Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-20
NEWS BRIEFS

view 1orh, Lee. l9.-A'cohOl valued
at 100000 was seized and six men ar
rested by prohibition enforcement
agents who today raided a warehouse.
The alcohol had been placed in con-
tainers labelled "linseed OIL"
New York, Dec. 19.-The modernist
FACTION in the Protestant Episcopal
church today was compared with Bel
GUM in 1913, wanting peace but
peace with honor" by Rev. Stuart l..
Tyson. vice president of the Modern
Churchmen's Union, who put the next
step squarely up to the Fundamental
lists. THE fight is now entirely in the
hands of the other side: declared DIR.
Tyson. I'VE have thrown down the
gauntlet and will stand by our action"
Boston, Dec. 19.-Special Justice Ed
ward l.. McManus of the Framingham
district court. indicted with others yes
terday on blackmail charges, was re-
leased in $500 bonds today. Bail was
furnished by his wife.
Washington, Dec. 19,-Amendment of
the Volstcad act, increasing the legal
alcohohc content of beverages to per
cent. and removing present restrictions
on issuance of Physicians prescrip-
tons. was proposed in two bills today
by Senator Edge Republican, New Jer-
| sey.
New York. Dec. 19-Mrs. Helen Nc
Clay Dublin today brought suit for sep
| aration on the ground of abandonment
! against Alexander Dublin, a song writ
err, who she cited in her complain com
! posed "A Girl That Men Forget" and
| IF You Could Only Hear Her Side of
the Story
| Hardin, Dec. 19.-(By A. PA mu-
| tiny OF soviet Russian troops. COM
mencing last Monday is reported from
V116iUnctnly s0I.
! The mutinous reds, the reports say, are
| being assisted by partisans of the
whites. or anti-soviet faction in Sibe-
/ ria. The population Of the cities NAM
| cd arc said to have been driven to des-
peration by the ruthless collection of
| food taxes, religious persecution and
the harsh official soviet regime.
Attleboro, Mass. Dec. 19-Leon
Walker. an employee of firm of
silversmiths was killed today when
an underground oil tank which he
and John Glynn of East Providence
were filFng from a tank wagon. ex-
! ploded. VI Walker was hurled % feet
! in the ar and landed 50 feet away
! in a coal pie. His body was badly
| burned. Glynn escaped injury. The
! authorities were unable to account
| for the explosion, which blew out
! one end Of the tank
Indianapolis. Dec. 10 o h n
| Thomas Shaw, a Negro. AGED q, was
| placed on trial in criminal court to-
! day charged with first degree fntIr-
! der in connection with the staying
! of Mrs. Helen Hager Whelchcl at
| tractive young widow. whose body
| was found the morning of Nov. 2S
| on the Big -Four railroad tracks be-
meath an overhead bridge west OF
the city. The trial is expected to
! require three or more days. The
| stanial evidence. All efforts to OBJ
| tain a confession from Shaw proved
unavailing.
Dixon, Ills, Dec. 19-The express
car On Chicago, Burlington & Kuhn
! cy passenger train No. 40. bound
| from Chicago to the Pacific coast,
was robbed near Savanna early to-
| day. The amount of the loot is not
known.
New York. Dec. 19-The American
! people will mark and remember
members of Congress who indicate
! by their action on the Mellon tax
reduction plan that they think more
of political advantage than they do
of national prosperity, Lewis T.
| Pierson, president of the Merchants
at luncheon today. The Mellon
! plan, he said, gave assurance of
| prosperity provided insurance again
st unemployment and was the gov
| ernment's greatest forward step
| since the war.
| Lancaster, N. H., Dec. 1.-Two
medical experts, Doctors Howard w.
! Cleasty and w. II. Leith. defense
witnesses at the trial of Thomas j.
| Sheridan, charged with the murder
! OF Felix Crosteau. testified today
! that a man brooding over his wife's
/ infidelity might become suddenly de-
| ranged and yield to q desire to kill
| The defense has sought to show that
! Mrs. Sheridan had been openly init
mate with Crotcau previous to the
fatal shooting last August. De. Leith
| sad he believed that Sheridans
mind was unbalanced the night of
| the shooting.