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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-04-29
MONMOUTH
Mrs. Wiifred A. Richardson

Mrs. Lav,na fTinkham) Richardson.
wife Of Wilfred 4. Richardson Of North
Monmouth. passed away early wednes-
day morning, April 8. at her home. She
had been Ill for some weeks but the i'm
mediate cause Of death was pneumonia.
Mrs. Tinkham was born IN Monmouth
Dec. .. 1853. the only daughter of Anna
sa and Lac-etia Johnson Tinkhan. She
IS survived by her husband and seven
children. Arthur Richardson Of Bruins
wick. Carl Of North Monmouth. Ger
trude Richardson, a teacher in Salem.
Mass. Miss Viola, 4 nurse. and Jessie.
Bertha and Edith. who reside at home:
! brother. Few. George A. Tinkharn OF
Industry. ard several grandchildren.
Funeral service Will be held from the
home Friday.
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-09-03

A New York architect has received priz
$1,000 for his plans for remodelling tyl
tenement house block to make it "a decent P
to live in" We have never yet seen such t
ment house, but we live in hopes.
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-09-03

tHo1 IL 10 uOtiiiiiS lCoo OVOlulIVW
of capitalism! The horror and misery of the wage
workers life does not come primarily from the
lack of these pleasant virtues, but from the fact
that he has to slave out his life for the benefit of
others, that he is denied the opportunity for
proper development of the mind and body, that
his children are condemned at birth to the same
barren and bitter life.
This condition prevails because the land and the
machinery of production are in the control OF
few who use this control for their own profit and
the ensavement and degradation of the masses
of working people. To increase their profits and
to strengthen their grip at the throat of the world
the capitalists do not hesitate to drive the work.
ers into the holocaust of war, to slaughter them
by the millions to serve their own selfish pur-
poses.
War, poverty, misery and njustice-al this is
the normal lot of the workers under capitalism Is
not plain, then, that the one task that presses
upon us for immediate accomplishment, the one
allimportant duty that will not be delayed nor
be delayed nor denied, is the overthrow of capital
ism? The Russian bolsheviks think so and when
they refuse to allow anything to divert them from
this stern undertaking, they gain, not the con-
demnation but the enthusiastic APPROVAL of in
telligent workers everywhere.
What interests us as revolutionary workers is
the fact that the factories and workshops have
been taken away from the capitalists and that
they are now under the control of the workers
committees: that the great landlords have been
driven away from the vast estates and their right
to collect rent abolished; that as rapidly as the
workers government is able to overcome civil war
at home and the invasons engineered by the AL
lied capitalist governments, they are proceeding
to the establishment of social order without any
parasitic class in it.
When Bertrand Russell tells us that bosheviks
are making use of the services of business and
technical experts without allowing them to get
rich in the process, he answers the one question
about Russia that is uppermost in the minds
of the struggling workers in all lands For we
know that if this is true they have really laid the
axe to the root Of the tree of capitalism and that
it can never bear again its poison fruit.
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-09-03
PAGE 8

lhe Picket Line
100000 workers in Scotland took part in one
day strike last week as protest against higher
rents and passed resolutions refusing to pay the
increases. Some day we will have strike against
paying any rent whatever to private landlords.
A New York architect has received prize Of
tenement house block to make it "a decent place
to live in.'' We have never yet seen such tene-
ment house, but we live in hopes.
YOU haven't heard much lately about the
Kansas anti-strike law The supreme court has
not yet passed on it's constitutionaty, but it has
already been vetoed by the miners. They have
had more strikes in that state since this law
was enacted than ever before in similar length
of time.
WE Learn from press report that the gov
ernment of the late Gar owed French bankers
$1OO,OOOOO0 and that the present Polish govern
IeIC Is falliCllCdii
capitalists. Let's see-that makes total loss of
two hundred million dollars.
THE Congress of the Third International took
place in the Throne Room of the late Gar in the
Kremlin. God Save the Cars!
THERE could be no better proof that the
American workers are getting to be little wiser
that they used to be than the steadily growing
tendency on the part of the rank and file to refuse
to accept as final and binding the decisions of con-
ference boards, government commissions and simi-
lar bodies who assume the authority to decide ques-
tions of vital Importance to the workers. The
latest example has been set by the miners in
Bellevile, Illinois and Tere Haute, Indiana who
again went on strike on August 10 as protest
against the result of the wage award conference
in Cleveland. When it becomes clearly understood
by all parties concerned that settlements" only
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11
London Herald Admits
&75,OOO Gift From Reds
Labor Organ Asks Readers
Advice as to Acceptance
of ROlaheyik Gold

LONDON, Sept. 1O-Admission was
made this morning by The Herald
organ of labor, that it has in its pos
session 5000 of "Bolshevik gold" the
newspaper stating the money is being
held, pending decision by the share
holders as to whether it should be
used. The opinion of readers as to
the acceptance of the money is asked
by the newspaper. which publishes the
admission on it's first page under gar-
ing headlines. Last month charges
that the Russian Soviet government
was substituting newspapers in other
countries for the purpose of carrying
on propaganda were published here,
and The Herald was named as one
journal which had received money
from the Bolsheviki.
The newspaper refers to the Soviet
funds as "a magnificent demonstration
of real working class solidarity and
what Russians mean by international
ISM"
ITO accept it," says The Herald,
will be to complete notable episode
in international socialism. The in
creasng cost of production and the
political shyness Of advertisers make
it necessary for US at once to double
the price of this paper if this money
is not accepted"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11
Teacher, Bullet i'm Breast,
Is Found Kneeling at Bed
Revolver at Side of Body of
Margaret Winslow, Brooklyn
School PRINCIPAL

Persons in the house at $50 First
Avenue, Brooklyn, where Miss Mar
garet Winslow. forty-tive. principal Of
Public School lao, Brooklyn, lived, en-
tered her room late last night to find
the woman l1nceling as though in
prayer beside her bed.
On the floor beside her was a re-
volver, and when they raised her they
found she was dead with bullet
wound in her breast. The police Of
the Bergen Street station were mott
fled. They were told that Miss Winslow
had been in i'll health for several years
and had suffered more than usual
lately.
She had been principal Of the public
school at Sixtieth Street and Fourth
Avenue, Brooklyn, since February, 1912,
and was at the school attending to
registration preparations on Thursday.
Yesterday she told her friends that
she was too i'll to go.
Several years ago Miss Winslow in
CURED the displeasurc of Thomas w.
Churchill, then president Of the Board
Of Education, by supporting certain
measures before the Legislature, known
AZ the Mckee bills. For this she was
reprimanded.
All information concerning her was
refused at the house where she died
last night.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11
Six Greeks Held
For $25O,OOO
Shipping Fraud
Forged Bills of Ladia,g
Said to Have Been Used
i'm International Credit
Scheme ON N. Y. Banks
Firm Rum by Dummies
Two Bags of Coffee and
Two of Rice Employed to
Put Over Alleged Swimdle

Two innocent appearing bags of coffee
and two bags of rice were sent on an
apparently inoffensivc journey to
Greece, each bag consigned to a repu-
table firm that dealt in coffee or rice
or both.
The Federal authorities, after the
arrest of six Greeks in New York yes
lerday, assert that these aforemen-
toned bags we're the means whereby
the six prisoners collected in the
neighborhood of S250,000.
According to Federal authorities, the
American Company of Commerce, al
legged to have been operated by "dum-
miles," by the exercise of uncommon
skill, established irrevocable letters of
credit through several banks in Greece
with the Guaranty Trust Company, the
Irving National Bank, the Mechanics
and Metals National Bank, the Amer
lean Express Company and other fnan-
cial institutions in New York.
This accomplished, the accused men,
it is alleged, prepared the shipments
of two bags Of coffee and two bags of
rice and obtained bills of lading from
the Cunard Steamship Company, to be
shipped on the steamship River Araxes,
and with the American Levant Line, to
be shipped on the steamship Manica
Each bag was consigned to a different
firm.
The Federal authorities allege the
operators of the American Company of
Commerce took the bills of lading and,
by artistic use Of the pen, raised them
from two bags to 1900 double bags of
were thus insured for $46, 900, and later
the promoters, secret service men saw,
presented the insurance receipts and
invoices covering 1900 bags of sugar
to the several banks and collected
s25O,000.
Arrested On Landing Here
George D. Pteriotis, president of the
American Company of Commerce, Inc,
was arrested yesterday as he stepped
ashore from the steamship Adratic
Federal agents say they have been
waiting for him for several months.
Following Pteriotis's apprehension.
six of his alleged associates were ar
rested in their several homes and taken
to Headquarters. The prisoners are
George Brouzos, said to be secretary
and treasurer Of the company; A. J.
Duitsas, Thomas Taomos, Joseph
Sakeropolous and Ernest Cheodosion.
They are charged with having fraud
ulently altered, forged and raised bills
of lading. They will be arraigned in
the United States District Court this
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11
Smith :, and Compe1:s to
Confer ON B.R.T.Strike:
= Indicted for. Murder
b. Il. r. Strikebreakers
Strike OF C0geey Line

One hundred strikebreakers of
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com
pany went on strike at the Still
we'll Avenue terminal of the West
End line, Coney Island, yester-
day. They complained of unsat-
isfactory treatment and bad liv-
ing conditions.
The strikebreakcrs declared
that they were getting ''dogs for
breakfast, dinner and supper"
and were compelled to sleep in
dirty and uncomfortable places.
They also complained that certain
agents of the strikebreaking con-
Germs were mulcting them of a
large part of their earnings. The
strikebreakers demanded trans
portation back to Chicago, whence
they came, but this was refused.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11
Girl Cuts Hair, D0ns
Over0lls and VQnishes
Massachusetts Police Search for
Indianapolis Young Woman
Who Elmtles Her (,Ouer1aess

GLOUCESTER, Mass, Sept. 10.-Miss
Louisa Fletcher, seventeen years old,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Stoughton A.
Fletcher, of indianapolis, was sought
by the police to-day. The girl, who had
been in the care of a governess at the
family home at Grapevine Cove, in the
absence of her parents disappeared
yesterday. A fisherman said he had seen
young woman cut off her hair and
change her clothing, apparently putting
on a pair of overalls. Others on the
waterfront reported to the police that
they saw some one in overalls with
pair Of oars going over the rocks near
a point from which a. rowboat disap-
peared overnight. Aeting on this IN
formation, the police made close
search of the harbor and nearby shores.
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 10. - Belief
that Miss Louisa Fletcher, who is re-
ported missing from the Fletcher sum-
mer home at Gloucester, Mass, is on an
adventurous lark and soon will be
found. was expressed here to-day by
her father, StouRhton A. Fletcher. an
indianapolis millionaire sportsman and
president of the Fletcher American Ma
tional Bank.
Mrs. Fletcher left for Boston soon
after news OF the disappearance was
received. The daughter, Mr.. Fletcher
said, Is great lover of outdoor life,
and that while he and his wife were
worried he believed her disappearance
was just girlsh prank
was just girlish prank. report
that his daughter disappeared after a
disagreement with The governesa
reached Mr.. Fletcher tonight. It was
said that the governors had not spoken
| to the girl in two days.
THE PLAZA
Taa and Dinner naneea have 6a4O re-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11
finds Pistols When He
searches Man for Liquor
ssoaman Arrests Suspect
rented Out to Him as BE.
ing 'sWell Heeges2s'

ne 1 ~ ~ Vincent Curtis was stand
49, Eighth Avenue and Fourteenth
- 49, yesterday afternoon when a
al walked up 10 him and, pointing
q 49, ssa.others man who had just entered
near the corner. said:
guy - well heeied."
sssss ing that well heeled" probably
49," something on the hip" Curtis
~ 1870 tie man int the restaurant
nsso .sys ne discovered that his sur
Nas vas correct In q general way. The
Ass.s VINO gave his name as George
Xsss twsnty-two years old, of 22i
81 "A S,rset, Newark, hAd som ethinx
Mksrs nins, the policeman asserts.
u ~ Nnfess expected to find q Aask.
~ sss be found two pistols.
Sss S9as held On charge OF vaols&-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11
Committee Made Vehicle for Runs0rs
Fo. Partisan Effect, Senator Asserts

CHICAGO Sept 10n statement to-day regarding Governor
campaign fund charges, Edge New
sey, said
II convinced that the committee simply becoming the
vehicle for all types of political charges for
effect In the light of the evidence has been
consideration than his irresponsible charges
ut makes difference what witnesses testify under oah if
such testimony dpeases Mr. vy them
and apparently tells the but himself
"The situation unparalleled American politics. Under such
circumstances what possibly gained following
leads further
draw his statements stand convicted descending
despcabe type professional politics Imaginable"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11
Thugs attack MendeZ
And Flee With $4,000
Too Robbers Caught in Chase
After Staging Hoid-UP in
the Grand Central Station

Jacob Mendel, millionaire proprietor
Of the restaurants in the Grand Central
Station, while sitting in his private Of
flee on the upper level of Grand Cen
trail Station, shortly after midnight
was attacked by two robbers, one Of
whom struck him one the head, dazing
him. The ether thug seized bag on
tanning $1,000.
AS the robbers fed, Mendel ran after
them. His cries attracted the attention
Of scores, who took up the chase Of the
hold-up men and as one Of them started
out the Forty second Street entrance Of
the station he dropped the money bag.
Mendcl picked it up. Station guards
later captured the men and they were
taken to the West Forty.sevcnth Street
station.
The men were hald at the West 47th
Street Station, but the police would
not give out their names. Ono Of tho
prisoners 10 reported TO be a former
employee In the Grand Central res
taurants.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11
Paper Suits for Argentina
Clothing Trade Alarmed by
Shipment From Germany

BUENOS AXRES, Sept. l0.-An an
nouncement that shipment of 100000
paper suits is due in Buenos Ayres next
week from Germany and that the gar~
ments will be sold ut three pesos
suit has caused some alarm in the
clothing trade according to the news
papers.
La Epoca predicts that the sale of
the paper garments will be unsuccess-
full declaring that the men Of Argen-
tina will not wear such cheap clothing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11
Kaiser Would Chop OF
Heads Instead of Trees

BERLIN, Sept. 10.-An ex-
traordinary declaration by for
mer Emperor William, made on
the grounds of his residence at
Doom, is reported by Vorwaerts
in a story purporting to emanate
from q Prussian junker who re-
Gently visited him.
1t is stated that the former
Emperor was chopping a tree
when he suddenly exclaimed, as
he struck furious blows with his
axe: "This is the way heads will
fly to the right and left when !
return to Germanyi"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11
lieu p i'm Hard
Coal Industry.
Miners Threat
Leader of Insurgents Says
Every MAN Will Quit as
Result of Wilson Refusal
TO Reopen Wage Award
Predicts Great Struggle
President Scores Workers
for Violating Contract;
Accepts Their Challenge

SCRANTON, Pa, Sept. 10.-Presi-
dent Wilson's refusal to-day to re-
convene the anthracite commission to
! reconsider the recent wage award,
which the miners found unsatisfactory,
will result within three days time in
every miner in the Anthracite district
going on vacation" according to lead
ers of the insurgent group here. Many
Of the miners had absented themselves
from work since the wage award was
announced as a protest against it.
President Wilson, in a telegram to
the anthracite leaders, insisted that
the wage award that went into effect
September must stand. He declared
that the miners, although insisting
they were on vacation" were, in
reality, striking, and that he would
not yield one iota" to them. He re-
called his previous acceptance of the
miners challenge in which he had said
the country would find some way to
meet fuel shortage if the miners
broke their agreement to accept the
wage award as final.
The vacation movement was led by
insurgents who refused to adhere to
the decision Of the regulars among the
mine workers to accept the wage award
of the anthracite commission under
protest and Immediately set about OBJ
tanning further wage increases.
Williams Predicts Great Struggle
Enoch Williams, chairman of the
joint grievance committee of the Della
ware, Lackawanna and Western Coal
Company, and also leader of the in
surgents in the Scranton district, said
that the refusal of the President to re-
open the case would result in one Of
the hardest fought industrial struggles
ever waged in the country.
Men who have been remaining at
work have been doing so in the belief
that the President would reopen the
case and make it possible for the mine
workers to be granted concessions SIM
liar to those won by the bituminous
workers." he said. "The lines are now
firmly drawn, and the mine worker who
continues at work under the award as
handed down by the majority members
of the commission is not true 70 him
self, the union or his family.
There were more men out to-day in
the Scranton district than ever, and
expect that the whole industry will be
tied up in the district by tomorrow or
Monday"
Officers Of the miners union in this
district will not discuss the Presidents
action.
There are so many rumors that
come from Washington that we must
! wait for official notice before any state
ment is made" said President John
Collins of the miners union in the
Scranton district.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11
Crane Continues to Improve
Former Senator Had Comfort.
able Night. Statement SAYS

DALTON, Mass, Sept. l0.-The I'M
pYovcment in the condition Of former
Senator W. Murray Crane which was
reported yesterday continued to day. A
statemcnt~given out at his residence
this morning said that he had COM
Portable night.
Mr.. Crane has been confined to his
bed since last Saturday with q seri-
Gus attack Of heart trouble.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11
Wilson Refuses Request

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1O.--Pre sident
Wilson, in telegram to-day to repre-
sentatives of the anthracite mine work
ers in Pennsylvania, refused to grant
their request to reconvene the joint
scale committee of operators and min
ers to consider a new wage award.
The President declared that when a
body of men collectively refrained from
working by mutual understanding,
however arrived at, it was a strike, no
matter what name was given it.
A majority Of the anthracite miners
had refrained from work under the
guise Of taking a vacation, the Presi-
dent said, and he told the committee
that he appreciated the earnestness of
tcontIausd on nexe paee)
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11
gDHT7 yOUND?

gIOHT7 WOUND?
Y,id yon lose something. or were 700 q
lucky dnder OF aorae valuable aY4tciSf In
nee4 Lost ana Found AZ, IN Go.fnoYrow's
Tf1@@ne. Telephone HeskHeu a000~--Aavt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11

THE PLAZA
Tea ana Dinner dances have 6aen re-
eumed In the Rose Room.-AdHt.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-10-08
Skagit Bay Lands

Farm products are bound to remain at high
price level as the population of the cities exceeds
the population of the rural districts by nearly
four million. Life on the farm is far different
to what it was at one time; labor saving devices
have reduced the drudgery Of farm life to the
minimum, with new patent milking devices,
electric lights, electric washing machines, water
installed in the house. hot and cold water connec-
tons, your bath installed-why not live as COM
fortably on the farm and do your own work with
as little energy as you can do the work of your
employer? When you feel good you can speed
up; when you are little indisposed you can
take it easier-but when you work for others
you must be as machine, and work all the time.
Have you ever, while at work for your boss, felt
that you could not put forth another ounce of
strength, but still you had to keep at it? Your
life is shortened by this strain. On tract of
Skagit Bay lands you can enjoy all the good
things mentioned in this advertisement and 1T
only means one months wages to get start on
this. If you cannot lay by months wages now
what are you going to do when you get old or the
boss decides to lay you off to suit his pleasure?
No place else in this great commonwealth can
you invest little money and get as great re-
turns for it as you can in Skagit Bay lands. You
will not pass this up, will you? You are going
to investigate at once; you are coming to our
office for particulars or you are going to write
for information at once on, better still, you are
going to join our excursion and see for yourself.
Now is your chance and you are not going to
pass it up.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-10-08
SAYS STORY
OF MURDER
WAS A lie
Confesses to Killing ]. c.
Denton and Later Re-
tracts Weird Yarn

SAN FRANCISCO. Och s.--Joscrh
Rodriguez, who was said by police
TO have confessed the murder OF
Jacob {. Denton. Loo Angeles min.
ing man, today rcpudiated his con-
fession. according TO statement CIV.
en- out by Oscar Hudson. his attor-
ney
1T was all a iic." Hudson said
Rodriguez told him tiss morning. II
never killed Denton IN Los Angeles
and never know Mrs. rcctc
Il was sitting alone In my cell
when the idea came TO me that
could gain some notortety In this
way" Hudson declared Rcdrigucz
told him. Il then made up this
story. which. r. all untrue.
II made an offer 10 los Angeles
newspaper TO put them In touch with
the sweetheart OF Dcnton's slayer.
That was Just for fun"
Hudson said he was arranging to
have Rodriguez repeat hts repudla'
ticn Of his confession TO authorities
here.