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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-02-28

Washington. Feb. c7.-prcsident
Harding today effected the greatest
change his cabinet has undergone
since his administration began nearly
two years ago. by designating Dr. Hu
bert Work of Colorado, now postmas-
ter general, to be secretary of the in
terror. succeeding Albert Il. Fall of
New Mexico, and Senator Harry S. New
partment in succession to DR.. Work.
The nominations of DR.. Work ano
Senator New were sent to the Senate
and promptly confirmed, that Of Senator
New almost Immediately in open scs-
sion in accordance with the courtesy
always extended sitting senators. and
that of DR.. Work late in the day after
it had been referred to committee in
open session and reported back. The
two will take up their new duties next
Monday when the resignation of Secre-
tary Fall. announced several weeks
ago, becomes effective. Senator New
rctires from the Senate with the adj
journmcnt of Congress Sunday.
senator New was III MS once III the
Senate office building today when his
nomination arrived at the Senate and
when it was confirmed lie declined
to make any formal statement. After
taking the oath of office he plans to go
to Indiana to spend afcw days before
actively taking charge of the depart
mcnt.
DR.. Work plans to assume his now
duties Immediately after induction in
to office.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-02-28

"To have begun work with tho
finest American boys and girls any
where to be found and to be fighting
for their just educational opportun-
tiles is to me a great inspiration and
privilege" said DR.. Clarence G.
Little, president of the University of
Maine, who appeared before the leg
islative committee on education
Tuesday afternoon in behalf of the
resolves asking for the sum Of $685.
1852 for 1923-24 and s704,276S3 for
1924-2o for maintenance, repairs and
equipment at the University, and
$50,375. for each of the two years to
provide funds for payment of out
standing promissory notes.
In addition to President Little,
the University was represented by
Col. +. II. Strickland of Bangor,
president of the board of trustees.
Several others spoke in behalf of the
resolves and there was no word of
opposition. TIL hearing was largely
attended and was held in the hall of
Representatives. the floor seats and
gallery being two-thirds filled with
spectators.
The needs Of the University were
set forth at length by Col. Strick-
land. the first speaker of the after
Continued on Page 2-CoI. y
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-02-28
Arkansas Senator
Exchanges Blows with
Street Car Passenger

Washington. Feb. Elbows were
exchanged by Senator Caraway OF
Arkansas and another passenger on
n Washington street car today after
the man had been accused of jostlins
the senator and using offensive Ian
Suage.
The alteration occurred at 14th
and II streets. Northwest. after both
had left the street car. the unidenti-
fled passenger striking Senator Cara :
way on the face and the senator re-
taliating with blows with his UNI
brella on the mans back.
Some hours after the encounter,
Harry A. Wallerstein. Veterans
Bureau employe. announced he was
the man with whom Senator Cara l.
way had clashed. Declaring the
senator had made an unjustified at
tack on him, Wallerstein, said a
lurch of the street car had thrown
him up against Mr.. Caraway. AL
though he apoligized. Mr.. Waller
stein said. the Arkansas senator be-
came vexed and followed him from
the car when he alighted near the
Veterans Bureau.
Wallerstein said he had served rs
an o;cer in the army during the war
and was receiving government COM
pensation for disability incurred in
service.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-02-28
Serious Charges
Against Veterans
Bureau Demand Probe

New York. Feb. 27.-Dcspite dis
hursements by the Near East Relief of
s12.2sO.325 in 1922. the situation in
Asia Minor is still far from clear.
Charles V. Nickrey. general secretary
of the organization. reported tonight
at the annual meeting of the board of
trustees.
AT the end Of the year $4,000 or
phans We're being cared for Mr.. Wick
rcy declared. while scores of thousands
Of refugees were leading precarious
lives in border territory. 1t had been
the intention of the Near East Relief
to confine it's work to child welfare.
but the Smyrna emergency forced the
organization into adult relief. The
bishop of Smyrna was quoted as say
ing that American relief workers saved
100000 lives in the Smyrna area
alone.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-02-28
Set Aside Oil Area
in Alaska to Insure
Fuel for the Navy

Washington, Feb. 81 President
Harding, by executive order, set
aside an area of more than $4,000
square miles in the northwest Sec
| ton of Alaska as an oil reserve to
insure fuel for the navy. This naval
reserve will exceed by twenty million
acres, the combined area of the three
other reserves, one in Wyoming, and
two in California, which is less than
100000 acres.
The reservation. according to Sec
rotary Fall of the interior depart
ment, Will be of the greatest impor-
lance to the navy since, for years.
secpages of oil have been found all
along the seacoast. How much Oil
!, the reserve will produce, Secretary
Fall said. is not yet known, as no
government surveys have been made.
The petroleum possibilities, however,
have attracted private investigation
and about 125,000 acres have been
allotted to some fifty applicants for
development. No drilling has been
done.
In case further exploration should
show the land worth developing, Mr..
Fall said, it will be necessary either
to erect huge storage tanks on the
land to hold the oil until vessels
could take it away during the three
or four months in which the sea in
that region is free from ice, or to
pipe it several hundred miles to
Fort Hamlin. on the Yukon, or to
Fairbanks, on the Alaska railway.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-02-28
Developments of the
Day in WASHINGTON

resident and Mrs. Harding, it was
snnouhced at the White House, Will
"a fave next Monday for a stay in Flor
Uklahoma and Texas representa-
, mss adopted resolution opposing
rolnotlon of Brigadier General Han
vi E. Ely, pending in Senate.
secretary Hughes declared the
uh We're responsible for the eX-
W., .' OF the Smyrna disaster in a let
MI " Senator Lodge, Republican,
h. AAhough rule giving farm cred
@ % legislation privileged status in the
t t.,ase with four hours of general de-
M S, was adopted by the rules COM
ANY, 'ee' consideration went over for a
ME. resident Harding nominated POST
Ss0 suer General Work to succeed
ms1 ,.e'ary Fall Of the interior depart :
Ins,a ', and Senator Harry S. New. OF
MAMA MAMA to head the post office de-
so Mssneht. Both nominations were
turned u. by the Senate.
-. "sadler General Frank #. Hines
Va. nomlnated to be director Of the
'e!erans Bureau.
MnhMhite House spokesman indicat-
N at president Harding had decid-
m,sa. policy Of liquidation" Of the
my..n ieht owned fleet to place 1T in
ior,sa hands and would abandon ef-
laiL,.o obtain federal aid after the
hin VI the administration shipping
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-02-28
48 Hour Law in
Massachusetts, Has
Stoned Mill Building

Providence, Feb. 27-The enact
ment in Massachusetts of legislation
establishing the 4S-hour week has
caused manufacturers Of that state
to forego building new mills or en-
larging present plants. f. Fl. How
ard Bennett, editor of the American
Wool & Cotton Reporter of Boston,
declared tonight before members OF
the Rotary Club.
Referring briefly to attempt in
Rhode Island to pass 43-hour law
Mr.. Bennett predicted that its en-
actment would give rise to similar
suitation in this state as he claims
prevails in Massachusetts,.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-02-28
FEAR DIFFICULTIES
OVER SEIZURE OF
MONEY BY FRENCH
POUR OIL ON SEAS
TO SAVE BATTERED
STEAMER ALED0

ooston, Feb. c7-Oil soothed the
troubled seas and saved the Shipping
noard steamer Aledo from serious in
Jury II not actual destruction. when
nc snip was turned among noun
famous seas to head Tor shelter at
tlle Azores, Captain j. &. Anderson
uectafcd on his arrival hero TODAY at
me conclusion of q stormy yoyara
when lasted six weeks.
, Inc 1relghter bound from Sean
olnavlan ports, was beset with heavy
Weatner from the time she left Fall
mouth, England. where che had called
Tor fuel. On Feb. 5, a southwestcrly
storm broke. which Captain Ander-
son declared WAS the worst he had
ever experienced. For three davs IT
continued. Seas broke over the YES
sci continually. som of the combers
towering to "a height of nearly 40
feet and breaking on deck with such
force that it seemed the craft would
be torn asunder. One sea, which
crashed over the starboard bow, tore
away part of the bridge, wrccking
the tubes leading to the engine room
and sweeping away the binnacles
and compass. The captain and Sec
ond officer Carl Hagenberg were on
the bridge and had a narrow escape.
The living quarters were flooded
with water, the captain said, and
water even poured down ventilators
and deluged the boiler room, threat
cnins to drown the fires.
When a lull finally came, the seas
ran even higher. but it was necessary
to head for the Azores to take a
fireman who had been injured to a
hospital and to obtain fresh provis-
ions and fuel. Men were stationed
at the bow of the ship with large
quantities of oil ready to be pt ured
out on the water and Captain Ander-
son watched for an opportunity to
swing the ship about between the
rolling waves. At his command the
oil was poured out simultaneously
by the sailors. and TIM rough the oil
covered surface the Aledo made the
perlous turn to safety and short
time later reached Fayal
Tho steamer was still leaking
slightly when she arrived here as a
result of the terrific strain to which
she had been subjected.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-02-28
SCHNEIDER'S DIARY
May FURNISH CLUE
!. AS TO HIS SLAYER

New York. Feb. 27-"She threat
ened to throw hot soup in my face
today never heard female use
such vile language"
These words. penned in little
black leather bound diary were be-
lieved by District Attorney Glennon,
Of the Bronx tonight to be the most
important evidence yet uncovered in
the Staying of. Frederick Schneider.
officer of the World War and noted
contractor, whose dead body, with
two bullets in the head. was found
yesterday in his automobile on Il
quiet country road out from the
Bronx
She was woman-a jealous
woman. authorities are convinced
whose identity was made clear in
other entries in the diary found upon
me person of the dead man. Her
name was kept an official secret,
however. the while detectives hur-
ried out to summon several new
witnesses for examination.
the soup incident was described
under date of Jan. >. three days after
the first entry in the diary. There
were other entries abiding to the
contractors affairs with women, but
the authorities refused to reveal
them. Still others. written during
the same period. indicated Schneider
was considering a $5OO,COO loan to
apartment builders. A 81 900 check
received yesterday. marked the last
entry. Recently the diary, apparent
~ the fruit of new years resolu-
tlon. had not been kept day by day.
Upon perusing the record a girl
stenographer employed by the firm
Schneider headed. was summoned
to Bronx police headquarters to be
questioned. Her name. too. was
zealously guarded. Detectives de-
fcrlbed her as "a young, attractive
brunette. with hazel-blue eyes"
Meantime. Mrs. Anna Buzzi. who
lived as housekeeper in the exclu-
slVe apartment house NEST" main
tanned by Schneider on the Grand
Concourse. the Bronx. was to be ex-
ahmed further in her Jail cell. She
was held in $4,000 bail as a mate
RAJ witness. on the testimony of
several persons who had seen the
contractor drive away. with a wo
man. on the jaunt from which he
uld not return alive
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-02-28
Lighthouse Tenders
Break Channel to
'SearSpOrt HarbOr

SearspOrt, Me-, Feb. 2I-The light
house tenders Zizania and Hibiscus
today completed breaking a channel
through the ice to the coal wharf
here. The steamer Ripogenus with a
cargo Of coal was within two miles
of the dock and gradually working
her way in.
The tenders then started for Ston-
irgton to break out the ice there and
dock the coal barge which tempor-
arily disabled the cutter Ossipee
while towing her through the ice
fields.
The Hibiscus, while making a trip
to Moosabec light yesterday. broke
out Moosabec Reach. between Jones'
port and BeaTs Island.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-02-28
BOWdOin Students
to Vote on Change
in College Song
(Snacia1 to Kcnnebec JournaD


Brunswick. Nc. Feb. 27.-The stu
dent Council of Bowdoin College today
called special election for Monday.
March ), to vote on the question of
adopting Rise Sons of Bowdoin" as
the college song in place of "Bowdoin
Beata;" to decide regarding proposed
change in the date for holding the Ivy
Day exercises; to decide regarding a
change in the methods of electing ath-
lctic team managers; and to fill va
cancy in the Athletic Council. for which
position Brooks L. Savage "a of Skow-
hogan and Malcolm E. Morrell pa of
Wayland, Mass. have been nominated.
The council appointed committee, con-
ssting of Jay r. Sheesley '23 of Ger
mantown. Pa, Emerson w. Hunt '23 of
Newtonvillc. Mass, and Donald j.
flames 90 of Bangor, to have charge
of the plans for the coming sub
freshman week end. Arthur Miguel "A
of Manchester, Mass. was elected to
the Student Council to fill the vacancy
caused by the departure from college
of Albert T.. Gibbons.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-02-28
SHIPPING BILL IS
SCHEDULED TO DIE
IN SENATE TODAY

Washington. Feb. 27-Agreement
was reached today in the Senate to
vote tomorrow on final disposition
of the administration shipping bill
which has been regarded as lost
even by its supporters since last
Friday.
Regardless Of the method used by
the Senate in killing the measure, it
will not be submitted again by the
administration, it was said today at
the White House. The president was
described as very frankly and great
should be defeated when it was APP
parent a majority of the Senate fay
Orcd it, but. however, to have no
feeling OF pique or resentment.
Tho administration, added the
White House Spokesman is resolved
to do the best thing and everything
possible without the aid of Congress
! in assisting private owners to OPP
crate the war built tonnage and to
establish the American flag on the
principal trade routes This policy,
which involves liquidation of the
government experiment IN owner
ship of ocean Shipping, it was said, is
being rapidly worked out and will be
in operation long before Congress
| convencs next December. 1t does
not involve abrOgation of commercial
treaties under section "a of the mer-
chant marine act of 1920. it was de-
clared by the spokesman for the
president.
The filibuster which defeated the
measure, in the opinion of the presi-
dent, it was asserted, caused Con-
gress to miss 1.-The most reckoning
opportunity il the history of the
United States to create a merchant
! ri u q >,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-02-28
Serious Conditions
Continue in Near East
Relief Necessary

Washington. Feb. 27.-Charges of
a SERIOUS nature" uncontradicted so
far and rejecting upon the Veterans
Bureau. require the Congressional in
vestigation recommended by the
special Senate Committee Of prelim-
mary inquiry according to the for
NAL committee report filed today by
Senator Sutherland. Republican,
West Virginia, as chairman.
Reciting that $45o,000,00O was be-
ing spent annually by the Veterans
Bureau. the report referred to the
charges uncovered by its inquiry and
added:
TT is believed to be in the interest
of the public as we'll as in the inter-
est Of the beneficiaries of the gov
crnment's appropriations that a
thorough investigation be made to
determine their truth or falsity. If
these charges cannot be substan-
tiated, then it is due to the officials
of the Bureau and to the public that
they be set entirely at rest" 49,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-02-28
House Turns Down
Bank Tax LEGISLATION

Washington. Feb. 27-The House
refused today TO approve legislation
designed to validate approximately
4O,O00,000 in taxes collected from ma
tlOnal banks by the states of New
York, Massachusetts and Minnesota.
The taxes We're assessed under state
statutes which the United States Su-
preme Court held in the so-called
Richmond case to be in conflict with
existing federal law because they
permitted discrimination against the
national institutions.
After a sharp fight the House APP
proved, 215 to So an amendment to
the national bank tax bill which
would validate only SO much Of these
taxes as might legally have been as
sessed under the federal law. he
Senate had approved an amendment
which. it was claimed, would have
validated all of these taxes. The
bill now goes back to conference.
Another amendment approved by
the House. IS to 50 would limit state
taxation of shares of national banks
to the rate imposed on other monied
capital-private banks-COming into
competition with the national insti-
buttons. 49,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-02-28
British Chancellor
.Interprets Terms of
War Debt Funding

London, Feb. 27-(By A. P.l-Stan-
ley Baldwin. chancellor of the ex-
chequer. replying to a questioner in
the House Of Commons today, said
that on the basis of the 6o-year terms
Tor paying the debt to America, the
payments on the debt would be as
follows:
An immediate cash payment of
S4o, 12S.0S5; an annual payment of
$l6l 100000 for ten years; an annual
payment of $1S4,000.00 900 for so years,
and final payment of $11S.4Sl,33O.
or an aggregate of 2,246. 900. 900
pounds at par of exchange, and four
per cent more at 4.6S.
These figures, he said. had no
meaning except in relation to the 62-
year term. If Great Britain paid
more speedily. then the aggregate
would be reduced.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-02-28
Farm Credits Bill
Sidetracked for Bank
Tax Bill in House

washington, Feb. 27-Farm credits
legislation was Sidetracked today in
the House for a conference report on
the national bank tax bill. but Re-
publican managers gave assurances
that it would be called up tomorrow
and. if possible pressed to q vote at
q single. session.
The decision as to what matters are
to be acted upon by the House after
tomorrow. rests largely with the
leaders. but the prospect is that a
! number of the measures which the
House Will pass will fail in the Sn-
ate. Measures now virtually con-
coded to be dead include the bill for
| government purchase of the Cape
! Cod Canal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-02-28
Steamers Collide
atNew York, None
Reported Injured

New York, Feb. 27-The Clyde
liner Lenape, Captain Kemble, out
bound to Charleston, S. c.. with 11t
passengers, collided in the North riv-
er today with the Southern Pacific
frelghter Ell Sud, inbound from Gal
weston, Texas. Both vessels We're
badly damaged. but We're able to
reach their piers unassistcd.
The Lenape's passengers, includ-
ing an advance party of members OF
The Brooklyn National League base
ball team. bound for the clubs
southern training camp at Clearwat :
e, Flap will resume their interrupted
journey tomorrow on the Apache,
Clyde Line officials stated. The ball
players included Leon Galore, AL
aamaux and George Smith, trio OF
Veteran pitchers.
Passengers said the Lenape was
proceeding slowly when the bulk OF
q Sud doomed up in the fog. Before
alner navigator could change his
course, Ell Sud struck the Lenape on
me starboard sida. forward of amid
tnlps tearing a large hole above the
water line.
No one was reported injured, the
ealy untoward event being misgiv-
.aes OF some of the more superstl-
aous baseball players that the we'll
AloTn jlnX had camped on their
"al little too early in the season.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-02-28

Especial to Kenhebec Journal.)
Pennington, Me-, Feb. 27.-'If my
husband ever does 1t he will never
get away with it," were the words
which fell from the lips of Mrs. Ethel
H. Beane, the oman who is now on
trial before Judge Charles j. Dunn.
being charged with the murder of
her husband, Otis A. Bean. on the
night of October 6, at Haines Land
ing to the statement which County
Attorney Currier G. Holman made,
Tuesday afternoon before the jury.
Her remarks, as explained by Mr..
Holman was made, when at one time
Mrs. Bean was in conversation with
another woman in regard to a mar
rled man going around with a mar
ried woman.
State Claims Jealousy Motive
Mrs. Bean had a motive of jeal-
ousy. We shall produce witnesses
who will prove that. Going back to
July, it was up to Pleasant Island
camp, she had a fight with her hus-
band that lasted from 10 o'clock I'M
-. SCiAS oLS IdppSu Oll llc wall, DIT
$50 o'clock that morning. She was
accusing him Of being bad man
with the women. He was trying to
quiet her. The witness will use just
the same words. On the night of
August 80, there was q dance. After
that man was talking with Mrs.
Bean regarding their relations and
she told this man that Otis was after
those girls and he did not care any
thing Tor her. She was going to get
rid of him and get a big fat man
that had car. Critters ran through
the court room and were Immediate
~ silenced. When Otis went into
that night there were no scratches
on his face, but the next day there
were scratches on his face which he
carried for two or three days.
During the time that County At
torney Holman was addressing the
jury. Mrs. Beane was more or less
Continued on Page 8ECoI. 3)-
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De Valera Replies
Republicans Cannot
Agree to a Truce

London, Feb. GA Dublin dis
patch to the Press Association saws
that the Republican Bulletin pub
fishes canon De Valera's reply to
the Association of Neutral members
OF the Irish Republican Army who
recently proposed n months truce.
MI. DE Valera says that the desire or
the mountaineering the Re-
publicans-for an honorable under-
standing is not less han the Assu-
standing is not less than the asso-
cation OF NeutEals, and adds: 80
you can feel especially assured
that you will have our most earnest
support in any endeavor to give back
to our country that internal unitv
which was her strength in the wears
of her struggle with England. We
cannot. however. agree to your pro-
posal for truce.
"A truce under present conditions
would not lead to peace; it would be
regarded by both sides merely as a
breathing space. in which to prepare
Tor more violent resumption of
hostilities.
ANY proposals for peace which
your organization has to put forward
VIII receive from us fullest and most
sympathetic consideration. We re-
mlnd you. however that previous ef-
forts to secure peace have all failed
through foolish persistence in an at
tempt to found it on the basis of ac-
ceptance of the so-called treaty and
the recognition of usurpation M,
legitimate government,
Our attitude on these matters IL
Interchangeable. The soldiers and citi.
zens of the republic have taken 81
resolution they will not depart from !:
they are determined to die rather
tnan consent to the surrender of
their heritage or acceptance for
themselves of the status Of helots.
outlaws on their own land" - es,.s.''