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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-03
Party Headed by Gov
ernOr Brewster See
Both Branches of
Congress in Action
Meet and Shake Hands With
President and Mrs. Coolidge
Executive Given Basket of
Maine Apples and Plaque
Bearing State Seal-Later
Entertained by Rep. and Mrs.
Beedy-StOp at Savannah,
Ga, Today

Washington, Feb. 2. - (AP) -
Bound on a Maine to Southland pill
grimage, Governor Brewster and a
large delegation of business men and
women of the Pine Tree State, called
on President and Mrs. Coolidge to-
day at the White House and later
v ire guests of the Maien congress
sional delegation at buffet luncheon
at the Capitol. 81
Arriving here early in the day,
the delegation, numbering more than
100, was met by the Washington en-
tertainment committee and taken on
an automobile tour of the city. The
headquarters of the United States
chamber of commerce were visited
and then the delegation was escorted
to the White House, where it was
received first by Mrs. Coolidge and
then by the President. A basket
of Maine apples and bronze plaque
bearing the State seal were presented
to the Executive.
After luncheon at the Capitol. at
which Secretary Hoover was spe-
cial guest, the visitors listened in on
the senate debate on the tax bill.
and the house debate on the first de-
ficiency appropriation bill.
Returning to the headquarters at
the Hamilton Hotel. the delegation
was entertained by the Maine Society
of Washington and Representative
and Mrs. Beedy before departing for
the south on a trip that Will end
February 90 at Portland.
The first southern stop will be to-
morrow at Savannah. Georgia, where
the party will be guests of Mayor
Hull and the Savannah board or
trade. The itinerary through the
south will then be:
Feb. 4, Jacksonville. Fla.
Feb. 5, st. Augustine and Or
mond.
Feb. G. West Palm Beach.
Feb. rs, Miami Hollywood-by-
the-Sea, and Coral Gables.
Feb. 9. Sehring. with motor tour
Barrow.
Feb. 10. Tampa.
Feb. Hip, St. Petersburg.
Feb. 13. Orlando and Sanford.
Feb. ID. Tallahassee.
Feb. 1916. New Orleans.
Feb. II. Montgomery and Atlanta.
Feb. IL. Southern Pines, and
Pinehurst. N. G.
Feb. 10. Richmond. Va. with re-
ception bv Governor Byrd and then
visit to Petersburg.
Feb. 20, return to Portland.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-03
Slayer Marshall
Held Without Bail

Philadelphia, Feb. 2. (AP)-David
L. Marshall, confessed slayer of Miss
Anna May Dietrich. IS year old mil
liner of Norwood, Pa. today was held
without bail by the coroner to await
the action Of the grand jury.
1t was testified at the inquest by
DR.. William s. Wadsworth, coroner's
physician, that Miss Dietrich met
death by compression of The throat
at the hands Of the prisoner in the
dock"
Marshall is charged with first de-
gree murder. He confessed ten days
ago that he choked Miss Dietrich to
death after she had tried to extort
money from him on threats of ex-
posing their relations. He also con-
fessed that he dismembered her body
to hide the crime.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-03

An unusual demonstration of
friendship and confidence was given
ruesday morning at the Superior
,ourt when many Hallowell citizens
,npeared to urge the court to show
,eniency In the case of Clarence A.
Shepherd Of Hallowell. who came at
that time to accept sentence for
,mbezzlement of funds amounting to
nearly $4,000 from the Hallowell
Savings Institution. A sentence of
from two to four years in the State
prison at Thomaston was imposed
and upon the payment Of a fine OF
$500 he was placed on probation.
The scene at times approached the
dramatic as prominent citizens of the
toyn arose to express their belief
that the ends Of justice would be
served If the respondents sentence
we're made as light as possible, and
both court officials and spectators
we're visibly affected by the great
show Of friendship toward the res
pondent on the part Of the citizens
Of Hallowell.
Your honor, the respondent hav-
ing delivered up all Of his resources
d an attempt to make restitution
and being unable to pay his fine
himself, his fellow citizens as testi-
monial of their confidence in his
Continued on Page 1+Col. 81
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-03
GREET AT KITTERY
SUMMER VISITORS
COMING TO MAINE

Portland, Me-, February 2.-Due to
the great strides made the past year
in attracting those outside of the
state to the countless pleasures that
await the summer tourists in Maine
it has been found necessary by he
Executive Committee Of the State OF
Maine Publicity Bureau here to open
up a new Information Bureau at Kit
terry. for the convenience of the great
influx of visitors who will come to
the state next summer.
Few people in the state appreciate
the great amount of work which is
annually done by the Publicity Blu
reau which acts as the service or
ganization for all other State Organ
izations working on the broad state
development program which was en-
tered into intensively year ago.
The last summer which was the
banner one in the States history at
tracted over 100000 people within
the State who left approximately
100000 100000 bringing an increase
Continued on Page 10-CoI. y
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-03
Harrison Raps
White House Word
To Newspaper Men

washington, rep. =. - (AH) "A
White House retort to the charge
that President Coolidge has been
playing politics was followed today
by a renewal of the charge from
the Democratic side of the senate.
What was said at the White House
was impaired to newspapermen in
the usual informal manner, and per-
mission to print it as direct state
ment by the President was with
held. The substance of 1t was that
Mr.. Coolidge hoped the public would
not take recent criticisms of him
in congress and elsewhere too seri-
ously, but would bear in mind this
is campaign year, and that public
discussions at this season are likely
to have a political flavor.
Within two hours after the cor
respondents left the executive Of
fees, Senator Harrison. Democrat.
Mississippi, said on the senate floor
that the President had called in
newspapermen and warned them
that speeches in congress are po-
litical." The senator added that
such a statement was unworthy of
the President of the United States"
1.-THE President has been going
over the country making speeches
to commercial organizations and to
chambers of commerce." Senator
Harrison said, Exploiting his views,
seeking to bring the people to his
idea of government, and to win ap-
prevail of his administr alive policy.
He has not made a single speech,
from that uttered before the cham
Der of commerce of New York to
that flyby-night journey to Chicago
when he addressed the farmers of
the great northwest offering to them
panacea which was disapproved by
that great section of the country,
but that he was trying to win favor
with the people, playing politics in
his speeches.
Yet, Notwithstanding all this,
which the country knows-and we
who have to combat him here daily
know it perhaps better than the
country-he calls the newspapermen
in this morning at the White House
and makes this startling statement
to them. a statement that has no
counterpart in the history of any
occupant of the White House.
"Ah, Mr.. President, using the
great power of his great office,
"iNihiiiso tiiC CAeCpliOIldl lie
now commands. the President tries
to focus the attention Of the coun-
try and have the people believe there
is great conspiracy on foot in this
country and through public speech
es; that they are to have nothing
but political speeches here and not
discussion of the real facts.
1.-THE minority party both in the
house and in the senate has played
less politics since December than at
any other time in the history Of the
American congress
"It is unworthy Of President Of
the United States. IT does not be-
come an occnrant of the White
House To have the newspapers
throprh their correspondents warn
the corrtrv that all the speeches
here are to be of a political tinge
and caste during this year."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-03
Challenges Law
Under Which Sen.
Butler Was Appointed

Boston, Feb. 2.-(AP)-The con-
stitutionality of Massachusetts
statute under which Senator William
NJ. Butler was appointed by former
Governor Cox to fill the senate va
cancy caused by the death of Henry
Cabot Lodge was challenged today
by Charles H. McGlue, chairman of
the Democratic state committee, ar
guing before a legislative commit
tee in favor of repeal of the act
complained of.
ut was travesty on the democ-
racy of this country" Mr. McGlue
said. when Senator Butler, RESPONSE
BILE to only one person, a governor
who appointed him three weeks be-
fore retiring from office, challenged
the right to a seat of Senator La
Toilette. who was elected by the
mandate Of 100000 voters of Wis
consin."
The act passed in 1922 providing
for the appointment of senator's to
fill vacancies violated the spirit If
not the letter of the 18th amend
ment to the constitution, Mr.. McGlue
said.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-03
Millionaire Wood
Takes Own Life at
Southern Resort
MAY EXHUME BODY
HUMMEL'S MOTHER IN
SEARCH WEDDING RING

Portland, Me-, Feb. 2-(AP)-In
the belief that the wedding ring of
his mother. known as Leila Farrell
Hummell, is buried with her body in
Evergreen cemetery here. 1t was con-
sidered as possibility tonight that
the body would be exhumed.
This would be done to obtain the
slender circlet of gold for another
link in the chain of evidence being
forged to prove that Henry D. Hum
mel is the son Of Abraham H. Hum
mel, whose body is expected to ar
rive in New York tomorrow from
London.
A death-bed statement by Mrs,
Kate Jefferson, grandmother OF the
young claimant to the Hummel es-
tate, who brought him up after the
death of his mother, when he was
five years Of age, to the effect that
she had allowed the ring to be buried
with her daughter and that she
wished she had kept 1t for the boy
was recalled by Henry's wife today
A letter, among the many received
today from those who knew his
mother, was from a woman who was
employed as a maid by her four years
in her home at Lexington avenue and
goth street, New York. She wrote
that she was with his mother when
she died at the Park Avenue Hotel In
New York, and that Hummel paid all
the funeral expenses.
Another was from an attorney
representing a man who was a pro-
vision dealer in the Lexington avenue
section of New York 80 odd years
ago, with whom his mother traded
He wrote that goods were charged to
her there under the name Of Mrs
Hummel
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-03
Maine Propagandists
larry in Washington
On Way to Southland
COAL CONFEREES
AGAIN END PARLEYS
WITHOUT AGREEMENT

Philadelphia, Feb. 2-(AP)-Ap-
parently in hopeless deadlock, the
anthracite miners and operators
broke off negotiations tonight for the
third time since their parleys start
ed in Atlantic City last July.
The operators presented two plans
for settlement of the hard coal strike,
now in its six month, and the miners
one, all to be thrown out as unac-
ceptable by one side or the other.
AS last resort, the miners asked
that the full scale committees of each
side be called into joint conference
in the hope of breaking the dead
lock, but this was voted down by the
coal companies.
Tonight the situation is virtually
the same as when the long Suspen-
sion began September /.
The tension among the six miners
and six operators was noticeable
when they went into joint session,
but a break" was not expected so
soon. 1t was known that each side
had practically exhausted it's in
genuity in evolving plan to settle
the controversy.
The joint conference was in ses-
sion more than four hours ard the
announcement of the break came un-
expectedly shortly after p. NJ.
John l.. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers, in a statement
dictated to newspapermen immed-
lately after the conference broke up
declared the mine workers could not
now and would not later accept COM
pulsory arbitration and that the sus-
pension is now not a strike but a
lockout.
Major w. w. Inglis, chairman of
the operators negotiating commit
tee. in a statement said that I'VE
are faced only by the blind determi-
nation of Mr.. Lewis to impose his
will upon us, our employees and the
people of this country"
Major Inglis made the statement
that the operators would submit
their rejected proposals ito our en-
ployes and to the people of the an
thracite region and ask them also. to
judge of the fairness of our course"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-03
Three Claim to Be
Daughters of Late
u. S. Sen. w. A. Clark

Butte, Mont, Feb. 2.-(AP)-Three
women, claiming to be daughters of the
late w. A. Clark, former United States
senator from Montana, have risen to
ask for portion of the copper kings
millions.
In petition filed in district court
late yesterday the trio put forth their
claims as Clark's legitimate daugh-
tiers, declaring they were %unintention-
ally omitted" from his will, and ask
the court to set aside an order recently
entered admitting the document to pro-
bate.
Details of their claim to the estate
are not contained in the petition, which
was prepared by John A. Shelton,
Butte attorney, and Edward c. HYDE
of Kansas City. Mo. Hyde left Sun
day night for Kansas City and Shelton
said that he was in possession of little
information other than contained in
the petition. The women are named as
Alma L. Clark Hines. Effie Clark Nc
Williams and Addie l.. Clark Miller.
Shelton said he understood that they
lived in or around Kansas City and
that their mother died several years
ago.
Clark and the woman were married
about 1869, he said
This information Is at variance with
the account of Clark's marital relations
contained in who's Who in America"
Here the copper king is listed as hav-
ing married Kate L. Stauffer Of Con-
nellsville. Pa. in 1869. In 1901-eight
years after the death of his first wife
-he married Miss Anna F. LaChapelle
of Butte, Mont. OAthe first union were
born w. A. Clark, Jr., of Los Angeles.
Cal; Mrs. Marius De Brabrant of Los
Angeles. C. E. Clark of Jerome. Ariz.,
and Mrs. L. r. Morris of White Plains,
N. Y. Hugette Clark of Santa Bar
bara. Cal, was the only child Of his
second marriage.
Who's Who lists Clark as having
taught school Sin Missouri" in 1852
1860 and traces him from there to Col
orado in 1862 and to Montana the fol-
lowing year.
Attorneys for the estate disclaim any
knowledge of the women.
Clark died in New York March 8.
1925, leaving an estate valued at about
50,000,000. Under his will the estate
was distributed to his widow, Mrs. An
ma E. Clark. two sons and three daugh-
tiers and among various charities. fra
ternal organizations, friends and dis
tant relatives. The three women seek
ing revocation of the will were not
named.
The will gave the widow $2,500,0eo
outright. An art collection in Clark's
home, valued at 100000. was left to
the Metropolitan Art Museum. Under
the terms of the will the museum did
not accept the exhibit and 1t was given
to the Corcoran Museum in Washing
ton, D. C..
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-03
loval Fellow Townsmen
Win Clemency for Erring
Hallowell Bank Cashier
PAWTUcKET STAMP
THIEVES THOUGHT TO
Be PROVIDENCE MEN

Pawtucket, r. l., Feb. 2-(AP)-A
clue which indicated, in the opinion
of Post Office Inspector J. ]. Breslin
directing the investigation of the
$26o,o0O robbery at the Pawtucket
postoffice. that the -four tough-look-
i ing birds" are Providence men, was
j uncovered tonight by him when he
traced one Of the three acetylene
tanks, left behind by the cracksmen.
to garage in Lonsdale, two miles
north Of this city.
He learned from the garage owner.
whose name he with held, that the
tank was leased to him last October
by the Rhode Island Welding Com
pany and was stolen soon after,
RMS fact, Inspector Breslin pointed
out, indicates that the robbers who.
ne suspects, use Providence as their
base. made the biggest post office
maui IN New England's history only
after months of planning.
He connected the craftsmen with
recent bank robberies in Rushville
| and West Winfield. N. Y, and Seven
Springs. Pa, and said he would like
TO have descriptions of the four men
who cut open bank vault with ace
tylene torches at the latter town a
| month ago.
! He would compare these descrip-
| lions. he said, with those furnished
the government inspectors by Paw
| tucket postal clerks and by mer-
chant. at whose shop four men pur-
chased blue handkerchiefs last Fri
| day.
The postal inspectors also decided
today to obtain the fingerprints of all
or the clerks and compare them with
| those found on the vault door in an
effort to learn whether the marks
We're left by the robbers.
While discussing the case today,
Inspector Breslin and his co-investi-
| gators predicted that the craftsmen
would attempt to dispose of the $780,
600 worth of stamps to disreputable
mail order houses at cut prices.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-03
Pennington Man
Profits by Honesty
| OF Rural Mail Carrier

| Especial to Kennebec JournaD
( Pennington, Feb. ARTHUR Will
| lard, a summer resident of Farming
J ton, who came into possession Of the
| property Of Mrs. Esther Knapp, an
| aged lady who died several years
1 ago, Is some $4,000 weather. than he
thought he was a few days ago, and
there is an interesting story goes
| with It.
Mr.. Willard sold and gave away
4 some things that he did not keep,
and mong them was ansold fashioned
| organ which he offered to a lady as
\ q gift, but which she did not accept,
| and finally sold it for a small sum to
Andrew Emery of Industry. who has
Deen rural mail carrier for a good
many years.
Andrew too kit home and his
. daughters used it and two of them
with its help composed a song which
| they submitted to Radio Station
J WGY, which accepted it and will
later give 1t to the world over the
| radio.
Just then the Emery kitten disap-
| peared. and In searching for 1t An
| Grew put his hand into a space In
! .he back Of the organ and found not
Me kitten. but bundle Of papers
which proved to be bank books show
! ing deposits amounting to more
man $4,000 in the name OF Mrs.
Anapp, and some certificates of per-
l 'ectiy good electric power stock.
1 oh his next trip to the Farming
@n postoftice Andrew brought the
saiuables to town and turned them
sssr 70 Mr.. Wizards local represen-
@uVe' James II. Small. Mr.. Emery
! sone OF the best known men in this
ar. OF Maine, and Is a direct des-
sssnuant OF Rev. John Spinney, a
,Saous Baptist minister here In
pioneer days.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-03

New York, Feb. 2.-(AP)-Organ-
lied baseball owes much of it's pres
ent-day success to two outstanding
factors-the supreme courts decision
that it is safe" and the engagement
of Kenesaw Mountain Landis as its
chief arbiter.
This was the declaration tonight of
U. S. Senator Pepper of Pennsylvania
before the golden jubilee dinner of
the National League, marking the
close of the fiftieth year Of basebalrs
oldest organization.
The senator paid tribute to John
A. Heydler. president of the National
League, who worthily maintained
the standard of craftsmanship set by
John Tener and his predecessors" and
also to "the strong men of the Amer
lean League, headed by their captain,
courageous Ban Johnson"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-03
THE WEATHER
EAlR

Northern New England - Fair
Wednesday,: Thursday snow; not
much change In temperature.
Southern New England-Increasing
cloudiness Wednesday, followed by
snow Or rain Wednesday night and
Thursday; not much change in tenn
perature.
Eastern New York - Increasing
cloudiness followed by snow or rain
Wednesday afternoon or night in
south portion: Thursday snow In
north and snow or rain in south por-
ton; not much change in tempera-
ture.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-03
General Forecast

The northeastern disturbance IL
now central south of New Foundland.
A storm of marked intensity and
wide extent is approaching the north
Pacific coast, Roseburg, Oregon, re-
porting a barometer reading of
1928 inches.
A southern disturbance will move
northeastward with increasing inten-
sity and it will be attended by rains
Wednesday in the middle Atlantic
and south Atlantic states, and snow
or rain Wednesday at night and
Thursday in the lake region and the
north Atlantic states.
The temperature will not change
materially during the next two days.
Storm warnings are displayed from
Jacksonville, Fla, to Cape Hatteras.
Note: Southeast storm warnings
displayed Jacksonville to Cape Hat
teras. Disturbance central near Pen
sacola moving northward with in
crea sing intensity.
Winds: North of Sandy Hook:
moderate to fresh north and north
east increasing Wednesday night.
overcast weather, snow or rain We'd
nesday night.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-03
Ed HARRIS, NEGRO,
FOUND GUILTY, Will
HANG FRIDAY, MARCH )

Lexington, KY. Feb. 2-(AP)-Ed
Harris, Negro. pleaded guilty here to-
day to an attack on Mrs. Clarence
Bryant, whose husband and two chill
dren he had confessed to numbering,
and was sentenced to be hanged Fri
day. March 5. in the Fayette county
jailyard. The trial lasted exactly six
teen minutes. 1t was one of the
speediest trials in the history of the
Continued on Page 10-Col. y
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Daytona Beach. Fla, Feb. o.
(AP)-William Madison Wood, 6S.
millionaire, former president Of the
American Wooden Company, And
over. Mass, and for the past month
a guest at Hotel Ormond with his
wife. committed suicide at a lonely
spot above Flagler Beach this morn
ing by placing the barrel of q re-
volver in his mouth and firing.
Ill health was given as the cause
for his act. At the time of the sui
eide, Mr.. Wood had been accompa-
MED in his automobile to Flagler
beach by his valet and chauffeur.
Leaving his car with an excuse
that he wished to take short walk
bordering the road at that point, Mr..
Wood was gone for only a few min
Continued on Page Cool. q
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-03
PUBLIC UTILITIES TO
PROBE RAIL WRECK
AT MARION LAST WEEK

The public utilities commission will
hold hearing at Portland. Thursday,
Feb. 4, at $50 A. M, to determine the
cause of the wreck on the Washing
ton county branch of the Maine Cen
trail Railroad last Friday afternoon.
it was announced Tuesday. Three
persons were killed and a score in
jured when the west bound train
from Calais left the rails at Cold
Stream bridge at Marion.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-03
Penna. House Com.
Votes Down Control
Of Hard Coal Mining

Harrisburg, Pa, Feb. 2.-(AP)-
The House committee on mines and
mining of the Pennsylvania Legisla-
ture. after public hearing today vot-
ed to report with a negative recon-
mendation the administration bills for
control Of anthracite mining.
One bill proposed to make hard coal
a public utility and the other provides
for state compacts to regulate produc-
ton and sale.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-03
Williams Sentenced to
1920 Years in Prison

Bangor, Me-, Feb. 2-(AP)-Ed-
ward Williams of Bangor who, after
many changes of pleading to an in
dictment charging him with assault
guilty, was sentenced to serve ten to
twenty years in state prison.
On the night of October 9. 1925,
Williams shot and dangerously
wounded Harry Clay, manager of the
Eastern Oil Company's filling station
here. Williams confessed this crime
also to having held up street car in
the suburbs and robbing a store
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-03
Manchester Girl of
Eight Dies of Burns

Manchester. N. H., Feb. LAP
Pearl, eight year old daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson H. Johnson
died today as the result of burns
sustained yesterday when she was
scalded by boiling water after pull
ing a tub from a stand as her mother
was preparing to do a washing