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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04
No Trace of Pair
Who Felled Sheriff
And Fled Vermont Jail

Burlington, VT, Jan. 3-(AP)-No
trace has been discovered tonight of
Henry La Pierre and Wilmer Syy-
monds, alias McGregor, two prisoners
in Chittenden county Jail who last
night made their escape after a MUIR
derous assault on Sheriff Henry
Todd. While opening the door to the
cell section of the Jail. Todd was
struck a heavy blow with a wooden
club held by Syymonds. The sheriff
fell backwards, still conscious, and
grabbed Syymonds' leg. The latter
continued to beat the officer and
finally wrenched himself free and
with La Pierre, who had seized the
sheriff's keys, darted through the jail
office. Syymonds gained his liberty
through the kitchen but La Pierre
ran through the jail house and broke
through a window in the parlor.
Early this morning the two men
stopped milk truck near the Uni
versity of Vermont experiment farm
and compelled the driver to carry
them two or three miles into South
Burlington. Later they broke into a
house and stole two overcoats. La
Pierre Is q criminal with long
record of burglaries in Burlington
and other parts Of the state. He is
also wanted in Massachusetts,. He
was arrested In hiding not long ago
in South Burlington and was held on
several charges. Syymonds, q Cam
adam, was merely serving a 30 day
sentence for stealing a ride in a train.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04
U. S. Army Officers
Lost While Hunting
In Mexican States

San Antonio. Tex, Jan. S-(AP)-
Two of four American army officers
who went into Mexico last week on q
hunting trip have been lost since
Thursday, presumably between Nuevo
Laredo and Rodriguez, state Of Nuevo
Laredo. r.
The missing men are Lieutenant C..
S. Thorpe of Brooks Field, Army air
training school near here, and Lieu
tenant Marion T. Pharr, fourth field
artillery, Fort Mcintosh, near Laredo,
Texas.
Two airplanes were sent from
Brooks Field today to continue the
search for the officers which since
Thursday has been carried on by
horsemen.
Lieutenants Thorpe and Pharr left
the hunting camp established near
Rodriguez, some sixty miles south
west of Laredo. Thursday morning.
They took different routes. 1t being
arranged between them to meet at a
designated place, and return to camp
at noon. After waiting their return
and instituting a search by cowboys.
their companions. Lieutenants Fred
Hamilton and d. p. auckland, twelfth
cavalry. Fort Ringold, returned to La
redo yesterday with news Of the Of
ficers' plight.
Two civilian policemen from Lare-
do searched the territory yesterday
and today without success.
The missing men are believed to be
without food, in a wild, mountainous
region. The bad weather is also an
item of anxiety to those making the
search.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04
Husband Finds Wife
Unconscious After
Abduction Attempt

Templeton, Mass, Jan. 3.-(AP)-
The authorities were notified today
of an apparent attempt to abduct
Mrs. Hazel I. Partridge, 35 years old,
living with her husband, Joseph H.
Partridge. on the Petersham road
two miles from the center of this
village.
She went across the road from the
house to the barn last night to speak
to her husband and half an hour
after she had left him he returned to
the house and found her missing. He
finally discovered her lying uncon-
scious on the floor of the garage in
the rear of the house.
She did not recover consciousness
until this afternoon, when she said
that on leaving the barn she saw a
man standing beside the door. She
tried to call her husband. and re-
membered nothing after that.
There were two bruises on her
head. suggesting the possibility that
someone might have struck her. The
garage doors were open and appar-
entlv an unsuccessful attempt had
been made to start Mr.. Partridge's
automobile.
Mrs. Partridge's mother said that
last summer her daughter was at
tackled on a lonely road by man
who tried to carry her off. No mo-
tive was known for that attack and
members of the family were unable
to furnish any explanation for last
nights happening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04
North Arson Man
Commits Suicide
Sunday Morning

especial to the Kennebec JouYnal)
Skowhegan, JAM. 3.-John Luce.
who lived just south of the bridge
IN North Arson village. committed
suicide about 1915 this forenoon by
shooting himself through the head
with - caliber revolver, dying 90
minutes later. Mr.. Luce had been
over town in the morning and no one
noticed anything unusual in his man
ner. He had been in poor health
Tor some time. Mr.. and Mrs, Mark
Emery, who are near neigTfbors, saw
Mr.. Luce as he came out of his
mouse to the side of the street and
place a revolver to his head. Dr.
w. G. Sawyer, county medical ex-
aminer, was summoned and pro-
nounced death due to suicide.
Mr.. Luce was born in New Port
land 5S years ago. son of + eonard
and Lois Currier Luce. For the past
few years he had lived alone. al
though his sister, Mrs. Charles Nc
kenney of New Portland Hill, was
coming soon to keep house for him.
He leaves a daughter, Miss Hilda
Luce. now living in Larone: broth-
er, Orlando Luce of Skowhegan: and
a sister.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04
Rumanians Sorry
For King and Queen
In Sons Remuneration

Bucharest, Rumania, Jan. 3-(AP)
There is genuine and widespread
sympathy on the part of people with
the king and queen in the blow that
has fallen upon them through the
remuneration of Crown Prince Carol.
This, however, does not, exclude a
certain sympathy for the romantic
lovelorn prince, who enjoyed much
popularity.
1t is now known that his decision
was dictated by purely private and
sentimental reasons, political con-
siderations being in no way involved.
The Rumanian press is unanimous
In deploring his resolve, remarking
that it is the third time within few
years that the prince has manifested
a desire to renounce the privileges
of his rank. Parliament will meet
tomorrow to pass the necessary leg
islation to regularize the new condi-
tions of succession.
The premier and minister of JUS
tice went to Sinaia. the royal country
seat, to submit the texts of the
measures to the king this afternoon.
A semi official statement denies
that Carols remuneration had any
connection with the giving of an or
der for airplanes, or that the war
minister, M. Madarescu, had re-
signed.
Parliament is expected to ratify
forthwith the necessary changes in
the royal family and the transfer of
the right of succession to little
Prince Michael. After the sitting the
members of parliament will return
to their homes as the house is in re-
cess.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04

Athens, Greece Jan. 3.-(AP)-
Premier Pangalos today announced
what amounts to a military Dictator
Ship. He will take over control OF
the entire government Immediately.
The announcement was made at
a banquet given in honor of the pre-
mier by the democratic guard regi-
ments.
After paying tribute to the patriot
ic conduct of the army in the grave
national crisis since 1919, Premier
Pangalos declared that he was COM
PEELED for reasons that he would
make public tomorrow to modify his
attitude.
Some of the other ministers at
tended the banquet, but not the
heads of the foreign or naval depart
ments. In the course of his speech
NJ. Pangalos commended that since
the revolution of 1909. the man who
had made Greece powerful Venize-
los) had tried the experiment of par
liamentary government, but from
that time the power of Greece had
waned. Then came disaster in Asia
Minor, followed by the revolution of
1922. That revolution was only a
partial success, for it failed to pro-
duce a condition of healthy politics.
1t is understood that an official
proclamation will be issued tomor-
row. Elections to the senate have
been indefinitely postponed, but quiet
prevails everywhere. 1t is declared
that both the navy and the army
are ready to support the premier.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04

Announcing that he will be a can
didate for denomination at the June
primaries, Governor Brewster issued
a statement yesterday in which he
declares that during the past year
the State of Maine has accumulated
a surplus of three-quarters of a mill
lion without any increase in the State
tax and that if conditions develop
as favorably during this coming year
we shall be able to do any neces-
sary new construction for our in
situations and at the same time make
a reduction in taxes of $1,000,000 in
1927.
Governor Brewster's statement is
as follows:
Statement of Governor Ralph o.
Brewster
In accordance with long standing
custom / shall be a candidate for
denomination. at the primaries in
June. There is a proper response
Continued on Page 10-Col. 81
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04
BRITAIN IS WORRIED
over GROWING ANGER
in RUBBER SITUATION

London. Jan. Shy the Associat-
ed Press)-While the British press is
endeayoring to minimize American
criticism of sky high rubber prices
brought about by the Stevenson plan
regulating the output of British PLAN
tations, and dispatches from Wash
ington correspondents printed in the
London papers are attempting to show
that it is merely trade row inspired
by the automobile makers, it is evil
dent that British off1cialdom Is be-
feeling, which is not confined to the
United States. but is spreading
throughout continental Europe.
Even British automobile owners are
beginning to register protests against
higher tire prices. and with the rapid
ly increasing British automobile in
dustry the problem is becoming DOM
este.
When the first American outburst
came, the British press failed to men,
ton that the criticism was inspired
chiefly by the fact that the British
government had fathered the Steven
son plan. thus making it a govern
mental, and not a private trade prob
lem.
Recently there has been a more
temperate discussion of the American
objections and such leaders as Sir
Robert Horne, who was chancellor of
the exchequer when the Stevenson
plan was formulated, have rushed in
to print in an effort to conciliate AM
erican opinion. Sir Robert, in
lengthy statement to the Daily Ex-
press, asserts that rubber prices
would have been high even If the
Stevenson plan had not been made
effective, as the rubber plantations
We're facing ruin and sthe output
would have been reduced to a point
where lack of supply and greater
demand, because of the invention Of
the balloon tire, would have sent
prices up.
"The present cutlery in America
against our rubber policy" he says,
us not only ungenerous. but unjusti-
fed"
Many of the papers point out that
the United States practically mon
opoliZes breadstuffs, cotton, copper
and other raw materials, and contend
that it should not criticize British
rubber action. But the same papers
rather generally fail to mention that
the American government has not at
tempted regulation of the prices of
such commodities except during the
war.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04
Prohibition Made
Great Strides in
Year Just Closed
CONGRESS STARTS
TODAY ON s MONTHS
LEGISLATIVE GRIND

Washington. Jan. 3.-(AP)-With
the Christmas recess behind 1t, con-
gress will reassemble tomorrow to
remain continuously in session for
probably at least six months.
All OF the major problems which
faced it when it first met month
ago still are to be solved and new
ones are yet to be met.
While the world court is the un-
finished business before the senate
and appropriation bills are the order
Of business in the house, the most
troublesome problem confronting
administration leaders is that of
working out some means of handling
surplus farm crops.
Conferences looking to this end
have been called for this month by
Secretary Jardine, but meanwhile,
members of the Iowa congressional
delegation will Introduce surplus
crop bills and seek immediate hear
ings before the house agricultural
committee.
lHS WOElu COuTL mas
right of way in the senate, it prob
ably will be displaced temporarily
by the Nye case, in which is involved
the legal right of the governor Of
Dakota to fill senate vacancy by
appointment. Leaders hope to dis.
pose of the matter within two or
three days.
After disposing tomorrow Of the
treasury and postoffice appropriation
bill, the house Tuesday will take up
a resolution proposing the appoint
ment of a joint congressional COM
mission to receive bids for the Mus
Gle Shoals power and nitrate plant.
The interior appropriation bill will
be the next measure on the house
calendar.
An Investigation which Is expected
to have far-reaching consequences
will be started during the week by
the house interstate commerce COM
mittee. 1t will center around a res
olution alleging manipulation of the
price Of crude rubber by the British
colonial governments.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04
:. .d;ral O'Connell Says Art
chould Not Be Decried But
Points Out Good That Could
lave Been Accomplished
with s4O,OoO,OOO Left by
Great Publisher-Cites His
Hardships and Success and
Wonders if After All it was
Worth While

,..,on Jan. s.-(AP)--Cardinal
.,s..,.lI archbishop Of Boston, speak
:. the services Of the Holy Name
s ..s today, said that the man who
~, n MIS- millions to art seems to have
~, -. touch with that sentiment of
..,.,,,,ion for the poor which is the
.-r essence of Christianity"
I'VE read in the papers," he said'
"a, the poor boy, starting with but a
.sr dollars, who toiled day and night
.,, bs accumulated millions.I can't
holm but admire him for his sacrifices
.s., brought him through hardship
and poyerty. He made a success OF
s,s enterprises. so far as getting
money was concerned.
"pnt to me it seems as though the
whole thing wasn't worth while, after
I'll r. a tenth part of that energy
had been expended in the right direc-
.,on wonders would have been achiev-
al After gathering these countless
r,ilions he couldn't eat any more or
arinr any more than when he was poor.
One NAV, wonder if he had any real
friends, 1t would be thought that he
d,d NOT for he seems to have dealt
yery coldly, very harshly, with all
those who worked for him.
"No one wants to decry art: there is
q certain liberty which every man has
in disposing of his own goods. 1 am
mt criticizing: I am only saying that
with s4O,OOO,OOO much could have been
done for the sick in the hospitals, for
the Door In the slums, his own fellow
workmen who helped to build up his
enterprises.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04
NEITHER FACTION
HAS new PLAN FOR
COAL settlement

Scranton, Pa, Jan. 3-(AP)-No
new plan of settlement of the anthra-
cite strike has mater!alized over the
week end, 1t was indicated tonight
: by representatives of the miners and
operators who are at their homes III
the hard coal region pending the re-
converting of the point conference in
New York on Tuesday.
The United Mine Workers officials
have given no indication that they
will recede from their opposition to
any plan which includes arbitration
Of wages or conditions entering into
q working contract. The operators
attitude-that arbitration of disput-
ed points is the only way out of the
deadlock--is unchanged, so far as
can be learned.
Reports emanating from New York
to the effect that the operators as
individuals, intended reopening their
mines to their former EMPLOYEES on
the expired scale of wages and with
The same working conditions that
We're in effect previous to the suspen-
sion went without verification in the
anthracite Held, w. w. Inglis, chair
man or the anthracite operators ne
gotiatlng committee and A. NJ. Fine,
member of the negotiating commit
lee, who have been in this city since
the adjournment Of the New York
conference last Thursday, will leave
Ior New York tomorrow afternoon.
II was denied here tonight that the
operators were to meet in Philadel-
pnla previous to the New York meet
ing tuesday, although there have
oeen rumors that the operators might
CONFER in Philadelphia Monday be-
iore returning to New York to re-
sumo the conference
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04

New York, Jan. Shy The Asso-
ciated Press)-On the heels of one
of the most prosperous business
years in history. the new year is
ushered in with all signs pointing to
a continuation of prosperity for at
least the first half of 1926. Forecasts
by financial and industrial leaders
revealed almost complete unanim,..y
of opinion regarding the trend of
business during this period, but
many of them were tempered with
caution in taking long range view
of the entire year.
Seldom have the cheerful predic-
tons which were issued for 1929
been more abundantly fulfilled. Tan
gible evidence of improvement was
noted in all lines of trade and indus
try throughout the year, embracing
such important measures of prosper
ity as record breaking railway
car loadings, unprecedented holiday
trade, substantial gains in the earn
ingS of railroads and industrial cor
porations which were passed on to
higher dividends, decided progress in
the restoration of European political
and economic stability and indica-
lions that there would be little re-
strictive legislation affecting finan-
cial or railway enterprises from the
present session of congress.
AS a barometer of trade. the stock
market functioned throughout the
Ii icih
business prosperity of 1925 was fore
told in the fall boom of 1924 and the
sustained strength of stock trading
up to the close of the year indicated
that the time had not yet arrived to
discount a reversal of trade ten
denotes. Underlying easy money
conditions stimulated stock market
operations most of the year, but 1926
begins with firmer conditions pre-
vailing.
The traditional curtailment of
trade activities during the holiday
period brought no new features OF
interest to light last week. 1t was
generally agreed, however, that the
lull in production and distribution
would be of short duration, enabling
many manufacturing enterprises to
complete inventories and replacement
of equipment preparatory to a re-
sumption of large scale operations.
Many industries closed the most
extraordinary year in their history,
according to Dun's Review of trade,
with operations in mahy basic lines
running close to capacity. In some
instances tendency toward higher
prices was reported.
Although actual operations in the
steel industry were reduced last
week, the year ended with the gen.
eral rate of production standing at a
high level and with prospects bright
for a continuation of this pace for
several months. Although December
figures are not yet available it is APP
parent that ingot production exceed
ed the 1917 war record of 43,519,000
TONS
For the first time in history rail-
way freight traffic has been main
tanned through December at an av-
erage rate of more than a million
car loadings weekly.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04
Heart Attack Kills
Jackson "a Facing
Charge of Larceny

ro I,a.lnorldge, Mass, Jan. S.-((AP)-
Ss .. jackson, former vice presi-
Nil en. ana treasurer of the Eastern
ma Street Railway, who
", ras 70 nave gone on trial January
oa, ior larceny of $4,000 from the
npany, perjury and misuse of in
~ 'aace FUNDS, is dead at the home
srt relative here. He collapsed in a
b sos.y station yesterday from a
r,,,a, attack and was dead on ar
IVA. ~ hospital.
ra Two years ago Christmas Day the
naS Ssern Massachusetts Company an
fona ,ced that Jackson had resigned
slS oNa discovery of a shortage of
M iU,vuV IN his accounts in the eastern
siS,o uai insurance Company, a sub
attsr,s The following day jackson
vr,s. ip'eo suicide by slashing his
th.t mas, out recovered and confessed
an I ne had invested the funds in
res, A ass Oil Company. His ar
a, ana Indictment followed.
Jacsoroing to police investigators.
Natiounn, invested some $4,000 in the
nan aonal Petroleum Products Gem
CONT, IN Eldorado. Ark. Before be-
Masss an officer of the Eastern
aud,,achusetts. Jackson had been an
tiaeS 0r with the company and a GER
Hs, W.. public accountant in Boston.
'e was IS years old
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-04
Deplores Disposition
Munsey Made Of Millions
NON-ACCEPTANCE
RESIGNATION DR.,
Wise, WORD OF COM.

New York, Jan. 3.-(AP)-The ma
tional executive committee of the Zion
list organization of America today
adopted resolution affirming it's faith
in Stephen S. Wise, of the Free Syn
agogue. and instructing its represent
atives on the executive committee of
the United Palestine Appeal to vote
against acceptance of his resignation
as the Appeals chairman.
The resignation was offered after q
controversy in Jewish religious cir
cles started by sermon of DR.. Wise
on December 20 in which he said that
Jesus was "a man, not a myth" and
discussed the ethical contribution of
Jesus to the world.
In sermons today DR.. Wise charged
his orthodox opponents. with commit
ting "a sin against truth and Jewish
life" while Rabbi Samuel Schulman of
Temple BETHEL. liberal, condemned
DR.. Wises utterances and said that
American Judaism is facing crisis"
because of the attitude toward Jesus
Of DR.. Wise and his sympathizers.
Occasion will offer" DIR. Wise said,
for an explanation of the conduct of
the orthodox rabbis who have COM
mitted the sin against truth and Jew
ish life of reading out of the syna-
gogue one who is and whom they
know to be affirmatively and mini
family, uncompromisingly Jewish,
whatever his utterance, real or alleged,
touching the central figure of the
Christian church."
DR.. Wise deplored "the age-long mis-
understanding which lies back of their
unJewish attitude toward a fellow
jew"
Rabbi Schulman in his sermon said
that the sermon of Dr. Wise which
caused the controversy was, in essence,
an appeal to Jews to accept Jesus as
a teacher and that this would be the
first step towards conversion to Chris
tianity.
IF reform rabbis," he said, ARE to
continue to urge the acceptance of
Jesus as a teacher, with all that this
implies, there will be breach in the
Reform Jewish party of this country"
DR.. Wise, he charged, has played
double role in American Jewry for 20
years and more. of being the intense
Jewish nationalist and racialist and
Zionist on the one hand. and the apos-
tie of Jesus in the Jewish pulpit on
the other"