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Evening star., 1926-12-10
DISCUSS INVESTMENTS.
Conference Here Tomorrow Will
Take Up Concessions Abroad.

The question of concessions and in
vestments in foreign lands will be
discussed at the conference on Ameri-
can concessions abroad which con-
venes at the Raleigh Hotel tomorrow
under the auspices of the Peoples
Reconstruction League.
Prof. Charles Hodges. assistant di-
Evening star., 1926-12-10
Front Royal Teacher Dies
'cial Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The star.
FRONT ROYAL, Va. Decemher
10.-A1iss Fannie Wallace died her.
Wednesday afternoon after an illness
OF several months. She was q
daughter of the late Mr.. and Mrs.
George Wallace Of i'auquier County
and was in her eighty-tour-th year /.
She taught school many years
Evening star., 1926-12-10

nounced. The sessions viii be open
to the public.
Evening star., 1926-12-10
DR.. G. F. BOWERMAN
HEADS FEDERAL CLUB
John T. Doyle, Secretary of Civil
Service Commission. Is Elected
First Vice President.

Dr. George L. Bowerman. librarian
OF the Public Library Of the District
OF Columbia, was elected president OF
me Federal Club at it's annual busi.
ness meeting in the University Club
Evening star., 1926-12-10

vim. the retiring president, presided
at the meeting.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-30
Findings of Richard
w a hburn Child,
ExU. S. Ambassador
To Italy
Guest of President at White
Pine Camp-Tells Him Con-
gressiOnal Election CAM
paign Shaping Up for Adj
ministration - General AS.
sumption Will Be Candidate
to Succeed Himself in 1928

Paul Smiths, N. Y, July 29.-(P)--
An optimistic report on political con-
ditions was given President Coolidge
today by Richard Washburn Child,
former ambassador to Italy, who said
the congressional election campaign
was shaping up favorably for the adj
ministration.
Discussing conditions later with
newspaper correspondents, Mr.. Child,
who had been a guest at White Pine
Camp since Tuesday said in response
to questions that there seemed to be
a general assumption in the country
that Mr.. Coolidge would be a candi-
date to succeed himself in 1928. In
the opinion of Mr. Child. the presi-
dent was personally responsible for
the economy program of the federal
government and also for Washing
tons not becoming a bureaucratic
center.
Mr.. Coolidge, he emphasized. in the
latter connection, is a conservative
Republican who is more for de-cen-
tralization of the national govern
Continued on Page 4, Col. 81
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-30

Sommerville, N. j., July 29.-tP-
Mrs. Edward Wheeler Hall. wealthy
and socially prominent resident of
New Brunswick, was in Jail today
faced with mass Of new evidence"
pointing to her as the murderer of
her husband and his alleged sweet
heart.
Prosecutor Bergen said he would
take this evidence before the grand
jury and ask for murder indictments
against Mrs. Hall. The April grand
jury is still technically in session and
may be recalled for active duty at
any time.
The arm Of the law reached across
a four year span in midnight ar
rest last night to serve a warrant on
Mrs. Edward Wheeler Hall, charging
her with the murder of her husband.
rector of fashionable st. Johns Epis-
copal church in New Brunswick, and
Mrs. Eleanor r. Mills, a choir singer
in his church.
But the hands that served the law
were not those of local authorities,
but of state police and officers from
Jersey City.
Today Prosecutor Toolan an
Continued on Page q, Col. d
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-30
Blames Khan for
Defeat in Primaries

Bangor, July 29-Artemus Weather
bee of Lincoln, who has served as
county attorney of Penobscot county
for four years, yesterday issued
statement to the voters of the county
and followed it Immediately with his
resignation TO Governor Brewster,
with the request that 1t take effect at
once.
In his statement he declares that
his defeat as candidate Tor renomi-
nation at the June primaries was
due to the ku Klux Klan because he
absolutely refused on request to
dismiss Frank j. Rogan, one of the
ablest investigators in Maine," and
insisted that the Constitution or
Maine protected him in his religious
rights that no good American ought
to question, and that the control OF
the courts should not be endanger-
ed through Khan activities in the Of
flee of the county attorney So long
as l held that Office"
In the June primaries, Mr.. Wealth
erbee was defeated by George E.
Eaton of Bangor. In the event of the
resignation being accepted it is pre-
sumed that Mr.. Eaton will be APP
pointed to fill the vacancy in season
to take up the work with the grand
jury at the opening of the September
term of court.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-30
REV. FRANK NORRIS
INDICTED IN KILLING
chips, ZIMMERMAN

Fort Worth, Tex, July 29.-P)--
The Rev. J. Frank Norris. pastor of
First Baptist church and nationally
known fundamentals, was indicted
today by the Tarrant county grand
jury for the murder Of D. e. Chips,
lumberman, in the church Office on
July II.
Mayor Meacham, Chips friend,
was called as witness just before
the indictment was returned. after
two weeks of investigation.
Nearly two score witnesses, the
larger part of them members of DIR.
Norris church, appeared before the
grand jury. Other witnesses on whose
testimony the indictment was return
ed included the ambulance driver
and city police officers and detectives.
The IA year old mystery witness"
who disappeared after the Staying
and whose name has been withheld
by the district attorney, was not call
ed, although it was stated he may
: be a states witness at the trial.
Announcement of the return of a
true bill against DIR. Norris came
after the pastors statement late last
night that he has employed no coun-
sci, which followed by a few hours
the announcement from DIR. Norris
Office over the signature of Marvin ID.
Simpson, that the latter had been
retained to represent the minister,
NO reason was given for the change
in plans.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-30
Mexican Catholics
To Go To Church
Without The Priests

Mexico City. July 29.-(P)-While
labor and political groups have organ
lied extensive parades for Sunday as
manifestation of support Of the gov
ernment's religious policy, Catholics
throughout the country plan to go to
their churches for prayer despite the
absence of officiating clergymen.
The last Catholic church services at
which priests will officiate will be held
tomorrow, an order to this effect hay-
ing come from the office of the arch
bishop of Mexico. the Most Rev. Mora
Y Del Rio. Priests are Instructed to
leave the churches and not conduct
services on Sunday, in order to syn
chronize the cessation of services with
the going into effect of the religious
regulations Saturday.
Uneasiness, uncertainty and appre-
hension are manifest everywhere, and
Mexico City is filled with all sorts of
rumors and reports. Instructions have
been given to the police by order of
Attorney General Ortega to disarm all
Catholics.
This, the attorney general announc-
ed, is in consequence of reports that
secret meetings are being held IN Mex
leo by certain groups, which the au-
lilpI tues lear are lOT Tie pulp pose III
fomenting forceful opposition to the
religious laws.
The authorities in some places al
ready have taken a hand in the case
of newspaper editors publishing ar
ticles and editorials considered objec-
tionable. Two Chihuahua City and a
Mexico City editor have been cited on
this charge, which is equivalent to
preferring a complaint and may or
may not involve actual imprisonment.
The religious regulations forbid re-
ligious publications or those of marked
religious character commenting on, or
carrying any news items, concerning
the government activities.
Some foreign diplomats, including
the French and Spanish, are giving
serious consideration to a movement
seeking to have the diplomatic corps
offer it's services as friendly mediators
in the religious struggle American
Ambassador Sheffield, who is the dean
of the corps. has not taken any official
action in this respect. nor has the
plan been presented to him officially.
Again today waves of humanity OF
amazing magnitude surged around the
Mexico City cathedral. showing an
anxiety to perform their devotions;
crowds damned the courtyard, over
flowing into the plaza; some fringes of
the crowd even reached the walls OF
the presidential palace.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-30
New High Marks
For Common Stocks
Gen. Motors, u. S. Steel

New York, July 29.-(P)-The COM
mon stocks of the General Motors
Corporation and L. S. Steel Corpora
ton, two of the largest industrial con-
Germs in the world, advanced to new
high records for all time today in one
of the greatest buying demonstrations
ever witnessed on the New York stock
exchange.
General Motors scared 12s to 1918,
or an extreme gain of nearly II
points in two days and over rs points
above the years low established on
March 90 Total transactions in this
issue today ran close to 100000
shares, bringing the weeks total to
around 100000 shares, or over one
sixth of the entire amount of stock
outstanding. u. S. Steel common adj
vanced 81 to 1863 on total sales of over
100000 shares. as against low of lit
a few months ago.
The sensational advance in these Is
sues, which has overshadowed all 9TH
er developments in the stock market
in recent weeks, has been credited in
Wall street to a powerful speculative
group headed by William c. Durant,
the automobile manufacturer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-30
| so FORCED OUT
AS FLAMES DESTROY
| OCEAN VIEW HOTEL

South Harpswell, Maine. July 90
(P)-Fifty guests fed from the Ocean
View Hotel as the house was de-
stroyed by fire at midnight tonight.
The flames were visible 20 miles az
sea.
The origin OF the fire was unde-
termined. A fiery cross had been
burning on a nearby hill shortly be-
fore the fire in the hotel was dis
covered but whether sparks from
that or from the hostelry's chimney
started the flames, firemen were IN
decided.
No guest was injured but prac-
tically all lost all their possessions.
The hotel, which stood on an en-
inence overlooking Casco Bay, form
erly was the Lawson House, and for
so years was one Of the best known
in Maine. 1t was owned by Eli Per-
ry of Portland.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-30

Portland, Me-, July 29.-P)-"Ab-
solutely impossible" Chief Justice
William r. Riddell of the Appellate
Division of the supreme court of the
Province Of Ontario, replied without
hesitation today when asked by a
reporter If he believed the United
States and Canada ever would unite.
We are separate nations" he
added. I'VE are distinct from Eng
land. We have our own king, our
own government, our tariff, and ev-
erything that makes US a nation by
ourselves. Canada and the United
States never will unite"
Judge Riddell, who holds an hon
orary degree from Colby College. is
visiting in this city and vicinity with
Mrs. Riddell.
Asked his opinion as to the prob
able outcome of the foreign debt set
Elements, he declared it was entirely
out of his line" and he did not feel
qualified to express one. II do feel.
however" he said. that the only
solution of the problem is for the
nauoAs who owe, to pay their
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-30
Four Badly Hurt
In Crash Car And
Truck Near RumfOrd

Rumford. Maine. July 90 up -
Mrs. Frank Doherty Of Rumford sus-
tanned a fractured skull and Clark
Rarnum. also of Rumford. broken
ribs and internal injuries which VIII
probably prove fatal to them, IN an
automobile crash at Riverside PARK
TODAY. Mrs. Clark Farnum and A.
: Farnum of Dixfield were also bad
Iv injured but are expected to recov-
er The car in which they were rid
ing was rammed by a truck loaded
with wood which was driven by A.
s. Farnum. All were thrown out
and A. S. Farnum was pinned under
his car.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-30
Coolidge Still
Holds Strength
With the People
DEMOCRATS MEET
AT R0CKLAND TO
DISCUSS CAMPAIGN

Especial to the Kennebec JournaD
Rockland, July 2S.-There was a
large delegation Of the Knox county
Democratic committee and candi-
dates to greet Mayor Ernest l.. Nc
Lean and Charles NJ. Starbard at the
court house in Rockland this morn
ing. The meeting was called to or
der by Ensign Otis. county commit
teeman for Knox county, and was
organized by the election Of Henry
H. Payson as county chairman,
Charles A. Creighton as treasurer
and Mrs. Richard Elliott as secre-
tary.
The meeting was largely devoted
to a discussion of organization plans.
Mr.. Mclean and Mr.. Starbard both
spoke briefly.
Mr.. Mclean brought out a new
thought in his discussion of the fl
nancial situation. He stated that the
state auditor should tell the public
what had been done with the S312,-
coo brought over from Ex-Governor
Bakers administration in excess of
the 100000 used to make up the
contingent fund for the last fiscal
year. He stated that Gov. Bakers
figures showed that $612,O00 had
been turned over by him to the pres
ent administration; 100000 of this
had gone into the contingent fund.
He desired that the state auditor
should tell the public what had be-
come of the balance of $500
Mr.. Mclean also referred briefly
to the needs of our state institutions
Continued on Page 4, Col. 81
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Leaders Declare
New York Subway
Strike Is At An End

New York, July 29-(P)-Leaders
of the striking subway motormen and
switchmen announced tonight they
had released their men from strike
obligations and had declared the
strike at an end.
The leaders said rhe strikers will
be taken back by the PETERBOROUGH
Rapid Transit Company at the wages
they previously received. but that
they will not regain their lost senior
ity.
1t was the second time in two
weeks that the strike had been de-
clared ended The first time the men
resumed their strike when subway
officials refused to take them back
as. a group. A general strike of all
subway workers in the city had been
called for Saturday but company Of
ticials insisted that few of their EN-
ployes would answer it.
Strike leaders said tonight their
men will return as individuals and
the leaders themselves will be taken
back. if at all, after their individual
caes have been considered by COM
pany officials
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-30
General Forecast

The tropical disturbance has moved
northeastward with greatly diminished
intensity and it is now central between
Atlanta, Ga. and Montgomery, Ala,
lowest barometer reading reported be-
ing 29.74 inches at the latter place. 1t
has been attended by rain in many
places heavy rains in the south Allan
tic and east Gulf states.
Minor disturbances are central over
the upper St. Lawrence valley and over
the Canadian northwest.
In addition to the precipitation con-
nected with the tropical disturbance
showers have occurred within the last
"a hours throughout the middle Allan
tic and north Atlantic states and in
portions of the lower Lake region. the
upper Mississippi valley, the Plains
states and the central Rocky Mountain
region. There will be considerable
cloudiness Friday and Saturday in the
states east of the Mississippi River
and showers are probable over the
greater part of this area. The temper
allure will not change materially.
Winds: North of Sandy Hook, mod
crate, possibly fresh southerly. and
overcast showery weather Friday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-30
Record Pull by
Oxen at Amherst

Amherst, Mass. July 29-(P)- A
record for weight hauled by oxen
was claimed today when a team
owned by J. II. Guilford of Ashfield
pulled the equivalent of 10 IL tons
distance of 10 feet. Second place
was accorded a team owned by Ru-
fus Fits of Shutesbury. which pull
ed Il tons a distance of 81 IL feet.
The contest was part of the pro-
gram of Farm and Home Week at
Massachusetts Agricultural College.
More than 1000 farmers attended
today's sessions of Farm and Home
conferences. Secretary of Agricul-
ture Jardine, making his first public
appearance in New England, gave
an informal talk on local conditions
as he had observed them during his
visit to this section. Another speak
er was Mrs. Julian Dimock of Eo~t
Corinth, VT. the only woman mem
Der of the Vermont legislature.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-30
INDICTMENTS BREAK
UP GREAT LIQUOR
ORGANIZATIONS

Buffalo, n. Y, uly 29-(P)-The in
dictment of about 80 Buffalo and Nj
agara Falls men by the federal grand
jury at jamestown today on charges
Of violating the prohibition law
marked the breaking up of one of the
most important Illicit liquor organi-
cations in prohibition history in the
belief of federal officials The organ
ization had qualifications as far west
as Detroit and as far east as the At
lantic seaboard and was declared to
be one of the biggest sources Of boot
leg liquor on the continent.
Disclosures concerning this huge
rum ring eclipsed in public interest
the developments in the investigation
into the distribution of poisonous al
cohol in western New York and on
tario which resulted in the deaths OF
more than two score persons. Buffa-
10 police announced that they had To-
Gated 1000 gallons of 4,4O0 gallon
shipment of poisonous alcohol. Much
of the remainder was disposed OF III
small lots throughout western New
York and along the Canadian border.
Search was continued for "DaVy'
Borden of New York, alleged whole
saler of the poisonous liquor. and two
chief lieutenants, Nathan SapoWich
and David Goldberg, of Buffalo. The
police have obtained sworn state
ments of chemists that they told the
latter pair the liquor was wood alco-
hol and poisonous before it was re-
sold.
Federal Attorney Richard II. Tenn
Dleton, who presented evidence of the
rum conspiracy to the Grand jury at
Jamestown, said the government had
made the greatest single stroke
against bootleggers that it had ever
Accomplished Explaining the work
ing of the ring, he said that about
1000 gallons OF alcohol was with
drawn monthly under permit from
government warehouses. through the
.Topp Drug Company of Buffalo and
the Falston Tonic Company of Mag
ara. A fleet of motorboats on Lake
Ontario transported this alcohol to
Canada, where it was re-diStilled and
mixed with Canadian whiskey. Here
it was bottled and sealed with fake
labels. wrappers and government
stamps.
Government agents traced the IL
quor from these plants to Toronto
and on to Halifax and other Canad-
ian ports. From these ports the IL
quor was loaded on rum ships and
taken down the coast where it found
its way back into this country.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-30
Clever Copper
COntainer COPIED

Lynn. Mass. July 29.-(P)-Here's
the latest in rum running:
When the erstwhile slender Max
White passed Policemen WEIGH and
Macdonald yesterday they noticed
with amazement he had developed
overnight from a perfect SO to AZ
or more.
White attributed the transformation
to vacation, but the skeptical officers
decided on a search. They discovered
a copper container made like base
ball catcher's small protector and con-
tanning a gallon of liquor, fitted snugly
to his body.
After canteen and cargo had been
subtracted. Max, a &c once more, was
taken to cOllct.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-30
Photographers Flash
Frightens People
In Mexico Cathedral

Mexico City, July 29.-[P)-Three
persons were badly crushed, including
a young man and his mother in the
Mexico City Catholic cathedral this
afternoon when the explosion of a
newspaper photographers fashlisht
caused a panic. Those inside the
densely crowded edifice believed it was
a bomb or the beginning of combat.
Hearing the explosion, the people
made a frantic rush for the door, or
rather tried to do so. The solid man
ner in which they stood is what saved
many from being injured or killed,
for they were wedged so tight it was
impossible for anybody to move much.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-30
Average Milk
Production in n. E.

Wakefield, Mass, July 29.-(P)-
Milk production in New England on
July l was about the same total as
last year at that time although the
production per co was rs per cent.
higher, the New England crop report
ing service said in it's monthly dairy
letter today. The cool season was IA
vorable to milk flow but pastures were
later than usual in furnishing good
feed. so that the production peak this
year was likely to be later than in
1925.
Vermont and Connecticut showed
considerable gain in daily milk produc-
tions, while Rhode Island showed a
material loss and Maine slight one.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-30

Boston, July 29.-P)-Following a
carefully planned course of action,
no bandits today held up two men
m Boston and Maine branch train
N Salisbury selected a small pouch
containing $4,000 consigned to an
amesbury bank, leaped from the
moving car and escaped in a waiting
automobile. A small army of state
and local police and citizens had
found no trace of the robbers to-
night.
The loot was a money consignment
from the Federal Reserve Bank in
Boston to the Powow River National
Bank In Amesbury, designed as cash
balance against which checks for
several factories were to be drawn.
At Newburyport the money sack was
nlaced on the small branch line train
which runs six miles through Sails
burv to Amesbury. With other mail
the cash was in a combination bag
cage and smoking car, the last of the
three car train.
The two robbers rode a s passengers
Continued on Page 10-Col. ~
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Forest Fires in
M0osehead Region
Are Under Control

Forest Commissioner Neil l.. Vio-
lette received a report yesterday
forenoon from District Supervisor
Bryant Jones. who is at Seboomook,
stating that the big forest fire which
has been sweeping everything be-
fore it in West Middlesex since last
Saturday, has finally been controlled.
A big crew of men under the sup
ervision of Chief Warden Errold Hill
ton has been fighting this fire, the
most stubborn so far this year, since
it was reported on Saturday.
Other fires were reported today
from Mosquito Brook. in Aroostook
County, and from Daaquaam, town
ship Range IS, Chief Warden w.
j. McRae reporting these last out
breaks.
Relief is expected from rain in va
rious parts of the Forestry District,
light rains having already occurred.