Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-05-02

WHeTe ne VIII DISCUSS the proposal
with the president tomorrow.
Mr.. Butler refused to discuss the
presidents announcement, saying he
would make no statement until he
had conferred with Mr.. Coolidge.
NEWS BRIEFS 2
Prime Minister Macdonald meets
Premier Theunis and Paul Hymas of
Belgium tomorrow Friday1. at
which time Belgian emissaries will be
told that Great Britain desires to put
Dawes plan into effect by taking it
out of hands of reparations commits
sion and dealing directly with Ger
many, says London dispatch.
Reports OF additional deaths from
tornadoes in South Carolina swell
life toll to 10S as result of storms in
/ southeastern states.
Throngs Of men and women gather
around church of st. Vincent Ferrer.
New York, during funeral services for
Madame Eleonora Duse. famous ira
! gedienne, prior to removal Of remains
to Italy.
Announcement by Tex Rickard at
New York that he had matched Jack
/ Dempsey and Harry Wills for worlds
championship in September is fol-
lowed dispatch from Los Angeles ac-
! crediting Jack Kearns, Dempsey's
manager, with declaring this is news
to me-
A campaign to fight for an increase
of tariff on cotton goods voted at
semi annual meeting of National AS
| ISOLATION of cotton manufacturers in
| Boston.
Petition to congress to permit no
modification of prohibition amend
ment passed unanimously by general
conference of Methodist Episcopal
Church at meeting in Springfield,
Mass.
| Two priests, accompanied by sew
eral Catholics while crossing frontier
of French concession of kwangchow
Wan, attacked by bandits, says dis
patch from Hong Kong.
Georges Carpenter. French fighter,
knocks out Arthur Townley Of Eng
land in second round of bout in vi
emma.
|
county Galway, attacked and wreck
ed after preliminary fusillade, says
dispatch from Belfast.
Over 5000 ironworkers strike in
New York demanding closing shop
and wage increase.
Seward, Alaska, May 1.-Snowslides
| struck the Alaska Railway Sunday,
! Monday and Tuesday at intervals along
the ia miles of track across the neck
of the kenai peninsula between here
and Anchorage. Telegraph and tele-
phone lines were paralyzed. One slide
1900 feet long was reported. Two
bridges were carried away.
New York. May married wom-
en- working in factories were charac-
terized as snags in industrial pro-
gress by 500 unwed factory girls.
members of the National Industrial
Assembly of the Y. w. c. A.. in a re-
port made today to the eighth an
nua Nconvention of the Young Wom-
ems Christian Association.
Yuma, Ariz., May IA little cara
van of eastbound motor tourists
huddled in the lee. of hill across the
Colorado river from here today. hem
med in on three sides by indignant
| Indians and confronted on the fourth
by Arizona National Guardsmen. The
Indians want the tourists off their
reservation. which is California soil
and the guardsmen are determined to
prevent the travellers from violating
the foot and mouth blockade by
! Arizona.
Belfast. May 1-Apparently in fear
OF n Free raid. the Irish Republicans
in the county Monaghan salient fac
ing county Fermanagh where they
are in considerable strength. dumped
their arms and explosives in field
last night and destroyed them. The
explosions We're heard eight miles
away. The border guards have since
been strengthened.
Havana. May 1.-Suspension of
outdoor meetings and May day par
AIDES by the labor element and au-
thorization by President Zayas of the
purchase of 100000 worth of arms
and ammunition for the war depart
ment marked the governments
steps today in connection with the
! outbreak of soldiers and civilians in
Santa Clara Province.
! Washington. May 1.-Officials high
| in the Washington government. bas-
ing their opinions primarily on re-
ports from Ambassador Crowder be-
lieve the Zayas government in Cuba
soon will crush the revolt that has
been launched against it.
/ Indianapolis. May Robert Lam
| crit Lambert. Federal prisoner in the
| custody of officers, who are taking
| former Governor McCray of In
diana to the Atlanta Penitentiary
escaped today near Rathburn. Tenn.
according to a dispatch to the In
| dianapolis News.
New York. May IAN all night
| search of the new German liner Co
| lumbus which locked in Brooklyn last
night after her maiden voyage from
Brennan failed to disclose Grover
Cleveland Bergdoll. draft dodger. who
| was reported to have slipped aboard
the vessel at the German port to re-
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