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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-08
WINTHROP
bridge Parties

Mrs. E. p. Sturtevant and Mrs.
Arthur Stilphen were hostesses for
two very delightful bridge parties
held Tuesday afternoon and even
ing. At the afternoon gathering the
guests included Mrs. M. L. Stanley,
Mrs. c. r. Hartman. Mrs. F.. HI.
Bate, Mrs. Albert French, Mrs. HI.
w. Stevens, Mrs. L. T. Carleton. Mrs.
Ida Morrill,, Mrs. M. w. Wiswell,
Mrs. Ray Riley. Mrs. Merton Hodges,
Mrs. John Young, Mrs. Annette
Giles, Mrs. Arthur Agnew. Miss
Harriet Weston, Mrs. j. M. Towle.
Mrs. ]. H. Wellman, Mrs. ]. E. D.
burlington. Mrs. Fife French, Mrs.
]. P. Bishop, and Mrs. c. F. Marble.
Mrs. Marble won first prize. Mrs.
Carleton second and Mrs. Wiswell
the consolation.
In the evening the guests included
Mrs. Leon Roberts. Mrs. H. s. Wood
man, Mrs. Laurence Richmond, Miss
Mary Hegarty, Mrs. E. HI: Penniman.
Mrs. w. F. Packard, Mrs. Ora Max
i'm, Mrs. A. E. Snow, Mrs. Roy
Thomas, Mrs. Carol Perry, Mrs.
Scott Webb. Mrs. Kendall Harris,
Mrs. Josephine Barker, Mrs. Arthur
Briggs. Mrs. Warren Macomber,
Mrs. Mary Beatty. Mrs. Helen Kim
ball, Mrs. c. o. Gale, Mrs. Lloyd Ing
ham, Mrs. Percy Maxwell and Mrs.
G. r. Hartman. The evenings win
ners were Mrs. Penniman, list; Mrs.
Thomas, End; Mrs. Ingham, consol-
alton.
Refreshments were served both
afternoon and evening.
Miss Nellie Wright of Boston is
the guest of Miss Annie Emery.
Mr& E. c. Leighton, Mrs. Mar
garet Foster and Mrs. Arthur Briggs
attended the semi-annual convention
of the d. A. R., at Augusta Tuesday.
Mrs. Emma Richmond and niece,
Charlotte Putnam are visiting in
Fayette.
While practicing Tuesday after
noon with the high school football
squad, Antonio Fleury had the mis-
fortune to break his right arm in a
scrimmage. The injury will keep
him out of the game for several
weeks.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-08

gence, also where lights are not pro-
perly focused. In a short time we
will have special detail checking up
on the auto lights and arrests will be
made"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-08
MT. VERNON
IpyIcA- Ii NX-s~

Judson H. Wing passed away We'd
nesday morning. He Is survived by
Evening star., 1925-11-09
CASEY
SENSATIONS NEAR
Defense Promises Startling
Testimony in Trial of
Three for Murder.
BY the Associated Press,

NOBLESVILLE. Ind, November 9.
The trial of ID. G. Stephenson, Earl
Klenck and Earl Gentry. charged
with murder in connection with the
death of Madge Oberholtzer. an In
dianapolis girl, entered it's fifth week
here today.
Sensational testimony was promised
by Ira Holmes OF defense counsel
from now until the case is rested
Stephenson, former grand dragon of
the ku klux Klan in Indiana, is
charged with having abducted and at
tackled Miss Oberholtzer last March
l6. Klenck and Gentry are alleged
to have assisted him. The girl took
poison and died 29 days later.
Holmes indicated that the defense
would continue its attack on the dying
declaration the girl is alleged TO have
made and which was the basis for
the murder Indictment. 1t already
has introduced testimony intended to
refute the abduction charge and to
prove its contention that Miss Ober-
holtZer was a willing member of an
alleged trip to Hammond, Ind.
Other witnesses We're being held in
readiness to testify to the close
friendship existing between Stephen.
son and Miss Oberholtzer, it was indi-
Gated. Defense witnesses last week
end testified to having seen the girl
with Stephenson in several Indiana
cities
Evening star., 1925-11-09
EDWARD E. BRITTON,
NEWSPAPER MAN, DIES
Correspondent, Prominent Here,
Held Honors of Democratic Party.
Was Daniels Secretary.

Edward E. Britton, 9O1 Twentieth
street, 81 years old. well known Wash
fngton newspaper correspondent, died
at 10 o'clock this morning at the
Emergency Hospital following a three
day illness from stomach ulcers
Mr. Britton is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Norma S. Britton: his mother
Mrs. NJ. T.. Britton; a sister, Mrs. Lii.
liam Markham; a nephew. Capt
Thomas Orr, and a niece, Miss Eva
Orr, all of this city.
Funeral services will be held at ST
Thomas Episcopal Church and inter.
ment will be in Rock Creek Cemetery
probably tomorrow.
Mr.. Britton was for a long time
associated with several North Caro-
lima newspapers and was we'll known
through his connection with school
work in North and South Carolina and
Georgia. He was editor of the Wilson
Daily News from 1893 to 1901 and later
succeeded JoSephuS Daniels as editor
of the Raleigh Observer when the lat
ter was chosen for the post of Secre
tary of the Navy by former President
Woodrow Wilson.
Mr.. Britton came to Washington in
1917 to accept a position as private
secretary to Mr. Daniels and at that
time formed connections with out of
town newspapers. which he main
tanned until his death.
He was also prominent in politics
for many years. being chosen as per
manent secretary for the Democratic
national convention in Baltimore In
1912.
Mr.. Britton was a thirty second de
gree Mason and was past regent OF
the Royal Arcanum. He was also
president of the Ashlar Club of Mas
ter Masons.
Evening star., 1925-11-09

accurate than when fired by the
artillery.
Col. Moreland asked the witness
how many planes il would take to gas
an area the size of the District OF
Columbia in a given time. After
considerable figuring, consuming sew
eral minutes of the courts time, he
said that it would take $50 planes. to
gas this area an one trip.
At this juncture Col. Moreland
moved that the entire testimony of
the witness be stricken from the rec
ord as 1t had not been shown as
relevant to the defense in this case.
Representative Reid jumped to his
feet and said that he expected to
prove by presenting statements from
congressional hearings that certain
officers Of the military service had
testified to information which was un-
true.
Picking up the hearings before the
committee on military affairs of the
House Of Representative at the sec
ond session of the SiXty-eighth Con-
gress on bill to create a department
of aeronautics, he read statements
from Gen. Drum, and sought and OBJ
tained from the witness an admission
that they were not correct.
Court Is Recessed
After informing the court that he
proposed to put these hearings in the
evidence for the express purpose Of
proving the inaccuracy Of statements
by Army officers, the court admitted
the hearings to the record.
Col. Moreland then withdrew his
motion to expunge in view of the de-
velopment Of testimony to contradict
witness Of the Government before d
congressional hearing.
The witness was then turned back
to the defense for rebuttal, but Rep
resertative Reid requested the court
to recess at this point and he would
begin the rebuttal examination at 2
o'clock when the court reconvened.
Commodore Decatur's mother want
ed him to become a minister.
Evening star., 1925-11-09
|PARKHURST CASE
UP TO GRAND JURY
Father and Girl in Rockville
to Testify as Session
Gets Under Way.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

ROCKVILLE, Md, November g.
Grand jury Investigation began here
this morning, with George w. Price
and his daughter, Mary E. Price,
waiting TO give their testimony in
Robert Parkhurst Of Berwyn, Md.
J'arkhurst has been in jail, held
without bail. since August, when he
was arrested on complaint of the girl.
She testified at his preliminary hear
ing that he attacked her at a lonely
spot near her home In Silver Spring.
Later she is said to have made affi-
davit to the effect that Parkhurst was
innocent. The prisoners mother, Mrs.
Virginia Peters Parkhust, Is a candi.
date for United States Senator in
Prince Georges County, and charged
that her sons arrest was the result
of d political plot against her. Young
Parkhurst was not released, and II
was expected the grand Jury would
take up his case first among the
cases to be investigated.
William II. MeCeney, a farmer of
the Colesville district, was named
foreman of the grand jury. Judge
Robert Peter, in charging the body,
said the county had no more crime
than any other community; that there
has been no outbreak since the last
grand jury session, and gamblers from
Washington have been taught they
cannot make q rendezvous of Mont
gomery County. They are not giving
the county officials any more serious
trouble. he said.
Evening star., 1925-11-09
WIFE GOES ON TRIAL
IN DEATH OF MATE
New York Woman Charged
With Numbering Her Hus-
band as He Slept.
By the Associated Press.


ELIZABETHTOWN n. Y, Novem-
ber 9.-Essex County prepared today
to prosecute Mrs. Francis Soper on a
charge of numbering her third hus-
band, Henry Soper, a deputy sheriff,
while he slept, in their Boquet farm
house.
At a special term of Supreme Court
scheduled to open today the prosecu-
ton will attempt to prove that Mrs.
Soper shot the deputy sheriff twice
in the head last May, using hts own
revolver. After the shooting Mrs.
Soper declared that a stranger, whom
she had not seen, entered their home
as she prepared dinner and killed her
husband. Mrs. Soper denied that she
or her husband had revolver, but a
pistol which had been fired twice was
found in the pocket of an overcoat.
Mrs. Soper admitted that 1t belonged
to her husband. Men working in the
nearby fields denied that a stranger
or any person had entered the farm
house.
Soon after her arrest, she asserted
among other things, that her husband
was still alive. An alienist, called to
examine. the woman, declared that
she was sane. Since the examination
prison officials have reported her be-
haVior normal.
Evening star., 1925-11-09
CHARLES F. COOKE DIES.
G. P. o. Employe for % Years Sue.
cumbs After Weeks Illness.

Charles Fisher Cooke, So years old,
a printer at the Government Printing
Office for the last % years, died at his
residence, S33 Eleventh street north
east, today after a weeks illness.
Mr.. Cooke was a native of North
Carolina and had been a resident of
this city for the last "a years. He
was a member Of King Solomon
Lodge. No. 81, F. A. A. NJ.
He leaves his widow, Mrs. Sabra
Elizabeth Poole Cooke; two sons.
Charles Henry Cooke and Joseph Fur
man Cooke, and two daughters, Mrs.
Margaret 7. Iglehart and Miss Matte
Lee Cooke, all of Washington.
Funeral services will be conducted
at the residence Wednesday afternoon
at 2:30 o'clock. Rev. DR.. Z. Hez Sven
will officiate. Interment will be fl
Glenwood Cemetery. Masonic rites
will be held at the grave.
Evening star., 1925-11-09

craft In it's functions In the protec-
ton Of the Hawaiian Islands.
The defense of the Hawaiian Is
lands must be based very largely on
aircraft, and that aircraft properly
organized. operating from land bases,
can destroy any surface fleet coming
within its range of action.
Aircraft operating from land
bases such as the Hawaiian Islands
can defend it from naval surface yes
sells within a radius Of action Of the
aircraft"
Charges Islands Neglected.
I'VE will prove by evidence tha,
the War Department was guilty OF
almost reasonable administration In
that the air units in the Philippines
In 1928 were disorganized, scattered
unframed and poorly equipped. .
I'VE will prove by evidence that:
THE conduct of aviation by the
War Department has not been such
as TO keep the maximum development
in our aviation, which will be estab
lishd by proving the small importance
attached to aviation by the War De
partment. and the result of the policy
Of the War Department on our avia.
tions evidenced at the beginning OF
the World War.
"Diverting bombardment units to
towing targets has prevented the de
velopment of bombardment aviation
during the past Summer.
Aviation matters handled by the
general staff have been frequently de-
cided without reference to an aviation
officer
when an attempt was made by
the Army air force in the Hawaiian
maneuvers to get the naval air forces
to carry out what was considered the
primary mission of the air force at
the time, which was to repulse the
attack on the Island Of Moiaki the
result was that an adequate number
or planes We're not sent to repulse
the landing, which was made by the
hostile fleet Of the air forces.
Had Only Five Bomb Sites.
Nothing has been done during the
past Summer to develop the air power
of the Army Air Service.
NO heavy bomb practice has been
had with the 1,100 or 1000 pound
bombs during the past two years, and
that on September 5, 1925, when Col.
Mitchell's statement was made, II was
absolutely correct, because there were
not more than four or five bomb sites
on hand in the bombardment group.
Army aeronautics is gradually
wasting itself away under the present
administration of the War Depart.
ment.
There is not q single Army flying
unit in the United States fully equip.
ped with personnel and equipment
even with peace-time strength to
carry out the mission for which 1t
exists.
These conditions are not being i'm
proved, and that under the present or
ganization there is little likelihood OF
marked improvement.
I'VE will prove by evidence that
! the War Department has spent a
great deal Of effort during the past
Summer to lead the public to believe
that anti-aircraft cannon and machine
guns constitute a defense against
aircraft, by conducting anti-aircraft
practice to develop anti-aircraft de
fenses. thereby lulling the public into
a false sense of security against for
eign invasion by enemy aircraft
THE bulk of the flying personne
of the bombardment group was uset
during the entire Summer by the Wa
Evening star., 1925-11-09
Detailed as Instructor.

Lieut.. Col. Sydney Smith, 10th In
fantry, in this city, has been detailed
as instructor of Infantry. Louisiana
National Guard, with station at New
Orleans.
Evening star., 1925-11-09

The Belgian syndicate that won the
contract to build, and equip 210 miles
Of railways in Greece for $21 900, 600
will also have charge of the financing
Of the Droiact
Evening star., 1925-11-09

There's many a man who owes a
lot to his wife-and many another
man who owes a lot because of her.
Evening star., 1925-11-09
Long Trial Likely.

With the conclusion of the opening
statement Of the defense Representa-.
tive Reid announced he was ready to
call his first witness, Gen. Fries, chief
of the chemical warfare service. The
court thereupon announced a recess
Evening star., 1925-11-09

Commodore Decatur's mother want
ed him to become a minister.
Evening star., 1925-11-09


The aviation officers in the National
Guard aviation training camps have
been flying without parachutes for
four years; there have been 13 fatali-
ties in National Guard aviation in four
years, at least half Of which were due
to faulty equipment; the General Staff
has paid little. if any, attention to
National Guard aviation; in the Ma
tional Guard aviation training camps
there are less than so per cent of suffi-
cient planes for training purposes.
In National Guard aviation training
camps there were 200 officers In train
ing, of whom not more than 10 per
cent, or 20, were qualified to fly alone
in training type planes, and not over
SO per cent were able to fly a training
type plane alone after Is days train
ing. The War Department has fur
nished wartime N planes for use
of the National Guard aviation units,
which are unsafe and inherently dan.
gerous, as they have tendency to
60 into tail spins, imperiling the lives
of those who fly them.
He then names the Anal list of non
Evening star., 1925-11-09
Finds Planes Unarmed.


We will prove by evidence that
the war Department was guilty of
almost reasonable administration due
TO the fact that up to 1923 there were
In Hawaii no plans for the employ
ment OF the Air Service in the aero.
nautlcal protection of the islands.
NO machine guns were mounted
on the pursuit airplanes at the time
OF the inspection by the assistant
chief OF Air Service.
Upon the arrival of the assista nt
chief of the Air Service in Hawaii he
found not one single airplane equipped
with armament, bomb racks, bomb
sights, or any accessories necessary
IN observation aviation, pursuit ayia.
ton or bombardment aviation.
No Planes for War.
There were no planes for the EN-.
ployment of aviation, either in the
preliminary stages of war or in
combat.
There were no airways between
the islands. There was no adequate
signaling system for aviation, and
there was no system of liaison be-
tween the Air Service and organiza.
tions such as the Light House Serv-
ice in the various islands and other
organizations which could use air
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1925-01-16
Miners Assessment
For Organization

Indianapolis - The United Mine
Workers of America is pushing or
ganization work in Kentucky and
West Virginia, with the strong sup
port of miners all over the country.
President John l.. Lewis of the
United Mine Workers has been ad-
vised, in connection with the northern
West Virginia situation, that the dis
trict convention of the miners of the
Fairmont region, representing some
5000 United Mine Workers of 1872
counties of northern West Virginia,
adopted a resolution of confidence in
the international officials and unani-
mously decided to levy an assessment
of SO per month per member for the
next six months, or longer if neces-
sary, for the organization work of
the region.
International representatives in the
district deny emphatically that there
will be a strike April 1 and declare
that the reports come from southern
West Virginia, the home of the great
bulk of non-union operations, that are
working for such a situation because
of the opportunity it gives them to
profiteer in coal. Union officials de-
clare that the american public may
rest assured that the United Mine
Workers will abide by the Jackson
vile agreement which does not ex-
pire until March 81, 1927, and that
they have no intention Of striking
next April"
International officials here were
amused at the report in northern. West
Virginia that an attempt would be
made to organize a mine workers
union Independent of the United Mine
Workers organization, and declared
the report to be clap-trap and propa-
ganda from non-union forces who are
trying desperately to divide the eff
forts of the United Mine Workers in
that regiOn
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1925-01-16
A REMNANT OF
DAUGHERTYISM

A federal grand jury has just been
clearing up a mess of bootleggers and
dope peddlers at the Atlanta federal
penitnetiary. The warden of the pris-
on was friend and appointee of ex-
Attorney General Daugherty and an
intimate crony of Jess Smith, Daugh-
erty's bribe-taking associate. The
warden, deputy warden, purchasing
agent, and other high officials have
been removed from office, one of them
confessing that approximately $50 of
the TRUSTEES at the prison are bootleg
gers" Other friends of the late At
torney- General, including George Re-
mus, Ohio bootlegging king, are said
to be involved in the charges of cor
ruption made against the "ring" plac-
ed in power by Daugherty.
Mr.. Daugherty, be it remembered,
is the apostle of claw and order" who
threatened to "call out the troops if
necessary to maintain the open shop"
on the railroads during the shopmen's
strike, and whose infamous injunction
denying the strikers their constitu-
tional liberties has recently been held
illegal in that respect by the Supreme
Court. 1t is a fairly safe rule that
those who want to oppress their fell
low men are seriously in need of in
vestigatiOn themselves.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1925-01-16
RESUME SEARCH
FOR FUGITIVE WHO
SLEW rs YEARS AGO
Canadian Mounted Acts on Fresh
Clew; One Man Handles Case

Anderson, | want you to be ready
to start for Stony Range in the morn
ing to pick up a man named Pelly.
He's on the wanted list-headed it
for some time, in fact. | guess you
don't know anything about the case,
though"
Inspector Crawley of the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police was speak
ing.
"No, sir. 1t must have happened
while | was in France"
"Oh, it happened a deuce of long
time before you went to France" the
inspector explained to the returned
soldier, who had just changed his
his khaki for dark blue of the Mount
ed. TWENTY-FIVE years ago, more or
less. Might have left the poor devil
alone, especially as he's been a fugi-
tive so long.
"But it's murder, Anderson, and
well, the new police have got to show
themselves just as efficient as the
blood hounds of the old force. The
papers in this case have just come
through from Ottawa
"This man Pelly appears to have
killed man in the nineties. A tip
came down some time ago that Pelly
has been living in the Siston lake re-
gion for good many years."
These were the instructions which
sent Lee Anderson on one of the wild
est chases ever chronicled. Did he
get his man? Can twenty-five-year
fugitive flout the law and succeed?
How would an officer set about to ac-
cOmpliSh such a task?
All this will be told in "The Free
Traders" a new novel Of the great
Canadian northwest by Victor Rous-
seau, which will be published serially
in the Newark Leader beginning soon.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1925-01-16
FOOLING THE FARMER

the people who comprise it. We need
more strong, healthy, virile men and
women, and we cannot afford to have
so considerable a part of our child
hood reduced into mental, physical
and moral wrecks by selfish men
whose God is gold and who place
commerce above Christ and business
on higher pedestal than the welfare
of their country.
1t is to be hoped that the proper
reaction will yet come to the farmer
before the amendment is finally up
for ratification in Ohio. The farmer
wants to be right. He is a good
American. The rural population still
is the backbone Of America, and it
is we'll that it is so.
Let the farmers know that millions
Of earnest men and women are fight
ing hard for the passage of this
amendment, and that they are doing
it as patriotic duty, seeing the dan
ger to our country's manhood and
womanhood of the continuance of a
system that grinds profit from the
blood and sinews of childhood.-To-
| ledo Union Leader.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1925-01-16

The state grange Of Ohio went on
record the other day against the So
called child labor amendment to the
constitution of the United States.
This was rather to be expected as
it is known that those who grind prof
it from the labor of little children
who ought to be in school are spend
ing vast sums of money through a
we'll organized bureau in Washington
to prevent the passage of the amend
'ment through state ratification.
1t was known, too, that the great
bulk of their propaganda so far has
been among the farmers, and par
ticularly the farmers organizations.
The farmer has swallowed THEN
dope, hook, line and sinker. That
dope is that if the amendment is
adopted the farmer will not be allow
ed to work his own children to help
him on the farm, even to the extent
of doing light chores.
Of course, nothing is farther from
the truth. The amendment is direct
ed against the employment of chill
dren of tender age III shops, mines
and factories. 1t is directed at wage
earning children in industry. Not
children employed at light work in
Gods great outdoors where air, sun
shine and the proper environment
combined with reasonable work makes
sturdy, honest and industrious citi-
zens Of our boys and girls.
1t is aimed at ending child slavery
in cotton mills, silk mills, clothing
factories, mines and occupations dan
gerous to health and limb. There are
about million such children employ
ed in these great United States. They
are robbed of play, sunshine, fresh ali
and of their very childhood, only tc
grow up so physically and mentally
impaired that large per cent Of them
become public charges before they
reach middle life, and many before
reaching majority.
Our nation can be no stronger than