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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-22
Drops Dead in Ditch

In New York City the mercury
mounted steadily all day until it
reached a new high for the year of
Sc. There It stayed and dusk came
without any suggestion Of relief. AL
most a dozen prostrations were re-
ported during the night and one man,
a laborer, fell dead in the ditch where
he was digging.
In northern New York the weather
was moderate but in the southern
tier sweltering heat was expressed
All records for the summer were
broken at Hornell. Factories had to
close on account of the heat In Lock-
port. One heat death was reported
in Utica. The eastern Catskills and
the Hudson River valley reported
blistering temperatures.
Boston passed all previous records
for July 81 when the mercury mount
ed to SO in the middle. of the after
noon. Portland, Me, had an official
temperature Of SO but reported low
relative humidity tempered the heat.
Continued on Page 3-Col. ~
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-22
HOLD FORMER CITY
CLERK OF BIDDEF0RD
IN CHECK F0RGER!ES

Biddeford. Me-, July 81. - Pl -
Former City Clerk Arthur Hevey
was arraigned at a special session
of the Biddeford Municipal court on
nine complaints of forgery of city
checks to which he entered pleas of
not guilty. A hearing was set for
next Tuesday morning.
The arrest of former Clerk Hevey
by High Sheriff Roger S. Bragdon
grew out of an investigation OF mu-
nicipal finances ordered by Mayor
George II. Precourt when he took
office last March.
The audit of the city books by
representatives of the state audi
tors office was started some weeks
ago.
The investigation covered a per-
iod of five years during the Demo-
cratic administration Of former
Mayor Edward H. Drapeau. Hevey
was city clerk during the same per-
iod, retiring with the administration
last March.
Certain OF the nine complaints
are said to charge forgery of the
name of former Mayor Drapeau 10
CITY checks. No intimatiOn was
given of the total amount involved
in the alleged discrepancies.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-22
General Forecast

The disturbance that was over on
tario Tuesday night has moved rapidly
eastward to New Foundland. A trough
of low pressure extends southwest
ward to New Mexico. Lowest 29.6S.
Port au Basque n. F., and 1916, Dou-
Get, Que. and El Paso, Tex. This dis
turbance has been attended by local
thunderstorms.
Pressure is relatively high from the
Mississippi Valley eastward to Ber-
nlrda. Highest 30.1S inches, Bermuda.
The temperature is abnormally high,
almost generally east of the Missis-
sippi Valley. Several stations report
ing maximum of 100 degrees or
slightly higher. The highest temper
atIre registered Wednesday afternoon
was 104 degreee at Washington, D. c.,
which is the highest of record for July
and has been equalled only twice and
exec de1 only once since 1872.
The western showers will overspread
the Atlantic states Thursday night or
Friday; the heat wave will be broken
Thursday night or Friday in the At
lantic states. The temperature will
remain high Thursday. however, east
a. the Appalachian. Mountains.
Winds. North Of Sandy Hook. mod
crate southwest winds and fair wealth
er Thursday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-22
S4,OOO,OOO Worth
Material May Be
Reclaimed in Blast

New York, July 21-P)-The court
of inquiry investigating the Lake
Denmark arsenal catastrophe today
shifted the scene Of its activities
from Dover, n. j.. to the Brooklyn
Navy Yard. Two days will be taken
up in obtaining the testimony OF
Marines who escaped death. some OF
whom are undergoing treatment at
the Naval Hospital. after which the
court will return to Dover.
Testimony thus far adduc,d indi-
Gates that the toll eXacted by the d.
saster was 81 lives; 81 civilians in
iured: a loss Of almost $90,000,00o,
comprising the value Of munitions,
ordnance and buildings destroyed
and damaged at the arsenal
1t was estimated that $4.0oO.O0o
worth of materials might be reclaim :
ed by salvage operations.
The court yesterday learned def
nitely that communities adjacent to
the arsenals are opposed to removal
of the munitions depot.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-22

The New England governors who
will attend the 1926 Conference of
Governors at Cheyenne. Wyo., next
week will leave the North State at
Boston on the Boston and Names
crack flyer Minute Man on Friday
afternoon to go "out where the West
begins" in body as the latest eX-
preston of the development of a
New England consciousness"
In the announcement yesterday of
final details of this trip, Governor
Ralph o. Brewster of Maine added
that it would be the first time that
the governors have gone out of New
England as a unit. In all, he stated
that the New England party would
comprise 20 or more persons. I'M
doubtedly constituting the largest
single delegation to attend the Gov
errors Conference.
Governor and Mrs. Brewster will
accompany Governor and Mrs. John
G. Winant of New Hampshire; Gov
Continued on Page 11-Col. 81
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-22
Thousands Seek Relief

Boston, July 21-(P)-The hottest
July q in the history of the weather
bureau today drove many thousands
in New England to the refuge of
beaches, inland resorts and parks.
When the temperature in Boston
reached SO degrees at 4 o'clock the
previous heat record for the date
SO degrees on July 81 1SS5-had been
surpassed by five degrees. 1t was
the second day of an extreme heat
wave, yesterdays maximum of 81 de-
grees having established a new mark
for July 20.
Many heat prostrations were re-
ported in various sections of New
England, the Boston total reaching
nine in the early afternoon. Relief
was promised for the evening in the
firm of thunderstorms. but In the
meantime the beaches were throng-
ed and all city jewellers who were
able to leave had sought the cooling
breezes of seashore and lake.
With the mercury lowering high
in the nineties, the weather bureau
made public the comforting assur-
ance that the maximum marking for
the month of July was yet many
degrees distant. 1t was recalled that
the peak temperature for the month
in bureau records was 40 degrees
on July 4, 1911. At / o'clock today
the mercury had climbed we'll above
yesterdays high to 90. In the next
hour there was jump of degrees.
AT O'Clock the mercury had reach
ed 10 and in the hour that followed
came the rise to the top point of 9S.
More than 1000 persons took adj
vantage of Mayor Nichols permits
sion to sleep on Boston Common last
night and other city parks all had
their quotas of families fleeing from
the sitting atmosphere of flats and
tenements. Many more prepared to
seek the great outdoors tonight. taxi
ing advantage of the city's hospital
lty. Today hydrants were tapped and
lmpromptu showerbaths in CITY
streets arranged for thousands of
children.
AS the night progressed new heat
prostrations were reported in Boston
until at midnight the total stood at
10 and two deaths had occurred in
nearby cities.
The temperature showed no indi-
cation Of dropping and not a breeze
was felt in the crowded tenement
districts where countless thousands
suffered in cramped . quarters or
sought refuge in the streets and
parks.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-22
Pariisians Ugly
AS Herriot and
Ministry Fall
Missing Bay State
Normal School Girl
Found at Round Lake

Falrlee, VT, July 21-P)-Grace
Isabel Copeland, 20, of Salisbury
Plains, Mass. reported missing since
her graduation from the Framing
ham. Mass, state normal school, was
located today in Round Lake, n. Y 81,
according to Sheriff w. II. French of
Lyme, n. H.
Miss Copeland came directly here
after her graduation, the sheriff said,
and worked as table girl at the Lake
Morey Club until about July 8. AS
she was no longer needed there at
that time she went to Round Lake.
where her brother Robert lives, and
is now employed there by a Mrs.
Maurer, according to the sheriff's ex-
PLANTATION.
F. B. Dickey, manager of the Lake
Morey Club, said today he had re-
ceived letter from Miss Copeland
telling him of her present position,
and saying she would return to his
employ if he needed her again this
summer. The letter was dated July
II.
Mr.. Dickey declared there had
been no trouble whatever between
Miss Copeland and the management
and that she had left simply because
her services was not required at
that time. He understood she had
been engaged to teach in a Massa-
chusetts town this fall.
The report that two boxes OF Miss
Copeland's belongings were left I'M
claimed at a Boston express office
was not explained.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-22
Observe 85th
Birthday of Old
Whaler at N. Bedford

New Bedford, Mass. July FLIP
Ship Charles w. Morgan celebrat-
ed her S5th birthday in joyous fash
ion today, when the gallant old
whaling craft was formally present
ed to Whaling Enshrined, ms, the
organiza ton formed to have PERM
anent charge of the vessel where
she lies, snugly bedded at the
oceans edge, on the estate of Col
onl Edward H. r. Green, South
Dartmouth.
The Morgan looked as radiant as
a bride in her holiday dress of rags
The house flag of every ship owner
or agent that ever did business in
New Bedford was displayed some
where in the rigging, and the di-
versity of hues and emblems made
the vessel a veritable rainbow OF
color from the tip end of the flying
jibboom to the mainmast-head
where the IN" on the Morgan's own
flag topped all the rest.
Part of the picturesque features
of the dedication was the unwilling
of the memorial bronze tablet, de-
signed by Harry Neyland and atfiX-
ed to a huge boulder in front OF
the Morgan, at the head of the
wharf.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-22
Church Court
Clears Rev. Chapel
immortality Charges

Statesville, Ohio, July 21.-(P)-The
Rev Ashley Chapel pastor of the
fashionable Central Methodist church
of Asheville, n. c., stood cleared today
by a church court OF charges of i'm
morality, untruthfulness and attempt
ed bribery resulting from his arrest
last May during a raid on disorderly
negro house in Memphis.
The verdict, rendered unanimously
last night by the IS minister-members
of the court, automatically reinstates
DR.. Chappell in his pastorate and he
announced that he would preach next
Sunday. His return to Asheville will
be in the nature of triumphal jour
ney, as the delegation from his church,
which came here to demonstrate their
loyalty, will accompany him by motor
through the country.
This delegation of approximately 20
persons greeted the acquittal with
cheers which concluded with the sing
ing OF Praise God. from Whom All
Blessings Flow"
During the general conference of
the Southern Methodist church in
Memphis. DIR. Chappell was charged by
the police with disorderly conduct
when he was found in a raided house.
His defense was that he suffered from
a physical ailment which at times
caused extreme agony. He said that
he was walking in a strange part of
the city when an attack seized him
and he entered house to remain until
it had passed. While he was there the
raid took place. He was charged be-
fore the church court with untruthful-
ness on the allegation that he gave a
fictitious name to the police. The at
tempted bribery charge was based
upon an allegation that he "had offer
ed" the arresting officers whatever
sum was necessary to keep his arrest
out of the newspapers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-22
Builder of Brooklyn
Bridge Dies at 80

Trenton. n. j., July 21-(Pl-Col-
onel Washington A. Roebling. famous
builder of the Brooklyn Bridge, and
president of the John A. Roebling's
Sons Company, died at his home here
this afternoon. He was SO years old.
Infirmities of age were responsible
for his death.
Colonel Roebling had been in fall
ing health for the past few years. At
the time of his birthday anniversary
in May he was confined to his room
and had gradually grown weaker. He
suffered a turn for the worse yester-
day and this morning passed into a
coma from which he did not rally.
dying at 1925 p. NJ.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-22
Coolidge Well
Pleased with Camp
May Stay Until Sept.

Paul Smiths. n. Y, July 21-(P)-
A fortnight of almost complete relax
alton in the bracing air of the Adj
rondacks has SO benefited President
Coolidge that some of his friends
would not be surprised if he prolong-
ed his vacation until Labor Day.
If his good spirits serve as an in
dication, Mr.. Coolidge's enthusiasm
for his vacation home at White Pine
Camp is increasing. Amateur photog-
raphers who have waited for him on
his appearance at the executive Of
fees here have been rewarded by the
opportunity to make many snap
shots.
The climate here, President Coo
lidge finds, is much the same as that
of his own Vermont hills. He regards
the fishing as better than in the
streams and lakes of his native state,
however
Guests at the summer White House
are as enthusiastic about the fishing
as Mr.. Coolidge, although not all of
them can boast of his luck. Senator
Tess, Republican, Ohio. who spent
the night at the camp, anticipated an
expedition in quest of Lake Osgood
pike and bass before his departure
today. Secretary of War Davis test
ed some of the Presidents favorite
spots and found a couple of new
bass holes for him.
The visit of Senator Fess, prom
inent administration supporter. was
said to be of a social character.
Summer appears to have arrived
at last in the mountain country of
Northern New York. The tempera-
lures have run high the last two days
but in their rustic camp amid the
pines, Mr.. and Mrs. Coolidge have
the benefit of every breeze. The
buildings on the summer White
House property are we'll protected by
the forest. so that for only a compar-
ative brief interval of the day can
the full heat of the sun be felt.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-22
Seek Assailant
Of Worcester Girl

Worcester, Mass, July 21-(A1-
Police today are bending every effort
to determine the identity of the as
sailant of a pretty 20 year old girl
who was found lying unconscious in
the roadway on West Boylston street.
early today. her clothing torn and
disarranged and her body bruised.
The young woman. believed from a
1925 automobile registration card
found on her person, to be Miss Flor
ence f. Berlin. is at City Hospital
where her condition is being watched
with concern by police and physi-
clans.
Recovering consciousness at inter
walls the young woman has shouted
Help me, Help me-" Her condition
has been such that the police have
have not been able to get her COM
plete story. but they believe that she
may have been thrown from an auto
mobile.
An automobilist riding with a
young woman found the girl and took
her to police headquarters. After
emergency treatment she was sent to
the hospital. Police learned that an
automobile of the coach type was
seen to drive away from the spot
where she was found a short time be-
fore
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-22
Sweltering Heat Wave
Hits Eastern States Area
Mercury Close to l00Mark
1OOKilledby
Hurricane
In Serbia

Vienna, July 22-(AP)
One hundred persons are
reported to have been kill
ed at Rugovo, Serbia, when
a hurricane, accompanied
by a cloudburst, struck the
town, says a dispatch re-
ceived here from Belgrade.
Forty bodies have been re-
covered.
The river rose suddenly,
inundating the town. Sew
eral houses collapsed upon
people who had taken shell
ter in them. Many cattle
and sheep persisted.
A similar cloudburst has
done enormous damage at
Krusevao near Belgrade.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-22
Howard and Sons Fail
To Reach Agreement

Mexico City, July 21-(P)-John r.
Howard. ~ year old manufacturer or
Haverhill. Mass, who is imprisoned
at the Cuernavaca Jail on charges of
perjury and bigamy preferred by his
two sons, is still deadlocked with his
sons on their demands for a settle
ment on their mother.
The sons, John and Albert. have re-
fused a settlement which the father
offered, but expect to continue nego-
tiations with him for a larger am
cunt. They say that they will NOT
withdraw their charges against him
until he agrees to their terms.
Howard is being held in connection
with his getting a Mexican divorce
and marrying Mrs. Eleaaor B. Phil
lips of Milwaukee.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-22
Suspect Held in
Chicago May Throw
Light on RObberies

New York. July 21.-(P9-George
Cohen of Chicago, arrested today as
a suspect in a $4,000 jewel robbery
here on Monday, admitted to the
police that he had knowledge OF
crime conditions in CHICAGO that
would be helpful to the district at
torney there.
do you mean the murder of AS
sistant District Attorney McSwig-
GEM" he was asked by police.
well, the Chicago district attor-
ney will know what l mean," was
the reply.
Cohen, alias Mitchell and Sim
mons, gave his address as 4241
Roosevelt Road. Chicago and con-
fessed, according to the police that
he had taken part in the jewelry
holdup of the wholesale store of
Heyman and Taigin in the Maiden
Lane diamond district.
He was arrested with Solomon
Brofman os New York in an auto
mobile on Broadway by four detec-
tives who said they found loaded re-
volvers and a sawedoff shotgun in
the car.
The police say Cohen admitted he
had knowledge of many big crimes
in Chicago. that he came to New
York on July II and mustered a
gang Of thieves with the intent OF
initiating the activities of the no.
torious Whittemore gang.
Cohen who had $500 in his poe
kets when arrested. was quoted by
the police as saying:
81 want to talk to the district at
torney and l guess when he hears
my story he won't prosecute me
here, but he'll send me back to Chi
cago where came from, and
know the Chicago prosecutor is an
xious to get me because l can give
him some information about one OF
the officials that was shot and killed
there that will be OF interest tc
!,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-22
Nine Miners Dies
In Gas Explosion
At Alabama Mine

blocton, Ala, July 21-P)-Nine
men were killed in a gas explosion at
lne Dixie Mine of the Moffatt Coal
company at Moffatt today. The dead
included three white miners and six
negro workers Seven of the bodies
We're removed soon after the explo-
sion.
Inc men were working short
asht Shift and every man in the
hi,he at the time of the accident was
snieo. 1t was believed by officials
I'd. lat the explosion of "gas pocket"
"nich occurred at daylight was re-
'pUnslble for the blast.
me Moffatt property Is at Moffatt,
Ala, in Bibb county.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-22
Defendants Win
In Half Million Suit
At Rochester, n. I'll.

Rochester, n. H, July 21.-(Pl-A
verdict for the defendants was re-
turned by Judge George +. Morris in U.
S. district court here today in the
100000 suit brought by George E.
and Abbie F. Wallace of Lynn, Mass,
against Mrs. Alice f. Wallace and
George z. Furbush. executors of the
estate Of the late Sumner Wallace, and
the Rochester Trust Company.
The plaintiff, George L. Wallace,
claimed that in 1900 he sold to Albert
and Sumner Wallace his interest in
the manufacturing business of e. G. &
Z. E. Wallace. curtain partnership
property to the value of 100000 for
which he never received payment. Mrs.
Abbie Wallece alleged that the late
Edwin Wallace, father of George T..
Wallace, willed her a legacy of $4,000
Of which she has received but S2625.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-22
Take No Notice
Of Valentines Ire

Chicago, July 21.-(P)-Rudolph
Valentines pugilistic aspirations to-
day seemed doomed to die a-bornin'.
The movie shiek wanted to fight the
anonymous writer of a Chicago Trih-
une editorial in which cosmetics and
pomades for men. as vended by slot
machine in Chicagos newest ball room,
invoked the use of exclamation
marks.
Valentino sent out a challenge to the
writer who had termed Rudolph the
prototype of the modern American
male and the beautiful gardener S
son." and asked why he had not been
drowned years ago. Valentino intimat-
ed that he could give a good account
of himself at fsticuffs, but the writer
of the editorial has taken no notice
of the movie actors dander.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-22
Gen. Pershing May
Be Next Head of
American Legion

Washington, July 21-P)-General
Pershing will be placed in nominal
ton for national commander OF the
American Legion at the convention
of the organization in Philadelphia
in October The George Washington
Post No. / of the legion had voted
unanimously to propose the comman-
der of the American armies in France
for the place. 1t was decided that 1t
would be fitting for him to again lead
the veterans of the World war when
they go to Paris for their convention
in 1927.
High legion officials have discussed
the question informally with Gene
raj Pershing, but so far as known he
has given them no definite indication
of his position as to accepting the
honor. He made clear that he would
enter no contest for the place.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-22
Arrest Suspect
In Staying of Editor

Canton. Ohio. July 21.-(Pl-The
first arrest in the Don r. Mellett STAY
ing case was made by police here to-
day when they held Peter Magraf OF
Akron. known as q gambler. Magyar
is said to have admitted having been
in Canton the night of the Staying and
is alleged to have been near the Mel
lett home.
Magraf asserted he was with John
Demos, known as "Blackie," also of
Akron, on that night. Two detectives
went to Akron Immediately to locate
"Blackie" and bring him to Canton
Demos is out on bond of $4,000 after
having been arraigned on white
slavery charge.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-22
Dismiss $4,000
Breach Promise Suit

New York, July 21.-(P)-The $780,
900 breach of promise suit brought by
Rosalind Lapnore against Albert
Weisbord. head of the Passaic, N. j.,
silk strikers, was dismissed today by
Supreme Court Justice Black.
Miss Lapnore alleged the engage
ment was entered into last winter.
Weisbord denied any promise, and also
denisd ever having seen or heard of
Miss Lapnore prior to the beginning
of the suit. He declared the whole
thing was "frameup" invited by fac
tory owners to discredit him in his
strike activities
Motion of dsmSsal was submitted
without argument.
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bers Of his government. The temper
Of the crowd was described as ugly"
and 1t was seen as they typified the
mounting apprehension of the coun-
try at large.
The Herriot cabinet was formed to
succeed the tenth ministry of Aris-
tide BRAND and to rehabilitate the
financial position of France.
The Herriot ministry lasted just a
few hours longer than the Francois
Marshall ministry, which in 1914 was
formed to present the case of the
president of the republic, Alexandra
MIerand, to parliament after M.
Herriot had refused to receive mis-
sion to form a cabinet at his hands.
Significant references to this his
Continued on Page 11-Col. ~
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-22
SEN. TESS PREDICTS
new CONGRESS MOVE
| IN RELIEF OF FARMERS

Paul Smiths, N. Y, July 21--(P)-
Leaving the summer White House
where he had been a guest for two
days, Senator Fess, Republican. Ohio,
indicated today that the administra-
ton in the next session of congress
would seek to improve agricultural
conditions by legislation along
Continued on Page 3-col. 81