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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-16
Mrs. Cunningham
Admits Poisoned
; of Her Children
GOVERNOR MAIN
SPEAKER At STATE
PUBLICITY MEETING

Portland, Apr. 15-"Maine will
grow as all our people shall unite"
Governor Brewster said. speaking at
the Maine publicity banquet this
evening.
A national authority on COM
munity development visited Maine a
short time ago and was asked as to
how our industrial and agricultural
development might be stimulated
and our permanent population grow.
He replied instantly and concisely:
by making your present citizens
happy and prosperous"
This epitomizes the philosophy be-
hind the BUY Maine Products"
movement. This will keep Maine
men and Maine money in Maine.
State of Maine Pledge week begin
ring next Sunday on Patriots Day
will put it all into action for the
growing season that is ahead.
Maine will grow as all our people
shall unite. Our scenery and our
climate is nationally known. Visi-
tors will become investors in our
land and our natural resources as
California and Florida have abund-
| antly shown.
Twelve to twenty billion feet of
hard wood standing in the forests of
Maine, with an annual growth of
over two hundred and fifty million
feet, afford a resource the surface
of whose possibilities have not, as
yet, been scratched. The Great
Lakes and Appalachian region Of
fer no possibilities for expansion in
the great Industries based upon this
/ yr,;% -
must surely increase. An expert in
| come to Maine this summer and be-
gin on these developments in the
central and northwestern sections
| of Maine. President Coolidge has
sounded already a note of alarm at
| the lumber famine that impends and
this means that the lumber in
dustries must inevitably turn to
Maine.
Our recreational delights are the
bargains with which we shall at
tract people to the opportunities to
be found upon the community
counters scattered throughout the
State of Maine
The inauguration Of a passenger
| service by the Eastern Steamship
Company between New York and
Portland is one Of the most sig
nificant indications of the develop
ments that are at hand. Every pas
senger upon these steamers is a
! prospective customer for the rail-
| roads of the State of Maine. The
resumption of steamer service for the
coast towns between Portland and
PASSPORT will quicken the life blood
of commerce again in their veins
and afford to ourselves and our
visitors one Of the rarest boat trips
to be found in the whole wide world.
Twenty five hundred miles of
Names rock bound, many-h arbored
sea coast Is a unique attraction
either in this country or abroad.
The ready access to autos and rail-
roads at many points along the coast
offers opportunities for interchange
of traffic of mutual advantage to
everyone concerned.
1t now behooves the people of
Maine 10 exploit the attractions Of a
boat trip along our coast with a re-
turn through the interior by the
railroads that serve our State. 1t is
most gratifying to be able to tell
You that the Conference of Cover
Continued on Page 10-coI. 81
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-16
Statesman Beaten Five Years
Ago To Be Minister of Fin
ance - Premier PainIeve
Promises Complete Cabinet
This Afternoon - Senate
Votes to Raise Legal Limit
Circulation to 45,00O,000,O0O
Francs

Paris, Apr. Is (By A .P.)-Joseph
CaillauXs acceptance of the post of
minister of finance in the cabinet
now being formed by Paul Painleve,
overshadowed all other develop
ments In Frances political crisis to-
day. The return to power at the
head of one of the most important
ministries of the man who five years
ago was regarded as politically dead
for all time has caused varied emo
tons in the French political world
accustomed as it is to the spectacu-
lar coups and dramatic ups and
downs OF it's statesmen.
M. Painleve, upon whom devolves
the task of the premiership from
which Edouard Herriot was deposed
called on President Domergue at
IL o'clock tonight and informed him
that negotiations for the construc-
ton of a cabinet were progressing
as normally as could be expected and
that he would be in position to
present his ministry to the president
late tomorrow afternoon.
The ministerial declaration will be
read in the chamber on Friday and
a vote of confidence demanded. M.
Painleve will himself take the office
of foreign affairs, but beyond the
appointment Of NJ. CaillauX the 9TH
err cabinet posts have not yet been
announced.
Throughout the day the coming of
CaillauX had thrown all other cabi-
net talk into the background. There
70 nt h =
err he had been, or was going to be,
than whether M. BRAND would take
the foreign office. When NJ. Pain
leve telephoned to him at Manners
this morning. NJ. Caillaux said he
would be glad to come but his auto
mobile was out of order; whereupon
NJ. Painleve sent one of the automo-
biles attached to the presidency OF
the chamber to fetch him.
A bill authorizing the Bank OF
France to raise the legal limit OF
circulation from 41,000,000,000 to
as. OO0, 100000 francs and advances to
the state of 26,000,000,000 francs,
was passed by the chamber after
slight notifications by a vote of 325
to 20. The senate met in special
session tonight and also ratified the
bill, 1913 to 5. About 100 members
of the senate opposition abstained
from voting.
M. De Monte. sponsor for the bill
said that when the Bank OF France
draws up it's weekly statement to-
morrow with full authority from
parliament, the figures of paper cir
culation would be between $4,000
OOO, 900 and $4,000, 100000 francs.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-16
Suspension Until
July l, Penalty for
Portland Policemen

Portland, Me, Apr. 15.-Captain
Hugh F. McDonough and Inspector
Edward T. Silver Of the Portland
police department, were suspended
without pay for a period ending
July 1 by the civil service commits
sion tonight for their share in the
release from custody of March 30
of Thomas c. Murchison, arrested on
a drunken driving charge. The two
officials were temporarily suspended
on April l, pending a hearing, after
charges had been preferred against
them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-16
Sugar Planter
To Be Named as
Cuban Envoy Here

Washington, Apr. 15.-Rafael
Sanchez Aballi will be the next Gu
ban ambassador to Washington. it
was announced tonight. to succeed
Don Cosme de la Torriente, who re-
Gently resigned.
Mr.. Aballi is in Washington with
the suite of President-elect Gerardo
Machada of Cuba, who arrived to-
day for visit to the American cap
itol. AS far as is known here, Mr..
Aballi, who is n sugar planter, has
had no previous diplomatic expert
ence.
1t was said at the state depart
ment tonight that though Mr.. Abal-
lis name had been mentioned I'M
officially as possibility for the
Washington post, no official steps
looking to his appointment had been
made by the Cuban government.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-16
Brunswick C. of C.
To Discuss Building
Paper Box Factory

Especial TO Kennebec JOurnaD
Brunswick, April 15.-Alonzo B.
Holmes, secretary of the Brunswick
Chamber Of Commerce, tonight issued
a call for public mass meeting to be
held in the court room next Tuesday
evening to discuss the problem of
building a factory for the Baxter Pa
per Box Co, which was burned in a
fire which destroyed the Dunlap block
on April 4. The company has made
a proposition to the mercantile COM
mittee of the Chamber of Commerce
which is unanimous in recommending
that the merchants of the town raise
sufficient funds to build the factory.
The company has a payroll of about
100000 year.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-16
Record Number
Arraigned in U. S.
Court at Portland

Portland, Me. Apr. 15.-All
records for the number of arraign-
ments before the United States dis
trict court of Maine in any single
day were broken today when Al
persons indicted by the grand jury
appeared before Judge John A. Pc
tiers to plead. A total of % men
were sent to Androscoggin, Knox
and Cumberland county jails for pc
RODS of from five to eight months;
four cases We're disposed of by pay
ment of fines ranging from S25 to
$3.50; and 13 respondents, including
two women, entered pleas of not
guilty to indictments.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-16
Eastern Steamship
Lines to Resume
POrtland-N. Y. Route

Portland, Me-, Apr. 15.-After n
lapse of more than seven years, the
Eastern Steamship Lines. Inc, will
resume direct passenger steamship
service between Portland and New
York, twice weekly beginning about
June 10, it was announced here to-
day. The tri-weekly freight service,
now in operation, will continue.
Service between Portland and East
port and intermediate points also
will be resumed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-16
Lightning Strikes
Barn at Brunswick
(enecial TO Kennebec Journal

Especial to Kennebec Journa)
Brunswick, April 16.-During a
heavy thunder shower which passed
aver Brunswick late this afternoon a
pig on the farm of Ernest Marstellar
on the Durham road, was killed by
lightning. The bolt struck lightning
rod on the barn and the pig was in a
pen beneath the barn. This is the sec
ond time this barn has been struck
by lightning.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-16
Democratic Whip
Goes Under Knife

Washington. Apr. 15.-stepresen-
tative William A. OldfielS of Ar
kansas. chairman of the Democratic
congressional committee and the
party's whip in the house, was OPP
Grated on late today for acute APP
pendicitis His condition tonight
was described as satisfactory"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-16
Macmillan Gets
Danish Permission

!, Vopenhagen, Denmark, Apr. 10
understood that the Danish
so'ernment three days ago granted
emission to the proposed Arctic
spedltion Of Donald B. Macmillan
ANA In Greenland.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-16
Volcano Active in
Lake Nicaragua

Managua, Nicaragua, Apr. 10
The eruption of the volcano One
tepe in Lake Nicaragua. is showering
ashes upon nearby agricultural dis
tricts and running the crops. Dis
charges of lava we're flowing from
the crater today.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-16
General Force asst

General Forecast
A disturbance has moved rapidly
northeastward from southern Men
igan to the lower st. Lawrence val
ley with rapidly increasing intensity
within the last "a hours ana IL mas
been attended by showers in the
north Atlantic states.
Pressure is relatively high from
eastern New Foundland southwest
ward to the Bahamas.
The temperature was considerably
above normal Wednesday in the At
lantic states.
Fair weather will prevail almost
generally Thursday and Friday IN
the Washington forecast district
Cooler weather will prevail Thurs
day in the Atlantic states.
Winds north of Sandy Hook:
Diminishing northwest and weather
fair Thursday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-16
Storm Damage $4,000
At VINEYARD Haven

Vineyard Haven, Mass. Apr. 10
lightning during a thunderstorm
today, caused fire which destroyed
the ice house of the Martha's Vine
ward Storage Company of Vineyard
Haven, together with 1000 tons of
ice in the building. The loss was
placed at $4,000.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-16

lewiston. Apr. 15-As a result OF
n. greatest round up Of alleged liq-
,,or yiolators staged since the Fed
.r,l prohibition law became effective
a have been arrested in Lewiston
and Auburn last night and this
morning were taken to Portland for
.r.ienment before U. S. Commits
sioner Gould.
Three sets of brothers and two
husbands and wives are included in
the list. Nine local taxi men are
.l,o among those corralled.
Eirht Of the taxi men were ar
,..tsd last evening while they were
.Ilsred to have been responding to
ordsrs to deliver the forbidden fluid.
me taxi men apprehended by the
FEDERAL agents, II. Jack and Henry
p weaver under the direction of
rseral enforcement chief, Seth
Nay. are Antonio Narcotic. Lewis
Ia; John J. Hawkins, Lewiston:
Ceorre Clark. lewiston; Israel
Winner. Auburn: Anatol Levesque,
Laviston; Fred Levesque, Lewiston;
d. Arsenoult, lewiston; Armand
fNonne. lewiston: Mr.. and Mrs.
EmIlien Beaulieu, Lewiston. were
also taken into custody by the Fed
al men last evening.
Early morning arrests include:
Jeesis D. Anderson, Joseph Emery.
Heuri L. WIseman, former boxing
rolhoter; Jerry Belmore, John Per-
roanlt Emil Lavadiere. Mrs. Clarire
psirief, Arthur Wildink. George w.
viking, Ernest w. Wilding, Ernest
Couture. Thomas O'Connor, John
oConnor. Wilfred -Bilodeau, all OF
lewiston.
Six taxicabs were seized when the
drivers reported with the goods" at
the places designated by the agents
Twenty Of those taken into custody
are reported to have been named in
secret indictments reported by the
Federal grand jury at Portland yes
terday.
The cleanup has resulted in the
three local jails being filled, the pris-
oue1 being distributed about de-
tention quarters at Lewiston. the
municipal Jail at Auburn and at the
Androscoggin county prison. Au-
burn.
Portland, Me-, Apr. 15-Nine OF
the more than score of persons ar
rested in Lewiston and Auburn last
night and today for alleged violations
Of the Federal liquor law. were ar
aimed today before Commissioner
George F. Gould. Israel Winner was
discharged after a hearing. A charge
against Mrs. Emile Beaulieu was
dropped. The others were held under
$50 bail to await the court action.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-16
c;v Taxicab S Also
Seized in TwO-Day
Drive Prohibition
Agents in Twin
Cities

r;rht Taxicab Drivers Arrest
4 When They Were Alleg-
4 10 Have Been Responding
IA Orders to Deliver Booze
Nine Arraigned in Federal
court at Portland-Others
Held in $500 Bail to Await
Court Action
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-16
THE WEATHER
FAiR

New England and eastern Ne"
York: Fair Thursday and FRIDAY
continued cool.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-16
Boston Forecas

Boston Forecast
Thursday fair and slightly cooler !:
Friday fair; diminishing northwest
winds.
Evening star., 1925-07-04
PLUNGE In ITALIAN
LIRA is NOW CHECKED
Question Whether Lively Rebound
Is Permanent Is Mere
Conjecture.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ROME, July 4.-The downward
plunge of the Italian Ira on the ex-
hange market halted yesterday with
such suddennesS as to produce a
sharp rebound of nearly two lire to
the dollar as compared with Fridays
quotation.
While the Ira sagged Thursday to
less than 20 to the dollar it improved
throughout yesterdays trading and
closed at 28.35, but during after-bourse
activity 1t strengthened to slightly
over 27. Whether this reaction is
merely temporary and due speculative
maneuvers, or whether it really
means a turning point in Italy's
battle of the lira," is purely a matter
of conjecture.
Financial leaders, however, seem to
sense various elements in the situa-
ton tending to indicate that the Ira
is likely at least to hold its ground
for the time being.
Among these is the report that the
government at Thursdays cabinet
meeting decided to throw at least
large slice of it's $50 0,0O0, 900 Morgan
credits upon the market believing 1t
an opportune moment to check the
drop of the lira and If successful to
realize sufficient profit to retire for
the present this potential national
obligation.
1t is generally realized, however
that nothing fundamentally altering
Italy's status. either politically. or
economically, has occurred.
Evening star., 1925-07-04
EVERYMAN'S
INVESTMENTS
BY GEORGE T. HUGHES.
Opportunities for the Wise.

Many ultraconservative investors
insist on restricting their holdings to
securities legal for savings banks and
trust funds. For this purpose the
New York State law is generally taken
as a standard, and probably wisely
so.
1t is a mistake, however, for one
tion to overlook possibilities outside
the class which savings banks may
buy even though the aim is the high
est degree of safety. The New York
STATE law in some respects Is too rigid.
1t was drawn up at a time when rail-
road bonds and State and municipal
Obligations were considered the only
secure Investments. 1t does not accept
as legal high-grade utility bonds, nor
does 1t admit railroad equipment GER
tif1cates. Now there are many utility
issues which are just as safe as the
railroad bonds legal under the New
York State law, and the result is that
the legal railroad bond demands an
artificfally high price simply because
the savings bank must have and can
not buy the utility.
The individual investor, provided he
has the right counsel, is able to take
advantage OF this price discrepancy
without in the slightest diminishing
the average degree of security. AS for
the railroad equipment certificates, it
is doubtful II any other corporate Sc
curity has as good a record. Defaults
are almost entirely unknown. To a
less degree there are similar opportuni-
ties among industrial bonds, but here
greater care must be used in making
selections.
bankers recognize the changed con-
dltions which have put the best of
utility bonds and of railroad equip
ments in the most conservative ella IS
or investments, and a movement is on
to amend the New York State law ac-
cordingly. There is no reason, how
ever, why the ordinary investor should
wait for legislators to be convinced on
subject on which most OF them are
very tll-informed
Copyright 1925.)
Evening star., 1925-07-04
ACCUMULATION NOTED
IN READING COMMON

NEW YORK. July 4 GPl.-Renewed
buying Of Reading common has ap-
peared in the stock market, Large
quantities have been accumulated
around So In April the stock was
lifted out of rut around Y TO a high
of 90 in May. Interests that have
been buying the common stock are
reported 10 hold now about 25O,0OO
shares of the 100000 outstanding
Aside from it's strategic posl,.9n in
any consolidation the company has
developed substantial earning ca
pacity.
Evening star., 1925-07-04
GOOD TRADE NEWS HELPS
LIFT STOCK MARKET

NEW YORK. July LP.-With
cecord-breaking July interest and divi-
dent payments as a large potential
source of new buying, car loadings
maintained at close to record levels,
the announcement that crude oil pro-
duction had declined for the fourth
successive week and a large quota of
other favorable trade news, operators
on the long side found plenty of am
munition for their operations during
the week. Short selling on an eX-
tensive scale was discouraged by the
apparent inability of bear traders to
dislodge much long stock.
Evening star., 1925-07-04
GOVERNMENT REPORT
STARTLES COTTON MEN

NEW YORK, July Op.-The big
factor of the week in the cotton mar
ket was the Governments crop report
of Thursday. This proved to be a
surprise to local trades, whose ideas
OF probable end-June yield indication
mad been formulated by reports OF
private authorities.
The Government report placing the
acreage under cultivation at 464A8-
600. the condition at 75.9, and the
indicated yield at 1888, 900 bales,
therefore, was decidedly better than
anticipated.
October contracts, which had sold
up to 24.14 on Thursday morning
broke to 22.93 before the close of the
day. and yesterday sold off to 22.SI,
making a decline of 1873 points under
the selling inspired by the revival of
the larger crop ideas. The volume of
business tapered off.
Evening star., 1925-07-04
Live Wire Locates Ore.

An Associated Press dispatch from
Stockholm says:
BY their unique electrical prospect
ing methods Swedish mining engineers
have located for the government valu-
able ore fields in the northern part of
the country. The newly discovered
deposits contain copper. arsenic, zinc
and even gold in small quantities
These successful methods of location
are based on the greater conductivity
or beds of ore than Of the surrounding
rock. At one point a deposit of copper
pyrite was located 80 feet down under
a sandy plain nearly miles from the
nearest ore-containing powders. At
another place mother lode contain
ing Z per cent of copper was found
under frozen lake, below 80 feet of
water and 10 feet of mud. The Lund-
berg Nathorst method utilizes electri-
cally charged wires laid in shallow
trenches. Through a telephone the
prospectors literally listen out" the
presence Of ore.
Evening star., 1925-07-04
BY STUART p. WEST.
speciaI pispatch 10 The Star.

special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, July 4-In the Sc
curity markets of the last week specu.
lation has played a larger part than
investment. Still, institutions have
been putting their money into United
States Government bonds in such vol
ume as to bring about for some of
them the highest prices ever reached.
The rise in Government issues has
not been communicated to other in
Vestments. but these have held strong
and stocks of the purely investment
class have been gradually forced up,
many of them to the highest of the
year and the highest in recent years.
New Investments Sought.
Therefore the Importance of the in.
Nestment factor in the current situa-
ton is not to be ignored. Undoubt-
edly. with Government bonds on a 3h
per cent basis, with corporate bonds
OF the savings bank class returning
Az per cent, with the best of the in
duStrial preferred stocks yielding less
than 6 per cent, there are a lot of in
Vestors who, for the sake of getting
higher return, have become less par
ucular about what they go into. They
are not buying highly speculative
stocks. But they are more willing to
put their money into what may be de-
scribed as semi-speculative shares,
those of the sort which have a good
dividend record but which. unlike
purely investment issues, are sensi-
tive to changes in outside business
conditions.
Stock Market Too High.
Thus the present stock market, al
though mainly in speculative hands,
has certain investment background
which it has not had on occasions in
the past. The price level is too high.
1t is fully Z points on the average
above 'wSGsseeR it was six months ago.
This. along with the fact that a very
large number of stocks are quoted at
record figures, is a matter of concern
to conservative observers.
They think the market has entered
the danger zone, although they are
willing to admit that there are no i'm
mediate indications of a let-up in spec
ulative operations for the rise or of
plans on similar lines for the future
Wheat Crop Outlook Favorable.
At the beginning of July it is too
early to talk with confidence about
the crops. All that can be said is
that the outlook in the American and
Canadian Northwest is exceptionally
favorable for the wheat crop, that in
creased yield in this section, plus an
addition now estimated at close to
100, 900, 900 bushels to the principal Eu-
ropean harveSts, promises to offset the
212 ,000, ,000-buShel decline in the Amer
lean Winter yield. The grain trade
has recognized this in the decline in
Evening star., 1925-07-04
virginia., Railway
Claims Engine Is
Largest in World

The worlds biggest and most
powerful locomotive, an electric
giant 152 feet long, weighing over
a million pounds and having a
rating of 1925 horsepower, has
recently been completed as a part
of the electrification program be-
ing carried out by the Virginian
Railway.
Approximately $4,000 pounds of
copper and "a 1000 pounds of brass
are contained in this powerful cleo
trio engine, according to the West
inghouse Electric & Manufactur-
ing Co. The locomotive is the first
of IL ordered by the Virginian
Railway.
One feature of this new type cleo
trio locomotive is its ability to re-
generate power while taking heavy
trains down steep grades and to
turn the power back into the trans
mission line.
1t was necessary to build the
''Virginian" in three units, latter
ward permanently connected, so
that the great length could sue.
cessfully negotiate curves and
Otherwise be Syntrolled efficiently.