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THE BURLINGTON FREE PRESS AND TIMES: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1917. 9 Kliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmiiiiii iiihiiiiiiiiiihmihiiiiiII A Welcome to New Residents The Howard National Bank invites new residents to call and inspect its facilities for prompt, efficient banking service. A cordial welcome awaits you. Checking accounts are invited. Capital $300,000. Surplus and profits $300,000. An account with the City Trust Co. is advisable for everyone, especially for the young people. It instils valuable habits of thrift and helps build character. 4 per cent, interest paid. COUNTESS PAN N FOUNDGUILTY Russia's First Woman Minister Convicted by Bolshevik Court. USED PUBLIC FUNDS. She In Sentenced to Imprliionmcnt until She Upturns Mono- to the Bol shevik Treasury. Pctrograd, Dec. 21. Countess Pauln, who was minister of public Instruction In the Kerensky cabinet, was on trial to-day charged with misappropriation of public funds, iter's was tho first case tried by "the popular revolutionary tribunal." The countess was convicted and sentenced to "Imprisonment until tho return of the money, and to public censuro." The smnll courtroom in tho palaco of Grand Duko Nicholas was filled with friends and sympathizers of tho countess. Tho Judges, five worklngmon and two sol diers, wero all elected members of the Pctrograd workmen's and soldiers depu ties'. For tho defence, a former employe it tho ministry of public Instruction ppoko of the great philanthropic and educational activity of CountesB Pan- In. He denied tho misuse of funds nnd said that tho countess had refused to acknowledge the right the present government to demand tho money. He declared that sho would return tho funds to tho con htltuent assembly, which was the solo authority over her. A young worklngman, speaking' for tho prosecution, made a clumsy and heated speech to tho effect that no bility of character and educational ac tivity need not oloud tho fact that the countess took public funds and opposed tho authority of tho workmen's and soldiers' sovernmont. Ho exhorted the Judges to disregard the personality and past of the defendant. Tho so-called misappropriation of nubile funds consisted In tho transfer SENATOR NEWLANDS DIESjiUDDENLY End Hastened by Hard Work Day and Nignt on Railroad Problem. WAS 69 YEARS OF AGE. Pre-eminent Congressional Expert on Ilnll and Waterway Tranaportutlon Author-of Newlands BUI. CONGRESSMAN DALE INCLINED TO THINK AMERICANS' SLEEP "For God's Sake Wake Up and Realize What This War Means!" Vermont Representative Says, Fresh from His Trip to European Battle FrontsMighty Lucky If We Get Through i This War in Two Years, He Adds Wishes Easy Chair Department Heads at Washing ton Might Visit Vimy Ridge. Washington. Dec. 24. Senator Fran cis Griffith Newlands of Nevada, died of heart failure at his homo here to-night after an illness of a few hours. Ho was stricken while at work In his office at tho Senate office building during tho after noon, but was able to go homo and tho capltol knew nothing of his Illness until tho announcement of his death. No one realized the seriousness of the senator's condition nnd a physician was not called until lato this evening. Then the heart attacks had become acute. The end came suddenly at 10:15 o'clock, as Mrs. New lands and her brother watched at the bed side. For several weeks Senator Newlands, working almost night and day on his prep arations for an Investigation of war tlmo transportation problems, had been In a weakened stato of health. Ho kept at his desk, however, and in splto of his 08 years appeared alert and active. The senator was a native of Mississippi, llo was born near Natchez August 28, 1848, and lived In tho Stato until ha went to Vale in 1867. After nearly two years at Yalo he entered tho Columbia College law school here and graduated, being admitted to tho District of Columbia bar before he received his diploma. From Washington ho went to San Francisco, where ho prac ticed law until 18S8. Then ho became a citizen of Nevada and was elected to the 53rd, 54th, D5th, 56th and 57th Congresses, During his ten years as a member of the House he served on various important committees. Succeeding Senator John P. Jones, re publican, in the Senate on March 4, 1903, Senator Newlands soon became an active by tho countess of all tho ministry member of that body and when tho demo- funds to tho state bank, which left tho safes in tho ministry empty when the Bolshevik! took control. She denied their right to tho money. FINDS FROZEN BODY. Vnlcour InIuiuI Man' Discovery in n Fishing hlinuty. When A. H. Stone, who lives on Val cour Island, went into a fishing shanty on the north end of the island Friday lie found the frozen body of McClellan Ilanktn, an old soldier and a veteran of the Spanish-American wnr. The body had the appearance of having been frozen for at least two weeks. Stono found the body lying on ono of tho cots In tho shanty and as soon ii h ho saw that Rankin was dead he went to Plattsbureh to notify tho cor oner. On account of tho weather Fri day and tho lateness of the hour, tho coroner did not conduct his Investiga tion until Saturday, when death was pronounced to bo duo to natural causes. Last fall llankln inquired of F. A. Finn If ho might uso tho shanty for a home during the winter. Ho waH given permission nnd gained a living by fish ing, eked out with a pension. Ho has not been seen of lato and Stono merely happened to stop in at the deserted f pot. Rankin had a sister in Buffalo, N. T and tho 21st Veterans' association has expressed a determination to send tho body there, if tho deceased's relative ho desires. If not, Ttankln will bo given a burial with full military honors. MUIR PLEADS GUILTY TO WHITE SLAVE CHARGE noting riinrncter Get Venr'n Sentence by Judge Horn- nt Ilrntf lelxiro. Brattloboro, Dec. 20. Henry Muir, aged 20, a roving character who left Hartford, Con with Miss Bessie Whitman, aged 16, and went to Boston about Thanks giving time, pleaded guilty In the United States court hero this afternoon to a vio lation of the Mann white slave law and was sentenced to serve a year and a day In the Atlanta prison. United States Marshal Carpenter will take him to At lanta In a few days. Tho girl's father, nftor Mulr's sentence, left with his daughter for Avon, Conn., where he lives. After leaving Boston tho couplo went to Hollows Falls, where police officers arrested Mulr because they thought he was a slacker. It proved, however, that ho was not old enough and the United States authorities then took tho pair In charge. Mulr's father lives in Burling ton. Tho boy told Judgo Howo that ho had been arrested twice before; once for stealing a rldo on u freight train and onco for tho larceny of copper wire. Tho grand Jury to-day found 12 other Indict ments. crats gained control was made head of the Interstate commerce committee. In 1P08 ho submitted his candidacy for re election -to tho popular vote and was re turned by a largo majority. Ah chairman of tho Joint congressional commltteo on transportation problems as well as of tho Interstate commerce com mittee, the senator has been prominently Identified with consideration of what the government is to do about the railroads during the war. He had conferred with the President several times and at the President's request deferred hearings the Interstate commerce committee was pre paring to start until after the Christmas holidays, when the President Is expected to submit his solution of the railroad problem to CongresB. Tho senator's chief Interest for years had been In America's railway transpor tntton lines, nnd In the development of national waterways, both for transporta- tlon and for greater fertility of land. Because of his close touch and deep in terest in theso questions he was univer sally regarded as tho pre-eminent expert on them in the Senate, and probably In Congress, As author of the Newlands' act, which provided a plan of land Improvement In tho arid West by development of water ways, he also was well known. He had for a long time pressed legislation for expenditure of many millions of dollars for waterway and Irrigation Improve ments, recently witnessing partial fruition of his hopes In tho appointment of a special commission authorized by Con gress for a comprehensive study of Amer- Jeffn waterway development. In his railroad legislative work Senator Newlands enjoyed the closest confidence of President Wilson and had been re garded as administration spokesman on such matters In the Senate. There he was not a frec,uont debater, but always was given the closest attention when speak ing, llo piloted the Adamson eight-hour day bill through the Senate during the last Congress. Most of Senator Newlands' business In terests are In the West. He was reputed to be quite wealthy, having extensive mining Interests In Nevada and Califor nia. Colleagues of Senator Newlands feel that his loss will bo peculiarly felt at the present time. Only to-day he was en gaged on preliminary work of the Inves tigation ordered by the Senate of the In terstate commerce commission recom mendations for dealing with the rail roads. Leadership In this task now prob ably will devolve upon Senator Smith of South Carolina, next In rank to Senator Newlands on the Interstate commerce committee. Coming from Vimy Itidgo, where the dead bodies still lie prone In the mud, to the easy-chair atmosphero of Washing ton, Congressman Porter H. Dale's mes sage to the people of the United States Is: "For God's sake wake up and realize what this wnr means!" American troops without guns, without enough blankets, without necessary equip ment and wholly unprepared for the ter rific struggle which they must face Is a situation, that sends Mr, Dale back to this country with but one desire to Im press on Washington and Vermont the tremendous peril ami responsibility that faces this nation. "Talk about a short war," said Mr. Dale In New York this week, "wo shall be mighty lucky If we get through this war In two years, at such an expense and with such a loss of men as will run into hundreds of thousands. "I wish I might say to every depart ment head In Washington: 'Wake up!' I wish I could take them with mo to Vimy Rldgo, where the guns do not crash or detonate, but just explode in one con tinual roar, "I did not go into tho front lino trench esI don't think It is any place for a civilian but I walked among the stark, dead bodies of gallant Englishmen and Canadians, some of their faces crushed into the ooze arid some horribly changed and ghastly upturned to the sky. "Why unburled7 Because men are so precious and tho German aviators so vig ilant that even a bury-party In the open Is Immediately marked and cut down by their quick-firing guns. "Yes, I wish I had some of those easy chair Washington department fellows at Vimy Ridge, men who, after eight months of war, and not enough guns in Franco to equip our men, are still telling . tho newspapers that everything Is all right! "They seem to think we have done great things. Let me say that unless we begin cutting red tape, eliminating lost motion, doing away with Incompetent survivals of a worn-out military system, stopping this foolish talk about a short war and get busy rushing (1) supplies, guns and munitions to our troops In France, (2) men, more men and men by the million, wo are not going to win this war. "You can't put the appalling peril that confronts this nation too strongly." At Vimy Ridge, the party was so close to the firing line that they wero required to wear gas masks and helmet. Mr. Dale showed pome signs of the or deal of storm and stress that he and the other passongers and crew endured on the return trip from France. The city newspapers did not say much about it, as only a few passengers were aboard and only ono seaman was lost In tho gale, but the Vermont congressman says the big liner had her bows stove In by head-seas a ragged, gaping hole being actually torn in the heavy steel plates by a wicked smash from a huge comber her after-cabin-door stovo In and tho smoking-room cabin and everything elso between decks flooded. One-half of the bridge was torn away bodily, the officer In charge and the wire less operator being swept from their sta tions and rescued by the crew almost by a miracle. Ono seaman was swept over board in plain sight of everyone before a boat. could be launched In tho heavy seas. This was the same storm which followed the Halifax disaster and Mr. Dale's ship was then about 500 miles from these coasts. The voyage across was uneventful. The congressional party was deeply impressed with the speed and ability of the destroyer, which convoyed the liner. Our boat used to be considered fast, said Mr. Dale, "but the destroyers actu ally ran rings around her. They are tremendously fast about 35 or 40 miles an hour, I bolleve and when they sight a submarine they chase her like a hawk. I understand the U-boat crews dread these speedy, quick-firing boats more than anything else. "We are making a great effort to turn CAR RUNS AWAY: WASTE. FACTOR IN FOURTEEN KILLED HIGH MILK PRICE Trolley in Pittsburg Suburb Has Both in Production and Distribu- Wild Dash of Almost tton, Witnesses Say at a Mile. Boston Hearing. 38 ARE KILLED IN RAILROAD WRECK Nearly 40 Injured Passenger Trains Crash at Shepherds ville, Kentucky. (11.11 SOI.UIKH GIVES IlECOM 31UXDA v 'HON. Ciustav Wungolin. Commander of O A. It. Post. PicnkncyvlUe, Ills., writes: "I highly recommend Foley Kidney 3'llls. which I profor to all others huvo used." Foley Kldnoy Pills glvo quick rollef from backache, rheumatic pains, stiff, swollen Joints, languldness, kidney trouble and sleep disturbing bladder allmonts. J. W. O'Sulllvan, 30 Church St. Adv. needed but if wc can build and commis sion enough destroyers wo Bhall soon rid tho seas of tho submarine menace." Mr. Dale's description of the voyage to and through the war-zono Is ns dra matlo In some of Its details as tho tempes uiouh return voynge. The huge steel shuttle of a boat runs absolutely dark at night. Tho ports are closed from tho outshto and steel-clumped beyond the power of a passenger to open them. Every necessary light Is carefully shaded, so that no faintest gleam can bo seen a hundred feet away. Blind, almost dumb and with every human nerve strained to tho brcaklng polnt, tho big shuttlo hums through the night. If a door slams, a hatch falls or a heavy object Is dropped, tho wholo ship Is alarmed. Running feet, agitated voices and genornl excitement pervade the night; then tho thing is explained and the passengers settle down once more to un easy rest. Under these conditions a voyago across Is no pleasuro trip In war-time Congressman Dale had no trouble finding anything in Franco but the American troops. Although their num bers and location are, no doubt, thor oughly known to the enemy, a 'most mysterious silence met him everywhere. He actually had to "chase thcin up" himself and he never would have found the Vermont troops 'way back of tho fighting line If It had not been for some personal friends who told htm where to go. Ills own son, Timothy C. Dale, Is with the Harvard hospital unit and he was discovered only after tho most persistent search. Mr. Dale remained two days with the boy, tho rest of tho party going on to places of Interest In the North of France. Mr. Dalo saw several hundred Ver mont troops. Major Ashley, Captain Howe, General Sibert and General Ed wards. The latter was full of praises for tho Vermontors, and, although he did not mention the much-discussed affair of "splitting up the First Ver mont," It was plain to Mr. Dale that it was not on account of the officers and men who aro now doing their bit so far as they can In preparation for tho big spring offensive. Mr. Dale visited the Somme, the Marne, Sotssons, Remy nnd Verdun. On the latter hill he stood and look ed over tho shell-torn ground where tho French made good their tremen dous slogan, "They shall not pass!" To-day, and as Mr. Dale saw It. the French and German guns exchange shots at long range. Five perhaps six miles away, he saw the swift dash of smoke and belching cloud that bespoke ablg gun fired then, so long afterward that one could count heart-beats, he heard tho sullen boom of tho report. If It wero a German gun so much farther away then perhaps one could trace the course of the shell and see whore It burled Itself in tho earth and presently throw up a somber eruption of dust, smoke and debris. In tho villages of Albert, Bapaume nnd Peronne, tho party found not ono living Inhabitant, Just heaps of blackened stone, brick and shapcloss debris. No one could conceive of more complete and utter des olation than In the villages first taken by tho Germans and then retaken In this year's allied offensive. The congressional party was entertained In London by Mr. Arthur .1. Balfour, formerly here with tho British mission, also at a more formal dinner nt which Lloyd George, the speaker, the archbis hop of Canterbury and otlwr dignitaries were present. "Wo wero given the freedom of tho realm," said Mr. Dale, "but there was no unpleasant formality or distressful cere mony. The dinners made mo think of American banquets of the better class.", Mr. Dale expects to return to his d(s trlct soon after tho holidays and may tell at greater length his Impressions of tho Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 21. Fourteen Boston, Dec. 20.-Wastoful production persona wore killed and n hundred and distribution are responsible for the other passengers on a Knoxvllle street h, h rf f mk wa8 tho stance of car were hurt here late to-day, when " , ..,.... wiiii.m the car ran nwav in . tunnel whinh assertions made to-day by Mrs. William connects the South side business dls- Lowell Putnam and Frederick T. Fuller trlct with the south hills. After a wild at the continued hearing by the federal dash of almost a mile through th Loglonn, mllk commission at tho State muu mu vni- uiiidikvu hi. vimduii ovl wui' I HoUBC to-day. struck a snore curve, anu xurnea over Tho hoaring developed that ono pro- on us hiuo. iiuspiuui uociuro nam inai ducor. Herbert N. Sawyer of Atkinson, K, a number of tho injured could not re- H ( BoW mUk at retai for 13 cents a quart cover. which cost him .0595 cents to produce, yet rno car, wnicn was 01 me iaiesi low ho haA not maa0 any money for 10 years floor, steel type, was packed with the William N. Howard of Kaston. present city bound shoppers when It left the Dy Voto of the executive committee of tho station at the south end of the tunnel. Massachusetts State Grange, stated tho A minute or two later the trolley Is CMe of the farmers, picturing the many said to have loft the wire, and the difficulties and risks they must encounter light's went out. At almost the samo ana their unfortunate economic position Instant tho motorman lost control and jn being obliged lo buy their supplies at It dashed down tho steep grade, gain- retail and to sell their product at whole- ing momentum witn every instant as Bale. tho wheels slipped along tho wet rails. Karl D. Musser of the Connecticut Aerl- Wlion It shot out of tho tunnel and cultural College, supervisor In that State over turned it did not stop, but tear- for the BoBton Chamber of Commerce, told lng along tho sidewalk, struck a tele- how he figured out a cost of .0678 cents per graph pole. The roof was ripped off, quart at the barn for tho herds which and men, women and children were I were Investigated and which averaged scattered nlong tho roadway. Even 6,009 pounds per cow per year, testing .037 then tho wreck continued on Its way per cont. of butter fat. and flualy brought up In a little con- This average production, he said, was foctlonery store near Smltpificld St. about 600 pounds moro than tho averago Early reports placed tho number of dead I production for the Stato as a whole. He at seventeen, but a careful canvass of the gave figures of tho cost per quart for milk hospitals and the morgue showed that from co'ws producing less than 4,500 fourteen had been killed outright, eight of pounds a year, through various grades, to whom wero women and one a little girl. I make the point that the larger the A Ktatemont issued by the Pittsburg production per cow, the lower tho cost Railways company, which owns the Knox- per quart. ville lino, said the car "was of the most For the cows producing under 5,400 nodcrn and substantial construction and I pounds per year the cost per quart was equipped with every modern device for 1.0672, while for every successive stage it the safety of passengers. We have been was a lower figure, and for cows produc- unable yet to learn Just how the accident Ing over 7,500 pounds a year each the cost happened but have started a searching in- was down to .0466 cents per quart, vestlgatlon to ascertain tho facts." Theodore P. Grant, representing the Middlesex Jersey creameries, called as DOUBLE TRAGEDY a witness by Cornelius A. Parker, coun- IN LUMBER CAMP . !rh"u,eT nZ?ZZ Shephcrdsvllle, Ky Dec. 20.-Thlrty- elght known dead and nearly forty persons Injured, some of them seriously, was the toll taken when Loulsvillo & Nashville passenger train No. 7, from Cincinnati to New Orleans early to-night crashed Into the rear of a Bardstown, Loulsvillo & Springfield accommodation train COO yards south of tho station hero. Tho accommodation train had Just loft tho station after making a stop, when the faster train which makes no stop hero came In sight moving at a high rate of speed. Efforts to bring it to a halt were futllo, and tho heavy locomotlvo with tho weight of a heavy steel train behind it crashed Into the rear of the accommoda tion with u terrific Impact. Tho two wooden passenger coaches nnd baggage) car making up tho smaller train wero splintered. Virtually every person aboard the ac commodation train, both crew nnd pas sengers, were either killed or badly In jured, tyone of the passengers aboard the fast train were killed, though a num ber were Injured. The locomotive wan demolished and the heavy steel coaches making up the train were thrown from the track. A relief train was made up at Louis ville and rushed here with physicians and nurses. By the time it, arrived most of tho Injured and the bodies of the dead had been removed from the wreckage by volunteers. recently a large accumulation of milk llarve llucker Shoots Wlfr of Boss I at the creameries In consequence of the Thm Turn Gun on Himself. tendency to sell whole mllk rather than Brattleboro, Dec. 23. After Bhootln and Instantly killing Mrs. John Seesaw;. mont northern Malne and New Tork "l,u .... .., . atat0 are fealmK the cffect, as welt as U.' .VcereUX L"mb,r wpany of thof)e on thc f lfc raiIroa(lg aa Wilmington, Harve Bucker turned his the consequence Is a serious over-stock- Savage repeating rifle on h tnself and , of mk whlch has , 8 handIed inflicted injuries which resulted in his son,enow death In the company's hospital this e ma thJ commlflllton to fix the lllOrning. r,rnn nf mlllr In nm n'nv In mllatra th . tlb.l! tTJBll tlL"? creameries of their present losses. Chairman Allen of the commission stated that the function of the commts- ANOTHER "NATION-WIDE" MOVEMENT ON THE WAY consumers and that If any of them had suggestions the commission would be glad to receive them In writing. dense woods of Somerset last night, thirty miles from Brattleboro, on a t ....... Y. .. . L Tln..1.1 a.,..-. D.ifll.. ..? i, .-V .. rj.. V.k.:l "" was. to establish the price of fluid nA.nn. in u ....1. I mine for Boston ana vicinity. He said were the only persons in tno snack, 1 4. . ,. . . . . , . . . it Mr. Seesaw beln in Albany. N. Y.. t.TVi X.. after help and the other men being uway temporarily. Telephono wires wero out of com mission and It was late when officers from Wilmington got the news. Dep- CHRISTMAS MESSAGE 2 r"JZt? FROM GEN. PERSHING corporation over its private log road. He found Mrs. Seesaw dead on the Washington. Dec. 26. Renewed pledges floor and Bucker was kneeling, with of devotion to the cause of democracy his hands on his head, the lower Jaw from all ranks of the American expedl- shot off and tongue hanging. He was ttonary forces In France were given In fully conscious but could not talk, but a Christmas message from General Persh- by nodding or shaking his head In an- lng to the chief of staff of the army, swer to questions he gave the officer to The cablegram, made public to-night by understand that he was removing the war department, said: somo shells from the rifle when he ac- "Please extend to the President nnd the cldentally discharged It and then, see- secretary of war holiday greetings and lng what ho had done, he put his chin best wishes for success of our arms dur- ovor the muzslo of the weapon and lng the coming year and convey to them, fired ngaln. from all ranks of the American expedi- Buoker and thc body of Mrs. Seesaw ttonary forces in France, renewed pledges were taken to Wilmington on the loco- of devotion to our sacred cause, motive and Bucker was taken to the "Likewise express our greetings to our hospital at Mountain Mills where he comrades at home and coupled with full died. He was about 32. Mrs. Seesaw confidence In the patriotism, courage and was about 2S. Her husband Is expected devotion to the flag." home to-morrow, TEN KILLED IN LAST AIR RAID ON ENGLAND Emergency Food Survey Will' Card In dex All Oar Food. Washington. Dec. 23. Plans for making the nation-wide war emergency food sur vey are well Under way, tho bureau of markets announced to-day, schedules hav ing been mailed to every food dealer, manufacturer and holder of supplies in more than family lots. The survey, ordered at the lust session of Congress, will cover moro than 100 dif ferent foods and returns must show the Htocks on hand next December 31 nnd the samo day last year, with estimate of quantities in transit outward by freight and express on thc last day of this month. In addition to the survey by mailed schedules, intensive surveys will be made by agents In 43 typical counties In vari ous parts of the country In order that the figures obtained by mall may bo checked. Estimates ,of -stocks of foodstuffs on farms will be made by the bureau of crop estimates. "The complete survey," said a state ment by the bureau of markets to-day, "will yield the most accurate Information ever collected In regard to tho extent of the nation's food resources, and Is considered an important step in tho effort to placo the country on a safe footing insofar as the food supply Is concerned." WANT 15,000 MEN FOR GUARD DUTY Telegriium from Uovernora Skoira Vstan- lmlty of Opinion. out airplanes and airplanes are greatly war and Its serious meaning, BRITISH LOSSES OF WEEK, 13,919 Considerable Decrease Is Shown Over Casualties of Preced ing Seven Days. London, Dec. 24. The British casualties reported for the period December 19-24 In clusive, number 13,919, as follows: TAG FOR EVERY COAL SHOVEL New Kind of War Time Economy Hints Soon in All Households. U. S. BALANCE OF TRADE, $3,000,000,000 Washington, Dec. 25. America's bal ance of trado approximated $3,000,000,000 at the close of November, according to tho bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, an increase of 1141,000,000 over last year. In November export restrictions caused a substantial decrease In foreign trade. During the 11 months ended with No vember gold imports amounted to $533,000,- 000 and exports to 367,000,000, leaving an excess of imports of 1168,000,000 In 1917, against 1399,000,000 in 1916. Silver Imports during the 11 months amounted to $47, 000,000, against $29,000,000 a year ago, and tho exports were valued at $74,000,000 In 1917 and $02,000,000 In 1916. Washington, Dec. 28. Every house hold in tho laud, from the White House I to tho most humble cottage, Is to havo Killed or died of wound-Offlcers. 205; mhints on T Wednesday. January m?!' l . . ... 30. The fuel administration announced Wounded or missing-Officers, 837; men. ito.nlBht tnat tho services of the W' 'twenty-three million-odd school chll- ,. Tl . . Idren were being enlisted for the task, A very considerable decrease In the fl th 8tat0 and municipal au BrltlBh casualties Is shown In the latest ,thorltleH am, teachers would be asked figures. The casualties for the week end- ,0 unite in making the day a national lur le weeK Hci,00i holiday. enaea uecemoer u, Z9.86Q and for the week ni. u .m sucerost. "sve ii..t enaea uecemoer , shovelful of coal a day for Uncle Sam" - land on the back will carry advice about CALL REV. H. C. LEDYARD. heating and care of the furnace. LyadOBVllle UBlveraallat Parish Sum mons Cortland, N. V., Pastor. Lyndonville, Dec. 20. Tho Universallst parish at this place has extended a call to the Rev. Henry Clay Lodyard of Cortlandt, Y to the pastorate recently made vacant by the removal of the Rev. H. H. Niles to Concord, N, H, It Is expected he will accept tho call, begin ning January 1 next. Mr. Ledyard was ordained to the min istry of the Congregational denomination in 1908 and held pastorates In the South. Transferring his fellowship to tho Uni verBallst denomination ho took a post graduate course in theology at St. Law rance University, Canton, N. Y at the completion of which he accepted a call to the pastorate at Northfleld. From there he went to the mission point of the Universallst general convention at Little Hock, Ark., and from there to Cort landt. Previous to entering tho ministry Mr. Ledyard Joined the regular army of the United States at the time of the war with Spain and saw active Bervlce In the Philippines, receiving wounds from which he has never fully recovered. He is married. $50 FOR ASSAULT. Addition County Court Also Disposes of Four Divorce Cict-M. Mlddlobury, Dec, 20,-Barnard Thayer of Orwell, aged, 23, found guilty of assault upon John B. Monger, was sen tenced to-day In Addison county court to pay a fine of $w nu costs within 24 hours or servo a Jail sentence of three ,iavH fnr each dollar. Tho fine was paid. Although tho Jury was out all night in tho case of Joscpn ouw. timrgca wun u.m.iinD- n ISO heifer from Michael Tler- ney It failed to agree, nnd camo In this morning for "light" on a "reasonable doubt." It came In aguln at three to have tho testimony of tho respondent read, but lit a '" naa noi re turned a verdict. rrv,n fallowing dlvorco canes wero dls jt . Vfliiio E. Trnmmal vs. Omrlng IIUBUU J . . , C Trammal, alleged neglect and refusal to support, petition dismissed without prejudice; Mildred Gordon vs. Howard Gordon, petition granted, for adultery; Oeorglunna H. a. Jra j. uat- ...m.. .insertion and refusal to sutmort. no decision given; Charles II. Potter vs. Mary II. Potter, sruiucu tor nnui ten'. 20 STATES FAVORABLE TO "DRY" AMENDMENT One Holder Brought Down 10 to SO 'Plane TTaed by Germans. London. Dec. 20. Ten persons were Washington. Dec. 20. Telearrams I killed and seventy .Injured In London In from the governors of 20 States of the I Tuesday night's air raid. Outside of Lon Unlon show not only a remarkable I don five persons were Injured. unanimity of opinion forecasting the I One of the Gorman airplanes was passage of the national prohibition I brought down and another Is believed to amendment, but also a decided swing I have been destroyed, the war office an- in four States at present in the "wet" I nounces. From sixteen to twenty raiders, column toward it. (divided into six groups, endeavored to Everyone of the 20 governors predict- I reach London, but only five succeeded In ed the Indorsement in his State of the I dropping bombs on the city. dry amendment, some predicting over- I The raider known definitely to have been whelming majorities. Of the 20 States I destroyed was hit by the fire of antl-alr- represented In the Tribune's poll, four I craft guns and finally dropped Into the sea are 'wet" Florida, Nevada, Texas and oft the Kentish coast. Two of the erew Wyoming. The heads of these States of three were captured alive by an armed expressed hardly less confidence In the trawler. passage of tho amendment than the There Is reason to believe that a second governors of the "dry" States. raider dropped Into the English channel, TWENTY-SEVEN NOW. ay the report. h. i a, A British pilot fired two drums of am- bone-dry." To secure national prohl- munition Into a raider as It wa. dropping bltion the Legislatures of 36 States 01 must flflnnt thn ShAnnur nmAndmiinr Ha. I foro 1926. Unless this comes about After tho ma,n attacks of the raiders tho war against liquor will be set back ceased a single airplane flew over London 20 veirs. As th nraaent "rtrv" Rt. ai aooui nine u ciock, are expected to approve the amend- AU lno onu,n macmnes wnicn went up ment almost wlhtout exception, the to escape the enemy returned In safety. fate of the whole movement rests w th uwio uune. the 21 "wet" States, nine of which must fall Into the "dry" column to bring Woman Sues for $2,000. natiou-wido prohibition. . , ' The progress of the amendment will , nu,lftnd. Dec- 2G'ranc,s. E- Bowker. bo apparent during the coming year in 3r-'ot Boston and Rutland, son-in-law only 13 States, whose Legislatures will of aeore T- Chaffee of this city and meet In regular session. Of these, former general manager of the Green aeorgia, South Carolina and Virginia, """"tain Marble company of this city, Mississippi and New Mexico already lH tho defendant in a suit brought in are prohibition, though In the first two Bennington county court in which Alroa States the liquor forces soem to be 'yand Mortenson of Dorset seeks to gaining ground and may swing them recover $2,000 as a result of an automo beclc to license. In the othor eight bl,e ccl,e,lt near Rupert July 12. 1S14. States whose Legislatures meet In 1918 1,1 w,,lch tne Pontiff claims to havo re MassachUBetts, New Jersey. New York, ceived serious permanent injuries. A car Rhode Island, Kentucky. Maryland, d,lven by Dowker collided with a small Ohio and Vermont the Isbub Is divided, machine occupied by six persons and with two Inclining toward prohibition, MlBS Mary Korhonen of Dorset was in two toward license and the rest In "tontly killed. The plaintiff was a pas doubt. On the attitude of New York, ner In the same car. the financial stronghold of the liquor 11 was explained by Mr. Bowker at the forces, may depend that of the several time that the smaller car held tho road other States. I ahead of his car tor a long time, when he came to a lavoraoie place he attempted to shoot by the smaller automobile and the wheels of the two cars locked. Montpcller, Dec. 20. A copy of a re cruiting order for 15,000 men above tho draft age for guard duty has been re ceived at the adjutant-general's office. The order reads: "Fifteen thousand men wanted at once for U. S. guards for pro tection of public activities. Enlistment for period of (war) existing emergency. Men enlisted must be beyond draft age. Enlistment of married men authorized. Enlistment papers to be marked 'U. S. Guards, National Army.' Secure all men of former service, Spanish-American, Philippines, Boxer campaign, army or navy corps and men with experience In, well organized Arc and police companies. When practicable they will serve In vicin ity of their homes." Enlistment may bo made at White River Junction and Rutland. TERM COST $2,243.20. Co. September Session of Franklin Court and Special Grand Jury. St. Albans, Dec. 20. Tho audit of the ex penses of the September term of Franklin county court and the special session of the grand Jury as made by State Auditor Benjamin Gates of Montpelier, shows a total of $0243.20 divided as follows: Paid grand Jury debentures, $184.10; petit Jurors' debentures, $900.72; auditors, referees, ami special masters, $24; witnesses, $541.01; re porters, $318.37; assistant Judges, $273.60. Jury Could Not Agree. Mlddlebury, Dec. 23. After strug' gllng with the case of Joseph Eubar, charged with stealing a valuable heifer DR. CAVERLY SERIOUSLY ILL, nutland. Deo. 24. Dr. Chorles S. Caverlv from Michael Tlerney of Lincoln, the 0f this city, president of the State board Jurymen found themselves hopelessly of health. Is seriously 111 at his home, unable to agree and were discharged. Dr. Caverly la suffering with nephritis, uuDars uau 01 iuuu was renewea ana 1 complicated with oedema of tho lungs, ne is at iiDeny uniu uiiumer term or court. DEATH OF MISS HAPGOOD. Bellows Falls. Dec. 24. alias Lucretia THIS WAH HI) JOKHJ 1 Ann Hapgood. aged 82. a life-lone: resl J. E. Colver, 108 Labor Temple, Los I dent of Bellows Falls, and a descendant Angeles, Cut., writes: "I have had al To Entertain Vermont Sailors. Montpelier, Dec. 20. According to word received at tho executive office of Gov. H. F. Graham five Vermont Bailors will be entertained each on the Christmas day and New Year's by the Rocky Mountain club in their club rooms in New York city, along with five sailors from each of the other States in the Union and sailors from tho nations allied with the United States in the war. A similar entertainment took place In the club's headquarters Thanksgiving day, and Governor Graham hi that time wrote the gathering a word uf cheer, telling of the feeling which Ver mont has for her sons In the navy, to which John Hays Hammond, president ' of the club, responded. Recalls Lantern Slides. Montpelier, Doc. 20. Commissioner of Education M. B. Hlltegas has recalled all of tho lanterns nnd slides of views used In the educational system for training of the students. It Is the purpose of the commissioner to redlstrict the State, after which the lanterns and slides will be handled from his office Instead of through -the offices of the superintendents In the State. The cliaiiKe is made that the commissioner may havo a moro exact checking of whero the lanterns and slides are when ho wants them for any occa sion. Views of the Vail Bchool havo been mado which show the work being accom plished there to a good advantage. ARTIFICIAL CHKAM. Artificial cream mado on somewhat tho same lines as artificial butter haB been developed by two Chicago chemists, ac cording to the Popular Science Monthly. Skimmed mllk Is the basis, with some sugar first dissolved in it, and the addition of lecithin, a substance obtained from the yolk of eggs, and also molted beef or but terfat. This combination Is heated, whip ped up to a uniform creamy mixture, and then pasteurized, coole 1, and stored until wanted, , 56 years of experience with all sorts1 kinds of cathartic remedies some good nnd some n Joke. When I got wise to Foley Cathartic Tablets for constipation I got in right. The best I ever used." Do not gripe; no unpleasant after effects. J, W. O'Sulllvan, 30 Church St, Adv. m one of the most prominent families if early settlers, died here to-day. She was a daughter of Seth and Clarlnda (Harvey) Hapgood, the father being prominently known during early boating on the Connecticut river. Her death from old age occurred in the old family home stead which had always been her home. HOW TO CHECK CHOUI' QUICKLY There is one rellablo remedy for croup that every mother should know. Mrs. Sweet Clary, Ante, Va writes; "I think Foley's Honey and Tar is the best medi cine I ever tried. My little son nearly had croup. I gave him one dose and it stopped hint coughing in about five min utes." Relieves coughs, colds, lagrippe. 1, W. O'Sulllvan, 30 Church St. Adv.