Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-17

Vallejo. Cal. while on his way to
family in Maine.
Washington. Feb. 16-The house to-
day passed the senate bill which
would refer the claim of Rhode Is
land for expenses incurred during the
Spanish American war to the court
OF claims for adjudication. The
claims OF the state total s17,632.52 for
pay to its soldiers.
Washington, Feb. 1G.-Nrore expert
opinion in the aircraft controversy
was sought by the House aircraft
committee on resuming hearings to-
day with definite line of inuuir. !,
Charted for the week. TO Obtain,
further light on the question of the
effectiveness of anti-aircraft guns. as
TO which sharply differing testimony
has been presented, the committee
called as witness Lieut.. Command
err Badgar. of the Naval ordinance
bureau. Any OTHER information of
Value from this source. particularly
as to DEVELOPMENTS of anti-aircraft
weapons, also was sought
Leghorn. Italy, Feb. 16.-The
police yesterday arrested E;rneste
Gus bolshevik agent. He was foua .
10 be in possession of a drawing ac-
count of $1,000 lire on the Bank of
Bologna and also a check for 10000
Swiss gold francs. issued at Berne.
This is taken by the authorities as
confirming information received
from several sources that subver-
sives operating in Italy are subsid-
lied from abroad,
Palm Beach. Fla, Feb. &C.
Frederick w. Upham, of Chicago.
who directed the financial destinies
Of the Republican party for two de-
cades, died at his Palm Beach win.
ter home Sunday after q cerebral
stroke suffered four days previous
ly. He was sixty four years old. Flu
neral services will be held In Chi
cago, probably Friday, but the bur-
iai, it was reported, would be in
Racine, Wis. Mr.. Upham's boyhood
home.
Toledo, Ohio, Feb. 1G.-Charles
Wade, Is, a cross word puzzle fan
refused to retire last night until he
had completed the solution of a
crossword puzzle. When the hour
became so late that his wife became
alarmed about him. she went to see
whyt he had not come to bed. She
found him dead IN his chair. The
crossword puzzle lay on table in
front of him, it's solution complete.
Heart failure is said to have caused
his death.
Paris, Feb. 16.-Princess Vlora of
Albania. nee Helen Kelly and for
merly the wife of Frank j. Gould,
lost q black pearl valued at 30O,OOO
francs from a ring last evenin
whrile dancing in restaurant in the
Montmartre. The Princess was din
ing with George Carpenter and the
bobsleigh champion LANDER. and
discovered her loss upon returning
to their table after a dance. Immed-
lately the champions and nearly
millionaires, dukes, marquises,
counts, walters aud musicians went
down on their hands and knees and
hunted high and low, but to no
avail.
Genoa, Feb. 1G---The Giornale saws
a new serial line from Genoa 10
Barcelona, Spain, IL soon to b, start
cd. plans covering the route thrice
weekly at first, the service later be-
ing made daily. The planes will be
equipped with passenger cabins, with
seats for ten persons. The journey
will consume but five hours, as COM
rared with SO by the fastest train.
London, Feb. 16.-The Daily Mail
saws that Lord Balfour. as a men,
Der of the imperial defense commit
tee. has written an ad interim report
upon the conclusions of the sub.
committee which was especially
charged with exaT lining the Geneva,
agreement on arbitration ana dis
armament. This report. the paper
understands, ranks with Balfour's
famous memorandum on inter-allie1
,iebts, written in 1922, which form
ed the basis Of the recent British
note to France.
washington, FEB. 16.-With the
Senate inaugurating regular night
SESSIONS. the GSth Congress set is