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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-20
Horace C. Leavitt

Horace C. Leavitt died on June 10th,
at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
Chester Sawyer on Ward street. AL
though Mr.. Leavitt had been in feeble
health for several years and suffered
from hardening of the sartenies.s his.
death came unexpectedly after an
acute illness of only "a hours. He
was born in Fredericton, N. B., 76
years ago, the son of Joseph and Jane
Creighton Leavitt, and one of a fam
lily Of six children, of which he was
the last surviving member. When he
was two years old his family moved
to Wilton and here he remained until
about Is years of age, when he went
t. Winthrop and was employed for
time in the mill there. For several
years after that he travelled widely
over various parts of the United
States. For a time he was stationed
with the regular army at Governors
Island, N. Y, belonging to the 31st
regulars. He was then sent to Mis-
souri, river and had part in quelling
troubles which arose with the Sioux
Indians. He was at different times
stationed at Camp Cook, Fort Bouford
and other army posts in Montana,
Dakota and Nebraska. Finally he re-
turned to New England and took up
railroading with the Wire River Rail-
road in Massachusetts, also with the
Lake Shore Line in New York. Then
he returned to Norridgewock and had
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-20
FRANK HEW|NS RESIGNS FROM BOARD
OF EDUCATION AFTER 8 YEARS SERVICE

to become effective on June 20, and
has been accepted. Mr.. Hewins finds
It necessary, because of the exacting
demands of his business and pro-
perty interests, to devote his entire
time and attention to those affairs.
Frank Hewins has been member
of the Augusta Board Of Education
continuously for the past nine years.
and for the past two years, since the
resignation of the late DR.. w. s..
Thompson in August, 1928 has been
chairman of the Board. He was first
elected as the member from Ward 3
in 1916 to serve the unexpired term
of Rev. Brian Roberts, who resigned
because of removal from the city. Mr..
Hewins was subsequently elected for
three terms of three years each and
has served two years of the third full
term. --..-.....-.
Since his membership on the Board
of Education, Mr.. Hewins has devot-
ed much time and study into the
needs of the Augusta schools, and
has been a prime mover for many
important and necessary develop
ments. Shortly after his election to
the board in 1916, he was active in
increasing the compensation of the
teaching staff to the maximum, which
had it's effect in the higher caliber OF
teachers secured, and cut down the
frequent changes in personnel.
AS a member of the board and as
its chairman, Mr.. Hewins has closely
supervised many improvements in
equipment, not only to the school
buildings in the city proper, but to
the rural buildings as well. He has
always been interested in school ath-
letics as a proper medium for physi-
cal development, and as providing the
means of closer relationship between
schools.
His efforts. in behalf of the Au-
gusta school system have all been
constructive, and many citizens will
regret the circumstances which<made
necessary his withdrawal. The va
cancy ON the Board will be filled by
a special election of the Ward 3 vo-
tiers to be held on June 20, and a new
chairman will be named by 1the
Board at the regular July meeting.
which will be held on the evening OF
July 6.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-20
ROTARIANS HOSTS AT LUNCHEON SESSION
TO YOUNG men CONY HIGH CLASS OF 1926

young men who were the clubs
guests.
Musical Director J. Francis Mac
Nichol, with Harrison Lyseth, sub
master of Cony High school, at the
piano, led the big assemblage in the
singing of several familiar numbers
from the "blue book, and later IN
the evening the Rotarians and the
students stood and rendered Spirit
Of Cony," the school song, with a
gusto that carried inspiration and a
genuine feeling Of loyalty to the Au-
gusta school.
Two members of the senior group
also presented bits of musical en-
tertainment at the call of Mr.. Per-
kins. Arthur Basque played most
sympathetically violin selection,
and George Randall rendered vocal
solo. both of which selections elected
the hearty appreciation and applause
of the Rotarian hosts.
Frank Howe, president Of the Cony
class Of 1925, was introduced as a
student who had made a reputation
for putting across" everything
which he had undertaken. but who
had never attempted to put any
thing over" on hts schoolmates and
instructors. This young man in a
clear, strong voice and with splen-
did emphasis and delivery, expressed
the appreciation of himself and fell
lows for the invitation and cordial
reception which the Rotarians had
given them. and said that he be-
lieved the spirit Of the occasion
would mean much to the young men
as Indicative of the willingness of the
older men to help the boys who are
about to enter upon a new chapter
of their lives and careers.
Fred Davis, secretary of the club,
speaking for the Rotarians, said:
My friends, something has hap
pened to You in the past few years
that can never happen again. Tonight
you come to the close of those happy,
carefree days spent at old Cony. You
have, for four years, been, in close
companionship with one another,
spending a good part of every week
with each other. knowing each other
as only such intimacy permits. In a
small community of your own you
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-20

was not convinced of the guilt of the
respondent to the extent that he
would pronounce sentence, but held
the case under advisement pending
further investigation of the neigh
borhood quarrel Yesterday Judge
Cony declared that he had received
further complaints that Larrabee
was a trouble maker, and sentenced
the respondent to pay fine of $40
and to furnish bonds in the sum Of
$400 to keep the peace for one year.
Larrabee was represented in his
court arraignment by Attorney Bur-
leigh Martin, and through his coun-
sci appealed from the judgement of
sum Of S400 for his appearance be-
fore the Superior court in September.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-20

Shirley, Eileen Anne Stone. Marie
Aimee Tartre, Theodore Roosevelt
Tibbetts, Elizabeth Violet Tobin,
Charles Ellsworth Webb. Ella Mae
Wheeler.
Commercial Course: Doris Evelyn
Baker, Cecilia Madeline Beane,
sElbridge Gerry Caswell, Beatrice
Adelaide Chase, Carolyn Sophia
Cullen, marguerite Loretta Ed
wards. sGreta Hanks, Marguerite
Louise Leuchter, Mildred Gertrude
Meigs, Catherine Frances Roderick.
Isabelle Ella Taylor, Laura Mildred
Wakefield.
ELECTED to National Honor So
ciety.
Il-Work incomplete on account Of
Special diploma granted.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-20
Appeals Sentence
In Assault Case

Timothy Larrabee was hailed be-
fore Judge Robert A. Cony in NUM-
cipal court, Friday morning, on a
continued case for assault on his
elderly Charles street neighbor,
James E. White, which was alleged
to have been committed on Thursday
evening. June II, and whic was aired
in considerable detail in municipal
court last Saturday.
When the case was originally
heard before the court, Judge Cony
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-20

Resignation Effective This
Saturday-Has Been Chair
man for Past 2 Years-Va,
cancy To Be Filled at Special
Election Of Ward 3 Voters on
June 29-Board Will Name
New Chairman at July Meet
ing
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-20

Graduation Exercises In Au-
,gusta City Hall, Friday
Evening Witnessed by Hun.
dreds Of Parents and Friends
of Seniors--Genera Theme
suf Program, ''Maine's Pre-
eminence" - Initiation Into
National Honor Society And
Awarding Of Special Prizes
Part of Exercises - Several
Musical Features BY Student
Players
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-20

Mrs. Z. d. Tetu and son. Leo Tetu,
have gone to Montreal by automobile,
where they will visit relatives, and on
their return will be accompanied by
Mrs. Tetu's other son, who has been
attending school In the Canadian city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-20

Sylvester Poor of this city is at
Camp Devens, Mass, on tour of duty
with the University of Maine r. o. 7.
c. unit.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-20

Charles z. Walker completed his du-
ties at the Fifeld Brothers Company
Saturday and will 60 TO Rochester. N
Y, July 1, where he will be employed
as purchasing agent for the Kimball
Export Company of New York City.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-20
AUGUSTA LOCALS

The children of ST. Mary's school
will graduate at o'clock mass this
Sunday morning.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-20

Mr.. and Mrs. Chester D. Ellis will
leave this morning on a two weeks
automobile trip to Canada. visiting Nj
agara Falls and Boston on their re-
turn.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-20

Frank Barrows and family of New
York are passing the summer at the
farm OF MIR. Barrows' father near To-
gus Pond.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-20

during the presentation Of three |
prizes and of the diplomas.
Special Prizes Awarded
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-16
Court Martial of Bulgarian Terror Farce

suit Of the cathedral explosion, do not
even number one per cent Of the
workers and peasants who have been
murdered during the % months exist
ence Of the Zankov government.
The white terror in Bulgaria con-
tinues undated. II Is meeting with
the most emphatic disapproval OF the
whole population. The situation Is
being complicated by fresh waves OF
higher prices that periodically set in.
The cost Of living is enormous, the
highest 1t has ever been.
All workers newspapers in Bull
garia have been suppressed. Meetings
Of any kind, whether political or trade
union, are prohibited. Police massa-
cres continue and have been legalized
by the extension Of the law for the
protection Of the state and also as to
the polica
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-16
Chicago in Burlesque
Attempt to Give Fake
Dignity to its Courts
TODAY Chicago gets ready present the world anOthe
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY Chicago gets ready present the world another
sensational murder trial. But there is little curtain
raiser already in which Chicago, Of the most repu
sve social cancers under American capitalism seeks to up
hold before all the dignity of its courts seeking to do
this thru the eght Of hand performance that to abolish
the of teIegraphs telephones radio Instruments and
Shepherd to go on trial for alleged poisoning of his
millionaire ward, William Nelson MccIintock
This the result of little of righteousness that
has swept the Chicago Association. is in harmony
with the fraudulent dignity drive" that put black
hoods their heads that they might really parade
effectively in their true role Of oppressors and hang
men of the working class
In other countries the judges also wigs. Perhaps
that custom will also be introduced here. little
dignity might be obtained by star chamber sessions of
the court with the prisoner shacked and anaced after
the fashion Of the trial workers. and Van
zetti in Massachusetts.
But the presence Of typewrtes eegraphs, telephones
and radio instruments in court room their
ousng by backgowned judicial ackeys does not alter in
the least the class of the courts They remain in
capitalist class.
All the means Of publicity allowed in the court
during the LoebLeopod trial. and the achoppressor
of labor States Attorney Robert E. Grove given every
opportunity to appear ttng in the public eye In the
activities of Municipal Judge olson who parades of
the may be that Grove not seeing the light
it, that it will shine brightly upon his rival And
this is what the kept press calls polishing OF the tar
nshed dignity of the capitalist courts
All capitalist look alike to the workers. The
Mountain Land who many workers prison, is
different from the oppressive legal atmosphere of the court
of Judge Wlkerson who issued the niunctons
against the striking shopmen in the postwar period Judge
Lands gown he dealt out capitalist justice to the
Industrial Workers of the World and other prisoners but he
just bitter foe of labor Judge Jeeys who sought
crush the first budding efforts toward the organization of
labor in Great Britain
Behind the courts stands the capitalist class unfolding
its social order The antabor judicial system
be bent the side of labor than the social system that
spawned it. The change when labor tears up this
social ORDER that is its enemy the roots and clears the
courts because under Communism all classes will dis
appear the first fraterna brotherhood of all mankind
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-16
BARGAINS mean
UNEMPL OYMENT
FOR W OR KERS
European Slave Labor
Used by Merchants
BY LELAND oLps

There are bargains aplenty at the
s and 10 cent stores.
At Kresge's l bought serviceable
jackknife for quarter. A chain was
thrown in for good measure. All for
25c. The knife compares favorably
with those sold at 75c. to 81. On the
blade is inscribed A. w. Wadsworth
& Son, Germany. The concern sounds
like English or American capital but
the labor was low-paid German. The
knife was a bargain. It undersold the
product of American workers. Per
haps this explains why cutlery and
tool plants in the United States en-
ployy 10 to Is per cent fewer workers
than year ago.
There are other bargains at Kres-
ge's. You will find counter covered
with tungsten electric bulbs, round or
long, frosted or clear, all colors, rang
ing from 10 to 800 watts. ALI for 25c.
Examine one. 1t bears a faint stamp
Made in Hungary where with the per-
mission of the league of nations the
reactionary admiral Horthy holds the
workers down. Manufacturers of cleo
trical supplies and apparatus in this
country employ II per cent fewer
workers than year ago.
These are goods picked up by
chance. They show that American
workers are buying unemployment
with their bargains. The sales of
these bargain stores go up by leaps
and bounds. Yet business men are,
baffled by the increase in unemploy-
ment.
Operations in Illinois factories, says
the state labor department, are Is
per cent or more below full utilization
of man-power and the labor market
is glutted with an oversupply Of men
and women eager to find jobs. The
report for April shows business on
the downgrade. Illinois employers
continue to lay of help. Employment
fell per cent in April. is 10 per cent
below April 1924 and Is per cent be-
low April, 1923.
New York state reports between
10000 and $4,000 dropped from fact
DRY payrolls between March and April.
loss Of almost 2 per cent. This
means per cent fewer workers than
year ago and II per cent fewer
than in April 1928.
Chronic unemployment VIII grow
more severe. Capitalism has filed the
world with machinery without allow
ing the workers enough purchasing
power to buy the product. The bar
gains of today are signs that capitalist
industrialism cannot last.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-16
UNEMPLOYMENT LEAPS UPWARDS

10 per cent Of their workers, and to-
bacco concerns reported that they
had reduced their working forces by
like percentage.
"Job printers have given out about
the steadiest employment Of any en-
ployers in the state, but they were
obliged to reduce employment sub
stantially during April. They dis
charged 1877 per cent of their women
workers, and per cent of their male
workers during April. Rarely have
there been changes so precipitate
in this industry.
"Tanneries, which have been ex-
banding for about six months, show
in their reports lessening activity in
April For the ten reporting en-
ployers the decline in employment
during the month was calculated to
be per cent Shoe factories gener-
ally had few more employees in April
than in March, however. The chemical
industries show mixed trend. While
the oil refineries were adding to their
forces, the paint factories and dye
concerns were laying off workers. In
dustrial chemical Arms had about 2.3
per cent more workers in April than
in March.
Clothing Industry sIumps.
"An analysis Of the reports for the
apparel industries shows a decided
downward trend. The declines were,
of course, partly seasonal. Mems
clothing factories laid of Ill per cent
Of their employees, and millinery con-
Germs a like amount. Changes else
where were of less extent. In the
knit goods factories, where women
are chiefly employed, employment was
sustained in April at the March level.
"The most favorable factor in the
present industrial situation is the
state of the building industry.
Thus industry, at the present
time, is far below boom period.
Operations Of the factories in Illinois
are is per cent or more below full
operations in the utilization of man
power and the labor market is glutted
with an oversupply of men and women
eager to find jobs"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-16
German Rail Workers
Must Be Dropped to
Make Dawes Plan Pay

BERLIN, May 1.-THE German
railroads are obliged under the Dawes
plan to bear large part Of the bur
den of the Versailles treaty, declared
Karl Steiler, director general of rail-
ways, during an interview with Won
Hindenburg, newly installed presi-
dent OF the reich.
Before the railways can pay their
share of the Dawes reparations,
steiler said, 10000 more employees
must be discharged This does not
sound pleasant to the ears of the
social-democratic workers, who have
been led to believe that they could
gain control OF industry gradually
without having 10 establish a dictator
ship as in Russia. They are now being
disillusioned.
The national federation Of German
officers in convention here attacked
the Dawes plan as injurious to Ger
man interests.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-16
City Attorney Quits
When Charged with
Robbing Drug Store

ALTON, ILL.,, May 14.-Indicted for
the alleged theft of $500 in cash and
a quantity Of whisky from an Alton
drug store, City Attorney Charles Hal.
sey resigned today. Halsey was ar
rested with three companions includ
ing Joseph Clark, "a, clerk at the
store, who police say, confessed ar
ranging the robbery.
Halsey and Clark with Walter Nal
com and Earl Miller waived prelimin
airy hearing and were released on
bond of $1,000 each.
Halsey is a graduate of Washing
ton and Lee university, Lexington
Kentucky, and, according to Clark
who left the door and safe unlocked
the money and whiskey was needed
for a party to be held at Paris
Illinois.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-16
Continued from page y.

and is per cent below the April, 1928,
level.
Declining industry is shown to be
a general condition by other reports.
A preliminary statement to the press
on May by the New York depart
ment of labor was that between TO-
600 and $4,000 were thrown out Of
work in April in that state.
"The distribution Of the lay-offs
among the industries did not differ
widely from that of the preceding
month, but there was continuation
Of the trend begun earlier. Small de.
clines were quite frequent in the
metal industries, thus the change for
the month in the payrolls Of the
twelve industries making up the metal
group was less than per cent from
the March figure. Included in this
class were the steel mills. Some of
the larger ones continue to cut off a
few workers each week, a practice
that has been followed for two
months.
Machinery firms also laid off small
percentages of their forces, but in
electrical apparatus, there was a
sizable reduction in working forces
that, taken with earlier cuts leaves
employment at a rather low point.
Agricultural implement firms, in some
instances, were laying off help, de-
preciating the volume Of employ
ment in that industry by 80 per
cent.
"The meat packing firms follow
ed reductions in employment in
March, with a cut that gave unem-
ployment to 81 per cent of the per-
sons who were at work in March. At
some Of the most important plants in
this industry, there are now fewer
workers than at any time since the
war.
Operations are also very light in the
-four mills. Some Of them have closed
down entirely, and as reported by II
mills, there were IA per cent fewer
workers employed in April than in
March. Candy factories laid of nearly
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-16
Force and Violence
Against Government
Approved by Plutocrats
(continued from page ID

Continued from page II
Association Against the Prohibition
Amendment, at the Willard Hotel yes
terday.
"The meeting, presided over by
Chauncey Hackett, attorney and club
man, was the most colorful ever held
here, officers Uf the organization
said. Mrs. George Barnett, wife Of
Maj. Gen. Barnett, marine corps, re-
tired, deplored the ineffectiveness OF
the volstead act and increasing crime
among boys and girls"
Nation Savers" Against Workers.
The Barnetts are conspicuous in the
social columns OF the press, and are
likewise conspicuous at meetings Of
patriotic" and anti-radical groups
such as demand the deportation of
alien workers who are dissatisfied
with American institutions"
They are red-hot supporters of the
constitution when anyone proposes to
amend II with reference to the fed.
eral judiciary or child slavery.
The Girls Must Be Pretty Bad.
Just before this social wet rally
Sir Maurice Low, Washington CORES
pendent OF the reactionary London
Morning Post, reported that society
women here assured him that girls
were drinking bootleg whisky and
were becoming less moral than their
mothers.
He also claimed that drug addicts
were rapidly increasing. The public
health service denies this. showing
that drug addicts in the United States
have decreased more than so per cent
since 1900, aand arc steadily decreas-
ing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-16
Observation-Disclosures
Dramatic Club Gives
Concert and Ball

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, May a. A
concert and ball beginning on Sun
day, May II, at 2:30 p. m. and last
ing until midnight will be given by
the Observation-Disclosures Dramatic club
at the Freie Gemeinde Hall, Sth and
Walnut streets, Milwaukee.
The concert VIII contain numbers
by the Russian-U krainian chorus con-
sisting OF 80 people and by the Frei-
heit Singing Society There will also
be a one-act play entitled "The Living
Dead" After che concert there will
be dancing until midnight. Music for
dancing will be supplied by the Man
haitian oriels snappy Five. Admission
10 so cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-16
FRANCE TANGLES
With SPAIN IN
ROBBING MOORS
Imperialists' Treaty
Divided Moors' Land

ASfSSt~t " NV lazy NOINcFJ
MADRID, Spain, May 49, Adb-el-
Krim's attack on the border tribes in
the French Moorish protectorate is en-
gaging the attention of students of the
Moroccan question because of the eff
feet it may have upon the interna-
tional outlook in northern Africa.
The day Of reckoning is approach
ing for the withdrawal of the Spanish
troops last fall, Spain contends that
there is nothing in her treaty engage
ments that obliges her to occupy her
protectorate (northern) zone in Mo-
rocco within any given time.
Treaty Clauses Vague.
The French republic, which is oblig-
ed to support the sultan of Morocco,
is now, to all intents and purposes,
at war with Ell Krim and French lives
and treasure are being expended in
defense OF frontier that has never
been delimited and which Is marked
differently on the French and Span.
ish maps. ige
Therefore, one Of the consequences
OF the fighting now going on may well
be frontier dispute as to the inter
probation OF the somewhat vague ar
ticles OF the Franco-Spanish treaty OF
1912, which attempted to describe a
land nobody had visited. The com.
mittee Of delimitation has not yet Wis.
tied the long line between the Muluya
and Luccus rivers.