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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-12
Intruder Found in Trench.

Take ore case. for example. Tmme-
diately after the German trench raid
of March lin fact. the next morning
an American lieutenant came across q
man in American uniform, but with
out the collar badges that denote a
mans regiment. He was walking down
communication trench toward the
headquarters Of an American regiment.
The lieutenant didn't recognize him
and stopped him.
Where are you going?" he asked.
"Oh. just over here" said the soldier.
Something about his accent made the
lieutenant Suspicious.
What regiment do you belong to-"
he asked.
The tn" replied the man. Per-
sistent questioning revealed the fact
that he did rot know the name Of the
colonel commanding the regiment. any
Of its majors, captains or even lieu
tenants. He could not tell where he
had come from or where he was going.
A few questions about the history Of
the regiment since 1t came to France
showed that he could not have been
with 1t. What happened to that man
may be guessed. There have been 9TH
er cases Of the same sort.
There is q game that goes on I'M
ceastngly behind the American front
game in which the quarry Is human.
The officers and men who are engaged
upon it call it Spy hunting" and they
could tell some fascinating tales if
they would. In that strange sort of
half world just behind the front strange
things may happen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-12
Queer People Behind Front.

Just a few people live in the half ruined
villages-live at night with every crack
and crevice screened SO as not to show a
light, never knowing when a shell may
finish 1t for them. They run the two
or three little shops that remain still
open, a cafe, little grocery or tobacco
shop Some Of them are queer people. and
one never knows which they are.
In any village behind the front they
will tell you tales Of lights flashing sud
denly and Unexpectedly, Of people who
had lived in the village for a year. but
suddenly disappeared without leaving a
word. Of strange goings and comings. No
matter how vigilant the watch. 1t Is Just
possible on a dark night to sift through
from one side Of no mans land to the
other. 1t takes cold, hard courage to
undertake that work, for detection Is al
most certain death: a fact which only
makes the men who do 1t more dan
gerous.
1t is all part of the intelligence game.
the complicated system whereby one army
keeps a check upon the other. Some Of
its more obvious phases are the interro-
CATION Of prisoners, the capturing Of
military documents and maps in attacks
or trench raids, examination Of newspa-
pers and, most obvious Of ALL ocular OBJ
servation Of what goes on In and behind
the enemy's lines by airplanes. observa-
ton balloons or from observation posts
situated in tall building. in tree or
some other commanding spot.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-12
COFFERDAM TO BE SUNK,
Georgetown's Key Bridge Will Make
Real Start Tomorrow.

The cofferdam for the first section OF
the new Key bridge over the Potomac
river at Georgetown will be lowered into
place at II o'clock tomorrow morning
Although excavation work has been 60
ing on for some time. the lowering OF
the cofferdam will mark the beginning OF
actual work on the bridge.
The dam is los feet long, IS feet
wide and 26 feet deep. It will
be put into place under the supervision OF
Capt. T. Talman. Engineer Reserve Corps.
The bridge is to be finished in 1920, pro-
vided war conditions enable the contrac-
tor to keep labor and secure material :
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-12

Private George Edgerton. 313th Field
Hospital Detachment. OF Baltimore.
charged with desertion. He Is alleged
to have deserted the service about hve
months ago. and was caught in New
York in civilian clothes
Another sandstone. the periodic re-
currence of which threatens to make
life uncomfortable unless something
can be done in the way OF o.linS the
drill grounds. struck camp late yester-
day afternoon. For more than two
hours clouds of fne sand and dust
were blown about the camp and into
the faces and eyes OF the men At drills.
The high wind carried the clouds sew
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-12
OBJECTED TO OPERATION,
SENTENCED FOR 5 YEARS

CAMP MEADE. Md. May 11-For re-
fusing to undergo an operation deem
ed necessary to fit him for military
service, Private Enrico Bartelini Com
pany C. 9th Engineers. has been SEN
fenced to five years at hard labor. ac-
cording to the terms Of court
tial sentence approved today. Another
sentence approved was that Of five
years at hard labor imposed upon
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-12

eral hundred feet into the air. andsAt
times it WAS impossible to see even .
few feet ahead. A heavy rain. which
followed the wind and standstorm,
brought welcome relief toward even.
ing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-12
Contained Almost Nothing.

The striking thing about it was how
little the report contained-almost
nothing, in fact. Those who think the
Germans know all about US" should
think about that, remembering that
they had had two days in which to
question and cross-Question the Ameri-
cans.
1t is pity that the whole story can
not be told of American experience
with German spies, agents and propa-
ganda over here. At any rate, here are
Just few incidents, perhaps a little
camouflaged for safety's sake. that
may serve to illustrate various phases
Of the spy's work.
The frst was the case of q man who
worked on the grand scale, hitched his
wagon to a star. He drove up one day
to an American headquarters in a
khaki-colored automobile, dressed in a
very well fitting American majors uni
form, and asked to see the general Of
ficer comma nding. He came from G. H.
O.. he said. in search of information
about certain construction plans
Meantime his chauffeur was making
friends with some headquarters order
lies and asking questions. He asked
good many questions of a sergeant
who had just been transferred from
the G. H. Q. garage. The sergeant sud
denly noticed that the car was of a
type one of which had been stolen from
the garage few days previous
Then he noticed a certain discrep-
ancy in the United States number on
its sides and the regulations, He
started to tell a military policeman
that he believed here was stolen car
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-12
President Reinstates Consul.

BY authority of the President. Ernest
l.. Harris OF Illinois has been reinstated
as United States consul general OF class
V. from which office ne resigned August
Is, 1916 Mr. Harris entered the consular
service in 1898 and has served at Eiben.
stock, Chemnitz. Smyrna and Stockholm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-12
SPIES PLAY TRICKS
IN AMER|CAN LINES
Using Many Ingenious Meth
DDS in Hope of Getting War
Information of Value.
SOME CLEVERLY CAUGHT
BY THOMAS NJ. JOHNSON.

Copyright, 1918 All rights rPservcd.)
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, April 2o.-A part Of the first
big German attack March 81 was CO.
ordinated spy offensive. Dispatches
from the British front tell, for instance.
of the discovery of English-speaking
German officers, wearing British uni
forms. who advanced with the German
infantry and mingled with the British,
giving false orders to retire, spreading
false reports Of defeat at other points
of the line and in every way striving
to confuse the defenders.
simultaneously German agents be-
hind the lines spread alarmist reports
among the French civilian population.
| who streamed out along the roads, i'm
peding movements Of British troops
and transports.
In their brief experience on the front
the Americans have run into the Ger
man military spy and have found
methods strikingly similar. German
trenches trying to get information as
to the strength. disposition and nature
of the troops holding them, and about
other American troops in France.
When it is recalled that the enemy
has taken upward of fifty America n
prisoners and that If there are Ger
man Americans with US. so also are
there American Germans with him, it
will be seen that it has not been diff
cult for him to find English speaking
spies and American uniforms to dress
them in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-12

altered, in the hearing Of an officer who
is one of the spy hunters" 1t is
strange thing, but the underwear
under the majors" we'll fitting uni
form actually bore the label Of q Mu-
mich manufacturer and dealer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-12
CHANCE FOR POSITIONS
ON GOVERNMENT WORK
Young Women Of Country Urged to
Take Civil Service Elk.
aminations.

With the passage by both houses Of
Congress Of the bill providing, with
other items, $10.00o.0o0 for housing
government clerks in Washington, the
Civil Service Commission today sent out
an appeal to young women through
out the country to take examinations
for the thousands of war positions
which must be filled here during the
remainder of this year.
THE United States Civil Service
Commission is calling for women for
government work Of not less than
sixty different kinds. The list includes
stenographers. typists bookkeepers.
other clerks of score or moro Of
classifications which require training
in some special or technical line; sta
tisticians. operators of various kinds
Of calculating. addressing, duplicating
machines. proof readers. law clerks,
welfare executive secretaries, drafts
men of dozen kinds. telegraph and
telephone operators. trained nurses,
chemists. physicists. library assistants.
inspectors of undergarments, finger
print classifiers, and many others.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-12
Difficulty Minimized.

The civil service authorities expect
less difficulty now in getting young
women to accept positions in Washing
ton. with the knowledge that the gov
eminent is preparing to provide ade-
Quate accommodations.
The room registration office Of the
District Council Of Defense, 1921 New
York avenue. still IL prepared to pro-
vide rooms for large number Of young
women. who may come to the city be-
fore the completion of the dormitories
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-12
Complete Jig-Saw Puzzle.

From any one of these sources the
Information gained about any single
enemy movement may be slight, but
the intelligence officers piece 1t out with
here and there little CLEANED from
other sources, and Of a sudden the Jig
saw puzzle Is complete.
Information from a good secret agent
is, Of course, extremely valuable. Some
times the agent is within the enemy
country itself. perhaps in the hostile
army. Sometimes he is in one OF the
spy-infested neutral countries. notably
Switzerland; sometimes he Is engaged
in counter espionage. right in your own
country, watching enemy agents there;
sometimes he is working In or right
behind the enemy trenches.
The German spies and agents have
made a great many efforts to get and
|convey to their chiefs information about
the American Army, and for two rea-
sons
First, they recognize the American
Army as the big, new and, 1t may be
war. 1t is Of the greatest Importance
to them to know how soon the Amer
leans will become a really important
factor on the western front. In order
Ito know that. they must follow closely
its growth, training and development.
Second, to the honor of the American
soldier be it said there is every indica-
ton that the Germans have got little
from their Interrogation Of what Amer
lean prisoners they have taken. One
excellent proof of that Is the captured
report. dated November 6. of German
officer on the information obtained up
to that time from the eleven Americans
captured in that historic first raid of
November 3.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-12
Urged to Offer Services.

THE commission urges women to offer
their services to the government at this
time Of great need. AS men are called
to the colors women must take their
places and keep the machinery behind
the armed forces moving at the maxi
mum of efficiency. Representatives of
the Civil Service Commission at the post
Offices in all important cities are pre-
pared to furnish definite information
and application blanks"
The housing bureau of the Department
of Labor, it is understood, has plans
ready for the first of the dormitories to
be erected, but the details of the
structures or where they are to be To-
Gated cannot be announced until the
House and Senate have accepted the
housing bill as agreed upon by the
conferees.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-06-12
TWO-YEAR-OLD Is MARVEL
Infant Prodigy in California Talks,
Reads and Tells the
Time.

San Francisco.-A tiny two-year-Old
baby girl here holds the worlds rec
ord in mental development.
The infant prodigy is Martha
Springer, nty-siX-mOnths-Old daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. John e. Springer
of Mountain View.
The child can read like an eight
year-Old. The father says the child
has q normal mind which simply has
been developed by persistent training.
At q recent meeting of college pro-
fessOrs and experts in pedagogy and
psychology the child for 40 minutes
read, counted and told the time by
the clock and talked with the men who
were observing her. Her baby brain
did not sag and she appeared to enjoy
the long interview.
All were unanimous in declaring that
the baby'S case indicates that geniuses
are made, not born. The child reads
and speaks with q vocabulary of about
1000 words. She is large for her age
and eats and sleeps well.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-06-12
PROFIT IN wheat
Mill FEEDS
State Food Administrator PromuI.
gates Schedule for Retail Dealers
Charge is to Be Based on What the
Retailer Actually Had to Pay and
Not on Replacement Value

st. AlbanS-The following profit
schedule for retail dealers in wheat
mill feeds has been promulgated by
the United States Food Administra-
ton for Vermont. At the offices Of
the State Food Administration it was
pointed out that this schedule is the
maximum and does not justify charges
in any particular case in excess of
those customarily charged where low
er charges will insure a reasonable
profit.
The State Administration also made
it plain today that these profits are to-
be based upon what the feed actually
cost the retailer at the time of pur-
chase and that no retailer can base
his charge to the consumer on the
replacement value of the feed sold.
The schedule in effect in Vermont
is as follows:
Schedule for Retail Dealers In Wheat
Mill Feeds.
A retail dealer shall in no case
make more than a reasonable profit,
and in no case shall he charge more
for wheat mill feeds in original pack
ages than the margin prescribed be-
low over the delivered cost to him
of the particular wheat mill feed
sold.
Cd Where one or more farmers
purchase in advance Of delivery In
full carloads, take delivery at car
and pay cash when retail dealer is
required to meet sight draft, $1.00
per ton, plus demurrage if any.
(2) Where one or more farmers
purchase in advance Of delivery in
full carloads, take delivery at car
and pay for it on delivery 81. so per
ton, plus demurrage if any.
(3) Where farmer purchases and
takes delivery at car and pays for it
on delivery in ton lots or more, but
less than car lots $50 per ton.
az Where farmer purchases and
| takes delivery at car and pays for it
on delivery in lots less than one ton
$3.50 per ton.
(5) Sale ex-warehouse In lots Of
one ton or more $500 per ton.
(6) Sale ex-warehouse in lots Of
less than one ton $500 per ton.
CD S1OO may be added to the
foregoing margins when sale is made
on credit, Or at Dealers option the
legal rate Of interest may be charged
The United States Food Admins
tration suggests that it may be prac-
ticable to provide further that $1.O0
be deducted from the margins. pre-
scribed in 5 and 6 when the retailer
buys on credit and the jobber's mar
by Special Feed Rule Z.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-06-12
WESTFIELD
Mrs. Peter Recor is very sick.

Mrs. Peter Recor is very sick.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Will Thornton are
away this week.
A nine-pound daughter was born
to Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Benoit May
9th.
BENZ. Wright has finished working
at Newport and has gone to Lowell
to work on the state roads.
The Centennial of the organization
of the Congregational church will be
| observed Friday afternoon and eve
ming, June IA.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Bell of VOL
colt visited their relatives, George
Smith of Troy and W. D. Bell of this
town, Sunday.
o. w. Bailey and family motored
to Mansonville Sunday to take home
Gerald George, who has been visit
ing his brother, Guy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dana Gilpin and
daughter, Clarice of Brattleboro,
came Wednesday to visit at the home
of his father, Judge Gilpin.
Miss Blanche Martin expects to go
next week to Hartford, Conn.,, to
work in the same insurance office in
which Miss Chella Miller is employed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mark Willis have
gone to Lowell to run a boarding
house for Mr.. Pope until haying. He
is doing the state roads near the
Notch.
Selectmen w. o. Wright, Will Bry-
ant and Frank Martin were over the
mountain two days this week ap-
praising the timber lands of Nelson,
Hall e Co.
Wendell Bell has received two cash
prizes given by the Vermont Bankers
association to the Vermont Boys
club. Milton Bell has been spending
ten days at St. Johnsbury attending
the graduation exercises, being a
member of the class of 49,
Sunday Mr.. and Mrs. J. E. Berry
friends: Mr.. and Mrs. Asa Brown
and two children, Warren Drown, Mr..
and Mrs. Jack Oakley and family,
Miss Winsome Jones, Mr.. and Mrs.
Graveline, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Graveline.
Arad Brown of Troy and John
Brown of this place have received
news of the serious illness of their
brother, Charles Brown, of Cedar
vile, Cal, with tick fever, an unusual
disease in this country. Mr.. Brown
is successful ranchman and went
to California 36 years ago.
The last two meetings of the Red
Cross were in charge of Mrs. Herbert
Longley and Mrs. Dayton Harding.
Owing to the extra things next week
the regular meeting will be omitted.
A large supply of pajamas and a
quantity of sweater yarn have been
received by Mrs. Fremont Miller and
will be given out to all who are will
ing to do the work at home.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-06-12
THE VERMONT PUBLIC
SAFETY COMMITTEE SAYS

Do your utmost to win the
war. eff any would not work,
neither should he eat"
If you are not taking an ac-
, tive part in winning this war,
do not ask for the rations of the
man who is. Either be self
supporting, or go without.
The business or professional
man who will do what his con-
science, under the stress of
present conditions, dictates, to
help the farmer harvest his
crops this season, will render a
service of incalculable value to
world wide humanity.
We are no longer too proud
to fight. Are you too proud to
work, when the women of all
classes of the allied nations of
Europe are toiling in the field
from DAYLIGHT until dark?
Don't wait to see what some
other person is going to do. The
call is to you personally. You
are answerable only for the po-
sition you take.
Volunteer for this service to-
day. Take the lead. Others
will surely follow.
Do not wait for the canvass
err to find you. You will find
him and if you fail in this, re-
port to your county agent; but
be sure that your services are
placed at the disposal of some
one who needs them.
Leighton P. Slack, Chairman.
Joseph G.. Brown, Secretary.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-06-12
Fought in France at 70.

An American Civil war veteran who
faced the Germans in the trenches for
eight months before his age, seventy
three, was discovered, and he was dis
served in the Twenty-third Michi-
gan volunteers in the Civil war; He
enlisted recently in the Canadian rail-
way battalion. King George wishing
to see the oldest soldier in khaki, sum-
moned Buscher to Buckingham palace,
and praised him heartily for his cour-
nge and determination.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-06-12

LIE ~. IL. IllclrlSC family is NOV
ing this week to Groveton, N. H.
David Walker has returned from a
few days visit to friends in Burling-
ton.
William J. Reach has gone to Or
leans to work in the Parker & Young
factory.
A. r. Chaffee of Montreal spent the
weekend here with his uncle, Chas.
Bushey.
Theodore Hebert went Friday to
White River Junction to enlist in the
U. S. cavalry.
Raymond Maynard has gone to
Derby Line where he will work in the
Butterfeld shops.
Mrs. Minnie Bolton of Springfield,
Mass, is visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Sisco.
Mrs. H. A. Gilbert and Mrs. J. G.
Tisdale have gone to Boston and
birmingham, Mass, for a two weeks
visit with relatives.
Joseph F. Greene from the medical
department of the general hospital,
Baltimore, Md, is visiting Peter Du-
charme in Westfeld.
Serhaphen Choquette, who has
been visiting Gregoire Lague on
Province Hill, returned Monday to
his home in ST. Sebastien, P. @.
Napoleon Russell, who has been a
visitor at the home of Mrs. Osias Ste.
Marie, his sister, has returned to his
home at Beebe Plain, P. @.
Mrs. Anne Hodgkins, widow of the
lat Ephraim Hodgkins of Troy, lies
in a very precarious state of health
at the home of J. S. Andrews in Troy
village. Mrs. Hodgkins is over 80
years of age and her death is momen-
tarily expected.
On Wednesday morning at the
Baptist parsonage, Rev. Charles B.
Danse united in marriage Miss Alice
Odessa Judd and Frank w. Baraw,
both Of Jay. The groom wore his
uniform, he being a member of the
artillery corps at Camp Devens,
Mass. He expects soon to go to
France.
Mrs. H. W. Blair, came home from
Gardner, Mass, Tuesday and went
Wednesday to West Bronze, P. O., to
visit relatives. Mr.. Blair will be
back from Gardner soon to put his
premises in order for the summer
They expect to reopen their studio at
Breton Woods, N. H, when the sea-
son Of summer travel opens.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Johnson of St.
Adams were callers in town Sunday
Mr.. Johnson has been appointed ex-
ecutive secretary of the food admin
istration in Vermont and will have
his headquarters in Montpelier. He
will spend his time there except when
at home over the weekend. His office
will be the rooms occupied by the
clerk of the house in the capitol
building.
The listers have completed the
grand list and it is found that it is
Helena Ethele Chamberlin, Ethel Ag-
$281.37 less than the list of 1917. The
list for 1918 is S11 ,O22.59; the list of
1917 was $11,303.86. There are this
year APO polls, whereas last year
there were nearly 400. The shrink
age in the number of polls is readily
seen to be due to the war, while there
was a falling off in real estate taxa
bic values $13,7OO due to the fire.
The commencement exercises of
the senior class will be held at From
tier hall Wednesday evening, June 10,
at 8 o'clock. The graduates are,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-06-12
Old Glory Again Flies
Above the SChooIhouse

Randolph, Mass.-The Ameri-
can flag is flying today over the
Prescott school. 1t took a court
order to get the flag back in
place. Some weeks ago the
halyards broke. The selectmen,
who are also the school commit
tee, took no steps to have them
repaired. William E. Spear, a
red-blooded patriot, demanded
the flag be flown. He was met
with a smile, but no action. He
got the selectmen hailed into
court. The court ordered the
flag flown at once in accordance
with a state law ordering all
schools to fly an American flag.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-06-12
SPLIT
y3E:. | I
Stru
LONG Is Cut in Two
YES Moved
separately.

camp Meade, Md.-A building 300
feet long was chopped in two and the
two halves were moved about 500 yards
by a detachment of colOred selectives
here without the use Of any special
devices and with no delay worth men
tioning. A group of 800 men caught
hold of the supports and at the proper
order they had the whole structure off
the ground. Then at signals the slow
pull began. Within seven hours the
building was in place on it's new site.