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Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-04-06
France Proposes
To Force People to
Invest in Govt. Bonds

Paris. April 5.-(By A. Po-Ihe
Matin says this morning that the
plan of Minister of Finance De Mon
ri after a thorough study of all the
elements in the financial situation,
consists in an appeal for a volun-
tary contribution from capital to
bear interest at four per cent.
The state, says the newspaper, Will
not attempt to inquire into any
body's fortune if, for example, it
asks citizens, to invest a tenth of
their fortune in these four per cent
bonds. 1t will leave the people free
to fix the amount of their fortunes,
depending upon their good faith.
Citizens also will be free to choose
how to pay, in cash. in government
rents, or national defense bonds of
long or short duration, or CONNER
cial paper.
"Of course" says the Matin, ''if
the voluntary contributions plan
is not a success, those persons who
are not willing to pay spontaneously
will find themselves exposed to the
controlled declaration, with all it's
attendant veXations. NJ. De Monzi
intends to place before the country
an absolutely accurate statement of
national finances. for he holds that
if this had been in the past, the
country would have made the nee
cSsary effort to restore the finan-
cial situation long ago"
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-04-06
Counsel Hopes to
Get New Trial for
Convicted Chapman

Hartford. Conn.,, April 5.-The fight
to save Gerald Chapman from the gal
lows went forward today.
Frederick J. Groehl, senior defense
counsel, announced to the Hartford
Courant over the telephone from New
York that important new evidence had
been discovered upon the strength of
which a new trial would be requested
without delay. At the same time Ma
than o. Friedman, Junior defense
counsel. was in pursuit of further evil
dence in support Of the alibi offered
by Chapman which failed to impress
the jury.
in the legal question raised in the de-
partment of justice as to the right Of
the state of Connecticut to put Chap
man to death before he had served the
remainder of his 25-year term for the
100000 New York mail robbery. He
contended that the federal sentence
took precedence and that the only way
that precedence could be removed
would be by the government pardon
ing Chapman. Such a pardon would
have to come from President Coolidge,
he said, adding that he would prompt
ly advise Chapman to refuse to accept
a pardon, in which case the peniten-
tiary sentence would have to stand
and the execution Of Chapman be de-
layed more than 20 years.
1t was determined in the case of
Comptroller Charles l.. Craig Of New
York, according to Groehl, that a man
under federal sentence had the right
to decline pardon.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-04-06
FRISCO WELCOMES
GRAND FLEET ON WAY
TO HAWAIIAN GAME

San Francisco, Apr. 5-(By A. P.)
The Golden Gate swung wide open
today in welcome to the grand fleet
of the United States. which arrived
from southern waters for ten days
of final preparation for the war
game in Hawaiian waters-the
greatest peace-time maneuvcrs in
the history of the nation-and the
long hegira to Australia and New
Zealand.
While thousands of residents of
the bay region crowded hillsides,
docks, piers and other places of van
tage, despite low visibility conditions
the armada steamed slowly into San
Francisco harbor. For four hours
and a half the grey vessels entered
the bay, the largest ships in single
file at intervals of 500 yards, while
the destroyers, mine layers and
other craft slipped to their berths in
double line.
The entire assemble ge-the largest
concentration of sea power ever as
sembled in San Francisco harbor and
the mightiest naval force ever
brought together at one time under
the Stars and StripeS-formed a
procession twenty five miles long.
The encourage consisted of 1o7 ves-
sells of all kinds and classes, carry
ing an officer personnel of $500 and
approximately 33,500 enlisted men.
The round of social entertainment
for officers and men and the athletic
series for the men will begin tomor :
row following a parade of bluejacket
contingents from the ferry building
to the city hall, which will be re-
viewed officially there by Mayor
James Rolph. Jr., and the sixteen
f1ag officers of the fleet.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-04-06
Find Body Missing
Inmate of Asylum
Tn River at Union

Damariscotta, Maine, April o-The
body of Edwin +. Metcalf, 16, for
whom search has been conducted
since he disappeared on the night
of March 10 last, was found today in
Georges River, in the town of Union,
where he had been a patiept in
sanitorium. The body was found
oCO feet below a bridge from which,
it is supposed. he fell or jumped.
On March 10 Metcalf left the sani-
tarium to attend a motion picture
theatre. He failed to return to the
hospital that night and search was
instituted.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-04-06
German Atty. Gen.
Demands Death
For 5 Leipsic Reds

Leipsic, Germany, April 5.-(By A.
Pat the trial of the 16 Commu-
nists charged with murder and terror
istic acts, the attorney general yester-
day demanded the death penalty for
five of the prisoners and' penitentiary
sentences ranging from six months
to Is years for the remaining II de-
PENDANTS. The trial, which has been
in progress for nine weeks, will end
during the present week.
The men who were named by the at
torney general as deserving the ex-
treme penalty of the law were AleXan-
der Peter Skobievsky. n Russian me-
chanic, who also is known under the
alias of IIelmuth; Felix Neumann, a
type setter; Ernst Poege, carpenter;
Rudolph Margies, a factory worker.
and Johannes Szon. a locksmith. All
five men, the prosecutor declared. were
implicated in the murder in Berlin of
n barber named Rausch, who was al
legged to have been slain for divulging
to the police facts about shipments of
arms to the Communists.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-04-06
JURY CONV|CTS AND
CHAPMAN WILL HANG
FOR KILLING OFFICER

Hartford. Conn. April 4.-(By A. P.)
Gerald Chapman, found guilty of
murder today, was sentenced to be
hanged a few minutes after midnight
next June IS.
But Connecticut may not collect it's
debt for murder Of Patrolman James
Skelly at that time, for Chapman,
whose iron nerve has not broken,
hasn't given up the fight for life. No.
tice of appeal from the first degree
murder verdict was filed by Frederick
j. Groehl, chief defense counsel, d.
rectly after sentence Of death had
been imposed.
The verdict and sentence were ut
tered in a court from which all but
those Immediately concerned were ex-
cluded.
1t was bad news to Hartford, for
Hartford sentiment had been decided
ly for Chapman.
Men cursed and women wept
Groehl had to go to his hotel room to
escape sympathetic crowds. Hugh NJ.
Alcorn. states attorney, in a state-
ment said he would recommend to the
court long prison term for Walter
Shean, the Springfield man who Is
expected to plead guilty to robbery
Charge. Shean was the states prIn-
cipal witness.
1t was he who first started the
New England police on Chapman's
trail, who then was a fugitive from
justice having escaped from the Fed
eral penitentiary at Atlanta while
serving 25 years for participating in
$2,4OO,O00 mail truck robbery in New
York. Shean, captured near David
son and LeventhaPs New Britain de-
partment store on the morning of
the shooting, told the police that
Chapman had been his co-safe looter.
The jury which had been given the
case at 1883 yesterday, reported at
1925 and court was convened.
The prisoner rather haggard after
his long night Of uncertainty stood
up in the prisoners dock as the jur-
ors filed in.
ment through his attorney. Frederick
J. Groehl, in which he declared that
he had had to combat the wealth and
information of the Sheans. the am
bition of the states attorney of
Hartford county and the prejudice of
the public mind during the trial.
The reference to the Sheans con-
cerned the wealthy father Of Walter
E. Shean of Springfield, Mass, whose
murder accusation and testimony
against Chapman brought about ar
rest and conviction.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-04-06
Six of City's Speediest Detail
ed to Halt Mad Careening
Through Charlestown Dis
trict in Stolen Cars-Youth
Believed One Who Escaped
State School at Shirley
Threatens to Steal Patrol
Wagon

Boston, April Six motorcycle po-
lice officers, among them the most
RECKLESS and daring drivers in the
Boston police department, are seek
ing tonight to capture James L..
Sheehan, Is IL year old youth who,
according to the authorities, is the
'speedster whose wild rides through
the Charlestown district in stolen
automobiles have caused excitement
since last Tuesday. When last seen
tonight he was being pursued by
several officers who, however were a
half mile behind his high powered
car.
The youthful driver today expand
ed his program of dashes through
the district to include an afternoon
performance which brought CIRCUS
day crowds aggreSating many thou
3ndS to the streets to watch for him.
The crowd was not disappointed, for
he appeared repeatedly, tearing
through central portions of Charles
town at u breakneck pace, always
to elude purSuers and disappear by
sudden and unexpected turns at
speeds estimated by the police at as
high as 60 miles. He has several
times been fired upon with effect.
Last night he was said by the po-
lice to have stolen four automobiles.
driving each until its gasoline sup
ply was exhausted. One, a new ma
chine, was deserted with bearings
burned out and tires literally burn
ed off" Tonight he was said to have
TN n
His route has repeatedly carried
him through Bunker Hill Street,
across the highest elevation in Char
lestown and close by Bunker Hill
Monument, through Old City Square
and through numerous other central
ly located thoroughfares.
He signallized his coming last
night and today with muffler cut out
and horn in full blast. Crowds
cheered and shouted as he swung
through the streets. His evident
close knowledge of the streets and
daring driving has repeatedly BATTLE d
pursuit.
Sheehan. who the police maintain,
is the driver, was until recently an
inmate of the state School for Boys
at Shirley. Mass. Twice he has es-
, capped, his most recent break occur
ring a week ago last Wednesday,.
AS Il result of a threat received by
the police to the effect that on one of
his trips he would appropriate a po-
lice patrol wagon, Superintendent
Crowley tonight sent out strict or
ders to all stations to guard closely
all patrol wagons and not to leave
doors to police garages open.
J According to information gathered
by the police from boys to whom the
young driver stopped to talk. he had
in his possession an automatic pistol
| which he was planning to use in case
he was overtaken. He also told them,
the boys said. that if he should kill
anyone when speeding away from tn ,
police, that he planned to commit
suicide by driving full tilt against
the wall of the Boston Navy Yard.
! At police headquarters the opinion
was expressed that the driving was
being carried out as a theatrical act
especially for the benefit of the
younger element of the population.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-04-06
Property Damage May
Total 100000 -
Houses UnrOOfed
and Wreckage Car
ried Several Hun
dred Feet-Number
of Accidents When
Automobiles Choke
Road to Scenes of
Storm

Miami, Fla, Apr. 5-A wind and
hail storm near here this afternoon
killed three persons and injured "a.
The dead are man named Sullivan,
Mrs. Scholtz, and a boy. The in.
jured We're taken to Miami hospitals.
The storm, which formed near
Hialeah, six miles west of Miami,
struck with greatest force at the
White belt dairy, wrecking homes
and buildings and doing damage
estimated at between s15O,000 and
100000. 1t continued in a north
easterly direction and passed out to
sea about fifteen miles north Of here.
In the path Of the storm. houses
were unroofed and debris carried to
the height Of several hundred feet.
Arthur Pryor. band master, who
lives at Hialeah. near where the
storm started. said he saw house
roofs raised 200 feet in the air. The
noise of the storm was terrific, he
asserted, similar to hundreds Of can
non being fired. .-,
Thousands of automobiles choKed
roads to the scene Of the greatest
damage. A number of accidents and
collisions were reported. One am-,
bulance was wrecked in Miami. -.
Three hundred to four hundred
persons are homeless as q result OF
the storm. -.
After crossing a canal at Hialeah
the great funnel shaped cloud lifted
and then crashed down on the white
belt dairy. two miles away, com.j
pletely demolishing six buildings, fas
tally injuring Mrs. Mathilda SchultA
20, and injuring number OF ems
ployes of the dairy.
Sweeping in between two buildinEG
the foot of the tornado gathered up'
four small dwellings, large gaIage
and the mess hall Of the dairy, and
piled them all in a twisted tumbled
mass in the center Of the group. The
cone of wind played about the dairy
for a minute and then crossed the;
road to the east. :.
1t is estimated that the damage at
the dairy will exceed 100000. Be-,
sides the cost Of the buildings the.
personal effects of the Is to 80 per-.
sons whose homes were destroyed
and the extent Of the damage to
stock and material could not be esti.i
mated tonight.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-04-06
Bag Half Score
Of Rum Runners

New York, Apr. 5-Seizure of two
trawlers, skiff and a motorboat as
rum runners was announced at the
coastguard headquarters today. Ten
men were taken prisoners.
The two trawlers. the Eda OF
Bridgeport, Conn, and the Pal OF
Greenport, N: Y, were seized off
Long Island last night. Three men
were arrested on the Eda and four
on the Pal. Small quantities OF IL
quor We're found on both trawlers,
the coastguards said.
The skiff was seized after 1t had
been beached on Oak Island and
three men had escaped in the woods.
Three men were arrested on the mo-
torboat, also captured off Oak Island.
in which the coastguards said they
found one bottle of champagne.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-04-06
Wind Storm Kills Three
Injuries "a in Terrific
Sweep Near Miami, Fla.
SOL0NS FACE BIG
task TO WIND UP
SESSION THIS WEEK
whipping Into shape the general

Whipping into shape the general
appropriation resolves for the two
coming fiscal years so as to hold the
tax rate at seven mills is one of the
big matters left for the Legislature
this week, and the drive will start
at 4.30 this Monday afternoon to
complete the work of the Send ses-
sion by next Saturday night.
With the number of matters still
remaining on the docket evening ses-
sions will undoubtedly be required.
Among the important bills on which
final action is still pending is the
act relating to the excise tax On
railroads and the act relating to the
supervision by the State bank COM
missioner of contracts placed by
companies dealing in fur-bearing
and other animals. These will pro-
badly come before the Senate this
evening or Tuesday morning.
Included among the especially as
signed matters for this week are the
following:
Act TO place the limit of one deer
for each hunter: assigned for Tues
day in the Senate.
Report of committee on Banks and
banking, ought to pass" on the act
to make more efficient the superVis-
ion of brokers dealing in securities
on marginal acconnts: assigned for
Monday afternoon in the House.
Report of committee on educa-
ton, Ought not to pass" on bill
providing for the Use of the English
language in the State: assigned for
Monday afternoon in the House.
Lewiston police bills, one relat-
ing to the organization of the police
commission and the salaries of the
chief of police, captains and inspec-
tors, and the other providing pen
sions for members of the depart
ment; assigned for Monday in the
House.
Early this week the House will de-
bate the act to raise an excise tax
on corporations organized for gen.
Grating and supplying electricity.
Both branches of the Legislature
will take under consideration the or
der accompanying the Judiciary COM
mittee'S report, ought not to pass
on the act changing the jurisdiction
of superior and supreme courts. This
oruer provides for the appointment
of q recess committee to study the
advisibility of establishing an appel
late court of law, a combination OF
the various superior courts in the
State and the un'fyirg of the juris-
diction and procedure in the various
inferior courts, and for this COM
mittee to report TO the S3rd Legts-
lature.
Many other acts still remain to
be disposed of before the Solons de-
part from tie city and very busy
week is promised.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-04-06

Washington, Apr. J-The vast
unknown regions of the Arctic will
be explored this summer with naval
aircraft by navy pilots, but not as a
government project.
The attempts at observing the un-
charted area of more than one mil
lion square miles lying between Alas
ka and the North Pole where a con-
tihent may exist, will be made in
connection with an expedition head
ed by Donald E. Macmillan, the ex-
plorer, who will return for the ninth
time to his favorite haunts of ice and
snow on a ship leaving Wiscasset,
Maine, about June 10.
The plan has been approved by
Secretary Wilbur and endorsed by
President Coolidge. The expedition
will also have the backing of the Ma
tional Geographic Society, which has
voted to contribute toward financing
It,
The naval officers who will accom-
pany Mr.. Macmillan will be granted
extended leave. as has been the case
In previous polar expeditions and the
entire party will have a private sta
tus Notwithstanding that Mr.. Mac
MILAN Is lieutenant in
the naval reserve force.
Two planes of the Amphibian type
will be supplied and the personnel
for them will be selected from VOL
ulteers in the navy aviation service.
Although details have not been COM
! peted. at least three officers and two
orthree mechanics will be accepted
Tor the trip, one of whom will be
Lieutenant Commander r. E. Byrd
Of the navy bureau of aeronautics,
Who will be in charge.
Already "a naval officers, six ma
fine corps officers, eleven navy en-
nsted men and two submarine corps
enlisted men have volunteered for
the attempt.
The planes, which the navy proba-
Oily will ask the army air service to
provide, will be of-the Looming type,
and will have. cruising range of
more than 1000 miles with a sped
o. more than 120 miles an hour. Mr..
macmillan believes more can be ac-
comphshed with them in Arctic ex-
pioration than has been done in the
hst century.
The expedition will pass along the
labrador coast and Greenland
through Davis Strait in an effort to
es.apiish flying base at the north
Hn point of Axel Heiburg land,
wnere the planes can take off in
taelr attempt to explore the vast re-
Son which has baffled the efforts of
many to penetrate, and determine
there.
u land is found, 1t is believed it
0h ultimately be utilized for air.
elatt bases in flight routes from Eu-
.Ope 70 Asia, providing in effect what
vas sought unsuccessfully for CEN
.uries in the quest for a northwest
Passage.
ine expedition. however, will not
limited to this one object, as 9TH
scientific work will be undertake
- N pursuing lines previously laid
uosn by Macmillan and others in
elr Polar experiences of many
sas. Extensive mapping and pho
sIaphing work will be done.
Efforts will be made to explore the
.arient Morse ruins in Labrador and
1Sontinued on Page 2Col. 81
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-04-06
u. S. Farmer Group
Back After Being
BuncOed in Bolivia

New York, April 5.-A futile colo
nization enterprise in q malaria
stricken section Of Bolivia was re-
counted today by the heads Of two
American families, who told OF prt-
vations and hardships suffered In .
desolate, untillable area. They said
they escaped with their lives only
through the charity of sympathetic
Americans.
william c. Pittner Of Colgate, Okla.
with his wife and three children. ana
Robert Gallentine of Apache, Okla,
with his wife and seven children, re-
turned to New York on the liner Vol
taire from Buenos Aires to tell OF their
quest for the new Ell Dorado.
The families left Oklahoma, Mr..
Gallentine said, to Join the COLOMBIA
ton scheme promoted by an American
who gave promise of large farming
tracts to be had cheap and to be cul-
tivated for gain. When they arrived.
he declared, in the Grand Chacos dis
trict in southeastern Bolivia, they
were not assigned the fertile acreage
for which they had contracted.
The colony, consisting Of IS persons
in II families, essayed to clear the
land with no facilities for removing
stumps and rocks, said Mr.. Pittner.
1.-THE three crops, we planted did not
amount to much" he added.
Mr.. Gallentine said he believed the
promoter of the colonization must
have made a substantial profit from
his dealings. I'VE understand that
he got the land for 10 cents an acre
in Bolivian money" he added. land
sold it to us for 60 cents an acre in
American money. We hadn't any farm
implements to work with and had to
pay $50 for plows that were worth no
more than 81 and were Of type used
25 years ago."
Cable dispatches reaching here IN
the past few months from South
American countries have said that
American officials there have advised
Washington to put a stop to coloniza-
ton enterprises until an investigation
has been made. The dispatches said
many people had lost large sums OF
money by enlisting in support Of such
schemes.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-04-06
Heavy Quakes in
Mexican States

Mexico City, Apr. 5-Advices re-
ceiyed here from the city of Duango
say the refugees from the towns or
Guadalupe, Victoria and Canutlllo'
located in the district surrounding
Chalcihuits report that earthquake
shocks which have been prevalent
for several days are continuing
Property damage is declared to be
heavy.
No loss of life has been reported.
Friday night was marked by slX
heavy tremors.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-04-06
Firebug Believed
To Have Set Blaze
In Brunswick House
lSnecial tn kennehec LournaN

Especial to kennebec Journal)
Brunswick, Apr. 5-Five minutes
after the all out sounded for the end
of the 100000 fire which gutted the
Dunlap building last night Box 2l
sounded for an incendiary blaze
which destroyed the residence of
William A. Maxwell on Water street
and threatened neighboring resi-
dences. Mr.. Maxwell who is a vet
Gran Of the world war. in which he
was gassed, with his wife left yes
terday for short visit in Massa-
chusetts. Fire was raging in four of
the five rooms in the home when the
blaze was discovered. The loss of
$1,000 is partially covered by insur-
ance,
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-04-06
General Forecast

The southern disturbance has
continued to move east-southeaSt-
ward to northeastern Florida. This
disturbance has moved in almost a
straight line from the northern Cali
fornia coast TO Florida during the
past six days. 1t has been attended
by rains within the last "a hours in
the south Atlantic and east gulf
states and a tornado occurred four
miles north of Miami early Sunday
afternoon.
Another disturbance is centered
east of New Foundland. High pres
sure prevails over the eastern half
of the country, except the south At
lantic states.
The temperature was lower Sun
day in the Atlantic states.
Fair weather is indicated for Mon
day and Tuesday almost generally
over the states east of the Missis-
sippi River. The temperature will
rise almost generally in the WASH
ington forecast district on Tuesday.
Winds north of Sandy Hook:
Moderate to fresh north and north
east and weather fair Monday.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-04-06
Seek Team Work
Between Industry
And Agriculture

Washington. April "a conference
looking to better understanding be-
tween industry and agriculture' to be
attended by representatives of agri-
culture and manufacturers orsaniza-
tions from New England. middle east
ern and middle western states will he
held at Cleveland April 81. during the
2Sth annual convention of the National
Metal Trades Association.
The conference, plans for which
were announced here tonight, is the
third of series arranged by the as
Sociation.
The National Grange. the American
Farm Bureau Federation, the National
Metal Trades Association, the Nation-
al Founders Association, the Nations
al Association of Manufacturers and
number of state farm bureaus and
oranges have been invited to send rep
resentativcs.