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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-04
Minor Trouble Only
Between Police and
Passaic. n. J.. Strikers

Passaic. N. j., March 3.-(AP).-
The second clash in two days be-
tween police and striking mill work.
ers occurred tonight one block from
the Botany Worsted Mills, where a
crowd OF strikers was dispersed yes
terday by streams of water from fire
hoses after. tear bombs had proved
ineffective.
No bombs of water were used to-
night. None was seriously injured
and no arrests were made. Newspa-
per photographers suffeed the prin-
cipal casualties, about 10 Of them
having their camera sma shed by po-
lice. Police scattered the crowd of
more than 5000 by prodding the
workers with their sticks after the
strikers had thrown snowballs, pieces
Of ice and stones.
Other developments of the day
were the arrest of eight strikers, the
closing of Passaic hall where mass
NEE tings had been held and the con-
vicrion of a man and women strik-
err for disorderly conduct, each being
sentenced to 80 days in Jail
The disturbance between strikers
and police occurred at the conclu-
sion of two mass meetings addressed
by Elizabeth Curley Flynn, former I.
w. W. agitator.
At the meeting Miss Flynn ap-
realed to the workers to resist of
fers of the mill owners to return to
work and pleaded for the solidarity
of the union.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-04
OLD HOUSE WITHIN
Walls OLD BOSTON
THEATRE Being RACED

Boston, March 3.-(AP).-In spite
of quests into libraries and through
histories, students of the history of
old Boston and newspapermen have
on their hands an unsolved mystery.
Wreckers engaged in the demolition
of the 75-year-old Boston Theater
happened upon surprise when they
found that the walls of the famous
old structure had been built around
an ancient house. The belief that its
presence there might easily be ex-
planned has been dispelled. No one
apparently knows how it came there,
or Its past, or what sentiment may
have caused the builders of the thea
ter to allow it to stand. Histories
have revealed nothing.
1t is a two and one-half old time
dwelling in an exceptionally good
state of repair. although it appears
to be about $50 years old. A single
dormer window projects from it's
slate roof. Antique windows,
strangely out of harmony with ono
another pierce it's one visible wall.
So different are they that they sug-
gest that long before the theater was
built some of them may have been
altered to meet the eXigencies of
some sort of building establishment.
The house apparently adjoined the
part of the theater containing the
long lobby which extended from
Washington street to the auditorium
entrance and the gallery staircase.
1t has been entered by means of the
roof over that lobby. When the
great staircase it torn down the old
house will e more accessible and
more readily seen.
Old associations of some unex-
planned feeling of sentiment on the
part of the builders of the playhouse,
it is believed. resulted in the surviv-
al of the ancient dwelling hidden
away within the theater.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-04
| CLAIM VERMONT
| AUTO Law CONFLICTS
WITH U. S. STATUTES

White River Junction, VT, Mar. 3
-(AP)-An automobile registration
case of interest to automobile own
ers in New York, New Hampshire
and Massachusetts came up in mu-
nicipal court here today. It marked
the commencement of litigation to
determine whether motorists and
bus line operators paying registra-
ton fees in states bordering Ver-
mont must register their cars in this
state also. That part of the state
laws in under attack as against the
state and federal constitutions.
C. d. Williams of West Lebanon,
N. H., laundry proprietor with an
interstate business, and Louis Cap
Ian of Lebanon, N. H., operating mo-
tor buses between White River
Junction and Hanover, N. H., are
charged with offenses against the
Vermont automobile laws. The
complaint against Williams says that
he caused motor trucks to be OPP
Grated in Vermont for more than
&c trips in 1926 without registra-
LlOl laws.
against Captain charges maintaining
Of his bus line without Vermont
registration. Both men furnished
bail today and the case was contin-
ued to April 20.
Counsel for the defendants con-
tend that the Vermont statute is dis
crlminatory and conflicts with the
fourteenth amendment to the federal
constitution, and that it interferes
with interstate commerce in viola
ton of article 1 of that constitu-
ton. They further contend that the
law is unconstitutional In having
gone beyond the scope of regulators
under the police power of the state,
so that 1t Is now revenue law tax
ing interstate commerce.
The Automobile Owners Protect
I'VE Association has been formed
with headquarters here to fight the
law in question.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-04
Closing Arguments
Start in Trial of
Quigley and Others

Boston. March 3.-(AP-CloSlng ar
euments were started today in the
trial of Mayor Lawrence F. Quigley of
Chelsea and IA other defendants on
conspiracy charges to violate the ma
tional prohibition law. The defense
rested after Mayor Quigley had taken
the stand and testified that Samuel
Berger and Louis Berger. star govern
ment witnesses, had told him they had
been threatened with Jail unless they
agreed to swear they had paid protec-
ton money to the mayor and his broth
sr, Police Inspector, Thomas Quigley,
another defendant.
Previously the government had ask
ed and the court granted directed YER
diets of not guilty in favor of four
other defendants. George Weinstein
and Ernest (Dutch) Henry were dis
charged because the court ruled that
since they had been recently tried in
federal court on similar charges the
present case would put them in double
jeopardy. Harry Goldman and Leon
ard we're found not guilty on INSULT
Gent evidence.
Attorney William r. Scharton, who
opened the arguments on behalf of the
defense attacked the credibility of
many of the government witnesses and
charged that they were there to "testi-
fly at the expense of anyone to save
themselves"
John P. Feeney, who IS representing
the Quigleys, will follow Scharton to-
morrow, and then District Attorney
Harold d Willior,c will start nreSeO-
taton of the governments side. Judge
Brewster is expected to charge the
jury late In the day with the posi-
bility that the case will be in the
hands Of the jury by Friday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-04
Teacher Resigns
When Claimed Taught
Natural WedlOck

Shannon City, Ia, March 3.-(AP)-
Guy Stockdale, principal of the Con-
solidated School, has resigned, follow
ing parently reports to school author
tiles. that he had taught his classes
theories of natural wedlock without
marriage ceremony.
The school board accepted the resig-
nation after questioning the principal
instructor.
C. E. Finch, chairman of the board,
said that "Mr. Stockdale was unsatis-
factory, that was ALL" He admitted,
however. that reports concerning the
teaching or mention of wedlock with
out license was the prime cause of the
acceptance of Stockdale's resignation.
I'VE can make no charges. however"
he said, because there was mo inves-
tigation completed. When we placed
the complaints of the parents before
Mr.. Stockdale he resigned"
Finch said Stockdale denied advo-
eating the theory, saying that he had
merely told members of the class of
instances where such practice existed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-04
tenement HOUSE
BURNS IN MADISON
WITH Loss $4,000
Especial to Kennebec JournaD

\SpeCldl u heIlileDeC JOuTndlJ
Madison, March Sire this morn
ing badly damaged the big three
story tenement house owned 10y
Harry Hagopian on Old Point av-
enue. The blaze caught in the up
per part of the house near the
center and had gained much
Roadway when discovered. The fire
department responded promptly but
were able to do but little as the
flames had gained so much Roadway
when discovered.
The house was occupied by three
families, Fred Cyr and j. DiNorscia
on the ground floor. Mrs. Alice
Landry on the second floor and the
third story vacant. Mr.. DiNorscia
saved practically all his furniture
and his loss will be covered by in
surance. The loss by Mr.. Cyr on his
furniture is estimated at $1,000, with
no insurance. The loss of Mrs.
Landry on her furniture is estimated
at $4,000, with no insurance. Mrs
Landry has five children and prac-
tically all of her belongings saved
were the clothes worn by her family
The loss on the house is estimated
at $4,000, with an insurance of
$1,000. The village street lighting
system was put out of commission
during the fire by wires connected
with the house. The all out was
sounded at $50 o'clock.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-04
Brother Ex-MayOr
Curley to Rescue in
Financial Transaction

Boston. Mar. 3-(AP)-Former
Mayor James NJ. Curley was saved
from pail or taking the poor debtors
oath when his brother, John J. Cur
ley, former city treasurer, sent to-
night a check for S2.434.7S to city
hall. 1t represented an amount
spent on a junket which members of
the city council took to the west last
year.
Today the arrest of the Curley
brothers and Rupert S. Carven, city
auditor, was authorized on an execu-
ton taken out in supreme court by
William J. Drew, counsel for George
Mccartney and others. on a bill in
equity. He sought the return of
money expended for the trip John
Curley said that his payment, which
included interest on the money, had
not sheen earlier because he desired
an order of execution issued to COM
plete the record of the case. He in
Dictated that the legislature would be
asked to remedy the general situa-
ton.
The money, over which a long le-
gal battle was fought, was appropri-
ateds by the city council to finance a
trip to several cities to gain informa-
ton as to the ACCESSIBILITY of erect
ing hospital for incurables on Park
er Hill. When the plan was an
nounced, Mccartney and other tax
payers moved against it in supreme
court. The bill was dismissed, how
ever, and $4,000 was turned over to
the council members for the junket.
An unexpected balance of 1884 was
turned back to the city after the trip.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-04
IN ILLINOIS

Chicago, Mar. 3.-(AP)-Three
trainmen were killed and more than
70 passengers were injured. Is Sc
riously, in a head-on collision of
an Illinois Central suburban train
and Michigan Central fast freight,
on the South Side early today. Off
Gals Of each railroad Immediately
began an investigation of a report
that an open switch was RESPONSE
BILE for the crash. A towerman and
his helper near the scene of the
wreck were held for questioning by
a coroner's jury.
The engines and the first car OF
the express train crumpled into
masses of tangled wreckage.. Pas
sengers> on the suburban train
those not too seriously injured
fought their way through a maze of
shattered glass and splintered wood
to the open.
Scenes of terror and confusion
were described by policemen and
firemen who fastened to the rescue
For two hours after the wreck in
JNiSo AhCit anu WOLtel were D6lnS
taken from the debris and sent to
hospitals. ReScuers climbed to the
trains on ladders as the tracks are
high above the street level at the
point of the crash.
The suburban train. a southbound
Matteson local of four coaches, was
travelling at a speedy rate when il
approached the interlocking system
at Dorchester avenue and 6Sth
streets, about eight miles south. OF
the loop.
AS the suburban crossed from the
fifth to the first track, the engine
man saw the headlight of the north
bound freight tearing toward them
on the ame,track. The engineer OF
the passenger train set the brakes
and jumped. The crash was heard
for blocks and attracted thousands
The coach directly behind the en-
CINE of the Illinois Central train was
derailed. In it rescuers found most
of the badly injured.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-04
Hold Bangor Man
On Forgery Charge

Bangor, Me-, March 3.-(AP).-
John S. Dalton was arrested at his
hime in Brewer tonight on war
rant charging him with forgery in
completely with Chester p. Stewart.
late school agent, in operations that
are said to have involved the loss Of
thousands to the city. Dalton Is a
brother-in-law Of Stewart. Stewart
was arrested January IS and held in
$4,000 bail for the superior court On
February 26 Stewart Dorsey, other
wise know as Stewart Lynne, a
school janitor, was arrested and held
in $1,000 bail. Dalton, unable to give
bail tonight. was Jailed to await
hearing on Thursday,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-04
Record Number Sales

Total sales, as compiled by Asso-
ciated Press tabulators, were 3,7S5,700
shares, as compared with 3,015,700
yesterday, and S.34O,6o0 in the previ-
Gus record breaking session Of Nov
ember 10, 1925.
The number of industrial stocks
dealt in was $50, as compared with
the previous high of 625 established
yesterday.
Despite the unprecedented and al
most perpendicular decline of the
past week, which is believed to have
reduced the value of securities listed
on the exchange by over s1,00O,000,-
900. No uneasiness over the financial
situation and credit standing of brok-
erage houses was apparent in lead
ing banking circles tonight.
One of the most powerful banking
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Officials Await
Return Countess
Cathcart to Ellis Isl.

Washington, March 3-(AP)-The
labor department closed its doors to-
day without any action being taken,
it was said officially, in the case of
the countess of Cathcart, whose ten
ay liberty from Ellis Island on per-
sonal bond of $500 expires at II
o'clock tonight.
Assistant Secretary White was in
constant communication during the
day with other officials Of the de-
partment here and in New York "to
learn what was going on at the New
York end"
He conferred late in.the day with
Assistant Secretary Husband, who
remarked afterwards that the depart
ment would do nothing today because
it couldn't do anything"
1--WE expect the countess to return
to the island" said Mr.. Husband, "be-
fore the liberty expires" p.
Asked what would be done If the
titled Englishwoman, barred from en-
try on grounds of moral turpitude,
did not return to the Immigration
station in time, Mr.. Husband intimat
ed that officials in New York would
have to take care Of that situation.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-04
Would Make Mass.
State Police Force Into
Semi-Military Group

Boston, Mar. 3-(AP)-Reorgan
ization of this states police forces
into a semi military force was pro-
posed today at hearing of the point
legislative committee on the judici-
airy. The committee is conducting
hearings on bills intended to lessen
crime through improvement in GRIM
inal court procedure and other means.
William C. Thompson of the Bos-
ton Bar Associations committee on
amendments to the laws. said that
the police reorganization he sugges-
ted was necessary because "the po-
lice are still operating as in the days
of 1860, the days of horses and bug
giees and shot guns, while the GRIM
inals operate in automobiles, use
automatic guns and roam all over
the state. How is a policeman who
has a definite beat and goes home to
lunch going to cope with bandit in
a fast automobile?"
Abolition of the supreme and SUI
perior courts was also proposed by
Mr.. Thompson, to be replaced by one
court, with various divisions and
masters and other specialists for
hearing evidence:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-04
House Military
Throws Aside MANY
Air Defence PrOpOsals

washington, March 3,-(APl-The
numerous proposals which have arisen
out OF the turmoil of discussion owe,
revision of the national defense tn Give
increased recognition to aviation were
thrown into the discard today by the
House military committee.
In rapid succession 1t disannroyed
the proposals for a department of ma
tlonal defense, a unified air service
and separate air corps in the army.
ana then voted to draft an all-embrac-
ing Dill OF its own. to provide for a
larger air service, but one that would
harmonlZe with the defense organiza-
ton as 1t now exists.
The committee made clear in an
nouncing its plan that it would give
careful consideration to five-year
building program for the army air
service, made public during the day by
the war department.
The program as endorsed by Secre-
tary Dwight Davis contemplates an
increased expenditure of 100000. 900
annually for the air service and at the
end of five years would provide 220O
new airplales. The House naval COM
mittee recently approved a five-year
program for the naval air service
which involved a total expenditure of
$S5,000.000 and was designed to pro-
vide 1000 new planes at the end of the
period.
The military committee voted II 70
10 against bill to establish a DEPART
ment of national defense in which
land, sea and air ornaments would be
given co-equal status. and 16 to s
against unified air service. The vote
against a separate air corps in the
army, which was endorsed by Major
General Mason NJ. Patrick, army air
chief. was Is 10 6.
A bill sponsored by the war depart
ment, to carry out recommendations
of the presidents air board. also was
rejected II to 10. Chairman NORM Of
the committee explained this plan was
rejected on the ground that it did not
go far enough in proposing changes
that majority of members considered
necessary for an adequate air service.
Under the war Department. plan an
nounced today the army air service at
the end of five years, besides having
1900 planes, would possess a person.
mel of 1850 regular army officers. $50
reserve officers on active duty and 49,
000 enlisted men, including 500 flying
cadets. The expansion would not be
affected through reductions in other
branches of the army.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-04
Baby Clarence Part
Of Home Economics
Curriculum at i. of M

Orono, Me-, March g. (AP) -
Clarence, a seven months old baby,
Is the latest addition to the equip
ment Of the Home Economics Prac-
tlce House, at University of Maine.
Like his predecessors, Pauline and
Barbara, Clarence offers an oppor-
tunlty for practical experience in
chd training in connection with
Tue home economics curriculum. He
is the youngest of II children. whose
motner died when he was about three
months old. He came to the practice
mouse for the present semester
through one Of the State child well
lare societies.
oArence, or Buster" as the girls
nave nicknamed him, is exceedingly
popuiar and plays the leading role
s ue course in child care and well
iale, technically knokn as "HE14."
nc Is under the care of seven girls
aaWring In home economics which
"e IN shifts of two weeks each.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-04
CLAIMS CHLORINE IN
CITY WATER CAUSED
PLANT LOSS $4,000
Especial to Kennebec Journal)


Bath, Me-, March 3.-P. M. Ohm.
owner Of the Kennebec greenhouses
of Bath, stated this afternoon that
approximately a $4,000 loss has re-
suited from damages to his plants.
sustained. he believed, through the
use of chlorine to purify. the city
water, with which the various plants
had been nourished. He based his
theory on the fact that in using city
waer to keep 500 carnations over
night. he had lost the entire lot, and
the next night by keeping 500 more
in well water, he had found them
perfect in the morning. The loss of
thousands of Easter lilies, carnations
and roses on the nights of Feb. Is,
16 and II had led to the test of the
two liquids.
More than $1,000 worth of Easter
lilies were ruined in comparative
short time, an incident that has no
parallel in the history of the well
knownV Bath greenhouses. Several
thousand dollars worth of other val
liable flowers and plants persisted in
the short time Of two weeks, but fol-
lowing their loss, the hauling of ESQ
gallons of well water each day, the
abandoning the city water, had re-
stored the other whitening flowers
and the great losses have ceased, but
$4,000 are gone, or will be by June
1, according to the estimates.
Despite the almost conclusive
proofs offered by Mr.. Ohm, who is a
well known Bath merchant and citi-
zen. Supt. Walter F. Abbot of the
Bath water district claims that Bath
does not use as large a quantity OF
chlorine as Bangor, but the same Is
Portland and Augusta, namely AS
pounds to 100000 gallons of water
All traces of the chlorine disappear
he asserts, before the water has gone
five miles throughout the pipes. He
states it is the first complaint of that
nature he ever heard, and that in all
the larger cities, with the exception
of Boston, chlorine is in general use
for such purposes.
Supt. Abbot has been assured by
Elmer Campbell of the Department
of Health at the State House in Au-
gusta that there is some other cause
than that of the chlorine. In the
meanwhile, James NJ. Card of Troy
N. Y. a chemist nationally known
has been asked to make an investiga :
ton Of tiTe peculiar case. -
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-04
No Move Against
Atheists Club at
Univ. of Rochester

Rochester, N. Y, March 3-(AP)---
students at the University OF
Rochester who have formed an athe-
lists club will not be prosecuted or
expelled, although the university in
no way gives them encouragement
DIR. Charles Hoeing, dean of the col
lege for men, declared tonight when
informed of the existence of such a
group. Except to express regret at
the publicity which attended the an
nouncement of the club, Dean Hoe
ing would make no further state
ment.
The Rochester Journal and Post
Express said today that the damned
souls" society had been formed by
students at the University of Roch-
ester ito prove the necessity of athe-
ism and to abolish belief in God and
all religions based on that belief
The new group, with a membership
of Is students, included men and
women of both upper and lower
classes, the student leader said.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-04
Washington Nom Committal

Washington, March 3.-(AP)-Dfs-
approval by the interstate commerce
commission Of the Van Sweringen
Nickel Plate merger proposal provides
a vehicle for much discussion in Off
cial and business circles of the capital
today, but no one would venture an
opinion as to what it might lead to.
The whole question of railroad con-
solidation seemed to many to have
been thrown into the status quo by
the decision rather than advanced to
a point where definite propositions
could be discussed with regard to fur
Their merger projects.
On the other hand, some observers
were of the belief that since the COM
mission generally approved the Nickel
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Two Killed, Several Hurt
In Penna Railroad Crash
Five Die in Illinois Wreck
Engineer and Passenger Death Victims When
engine Jumps Track Near Kladder Station,
Pa-Four Cars Derailed = Three Trainmen
Killed, Score Hurt in Head-on Collision Pas
senger and Freight Near Chicago
m PENNSYLVANIA

,,4oona. Pa, Mar. 3.-(AP)-Two
....ons were killed and a number
LIGHTLY injured tonight when a
pennsylvania Railroad passenger
.-s,n bound from Cumberland, Md,
!, a,toona was wrecked at Kladder
r+ot,on. four miles south Of Holli-
daysburg.
Those who lost their lives were
F.. Lowe, Altoona. the engineer,
end a man by the name of Nash,
If Hollidaysburg. Nash was stand
,e on the platform as the train
nuIled into Kladder. The locomo-
five Jumped the track directly in
front of the shelter shed, crushing
him to death. Lowe died a few min
utes later. His fireman was among
tbe injured. Four cars left the track
with the engine. The train was n
heal, number 6373, and was running
over the Morris Cove branch.