Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-09


New London. Ct, Aug. THE new
submarine VS. will receive her trial
tests of Provincetown. next week. the
naval submarine base announced here
today.
Providence, r. l., Aug 7-Accord-
ing to Dr. Charles Fl. Chaplin, superin-
tendent of health, the common house
ny, carrier of disease and general pest,
Is rapidly becoming extinct. The doc
tor says that the automobile is the
cause of their decrease. The growing
number of automobiles on the roads
of all types is gradually doing away
with the horse and the stables and
manure piles where the flies breed.
Washington, Aug. 7--(P)-A petit
ton for reconsideration of the Inter-
state Commerce Commissions recent
decision authorizing a refinancing of
the Boston & Maine Railroad was FL
ell with the commission today by Ed
mund d. Goldman of Boston, acting
for minority stockholders He declar-
ed the Boston & Maine is under mo
legal or compelling economic obliga-
ton" at this time to undertake a re-
financing and took issue with the
commissions finding that the road for
several years prior to 1924 had suf-
fered an impairment of it's credit due
to decrease in the market price of
its securities.
Revere. Aug. 7-Salvatore Pietro.
George Pietro and James Leonardo,
all of 1913 Charges street, in the
farm" district of Revere. were ar
rested tonight charged with breaking
and entering and larceny. 1t Is al
legged that the trio broke into the fill
ing station at Broadway and the In
IRRATIONAL highway last night and
stole a safe, containing about $40
The safe, which was taken through q
trap door into the cellar and thence
up flight of steps was broken open
In an clubhouse in the farm" Sec
ton.
Hull, Aug. Am automobile oper-
ated by John Missel of 16 Gainsboro
street, Dorchester, crashed into q
telephone pole at D street and Nam
tasket avenue this afternoon The
car narrowly escaped being wrecked.
since the pole snapped at the base
and crashed down only a few inches
from the machine. Missel declared
that he was making a wide turn, did
not notice. the pole, and that the pole
was rotten. causing it to break easily.
Missel lives at 6S D. street, Wave
land, during the summer.
St Adams, VT, Aug DIR. n. ?.
Carey of East Fairfield who suffered
dislOcation of the collar bone, three
fractured ribs and minor bruises
When his car side-swiped a bridge.
broke the railing and plunged II feet
on rocks, died at hospital here this
morning as a result of his injuries.
A friend, II. B. Mitchell. who was
with DR.. Carey, is in the hospital suf-
fering from painful but not serious
- So
| Boston. Aug. 7.-Rumors that sew
| eral Cambridge patrolmen secured
| copies of civil service eXamina ton
! conducted in Chicopee and SPRING
| field and were able to pass an ex-
| animation in their own city with
| high honors has stirred conside-a BILE
| feeling in the department and may
| result in an Investigation by Civil
! Service Commissioner Payson Dana
Chicago. Aug. Edna Wallace
Hopper, who left Chicago for Paris
in June expecting to marry the Duke
de Chartre, head of an I'D French
| family, has found such an alliance
| too expensive and the wedding is off,
| she has written to a friend here.
They wanted too much settlement
on the duke" the actress and former
i wife of DeWoff Hopper wrote to Otis
F. Glidden. It's the old story,
French families always expect lot.
The older the family, the larger the
dot, and dot in French means
dough" just the way it is pro-
nounced."
Washington, Aug. 7.-(P)-As-
suranccs of assistance FOR the strik-
ing coal miners of the British Isles
were given to their representatives
here today by tht American FEEDER
aion of Labor. The British delega-
ton. including two labor members of
parliament. was told by President
William Green of the Federation,
that American workers look upon the
British strike as a challenge to the
world wide movement of down, down
with the standard of living" He
placed Federation facilities at the
disposal of the delegation for its
prospective tour of the country in
fund raising campaign.
Auburn. \. Y, Aug. 1-(P)-Rev.
Dr. Davis H. Craver, 81, synodical
superintendent of religious education
for the Presbyterian church, died at
his home today of heart trouble. He
was born in Albany and was grad
uated from Union College and Au-
burn Theological Seminary. He had
served pastorates in Groton, y. y,
Ogdensburg and Geneva.
New Orleans. Aug. 7-P)-The
home of Gen. p G. T. Beauregard,
distinguished Confederate officer
will not become a macaroni factory.
When a company was about to pur-
chase the ground on which the gen.
erals house stands for 4 factory, the
Beauregard Memorial Association
agreed to purchase it and a first
payment of $4,000 has bound the
| contract.
Watertown, n. Y, Aug. Z - (P1 -
George A. Glynn, former chairman of
! the New York Republican state COM
! mittee, is seriously i'll in hospital
here. He was operated on yesterday
| for intestinal trouble. He Is report
| cd to have spent a fairly comforta BILE
night, but his physicians consider
his condition critical. Since his re-
tirement as chairman of the Repub-
I lican state committee four years ago.
| he has been editor of the Water
| town Standard.
| Southbridge. Aug 7-(P)-One man
was killed and several other persons
were slightly injured and shaken up
| tonight when a passenger car and
trolley express car collided at Nor
! tons station in Charlton. Michael
Brosnihan. 60, Worcester, a messen-
| ger on the express car, who was rid