Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-17

VdoutuS LOIlp ApIA 40 - VII - n
Democratic attack on the admins
property claims broke lose in the
house today after several days OF
heated discussion at closed sessions
of the ways and means committee
Representative Garner Of Texas
ranking Democrat on the committee
assailed the measure as "the most
stupendous steal that ever has been
suggested in the history of America
Passaic, N. J., April 1e ~ up -
Three indictments against Albert
Weisbord, strike organizer. and
chairman Of the United Front Com
mittee Of Textile Workers, were re-
turned today by the grand jury at
Paterson. The indictments charge
melting to riot and hostility against
the government and are founded on
the charges preferred against Weis-
bord by Passaic police.
Brussels, April 16-(P-The Inter
national Miners Committee today
expressed its solidarity with the
British miners in their fight against
wage reduction. It went on record
as DESTROYS of supporting them, in
the event of a strike, by stopping the
| expectation of foreign coal to Eng
land. A. j. Cook, secretary general
Of the British Miners Federation
emphasized the Importance of the
action. He hoped this affirmation OF
solidarity would allow the British
miners to obtain certain concessions
from the British government.
Amherst, Mass, April 16-((P)-
Goldsmith's ''She Stops to Conquer
has been done up in modern dress
The Roister Doister Society of the
Massachusetts Agricultural College
gave 1925 version of the play last
night. Squire Hardcastle was dis
covered in golf attire listening to jazz
music from a radio as the curtain
rose. The Misses Hardcastle and Ne
Vile wore bobbed hair and short
skirts, while the male actors recited
the venerable lines attired in dinner
jackets and golf Knockers. The play
was the opening event of the junior
prom festivities.
Hilo, T. H, April 16-(PO-Two
lava foes from somewhere near the
summit Of Manau Loa, were headed
southwest toward the sea last night
one flow being a thousand feet wide
and ten feet deep and the other SOC
to 500 feet wide and eight feet deep
The flow illuminated the entire island
DR.. j. A. Jammgar, volcanologist, said
he doubted whether the foes would
reach the sea because of the Level
country now reached but some home
steaders near the coast in the path
OF the moving lava began to vacate
their places.
st. Adams. VT, April 1e.-R-All
weather records were broken, even
for Northern Vermont, today when a
bowling northwest blizzard followed
close upon the heels of two mornings
which found the temperature hover
ing about the zero point. The snow
continues undated, driven by a
fierce wind. One man who came here
today to plant shrubs at his summer
home today found the place still I'M
der five feet of snow.
Concord, N. H, April 16.-R)-At
meeting of the govern and coun-
Gil this afternoon three members of
the state government were reap
pointtd. They are Labor Commits
sioner John 8. B. Davies, Insurance
Commissioner John E. Sullivan and
George H. Nash, member of the Chi
ropractic board Of examiners. All
the reappointments were unanimous
ly approved with the exception of
that of Commissioner Sullivan, two
councillors opposing his retention In
office.
New York, April 16.-(P) The
parents Of Mary and Margie Glib,
IS years old, the so-called Siamese
twins, have decided to end the con-
troversy with the Children's Society
over the exhibition of their children
in Coney Island museum by TAX
ing them back to their home in
Holyoke, Mass, 1t was learned today
The decision was announced as Dav-
i'd Rosen, owner Of the museum, who
Is held in bail for special sessions