Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-07-14
NEWS BRIEFS

Boston, July 13-(AP)-Prices were
firm in early trading on the Boston
! market today with fractional trend
to the upside. Eastern Steamship
gained 1-2 and Gillette Razor was UP
I SIS. Edison Electric and Gilchrist
Co, were unchanged from Saturday
| close. American Telephone was off
1-8.
Paris. July 13-(AP)-Mrs. Hugh
c. Wallace, wife of the former Am
erican ambassador to France, was
taken home from the hospital today
and her condition was pronounced
| satisfactory. She was bruised in a
motoring accident Saturday when
her car was struck by an automobile
belonging to the Uruguayan minis
! ter. An X-Ray examination showed
no bones were broken and physicians
said there were no complications.
Hankow July 13-(AP)-Repots
| from Changsha says a strike of cool
| les began there Friday and that a
! general strike is set for tomorrow
Westbury, Mass, July 13-(AP)-
First Lieuts. Charles Hickey OF
Brockton, Mass, and Albert c. Per-
ry of Marlboro, Mass, were killed
today when their plane crashed. The
| plane went into tail spin at q
height estimated at between 700 and
1000 feet. 1t fell in field and in
Estantly burst into flames. An am
bulance and a wrecking crew were
hurried from Mitchell Field and the
| bodies, badly charred, were removed
from the flaming wreckage.
Chicago, July 13.-(AP)-With
hundred fighting men joined hands
| with the full Illinois contingent OF
the Rainbow Division of World War
veterans to celebrate the seventh an
nual reunion of that body here to-
day, twenty states were represented
by delegates.
Greenfield, Mass, July 13.-(AP)
Chief Rheamount, spiritualistic
medium, who was arrested Satur-
| day night at Lake Pleasant, the
! spiritualist summer colony near here
on>a four year old warrant charging
him with assault and battery, ap-
peared today in district court where
| his trial was put over until July
%.
London. July 13.-(AP)-Foreig
Secretary Chamberlain announced
| in the House of Commons today that
! the British government does not
| propose to send troops to Tangier
! Morocco. London dispatches Sat-
urday said the British reply to q
! Spanish suggestion for French
British and Spanish cooperation ir
Morocco would be to express British
| depreciation of any action which
might be interpreted as violating the
| neutrality of the Tangier zone"
Springfield, Mass, July 13-(AP)
Seventy structural steel and
| iron workers who struck July 1 for
a wage increase for SLIP IL to
ST. % an hour, returned to work to-
day without obtaining the increase
| The retuIn was on the advice of In
| ternational union officers. who
| pointed out that a contract with the
employers does not expire until next
May.
Boston July 13-(AP)-Lieuten-
ants Charles H. Hickey and Walter
| H. Perry, killed in an airplane crash
! today at Westbury, N. Y, were mem
L.bers of a party Of New England
Darmy reserve officers who reported
at Mitchell Field last Monday for a
| two weeks tour of duty. There were
ten officers in the group. Lieutenant
! Hickey, whose home was in Brock
ton, was for several years engaged
| in newspaper Work in that city. He
was a member of the 313th pursuit
squadron. Lieut.. Perry resided in
Marlboro. Both officers served at
aviation fields in this country during
| the war.