Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-05


refused to testify about his political
contributions.
Body of Mrs. Gertrude Woods, wife
of Harvard professor, who disap
| peared from a Maine steamer, was
recovered by the coastguard.
Thomas Cochran, j. p Morgan and
co partner. repudiated alleged inter-
view which predicted 100 point rise
in General Motors stock.
| One passenger and a mail clerk
| injured in derailment of Bar Harbor
! express near Auburn. Maine.
Secretary of Treasury. Mellon, in
| Rome, told interviewers that reopen
| ing of war debt discussion was I'm
| fortunate and deplorable.'
! New Bedford, Mass, Aug 4-LP)-
| Through the efforts of lighthouse
keeper Henry Dobbin and Coast
! guardsmen Louis Ramos at Guilty.
| hunk today, James Daley of Boston,
Howard L. Church of this city ana
! Louis Abrams of Cuttyhunk, who
were capsized in small boat In
! Vineyard Sound, were rescued and
! landed at Cuttyhunk.
Burlington, VT, Aug. 4-(Pt--An
! appeal to the United States court of
| appeals was filed today in the cases
, of the four aliens, Tamara Johans-
! son and Solomon Simkin, Finnish
Jews, Isabella London, English Jew.
and Leontine Leskova or Lesek, q
| Pole, whose visitors passports the
| United States at Montreal refused to
! honor. Recently Federal Judge Char
| les NJ. Hough held in hsbeas corpus
proceedings involving the persons of
/ the aliens named, that the consul had
| the right to refuse to visa visiting
aliens passports and the appeal is
! from this decision. The aliens coun-
sci, Fl. Ely Goldsmith. maintains his
| clients were visitors, not immigrants.
and it is the consuls duty to visa
| visitors passports.
! Pawtucket, r. l., Aug. 4-LP)-
| Uncle John Nelson, approaching his
! 102nd birthday, today announced his
| intention of returning to his favorite
| hauts among the green hills of New
/ Hampshire. The centenarian, a Cfvii
! War veteran and Pawtuckets Oldest
| resident, will make the journey back
! to Lyme without company. He came
! here two years ago to visit friends
! and decided to make his home here.
| The appeal OF the green hills Of the
! Granite State is greater than the hum
| of business here, Uncle John says.
! Wallingford, Conn, Aug. 4-(PJ-
| The body of a youth with a bullet
wound over the heart and another in
! the head. was found by workman
| in a lot in North street about 200
yards from the Colony Post Road
! here today. Police were of the opin-
| ion that the man had been killed
| elsewhere and his body brought here
| by an automobile The lot is in a
| thicilly populated section. The youth
! had been poorly dressed. He was Of
| Italian or Portuguese extraction, and
was about 20 years old.
Curling n. F. Aug 4.-CP)-A COL
! lision between a COW and a railway
! speeder near Deer Lake, 30 miles east
of here, cause the death of Alice VIII
! liamS, II, who was riding on it, The
! speeder was ditched when it struck the
| COW, and four other passengers were
/ injured
| Woods Hole Mass, Aug 4-LR-
| The steamer Uncatena, which develop
| ed engine trouble after starting on her
run to Martha's Vineyard last night,
| was back in service today The New
England Steamship Company, operat-
| ing the steamer, announced that re-
pairs had been completed without in
terfering with her scheduled sailing.
Hanl1ow, China, Aug. 4.--(P-The
local American Catholic mission re
ports that the release by bandits of
Father Cunningham has been effected
Father Cunningham was captured by
the outlaws In the western part of the
province of Human July ).
Mexico City, Aug. 4.--(P)--Simon s.
Fuller, American resident in Mexico
City. has been placed in Jail on a tech
nical charge of forgery. His arrest
was due to alleged falsifca ton of re-
ceipts in connection with his sale of
large number of automobile tires TO
one of the revolutionary factions about
Is years ago. Local American sttor-
neys and the American embassy are
expected to secure the release of Mr..
Fuller pending trial No charges are
made that he participated in the re-
volt.
Satander, Sprain, Aug. 4.--(Pp-King
Alfonso has sent dispatch to Presi-
dent Coolidge thanking him for mes
sage which was conveyed to him by
the commander of the United States
cruiser Memphis. which is visiting this
port. The king in his message con-
graduated President Coolidge on the
wonderful condition of the Memphis
and the splendid appearance of her
crew. Last night The crew Of the
Memphis were guests of honor at a
dance given at Magdalena palace.
Shreveport, La. Aug. 4-(P)-Re-
ports received from Lachute. La,
said that John Norris, "a. Negro. was
surrounded in cotton field and shot
to death early today by posse seek
ing him for an attack on ten-year-
old girl at Lachute yesterday. The
Negro was reported killed while at
tempting to escape.
Nice, France, Aug. 4-(Pl--Donald
Sherwood, New York artist, was
acquitted in the Apes Maritimse as
sizes today of manSla hter in con-