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

Asa w. Allen. Testifying In a suit
to divorce her wealthy husband, she
said: II beat him so often playing
golf, he beat me up. When beat him
at chess, he, upset the board and
blackened my eye. When ! tried to
teach him the right way to play
bridge, he beat me-"
st. Michfel, France. Jan. 16.--tAP)
Forty skeletons, believed to be
the remains of infantrymen killed in
action, have been found by foresters
working in the Bots d'Ailly near the
Apremont road. The authorities are
trying to determine their identity.
American troops were in action in
this region in September. 1918. when
Pershing's first army wiped out the
st. Michel salient.
Lowell, Jan. 16-One thousand dogs
in Lowell are suffering from a strange
malady, which results in distemper,
similar to influenza in human beings.
That was the statement today of DR..
H. N. Games, representive here of
the State Division of Animal Indus
try. DIR. Games says the disease Is
contagious and that there is high
death rate.
Toxic, Jan. 16.-(AP)-The Jap
anese painter, easel Takatori. who
has been reproducing on scroll the
historic scene Of the great accession
ceremonies of the present Emperor.
has finished his work after 10 years.
The scroll is 80 feet long and more
than 1000 human figures are painted
on it, The scroll will be presented to
the Emperor and Empress.
Washington, Jan. 16.-(AP)-Farm
relief legislation continued to claim
considerable attention today in Con-
gress. Direct government control OF
grain and other products was pro-
posed in a bill introduced in the
Senate BY Senator Frazier. Repub-
lean, North Dakota, and one present
ed in the House by Representative
Little, Democrat Kansas. Though
dissimilar, the measures are intended
to relieve the farmer of violent price
fluctuations and to insure sale Of
surplus crops.
Washington, Jan. 16.-(AP) - A
discovery whereby the sharpness OF
tuning and selectivity of radio crys-
tai receiving sets Is greatly improv-
ed, was announced today by the de-
partment Of commerce. e. B. Judson,
expert in the radio laboratory of the
bureau of standards, who discovered
the improvement, declares that
shunting the crystal doctor across
approximately one-half the induct-
ance coil, instead of across the fun
coil, causes sharper tuning and
greater selectivity.
New York, Jan. l6. (AP)-That a
motion picture institution similar to
the little theater Of the legitimate
stage. in which the director may fol-
low his artistic ambitions without
reins, some day will come into ex-
istence. is the belief of Herbert Bren-
on. who directed the filming Of Bar
fie's peter Pan" and "a Kiss for
Cinderella"
London, Jan. 16.-There are many
more beautiful women in England
today than in Victorian times, and
the reason is the number of Amer
lean beauties who have married Brit
ish titles. The authority for this
judgment is the court photographer
whose opinions are almost universally
respected. He says that the new
styles of hair dressing, the shingle
and bob, have nothing to do with 1t
Paris, Jan. 16. (AP)-The Pershins
stadium, erected by the American
Expeditionary Forces and presented
to the city of Paris after the inter-
allied games In 1919. is proving to be
a "white elephant" That is the state
mentg of Frantz Reichel. president OF
the Athletic Federation Of France
who says the stadium is costing more
each year in repairs and upkeep than
it brings in from various athletic or
ganizations which rent it for thelr
competition.
Hanover, n. H., Jan. 16-M,ssine
from classes for two weeks, college
friends tonight believe that Russell
owen Ayers, Dartp1outh's six-foot
tall, FLOODED Indian. a promising
freshman, has eloped with an Indian
maiden, who likewise has disappear
ed from the reservation out in Okla
hona. Not a word he's been heard
from the red man. as he is called
here. since he bid his classma ties
adieu over the holidays.
Washington, Jan. Is - Suddenly
agreeing on deep cuts in the middle
surtax brackets of the tax reduction
BILL repeating the estate tax, and
making 1921 estate tax rates retro
active over those of the 1924 law. the