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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-29

appointed guardian ad Item Of tho
four children of Gertrude Webb, the
plaintiff herein,
All the parties to the bill Joined
in the prayer for Interpretation of the
will.
HELD: I. We are unable to discover
where appellant is in any manner III
terested in or aggrieved by the decree
or that he is a proper party to the bill.
His rights and duties as executor are
defined by statute. and these he can
exercise. and must exercise in this in
stance, regardless of the constructions
of the will. The final decree in no way
interferes with the performance of his
full duty as executor. No duty is i'm
posed upon him by the will except
those that the statute prescritcs. and
when he has paid the legacy and debts
and funeral charges. he will turn over
all the property remaining. real and
personal, to the plaintiff and his re-
sponsibility is ended. When the legal
and equitable rights of the parties
thereafter may be is no concern of his.
?. A bill to construe a will cannot
be sustained upon the complaint Of an
person, executor or otherwise, unless
the construction may affect his rights
in person or property. or unless it may
affect the performance Of his duties
under the will as executor, trustee or
otherwise.
8. 1t follows that an appeal by the
executor herein cannot be sustained.
Where an executor was proper party,
it has been held that IAN executor.
who brings suit to determine which CT
two contending legatees is entitled to
a certain fund, has no interest suffi-
Gent to entitle him to appeal from a
judgment constituting the will in favor
of one of the legatees'
4. Appellant stands no better in his
attempt to appeal from the decree Of
the sitting Justice as guardian al
Item. In the first instance there l.,
error in the body of the appeal mas
much as he therein describes himself
as executor. AM in the second in
stance has signed. the appeal in his
own name. thus Charles l.. Dow.
Guardian" proceeding wholly I'M
authorized by law. He has signed as
la principal. when ne Is but an agent.
In a proper appeal '''> wards should
have appeared as p..ncipals and the
appeal made in their name by the
guardian ad litcm.
1t follows then that as guardian p.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-29
Many Good Things
White Ray Fair

The annual fair of the White Ray
club at the City hall this afternoon
and tonight promises to be the very
best in the history of the organiza-
ton. All the usual features will be
provided in the way of booths and
tables and in addition there will be
a grocery counter where visitors may
secure supplies as cheaply as at the
stores. Delicious lunches will also be
served during the afternoon and eve
ming at very reasonable figure.
While there will be no admission
this afternoon, there will be small
admission fee tonight when the two
act comedy "a Lion Among Ladies"
will be given. A speciality dance
will be given between the acts by
Miss Dorothy Gray and the Douglas
Melody Men will furnish the music
for the evening and for the dancing
that will follow the entertainment.
Tickets will go on sale at the box
office in City hall at $50 tonight
ADV.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-29
Leander ], Croker, M, ..

DR.. Leander J. Croolier died in
this city. following a short illness
from pneumonia, Sunday night, Nov.
9th. 1921. DR.. Crooker was tie
son of the late Leander J. Crooker,
NJ. d.. so long and favorably known
in the medical circles of this State,
and he bore his fathers name.
DIR. Croker was born in Chelsea,
Mass, October 10, 1869, and came to
Augusta when small child. He
was educated in the public schools
of this city and at Kent's Hill Sem
mary, and later pursued medical
studies at Bowdoin and Dartmouth
Medical Schools. Following his
graduation from Dartmouth Medical
School. DR.. Crooker returned to Au-
gusta and entered on the practice of
Quoting a drug store on State street.
After the death of his father in 1917.
DR.. Croker continued the practice
of medicine in Augusta under his
own name and until his recent i'll
ness.
The death of DR.. Crooker Is the
end of a long line of physicians and
surgeons bearing the name. III his
immediate family DIR. Crooker rep
resented the third generation of
medical men, for his father and his
fathers father were prominent and
well known figures in the long prac-
tice of medicine, both in Nova SEQ
tia, where the family originated, and
in this city.
Funeral services will be held at
the home, No. / Mitchell street.
Thursday forenoon at IL o'clock. The
burial will be in the family lot in
Belgrade. Friends are requested not
to send flowers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-29
FARM BUREAU NOTES

Miss Helen Clark, home demon
stration agent of the Kennebec Farm
Bureau, will go to Belgrade this
Tuesday, where she will attend an
ll-day meeting of the women's di-
vision of the Belgrade Farm Blu
reau to be held at the Belgrade
Grange hall. The program of the
meeting will be Christmas sugges-
tons.
A three days food school will be
held Wednesday. Thursday and Fri
day of this week at the home of
Mrs. S. B. Webster at Fayette, with
the women's division of the Fayette
Farm Bureau in attendance. Miss
Clark and Miss Louise Whitcomb.
extension instructor in. home eco
nomics. will conduct the meetings.
On Saturday, Miss Clark will at
tend meeting of the women's diyi-
sion of the Monmouth Farm Bureau
to be held in the Monmouth Grange
hall. Supper dishes will be the sub
ject of the meeting.
c. A. Graves of Sidney reports
that he has enrolled in the Farm
Bureau 40 members. solely through
his own efforts. The total of Sidney
is g. members.
Twenty-seven communities plan
to meet on a specified day in the
women's divisions of the Kennebec
Farm Bureau throughout 1922. In
1921, Is of these communities had
monthly meetings with programs by
the women themselves. Better health
in homes and communities has been
the subject of % talks and demon
STATIONS under the auspices of the
Farm Bureau in the past year.
Forty-nine farmers in the county
are keeping farm accounts and
studying their farm business to de-
termine the most profitable methods.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-29
RESCRIPT FROM
THE LAW COURT

A rescript was handed down by the
law court Monday in the Cumberland
county case Of Gertrude G. Webb VS.
Charles l.. Dow, ct ais, Diminishing The
appeal and affirming the decree below.
The rescript. which was drawn by
Associate Justice George NJ. Hanson,
is as follows:
Bill in equity asking the constru2-
ton of the will of Sarah J. Penney,
who died in New Gloucester, Maine, on
the 9Th day Of February, 1921. ~
The will was proved ana allowed on
the 18th day of March, 1921, in the
Probate Court for Cumberland county.
and Charles l.. Dow, one Of the defend
ants, was appointed executor of said
will. Said Charles l.. Dow was also
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-29

ing guests at the home or their
daughter, Mrs, Edgar DOW, at Au-
gusta:
Mr.. and Mrs. T., T. Clark and son.
Edwin Barrows. of WaterNilie were
Thursday guests of Mrs, Eta Bar
rows at Twin Oaks farm,
Mr.. and Mrs. Wendell Robbins and
sons of Augusta passed Sunday with
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-29

pellant has no standing in the instant
case. and consequently any appeal by
him is nullity.
It is sufficient to say that the con-
struction given to the will by the sit
ting Justice but re-states the well set
tied law, and citation Of authorities is
unnecessary.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-29

their parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Robbins.
Mr.. and Mrs. George G.. Low '
Auburn were weekend guests Of NJ
and Mrs. i. j. Robbins.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Luce ehle'
tanned Jesse Whitney. Carlton kos
and their daughter. Alberta, OF We
terville THANKSGIVING Day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-29

properties in this country and Can
ada and it is said it's gross volume for
the current year will exceed twenty
five million dollars. And Mr.. Strout
declares that faith and determine
ton" were his partners IN 1900 and
are still members of the firm.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-29

Miss Alma Hubbard of Rumford
has been passing a week in the city
as the guest of Miss Anna Norman,
employed at the Central Maine Pow
er Company's office.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-29

The coal barge. Bast. hailing from
Philadelphia, is locked at the Purin-
ton dock and the cargo is being un-
loaded. There were 500 tons of stove
coal aboard of her.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-29

Real fun and something for every
body will be provided at the fair Of
the White Ray club in City hall this
afternoon and tonight-Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-29

Anna Dodge has returned from a
few days visit in Waterville. where
she was the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
Roscoe Hanson.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-29

Murray Alliance fair. Universalist
vestry, Nov. 80, Dec. 1. Christmas
gifts all kinds. Hand-painted novel
ties, cards. children's clothing.
aprons, embroideries, candy and
me-cooked food. nov2S-29
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-29

Mrs. Vivian Greenidge of Newton.
Mass. Is the guest of her daughter,
Mrs. Erskine p. Moves, II Dayton
street.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-29

Miss Madeline Salla returned Mon
Gay forenoon from her home in
Fairfield. where she visited over
Sunday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-29

Miss Helen Ham has .eturned
from a few days at her home in Ce-
dar Grove. She also visited IN Gar
diner.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-29

Miss Hazel Richards. who has
been visiting in Waterville for a few
days, has returned to her home in
this city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-29
LOCAL NOTICE

Member the tunes we encored so
many times in City Hall Thanksgiv-
ing night? Well! Douglass will
play 'em again tonight over there.
Let's Go.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-29

Ralph l.. Glazier of Waterville
was here Sunday calling on friends
and relatives for the day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-29

Drexel's annual sale at st. Mary's
hall. Dec. 1. at $50 p. NJ. Home
cooked food, candy, aprons and fancy
articles of all kinds. Refreshments
served afternoon and evening.
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-29
Candidate Mayor Was Local Pastor.

Rev. Charles S. Cummings, who is
a candidate for mayor of Auburn, was
formerly pastor of the Methodist
church here, and while so officiating
took a great interest in civic affairs.
He conducted a vigorous campaign
against the mismanaging of the Au-
susta Poor Department, so vigorous,
in fact, that it was changed all over
and many establishments were made.
His knowledge Of public affairs has
been shown on many occasions since
at committee hearings during sessions
of the Legislature.
Mrs. C. A. Batchelder of st. Al
bans was here calling on friends
Saturday and she visited In Pittsfield
before returning to her home.
Rollin c. Clark Of Portland was
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-29

Rollin C. Clark Of Portland was
here calling on business friends Mon
day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-29
AUGUSTA LOCALS

&. Guy Hume of Fairfield was here
on business Monday.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-06
Chicago Declares War ON
Restaurant Pro6teers
High Prices While Ex-Service
Men Walk Streets Hungry
Nav Cost Licenses


CHICAGO, Aug. SIT is not neces-
sary for you to charge Is and 20 cents
for scent bowl of soup to help win
the war;" said Chairman Govier, Of
the High Cost of Living Committee, to
a delegation of managers and proprie-
tors of Cheap" restaurants to-day
Evidently you have not heard of it,
but the war is over, and hundreds of
ex-service men are walking the streets,
jobless and hungry. Twenty cents for
a spoonful of sloppy soup that costs
you about J. u cents does not make hit
with these boys"
The city is rounding up the worst
profiteers and may revoke their Ii
'censes.
Albert Levy, president of the Man
ufacturers and Importers Association,
in an address before that body, also
served warning upon retail mechants
that the public is about out of patience.
There will be no business revival
until the retailers adopt new price
SCALE" said Mr.. Levy. Manufacturers
have all come down in price, but the
retailers take the goods at the new low
prices and then sell them at the old
urices"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-06
Fiue Coney Island Raid
Victims Freed by Court
Search Made Without Warrant;
Chemist Must Back Police
Epidence. Magistr0te Rules

CSs~CssCC9 IVA sC~s ~~~C A~s~SOo
Five of the fifteen Coney Island
hotel and restaurant proprietors whose
places were raided by the police were
tried before Magistrate James T.
O'Neill yesterday and dismissed when
it was proved the police had had no
search warrants.
Magistrate ONeill said that he based
his decisions on those Of County
Judges MxcMahon and Haskell, the Su-
preme Court and an opinion by Corpo-
ration Counsel O'Brien.
Magistrate Louis H. Reynolds in
Bridge Plaza Court yeste rday decided
that a policeman's testimony that a
drink was alcoholic was not good evil
dence without the confederation of the
city chemist. He discharged Louis
Buchinsky, Of $50 Grand Street, who
had been arrested by Policeman Joseph
Jahoda.
"The police are <ot 'rummies,'' said
the court. "They cannot be whisky ex-
perts, able to testify correctly when
they appear against defendants charged
with violation of the Mullan-G Gage act"
Police boarded sleeping car at
tached to an early morning train from
New York to Boston on the New York,
New Haven e. Hartford Railroad at
New Haven yesterday and seized
eighty gallons of alcohol. The alleged
contraband was concealed in an upper
berth. Two men in the lower berth
were arrested They said they were
Alexander Witkas, Of Hartford, and
Benjamin Gottliev, of Worcester, Mass
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-06
Plague Reports Denied
By Southern Officials
Confer With Surgeon General
ON Pellagra; Assert 1921
Cases Below Average

WASHINGTON, Aug 5.-Denial that
there is Condition approaching a
famine or plague in the South" was
made to-day in report unanimously
adopted by health officials from dozen
Southern states in conference here
with Surgeon General Cumming, of
the Public Health Service, to discuss
the Pellagra situation. 1t held that
erroneous and misleading" state
ments had been made to the public
but the sentence, eve do not regard
the situation in any sense as more
serious at the present time than dur
ing the last several years." in the
committee draft was eliminated.
The report said the Southern health
officials in conference at the request
of the surgeon general, "deplore the
fact that an impression has been
created that famine conditions exist
in the South, and as result that
pellagra has increased to an alarming
extent"
After making an investigation, using
ell information available, it said !:
Data in hand show in an unmistak-
able way that the number of cases and
deaths from pellagra during 1921 will
still be less than the annual average
during the period of 1914 to 1921"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-06
Court to Decide Whether
Japanese Race Is White
Claim of Caucasian Origin To
Be Heard While Arms
Conclayc Is On
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

WASHINGTON, Aug. s5.-Contcn-
tons that the Japanese are white
race, and therefore entitled to Amer
lean citizenship, are down for argu-
ment at the forthcoming session Of the
United States Supreme Court. The
case is No. on the docket and may
be heard on the first day Chief Justice
Taft takes his seat--October 5.
Apart from the extraordinary char
acter of the litigation, which officially
is entitled, "Takao Ozawa agt. tha
United States" it will be occupying
the attention Of the Supreme Court at
the very moment President Harding s
disarmament-Far Eastern conference is
in session. The claim of Japanese
to be recognized as Caucasian thus
may synchronize with the revival be-
fore the Washington conference OF
Japan's demand for trace equality"
The Japanese petitioner, who is seek
ing to enforce his right to become a
naturalized American, will be repre-
scented before the Supreme Court by
George w. Wickersham, Attorney Gen
eral of the United States in the Taft
Administration.
Arguments on behalf of the claimant
will range around the trace origin" OF
the Japanese. 1t will be pleaded that
"the root stocks and tho dominant
strain of the Japanese" are of the white
race.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-06
Haytian Assails Wilson
For Island Occupation
Senate Committee Also Hears
Protest Against Troops Re-
manning i'm Charge

From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-Before the
Senate committee investigating the
conduct Of the Navy Department in
Hayti and Santo Domingo, Stenio Vim
cent, former President Of the Haytian
Senate, charged to-day that the Will
son Administration "took advantage Of
a weak and defenseless nation" when
it sent armed forces into the country
in 1915.
A protest against the present occu
patton was presented to the commit
tee by Captain Ernest Angel, on be-
half Of the Hayti-Santo Domingo In
dependence Society, the Union Patri-
otique d'Hayti and the National Asso-
citation for the Advancement Of
Colored People.
The complaint declared American
occupation had been destructive and
not constructive, and that physical i'm
provements, such as the building of
roads, had been made at indefensible
cost and by ''forced enslavement" of
the people. The protest asks investi~
CATION of the landing of American
forces in 1915, the censorship, suspen-
sion Of elections, alleged military ex-
cesses, imprisonments for political Of
lenses, rumored administrative abuses
and iaxity and increase of the public
debt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-06
Reeve Asks Wife to Return
Doctor Says Her Court Action
Has DESTROYED His Practice

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, Aug. 5.-Dr.
Oscar Reeve, whose marital troubles
were aired in the courts here last
spring, fled an answer yesterday to
his wife's complaint, which charges
contempt of court, and expressed a
wish fer q reconciliation with Mrs.
Reeve.
DR.. Reeve sets forth that he is I'M
able to pay the sum ordered by the
court for. support Of his seven-year-
old daughter, Delora, now in Mrs.
Reeves custody, declaring the lucra-
tive medical practice he formerly had
in New York City had been ruined by
publicity following Mrs. Reeves court
actions. The doctor says he has been
compelled to accept a position as as
sistant physician at the New Jersey
State Hospital, with a salary of $35
week. He suggests that the only
possible solution is for his wife and
daughter to go there and live with
him.
Mrs: Reeve and her daughter are
now living at Ossinfng.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-06
Hoover to Hear of Cibrario
Simmons Will Tell of Alleged
100000 Film Fraud

Assistant District Attorney Jerome
Simmons left last night for Washing
ton to confer with Secretary of Com
merce Hoover concerning the alleged
activities of Jacques Roberto Cibrario,
who is charged with defrauding the
Russian Soviet government of 100000
in film enterprise.
Cibrario was arrested last Monday
and is at liberty under $4,000 bond.
The man is said to have been custodian
Of fund of s1,O00,0oO soviet money
ostensibly to have been used in the
purchase of motion picture supplies to
be used in Russia for educational
propaganda among peasants. DR.. Will
liam Chaplin Huntington, who was en-
route to Europe when halted by a telc-
gram from Mr.. Hoover, left for Wash
ington last night to inform the Sec
rotary of Commerce as to matters
within his knowledge as to Cibrario's
enterprises.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-06
$4,000 Bank
Theft Probed
AS Inside Job
Robbery in Long Island
City Called Climax to
Series of Losses Rang
ing From $40 TO $500
View Denied by Officials
Burglary Insurance Mana
ger Says One Knowing
Combination Opened Safe

A $4,000 robbery was reported to
the police yesterday by the Long
Island City branch of the Title Guar
antee and Trust Company. Details of
the loss were withheld from the press
by the bank officials, who would say
only that the money disappeared
while being brought to the bank. They
added that it did not occur while its
offices were being moved on August
from Jackson Avenue and Fifth
Street to the present quarters on
Skillman Avenue and Bridge Plaza
different story is told by William
Morris, superintendent Of the claims
department Of the United States
Fidelity and Guarantee Company,
which had issued blanket policy
covering all larceny at the branch
He is in charge Of the investigation
into the case which his company and
the Burns Detective Agency have been
conducting for the last two weeks.
Series of Losses Charged
Mr.. Morris declares that the theft
occurred on the night of Wednesday,
July 20, and was the elimination of
a series of small losses ranging from
$40 to $500, which early in the month
led the management to place a special
auditor in the branch. The manager
alone knew the reasons for his pres
ence and the scope of his duties.
Among these was that of verifying
tervals and without warning.
This the auditor had done only once
a week before the $4,000 loss was dis
covered. At that time he found no
discrepancy, and his decision to make
a second count on July 81 was I'M
expected. The paying teller opened the
vault in the presence of the audito,
and the chief clerk as soon as he ar
rived at the Office that morning anc
brought out the cash. This was found
to be only a little over $4,000 al
though, according to Mr.. Morris, it was
admitted $81, 440.41 was put away the
night before. The loss was chiefly ir
large bills.
Story Told by Teller
The teller claims, Mr.. Morris says
that he found the third of the three
doors to the strong box unlocked. He
declares that he turned the combina
tion before leaving the night before
and suggests this fact as evidence tha
the vault was opened during the night
The branch is protected by burglar
alarms and no marks of violence were
found on the safe. The investigators
believe, therefore, that the thief mus
have been familiar with the three com
binations. These, Mr.. Morris says
were known only to the teller, the man
ager, John H. Pencheon, and the two
assistant managers, one Of whom, Will
liam H. GARDENER, was away on hi
honeymoon at the time.
All the bank employees have beer
cross-examined by the investigat tors
and their records have been CAREFUL,
looked up. Mr.. Morris says tina
enough evidence has already been OBJ
tanned to make arrests within the next
two weeks probable.