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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31

THE next time that he saw the Os-
bornes was on the Grand PLACE.
at the fashionable bathing hour. The
Osbornes today were merely onlook-
ers: they asked him to sit with them.
We'll" said Miss Osborne kindly
have you tried the saline solution
yet Mr.. Colcord?"
lie nodded. I'm buckets. 1 reckon
] couldn't have been in top form last
night"
Her eyes We're provoking. u
thought maybe you were shocked by
my unmaidenly overtures. But you
see. was waiting for you to go ahead
and he fascinating. So now you've
got another opportunity. why, &c
ahead
He gave her one of his quick smiles
THAT remark makes me feel about as
futile as l did down in Mexico once
="
"Vell." said Miss Osborne. up te
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31

Z u. too. are a character analyst.
" You form Judgments of peo-
pie. You size up every one
YOU meet. In every project
, 1926-03-10
DEBT OFFER BY ITALY.
What Britain Wants.

A substantial advance in the negotia-
tons for the funding Of the Italian debt
to Britain was made curing the week,
when Mr.. Wirston CburchIIi had lengthy
meetings with Count Vclpi, head of the
italian deleQatiCn, at the Treasury.
The total amount Of the debt is 1892, 600,
GEO. against which has 10 be set 422, COO,
eco in gold deposited by Italy with the
Bank of E, gland as security for the
various loans.
1t is gathered that the Italians were
prepared to offer Q maximum Of 4, 500,
eco pounds for 62 years. or slightly more
than Cne-tbid OF tt TENS PROVISIONAL
ly agreed fer the French debt settle
ment, Which rem aims to he confirmed by
the French Government.
The advantageous terms offered to
France so that a settlement might be
secured have urdtuhtedy n.barrassed
the Treasury in tie rlesert neeotia-
tons, by reason of the stated British
policy of taking into consideration the
ability Of each Oebror to lay when con-
siderirg the Gebt settlement terms.
To substantiate its claim that Italy
should make annual payments, to in
cIude capital ard interest, of about
5000, COO pounds the Treasury found it
necessary to contend that Italy's capacity
"a payment is roughly rs per cent, that
If France-a contention which was cOun-
tered by the Italians, who pointed out
that the United States, in the recent
negotiations for the settlement of the
Italian American debt, judged Italy's ca
pacity at no more than IL per cent that
Of France. London Daily Mail.
, 1926-03-10

where he met The defendants. Thrae
machines made this trip, related Lavan,
and when he arrived he WAS instructed
to wait a few minutes, that two beats
had just arrived. 1t Was not brought out
how far distant frcm the shore ''rum
row" WAS. Both Aaron Bcsman and
Adelherg filled their cars with liquor,
stated Lavan. as di5 he, when they ar
rived back in Cambridge at 6 a. N.
En- route to 1he Frookiine street gar
age, testified the witness, he saw two
machines ahead of him pull out across
he Qtimp~ed az officer in uniform in front
of him. He admitted he heard the com
mand stop in the name Of the law"
but following instructions from his en-
plnyers be kept right on going, and
crashed headlong into them.
TOLD NOT TO WORRY, IF CAUGHT
On this occasion, be stated. he was in
sstlucted 10 80 daect to the Walden street
garage. in North Cambridge. but instead
went on to Chelsea. where be cOmmuni-
cated with David Hosman and told him
+ the trouble be had engaged in. Hos
nan, be s.ated, told him he haG done the
best thing he bad ever done in his life,
following which they transferred the
liquor 10 another car and delivered it
through Chelsea
Constantly, stated the witness, he was
reUinded to co no worrying in the event
be got caught, that everything would be
fixed up ali right, that be must know lie
had lots Of money behind him.
The case will be resumedthis morning.
, 1926-03-10
Wit and FIumor.

Horan-"WeII, it's too bad that non
av US kin liver be as good as some people
think we sh'ud be."
Doran-'Aye; but It's consoIing to
think that none av US kin ever be as bad
as some people think we are
You have a large family to support,
Mr.. Finnegan."
Mr.. F~innegan--"Oi bav that, mum;
an if they didn't all earn their own Twin
Oh couldn't do it at all, at ALL"
why did you leave your last situa-
tion?" asked the man who was engaging
an Irish gardener.
Sure Oh was discharged, your hon
or, said the applicant readily enough.
discharged! Then, | am afraid"
Stop your honor; Oh was discharged
for doing we'll"
And where was the situation?" re-
marked the householder, with a skepti-
cal smile.
AT the City Hospital!'
, 1926-03-10
PROHIBITION DRIVES HIM TO HIS
FIRST DRINK AT SO
Decided II Was Time to Assert His Rights
and Judge Says: Sentence Suspended"

Joseph Steinberg, of 264 Essex Street,
has lived ninety six years, stunning H.
Quor and devoting himself to the culture
OF a long gray beard. Prohibition got
him yesterday. and last night he was
taken into Night Court on a charge of
being intoxicated.
How old are you?" asked Magistrate
We'll,
'Ninety,six years, your honor, and
never a drink, man and boy, until to-
night" replied Steinberg.
That's a marvellous record, " said the
magistrate. How did you come to take
your first"
ITS all this prohibition talk. your
aonOr. Years back a man could take his
dram or leave it alone and never think
anything about it. Nowadays it's prohi-
bition here and prohibition there and pro-
hibition in all places, with all sorts of
people screaming prohibition A man
Just naturally revolts and cavorts."
Sentence suspended, Joseph, SEN
fence suspended, concluded the magis-
trate with a sigh of appreciation. Ibid
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-02
Possibility That
Third Woman May
Take Trip to North

Providence, r. l., March lap
Mrs. Rowe B. Metcalf of this city
who with Miss Maude Fisher of New
York. will accompany the next Mac
MILAN expedition to the Arctic in
June. aboard Mr.. Metcalf's schooner
yacht Sachem said today that posi-
bly, Miss Marian Smith of Wiscasset
Me. would also make the voyage.
Miss Smith is now in Trinidad
said Mrs. Metcalf. but l expect she
will return in time for the embarka-
ton. Her brother. Emerson Smith OF
Wiscasset, a naturalist NAY also
accompany u.s."
Mrs. Metcalf said the proposed ex-
petition presented no terrors for her
as she was accustomed to cruising
and looked forward with feelings of
unmixed pleasure to the adventure.
The Sachem will carry a compile
ment of Is including the paid hands
Mrs. Metcalf said. Opportunities for
volunteers to accompany the party
will depend on the number of scien-
fists that are eventually included, she
declared sMr. Metcalf has had many
applications from persons DESTROYS OF
going along" she added.
DR.. Roy Chapman Andrews who
last week was given an honorary de-
gree by Brown University, said he
had refused Hundreds of applica-
tons from women eager to accom-
pany him on his forthcoming expedi-
ton into the Cobb desert OF China.
They must think We need harem,'
was Mr.. Andrews comment .
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-02

Washington, March 1.-(AP)-Ap-
pointment of a presidential commits
sion to conduct an investigation into
the general effect of the prohibition
amendment was proposed today by AS
sistant Secretary Andrews, in charge
of enforcement, but it was immediate
ly frowned upon by Secretary Mellon.
Expressing the hope that inquiry
started today by the House alcoholic
liquor traffic committee into prohibit
ton would result in such recommen-
dation, Mr.. Andrews declared infor-
mally that it would do much to clear
the public mind and aid enforcement.
Secretary Mellon took an opposite
view of the proposal of his chief en-
forcement official, expressing the opin-
ion that the public has made up it's
mind either for or against prohibition
and such an investigation would be of
little help.
Mapping out plans for it's study of
Continued on Page 3-Col. 81
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-02
JURY HEARING WILL
Be SOUGHT IN MAY
HUMMEL WILL CASE

Portland, Me-, March 1-(AP)--
Hearing in the Hummel will case will
be sought at the May term Of the
surrogate court for New York coun-
ty, Frederick w. Hinckley, chief
counsel for Henry Hummel, claim
ant of the estate Of Abraham H.
Hummel, New York attorney, an
nounced today. A jury hearing will
be requested, he said.
New evidence have been secured
in New York since the Portland
young man was there at the funeral
Of the man he claims was his father.
Dispositions have been obtained from
a number of additional New York
witnesses, who have voluntarily
communicated with counsel here and
in New York.
One was from woman employed
as nurse for the boy from 1891 to No
vember, 1898. She injected a new an
gle into the case by stating that Le-
liza Farrell, the boys mother, was in
constant fear that Abe Hummels
sisters would take him away from
her.
She also said she knew Leila Far
rell, the actress, always as Mrs.
Hummel," and that she was known
to neighbors in New York as such.
She added that Mr.. Hummel was
very fond Of her.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-02
Gov. Smith Moves
In Proposed Check
On Crime in New York

Albany, n. Y, March 1-(AP)-
Ihe first step in a concerted move
by various agencies of the state gov
ernment t. check crime was taken
by Governor Smith tonight in the
submission of a special message to
the legislature proposing immediate
creation of joint legislative civilian
commission to study the possibility
of making a sweeping revision of the
criminal statutes of the state.
The commission would consist of
four members of the legislature, to be
selected by the two houses. and of
five citizens to be appointed by the
executive. An appropriation of $780,
600 would be authorized.
In comparison with foreign coun-
tries the governor declared in the
message, the rate of crime in this
country and in New York state IS
appalling and should be made the
subject of an immediate inquiry by
the state government.
an regard to punishment" he con-
tinued, st seems necessary for US TO
ascertain whether or not our existing
crime statutes need revision and
whether on rpenal systems. including
imprisonment. probation, parole and
the bonding system. are yielding the
best possible results in adequately
Furnishing the criminal or preparing
him to take his place in society after
he has offended against II"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-02
Propose Wholesale
Cutting Down State
Workers in New York

New York, March 1-(AP)-Sweep-
ing changes which would affect yir-
tually every branch of the New York
state government, with their thous-
ands of employees, are recommended
In the final report of the state reor-
ganization committee. made public
today. The approximately 1870 de-
partments, bureaus, boards and COM
missions now in existence, would be
Whitfield down or consolidated into Is
departments, under the commission
program.
These IS departments would be
run as cooperative business offices,
making this states government one
of the most up-to- date in the nation.
The committee. which undertook
the work after adoption of the reor-
ganization amendment by the voters
last November, was headed by Char
les Evans Hughes, former secretary
of state.
Capitalization Of authority and
responsibility was the main purpose
in changing the government machin-
cry. Probably the most important
change suggested by the reorganiza-
ton committee is that concerning the
state budget.
The committee recommended that
the governor should have RESPONSE
billty and authority for formulating
the state budget, with the senate and
assembly represented at revisions of
budget estimates. Budget estimates
of the legislative and judiciary BRAN
ches of the government would be in
cluded in the state budget without re-
vision by the governor. There would
be director of the budget and assis-
tants appointed by the governor.
The committee recommended the
changes should take effect January
l. 1927. Numerous changes advocat-
ed by Governor Smith are included
in the committees recommendations
Lengthening of the governors term
to four years and an increase in his
salary are advocated.
Individuals are provided instead of
commissions to manage the impor-
tant branches of the administration.
The office terms of the different de-
partment heads would be co-termin-
us. with the power to appoint and re-
move them vested in the governor
The head of the executive depart
ment would receive a salary of $12,-
900 a year.
The governor would head the ex-
ecutive department, to consist of five
divisions, the division of the budget,
the division of military and naval af-
purchase, the division of inter de-
partmental relations and the division
of state police.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-02
Hold Confessed
Prison Fugitive in
N. Y. Jewelry Thefts

New York, Mar. 1-(AP)-Walte,
Carney, who told police he escaped
from California and New York pri-
sons, was held with two other mer
in 100000 bail each day in connec-
ton with thefts of jewelry valued a,
100000 from wealthy homes in Phil
adelphia and New York state.
Carney confessed, police said, to
posing as a wealthy business man
under one name and then forging re-
concentrations for himself as but
ler' under other names. AS a "but-
Ter he affected an English accent.
The other two men held were Phi
lip E. Zinner and Louis Halpert who
admitted buying jewelry from Car
ney but protested that they did not
know 1t was stolen.
Carney told police he escaped from
the Blackwell's Island penitentiary
where he was serving term for
grand larceny, by swimming the East
River through the rocks of Hell Gate
Other prisons from which he said he
escaped were the Clinton prison al
Dannemora, n. Y, and the city jail
at San Francisco. His New York
record shows six convictions, police
said.
He said he had obtained a place
recently in the home Of Mrs. j. c.
Clark Of Philadelphia. He worked
one day and then disappeared with
$4,000 worth of jewelry. Police said
he also admitted taking $4,000 worth
Of jewelry from the Lake Placid, n
J.. home of +. +. Hutton, wealthy
New York broker.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-02
Farmer Kills Self
Rather Than Face
Trial for Murder

Fairfield. Ia, March 1.-(AP)-
Rather than to face a first degree
murder indictment for the alleged
Staying Of Sam McNeese, IS. named
by his youthful daughter as her be-
trayer, Louis Bruey. so. farmer, well
coined death yesterday by hanging
himself in his cell.
Trial of Bruey was to have started
tomorrow. He hac been brooding
since his indictment last Friday, said
his sister, Mrs. Fred Raible, who
visited himsa few hours before his
body was found suspended by two
knotted towel in the county Jail
here.
The machinery of justice is at rest,
and attorneys for both defense and
prosecution can lay aside events of
December 9Th, last. when McNeese
was summoned to the Bruey home
and shot to death as he sat in a
chair and admitted that intimate
relations existed between himself and
Bruey's IA year old daughter
Neighborhood gossip of the rela-
tons between McNeese and his
daughter reached Bruey on the night
of December and led directly 10
the shooting the next morning
Bruey notified authorities and Nc
Neese's parents of the Staying. In
der her fathers questioning, Edna
Bruey had told him. McNeese last
summer forced his way into their
home and assaulted her. The boys
parents gave officials a bundle of the
girls letters to their son purporting
to show that relations had been ex-
listing between them for some time.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-02
Bimba to Appeal
If Judge Declares
Guilty of Blasphemy

Brockton, Mass. March 1-(AP)-
Anthony Bimba who denied the eXis-
fence OF God and was tried for BIAS
pheny under a Massachusetts sta
tute 29s years old, will learn his fate
tomorrow.
Judge c. Carroll King. who presid-
ed at Bimba's trial last week in dis
trict court here on blasphemy charges
and also on that Of seditious utter
ances, will make known his decision
tomorrow. If he rules that Bimha is
guilty of either or both of the char
ges an appeal will be taken to Ply
mouth superior court
In his summing up argument Har-
~ Hoffman of Boston. counsel for the
young Lithuanian Editor. admitted
that Bimha in a public address here
January s6 denied the existence of
God and expressed his hope that the
blasphemy charge be declared uncon-
stitutional. He denied however, that
Bimba In the same speech had advo-
Gated the overthrow of the gobern-
ment, as charged by the prosecution.
| Manuel Rubin, city prosecutor,
stressed the sedition charge In his
closing argument.
Under the old statute making it an
ofense to deny the existence of the
Deity the maximum is a fine of $500
and one years Imprisonment. On the
sedition charge the maximum is a
me Of $1,000 and three years impris-
. oament.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-02
Judge Threatens to
Jail Reporters Ii
Testimony Is Printed

Bay St. Louis, Miss, Mar. l.
(AP)-Although Circuit Judge Wal
ter White announced that cell in
the Hancock county Jail awaited any
newspaper reporter who makes pub
lie any testimony or purported testi-
mony in the trial this week of Jesse
Favre, charged with murder, several
newspaper representatives were pre-
pairing today to cover" the hearing.
The judge Saturday directed an
order prohibiting publication of de-
tails of the trial, making it clear
that contempt proceedings would
follow any infraction of the order,
with a Jail sentence as the penalty.
He announced that some newspaper
men might get a scoop" in the
trial but if they did the court would
get one, too" He added that pub
LEGATION of information or misin-
formation" concerning the case,
would defeat the ends of Justice -
The newspapermen, however. said
today they intended to write the
news as they would have done had
not the judges order been issued
The Judge said news of the trial
could be published after the court
had censored it. One editor revealed
that the vital portions of a story
written for his paper had been elm
mated, when submitted for court APP
prevail.
The ruling caused quite a stir
here, some citizens favoring it and
others disappearing it.
Favre is charged with the murder
of William Mingee and ]. H. Nc
Lemore, Federal entomologists.
whose bullet-riddled bodies were
found recently near Picayune. Miss.
The trial will probably get under way
Tuesday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-02
|DamariscOtta
Woman Disappears
From Home Monday

Damariscotta, Me-, Mar. 1.-(AP)
Miss Myrtis Genthner. about 10, q
sufferer from rheumatism, dressed
and disappeared from the home of
her father, Rufus +. Genthner. here
early today. Soon afterward her
fur coat and two canes were found
on the bridge over the Damariscotta
river, between this town and New
castle.
The ice was open under the bridge,
where the flow of water is very swift
at ebb tide, but covers the river to
the sea, an eighth of a mile below
the bridge. The tide had just turn
ed when she left her home, nearby.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-02
Two Women Will
Go on Macmillan
Expedition in June

Wiscasset, Me-. March 1.-(AP)-
Two women will brave the Arctic
waste when Commander Donald L.
Macmillan heads his next expedition
into the frozen north. They are Mrs.
Rowe B. Metcalf of Providence. r. l.,
and Miss Maude Fisher of New York.
MacMillan's objective on this voy-
age. which is to start in June and
last three months, is to search for
Morse relics in Labrador. Greenland
and Iceland. Rowe B. Metcalf of
Providence will accompany the ex-
plorer on an auxiliary schooner now
being built at Thomaston, and Mrs.
Metcalf will go with her husband.
Miss Fisher. a cousin of Mr.. Metcalf.
plans to make the voyage as COM
panion for Mrs. Metcaf.
The new vessel will measure so
feet over all and will be similar In
construction to MacMillan's schooner
Bowdoin. which has weathered sew
eral trips into Arctic waters.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-02
Partial Exemption
From Tax for Veterans
Made Law i'm Bay State

Boston. March 1.-(AP)-Governo
Fuller today vetoed a bill granting
to certain war veterans a partial ex-
emptioD from the tax on personal
property.
The governor said III an accom-
panying statement that this special
privilege bill would add to
the veterans of the Civil war those
of the Spanish war, the Philippine
insurrection and the Chinese relief
expedition.
The veterans of the Civil war were
first given exemption in 1906. forty
six years from the beginning of that
struggle. 1t is now but twenty eight
years from the Spanish war"
The governor said that since il
had not been deemed proper TO grant
the Civil war veterans exemption IN
til IS years after the close of the
war. the same rule should apply TO
veterans of the Spanish war. He add
ed that he was in favor of treating
everyone as nearly alike as possible.
and opposed 10 special privileges Of
every kind and character
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-02
Republicans Win in Waterville
Lewiston Democratic by 1000
DAIRY HERDS IN
new ENGLAND ARE
DECREASING FAST

Wakefield, Mass, March 1.-(AP)-
Dairy herds in New England appear
to be decreasing, it was stated to-
day in report of the New England
crop reporting service of the federal
department of agriculture. Dairymen
are feeding additional grain in an
effort to keep up production. But
Ii is pointed out. unless unusually
favorable weather conditions prevail
during the fall of 1925 a shortage
will occur which will result in other
than the usual source being drawn
upon to supply the New England
markets.
Such a shortage, it was said, &C.
CURED in November and December
of last year and. a shortage next fail
may be similar or even larger. 1.-THE
result of these shortages" 1t Is set
forth, lis to increase the area with
which New England dairymen must
compete in the sale of fluid milk"
1.-THE number of dairy heifers IN
New England appears to be less
than Is needed to maintain the num-
Der of milk cows now on New Eng
land farms. Heifers for milk between
one and two years of age declined
34.1 per cent from 1920 to date and
1913 per cent duringf 1925 for New
England as a whole.
"An increase of 1879 per cent in
the value per head of this class of
live stock during 1925 was accompap-
led by a similar increase in value
per head of milk cows. 1t seems evil
dent that the dairymen would do
we'll to save more of their best hei-
fer calves during the next year or
two at least"
Production has remained about
constant, the report said. The
average production for all cows on
February l was 1929 pounds. A per
per cent higher than January l and
90 per cent than a year ago. But
during 1925 New England's actuai
milk cows decreased 1.3 per cent in
numbers so that total production is
but little larger. Weather condt-
lions during the first eight weeks of
1926 were favorable to large produc-
ton.
Although fluid milk prices are low
er than about month ago they re-
main higher than those of year ago.
Grain prices are off from last month,
and hay is plentiful and compare
lively cheap. Prices of dairy pro-
ducts II is indicated, are expected to
be lower next fall than last.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-02
Claim Will Edwin
Oliver a Forgery

White Plains, y. Y, March L.
tAP)-Calling the will purported to
have been made by the late Edwin
OliVer. former editor and publisher OF
the Yonkers Statesman, a forgery, Spe.
cial Assistant District Attorney Syme
of Mount Vernon said today that he
would seek indictments in connection
with the framing OF the document
The testament bequeathed the most
of Dir. divers 100000 estate to his
nephew. George Starrin Cowfes.
The will, which was dated Sept. 90
1924. was denied probate by Surrogate
Slater. Miss Nellie M. Drummond, a
friend Of both Mr. Oliver and the
nephew. and William Weeks. Mr.. OIL
yer's chauffeur, witnesses of the will,
will be called before the grand Jury.
Anothr will ante-dating the alleged
forgery and which divides the estate
among relatives, has been found