Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-29
NEWS BRIEFS

Louisville, kyo NOV. Zo.-B. M.
Starks, general manager of the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad,
died suddenly at his home here to-
night. Death was said to have re-
suited from a heart attack.
Moscow, Nov. 2S.--An unimpas-
stoned survey of Bolshevik opinions
on the affairs of the world today
was made before the Congress OF
Scientists Yesterday by Nicolai
Bucharin. editor of Pravda and head
of the left wing of the Soviet CEN
trail committee.
New York, Nov 2s.-Anthony
Platona, young Brooklyn salesman,
was arrested today as the third fig
ure in the murder and robbery of
two bank messengers on Nov. IA. He
was charged with homicide and rob-
berry while in concert with Barlow
and Joseph Diamond.
London Nov. 2S.-Election can
vassers in Great Britain have found
that woman can keep secret after
all. They are complaining that while
1t always has been and Is still pos
sible to draw from the men some
idea of how they are to vote. 1t
reallysis not easy and in most cases
impossible to drag this secret from
women; consequently the canvassers
cannot frame anything like a close
estimate of the result of the polling
ON Dec. 6. The women veters, the
observers say, listen, readily to can
didates but are reserved in their own
opinions and show no inclination to
pledge themselves to support any
party.
Washington. Nov. ga radio re-
eeiving set equipped with an UNDER
ground aerial invented by DR..
George Harris Rogers of Hyattvilie,
Nd. it was announced today, picked
| up messages from London last night
on wave length ranging from 365
to $40 meters. The new antennae of
the coil was placed 20 feet down q
well shielded with sheet metal around
the outside of the brick work to a
depth OF IS feet.
smuggling her Thanksgiving turkey
over the Kitchen stove in her home
today. Mrs. William M. Hogan, SO
years of age, set fire to her clothing
and was probably fatally burned.
The flames which resulted set fire
| to the house which was practically
destroyed before the firemen could
arrive. owing to the distance of the
place from the nearest fire station.
Marietta. Ga, Nov. 2S--Unsuccess-
full efforts to bring the Ku Klux Khan
into the case were made today at the
trial OF Parke G. Cook, charged with
being q member of gang which
logged Mrs. Bertha Holcombe, a
widow. and Stephen H. Morton. her
escort. When Solicitor General John
Wood asked Joe Bramlett, one of the
six indicted men whether he was q
member of the Ku Klux Khan, the
court excluded the question 'for the
time being at least"
Lon ion, Nov. 2S--(By A. P.J--Eng-
lands relationship with France ON
the reparatfons issue will be put to
another severe test on Friday when
Sir John Bradbury presents his goy-
ernment's views on the Dusseldorf
agreement and the intention OF
France and Belgium to retain part
Of the Ruhr payments and deliveries
for their own occupationa1 accounts.
Whether the truce recently arrived
at between the london and Paris
bassadors will weather future storms
depends largely upon the results 81
ssNss ss T Sssans nov. ssrrwo men
claiming to be revenue agents were
arrested today on charges OF partial
intOxication and attempted fel6nious
assault after fight at nth street
and Columbus avenue which follow
ed q collision between their automo-
bile and 2 taxicah. The, neighbor-
hood was thrown. into q manic BY
shots alleged 10 have been fred BY
the self-stylsd government men, who
were found to be armed with four
pistors. two hatchets-Srd ain iron
bar. The two alleged agents gave