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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-27
DISCUSS WAYS
TO REVIVE u. s.
EXPORT TRADE
yer, Mellon and
Financiers at White
House
Administration and Bankers
Agree to Work In Harmony
Foreign Investment Deem
ed Necessary to Enable Eu-
ropean Purchase

Washington, May 26.-The adminis-
tration's policy of promoting exports
as means toward restoration of nor
nal business conditions was discussed
at a White House dinner last night
attended by Secretaries Mellon and
Hoover ]. p. Morgan, Paul Warburg
and a number of other prominent fl
nanciers President Harding was said
10 have talked over the whole sub
iect with his guests.
The dinner was quietly arranged
and no word of it made public until
today.
1t was understood that while no hard
and fast program was decided upon,
the conference served to confirm the
belief of administration officials that
one of the best remedial measures
available would be active cooperation
between the government and business
men for revival of export trade. 1t
was also indicated that the edminis-
tration's policy would turn toward
some sort of aid to the financial sit
uation in Europe as part of the
effort for general world stability.
Continued on Page 2-Coi. 81
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-27
CHARGE FIRE
INSURANCE CO.'S
HOLD MONOPOLY
Testimony at Building
Trust Probe, New
York City
Ten Leading Companies of
Country Secretly Hoard Up
$10,000,000 Yearly - Inter
myer Says Should Be Used to
Reduce Premiums Paid By
Public

New York, May 26.-Testimony
tending 70 show that the New York
Fire Insurance Exchange exercises a
virtual monopoly over the fire insur-
ance business here and that the 10
leading fire insurance companies of
America put aside approximately &c.,
100000 annually in unrevealed profits.
was given today before the Legislative
committee investigating the building
trust.
Samuel Untermyer committee coun-
sci, had on the stand Samuel Rest, an
expert on fire insurance matters and
publisher of national insurance sta
tistics.
Best testified several of the larger
fire insurance companies had made
substantial profits in recent years and
Continued on Page 2-Col, ~
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-27
Commander Fifth
Naval District
Dead at Norfolk

Washington, May 26-Rear Ad-
miral Augustus F. Fechteler, com
mandant of the fifth naval district
died at Norfolk navy yard early to-
day, according to reports to the navy
department. He had been jill several
months.
Admiral F'echteler would have
reached retirement age Sept. 81. Il
is possible that he will be succeeded
in command of the fifth naval district
by Admiral Hugh Rodman, now
commanding the Pacific fleet, whose
tour of sea duty ends this summer
and who is expected to take over
the command of the Norfolk navy
yard and the naval operating base at
Hampton Roads.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-27
ADMITTED DEED
Especial to Kennebec JournaD


National Soldiers Home, Me-, May
26-As the result of the death by
shooting of DR.. Melamed Ovidiu,
first assistant surgeon at the Ma
tional Soldiers Home, shortly after
o'clock, Wednesday afternoon. in
the closed ward at the hospital and
for which Ernest B. Williams, a SOL
dier at the Home is held, a hearing
took place, Thursday forenoon, be-
fore the medical board and the
board of inquiry, two boards ap-
pointed by Governor Francis p.
Hurley. At the time the alleged
shooting took place, those in the
ward besides Williams and the late
DR.. Ovidiu were two women engaged
in floor scrubbing. Mrs. Mary A.
Hayes and Emma Brock and the
trained nurse in charge of the ward,
Mrs. Matte Morrison, also ward
master.
Williams, the man held charged
with the crime. went to Mrs. Hayes.
who was working in Ward 81, next
to Ward % where the shooting took
place and said, Il shot the doctor
and give myself up" At that time
she said she saw no revolver about
him. ''I've shot DR.. Ovidiu and that
is all I want. Take the gun. l am
done" were the words of Williams,
as he came from the death cell down
the ward corridor and accosted Ed
mund n. Williams, a barber in the
hospital
Mrs. Morrison, the nurse in charge
of the ward. testified to being present
at the shooting. She saw and heard
the one shot fred saw DIR. Ovidiu fall.
Then she rushed off for assistance.
The balance of her testimony was in
regard to the removing of clothes from
Williams before the shooting.
Wardmaster Charles F. Baldwin In
Ward % testified DR.. Ovidiu called
him with Mrs. Morrison to change the
patient (Williams) from his room to
another room where the bed was
higher. Williams said, according to
Baldwin's testimony, when they start
ed to move him, you won't take that
leg away from me. | am supposed to
a natural leg and YOU won't take l..
away" Baldwin unlocked the cell lr
which Williams was confined. took the
lock off and stepped back in order to
Continued on Page 2-CoI. p
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-27
HOT COMPETITION
AT STADIUM GAMES
TODAY, SATURDAY

Cambridge, Mass, May 26 -
The Intercollegiate" championship
games on track and field toward
which the athletic activities of mos
of the big colleges of the country are
annually pointed, will be held in the
Harvard stadium tomorrow and Sat
urday with about 80 colleges CONCEPT
ing and almost half a dozen of them
in the fight for first place. Seldom
has this annual meeting had such an
entry of team championship posi-
blities.
University of California, with a
handful of athletes whoc rossed the
country a week ago and are now well
acclimated, had a large following for
it's title hopes. But loss Of a pros
pective place almost anywhere in its
calculations would cut down a paper
margin already at a minimum. And
lined up ready to make the most of
all opportunities were larger teams
from Cornell, Yale, University Of
Pennsylvania, Harvard and Prince
ton, coaches of which were carefully
considering tonight to what extent
tactical disposition of their forces
might help.
AS an instance of the manner in
which these possibilities were being
developed, it was learned that Ed
ward 0. Gourdin, Harvards negro
athlete who is n star in several
events, was prepared to make only
a clap or two in the broad jump
event and then concentrate on the
100 and 220 yard dashes, with the
idea that by conserving his strength
he might be able to add to Harvard's
total by better places in the dashes
Gourdin, with one of the longest
leaps ever credited to man already
on his record, is regarded as virtual
ly certain winner of the broad jump;
however, he would minimize his
chances of setting a world mark at
25 feet, his immediate ambition, for
the possibility of gaining an extra
point for his college.
The Harvard stadium was aban-
doned by athletes today while it was
submitted to careful grooming for
tomorrow's tests. The athletes ned
ed activity to keep in trim for the
games and got in on almost every
other track in the vicinity. but it
was decided that the cinder track and
Jumping pits needed rest and care.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-27
BRITISH GOLFERS
ELIMINATE ALL
u S-CONTENDERS
Amateur Champion
ship Title Safe for
Another Year
Wright, Boston Star Last
American to Survive, Defeat
ed by Darwin, Englishman-
New Champion to Be Decided
Today

| Hoylake, May 26.-(By the Associat-
| ed Press).-The British amateur golf
championship is to remain at home for
at least another year.
British players handily disposed of
the last man of the strong American
contingent who came across seas in
an endeavor to take back the title to
the United States, and Englishmen will
retain the emblem and the prestige
which the winning of it carries.
Either Allan Graham of the Royal
Liverpool Club, over the links of
which the contest is being played Or
| w. l. Hunter of Walmer and Kings
down will be the new champion, hav-
! ing successfully fought their way
through the semi-final round this aft
ernoon.
| Frederick ]. Wright of Boston, the
last surviving member of the Ameri-
can team. succumbed in this morning S
play to Bernard Darwin of Working.
This match, one of the most brilliant
of the series. went to the 10Th hole.
where the Englishman won by stroke.
worked his way into the semi-finals,
only to be defeated by Hunter three
up and two to play. Graham's right
! to compete in the final came through
his vanquishing of H. S. 3. Tubbs,
Sunningdale. by one hole.
Wright'S match with Darwin, who
is the golf correspondent. of the Lon
don Times, served to increase the re-
| spect Bostonian had Wednesday by
John Ball of the Royal Liverpool
Club. The Americans, style of play,
his craftsmanship and his clean cut
appearance were greatly admired by
the English spectators. This was at
tested by the frequent bursts of APP
plause he received during the match
and the favorable comment INDUCED in
by the spectators. The most Common
adverse criticism of Wrights style by
the golfers in the gallery was on his
habit of pulling his shots. This fault
was particularly injurious to the
American player in today's wind
Precise and careful on every stroke,
WNght succeeded in taking the lead
against Darwin and maintaining il to
the 10th green. where the match was
squared. Tho EngliShman then took
the 18th but lost the 18th, necessitaf-
ing an extra hole. This Darwin took
and won the match.
During the play between Wright
End Darwin the silence of the crowd
of several thousand spectators and the
GREATNESS suspense during the put
ting on the various green's was impress
sive.
The feature of today's discussion
among the golfers was on the decision
by the Royal and Ancient Golf Club
rules committee to bar the ribbed or
slotted clubs now used by American
golfers. The ban, however. will not
be put into operation this year.
American visitors and players were
less numerous about the links during
today's play. A few of the American
golfers, however, took part in pleas
ure matches. Francis Ouimet and
Bobby Jones played in foursome re-
spectively with c. J. Castel of Chan
tilly France, aid Captain Webster of
New Zealand The result was win
for Jones and Webster by two up, and
one to play.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-27
General Forecast

In the New England states and
Eastern New York the weather will
be fair Friday and become unsettled
Saturday with moderate tempera-
lures. In the Middle Atlantic states
the weather will become unsettled by
Friday night with showers Saturday
and in the interior by Friday night.
No important temperature changes
are indicated for the eastern half OF
the United States during the next
4S hours.
Winds: North of Sandy Hook
Will be gentle to moderate variable
fair weather FRIDAY
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-27
REP. M|CHAELSON
STARTS SOMETHING
IN HOUSE SPEECH

Washington, May 26-Exclusion
from the congressional record of a
speech by Representative Michael
son. Republican, Illinois, was de-
Representative Connally, Democrat,
Texas, on the ground that it consti-
tuted reflection on the dignity and
honor of the country.
Attack on the speech was made by
Representative Connally after the
Illinois member had spoken in sup
port of his resolution for investiga-
ton of charges that the United
States had been led into the war; by
British propaganda and financial in
terests at n time when President
Wilson was pleading for neutrality.
Taking exception to the speech,
Mr.. Connally appealed to the speak
err for some way by which its publ
cation could be prevented, declaring
it had been made by lone who is
not worthy to sit in this chamber"
Mr.. Michaelson had left the floor,
and in a parliamentary wrangle con-
corning methods for exclusion of the
speech, the session ended abruptly
with a motion to adjourn by Repre-
sentative .Haugen, Republican, Iowa
There were indications that the fight
would be renewed tomorrow.
Quoting extensively from his reso-
luton introduced last week Mr.
Michaelson declared that charges by
former Representative Galloway of
Texas, to the effect that widespread
newspaper propaganda had been
disseminated to involve the United
States in hostilities. had in his opin-
Continued on Page 2-CoI. 81
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-27
British Advance
in Upper Silesia

London. May 26.-(By THE Asso-
ciated Press. -Four battalions OF
British troops began to advance from
the Rhine to Upper Silesia today and
the transfer is expected to be COM
pleted by the end Of the week.
The war office announced this eve
ming that two battalions also would
be sent from England, making six
battalions sent to reinforce the allied
troops already in Upper Silesia.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-27
No Trace Escaped
Murderer in Canada

Woodstock, Ont, May 26.-Search
was being made today for Norman
Garfield, murderer under sentence of
death who escaped from the county
Jail last night after flooring his
guards and. stealing an automobile.
The Ontario government has offered
a $1,000 reward and has appealed to
federal officials :. for permission to
postpone the date set for the execu-
ton so that there may be no question
of it's right to execute Garfield if he
is caught after that time.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-27
Germans to Pay
Part on SATURDAY.

Berlin, May 26.-(By The Associat.
ed Press)-The German government
on Saturday will send to the ,repara-
tons commission at Paris twenty
treasury bills of ten million dollars
each, equivalent to $4,000, 900 gold
marks, as required under the treaty
by the end of May The bills are en-
dorsed by the big German banks. OF
the amount S0,00o,OO0 is payable in
New York and 100000 each in Paris
and London.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-27
BULGARIAN KING
STOOD CLOSE TO
DEADLY BLAST

Sofia, Bulgaria, May 90 King
Boris, standing in the balcony of the
royal palace, was in close proximity
10 the bomb-throwing incident
which caused IS casualties during
the national holiday parade yester-
day.
He was watching the throngs of
people parading in celebration of the
feast of st. Cyril, when the bomb
burst in the midst of them, in front
of the palace.
The source of the explosive is still
unknown, but a number of commun-
ist leaders have been arrested on
suspicion Of completely in the out
rage.
Some of the schoolboys who were
severely wounded are expected to
die.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-27
Big Drop in Price
Western Potatoes

Chicago, May 26-Potato prices
have dropped 80 per cent. in one
year A. w. Aamodt, manager of the
Minnesota Potato Exchange, told
Michigan, Minnesota and North Da-
kota potato growers here today.
Potatoes of the 1919 crop sold last
year for $S.35 a hundred pounds, he
said, while the 1920 crop is bringing
so to 90 cents a hundred pounds.
High freight rates last year led
growers to withhold their potatoes
from the market, according to Mr..
Aamodt and the result was a large
surplus this season.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-27
STRUCK BY AUTO,
SACO MAN KILLED
IN BIDDEFORD

Biddeford, Me, May 2S-Thomas j.
Hodet, 65, of Saco, was instantly
killed this afternoon about o'clock
while attempting to cross Main street
in that city, being struck by an auto
mobile and badly mangled. Hodet,
who had but one eye, is said to have
become confused as he saw the ma
chine approaching and jumped back
directly in front of it, the automobile
passing over the body.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-27
SILESIAN STAND
FRENCH PREMIER
0. X. SAY DEPUTIES

Paris, May 26-(By the Associated
Press)-The Chamber of Deputies
this evening gave a note of conf
dence to Premier Brands govern
ment. The vote was 80 to 1872.
The vote was taken on the ques-
ton of the governments stand with
regard to Silesia and generally con-
corning it's attitude toward Ger
many.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-27
THE WEATHER
FAIR-WARMER

North New England: Fair Friday:
warmer in New Hampshire and Yer
mont; Saturday cloudy, probably fol-
lowed by showers.
South New England and East New
York: Fair Friday; Saturday cloudy
probably followed by showers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-27
Boston Forecast

Boston and vicinity: Friday fair;
Saturday becoming unsettled follow
ed by showers. Moderate tempera-
ture; light variable winds.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-27
HAYS TO ABANDON
Y.
AIR MAIL ROUTE

Washington, May 26-The Wash
ington- New York air mail route will
be abandoned after May 81, Post
master General Hays announced to-
day. Necessity for economy and the
fact that means of continuing the
departments experiments with air
mails would be afforded by the New
York-San Francisco route were Civ
en- as the reasons for the decision.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-27

Genuine bargains In household furs
niture are advertised every day In
The Journal. Read the classified ads
and save money.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-27
FRIDAY: Fair

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g F. M. June 20
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-25
LITERATEURS
 GATHER TO
 HONOR THREE

New York, Nov. 25-The flower of Amertca's men Of art and letters gath bration of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, during which three more illu6tniouS figures will be ele- vated to the ranks of the Immortal Fifty
 The three to be selected will take the seats left vacant by John Bur roughs, Abbott Henderson Thayer and Barrett Wendell, who have died since the last annual meeting of the Acad- emy.
 The selections will be made tomor- row by the remaining 47 members of the Academy, from a list of nom inees picked because of their eminence in poetry and the drama, fiction and history, painting and sculpture, archi- tectune and music, from the 250 mem bers of the National Institute Of Arts and Letters.
 On Saturday, Marshal F'och will re1egate to the background for the only time during his stay in America the role of soldier, and will appear in the robes of the French Acade- mician to lay the cornerstone of the American AcadenyS new home Dis tinguisfpsd authors. artists and states men of two hemtspIheres are expect ed to attend this ceremony.
 Professor Brander Matthews of Co., lumbia University, Chancellor of the Acad emy's beginnings with Howells, Twain, Stedman and others as a nu- cleus
 About 20 years ago." said Pro- lessor Matth ews, "the Social Science Association Increased it's numbers and then designated one hundred Of dts m meTnbeIs-poetS and prose writers. painters and sculptors, architects and composcr-to be found National Tn- stitute of Arts and Letters. Slowly this institute enlarged it's membership to 250; and then it chose some of dts memebrs, Howells, stedman. Mark Twain and John Hay, LaFarge and St. Gaudens, and Edward Mcdowell, and laid upon them the duty of estab- fishing an American academy of Arts and Letters to consist of 50 of the
 leaders in poetry and the drama, fic
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-25
Health Talks
 By JOHN B. HUBER. A.M.;M.D.
Exercise brings refreshing sleep
GLEANRD's DISEASE.

I am now Az and have had stomach trouble and constipation for years, also nervousness. About six years ago I began to get very much worse. The doctor diagnosed my case as neuras- thenia, one as colitis, and still another Ca nerve specia1ist) ensero-ptoSis. By means of the X-ray, he discerned that the stomach and inteStines have dropped out of place. I am extremely nervous have insomnia and am greatly disturbed and distressed by intestinal and stomach gases, which can never seem 10 get rid of. Is there any cure for a case like mine?
 Answer-I think all the doctors have made right diagnoses discoveries burt the fundamental trouble appears to be the enderoItnSis- called by doa-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-25
RED PEPPER FOR
 COLDS IN CHEST


 Ease your tight, aching chest. Stop the pain. Break up the congestion. Feel a bad cold loosen up in just a short time.
 Red Pepper Rub is the cold rem edy that brings quickest relief. It can not hurt you and it certainly seems to end the ughtnesS and drive the con gestion and soreness right out.
 Nothing has such concentrated, penetrating heat as red peppers, and when heat penetrates right down into colds, congestion, aching muscles and sore, stiff joints relief comes at once.
 The moment you apply Red Pepper Rub you feel the tingling heat In three minutes the congested spot is warmed through and through. when you are suffering from cold, rheu- matisrn, backache, stiff neck or sore muscles, just get a jar of Rowles Red Pepper RIab. made from red peppers at any drug store. You will have the quickest relief known.-Adv-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-25
ASH I 7E7;SvvIs(sl n!

tion and history. painting and sculp- ture, architecture and music.
 When this academy was thus or ganized it elected Howells as it's pres1- dent and then William Milligan Sloane as it's chancellor. After the death of Howells last year he was succeeded in the presidency by Mr. Sloane. No one ds eligible to the academy who Is not a member of the institute. No member of either the institute or the academy had voted for himself; they have all been elected by their fellow craftsmen in the several arts.
 '"The purpose of the academy is to bring together the leaders in the all lied arts. to enable them to know one another more intimately, and to en- courage them to take such Action for the advancement of their several arts as may seem to them wise- To this end both the institute and the acade- my have received national charters from the Congress of the United States. Election to the institute is an encouragement to the younger artists and men of letters; and election to the academy is an ampler recognition for the more mature men whose early promise has been followed by per- formance. The institute awards it's gold medal every year to a leader in one of the arts; and the academy has also it's medal, which has as yet bene awarded only once.'
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-25
BIG EATERS GET
 KIDNEY TROUBLE
Take Salts at first sign of Bladder irritation or
 Backache.

The American men and women must guard constantly against Kidney trou- ble, because we eat too much and all our food is rich. Our blood is filled with uric acid which the kidneys strive to filter out, they weaken from overwork, become sluggish; the elim- inative tissues clog and the result is kidney trouble. bladder weakness and a general decline in health.
 When your kidneys feel like Jumps of lead; your back hurts or the urine is cloudy. full of sediment or you are obliged to seek relief two or three times during the night; if you suffer with sick headache or dizzy, nervous spells, acid stomach, or you have rheumatism when the weather is bad get from your pharmacist about four ounces of lad Salts; take a table spoonful in ;s glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine This fla , nous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia, and has been used for generations to flush and stimulate clogged kidneys; to neutralize the acids in the urine so it no longer Is a source of irritation, thus ending bladder disorders.
 lad Salts is Inexpensive; cannot in 5ure, makes a delightful effervescent Whitewater beverage, and belongs in avery home, because nobody can
 make a mistake by having q good kid- tney flushing any time.-Adv.