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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-02

Ryan, chairman of the Anaconda
Copper Company, said on the eve of
his departure for Europe that he ex-
pected all important copper compan-
! les to make a better showing this
year than they did in 1924.
| A decline of between $50 and $780,
900 tons in untitled orders of the U.
S. Steel Corporation for May is ex-
pected in the financial district to be
shown in the report on June 10 COM
pared with, a drop of 1926 tons in
April. This would bring May orders
slightly below 100000 tons against
4,446.53s for April and 5.2S4,771 for
February, the high level of the year.
| Western Union shares showed
| strength today on an announcement
that stockholders Of the American
District Telegraph Company would
vote June on plan of recapitiliz-
| alton changing it's 100000 shares of
, common, 500 par, to 100000 shares
| of cent preferred 500 par, and
i 100000 shares of no par value COM
mon. The exchange basis would be
one share of old common for one
share of new preferred and one
share of new common. Western I'm
ion owns IS percent of the stock.
Heavy melting steel has been ad-
| vanced so cents a ton in the Chicago
| district, present quotations ranging
| fro SIG to $3.50. Pig iron has been
cut SO cents ton now $1,000 to $21.
Net earnings of the Hudson Motor
| Car Company for the six months
| ended May 81 are reported to have
been close to s10,0O0,000, equal to an
annual rate of more than SIS a share
on the common stock.
Satisfactory business is reported by
| Thinker Detroit Axle Co., which has
earned the full years dividend on the
| preferred stock. All bank loans have
been retired.
Bank clearings throughout the
country last week, as compiled by the
Commercial and Financing Chronicle,
| reached $7,693,S93,256, an increase of
ia per cent. compared with the same
period last year. New York City
gained 17.9 per cent.
r. G. Dun & Co. calculates the
country's commercial failures in May
at 1867, with liabilities of $37,O26,552,
compared with 1899 in April and in
debtedness of s3O7,1Ss,622. In May
last year the total was 1916, involving
S36,59O,905
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-02
A Book Leduer


q. got my most definite literary
n,;iml!us from my father. who con-
saqaliy managed to inculcate in me
interest in good books. On my
vlsit home I found put away in
.LAety deposit box a ledger which
~ Ns ne presented it to me on my
Ssshth birthday. and in which he
~ ~ Written the request that should
~ ~ ne name of every book l read
~ with a brief review tell the i'm
E1sslon It made on me. faithful
aept up that record until I was
Il. Vusl college. AS I looked over II
scs - o.ner day. re-reading the boyish
. n s on the earlier pages, L found
NJ n g elaborate discussion of ascot
iits,'v niefs" the beginning of a taste,
%s or otherwise-but anyway
.-w,, Hsasuing-that has still endured.
tiopal. ' Al hearst in'efha
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-02

Condition of Secretary of War
Weeks declared by physicians at Bos-
ton to be still unsatisfactory but
not alarming"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-02
One Better

( Westerner-"You fasteners have
no wonders. Look at the Rockies.
They cast shadows that would COM
pletely cover your cities"
Observation-Disclosures Well we have
a sun that rises in the Atlantic and
sets in China.'-Allston Recorder. :
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-02
EAST WINTHROP

three-act comedy play will be
given by the Willing Helpers Tues
day evening at 7.30 at the Baptist
church. An ice cream social will fol-
low the play.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-02
NEWS BRIEFS

Contempt proceedings against Of
ficers of United Mine Workers dis
missed in federal court at Wheeling
w. Va.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-02

ne Chicago sanitary district ask
g !or rehearing In the lakes water
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-02

Albert Johnson, negro. arrested in
New York for murder of Florence
Kane last Friday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-02

Professionals, present and former,
barred form Olympic , games by
Olympic technical congress in Gene
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-02

The trade association method In
zaaltry was upheld by the supreme
court
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-02

W.. Wrong
pols. y the baby was to eat tad
,oics , would 1t give him big bass
hIn.sod gracious. no! They'd kill
well they didn't"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-02

oregon lost its fight in the supreme
wlrt TO compel children to attend
only public schools.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-02

The supreme court ruled states
sslnot collect inheritances taxes on
Wtu q estates outside their borders.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-02

Foreign Communists attend party
conference IN Glasgow defying gov
eminent efforts to prevent
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-02

that it should never be mentioned in
his presence. 1t was this curious
foible that led, 1t has since been re-
vealed to the almost ife-long es-
arrangement between himself and his
wife.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-02

delayed two or three minutes IN
reaching the scene due to misunder-
standing of the signal number. as
the whistle registered imperfectiy,
Wnen the location Of the fire was
determined. the firemen at once laid
three lines of hose on Oak street. and
IN an EFFORT to prevent the spread of
lne names to the adjoining livery
stable, two more lines of hose weera
laid from the hydrant in front Of tho
\. M. c. A. building, down around
Winthrop street court, and through
TO the narrow aperture between the
naming shed and the Bailey stable
II was the stream of water played
oiagonaliy across between these two
buildings which prevented the flames
from working into the big frame
stable and perhaps to adjacent
structures.
In the Bailey stable, which for sew
eral minutes seemed sure of ,destruc-
tion to the observers on the Oak
street side, were ten horses and MANY
carriages and vehicles. Mr.. Bailey
was away at the time, but under The
efficient direction Of Mrs. Bailey. the
horses were removed to a place of
ealety: Inere was but small
quantity of hay in the loft of the
stable.
The f1remen went at the blaze from
all angles. At first it was only pos
sible to direct the streams of water
onto the flaming shed, but when 1t
was certain that the Bailey stable
could be saved the hosemen went in
to and under the fire and soon had it
cornered in the Oak street house shed
and ell. The shed was practically
destroyed and there was consider
able damage to the part Of the house
containing the kitchens, but the
blaze worked through into the main
house only in the south gable next to
the shed. AS little water as possible
was used in the main house attic.
thereby keeping the damage to build
ing and furnishings at the minimum
Willing helpers, assisted Clarence
Fisher, the occupant of the upper
tenement to remove furniture, and it
was believed last night that his dam
age would not be heavy. Mrs. Fisher
In the effort to save valuables and
house furnishings inhaled consider
able smoke, and was Frustrated for
a few minutes. Except for nervous
shock she was none the worse for her
experience later in the evening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-02
Sends Asmokes" To Firemen

Harold A. Packard, whose residence
is next above that at 80 Oak street,
considerably damaged by fire early
last evening, expressed his apprecia-
ton Of the splendid work of the Au-
gusta firemen in combining the blaze
to the structure in which it origin
ated, by sending to the Hartford fire
station fine box Of cigars and a
carton Of .cigarets. The garage on the
Packard property was only separated
from the ell of the house where the
fire tsarted, by inches and 1t was by
working in this close opening that
the fire fighters successfully protect
ed the adjacent buildings.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-02

What We Look for In Shopping
A retail merchant says that men,
fhen shopping for wearing apparel,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-02

= Foster Balm resigned as direc-
tF q the bureau Of mines.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-02


metropolitan district were investi-
gated. These sixty acres of water
and swampy ground were selected as
most nearly filling the requirements
for an area of considerable size, fully
accessible, and well situated in re-
spect to future employees.
Work on the first units of the great
workshops began in April, 1923, with
the dredging and removal of some
100000 cubic yards of mud along the
river frontage of the property to per-
NIT construction of the bulkhead.
Then followed the pile driving, ex-.
cavating, concrete work, filling in and
so on, necessary to prepare founda-
tons for the buildings. When con-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-02

William Burgess resigned as
Member Of the tariff commission.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-02
Wall Street Briefs

New York. June 1-(AP)-John D.
Ryan, chairman of the Anaconda
Copper Company, said on the eve of
his departure for Europe that he ex-
pected all important copper compan-
les to make better showing this
year than they did in 1924.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-02
The Dayin Washington

!, Former Vice President Marsha
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-02

Heavy melting steel has been ad-
vanced so cents a ton in the Chicago
district, present quotations ranging
fro SIG to $3.50. Pig iron has been
cut SO cents ton now $20.50 to $21.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-02

Net earnings of the Hudson Motor
| Car Company for the six months
ended May 81 are reported to have
been close to s10,000,000, equal to an
annual rate of more than SIS a share
on the common stock.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-02

Satisfactory business is reported by
Thinker Detroit Axle Co., which has
earned the full years dividend on the
preferred stock. All bank loans have
been retired.
Evening star., 1925-01-06
Los ANGELES WILL
Be USED IN ECLIPSE
Four Cameras, Especially
Built, to Take Pictures
From DirigibIe.

Four cameras, built at the United
States Naval Observatory under the
direction of George H. Peters, will be
used aboard the dirigible Los Angeles
to photograph the eclipse of the sun,
January "a. The cameras have just
been completed, and tomorrow will
be shipped to Lakehurst, n. j., the
home of the Los Angeles. from which
place the expedition will start.
Aboard the Los Angeles will be
Capt. Z. IT. Pollock, superintendent
of the Naval Observatory, and in
charge of the undertaking; Prof. F. B.
Littell, Mr.. Peters, c. B. Watts of the
observatory and c. c. Kiess of the
Bureau of Standards. Walter l.
Richardson in charge Of photography,
Bureau of Aeronautics, will operate
two of the cameras.
The plan of photographing the suns
corona from an airship is mostly eX-
detrimental, Prof. Littell explained to-
day. OF the four cameras. two are
aerial and two belong to the observa-
tory. They have been mounted in
pairs, one above the other, and will
photograph simultaneously.
Two Minutes to Work.
The largest camera or pair of cam
sras is composed of two long boxlike
objects, one with d focal length of
46 inches and the other with a focal
length of SO inches. The diameter Of
the lens on the former is 4.6 inches,
while on the latter is inches. One
shutter, operated by a lever at the
opposite end of the lens. will ex-
pose both plates at once. Only about
120 seconds will be available to work
in, and consequently Mr.. Richardson
and his assistants are planning on
some rigid practice work in switch
ing the plates. In effect it will re-
semble a gun crew on a warship at
work.
The smaller pair are constructed
the same way. one above the other.
One has focal length of 9l2 inches
and a lens diameter of Il inches.
and the other a focal length of 20
inches and 312-inch diameter.
Therefore the scientists will get four
distinct shots" at the astronomical
phenomenon while, in fact, operating
only two cameras. In addition to the
still" photographs, to be taken, NOV
ing picures also will be attempted
These undoubtedly will be made from
the cockpit of the Los Angeles on
the top of the plane, the others
will be made from the cabin.
Expect Important Data.
The expedition will be purely
Naval Observatory one, the Bureau
of Aeronautics furnishing the we
hicle" for the undertaking. From
the observations to be made by the
scientists aboard, much data is ex-
pected to be obtained, including
accurate determination of the rel
atiye positions of the sun and moon
in their orbits and the form of the
corona with relation to the sun spot
cycle.
The wonder of the eclipse will be
visible only to those in the area of
totality. In Washington, if viewed
through smoked glass. the sun will
Evening star., 1925-01-06
HaUen for Vessels
Planned on Sandy
Island Off Coast
Interests Fight
to End Heavy Loss
In Storms.
By the Associated Press.

RICHMOND, Va, January 6.-As-
sateague. a densely wooded island,
whose snores are washed by the
waves of the open Atlantic, lying Just
beyond the network of bays and is
lands forming the isolated counties of
eastern Virginia, may soon be to the
sailors of the east Atlantic what the
Canaries are to those of the west, a
haven of refuge.
Coastwise shipping interests, weary
of the huge toll of ships, goods and
men exacted when the fury of Winter
storms descends from the north, have
enlisted the aid of commercial inter-
ests of Virginia, Delaware and New
England in their plea for the United
States Government to establish off
Assateague a haven for tempest
driven ships.
Steamers towing barges of Virginia
coal consigned to New England ports
have had to fight terrific seas along
that particular portion of the coast,
and many cargoes have been lost in
the shoals and treacherous waves. In
recent years ~ vessels and % lives
have been lost within a few leagues
of where the haven of refuge is plan
ned. Property loss in these wrecks
alone has been estimated at above
S4.00O.0 900.
Only a few people live on ASA
league Island a strip of pines and
sands. The greater portion of the
island is given over to the raising of
wild cattle and ponies. Fishermen
take a livelihood from the sea in
much the same fashion as their an
cestors did on the British Isles.
Evening star., 1925-01-06
POLICE BOOK TWO
FLEEING AUTO|STS
One Man Arrested Faces
Charges of Driving While
intoxicated.

Police last night booked two more
fleeing motorist" collision cases, the
arrest of one offender later resulting
in charges against him of driving
while intoxicated, colliding and fail
ing to make known his identity.
The man arrested was Albert H.
Mackenzie, 81 years old, of 80
street. His automobile struck a
parked car at Thirty-fifth street and
Prospect avenue, damaging the latter
car and obstructing traffic. Traffic
policemen on duty nearby went in
search of the driver and found him
two blocks from the scene of the acci-
dent, his car. being near the bridge to
the north of Georgetown University.
He was released on bond.
The other "hit-and-run" driver dis
appeared after his car had collided
with a mail truck near 3rd and L
streets. Joseph H. Dickens, 961
Twenty-fifth street, driver of the
truck, reported the accident.
Taxi Driver Arrested.
Elmer NJ. Carlson, %, 1896 K street,
a taxi driver, was arrested at Tenth
and F. streets last midnight and held
on a charge of driving while intoxi-
Gated His taxicab had not been in
collision, police stated, and only
the one charge was preferred. I'm
able to furnish bond for his appear
ance, Carlson was locked up.
Lafayette Washington, 632 Q street,
was driver of a Government automo-
bile that collided at Mount Vernon
place and Ninth street yesterday with
a motor delivery vehicle belonging to
Judd & Detweiler, Florida avenue and
lexington place. Only slight dam
age resulted.
Evening star., 1925-01-06
SCHOOL BUILDING
PLAN is OUTLINED
Supt. Ballou Explains to Commit
tee Draft Of Five Year
d. G. Program.

The five-year school building pro-
gram recently drafted by the Board
or Education was outlined by Supt
of Schools, Frank w. Ballou at a
meeting of the committee on school
extension of the District Public
School Association last night in the
Franklin School
DR.. Ballou also answered critics
who charged that he too readily
abandons attempts to secure appro-
priatfons for school Fairgrounds by
saying that when money is short he
deems adequate housing Of school
children with access for each pupil
to full-time instruction relatively
more important than play space.
The building program, the super
intendent pointed out, is based on two
factors-first, that annual surveys of
school population indicate 90 new
classrooms on the average must be
supplied each year to accommodate
the increased enrolment, and, second,
that accumulated congestion required
provision Of $50 rooms to catch up
and produce normal seating of pupils,
SO that it was contemplated to build
80 rooms a year for a period of FIVE
years, and after that 20 rooms each
year.
Evening star., 1925-01-06
GOVERNOR URGES
DIVORCE REFORMS
New Rhode Island Executive
Asks Changes in Laws to
Prevent Abuses.
Rv the Associated Press

4
PROVIDENCE. r. T., January g.
Reform of Rhode Islands divorce
laws. including submission of testf-
mony in open court to prevent fraud,
was urged by Gov. Aram J. Pothier
today in his inaugural address to the
new general assembly.
The legitimate privacy with which
divorces now can be had is an incen-
tive to dishonesty" the governor
said. ''The problem is how to handle
applicants for divorce without injus-
tice to meritorious cases and with the
greatest obstruction to collusive or
dishonest ones.
Open Court Evidence.
II, therefore, believe that evidence
in all divorce cases should be given
in open court unless the court for
reason makes a special order to the
contrary. The number of special mas
ters in divorce cases should be linn
tied. They should have more power
than that of mere listeners, as at
present. Such changes can, and / hope
will be speedily made.
Il would suggest that a more leis-
urely consideration might develop a
workable plan to reduce the number
of divorces even where some causes
honestly exist. Much unknown good
work is done by members of the bar
and clergy in discouraging the bring
ing of cases. My thought is that, in
addition to such private efforts, per-
haps the parties might be brought to-
gether in an informal way prior to
legal trial to discuss their situation
with some officer or judge of sym
pathy, tact and firmness, backed by
the power of the State. In this way
many threatened disruption of fam
ily life might be aVerted" ="
Prompt passage of emergency ap-
preparation measures to correct the
situation existing in Rhode Island be-
cause of a deadlock in the last legis-
lature, which prevented transaction
of State business, was urged by the
governor.
He advocated several reforms in
the State administra tion which have
long been the cause of partisan bit
terness.
Evening star., 1925-01-06
BRITAIN'S DOMINION
PARLEY CANCELLED
Proposed Conference to Consider
Geneva Protocol Will
Not Be Held.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MELBOURNE, Australia, January 6
1t is stated in circles close to the
government that the proposed confer
ence of dominion representatives wi IN
members of the Baldwin administra-
ton at London on the attitude of the
British Empire toward the Geneva Sc
curity and disarmament protocol will
not be held.
One Of the reasons advanced by the
British government for requiring
postponement of consideration of the
Geneva protocol by the League of Ma
tions council was the necessity of
consulting the dominions on the
subject.
Recent news dispatches from Aus
tralia said the commemorative views
could be stated by writing or by
cable, and that the general feeling
was not favorable to Premier Bruce
going to London to take part in a
conference.
Evening star., 1925-01-06
German, Charges
France Protects
U. S. Trade Groups
Holds Financial POiUer of
america Wins French
Ouer.
By EDGAR ANsEL MowRER.

BY Radio TO The Star and Chicago Daily News.
BERLIN, January 6.-The curious
tendency of French interests and
government to protect American in
terests in their commercial negotia-
tions with the Germans is noted by
the manager of the community of
the interests Of German agricultural
machine factories" in a confidential
memorandum to the factory manager
which has fallen into the hands of
the writer.
The German negotiators at Paris
asked the most favored treatment of
the French nation for their agricul-
tura1 machinery. This the French
negotiators refused, declaring they
could not permit the importa ton of
German binders and reapers into
France because the Americans, owing
to their high costs of freight and
packing, would be put at an extraor-
dinary disadvantage, since the Ger
man offers already were so low as to
compete with the Americans, even
without their tariff advantages
On this account the writer of the
note warned the German manufac-
turers to make no more offers dur
Ing the negotiations. lest he should
spill the beans" The memorandum
is dated December II
The Germans consider that the
Americans, owing to their financial
power, have practical guardian
ship over French industry.
Copyright, 1925. by Chicago Daily News Co.
Evening star., 1925-01-06

resemble crescent at the maximum
of the eclipse, or about 95 per cent
There will be a noticeable difference
in the light of the morning here, but
in the area of stotality it will be
about as dark as a quarter or half
hour after sunset.
In photographing the suns eclipse
many things must be taken into con-
sideration, such as the movement of
the ship. it's roll or pitch or contact
with bumps. The dirigible will rise
to a height of about eight or ten
thousand feet, or to an altitude
where Comdr. ]. H. Klein will be sure
he will not be beneath any clouds
that may put in appearance at the
critical moment. BY being above the
clouds, the photographers will be sure
of getting a focus on the eclipse,
while those on the earth must take
the chance of being beneath a canopy
of clouds just when the moon passes
between the sun and the EARTH
Evening star., 1925-01-06
JUG0SLAWlA REPLY
TO ALBANIA PUBLIC
League Announces Answer to Pro-
test Against Raids Which At
tacks Ex-Premier Fan Noli.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GENEVA, January 6-The League
of Nations today published the text
of Jugoslavia's reply to the recent
Albanian protest against alleged
Jugoslav raids in Albanian territory.
A summary of the reply had already
been sent out from Belgrade.
The reply is chiefly an attack on
former Premier Fan Noli, who re-
Gently fed from Albania to Italy. 1t
attacks Fan Noli as a man who was
periodically lodging fantastic and ILL
intentioned accusations against Jugo-
slavia." The latter country, the note
says, has merely been seeking Alban-
ian independence.
The communication states that
Jugoslavia replies to the Albanian
protest only out of Difference to the
league. The note denies each of Fan
Nolfs allegations regarding Jugo-
slav interference in the domestic af-
fairs of Albania
The league now is awaiting a re-
sponse from Ahmed Bey Zogu, the
new Albanian leader. If Zogu repu-
dates Fan NolPs protest, the league
will consider the matter ended. owing
to the fact that the Zogu party now
is in control in Albania