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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-30

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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-30

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Public Lots; thence east along the north line Of said
Public Lots $50 rods more or less to the north
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less thence east to the west line OF Woodville:'
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the south line Of Midway; thence west along the
south line Of Midway and T. A, r. Z, W. E. L. s.. to
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land in the north part Of said Township, bounded
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west corner Of the Public Lot; thence along
the north line Of land Of Fred NJ Weymouth, ct al.
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-30
TIMBER AND GRASS ON RESERVED LANDS
STATE OF MAINE.

Treasurers Nay
-oN-'' N-'N--o' -"Aee IVA Wv 'SN-
PENOBSCOT COUNTY WILD LANDS.
Tax Tax
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-30

state County Dist.
Tax Taz Tax
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-13
PACIFIC COAST SHIPPING
MEN APPEAL TO PRESIDENT
FOR AID IN MARINE STRIKE
.ROMIC JOKES WHILE
COMMITTEE VA|NLY
SEEKS DODGERS GOLD

Washington, May 12-The trail for
the buried gold of Grover Cleveland
Bergdoll. draft dodger, which a
House investigating committee is
trying to pick up, ended today in the
kitchen of the Bergdoll home at
Philadelphia, where it was last seen
by the man who had taken it there
from the United States treasury.
James L. Romig, one time police
magistrate of Philadelphia, who
came to Washington with the slack
er's mother in the fall of 1919 to get
the gold and from whom the COM
mittee had hoped to learn something
of it's alleged burial place, declared
quite positively that he never set
eyes on it after it had been dumped
on the kitchen floor. Whether IT
ground lie swore he could not say.
The serious sessions of the commit
tee were upset frequently by Romig,
who is 20 years old and who was in
a fine frame of mind despite the fact
that he is awaiting sentence on con-
viction of aiding Bergdoll to escape
the draft. Always in q laughing
mood, Romig added a constant touch
of levity.
The former magistrate was called
after former Judge John w. Woscott
of New Jersey had reiterated that
there was not a word of truth in
reports that he had been employed
as one of Bergdolrs lawyers. Two
of the judges sons, both lawyers.
and two other lawyers associated
with him testified to the same effect.
John H. Sherburne, counsel for
the committee, had not brought the
Romig story up to the point where
Bergdoll slipped through a bath
room and started for Germany. when
the hearing was adjourned until to-
morrow.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-13
S15O,OO0 FIRE AT
LAWRENCE. MASS.

Lawrence, Mass, May ia general
alarm fire swept two acres alcng the
railroad yards tonight and for a. time
threatened Lawrence's thickly settled
wooden tenement district. Men and
apparatus from Andover, North An
dover and Methuen were called to
help fight the flames.
The blaze started in the Archibald
Wheel Cos. seasoning department
where thousands of hub-blocks, spokes
and rims were stored. 1t di more than
$125, 900 damage there and jumped to
the drying rooms. through which it
burned. The the flames spread to the
120O-ton coal pocket of the George III.
Gage Coal Co.. where between $4,000
and $4,000 damage was sustained. A
big junk shop and barns were also
destroyed before the fire was con-
trolled.
The cause was unknown tonight
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-13
FREED FROM WIRE
CAGE AFTER SIXTEEN
YEARS CONFINEMENT

Saratoga Springs, N. Y, May a.
After sixteen years of confinement in
wire cage in her home on a farm
near Round Lake, Miss Bessie Hall,
81, was released today for the first
time. She left the enclosure to ac-
company physicians to a hospital for
physical examination.
Reports reached the humane So
ciety recently of the young woman's
Incarceration in the wire enclosure.
Investigations by the society dis
closed that the confinement was ex-
ecuted by her mother, following. 1t
was said, n temporary mental der
angemcnt when Miss Hall was IS
years of age. Physicians reported
she was sane, but probably suffering
from tuberculosis and would probab-
ly be removed to the county tuber-
culosis sanitarium.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-13
Ask That Government Direct
Manning of Vessels Held Up
By Marine WOrkers-New
York Ship Owners Not Con-
sidering Such a Course
Deny Plot to Ruin American
Shipping

New York, May 12-Winthrop L.
Marvin, secretary of the American
Steamship Owners Association an
nounced today that Pacific coast
operators had telegraphed Secretary
of Commerce Hoover and Admiral
Benson of the shipping board urging
them to request President Harding
to declare that q national emer-
gency existed in the nationwide
shipping strike.
The telegram recommended that
the government take over the man
ming of vessels if the strikers re-
fused to return to work within As
hours.
Mr.. Marvin said his association
had no information as to who signed
the telegram TO the Washington
officials and added that no similar
action was even contemplated by the
ship owners here.
Speaking for the American Steam
ship Owners Association of which he
is president, II. T. Raymond today
characterized as a malicious lnVcn-
ton the statement of Andrew Furu-
seth. made yesterday in Washington
that the stand taken by the shipping
board and the steamship owners in
the wage dispute was part of an in
ternational plot to destroy American
shipping.
1.-THE accusations" Mr.. Raymond
said, means in effect that the ship
ping board is deliberately betraying
the country and that American ship
ping companies are proposing to de-
stroy their own property. Stated IN
this way it is easy to recognize how
utterly preposterous it is"
He also said that the American
Steamship Owners Mutual Protec-
tive and Indemnity Association.
which Mr.. Furuseth asasiled was q
thoroughly American insurance or
eanization with no foreign affilia-
tons whatever.
Ills accusation is a reckless libel
on a responsible department OF the
government and on the American
merchant marine" Mr.. Raymond
concluded.
Today was pronounced by Mr..
Marvin, of the owners association, TO
be their best since the strike began,
while on the other hand Bert l..
Todd. for the engineers. asserted, the
situation was decidedly bright for
the unions. Mr.. Marvin predicted
that another week would see
American shipping back to what it
was before the strike began.
Sailings reported today from New
York included nine American ships
of which one company, the United
American Lines, claimed to have
sailed five.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-13
Schwab Believes
Govt. Should Keep
Out of Rail Tangle

Boston. May 12--The government
must keep it's hands off while the
railroads of the country set their
own houses in order Charles NJ.
Schwab. chairman of the Bethlehem
Steel Corporation and war time head
of Emergency Fleet Corporation de-
clared here today. The problems of
transportation, wages and rates i
justments are the most important Ill
the business world at this time, he
SAID.
,Ir. Schwab and Eugene q. Grace,
r, es ident OF the Bethlehem Corpora
ton, spent the day inspecting the
ctmrany's Fore River Shipbuilding
yard.
Mr.. Schwab said the American mer-
chant marine never would amount t.
,nuch while it was in the hands Of
the government. II don't care how
many ships are built" he said. 9TH > !
must be turned over to private own
ers who must be assisted by the gov
eminent in getting their operation
upon an earning basis. Unless frct.
tolls through American canals are
granted it, the American merchant
marine can never survive
TIE United States Shipping Board S
Operat;cn of the merchant ma. inc
vac termed an absolute failure by Mr..
Schwab.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-13
REDUCED RAIL WAGE
THE ONLY SOLUTION
SAYS S.P. CHAIRMAN

Washington, May 12-During a
long and vigorous cross examination
before the Senate interstate COM
merce committee today julius
Kruttschnitt. chairman of the board
of the Southern Pacific, held firmly
to the views he had given in direct
testimony as to the causes of the
financial plight of the railroads of
the country.
Expenditures for labor, fixed par
TALLY or wholly by government &C
ton are too high and much be re-
duced, Mr.. Kruttschnitt reiterated in
reply to questions from members of
the committee, which is investigating
the whole railroad situation. Present
revenues as affected by recent rate
advances, are entirely justifiable, he
added, and must be sustained
Arguments and queries by SEN
ators designed to bring out the views
of the witness as to whether lower
freight rates in particular might
bring the roads more business and
thus increase profits out of smaller
tolls, met not the slightest encour-
agement from the railroad director.
In reply to the suggestion of Sem
ator Townsend. Republican. Mich
igan, that railroads might gain pop
ular favor by dealing with rate re-
ductions and wage reductions at the
same time, Mr.. Kruttschnftt retorted
that the railroads are almost in
death throes." A similar reply was
given Senator Meyers, Democrat, of
Montana, who inquired as to the
possibility of railroads attempting to
encourage traffic by granting lower
rates. Such a possibility was "specu-
ative." Mr.. Kruttschnitt said. while
losses in revenue are certain"
Senator PoindeXter. Republican, of
Washington, said that many com
paints were being voiced because of
the slcWneSS of action by the rail-
road labor board in deciding com
plants" and Mr.. Kruttschnitt agreed
that this was difficult factor.
Chairman Cummins withheld his own
examination of the witness until to-
morrow.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-13
West Virginia Governor Heeds Appea
County Officials for Troops to Restore
Order Dept. Asked to Send
Federal Troops Defiant Forces
EntrenChed in Mountains
Several Towns Under Fire
Casualties Unknown
ASK FOR U. S. TROOPS

Charleston, w. Va, May 12-Gov-
ernor Morgan tonight responded to
the request of county officials of
Mingo county and asked the War de-
partment for Federal troops to re-
store order in Nlingo county.
County officials of Mingo, in re-
questing Governor Morgan to ask for
troops, said that they were unable
to cope with the situation.
A statement from the governors
office tonight declared that "the
greater amount of the firing came
from the Kentucky side" adding that
reports to the states chief executive
were to the effect that the two men
had been killd.
1T is understood" said Governor
Morgan's statement, that the county
officials of Pike county, Kentucky,
made a similar request of Governor
E. +. Morrow and that the latter
would also ask for Federal troops.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-13
Chicago Papers
to Fight Shy of
u. S. Stacker List

Chicago. May 12-Discovery that
William Sutherland Bacon. the first
man named on the first Stacker
list" released at Fort Sheridan had
in reality been a lieutenant colonel
and commander of the chemical
warfare service at Lakehurst, N. j.,
virtually has stopped further publ
cation of the list in Chicago news
papers.
Three Chicago papers announced
today that until greater accuracy is
attained in the lists, they will not be
published.
Mr.. Bacon, it was ascertained. was
not only guiltless Of the Stacker
charge. but had conspicuous rec
ord as volunteer in tie service, ris-
ing from the rank of private to that
of lieutenant volonel. He is men,
Der of the American Legion with
residence given as New York.
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DISARMAMENT
ADVOCATES TO
FORE IN SENATE
Much in Evid nee
When Navy Bill Is
Taken Up
BOrah is Leader of Move to Put
it on as Rider-Retards Con-
sideration of Many Amend
ments - Sen. King Says
Navy Bill is War Message to
Nations

Washington. May 1.-THE half
billion dollar naval appropriation bill
was taken up today in the Senate
only to encounter immediate opposi-
tin from the advocates of disarma-
ment.
Reading Of the Senate naval affairs
committees amendments had scarce
ly morethan been started when the
first rumblings of the imminent dis
armament fight were heard. The first
amendments slightly increasing the
appropriations of the bill as passed
by the House were accepted discus
sion but when the amendment was
reached to increase the sum available
for recruiting by million dollars
Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho,
leader of the disarmament forces,
asked that it be passed over until the
Senate takes up the question of ma
val personnel.
This request by Senator Borah was
repeated time after time with ire
result that when the days consider
alton ended, practically all Of the ma
jor committee increases in the first
half of the bill had been passed over.
The disarmament forces through
Senator King, Democrat, Utah. also
= l~.II p1y
the Utah senator contending that
continuation of the 1916 building pro-
gram was L waste of money
THE Navy department" said Sen
ator King. has gone back into the
tomb and dug up the naval program
OF 1916 We haven't apparently
learned anything from the war"
Senator King in three-hour
speech described the bill as war
like message from the United States
to the nations of the world" He
read in support OF his statement a
press despatch saying Great Britain
because of the American naval Dill
had decided to contract Immediately
for the building of the four $4,000
ton vessels of the super-hood type.
Many of the ships now in service
should be scrapped. Senator King as
serted. adding the newly created
Pacific fleet was made mp of obsolete
"hulks" which should be placed on
the scrap heap. Predicting there
would be IAN irresistible tide" in ia
vor of world peace and universal
demand that the United States as
sumo the leadership in such a move
ment, Senator King declared that the
decision of congress on naval appro-
priations would determine whether
the United states is TO be a peaceful
or an aggressive nation"