Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-21
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Cambridge, Mass. April 20-(P)-
Physicians at the City hospital are
puzzling today over the case OF
Thomas G. Painter. Painter return
ed home yesterday to find he had
forgotten the keys to his house. He
went to the rear of the building and
started to climb verandas to the
third floor. AS he was about to
vault the last railing his foot slipped
and he fell 35 feet to a concrete
sidewalk. At the hospital physicians
could find no trace of serious injury
and they were equally surprised to
discover that flask in a back pock-
ct had Jared equally well. He is be-
ing held for observation.
New Bedford. Mass, April 30.-(P)-
The 'tWo-masted schooner Minnie Ella
was towed into New Bedford harbor
today after having been pulled off a
sandbar on the south side of Pasque
Island. The schooner ran aground yes
terday enroute from Gloucester to
New Bedford to fit out for mackerel
cruise. She was taken off by the coast
guard patrol boat CG-131, working
with the crew from the Cuttyhunk
coastguard station.
Dallas, Tex, April 20.-(PT-The
American Medical Association today
favored purchase of all whisky sup
plies by the government in the event
that regulations governing medicinal
liquors are declared unconstitutional.
The action was taken by its house of
delegates in executive session at the
annual convention hare
San Francisco. April 20.--(P}-Ac-
quilted within 10 minutes by an ar
my court, on a charge of improper
intimacies with Miss Lucille Swallow,
Leavenworth, Kan, Captain Orville
Clampitt today prepared to return to
his post as chaplain at Vancouver
Barracks, Wash. Chaplain Clampitt
was the last witness called yesterday
and told of attempts on the part of
Miss Swallow to become intimate
with while he was stationed at the
Fort Leavenworth chaplains' school.
Maiden, Mass, April 20.-(P)-A
break in a 36-inch main today partly
cut off the water supply of the high
err sections of Maiden. Everett. Med
MSIIOSS. oOIHSINlllSy SICAcNo,
Revere, Winthrop, Swompscott, Ma
hant and East Boston. Service. 1t
was said, would not be restored be-
fore midnight. Pressure in the mains
in the lower parts of these cities was
said by fire department heads to
have been cut down by half. Emer-
gency reservoirs, not used since the
metropolitan water works began
serving the cities, were drawn upon.
Quincy, Cal, April 20.-(P)-After
being buried with five fellow work.
ers for three days beneath a slide in
the Feather River Tunnel on Bucks
Mountain. Thomas McDermott was
rescued alive and apparently unin-
jured tonight. Rescue workers enter
tanned hopes of reaching the other
men within a few hours.
Washington, April 20.-[Pp-Hear-
ings on the resolution authorizing a
Senate investigation of the Passaic
strike developed clash between
Senator LaFollette, author of the
resolution, and Senator Edwards.
The Wisconsin senator was told to
mind his own business by the New
Jersey senator. as his state was COM
petent to handle its internal affairs.
LaFollette retorted that he was with
in his rights as a member of the
Senate manufacturers committee to
offer resolution. and charged that in
dustria1 magnateS were attempting
to throttle workers.
Kansas City. Kas.. April 20.-[P)-
W. J.. 0oung) Stribling, Georgia
light heavyweight boxer, easily out
pointed Joe Lehman of Toledo.
Ohio, in a 10-round bout here to-
night. Stribling won every round.
Hanover, n. H.. April 2O-(Pl The
University of Texas defeated Dart
mouth in an intercollegiate debate on
resolution that the army and navy
air forces should be united under
single command. Texas upheld the
affirmative.
Washington, April 20-(P)-Presi-
dent Coolidge has appointed George
H. Levy. retired wooden manufactur-
err of Ludlow. VT, member of the
advisory board for the federal indus
trial institution for women now I'M
der construction at Anderson. w. Va.
The board is to devise training. to fit
inmates for suitable employment fol-
lowing their discharge.
st. Adams. Vt. April 20-(P-The
automobile of DIR. Samuel Hardin
Church, president of Carnegie Insti-
tute, mentioned in the senate prohi-
bition committee hearing today. was
seized in 1928 with a quantity of Ii
quor on the Canadian border and lat
er released when DIR. Church was eX-
onerated of completely in the snug
Cling attempt. Records at the GUS
toms house here and at the United
States court in Burlington revealed
that r. r. Church and E. w. Tracy
were in the automobile when it was
captured in August. 1922. Brought
before the United States court they