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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-30
ART|CLE'TEN IS
AGAIN SIDESTEPPED
BYLEAGUE COUNCIL
Defers Action On Question Of
Eliminating It From
League Covenant
want Suggestions of Signatories Re-
gGding Canadian Proposal For
1hterpretative Clause-Pacts on
proportional Disarmament To
Await Geneva Mcet-Hcar Rcport
Committee On Reforms In Austria

Paris. Jan. 20. (By A. P3-The
council of the League of Nations.
winch began its session at the resi-
oence of Leon Bourgeois this morn
ing, occupied itself promptly with one
OF the oldest and most familiar sub
Jects OF its agenda-"Article Ten" of
the League of Nations covenant-and
once again put off a decision whether
or not it shall be eliminated from
the covenant until the states, mem
bers of the League. can send in any
suggestions they may have to make
concerning the Canadian proposal to
amend the covenant by striking out
the article or modifying it by intro
uucing an lnterpretative clause.
me project for mutual or general
pacts Or guarantees concerning con-
dltlonS OF proportional disarmament
must await the report of the tempor-
airy mixed committee on ornaments,
Which will meet in Geneva early in
February, according to Il decision OF
tho council.
The committee of the council. which
is acting as an advisory board in
Austria, met during the afternoon and
heard reports from NJ. Zimmerman,
of the Netherlands. who is to super
wise the application of reforms in
Austria. According to M. thinner
mans report. all the conditions laid
down as guarantees by the different
states have been carried out and
nothing now stands in the way of
Austria negotiating loans, based on
these guarantees. He added that
news from the financial centers indi-
Gated that the G50,000.000 gold crowns
needed would be readily Forthcoming.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-30
Old World Has Not
Yet Learned Lesson
Says Sen. Mccormick

Washington. Jan. 29.-The prob
lens of Europe were passed in re-
view once again in the Senate today
when Senator Mccormick. Republic
can, Illinois, who recently returned
from a trip abroad gave his COL
leagues some of his impressions of
European conditions and recon-
mcnded that the old world be per-
mitted to learn by painful failure"
the error Of its ways
The Illinois Senator delivered his
opinions in the course of q speech on
farm credits Legislation, telling the
Senate that although he favored the
LenroOt- Anderson and Norbecll bills,
such measures alone should not be
expected to restore agricultural
1lucnccS at home and abroad.
The markets of Europe" said
Senator Mccormick, "are dominated
by factors largely beyond our con-
troll of influence. Europe today needs
hrcadStuffs more than she can buy
She needs S500,000,000 worth of
American wheat and corn.
But her economic restoration, the
restoration of her buying power. the
establishment of true and enduring
peace are blocked at the moment by
the bitterness, bad faith. and bickor-
ing at Lausanne, the breach of the
peace in Memcl, the break between
Britain and her continental allies
and the presence of the battalons of
French in the Ruhr."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-30
BALANCED BUDGET
BY JUNE 80, HARDING
WORD TO CONGRESS
Retrenchment Program Has
Reduced Deficit, But Must
Be Continued
Presidents Plea Is Supplemented by
Director LOr(l-Asks Government
Workers to Subordinate Local, De-
partmental or Sectional Require
ments to the Greater Good OF
Whole People

Washington, Jan. o0.-Reprcsent-
atives of the governments business
organization" assembled for consid-
Grafton of the budget problems, were
told today in u message from Pres
ident Harding that for the first time
since the fiscal year 1916 the ma
TONS income and outgo probably
would balance at the end Of the cur
rent fiscal year on June so. The
Presidents message. delivered by
Vice President Coolidge, announced
that instead of q deficit of S6)S,OOO,-
600 estimated at the beginning of
the fiscal year, the economy drive
had ten days ago forced a reduc-
ton to So 100000.
Mr.. Harding urged a continuation
of the efforts at curtailing cNpendl-
lures and eliminating waste, declar-
ing that by such continued attcn-
ton would the balanced budget be
realized on June 30. experimenting
the Presidents plea, BriSadier Cen
cral Lord, director of the budget.
called on all government workers TO
subordinate local, departmental or
sectional requirements to the great
err good of the whole people. adj
monishing the officials that ~. $.
means the United States and not
"uS"
General Lord reported that the fl
nal estimate of expenditures for the
current fiscal year, surveyed jan
uary II. was $3.574 ,5o1, 132, while
the forecast of receipts on the same
day was 81, 4S1 ,904.959. This leaves.
he pointed out. a deficit of slightly
more than $9.GUO,NNO. and he eX-
pressed the belief that with five
months of the fiscal year ahead IN
which to cut away less than one
fifth of the amount eliminated IN
the excess expenditures in the first
seven months of the twelve-month
pcriod, the deficit could be elimin-
ated.
General Lord reviewed the works
of the various agencies subordinate
to the budget bureau. showing how
thousands OF dollars were cut from,
estimates here and there. and mil
lions in some instances were Topped
off of the original figures by those
intent on making the nation pay as
it goes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-30
French Government
Will Supervise News
dispatches to Ruhr

paris, Jan. 29.-(By A. P)-The
,ehch government has made ar
easements to supervise press dis
pa;e going through Paris from
c conts occupied by the French in
ts,lnany, it was announced this af-
ofn 1t was said at the foreign
v vaiee that the object of this super
NJ asIon was to stop the dissemination
VT, i;nahiiestly false news. Dispatches
,nmlch the supervisor regards as I'M
W., rue and likely to be mischievous are
terior. '"o
,,a Inc foreign office declared this ar
'"rnsement was not a censorship.
W. correspondents whose dispatches
b. ould be subject to this arrangement
.S se made representations to the
mO mel that such supervision, if not
sS ost Judiciously exercised, might
sh;o to the worst kind of censor
c ca.p, declaring that an organized
enasorship would risk less interfer-
tia oe with legitimate and consciep-
-.ous press correspondence.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-30
(By The Associated Press.)


The Ruhr Valley is virtually iso-
lated and communication for the
most part is cut off and a censor
ship has been established. Berlin
was out of touch with Essen and
other Rhineland points after o'clock
Monday evening.
The railroad strike is in fun
swing and the telephone and postal
services are badly crippled.
The French authorities are engaged
in the systematic arrest and expul-
sion of German officials, state and
municipal, for refusal to obey orders.
A number of papers in the occupied
territory have been suspended by
order of the Rhineland high commits
sion for brief periods for the publican
of prejudicial articles. --
\ The British parliamentary labor
party wants parliament convoked
earlier than February 10 so that the
situation arising out of Franco-Bel-
gian occupation of the Ruhr may be
given full consideration.
The council of the League Of Ma
tions. which is holding sessions at
Paris. will take no part in the Ruhr
controversy beyond assisting in q
Continued on Page fCol. 81
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-30
WANTS BRITISH MONEY
HEAD TO TAKE BACK
talk MADE ABOUT U.S..

Washington, Jan. 29-The admin
istration was called upon by Senator
Mcclellan, Democrat, Tennessee,
speaking in the Senate today, to
make immediate demand upon the
British government to disavow the
statements of it schancellor of the
eXchequer-casting aspersions upon
the American Senate and the Amer
lean House of Representatives and
upon the American people, and last
ly upon the American debt funding
commission"
The Tennessee senator read the
statement given out Saturday by the
British chancellor, Stanley Baldwin,
upon arriving in England, and said
that If Mr.. Baldwin had exhibited
the same elements of sordid parsi-
mony and uttered the same crude
attacks upon the American people
and the American Congress while he
was here, then the American debt
funding commission should not have
treated with him at ALL"
1.-The British people," said Sena-
tor Mcclellan, have always been a
debt paying people and it is incon-
ceivable to me that these self-re-
Spectlng. these observing
people, will permit one of their own
number to utter these uncalled for,
untrue and discou-teous words to-
ward the American people and
American representatives"
Continuing, Senator Mcclellan
asked:
Where is the great Ambassador
Harvey? Why does he not raise his
voice in behalf of his government
and the American people? Has he
lost his voice permanently? He
never seems to be on hand when
something real is going on"
Continued on Page 4ECoI. y.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-30
Three are Killed
And Sheriff Wounded
During Race Riot

Blanford, Ind. Jan. c9-Three per-
sons were killed near here early to-
day and several We're wounded when
sheriff Harry Newland attempted to
investigate the firing of several shots
at two Negro store keepers.
When the sheriff and deputies en-
tered a dance hall where wedding
had taken place earlier in the even
ing. the crowd started an attack and
one of the merrymakers opened fire
on the sheriff's party. The dead are
Mike Yarich, Ban Stupar, miners of
Blanford and Nell Obradovich, living
near here. Sheriff. Newland was
wounded in the shoulder.
Several men are being held in the
Eermillion county Jail in connection
with the shooting.
". a. Satterlee. prosecuting at
torncy, arrived shortly after the
shooting and announced that he
would make a complete invcstiGa-
ton.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-30
/ Given Entire Sum
Would Relinquish
Claim to all Other
Funds and Revenue
IN Favor Trunk Lines
and State Aid Roads
Mill Tax Would Be
Given to Towns Rails
ing Tax of 4 Mills for
HigE,<ays

rse farm group in the Maine Leg
u,.ure will ask for the entire high
,,y mil tax for third class highways.
his group will seek to have this tax
fsrbuted among the towns accord
=, 10 the total number of miles of
srd class road within each town,
nvded that these towns shall raise
fax Of at least four mills for high
nav purposes. Bills covering these
,roDosals will be introduced in the
legislature as soon as they can be
Dawn.
in consideration of the entire mill
/ hx the farm interests are willing to
,bandon to the trunk lines and State
/ aid roads for maintenance tho auto
fense fees and any rcvcnuS that may
h derived from tax on CaSolcnc.
They are also willing to have the en-
fire bond issue devoted to the con-
s-uc.ion of trunk lines and State Aid
roads,
This policy was formulated last
night at meeting of the Legislative
Committee of the Maine state Grange
and the Roads Committee of the
Maine Federation of Agricultural AS
Sciations and others Interested.
Present at the meeting were Repre-
sentative John W. Leland of Sanger.
vile, president of the Maine Federal
ton of Agricultural Associations and
Chairman Of the Grange Legislative
committee; Harvey d Granville of
Parsonsfeld, Republican floor leader
Of the House of Representatives,;
Frank P. Washburn of Perry, COM
missioner of agriculture and chair
man of the Roads Committee of the
Maine Federation Of Agricultural AS
sOcations: Leslie f.. McIntire of Wat
uford member of the Roads Com
nittee of the Maine Federation of
agricultural Associations and of the
legislative committee of the State
Grange; W. G. Hunton of Portland.
member of the Roads Committee of
The Maine Federation of Agricultural
Associations; Charles NJ. White, chief
Of the Bureau Of Markets, Arthur l..
Deerng Of OronO. county agent lead
er; and Representative John +. Wood
d Bluehil.
"A mill tax which is permanent
furnishes q much more satisfactory
basis for third class highway main
terance than any percentages OF bond
issues, license fees or gasolene tax,
said a member OF the conference in
discussion following the meeting of
The revised highway program.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-30

That Frances stand in the present
Ruhr trouble is absolutely right, and
that she is within her rights as laid
out by the peace treaty, was the
statement of Hon. Harold NJ. Sc
well of Bath, who spoke Monday
evening before the members of the
st. Marks Mems Club at their meet
ing at the Parish House, Augusta.
Mr.. SeWell, who was one of u COM
mitee of % appointed to advise the
United States representatives to the
Disarmament Conference when their
advice was wanted, said that in his
estimation Germany never expected
to pay the indemnity which she
promised, and that 1t the present
time, she is claiming and believing
that she won the war. The speaker
then quoted figures to show how
France was working in the face of
great odds to rebuild her country
and bring it to its former economic
strength. With thousands of acres
of land which will never be produc-
tive again. thousands of school
houses destroyed, hundreds of fac
tories destroyed and the machinery
placed in such condition that It can
not be used, or actually taken from
the country. with her people still liv-
ing in huts and novels. France has.
within the short time since the sign
ing of the peace treaty, remedied
MANY of these conditions. Factories
are being rebuilt, the larger part of
the schools have been restored. rail-
roads are nearly back to q pre-war
basis. and in general France is doing
all she can to pay the debt which.
the speaker said, the country owed
TO its people.
France Owes Two Debts
Tie said that France owed two
(Continued On Pana s. Col 2l
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-30
Falls $4,000 Feet
Rights Plane 400
Feet From Ground

Mount Clemens, Mich. Jan. %
Unconscious because of the severe
cold, First Lieut.. James D. Summers.
a pilot of the first pursuit group at
Selfridge field, fell from an altitude
of $4,000 feet to within 400 feet of the
ground here Saturday afternoon,
drop of nearly four miles, before he
recovered his senses. righted his
plane and made a safe landing. An
nouncement OF his experience was
kent secret by aviators at Selfridge
field until late today, when it was
officially related.
With several other aNiators he
mounted to Il height of $4,000 feet,
when the thermometers on the planes
registered 30 degrees below zero.
Examining physicians announced
vital nerves over both eyes had been
frozen. causing temporary blindness
and that Inconsistencies probably
followed in Il few seconds.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-30
Look for Rush
Private Legislation
During Present Week

The presentation of resolves for
private and special legislation, which
was started in earnest last week in
inc Legislature, viii be continued
lns week with doubled energy it is
anticipated on account of the fact
,hat the time during which this legis-
iallon will be received extends only
10 Thursday, Feb. s, at 4.30 L. NJ.
That despite talk of the need OF
fs!d economy, the Slst Legislature
Will not cut off appropriations to
privately owned and managed insti-
iulions, seems quite evident. The in
dlcatlons are that those institutions
which have been aided in the past.
VIII be given fairly liberal appropria-
uohs II not their usual appropria-
ooas 1or the two coming years.
already there are rumors and est-
mates Of what the State mill tax will
amount to, and there is quite a gen.
ual opinion that the rate will be from
i, 10 IL mills for each of the two
Ascal years, 1923-24 and 1924-o5. The
rae 1or the two previous years was
l.. and 6 mills.
According to the budget figures a
late Of IL mills for the first Of the
wv years and "a for the second
VIII be required exclusive of the Uni
vefslty Of Maine and State-aided in
sututlons. If the university and in
ssulutlons get their usual appropria-
IONS, which now seems most likely,
mat would make a rate of at least
~. and 3-4. And it is generally
.eit that the appropriations will add
we mill to these figures.
With the many hearings assigned it
y y expected that the fifth week OF the
legislature which will convene at 10
o'clock this Tuesday morning will be
exceptionally busy.
= The matter of the confirmation of
,n1oVernor Bakers nomination OF
nary +. Nixon as recorder Of the
cortland municipal court. will again
;,me before the Executive Council at
us session on Wednesday morning.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-30
RESUME OF DAYS
HAPPENINGS IN
NATIONAL CAPITAL

The House adjourned out of res
pect for Representative Burroughs.
Republican, of New Hampshire, who
died Saturday night.
The French embassy declared that
despite reports to the contrary France
had not moved more than $4,000
troops into the Ruhr.
Senator Norbecll, Republican,
South Dakota, in a Senate address,
criticized the LenrOOt-Anderson rural
credits bill as a measure which would
restrict credit"
Discussing the European situation,
Senator Mccormick. Republican, IL
linois, recommended in the Senate
that the old world be permitted to
learn by painful failure the error of
its ways.
Republican leaders in the Senate
began a determined campaign to
bring about passage of the Lenroot-
Anderson rural credits bill, the army
supply measure and pending shipping
legislation before the end of the pres
ent Congressional session.
Cash dividends totalling S16.03700
and q stock dividend of $45,213,000,
have been paid by the Shell Company
of California. since it's organization.
G. c. Van Eek, chairman of its board
of directors. testified at the Senate Oil
investigation.
After a House provision which
would have denied retirement pay to
Major General Hartford. who recently
accepted a position with a radio con-
Germ, had been eliminated, the army
appropriation bill. carrying approx
mately $340,000,000, was reported to
the Senate.
Predicting that at most. federal ex-
pcnditurcs during the curren. fiscal
wear could not exceed receipts by
more than S92.000,000, President
Harding, in message read at the
semi-annual meeting of the business
organization of the government. SAID
it was possible that a deficit might
he avoided completely.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-30
WITHDRAW SUIT OF
MRS, PARKHURST IN
COURT At BOSTON

Boston, Jan. 2G-The suit of Mrs
Dorothy Parkhurst, of Bangor. Me-,
widow of former Governor Frederick
II. Parkhurst, Of that state, against
the Employers Liability Assurance
Corporation, for $500, which she
claimed was due her on a policy left
by Mr.. Parohurst, has been dropped
from the present term calendar in
the federal court here by agreement
Of both parties, it was announced to-
day. The case was to have gone to
trial tomorrow. Whether a settle
ment has been reached, was not dis
closed.
Former Governor Parkhurst died
January 81, 1921, of diphtheria in
lection of the tongue. In her suit,
the widow claimed the infection was
due to n clinical thermometer used
by the examining physician of the
insurance company. The company
had declined to pay the claim on the
ground that the application had not
been accepted when Governor Park
hurst became i'll.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-30
Bangor Seminary
ODens COnVOcatiOn

Bangor, Nc, Jan. RECOMMENDATION
week, an annual event under the aus
pieces of Bangor Theological Semi
nary, opened at $50 p. NJ. today, with
q devotional service in Hammond
street church, followed by the first
lecture in the George Shepard course
on the general subject of The Min
istry of Reconciliation, by Bishop
Francis j. Mcconnell Of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church of Pittsburg.
whose topic was "Some Fundamental
Principles" Tonight the principal
feature was the first lecture in the
Enoch Pond course, by DR.. Joseph
Fort Newton of the Universalist
church Of the Divine Paternity, New
York. who spoke on "The Revelation
of Christ"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-30
General Forecast

Monday night the pressure con-
tinued low over the Canadian mari
time provinces and New Foundland.
High pressure prevailed generally
east of the Mississippi river and in
the northwest with the maximum
pressure north of the region of the
Great Lakes. This pressure distrbu-
ton has been attended by SHOWS in
Southern New England and New
York.
Cold weather continues in New
York and New England.
In New England and New York.
the weather will be fair and cold
Tuesday and become unsettled and
somewhat warmer on Wednesday,
followed by snow.
Winds north of Sandy Hook fresh
northwest winds shifting to north
east; fair weather Tuesday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-30
Business is Poor
For Booze Ships
Off New Jersey Coast

Highlands, n. j., Jan. 29.-(Ey A. P.)
Marine Rum Row, that patient as
semblagc of liquor ships that rocks on
the waves of Ambrose Channel, num-
bcrcd II today-thrcc steamers and IA
sail vessels.
But the business was dull. Observers
ashore could discern but little activity
among the fleet, which was reported
to have enjoyed brisk trading Friday
and Saturday nights with the bottle
fishermen Of New Jersey and cnvirons.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-30
Show Decline in
u. S. Shin Products

Washington, Jan. 29-The value Of
the American shipbuilding industry.
including boatbuilders, in 1921 had
declined 1873 per cent from the 1919
level, but were 1857 per cent great
err than in 1916. the Department of
Commerce announced today. Census
Bureau figures placed the 1921 total
at S400,S34.O00, the 1919 amount at
$1,62o 1861 900, and that for 1916 at
1S5,S52,O0O. OF GAO establishments
reporting products valued at $4,000
more in 1921, the statement, which
was described as preliminary, said
112 were situated in New York, 80
in Massachusetts,: 80 in Maine; 20
in Connecticut II in Rhode Island,
two in Vermont and one in New
Hampshire.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-30
Block Island Has
Lots of Anthracite
Because, of Wreck

Block Island, r. T., Jan. 29-While
most of New England is on short
rations of fuel, Block Island, has
plenty Of anthracite, all to be had
for the taking. The barge Tenn.
wrecked two weeks ago on Black
Rock Point. had a cargo of 3,2OO
tons of hard coal. The barge broke
up in the storms of last week and
the coal since has been washed
ashore. To date about 1,5OO tons
have been carted away by the ma
tives. with the aid of oXcarts and
horse drawn vehicles. Women and
men are at work on the coal piles.
finding new supplies of coal with
each tide.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-30
Capt. Coyne Killed
Three Wounded When
Troops are Ambushed

Dublin. Jan. 29.-(By A. P.)-Captain
Coyne Of the National army was shot
dead and three soldiers were wounded
when a party of troops was ambushcd
by irregulars between Abhcyfeale and
Brosna, on the Limerick Kerry border,
Saturday. it became 'nown today. The
attacking party is said to have left
the captains body at the roadside,
stripped of all clothing.
At about the same time party of
eight soldiers was ambushod at Cas-
tlemaine, County Kerry. but REIN
forcements arrived and the irrcgulars
We're scattered with n loss of one kill
ed and several wounded.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-30
Arsenal Worker
Charged With Theft
100000 Govt Goods

New Brunswick. n. j.. Jan. 29-Ce-
Gil X. little, civilian employe of the
army ordnance department at the
Raritan Arsenal, was arrested today
by department of justice agents,
charged with the theft OF govern
ment property from the Arsenal,
which, they say, may total S3oO,ooO.
George j. Perpente, a salesman of
Highland Park, was later arrested
charged with receiving stolen goods.
Perpcnte, the agents said was the
ego between" who arranged the sale
of the stolen property. -,
Title is specifically charged with
having stolen HOO automatic pistols
valued at $4,000.