Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-24
NEWS BRIEFS

ID NEWS BRIEFS
Roxie Stinson testifies about al
legged irregularities in alien proper
ty custodians Office.
Greek troops gain detectives and
end military operations in Bulgaria.
League Of Nations council to consider
dispute.
Judge Gary predicts era Of great
prosperity for steel industry.
State trooper kills rum runner
while capturing three rum expedi-
tons single handed in Connecticut.
Great Britain's super mystery"
plane wrecked in crash near Balti-
more. s -. ..s sl s
Navy divers recover two more
bodies while salvaging submarine
S-51.
caillaux fails TO present new
net.
Cincinnati, Oct. 3S-(kP) Rabbi
Louis Wolsey, Philadelphia, was
elected president Of the central con-
ference Of American rabbis here
today
Lonsdale, r l.. Oct. z3-(AP)-
Ernest Benoit Of Pawtucket died to-
night from his injuries and five other
workmen received a severe shaking
when a temporary elevator at the
Cistercian Monastery Of Our Lady OF
the Valley here collapsed today, drop
ping the men IS feet to the ground.
The workmen were engaged in paint
ing new chapel.
Washington, Oct. % (AP) - The
United States fleet, upon its return To
the west coast from its cruise to
Australia and New Zealand, was de-
clared in the report of Rear Admiral
Robert e. Coontz, who commanded
the expedition, to have been "fit to
repeat the cruise upon "a hours
notice." The report, made public
tonight at the navy department, de-
clared that during the cruise, the
fleet was at all times 'in the position
to move Immediately, and, under such
circumstances, would have subsisted
itself in it's normal manner for per-
iods of from one to two months"
Noblesville, Ind, Oct. 23-(AP)-
After a ten days unsuccessful effort
to obtain q jury to try D. c. Steph-
enson, Earl Klinck and Earl Gentry
on a murder charge in Hamilton cir
cult court, Judge William Sparks to-
day adjourned court until Monday.
Stephenson, formerly grand dragon
Of the Ku Klux Khan in Indiana, and
the two men who were his body
guards are charged with being re-
sponsible for the death of Miss
Madge Oberholtzer, Indianapolis girl.
Mineolo, N. Y, Oct. 23-(AP)-A
sealed verdict was returned in su-
preme court today by the jury in the
trial of the 100000 suit for the al
ienation of affections brought by
Mrs. Katherine M. Frey against Miss
nounced that the verdict would be
opened Monday morning at 10
o'clock.
New York, Oct. 20 - (AP) - The
promise of Locarno is not in the
language of the treaties but in the
disposition to make them, former
Secretary of State Charles Evans
Hughes said tonight at a dinner or
the Pilgrims in honor of Sir Robert
Horne, former chancellor of the eX-
chequer, who was a member of the
British delegation to the recent in
terparliamentary congress. Other
speakers at the dinner were Elihu
Root and Chauncey M. Depew.
Although a ma jority of the members
were in favor Of a resolution disap-
proving of the publication of income
tax returns as a harmful act. a both
ersome inquiry and as against the
proper conduct of business, the 18th
annual conference of the New Eng
land State Tax Officials Association
killed the measure late today be-
cause of the lack of unanimous ap-
proval. ',..-,,.
Providence, r. l., Oct. 23-(AP)--
The time for filing special claims in
the cases of defendants indicted in
the Mackinac disaster was extended
today to Monday, October 26. The
defendants are George w. McVey
and John A. Grant, captain and en-
gineer of the steamer, and George j.
Kelley, manager OF the bldCkSloiie
Transportation Company. McVey
and Grant are charged with man
slaughter and Kelly with being an
accessory before the fact, as result
Of the boiler explosion which took a
toll of SO lives.
Boston, Oct. 23-(AP)-Miss Brida
Canary, a servant in the home OF
Mrs. Florence Ward in the Brighton
district, committed suicide tonight
after threatening her mistress with
the revolver when she attempted to
interfere. Mrs. Ward told the police
she believed the girl had been de-
spondent over her inability to buy
fashionable winter clothing and the
fact that her family at New Aber-
deem, N. S., was unable to help her.
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