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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-28
Liner Harding
Weathers Storm
And Rescues q Men

Hoboken. N. j., Oct. 27-(AP)-
The United States liner President
Harding poked her wave-scarred
nose through The Nafrows today
four days late but heroine of thrill
ling sea rescue.
The ship bore safely to port -
men and a cat, survivors OF the
foundered Italian freighter lgnazlo
Florio. who were saved from the
furv of the sea by the intrepid cap
tain and crew of the American YES
sell. 1Jord-
tueboat saw the President Hard
ing first as she entered the harpor
and whistIed hoarse salute. me
ships of all lands in the harbor TOOK
I'm the chorus of congratulations ana
the liners whistle. answering thelr
blasts. was not stilled until she had
locked.
Telling of an hours lull in the
storm which crippled the lgnazlo
Florio, Captain Grening OF the Pres
ident Harding said that only TINS
miraculous calming of the seas maze
the rescue possible. For hours the
liner had stood by the freighter but
until the abrupt subsiding OF the
storm Captain Grening was helpless
in the face Of the elements.
at was a miracle" Captain Lau-
no of the Italian vessel agreed.
For four hours the President Hard
ing fought the waves to reach the
distressed vessel which had broken
it's rudder and which was partly SUD
merged and listing so degrees from
it's shifted cargo of grain which II
was carrying from Montreal.
".Nightfall overlook us and the
lights on the Italian freighter were
extinguished by the inrushing wat
ers," said Captain Grening. we
played the searchlight on the vessei
during the night and circled around
her until dawn. All the time ter
rife storm ragged, and 1t was dlfn-
cult to keep Roadway with the Pres
ident Harding and avoid a crash.
Through a miracle the S5 mile
gale subsidized for about an hour and
our boats were manned and succeed
ed in reaching the virtually sub
merged vessel A line was thrown
from the freighter to the lifeboat
but the members of the crew were
unable to slide down the line and
were forced to drop into the water
We fished them out quickly as pos
sible and took them aboard the
President Harding"
The rescue was effected without
loss of life. Even a cat. the pet of
German seaman, tucked in his mas
ters shirt, was saved.
The Italian vessel lost its second
officer before the arrival of the
President Harding. He was washed
overheard from the ships bridge.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-28
Neon Liul1tinu

For the first time in Great Brit
ain an installation of neon lighting
Is now being applied outside the
London Coliseum. The apparatus is
one of the most interesting evolved
since the introduction of electric
lighting. Neon lighting is carried
out by means of glass tubes from
which the air has been exhausted
and replaced by small quantity of
pure neon gas at a pressure very
much below ordinary atmospheric
pressure. This neon gas is rendered
incandescent by the passage of a.
high voltage alternating current
passing between two metal electrodes
fitted at the ends of the tube. the
color OF the incandescent gas being
q peculiar rich form of flame color.
BY means of rotary converter the
direct current supplied from the
street mains is converted into alter
nating current that is required to
operate the light.-Chemical Age
<London).
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-28
High School Survey
To Fix on Extent
OF Endemic GOitre

Boston, Oct. 27-(AP)-The necks
of $4,000 high school boys and girls
throughout Massachusetts, viii DC
stretched for inspection by the state
department of public health in a sur
vey to determine the extent OF en-
demic goitre.
The survey which will start on
Nov. !, will include 80 communities
in the state and one purpose Will pc
to learn the relation of salt water 10
the disease. A theory that ocean
water has been effective in keeping
it down, because of its relatively high
percentage of iodine, has been ques-
toned, and it is hoped the survey
will establish the truth or falsity OF
the theory The relation of goitre
to the topography of the land and its
geological composition also will be
studied
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-28
$86O,O71 Income
B. & M. for September

Boston, Oct 27-(AP)-A net in
come for September of $S60,071 ar
ter fixed charges but before sinking
fund or equipment trust installments
was reported by the Boston & Maine
railroad today. This compares with
$4SS,941 in September, 1924.
Operating revenues showed an In
crease of $307,315' over the ceres
ponding month last year. although
passenger revenues fell off by $S9.-
943. Operating expenses were re
duced by S33, sos.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-28
One Dies, Several
Ill from Poison Put
In Gravy by Mistake

Constantine, Mich, Oct. 27-(AP)
Poison in powdered form, put into
gravy by mistake for flour by mem
Der of a weekend hunting party,
caused the death today of w. Merle
Burger, 80 years old, cashier of the
Commercial State Bank here. and the
serious illness of Clarence Brody and
John Wood, business men.
A group of hunters were seated IN
the living room of their cottage after
dinner, when several complained OF
illness. DIR. J. Howard Bush. who
was present. suspected the cause and
investigated.
When he found the poison in the
kitchen he. ordered everybody into
automobiles and they were driven at
top speed tot he Constantine hospital.
Burger was unconscious when the
hospital was reached and died with
out regaining consciousness.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-28
llIiteraey Reduced on Island OF
Porto Rico

After Santo Domingo. and even
after Cuba, any American must be
thrilled with pride at the sight OF
Porto Rico. There is no better road
system in the United States than the
trunk roads which bind this small
island into almost one continuous,
tightly packed community. The
schools planted over the island flying
the stars and Stripes, have reduced
illiteracy among the younger genera
ton from some rs per cent. to about
80 per cent. in 20 years.
The people are the most industri-
Gus, alert and progressive in the West
Indies, though scourged with tropical
diseases and hampered by a density
of population which ranks ahead OF
Japan's and Is five times that of
Cuba. being $50 to the square mile.
But the greatest difference is in the
politics. Porto Rico has its party
bosses. but stealing from the pub
lie treasury. as compared with other
Caribbean examples, is lost art.
Every man on the street in Cuba
either gloats over public pecula ton
or, II he be an "out," arraigns it as
national evil In Porto Rico no
such absence of shame is visible
Gardner l.. Harding, in Current HIS
tory Magazine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-28
l-AEINGs AND MEETINGS At
STATE HOUSE

Nov. 3-Meeting Of Governor and
Council for the hearing of cases on
pardon petitions.
Nov. 3-5-Ninth annual convention of
Maine Assessors Association in hall
of Representatives.
Nov. 4-Conference of various State
wide organizations to discuss next
years plans for Maine development,
Council Chamber.
Nov. 10-State board of examiners
for embalmers and undertakers give
examinations at State House.
Nov. 13-Competitive examination for
enlisted members Of Maine National
Guard for selection of one member
for admission to West Point Mill
Adjutant General, Augusta.
Dec .22-Christmas tree at P. NJ. in
hall of Representatives for Kennebec
county children in custody of State
Board of Charities and Corrections.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-28
Murderer Seeks
Executive Clemency

Concord, N. H., Oct. 27-(AP)-
George Hause. alias Joe Shine. who
is under death sentence following
conviction of murder in the first de-
gree in the death Of Moses Goldberg,
local merchant, has through attorn-
eys sought executive clemency and
communication of his sentence to life
Imprisonment, it was made known
here today. Hause was sentenced to
death by haging on Nov. II. and ap-
pealed to the supreme court for a
new trial.
The appeal was denied and the
verdict and sentence sustained. IL
is understood that the appeal will be
held at the first session of the gov
ernor and council.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-28
Americans Back,
Jailed in Peru as
Chile Sympathizers

New York, Oct. Z(.-(AP)-
Charging they had been mistreated
by police and a mob in Oraya, Peru,
because of suspected sympathy with
Chile in the Tacna-Arica dispute,
Ernest Colwell of Pecos, Texas, and
Gladstone Gillette of San Francisco,
arrived today aboard the Pacific
Steam Navigation Liner Ebro. The
men, who claim American citizen
ship. said they were kept in prison
for three days and only escaped mob
violence with the aid of a Peruvian
guard of IS soldiers.
Gillette said that he and Colwell
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. K. V.
Condor, English citizens when the
four were arrested on September %
and thrown into prison. Here they
were shackled with iron loops in
such a way that their only way of
resting was to sit down with their
feet six inches from the floor. They
were kept in this position, he said,
in a freezing temperature, while
every effort was made to force them
to confess hostile actions against
Peru.
Gillette said that they were kept
In Jail three days while a mob of
Peruvians surrounded the building
and made efforts to gain entrance
to assault them. At length they
were placed under q guard of Peru
Wan soldiers and were taken to Cal
lao where they were turned over to
the American consul. Mr.. and Mrs.
Condor went to Chile and Gillette
and Colwell started for their homes.
we were in the employ of cop
per mining company" Gillette said.
There were about 200 Americans
employed with lis and we were very
careful not to discuss the Tacna-
africa controversy and to this day do
not know why we were arrested and
treated as we We're"
The Peruvians are the most sus-
picious people in the world, every
look or gesture by an american, now
that General Pershing is attempting
to arbitrate the Tacna-Arica dispute
is interpreted as hostile to them. We
hoped that when we took our case
up with the American consul at CAL
lao that he would file complaint
with the State Department and it is
certainly our intention that every
thing dealing with our arrest and
Imprisonment is to so to the State
Department.
our case has been kept quiet and
suppressed when it should have been
given wide notice. There are thous-
ands of Americans in Peru and none
IS Tree from similar treatment If
they are not assured protection"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-28
A 100000 Peony Bed

To allow space for ploWing and
cultivation, peonies are set out in
rows five feet apart. Several men
are employed. on the Wild farms
throughout the year, even after
blossom time, to assist with the
work. During the spring rush land
in the fall about fifteen women and
boys cut sort and pack the partly
opened flowers in paper cartons and
the bulbs in wooden crates. When
the roots are dug the bulbs are di-
vided into three and five eye lots
and packed in sphagnum moss.
At the height of the peony season
the fields are beautiful as far as
one can see in every direction with
gorgeous satlny carmine- reds. pale
hydrangea pink, mauve rose with
silver tip, flesh white with cream
centers, brilliant crimson, dark pur-
pie, garnet with black reflex, silvery
pink, soft lilac, rich velvety crimson
and sulphur white. They stretch
across vast acres like glorious
rainbow Tutoring in the breeze.
There are no greenhouses. All
the work is done in the open sea-
son out of doors, or in the cellars
and refrigerating plant. Great piles
of peonies on their long stalks are
stood up everywhere to dry-against
the house, around the porch rail and
in the yard, while seventy five huge
washtubs are packed tightly with
them in the cellar Other buds. not
so fully opened, cut from the bushes
with a twenty-inch stem and placed
in huge clothes baskets. are carried
in buggies and automobiles from the
fields and placed in a great refrig-
Grating plant, until time to be Grated.
Then they are placed thirteen in a
punch in parchment paper which
has been left in water from four to
eight hours to harden, boxed and
sent on their journey to market
from ocean to ocean.-From Every
body's Magazine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-28
Say Condition,
In Oil Industrss
Are Misrenras,,

" ashington, Oct N
charge that Conditions !. n
try have been misrss..a VI
government, by ! ~ p,ss
american Petroleum
filed with President en-. my
servation board todsv yvla!
of Oklahoma. himself ay
man and a member {, !,
Under "strictest in; Il Z!
recy, Mr.. Oliver dec,s as'
tute's committee, chosss
with the oil board, mn.
mitted to Washington
was not based on I,n,..''' n
the situation but was ~,
off certain regulator 80. -
eminent might have il NJ
The protest win recs,s. ~
sideration by the board
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-28
Abe Attell Caught
With Lot Champagne

New York, Oct. q = (AP) :
Charged with possessing and trans
porting % bottles of champagne,
man, who gave his name as Wllllam
Brown, but who was declared by AS
sistant United States Attorney Watts
to be Abe Attell former lightweight
champion, was fined today 5000 by
Federal Judge Winslow.
Brown" was arrested recently
near the Del-Fey club in 45th street
as he stepped from a taxicab in
which the liquor was found.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-28
COMING EVENTS

Oct. 2S-Bishop Anderson OF the New
England area, Methodlst Ep1SGopai
odists from Eastern Maine at Bel
Oct. 2S-29-Sixteenth annual State
Conference of Social Workers at
Frye Hall. Portland.
Oct. 29--Waldo County Veterans AS
Oct. 29-Bangor District Methodist
rally. Orono.
Oct. 29-Annual meeting Of Knox and
Lincoln Farm Bureau at Grover
Oct. 29-School Health Education sec
ton, Maine Public Health Associa-
tion Portland High school.
Oct. 29-30-Maine Teachers Conven-
Oct. soECoiby day. w.terville.
oct. 3O-Maine Home Economics As
ISOLATION meets at Portland High
Oct. SO.-Masonic School on Instruc-
Oct. S0-Maine Parent-Teacher Asso-
citation meets at Portland High
Oct. S0-Maine kindergarten Associa-
ton meets at Portland.
Girls Contest. South Paris.
Oct. 3O-Nov. Boys and Girls Agri-
cultural Club of Androscoggin coun-
ty meets at Auburn.
Oct. 31-Fall Alumni day at Bowdoin
Oct. sIeNov. s-National Apple week.
Nov. 1-30-Open season on deer In
eight southern counties-Andro-
scoggin. Cumberland, kennebec.
sagadahoc. Knox. Lincoln Waldo
Nov. s-Annual meeting Of Kennebec
County Farm Bureau at Augusta Y.
NJ. C. A. building.
Nov. 3-5-Heart and chest clinic at
Bangor. conducted under auspices Of
Maine Public Health Association;
Nov. Masonic School OF INSTRUCTION
Nov. SmThomas Mott Osborne. speak
err, Bowdoin College. /.
Nov. boys and Girls Clubs annual
county contest at Winthrop.
Now 11-Armistice day.
Nov. 1I-26-Red Cross roll call.
Nov 12-13-Annual meeting of New
England Association of school su-
perintendents. Boston. Mass.
Nov. 13-15-Thirty-f ourth annual con-
vention of Maine Christian Endeavor
Union at Williston church, Portland.
Nov. 14-Annual young peoples con-
ference. Knox county cnurches'
Nov. 14-1S-Third annual high and
preparatory school journalistic con-
ference. University of Maine. Orono.
Nov. 16-22-American Education week.
NOV. lI-l9-malOo HOuOloSlCdl Ian
men, Creamerymen and Seed I'm.
provement Assn's. Portland.
Nov. 1S-Chest clinic at Augusta, con-
Quoted under auspices of Maine Pub
lie Health Association and under
the local direction of the Augusta
Public Health Association.
Nov. lS-President John w. O'Leary
of the United States Chamber of
| Commerce and Secretary David A.
Skinner to visit Portland Chamber
of Commerce.
Nov. 20-Annual Meeting of Associa-
ted Industries of Maine, Falmouth
Hotel, Portland.
| Nov. 21-Annual business meeting,
state Y. M. C. A. convention, Au-
burn. =,
Dec. 4-6-Annual Y. NJ. c. A. Boys
Conference, Portland.
Dec. City election, Rockland.
Dec. Especial referendum election
in Maine on two measures passed by
last Legislature, An Act making 1t
unlawful for any town or other mu-
nicipality to vote for or otherwise
establish any other system of time
| than standard time, and an act to
define certain grades of milk offered
! for sale within the state.
| Dec. S-10--Annual meeting Of Maine
State GRANGE. Bangor.
| Dec. 15-H. J. Marcoux concert, City
Opera House, Waterville.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-28
Lieut.. Doolittle
Makes An0tha,

Bay Shore Park. A.
q -By the Assoc;sss.' 100
Another laurel rests ~.
brow of Lieut.. John s
United States Army
Lieut.. Doolittle ists 9,
pulled his black a.
across a three kilou,ss..
the fastest time ever ma.
plane-245.713 miles u. 4
mark will become H. ~.
record for maximum, 49,
when recognized by m \
Aeronautique Internafias.'
made in a special speed I.
Lieut.. Doolittle enterN \
drove the same CurtIs, y.
which he yesterday von \
ometre Jacques Selma
race. A quartering VIVA I
course.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-28
NEWS BRIEFS

French finances cause downfall of
Painleve cabinet.
City of Rome officers testify before
naval inquiry board that they saw
S-51's lights.
Twenty killed and 80 injured in
train wreck near Victoria, Miss.
Firearms manufacturer admits
supplying New York gunner with
Maxim silencers.
Greek government orders its forces
promptly to evacuate Bulgarian ter
ritory.
American citizens on arriving in
New York charge they were mis-
treated by Peruvian police.
Peruvian Chilean situation up
changed by plebiscitary commission
meeting.
Coastguard forces searching waters
off Cape Cod for three men adrltt
from helpless schooner.
Norristown, Pa, Oct. 81 - (AP) -
Josephine Pancoast Widener Leidy,
daughter of Joseph Z. Widener. null
millionaire of Philadelphia, to-
day instituted divorce proceedings
against her husband. Carter Ran
dolph Leidy in the Montgomery
county court.
White Plains, N. Y, Oct. 27-(AP)
An affidavit filed in county court
today by Clarence O. Barring who
was arrested in 1924 charged with at
tempting to poison his wife by feed
ing her disease germs. declared that
they had become reconciled and have
been living together for the last two
months.
Boston, Oct. 27-(AP)-Reorgan
ization of the New Home Sewing
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Funeral Mrs. Duke

New York, Oct. 27.-(AP)-Fu-
nera! services were held in Broad
way funeral church today for Mrs.
Ailian N. Duke, divorced wife of the
lete James B. Duke, tobacco mag
nate. The services were attended by
only rs persons.
several music students who
studied under Mrs. Duke were
among those present at the services.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-28

Machine Company Of orange was APP
nroved nv Judge G.. w. Anderson III
federal court today, ending a TWO ana
. half wear receivership. The COM
pany was placed in the hanos oL
Charles n. Stoddard of Greenneio, a.
receiver, when inability to OBTAIN
working capital had threatened 10
embarasS 1t.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27-(AP)-Les-
islation to compel government pur-
chasing egencies to buy their sup
plies in domestic markets is not ia
vored by Pres. Coolidge. AS a mat
ter of policy the President feels that
these agencies ought generally to
favor American markets but realizes
that there are exceptions.
New York, Oct. 27-(AP)-A din
ner was given by the manufacturing
members Of the Aeronautical Cham-
Der of Commerce of America at the
New York Yacht Club in honor OF
the foreign contestants participating
in the recent seaplane race for the
Schneider cup at Baltimore The
presence of the flyers and others con-
nected with aviation from France,
England. Italy and the United States
gave the dinner an international
flavor.
Burlington, VT, Oct. 27-(AP)-The
offer of an apple pie from Vermont
which President Coolidge declined
was not from the Girls Club of the
University of Vermont" there being
no such organization. The pie was
offered by one of the states boys and
girls clubs of the University extern
sion service.
New Haven, Oct 27-(AP)-More
than sixty prominent educators Will
arrive here tomorrow to attend the
twenty seventh annual conference OF
the Association o. American Unlver-
stiles to be held at Yale University,
Friday and Saturday. The chief bust
ness of the conference will be the
discussion of the common problems
of graduate schools. At the session
Friday morning an address will be
given by Professor Leon B. Richard
son, of Dartmouth College. on THE
Liberal College and vocationaliSm.
Washington, Oct 27-(AP)-An
opinion by the attorney general hold
ing that the federal commission has
broad powers in conducting investi-
ora tiOnS under senate resolutions even
tho,,gh tbav do NOT charge specific
onrnorat;ons with ANTITRUST law yio-
10 lions was made public today at the
cnn,mission chief among the cases
rnIed unon were the General Electric
con,n.nv investigatiou and an in
o,,ir,, into the f1o,1r milling and bread
i,d,strv ordered in senate resolu-
tions ordered at the last session. The
,++orpax, Conora1 found that DESPITE
49, ,aci, nf d;rect allegations in the
Iour anu y. =, &c h.lxinp ar
COTDOFdLlOIlS
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The Hopi sn,k. 81

The only ceremonial s.
OF which / know the dan
mately the date, Is m 81
dance. which comes N NJ
the last of the month \
themselves never know i, \
until near the time, as M
the time when a SHADOW n
tain point on the mesa. N
watch and when a cer,s
touches this particular I,
they know the dance NM
a certain number Of dan
This makes it vary mi
year, by a few days.
This dance is held eitbs 4
Hotevilla or Walpi, thour
it occurs at Shumgouar }
hongnovi. 1t is the ciosIu
of a nine-day ceremonial Il
believe brings rain. Tho Z
caught and brought IN y
mummery. The whole "a,
a disgusting pagan rite n
hold live snakes in their III
dancing around the plan
drink an emetic Of stnsf /
and all stand in a row Y
violently over a cliff. Bal \
Hartman, in Adventure I'd
October.
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POULTRY sKoWa
Poultry

NOV I-I9 - Androscoggln Poultry
Nov. 24-26-Poultry Show. Farming
ton.
Dec. l-3-Treeport Poultry Show.
Portland.
Dec. 15-1S-Bangor Poultry Show.
Bangor
Dec. 29.Jan. South Berwick Poul.
try Show. South Berwick
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TRACK NEET4

Nov. and 6-Interfraternity track
meet at Bowdoin.
Nov. 7--Interclass Championship Meet,
u. of NJ.
Nov. Maine Interscholastic Cross
Country Championship Run, Colby
College.
Nov. Annual Maine Intercolle giate
cross country run at Orono.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-28
colIeee FOOTBALL Games in Maine

Oct 31-Bates VS.. Bowdoin, at Bruns-
wick.
Oct. 31-University of Maine VS.. Colby
at Waterville.
Nov. st. Stephens VS.. Colby, At
Waterville.
Nov. 7-Bowdoin VS.. University Of
Maine lat Orono.
Nov. 11-Bates VS.. Colby, at Water
vile.
Nov. 14-New Hampshire State vs.. U.
of M. at Orono.
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To Frivolous Fay

Be serious, be militant,
Be, If you will, imperious.
But get a less light headed slant;
Be serious.
Your rhapsodies delirious
the maddest swain would olsen
chant;
Sometimes they greatly weary us!
And still we love you! That grant;
A fact that's most mysterious.
Pefhaps 1t is because you can't
Be serious!-Edward w. Barnard.
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For Shame. R;IIi

Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times1
William Crutchfield III appeared as
Aladdin of the Wonderful Lamp. His
coat of many colors was a mandarin
Jacket imported from China, encrust-
en- with gorgeous embroidery. A
Snlnese headdress and a strand IT
bright beads finished the costume.