Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-05

strike, were thrown into panic To-Day
when man fired revolver toward
one of the windows Of the shop The
bullet struck about a foot from a win
dow where woman was at work. The
shop Is on the fourth floor and the
man who fired the shot was on q roof
across the street.
Palm Beach, Fla, March 4.--(AP)-
Some of the society matrons here play
golf and tennis for exercise and
amusement and some go in bathing
every day, but Mrs. Arthur B. Claim
gets her daily diversion by acting as
foreman for squad of street clean
ers. Every morning she gets up at z
o'clock and starts in showing the
white wings" how to sweep properly.
Most Of them never had worked under
a woman until Mrs Clafin took them
in hand. She keeps them moving.
Marietta, Ohio, March 4.-(AP)-
Jackson B. Mckinney Of Marietta. re-
ported missing from Yale University
since Feb. IL, telephoned relatives
here from Kenova, w. Va, that he
would be home today. After arriving
in New York on his way to Yale he
suddenly changed plans and decided to
return home, his relatives explained.
Providence, March 4-(AP)-Two
indictments charging forgery against
Edward Radding, real estate opera
tor of this city who attempted to end
his life in New York hotel on Tues
day, were returned today by the
grand jury. which made a partial re-
port to Judge Hahn in superior court.
One of the indictments charges Rad
ding with forging mortgagee's pol
icy of title insurance in a 100000 deal
and the other charges him with forg-
ing the name of James Goldman to a
promissory note for $4,000. Both in
dictments are new ones and not con-
nected with charged on which Rad
ding is now at liberty on 100000 bail.
New York, March 4--(AP)-Ob-
livious of a broken arm and Shout
der, and imprisoned in his pilot
house, Captain John Billings pilot
ed q sinking tugboat to shore in the
East River tonight after a crash
with a freighter. The tug went
down just as she reached shore, in
water not deep enough to reach the
captains pilot house prison. The tug
collided with the freighted Cornish
from Boston and she was slowed
about SO violently that her pilot
house door was damned. Captain
Billings, at the wheel, was thrown
against the wall of the pilot house,
his right arm and right shoulder
We're broken.
Passaic, n. J., March 4-(AP)-
Led by woman wheeling a baby,
1000 striking textile workers parad-
ed from Garfield through Clifton and
into Passaic this afternoon with no
interference from police along the
way. The lack of violence. contrast
ed with yesterdays clashes and ar
rests, was hailed by strike leaders as
considerable moral victory for
them. Police lined the route through
Clifton and Passaic but made no at
tempt to do more than keep the
marchers moving. A New York
newspaper whose reporters and pho
tographers had suffered yesterday
when they said police attacked them
sent an armored car to the parade
today. 1t was turned over before
the march started and two of the
five men In it were slightly hurt.
New York, March 4.-(AP) Dist.
Atty. Asa Keyes of Los Angeles. who
is in New York today, declined to say
whether his visits had any connec-
ton with the unsolved murder of
William Desmond Taylor, motion pic
ture director. Mr.. keyes. through a
spokesman, asserted that his visit
concerned considerable official BUSH
ness. but that he was not at liberty
to tell its nature.