Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-20
NEWS BRIEFS

One hundred persons injured in
panic following blowout of fuse in
New York subway train.
Courtmartial orderer for officers of
submarine which went aground at
Nauset Beach last January.
Governors petition for supplemental
provisions to order for dissolution of
International Harvester Company de-
| MED.
New England Telephone & Telegraph.
Company cuts in half usual quarterly
! dividend of 81, saying service rates
inadequate.
Two former employees of reparation
commission sentenced in Paris to i'm
prisonment for theft of confidential
documents, later sent to Harvard II.
brary.
Genevt arms conference decides
against right of earch of ships, for
Havana, May 1s.-(AP)-Genera
! Gerardo Machado y Morales tomorrow
will be inaugurated as fifth president
of the Cuban republic.
Boston, May 19.-(AP)-Judge Emil
| Fuchs of New York, who with A. M.
| Powell of New Haven is principal
owner of the Boston Braves, said to-
| night that the proposed sale of the
Worcester club of the Eastern League
| to the Braves is conditioned on the
| approval of Judge Kenesaw NJ. Lam
dis to the acquisition of the minor
| league club by that of a major league.
| Paris, lIay 19.-(AP)-French
| forces in four groups are now in the
| positions in Morocco assigned to them
by General Count De Chambrun, and
aside from such local actions as are
necessary to prevent the Riffians from
slipping. through between them they
will lawait the next move of Abd-el-
Krinl, leader of the rebel tribesmen.
New York, May 19..-(AP)-Trus-
tees Of the Carnegie Corporation today
voted sums totalling S360,500 to sup
port organizations carrying on expert
ments or demonstrations in the fine
arts including music. This is the first
time the corporation has entered this
field to any great extent.
New York, May 19.-(AP)-Asser-
tions that children from eastern found
ling homes are taken in wholesale
lots" to southern and western states
and legally adopted by farmers for
heavy farm work, were made by wom-
en- delegates to the child welfare con-
ference of America. Mrs. Bennett
Smith of Temple, Tex, who said she
was a lifelong friends of Governor
Miriam A. Ferguson of Texas. asserted
| that fraiplnaHG nf
children over six years old are brought
to Texas, adopted and made TO do
heavy work on the farms.
Geneva, May l9,-(AP}-The inter-
national labor conference opened here
today. Many delegates from the arms
conference attended the inaugural
session of the congress, which imme-
diately paid tribute. to both Europe and
Latin-Anlerica, Dr.. Eduard. Benfs, for
eign minister of Czecho-Slovakia, be-
ing elected president, and Bello Code
edo of Chile vice president for the
governmental groups accredited to the
conference.
Moscow, May 19.-Introducing the
Soviet Union budget for the current
fiscal year, which estimates revenue
and expenditure both at 2,55S00O,-
600 rubles, commissioner of finance
Sokolnikoff today read detailed re-
port of the financial situation. He
emphasized that, despite predictions
made at Genoa and The Hague of
unavoidable financial filure, the I'M
ion of Soviet republics nd succeeded
under conditions of a permanent fin-
ancial blockade in creating order and
selidity infheir finances-a budget
without definite and stable cur
rency, but with unalterable stability
with reference to gold.
Paris, May 19.-(AP) - Jack
Dempseyis new fildom nose made
its first appearance in Partisan ring
tonight when the heavyweight
champion, hand in hand with
Georges Carpenter, bowed to the
public at Gaumont Palace prior to
refereeing a bout between Debeve
and Kelly.
Previously some portions of the
populace were able to get glimpse
of Dempsey and his new nose on his
arrival in Paris with his bride, but
only after they had had a battle
| with the police, who were endeav-
| oring to protect the champion from
the onrush of admirers at the rail-
way station.
Columbus, ohio, May 19.-(AP)-
Militant. fundamentalists today made
it plain they would continue to OPP
pose the liberal element in the
| Presbyterian church, leaders an
nouncing they would attempt to in
duce the Rev. DIR. William l.. Nc
Evan, Pittsburgh, to become can
didate for moderator when the gen.
| eral assembly convenes here Thurs
day. In the event he does not per-
NIT his name to be advanced,
1 spokesman said they would throw
their support to DR.. w. o. Thomp-
son, president of Ohio State Univer-
| sity Admitting that DR.. Thompson
| could not be olassed as an aggressive
| militant, the fundamentalists declar-
ed he is acceptable to them because
he has mot done anything to win
the plaudits and appreciation of the
liberais."a F
Newcastle, n. H., May 19.-(AP)
Fire today destroyed the summer
| home of Major Phillip c. Lockwood
of Manchester, spread to two other
residences and for time threatened
the Sea Breeze Hotel, owned by H,