Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-20
DAILY KENNEBEC JOURNAL THURSDAY, DECEMBER TO- 1928

revised area sown last fall which was
45,950,000 acres and the condition OF
the crop on Dec. /, was $50 per cena
Of normal, compared with 1915 . year
ago, 1850 in 1921, and 86.5 the ten
year average, the Department of
Agriculture announced todav u
Waite of Medford, justice of the SUI
by Governor Cox for the vacancy on
the bench OF the supreme court OF
Massachusetts caused by the recent
death of Justice Charles r. Jenney.
Chicago, Dec. 19.-The aggregate at
tendance in the American League for
the season of 1923 was 4.602,5S9. This
is decrease as compared with the
three previous years. 1920 being the
banner year of the organization.
Houston. Tex, Dec. 1.-the fourth
body was recovered today from the
ruins of the Capitol Hotel. destroyed
by fire yesterday. None of the bodies
has been identified positively. A check
of the hotel register shows IL persons
still unaccounted for, but authorities
believe that many Of them escaped.
Omaha, Neb., Dec. 19.-Nick Cullop,
start pitcher for the Omaha club OF
the Western League. will be delivered
to the New York Yankees in the spring.
The Omaha club will receive $4,000
for Cullop. In the event he does not
make good he will be returned to the
Omaha club. Barney Burch, owner of
the club, denied last night that CuIlop
had been sold, but 1t developed today
that arrangements had been made with
other club officials.
Worcester, Mass, Dec. 1s-Follow-
ing trail of blood from the Boston &
Maine freight house near BARRIERS
Crossing, searching party consisting
of police and railroad men discovered
Fred r. Mellon, 40 years old, freight
conductor of 20 Rhode Island avenue,
Somerville, leaning against a railroad
shanty, a half mile away, with his
throat cut and his scalp laid open
shortly before s A. M. today. Mellon
was rushed to City hospital in dying
condition after he had told the police
he had been slashed by stranger with
knife just after he left his train to
go to the freight house with his way
bills.
Boston. Dec. 19.-For the first time
in years at this date III December there
is not enough SNOW on the ground to
impede motor vehicle traffic in any part
Of New England. This was shown by
the weather bureau weekly highway
bulletin issued To-Day, the first of its
annual wintf Series. Snow appears
only IN <he mountain regions. Dirt
roads< especially in northern sections,
ard rough and frozen. The bulletin
Says that automobilists are taking full
advantage 81 the situation and that
traffic is heavy.
London, Dec. IA statement is.
sued from Liberal headquarters to-
day signed by Former Premier Lloyd
George describes as pure invention
a statement made by Lord Bathurst
in a speech at Cirsncester that Mr..
Lloyd George had prepared to wave
the flag of protection when he re-
turned from America, thus hoping to
get back to power. but that the news
received on board the steamer that
Prime Minister Baldwin had fore
stalled him, caused Mr.. Lloyd George
to decide to oppose the prime minis
ter on the protection issue.
Boston, Dec. 19-The explosion of
still in which a Christmas 'bever-
age was being made fatally injured
six-year- old Mary Moser and burned
her mother so badly that she too may
die, the police reported today. The
material damage to the room was
,slight.
Lansing, Mich, Dec. 19-(By A. P.)
-Nomina ting petitions entering CAL
vim Coolidge and Henry Ford as can
didates in the presidential primary
next April, were accepted by the de-
partment of state today. -
Madrid, Dec. 19-Port charges will
be exacted from vessels touching at
Spanish ports according to a royal
decree signed today. The income
will be used in meeting the losses to
Spanish shipping during the World
war. The tax is to be imposed upon:
both passenger and freight vessels.
London, Dec. 19-(By A. P)-The
Dowager Countess of Carnavon,
widow Of the Earl of Carnarvon, dis
coverer of the tomb of the Pharaoh
Tutenkhamun, was married today to
Lieutenant Colonel Ian Onslow Den
nistoun, formerly an officer of the
Grenadier Guards. The ceremony
was performed at a registry Office
here in the presence of a few friends
>of the couple.
Atlanta, Ga, Dec. 19-(By A. P.)-
Bailiffs in charge of the jury in the
case of Philip E. Fox on trial here.
for the killing of w. S. Coburn, a
ku klux Khan attorney, threatened
to draw their pistols on six men who
attempted to forcibly interfere with
the jurors while they were taking
outdoor exercise early today. F,
San Francisco, Dec. 19-The Fed
eral Telegraph Company of Califor-
mia has transferred all of it's rights
and titles in the $13,000,O0O contract
for the construction and operation of
radio stations in China to the newly
organized Federal Telegraph Com
pany of Delaware, a S9,500,000 cor
poration, the board of directors of
the latter corporation announced
here.