Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-17

three cents per gallon in the price of
motor gasoline was announced to-
day by the Gulf Refining Company to
take effect tomorrow. The cut in
! Massachusetts is three cents and two
cents in the other New England
states. The gasoline price in this
state is thus reduced to 10 IL cents
per gallon wholesale and 10 cents at
/ filling stations and in the rest of New
England to IL IL and 10 cents re-
! spectively.
Washington. Oct. 16-Plans for a
| nation wide observance of the an
| niversary of the birth of Warren G..
Harding in Marion, Ohio, on Nov. Q,
| having been abandoned, President
! Coolidge has decided against making
a trip TO Marion to participate in
Memorial services on that date. The
president has been informed that
only services of local and simple
nature are to be held.
New York, Oct. 1T. S. Attorney
Haywood admitted today that an in
Vesugatlon into the alleged scarcity
and high price of anthracite coal in
his district was under way and that
II facts warranted, the informat ton
would be presented 10 the federal
grand jury. His assistants, he said,
today Intercepted one of the large
anthracite coal dealers here and other
dealers would be examined tomorrow.
Oklahoma City, Oct. 16-(By A. P.)
A resolution providing for investi-
CATION OF every member Of the lower
house of the Oklahoma legislature to
determine whether he is a member of
the Ku klux Khan and authorizing
the summary expulsion of all mem
bers found to be klansmen, probably
will come up for considera ton We'd
neSday. .-
Boston. Oct 16-Lieut Governor
Fulleri acting governor in the alb
sence of Gov. Cox from the state.
today issued proclamation suspend
ing until further notice the hunting
season which was due to open on Oct.
20 Danger of forest fires because
OF the prolonged drouth was the rea-
son given.
Pfttsburg, Oct. 16-Fred T. Cole
man, salesman of Natick, Mass.
leaped from a fifth floor window in n
downtown hotel here today. He died
instantly. The coroner listed the case
as suicide. Coleman was employed
by the FenWay Shoe Manufacturing
company of Roslindale. Mass His
business address was Boston.
dallas, Tex, Oct. 16-Many streams
"A IeHas are at flood stages after al
MOST weeks unceasing rain. The
property loss is expected to be heavy
Railroad traffic has been DELAYED he
cause of washouts. telegram and
teiephone service in some areas is I,
ue1noralized. Most affected is the
territory reaching from the head
waters OF the Red river to Ringgold. !
iexr 4OO miles. Many bridges have
peeh washed out in that section.
Lynn. Mass. Oct. ,16-Charles H. |
Mansneld, for 81 years a newspaper
man, .died here last night at the age
OF 81. He was a veteran of the Civil |
war and former member of the |
massachusetts, house of representa- |
uves from the 18th Essex district
Ontii week before his death he was |
On the staff Of the Lynn Item.
LONDON. Oct. 16.-The question of 4
pootiegging on the American coast I
VIII shortly come before a COMMITTEES !
y. tne imperial difference on which
represent Canada. The problem
arises from the United States gov
ernments request that it be permit
ted to have the. right to- search
British vessels within a 70 mile limit |
instead of the present three mile I
unit along the shores of the Unit
ed States
New York. Oct. 16.-The Canadian
Royal Grain Inquiry commission
which has been here for several
days investigating charges that high
grade Dominion wheat was being
adulterated with low grade Ameri-
can wheat prior to export, has been
unable to find a trace of evidence TO
sui stantiate the charges, it was Of
Totally reported today by a member
OF the commissions party.
New York. Oct. 16.-Wayne B.
wheeler. general counsel of the Anti
Saloon League of America. who ar
rived here today from Washington, j.
declared in q statement that Gov