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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-11-14
CAPTURE EIGHT RUM BOATS
Prohibition Enforcement Navy in First
Engagement Scatters Rum Rows Off
Capes Cod and Anne

The first major engagement with the
prohibition enforcement navy resulted in
the scattering of rum rows off Cape Cod
and Cape Anne, says Boston Associated
Press dispatch of October 81 Eight
prizes were tied up at Boston, Gloucester
and New London, Conn, docks and more
than a score of prisoners were in the
hands of the officers. The coast guard
cutter Tampa on October 20 brought into
Boston harbor the Newfoundland, two
masted schooner, the Marjorie E. Bach
man. rum laden, and five American motor
boats. Another boat was taken into
Gloucester and one into New London.
The eight prizes with their cargo of
liquor valued at 100000 represented
weeks operation of the dry navy, assisted
by a squadron of fast rum chasers off
Long Island, Cape Cod and Cape Anne.
The captured vessels were taken in a run
ming battle in which the Tampa used her
guns and pursued a scattering fleet for
more than an hour near Stelmorgan
Banks, 20 miles off the coast at point
halfway between Capes Cod and Anne. In
the feet of rum ships were more than a
dozen vessels, according to government
officers, including several British and
French craft.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-11-14
PENNA JUDGE SETS RECORD
Mercer County Judge Resorts to Prison
Term Remedy for Bootlegging;
Most Offenders Aliens

Judge ]. A. McLaughry on November
3 established record in Mercer county,
Pa, for the length of prison terms i'm
posed on violators of the liquor law.
Among stiff sentences melted out was one
he handed Sam Dostanga charged with
possessing liquor on his second offense.
A thousand dollars fine and two years in
the Allegheny workhouse was Sans sem
tence. Another Sam whose surname is
Cicico was given thousand dollars fine
and one year in the workhouse for man
ufacturing and possessing liquor. Frank
Genna was given $500 fine and one year
in the workhouse for possessing q bar
rels of wine and manufacturing liquor.
Many other violators of the prohibition
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-11-14
LEGAL NOTES
andE B. Dunford

oath and issue the warrant. The attorney
for defendant in error in this connection
urges that Mulloy was not even an elected
member of the village council, but was
appointed to fill vacancy.
ut is sufficient to say with regard to
this contention that no such facts appear
upon the record. The president pro tenn.
of the council is a council member, and
membership in a village council is an
elective Office, and we must assume that
Mulloy was elected thereto until the con-
trary appears"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-11-14

children. All these things strike the eye,
and are indicated by inquiry. And yet,
of course, there remains a considerable
section of the people which is not obey
ing the law.
"The prohibition amendment is upon
its test even now l do not think the law
can, by itself, compel whole community
to abstain from the use of liquor. AL
ready people have taken their sides.
Some arc quite frankly breaking the
Eighteenth Amendment, and anybody
who wants to break it is very unintelligent
or very lackadaisical if he doesn't sue
coed in doing so. And the question is
whether the law, the law alone, can carry
that policy to absolute triumph.
81 am aware, of course, that the Eight
zenith Amendment is so placed, SO at
t.ched to the Constitution, that it prac-
tically can not be removed, but then
have noticed that the Fifteenth Amend
ment, which says that there shall be no
prejudice concerning color. and no denial
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-11-14
AS AN ENCLISHMAN Sees 1T

F.
weHp
in City Temple of Londons most anou
months speaking
n
his pulpit subject prohibition America We
Obor which his
While this he had been permitted
his
radio land he exceptional
to reachfa fairly
English prohibition America
could repealed
sany that the danger notification He also told his audience
prohibition
uacfer.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-11-14
$500 FOR 30 CENTS

A Chicago bootlegger arrested by a
city policeman after he had sold the po-
1iceman a thirty-cent drink of hooch
drew fine of $500 and costs in Judge
Finnegan's Chicago Avenue court on
charge of possessing and selling liquor in
violation of the national prohibition act.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-11-14

A Harrisburg, Pa, dispatch of Octo-
Der reports that "a more drivers Ii
censes have been revoked because of the
holders driving their autos while intox-
icated.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-11-14

"Now you will expect me, I know, to
have some word to say about the great
question of prohibition. You have had,
during my absence, as l was glad to hear,
a very able and exhaustive and enthusi-
astic description of the benefits brought
to America by the prohibition policy. l
can say that all that | observed in my
travels up and down the land seemed to
justify that statement. There is an evil
dence of prosperity there; there is an all
sencc of those extremes and abuses that
we are only too familiar with as associ-
ated with the liquor traffic, which is very
pleasing to the eye. None are any worse
who voluntarily deny themselves such an
indulgence as that, and many who were
in the habit of er-indulging have been
tremendously benefited There is no
question that the people are able to save
more, or to spend it in better ways.
There is no question that their economic
efficiency has been increased. There is
no question that it is better thing for
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-11-14
SEARCH WARRANT SIGNED BY
VICE MAYOR NOT VOID

Court of Ohio was called upon TO con-
slider in the case of State V. Lanser, IA
Northeastern, 7S4.
1t wss contended, first that there was
no such officer as a vice mayor; second,
that the record in the case did not show
that the acting mayor had authority to
administer the oath; that in mayors
court jurisdiction is not presumed; third,
that the legislature has not authorized an
acting mayor to exercise judicial powers;
fourth, that all judges are elective officers,
hence an acting mayor may not exercise
judicial powers because he was not elected
to act as judge.
In an opinion written by Judge Allen,
the court overruled these objections and
reversed the holding of the Court of APP
peals, the Court of Common Pleas and
sustained the jurisdiction of the mayors
court. The Supreme Court said:
"The word vice in its ordinary mean
ing signifies the assumption of Office by
one entitled thereto in the place of his
superior in case of death, resignation, re-
moval, absence, or disability The stat
utes of Ohio provide for the acting of the
president pro tenn. of the council in place
OF the mayor under just such circum-
stances. The affidavit shows upon its
face by the use of the word vice that
Mulloy was properly performing the func-
tons of the mayor either in his absence,
disability, or under some one OF the cir
cumstances set out in the statute.
"'Acting mayor for instance, means
the officer who, in case o. death, resigna
ton, removal, absence, or disability of the
mayor, assum IS his office and performs,
his functions. In other words, vice
mayor is not the name but the descrip-
ton of the title to the Office. There could
be not the slightest confusion as to what
official was meant by this term vice
mayor No one but the acting mayor
could be designated as vice mayor; and
this contention is therefore overruled.
Section 4255, General Code, confers
upon She mayor of village judicial as
we'll as executive powers. Under that
section he is the chief conservator of the
peace within the corporation, and he is
given the powers conferred by law.
These powers include those set out in sec
tions 4535 to 4547 of the General Code,
and include jurisdiction to hear and deter
mine prosecutions for violation of ordi-
nances of the corporation unless impris-
onment is prescribed as part of the pun
ishment, jurisdiction to hear and deter
mine any prosecution for a misdemeanor
unless the accused is by the Constitution
entitled to a trial by jury, jurisdiction in
the two cases just mentioned, notwith-
standing the right to jury If the defend
ant in writing valves jury before the
commencement of trial, and the other
powers in criminal cases set forth in the
sections cited
'Under section 4216 the president pro
tenn, when he acts as mayor, or, in the
words of the statute, becomes acting
mayor, is invested with every authority
exercised by the mayor-executive, legis-
iative and judicial-and hence the third
contention must be overruled.
at is next claimed that, inasmuch as
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-11-14

law, most of whom were aliens, were
given fines ranging from $500 to $500
each and three months in Jail TO year in
the workhouse.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1924-11-12
COME ALL YE FAITHFUL

The people of Montana approved the metal mines tax measure.
But the defeat of Governor Dixon will place the administra-
ton of this measure in the hands of it's enemies.
The big interests declare that the tax is unconstitutional and
will doubtless put up a fight in the courts to delay its application
until such time as Governor Erickson can name tax commissioners
friendly to the mine operators.
Then the good old game of tax lodging will go merrly on,
with the farmer, the merchant and the banker holding the sack
as they did in the palmy days antedating Governor Dixons admin
stration.
Control Of the tax commission, through the election of their
candidate for governor, was the goal aimed at, and achieved, by
the big mining interests of Montana in the campaign just closed.
They didn't spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in pro-
paganda and in financing speaking campaigns because they loved
the taxpayers Of this state and wanted to protect them against
the "eXtravagance' they pretended to believe had existed in Gov
eTnOr DixOns regime.
Oh, no. They wanted to get the scalp of the only governor
this state ever had who had the nerve and the temerity to demand
that they pay their share of the costs of running the state.
And they got it.
The faithful are already flOckng to the pie counter and after
the first of the year we may look for a grand housekeeping at
the capitol with the destruction, so far as is possible, of every
thing done in the past four years to render value received for the
money collected from the taxpayers to operate the state.
And we will venture the prediction that the word Economy
will be eliminated from the lexicon Of the interOcking press, from
now on.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1924-11-12

Governor Dixon met this attack upon the children and overthrow the
powers that would have forced the state backward into ignorance and
educational apathy. Today the will Of the people has been carried cut by
the governor; the spirit Of intelligence and advancement has tiumphed over
the greed and selishness Of mere money and materiaism; and every one Of
the state colleges proudly reflects this fact; the state colleges alone con
stItute a sufficient testimonial to the invaluable service rendered by Gov
ernOr Dixon TO his state.
UP to the time Governor Dixon took office no executive Of Montana
had tried O stem the tide Of debts and wasteful expenditures by state admin
lstratlons. Governor Dixon undertook that task and, no matter what may
be SAID t. the contrary, when he vetoed 100000 in appropriations for which
there was NJ revenue, he initiated a policy and established a precedent in
state Administration that was prominently right, sound and effective. and
which II pursued consistently will finally put any state government O a
financially solvent basis. No matter how his enemies rail, that they can
not take from him.
Furthermore, notwithstanding the rising cost of living, and the OBJ
structive policies never relaxed by ne house of the Legislature, during the
third fiscal year of his administration, Governor Dixon succeeded in con
at the end Of the year. That had not been done for seven years.
A condition that adds luster to Governor Dixon's record is the odds he
had to face in the fight he made. Montana's people who esteem gameness
independence, forttude, craftsmanship cannot fail to pay their retiring
chief executive 4 full tribute Of admiration and respect. From The momen.
he took office to the present time he has been compelled 10 face and battle
with a mighty host Of assaiants armed with every Imaginable weapon
in such warfare, and never has he cried for quarter
Governor Dixon did not nc 20 make this fight. His material situation
IS such that he is independent. de has the choice Of two paths to tread.
One was .tne easy way Of service for the gree corporations, with the
accommodations, the adulation and the numerous rewards they would have
showered upon him; the other was the rugged path he chose, the straight
and narrow and bitter path that all men must travel who try Ia lead the
way against the gross and cnraFcd opposition of material powers 20 HIGHER
social and poitica! levels. For this choice too, ard for the resoIute and
answering persistence he displayed in the role he pursued to the very
end Of the chapter, he is entitled t. the highest respect, ard in Montana,
history it viii give him a n envabe place.
Governor Dixon wa defeated for office. But the triumph Of his
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1924-11-12

cnenics is a small, an incons.deraIlc .t. .rr.-5
ne has wrested from me sphere Of publ. service l-...
g g,h5;. OF ,ee his ADMIN. ration, " neriod a. difficult and esns !.
With the passage of the years their trane,r3ert VAIN.
wealth Will be revealed in a light Of increasing br1ia,e
II" final verdict is with postcrity. Governor Dive
rest his case with the coming years. Already il i bm,
among the eminent public men and stat. men who ha. a-g1
not one will stand higher than, and very few viii stand 80
social and political achievement for IN, people Of Vor..
Dixon.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-17
READFlELD

There is to be an all-day meeting
of the Woman's Division of the Farm
Bureau Thursday. March Goth. in the
Uhion vestry, to demonstrate the use
of sewing machine attachments.
Those interested are requested to
bring some firm lawn. q piece of
bias binding No. 6. and some mar
row lace or insertion. Each one to
bring her own dinner basket pic
nic).
The Changers are to have an en-
tertainment in their hall Monday
evening. March 18th.
The Chamber of Commerce of
Readfield will hold a meeting Satur-
day evening. March 18th.
A special town meeting has been
called for Monday, March 18th. at
the Town house. to decide about
raising more money than has been
appropriated to build the school,
house for ReAdfield Depot and East
Readfieid. Also to see If the town
will vote to buy the land at the De-
pot on which the schoolhouse stands,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-17
Daugherty Hits
Back at AccuSers

Washington, March 15-F'rom his
Office at the other end OF Washing
ton. Mr.. Daugherty again struck
back tonight at his accusers. He
reserved until a later time, however,
the detailed statement he Is prapar-
ing in refutation of insinuations
made against him on the witness
stand.
He contented himself with brief
announcement that in due time he
would advise the public of the infiu-
encecs behind those malicious and
scandalous attacks and the character
Of the tools that are being used in
this cowardly manner by my ad-
fersariesv
IN view Of the fact that Miss
Roxie Stinson. the divorced wife of
the late Jess w. Smith. and that
CASTOR B. Means, formerly in the
bureau of investigation of the de-
partment of justice, but not now con-
neeted Herewith, were not called to
the stand today to continue their
statements, and in view OF the fur
Their fact that the statements sub
mitted by Capt Baldwin. formerly
in the bureau of investigation Of the
department. Of justice, but not now
connected Herewith, and by Mr..
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-17
by Beck

Station. will follow with a talk on
Increasing Yields of Sweet Corn by
Breeding.
The subject of certified seed will
be taken up in a talk to Purchasers
of Certified Seed Buy More from
Appearance than from Possibilities
of Performance. by L. G. Cunning
ham, a grower Of seed potatoes from
Fredericton. N. b.
Chas. c. Larrabee, county agent In
Piscataquis County will talk on How
Much can be Depended on Tuber
Unit Work in Developing Reliable
Foundation Stock. The meeting will
be concluded by w. G. Hunton, Agri-
cultural and Industrial Agent, Maine
Central Railroad, Portland. with a
talk entitled Results from Personal
Contact with Southern Potato
Growers.
The meeting will be held in Wins
low Hall. the Agricultural Building
at the University of Maine and Will
be a part of the annual Farmers
Week which Is being held at the Col
lege of Agriculture. March 81 10
April 4. To insure proper accommo-
dation it is urged that all persons
planning to attend write the College
for reservations.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-17
Asks Roosevelt
Resign as Asst.
Secretary of Navy

Washington. March 1.-THE resig-
nation Of Theodore Roosevelt az assist
ant secretary Of the navy was demand
ed in the House today by Representa-
tive Stevenson. Democrat, South Caro-
lima.
The demand was made during de-
bate on the naval appropriation bill
and was Immediately met with q de-
fence Of Mr.. Roosevelt by Represents
tive Longworth OF Ohio, and other Re
publicans.
IF Mr.. DENLY ought to have gotten
out. Mr.. Roosevelt ought to get out,
too" Mr.. Stevenson declared. "Denby
IL not supposed to have been the fecip-
lent of a loan or to have had any con-
nection with the oil people.
fSeveral attorneys were fejscted in
connection with the oil eases because OF
their previous connections with the oil
companies. The assistant secretary Of
the navy was director Of the Sinclair
company UP to the time he entered the
war. He returned and took up q posi-
ton with . bank controlled by that
company.
Statements by the South Carolina
representative concerning ownership
OF Sinclair stock were disputed by
Representative Longworth after the
former had declared that the wife Of
the assistant secretary "owned Sin
clair Oil stock at the time the leases
were made"
In reply. Mr.. Stevenson read from
the Roosevelt testimony before the oil
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-17
Mrs. Horace A. sIurcIi, Lewiston

Lewiston, Me-. Mar. 1J.--Mrs.
Christine Gerrish Murch, daughter
OF the late Edwin u. Gerrish, a once
prominent Lewiston druggist, died
at her home In Bucktleld today aft
er weeks illness following an OPP
GRAFTON. She was as, graduate
from {. NJ. q. nurses training school
at Lewiston: district deputy of the
Daughters of Rebekah, and active
in social and church work. Besides
her husband, Horace A. Murch, she
leaves her mother, Mrs. Abbie w.
Gerrish of Lewiston, and a sister.
Miss Bessie w. Gerrish, q teacher
In Brockton, Mass.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-17
Edward J. Morrison. Belfa.,

Belfast. Me-. Mar. 15.-Funeral
services for Edward J. Morrison, rs,
whose death occurred in Union yes
terday. will be held Sunday after
noon at the home OF his daughter,
Mrs. Clyde b. Holmes, Belfast. Mr..
Morrison was for many years q
prominent business man of Belfast
and was later In the West. His
wife, o sister. Mrs. Anna II. Adams
OF Pasadena. and three daughters,
Miss Avis Morrison of Springfield.
Mass; Mrs. Holmes OF Belfast and
Mrs. Amos J. King Of San Juan, sur
vivc.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-17

Quimby. with Tex Richard, Of the
Dempsey Carpenter prize fight films,
presented no features which are not
easily explained by documentary and
other evidence. it has become un-
necessary at this time for the at
torney-general to burden the press or
ask the reading public to spend any
time considering the minor and un.
important matters which took up tho
session Saturday.
AS soon as CASTOR 3. Means and
Miss Roxie Stinson have concluded
their statements and been cross ex :
amined. will issue q statement that
will think, be decidedly interesting
and In which l will advise the public
or the influences behind these mali
cious and scandalous attacks and tile
character of the tools that are being
used in this cowardly manner by my
adversaries."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-17
Seed Improvement Meet
At u. of Nj. Tuesday

Orono, March 16-The Maine Seed
Improvement Association will hold
its annual meeting here Tuesday.
April 1. President John w. Leland,
of Dover Foxeroft. will preside.
The meeting which will start at
100 =. NJ, will be devoted princi-
rally to discussions on the improve
ment of potato seed. However. the
question Of sweet corn will be con-
sdered.
DIR. Donald Folsom, Associate
Plant Pathologist, Maine Experiment
Station, will open the session with
an address on the Recent Develop
ments of Potato Diseases. DIR. Karl
Sax. Biologist, Maine Experiment
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Pike.
Lurline Alexander and John Alex
ander who have been passing a short
vacation at their home at North Bel
grade. have returned to Belgrade De-
pot to resume their studies at the
Belgrade High School.
Gerald Hallett. assistant business
manager and Norman Blake. art edi
tor of the High School paper THE
Massachusetts Ripple" went to Orono
Friday to attend The Journalism
Convention at the University Of
Maine.
: The Silent Six Club will meet
Thursday afternoon at the home OF
, Mrs. John King.
Tho Progressive Glass of the
United Baptist church will hold their
annual banquet Tuesday evening in
the church vestry.
Miss Iva Grover has returned
from q week end visit with her moth
+, err, Mrs. Willard Milliken of Camden
Tickets for the High School Play
Come out of the Kitchen" will be
reserved free Of charge Wednesday
morning at o'clock at c. II. Mar
tins Store on Main street. The
leading parts will he taken by Marion
Durrill and Eugene Savage, although
neither of them have ever taken part
before in the High School plays they
are both doing surprisingly good
work at the rehearsals. The play is
much more laughable than that of
! last year and is full of humorous sit :
uations. There is an interesting love
story which furnishes a plot. the out
come OF which is uncertain until the
last word,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-17
committee that Mrs. Roosevelt ha,

committee that Mrs. Roosevelt had
owned such stock.
Insisting that "the gentleman has
made positive statement that Mrs.
Roosevelt had stock when tho Ieascs
were made" Mr.. Longwor.h asked IL he
were prepared to prove it..
"She did when negotiations were 60
ing on and the president signed the or
der" Mr.. Stevenson retor.aj.
II am prepared 10 make a statement
that Mrs. Roosevelt was net In pos
session of the stock three months be-
fore the leases were made" said MIR.
Longworth.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-17
Gets $3.50 ycrdlct

Portland. Me-. March Is
Damages Of $3.50 were awarded
Deputy Sheriff william c. Jordan Ct
Wipdham in mis- suit against Harry
g. Mentally OF that town by a s.i-
perior court jury this after ioon. Mr..
Jordan, who 10 the court cricr. sued
Mr.. Mentally, as tic trustee OF An cs-
late. to reco yer $4,000 alleged 10 TO.
due as commission for me Ssle Of
SI0OU0O worth Ut timber.