Sun-Journal from Lewiston, Maine • 1

ESTABLISHED 1847 LEWISTON MAINE THURSDAY MARCH 12 1923 PACES -1 PRICETHREECENTS jm 4 j38S VJVa AUBURN WATER BOARD REPORT MADE PUBLIC Cost $500 to Keep the Pipes From Freezing Last Winter All Details of Waiter Works Are Covered spRim T7 The Board's report tn the abuncll states that the new pips line lias been luld and completed to within a few rods of the location for the new station The contract for this building has been jet and Its erection will lio pushed to completion os early ns possible this spring New pumps will Installed connections made and the plant put Into active service during the coming summer This serivee when completed will Increase the efficiency of the service and make iissslble the rontem- Auburn people by leaving fiucels open Juut little (luring cold nights thin winter may have kept the pipes from freezing but It cost the city 1500 fur this accommodation Tb la fact la revealed In the 38th annual report of the Auburn Water Commissioners juat made public by A Cobb clerk This report la for the year ending lice SI 1SIJ and the name us- presented to the Public t'tllllles I'oninilsMloii It was arcepted by the Water Coni mission- era Monday nfleriioon when the annual meeting was held This Is the first report to Ik1 published for sev-'era I years At tills time ulso the following officers were elected Haskell Jr- pres Horace Cook supt Andrew dibit clerk Atwood I re as I1 Cl Eveleth auditor and I Kiinri engineer Andrew Warren whs returned to the hoard for a six year 'period his term I laving expired Maternity Act 1 Invasion of Rights --Says Baxter The Maine Building at Springfield Be Just Another Loafing Slays Governor llue4 service at East Auuurn the report states Clerk Cobh's report of the finances of the hoard Is thoro nnd painstaking It occupies several pages Among oilier things mention by fetupt Cook In Ills report Is the fuct lliut It will be necessary to Issue mure bonds to complete the work contemplated but lie goes on to atnto that the system Is in lienlthv financial condition Extracts from the reports follow: taslIntS Mb Pag Might FOUR VETOES AND FOUR BILLS PASSED OVER THE VETOES SAUNDERS CHIDES THE PIGGLY WIGGLY SHORTS WHO MUST SETTLE TODAY LIQUOR HIDDEN IN DEAD FROZEN HORSE Big Seizures and Seven Arrests in Thom-aston and Sheriff Thurston Rounds Up Introduced by Mrs Dors Bradbury Plnkham of Fort Kent Molno'a first woman lawmaker 3 Declaring i that If tho State of '-jp? Maine refused federal old under the'E Sheppard-Towner law and rosad forth a strong protest against tho pension of this dangerous and dermlning Governor tor predicted that lovers of IM ft erty thrueut tho tandv will VW Stats of he added be hfiUid sa the leader In the movement to return to the fundfieJj-jnental doctrine of our foretaUmro'5St that state Is aovorslga sad wlIFy brook as interfering hi Its m-'AfS ternsriiffdfra" In Ms veto message on tke SuUfer era Sts tee resolve the executive fees id: "State bulldlns utusHy'hei'VC come loafing place for fi taw Stafo -officials end their frlenda nnd 1 eon Joreseo Just what will occur at Springfield Mass If this rssolvfi ta-M' Al'GtflSTA Mar 31 Maine will not sell Its birthright for a mess of This In a nutshell was the mess-fine eept to tho Legislature by Governor Perclval Baxter today In vetoing the set providing for tho scceptwnce by the State of the provisions of thj Sheppard-Towner maternity set "The day Is sot far ths Governor asserted the people ot this country will ovejtnrn many federal bureaux and ths states ones -again will take unto them solved the management of their own affair" Vetoes Springfield Kesotve Governor Baxter also vetoed the resolve appropriating $31808 toward the erection of a State of Maine hullding at the Eastern States Exposition building In Spring-field Mass sad It seemed the Irony of fate that both of these measures returned without his approval were passed Our offioiala will bo entorw AUGUBTA Mar II (Special) Gov Baxter made his veto record Friday He might have added another one or two to the score had the house not adjourned when It did However the ocorc stood four-all just the sumo with the legislature and the governor as ths governor had sent in four vetoes and ths two branches each had passed two measures over the vetoes that morning' The governor vetoed on Thursday tho so-called maternity bill the resolve appropriating $35000 for the erection of a State of Main building at the Eastern States exposition st 8prlngileld Mass ths bill changing ths date on which Mains railroads hould pey their excise tax from Juqs IS to the months of September and December and the resolve appropriating ths sum of 13000 for tho Maine seed improvement swo-elation The House passed ths bill creating the Kennebec reservoir company and the resolve appropriating money for the building at the Eastern- 'states SWEEPING VICTORY FOR KENNEBEC BILL NOW BECOMES LAW sheriff raided Mr a short time ago but found nothing of course "Between July II of last year and 11 Mr Lawrence was in the of the government in a similar capacity The arrests made on Friday were follows: Harold Kcnncreon of liockland from whom It was dunned the officers purchased a bottle alcohol worth 5 Herman Wln-chenpnch ai well-known bunc and a lay preacher charged selling six bottles of temoa extract containing 83 per cent ot Tony Cross charged with two of single sale to fishermen Cook charged' with selling bottles of vanilla at one time three oottlra of lemon extract another Abraham Cussman charged with selling at three different time eleven bottles of vanilla containing S3 per rent oC alcohol: Wyman c'Ufhinnn selling three bottles ot moonshine valued at 116 i and Horatio charged wltli a bottle of whiskey valued ut llorKIJLM) Mur "3 Tim frozen carcass of horse lj'litg in a Kockluml lau-nyanl this winter has been used by his owner 'as liquor "hide" so tfiicrilf Thurston nnd ills deputies leurned in a aeries of sriiNitlontil scxuri-s whicli led to tlie arrost of seven persons on Thursday morning and tlic understanding that us many more will follow Tho poor dciartcil animal lins presented a pathetic spectacle to the (visual observer but lis was serving in life The incident came to (iglit in life Tho incident cnio to light along with a succession of happenings the whole forming one or tho most spetkaculai arrests in the history ot prohibition enforce nicnt in Maine yet written filnce the first of last one John Lawrence whose hum? is in Canada has been residing in town and associating freely with the residents of the so-called section He let It lie known that he was engaged In the rum-rut-nlng business He has had stoop -in ftocklind hri'bor this wln-( ter and he has circulated the report' that as soon as spring opened thn harbor and freed the sloop now froacn In lie should lie ready to do business It)i was: rood news tn certain ltntklnnil residents and they did the sloop field employ ns of man with alcohol rases Charles four and at all idling in of places ono HcGRAW TO BREAK UP WILD ORGIES AMONG HIS BALL PLAYERS gp burdensome charges upon the pfo-i pie A laugh was raised when Repie- sentatire Hobbs of Hop or ess ud fr sold: "Mr Speaker to thrrfi-fifiyfiu-' here not lawyer who cam talwj? on this subject? All heard ts lawyere and Uku to hear anmafS: one else" pv There was another laugh ihccJtZ Johnson of Brownvllle told House that ths State of Matas' has a governor who run veto more 'bllhtpV (-than any governor wov' efor hV- The Yeas sad Xnyv-' Ths House voted as follows: Adams Utehflald Archibald' Atwopd Ayer Baker Bartlett Hanover Bartlett W'rlUe Iw-'s' wiss Beckett BelMvesm Bickford Bisbee BlolsdslU Boulter Bradbary firttl Prewater Brown Burn a Cntea cbnlmarol Cber 4 nr Clark Coaaat Crafts Cmcl Dnln Dllllng Donglaa Dowatng ppdlev Dunbfir IMwards Parley Picket ivunoor nawsraa nnvr rwmv c-s exposition over the veto while the Senate passed the resolve providing for an for the How-thh'd-Enfleld bridge nnd the act Increasing ths ealarje of members of ths ptste board ot seeaszore over tho veto These last two ere re vetoed on Wednesday The governor! reason for vetoing the excise tax bill was that shout Juno li tho state wan always In need of large sums of money and that -the recent reports of the railroads showed that they were In an improved 'financial condition and he regarded It as unnecessary to discriminate In their favor In the resolve in favor of the need association that their state aid should ba token for the regular appropriation for ths assistance and improvement of sg rl culture In Maine Those two vetoes and that on the maternity bill were 'SpcMally assigned for consideration on Friday morning An effort by Rounds of Portland to Indefinitely postpone tho bill that persona conlemplatlnc matrimony must prceout a rertlflcata showing that they are free from venereal diseases before a mariuge license should be leeurd but the effort wus lost and the bill was B4 ven Its Hist reading The legislature atUmwned to 810 on Friday morning McGraw is quoted as saying I iave won pennants bp fore on discipline alone and lack of material but I would not attempt to win another without discipline In my club "Scott has always been a hard mag to haniUa 1 have not been severe with him I eupfoea winning game in the world's series hag turned his head I have bees trying tq tallato this fellow Rmlth for three yrarfo He shows so Improvement will break up those wild erglea among my players or know the reason The blase started Is the old Ira room so called and sprwnd mnWly breaking thru late the dryer room and also tnts ths chip loft As there was much lnflamrqsble material the firs fighters wet fit a great disadvantage but confined the Mam to ths room and-chip left The origin of the fire has not feeen dls-covered st this writing THE WIFE OFSECTSMS BYERYJUQNYACRT 'bbOKRTICK Qt L-Mrs John Weeks wrfei at ths rotary ef Wsr In fob IN here (board i ths private yseU Irw-which wgs hurried Into part shorthr MHMI'iliK Tell March 33-Qmmye Huunders head of l'lgglv Wiggly glares Incorporated will wait until I today (or settlement by In Plggly Wiggly block on a basis of $13U a sliuru and uflcr that it will $3-U share to square accounts with him If It takes the court to do It" More Hi in SIOtiO "was the number -of In res the former grocery clerk fixed us aulil to him A strict question of survival of him anil his IihhIii-kh and an Intense desire hot to be and pointed to us tlie from Tennessee" led Mr Maunders to "suddenly without warning kick the pegs from tin-dfr Wall Htrect" lie wild In hN statement Italic Willi Ex In statement was read the answer to tli" riddle which came as a sequel to 9 licet le day's trading on the New York stock exchange which terminated Tuesduy In the temporary banning of I'iggly Wiggly from the "big iotird" That ih iliscontlnuanee would li permanent nlso wus Indicated by Mr Maunders who referring to ''WaU'Htrcet and Us gang or gam-biers ami 'market manipulators" asserted long as I live I will not lie prealdent of nny eorporatloii that has Its slock traded In on the New York Exchange" was strictly a finest ion of Warmer WASHINGTON March for northern New England: Rain tonight and Friday warmer tonight Increasing southerly winds Forecast for southern' Kcw England Unsettled- probably rain tonight and Friday somewhat warmer tonight rplder Friday night ln creasing south and southwest wtndi JOrRSIL AIMXAC- HIMIR I Pays Old fists 18il pm nisM mi i I sts AII length of day If hr 13 mini 7sn IneSSsse 3 hr 7 mins 1st day of year tides i i -Thursday Friday 38 min Batk 43 min i min 31 min Goias on Tonight Empire Ikiitfi (Performances MS and Consisnc Tslmadge in- Primitive Lover" Music Hall (Performsaeea st 3 -mad Baris sod Mullens Stewart and Uproar Pelden and Lewis Hehr and Kufsedy: Starry Bussey Feature Picture "Ogly Bbop OlrL" Ueuad Theatre Continuous 11 Monte Biss sad lUnr Thurman is "The Broken Doll6: Dustin Farsum In Buster Keaton in "Con VlCtM- PHsriUu (ImIn (Erasing curtain "it Heart Marsl French Bteefc bupny 1U "The Fsseleu ruijv- whether 1 sluuld survive and likewise my buylnos and the fortunes of my friends or niicllur I should he and pointed to us the "hnob from Tennessee" Cliklcs file Short In a telegram to the fetlock Exchange quoted In his st-itemeiit lie ehililed th-? for a lurk of fair play and an unwillingness to their medicine" now that the tables were turned GluuuoouO of his own money liuvni been1 jeopard herd during the onslaught on Wiggly stock some months lisrk He denied reports ln jgow Tork Ilia' h' hul iluhued nn agreement with the Mock Exchange to keep uva Halite ii Hosting supply of stock to meet tividliig requirements He said he took over Iho direction of tils buying cum align In New York persona 1 1) and directed it from his olllcc i'ere when a difference arose belwecii him ami Ills New York trading n-prcanntutlvd: Jem-c Livermore Tito difference lie said was chiefly over the charging of premium oil stork l'rlnr to that action he said Mr Livermore hud stated that he uruuld ler'iilnat- Ids relationship with the Memphis in-ui Imriuse of alleged u-niias ilml fetaunders had criticised the nu'inni in which the transaction were luliig enndui-ted but Uichc rumors Saunders derlM-rff were disproved Was u'tinwrry (1erke Sunder now 4' rulin' to Memphis about S'yi'urs from t'kirkesville Tetin wliere he had been a grocery eleik Ills first Jab wan us a clerk in a village grori-ry slor while he sll'l was In iiia 'in in at i salary reported to have been $4 a Week When he enme here he was employed as a sa lesiiiun latijj- liecame liarliier In a wholesslo grocery firm uui! lln-n eonceivi 1 the idea of the aulf -nervier ehiiln retail store system lip' first slom of whiih was iwtabtlsiieil here about 7 years ago Subject of Criticism Advertisejiieuls wiileh iipiiearod in Msniiihls nrwiqiaiieni recently ln whlel i-liss A common sliH-k wss of-erred to the public on part paymunt plan at $'3 a slwrc contained three' phrases "Shall tho gambler rule? On a hhfii liorse he i-lili-n Bluff Is his coat mall and thus shielded Is yellow heart Ilia helmet Is decslt-rhU spurn clink with and tho hoof-heats of hilt horse thunder deni ruction Shall good hurlneas flee? Shall It- tremble with foar? Phsll it be the toot of the speeihilorT" He said that his advert Isements were the especial subject of critl-rlmii ho was advised by a Wall Htrcrt man as well as -his Idea of selling tho stock for when it was eoniniundlng a much higher figure on the stuck exchange PAN-AM COX FFKKXtTE 1 SANTIAGO Chile March 33 (By the Associated Press Expectation that the fifth Pan-American conference which opens here Sunday will reach un agreement Ip reduce armament expenftiturcn-'doNi not appear to be opthnladealljr entertained by new arrivals The opinion prevails that after discussion the question la likely to bo referred to a committee for further' study KTOcks OP POTATOES WASHINGTON March 1 gto-kd ol whits potatoes in Ufet" hands of growers and dealers March 1 were Reported by ths Department Agriculture today at 1T1IM888 Mhels Of tnts total MMIfififi bushels fi-errclased as unfit tor food or as needed far food and seed oa forms wart grown aind sumption 68T 88808 out fit prod action ares NEW TOKK March Manager Me raw of Iho Now York Giants has fined Jack Scott star pitcher and one of the heroes in the last world's series $108 ralegated catcher Smith to tho second team end reprimanded othid players (or drink Ing cra liquor sccordlnk to a dts-patcfel-to ths Evening World today from Its correspondent at the Gish ts training camp st Pan Antonia Texas fellows are paid well tp keep la shape and train not) hoaitatr to let Mr Isiwrenre know they would be ready to transect 'business ns soon ns the weather permitted I tut the liquor vendoff werb "deceived as to thn real nature of CTrVLawrcuco's business Instead of being rum runner he was connected with the sheriffs department and hie tripe up and down tho coast were mado to secure evidence for tho enforcement of the prohibition law and not to bring Mqiior Illegally Into the Btato of Maine Sloop Ka Ucri To help carry out tho deception jrtaBel Qagno Qaenen age Gardlaer Uaevla OU OllleMJ Je'weU Johueenj oirki jMdtfj( HSmmom Hodgkins lues Ji Jones Jordan ft Keef -Kltebeo Lomeou Ceatkerai LalnaA Lord Port Lord Welle 1 Ludgnt 8I'- eofober Mbrr HnrtlB J4oDonnld I Xellheros Metoher Moody Morrtoom NeweomkStokolsf- Nadeau NevUm Mar 33 By one of ths most overwhelming votes ever given i measure which had tMen vetoed tho House on Thprsiluy morning passed the bill creeling the Kennebec Reservoir cohYlxiny over the objections of Gov Bixtcr by s' vats' of 131 to 31 This wgs vote of nearly 18 more than the friends of tho measure had counted- upon securing Ttits aetlob bf House make tho act a lew regardless c' the opposition of Baxter as ths Sen ate took the same position Representative Maher of Augusta tod the fight for ths bill In long logicul nnd forceful argument he reasons why in hlr presented the nlon the veto should not bo iu niamuulns Ined by the House Diwuming ouil ufli Aha Alt objection which hod toon rfilf-od that no Halt hod been sst as ti when work shonld begin Jto said that this mktter had been token up at the hearing before the committee nnd 4hat the gentlemen who had appeared In behalf of 1181 while that was cauffiy Itjuras not correct rThe public Utilities com-miasloh had ehark at every contract mads by any -Public Utility company wbiqb entered In sny way Into tho fixing of tho rate dqpk-t-uompany should large to Its patron Were this net so those companies could give their preeident a hundred thousand dollar satonr and pass It on to ths eepaumer It had been said that tho Imae won private or public oonlroi but be believed the oral Issue was development or delay- Tbl "pricctosi herltovo1' has bee censervod for Its years said be find WbM i out of It "today No one had yet rained voice mild ftepresestttlro IteMr fogdm-ptaln that ths pubtie had hosfi injured bylthe jgent Aatacobos tam on the Aafirosoeggiu or the llpojoMui the PwotawL Reresefitallves Bsrwlse -Bartot ofi Waterville fftar Otagnff of Liwld oa "Ffper of lfif-mon and Martin of Augusta pok In favor of the MIL Tim QppsiBtem Bepreaeatatlvs of port toad -opposed ou th grroufi that- bcllfived Jt would resdll la FIRE DAMAGES LIAC0LH PULP MILL $20000 Onkek (yCenaeU Overlooks Owen- There arc some 'difficulties connected with Mr lAwrcni-Ci'a tasl11 the case of all persons -whose line work lakes tlfcfii into remote along thaIulno roast on of hiS tripe he Ihjurod Ills finger In the engine of hie boat and It was nine hours before ho could land nnd reach a hospital where It was found necessary to amputate the fin-5cr- 1 Mherlir Thurston )ia been severely criticised by the "dry" In the I in at few month! for 'alleged lack of ntientlon to his duly APpafdfitly he isitd no heed toahla critics but with the vmlstnnce of Mr Ijawrnire has lieon steadily collecting tho evidence which makes ths arrest sad seizures of Friday one pf the hi oat spectacular In the State in the interests ot prohibition enforcement the message st station masters for on tho lookout' at the hold guest to whom addressed had left clerk said ha was hut no one -knew bbsinesu officials acre lake any action leaving the eit to the customs guardsmen We powerless and have 00T THE ugURSHALL'MYSTERT March M-WIth as far as they IM idurderer of whqeo tragic death bosoms the chloroform public "attention today oa tjie effort -to Identity of "John ffeflthy man of mys--f of th TMla girt Palmer Pendletoa Perkin PkUllpa-Plakham Plpen Plnmzner Xamadr Rannay Roy head Rouude Rowe -v(- Bandera fiauafiarfi Soy ward SlUalU mltk fitaplea graven glitbam Stratton Thmsasi -I Leeds Tilde TownWeek -Whit -Whitney WUU Wing 111 Adam Uborty: Beckett Flebe Brewetec- Crowley Cummings pita Gilmour Hnyeo Chelaex Hayea Gorham: Ken lltlWiH Mora Bath Nlpksrnon' Psrv Pierce Roger Smalt SparrowySterm Stnrgi Tar William Inn? ifi -31 -f flf- i JERSEY COAST GUARD OUT ON RADIO OF DRIFTINGRUM CRAFI NEW YORK March tl-Aeiing on a tip received thru tottjeetfet wireless messages betweca the' ruui fleet oK the tfew Jeracy eoaet aul gueet is hotel ln ths Timas Bqiurq section the- entire giutATTn this vicinity wss seen bins today for drifting motor heal behoved to ho laden with llquof off Long leland Tho first message wag from the steam yacht later tmmc(ly owned by pert Goelet but now of British registry siddremed to ths guest' If told of tho crafts red lea meat and advised- that ha try to salvage Tho guest senfi a wire reply that he would et out for the Highlands immediately a third message to chs inter said that thrse boata were tng cent out to look for the deroliOL The boat was said to have beet headed for Jouee Inlet coast -guard sUlloa-st iuiatcry and luthnafs" which Yforked up once Instructed miles around to be Meanwhile Inquiry -disclosed that tho tho message was hurriedly The permanent guest the nnture of his When prohibition asked If they would they 'said: "We are nation entirely up agents and coast are practically no 1RY TO SMOKE XKW TOKk! the ppllce apparently get oa the trail of Dorothy' Kooaau a weak ago hoe mystery waW focussed molra out tho- tho IIMc6lx March Fire early Thursday morning In the Lincoln Eastern Pulp mill gave the local firs deportment hard fight being under control two hours after dis- covtfy but not until It had occasioned damage roughly estimated at $38888 AMERICAN CONSULATE AT SMYRNA DESTROYED CONgTANTINOPIE March (By ths AssecUted lrss) The Americas consulate st ftnjrraa has bean Isslroyod by flra The seals wire saved A I- suppose ths death ectne? le very ttyfog? Actress Oh terribly sa! When I fisslly give up ths ghuit nearly desdl-fftockholm Jtssper WORK SllfoR v'- "PlTEBBURa March 33 --Fir Which broke set la the brash L- lory at the AUcgheUy oeunty wsrk Hoboken ton nsltoa froof bero thlfi morning' -destroyed thw'- -building find spread -tfi -fitber parts of -tb Institution) More than 1808 -aro confine la tb -buihl I 't! Y'ijK tour haa lt been sines yah refid de B1M 1 suit nwvsfi read It JST toug 1 MssfivUie TesaeseeeaSK 1 Lsmms fin 'A -j1 -t f- 'Jf ro' '-V li J'- va -if 'i-s I 1 iJ i- 1 Jr i'f'.