Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-26
NEWS BRIEFS

New York-SeymOur L. Cromwell,
president of the New York stock ex-
change, yesterday issued statement
declining to make public names Of
officials whom he said had threatened
adverse legislation against the ex-
change unless it met their demands.
Tokio-(By A. PA storm which
has been raging for over So hours
has done considerable damage, espec-
tally Monday night when it struck
many temporary shacks in which
Toxic and Yokohama refugees had
found shelter.
Seattle, Wash.-General N. Ryd-
zewsky, once in the Russian cars
imperial guard, is grinding scissors
and knives in Seattle for a living
and is saving some money at t. He
was a member of commission that
Admiral Kolchak set up in Vladivos-
tok.
New York. when the tomb OF
King Tutenkhamun is re-opened
this fall, Walter Hauser of the
Egyptian department of the Met
ropolitan Museum of Art, will be
present in an official capacity. Mr..
Hauser sailed yesterday on the Ber-
engaria.
Banff, Alberta, His palate crav-
ing the royal flapjacks Of the army
cook at f. P. ranch, Lord Renfrew.
the Prince of Wales, incognito left
yesterday for High River, after his
holiday which began Friday with a
round of golf and ended with a jazz
dance program and a dip in the no.
tel pool.
New York-District Attorney Ban
ton late Tuesday issued a grand jury
subpoena to bring Seymour L. Crom-
well, president of the New York
Stock Exchange, to his office We'd
nesday morning, when Mr. Crom-
well will be asked to name the pub
lie officials he accused Monday of
threatening adverse legislation
against the exchange unless their
demands were met. Mr.. Cromwell
had issued a statement declining to
make public the names of the off,
Gals.
Chicago-John Lewis Cochran, IS
years old, a prominent real estate
broker, jumped from a seventh floor
window of Lake Shore Drive
apartment hotel and was killed yes
terday. He had been in Ill health
for year.
Berlin (By A. PIT was officially
announced yesterday afternoon that
the premiers of the German federat-
ed states at their conference with
Chancellor Stresemann today unani-
mously agreed to abandonment Of
the passive resistance program. but
at the same time expressed deter
mination firmly to safeguard the
unity of the country.
London-A Reuter- dispatch from
Riga yesterday says it is rumored
there that masses Of insurrectionary
peasants are surrounding Moscow and
Petrograd. There is no confirmation
of these rumors from any other quar-
ter.
Observation-Disclosures Of freight
rates on wheat and -four destined for
export and increase Of the present tar
if on wheat were considered by Presi-
dent Coolidge and his cabinet yester-
day as possible remedies for the ills
of the wheat farmer of the northwest.
New York;. T. Stotesbury of j. p.
Morgan & Co. returning yesterday on
the Leviathan after seven months in
Europe said he had been approached
by government officials of IA countries
in regard to loans. He said he declined
to discuss any definite proposals.
Washington-Suggest of the
Federal Coal Commission for enact
ment of legislation to deal with the
nations fuel problem will be recon-
mended to Congress by President Cool
idge.
Annoy China-(By A. P.)-Japan-
csc sailors and marines, who landed