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AUGUSTA, MAINE, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 31,1926.
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PRICE THREE CENTS
A
[)eaf to Piea War
Service Bmnted
Morais Veteran
pernor and Council
Refuses Clemency to
Rockland Man Con
victed of Forgery
r^tforPhiHip Howard in
rnttsua! Plea—Cites Fact}
ms Honored Citizen Before
World ConHict—C h o s e n
Motor. Judge, County Attor
^ ^ Marked Change for
Morse t pon Return From
france—Only One Pardon
Out of tl Granted
fitting the change of Philip
g,,„rd of Hocktand during the
^,]j ^ar from a big-hearted, in
r^rious and prosperous attorney—
had served Knox county as
,anty attorney and the city of
f,wHand as mayor and police judge
into a morose and indolent man,
^rney Hnsign Otis'of RooMand
c!de a strong pica before the gov -
r„r and councii at their session
(Continued on Page 3 Co). 5)
golds Confidence
]n Soundness Cotton
Textile Industry
\-,w York, Dec. 30. - (Ti - More
sMantiat basis exists today for
-fcMm'-e in the fundamental sound
of the cotton textile industry
at almost any other pertod. in
4: opinion of William B. Judson,
wident of the Association of Cot
^ Tettiie Merchants of Xew York.
summarizes the principal con
tributing factors as follows:
"Both raw materials and manufac
ijrcri product are now on an invest
Mntbasis.
"Avery large volume of cotton
;wis is going into new consumption
Mas wei! as abroad.
"Curr-nt demand is keeping weii in'
btwitn current production.
Stocks accumuiatod in the eariy
M of the year have been steadily
&iuced.
"Prices have become more stabiltz
ri. but it is stiti imperative for miils
to recognize the necessity for ade
t'Mte margins.
There is aiso sound reason to ex
[Ktthat under present conditions of
w materia] supply and price but
thstrial and style uses of cotton
r ds vouid be sut<stantlally increas
§500,000 Kennebec
Bridge Bonds to
Estabrook & Company
fata of $500,000 Kennebec Bridge
n four per cent coupon bond issue,
Wingate of January t, 1927. (o
^abrook & Company of Boston,
M'S!, nas approved by the Governor
ulCouncii on Thursday. Five bids
the issue were received by the
Matt treasurer, the Estabrook A
j^pany of $100.49 being the
tidkst.
Statements?
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work, too—and at reason
ab!e prices
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FACTORS AMO
RETAiL HAN0HN6 OF
BOORS NOW AEUVE
Boston, Dec. SO.—(^p)—The coming
of the new year Hnds factories and
retai! distribution of merchandise pro
gressing in large volume, according to
the monthly review of indistriai and
Hnanciai conditions in the New Eng
land district by the I-'cdcrni Reserve
Bank of Boston. Business activity is
at a tower rate than a year ago both
in this district and in the country as
a whote but is somewhat higher than
the five-year average, the report sets
forth.
"Industry starts the year 1927 with
factories quite active," the report be
gins, "with retaii distribution of mer
chandise in large volume, with prices
of basic raw materials having shown
a decline for about IS months, and
with loans of commercial banks at
nearly the largest amount on record
and money rates fairly tirm.
"Business activity at -the beginning
of 1927, however, is at a iower rate
than at a year ago, both in this district
and in the country as a whole. In both
cases the current rate of activity is
somewhat higher titan the average
maintained during the past five years.
"Business conditions in the country
as a whoie were extraordiuariiy stable
and free from fluctuation in 192tt, hut
in 1925 there was a recession during
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Executive Council
Authorizes 5000 of
Hardwood Bulletin
Printing of 5000 copies of a Hard
wood Bulletin prepared by the Maine
Hardwood Association and the Maine
Forest Service, was authorized in an
order passed by the (Governor and
and Counci! on Thursday.
Buiietin No. 1 of the Maine Hard
wood Association, it is stated by Y.
C. Isola of Augusta, secretary of the
Hardwood Association and State
Forest Commissioner Xeil L. Vioiette.
will be a 64-page booklet to contain
a key map of the State showing the
genera) hardwood areas, the trans
portation lines, power lines and prin
cipal centers. It will also contain a
description of Maine hardwood areas,
methods of togging, opportunities fot
investments, estimates of hardwood
stands, present consumption, uses ot
Maine's hardwoods, articles on tech
nical projects of our hardwoods,
iabor, railroad cooperation, power,
and a discussion of the forest type
map of the State and a type map o'i
One town in colors. In conclusion,
there wii! be a list of hardwood
manufacturers by name, by article
manufactured, and by location.
These bulletins are to be distribut
ed throughout hardwood associations
in all sections of the country and
advertised in various lumber trade
journals.
Four Pan-American
Fiiers at Vera Cruz
Puerto, Mexico, Next
Vera Cruz, Dec. 30.—(/P)—Led by
Major Hebert A. Dargue, commandet
of the United States Army Pan Amer
ican Flight Squadron, the four planes
which were heid up for a week ai
Tatnpico, reached Vera Cruz this af
ternoon. They were the New- York
St. Louis, San Antonio and Detroit
The San Francisco, in command o)
Captain Ira C. Eaker, flew to Verc
Cruz iast week after futile attempts
had been made to recaii her on tin
original start of the squadron at Tam
pico. The American aviators swepl
down to the bay and found a saft
mooring place; then the fliers cams
to shore while bands piayed the na
tiona! anthems and the authontie!
and populace gave them a great re
ceptlon. ,
Major Dargue said the fhght fron
Tampico to Vera Cruz, a distance m
136 miles, was without incident. Ph<
flying time was two hours and forti
minutes. . . .
Puerto, Mexico. Is the next goal
and. if ail goes well, the fliers w dlhoi
off at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning.
Two Dead, Third
Biind After Drinking
men broke into to
shop probably on
Thev were found Ii
Christmas night
Bay State Legion
Head Seriousiy H!
- - Dec. 30-W—The condD
^thi'd been suffering from jba.
pendix and the bpcrat.on t.a. pet
formed immediately.
Mexican Government Bids
Fair to Acquire Billions
Oil Properties by Default
Due to Failure American Com
panies to Accept New Petro
leum And Land Laws in
Force Jan. 1, 1927—Dead
locked Situation May Con
tinue Indelinitely—Mexican
Government Will Not Turn
Properties Over to Third
Parties
Mexico City, Dec. 30—(#*)—The
Mexican government theoretically
will become one of the biggest owners
of oil lands *1 the wot'd cu January
1, unless there is a last r. 'iute al
teration in the situation brought
a*, t by promulgation of the new pe
troleum and land laws a * be "illure
of the oil r ipanies thus far to ac
cept the laws.
Under th- as of the -f w regula
tions all oil lands under foreign title,
the holders of which have ret ap
piicd for < ifirmatory co* *s
before January 1. will automatically
j revert to the Mexican gov- nment.
, President " s 1 - refused to grant
! an extension of time for malting
j these regulations effective,
i Neither government officials nor
i [epresentatives of the o'! companies
' have accurate statistics regarding the
property invtl ed, hut unotficiai es
timates. which make no pretence to
exactitude, are that many thousansd
of acres with a potentiai value of
' perhaps biiiions of doilars are affect
] od.
i'undamentniiv the dea ''oek be
(Continued on Page 9—Coi. 6)
j Condemned Man
Jokes with Guard
On Eve of Execution
Macon, Ga.. Dec. 30—(.#*)—With but
24 hours to live Wade Johnson spent
today in exchanging peasantries
with members of the death watch
guarding him until tomorrow, when
i he is to die on the gaiiows at Gray,
Oa.. for an attack on an 80 year old
Jones county woman in May, 1924.
The death sentence of Jarrett
i Benford. jointly convicted with John
, son, was commuted this week by
! Governor Waiker to life lmprison
I ment.
I Johnson has kept his own counsel
j regarding the crime and told report
I era he wiii have no statement to
j make tomorrow, but jaii guards de
' ciare his joking is merely a pose
! and that he had confided to them
! that he is not ready to die.
t Meanwhile last minute efforts for
j clemency are being made by his
' mother*and father.
Johnson is to be kept in jaii here
! until time for the execution. He
! was convicted before hanging was
i repiaced by electrocution in Georgia.
Ex-Sec. FaH Again
Dangerously 111
El Faso, Tex., Dec. 30.—(/f;—Albert
B. Fall, former secretary of the Inte
rior. tnAl gained slightly tonight in his
fight against pneumonia, said a bulle
tin issued by his physician.
An eariier builetin stated the ex
cabinet member was "not quite so com
fortable, due to increased cough."
Ei Paso, Tex , Dec. 30.—(jP)—Albert
B. Fail, former secretary of interior,
who is iil at his home here with pneu
monia, suddenly took a turn for the
werse during the night, necessitating
the caliing in of Dr. H, T. Safford at
an eariier hour than usuat this morn
ing. Fall was reported yesterday as
being practically out of danger.
Mr. Fall spent a very restless night
and was coughing a great deal. He
slept very little. Dr. Safford was call
ed in before 8 A. M.. and was to make
a later call during, the morning. Mem
bers of the family said th^t Mr. Fall's
temperature had increased a littie.
Aged Bangor Man
Dies After Accident
Bangor. Me., Dec. 30—<7P)—Barney
J. Rice, aged 76 of this city died to
day as a ' t of injur received
iast Saturday when he wa" er bit
bv a sled or by a truck. He did nol
' regain consciousness after the acci
dent.
7? 7
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Have you started your )
Christmas C!ub at the
Christmas C!ub j
Bank i
Six Ctasses to :
Choose from '
Interest
"The Bank with the 3
Chime Clock" (
STATE TRUST
COMPANY
Augusta [
U. S. CENSORSHtP OF
RAUiO )N NiCARABUA
NEUTRAL ZONE L!FTEO
Washington, Dec. 30.—(/p)—The dis
pute whether an American censorship
had been estabiished on radio station
in the Nicaraguan neutral zone was
settled today when the state depart
ment announced that one^had been in
effect but had been lifted.
The department said it had just been
informed by Rear Admiral Latimer,
. (Continued on Page 3—Co). 8)
Points Out Worth
While to Make Refund
Illegally Collected Tax
Washington, Dec. 30.—(#*)—While
the treasury refunded $173,000,000 in
iiiegaily coliected taxes iast fiscal year.
Secretary Mellon deciared today that
during the same period it had coilected
$400,0000,000 in additional levies made
as a result of mistakes by taxpayers in
computing their returns or in faiiure
to make returns.
The bulk of the refunds resulted
from regular court orders, the secreta
ry said, and many of them resulted
from mistakes by the government in
interpreting provisions of the excess
profits tax, which is not now in exist
ence.
The list of refunds paid by the gov
ernment during the iast tiscai year
was sent to the House ways and means
committee this week by Secretary
Meiion in accordance with the revenue
iaw which provides that the treasury
indicate to whom the refunds are
given.
President Coolidge has forwarded to
Congress a request for another $!73.
000.000 appropriation to take care of
refunds which wiii have to be paid
during the next fiscal year. AH per
sons named In the list submitted this
week have been paid.
Ice Coated Wires
Cripple Service in
Bay State County
Greenfield, Mass.. IDec. 30——
The ice-coated condition ot trees
and wires throughout Franklin coun
ty put communication in the terri
tory in a position of perii today. H.
E. Duren, manager of the iocai elec
tric light company, and R. H. Hoit.
manager for the New England Tele
phone Company, said this morning
that if a wind storm should come,
a -majority of trunk lines would be
lost. All over the county drooping
limbs rest upon the wires and should
the limbs be agitated by a gaie. hun
dreds of additional circuits will be
broken. Electric light trouble crews
have been on duty constantly for 48
hours under severe weather condi
tions. One crew reported during the
night with a member suffering from
a frozen foot. The weather contin
ues cool, indicating that the trees
will not be released from their ice
coatings for another 24 hours at ieast.
Many of the county roads are block
ed by trees which have fallen under
, the weight of their glistening armor.
President Closed
Memphis, Tenn., Bank
Collapses and Dies
Memphis. Tenn., Dec. 30—(P)—
Harrv Cohn, president of the Ameri
can Savings Bank & Trust Co.,
which recentiy ciosed its doors, coi
iapsed tn the hank today and died
within a few minutes.
The bank was ciosed two weeks
ago after the suicide of Clarence
fienoochsberg, an assistant cashier,
who before .ning a buiiet into his
head toid a friend his accounts were
$300,000 short.
Before Henochsh-—'s death. Rich
Parke, bookkeeper, had disapeared
when examiners found shortages of
$105,000 in Parke's accounts. Parke
surrender^ after the suicide of the
assistant cashier and toid ofHcers he
had been the toot of Honor' erg.
Two other clerks in the closed bank
were arrested later on charges of em
bezzling and are now on bond.
Mr. Cohn was 78 years o!d.
Rescues Brother from
Death by Drowning
South Windham, Me., Dec. 30—OP)
—Battling against a handicap of con
stancy breaking ice, Donald King, 11,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Janies K' ig. this
afternoon rescued his four year oid
brother, James, Jr., from the Pre
sumpscot river after a sied bearing
the tittle fellow had crashed through
the thin coating. James was none
the worse for the accident.
THE WEATHER
CLOUDY
Northern New England — Increas
ing cloudiness and warmer Friday
followed by rain or snow at' night;
Saturday fair.
Southern New England and Eas
tern New York—Increasing cloudi
ness and warmer Friday followed by
rain at night; Saturday fair.
Poston Forecast .
; Forecast for Boston and vicinity—
Friday Partly cloudy and warmer
followed by some light rain at night;
Saturday fair with moderate temper
! ature. Fresh southwest winds.
Genera! Forecast
The northwestern disturbance is
advancing rapidly eastward, being
; central south of Hudson Bay. The j
outlook is for mostly fair weather
-Friday and Saturday in the states'
east of the Mississippi river except
for rains Friday night in New Eng
tand. It will be warmer on Friday
over most of the Washington fore
cast district.
Winds north of Sandy Hook—
! Fresh northwest backing to south
west and increasing; weather part
ly overcast Friday.
Vanguard of Legislators
Iii Augusta for Biennial;
Session Starts Wednesday
VALUE MA!NE FARM
CROPS !S SDGHTLY
LESS THAN LAST YEAR
Wakefield, Mass., December 59.—A
summary today by the New England
Crop Reporting Service shows the
totai farm value of principal crops
in Maine, based on prices about De
cember 1, as $76,197,000. This- is a
decline of 20 percent from their com
bined vaiue of $95,673,000 iast year,
but 39 percent above their average
totai value in the years 1921-25. In
! 1925 the average farm price of po
tatoes per bushei was $2.00 compar
(Continued on Page 3—Col. 8)
Charge Peddling
Of Coveted French
Legion of Honor
) Baris, Dec. 30.—(/P)—A scandal over
t some recent awards of th)e coveted
! Legion of Honor was threatened <o
! day. The newspapers announce that
M. Ruotte, one of the secretaries In
j the ministry of commerce, arrested on
a charge of demanding 100.000 francs
for each Legion of Honor decoration,
has decided to bare his knowiedge of
the matter.
M. Ruotte Is understood, the papers -
say, to have transmitted to the minis
try of justice a iist of at ieast 20 new
legionnaires who, he aiieged. had not
sufficient quaiitlcatlons for the honor,
but whose nominations were imposed
by prominent parliamentarians.
He hinted that one honored with the
red gibbon of the Legion hajd been
condemned to two years imprisonment
for tanhruptev; another was decorat
ed f( r "20 years' direction of indus
trial enterprise." although he was on!y
33 yt irs oid, and still another was be
ribbo led despite the fact that he fig
ured in police reports for trafficking
with the enemy during the war.
It 1s charged that Ruotte used two
interinediaries in his aiieged bartering
of decorations. Both these persons
are also in custody.
; Police Blameless
i Inbcath of Phila.
Weman During Raid
) P^ltadelphla. Dec. 30—W—The po
! lice itoday were absolved frtm any
hlanje in the death of Mrs. Ida Wald
nianl wife of a coa) dealer, who died
! sootr after a liquor squad had search
i ed Me!* home.
The Waldman home and coa! yard
adjoin, and the police entered the
place on a premises warrant sworn
out by a policeman. Xo liquor was
found.
Mrs. Waldman became unconscious
when four members of the liquor
squad entered the place and she was
removed to a hospital by a brother
in-law, where she died.
Relatives declared she died from
the excitement of the raid, but one
of her sons, Simon, today said his
mother had been in a precarious con
dition from heart trouble and said
death was not unexpected. He said
he would not tile a complaint.
Bare Huge Drug
Ring in Provinces
Montreal. Que., Dec. 30.—(TP)—United
States and Canadian investigators
have uncovered what they believe to
be the largest drug ring in North
America, said F. W. Cowan, chief of
the narcotic branch of the department
of health of the Canadian government,
today.
Five alleged drug peddlers have
been arrested and more arrests are
expected as a result of the investiga
tion extending over three months.
Although $10,000 worth of drugs was
l seized this morning when the arrests
i were made, a centra! plant believed to
'exist has not yet been discovered.
Cowan said. Three of the five arrested
were railway porters who were charg
ed with conspiracy to seil and distrib
ute narcotic drugs.
What's the !ad going to do the
next stormy Saturday afternoon
when the newness is worn from
the Christmas presents? He can
find a heap of interest, !n a few
cents' worth of Kester rosin core
solder, some wire and an electric
soldering iron from Fifield's, opp.
depot, Augusta. With some used
tin cans and ma's old shears he
can make biscuit cutters, boats
and doodads.
'
To Close
on
! New Years
Day
We, the undersigned
grocers, agree to cjbse our
store oh New Year's Day
.
Ovid Pomerieau
A. L. Lacasse
Touiouse & Arbour
Poulin & Roy
Joseph Couture
E. E. Snrth
On Oxford Street
Party Caucuses Due Night Be
fore to Name Candidates for
Attorney Genera!, Secretary
of S^ate and Members of
Executive Counci!—Governor
Brewster's Second Inaugura
tion on Thursday—Contest
for Speakership of House
Maine's legislative mil! wil] com
mence its biennial grinding next
Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock,
when the Soions-elect wii! report for
active duty at the State House. The
initia! events of the 83rd session com
prise the ceremony of taking oath
and the organization of Senate and
House on Wednesday and the in
auguration Thursday morning of
Hon. Ralph O. Brewster of Portland
as governor for ins second term.
Some of the iegisiators have aiready
arrived in the Capitoi.
The Governor and Council wiii ad
minister the oath of office to the
(Continued on Page 11—Cot. 6)
Quiz Witness on
Kian Association
In Liquor Raid Triai
Bridgeport, Conn., Dec. 30—W—
Reuben Robins, son of Mayor Thomas
Robins, of Norwaik, was questioned
in regard to aib'ged association with
the Ku Kiux Kian when he took the
witness stand in the triai of Bouis
Novak of Nor aik. in superior court
today. Novak is one of 18 arrested
in iiquor raids in Norwaik.
Robins, who was a witness for ti;e
state, testified that he was present
with hijs lather when information
against Novak in the form of pur
chased iiquor was turned over to the
tytayor by Harold Mather of Norwaik.
Under cross-examination Robins
was asked by counsei for Novak if
he was not in the Ku Kiux Kian pa
rade in Washington iast August at
the time the aiieged transfer of the
evidence to the mayor was being
made. Robins admitted he had been
in Washington at the time of the
parade but denied, in answer to a
question, that he had carrie-d a large
biue banner in the parade and had
iater brought the banner back to
Norwaik.
Mexican Troops
Ip Pursuit Kidnappers
Two American Men
Mexico City, Dec. 30—(TP)—Federal
troops have been ordered by the
Mexican government to pursue the
bandits who kidnapped two Ameri
can mining men, J. W. Wiley and E.
B. Connors, near Parral. Chihuahua,
Wednesday. The Americans whose
homes in the United States are not
known, are being held prisoners for
10,000 pesos ransom.
The American embassy learned of
the kidnapping today and immediate
ly sent a note to the Mexican foreign
office making urgent representations
to the Mexican government for the
release of the prisoners and adequate
punishment of the bandits. The em
bassy is without details of the occur
rence, only being informed that 14
bandits were implicated in the out
rage. The bandits termed themselves
revolutionists and carried off Wiley
and Connors from the little mining
tow n of San Francisco del Oro. where
the Americans were employed in a
British-owned mine.
Name New Dry
Administrator for
New England Region
IVashington. Dec. 30—(^P)—Jonathan
S. T.ewis. deputy prohibition admin
istrator for New Hamn.hire. todav
was named assistant dry administra
tor for New England in charge of
permits to succeed Robert L. Emer
son, resigned.
Boston, Dec. 30—(/=P)—Dr. Jonathan
S. Lewis, prohibition administrator
for New Hampshire who was ap
pointed assistant prohibition admin
istrator for New England today, was
candidate for the office of lieutenant
governor of Massachusetts on the
prohibition ticket in 1907 and chief of
the prohibition state committee in
1908. He has also been associated
with the Anti Saioon League of New
Hampshire.
150 Boys and Girls
At Orono for 13th ^
Annual State Contest
Orono, Me., Dec. 30—{/Pi—One hun
dred and fifty members of the boys
and girls agricultural clubs from all
parts of the state are here for the
thirteenth annual state contest. This
afternoon there were receptions for
the visitors and tonight they were
entertained at ^he gymnasium with
games.
. On Friday afternoon will come the
judging contest and awarding of the
cup. at 6 B. M., the banquet and clos- !
ing session will be bold, at which'
prizes will be awarded by W. G. Hun
ton, representing the Maine Central
Railroad and state champions will
receive certificates in recognition of
their achievements.
Propose Memorial
At New Hampshire
End Kittery bridge
Concord, N. H., Dec. 30.—f/P)—Erec
tion of a state war memoriai at the
Memoriai Bridge in Portsntwuth at a
cost estimated at between $25,000 and
$35,000 is recommended in the report
of a special memorial committee sub
mitted to the governor and council.
The project will be referred to the
lj)27 legislature for action. The State
of Maine has a war memorial at the
Maine entrance to the bridge and It
Is understood that the Granite Stale
memorial will be of a similar type.
Denatured Alky
To Be Nasty But
Not Poisonous
He Is Back on the
Job Tonight; Gives
List of His Deputies
HENRY F. CUMMiNGS
Sheriff-elect Kennebec County
Midnight tonight Aiii witness the
return to the oilice of sheriff of
Kennebec county of Henry F. Cum
mings, who served one term and a
year and Hve months on the second
before he was removed from ofHce
by Governor Haiph O. Brewster and
council, oniy to be returned by the
people at the September election. At
12 o'clock tonight as the oid year
gives way to the new. Sheriff John
M. Eastman or Olin B. Hunneweli,
his turnkey, wiil pass over the keys
of the county jail to Sheriff Cum
mings. who with his turnkey. Sher
(Continued on Page 9—Cot. 6)
Judge Sympathizes
With Girl Held for
Providence Police
Xew York. Dec. 30.- (/P)—A smiting,
23 year old giri. charged with being
a Providence, R. I.. bank robber, was
heid in $500 baii today after her ar
rest had been described by the pre
siding magistrate as "a ridiculous
performance".
According to Louis J. Jackvony,
assistant Rhode Island attorney gen
era!, Miss Elizabeth Kelso, aiieged
sweetheart of John Gilbert Miiler,
now in prison on a charge of bank
robbery, is wanted for conspiracy to
rob the Thoenix Trust Company at
West Warwick. R. 1., of $26,422.
She was arrested today at a Broad
way restaurant where she had been
employed s a waitress. She told Mag
istrate Corrigan that she did not
want to return to Rhode Isiand and
that she did not know anything about
the robbery. Site was committed to
jai! when she was unable to meet the
bond of $500 that was set.
The magistrate told her that he be
lieved the attorney general wanted
her back merely as a material wit
ness and advised her to secure coun
sel and fight extradition.
Identify Body of
Suicide Victim
Found in Portland
Portland. Me. Dec. 30—The
s 'aide's body thenien'sla
vat;n\ at Union Station today witit a
tuilict wound the lioad. was iden
tified as thatof.Tohn Buckieyof
Lewiston.
Buckiey, wim was employed at
times hn Urn woods by t'-'Creat
Xorthern Pa]tcr Co., had been in i!i
health, lie remahed on this fact.
Montiay. when he withdrew $1,500
from a Lewiston bank. Of tins sunt,
$500 was f nd in his clothing. The
balance, it was !'"- cd.w "'yen to
a sister in Lewiston.
Deputies Bringing
Lewiston Man Back
To WaterviHe Court
Lewiston, Dec. 30—Deputies O. O.
Alien and W. A*. Xash of Waterville
left this city iate last night for Wat
erville, taking with them Joseph
Vlgue of this city, who wii! answer
to a charge of single sale of one gal
lon of alcohol in Waterville. Vigue,
who has a long court record here,
was arrested by local police who
turned him oyer to the Kennebec
ebunty officers.
Sec. MeMon Moves to
Change Denaturant
for Industrial Alco
hol
Not Witting to Kit! Jmbibers
Who Buy of Boottcggers—
Government Chemists Not
Over Enthusiastic Over New
Order—Dectare Must Con
tain At Least Smatt Amount
of Wood Atcohot
Washington, Dec. 30- (7T)—Prodded
by Secretary ^t'iion government
chemists turged again to titcir test
tubes today in an effort to find some
denaturant for industrial aicohoi
which is not poisonous.
Reaitxing ti)at such aicohoi t6 seep
ing into bootieg ciianneis, Mr. Motion
is not wiiiing to poison drinkers to
enforce the prohibition law. He wants
the aicohoi denatured so that it wUi
be too distastefu] to drink, but at
the same time not poisonous.
The chemists, however, are nut so
I enthusiastic about flrfding a non
poisonous ingredient. if industry
: aicohoi is to be made nauseating they
fee! it must contain a smaii portion
at hast of wood aicohoi which they
deciafe is the ieast injurious de
naturing ingredient.
Mr. Meilon beiieves. also, tiiat a
(Continued on Page 3—Cot. 7^
Indecision Holds
In Continuing Probe
Evangelist Aimee
Los Angeles, Dec. 30—bP)—The
next step In the Aimee Semple Mc
I Pherson case, whether It will be dis
missal of the conspirac charges
; against the evangelist and lier three
; co-dependants or the Ming- of new
i charges, remained undecided as the
! second county grand jury to investi
gate the affair ciosed today's session.
In & statement tonight District At
torney Asa Keyes emphaticaiiy de
nied that the case against Mrs. Mc
Pherson. her mother. Mrs. Kennedy,
her former radio operator, Kenneth
G. Ormiston, and Mrs. Lorraipce
Wiseman-Sieiaff, wiil be dropped.
Yesterday the prosecutor declared
that the disimssai of the conspiracy
charges was imminent, due to chan
ges made in the story toid by Mrs.
Wiseman, who doubies as one of the
defendants and also a star Witness
for the state. He then bra-'^d Mrs.
Wiseman a "turncoat" and " per
jurer." teiiing a "new story almost
every day."
Keyes' statement today was:
"Emphatically I will not drop this
case. While Mrs. Wis - r has
changed her original story In part, it
is not diametricaiiy opposite to that
she toid on the witness st-* ' during
Mrs. McPherson's preliminary hear
ing. Instead, it is more of an elabora
tion of the vague parts of her pre
vious testimony."
The grand jury wii] resume its in
quiry Tuesday and court attaches
forecast that the pres-nt charges of
conspiracy to obstruct justice mav
be dropped and indict for per
jury and subornation of nerjury sub
stituted.
Believe American
Crooks Engineering
Thefts in England
London Deo. 30—(#*)—A i30.000
jewc] robber in Harrow ' famous de
partment store iast nigttt. !-nd befn
added to a tist .of robberies bere pf
iate witich is causing notit - to sus
pect that in some cases American
thieves have been engineering the
coups.
Veteran Rai! Worker
KiMed at Sanford, Me.
Sanford. He., Dec. SO—(/P)—Mag
toira Morin, an 83 year otd track
foreman o:t, the York Utiiii: Rail
road, was k '
struck hya frcigiit motor wMJe
working on the ttacl He ttad been
eniptoreti i<y t)te taitroad companv
since its organization S3 years ago.
He is survived by two sons, two
daughters and a brother.
The State Trust
Company
wit) bectosed at! day Saturday
because of the tega) hotiday.
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