The committee is asking itself
whether the I'nited States really
wants such extensive authority and is
apparently desirous of getting s*>m*
enlightenment on this point.
I In the meantime it is understood
that the committee voted to give the
I'nited States, when party to a di*
pnte. the right to vote at the count d
when the dispute is under con-dder*
tion a right which is not enjoyed by
the members of the council.
•
“GRANDMA” CELEBRATES
100TH BIRTHDAY IN AIR
‘Never Had Such a Nice Kid* in
My Life," Plucky Maine Woman
Tells Aviator.
R.v fh* A»*ooi»tW|
PORTLAND. Me.. September '<
| “Grandma” Almatia Bennett of Chico
pee Falls. Mass., celebrated her on*
hundredth birthday anniversary here
yesterday by flying 1.200 feet ovet
Portland harbor and Its islands with
I Harry Jones, pilot, in an airplane.
The plane in which the Might was
; made is callable of a speed of So miles
an hour, and at the insistence of hi*
aged passenger, Jones had thrown the
throttle wide open.
“It was perfectly wonderful. I never
! had such a nice tide in my life.” was
the way “Grandma’• expressed hei
st pprecia t ion.
Dr. Lester L. Powell. Ml*. Bennett's
host in Portland, accompanied her «n
! the flight and said she was not half
so nervous as he was.
REV. C. G. BRADLEY DEAD;
SERVED IN ROUGH RIDERS*
Assistant Rector of Epiphany
Church Had Also Been Govern
ment Clerk for Past ft Years.
Rev. C. G. Bradley, assistant rkcfor
of the Church of the Epiphany, who
served as a captain of Rough Riders
tinder Roosevelt, died yesterday at
Emergency Hospital. He was (54 years
1 old.
