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VOL. 20. NO. 65 ev Economic War Declared NEW COMPTROLLER ON THE JOB PUBLIC ENEMY' GUY WIRE TO PEGGY MMATH TO REPEAT STORY Tells Grand Jury Today About Her Commerce Chamber and Insurance Men Also to Have Banquet Falls Across 2, 300-Volt Electric Power Line Roeco Belcastro Shot While Bound In Automobile VISITORS FROM OTHER TOWNS HER PARENTS ALSO TO BE WITNESSES WHOLE DERRICK IS ELECTRIFIED HAD LOADED PISTOL BEARING 6 NOTCHES mm liiil Telephone Cable Between Barre and East Barre Cut to Prevent Reporting of Destruction to Sheriff No Progress Toward Arbitration. MONTPELIER, May 15 (JP).

The strike situation in the Barre-Montpe-lier granite section remained unchanged today with the hope of arbitration no further advanced. Yesterday a guy wire supporting a derrick was cut and permitted to fall across a 2300-volt electric power line, electrifying the derrick and all wires connected with it. No one was injured, however. The telephone cable between Barre and East Barre also was cut, severing communication and preventing the sheriff from After nearly a year, of fighting in the disputed Gran Chaco territory, Paraguay has declared war against Bolivia. President Eusebio Ayala signed the declaration.

(Associated Press Photo) Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, president of the German reichsbank, is shown as he arrived in New York en route to Washington to represent Ger-many In economic talks with Presi dent Roosevelt. (Associated Press Photo) Secretary Wopdin (left) of the treasury welcomes the new comptroller of the currency, J. F. T.

OCc nnor of California, former law partner of Senator William G. McAdop, after OConnor had taken fa -ath of office. (Associated Press Photo) WOODIN REALLY FEELS SOME HOPE. Investigators Credit Gangland Enemies with Deed Recorded as Burglar, Liquor Dealer, Terrorist and Member of Circus Gang." CHICAGO, May 15 Public Enemy Rocco Belcastro, 25, recorded by police as a burglar liquor dealer, terrorist, and member of the Circus gang, was found shot to death today in an automobile. The body had been bound securely with clothes line and wire.

It was partly wrapped In a burlap bag, and covered with a blanket. In a shoulder holster was found a loaded pistol with six notches on the handle. Police said Belcastro was paraded yesterday in a detective bureau showup with other robbery suspects but was not identified. Investigators theorized he had been shot by gangland enemies while bound and helpless. It was the first gangster killing in Chicago in weeks.

Police records showed Belcastro had a long rqcord of arrests, but few convictions. Terrorism and burglary were the most frequent changes. Authorities said he was no relation to James Belcastro, reputed bombing boss for gangland. TAME FOX GOOD AT STEALING CHICKENS. CONFERENCE NEXT YEAR IN BARTON ST.

JOHNSBURY GIRL SPELLING CHAMPION CHURCH FUNERAL IN WILLIAMSYILLE Open to Public Speaker Roger B. Hull, Managing Director and General Counsel of National Association of Life Underwriters. Arrangements are being made for a gathering of insurance men In particular and business men In general at Hotel Brooks Thursday evening of this week for a banquet and address, sponsored by the Brattleboro Chamber of Commerce and life Insurance underwriters of Bennington, Bellows Pall and Brattleboro. The speaker will be Roger B. Hull, managing director and general counsel of the National Association of Life Underwriters, which last year had 20,000 members, and while he has a national reputation to the insurance business his address here will appeal to everybody who attends.

He has traveled through every state in the union and is informed on most current spbjects. Mr. Hull devotes his full time to his job and has headquarters In New York. He is an excellent speaker and will give you a rousing meeting, writes W. O.

Comstock of Montpelier, president of the Vermont Association of Life Underwriters, to F. C. Dines, who is assisting in the local arrangements. To Everett J. Taggert, assistant secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, Mr.

Comstock writes. "I am very glad to learn that you have been successful in arranging to hear Mr. Hull, and feel certain that you will be well repaid for your trouble. Writing from Chicago to Mr. Comstock, Mr.

Hull says, I wilt plan, definitely to be in Brattleboro on Thursday evening, May 18, at the Hotel Brooks, ready for anything. The banquet will be served at 6.15 oclock, and will be open to the public at 75 cents a plate. Any who wish to attend are asked to notify the hotel, Mr. Taggert or Mr. Dines as soon as is convenient.

HINGHAM, May 15 (JP). About 17 years ago Joshua Jones found a starving fox pop. He nursed it to health and placed a leather collar around Its neck. Six months later the fox' escaped Yesterday Jones killed a fox that was after his chickens, from his coop for 17 years. NEW YORK, May 15 (TP).

William A. Woodin, enjoying a breathing spell for the first time since he became secretary of the treasury says: Now, thank God, I think I can say that I really feel hope In the air. The banking situation seems to have settled down and I feel real hope. is a little out of fashion, but I do sense it. So Woodin was home again among his books and music.

EUGENE M. ANGIER DIES SUDDENLY CONGRESS HOPES TO ADJOURN JUNE 10 State Holding Buck Brothers Under $100,000 Bail as Participants in Crime Prosecutor Expects Evidence Will Require Two Days. BARNSTABLE, May 15 (JP). Pretty, little Margaret (Peggy) Mc-Math, 10-year-old Harwichport girl, whose kidnaping two weeks ago stirred nationwide Interest, held the center of interest here todav as the Barnstable county grand Jury, meeting in special session, began to consider evidence against the two men the state charges with the crime. In order that she might lose as little time as possible from attendance at the school from which she was spirited away by a hoaxed message on May 2, the child and her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Nell C. Mc-Math, were placed near the head of the list of witnesses called to testify. Others on hand as Judge Edward F. Hanify of Fall River Instructed the Jurors in their duties, without specifically mentioning the case before thm, included Harold Sawyer and William Lee of Harwichport, business associates of the girls father, and Ralph Snow, Harwich banker, all of whom had a hand in the negotiations that led to the return of the child three days after she disappeared.

The state charges that Peggys return was made contingent upon payment of a $60,000 ransom and that Kenneth Buck, 28-year-old former chauffeur, was the man who kidnaped the girl and took the money. The state also charges that Kenneths 40-year-old brother, Cyril, proprietor of a small garage, had a hand in the extortion although it Is admitted he refused an additional $10,000 In ransom money. Both of the Bucks are to jail here to default of $100,000 ball. Police say Kenneth has signed a full confession exonerating his brother. District Attorney William C.

Cross-ley, who said he expected presentation of evidence to last two days, called Nelson Bearse of Centerville, a surveyor, as his first witness. Bearse prepared maps of the scene for the authorities. From the lips of Uttlfe Peggy, herself, however, Crossiey expected to draw a vivid picture of her successive confinement in an abandoned cranberry bog shack and a filthy bole beneath an abandoned bouse where she was kept trussed until the money had been paid over allegedly to the youhger. Buck aboard Lees yacht. Other witnesses called included Walter Cahpon, a neighbor of Kenneth Buck, who allegedly was approached at one point to the kidnaping to act as a go-between; Police Chieg Emulpus E.

Hall of Harwich, who discovered the true hiding place after Buck had misled authorities during a re-enactment of the crime, and State Detectives Ernest Bradford and John Stokes, who played an important part in the Investigation of the kidnaping and the recovery of the ransom money. Margaret Beattie Wins State Title and Will Go to Washington Peters Wins Second Place. MONTPELIER, May 15. Margaret Beattie of St. Johnsbury is the champion speller of Vermont this year and will be sent to Washington, with expenses paid by a Vermont newspaper (the Burlington Free Press), to represent the state In the national coon test.

The 13-year-old girl, who is a pupil in the eighth grade in the Portland street school In St. Johnsbury, Miss Marion Brahana, teacher, won first place Saturday aftemooon in the state contest here, outspelltog 27 other contestants, two from each county, and missing only, one word, axiom, in the written test and none in the oral test. There were several other contestants who missed no words that came to them in the one-hour ordeal of spelling ih rotation the words pronounced by Attorney Peter Giuliani of Montpelier. Two boys were tied for second place, each missing three words ill the written test and none In the oral. On a second written test, David Peters, 14, of Hyde Park, a seventh grade pupil, missed only one word and placed second.

Norman Morrison of Barre city missed two words and placed third. Services for Charles K. Stedman, Willlamsvllle and Brattleboro Ministers Officiating. (Special to The Reformer.) WILLIAMSVILLE, May 14. Largely attended funeral services were held at the church yesterday at 1.30 p.

m. for Charles K. Stedman, who died in West 8pringfield last Thursday. Rev. Donald B.

F. Hoyt of All Souls church, Brattleboro, assisted by Rev. S. E. Aldrich of the local Methodist church, officiated.

Mrs. Bagg of West Springfield, sang No Night There and Mr. and Mrs. Bagg sang Sometime Well Understand. Mrs.

Hubbard of West Springfield accompanied them. The floral pieces were many and beautiful. The bearers were Harry Stedman, Clark Stedman, Lawrence Greenlaw and Bernard Stone. Those who came to attend the funeral were Mrs. Stedman and and Mrs.

F. E. Freyenhagen of West Springfield. Mr. and Mrs.

Lucian D. Stedman, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Greenlaw, Clark Stedman and Miss Aina Beckman of Gardner, Mr. and Mrs.

Harry Stedman of Dalton, Mr. and Mrs. Dana R. Stedman, Mr. and Mrs.

D. E. Bailey, Mr. and Mrs. Earle Dickinson and son.

Donald, Roy Bailey, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bailey, Mr. and Mrs. Burton Bailey of Agawam, George Bailey of Suffleld, Mr.

and Mrs. Chester Bailey, Clarence Bangs, Miss Florence Dickinson, Raymond Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Staples, and Mrs.

Herbert Sparks of Brattleboro, Mr. and Mrs. Fred M. Chase, Revere, Mr. and Mrs.

Arthur Staples and son, Greenfield, Niles Goward' and Mrs. Plummer of Springfield, Samuel G. Brown and Mr. and Mrs. Karl Maher, Newfane.

Burial was in the family lot in the old cemetery. DOCTORS PRESCRIBE LIQUOR FREELY NOW Restrictions Lifted Today Need Not Report Nature of Disease Increased. Consumption Expected. WASHINGTON, May 15 OP) The pint-a-week limit on medicinal liquor is off. Beginning today, physicians may prescribe as much as they think their patients need and they dont have to tell the government what the ailments are that require a whisky treatment.

As a result, federal officials look for a sharp rise in medicinal liquor consumption. There is plenty on hand. Industrial alcohol bureau figures show 5,000,000 gallons of pre-prohibition whisky in bonded warehouses and about 6,000,000 gallons of green 6tock aging in distilleries. Consumption last year was about gallons. The American Medical association advocated lifting the regulations on liquor prescriptions.

Congress complied this spring, this being the second change in the prohibition laws since March 4. Legalization of 3.2 beer and wine was the first. Under the regulations becoming effective today, virtually all the restrictions on physicians are lifted. Only when a physician prescribes for a patient for an extended period of months toust he notify the government of the amount. But he will not be required to reveal the ailment except on specific request of an enforcement agent who, in turn, must have direct authority from a superior.

HIGH VOLTAGE LINE KILLS VERMONT MAN Has Stroke of Apoplexy in His Home on Canal Street Had Large Real Estate Holdings, Eugene Marshall Angler, 72, of 146 Canal street, who had extensive real estate holdings, formerly proprietor of a blacksmith shop many years, died suddenly last night at 10.30 at his home at 146 Canal street. He suffered an attack of apoplexy while preparing to retire about 9.30 oclock and died an hour later. He had been in failing health the past two years. Mr. Angler was bom In Alstead, N.

Oct. 17, 1860, a son of Silas and Mary Jane (Marshall) Angler. When about 21 years of age he moved to Walpole and four years later came to Brattleboro, where he had since lived. He became associated with the late Hiram Hicks in a blacksmith business and later conducted on Flat street his own shop which he sold In 1915 to Philip Colgrove. Since that time Mr.

Angler had devoted his time to looking after his property. On Nov. 17, 1886, Mr. Angler married Hattie Wright, who survives. Besides his wife he leaves five children: Grace A.

Angler of Brattleboro; Mrs. Philip Philbrook of San Luis Obispo, Robert E. Angler of Claremont, N. Raymond L. Angler of Wlllimantic, and Mrs.

Francis Taylor of West Brattleboro. He also leaves three grandchildren and a brother, Silas Angler of Alstead. Mr. Angler was a member of Columbian lodge. No.

36, F. and A. Brattleboro of Elks and Brattleboro camp, M. W. A.

He was a very congenial and hospitable man, devoted to bis family, was a lover of horses and horse races and often served as a judge at track events. He had been superintendent of the horse department at the Valley fair. For many years he had owned a cottage at Lake Warren In Alstead, where he delighted to spend his leisure. The funeral will be held in Rohdes funeral home on Oak street Wednesday at 2.30 oclock, Rev. Milton S.

Czatt of the Centre Congregational church officiating. To Put Through Important Measures This Week Agreement on Tennessee Valley-Muscle Shoals Bill. WASHINGTON, May 15 (). Congress entered the 10th week of the special session today with high hopes of a rousing home-stretch dash for adjournment by June 10. Leaders were optimistic tiat the next six days would see at least three important measures at the White Hoie the administration Tennessee Valley-Muscle Shoals, securities Yegulatioh, and the gasoline tax-postage rate reduction bills.

The last segment of President Roosevelts domestic emergency program the public works-industrial control legislation was expected to go to Capitol Hill by tomorrow or Wednesday. Quick action appeared in prospect unless a wide-open fight develops on its taxation features. The senate today was ready to begin the Louderback impeachment trial while the house planned to consider miscellaneous bills. Beginning tomorrow, the senate probably will hold the impeachment trial in the mornings so as to keep the afternoons free for legislative work. Conferees have reached an agreement on the Tennessee Valley-Muscle Shoals bill and approval in the senate and house will be sought at the first opportunity.

Conferences were to start today on senate and house differences over the securities regulation and gasoline-postal bills. Meanwhile, committees are shaping the Roosevelt railroad reorganization measure and plan to make reports this week, with final action before June 1 appearing almost certain. Banking reform legislation will be Introduced In the senate by Senator Glass (D Va.) soon, probably today. His measure was unanimously by the banking committee Saturday and Glass hopes to pilot it through to enactment before adjournment. The only major barriers to an adjournment by June 10 that are now seen by Democratic leaders lie in the possibility of presidential requests fbr authority to deal with war debts and make reciprocal tariff agreements with foreign nations.

These controversial subjects are regarded as certain to stir up a fire of debate and opposition. Nevertheless, Mr. Roosevelt is expected to ask at least for power to negotiate tariff agreements. Vermont Congregational Sessions Close In Bellows Falls Attendance in Excess Of 225. (Special to The Reformer.) BELLOWS FALLS.

May 15. The 138th annual meeting of the Vermont Congregational Conference closed its sessions here yesterday after a series of very interesting meetings, attended by over 225 ministers and delegates from the various churches throughout the state. It was voted to accept an invitation to meet in Barton next year. Yesterdays program opened with a communion service at 7 oclock with Rev. E.

LeRoy Rice of Barre officiating. Special music by the vested choir of 25 voices and a violin offertory by Mrs. Wilfred Leach added to the 10.30 worship service when Rev. Augustine Jones of Springfield preached on The Most High, pointing out that people have always followed kings in customs set by their mate-risM life and to much the same way must have an Ideal to us as a pattern. Mjr.

Jones requested the members of his audience to be like God for mans sake, believing this not to be too hard as all include some divinity much as the apple is developed by the Influence of the suns rays. The closing service of the conference was at 2.30 and opened with an address by Rev. Chauncey C. Adams of Mlddlebury, who stated that if he were to write a history of the present day he would entitle it the History of Stupidity because of the modern habits of letting things go, of not taking responsibilities, of being afraid of criticism, and of preaching instead of practicing. He stated that the strength of a church was not expressed in the type of sermons preached by the pastor but by the united energies of the congregation for good.

Which Way Are You Looking? was the topic choseq by Rev. Robbins W. Barstow, D. president of the Hartford Seminary Foundation of Hartford, Conn. It was suggested to him by having seen a man walking backward along the highway with a placard announcing that he was touring the world in that manner.

Dr. Barstow, who has a compelling personality, feels that we have all been doing much the same thin In recent years instead of looking forward to the mess in which we now find ourselves and which might have been partly diverted if we had planned, for example, how to occupy the 400 men of a group of 600 discharged with the installation of a machine for making electric light bulbs. Technocracy, Instead of offering a solution, merely furnished a catalogue of mechanical accomplishments and leaves us with the task of thinking things through to what must follow now that we realize the situation which has been caused by looking backward instead of shouldering responsibilities of the present and future. Officers elected and not previously reported are: Directors representing associations Clarence L. Smith, Burlington; Rev.

Robert Pfeifer, Swanton; Rev. F. Wilson Day, Randolph; Clinton A. Wood, Newport; O. A.

Whitcomb, and Rev. William J. Ballou, Chester, for two years each. Trustees Vermont Anti-Saloon League Rev. Charles S.

Jones, Burlington; William H. Wood, Burlington; Rev. John, W. Barnett, Montpelier; Dr. L.

C. Holcomb, Milton; Rev. William Miller, East St. Johnsbury; Rtev. Henry L.

Ballou, Chester. Member of American Board prudential committee Miss Louise C. Hazen, Thetford. Delegates to National Council Rev. Augustine Jones, Springfield; Miss Katherine Bingham, St.

Johnsbury. Preacher for next annual meeting Rev. J. Graydon Brown, Rutland; alternate, Rev. Mil-ton S.

Czatt, Brattleboro. ITHACA RADIO CHOIR PLEASES Concert Here Yesterday Afternoon Fine Example of Chorus Singing Under Competent Leadership. Only the reserve that keeps local audiences from indulging to applause In church on Sunday prevented the Ithaca college radio choir from receiving an ovation yesterday afternoon, when it appeared in the First Baptist church for a concert under the direction of Bert Rogers Lyon, on one of the few appearances the choir is making outside the broadcasting station WESG at Elmira, N. Y. Wholly apart from Interest In the fact that three of the choir- are Brattleboro young people and four are graduates of the Brattleboro high school, the good sized audiehce fully recognized the great merit to the work of the chorus and soloists and was thrilled by every number of the program.

There were 20 in the party 18 vocalists, the pianist and the director but one of the young women was unable to participate, having an attack of laryngitis. No chorus that ever sang In Brattleboro was more responsive to Its leader than was the Ithaca radio choir to Mr. Lyon. Training of the finest type was apparent throughout the program, and to its own excellent Interpretation of the various selections the choir added an enunciation that made the concert a particular delight. In the choir were Miss Martha Holland, Miss Thelma Field and Ernest Ectmes of Brattleboro and Clifford Ormsby of Westminster West.

Rev. Paul F. Swarthout, Rev. F. W.

Engel and Rev. Donald B. F. Hoyt participated In the devotional service. An offering was received toward the traveling expenses of the choir, the members of which were entertained in different homes during their stay.

They' left by automobile directly after the concert to sing In Pittsfield, last evening. Antone Cardian, Farm Hand at Randolph, Grasps Barbed Wire Carrying 13,000 Volts. RANDDOLPH. May 15. Antone Kardian, 24, was accidently electrocuted yesterday morning at the farm of Valentine Slezak six miles from this village.

Cardian came here from Baltimore two months ago. During a wind storm last night a hen house roof at the farm was blown off striking an electric light pole. The pole was broken a short distance from the ground and the pole and line rested across the chicken wire fence. Kardian took hold of a barbed wire which was attached to the chicken wire. The line, passing over Rochester Mountain, carried 13.000 volts.

When Kardian slumped against the fence unconscious Mrs. Slezak who had accompanied him to the scene grasped Kardlans shoulders in an attempt to pull him away from the wire. The instant she grasped his body the current passed into hers and she was thrown back upon the ground. She received a very slight shock, however. Kardian had on a pair of rubber boots.

Mrs. Slezak, remembering that rubber was a non-conductor, grabbed by his boots and pulled him away frpm the death wire. It took Mrs. Slezak several hours to recover from the shock she VERMONTS GOLD STAR MOTHERS SAIL AMOSKEAG MILLS TO INCREASE WAGES LEONARD PIERCE, BRATTLEBORO, HURT Sedan in Which He Is Passenger Upsets When Hit by Truck Near Four Corners at Spofford Lake. (Special to The Reformer.) KEENE, N.

May 15. Riding in a Bulck sedan driven by William Manch, proprietor of Wares Grove, Spofford Lake, Leonard Pierce of Brattleboro was slightly hurt Saturday evening near Four Corners at the lake when the Manch car was to collision with a light truck owned by the Davis Oil Co. of Keene and driven by Tom Beaudreau of Keene. Police said the steering gear on the truck went out of order, causing i to collide with Mr. Manchs machine, which was being driven in the opposite direction.

The Bulck went into the ditch ancL overturned, Pierce being thrown into the back seat, slightly Injuring bis back. Both cars were badly damaged but neither of the drivers was hurt. FUNERAL SERVICE LARGELY ATTENDED Start for Europe with First Contingent on President Harding Wednesday Arrive in New York Today. NEW YORK, May 15 (JP). This years first contingent of Gold Star mothers and war widows, who will visit the World war battlefields and graveyards In Europe as guests of the federal government, arrived in New York today.

The first of five groups to visit Europe this summer comprised 135 women. They will sail Wednesday on the President Harding. The remaining four groups will sail at intervals of approximately two weeks. When the last group returns the government will have completed Its pilgrimages for Gold Star mothers and war widows which began four years ago. Todays arrivals included mothers from Vermont, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut LIFE CLINGS TO DESPONDENT NEGRO TO SELL BEER AT DARTMOUTH.

One of Worlds Largest Cotton Mills to Make 15 Per Cent Advance, Effective July 29. MANCHESTER, N. May 15 (JP). A fiat 15 per cent wage increase for all Amoskeag Manufacturing company employes was announced this morning by the company management. The Amoskeag is one of the largest cotton mills in the world and the announcement comes soon after a plea by President Roosevelt for Increased wages to overcome the depression.

The increase will go into effect July 29. Announcement was also made at the local offices of the International Shoe company in this city of a 10 per cent wage increase effective tomorrow. It was understood the Amoskeag increase was set at a later date to permit fulfillment of- orders under present conditions. It will mean a 15 per cent Increase in the total payroll, with 7,500 affected. The company has been reported more active in the past few months than it has been in several years.

Amoskeag employes may be In line for another Increase this year, as Treasurer Frederic C. Dumaine has repeatedly asserted that employes will receive one-third of the corporations profits. The W. H- McElwain Co. of the International Shoe Co.

received' notice this morning from St. Louis headquarters of the increase, with an announcement by Pres. W. H. Moulton that the increase was actuated by a desire to cooperate with the President of the United States In his efforts to restore employment and purchasing power.

The Increase affects about 2,500 employes. TO MEET IN WOODSTOCK. Rev. J. K.

Newport, and Rev. F. W. Engel Officiate at Funeral of Mrs. G.

Wheeler. Largely attended funeral services for Mrs. Charles G. Wheeler, wife of Dr. Wheeler of Chestnut hill, who died Wednesday morning, were held at 2 oclock Saturday afternoon at Mitchells funeral home.

Rev. John K. Montgomery of Newport, a former pastor of Mrs. Wheeler, officiated, assisted by Rev. F.

W. Engel, pastor of the First Methodist church Bertram Baldwin was at the organ and played softly as the friends were assembling and at the close of the service. There was a wealth of beautiful flowers. The various organizations with which Mrs. Wheeler had been Identified were represented.

The bearers were W. L. Wheeler, Roy Dudley, Charles Dudley and Dr. Lewis D. Martin.

Burial was In the Wheeler family lot in Meeting House Hill cemetpry. Those who attended the funeral from out of town were Mr. and Mrs. W. L.

Wheeler and Dr. and Mrs. Raymond Martin of Montpelier, Mrs. C. P.

Dudley and sons, Roy Dudley and Charles Dudley, of East Montpelier, Dr. and Mrs. Lewis D. Martin and daughter. Miss Victoria Mai tin, pf Barre, Dr.

and Mrs. Ward C. Bryant of Greenfield, Miss Elizabeth arsons of New Brunswick, N. J. Mr.

and Mir 8. Henry T. Coe of Putney and Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth Wheeler and eon, Paul, of Ellsworth, Me.

Pres. Hopkins Hopes to Stop Students from Seeking Outside Drink. HANOVER, N. May 15. President Hopkins of Dartmouth college has sanctioned the sale of legal beer In college-owned eating places.

It became known yesterday. The Dartmouth head stated last night by this action we hope to remove all the romance and glamour for students in driving off to drink In other places. The sanctioning of the sale of legal beer by President Hopkins means that at the earliest moment the beverage will be on sale in the college cafeteria in College hall. The college already has applied to the state control commission for a license, and this action was ratified by the trustees and the administration committee of the Dartmouth faculty. uts Throat, Batters Head with Rock and Jumps from Hospital Wln- flow But Still Lives.

NEW YORK, May 15 (JP). Most men cling to life but life clings to Charliey McRae. McRae, a Negro, despaired because, he said, he was suspected in a robbery case and his yife scolded him. He slashed his wrists and waited for death. He slashed his face and cut his throat.

Still life clung. He battered' his head with a large rock. He laid his neck on a railroad track. Police snatched him Just before a train rushed past. They took him to a hospital and left him.

Thejr then received a telephone call: This Is the hospital. That man you brought Just jumped out of a second-story window and landed on his 1 McRae, however, was still alive. Vermont Firemens Association to Hold Convention Aug. 16. RUTLAND, May 15.

The Vermont State Firemens association will hold its annual convention at Woodstock on Aug. 16, it was decided yesterday at a meeting of the executive committee held at the Rutland fire station. Five members of the committee were present. A meeting of the executive committee has been called for May 28 at Woodstock. At that time, plans for the convention will be perfected.

MRS. ALICE PIKE DIES IN WARDSBORO Lived with Daughter in Brattleboro but Went to Wardsboro to Visit, Sustaining Shock There. Mrs, Alice (Waite) Pike, 50, of Brattleboro died at 5.45 oclock this morning in Wardsboro, where she went to visit in the home of Mrs. Charles Shine and where she sustained a shock April 30. The body was brought today to Brattleboro for funeral services Wednesday afternoon at 1, oclock at Mitchells funeral home.

Ytev. Paul F. Swarthout, pastor of the First Baptist church, will officiate. Burial will be in West Wardsboro. Mrs.

Pike was born in Wardsboro Oct. 2e, 1882. Her perents were Martin and Emerette (El well) Waite. A greater part of her life was spent in Wardsboro and Stratton, and about 10 years ago she went to her home with her only child, Wilma, wife of Fred Burke of 52 South Main street. She married Ernest Pike about 34 years ago.

Besides her daughter she leaves two grandchildren, Richard and Geneva Burke, and two brothers, Herbert Waite of Towpshend and George Waite of Greenwich, N. Y. CHOSEN TO ATTEND EASTERN STATES Emerson Thomas and Roger Moody to Represent Windham County at Dairy Camp Next Fall. Emerson Thomas, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Warner L. Thomas of Putney road, and Roger Moody of Jacksonville, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. R.

Moody, have been selected to represent Windham county at the dairy camp at the Eastern States Exposition In Springfield, next fall. It was announced today by Bruce R. Buchanan, county 4-H club agent. Thomas will exhibit a Holstein yearling and Moody a Guernsey. The boys to represent the county were chosen by E.

H. Loveland of Burlington, extension dairyman. Their expenses to the dairy camp wlU be paid by the Farm Bureau. Thomas, who has a herd of four registered animals of his own, Is a mjember of( the Wantastlquet club and has won several prizes at exhibitions. Moody, a member of the Jacksonville Dairy club, also has been a frequent winner at exhibitions.

THE WEATHER Probably Showers Tuesday Afternoon Cooler Tonight. WASHINGTON, May 15: Forecast for New Hampshire and Vermon Fair and probably cooler tonight; Tuesday rildudy probably with showers Tuesday afternoon and night. A Place Where Old Friends Meet and DANCE and DINE. Where? At CHRISTYS SPA TONIGHT! Everything Good to Eat Ices, Sodas, Ice Cream and BEER. BECKWITHS ORCHESTRA Will play From 7 to 12 WRESTLING MONDAY EVENING, MAY 15 COMMUNITY HALL John Kelonis, Manchester, N.

H. vs. Winn Robbins, Pawtucket. R. Chas.

Moquin vs. Fred Bruno WASHINGTON, May 15 (JP). Today is the 15th anniversary of the nations airmail service. Fifteen years ago an army 'Jenny" tqok off from Washington for New York with 100 pounds of mail, starting the service which since has been expanded to reach 44 states directly. Pay Increases in South.

MONTGOMERY, May 15 increases for 1,000 textile opera DEATHS. In Brattleboro, May 14, Eugene Marshall Angler, 72. In Wardsboro, May 15, Mrs. Alice (Waite) Pike, 5q, of Brattleboro. Baron Munchhausen was an 18th century Hanoverian soldier in Russia's service against the Turks, (Continued on Page Eight).