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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-04
Ready to Consider
CONTINUED from Page Onel

REIMBURSEMENT of the extra-territo-
rial privileges which their nationals
in China now enjoy.
The decision of the powers. In
volving readiness to undertake the
investigation of China's judicial sys-
tenn, to appoint delegates to the spe-
cial conference on Chinese tarin
matters, and to consider any reason
able proposal that may be made by
the Chinese authorities for revi-
sion of the treaties on the subject
of tariff was announced in an ans
wer to the Chinese note of June "A.
At the same time, each OF the
powers said it desired to impress
upon the Chinese government the ne
cessity of giving concrete evidence
of its ability and willingness to en-
force respect for the safety OF for
eign lives and property and to sup
press disorders and anti-foreign agi-
tation.
1t was made plain that the mere
establishment of courts and the en-
actment of laws did not meet the re-
quirements of the situation.
Minister John Van A. McMurray
presented the reply of the Washing
ton government to the note of June
"a, together with his colleagues in
Picking representing the eight other
governments. The American reply,
partment, continued:
THE questions of the conventional
tariff and the extra-territorial rights
under which nationals of the treaty
powers reside in China are two of
the important questions raised by
the Chinese governments note. -
1t is the belief Of the government of
the United States that the most
feasible method for dealing with
them is by constant and scrupu-
lous observance of the obligations
undertaken at that conferences. To
that end the government of the Unit
ed States is ready to appoint its dele
gates to he special conference on
Chinese tariff matters provided for
in the treaty of February 6, 1922,
and is furthermore willing to
consider and discuss any reasonable
proposal that may be made by the
Chinese government for a revision of
the treaties on the tariff.
Before it can form any opinion
as to what, If any, steps can be- TAX
en- to meet the desires of theSChi-
nese government, in regard to the
question of extra-territoriality and
those special safeguards of the
treaties under which its nationals
live and conduct their enterprises in
China, my government desires to
have before it more complete in
formation than has heretofore been
available, and the most feasible way
in which the question can be ap-
preached and considered Is to send
to China the commission provided
for in the resolution of the Wash
ington conference ..
MY government is now ready to
appoint its commissioner to sit with
the commissioners of the other in
terested governments in accordance
with that resolution. e."
1t was added that China could ex-
pect the various powers to modify
their treaties with the Picking gov
eminent only Tin measure as to the
Chinese authorities demonstrate
their willingness and ability to full
fill their obligations and to assume
the protection of foreign rights and
interests now safeguarded by the ex-
ceptional provisions of those
treaties"
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RELIEF PARTIES
(H.x.-I H-

will arrive late tomorrow afternoon,
it was said.
Meteorological experts tonight ex-
planned to naval air station officials
that line squall, such as that which
wrecked the navy dirigible, is thun-
der squall, which develops in a
straight line when winds of different
temperatures clash. The Zine" is
formed when a warm and a cold
temperature meet or when winds
from opposite directions collide and
is similar to the fault" formed in
the earth's crust by the movements
of the earth, they said. Just as long
as these faults exist, earthquakes
are most likely to develop, so along
this Zine" in the air are violent and
sudden squalls likely to arise.
Lieutenant Commander M. r.
Pierce, acting commandant of the
Lakehurst naval air station, tonight
said plans were being made to bury
Commander Lansdowne at the Arl-
ington national cemetery in accord
ance with a wish once expressed to
Mrs. Lansdowne.
An additional supply of helium gas
is to be sent the air station from the
plant at Fort Worth the latter part
of the month. Two thirds of the
base, supply was lost on the Shen-
andoah and there Is not enough on
hand to float the Los Angeles, Com
mander Pierce said.
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Chautauqua Opens
Today with Fine
Program Arranged

The big Redpath tent Is up on
monument park and everything Is In
readiness for the opening Of the Red
path Chautauqua which will open at
40 O'clock this afternoon and come
Q close next Thursday evening.
inc manager Of the Waterville tent
70 be v. H. Boyd and the program
which has been arranged for the six
Gays that the Chautauqua 1t to be
mere was never better.
The Royal Blue Marimba band will
occupy the stage this afternoon and
me curtain will rise at ESQ o'clock.
dne members Of the band are versa
ns and thoroughly experienced In
l1e musical entertainment field. All
Pay the marimbaphone and the other
msuuments are the clarinet, the sax
opnone, the banjo, the trumpet and
ws1n chimes. Each Of the artists
nas been a feature player in other
musical organizations.
n the evening after q prelude by
me mArimba players, Charles II.
nuennurg will give his spirited ad-
w., "A Modern Tale of Two
Saues" Mr.. Plattenburg is a news
s Mper man and community builder OF
scs.inction. His lectures are full OF
.seu and humor and they inspire
tric activity. After carefully ana
"alns conditions confronting the
~ asse community, he drives home
ruth IN an urgent and logical
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Dry Agents Portland
Continued from Page One)

Viewer In charge of the crew, Ar
thur England, William Corbett and
Ed Danforth, who assisted by Off
GERS MCGOWAN, Cole and Ellis of
the State Highway police force held
up a truck on Woodfords street in
Woodfords and secured 100 cases OF
liquor. The truck was guarded by
men in two automobiles, one ahead
of the truck and the other behind 1t,
and the occupants of all three ma
chimes were captured. Seven men
were arrested including William
Wallace, Portland motorcycle
policeman whom the officers de-
clare was "go-between." The
others were James Regno and Muir
ray Rossen of New York City, Geo.
F. Shaffer and Moses Abrams OF
Chelsea, Mass, and Jesse Wadleigh
and Herbert Currier Of Portland.
Wadleigh was driving the truck con-
tanning the liquor.
The officers then went to the
Union wharf at Portland, where is
situated a warehouse of the Lappin
Grain Co. After diligent search they
were unable to find any trap doors
in the flooring of the wharf and
thew cut through three thicknesses
Of heavy planking to get underneath
the structure. There they found 2ol
cases of liquor and the five barrels
of Scotch extract. In the opinion
of the officers the liquor must have
been taken In under the wharf by
boat at half tide as it was complete
ly submerged at high tide.
On Tuesday with the assistance of
Sheriff Graham they had made a
seizure of 600 cases of liquor on a
wharf in South Freeport. These
seizures were all due to the work
of the + raj men who have been
acting w the bootleggers and the
latter WEI. not suspicious of them.
Federal men have been wN~'l re
on this case for several We and
the trail from Boston and ork
has led to Portland ~" en-
forcement agents 8" led in
worming themselves TO the conf
dence of the bootleggers and gained
valuable information before the final
blowoff when on Tuesday night a
raid at Soule's shipyard at South
Freeport netted GOO cases of whis-
key. T. r. Soule. the proprietor OF
the shipyard, has been arrested and
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station Is likely to be inactive, since
the loss Of helium in the wreck of the
shenandoah leaves on hand only about
l,oo0.o0o cubic feet of this non-in-
nammable gas, about one-half the
amount required to initiate the Los An
geles.
In announcing the abandonment of
the flight to Hawaii of the Phi, Mr.
Wilbur said no aviation officers had
recommended it.
The only reason it had been plan
ned TO undertake the fight at this
time. he explained. was because the
stake ships had been in position, but
many Of these are now searching for
the missing PN-9 No. 1 and would
have little opportunity to protect the
PB-1.
The wreck of the Shenandoah, Mr..
Wilbur declared, was a tragic dem
onstration that dirigibles as well as
balloons are merely bubbles of gas
in the atmosphere with comparative
ly frail envelopes, ruptures of which
must bring disaster.
Both Mr.. Wilbur and Admiral
Eberly, chief of naval operations,
sent messages of sympathy to Lake
hurst for transmission to the bereav-
ed families. The secretary received
a message expressing "sincerest SYM
pathy and coincidence" from DIR.
Hugo Eckener, director of the Ger
man Zeppelin Company, who
brought the Los Angeles to this
country.
Mr.. Wilbur disclosed today that
Henry Ford, at whose mooring mast
the Shenandoah was to tie up at
Detroit, had been invited to ride in
the dirigible about Michigan and re-
turn aboard it to Lakehurst. The
invitation was not accepted.
The Shenandoah had one of the
most successful careers of any light
er-than-air craft in any country. In
its life of one day short of two years
from its trial flights on September
4. 1923, 1t covered nearly 10000
miles. a distance unequalled by any
other dirigible, officials said. 1t made
number of flights into the interior
| and one across the continent and
| along the west coast although 1t had
never made voyage for any consid-
| cradle distance over the ocean The
| craft was constructed at a cost of
S2OOOOOO at Philadelphia and Lake
hurst.
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Marriage Returns

m. following marriage returns
s.rs been filed at the Office Of the
eT Y. ~. A. Willard of waterville
s.r,sd 10 Esther L. Drew of Wat
sryille by Rev. Stuart B. Purves al
augusta, Aug. 70.
n LYNN Walter, Is Union street,
IN az Mr.. and Mrs. Hubert Wal
~ AZ Maine,N Y, married to EN-
~ caro- Of Union street. daughter
y Mr.. and Mrs. Tallas Daniels OF
Augusta by Rev. L. H. r. Hass on
Aug. -.
Mr.. Oscar Hallee married to Marie
IN poulin. 10S Water street, daugh-
~ A Mr., and Mrs. Charles Poulin
n Iur. 81 by Rev. A. Anciaux.
David Mathews, IL Temple street
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Napoleon Math-
svs Of Beauceville. p. O.. married to
yvoune Giguere Of Fairfield. daugh-
~ a. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Giguere
n Aug. 81 by FIR. J. A. Laverdiere
| & Fairfield.
! erect son Of Thomas Wilson Moore
married to Jessie Katherine Shirley
q Ieighton street, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Shirley. by Rev
Robetr Gay on Aug. 81.
]. Eleucippe Forth, 81 Summer
I street. son of Mr.. and Mrs. Alphonse
Tortin, married to Marie Cecile Pa
rant daughter of Mrs. Lucy Roy on
Sept. / by FIR. Joseph Orieux.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-04
ries were reported among tn. .p.ct,.

ries were reported among the specta-
tors.
From the gruesome scene in his
garden. Canary, a farmer, ran down
the highway in search of a doctor. AL
ready the people were fiocking in from
the countryside. Mrs. Gahary had
just lighted fire in the kitchen stove
Wnen she heard a roar and ran To the
pacK door where part of the wreckare
was railing IN the garden, so feet from
the mouse. She and her husband
rushed to the spot where they found
Gelestlno Mazrcco in a dying condition.
Later Tour additional bodies were
aouno IN the garden and eight were
louno In the pastures and corn fields
On the rarm tenanted by the Gamarys.
.. y. Davis and family and Frank
Nelson OF near Ava described the
onenanooah rolling from side to side,
ascending suddenly with nose in the
air, then settling with a crash like
a forest of falling trees" A part of
the ship then detached itself. Davis
says, and f1oated away, the men
| hanging to the exterior. Others said
| they saw the ship pointing upward
until 1t appeared to be nearly per-
pendicular.
These stories conflict somewhat
with those Of the survivors who said
that for the most part the ship was
kept in semi-horizontal position.
John P. Flanagan, storekeeper at
Pleasant City, who was awaiting the
appearance of the Shenandoah, said
he sw it go over and more than half
an hour later he heard 1t return and
saw 1t with its nose in the air.
1t was Flanagan who picked up
the radio log of the Inflated air
| cruiser in which the departure of the
ship Is recorded from time to. time.
There are notations of the location
over Pennsylvania cities. Once or
twice there are code discussions on
motors and weather. The last note
made Of position is that recorded
/ when the ship was over Cambridge.
There is the beginning of another en-
try, never finished.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-04
Waterville Board
Registration to Open
! First of Week

The Waterville board of registra-
don will be in session next Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday from 8 A.
n to / p. M. and from to 5 and z
ito Z. The board wishes all married
women now voting under their maid
en- names to appear so that necessary
changes in the lists can be mace.
The law covering such procedure
Is a follows: Chapter AS. An act
to make uniform the registration of
married women as voters. Sec. l.
Every married woman now regis
tered, or who shall hereafter register
Is voter, shall be registered under
her given and married surname.
Sec. :. Whenever an unmarried reg
istsred woman voter shall assume
through marriage, or married reg
istered woman voter shall assume
through any process Of law a new
surname, she shall notify the regis
tration board of said change, In per-
son, and the board shall then regis
ter in accordance with the preceding
section.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-04
Winning Biddies
In All Classes at
Waterville Fair

Prizes in the poultry department at
! the Central Maine fair have been
| awarded as follows:
Barred Plymouth Rocks, Frank Gill
bert, Pennington, Me-, cock Sd; Sd
hen; A. J. Remission, Carmel, list. I'd
cock; 1st I'd. hen; 1st. cockerel; 1st
I'd. pullet; LIST. pen fowls; LIST. pen
chicks. Rose Comb Barred Plymouth
Rocks, F. E. Field. Auburn. LIST. cock
White Plymouth Rocks. Remission, 1st
cockerel; LIST. pullet; LIST. pen chicks
Buff Plymouth Rocks, Remission, LIST
I'd. cock; 1st. I'd. hen; LIST. pen fowls;
Field LIST. I'd. cockerels; list. pullet
Partridge Plymouth Rocks, Remission,
1st cock; list. I'd. hen; E. A. Drink
water, Sabattus; LIST. pullet. Silver
Laced Plymouth Rocks, Field, 1st.
hen; Drinkwater I'd. hen. Silver
Penciled Plymouth Rocks, Remission,
1st cock: LIST. hen. Rose Comb
Rhode Island Reds, F. L. Fall, Albion,
Me-, list. I'd. Sd. hen: P. A. Manson &,
Son, Oakland Me-, LIST. I'd. cockerels;
1st. pullet; 1st. I'd. pen fowl; LIST pen
chicks Single Comb Rhode Island
Reds. C. /. Davis, Waterville. LIST.
cock; list. I'd. Sd. hen; Guy Written,
East, Vassalboro, I'd. cock. r. C.
Rhode Island White, Remission, list.
cock; 1st. and Sd. hen; Field, I'd. hen.
S. C. Rhode Island Whites, Field, I'd.
cock; 1st hen, Remission; LIST. cock,
Cd. hen, LIST. and I'd. pullets. White
Wyandottes. Carl Duren, Fairfield,
1st. and I'd. cockerel: LIST. I'd. Sd. pull
let's. Buff Wyandottes. Remission LIST.
and I'd. cock; 1st. and I'd. hen; LIST.
cockerel; list. pullet. Partridge wy
andottes, Drinkwater. I'd. cock; Sd.
hen; 1st. cockerel; list. pullet; Ken
iston list. cock; LIST. hen; Field I'd.
hen. Golden Laced Wyandottes,
Drinkwater, 1st. cock; 1st. and 2d.
hen; list. cockerel; LIST. I'd. pullets;
Fail Sd hen. Silver Laced Wyan-
dottes. G. c. Richardson. Bradford.
Me-, LIST. cock. Columbian Wyan-
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Bodies Housed
In Old Shack
At Caldwell, Ohio

Caldwell, Ohio, Sept. SAP
Bell Valley, a little village nesting
in the foothills of the Alleghanies,
tonight cared for the Shenandoah
dead.
In an improvised morgue, a ram
shackle, implanted building which
serves as a storage place for auto
mobiles, lay the bodies of the ID VIC
Tins. Some of the broken windows
are boarded up; others are covered
with cardboard. 1t was the best the
village could provide in the emer-
gency.
Rank in death is unknown. The
body of COB lay next to that of a
lieutenant commander.
Outside an American Legion
guard of honor stands at attention.
Flags are at half mast. An air
of reverence has come over the vii
layers, despite the attitude of hordes
of sightseers, who are looked upon
with more or less disdain because
of their curiosity.
Tomorrow caskets will come and
it is regarded as certain that the
bodies. will be shipped to their res
pective homes.
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P|TTSFIELD
Funeral of Frank Weeks

The funeral services for Frank
Weeks were held from his late home
Wednesday afternoon, Rev. w. NJ
Quarrington officiating. Selection
were rendered by Frank Haseltine
and Mrs. Carin. The bearers were
E. e. johnson, Charles Ames, Fred
Mayo and Edgar Taylor. The inter-
ment was made in the family lot In
the village cemetery.
Mrs. A. r. Waldron Of Waterville
who has been the guest Of her son,
w. L. Waldron, returned home Wed l.
nesday.
Charles Hurd was a business call
err in Waterville Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. S. McAllister of
Newfield, N. H, who have been the
guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. George Col
lamore, have returned to their home.
H. R. Coolidge was business call
err in Bangor Wednesday.
Mrs. Olive Good and son Vinal
Good went to Houlton Sunday where
they will pass a weeks vacation.
Elmer Mason Is passing a few
days with friends in Bar Harbor.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. A. Atkins were
in Waterville Wednesday on bust
ness.
L. L. Brown and c. N. Sawyer went
to Waterville Wednesday to attend
the fair.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Martin OF
st. Adams were visitors in town on
Thursday
Thre will be regular meeting of
Pittsfield Grange Saturday evening,
at which plans will be completed for
the annual field day to be held at
Camp Benson, Saturday, Sept. IL. 1t
has been requested that all members
be present.
Miss Batrice Palmer has returned
home after passing the summer at
Ocean Park.
James M. Tarr, who has been
manager of the A. and P. store dur
ing the absence of Clifford Staples.
who has been enjoying two weeks
vacation, went to Bangor.
Miss Ruth Palmer has returned
from months vacation at Old Or
chard and is planning to take up her
studies again at u. of NJ, Sept. 16.
Mrs. Jennie Huff, Mrs. Grace Whit
ney and children went to Atkinson,
Sunday by auto to bring Clarence
Whitney home. He has been visiting
his aunt, Mrs. Irving Woodland, dur
ing the vacation. They were accom-
panied on the trip by Mr.. and Mrs.
Herbert Waller and Mrs. Louise
Sullivan and Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Sleeves and children, also Mr.. and
Mrs. H. N. Bowdoin from Ripley.
Joe Stewart of Bangor was a bust
ness caller in town Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Williams and
Mrs. Laura Weber were in town
Thursday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-04
Many Drawn to
Scene of Dirigible's
Crash to Ground

Caldwell, Ohio, Sept. 3 - (AP) -
AS soon as the news of the Shenan-
doah's crash flashed over the coun-
tryside this morning farmers and
townsmen of Ava hurried over the
hills to the point where the wreck
age had been seen to fall. Soon au-
tomobiles began pouring into the
fields and pastures over the almost
mountainous road.
Then airplanes began to arrive,
the first to alight being an Associat-
ed Press correspondent from Column
bus.
From then until nightfall the high
ways and open routes through fields
were clogged with automobiles and
thousands of persons on foot.
Throughout the day there was a
whir of airplanes in the air above the
scene, bringing newspaper reporters.
photographers and army officers from
reservations in this and adjoining
states.
In a narrow valley of pasture land
trimmed by woodlands and orchards,
the main portion of the wreckagC had
settled, its once trim line still dis
cernable. Through the gaping holes
in its silver hued coating glinted tile
gray-green metallic RIBS, crushed and
bent like eggshells and straw.
On the side still blaZed the red.
white and blue star, insignia of the
American service and unmarried were
the letters spelling Shenandoah.
Upon hilltop half a mile away
were piles Of wreckage more mutilat-
ed and smashed. 1t was here in gar
den and in nearby fields that all but
one of The fatalities occurred. Twelve
miles away was another part.
Clustered around the main wreck
age were hundreds of curious persons,
through all the day Juggling at the
covering and metal Orders, carrying
away souvenirs that almost weighted
them down.
Several minor accidents occurred,
due TO the heavy traffic and treacher-
Gus bends on hills. No serious inju-
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Probable Closing
Of Air Station
At Lakehurst n. J.

Washington, Sept. -(AP)-Con-
| fronted with an overshadowing ira
gedy in the collapse of the Shenan-
doah and disaster to the attempted
nonstop flight to Hawaii, navy Off
| Gals today sadly received reports of
the wreck of the dirigible and hoped
vainly for some favorable word from
the PN-9 number plane missing in
| mid-Pacific.
Out Of the narrowing day came
ONE crystallization of official opinion
on naval aviation policy, with indica-
tons that an announcement might be
| made before long respecting the de-
partment's future course toward diri-
gibles and that this might be decis-
ion to close the Lakehurst, N. J. air
station.
Insofar as the contemplated second
attempt to make a nonstop fight to
Hawaii was concerned, Secretary
Wilbur ordered the plane Phi which
was planning to hop off from San
Francisco for Hawaii tomorrow, to
abandon the effort. That fight will not
be made, he asserted, unless very
positive reasons develop warranting
it.
Notwithstanding that the navy has
suffered three reverses in recent
weeks-the failure of its expedition to
achieve its major mission with Com
mander Macmillan in the Arctic, the
unsuccessful termination of the Ha-
waiian fight and the destruction of
the Observation-Disclosures recalled
that all worthwhile accomplishments
were to be had only for a price, and
that in the past as now the price paid
by the air service had been a dear
one.
Lessons of recent weeks. however,
led Secretary Wilbur today to ex-
press conviction that the Atlantic
and Pacific Oceans were still the best
bulwarks of the United States and
that this country had little to fear
from enemy aircraft not operating
from this continent.
The time has not come, he held,
when aircraft can with impunity cross
great stretches of water or effectively
operate at will under all conditions.
While Secretary Wilbur declined to
confirm or deny a report that the
Lakehurst station would be closed, he
said the navy department had had I'M
der consideration a plan for both the
Shenandoah and the Los Angeles
which would not be affected by the
loss of the former, except that there
would be one less airship involved. At
the same time, he said no definite Of
fer had been received from any pri-
vate citizens to lease the Los Angeles
for commercial operation. Such pro-
posal, he admitted, might have less
chance of acceptance now that the
Shenandoah has been lost.
For several months. at least, the
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German Ambassador
Tenders His Sympathy

Swampscott, Mass, Sept. 3.-(AP)
On learning of the Shenandoah
disaster, Baron Ago Won Nathan,
the German ambassador, who Is
summering at Magnolia, near here
motored to White Court to extend to
President Coolidge the sympathy OF
his government.
Although the Shenandoah was
built in this country, it's sister ship,
the Los Angeles, was constructed at
the Zeppelin factory in Germany.
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HuIl.Arehsr

u.rnah Mary Archer and Percy c.
,,..n vere united In marriage at the
s nu.. Of the Getchell street Bap-
Y. church yesterday by Rev. Benja-
~ Eeatty. The double ring service
mss nsed and the ceremony was at
1900 only by members Of the i'm
N.S,sss families. Both the bride
"a brtdesgroom have many friends
4 a The city.