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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20
PERSONAL.

Miss Adele Cowles is spending a vaca-
tion of two weeks at Squam Lake, n. H. |
Miss Eta LaFlamme of st. Adams is
spending the week in Brattleboro with
relatives.
Miss Leila Thompson of Northampton
came Saturday to visit in town with
Miss Harriet Arnold.
Mrs. w. d. Bathrie. clerk in the Hunt
ress-A Adams store, is having a two-weeks'
vacation from her work
Mrs. o. f. Stevens, bookkeeper in the
Huntress- Adams store. began a vacation
OF two weeks yesterday.
Mrs. H. H. Sheppey is having a vaca-
tion of two weeks and her rooms in the
American building are closed
Miss Maria Cox and J. P Corlss. ir.,
both of Detroit, Mich, are visiting Mrs
A. V. Cox and Miss Myrtle Cox
Mrs. William Porter of New York came
| yesterday to spend some time here with
her mother, Mrs. Ella G. Starkey.
Dolor Nolin returned to his work in.
Hopkins's store yesterday after visit
with relatives in Bridgeport, Conn.
Miss Irene Long, stenographer in the
office of the Durham Brothers company,
| is having vacation of two weeks.
Erwin French came from Burlington
where he is taking special training to
visit over Sunday with Mrss French.
Mrs. Docherty of Dorchester, Mass,
came last night to visit in town with her
sister, Mrs Frank III. Brasor of Pine
street.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. R. DeBergh and two
H. u 4
weeks at Hampton Beach, n. H., have
returned.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Haywood and
children returned this morning to their
home inf st. Adams after a few days
visit at A. Nolin's.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. S. Hopkins, who left
Saturday for Burlington to visit their
son, c. Warner Hopkins, are expected to
return tonight. They made the trip by
automobile.
Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Adams, whe
spent the week with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. c. L. Adams went to Town
shend to spend few weeks with hi.
, uncle, +. l.. Adams.
E Miss Inez Stowell went Sunday to st
+ Johnsbury to visit her aunt, Mrs. S. X
5 Brigham and family. Miss Stowell vii
return later to Washington where sh,
has government position.
= Miss Nina Barber of Oshkosh, Wis, il
$ spending the week in town with relatives
!. Miss Barber had been visiting in Hins
J. dale with her aunts, Miss Eta Richmone
: and Mrs. Edward Robertson.
Il Rev. and Mrs William Moore an,
! two daughters of West Suffield, Conn
= are expected tomorrow to spend a few
: day here with his parents, Mr. an,
! Mrs. I. l.. Moore. Rev. Mr.. Moore will
occupy the pulpit in the Methods
church Sunday morning.
J. Mr.. and Mrs. A H. Stanley of iona
e wanda, N. Y, are visiting Mrs. Stan
d ley parents, Mr.. and Mrs. L. w. AM
S don of SO Canal street. They came b
]. automobile, making the trip in tw
/. days. Claude W. Amidon came Satul
day from Boston to visit his sister, RI
a turning last night.
81 Mr. and Mrs. Dennison Cowles an
g Miss Violet Fidler returned last nigh
d from a several days automobile trip t
al Plattsburg, n. Y, where they spent Sur
he day with Dennison B. Cowles. who is i
&c the reserve officers training camp for til
+. summer. They returned home by I'll
way of Lake George and thu Adirondack
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20
Standing of the Clubs.
Games Today.

Games Today.
Cleveland at Boston.
Chicago at New York.
Detroit at Philadelphia.
st. Louis at Washington.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20
HERE'S A FISH STORY.
Whale Weighing 5000. Pounds Caught
in Connecticut River.

SAYBROOK, Conn, Aug. 20.-A
whale weighing 5000 pounds and Is
feet long was caught in the Connecticut
river about 100 yards from the railroad
bridge here yesterday. Six men and a
woman in 22-foot powerboat fought
a spiritedj battle before the final vic
tory.
The craft was on the way to the fish
ing grounds when Mrs. III. f. Loveland
one of the party, discovered the levia
than. They lassoed it around the tai
and towed it into shallow water. The
apparently inert body was fastened to 9
pile.
Then the fun began. Guns and axes
were used in the battle, which LASTED
for more than an hour and half. Thi!
is the first whale to be captured in thu
river. Is.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20
ADJUSTMENTS.
Attractions At the Theatres.

Today the Empire presents Zoe Rae
and True Boardman in Danger Within
a five act Bluebird and Help Wanted
a Metro Drew comedy. Tomorrow, Roy
Stewart in the Double Standard, Screen
News and Strike, One, comedy, will be-
the attractions. 10 ~
Today the Princess theatre present.
Corinne Griffith in / Win Repay, from
the o. Henry story A Municipal Report
also chapter thirteen of The Eagle !
Eye, The Region of Terror Tomorrow
William Desmond in Society for Sal
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20
DIAMOND
NOTES

Pete Kilduff of the Cubs has Joined
the navy.
Doc Swigler has been a life-saver
TO the Nashville team with his good
pitching.
Tom Rogers, st. Louis Browns
pitcher, Is the latest American league
player to be called in the draft.
Harold Carlson, Pirate pitcher
called to war, is now at Camp Grant,
near his home town In Rockford, Ill.
The veteran Phil Wells has been
taken on by Fort Worth to replace
Larry Woodall as second string catch
er.
Two of the biggest finds of the year
in the National league-Ray Schmandl
and Charley Hollocher-are st. Louis
boys.
Pitcher Alex Shields, who took g
short fling at Western league ball this
| spring, is now with Buffalo in the In
ternational.
Paul st. Charles, a Nashville semi.
pro, taken on by Chattanooga to play
the infield. has been getting away with
it in a pinch.
Charley Herzog is much impressed
with the hitting strength of the Reds
and thinks they should put up grea
battle from now on.
The hitting of Art Griggs is the sen
sation of the Coast league. He con
tinues to bat around .450, and shows
no signs of letting up.
For team that has several Of II
sluggers batting right-handed the 81
Louis Cardinals are unusually veal
against left-handed pitching.
Brooklyn scribes are making tn
best of bad situation by picking o.
Ray Schmandt as a hero who stand
out like lighthouse in fog.
Norman Pitt, youthful Brookly
pitcher who was supposed to be sen
to Rochester, went to work in shi
yard instead and quit the game.
Manager Mitchell of the Chicag
Cubs is now saying that he can d,
pend on Bob O'Farrell for his bacl
stop work when Bill Killefer joins tn
army.
New men with Syracuse are Bobt
! Davis. veteran infielder, last year wit
! Los Angeles, and Bob Heck, pitch,
5 picked up from Syracuse independei
D circles.
: The Phillies will be sorely cripple
y soon. They will lose Jim McGaffg;
!. in the draft. He is one of their be
z young ball players and has been doll
e splendidly at second base.
. With the departure of Woodall al
IL Wachtel from the Fort Worth tea
% Clarence Kraft Is the only player l
naming who is In class one A and 81
10 ject to early call. Ebe expects to
% any day now. 4.....s,s
y According to Newark newspar
IS writer Joe Lannin is the real financ
>. fie also backs Buffalo and Syracu
10 giving him three clubs In the leag
n, as his personal affair.
George Whitfield, who recently
listed in the army, says he wants
an ret over 10 France and do some 40
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20
TOWNSHEND.

A community sing will be held on the
common Wednesday evening from to s
o'clock. 1t is hoped that there will be
many more present than at the last sing.
People are. asked to carry books contain
ing old familiar songs
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20

George Whitfield, who recently en-
listed in the army, says he wants to
get over to France and do some fight
ing. George hasn't the artistic tenn
permanent, and says he couldn't paint
a ship in thousand years.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20

Yesterdays Results.

Boston 6, Cleveland 0.
Chicago 4, New York /.
Philadelphia 9, Detroit 8.
Washington 3, st. Louis / IA in
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20

About the best praise that man can
get is 70 come to the end % his lie and
still be the man his wife is glad that she
married.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Yesterdays Results.

Chicago 2, Boston 0.
Philadelphia Z, st. Louis /.
Cincinnati s, Brooklyn 4.
Pittsburg 8, New York l (first game)
New York 2, Pittsburg l (second
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20
Standing of the Clubs,

Games Today.
New York at Pittsburg,
Boston at Chicago.
Philadelphia at st. Louis.
Brooklyn at Cincinnati.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-17
Sybel Reported Safe

Announcement was made by the Navy
Department to-day OF the safe arrival at
Gloucester. Mass, of the schooner Sybel
reported to have been sunk by a U-boat
News of the rescue OF the men from the
crew of the schooner Progress, who had
been reported a. missing. was also given
out
Rcdouhled efforts are being made by
naval craft of many types as well AS by
scores of naval hydroplanes. 20 hunt down
and DESTROY any enemy submarines now
lurking off shore Patrol boats are stillhov-
ering in the vicinity of cape May. where
the Dorothy Barrett went down. In the
hope of definitely establishing that the
U-boat which sank her has been de-
stroyed. The report of the subma line g
destruction Is said to be the first to be
put in the class OF "proba bilities."
1t is the view in naval circles here
that the U-boats carrying on the cam
paign against shipping in American wa
ters are converted merchant submarines.
Six such craft are known to have been
huilt in German shipyards, and two of
them, the Deutschland and the Bremen,
were finished before the United States en-
tered the war Naval experts say this
type of undersca craft can make no
more than twelve miles an hour upon tho
sui face and half OF that speed when run
Ming submerged
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-17
GOVERNMENT CURB
ON RENT PROFITEERS
industrial Workers to Get Re-
lief in Near Future.
Special Despatch to The Sun

WASHINGTON, Aug. ia curb on
rent profteers operating at the expense
of industrial workers who are being
shifted from one community to another
under the plan OF priority distribution
Of labor is being devised by the Bureau
OF Industrial Housing of the Depart
ment OF Labor,
Energetic measures to put a stop to
the practice. both through exposure in
local communities and possible taxing
vised and will be carried into effect as
soon as possible. The matter probably
will be placed before Congress without
delay.
Landlords in Industrial communities
who have raised their rentals will be
called upon TO show expenditures for
expenses and improvements which justify
their increases. In fragrant instances OF
proflteering the offenders will be ex-
posed in the communities in which they
live.
One of the causes of industrial un.
rest and large percentage of labor
turn over" In factories has been found
by the Federal Employment Service to
be due to excessive rentals exacted from
workers who have sought employment
in war supply factories and mills.
Under war legislation already passed
the GovEnment has the power TO com
mandeer residences for its use, either
in the housing OF industrial workers or
for other reasons.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-17
SHIP SET AFIRE OFF
HATTERAS BY U-B0AT
Life Guards Bring Ashore Crew
of Oil Tanker, (which
Was Shellcd.
NEAR DIAMOND SHOALS
It Is Believed That ALL of YES
sel's Company Are
Saved.
NEAR DIAMOND SHOALS

BEAUFORT. n c., Aug. 16-Life guards
tonight brought ashore the crew OF an
oil tanker which is burning twenty-five
miles off Cape Hatteras. From the
reports that reached this city 1t seem,
that German submarine shelled tho
tanker and caused her to break into
flames. &c.
When life guards went out for the
crew 1t is reported that they found a
submarine. presumably German. lying
close to the burning steamer.
The meagre reports which have
reached Beaufort do not say whether or
not all Of the crew escaped. IT IL
thought that all of them, however. were
saved by the life guards.
The attack was in the Same general
zone that holds the Diamond Shoals
where the llghtshlp was recently de-
stroyed. Since the destruction OF the
lightship the Navy Department has pa
trolled the coast constantly in quest OF
raiding U-boats
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-17
MORE WOMEN NEEDED
TO SAVE THE CROPS
Formers Seek Several Hun
dred From IS to IS.

The Industrial Commission OF the
State Department OF Labor got down
TO brass tacks yesterday on tho subject
OF women In farm labor. and said 1t Is
UP to them to finish the thing they have
started. A statement given out by the
commission reads:
THE farm situation is acute and I'M
less the women of leisure enlist at once
and 60 out to help harvest the crops,
much of the work already done will be
In vain.
There Is a real need to-day for sew
eral hundred women to go on the farms
this week and the situation looms more
serious as one contemplates the return
to the city of hundreds Of school teach
ers and students who have given their
entire vacations to the production OF the
crops that now need harvesting.
The farmers prefer women between
the ages Of IS and 80. The women are
we'll housed and fed, and paid for their
work. II is a real patriotic call for
volunteers and we prefer women VINO
are not employed in essential industries.
ANY normal woman can do this
work. Before leaving tho city each APP
plicant undergoes a physical examina-
ton and Is ciassed according to general
physical condition. We do not send
any one out to work on farm until we
have the PHYSICIANS approval
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-17
U-BOAT "PROBABLY"
SUNK OFF CAPE MAY
Navy Department Makes Ten
tofiDe Announcement.
Special Despafch 10 The SuN.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.-The sinking
OF the American auxiliary schooner
Madrugada by a German submarine
off the Virginia coast was officially an
nounced to-day. AS a partial Offset to
this loss. the Navy Department ex-
pressed belief in the probable destruc-
ton" of the marauding U-boat which
shelled the schooner Dorothy Barrett off
Cape May. n. j., Wednesday afternoon.
Secretary Daniels said he was waiting
final report from the commandant OF
the naval district before a definite con-
clusion regarding the fate of the raider
was hazarded.
The Navy Department announced to-
night its action on an application made
by Boston and Gloucester fishing COM
panies that gun crews be provided for
trawlers and fishing schooners bound
for the Grand Banks, or that they be
furnished with a naval convoy to protect
quest was wired after meeting of rep
resentatives Of the fishing companies
held in Boston. =.
Steps to protect the fishing fleets of
the New England coast from German
submarine raiders have already been
taken, it was said Hereafter. M.
Daniels said. where the vessels operate
In fleets. as is the custom. naval patrol
boats will accompany them to the banks
and there maintain guard. This action
will be taken as food conservation
measure.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-17
SAILOR CANNOT COTO
TRIAL IN VIRGINIA
NelU State LaV Requires His
Discharge First.
Special Despatch 10 The SuS.

RICHMOND. Va. Aug. 16-Because the
prisoner still was in Uncle Sans service
Police Justice Crutchfield decided to-day
that his court had no jurisdiction in the
matter OF Louis Imbler, 33 years old, OF
kokomo. Ind, second class pipe filter in
the navy. recently arrested at the naval
training station in Philadelphia and
brought back here last night to answer
two charges Of HOUSEKEEPING and grand
larceny.
The court let the case go over until
August IS 20 that ruling could be OBJ
ta!ned from the United States Attorney
General. Failure OF the navy authorities
to discharge lmbler when he was turned
over to a Richmond detective by order
of Secretary Daniels caused the hitch
the court pointing out that special
Virginia law eXempts soldiers and sail
ors from prosecution by civil authorities
for the period OF the present war so long
as they are in the service.
The order from Daniels merely di-
rected that lmbler be released and that
he be returned to the navy If not con-
victed. Justice Crutchheld held that this
was far different from a discharge and
that Imbler was Just as much a sailor
as ever.
The man appeared In court in his SER
vice uniform. He enlisted in the navy
in Norfolk two months ago and was
trained at the station there. He was re-
leased several months before from the
Virginia penitentiary after serving half
Of a ten year term for burglary IN New
port News. He is alleged to have com
United the offences here soon after his
release.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-17
Crew saved Nothing.

The Madrugada, which sailed from
New York on her maiden trip several
days ago. was attacked and sunk by a
German submarine. which began shell:
ing her without warning thirty-fNve
miles off the Winter Quarter Shoal light
ship, off the Virginia coast. at 100 A.
NJ. Thursday. The skipper, Capt. Fred
erick Rouse, and his crew Of twenty-five
men. including four Chinese. landed yes
terday at an Atlantic port with the story
of their experience. They abandoned the
vessel so hastily that they saved nothing
as the nautical phrase has it, except
what they stood in.
The lookouts on the Madrugada spied
the periscope Of the Cboat rising from
the peaceful and mist covered sea about
two hundred yards TO port. The sub
marine opened fire the moment she got
her guns in position. Capt. Rouse was
under sail and his motor engine was do
ing its best his hope being that he might
outdistance the enemy.
Several shells whizzed over the
schooner and others smashed her below
the water line. The skipper and his men
put both lfcboats over in a fifty and
rowed out of range of the pirates guns
The C-hoat commander appeared to be
uninterested in the fate of the boats
crews, not even hailing them.
Eleven shells put the schooner out OF
business and she went down with hei
valuable general cargo. The skipper and
his crew drfted four hours in the coast
wise steamship lane when they were
picked up by the Norwegian fruit steam
ship Taunton The Madrugada was built
this year At Portland, Ore, and meas
ured 1890 gross tons, She was to have
gone under Brazilian registry on her ar
rival at Santos.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-17
SCHALL REWARDED
BY TRIP TO FRANCE
Minnesota's Blind Represen-
tatiUe Went Free of Expense.
Special Despatch 10 TuE Sun.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 16. Thomas
Schall. the blind Representative from
Minnesota. Is in France with Mrs. Schall
getting first hand information about the
war, He went over on a liner as a
guest of the War Department.
MIR. SChall is running for the Senate
as an out and out Republican. but when
the present House was organized he was
listed as a Progressive. He jumped the
fence with a score OF others and secured
the recognition which led to his nomina
ton OF Champ Clark TO succeed himself
as Speaker.
The party division in the House was
very close and the nomination of Clark
by SChall was counted on to aid the
Democrats, and 1t did. Immediately fol-
lowing the election of the Speaker Dem
oocratic Leader klchin read his list OF
committee nominations---the Democratic
mcmbers---and there in their midst ap-
pered the name OF Schall for tire power
full Rules Committee.
Evidently Mr.. Schall (. did not think
this adequate. This Is the story he told
to his colleagues about the interview
with the Secretary OF War which led to
his trip 70 Europe:
Il wish TO go to France, Mr.. Secre.
tary." said Mr., Schall.
Probably that can be arranged" said
Mr.. Baker.
And wish Mrs. Schsr to go with
me-" said Mr.. Schall.
You know passports are not being
issued to women unless they are going
abroad on war work." said Mr.. Baker
Yes, but Mrs, Schall would go as my
secretary" said Mr., Schall.
Possibly that could be arranged,
said Mr. Baker
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-17
MUSICIANS ARE LOYAL TO U. s
German Born Members OF Chicago
Federation Renounce Ka.ser

CHICAGO. Aug. l6.-The Chicago Fed
GRAFTON OF Musicians has modified its
recent ruling restricting membership to
American citizens. it was announced to-
day, to retain those loyal members OF
alien birth now on the roll Disloyal
musicians will be dropped. President
Joseph Winkler stated.
The restriction was originally adopted
to exclude disloyal members of the Chi
cago Symphony Orchestra, whose Ger
man born members at meeting to-
day renowned the Kaiser. their native
land and their kinfolk fighting for the
Central Powers.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-17
GIRL MOTORIST DIES
IN SUDDEN PLUNGE
Miss Jessie Gay of Sharon 10
Crushed as Car Ouerfurns.
Special Despatch 10 THE suS.

PoUoHKEEPsIE, Aug. 16.-Losing con-
troll OF her automobile on a turn in the
highway between Sharon and Nudge
Lake six miles frem Millerton, Miss
Jessie Gay, rs, of Sharon, was killed this
afternoon.
Miss Gay. who was prominent as a
Red Cross worker in Sharon and Miller
ton. had been taking to Nudge Lake a
party Of children who we're being enter
tained at a picnic there. She was rel
turning to Sharon for another load when
she met her death. .......,. .
The car leaped out of the highway.
went down an embankment fifteen feet
deep and overturned. Miss Gay was
crushed beneath the stearing gear. She
was dead when a party of tourists found
her a short time later.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-17
CALLED CRUEL TO DAUGHTER.
jacques suzanne, Explorer and
Film Man. Accused by Wife.

Capt. Jacques Suzanne. Arctic ex-
plorer and motion picture director,
waived examination yesterday and was
held IN $1,000 bail, charged with cruelty
to his fourteen-year-old daughter Eve
Ign.
Hts wife complained that Capt. Su-
zanne made the girl chop down trees,
carve up dead horses and do other hard
labor at his lodge In the mountains, near
Stony Point. where motion pictures OF
Arctic scenes are being taken. Bail was
furnished by Mrs. Charles Tracy OF
Highland Falls.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-17

The Highland Falls Red Cross Society
has been enabled to break all records
for making wearing apparel by the use
OF knitting machine loaned them by Mrs.
j. Pierpont Morgan. Sr. The report made
public yesterday shows that Miss Myra
Mandigo alone averaged thirty pairs OF
socks per day using the machine. Other
members also made good use of the ma
chine.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-17
SENATOR JAMES HAS RELAPSE.
His Conditions Is Reported to BE
Critical.

BALTIMORE, Aug. 16.-Senator Ollie
James OF Kentucky. who has been seri-
ously Ill for some time. suffered a re-
lapse this evening and his friends have
been notified that his condition Is critical
Senator James was chairman OF the
last Democratic convention. which re-
nominated President Wilson. and has
been one Of the strongest friends and
supporters of the Administration since
the beginning of the world war.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-17

BosroN. Aug. 1s.--Formcr Mayor John
F. Fitzgerald announced to-nigh. his
candidacy for the Democratic nomination
for Congress in the Tenth Massachusetts
District He will be opposed by Con-
gresham Peter E. Tague, who seeks re-
election.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-17
FERRIS OUT OF SENATE RACE.
Michi9nn's Former Governor VIII
support Ford.
Desputch TO TIE SUN.

BIG RAPIDS. Mich. Aug. 16.-Former
Governor Woodbridge y. Ferris will not
be a candidate for the Democratic Sem
atorial nomination. He issued a state
ment to-day which said in part
Under existing circumstances | am
for Henry Ford. His presence in the
Senate would be refreshing. He 10 gem
erous and understands the laborer. and
labor will have to be reckoned with
after the war.
'Mr. Fords presence then will be a
tower Of strength"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-17
Tar Who saved boat Honor

WARRINGTON. Aug l6.--Frank X.
Willis, chief gunners mate OF Minot. n
d., was commended to-day by Secretary
Daniels for preventing the sinking OF
United States submarine on July s,
He closed the door of torpedo tube
through which the water had poured
when workmen opened It to extract a
torpedo.