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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-28
ANSON

Miss Lora Otis of Skowhegan was
a dinner guest of Mr. and Mrs. Al
Giro one day laso week.-Benjamln
Sloat of Pressure Isle, has moved MS
family into the upper tenement OF the
Joe Coro house on Highland Park
Miss Janet Hamilton is passing rev
days with Mrs. E. j. York of Water
ville.-Gerald Thompson and Ethelyn
Collins are visiting Miss Collins
grandmother. Mrs. D. 3. Collins In
Cornville.-Mrs. Nellie Thompson
who has been confined to the house
by illness, is much better.-Miss
Gladys Hayworth passed Thursday as
the guest of Miss Elizabeth Greene
of Madison.-John Macklin ard VII
bur Nichols enjoyed a hike THURSDAY
to Old Point, with the Boy Scouts
where they prepared their suppers
and enjoyed a social hour before re-
turning home.
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Change of Oil Costs
Less Than q Bearing

Spring Is here, renewing demands
on automobiles. Warmer weather
will soon mean longer driving. warns
G. Clark Mather, chief engineer Of
the Paige-Detroit Motor Car COM
pany, and to keep your automobile in
the same excellent condition it
should require more thought at least.
A car in the best Of condition is
the most economical and to have a
most economical autom obile, the
owner must constantly watch the oil,
says Mather. His experience has been
that an automobile must have en-
tirely new oil at least every 500
miles.
"A change Of oil costs less than a
new bearing" Mather points out.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-28
Senior Class PLAY

The three act comedy entitled "A
Bunch of Fun" presented by the
Senior class of Oakland High school
on Thursday and Friday evenings in
Memorial hall was largely attended.
The parts were all we'll taken and
Guy Chase as the rector of st. Pauls
was especially good and Miss Alice
Tapley as a Swedish maid provoked
much laughter. Ice cream was on
sale during the evening and the at.
fair was a decided success and re.
fleets much credit on the part Of
both students and principal 10th.
rop under whose direction it was
staged.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-28
Ford Employees Paid
Over Quarter Billion

Detroit, Mich. Mar. 4-Employes
in the Ford organization were paid
more than a quarter of billion dol
lars in wages and salaries during
1924, according to payroll totals
made public here today at the offices
of the Ford Motor Company.
The largest payrolls were at the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-28
New York Money Market

New York March 81.
Foreign exchanges easy.
Great Britain. demand 4.77s. cables
AIS. 60-day bills on banks ABB.
France, demand 5.2Sa, cables 5.29.
Italy, demand 400, cables 4.09!.
Belgium. demand 5.133.
Germany, demand $3.50.
Holland, demand 1884.
Norway, demand 1854.
Sweden, demand 26.93.
Denmark. demand 1920.
Switzerland. demand 1921.
Spain, demand 1927.
Greece, demand 1.59.
Poland, demand 1914.
CZecho- Slovakia, demand 2.963.
Jugo-Slavia, demand 1884.
Austria. demand .0014s.
Rumania, demand AS.
Argentina. demand 39.12.
Brazil, demand HOO.
Toxic. demand 4ls.
Shanghai, demand TAI.
Montreal, 80 1882.
Atchison gen. as .............. Sa3
Bait. g. Ohio CIV. AIS ........... 92s
G, r. I. & P. fdg. As .......... ST
Int. Mer. Marine 6s ........... SS4
New York Central IS ......., 1OS
Pennsylvania gen. AIS ........ 943
Southern Pacific cv As ........ 962
Union Pacific As .............. 92s
u. S. Steel ref. SIS ............ los
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-28
devoted to securing articles for IN.
various booths which will be TASTE.
fully arranged and decorated appro.
pirate to the occasion.

and one flower basket were begun Al
this meeting. The club will meet next
Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Flora
Kelley.
Kenneth Farr, who has been visit.
ing his parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Farr, for the past two weeks. win
leave this morning for Portland Ia
visit his brother and wife, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Farr for a few DAYS. ana
will also visit his brother, Frank
Farr and family of Kittery, on hjs
way to st. Louis, Missouri. He was
accompanied by his wife. who has
been passing the winter with his pa.
rents in town.
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cipally by the action Of wheat. Addi-
tional corn was sold into storage here
and shipping call was slow.
Provisions went lower, sympathizing
with grain and hogs.
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u. S. Bond Closing

New York, March o7-U. S. Govern
ment bonds closing:
Liberty 3ss, 101.S.
First As, 101.S.
Second as, 10000.
First AIS. 1922.
Second AIS, 10O.2s.
Third 43s. 101.19.
Fourth 4as. 101.23.
U. S. Treasury As, 1001s.
Treasury 43s, 104.24.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-13
Cooidges Give
Dinner in Honor
Of House Speaker

Washington, Feb. 12-PreSident
and Mrs. Coolidge entertained about
so guests tonight at the annual state
dinner in honor of the speaker of the
house
The dinner was followed by a mu-
steal program in the East Room.
The guests, in addition to the speak,
er and Mrs. Gillette, included Sena-
tor Cummins of Iowa, President pro
tempore Of the senate; Governor and
Mrs. Fuller of Massachusetts: Ad-
miral Edward w. Eberre, chief Of
naval operations and Mrs. Eberle;
major general John l.. Hines, chief
of staff of the army, and Mrs. Hines;
Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune. COM
mandant of the Marine Corps; Rear
Admiral Henry b. Wilson. superin
tendent of the naval academy and
Mrs. Wilson; Rear Admiral and Mrs.
Carey Il. Grayson, Assistant Secre-
tary Robinson of the navy, and Mrs.
Robinson: MIR. and Mrs. John G. Coo.
lidge, of Boston; Mr.. and Mrs. Win
throp Crane of Boston; Mrs. Marshal
Field; Mrs. Sallie ii. Hert, of Ken
lucky; Vice Chairman of the Repub-
lican national committee; DR.. David
Jayne Hill, former ambassador to
Germany: William V. Hodges. of
Denver. treasurer of the Republican
national committee: Bishop Mellow
ell of the Methodist Episcopal church
and Mrs. Mcdowell: the Rev. Jason
Noble Pierce, pastor of the preSi-
dents church, and Mrs. Pierce; and
Mr.. and Mrs. Loring Young Of BoS-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-13
COLDER WEATHER
PROMISES CHECK ON
FLOOD CONDITIONS

Boston. Feb. 12.-Falling tempera-
lures tonight held promise Of relief
from the food situation brought about
by five days Of record-breaking
warmth followed by heavy rains and
the sudden melting of the winter
SHOWS. New England rivers were still
rising tonight. swollen by the rush
Of melted snow from the hills. but a
heavy freeze promised by the weather
forecaster would check the freshets,
1t was hoped.
The greatest damage from the floods
was in northern New Hampshire,
where the Connecticut River and it's
tributaries received the melting of a
heavy winter snowfall within a few
days. Colebrook. N. H., had many
anxious hours when two ice jams on
he Mohawk River, a tributary of the
Connecticut, damned the water back
until several streets were flooded.
Workmen labored all night with dyna-
mite to blast passage through the
ice. and today the jam broke and the
obstruction was carried down to the
Connecticut. There a huge jam to-
night threatened dams and bridges.
Enormous cakes Of ice were, strewn
along the shores and on Colebrook
streets as the jams gave way with
grinding roar.
Considerable damage to. railroad
tracks was reported from points far
Their down the Connecticut River. At
Woodsville, N. H., the river was. sew
en- feet above normal stage and rising
rapidly, fed by heavy rains. While
the snow had almost disappeared IN
CONTINUED on Page 3-Col. 81
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New York. Feb. 12-Secretary of
State Charles Hughes told members
of the National Republican Club to-
night that. the United States. desired
to avoid commitments and entang-
lements' throughout the world in
order that 1t might be free to fol
low the dictates of reason and con-
science"
IF we have mission" Mr..
Hughes said in addressing the
guests at the clubs annual Lincoln
Day dinner at the Waldorf Astoria,
at can be prospered only in the
spirit of reasonableness.
I'VE are solicitous throughout the
world to avoid commitments and en-
tanglements so that whatever con-
tingencieS arise we may be free, not
to exercise. an arbitrary choice, but
to follow the dictates of reason and
conscience. Take the action approved
by an enlightened people. This free
dom and our detachment from age
long racial and national conflicts
makes our influence the greater. But
We can never be just to ourselves
and refuse the cooperation in the in
terest of peace and mutual helpful
ness which is made possible by our
independent thought and action.
I'VE are now at peace with the
world and the opportunities of
friendship are open on every hand.
If the turbulent spirits among us
whose aim seems to be to foment ill
will, to turn friends into enemies, to
erect between well disposed peoples
the barriers of lying imputations of
motive and action, could only be
quieted; if those who are loudest in
Wanting their patriotism would do
less harm to their country; if some
of our advisers would be as astute in
finding ways out of trouble as they
Continued on Page 3-CoI. 81
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Propose Creation
U. S. Cooperative
Marketing Board

Washington, Feb. liberation of
the federal cooperative marketing
board, one of the principal recon-
mendations of the presidents agri-
cultural conference, was proposed in
the senate today by Senator Capper,
Republican, Kansas. while the senate
and house agriculture committees
both continued examination of men,
bers of the conference with a view
to proposing other legislation to car
~ out its findings
The Carper bill followed exactly
the terms of the measure offered
yesterday in the House by Represen-
tative Haugen, Republican. Iowa,
chairman of the agriculture commit
tee OF that chamber. which has the
approval, in principle, of Chairman
Careyt of he presidents conference.
The measure was sent to the senate
agriculture committee.
The members of the presidents
conference appearing before both
the senate and house committees to-
day continued TO stress the import
ance of broadening the field of CO.
operative associations. On the house
side, Louis j. Tater asserted that
except for the livestock industry, the
postwar emergency had passed, and
explained that the conference recon-
mendations were worked out as per-
manent relief measures which would
become effective III three to FIVE
years. He urged enactpent Of the
Haugen bill.
r. w. Thatcher insisted before the
senate committee that the con- =
ence reports thus far submitted had
not been intended as final sum-
mary of its work. Many important
items had been Intentionally omit
ted, he said. because of the request
Tor expedition made by President
Coolidge. Cost of distribution was
temporarily laid aside, he explained.
together with consideration of the
possibility of effecting some relief
through modification of transporta-
ton charges of methods.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-13
Says Gasoline
And Rum Mixture
Outstanding Danger

1.-THE mixing of gasoline and rum
with all the attendant dangers is a
far greater menace to the welfare of
the public than the sale of intoxi-
eating liquors." declares Senator
Percy r. Clarke of Stonington, who
has just presented In the Legislature
a bill providing for Jail sentences in
all cases of automobile drivers who
plead, guilty or are found guilty of
opera ting cars while under the in
fluence of intoxicating liquors. and
amending the statute so that no au-
Ithority is given to the courts to i'm
pose fines in such cases.
Senator Clarke, who is an attorney.
argues in behalf of his measure that
efficient prohihitory enforcement
was not secured until Jail sentences
were made compulsory.
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Britain Plans
Revert to Gold
Standard Soon

~ ondon, Feb. 12.-(Bl A. P.)-
mt Il 3 the intention Of the British
scysfnment to revert to the gold
Standard at the earliest possible
moment was announced in the house
Of commons today by Winston
Spencer Churchill. chancellor of the
exchequer, replying to a question put
to him on the subject.
His majesty's government" said
Mr.. Churchill, ARE in full agreement
with the intentions of previous I'D
Illustrations to revert to the gold
standard at the earliest possible
moment. But / am not in a position
to make a more definite statement
at present"
Mr.. Churchill said in reference to
the Italian debt that while he was In
Paris the Italian minister of finance
had expressed to him a desire i..at
conversations on this question should
be initiated within the next. few
months.
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SAPPERS WITHIN
FEWFEET WHERE
COLLINS IS HELD

Cave City, Feb. 12-(By A. P)-
Workmen in the Sand Cave rescue
tunnel late tonight were nearly to the
two foot limestone room OF a cavern
which they hope will lead them to
the tomb Of Floyd Collins.
I'VE are surely in the cavernous
area" said an official bulletin late to-
night by NJ. E. S. Posey, secretary Of
the state highway commission and
engineering representative of Cover
nor Feds. I'VE are removing dirt
four times as fast as we did. The
shaft is AS feet deep on the lower side
and SO feet on the higher side and
the core drip penetrated limestone
into a cavern at fifty feet, little
over two below the bottom of the
shaft"
Samples of the limestone in the
core drill were examined by DR.. w.
u. F'unkhouser, the seologist of the
rescue staff, Ii. Il. Carmichael, in
charge of the engineering work, and
Mr.. Posey. and they agreed that the
cavern area was near at hand. While
the tunnel below the limestone roof
might be filled with sand or silt, they
indicated they were sure it could be
cleared out to lead to some opening
through which Collins might be
reached.
AS soon as the fifteenth section of
shaft bracing is placed, ON which
work was started just before mid
night, the diggers expected to start
work on the solid rock, wth the likli-
hood they might break through with
in a very few hours. BY daylight or
by nine o'clock the di6gers them
selves said, they might be able to To-
cate Collins. The shaft was aimed
to strike just behind MIN, but only
the penetration of tunnel large
enought to explore, viii disclose how
near the surveyors will como to their
target.
Although Collins has been under
ground nearly two weeks, DR.. Will
lam Hazlett and the lied Cross unit
near the mouth of the tunnel have
prepared for every emergency in an
(Continued on Page 3-Col. 81
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Economic Problems
Similar to Those That
Faced Great Eman-
cipat0r, Govern
or Declares ..
Same Principles Are Available
to Us, Points Out in Address
at Lincoln Club Dinner
Senator Reed Of Penna Also
Discusses Problems Since
Lincoln's Day, Points 20
Permanent immigration Bill
as Most Important Legisla-
ton in Generation

Portland, Me, Feb. 1c-Senator
David A. Reed of Pennsylvania. dis
cussing at the Lincoln Club dinner
tonight the. problems which have
arisen since Lincoln's day, declared
the Observation-Disclosures bin the
most important legislative action in
a generation. -.,t,.,-a,.
In the six months it has been in
operation" he said, 1T has reduced
the number of European immigrants
to 10000, or $4,000 a year instead of
100000 in 1914. The arrivals from
Asia were fewer than the depart
ures. The Asiatic problem no longer
exists" --.r'--t,,
Mexican immigration has been re.
duced from $4,000 to 10000, he an
nounced. Canada is not affected
and the speaker hoped she never
would be.
Governor Ralph o. Brewster de-
CARED the spirit of Lincoln should be
an inspiration toward solving the &C.
onomic problems of the present day.
senator Frederick Hale, Representa-.
1--WE carroll L. Beedy and Miss An.
ma Rhodes of New York spoke.
Governor Brewster spoke in part
as follows:
1T Is useless to commemorat tie Fin.
coin without rededicating ourselves
tSontInued on Page acol. 81 vs.
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WOULD TURN LIGHT :
ON NICKEL PLATE :
RAILROAD MERGER

washington. Feb. 1o.-Senate inves.
tigation Of the Nickel Plate Railroad
merger being negotiated by the van
Sweringen interests was sought to-
day In resolution offered by Senator
Howell, Republican. Nebraska. ss5
The resolution also would direct the
senate interstate commerce commits
sion to investigate Consultations
now being consummated by the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railroad Company"
which have been approved by the in
terstate commerce commission.
The commissions approval Of The
Nickel Plate merger, as such, has no.
yet been sought directly by the Van
Sweringen interests, although It has
been laid before that agency Indirect
~ as an explanation of a proposal for
construction Of six miles of neW mil
road line in Ohio by the Chesapeake
g ONO, one of the companies included
In the projected consolidation.
Charging that consultations already
approved by the commission "leavc no
doubt that it is unwilling or un-
able" to protect public interest, Sem
AAO"SAA PIopoSeu tudC inc com.
mission make thorough \investiga-
ton lin order that Congress may take
Whatever action seems necessary"
Il want the facts before it is too
late to act" he asserted. "Under the
policy which has been strongly SUD-
ported by President Coolidge, as It was
by President Harding. the railroads.&c.
the country are now embarking upon
a series of huge consultations ana
mergers. without precedent in the ma.
TONS history"
We are not only establishing a new
policy. in direct opposition to the ira
ditfonal policy proclaimed in the
sherman antitrust law, of permitting
consolidation of competing lines. but
we are authorizing this policy Of gov
ernment-sanctioned consultations to
De applied to all the railroad mileage
OF the country without any knowledge
of what is involved.
1t was the intent Of Congress. ny
expressed in the transportation act.
that this consolidation of the rail-
roads of the entire United States into
a few great systems should be-tper
mitted only under the strict control
and supervision of the Interstate ccm-
merce commission"
The resolution stated that there is
now in process of formation a consoIi-
dation of the New York. Chicago & St.
Louis tNickel Plate), the Chesapeake
& Ohio. the Hooking Valley, The Erie
and Pere Marquette" with total
trackage of 1857 miles and assets
alleged by the promoters 10 amount
to $f.406, 763792."
The new Nickel Plate merger. II is
declared. would give the Morgan
First National financial oro,,p sub
stantial control of transportation in
the east" with accompanying control
of coal properties in contravention to
decisions of the supreme court.
Reference was also made IN .he res
olution to the large profits alleged to
have accrued to the promoting inter-
eStS
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Provisions of Barwise
and Bartlett Amend
! ments Told to Judi
ciary Committee
pnoose Party Enrolment All
voters Six Months Prior
rAilure Would Mean Denial
Privilege to Vote - Senti-
nent for Closed Primary
Rival Bills to Be Considered
- Executive Session

Wearing on two proposed amend
,,.nts to the primary law occupied
~. center of the stage before the
y,,d,ciary committee Thursday aft
efnoon.
Rep. Charles D. Bartlett and Sem
.tor Mark A. Barwise Of Bangor
,oined in explaining the provisions Of
tAa Bartlett primary bill. which
would require party enrolment by
m voters at least six months prior
to the primaries. The two men point
ed out that this would prevent vot-
era from changing their party pref
Arence at the last moment but that
urovision is made to exempt men
lust coming Of legal age. women who
decide to vote for the first time and
new residents Of comVunity, so
that these three classes might en-
ron MP to the date Of party caucus
or primary election.
Snnator Maher asked to be shown
Why It should be made law that a
yoter might not change party pref
erence any time within six months
prior to caucus or primary as much
as before that time.
Senator Barwise responded that in
some cities punches Of Democrats
had gone into the Republican pri-
maries to elect weak Republicans
and had then turned around to de-
feat them. on election day." Rep.
Wing wished to know how Senator
Bafwise could tell whether or not a
Continued on Page 9-CoI. y
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ILincoln's Spirit Should
Sway Us in the Present
MYSTERY BLAST
KILLS ONE, INJURIES
five IN BARRE, VT,

Barre,Vt., Feb. IAN explosion,
the cause of which could not i'm
mediately be determined, wrecked q
tenement house occupied by six fam
lilies tonight, and resulted in the
death of one person and serious in
the explosion and it was some time
before the firemen We're able to sub
due the flames sufficiently to permit
of thorough search of the ruins.
The dead woman is Mrs. Enrico
Marborabi, wife of a laborer. Her
body was found = the ruins.
The explosion came without warn
ing. Neighbors reported hearing a
muffled roar and a moment later the
wooden structure collapsed and then
force Of the blast hurled one of the
occupants clear 6f the structure and
to this she probably owes her life.
Miss Lea CALI, who was passing
in the street outside the building.
WIS crushed beneath a wall. She
had both legs broken and was SO
badly hurt that physicians at the
hospital to which all were taken
held out little hope for her.
Reports reached the police that
gas, coming in. contact with a lighted
lamp, was responsible for the explos-
ion but they had not been able to
confirm this some time later.
Most Of the occupants Of the
building were absent when the ex-
plosion occurred. Six persons were in
the tenement at the time and only
one escaped serious injury. Accord
ing to meager details of the events
Immediately preceding the explos-
ion, as obtained by the police, Mrs
Marborabi was seen to enter the cell
lar with a lighted lamp early in the
evening. Immediately afterward a
terrific explosion blew the four walls
of the wooden structure outward
and sent the roof and three floors
down in q heap, level with the street.
Fire then broke out.
OF those taken from the ruins by
firemen. Miss CALI and Marborabi,
husband of the dead woman, were
the most seriously injured. One OF
Miss Calls legs was so badly crush
ed that amputation was resorted to.
MarbOrabi suffered severe burns
about the face and arms. His con-
dition was serious.
F.. Ottinelli, was taken from the
wreckage with his wife and his
daughter Fora. Ottinelli had severe
burns about the face and hands. His
daughter suffered burns on the face
, and an injured shoulder. Mrs. Otti-
nelli's back was injured.
Mrs. Harold Bond. negro, was hurl-
ed from her tenement into an adjoin-
ing alley by the blast. She was pick
ed up somewhat dazed. her face
bruised. but otherwise she was not
seriously hurt.
The house was located on Granite
street. near the gas company's plant,
and at first it was feared that an eX-
plosion had occurred there.