Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-26


ed to death today between Hartman
and Tuxedo Park, N. Y. The truck
apparently hit a rut in the road and
plunged 70 feet down into creek
where the tank exploded. The two
men were imprisoned in the cab.
Hudson. Oct. 24-(AP)-Armed
with scrubbing and paint brushes.
pals OF water, kalsomine and paint,
five members of the high school
fotball squad set to work this morn
ing cleaning the roof, chimney, walls,
doors and sidewalk of the high school
building. This is the form of punish
ment meted out by Judge Fred E.
Morris to the students who were
caught painting the figures 1927" all
| over the school building, inside and
out, two weeks ago during a flag
rush.
africa, Chile. Oct. 24-(AP)-The
Tacna- africa plebiscitary commission
will meet again Monday, when it is
expected to reach a final decision on
the guarantees question and on the
powers of the commission.
Berlin, Oct. 24-(AP)-Adoption
by the German nationalist party's
governing board, allegedly under
pressure from provincial Orchards"
of a resolution characterizing the
Locarno security agreement as I'M
acceptable has thrown the party
leaders into confusion. ~,
Tampa, Fla, Oct. 24.-(AP)-A. W.
Leonard of Seattle, head of the Stone
& Webster power and traction inter-
ests in the northwest, was notified by
wire today that six safety deposit
boxes in his Seattle Office had been
looted of valuables said to be worth
$4,000. Leonard said the boxes con-
tanned cash, securities and some dia-
| monds.
Athol, Oct. 24-As the result Of a
| fox hunt in the Doe Valley district
with his favorite dog, Peggy, Fred
Britt. 11s Wilder street, is exhibiting
| bobcat tipping the scales at IS
pounds. The animal, the second that
Britt thas captured this year, is one
of the largest reported to have been
| Killed in this region for long time.
Omaha, Neb., Oct. 24.-(AP)-Resig-
nation of Carl F. Egge, general super
| intendene of the air mail service, and
! appointment of S. A. Cisler, general
| superintendent of the Omaha division
of the railway mail service, to succeed
him, was announced here today.
Plymouth, Oct. 24.-Judge John p.
| Valley, in district court here today,
held Arthur King of Duxbury in $10.-
| 900 bail for the grand jury on charge
of assault with intent to rob. In de-
! fault of bonds King was committed to
| Jail. The charge grew out of brutal
attack made a few nights ago on a
| 7o-year-old resident Of Duxbury, and
in the solution of which state police
| assisted:
Belfast, Oct. 24.-(AP)-Deportat
! from the United States of 1rishmen
| who have suffered mental breakdown
! was cited today as one reason for a
large increase in lunacy in Ireland by
sloe Insane Asylum, testifying before
commission in County Galway.
New York, Oct. 24.-(AP)-Gloria
Swanson was fined $3.50 by Referee
Marsh in federal court today when chs
failed to appear as a witness in the
separation suit brought by Janet
Beecher, actress, against her husband,
DIR. Richard H. Hoffman. Miss Swan
son had been subpoenaed to appear
but sailed for Europe. She will be
called upon to pay the $3.50 when she
returns and also to present salts
factory explanation of her absence.
Concord. n. H, Oct. 24.-Fire believ-
ed to have started from an oven COM
pletely destroyed this afternoon the
plant of the New England Bakery Com
pany on North Pembroke road in the
Plains district of the city. The loss
is estimated at $4,000, covering the
buildings, baking machinery and 20
tons of -four
Denver. Oct 24.-(AP)-Courtland
S. Dimes, Denver clubman, shot on New
Years Day, 1924, while entertaining
Mabel Normand and Edna Purviance,
movie actresses, in Los angeles, an
nounced today he would be married
tomorrow to Miss Helen Gibson of
Denver. She is a daughter of Mrs. w.
M, Gibson. H. n. Greer, Miss Nor
mand's chauffeur, was tried for the
shooting of Dimes but was acquitted.
Dimes is the son of Tyson S. Dimes,
wealthy Denver attorney.
Washington, Oct. 24.-(AP)-
American parents were called upon
by President Coolidge today to take
a firmer hand in controlling from the
home the youth of the Nation. Ad-
dressing the And international con-
vention of the Young Mems Christ
ian Associations of the United States
and Canada, the President declared
the need for parental action through
the home is paramount at this time
when there are too many indica-
lions that the functions of parent
hood are breaking down."
Brattleboro, VT, Oct. 24.-In their
efforts to locate relatives of Serene
Peterson, 81, who fell dead yester-
day lust after entering an apartment
in the Barber building to make a
call. the town officials learned today
that Peterson obtained a divorce
Aug. 26. in Mobile, Ala, but that his
wife. who lives in Lowell, Mass, did
not know she was divorced. The
wife telephoDed today that as she
had two children to look after she
would be unable to attend the fu-
neral.
Iunenburg, VT, Oct. 24.-H. K.
phelps. 46, committed suicide late
Yesterday by hanging himself to a
beam with a rope in the barn. The
cause was given as i'll health. He IS
survived by his wife and one son.
Concord. N. H., Oct. o4.-The
state of New Hampshire will collect
This wear as it's tax on interest and
dividends received by its citizens. for
the wear 1924 the sum of S436, 79J.-
(: according to q statement made
today by John G. Marston, director