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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-07
MANY SOLDIERS JUMPED.
Boatswain' Mate Tells Story of
Tuscania's S Destruction.

LONDON, Feb. Thomas Smith
Of Glasgow, boatswain s mate OH
the Tuscania, said the steamer was
proceeding to an English port under
convoy.
AT 30 O'Clock on Tuesday eve
ning,' he continued, - was in No
l room, talking with a fellow boat
swain when | heard a terrific eXplo
sion and felt the vessel keeling over.
| said to my mate they We got her
now
"'We commenced lowering boats
on the starboard side. The soldiers
were lined up on deck waiting for
the boats. Unfortunately many
jumped overheard.
q found that the boats at No. 8
station to which l proceeded had
been blown to pieces. ! then helped
to get boats 4, 9 B and c away
with full complement and the sec
ond officer got boats l to : safely
away.
After seeing these launched /
proceeded to the other deck where
l laupched a raft | picked up II
soldiers and two Of the ship > com
pany who were swimming about
We had no oars and had to paddle
along with our hands We were
picked up at 9 clock in the eve.
ming and landed Wednesday morn
| inc -
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-07

rs soon as they are properly outfttcd |
they will he brought to Winchester.
'The landing point of survivors in
dicates that the Tuscania was taking
the northern route around Ireland to
England. No mention of the time Of
the sinking was made in the official
messages received last night, but news
was received in London at 3 p. m. yes
terdav.
''The troops aboard the Tuscania
were mainly former Michigan and Wis
eonsin National Guardsmen now at
tached to the 32d division, trained at
Camp Macarthur, Texas. Several aera
squadrous and several companies of en-
gineers were aboard. At first there
was some confusion at the war depart
ment as 10 whether the Goth engineers
or the l0Tth engineers were aboard the
/ Tuscania. 1t finally was established
/ that the l07th engineer regiment was
not on board. (This is a separate or
ganzation from the 10th engineer
train which was on board.) y head
, quarters company and Companies ID, f
and f of the Goth engineers were on
board These units comprise the 9th
battalion of the Goth, which is for
es.rv regiment not attached to the 32d
division.
! Secretary Baker issued the following
statement:
"Thc sinking of the Tuscania brings
us face TO face with the losses of war
i'm its most relentless form. 1t is a
fresh challenge to the civilized world
bv an adversary who has refined, but
made more deadly, the stealth of the
; savage in warfare We must win this
war and we will win this wal Losses
I like this unite the country in sympathy
with the families of those who hay,
4 suffered loss They also unite us tC
A make more determined our purpose t'
@ press on.
m LAS rapidly as details come in the,
will be given to the public i'll order t,
: relieve anxiety where possible and no
tiee Will be sent as promptly as possibl
TO those whose sons and brothers hav
been added to the nation 5 heroi
r dead.
/ On the basis of figures reported t
war and state departments here tn
>, missing would be 276. The figures c
y the British admiralty as they stood earl
!; today, however, placed the missin
= American troops at los. There is ever
hope that the lower number will PROV
to be correct.
British convovs near the torpedoe
ship closed in quickly and did hero
10 work, as the comparatively small nun
, Der of losses showed. The position
?, the Tuscania off the north coast Of II
H. land, evidently headed for Englan
also was such that members OF I
British patrol ships and other vess'
rushed to her side and in that way t
losses were minimized.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-07
SUBSTITUTE FOR WHEAT.
Potatoes Are to Take It's Place Tenn
porarily in Connecticut.

HARTFORD, Conn, Feb. 7.-Pota-
toes were made wheat flour substi-
tute temporarily by Connecticut State
Food Administrator Seoville in an orde-
TO wholesale grocers and others, issued
here yesterday, sales to be on a basis
for four pounds of white potatoes to
one of flour. Potatoes are the only
change in the official list of substitutes
previously issued by the national food
administration and their use will be
due to the fact that wheat substitutes
are scarce in Connecticut. All dealers
and growers are warned Of prosecutions
effort is made TO unduly increase the
Trice Of potatoes. which are selling at
wholesale about $500 per 100 pounds
0heial statement is that potatoes are
| being boarded for better prices.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-07

British authorities have wired in
structions to their commands in Scot
land and Ireland TO afford our troops
from the Tuscania every possible as
aistouce and 70 furnish them with cloth
ing requirements. Officers have been
despatched from Liverpool and Glasgow
and London to points in ireland, where
survivors now are, and they will wire
names Immediately. American consul at
Belfast reports 600 survivors at Larne.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-07
V|NTON & SON MILL
DAMAGED $4,000
Fire from Unknown Origin
Breaks Out in Rag
Department
WILL NECESSITATE
SHUTDOWN LATER
Had Gotten Under Good Headway,
but Department Confined Flames to
One Department

A loss which is likely to reach $4,000
was caused this morning by fire in the
W. H VintOn & Son paper mill, owned
By w. B. Vinton. The fire was discov-
cred about 545 clock and an alarm.
from box SO, near Milestone bridge,
called out the department and a few
hundred citizens. Nobody knows what
caused the fire, but it is apparent that
it started in rags. Matches occasion
ally are discovered while rags are be-
ing sorted at the mill The loss Is
covered by insurance through George
NJ. Clay's agency. The damage was
confined largely to the upstairs rooms
in the building containing the rag sort
ing department where SIX girls are en-
ploved. and the beater room, the for
mer being upstairs and the latter down
stairs
Kimball Hodge, night beaterman.
went to the stock building after a pail
of lime and on his return saw the flicker
of FIRE through an upstairs window. He
notified Roy Nichols. night fireman, and
he latter started TO give the alarm
! At the same time Peter BiagiGtti, pro-
/ urietor of the Boston Fruit Market, was
| on his way to his store and saw what
/ he thought to be reflection of fire in
| the windows in the east end of the rag
| department. He ran back to investi-
gate and met Mr.. Nichols, and at the
| request of the latter Mr.. Biagiotti
| pulled in the. alarm.
Three lines of hose were run from
hydrants on South Main street, two be
ing carried TO vantage point on the
roof of the boiler room, west of the
rag department. while the third was
carried to projecting roof ON the east
side The position of the firemen on the
east side was dangerously near the high
voltage transmission wire from the
Connecticut River Power company s
plant, but the company turned off the
current while the fire was in progress.
The flames had gotten good headway
ard burst through both the north and
west sides, but they were confined to
the rag department, and it is consid-
cred that the fremen did an excellent
piece of work
There were three rooms upstairs, the
sorting room. the duster room and cut
ou9,y in the sorting and duster rooms
than elsewhere. practically reducing the
woodwork to cinders. Several bales of
rags also were destroyed and serious
damage was done to the dusting. pick
ing and cutting machinery and shaft
ing, in the upstairs part while dirty
water and charcoal ran down into the
beater room below, spelling the stoch
: in the beater machinery.
The mill has not been running TODAY
= but Mr.. Ninton saws that he intends Il
:, start up tomorrow morning if possibl;
; TO run out the paper stock now in proc
c ess which will take eight or nine days
/ Then il will be necessary to shut dowI
e until more rags can be sorted, whicl
cannot be done until the repairs ar,
e made. Mr. Vinton thinks the mill vii
y be shut down then for about thre,
weeks
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-07
NOTED BOTANIST DEAD.
Charles E. Faxon of Harvard Was a
Botanical Artist of Merit.

BOSTON. Feb. 7,-Charles Edward
Faxon assistant director Of the Arnold
since 1882 and formerly in
structor Of botany at Harvard. died in
this city yesterday. Mr.. Faxon, who
was widely known as a botanh.al ar
tist. was selected by the Smithsonian
institution to make the Illustrations for
work on trees, afterwards known as
Sargent 5 Silva of North America
For this work he made 749 drawings,
with a carefully prepared analysis for
each subject His drawings Of many
Central American plants were published
in the Botanical Gazette.
Mr.. Faxon was - years old and q
fellow Of the American academy Of
arts and science.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-07
FIFTEEN BRITISH
SHIPS WEEKS TOLL
Ten of Over 1000 Tons Were Among
Those Lost-Three French and
One Italian Ship Torpedoed.

LONDON, Feb. THE admiralty
reports 10 British merchantmen sunk
by mine or submarine III the past
week. OF these 10 were 1000 tons or
over and five We're under 600 tons
-Four fishing vessels also were sunk.
The British losses by mine or snbma
rine during the past week are approx
mately the same as the previous week
when nine British merchantmen of
more than 500 tons and six of lesser
tonnage were destroyed
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-07
AURAN|A WAS HIT
Cunard Liner of 13,400 Tons Torpedoed
Within Past 48 Hours-On Way
to United States.

New York, Feb. THE Cunard liner
Amania, 1900 tons, was torpedocd by
a German submarine within the last
Is hours. while bound for the United
States it was learned from officials Of
the Cunard line today.
Although badly damaged hy the ex-
plosion the ship was not sunk and Is
believed to be making her way back to
port with the assistance OF government
Ee-seIs. She had but little eargo.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-07
WAGES ALREADY HIGH.
Endicott Declines to Grant Increase
Demanded by Lynn Workers.

BOSTON, Feb. Henry B. Endi-
cott, executive manager of the state
committee on public safety, in a
report today as arbitrator in the
Lynn shoe workers wage dispute
which resulted in the closing of 20
factories for period of FIVE months
last year, declined to grant increases
except in the case of stitching and
packing room employees, who were
given 10 per cent advance. Mr..
Endicott found that wages in Lynn
were the highest received by shoe
workers in any Of the shoe centers
of the country.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-07
First Baptist Church

Friday, Feb. s, 4lj y. m.-Junior
Christian Endeavor meeting. All boys
and girls 5 to II years of age are in
vitcd.
Friday. Feb 5. 7.3o p. m.-Regular
rravcr meeting Of the church. Sub
icct. The Mind Of Christ. Philippians
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-07
Rel Mems Hall

Friday Feb. ;, 5 y. m.-Regular
meeting Of Quoackticut tribe, 10. ..
l. o. II. 81 The Warriors degree will
hr conferred on several candidates. 4
large attendance is requested.
Dance every Saturday in Red Men :
hall until further notice.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-07
Masonic Temple

Thursday. Feb. :. 7.30 p. m.-Regular
meeting of Connecticut Valley Council,
No. l6.
Members Of Bingham chapter will
hold Their knitting meeting Friday eve
ming with Mrs A. +. Miller, 81 Main
street Please note change Of place.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-07
MANNED BY BRITISH SAILORS,
AND conveyed BY BRITISH WARSH|PS

On the Basis of Early Figures Reported to War and State
Departments Missing Would Number 276-Survivors
Landed in Ports of Ireland and ScOtland-Evdently
Conveys Did Heroic Work in Saving Men.
WASHINGTON, Feb with 2,179 American troops
aboard the Cunard liner Tuscania conveyed by British
warshps has been topedoed and sunk off the north coast
of Ireland Officials today anxousy awaiting further de-
tails of the first disaster to American soldiers route to
France believe that most of the missing have been saved
indications late today that 101 American officers
and soldiers had yet been accounted for British adj
mratv dispatches account for Oil American officers and
men as survivors. War department records show 2l79
American officers and men were aboard
Additional dispatches reached the department
today saying that 800 survivors were at Larne Ire
land and 27 Isay Scotland The dispatches said the
British authorities were doing everything to make the
vvors as comfortable possible and the sending of sup
plies to the places where they landed The department
issued the following statement:
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-07
Unitarian and Universalist Churches
Military Fair.

Thursday, Feb. = from ; to 7.3O p. m.
The Indies Of the First Univcrsalist
society will serve chicken-pie sup
per i'm connection with their annual
fair in Festival Hall; 745-Entertain-
mcnt; $50 20 l2-Daneing. Doors
open at 4, admission l5c, supper 6Oe.
The proceeds of the fancy table Will
20 10 the Red Cross.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-07
ASKS PERSHING TO SAVE.
Secretary Baker Urges Elimination of
Food Waste

WASHINGTON, Feb. Food con-
servation by the American forces in
France was suggested to Gen Pershing
yesterday by Secretary Baker. The
American commander was asked TO con
slider regulations governing the pur-
chase of foods by soldiers from post
exchanges and from French people and
to take up the subject of avoiding food
wastes at the table.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-07
Centre Congregational Church

Friday. Feb s. 7.3o p. m.-Chureh
night All our people are invited to a
Lincoln silver social in the chapel by the
Mary Field Hadley class. The pastor will
sneak briefly on the life Of Lincoln.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-07

Gov. Whitman Of New York has re-
moved draft Inspector for a jesting re
mark that there were three epochs in th6
life Of the Jewish youth: first, circum
cision: second, confirmation; third, ex
emption.'
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-07
In Odd Fellows Temple

Monday, Feb. Regular meeting
of Wantostiquct lodge at 7.30.
Bowling matches: Teams ID and +.
Friday.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-07

PARIS, Feb. Two French steam
ers of more than 1000 tons and one
under that tonnage were sunk during
the week ending Feb > by mine OF
submarine The vessels reaching
French ports numbered 96S, and those
clearing from French ports numbered
S07 the same week.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-07
THE WEATHER.
Generally Fair and Slightly Colder
Tonight and Friday.

WASHINGTON. February THE
weather forecast: Generally fair and
slightly colder tonight and Friday
Gentle northwest to west winds.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-07

NEW YORK, Feb. 7.-According to
records here the Tuscania carried crew
Of 220 under command of Capt. Peter
Mclean, the majority being subjects
of Great Britain.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-07

\ physician says that worry makes
people thin, but it doesn't seem to affect
fat women who worry over their fat.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-07

ROME, Feb The Italian shipping
losses by mine or submarine in the
week ending Feb. , were very light,
only one steamer under ! 600 tons be-
ing sunk.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-07

BE sure OF your ground before you start
to build upon it.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-07
l0l AMERICANS PERISH IN
TORPED0|NG OF TUSCAN|A

2l79 of Our Soldiers Aboard Big Liner When 1t Went
Down Off the North Coast of Ireland-Hope Held Out
That Some of the Men Reported Missing Have Been
Saved-Details of the Disaster Not Yet Available.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-07

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-01
POPE FOR PEACE
Will Make New Offer May 49,,
Germans Say.
Berlin Receives News With
"Sympathy," IT'S Said.
| MOVE HAS been EXPECTED
To Be Sword of Warming to
Universal Conscience"
Comes Close After Reported
Austrian Peace Effort.

The Hague, May /, British Ad-
miralty per Wireless Press).-Pope
Benedict intends to issue a new peace
offer on Whit Sunday MAY 19).
Cologne newspapers announce. The
document, it is said, will be of more
pressing nature than formerly and
will contain concrete offers of media
ton by the pope with the possible CO.
operation of neutral sovereigns.
Similar information of the ~pope's
intention, it is said, has reached Ber-
lin, where it has been received SYM
pathetically.
This is not the first report emanat-
ing from Germany recently that the
pope is about to make another peace
move. The Neueste Nachrichten of
Munich, Bavaria, according to Lon
don dispatch of April %, said that the
pope would make a peace offer as
soon as the, western offensive had as
sumed a new phase. The Bayarian
newspaper declared the move would
take the form of word of warning
addressed to. the Universal Con-
science"
"Peace Offensive Started
dispatch from Stockholm Tues
day reported that a message from
basel announced that Emperor
Charles of Austria was making a new
peace offer, appealing to Italy to con-
slider it in her own interests
That a peace offensive would be
made by the central powers in the
event that the German offensive on
the west appeared abortive has been
predicted frequently in allied capitals.
This may be the beginning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-01
RUSSIA PROTESTS
BeSsarabia Has Been Sold Out
by Landowners.
Foreign Minister Complains to
Rumania of Move.
tRy the Associated Press)

(By the Associated Press)
Moscow. Thursday, April 1S ode
layed).-A strong protest has been
made by NJ. Tchitcherin, Russian for
eign minister to the Rumanian prem
Ter concerning the announcement that
representatives of Bessarabia had pro-
claimed the union of their country
with Rumania and that Rumania
would hereafter regard Bessarabia as
an integral part of Rumania.
This, says Minister Tchitcherin, is
not only in defiance of the Russian
soviet republic, but it is a fragrant vio-
lation of an agreement previously con-
cluded with Russia for the evacua-
ton of Bessarabia. 1t is also viola
ton of the aspirations of the local
population and expresses only the will
of the large land owners of Bessarabia
who are sworn enemies of the people
and adopts in exploiting them under
the protection of .Rumanian bayo-
nets
The fusion of the two countries. he
declares. will not destroy the fraternal
solidarity which unites the working
classes of Bessarabia and Russian.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-01
PRESIDENT BUYS
SHEEP TO CRAZE
AT WHITE HOUSE

Washington, May 1.-President
Wilson has announced the purchase
of a herd of sixteen sheep of the prize
winning Shropshire Down breed.
which will be given the run of the
White House grounds.
In explanation of the purchase it
was said the President and Mrs. Will
son Ire both much interested in do
messy animals of the thorobred type.
TheiH attention was attracted to the
herdF of sheep. which includes four
baby lambs. during recent visit to
the country place of William Wood
ward at Bowie, Md.
Woodward, from whom the pur-
chase was made, is president of the
Hanover National bank of New York
City.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-01
ARSENAL CITY GOES DRY .
Rock Island to Cease Being Liquor
Mecca for Neighboring Cities

Rock Island. ILL.,. May This is
the last wet" day fer Rock Island,
site of the big government arsenal.
At IL p. m. the city will become
dry" territory for the first time In
its history. Forty saloons and more
than a score of wholesale houses will
cease doing business at that time as
a result of the verdict of voters at
a township election April 2.
Two years ago the city of Moline,
adjoining Rock Island on the east,
became dry under the local option
law. July l, 1917, saloons were
banished from Davenport, just across
the Mississippi, by Iowa's prohibition
law. These happenings focused the
retail and wholesale dispensing of in
toxicants for the surrounding country
within a radius of SO miles, in this
city. Drastic measures to prevent
boot-legging are promised by local
authorities and they will have the
cooperation of agents of the federal
department of justice, who will con-
tinue. to make their headquarters
here ''f
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-01
AIR HERO BURIED
Lieutenant Ely Wanted No Mourning
Buried in Canoe In Lake.

Chicago, May 1.--Lieut. Dinsmore
Ely, U. s. "A, of Winnetka, a North
shore suburb. was killed in France in
aviation service on April FL. A few
days before his death he wrote a let
ter to his father, DR.. Jas. o. Ely,
which the father received yesterday.
The letter closes thus:
And 1 want to say in closing, if
anything should happen to me, let's
have no mourning in spirit or in Dress
Like a liberty bond, it is an invest
ment, not loss, when a man dies for
his country. 1t is an honor to a
family, and is that the time for weep
ing? 1 would rather leave my family
rich in pleasant memories of my life
than numbed in sorrow at my
DEATH
DR.. Ely sent the letter today to Mrs.
Ely, who is at the family cottage in
Donaldson, Wis. There the family held
a funeral service for the soldier last
Sunday, placing his effects in his
canoe and covering all with the
national colors and sinking it in a
quiet nook of the lake which was the
favorite retreat of young Ely.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-01
JAPAN MUST HAVE oil
So Mexican Fields Are Being Looked
Into for Supply.

Toxic, March 26, Correspondence
of the Associated Press.)-The pos
sibility of the Japanese government
securing oil in Mexico came up. be-
fore the committee on the industrial
mobilization of the Japanese diet just
before adjournment of that body.
Admiral Kato, the minister OF ma
rine, said that the government was
making investigations with regard to
the oil fields of Mexico but that for
diplomatic reasons he could not go
into details. The government was al
so considering the ACCESSIBILITY of
prospecting for oil in Formosa.
The oil question arises from the
fact that the japanese navy has in
sufficient quantities of heavy oil for
use in war time and that it will be
necessary to construct storage tanks
as well as to purchase supplies
abroad