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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-26
Big Blaze Averted
Coburn Hall, u. of NJ.

Especial to Kennebec JournaD
Orono, Jan. 2j.-Prompt action on
the part Of w. B. Lambert, %, ire
vented a serious fire this afternoon
1t Coburn Hall, University of Maine.
Lambert was working in the labo:-
atory on the lower floor of Coburn
when he heard an explosion end
rushed up stairs to laboratory
the second floor to find an electric
fixture on the floor with q blaze
burning merrily in the ceiling. He
turned in an alarm and the Orono
Fire Department made short work OF
the blaze.
A large crowd gathered at the
scene Of the excitement as the ac-
cident occurred in mid afternoon and
Inc student body from the Univer-
MY Is always on the watch for ex-
ctement of any kind. The blaze Vas
caused by a short circuit and the
extent Of the damage to the Coburn
nal wire system may be serious.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-26
400 in PaWtucket
Mill Give Notice
OF Strike on Feb. 2

pawtucket, r. l., Jan. 25-Four
hundred employees of the Greenhaulgh
Mills of Pawtucket voted today to go
on strike week from tomorrow un-
less a ten percent wage reduction
made effective in two weeks is re-
scinded Several conferences have
been held with the treasurer of the
company, George =. Greenhaulgh,
who said tonight that he was unable
to make any adjustment since COM
peting cotton factories in New Bed
ford, We're operating under a ten per-
cent reduction. The mill employs
500 workers.
The action of the Greenhaulgh en-
ployes was the first taken by cotton
mill operatives in the 81; ckstone val
ley since the ten percent reductions
were announced in several PLANTS re-
Gently. On the first ballot the work.
ers largely favored dn immediate
strike but were dissuaded by Organ
izer Francis J. German Of the United
Textile Workers Of America and Ed
ward II. Morris. president Of the
state branch of the American FEEDER
;.tion of Labor
Two hundred operatives. compris-
ing almost the entire force of the
Pawtucket Hosiery company, who
struck last Tuesday after a ten per-
cent cut, will not return to work to-
morrow, 1t was announced. William
T. Comery manager OF the company,
has announced that after tomorrow
strikers will not longer be considered
as employees and that skilled opera
tives would replace them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-26
No Trace of Five
Fishing Skiffs
With 80 Men Aboard

st. Johns, n. f.. Jan. 2J-No trace
has been found of the five fishing
skiffs which with 80 fishermen. were
swept to sea Friday night in storm
Off Rose Blanche Bay on the south
west coast. according to wireless re-
ports tonight from the mail steamer
Kyle which turned from her course
between North Sydney. n. S.. and
Port Aux Basaues to comb the sea
for the missing craft. The coastal
steamer Prospero has been directed
to Join the search.
The bodies of two men of the fleet
were recovered yesterday. it was re-
ported. The blizzard of Friday night
was driven by wind reaching hur-
ricane proportions.
The coastal steamer Prospero
which was directed to join in the ef-
fort to find the missing fishermen,
was reported to have arrived at Rose
Blanche tonight after searching
throughout yesterday and today
without result. The worst is now
feared. it was said. although hope is
still held out that the skiffs may have
found shelter in some small inlet
without Geographic communication.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-26
Hold Soldier in
Death Woman Who
Perished in Cold

Newport, r. l., Jan. 25-George F.
Henderson, private In the coast
artillery corps stationed at Fort
Adams was placed under arrest by
the military authorities here today
in connection with the finding of the
frozen body of Mary Gleason, do
nestle employed in this city. Last
Thursday Henderson reported to the
police that the woman was missing
since the previous Monday, when she
was to have left her place of employ
ment to visit him at the fort. She
never arrived. he told tine authorities.
The body was discovered lying in
a dry moat twenty feet deep. The
moat is surrounded by I. low iron
railing three feet from the edge. In
the woman's hand was found few
blades of grass and ne5r her pack
age of cookies and a blonde wig.
An autopsy will be performed to-
morrow.
The woman's body was found on a
part of the military reservation.
Henderson told the policeman that
Miss Gleason had told him she was
% years of age. She concealed her
dark hair, which was streaked with
gray, under the wig. She was ma
tive of Ireland and had been in this
country about six years.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-26
Nv The Associated Press)

= (By The Associated Fress)
so, and Luna held their long-an-
,icIpated rendezvous Saturday morn
Ing.
Their trysting place was a heaven
.,-t.,ned with dusk and fringed with
~o.v clouds. The occasion was a
Total solar eclipse Of such magnifi-
..nce a. humans seldom have seen.
Ecstatic scientists on earth report
A II the most perfectly executed
union the heavens have perpetrated
Once man began studying the re-
cordinr of such events. Gleefully,
they peered through cavernous tele-
scopes and cranked huge cameras,
While millions Of other earth-beings
stared through smoked glasses, awed
and silent.
One Of the trysters-sone SAID ne
and some said she-was five SECONDS
me. reckoning by the astral calen-
ar Of scientists. But the meeting
lat none of its zest of glamor there
nv. for it was the first tryst of sun
and moon in this segment OF the
heavens for 10 years. and it will be
mora than two centuries before they
meet there again.
Weather conditions for observa-
lions were described as almost gen.
orally perfect throughout the East.
whore most Of the fixed observatories
and laboratories were located.
Hundreds Of telescope records
were made and as many photographs
taken from land, sea and air. Scien-
lists felt justified in declaring that
huge fund of information undoubt-
edly was added to their store OF gen.
eral and specific knowledge about
such mysteries as the content OF the
suns corona, the composition or
eclipse umbra and penumbra; the
explsnation of the "Jumping-Jack
Rabbit" OF the moons eclipse shad-
ow: the DETECTION OF light as related
to the Einstein theory: the effect of
eclipses upon earth's climate and
tides and gravity. and its effect upon
radio activity, upon earth's magnetic
centers, its Thermometers. and its
barometers.
Observatories at New Haven. Itha-
ca, Poughkeepsie and Buffalo report
ed they had been ably successful IN
Continued on Page 3-Col. 81
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-26
u. Scuba Row Fails
To Excite Isle of Pines

Havana. Jan. 25-The situation in
the Isle of Pines, where tense feeling
has developed between Americans
and Cubans over the question of ow-
nership of the island. is quiet. Major
w. III. Shutten, military attache of
the American embassy here, made
this report today to Ambassador
Crowder. He added that he believed
the visit of DIR. Ignazio de la Torroe
sub-secretary of the interior, to the
Isle of Pines, would serve to main
tain calm.
Major Shutten is expected to re-
turn to Havana about the middle of
the week. The Cuban government is
known to be taking every precaution
to prevent any trouble in the Isle of
Pines.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-26

Governor Ralph Q. Brewster has
received a communication from Hon.
Charles Z. Hughes, secretary of state.
calling attention to general notice
issued by the department in refer
ence to claims of American citizens
against Mexico.
"As you are aware, conventions
were concluded between the United
States and Mexico in September,
1923. which provided for the estab-
lisment of commissions to which
claims Of American citizens against
Mexico, arising since July 4, 1868.
could be submitted for adjudicat-
tion," says Secretary Hughes.
"These commissions have been es-
tablished and are now functioning.
I'm view of the time limitation i'm
posed upon the filing IF claims I'M
der each convention, 1t is highly de-
sirable that information with regard
to these conventions and commits
sions should be as widely circulated
as possible in order that interested
American citizens may be put on no
tice concerning the necessity of
prompt action with respect to the fl
"The matter has been given publ
city through channels available to
the department but it has occurred
to the department that you may be In
position to supplement such pub
licity in your state through channels
which are available to you. L have
the honor to request therefore that
you give this matter such attention
as in your judgement would be up
prOpriate."
The general notice accompanying
the communication CT Secretary
Hughes states that the time for fl
ing claims before the general claims
commission, Is limited to August 20,
1925. The time for filing claims be-
fore the special claims commission is
limited to August IS, 1926.
The attention Of claimants is es.
socially invited to the fact that I'M
less their claims against Mexico are
filed before the commission having
jurisdiction thereof as and within the
time provided in the respective con-
ventions. they will be forever barred.
Claimants are therefore urged to
present their claims 10 the depart
ment Of state without delay.
All claims must be prepared for
presentation in accord;. with the
terms of the respective conventions
and with the rules of procedure
which have been adopted by the re-
spective conventions. When so pre-
pared, they should be forwarded to
the department of state for filing and
presentation before tne respective
commissions by the agent of the
United States on the commissions.
Any claims against the govern
ment of Mexico should be filed with
the department Of state. Petitions
should contain n full and complete
statement of the facts and circum-
stances from which the losses or
damages for which indemnity is
sought. arose. Claimants should set
forth in their petitions whether they
are now and We're at the time the
claim arose and continuously since
that time citizens of the United
States, and if so. whether they are
native or naturalized citizens.
Petitions should be subscribed un-
der oath and should be accompanied
by the best obtainable evidence in
support of the allegations made in
the petitions.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-26

Paris. Jan. 25.-(By A. P.)-
Frances war debt to the United
States is the problem uppermost in
the mind of every Frenchman at the
present time and was the dominating
topic Of private conversations in the
French parliament throughout the
past week.
The suppression of the French
embassy to the Vatican and the
question Of resumption of diplomatic
relations with Moscow, which occu-
pied four-flfths of the open debate
from the rostrum, We're the SUBJ
jects of long speeches by former
PAemier BRAND and Premier Henri
otS but although Deputy Louis Ma
Y Continued on Page 3-Col. u
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-26
Pemaquid Woman
Burned by Oil
Can Explosion

Pemaquid, Me, Jan. 25-Mrs. Lii
liam Russell. aged about 90. wife OF
George Russell, was critically burned
today by an explosion of a can con-
tanning kerosene oil which she was
using to light fire in the kitchen at
lumber camp which the couple oc-
cupies. Her husband. who Is employ
ed at portable saw mill here, was
severely burned in rescuing her. Mrs.
Russell was given treatment at a
neighbours home. 1t is feared she may
not recover.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-26

New York, Jan. ga nationwide
campaign for the repeal of state
laws for the enforcement of the Vol
stead act was announced tonight by
Austen G. Fox, chairman of the Mod
GRAFTON League.
A memorandum setting forth the
views of members of the league that
an "intolerable" situation Is greater
by the double jeopardy involved in
prosecution for the same act under
both national and state laws is being
sent to every member Of every state
lecisla ture.
The position taken by Mr.. Fox is
approved by the directors and ad-
visory board of the league, about
| three score men whore names are
widely known in the various profess
sions and sciences, and in industrial
and commercial circles. The an
| nouncement says:
MANY of the leaders of both par
| ties now appreciate that when the
| several states passed enforcement
acts the inevitable double jeopardy
| involved in state enforcement was
not foreseen. In the language of a
/ DISTINGUISHED Republican senator,
| speaking of his own state. OF course,
| have not the intention to authorize
any such procedure Indeed, it was
not until long after the passage of
! the Volstead act that The supreme
court of the United States sustained
the astounding contention of the
! federal government that conviction
and punishment in a state court y
| for making, Transporting and selling
| intoxicating liquors is not bar to
prosecution in a court Of the United
States under the federal law for the
| same acts
| 1.-The Moderation League. Inc, an
nOunces that it is now engaged in
the effort to bring about the repeal
of state enforcement laws in all the
! states, and to the end that the people
may thereby emancipate themselves
! from a condition which a federal
court has denounced as 'intolerable
! persecution and which was not an
p, ticipated when the policy of state
enforcement was inaugurated."
| The league argues in the memo
randum sem to legislators that its
position on the question ''is quite
! apart from approval or disapproval
of prohibition" The memorandum
| concludes with n general argument:
as it not time that both parties
, should unite and put an end to the
, hypoeritical cry of law enforcement
true colors as Tawless enforcement? q
Acts speak louder han words. We
do not protect our liberties when we
| act in defiance of the Sery liberties
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-26

Herrin, ILL.,, Jan. 25-With militia
men again patrolling the streets Of
Herrin, order prevailed today after
the latest outbreak of Khan and anti
Khan warfare last night in which four
men were killed, including S. Glenn
Young, Khan liquor raider. and Ora
Thomas. deputy sheriff, recognized
outstanding leaders OF the two fac
tions.
The two others killed in the fight
in a Main street cigar shop, We're Ed
Forbes and Homer Warner, reputed
klansmen. and companions Of Young.
Young died from a bullet through
the heart, although he was wounded
also in the right breast. These shots,
according to reports, came from the
two revolvers used by Thomas.
When citizens entered the shop a
Continued on Page 3-CoI. y
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Shots Fail to Kill
Boss Chicago Crooks

Chicago, Jan. 25.-John Torr1o, I'M
crowned GEAR" Of Chicago's under
world. who was shot three times as ne
alighted from an automobile In front
of his home Yesterday in a renewal of
the gang warfare which has eliminat-
ed several local vice chieftains. was
resting easily in a hospital tonight
and is expected to recover.
Meanwhile the police, who have al
ready arrested lis men, including
several notorious gunner, In connec-
ton with the case, are continuing
their search for Torrios assailants.
Torrio refused to say whether ne
knew the men who shot him. MRS.
Torrior. at her husbands bedside de-
scribed one Of his assailants Tor the
police.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-26

Washington, Jan. 25.-with the
Senate in a rather unexpected tangle
over the postal pay and rate increase
bill, the Isle of Pines treaty and the
supreme court nomination Of Attor-
ney General Stone, the House is be-
ginning to slow up its work in order
not to find time hanging on its hands.
Having disposed of the most impor-
tant of the annual supply bills the
House now is giving only leisurcly
consideration to the others. Even so,
leaders expect to send two more to
the Senate this week, the budgets for
the Independent Offices and for the
state, justice, commerce and labor de-
partments.
Thus far the Senate has kept pace
with the House on the appropriation
bills and it finds itself in tangle on
other matters largely through an eff
fort to consider three things at once.
The Isle of Pines was it's unfinished
business; then it gave the postal bill
a special order status, and finally it
got into jam on the Stone nominal
ton.
None Of the leaders will venture an
opinion as to when any of these mat
ters will be disposed of, but despite
this. the Senate has by a formal vote
made the Bursum bill for retirement
pay for disabled emergency World
War veterans the unfinished business
week from tomorrow.
President Coolidge is exerting some
IL, i'm
both the Isle of Pines treaty and the
world court resolution, but even adj
ministration senators assert that there
appears little prospect for action on
either before March 4. Chairman b.
rah of the foreign relations committee
has announced that the convention
with Cuba is to be made the subject
of considerable more debate. and Sen
ator Copeland. Democrat, New York
has discovered that the original copy
of the treaty is lost and has demanded
an inquiry regarding this phase Of the
matter.
While the Senate "a seeking n way
out of the present situation its com'
mittees continue to add new leglsia-
| ton to it's already overcrowded calen'
dar This includes the. measure tor
relief for the railroads from the pres
ent high increased reates on govern
ment loans. and also the bill for pur-
chase of the Cape Cod Canal
| The postal bill will have right OF
way tomorrow, but there VIII be re-
newed efforts to have stricken from II
| the section calling for increased pos
tai rates to take care of advances In
the salaries of postal employees. The
Senate last week refused to strike this
out on point of order.
The Muscle Shoals question will bol
up again this week, this time in the
House. where leaders plan TO bring in
a rule Tuesday to have the Underwood
leasing bill sent to conference instead
of referring it to the military commit
| tee.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-26
Tugs Succeed in
Floating YanktOn

Boston. Jan. % - The steamer
Yankton of the Providence line,
which went ashore on Nix's Mate
Ledge in Boston Harbor in heavy
weather five days ago. was fioated at
high tide today by four tugs. A small
leak was reported in the forward
hold. but the incoming water was
under control of the pumps tonight.
She will be placed in dry dock for re-
pairs tomorrow. The Iankton.
bound for Halifax. n. s.. and St.
Johns. N. F., had been forced to put
about owing to heavy weather when
she went aground.
The Yankton's career has included
service as a steam yacht. as United
States naval vessel. taking part in
the battle of Santiago. and was a
rum-running and later a freight
craft, changing hands several times
since 1921.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-26
Tidy Income for
Sears ROebuck Co.

Chicago, Jan. 25-The net income
" Sears Roebuck & Company for
W. amounted to- $14,354.OOO, an in
uease Of s2.842.000 or Ills percent
over the previous year, according to
nsures made public today by Z. c.
futile. president. The net income
vas 14.2 percent on its S200,000.00O
equalization. During the last year
"a. me company paid off notes Of ST.
,Ms vo00 outstanding at the end OF
~: and retired the entire preferred
LICK eck at a cost Of $10,00O,000. The
sssOoo0.0O0 of serial gold notes float
~ IN 1920 have been entirely paid
~! and there are at present no notes
Dank loans outstanding. Cash on
a saad at the end of 1924 was s12,668,-
IVY compared with $5,737,0Oo De-
eember 81, 1928,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-26
Portland Woman
In Fire-Swept
Area in China

Portland, Me, Jan. 25-Mrs. Har-
riet Lawler is concerned because of
telegraph reports that the city of
WI Chang, 60 miles from Shanghai.
China, has been swept by fire: be-
cause of the presence there of Mrs.
Lawlor's daughter, Mrs. Dorothea
Fowler wife of J. Earle Fowler. ply
steal director at Boone University in
that city. Mrs. Fowler. who is a
graduate of kents Hill Seminary,
has been doing missionary work in
the Orient. Mr.. Boone, native of
Groton. Conn.,, was former physical
director of the Y. M. G. A. at Bay
onne, n. j.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-26
De Valera Objects
To Visit Prince
Wales to Ireland

on DeValera. the Republican leader,
today protested against the proposed
visit to Ireland of the Prince Of
Wales.
"If the Belgian king or the Ameri-
can president should come" said Mr..
De Valera, You can respect them as
are rulers of foreign states. But we
much as YOU please. because they
don't want any foreign king coming
to our country to claim rulership.'
The belief was expressed today that
should the projected visit of the
Prince Of Wales be dragged into the
political arena the arrangements for
his coming. which thus far are only
tentative, will be cancelled.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-26
Looks to Future

The bill will be aimed at future
applicants and will not conflict with
The details of the test will be left
to the discretion of State Highway
officials, the bill providing that the
applicant shall pay the fee for the
test which will amount to approx
mately one dollar. the State thus
fearing no additional expense.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-26
French Airman
Makes New Record

Etampes. France, Jan. 25.-Ser-
geant Major Descamps, French avia-
tor, today broke the speed record
for 800 kilometres (310.69 miles) for
airplanes carrying a load of 500 Kill
grams Q,1O2.3l pounds). He COW
cred the distance in 2 hours, 20 min
utes, AZ seconds. an average per hour
of 2O1.O3 kilometres (132.3S miles).
The former record was held by the
American aviator, Louis G.. Meister.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-26

A bill amending the present
law in relation to examination
for automobile drivers licenses
and making it mandatory that
the applicant be required to
take an actual test before be-
ing issued a license to drive a
car will be introduced into the
legislature this week by Rep
resentative Burleigh Martin of
Augusta.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-26
General Forecast

High pressure prevails off the mid
die Atlantic coast. 1t has become
decidedly warmer in the Atlantic
states while temperatures have fallen
90 degrees or more over the northern
plains states.
The outlook is for rains Monday
night and Tuesday in the Atlantic
states. 1t will be colder on Monday
in the extreme north portions OF the
middle and north Atlantic states and
colder on Tuesday in all states east
of the Mississippi river.
Winds north of Sandy Hook
Moderate southwest and weather
partly overcast Monday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-26
Boy Breaks Neck
Taking Ski Jump
At Manchester, n. HI.

Manchester, n. H., Jan. 25-Ray-
mond Roullier aged IL. son of Mr..
and Mrs. Napoleon Roullier, broke
his neck late this afternoon while
skiing on the Golf Falls jump.
While taking off one of his skis
caught in the snow. The boy turned
a somersault and was dead when
picked Nd
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-26
FRENCH WANT MARK
DO WI IN PAYING
WAR DEBT TO U. S.
Very Few in Favor of Outright
xRepudiation of Obi
cation

Fous Billion Plus Recently Men
toned Somewhat Large, Their
Viewpoint-Due Recognition Of
Near Billion Advanced by U. S.
from Nov. II, 1918. to Sept, 1919
Seek Reduction in Amount OBJ
tanned During Active War Prep
arations-Premier Will Influence
Chamber of Deputies
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Blizzard Holds
In Four States

St Paul. Mimi. Jan. PA blizzard
ragged tonight over the lower half Of
Minnesota. parts of the Dakotas and
the western portion of Wisconsin
also were affected. In some sections
OF western Minnesota trains and
highway traffic We're interfered with
because of drifted snow. Tempera-
lures fell rapidly toward the zero
mark