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THREE' CENTS nt nwtin AUGUSTA MAINE THURSDAY MORNING MARCH 1933 ButUrfleU Mr an lc Legislators to MU ten iv Dover nnu etk? it Senate Completes Death of Sales Tax and House Insists on Full Pay for Legislators 'Inosdsy Hear Financial Maine Upper Branch by Vote of 11 to 19 Balks at Proposed 1 Per Cent Levy House in Lengthy Debate for Third Time Turns Down Salary Reduction of £60 Worries of State An Apparently Stenographic Report of Senate and House Proceed -ings Will Be Found on Pages 3 5 8 9 and 13 High Official of Gvic League Says Organization Not to Sponsor Such a Move Some Petitions in Qrculati After Governor Signs Bill Making 32 Per Cent Beer Legal Ninety Days After egislature Adjourns About July 1 Over Million of State Funds Now Tied Up in Banks Not Yet Re-opened Governor Brann Will Tell Interest Payment Due April 1 on 2000000 Bonds and No Funds in Sight to Meet It i ii i Majority of Cross Section in Augusta in With more than one million dollars of State funds tied up In banks which have been closed or at least restricted In their business Governor Louis Brann today will go' before the Legislature and the cards on the Lon? before the bank holiday and the ensuing failure of some banks to open the State was minus approximately $1-500000 due from cities and towns In back taxes It was pointed out by those in authority that the State has an interest payment on bonds amounting to $2000000 due the first of April and that apparently the problem of jut how this Is to be met has not yet been solved Just how far the Governor would go In telling the lawmakers the situation faced by the State was problematical but he worked Wednesday night on the speech which will be delivered at a Joint session this morning Legalization of 32 per cent beer In Mi ine effective about July I1 was completed Wednesday with the signature of Governor Brann The possibility of a re erendum being in- voiced which would delay the law sev iral months was somewhat -discounted Wednesday night by the statement of a high official of the Maine ChrisUa: i Civic Leaguq who said his organization would not sponsoi or aid in securing the 10000 names necessary In Invoking the referendum That the on the is not tl only one who believes the the passage by the Maine Le glslature of the bill making the sale transportation and manufacture of three-point-two beer in Maine legal was rev by interviews with Augusta business and professiona men and women Wednesday following the announcement froih the State Capitol that the measure had been by Governor Louis Brann th AIt Plummer slnons he sle er of on ry rt at ill Believe Congress Has Power to End State Bank Systems Staff Photographer Commented Governor Louis Brann Wednesday as He Affixed His Signature to the bill legalizing Beer in Maine I BALK AT PAY CUT OP) Members of the House stuck to their guns Wednesday and for the third time this session refused to cut their salaries Despite urglngs by Rep Scales of Westbrook Democratic floor leader and prominent members of both parties the House stubbornly held fast to its previous action and turned down an attempt to have the State treasurer deduct $60 from each legislator's $600 salary The attempt was made In an order presented by Rep Plouff of Dexter which was sprung out of a clear sky without warning but which received a stormy reception and was finally voted down 80 to 41 Scates said the first time he attended the Legislature as a member he received only $150 have cut e-ery employe of this state and reduced the appropriation of every I for one want to face the people of this State and say I refused to take a cut Scates declared Rep Flanders of Auburn said that after reading editor- lals In some of the newspapers I feel I can go home and face my constituents without taking a cut" Reps H1U of South Portland and Hobbs of Hope argued for the cut (Continued on Fage CoL 7) Promotions Made by Maine Central Portland Me March 29 Promotion of Gilbert Miller to be general freight agent of the Maine Central railroad and the Boston and Maine railroad in Maine was announced today by Executive Vice President Douglass Miller wax formerly assistant to the freight traffic manager of the Maine CentraL At the same time Douglass announced that Lucien Snow freight traffic manager of the would fill the position of assistant to the general freight traffic manager of the two railroads The chances effective May 1 will result in better service for shipper and receivers of freight in and In necessary economies for the railroads Douglass said Prof Einstein Jew to End Citizenship Berlin March As direct-action repressive measure by Chancellor Adolf Nazis got un der way against Jews In many parts of Oermany today as a prelude to the nation-aide anti -Jewish boycott which begins Saturday It was learned that Prof Albert Einstein has taken steps to renounce his Prussian ciUzenshlp Prof Einstein a Jew beurme a citizen in 1914 when he accepted a position with the Prussian Academy of Sciences Upon landing at Brussels after his recent trip to the tlon about the steps end his citizenship that he formerly was Swiss necessary He pointed out to (By The Associated Press) The states marched on yesterday preparing the way- for the return of legal beer after the stroke of midnight April 6 Maine famed as state saw Its beer pawed by the State signed by Governor Brann It will take effeet ninety days after adjournment of the Legislature or about July 1 unless set aside by a referendum This brought to 23 the states in which the way now appears open for beer sale The South Carolina House passed a bill legalizing beer and sent it to the Senate In Albany Governor Lehman made a personal appearance before the New York Legislature to plead for passaKP of amodcl beer law KILL SALES TAX Despite a dark picture painted of financial the Senate Wednesday-on a division vote of 11 to turned down the much-discussed bill providing for a one percent sales tax which the House rejected Tuesday The refusal of the Senate to accept the favorable report of the committee on taxation was followed by the acceptance of the not to report Prior to the upper branch killing the measure Senator BlalsdeU of Hancock prime tnover for passage of the bill anci Democratic Senator Holmes of Androscoggin for the proponents and Senator Harmon of Hancock principal spokesman for the opponents debated the proposed legislation at length Holmes said the bill embodied most perfect system of taxation that can be and asked not do now what we will have to do at a special Is Maine going to get' its govern- funds to run the State he asked He pointed out that "the retail (Continued on Page Col 7) Total of 23 States Legalize 32 Beer warning that otherwise beer sale will be uncontrolled and that the chances of repealing the 18th amendment rest largely on success of the big states in dealing with Immediate" in- dleatlon however that the legislators would comply The Kentucky attorney general announced that old beer tax laws dating to pre-prohibition days would be applied to sale and manufacture after April 6 Accused of Being Kills Self New York March Ralph Krakower who faced trial on charges -of being a for a man accused of stealing $250000 In Jewelry from prominent persons today scrawled a note blaming arch for wrecking his life and then committed suicide The 48-year-old Jewelry salesman bond posted after charges of possessing stolen property had been filed against him In Florida His arrest In Miami Beach on March 17 followed by two days the recovery of a quarter of a million dollars worth of Jewelry with the arrest of Harry Sidmor described by police as an International gem thief Florida officials accused Krakower specifically of placing on consignment In a Miami shop rings containing stones taken from a bracelet stolen from Grace Moore opera singer riZtv MnHnr at liberty under 2500 House Passes Forestation Bill After Emerging from Rule Tangle Started by Pleasant Duty Attempt to Scare Jap Statesman Iron Pipe Found on Track of Train Bearing Yosuke Mat-suoga And His Party Boston Mar 29 UP) Two lengths of Iron pipe wrapped in yellow and red bunting 'described by police as "Chinese were found today in the path of a train bearing Yosuke Matsuoka former head of the Japanese delegation to the League of Nations into Boston First reports led police to conclude an attempt had been made to wreck the train but when the relatively light weight of the obstructions was ascertained authorities inclined to the opinion that someone had intended only to frighten the Matsuoka party Nevertheless they assigned four detectives to accompany the Japanese diplomat about the city until his departure at midnight and a special detail of police was placed about the Boston-museum of fine arts to which he went upon his arrival The museum has a famous collection of Japanese art Police Investigators said John McCabe a railroad policeman found the pipes on the tracks about 20 minutes before the train waa due One long piece of piping they said was lying across the tracks in the shadow -of the Yarmouth Street bridge about 300 feet from the Back Bay station and the second heavier pipe was leaning from the roadbed against the other pipe They said the train probably would have thrown the pipes from the rails or crushed them if they had not been found and both police and railroad officials expressed confidence that the train would not have been harmed As a precautionary measure authorities sent policemen into the Chinese district to ascertain if any unusual conditions prevailed there Jews Appeal to Von Hindenbiirg Berlin March 29 Leading representatives of- German Jewry appealed to President Von Hlnden-burg Chancellor Hitler cabinet members and the Berlin police president tonight against a Nazi-inspired boycott against Jews which begins throughout Germany on Saturday The appeal expressed confidence the president ana the government United States he wrote to the mBn CoMulate there for Informa- Governor Signs prohibition first throw! up in 1846 w(t pioneer pr ihibition statutq strengthene with a constitutional amendment and additional statutes from time sprung its first serious leak Wednesday when Governor Xjoma Brann signed into law a bill legalizing beer of an Alfa yet to be determined bitlon start-or the necessarjj 1000J Invoke a referendum hold back the flood beverage for at least a fewmorjths longer Governor Brann first Democratic chief executive 18f years and Republican legislative leaders went ahead with plana for setting up some form of regulation license and taxation Referendum Would Hold it Up The law (rill not become effective until 90 dal's after adjournment of the legislature or about July-1 and If forced into a referendum it would not be operative until after such vote which would probably be next-fall One or more bills to regulate manufacture and sale and produce revenue will be offered within the next day or two and although all (Continued on Page Col 3) on the law Relief Plan i- Agricultural Committee Making Good Progress ill Disposing of Amendments McAd oo Proposes a Mortgage Bank Washing on March' 29 lP) The admlnlstra broad farm relief plan push! ahead over the Senate agriculture committee hurdles today and ts sponsors pressed forward with hopes of laying it before the Senate by Friday or Saturday Discuss Changes 1 Diaposln i ot an effort to! remove sheep and -cattle by a 9 to 5 vote and a 'mot on to limit the sweeping (Contkn ed on Page CoL 6) of Children Suffer and Thslr Msthsrs what the trouble is Signs of Worms srer Constipation deranged stomachy swollen tippet lip offensive breath hard and full Stomach with pains pale face eyjes heavy short i dip cough grinding of the teeth etc Mrs EW Stephan il Ken-henna Road Dorchester Mass little freedom from diseases colds constipation etcI attribute in large measure to th uso of rjr Laxative Worm ExpeUer ndlcins not a harsh sthnm rtlisf (rosi ceastipatiea Ussd for It Opinion of Chief Counsel of Federal Reserve Board Seen as Move to See Up Unified System Supreme Court Decision Cited Washington March 29 The Mertl Reserve Board published today tn its monthly bulletin a hitherto undisclosed opinion by Its' on chief counsel holding that Congress has power to do away rh state bank systems and to nccentrate the entire banking bunneas of the (uuntry under fed-enl control Significance Seen Printing of the opinion af this Use was regarded as one of the ttiut significance in the light of nvnts during and since the bank cm which climaxed at President nooaerelt's inauguration In some Clirfers it wax interpreted as a Bovement to actually scl up a unit'd national banking system The opinion wax prepared last (Continued on Page Col 6) Fear Consequences in Naming Daniels Mexico City March presid' of the America Chamber of Commerce sale tonight that he had recently sent Joetary Hull a confidential of regarding the (ointment of Josephus Daniels as ambassador to Mexico Meanwhile police arrested several Jged Communists whose names refused to disclose In with an attack on the America embassy last Friday night In jy gwt against the appointment of yr- Wlanley said his telegram to rocetary IIul had been approved (everal influential Americans The message Flanley said "JJ'ght lead as follows: Wormatuu reaching me Indl-2that the rumored appointment bl Daniels is being viewed Mexico with very great concern' Widespread Net for Killer of Child York March (AV-Check-in thrir efforts to run down who criminally assaulted Kr--d Barbara wiles and then her to death with a rope isht threw every one of intotJ Clt patrolmen S01 hunt wudfa4 child daughter of an cricket player was the he undcr 7 years of age to fa attacked In Brooklyn with-did Four 07 the victims other attacks were In at Ul Sw a mile of the base-which the Wiles child met OIL RANGE OR FURNACE highest grade on the Prom deliveries Purinton Bros Co ttu IIS AUGUSTA HELPFUL loans small monthly 5m Interest at three per ent Pee month on the unpaid Personal Finance Co Ill Kresge Bldg ar St phone Augusta 1106 Congress Shows Eagerness to Regulate New Securities Issues Them From the woman's club leader who discussing the economic feature of the issue said that it Is a case of sink or drink thep let them to the clergyman who characterized the legislation as 'backward atop for Maine a wide diversity of opinion was expressed but an analysis of the expressions shows that for the most people take a pro-beer view Almost unanimously business men took' a business attitude on the matter and most of them sounded a warning against trigging the normal course of events by attempting to Invoke a referendum before July 1st That xnaine would he isolated from its usual tourist and summer business if the amber brew Is not available here this summer was the consensus and Maine- cannot afford to cripple Its great summer Industry to neighboring states that have about the same line of wares to offer in the matter of lakes forests seashore and scenery Minister Against Referendum For a different reason this same warning against a call -for a showdown bv referendum was voiced by (Continued on Page CoL 4) Roosevelt Farm Roosevelt Finds Time for Auto Ride Washington March 29 UP) In the first bright sunshine of -spring here President Roosevelt today drove for $9 minutes along the -Potomac river in the open roadster of Mrs Roosevelt Slipping away from his desk unannounced the President joined Hall Roosevelt brother i of Mrs Roosevelt in the front seat of the bright blue car Mrs Roosevelt and Miss Marian Dickerman of New York an intimate friend the rumble seat Secret service men trailed behind Hie party rode along the banks of the Potomac to Alexandria and returned without stopping Rescue Man Buried 100 Hours in Mine Mt Carmel Pa March Ine for Burled in an abandoned mine more than 100 hours John Ches lock Jr 28 was rescued alive to- Hhilled and weak from his long Imprisonment under a fall of rock Cheslock was wrapped in blankets and rushed to a hoiqdtaL Rescue workers had worked fur iously to release the- man for whose life hope had been abandoned They communicated with him this afternoon for the first time slnoe he was trapped 75 feet underground fou? days ago Sees Stimulation EVacatidn Trade Washington March 29 A prediction that enactment of President Roosevelt's reforestratlon bill would result not only in relief tor thousand of destitute unemployed but would stimulate New England vacation trade as well was made tonjM by Representative Rogers Rogers who took the floor to resist a number of amendments to the bill said he felt the measure would have an especially beneficial effect upon the resort sections of New England through Improvement of the national forests there Convention of 84 Delegates Proposed repealing the 18th amendment under a bill reported to the Senate by the committee on Federal relations today A general election would be held on September 11 for selecting the delegates and the convention would be convened December 6 of this year The distribution of delegates would be: 13 from Cumberland 9 each from Aroostook and Penobscot 7 each from Kennebec Androscoggin and York 4 each from Washington Somerset and Oxford 3 each from Hancock and Knox 2 each from Lincoln Sagadahoc Piscataquis Franklin and Waldo Candidates would be nominated by petition of not less than 10 per cent of the vote cast for Governor in their county In 1932 The ballots would contain the name of the candidates arranged alphabetically and without designation as to whether they favored or opposed ratification or the repealing amendment Delegates would draw $5 per day and the same mileage paid Legis lators Ratification or rejection would be by a majority vote of the total number of delegates Candidates would be required to file a report of expenditures with the Secretary of State as would individuals and organizations aiding the election of any candidate and provision is made for printing of the reports in the dally newspapers of the State If a referendum was Invoked and the bill ratified by the voters the election would be held at a date proclaimed by the Governor not more than three months after it was ratified The bill differs from every one of the four proposals submitted to the Legislature previously and was drafted only after the Maine Law Court had been asked certain questions regarding the formation of such a convention The report of the committee was accepted in the Senate and the bill will be printed before further is taken Seek Warren Man Who Defied Officers Warren March 29 UP) Frank Slreln 50 waa sought tonight by police as the man who engaged In a gun battle with state and county officers on the bank of the Georges river here last night Warrants charging assault with Intent to kUl and assault on an officer with a dangerous weapon were Issued against Slreln today In connection with an exchange of shots with officers and the earlier wind of Albert Sullin 20 while the youth was Investigating interference with smelt dipping operations The man suspected by police to be Slreln fired on State Trooper George Shaw and XJeputy Sheriff William Robinson from a camp on the river bank when the officers ordered his surrender After other officers arrived on the scene to aid Shaw and Robinson the camp's occupant fired another fusillade set fire to the structure nd fled Into the woods A hunt for him so far has been fruitless of results MnHtitinn ment to the Federal constitution i i 1 i i i i i i4 I 9 A 4 5 Ji An Amendment Containing "Heart of the Inadvertently Voted Down with Beedy of Maine Aiding Confusion Senate Must Now Pass on Changes Washington March 29 A huge and willing House Democratic majority today floundered through a parliamentary maze engineered by Republican opponents but finally succeeded In passing President bill designed to provide employment and conserve the forests (ConUnned on Pare CoL 6) Roosevelt to Take Up Patronage Soon Washington March 29 UP) Speeding up of prlitlcal appointments by the Roosevelt administration may be expected soon-One of the first to be transmitted to the Senate it was said authoritatively today will be the nomination or Harry Woodring former governor of Kansas to be assistant secretary of war Another will be Harry Durn-Ing slated for collector of the port of NewYork He was recommended by Edward Flynn Democratic leader of The Bronx and staunch Roosevelt supporter So rapidly has the new administration been proposing and pushing to passage new legislation to deal with economic conditions that It has been able to give but little time to patronage Milk to Ditches in 1 Rochester Strike Rochester March 29 (JP) A milk shortage of Indeterminate proportions faced Rochester today as thousands of gallons of milk foamed in roadside dumped by striking indepnedent warfare for milk producers in their higher prices for their product only did the producers dump their own supplies but they picketed all highways leading into the city and stopped trucks carrying ilrymen's Dal sorts tlon the road While most dealers reported arrival of but a small part of their shipment they said they would be able to make nearly normal deliveries by using a supply on hand when the strike opened this mom- in- Asks Preference for Maine Granite Washington March MV-Representative Moran (D Me) offered a resolution in the House today to giro preference to granite and mar-ole In constructing Federal bulld- Ings bringing Immediate opposition from members In the Indiana lime stone belt Representative Crowe' (D Ind) told newspaperment he would light vigorously against the adoption of the resolution which was referred to the committee on public buildings Moran said the use of granite and marble would aid employment conditions because they are quarried largely by hand labor and because they are found in more states than limestone THE WEATHER Measures Started on Their Way Soon After Receiving Message from Chief Executive EXPERTS BUSY ON STOCK EXCHANGE BILL Washington March OF) Congress responded with alacrity today to a succinct message by President Roosevelt asking drastic Federal regulations of new security issues Measures on Way Bills received from the White House requiring strict publicity of all future transactions and banning Interstate sales of fraudulent issues promptly were Introduced and strat-ed on their way In another of his brief and to-the-point special messages his sixth in three weeks the President told Congress public has sustained severe losses through practices neither ethical nor honest on the part of many persons and corporations selling He made it clear that this proposal la Just the first step in a general movement to seek return to a clearer understanding of the ancient truth that those who manage banks corporations and other agencies handling or using other peo pled money are trustees acting for At his direction experts Including Samuel Untermyer of New York were busy tonight drafting legislation to extend Federal control over stock and commodity exchanges of the country This measure will be advanced shortly to Congress It will be fol lowed by proposals to put the bank-(Continued on fage CoL I) FAIR Forecast for Fair Thursday and Friday Saturday rain and somewhat warmer The disturbance that was over eastern Massachusetts Tuesday night is now central about a hundred miles south of Nova Scotia moving north-eastward The weather will continue fair in the Atlantic states Thursday and Thursday night but the eastward advance of the disturbance now over the plains states will be attended by showers in the Atlantic states Friday or Friday night The temperature will rise almost generally Thursday except in New England and the weather will become warmer Friday in the north Atlantic states will not our rights and means qf existence be taken from Declaring that German Jews had successfully frit forth their utmost efforts to counteract reports abroad of Jewish persecutions and foreign boycott campaigns and pledging 'that they would continue to do so the document asserted that this German Jews as luUty to oe ruined" 4 i i i.