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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-17
BURLINGTON MAN
DIED OF WOUNDS
Today's Casualty List Contains Name
of One Vermonter-Totals
ITO Names.

WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE army
casualty list today shows: Killed in
action, So; died of wounds, 16; died of
disease, four; died of airplane accident,
two; died of accident and other causes,
six; wounded severely, 96; missing.
nine; prisoner, one; total, 172. New
England names:
Killed in action, Private Samuel Bel
inski, Bridgeport, Conn, Robert f.
Mitchell, New Haven, Conn, Charles
A. Sehiavone, Waterbury, Conn.
Died from wounds, Private Joseph
j. Butler, Burlington, Vt, Raymond
Harrison, Torrington, Conn, Frank W
Manning, Newton, Mass, Edward A.
Nelson, Lowell, Mass.
Wounded severely, Sergeant Elmer
c. Lindquist, Hartford, Conn, Private
Elisha Bedell, New Britain, Conn.
John Capuziello, Lawrence, Mass, Jos
eph H. Goodman, Springfield, Mass.
Thomas j. Kitty, Charlestown, Mass.
Missing in action, Corporal Earl f
Mercy, Hartford, Conn, Private John
E. Scrullo, Waterbury, Conn.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-17
Il. ROOSEVELT
KILLED IN AIR
Quentin, Youngest Son of
Ex-President, Shot Down
Sunday
MACHINE DOWN
IN ENEMY LINES
Was Returning from Patrol Fight When
Attacked by Enemy Squadron-Seen
to Lose Control of Machine Suddenly
Probably Wounded.

PARIS, July 17-Lieut. Quentin
Roosevelt, youngest son of the former
President has been killed in an air
fight, the semi-oificial Havas News
agency announces. His machine fell
into the enemy line.
Philip Roosevelt, Quentin $ cousin,
witnessed the air battle in the vicinity
of Chateau Thierry in which Quentin
was engaged and saw the machine fall,
but did not know until later that the
airplane was that of his cousin, a
Paris newspaper says today.
Lieut. Roosevelt was last seen III combat
on Sunday morning with two enemy air
planes about 10 miles inside the German
lines in the Chateau Thierry sector He
started ont with a patrol of IA American
machines. They encountered seven Ger
man machines and were chasing them
back when one turned on Lieut. Roose
welt.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-17
WIRE CONTROL LATER.
President Signs Bill But VIII Not Ex-
ercise Power at Once.

WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE Presi-
dent yesterday signed the wire con-
troll bill and is empowered to take over
the telegraph and telephone systems of
the country at any time during the war
when he deems that an emergency ex-
lists to warrant federal control
Immediately after the signing of the
resolution the intimation came from
some of the President s Cabinet adj
visers that there is no immediate in
tention of taking over the systems. Tt
was indicated that there might be a
delay of some weeks.
The resolution was passed through
the Senate and the House with the
idea impressed on members that not
only was the authority an urgent ne
cessity but that the emergency existed
requiring taking over the lines of COM
munication. However, this impression
was not created by the President or
by any member of the cabinet Their
statements were only that the Presi-
| dent should be clothed Immediately with
the power to take over the systems at
any time, and this fact was recalled
/ today by cabinet members.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-17
SERVICE BORE GOOD FRUIT.
Commendatory Paragraph Concerning
Work of Principal E. B. Smith.

In the annual report of the prudential
committee of the Incorporated school
district is the following paragraph con-
eerning Principal L. B. Smith, which
comes at the end of statement con-
cerning the various changes in the teach
ing force in the district:
"The greatest change of all is caused
by the resignation of Edgar Burr Smith,
the principal of the school, to take the
principalship of the Greenfield high
school, with an advance of salary and an
opportunity to labor in more extended
field. Mr.. Smith followed Mr. Whitaker
in 1905, consequently has had l3 years of
service in Brattleboro, which have borne
good fruit, not only in the school, but
in the community as well. The Alumni
association owes its origin and growing
success to his enthusiastic leadership,
while all attempts to improve the town,
along the best civic lines, have had his
unfailing support. You, undoubtedly,
join the committee in wishing Mr.. Smith
all good fortune for the future, wherever
his lot may lie, as teacher, citizen, and
inspirer of youth"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-17
GRASPED WIRE AND
COULDN'T LET GO
Simon Garrity, IL, Has Unpleasant Ex-
perience on Connecticut River
Bridge-Voltage Was Low.

Simon Garrity. lad of II years. son
of Patrick J. Garrity of 80 Clark street,
had an unpleasant experience with an
electric current yesterday afternoon on
the Connecticut river bridge between this
village and Island park. The boy climbed
up on the bridge and while standing on
an iron cross-piece took hold of low
voltage wire.
He was unable to let go, although the
current was not strong enough to do
him much harm, and he began to cry for
help. His cries were. heard by Frank
Mancini, who was in bathing in the
river, and when the lad had been located
Mr.. Mancini secured piece of board
which was put under the boys feet,
breaking the electric connection He was
considerably scared, and trembled some
what, but soon was all right again.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-17
TWO MORE DRAFTS
ON WINDHAM COUNTY
Fifteen Men Wanted for Instruction al
Tufts College and Two for Guard
and Fire Companies.


Notices of two calls, to be filed in
part from Windham county, We're re-
ceived today at the office of the local
board.
Call No. 965 orders the entrainment of
l55 men from Vermont for Medford,
Mass, to report to the commanding Off
Ger at Tufts college Aug. Is for instruc
tion as auto repair men, carpenters and
machinists. They are to have at least a
grammar school education and have
some aptitude for mechanical work.
Registrants in the 1913 class may vol
unteer until July %, and if not enough
have volunteered at the close of that
date the local board is to proceed to Sc
lect enough to makeup the balance in
sequence of order numbers, but not from
the 1918 class.
The allotment by counties is as fol-
lows: Addison 10, Bennington s, Gale
donia 7, Chittenden II, Essex a., Franklin
ID. Grand Isle 4, Lamoille s, Orange II,
Orleans 10, Rutland, No. / 10, Rutland
No. 10, Washington Is, Windham 10
Windsor 10.
Call No 9S3 requires that during the
five-day period beginning July % there
shall be entarined from Vermont &c
men to report at the Syracuse. n. Y.
recruit camp. Only men qualified fol
special or limited military service are tc
be inducted under this call. They are in
tended for guard and fire companies fol
posts of embarkation.
Under this call the county allotmentS
are: Addison 2, Bennington 3, Caledonia
3, Chittenden ), Essex 4. Grand Isle
Lamoille 3, Orange 3, Orleans 2, Rutland
No /, 2, Rutland, No. 2, 2, Washington
4, Windham 2, Windsor 2.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-17
BROCKTON STRIKE
SPREADING FAST
Shoe Cutters in That Locality May
Force Suspension of Work ON Part
of 25.Ooo-War Contracts DELAYED.

BROCKTON, Mass, July 1.-THE
strike of shoe cutters in this city and
surrounding towns for wage increase
continued to spread today and strike
leaders declared that many plants
would be obliged to suspend work in
all departments by the end of the week
if settlement were not reached.
Nearly $4,000 shoe workers are en-
ployed in factories in this vicinity,
many of which are engaged on army
contracts. In some factories stitchers
and other workers already have been
forced out as result of the absence
of the cutters an investigator of the
department of labor discussed the sit
uation with labor leaders today. More
than $500 cutters are out, according
to union officials
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-17
REPULsING ENEMY ATTACKS.
Gen. Pershing Reports Co-Opera-
tion of American Troops.

WASHINGTON, July 17.-Gen.
Pershing's communique for Monday,
reaching the war department today,
reported that 500 prisoners were
taken by the Americans in their
counter-attack which drove the
Germans back to the Marine east of
Chateau Thierry. The eommunique
for Tuesday reports the cooperation
of American troops with the French
east of Rheims is successfully re-
pulsing enemy attacks at all points.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-17
SPANISH MINISTER ABOARD.
German UBoat Sunk Steamship Garry.
ing Neutral Official.

ATHENS, Greece, July lit is an
nounced from Spanish source that a
Spanish steamship on which Minister
Lopez de Vego was returning to Spain
has been torpedoed by German subma-
rine. The ship flew the minister's flag.
The diplomat and his family have been
rescued. The German government had
been notified of the minister's departure
a week in advance.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-17
WORK OF REvoLUTIoNIsTs.
Destruction of German Airdrome
and % Machines Reported.

LONDON, July 1.-THE destrue-
tion by fire of a new German air
drome with % airplanes near Nj
velles is attributed to the work of
German revolutionists in the army,
says an Exchange Telegraph despatch
from Amsterdam today. Ten Bel
gians and two German non-commis-
stoned officers have been arrested
The day before the fire, adds the
despatch, a secret meeting occurred
in canteen at Nivelles where the
scheme for the destruction of the
airdrome was discussed.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-17

PARIS, July 1.-THE Germans last
night threw new forces into the battle
ON the front south of the Marne and at
tackled the allied lines north of st. Agnan,
the war Office announced today. The
enemy succeeded in penetrating into
Bourdonnerie. The battle is continuing
in the wood Immediately to the south of
this point
On the front farther to the east the
French held the enemy in the southern
outskirts of the Bouqusny wood and at
the village of Nesles. A powerful attack
likewise was made by the Germans in
the direction of Monvoisin, but they were
driven from this locality by a French
counter attack
On the front between the Marne and
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-17
Sing a Song of Thrift Stamps.

Sing song of Thrift Stamps,
A pocket full of dough.
Sixteen little Thrift Stamps,
Four in every row.
When the war is over
How happy | will be-
My four bucks will be five bucks,
In nineteen twenty three.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-17

LONDON. July 17.-Quentin Roose-
welt was killed July IA says a despatch
from Paris to the Exchange Telegraph
company. The despatch says he was
returning from a patrol fight when at
tackled by German squadron. 1t was
seen that he suddenly lost control Of
his machine, having probably received
mortal wound
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-17

OYSTER BAY, n. Y, July IL
"Quentin s mother and / are very
glad that he got to the front and had
the chance to render some service to
his country and to show the stock
that was in him before his fate befell
him." This statement was issued by
Col Roosevelt today after he learned
that his son, Lieut.. Quentin Roosevelt,
had been killed in an aerial battle in
France.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-17
CZECHS CAPTURE TOWN.
Peking Reports Capture of Klutshevsk
from BOlsheviki

PEKING, Monday, by The Associated
southwestern extremity of the trans
Baikal region has been occupied by the
Czecho Slovak forces following their cap
ture of Irkutsk. The Bolshevixi are re-
ported concentrating at Verhenudinsk.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-17
FRENCHMAN EXECUTED.
Director of Treasonable Newspaper
Shot Early This Morning.

PARIS, July I'm. Duval. director
of the Germanophile newspaper, Bonnet
Rouge, was executed early today for
reasonable action against the govern
ment. The execution was carried out
promptly at . clock in the forest of
Vincennes. The condemned man died
almost instantly with the command to
fire.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-17
First Baptist Church

There will be a silver social on the
lawn at Mrs. w. II. Haigh 5, 80 Wash
ington street, Thursday, July 1S, at 3
y. m. Everybody is cordially invited to
attend. If the weather is rainy, the
social will be postponed until Friday.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-17


ON THE FRENCH FRONT IN
FRANCE, by The Associated Press
Forty eight hours have sufficed for the
holding of the German masses launched
in the Crown Princes great offensive on
Monday. The enemy units which were
turned back from the direction of Paris
and are endeavoring to ascend the Marine
are being held in check by the French
troops.
The position of the German columns
which had gained a footing on the south
bank of the Marine has become perilous,
while to the east of Rheims the German
efforts to advance have each time been
foiled Comparatively slight progress
has been made by the enemy on the
| front west of Rheims, but his hope of
eifecting a breach in the line was not
realized
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-17

Water valves twelve feet in diameter
and so constructed that they will close
automatically in event of break in the
pipe line have been built for a hydroelee-
tric plant in Utah.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-17

Rheims the fighting developed violently
in the Courton wood The Germans at
tackled in the Vrigny region on this front,
but their assault here broke down com
pletely. Along the line to the east of
Rheims the Germans delivered local at
tacls notably in the Prunay region.
These efforts by the enemy were fruit
less.
LONDON, July 1.-THE positions Tor
the allies at the present stage OF the
German offensive in France is said to be
distinctly satisfactory in advices re-
ceived today. The French losses are
stated to have been very small. They
have lost no guns, the reports declare.
French counter-attacks have brought the
German bridges over the river Marine
under the fire of French artillery OF me-
dium calibre.
Gen. Won Einem's army, which has
been engaged on the German left wing
in the Champagne, yesterday delivered
five attacks between Suippe and Mas.
siges All the attacks We're repulsed
with heavy losses. Forces of the German
crown prince advanced another three
miles down the Marine valley yesterday
This makes total penetration OF The
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-17
THE WEATHER.
More Showers Predicted for Tonight
Cloudy Tomorrow.

WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE wealth
er forecast: Showers tonight. Thurs
day partly cloudy. Gentle west winds.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-17

French line of about six miles at Fes-
tigny, the most southern point reached
by the invaders
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-17
ALLIED RESISTANCE
STRONG AT ALL POINTS

Penetration of French Line About Six Miles at Festgny
Most Southern Point Reached by Invaders-Alied
Positions Are Considered Highly Satisfactory-Ger
Losses Heavy
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07

nue. should so whimsically turn at the
Treasury and continue on down past the
White House. A tardy recognition of
L'Enfant's plan is the answer.
But the spoliation of vistas did not
stop there. The State, War and Navy
Building stands guard on the other side
of the White House ike huge ugly
ogre. The Congressional Library, ornate
and full of candied magnifcence, halts
the Pennsylvania Avenue that might
have been beyond the Capitol.
The Washington of the future will be
built upon an effort to combine Len
fant's wisdom with the mistakes of his
successors, converting errors into af1ir-
nations without too greatly losing the
beauty of the original scheme. LEN
fants Mall where diplomats and states
men were to live, survives, a great broad
parkway extending westward from the
Capitol to the striking Lincoln memorial
on the bank Of the Potomac.
The White House plays an important
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07
Getting a Little Excited
Over MIR. Lubin
Was he the inventor of
Lubin's Face Powder?
And has he ''an approach
to a shadow of a shade
of an approximation of
common sense?

ME scene is the Senate, and the matter
under discussion is this: Shall the
salary of Mr. David Lubin, Americas
"permanent representative" to the Intcrna-
tional Institute OF Agriculture at Rome, be
continued discontinued? The salary
specified is $4,000. Senator'S debate it back
and forth. Much comment favorable to The
gifts, capacity and indspensabiity of Mr.
Lubin Gan American citizen from the State
o. California; enters "The Record Mr..
Sheppard says he "trusts that the anpro-
priation will be continued" when Mr.. Will
Jams takes the floor. Then the debate
grows rapidly more exciting:
Mr.. WILLIAMS. Mr.. President think just
aboutfiftcen or twenty years ago first talked
with Mr.. Lubn, and found out within two
or three weeks after met him that he was
man of no extraordinary ability at all;
the limclight, in which he has figured ever
since. If this amendment cuts off the ap-
preparation for Mr.. Lubin to represent, or to
claim to represent, the United States at
Rome in an agricultural institute of some
sort hope it will pass. My own private
opinion is that Mr.. Lubin furnishes no
ability of any description. except little
idealism that amounts to very little
The Senator from Texas Mr. Shcpp4rdI
says that he is man Of very large means,
and all that. do not know anything about
that, but if he is he might volunteer to
serve at dollar Il year, like good many
other people Of large means without very
much ability have already resolved to do
and have already engaged themselves for.
have been watching for a great many
years Mr.. Lubin's course. The first time
that | ever heard Of him he came to the
Agricultural Committee of the House of
Representatives, suggesting that we nut a
duty on agricultural exports in order to
control great many things. He was so
ignorant that he did not know that the
Federal government did not have the power
to put duty upon exports. Then soon
after that he suggested a bounty upon agri-
cultural exports. The gentleman from New
York, the father Of the present Senator
from that state Mr.. Wadsworthl !, and had
very careful hearing from Mr.. Lubin. Mr..
Lubin exploited his two great ideas Of re-
Juvcnatng the universe, especially on it's
agricultural side. He did not excite the
to a very great extent. SO far az am con-
.cerned he has not excited mine even yet.
The agricultural institute at Rome is
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07

diagonal road was intended to run, con-
tinuing beyond the Capitol to a bridge
over the Eastern Branch, now called the
Anacostia River, and continuing beyond
the Presidents Palace into Georgetown,
over Rock Creek
From the beginning L'Enfant had
trouble in keeping his new city intact.
At first it was a mere collection of un-
kempt roads, running through swamp
land, dotted here and there by house.
The diaries of that day speak with pity,
not unmixed with scorn, of the lonely
President, on his eminence, swept by
wind and hail and snow and rain, dis
tinguished by his loneliness. Pennsyl-
vania Avenue was bog. But Washing
ton grew, even if slowly, and there were
attempts a-plenty to interfere with the
remarkable plan laid down for it's de-
velopment. Robert Morris wanted 10
build a house jutting out into one Of
L'Enfants avenues. He even went so
far as to construct a part of it, The
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07
hmek amoaom

found nothing in Europe better than
L'Enfant's plan, and that all that has
happened to Washington since. under the
guidance Of the Fine Arts Commission
is in substance only an elaboration of it.
Congress authorized the location of
the capital on the Potomac River in 1890.
1t was the next year that President
Washington decided that the exact loca-
tion should be near Georgetown. The
first purchase of land had an area of
about five and a quarter miles. 1t was
bought from nineteen farmers, who were
paid SGT an acre
L'Enfant's plan, prepared in consul
tation with Jefferson when the latter
was Secretary of State, revolved around
two principal points. Jenkinss Hill was
the highest point in the land that had
been purchased, and it was there that
the Capitol was located Tiber Creek,
now only memory, ran near another
hill, and the Presidents Palace was to
fnd itself there. Between these two y
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07

story survives that the engineer tore
down the section that transgressed.
Yet even SO much watchfulness and
solicitude for what must have seemed a
mere abstraction to the citizens who
could not visualize future beauty out of
present ugliness could not succeed in
keeping it entirely inviolate When
L'Enfant was scarcely 4 memory and
there was little understanding of what
he tried to do for Washington, his vstas
suffered severely at the hand of the Fed
eral government
The Treasury Building is one of the
finest structures in Washington It's
noble length of colonnade is the nearest
thing Washington has to the Louvre
Yet it gives beauty at sacrifice Of
greater beauty. Without the Treasury
Building where it stands, one might
stand at the foot of the Capitol and look
straight down to the White House
Strangers to Washington have difficulty
in understanding why Pennsylvania Ave.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07

part in the scheme. It is at one end of
a similar line, drawn north and south
through the Washington Monument to
proposed group of buildings, to be dedi-
Gated to the founders of the nation.
So much Of this beauty is embryonic.
The Capitol faces, not splendid sweep
ing vista down to the Lincoln Memorial,
but the Botanical Gardens, where inves-
tigation disclosos behind an iron fence
and shrubbery the unfinished Grant
Memorial in a dishevelled state, and the
lurking, squat, greenhouses of the gar
dens.
Yet, in time, all this will disappear.
Union Square as it is proposed at the
foot of the Capitol will contain the Grant
Memorial, and possibly memorial to
General Meade. The steps from the
Capitol will not end on the downward
slope in a meaningless stretch of con-
crete and grassy pasture. There will be
circular mirror pool at the head of the
square, with stone walks and balustrades