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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-20
Toledo on Watch
For Club Murderer
After New Outrage

Toledo. Ohio, Jan. 19-(AP)-To-
ledo armed itself today against re-
currence of terror that has preyed
upon the city for eight months while
police sought the slayer of Miss Mary
Handley, who was found beaten to
death early today in back yard ad-
jacent to her home.
The scene of the Staying Is the
center of the district in which three
women have been killed and four in
jured by a clubber since last May.
While Safety Director Hill made
the murder the basis for plea for %
additional policemen, detectives ex-
pressed the opinion the attacker of
Miss Handley was hiding behind the
identity of the slayer of the other
Toledo women by initiating his meth
DDS.
Miss Handley was the divorced
wife of Thomas Kelly, a contractor,
who had been living with her two
brothers for some time. She had
been absent from her home for two
days when her body was found.
The Handley brothers told police
Of a man discovered peeping in the
windows of their home Monday night.
They made no effort to apprehend
him, they said.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-20
German President
Tells Parties They
Must Make a Choice

Berlin, Jan. 19.-(AP)-Presid
Won Hindenburg. resuming the role
of field marshal today, summoned
the leaders of the reichstag parties
to the executive mansion. and after
demanding that all political bicker-
ings and controversies cease. plain
ly intimated that the choice lay be-
tween a dictatorship or parliament
tary government.
Pettifogging politics as exhibited
in the German parliamentary crisis
reused the ire of Won Hindenburg
as he determined to put an end TO
the political impasse which has left
Germany without a duly authorized
gov eminent for more than six weeks.
The presidents forceful language
and unquestioned determination had
the desired effect, for less than three
hours after the political leaders had
left his presence, Chancellor Luther
was able to announce the roster of
his new cabinet, which he will In
troduce in the reichstag Thursday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-20
New England Cities Will
Be Linked by Air Route
Operating Base Already Estab-
lished at Portland and Boston
Plan System of Relay
Planes-Tech Professor Sees
Big Increase in Commercial
Flying During Coming Year

Boston, Jan. 19.-(AP)-Announce-
ment that the leading cities of New
England will be linked in air route
next summer was made today at a
joint meeting of the Aero Club of New
England and the Boston chapter Of the
National Aeronautic Association. Op-
Grating centers already have been es-
tablished in Boston and Portland
Maine, it was said, and negotiations
are under way for connections at
Hartford, Conn.
Under the plan passengers would be
carried from any part Of New Eng
land in the same type of planes; cp-
orators would not have to send their
ships more than two hours from their
home base; and passengers would not
be delayed for refuelling en- route.
Prof. Edward P. Warner Of Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology, who
presided, said that the year 1925 would
see a great increase in commercial
flying in New England. A resolution
was adopted urging the extension OF
the state lease of the Boston airport
by Is years and state appropriation
Of $4,000 for runways maintenance at
the airport this year.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-20
Confession Gunner
Frees Man Indicted
In Cambridge HOldup

Cambridge, Mass, Jan. 19-(AP)-
John j. Shea of Charlestown was re-
leased from the Middlesex county
Jail tonight, after two gunner serv-
ing state prison sentences had con-
fessed to the crime for which he was
held.
Shea was charged with being one
of the bandits who held up and rob-
bed Daniel Gold and his wife, Mrs.
Ruth Gold, in their Everett drug
store last November. Indicted by the
grand jury on charges of robbery
while armed and assault with intent
to rob. he was sent to Jail in default
of bail.
Today John J. Heating of South
Boston and George Tracey of Cam
bridge. recently sentenced to serve
from 20 to 80 years in state prison,
confessed that they had robbed Gold
and named Carl Celia of Roxbury.
now serving two concurrent state
prison sentences which total q to IS
years. as their accomplish.
Assistant District Attorney Warren
L. Bishop Immediately mol pressed
the indictments against, Shea and Or
dered his release from Jail, where he
has been confined for more than two
months.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-20
Valentines Wife
Granted Divorce

Southampton, England, Jan. 49,
(AP)-Rudolph Valentino, who sailed
for the United States today on the
Leviathan, sid that he would go i'm
mediately to Hollywood and try to
forget his domestic troubles in work.
A decree of divorce was granted to
his wife in Paris today.
The Leviathan sailed with a pas
senger list which included an unus-
ually large number of theatrical and
film stars. Raquel Meller, the Span
ish vaudeville and motion picture
star, at the last minute changed her
decision not to sail on the American
liner. Mile. Meller had declared she
would not board the Leviathan be-
cause the company would not give
her eight dogs de luxe cabin accom-
mediation.
Sophie Tucker, who has been a
headliner in London musicales for the
last two years. sailed to visit her
mother who is i'll at Hartford,
Conn. Miss fuckers farewell at
London was the occasion for the
Irving Berlins breaking their 'seclu-
sion.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-20
Four Professors
Ohio State University
DENY Are Communists

Columbus, Ohio. Jan. 19.-(AIo-
Four Ohio State University professors
who have been accused of being COM
munists today denied before the uni-
versity trustees investigating commit
tee they ever have had any connections
with communism Of the slightest lean
ing toward socialism. Three of the
four professors, it developed. served
overseas with the A. E. +.
The professors called were c. c.
North, sociology department; II. X.
Spencer and F. w. Coker. political
science department: George +. Arps.
dean of the education college.
In it's inquiry into alleged liquor
law violations the committee learned
from those appearing before it that 1t
is perfect nonsense to say that there
is no drinking among the students, but
that the student body at the university
has improved morally year by year and
is at present at it's highest point; that
student bodies are continually, pro-
excessively and constructively at work
in dealing with their own propiems'
that drinking in the faculty is mil.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-20
B. & M. Officials May
Get Word Today on
Chicago Beer Trial

Boston, Jan. l9.-(AP)-Whether
or not three officials of the Boston
and Maine Railroad should be taken
to Chicago to stand trial for con-
spiracy to violate the national pro-
hibition law in connection with al
legged illegal beer shipments may be
determined tomorrow. Arguments
were made today before U. s. Com
missioner Edwin Jenny, who reserv-
ed decision in the cases of the three.
They were indicted recently in con-
nection with an alleged $SO0,OOO a
month syndicate operation in the
middle west and the east.
Five carloads of beer said to have
been shipped from the Gilt Edge
Brewery of Lawrence were seized at
Morton Grove, Ills, last fall.
In addition to the Boston and AL
bany and Boston and Maine officials
Chicago federal grand jury
brought indictments against Chica-
go police lieutenant, the Boston and
Maine Railroad. three prohibition
agents. and a score of others. in
Guiding officials of the Gilt Edge
Brewery. The case of Martin J..
Hart OF Lowell, said to have been
the head of the syndicate controlling
the brewery, whose removal to Chi
cago is also asked, will come before
the commissioner tomorrow.
Removal hearings in the case of
David j. Allen, Thomas A. Mowen
and possibly others, are scheduled
to begin in Newark, N. j., on Fri
day. The latter were employees or
officials of the Gilt Edge Company.
A general denial of guilt was en-
tered today on behalf Of the defend
ants by counsel for the Boston and
Maine Railroad. All three testified
that they had protested when they
found that three carloads Of "Ce-
real beverage" shipped from the
Gilt Edge Brewery had been billed
incorrectly as automobile bumpers
and liquid OIL"
Two special agents associated with
the intelligence unit of the Internal
Revenue Bureau in Chicago asserted
all their defendants had disclaimed
responsibility in failing to report any
suspicious they might have had con-
corning the shipments. They said
that the railroad men had met their
questioning with the explanation
that they were not chemists.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-20
Directed Verdict
For Acquittal in
SacO Arson Trial

Saco, Me-, JAM 19.-tAP)-1he
fact that August 13. 1922, fell on
Sunday, resulted in the acauittal OF
Carlton E. CLANCY, %. on the charge
of arson in the supreme court to-
day. The jury brought in a directed
verdict. State witnesses claimed
that CLANCY had confessed to setting
fire to West Hall, Wells. on that date.
Papers purporting to be confessions
signed by CLANCY were presented as
evidence. A party was given at Cha-
news home on that date and wit
nesses stated that CLANCY was pres
ent during the entire evening. EX-
animation of the calendar showed
that was the only time August 1o
had fallen on Sunday in many years
and Judge Guy H. Sturgis instructed
the jury to bring in verdict of &C.
0llittal
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-20
Father Invokes Little
Known Law in Sons Suit
PRESIDENT WOULD
ABOLISH FEDERAL
INHERITANCE TAX

Washington, Jan. 19-(AP)-The
senate compromise tax reduction bill
was looked upon with hopeful but
skeptical eyes today at the White
House and at the treasury.
1t was stated at the White House
that, while President Coolidge was
In favor of retirement of the federal
government from the field of inheri-
lance taxation in f"--o~ of the states.
he was not prepared to state whether
the time. had come for repeal of the
federal levy as proposed by the bill.
Compilation of o~''~1ates on the
total reduction provided for in the
bill, meanwhile, brought a quick
alarm from the treasury when it was
disclosed that the measure would
make a slash of almost 100000, 900
In the nations revenues this year.
The senate finance committee was
Immediately called into session and,
dividing on party lines, the Repub-
licans voted to increase the corpora
ton tax to IL IL percent, effective
upon enactment of the bill into law
The committee previously had vot-
ed to increase this levy from IL L.
to Is 1-2 percent on taxes paid this
year and to 13 1-2 percent next year
to offset the loss of revenue expected
from the proposed repeal of the cap
itaf stock tax. BY making the rate
13 IL percent Immediately, Chairman
Smoot estimated this would yield
$43,000,000 additional revenue this
year and cut the reduction total of
the bill to 1852 100000.
Even this excess over the $780,
100000 limit approved by Secretary
Mellon was frowned upon by the
president, who felt that, while the
treasury might stand the additional
reduction, difficulties might be en-
countered if there was a depression
in business which would result in a
decrease in government revenues.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-20
Hard Coal Miners Gri1nly
Vote to Continue Strike
EDMUNDS JURY
FAILS TO AGREE
IN 10 HOUR SESSION

Bangor, Me-, Jan. 19-(AP)-Hav-
ing deliberated ten hours and ten
minutes without being able to reach
an agreement, the jury in the case of
State against DR.. Charles d. Ed
munds. tried for the murder of Anna
vivien Stairs. 20 year old Houlton
housemaid. upon whom he is alleged
to have performed an illegal opera
ton, came into court at $50 this
morning and was discharged from
further duty in the case by Justice
George H. Worster. 1t was reliably
reported about the courthouse that
the jurors stood to for acquittal.
No decision had been reached to-
day as to whether or not the State
would seek a re-trial of the case. 1t
was said that county and State off,
cials would hold a conference at a
later date to discuss the matter and
in the meantime DIR. Edmunds will
be held under $4,000 bail as pre-
vious to the trial.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-20
Two Face Charge Of
Rum Boat Traffic in
Bangor District Court

Bangor, Me-. Jan. 19.-(AP)-The
November term of the United States
district court was reconvened here
today for the trial Of liquor con-
spiracy case in which six Washing
ton county men are alleged to have
been concerned. They are William
G. Means, Gordon Marston. Edward
Flynn, George FLYNN and Willard
Gardner of Machias and Henry Dur
gin of East Machias, all named in
the indictment. Durgin was discharg-
ed in consideration Of his having
testified for the State before the
grand jury; both the Flynns have
disappeared. and Gardner today re-
tracted his former plea of not guilty,
and will be sentenced later. Means
and Marston, adhering to their plea
Of not guilty, were today placed on
trial. charged with having caused to
be lander from a motor boat and
transported by motor car large
quantity of liquor. The case will go
to the jury on Wednesday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-20
Gotham Council
President Protests
Poker i'm His Office

Boston, Jan. 19.-(AP)-Discov
cry of a poker game in the city
council chamber of the City hail
has led to the installation of new
locks on all rooms on the fourth
floor of the building, it became
known today. The new city council
president, Charles G. Keene, ordered
the new locks after finding a group
of men, none of whom he said he
knew, engaged in stiff game in his
own office.
Il am no prude," he declared
but / believe the city hall is for
the purpose of transacting the city's
business. l do not believe that when
the members of the council retire
to their rooms they should find them
occupied by strangers and non-offi-
II don't know where these hang
ers-on got their keys. How the sit
uation developed is not of import
ance to me; but what is important
lis that the practice must stop. 1
have taken the first step and ordered
all locks changed and the keys to
them issued only to those who have
a right to them"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-20
Sought to Make
Husband Believe
He Was Father Baby

New York, Jan. 19-(AP)-Mother
love and the desire to keep the af-
lection of her husband by pretend
ing he was a father, caused Mrs.
Wesley Blauvelt to give $40 for a
baby and later to announce that it
had been kidnapped when she feared
exposure, police assert today.
Mrs. Blauvelt has confessed, police
say, that she paid money to the
baby's real parents in an effort to
palm it off ON her husband and that
when the child's mother repented,
told of kidnapping to hide the de-
ceit from her husband.
The baby has been sought for the
past two days and was discovered
with her real parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
John Murphy at their Brooklyn
home last night.
Blue-eyed Gertrude Frances. two
and half year old victim of the de-
ception has been turned over to the
Children's Society. Her parents and
Mr.. and Mrs. Blauvelt are under ar
rest.
The story of Mrs. Blauvelt's plan
to retain her husbands love was dis
closed before Magistrate McQuade in
night court last night when Mr.. and
Mrs. Murphy, who had let Gertrude
go for adoption and then in repen-
tence had secured her return. told
the court that the child had never
been lost or stolen.
For more than two years, Mrs.
Blauvelt, whose home is in Bergen
field, N. j., led her husband to be-
leive he was the father of child be-
ing boarded with relatives in Allen
town, Pa. When he became suspi-
cious and insisted on seeing the baby
she became desperate, police say,
answered an advertisement offering
Gertrude for adoption.
Police say she admitted giving the
Murphys $40 to adopt the baby and of
remaining her Helen" She, herself,
desired the infant because Of her love
for a baby.
Mrs. Murphy's grief at giving up
her baby caused the entire scheme to
collapse, police said.
The Murphys said they had Of
fered Gertrude for adoption because
of illness and poverty.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-20
Denies Any Desire
To Destroy Union
Controlling Miners

Scranton, Pa, Jan. 19-(AP)-Re-
iteration of the mine owners declar-
alton that they have no desire to
destroy the miners union was con-
tanned in a statement issued tonight
by Major w. W. Inglis, chairman OF
the anthracite operators negotiating
committee. Major Inglis said when
the strike is settled the operators
expect to make an agreement with
the organization of their employees.
The statement was issued in reply
to allegations made by John l..
Lewis, president of the United Nine
Workers, in addresses delivered III
the hard coal region this week.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-20
Union of Churches
Cardinal Mercier's
Wish with Death Near

Brussels, Jan. 19-(AP)-Cardinal
Mercier Is sinking slowly but with the
end not yet imminent. He is devot-
Ing what apparently are the last
hours Of a great life to furthering
the cause of the union of churches
at which he has been working ever
since the war.
Gently declining to yield to the
doctors entreaties, the cardinal spent
goodly portion of the afternoon
discussing the prospect with Able
Portal, missionary priest of Paris,
who took part in the famous Ma
lines conversations" between Catho-
lie and Anglican church ecclesiastics
in May. 1925.
Other visitors We're also received
today, among them Baron Beynes,
Belgian ambassador to the Vatican,
although the patient had been able
10 take no nourishment since yester-
Gay and his weakness was becoming
more marked.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-20
!, .,.oln Williams, Gardiner
Youth, Claims Injured by
nriuking Liquor Sold Him by
Harry A. Jones of Same City
Law on Which Suit is Bas-
a Passed in 1872 - Seek
manages of $4,000

unusual action in which a
~ is suing a man alleged to have
-. .aM intoxicating liquor to his son.
~ !. .s.t Of Lincoln Williams Of Gar
...r against Harry A. Jones OF
a,rer Mr.. Williams names an
- s.,dum of $4,000 and the case is
Vac tried In the superior court at
Vs.. .~usta under a law passed In
, , which gives to any one injured
.,,her in person in property, through
~. ~ means of support or in any
.,s.r way, through the intoxication
:, another, the right to sue the per-
.,n selling or giving the liquor
' III caused the intoxication. The
,,w provides that in such an action
N. plaintiff may recover both actual
and exemplary damages.
Tho plaintiff in this case charges
that Mr. Jones sold a quart of liquor
- n. son. who was made extremely
N hv drinking some of it, and as a
. - MI Mr.. Williams was put to a
..onsiderable expense in the treatment
va care of the boy and through the
, lace Of his contribution to the fam
Harold Williams, the son was first
,,t nnond the stand. He testified
~ ~ on the night of August IL. 1925.
he purchased a quart Of White
Horse" from Harry A. Jones. the pro-
rrietor of a harness shop IN Gardl-
rsr having therefor the sum of $40.
Ta IN company with his cousin,
1Ioyd Hickey then went TO OXbow.
s s eight miles from Gardiner
where they attended a dance. In
eompany with others they drank
from this quart of liquor. Williams
having three drinks during the course
n the evening. Later they went TO
! camp about a mile away where
Hickey was taken sick and within
fen minutes Williams was also made
yery sick. Williams testified that ne
could remember nothing more until
he recovered consciousness in the
Gardiner General Hospital the fol-
loving Monday, August II. being on
Wednesday.
He told in detail of the work he
Continued on Page 11-Coi. %
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-20
Sentiment At Three Mass Meet.
ings Despite Priyation They
Are Facing-Merchants of
Region Near Bankruptcy
Blame Both Miners and Oper-
ators for Perpetual State Of
Uncertainty - Workers In
Other Lines Forced Into
Ranks of Idle

Scranton, Pa, Jan. 19.-(AP)-The
twin spectres. prvation and bankrupt
cy. are stalking through the hard coal
fields as the miners tighten their belts
and the merchants reinventory their
wares for an indefinite prolongation of
the anthracite strike.
Although keenly feeling the pinch OF
need, the miners at three mass meet
ings in the last three days voted unan-
imously to continue the strike. now in
its fifth month, rather than accept ar
bitration Of what shall go into a new
wage contract.
The merchants, some of them al
ready faced with bankruptcy, are car
rying on because they have no alterna-
tive.
Inquiry of the miners sentiment at
the mass meetings revealed that the
workers feel that merchants, business
and professional men of the region
have failed properly to support the
miners in the strike. They feel that
the merchants by their kilograms urg-
ing acceptance of arbitration have
weakened the strikers cause at the
conference table and thus helped to
prolong the struggle. They feel that
as the merchants, business and profess
sional men of the region depend upon
the wages earned by the miners Tor
their mutual prosperity, these elements
should have stood squarely behind the
strikers in their demand for an IN
crease in wages.
Inquiry among merchants and busi-
ness men of Scranton and Wilkes
barre showed that these people, hit
by the collapse of the buying power OF
the region, are anxious only for re-
sumption of work and a return to nor
NAL conditions. They censure both
the miners and the operators for what
one merchant described as this per-
petual states of uncertainty in this re-
gion of single industry"
Each added day of idleness at the
mines increases the unemployment In
other industries and subtracts from
the regions buying power. Hundreds
of street car employees. railroad work.
ers, store clerks, walters and others
who depend upon the mines for pros-
perity and their jobs have Joined the
miners in enforced idleness.
The United Mine Workers of Ameri-
ca hame promised that none in the an
thratcite regions shall starve, and to
make good this promise have launched
q plan for the collection of funds from
workers in the bituminous field and
from affiliated union workers in the
American Federation of Labor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-20
Manchester, N. H.,
Man Missing from
Steamer La Perla

Boston, Jan. 19.-(AP)-Edward L.
Wheaton, 33. of Manchester. has dis
appeared from the United Fruit Com
pany steamer La Perla, bound from
Boston to Hanover. His disappearance
was reported in radio message re-
ceived by the company today from the
captain Of the steamer.
Wheaton was the son Of Postmaster
Samuel L. Wheaton of Manchester. He
was graduated from Harvard in 1913
and from the Harvard Law School in
1916. He had been employed until re-
Gently by the Chase National Bank of
New York but gave up his work on
account of ill-health.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-20
Stockholders Big
Power Co. to Meet in
Augusta on Feb. 10

New York, Jan. 19.-(AP)-Stock-
holders of the Southeastern Power &
Light Co. will vote at a special meet
ing in Augusta, Me-, on Feb. 10. on
proposed increase in the authorized
shares to 4.S50.000 no par value
shares. divided into 100000 shares of
81 preferred, 100000 shares Sc per-
TERED, $4,000 shares participating
preferred and 100000 shares of COM
mon. The present authorized 100000
no par shares consist of 100000 shares
of 81 cumulative preferred and $780,
900 shares of common. Directors also
will be increased from IL to IA.