Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-05

Wellington, N. T., March 4--(AP)
--R. A. Rose, one mile champion Of
New Zealand, today defeated Lloyd
Hahn, miller of the Boston Athletic
Association, in, their fourth special
one mile rale. The time. four min
utes 10 3-5 seconds, established a
new record for Australia. Rose ran
in splendid sytle. winning by IL
yards.
Albany, N. Y, March - (AP) -
Governor Smith today committed to
life Imprisonment the death sentence
of Anthony Pantano of Brooklyn
who was to have been executed at
Sing Sing prison tonight for first de-
gree murder in connection with the
fatal shooting of two Brooklyn bank
messengers in November, 1925. The
appeal for Communication was made at
a hearing before the governor on
Monday. T't
Chicago, March 4.-(AP)- "Eu-
gene Field, 185O-1S95, the Children's
Poet" is the simple inscription OIL
the tomb which will receive the
body Of the poet next Sunday morn
ing. The simple burial service oil
the Episcopal church will mark the
final interment at the church of the
Holy Comforter, Kenilworth, a
suburb.
Houston, Tex, March 4.-(AP)--
prohibition agents have no right to
I'LL a mans skin with liquor just to
make a case" said Federal Judge
j. Z. Hutchinson, in condemning the
practice of prohibition agents OF
, puying liquor for informers, who
help them with evidence. Congress
authorized a prohibition agent to
puy buy liquor for evidence, but i,
uoes not and cannot authorize him
TO take informers around with him
ana allow them to drink as much as
they like" 80
New York. March 4.-(AP)-One
name was erased and a new one writ.
ten today on the roster of the heroes
oil the United States Lines. Officials
announced that one of the two sea
men OF the crew of the steamship
PRESIDENT Roosevelt who gave their
llVes for the rescue Of the crew of the
British freighter Antinoe in mid
ocean in January was really Fritz
Stegar, and not Ernest Hoffman, as
flrst reported. Steger. whose identity
was not known to his employers I'M
TIL after his death, shipped under
Heltman'S name, and held American
seaman's papers issued to Hoffman
How he acquired the papers or his
reason for the masquerade was not
learned. Hoffman. it is said. is lnow
driving q taXicab in Glendale, Long
Island.
Washington, March 4.-(AP)-
Secretary Wilbur announced today
that, with authorization of a s2,364,-
coo contract for $50 airplane engines
to the Packard Motor Car Company
Of Detroit, Mich, the largest single
aviation contract made by the gov
eminent since the war. he had COM
pleted the placing of orders for air
service equipment aggregating S.
500, 600.
The orders cover 116 planes of var
ious types and 261 engines. Additional
contracts nearing signature covering
an outlay of s3.700,0O0 still to be
made, which will provide for 127 adj
ditional planes.
Montreal. Mar. 4-(AP)-M. NJ
Campbell, reprenesnitg the principal
ity of Monaco as consul here. has
been arrested by the Royal Cana
dian Mounted Police He is charged
with conspiring to obtain money for
passing persons into the United
States as citizens of Monaco, know
ing them to be Serbs and Jugoslays.
Two specific amounts of $3.50 and
$3.50 are mentioned insthe complaint
Boston. Mar. 4-(AP)-A petition
for increased salaries presented by
the Massachusetts Engineers Asso-
citation was rejected today by the
house committee on public service,
which reported leave to withdraw"
The petition asked Redistribution
and decentralization Of state en-
ployes and their salaries.
London. England. March 4-(AP)-
The net result of today's debate
in the house of commons on the Ge-
neva meeting of the league of ma
nations March s. was to leave mat.
tiers much as they were. inasmuch as
Sir Austen chamberlain, secretary
foreign affairs, will go to Geneva
with a free hand. He announced
himself, in agreement with the pol
Icy of the government and the nation
chance of becoming member of the
league. Sir Austen made a long
statement in the house, but his
speech left the opposition criticisms
unsatisfied.
Washington, Mar. 4-(AP)-AIass.
achusetts, in oral arguments in SUI
preme court today, claimed title to
all lands lying under Lakes Ontario
and Erie within the borders of New
ork. The Importance of the con-
tention was emphasized by counsel
as involving an assertion by Massa-
chusetts of riparian rights on all
lagos in question, and title to all
land which may have been, or in flu
tlre may be. aided by accretions or
hlling in since the two states settled
their conflicting territorial contro-
versies in the treaty Of Hartford
signed Decerber 16, 1886.
Cambridge, Mass, Mar. 4-(AP)-
A net increase of $4,000 a year in
Harvard's athletic revenue will be
the direct result of the Harvard
Yale Princeton joint agreement to
raise the price of football tickets
from So to IS, said Graduate Treasu-
rer Fred w. Moore tonight. Although
no official statement was made it
was expected in Cambridge tonight
that the increase in football revenue
would bring the long deferred con-
struction of a new swimming pool
and new gymnasium into the realm
of actually. Plans for both have
been drawn UP for some time.
Boston, March 4.-(AP)-Forry
women employees in a dress factory,
which has been running as an open
shop during the needleworkers'