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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-11
Govt. Completes
It's Case Against
Alleged Smuggler

Burlington, VT, Mar. 10-(AP)-
The case of Lieb Ritterman. accused
of unlawfuly importing and smuggl-
ing S125,000 worth of diamonds into
this country was completed in fed
eral court today as far as the evil
dence is concerned. The government
used ten witnesses to show the facts
of the arrest of Ritterman at St. AL
bans. the man having been taken off
the train from Montreal the night of
January %, and the seizure of the
diamonds from the bag purporting
to be Ritterman's. The accused
mans counsel said the defense would
rest it's case without evidence but a
motion would be made tomorrow
morning to direct a verdict for Ritz
terman. What grounds would be ad-
vanced to support the motion was
not made evidence. At the opening
of the trial A. NJ. Barnes, at: "rney
for the defendant demurred to the
counts in the indictment because
each of the egiht alleges two definite
and specific crimes-smuggling and
unlawfully importing diamonds, Of
lenses requiring different proofs and
providing different penalties.
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Seek Restoration
Citizenship Rights
Debs, Socialist Leader

Washington. March 10.-(AP)-A
movement has been started to have
citizenship rights restored to Eugene
". Debs, Socialist leader, who served
more than two years in the Atlanta
penitentiary for opposing American
participation in the World War.
Representative Berger. Socialist,
Wisconsin, after conference today
at the White House. said President
Coolidge had shown sympathetic in
terest in an appeal for Debs., Tomor-
row Berger plans to discuss the ques-
ton of amnesty with department of
justice officials.
One of the stumbling blocks 10 res
toration of citizenship rights is Debs'
refusal to make a personal Applica-
ton for a full pardon. He adhered
to the belief. expressed during his trial
when he refused to employ counsel
that he committed no crime in voicing
his opposition to war in his famous
Canton, Ohio, speech.
The main object Of Mr.. Berger's
visit to the department of justice will
be determination whether someone else
can initiate pardon application.
When the prison sentence of Debs
who was four times a candidate fol-
president. on the Socialist ticket, was
commuted by President Harding, his
citizenship rights were not restored
He is now "a years old. living at Terrt
Haute, Ind.
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Democrats of
Section Charge vi
cious System Patron
age Is in Force
Claim U. S. Marshalship Offer
ed for Subdivisions in
POstOffices Also Basis for
Cash Transactions-Repub-
ican National Committee
man From Texas Tells Presi-
dent to Take No Notice of
Complaints in Texas

Washington, March 10 (AP) -
The attack begun week ago by
Representative Wurzbach, Republi-
can, Texas, on the methods of dis
pensing federal patronage in the
south, was widened today to point
where southern Democrats in the
house fatty charged the barter and
sale Of offices.
Coincident with the resumption OF
the agitation in congress. r. B. Crea-
ger, Republican national committee
man from Texas, called at the White
House to advise President Coolidge
to take no notice of complaints
against distribution of patronage in
Texas.
Mississippi, who has pending a reso-
luton dealing with the subject, open
ed the discussion in the house. and
he was quickly reinforced by Repre-
sentatives Wilson, Mississippi, and
Stevenson, South Carolina. Demo-
Gratis, who wanted information fur
nished to the house on a situation
described by Mr.. Wilson as dis
grace to decent government"
Declaring corruption had accom-
panied federal appointments lover
the entire SOUTH" Representative
Busby was especially vigorous in his
denunciation of conditions in Missis-
sippi. Those guilty he named as
agents responsible to Perry Howard
a Washington employee of the de-
partment of justice. Two of How
ards half brothers, he said, had
been credited in reports reaching
him, with offering United States
marshaiship for $500 cash.
Even preferred positions such Us
good places at postofiice windows
MIR. Busby said. had. been made the
basis for cash transactions, and Mr.
Wilson declared sit is commonly re-
ported that post office appointments
in Mississippi are sold for various
| sums of money or other considera-
, tions."
Representative Stevenson asked
that the result of an inquiry a year
ago by postal inspectors and depart.
| ment of justice agents into reports
of the sale of pcstoffice jobs in South
Carolina be turned over to the
house.
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Mrs. Landes Wins
Seattle Mayor
Berth by 1898 Votes

Seattle, Wash, March 10-(AP)-
Seattle voters apparently have re-
jected proposal to adopt the city
manager form of government and
have elected woman for mayor.
This was indicated today when a
complete unofficial tabulation of bal
lots in yesterdays city election was
made, and upset earlier calculations
that the city manager proposal had
carried by narrow margin. AS an
nounced, the vote showed 48,700 for
Mrs. Henry Landes, for mayor, as
against 42,S02 for DR.. Edwin j.
Brown. incumbent.
The vote of the city manager plan
was $4,000 for and 5000 against.
Although a candidate for the city'S
first Office, Mrs. Landes supported
the proposal for city manager. In
the event the plan had carried, Mrs.
Landes would have been placed on
the city council, which would have
named the city manager.
The voters also Endorsed propos
al by an apparent vote of 3S,094 to
2S,331 creating a committee of Is to
revise the existing city charter.
Mrs. Landes, who was elected to
the city council in 1922, was per-
sistent opponent of DR.. Brown,
charging the administration with
winking at petty vice. Once during
his absence from the city, when she
became acting mayor, she removed
the chief of police and assumed the
office herself. DIR. Brown, hearing of
the action, FASTENED back home and
reappointed the deposed police head.
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P|TTSFIELD'S NEWLY
ELECTED ROAD COM.
is ASKED TO RESIGN

Especial to the Kennebec JournaD
Pittsfield, March 1O-As the after
math of very exciting town meet
ing held here Monday, A. T. Randlett,
who was at that meeting elected to
the position of road commissioner by
the ballot of the people undoubtedly
has been asked or advised to resign.
Mr.. Randlett, when interviewed by
the Journal reporter today, stated
that he had not much to say about
the matter but that it was fact that
he had been given until Saturday to
resign.
Mr.. Randlett served the town as
road commissioner the last two years
apd previous to that had served
various terms as the towns road
commissioner.
This action on the part Of the board
of selectmen so soon after the an
nual town meeting came as surprise
and is the big topic of conversations
on all sides and there is great ex-
oitement about the matter.
The board of selectlnen IS COM
posed of Harry H. Thurlough, Edgar
E. johnson and Charles E. Vickery.
1t is understood that this action was
the unanimous vote of the board Of
selectmen.
Conjecture is rife as to what the
outcome of the matter will be but
many think that Mr.. Randlett will
stick to his guns and refuse to re-
sign.
If Mr. Randlett refuses to resign
by Saturday it is expected that the
selectmen will proceed to Sire him"
and what will come after that no
one knows. There is talk of more
town meetings and there is sure to be
considerable excitement before the
thing is threshed out.
When interviewed this afternoon
at the selectmen's office, Mr.. Thur
Tough and Mr.. Vickery being pres
ent, they refused to say anything for
publication.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-11
Opponents Lose in
Fight Against
Confirmation Hunt

Washington, Mar. 10.-(AP)-Op-
ponents of the confirmation OF
Charles w. Hunt of Iowa. for an
other term as a member of the red
eral trade commission, lost their
fight today in the senate, AZ to ~.
Six Republican insurgents Joined
with 13 Democrats and the one
Farmer-Labor in voting against cor
firmation, while II Democrats added
their votes to those of 81 Republic
cans for favorable action.
Senator Brookhart of Iowa. one
of the Republican Insurgent group,
supported Hunt, who is from his
home state. Senators Norris, Re-
publican, Nebraska, opposed the
nomination in the debate that pre-
cedcd action in executive session.
They based their arguments chiefly
on the ground that Mr.. Hunt was
one of the commissioners appointed
under the Harding admin
istrations who had undertaken to
destroy the usefulness Of the COM
mission by adopting practices in con-
fiict with the purposes congress had
in mind in creati 2 that body.
The action of the commission with
respect to the aluminium Company
of America, in which Secretary Mel
Ion is stakeholder. figured in the
debate. Mr.. Hunt was one of the
majority who voted to withhold fronl
the department of justice evidence
voluntarily furnished to the commits
sion by that company.
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Paris. March 10--(AP)-Aristide
Brands ninth cabinet has only been
formed for a few hours and the for
NAL ministerial declaration is still a
week away, yet manoeuvres have al
ready started to make it's life short,
one with the attack centering on
Louis Malvy. who holds the portfolio
of minister of interior.
Deputy Ybarnegary served notice on
M. BRAND that he would interpellate
the premier upon the presence of M.
Malvy in the cabinet"
1t will likely be hard task for the
premier to attain a stable working
majority, since the nucleus of the left
center deputies forming the backbone
of his supporters is insufficient and
must be reinforced either from the
right or the left.
M. Malvy had been minister of the
interior, under three different cabin
cts during the war and was called
"the irremovable minister of the in
lcIs Ills lidulO Is EQUIPPED III Ln6
mind Of the people with M. Caillaux.
as the two statesmen were convicted
of defeatism in wartime and banish-
ed. He was reinstated by M. Herriot
in 1924 and has once more become
one of the ruling powers in French
politics.
Having completed for the time be-
ing his cabinet, NJ. BRAND left for
Geneva tonight. He was given a big
sendoff. most of his ministers and
many senators and deputies, the Po-
fish ambassador and the Swiss minis
ter gathering at the station to bid
him farewell. Senator, PANS. the
French supplementary delegate to the
league, also proceeded to Geneva by
the same train.
The Geneva ministry" is the man.
ner in which NJ. Brands cabinet Is
described by the right and center
groups, which prophesy a short term
of life for the ministry, limiting that
it may fall Immediately after M. Bril-
and's return to Paris.
1.-THE cabinets sole object Is to go
to Geneva with full authority" says
the Figaro: Another probably will
be formed shortly to deal with the
financial problem.
The Tel -ps and Journal des Debats
bitterly attack M. Malvy, declaring
that he will be the cause of Brands
| early downfall.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-11
Phi Beta Kappa to
Raise Million for
Sesuuicentennial Fund

Providence, r. l., March 10.-(APl
John d. Rockefeller. Jr.. in an adj
dress tonight before Phi Beta Kappa
members, announced the launching Of
a nation wide movement by the Phi
Beta Kappa national honorary
scholastic society. to raise ses-
quicentennial fund of s1,000,000 to
aid in restoring scholarship and
teaching to their rightful place"
The campaign, Mr.. Rockefeller
said, would be divided into two
phases, canvass for special or large
gifts in almost a score of leading
cities of the United Sites. and a
nation wide campaign among the
membership generally. The canvass,
will begin at once and will extend to
the close of the academic year. The
second phase will begin in the aut-
umn and end with the erection of a
memorial building at William and
Mary college in honor of the fifty
founders of Phi Beta Kappa. The
other will be for the establishment OF
annual rewards for merit in scholar
ship.
One of the latter will be a grand
prize for distinction in teaching or
attainment in scholarship. which wilt
be open to all teachers and to col
lege graduates of not more than ten
years standing. Smaller prizes not
exceeding $4,000 each will be given
to "Chapters or individuals in aid OF
scholarship, teaching. production or
constructive experiment" There also
will be awards for scholarship in
secondary and preparatory schools.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-11
SnOwplow on
Way to ROckland
FORCED to Halt
Special to Kennebec JournaD

Especial to Kennebec JournaD
"eiiast, Me-, March 1O.-A big trac-
vi and snowplow which left Bangor
%0nday morning opened the highway
n'm that city. to Belfast, but at
''.'nport the pillow became disabled
@4u was brought to Belfast tonight for
''pars 1t is to resume the work and
10, ,ss.a Rockland tomorrow. This SEQ
rl 0a VI Inc Atlantic Highway has been
s-.i ea 70 automobile traffic for sew
ma a' weeks owing to the heavy snow,
ths Tue following towns situated along
s,., secuon are now in communication
H.a,eacn other: Bangor, Winterport,
sahort, Prospect, Stockton Springs,
eo,ns sport Belfast, Northport. Lin
l,nS 'ile' Camden, Rockport and Rock
"a, 1 =, outiit is sponsored by the Ban
a suamper of Commerce and assist
stoo.. BUSINESS men of Belfast and
Thu a are aiding in the venture.
"a, uu,nt consists of five-ton trac-
ZEN, ''aalhg lotion tractor and Sar-
ana .snowplow with two chauffeurs
man ... ar men, assisted by relays of
spor WIN shovels along the way. The
nuo s N the upriver towns is reported
p4nasIn heavier than In these along the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-11
FORMER AUGUSTA
man, INSURANCE co.
OFFICIAL, Dies IN N. Y.

Especial to the Kennebec JournaD
New York, n. Y. Mar. 10-George
Tappan Dexter, who was until March
/. second vice president of the Mu-
tual Life Insurance Company of New
York, died today at his home at Irv-
ingtol- on Hudson. He had been i'll
for a year and last November secured
an indefinite leave of absence. His
condition did not improve and he re-
signed last month.
Mr.. Dexter was born Jan. %, 1860,
in Augusta, Me-. a son of the Rev.
Harry V. Dexter. Baptist clergy
man, and Mrs Mary E. Boardman
Dexter. He was educated in the pub
lie schools. In 1879 Mr.. Dexter mar
ried Miss Nellie J. Greenwood in
Baldwinville, Mass. They had two
children, Fred G., and Leon Is. Dex-
ter.
For two years Mr.. Dexter was an
ordinary seaman. In 1884 he entered
the life insurance business as solicit
tor for the United States Life of
New York at Keene, n. H. Later he
was made general agent for the COM
pany at Worcester, Mass.
In 1855. he entered the service of
the Mutual Life Insurance Company
as superintendent of agencies for the
manager in Minnesota and Iowa and
year later became superintende~
of the Ohio district.
Mr.. Dexter was made second vice
president of the company ir 1905.
When the new insurance laws were
enacted by the New York legislature
he reorganized the entire domestic
system of agencies.
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FUN and BITTERNESS
HEARD IN CONGRESS
ON THE DRY QUESTION

Washington. March 10.-(AP)-
The prohibition question agitated
congress again today. with discus
sions in both the Senate and House
punctuated by bitterness and laugh
ter.
Centering on the value of news
paper poll in progress on the ques-
ton of modification the day brought
forth Introduction of a resolution
calling for a nationwide referendum
on modification, scriptual quotations,
references to George Washington's
beer recipe. recipe for a Manhat-
tan cocktail, a lengthy poem entitled
lode to a Cherry" criticisms of the
activities of enforcement agents.
personal exchange between Senator
Bruce, Democrat. Maryland. and
Senator Glass, Democrat. Virginia.
another difference over Senate rules
CONTINUED on Page 2-Col. 81
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Conference of Minis
tiers to Hear Strikers
Side of Wage Dis
pute
Will Be Held at Headquarters
of Workers Tomorrow
Other Meetings May Follow
Strike District Quiet Dur
ing Day-Pickets Continue
on Duty-Police Adhere to
Policy of Non-interference

Passaic, N. j., March 10-(AP)-
Action by the clergy Of the Passaic
district in the wooden workers strike
was assured tonight after a confer
ence between the Rev. George II.
Talbot, president of the Pastors
Association of Passaic, and Albert
Weisbord, chairman of the strikers
united front committee.
A conference of all ministers in
the district was called for 1890
o'clock Friday morning to hear the
strikers side of the wage dispute.
The meeting will be held at strike
headquarters.
The Rev. Mr.. Talbot said he would
attempt to follow this meeting by
another with employers Of the Bot
any Wooden Mills, who would be
asked to present their side Of the
question.
The Rev. Mr.. Talbot is pastor Of
the First Presbyterian church in
Passaic, and president of the Pas
tors ASSOCIATION, winch Includes pas
tors of the 35 Protestant churches in
the district.
The meeting Friday morning will
not be confined to pastors of Protes-
tant churches, however. All de-
nominations will be invited to par
ticipate.
Tonight's conference between the
minister and Weisbord resulted from
a letter to the ministers from Weis-
bord, inviting their Intervention.
The strike district was quite to-
day. Pickets continued on duty at
the United Piece DE Works at Lodi,
and asserted tonight that about zoe
of the $500 workers there had joined
their ranks. Lodi police adhered to
their policy of on-interference, and
were little in evidence about the
mill during the afternoon.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-11
Condition of Col.
Coolidge Improves

Plymouth, VT, March 10.-(AP)-
Improvement in the condition of Col
onel John c. Coolidge, father of the
president, was reported tonight DR..
Albert w. Cram, the colonels physi-
clan, said that pain felt in the lower
abdomen had subsidized and that there
was no immediate cause for alarm. The
doctor did not come to plymouth to-
day, confirming his watch over Colonel
Coolidge to frequent telephone calls.
He will visit him, tomorrow morning.
In the last four days Colonel Cool
idge, i'll for several months and with
his legs paralyzed by heart affection,
has had considerably more pain, Dr.
Cram reported, and his appetite had
not been up to the usual standard.
But sedatives helped to remove his
discomfort, and today the appetite i'm
proved. Or. Cram felt that there was
no radical ch1"~e in his patients con
dition, but said he would continue his
close observation.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-11
Cong. Thayer of 9Th
Mass. District, Dies
In Wakefield Home

Wakefield, Mass, March 10.-(AP)-
Congressman Harry 1. Thayer Of the
eighth Massachusetts, district, for
many years a prominent figure in the
shoe and leather industry of New Eng
land, died at his home here today. He
was Sc years old.
Congressman Thayer was elected a
year ago last fall after a spirited FIVE
cornered fight for the seat of Freder-
lex w. Dallinger of Cambridge. who
retired to run for the Senate. He suf-
fered a mild shock last spring while in
Washington and was forced to go
south to recuperate. Apparently fully
recovered, he returned to Washington
this fall but a threatened nervous
breakdown brought him back from the
capital three weeks ago. He had been
confined to his home since.
Born in Pembroke. Congressman
Thayer entered the leather industry
as commission salesman after grad
uating from high school. After several
years in HavNrhill he established a
small tanning company in North Leo
minister and followed it with the
Thayer-Foss Leather Company of Bos-
ton, Woburn and Peabody, of which he
was president at his death.
In addition he was former presi-
dent of the New England Shoe 6:
Leather Association, which he repre-
scented several times at hearings in
Washington, and former president of
the Tanners Council of the United
States. He was director of numer-
Gus organizations, including the Ma
tional Association of Tanners, tina
Wakefield Trust Company and the
Boylston National Bank of Boston.
Besides his widow he leaves three
sons, Lloyd ]. and Raymond H., who
were associated with him in the direc-
ton of Thayer-Foss Company, and
Wendell p. Thayer schoolboy.
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Renew Row of New
Eng. Fish Exchange
And Independents

Boston, Mar. 10-(AP)-A dispute
of several years. standing between
members of the New England fish
exchange and independent fish deal
ers has been renewed with the Hing
of a petition in the federal district
court for modification of a decree
under which the independent dealers
were granted the use of the floor OF
tn exchange in 1919.
The decree was given in connection
with proceedings against the eX-
change for alleged violation OF the
Sherman and Clayton acts by the
federal circuit court Of appeals. The
court esta blished regulations, includ-
ing set hours of business for the ex-
change and allowed independent
dealers the right to buy on the ex-
change floor.
The exchange, in its petition, now
charges that some Independent DEAL
ers aren not abiding by these recog-
nized hours of business, but con
tinue to buy catches at all hours Oh
the day and night.
Having secured buying privileges
upon the exchange" the petition con-
tinues. "these dealers don not come
upon its floor with the intention OF
buying fish from vessels and they do
not in fact do so, but come on the
floor for the purpose OF securing III :.
formation and other advantages OF
the exchange for use in connectlon
with their outside business, often
timees making the terms OF OUTSIDE
purchases contingent upon the terms
of business done by others on the ex-
change. They insist that under the
decree the exchange must afford them
all its advantages while they refuse
to assist in eliminating from the fish
business in general the abuses which
the exchange was created to elimin-
ate"
The petition, on which a hearing is
scheduled for tomorrow, asks au-
thority from the court to refuse buy
ing privileges on the exchange TO
dealers who refuse to conflne their
business to the hours fixed by the
exchange.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-11
SOMERv|LLE MAN
HELD AS SUSPECT IN
BOSTON SLASHINCS

Boston, Mar. 10.-(AP)-An un-
named man from Somerville was ar
rested tonight on suspicion in con-
nection with the stabbing of two
women in the Public Garden and
attacks upon two others. In his
pockets were found an ice pick and
a small pair of sharp pointed scis-
sors. The victims Of the attacks will
attempt to identify him tomorrow.
The arrest was made in the Back
Bay district few blocks from the
scene Of the Standings last Sunday,
after storekeepers had told police
that a man had been acting Queerly.
The police followed their custom of
not revealing the names of suspects
until definite charges have been
made.
The arrested man explained the
presence of the scissors by saying
he used them to manicure his nails.
but officers who examined his hands
said they had not had such attention
for months. His general description
tailed with that given by the women
victims The man said he was seek
ing employment in the district, but
when he was seen it was past closing
time for most establishments.
Mrs. Leverett Saltonstall Tucker
man. socially prominent, and Miss
Florence McEachern. maid, were
stabbed within the same half hour
by man who attacked them. Mrs.
Tuckerman was crossing the Public
Garden at church time and the maid
had just left 1t. Two other women.
whose names have not been reveal
ed, were attacked but not wounded,
in the same section of the city the
previoue Sunday. The man who
stabbed Mrs. Tuckerman politely
raised his hat and hurried away aft
er calling out How are your"