Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-18

Exclusive of the money which came
through the alumni university fund,
the gifts and requests were $685.
956.57. while the pledges for Yale's
work in various fields came to about
$3,150.O00 although payment OF some
Of these may not come in the current
fiscal year.
Cleveland, June 17-(AP)-Wil-
liam B. Premier is the new president
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers. He was elevated by the
advisory borad today to fill the va
cancy caused by the death Friday OF
Warren S. Stone, since when he mas
been acting president.
Hanover, N. H., June 17-(AP)--
Professor Eric P. Kelly of the Dart
mouth College English department
will be an instructor at the Universe
ty of Crakow, Poland, for the acad-
emic year 1885, it was announced
here today. He was recommended Tor
the post by the Polish American
Scholarship committee and his selec-
ton was ratified by college officials.
Hong Kong, June 18-(AP)-A
small percentage of the elder stu
dents Of Queens College, the princi-
pal government educational institu-
ton for boys, went on strike this
morning in sympathy with the
Shanghai students agitation. The
strike is attributed to intimidation.
Washington, June 17-(AP)-Hopes
of officials here that the Chinese sit
uation would soon be smoothed out
without further harm to foreigners
have been heightened by the des-
patches from Shanghai that settle
ment of the toruble is near. Word
that ENJOYS from the legations at Pc
king and Shanghai officials had
reached a basis for discussion of a
settlement plan was welcomed here
| where concern has been manifest
over the possibility that American
lives would be endangered in the
student activities.
Philadelphia, June 17-(AP)-The
memory of a young Swedish student
whose desire for an education result
ed in his death from starvation will
be honored today when at the com
mencemen. exercises at the Universe
ty of Pennsylvania a post mortem
I
of Homer Oscar Ackerstrom.
PHILADELPHIA, June 17-(AP)-Ap-
proximately 1900 graduates will re-
ceive degrees and nine honorary de-
| grees will be conferred at the clos
ing of the University Of Pennsylvania
| 1S5th academic year today. The ex-
ercises will be held in two sessions
morning and afternoon. Commence
ment addresses will be delivered by
DIR. Rodney III. True. professor OF
| Botany, and DIR. o. H. B. Pepper, as
sistant professor of medicine, of the
University faculty.
New Bedford, Mass, June led
| ward T. Bannon, former member OF
the Bristol Bar Association was
found guilty of larceny from George
B. Schumm in two counts OF $350o
and $4,000 and sentenced to serve a
term Of from to years in states
prison. Judge Dubuque in the Sn-
perior Court allowed a motion for
stay of execution while exceptions
are being prepared.
Washington, June 17-(AP)-While
employment in manufacturing indus
| tries decreased seven tenths of one
per cent in May from the figure in
April the bureau of Labor Statistics
announced today, there was an in
crease in the aggregate earnings of
those employees of eight tenths OF
one per cent and per capita increase
| in earnings of LIS per cent. The bur-
eau's survey covered 9,201 establish
ments in SO industries and recorded
the earnings of 2,S29,7S3 employees
| who received in wage payments for
one week in May s75,670.1o4.
London, June 17-(AP)-Unem-
ployment in Great Britain which was
announced as totalling 1,247,30 on
June 6, increased a further 43,S94
during the succeeding week, 1t was
| learned today, largely owing to the
closing of more collieries.
Washington, June 17-AP)-Two
nurses, said to be the first women
ever to face a navy general court
martial, faced trial in open court at
the Washington Navy Yard today by
order of Secretary Wilbur on charges
Of bringing liquor into the United
States in violation of the Volstead
Act. The nurses, Miss Catherine G.
| Clancy, attached to the dispensary
at the Navy Department. and Miss
Ruth NJ. Anderson, chief nurse at
tached to the Washington Navy
Yard, arc alleged to have brought
small quantities of liquor from Cuba
| on the naval transport Kittery, which
arrived at Norfolk, May 80.
Toronto, Ont, June 17-(AP)-The
discovery of radium in commercial
| Quantities in Halliburton county, On
tario is claimed by Charles Earle
and E. w. Austin, two prospectors
who have submitted samples Of their
| find to the provincial assay office.
The official finding of the provincial
mining authorities is that it is dis
tinctly radio active" A claim Of
1000 acres has been staked by the
prospectors.
Minneapolis, Mimi, June 17-(AP)
Reversing it's action of last year,
restored the word HELP in the sec
ond article of the Apostles Creed.
Ehe synod last year voted to substi-
tute the word "Hades" for HELL"
on the ground that the former word
is used in the American standard
version of the Bible. which has been
adopted by the synod as it's official
text.
New York, June 17-(AP)--With a
rifle and a whip made of hippopota-
mus hide as her weapons and two
small babies her only companions,
Mrs. Wynant D. Hubbard, Vassar
graduate and wife of Boston nat
uralist, managed camp of more
than 200 African natives and super
vised the care of 600 wild beasts
while her husband was absent In the