Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-09-16

| New Jersey grand jury, recalled to
hear evidence in Hall-Mills murder,
started questioning of witnesses
| David Coughlin and Nellie Piper, IA
year-old Ellsworth, Maine, high school
| students, eloped for the third time in
as many months.
! Kansas City, Nd Sept. 15.1(Pl-
Eight laborers trapped by an explosion
early today IN a water tunnel being
| dug under the Missouri River hers are
| believed by Charles S. Foreman, 7engi-
| neer in charge of the project, to have
had no chance for escape. He said the
! condition of the shaft indicated that
\ all had been killed and he doubted II
: the men even knew what had hap
pened." -
| Palmer, Mass, Sept. 15.--[P)-Chief
of Police Uric Berault of Southbridge
was heard in district cour! here today
on his plea of not guilty to charge
of driving so as to endanger the lives
| and safety of the public and a verdict
in the case was deferred until Sep
ttember %. Chief Berault was before
the court as the result of the fatal in
! jury of Hugh Gilmartin. four years
| old, struck BY the chiefs car. .
|
| New York, Sept. 15.--(P-The rate
| of the SO members of the crew OF the
British freighter Loyal Citizen, which
had broadcast distress calls yesterday,
continued mystery today The Inde-
pendent Wireless Telegraph Company
reported that during the night the
! French steamer Denhaag and the Brit
| ish steamer Princess May had report
| ed passing capsized lifeboat in the
vicinity where the Loyal Citizen was
| last reported-about $50 miles south
| west Of Bermuda. No trace of the
ship or men was found, however.
] Washington, Sept. 15.-(P)-The
( Treasury expects 20 be enriched by
| approximately $500 100000 by mid
night tonight when tax collections for
| the third quarter close. Collections for
! the same quarter in 1926 were $751;
| 000 900. Government receipts from
| July l to Sept. 10 already have in
| creased S10,000O00 over last year.
| reaching a total of s4S6, 100000 In
come tax receipts increased 10000, 600,
customs gained SS,000.00e, while mis-
I, cellaneous internal revenue collections
declined more than $4,000 900 due to
the adjustment of many such taxes.
| Cincinnati, Sept. 15.-fP)-Little
| doubt remains that, the Republicans
| will retain control of the House of
| Representatives. but the situation does
not appear so bright in the Senate,
| Nicholas Longworth, speaker of the
House. observed after a personal sur
| vey of the recent primaries. and con-
| ferenees with Chairman Tilson OF the
| eastern section of the national con-
gressional committee
| Los Angeles, Sept. l5.-LP)-A final
!. divorce decree has been awarded Bev-
| erly Bayne, film actress, from Fran
els Bushman. also of the screen, in her
! suit charging desertior. The couple
| separated in 1924. and the interlocu-
| tory decree was granted more than a
! year ago. Miss Bayne obtaining Gus
| agreement that he must not appear on
the stage or screen before he is Is
! years old.
New York, Sept. 15.-;P)-Resolu-
| tons were passed by the United Tex
tile Workers of America at their con-
vention today to organize the textile
workers of the South. The greatest
need for organization, said the dele
gates. is in the South, where there are
few textile trade unions.
Tekamah, Neb Sept 15-(P-An
application for a temporary order re-
straining Burt county officials from
keeping Roy Carson, farmer liquor
law violator, from serving his bread
and water Jail sentence here was de-
MED today. District Judge Fitzgerald
! said that tnasmuch as the state SUI
| preme court had held the sentence
! constitutional, the district court was
without further Jurisdiction. e.
| Lynn. Mass, Sept 15-(P)-Flay-
| ing the Lynn school board for its
refusal to adopt his orders requir-
ing resigna ton of any teacher, man
or woman, who smokes cigarettes on
or off the job, and the discharge of
| any janitor who drinks liquor, May
or Ralph S. Bauer today declared in
public statement that the school
board had made history for itself ii
ought to be ashamed of.
| Geneva, Sept. 15--(Pl-The atmos-
| phere of an American city in whcih
| the delegates to a national party
convention in a bewildered way are
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lite sons" is reproduced in Geneva
tonight. with the exception that ma
| tons. not individuals. are the candi-.
! dates. So intensive is the canvass
I ing for the nine nop-permanent seats
In the council of the league of na-
tons that the league leaders aban-.
| doned their original plans to hold the
| election today and postponed it I'M
til tomorrow morning to permit tie
aspirants further time to line Up
| their partisans.
Lowell, Mass, Sept. 15-(P)--Mrs.
Marion Beland was seriously burned
when loading machine exploded at
the United States Cartridge Co.,
plant at $40 this morning. Several
others escaped with minor injuries.
The cause of the explosion was un-
determined
Asbury Park N j., Sept. 15--(Pl--
Ten coast guardsmen, tried a month
ago at Shipbottom station for COM