Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-28
NEWS BRIEFS

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Madison, Wis. Dec. 2T.-Electien q
DR.. G. Stanley Hall Of Clark Unipft.
ty, Worcester. Mass, as president q
the American Psychological Associ,.
tioh was announced at a meeting Of N,
organization here tonight.
MinneapoI Mimi, Dec. 27-Tk
ss-country ski races scheduled herr
for Saturday as part of the Olympic
tryouts have been indefinitely postpOs.
ed because of lack Of snow, 1t was On.
nounced today.
Paris, Dec. q (By A. P.)-Russia,
refusal to attend the January meet.
ing of the--naval experts is likely 10
lead to the session being held IN
London instead of at Geneva. The
Soviet government, In what leagus
officers describe az the most polite
note ever sent By the Soviet to the +
league, declared 1t was willing to al. I
tend the naval experts meeting II Il /
was not held on Swiss soil. Its Oh.
lection to being represented In Swift F
erland, was due to the assination d !
M. Vorovsky, Russia's Representative (
at Lausanne. and the acquittal Of
Conrad, the Swiss engineer who shot /
him.
Berlin, Dec. 81 ((By A. P.)-SOpsn +
your jails', is the advice offered the /
Prussian ministry of justice by the (
Prussian minister OF finance in res
ponse to a request for an increaed
appropriation required FOR the prose. /
cution Of thousands Of offenders Of /
all categories who are awaiting trial +
Both the Prussian and the federal
courts have been so badly cluttere
up through the large number Of ar.
rests and lack of funds to prosecute
that the plan to liberate persons In.
dicted was advanced in all serious. +
ness by the minister of finance
Lake Placid, N. Y, Dec. 2T-sot
ice neceSsitated the postponemert
until tomorrow morning Of the Yale.
Amherst hockey contest planned for
this afternoon In the tnter-collegiats .
series. Dartmouth walloped VII
liams to 0 in the morning game. the
first of the series between the -four
teams. In the afternoon, conditions
permitting, Yale will meet Dart
mouth.
Lisbon, Dec. 27-There is no con.
firmation here Of the recent ohicid
statement from Madrid that Povtu'
guese communists We're involved IN
revolutionary movement, Dlannst
to start simultaneously in Portugal
and Spain on December %. TIM!
newspapers declare there IS no trutA
in the report that the PortugueS
football team which recently went vi
Seville was composed OF COMMUNIST
in disguise.
Boston, Dec. 27-Cniverslty Of New
Brunswick hockey team defeated
Boston College here tonight. 8 to l.
New York. Dec. 2T-Jack ZiyeH
Pittsburgh lightweight. won the dec.
sion over Joe Lawson of Milwaukes
tonight in 10-round bout at ln
Pioneer Athletic club.
Rome. Dec. 27.-AnOther Catholic 20
litical party was formed today. IT cor
sists of expelled members OF vi
strong Catholic popular party Tn'
new party will number dozen depG
ties and half a dozen senators and VIII
be known as the independent popua1
party The members are those whlI
insisted upon unrcserved support o1
the Mussolini government by the Caul
olics. For these views they were e
PEELED last July, on the occasion OF in'
discussion of the new electoral law
Newark. n. J.. Dec. 27.-The Psssal'
valley sewerage commission today
its regular meeting authorized Cnle'I
Engineer ]. Ralph Van Duvne TO msS
an investigation to determine whet"|
the outfall lines of the sewerage syS|
tenn, now under construction for fs-
sale. Newark and 20 other munlcipaF
ties. were crushed by the steamer "
viathan when she grounded on Roeoh,
Reef In New York harbor last FriosI
New York. Dec. 27.-Joie Ray na
forwarded from Chicago his entry ~
the Olympic 1000 meter race OF u
Wilco A. A. indoor games February !, !,
it was announced today by Hugh
Hirshon. who made public letter fres|
Ray in which the miller expressed con-
fldence he would win the race Tor IN
third time.
San Antonio, Tex, Dec. 2I.-bs
cause they allege the jails of span
and the United States to be nilsI
with radicals, convicted of or nea
in connection with crimes Ins!
never committed" members OF ID:
general Confederation of Labor
Mexico are advocating a boycoa
against industrial enterprises an'
OuoAHCSo III lWO al
cording to Ell Democratic. City.
Mexico newspaper which reaenT
San Antonio today. Resolutions WI
be placed before the confederaw|
Red Groups at once for consloer"
ton.
New York, Dec. 27.-Tadao Suga.
numa. japanese holder Of the Junu
national balkline billiard champlon
ship. tonight turned back Jes.|
Bruno. Australian champion, ~ WI
first block of their 1900 point cham
pionship match. 400 to 243. IE|
match went % innings, the defehas
averaging II 9-23. His high run W.
149 in the 10th inning while the Ds.|
the challenger could do was Sc In w
goth inning. Bruno was runner VI
at the recent tournament at
troit.
Geneva, Switzerland, Dec. 2T--In.|
League of Nations secretariat t0es'
cabled an invitation to Charles bes
cher Warren, former American an
bassador to Japan, asking him
serve as president of the propose.
neutral commission to inveslie4
the controversy between LithuenJ'
and Poland over the Baltic por u
Memel.
Oklahoma City, Okla. Dec. ~
Former Governor ]. C. Walton. !oas
A. Whitehurst, president of the ~,
Board OF Agric -iture. three p,ns
state officials and a former emplyss'
were indicted here today BY 2 w
trict court grand jury for aliesss'
offenses during Walton's adminisu
ton. Seven indictments ALREADY ~
pending against the former execpus|
charging irregularities In the eoD
duct of his ONCE.