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THE BENNINGTON EVENING BANNER THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR--NO. 11,185 BENNINGTON, VERMONT, TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1940 PRICE 2 CENTS; 12 CENTS PER WEEK Must Live in One Town MARTIN RAPS FAILURE OF NEW DEALERS Declares Record of Last Seven Years a Sombre Story of Futility and Broken Promises; Classed as March to One-Man Government Candidates Express Convictions of Huge Gains Following Early Voting; Resolutions Committee Report Delayed Convention Hall, Philadelphia, June 25 (P)---Representative Joseph W. Martin of Massachusetts took command of the Republican convention today and called upon his party to rally against "a steady drift toward governmental obsolutism." A convention torn by the conflict of opposing candidates cheered wildly as the blunt New Englander took up the gavel to pound the way to a platform decision and a presidential candidate. The nomination fight tightened statement from Thomas E. Dewey's manager and from former Gov.

Henry J. Allen of Kansas, denying delegates were falling away from Dewey and with Wendell Willkie moving from delegation to delegation in a personal effort to counter "stop Willkie" talk. Headquarters of Frank E. Gannett, New York published, claimed a bloc of 25 votes, after early balloting for Hanford MacNider of Iowa, from Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota and South Dakota. The of Senator Taft of Ohio had in no way slowed their drive.

Each delegate found a Taft carnation in his seat this morning. Downtown, evidences of controversy in drafting the 1940 platform, centered on the important foreign policy plank, developed when Chairman Herbert K. Hyde announced his resolutions committee would be unable to report to the convention tonight. Martin told the convention that every ideal of Americanism was imperilled by those who would make the government and nation tools to be manipulated by one man at the head of an unelected political bureaucracy. The convention, he said, should rally all patriots.

to a crusade for Americanism. "For seven anxious years we have seen this march toward one man government," the stocky chairman said. "The record is a somber story of failure and futility and broken "We want America at peace with the world; an America untainted by hatreds and fears." "We must preserve our country from the schemes and treachery of those unsympathetic to our constitutional republic and who would destroy it." Even before the first thin stream of delegates had begun to move into the big convention hall, Will- told delegates of his native Indiana in breakfast talk that he was not "discouraging other but on the contrary thought they were "all fine An Indianan was one of those who yesterday signed a statement issued a group of congressmen which was directed against Willkie's candidacy. Leaders of the forces of Senator Taft of Ohio and Thomas E. Dewey simultaneously were tightening their lines against inroads by the tousle-haired utility man.

Though a "stop-Willkie" movement had been dumped into the convention, no open alliance was disclosed. FUNERAL MONDAY Services Scheduled at Sacred Heart Church for Ubald Hebert Funeral services. for Ubald Hebert, who died Monday morning at the age of 82, will be held Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock at Sacred Heart church and prayers will be from the home of his daughter, Mrs. Fred LaBarge, at 218 Mill street, at 8:30 o'clock. Mr.

Hebert. for 25 years a resident of Bennington was the father of Edward Hebert, who drowned two weeks ago while fishing in Lake Raponda. For many years he lived in Wallingford and his burial will be in that town. for Several Years Before He Is Able to Distinguish Between His Acquaintances WILLKIE BOOM FLARES IN PHILADELPHIA Warming up to campaign, Utility Man Wendell L. Willkie (right), with his wife (left) and their son Philip (center) took spotlight at an "Old Fashioned American staged Philadelphia backers as Republican National convention opened.

Willkie adherents claimed 100 votes for his nomination on first ballot after two-month whirlwind "darkhorse" campaign. Says Hitler Seeking New World Order Dr. Julius H. Manes Addresses Church Meeting of Men on Designs of German Dictator; Warns of Spies "In such an Dr. Julius H.

Manes told a meeting at the Methodist church Sunday evening, "two predominating tasks are waiting for us. First to do everything in our power to help extinguish the fire under our neighbors' roofs in Europe and, important, to surround our own edifice with strong fire protection." Dr. Manes "It would be a dangerous delusion to compare the last World War with this crisis, thinking in parallel terms. is no more, as some want to belteve, a fight between two imperialistic power groups--the Allied on one side, the dictatorships on the other. It is rather a life and death struggle between two entirely different concepts of and outlooks at life, between two cultures, while the economic problems, the wish of the "Habenichtse" the have-nots, as the dictatorships call themselves, to gain sufficient living-space is mereIly a side issue.

It is a fight between different ideals, uprising virile nations are pitted against decadent and decrepit democracies of which we are one ourselves. the 'blood' of the master race against the 'gold' of the rapacious plutocracies. Hitler is striving for a new world order. We must realize that the German racial dogma--aside from believing the the the superiority and supremacy of the German master (Continued on Page 8) Missing Persons May Register Themselves Dan J. Healy, census supervisor for the western half of Vermont, with headquarters at Rutland, came to Bennington Monday and is remaining today and tomorrow to close up the census in his district which is composed of the seven counties of the western half of Vermont.

This is the final county to be checked and there have been many reports of families and even whole streets being missed, and these who have not been counted are asked to report a't once, tonight or tomorrow morning as the books are not to be held open longer. Mr. Healy has made arrangements with The Banner to receive reports of persons or families missed. Word can be sent either by telephone or personal call. Call phone 9 or 830 any time up to 5 o'clock this afternoon or between 8 and 12 o'clock tomorrow (Wednesday) morning and The Banner will pass the word along to Mr.

Healy. Act now as Bennington is going to show a loss in population unless a few more of those missed come forward. Census The supervisor of the census Final! is family in town not and enumerated anybody is or asked to telephone The Banner office at once and we will get the word at once to Mr. Healy, the supervisor. This is the last call and Bennington is going to show a decrease unless all those missed let it be known promptly.

Telephone now. Who Have a Habit of Making YOUNG GIBSON TO SUCCEED HIS FATHER Appointed United States Senator Today by Governor Aiken Who is at Philadelphia Convention Serves to January Ernest W. Gibson, is Just Past 39 Years of Age, Has Practiced Law for Twenty Years and Been in Politics Most of Time; Is Present Secretary of Vermont Senate As predicted by Ara Griggs and others who attended the Gibson funeral, Governor Aiken today announces that he will appoint young Ernest Gibson senator to succeed his father, and hold the fort until the November election. The following is an Associated Press dispatch from Philadelphia this afternoon: Philadelphia, June 25 George D. Aiken of Vermont said today he would appoint Ernest W.

Gibson, of Brattleboro to succeed his father as United States Senator. The governor indicated that the younger Gibson would serve until after the November election. Aiken previously had announced he would seek election at that time to the seat vacated by the death of Senator Ernest W. Gibson, sr. Although it was reported that the seat also, Plumley said Representative Plumley would seek last Senate, that any statement cerning his intention to do SO would not be made until "propriety suggests sufficient time has elapsed so that a statement may appropriately be made." There were reports that Ralph E.

Flanders, Springfield, a member of the Vermont delegation to the Republican National convenalso might seek election to fill out Gibson's term which expires in tion, 1944. Another candidate mentioned Brigadier General Leonard F. was Wing, chairman of the delegation. Ernest W. Gibson, is the oldest son of the late senator, He was born in Brattleboro March 6, 1901, and has always lived there.

He graduated from the Brattleboro high school and from Norwich university in the class of 1923, and graduated later from the George Washington University law school. He was state's attorney of Windham county four years and has been secretary of the state senate since 1933. He married Miss Dorothy Switzer in 1926 and they have four children. He has one brother, Preston, and one sister, Doris. Preston Gibson is present judge of the Windham county municipal court.

He is expected to take his seat in the senate at once. Wills Speaks To Carriers At Brandon Declares Strengthening of Morale of Country Needed; Discusses Highway, Welfare and Educational Departments of State Brandon, June 25-Lieut. Gov. William H. Wills, speaking to 185 people at the 35th annual meeting of the State Rural Letter Carriers association, at the Brandon inn last made an appeal to the association members to help in task of building a strong America.

The means of accomplishing this, said Lieut. Gov. Wills, is to strengthen the morale of the country. These statements were followed by a general discussion of the highway, welfare, and educational departments of the state, which represent a large share the appropriations of the state. Wills closed with a tribute to the late Senator E.

W. Gibson. Other speakers at the meeting were Mrs. Ralph Fifield, president of the national auxiliary of the Letter Carriers: Thomas Walters of Georgia, national committeeman for the organization; J. E.

Cooper of Washington, superintendent of the rural mails; Arthur H. Packard of Jericho, president of the state Farm Bureau, and E. S. Condon of Boston, a representative of Sears, Roebuck. Inc.

M. Farr of Chester served as introducing the speakers. Mrs. Chester Platt of Brandon accompanied by Mrs. Robert Dean, also of Brandon, rendered two solos.

Eight-year-ola Rose LeBaron performed an acrobatic dance. In addition to being the 35th annual meeting of the association, this is also the 16th meeting of the Ladies' auxiliary, and the fourth annual meeting of the junior organization. WEATHER Cloudy with occasional rain tonight and in north portion Wednesday; not much change in perature. Good on Their Promises and Those Who Are Merely Trying to be Agreeable. Germans Begin Celebrating As France Mourns Defeat; British and Nazi Bombs Fall FRENCH DELEGATION BOWS TO IL DUCE Hitler Orders Ringing Bells of Country for Seven Days and Display of National Flag for 10 Days to Mark End of Triumphant Blitzkrieg in France Government at Bordeaux Orders Day of National Mourning; Italians Subdue Celebration; Air Raids Continued Over England and Germany Information Booths To Open Wednesday All but two of the 12 state-financed tourist booths will open officially Wednesday.

Bennington's and Brattleboro's will not open until July 1 and will operate until October 14, for a 15 week season. The booths opening officially Wednesday are located at Rutland, Vergennes, Corners in Colchester, Johnsbury, Wells River, Barre, White River Junction, and the State House building, Montpelier. These stations, set up by local Chambers of Commerce, will receive financial aid from the publicity department for a 10-week period ending September 3. The State House location, however, operated directly by the state 'department. While many of the booths are already catering to tourist travel, they do not receive any money from the publicity department until the contract season opens.

A total of 2325 is expected by publicity service, directed by Harold Chadwick, as an aid to maintain these information depots in all the strategic sites in the state. Stop Willkie Move Started Dewey and Taft Supporters Fail to See Where Claimed Votes Come from; Hoover Supporters Hope Speech to Open Campaign Philadelphia, June 25 cries of "we want Willkie" and "stop Willkie" supplanted today the cheers which Republican convention delegates accorded their keynote speaker's description of the New Deal as a failure. The delegates dropped their lively hotel-lobby discussion of the nomination long enough to hear Gov. Harold E. Stassen call on publicans to advance fifth on four column fronts de-preparedness, fense, economic welfare and genergovernmental effectiveness.

But they scarcely had left the convention hall shortly before last midnight when the candidates and their campaign workers renewed their private appeals for votes. Supporters of Senator Robert A. Taft and Thomas E. Dewey worked feverishly to nail down their pledged delegates against inroads claimed by the forces of Wendell Willkie, New York utility executive. A spokesman for Senator Taft asserted that the Willkie boom had actually "struck a snag" and was slowing down.

An anti-Willkie statement came from eight midwest members of the House of Representatives. They said the party would have to stand on the record its members had made in Congress and that Willkie could not conform to that record. Dewey told reporters it had been difficult for him to find where the reported Willkie support had been "largely translated into delegates." Willkie lieutenants, nevertheless, kept their claim of first-ballot strength of about 100 votes and predicted a majority after a few ballots. Former President Hoover will arrive late today to deliver a convention speech at 8:30 p. EST, which his advocates hope will touch off a burst of enthusiasm and take him into the nomination.

Trotsky Secretary Found; Shot Dead Mexico City, June 25 (P) -Police announced today that the body of Sheldon Harte, secretary-guard to Leon Trotsky, had been found in an abandoned house near City Harte, formerly of New York city, had been shot dead. Identification was made by his associates in the Trotsky household. Harte disappeared May 24 when machine-gun attack was made on the home of Trotsky, exiled former Soviet Russian war commissar. Croonquist Takes Lead With Par 70 Battle for Medalist Honors in National Collegiate Golf Championship Develops Closest Kind of Competition One of the keenest battles for medalist honors anywhere appeared in the offing today as the 145 competitors in the National Collegiate Golf Championship, drawn from more institutions, trained their sights on the last 18 holes of the qualifying competition on the Ekwanok course in Manchester. Retiring President Neil Croonquist of Minnesota paced the field yesterday when, after being straight down the middle on every fairway, he wound up with a par 70.

That round gave him a single stroke lead over four rivalsJohnny Burke of Georgetown, the 1938 champion, Warren Berl of Stanford, last year's defeated finalCordingley of Harvard and Bill Clark of Dartmouth. Exactly 63 of the 145 starters in cards 78 or better after making their first tour of the 6565- yard course, despite a series of showers. Frank Newell. the first entry from the University of California at Los Angeles to compete in this event, Jack Selby of Princeton and Bert McDowell of Louisiana State, who was runner to Burke two years ago, only two strokes off the early pace-maker. Other low scores included Warren Tansey of Michigan state, Henry Castillo of Louisiana State.

and John Emery of Michigan, all with 73's. Louisiana State took a long lead in team scoring for the title won last year by Stanford. The four lowest LSU scores totaled 294, nine less than Princeton's. The team championship is decided during the 36-hole qualifying test, which also reduces the field to 64 for match play. Makes Round Trip to Cal.

by Motor Fritz Williams, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Williams of Putnam street, is entertaining his friends with stories of his recent round-trip to California by car. Taking the southern route out and the northern route back, Fritz saw many of the natural and man-made wonders of the country including Boulder dam, Zion canyon, the Petrified forest, the Painted desert, great meteor, the Mojave desert, Mt. Wilson observatory, Sequoia National forest, Yosemite National park, the oil field's and turkey and cattle ranches.

In California he visited his brother, Theodore, who is working at Glendale for Douglas Aircraft company. Gone only a month and four days, Fritz dipped down into ico before starting back east. He drove an estimated 10,000 miles and had the distinction of being the second driver through the newly opened road over Sonora Pass, alti- tude 10.500 feet, which was ed, even in May, with 10 to 12 feet of snow. He had no car trouble on the entire trip. At the Arizona border state officials tossed out two cases of oranges, said to have been diseased.

GRAVY TRAIN Santa Fe, N. M. A campaign to "humanize" the state industrial school for boys is meeting with expected success. The school band played at Raton music festival. said James Kukle, a member of the board of trustees, "three Raton boys went before judge and asked to be committed to the school." Member of the Germany, General officer in Rome Forest, France-scene French bowed to lowing automatically ture was radioed French delegation which signed the armistice with Charles Huntziger is shown saluting an Italian after flying in a German plane from Compiegne of French capitulation to the Nazis.

The the Italian demands with the "cease-fire" order folsix hours after the formal signing. This picfrom Berlin to New York. Balloting Started at School Meeting Ballot boxes were opened this afternoon at 2 o'clock for the annual Bennington Graded school district meeting in the armory. Voting was expected to be particularly heavy on article three of the warning calling for resignation of school board trustees from wards 2, 3, 4 and 6. The business meeting is to be held this evening at 7:30 o'clock.

Article four is also expected to receive considerable attention from the voters. It asks for an investigation of the Bennington Graded school district finances from 1936 to July 1, 1940, inclusive. May Acquire French Gold Possibility Seen that Germany May Add $1,850,000,000 to State Treasury; 1570 American Planes Also in France; Gain Iron Mines New York, June 25 (AP)-Authoritative sources estimate that Germany have captured, as much as $1,850.000.000 in the conquest of France- and the whole treasure may be under water. This on the assumption that France did not have Poland's success in spiriting its gold out of the country. The most recent reports available in banking circles were that France held $1,250,000,000 in gold in the labyrinths under the Bank of France in Paris.

To that store was said to have been added $600,000,000 in gold hastily moved invaded from that Belgium when Germany country. The storage vaults are some 80 feet below the surface of Paris' rock foundation and well below the waters of an underground stream which, Bank of France officials said years ago, could be diverted into the vaults at the touch of a button. Among the items of war booty, which it seems fairly certain Germany will obtain in whole or in part are 1570 A air. planes known to have been delivered to France in the last 18 months. The deliveries were: 200 Douglas bombers; 600 Curtiss pursuits; 280 Martin bombers; 40 Vought-Sikorsky bombers; 450 North American aviation trainers.

One of the most valuable acquisitions, from the German point of view, is the iron mines of France which annually produce 19 per cent of the world's ore supply compared with the 4 per cent produced in Germany and the 8 per cent produced in Great Britain. "GREENBACK" SHOWER Bride and Groom of Coming Week End Remembered A very joyful and generous greenback shower was. held at the Catholic Foresters hall last Saturday evening. in honor of Miss Gilberte and Louis Laflamme. There were approximately 200 relatives and friends present from Bennington, North Bennington, Shaftsbury, Greylock, North Adams, Springfield and Canada.

Square and round dancing were enjoyed throughout the evening. The musicians were: Pianists, Ray Murray and Mrs. Willy Delisle; guitarists, Wilfred Tessier and Gus banjo. "Dave" Philips: violinists; "Phil" Daigneault and Florian Rougeau of North Adams. During the party a full chest of greenbacks was presented the guests of honor.

A delightful lunch was served at the end of the shower, Says France Broke Pledge About Fleet Churchill Charges Ally Gave Solemn Assurances Germans Not to Acquire Naval Force; Promises Rescue from Bondage London, June 25 (P)-Prime Minister Churchill told Commons today the French had broken their promises not to let their fleet fall into enemy hands, but in the House of Lords, Viscount Caldecote, dominions secretary, said Churchill would relax his efforts to retain French naval help. Churchill, making his sixth war report to Commons, made no reference to the whereabouts of the French fleet, but said it was "clear that French war vessels under this armistice pass into German or Italian control fully armed." Caldecote summed up the situation thus briefly: "The Prime Minister will relax no effort to secure that French. ships will continue to serve the cause for which they have been employed for many months." Churchill said he had made it clear to the that the British would go fighting, and that he had made it plain to the Petain government that the conditions indispensable to their release from their agreement with the British had not been complied with. Churchill said Britain offered to release the Reynaud government from its written pledge not to ne- (Continued on Page 5) DR. LANE ENLISTS Will Go to First Area Camp at Devens During July Dr.

John D. Lane is among those who have applied for admission to the newly authorized military training camp for men between 25 and 50, to be held in the First Army The Corps belief area, that not during only Julyould home guard units be formed, but the National Guard should go into field training at once and stay there indefinitely, was expressed by Dr. Lane in a letter to the Military Training Camps association which originated the "Plattsburg idea" of training officers for service in the last war. "All reserve officers should be called and put service at once, as should have been done long ago," Dr. Lane said.

This special course In military training was authorized by the war department after the need for it had been emphasized by the association. The association's National Emergency committee now is conducting a nation-wide campaign for enactment of the Burke bill, which calls for selective military training and service for men between the ages of 18 and 65. One of the bill's provisions is to include men of middle age in the active service classification on the theory that this would increase efficiency and stablize morale. The nine special camps in the various corps areas were instituted for this purpose. RATTLIN' GOOD STORY St.

Augustine, Fla. -E. C. Creech of St. Augustine drove his automobile over a rattlesnake on the highway and then got out to see if he had killed it.

The automobile wheel, Creech said, not only killed the snake but had made it cough up a dime, dated 1912. (By the Associated Press) German and British bombing planes struck with renewed fury today as peace stilled the battlefields of vanquished France and a total of some 5,000,000 French, German and Italian soldiers quietly obeyed the "cease firing!" order. There were few outbursts of joy -none of the whooping shouts of fraternization that marked the end of hostilities in the World War on Nov. 11, 1918. Italian infantrymen merely stacked their rifles and sat down on the mountainsides to drink hot coffee and wine.

Artillerymen left their still-smoking cannons to join their comrades. Some Italians called across the Alpine snow to French poilus, but there was no answer. The combined Nazi-Fascist onslaught against France halted at 1:35 a. today (6:35 p. e.

s. t. yesterday), with the terms of the armistice still officially undisclosed. Berlin reported that the conquerors' demands comprised 24 paragraphs and that they were "hard, but not humiliating" for France. According to best available figures, France originally had 000 soldiers engaged in the conflict.

Germany sent some 2,000,000 men into France and Italy about 000. Casualty figures were still unavailable, but were expected to be high. The German high command announced that in the last day of fighting, Hitler's armies advanced to Royan and Angouleme, 50 miles north of Bordeaux on France's west coast, and captured St. Etienne, 50 miles south of Lyon, in eastern France. While Nazi warplanes bombed England-the German high command said the attack WAS aimed against British airports--British bombers attacked the Ruhr, rich industrial region, and plastered high explosives on a series of German-held airdromes in Holland.

Waves of German bombers, in the widest forays of the war, thundered Britain from London northeast and penetrated to the west coast over Wales and northwest England, dropping explosives at many points while British fighters and a gunners struggled to bring the raiders down. Despite the extent of the areas attacked, however, only three civilians were killed and 13 injured, the government announced. London itself had its first raid (Continued on Page 4) High Diver in Auto Collision The high diver with the Travers carnival now in town was involved in a minor accident this morning at 9:40 o'clock in front of the postoffice on South street when he drove his car away from the curo. The high diver, H. L.

Swift of Miami, was driving a Lincoln Zephyr coupe. Louis Turgeon of Armagh, Quebec, whose car collided with Swift's, was driving a Dodge sedan north on South street. Officer James DeLong investigated. The police department will not recommend that charges be made by the state for the accident Saturday morning at the corner of Depot and River streets, police said this morning. Cars operated by Maxime Monville of Rutland and Theodore P.

Carriere of Bennington collided at the intersection with considerable damages to both autos. Mrs. Monville was shaken but apparently not seriously hurt. She was treated by Dr. Harris H.

Cohen. POLITICAL ADVERTISING RURAL DISTRICT CANDIDATE Guy L. Putnam Seeks Place On Prudential Committee Guy L. Putnam of Burgess road has consented to become a candidate for prudential committee of the Bennington Rural Schools, the to fill the vacancy caused by expiration of the term of Ralph R. Haynes.

Mr. Putnam is making no canvass in his own behalf but consented to run at the request of his friends. If elected he will serve the best interests of the rural schools district and its children. Mr. Putnam is a member of the firm known as Putnam and Kelly, which has conducted a successful business in town for several He is well known in the community, years..