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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-26
Chicago Produce Market

Chicago, May 25.-(AP).
Sensational supturns in price both for
corn and wheat and for rye as WELL
resulted today from freezing weather
over the grain belt as far south as
Kansas. Low temperatures, the lowest
at this time in 20 years, were reported
Need of widespread replanting of corn
was predicted and serious apprehen-
sion was expressed as to the outlook
for winter wheat crops. After jump
of Sac bushel, the corn market closed
unsettled, 81 to 71c net higher. Wheat
finished strong at the days top, II to
SIC up, May Lila to LIZ and July
1.617 to 1922 rye up as much as Sc:
with oats showing IL to 11c gain and
provisions varying from 10c decline to
15c advance. Corn quickly jumped to
the. front as the market leader. Before
trading had been in progress an hour,
active buying sent prices soaring Iar
beyond ordinary limits as reports
flooded in from some of the choicest
sections Of the corn belt saying frost
had done irreparable damage, notably
notably in Illinois, Iowa and Minneso-
ia. Some messages spoke OF the corn
fields as having turned black. Fore
casts of additional frost tonight tend
ed further to stimulate buying, and to
make offerings scarce, except to real
lie profits. AS a result the corn mar
ket continued to be in furry through
out the day. Notwithstanding that the
bulge in prices for corn reached the
maximum long ahead of wheat.
Late reports tended to confirm re-
ports of damage to the corn crop and
to increase anxiety regarding wheat
and rye. A huge volume volume of
buying orders for wheat resulted in
the final hour, and speculative fever as
to that grain was at its height when
the closing bells cleared the crowd
away from the pit s Announcement M ,6 %
Tinted states visible supply of wheat
helped give additional strength to the
wheat market during the final transac-
lions and reports were also current
that Illinois farmers were ALREADY puy-
ing seed corn on large scale to re-
plant corn hurt by frost.
rive and oats traders took their cue
from, the action of wheat and corn. The
steepest climb in price for any future
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-26
L. F. LOree's Plans
Railroad Merger Is
Interesting to Wall St.

New York, May % CA. P.)-Two
strategic railroad consolidation
moves, one in the rapidly growing
southwest and the other in the high
ly competitive eastern trunk line
territory. have focused the watchful
eyes of Wall Street upon Leonor F..
Loree, head of two of the most COM
pact railroad systems in the United
States, the Kansas City Southern
and the Delaware & Hudson.
At q time when ambitious plans
for regrouping the railroads into q
small number of large systems are
taking shape in the different sections
of the country Mr.. Loree has taken
Independent action, laying the basis
for prospective consultations built
around his own RAILROADS.
A former associate of Z. II. Harri-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-26
Boston Produce Market

Boston, May 20.
BEEF-Choice whole cattle 15a.
BUTTER-Extras 42a Q43; firsts Al
CIIEEsE-Fresh choice 22@a2s; ex-
tras 20.
CORN-No. 2 yellow 1.39@1.40.
EGGS-Nearby hennery brown ex-
tras 41@411; white and mixed extras
39@40a; mixed extras 36@3S.
FLOUR-Spring patents. 196-lb.
sacks, special short 1925 q 1910;
standard 8.75@10.10.
HAY-No. timothy 22@24.
HANDSPRING 20@26.
OATS-Forty pounds 56@57.
PORK-Medium backs 37@43.
POTATOES-Green Mountains 100
@1.10 per 100 pounds.
SUGAR-American Sugar Refinery
quotes $50 cents in 100-barrel lots
less per cent. for cash.
yEAL-S a 20.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-26
Chicago Cattle Market

Chicago, May 25.
CATTLE-Receipts $4,000: yearlings
and handy weight steers steady to
strong: matured kinds averaging 1900
pounds upward steady to is lower.
closing mostly 10 to Is off; extreme
top 11.50 paid for 1131-pound aver
ages: several loads 11.00@11.25: best
heavy steers lilo, averaging 1880
pounds; few loads scaling 1411 to 1889
pounds 100; some 1525-pound aver
ages 1850; most weighty steers 1925
@1O.75: moderate supply rough but fat
offerings below 1000; better grades
fat she stock steady to strong; light
heifers of value to sell at 500 up
ward higher in spots: some slowness
on lower grade fat cows; Gamers
weak; bulls steady to Is lower; veal
ers mostly steady: spots 25 off. most
ly S.50@9.50; stockers and feeders very
slow; weak.
HOGS-Receipts $1,000; fairly ac-
tive, 40 to so lower; closed firm at de-
cline; underweights mostly IS off:
bulk good and choice 140 to 210-pound
averages 12.00@12.25: practical top
1925: one load 1895: bulk 225 to 325-
pound butchers 11.75@12.05: packing
sows mostly 10.50@ 1890: strong
weight slaughter pigs largely 1850
11.75:. shippers 10000; estimated hold
over $4,000.
sHEEP-Receipts $4,000; fat lambs
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-26

generally is to 25 higher: spots so up
on clippers; best California springers
1900; sorting. generally moderate: Sec
onds and feeders unsold late; odd lots
good to choice native springers 5000
1850; culls mostly 1880; these so to rs
higher: bulk desirable clipped lambs
1275@13.00; one load 1850; odd lots
Gull clippers to killers and feeder deal
ers 1925; part load Texas wethers
grading medium to good and carrying
few yearlings 900: mos fiat ewes 700
@7.50: heavies downward to 625: no
strictly choice light weights offered.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-26
LIBERTY

Mr.. and Mrs. George Sprague and
Arthur Sprague were in Belfast Sat
urday.
Rev. H. w. Abbott was in Augusta
last week.
Mrs. l.. L Morse and son, Ralph,
of Belfast were visitors in town last
week
Mr.. and Mrs. Varney of Fairfield
passed Sunday at their cottage.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-26

delivery OF grain except corn was
made by December rye.
Provisions, although weak at first
owing to a break in hog values, were
responsive later to the advance of
grain.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-26

Teacher: Jimmie, why don't you
wash your face? can see that you
had eggs for breakfast this morning.
Jimmie: No. that was yesterday,
ma 'am.-Good Hardware.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-26
No matter
what way
YOuIravel!

Records of every State, City and Com
munity Observation-Disclosures are multiplying
daily at staggering rate No matter what
may be your daily mode Of travel, remem>
Der, you may be killed or injured regard
less of the type of conveyance you use.
Even when walking, people are struck
down on the public highways without
warning or chance of escape.
Because, not one of our readers can prophecy
what may happen to him or her in the course
of days travel, the Kennebec Journal has
provided $4,000 protection for every one of it's
subscribers, old or new, between the ages of Is
and 70 years, who apply for it as directed on
the coupon below. The fact that the Kennebec
Journal is offering this liberal protection to
you, evidences spirit Of good will that can be
magniied only by our readers taking advan-
tage of this opportunity to secure
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u. S. Bond Closing

New York, May e5.-U. S. Bonds
closing:
Liberty SIS, 1o1.
First AS, 102.1o.
Second 4as, 101.10.
Third 43s, 1927.
Fourth 4as, 1927.
u. s. Treasury As, 1921.
U. S. Treasury 4as, 1862.
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Sales were s12,244s,ooo.
STOCK MARKET AVERAGES,
New York Money Market

ro,, New. York, May rs.
roreign exchanges irregular.
Great Britain, demand ASS 11-1s. ca.
pies 4,S6 3-16, 60-day bills on banks
4.S1 11-16.
France, demand 5.OSa, cables 500.
italy, demand 4.01, cables 4.013.
Belgium, demand 499.
Germany. demand $3.50.
Holland, demand 40.15.
Norway, demand 1851.
Sweden, demand 1912.
Denmark, demand 1877.
Switzerland, demand 1884.
Spain, demand 1856.
Greece, demand 1.73a.
Poland, demand 1874.
Czecho- Slovakia, demand 2s6.
Jugo-Slavia, demand 1.66.
Austria, demand .14a.
Rumania, demand .465.
Argentina, demand 40.62.
Brazil, demand 1896.
Toxic, demand Az.
Shanghai, demand 751.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-26
New York Stock Market

Corrected Daily by
80 j. A. GAMAGE & CO.
STOCK BROKERS
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-17
GREETINGS TOFLATIN-AMERIC

land is a fight against American i'm
perialism.
The revolutionary movement of the
workers is a movement against Am
erican imperialism.
American imperialism bars the way
to every movement for liberty and hui
man progress in the western world.
American imperialism represents
the interests of the ruling capitalists
in the United States, not the laboring
masses. Those interests are directed
against the workers in this country
just as they are directed against you.
Here as everywhere else, a class strug-
gle is going on between workers and
capitalists. Wall Street is our enemy
no less than yours.
Wall Street uses foreign cheap la
Dor" to force down the standard of
living Of the workers in this country
and draws strength from her invest
ments abroad to beat back working
class resistance at home. She plays
upon the ignorance and prejudices of
the home population to aid her in her
imperialistic adventures abroad.
Ours is common struggle, workers
Of North, South and Central America,
against common enemy. We must
unite our forces to throw of this mon
ster of Wall Street. The Communist
International, leader of the revolution
airy world proletariat and of the op-
pressed peoples turnout the earth, has
already pointed out that American i'm.
perialism constitutes the backbone of
world capitalism today. Let US dedi-
cate this First of May to the struggle
against Observation-Disclosures imper.
ialism, British Imperialism, French i'm.
perialism and all other imperialisms
alike!
Let us inscribe on our banners the
common slogan: Independence and lib.
erty! the. land for the peasants and
the factories for the workers. And
under this countersign be prepared to
march ahead, shoulder to shoulder
with the revolutionary masses in all
parts of the world, for the overthrow
of capitalism and the establishment
of free society.
Greetings for the First of Mayl
Workers of all countries uniteI
Down with capitalism
Down with imperialism!
Long live the Communist Interna.
tionaII
Long live Soviet RussiaI
Forward to world Communism!
WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA,
EARL r. 6RoWDER, Acting Exc
cutiVe Secretary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-17
PORTUGAL'S ARMY
TURNING led AS
HUNGER PINCHES
Even Officers Preach
Open Rebellion

LISBON, Portugal, April 15.-That
the Portuguese army which is now
facing starvation, will not much long
er allow itself to be used to break
strikes for the country's employers,
and will side with the workers in case
of revolution, is the prevalent opin-
ion here, following the publication Of
the letter of an army captain.
The letter, written by Jose de Bar
ros Norfolk, declares in part: "The
soldiers are half starved and the Of
ficers poverty stricken under their
gilt braid. The recompense to the
army for putting down strikes and up
risings, and reducing the working
classes to order, is the misery in
which officers and their families live,
and stark hunger among the men.
THE indifference Of the politicians
will be rewarded by our folding our
arms in our barracks. We are tired
of so much talk, so much moral mis-
cry, so much robbery and exploitation.
"The army may have to drive out
all politicians, cleanse all the posts
occupied now by thieves and traitors,
and hand the administration of the
state to Portuguese citizens who de-
serve that name"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-17
NORTH China is
GRIEvED AT sun
YAT SENS DEATH
English Paper Calls Him
a Hero

SHANGHAI, April 15.--Stating that
an element of quite exceptional i'm
portance has been eliminated from the
mechanism Of Chinese politics with
DR.. Sun Vat Sens death, the North
China Daily News foresees that this
event is bound to bring about sub
stantial changes in all the prospects
lying before this country. The Eng
lish paper pays a high tribute to the
deceased leader who, as this organ
admits, was ever inspired by the great
idea Of regenerating his country and
to whom China owes the overthrow Of
autocracy.
The North China Daily News con-
cludes that there may be created
such a situation as to justify many
Of Sun Vat Sens deeds which now
may perhaps seem only to be capri
ces or may appear to have been
dictated by sheer unwillingness to
compromise, and that in the future
Sun Vat Sen will be recognized by
all as a hero, just as he is acclaimed
as such now by his followers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-17
Russo Chinese Fair
at Hardin Promises =.
Exchange of Trade

HARDIN, April 15.-At a recent
session Of the Chinese section of the
committee Of the joint Russo Chinese
exhibition to be held soon at Hardin,
it was decided to send a delegation to
Pekin to ask for a prompt solution
of the question Of a special low tariff
on Chinese railways for the transport
Of exhibits and also the exemption
from customs duties of goods brought
to the exhibition, with the provision
that should such goods be sold at the
exhibition their owner would have to
pay the corresponding duty.
Further, it was decided to ask Mr..
Ii Chia-ao, Chinese representative at
Moscow, for his good Offices in OBJ
tanning the same facilities from the
competent Soviet authorities.
With a view to acquainting the
Chinese business circles with the aims
and object of the pending Hardin ex-
hibition, it was decided expedient to
proceed without delay to the issuance
Of information bulletins in the Chin
ese language.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-17
Even Defenseless
Hens Exploited by
New Orleans Firm

NEW ORLEANS. April Is The
New Orleans Public Service, Inc,
which has cost the city many thous-
and Of dollars in furnishing protection
for strike breakers when that corpo-
ration differed with their union EN-.
ployes, has evidently turned their
attention from exploiting men, to
working" the poor barnyard hen.
Relying on the adage that a hen
has no sense, in a display advertise.
ment published Sunday the glib ad
writer says: Hens naturally 60 to
roost at dark. II daylight can be arti.
flcially continued for a period the hen
will also continue to scratch and feed
thus laying more eggs than otherwise
During the shorthour-day-mont the
egg production must be stimulated by
these means"
When corporation exploits de.
fenseless hen by urging the hen-own.
er to install electric light in the coops
so "biddy" after a rest OF few short
hours gets up when the current Is turn.
ed on, thinking that another day has
dawned, and begins laying the pro-
verbal egg a day, what will they do
TO intelligent man. who relies on the
capitalistic newspapers for his patrio-
tic propaganda?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-17

Sun Vat Sen, the policy Of the Soviet
Union Of the East, in particular, the
role of the U. S. S. R. in thwarting the
imperialistic Intervention in connec-
ton with last years events in China.
Soviet Union Only Friend.
In the resolution passed by the
meeting, it is declared, in part, that
China, surrounded as she is by enc
mics can look for assistance only to
the Union of Soviet Socialist Repub-
lies which is her only friend; close
economic relations between the Chin
csc people and the peoples of the
Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics
will create basis for powerful de-
velopment. The life of Sun Vat Sen
the resolution concludes must
serve for model to all the Chinese
who wish to save their own country
from the yoke Of imperialism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-17
(Continued from page ID

PuEG II
power of the proletarian dictatorship,
and usher in the new day of Commun-
ism.
Greetings for the First Of Mayl
The Workers (Communist) Party ex-
tends greetings to its sister parties,
to all toilers, and especially to the
workers and peasants of Latin-Amer-
lea, victims like us of the Unsuitable
proflt-hunger Of American capitalism
Not content with exploiting the
workers at home, American capital is
penetrating more and more surely
into Latin-America, striving to absorb
the entire Western hemisphere into a
single economic system dominated by
Wall Street. Along with this peace.
full penetration" goes the Monroe doc.
trine: America for the financial kings
of Wall Street! Wall Street is cary.
ing out a vast empire for itself. The
United States government IL a mere
tool in the hands of Wall Street. In
the interests of Wall Street, Cuba has
been made virtual colony, Porto
Rico has been seized and has been
subjected. American marines have
landed in Honduras, Nicaragua and
Costa RIGA, and Haiti and Santo Do
mingo have been Drot under the or
ders Of the United States navy de-
partment. Mexico is constantly threat.
ened with military intervention AM
even now the American firms in Mex
leo try to treat their employees alrios,
like colonial people. III Venezuela
the United States government lends
full support to the bloody Dictatorship
Of Juan Vicente Gomez. Ecuador and
Bolivia are practically American
spheres Of influence" Chile and
Peru are played off against each other
for thu sake Of nitrates. Ever more
and more deeply into the countries
further 20 the south pushes american
imperialism, engaging in conflict with
the equally rapacious British imperial
ism for the chance to munopolize the
oil lands, mines, industries and mar.
kets Of Latin-America.
The most significant fact confront.
ing all the workers Of the Western
hemisphere on this First of May, 1925
is the growing domination of Ameri
can Imperialism. In practically every
country of the hemisphere, the rule OF
the privileged. classes is supported OF
maintained by the power of American
Imperialism.
The struggles for national liberation
are struggles against American imper
ialism. i0ad
The fight of the peasants for the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-17
N. Y. Labor Men
Rally to Support
of Teachers Bill
Especial to The Daily worker.)

Especial to The Daily Worker.)
NEW YORK, April 15.-The teach
ers of New York have taken their
fight to the labor movement and are
daily enlisting more labor organiza-
lions in support of the Ricca teachers
salary bill.
The local unions of New York City
are endorsing the teachers fight for
higher salaries and are sending reso-
lutions to Governor Smith calling
upon him to sign the Ricca teachers
salary bill. Local Union No. % of
B. of p, D. and P. of A. with a mem
bership of 1900, and the Amalgamated
Food Workers voted to support the
teachers. The resolution of the Anal
gamated follows:
Whereas, the present salaries of
teachers of New York City have a
purchasing power of approximately
20 per cent of their salaries of 1914;
land
Whereas thousands Of teachers
are compelled, for this reason, to en-
gage in day and night employment
and difficult conditions of heavy pro-
grams and crowded class-rooms; and
Whereas, wage earners' children,
who make up the bulk of the school
population, are entitled to the best
teachers who are adequately paid and
not overworked; and
Whereas, the Ricca teachers sal
airy bill represents simply a partial
restoration of the teachers pre-war
dollar, particularly for the thousands
Of teachers of the lower grades; and
Whereas, New York City, the
richest city of the richest country in
the world, can well afford to increase
its school expenditures one-sixth of
one per cent Of the value of its manu-
featured products; be it, therefore,
Resolved that the Amalgamated
Food Workers, consisting of 5000
members in Greater New York, urge
you to sign the Ricca bill No. 1897.
signed: Aug. Burkhardt,
observation-disclosures. F."
Labor men are signing petitions as
trade unionists calling upon the gov
ernor to approve Of the bill. In one
hall $50 striking machinests signed up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-17
Continued from page u

life in the leisured upper class which
the press circulated turnout England
has done the work Of tons of propa-
ganda. Says the Daily Herald:
DECEASED upper Glass;"
"All who have read any history
know that such people always exist in
a class which has wealth and priv
ileges divorced from duties or respon.
sibilities. They live idly and luxur-
iously, self-centeFed and self indulg-
emit; they are not intelligent enuf for
rational amusement. Nothing is left
for these victims of a debasing system
but the pursuit of excitement in its
most vicious FORMS"
Parliament bitches Miners.
The defeat of the miners minimum
wage bill by the combined reactionary
parties is termed by F. B. Marley, a
moderate, "a direct incentive to revo-
lutionary action"
The bill, which was rejected 2OS to
143, would have guaranteed a mini.
mum wage of from 10 to IL shillings
a day-about pounds ($14.34) a
week. The miners awaited the fate of
this bill before mobilizing their eco
nomic power to obtain living wage.
Rejection Means Strike.
The rejection, according to A. ].
Took, secy. Miners Federation, will
throw the miners back on their own
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-17
GERMAN ACTORS UNION
FIGHTS MANAGERS WHO
WOULD WARP CONTRACT

BERLIN, April 15.-The Interna-
tionaI Artists Lodge, German Vaude-
willie performers, are fighting the
discrimination OF the managers
association. which is attempting to
nullify the favorable contract won
by the union at the end of 1924.
The contract omitted to stipuIate,
however, that so per cent of each
theater's budget must be spent on
native talent. The vaudeville man.
ayers are spending all they can on
foreign performers.
The home contract which expires
in 1926 compels managers to pay
railroad fares, allowances for bag
gage, gives permanenee Of indivi-
dual contract once signed, etc.
Farseeing union members are pre-
venting the agitation from taking
on an anti-foreign tlnge and are con-
eentrating on the managers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-17
Our Readers Views
Another Season for Nuts.


To the DAILY WORKER:-Here is
an example of the way the retail mer-
chants here in Oakland, Cal, work
the gulible public" Due to light
headedness, a heavy hat and our glori
Gus California climate, 1 decided
should like to invest in a straw hat,
having noted they were beginning to
creep forth on several display cOun-
ters about a week ago. OF a sudden
all disappeared from sight. Inquiry
brought forth the following from a
member of the Merchants Associa-
ton, whose counter was bare Of
"straws."
Customer: "Hellol No straw hats,
what's wrong?"
Merchant: We'll you see we have
them, but we're compelled to with
draw them from display, as the Mer-
chants Association decided that April
% was to be Straw Hat Day and no
display before that day, so we have
them in the basement, and if you in
sist on a purchase now, why Of course,
We are allowed to serve you"
Customer: well, I'll think it
over. / may wait another year,
good day." c. Ellis.