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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-01
FOUR REGIONAL RESERVE
BANKS, TENTATIVE PLAN
FOR CURRENCY SYSTEM.

tor Reeds proposal that the unifica-
ton of the regional banks be accom-
plished by the creation of a govern
ment clearing house, which would act
as reserve reservoir. The question
of capitalization and stock ownership
of the proposed regional banks, was
taken up Immediately after the num-
er was tentatively fixed but no de-
cision was reached in the matter.
Chairman owen after the committee
adjourned expressed the opinion that
the bill would be amended to elimi-
nate the administration provision I'M
der which banks would be forced to
subscribe the capital of the hanks.
The stock. he said, probably would be
thrown open to public subscription
stockholders would have no voice in
the management of the banks, he
said, which would be entrusted to a
hoard of directors to be appointed by
the federal reserve board, thus enSur-
ing complete government control of
the new system. The total capitaliza-
ton of the four regional banks, Sena-
tor owen said, probably would
amount to 800, 900, 600.
The administration supporters con-
tested every step in the reduction OF
| the number of regional banks. Two OF
| them voted to retain the number al
II and three voted for 10 banks. The
| Continued on Page Twelve.)
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-01
BEATEN TO DEATH.
Arthur Mack 0tPf0vIdence,
R, /, Kills His WIFE,
Thrashes Her and Disappears
--Wpman Dies ShaItIy
Came to Boarding House About 5
Weeks Ago..No Trace Of Husband.

Providence, r. l., Oct. 31.-Mrs. Rose
Mack. about So years of age, was
found in q dying condition with her
body covered with bruises in, room
ing house on Clifford street. today,
and the police Immediately began a
search for her husband, Arthur Mack
carpenter The woman died soon
after a physician summoned by the
proprietor of the house, arrived from
the Emergency hospital
The couple came to the house. about
five weeks ago. About noon. time, to-
day. Mrs Mary Cameron, another
roomer in the house, heard a commo-
ton in the Macks room and went to
the door. When she entered the room
she told the police, Mack was throw
ing his wife on the bed and she was
screaming: Don't Arthur Mrs.
Mack then seemed TO lapse into un-
consciousness and Mrs. Cameron sug-
eested that they get doctor. Mack
went out and did not return. After
waiting until she thought the doctor
which Mack was to get should nave
arrived, Mrs. Cameron called the
Emergency hospital. The woman was
dying when the physician arrived. DR.
A. p. Longfellow, medical examiner.
made a superficial examination Of the
body but beyond saving that the wo-
man was badly beaten up would
make no other statement as TO the
probable cause OF Death until an au-
topsy had been performed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-01

Washington. Oct 3t.-The Senate
banking and currency committee, to-
night, tentatively agreed upon four
regional reserve banks for the pro-
posed new currency system with a
provision that after two years. the
federal reserve board may add as
MANY additional banks as il deems
necessary, not exceeding l., The pend
ing bill fixes the number at r. and 1t
has been understood that the admin
istration would not consent to nave
reduced below nine.
The sharp reduction in the number
of reserve banks was the first radlcal
amendment the committee has agreed
upon. and it was earnestly opposed by
the administration supporters in the
committed. Senators O'Gorman ana
Hitchcock, however, voted with the
five Republicans leaving but 1--WE
Democrats-Owen, Pomerene, Hollis
Reed and Shafroth-behind the ad-
ministration proposal. The White
House was silent, tonight, as to the
committees action, but 1T has been
generally supposed that the President
was vigorously opposed to cutting the
number below nine.
The committee still has pending tAe
nronosal to abandon entirely the au-
ministration reginal plan ana te
create government-controlle cen
trail bank. There is also pending Seha'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-01
nlRO GETS LIFE IN
pRiSONMENI FOR
TOpSaaM MURDER.

Bath, Me-, Oct. 31.-(Special).--Bra
no Hiro, the Lewiston Albanian, was
brought into the court room, at i1.io
o'clock, Friday morning, of the Saga
dahoc county and ten minutes iater
pleaded guilty to the murder OF ha-
sem Souleyman at Topsham, Septem-
Der 3.
Hon. George E. Hughes, who had
been retained as counsel for the pris-
oner made a plea for mercy, but Jus
tice Bird stated that under the law
there was but one thing for nm TO 40
and he, accordingly, sentenced Hlro 10
life Imprisonment at hard LABOR.
County Attorney Eridgeham read
telegram to Justice Bird from Carr
If, Getchell of Lewiston, counsel lor
Resoul Kasem Laehioli. who last week,
was convicted of the murder of Sou
leyman. stating that he had Withdrawn
his motion for a lew trial, filed, sat
urday. last, in Lachioli's behalf.
Sheriff oliver will take iiro to the
State prison at Thomaston, Saturday
morning.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-01

criminal. What is needed is light;
not heat The problem bristles with
difficulty. 1t will demand an in
creased appropriation from Congress.
The results may not coincide with all
we hope to procure but we can, how
ever, obtain facts that will contribute
toward correct Interpretation of IN
dustrial conditions as they exist.
Commissioner Davies declared that
the ultimate solution of the trust
problem depended upon the determi-
nation of the question his bureau Is
about to investigate. That, he believed
to be q fundamental behind whether
the problem might be solved by
amendments to the Sherman law py
an industrial trade commission or by
action looking to regulation by the
individual states. If the monopolstic
system should be found to be most
efficient there would still remain, he
said, in spite of that fact, question
whether the government should MAIN
tain an attitude against monopoly by
reason of other and greater additional
evils it induces.
Reviewing arguments for and
against monopoly, Commissioner Ia
vies declared that one of the chlei
concerns of the great body of people
| fer whom the government exists is
| which form of production, compete
| tive or monopolistic can produce ant
| sell what the public buys most cheap
/ Iy, consistent with fair standards
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-01

Atlantic City, n. j., Oct. So-Ihe
beginning of a new scientific lnVesu-
CATION of the industrial situation, un-
der the direction of President wilson,
which will contribute to the admins
tration's trust legislation program at
the session of Congress, beginning
Dec. 1, was announced here today.
by Commissioner Joseph T.. Davies OF
the Bureau of Corporations in an ad-
dress before the National Association
of Hardware Dealers.
whether a competitive system OF
large units. or monopolistic system
is the most advantageous to society IS
the question the bureau will attempt
to determine.
1T is characteristic of the quahls
Of mind of the President of the United
States that he should desire facts on
which to base his judgment, SAID
Commissioner Davies. There IS now
no governmental or other agencies en-
gagged in attempting to get sclentihe
information on this fact. We shall en-
ter into this investigation with IN.
sole intent of working out a scientlne
and fair minded spirit the facts an
sol,,telv as they are. So vital ana 81
fundamental is this problem, that U
attack it in any other spirit would o.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-01

Milford. Mass, Oct. SL-Daniel Cooper,
a young farmer of West Upon, confess
ed. tonight, according to state police Of
ficials, that he shot and killed his neigh
Dor, Alfred Bradish, on the morning of
Oct. A, and that he hid the body In the
woods until the next morning, when he
dragged it to swamp where he bur
led it.
Searching parties accompanied on sew
eral occasions by Mrs. Bradsh ana her
three children, have gone over all the
woodland in the vicinity of the Bradish
farm, during the last four weeks, but
have found no trace of the missing man.
Acting, it is said, on the advice or a
clairvoyant. who told her, few days
ago, that her husband had been killed
and buried, Mrs. Bradish notified the
state police, today, of the mystery.
Working in conjunction with the Milfora
authorities. the police had Cooper, upon
whom suspicion had fastened, brought
to Milford Town house, tonight, ana
there the alleged confession was made.
Immediately afterward the officers
and Cooper left in an automobile for
West Upton. 1t was hoped that by the
light of lanterns Cooper could point out
the SPOT where Bradish was buried.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-01
West Upton, Mass, Farmer
Confesses to Killing Neigh
Dor ON Morning OF Oct. 4.

In his statement, Cooper is said to nave
declared that he had no reason Tor
killing Bradish and to have denied
stories which neighbors had circulated
that jealousy was the motive.
The police say that Cooper watched
Bradish leave his farm house, Saturday
morning, oct 4; that Bradish went down
the road and Cooper followed In the
woods, ont of sight of the man he was
shadowing; that at a point in the road
where the woods are dense Cooper came
out behind Bradish and without word,
leveled a revolver and fired. Bradish
dropped He did not know who mad
fired.
Cooper fired two more shots, he tolo
the police. to make sure Bradisn was
dead and then he hid the body IN the
woods and went about his work on the
farm, going back to the spot Sunday
morning, the next day, to carry the
body to the swamp, where he buried IL.
State officer Murray. Chief O'Neil OF
the Milford police and Medical Exam
liner D. w. J. Clarke were in the party
which accompanied Cooper to the
swamp, tonight, to dig up the body.
Cooper is about 40 years old and Brad
ish was about the same age.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-01

Washington. oct. 3i-The income tax,
the NEST revolutionary revenue rais-
Ing power conferred on the American
Government since its foundation, starts.
tomorrow, upon the path that is eX-
gected 10 bring millions into the pub
lie treasury. Although an income TAX
has been agitated for many years and
its existance was assured by an
amendment to the Constitution agreed
to by the necessary number Of states,
early last spring, its collection by a
government which has not tried 1t Will
strain The resources of the fertile minds
in the treasury department and VIII
be accompanied, 1t is not doubted here
with . thousand complications not now
foreseen.
Ever since President Wilson signed
the tariff bill with its income tax pro-
vision, early in the present month, the
machinery of the treasury department
has peen at work upon the regulations
that are to govern the collection OF the
tax. Ii has been a task that has kept
Assistant Secretary Williams, Deputy
Commissioner ef Internal Revenue
Spear and other officials constantly az
work and the end is not in sight
Mr.. Williams said tonight, that the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-01

New York, Oct 91-John \. Hennes-
sy, Former Gov. Suffers graft inves-
tigator, who has been campaigning
AGAINST Tammany hall, testified on the
witness stand. today. and declared
that William J. Connors OF Buffalo had
told him of a meeting and collecting
SIS. coo from James Stewart, state
barge canal contractor, at the request
- Charles f. Murphy. Hennessy was
called as the first witness in the John
Doe proceedings instituted by District
Attorney Whitman to investigate the
charges made by Hennessy against
Murphy, Edward f. Mccall, the Dem
ocratic candidate for mayor, and 9TH
crs.
IIennessy said that he had seen Con-
ners in Buffalo. this fail, during his
Investigations into graft in the stat
highway department and that Henry
Burgard ct Buffalo and "a big contrae-
tor named McDonough" Of Niagara
were present.
Corners told me- said the witness.
that Murphy had asked him 10 get a
sood contribution from jim Stewart
because Stewart had got a good con-
tract. Murphy didnt. know Stewart
and Corners did. Corners said he got
the $4,000 from Stewart in Dunkirk,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-01
the INCOME TAX GOES into
EFFECT, TODAY. MOST REvO.
LU7IONARY ACT RECORDED.

regulations Of the department were
not difficult to understand but some
OF the officials in the department 90
not agree. Thousands of letters and
kilograms bringing up for settlement
points in the new law, have poured
into the department, have come froa
every conceivable source, and added
to the labor of making regulations
have made the task of the exper.s
one not to be envied
No one in the treasury department
believes that the regulations so far
formulated arc absolutely perfect, but
they will stand until some one proves
that they should be changed and Off
Gals are not inclined to believe thar
expert lawyers employed by big cor
porations particularly concerned with
collection AT the source" of income
on bonds, mortgages, salaries, etc.
have failed to understand them.
Since the administration bega n
framing an income tax law, the talk
has gone the rounds in Washington
that it would lead to many fights IN
the courts and as the tariff bill pro-
crossed through the Senate, many a
senator quietly expressed the view
Continued on Page TwelVe)
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-01
Testimony of John Hennessy in The
Proceedings Against Charles F.
Murphy--He Tells OF the Money
Paid to Obtain Contracts.
National Democratic Committee Chairman, Norman
t. Mack, Involved Bids Were Discarded.

think il was, in October. 1910" Hen
messy explained that he had been asked
&c seq Corners after it became known
he fHennessy) had learned OF the con
trihution as we'll as other contribu-
tons ct s5an0 each, which lie said
George Mcclure of Syracuse lad tod
him Stewart had made. in 1911 and 1872
Mcguire, he said. was connected with
the Barrier Asphelt Co.
Corners wanted to know If I was
right about the money, continued
Iiennessy. Il said: Yes, l got jim
Stewart three times. Corners said:
Yes. 1 got $4,000 from Stewart for
Murphy. | don't want to get into this
Murphy asked me fer it.
The witness testified further that
Mcclure had told him that one of
Stewards $4,000 contributions had gone
to Norman E. Mack. chairman of the
National Democratic committee, and
another to J. Sergeant Cram, a Tam
many politician.
These contributions, Hennessy claim
ed in recent campaign speeches, had
not been accounted for.
Mcclure told him, the witness said,
of other contributions made by state
barge canal and highway contractors.
Continued on Page TwelveO
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-01
New President D. Lyman Worm
wood, Bangor--Harold Allan, All.
gusta, Secretary--Thank Legis-
lature for New School Laws.
Interesting Address on 1.-THE Bad Boy" BY Jacob
RiiS Of New York. Other Business.

Bangor, he, oct 31.-Two thousand
school teachers and others attended
the closing session of the annual meet
ing of the Maine Teachers Association
in CITY hall, tonight, when officers
were elected, various other business
transacted and an address delivered by
Jacob Riis of New York, who spoke
for half an hour on the subject of The
Bad Boy
The report OF the nominating com
mitteo WAS unanimously adopted these
officers being elected
President, d. Lyman Wormwood,
Pansor: vice president, r. J. Libby,
Caribou; secretary, Harold i. Ailan,
Augusta; assistant secretary. Grace NJ
eobuep, Auburn: treasurer, John a.
Cone, Brunswick: member of executive
committee for three years, Miss Clara
I. Souie, WaterSille.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-01
A DEMOCRATIC INVESTIGATION
OF The INDUSTRIAL SITUATION
ANNOUNCED BY C0M'R. DAVIES.

living for workers. He sketehed the
business growth of the country ana
the rise of the corporation. ey
within the last decade and nan,
said he, 1900 corporations have come INTO
property of more than y billion dollars
Two hundred artificial persons own three
times as much wealth as the country
owned. in 1850 That sum is three ana
one-half times as great as the pupllc
debt. The gross income of one OF THESE
artificial persons is equal to the tota'
revenue of the government from inter-
nal revenue and customs. Iwehty-loai
of these corporations have three ana
one-half times the gross income OF the
federal government.
Continued on Page -Four,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-01
Flaws in Rails MsyNot Be
4, Found for Months.
Impossible 10 Have ForeCasted
Last New Haven Accident.
Limited Express Crossed Defective
Rail Few Minutes Previously.

Providence, r. l., Oct 31.-The in
yestigation by the Interstate Com
merce Commission and Public Utilities
Commission into the wreck of the Gilt
Edge Express at Westerly, last Sat-
urday night. was ended, late this aft
ernoon, after 20 witnesses had been
examined
The principal points brought out in
the testimony of the New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad officials
and train crew We're that the New
Haven used a rail of a different stand
ard from that recommended by the
American Association of Railway En-
gineers, and that il was possible for
the defective rail which caused the
wreck to have been broken hours, or
possibly days before it caused the de-
railment of the Gilt Edge The Mer-
chants Limited went over the rail an
hour and q quarter before at q rate
|of more than 55 miles an hour.
w. J. Backus of New Haven, engi-
|neer of maintenance and ways, tes-
|aified that the rail used by the New
Haven contained a greater percentage
|of carbon than the standard recon-
lllenutu ny inc runway tiSDltNlS anu
also declared that the flaw in the rail
had probably developed since it was
|laid and had not occurred in the man
|ufacture. Crews of both the Gilt Edge
land Merchants Limited said they had
|ridden over broken rails before with
Tout. realizing it.
Charles Anderson of Westerly, sec
Ition foreman in charge of the stretch
|of roadbed where the wreck occurred,
said that seven broken rails had been
Eaken from his section of 31a miles
|since June s, 1910. In one instance
Ia break was discovered in a. new rail
two days after it had been laid. He
said he had eight men to maintain
|trackage of six miles.
Special Agent T. \. Howard OF the
Interstate Commerce Commission,
(which did most of the questioning of
witnesses, said during the inquiry that
the total damage to the care was 1881.
Washington, oct. a;,i.z-Means of OBJ
RAINING the highest degree of safety
in railroad travel formed the keynote
.ef today's final proceedings of the an
.nual convention of the National Asso-
citation of Railway Commissioners.
commissioner fitzpatrick OF Illinois. in
a report on Safety appliances, urged
Immediate and definite action looking
to greater safety in railroad travel
commissioner Sague of New York was
of the opinion that the operation of
the standard signalling system with
the overlap would have prevented
most of the recent accidents on the
New Haven road
He added, however, that the hui
man question" was a considerable fac
tor in the operation of any sort OF
safety device, and pointed out that
many railroads had reduced the speed
of their fast trains, thus increasing
the safety of travel, in his judgment,
quite so per cent. He believed that
the reduction of excessive speed was
an advantage not only to the public
but to the railroads as well, thus
affording an impressive example of the
folly Of high speed competition. 1t
is better policy to run trains behind
time than ia take long chances of ae-
Xcidents," said he.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-01
FOUND GUILTY.
Mrs, Wakefield Caused The
Death Of Husband.
First Degree Verdict Found BY
New Haven, CT, Jury.
James PIew, Accomplish, Awaits
Determination Of Degree.

New Haven, Conn.,, Oct. 3l.-Mrs.
Bessie J. Wakefield of Bristol. mother
of three little children. was found
guilty of murder in the first degree by
a jury, today, for her part in the kill
ing of her husband. William. at Ches-
hire, last June. Sentence Will be pro-
founced later because James Plew.
her self-confessed accomplice and who
did the actual drugging, shooting and
knitting of the husband, is before the
court on the question of degree of
guilt.
Plew was in court and heard the
woman, with whom he had lived IN
Middlebury. declare upon oath that
she did not consnlre to kill her hus-
band. although size had said she did
when examined by the coroner. Att
er the wakefield jury went out, Judge
Burpee opened the Plew hearing and
suspended il to receive the jary's yer
diet
Mrs. Wakefield is nor the first wo-
man TO be convicted of first degree
m r5er in Connecticut, but no woman
has been hanged in the state since
f7Ss.
The evidence in the trial showed
hat Mrs Wakefield and her param-
mohr Plew, conspired to get rid of
Wakefield. While Mrs. Wakefield took
her children out fer walk Plew part
~ dragged her husband. took him out
for a walk for several miles and then
shot him to death. \ knife "as
driven in the body and rope placed
around the neck TO give the appear
ance of suicide.
Mrs. Wakefield then reported TO the
police that her husband was missing
and she feared that he had ended his
life. After a. search the body was
found some time later, nelghbor
had seen Plew leading Wakefield over
lonely mountain road just before the
murder was committed. An tnSestl5s
CATION of the relations. betaeeAr the
man and woman resulted In then ar
rest. Both confessed 30. The Bristol
police and to Coroner Mix.
Plew Is a descendant of the fam
Gus Jewkes family, which has pro
duced more than 1900 detectives His
relationship was determined while in
prison by student in cfiminology
Plew when arraigned. pleaded guilty
to homicide under the ancient statute
of 1912, which dispenses with a Jury
and permits the court to determine
the degree of guilt. With one exeep-
ton. this is the first time in 200 years
that the statute has been invoked.
It is probable that Mrs. Wakefield
and PIew will be sentenced together.
Neither has shown much emotion dur
ing the trial
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-01
,nditions and General Forecast.

Washington, oct. 31.-Pressure re
mains high practically over the entire
country east of the Rocky mountains
and temperatures remain below the
seasonal average. There We're snow
furries III the last "a hours in the in
terror of New York and New England.
In all other parts of the East the
weather remained fair; temperatures
will continue low, over the East.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-01
Brig. Gen. Allen
Injured by Auto.

Washington, Oct 31-Brig. Gen.
Charles ]. Allen, retired, is suffering,
Friday, from bruises and severe shock
sustained in a collision with an auto
mobile, late last night. 1t is not be-
lieved he is seriously hurt. The Off
Ger, who is Ga years old, was on his
way to his hotel when big touring
car struck him just as he stepped from
a eurbing. The chauffeur hurried him
to a hospital. General Allen declined
to permit the arrest of the autoist.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-01
THE WEATHER
FAIR.

Washington. Oct 91.-Forecast for
northern New England: Fair. Saturday
and Sunday; moderate west winds.
Southern New England and Eastern
New York: Fair. Saturday and Sun
day; moderate west and northwest
winds