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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04

Washington, Jan. S.-(AP)-A
statement reviewing "the 1925 prog
ress in prohibition activities" was is
sued tonight by Wayne B. Wheeler.
general counsel of the Anti-Saloon
League.
prohibition" he said, made adj
vances in legislation, judicial decf-
sions, administrative efficiency and az
a hygienic and economic force in
1925.
"The 6Sth congress rejected all wet
legislation, voted $11 100000 for en-
forcement and provided for storage
Of all liquors in government ware
houses where such are available. The
coastguard was given surplus naval
vessels, an appropriation of $14.5OO,-
600 for rehabilitation and $9,OOO,OOO
for maistenance.
1.-THE Goth congress in. its first tese
vote. in December, defeated the wet
attempt to cripple enforcement by
limiting the purchase of evidence of
Illicit sales. Only II wet votes were
cast to 1S9 drys, although over 175
uIS uIcllDc1S were dDScuts
1.-THE United States supreme court
during the year upheld the right of
officers to search an auto without
search warrant when they had rea-
sonable cause to believe liquor was
being Illegally transported: upheld
the Georgia prohibition statute
which makes it unlawful to possess
liquors acquired before the law be-
came effective: and established tho
power of congress to regulate man
ufacture and distribution of non
beverage alcohol.
State enforcement codes were
strengthened in Arkansas, Colorado,
Florida. Indiana, Iowa, Maine. Mich
lgan, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada,
New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ore
gon. South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah
and Wyoming. Massachusetts re-
pealed the law requiring an annual
vote on license.
The popular approval of this poll
ICY or government has been increas-
ed by the improved health of the
nation, the drop in drunkenness.
crime and alcohol insanity, the eco
nomic gains registered in steady en-
ployment, stimulated retail trade
and home building, multi Ord saw
lngs and insurance, and Auss whole-
some recreation"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04
Extend Time for
Stillman to Answer
In Divorce by Wife

Mount Vernon. n. Y. Jan. sap
James A. Stillman, former New York
banker, has been granted final extern
sion of time until March to answer
a suit for an absolute divorce brought
by Mrs. Anne Urquhart Stillman.
Her attorney, Isaac N. Mills, said
today that If no answer has been SUBJ
mitted by that time Mr.. Stillman would
be in default and the plaintiff would
apply to the supreme court for an in
terlocutory decree on the record of evil
dence in the unsuccessful action of the
former banker. who sought to divorce
his wife. naming Fred Beauvais a Ca
madam Indian guide. as correspond
ent. MIR. Mills said he did not be-
lieve Mr.. Stillman would contest the
suit.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04
TThllds Cry Warns
i.enement Dwellers
against Gas Fumes

The soefihill, Mass, Jan. 3-((AP,-
saved a,s, OF a two year old child
from eight children and five adults
alton probable death by gas asphyxi-
dav avn IN a tenement house here 70
Andrew pn Due opinion of the police.
cries Of M eDlsz was awakened by the
children ;cnaei, Youngest of his five
Could real nut collapsed before he
Kota. tba,. reused Mr.. and Mrs. John
ley Kurl1ar three children, and STAN
SUFFERING !. another lodger. All were
the poIie. rom gas poisoning when
We're rey t and doctor arrived, but
found t o h outside. The gas was
stove let " escaping from an open
q when Nv winch had been left light
Tue tenants retired,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04
CHAIRMAN emery
RESIGNS FROM STATE
REPUBLICAN COM.

George L. Emery of Biddeford
chairman of the Maine State Republic
can committee, in a letter sent Satur-
day to the secretary, announces his
resignation from that berth. 1t is ex-
pected that the committee will meet
soon to choose successor. The let
ter follows:
Jan. 2, 1925.
Mrs. Alice S. Butler.
Sec. Maine State Republican Commit
tee,
Pennington. Maine.
My dear Mrs, Butler:
l herewith tender my resignation as
chairman of the Maine State Republic
can committee, the same to take effect
at once.
1 have also this day sent nv resig-
nation as a member Of the committee
from York county.
l shall always remember the pleas
ant associations that have had with
the members Of this committee and
wish you all happy New Year and
success in your future undertakings.
With the very best wishes, remain,
GEORGE L. EMERY.
Daniel J. Fields of Phillips has been
frequently mentioned as the successor
to Mr.. Emery.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04
EX-CONvICT ADMITS
PLAYED PART IN
Staying OF NUSbAUM

Chicago, Jan. 3-(AP)-John VIM,
81 year old ex-convict, for love of
whom Mrs. Eliza Nusbaum, SIS, and a
grandmother, plotted the death of
her husband, Albert, wealthy con-
tractor, tonight confessed his part in
the crime but denied that he was the
actual slayer.
Edward Golf. named by Grandma
Nusbaum as one of four persons
with whom she plotted Nusbaum's
murder in order that she might mar
ry Winn, was named by the latter as
the man who actually killed Nus
baum last Tuesday afternoon.
Winn's confession came after a
conference with Mrs. Nusbaum. Mrs.
Nusbaum embraced Winn and ad-
vised him to tell ALL"
"All right, 1 WILL" he replied, and
Immediately made his statement.
Last night he made a partial con-
fession which he later repudiated.
VIM said, according to the police,
that Nusbaum, partly paralyZed, was
lured into his own automobile on the
preteXt that renter had been found
for one of his apartments. When the
car passed under a viaduct, Golf hit
Nusbaum over the head with ham,
mer according TO Winn, and the car
then was driven to the home of Mrs.
Delilah Martin. The body was left
there until night, when it was taken
to prairie, where it was found next
day. Aarion Stringham was named
by Mrs. Nusbaum as another man
involved in the plot.
Previous to last night VIM had
drunk and did not know what was
happening. Indictments against the
five will be sought tomorrow on
charges of murder.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04
Brands TELEGRAM a Fake
Lieut.. Col. Hearn
Dies After Auto Crash

Washington. Jan. 3.-(AP)-Lieu-
tenant Colonel Roscoe H. Hearn. re-.
Gently transferred from the Canai
Zone to the War department In
Washington, was fatally injured ear
ly today when struck by an auto
driven by Charles L. Van Meter OF
this city.
Colonel Hearn was struck while
changing tires on his own machine
on a road just outside the city. He
was picked up Immediately by An
drius Jones. Jr., son of the senator
from New Mexico, and Frank Mon
dell, Jr.. whose car. on the way to
a hospital, caught fire. Forced to
abandon their machine, they took
Colonel Hearn into physicians Of
flee, where he died within a few
minutes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04

Bordighera, Italy. Jan. 3-(AP)-
The death of Dowager Queen Marg-
Inertia, mother of King Victor EN-
manuel, is imminent. The last rites
of the church have been administer
ed. The queen was in coma
throughout the day.
An official bulletin issued by the
physicians this evening says:
During the early hours this morn
ing the dowager queen suddenly
showed symptoms of cerebral throm-
bus. The end drew near rapidly
hour by hour.
AT o'clock this evening the tenn
perature was 1922 Fahrenheit, pulse
lis. The patient was in state of
coma"
King Victor Emmanuel and Queen
Helena have arrived and are at the
bedside of the dowager queen. The
end is thought to be not far off.
Queen Margherita was stricken
December Is, 1925, with pulmonary
pleurisy. Despite her advanced age,
she celebrated her 74th birthday
November 20, 1925-the royal patient
showed steady improvement after
the initial crisis and was officially de-
clared to be convalescing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04
Italian Duke Dead
In Motor Accident

Rome, Jan. ,3-(AP)-Duke Guilio
Lante della Revere, 20, was killed to-
day in an automobile accident. His
mother was Suzanne Tilghmann OF
Philadelphia.
The duke was trying out an auto
mobile which he purposed using in a
road race. 1t was travelling at a rate
estimated at 100 miles an hour when
a cart appeared in the road. The
duke swerved the machine and il
turned over. Every bone in the driv
er's body was broken.
The duke was a member of one OF
the Oldest families of nobility In
Italy.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04
Deaths Increase
From Auto Accidents
Past Year i'm Bay State

Boston, Jan. 3--(AP)-Automobi
accidents took toll of 755 lives in
Massachusetts in 1925, as compared
with 709 in 1924. the registrar Of mo-
tor vehicles announced today. IN
juries numbered 1916, compared
with 1859 for 1924. Both increases
wer attributed to an increase of 81
57S in motor vehicle registration. A
total OF 1929 licenses and registra-
tions were revoked during the year,
OF which 1864 were for drunken driv-
ing.
Ten persons were killed last week,
a decrease OF four over the preceding
week, and a decrease Of seven over
the corresponding period last year.
Convictions for drunken driving
numbered IS and 251 licenses and
registrations were revoked, S. for
drunken driving.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04
AUBURN MAN WILL
STAGE WORLDWIDE
F|DDLERS' CONTEST

Lewiston, Me-, Jan. 3. - (AP) -
John j. Sullivan of Auburn, man.
ager Of the Pageant of Progress at
Lewiston last October where Nellie
Durham of Norway won the Maine
fiddlers' championship cup, will con-
duct world wide old-time fiddlers'
contest here in April, he announced
tonight. He stated that the prizes
would be of sufficient size to induce
fiddlers of foreign countries to enter.
The minimum age limit will be so
wears
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04
Defence Seeks an
Alibi for LabOmbarde
In Killing Aged Sisters

Manchester, N. H., Jan. 3.-(AP)-
The second week of the trial of Louis
Labombarde, Merrimack youth charged
with the murder of Helen ellis at
Hudson last July, will begin tomor-
row morning with the presentation of
further evidence by the defense tend
ing to prove that the respondent was
in Merrimack on the date of the crime.
Attorney Robert j. Doyle will call
several witnesses to the stand who, he
says, will testify that they saw re-
spondent about his home on July 20,
the day of the murder.
Labombarde himself will also take
the stand to testify in his own defense
The, nature of the evidence he will
present has not been outlined.
The star witness for the defense,
DR.. Z. A. Brown Rigg of Nashua, ex-
pert on mental diseases, will testify
tomorrow.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04
Fall to Sn0wdrift
Saves Fire Fighter

Bangor, Me-, Jan. 3.-(AP)-The
dwelling house of Watson Springer in
Hancock took fire from an overheated
furnace this afternoon and was burned
fiat. The loss was $4,000 with no in
surance. Assistant Chief Weaver of
the Ellsworth fire department fell from
the roof of the barn, 80 feet, but land
ed in snowdrift and escaped injury.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04
Auto Injuries Fatal
To Brewer Woman

Bangor, Me-, Jan. S-(AP)-Mrs.
Carrie E. Thomas of Brewer died at a
Bangor hospital today from injuries
sustained when she was knocked
down by a car driven by Max Getch-
ell of Brewer, in that city Friday
night. The authorities have not yet
decided upon any action against
Getche1I.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04
Local Radio Report

Saturday evening was very poor,
there being no volume, much static
and fading.
Sunday evening there was consid-
cradle Improvement. viii better vol
ume and but little fading and some
static. About fair evening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04
Claim Cure Tobacco
Habit by HypnOtism

. Leningrad, Russia. Jan. 3.--tAP)-
Physicians attached to the Military
Academy of Medicine are said to be
curing persons Of the smoking habit
by hypnotism. Inveterate smokers, it
is declared, cease the habit after three
hypnotic treatments which last from
10 to 20 minutes each
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04
Hangs Self by Belt
In BrOcktOn Jail

Brockton. Mass, Jan. SAP
Dominic Calabresea, 4S. Of this city,
committed suicide by hanging him.
self with his belt in cell Of the.
Brockton police station. His body
was found and cut down today by the
cell warden. Ca1abresea had been
arrested for assault ON his wife. :
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04
Has Proven to Be
Scum d Legislation,
Dry League Counsel
Says in Review

Enforcement Codes Strength
ened in II States Including
Maine-Tw0 Favorable Rul-
ings by U. S. Supreme Court
-$11,000,00O Voted for En-
forcement During Year
Coastguard Vessels Helped
Materialiy-Weak Vote by
Vets in Recent Congress
Test
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04
THE WEATHER
INCREASING cLoUDINEss

Northern New acknowledgements
ing cloudiness with rising tempera-
ture Monday followed by rain at
night and on Tuesday.
Southern New England-Increasing
cloudiness and warmer followed by
rain Monday; Tuesday rain.
Eastern New York-Rain Monday
and probably Tuesday; slowly rising
temperature.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04
General Forecast

High pressure prevails from the
st. Lawrence valley southwark and
off the Atlantic coast with principal
center over New England. Pressure
is also high in the middle and north
Pacific states and the middle and
northern plateau states. During the
last "a hours temperature changes
have been unimportant.
The outlook is for rain on Monday
and Tuesday in the states east OF the
Mississippi river, except that the
weather will be overcast, but without
rain on Monday in northern New
England and the lower Ohio valley.
Temperatures will rise in the lower
lake region and the middle and north
Atlantic states.
Winds north of Sandy Hook
Variable becoming moderate east
and weather partly overcast Mon
day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04
FORMAL WORD
Governor WILL
SEEK JOB AGAIN

Stresses Economy Regime in
Bid for denomination in Pri-
maries Next June-POints to
Surplus of Three-quarter
Million, Says Reduction of
Million Possible Next Two
Years = New Construction
Can Also Be Cared for, His
Belief
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04
PROSPERITY TO
CONTINUE IN '26
VIEW OF LEADERS

Money and Trade Experts All
Agree First Six Months is
Clearly Indicated-S o m e
Sound Note of Caution for
Rest of Year-PredictiOns of
Past Year amply Fulfilled
Big Dividends of Railroads
and Industrial Corporations
Cited
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04
Southern Fiddler
Accepts Def Thrown
Down by Our Nellie

Nashville, Tenn, Jan: sap -
"Uncle Jimmy" Thompson, of Mar
tina. Tenn, claimed to be old-time
fiddlers' champion in contest in
Dallas, Texas, against sc others. has
accepted challenge by Nellie Dun
ham, Names champion fiddler.
Durham wired Saturday night
challenging Uncle Jimmy" to defend
his title and the Tennessee fiddler
tonight sent his acceptance of the
challenge, suggesting that the con-
test be broadcast by station WSM
of Nashville and that the radio au-
dience be allowed to decide the VIM
ner.
Brands Telegram a Fake
Boston, Jan. 3-(AP)-Robert G.
Larsen, local representative of the
Keith Albee vaudeville circuit which
has Nellie Durham. Maine champion
fiddler, under contract, tonight que5-
toned the authenticity of telegram
supposed to have been sent by Dun
ham to ''Uncle Jimmy" Thompson OF
Martha, Tenn, challenging him to
contest.
ut is undoubtedly fake" said Mr..
Larsen. Nellie isn't sending chal-
lenges to anyone and won't"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04
Boston Forecast

Forecast for Boston and vicinity
Monday increasing cloudiness and
warmer, followed by rain; Tuesday
rain; fresh southeast and east winds.
The Chilkoot post., 1926-01-22
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Imperial Valley press., 1926-02-04
FAMILY AND PUBLIC HEALTH

The superintendent of the department of commun-
icable diseases of the board of health in southern city
declares that people getting healthier right along
because women are seeing the value OF health.
Even in this enlightened land there was a time
when sickness regarded less as vista
ton from heaven and not to be controlled any more
than the weather is controlled This is no longer.
Women are at the root of this improvement
why are women more careful than they used to
be he asks, and proceeds to his question.
Why because they work and they know that sick
people can't work well. Of men work, too but
they are used to it from generations past Women
work with the feeling that they competing with
men and that they must be in the pink of health to be
successful rivals Then, when these marry and
have children, they used to laying emphasis on
health So they keep the whole family healthy"
And not their own family alone, either. He says
that for every complaint from about unsanitary
conditions anywhere IN the community, public health
officials receive dozen complaints from women.
They seek health for themselves and their loved ones
and they demand it from the whole community.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-02-04
j. s. BUREAUS
POSTER DENOTES
BEST BEEF CUTS

Showing Pictorially the difference
between choice round of beef and
IN inferior one, u new meat pos
ter issued by the United States De
partment of Agriculture urges con.
sumers to learn to know the qua
lily in beef.
Raising the question "Do Yo,:
Know Good Beef" the poster
points out ihat the degree of mar
bling is 4 valuable guide. Marbling
Is clearly pictured and also ex-
plaine'l rs ;he intermixture of fat
and leal which makes beef, tender
and JUICY when cooked.
Other indications of good beef
are its bright, red color and creamy,
white fat. in common beef, on the
other hand. the lean mea. is dark
red and the fat is chiefly OH the
outside and often yellow.
The poster also informs conSUm-
ers that farmers will be able to
supply unlimited quantities of
choice beef if called upon to do so.
Printed in four colors and meas.
uring II by 20 inches, the new
poster makes an attractive display
as well as being educational. Dis
tribution is being made to livestock,
and meat consumers organizations
Copies are available also to indi-
viduals, so long as the supply lasts,
upon request to the Bureau Of Ami
NAL Industry, United States De
partment of Agriculture.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-02-04
ADVISES STUDY OF
MATES WRITING
BEFORE MARRIAGE

CHICAGO, Feb. 3.-Do your a S
and o's look sloppy and open! If
SO, you are a gossip.
Mrs. Herbert c. Hail. Cook county
graphologist Gin palmer words, u
handwriting expert, says that
sloppy as and o's usually denote
gossips.' -
Mrs. Hall says that she can tell
more from your handwriting than
most friends know about you. And
here S some advice she gives to
young people:
Don't ever get married until
you see love letter and find out
what the handwriting shows
If she dots her i 5 high above the
letter she is inclined to be gossipy
bat observant, Mrs. Hall says.
Now as to the young gentle
man: If he writes with Il wavering
baseiine, he is battling with himself
and probably won't amount to much.
" Writing which slants to the
right shows a poetic sensitive ma
ture.
According to Mrs, Hall the s.
5 and ( IS are II dead give away
to your character.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-02-04
CHEAP WHEAT Production

1t is doubtless true that many farmers have lost
money on wheat IN recent years, and are discouraged
following statement, from merchant IN
Dodge City, Kansas, printed IN the Bulletin or the
q" National CITY Bank New York Slows another PIC
Wheat acreage is growing with astonishing rapid
ity he reports. IN the next lew years
wheat VIII be soWn more than 100UO,OOU acres OF
land still III sod in Kansas Oklahoma, Colorado New
Mexico and And this almost regardless of
prices. How is that possible?
factor that has affected this situation is the
g tractor the combine. Nowhere else earth can
the great bread staple be produced so cheaply HIM
doc coolies at three cents day, and Russian SEMI
serfs with hand labor cannot compete with farmer
and two boys who, from May TO October with tractor
and combine, can grow and harvest tive or SIX hundred
of wheat, eight to ten thousand bushels, and
have time to summer faow portion of their
and SdelneS get their living from tlOck or hens,
and raising corn and kaf1r, and swine, to
fall back on The actual labor cost per wheat bushe
certainly is less than 20 cents. The land is still cheap
and half of it is still sod.
= THE tractor development is much slower than the
automobile, but the machines almost fool
proof and of course the farmers year by year
more adept with machinery. Many man has put out
1000 this fall and put ii the very best
ditons that ever were known in thesouthwest.
Now, these facts aren't generally apprehended
= even by people here. The farmers finding it out
and picking the cheap land in the neighDorhood
to give themselves elbow
"One young fellow reported to that for five
years his costs, with harvester thresher averaged
less than five cents per bushel, including labor gas
OIL and repairs The depreciation and interest charges
would not add five cents per bushe
kansas is pretty we'll developed, but south
west of Dodge in four five countless 250 thousand
acres of sod have been broken up this last summer
This experience NAV be duplicated on a small
scale In various other sections. There is lot of
productive land in nearly all of the states that may be
made to produce paying crops by applying the
methods, with wheat and other crops. Here is
opportunity for untold thousands of enterprsng farm
Imperial Valley press., 1926-02-04
NO "WAR DEPARTMENT"

Representative Bloom Of New York has intrOduc-
ed bill in Congress to call the War Department the
Department of the Army He explains that he doesn't
like the word war" and wants to get rid of for
Psychological reasons. He doesn't want anyone think
ing of at all, except in the way Of se-defense
That is all right But there may be sounder rea-
sons than he has given War Department" logically
would cover the whole field of war-makng by }and
and air. But if the word is objectionable and if
we are still TO have separate department for the
Navy, why not the Army to balance it?
Or why not combine both, suitably named under
Department Of Defense, as has long been urged?
Imperial Valley press., 1926-02-04

them. Faster and faster he dug
with his paws and then, all of sud
don, Johnnie cried: "Oh. see what |
have found-tive cents"
s'Oh, maybe It 5 the one l drop
ped!' squeaked Jillie and surely
enough it was-Jilhc remembered it
because the nickle had to scratches
on il. Now | can buy the loaf
Of bread for my aunt, : said the lit
tie mouse girl.
She and Uncle Wiggily hurried to
the store, bought the bread and
then Jillie and Johnnie played with
Nibbler and ate some of the uuts
that Johnnie the squirrel dug up. So
everybody was happy.
And il the COW deesn t spin the
beans when she jumps over the
moon to churn the milk into butter,
| II tell you next about Uncle Wig.
gilv and Joliie's cake.