Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-10-31
TELEGRAPH BRIEFS

TELEGRAPH BRIEFS
Washington. Oct. 3o-Henry Ford.
umpire in the case of the Internation-
al Association Of Machinists and tho
Wheeling Mold and Foundry Co.,
Wheeling, w. Va. has returned .
finding granting the demand of the
employees for basic eight hour day
with time and a half for overtime
and double time for Sundays and
holidays. the Labor Board announced
today.
San Francisco, Oct. 30-A Japanese
industrial and economic mission.
headed by r. Yamashina Of the Toxic
Chamber of Commerce, arrived here
today. The mission will tour the I'm
tied States and South America.
Now York. Oct. s0-The Fordham
University football team was defeat
ed here today by team representing
the u. s. s. Granite State. The final
score was six to nothing for the sail
ors. The game was played behind
closed gates owing to the influenza
epidemic regulations.
New York. Oct. 3O-Assurance that
France will extend to Syria all the as
sistance and protection necessary for
| the realization Of her lasting liberia
ton and reconstruction was given by
President Poincare in a cablegram
to the Syrian ebanes league for lib
GRAFTON made public here tonight.
Boston. Oct. 30-Ferdinand Won
Scholley, a German baron and pres
ident of the Burkhardt Brewing Com
pany OF this city was arrested today
by agents of the department of jus
| tice who said he was dangerous en-
envy alien. Won Scholley served as
an officer in the German army for
II years. According to department OF
justice agents he was born in Switz-
erland but is a native Of Germany. He
| is SO years old.
New York, Oct. c0-Dealers in for
eign exchange are prohibited from
sending funds to foreign countries in
Guiding those of this country's CO.
| belligerents for the purpose of buy
ing securities or making investments
of any character without the sanction
of the Federal Reserve Board, accord
| ing to the terms of ruling announced
| today by the Foreign exchange divis-
ion Of the board.
Port Of Spain. Trinidad. Oct. 3o-In-
habitants Of Trinidad. in apprecia-
| ton Of the efforts of the United States
in the war have subscribed 1000 Of
tthe Fourth Liberty Loan and pur-
chased $4,000 worth Of war savings
| stamps.
New York, Oct. 30.-John D. Rock
| efeller. senior. has turned the three
| upper floors Of his city home into
dormitories for women taking the
| special course in recitational work to
be started here on Nov. 29, by the
war work council Of the Young Wo-
mems Christian Association, accord
| ing to an announcement tonight. The
houses has been closed for several
years. The rooms decorated with
carved wood inlaid with ivory. will
accommodate so students.
| Philadelphia. Oct. 3O.-The Ameri-
! can Manganese Manufacturing Co.
of this city received word today that
| it's ship Ethel was lost off Cuba while
on its third voyage. The crew land
ed safely. The company has no news
of the cause of the sinking.
| New York, Oct. 30.-Various as
poets Of Americas foreign trade at
ter the war, including questions of
Financing ounr foreign operations.
Educating our representatives for
| foreign trade SERVICE" foreign adver-
Using patents and trade marks, We're
! discussed here today at the opening
of the two-day prepare for after
| the-war" convention arranged by the
| American Manufacturers Export AS
! ISOLATION. The meeting was attended
by bankers, manufacturers and ad-
| vertising men from all parts Of the
country.
Boston, Oct redistribution of
! sugar pledge cards will be started
Edward WigglesWorth,. chief of the
sugar division Of the state food adj
ministration. The card will enable
the householder to buy at one time
two-weeks supply on the basis Of
two pounds per person per month 1t
has been the rule recently that no
more than two pounds shall be sold
| to a customer at n time. thereby
! making frequent trips to the store
necessary for a householder with a
large family to provide for.
/ Washington, Oct. 30.-Miss Juda
stimson of Worcester. Mass, former
! ly chief nurse Of the American Red
Cross in France, has been appointed
| chief nurse Of the American Expedi-
! tionary Forces, according to cable
gram received today at Red Cross
headquarters. She will begin her new
| duties early in November.
! Cambridge. Mass, Oct. 30.-Edward
j. Daley, who was captain of the
| Dartmouth football team in 1912, was
elected captain Of the Harvard Stu
dents Army Training Corps eleven