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Evening star., 1926-12-12
OLSON SUSPECT HELD
AS ARMY. DESERTER
Youth Arrested in Georgia Is Not
One Wanted in Staying,
Officers Declare.
Rx the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ALMA, Ca, December Thames
Pittman, who was being held in Bacon
County jail. suspected of being Erd-
man Olsen. wanted in Prairie du
Chen, Wis, for Staying his sweet
heart, Clara Olson is not Olson.
Sheriff w. L. Johnson received a mes.
sage from the sheriff of Crawford
County, Wis, tonight stating that the
youth is not the one wanted there.
Bacon County officers said tonight
that Pittman has confessed that he
recently deserted from the United
States Army at Fort Slocum, N. Y,
where he had enlisted three months
ago. He said his home was In South
Carolina.
The youth, who was employed as a
farm laborer, was arrested Dy
Sheriff Johnson last Sunday when the
sheriff was informed that Pittman
fitted the description of the youth
wanted in Wisconsin.
Pittman will be returned to the
Army authorities at Fort Slocum.
The diaphone, the new foghorn that
has a range of 40 miles, was invented
as a musical instrument.
Evening star., 1926-12-12
ENGINEERS PLAN AIR
TRIP TO PARIS AND BACK
Woman May Make Flight in ALI
Metal Plane From New
York in Spring.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associsted Press.
NEW YORK, December 11.-Plans
for a continuous New York-Paris-and-
return fight were announced tonight
by All-American Engineers, Inc, an
organization composed of expert me-
chanical engineers and their financial
hackers,
An all-metal airplane, designed by
Mai. Edmund Burke Cairns, is being
prepared for the. flight, the statement
said, the motive plant selected being
new type engine developed by K. ".
Stevens. 1t is claimed this will weigh
only 500 pounds while delivering 1000
horsepower.
Mrs. Stevens has been invited to
make the flight, scheduled "early next
Spring."
Evening star., 1926-12-12
New Mexico's Governor-Elect Refuses
To Dress, But Inaugural Group Insists

until the festivities start.
Gov ELECT Dillon has stated he
would prefer to have no dance rather
than to have 1t formal. I've never
seen the necessity for wearing dress
suit in my life, and hardly want to
begin to put on the dog at my age"
the next chief executive Of New
Mexico said.
The committee in charge of cere-
monies has countered with a state
ment that "the ball will be strictly
formal" and that "Mr. Dillon will
not direct our actions until after the
first of the year, and until that time
he Is our guest and must conform to
custom as we'll as every one else"
Evening star., 1926-12-12
MAY QUIT OLYMPIAD.
Navy Is Undecided on Future With
Association.

The Navy Is considering whether 1t
will continue it's cooperation with the
American Olympic Association, or
withdraw 1t, in view of the change in
the organization of that body which
took place recently, Secretary Wilbur
said yesterday.
The Secretary declined to say what
features of the reorganization were
objected to. In the past the Navy has
aided officials of the Olympiad by
sponsoring elimination trials, supply
ing transportation for athletes and
participating generally In the associa-
tons business.
Evening star., 1926-12-12
Cashier Denied Parole.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, December IL
@.-The state board of pardons and
paroles has declined to grant q pa.
role to Thomas B. Carroll, former
cashier of the Peoples Savings Bank
at Jackson, serving an agreed sen
tence of three years in connection
with the wrecking Of the bank. This
was announced today.
Evening star., 1926-12-12
Daniel J. Griffin Dies.
special Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, December IL
Daniel J. Griffin. Al, former Repre-
sentative in Congress, active in Demo.
cratic politics in Brooklyn many
years, died in st. Marks Hospital
today following an operation Friday
for appendicitis.
Evening star., 1926-12-12
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SANTE FE, N. Mex, December IL.
Out here where gorgeous woolly
chaparrajos cause no comment and
the abbreviated costume of the In
dians causes not so much as the flick
er of an eyelash, great stir Is being
raised over formal evening dress.
Gov. elect r. c. Dillon Is the center
Of the controversy. He says he will
not wear full evening dress to the
inaugural ball on New Year eve.
The executive committee in charge
of the ceremonies says that the gov
ernor-elect must conform to custom.
The matter rests there. and the
outcome probably will not be known
Evening star., 1926-12-12
BURGLARS GET SIS.
Ehret Roofing Co.'s Offices Are
Entered.

The Office of the Ehret Roofing Co.,
1l6 O street, was burglarized last
night and approximately SIS stolen
from a file cabinet which was broken
into.
Bernard Weaver, manager Of the
company, told police that the exact
amount was not known to him. but
that a small sum only had been left
there over the week end. Papers had
been scattered about the floor when
the police arrived.
Evening star., 1926-12-12

Nearly $2.500,000 will be spent in
construction of the. electric lighting
and power project Of Dublin, Ireland.
Evening star., 1926-12-12

Many London women carry Tall
Tdrectoire canes this season.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-31
Sketch of Life

Elected to the Senate In 1908 as
one of the pioneers in the movement
which swept so many insurgents in
to the United States Senate from the
northwest, Albert Baird Cummins re-
manned to become a regular of the
regulars. He assembled to high place
in the leadership of the Republican
organization and served for more
than five years as president pro tenn
pore of the Senate.
An exponent of what was known
as the Iowa Idea" in tariff legisla-
ton. since translated into law in the
found himself In violent disagree
ment with the Republican leaders on
the fundamental principle of protec-
ton and joined with Deliver, Bristow,
Clapp and Beveridge in the memoir
able Senate fight over the famous
Payne -Aldrich tariff.
While thus placing himself in the
forefront of the ranks of the Re-
publican Progressives, as they were
defined in those days, Senator Cum
Minis allowed the Progressive move
ment to run ahead of him. AS a re-
suit, some of the Progressive element
in his state opposed their former
leader in his ambition to succeed
himself in 1920, and the old guard
leaders came to his rescue.
Telling a group of friends about
| it at the National Convention in Chi
cago that year, Leslie M. Shaw, for
mer secretary of the treasury, and
| the man Cummins succeeded as gov
ernor of Iowa in the first outcrop-
pings of revolt in the Republican
ranks, saw the humor, as he put it,
| in "Gbayp maxine cnnephaG n c11nnnrf
| of Cummins."
"Why did you do it?" he was asked.
"Well, as l told Albert" Mr.. Shaw
replied, II thought it best to sink our
differences and help him put out the
| fires he had set"
Although the tariff furnished the
vehicle in which Mr.. Cummins first
rode to nation-w wide attention, his
real life work in the Senate was in
the moulding of railroad legislation.
His first serious task in life had been
in railroad construction and while
he turned later from that to the law,
it always held his interest
Early in his Senate service Mr..
Cummins obtained place on the In
terstate Commerce Committee and as
its chairman in 1919 he became Joint
author with Representative Esch, of
Wisconsin, of the transportation act
under which the railroads were re-
turned to private operation after the
war. Few pieces of legislation en-
acted by Congress in recent years
have become the center of such con-
troyersy. The Transportation Act
brought down on Senator Cummins
the wrath of organized labor. and
was the chief factor in the wide OPP
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-31
Unusual Symbolic Clock

Any day just before noon. the
passerby will see curious crowd
outside the Schwarzenbach buildings
at the head Of Fourth avenue, New
Yorks Silk Lane, patiently waiting
for the Darbrook Silk Clock to
strike.
This massive bronze time-piece was
dedicated to the silk trade of the city
by Robert Schwarzenbach, in whose
native Switzerland there are num-
Der Of famous performing clocks
some, centuried old-attracting and
fascinating many visitors.
Once each day, the symbolic fig
ures which surmount the clock tell
the STORY of Silk" Zoroaster, Door
of all Things" sits enthroned. At his
feet kneels the slave. Matter" wait
ing to be called into Life, is repre-
scented by the homely silk cocoon. on
the first stroke of twelve, the Master
waves his magic wand, the slave
beats the anvil, and stroke for stroke
the breaking cocoon yields up the
Queen of Silk" She carries the tulip,
emblem of eternal beauty. AT the
last stroke of the hour the Queen
disappears to remain hidden until
noon of the next day.
The clock is one of the master
pieces of William Zorach, celebrated
New York sculptor. The silk worm,
cocoon. moth and the mulberry tree,
appear in the beautifully wrought
decorations of the clock.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-31

position that developed to his re-
nomination to the Senate in 1920.
Three years later it stood as the
barrier to the contamination of his
ambition to remain as chairman OF
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion while actually serving as Presi-
dent of the Senate after the removal
of Calvin Coolidge from the capitol
to the White House The Republic
can Insurgents conducted a bitter
fight against him and, finally, by
joining with the Democrats, unseated
him. A Democrat, Ellison d. Smith,
of South Carolina, succeeded him al
though the Republicans controlled all
the other standing committees.
Born February Is 1850, near Car
michaels, Pa. Mr.. Cummins was the
son of Thomas and Sarah Cummins.
His father was a carpenter and the
son picked up the elements of that
trade as an odd-time helper to his
parent. He attended public school
and later entered college at Waynes-
boro. Early in his college career he
felt the call of the West and, bor-
rowing $50 from banker uncle. set
out for the territory beyond the Mis-
Sissippi.
After lang journey ne landed ID
Iowa, but soon found that the tales
of untold riches easily acquired in
that then virgin country were in a
class with some of the myths re-
counted in the books Of his school
days. After his liquid assets had
dwindled to Sc, he obtained place in
the office of the recorder of Clayton
county The pay was small and
when it became necessary to refur-
nish his wardrobe he went into the
country where as a carpenter he
helpd to build a mill, receiving s1.5(
a day.
Later Mr.. Cummins got a Job II
| the express office at MacGregor. IN
| Clayton county, on the Mississippi
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-31
Heart Attack Kills
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with two sisters, Miss Margaret and
Miss Anne Cummins.
Senator Cummins' death may ne
cessitate the election of two United
States senators in the November
election in this state, one to fill his
unexpired term which ends March
next. The Republican and Democrat
ic committees may ~be reconvened
within a few days to nominate candi-
dates for the short term.
Senator Cummins seemed in the
best of health and as late as Wednes-
day made his regular visits to his
office. On Wednesday night he had
dinner with Frank Kaufman, Des
Moines banker, and an intimate
friend. Mr.. Cummins was in high
spirits and was looking forward with
zest to work on his autobiography
to which he contemplated devoting
his attention during the coming WIN
ter.
The other sisters of Senator Cum
Minis are Mrs. Lou McHenry and
Mrs. Theodore Crete, both of Des
Moines, and Mrs. Lyle Sutherland. of
Sioux Falls. S. d. J. c. Cummins, a
brother, lives here.
Senator CumminS' daughter, Mrs.
Hollis A. Rawson, also resides here
as do the grandchildren, Cummins
and Thomas Rawson, and great
grandson, Albert Cummins Rawson.
Senator Cummins' farewell address
to the constituency which he rep
resented for 80 years, was delivered
over the radio at the close of his
campaign for reelection last June.
His last public address was in the
senate a few days earlier, during the
debate on the farm relief question.
The uneXpired term also may be'fill-
ed by gubernatorial appointment and
some political authorities considered
it probable that Governor Hammill
will appoint successor, owing to
the short time remaining before the
term expires, March 4, next. Gov
ernor Hammill is now in the west
attending the conference of COVER
nOrS.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-31
A ten-piece
orchestra IN your
living-room

THAT'S how the Orthophonic
Victrola sounds when you put
on one of the latest dance hits.
The new and exclusive Ortho-
phonic principle makes the
music a living thing-vibrant,
stirring, tingling. You can't
help dancing to it. Let US
show you the Credenza as
above) or any of the many
beautiful Victor models, at a
wide range of prices. Come in
today and get thrill.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-31
President Hears
Of Cummins Death

Paul Smiths, N. Y, July 30-(P)-
Word of the death of Senator Cum
Minis of Iowa was received with ex-
pressions of sorrow at the summer
White House.
President Coolidge was notified
soon after he reached White Pine
Camp from the executive offices late
in the day but made no formal COM
ment.
Only few minutes before word
was received of the death a telegram
had been sent from the executive Of
fees addressed to Mr.. Cummins on
an executive matter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-31

The Augusta public has the oppor-
tunity of witnessing real laugh
program at the Opera House today.
The feature picture is entitled
Ladies' OF Leisure" and while the
title is possibly a little misleading
the picture, as a matter of fact. is an
out and out comedy drama and one
that has met with the approval Oh
audiences all over the country.
Starting today the new serial pic
ture will be shown, the title is THE
Radio Detective" This is something
different in the way of serial pictures
and will undoubtedly be a welcome
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-31

part of the State in regard to the
Are prevention work during the dry
season
Highway Police Officer Levi Flint
of Dover-Foxcroft was a caller at the
highway police headquarters at the
State House, yesterday.
Clarence o. Brown, deputy state
sealer of weights and measures, re.
turned Friday from q several days
tour OF oxford and Franklin coun-
Ties. where accompanied by Mr.. Hall
Of the department he was engaged in
testing gasoline pumps.
Miss Marjorie Lee returned Fri
day from Bangor. being accompanied
nv Miss Helen Curran who had been
visiting friends and relatives al
Orono for a few days.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-31

change for many from the stereotyp-
ed serial picture of the past.
An Educational comedy and Snap
shot complete the program.
In order to accommodate the
crowds there will be four complete
SHOWS given, at two o'clock. four
o'clock, six o'clock and eight o'clock.
Adv
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-31
State House Chat

State Forest Commissioner Neil l..
violette left Friday for Jackman to
confer with the chief wardens In that
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-31
ADJUSTMENTS
AUGUSTA OPERA HOUSE, SAT-
URDAY

ladies Of Leisureo" comedy drama;
First Episode radio Detective
New Serial; Educational COMEDY;
Snapshots. Four Complete Shows,
Two, Four, Six and Eight O'CLOCK
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-31
| FACE WOULD
|SMART TERRIBLY
Hard, Red PimpIes Broke
Out. Cuticura Heals.

"My trouble was caused by eat
I ing apples. My face began to break
out with pimples that were hard
and red at first and then festercd
and scaled over. They spread all
/ over my face making it very sore.
After the scales came off my face
would burn and smart terribly.
~ used everything could think
\ of without any benefit. A friend
recommended Cuticura Soap and
| Ointment so purchased some, and
1 in four weeks I was healed, after
using two cakes of Soap and one
l box Of Ointment" (Signed) Mrs.
1 Edith Brown, 81 Fortney Pl., Barre,
VT, Sept. "a, 1925.
l Rely on Cuticura Soap, Ointment
and Talcum to keep your skin clear.
Soap Csc. Ointment 25 and Soc. Tslcum Sc; Sold
I Everywhere. Sample each free. Address !:
aCuticura Laboratories Dept H, Maiden, Mash
@fH Cuticura Shaving Stick Csc.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-31
New York Regains
Lead from Texas in
Foreign Shipments

Washington, July 10.-(P)-A1-
though showing a decline of nearly
$S,O0O,OOO from the figures for the
same period last year, New York,
with $195,510,071 in exports, re-
gained the lead from Texas in the
outgoing merchandise shipments
during the first quarter of 1926, the
Commerce Department today an
nounced.
Texas exports declined nearly
81, OO0,O0O to total of S12S. S73,-
6l3 for the quarter, due chiefly to
decreased shipments of cotton and
lower prices for that commodity.
Total exports for the quarter were
valued at 81 ,09S, S39, 243, as COMPARED
with 81, go, 769, 900 for the first quar-
ter of 1925, and 81 1881, 440, 31S for the
last quarter of that year.
Exports for the first quarter of
1876 as compared with the corre-
spending period last year were for
the New England states:
First First
Quarter Quarter
State 1926 1925
Massachusetts, 26,7S9,7 ISL %, 527, O93
Connecticut, 1922 O32 99S4 $40
Rhode Island, 4.14S,774 3.S42,659
New Hampshire. .7So. $40 I 5O1 731
Maine, 1.24S, 015 1,474.117
Vermont, 6O9.931 6Se 7o6
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-09-24

Indifference toward local problems and affairs is akin to
the deness being displayed by the reclining character in this
cartoon He expects to receive his share of the wood when
is all sawed up but he fails to lend hand the task just
the Indifferent citizen wants good government and proper
administration without any activity his part Often he
doesn't take the trouble to vote -
Very often if it not for few livewres in average
American cities these towns would go backward instead Of
forward but what they able to do nothing compared
what united cooperation could do The busiest and most
prosperous town is the with the highest percentage of
booster residents residents who will readily agree there
no better town earth.
Keeping Pleasantvle the road to success is a job
that requires the cooperation of every Those who sit
back and leave it all to else should not complain
things suit them Let everybody get busy and take
hand at the
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-09-24

would begin to form more
readily in a fresh water polar
ocean than in one Of salt water.
And as fresh water evaporates
faster than salt, there would be
more moisture in the air to be
deposited as snow, ice-particie5
and frost in the upbuilding Of
the ice cap as it stretched over
the land. Consequently the
salter the sea the greater the
obstacle to the return and dura-
ton of glacial ages, and the
less the frozen areas Of inter
vening periods,
The increasing salinity Of the
oceans from their fresh-water
condition is regarded by Mr.
Browne as an essential, if not
the primary, element in the
translation Of longtime curves
of solar radiation into climatic
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-09-24

the ages. The halls" or
large single-room dwellings
Of the first English barons grew
up around it. By analogous
derivation it still is the French
mans only word for home.
Through generations here it
warmed and nurturcd in child
hood many who became in ma
turity the Nation strongest
and best; and some yet living
remember days on the farm
when they ate all their meals
by its side. Apparently the
much-censurcd completely Of
life in the twentieth century has
itself enforced, in at least one
salient, homely respect, a re-
turn to simplicity. And the
modern kitchen, with it's cabi-
nets and aluminium and white
enamel is such a bright and
bcaming place!
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-09-24
Wants Library Open Nights.

TO the Editor:
Dear Sir: AS the city is con
stantly growing in size, | believe
that the public library, located ill
the high school, should continue
its summer custom, and open at
least one evening week during
the entire year.
AS like to read books, but work
during the day. ii is practically inn
possible for me to get anything to
read unless | send one of the chill
dren in tho neighborhood with my
returned books. and trust to luck
that what she will bring back will
interest me.
| think there are number OF
readers in the city who take the
same attitude as | do. ! also think
that the library would have a lare-
CT circulation if it remained open
ono or two nights a week.
in Mortified they work an excel
lent plan, or will work it as soon
as the school there is completed.
The librarian will so on duty at
4 O'Clock in the afternoon and re
main until 8 O'Clock. This will
give everyone, school children as
well as Grownups, a chance to Sc
cure books.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-09-24

effects. He says he offers the
argument as contribution in the
discussion Of the length Of the
ice ages and the inter-glacial
periods. He sets forth his
proposition in considerable DC,
tail. 1t supplements his fam'E-
ar views concerning the effect
of the solar constant and ocean
temperatures upon present-day
weather. incidentally, we are
reminded that the term I'M
sailed seas is applicable to the
oceans as they have existed in
geologic yesterdays, as we'll as
to the Great Lakes as they cx-
ist today. 1t may be further
observed, in view of all these
things, that we should speak Of
the salt Of the sea with respect
equal to that accorded the salt
Of the earth.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-09-24

Warns Speeding Motorist.
To the Editor.
Dear Sir: With school started
and hundreds of our little ones on
the streets of the city going to
and from institutions, allow us to
sound Just a word of warning to
motorists who use the highways
al Joining the schools of the city
Let them take every precaution
to safeguard the lives of the chill
dren Intent on his games, child
will cross the road in front of a
car without watching Use OF the
horn and slow speed will, in many
instances, save lives of children.
The signs placed some distance
along the road from the schools
help visitors to- avoid accidents.
However, to residents of the city
such signs are not necessary They
know where the schools are, and
they know il is up to them to
avoid any accident that they can.
In the past, few children of the
city have suffered because of the