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Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-06-16

MOTOR BOATS-2 good ones: l 18 It.,
20 TT. Low prices. Casavant & Clou-
tier, Island Park.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-06-16
MERCHANDISE
Fuel and Feed

Fuel and Feed So
BEST-Dry hardwood fitted. Dry box
edgings. z baskets 81. A. r. Leo. I
Willow st. TEL 331-M.
CORDWOOD-Stove furnace and fire.
place wood. w. A. Shaw. Cony Rd..
Augusta. Tel. 1086-M.
You can telenhone your want ad,
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-06-16

CROSLEY RADIOS-Portable sets.
Throw the antenna over a limb and
listen in. Hillman's. Inc, 1s9 Water
ST. Augusta
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-06-16

yACATION-Dont start without mos
quito cream, shaving materials,
sponges, cold and almond creams. tall
cum powders, lunch sets, paper nap
kins, TT. Iodine, peroxide hydrogen,
bandages and adhesive tape East
Side Pharmacy, 81 Cony st.. Augusta,
Geo. B. Stackpole, Prop.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-06-16

Heating, Plumbing, Roofing 22
PLTMBING-And heating. Expert
work on short notice. Tel. Collection.
George B. Golfer, 40 Child st.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-06-16

FIRST AID KITS-Johnson & john
son; sizes, ST.. $3.50. SO. 81. No out
fit is complete without one. Sections
Drug Store, 240 Water st.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-06-16

TIRE CHAINS-Tonneau windshields,
step plates, parking lights. Fiield
Bros. Co., 337 Water st.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-06-16
A-Fon Men

UNION SUITS-75c, csc,
$1.l9. A. f. Pierce, 212 Water ST..
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-06-16

CLASSIFIED ADS are indexed for
nIlick finding.
Evening star., 1925-12-08

with the Government have been ter
minated. leaving the fund, at the close
of the fiscal year, net total of S44.-
665.7T8.56
Evening star., 1925-12-08
Transferred to Texas.

First Lieut.. Maurice E. knowles,
7th Infantry, at Chilkoot Barracks,
Alaska, has been ordered to Fort Sam
Houston Tex, for duty.
Evening star., 1925-12-08
TELLER CONFESSES
TO THEFT OF $55,oDO
EmbezzIements From Balti-
more Bank Expected to To-
tai 100000 to $500, 900.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE. Md. December s.
Confession today of Leo J. Farrell, a
teller, to embezzlement of $4,000 from
the Mercantile Bank of this city has
disclosed defalcations which are ex-
pected to total between 100000 and
100000. the banks directors an
nounced today. Farrell is under ar
rest and bank officials, expressing be-
lief that his operations could not have
been carried out without accomplices,
said other arrests were expected. They
said the financial structure of the bank
was not endangered.
~ presentment charging Farrell with
larceny was returned by the grand
jury shortly before noon. A few
minutes later the teller was arrested
by detectives as he was entering a
friends Office In downtown building.
President James II. HeaIy of the
Mercantile Bank said Farrell had been
employed by the bank for seven years,
starting as a messenger. and that he
was one of the institutions most
trusted employees. In his confession,
made to President Healy, Farrell said
he had lost all of the money he had
obtained at race tracks.
The directors said they were con-
vinced that Farrell was one of sew
eral in a conspiracy. The looting had
gone on, they said, for two years. 1t
had been known in part since October.
District Attorney Herbert A O'Con-
ner was notified last night The
methods employed We're unusually
adroit; officials said, and declined to
reveal them.
Evening star., 1925-12-08
TOLL OF. PENSIONS
CUT $12,844,165
Decrease This Year Due to 13,002
Fewer on Government
Rolls.

Pensioners on the Government pen
sion rolls declined from 525,539 on
June 80. 1924, to 512,537 on June 80,
1925. a reduction of 1902, according
to the annual report of the commits
sioner of pensions made public today.
The Government disbursed S217,150.-
612 for pensions during the fiscal
year 1925, as compared with $229,-
994,777 during the previous fiscal
year, a drop of $12,S44,165. Cost for
maintenance and operation of the
pension system in 1925 was 81 ,4S9 ,O87.
Although there are no survivors of
the War of 1872 on the rolls, 81
widows of soldiers of that war were
receiving pensions, while II soldiers
'of the Mexican War and 1856 Civil
War veterans were beneficiaries of
the Government pension.
Total disbursements to pensioners
since establishment of the office in
1890 were shown to have been 81 1853,
502 ,010. with the bulk of this amount
to Civil War pensioners.
The Civil Service retirement fund
amounted to $79,257 ,101.26 on June
80. 1925. with 1,689 annuities on
the roll June 80, last, against 10,548
on the same date a year previous. OF
this amount $23.671, ,103.Os was dis
bursed for annuities and $10,920, ,219.6 90
in refunds to persons whose services
Evening star., 1925-12-08
IPRObE W0UND|NG
! OF MAN NEAR FORT
Army Officials Investigate
Shooting of CoIored Man.
Patrol Seeking Fugitives.

An attempt to connect shooting
by military patrols searching for es-
capped prisoners with the wounding of
Alfred Lewis. colored, who was
brought to Casualty Hospital early
yesterday suffering from gunshut
wounds, sustained near Fort Wash.
ington Sunday night, is being made
by d board of investigators at the mill
tary reservation today.
Lewis was taken to Casualty Hos
pital by an unidentified colored man
in an automobile. who left immediate
ly afterward. ut Casualty uospita
1t was learned the man had been shot
through the right side and in tn,
right leg by soldiers near Fort Wash.
ington. He was later removed to Wal
ter Heed Hospital, on the theory held
by military authorities that it was
the right thing to do if soldiers had
actually shot him, or that it was the
humanitarian thing to do If no lia
bility attached. since he was desti
tute.
AS far as the facts are concerned
at present, it has been ascertained
that patrol Of soldiers were sta.
toned at the juncture of the Fort
washington road with the main high
way in an effort to apprehend two
n
automobile came charging down the
road. The soldiers ordered it to stop.
1t increased speed. Shots were fired
at 1t. The machine kept going
Whether Lewis was in that machine
the investigators have not determined
The condition OF Lewis at Walter
Reed Hospital is pronounced not seri
Gus.
AS soon as Brig Gen. S. D. Rocken
bach, comma nding the District OF
Washington. learned that Lewis, who
Is the son of a former employe at the
military post, was at Casualty Hos
pital, supposedly suffering from a gun
shot wound inflicted by soldiers, he
sent an inspector to the hospital tc
inquire into the case and to ascertain
if the wounded man claimed to have
been wounded by soldiers.
THE official investigation has moi
been completed" Gen. Rockenbach
said today. 1T has not been deter
mined whether Lewis had any con
nection with the escaped prisoners
One Of the prisoners, however. was
captured about o'clock yesterday
morning."
Evening star., 1925-12-08
ASKS MERCHANTS TO QUIT
DISPLAYING HIP FLASKS
W. c. T. U. Regards Advertising of
Liquor Receptacles as Thought
less Defiance of Law"

By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY. December S.-Be-
cause Of the suggestive influence and
because they believe it to be a
'thoughtless defiance of the law"
members of the Kansas City w. c. r.
U. have asked local merchants to
cease the display and advertising of
hip pocket TASKS. cocktail shakers
and similar articles.
No reply has been received from
the merchants association to which
a resolution was directed, Miss Fannie
l.. Taylor president of the local W.
&. T. t., said today. She said the
association probably has held no
meeting since the resolution was
adopted.
No plans have been made to con-
tinue the campaign If the mercha nts
do not answer favorably. Miss Taylor
said
Evening star., 1925-12-08
Mrs. Coolidge's Warmth of Greeting
And Smiles Win Friends in Chicago

of their roof-top house, Mrs. Coolidge
expressed curiosity over an old-fash-
ioned wine cooler, and over a wig
stand, two curios from Europe. She
also exclaimed over the pine paneling
Of the living room.
1--WE ought to have the green room
done like this, colonel, she said to
Col. S. A. Cheney. at her side.
Mrs. William Dever, wife of the
mayor, said: she's the most sincere
and thoroughly genuine woman 1 ever
met
AT the luncheon We're 6S farm
women from all over the United States
seated at small tables. all of which
were adorned with Coolidge roses and
blue sweet peas.
Mrs Coolidge Wore q smart high
necked frock of the shade known as
ashes of roses. Her hat and slippers
were of n matching color. An amber
necklace and long amber earrings com
pleted her costume.
Evening star., 1925-12-08
DEPL0RES DEFECTS
IN STREET PAVING
Senator King Urges Five
Year Guarantee Be Required
of D. c. Contractors.

DeplorinS the rough condition "i
street paving i'll Washington, Senator
King of Utah, ranking democratic
member of the District committee.
has written TO the Commissioners
advocating more stringent require
ments in contracts for street sur
facing.
The law at one time required con
tractors TO give u five-year guarantee
on street work, which was changed
by Congress to one year. Discussing
this, Senator King said:
Regards Repeat as UDwisc.
in my opinion it was unwisC i"
repeal the five-year period. IT seems
to me that the Commissioners should
have discretion in these matters and
proper. II l We're amending the
statute, l would provide that the
Commissioners require a bond of q II
contractors, providing for the faithful
performance of all terms under the
contract and provide a guaranty, not
only for repairs. but for such in
herent defects as might exist, though
not perceived, for an indefinite period.
II shall be glad if the Commissioners
will consider this matter, and il they
think that the existing statute does
District and sufficient guarantees by
the contractors. that they recommend
a suitable amendment to the existing
law
Cites Bond Requirement.
In another part of his letter Senate
King said:
1T is quite clear to my mind tina;
the statute requiring contractors L"
give bond to keep public works Ill
repair does not absolve them from
the duty to construct the works under
contract according to standards pre-
scribed by the District. Repairs
might be necessary even where there
were no inherent defects, and the con
tractors obligation. entered into when
he contracts to lay the pavement or
erect a building, is not limited to his
obligation to keep the building ol.
street in repair for one year or foi
five years.
Senator King, in discussing the
street situation yesterday afternoon.
also voiced the opinion that the trat-
fic regulations III Washington hav"
been changed too often.
Evening star., 1925-12-08
j. S. BLUE SKY LAW
MEETS OPPOSITION
investment Bankers Com.
mittee Thinks Proposal In
adequate for Needs.
By the Associated Press.

<1poSNAohSN
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, December
S.-Opposition TO a Federal blue-sky
statute Is voiced In the report of the
committee on securities presented here
today to the Investment Bankers AS
ISOLATION OF America at the second
days session Of It's fourteenth an
nual convention.
The committee, expressing It's be-
lief that the Federal Government does
not desire to create another bureau,
which the enforcement of such &. law
would necessitate, points out the diff
ference between two bills which prob
ably will be Introduced at the present
session of Congress.
One of these by Representative
Christopherson of South Dakota, the
committee said, seeks to regulate the
intraState q s well as the interstate sale
OF securities, while that of Represen-
tative Dennison Of Illinois only deals
with the interstate transactions.
The situation, however, the commit
tee finds, presents a much more COM
plicated situation than a merely pro-
htbitive statute could remedy. More
time for study Is asked. The commit
tee told of its efforts to reach Il COM
mon ground of understanding with Sc
curities commissioners of the States,
and reported that much progress has
been made along this line, but that a
complete accord with all of them has
mot yet been reached.
Some investment bankers, the COM
nlittee said. thought the real remedy
lay in the fraud law. but declared that
various commissioners have pointed
out reasons why even this fails to
govern sale of securities.
The committee recommended that
its efforts be directed in the future
toward obtaining uniformity In legis-
;ation: cooperation with commission
ers in controlling spurious securities;
standardiZing requirements with re-
spect to furnishing commissioners with
information, and to bring about
greater uniformity in the rulings of
commissioners in the various States.
Evening star., 1925-12-08
PREPARATIONS EDICT
IS FOUGHT BY GREECE
Protests Commissions Findings in
Balkan Affair and Demands
$750,00O of Bulgaria.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
GENEVA, December S.--Greece in
voked the Corfu affair yesterday to
prove that she was justified in invad-
ing Bulgaria. Displaying unexpected
resistance to the special commissions s
recommendations against Greece in
connection with the recent Balkan
conflict, the Greek former foreign
minister, NJ. RENTS, not only objected
to the payment Of reparations to Bull
garia fixed by the commission, but
demanded that the Council of the
League of Nations ask Bulgaria to
pay to Greece $3.50, 900.
NJ. RENTS accused the commission
of failing to hear the Greek side of
the controversy while conducting its
inquiry and asserted that if the ccGn-
Gil approved the commissions fAI.
ings. Greece would probably appeal
TO the World Court of Justice to de-
termine whether reparations could be
imposed without being based on an
impartial inquiry.
Evening star., 1925-12-08

to slippers for afternoon teas or eve
ming parties. The result is that fire.
quently they take severe colds and
subject themselves to the danger of
pneumonia.
There is an epidemic of colds and
chills and in very considerable per-
centage of the cases the sufferers are
women who have been wearing Rus
sian boots. Boots are like woolen un-
derwear. SO the doctors say. Once
they are put on they must be kept on.
Women who want to wear boots in
the daytime must also have some sort
of boots to draw over their evening
shoes if. they wish to avoid chills and
.oeidS
Evening star., 1925-12-08
CHRISTMAS DEMAND MET.
Supply of Trees for Celebrations
Held Ample.

Christmas trees should be plentiful
this year. members of the Federal
Horticultural Board said today, de-
spite Federal quarantines.
The only area in the United States
from. which shipment OF Christmas
trees is prohibited lies in eastern New
England, certain sections of which are
tfuarantined because of the gypsy
moth, A part of Quebec adjoining
Vermont also is similarly barred. but
northern Maine. Vermont, New York
md Michigan should be able. board
members declared, to meet all de-
n1ands.
Evening star., 1925-12-08
ARMY SCHOOLS ACTIVE.
Train $4,000 During Year Despite
Lack of Money.

Despite complete lack OF funds L.
maintain the Army post schools dur
ing the last fiscal year, more than
IS 900 military and civilian pcrsonne'
at the posts were given instruction
with equipment and supplies on hand.
A report submitted by Maj. Gen.
Davis, adjutant general Of the Army,
shows that the schools, established
many years ago, were kept going al
year except for five months in sum
mer. when troops were on duty In
training camps
Evening star., 1925-12-08
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December S.-An account
of Mrs. Coolidge's visit to Chicago yes.
terday, written by a woman, follows:
The President was the official fig
ure, and he wore high hat, striped
trousers and a, morning coat, but it
was Grace Coolidge's warm handclasps
and friendly smile and quiet greeting
that impressed the wives Of the farm
men in the reception line.
''Bareheaded stenographers, who
had run out from the railway station
Offices for a glimpse of the pair,
glanced at the President, and then
waved to the slender figure at his side.
The First Lady acknowledged their
greetings with mods and smiles.
Members of the American Farm
Bureau Federation committee and
their wives were presented to Presi-
dent and Mrs. Coolidge in the Georgia
House, atop the Hotel Sherman.
"ShoWn through the charming rooms
Evening star., 1925-12-08
LONDON DOCTORS BUSY,
DUE TO RUSSIAN BOOTS
Women Change From High Foot
gear of Day Wear to Low Slippers
at Night and Catch Cold.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, December S.-Russian
boots are keeping London doctors
busy. Women wear the knee-high
boots Of patent or Russian leather on
the streets in the morning, but change
Evening star., 1925-12-08
BELL FOUND GUILTY.
Banker and Coal Operator Convict
ed of EN-

PITTSBURGH, December 8 [R.-
John A. Bell, banker and coal oper-
ator. was found guilty today of en-
bezzlement and misapplication of more
than $500, 900 of the funds of the closed
Carnegie Trust Co., of which he was
president. -. 81 .-' -
Evening star., 1925-12-08

Ample foreign short-term credits
continue 20 stimulate Austrfa's in
Ius'rtes. -.
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Discouraged Seventeen

Dear Martha Lee: I am II years OF
age. Not hat that matters IN, this story,
because feel Old enough % be my Own
figure out is what's the uses Where does
it get you. all this coming and going. and
rushing around after Enimportant thingsI
People accuse you of lies when you tell
the truth-and believe you les. The
man you love doesn't love you. But
does 1t matter If he deesniti You are
school too early. People expect too mucn
of you, and you have a great. deal TO llye
UP to so that you cannot be human with
out setting a bad example. I've about
reached the end Of my patiEencoea ,, vt a life
Miss Lee.
Doesn't anything matter to you
personally Clothilde? Don't you take
a delight in knowing that you r
above the average mentally? You
know what you are to yourself. Self
esteem. And would . perhaps
velopment Of man than public
esteem. Any you would perhaps
waste a life, turn Egyptian and
throw yourself as sacrifice into the
Nile, because a lot OF high priests
were expecting you to? Only a lazy
mind grows morose, Clothilde. A
useful mind is too busy with in
teresting life to have time for bitter
thinking. You. too, are a fallow field.
At II you have spread a young life
before you and checked 1t off as not
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-30

\ The only seeds that sow them
selves without effort are the weeds,
And every good farmer knows that
it is easier to uproot them first than
last. rs anything worth while?'
comes a query from discouraged
youth. A lazy mind. lacking in en-
ergy, ingenuity, imagination, is cas-
lily discouraged, is easily turned from
the pillow to loaf along the road,
thinking bitterly. That's a mind
gone to waste like the fallow field.
And when it has yielded to it's owner
nothing but bitterness, what then?
What, indeed, but the river or a
poison or a shot? Minds gone to
waste like fallow fields! More nee
essary than the harvest is the plow-
ing. The planting. The careful
watching. Tine encouragement OF
first tender upblooming of plants. A
fertile field well sown. A world of
satisfaction in the knowledge of
work we'll done. OF time put to the
use of fulhllment. Everything Is
worth the struggle, whether the goal
is reached or not. 1t is the sowing
that keeps the field planted. And 1t
isn't the field that matters, It's the
kind of seed you put into it. In time
il win bring forth a full, rich har-
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The Tangle
LETTER FROM MRS. MARY AL,
DEN PRESCOTT TO JOHN
ALDEN PRESCOTT
CONTINUED

ALDEN PRESCOTT
CONTINUED
Although 1 had said nothing to
you and Leslie about it, as l had a
feeling that all my affairs bothered
you, / had rented my house at Win.
Textbook furnished for last month,
with the privilege Of this one
Neither Mrs. Castleton nor 1 knew
that either Of us had n acquaint-
ances in common. That she was rent
ing the home Of the woman with
whom her brother. was in love and
who had aspirations for her hand,
was the last thing that Mrs. Castle.
ton could have had in her MIND, and
certainly I did not even know that
Mr.. Gibson had a sister. You must
see that our union is one Of the
~proverbial matches made in Heaven,
for this is how matters stood when
Mr.. Gibson went to visit In Winter
brook a few weeks ago.
You have seer Mr.. Gibson, John,
and you know what a distinguished
looking man he is. Every old maid
in W~interbrook. including Prisc'ila.
Bradford herself, has set her cap for
him and perhaps she might have
gotten him. but she made the mis-
take Of writing to me and telling me
that Mr.. Gibson was in town, and
how popular he was.
Until / received that letter I was
not aware to what an extent Mr..
Gibson had filled my mind and my
heart. But, upon reading Priscilla's
silly rhapsodies over Orson, 1 deter
mined to go down there and see for
myself how much Of them was true.
OF course, the moment l decided %
go down to Winterbrook I wired Mr.,
Gibson that 1 was coming, and nat
urally he met me at the station.
Although 1 had not intended to
tell him anything, I was so pleased
to see him that / Immediately, IL
modestly, let him understand, that
at last I had made up my mind to
aceede to his proposals and be his
wife.
1 may tell you, my son. although 1
would not wish you even to impart
this sacred confidence to Leslie, that
Orson acted like a boy. For a mo-
ment ! was afraid that l was not
going to be able to make him refrain
from kissing me OF the street in
plain sight Of all my neighbors and
friends whom / knew were watching
me from behind their lace curtained
windows.
AS 1t was, he embarrassed me by
pressing my arm closer and closer to
him just as we came face to face
with Priscilla Bradford.
| Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Incl
NEXT-The letter, continued.
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ATTACK ON
COURT PLANNED
IrreconciIabIes Draft More,
Alterations.
Bv United Press

BB United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.-senates
irreconcilables are spending the'
holiday recess in drafting more
drastic reservations to alter the
world court resolution when discus
sion is resumed in the Senate next
Monday. III
While President Coolidge renewed
his efforts for peaceful solution Of
the problem by having Chairman
Borah of the Senate foreign relations
committed his leading adversary IN
the court fight, doNn to the White
House for dinner last night, tho
activities Of Borah's forces on Capt.
tai Hill went on without interrupt
ton. Ia
Borah declined to discuss his dim
ner conference with the Presidents
but it is understood the two talked
over important international ques
tons besides the world court.