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The New York herald., 1921-11-01
FRENCH CHICKEN
BLAMED BY WIFE
Mrs. Van VIE i'm Divorce Ac-
ton Says Husband Was
Lured Away.

yice-Chancellor Foster began hearing
testimony In Newark yesterday in the
suit for divorce brought against John
Il. Van VIE of 27s Berkeley avenue,
Orange. N. j., by Mrs. Liela Van VIE
who named little French thing" as
correspondent and identified her as Mrs
Bertha Frazee wife Of William ii.
Frazee OF Brooklyn. Two alienation
suits have also been started as q result
of the alleged intimacy OF Mrs, frazee
and Mr.. Van Vie. one filed by Mr.
Frazee against Mr.. Van VIE for 500. 900
and one brought by Mrs. Van VIE
against Mrs. Frazee for S150,000.
Mrs. Ruth Frances Bescardi OF SO
Woodruff avenue, Brooklyn. who said
she was Mrs Frazee's most intimate
friend" was the first witness before the
Vice-Chancellor She corroborated GER
tain details Of Mrs. Van Wie's complaint,
saying that she had often seen Mrs.
Icrazee and Mr.. Van VIE together. The
first time she met Van VIE, she said,
was five years ago in an apartment oc-
cupied by Mrs. Frazee in $50 St James
place, Brooklyn. After that. she said,
Van VIE came often TO the Frazee apart
nent. and they frequently visited caba-
rcts and restaurants together.
In her complaint Mrs. Van Vie says
that on January IL of this year she saw
from a house in LOG West Forty-fourth
street.
"Tve got you now Mrs. Van Vie
says she told her husband. "You and
your little French thing have been in
that house for nearly two hours"
On another occasion. Mrs. Van VIE
gays. she accosted her husband and Mrs.
Frazee in Broadway hotel and up
braided them.
'You are q man with three grownup
daughters Mrs. Van Vie declares she
said to her husband, land yet you are
running around with this French
chicken"
Mrs. Van VIE says that Mrs. Frazee
took exception to her statement that she
had five other men besides Mr.. Van Vie,
aad retorted that she never had fewer
than dozen men after her.
Mrs. Bescardi testified that she and
Van VIE and Mrs. Frazee went on a
four day auto mobile trip through New
York, with Mrs. Frazee and Van VIE
occuping the same room when they
stopped for the night. She said that Van
VIE frequently visited Mrs. Frazee In
an apartment in East Orange. and IN
variably remained over night" Once, she
said, she saw Van VIE hand Mrs Frazee
an envelope containing five $1,000 bills
and fifty-one $50 bills.
Mrs Van VIE alleges that her hus-
band made gifts of money, automobiles,
jeweIry and real estate to Mrs. Frazee.
She asked that the residence in 1877
South Mum avenue. South Orange. be
held in trust pending the outcome of the
suit She alleges that her husband paid
s30.5O0 for this property and gave 1t to
Mrs. Frazee.
The case will be continued to-day.
The New York herald., 1921-11-01
FOUND GUILTY OF ARSON.
Restaurant Man Accused I'm Plot
to Get Insurance.

Jack Wend of 318 East Ninety-second
street was found guilty of arson in the
second degree yesterday by jury before
Judge Burt J. Humphrey in the County
Court, Long Island City. The fire mar
shars investigators testified that Wend
and Harry Gross of Freeman avenue
The Bronx. bought a restaurant at los
Hunter avenue. Long Island City. fol
S1.150 and had it insured for $4,000
Following fire there on July Is. they
said. oil soaked rags and newspapers
and bits of candles were found. There
was evidence the fire was started in two
places.
Gross was tried two weeks ago on or
indictment charging arson in the second
degree. but the jury disagreed and he Il:
awaiting a retriaL Wend will not be
sentenced until the second trial of his
partner is concluded.
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that these are extreme instances OF
rare occurrence, that such rules have
come into existence to do away with
abuses that otherwise would have to
be endured by labor.
To the average reader. who is taxed
directly or indirectly because of such
exactions; to the manufacturer pay
ing more than twice the freight and
wondering whether he may not be
compelled to shut down altogether or
move nearer to the consumer; to the
person who travels and pays more
than he or his business can afford.
these regulations appear in the light
of piracy indulging in low comedy.
Mr.. McAdoo says government own
ership is the only solution for our
railroad troubles, and this may ex-
plain the existence Of such fool"
regulations. Every "'McAdoo me-
chanic" is an apostle of government
ownership and a promoter of rail-
road receiverships.
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COMING EVENTS
Mar. 2S-Apr. Thirteenth annual {

Mar 2S-Apr. 1-Inlfleentn annual con-
vocation week, Bangor Theological
Mar. 2S-Apr FARMERS week, Col.
lege of Agriculture, U. of NJ. Orono.
Mar. 29-Maine Federation Of Agricul-
tural Associations, annual meeting,
Mar 29-Maine Federation of Farm
Bureaus. annual meeting, U. of M.
Mar 3O-Mane Beekeepers' meeting,
Mar 3O.-Maine Holstein Breeders
Association, o.. of M, Orono.
Mar 30-Maine School Course Alumni
ASSOCIATION. annual meeting, U. of
Mar 3O-kennebec Tribe of Red Men,
Augusta. entertain Portland, Water
Vile and Gardiner representatives.
Mar 3031-New England Rotarians.
Boston City Club, Boston.
Mar 31-Maine State Pathological So
ciety, u. of NJ, Orono.
Association. U. of NJ. Orono.
Apr. 4MuniCipal election, Calais.
Apr. 4-11-National Prosperity week.
Apr. 5-Kennebec Y. NJ. c. A. secre-
taries at Augusta.
Apr. 5--Maine Chambers of Commerce
secretaries meet in Augusta.
April 5LOxford County Universalist
Apr. 6--Maine and Northern New
Hampshire Automobile and Access
sorry Dealers conference, Auburn.
Apr. S-Bird day.
Apr. S-Eclipse of sun.
Apr. 9--l01st. L. S. Engineers, Goth
Division invited to reunion at Cadet
Armory. Boston.
Apr. 13-1S-Maine Methodist confer
ence, Bddeford. Bishop Hughes pre-
siding.
Apr l1--400th anniversary arraign-
ment of Martin Luther before the
Diet at Worms.
Apr. 19--Maine Patriarchs Militant
Battalion Field day, Kittery.
Apr. 19-Patriots' day.
Apr. 20-25-East Maine Methodist con-
ference, Guilford, Bishop Hughes
presiding.
Apr. 22-Total eclipse of moon
Apr. 22-24-State Student Conference,
Waterville.
May 13-14-New England Osteopaths
annual convention, Portland.
May 30-Memorial day.
June 20-25-School for officers and
Camp Devcns, Mass.
June 27-28-Annual convention Typo
graphical Union, Bangor.
Aug. 2-13-Maine Christian Endeavor
summer school, Oak Grove Seminary
Nassalboro.
Aug. 11-Fifth Me. Battery Assn
South Paris.
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U. of M. a State Institution

Barwise of Bangor-Resolve de-
claring the University OF Maine to
be a State. institution. The resolve
is as follows: Resolved, that the
University of Maine is hereby de-
clared to be State institution, but
nothing herein shall be construed as
affecting the nature of it's corporate
entity, it's power to receive or hold
trust funds or limiting it's rights or
powers under the law governing
eleemosynary institutions"
The State Auditor
Wadsworth of Winthrop-Act pro-
viding that the State auditor shall
be competent accountant.
House Committee Reports
The committee on agriculture re-
ported ought not to pass on act pro-
hibiting the distribution in loaf form
of bread except in units of 16 or "A
ounces or multiples of one pound;
and ought to pass in a new draft on
act providing that no bread shall be
distributed in loaf form which is not
properly enclosed in sanitary
wrapper; and ought to pass on act
guaranteeing the purity of CLAIMS,
oysters and scallops; ought to pass
on act to increase the amount paid
by the State for cattle condemned
from 500 to $3.50: and ought to pass
on act to require a fee Of 81 for each
milk depot, vehicle or place from
which milk sales IRE made.
The committee on claims reported
ought to pass on a resolve reimburs-
ing plantations because of reduction
in rate of interest paid by the State
to plantations on their wild land
school funds
The committee on State lands and
forest presentations reported ought
to pass on act regula tory of the oper-
ations of portable sawmlls and pro-
viding for the licensing thereof
The committee on judiciary re-
ported ought not to pass on act for
bidding the erection of any sign
board or billboard of greater dimen-
sions than are described by the ordiG
nances or bylaws of the city or town
where the signboard or billboard is
located: and ought not to pass on act
to amend the Revised Statutes re-
lating to the legal effect of adoption.
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SOLON

Ernest Decker of Skowhegan is in
town on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. L. French are in
Lewiston where Mrs. French is re-
ceiving treatment at the c. NJ. G.
Hospital.
Miss Emma Mahoney, Misses
Martha and Mary Paul, Miss Queenie
Hall and Miss Doris Rowell are at
home from Pennington Normal
school.
The Senior class of Scion High
school went to Bingham Friday even
to repeat the play "Billy's Aunt Jane
recently given in Scion.
The Ladies Home Circle met
Thursday with Mrs. Mary Piper.
The snow is nearly all gone and the
ice has left Fall brook, as we'll as the
river.
The village schools opened Mon
day.
Mr.. Wilbur, from the University of
Maine, gave a poultry demonstration
and talk at the schoolhouse Friday
afternoon and evening.
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OAkL. AND

Acme Rebekah Lodge at its regular
meeting Thursday evening observed
it's 25th anniversary. About 100 mem
bers and visiting members were
present At the close of the business
meeting remarks were made by Sis
ter Levering of Dorcas Rebekah
Lodge of Waterville and the follow
ing program was carried out: Music
by the orchestra composed of Mrs.
II. l.. Hunton. piano, George Bates,
trombone; George Wilson, cornet and
Mrs. Gladys Manson, violin: vocal
solo with encore, Dean e. Wheeler:
vocal solo, Mrs. Kathryn Walton:
reading, Miss Lulu Nickerson;
history of the Lodge from the year
1896 to the present time, read by Miss
Maggie Johnson and Mrs. Myra
Holmes: selections by the orchestra;
reading by Mrs. Bessie Kelley: vocal
solo. Mrs. Ralph Stowell: vocal duet,
Dean +. Wheeler and Mrs Kathryn
Walton.
Miss Johnson gave the early his
tory of the lodge and stated that on
March 25 1896, SO ladies and gentle
men assembled in Odd Fellows hall
known at that time as the Hatch
building for the purpose of institut-
ing a Rebekah Lodge. The Grand
Officers present We're Clarence w
Watson. grand master of 3iddeford.
Arthur n. Lovejoy, deputy grand
warden, Augusta, and the late Mary
l.. Carr, president of the Rebekah
Assembly of Norridgewock, who was
appointed special deputy to perform
the ceremonies of instltuting a lodge
and the degree staff of Somerset Re-
bekah Lodge conferred the degree on
these SO candidates. After the lodge
was instituted the following officers
We're nominated and installed by Sis
ter Carr, assisted by Sister Morse,
grand marshal; noble grand, Bessie
Chase; vice grand, Myra Holmes;
secretary, Marcia Bickford treas
urer, Cassandra Burrill warden,
Lillian Shepard: conductor, Susie
Gleason: chaplain. Ida .Lyford: right
supporter to the noble grand, Alice
Gilman; left supporter to the noble
grand, Matte f. Blaisdell: inside
guard, Annie Pike: outside guard.
Cynthia Cunningham: right sup
porter to the vice grand. Ella
Sheperd; left supporter to the vice
grand, Ora johnson. The lodge at
the beginning of the year 1921 had
membership of 209, among that num-,
Der being 80 charter members. Seven
teen charter members have been lost
by death and several have been
Transcend to other lodges Fifteen
charter members were present at the
meeting. Special mention should be
made of two faithful members, Mrs.
Matte Blaisdell, who is serving her
24th year as treasurer and Miss Mag
gle johnson, who has served as sec
rotary IL consecutive years and at
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A proposition is before the Legis-
lature providing that the Governor
and Council shall fix the salary of the
commissioner of public health. The
bystander may wonder why this
should be left to the Governor and
Council, and if so why the fixing of
the salaries of all heads Of depart
ments should not be left to that body.
AS a general proposition it may
safely be said to be unWise to over
burden the Governor and Council
with contingent funds or the fixing of
salaries of the heads of State de-
partmentS.
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Side by side in the news columns
the reader finds reported great re-
auctions in the wholesale. prices of
deadlock in building operations, labor
holding out for increased wages.
And then the reader recalls that the
head of the great wooden manufac-
turing industry some months ago
predicted higher prices for his prod
uct, saying it could not be otherwise,
and shortly after changed his mind
and the prices.
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TRADE WITH RUSSIA

A specimen of soviet propaganda is
at hand, relating pleasing story 10
the effect that opposition to COM
munism is growing in Russia, and
telling of millions of pools of flax
but admitting the transportation
facilities are poor and suggesting
that the buyers assume the RESPONSE
bilitv of getting it out. Really
most delightful arrangement from the
point of view of those who have
wrecked the railroads of that country
and find themselves unable to replace
them. Think of the marvellous i'm
agination required for this PROPOSE
ton: 1.-The buyers should provide
their own trains, which we should
eventually buy from them with the
raw material itself, so that after a
certain number of Journeys the trains
should become ours"
Turning to the news dispatches one
finds reported the arrival of ship
ments of cloth from England, under
contract with the soviet authorities,
the first being accepted and the
second shipment being refused on the
pretext that it arrived two days too
late, when the real reason was the
buyers were out of money to pay the
bill. 1t is also reported that Lit
vinoff, who has control Of the trading
affairs, has received instructions to
cancel contracts because of lack of
funds, and one trader has notified his
friends to sell nothing to Russia until
the money is deposited.
As to the truth or falsity of these
reports the conclusion must be left
TO time. but there can be no question
as to the unreliability Of the leaders
OF the Russian regime. This has just
been emphasized by Lenin's plea to
the United States to resume trade re-
iations, when as a matter of fact
there are not nor have been, on the
part of this country any restrictions
on trade with Russia except in mu-
nitions. Anyone who wishes to ship
merchandise to Russia is permitted
to do SO. 1t is true that our govern
ment has no consular service in that
country to dignity the trading with
national approval. But this is not
necessary, though Lenin desires it as
sort of tacit recognition of his
power, and in the hope it may en-
courage the trade, which has been
withheld. not by our government,
but by the good sense of American
business men.
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MT. VERNON

Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Fairbanks of
Sangerville passed last weekend with
their mother, Mrs Fannie Fairbanks.
Mrs. J. A Rundlette is seriously i'll
at her home here. She is under the
care of a trained nurse, Miss Jacks on
of Pennington.
Urban Hall of Fryeburg is the guest
of his brother, Alonzo Hall. and
family.
Rev. A. E. Roberts called on friends
in Winthrop and Augusta the first Of
last week.
Mrs. Bradley F'ernald, who has been
A. Hail. has returned to her home in
kittery.
John Weber has returned from a
visit to his brother, Berlin c. Weber.
in Franklin. Mass.
Miss Noah Clough passed a few days
with friends in Augusta last week.
Alton Fairbanks has purchased the
w. d. Archibald house in this village
and is having it repapered and painted.
Mrs. May Bean, who is in Angus ia
General hospital for surgical treat
ment, is reported to be doing well.
Mr.. and Mrs. AlonZo Hall and
daughter Evelyn are occupying Mrs.
Alice Eyler's rent which was recently
vacated by Mr.. and Mrs. George Cor
don.
Miss Amy Bean is recovering from
severe attack of measles.
A very interesting and profitable
meeting of the Farm Bureau was held
On March %. There was good at
tendance and much work on hats was
done under the direction of Miss
Helen Clark.
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one time previous held that office for

one time previous held that office for
two years.
At the close of the program the
members were asked to form in line
with the charter members first and
march to the banquet hall which was
prettily decorated with crepe paper
in the Rebekah colors of pink and
green with the numerals 1S96-1921.
Refreshments of sandwiches. coffee
and cake We're served under the di-
rection of n committee consisting of
Bertha Adams, Maggie Johnson,
Kathryn Walton and Lena Marshall
The Mothers Improvement Club
held an all day meeting Thursday at
the home of Mrs. d. M. Marshall.
Mrs. Marshall was assisted in enter
tanning by Mrs. Fred Bunker. Din
ner was served at noon and in the
afternoon Mrs. Frank Rush read an
article on "The Care of Sick Chill
dren' and other matters were dis
cussed. The next meeting will be
held April IA.
Archie Towle has gone to Portland
on business for a few days.
Miss Bessie Sprowl, teacher of the
first grade, left Friday for her home
in Searsmont where she will pass the
Easter vacation.
Mr.. and Mrs Robert Stafford are
packing their household furniture
and expect to move to Belgrade
Lakes the first of April, where Mr..
Stafford has secured employment for
the summer with Irwin Bean.
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Of $4,000 for the same period ior
maintenance and improvements.
Putnam of Washington-Act 10
legalize and make valid certain acts
of the assessors of the town of Dan
forth for the years 1920 and 1921.
Senate Committee Reports
The committee on legal affairs re-
ported ought to pass on act to create
the Hancock Sullivan Bridge Dis
trict.
The committee on inland fisheries
and game reported ought to pass in
a new draft to amend the law relat-
ing to the protection of wild birds,
the new draft providing that the sea
gulls may be killed while in the act
of destroying property.
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Couldn't Hold 1t

The station master, hearing a
crash on the platform, rushed out of
his room in time to see the express
that had just passed through, dis
appearing around the curve and a
disheveled young man sprawled out
fiat in a confusion of overturned
milk cans and the scattered con-
tents of his travelling bag.
WAS he trying to catch the
train?" the station master asked of
a small boy who stood by, admiring
the scene.
happily, but it got away again. ~
Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
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IF SKIN BREAKS
OUT and |TCHES
APPLY SULPHUR

just the moment you apply
Mentho- Sulphur to an itching, burn
ing or broken out skin, the itching
stops and healing begins, says a
noted skin specialist. This sulphur
preparation, made into a pleasant
cold cream, gives such a quick re-
lief, even to fiery eczema, that moth
ing has ever been found to take it's
place.
Because of it's germ destroying
properties, it quickly subdues the
itching, cools the irritation and heals
the eczema right up, leaving a clear,
smooth skin in place of ugly erup-
tons, rash. pimples or roughness.
You do not have to wait for i'm
provement. 1t quickly shows. You
can get a little jar of Mentho- Sui
phur at~any drug store.-Adv.
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Monday, March %, 1921.

ITO one country we owe allegiance,
and that country is America. 1t mat
tiers not whether that is the land OF
our birth or the land of our adoption.
1t is the land Of our destiny and we
must be in harmony with its polit-
icaI institutions. Gibbons.
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400 foot railroad building

A 4OO-foot railroad building at
Hazelton, Penn, used to thaw out
frozen coal in Winter when the fuel
is delivered for engines, is going to
be moved three miles by rail without
tearing down the structure. A rail-
road track runs through it. Cars
will be run in to make up the length
of 400 feet The building will be
lacked up to the level of the tops
OF the gondolas. Then it will be
lowered on beams placed across the
cars The whistles will toot and the
train. with the building will start on
it's journey.
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"McADOO MECHANICS"

Above is the headline the Boston
News Bureau uses over its account of
the following QUESTIONABLE prepared
by President Kurn of the st. Louis
San Francisco to illustrate some
phases of the labor problems the rail-
road management has to meet:
l. (a) Is it true that under pres
ent classification rules of shop crafts,
in order to change a nozzle tip in
front end of a locomotive, it is neces-
sary to call boiler maker and his
helper to open a door, because that is
boiler makers work; to call a pipe
man and hi s helper to remove the
blower pipe, because that is pipe
mems work; and to call a machinist
and his helper to remove the tip, be-
cause that is machinists' work; also
for the same force to be employed for
putting in the new tip?
Answer-F-Cll compliance with the
national agreement requires proce-
dure outlined.
CD Is it true that before federal
control a. machinists helper, or a
handy man, could put in the nozzle
tip alone?
AnSwer-Yes.
2. (a) Is it true that men work.
ing on trucks, spring work and kim
dred occupations, and paid, before
federal control, handymen's or help
er''s wages, or shade above common
laborers' pay, were made mechanics
by Supplement No. A. issued by Mr.
McAdoo, and are now receiving IS
cents per hour, mechanics pay?
Answer-Yes-
o. Is it true that all these me-
chanics are called McAdoo mechan-
les, because they were made mechan-
fcs by the director-general of rail-
roads, not by experience?
Answer-Yes.
II. Is it true that when a freight
crew finishes a run in four or five,
or less than eight hours, they cannot
BE- used in any other service to fill out
ne day without receiving an addi-
tional eight hours pay?
Answer-Yes.
1S. Is it true that trainmen are
now receiving between $500 and $400
per month on local passenger and
Other runs that before the Adamson
law, on exactly the same runs and
same schedule as to departure and
zzrazeal. received $t35 10 $50 per
uhufh.
AnSwer-NeA
40 ,n1reGzeGaluR
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James de Muth, 40 years old, of
Oakland, Calf, who is walking
from the Pacific to the Atlantic
Coast, he says for his health, asked
for a nights lodging for himself and
his dog at a police station in Pitts
burg, and when they told him they
couldn't provide for the dog, started
to go on. The sergeant called him
back and assigned him to a cell. The
dog lay down in front of the cell
door, and nobody could bulge him.
In the morning the officers in the
sta ton bought breakfast for de Muth
and the dog got his share of the
breakfast.
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Mrs. Joseph Labonite of Winchen-
don, Mass, 76 years old, has been
picking blueberries daily, walking
four miles to the pasture and then
walking two miles more to town to
sellsher berries. AS she was Juggling
two filled pals to town. "A stranger
overlook her in an auto and offered
her a ride. Reaching a crossroad.
and saying he was sorry to turn off,
he helped her to alight and then
jumped into the car and speeded off
with her two pals of berries. The
same man was seen another day put
ting into his car two lO-quart pals
Of berries which two boys had left
by the side of the road while they
went to a brook for drink.