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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-24
Bridge Party

Mrs. Agnes Royal and Mrs. A. r..
McNabb were the hostesses at very
pleasant auction bridge party held
at the Lancey House. Saturday aft
ty Of ladies. The favors were beau
tiful carnations and the score cards
were most attractive. The high
score for the afternoon was made by
Mrs. Hollis w. Stitham. Her prize
was dainty lemon plate with fork.
Mrs. Charles F. Foster was the win
ner of the second prize and received
a dainty leather covered book on
auction. A delicious lunch was
served. at the conclusion of the game
and the menu was fruit salad. hot
rolls. olives, coffee, brownies and
meringues. =.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-24

Of Fun" which will be presented in
Memorial hall on the evenings of
March &c and 81 by the senior class OF
Oakland High school. After Tuesday
seats Will be reserved at Martins
store.
The Silent Six Club will meet
Thursday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. John King.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-24
Rlds You OF
Pile Torture

Pyramid Pile Suppositories work
relieye soreness so completely as to
ada you to the thousands who be
Ueye Il the best, safest. quickest re-
lief known for itching. burning.
bleeding; PFottra anY dru ps!I store
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-24

pills in Union hall on Thursday eve
ming they will add more than $500
to their treasury.-Dr. Olga H. Gross
passed Sunday in Waterville. the
guest of Drs. William c. and Nora
Brown.-Mrs. Frank A. Bailey. Jr.,
returned Saturday from Dover where
she had been visiting relatives for
few days.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-24

The police department has receiv-
a word that a Ford delivery truck
has bssn stolen from Millinocket
and the local officers have been ask
Cd to be on the watch for It. Inc
makers number is S12,645 and the
Maine registry plates are X-2089.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-24

The Waterville Red Cross Will &C
capt contributions for relief work III
the tornado stricken areas Of the cen
ral west Checks should be made
payable to the American Red Cross
and mailed to Lorimer H. Dixon at
the Ticonic National bank.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-24

Additional Waterville news ano
ada will b found on Page Two OF
this issue.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-24
BELFAST

Marian Selena littIefieId
The infant daughter of Henry e.
and Selena (Carson) Littlefield,
Marian Selena Littlefield, died Sun
day in Belfast.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-24

0pera House - Richard bartne,
mem and Mrs. Dick in New Toys;
Agnes Ayres in Her Market Value
comedy riot, believe Me latest
Pathe News.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-24

Monday AND TUESDAY

Haines Theatre-Thomas Meighan
with Llu Lee in Coming through ,
sOur Gang" comedy, and Will Rogers
In .Jubilo, Jr"; also a Western COM
edy and latest News Reel.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-24
FASCINATING DRESSES

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Evening star., 1925-07-16
CHANNEL TIDES AGAIN
FOIL GIRL SWIM MER
Argentine Woman Gets Within
Five Miles of Dover in Her
Third Attempt.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated fTess.
CAPE Girls NEZ, France, July
16.-Miss Lillian Harrison, Argentine
swimmer, was forced to abandon her
attempt to swim the English Channel
30 miles from Dover, on the English
side.
The tug Alsace. which accompanied
Miss Harrison, is returning with the
swimmer to Boulogne.
Miss Harrison began her third at
tempt to swim the channel at 4:2e
am. today.
The swimmers parents and a band
of newspaper correspondents EN-
barked at Boulogne on the Tug Alsace
which accompanied her.
Miss Harrison'S two previous at
tempts were both made last year. The
first she was forced to abandon wher
she injured a leg on a sharp rock
In the second she gave up because OF
adverse currents after being in the
water eight hours.
She first achieved international no
tice in 1923 when she swan for 2l
hours down the River Parana in Bra
zil. In the same year she swan the
Estuary o. the River Plata, notable
feat.
Evening star., 1925-07-16
GERMANY is READY
TO ENTER LEAGUE
Will Outline Conditions in Note
to Be Made Public
Next Tuesday.
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
BERLIN, July 16.-Although the de-
tails of Germany's reply to the French
note regarding the proposed western
European security pact are kept Sc
cret. Berlin newspapers say they are
informed Germany will express readi.
upon certain conditions, among them
being completion Of the allied evacua-
ton of occupied areas.
1t was announced yesterday that
the German cabinet has completed the
tentative draft of it's reply to the
French note. This draft will be con-
Sfdered tomorrow at a conference of
the cabinet, the Reichstag foreign re-
lations committee and the premiers
of the Federated States of Germany.
In February Germany proposed a
security pact protecting the frontiers
of western Europe. A French reply,
representing an Anglo-French agree
ment, was made June 1S. The Ger
man note now. under consideration
will be an answer to this French note.
The German note will be made pub
lie simultaneously Tuesday in Paris
and Berlin. 1t will be debated in the
Reichstag Wednesday,
In authoritative quarters here 1t Is
believed the German reply will lead
to a new exchange of views among
London, Paris and Berlin, and that
only after these additional exchanges
will it become apparent whether a
conference can be called to discuss
the proposed security pact or whether
more notes will be required before
the conference stage is reached.
Evening star., 1925-07-16
KNAPP WAS HERE,
| SEVERAL ARE SURE
Six Washingtonians Say
They've Seen Alleged
Thrill Murderer.

few Washingtonians saw either
Philip Knox Knapp, New York
murderer for a thrill, or his double
here during the last few days, and as
soon as a bit of publicity was spread
about. police began to be flooded with
detailed descriptions Of his where
abouts.
The latest information given the
police came from a man who saw
him" in a speeding automobile near
Marlboro. burning up the road, but
the car was hitting such a hot pace
that this observer could not tell
whether another person was in the
machine with him or not.
Detective Arthur Scrivener, investi.
eating the case, and Inspector Grant
were inclined to discount the frequent
reports which indicated the man was
here. Inspector Grant believes this
man would not come to Washington
with the whole country cunning for
him. Knapp may have come here
and taken desperate chances, 1t is
pointed out, for the sake of a thrill,
but the cards. in the belief of the
police, are stacked against this pos
sibility
Pursuit Nationwide.
There's a report that a reward of
81, 200 will be paid to the person re-
sponsible for bringing Knapp to JUS
tice. Pictures of the young man have
been scattered up and down the
country in the Nationwide pursuit in
stituted after the murder of a Long
Island taxicab driver
H. r. Edwards, manager of a e,aso-
line station on Connecticut avenue
above Klingle Bridge, is positive he
saw the wanted man Tuesday morn
ing. Edwards was passing Oh a
street car in front of Cathedral Man
sions. He glanced to the right and
there, in low cut red racer, re-
sembliEg camouf1aged flivver, he
saw this man in the very same clothes
that he was wearing in the photo
graph-a khaki uniform with a shirt
open at the neck. And only yesterday
this mans machine came into the
filling station for gasoline, the man
stepping about and appearing ner-
vous, but Edwards gave no thought
to 1t until he was shown a photo.
graph of Knapp, when he Immediately
remembered having seen him, he said.
The photograph gave the manager
of Copley Courts, 1914 Seventeenth
street, quite a turn. She was abso-
lutely sure she had seen the man la 1t
night in the lobby waiting for a girl
who resides in the apartment and
here's one of the first condolences
that smacks of something more than
conjecture-the telephone girl remem-
bered the name he gave He went out
at about o'clock
This dovetaiis nicely with the in
formation which Robert H. Slower. a
chauffeur, residing at the Mount Yer
non Hotel, 4S7 Pennsylvania avenue,
uncovered at Fourteenth street and
Continued on Page 2, Column ~
Evening star., 1925-07-16
new DRY CHIEFS
SELECTION LAGS
Andrews, Besieged by Politicians,
Has Made No
Choices.

With only two weeks remaining in
which to make selections, Assistant
Secretary Andrews of the Treasury
has been unable to determine definitely
on a single one of the % prohibition
administrators who will take Office
August 1 under the reorganized en-
forcement plans.
A conference with Subordinates will
be held by the Assistant Secretary here
next Wednesday, at which he hopes to
arrive at definite conclusions. He de-
MED today that certain officials had
been removed from consideration or
that there were to be changes in the
administrative districts previously an
nounced.
Liquor smuggling conditions along
the Canadian border of Vermont and
New York will be investigated by Mr.
Andrews over the week end. He will
visit customs officials at st. Albans
and Rouses Point and interview pro-
hibition patrol leaders
with his return to Washington early
next week he probably will face new
complications in the assembling of his
new enforcement machinery, for more
and more members of Congress and
other interested persons are arriving
in Washington daily and most of them
are picking out the impending prohi-
ward which they can direct their
pent-up energies.
Without mentioning any names,
Representative Summers, Republican,
Washington, for years a supporter of
prohibition, declared in a statement
today that no one could expect real
enforcement from 'weak-kneed half
hearted, wishy -washy officials who are
inwardly opposed to the law" He
was growing tired. he said, of pseudo
prohibition with political leaders Civ
ing the last word to the country as
to the possibility of law enforcement. -
At the same time Mrs. Joseph NJ
Gazzam. representing the woman's
committee for law enforcement for
Philadelphia, was warmly assuring
Mr.. Andrews, Attorney General Sar.
gent and all other available officials
that the new prohibition arrange
ment was a wonderful step forward.
She told them, however, that the one
weak spot in dry enforcement was
politics.
Since he set out to select the new
administrators, Mr.. Andrews repeat
edly has been called into long and ear
nest conference by various members
of Congress, and most of them have
told their friends afterward that they
were doing their best to secure the
appointment Of man from their own
State. But Mr.. Andrews said today
that no political pressure had been
brought to bear on him, and that he
still proposed to keep the appoint
ments on a merit basis.
Evening star., 1925-07-16
CHARGE MILLIONAIRE
STARVED FIVE CHILDREN
Buenos Aires Authorities Guard
Details of Case Against Prom
inent Manufacturer.

BY Cable to The star and Chicago Daily News.
BUENOS AIRES, July 16.-The
judicial authorities are guarding
carefully developments in the inves-
tigation of charges that a multi
millionaire cigarette manufacturer
and his wife caused the death of
four children from starvation and
that a fifth is in a hospital suffer
ing from serious malnutrition.
Reports from the preliminary ex-
animation showed indications that
the mother was unbalanced, but the
judge grilled the father and also the
attending physician for an explana-
ton as to why they did not notify
the authorities.
Because of the prominence of the
family the Buenos Aires newspapers
hesitate to print developments in the
case and appear satisfied to await
the outcome of the judicial investi-
cations.
Copyright, 1925. by Chicago Daily News Co.,
Evening star., 1925-07-16
WORLD PLOT-SEEN
|. TOOUST MUSSOL|N|
International Bankers Spend
Huge Sums to Down Fas-
cist, London Hears.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Aseoc1atec Frees
LONDON, July 16.-The Daily
Telegraph reports the existence of an
energetic international campaign to
overthrow Mussolini and the Fascist
regime in Italy.
Occult international forces, from
Wall Street to Vienna and from Milan
to Moscow" it says, are working to
this end and they have adopted
methods akin to those practiced by
the bolsheviki in introducing their
own sect against the foreign trade
unions. That is to say, emissaries
of the forces in question have been
enrolled in the ranks of the Fascist
for the purpose of sowing dissension
and decentralization.
The paper adds that vast sums of
money are being spent for the pur-
pose by the anti-Fascists and their
financial hackers, domestic and for
eign.
Minority Activity Noted.
Although there have been no dis
patches from Italy bearing on the
charge of an international combine
against Mussolini and the Fascist, the
minority there has been fairly active
since the assassination of the Socialist
deputy, Matteott, a year ago.
The Rome newspaper Epoca, hither-
TO mildly pro-Facist, yesterday pub
lished a document drawn up by the
Aventine opposition in the Chamber
of Deputies alleging that Matteotti's
murder and aggressions against other
opposition deputies were carried out
with the knowledge of Premier Mus
solini and the Fascist government.
The Senate, it was declared, were in
possession of sufficient evidence to
show that crimes were organized
under the auspices of the premier to
punish those opposing the Fascist
regime.
Evening star., 1925-07-16
COOLIDGE PLANNING
CAMP DEVENS.WS|T
Secretary Davis Expected to
Discuss Coal Strike With
President.
BY j. RUSSELL YOUNG.

SUMMER w HITE HOUSE,
SWAMPSCOTT, Mass, July 16.-
Early tomorrow morning President
and Mrs. Coolidge will motor from
White Court to Camp Devens, at Aver,
Mass, about 40 miles. where the Ex.
ecutive will inspect the camp and will
officially review the 26th Division
yankee Division) of the Massachu-
setts National Guard.
This trip, which will be made by
automobile, was decided upon sudden
ly this morning. The President had
intended to go to the Devens camp,
but was awaiting the arrival of his
son John, who will be a member of
the citizens military training camp
there within the next two or three
weeks The presidential party ex-
poets 10 be back at White Court in
time for supper.
Getting Tour Bug"
The frequency with which the Pres
idents little side trips are looming
up since he has come to Swampscott
has caused some Of the newspaper
correspondents who have been follow
ing Presidents for many years to be
convinced that President Coolidge is
getting the tour bug" so popular
with some OF his immediate predeces-
sors in office while on vacations.
President Coolidge only smiled when
reminded of this today Some of his
intimates say that 1t is only natural
that he should become a trifle restive
staying around White Court and its
immediate grounds all the time.
The second cabinet officer to visit
the President on his vacation is ex-
pected to be Secretary of Labor
Davis. 1t was announced at the
executive Office here today that Mr..
Davis has sent word that he will ar
rive at White Court tonight or to-
morrow. 1t was stated that there is
no significance to this visit, that it is
visits to be made by members of the
cabinet to take up with their chief
the more important matters respect
ing their respective departments. 1t
is intimated, however, that besides
talking shop with the President, Sec
retary Davis will go over very thor
oughly the coal situation in the coun-
try generally and the possibilities of a
coal strike in the Fall.
Gets Hammond's Views.
The President was afforded an op-
portunity to obtain briefly today the
views of John Hays Hammond re-
garding the threatened strike and the
coal situation. Mr.. Hammond. who
has a Summer home near here and
was a luncheon guest at White Court
today, was chairman of the United
States Fact Finding Coal Commission
two years ago.
The others who were at today's
luncheon were Count Alex Sczynski,
Polish foreign minister: Hipolit
CONTINUED on Page 5, Column g.
Evening star., 1925-07-16
ENVOY TO HEAD MISSION.
Belgian Debt Body to Sail On July 80
for United States.

BRUSSELS. July Is CPD.-The Bel
gian mission which will go to Wash
ington for the purpose of negotiating
a settlement of the Belgian debt to
the United States will sail on the liner
Olympic from Cherbourg on July 80.
Baron Cartier de Marchienne, Belgian
Ambassador to the United States, will
head the mission.
Paul Hymans, the former Belgian
foreign minister, who signed the Yer
sailles treaty for Belgium. gave the
Chamber last night complete account
of the circumstances and spirit in
which the treaty was signed and has
been adhered TO by Belgium. His con-
clusion was that priority and liberia
ton from war debts were conceded to
Belgium owing to Germany's violation
of the 1889 treaty. that they were a
condition to Belgium 8 signing the Yer
sailles treaty, and that they were part
of a contract and constitute a synal-
lagmatic engagement toward Belgium.
NJ. Hymans quoted statements made
by the American delegate, Thomas W.
Lamont. author of the reparation
chapter of the history of the peace
conference written by the American
delegates and published by Col. E. NJ.
House and Prof. Charles Seymour.
Remarks Draw Applause.
Vi.
! entire assemblage. He was followed
by Foreign Minister Nandervelde, who
, said that this account was strictly ac-
| curate. NJ. Vandervelde said in con-
| clusion:
II am convinced that the Belgian
delegates going to Washington will be
| in a position to bring forward moral
engagements which a great people
! cannot refuse to recognize without
| suffering diminution and loss OF
| esteem"
| The first section of NJ. Hyman's
| speech dealt with Belgium's S special
| situation created by Germany's Vio-
| lations of neutrality, which entitled
Belgium to special treatment at the
conclusion of peace. He read two let
| ters. one signed by Lloyd George and
| Clemenceau and the other by the late
President Wilson, dated June 16, 1919,
which is part of the treaty. But the
United States refused to ratlfy the
treaty, he added, and considered void
the signature of the man who went
to Europe with the nimbus of
Christ" to act in the name OF the
United States.
LAS the United States consider
themselves liberated from the engage
ments contracted by their plenipo-
tentiary in their name" continued NJ.
Hymans, "our delegates will have to
argue again the case WHICH was
pleaded and won by me in Paris"
Says Claim Admitted.
He recalled that the Belgian dele
gates, after threatening not to adhere
to the peace treaty If not liberated
from the war debts. at last received
the satisfaction of having the Belgian
claims admitted.
1t was necessary to remind the
American people of the origin and
character of the concessions made to
Belgium in 1919 and disavowed today.
The American people had given the
world admirable proofs of their great
ness Of soul and generosity. especially
lContinued on Page 81. Column Sd
Evening star., 1925-07-16
MINERS LEADER JAILED,
West Virginian Accused of Plot
to Blow Up Shaft.

WELLSBURG, w. Va, July Is CP).
Pearl Dooley, president of the Wells.
burg local of the United Mine Work
ers, was arrested today, charged with
conspiracy to dynamite the GiIchrist
mine of the West Virginia Pittsburgh
Coal Co.. non-union operation.
Guards found 165 sticks of dynamite
with fuses attached in buildings at
the mine property yesterday.
Dooley is also charged with aiding
in the escape of George Johnson,
negro, who is being sought by police
in connection with the alleged plot.
Johnson's brother, Jess Johnson, a
striking miner. was arrested as a sus-
.pect shortly after the dynamite was
discovered
Evening star., 1925-07-16
ATTACKED,
HE INFORMS COURT
fetS Warrant for Narcotic
Agent, Alleging Assault on
Courthouse Steps.

Smarting under a scathing denun-
citation by Attorney Abner Siegal be-
fore Justice Bailey and a jury in
Criminal Division 2 at the trial yes
terday afternoon of William Henry
Eva, Samuel l.. Rakusin, chief mar
cotic agent of the Internal Revenue
Bureau, today attacked the lawyer on
the steps of the courthouse. accord
ing to statements of bystanders.
Siegal says he was struck in the back
of the head as he turned from a con-
versation with the Government agent
and again in the jaw. The attorney
made no attempt to return the blows,
it is stated. His client, Eva was
acquitted late yesterday.
Siegal went at once to Police Court
and swore out a warrant for assault
against Rakusin. The warrant was
placed in the hands of Headquarters
Detective Springmann for service on
the Government agent.
Complains to Judge.
The lawyer also reported to Jus
tice Bailey the alleged attack on him
and was told by the court to make
an affidavit concerning the affair and
file 1t with the court. The action of
Justice Bailey is taken to mean that
rule in contempt of court may be
issued against Rakusin.
The narcotic agent was a witness
at the trial of Eva yesterday and his
testimony was ridiculed by Siegal, it
is said. AS the lawyer was entering
the courthouse this morning, accord
ing to his statement, Rakusin ac-
coSted him and warned him against
a repetition of the scathing denounci-
alton, claiming that Siegal had called
him a thief" sSiegal says he denied
using that appellation and remarked
that he had only declared Rakusin
much mistaken" in his testimony
AS he turned away, the lawyer de-
clares, Rakusin struck him a blow
from behind and followed it up with
one to the jaw.
Evening star., 1925-07-16
SEEK CHILD SNATCHERS
OPERATING IN MEXICO
Gang Said to Be Smuggling Cap
tives Abroad Under Chinese
Passports.

BY Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News
MEXICO CITY, July 16.-According
to the newspaper Excelsior, six of the
best members of the Mexican secret
police are searching for a gang of
child snatchers. Tuesday four chill.
dren disappeared after leaving school
In May and June no less than 40 Mex
lean children left the country by the
southern ports, documents showing
them to be the nephews, nieces or off
spring of Chinese.
The police are convinced that they
have to deal with a thoroughly we'll
organized gang, probably composed of
foreigners, and that the ma ajority of
the children are smuggled abroad.
The ages of the children taken range
from to Il years.
Copyright. 1925. by Chicago Daily News Co. }
Evening star., 1925-07-16
SEVEN HURT IN BUS CRASH
Charabanc Skids Into Building
on Sightseeing Trip.

OAKHAM. Rutlandshire, England.
July Is R).-Six women and the
chauffeur of charabanc, or large
sightseeing automobile, in which a
number of American tourists were
riding, were injured today, apparently
not seriously, when the car skidded
into building at Langham, near here.
All the injured persons proceeded to
London after requesting the local DO
lice not to divulge their names.
Evening star., 1925-07-16
| u. S. GUSTS SQUATTERS.
Evicts 400 From Military Reserva.
tion in Philippines.

MANILA. July 16 GP.-Some of the
400 squatters who for several years
have been living on the United States
military reservation around Camp
Stotsenburg, SO miles north of Manila
have been evicted by the military au-
thorities. These people have con-
tinued to live on the reservation and
to cultivate the land despite repeated
warnings from the Army that such
practice was illegal
The military authorities state that
the lawyers and others who have been
receiving money from the squatterS
for protection will be prosecuted in
the civil courts and that the cases are
now in the hands of the Philippine de-
apartment of JUSTICE Z.
Evening star., 1925-07-16
Fumes Kill Three
In Tank Car; TaUO
Go to Hospitals
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NIAGARA FALLS, n. Y, July
16.-Three employees of the Mathie-
son Alkali Co. are dead and two
others in a serious condition in
hospital here today as a result of
being overcome by fumes while
coating the interior of a tank car
with a rubberiZed solution.
The dead are Joseph Gervin,
Fred Laubert and Aleck Nevin.
Those in a serious condition are
Cecil Lambert and Albert Paratt.
The car is used in shipping bleach
ing liquid from the company's
plant.
Company officers said the men
had used too much of the solution
and were overcome by the vapor
which arose from It.