Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-02

Figures gathered by The Associ-
ated Press show that automobile
deaths of 1925 far exceed those of
1924.
Archbishop's palace at Lisbon,
Portugal, badly damaged in bomb
explosion today.
Chelsea police inspector shot and
probably fatally wounded in New
Years Eve fight in Mansion Inn,
Wayland, Mass.
Providence, r. l., Jan. 1-(AP)-
No report has been received at the
New London coastguard base in re-
gard to the firing on a launch at
jamestown. L. l., by patrol boat c.
235. The launch in question is owned
by Captain II. F. Arnold of the
jamestown and Newport Ferry Com
pany. Arnold alleges the boat fired
on him and then searched his craft
for liquor
Woodsville, n. H., Jan. 1-(AP)-
Benjamin Franklin Brown retired
today as track supervisor of the Bos-
ton & Maine Railroad after Sc years
of continuous service, during which
he invented a device for handling
rails used extensively by railroads
throughout the country. D. l.. VAL
lier, formerly track supervisor at
Lyndonville, VT, will succeed Brown
here.
New York. Jan 1-(AP)-The hot
dog which for many years fed hun
CRY sport fans at the Madison Square
Garden bought a small fortune in
Brooklyn real estate today. David
Latinberg, who started life as a
newsboy, later began to sell food to
hungry sport mobs at the Sleeps
head Bay race track and then became
fixture at the hot dog stand in the
old Garden, made his first venture in
housing crowds instead of feeding
them with the purchase of a block
of apartment houses on Tenth Az
enue with an estimated value of
$275,000. Latinberg is 40 years old.
At one six-day bicycle race in the old
Garden he sold six tons of hot dogs.
Providence, Jan. 1.-(AP)-H. F.
Arnold of Saunderstown, a captain
in the employ of the Newport James,
town Ferry, declared this morning
that while he was returning from
jamestown to Saunderstown in his
private launch, the Nighthawk. late
last night. the coast guard patrol
boat C-9-235 threw searchlight on
him and then fired on his vessel. the
shell barely clearing the deck. He
declared the shot was utterly without
provocation. After searching his
launch. he said. the captain of the
patrol boat withdrew. refusing to
apologize At the coast guard head
quarters in New London it was said
the C-9-235 is in the vicinity OF
Saunderstown out that no report has
been received from her.
Pittsburgh, Jan. 1.-(AP)-A baby
was killed and four other persons in
jured today when section of fly
wheel which had been ripped apart in
a North Side Carnegie steel mill
crashed into four nearby houses,
causing damage estimated at $1,000
A broken belt caused the wheel to
fly into sections. One large piece
travelled 1900 feet. crashed through
two houses, knocked third from its
foundation and buried itself in a
fourth. The child victim. aged four
years. was asleep in his crib when the
missile wrecked his home.
Dayton. Ohio. Jan. 1-(AP)-An
absolute denial that the stock reor-
ganization plan of the National Cash
Register Company was undertaken
so that the cash register business OF
the Remington Arms Company could
be taken over. was made today by s.
G. H. Barringer, first vice president
of the n. c. II.
New Haven. Conn. Jan. 1-(AP)-
Seward Weiss, aged Sc. of Pittsburgh.
Pa. died in a hospital today from
injuries sustained in an automobile
collision at Mount Carmel. in Ham,
den, today. Joseph Schwarz of 1851
Southern Boulevard, New York City,
has injuries which are serious but not
necessarily fatal. Mrs. Celia Bray,
II. of Hamden, received surgical at
tention but her injuries were Of minor
nature.
New York, Jan. 1.-((AP) - Two
hours before Mayor Walker was in
augurated today his wife's automo-
bile, driven by her chauffeur, struck
taxicab. killing Joseph Kramer.
Bronx truck driver. The accident
occurred as Kramer and a patrolman
were riding on the running board Of
the cab in which they had just taken
Kramers helper to a hospital with
fractured skull sustained in another
collision.
Columbus, Ohio, AIN. 1-(AP)-The
expected meeting of Mrs. Robert Ea-
kin of near Worthington, and her
brother Alonzo Jones. Tomato. Ark
after 40 years separation. did not
take place today. Mrs. Eakin, who
reached her brother by radio after
other means of communication had
failed, said she expected him at
later date and if he did not come
soon she would go to him. Jones, af-
ter hearing a query to his where
abouts. radiocast from Columbus sew
eral weeks ago, wired his sister that
he would visit her at her home on
New Years.
London, Jan. 1.-(AP)-Steps de-
signed to take the rub out of Great
Britain's rubber monopoly. which is
alarming the United States, have
been proposed in governmental cir
cles. Officials ere believe the set
Element of the difficult rum running
problem by the ~ mile limit treaty
of 1928 might be taken as a prece-
dent. Confidence Is expressed that.
by working along similar lines of
Cancellation and compromise. So
luton could soon be reached which
would be satisfactory alike to the
British goverra~nt. the far eastern
rubber producers and the American
consumers.