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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-08
Miss Wills Gains
MentOne Tennis Cup

Mentone. France, March 7.-(AP)-
Helen Willis, the American champion.
took temporary possession of the
Mentone challenging cup today by
defeating Senorita De Alvarez, the
Spanish champion. in the finals of
the womens singles of the Mentone
tennis tournament. The score was
GA, GA.
In the afternoon Miss Wills and
J. II. Van Allen. of Brooklyn. were
defeated by Henri Cochet and Mile
Blasto of France, 60. So, in the in
ternationaI doubles for the cup OF the
nations.
The California girl played a some
what slow and listless game against
Senorita De Alvarez.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-08
Says Husband Threw
Alcohol in Her Face

Portland, Ne, March 6.--When she
paid for tickets, her husband was per
fectly willing to accompany her 10
theatres, but when she did not he
showed his resentment by throwing
denatured alcohol in her face and
threatening TO kill her with a dagger,
Mrs. Harriet B. Tanmeter of Portland
told superior court today. She wants
divorce from Charles e. Vanmeter,
a plasterer. Of Boston.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-08
Clinton 46.Pittsfeld 20

Pittsfield, March 6.-The fast bas-
ketball outfit representing Clinton.
romped away with Pittsfield A. A. at
Union Hall this evening by the score
of As to 20.
The visitors put up a whirlwind
game, with Trimm and r Witham
of the Clintons starring. with Luce
and Newhouse the best point getters
for the locals.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-08
Baptists Upset
Dope By Trimming
Gardiner Team 1923

The Penney Memorial Baptist
church team OF the church league
sprang the big surprise of the season
Saturday afternoon when they got
away to a start from which they
We're never headed and set back the
league leading Highland avenue team
from Gardiner by a score OF 30-2S.
The Augusta team was greatly aided
in it's game by the STELLAR playing of
Baker who Gagged from the floor
and one from the foul line.
In the second game the team from
the South Parish Congregational
church just nosed out the Methodists
by score of 1910. The Methodists
presented a stonewall defense in the
early sessions of the game but the
defense weakened in the last period
and the Congregationalists sneaked
over a win. The summaries:
BAPTIST GARDINER M. f.
bdhef II '.............. lS IL. Berry
sylvester IL ............... re- Cobb
titus .....!.. Lynds
black re ................ If d. Berry
sonar lS .................. IF Small
Ifoals from floor: Baker s, Lynds s,
7 rs 3. Cobb 3, D. Berry 8, Black 2,
ii. Berry 2, Sylvester; goals from
fouls: Small 2, Baker; referee Ma
han: time ass.
CONGREGATIONAL
GREEN ST. NJ. f.
Nelson IF ........... re- HunnewelI
Perkins II ...!........ re- Dinsnore
Soule .............. n. bennett
Bell rg .....s......... If Il. bennett
Clark
Necks lg ................ rg Hurd
Goals from floor: Nelson 4 Y Den.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-08
hLOsE!sS . TO
I|IG GIRLS
SCORE

III Mar. 7.-Deerlns High s
p 's,st ball sextette rode
= aver the Cony High girls
T. aol afternoon 42-4, to win
\. s,rsight victory. For the
srcs the beginning OF the
r.. ,ocal champs took the
% ~ by Captain Frances
aa H.ar side-center and for
D. s's Yoke her ankle in the
sho a u, Though she was
cOA ,ay the entire game she
II play 0Is form for and fash while
Per per, ~ coping two baskets
f,'ssssss '; d S foul shots in the first
a.. score was decidedly in
g. y, NJ purple. the Cony misses
y. ,oagh fight, but were out
b, 't me- peering champs. Hell.
y nm was again high point
a e. nine baskets and a foul
WIZ s,t and Ruth PaNson, a
= sv vas runner up with nine
~, a, the visiting team was
~ nn.rformer, playing smooth
.pi,n,ly. though unable to
!. s' once against the Deerins
W usr long overhead shooting
..,ss from the audience as it
' y ,,yle seldom seen on the
- With Moulton, Kins-
II. s for the Augusta lassies,
me only other score for her
fs.s eycelling on the floor
k.ye GIRLS CoNY GIRLS
.n II ........ If, Moulton
Exam. RI ....... RI, Nlckless
$50 ~ -
t,s..... sc. Kinsman
ft......... lg, Barker
s,g........ re-, Gagnon
ls,.ntss - Deering: Beaman,
/ Titcomb, McCracken, Cobb,
lssnsop. Andrew, Parkhurst,
IN Blood, Hodgdon. Cony:
Thorne, Mcguire:
!. from fioor-Deering: F.
3 Groves 3, Gunderson 9,
I, /, Paxon 4, Cony: Moulton
4. from fouls: F. Johnson .,
E,on /, Paxon l.
g,.ss' Spear. Scorer. Largzettel.
!, Iundholm. Time, 4 SIS.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-08

for the coming
year Is bright.
Almost every
division Of trade
a n d commerce
report a good
twelve months
just closed. La
Dor is we'll EN-.
ployed, well paid
and for the most
part stabilized
a n d satisfied.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-08
Iuhec 49, Eastport II

Lubec, March 6.-Lubec High
school defeated Shead Memorial of
PASSPORT, 1912, with Captain Griffin
and ingalls, starring for the locals,
while Townsend and Calder shone
for the invaders.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-08
SOCCER

At Tiverton, r. Fall River-1n-
diana Flooring postponed; rain and
wet grounds.
At New York-New York Giants
Bethlehem F. c. postponed; rain and
wet grounds,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-08
Red Sox Win Over
New Orleans. 9 to 4

New Orleans. March 7.-(AP)-Bos-
ton (American) 9-17-3: New Orleans
IS. Al 1872. Ehmke, Rufing, SOM
mers, Lundgren and Stokes, Bissoh;
Pouprich, Hoffman and Dowda, Ma
tronga
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-08
GOOD YEAR IN SIGHT, BUT
THRIFT SILL NECESSARY
BY S. w. sTRAuS,
President American Society for
Thrift.

OUR country at large has been
~ very prosperous during the
past year and the business outlook
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-08

q v TT UV, UVt % -
Nat between John Lake and
Mack, won by John Lake.
\ IL.
Ew Fred F. Hall. Timer. De-
Judges, Rines, Kelley and
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-08
WilZena C. Wins
Feature Matched
Race SATURDAY.

kennebunkport. March ga sterf-
ing matched race featured the three
class card at the Kennebunkport
speedway this afternoon. In this race
Wilzena c., driven by her owner, p.
j. kenaly, defeated Mabel Kestner,
owned and driven by Roy Taylor
only inches separated the horses at
the finish of each heat. In the third
heat Wilzena G.. came around the
track at tremendous burst of speed,
entirely showing her heels to the
Taylor horse.
There were two starters in the
Class A. race. Buster H. and DavidfD.
also driven by owners Ernest Ben
son and Frank Jeffries, respectively.
Four heats were necessary to decide
this race, whose finish was very ex-
citing. There were also two entries
in the Glass B. race.
The summary:
M atch Race
Wilzena G. Okenaly) .....1 2 !
Mabel Kestner (Taylor) % 2 1 2
Time-31, 80, 33, 30 secs.
Glass A. Open
Buster H. (Benson) ......1 2 I
David r (Jeffries) .......2 2 1 2
Time-34, 33, "a. 33 secs.
Glass 9 Open
Walter Indiana (Tay-
lor) ..................2 2 1
somersworth Boy (Fiske)
Times. 50. 81. 81. 81 Is secs.
Starter, Charles Burnham. Judges
and timers, John Eldridge, Thomas
Butler and Edward Clark.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-08
SPORT TABLOIDS

WllliamStoWn, Mass, MaTCH -
(AP)-Paul Wright of Bellevue, Ohio,
was elected captain of the Williams
varsity basketball team for 1927 today.
He PLAYED a guard position this sea-
son.
Chicago, March 7-(AP)-Friehds
OF pugilism here today set to work
earnestly to secure passage of meas
ure TO legalize boxing in Chicago, fol-
lowing announcement last night that
Jack Dempsey had agreed to defend
his heavyweight boxing title against
Harry Wills here on Labor Oar. Floyd
FitZsimmons, midwest promoter. who
has signed contracts of both champion
and challenger. indicated tonight that
favorable action by the voters April
IL is virtually all that is necessary to
bring the bout here. The fight was
talked in terms Of days and dollars
yesterday when Dempsey and Fitzsim-
mons conferred with a group Of Chica-
goans representing the Coliseum Ath-
letic Club, South Bend, Ind, syndi-
cate, and several individual sports
men.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-08
N One Race
Han at Bath

March 6-Bath horsemen
1muccessful in their attempt
Brunswick and Lisbon Falls
10 their card at the Mill Pond
In afternoon. but ran one four
Ans which was won by Com
M Hal. and a one heat match
I'M Lohn Lake (Edgerly) won
aiy Mack.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-08
NEWS BRIEFS

Northampton, Mass. March =
tAP)-Recommen that a fell
lowship for Latin American students
be established In every accredited
institution of higher learning In the
United States is contained in the re-
port Of the committee of the Amerl-
can Association of University Pro-
fessors in the current issue or the
associations bulletin. 1.-The future
of our relations with the republics OF
Latin America" says the committee
chairman. Professor L. S. Rowe, d.
rector general Of the Pan-Anerican
Union at Washington, depends up,
on the extent to which intellectual
ties can be established between the
northern and southern sections OF the
continent. thus bringing about a bet.
. YER mutual comprehension Of national
: ieals and aspirations.
\ London, March 7-(AP)-Revues
= We been displaced in the more I'M
:, liant theatres of London by musi-
= c{plays, and chiefly by musical
= pIs from America. Tho crop OF
/, Eish plays and plays from the
: conent apparently did not strike
n magers as being what the pubhc
waL. A. few months ago there
werseven revues running In thea
trest central London, but only one
has rvived. mo, No, Nanette,,
"Kidoots." "The Student Prince.
:"RossNIarie "Mercenary Mary
s. "Tho We Kitten and "Wildflower.
lie all md l plays first produced in the
rs Unitedtates are wing crowds
is which use to patronize revues.
IN N .p>
Cambvet Mass, March lap
r --Rcber. Bushnell today announc"
as ed his c9dacy for district attorney
ID of MILDLY county. He has served
ne as first s3tant district attorney or
a. the distrfsince 1923. District At
in torney Anr X Reading will seek
election attorney general.
Evening star., 1926-08-25
Crazy Bomb Makers.

In variation from the usual hold-up
method was the tragedy in Pittsburgh
Yesterday, when an escaped lunatic
walked into bank, carrying a small
black bag, and presented a note for
s. 900 to the teller. demanding pay
nent under penalty of death. The
teller. to gain time. showed the note to
other bank workers and quietly sum-
lnoned assistance. AS several persons,
including a special policeman, ap-
preached the window the man repeat
ed his threat, and Immediately after
ward kicked his bag vigorously. 1t
exploded with a terrific force. The
maniac was instantly killed and the
policeman was fatally injured. dying
soon afterward Twenty-four other
persons were seriously wouIfded. The
interior of the bank was badly
wrecked.
This mad act brings TO mind the
ease of the attack upon Russell Sage
;lbout thirty-five years ago, when the
New York banker was approached by
q man with a demand for money, re-
fusal of which caused him to explode
a bomb which destroyed him and in
1ured many others, especially a bank
Evening star., 1926-08-25
Eight Miles Up.

A new altitude record for airplanes
is expected to be established when
the instruments on the machine or
Lieut.. Callizo, the French aviator,
are officially tested. Monday after
noon he took off from LIE Bourget
and on returning to the ground two
hours and twenty-five minutes later
his ceiling" was unofficially found
to be 41,S11 feet, more than 1000 feet
higher than his present worlds rec
ord of 39,576 feet.
The latter figure is the mark that
Lieut.. John A. Macready Of the
United States Army has attempted
many times to break. Lieut.. Mac
ready was the holder of the worlds
record until Lieut.. Callizo made his
startling flight a couple of years ago.
Since that time Macready has made
several unsuccessful attempts to win
back the title. On his> latest flight
he reached ceiling" of 3S.704 feet,
less than a thousand feet short Of
the mark, but was unable to go high
err on account of the failure Of his
supercharger. a device to preserve
sea-level pressure at great heights.
II the new record is officially found
to be 41,s11 feet, as friends Of Lieut..
Callizo confidently expect, Macready
has an even harder task before him
if he still covets the return Of his
title as the worlds premier altitude
flyer
Lieut.. Callizo's feat in flying ap-
proximately eight miles above the
earth is remarkable. Altitude flying
is fraught with dangers and hard
ships that cannot be conceived by
the Iayman. Terrific cold, lack Of
proper oxygen nourishment for the
lungs and other factors make it a
hazardous task at best.
American sportsmanship, however,
will not be content to have the
laurels rest continually in France. II
Macready, who has been the most
persistent challenger, does not make
further efforts, some other American
aviator will tune up his machine
and take shot at the newest mark.
If a French flyer can drive a French
machine eight miles into the air an
American flyer can surely do the
same with an American machine.
Therefore, IL is not unduly optimistic
to expect the worlds altitude title to
return to America at an early date.
Evening star., 1926-08-25
Street Trees.

The annual report of the superin-
tendent Of trees and parking shows a
net loss of 443 street trees for the past
fiscal year. With a large mileage of
new streets, there should have been
an increase in the planting Of trees.
During the year there were two or
three storms which destroyed many
trees and greatly injured large mum.
ber. and there was heavy mortality
among trees because of the widening
of streets. Disease and decay. to which
trees are naturally liable, took their
toll, and injury, to which street trees
are especially exposed. brought about
considerable loss. Two hundred and
thirty.six trees were destroyed by
storm, 159 by lack of moisture, 80 by
abnormal moisture, g. by gas leaking
from pipes. 81 by being filled around,
% by being girdled by vandals, by
root mutilations, by insects and $50
from causes not explained.
If Washington is to be worthy of its
fame as a tree-shaded city there
should be a speeding UP in the work
of planting trees and in caring for
those it has. The number Of trees re
moved to make way for street i'm
provements,' meaning. no doubt,
street widening. was ss2. and nearly
all these were downtown trees. 1t is
tba downtown section of the city
which seriously needs trees. but the
problem has become difficult. The
planting of trees along streets that
have been widened may not be carried
out. The prospect is that there will
not be space for a strip Of parking be.
tween the curb and walkway, and If
a park strip Is left IT may be too mar
row and become too hard-packed FOR
Evening star., 1926-08-25

A Shakespearean actor was being
shown through university library by
the professor of English literature
Turning to his guide, he satd- "If I had
your literary ability and your .Jppor.
tunity to consult books would write
a great play based on the life of St.
Paul. There are elements in his
career with dramatic possibilities sec
ond to none" He then sketched with
enthusiasm the scene Of Pauls con
version, his appearance before Agrfp.
pa. his shipwrecks, his speech at Mars
Hill, his detention days In Rome. And
before he had finished the professor
agreed with him that the dramatists
had overlooked one of their richest
opportunities.
And Paul IL not the only figure In
history whose life offers great dra-
matte possibilities which have not
been developed. We sometimes hear
by way Of apology for poor plays that
material for them has been exhausted.
Nothing Is farther from the truth.
Every well stocked library Of biology
contains material for scores Of grip
ping, dramas.
The British board Of education
recently has issued an interesting re-
port on 'The Drama in Adult Educa-
tion." It says Of q certain class Of
plays. Their education17 ocakent r.
often negligible"
A play may be interesting and yet
Of the highest educational value.
When It contains both Of these quail
tiles, nothing exceeds IL in teaching
power.
In the Children's Park Museum
Brooklyn, series Of puppet tabieaux
depicting the high points Of history
from the fifteenth century to the
present day was presented some
years ago, The great crowds Of chill
dren which swarmed around the va
rious groups demonstrated that tbs
vitalizing Of history through visual
Reproduction IL easy.
/ For the sake of education and for
pleasure as well. let our dramatists
give sharp attention 20 the figures
A''' ,covynshs. isss,
Evening star., 1926-08-25

son which the stills WILL not eliminate
are really enforcing prohibition more
effectively than the enforcement on
GERS, for the fact that this poison liz
uor is on the market. directs suspi
cion against all liquor"
X X X X
Amy drinker who does not wish
to be a victim on the prohibition
altar advises the Worcester Tele-
gram. must apparently reform his
habits or employ a private chemist
and have his bootleg analyzed. It
isn't safe to trust the stuff any more,
even when it's a gift from n personal
friend who brought just two bottles
across the line from Canada" The
Bridgeport Post condemns 1.-The prac-
tice Of flooding the country with dead
ly poison under Government auspices"
as merely a cheap and disgracefuI
way for the Government to dodge Its
own duty Of properly supervising the
distribution of alcohol for Industrial
purposes. The President continues
the Post, "sees the moral enorrnity Of
the Governments course His suggeS
tioI is that the prohibition unit
QUICKLY find some 'denaturant' that ~
noikpoisonous. Though he believes IN
law enforcement. he does not think
thN 1t Is necessary to outdo tho
Borgia family in order to prevent
people from taking a drink"
Quoting Gen. Andrews to the effect
that "the Government has not sought
to treat Industrial alcohol so as to
make It deadly If used as a base for
bootleg liquor" the Baltimore Evening
Sun admits that Gen. Andrews "un-
doubtedly believes that what he says
Is true" but the Sun contends that
there is direct testimony on the part
of Government experts that the
United States for years has used letfal
poisons to denature alcohol otherwise
pure and fit for beverage purposes.
and that II continues to do so. The
Government for a long time TO come
will continue to use the taxpayers
money to hire chemists to put poisons
into the alcohol that the taxpayers
drink" The Fassaic Daily Herald
commends Andrews statement that
the chemists ARE seeking a formula
that will make denatured alcohol more
obnoxious. and in a way that the
unpa1atable ingredient cannot he re-
moved" but offers the query, What
then Is the meaning of the announce
ment by his subordinates that a dead
ly, irremOvable substance is TO be put
into Industrial alcohol"
Evening star., 1926-08-25

clerk whom Sage, It Is believed, thrust
between himself and the blackmailer.
Suit was afterward instituted by this
clerk against Mr.. Sage on the score
of his terrible injuries.
Another case Of bomber destroyed
by his own Internal machine was that
Of the man who attempted to place a
high explosive in the vestibule of the
house of former Attorney General
Mitchell Palmer in this city during the
war. BY some mischance the con.
tainer was dropped or kicked and 1t
detonated, literally blowing the fanatic
to bits and doing considerable damage
to the property. though not injuring
any other person than the bomber.
The Pittsburgh bomber was obvious.
ly madman. Had he been an ordi.
nary hold-up man he would have pre-.
sented pistol after the conventional
style Of the highwayman. That he
made his threat with bomb is plain
evidence that he was demented. A
book was found that contained the
names of several persons of prom.
inence in Pittsburgh against whom he
presumably had grievances.
The question arises how such a per-
son. who, according to one report,
was recently an inmate of a hospital
for the insane, can get materials for
an Internal machine of this character.
1t is we'll known that under the loose
weapon laws in this country any per-
son can arm himself for criminal pur-
poses. An insane person at large
from an institution can get gun in
Washington, for example, without the
least difficulty. But bombmaking is
different from ordinary armament. 1t
requires high explosives that can be
bought only at special places. 1t must
be assembled from materials the sale
of which should be scrupulously safe
guarded against misuse. 1t may be
possible in this case to trace the
"makings" Of the internal machine
contrived by the maniac, but will that
disclosure lead to any reformatory.
corrective measures to protect society
from criminal fanaticism which may
at any time take heavy toll Of inno-
cent lives?
Evening star., 1926-08-25

tree roots to get necessary moisture.
Sidewalk vaults are built as business
grows. and a sidewalk vault ends all
chance for a tree at that place.
The best care possible for trees must
be given those that stand along the
streets, and requirements should be
made with trees Of species that have
proved their hardness under city con-
ditions. On the very wide streets the
Eastern planes and Western syca-
mores have done we'll, but except on
wide streets the sycamore has proved
not to be good street tree. Along
Florida avenue are lines Of silver
naples, which are fragile trees. In the
seventies and eighties they were be-
lieved excellent trees for street plant
ing. They are fast growing and give
abundant shade. Wind has taken a
heavy toll of those trees, and when
they die or fall they are replaced by
Norway naples or red oaks, which are
now popular street trees and seem best
suited for city planting.
The trees and parking Office of the
District government deserves praise
for work it has done in view of the
small allowance Of money granted 1t.
There Is a great work for that Office
in taking care Of street trees, in re-
placing casualties and planting trees
on new streets. There has recently
been an enlargement of nursery facil-
tiles by the transfer to the District by
the War Department Of tract of land
In Anacostia Park, but that made"
land is not suitable for the growth of
trees needed for streets. The hardy
and long.lived trees grow on high land.
In the new nursery tract water is too
near the surface Of the land for the
successful growing Of red oaks and
hard naples and perhaps even for the
pin oaks which for twenty or thirty
years have been popular as street
trees. but whose popularity seems to
be waning. The city must depend on
the Fort Dupont nursery, on high
land to be acquired for nursery use,
or on purchases from private nur-
series. The superintendent of trees
and parking reports that Of the 1854
trees planted last year 800 were red
oaks bought from a private nursery.
Evening star., 1926-08-25

may swing many of the Republican
senatorial candidates into office over
their Democratic opponents.
y X
Another matter which is giving tho
Republican leaders no little worry is
the situation that has developed in
Illinois over the candidacy of Col
Frank l.. Smith for the Senate. The
way in which his candidacy has been
linked UP with that of Samuel insult,
public utilities magnate, through the
contribution of $125, 900 by insult to
the Smith primary campaign fund,
has caused furor. Efforts to get Col.
Smith to withdraw and permit the
Republicans to name anotfle- man
have been, so far. unavailing Even
IL he be elected he is not likely to be
seated. And il an independent were
named and entered the race, making
a Democratic victory almost certain,
the Republicans would be in equally
bad case. The Republicans are hoping
that Col. Smith viii find It convenient
to withdraw beeore Il is too late.