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The Journal. Read the classified ads
and save money.
Every Distillery and Ware
house in U.S. and Island
Possessions Ordered
Closed
Decision Puts Whole
salers Out of Busi
ness — Means Death
Knell of “Bootleg
legging”— Few Ex
ceptions Simplify
Record of Releases—
Action Based on
Opinion Attorney
General
Washington, Feb. 2—Doors of dis
tilleries and bonded warehouses in
every state in the union, Hawaii and
Porto Rico were .ordered indefinitely
closed against, liquor withdrawals to
day by Prohibition Commissioner Kra
mer. At the same time wholesale li
quor dealers were ruled out of further
participation in the sale of intoxicat
ing beverages by Attorney General
Palmer.
Commissioner Kramer’s drastic or
der stopping the flow of liquor from
storage and the Attorney General's in
terpretation of the Volsted Act, pro
hibition officials said, mean the elim
ination of the wholesale liquor deal
ers, and make possible prevention of
• hootleging” through forged permits
and illegal disposition ofintoxicating
liquor.
Stoppage of liquor withdrawals was
in extension of the order issued last
veek forbidding removals in New
York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Mass
achusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island
and New Jersey. The order does not
apply to withdrawals of industrial al
cohol or reasonable quantities of sac
ramental wine and ((makes an excep
tion in the case of retail druggists who
are permitted to make withdrawals up
to five cases of liquor at a time.
Warning against attempts to obtain
whiskey despite the nationwide ban,
was sent out by Commissioner Kra
mer who directed all owners of dis
tilleries and warehouses not to honor
permits for whiskey withdrawals
purporting to be issued by any state
director, irrespective of the date such
permit is (issued or approved by the
director.” No such applications are
being, approved, ho said, adding that
failure to comply with the notice
would deprive owners of their license
to hold their stock still in storage.
Mr. Palmer's opinion was made pub
lic by Internal Revenue Commission
er Williams and was said by revenue
bureau officials to constitute the au
thority upon which the sweeping clos
ing orders were issued.
Wholesale liquor dealers, the attor
ney general held, are entitled to dis
pose of their warehouse receipts for
•liquor stored in bonded warehouses to
manufacturers and wholesale drug
gists, "but thp right to withdraw said
liquors from bonded warehouses is
grunted to manufacturer^ and whole
sale druggists only.” On the question
of the authority of the prohibition
commissioner to issue permits to sell
liquor in wholesale quantities the at
torney general held that power was
imited to manufacturers and whole
sale druggists.
With respect to industrial alcohol,
Mr. Palmer held the authority to issue
permits for its disposal in wholes'’
quantities was limited to manufac
turers and wholesale druggists. If the
ttb'ohol were fit for beverage purposes
but not if it were denatured.
Liquor now in commercial ware
houses, however, prohibition officials
explained, is exampt from tho attorney
general's" ruling and Commissioner
Kramer's ban, since such liquor Is con
sidered to be in the possession of the
owner.
The possibility of the lifting of the
withdrawal ban upon the completion of
now regulations now being worked out
by tlie bureau was suggested by Com
missioner Williams in connection with
the attorney general's opinion.
Vermont House
Votes Sympathy in
Parkhurst’s Death
Montpelier. Vt.. Feb. 2—A Joint resolu
t on expressing the sympathy of the
people of Vermont in the death of Gov
ernor Parkhurst of Maine, was passed
m the House of Representatives today
■ind sent to the Senate, where it was
planned to put It through immediately
under suspension of the rules. Copies
will be sent to the Maine Legislature
and to the family of the late governor.
Mason S. Stone, former lieutenant
governor and Adjutant General Herbert
r- Johnson, who will represent this
*tate at Governor Parkhurst's funeral,
started for Augusta, today.
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EX-OVERSEAS
SUPPLY CHIEF
HOT AT CRITICS
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Oaths to Emphasize
Disgust at Fault
Finders
Charles G. Dawes, Mentioned as Cab
inet Possibility, Says Not in Poli
tics and Not Going in—We Won
the War and Nothing Else Matters,
His Answer to Those Seeking Light
on War Expenditures
Washington, Feb. 2.—Declaring lie '
was not in politics and was not going
in. Charles O. Dawes of Chicago, for
pier qhief of supply procurement for i
the American army in France, bitterly ]
attacked today what he charged were j
political attempts to discredit the
achievements of the people who won
the war.
In the course of a five-hour examina
tion by a House war investigating
committee he struck with sledge ham
mer blows at critics who had tried, ho
said, to detract from the glory of the
great achivement by picking flaws and
parading trivial faults thousands of
miles away. At times the air was
thick with a streak of oaths for which
the witness frankly confessed he had
neither apology nor excuse.
Lute in the day he reiterated an
earlier offhand statement as to his
own part in politics, which was ac
cepted to mean that he would not
become a member of Mr. Harding's
cabinet, a position with which his
name has been linked. Even before
his views on this subject were ex
pressed he sharply denounced the pres
ent system of conducting the federal
government, an evil of a hundred years
standing, he declared, with which in
vestigators might belter afford to deal
instead of trying to scoop up water
already over the dam.
He was called,by Democratic mem
bers of the committee to rebut testi
mony relating to waste and extrava
gance and particularly with refer
ence to liquidation of American ac
counts in France and sale of surplus
I stocks to the French government. An
swering charges that food and clothing
supplies might have brought more
than the $400,000,000 paid by France,
Mr. Dawes turned sharply upon one
of his questioners. Representative
! Bland, Republican. Indiana, and shout
| ed:
"It is just that sort of fool argu
ment that forced Great Britain to hold
onto its stocks and attempt to drive
a hard bargain. The stuff is there to
day, rotting. You can not'discuss ex
parte question three thousand miles
away. There is no use to try and
throw mud when he were not there to
know conditions. England lost bil
lions of dollars by listening to that
sort of talk—listening to a lot of
people who were afraid of muckralters
at home. They are raising the devil
in England now because England did
not sell its supplies when he sold."
Mr. Dawes said as a matter of fact
he thought France was charged too
much.
"Here you come now and charge,"
he said, "that we should not have sold
sugar. The war -department ordered .
the sale. The sugar went in a lump
'lot with the Junk. Everything was
i second-hand. We got four hundred
million dollars for it. We liquidated
• every account, and we did it because
a lot of big men quit their jobs and
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Reichstag Parties
Support Leaders in*
Reparations Stand
Berlin, Feb. 2.—The Reichstag par
ties through their leaders today sec-'
onded the government's attitude on the
Paris agreement. The debate, which
lasted three hours, was dispassionate,
barring interruptions during the Com
munist leader’s speech, the sole dis
senting note In the parliamentary tho
rus of approval.
Dr. Paul Bevy, for the ultra-Radi
cals, told the Reichstag that the pres
ent situation was mirth-provoking in
asmuch as it recalled the outbreaks of
official and bourgeoisie anger after the
armistice terms, the Versailles treaty
and teh Spa agreements were publish
ed. He added that, despite excessive
protestations, the government inva
riably subsequently discovered that
there was no choice but to sign.
President Loebe. at the conclusion
of the debate, commended the parties
| and their speakers on the unanimity
i of their sentiments. He hoped the
! Entente would listen to the warning
j voice and spare the German people
! and Itself the inevitable consequences
unless the reparation terms were rad
ically revised.
Bay State Women
Believe as Voters
Should Tell Age
Boston, Feb. 3—The long accepted be
lief that women dislike to tell their age
was shattered today as far as Massa
chusetts women are concerned.
A bill of Representative Roland D.
Sawyer of Ware, to exempt women
from giving their age on registering
to vote which was up for a hearing at
the state house, found no supporters
among ■ the women present. On the
other hand several spoke against the
proposal, voicing the belief .that women
who wished to become voters should
fulfill all the requirements Imposed upon
men.
GERMAN FINANCES
BEING CAMOUFLAGED
BELIEF OF EXPERTS
Paris, Feb. 2—(By The Associated.
Press)—Germany is told exactly how
to eliminate the 76,000,000,000 marks de
ficit in her 1920 budget in the report
to the allies of the conference of the
financial experts held in Brussels,
made public here today.
Certain German expenditrues ade
clared to have been multiplied 75
times over those of 1919 and certain
German taxes are shown to be far
below those the Allied populations
are paying. The report says:
“Many figures in the ordinary bud
get seem to have been established by
an administration and parliament
equally desirous of showing the world
the precarious financial condition of
Germany and her difficult situation.”
“If the recommendations are fol
lowed. the budget should be speedily
balanced, says the report, thus, with
a continuation of Germany’s economic
recovery, the experts declare that
Germany “in a relatively short pe
riod” can meet her treaty obligations
through taxation without continuing
to increase her floating debt or in
flate her currency.
The report says the 1919 and 1920
budgets of Germany carried a num
ber of credits which were only par
tially disbursed, such as 16,500,000,000
marks for the allied armies of occu
pation expenses, of which only 4,500,
000,000 marks was spent. The budget
for 1920 carried 42,000,000,000 marks for
execution of the peace treaty, while
only 17,000,000,000 marks had been paid
out up, to December 1, last.
Items not justified or greatly multi
plied over previous appropriations are
said to appear in the 1920 budget. The
ministry of the interior appropriation
was raised from 19,000,000 marks to 1,
433,000,000 marks, an increase of 7,500
per cent. The foreign affairs allow
ance was increased from 24,000,000
marks to 295,000,000 marks. The pos
tal and telegraph employes’ expenses
multiplied seven times over those of
1919. Thirty two billion marks were
listed for economic subsidies, said to
be largely unnecessary, and all or the
greater part of these and similar ex
penses. the report declares, should dis
appear from future budgets.
The deficit of 19,000.000,000 marks In
railw'ays and other governmental op
erations should be eliminated through
disappearance of the items charged
and increasing of rates, which the re
port asserts have been inadequately
raised. The German answer to a ques
tionnaire is cited, showing there are
350,000 more government employes
than before the war.
German direct taxes are deemed
adequate, but the indirect taxes, in
cluding those on alcohol, tobacco, su
gar and other arLicles, are declared to
be greatly insufficient. The report
says the allied taxes on the same
commodities are vastly heavier, based
on the purchasing power of money per
capita. The tax on such commodities
is seventy times heavier in England
and eleven times heavier in France
than in Germany.
Chairman White
to Call Together
Unterrified Remnants
Washington, Feb. 2.—George White,
chairman of the Democratic national
committee, today appointed an execu
tive committee of the national com
mittee and called it to meet in Wash
ington Feb. 17 to obtain its "advice
and counsel'' in the reorganization of
the party’s machinery.
The executive committee of 16 mem
bers follows: W. T. Sanders. Alaba
ma; Homer S. Cummings. Connecticut;
Miles G. Saunders. Colorado; Miss Ju
lia E. Landers. Indiana: Mrs. Campbell
Cantrell, Kentucky; Mrs. Julia H. Bris
coe, Maryland; William F. Connolly,
Michigan; J. Bruce Kremer, Montana;
Norman E. Mack, New York; Mrs. Ber
nice S. Pike, Ohio; Mrs. D. A. Mc
Dougal, Oklahoma; Mrs. Rose Heiflen,
Oregon; Joseph F. GufTey. Pennsyl
vania; Cordell Hull, Tennessee; Sena
tor Carter Glass, Virginia, and Angus
M. McLean, North Carolina.
Mr. White, as chairman, Wilbur W.
Marsh, of Iowa, as treasurer and E.
G. Hoffman of Indiana, as secretary
of the National committee, will act as
ex-offlcio members of the executive
committee.
Chairman White in announcing the
appointments apd the call for the
meeting, gave no details of the mat
ters likely to be brought up, merely
stating that he desired "to have the
benefit of the counsel of the executive
committee in planning for an efficient
organization of the national commit
tee."
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Wife Foils Attempt
Demented Husband
to Take Own Life
Calais, Me., Feb. 2—Mrs. John A
Cameron, a bride of two months,
happened to enter the stable at their
boarding place at St Stephen. N. B.,
today, barely in time to save the life
of her husband. He was gangling
from the end of a rope attached to a
beam with a noose around bis neck,
according to the police.
Cameron, who was said to be de
spondent because of unemployment,
was taken to an insane hospital at St
John by the city marshal. He waa
employed as a clerk in the post office
at Fairville, N. B„ his home, before
going to St. Stephen where be was
married.
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GEN. PERSHING
WARNS OF OVER
DOSE PACIFISM
Folly to Suspend Build
ing Program in Ab
sence Pact
Congress Talk* Over Disarmament,,
Consider* Money Bill* and Gets J
View* President-Eleet on Person- |
nel U. S. Army — Senator Gerry j
Sees Foreign Propaganda in Tatfc ]
of Discarding Capital Ships
Washington, Feb. 2—Congress dis
cussed disarmament today, but went
ahead with consideration of large ap
propriations for the army and navy
and incidentally received the views of
President-Elect Harding on the na
tion’s future military policy. Chair-1
man Kahn of the Military committee,
told the Houbc in debate on the an
nual military appropriation bill that!
h? had been informed by Mr. Hard-j
ing at a recent conference at Marion
that the president-elect favored a reg
ular army of 175,000 men for the pres
ent and legislation providing for vol
untary military training of 150,000 men
annually.
Before the House met, its naval i
committee received from Gon. Persh- 1
ing warning against fostering a na
tional spirit of pacifism and unpre
paredness. This warning tempered •
the general's approval of a world dis
armament conference and was accQni- •
panted by a declaration that until : ,11'
the world powers had agreed on a
disarmament policy it would bo "un
wise and unsafe” for the United '
Stares to discontinue carrying out its
army and navy policies.
Preceding debate on the army bill,
the House received from the appro
priations committee the annual na» al
bill with provisions for continuing
work on 17 super-dreadnoughts, bat
tle cmlsers and other craft. At tho
same time. Senator Gerry, Rhode Is
land, Democratic member of the naval
committee, broke into the tariff de
• t-ate to oppose Senator Borah's reso
lution to halt work on these ships for
, six /ninths while experts decided what
typo of craft was the best in the light
of lessons learned from the world war.
The Rhode Island senator, denying
jthat the war had demonstrated 'hat
j the battleship was no longer the vital
iunit the fleet, declared that It would
be essential for this country in any
future war.
Comparing the relative strength of
| the American, British and Japanese
j navies, the senator said he could un
I derstand why there might be propa
i ganda by the British against the con- j
'struction of major ships, intimating
i that it would be to their advantage to
i discourage the construction of such
craff by other nations whose naval
strength was approaching their own.
The Borah resolution will be consid
ered tomorrow by the Senate naval i
committee, which will hear members
of the general naval board, who today
completed their report to Secretary
Daniels on their study of the whole '
naval situation with relation to the
best type of ship for the future. The i
House naval committee also decided \
today to hear on Friday the members I
of the navy board and in addition j
Rear Admiral Sims, wartime com- j
mander of American naval forces
overseas, and Rear Admiral Bradley
A. Flske, retired, Inventor of an aeri
al torpedo plane.
CENTURY OLD
BANK PRESIDENT
74 YEARS WED
Lancaster. Pa.. Feb. 2—Barr Spang
ler, who In his 100th year is president
of the First National bank at Farrietta
and the oldest bank president in the ;
United States today celebrated with his |
wife their 74th wedding anniversary. I
He is daily on duty. Hs attributes his
longevity to work and more work and
simple rules of health.
THE WEATHER
CLOUDY
Northern New England: Couldy
Thursday and Friday, probably light
Bnow in interior Thursday; colter
Frday. /
Southern New England: Generally
fair Thursday and Friday, somewhat
colder Friday.
Eastern New York: Generally fair
in south and probably snow flurries
in north portion Thursday; Friday
generally fair, colder in interior.
Boston Forseaat
Forecast for Boston and vicinity:
Generally fair Thursday and Friday;
somewhat colder Friday; moderate
to fresh southwest to west winds.
General Foreeast
The outlook is for generally fair
weather Thursday and Friday in the
states east of the Mississippi except
that snow flurres are probable in the
regon of northefn New York and
northern New England.
The temperature will be somewhat
lower in New England Thursday
night or Friday.
Winds—North of Sandy Hook:
Moderate to fresh southwest and
west winds ■ and ' overcast weather
Thursday.
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ONE DEAD, 2 HURT
IN CLASH WORK
PARS AT PORTLAND
i Portland, Me., Feb. a.—Guy A. Copp,
pged 55, of South Portland, one of the
three Boston & Maine railroad section
men Injured today when their motor
driven w'ork car struck a “one-man-'
work car standing on the tracks be
tween Oak hill and West Scarboro,
died tonight in a hospital here. Death
was caused by injuries to bis head.
Wilbur Snow of Scarboro. who also
was removed to the hospital with cuts
on the head and body bruises, was not
considered in a serious condition.
George Kenffie of South Portland, the
third victim of the Occident, went to
his home after having his injuries
dressed by a physician at Oak Hill.
McWhorter and
Jewtraw Tied in
Saranac Ice Contests
Saranac Lake, N. Y., Feb. 2.—Roy
McWhorter, Chicago, and Charles
Jewtraw, Lake Placid, tonight .were
tied with eighty points each at the
close of the second day of the inter
national skating tourney here.
Charles Gorman of St. John, N. B.,
was close behind with 60. Joe Moore
of New York had 30.and Mike Good
man of Winnipeg had 20.
The championship matches will end
tomorrow with the 440-yard and
three mile events.
By winning the half-mile and fin
ishing third In the two-mllc race to
day McWhorter was able to gain a
good grip on the National title but
skating experts tonight predicted that
unusual good work woujd have to be
done to decide the championship.
McWhorter had an easy win in the
half mile race, Jewtraw falling at the
bell lap.
Joe Moore, New York's ice speed- !
ster. gave the most sensational per
formance of the day, winning the two
mile event in 5.54 or fourteen seconds
slower than1 the world’s record. In
this race Jewtraw finished second, j
Summaries:
Half-mile senior final: Won by Roy
McWhorter, Chicago, second Charles
Gorman, St. John, N. B.; third, Mike
Goodman, Winnipeg. Time 1.23 3-5. i
Two mile senior final: Won by Joe
Moore, New York; second, Charles
jewtraw; third, McWhorter. Time
S.5A * j
Half-mile junior for boys of 16:
Won by Martin Brewster, Lake
Placid, second Orlie Green, Saranac
Lake; third, L. Horton, Lake Placid.
Time 1.35 4-5.
220-yards junior for boys of 14:
Won by Carl Parody* Lake Placid; .
second, Harold Fortune, lake Placid;
third, Ernest Grace, Saranac Lake,
time 22 4-5.
One-mile junior, for hoys of 16:
Won by Martin Brewster, Lake Plac- j
Id; second, Orlie Green; third, John!
Dairy, Lake Placid. Time 3.20.
440-yar.ds junior final: Won by
Harold Fortune, Lake Placid; second,
A. Gedroz, Saranac Lake; third, R.
Dewey, Saranac Lake. Time 45 1-5.
Tenants Rescued
From Roofs of
Burning Buildings
Pittsfield, Mass., Feb. 2.—Police and
firemen rescued men, women and chil
dren from tha roofs of the Frederick
and Guns buildings to which they had
been driven from their apartments
when flames spread rapidly through
the third floor of the Frederick -build
ing extending to the Gans building this
mqrning. All the tenants of the third
floor were rescued with the aid of lad
ders. The loss was estimated at
15000
CLOTURE RULE FAILS
AND JOCKEYING ON
TARIFF CONTINUES
Washington, Feb. 2—Shoving aside
all pending legislation, including a
dozen big appropriation bills, tho
Senate voted today to continue con
sideration of the Fordney emergency
tariff bill. The gates were opened
wide for a flood of oratory when a
petition for the use of cloture in the
tariff debate was voted down, 36 to
35, mustering far less than the neces
sary two thirds majority to sustain
it.
In a session marked by political
jockeying, debate consisted of short,
heated speeches. Republican lead
ers sought to avoid cloture. Demo
crats challenged that it be brought
in and then marshalled their forces,
defeating it promptly. Minority
members sought a unanimous con
sent agreement fixing a date for a
vote on the tariff, only to have one
of their own ranks offer objection.
As it now stands the emergency
tariff measure has precedence over
all business except during the “morn
continued on Page 5—Col. 6)
Wife of Red Seeks
Money Balm from
Palmer, Caminetti
Washington, Feb. 2—Suit for $350,000
against Attorney General Palmer and
Anthony Caminetti, commissioner
general of immigration was filed in the
District Supreme court today in be
half of Mrs. Mary M. Marcinak, of
Passaic, N. J., the case arising out of
the arrest and' subsequent death of
her husband duirng the “Red raids”
in January, 1920.
Allegation is made that the Marcin
ak home was forcibly entered,
searched and papers removed as a re
sult of a conspiracy between the two
officials; that Marcinak was held in
jail first, then at Ellis Island with
out adequate care or medical atten
tion, due to which his death resulted.
It was further averredthat Marcinak
was not a member of the Communist
party or any other association op-*
posed to organized government and
that his death had left his wife with
two srpall children to support, neces
sitating work that undermined her
health.
Re-apportionment
May Go Over to
Harding Regime
Washington, Feb. 2—Suggesting that
action on the House re-apportionment
bill be deferred until after the Inaugu
ration of President-elect Harding were
considered today by Republican mem
bers of the Senate census committee.
Chairman Sutherland said a conference
of Republican senators ight be called
to determine action.
8enat&r Sutherland declared there was
no disposition in the Senate to change
the House membership as fixed by that
body nor waa any decrease in the rep
resentation from southern states con
templated in tonnection with the bill.
If the House measure, which would
retain the present House membership
of 43o by decreasing representation of
some states and increasing that of
others, goes over until the next session,
the re-districtlng o{ states made necea,
sary could not be considered by state
legislatures now In session and it waa
said that extra sessions might be neeeer
sary. ,
FORD TO “IGNORE”
PRODUCER GEST,
SUING FOR LIBEL
Detroit, Feb. 2—Counsel for Henry
Ford and for editors of the Dearborn
Independent declined to comment today
upon information from Chicago that
Morris Gest, theatrical producer, had
flled preliminary papers there in a $5,
000,000 damage suit against Mr. Ford
and the Independent.
"Mr. Gest will be ignored,” said Mr.
Ford’s private secretary.
The preliminary papers tiled in Chi
cago charged that an article in the In
dependent, owned by Mr. Ford, con
tained “libelous, slanderous ,and false
statements," concerning Mr. Gest and
certain productions he has handled.
Grasshoppers Frisk
in Oxford’s Hills
on Candlemas Day
Portland, Me., Feb. 2.—rine Tree
State residents hibernating in the
south to escape the rigors of a Maine
winter will read with interest on
Candlemas Day reports that grass
hoppers are being caught in Oxford
county fields.
A local newspaper was informed by!
A. J. Rolfe of Dixfleld that last Sat
urday he found several of the frolic
some insects on a bare spot in his
field. Supporting hfs statement with
evidence, lie enclosed in an envelope
two of the hoppers which evidently
expired in transit. Another paper re-1
ceived from a nearby farm a fruit
tree ’branch on which buds had b&gun |
to blossom out.
Accustomed to read while enjoying'
the warmth of southern climes of
temperature occasionally as low as 20
below zero and see photographs of*
ten-foot snowbanks, such as existed,
last year when seven feet of snow fell
within as many weeks, they recelye
reports of a total snowfall of two
inches in January and cllpiatic con
ditions more than 300 degrees warmer
than last January.
If the old maxim about the ground
hog proves true, the abnormal con
ditions are not likely to continue as
there appeared to be little likllhood
that the little animal would seo its
shadow during the day.
Nation’s Chiefs to
Be Guests Boston
Press Club Soon
Boston, Feb. 2.—Warren G. Hard
ing, as President of the United States,
and Calvin Coolidge, as vice-presi
dent, will be guests of honor at the
35th anniversary dinner of the Bos
ton Press Club, to take place here
at a date convenient to Mr. Harding.
In making this announcement to
night Charles E. Toung of the Bos
ton Post, president of the Press club,
said the president-elect had accepted
a formal invitation to attend the
dinner. Some time ago Mr. Harding
tolda member of the club at his home
in, Marion; Ohio, that he would be
pleased to be present.
Mr. Toung said that the dinner In
compliance with Mr. Harding's wish
es, would be a “comparatively modest
affair.” Few invitations will be is
sued outside the membership of the
! club.
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Hundreds View the!
Beautiful Scene in
Capitol Rotunda
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Holes of Flowers Lead1
to Magnificent
Bronze Casket Con-!
taining Earthly Re
mains Dead Execu-i
PLANS COMPLETE
FOR IMPRESSIVE
FUNERAL TODAY!
Silent in the majesty of]
3eath, surrounded by flowers!
whose fragrance and beauty]
testified to the love the peoplel
bore him, tenderly guarded by,
the State’s soldiers in khaki,
the remains of the late Frederic
El. Parkhurst of Bangor, Gov
ernor of the State of Maine,
were viewed during Wednesday
by thousands of citizens, who,
passing slowly and reverently
by the casket, through the
aisles of flowers, showed their,
sorrow by bowed heads and sad;
faces.
People Come Early
The doors of tlie main entrance Of
the State House were thrown open
to the public at exactly 9.30 o’clock
Wednesday morning and hardly had
the bolts been drawn when the first
visitor—a woman—entered to pay her
last respects to the departed.
She was quickly followed by others,
the arrivals being almost continuous,
although at no time in the morning
was a crowd present. It was said
that several hundreds of people pass
ed the bier before the hour of 13
o’clock noon.
The throngs Increased with the
coming of the afternoon, It being
practically a continuous line of peo
ple until the closing hour of 5 o’clock.
While no accurate account was kept
of the number, several thousand peo
ple gazed with saddened and many
moist eyes upon the face of the late
Governor during the day.
Arrangements Perfect
The arrangements were perfectly
made and as perfectly carried. The
casket was guarded at head and foot
by a member of the Quartermaster
Corps. Two men were stationed both
outside and inside the front entrance,
while others beyond the head of the
casket directed the people to the exit,
which was made through the first
floor corridor to the north entrance.
The Guardsmen, who were relieved
every half hour from their trying du
ties, presented a very soldierly ap
pearance and deserve praise for their
share of making the carrying out of
the ceremonies a success.
The flowers had continued arriving
throughout the entire morning and
soon were enough to carry out the
plan of forming the aisles with them,
by placing the set pieces in line, east
and west, with the great banks of
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Son’s Thriftiness
Balks Groundhog
Experiment of Father
Monmouth, Kansas, Feb. 2—John
Willhelmer's experiment with the
groundhog theory of ancient origin
and annual discussion ended in failure
today. '
After standing In his observation
tower near the billet which he estab
lished for five groundhogs last fall,
he received a visit from his 14-year
old son.
“I’m sorry. Dad,” young WUhelmer
began, "I didn’t mean to do anything
wrong. But there won’t be any
groundhogs sticking their noses out
of that den today. Last fall some
fellows were out here hunting from
town and said they wanted some pos
sums. Sam Willits and I sacked tyose
groundhogs &n.d sold them to the fel
lows for two dollars apiece as pos
sums..
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