Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-21
TELEGRAPH BRIEFS

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which would have legalized boxing m
Kentucky failed to pass the lower mouse
Of the General Assembly A to " mere 70
night
London Tuesday, March $50 long as
the exigencies of the service permit jew
ish battalors in the British army. uleE
are definitely intended for employment IN
Palestine This announcement was maze
in the House of Commons today by ). !.
Mcpherson. parliamentary under-secreta-
ry OF the war office
Toronto. Ont. March 2o.-The Torontoc,
champions of the National Hockey
League. defeated Vancouver, the Pacific
coast titleholders, here tonight . TO ) IN
the first game OF the series Tor the stan
lev cup. emblematic of the worlds profess
sional championship.
London. March 9.-The curfew hour has
been fixed for London and the southern
counties OF England at 1890 o'clock at
night At that hour all places Of amuse-
ment must be closed. ana they must re-
main closed until the following afternoon.
There will he no lights for shop windows,
and the hotels, clubs. restaurants and va
serving hot meals from $50 at night until
5 o'clock in the morning.
f, New York. March 20.-An appeal to
Socialists and Radicals to unite in
Lacking the national war aims was
embodied in {; call for a national con-
J ference. Of loyal Socialists to be held
in this city on April IA, sent out to-
day by the Jewish Socialist League of
America. Russias fate and the ne
ceSsity for d protracted war with Ger
many were cited as proof that there
must be united action in this coun-
try.
Lexington, y. G.. March 20.-"My son
has done nothing to justify the taking
of his life Prof. L. O. Deaderick of
! Weaver College Wearville, y. G., de-
clared here tonight, in a statement re-
gardine- the killing here yesterday att
crnoon of J. Franklin Deaderick. cash
ier OF q local bank in the home of }.
Graham Hcge The latter. who is in
Jail without bond, awaiting a pre!im-
mary hearing. declined to talk of the
affair. other than to repeat his state
ment OF Yesterday that Il shot in de-
tense OF the honor Of my home
New York March 20.Thc govern
ment took over today control of fuel
oil east Of the Rocky mountains, ac-
cor,lng to an announcement by Mark
l.. Rcaua. director of the oil division
of the Fuel Administration
New Haven. Conn. March 2O.-The
Yale Univ erSity crew will not take
part in II. recently suggested inter-
collegiate regatta at Annapolis. f'rof.
NJ A. Abbott, coach of the crew said
tonight While Harvard. Yale and
Princeton. he added, would race to-
gether, they would not enter any large
regatta as such an event was regarded
as not in keeping with the times.
Washington. March 2".-Brig. Gen.
Fred W. "iadcn was relieved today AS
secretary IF the general staff and as
signed to command an infantry bri-
care now in France. He was succeeded
BY COL. Percy r. Bishop
London. March 2n.-.An Amsterdam dis
patch to Reuters, Limited that Hugo
Hans Haas leader of the Socialist minor
it,. in the Eeichstag. yesterday declared
in the House that the Independent Su-
calist's view of the mailed fist peace"
with Russia would refuse to vote tho
emergency estimates.
New York. March 20.-Tn insure an adj
equate supply Of high grade coal for the
bunkering Of naval vessels army trans
ports and other transatlantic steam
ships well to aid in preventing a
repetition of the winters fuel shortage
along the Atlantic sea board West Viz
sinia coal operators at meeting here
today agreed to divert to the East sew
eral million tons of West Virginia smoke
less coal from its former middle western
markets.
Washington. March 20-Figurc,
showing increased cost Of steel produ.-
I ton due 10 increase in the price of raw
materials were laid before the War
\ Industries Board today by committee
of steel manufacturers headed BY o.
II. Gary. The steel manufa cturers con
/ tend their prices must be increa eed or
T.; the cost Of constituent materials reau-
/ lated
! London, March c0-;tdward Stot,,
painter, died Tuesday at his home IN
/ Amberley, Sussex.
A Canadian Port, March 20.-With
the largest passenger list of any
steamer coming here since the out
break Of the war, a trans Atlantic lin
err arrived tooay bringing over 1000
| persons. Two thousand OF those on
board were returned soldiers and the
other thousand were women and chill
dren, mostly relatives of the fighting
men. The ship had a good passage
across the Atlantic.
Chattanooga. Tenn, March 2o-Jack
6ritton Of Chicago. former welter-