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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-14
Richmond Bridge Plea
ToBe Voiced Next Week
Will Hear Arguments
on Wednesday - Barwise
Sectarian and Railroad Tax
alton Other Big Hearings
Scheduled for Sixth Week Of
Session - Financial Affairs
C0mmittee Face Busy Week

The Richmond Bridge bill, the
Barwlse Sectarian amendment and
railroad taxation are matters of MAJ
Jor Importance scheduled for hear
ing before the committees of the
S2nd Legislature during the coming
week.
Richmonds contentious why the
Kennebec bridge should be located
at that point will be aired before
the committee on ways and bridges
at 2 o'clock next Wednesday after
noon. and it is needless to say that
there will be a large crowd in at
tendance.
The committee on taxation at 2
o'clock next Tuesday afternoon will
hear arguments pro and con the act
introduced bysRepresentative Martin
of Augusta providing for a new sys-
tenn of levying the State excise tax
on railroads based upon the relation
of the net to gross income; and the
resolve presented by Senator Wads-
worth of Kennebec for commission
to investigate and make report to
the Governor and Council to be
transmitted to the Legislature not
later than Feb. ]. 1927, relative to
the necessity or ACCESSIBILITY Of chang
ing the existing method of taxing
railroads and railroad corporations
operating in Maine.
The committee on education will
hold hearing on two big matters
next week: At o'clock Wednesday
afternoon on the University of Maine
appropriation, and at . o'clock
Thursday afternoon on the Barwise
use of public funds for sectarian
schools.
Regulation of Dance Halls
The committee on judiciary will
hold a hearing at o'clock next
Thursday afternoon on an act pro-
viding for the registration of public
dances and the licensing and regula-
ton OF public dance halls, an act
proposing an amendment to the Con-
stitution of the State changing the
date of the State election from the
second Monday in September to the
Tuesday after the first Monday of
November and seven other acts.
An act relating to close time on
Holsters and two other measures re-
lating to sea fishing will come be-
fore the committee on sea and shore
fisheries at / o'clock Thursday at
ternoOn.
For Temporary Loan BY State
The act introduced by Senator
Holley of Somerset to increase the
amount of a Temporary loan by the
State from $780, 600 to SS0O.OOO the
act offered nv REPRESENTATIVE Piper
CONTINUED on Page 3-coI. 81
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-14
Collins Heard Coughing
Rescuers Within 10 Feet
THREE DEATHS IN
FLOODED AREAS
OF new ENGLAND

Boston, Feb. 13-Two days of
foods and ice jams in New England
had resulted tonight in three deaths,
injuries to four men by a gas eXplo-
sion caused by bursting of a cellar
wall, the destruction of bridges and
dams and the interruption of COM
ruunication by rail, telephone, tele-
graph and highways. Although low
er temperatures ending almost a
week of unseasonably warm tenn
peratures, checked the foods in
northern New England. central and
south New Hampshire and Vermont
were hard hit tonight.
The Merrimac river four miles
north of Concord, n. H., was blocked
by an ice JAM Flood waters had
isolated the town of Springfield, vt.
At the West Canaan, N. H., bridge
of the Boston & Maine, Peter Silver,
bridge worker, lost his life in oper-
atoms to strengthen the foundations
of the structure.
Traffic on the Bristol division Of
the railroad was at a standstill. On
the Berlin branch the track was re-
paired only to be carried away q Sec
ond time by the flood. Highways in
New Hampshire, Vermont and Mas
sachusetts were blocked by accumu-
lations of ice left by the floods.
At Biddeford, Maine, when the
flood waters receded today, the body
of Carl Z. H. Hopper. a lumberman.
was found. He had been drowned
while attempting to prevent logs
from being swept away by a high
water. At Stoneham, Mass, Alden
Lcring. a nine-year- boy, was
drowned in the flood waters of a
brook.
In the full tide Of the food at
Montpelier, Vt, the waters sweeping
through the business section, caused
heavy property damage and in BURST
ing a basement wall caused a gas
explosion which injured four men.
From Wells River, Vermont, re-
ports came today of a family forced
to flee its home in a boat and Of the
sweeping away Of garages and out
buildings when the ice in the Wells
river broke and formed a jam.
Factories and power plants
throughout the area We're disabled
my the high water. Estimates of
the total property damage could not
be obtained.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-14
Girl Pre-Medical
Student Shot by
AnOtheri in Hotel

New York. Feb. 1S-NIiss Elsie
Holman. Il % year old premedical
student in Columbia University
Medical School was shot twice by
another girl in her room in the
Junior League Hotel. While she
crawled to the room of the house
nurse on the floor below, her assail-
ant. whom she had met only twice
before. escaped from the building.
Most of the $40 girls living in the
home, n home for self-supporting
working girls, We're in the dining or
recreation room shortly before six
o'clock when two shots were heard
from the sixth flor. When the first
girl Miss HolZmann had crawle1
from her room on hands and knees
to the staircase. twenty feet away.
and down to the landing halfway to
the fifth floor. She dragged herself
erect, screamed, and fell the ten
steps to the fifth floor
The house nurse, Miss Van Al
styne, ran out from her room and
found the girl on the floor, unable
to move, but unconscious.
sadie Steinberg shot me-" she
whispered. and added "She's got
bright green dress"
A detective later questioned Miss
Holman in the metropolitan Hos
pital and found she had met Miss
Steinberg a few days before through
mutual friend. who warned her
that Miss Steinberg was "unbalanc-
ed and was taking treatment from
a pathologist.
The police could not find Miss
Steinberg's address. but hoped to
trace her through her doctor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-14
HOUSE CLEANS UP
ON ALL MONEY BILLS
SENATE IS TAGGING

Washington, Feb. 1.-THE house
cleared its calendar of annual ap-
rropriatiin measures today, with the
passage of the S15.0OOO0O bill for
the legislative establishment.
Meanwhile the senate continued
it's fight over the independent Of
fees appropriation measure and re-
called from the house the confer.
ence report on the interior depart
ment supply bill because of the az
ton of the confereeS in reducing
from $45, 200 to Si5 900 the item for
the aathead reclamation projert il.
Montana.
Besides these two measures. the
senate still has to act on the District
Of Columbia and legislative appro-
priaton bills, but leaders are con.
fdcnt that all of the supply authori-
cations can be cleaned up within u
week or ten days.
Democratic leaders In the Senate
in formal conference decided not to
throw any obstacle in he way of the
calling up of the measures on the
Legislative program agreed on by the
Republican majority, but Senator's
were left freedom of action in oppos-
ing any of the dozen bills on that
program.
At the same time. the Cramton
bill for reorganization of the prohi-
bit:on enforcement urit and the fed
eral employees Redistribution mnls-
uro were added 20 the list Of bills
OH which action Will De sought be-
fore March 4.
Administration leaders also under
took to smooth tn" way for consid =.
Grafton of the government reorga hi-
zaticn bill agreeing 10 eliminate The
provision for a department of edu-
cat OH and relief and to retain the
coed roads bureau ir the agricrl-
tlrc department instead of transfer
ring it to the interior department.
The amended MEASURE will be pre-
scented tomorrow to the Republican
orgaI ization conference" for decision
Us t. whether it should be pressed
at I'll is session.
WEile the senate failed to reach
g vote on the indie pc ldent Offices bill
it attached as a rider % that meas
ure a provision prohibiting the %
cent surcharge by railroads on pull
man Accommodations. The plan Is to
force a vote in this house in this
way on a subject which that body
has failed to consider at the present
and the .ast sessions.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-14
Hold Hope of Reaching
Imprisoned Explorer
by Noon Today
Believed Cavern Tapped Will
Lead Directly to Prisoner
Coughing Heard by Five
Witnesses During Day
Distance Down Hole Now 60
Feet ..an

Cave City. Ky. Feb. 10 (By A. P.)
by noon Saturday officials in
charge of tho Sand hole rescue shaft
believe they will strike a promising
tunnel which may lead to Floyd COL
Inns, imprisoned underground for two
weeks. And If the officially accept
ed reports Of hearing him groan are
accurate, Collins may be found
alive.
II. T. Carmichael. in charge of the
shaft operations, tonight explained,
with diagrams, the location of the
shaft and the original tunnel, which
officials now call Sand Hole instead
OF Sand Cave. BY an exchange of
rapping today on the Sand Hole
walls and the shaft walls, 1t was es-
timated that the two channels are
about ten feet apart.
a nine foot cavern, disclosed nv
the drill at a sixty foot depth. when
the drill was boring eight feet to one
SIDE OF the shaft, has not 1t been
located by the drill in the shaft it.
self.
The drill however, made n hole
put one inch in diameter and It is
hoped to strike this cavern in the
side. wall of the shaft within IL
hours, or tunnel to it sideways from
the shaft when the sixty foot depth
is reached. -
1t was impossible to tell the width
of the nine foot open space, out
Carmichael is hopeful that It win
lead directly to the prisoner. Care
fully rechecked calculations today
indicate to the officials that Collins
is sixty feet underground, and on
that is based the hope that the cav
ern disclosed by the drill Is the cav
ern in which Collins lies imprisoned
in a rock wise.
The coughing of Collins reported
by five witnesses convinced General
Denhardt that Collins still lives, The
first three to hear the coughs, com.
ing from the tapering creviee ex-
plored unsuccessfully today, agreed
to say nothing about it. until the
two men who came out of the Sand
Hole tunnel after the rapping expe-
dition brought the same report. Then
all five told their stories to the mil
ftary board and it was given out to
the newspapermen. The party which
went down Sand Hole estimated they
were within ten feet of Collins. :
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-14
Ellsworth Suspect
Held by Officials
Proves Wrong One

Ellsworth, Me. Feb. 13.-The man
held here by Sheriff Macomber on
suspicion of being the Durham muir
derer was decided today not to be
the man wanted on the arrival Of
Patrolman John II. Ashton of the
Lewiston police force. who came here
to identify the suspect. Officer Ash
ton took the fingerprints of the pris-
oner and proved to his satisfaction
that his story Of having been in Wa
terville at work at the time Of the
murder was genuine. The man gave
the name of Albert Murray Of Wa
terville and his general appearance
tailed SO closely, with that Of Archie
L'Italien, alias George Lambert, the
missing chum of David Cheney, that
he was detained.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-14
Criticism Youth
OF Present Day
Claimed Unfair

Auburn, Me-, Feb. 13.-"The present
day criticism of youth is not fair"
declared DR.. Payson Smith, commits
sioner of education of Massachusetts
at county teachers convention here
today. Young people of today, con-
trary to the often expressed remarks
of their elders. are more capable,
franker and more promising than the
boys and girls of a generation ago.
Take the average boy of 16 and
the readiness with which he adapts
himself to the radio. The average
boy of high school age can. as a rule,
tell his elders a great deal about the
radio, it's construction and method of
working"
At the annual business session. Eu-
gene b. Gordon, principal of the
Livermore Falls High school. was
elected president of the association.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-14
Water Blocks All
Traffic. Out of
Springfield, Vermont

Springfield. Vt. Feb. 13-Arteries
of travel leading from Springfield to
the outside world were cut off to-
night as the waters of the Black
River, swollen by the recent thaw and
rains, covered highways and railroad
tracks man yfeet deep. No mail has
been received here since early Thurs
day night. Motor traffic Is at a stand
still.
On the road to CharIestown, N. H.,
the nearest rail point, and connected
with Springfield by trolley, the water
was seven feet over the highway and
the tracks of the terminal railway
company AMI late today was still ris-
ing.
A ice jam in the Connecticut river
below Charlestown was damming up
water which is threa, ening several
isolated farmhouses. Occupants of
farms will lie forced to vacate, 1t is
believed, unless efforts to dynamite
the jam prove successful.
The thaw, which Logan here last
Saturday afternoon, was said to lave
broken all records for so years for
duration.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-14
One Dead in Flood
Waters Near Concord

Concord, Ne. H., Feb. 13-Rising
waters in this region swelled by the
thaw and rain of the past few days.
took a toll of one life when Peter
Silver, Boston and Maine railroad
bridge worker, assisting in opera
tions to strengthen the west Canaan
bridge, fell into the Indian river to-
night. bad ice jam in the Merri-
mac four miles north of Concord, be-
low Sewall's Falls. caused serious
concern tonight. Below the jam are
the twin bridges at Penacook and a
long railroad bridge.
Railroad traffic was suspended to-
day on the Bristol division of the
Boston and Maine through the Pemi-
gewassett alley and it is said that no
trains would be run tomorrow. On
the southern division of the Boston
and Maine which is still in opera
ton. watchers tonight guarded every
railroad bridge threatened by the
breaking of ice jams and the down.
ward rush of the outgoing ice.
Street car traffic ceased in Con-
cord at o'clock this afternoon when
the rise of the water at Franklin,
near the source of the Merrimac put
the power house there out of COM
mission. Foundations of numerous
high tension wire poles have been
weakened by the floods. it was said.
Near Franklin the water from the
Merrimac was said to have risen
above the tops of fences at one point
along the highway.
Silver, the bridge worker, drowned
in Indian river, was a resident of
SIT. Johnsbury, VT. His body was
not recovered. A force of men had
been rushed to the bridge today. A
railroad bridge at this point was
washed away in a similar flood in
1896.
A factory near the junction of the
Contoocook and the Merrimac was
forced to close down today as 4 re-
suit Of the flood waters.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-14
Find Body of
BiddefOrd Man
Victim of Drowning

Biddeford, Me-, Feb 13-When
flood waters receded this morning
the body Of Carl f. H. Hooper. IS.
was found in the branches of a tree.
He was drowned late yesterday af-
ternoon while building a boom to
prevent logs from being carried away
by the high water at Swan Pond,
five miles from here. During his
work the raft on which he was
standing, went out from under him.
Search failed to find his body last
night. He was found this morning a
short distance from where he sank.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-14
prponents Proposed
NH See Less Lawless-
ness with Them on
the Watch
Wadsworth and
fthers Point Out Need and
Advantages Granting Added
povers-Highways Largely
Used by Criminals in Max
,nr Getaway-Civil Service
provision Not Favored

neclaring that under the present
.,.tsm state highway patrolmen
h.ys no right to arrest anyone I'M
,e,s called upon by a deputy sheriff
.,c.pt in case the person is break
g.. The motor vehicle laws. Senator
usrhert E. Wadsworth Of Winthrop
,nneared before the judiciary COM
,,ttse Friday afternoon in favor of
~ measure introduced by him to
.,,.rre the powers Of the State Po-
lice Force.
aBoth leading parties in their plat
forms favor the enforcement OF all
laws but nothing has been done IN
recent years in regard to laws for
enlargement" said Senator Wads-
worth.
"rhis bill would provide another
method Of enforcing the law" con-
.inusd Senator Wadsworth.
In years gone by a sheriff could
trace q criminal from one county to
another, but now 1t doesn't take long
for criminal to get away. The
roads were built for law-abiding cit
isenA but criminals use them In
making their escape. A hold up man
ar bank robber could go into a
community, pull off. his job, and in
nm hour he would be so miles away
and IN two hours he would be either
IN Canada or New Hampshire. These
highway patrolmen would be on the
very roads which the criminals use
IN making their getaway and the
criminals could be arrested II the
highway police had the authority to
don.
Under this bill the Governor or
To chief of the highway police
t1uN throw large number OF men
Into one spot in the case of an emer-
eency on moments notice. This
lin provides that the governor shall
appoint the chief Of the highway po-
lice, who Is now appointed by the
highway commission. I am not fussy
about this matter, but would say
that the highway commission has
enough to handle at the present time.
What do you think the pay OF the
chief should be-" inquired Represen-
tative Wing of the committee.
THAT Is a matter of estimate, but
! should say it should be commen-
surate with that Of the chiefs Of
Continued on Page 3-Col. y
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-14
Hold "LOne Wolf"
Suspect in Portland

Portland, Me-, Feb. 13-Police to-
day sent to Boston photographs and
fingerprints Of James Taylor, 80. a
seaman, because of the possibility
he may be the sought-for apartment
house burglar. the Lone Wolf" The
police declare that Taylor stole a
coat from a bench in the municipal
court and another owned by Miss
Mardon Kelley of Westbrook from
the Baxter block, after following the
Girl into the building. The similarity
of the methods of the man prompted
the local authorities to forward iden-
tifying material to Boston.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-14
Lewiston Man
Indicted for
Murder WOOdsman

Auburn. Me. Feb. 13.-Archie L.
Italien of Lewiston was indicted for
the murder of David Cheney. a woods
man of st. Johnsbury, VT. 1t was
announced today when the grand jury
which had been in session for two
weeks reported 81 indictments, or
which one was returned secret. Thir-
tv-one were for violation of State
LIQUOR laws and - for driving an
automobile while intoxicated
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-14
General Forecast

The northeast disturbance has
reached the Gulf of st. Lawrence
and another disturbance has moved
rapidly east southeastward over the
Canadian northwest to Manitoba
where it was central Friday night.
High pressure prevailed from the
south Atlantic states eastward be-
yond Bermuda. This pressure dis
tribution has been light precipitation
within the last "a huors in northern
New England and northern New
York.
Mostly fair weather will prevail
Saturday in the Washington fore
cast district but unsettled weather
will prevail almost generally east of
tho Mississippi on Sunday and light
precipitation is probable over the
greater part of this area. The tenn
perature will be slightly lower on
Saturday in the north Atlantic states
but colder weather will again over
spread the Atlantic states Sunday
and Monday.
Winds north OF Sandy Hook
Fresh westerly and weather mostly
overcast Saturday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-14
new BULGARIAN
MINISTER TO US.
VICTIM ASSASSIN

Sofia, Bulgaria, Feb IS (By A. Po
Professor Nikola Mileff, who re-
Gently was appointed Bulgarian min
lister to the United States. was as
sassinated here this evening.
A dispatch from Sofia last Satur-
day said the Bulgarian foreign office
hsj been notified from Washington
that Professor Mileff would be ac-
certable as Bulgarian minister to
TIE United States. He was - have
succeeded Stephen Panareton.
Professor Mielff was president o.
the foreign relations committee OF
the Bulgarian parliament.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-14
IZZY AND MOE
SEIZE 500 CASES

New York, Feb. 13-Izzy Einstein
and Moe Smith. interchangeable
sleuths of the prohibition department
today carted 500 cases of Scotch
whiskey away from two a-la-mode
delicatessen stores in the NEST Of
fete section of Madison Avenue.
James Murphy. chauffeur of
truck alleged to have been unloading
cases of whisley at one of the deli
catessen stores. was arrested.
The gilded neck of n bottle. pro-
trudinc from "A beribboned basket OF
fruit in the arms of a YOUNG lady
was the clue for the agents.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-14

New York. Feb. 13-Secretary of
State Hughes tonight elevated Elihu
Root to "the American nobility"
placing him 'in our hall of illustrious
men, who hold the only patent of
nobility in this republic, that of
worth of character, distinction of at
tainment and pre-eminence in SER
vice.. This. said Mr.. Hughes, is
1.-THE nearest approach that we can
make In this country to the gift of
an earldom."
Secretary Hughes delivered his
tribute as the principal speaker at
dinner to Mr.. Root at the historic
Union League Club of which the for
mer cabinet member twice was pres
ident. The occasion was in celebra-
ton of the eightieth anniversary Of
Mr.. Roots birth. which falls on Sun
day and men high in the public life
Of the state and nation gathered to
acclaim his services ito his country,
TO the cause of international justice.
and the Republican party and the
Union League Club.
In addition to Mr.. Hughes those
who spoke were: Solicitor General
Beck, U. S. Senator Wadsworth. for
mer New York state Governors
Odell. Miller and Whitman ana for
mer Senator William NJ. Calder,
president of the Union League club.
THE career we contemplate to-
night" Secretary Hughes said, lis
one of extraordinary opportunity
adequately met"
Then he sketched briefly the high
lights of Mr.. Roots career. speaking
first of his services to his native
state. New York, characterizing him
as "a great citizen, the mentor of his
commonwealth.
'Mr. Root has one of those rare,
equipments which would make MIN
pre- eminent in any office. executive,
legislative or judicial. He would
have made great president. chief
justice of highest distinction, es he
was conspicuously administrator
in the senate by the dignity. worth
and eloquence of his utteranccs. He
recalled it's most illustrious days
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-14
Bill Will Seek
Reciprocity Motor
Cars Outside State

A bill granting reciprocity to mo-
tor vehicles from other sta ties VIII be
introduced in the senate next week by
Senator Carter of AndIoscoggin. This
measure will provide that automo-
biles from other states where cars
from Maine are not required to take
out licenses. shall not be required to
register in Maine. This is the stand-
ard automobile reciprocity bill used
ir other states with but one eXcep-
ton.
There is a provision in the bill that
automobiles and trucks which come
into Maine to do a livery and local
business must take out Maine regis
tration.
The bill has the endorsement Of the
Maine Automobile Association, it is
stated
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-14
sequence of 13's
With No Ill Luck

.. REPORT, Ills, Feb. 13-Friday the
MI.eenth had no terrors today for
~ SE.us Leroy Hiteman, one of a fam
- 10 children. who drove 10 miles
~ sreeport to be married to Miss
NJ 49, Wittbecker, who resides on
"9th Thirteenth Street,
~, .ee ceremony was performed at
~, Z: NJ. by Justice OF the Peace
AZ. =. Hard who remarked casually
~ ~. \. II was his thirteenth marriage