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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-05-02
Girl Debaters of
Bates Win Over
Boston University

Lewiston, Me, May 1.-Bates COL
lege women won their first inter-
collegiate debate when they were
given a unanimous decision over
Boston University women at the
Bates chapel tonight. President
Clifton D. Gray of Bates presided.
Bates had the affirmative side of the
question: Resolved, that the United
States should enter the world court
with the Hughes reservations"
Louise B. Bryant, "a. Lebanon, N.
H: Elsie L. Greene, '26, Turner. and
Janice Holt. "a, Auburn. represent
ed Bates. Boston University debat-
ers were Beatrice Hancock. rs, Fall
River, Mass: Grace A. Sullivan. 20,
Cambridge, and Adalene Feinberg,
%. of Chelsea. The judges were
Professor Mark Bailey. University of
Maine: Professor n. G. Maynard
Tufts, and Professor D. c. Stanwood,
BoWdOin,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-05-02
Settle Question
Of Paving Main
Street in Brunswick
=, tba Kennebec Journal)

Especial to the kennebec Jourhap
Brunswick. Me-, May 1.-The Sc
lectmen this afternoon announced
that as a result of a series of con-
ferences between attorneys repre-
senting the town and the Andros-
coggin and Kennebec street railway
the long controversy relating to pay
ing between and alongside the raiis
of Main street has been settled. me
settlement provides that the railroad
shall put its track in shape to re-
ceive a bituminous paving which tne
town will install from Pleasanl 70
Mil streets and that the railroad
shall pay the town $4,000 toward the
expense. 1t is also provided that In.
stead of having the present \ AZ
the junction of Main and Pleasant
streets the road shall install single
branch of curve to be built on ran
Of depth to permit granite olocK
having which the road shall install
on a concrete base. toward the cost
Of which the town will contribute an
amount equal to the cost OF covering
. similar area with the type OF paw
ing to be used in the remainder OIL
the square. The road is to put m
similar paving at the branch ieaoins
TO the freight she'd
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-05-02
MethOdists Name
Committee to Fight
"Dry" Modification

Springfield, Mass May 1.-Bish-
ops Thomas Nicholson of Chicago
and Adna w. Leonard of San Fran
cisco were appointed today to the
committee of five which will present
the petition of the Methodist Epis-
copal General Conference against
modification of the prohibition law
to the judiciary committee of the
United States senate. Earlier in the
day the conference at it's opening
session passed the resolution for the
petition by an unanimou rising vote.
bishop Joseph +. Berry of Phila-
delphia, the senior bishop of the
church, made the announcement,
after a meeting of the board of Bish-
ops. where the appointments were
made. Both the bishops, Nicholson
and Leonard, are known as pro-
nounced advocates of the prohibition
amendment of the Volstead act. The
names of the three laymen who will
comprise the rest of the committee
will be made public at the confer
ence session tomorrow. 1t was stated,
and the date for the committee
visit to Washington will probably be
decided then.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-05-02
NO TRACE OF
MAJ. MARTIN
WORLD filler
REP. kNUTSON NOT
GUILTY OF CHARGES
VERDICT OF JURY

Washington, May 1.-Representative
Harold Knutson of Minnesota was
found not guilty by jury in Arlington
county, Virginia, today, of charges
growing out of an automobile ride in
Virginia last March with Leroy NJ.
Hull, Washington government clerk.
Testimony against Hull had not been
started and the prosecuting attorney
announced he would move to nolle
PROSE- the case.
In statement after the verdict Rep
resentative Knutson said it was Just
what l had expected and l have been
confident of the outcome right along"
The jury was said to have taken
three ballots.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-05-02
House to Probe
COOntz' Charges
Naval Deficiencies

Washington. May 1-Representa-
tive Britten, Republican, Illinois, an
nounced today he proposed to intro
duce a resolution asking for an in
vestigation by the house naval COM
mittee Of Admiral Coontz' report OF
serious deficiencies in the navy.
Mr.. Britten, ranking Republican on
the committee, said he also would re-
introduce n bill to make available
s6,000,00O for the elevation of guns
on the battle feet. An appropria-
ton for this work was eliminated
from the navy supply bill after
Great Britain last year protested
to the state department that the
work would not be in harmony with
tho arms conference treaty.
The proposed investigation, Mr..
Britten asserted, would seek to as
certain whether the navy has a
$50 ratio, as provided for under
the conference, or whether 1t has
deteriorated until that ratio no long
er holds good.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-05-02
McCray Exchanges
Name for 17,746
In Atlanta Prison

Atlanta, Ga, May Fix Governor
Warren T. McCray today became
Prisoner Number 17,746 in the Allan
ia federal penitentiary and began
serving his sentenc eof ten years for
fraudulent use of the mails. He also
must pay fine Of $4,000.
At 1925 p. NJ. today the inner steel
gate of the prison closed upon the
former Indiana executive.
In statement to newspaper men
as the train neared Atlanta, McCray
said:
Il will enter upon the new situa-
ton with courage and confidence
fully conscious of my innocence of
any intentional wrong doing. There
are absolutely no Irregularities in
the financial accounts of any Of the
departments of the State of Indiana.
An investigation will prove that"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-05-02

Washington, May 1-(By A. P.)-
William M. Butler, of Massachusetts,
will manage the 1924 Republican ma
tional campaign and succeed John Il.
Adams, of Iowa, as chairman of the
Republican national committe, if
President Coolidge is nominated at
the Cleveland convention as the Re-
publican standard bearer.
President Coolidge decided today
that if he is nominated by the Cleve-
land convention, he will recommend
selection of Mr.. Butler, his pre- con
vention campaign manager, to the
new Republican national committee
for the Craftsmanship. and in accord
ance with the custom his recommen-
dations undoubtedly will be adopted
The presidents decision was an
nounced in the following statement
by him made public at the white
house tonight:
after conferences with Chairman
Adams. who has indicated to me that
after the organizat ton of the incom
ing Republican national committee he
does not wish to continue as chair
man. l have decided to present to
the new committee Cor their consid-
GRAFTON for the craftsmanship the
name Of William M. Butler who has
managed the primary campaign"
The assumption by Mr.. Butler of the
duties of national committee chairman
would interfere with his participation
in the contest for Republican nomina-
ton for United States senator in Mass.
achusetts, and his retirement from the
race is expected to be announced in the
near future.
The decision in favor of Mr.. Butler
was made finally by the president after
Chairman Adams, returning from the
meeting yesterday in Cleveland of The
convention arrangements committee
Continued on Page 5-Col. 81
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-05-02
Believed Estimate of Ten Mil
lions Will Be Exceeded
South Carolina Hardest Hit
$4,000 Loss at Anderson
Alone-Organized and Vol
unteer Relief Workers at
Work

Atlanta, Ga, May 4.-Towns and
rural communities, stricken by an
epidemic of tornadoes that dipped
ruthlessly through seven southern
states yesterday, were recovering
slowly tonight. Relief workers, from
organized services and volunteers
had their tasks well under way in
the scores of villages levelled.
Reports gathered placed the total
death list at Ill. There still was no
definite estimate of the persons in
jured but belief persisted that the
number would reach 500. Property
damage will be much greater than
at first anticipated, it was indicated
today. The only estimate attempted
that of S10,O00,O0O, probably will
be eclipsed.
South Carolina was worst stricken
of the seven states visited by the
tornadoes. Red Cross workers and
others were at Anderson, and at
Horrel Hill settlement, state troops
were on guard. Property damage at
Anderson alone was $75O,OOO.
Latest tabulations disclosed the
following deaths:
South Carolina 81, George Is, Ala
bama II. North Carolina 4, Louisi-
ana l, Arkansas 1.
The additional deaths were report
ed from Columbia, where two in
jured persons died in hospitals and
at Robertsonville, N. c., where be-
lated reports told of a twister strik-
ing there. Thirty homes were said
to have been destroyed and an ap-
peal for aid was sent out by Mayor
G. II. Cox. One unidentified woman
was killed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-05-02
Body of Nine. Duse
Is HOmeWard Bound

New York, May 1.-Eleonora
Duse. the great tragedienne. today
passed from Americas shores for
ever.
The homage paid to her death as
The casket containing her body be-
gan its journey to her sunny Italy,
was in keeping with the acclaim
which she had won across the foot
lights of many theatres in many
lands. Hundreds of men and women
who had been thrilled by her voice
and stage presence crowded the
church Of st. Vincent Ferrer in Lex
ington avenue where a solemn re-
quie mmass was held. Thousands
later attended the public services in
Central Park hall.
Mourners from New York's lit
b tie Italy" predominated in the fu-
neral crowds. some of them weeping
as the funeral cortege of La Duse
wound its way to the pier and the
steamer Duilio.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-05-02
Belgian Ministers
At London to Get
View on Dawes Report

London, May l (By A. P.)-Premier
Theunis and Foreign Minister Hy-
mans of Belgium arrived in London
they are paying to France, England
and Italy for the purpose of ascer-
tanning the views of the allied gov
ernments on methods OF making the
Dawes plan effective.
The Belgian emissaries who are
assuming their old role as go-be-
tweens in the allied negotiations. will
be able to speak Premier Pioncares
mind as well as their own when they
meet Prime Minister Macdonald to-
morrow. In return they viii hear the
British thesis, which, while not new,
indicates an outcropplng of the old
Anglo French differences, forgotten
since the British resigned themselves
to the occupation Of the Ruhr.
Mr.. Macdonald, 1t Is understood,
will inform the Belsians that the
British government would like to see
the business like beginning which the
experts made continued in carrying
out their recommendations, and there
fore will propose to the allies when
the proper time comes that applica-
ton of the experts proposals be
taken out of the hands Of the repara-
ton commission as far as is possible
and put into effect by n new allied
agreement with the Germans which
could be obtained by direct negotia-
ton.
According to the British view the
negotiations should take the form of
a new international conference. 1t is
believed here that the result would
be bushes sagreement, unhampered
by bitter feelings.
That such q plan is likely to be ac-
ceptable to Premier Poincare at the
pr esent time is not suggested by the
British observers who declare they
know what is in Mr.. MacDonald's
mind.
On the eve of Minister MacDonald's
meeting with the Belgian emissaries.
American observers who have been
giving the closest attention to the
reparation problem since the experts
formulated their report expressed the
opinion that the British. French, Ital-
ian and German acceptance which
have been sent to the reparation COM
mission would be lived up to COM
pletely and that the differences of
opinion now cropping out would be
eliminated without serious difficulty.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-05-02
U. of NJ. Purchases
Island to Study
Small Fur Animals

orono. Me. MaS 1.-One-half of Tin
Aer Island in Bluehill bay has been
soQuired by the University Of Maine
ior lne study of problems in connection
WIN raising small fur-bearing animals.
resident Clarence c. Little announced
'.onisht. The island also will be used
training camp for executives Tor
summer camps, the announcement said.
A tract of five acres adjoining La
ta!ette National Park, Bar Harbor.
las heen leased for summer station
.or instruction and research in plant
sna animal biology, it was stated. The
anu IN this vicinity. the president said'
was considered the best opportunity
s sast OF the Rocky Mountains for inland
soiogical research as 1t contains fora
.na fauna of three types: Canadian,
,emperatc and southern. The lana
leased on Tinker Island is 2eo acres IN
Decision to acquire the two sites
was made at the May meeting of the
university board of trustees. Both
Y%ns will be self-supporting, 1t was
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-05-02
EVENTS OF DAY
IN WASHINGTON

The Senate ratified the soldier bonus
conference report.
The House judiciary committee con-
sidered Legislation to clarity the dis
puted powers of Comptroller General
McCarl.
President Coolidge in a letter to
Chairman Jones of the Senate COM
merce committee urged prompt passage
of the pending Alaskan fisheries bill.
Chairman Smoot of the Senate fl
nance committee told the Senate there
probably were not enough votes to APP
prove the Mellon income tax schedule.
Chairman Norris of the Senate agri-
culture committee introduced a bill for
operation of Muscle Shoals prepared
by former Representative Lloyd of
Missouri.
Representative Britten, Republican,
Illinois, announced he would ask for
an investigation to. determine the con-
dition of the navy as relattd to the
$3.50 ratio.
Senate oil committee was told that
no presidential approval had been
found of the lease of 5000 acres in ma
val reserve No. 2 to the Honolulu Oil
Company.
Advocates of American participation
In the world court continued their tes-
timony before a Senate subcommittee
which then adjourned hearings subject
to call.
Blair Coan told the Senate Wheeler
committee that he had no direct knowl-
edge regarding the truth of accusations
against Senator Wheeler, Democrat,
Montana.
The Senate adopted a resolution ask
ing President Coolidge to direct the at
torney general to defend suits brought
by NJ s. Daugherty against members
of the Daughcrty committee.
William NJ. Butler of Massachusetts,
was decided upon by President Cool
idge to manage his campaign and sue
coed John T. Adams as chairman of the
Republican national committee, if Mr..
Coolidge is nomlnated at Cleveland
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-05-02
CREEK TESTIFIES

goulton, Me-, May Louis Hagi-
tas, q Greek restaurant keeper at
Fort Kent, on the Canadian border,
testified in supreme court today.
soon after the opening of the trial Of
former County Attorney Herschel
Shaw and William S. Levin. Houl-
TON lawyer, on the charge of jointly
conspiring to prevent the enforce
ment of the liquor laws in Aroostook
county, that he was visited by for
mer Sheriff Edmund w. Grant and
Mr.. Shaw in May, 1923.
He testified that the the interview
at Fort Kent he was told not to pay
Levin any more money. and that
Sheriff Grant told him to pay US"
He said that he had sold liquor by
,be drink, bottle or case while under
the alleged protection" of the coun-
" attorney and sheriff until May.
1929. through an agreement which he
claimed he had made the previous
November with Shaw and Levin.
when the price of protection, he tes-
tiled, was placed at $225 month.
Hagibas, who also was indicted
Jointly with Grant and Shaw on the
charge of conspiracy, but Is appear
Ing as a witness for the State. testi-
fed that he came to Houlton again
the next month and met the sheriff
and county attorney at the Jail Of
fee. He did not see Mr.. levin. He
added that Grant told him to pay
siOO but he replied he did not have
that amount.
Later upon advice from Mr.. Shaw,
he said. he went to local bank.
cashed a check for $500. after being
identified by him, and took the money
TO the Jail office. He testified that
Grant and Shaw divided it.
On cross examination Of Hagibas,
Il was brought out that all raids
we're known in advance, former Dep
uy Sheriff Guy +. Crosby furnish
Ing the information. He said he was
told by this officer: 'If you don't pay
me some money, I will search you"
Later he was raided and a large
quantity OF liquor was seized.
Tho witness would not admit to the
DEFENDANTS attorney that he was
promised immunity by United States
District Attorney Frederick r. Dyer
IL he would tell that official about
alleged protection" He said that he
denied having protection" when be-
fore the federal district attorney last
November, previous to the conviction
Of Grant and Levin in the federal
! court at Bangor. telling him that he
never paid anyone.
He said that in November he saw
Grant and was told to keep away
Z from Bangor. He went to Canada
and remained until his wife took to
| Portland for the district attorney the
checks already presented. showing
alleged payments to Levin, he test-
fed.
He denied prosecutions before the
Fort Kent municipal court. but court
| records were produced, showing thai
three cases are now pending against
! him.
George Ritchie. n Caribou drug
sst, testified substantially the same
as he did in the FEDERAL court. He
said he came to Houlton the day
after Christmas and was told by
County Attorney Shaw that the H.
quor business In Aroostook county
was to be put on n business basis
after Jan. |. 1923. He said he was
told by Mr.. Levin that protection
would cost 1925 month. He said
ne declined an offer to engage in the
BUSINESS at Caribou.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-05-02
Raid Loan Office
In Boston Believed
70 Be Nest Thieves

Boston, May edward H. Berk-
man, proprietor of the Fenway Loan
Company, and Frank Miller, his
clerk, Were held in 100000 bail each
today when they had entered pleas of
not guilty in Superior court to in
dictments charging conspiracy to
steal. District Attorney Thomas c.
o Brien told the court that the men
had harbored thieves and vagabonds
and that their office was headquarters
for all the pickpockets in Boston.
Nine men who were arrested at the
loan. company offices yesterday were
committed to Jail in default of $4,000
/ bail each on indictments charging
conspiracy to steal and with being
Cramps. vagabonds and Migrants"
In asking for substantial bail< the
district attorney said the office had
| been under surveillance for two
| months and had been found to be a
NEST of thieves" He said one of the
men arrested had discarded at the
office the uniform of the Michigan
State prison. He said yesterdays
raid was the beginning of a move
ment to clear Boston of suspicious
persons.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-05-02
Hold Suspect in
Death Little Girl

Providence, II. l.. May IA man. in
whose automobile was found an appar-
emily bloodstained carpet in which was
imbedded a piece of flesh, on whose
overcoat were also found what appear
to be spots of blood, upon whom were
found three handkerchiefs similar to
the one found around the neck of nine
year-old Clementine Cosmo when her
body was discovered in the woods off
Cobble Hill road, Lincoln, last Sunday,
and who once lived in the same house
with the slain child in East Providence,
was arrested early this evening as a
suspect by authorities investigating
the case.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-05-02
DEATH TOLL MOUNTS TO III IN SERIES
TORNADOES IN SEVEN SOUTHERN STATES
500 INJURED; STAGGERING PROPERTY LOSS
SENATE RATIF|ES
CONFEREES' REPORT
ON BONUS MEASURE

Washington, May 1.-The conference
report on the soldier bonus bill was
ratified today by the Senate.
Similar action by the House, which
will receive the report tomorrow.
would clear the way for dispatch of the
measure to President Coolidge.
There was no record vote on the con-
ference report.
Senator Underwood, Democrat, Ala
bama. said he opposed the report just
as 1 opposed the measure"
Other senator's took the opportunity
to explain why they were in favor OF
enacting the insurance bill, although
they viewed it as "far from meeting
campaign pledges and a fraud upon
the soldiers" Among these were Sen.
ators Reed, Missouri, and HARRISON
mississippi, Democrats. The latter
expressed particular regret that the
provision for charge of compound in.
terest on loans to soldiers had beer
restored by the conferees after it had
been stricken out by the Senate.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-05-02
Senate Oratory
Holds Up Progress
Tax Reduction Bill

Washington, May 1.-The tax re-
duction bill was suspended in the
senate on a wave of oratory which
ran unchecked until adjournment,
when Chairman Smoot of the finance
committee, warning that under such
program the measure faced delay
said he would call night sessions to
speed up its disposition.
Pointing out that almost all of the
vital provisions of the bill were yet tC
be acted upon, Senator Smoot called
attention also that a conference on
the measure woul dbe necessary to
adjust differences between the house
and senate. This alone would require
two weeks. he predicted.
Debate carried into the approaching
fight on normal and SurtaX rates, and
while Senator Bruce, Democrat
Maryland, openly left the Democratic
ranks to support the Mellon surtaN
rates, Chairman Smoot conceded that
there were probably not enough
votes to gain adoption of this SEIZED
ule reinserted in the bill by the Fl.
nance committee.
In this regard. Senator Smoot. de-
ulcu llluL lag Wodio hSSoNAutS Iva q
compromise on the Mellon surtaN
rates within the Republican party
but said he might offer compromise
amendments on the floor. If the treas
ury rates were turned down. to make
the maximum surtaX SO percent. Be-
yond this point, he declared he would
not go.
Senator Bruce said he was ready
to cut the present maximum surtaN
rate of so percent to 25 percent as
recommended by Secretary Mellon.
Democrats met tonight to consider
the ACCESSIBILITY of support for the
proposal Of Senator Jones. Democrat
New Mexico, for a new corporation
tax based on a normal and graduated
scale.
Debate today centered on the treas
ury proposal to shut off tax evasionS
through tax exempt securities. but a
vote again went over. The provision
which was approved by the house but
eliminated from the bill by the finan-
ce committee, would limit deductions
allowed on account of interest pay
ments to the amount by which the
payments exceeded the income from
tax-exempt securities.
It was assailed by Democrats as an
indirect tax on federal state and mu-
nicipal securities while advocates o,
the provision insisted it would only
prevent evasions of taxes by holders
Of large incomes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-05-02
ST. Adams $4,000
MAY DAY FIRE IS )
CHECKED BY RAIN

Especial to the Kennebec JournaD
st. Adams. Me. May 1-Early this
Thursday morning fire destroyed a
saw mill in this town owned by
Mower brothers. The mill was dis
covered to be on fire about 1915 A.
NJ, and before help arrived it was
too far gone to save anything. The
loss was estimated at $4,000.
The mill was run by electricity and
for about an hour the village was in
darkness, the fire having put the
lighting system temporarily out of
commission. The building was not
very valuable, but the motor and
other machinery were a heavy loss.
There is no insurance. A heavy
downpour of rain saved some 100
cords of slabs. also the corn factory,
which Is nearby. The cause of the
fire is not known.