Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-07-09

playing Of ]. H. Carleton of Meadow
brook, Reading, was another feature.
Tied with five others at SO in the
qualifying round, Carleton won the
playoff this morning and then de-
feated Arthur Shaw of Thorny Lea
one up in the first round and Arthur
Jorgensen Of Beverly by a similar
score in the second round. Follow
ing are the matches scheduled for
tomorrow: Ralph Munro and r. c.
S. ]. Besse. Jr., New Bedford, and
James Conroy, Brookline; C. D. A.
Grasse, Jr., Mount Pleasant, Lowell,
and ]. H. Carleton; Robert Crowley,
Wollaston. and Edward B. Murphy.
New York, July S.-(AP)-Direc-
tors of the Gillett Safety Razor Co.,
today declared an extra dividend of
20 cents share on the capital stock
in addition to increasing the annual
dividend rate from $3.50 to So a
share through authorizing a quarter
ly payment of IS cents.
| Portland, Ore, July S.-(AP)-A
rousing plea by DIR. Francis E.
Clark for recognition of the "big
| liih6o VI Allcp was IEeSH III lIS
memory. as the United Society of
Christian Endeavor today entered on
the fourth day of it's convention. At
IAN alumni banquet last night. DR..
Clark was the chief speaker.
! Indianapolis, July S.-(AP)-Jn-
spirational addresses and prayer
which will help prepare young peo-
pie for greater Christian work will
have prominence at the annual con-
vention of the Baptist Young Peo-
pies Union, which formally opens
/ here tonight, rather than dancing,
rolled stocks and kindred subjects.
Registration of delegates, of whom
some 5000 are expected from the
J United States and Canada, was pro-
ceeding today.
Seattle, July S.-(AP)-The ex-
ample of Tennessee was cited as an
evidence of the need of adult edu-
cation by Mrs. Julia G.. Babcock,
public librarian of Bakersfield, Cali
fornia, in an address to the Ameri-
can Library Association conference
here last night. ~
/ Boston, July S.-(AP)-The grand
disaster of July in which AZ per-
sons lost their lives when the build
ing housing the club collapsed, sus-
pended its activities for a time to-
day while awaiting completion of
an engineers report on the condi-
ton of the structure.
Dayton, Tenn, July S-(AP)-A
warm reception is being prepared for
offenders of all types who may
choose to attend the scene Of the
Scopes evolution trial. Dayton po-
lice today were installing special
detail of local men to look after vi
olators of the ordinances against
liquor buying and selling and ordi-
nary trouble makers of a non-pro-
fessional type.
Gallipolis, Ohio, July S-CAP)-
William Cundiff was killed and Phil
lip Lee slightly wounded in a shot
gun battle between the two farmers
4 today, resulting, the police said, from
a quarrel over a borrowed ploy. Lee
was arrested. Lees wife and grand
son were taken to a hospital suffer-
ing from injuries received when they
were struck with pillow handle by
Cundiff before the shooting began.
/ TeVksbury, Mass, July S-(AP)-
After breaking through the door of
their room, two prisoners escaped
from the State prison camp here
early today and had several hours
start before their absence was dis
covered. They are James Dooley of
Boston and Edward Mclaughlin OF
Somerville, who were serving SEN
fences for automobile larceny.
Paris, July 8-(AP)-A Moscow
dispatch to the Havas agency says
the soviet government has granted
the request of the German govern
ment for a suspension of the death
sentences of two German students
charged with plotting to kill Leon
Trotzky ana other soviet leaders
The students, DR.. Karl Kindermarn
and Theodore Volscht, were sentenc-
ed by the Russian superior court last
week.
| Lakehurst, N. j., July s = Com
mander Zachary Lansdowne of the
| dirigible Shenandoah today ingicat-
| ed that although no definite word had
| been received as to the time of the
proposed fight to Minnesota, he I'M
derstood that requests had been
made for postponement of the trip
until the second week in September.
White Plains, N. Y, July 8-(AP)
An automobile crashed into tele-
graph pole between White Plains and
| Tarrytown early today, killing Vim
cent Santore and his brother Frank,
of Manhattan and Bert Schoberg.s
| steward on a Munson Line steamer.
The driver Of the automobile, Jose
: Santore is held for questioning in the
I .Tarrytown Jail. Schoberg had. re-
Gently come back from q voyage to