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Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-05-19
InshOre Patrol to
Supplement Work
Coastguard Ships

New London, Conn, May 10
(AP)-It was announced here to-
night that another step in the battle
against the rumrunners had been
launched, an inshore harbor patrol
by the toastguard, with New Lon
don as hearquarters. and Lieutenant
Commander +. II. Young of the
submarine base here commanding
officer.
The territory between the en-
trance of Long Island Sound and
Fall River, Mass, has been assigned
to this unit IN the campaign and a
number OF patrol boats will search
every river, creek, harbor and wa
terway along the coast in their hunt
for small craft that may have visit
ed the rum fleet and lodged their
way through the destroyers watch
ing the ''rummies."
1t also was announced that 10
patrol boats mad been sent to Woods
Hole, Mass, to assist the larger
boats there to watch the rum fleet.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-05-19
Chauncey Depew
Still Scintillating
AS Dinner Speaker

New York, May 1S-(AP)-Al-
though telling them he could dis
tinctly remember 80 years of life"
Chauncey NJ. Depew spoke at a
luncheon of the Pilgrims Society of
the United States in honor of the
British delegates to the international
police conference today with a vigor
and sparkling wit of which any
man half his age might well be
proud.
Although Mr.. Depews address
winch he delivered in a resonant
voice giving little evidence of his 81
years. and with firm gestures which
forcibly pointed his remarks, the
tenor Of his thought was the in
creaslng bond between America and
Great Britain during the period of
his life.
Speaking OF changes for the bet
ter that have occurred during his
lifetime, Mr.. Depew said that inter-
national relationship used largely 10
be made up of royalty, pageants and
victories and war but now the world
is getting on a different basis. The
people who have a solid interest are
running 1t. We are trying to get
away from war and to maintain
peace and to promote industry, pro-
duction, prosperity and happiness -
Mr.. Depew said that the greatest of
missions ever sent to the United
States across the sea was that head
ed by Stanley Baldwin which an
nounced that Great Britain intended
to pay every penny of her debts.
THE war has shaken the economi-
cal structure of the whole world"
the speaker said, "and the people
were in doubt as to what was going
to happen; but when Great Britain
said We will pay our debts it had a
tremendous psychological effect. If
you understand psychology you can
run the world
Speaking of the international
police conference which he praised
highly, Mr.. Depew affirmed his faith
In the honesty of the world at large.
There are a few trouble makers
out to live by stealing" he said,
what other people earned, and by
breaking down government My
friends, the place to stop commun-
ism it at its source-not after they
have exploded a bomb at a cathed-
ral."
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-05-19
Secretary Weeks
Suffers Recurrence
Of Bladder Trouble

washington, May 1S-(AP)-Sec-
retary Weeks, who has been conva-
lescing at his home here from an at
tack Of thrombosis since early in APP
ri has suffered an acute attack OF
gall bladder coils.
Mr. Weeks general condition was
described today as very good, but
the complication of bladder trouble,
which is a re-occurence of an old
complaint, has somewhat retarded
his progress and disturbed the rest
he had been enjoying.
Attending physicians are hopeful
that the new complication will yield
TO treatment, as have similar at
tacl,s IN the past. If he is threaten
ed with prolonged suffering because
Of the colo, however, it is possible
that an operation to afford him re-
lief will be given serious considera-
ton.
Mr.. Weeks has been spending
much Of the time in his room but IS
not confined to bed because of the
bladder trouble.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-05-19

New York, May 1S-(AP)-After
being defeated in three attempts to-
day to have the weekly conference
of Baptist ministers of Greater New
York reaffirm it's adherence to the
doctrine of baptism by immersion
only, DIR. John Roach Straton, pastor
of the Calvary Baptist church, sue
ceeded in having adopted a resolu-
tion to refer the question of belief in
immersion to every Baptist minister
in greatr New York for written opin-
ions.
DIR. Straton's fight for immersion
caused two and half hours of Wig
orous debate, in which he was oppos-
ed by the Rev. John M. Moore, of
Brooklyn, chairman of the confer
ence. Sevral times the chairman
asked DR.. Straton to keep his seat
and allow others to be heard.
Outside the conference room DIR.
Straton said that John d. ReckefeI-
Ter, Jr., had "incited" falling away
from the conservative Baptist tenet
on immersion and that Mr.. Rookie
feller's influence was behind a
steam roller" in the conference
which favored the election of DR.
Harry Emerson Fosdick as PASTOR of
the Park Avenue Baptist church, of
which Mr.. Rockefeller is a member
DR.. Fosdick has made accepted of the
voluntary principle as applied to i'm
mersion a condition of his acceptance
of the Park Avenue pulpit.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-05-19
Two Weeks Effective Blockade
Has Reduced Number From
80 to 7-Believed Greater
Number Are Anchored 100
to 200 Miles Off Shore -
Commander Yeandle Silent
on Cost of Maintaining
C0astguard

New York, May 1S.-(AP)-Rum
, Row, once so populous, has dwindled
to seven ships in capitulation to the
little vessels of the United States
coast guard which started their
famous mid-Atlantic blockade thir-
teen days ago.
This information was sent by wire
less today from the blockading fleet
to Commander Stephen S. Yeandle,
aide to Rear Admiral Billiard, COM
mandant of the coastguard.
Yeandle on Saturday completed u
four day observation and inspection
cruise of the scene of the country's
stand against the bootlegging indus
try" On that cruise, during which a
group of newspapermen made an in
vestigation of the results of the
blockade. it was found that the rum
feet had dwindled to discouraged
twelve. The day the blockade start
ed. May 8. there were about eighty
foreign rum carriers at anchor in
the Atlantic between Narragansett
r. l., and Atlantic City, N. j.
Five of the ships the newspaper
men found weighed anchor and slip
ped out of the blockade zone during
Saturday and Sunday, Yeandle was
told by his subordinates. One of the
quintet sailed Bermuda-ward, a
cPastguard patrol boat following it
until it was 100 miles at sea. The
others are believed to have Joined
the other floating liquor ware
houses which have anchored at var
ious points 100 to 200 miles off shore,
waiting for the blockading forces
to relax their vigilance.
Commander Yeandle said dis
patches from the beleaguering fleet
had reported that the boat-to- shore
rum runners, the bottle fishermen"
had not resumed attempts to get
in communication with the rum
miles," as the guardsmen term the
contraband carriers.
Commander Yeandle. who left the
city today on mission for Admiral
Billiard, declined to discuss various
speculations as to the cost of con-
tnuing the blockading program ef-
fectively. He said Admiral Billiard
was considering plans for providing
the guardsmen who man the block
aiding boats with frequent shore
leave.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-05-19
CARET TAkER'S WORD
LINKS SWAMPSC0TT
CHIEF WITH RUMMIES

Swampscott, Mass, May 1S.-(AP)-
Testimony tending to connect Police
Chief William L. Quin of Swampscott
with rum-running operations on the
North Shore was given today by
George Marcia, caretaker of the John
son estate at Little's Point, at a hear
ing before the board of selectmen on
charges preferred against the chief in
connection with liquor smuggling. The
investigation had been in progress for
a week and no witness previously had
linked the chief directly with the
Swampscott rum ring"
Marcia testified that on December
27, last, Chief Quinn requested him to
tell those who had charge of liquor
stores on the Johnson estate to get it
out of the way as he wished to make a
raid. Marcia said he had heard z. A.
Mcdonald, his employer, say that he
had paid Chief Quinn 81 case for
the privilege of landing liquor, and
that he had heard various persons en-
gagged in liquor smuggling telephone to
the ,Swampscott police station from
''the big house" on the estate.
The witness said he had seen federal
officers with badges and guns walking
about while liquor was being landed,
and that two members of the rum band
had told him that the entire Swamp
scott police force as well as federal
officers were fixed" At another point
in his evidence Marcia said that two
or three weeks ago the chief met him
in Lynn and advised him not to
"squeal or to give any information
On one occasion, he said, when the
chief led a raid On the estate, he asked
Marcia if there was any liquor there
and then Winbed at him.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-05-19
Strong Opposition
Abandoning 62 Miles
Trackage in Mass.

Boston, May 18-(AP)-Presiden
James III. Hustis of the Boston and
Maine Railroad, his assistant, Dwight
S. Brigham and Homer Loring, the
chairman of the B. e. M. finance COM
mittee, were cross examined by At
torney William B. Sullivan of DAN
vers at today's resumed hearing on
the petition of the road to abandon
62 miles of trackage in Massachu-
setts on the Newburyport branch.
Chairman Loring declared that if
the petition is allowed, the combina-
ton bus and rail service that the
road proposes to substitute for rail
lines will cost the commuters only
about ten cents day more than the
present fare. He said that the fare
would have to be doubled to show
a profit if the present rail lines are
continued.
Several ironical passages occurred
between the railroad men and Attor-
ney Sullivan, representative of the
protestants, who drew a laugh when
he showed Mr.. Brigham a time table
dated 1854, which revealed that the
running time of the morning New
buryport- Boston train was one hour
and 40 minutes, as compared with
one hour and 52 minutes for the
present day, II years later. Mr..
Brigham replied that the pre- Civil
War train made eight stops as COM
pared with 16 today.
President Hustis admitted under
cross examination that when. he
signed the application to abandon
the Newburyport branch he was un-
aware that the road had entered in
to a lease with the Newburyport
railroad, agreeing to operate trains
for 100 years and that the lease still
had some years to run. He declared
that motor trucks and passenger au-
tomobile competition were the reas-
ons for the proposed abandonment.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-05-19
HOLD 7 PROVIDENCE !
LAWYERS IN PROBE
OF "D|V0RCE MILL

Providence, r. T., May 1S.-(AP)-
Two Providence attorneys were in jail
here tonight in default of bail of S40,-
600 and $4,000 as the result of 26 in
dictments reported by the Providence
county grand jury in special session
late today. After evidence had been
laid before it concerning an elaborate
alleged divorce mill" serving scores
of persons from outside Rhode Island,
II indictments were returned against
Leonard w. Horton, master in chan
Gerry, and nine against Francis p.
Dougherty, his law partner. Four of
the indictments, charging conspiracy,
named both men. Seven secret indict-
mcnts were handed down at the same
time. According to Attorney General
Charles p. Sisson, the persons named
in these reside outside the state of
Rhode Island and are not lawyers.
Arraigned in superior court immedi-
ately after they were indicted, both
Horton and Dougherty pleaded not
guilty to all of the charges. Bail was
fixed at $4,000 in the case of Hor-
Dougherty was required to provide
$4,000.
Decision to summon the special
grand jury, according to the attorney
general, came after more than 100 re-
cent divorce cases involving chiefly
residents of New York and Connecti-
cult had been Investigated.
Horton was indicted seven times for
nf Il
ing false certification of a public Off
GER, twice for uttering false certifica-
tions. six times for forgery and once
for forgery and false uttering. Dough-
rety ,singly, was indicted once for
forgery, once for subornation of per-
Jury although perjury is not alleged to
have been committed, twice for utter
ing false certifications of public Of
ficer and once for subornation of per-
jury.
Sensational developments were
promised tonight by Attorney General
Sisson when he asserted that practi-
cally all the cases investigated would
he aired in court at the time Of the
trials and that witnesses would be
summoned in each instance, bringing
the aggregate number into the hun
dreds.
In describing the process leading up
tn the summoning of the grand jury
the attorney general said that 1t had
been shown that 'in many cases hus-
bands would come with wives and col
lude in the matter of getting divorces,
and that addresses were represented
fraudulently as being in providence.
These, upon investigation. proved IN
many instances to be gas factories,
vacant lots and schoolhouses, Mr.. Sis
son said. Many of the cases, he said,
were brought to the Rhode Island law
yers by attorneys in New York who,
he alleged. shared in the division OF
fees.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-05-19
CLUES PROVE FALSE
IN IDENTIFICATION OF
SKELETON WOMAN

Charlestown, N. H., May 49,
(AP)-The authorities attempting to
identify the woman whose skeleton
was turned up by plough on the
farm of Alfred Eaton here on May
IA had their two most promising
theories exploded today.
State Pathologist Howard N.
Kingsford reported that the bones
were those of girl Is years of age
or younger. This at once disposed
of the supposition that they We're
those of Mrs. Blanche Whitney, a
middle-aged woman, whose disap-
pearance nine years ago has been
the only one recorded in this vici-
nifty.
Older residents had recalled that
a gravestone had once been located
in the field and Investigators believ-
ed that the bones might belong to
the grave it marked. Today, a slate
stone, worn with the weather of
many years, was found bearing the
inscription:
Here lies the body of Mrs. Ex-
perience. Stevens, wife of John Ste
vens, who departed this life Febru-
ary 20. A. d., 1867, aged Al years,
one month, and Is days.
DR.. Kingsford said today that he
believed the skeleton found had not
been in the ground more than ten
years, and surely not the 15S years
which have elapsed since the burial
of Mrs. Stevens.
Baked at every turn in New
Hampshire, the authorities tended
tonight to the conclusion that the
body of the girl had been brought
here from Vermont for burial. The
field in which the bones were found
forms the east bank of the Connecti-
cut river which at this point is very
narrow so that a boat may be rowed
across with ease and with little
chance of observation. The Che
shire bridge crosses the river only
a short distance above the farm.
DR.. kingsford's report was only
preliminary one. Acting on his
request the investigators today be-
gan to dig and sift anew the dirt in
the part of the field where the skele-
ton was unearthed. Several small
bones, parts of the hands and feet.
were uncovered, but still no shred of
clothing, no button or piece of jew
elry was found. The absence of
these clues has led the authorities
to the belief that the body was strip
ped before burial.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-05-19
Sec. Mellon Sees
Worth Continuing
Rum Row Blockade

Washington, May 1S.-(AP)-The
coastguard blockade against rum
smuggling off New York is regarded
by Secretary Mellon as having demon
strated it's efficiency in checking rum
running and he is convinced that con-
tinuation of the program will material
iy reduce the supply of illicit liquor in
this country.
Private reports received by the sec
retary, it was said today, show that
majority of the rum runners are retir-
ing from the scene of action because
with the landing of wet cargoes mace
so difficult they cannot make sales. Ihe
secretary holds that the starvation
campaign eventually will drive out the
more obstinate shippers from Rum
Row, and once they are going 1T Is MS
opinion that they will not come back.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-05-19
,.sality of Findings Ques-
t;oned-Charges Accessory
After Fact in Staying of
Husband-Plea of Abate-
ment Entered-Claim Incom-
netent Testimony Offered

portland. Me-, May 1S-Containing
.,cbt counts in an attack on the le-
.a,;tv Of the superior court indict-
rsrt which charges Mrs. Lottie
rreeman Cote Of Gorham with be-
- an accessory after the fact in
=. murder of her husband, Alphonse
rote. a plea in abatement was filed
,oaav By her attorneys. Harry E.
N,von and Jacob H. Berman.
The plea urges that the indictment
no. obtained unlawfully in that no
,.gal evidence of the corpus deficit,
= boay of the victim, was offered in
sr,dence before Il e grand jury, that
4 VAS obtained unlawfully in that
.hrea Of the jurors were not legally
ousIified to serve, and that an out
s;der was In the jury room during
~ authorizations. 1t is further al
,acad M that incompetent testimony
was offered, including statements by
rsrsons not made in the present of
Mrs. Cote. No date was set for a
hearing.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-05-19
FRANCE LOSES OUT
IN FIGHT over WAR
SHIP ARMAMENTS

Geneva, May 1S.-(AP)-France
lost bitter fight tonight to keep
ornaments of warships within the
scope of the proposed convention
which will control by publicity in
ternational trade in armaments.
After a heated discussion the mill
tary committee of the arms confer
ence by a vote of 16 to 8 decided to
accept the British amendment
whereby guns, ammunition and all
other equipment of warships are
dropped from the craft convention
and hence not subjected to super
vision. The United States voted with
the majority. Thus warship arma-
ments meet the same fate as war
ships themselves, which were exclud-
ed last week from all official con-
troll as to their sale. They meet
also the same fate as airplanes and
armored trains. The military COM
mittee, did however, vote to keep
in the controlled list all arms which
are mounted on war-designed air.
planes and armored cars.
France led the movement to de-
feat the British proposal and was
supported by number of the
smaller states like Czecho-Slovakia
and Poland, with which she is allied
in a military way. The French
spoke contended that If traffic
in land artillery is to be subjected
10 control, as already decided, it
was logical that the guns on ships
of war should be kept in the con-
trolled list. He argued further that
maritime armament could be used in
land defense and therefore should
follow the same regulations as land
defense.
The British idea is that warship
is like a fort and that the details
of a warship's strength should be
no divulged than the actual calibre
and position OF guns in particular
land fortress.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-05-19
$4,000 Fire Loss
In Business Section
Town of Union

Union. Me-, May 1S-Rockland and
Belfast firemen this morning checked
with a $5o.000 loss fire which
threatened the business section of
the town with destruction. The post
office and Masonic hall were among
the property destroyed when the
flames swept a row of buildings on
the north side of the Common.
The Moneka block, owned by c. A,
Simmons, which contained the post
office, Masonic hall, confectionery
store of Royal Grinnell and restau-
rant of Elizabeth Hit, was almost
wiped out The top floor, which was
Masonic property, alone escaping Sc
rious damage. The building owned
and occupied by Ralph Young as an
ice cream parlor was destroyed. Fred
f. Burketts hardware store and
Gordon & Lovejoy's general store, IN
the rear of which the fire is believed
to have started from spontaneous
combustion, were heavily damaged.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-05-19
Belgian Envoy Here
Going to Brussels
To Confer on Debt

Brussels, May 1S-(AP)-The Bel
gian ambassador to the United
States, Baron Cartier de Marchienne,
is coming to Brussels, to confer with
the new premier, Aloysius van de
Vyvere, who also holds the portfolio
of minister finance, on the question
of Belgium's debt to the United
States. He will sail from New York,
June 8.
This announcement was made in
an authorized statement given to The
Associated Press today when the
Belgian foreign Office on the subject
of the debt. 1t says:
Ambassador Phillips (The Ameri-
can ambassador called on the for
eign Office April and asked for in
formation concerning the intentions
of the Belgian government regarding
reimbursement Of the post-armistice
debt contracted with the United
States. The communication having
been made during the ministerial
crisis the acting government in
formed the American government
that the new ministry would exam
inc the question.
1.-The Belgian ambassador at
Washington, who will conduct the
from New York June 8. He will
confer with the new finance minister
on the question.
"The Belgian government on many
occa sions, notably in the chamber on
April last year, made clear it's inten-
tion to fulfill it's engagements as soon
as circumstances would permit. -
LAS to Belgian debts contracted dur
ing the war, the Paris agreement of
January last states that s per cent.
of Germany's payments under the
Dawes plan are to be applied to re-
endorsement of these debts; IL per
cent. of the sums realized by this s
per cent. was set apart for the United
States, whose treasury so far has re-
ceived 1,s33,0OO gold marks. Further
payments will be forthcoming month
ly."
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-05-19
Liner Bremen to
Fly Irish Flag

Hoboken. n. J., May 1S-(AP)-
The Irish flag will return to the sea
tomorrow morning when the North
German Lloyd steamer Bremen de-
parts on it's initial trip for Ireland.
This will be the first time in 500
years, it is said, that the Irish flag
has been flown at the mast of a ves-
sci at sea.
A full complement of 700 passen-
gers will sail on the Bremen. The
steamer will call at Queenstown and
proceed to Bremen.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-05-19
maine REAL SON
PRESENTED AT meet
S. A. R., SWAMPSCOT1

Smapscott, Mass, May 1S-(AP)-
A real son of the revolution was pre-
sented to the Seth annual congress
of the national Society of the Sons of
the. American Revolution here today
when Osborne Allen of Dexter, Me,
member of the delegation from Maine
was introduced. He was born in
1886, the son of James Allen, Jr., of
New London, Conn.,, who enlisted at
the age of IA and served through
the war of the revolution and also
the war of 1872. dying at the age of
104
Histories of revolutionary perioH
now in use in public schools through
out the country still leave much to
be desired, Judge Wallace Nc Cam
ant of Portland, Ore, told the con-
gress, in presenting the findings of
the committee on patriotic education.
THE textbooks which were object
ionable in their treatment of the rev.
olution were also for the most part
Objectionable in their attitude toward
present day problems" Judge Nc
Camant said. In this respect there
has been little or no change for the
better during the three years that we
have been at work on this problem.
Many of the textbooks still inculate
class hatred. Many of them speak
sympathetically of destructive move
ments engineered by those who
would undermine and overthrow any
form of government
Marvin H. Lewis of Louisville. Ky,
ported thirteen new chapters organ
lied during the year and asked that
consideration be given to the effect
that the spirit of pacifism is likely
to have on the institutions of the
country
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-05-19
Chair Sentence
Fails to Disturb
15-Year-Old Youth

Pottsville, Pa, May 1S-(AP\-A
few minutes after he had been SEN
fenced by Judge Kochs today to
die in the electric chair for the mur-
der of his aged grandmother, Is
year-old William Cavalier was play
ing jazz music on phonograph in
his room in the detention house. He
appeared unconcerned as to his fate,
declaring that he was not afraid of
dying "in the hot seat" He added
that he would have plenty of friends
who will save me-"
Counsel for the boy announced they
would appeal to the state supreme
court for a new trial and failing in
this would carry the case before the
board of pardons. 1t is understood
there will be no opposition to a COM
mutation of sentence should the case
go to the pardon board.