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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-03

cient to drive her 20 miles an hour.
Commander Weyerbacher expects
them to run 1000 hours without be-
ing overhauled.
Weighs 100000 Pounds
The ZR-1 is $50 feet long, rs
feet at her greatest diameter and
80 feet high. including the power
cars She has a helium gas capacity
of 2,150,G00 cubic feet and weighs
nearly 100000 pounds with all her
equipment and her nine officers and
% petty officers.
The helium gas which serves to
keep the ship afioat is contained in
p bags made OF rubber coated fabric
lined with gold-beaters skins. This
gas which is, -inf1ammable is
obtained from natural gas wells in
Texas and Kansas. 1t is the use of
such gas that gives the ship one of
her greatest factors of safety. She
could not explode as other airships
have done and if she broke in two
Commander Weyerbacher and Capt
Heinen agree that she would simply
settle to the ground at a speed no
greater than that of a parachute.
Riding in the FRI is like floating
on q cloud. There is barely any
perceptible sense of motion. Even
in bunny" air such as was en-
countered over Philadelphia the nose
of the snip simply rises and falls
in great sweeping arcs so large that
the movement is almost impreeep-
tible to those on the ship.
There is no noise and of course
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-03
fety every split second she is in

safety every split second she is in
the air upon her pilot and upon her
motor. While the motors of this
ship are by far the most important
factors on it, all six could go out of
commission and the ship would
simply float. The pilot of an air
plane must in emergencies act sub
consciously without having time to
think and his failure to do so US
ually spells disaster. In ships like
the ZR-1 this human element so
vital to the safety of the ship and
her passengers largely is removed.
There is nothing so. quick about the
movements of so big a lighter than
air ship as to require so instant
action to prevent accident"
Command Ship to Pole
This confidence of the builder and
Captain Frank McCrary, commander
of Lakehurst naval air station, the
home of the giant Navy ship, and
the man who probably will, be in
command of the ship when she sails
for the North Pole.
Because of accidents which hap
pened to the Navy's first two big
lighter than air ships, the Roma,
built in Italy for the United States
government and the R-3S, built in
England for this country. both of
which were destroyed with heavy
loss of life, Admiral Aloffett gave his
own word and pledged the word of
the United States Navy that the
Fri would be built so safely no
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P TTSFIELI.D

Eugene Monk was in Watervillc Mon
day for the day.
A. w. Fuller of Gorham. y. H. who
has been visiting his son, Frank w.
Fuller. returned home Monday.
c. NJ. Lancaster left Monday on a
business trip to Boston.
S. NJ. Raymond was a business call
er in Augusta Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. A. w. Dodge have re-
turned from a weeks business trip to
Boston.
Mr. and Mrs. Porter Moulton of
Portland have returned home after
passing few days with Mr.. Moulton's
parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Moulton.
on Grove hill.
Rev. II. II. Hathaway was in town
Monday the guest of friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Turner and
son Charles of Yesterday, i. l., who
have been guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Blaisdcll of Pleasant street,
have returned to their home.
Mrs. Walter Aubor of Springfield
Mass, who has been visiting Mrs. Alex
Smith in tho western part of the town,
returned home Monday.
L. Il. Ellington of Madison, who has
been the guest of Pcrley Dunton, re-
turned home Monday.
Mrs. Annie AmeS or Augusta is IN
town to pass hnr vacation with her
aunt, Miss Loantha Murray.
Mrs. +. NJ. Fairbanks returned TO
Unity Monday after passing the week
end at her home in town.
On account of the State w. G. T. L.
convention meeting to be held in Pitts
field on Wednesday. Thursday and Fri
day! the New Era Auxiliary Of the
Free Baptist church Will meet on Fri
day afternoon instead Of the regular
meeting day. The meeting will he dc
voted to a business session. The an
nual fair to be held under the aus
pieces of the auxiliary will be held on
November %.
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WLNSL0M

Q. L. Johnson OF Waterville, was
caller at the home of relatives in
town yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Hamm and
two children left yesterday for Ber-
kelley, Calf, where they will make
their home.
Mrs. George Cole of Bay Street.
who has been confined to her home
and bed by illness is much improved.
John Driscoll of Waterville, was
recent visitor at the home of rcla-
tiVcs in town.
Mary Reed of East Winslow is i'll
Harry Marcoux, who recently I'M
dcrwent q severe operation at the
Sisters Hospital was resting quite
comfortably at last reports.
Miss Thclma Johnson has returned
from kcnts Hill, where she spent the
week end.
II. r. Head Of the Milliken- Tom
linson Company was n business cal
Ter in town yesterday.
c. +. Ware of Fairfield was a bust
ness caller in town Tuesday
Will McClintock of East Winslow.
was a business caller at the Forst
yesterday.
w. T. Reynolds, Jr. was a recent
caller in Gardiner.
Mrs. Aldgic Cormier and daughter
Helena and sons Kenneth and Robert
were visiting relatives in Waterville
yesterday.
Mrs. Calvin Graves and daughters
Beverly and Thclma We're calling at
the home of Mrs. s. c. Reynolds of
Bay street yesterday.
Mitchell Leblanc has entered the en-
ploy of Peter Fortier.
Will Brown of Fairfield was a bust
ness caller in town yesterday.
Mrs. w. L. Mansfield and Miss Mar
jorie Maxwell were callers in Water
Vile yesterday.
Within the space of 20 minutes Tues
daE afternoon there were 465 automo-
blcS. 15S school children, 81 pedes-
TRANS and IA dogs passed over Ticonic
bridge.
There will be an all-day meeting of
the sewing circle at the church parlors
tomorrow.
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State w. c.. T. y.
Convention Opens
Today at Pittsfeld

A large number of the delegates
from the various towns and cities Of
the State who will be in attendance
at the State w. c. T. L. convention
to be in session here Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday of this week,
began to arrive Tuesday afternoon
and were assigned to the various
homes where they will be entertained
during their stay here. A very large
number of delegates are expected
and the committee has ample aC-
commodatiOns for all and Pttsfield
will live up to her we'll established
brand of hospitality as a convention
town. The banquet which will he Il
feature of the Wednesday program at
the Get to- gether meeting at 6
o'clock will be served by the Ladies'
Aid society of the Universalist
church and the toastmistress will be
Mrs. Althea G. Quimby and the
guests of honor will be Percival p.
Anna A. Gordon, president of the
Worlds and National W. c. T. L. A
reception will be given by the host
eSS union.
The detailed program for We'd
nesday's sessions will be as follows:
Wednesday morning. Universalist
church. Pittsfield $50 devotional
services, Miss Harriet j. Loring, East
Otisfield; music, "All Hail the Pow
err" crusade psalm and hymn; pray
err Mrs. Sarah NJ. Woods, president
Bangor Crusade; solo, Mrs. Ruth e
Walsh. State w. c. T. L. musical
director; presenting early crusaders
and distinguished guests; roll call
by recording secretary; report of
executive committee; appointment Of
committees; recommended lions of
PRESIDENT; music; reports: Cores
ponding secretary, treasurer, State
w. c. T. L. headquarters, auditor:
How to Get Results in Department
work." Miss Harriet ]. Loring, Bible
and Systematic Giving; Mrs. Vena
L. Johnson. Securing Homes for
Homeless Children; Mrs. Julia E.
Wells, W. c. T. U. Medal contests;
Mrs. Kathreen F. Peters, Sabbath
Observance; noontide prayer, Mrs.
Jane Grant, Bangor crusade.
Wednesday afternoon-2.00, Music,
Christ for the World" P. 25; Prayer.
Mrs. Martha BoyntonS st. Adams;
Brief Addresses: Our Washington
Allegiance File, Mrs. Alice NJ. Big
ney; Our Budget, Mrs. Nena L. john
son; How to Get Results in Depart
ment Work." Elsie ]. Hannaford.
Temperance Literature Mrs. Nellie
%. Fellows. Sunday School Work;
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NEW YORK.-Speeding across
the Pacific to devastated Tokyo is
a man whose life work was swept
away in half an hour by the earth
Quake; but whose cheerful OPP
timism is titalizing newly formed
plans to begin again on a newer
and grander scale. He is DR.. X.
B. Teusler, Director of st. Luke's
International Hospital, the Epis-
copal Church institution in Tokyo
which was first rent asunder by the
earthquake, and then obliterated
by fire and flood.
St. Luke's was famous through
out the Far East, especially for its
work in surgery. Patients went to
st. Luke's from Singapore, Java
and Hong Kong, Picking, Vladivo-
stok and Eastern Manchurian and
Korean cities. 1t was resorted to
by rich and poor, native and for
eign alike. At its head was DR..
Teusler. a native of Virginia and
q cousin of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson.
When in 1900, he assumed charge
of St. Luke's, it was a small cot
tage of native construction with
Accommodations for twelve patients.
AS a medical missionary DR.. Teus-
Ter applied himself to the task of
building up St. Luke's into an in
stitution which would meet the
growing needs of the Far East.
The first step he took, typifies
the man. He laid down the rule
that he would accept as compen-
sation for his services only the
stipend allotted to missionaries of
his class-it amounts in his case
to about $4,000 per year. In the
intervening period, while his fame
as a surgeon spread through ia
pan, China and Siberia with con-
stantly increasing demands for his
skill. he strictly adhered to this
self-imposed rule with the result
that to date he has turned over for
the uses of the hospital, fees ag-
gregating S150,000 paid to him for
surgical work outside his hospital
duties.
Meanwhile, building upon the
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meagre foundations Of the original
institution which was located in
the Tsukiji section of Tokyo over
looking the bay, St. Luke's had
grown into a commodious structure
with Accommodations for $50 pa
tients equipped with all the facil-
tiles of an up-to-date Occidental
hospital. 1t was officially design
ated by the Japanese Department
of Communications to care for an
army Of employees at its central
bureau in Tokyo, and Baron Shi-
busawa and other leading Japan.
csc citizens were members of its
advisory board.
Not content with this, DR.. Teus-
Ter planned, and was on the eve of
realizing a new St. Luke's, to &C.
cupy a commanding position on an
entire block in the most populous
ward of Tokyo, with Accommodations
for 500 beds, a dispensary for SOC
charity patients, school for ia
panese physicians and nurses, a
laboratory for the study of Orien-
tai diseases, and other modern
facilities. With the cooperation of
Viscount Goto, now Minister of
Home Affairs, and the Public
Health officials of Japan, St.
Luke's was to become a public
health centre, in which so post
graduate japanese physicians were
to engage in public health work,
with a prenatal clinic and chill
dren's welfare stations in dozen
sections of the city.
To the fund which was raised by
the Episcopal Missions Depart
ment for this new structure, the
Japanese Emperor contributed
$25, 900 from his personal funds,
and $4,000 more was raised by
citizens of Tokyo. The japanese
Government suspended its tariff
laws to permit the free importa-
ton into Japan Of all material ne
cessary for the construction Of the
hospital. Ground was broken for
the building a year ago. Then
came the earthquake and the slowly
rising walls Of the new edifice as
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-03

accident could occur. Test flights,
navy officers have agreed, have made
good these pledges.
toric trip of the great silver ship
over New York and Philadelphia,
September II. showed that it has a
factor of safety, under the most
adverse weather conditions, of 20
This announcement was made by
Commander Weyerbacher and it
was explained that the most ad-
verse weather conditions would be
cyclonic.
Not a rivet was driven in the
giant bridge like structure of the
ship until the man who was to
drive it had qualified in school
created by Commander Weyerbacher
to teach every feature of the work
Not a cable was spliccd or fastened
until a 100 per cent diploma had
been given that particular workman
who was to perform the operation.
Millions of Pieces Metal
Millions of pieces of metal, nearly
all of it duralumip, a new metal
made of aluminium. copper and
manganese, We're used in the frame
work of the Fri. The fabricating
of this metal was done at the naval
aircraft factory in Philadelphia and
every article which went into the
making of the ship was transported
to LakehurSt by motor truck. Lieut.
r. @. MAJ had charge of the
engineering work during the fabri-
eating processes and the same rigid
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-03

service. that soon, probably next
year, the Fri Will set out for trip
to the North Pole and back.
safe. comfortable and swift
transportation in lighter than air
liners has arrived in America" said
Commander Weyerbacher. THE
ZR-1, while a war craft of the air
and not a passenger carrying ship.
has demonstrated already that
new era in world travel has arrived.
The Nays new airship is safer than
any other vehicle OF transportation.
including railroad trains and steam
ers. And certainly it is vastly
more comfortable thing in which to
ride. There is needed now only the
Willingness on the part of great cap
ital to begin with the great start al
ready made and carry on the work
of developing this new means OF
transportation. This also is well
under way now"
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no dust or dirt. The motors are To-
Gated so far from passenger COM
partments that they cannot be heard.
Added to this the navy has develop
ed new muff1er which f1ts over the
exhaust manifold and reduces the
noise although it's primary purpose
is to cool the exhaust gases.
Because of the great cost OF
helium and the necessity of conserv-
ing it, the navy department has been
at work for long time trying to de-
wise some means by which water
can be condensed out of the engine
exhaust gases This, it is asserted,
now has been accomplished ana
with the accomplishment has come
one of the biggest factors for the
economic operation of airships of
the FRI type.
Without the recovery of water
from the eXhausts of the motors
there is a big loss of weight as
gasoline is consumed for power.
This loss of ballast has to be COM
pensated for in effecting a landing
by the release of the precious heltum
gas. 1t is believed by Captain Nc
Crazy, Commander Weyerbachcr
and Captain Heinen that the helium
now in the Fri is sufficient to keep
the ship aflcat two years without
any replenishing of the gas if the
water recovery system can be In
stalled.
Within a short time the Fri will
begin making flights all over Amer
lea, visiting every principal city.
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Mrs. EVE NJ. Studley, The Press;
Addresses, Miss Anna \. Gordon,
President Worlds and National w.
c. T. L.; Music; How to Get Results
in Department Work." Mrs. Juiliette
H. Cakes. Medical Temperance
Health and Hercdity, Anti-Narcotics;
Mrs. Lillian r. Quimby, Social Meet
ings and Red Letter Days: Mrs. II.
Mae Lawrence. Fairs and Open Air
Meetings.; *Mrs. Edith n Cakes,
Gifts and requests; Mrs. Lucy \.
Hawkes.. Peace and Arbitration:
Presentation of Fraternal Delegates;
Brief Address. Miss Charlotte 3. Fra
ser, National Field Worker, America
niZation Department.
deceased.
Wednesday evening-6.OO. Get-to-
gother Supper. Toast Mistress. Mrs.
Althea G.. Quimby: Guests of Honor:
Pcrcival p. Baxter Governor of
Maine; Miss Anna Adams Gordon.
President Worlds and National VOL
mans Christian Temperance Union;
Other Prominent Ladies and Gentle
men; Reception by Hostess Union
Pittsfeld w. c. r. L.
Miss Anna \. Gordan. National and
Worlds president of thew. c. T. L.:
Miss Charlotte &. Frazer of Chicago,
III; Miss Lillian +. Quimby of North
Turner; Mrs. Alice NJ Bisney of
Greenville; Mrs. Sadie H. Bates of
! Hancock Point. speakers at the ". C.
T. l. convention arrived in town
Tuesday afternoon and will make
their headquarters at the Lancey
House during the convention.
There will be a reception for the
visiting delegation from to pre-
ccding the Get-togethcr banquet
Wednesday afternoon. All who want
tickets to the banquet are asked to
let the committee know by noon on
Wednesday. Mrs. Nellie II. Hume
well has charge Of the tickets.
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Stories Of great ships Of the air
landing atop the highest sky scrap
ers of American cities, only a short
time ago considered flights of the
widest ina ginatiOn with their fam
tastic Illustrations of great gaunt
steel mooring mastS reaching into
the clouds and elevators hurrying
travellers to all parts of the world
I'D and down into the heavens, soon
may be regarded as commonplace
accounts of modern transportation.
This is the word of Commander
r. D. Weyerhacher. builder, and
Captain Anton Heinen. test pilot and
technical consuItant. OF the United
States Nays great airship. the
Fri. They are the best qualified to
speak. through their experience. of
the possibilities now opening before
the American public of means of
travel that challenges the magma
ton fully as greatly as does the calm
announcement of Admiral William
A. Noffett, chief of the naval air
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Radio Rate of Speed

Over 1876 miles per hour is the
distance covered by radio by Robert
H. Anthony. IS Cleveland Road,
Needham. Mass. This speed was
maintained December 80 and 81 over
a period of six hours and twenty
minutes. Among the cities visited
(by radio) were San Francisco and
Long Beach, Calf; Roswell, n. NJ;
Colorado Spring, Col: Dallas and
Fort Worth, Tex, and Havana, Cuba,
not to mention such nearby COM
munities as Milwaukee. Chicago, ST.
Louis, Atlanta. Birmingham, etc.
Thes broadcasting of all these cities
and many riore-forty- five in all
was received during fourteen hours
and 20 minutes operatingrtime on the
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well as old St. Luke's were OBJ
liberated. DR.. Teusler's dream was
shattered. In the wreck and ruin
his entire personal belongings were
carried away-his valuable library,
operating equipment, household
goods, everything except the cloth
ing which he carried with him on
hurried trip to the States, Just
previous to the disaster. He is re-
turning to Tokyo without even the
certainty of a roof to cover him or
a bed on which to lie.
Teusler, however, is not the sort
Of man who gives way to despair.
Five minutes after receipt Of news
of the destruction Of his life work,
he was busy on plans for q new
hospital. A man Of tireless energy
and infinite resource, he quickly
mustered what funds were avail.
able, consulted with Episcopal
Church officials on details for
raising an emergency fund Of
100000 for the Japanese Church,
gathered together a train load Of
supplies with which to throw up
temporary hospital in Tokyo, and
cleared from Seattle, September
%, on the President jefferson. to
begin all over.
Recently Thomas E. Lamont, Of
the Morgan Banking firm, spent
day with Teusler in Tokyo. Upon
his return he spoke in high praise
of the plans Of the self-effacing
physician for the greater st.
Luke's. To Teusler, himself, he
paid this high tribute:
"He combines the executive abil-
ity Of a captain Of industry, the
apostolic zeal Of a John the Bap-
fist, and the skill and tenderness Of
a great physician"
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German Minister
of Economics Quits

London. Oct. 2.-Hans Won Rau-
mer the German minister of econom-
les. has resigned, says a Reuter- dis
patch from Berlin tonight.
DR.. Eugene Won Kuilling has re-
signed as premier of bavaria. a Cen
trail News dispatch from Berlin says,
end is to be succeeded by DR.. Won
kahr, who was recently named
BaNarian military dictator with the
title general commissioner of state.
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Capt. Heinen, who has flown un-
told thousands of miles in German
Ieppolins and, as pilot, has carried
10000 passengers with never an &C
c!dent, asserts that within the next
three years q trip from the Atlantic
to the Pacific at 10 miles an hour
through the clouds, will be so COM
monplace as to arouse little or no
comment and travel to the far
countries of the earth in great rigid
type airships Will not be unusual.
at will take but a short time for
the public to realize the safety of
air travel in ships of the type of the
FRI" said Capt. Heinen. Moth
ing can happen to this ship while
she is il the air. There could be an
accident only when she is moored
to the ground outside of her hangar
and then only through a terrific gale
of wind.
AN airplane is dependent for
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tho ol,;JJ
,,.on+ ~ - HT"2c
itty IN ~ not MINI en-, -" NJ, i,ul
%airet hin, ~ +I'a % >''''' s7oN
Tho viitnosso. fo, ~ ct,+o Wow.
Mr.. Charles Sleeves Mrs CHARLES
Sleeves, Irene Sleeves and Mr.
sleeves brother Lawrence Stoves nr
Fairfield.
The resDonfon+'s attorney said tbo+
the ONLY defense TINT tbry ia r.
offer was absolute denial Of
charge against him. t'1t +Ie, ad,,i+-
ted that the chi1d wont 1atn i,+h 40
house. Tho only witness fo, inc do
fenSn WIS tho resn0rdnnt bi,,ec1f
who told of the vis;4 Of thc -r,hild "a
the house and denied any indecent
liberties ta15n,, viii, ber
Roth attorneys Chanr,or fo, 47o
defense and Thorna fo,, +hn site
nale forcefuI statements ana ore,rod
we'll the case. ,Tudrn philhrool,
pr9in1v stated tho law as ner s.a+un
and cvnIained tho c~eo from, - 1o(-,I
standnoint
The iurv was ont thrco no1rs ord
were tal-nn do,rn 70 T.n,Lor+.s ,cc-
+orrop+ Gov, d:,,,o. I--l,o,, +1,o,- 80
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German Cabinet
in Row over Bavaria

Berlin. Oct. Shy a. PD-The
Stresemann cabinet was still in ses-
sion at one o'clock this morning. 4
prolonged controversy was precipf-
tated by the socialist demand that
Bavaria repeal her martial law de-
cree.
The Wurttemberg government. ac-
Exchange Telegraph has entered in
, to negotiations with the Bavarian
government for joint separatist
action againSt Enrlin