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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-17
CONTINUED BANDIT ACTIVITIES
WITH POLICE HE ADS DESPERATE
SPARE Time FORCE CuRTAILED
SAY PRES. HARDING
AP0L0CIzED FOR
CONDUCT OF FORBES

Washington, Nov. 16.-President
Harding apologized to ]. NJ. Williams
of Philadelphia for the conduct of
charles r. Forbes while he was direc-
tor of the Veterans Bureau, Mrs. Will
llams testified today before the Senate
veterans committee. She was called
after the four days examination of
Forbse had been concluded.
Mrs. Williams said her husband
VINO has testified against Forbes, went
10 the president in company with Rep
resentatlve Edmonds. Republican,
pennsylvania, late in 1922. This was
after Forbes and his friend. Sydney
Bleber of Washington, had threatened
her over the long-distance telephone.
she said. because she had written a
letter detailing some of the charges of
intrigue, graft and corruption in con-
nectlon with hospital contracts and
other matters which Elias II. Mortimer
since has made against Forbes before
the committee.
The president apologized," she said.
and said how he had met Mr. Forbes
ana mad come to appoint him. He said
ne had met him in Honolulu and that
Mr. Forbes as the American official
NAANi Z ii'u SioNI the party ABOUT. Lat
er he came to Marion"
Chairman Reed Interrupted to end
this phase Of the witness testimony as
immaterial to the purpose of the in
quiry.
Mrs. Williams. who said she was the
aunt of Mrs. Elias H. Mortimer. de.
clared that Forbes and Bieber had Wis
tied her home in Philadelphia in an
effort to get possession of some papers
which Mortimer had given to Mrs. Nor
timer for safe keeping.
This was after the friendship be-
tween Forbes and Mortimer had been
broken off and after Mrs. Mortimer
had contemplated starting divorce pro-
ceedings against her husband
They told me of what terrible
things were going to happen to MIR.
Mortimer" Mrs. Williams testified:
that he was to be arrested and that
they did not want Mrs. Mortimer with
him then nor did they want her to be
in possession of the papers as 1t might
make trouble for her. 1t would take
me week to tell all the things they
told about Mr.. Mortimer"
Mrs. Williams said she AMI Mrs.
Mortimer came to Washington to get
the papers from a bank here and that
afterwards at their hotel Mrs. Morti-
mer gave n few of them to Forbes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-17
Patrolmen Must Work Z Days
Week All Vacations Can
celled- Lunch Hours Abol-
ished-Drastic Order Fol
low $4,000 Fur Robbery
Tracing Bandits Who Killed
Bank Messenger

New York, Nov. 16-With bandits
still running amuck, Police Commits
sioner Enwright, before sailing to-
/ morrow for Bermuda on a vacation,
ordered Chief INSPECTOR Lahey to
curtail the leisure time of the force
In order to put all the patrolmen pos
sible on the streets.
In order to marshal the greatest
number Of policemen to combat the
pre-holiday crime, wave. Inspector
Lahey ordered that, effective at
o'clock tonight:
ALI vacations are to be sus-
pended.
2-Days off are to end. so that
patrolmcn will work seven days a
week.
3-Lunch hours are to be abol-
ished.
4-Captains and inspectors are to
sleep in station houses and to spend
their waking hours seeing that all
their men give 100 percent service.
5-Members of the force are to
wear their uniforms whenever they
appear on the street and are to be
constantly on the watch for bandits.
6-Except for eight hours allotted
for sleep, detectives are to be con-
stantly on duty.
7-Uniformed members are to be
requested to volunteer for any addi-
tional service they may be able to
render and to offer their privately
owned automobiles for patrol duty.
S-All uniformed men on clerical
assignments, numbering about 400.
are to do few hours patrol duty in
addition to their other work.
Issuance or these drastic orders
following a daring $4,000 fur rob-
berry on Fifth Avenue early this
morning when bandits hurled ash
cans through the windows of the
fashionable store of Hickson, Inc,
and fed in an automobile with the
window display and the theft of a
wagon load of silk from a livery
Stable.
Meanwhile the police were CENTER
ing their efforts on running down the
two bandits who last Wednesday held
up and shot to death two messengers
Of the West End bank, cornered in a
Brooklyn elevated station. and fed
with $43.607. Dispatches from Mon
treal recorded the arrest Of. sus-
pect there, while IL more suspects
bad been rounded up in pool rooms
\ IN the Bensonhurst district. They
were fingerprinted. for comparison
with the mark found on the auto
mobile abandoned by the bandits in
their flight. Following tse round
up. the police expressed confidence
that they would make an arrest with
in "a hours.
Detectives have questioned a
woman who reported she had sat
| next to two men in n subway train
and had overheard them nervously
discussing the pursuit of the ban
dts. Her description of the pair
correspondent with that of the rob-
bers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-17
POincare Answers
CeuSure of Baldwin

Paris, Nov. 16.-By A. P)-
Premier Poincare today replied in the
Chamber Of Deputies to Prime
Minister Baldwin's censure of
France in the House of Commons
yesterday.
France could easily reach an
agreement with Britain if she would
pay the expense of such agreement,
he said, but she was resolved not
to yield on the question of further
reduction of the reparations due
from Germany.
Three fourths of the Chamber was
on its feet cheering him when, after
an energetic review of the whole
question, covering an hour and a
quarter, he left the rostrum with the
maj declarations:
we shall continue to negotiate
IN the friendliest way possible, but
france cannot give way"
M. Poincare hastily decided to
speak this morning after Indicating
mat ne would not intervene in the
Snamper debate on foreign affairs
oelore next week. His decision was
inspired by Premier Baldwin's
statement and by the British press
eolnment tending to hold France res
ponslole Tor the failure Of the allies
" agree in execution of the treaty
OF Versailles.
declaring that the utterances in
u'e British Parliament could not lie
a.owed to pass but must be answer
"a Immediately, NJ. Pcincarc SAID:
u cannot let it be said that it is
W our fault an agreement has not
h zen reached. 70: several wears we
xaee not ceased to make concessions
MHh our rights, and it is not on our
Sing :" 40 o''eo''p- o'''
Inc premier went over the whole
rossiollity Of the reparation prob
rn ana recalled that the British
oUsernment had. approved the &C.
;Supaton OF the Ruhr on two occas-
ns ana nameless German territory
on another.
When he told of opposition en-
oountered from the British in the
ouncil of ambassadors, cries of at
NJ 'upture of the entente cordiale!"
Or ae heard for the first time in the
lest "Loer. coming from the extreme
IL out the premier ignored them.
M recalled that the Chamber had
th,. 'wo previous occasions resolved
co %s france could make no further
M roesslons with regard to repara-
That is why" he said. 1--WE could
nv aohere to the propositions made
~, Lord Curzon and Secretary
csnes TO consider an estimate of
an .anys capacity to pay through
International conference"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-17
COAL PROF|TEERINC
UP TO STATES, VIEW
OF Pres. COOLIDGE
w. 16-PreSident

Washington, Nov. 16-President
Coolidge believes that the federal
government is doing everything with
in it's power to prevent profiteering
IN the anthracite i--1uStry and any
further steps should be taken by the
law enforcement officers of the sew
eral states.
This statement was made today at
the White House without reference
to the action taken By Governor Pin
.chot of Pennsylvania in cllling con-
ference of twenty nine governors to
devise a program of federal legisla-
ton designed to reduce coal prices.
The federal trade commission, it
was said at the White House. had
under way an investigation of an
thracite prices and already has pres
ente1 several reports. The commits
sion also has taken atcion in one case
of alleged eXtortion, it was pointed
out.
Department of Justice officials de-
cli:. ed to elaborate today upon the
letter from Attorney General Daugh-
erty to Representative John Jacob
Rogers, of Massachusetts,, made pub
lis last night in J Dwell, Mass, in
| which Mr.. Daugherty declared that
! proper legal action was being pre-
pared against certain anthracite mine
interests. Mr.: Rogers asked the de-
partment to conduct an inquiry
to determine whether a conspiracy
existed to mulct the public by price
manipulation.
Several of the departments legal
staff, it was learned. have been en-
gagged in study of the anthracite
situation, some of the attorneys are
reported to have visited Philadelphia
and Pittsburgh and there have been
indications that action might be
taken under the anti-t trust laws.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-17
Hold Suspects in
Montreal; May Be Trio
Wanted in Brooklyn

Montreal, Nov. 16.-The police an
nounced today that, in a raid on a
gambling den, they had rounded up
three persons believed to be wanted
by the New York and BOSTON police.
They are suspected of being impli-
Gated in the west end bank robbery
in Brooklyn last Wednesday when
two rre~~ongers were killed and $43,-
GOT stolen.
The Boston suspect was Clestino
Adrolino, alleged to be a gunman
sought for breaking parole after he
lad been convicted of Shooting a
policeman in 1910. with intent to kill.
A Boston policeman has arrived to
take him back to the United States.
The name of the other suspects
were withheld. pending receipt of
word from New York and PhilaneI-
PHI" - Philadelphia prisoner was
suspecting of being connected with
a murder in that city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-17
BRITAIN SAYS NO

Jondon. Nov. 16 (By a. P)-The
british government will not accede
70 the demands of France for punt
tive measures against Germany and
has notified the British ambassa-
dor in Paris to so inform the council
OF ambassadors.
Great Britain's historic partner
ship with France was subjected to a
further strain today when the cabi-
ret decided to reject the punitive
measures NJ. Poincarc,, the French
premier, proposes to take against
Germany to force the extradition of
former Crown Prince Frederick
William and permit full resump-
ton of allied military control in
Germany, which has been suspended
for the past ten months.
After the cabinet had deliberated
at length today on the reiterated
terms of NJ. Poincare, the foreign
office tonight telegraphed Lord
Crewe, the British ambassador to
France, to inform the council of am
bassadors when it resumes its sit
tings, that Great Britain remains
firm against the imposition on Ger
many of the severe coercive penal
ties threatened by France.
As Premier Poincare declares
France will enforce these penalties
separately if Great Britain refuses
to join her, there appears to be a
hopeless deadlock between the two
nations which some of the political
observers believe portends an ulti-
mate dissolution of the entente cor
dale.
1t is felt in ministerial circles here
that matters are exactly where they
were early in last August, when Lord
Curzon, the British foreign secretary,
sent his famous note to Premier
Poilncare in which he declared tina {
Great Britain could not much longer
delay separate action toward set
Element of the Ruhr situation with
out the gravest consequences to the
recovery of the trade and to the
peace of the world.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-17

DRY as a covered bridge" would
Hancock county in 1922, accord
ing to the testimony of an array of
witnesses called by Attorney Gem
eral Ransford w. Shaw at a lively
hearing opened before the Governor
and Council in the hall of Represer-
tatives at the State House on charges
preferred against Sheriff Ward W.
,Wescott of.-Rluehi.l in which his re-
moval is sought for alleged negli-
bence in the enforcement of the pro-
hibitory law in Hancock county. The
defense VII lie opened at o'clock
this SATURDAY morning and the hear
ing will probably be brought to q
close this afternoon.
Testimony OF men who said they
had been in TIL, liquor business in
Hancock county in 1921 and 1929 and
were not EloiestcG uy the sheriff or
his deputies. was among the high
lights of Fridays proceedings. Con-
dition3 in regard 10 alleged non-en-
furceIccnt oe the p, ohibitory law as
they were observed and reported in
Bar Harbor, Ellsworth and other
places in Hancock county were
brought TO light in other evidence
offered. the witnesses including sew
eral ministers. the secretary of the
Y. M. c. A. AMI tine president of the
w. c. 7. l., at Ba1 Harbor, and
others.
Each witness WIS cross examined
~ Attorney Carr,i! N. Perkins %
Waicwille, who with Attorney
charles II. Wood of Bar Harbor rep
resent Sheriff Wesc tit
The hearing is presided over by
Governor Baxter, and with him are
the seven members OF tie Executive
Council-Cecil +. Clai * OF Hollis; H.
A. Lombard of Brighton, Rupert II.
Baxter of Bath, LEROY H. Folsom of
Norridgewock. James J. Clement of
Montville, William S. Owen of
Milo and Robert ]. Peacock of Lu-
bee.
The complaint was entered by At
torney General Shaw who win
Deputy Attorney General William Fl.
Fisher of Augusta, js conducting the
prosecution. the testimony in behalf
of which was brought to close last
evening. While the direct commn-
nication or address requesting the
removal of Sheriff Wescott is made
by Attorney General Shaw. IT Is ccni-
mon knowledge that the actual NOV
ing party is Governor Baxtet.
CONTINUED on Page 3-Col. 81
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-17
Death 33d Degree
Mason at Portland

Portland, Maine, Nov. 16-Clayton
James Harrington. 33rd degree Ma
son, who was said never to have
missed triennial meeting of the
grand encanipment of knights Tenn
plar of the United States during his
membership. died suddenly tonight
while at dinner in the Columbia Ho-
tel.
He was born in Keene Valley. N.
Y, in 1910, coming here when a
young man. He was engaged in the
clothing business ana also was asso-
ciated with the Gates Street Shirt
Company of Lewiston. He retired Ia
years ago.
He had been grand commander
of the Masons in Maine and a honor
airy member of the Grand Command
cry of Rhode Island and Massachu-
sets.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-17
PARLIAMENT ENDS
PREMIER TROUBLED
WITH HIS CABINET

London. Nov. 16 (By A. P.)-Par-
Lament was formely dissolved today.
and a royal proclamation printed in
the Gazette tonight summons the
new parliament to assemble January
3. 1t was thought the new session
would convene December 20, but the
cabinet decided upon the later date.
Two prolonged cabinet meetings
were held today. one ostensibly to
draft the governments election ma
nifesto and the other to discuss cleo
ton routine. Rumor. however, has
it that Premier Baldwin is having
great difficulties in holding his party
and government together.
The premier will begin his new
campaign under adverse auspices.
Not only has he had the greatest
difficulty to prevent OBJECTIONS of COL
leagues with free trade beliefs. but
he has failed to consolidate his party
by securing Lord Birkenhead and J.
Austin Chamberlain as members of
the government.
The inside story OF this affair
shows it was a revolt of the under
secretaries. led by Ronald BacNeill
of the foreign office, and w. Ormsby-
Gore of the Colonial officer which
defeated the premier from taking
Lord Birkenhead and Mr.. Chamber
lain into the cabinet.
A political surprise today was the
announcement that Lord Robert c.
Gil had been raised to the peerage.
The lord privy seal has held his pres
ent title of Lord by reason of the
fact that he is a son of the third
Marquis of Salisbury, His elevation
to the peerage is a clear indication
of the difficulties Premier Baldwin is
experiencing. Lord Robert is stall
wart free trade and already had de-
cided not to contest his seat in the
house of commons.
The official explanation of his de-
. cision not to run is that Lord Ro-
bert's physician advised him to avoid
great excitation until after Christ
mas. 1t adds that as Lord Robert
has to attend a meeting of the coun-
Gil of the league of Nations during
that period he will be unable to take
any part in the general elections.
AS a peer. Lord Robert can con-
tinue a member of the administra-
ton, having his seat in the House of
Lords instead of nj the House of
Commons but the incident is signi1-
cant and Lord Roberts actual resig-
nation from the cabinet probably has
been with held only out of a desire
not to embarass the premier at n
difficult moment. Also Lord Robert,
as sturdy upholder of the League
of Nations, may have felt it desirable
to retain his official position where
he could better advance that ideal
and at the same time avoid. in the
seclusion of the upper house, close
contact with party conflicts.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-17
PinchOt and Coal
Men Hold Forum
on Problems Industry

Philadelphia, Nov. 16.-The Cover
nor of Pennsylvania, a prominent
spokesman for the anthracite oper-
ators and a leader among the union
mine workers faced an audience OF
coal consumers tonight and told what
was wrong with the industry, what
it's difficulties were and what the
problems were that must be met.
Governor Pinchot said that in his
opinion 1.-THE whole combination
was a hard-boiled monopoly whose
prime interest in the public was that
it shall consume their coal at their
prices.
Samuel D. Warmer, president OF
the Lehigh Coal and Navigation
company, and chief spokesman for
the operators in the recent wage
negotiations with the miners, said
| in effect that the anthracite indus
try was not a monopoly.
Thomas Kennedy, district presi-
dent of the United Mine Workers
declared that the anthracite opera
tors were organized and they practi-
cally work the same veins at all OF
the colleries and there was no rea
son why uniform wage rates should
not exist.
All three made set addresses be-
fore the American Academy OF
Political and Social Science, which
is conducting a two days conference
on coal.
Governor Pinchot said that the
wage increase he suggested and ac-
cepted by the miners and operators
was Just and necessary to provide
a decent American standard of 1iV-
ing
Reiterating that the wage increase
amounted to sixty cents ton, the
governor said that operators not
only passed the whole increase in
! cost over to the public absorbing
none of it themselves. but took adj
vantage of the situation to add to
their own profits"
Mr.. Warmer said that no indus
try had been so thoroughly or so fire.
quently investigated by state and
national commissions. and yet it's
major problems were imperfectly
understood. Discussing the sugges-
ton of monopoly and of treating the
industry as public utility. the prac-
teal result, he said would probably
be to fix prices at higher levels than
under private control.
District President Kennedy in his
address, which was a history of the
relation of labor in the anthracite
lltlu, Sdiu tHdI Tic OHlleu otdIoS GOAL
Commission found that the labor cost
of a. ton of coal was 54.12.
comparing this S4.12 labor cost
previous to the present agreement
with the price of coal paid by the
consumers which went as high as
SIG per ton" he said, 1.-THE obvious
answer would be that the wages and
the labor cost are not responsible
for the prices being charged to the
consumer in the anthracity consum-
ing territory"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-17
Textile Workers
in Dover, N. H., Mill
Threaten to Strike

Dover. N. H.. Nov. ia mass meet
ing of 1000 operatives at the Pacific
Mills, Cocheco department. was held
tonight at which a strike was threat
cned. The meeting followed the post
ing of notices by the. company that the
plant would BE shut down indefinitely
tomorrow noon because committees of
workers had declined to cooperate in a
plan Ito rearrange the work without a
reduction in WAGES" The textile
workers contend that the move by the
companyNis but proposal to reduce
wages. Superintendent H. Arthur
Newton of the Pacific Mills stated to-
night that the Cocheco department had
been operated at a loss for the past
two years. He added that the changes
proposed were similar to those made in
Fall River and New Bedford, which,
he said. had been accepted by workers
in those cities.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-17
TWO DROWNED, -FOUR
RESCUED WHEN LAKE
ERIE BARGE SINKS

Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 1.-two men
were drowned and three men and a
woman were rescued late today when
the barge Empire, in tow Of the tug,
B. w. Craft. overturned and sank in
a heavy sea in Lake Erie, off ffthis
port. Tug and barge were owned by
the Cleveland Engineering Company.
The tug crew rescued Captain John
Hame, his wife and another mem
Der of the Empires crew.
The drowned men were: Steve
Timothy and Mike Penoss, both of
Cleveland.
The rescued were: Captain John
Frank Rose, and George Fontaine,
both of Cleveland.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-17
Seek International
Derby at Paris i'm Nav

Paris, Nov. 16.-(By A. P.)--The
winner. of tomorrow's match race at
Churchill Downs between Zev and In
Memoriam will be invited directly to
participate in an international cup race
to be held at Longchamps on May 8
next. it was announced tonight.
The race. in which it is hoped to
have representatives of the American.
British, Spanish, Italian. Belgian and
French, turfs. will be for stakes of
100000 francs and will be run over
a distance of one mile and quarter,
the horses carrying, 126 pounds.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-17
McAd0O Answers
Criticism Bonus Plan

Salt Lake City, Utah. Nov. 16-Wil-
liam G. McAdoo. candidate for Dem
!ocratic nomination for the presidency,
today answered criticism of his pro-
posed so year government bond is
sue to pay soldier bonus.
eff the Republicans in congress-
who profess to favor soldier bonus
really want one they must adopt the
only practical means without overA
burdening the present generation"
Mr.. McAdoo declared. "Burdensome
taxation such as a sales tax, IL put
upon the people would be hypo-
critical way of trying to defeat JUS
tice to the soldiers while processing
friendship to them"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-17
Men Debaters from
Bates to Meet Two
Women of Wellesley

Lewiston Me-, Nov. 10 A debate
between two men from Bates College
and two women from Wellesley has
been arranged to take place at Well
lesly, Mass, December 1. it was an
nounced by the Bates Debating
Council tonight.
William E. Young and Erwin D.
Canham. members of the Bates team
that twice defeated oxford and won
victories over Yale and Rowdoin, will
represent the Lewiston college, hav-
ing the negative side of the following
question, which was submitted by
Wellesley:
Resolved. that the United States
should grant independence to the
PHILIPPINE Islands"
This will be the first time that
Bates has ever met a woman's team
in intercollegiate debate.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-17
Death of Wealthy
New England Woman

Pomfret. Conn. Nov. 16.-Miss
Eleanore J. Clark daughter of the late
Joseph Clark and member of an old
New England family. died at her estate
here today from infirmity of age. She
was reputed to be one of the wealth.
lest women in New England and her
city home was on Commonwealth ave-
nue.. Boston.
Miss Clark is survived by two sis
ters. Mrs. CORTLAND Hoppin of New
York and Pomfret. Mrs. Joseph Grew
of Boston. and sister-in-law, Mrs. r.
NJ. Clark of Pomfret.