Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-18

Washington-A statement that
wartime selective service boards
have been told to get ready for an
emergency has stirred up war de-
partment officials. They believe the
statement was based on q miscon-
ception of indefinite plans. 1t was
made in Philadelphia by Joseph 7.
eastman, new president of the
American Civil Legion.
London, The British war Office is
taking precautions aga ast air raids
in the next war. Gel RS and sub
ways are being studied as possibili-
ties for places of refuge.
ngton-Ampde harbor forti-
f1cations for warding off naval at
tacks are urged by Major General
Edgar Jadwin, professor OF army
engineers. He thinks there is neces-
sity for such notwithstanding air.
planes.
New York-The mother of War
rem E. Horn, II, pities poor Queen
Marie. Warren wrote Secretary
Wilbur telling him Uncle Sam need
ed more airplanes. Since then much
of Warren's time has been taken UP
by reporters. His fayorite pastime
is making planes of paper and war
ships of wood.
Pittsburgh-The biggest electric
locomotive can haul 200 cars. 1t is
100 feet long and has 1000 horse
power. The Great Northern will
use it for grades in the Cascades.
Tiflis, Ga.-Some Russians now
have doubts about home invention
which it was thought would supplant
the American airbrake. A train of
Sc cars equipped with the new de-
vice, went over an embankment and
seven persons were killed.
New York-Advertising enables
you to read the news at little cost.
Apparently it also is to give you re-
markable entertainment for nothing.
Raidocasting of Mary Garden. Will
Rogers and others in on a big pro-
gram cost WEAF $4,000. Its rates
for evening commercial programs
are $500 an hour.
Boston-Joseph Hall, 23. will go TO
no more football games for a while
and undoubtedly none at all on tic
kets obtained with presidential in
fluence. He insists that he called at
the White House and told such
story of family connections that
tickets, an automobile and a secret
service man We're provided for him
self and his girl and he sat between
Governor Ritchie and naval officer
at the Navy Michigan game. For
defraudiug merchants and other
things, he is in the reformatory.
New York - Chrysanthemums
gathered by Mrs. Coolidge and pre-
scented through Secretary Wilbur
may not be responsible, but Com
mander Evangeline Booth of the
Salvation Army, welcomed back at
a mass meeting after recovering
from illness, pledged herself to
humanity with every rising and
setting sun, every darkening sky,
every spring that bursts into leaf,
every summer that waves its banners
OF gold across the fields, every au-
tumn that treads the forests into
flames, every winter that builds cas-
ties of crystals In the hills"
somerville, n. J.-There's betting
at 10 to l on the results of the Hall
Mills trial.
New York--Finery OF Corliss Pal
mer Brewster, confiscated in a,
storage warehouse, is to be sold In
an effort to realize something on a
100000 alienation Judgment against
her. The auctioneer doubts If the
sale will bring one-thousandth of the
judgment.
Chicago-What addressed roy
atty wears in swimming: Queen
Marie a one-piece pearl gray bathing
suit with green stripes: Princess
Ileana a one-piece gray suit with
red stripes: caps to match.
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