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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-16
Belgrade Lakes Village Corporation
Act

The Senate insisted on indefinite
postponement OF the Belgrade Lakes
Village Corporation act, which was
pussed to be engrOssed by the House,
and President Harrington appointed
on the conference committee SEN
ators Adams OF Kennebec. Phillips
Of Hancock and Bemis OF Somerset.
The House members OF this commit
tee are Hale OF Portland. Clarke Of
Ston!ngton and Baker OF Steuben.
The act provides for the return 10
the village corporation OF 20 per
cent OF the taxes which il pays 10 the
town of Belgrade.
The Senate accepted the minority
report, ought TO pass. from the
Cumberland county delegation on the
act providing for an additional JUS
,;ce for the Cumberland superior
court. the House having previously
accepted the majority report. "ousn!
not TO pass" The act was returned
to the House without request Tor
committee on conference
The bill limiting the powers OF the
trustees OF the Portland water as
tricc. Indefinitely postponed oy me
House on Wednesday. was gwen nES.
reading in the Senate. after ina
body had accepted the report OF me
judiciary committee. ought TO pass
in a new draft. and an ar!endnlsnl
proposed in the House, eliminating a
portion OF one section.
The Senate also accepted the
mort of the library committee. oas.lI
to PASS. on the resolve for the par,
chase OF 500 copies of Music ana
Musicians OF Maine. and the resolve
had irs first reading. The House IN
definitely postponed this resolve
Wednesday.
The emergency resolve providing
<o- . new issue OF highway ana
bridge bonds and that in favor OF
the Rowland Enfield bridge, were
| given 8 passage.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-16
Artists Model
Found Dead and
Rooms Ransacked

New York. March I5-The body Of
Miss Dorothy King. an artists model
vas found by police today in her
fashionable apartment on West Fiji
ty-ssyerth street.
An empty chloroforp phial lay be-
side the body and the apartment had
been ransacked. Taiuab Jewels
known 70 have been possessed by the
model were missing. according to the
authorities
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-16
Identify Body of
Maine Man as Evan
Day of Berwick

Boston. March 1.-THE body OF a
man found dead on the strandway
in the South Boston district was
identified today as that OF Evan r
Day. OF Berwick, Me, about the
same time that Medical Examiner
Leary said he may have been killed
By blow on the head An autopsy
disclosed evidence Of alcohol in the
mans system but il was not estab-
lished that this was the cause Of
death. s cash on the head. near
the right eye, appeared more prob
able cause This might have been
sustained by a fall. but the medical
examiner said it might also have
been due TO Il blow. Day. was a sales
man for a hardware concern M to
last week. had wife and two chill
dren ct Berwick.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-16
8 FIREMEN HURT
IN S325,0Q0 FIRE
At WO0NS0CkET

Woonsocket. p. l.. March 1a.-Eisht
fremen were in a hospital tonight. one
of them with broken leg. as result
of fire which caused a property loss
az s3a5. 900 in the business district OF
this city today. Many other hremen
were overcome by smoke. but did not
require hospital treatment.
The MaiIioux block, four-story
brick building occupied by a depart
ment store. was a mere she'll when the
fire was extinguished after a three
hour battle in which all available ap-
paratus was ged. Two connecting
buildings suffered partial wreck. while
the Beauchemin block. threc-story
building housing a number OF tene-
r1.nts also was badly damaged.
The hremen successfully directed
their efforts TO saving an adjoining
theatre, hotel and other buildings.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-16
PREMIER LEVINE
GETTING BETTER

Moscow. March 15-fBy A. Pr
Continued betterment is shown in the
condition Of Premier Lenine. accord
ing 10 his physicians. A bulletin,
timed 2. ~ but not issued Until
this eveniFz~ reads as follows
The further improvement in the
general health and speech Ct N.
Lenine is marked. Temperature
3s-7 centisrads tabout - fahreE-
hesel. pulse s. and full"
Premier Leni1e Is suffering from a
serious Illness. described IN previous
bulletins A. Of an ap0psecs1c nature.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-16
Portsmouth, Dover
4 York r. r. Will
Discontinue Service

Portland. Ne. March 1o-Opera-
ron o. the Portsmouth. Dover ana
York street railway will be discon-
siausd Immediately under a decree
Issued today by Federal Judge john
l. Peters upon recommendation OF
Wills G. Meloon. receiver OF the
Property.
II was deemed iuadvisable to con-
aeae the road unless it could oper-
Ns an extension into Portsmouth
WE the new inter state bridge be
ateea kittery aud Portsn oush. This
IS not allowed and the decree was
entered by agreement.
An unsuccessful attempt was
.ace by the receiver TO re-finance
e road or reorganize. although
ssoos 100000 was pledged for re-
xsaniza,iou.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-16
Indict Hunter in
Killing of Farmer
at Willimantic, Me.

Dover-Foxcroft. Ne. March 10
The PiscataQuis grand jury returned
an indictment today against Charles
T. Patten. OF Bar Harbor. for care
lessly and negiigently shooting a hu-
man being while in pursuit of wild
game" Patten. last November shot
and killed Charles c. Hill. Will
mantle farmer. while both were
members OF hunting party at
Willimantic.
An. Indictment. was. returned
against Ie:nuel J. Coburn. OF SAN
gerville. wol.en mill owner. on the
charge OF issuing 4 check when
there were no funds in the bank.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-16

Bastrop, La. March 15--No indict-
ments were returned by the More
house Parish grand jury in connec-
ton with the Staying of Watt Daniel
and T. F. Richard on August "a fast
and various hooded band activities
which the jury has been Investigate
ing for the past ten days. The jury's
report was given to District Judge
Fred Odom late today.
Attorney General Coco and two of
his assistants left here before the
grand jury made it's report. Mr..
Coco stated early today that in event
no indictments were returned, he
would file bills Of information
against certain persons named at the
opening hearing here in January as
having participated in mob activities.
He did not state. however, whether
this action would be taken immcdi-
atnly.
in its report. the grand jury refer
red to the masked band case as 1.-THE
dcplorablc crime Of August a. and
stated that while it had gone thor
oughly into the affair. it could find
no evidence that would warrant the
indictment Of any individuals.
New Orleans. Ia. March 15-As-
sistant Attorney General T. u. Walm-
sley, who questioned many witnesses
at the open hearing said tonight that
he could not speak with authority UT :
til he had conferred with Attorncy ].
General Coco. but that he believed
the state would act at once in pre-
sentation of affidavits against per-
sons suspected Of being implicated in
the death Of the two men and for
various lesser offenses.
Il am very much surprised at the
news" Mr.. Walmsiey said. The
| state had counted on indictments IT
/ least for the lesser offenses.
The public can feel assured that
| Attorney General Coco will take
! prompt action in the matter. There
are several courses open to the
state"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-16
Six Unions Give
Power to Council

Fall River. Mass, March '15-Six
unions constituting the Fall River
textile council. at a meeting toaieht
gave the council discretionary pow
ers to name the amount Of q Nsgs
increase to be requested from the
Fall River Cotton Manufacturars'
Association. and also the necessafy
power to take action towards. Sc
Continued on Page EcoI. d
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-16
General Forecast

The storm that was central over
Nsw Mexico Wednesday night has
moved rapidly norEhe1s-ward and it's
Center was over the middle MIssts-
sippt valley THURSDAY night Il has
been attended by strong shifting
winds ard precip.ta ton almost gen
orally between the ROCKY and Apua-
lachlaR Mountains Pressure was ab-
normally high THURSDAY night CT tie
North Atlantic CCSSe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-16
Tufts Debaters
Win Over BOWdOin

Brunswick. Me-, March 15-Tufts
defeated Bo~doin In . debate here
tonight. taking the negative ON the
question Resolved that the Uniteyi
States should cancel The debts due
her from the Allies ID the Word
War"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-16
THE WEATHER
RAIN OR SNOW

North New Engtand-R.ain or Snow
and warmer Friday: Saturday cloud,
and colder
South New England and East New
York-Ratn and warmer Friday
Saturday cloudy and colder.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-16
Hutchinson Seeks
Brunswick 2. NJ. JOB

VSVtNIS1l % INV.tI.cf7(V . - = .''.4'
Brunswick, Me, March 15.-Adel-
bert j. Hutchinson. one OF Bruins
wick's representatives in the Maine
State Legislature. today announced
that he would be 4 candidate for
postmaster. TO succeed Isaiah g. FL
der. whose term will expire early
next year after eight years OF SER
vice. Mr.. Hutchinson vas for many
years connected with the Pejepscot
Paper Company. q
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-16
CHALLENGE NUMBER
NAMES ASKING FOR
%-H0UR WORK week
Claim of Less Than Required
$4,000 Temporarily Hats
Hearing

committee to Settle Questions Later
Manufacturing and Farming
Interests Strongly Oppose Pro-
posed Law-Statemcnt BY Master
OF State Grangc-Represent
Holmes For Proponents Says Not
Necessary Now to Argue Merits
OF Measure-Ovcr 100 Interested
People at Hearing
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-16
HOUSE SHOOTS 4
MEASURES Over
VETO OF GOVERNOR

s165,0OO Pier Shed Resolve Passed Over Head
by Vote 12O to 20 = Follows Speech o f
Rounds, Who Declares Time to Resent Die
tation-Other Measures Over Veto, Eastport
Bridge Resolve, 135 to 3; Pharmacy Resolve,
14O to 4; Resolve for Book Purchase - Sen
ate Sustains Veto of Flag Resolve Senate
Insists on Postp0ning Belgrade Lakes Vii
lage Corporation Act
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-16
Powers Appointed
State X. of G.. Delegate

Portland, Me- March LAP
pointment Of Frank T. Powers. Of
Lewiston, as State advocate OF the
Knights Of Columbus. was announced
to-day by Edward F. Flaherty. the
State president.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-16
Estes New Cotton
Mills Treasurer

Lewiston. Ne. March is--Henry
q. Estes. present agent. has been
elected treasurer OF the Continental
Cotton Mills Of this city TO succeed
the late Charles H. Wood.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-16
Boston Fcrecas.

Friday rain AND warmer: Satur-
day generally fair and colder. strong
southeast and south winds shifting to
northwest late Friday night
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-16
NO INDICTMENTS
JuRY'S REPORT IN
M0REH0USE KILLINGS
Attorney General Surprised
Prepares To Move In
New Direction

Nothing Comes of 10 Days Probe
OF Murder Watt Daniel and T. +.
Richard and Various Hooded
Band, Activities-.O File Bills OF
Information Against Persons
Named at January Hearing
Prompt Action Promised.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-16
SATURDAY: Colder

RADIO PRooRAMs- i
Detailed programs from principal
radiophone broadcasting stations
may be found in this issue.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-07-13
MINERSURCE FORMER
WAGE DEMAND

Scranton, Pa.-The wage conven-
tion of anthracite mine workers have
reaffrmed practically the same de-
mands they adopted in January, 1922,
and for which they fought for nearly
six months.
The present agreement, which was
entered into last September, expires
August 81 The convention took no
action on the question of suspending
work if the negotiations extend be-
yond August 81. international Pres
ident Lewis, who presided, told the
convention that this could we'll be left
to the good judgment of the officers.
The principal demands are 20 per
cent wage increase in the contract
wage; $2 day for day workers;
two-year contract; full recognition of
the union; uniformity and equaliza-
tion of day rates; the eight-hour day
for all men employed in and about the
mines; that where coal is paid for by
the car it be paid for by weight, and
a number of other demands of tech
nical nature.
Because a vicious attack on Inter
national President Lewis was circu-
lated among the delegates, several
communists in the gallery we've eject
ed from the hall.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-07-13

are striking for increased wages and
a seyen-hour day
More than 10000 acres of public
land in four western states are thrown
open to entry by ex-service men.
Seven immigrant quotas went to
smash on Ellis Island, New York, July
2, when 2,243 immigrants were taken
in for inspection. This number ex-
hausted the quotas for Albania,
Greece, Portugal, Turkey, Syria and
Africa
Berlin dispatches say that the
Metal Workers Union, rejecting the
wage award of the minister of labor,
has called a general strike. The car
penters also decide to stop work.
Farmer-labor conference, designed
to weld scattered groups into third
party, opens in Chicago
Four railroads, Chesapeake and
Ohio, Norfolk and Western, Louisville
and Nashville, and Central of Georgia,
grant wage increase to shopmen, me-
chanics, helpers and apprentices
The Norfolk and Western grants in
crease to signal maintainers, signal
men and assistants and helpers.
Dockers in London, Bristol and
other English cities strike in protest
against wage cut.
Low wages drive 1880 negroes
and 29,512 white to leave the farms
of Georgia for other states, James
F. Peters, president of the Georgia
Bankers Association, reports.
President Gompers, of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, speaking
before the American Flint Glass
Workers Union in Baltimore, calls
upon labor generally to protect the
right of free speech. Mr.. Gompers
also advises the workers to demand
the return of the wages cut during
the period of depression that follow
ed the world war, at the coming wage
conference with their employers.
Lieut.. Governor Lunn, of New York,
attacks the 12-hour day in the steel
industry as, morally indefensible and
economically wrong"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-07-13
CALIFORNIA DEALS BODY BLOW
EMPLOYMENT SHARKS WHO
CHEAT POORLY PAID TOILERS

employment agencies engaged in
placing office workers which demand
from 25 to so per cent of the first
months salary!
Various unscrupulous advertising
methods of the agencies were discov-
cred. Miss Emmerich reported that
some of the agencies advertised low
salaries and thus helped to keep down
the average salaries paid throughout
the field, in order to cater to the
patronage of the employers.
Investigation also showed that sew
eral of the agencies have been work
ing in collusion with employers who
"hire and fire" at frequent intervals
to increase the revenue exacted from
placements of workers. One young
woman had paid during three months
$S5 a month in three positions.
So startling was Miss Emmerich's
report that the Commonwealth Club
of San Francisco made an investiga-
tion of its own. 1t reported that
Miss Emmerich was too conservative
in her statements and that it found
"a repelling condition existing among
unethical pay agencies demanding i'm
mediate correction"
Exposure of what unscrupulous
employment agencies were doing led
to demand that curb be put on
their grating practices, with the re-
suit that the law now in force was
enacted The fact that the public
at large was ignorant of what had
been going on shows that similar
practices can exist in other states.
Organized labor, which has consist
emily fought abuses by employment
sharks, should keep its eye on en-
ployment agency methods, both to
protect its own members and the
army of workers which has not yet
seen the wisdom of organizing to
guard its own interests.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-07-13
By International Labor News Service.


Sacramento, Cal. - Workers in
every state will rejoice over the en-
actment by California of legislation
designed to end abuses by employ
ment agency sharks.
The new law is expected to be a
body blow to the meanest kind of
grating g-that which preys on un-
organized and poorly paid workers.
That the law is necessary is COM
mentary on conditions in California,
which is reputed to be one of the
most advanced" of states in social
legislation. But other states should
not throw stones at California, as
similar abuses exist in other sections
of the country.
Despite the fact that investigation
revealed gross abuses by many en-
ploymenG agencies, an organized lob
by representing the forces of greed
and reactino did its best to defeat
the bills. 1t was thought for time
that Governor Richardson would veto
the bills, but he finally saw the light
and has just signed them.
The new law limits the fee charg-
ed by the agencies to 10 per cent of
the first months salary for clerical
labor and per cent for manual labor.
1t also requires license and fee for
the operation of agencies and pro-
hibits the dividing of fees with en-
ployers.
Practices by which the workers
are cheated in California reveal what
an army of toilers are ''up against"
in every place except where strict
laws, rigidly enforced, protect them
from extortion. Miss Gertrude En-
merich and members of an investigat-
ing committee found that in San
Francisco alone there were sixteen
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-07-13
STEEL RECORD
SMASHED; NO
LABOR SHORTAGE

Pittsburgh, Pa.-Records for the
first half of 1928 show that the pro-
duction of steel ingots is about 49,
100000 gross tons. This is the great
est production for any consecutive
six months in the industry's history,
and was made at time when Gary
ism was screaming "labor shortage" !"
The figures excel wartime produc-
ton, when all records were broken
up to that time. The new record
shows how reliable have been the
claims of those who would lessen i'm
migration restriction not because of
labor shortage, but to lower wages
through a surplus of workers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-07-13
PALTRY WAGES BY
LAW

Toronto, Ontario. - The Ontario
minimum wage board has announced
this minimum wage for girls and wo-
men in boot and shoe factories and
leather manufacturing establish
ments:
Experienced worker in Toronto,
$3.50 per week; in other large cities
in the province, $11.50 per week;
IN cities and towns ranging from
5000 to 10000 population, $11 per
week; in towns and villages of less
than 5000 population, $40 per week.
For inexperienced adults the starting
wage in Toronto will be $40 a week.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-07-13
AS The WORKER
SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest OF I'M
portant Events of the
Week, Here and
Abroad

Declaring the bridge between pro-
ducer and consumer must be short
ened President Harding proposes a
plan of cooperation among consum-
ers to be financed in part at least
through an adaptation of principles
of the saving bank and the building
and loan society.
Social Justice Commission of the
Central Conference of American Rab-
bis joins with the Federal Council of
| the Churches of Christ in America
and the National Catholic Welfare
Council in attacking U. S. steel cor
poration for maintaining the 12-hour
day.
Tendency to advance wages in
many lines is still apparent, says
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
Nation must draft all industry and
wealth, as well as men in the event
Vi eallOIlISI wal ISSIuSliI
says in address at Helena, Mont.
Edward w. Box offers 100000
prize for best practicable plan by an
American for cooperation of the
United States toward world peace.
Workers of COOPERATIVE Whole
sale Society of Great Britain end
strike in compliance with terms
drawn up by joint committee of trade
unionists and co-operators.
Payments aggregating more than
100000 in nine years have been
made to injured workmen and their
dependents since the workmen's COM
pensation law became effective in New
York, Commissioner Schientag re-
ports.
New wage scales for workers in all
navy yards announced by navy de-
partment Rate allows a general in
crease of about 10 per cent.
Adjutant General Black, of the IL
linois national guard, is declared
"derelict in duty and primarily to
blame" for not sending troops to the
scene of the Herrin riots, in the re-
port of the legislative investigating
committee.
President Harding's speech in
which he asserted his administration
had endeavored to prevent the de-
struction of organized labor, is as
sailed by President Gompers, of the
American Federation of Labor. The
Harding administration has been
charged with lending aid to the cam
paign against the unions, said Mr.
Gompers, and organized labor is by
no means inclined to withdraw the
assertion. The Daugherty injunctions
against the railroad men and the
miners did not appeal to Mr.. Com
pers as any great effort to conserve
the forces of organized labor.
Three Jersey City, New Jersey,
manufacturers begin to serve 60-day
sentences in Jail for violating the
child labor law. Their attorneys,
however, file motion for appeal.
Canadian troops sent to Sydney,
N. S., where steel workers are on
strike.
Participation of large estates under
existing agrarian laws, to restore
land to the villages, reached more than
1,335,000 acres, according to figures
published by the national agrarian
commission of Mexico.
Organized labor moves to give
financial support to telephone opera
tors of the New England states, who
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-07-13
STEREOTYPERs TO MEET

Omaha, Neb.-The annual conven-
ton Of the international Stereotypers
and Electrotypers' Union will be held
in this city beginning July 16. A
home for these aged unionists is one
of the issues.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-07-13

hold convention in this city start
ing June 80 to formulate demands to
be presented to the anthracite coal
owners. The miners present agree
ment expires August 81.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-07-13
COAL MINERS TO MEET

Scranton, Pa.-The three anthracite
districts, United Mine Workers, will
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-07-13
BIG EQUIPMENT PROFITS

New York.--The American Car and
Foundry Company, railroad equip
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-07-13

ment corporation, announces profit
of $4,113,611 for the last fiscal year,
after charges, federal taxes, and pre-
ferred dividends have been met.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-07-13

Ladies' Not -Seme Silk Hose
A good guaranteed silk
hose in solid colors. Worth
$1.65. Public Benefit Sale,
Special, 2 pairs for $3.50 or,
the nair-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-07-13

Mems Union Suits-A special
lot made of barred nainsook,
nicely tailored and fit we'll.
Our regular ST quality. Pub
lie Benefit Sale special
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-07-13

Ladies Not-A-Seme Silk Hose
Fine guaranteed silk hose
with fancy clocks. Regular
price So. Public Benefit Sale
Special, 3 pairs for Sd or, per
nair