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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-30
LOCAL NOTICE

LOCAL NOTICE
To let-Large sunny room, bay
window, modern improvements. suit
able for married couple. Mrs. w. l.
Guild, Kingsbury street. Tel 229-W.
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-30

belmont Luce has returned to
Bates after a short visit at his home.
Miss Lora Sleeper, who has been
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. w. r Kellogg,
has returned to Cornish.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. c. Kellogg are in
the, Aroostook county for a fey
John MacHardy. who has been
visiting in Providence, r. l., and
oston, has returned to HalIowell.
Miss Grace Blake was pianist for
the picture Grass at the Old South
church.
Notices for the Kennebec Journal
are to be left this week at the Tib-
belts Pharmacy.
Ward One Community Club will
give a whist party Friday evening Of
this week.
Regular meeting Of Granite Lodge,
No. so, X. of r., this evening at the
usual hour.
There will be no meeting of the La
dies Aid of the First Universalist
church this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Marston, who
have been visiting r. M. Johnson for
the past few days, have returned to
Brooklyn, NJ Y.
Mrs. Walter Houghton and daugh-
ter, Katherine Louise Of New York
City are visiting Mrs. Houghton's
mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Carey.
Miss Lucy Kellogg has returned to
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-07
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre
And To1Uer Destroyed BY Fire
fRv Dlspateh a. ?. wirel


STI:ATFORD ON : AVON, England,
March 6.-The Shakespeare Memorial
theatre known to thousands of Amer.
leans who have made the pilgrimage
to the birthplace Of the poet, and
the tower adjoining it, were destroy
ed by fire this afternoon. The mu-
scum and picture gallery which
formed a part of the Shakespeare
memorial group were saved. The
blaze was of unknown origin. Short
lv after 8 o'clock a passerby noticed
smoke issuing from the theatre which
stands on the bank of Avon and
turned in an alarm. Fire brigades
gathered from the surrounding towns
and villages and thousands of towns
people were quickly on the scene,
but efforts to save the theatre wers
hopeless.
The tower, 100 feet high and com
manding an admirable view of STRAIT
ford acting as huge draft chin,
ney, encouraged the flames.
Aided by favorable wind the
fighters directed their chief efforts
to saving the museum and picture
gallery, which contains valuable
Shakespearean collections, autographs
and relics, and the library which in
cludes rare editions of the plays and
the famous "Droeshout portrait of
the poet.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-07
TRY TO POPULARIZE EVENING
VEST STUDDED WITH ROSES

LONDON, March 6.-Sillz manufac-
turers are trying 60 popularize eve
ming vests for men which have tiny
pink roses and other flowers in their
natural colors on background OF
A similar style was started in the
time of King Edwards youth, and
the then Prince of Wales wore the
bright vests in an effort to boom
the dying silk industry in certain
parts of England. But the style was
short lived. 1t was took Piclwickian
for the Victorian Age, and West
End tailors now say that vests in
the pastel shades will never be
used by modern men of taste.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-07
Letters Grandson Learns
Colonies AS ''Hired" Hand

SYDNEY, March 6.-Levi ziegler
letters grandson, the 20-year-old
Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, is
now a farm worker and sawmill
hand on a small estate near Port
Macquaire, New South Wales. He is
Just ordinary hand without special
privileges, although he is owner of
10000 acres in England and one of
the heirs to the fortune his grand
father made in the drygoods busi-
ness in Chicago.
The Earl recently sailed round the
world as an apprentice On a clipper.
He liked Australia so we'll that he
decided to return here and work a,
while to round out his knowledge
of life in the British colonies.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-07
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
STARTS BULLETIN ON.
UNIVERSITY WORKS.

PARIS, March g. The new in
ternational committe on intellec-
tual cooperation, formed under
the Aegis of the league of nations
has begun work by creating. a bull
letin to serve as a connecting link
between the universities of the
world. This publication will give
comparison of university standards
and general university information
of international interest
More than 100 institutions of higher
education have replied to the COM
mittee's inquiry regarding the value
of this bulletin. Comment from the
United States has been particularly
full and interesting, and thirty uni
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-07
LIST
OF REQUESTS MADE
TO THE CHAMBERLAIN

copyright and so the purchaser could
obtain material possession. but could
not publish them.
History will forget the war debt
discussions between France and the
United States and will remember
"only the crusade fought in common
by the two nations who should love
and understand each other, being
honest nations, made up of honest
people," former Ambassador Jusser-
and said in a speech this week at
Lyons.
Recalling his long stay in the
United States, where he was ac-
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GERMANY HITS
AT RECORDS OF
'JAZZY MUSIC

BERLIN, March 6. = Photograph
records of racy popular music
are Fbving such tlemoraliz-
ing effect on Prussian youth in the
smallest villages as well as in the
cities, that the government should
prevent further sale of such poison
to peoples souls,'' according to a
deputy of the Centrist party. He
has introduced it in the Prussian
diet to curb the sale of indecent"
records.
The bill also would empower the
government to prevent the develop
ment of revenues and musical COM
edies in which there is too much
nudity.
President Won Hindenburg con-
sistontly has refused to avail him
self of the strongest slander and
libel laws protecting officials of the
republic. The attacks on him are
far less vitriolic than those levelled
against the late President Ebert,
and good many of them come
from members of his own party.
but the president is not easily net
tied. pa
A detective, seeking evidence
against George Paulus, Stettin
coffee merchant, for alleged viola
tion of the pure food laws, reports
that Paulus had threatened to shoot
the commissioner.
Gwen the president can go to
hell" the detective reported Paulus
as saying.
The police commissioner promptly
filed suit for slander. President Won
Hindenburg laughed off the sugges-
tion that he make a complaint, and
intimated that the police commits
sioner was a bit too thin-skinned
Thousands of gallons of two and
-year-old wine are going beg
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LONDON, March 6.--There is such
a scramble this year to attend the
three courts the king and queen
will hold at Buckingham palace, that
applicants may be forced to draw
straws" to see who are the lucky
individuals.
An unprecedented number of APP
plications has been made to the Lord
Chamberlain, among them several
hundred Americans who have filed
their requests through Ambassador
Houghton.
Each court is usually attended by
approximately 1000 persons, but for
the first court alone in May, there
is nearly double that number desir-
ing to make their bow before their
majesties. There is such an enor-
nous supplementary list for the
other courts as well, that the Lord
Chamberlain has decided that some
sort of a gamble" be resorted to
for the final selections.
Although the government decided
against tax on betting, at least
for the current year, Chancellor of
the Exchequer Churchill has not al
lowed the idea to drop, and has,
with the aid of a commission, been
making further exhaustive investiga-
tions.
AS result, a memorandum deal
ing with all the aspects and possi-
bilities of such tax has been pre-
sented to the cabinet for considera-
tion.
1t is estimated that betting tax
might easily produce $10,000,000
pounds yearly, and the chancellor is
loathe to allow such sum to es-
cape him.
1t is understood that Premier
Baldwin and other ministers are yet
to .be converted to the idea, which
might offend the moral feeling of
the country Mr.. Churchill, however,
may attempt to introduce the, tax
next year.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-07
COACH AND FOUR
AGAIN POPULAR
WITH BRITISH

LONDON, Mar. 6.-The old fash
ioned coach and-four is coming back
in England to compete with the
motor car.
Regular coaching trips between
Brighton and London will be in
sttuted early this spring for the
benefit of travellers who prefer the
romatic atmosphere which surrounds
the old time conveyance to the
proaic automobile.
A famous vehicle, the berkeley,
which won all the coachevents at
the Richmond and Olympia Horse
Shows last year, is to be used in
this service on the Brighton-London
highway. from which the horse has
almost disappeared in recent years.
There are approximately 10000
slost'' husbands in England, and
no news of them can be obtained.
The Board of Guardians in various
localities, who are responsible for
maintenance of the dependents of
Missing men, are eager to find these
husbands because the automobiles
are spending many thousands of
pounds of poor relief" for their
wives and families.
The Guardians say that many Of
the men found it impossible to set
tie down to humdum life after war
time experiences, and have taken
to the road" nothing that their
wives and children would be cared
for by the authorities.
When Shakespeare was at the
heights of his powers, he almost
made his language, as the Americans
say they do today, as he went along,
DR.. George Gordon, professor of
English literature at oxford, pointed
out in a lecture on Shakespeare's
English before the Royal Institution
of London.
Referring to the state of the Eng
1ish language in the sixteenth CEN
tury, Prof Gordon said there was
no fixed standard in Grammar or
spellings pronupciation or accent,
nor was there standard grammar
nor a standard dictionary. The first
quality of Elizabethan, and, there
fore, of Shakespearean English was
it's hospitality and it's passion for
experiment, its willingness to use
every form of verbal wealth, to try
everything ''once, at least"
So far did it go. this movement
of linguistic anarchy, declared Prof
Gordon, that prudent, word fearing
men grew alarmed, and later new
words were blacklisted.
e Nf
1926 to look willowy were criticized
physician of the American Relief
administration. After the war, in
London speech.
why girls want to look like weak
and weedy young men, l cannot
imagine" he said, but they will get
that figure, and with it, indigestion
and a greater risk of consumption
Why should the fair--and strong
sex try to copy the worst points
in young men?"
Sir Bruce declared it was more
than tragedy to see SO many
girls "get willowy" figures. do not
let your daughters cultivate that
figure" was his advice to mothers.
} .'The craze will not last and it does
not make for a happy old age, il
they ever reach it."
Mrs. Stanley BaldWin's cook has
become more famous than any sof
the chefs at England's Royal Palaces
+ Her originality in turning out topi-
cal and clever iced decorations for
afternoon ateas at No. 10 Downing
street has made her the talk OF
Tondon's smart set
The latest masterpiece of Mrs. May
Barratt, head of the Prime Minister'S
kitchen, was an enormous chocolate
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SHIRT
MAKES BIG HIT
WITH GERMANS

BERLIN, March 6.-The Bismarck
shirt, advertised as being 'scientif-
ically built for comfort" has made
it's appearance in smart haberdash-
I.eries. The right sleeve of the Bis
marck shirt is about one inch short
er than the left.
1t takes it's mamie from the Iron
Chancellor, who sought introduction
Of the idea without avail so years
ago Prince Bismarck had ordered
dozen custom-unade shirts from a
Berlin shirt maker. A few days
later, Princess Bismarck complained
by letter that the sleeves Of every
one of the SHIRTS were of unequal
length.
The firm apologized and begged
for the return of the consignment.
To the company's surprise, however,
Bismarck personally sent congratu-
lations on the ingenuity of the
tailor.
writing, as most of US do, with
my right hand the chancellor
wrote, "I have been annoyed by the
interference of the cuff with the
free movement of the right hand.
The right sleeve in your shirts is
shorter than the left; hence the cuff
does not creep out from beneath the
coat sleeve. The error is a blessing
in disguise 1t ought to meet with
general approval"
"Why don't you come to Berlin,
instead of staying in PARISH" is the
facetious inquiry addressed to Prince
Carol by a number of Rumanians
here. You'll have nothing but ex-
pense in Paris" they tell the former
crown prince.
I'm Berlin, you have good chance
of being evaluated as we'll as the
other HohenzolIerns. why shouldn't
you put in claims for a settlement
like the rest of your kinsmen?"
Berlin's Rumanian colony is talk
ing a sporting interest In the royal
family row, with the betting odds
favoring Carols ultimate return to
rank and power in Bucharest.
The present Luther cabinet, which
supported arrangements for Ger
many's entry into the league of ma
tions, is called the cabinet of young
sters. It's members barely average
81 years of age. In scholarly
achievements, they also rank near
the top.
Chancellor Luther the second
youngest, is Al years old. Foreign
Minister Stresemann is 4S, Minister
of Defense Gessler is 81, while the
finance minister. DR.. Reinhold, on
whose shoulders rests the burden. of
finding a way out of the economic
90 10 81
war cabinet headed by Bethmann-
Hollweg averaged so years, which is
about average cabineteer's age since
the union of federated German states
was effected.
The Bavarian government has been
asked by Frau Anna Gerbig of Mu-
mich, to repay a loan of $500, ad-
vanced by her great grandfather to
King Ludwig 1 of Bavaria, CEN
tury ago.
Petitoning the diet, Frau Gerbig
insists that since the government
confiscated the rulers property, it
is responsible for payment of his
bad debts. She alleges that he
squandered the loan in entertaining
the beautiful dancer, Lola Montez,
whose relations with the king
aroused the populace and forced his
abdication.
The dancer fled to New York,
where she died in 1861.
Ruling that wines and liquors are
a "justifiable necessity, the Breslau
court of appeals has reversed n de-
cision of a lower court, which re-
fused to fine the owner of a fash
ionable cafe for over-charging a
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GET.
PUBLICITY In
EUROPE NEWS
(By Dispatch A. P. wirel


LONDON-The Duke and Duchess
Grosvenor Square, is located in the
heart of fashionable, Mayfair. and
was previously occupied by Mrs. Hoff
man of New York.
In the new mansion, an imposing
edifice with a magnificent ballroom.
the ducal couple will find them
selves midst of several we'll known
American hostesses.
Cora Countess of Strafford, former
ly the widow of Samuel Colgate of
New York, and a personal friend of
the royal family, lives at No. so.
Next is the home of Lady Leigh, who
was Marie, daughter Of Alexander
Campbell of New York and Mrs. Will
liam Converse. No. 12 formerly be-
longed to John Pierpont Morgan, and
is to be the permanent home Of the
American ambassador; at No. II lives
Lady Beatty, nee Ethel Marshall Field
of Chicago, and at No. 10 Lady Bee
cham, nee Utica Welles of New York.
Lady Ribblesdale, formerly Ava
Willing of Philadelphia and widow of
Col. J. J. Astor, is the occupant of
No. 49, Lady Cunard, formerly Maud
Alice Burke of New York, and Lady
Strabolgi, who was Elizabeth Flor
ence Buchanan Cooper of Sacramen-
to, Cal, are also near neighbors.
The residence is thanked at either
side by the town houses of Viscount
Cecil of Chelwood and the .dowager
Lady Nunburnhome.
other palatial mansions in the
same square are occupied By the Ital-
ian and the Japanese embassies and
the chilean legation.
BUDAPEST - Zita, ex-empress of
Austro- Hungary, is not forgotten in
her exile by her late subjects, es-
pecially the women.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-07
European
Gable News

PARIS, Mar 3.--"The British navy
is Paris" was the rather startling
headline which appeared in the Paris
newspapers this week but the mat
ter under the headline showed that
it was not a division Of dread
naughts which had found means to
Of five motor gunboats returning
from patrol duty on the Rhine.
The gunboats left the Rhine when
the British evacuated Cologne. Treaty
stipulations prevented them from
making the simplest route home, by
the Rhine and North Sea, so they
were compelled to explore Frances s
rivers and inland waterways. Their
Journey by these routes took SIX
weeks While tere they were an
chored between the Concord and
Alexander bridges in the heart of
Paris.
Seven members of the exiled i'm
perial family of Austria Hungary
are now in France. About month
ago four sons of the former emperor
and empress family of eight arrived
at the little island health resort
of Argeles-Gazost, in the Hautes
Pryene. The former empress zita
has now Joined them with her two
youngest children, the Princess
Elizabeth and Charlotte. She is using
the name of Madame De Lusacn,
taken from Lusace or Lausitz,
small place in south Germany of
which her husband was Margrave
She is permitted to remain for six
months with liberty to move between
her Spanish home at Loqueitio and
Angeles, for herself her children
and suite.
suite" seems rather an exag-
gerated term to apply to the form ar
royal family's present companions.
The one-t time empress has one lady-
in-waitingS Baroness de Pont, and
the four boys were accompanied by
the Countess Elizabeth de Sala Zita's
foster sister, a governess and Il
maid
The eldest son, Prince Otto, re-
mains at Loqueitio, with the second
child. Princess Adelaide, to keep
him company. The reason given that
he was not considered strong enough
TO travel but this is believed to be
a diplomatic excuse as the French
too wished to keep the boy from
| leaving Spain. Any report that is
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-07

England has been baslSing in pre-
maturely springlike weather, which
is most welcome to all sports en-
thusiasts, and the Oxford and Cam
bridge crews have been practicing
on the Thames for their annual race.
The race is still month ahead,
so it is too early for any useful
comparison between the two crews.
Americans living here have been
slow to adopt the English custom of
having a cup of tea before getting
this account, London hotels have de-
cided to serve their American guests
with glass of orange or grape
juice.
The new idea is to be tried out
on the spring and summer visitors
and if not successful, the hotels will
try serving grapefruit, oranges or
any fruit the guests may desire.
Working on the assumption that
Seeing is believing" the conserva-
tive party has arranged a series of
films to be taken of cabinet min
listers in action of legislating. These
will be shown throughout the con-
stituencies at conservative meetings
and will form a part Of a program
of pictures with a moral" Lee
lures will be arranged in connec-
tion with the films and in country
districts, where no hall is available,
travelling cienema protector will
be used.
Red was the predomlnating color
at the church wedding in London of
Lady Ursula Blackwopd to A, S. N.
Horne.
The bride, given away by her
step-father, Lord Howe, wore herl
travelling costume of deep red and
hat to match, while Lady Doris Gun
ston, elder sister of the bride, wore
red velvet and carried a bunch of
snowdrops.
PARIS, March 7.-One of the most
remarkable collections of love letters
on record-more than $4,000 of them
written by the former actress
Juliette Drouet, to Victor Hugo, be-
tween 1888 and 1883, brought less
than $500 when put up at auction
recently.
y This actress, whom Hugo loved,
retired from the stage and liver a
life of seclusion for so years. AL
most every day during that period
she wrote the noted author letter,
as he had asked her to do, although
they were Feeling each other re-
gularly well, and this collection,
an average of some 800 letters a
year, was carefully preserved at the
express wish of Hugo himself.
Gustave Simon. who, as executor
of Victor Hugos will and personal
friend of Juliette, says that the let
ters will disappoint anyone in search
Of a thrill, as they are nothing but
a collection of empty phrases, full
of adulation and alteration, far from
giving that reflection of the inner
life of the lovers"
The collection might have realized
q higher price had not Paris book
seller notified the auctioneer, as soon
s it was put up, that he owned the
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-07

to supply material for the commit
tees publication.
An international radiophone COM
mittee has been created to study
the question of the rights of au-
thors when their work is broadcast.
and how authors may collect for
such rights.
athletic Heart" has been the Tea-
son for the exemption of so many
young men from French army service
recently that the authorities are TAX
ing measures to combat the evil.
Long distance foot racing, especial
ly in the district around Paris, has
become one of the most popular
forms of sport in France, attract
ing many aspirants for honors who
are their own trainers and do not
attain proper condition to undergo
the strain of distance running.
Army doctors are lecturing the
young men who are found to nave
broken down hearts" as the French
call them, and calling on them to
spread the doctrine of more care
full training for athletics. This
propaganda is said to be bearing
fruit already in fewer exemptions
for athletic Heart"
France is in a state of badly
strained nerves. asserts Louis Mar
planation of recent phenomena indi-
eating high tension among the peo-
pie. He blames the politicians, in and
out of parliament, for having re-
duced the country to a state of
irritability that can only be calmed,
he believes, by some form of vio-
lence.
He cites two recent incidents
which he considers typical. The fst-
vorite in horse race got off to IL
bad start and was beaten. The dis
appointed hackers pulled the jockey
from his horse and beat him nearly
to death. Race track crowds in
France have often shown feeling
against a losing jockey, but not
such uncontrolled savagery.
An American film shown at Ror-
deau portrayed King Louis XII s.n1
the Dauphin in a manner the French
audience considered unflatterinG to
those long dead personages. Such a
disturbance arose that the police
had to clear the house.
Pari mutuel betting on automobile
racing with a percentage taken from
all wagers for the state is provided
in one of the bills introduced in the
chamber Eof deputies to raise money
to balance the budget.
The sponsors. of the measure as
sert there is no reason why the
government should countenance bet
ting on such uncertain animals as
horses and at the same time refuse
betters facilities for wagering on
their favorite motor car drivers.
Newspapermen of Paris are to
have an Identifying badge issued
them by the police to save them
broken heads and bruises when their
duties carry them. into the middle
of riots or other public disturbances,
This is the result of a protest by the
Journalists that the police, in Quel-
ling outbreaks in the streets of
Paris, have failed to distinguish
between newspaperrnen and active
participants in the disorders.
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BUDAPEST - Zita, ex-empress of
Austro- Hungary is not forgotten in
her exile by her late subjects, es-
pecially the women.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-07

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Ruling that wines and liquors are
a "justifiable necessity, the Breslau
court of appeals has reversed n de-
cision of a lower court, which re-
fused to fine the owner of a fash
ionable cafe for over-charging
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-07

Thousands of gallons of two and
three-year- wine are going beg
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Styles In GrdUestones

GRANITE ANIMALS were placed on large grave in
Woodlawn Cemetery Chicago where rest the bodies Of
81 persons, victims of the great circus
train wreck in 1917.