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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-18
NEW DRIVE IS
RUSS|A'SREP[Y
T0PEACE TALK
Silences DisIoyaIty Rumors
and Spurs Army
ASKS FOR CONFERENCE
Root Mission to Meet Russian Cabinet
Chiefs for Farley on Future War
Policy.

Copenhagen, via London, June IT,
The German government, which has
been endeavoring by various means to
come to a separate arrangement for
peace or an armistice with Russia, is
considering new move, namely, an
offer of an armistice for the period
of the elections to the Russian con-
stitutional convention.
The Associated Press has this in
formation from a reliable source. The
informant, who has just come from
Germany, says government agents are
desirous of reaching some arrange
ment, not only as compliment to the
Russian council and to further the
growth of proGerman sentiment, but
also because Germany desires to see
some stable government established
there, with which it would be pos
sible TO enter into negotiations. He
cited one of the best known German
parliamentarians as saying the pres
ent authorities in Russia are not
''verhandlungsfaehig that is, not
capable of negotiating and that there
is little hope Of peace so long as the
present conditions in Russia continue.
Petrograd. June 17.-Russia is back
in the saddle! The duma, in secret
session, has just adopted a resolu-
ton virtually ordering an immediate
offensive. The resolution decries
separate peace, and calls continued in
activity on the battle line ''ignoble
treason" for which future generations
never would pardon the Russia OF the
present day.
The Duma therefore considers"
the resolution adds, that the safety
of Russia and the maintenance of the
liberties which have been obtained
lie in an immediate offensive in close
cooperation with Russia's allies"
The ink on extra editions of news
papers announcing the pledge of the
Workmen and Soldiers council to
the Root mission for fight to the fin
ish against the Central powers, was
scarcely dry when the dumas action
wes made public today. The third
sensation of the day, equally as indi-
cative of revival of Russia's fighting
spirit, was the expulsion by the pro-
yisional government of Robert Grimm
the Swiss Socialist, who came here
to plead peace on behalf of the Ger
mans
The announcement last week that
the cabinet had decided to suggest a
of the Allies for examina- |
tion of treaties was followed today |
by the publication of the note which |
suggests conference to revise the |
agreements existing among the Allies |
as to war aims, with the exception of |
the London agreement. which pro-
vides that none of the signatory |
powers shall conclude a separate |
peace.
Members of the American commits
sion devoted Saturday to informal con
ferences with leading Russians. Elihu
Root, head of the mission, met Alex
ander j. Guchkoff. chief of the muni-
ions bureau. Ambassador Francis is
other small dinners and
uncheons to enable the members of
ne American mission to meet the
Russian cabinet ministers. The
Americans are arranging for visits to
Moscow, Kiev and Odessa and pos
;ibly to Rumania. Indications are the
commission will remain in Russia
hree or four weeks.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-18
THREE MORE RECRUITS
Several Who "Signed Up" Failed to
Pass Examinations.

Three more recruits, John II. Nc.
Clune, Leroy b. Holton and George
Oesterle, left on the afternoon train
for Fort Ethan Allen to join the first
Vermont regiment.
During the past few days the guards
men in charge of the local recruiting
station, assisted by local physicians,
have exercised more care in the selec-
tion of recruits and as result sever
al who were ready to take their places
in the ranks have failed to pass.
The recruits who went to the post
this afternoon were in charge of Pri-
vate Paul Jewett of Company |, who
has been at his home here on 49,
hour leave.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-18
JAPANESE HELP THE LOAN
More Than Half a Million Taken by
Local Subjects of the Mikado.

Local Subjects of the Mikado.
New York, June 15.-Following a
recent resolution of the Japanese AS
sociation, which called upon mem
bers to subscribe to the Liberty Loan,
as well as to lend financial support
to the Red Cross and to cooper
ate in providing dressings and ban
dages for war relief, large subscrip-
tions have been received from the
Japanese residents of New York.
The Yokohama Specie Bank of 120
Broadway has subscribed 100000,
Japanese busines houses have made a
number of contributions, and the in
dividual members of the japanese
Association have subscribed more
than $4,000. l. Hamaoka of 120
Broadway is the head of committee
of thirty-three to push the sale of
Liberty bonds among Japanese in
New York, and DIR. T. c. Hakami of
176 Washington Park, Brooklyn, is
head of the Red Cros committee.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-18
MORE GOLD FOR WAR
House Accepts Amendment Permit
tina Reduction in Gold Reserve

Washington, June 15.-More than
$3.50 100000 in gold will be made
available for war use by reductions in
eral reserve banking system by amend
ments to the banking laws as accept
ed by the House yesterday. The SEN
ate is expected to act favorably. The
federal reserve board will have power
to regulate exchange charges by non
member banks.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-18
RED CROSS BENEFIT
Concert Tomorrow Evening by Miss
Eva Lassor and Pupils.

Miss Eva Lassor and her pupils
will give a concert tomorrow evening
at high school hall for the benefit of
the Red Cross. AS a musician, Miss
Lassor needs no introduction to the
music-loving people of Bennington
who will undoubtedly be present in
large numbers both as testimonial
to her ability and in recognition of
the cause for which the entertainment
iG given
Miss Lassor will be assisted by
Mrs. Harry Marshall, violinist, and
Miss Stella Vadnais, soprano. of
North Adams. and the combined pro-
gram should result in attracting a
large audience.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-18
ACTRESS DIES AT 81
Mrs. Smith, Americas Oldest Actress,
Appeared on Stage Last Year.

Mrs. Mary Sedley Smith. known as
Mrs. Sol Smith, believed to be
Americas oldest actress, and one who
had played part in the life of the
theatre through three generations, died
peacefully in her sleep yesterday at
her home, SO Claremont Avenue. in
this city. She was 81 years old, and
had appeared in public as recently as
a year ago, when she was hailed as
the grand old lady of the American
stage" The last of the famous old
actresses before her was Mrs. G. II.
Gilbert, who was SO when she died in
Chicago on Dec. 2, 1904, while acting
in Clyde Fitchs Granny After
Mrs. Gilbert the next of the veterans
was Mrs. Sol Smith.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-18
SAN SALVADOR TREMBLING
Several More Shocks Felt, But No
Further Damage Reported.

San Salvador, June 14.--Several
earthquake shocks of varying intensi-
ty were felt here yesterday and today,
but no damage has been reported.
The various relief committees are
distributing provisions to those left
destitute by the previous shocks, and
shelters are being built to house the
thousands of homeless who at pres
ent are encamped in the streets. The
wounded are being attended by the
Red Cross. Several bodies have been
recovered at Armenia and Quezalte-
pee.
The tracks of the Occidental Rail
road are covered with streams of
lava. Several craters of the volcano
have formed into one.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-18

MRS. ALMlRA SIMMONS
Aged Resident Eled Sunday at
Daughters Home on Gage st.

The death OF Mrs. Almira Simmons
occurred at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. George Wadsworth of Gage
street, Sunday at II a. M, age rs
years. She is survived by one daugh-
ter, Mrs. George Wadsworth and two
grandsons, Walter and Chester Wads-
worth Of Bennington; one sister, Mrs.
Annette Sherman, and one brother
Dr. j. b. Snyder of Chenoa, Ill. The
services will be held Wednesday morn
ing at IL o'clock at her daughters
home on Gage street lnterment at
Elmwood cemetery. Schaghticoke, N.
Y.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-18
LOSS OF SHIP C.UE TO SPIES
Captain of American Schooner Says
German Agents Are at Gibraltar.

Boston, June 15.-Captain Frank
Lauren of the American schooner Bar
bara, sunk by German submarine
May "a while on a voyage from Port
Arthur, Texas, for Spezia, reported on
his arrival here today that spies at
garding the movements of his vessel
and conveyed it to the commander of
the U-boat by which he was attacked.
One member of the crew was arrest
ed at Gibraltar on Captain Lauren's
complaint and locked up on the charge
of having been in communication with
German spies.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-18
RHoNDDA FOOD CONTROLLER
"coal King" of Cardiff Succeeds Lord
Devonport in Post.

London, June 15.-Baron Rhondda,
President of the Local Government
Board, it was announced in the House
of Commons today, has been appoint
ed Food Controller.
Baron Rhondda. who was David a.
Thomas, the British coal king" be-
fore his elevation to the peerage in
1916, succeeds Viscount Devonport, re-
signed.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-18
BRITISH BREAK GROUND

London, June 1S.-German attacks
on newly won territory east Of Mon
chy forced the British to fall back
from advanced positions today, Field
Marshal Haig officially announced.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-18
WEATHER FORECAST

For eastern New York and western
Vermont fair and warmer tonight.
Tuesday fair, possibly thunder show
ers
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03
WOHLWENDER AFTER
EXPENDITURE
SENATOR WANTS TO KNOW
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SPEND
ING FOR DRINKS AND GAS.
NEARLY HALF MILLION
DEFICIENCY IN STATE REVENUE

Asking That Tax Re Placed Upon
These and Other Businesses and
Materials Which Are of Thas
. Nature.
Among the first measures intro
duced in the Georgia legislature was
a resolution by Senator WOhlwender
of the Twenty-fourth, asking an inn
vestigation into the enormous expen-.
ditures of money upon soft drinks
and automobiles and gasoline for
pleasure, and asking that a tax be
placed upon these and other business
es conducted and materials sold for
pleasure.
After reciting the fact that the
annual report of the controller-gen-
eral of the state for 1917 shows that
there is deficiency in the revenue
of the state Of nearly half a million
dollars, and that the people are being
put to unusual and extraordinary ex-
pense to prosecute a war, and that
1.-THE cost Of the necessaries of life
as well as other foodstuffs has reach
ed price almost inconceivable, and
many of its citizens are hardly able
to feed their families with the pres
ent wages and salaries: the resoir-
ton continues: THAT the ways and
means committees of the senate and
house investigate the useless con
supmtion of thousands of barrels Of
sugar in the making and manufac-
tureing of soft drinks, and the use
less expenditure of millions Of dol
lars yearly in the buying of soft
drinks, which are detrimental to the
health of the consumers, and are be
ing sold TO children. when said money
could be converted to a better pur-
pose; likewise an unnecessary ex-
penditure of money for automobiles
and gasoline used for pleasure rid
ing; that committee seek a way to
raise revenue for the state either By
an additional tax upon the syrups of
soft drinks, or upon the retailers 05
said drinks, either or both; alse npon
the retailers of automobiles and Of
gasoline, where the same is used for
pleasure; it being the purpose and in
tention of this legislature, as far as
possible, to derive the revenues of
the state from drinks sold, business
conducted and materials sold for
pleasure and Injuries and not from
the necessities of life.
THAT no member of this senate or
of the house be permitted to vote
upon any bill or bills where he is in
terested in the defeat of the same
by reason of being a stakeholder In
any manufacturing plant manufae-
turing soft drinks sought to be taxed,
or is employed as counsel by any
such manufacturing plant, or has o.
is accepting hospitality and entertain
ment by any stakeholder, counsel or
lobbyist of any such manufacturing
for the sole purpose of getting said
member to defeat any such bill or
bills"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03
WILSON'S WAR POWER
TO EXCEED ANY KINGS
MEASURES PASSED AND UNDER
CONSIDERATION MAKE HIM
STRONGEST AUTOCRAT.
new MARK is SET IN THE
GENERALIZATION OF AUTHORITY

Pending Measures Would Put All
Industries Under Sway of Execu.
tive, and Give Him Authority Over
Production and Disposition of All
Food in the Country.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-No ruler
of modern times has exercised au-
thority comparable to the war pow
ers which will have been conferred
upon the president of the United
States by the time the present ses-
sion of congress ends. Those powers
will make him the strongest auto
crat on earth, greater in the posses
sion of authority than any king, en-
peror or dictator
Monarchs who in the course of his
tory attained supreme domination
over the people they chose to rule
usurped their powers, gained them
by conquest or claimed them by d.
vine right.
The congress now in session has
set new creation of new powers
and in the transference of these pow
ers to the nations chief executive.
Different in Europe.
In England or France such powers
in war time are given to a cabinet
whose existence depends upon the
continued support of the parliament
which confers the powers. In Ameri-
ca they are given to a single man,
who remains in Office four years, re-
CARELESS of the will or the continued
support of congress.
Far-reaching and permeating into
practically every activity of Ameri-
can life, into every branch of indus
try on land and on sea, and into the
mines, factories, workshops and
farms, transportation systems and
all the agencies of trade, both for
eign and domestic, will be the au-
thority which the president will be
permitted to exercise when all these
war powers have been given him.
Many of the powers Lave already
been given to the president, while
others are sought to be conferred
upon him by measures still pending
in either house or senate with rea-
sonable assurance that they will be
passed before congress adjourns. To
enable him to carry them out he has
been given sums of money reaching
into the billions, the huge war chest
of the nation, which will be filled by
the most comprehensive and search
ing scheme of taxation ever devised
in the country's history, having been
placed at his command. He may dis
burse these sums in this country or
to the nations abroad in any manner
that may seem to him advisable in
order to prosecute the war in which
the nation is now engaged.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03
U. S. TO RUSH WORK
ON 100000 PLANES
AMERICAN AIRMEN MAY TURN
TIDE OF WAR BEFORE LAND
FORCE is SENT ABROAD.

WASHINGTON, d. C.-Secretary
of War Baker in an interview Off
cially Endorsed the plan to put an
overwhelming force of American air
planes on the European battlefront
in the shortest possible time.
1t is understood the war depart
ment has prepared plans involving
the expenditure of $600,000,OO0 in
the immediate construction of vast
feet of air planes, and that estimates
covering the plans will be forwarded
to congress shortly.
The statement of Secretary Baker
is regarded as doubly important so
far as contamination of the gigantic
plan to put upward of 100000 air
planes into action is necessary, be-
cause it shows that President Wilson
himself is squarely behind the prop
ositiop
Will Be Hurried to France.
Secretary Baker does not say this,
but it is regarded as obvious that he
knows the presidents views and that
he would not advocate the plan un-
less the president Endorsed it. With
the administration full endorsement
it is believed the plan will now be-
come reality in record breaking
time and that America will be send
ing airplanes and aviators to Europe
by the thousands within a few more
months.
1t now appears that the war de-
partment does not expect to have a
large American army in France for
year or more.
After stating that a few infantry
units would be of little except moral
value to the allies, Secretary Baker
said:
1t will take no more shipping
space to send a thousand air pilots
abroad than thousand infantrymen
it will take no more space to send
airplanes and motors than to send
artillery. 1t is now certain that if
we make the effort we can send
enough of both men and machines
within year to be of great value,
perhaps to turn the scale, all without
handicapping our plans for the army
which is to follow, nor hindering the
vital flows of food and munitions.
American airmen and aeroplanes
may turn the tide. They furnish our
supreme opportunity for immediate
service on the fighting line"
The war department has discovered
that it cannot turn out and trans
port an army large enough to count
in as short a time as amateur war
riors promised. 1t is improbable that
the sixteen training camp canton
ments will be finished by Sept. 1.
1t is unlikely that any large proper
ton of the national guard will be
trained sufficiently in elementary
principles to go abroad before win
ter.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03
PROHIBITION FIGHT
DELAYS FOOD BILL
WOULD RETURN BILL TO COM
MITTEE ON GROUND THAT
DRY SECTION UNLAWFUL.

WASHINGTON.-The fight in con-
gress over government control of
food and other necessaries have vir-
tually narrowed to the question of
prohibition.
The house control bill as amended
by the senate agriculture committee
was substituted in the senate for its
original draft and debate proceeded,
Senator Lodge opening with a speech
in favor of continuing manufacture
of beer and wine. The bill as it now
stands would prohibit the manufac-
ture of all intoxicating liquors, but
empowers the president to exempt
wines.
Senators johnson, of California,
and Kellogg, of Minnesota, delivered
prepared speeches on the general fea-
ture of the bill, promising it their
support as war measure.
Lapse of several days in general
discussion and delivery of set speech
es on other provisions before the
prohibition fight develops in earnest
is in prospect. There is pending a
motion by Senator Hardwick to send
the bill back to the committee on
the ground that the prohibition and
other important sections are uncon-
stitutional.
Senate sentiment is said generally
to favor stopping manufacture of
distilled spirits, so the debate will
center upon beer and wines. Resort
for the first time to the senate's new
cloture rule in an effort to hasten
action may be attempted, although
there is such a marked division of
opinion over the question of permit
ting brewing to continue that leaders
say it would be impossible to secure
cloture.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03
CUTS OFF A FINGER {.
AND HAND OF A BABA
Horrible Crime Is Committed bv a
Negro Girl in Baker County.

Horrible Crime Is Committed By
Negro Girl in Baker County.
News has been received of one Of
the most horrible crimes ever com
mitted in Baker county.
Mary Bradley, an eleven-year-old
negro girl, was sent to a neighbours
house to borrow some soap. She
found all the family absent from
home except a two-year-old child,
who was crying. Mary told the child
to hush crying, which the baby did
not heed. Mary then took the baby
into the kitchen and cut one Of its
fingers off with a case knife. Then
she cut off the little ones hand.
When found by the baby's mother,
Mary was dragging the baby over the
yard. Mary was taken to Newton
and lodged in jail.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03

shame and disgrace. / want you
to tell me what you think Of il"
The ardent lover of her country's
flag refused to reveal her identity.
IL don't. care what you think of
it" continued the voice. Il don't be-
lieve a woman should be allowed to
wear the American flag on her stock
ings. Goodness knows short skirts
are bad enough" !, IA
Chief Jackson, indorsed the bro.
test and sent an officer to look for
blonde woman wearing a short
dress and an American flag pasted
on the calf of her leg.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03
PETERSON IS FACED
BY MURDER CHARGE
FOR KILLING r. C. MALLISTER.
HE is ARRESTED BY SHERIFF
UNDER A WARRANT.

j. Eugene Peterson, who killed Rob-
ert C. McAllister in a pistol duel at
Fort Gaines Tuesday afternoon was
next day arrested by the sheriff of
Clay county, under warrant charg-
ing murder, and placed in Jail.
1t is understood Peterson will
plead justification on the ground that
his life was in danger. The defense
has not yet decided whether to de-
mand preliminary hearing in a JUS
tice court or apply to Superior Court
Judge Worrill for bail.
Near PostofGce.
The McAllister-Peterson tragedy
occurred in a garden at the imme-
date rear of the local postoffice.
Peterson owns the postoffice building,
while McAllister's wife is postmis-
tress. Peterson says he had employ
ed negro carpenter to build toilet
in the garden for the convenience
of postoffice employees and that Meal
lister ran the carpenter away, who
later reported to Peterson, who went
to the scene armed with an automa-
tic pistol. McAllister met him and
called him vile names at the time
reaching for section of iron and
both drew pistols and fired. Six shots
were exchanged, McAlister being
shot in the right side, the bullet cut
ting the artery near the heart. He
staggered to the lobby of the post
office, fell and expired in a few min
utes.
Flesh Wounds.
Peterson received flesh wounds in
the right hand and left arm. Mrs.
McAllister was within a few feet of
the shooting, but did not see it nor
were there any eye witnesses save
the participants.
The town was wildly excited for a
time, with many women and children
screaming on the streets in the heart
of town. Everything is quiet now.
The parties in the tragedy are prom
inent in both business and social cir
cles, having lived many years in
Southwest Georgia, and both families
are widely connected Bad feeling
had existed for some time between
the two men.
1t was feared other killings would
result, but the danger has passed.
Sentiment in the county is not fully
crystallized.
McAllister leaves a wife, five chill
dren and considerable estate. Mr..
Peterson is a national republican
and his wife was postmistress under
Roosevelt and Taft, when she was
succeeded by Mrs. McAllister, who
was selected by popular vote of the
patrons of the postoffice.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03
Woman Against Having Flags
On the Stockings of Young Girls

DES MONIES, Iowa.-The Amer
lean flag on a girls stockings prompt
ed a single and singular declaration
in Des Moines.
Police Chief Jackson just had ar
rived at his office. His telephone bell
rang. The words of woman came
fast and furious from the other end
of the wire;
Chief Jackson ] want to know if
you approve of girl wearing the
American flag on her stockings. It's
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03
Vanguard of the American Army
Land On French Soil Amid the
Wild Cheers of the Allied People
THE RECORD PRICE is
PAID FOR A BULL CALF

D. w. Fields, of Brockton, Mass,
has just paid the record price for a
bun calf. He gave a check for $685.
200 for five-month-old bull bought
from Oliver Cabana, of Buffalo, N.
Y. The bull is King Ormsby Jane
Ray Apple. The previous record
price was $4,000.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03
Scores of Jews Driven From Homes
In Palestine Perish From Lack of Food

ing been dispersed in the colonies of
Judea and Samaria. Thirty Jews
have received special permission to
remain in Jaffa. Six hundred per-
sons were compelled to leave the
farms.
"Scores of deaths incidental to the
evacuation were due to insufficient
nourishment and the hardshirs Of the
journey. In order to take care Of
the refugees clay cottages are being
erected. Jerusalem has not been
evacuated.n