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Daily Kennebec journal., 1923-11-27
COMPACT OF STATES
P|NCH0T'S PLAN FOR
COAL REGULATION

Harrisburg.s Pa. Nov. 26-Repre-
sentatives of anthracite consuming
states. meeting here today to consid-
er plans to bring about lower coal
prices. received from Governor Pin
chot a proposal for regulation of the
industry through joint commission
to be formed under a compact of
states and. in turn. called upon the
state of PENNSYLVANIA to take the
first steps by repeal Of its coal tax
and the passage of other remedial
legislation.
The meeting adjourned without ac-
ton to meet later at the call Of Gov
Crnor Pinchot after Governor SilZer
of New Jersey had denounced the
Pennsylvania executives plan and
had submitted a series of resolutions
calling upon Pennsylvania to take
action. Governor Preus of Mime
sofa, the only other executive pres
ent. also opposed the Pinchot plan
and proposed a special session of the
PENNSYLVANIA Legislature be called to
pass an act declaring the anthracite
industry a public business.
Eleven states were represented.
Besides Minnesota and New Jersey.
whose governors were present, those
in attendance included delegates from
Vermont, Ohio. Connecticut, Massa-
chusetts, Maryland. Rhode Island,
Virginia, Michigan, I'd New YORK.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1923-11-27
Not to Hurry in
Collection War
Loans from Allies

Washington, Nov. 26.-There is no
immediate prospect of further action
by the American debt commission
looking to the collection of war loans
TO foreign countries, a high official
of the Treasury said tonight. He add
ed that no date had been set for the
next meeting of the commission and
that no request for a meeting was
now pending.
Discussing the recent suggestion
in some American official circles that
reminders might be dispatched
through the state department to
those countries Whic have taken no
action toward funding their debts, the
officials declared the commission felt
it had already completely covered the
ground outlined in its authority from
Congress in the matter of debt set
tlement and would be going beyond
this authority in effects to bring
pressure upon specific debtor ma
tions.
A renewed demand upon France,
he said, would be hard to justify at
this time when that government
faced unusual charges against her
income and any such demand, he de-
ciared, "in effect. might easily be
considered an unfriendly act"
Daily Kennebec journal., 1923-11-27
SYRACUSE HARR|ERS WIN BIG
COLLEGE CROSS COUNTRY RUN
univ. Maine PLACES FOURTH
LLOYD GEORGE IS
BIG AID To LIBERALS
IN BRITISH CAMPAIGN

London Nov. 2G.-(By A. P.)-Lloyd
Georges gift for apt phrases and po-
litical catch words is serving the re-
united Liberal party well. while his
extraordinary energy in campaigning
shows not the slightest diminution.
Speaking at Edinburgh today he allud-
ed to Premier Baldwin's prediction on
Saturday that "the people will win"
That" said Mr.. Lloyd George. els
not his confidence: The premiers hope
is that the people will be beaten by tri-
angular contests. His song of victory
is played on the triangle"
This was an allusion to the fact that
there will be 200 or more such three
cornered contests. Curiously enough,
the candidates formally nominated to-
day numbered almost exactly the same
as those nominated for the last general
election. namely. 1442. distributed as
follows: Conservatives 529. Liberals
4J6, Laborites 435. Conservative Free
Traders Z. Independents Is. the Inde-
pandents including two Communists
and one Prohibitionist.
The Labor Party's supposed lack of
funds did not prevent the nomination
of full quota Of Labor candidates.
1t is reported that the party recently
received "a number of handsome
cheques" from wealthy patrons and
that the party chest now is much bet
ter furnished than appeared likely
when the campaign opened.
Possibly owing to the failure of most
of the women candidates to win in the
last general election, when only three
captured seats out of 33 candidates,
OllfN nh hn1
candidates were nominated today than
last November One of the exciting
incidents of the naming of candidates
today was a race against time by Ma
jor BraithWaite, who journeyed 5000
miles from America. and is declared
to have had just three seconds to spare
to secure the nomination for Ponte-
fract.
AS all the party leaders affect the
same degree of confidence, efforts to
predict the outcome of the election arc
hopeless. 1t is noticeable. however
that many of the important organs of
the Conservative press continue rather
lulewarm on the advisa biIity of pro-
lection, and. it is believed that this
lukcwarmneSs may have a considera bile
influence on waverins electors. The
Laborite James Henry Thomas. OPEN
ing his campaign at Derby, predicted
that protection was already killed and
added that in his own opinion the cleo
tion would result in a stalematc.
Premier Baldwin in a speech at Bris-
tol today repeated that he would have
nothing to do with any inflationist pol
icy and. defending his tariff policy,
said:
I'VE know how many industries de-
pend on partly manufactured goods and
raw materials. We shall take no step
without consultation with these indus
tries. If any monopolies result they
will be monopolies at home, and We
can deal with them"
Daily Kennebec journal., 1923-11-27
Determined to HI a v e
\ Say in Organization
of Both Branches -
With Democrats Will
Seek Tax Revision
Different from Plan
of Sec. Mellon

Washington, Nov. 2e.-Opposition of
the Progressives to the organization
plans Of Republican leaders in the
House and Senate began today to take
more definite form. Likewise there
was increasing evidence that the Pro-
sressives and many Democrats are de-
termined that tax revision at the
coming session shall depart materially
from the program suggested by Secre-
tary Mellon.
House Progressives began series
of conferences to map out their cam
paign for liberalization of the rules,
and committees, while Senate Progress
sives started a backfire on the Repub-
lican organization plan to continue
Senator's Cummings of Iowa as chair
nan of the interstate commerce COM
mittee and elect Senator Curtis of Kan
sas president protein of the Senate.
Eighteen representatives from seven
states attended an all-day conference
of the House TrogreSsIvcs at which ap-
parently no definite decisions were
Continued on Page 5, Gel. 81
Daily Kennebec journal., 1923-11-27
PROGRESSIVE OPPOSITION
MANIFEST IN HOUSE, SENATE
PRE-H0L|DAY CRIME
WAVE ROLLS ON
y IN METROPOLIS

New York, Nov. 26.-Three store
holdups and three safe robberies to-
day were added to the deficit col
umn of the police attempt to wipe
from the city's crime ledger a pre-
holiday wave of holdups and rob-
berries, which has continued sporad-
lcaily for more than fortnight.
Arrests were made in seven re-
cent crime cases; clues were follow
ed In two weekend murders; one
man began 2O-year to life impris-
onment Jail term for Shaving:
ana a local newspaper started q cru
Sade to alleviate housing congestion
which it asserted was breedino
crlmlnality in the East Side tene-
ment house districts
The holdup today of a United Ci-
gar store in West 125th street was
the most daring robbery since the
holdup and murder in BROOKLYN on
November IA of two West End Bank
messengers !. le, who were robbed Of
Two well-dressed men, entering
the store. forced the clerk through
trap door to the cellar. One band
.'SSoilPstiiltu MIN. Another re-
NAMED in the store and successive
~ forced four customers. one nv
one, to the cellar. where the CON
iederate robbed them of their mon
ey and jewelry.
Flourishing revolvcrs menacinglv
the two bandits then ESCAPED with
HIfo-the contents of the cash reg
lister and of their victims pockets
A drug store also in West 1p5tb
street was robbed earlier in the dav
by bandits. who broke a small sa fe
and the cash register and escaned
win $4O. Other robbers looted n
beauty shop in West 5Sth street and
escaped with combs and wigs yolI,aI
at $1,000. ''''ueu
Burglars believed to have secreted
themselves in the Mount Morris the
atre In upper Fifth avenue durino
saturday nights performance blew,
open the safe and escaped win
@oooo' 1T was learned today. Cracks
men who drilled open a safe in tbe
oillces of the Royal Tea and Coffee
company. got II cents in stamps for
tnelr pains. a safe IN the offices
OF the Atlantic Gulf and Pacific
company was opened and robbed of
$|o0. Police said the safe had baen
opened by someone who knew tho
combination. 'Ne
Daily Kennebec journal., 1923-11-27
KILLS
z, INJURIES IS, IN
ILLINOIS COAL mine

Chicago. Nov. 26-Two men were
killed today and 13 were burned,
two of them seriously, in an explo-
sion in the Orient mine of the Chi
cago, Wilmington & Franklin Coal
Company, near Benton, Ills, accord
ing to advices to the coal company's
officials here tonight.
The mine. one of the largest in the
world, employs more than 1000 and
920 were reported to have been un-
derground at the time of the explo-
sion which was believed due to gas
ses. ,~~
Mine officials attributed the small
casualty list to an elaborate system
of barrier pillars" by which the
mine was worked. The damage was
said to have been small.
George B. Harrington. president OF
the opera ting company. attributed
the comparatively small loss of life
to the operating methods.
by dividing the entire mine into
series of small chambers" he said,
I'VE have reduced the fire and ex-
plosion hazard to a minimum. The
plan requires us to leave natural
walls of coal underground. so that in
the interest of safety we are re-
quired to leave close to 80 percent
of the coal in the mine. But we are
certain that the system saved many
lives today. In the old fashioned op-
Grafton, these walls would have been
taken out and replaced by timber
supports. and in time the entire opA
GRAFTON would be but a single air.
chamber, in which a gas explosion
would endanger the life of every
worker. In addition, the timber
braces would serve as fuel for the
fires which almost always follow an
explosion" r.,v
The Orient arrangement, he ex-
planned, makes the entire under
ground workings a series of small
coal chambers, any one of which can
be quickly sealed. either from with
in or from without in case Of an ex-
plosiOn or fire. By this method, the
disaster NAV be localized.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1923-11-27
Believe Germans
Elan to Stall Along on
Question ReparatiOns

Fafls, Nov &c (By A. P)-The
herman government, it is expectnd
ilere' VIII bring the agreements hn-
tween the Franco -Belgians and tbo
H'lnncs group and other industriaIs
20 lne notice of the reparation com
n.'SSlom WIN a view to combating
.E anE error. 10y tho occrpy:ng powers
III kuld or payments of taxes uhder
tnese arrangements for tho purnoSo
oI meeting their own expenses of or-
cupation. ~
ifcmlcr Ioincare declared in tho
chamber of deputies on November 1s
that the proceeds, less the cost of
occupation. would be turned over TO
the reparation commission. The con-
tract with the SHINES groups provid-
es that the deliveries in KIM shall
pe credited entirely to reparation.
less the cost of transportation to the
German frontier. Receipts in taxes
on exports and coal. according TO
that agreement, Shall be paid into
What Is called the pledge fund"
subject to "the rights of the repara-
ton commission
The question has been raised as
to what constitutes the reparation
commissions rights. Part of the
French press contends that the COM
mission ": nothing to do with these
accords, which are regarded as pri-
vate and concerning only the Sep
arate action of France and Belgium
in the Ruhr. The reparation COM
mission itself is slow to pronounce
on the question. since the solution of
1t involves tacit recognition Of the
occupation of the Ruhr with which
certain members hold the commits
sion has nothing to do. while the
British delegate, Sir John Bradbury,
has consistently opposed Ruhr con-
tracts as well as the occupation.
The opinion is gaining ground in
the commission that the whole rep
aration question is becoming so
tangled that the allies will be COM
PEELED to agree on solne common pol
icy or break on the question as soon
as the British interior political sit
uation has cleared.
1t is learned that the Franco Bel
gians base their claim TO payment of
their occupation expenses out Of the
proceeds of the deliveries in kind
upon articles 249 and PSI of the
treaty of Versailles, which give pri-
ority to occupation costs after rep
arations. Under these articles they
contend that the reparation COM
mission. on receipt of proceeds from
such deliveries. must deduct there
from an amount sufficient to pay for
the occupation and divide the sum
among the occupying powers on the
basis of the yearly lump sums agreed
upon in March of last year.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1923-11-27
Two More Warrants
in Old Blue Law
Agitation in Bangor

Bangor, Me- Nov. 26-The wrangle
over the closing of stores here on
Sundays which has been the main
topic of conversation on the streets
for several weeks, was revived today
when Judge Butterfield of the local
municipal court issued warrants for
the arrest of two storekeepers, Max
Breidy and Harry Viner. who conduct
establishments on Hancock street.
and are alleged to have done busi-
ness yesterday. Persons opposed to
the Sunday closing enforcement a
week or SO ago. attempted to make
the enforcement complete by OBJ
tanning warrants against all alleged
violators of the so-called Sunday
blue laws but Judge Butterfield re-
fused to issue them, stating that
evidence of stores doing business on
Sundays must be presented to the
grand jury of the superior court.
The issuing of today's warrants came
as surprise.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1923-11-27
MAN
MISTAKEN FOR DEER
SHOT BY COMRADE
special to Kennebec Journal }

Especial to kennebec Journal.)
Dover-Foxcroft, Nov. 26.-The
first hunting fatality of the year in
Piscataquis county occurred Monday
when Archie Hill of Willimantic was
mistaken for a deer while hunting
and shot by companion. Hugh
Goodale of Willimantic. He was
rushed to a hospital but died before
any medical aid could be admins
tered.
He is survived by a mother. two
sisters, brother, a wife and one
child. The. bullet entered the right
side just below the ribs and passed
completely through the body. Archie
Hills father, Charles Hill, was shot
and killed in the same manner. be-
ing mistaken for a deer in October
Of last year.
The story as told by Goodale, who
did the shooting was that he and
Hill with three other men started
out hunting early in the morning go
ing in beck of the Hill farm in Will
limantic and in the direction of
Greenwood Pond. Hill and Goodale
We're together at first. but when they
We're about three miles from the
mouse. they saw deer which Hill
~ "a a. anu illCIl WAS WOUNDED.
The two men who are as familiar
with the woods in that locality as
they are their own dooryards, separ-
ated and after abouty twenty min
utes Goodale saw what he thought
was set of horns and then the BODY
OF deer, bringing his rifle to his
shoulder
The bullet struck Hill just below
the ribs on the right side, passing
completely through his body. Goodale
rushed to his fallen companion, and
seeing the condition that Hill was in
slSnaled the other members of the
party. and on an impromptu
stretcher carried the bleeding man
through the woods distance of
three and one-half miles.
Doctors Doore and Marsh of Gull
lord were called and after a hasty
examination of the wounded man.
rushed him to the Louis Chase hos
pltal in Guilford. Hill was in good
spirits. and in spite of the great
pain he was suffering, joked with his
companions as they struggled with
his limp body through the woods.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1923-11-27

New York, Nov. 26-Completing a
record breaking cross-Atlantic run
from Cherbourg to New York, the
American liner Leviathan today was
delayed at Quarantine under circum-
stances which led Captain Hartley
to declare government inspectors
were showing favoritism to British
and other foreign owned passenger
ships.
Howard p. Farley, chairman of the
United States Shipping Board. own
ers of the Leviathan, returned from
an official mission in Europe on the
record breaking voyage which
brought the big ship past Ambrose
Light last night, five days, seven
hours and twenty minutes after she
had steamed out OF Cherbourg.
An average speed of 24.l7 knots
was maintained throughout the pass
age. betting by 13 minutes the 2411
knots record held by the Cunard
liner Mauretania.
The American vessels troubles be-
gan when she headed into Quaran-
tine last night. Finding the road
stead already occupied by seven
passenger ships awaiting inspection.
the Leviathan was compelled to head
about and anchor in Grevesend Bay,
mile distant, waiting out there to-
day. expecting quarantine officers to
come aboard. Captain Hartley was
Informed by wireless that his po-
Sitjnn ;ofo
he would have to draw in at the pre-
scribed anchorage before inspectors
would board his ship.
Ten hours after she first splashed
anchor. a revenue cutter and tugs
helped crowd the big craft into
quarantine against the tide, but dur
ing the inspection her bow swung
outward again. 1t was necessary be-
cause of her ponderous bulk and the
close quarters. to take her out into
Gravesend Bay. swing her around.
and make another swing before she
got into the North river-just miss
ing a slack tide which would have
delayed her another six hours. She
docked two hours late, with her
passengers, including Mr.. Farley,
irate over the delay.
Quarantine inspectors regularly ac-
comodate the Olympic. Majestic and
other big foreign vessels by going
outside the anchorage to board them,
Captain Hartley declared He said
he saw no reason why United
States liner could not have been
boarded in the same manner as are
English or other foreign ships.
He indicated he would enter a COM
plaint against the action of the quar-
antine authorities.
LikeninC the American merchant
marines fleet to a "rudderless ship
at sea-, Mr.. Farley declared. he
would recommend to President Coo
lidge and the Shipping Board the
establishment of definite policy
which would assure ship owners of
the world that "the merchant marine
is ON the seas to stay
TRe existing uncertainty about
the future of out fleet is detrimental
to our organization and to private
shipping interests of other coun-
tries. he said. 1T prevents greater
success in obtaining passengers and
cargoes for American ships, here and
in Europe.
"In Central Europe reports are
continually being spread that the
American Lines are only temporary
and may even go out of business be-
tween the time emigrants buy tickets
to this country and the dates they
expect to sail"
Daily Kennebec journal., 1923-11-27
SEIZURE OF RUM SCHOONER
DELIBERATE TEST OF SEA LAW III
AS AFFECTING SMUGGLING
Overhauling of TOma-
kO First M owe in
Wider Interpretation
of Regulations in
Common Use-Rum
Snug gler King
Giyen Hearing and
Held in Heavy Bail

Washington, Nov. 26-The rum
schooner Tomako, overhauled yester-
day off the Jersey coa-. by revenue
cutters, was seized under the new
policy of the federal government in
regulations governing movements Of
ships along the coast line according
to treasury officials. ...,,
1t is understood the Department
of Justice held unusually complete
reports from agents at an insular
port at which much of the illicit
liquor cargoes are loaded, regarding
the movements of the Tomako and
was able to advise the coast patrol
minutely of her movements, so that
seizure could be made when there
was evidence that communication
had been had with the. shore.
In correcting their earlier state
ment that action in the Tomako case
had been considered as establishing
a precedent in the campaign against
rum runners. by coming under the
provisions of the pending search and
seizure treaty, treasury officials said
there had been no change authorized
in the regulations now in force. 1t
was emphasized, however, that Gus
toms and coast guard vessels would
continue to make seizures outside
the three mile limit in every case
where there was adequate evidence
of such ships having been in contact
with the shore in such a way as to
establish constructive presence in
American territorial waters.
Despite the denial of treasury Of
ficials that the Tomako incident
should be regarded as a precedent,
officials of the coast guard indicated
that they viewed it as involving a
wider Interpretation of the regula-
tions than had been in common use.
1t is known that Rear Admiral Will
liam f. Reynolds, commandant Of
the service, requested formal ap-
proval of the department when he
was served with the original request
from the department of Justice and
asked specifically what authority
should be quoted for the seizure.
The query was transmitted TO the
department of justice with the re-
suit that a summary of the evidence
held there was submitted to the
treasury and the commandant.
The policy of making seizures Of
rum schOonerS outside the three-mile
limit when they had been in contact
with the shore by means of their
own small boats was adopted by the
American government some months
ago. although no conclusive test of
1t ever has been made in the courts.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1923-11-27
GERMAN PARTIES
STUbbORNLY. LY.0PPQSE
CHOICE OF ALBERT

Berlin, Nov. 26-(By A. P)-Dr.
Heinrich F. Albert up to late hour
tonight had not officially attained
the rank of 18th chancellor of Ger
many. Obstructionist tactics by the
Reichstag leaders have so far pre-
vented him from winning over suffi-
cient support and available candi-
dates for the cabinet posts to war
rant his appearance in an official
capacity before the Reichstag, or
otherwise vouchsafe him the Reich
stag's tolerance as head Of a non
political ministry.
The three days crisis again re-
veals the familiar picture of partisan
jealousy and insistence on tradition
al parliamentary prerogatives. which
the old line party leaders feel have
been violated by President Ebert in
the selection of DR.. Albert, who is
viewed as an intruding outsider,
aside from the fact that he is wholly
without party affilia ton
President Ebert, however thus far
is apparently determined to permit
DIR. Albert to exhaust all possibil-
tiles before yielding, or decreeing the
Reichstag's dissolution, and late to-
night informed the party leaders
who sought an interview with him
that he would receive them tomor-
row.
Meanwhile. the four bourgeois
parties are paralleling Herr Ebert's
Sortle with action of their own and
propose 10 organize a so-called bour-
geois bloc, comprising the national
lists, the peoples party, clericals and
the Bavarian peoples party. The
democrats have not yet allied them
selves with the movement. and the
socialists decline to identify them
selves with the proposed coalition.
on the ground that it was bound to
collide with their programme.
DR.. Albert is accorded wholly
negative support in the partisan or
gans. which declare that his men,
bership in DIR. Cuno's non parliament
tary cabinet is distinct liability,
and also designate his selection as
unfortunate in view of his pre-war
activities in the United States Pres
ident Ebert also is the subject of
frank criticism because of his fail
ure to summon the nationalists or
the socialists, both of whom are
viewed as responsible for Chancellor
Stresemann's overthrow, immediate
ly upon the retirement of the last
cabinet for the purpose of putting the
issue of the new government up to
them.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1923-11-27
Italian Consul
Removed for Time
Being-Awaits Trial

Portland. Maine, Nov. 26.-Gaspare
Vervena, awaiting hearing for alleged
illegal manufacture and unlawful
possession Of liquor. has been re-
moved as Italian vice consul here,
it became known today.
He was notified of his removal by
the consular headquarters in Boston
on Friday. the day following the al
legged seizure of 493 gallons of grape
wine in his home.
Three Italian-spealling residents
went to Boston today to ask that
he be reinstated.
On it's return here tonight the dele
CATION explained that Mr.. Vervena
had been suspended, not removed,
and that the consul at Boston had
announced that he would be restOr-
ed to duty in the event of a favor
able outcome of the hearing Satur-
day.