Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-06

was upward. Norwich and worces-
ter advanced point. Eastern
Steamship and Copper Range were
each up IL. Shoe Machinery was
unchanged.
Wellsburg, W. Va, May 5-Three
double tenement houses owned by
the West Virginia Pittsburg Coal
Company and occupied by the fami-
lies of six non-union miners were
destroyed by fire at the company's
mining settlement near here early
today with an estimated loss of $685.
900. Thirty occupants escaped I'M
injured. Brooke county officers be-
gan an investigation working on the
theory that the fire was incendiary.
Media, Pa, May ga marriage
ceremony performed by themselves,
IA years ago was revealed today in
a divorce granted by Judge Isaac
Johnson to Mrs. Josephine M. Lucas,
of Stonehurst, Pa, from Alpine Lu-
cas-, real estate operator in st.
Petersburg, Fla. Details of the
wedding were given by Mrs. Lucas
in her testimony before a master
who recommended that she be
granted a divorce. The masters re-
port said the pair had gone to Will
mington, Del, in March, 1911, to
be married but arrived too late at
night to obtain license. They then
agreed to marry" themselves, US
ing a wedding ring and going
through the ceremony without a
clergyman.
Washington, May 5-Efforts to en-
act a cooperative marketing bill
will be renewed at the next session
of Congress, Senator Capper, Kan
sas, chairman of the farm bloc, de-
clared today after a conference with
President Coolidge. Mr.. Capper said
the presidents agricultural commits
sion is expected to meet again in the
fall with view to drawing up in
new form it's recommendation for
farm relief.
Toxic, May 5 (AP)-Foreign min
lister Shidehara addressing a confer
ence Of prefactural governors to-
night, said that the immigration
question last spring often threatened
Japanese American relations but the
situation has since been adjusted
through the efforts of both govern
n.ents and at the present time friend
ly relations are being steadily pro-
NOTED in both countries. If this
condition continues the foreign min
lister said he believed that it would
bring about satisfactory result in
the future.
Rome, May (AP)-The pianist
Paderewski, playing an all-Chopin
program yesterday at the Augusteo
for the benefit of war orphans, was
acclaimed by an audience of several
thousand persons. The critics as
serted that the execution of the great
pianist was the equal of anything he
has done.
Rome, May 5 .(AP)-Senator Gio-
vanni Battista Grassi, noted for his
experiments for the control and pre-
vention OF malaria, died here today.
Genoa, May (AP)-Newspape
here report that Leon Trotsky, the
Russian leader, has brought the his
toric castle at San Reno, where the
inter-allied conference was held in
1920.
Berlin, May (AP)-An unnamed
American collector has bought from
Oscar Huldschinsky, Berlin art col
lector, Raphaels Portrait Of Gull
ana Di Midici," for $4,000 pounds in
sterling (about $240,O0O). Huldsch-
lnsky declined to name the purchaser,
saying he had requested secrecy.
New York, May 5 (AP)-The larg-
est municipal bond issue of the year,
an $80,000,000 New York City 4 1-2
percent loan, was sold today at q
substantial premium after spirited
competitive bidding by most of the
city's largest banking institutions.
The bonds were awarded to a syndi-
cate headed by the National City
Co.. whose successful bid of 102.3197
gave the city a cash premium of
1891, 900.
Mexico City, May (AP)-Mexico
will not allow any country with
which she maintains diplomatic rela-
tons to use this friendship as an in
strument in carrying out political
combinations or to propagate doc
trines and principles which Mexico
herself does not sustain, President
Gales declared yesterday in connec-
ton with a recent speech by the So
Wet foreign minister. M. Tchitcher-
in, a Moscow.
Hanover, Germany, May 5-Tne
communists have appealed to the
trade union workers and socialists to
hold an nti-Hindenburg demonstra-
ton Thursday the day on which the
bourgeois bodies are planning a
manifestation for the president elect.
Washington, May 5-Postmaster
General New today designated June
1 to as Better Mailing Week." for
an active nationwide campaign to
reduce the steadily mounting BUSH
ness of the dead letter office, which
is costing both the government and
the public heavy expense and waste
each year. The principal point will
be to induce mailers to place a re-
turn address on each piece of mail
to insure it's return to the sender if
for any reason it cannot be delivered
to the addressee.