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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-12
Admit Renewal I ak With
France on Debt Payment
WORLD COURT OK.
IF FREED OF LEAGUE
STIGMA, VIEW BORAH

Boston, May 1.-THE World
Court should be entirely divorced
from the league of nations lin the
interests of peace, and of law and
order in international affairs" SEN
ator Borah, of Idaho, chairman of
the senate foreign relations commit
tee, declared tonight in an address
to the Unitarian laymen's league. He
reiterated that his objection to the
tribunal as now constituted related
wholly to it's domination by the
league.
II have no objection to it because
the league created it," Senator
Borah said. Il do not care about the
fact that the league created it if the
league will give it independence. 1t
Is the court as it is to function and
not it's parentage that 1 am interest
ed in.
THE fundamental objection to
this court" continued, lis the right
or authority which the league is
given to call upon the court for adj
vice or counsel and to treat it in
large measure as a department of
justice of the league"
Further evidence of the special in
fluence welded by the league upon
the court, Senator Borah held, was
found in the requirement. that when
a question was presented from the
league, the court must meet with
Continued on Page 10-Col. 81
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-12
Rum Rendezvous
Near Summer Home
President Coolidge

Swampscott, Mass. May ll.-(APl
Testimony that the rendezvous OF
Swampscott's rum-running gang was
located within zoo yards of White
Court, the prepared summer White
House of President Coolidge, was
given today by John H. Fenton OF
LYNN before the Swampscott board OF
selectmen which is conducting a hear
ing on charges that Police CHER VIII
liam l.. Quinn of this town was IN
yolved in rum-running activities mere.
Chief Quinn recently was notneu
that his removal from office was con-
templated because of the charges. MIS-.
Gertrude l.. Hanna, former housekeep-
err for Harry L. Brown of Lynn, al
legged bootlegger, testified that Brown
paid Chief Quinn and Frank Prldoux'
former patrolman, 500 each Tor 1hsur-
ing the safe landing of liquor cargo.
Mrs. Grace Seward, a friend of Mrs.
Hanna, corroborated her testimony
here today, as did several other wit
nesses.
Fenton, who admitted that he was
one of the rum runners, caused a sem
sation when he testified today that he
had helped unload liquor at Littles
Point here and store it in various
places about the so-called Johnson es-
tate, which is 200 yards from the sum
mef White House and across the road
from Red Gables, summer home OF
frank W. Stearns.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-12
Gov. Brewster Talks
On Improving
Highways at Auburn
Especial to Kennebec Journal

Especial 10 henneDec JOurnal)
Auburn, May n.-Gov. Brewster's
speech here today in connection
with the Home Beautiful Exhibit
dealt with the campaign to improve
the conditions along the highways
of the State. Excerpts from his ad-
dress follow:
1T is very gratifying to note the
the results of the campaign to i'm
prove conditions along the high
at least fifty per cent better than
they were a year ago. The high
way police are cooperating splendid
ly in preventing the erection of any
more signs within the highway and
in seeing to the removal of those
that have already been put up. Many
private land owners are also volun-
tarily removing sign boards upon
their land.
1T is noticeable that thought is
being given in many places to the
effect of bushes and trees upon the
attractiveness of our roads. Hav-
ing eliminated the DETACHMENT that
man has brought to nature we shall
next have an opportunity to help re-
store the natural beauties of our
country by. planting and preserving
the shrubs and flowers and trees that
mean so much and by pledging our
selves to prevent DETACHMENT either
by sign-boards or by lunch-boxes.
"A California friend riding
through our country this past week
inquired how long our scenery would
be as beautiful as it is now and was
somewhat surprised to learn that we
had many months of constantly in
creasing attractiveness ahead"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-12
bare PLOT GROUP
to- STEAL UNDER
CLOUDS OF STEAM

Boston, May 11-Under cover of
clouds of steam purposely released
from locomotive in the South Sta
ton here, between $4,000 to $4,000
worth Of American Railway Express
Company shipments have been stolen
by a group of railway employees in
the last three months, it became
known tonight. The thefts were re-
vealed by the arrest of three rail-
way employees tonight. The police
say that eight more men, including
an engineer, will be taken into Gus
tody tomorrow in connection with
the looting.
The police said that the thefts
were made from baggage trucks on
the station platform The trucks to
be looted were drawn along the plat
form, it was said, and as they reach
ed a point opposite a certain loco
motive the engineer allowed clouds
of steam to escape from the cylin-
ders. Under cover of this screen,
packages containing furs and other
valuable clothing were removed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-12
Coolidge Considering
Merging of Defense
And ArmiStice Day

Washington, May IL (AP)-War
department plans for establishment
of Defense Day as a permanent year.
ly event to be held on Armistice Day,
Nov. II, are in President Coolidge's
hands, awaiting his action. Acting
Secretary Davis was among the
Presidents callers today. No an
nouncement was made as to the pur-
pose of his visit either at the White
House or at the war department but
there is reason to believe that he
laid before Mr.. Coolidge the project
worked out by the general staff as a.
result of it's study of results of
first defense test, September IL, 1924.
Aside from the fact that the plan
is based on holding the nation wide
muster of all three branches of the
army of the United States-the reg
ulars, national guard and organized
reserves-on Armistice Day as suit
able both for practical reasons and
because of the patriotic significance
of that day, nothing is known of the
details of the staff project except
that it does not involve any addi-
tional expense for the federal gov
eminent. AS was the case in the first
test, the contributions to the annual
stock taking made by the state and
city officials and reserve officers and
others is to be entirely voluntary.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-12
GREAT RECEPTION
GIVEN HINDENbuRC
EVE INAUGURATION

Berlin, May II (AP)-Speeding
through straight-away five mile
lane crowded with dense rows of
surging. jubilant humanity, Field
Marshal Paul Won Hindenburg, presi-
dent-elect Of Germany, late this aft
ernoon reached the chancellor's pail
ace, where he will be a guest for a
single night, pending his formal in
duction into Office at noon tomorrow.
An uneventful train ride Of four
hours carried the presidential party
to the edge of Berlin shortly before 6
o'clock this evening, and in less than
ten minutes Germany's new soldier
president, who Graves seclusion,
found himself engulfed in a vortex
of frenzied men, women and chill
dren.
Even the enthusiasm of Mobiliza-
ton Day in August, 1914, did not
approximate in volume the popular
acclaim which today poured into the
path of the nations new executive.
The old colors We're there in pro-
fusion as were thousands of gaily
bespangled uniforms and other gala
apparel, which went into seclusion
with the revolution of 1918.
Through it all, Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg sat rigidly beside Chan
cellor Luther, his face immobile and
marked by pallor, while his right
hand automatically touched the rim
of his top hat as he responded to the
vociferous greetings to his right and
left.
Won Hindenburg wore a black
overcoat unadorned with medals and
carried a. yellow cane. He shook
hands with the welcoming dignitaries
art the station. after which he bowed
to the assembled. reporters.
AS the party got under way a fleet
of nine airplanes rose from the field
back of the station and acted as an
escort along the way to Wilhelm
strasse. They showered flowers on
the presidential motor and frequent
ly dipped so low as to brighten the
crowds straining their necks to get a
glimpse of the field marshal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-12
French and Native
Moroccan Troops
Prepare for Rimans

d Paris May 11.-(AP)-Native Mo-
roccan troops under the command of
French officers participated success
fully today in operations establishing
4 solid barrier along the front where
Abd-el-Krim's Riffian forces are con-
centrated. Ofiicial reports say the
French forces advanced to their OBJ
jective point without an engagement,
which Is interpreted as meaning that
they we're able with their knowledge
Of the country and their familiarity
with the style of fighting employed by
their adversaries to accomplish their
task with minimum of difficulty.
Hardy Moroccan horsemen. who are
familiar with mountain skirmishing,
SeFtused on the left Of the French
line where Indications were observed
~ French air scouts that the Riffians
- outnank the French column: In the
center Of the front the Riffs put up
stout opposition to Colonel Freyden-
burgs advancing column which was
moving to supply the surrounded out
past Of Bah Quender. The official re-
port omits to say whether the outpost
vas recovered. but the column got
hear enough to supply food and water
70 the besieged garrison.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-12
Alaskan Musher
Says Got Raw
Deal in Hollywood

Los Angeles, May 11-Gunnar
Kasson, Northland musher who
came into the limelight and a movie
contract through his sensational
dash to Nome with anti-diphtheria
serum, has found little fame and no
fortune since coming here with
BALTIC and the rest of his dogs, he
related in complaint filed with the
state labor department here today.
Kasson alleged he was lured to
Los Angeles by Sol Lessor, operator
of string of motion picture theat-
res, with an offer of 5000 week for
him and his dogs, the contract to run
10 weeks. So far, he says, he has
received but $677.99 and finds him.
self without even transportation
money back to Alaska, let alone dog
biscuit for BALTIC.
A hearing has been called for Fri
day, at which Lesser will be asked to
explain. Meanwhile at his Los An
geles office the information was given
out that 'Kasson simply pulled out
and left us fiat after four weeks
work"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-12
AZ. RELEASED ON
BAIL IN S0MERv|LLE
LIQUOR ROUNDUP

Cambridge, Mass, May 11.-(AP)-
Developments less spectacular than the
raids of Saturday night but unparal-
1eled in Middlesex county court histo-
ry today followed the beginning of the
prohibition law enforcement drive of
the authorities which was initiated
with the arrest of As persons charged
with liquor law infractions. Forty
two of the prisoners taken in the half
hundred simultaneous raids of the
"Brickbottom" district of Somerville,
pleaded not guilty to indictments
charging state prohibition law viola
lions of three to IL counts each. Mean
Continued on Page 3-CoI. 81
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-12
nyAgents Get 100000
Lot Whiskeyin New York
t,,thetic Rye and Distilling
e pl.nt Uncovered on Lower
vest Side = Will Lead to
Higher Ups in Bootlegging
came-Rum Row Blockade
continues Effective

80 York. May II (AP)-Vic-
...;.s on land and sea were recorded
8 he government dry forces today.
n. land victory was one of the
....t important government dry
..,rs in months. involving the dis
eoyery Of whiskey distilling plant
q the lower West side and the
..,,,re Of $500, 900 worth of synthetic
lye Hhiskey.
Il ga, the victory consisted in the
,,ockade Of Rum Row under the
Continued success Of the dry navy's
rsost aificult conditions. Today, the
..renth day Of the blockade, was one
4 dense, swirling fog. 1t was just
this Kind Of weather the dry navy
commanders feared most, as it would
hermit the rum runners their best
opportunity of running the block
ede But the government men said
thai. 50 far as thew knew, not a bit
a. liauor had trickled into the coun-
t,v from Rum Row.
Two new ships, a steamer and a
schooner, joined the beleaguered
rum boats during the night, the dry
sailors reported.
The "distillery' raid will lead to
fhe arrest of some important men in
The lind bootleg industry, the gov
ernment agents said. Names of a
number of higher ups" had been
obtained by the raiders, who found
the plant and its $4,000 worth of re-
distillng machinery in full opera
finn.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-12
Dismiss Indictments
Against FallOn in
Court at ROckland

Rockland, Me-, May 1.-Two fed
eraI indictments naming William j.
Fallon, criminal lawyer, and others,
were dismissed today by order Of
United States District Attorney En-
DRY R. Buckner.
The first, filed in Augusta 1923,
charged Fallon, William F. MCGEE,
his former client, Eugene F., Niece,
his law partner, and Edward M.
Fuller, former broker, with conceal
ing from trustees in bankruptcy of
E. M. Fuller & CO., certain papers
and cancelled checks. Mr.. Buckner
said there was not sufficient evidence
to obtain a conviction.
The second indictment had charg-
ed Fallon and Charles w. Rendigs
with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
Mr.. Buckner said that this action,
founded on the alleged giving of a
bride by Fallon to Rendigs, was
precisely the same charge on which
Fallon was acquitted by a jury in
federal court last August.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-12

Washington, May 11.-(AP)-
James NJ. Beck Of Philadelphia wound
UP four years service as solicitor gen.
eral today at his favorite arguing sta
ton in the supreme court. He will
sail next Saturday for Europe
Chief Justice Taft expressed the re-
greet of the court at the retirement of
Mr.. Beck, who has conducted or super
vised arguments for the government in
approximately 1000 cases. He also
was the first American lawyer to APP
pear before the privy council, Eng
lands highest court, where land suit
brought by the United States in the
Canadian courts had been taken on APP
peal. Mr.. Beck's term as solicitor gen.
eral covered a period when the gov
ernments litigation was at it's height,
both in volume and Importance, due to
the variety of cases that arose in con-
nection with war liquidations and to
the many questions raised by new
amendments to the constitution.
OF the hundreds of cases which he
conducted, the department of justice
said in a statement tonight, the gov
ernments contention prevailed in IS
per cent. Mr.. Beck personally argued
"a of the more difficult cases. OF these
IS have been decided, the government
winning "a per cent. of them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-12
Father of Pitcher
Way Kidnapped,
Beaten by UnknOWns

New York, May 1.-THE New
York World will say tomorrow that
Benjamin II. Way, of Laconia, N.
H., aged father of Nelson (Pie) Way,
former Yale and Giant pitcher, an
nounced tonight that he was Kid
mapped from the heart of Sanford,
Fla, less than month ago, taken
into the woods and dashed into I'M
consciousness by n gang of un1dentl-
fed masked men. His assallants
took him back into Sanford after
making threats to throw him into
the St. John river.
The welts on Mr.. Ways body were
examined, he said, by Charles Evans
Hughes, Jr., Allen S. Hubbard ana
Walter II. Carter, former Grants
pitcher. Mr.. Carter writer to f. +.
Forster, president of the First Ma
tional Bank at Sanford, to complain
of the alleged manhandllng given
Mr.. Way in the town.
Mr.. Forster in his reply condemn
cd "the outrage" but said that Mr..
Way must have been equally guilty
TO cause men to commit such an act"
"You have given me the first case
where a northern man has ever been
mistreated in Sanford" the letter
read in part. -,
Mr.. Way said, the World will say
that the attack followed theft of
letter he had written to his son Mel
son warning him against Florida
celery on the grounds that he believ-
ed sprays used on the celery were
harmful. Mr.. Way himself his in
troiuced new spray for celery.
In describing the attack Mr.. Way,
who is IA years old, said that he
was assaulted by four men in the
center of the town who forced him
into an automobile after telling him
that if the letter which had been
stolen from him had reached New
York it would have ruined their
business. Mr.. Way is an insurance
man in Laconia.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-12
General Forecast

The disturbance that was over
Quebec Sunday night has advanced
to the Gulf of st. Lawrence with
trough extending southwestward
through the Atlantic seaboard. Pres
sure is high in the region of Bcr-
muda.
During the last "a hours showers
have occurred in the Atlantic states.
Temperatures have fallen over the
Atlantic states while they have risen
decidedly over the northern Rocky
Mountain region, the northern plains
states and the upper Mississippi
valley.
The outlook is for showers on
Tuesday in the South Atlantic states
and along the east Gulf coast and for
showers on Wednesday in portions of
the south Atlantic states. Elsewhere
east of the Mississippi river the
weather will be fair. Temperatures
will rise Tuesday in the interior of
the middle Atlantic states and on
Wednesday in the New England
states.
Winds north of Sandy Hook
Fresh to strong southwest and west
and weather partly overcast with
showers Tuesday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-12
Yale Professor
Lecturer BOwdOin
Inst. of Literature

Brunswick, May 11-Henry Seidel
Candy, professor of English Litera-
ture at Yale, active as a literary
critic, and editor of the Saturday
Review of Literature, was the lee
turer in the Bowdoin College Insti-
tute of Modern Literature this eve
ming, taking as his subject, "Natha-
iel Hawthorne" Prof. w. B. Mitch
ell introduced the speaker, who said
in part:
Hawthorne himself was a pessi-
mist but unlike Edwards and the
Mathers he was primarily an artist.
He was not concerned with the phil
osophy of evil and indeed there are
10 new ideas in his books and no
solution of human problems. Inso-
far as he was a thinker at all, he
was a psychologist of morals. But
Lis real interest was not in the
cause of sin or it's cure. 1t was in
the effect upon human nature of the
struggle between good and evil. New
crtheless the obsession of his puritan
ancestors with questions of right and
wrong remained strong in him. He
kept their habit in mind, their con-
Germ with the moral nature, but
turned it to use which they would
have thought trivial 1t was not
the field of adultery which interested
him in The Scarlet Letter." but the
effect of concealed sin upon two very
human people. You can see in every
story he wrote the struggle to escape
from puritan brooding into a study
of human nature.
Hawthorne may go out of fashion,
but he cannot go out, because by the
very nature of his achievement it
remains unique, and only another
such spiritual ancestry and another
such man in another New England
could produce his like. He some
times wearies the modern reader. by
his intense seriousness but he is new
er small, never mean, never medio-
ere, and at his best a page of his
writing will make the most brilliant
modem prose seem trivial.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-12
5 Badly Burned
In N. Y. Tenement

New York, May 11.-Five persons
were badly burned, one fatally, when
still exploded tonight in Bronx
tenement house, crashing windows and
driving 40 families in panic-stricken
stampede to the street in the belief
that bomb had exploded.
Mrs. Jennie Barkis, 81, wife Of Is
rael Barkis, So, in whose apartment
police said the still exploded, was
burned so badly about the face, body
and arms that she died. Her husband,
who was thrown across the room by
the explosion and taken to hospital
for burns, was charged with violation
of the Volstead act. He is not expect
ed to live.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-12
State Department Close :
MOuthed But Believed Pres
sure Being Brought to Bear
for Settlement-COnflicting
Reports Heard in Paris-M.
Caillaux Favorable to Early
Funding to Help Exchange

Washington, May 11-(AP)-De-
velopments during the day with re-
gard to the revival of informal con-
versations in Washington and Paris
as to debt settlement questions fail
ed to indicate that any concrete plan
of settlement had as yet been ad-
vanced by either government as a
basis for discussion.
A guarded admission at the state
department that the informal con-
versations were in progress, coupled
with reiterated statement that the
Washington attitude against the di-
rect assignment of German repara-
Continued on Page 3-Col. y
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-12
Un0c.cupied Farm
Buildings Near
S. FreepOrt Burned
Especial to Kennebec JournaD

Especial 70 henneDec Journal
Freeport, May 1.-THE unoccupied
set of farm buildings at South
Freeport, owned by George p. Cof-
fin of Augusta was destroyed by fire
this afternoon. The cause of the fire
is not known. The loss is $1,000 with
$1,000 insurance. Mr.. Coffin had re-
Gently completed extensive repairs
on the property. Samuel Fl. Fits
had a large amount of pressed hay
i'll the barn.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-12
Secure Jury for
Trial MaderiOs in
Shaving of Carpenter

Dedham, Mass, May ia jury
was completed late today for the
trial of Celestino Madeiros, allas
Fred Bedard, of Providence, K. L.,
before Judge Henry T. Lummus In
Norfolk Superior court on the charge
of murder of James Z. Carpenter,
aged cashier of the Wrentham Ma
tional Bank.
Carpenter was shot when he pull
ed a burglar alarm and saved the
hanks money when bandits at
tempted hold UP last November l..
Alfred Bedard. of Pawtucket. K. L.,
and Joseph L. Weeks of Providence
were sentenced to life fmprison-
ment after they pleaded guilty to
second degree murder in connection
with the case. The police charge
that Madeiros was the man who
fired the shots. A detail of police
and a half dozen deputy sheriifs
guarded the court house today.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-12
(By Pacific & Atlantic)

vulge, that Agnes Tochey, Is months
old. had been dashed against a wall
and her head injured, the day before
she died last December 10. The
nurse, he said, witnessed the assault
on the baby, being at the place at
tending her own child, who also was
ill. Agnes, she said, had driven Mrs.
Geisen-Volk into a rage with her in
cessaflt crying.
William Winters, six months old,
who died in the womans place last
February, may also furnish a basis
for a homicide charge. Ryan said
after he had interviewed the infants
parents today.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-12

New York, May 11.-(AP)-Evi-
dence on which an indictment charg-
ing homicide will be sought against
Mrs. Helen Auguste Geisen-Volk, the
former German Red Cross nurse,
who conducted baby farm" in
East Seth Street, was obtained to-
day by assistant district attorneys
conducting an Investigation of the
deaths of twenty three infants in the
place in the past 10 months.
Assistant District Attorney Ryan
said he had been informed by
nurse, whose name he did not di-'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-12
Rum Row Ships at
Glace Bay, N. S., Offer
Booze at Bargain

Glace Bay, N. S., May II (AP)--
Two ships, their decks piled high
with cases of liquor. made port to-
day, presumably from Rum Row off
the New York and New Jersey
coasts, where the American dry navy
is maintaining blockade.
The craft hadn't been here an hour
before members of the crew were Of
fering the cargoes for sale at prices
far under the market. Rum was Of
fered at IS a gallon and whiskey at
$12 case. Champagne also was Of
fered at low prices.
There was no business transacted,
however, for two Canadian revenue
cutters kept sharp vigil on the
ships.