Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-24

Boston & Maine stockholders meet
to consider reorganization plans.
Ernest Briggs questioned by Brock
ton police concerning disappearance of
Dorothy M. Dudley on September 10.
Naval inquiry board at Lakehurst
told that commander Of Shenandoah
recommended postponement of ILL
fated trip.
Finance Minister Caillaux confident
French debt will be settled within a
few days.
Anthracite operators council asks
public to force miners to arbitrate.
Princess Mafalda Of Italy becomes
bride Of Prince Philip Of Hesse.
Geneva. Sept. 2S.-(AP)-Examina
ton of the non-judriicial phases of the
Mosul dispute between Great Britain
and Turkey will be resumed at Paris
within three weeks of q month by the
league councils committee Of three.
In the meantime the council will meet
tomorrow afternoon to deal with the
British charges that the Turks are de.
porting Christians. The world court
will take under advisement and decide
upon the judicial questions.
Atlantic City, N. j., Sept. 23.-(AP)
Tho peace" commission Of the
Presbyterian church spent an entire
day today in secret session discussing
the procedure under which It will work
to carry out the general assembly's
instructions to STUDY the spiritual
condition Of our church and causes
making for unrest" A brief official
statement was issued saying that a
committee had been named to study
plans of committee organization and
procedure.
Nashua, N. H, Sept. 23.-(AP)-
When large timber set into the
ground in front of the public library
to which was fastened one of the 400
foot cables for the big derrick used in
the construction of the Main street
bridge. broke this morning, the der
rick mast crashed to the ground. Per-
sons crossing the bridge and workmen
miraculously escaped death or injury.
Mayor q. D. Sargent, passing in front
Of the Baptist church, was directly in
the danger zone.
Atlantic City. N. J., Sept. 23.-(AP)
The peace" commission Of the
Presbyterian church in the United
States assembled again behind closed
doors today to wrestle with the many
problems facing the church, especially
the question of doctrinal differences
between fundamentahsts and modern
lists. 1t was indicated that the results
of the commissions labors- will not be
made public unil the next general as
sembly Of the church, to be held at
Baltimore in 1926.
Quebec, Sept. 23.-(AP)-The great
er part of tho village of st. Camille.
Bellechasse county, lay in ruins to-
day-the result of a fire which swept
the place last night, whipped by high
winds. Volunteer flremen found them
selves almost helpless as the flames
spread from building to building, and
before the fire Yves brought under con-
troll the parish church, the offices Of
La Banque Canadienne Rationale, six
store and six private residences had
been destroyed.
London. Sept. 23.-(AP)-The per-
sistent outcry os section of the press
and the public for stringent mea sures
against communists and other red"
propagandists aud agitators who alleg-
edly have long been stirring up unrest
among the British workers and trying
to SOW a mutinous spirit in the army
and navy, seems to have borne fruit
and induced the government to take
steps in the direction demanded.
Butte, Mont, Sept. 23.-(AP)-The
Elks lodge of Butte has been denied
permission by the trustees to solicit
funds among school children here to
be used in preserving the frigate Con-
stitution of naval fame. The solicit
tation plan is said to have been en-
dorsed by Secretary Of the Navy Will
bur.
Bremen. Germany, Sept. 23-(AP)
The American steamer George
Washington, after having gone
aground today on Mellum fat In the
river Weser, was relocated witnou.
damage this afternoon, and continued
on her way to New York whittier she
was bound from BremerhaVen.
Boston, Sept. 23-(AP)-The exec
utive committee Of the Massachusetts,
Federation of Churches announced
today that it had referred to the com,
mittee on moral welfare for carelui
consideration the recently puonshea
report on prohibition by the research
department Of the Federal CouncN OF
Churches. "The Massachusetts, Fed
Grafton feels" said an executive com,
mittee statement, shat this unbiased
attempt to discover and state facts
should arouse our churches to study
the situation in their own localities
and to redouble their efforts in tenn
perance education and support OF
state and nation enforcement.
Boston, Sept. 23-(AP)-A record
in drydocking great ships was estab-
lished today in the belief OF navy
men, when the big American steamer
Leviathan was placed in drydock IN
80 minutes. Sixteen tugs and 250
men performed the feat. The liner Is
to remain here a week for overhaul
ing and painting.
Haverhin, Mass, Sept. 23-(AP)-
Chairman Edwin Newdick of the
Haverhill Shoe Board. today denied
the request Of the Haverhill Shoe
Association for
general wage reduction of 20 to So
per cent. Chairman Newdick. COM
menting on his decision, declared
that the greatest improvement IN
business noted for several years In
the local industry has occurred dur
ing the fall season and that drastic
changes in wages are not warranted.
Worcester. Mass. Sept. 23-(AP)
IT. T. Ellis, publisher Of the Tele-
gram Gazette. today bought the W.
c. T. S. radio station, which Will be
transferred to his newspaper plant.
. New London. Conn.,, Sept. 23-