Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-18

Royal society OF Meulclne, Will a1o
surgeons, representing 20 nations In
attendance. Those present included
DIR. william J. Mayo Of Rochester,
| Mimi; DR.. +. G. Banting of Toronto,
discoverer of insulin, and Serge
Voronoff, of monkey gland fame.
New York-Heavy fog on the At
lantic was reported by the steamship
| United States on it's arrival yester-
day. The vessel was forced to push
through 1,400 miles of fog. Captain
Bolzborg remained on the bridge for
AZ hours at a stretch
Manila. (By A. P.)-The climax In
the political war between Governor
General Leonard Wood and Filipino
officials came yesterday when the
cabinet and council Of state rendered
their designations in a body. The
governor general accepted them.
Providence, r. IA. J. Silverman,
alias Louis Silverman and also
known as Wood, finished a three
months term for larceny in the
state prison yesterday and was i'm
mediately extradited to New York,
where an indictment OF grand lar
ceny, returned in Madison county in
November, 1928, faces him. He was
| imprisoned here on charges grow
| ing out of the swindling of Edward
Carman of $4,000 by a wire tapping
scheme connected with betting on
the horse races.
Sydney, N. S.-The Sydney-Louis-
burg express narrowly escaped dis
aster again yesterday when a rail
bolt Jared out as it passed the spot
where an attempt was made yester-
day to wreck the train by removing a
length Of track. Officials of the Brit
.el. Nxyh
employees are on strike, do not regard
today's occurrence as an accident.
Hartford, Conn.-Alfred T. Rich
ards, general agent of the Connect
cut Mutual Life Insurance Co. for 40
years, died of pneumonia yesterday.
He would have been 80 on Aug. %.
He was well known to insurance men
| Of New England as a writer OF verse
and a platform speaker.
| Holyoke, Mass.-Close to 100 sta
| tionary firemen in the paper mills of
this city went on strike this afternoon
| in pursuance of recent vote to quit
work in enforcement of the demands
upon the manufacturers for wage in
crease. All but two or three of the in
dependent mills are affected.
| New York.-Twenty-fo seaplanes
scheduled to leave yesterday for New
port to take part in defense manoeuvres
| between Boston and Narragansett Bay
will not start until tomorrow. Early
today Commodore w. r. Gerhardi, in
command of the air forces of the At
| lantic division, left for Newport to set
up base.
Concord, N. Hunted States Sena-
tor George H. Moses, chairman of the
Senate election committee, home from
Minnesota on the day after Governor
Preus was defeated in the special cleo
ton, declined yesterday to'give his own
estimate of Magnus johnson, who was
victorious, but passed this along: "A
national official has said: when John
son appears in the Senate there will be
another vacancy. When he makes his
first speech Senator. Lodge will drop
dead"
New York-Assistant District Attor-
ney Pecora resumed presentation to the
grand Jury of evidence against William
H. Anderson, state superintendent of
the Anti-Saloon League, whose indict-
ment he is seeking on charges of grand
larceny; extortion and forgery. Mr..
Pecora said his case probably would be
completed yesterday.
Omaha, Neb., July 17.-Graham
Lincoln Bradley, lumberman, and a
second cousin of Abraham Lincoln,
died here today.
New Haven, Conn. July 17-IIlness
of Joseph S. Pickford, general chair
man of the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen and Conductors, caused
poStponement of the conference of
trainmen and conductors here to-
day.
Baltimore. Md, July 17.-Sir John
| Henderie, president of the Hamilton
Bridge Works, and former lieutenant
governor of Ontario, died at midnight
tonight at Johns Hopkins hospital
! here.
London, July 17.-Tf1e engagement
was announced today Of Miss Julia
Mcdonald Davis, daughter of John
w. Davis, former United States
ambassador to Great Britain, to
William Mcmillan Adams of Bos-
ton.
Baltimore. Nd. July 1.-THE
condition of Sir John Henrie. former
lieutenant governor of Ontario, who
is ill at Johns Hopkins hospital
here, was reported critical tonight.
New York, July 1.-THE state At
torney Generals office today obtain
ed an injunction restraining Walter
L. Johnson and three. movie concerns
of which he is alleged to be the head
from selling further stock to the
public. Three quarters of a million
already have been invested in these
companies.
Springfield, Mass, July 17-Manager
Barry Of the local telephone exchange
said tonight that the operating force
was SO girls above normal, but urged
subscribers to limit calls to important
business. Strikers claimed that two
toll operators quit and applied to join
the union.
Jersey City, N. J., July 17-Not
any Of the Jersey City commissioners
today when they passed on first
reading an ordinance that provides
that manicurists and beauty parlor
specialists must cover their arms
with full length sleeves, discard their
use of the powder puff and wear reg
ulation uniforms, in addition to pay
ing SIS as a license fee to do busi-
ness each year. These regulations
are only few Of those embodied in
the ordinance.
Milwaukee, Wis, July II - Billy
Wells, weller champion Of England,
has been matched to box Roy Con-
ley of Green Bay here July 81. The
match is for ten rounds.
| Denver, Colo, July 17-Danger of
serious floods in Colorado seemed to
have passed today. Damage to low
lands will be heavy.
Philadelphia, July 1.-THE motor
launch Sunbeam" with four Of the
six convicts who made a daring es-
cape from the Eastern State Peni-
tertiary aboard is believed by the
police to have run to cover in the
dense swpress swamps which fringe