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BELGIUM EXPELS SPANISH “BAD BOY” PRINCE
THE
Probably cloudy tonight and Wednesday;
warmer Wednesday; moderate northeast
winds.
“DRY” LECTURER JAILED IN RUM PLOT
MO
HUSBAND
TO JUN.
GME
Prominent Business and So
ciety Leaders Involved in
Maine Scandal
BANGOR, Me., Nov. 11.—Mrs.
Laura Patten, church and temper
ance leader of Machias, was sen
tenced to two months in jail by
Judge Peters in Federal court here
when she pleaded guilty with her
husband and a dozen other men
to' charges connecting them with
a litfuor smuggling conspiracy for
which seventy-four indictments
i have been issued. Federal offi-
I dais say the rum scandal will
shake Maine society.
| Mrs. Patten has two children.;
I Her husband received a six months
I - sentence. . • j
| .»». • Influenced Husband.’
Lorenzo Patten, the temperance
I lecturer’s husband, is a wealth j
I Operator. United States Distric
I Attorney Dyer told the court Mrs.
■ Patten probably influenced her hus
band by her more forceful nature.
Captain William H. Hicks, mas
ter of two East Port schooners,
■ used, according to officials. In
smuggling liquors to the Maine
■ coast' from Saint Pierre, I Mique
lon, pleaded not guilty to a con
■ spiracy charge and was held in
16,000 bond. Federal investigators
■ accuse him as being the directing
head the alleged conspiracy.
Thirteen of the other men who
■ pleaded guilty received sentences
■ ranging from one to six months.
■ All were charged with illegal sale
I Os liquor.
John Mastertail, a former game
I warden and George Hansen, a jus
■ tice of the peace, are among the
I Others arrested Hansen, son of
£■ the Machiasport postmaster, ie-
I ceived a four months’ sentence.
<■ i High-ups Involved.
The secret indictments as yet un
|||l served are said to name many
■ prominent in business and official
■ circles.
The fifteen sentenced have begun
■ serving their terms in the local
■Jail-
The round-up of those already ar-
■ Treated furnished many thrills end
I threw nearly a dozen towns into in-
I t« nse excitement. Federal men
| raced about the countryside in au-
I tomobiles, taking men from their
beds, others from a dance at' a
I grange hall.
Threatening Suicide.
Victor Rossi, of Cherryfield, who
I was sentenced to four months, told
Hl t" 6 O fflc ® rß who arrested him he
I youW commit'suicide. They prom-
■ ised him a good funeral. But he
I not end his ~fe - Rossi’s two
■ Children wept bitterly as he was
■ taken away.
■ Additional indictments will be
■ asked at today s session of the spe
dal grand jury.
■ Captain Hicks’ plight is even
■ ■udder than his admission to bail
i■ ■ ■ indicates. He was released after an
■ agreement with District Attorney
■ ?/?L a PPear at the next term
, the Fortland court, changing his
■ plea to that of guilty and received
■ ‘ n . the . Federal peniten
■ ni at At, anta. In the interim he
I » i> re ! U, n 5? E «stport and dispose
■°t his two ships, trawling equipment
■ Rnd other gear of an honest flsher
man.
Pleads for Children.
■ < Dl , Btr ‘ ct Attorney Dyer, pleading
■ tor leniency for Mrs. Patten, men
■ tinned her two children.
■ It seems to me that they should
■ have been two pretty good reasons
■ Tor the Pattens keeping out of the
■ Mquor business.” said Judge Peters.
■ Asked if Mrs. Patten had been co
■ ttvced in any way the District At
torney replied that he thought the
■ (wife "had the more masterful mind
■of the two.’’ The court then ruled
■ that since the penalty for the ot
; ■ tense the couple were charged with
■ whs eight months, the husband
■ should serve six and the wife two.
"Fines evidently mean nothing to
■ kmm people." said Judge Peters, in
■ bentencing George Hansen and
■ ■'rank Crocker to four months
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EfHWWIWIr COOGAN.
Photographed In New York yes
terday aboard the S. S. Leviathan
on his return to this country
after a tour of the Near East.
The youngster was caught as
he sat atop a. movie camera
waving tfl, the Statue of Liherty.
fin LEFT HO
ILL EFFECTS,
SAYS HILL
Congressman on Trial in Bal
timore Charged With Vio
lating Prohibition Law
BALTIMORE, Md., Nov. It—Upon
the opening of the second day of
the trial pf Colonel John Philip Hill,
Maryland Congressman and wet
lender in the House, who is being
tried in the United States court
here on charges of violation of tn«f
Volstead act through the manufac
ture of wines and cider at his city
home here, a point was scored by
the defense when Judge Soper, pre
siding in the case, ruled that evi
dence showing that the cider and
vines to be ‘‘nonintoxicating, and
for home consumption” was ad
missible.
United States District Attorney
Amos Woodcock, who is prosecuting
the case, has already introduced
evidence through Government chem
ists, tending to show that some of
the samples of the wines produced
by Congressman’s home experiments
contained an alcoholic strength rang
ing to as high as 11 per cent.
i r ® b H tta * t 0 this testiomuy
Colonel Hill has numerous witnesses
to testify this afternoon as to the
failure of the wines .and ciders to
have had the slightest suggestion
of intoxicating effect. It appears
at this time as if. the moot question
as to what is intoxicating, and what
is not will have the most thorough
discussion in court since the Vol
stead act became law.
TWO FIREMEN INJURED
IN $200,000 LUMBER FIRE
CHICAGO, Nov. 11.—Two fire
men were injured, more than 100
persons were driven from their
beds and 1200,000 damage was
caused here today by fire of in
cendiary origin, which swept
through the lumber yards of Zech
man & Co.
The incendiaries first overpow
ered a watchman and left him
bound and gagged a block from the
plant.
WEEKS TO GO-TO LODGE
FUNERAL DESPITE COLD
Despite the fact that he is suf
fering from a bad cold Mrhich has
confined him to his home for sever
al days Secretary of War Weeks,
leaves tonight for Boston, to at
end the funeral of Senator Henrv
Cabdt Lodge.
He will return to Washington im
mediately after, the funeral ser
vices. "
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Youth Who Wed Widow, 81, Is Jinxed
ORGANIST'S
DIAMONDS
ANOAUTO
STOLEN
Beaten by Robbers After He
Plays Tunes for Them.
Marriage Was Opposed
NORFOLK, Nov. 11.—Although
professing to be happily manned
to a wdman almost three times
his age, Jack Griffith, twenty
nine, organist at a local theater,
admitted today that other occur
rences in his life since His mar
riage hpve not been so pleasant.
Three weekj ago, two "masie
lovers’.’ beat and robbed him of
a diamond stick pin, a pre
wedding gift from his wife, and
a purse, after he had favored
them with a few selections* on
the theater organ after the con
clusion of the evening per
formance.
High Priced Auto Stolen.
Saturday his high priced auto
mobile, a wedding gift from his
wife, was stolen. The automobile
was located yesterday in Richmond
and two sailors arrested and charged
with its theft.
The men are now confined in th<»
Norfolk jail in default of bond of
>2,500 each. The car was badly
battered and scratched after ’ its
joy-oide.
The > bluejackets told a police
judge that when they saw the car
in the rear of a theater they were
sure it belonged to a friend and so
they just “borrowed" it.
Griffith attracted considerable at
tention two months ago when he
married Mrs. Sarah Elizabeh Fray,
eighty-one-year-old widow, 733
Quebec place northwest, Washing
ton.
The young musician had met Mrs.
Fray while he was employed at a
theater near her home.
Marriage Was opposed.
The marriage of the boy and the
elderly woman was opposed by Mrs.
W. W. Wayland, with whom Mrs.
Fray lived. Young Griffith left
Washington last summer to accept
his position in Norfolk and his
elopement with Mrs. Fray followed
in September.
When officials in Norfolk refused
to issue a marriage license because
of the discrepancy in the ages of
the couple and the apparent ill
health of Mrs. Fray, the couple went
to Portsmouth where they obtained
the necestary papers and were mar
ried by a Baptist minister of that
city.
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pearing in today's, classified section:
WRIST WATCH found on sub
urban street cgr.
UTH < B STS. 8. K.—S rooms and
bath unfurnished apartment for
rent; MS per month.
FORD sedan for sale;' 1185.
COLUMBIA RD _ N. W.—-Comfort
able furnished room for rent to
(entlemsn.
YOUNG MAN for gent’s furnishing
and clothing store.
GROCERY and meat for sale
eheap.
NBAR DUPOfiT CTRCLB De
sirable 5-room and bath furn
ished apartment; *76 per month.
BUNCH JCBYB TSt Saturday; re-
MAN wanted for auto pgint shop.
POOR PRINCE! NO ONE
WANTS HIM
Alas: AJack’ -
Shorn of
his titles
by Alfonso ' <
and deported H |
by France I
after a merry \
time m 'x
wicked V
Montmartre,
poor
Ferdinand
must now
leave S i 1
Belgium and
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WTERNATIONAL NEWS RS&
PRINCE DON LUIS FERDINAND.
ffILWEO
OFEVEOFHER
UAHHIAGE
Results of Autopsy Are Kept
Secret—-Suspect Examined
by Police
By International News Service.
RlCwAivinD, Va., Nov. 11.—The
autopsy over the body of Blanche
Long. Danville girl, who died under
unusual circumstances here several
days ago on the eve of her mar
riage, was completed today by State
Chemist James M: Whitfield. He
declined to make publife his report
until Danville authorities have an
opportunity to examine it-
Indications are, however, that
Miss Long was poisoned. A man
suspected of being responsible for
the girl’s death is under investiga
tion by the Danville police.
COOLIDGE WILL ATTEND
INAUGURAL BALL, IF HELD
President Coolidge is not in favor
of holding an inaugural ball at the
White House, on March 4, the day
of hia inauguration, but will attend
if the ball is held.
That much of the plans for in
augural day was made known at
the- White House today- The in
augural ball four years ago was
called off by President Harding
after plans for thq affair had been
practically completed. .> '
SECRETARY DAVIS PLANS
TO RESIGN MARCH 4
Secretary of Labor James J.
Davis is the only member of the
Cabinet who has indicated to Presi
dent Coolidge his intention to resign
on March 4, It was announced of
ficially at the White House today.
Davis ,1s now 1 enroute to South
America to make an investigation
of immigration problems,
DRAIN ASKS AID
FOR VETERAN
DISABLED
Legion Commander Pleads for
Justice to End War as
Armistice Day Object
By International Newa Service.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Nov. 11
A plea for the disabled veteran wa-»
made here today In the Armistice
day message of James A. Dram,
commahder of the American Legion.
The message reads:
"On the eleventh hour of the
eleventh day of the eleventh month,
six years ago today, the o.iler to
‘cease firing’ brought to a close the
greatest war the woHd had ever
known.
“The sigh of relief that went up
around the world attest 3d eloquently
to the feelings of peoples toward
the most abominable of all legalized
business, killing.
"Armistice day always should be
a reminder of that bloodiest war,
it should be dedicated each year to
the message of world peace, the
great goal which we oil seek*
"Permanent world peace rests
upon international justice and with
out that justice, there will always
be war. Justice must'be automatic
and it will depend upon the erec
tion of some form of world court.
"The people of the United States
are prone to forget but oa this
day they should gh>e c. thought for
those wrecks for whom the Armis
tice has never come."
Heavy Snow in Wyoming
ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo„ Nov. 11.
—After twenty-four hours of inter
mittent snow fall, leaving mountain
roads almost impassable due to huge
drifts, the skies are clearing this
morning and the weather is turning
Intensely cold with a heavy north
west wind.
DEMOCRATSMAYABSORB
LA FOLLETTE PARTY
PRINCEIS
DEPORTED
a
Belgium Orders Ferdinand to
Leave—England to Keep
j Him Out
£RtJSSELS, Nov. llv—Prince
Don Lais Ferdinand of Spain,
mysteriously expelled from Paris
last month, was requested today
to leave Belgium immediately.
His effort to comply with the
request by sailing for England
was thwarted when the British
embassy refused to vise his pass
port.
Prince Ferdinand of Spain was
summarily requested by the Paris
prefect of police to leave France
last month after a report that ths
crown prince of Spain had been
attacked by robbers while on a
tour of adventure, incognito,
through the Montmarte, the tender
loin of Paris.
The Parisian police later denied
that the crown prince had been in
volved ,n the case, and Prince
Ferdinand, who was reported to
have been the young nobleman in
volved, was asked to leave the
county. The police would not ex
plain the order.
King Alfonso of £pain immediate
ly ordered the return of royal deco
rations conferred on Prince Ferdi
nand and removed the title "in
fante" fom Ferdinand’s name.
Chicago Board Closed
CHICACK). Nov. 11.—The board
of trade was closed today In ob
servance of Armistice Day.
Party’s Pledges Now
Coolidge Problem
By GEORGE R. HOLMES, v
International Newe Service.
•With the cheers of a Republican victory still echoing in the
distance, President Coolidge was confronted today with a first
class division of opinion in his party over the question of how
soon the Administration is going to embark on a program of
carrying out its campaign pledges.
The Congress that was elected on*
the crest of the Coolidge landslide
cannot meet tor more than a year
yet, thirteen months to be exact, un
less Mr. Coolidge call® a special
session to convene after March 4
next. «
Question Before Coolidge.
The question has been put up
to the President in about this form)
"Can the party afford to wait
thirteen months before undertaking
to carry out its pledge to business
to lower taxes, particularly in the
higher brackets, and accomplish the
other legislative reforma that it
promised to business during the
campaign just ended?”
The ‘‘old guard” advisers among
the President’s friends have advised
him not to call any special session.
Business, they contend, i« l all right
and wants nothing so much as to
be let alone.
They point out, for instance, that
Judge ISlbert Gary,-head of the
Steel Corporation, recently said In
a public speech that the country
would be better off if Congress
went on an extended vacation and
stayed there.
On the other hand, the pro
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EDITION
Spain Is On Brink of
Revolution, Says
Author
■ ■■ ■
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jMBVt
INTERNATIONAL NEWS REEL
BLASCO IBANEE,
Noted Spanish author, who de
claims any connection with the
recent attempted revolution in
Barcelona, which was quickly
placed under control by the mili
tary. Ibanez asserts that Spain
is on the brink of a real revolu
tion, with the Republican element
strong enough to carry the day.
A” '<n ,, le «-\nect« -n *v«» greater
outbreak than last week’s short
lived affair, and should it gain
Dower, the De Rivera- Military
Government is vefry likely to be
overthrown. Ibanez says when
the real revolution comes, lie
will be back of it heart and soul.
John B. Young Dead
RICHMOND, Va., Nov. 11.—John
B. Young, sixty-three, Secretary and
Treasurer of the Atlantic Varnish
works of this city, died in Balti
more today.
MRS. HARDING
HAS ‘POOR’
NIGHT
General Condition Is Not So
Good, Dr. Carl W. Sawyer
Reports
MARION, Ohio, Nov. 11.—Mrs.
Warren G. Harding, widow of 'he
late President, had a "poor night”
last night, according to Doctor Carl
W. Sawyer, in-hil latest bulletin.
"Mrs. Hardin* had a poor night,”
he said. "She feels weak and ex
hausted this morning. Her genetai
condition la not so good.”.
M’ADOO'S
STRATEGY
TOWININ
1928
Two-fifths of New House Has
Been Indorsed by
Progressives 4
By WILLIAM HARD.
Here follows the first complete
analysis of the next House of
Representatives from the stand
point of party allegiance combined
with the more important stand- -
point of allegiance to so-called
progressivism compared with so
called conservatism.
The test on this latter point is
not whether a member of the
House of Representatives is pub
licly classified or is not publicly
classified as a “La Follette Re
publican.”
By that test there are only,
fifteen progressives or radicals,
or at the most twenty, in the next
House of Representatives.
176 Indorsed by La Follette.
The true test, however, is whether
or not a candidate for Congress
was in fact indorsed and supported
by the La Follette organization in
his struggles at the polls.
That true test yields results quite
different from the ones reached by
the false test of mere outward La
Follettism oi anti-La Follettism.
The next House of Representa
tives will contain at least 176 mem
bers indorsed and supported at the
polls by the congressional depart
ment of the La Follette national
organization from its headquarters
in Chicago.
The total membership of the
House is 436.
Two-fifths Satisfactory.
It Is therefore apparent that two
fifths of the members of the next
House are for one reason or an
other satisfactory to the elements
which supported Senator La Fol
lette in the last campaign.
The principal reasoh why they
are satisfactory is presumably their
favorable attitude toward the
Howell-Barkley bill and other legis
lation wanted by the railroad trade
unions.
The head of the La Follette con
gressional department in the La
Follette headquarters in Chicago
was L. E. Sheppard, chief officer
df the Order of Railroad Conduc
tors.
This writer has studied the can
didates indorsed and supported bv
Mr. Sheppard and his organization
and has compared that list with the
list of candidates successful,' and
with the list of candidates unsuc
cessful, for the House of Represent
atives last Tuesday.
Radicals Not Crushed.
The general outcome of that study
and comparison may be set forth
as follows:
In the next House of Representa
tives so-called progressive and radi
cal ideas will have less support than
in the last House but will still
nevertheless have large support and
are l by no means yet crushed or
eliminated.
The first amazing feature of the
matter is the strength shown on be
half of so-called progressive and rad
ical ideas In the conservative “Solid
flouthi”
The “Solid South” sends 94 ns*