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HUCH INTEREST
IN TOMORROW’S
VOTE IN MAINE
PORTLAND, Me., Sept. 13 (by As
sociated Press).—Men and women
went to the polls today in the election
of candidates for state and county of
ficers, legislatures and congress, after
having been told that the campaign
eyes of the nation are upon them to
give the traditional indications of the
political sentiment of the country in
the presedential election.
Frederick Parkhurst, of Bangor, is
the Republican nominee for governor,
and is opposed by B. G. McIntyre, of
Norway, Democrat. All four congress
men are Republican and three of them
are seeking re-election.
SIX THOUSAND DEAD
FROM CHOLERA IN KOREA
TOKIO, Sept. 13 (by Associated
Press).—Fifteen thousand cases and
six thousand dealths have been offi
cially reported from Korea in connec
tion with the cholera epidemic.
PROFITEERS IN
HOMEBUILDING
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 13 (by As
sociated Press). — The assistant dis
trict attorney announced on Saturday
that indictments may be returned
against certain contractors accused of
conspiracy to keep up the cost of build
ing, penalties for which range for six
months to one year in prison or $50 to
$5,000 fine.
AUTOPSY TO BE HELD
ON BODY OF ACTRESS
. PARIS, Sept. 13 (by Associated
Press).—The police have announced
that an autopsy will be held today on
the body of Olives Thomas, the motion
pictress actress who died here of
poison.
COLUMBUS, Sept. 13 (by Associ
ated Press).—Campaign Manager
Dougherty has announced that Senator
Harding had approved of his plans for
a speaking tour starting early in Oct
ober. but no dates have been defin
itely arranged as yet.
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Present Day
* Women’s Dress
Brings Protest
BELMONT, Man., Sept 2 (by
Associated Press).—“In Winni
peg one cannot tell on a Sunday
whether the crowds with their
X-ray blouses and cob-web stock
ings are going to church, to a
comic opera or a midnight ball,”
declared W. J. Battley, general
secretary of the Manitoba Social
Hygiene Association, speaking
here recently. He strongly de
nounced the present day fashions
and the modern dances.
“Modern dancing is not only
robbing our ’teen age boys and
girls of their morals to a great
[ extent, bt is undermining their
Ik. health in other ways,” he said.
SEATTLE TO BE
TERMINAL FOR
AERIAL ROUTE;
SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 13 (by As
sociated Press).—Aerial mail service
from Salt Lake to Seattle, connecting
the northwest with the trainscontinen
tal air route, probably will be estab
lished soon, according to a telegram
from the president of the Pacific Aero
Club of San Francisco to Governor
Bamberger. Fast express and passen
ger service will be next on the trans
continental route, he said.
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SEATTLE, Sept. 13 (by Associated
Press).—Committeeman Cotterill, in
troducing Governor Cox here Saturday
night, denounced a local paper for
publishing a story to show that Cox
was a wet candidate. He compared
the records of the two candidates on
the liquor question, declaring that
Senator Harding owned stock in a
brewery at Marion for thirty years
and had voted thirty times on the wet
side in the senate.
Cox in his speech made his first
direct reference to the liquor question,
saying friends of world peace and
progress will wm the election and “any
attempt to divide them on any ques
tion at issue will be unavailing.”
Cox declared: “We must save
Alaska’s resources for future gener
ations. Its hidden treasures may be
the means of rewarding our service,
boys who risked their lives in the j
world war. I am not sure how this
can be accomplished, but am con
vinced two or three of the best engi
ness and men of the Hoover type
should be sent to the territory and re
port on the abuses there.”
SPEAKS IN RAIN AT TACOMA
TACOMA, Sept. 13 (by Associated j
Press).—Governor Cox in his speech
at the stadium Saturday afternoon de
clared himself an apostle of peace and
progress. A heavy rainfall occurred
while the governor was speaking, the
audience holding umbrellas.
PORTLAND, Sept. 13 (by Associ
ated Press).—Governor Cox spent a
quiet Sunday, attending the Westmin
ister Presbyterian church. He consult
ed a specialist who said his vocal
chords were in bad condition and
prescribed treatment by a masseur,
who advised the cancelling of a few
engagements, but this Cox refused to
do. Cox left yesterday afternoon for
Salem, where he spoke this morning.
ANOTHER VICTIM OF
' BELFAST RIOTS
BELFAST, Sept. 13 (by Associated
Press).—John Toner was shot dead
while walking along New Tonard’s
after the curfew on Saturday. This
makes the thirty-second riot victim or
including the July disturbances, the;
fifty-second.
ASSASSINATiONWM
IN MEXICO UNCOVERED
SAN ANTONIO, Sept. 13 (by Asso
ciated Press).—A plan to assassinate
General Obregon, president elect of
Mexico, and other prominent Mexicans,
has been unearthed in this country,
according to an announcement here in
Mexican circles friendly to Obregon.
GET-RICH-QUICK IDEA
AND BIGAMY CHARGE
LANDS MAN IN JAIL
SEATTLE. Sept. 13 (by Associated
Press).—Arrested here Saturday on a
charge of embezzlement, Albert Ed
ward Watson, 33, told a tale of bigamy
and get-rich-quick schemes, admitting
that he was married twice last month,
and had also mulcted San Francisco
men out of large sums of money.
MERIDAN, Miss., Sept. 13 (by As
sociated Press).—A small party met
and took Will E. Nichols, a negro re
centy convicted of the murder of a
watchman at a lumber plant, from the
jail to the country and shot him to
leath. Nichols had been sentenced
to hang last Friday, but the execu
tion was stayed by an appeal to the
Supreme court.
BILLINGS, Mont., Sept. 13 (by As
sociated Press).—Lord H. Wilson, Chi
cago advertising man and bond dealer,
was arrested here Saturday by a New
York detective, charged with receiv
ing and disposing of $60,000 worth of
the $173,000 liberty bonds stolen from
a Wall street bond house last year by
a messenger boy who was afterwards
murdered in Connecticut.
MEXICO WILL
SPEED UP HER
OIL OUTPUT
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Mexico promises to
become the oil reservoir of the west
ern hemisphere. Development will
soon commence which is declared will
reneav the industry exhaustion forty
per cent. The United States produc
ing field has caused Mexico to take
second place in the world’s produc
tion although only twelve per cent of
its capacity is being produced.
“BABY” LIGHTHOUSES
TO FLASH WARNINGS
CHEYENNE, Wyo„ Sept. 13 (by As
sociated Press).—Installation of so
called “baby lighthouses,” to flash
their warning lights forty five times
per minute, at all railroad crossings,
at approaches to dangerous curves and
on steep grades throughout Wyoming
is being considered by the state road
commission.
It is planned to have red lights at
railroad crossings and yellow at turns
and on curves. The lights are said to
be visable eight hundred feet.
SOPHIA WRECK SALVAGE
IS SEIZED IN LIBEL SUIT
BROUGHT BY SEA DIVER
SEATTLE, Sept. 13 (by Associated
Press).—Currency and valuables in the
Princess Sophia’s safe worth $12,000
were seized Saturday by United States
deputy marshals in libel proceedings
brought by Frank Walter, a diver, who
asks $2,000 for salvage work on the
wreck of the Princess Sophia.
RESULT MANY
LONDON, Sept. 13 (By Associated
Press).—A dispatch from Rome says
that seven were killed and fifty in
jured at Trieste during the last three
days of the Socialist revolt. Hundreds
of persons, mostly Slavs, have been
arrested.
TRIESTE, Sept. 13 (by Associated
Press).—The situation here is normal
today, maritial law continuing.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J„ (by As
sociated Press).—Sadie and Susie Sel
ter were killed by a single bullet
while out riding in an automobile, by
a crazy man dressed in an army un
iform. Shortly afterward a military
posse captured Mike Marakovitch, 26
years of age, after he had been shot
and badly wounded by one of the
posse.
FASTTRAINIS
WRECKED BY
LANDSLIDE
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo., Sept. 13
(by Associated Press).—The Denver
and Rio Grande passenger train No. 1
was wrecked near Debeque by a land
silde. The engineer and fireman were
killed and Russell Hager, of Dayton,
Ohio, seriously injured.
;! ACS A WEEN EY DEATH
EXPECTED MOMENTARILY
LONDON, Sept. 13 (by Associated
Press).—Lord Mayor MacSaweeney’s
death is evidently expected at any
hour, the police guard about the prison
having been doubled.
LONDON, Sept. 13 (by Associated
Press).——The Galeix League has an
nounced that MacSweeney is verj
much worse and suffering great pain
italianInfantry
SEIZES FACTORY
PARIS, Sept. 13 (by Associated
Press).—Italian infantry has seized i
factory at Lucca which has been oc
cupied by worked and forced the met
to surrender 60,000 bombs, accordinj
to dispatches received here.
DEMOCRATS
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MARION, O., Sept. 13 (by Associ
ated Press).—Senator Harding, in an
attack on the administration Saturday
in a front door speech, charged reck
less and inefficient conduct of the na
tion’s business affairs. He declared
the Democrats, through duplicity or
misunderstanding, would have the
United States surrender the Monroe
doctrine by becoming a member of
the League of Nations.
HELENA, Mont:, Sept. 13 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The Republican state
convention made an appeal Saturday
to the Democrats of the state to join
the Republicans in “repelling the as
sault against the whole spirit of Amer
icanism in the program for a state of
Socialism similar to that which has
brought turmoil and unrest and threat
ened the confiscation of individual in
our sister state of North Dakota.”
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JAPANESE NAVY TO BE
GREATLY INCREASED
TOKIO, Sept. 13 (by Associated
Press).—According to estimates of the
; Japanese press Japan will have one
hundred and twenty submarines by
1927, when eight battleships and eight
battle cruisers, on one naval program,
will be completed.
DEMANDS LOAN FOR
RETURN AMERICAN SHIP
LONDON, Sept. 13 (by Associated
Press).—A Fiume dispatch stated that
D’Annunzio had informed the Italian
government that he would release the
American steamer Congo on condition
that a loan of two hundred thousand
lira was granted Fiume.
CRUISER PITTSBURG
HAS BEEN FLOATED
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Admiral Huse has
wired the navy department that the
cruiser Pittsburg, which went aground
in the Baltic sea, has been floated.
SOUTH AMERICAN GIANT
ASPIRES TO BE FIGHTER
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BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 13 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Luis A. Firpo, South
American heavy-weight boxing champ
ion, is soon to visit the United States,
where he will seek the advantages to
be derived from good trainers and ex
pert management. Firpo weights 213
pounds.
His title was gained by defeating
boxers in Chile and other South Am
erican countries. In a match in Buen
r os Aires, in June he knocked out An
tonio Jirsa, who styles himself the
1 “Czecho-Slovak champion,” in the first
i three minute round of a scheduled 10
round bout. Firpo has a considerable
t ring history and before taking up box
' ing was a professional Greco-Roman
J wrestler.
POLITICS BIG
SEATTLE, Sept 13 (by Associated
Press).—The Washington state pri
mary elections tomorrow are attract
ing interest because of a large num
ber of candidates entered on the Re
publican ballot for the important state
offices, with hot gubernatorial and sen
atorial fights. The registration is
large and it is predicted a heavy vote
will be cast for Senator Will Inglis,
former commander of the state nation
al guard regiment. In fighting Senator
Jones during the campaign he attacked
Jones’ war record also made a fight
on the shipping bill. George Cotterill,
former mayor of Seattle, is unopposed
for the Democratic nomination.
There are seven Republican candi
dates for governor and four Democra
tic with Republican contests in three
of the five congressional districts.
TARRYTOWN. N. Y.. Sept. 13 (by
Associated Press).—Seven people
were killed and one seriously injured
when their automobile crashed
through a railing during a thunder
storm, and fell tweny feet to the rail
road tracks at Dobb’s Ferry.
ST. PAUL. Sept. 13 (by Associated
Press).—The Northern Pacific rail
way has announced the appointment
of H. F. Benson. Washington State
Commissioner of Agriculture as head
of the new department of immigration
and industry to co-operate with the de
velopment of the northwest.
COX FAVORS
DEVELOPMFNT
OF ALASKA
PORTLAND. Ore., Sept. 13 (by
Associated Press).—“The time
has come to take all restraints
from Alaska and permit the de
velopment of its vast resourc
es,” Cox said in his noon speech
here. This should be done un
der government supervision, and
in a way which will guarantee
the largest benefits to the do
main of the American public,
also insuring forever against cap
italization of any portion of its
resources by selfish sinister in
terests applying. I think the
population of Alaska has de
creased. and in the face of the
construction of the government
railroad, something is radically
wrong. Our treatment of the ter
ritory must be remedied. I am
not sure but what the public do
main of Alaska offers a means in
some measure for the govern
ments payments of its 'debt to
its soldiers. No plan for devel
opment should be taken in a
haphazard way. Log rolling
methods and securing regula
tions should no longer be con
doned. In the readjustment of
Alaskan affairs readjustment at
the head must be contemplated.