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Evening star., 1926-05-27
RUM RING REPORT
DENIED BY STRONG
Naval Air Officer SCOTS Idea
Hawaiian Flight Plane
Struggled Liquor.
BY the Associated Press.


SAN DIEGO. Calf, May 27.-Em-
phatic denial that he was in any way
connected with an alleged rum -smug-
Cling ring at Seattle was made here
yesterday by Lieut.. Comdr James H
Strong, naval aviation officer. Lieut.
Comdr. Strong is reported to have
been indicted by Federal grand jury
at Seattle for alleged violation of the
prohibition laws.
"All that l know of the action of
the Seattle grand jury is from news
paper reports" said the officer "This
trouble came to me like a bolt from a
clear sky"
Lieut.. Comdr. Strong was stationed
at Seattle while the PB-1 Hawaiian
fight plane was being built and tested
for the flight He termed ridiculous
any reports that this plane could have
been used for smuggling.
Evening star., 1926-05-27
Organism Reproduced
Self IL 400 Times in Nineteen Years

Every day the products of division
of the culture have been isolated. The
animals of the culture today are di
rect lineal descendants. without fer
tilization. of the single animal isolated
in 1907. 1t is estimated that about
II. 400 generations have been attained
in the 10 years. The persistent vital
ity ri the culture is further attested
by the fact that it is continuously
furnishing animals for various other
studies on the same microscopic ami
mails at Yale and elsewhere.
This study has indicated that under
favorable environmental conditions
the protoplasm of the progenitor of
the culture had the potential ability
to produce similar cells, whose total
body material would represent many
hundreds of times the volume of the
earth.
Evening star., 1926-05-27

NEW HAVEN, Conn. May 27.-The
BILE for a unicellular organism to re-
produce indefinitely without recourse
to fertilization has been answered by
an experiment covering 10 years at
the geological laboratory at Yale Uni
versity The report by Lorande Loss
Woodruff will appear in a coming is
sue of the Quarterly Review of Bi-
ology, says Science Service bulletin
On May /, 1907. a pedigree culture
of the unicellular organism. para
mecium aurelia, was started in the
laboratory with a single individual.
Every day fresh food has been fur
nished to the culture after the food
has been boiled to prevent contami-
nation with any foreign strains of
paramecium.
Evening star., 1926-05-27
BANKERS CONFERENCE
SIGNIFICANCE IS DENIED
Meeting of U. S., British and Ger
man Financers Is Held One
of Regular Series.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, May 21.--The discussions
which Hjalmar Schacht, president of
the Reichs Bank, will have in London
this week with Montague Norman.
governor of the Bank of England. and
Benjamin Strong, jr.. governor of the
Federal Reserve Bank, New York. are
declared in official circles here to be
one of the periodical conferences he
tween representatives of the world s
leading banks. with no special politi-
cal significance. and that there is no
foundation for reports that Germany
intends to suggest immediate revision
of the Dawes reparation plan.
1t is added that although German
politicians and financiers are con.
vinced it will be found the Dawes
plan cannot be carried out in it's pres.
ent form. the German government
will not plead for it's revision. but will
leave it to the other side to recognize
the advisability of revising it.
Evening star., 1926-05-27
GOSPEL MISSION UNION
SELECTS INDIANAPOLIS
Workers Accept Indiana Govern
or's Invitation to Meet in
Capital in 1927.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BUFFALO, y. Y, May 27,-Ac-
cepting the invitation Of Gov. Edward
jackson of Indiana. the Union Of
Gospel Mission Workers yesterday
chose indianapolis as the place Of
their 1927 convention. Rev. ". E.
Paul of Minneapolis was elected
president.
A woman secretary. who said she
already had four man sized" jobs
the Rev. Clemme Ellis White OF New
York City-was elected. She is head
of mission in the Helrs Kitchen
section of New York. manager ~ a.
fruit and produce farm. owner and
manager of a Summer boarding re-
sort and an ordained minister.
Evening star., 1926-05-27
Held IL. Dead Tag Charge.

Charged with having dead tags and
failure to have his registration card.
Harry l.. Metcalf, 20 years old. 1928
Columbia road, was arrested by police
Of the sixth precinct yesterday after
noon after his car was alleged to have
struck and injured Viola Thompson.
colored, 1i25 r street. while crossing
near Seventh and G streets. Viola
was treated at EmeSSencX Hospital
Evening star., 1926-05-27
Finds Auto Tag Useless.

NEW YORK. May 81 R.--It is
possible to drive from Chicago to New
York without number plates or a
license. Arthur La F'leur. vaude
vile actor. did it and was not arrested
or even questioned till he got nine
blocks from his home.
Evening star., 1926-05-27
Indian Famine Tolls Big.

Between 1876 and 1900 the toll Of
Is famines in India was about 26.-
900 900 persons. AS a result human
bones have been carted TO the fertil-
izer factories by the tons. Whole
communities perished at times. In
these periods of famine many mead IF
cattle were available had there not
been 81 religious taboo among the
Hindus rrecluding their eating thai
Ao~h
Evening star., 1926-05-27
STORM IN ARGENTINA
TIES UP SHIP TRAFFIC
Ambassador Pueyrredon Held Up
at Montevideo for Twenty
Four Hours.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BI1ENOS AIRES. May 27.-Storms
on the coast OF Argentina have par
alyzed small craft shipping and have
delayed the passage of large steam
ships in the Platte River region dur
ing the past 4S hours. Transatlantic
liners are from 12 to "a hours late.
The nightly departure of steamers
for Montevideo was Cancelled on Tues
day. The Western World from New
York, on which Honorio Pueyrredon,
Argentine Ambassador to the United
States. took passage. was held up at
Montevideo for "a hours.
Evening star., 1926-05-27
CARNIVAL LIST STARTED.
Lyon Village Firms Signing for
Concessions Next Week.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star
LYON VILLAGE. Va. May 81
Signing of exhibitors for the big car.
nival next week has begun, the Ross
lyn Gas Co. being first on the list
Work will be started Saturday on the
pavilion and stands for the games and
refreshments and other concessions.
Jesse N. Rice, chairman of the car.
nival committee, is signing the ex.
hibits. a.,
Hundreds of posters advertising the
carnival have been printed and will
be placarded throughout the county
this afternoon by members of the as
sociation. Arrangements also have
been made to place the posters in the
and in prominent business establish
ments in Washington.
Evening star., 1926-05-27
Injunction Hearing Delayed.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

SFfFiaI DfsDatrh TO the war
CLARENDON. Va. May 27.-Hear-
ing on the temporary injunction grant.
ed W. l.. Bragg against c. J. Ives by
Judge Samuel G. Brent. May q, hold
ing UP the building of an undertaker's
establishment at the rear Of his prop.
erty on Wilson Boulevard, scheduled
for today. has been postponed until
Monday. The hearin,: will he held be-
fore Judge Brent in Circuit Court at
Alexandria.
Evening star., 1926-05-27
No Chance, Poor Man.
From the PHILADELPHIA Inquirer.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
With. girls making 80 out Of a pos
sible 100 bull's-eyes. putting the shes
80 feet aud doing the l00-yard dash 30
IL seconds, there wont be much
chance for a man after q while either
to 1aGx vE EAQ. ,.- .... Z =
Evening star., 1926-05-27
Stage Makeup May End.

NEW YORK. May q R).-Make.
mp will be used mostly by theater.
goers Il a new stage lighting device
lives Up to expectations. 4 flesh
eelatine slide ri Il lavender tint wakes
little oi M Use of cosmetics by the
CAT pscess2rXs w.. sr,5.
Evening star., 1926-05-27
They Just Happen.

From the Sarasota Fla, Times.
Accidents will happen. Thai s
why there are SO many dlHefent
kinds Of salada. "
Evening star., 1926-05-27

Monte Criste. Santo Domingo. has
just orened It's first public irrigation
canal !. -
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-22
By Beck

at bribery was found against anybody
in connection with the railroad by the
decision of this las. court of last re-
sort of Canada.
I'm all these court proceedings ]
without any hesitation made the same
statement in Hegard to the 100000
contribution which I have made here
in. In fact | have told this story hum
dreds of times to as many citizens as
in the State of Maine during the past
Is years, holding it up as an example
of the cheap politics of our neighbor-
ing province, and it was certainly not
necessary for. my Democratic opponent
to send a commission to New Bruins
wick to get information.
SIT is but another cheap attack on
his part at the last moment to dig up
some ghost in en- effort to bring votes
to the Democratic party. There is
nothing whatever in my business ca
reer from the time I started down to
the present time which l have had
any desire TO shield from the public,
and if Mr.. Redman desires Informal
ton in regard to any of them it will
not be necessary for him. to spend
money in travelling abroad. If he will
come to me l will give him full, COM
plete and correct information"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-22
GOULD'S WORD

| NSontinueu from rage OnC)
trying TO do business with the New
Brunswick officials.
Mr.. Gould said:
'In 1910 New York capitalists with
| whom ] was associated organized a
! corporation and procured a fran
chise for the building of railroad
| from st. Johns. n. B., to Grand
| Falls. N. b.. known as the St.
Johns and Quebec Railway. The
railroad was to be 30 miles long.
"a charter was procured from the
New Brunswick parliament for this
| purpose. In connection with this
charter, parliament guaranteed the
J bonds of the railroad up to $4,000
| permit. This was common prac-
| tice in building railroads in Canada
and in many parts of this country
at that time. A notable example of
this being the Washington county
railroad in this state when the
county of Washington purchased
| $5OO,000 worth of stock of that rail-
| road which is now operated by the
| Maine Central Railroad in order to
| procure the construction of the rail-
! road through the sparsely settled
| county.
"At the time we were seeking a
| charter, politics were at a fever heat
| in New Brunswick and a strenuous
fight was on between the Liberals
and the Conservatives who were
then in power. Every corporation
and especially American investors
seeking to do business in Canada
! were assessed for campaign purposes
and we in common with all others
were told how much we were eN-
pected to contribute to the campaign
if we expected to get any legislation
through parliament,
1.-THE amount assessed against the
st. Johns and Quebec Railway was
100000 and we were told by Pre-
mier Flemming that we must pay
that assessment if we expected to
go on with our railroad.
II strenuously objected to the
payment of one cent, but the judg-
ment of my business associates who
were in a majority prevailed and
my New York associates paid this
amount of money without my
knowledge, sanction or consent.
Later, when Premier Clarke of
the same party came into power, he
sought a contribution of $4,000
ITOU1 us anu llhcWlSS gave 10 "
understand that if we expected to
continue building the railroad we
must contribute this amount.
II again positively refused and
told my New York associates that
I would get out of the proposition
entirely If they allowed the railroad
company to be sandbagged any
longer. My advice was taken, and
we positively refused.
"As a result, Premier Clarke and
his associates carried out their
threat and past legislation which put
us out of business. AT that time
the province of New Brunswick
owed us more than 100000 on ac-
count of money due us.
I'VE brought suit against the prov
ince of New Brunswick and carried 1t
through all the courts of Canada, and
the supreme court of Canada finally
decided that we could not collect what
was due us from the province of New
Brunswick on account of legislation
passed by the New Brunswick parlia-
ment.
mo question of bribery or attempt
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-22

said primary election, expenditures
were made and liabilities incurred,
except the personal expense of said
Arthur Z. Gould for postage, tele-
grams, telephones, stationery, eX-
press and travelling, for which re-
turns are required by law to be made
in excess of the limitation prescrib-
ed by Section p of Chapter 6 of the
Revised Statutes of Maine for the
nomination of a candidate for
United States Senator, to wit, $500,
and in violation of said Section 81
of Chapter 6 of the Revised Statutes
of Maine.
Wherefore, your complainant
prays that the said Secretary of
of State for the State of Maine will
find as a fact that the said Arthur
r. Gould in connection with his said
nomination and procurement there
fore, before, at, or since said pri-
mary election made expenditures
and incurred liabilities, except his
actual expense for postage, tele-
phones, kilograms, stationery, ex-
press and travelling, for whicA re-
turns are required by law to be
made, in excess of the limitation
prescribed by Section q of Chap
ter 6 of the Revised Statutes of
Maine for the nomination of cam
didate for office OF United States
Senator, two wit, $1500, and in vio-
lation of said Section 81 of Chap
ter 6 of the Revised Statutes of
Maine: and that said expenditures
were made and liabilities incurred
with the knowledge and consent of
the said Arthur r. Gould; and that
said Arthur r. Gould shall be
deemed to have withdrawn as can
didate for the office of United States
Senator from the State of Maine.
And may it please the Honorable,
the Secretary of State for the State
of Maine. to set time and place for
hearing upon said complaint and to
give the said Arthur r. Gould due
notice thereof, that he may be then
and there admitted to a hearing in
his defense.
Dated at Augusta, in the County
of Kennebec and State of Maine, this
seventeenth day of November in the
wear of our Lord, one thousand. nine
hundred and twenty-siX.
ARTHUR +. LEIGH,
State of Maine,
Kennebec, IS.
Then personally appeared Arthur
r. Leigh, above named, and made
oath that the above complaint by
him signed is true.
Before me,
ROBERT 3. WILLIAMSON,
Notary Public.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-22

Nelson, tonight issued statement
caused, it was said, by Special
Prosecutor Simpson, who In his
cross-examination of Henry Stevens
yesterday "endeavored to cast doubt
on the parentage of Mr.. William
Stevens"
The statement said:
1.-THE facts which are all of pub
lie record in the appropriate church
registers, are:
Henry Hewgill Stevens, the cid
est of the three brothers and sister,
was born in Poughkeepsie, n. Y,
November 20, 1869, and baptized at
st. Pau1s church, Poughkeepsie,
February 81, 1870, by the Rev. P. H.
Synnot.
THE church register is still in ex-
istence and shows that the god-par-
ents of Mr. William Stevens were his
father his mother and his maternal
grandfather. Jacob Stout Caypen-
der" the statement says.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-22
Justice McKeown made the following

Justice Mckeown made the following
| statement:
Unfortunately 1t transpired that,
! for the purpose of advancing his own
| interests. Mr.. Gould paid to the hon
orable Mr.. Flemming, then acting for
| the province. this large sum of. mon
ey, most of it to him personally, the
| balance to his order. The circum-
stances under which this money was
paid are not clear. 1 have simply
Mr.. Gould's evidence. as to the cause
which led him to offer this bribe.
MIR. Gould represents the payment
as practically forced from him. I am
not so sure that this is so. 1 think
he was only too ready to purchase
an advantage by making a payment
Of such a nature. Indeed, 1 can See
no other reason why he should have
paid it. 1t seems to me impossible
to conclude that any man is going
to part with 100000 unless he ex-
poets to gain very material advan-
tage thereby.
added to this the fact that the
premier was looking after this rail-
way business himself, confirms me in
my belief that Mr.. Gould deliberate
ly set out by the payment of this
money to make his position sure and
10 eNduo tHe vi luIulG
defaults, should any be made by him.
by placing the most trusted public
man in the province under his con-
troll in the way above indicated.
Unfortunately he succeeded in
that attempt, and the law has no
sympathy at all for one who puts
himself in such a position, and does
not hesitate to enforce the rules and
doctrines applicable to such a case"
The finding of Chief Justice Nc
Keown in reference to the claim
which the chief justice has heard is
as follows:
"That the claimants have no rights
which should be recognized or en-
forced in any court or before any
arbitrator causes the contract to be
void by reason of the act of bribery
committed by Mr.. Arthur ~R. Gould
during the negotiations for the build
ing of the road between the province
and the railway company.
The date of the report Is March
Is, 1918.
According TO a transcript of the evil
dence published IN the Carleton Senti-
mel questions put by the chief Justice
to Mr.. Gould and his answers includ-
ed:
20. What was the amount7 I stat
ed one hundred thousand dollars. Was
1 right?
"a Very nearly right.
%. How near?
"a. That is near enough.
20 Was 1t one hundred thousand
dollars7
"a Don't you know it was? OF
course that was the amount.
20. Did you give that amount of
money to Mr.. Fleming himself?
"a. Not all Of it.
%. Did you pay 1t; don't mean
to whom 1t was paid, but was 1t paid
as the result of an arrangement made
between you and Mr.. Fleming?
"a. I agreed with Mr.. Fleming.
20. How much did you pay to Mr..
Fleming himself out of this one hum
dred thousand dollars?
"a. The larger part Of It went to
him direct.
20. Was there $4,000 went to Mr..
Fleming personally?
"A. Yes.
%. More?
"a. A trifie more
20. Did the balance so according to
his instructions?
"a. I think it did"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-22
HALL-MILLS TRIAL.
Continued from Page One)

ermen who will tell of fishing with
Henry Stevens that night. Others
will follow tomorrow to add more
weight to the first of the three ali
bis to be offered.
When Henry Stevens story has
been told the cases of Willie Stevens
and Mrs. Hall will be presented with
an attack somewhere in between on
the chedibility of some OF the states
witnesses.
The state brought it's case to a
dramatic climax Thursday when
Mrs. Jane Gibson, the star witness
of the prosecution, was brought into
court on a hospital cot and testified
from a bed in front of the jury that
she saw all three of the defendants
at or near the place where the bo-
dies were found.
Mrs. Gibson, who has been a pic
turesque figure in the case, rode in
to the mystery on a mule, she says,
when she went through the now ia
nous DeRussey's Lane, on the trail
of corn thieves and returned later to
witness another chapter in the af-
fair when she was hunting for a lost
moccasin. Mrs. Gibson is one of the
states witnesses to be severely at
tackled by the defense.
A battle of experts was in pros
pect during the defense presenta-
ton. The state offered three finger
print experts to testify that the
print of the left index finger of Will
lie Stevens appears on calling card
of the Rev. Mr.. Hall found near his
body. The defense is known to have
a counter battery of fingerprint ex-
perts in readiness and In outlining
the defense case to the jury, Clar-
ence E. Case said that the print at
tributed to Willie Stevens finger will
be shown to be "hocus-pocus."
Willie Stevens and Mrs. Hall will
follow their brother to the witness
stand but defense counsel has not in
dicated the order in which the two
other defendants will testifgy. The
claim will be set up that Mrs. Hall
and her brothers were in THEM New
Brunswick home the night Of the
double staying, until about 2 o'clock,
when alarmed at the continued alb
sence of Mrs. Hall. they arose and
went to the church where he was
rector, to see II he had fallen asleep
in the church.
Witnesses who told yesterday of
seeing Henry Stevens at the Laval
lette beach on the night of Septem-
Der IA, 1922. gave various reasons
for fixing the dates.
End Of the trial is not yet definite
II in sight. The defense will not
require so much time as the state
consumed in offering testimony, but
a Thanksgiving holiday may pro-
long the case into another week.
Defense counsel, through Robert
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ASKS FORD
Continued from Page One)

who use it for destructive purposes,
for breeding trouble. For example,
the Rockefellers. both father and son.
are devoting their millions to help the
welfare of mankind, to promote science
and advance civilization, while a man
like Henry Ford, who has become one
of the richest money kings in the
world, has engaged in a campaign Of
SANDER against the Jewish people, has
spread malicious lies about them and
stirred up trouble. mischief and hatred
here and in Europe"
Characterizing the Rockefeller
wealth as a blessing" and Ford's as
"a curse to America and the rest of
the world, because it has been used
for the spread of hatred and not of
peace" Mr.. Straus declared that cit Is
not yet too late"
Mr. Ford and his son must have
realized ere now that some of the
sycophants' in his surroundings, for
their own personal reasons, misinform-
ed and deceived him. For man of
his vast interests it is not possible to
verify all that is reported to him. 1t
takes the great to make amends for
their mistakes, and although we have
suffered much from these past attacks
on an innocent, inoffensive people, we
will forgive and forget If Mr.. Ford
admits the wrong he has inadvertently
inflicted in the past.
eff he submitted the facts to a COM
mittee of 10 men of unimpeachable
character, ministers and laymen. he
would be fully convinced of the justice
of my claim. Let him select eight and
I will select two outstanding Chris
tians, but tried and true, to act on
this committee. Is not this fair
proposition?
Decrying the international lighting
and quarreling here" while "our
brethren abroad are suffering" Mr..
Straus declared II wish the Jews
would realize that by uniting they can
rebuild Palestine, while by fighting
among themselves they can only hurt
themselves, harm the Jewish cause and
delay fhe great historic work in which
we arr engaged"
A total OF $4,000. including s5o.-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-22
Dartmouth Slayer
Cut Off by Father

Chicago, Nov. 2o.-(P)-Robert T.
Meads, formerlA Dartmouth College
student, who shot and killed fellow
student in quarrel in a fraternity
house, was disinherited under the will
of his father. Albert H. Meads, filed
in probate court~here. The entire es-
tate, inventoried at 100000, was left
to the widow, Mrs. Ethel T. Meads. A
daughter Mrs. Sarah Meads Doig, who
lives with her mother, also received
nothing.
Young Meads shot Henry r. Marc
ney June II, 1920, in quarrel over a
bottle of whisky which Maroney. who
was senior living In Medford, Mass,
sought to purchase from Meads.
Meads pleaded guilty to manslaugh-
ter and was sentenced to 10 10 Is
years in prison.
Records )of his fathers estate gave
young Meads' address as los Pleasant
street, Concord, N. H.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-22
Three Sentenced
In BiddefOrd Cases

Alfred, Me-, Nov. 2o.--tP)-Three
Biddeford men were sentenced in su-
preme court today in the trial Of
number of cases of alleged fraud
against the city of Biddeford Other
trials were deferred until the next
term of court
Antonio Z. Boisvert and Hector Can
tara, ,shoe dealers. were sentenced to
six months in county Jail here. The
execution of Cantara's sentence was
stayed until May owing to illness in
his family. p. l.. Ledoux pleaded nolo
contendere and paid fine of $500. The
amounts involved were small.