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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-03
Oppressed Peoples of Eu.
rope Discuss Organization
for Political Freedom
WILL AID ALLIES CAUSE
Eight Nationalities Repre-.
sented in Conference.-The.
pose of League Outlined
By the United Press

Representatives Of oppressed nation
alities met here today to form a mid
European federation, TO include subject
peoples now living under the shadow Of
Teutonic domination.
Those represented included Czecho-
Slovaks. Poles. Ukrainians. Jugo-Slavs,
Lithuanians Firms. Rumanians and
Italian Irredentist-65, 900. 600 people.
now largely without self-government
and political freedom.
Resolutions demanding the dissolution
of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and
formation of "A mid European federation
we're to be adopted. The representatives
also plan to offer the entire moral and
physical resources of their countrymen
in Europe to the cause of the Allies.
Erection re a barrier across the heart
of Europe to serve as a wall against
German aggression is the immediate aim
of the mid European federation. It will
seek to organize n political, military
and economic wall along the eastern
frontier OF Germany. Forces in America
and Europe are to be co-ordinated to
this end, il is declared.
The purpose Of the federation was out
lined at the opening of the conference
by Prof. II. A. Miller, delegated by
the American Government to undertake
its organization.
Never before in history have the ma
tional leaders of the eight nationalities
here represented been gathered together
for the unanimous purpose of working
out a constructive political program for
65, 00O, 900 people living in territory ex-
tending from the Arctic Ocean to the
Black and Adriatic Seas" Professor
Miller said.
ut is the birth of the federation of
States. without which there can be no
permanent peace. For many centuries
the problems for the solution of which.
his organization was established have
been dealt with by methods In which
justice played no part, and in recent
years It has been the definite purpose
of Austria-Hungary to stimulate dissen-
ton among them.
To-day the union has been begun
and the strength generated by these GEN.
turtles of oppression is turning with Its
full force to its own defense. II is
based on the democratic principles which
President Wilson has so often pro-
claimed.
THE strategic position is an absolute
check against German aggression in the
east. This federation makes the Aus
trian Empire not only unnecessary but
impossible. 1t means revolutions against
German domination"
French Ambassador Jusserand, ina
bic to attend. wrote:
81 need not say that ! sincerely share
your sentiment for the nations still in
bondage and whose day of liberation Is
at hand. There is no son of France that
does not think as you do.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-03
BULGARIA PROCLADdS
HOPE OF EARLY PEACE
Populace Urged to Maintain
Ordcr--Ferdinand Changed
Attitude Over Night
By the Associated Press

A"sterua". oct' D.
Dispatches from Sofa state that the
Bulgarian Government. In announcing
officially that an armistice had been
lgned and orders given to suspend mill
tary operations. declared that II will be
only a short time until peace is made.
The official statement says:
AT this IN the Bulgarian ma
ton and army are asked. once hostilities
have been suspended, to maintain calm
and order so that the Government may
be able to complete the work of peace.
Only a short time separates us from the
day. OF definite peace. The nation must
allow itself to be guided only by senti-
ments OF ardent love for Bulgaria"
After representing the Bulgarian army
as in a state of mutiny and confusion.
a Vienna telegram to the Rotterdam
Nieuwe Courant concludes:
This state of affairs has forced the
Central Powers to leave in the capital
tSoia) sufficient forces to preserve or
der, and especially to guard the lega-
tons and the stores OF food and war
material"
The Bulgarian peace delegates who
went to Salonica and signed the armis-
tice agreement with the Allies have re-
turned to Sofia.
King Ferdinand and Grown Prince
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-03
Americans HIT
Foe Stronghold

Continued from raGe One
became an active factor in the war. II
was strengthened from time to time.
being aid out and dugouts
finally added to the work. so far as
known, no new wire has been placed
recently along this line. but certain
strategic sections have been strength
ened. The system is not 30 strong as the
famous Hindenburg line. but neverthe-
less has extremely strong positions.
Violent artillery firing developed
the center Of the American line
between the Meuse and the Aisne yes
terday. The Germans also bombarded
the American positions on h right.
near the Meuse, TO a limited extent, but
on the extreme lift there was a slgnih-
rant silence for the greater part OF
the day.
Along this sector OF the front. the
positions held by the Americans follow
n zigzar line. The number of Germans
near the Argonne forest is less than that
fighting on the eastern side. General
Gouraud's drive west OF the forest. to-
gether with the advance OF the Ameri-
cans to the east of II. threatens to cut
off the enemy units still clinsinK to the
wooded hills south of Grandore.
patvoi Action Only
No general offensive was undertaken
by the Americans yesterday. All along
the line. fighting wa restricted to patrol
actions. II has been learned that the
enemy expected n heavy attack yester-
day and to that fact is attributed his
heavy artillery fire. This fire vas
particularly heavy, a and high e
plosives and shrspneI shells being used.
They were fred both from In front OF
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-03

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them and the enemy's It's peppering
them from afar. Despite all this. these
ads from Manhattan, Brooklyn. The
Bronx. Queens. Long Isiand and West
chester have done well their bit in the
great battle now stretching from the
sea to the Meuse River.
To appreciate In full the task assigned
to these boys on a six-kilometer front
through the Argonne. one must realize
that the two main pivots Of the whole
German western front are Lille ana
Metz. OF the positions defending Metz
the strongest was that in front OF Yer
dun, and the mainstay OF this position
was the Argonne forest. where the Ger
mans a for so long held back the
best previous Allied efforts. The Ger
mans took pains TO hold back these boys,
but they did not have what one would
call success.
E.re, 10 FIGHT Again
There are many Of these bows in
hospitaIs now but no, one of them be-
means his fate and all take their suf-
fey,nx s,oicauy win very Few ex-
c~eptions they want TO get back into ii.
| spent three hours in a big evacuation
hospital where these cases were being
ha ndIed. and I never saw better proor
OF how little the Individual soldier knows
about a battle. | asked about a dozen
of them to tell me about il, and the
reply In each case was about the same
they were up there in the woods In the
dark while II was raining. they were cut
ting b arbed wire when A bullet or a
piece Of shrapnei stopped IL. had
seen enough Of this woods to realize
that this was all one could expect them
TO know.
One youthful lieutenant. a Plattsburg
man, regretted that he Rad a long rest
ahead before he could get back. 4 bull
let had passed through his lung. lie
had just had his platoon cut a path
through a series Of twenty wire fences
when the Germans swept the platoon
with machine-gun fire, hitting him. He
said that while he was In the fight
there was no hand-to-hand combats' put
Just a case OF struggling ahead through
the wire and underorush with the Ger
mans shooting from shelter In the dark
at the noises the Americans maze.
] ran into a captain whom l useu 10
know in New York lie had seven oul-
let's through him, but was IN good
shape.
1T wasn't any Pickett's charge up
~
just plain hell. | hope I can see the
day when | can get my company out
into an open field with the same number
TO pay them Pack for what they cooked
up for us in the Argonne forest"
In the same hospital were a number Of
wounded Germans. members Of "a good
German unit. The surgeon said they
were game men ana never souealed.
Perhaps losing sight for a moment
Of the fac, that the lob had to be done,
nearly all of the boys who were in the
epbt EXPRESSED d,selst at that sort of
warf,rs laying tbere was No fairness
In T., 7 talked with ono black haired
"a ,.ha "a loo, ri. hvnher phiIin
80. p.noLvn M aod, "Toxt tive
ISL 60 ,ha hoohs
: - III : no,,s sas
30 = az 81 a. - 80.
u .ne res uui,ns ~ ns 80 ri"
anu uus"' ~ 80. ~
crowd mas sot a :. ~
oocne II we ever ca'cn mn VI ivy ~,
JOUU l. NltliNldlls DloiNs n " '''''
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-03
BOLSHEVIKI CHARGE SPY PLOT
Friends of Former u. S. Consul
at Moscow Arrested

Amsterdam, Oct. 3.-According TO a
dispatch to the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger
from MOSCOW. the Izvestia. the Bolshevik
organ, nnounces the arrest of a num-
Der of persons accused OF spying on be-
half of De Witt G. Poole, the former
American consul general at MOSCOW.
Those arrested, says the dispatch. in
clude NJ. Kolmatiamoff, who ls said to
be a naturalized American citizen and
chief Of the American espionage agency
In Russia.
The dispatch adds that a large guam
tity of documents was seized.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-03
CAPTURED l23,O36 IN MONTH
Allies September Catch on West
Front Runs High
By the United Press

Paris, oct. 3.
The Allies took 123.O36 German pris-
oners in France and Belgium during Sep
TENDER. II WAS officially announced to-
doy.
The captiyes included l2O,l9J men
and 2844 officers. During the same Pc
Rod the Allies captured 1900 cannon and
more h a 10, 900 machine guns.
From July Is to September 30 the
Allies took prisoner 24s.494 men and
55ls officers and captured 1863 cannon
and 20, 900 machine guns
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-03
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AMERICANS PRESS
RETREATING FOES
Weakened Defense Indi.
Gates German Right and
Center Retiring
FORCED INTO POCKET
Meuse Sector Firm to Permit
Last Stand i'm Kriem.
hide Line
FORCED INTO POCKET
By EDWIN L. JAMES

Special Gable { Evening Public Ledger
copprioht. I9is, ~ Nei0 York Timcs co.
with the American Army In France,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-03
AUSTRALIANS Get 1900 TURKS
ALSO Capture 40 Machine Guns
Near Damascus
BY the Associated Press

london. Oct. 60 p. M.D.--Austra-
liam mounted troops operating In the
region northwest of Damascus, in Syria.
on Wednesday charged n captured a
Turkish column.
Fifteen hundred prisoners were taken
and two guns and forty machine guns
were captured. according to an official
statement issued today by the War
Office.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-03
CAMBRIA NOT FIRED
Flames Believed Caused by Burn.
ing Munitions
By the Associated Press

The enemy for some time past mas been
employing liquid air as a subSitute for
high explosives which is an Indication
that he Is beginning to feel the heavy
losses he has sustained in war material.
The report that the Germans have set
fire to Cambria does not appeal to be
confirmed. II In believed that the fire
was caused by the burning of ammuni-
ton dumps.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-03
Buy Potatoes Now, Says Food Board

Order potatoes now and store them
for winter, advises the State food ad-
ministration. Farmers at curb markets
are now taking orders for potatoes which
will be delivered within a reasonable dis
lance Of the markets within the next
few weeks. H~ouseholders were warned
not to keep their potatoes too warm or
too cold. for they will either sprout or
freeze.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-03
Chicago Buys $4,000 900

Chicago. Oct. 3.-Thirty million dol
had been bought in Chicago last night
out of a quota of s262, 800. 900. Ii is
estimated that subscriptions In Michigan
so far aggregate $40, 00o. 900.
Indiana reported steady progress
the quota goal.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-03
Altar Vases for Washington Memorial

In memorial to the first President,
the National Society of United States
Daughters of 1912 today dedicated a set
of altar vases at the Washington Me-
mortal Chapel. Valley Forge, Pa.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-04
INSTITUTE
BEGINS NEW YEAR
Enrolment Nearly Double That of Last
Year with Four States Repre-
sented-Scholarship

Brattleboro Business Institute, long
known as Clawson- H hamilton CONNER
cial college, opened yesterday with an
enrolment almost doubling that of last
year. Much interest is shown by all
the students; but the stenographic and
civil service courses are the most pop
ular.
Miss Adelaide Salstrom, a graduate
of the Bay Path course for commercial
teachers, came Saturday from her home
in Great Darlington, Mass, to take
charge of the stenographie department.
Announcement was made of the win
ners of scholarships, from the examina-
tion held Saturday at the class rooms.
Miss Esther Perry of North Charles
town, N. H., won first place, emitting
her TO three months free tuition. Miss
Eunice Pond of East Putney won Sec
fnd place and Miss Annie Ahern of
Charlestown won third place.
Students are in attendance from four
of the New England states. The stu
dents range in training from grammar
graduates to the holders of college de-
grees, but all show equal interest in
the, courses chosen.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-04
WEST BRATTLEBORO

D. G. Ormsbee of Millers Falls spent
the weekend with Miss Georgia Orms
bee.
Miss Susan Clark went yesterday t.
West Wardsboro to be guest at thu
Green Mountain House.
Mrs. f. |. Church of Greenfield
Mass, visited Monday here with hel
daughter, Mrs. E. H Metealf.
Miss Dorothy Collins of Everett
Mass, has been spending a week will
her grandfather, j. S. Jillson.
Mrs. L. B. Cook of Lawrence, Mass.
who is visiting here among friends
has been a guest this week of Mr.. and
Mrs. Bert Akley.
Eugene Sherman and family are
moving from Birge street to Miss Kate
Wheeler's house. He will be employed
by Warren L. Walker.
Miss Patience Wilder has returned
from Bellows Falls, where she visited
over Sunday and Labor day with he,
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. D. H. Wilder
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Sanders and
son of Springfield, Mass, visited here
over Labor day with her parents. Mr.
and Mrs. Edward Martin, making the
trip by automobile.
Mrs. Richard Tubbs of Bernardston
Mass, underwent an operation in the
Melrose hospital Tuesday morning. DR.
Lynch and DR.. LaChaine were the sur
geons. Miss Fairman is caring for
her.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry C. Squires and
Mrs. Hayden Squires returned last
night from Worcester, where they had
been spending a few days with Mr.
and Mrs. w. Johnson. They made the
trip by automobile.
Berton Akley, who was taken Safnr.
day to the Melrose hospital with severe
injuries to his left arm, is as comfort
able as could be expected. Mr.. Akley
was at work in the woods when q
large limb from tree fell striking
his arm.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Winchester and
daughter, Doris. will go next month to
Gibbons, Neb., where they plan to re-
main indefinitely, possibly going far
Their west. They are making this
change with the hope of benefiting
Miss Doris IS health, she having had
tive severe illnesses the past year. Mr..
and Mrs. Winchester will rent their
home here.
The Martin family held reunion La
Dor day in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank H. Hadlock of Western avenue.
There were 26 present, who sat down to
bountiful dinner served outdoors.
Those present from out of town were
Mr.. and Mrs. Arson Conger of Spring
field (Vt.) and Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
Sanders and son, William, of Springfield,
Mass.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-04
Pvt. Harold Barrows.

NEW HAVEN, Sept. 4.-Private
Harold Barrows of New Haven, son of
Frank Barrows, died of wounds re-
ceived July Both, according to a tele-
gram received by his father Monday
evening. Private Barrows was a mem
Der of Co. NJ, 47th infantry, and enlist
ed February 20, 1918, and was sent to
Camp Greene. He arrived in France in
April. He was born in New Haven
on November 20, 1898, and received his
education at the Beeman Academy in
New Haven
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-04
STATE EMPLOYMENT HEAD.
E. p. Hamilton of st. Johnsbury Ap-
pointed Under New Law.

MONTPELIER, Sept. Ar. w ST.
monds as federal director of the United
States employment service has appoint
ed Edmund p. Hamilton of St Johns.
bury as state supervisor and he has
begun his duties. He win be attached
to Mr.. SimOnds' s staff and will work
in conjunction with the advisory board
and community labor committee. He
will have general supervision in Yer
mont. The work has already outgrown
the present official facilities and Mr..
Simonds is seeking other quarters in
Montpelier. He left Monday evening
for Boston to attend a conference of
the directors from New Hampshire.
Maine and Vermont with the Massa-
ehusetts director for the purpose of re
eruitihg men for timber operations and
ITO organize a central committee to
handle the matter.
Advice from the secretary of war is
that Z" A man who gets an industrial
exemption by reason of his being an
indispensable operative in an indispen-
sable industry ceases to have that ex-
emption as soon as he ceases to be an
operative in that industry. The boards
have never applied that in the case
of bonafde disputes between labor as
an aggregate and employers as an ag-
eregate but they have always pervert
ed the man taking refuge behind indus
trial exemption and then discontinue
ing the work for which he received
exemption so that the apparent pur-
nose of the senate amendment Is already
In operation. The reason for the ex.
emption of married men is dependency
and not status This offers opportu
nifty to show men in non essential in
dustries that should get into essential
industries at once and stay there in
spite of the fact that the strike clause
has been stricken out of the draft reg
ulations.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-04
LONDON ICE CREAM.
Complies With Government Regulations
and Is Made Without Milk.

LONDON. Sept. 4-Ice cream, made
without milk, cream or sugar to comply
with government regulations. has been
all the rage this summer at the soda
fountains of London The recipe was
conceived by an American, Charles III.
Boeglin, of New York city, soon after the
British government prohibited early this
year the use Of milk products or sugar
in the manufacture of ice cream.
Here's the way the mock ice cream Is
made; For gallon of the ice. two pounds
OF glucose or four pounds of honey. If
honey Is used it should be boiled down
IN quart of water, and before being
poured into the freezer should be allowed
to cool for three or four minutes. Then
add the white of one egg and any flavor
desired, and freeze. Fresh fruit adds
considerably to the flavor of the Ice
which really tastes like ice cream.
In London, where even in summer eggs
have been worth ten cents each. the Ice
manufacturers use the powdered egg al,
humen instead of eggs.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-04
|. 0. LEAGUE
WOULD BARGAIN
Will Give Up Opposition to
Sheppard Amendment
Provided
DRY ADVOCATES
AGREE TO QUIT
And Let Vermont Try Out Prohibition
During Period of War as Per Meas
ure Which Congress Will Pass
Statement from Trainor.

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, Sept. A.
Raymond Trainor, secretary of the Yer
mont Local Option league, dropped an air
bomb into the prohibition camp today by
offering to give up all opposition to the
so-called Sheppard amendment if the
Anti-Saloon league would agree to re-
lease candidates for the legislature from
their pledges and let the state try out
national prohibition for the period of the
war.
In my opinion congress will enact
bone-dry prohibition law before our legis-
lature meets" said Mr. Trainor today
'or the President may stop the manufac
ture and sale of liquor by proclamation.
In that case, there will be no possible eX-
cuse for tying up Vermont on the Shep-
pard amendment, because we should then
have war prohibition without it.
Such an act. on the part of congress
or such a proclamation by the President
would demonstrate beyond question that
the country could have nationwide war
prohibition without tampering with the
constitution, and that there is no further
need of campaign in Vermont to infiu-
ence the members of the legislature to
ratify the Sheppard amendment
Under these conditions, | will under
take to say for the Local Option league
that we will cease any further activity
to defeat the amendment if the Anti
Saloon league, on its part, will release
all candidates for senator and represen-
tative from their pledges to ratify, and
that our opponents will agree further
that no attempt will be made to ratify
during the 1919 session of the legislature
I'VE can then see what the effects of
national war prohibition will be. and. at
the close of the war, judge whether it is
best to make it a permanent policy of
the nation or return to the present sta
tus.
Let us turn our attention to putting
Vermont on business basis. conserving
the states money providing state pay
for all VermOnters in military service,
and directing every effort toward the one
end which this nation now seeks-win
ming the war"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-04
ADJUSTMENTS.
Photoplay Offerings.

Today the Princess theater presents
Gloria Swanson in You Can't Believe
Everything, and Current Events. To-
morrow Enid Bennett in Naughty,
Naughty, and the last chapter of The
Son of Democracy series will be shown.
Today the Empire presents Mignon
Anderson In A Wife On Trial, Screen
Magazine and The Guy and the Guyser,
comedy. Tomorrow Baby Marie Os.
borne In Daddy Girl, fve-act drama,
and Doris Kenynon in The Hidden
Hand will be the attractions.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-04
VERMONT NEWS.
Death Of Old Railroad Man.

Louis T. Wright, "a, for over so
years resident of Greenfield, died at
the Franklin County hospital Monday
morning. Mr.. Wright was an employee
of the Boston & Maine railroad for
more than 40 years being employed
both as a brakeman and conductor
He was born at Montague, but went
to Greenfield at an early age He be-
gan work with the railroad at the age
of IA years and remained with the COM
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-04

lions to be successful. lie wished to re-
tire, but the German command feared
the discomfort this would awake in Ba-
varia.
it Is suggested that this situation may
explain why Rupprecht has gone home
on a long vacation.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-04
Private Daniel Nichol.

PROCTOR, Sept. 4.-Mr and Mrs. A.
ID. Nichol have received telegram from
Washington stating that their son, Pri-
vate Daniel Nichol, has been severely
wounded. Private ,Niebol is member
of the medical detachment, l04th In
fantry. He enlisted in 1917.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-04
Edward Morgan.

BARNET, Sept. Edward Morgan,
reported missing in action, is % years
old and enlisted in the army last
June. He leaves his father, married
sister and a younger sister who lives in
ST. Johnsbury. The war department
reported him as missing in action on
August 6.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-04
Lawrence H. Ross Killed.

MIDDLEBURY, Sept. 4.-Lawrence
II. Ross, killed in action Aug l, was the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward S. Ross
of Orwell and was born in Hague, n. Y,
in 1889. He was drafted Sept %, 1917,
and sent to Camp Devens. He was
member of Co. C, 102d Machine Gun
Battalion. He is survived by his par
ents, one brother and two sisters.