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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-19
7 MINISTERS FAVOR
RETURN OF DEATH
PENALTY IN maine

Proponents and opponents of the
bill to reestablish capital punishment
for the crime of murder were given
a hearing before the legal affairs
committee on Wednesday afternoon.
in the auditorium of the Senate
chamber
The first prepayment Of the bill was
the Rev. Andrew T. McWhorter of
Augusta who stated that he realized
that he was on the unpopular side OF
the matter, but nevertheless he stood
before the committee as a preacher
of the gospel who favored the return
of the death penalty for the crime
of murder, and he would hail such
law as an advanced step In the
field of justice.
1.-THE sixth commandment of the
Mosaic Law" said Rev. McWhorter.
(which is known as Thou shalt not
kill is interpreted as meaning that
the will of God prevents men from
killing his neighbor and though the
punishment for the breaking of this
commandment is not stated along
with the commandment. neverthe .
less death Is the punishment pre-
scribed for the breaking of the first
seven commandments in other parts
of the law of Moses. The oppo-
nents of this bill will construe Thou
shalt not kill in the light that the
state would have no authority to
take the life of~a criminal on nu-
count of the teachings of the Bible,
but on the other hand taken in a
logical and literal sense the sixth
commandment would prevent them
from taking the life of an animal as
we'll as n human.
Another r.linister of the gospel,
Rev. John Balch BranchAof Port
land. also appeared in favor of the
bill and he stated in opening his re-
marks that there were only two
classes of people opposed to the bill
and these classes consisted of wo-
men and sissy men.
The dead know not anything"
quoted Mr.. Branch in conclusion.
and~it is better to put to death a
criminal than have him incarcerated
in living He'll for 80 or 40 years. -
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-19

wGY-Schenectady. N. Y, General
Electric Company
500 p. NJ. Produce and stock market
quotations; news bulletins.
$50 p. NJ. Dinner music by Hotel Ten
Eyck Orchestra, Albany. N. Y.
7.S0 p. M. Review of New Books,
William F.. Jacob. librarian, Gem
eral Electric Company.
745 p. M. Half-hour musical pro-
gram by WGY Orchestra.
SIS p. NJ. Comedy, "Agatha's Aunt"
by Sidney Toler. presented by the
WGY Players.
1870 p. NJ. organ recital by Stephen
E. Boisclair from Proctors Har-
manus Blocker Hall, Albany.
\ Y.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-19

Attorney H. Chesterfield Marden of
Waterville was a business visitor
Wednesday at the Court House.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-19
MANCHESTER

Mr.. and Mrs. William WEIGH were
called to Chelsea. Tuesday, by the
illness Of their daughter. Mrs. Perley
Hallett.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-19

I Charles Emmons of Boston was a
visitor Tuesday and Wednesday in
thta city,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-19
AUGUSTA LOCALS

Charles Moves of Locks Mills, Me-.
vas business visitor Wednesday in
this city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-19
LOCAL NOTICE

/ 4 Bean and Cold Meat Supper,
Ansa. Il. Hall, Saturday, S to Z p. NJ.
N MI =, Committee, Penney Memorial.
~ mere will be a rummage sale at
/ ss a. salvation Army Hall on Satur-
/ orio.,i turning, March 21st, at nine
NJ Mar 19d3t
sihsr,, Marion Genest will open MILL
A2s parlors at her home about Mar.
Es.w Court ST.. Augusta. Me. Tel.
III. Mch 13dtf
eyen,vnAed food sale. afternoon and
hidans' Williams school building,
: inr H. March 20. Whist and dance
= -. evening. mch18d3t
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-19

WEEI-Edison Light of Boston
$50 p. NJ. Big Brother Club.
7.25 p. NJ Greater Boston Federation
of Churches.
7.55 P. NJ. Pathe News Flashes.
500 =. NJ. From New York, musicale.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-19
Radio
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-19
$500 to $1,000
ELEVEN

For Springtime wear lUe Ne a
fine showing of gloues in new
light colors. Kid, suede and
chanoise. Good values, too.
$500, $3.50 and $3.50
Evening star., 1925-02-12
HOOVER ASKS FUND
FOR OYSTER PROBE
$25, 900 for Thorough Inquiry Into
Most Important Fishing
Industry" Sought.

Budget request for an appropria-
tion OF $4,000 to enable the DEPART
ment of Commerce to determine
whether oysters cause typhoid epf-
denies was forwarded today to Con-
gress.
The money would be utilized by
the Bureau of Fisheries in an attempt
to ascertain the effects of pollution
of sea water on the oyster beds and
methods of handling. distributing
and marketing oysters so as to in
sure their purity.
Accompanying the request was a
letter from Secretary Hoover, in
which he said: = /,
This is the most Important fish,
cries industry in this country, the
annual yield exceeding 20,000.o0o
bushels, with a value of more than
$4,000,000 to the fishermen, and is
prosecuted from Cape Cod to the
Rio Grande and from Puget Sound to
San Francisco"
The Senate yesterday voted an ap-
preparation of $4,000 for an investf-
cation Of oyster fields.
Evening star., 1925-02-12
DELAY ON HUMPHREY.
Senate Postpones Till Monday Ac-
ton on Nomination.

Final action on the nomination OF
William E. Humphrey to be a mem
ber of the Federal Trade Commission
was postponed by the Senate inter
state commerce committee today un-
til next Monday, after Mr.. Humphrey
again had appeared before the COM
mittee for questioning at a two-hour
session.
After the hearing, at which Assist
ant Attorney General Seymour also
was questioned, Chairman Smith OF
the committee said the testimony had
shown no facts which should stand in
the way of confirmation, and he indi-
Gated a. favorable report on Monday
was in prospect.
The questioning of Mr.. Humphrey
today was said to be in regard to his
dealings with the Department of Jus
tice as representative of a lumber
company.
The committee did not take up the
nomination of Thomas F. Woodlock
of New York to be a member of the
Interstate Commerce Commi ssion, and
Chairman Smith. who is opposing
confirmation, said it would not come
up Monday.
Evening star., 1925-02-12
$50 CONV|CTS HAD
PASSES, DECLARES
ATLANTA OFFICIAL
Acting Deputy Says Special
Privileges Given to Sa-
vannah Rum Ring.
ASKED TO "CLEAN UP"
IN FALL BY WARDEN
Capt. Madden Testifes Sartain
Told Him Chaplain Took Money
and Wanted Him to Act.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ATLANTA. Ga, February IA
Capt. John H. Madden. acting deputy
warden of the Atlanta Federal peni-
tentiary. today testified in the trial
of A. E. Sartain and L. ]. Fletcher,
deposed officials Of the institution. and
Laurence Riehl, Columbus, Ohio,
charged with conspiracy and bribery,
that special privileges were given
members Of the Savannah rum ring"
at the prison. ---.
Among these prisoners, he said,
were Willie Haar, c. c.. Tuten,
Graham Baughn and Fred Haar. sr.,
Madden said he had been an en-
ploye of the prison Is years.
On cross-examination Madden ad-
mitted that he had been suspended
six months in 1924 because he had
brought a prisoner to town and the
mended the suspension, he said.
At the time Willie Haar had an
outside pass" 23O other prisoners
had the same privilege, the witness
testified He admitted that prisoners
assigned to the warden's home ate
In the warden's kitchen during the
administration of Sartain and his
predecessor, j. E. Dyche.
This was brought out by the de-
Tense in an effort to show that there
was nothing unusual in the assign.
ment of Fred Haar, ST., to Sartain's
home.
Tuten. as chauffeur to the prison
physician, had no. more privilege.
than any other inmate holding the
same place, Madden continued He
also stated Baughn, as chauffeur to
the warden, enjoyed only the usual
privileges carried by the assignment
When District Attorney Clint w
Hager took up the redirect exami-
nation Madden testified that in No
vember, 1924, the warden asked him
to go on day watch" in order te
clean up the place" During this
conversation, the witness related
Sartain told him Father Thomas p
Hayden, chaplain at the prison, wa,
taking money" 80
The warden also remarked. Madden
said. that the guards were "poorly
Evening star., 1925-02-12
DRUM STATEMENT
IN PROBE SCORED
War Flyers Say Claims for
Anti-Aircraft Guns Are
Absolute "Rot."

The statement OF Brig. Gen. H. A.
Drum, assistant chief OF staff, be-
fore the House aircraft inquiry COM
mittee several days ago that with a
battery of IL three-caliber anti-air-
craft guns he could prevent bombing
planes from doing serious damage
was characterized by two former col
onels in the Army Air Service as 'ab-
solute rot" and ridiculous" before
the committee today.
The former officers, both residents
of Washington, and who hold COM
missions in the Air Service Reserve,
are William j. Schauff1er and Harold
E. Hartney. Both men saw extensive
aerial fighting in France during the
war and based their opinions on the
result of their experiences.
The committee today centered it's
activities on the value OF anti-air-
craft guns as means OF defense
against aircraft. This afternoon Brig.
Gen. William Mitchell. assistant chiel
of the Army Air Service, will testify
regarding the charges of disobedi-
ence of orders in the 1921 bombing
exercises, and tonight in the caucus
room of the House office building
will give a lecture on the subject,
illustrated with motion pictures Of
the battleship bombing.
Witnesses Discount Guns.
The two witnesses at this morning S
session, both agreed that anti air.
craft fire played a very small part
as defense against airplane attacks.
declaring that no war pilot, in their
opinion. showed any regard for the
arches after his first two weeks of
flying over the lines.
Another former war pilot, Capt. L.
p. kefgen of Bay City, Mich, related
his experiences as a bomoer and de-
clared anti-aircraft barrages shot up
ward from towns or strongholds
against impending attacks from
bombing planes were very effective"
while anti-aircraft fire scattered about
In open country caused aviators very
little concern.
Mr.. Schaufler told the committee
that anti-aircraft guns as a means of
coast fortif1cation were mot worth
anything, explaining that should an
aerial attack by the enemy be desired
few preliminary ships would be
sent over to drop smoke or gas bombs
and then the whole force of the bonn
bardment could go forth unobstructed.
Aircraft is the only means of de-
tense against aircraft" he declared.
Says Plane More Emeient.
Representative Perkins of New
Jersey, the committee examiner,
asked the witness If he did not think
some Improvement had been made on
anti-aircraft guns since the war. Mr..
Schauff1er replied he was willing to
grant such improvements, but de-
clared the airplane had made a cor
responding Increase in efficiency.
Mr.. kefgen attacked the present
system Of reserve aviation, declaring
he had not been able to fly for two
years, and, Furthermore, that he and
the reserve unit which he commands
had never received any intelligence,
direct or indirect, from the Air Serv-
Ice regarding attack aviation. Il
don't know what attack aviation is,
although 1 understand 1t is a new
branch of aerial fighting"
Mr.. Hartney explained to the COM
mittee that attack aviation consisted
of combating the enemy on the
ground behind the lines, hitting at the
Continued on Page 2, Column -
Evening star., 1925-02-12
Cold Snap
To Pass Quickly;
Far South Suffers

A strong northwest wind put
sudden end last night to Wash
ington's balmy topcoat weather,
but saved its fury for the sun
baked bathers on the beaches of
Florida's Winter resorts. The
cold spell will not linger long.
however, for Forecaster Mitchell
predicted today that the thermom-
eter will start another climb to-
morrow, although he does not ex-
pect 1t to go far beyond the 40
degree mark.
Fortunately, Washington is on
the outer fringe of the cold wave
which is giving the South a real
taste of Winter. The temperature
in Jacksonville. Fla, today, ac-
cording to the forecaster, Is how
ering around 80 degrees. Wash
ington's low mark early this
morning, while Atlanta, Ga, Is
shivering to the tune of 20 de-
grees.
Evening star., 1925-02-12
SYME ASKS $4,000
FEE IN PEPCO CASE.
Files Suit for One and Half
Per Cent of Sum to Be.
Paid Consumers.

Conrad H. Syme, former corporation
counsel, who fought for many years
to uphold the valuation placed on the
property of the Potomac Electric
Power Company by the Public Utili-
ties Commission until Congress with
drew appropriations for his special
services, today asked the District
Supreme Court to award him a fee
of $44,16334 out OF the portion of
the 'impounded fund which Is about
to be distributed among the users of
electricity Mr.. Syme points out that
the amount to be paid back to the
consumers is $2,s44,222.77. and he
thinks that he is entitled to a fee
equal to 4 per cent Of the fund re-
covered for the consumers.
After Congress prevented the Dis
trict Commissioners from continuing
his employment, Mr.. Syme Gays, a con-
tribution was taken up among the
users of electric current and the sum
of $4,000 paid to him as a retainer
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column p
Evening star., 1925-02-12
.|CE-F|LLED RIVERS
AT FLOOD STAGE
Many Flee Homes-Enor-
nous Damage Done in East
ern Part of Country.
By t o Associated Press.

PHILADELPHIA, February IL.
Continuous rain and the thawing of
the Winters accumulation of ice and
snow has caused rivers and many
other streams In Pennsylvania to
reach the food stage. Near Benton,
in eastern Pennsylvania, merchants
suffered $4,000 to $4,000 damage and
40 families were marooned when an
Ice gorge formed in Fishing Creek
and backed water into the town.
Dynamite was used to break up the
obstruction.
In number of places small bridges
have been weakened to such an ex-
tent that they had to be closed to
traffic.
At Danville six inches Of water
flooded the station of the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Railroad,
but did not interrupt traffic. Water
also invaded some of the industrial
plants in Danville, forcing suspension
of work.
The Susquehanna River is high
from New York State to the Mary
land line, but no great damage has
been reported.
Evening star., 1925-02-12
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February IA
While rumors of an artistic feud
between Maria Jeritza, Viennese
prima donna, and Beniamino Gigli,
Italian tenor, are denied at the
Metropolitan Opera House, opera
goers are discussing incidents of
recent performances Of La Tosca"
and Fedora"
Tears by the soprano and unusu-
ally violent acting by both sing
ers are particular subjects Of COM
ment.
When a Performance of "Tosca"
ended Tuesday night and the first
curtain call came, Gigli appeared
alone. After an embarrassed bow
he disappeared.
The audience continued to cheer.
The curtain rose twice, but Jeritza
did not appear. The applause grew
more insistent. Ten minutes pass
ed and at last Jeritxa, weeping and
excited appeared before the cur
tsin - tAeQgA She had been
Evening star., 1925-02-12
GUNS SWITCHED, ACTOR
SHOOTS FELLOW PLAYER
Old Weapon Taken From Property
Box Proves to Be Loaded.
Wound Is Slight.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 12.-Cliften
Self, an actor, was accidentally shot
and wounded on the stage at Wal
lacks Theater here last night by
Edward Garvie, another actor, dur
ing the performance.
Garvie uses a pistol to threaten
two characters in the first act, bu,
was unable to find his pistol. He
went to the property box for another
and picked up an old weapon. He
was pointing 1t at Self, who had just
backed from the stage into the
wings, and it went or Self w&s
slightly wounded. The play, how
ever, continued without the audience
realizing what had happened,
Evening star., 1925-02-12
SPEAKERSPRA|SE
IDEALS OF LINCOLN
Memory of Great Emanci-
pator Honored by Cere-
monies in Capital.

In the same unostentatious man
ner that Abraham Lincoln lived his
life, America revered his memory to-
day on the one hundred and sixteenth
anniversary of his birth.
Leading the Nation in fitting OBJ
servance of the emancipator's mem
ory, Washington recalled him as the
charitable spirit seeking to raise his
people to better lives rather than as
the martyred President of a war
torn country. Peace was the key
note Of every service here.
While the Sons of Veterans gath
cred before his shrine in the Mall
and the Loyal Legion recalled his
great sacrifice before his statue in
front of the courthouse, high Gov
ernment officials Joined men OF let
tkrs from all parts OF the country In
eulogizing him at 4 luncheon given
in the Willard Hotel by the trustees
of Lincoln Memorial University.
Dream Of Lincoln.
the university, expressed the senti-
ment of all of the speakers at the
luncheon when he said tho univer-
sity "is the crystallized dream of
Abraham Lincoln" standing where
the mountains of Tennessee, Ken
lucky and Virginia meet, that 1T
might benefit the rugged people the
Emancipator had hoped to rescue
from blighting Ignorance.
In the great prosperous and pro-
gressive North" DR.. Hill continued,
institutions and agencies are duplf-
Gated and reduplicated into a verita-
-
down in the isolation and solitude OF
the mountain Businesses, where rail-
splitting and mule driving, candle
lighting, homespun and log cabins
survive the march Of civilization, only
a crude cabin school here and there
dots the broken landscape and the
people sit in a gloom upon which the
light of knowledge has but dimly
dawned.
People Are Forgotten.
I'VE have discovered the economic
possibilities of the Appalachians,
harnessed its mountain torrents, un-
covered its mineral wealth, felled it's
forests and appraised every acre Of
its soil. But in our development of
it's natural resources we have not
taken stock of it's 100000 undiluted
lions upon the Americanization of the
foreign born, the uplift of the Sicilian,
the Turk, the Portuguese, Pole, Rus
sian, the refugees of the despotism
of the Old World. And in our zeal
we have forgotten the children of
our own sky and soil and soul
Back there, far back in the noun
tain Businesses. there is a vast army
of American youth endowed with un-
mea asurable possibilities. 1t is an
illimitable Klondike; boys and girls
awaiting the. refining processes of
education for sublimation into citi-
zenship-coming Clays and unrealized
Lincolns. Such a mine is worth work
ing. Providence has held these noun
taineers in reserve. We need them
now to reinforce our patriotism, up
hold our national ideals and preserve
our free institutions"
Secretary of the Interior Work de-
clared, at may be that a Providence
prompted the founding of Lincoln
Memorial University for those of the
CONTINUED on Page 5, Column IL
Evening star., 1925-02-12
Jeritsn-Gigli Feud Held Reflected
In Foot Ball Tactics During Operas

: showed. Through her tears she
tried to explain to the audience.
Hes mean to me" was all that
was audible. The audience won
dered.
Two weeks ago in a love scene
In Fedora" Jeritza flung herself
into Giglfs arms with such vio-
lence that the tenor almost col
lapsed. Soon 1t was Gigli's turn.
He became so realistic that the
soprano almost landed in the foot
lights.
Baron Won Pepper, Jeritza's hus-
band, said after the "Tosca" per-
Torrance that his wife had been
deeply offended" but he refused
to name any one. Gigli departed
for the country yesterday, accord
ing to his secretary, who said:
Besides, 1t was agreed upon
Tuesday night by ali that no one
should discuss the incident. M.
Gigli gave strict orders that we
should say nothing-nothing."
Evening star., 1925-02-12
FIRING SPOUSE'S BED,
WIFE BURNED TO DEATH
Lighted Gasoline in Pact to Kill
Husband for Alleged
Faithlessness.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Mich, February 12.-
Victim of a fate intended for her
husband, Mrs. Delsedia Lowry, 81,
died last night. She was severely in
jured a week ago when burning gaso-
line which she had thrown on her
husbands bed f1ared back, setting
fire to her own clothing.
Mrs. Lowry and Clifford, her nus
band, 80, told police that at the time
of their marriage they agreed that IL
one of them should be found unfaith-
full the other would be privileged to
kill the unfaithful one. A week ago
Mrs. Lowry charged Lowry with be-
ing interested in other women and,
in a fit of anger, hurled glass of
gasoline on his bed, tossing a lighted
match after 1t.
The flames were blown back, set
ting fire to the woman's f1imsy night
clothing, and she was seriously burned
before her husband, who escaped with
minor burns, could extinguish them.
Evening star., 1925-02-12
WOMAN AND 3 CHILDREN
ARE FOUND DEAD OF GAS
Police Informed Probable Suicide
of Mother Followed Row
With Neighbor.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
PASSAIC, N. j., February 12.-Mrs.
Louis Sander and three children were
found dead of gas poisoning in bed
today by her husband when he re-
turned from work. The eldest child
was years old.
Gas was flowing from Jets in the
kitchen and the living room.
The police expressed the opinion
that the deaths were not accidental
Mrs. Sander worked in worsted
mill in the daytime and her husband
worked at night!
The police were informed that Mrs.
Sandor had Quarreled with neigh
-.
Evening star., 1925-02-12
PROBE OF GASOLINE
INDUSTRY PROPOSED
Senator Trammell Wants Investi.
cation of Recent Erratic
Price Increases.

An investigation of the gasoline In
dustry was proposed in the Senate to-
day by Senator Tramme1l, Democrat,
Florida.
The resolution would have the
Federal Trade Commission examine
into recent arbitrary and unwar-
ranted" increases in the price of gas
oline, with a view to prosecutions
should a violation of law be dis
covered.
The Trade Commission would be
directed to prosecute the inquiry
with reasonable dispatch" 1t was
recited that during the past two
weeks increases in some localities
had amounted to cents a Kallon."
Evening star., 1925-02-12
Girls
See "Witch" Make
TOmbstO1,es MOre
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February IA
witch" who lures immigrant girls
into Trinity Church yard. in the
financial district, at midnight and
apparently makes the tombstones
move as proof of her uncanny pow
ers to find them American million
aires for husbands, has been oper-
ating IN New York for some time.
The work of the witch was dis
closed today by Mrs. Lillian r. Sire,
director of the division. of aliens
Of the State Department Of Labor,
in asking that the heecing of i'm
migrants be stopped by publicity.