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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-08

The heralded resolve of the Ma
ttonal League of Women Voters to
get cut at least Is per cent. of the
voters at the next election. Now to
see that they shall know what they
are voting about.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-08
WHITEFIEI.D

Lincoln county Pomona met Win
Seaside Grange New Harbor. OcL.
q. with good attendance. The nex'
meeting will be at DamariscoI'a'
Nov. Is. 1t is hoped there VIII pc
good number present as this VIII Oe
the election of officers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-08
Light and Airy
Complete Happiness

NUEfpltte 1Adk5pIncsS
My sweetest dream of perfect JOY
and undiluted bliss is
To kill the guy who grabs the phone
and asks, ia know who this is 2"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-08
Gaining

Don't you weigh more than you
did,"
"Oh, rather! I started at nine and
a half pounds"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-08
Exemplary

Exemplary
AS a model of social politeness.
Take the echo-it beats us all.
You never heard of an echo
That failed to return ones call.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-08
ESTABLISHED 1925

No. notice whatever will % taken Of
unsigned communications
The journal cannot De nelo respOn.
sible for the preservation or return
OF rejected communica tion6.
Address all communications relating
to subscriptions and advertisements
to Kennebec Journal Company,
Publishers. Augusta. Maine.
MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Associated i'ress IL exclusively
entitled to the use for republication Of
ali news dispatches credited to II or
NOT otherwise credited in this Taper
and also the local news published
herein.
All rights OF republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-08
GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY SYSTEM
CHANGE or TINE E1Hrcrrvr
Sept. %, 1898

Sept. 90, isa5
Two trains daily 745 A. NJ. ana kn
r. N. for Lewiston. South Paris. Co..
ham, Berlin. Island Pond, and Mo-.
treal. arriving Mont real $50 +, N srS
7.45 A. NJ. respectively. Connection
IL Montreai and Chicago for Los An.
Seattle, Wash, Vancouver. b. c. anS
other Pacific Coast points. -"u
The I;3o p. 81. train for island Pond
cancelled. O"u
For further information apply 10 anu
Grand Trunk ticket Office. or 10.
G.. A. HARRISON
General Agent Passenger
Department. Portland.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-08
He Thought SIR Arthur Couldn't
ReAdi

Sir Arthur Balfour, at a dinner in
Washington. praised the American
colored people.
II often judge Americans by this
criterion" he said: IF they like
colored people. then I know they are
likable themselves-and vice versa.
"Once 7 visited Washington a
good many years ago. All the hotel
walters were colored then, and
confess l preferred the quaint COL
cred service to the present sophisti-
Gated and elaborate service of the
whites.
THE day of my arrival, when my
waiter, an old colored man with
snowy wool. brought me the menu.
put a coin in his hand and said,
Just bring me good dinner. unce.'
He brought me an exquisite din
ner. and during my fortnight's stay
we followed out this program daily.
by pushing aside the menu and
handing him the coin. he selected a
much better dinner for me than I
could have chosen myself.
1.-THE day of my departure, as I
took leave of him. he said:
'Good-by, sir. and good luck, and
when you or any of your friends
what can't read the bill of fare
comes to Washington. just ask for
old Calhoun From Every
body's Magazine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-08
STRUGGLING Youths

Struggling Youths
The head of large shipping firm
in the West received a letter from
a millionaire banker asking that. his
son be given a job where he could
learn the business. Soon after the
head of the shipping firm wrote back
to the young mans father:
your son has arrived. l have
given him employment at my Office
at $40 a week. with others of his
class. One of these young men has
just bought a hundred-thousand-
dollar yacht and another comes to
the Office in a twelve-thousand- do
lar motor car. I think your son will
find his surroundings congenial.'-
PHILADELPHIA Public Ledger
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-08
EdS ern Steamship Lines, Inc,
EXPRESS. PAssEMGER AnD
THEI4AT SERVICE

EXPRESS. PAssEMGsR AND
THEI4AT SERVICE
BOSTON AND PORTLAND LIME
FARE $2.7o. STAERRo0HFS Si.so.
3. .. GOVERNOE DIM0EEy
Leave Portlan Franklin Wharf
Estate Pier) Tuesdays, Thursdays ana
Saturdays. at p. nj.
RetuIn-Leave Boston Mondaya
Wednesdays and Fridays at s p. N.
AL Boston connection Is made via
the Metropolitan Line express ireight
steamers for New York and points
South and West.
MAINE STEAHsNIP LINE
yORT1ANO, NEW YORK TEEIGH2
SERVICE
Direct freight service between PORT.
land and New York is resumed from
the new State Pier. Portland Ne.
9ailings Tuesdays. Thursdays and Sat.
urdays each way. Through rates and
direct track connections with Maine
Gentra! and Grand Trunk Railroads.
II. A. CLAY, Supt.
FRANKLIN Wharf, Portland.
N n HARADEM, SUIT
snpt2adtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-08

Fisher folk of Deer Island, which
is one of the small group of islands
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-08
MAINE STEAMSHIP LINE
PORTLAND, NEW YORK FEEIGN2
RERvYNR

snpt2adtt
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-22
1880 NEGROES STRANDED
AS PROSPERITY SPECIAL"
FAILS TO START FOR NORTH
Arkansas Farm Hands Are
Victims of Clever "Bunco"
Artist Who Collected Fees
as Labor Agent 49,

PINEBLUFF, Ark May. 49,
Fully $500 negroes from miles in
every direction gathered at Grady
yesterday and vainly- waited for a
special train which they expected to
take them to new homes and high
wages in the industrial centers OF
the north, according to, report
which came today from John Bit
finger, postmaster at Grady.
The negroes came early and stayed
late but the train came not at all.
Some wore their Sunday clothes,
others their blue demins starched to
saw only a few whose faith held
them where Their eyes could catch
the first glimpse of the train which
was to bear them to better days be.
yond. Night came and with it the
blasting of the hopes of the re-
naming few.
An alleged labor agent had been
operating throughout that section
of the country for the past several
weeks. He had missed only d few
of the negroes and from the ma,
jority had collected from So to $40
in return for which he was to make
reservations for them on the 'spe-
ciaI train" and sign them up for jobs
at it's destination. ,Ntf
: The prosperity special" was to
have run at 9 a. NJ. BY noon the
ranks began to break and o'clock
perfection and all had bags or bum
dies.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-22
HARDING IS AGAIN
ASKED To- REDUCE
TARIFF ON SUGAR

WASHINGTON, May 19.-Chair-
man Hull, of the Democratic ma
tional committee, today renewed his
request of President Harding for a
fifty per cent reduction of sugar
tariff rates under the flexible pro-
visions of the new law.
1.-THE recent action of Canada in
reducing the tariff on raw sugar
forty cents on the hundred pounds,
and on refined sugar fifty cents on
one hundred pounds" said Mr.. Hull
in a statement, immediately re-
suited in a reduction in like amount
of the price of refined sugar to Cana
dian consumers, as reported in the
press.
Here is positive proof tha- a re-
duction of sugar tariffs results i'm
Enedi1tely and directly IN. a CORE
spending reduction ih sugar prices
to consumers.
Instead of making the simple ex-
pertinent Of reducing the duty on
sugar, the Harding administration
is still indulging in the most des-
perate expedients to divert attention
away ron? the sugar tariff outra ge,
which is costing the American peo-
pie around $500 900, 900 a year in ex-
cessiye and extortionate prices"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-22
A., B. & A. Strikers
Life Term Upheld
By Supreme Court

The Georgia supreme court on
Monday affirmed the life sentence in
the Crisp superior court of o. c.
Fairfield, one Of the A. B. & A.
railroad strikers charged with
burning a bridge.
The case was appealed on the
grounds that an alleged confession
produced in court was a carbon
CODY and not an original, but the SUI
preme court held that it was suffi-
GENTLY proven that the confession
had been made by Fairfield and
signed by him. The court ruled
that the loss of the original writing
was not sufficient to merit new
trial.
The higher court also, ruled that
testimony of a witness that Fair
child was in charge of pickets who
had trouble with strike breakers on
was admissible because intended to
show that different acts of violence
were committed as the part Of a
general scheme and that the defend
ant was one of the conspirators.
Chief Justice Russell dissented
from the opinion of the majority of
the court. In his dissent, he states
that he is not thinking of the de-
PENDANT, who seems to be a bad citir
zen, but that it is his opinion that
the lower court erred in ruling out
certain testimony.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-22
MALONEY PICTURES
WEEKS Of TORTURE
SPENT IN DUNGEON
AtIantian, HaIf-Starved and
Badly Beaten, Dumped on
Front Porch by CaptorS,
Kidnapped by Ruse

Mystery Of a most battling nature
surrounds the disappearance two
weeks ago of J. A. Maloney, we'll
known Kirkwood contractor and his
return to ms home, at u Trottt
street. early Monday morning.
Unacquainted with his where
abouts for the last two weeks, ac-
cording to his story to a Journal re
porter, he was brought to his home
by three men in closed car and left
bound and gagged on his front porch
where he lay stunned and cold until
he summoned enough strength tc
call his family.
That robbery may have been a mo-
tive actuating the abductors was
suggested by C. W. Adams, a neigh
Dor, who says that when Mr.. Ma
loney was spirited away two weeks
ago he had about $500 in cash and
a 21-jewel gold watch on his person.
All his NvaluabIes were missing when
he was thrown on his front porch
Monday morning.
On the morning of the day he was
kidnapped he had an appointment
to make a $4,000 collection on debt,
but his adbductors took him away be-
fore he had made the collection,
according to his statements Monday.
Threatened With Death
An ugly cash over his left eye and
pinched lines around his mouth are
mute symbols of the torture which
he says he endured while in the
hands of his unidentified abductors.
The wound over his eye, he says,
was his reward for resisting his cap
tors the first night of his narrowing
adventure.
Threatened with death, left in a
dungeon infested with rats and given
barely enough food to fan the spark
of life are things Mr.. Maloney says
he endured during the two weeks
spent in the hands of menacing cap
tors.
Why he was kidnapped, why he was
mistreated, why he was not thrown
into the Chattahoochee-as he says
he was threatened-are things Mr..
Maloney says he does not compree
bend and which weave a phantas-
magora as weird as a page torn from
Treasure Island" or 1.-The Return
of Sherlock Holmes"
Mr.. Maloney says he remembers
wildly being incarcerated in two
dungeons kept with heavily barred
windows and doors denying him his
freedom. His captors were men UNI
known to him, he says, although he
says they were well dressed and
used good English.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-22
Diesel Motor Drives
Auto Fifty Miles on
Fuel Worth ; Cents

SAN FRANCISCO, May 10. A
miniature Diesel engine, designed to
propel automobiles for great dis
tances at a nominal cost with the
elimination Of the present gear
Shifts has been perfected by engi-
neers of the Bethlehem ship building
corporation here, it was announced
today by Joseph J. lyman, vice presi-
dent and general manager of the cor
poration on the coast.
THE engine will propel a small
automobile fifty miles on IL cents
worth of fuel" Tylan said. "It is
already in operation at our plant.
"One Of the smallest size,, about
fifty horse power, was installed in
an old automobile of standard make.
We have run it several months and
have eliminated all of the Difficult
ties that originally appeared.
The fuel burned is a light oil, tho
same as that now used in naval sub
marines"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-22
212Divorces Granted
In 245 Minutes Is the
Record in Houston

HOUSTON, Texas, May 10
Judge J. D. Harvey, in district
court here today, granted PIP di-
vorces in 245 minutes. This record
surpasses any previously recorded
in district court here.
Among the divorces granted was
one to Mrs Audrey Harrison. Mrs.
Harrison was taken from her home
in Goose Creek January 5, by a
group of disguised men and logged
An investigation into her case, was
followed by a grand jury report re-
ferring to conditions at Goose Greek
as being reign of terror" Three
weeks ago 26 indictments were re-
turned by a Harris county grand
jury, involving floggings at Goose
Creek
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-22
The, Weather

Virginia: Tuesday generally fair,
except probably showers in extreme
southwest.
North Carolina: Mostly cloudy
Tuesday; probably local showers; lit
tie change in temperature. h
South Carolina and Georgia.: Most
ly cloudy Tuesday; probably local
showers; little change in tempera.
ture.
Florida, Extreme Northwest Flor
ida, Alabama and Mississippi: Partly
cloudy, probably local Thunderstorm!
ers Tuesday; little change in tenn.
perature.
Tennessee: Tuesday showers; not
much change in temperature. 4
Kentucky: Tuesday showers; n3tt
much change in temperature.
Louisiana: Tuesday partly cloudy
ana unsettled; showers in north. por.
ton.
Arkansas: Tuesday cloudy and un.
settled; showers.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-22
NEWS OF THE WORLD
TOLD IN BRIEF

Washington. Herbert Hoover
appeals for further aid to Russia at
conference of social workers.
Shelby, MOnt.-Montana ministers
will see in official capacity the Demp-
sey-Gibbons fight at Shelby July 4.
New York. Marine transport
workers, seamens I. w. W. organi
cation, calls off strike started last
March.
Lausanne.-The defiant attitude
of Greece in the reparations dispute
with Turkey threatens a rupture of
! the conference.
Tegucigalpa, HOnduras.-Ameri-
woman alleged to be Clara Phillips
| back to California.
LOndOn.-Bonar Laws associates
believe that he soon must give up
prime ministership as reports of his
poor health grow more serious.
LOretto, Pa.-Ckarles NJ. Schwab,
at his hone, denie; published state
ments that he has been influenced
in money ventures by spirituaHsln.
st. LOuis.-Senator Borah repeats
his belief that the United States
cannot join the international court
and stay out of the League of Ma
tons.
New YOrk.-Eugene V. Debs de
clares he will seek to have Chief JUS
tice Taft impeached for taking SO.
900 a year from Carnegie founda-
ton. .-'-
Washington. - disappointment of
Frederick I. Thompson, of Mobile,
Ala, as a member of the shipping
board is indicated at the White
House.
Berlin.-German historian, DR..
Max Kemmerich, predicts that in
twenty years German" Jill be the
most powerful nation in Europe with
government like Great Britain's.
Indianapolis. - William Jennings
Bryan's refusal to accept chairman
ship Of committee on home missions
promises to bring about fight bs-
tween Presbyterian liberals AMI
fundamentalists.
LOndOn.-Andrew Bonar Law re.
signs as prime minister of Great
Britain because of poor health, and
general expectation is that 1-arquis
Curzon, now foreign minister, will
succeed him. London Times declares
Law's throat trouble is
not malignant and that he will not
resign his seat in parliament.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-22
MARATHON DANCES
AND \. !. WET VOTE
DRAW BAPTIST IRE

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May 90
(By the Associated Press.)-The
southern Baptist convention, in ses-
sion here, Saturday selected Atlanta,
Ga, as the place for the convention
next year, Endorsed the establish
ment, of a seminary for negroes in
Nashville. Tenn, and approved plans
for the erection of a 100000 hos
pital in New Orleans.
Marathon dances" were char
acterized as disgusting exhibitions;
mob violence, whether by persons
masked or unmasked, was declared
to "trample in the dust every hu-
man right and prohibition laws
were Endorsed, in report of the
social service commission, adopted
tonight by the convention. On the
question of dancing the report said
in part:
'"The ever-present and everin-
solent dance evil continues. The
latest from of nauseating excess
which this destroyer of the modesty
and morals of manhood and woman
hood has gone is the disgusting ex-
hibitions popularity known as Mara
thon Dances
1.-The recent action of New York
in repeating it's enforcement code
is a disgrace to that state and in
suit to the federal government" the
report said in commenting on the
eighteenth amendment.
Enforcement in New York will
be somewhat more difficult but
prohibition will go forward, not
backward. The question before the
American people is, not, shall we
have prohibition, but shall orderly
government prevail.
Supreme Court Decision
1.-The recent decision of the SUI
preme court iss in every way good
for this cause. 1t is a surprise that
it holds that American ships are
exempt from the operation of law
of the United States when on the
high seas or in foreign ports. But
this easily can be remedied by the
next congress through enactment of
a law to apply specifically to Ameri-
can ships everywhere. Meantime it
will not be very feasible for ships
to stock and unstock with liquors
at the three-miIe limit
A report of the relief and an
nuity board, adopted today, declared
that the southern Baptist conven-
ton is aiding 924 aged ministers
and dependent members of their
families. 1t declared that the boards
resources were $1,490,193.59, which,
according to the report is made
quate. The board has projected a
program calling for the raising OF
a total of S1O,O0O,O0O for future
work
"Such a fund will make possible
an annual income each year of from
100000 to $500, 900" DR.. William
Lunsford, corresponding secretary,
said in presenting the report.
In selecting Atlanta as the next
convention city, it was declared,
that since the $75,OOO,OOO campaign
was started there in 1919, that city
would be a. good place in which to
wind up the campaign.
A change in our laws relating to
the exclusion Of Chinese was recon.
mended in a resolution adopted i'll
the morning session.
Deportation of Chinese Chris
tians born in this country, and bru-
tai treatment of others, the report
declared, ''is doing much to weaken
the confidence of American mission
work in China"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-22

Kansas City.-Southern Baptis: s
In convention avoid taking definite
stand on the theory of evolution.
Washington.-White House dis
credits persistent 'rumors that Am
bassador Harvey is to resign as eli.
voy to Great Britain.
notwithstanding fans placed a
total of 1928 bets on seven races
Saturday. Amount bet on the Ken
lucky derby was $3S5,662.~
Washington. American bill of
war claims against Germany is ST.
479,064,31S, and Washington makes
public list Of claimants.
LOndOn.-British ship owners pro-
test to the foreign office against the
recent prohibition ruling of the
United States supreme court.
New YOrk.-State athletic com
mission forbids Willard Firpo match
on the ground that Wizards age :
beyond the legal limit in that state.
Tientsin.-Marcel o. Berube, re-
leased by the Shantung bandits, is
on his way to Pekfn with the out
laws ultimatum to the Chinese gov
eminent.
Washington. - President Harding
presents the American Institute OF
Architects gold medal to Henry
Bacon, OF New York, designer and
creator Of the Lincoln memorial.
Observation-Disclosures F. McAdoo,
former secretary of the treasury and
mentioned as q possible candidate
for the Democratic presidential
nomination, confers with political
friends here. -
AANtoAAoEbuAASs ISSpy lSEId1lS 6p-
prove William Jennings Bryan's
proposal that all ministers and mem.
bers of Presbyterian faith and heads
of colleges and schools Of all faiths,
their teachers and pupils. take the
pledge of total abstinence.
New York.-Henry E. Pettetee.
president of the General Carbonic
Gas company, of New York, disap.
pears from his Saratoga Springs
home and company counsel declares
be admitted having overdrawn $780,.
900 of corporations money.
Indianapolis. A resolution de-
nouncing any organization, individ-
ual or group which condemns a
cornrade because of creed or belief
is adopted by the national executive
committee OF the American Legion.
1t is said to have been aimed at
the l<u Klux Khan.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-22
Girl Commits Suicide
Grieviing Over Death
OF Her Pet Canary

ROCK ISLAND, Ill, May 10
When Miss Bertha Van Develde II,
found her pet canary dead in its
cage, she addressed note to her
father saying that the loss of the
bird was more than she could en-
dure. Her body was found in an
abandoned we'll on her fathers farm.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-22
Two Are Found Guilty
On Charge Of Murder

COLUMBIA, S. c., May 19.-Jesse
Cooper and Andrew Roberts, young
cotton mill operatives of Columbia,
were found guilty of the murder Of
c. r. Cannon, in March of 1921, by
a jury iR court of general sessions
here this AFTERNOON. A recommends
ton to mercy was coupled with the
verdict, thus automatically making
the jury's finding equivalent to a
life sentence for each of the de-
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-22
Five Children Drown
In Well When Cover
Tits Under Their Feet

DRUMMONDVILLE, Quebec, May
21.-F'ive children of Niceshore d
small parish three miles from here,
were drowned in a we'll Sunday
when a cover on which they were
standing, tilted and plunged them
into the water. The fatality occur
red a short distance from the home
of Thome Houle. their father. The
children ranged in age from to
IL years.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-22
Immigrant Vessel
Makes Record Voyage

HALIFAX, N. s., May 19-Clip-
ping two days off their journey in
order to arrive in the United States
before the immigration quota for the
United Kingdom was exhausted,
BAT Scottish immigrants, originally
bound for New York, were landed
by the steamship Cameronia here
today and planned to complete their
trip bY rail.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-22
Singer Uses Plane
To Catch His Steamer

NEW YORK, May 19.-In order to
reach Hokoben in time to sail today
on the George Washington, Titta
Ruffo, grand opera singer took an
airplane from Havana to Key West
and came northAby rail. He arrived
with a few hours to spare.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-22
Gets Straight Flush
In Five-Card Draw;
Result Is Disastrous

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, May FL
Edward Becker sat in a sociable
card game last night. He discarded
his hand and drew new one. Pick
ing I'D the new hand, he looked and
fell over backwards, fracturing his
shoulders.
A straight flush, queen high, fell
to the floor beside him.