Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-13


chusetts. Funeral arrangements
will be announced later.
NEWS BRIEFS
Honolulu, May II (AP)-Maj. Gen
William r. Smith, commandant of
Schofield Barracks, after reviewing
the courtmartial proceedings against
Corporal Walter Trumbull and Pri-
vate Paul Crouch. convicted of at
tempting to organize q revolutionary
communist league among the soldiers
stationed at the backs, reduced the
sentences of the court to three years
and one year, respectively. Trum-
bull was sentenced by courtmartial
to SO and Crouch to 26 years impris-
onment. The cases will be referred
to the judge advocate general, Wash
ington. :
Houston, Tex, May 12.-(AP)-
Aviation virtually Is stified, Senator
Hiram Bingham today told The AS
ISOLATED Advertising Clubs of the
world, because the public does not
appreciate the Importance of flying
and the government fails to provide
definite support of it. Senator Bing-
ham advocated establishing a bur-
eau of air navigation in the Depart
ment of Commerce to do for aviation
what We constantly are doing for
ocean navigation"
Vienna, May 12-"Smoke carefully
holding the cigarette at arms length
between puffs." is the warning is
sued by the tobacco monopoly auth
critics in consequence of the re-
cent series of minor explosions which
have injured about a dozen persons
who were smoking government ade
cigarettes. The police are complete
ly mystified as to who is loading
the tobacco. Some smokers are TAX
ing to foreign cigarettes, while 9TH
ers are rolling their own"
Washington, May IL (AP)-A grand
jury converting here today to heal
witnesses in the case arising from
the naval leases had before it G
warning from Justice +. L. Siddons
of district supreme court that pres
ence in the courtroom of unauthor-
lied persons is liable to result in the
squashing of indictments returned
by the jury. The justice referred tc
the recent voiding of criminal in
dictments against Albert B. Fall. the
former secretary of the interior;
Harry F. Sinclair and Edward L. Do
heny and his son. oil magnates.
Washington, May IL (AP)-The
SUI ject of Frances war debt to Am,
erica having been removed through
indications on both sides of the At
hntic that negotiations for its settle
ment are in progress. appears to have
reached the point where the inter
. ested parties are expecting an open
ing move on which to base definite
action.
New Orleans, May IL (AP)-Rif
fed with bullet holes and pierced II
two places by cannonballs the Civi
War standard of the Tenth Lou
isiana Regiment is home after more
than so years In the hands of Its
captors, the 18th Connecticut Regi-
ment. With it came a clasping o.
hands of survivors of the blood,
| field of Coldwater, where on June 13
1864, the ragged emblem of Louisi.
ana's Tigers" the Tenth, was taker
|, by Lieut.. Peter Amber. Ambler's
cousin, Ira II. Wildman, Danbury
Conn, painter returned to Captain
James Dinkins, who headed a GROUP
of Confederate veterans.
Boston, May 1.-THE early arrest
of four or five men employed OF
Shifting engines in the South Station
railroad yards was predicted at police
headquarters today in connection
with theft of dresses and fur coats
valued up to $4,000, while they were
enveloped by "steam screens" thrown
out by locomotives. Three men were
taken into custody last night as sus-
picious characters, two employed by
the New York, New Haven & Hart
ford Railroad and the third by the
American Railway Express Company
from which the thefts were made.
Washington. May IL (AP) - Sup
port of the American delegation at
Geneva for the British proposal to
eliminate warships and airplanes
from control in arms, If such con-
troll is established is regarded here
as a move to facilitate placing the
question before the whole conference
at a later date. Approval of the
PROPOSAL by the military, naval and
air committee of the international
conference will be considered by the
full membership but it is considered
doubtful in Geneva that the deci-
sion will be changed inasmuch as all
the states are represented on the
committee.
New York, May 1o-President
Coolidge smokes 10-cent cheroots,
,preferring them to expensive cigars.
;Charles u. Hilles. a close friend of
the president, made the disclosure
last night at meeting of the Ohio
Society. Mr.. Hilles relates that a
friend of the president, noting the
cheroots, had sent him a box of ex-
pensive cigars. Two weeks later the
friend called at the White House
and offered a cigar, observed that the
box was the same as he had present
led to the president and only three
cigars were out of it.
Paris, May 12-(AP)-The French.
British, Italian and Belgian govern
ments have decided to omit the usu-
al formal congratulations to a newly
elected chief of state in the case of
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg, Ger
many's president elct, in view of the
fact that his name is still on the list
or those charged with war crimes.
The four powers, it is stated, will
simply forward a brief acknowledge
ment when notified of his assumption
of the presidency.