Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-03


provement in business conditions.
Since early in July the volume of
business in the shoe and allied indus
tries has been increasing with indi-
cations that the fall business will DC
especially brisk. The great amount
or summer business in the local shoe
plants has been on Mckay shoes, but
recently a substantial Improvement
in the turn lines has been recorded.
st. Pierre, MID, Sept 2-(AP)--
Fourteen members of the crew of the
Portuguese fishing schooner Andor-
lima, who said they deserted from
the vessel because of harsh treat
ment by their officers, were landed
here today by the French steam
trawler Bots Rose. The men were
picked up on the fishing grounds
after they had fed from their vessel
in ,dqries. >
st. Louis, Sept. 2-(AP)-At
time when many men are worrying
about cirrhosis of the liver and fatty
degeneration of the heart, Emil Leu
ly, II years old, of Union City, N. j.,
rides IS miles a day on his bicycle.
Leuly pedalled 1855 miles to st. LOU
Is to see the National championship
bicycle races Saturday and Sunday.
He made the trip in Is days, lie
attributes his activity chiefly to
freedom from worry, which he gave
as result Of his single blessed
ness"
Rome, Sept. bartholomew
by aviators of large patch of oil
and naphtha on the water between
syracuse and Cape Passero, Sicily,
near which the submarine Sebastiano
Veniero was last seen, has caused
virtual abandonment of hope for the
recovery alive of her crew of so o.
ncers and men. The submarine dis.
appeared during the naval maneu-
-vers off the Sicilian coast last week.
The water where the oil patch was
discovered is nearly 1000 feet deep.
making dragging operations out of
the question.
Wilkesbarre, Pa. Sept. 2-fAp,-
Idle anthracite mine workers were
warned today by Rinaldo Capellini,
president of Dist. No. 1, United Mine
workers not to accept other employ
ment at reduced wages thus under
Dlddlng regular outside labor. His
warning followed quickly reports that
mine workers had been accepting
work In violation of this ruling of the
union. 1t was reported here yester-
DAY that mine workers were taking
laboring jobs at thirty cents an hour
while the usual pay is 50 cents or
more.
Concord. N. H, Sept. 2-(AP)-
state Forester John H. Foster issued
an order to all fire wardens TODAY
asking cancellation of permits for
Drush burning now outstanding and
directing that none be issued until
passage Of the present drought which
involves a serious forest fire menace
Drought is extensive accodrinp In
forestry ofncials who hope to prevent
more drastic action by rigid control
OF brush burning until relief is at
hand.
Ell Paso. Texas, Sept. 21-AP,-
Scores of families in Sambrano COL
iingsworth and Alameda Acres. lust
below here, are leaving their homes
To-Day as waters from the swollen
no Grande poured through the bro
Ken Ken river dikes opposite valverde.
seriousness of the flood was reflected
~ the report OF c. r. Folk. assistant
Guy engineer, who declared that the
tAiS hoOo NOulu IOI reach
here for "a hours.
New York, Sept. 2-(AP)-Thn con.
dition of Edwin r. Stettinius. a mart
ner in the banking firm of J. p. Nor
gan d Co. who has been iii at his
Locust Valley, L. l., home for sew
erai DAYS, today was reported more
serious than was at first believed
The nature of his illness has NOT
been announced.
Mexico City, Sept. 2-(AP)-The
Z nlted States and Mexico are walk
ing the path of cordial and sincere
and it is the inten-
ton of Mexico to use her utmost en-
deavors to augment this friendship.
New York, Sept. 2-(AP)-The ef-
feet of the publication of income
tax payments was being generally
discussed today as millions noted in
the newspapers the taxes on Presf< |
dent Coolidge, Industrial magnates. |
movie stars, baseball players, neigh
tors and so on. AS a result of a |
QUESTIONABLE submitted to so COL |
lectors of internal revenue in the |
principal centers Of the country, the |
New York Times concludes that it |
is their general opinion that publ |
cation of payments has had no bene-
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