Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-18


Somerville. Mass. Jan. 16--(AP)-
Miss Caroline Doyle, Is year old
Somerville girl, did not hesitate to
| take the law into her own hands
when James Hughes, a husky truck
driver. rammed her car with his
machine today. Hughes jumped and
! ran. after the accident. Miss Doyle
promptly gave chase, collared him in
| store entrance and hung ON tightly
for the police until an officer arrived.
Hughes was arrested for drunken
| ness and an additional charge Of
| drunken driving will be placed
against him, the police said:
New York, Jan. 16-(AP)-The
18th national automobile show broke
i all retail sales records of previous
| motor car expositions. officials of the
show said at it's closing session to-
night. Attendance figures had not
set been officially compiled but it was
estimated they would be close to the
100000 record mark established by
the automobile show of 1922.
Washington, Jan. 16--(AP)-Aid of
President Coolidge in securing adop-
ton of a constitutional amendment
to permit congress to enact marri-
| age and divorce law was sought to-,
day by a delegation of women, most
OF them officers Of the general fed
Grafton Of women's clubs. who were
accompanied to the white house by
Senator Capper, Republican, Kansas.
Berlin, Jan. 16-(AP)-Frank A.
Munsey's bequest of many millions
estimated at between $4,000. 900 and
100000, 000-to the Metropolitan Mu-
scum Of Art suggests fresh menace
| to European art centres, in the opin-
ion of German art critics. The critics
fear that the New York institution
! will be in a position now to gobble up
| Europes choicest art treasures unless
rigid export embargoes are interpos-
ed.
Evanston. ILL.,, Jan. 16-(AP)-Al-
though psychology has been defined
| las a word with four syllables which
a person uses whenever he doesn't
know what else to say" Prof. A. r.
Gilliland of Northwestern University
asserts it is about "as easy to shake
as ones shadow" Successful BUSH
ness men, he says, are keen psychol-
ogists, often without being aware of
| it. The minister who breaches, the
| lawyer when he gives legal advice and
| the doctor when he prescribes what
| to do, are using psychology. ..-
San Francisco, Jan. 1s-(AP)-In
the street of Dim Lanterns" they
are dancing sthe Charleston. The
younger generation of San Francis
cos noted Chinatown has accepted
| the ultra. modern step, much to the
disgust of staid celestial parents.
Muscatine, Ia, Jan. 16-(AP)-To
protest against what it contends is
| developing into a monopoly of the air
by high power broadcasting stations,
the American Broadcasters' Associa-
ton, newly organized. has announced
that it planned to keep the air al
ways free" Members of the associa-
ton are owners of the smaller or low
err power stations.
| Hanover, n. H., Jan. 16-The Dart
mouth debating team defeated
! Princeton, to 8, tonight in the open
| ing Eastern Intercollegiate Debating
league contest of the season on the
negative of the question resolved,
THAT this house deplores the condi-
ton of intercollegiate athletics in
eastern colleges"
| Paris, Jan. 16-(AP)-A heavy snow
fell in Paris today but melted almost
as fast as it fell. AS a result all rug
| by and soccer football matches sched-
uled for tomorrow have been postpon-
ed. the melting snow having turned
the fields into stretches of mud. The
| trol Hey system was considerably ham,
| pered today by the snow and thaw.
Worcester. jan 16.-Francis g.
; Hastings was operated on today for
meningitis at the Worcester City Hos
| pital and the physicians there tonight
| said they expected he would recover.
| They assert, however. that his life
| could not have been saved had it not
| been for the small bottle of meningitis
serum which was rushed to them last
night from the Boston City Hospital.
within two hours after they had asked
for it.
| New York Jan. f6.--(AP)-From
| office boy. to chief executive is the
story of the career of William NJ.
! Byrnes of Brooklyn. who was elected
| today head of the eastern division or
| the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea COM
pany and who tomorrow will assume
| the direction Of more than 5000 A. & =.
| stores in New York. New Jersey and
| Connecticut Mr.. Byrnes. until recent
| " vice president of the concern. began
! as an office boy in 1892 and has worked
i his way through the ranks.