Herald and News from Randolph, Vermont • 1

HERALD AND NEWS RANDOLPH, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1940. PAGES I to 6 I SECTION I VOL LXVI. NO. 34-3474 Entered a a second-claw matter October lVi 1914, at the Post Office at Randolph Vermont under the Act of March 8, 1879. AIKEN AND PLUMLEY OUT FOR SENATE VACANCY ORANGE COUNTY COURT HEARS STATE-DIVORCE CASES SENATOR GIBSON DIED LAST WEEK VACANCY STIRS UP VT.

POLITICS G.O.P. WOMEN ELECT NEW HEAD WHY NOT TAKE HOBOS FOR ARMY JUDGE BALDWIN, BRADFORD PROBATE DISTRICT, DEAD Had Been Probate Judge at Wells River for Past Thirty Years Judge Hammon T. Baldwin, one of the prominent men of Orange county, died at the Cottage hospital, Woodsville, last week Wednesday morning at 4 oclock after being a patient there since the previous Monday night when stricken with an attack of acute indigestion. The funeral was held at his home in Wells River on Friday, June 21, at 4 oclock. Judge Baldwin was born in Wells River Dec.

13, 1863, being the son of Erastus and Ellen (Abbott) Baldwin. He was educated in the public schools and in Hinmans Business college, Worcester, Mass. For many years he was proprietor of the Baldwin Valley farm, was a shipper of livestock and dealt extensively in lumber, being a member of Stevens Baldwin. In more recent years he had engaged in banking, being a director and vice president of the National Bank of Newbury. Judge Baldwin had a notable public career.

He served as selectman of the town for many years, represented the town of Newbury in the legislature of 1900, was senator from Orange county in 1904, was a deputy sheriff for 20 years and high sheriff of the county in 19C8-09, served on the state board of penal institutions with John E. Weeks, was appointed commissioner at large of the state fair commission under two administrations, was appointed judge of probate for the Bradford district of Orange county in 1910 and served 30 years. He also was a member of the Republican state committee six years. He belonged to the various lodges of Masonry, including Palestine com-mandery, K. at St.

Johnsbury and Mt. Sinai temple of the Shrine at Montpelier. In religious belief he was a Congregationalist. He belonged to the Rotary club. Mr.

Baldwin married Katie M. Cobb of Hardwick in 1886 and she survives him, together with their daughter, Bernice Ellen Baldwin. Mrs. W. C.

Miller Sue-ceeds Mrs. Warner MEETING HEARD VT. CANDIDATES Adopting a resolution urging the Vermont delegation to oppose adjournment of Congress during the present crisis, the Vermont Womens Republican club Thursday elected Mrs. William C. Miller of St.

Albans president at the annual meeting held at the Montpelier Tavern. Mrs. Miller succeeds Mrs. Frank M. Warner of Ver-gennes, who has served as president of the club for the past two years and is a delegate to the Republican National convention.

By a resolution of sympathy to be sent to the Gibson family and remarks of several speakers and by a moment of silent prayer the organization mourned the death of United States Senator Ernest W. Gibson of Brattleboro. Among the 145 members and guests of the club at the luncheon that noon were leading state officials and several candidates for state office. A telegram was received from Thomas E. Dewey, presidential candidate.

The club also elected vice presidents, Mrs. Earle Drown of White River Junction, and Mrs. R. Clark Smith of Rutland; secretary, Mrs. Florence M.

Beebe of Swanton; treasurer, Mrs. Claude M. Campbell of Manchester Center; and auditor, Mrs. Mary H. Adams of Bennington.

The principal speaker at the luncheon was Holder G. Peterson of Burlington, a native of Denmark, who spoke on Americas Message from the viewpoint of an American who has known life in other countries. Speakers voiced the opinion that the Republican party can save the United States by winning this years election. Lieut. Gov.

Wills urged a return to the old Americanisms, the old Vermontisms in the drive to carry the United States through the present crisis. Mortimer R. Proctor of Proctor, president pro-tem of the state Senate, and a candidate for lieutenant governor, advised closer study of national problems, asked for better understanding of democratic principles and more patriotism and less politics in our government. Oscar L. Shepard of Hardwick, speaker of the House of Representatives and candidate for lieutenant governor, suggested that the club foster a girls state, similar to the Boys State, opening at Northfield Sunday, adding girls as much as boys are the citizens of tomorrow.

Other- speakers were Harold J. Arthur of Burlington, Frances Carpenter of Rutland, Mrs. Goldie M. Jamieson of Randolph, vice chairman of the Republican state committee, Alexander J. Smith of South Ryegate, state committee secretary, and Mrs.

John P. Davis of Chelsea. WINDHAM COUNTY SHOWS GAIN IN 1940 CENSUS Bellows Falls Village Makes Gain of 300, Biggest in County Four Divorce Cases Heard and Decrees Granted in Last Weeks Session On Tuesday a hearing was held on the complaint of Miss Ruth E. Emerson of Orange against John Walker of Barre city, charging him with being the father of Martha Jean Emerson, a child born to her out of wedlock. The court found that Walker was guilty and the father of the child.

It was ordered that he pay $200 in cash, $10 each week for 78 weeks for the benefit of Miss Emerson. Stanley C. Wilson, represented the complainant and C. O. Granai, of Barre city represented Mr.

Walker. Four divorce cases were heard Wednesday. Ray Dennison Godfrey of Fairlee was granted a divorce from Dorothy B. Godfrey for intolerable severity, decree absolute. Care and custody of three minor children, Beverly Dean, Betty Jean and Elwin Erwin, were decreed to Mrs.

Godfrey. F. Ray Keyser, represented Mr. Godfrey. Maidae Perry Hooker of Wells River was granted a divorce, decree nisi, from John P.

Hooker for intolerable severity. Care and custody of three minor children, John Perry, Maidae Louise and Margaret Rosalee, were decreed to Dr. and Mrs. R. Gibson Perry, father and mother of the libellant.

Property and alimony were decreed in accordance with a stipulation on file. Attorney Sterry R. Waterman of SL Johnsbury represented Mrs. Hooker. Richard C.

Gamsby of Colebrook, N. was granted a divorce from Arlene G. Gamsby on the ground of adultery. Decree nisi. Care and custody of their minor child, Carol Ann, was decreed to Mrs.

Gamsby and he was ordered to pay $4 each week towards her support. Attorney Stanley C. Wilson represented Mr. Gamsby. Clinton W.

Gifford of North Randolph was granted a divorce from Eleanor M. Gifford for intolerable severity, decree nisi. Care and custody of Iva May was decreed to Mr. Gifford. J.

Ward Carver, represented Mr. Gifford. BOYS STATE THIS WEEK AT NORWICH UNIVERSITY Imaginary Towns Named from Present and Past Legion Commanders The town caucus system, nomination by warrant, and primary election system were explained Sunday night to more than 200 boys from the junior classes of Vermont high schools, as the third annual Green Mountain Boys State opened at Norwich University, Northfield. The citizenship promotion school, sponsored by the state department, American Legion, will continue for one week. Speakers on Sunday nights program were Legion Department Commander Simon J.

Godfrey of St. Albans, Lieut. Gov. William H. Wills of Montpelier and Commissioner of Taxes Erwin Harvey, besides David Anderson, assistant state auditor.

The welcom--ing address was given by Dr. John Thomas, president of Norwich university. The boys were divided into groups representing four counties and eight towns. These divisions will be used to advantage in the weeks campaign work. The counties were named after past national commanders of the American Legion.

The towns were named after the following past state department leaders: ONeil, Bloomer, Sibley, Dale, Crowley, Norton, Wilcox and the present commander, Godfrey. HEAVY TRUCKS DO NOT INCREASE HIGHWAY COSTS Highway Commissioner Declares that Frost Does Greatest Damage Testifying before the Joint Transportation Tax commission in Montpelier Friday, H. E. Sargent, commissioner and chief engineer of the Vermont State Highway department, exploded the theory advanced by the railroads throughout the hearings that heavy trucks greatly increase highway costs. Regardless of whether or not there were any trucks, the state would build its roads as it is now building them.

Mr. Sargent in showing that truck use is not an important factor in highway construction declared that frost does more damage to highways than heavy traffic. Wheel loads, he said, are not considered in designing a road. When a sufficient subgrade is put under the highway surface to protect it from frost heaves, the road is sufficient to carry heavy loads. Commenting the 40,000 pound-weight limit for trucks passed by the is just the opposite.

Those brawny guys, that have worked in the woods or with shovel and pick, on a construction gang, steer clear of that gun wagon, they go in the opposite direction, none of that army stuff for(them, it is either jungle or jail with them, plenty of eats and nothing to do. And so they came. Stanley Boyd of Portland, fresh from the ocean, (no under sea boat going to catch him), $50 bail and ordered Lawrence C. Jones Announces Candidacy for Congressman Gov. George D.

Aiken announced Sunday he would be a candidate for the U. S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Senator Ernest W. Gibson. The governor, who said he had turned down suggestions that he resign as governor and seek appointment to the Senate position, set Oct.

8th as the date for a special primary. The election would be held on election day, Nov. 8th. The successful candidate will serve a four-year term. At the same time Aiken said that by the time Congress reconvenes from its present recess he would appoint someone to the vacancy who will be fully capable of carrying on Senator Gibsons work and well representing the great majority of our citizens.

Aiken said he opposed resigning because the people of Vermont elected me to serve as governor of the state. I regard this as a contract and dont believe it should be broken even accept what may be considered a position with wider opportunity for service. Secondly, if I go to the Senate, I want it to be by the expressed desire of the majority of the people and not by appointment. There will be no opportunity for the voters to express their desires until fall. If then the folks of Vermont want me to represent them in the U.

S. Senate, I would consider it both a duty and an honor to do so. Aiken, who made his announcement just before he left for Philadelphia, where he is a delegate to the Republican national convention, is the first to announce his candidacy as Gibsons successor. Vermont will elect two senators in November. Senator Warren R.

Austin presumably will run for the six-year term. Plumley to Run Also Unless he changes his mind. Representative Charles A. Plumley of Northfield will be a candidate to succeed the late Senator Gibson, he announced Sunday. Plumley, who was a member of the Congressional delegation to attend the funeral of Senator Gibson, was asked if he would make a statement as to his 'plans, and Tie replied: You may state that, reserving the right to change my mind, I shall be a candidate for the seat left vacant by the death of Senator Gibson.

Jones Seeks Plumlcys Seat Attorney General Lawrence C. Jones of Rutland announced Monday that he will be a candidate for the Republican nomination for Congressman to be voted upon at the primary Sept. 10th. Jones is the first aspirant to announce himself since Congressman Charles A. Plumley made it known that he may be a candidate for the Senate.

JAMES F. DEWEY RE-ELECTED ASS0. INDUSTRIES HEAD Adopts Resolution Favoring Continuous Session of Present Congress i The Associated Industries of Vermont, meeting in Woodstock last week, went on record in favor of a continuous session of Congress during the present emergency, heard a talk by Hilmar R. Baukhage, noted writer and news commentator, pledged Vermont industry to its full efforts in strengthening national defense and re-elected James F. Dewey of Quechee president.

More than 100 members of the organization were present at the meeting, held in the Woodstock Inn, and heard Baukhage, a noted radio news analy-ist, state that military experts predict the eventual fall of the British Isles before the onslaught of Hitler. The association adopted a resolution urging Vermont employers to permit employes who are members of the National Guard to attend the important maneuvers this summer as required by the War department, without loss of pay. Another resolution expressed sympathy to the family of Senator E. W. Gibson.

Among directors elected was H. E. Estes of Bellows Falls. NO MODIFICATION FOR CANADIAN TRAVELERS Every Alien Must Have Passport to Cross Northern Border Replying to an appeal from Governor Aiken for modification of passport requirements against Canadians entering the United States, the United States state department wrote the governor that complications would arise if the northern border were exempted. The governor was informed that every alien will be required to obtain a document in the nature of a passport for the purpose of establishing his identity and nationality and to apply to an American consular of-jficer for a visa before he may enter the United States for any purpose.

The visa will be issued without cost, it was stated. However, the state department called attention to the large number of consular establishments in Canada and it is contemplated that additional offices will be reopened. Canadian Senate Adjourned Session in his Memory WAS SERVING IN SIXTH CONGRESS Senator Ernest Willard Gibson of Vermont died in Washington, D. at 8:30 Thursday morning after an illness of twelve days. The 67-year-old former soldier and lawyer had suffered from a heart attack and pneumonia.

Senator Gibson was the second member of the Senate to die this year. Senator William E. Borah of Idaho died in January. The Senate adjourned Thursday out of respect for Senator Gibson. Disregarding precedent at the request of Gibsons family, the Senate delayed its adjournment long enough to pass the supplemental defense appropriation bill and discussed the nomination of new secretaries of navy and war by the president.

Just a few minutes before a train bearing the body of the 67-year-old former soldier and law- yer left for his Brattleboro home, the Senate adjourned. With him, when he died were his two sons, Ernest secretary of the Vermont Senate; Freston a municipal judge, and his daughter, Doris, his hostess in Washington. With members of his office they accompanied the body to Brattleboro. Bom in Londonderry Dec. 29, 1871, Senator Gibson was a son of William L.

and Saville Stowell Gibson. He was educated at Black River academy, Norwich University and the University of Michigan; studied law with the Hon. E. L. Waterman and the llpn.J.

L. Martin, at Brattleboro, and was admitted to the bar of Vermont in 1899 and to practice in the United States Supreme Court in 1905. From his admission to the bar until 1916, he practised law in Brattleboro, and after almost three years of military service during the World war, resumed his practice in 1919. He was register of the probate court for the district of Windsor in 1896; deputy clerk, United States Court, 1899 to 1906; member of the Vermont House of Representatives, 1906 to 1908; member of the State Senate, 1908 to 1910, and president pro tern; judge of Brattleboro municipal court, 1906 to 1910, and delegate to the Republican National convention, 1912. In 1899, Senator Gibson enlisted in the Vermont National Guard and retired in 1908 with the rank of colonel.

In 1915, he returned to the service as captain of infantrjr-and served in the Mexican border trouble and for two years overseas in the World war. He was colonel of the 172nd regiment, infantry, 1921-1923. From 1919 to 1921, he was states attorney of Windham county, and later served as secretary of civil and military affairs under Governor Hartness. He was elected to the House of Representatives of the 68th (in 1923) 69th, 70th, 71st, 72nd and 73rd Congresses, and was then appointed to the United States Senate by Governor Stanley C. Wilson, Nov.

21, 1933. He was elected to the unexpired term of Senator Dale Jan. 16, 1934. Reelected to the full term Nov. 8, 1938, he served as one of Vermonts senators until his death.

On November 25, 1896, he married Grace Fullerton Hadley, who is now dead. He leaves two sons, Ernest W. Gibson, secretary of the Vermont State Senate, and Preston F. Gibson, municipal court judge in Brattleboro, and a daughter, Miss Doris Gibson, who was with him in Washington. Funeral services for Senator Gibson were held in St.

Michaels Episcopal church, Brattleboro, at 5 p. Saturday, following a prayer service at the Gibson residence. A Congressional delegation of six senators and two representatives arrived by train early in the morning. The delegation included Senators Austin of Vermont, Con-nally of Texas, Bulow and Gurney of South Dakota, Burke of Nebraska and Tobey of New Hampshire, and Representatives Plumley of Vermont and Pettenger of Minnesota. The service at the house was attended by the Washington delegation and many relatives, friends and state officials, while at the church every pew was filled and about 500 persons assembled outside the edifice.

The rector, Rev. Clarence C. Silvester, and Rev. Dwight Hadley of Winchester, officiated. Headquarters company of the 172d Infantry and Brattleboro post of the American Legion, together with vari- citizens will, therefore, be subjected to a minimum inconvenience in applying for visas.

You are assured that every effort consistent with the' desired close supervision over the entry of aliens into the United States will be made so that freedom of movement across the border will continue with as little inconvenience as Likely to Have Contest For Gibsons Office OVER $4,000,000 FOR HIGHWAY REPAIRS The vacancy in the United States Senate created by the death last week of Senator Ernest W. Gibson of Brat-tleboro, within a few days of the national convention opening in Philadelphia, complicated the political situation of Vermont Republicans. With both Gov. Aiken and Gen. Leonard F.

Wing of Rutland on the Vermont delegation to the Republican convention, two men went to Philadelphia who were regarded as prospective candidates for Gibsons seat in the Senate. Also at the Philadelphia convention is Congressman Charles A. Plumley, chief reading clerk at the convention, whose friends expected him to seek promotion to the upper house. Into a situation which last week included a good chance of a minor controversy over a favorite son nomination and chairmanship of the Vermont delegation, was injected the prospect of a special senatorial primary in October and a special election in November. The odds were that the election and advance maneuvering would occupy most members of the delegation more than the nomination of a presidential candidate.

It appeared that the governor would proclaim a senatorial primary for October and a special election in November at the same time as the regular election, as provided by the present statutes. Discussion of the idea that Gov. Aiken might resign to accept appointment to the Senate from Wills, pending the election, was discounted by friends of the chief executive, who declared that he would not seriously consider such a plan, common in other states but not in Vermont. The situation had several political angles and possibilities which were avidly discussed around the state house even before Gibsons death. Some observers predicted that Plumley might decide to stay in his present position, although the exchange for a job which goes up on the block every six years instead of biennially was expected to have weight with him.

Others hazarded the guess that the governor might run for Congressman if Plumley seeks the upper house. Reports were circulated, however, that many party leaders urgently wished Gen. Wing to run for the Senate because of his military knowledge and its value in the present war crisis, as well as his evident popularity demonstrated at the state convention, May 24th. The possibility that Aiken and Wing might oppose each other, although in the past they have been good friends, placed a different aspect on the delegation chairmanship, which lay between the two men before the national convention opening. Aiken had been expected to step aside gracefully for Wing, to placate the governors opponents on the delegation.

The highway department revealed last week that $4,043,000 has been spent for repairs of damage to highways and bridges by the 1938 flood and hurricane. New estimates placed the amount to be finally expended from the 1939 flood repair appropriation at $2,654,000, which was $154,000 more than the state has borrowed to meet that portion of the expense. Highway Board Chairman William F. Corry said he expected no more borrowing would be necessary because $154,000 or more would be charged to betterments and expended from regular highway department surplus funds, used for new construction. In rehabilitating roads and bridges, the highway department has frequently gone beyond repairing as authorized by the legislature, and has considerably improved highways or bridges for practical reasons.

The cost of these improvements or betterments will not be charged to the flood repair appropriation, although the legislature allowed as much as $3,500,000 if necessary. Expenditures so far include $2,284,134 from the flood repair appropriation; $500,000 appropriated by the emergency board in 1938; $756,995 in WPA funds; $108,000 voluntarily contributed by towns in addition to expenses for which they were reimbursed by the state; and nearly $400,000 in PWA and Federal Emergency relief money. ROBERT W. MITCHELL. 1939 legislature he said, Vehicles traveling under the new weight load limit are not causing any undue deterioration of our primary state highway system and are not increasing maintenance costs.

I have never seen the surface of any roads broken up by trucks. In the use of cement slabs, they are broken by frost and not by wheel loads. Better Idea Than Training Americas Youth WOODSTOCK JAIL POPULAR PLACE Tramps, tramps, tramps, the boys are marching, out from the cities, into the country, to get away from it all, fearing the draft, registration or mobilization. F. D.

Rs. grand march of the preparedness parade is now in the offing, said to be about to cost the tax payers five billion dollars plus, getting ready for an imaginary attack, that probably never will materialize. Such an enormous preparedness budget would look as if we were getting ready to do the attacking, going forth to lick the whole world, or something. Mr. Hitler has conquered half the civilized world already, and probably has not expended one fourth of that vast sum of money.

Taking it right home to ourselves, what could we do if 4 mechanized division of 500,000 steel-helmeted troops came roaring along up the White River valley, at the rate of 60 miles p. h. headed straight for Montpelier, through South Royalton, Bethel and Randolph. A pill box located at dead mans corner might get in a few shots at the boiler plated, armored side of a truck, or two, before they got by unless a flame throwing tank came clattering alopg and shot a squirt gun full of liquid fire into the pill box and cooked up all of the living occupants thereof, on the spot. The famed Mag-inot line proved a death trap for its builders.

The old wall of China might have been better fitted to hold back the trucks and tanks a few minutes until they could blast a hole through its ramparts, but the underground labyrinths of the Maginot line were a ghastly trap for the brave Poilus caught therein. That liquid fire, once injected into its intestines, quickly turned those Poilus into boil yous and tanks and trucks rumbled over the top of the underground forts. After F. D. Rs.

five billion dollar preparedness program has been rounded out, the chances are that most of the results will then be as obsolete as was the Maginot line After costing the people of France 500 millions to build. Tramps, tramps, tramps, from Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut and Rhode Island, rolled into the Hartford municipal court at the Tuesday ses-sit)h, June 18th, at White River Junction in the forenoon, and at Woodstock in the afternoon. The fear of the draft starts them off from the big centers to fhe wide open country where they hotoe to escape unseen and unnumbered? If both men and wom-eh) are to be registered for some sort oi public service (not necessarily military as is announced in the public press and over the radio, why nqj? begin right at the jail door When Judge Whitham suggested to one man that he enlist in the army instead of gotyg to jail, he said he had served three years in the army already, and thobght he would not try it again right now, although he was honorably discharged and could join again if he but he did not want to right now. The old Adventist camp ground up the track toward Wilder, or the jungles at the South end, are the alluring places for the congenial society of the genus hobo to congregate at this season of the year. The glimmering camp fire, as the shades of evening fall, the soft bed of pine needles, or dry leaves, to recline on, amid the appetizing odor from the mulligan stew, simmering over the red coals, is a combination not to be resisted by the lover of freedom and the great out-of-doors.

Woe betide my ladys fat poodle, or even grandmas tabby cat, if those dear pets fall into the clutches of the denizens of the Either of said pets when treated by the expert jungle chef, will make a flavorable addition to the mulligan stew, always found dangling over the smouldering fire, for the benefit of new arrivals in the jungle paradise. Coxies army, the army of the unemployed, is two jumps ahead of F. D. Rs preparedness army to be. They do not ask for steel head gear or armored coaches to ride in, an empty gondola, the blind end of a baggage car, or the water tank end of a locomotive are good enough for the enrollees of Coxies army, they do their own foraging, they travel on their stomachs from one end of the continent to the other, ad lib.

That armored truck with antiaircraft guns pointing toward high heaven, kept conspicuously displayed in front of the enlistment office, is a source of constant interest to the small boys of school age. They sure would like to ride in one of those things, and have a fling around town with those putter putter guns, over the fourth of July, at any rate. But if those contraptions are intended to impress the husky men of mature years with a desire to enlist in the army, the effect MIDD. COLLEGE GRADUATED --168 STUDENTS LAST WEEK Conferred Seven Honorary Degrees Including Two to Vermonters Middlebury conferred the degree of bachelor of arts on 168 seniors June 18 at the 140th Commencement of the college. Fourteen received their masters degrees.

The commencement address was given by Dr. William A. Neilson, president-emeritus of Smith college, who received the honorary degree of doctor of laws. President Paul D. Moody also conferred honorary degrees upon the following: Doctor of Laws Charles N.

Pray, Great Falls, Montana, U. S. District court judge; Frederick H. Bryant, Malone, N. U.

S. District court judge; Allen Sturtevant, Middlebury, Vermont Supreme court judge; doctor of science, Dr. Edward J. Rogers of Pittsford, head of the tuberculosis institutions of Vermont; doctor of divinity, Henry Hallam Tweedy, of the Yale University School, New Haven, master of arts, Helen Ormsbee, New York city, author and drama critic. Valedictory honors in the mens college went to Charles M.

English of Winthrop, N. Y. Salutatory honors were awarded to Francis R. Nitchie, of Northfield. Valedictory honors in the womens college were given to Frances E.

Cornwall of Middlebury, and salutatory honors to Page R. Grosen-baugh of East Orange, N. J. ous other ex-service men, formed an escort for the procession to Morning-side cemetery. Honorary bearers included besides the senators and representatives, Gov.

George D. Aiken of Putney, Lieut. Gov. William H. Wills of Bennington, Adjt.

Gen. Herbert T. Johnson and Col. Murdock Campbell of Montpelier, Col. Reginald Buzzell of Newport, Fred C.

Martin of Bennington, Sterry Waterman of St. Johnsbury, Senator Mortimer Proctor of Proctor, United States Marshal Edward L. Burke, Walter S. Fenton, Almo Franzoni, Attorney General Lawrence C. Jones, Col.

Bert F. Hyland and Gen. Leonard F. Wing of Rutland, Deputy Attorney General Alban F. Parker of Springfield and Maj.

John B. Fowler, Judge Orrin B. Hughes, Judge William R. Daley, Charles A. Boyden and Postmaster Charles F.

Mann of Brattleboro. The Legion post conducted a military burial. Mercantile places were closed during the funeral and throughout the business section of Main street flags at half-staff lined both sides of the street. Gibson, Appointed Governor Aiken has appointed Ernest W. Gibson, of Brattleboro, to succeed his father as United States senator.

Announcement of the appointment was madfe at Philadelphia where the governor is attending the national Republican convention. Gibson will serve until after the November election. Gibson, 39, received his education in the Brattleboro schools, Norwich University and George Washington Law School. He has been states attorney for Windham county, assistant secretary of the Senate and secretary of the Senate since 1933. Bellows Falls gained 300, the figure for 1940 being 4,230, while in 1930 it was 3,930.

Preliminary census figures disclosed that Northfield had gained 147 in population since 1930, from 3,438 to 3,585. (Continued on page 3) I 1.