The Brattleboro Reformer from Brattleboro, Vermont • 1

irattltboro jLIeformct If your show window is a Reformer advertisement it is seen every day, rain or shine. SALLY Ts Feminine Topics TODAY Widely Head by Men and Women THREE CENTS. BRATTLEBORO, VERMONT, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 20, 1928. VOL. 16.

NO. 17 Dies at Age 77 Springfield, Man's Violin May Be Genuine Stradivarius HARDING ESTATE TO BE SEARCHED AERIAL HONEYMOON ENDS WITH CRASH F. Ames Injured When Plane Overturns on Husband's Estate Marriage in Mexico. EATON, March 20 (fl-Mrs, Frederick Lothrop Ames was in bed today with a sprained back to remind! Vnr IrnDrOVernent in RlIFal her of an airplane crash which con- Diipiuvtn.cni 111 uuEdij aerial honeymoon and chided her aerial honeymoon Schools Throughout LISTERS TO MAKE CANVASSOF TOWN Authorized at Selectmen's Meeting to Incur Necessary Expense HISTORICAL DATA I BY JOHN E. GALE Tells Brattleboro Club of This Towns Sale by Auction Teapot Dome Committee Wants to See If He Was Involved in Oil State ACCURATE CHECK LIST IS OBJECT HOW ALGIERS WAS GIVEN ITS NAME water Invaded the Greene home and the violin floated about the house for two days.

When the water finally receded, the instrument was found not to have suffered in the least, a fact that attracted the attention of Mr. Greenes fellow workers. A local authority on violins was consulted and gave the information that had the instrument been of modern make, it doubtless would have become unglued from the long immersion. On looking it over the local authority found on the inside the following Inscription: Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis Faciebat Anno 1724 While no sufficient authority exists hereabouts to substantiate the belief that the violin may be one of the famous Cremona models, the owner expects to take it to Boston in the near future to submit it to an authority on violins. (Special to The Reformer.) SPRINGFIELD, March 20.

What may be a genuine Stradivarius violin is causing A. J. Greene, an employe of a machine shop in this town, to take steps to discover whether the instrument is really one of the models by the famous Italian craftsman, or whether his hopes, raised by a chance discovery are to be shattered. The instrument has been in the possession of Mr. Greenes family for nearly 175 years.

It was brought from France by Xavier Garlaneau. who came to Quebec in the early days of the settlement of the Dominion. From Garlaneau, the instrument was handed down to his son, who was Mr. Greene's grandfather, and so came into the possession of the present owner, who brought it to the United States 22 years ago. During the November flood, the homecoming to the estate here of her husband, yachtsman, automobile racer, aviator and member of socially prominent Massachusetts family.

Mrs. Ames was the former Miss Maurice Mozette, Cabaret entertainer at a Nogales, Mexico, club and before that a member of the Chicago Opera Co. They met when Ames, who was making a tour of this country by air, ven-, tured across the border while stopping at jfogalez, Ariz. A few days iater they were married and Ames, in company with his bride, continued his tour. Mr.

and Mrs. Ames took off from Buffalo yesterday and, apparently with Charges. WASHINGTON, March 20 P. With SALE OF MARION STAR QUESTIONED Mew Owners Ready to Have Full In-1 II Politicians In Congress I tar rage of Words and .1 estlgutlnii Politicians in ongress I nlrash EXTRA $50 PRIZE IN WINHAM COUNTY Offered by Reformer in Addition to First Prize of too and Second of $50 Conditions Government Contest Sent out by Education Hoard. Through the continued generosity the intention of avoiding publicity by and interest of Miss Emily Dutton land.ng at the East Boston airport, proctor and ex-Gov.

Redfield Proctor, came down on the Ames estate here.i. bearing their family name will In alighting, the palne overturned. 1 Mrs. Ames was at first thought to have again be offered for rural school lm-been injured seriously. Her husband i provement in Vermont during 1928 escaped without injury.

prjZes Gf $100 to the rural school in each county that shows the greatest Canvassers Not to Collect Poll Taxes, No Authorization Having Been Made L. L. Brown of Gardner Seeks Appointment as Town Manager. The matter of working out a plan for the collection of the poll taxes ahead of the property taxes and for Former pastor ln this coutny, who held making the check list as nearly accu-varlous parishes in state, dies In Springfield, Vt. I rate as possible, formed the chief item 1 the estate of the late President Harding now within its focus, the senate Dome committee's long and Qpaniifytng investigation of the now canceled oil lenses and their subsequent connections is nearing Its end to the accompaniment of violent po Meaning of Equivalent Lands Ex-, plained and Other Interesting Facts Given Guilford Resident Speaker at Club Luncheon.

John E. Gale of Guilford residence and Brattleboro association, who has always been an interested student of local history, gave the Brattleboro Club benefit of some of the many Interesting historical notes he has collected on Guilford and Brattleboro, in an afterluncheon talk at the Brattleboro club today. As he had promised, Mr. Gale told how Brattleboro oiice was sold at auction, also how Algiers got its name. In part, his address follows: Equivalent Lands.

What were the equivalent lands? And what Is their story? We have THIEVES GET $10,000 IN SPRINGFIELD RANK lltlcal eruptions on the floor of con-' 1 improvement during the spring and maim -(ion. defended Smith against what he: gress. 1 termed an unwarranted insinuation. I summer of the current year, ai gteb Today was another off-day for the I Merritt Baldwin, of Meriden, ond prizes of $50 to the school mak-Innulrv but it will get under way1 who is said to have been a private 1 jng the next best record. SCI Tomorrow oi I Th.ougl or v.o.

sub-committee investigation In Chicago. Meanwhile, further reaction was looked following the announcement will appear as a witness tomorrow. Wil- bur W. Marsh, of Waterloo. Iowa, I Vermont newspapers six counties will former treasurer of the Democratic I have additional prizes for which to national committee, also is under compete.

In Windham county The subpoena for questioning. I Brattleboro Reformer offers a third prize of $50: in Addison county the Escape with Bonds Taken From Officials Desk May Have Fled To Boston. SPRINGFIELD, March 20 Negotiable bonds valued at $10,000 were stolen yesterday afternoon by two young m.en from the desk of Robert R. Emerson, assistant treasurer of the Springfield Safe Deposit and Trust Co. in the bank at State and Main streets.

The men escaped. Emerson was engaged in looking up the prices and left the papers on the of discussion at the regular meeting of the board of selectmen last night. The board also received L. L. Brown of Gardner, who made application MAN PRISON CHIEF! for the position of towm manager.

To facilitate the work of forming a Will H. Mead of Houston. Gets definite plan for the early poll tax $8,000 Job and Will Lead Ke- collection and the check list revision, form Era for That State. i the selectmen discussed the matter Will H. Mead of Houston.

for- i wlth the three Usters Harry B- Haus merly of Hinsdale, N. son of Mr. I W. L. Sylvester and Charles J.

Brasor, had suffered with valvular heart trou- many times been told that Brattleboro and Mrs. A. W. Mead, and a graduate and with O. B.

Hughes, town counsel. ble for several years, but was in his t3 the north- bLcholeheadlf1 theafTvslem who lnterpreted the varlous phases usual health until a severe attack Sun- oeen cnosen neao oi tne penal system v. Tf day, death coming at 2 oclock yester- ward were once a part of the eqUiva- of the state of Texas at a salary of the iaw affecting tne matter, xt was day morning. He had been around as ient lands. Upon searching into the $8,000 a year.

In its story of the ap- generally agreed that the plan would usual at his work In the woods. matter we find that in the early days pointment the Houston Chronicle be 0f value to the town, especially in He was born in Naples, N. Jan. Gf the American colonies boundary said view of the fact that it would be 2, 1857, and had been a sailor from Hues between them were most vague. After a year of searching, says the enabling the town to secure the age of 18 until ne moved to East uncertain, and disputed.

Houston (Texas) Chronicle, the state helpful in enabling tne town to secure Dover eight years ago. He was captain The governments of the several col- prison commission has found the man taxes from the floaters. of a schooner on the Great Lakes and onies were making grants to settlers, wants to manage the far-flung pe- Chairman Solon A. Richmond said later on the New England coast. A and to organized companies of men ual system of Texas.

it was unfortunate than an article pro- sehooner which he owned while living whc Would procure the grant of a He is W. H. Mead. 40, of 5214 La- viding for the early collection of poll in Maine went to the bottom the tract of land sufficient for the laving Branch street, Houston, civil engineer taxes not put Into the warrant at sea one day and Mr. Morehouse bare- out of a town, perhaps, cause it to be by profession, now chief engineer for the town meeting, for if the town had ly escaped with his life.

He then surveyed, its boundaries marked and the American Petroleum Co. His ap- voted favorably on the matter at that bought a farm here through a real the tract divided into smaller plots? pointment as permanent administra- time, it would be possible to assess the estate agency and gave up seafaring, usually of 100 acres of size convenient tive head of the prison is announced poll taxes May 5 separate from prop-July 3. 1893. at Traverse City, for private ownership. I Col.

R. H. Baker, chairman of the ertv taxes. This would be in accord- yesterday by Senator Nye, Republican. North Dakota, chairman of the Teapot Dome committee, that before winning' up its searching inquiry into (he position of the Liberty bond profits of the Continental Trading Co.

the would look into the records of President Harding's estate. Checking I At Sullivan. Middlebury Register offers i. third SULLIVAN, March 20 (P). The prize of $50; in Caledonia county the trial of missing Continental Tradinir St.

Johnsbury Caledonian-Record offers Co LlbeTtv bLds todav had led to a third prize of $25 and a fourth prize desk to go to another part of the in-4 Sullivan lndb the hometown of of $15: in Orleans county the Barton stitution. Returning five minutes later. Hays' former national ReoSblan Monitor offers a third prize of $25. the bonds were missing and two young chairman md SDeclal verttaator A while for Washington and Orange 1 mn, who had been loitering about the and bpeclal investigatoi A. third Drives will be offered bank for 10 minutes, were suspected.

M. Fisher, a representative of Senator counties imra prizes wm ot outreu ifiL, no Nve Renublioan Norlh Dskrta of the by the Barre Times. The bank immediately notified the While he did not believe any of the' senate Teapot Dome invcstigathig comL Under this arrangement 35 or more! aurmes ln surrounding cities and bonds would be found there Nyc said rnittee. was here to investigate, ondiUernifg the com 1 Employes of the bank had noticed there would be a lack of satisfaction Fisher questioned Sullivan citizens conditions me con i 11 this committee submits a report to: and checked at different Sullivan the senate without going into the mat- I banks in an attempt to prove or dis Conditions governing the con test have been sent out in the form the strangers hanging around, and de-of a bulletin from the state board of scribed one as about 30 and the other as 35 old and tall. Both were of education in Montpelier.

The rules years follow light complexion. ter. prove that a block of the missing Liberty bonds of the Continental Company had passed through the hands of Sullivan citizens. 1. The deputy commissioners, Carl J.

Batchelder, St. Johnsbury, in the northern district, Clayton L. Erwin, Bellows Falls, and Kenneth Sheldon, Fair Haven, in the southern district, 1 wiU have general Charge of the con- I lUlNS test 2. Each school wishing to compete I must, on or before March 24 1928 I 1 he married Miss Sarah A. Rob- pri0r to the year 1700 Massachusetts commission.

Mr. Mead was chosen ance with the law passed in 1915 which inson of Waltham. P. who survives. had granted many such tracts, and general manager by the commission provides also that If a poll tax Is paid Capt.

Morehouse was a member of about that time granted lands to the Monday. March 5. He will assume his within 15 days of May 5 the taxpayer Round Lake lodge of Odd Fellows in amount of 107 793 acres on its south- i duties about the middle of the month, ft entitled to a discount of four per Charlevoix, Mich. He was a highly re- ern border and supposedly within its at a salary of $8,000 a year. His head- cent.

For the current year, the poll spected citizen, a kind neighbor and i territory but when the true line be- quarters will be at Huntsville, where taxes cannot be segregated from the tween this colony and Connecticut was the state penitentiary is located. property taxes unless the town acts established, in 1713, it was discovered In Mr Mead we belleve have upon it at a special town meeting. friend. Besides his wife he leaves one gray overcoat, while the other had a blue overcoat. The men were not in the bank when the theft was discovered.

An employe recalled seeing them leave hurriedly a few minutes before the bonds were found to be missing. Police inspectors, it is said, traced two men answering their description to the Union Passen-' ger Station. It was ascertained that they reached the station about the time a train was due to leave for Boston. Police in Boston and Worcester, therefore, were immediately notified to be on the lookout for the robbers. If they are there we are going to tell the world, he added.

'If they are not there we are going to tell the world. I dont think they are there." i Agreeing that Nye was absolutely T0 TRY HOI I AR right," Louis Brush, who, with Roy 1 1 1 UULLmv Moore, purchased the Marion (Ohio) Star from President Harding, issued a statement last night saying that ne and his associates, who are in Wash-! tngton on another matter, ware willing to give the oil committee any and all i details of the transaction. "Let us. for the sake of square shooting and in fairness to the memory oi President Harding, the statement said, "Bring this thing right out in the open and go straight through it oiTnorminrrTtivTct SU liSv. Kli Senator Heeds Campaign Want Dig Fund from Contrib utors.

KANSAS CITY', March City Star says that of Sen. James A. Reed's campaign have decided to contributions by organization found just the man we need," said it was decided, however, that the- that 107.793 acres so granted was in Managers Small 20 (TP) make application to the deputy commissioner of the district, and on April 15, 1928. the contest will begin. The time intervening is to allow the dep-Kansas managers uty commissioner to make such per- presidential sbnal fAhe school as-may he neoricri before the contest opens be needed avoid large daughter Truman Gibson of this town, a brother.

Willard Morehouse of East Jordan, three nieces and one nephew. The funeral will be held at the home tomorrow at 10 a. m. and the body will be entombed in Dover Center cemetery. Thr family ha the sincere sympathy of the community in their loss.

fact upon the Connecticut side of the olonel Baker a man who will bring jftters should undertake a canvass of boundary line ftirder out of chaos, and bring the dawm the town for the purpose of obtaining Udou learnine this fact the govern- of a new day in Texas P11 affairs, an accurate check list which would meat of Massachusetts granted to Con- He has no experience in prison system also be used as a check on the poU tax necticut an equal number of acres of Te canvass probably wlU begin 1 lected him. He is not a politician shortly after April I and will proceed thats another reason. I under the direction of the listers. A But the main reason is that he Is tentative biank to be filled out by the a high-class business man. a man who canvassers was presented last night.

These eaui valent lands as thev Sts things done. With farm managers when the hlank is properly filled out. eTf Toc.S by a t', I tSfEfbw 1UJ sion composed of the governors and fEaa.da Lri cnnrri- whn knnw v.a3drfSSV,ae CUAW if'' T'VrDlT Cl? two other members from each inter- thelr bustoess- and guarbs tvho know birth and other information Including SHOW BIG INCREASE 1 theirs, we are sure that Mr. Mead can data about real estate, personal prop- le-r2r01S one a of 43 943 correlate all these forces, through his erty. etc.

The listers were authorized places, one tract oi u.aaj otne into a harmonious. INCOME PAYMENTS is bs 3. Each school wishing to compete Attfi I VESTIIi A TION must apply Individually. This may be '1' 1 done by the teacher and parents or interested citizens or by the local school board and superintendent. The application should specify -some worthwhile project for improvement intend- OF 1928 CAMPAIGNS Senators Nye anil Capper Would Congressional Eye on All of a club The Marion Star flgitteu in tne early tQ obtain one dollar subscriptions." urt of the oil investigation when in- "Because of his position as prose-quiry was made into sensational le- cutor of the senate slush fund invesU-ports that some of the profits of the gatton.

the Missourian has had to naval oil reserve deals were included watch his step in the matter of cant- in the sale price of the paper. The palgn contributions. the Star said. newspaper's (purchasers vigorously de- announcing the "dollar cam- ed' tbuBh not all plans need be known tiled this at the time and no evidence paign" probably would be formally! at tiie, tlme ot application. The deputy: was uncovered to support the charges, started here Friday next, the Star told comrnlsslorler may.

If necessary, make WASHINGTON, March 20 (Pi. -An A committee investigator will be 0f the reported refusal of several offers other conditions of application within investigation of the 1928 presidential sent to Marion to Inspect the Harding of large contributions to the senators tht spiDt of the offer- I anb congressional campaign by a estate files Indications have been campaign fund including a proposal 4' prizes are given only to one- special senate committee now has been given by Senator Nye that he probably' by a Chicago man to go out ana get! room rural schls- The time of com-I suggested from two sources, will not leave here before early next up to on-half million dollars petition closes Sept, 15, 1928, and the! Senator Nye, Republican. North Da- prizes will be awarded as soon there- kota, chairman of the Teapot Dome Keep Political Expenditures. month. acres lying on the Connecticut river.

nesf Band ve ex expenseh and within the limits of the towns make the cabvaff' Tbe now known as Brattleboro. Dummer- aftbe administration it selectmen are anxious that the pub- canvassers ever has had 1 lic receive the canvassers agreeably Government Has Received This Year May Exceed Estimates by $160,000,000. WASHINGTON. March 20 Treasury receipt from the March 15th income tax payments, which are being ARREST SON-IN-LAW after the necessary comparisons can committee, which has been inquiring be made. Only work actually com-j into past campaign funds, says that 4ALT1 nn i aiip i rr-i 1 Pted and equipment actually bought if no one else proposes a resolution to Ur LUAL U1 I UR ancl delivered can be considered.

have a committee check up on the or- I 5 The award of prizes will be deter- ganization of the two parties he will milied by three factors, in the order do so. 1 nanped Improvement In the school In the course of a formal statement building, in its equipment, in its issued Sunday, Senator Cappejj, Repub-grounds. It is not necessarily certain lican. Kansas, gave notice that he that prices will be awarded to the best would seek to have the senate provide BIRMINGHAM, March 20 (Pi. 'c T'.

I Mr. and Mrs. A. liam Injured When Bomb Des-trovs ilis Automobile. Mien of Stnn Putnev and that nart of Rrook- line Ivina to the eastward of Grassy Every maI1 acquainted with Mr.

and that the latter be given every as-brook Dg 1 tUe 1 1 ot Mead's qualifications whom tbe com- sistance. The selectmen ask that the The boundaries as established bv the mlsson have asked about him and public be particular to give the cor- watched closely by congress and the commission, in its report dated Nov. thls inch)des some of Houston ore- rect spelling of names so that the administration, show that at the close jo. 1715, were as follows- rffost citizens has declared tha check list when finally prepared will of business March 17 the government The northeast corner boundary is 18 Jinreconmfi? to Houston accurate, containing no duplicated obtained payments of the mouth of the brook at the north- f. TB HamnshTrl his native tl0S' tv, 008.07, while on the same date last ward end of the Great Meadow (Put- ago fro Hampshire, his native Mr Brown, the town manager appii- year the total was $197,690,398.51.

ney) where said brook emptieth itself state' Mr; Mead has served -as A cant, said he was a native of St. Al- If this proportion should carry lnto Connecticut river Itttiefoot of engine, for the plpe department bans and attended Norwich university, through for the entire collections of Tavlor'Island frorn whence it bounds the Texas company tor three years. He is an ex-service man and has been 1928. the treasury would be likely to I uwf ConnecUcut Over the river he waS chlef the produc- an industrial engineer for many have about $100,000,000 or more above; ra) easterly down to the mOUth of tl0n department tha same compay years. He was told that his applica-its estimates.

On this showing hinges the brook that emofieth Uself rUo fr elght yearS; abd chief engineer for tion would be kept on fie and that he the fight in congress over tax revision. Connecticut Hver aT the ower end of HgS Brothers bf Houston, widely- would be advised as to the outcome but Secretary Mellon is expected to the Meadow, Tbout three mfies south- knOWX1 011 men' fr thfeC yearS' probably Aprd 1 or shortly thereafter. awrait a fuller showing before announc- ward of West river- and from the I as the board hopes to make a decision tWS 1SSUf' I mouth of said brook' it extends west- INTERS QUIZ TAX SOOD' The March 15th payments usually northwest by the needle of the survey- liAA one-furtb of the total due ing instrument six miles and a half, on 197 income although many tax- and froin thence it extends north and payers select that date for making pa east by the needle of the surveying in- strument 12 miles, which is the west- About 50. Mostly from Windham Donald Murdock, 35. son-in-law of I a vd at the end of the machinery to Inquire into expen- ditures in the coming campaign.

It was President Harding who signed the executive order which Albert Fall, as secretary of the Interior, r.s- sumed direction over (he Elk Hills and Teapot Dome reserves and later leased them to Edward L. Doheny and Harry Sinclair. This was in 1922 and when the government recovered these prop- erties by court action President Cool- idge rescinded the order of his, prede- cessor. As the Harding phase was developing yesterday, the senate floor was treated to one of the most hectic partisan debates of Its carter, with than dozen senators flinging verbal darts across the aisles at each other all as a result of the recent disclosures that $160,000 of Sinclair's bond profits from the Continental Oil deal were used in 1923 to help wipe out the Republican party deficit from the 1920 Harding campaign. Demands were made for the resignation of high administration officials, V.

Allen. Tennessee Coal, Iron and ones have road Co. official was arrested here i Nnhnni degree of lmprove- last night in connection with an ex- cons'dered plosion in Mr. Allen's automobile Sun- unless day. which injured the steel company ba ha official and hii wife and demolished made' or-lf serlous objectionable features VERMONT SENATORS URGE PRESIDENT Want Patrick J.

Farrell Appointed to Interstate Commerce Commission. are found to exist. 6. The prize when received shall be devoted promptly and entirely to additional improvements in the building, grounds or the equipment of that school which has won the prize. Such improvements shall be subject to the approval of the commissioner or dep- by far the most prolific in increasing government receipts.

CLAIM BIG DAmT WAS DYNAMITED the car. Police refused to say on what grounds they held Murdock. Murdocks only statement was that he was Innocent of any connection with the explosion. which, police say, was caused by a bomb. He was quest ionad for two hours before being placed in jail on a including Secretary Mellon, and one i technical investigation charge, which senator, Robinson, an Indiana Repub- permits no bond.

lican. suggested that Governor Smith of New York, might be able to "throw considerable light on whats been go- lng on ln the last four years." Robinson to show that Sin-! Clair ln 1920 anil afterward became a member of the New York State Racing commission, holding the post until af- Four Towns In That County Inder Federal-State Quarantine. MONTPELIER. March 20 (P). Harold L.

Bailey of Bradford, state County, Attend Festival Hall Meeting List of Those Present. About 50 listers, mostly from towns in Windham county, attended the meeting in Festival hall yesterday afternoon when Erwin M. Harvey of Montpelier, state tax commissioner, gave his annual instructions relative to tax assessing work. The meeting opened shortly after 1 p. m.

and was closed at 3.30. After the commissioner completed his talk, several questions were asked and some WASHINGTON, March 20 UP). Senators Dale and Greene of Vermont uty commissioner, and an account' of urged President Coolidge today to ap-expenditures shall be returned to the point Patrick J- Farrell of Vermont, at commissioner of education present chief counsel to the Interstate commerce commission to the vacancy I oh that commission caused by the re-j ttrernent of John J. Esch of Wisconsin. erly boundary of said lands; and from thence it extends east-southeast by the needle six miles and a half to the mouth of the brook at the upper end of the great meadow.

The northern and southern boundaries of this tract almost fully coincide with tne northern boundary of Putney and southern line of Brattie-boio, but the western boundary was considerably varied in the grants made iater by the government of New Hampshire. All the tracts of equivalent lands IOWA HUGE KILLED. Los Angeles Authorities Claim Evidence That Disaster Followed Explosion. LOS ANGELES. March 20 (P).

The Evening Express today says that Los Angeles city authorities are carrying on their investigation of the St. Francis dam disaster on the theory that the collapse of the big buttress was caused by dynamite. entomologist, stated today that he recently completed an investigation in the corn borer situation Bennington county and has found considerable increase I in the intensity of the infestation there. There is a federal-state quaran-I tine against the movement of corn Fail Tomorrow Not Much Change In I Temperature. WASHINGTON.

March 20 (P). Forecast for southern New England Fair tonight and Wednesday: not much change in temperature: fresh westerly winds, probably strong at times on the southeast coast. Forecast for northern New England: Cloudy tonight: Wednesday fair: little Company I Plans Event for April 2 at Armory Lunch Follows Drill Last Night Promotions. Company I will stage a public guardmount at the Armory Wednesday April 4. Special drills incident to the presentation were rehearsed last night following the regular weekly drill.

A detailed program of the guardmount is being prepared by company officers and will be published in a few days. The public will be cordially invited to attend. After the drill last night, a lunch was served by the mess sergeant and cooks. The menu comprised doughnuts. coffee cake, cheese and coffee.

Raymond M. Hadlock served last night for the first time in his new capacity as second lieutenant. The following promotions have been made recently in the company: Corporals Frederick W. Ryan and Leslie L. Hadlock have been advanced to sergeants.

The following privates have been advanced to corporals: Ralph C. Scribner, Carroll Rice, Percy E. Sprague and Theodore E. Gustafson. The following privates have been advanced to first class privates; Edward D.

Connors, Ernest W. Gibson, Walter I. Clark, Frank W. Colburn. Wesley W.

Sprague and George A. Zelena- persons from Massachusetts, Connect! cut and London. The price paid was i 683. or about three cents per acre. poiPtldg U.ie alleged jict The amount reaiized was used as an the first oil revelations.

Chairman BlNye said the oil committee had been informed that such was the case, but added he saw no reason for calling the New York governor. Governor Smith declined to comment when Informed in New oYrk of this development. Airptane Crashes Into Telephone Post In Texas. SAN ANTONIO. Tex.

March 20 P). First Lieut. William C. Williams, air corps reserve and a judge in Atlantic, Iowa, was instantly killed here today when his plane crashed into a telephone post near the Second Division Air Fielfi at Fort Sam Houston. is declared to be ln the hands of Dis triot Attorney Asa Keyes.

were sold at auction at Hartford on of the listers presented complex situa-April 24-25, 1716, to a company of 21 tlons which confronted them last year. Among the audience were a few list-'ers from Windsor county who found it more convenient to come to Brattleboro than to attend the scheduled meeting in that county. Those present from Windham county were: E. L. Torrey, Athens; W.

L. Sylvester, Harry B. Haus and Charles J. Brasor, Brattleboro; B. H.

Smith, Brookline; Merle A. Jones, Dover; Merton H. Hazelton. W. H.

Davis and R. Albert Newton, Dummerston; Frank V. Wilbur, Mason A. Walker. Francis A.

endowment for Yale college, at New Haven. The purchasers made partition of their lands, and that partition lying in what is now Vermont came into the hands of William Dummer, Anthony Stoddard, William Brattle and John White. Dummer afterward became lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, and was such when Fort Senator Reed. Democrat. Missouri.

the towns of Bennington. Shafts- change in temperature: moderate to SPRINGFIELD TO CELEBRATE. candidate foi the presidential nomlna- bury, Arlington and Stamford APPROVES EQUALIZATION FEE. Dummer was built and given his name. William Brattle, another ot these proprietors, was the first named in the 3 fresh westerly winds Fair weather prevailed this morning in all sections, with the precipitation I of the past 24 hours confined to small amounts in the lower lake region and St Lawrence valley.

The pressure continues below normal over northeastern districts and has fallen over the Northwest. The temperature is generally season- Houses, Agricultural Committee Favors MeNary-Haugen Bill. WASHINGTON, March 20 (p). By a vote of 13 to 8 the equalization fee Committee Preparing for Extensive July -1 Celebration. (Special to The Reformer.) SPRINGFIELD, March 20.

What they hope to make the largest Fourth of July celebration ever held in southern Vermont will be promoted here on Independence day by Spring-field post of the American Legion and ikhe Community house. A joint committee composed ot Robert R. Finn, Warren W. Watters. Theo Menard, Henry Finn and E.

J. Lyndes heag nation, there was no Indian 'tribe en, Elmer A. Weston and Henry has been appointed from the two having a permanent location in or I Weeden, Rockingham; Ernest C. Pike. I groups to prepare the program, which near this section.

Stratton; F. T. Randall, A. D. Meacham Wentworth of New Hampshire in 1753.

CnJ aadThn With the exception of the Squak- bitt, Fred A. Whitaker. Hugh A. O'Bri- principle of the MeNary-Haugen Farm relief bill was approved today by the cw Un gland this morning it! house agricultural committee, tanged from 26 at Greenville, to kas about 32 in coast and southern TONIGHT AT 8.15 and SAME TOMORROW NIGHT 1 I tmjeaTR TRUMBLE TRIPLETS OTTAWA. Ont.

Divorces granted in Canada in 1927 showed an increase of 23 per cent, statistics compHed by the dominion bureau of statistics reveal. 80 YEARS OLD If Mothers Only Knew Thousands of Children Suffer from Worms, and Their Mothers Do Not Know What the Trouble Is. Signs of Worms are: Constipation deranged stomach, swollen upper lip, offensive breath, hard and full stomach with pains, pale face, eyes heavy, short dry cough, grinding of the teeth little red points on the tongue, starting during sleep with troublesome dreams, slow fever. Mrs. II.

N. Roberts. 502 Asylum Flint, wrote: My little girl is relieved of her worms. Arid in a Iater letter wrote: Baby is fine and it was your Dr. Trues Elixir that helped her.

PARIS -Mrs. Clark Harlen, nee Seymour, has flied suit for' divorce from her husband who is at present living In 1926 there were 608 and in 1927, at Angola, N. Y. The couple were mar- I 748- the largest number recorded in ried in Buffalo, N. on June 18, 1921.

I any one year 80 far- The Squakheags had their domicile I and N. H. Lawrence. Townshend; B. A.

in what is now Vernon, on the flat i Streeter, Vernon; C. L. Shine and L. G. lands in the bend, or bow, of the Con- Stocker, Wardsboro: Harlan G.

Foster, netcicut river, southeasterly from Ver-1 Westminster; W. H. Hancock, C. B. non church.

This tribe had been Morse and E. H. Murdock, Whiting- ham; Frank S. Bellows and Harry D. Allen, Wilmington.

will open on the evening of July 3 with a ball in the Community house gymnasium, followed by a huge bonfire and fireworks at the fair grounds, starting at 1 a. m. ffuly 4. The program for the day will include junior and senior baseball games, a county horseshoe pitching championship, horse races and other attractions, winding up with a display of fireworks in the evening. Two bands will be hired for the day and the American Legion bugle and drum corps of the post will be on hand.

SUGARING-T1ME Send your out-of-state friends post cards of the Vt. Sugar Orchard. For sale by Hopkins The Florist, Inc. 81 Main Street AIRPORT AT NEWPORT. Made Dr.Trues Elixir Plan to Observe Birthday Together ii Trumble Home In Pittsfield March 31.

SPRINGFIELD. March 20 (P). The claim to being the oldest triplets in this part of the country, at least, will receive emphasis on Mareh 31. when Francis I. Trumble of this city and Pittsfield, Franklin I.

Trumble of Troy. N. and Mrs. William Lewis, also of Troy, will celebrate their 80th birthday. All are in excellent health and are looking forward to a joint celebration of the outstanding anniversary date in the Trumble home in Pittsfield.

Francis I. Trumble spends much of his time in this City and is well known here. The three were born at Sand Lake, N. the children of Levi and Bal-sora Ann Trumble. They were three of 10 children.

there for many years prior to the ad vent of the whites, but had been so reduced in numbers through incessant wars with their hereditary enemies, the Mohawks, that they w'ere weak and nearing extinction when the whites came to Northfield, which town was granted by the government of Massachusetts in 1672. In 1687 the Indians, by "their chief, Naw-elet, and four other sachems, relinquished their rights in the territory on both sides of the Connecticut river. Including Northfield, Hinsdale, Vernon and the larger part of Guilford, the northern boundary of their country being the Wan-as-qua-tok, or The Bingville Fair Where you had so much fun last year. I. O.

O. F. TEMPLE WEDNESDAY EVENING March 21 8 p. m. Delegates Ask That Field Be Customs Port of Entry.

si ALBANS, March 20 (P). Delegates from Newport, representing those Interested in the Newport Airport venture, presented a plea to have their field dedicated as an official customs port of entry here today at customs headquarters. Collector Harry C. Whitehill promised to give their plea careful consideration. He will probably recommend favorable action to Washington, The True Family Laxative and Worm Expeller A pure herb Laxative and not a harsh stimulator; quick, natural relief from constipation.

Family size other sizes 60c 40c. Ticket holders not in their seats when the curtain rises will not be seated until after first act POS-I-TI VE-LY (A few good seats left at Auditorium box office) N. B. Tonights tickets are numbered 33: tomorrow night's 34. CARD PARTY Academy Hall, W.

Brattleboro Wednesday, March 21 Progressive 500 7est Brattleboro and Centerville Parent-Teachers Association. Admission 35 cents NEW YORK The pride of the United States merchant marine, the Leviathan, today was believed to have hung up a new speed record in her crossing of the English Channel from Cherbourg to Southampton. The crossing time of four hours and nine minutes was said by British newspapers to be the fastest ever jnade by a liner. (Continued on Page Eight.) i.