and interesting things we have
ever seen Miss Young in
In both story and settings are wonder
full, while the acting is of the sort that
made Clara kimball Young famous as
a movie star.
The entire bill is one that should make
this week a big one for the Opera
House.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-04-23

Fuller Ingraham of this city. who
recently enlisted in the United States
navy, left Monday evening for Bos-
ton to report for service.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-04-23
NIaccabet

Come to Maccabee hall this
Wednesday evening for a jolly good
time at dancing with music by Doug
las Banjo Orchestra, apr23d.t
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-04-23

The Adde'S Daughters will meet
Thursday evening with Mrs. George
Gay, 80 Grove street.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-04-23
Famous Landmarks in "The House Of
Glass" Seen at the Opera House.

A number of familiar New York
landmarks will appear in the screen
version of The House of Glass" the
new select production featuring Clara
kimball Young and her own COMPANY.
Jefferson Market and the Penn station
Blackwells Island and the Tombs all
hgure prominently in the action Of the
play, and several scenes have been
'shot at each location.
That the novelty Of pla vmalxine ~
public places has not as vet LOST IL
iiaNor was amply proved during the TAX
lhs or these scenes. In each case. Miss
loung was quickly recognized, and she
ana her players surrounded BY an in
'erested and admiring throng
The house of glass is that in which
dWells prosperous railroad head who
as he is sternly pressing the prosecu-
ton Of young employee caught steal
ing, learns at last thrt Ugh the very de-
tective whose work he is backing ~
that his own wife is an ex-convie+
This stirring American me,odra ma
was adapted by Charles r Wh,,,alar
directed by Emile Chautard. and is ]
Select Star Series production shown
here at the Opera House tod,,, III
Wednesday.-Adv.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-23
Home Town Acclaims
Lieut.. atrick O'Brien
Courageous Aviator Quails
When Whole Community
Meets Him at Train
Especial Coyresponde1,cel


MOMENCE, Ill.,. Jan. 22.-There were
delirious doings in this little old town
tonight for Lieutenant Patrick O'Brien.
who went away last spring Just plain
Pat, but returned to-day a world-fa-
nous hero.
He is the man who battled with seven
German aviators 5000 feet up in the
air, got two of them and was then shot
Gown himself, waking up day or so
later IN German hospital with q bullet
IN his llp that had entered near his ear.
Afterward, while being taken to the in
terror of Germany, he leaped from a
last moving train and lodged sentries,
an electrically charged fence and starva.
ton for seventy-two days, eventually
getting into Holland, thence to London
and finally home on three months
leave.
No one will question the courage of
Lieutenant O'3rien, but his knees be-
gan to webble when the train an
preached his home town to-dav. There
they were at the station. ali his old
neighbors and the Momence Silver Cor
net Band, which struck up "See. the
Conquering Hero Comes" and, best of
all, his gray-haired mother. The lieu
tenant admitted he was too scared TO
talk
This evening there was public re-
ception at the town garage. which is
the largest building
New-York tribune., 1918-01-23
Samuel J. Elder
Lawyer and u. S. Counsel at
The Hague Dies Suddenly

BOSTON, Jan. 22.--Samuel j. Elder,
of this city, one Of the leading lawyers
Of New England, who was one of the
senior counsel for the United States
government before the Hague Tribunal
in the North Atlantic fisheries arbitra-
tion with Great Britain in 1910, died
suddenly while visiting his daughter Mt
a hospital to-day.
Mr.. Elders daughter. Miss Frances
Elder, is clinical secretary at the
massachusetts, General Hospitn, and he
had stopped there to see her on the
way to his Office from his home. in
Winchester. His associates said he had
been in good health recently, and WAS
ut his office on Saturday.
Mr.. Elder, who was sixty-eight
years old, had practsed law in Boston
since 1875, two years after his gradua-
ton from Yale. While not active in
politics, he had been regarded as q
leader in Republican councils and was
a delegate to the Republican National
Convention in Chicago in 1908. He
served two terms as president of the
Republican Club Of Massachusetts, and
many years ago was member Of the
State legislature
New-York tribune., 1918-01-23

small monitor M2S. which was on fire
amidships, blew UP and finally disap-
peared ahou. a. m. The enemy then
ceased his fire and altered his course
to the southwark.
Explosion on the Brcslau
Observing trawlcrs coming to the as
sistance Of the monitors, the Tigress
and the Lizard followed the enemy. At
Z q. m., when the Breslau was about siN
miles south Of Cephalo, large cxplo-
sion was observed abreast her after
funnel. Two or three minutes later
at ten minutes past seven she sank
by the stern, keeling over as she went
down.
On seeing the Rreslau sink the Goe-
ben turned and circled round her once,
and then continued on southerly
course.
Immediately after this, four enemy
destroyers were sighted coming out
of the Dardanelles, supported by an
old Turkish cruiser The Tigress and
Lizard at once engaged the enemy de-
stroyers, which hurriedly retired up
the straits, the nearest one being hit
repeatedly and set on fire.
Planes Drive Gocben Into Mine
The Goebcn continued a southerly
course until an attack by British air
craft forced her to alter her course
and head for the Dardanelles. In the
act OF turning she struck mine, which
caused her to settle down aft, with n
list of ten to fifteen degrees. which
considerably reduced her speed. She
proceeded slowly up the Dardanelles,
escorted by enemy seaplanes and the
four Turkish destroyers, which had re-
turned TO her assistance.
British aircraft attacked the Goeben
repeatedly and obtained two direct hits
when she was off Chanak. The Goeben
was now in such a damaged condition
that she was steered for the shore and
beached at the extreme end Of the
Niagara Point, about a hundred yards
from the lighthouse. Shortly after she
was beached two more direct hits were
made on her by the aircraft, who we're
engaged heavily by several enemy sea-
planes. In the encounters which took
place one Of the British seaplanes
failed to return.
The shore batteries at Cape Nclles
Tigress and the Lizard, who had been
following the Goeben, and, in view of
the activity Of the British aircraft, the
two destroyers retired out of range and
proceeded to rescue the survivors of
the Breslau. During these operations
the periscope of a submarine was sight
ed, and the work of rescue was inter-
fered with seriously while the destroy
ers hunted the submarine
German survivors from the Bres-
lau," says the official statement, EEK
pressed their intense dislike for the
Turks, and said they had hoped to be
sent back to Germany on the Goeben's
return to Constantinople after the raid
Our aircraft reported Monday af-
ternoon that the Goeben was still
ashore in the same position, and that
she was still being bombed"
The British destroyers Lizard and IT,
gress are sister ships, having been built
in 1910. Their tonnage is $50, and their
length 24O feet. The Goehcn measured
22,635 tons and the Breslau 4,478 tons.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-23
] wo Planes Wrecked.
! Caught by Belgians
Shrapnel Brings Down Pair in
mo Man s Land bombing
Aero Forced to Descend

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22-Destruc-
ton of two enemy fighting airplanes
and the capture Of big bombing flyer
with its crew were described in an OIL
cial dispatch received to-day at the Bel
gian Legation. The message said:
I'm the afternoon of Saturday enemy
alrplanes crossed over the Belgian
trenches and over NO Mans Land The
Belgian anti-aircraft guns fired with
shrapnel.
"At ISIS p. m. one of our shells
struck an enemy airplane and knocked
OFT one wing, above the Route de Wou-
mcnt, at Steenstraete. The airplane
drApped, and the body of the pilot fell
in our barbed wire, from which it was
removed during the night.
Twenty minutes after this action a
second enemy fighting plane was
brought down in the same region and
smashed to earth, at Clercken.
Toward evening our gunners brought
down third airplane. This plane, find
ing both its motors wrecked, fastened
to drop its bombs without aiming, hon
ing to be able to escape, but, having
been struck in vital part of its ma
chine, it landed within the Belgian lines
in the ne ighborhood of Wulvernehem
where our soldiers made prisoners Of
the officer and the three non-comrnis-
stoned officers who constituted it's crew !"
New-York tribune., 1918-01-23
Weather and TRANSPORTATION

nRICE of production and cold storage charges the w
the retailer and the expectation of foods have all tak
back seat as boosters of food prices in comparison
with freezing weather and blocked transportation.
Frozen produce of all kinds is arriving in large quantities;
especially potatoes, onions and cabbage. Only small nor
centage has been savaged because is difficult exn
weather conditions to have these foods cared hawed ont %
used promptly They cannot be retaed through the uso
channels because they spoil soon after thawing.
Poultry slaughter houses report general scarcity p
ceips not more than onehrd the normal and hs L
charged partly to the cold danger of ree
route.
Thirty thousand barrels of beautiful Ameria cranes m
standing on the piers frozen netting of about do.,
barrel to the unfortunate in Spain hundred and
fifty thousand pounds of cork used lust in the packn
these They haw out little flat in flavor and dow
after thawng will be brown and whered the sugars have
undergone changes and probably they could not even be Used
tor wine making unless considerable sugar were added M
they could be used for making alcohol the cork and M
barrels are worth something if the proper connections u
be made The savagng of frozen partly decaye oosu
problem to tax the ingenuity of the wsest of economists
1here no in spending than thing is worth in b
effort to save it. VAN
Co"rAKisoN OF WHOLESALE IN Typrcu
STORES AND LOCALITIES (January 1919 ~
(Pr1ces IN cents Dound otherwise stntedl
New-York tribune., 1918-01-23
Hylan Sets Office Rules
No Smoking, Take OFF Your
Hat. Saws Mavor

Mayor Hylan has forbidden city en-
ployes to wear hats, smoke or read
newspapers while on duty during office
hours, according to notice posted yes
terday on the bulletin board of the
Medical Examiner" in the Municipal
Examiner" and purporting to come
from the Mayors secretary. Grover A
Whalen This alleged order reads:
To become effective January %, 1918
To all city departments.
Dear Sir: The following order has this
day been promulgated by the Mayor to all
the heads of his departments All city en-
poyes working in public Offices shall re-
fran from smoking, reading newspapers
or wearing their hats during office hours.
The utmost courtesy must be accorded TO
the public by city employees in their daily
transactions.
The Mayor feels that the efficiency of
your force will be improved if the above
rules are rigidly enforced.
Please have this notice read to all of
your employees. Very tculy yours.
GROVER A. WHALEN,
Secretary to the Mayor.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-23
Women Face Inquiry
In Baron s Detention

number of wealthy and socially
known women are under investigation
by the Department of Justice. it was
learned yesterday, as to their relations
with Baron Gustave Won Hasperg. who
is being detained at Ellis Island
Assistant United States Attorney
Robert T. Stephenson, in charge of the
case. said the titled German had been
appreheneded because he was showing
too much interest in the training camns
and IN lnternment camps and other
sources Of valuable military informa-
ton.
The baron, it is said, would drive to
cantonment, usually accompanied by
richly gowned woman, and THROUGH
his social friendships was in a position
to obtain facts Of change of personnel
and the movement of troops from one
camp to another or abroad. The De-
partment OF Justice last night had not
come to a decision as to whether the
evidence against the women warranted
their arrest
The baron is forty-nine years Old
has been here seven or eight years and
was formerly in the importing bust
ness. His arrest took place in his
apartments, on Sixty-second Street
just Off Fifth Avenue,
New-York tribune., 1918-01-23
Maj. VIM. F. Lee Simpson
Grandnephew of General
Robert E. Lee

NEW LONDON, Conn, Jan. 81
News was received here to-day of the
death in France of Major William Fitz-
hugh Lee Simpson, a granddaughter of
General Robert f. Lee and head Of
the American school Of machine gun
fire in France. The message, which
was received by his sister, Mrs. F. Val
entine Chappelle, said that death was
due to appendicitis.
Major Simpson was graduate of
the United States Military Academy
His father, Colonel William A. Simp-
son, is adjutant general at Governors
Island. Major Simpsons brother, Lieu
tenant Commander George w. Simpson,
was commander of the United States
destroyer Storrett, which picked up
Lieutenant Commander David w. Bag
ley after his destroyer, the Jacob Jones,
had been torpedoed A widow and two
children survive him
New-York tribune., 1918-01-23
Army Officer Found Dead
Lieut.. Buchanan Had Bullet
Wound in Head; Suicide
SUSPECTED

CAMP WADsWORTH, S. c., Jan. 90.
First Lieutenant Dean P. Buchanan,
who was sent here recently from Camp
Gordon, Ga, and assigned to duty with
newly organized machine gun bat
talon, was found dead from a bullet
wound to-day in his room in the Hotel
brooklyn, Spartanburg A pistol WITH
one cartridge discharged was beside
MS body. The bullet had gone through
his head.
Apparently the officer took his own
life, but coroner's inquest this after
noon tailed to establish the fact. Lieu
tenant buchanan's home was in Grove
City, Penn. On the table in his room
was newly finished letter to his
hmother; which appeared to indicate a
happy frame of mind. His commission
was in the Officers Reserve Corps.
Lieutenant Albert c. Smith, of the
iO'th infantry, who recently was tried
by court martial on charge of en-
couraging violence toward an enlisted
man, was acquitted and will be re-
turned to his command, it was an
nOunced TODAY.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-23
Tuesdays and Fridays in
London; Wednesdays and
Fridays Elsewhere
Only Homes Exempted
Children Under Ten Years of
Age Alone Can Drink Milk
as a Beverage

LONDON, Jan. 22.--Lord Rhondda,
Food Controller, has taken drastic
measures to deal with the meat short
age. An official order was issued to-
day applying at once to all hotels. res-
taurants, boarding houses and public
places. 1t specifies two meatless days
weekly Tuesdays and Fridays in the
London district and Wednesdays and
Fridays i'll other parts Of the kingdom.
Between the hours of and 1O:30
O'Clock in the morning no meat, poul-
try or game may be consumed on any
day. and no milk may be consumed as
beverage. except by children under
ten years Of age.
A guest must provide his own sugar
for sweetening beverages, except that
residents Of hotels, clubs and boarding
houses may be supplied with not ex-
ccedlng six ounces of sugar weekly for
this purpose, if they do not possess
ordinary sugar rations.
The order gives table indicating
mnutely, even to fractions, the exact
amount OF meat, sugar, bread, -four
butter or other fats allowed each guest
for each meal for the guidance Of hotel
and restaurant proprictors in their
weekly dietary. Of fats only one and
cne-Guarter ounces may be allowed
each guest Gaily, of which not ex-
ceeding one-half may consist of but
ter and margarine
The weekly allowance for each guest
ls Meat, 80 ounces; bread, 4 pounds;
flour, Ia ounces; sugar for cooking. 2
ounces; butter or fats, Ss4 ounces.
In weighing, " ounces of poultry or
game are reckoned the same as one
ounce of meat; four ounces of bread
are reckoned as three ounces Of flour.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-23
3 u. S. Aviators Killed
Lieut.. Sherwood, of BROOKLYN,
a Victim in France

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-Tirst Lieu
tenants William II. Cheney and Oliver
+. Sherwood and Private George A.
Beach were killed on Sunday in a COL
llslon of airplanes over an American
AVIATION school in France, the War De-
partment was advised TONIGHT hv Cen-
eral Pershing.
:, Lieutenant Cheney's mother Mrs.
William II: Schofeld, lives at Peter
horo, n. II. Lieutenant Sherwood's
semnergeney en- address is Mrs. Lydia o.
Sherwood, 354 Carlton Avenue. Brook.
lyn, N. Y, and that of Private Reach
Thomas Beach. Fort Collins, Col.
no details of the accident were given
in General Pershings message. -
. General Pershing to-day reported
Corporal Walter Roberts, infantry.
killed IN action on January 20. No de-
tails OF the engagement were given
His mother, Mrs. Kate Roberts. i;ves
at Hartline, Wash.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-23

So NhEY DO say among Brooklyn high grade oerct h te
'ei are s1l demanding service wrannn0
d. ana deivery OF the purchases S "i"ppAe
a may lt
dozen % ana carried home by cost 81 to 90 &
h ~nen ney cost SO and So before There Is No n
cheap and hnnd % ng founder and whiting one of the
@ aouhoaIt 1oods AT to pound a
s a n 10 rnd US OF prices before war Tbs is cause the
put the recent large of whino
nolhs ago. and bringing at
advantage of the absence fresh fish to ask an e n M
please take notce) ~ NNo'u storage egg and butter men
will; 10y never can tell where the SHORTAGE in or LIND f d
~ Is worse than pebble thrown snrea
n OF sugar resulted general M Of svru
naor are scarce The high and of ar h driven
ave nv & use vi condensed milk which, with large nent
resh butter has wholesaler the ar and navy
ooughc million pounds of cold
" 0a supply Result buffers
d short "hle ago are now hard - ~ "'"''e- "
ulns cna storage be
M ~ Per cent OF the amount hand second dav NAV con-
nad the 4S cents that fairhence tbe e
mere is sald to be about xs
aI our only nope is arrival
ooutn OF 1re eggs The weather hen coahorn h H
wi' US py tn nd OF the month
gown tti VI hve recently received from a;forn one
matter ie hv nsne nss ana restaurants and
@ 'on oozen broken
"pP"S adapted retail which can
90 70 p 90 en.s S pound "a pound equals about DOZEN
anu veal are ABOUT
@ ause we haa enough hand denen
upon incoming shipments These frozen fish noao ps
ana carrots are practically the
market ' o"'o"aole ana penteous foods on ts
New-York tribune., 1918-01-23
Mrs. Garvie, Known on Stage
AS Molly THOMPSON. Dies

MOUNT VERNON, N. Y, Jan. 22.-
Mrs. Edward Garvie, known to the
stage as Molly Thompson, died of
pneumonia here last night at her resi-
dence, 144 Urban Street. Mrs. Garvie,
who was fifty-one years old, made her
first appearance when two years old.
She appeared with her husband in
Hoyt's comedies, and sang and danced
in many foreign countries.
She retired from the stage in 1908.
Her husband, a member of Henry W.
Savage's "Toot loot" company, was in
Washington when he was summoned
home Saturday. Mrs. Garvie leaves
her father, John Thompson, an actor,
and a sister, Miss Marjorie Thompson,
Of New York
New-York tribune., 1918-01-23
Dutch Liner Warned
AS Was the Lusitania

LONDON, Jan. pa dispatch to
"The Daily Mail" from The Hague
says it is reported that some of the
passengers on board the Holland
America liner Nieuw Amsterdam have
received anonymous warnings not to
sail for the United States on her The
correspondent adds that the warnings
are similar to those issued before the
Lusitania was sunk.
Advices received from Amsterdam
last Saturday credited the "Telegraaf"
as saying that the Nieuw Amsterdam
was still lying at Rotterdam because
the German government had declined
to give guarantee for her safe cross
ing of the Atlantic to the United States.
The steamer has been lying in the har-
bor at Rotterdam since January 16 with
1000 passengers on board. among them
thirty Americans. Augustus Phillips.
the new Netherlands Minister to the
United States, intended to make the
trip on the liner,
New-York tribune., 1918-01-23
Higher Ranks Open
To New British Armv


LONDON, Jan. 23.-Accordinp 70
The Daily Mail" the higher ranks in
the army command, which hither
have been held almost exclusively hv
officers Of the old regular army, here,
after will be open to officers of the
new army, from which number Of
new brigadier generals are to be an
pointed. %Nr
:. rms NJ subject lately has been agitated
~ u, ehe newspapers, and "The Dailv
;Mail,' says the governments decision
has been taken in Difference to over.
"helming public opinion. The news
paper adds that the devotion and ski,
OF the. officers Of the old army are
recognized, but that the number of
these officers, originally about ten
thousand' has now greatly decreased.
while the new army contains nearly
one hundred thousand officers elic;hls
to a raise in rank.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-23
Anita Stewart, Star
OF Movies, in Court

Anita Stewart, film star, appeared in
the Supreme Court yesterday as de-
fendant against the Vitagraph Com
pany in it's action to obtain per
manent injunction restraining her from
deserving the organization and $4,000
year in order to appear in the picture
plays Of the Metro Company.
The Vitagraph insists that Miss
Stewart fulfil her contract, and charges
that she has broken the agreement. To
this the movie actress replies that the
concern invalidated it's own contract in
several ways.
She alleges the company did not fur
nish her with accountings of it's re-
ceipts, as agreed.
Albert +. Smith, manager of the Vita
graph, said yesterday that MS concern
had done everything possible to please
the actress, even to engaging the lead
ing man and directors she wanted.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-23
Baker Opposes
Restrictions on
Funds for Army
[Staf Correspondence

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-Futurc
appropriations for the army must not
bo restricted to any particular war
necessity IL the War Department is
to get the maximum of speed in
equipping the American armies, Sec
retary Of War Baker declared to- day
in announcing that an urgent recon-
mendation would soon bo sent to
Congress to provide greater elasticity
in providing war funds.
Secretary Baker said the present
system of appropriatng funds for
one purpose which prohibits the de-
partment from expending the sum
for any other urgent necessity has
been one of the gravcst obstacles to
Quitting the armies expeditiously.
He cited instances where the En-
gineer Corps was allowed an appro-
priation for some specific purpose
not as essential as some other needs
of the corps. with the result that de-
lays have cnsued. He said the same
illustration applied to other divisions
of the department. To overcome this
difficulty Secretary Baker in urging
future appropriations will seek y
lump sum for each department rather
than several sums for war materials
needed in each division.