Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-06-09

Washington, June S-(AP)-At-
torney General Sargent will leave
here tomorrow night to attend the
funeral Wednesday at Wells River,
W., of Harvey Z. Goodell. his special
assistant and secretary. who died
here Saturday night.
Berlin, June S-(AP)-An official
denial was made today of remarks
attributed to President Won linden
burg by publications abroad relative
| to the allied disarmament.U 1t is de-
clared that Won Hindenburg made no
| statement regarding the military
| clauses of the allied disarmament
| note or that changes could easily be
| made.
/ London, June S-(AP)--A Shang-
hal dispatch to the Daily Mail says
! that the Chinese Seamen's Union,
| which Is the most important union
| in that city has announced it's inten-
tion of joining the strike, but only
small number of seamen are out as
yet. The agitations are becoming
! increasingly anti British and anti
Japanese; other foreigners are
scarcely ever mentioned.
| Nanaimo. B. c., June 8-(AP)-
Chinese were called into mainten-
ance service today in the mines of
| the Western Fuel Corporation,
whose workers to the number of 1900
went on strike last week. The COM
pany kept up steam and ran loco
motives despite the tieup of other
activities.
| Honolulu, T. H, June s.-(AP)-Ru-
mors that the fleet command hopes to
| establish at Lahaina roadstead a sec
| ondary base for extensive maneuvers
gained strength today after visit by
Admiral Coontz, member of his staff
and Governor Harrington of the Ha-
waiian Islands aboard the cruiser Mar
blehead to the island of Maui.
Bennington, VT, June S.-David
Hemminway, lumbcrman, died last
night at Putnam Memorial Hospital OF
fractured skull sustained when he
was thrown from the sidecar of mo-
torcycle that crashed into a wagon on
the road between Bennington and
| Woodford. Samuel Asbil, driver of
! the motorcycle, is at the same institu-
tion with compound fracture of the
leg. and Charles Mallory, driving the
single rig into which the motorcycle
crashed, has two broken ribs.
Port Bou, Spain, June S.-(AP)-
| Travellers from Barcelona arriving at
this village on the Mediterranean just
south of the French frontier, say that
not a hint of the recent bomb plots
against King Alfonso has been allowed
to be published in the Spanish press.
The first news leaked out when the
Id. Id ,.r.sk
museum at Barcelona where the large
bomb found at railway tunnel en-
trance near Garrif has been placed on
exhibition. The internal machince.
| which weighed more than so pounds,
was filled with high explosives, but
these were removed before the king
| made his examination. A local re-
porter telephone to Madrid the news
| of King Alfonso's visit to the museum,
but officials who administer the Span
ish censorship forbade its publication.
Baton Rouge La, June s.-With
members of the student body under
| close surveillance, police today renew
ed their search for the slayer of Pro-
| fessor Oscar B. Turner, instructor in
agronomy at Louisiana State Upiversi-
ty. Prof. Turner was found dying in
| In6 aRTOHOiIly sSSNNiNAs
| numerous gashes on the head, fact and
throat, evidently inflicted with
heavy blood-stained fire axe which was
lying nearby.
Brockton, Mass, June s-Three
youths. Roger o. Carlson, George ii.
Burgeson and John w. Coughlin, were
held today in $4,000 each for hearing
| TUESDAY on a charge of highway rob
berry, after an all-light search, follow
ing the hold-up of George W. n.
Joyce, a milkman of East Bridgewa-
ter. Joyce, ~ years old, was brutaiiy
beaten and robbed of $40 in cash. The
highwaymen overlooked $500 he car
ried in another pocket. He identified
the three youths as those who robbed
him.
San Antonio, Tex, June S.-(AP)
Lieut.. Z. J.. Searle, Jr., Brocksfield
instructor who recently came here
from Manila, P. l., was killed and
Flying Cadet w. Land, suffered a
broken arm, cuts about face and
body injuries when a plane plunged
down today. Witnesses said the
plane went into a nose dive at an
altitude of about 500 feet.
Washington, June Sat the re-
quest of the State Department, Sec.
Wilbur has compiled list showing
what American, British, french.
Italian and Japanese naval forces
are within short sailing distance OF
the centers of disturbance in China.
Apparently the State Department
wanted the data for Information
purposes only but the request was
| wit IN
which Developments in China are be-
ing watched in Washington.
Des Moines, Ia, June S.-(AP)-
DR.. Carl F. Wettstone, president of
Dubuque University, who recently
abolished intercollege athletics at
that institution, told church aud
/ ience Yesterday that schools must
| begin emphasizing brain instead of
MUSCLE if they are to accomplish the
purpose for which they were found
DR.. Wettstone, graduate of Du-
buque University who played foot
ball for four years, avowed that he
1 hoped to see the day come when
young men engaged in sports not for
pay but for the exercise.
Peru. Indiana, June 8-(AP)-Sey-
eral section hands were reported 10
have been crushed to death today
when an eastbound Chesapeake II
| Ohio freight train overturned near
Converse, Ind Ambulances were
sent to bring the dead and injured
here. First reports were that Is men
had been crushed by the toppling
train. The section men had been re-
pairing the track and had retired
into ditch at the side of the track
while the train was passing.