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Evening star., 1923-04-27
MAzz|N| CALLED
INSPIRATION
Embassy Official Outlines
Life and Service at
CircoIo Meeting.

The source Of the mountain stream
Of Italy's modern spirit is Giuseppe
Mazzini, according to Capt. Guido
Jung, financial counselor Of the
Italian embassy. who was the speak
er of the evening at the April meet
ing of the Circolo Italiano, hold last
evening at the residence Of Mrs.
Francis NJ Savage, 2400 18th street.
The attendance. both large and
notable, included Prince Gelasio
Caetani. the Italian ambassador. and
members Of the embassy stan.
"Mazzini lived and died a repub-
lican." explained Capt. Jung. yet
none Of the higher truths that he
proclaimed needs to be Identified
with any particular form OF govern
ment and all Italians today. OF what
ever political creed, recognize him as
the maker Of the modern Italian soul
and the real inspirer OF modern
Italian activities. So true 10 this
that, Notwithstanding the fact that
Mazzini was always opposed to mon
archy, the present King OF Italy
signed decree to provide for q COM
plete edition Of his works At the ex-
pense OF the nation"
When Mazzini later to become the
Evening star., 1923-04-27
BAR MORSE JURY
ASLAWYERS ARGUE
Case Delayed During Debate
Believed on Move to De-
clare MistriaI.

The Morse case was delayed for
both sides conducted an animated
discussion at Justice Stafford's desk.
The jurors were excluded from the
courtroom. Spectators were not ad-
viSed as to what was transpiring at
the bench. The general impression Is
that the question under consideration
related to the advisability Of retaining
m1strial: No announcement was made
of a decision.
Jury Recalled.
The jury was recalled and this was
taken to indicate that Justice Stafford
had determined to proceed with the
trial. Attorney Nash lockwood then
resumed his opening statement for
the defense.
Mr.. lockwood reviewed the four
contracts which form the basis Of
the conspiracy indictment and inter-
preted them from the viewpoint of
the defense. He declared that in
competency on the part of minor of
icials of the Shipping Board had
heen responsible for most of the diff
fculties experienced by Morse and
his associates in carrying out the
contracts.
Mr.. Morse had the cordial coop
Grafton of John Barton Payne,
Charles NJ. Schwab and other heads
of the Shipping Board. Mr.. Rock
wood declared. Morse did not seek
the contracts for steel vessels, but
was importuned by the Shipping
Board and by the late Senator Mar
tin of Virginia and by Charles C.
Carlin. then representative from Vir-
ginia. to locate a plant close to the
capital.
Morse investigated the conditions
at Alexandria and. finding them
ing plant. Morse established a world
record in the preparation of this
plant, Mr.. lockwood said, and was
commended by officials of the Ship
ping Board.
Wilson Drove Rivet.
The lawyer told the jury that Pres
ident Wilson honored Mr.. Morse by
driving the first rivet in the first ship
built at Alexandria and Mrs. Wilson
christened the vessel Gunston Hall
when it was ready to launch Mr.
lockwood criticized the statement OF
United States Attorney Gordon that
Morse had borrowed money TO carry
out the contracts and had diverted
payments received under the con-
tracts to the erection Of houses and
extension of plant.
He declared the Shipping Board
officials knew that Morse and his as
sociates did not have enough money
to finance the contracts and these
officials were willing and did finance
the proposition as they had financed
other shipbuilders.
The contracts were for a lump sum
and not on the cost plus basis. Mr.
lockwood explained. All the ships
for which contracts were not can
celed were completed. he said. and
{ no just criticism could be made
against Morse. much less a criminal
charge Of fraud.
Evening star., 1923-04-27
DAUGHTERS OF KING
ELECT MISS VOUTE
Close Twenty-Seventh Annual
+. Meeting With Election of Of
fcers-Reports Read.

Self sacrifice and a determination
to do good were humanitarian prin-
ciples advocated last night before the
Daughters of the King OF the Episco-
pal Church by Rev. William II. Pettus
bf St Marks Church. in sermon de-
livered in the ST. Johns Church
The occasion marked the conclusion
of the twenty-seventh annual council
Of the order.
An election of officers. the passing
of several resolutions and genera
discussion of work which had peer
done by the society and plans Tor me
future featured business meetine
held in the church Yesterday after
Poon.
Miss NOute Elected.
The officers elected We're: Miss = dl
y Voute president: Miss Lily Soper
first vice president: Mrs. X. +. Meme
fee. second vice president: Miss Jl'il
T. Dickinson. corresponding secre-
tarv; Mrs III. q. England. recording
secretary, and Mrs. Herbert l. Arnold
treasurer.
Miss Mary Kurtz was elected direc-
,ress of the Junior Daughters of the
I>inp while Miss Eoute and Miss
Dickinson were elected division dele
gates to the synod to be held here In
November Mrs. A G. Brooks and
Miss England were elected as alter
mates.
Resolutions Of sympathy were
ordered sent to Rev Alfred Harding
B;shop of Washington, who is criti-
caIIy i'll; a message Of greeting to
Miss Eva Carr, the orders new mis-
>ionary in China. and also to Deacon
ess Ridgley. q, missionary IN emma
whom the society has supported FOL
some time were authorized
<Twenty-six Chapters Represented.
Twenty-siX chapers were rep
resented at the convention with two
delegates from each. More than 25(
members Of the diocese of Washing
ton attended and a number of mem
bers came from Alexandria and Clar-
endon. Va.
Next Years convention will be hello
in the Church of the Ascension.
Evening star., 1923-04-27

Representative Joe J. Manlove of Mis-
souri,. d new member OF Congress, is to
hc introduced TO the Washington Board
Of Trade at its regular meeting next
Tuesday night. 1t is Il part of the plan
Of the board of trade to get members
of Congress and Washington business
men and civic leaders together for a
closer mutual understanding.
Justice Frederick l.. SddonS will
speak at the meeting on AmericaniZa-
, ton and Maj. NJ. G. Tyler. Corps of En-
gneers, u. S. A.. also will speak. Re
ports will be received from Perry b.
Turpin, chairman of the community
affairs committee: A. J. Driscoll chair
man of the American ideals committee.
and Francis r. Weller. chairman of the
committee on water supply.
In introducing Representative Man
love to the board, through its bulletin
this month. the paper says:
Joe j. Manlove. representative from
member who comes to Washington
from Joplin. Mo-, the center of the
worlds greatest zinc fields. Mr.. Man
love bears the distinction of having
been the active director of The Ozark
Fairgrounds Association. a mutual as
>ociation formed for the purpose of ad-
vertiSing that portion of the Ozarks
known as the Land of a Million Smiles
1t is Americas newest Fairgrounds.
Those who have heard Mr.. Manlove as
sure US that his good-felowship ideas.
AS taken from practical working plans,
Are both instructive and pleasing.
Evening star., 1923-04-27
WHIPPING CASE ON TRIAL

LUMBERTON, N. c., April 27.-Sixty
witnesses were under summons to
appear today for the defense in the
preliminary hearing of B. M. Lawson,
julie Rrogden and John Hedgpeth,
charged with burglary and conspiracy
as q result Of the alleged logging OF
two women by masked band OF
eighteen men near here recently.
The prosecution closed its case late
yesterday. after Mrs. Hattie Purvis
had testified that she recognized the
three defendants as members OF the
band. and Mrs. Mary Watson, the
other woman who claims she was
whipped. had asserted she recognized
only Lawson.
Mrs Purvis also testified that the
men told them the flogging was done
because she was running a disorderly
house. She took occasion to deny this
Mrs. Watson added that her husband
when told of the whipping, comment
ed that they got what they de-
served"
Evening star., 1923-04-27
colleague of Garibaldi. was a youth.

colleague of Garibaldi. was a youth.
the speaker emphasized, Italy was
cynically called nothing but "a geo
graphical expression" Into this geo
"Young Italy" a brotherhood of Ital-
ians believing in a law of progress
and Of duty, breathed a soul. The
strong similarity between the
thoughts and deeds Of many Italians
who fought and died for their coun-
try in the great war and the teachings
and actions OF the master who had
helped build their souls. he declared. is
an outward sign OF the kingdom .
real spiritual life at the beginning Of
this century. MazZini later became A
steady correspondent with and an ad-
mirer Of Abraham Lincoln.
Capt. Jung ended his talk with a
pretty legendary story: The Almighty
put into a basket the gifts He wished
to distribute to the various nations
fertile land. valuable minerals, etc.
Coming to Italy last of all. there
were three gifts left-sunshine. beau
Evening star., 1923-04-27
HARD BLOW STRUCK
AT CONVICT CAMPS.
Florida Legislature Passes
Bill to End System of
Leasing Prisoners.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. April 81
The Florida legislature advanced an
other step toward abollshing the prac-
tice Of leasing convicts to private in
dividuals and firms today when it
passed In amended form senate bill
looking to that end. The vote was
61 to s.
The house already had prepared a
much broader measure dealing with
convicts and it stood on the calendar
Of third reading when the senate sew
eral days ago passed a bill doing away
with the lease system. The house to-
day. in order to get in it's provisions
covering treatment of prisoners not
covered in the senate bill, attached
it's measure onto the senate bill az an
amendment and passed 1t. The meas
ure now goes back to the senate for
concurrence in the house amendment.
Representatives Witt, Wetherington
of Hamilton and Mccall, Mays and
Harris voted against It.
Evening star., 1923-04-27
ASKS HOOVER'S STAND.
Holt Would Know if Secretary Is
"Loyal" to League.

NEW YORK, April 27.-A letter
asking Herpert Hoover. Secretary Of
Commerce. whether he was still 10y
al, TO the league of natiorr or wheth
er he agreed with the ~ itude ex-
pressed by President Harding in his
address at New York last Tuesday
has been sent to the Secretary by
Hamilton Holt.
Mr.. Hoover. the letter said, signed
Uong statement in 1920 urging the
voters to cast their ballots for Mr..
Harding "on the ground that his cleo
tion would bring the United States
into the league"
Evening star., 1923-04-27
ADMITS HE SLEW WIFE.

NEW BRITAIN. Conn. April 81
John Carlson. contracting plumber,
has confessed that he murdered his
wife. on the night of March "a and had
reported her death to the authorities
as an automobile accident. According
to Carlson's story to the police. he
killed his wife as a result of d quar-
re1
Evening star., 1923-04-27
CHARGE POTATO COMBINE.

OTTAWA. Ontario. April GA
powerful ring controls potato prices
and shipments to Cuba and makes ex-
orbitant profits. A. W. Pirie, potato
grower of Grand Falls. n. B., testified
before the special house of commons
committee on agriculture. The ring
operated here and in Cuba. he said.
Potatoes are bought In New Bruins
wick at a dollar a bag of 165 pounds
and sold in Cuba at 81, he said.
Evening star., 1923-04-27

ty and natural intelligence. SO he
gave Italy all three.
A social gathering. with refresh
ments and violin solos by Miss de
Seyne. accompanied by Mr.. Wilson
closed the meeting. The Circolo Ital-
iano was formed for the purpose of
the cultivation and diffusion of the
Italian Language. literature. history.
art and other aspects of national life.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-10
HORSE AND COW
killed IN fire
BARN ON Green ST

horse and COW were burned to
death last night when a fire, breaking
out about 1890 o'clock, DESTROYED. a
small barn on Green street owned BY
Fred Barriault. The barn was filled
with several tons Of hay. causing a
fierce blaze which lighted up the whole
southern end Of the city The alarm
was rung in fro mbox 33. but the fire
had Gotten such a start that the barn
was mass OF flames when the depart
ment arrived. The firemen did good
work and confined the flames to the
one building. there being house but
a few feet away on the other side.
The horse was found just inside the
barn door where he had fallen. He
had evidently broken away and come
as far as the door. where he either
became afraid or, being unable to go
further. dropped in his tracks. The
COW was burned in her stall.
Mr. Barriault said that he valued
the barn at over $500 and that he wa s
insured for about half that amount.
The horse was owned by Mrs. Gre
nier and the COW by Theodore and
Peter Cogas. A meat shop adjoining
the barn and owned by Mr.. Barriault
was not damaged.
The fire was a stubborn one and the
water was turned on again and again
as the flames broke out in various
places. 1t was practically all out at
11.30 P. NJ.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-10
Junk War Vessels
At PHILADELPHIA

: Philadelphia, Sept. 9.-(By A. P)-
Seven war vessels at the Philadelphia
Navy Yard are to be scrapped under
the provisions of the Treaty for the
Limitation of Armaments, recently
approved. They include two cruisers
and five battleships.
The cruisers are the Constitution
and the United States, which had
been under construction at the navy
yard for some time. They are to be
scrapped at once, acetylene torches
being used to cut them to pieces. A
little later workmen will start on the
five battleships consigned to the in
ternational junk heap. Four of them,
the Minnesota, South Carolina, Mich
igan and New Hampshire, are out of
commission and have been lying in
the storage basin at the navy yard for
months. The fifth, the South Caro-
lima, will have fitting end to long
career, for she will be taken to sea
and sunk in tests Of various deck and
underwater attacking methods lately
devised BY the Navy Department en-
gineers.
An eighth battleship, the Washing.
ton, which was under construction at
the New York Shipbuilding Corpora
tons yards in Camden. n. j.. also
will be shattered by the gunf1re and
torpedo attack of the Atlantic fleet
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-10

r HE 35oth birthday this month Of
l. the old copper dragon on the
church of St. Mary-Le-Bow, Cheap
side, London has aroused much COM
ment both because of its historic in,
terest and because it marks a rehais-
sance of the copper weather cock in
this country, due to the increasing
use of the tower in Americans archi-
lecture.
The copper dragon of St. Mary's
was put in place in 1873 during the
reign of good Queen Bess. From it's
perch, 22l feet above the pavement,
besides rendering service through the
storms of centuries, the Cross of St.
George on its wing has served as a
symbol of the city of London for $50
years.
The dragon is made of sheet cop
per and is 8 feet, 6 inches long. it
has been taken down and regilded
four times but the copper has never
needed repairs. 1t is the subject Of
many legends. One of the most in
teresting, attributed by many to
Mother Shipton, was that if this
dragon and the grasshopper from the
vane of the Royal Exchange ever
met, the streets of London would flow
with blood. They were both taken
down for regildjng in 1920 and did
meet Nothing Mppeue ed, however.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-10
MaiAa Fairs

SEPT. ii.IaSSosts Jfaakila i ra.,.
sept il;ls-ws.. eenebseo. a. Exeter.
, Sept. 11-1s-oxford County at South
Sept. 11-1s-waldo ana Penobscot at
Sept. i1-i4-somerset Central at Show
Sept. l2-13-Eden Agricultural at Eden.
Sept. 15-Embden Agricultural at Emb-
Sept. 1s-2o-Franklin County at Farm
Sept: iS-21-cumberlan County at
Sept; 1s:2i-west Washington at Cher
Sept. 1s-2o-North oxford at Andover.
Sept 25-27-kennebec County at Read
Sept. 25-27-North Knox at Union.
Sept. 26-Cochnewagon Agricultural at
Monmouth.
Oct. 2-Wesserrunset Valley at Athens.
Oct. 2-Grcene Town at Greene.
Oct. 2-Litchfield Fair at Litchfield.
Oct. 2-4-Lincoln County at Damaris-
Oct. 2-4-west Oxford at Fryeburg.
Oct. disqualification at Acton.
Oct. 3-Tranquility Grange at LINCOLN
Oct. s-Leeds Agricultural at Leeds
Oct. s-li-sagadahoc County at Tops
ham.
Oct. 11-Richmond Farmers, and Me-
chanics' Club at Richmond.
Nov. zO-22-Maine State Pathological
at Portland.
Nov. 27-30-South Berwick Poultry at
South Berwick
Dec. 4-Freeport Poultry at Freeport.
Dec. 11-14-Maine State Poultry at
Portland.
Jan. 15-l7, '24-Western Maine Poultry
ut South Paris,
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Revised Figures
Continued from Page One,

to have been hurled from the bluff
to the cemetery below, tearing open
the earth and e&huming the bodies
of many of those inferred there.
The stories, as narrated by eye
witnesses depict scenes rivallying in
horror the popular representations Of
the Buddhist Hell. Business men
were about to leave their offices in
Yokohama at the close of Saturday
mornings work, when without warn
ing and with a tremendous roar the
ground heaved up four or five feet
and then dropped back again. Houses
on the bluff were precipitated head
long into the city. The ground
rocked, heaved and swayed like the
waves of the sea. Fugitives fleeing
from the falling buildings found their
way blocked by huge gaping holes,
some of them large enough to admit
a horse and wagon.
Peril was added by the rising wa
ter from the water mains which
burst everywhere; this, with fire,
blocked all the exits from the city.
Hundreds sought to escape from a
fiery death by rushing toward the
Motto Machi Canal. while some, who
endeavored to cross on wooden light
ers. were overtaken by blazing oil
which flowed from the exploded tanks
and met a terrible death. Still 9TH
ers, panic stricken, flung themselves
into the water and met an equally
dreadful fate. The canal was soon
choked with floating bodies.
People leaped into the sea in their
frenzy to escape the deluge of red
hot cindnrs from the blazing ruins.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-10
Liuht on Prehistoric Race

Prehistoric ruins in America will
soon be accurately dated. This was
the opinion expressed in an address
on "the Chronological Yardstick of
Ancient America" by Sylvanus G..
Morley of the Carnegie institute of
Washington, before the twentieth in
ternational congress of Americanists.
Doctor Morley's "yardstick" is the
marvellous Magyar calendar by which
the ages of the ancient cities of Qua
temala and Yucatan will eventually
be determined more accurately than
the ages of the cities of ancient
Egypt.
There was a desultory trading in
Magyar pottery carried on with the
peoples in Mexico, Peru and the
southwestern United States. This
pottery found among these other
peoples and it's Magyar date deter
mined by comparison with similar
pottery in Cent? al America may lead
to an approximately accurate date
being set upon the cliff jewellers of
the United States and ruins in Peru
and Mexico, Doctor Morley thinks.
He also told of his researches into
the great walled city of Tulum, in
Yucatan. The walling of a city was
exceptional in Central America and
this fortified town on a bluff over
looking the Caribbean sea. with a
wall on three land sides. represents
the crude work which followed the
breakdown of the great Mayan civil
ization in the Fifteenth century after
Christ when these early city-states
fell to fighting their own race.-By
Science Service.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-10
Chemical Progress
Shown At Meeting

New York, Sept. s CA. P)-Revo-
lutionary processes in the scientific
baking of bread, drastic reform in the
teaching of chemistry in the nations
high schools, elimination of waste in
the manufacture of paper, and dis
posal of the sewage of the cities will,
it is announced here, be discussed at
a national meeting of the American
Chemical Society to be held in Mil
waukee, Wis, beginning Monday,
September 10.
Problems of American agriculture
and of the leather and rubber indus
tries also will come up. The meet
ing, which will be attended by chem
lists from all over the United States
and from foreign countries, will, &C
cording to officials of the society,
herald amazing postwar advances in
chemical science.
Featuring the convention will be
two joint forums by the agricultural
and food divisions of the society. One,
with the industrial division, will be
devoted to bread, under the chair
manship of DR.. H. E. Barnard of
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ORIGINATING ALL
DEAD IN TOXIC
AND YOKOHAMA

Osaka, Sept. 9.-(By A. pat a
meeting held on board an American
warship by British, American and
Japanese officials permission was
granted for the disposal of the for
eign dead, but only by cremation.
All the Japanese dead in Toxic and
Yokohama have been creamated on
wood piles in the streets and the for
eign dead similarly disposed of.
after the first Shock" an Ameri-
can who escaped from Yokohama
said today, THE town was levelled.
1t was terrible beyond description
when the fire started. Then came a
half cyclone with the wind blowing
seward. We rushed into the sea
to escape burning and remained there
for hours up to our necks."
Among the stories of wonderful es-
capes is that of woman who was
taking a bath on the second floor of a
house. The house collapsed, all ex-
cept the bathroom, and the woman
got out of the window and Slid down
to the street where passing Japan
csc gave her a kimono.
A prominent British resident of
Hakone said today:
"At one minute to twelve o'clock
there was sound like heavy
thunder. Then came the most dread
full shock imaginable. The ground
seemed to tear itself up everywhere
but not deeply. My wife and l
crawled to where our children were
and remained there four hours, with
shock succeeding shock. The chill
dren at first were panic-stricken but
during the last hundred or so of
shocks on the second day-there were
more than 700 in the IS hours-they
played through them without paying
any attention to them"