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The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1919-04-03

TO keep them from revolving rapidly.
with the wheels turning slowly, the
maximum pull is delivered to them
by having the ear In low gear and
so long as they turn slowly they ca
get the beneht OF the tremendous
power.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1919-04-03

To meet this situation both the petroleum and au-
tomobe industries have for several years been max
ing every effort. The problem has been approached
from every angle:
(a) The oil producers are constantly prospecting
for new fields. They have sunk many wells
and are doing everything possible to increase
petroleum production.
(b) The oil rehners, with the help OF their chemi-
cal engineers are devising new and Inn
proved processes Of refining by which they
squeeze every possible drop OF gasoline out OF
each barrel OF petroleum.
(e) The automotive engineers have aided much
in gasoline conservation by their constant
improvement OF automobile engines and
methods Of carburization Their efforts are
10 secure the operation Of automobiles
grades Of gasoline Tat permit the maximum
production Of this motor fuel from each bar
rel Of crude oil and which. at the same time.
will give the greatest power and mileage
from each unit Of gasoline consumed.
All these methods are succeeding to a marked de-
gree and yet gasoline consumption Is increasing
much faster than production.
Facing these bald facts last summer, II became
evident 70 President Wilson and the United States
Fuel Administration that there was virtually great
need for gasoline conservation for food
ton.
In consequence the United States Fuel Admins
tration requested Eastern states to discontinue
rely all non-essential OF passenger automobiles.
and for time this request extended that
only automobiles in Government emergency or war
service In Sunday These limitations
extended TO the Western states, because at
the time there enough gasoline being produced
In California for Pacific Coast needs and it's distri-
button did not require the use Of transeontnental
transportation facilities needed for war.
II was part OF this campaign to conserve
Gasoline that led President Wilson 20 appoint Gov
ernment committee TO determine and adopt standard
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1919-04-03

fourths teaspoonful OF Blackleuf
Forty may be added TO each gallon
OF the dilute lime-sulphur spray"
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1919-04-03
The Gasoline Problem
of Supply and Demand
The second of a series

The second Of series of three
Mark
Administration, recent
T dpoporon supply gasoline
problem.
Projected increase
something like
only
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-11-25
MAY LOSE STREET CARS.
St. Adams Company Is in Arrears on
Cost of Road Improvement.

St Alhans, Nov 23.--St. Albans
may be without a street car line as a
result of the st. Adams and Swanton
Traction companyis refusal to pay Ger.
tain assessments which the city claims
are legal debts, and the expression Of
the city council at a meeting Nov. 3
that the collection of the account
should be pressed
In the event Of the city proceeding
along the lines laid down there is a
feeling among certain business men
that the street railway company will
suspend operation. Because Of the APP
preaching holidays delegation Of bust
ness men has visited Mayor H. Nj.
DrennafNand requested him to hold up
action against the company at this
time. Consequently Mayor brennan
has called special meeting Of the
city council for this evening az eight
o'clock, at which time the difficulties
between the city and the company will
be re-opened. A delegation OF business
men will be present,
The trouble between the company
and the city is financial. Mayor Dow
nan explained, that it is provided that
the company must bear its proportion
Of the expense for street work, being
held for half the expense of construc-
tion between its tracks and two feet
on each side The mayor says that
the company is behind in its payments
for round sum of $1,000 II is to force
the collection of this money that the
city attorney has been instructed to
begin action,
As the ease would not be returnabe
until the March term of the Franklin
county court, the traction system
would be tied up completely unless the
company furnished the bond and the
fear that the company would welcome
the opportunity to suspend operation
and therefore would not file the bond is
what moved the merchants to act as
they did. I,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-11-25
JOHN BURKE GIVEN
PRELIMINARY HERRING
Former Constable Charged at Jacl1nan
Me-, with Murder of Nelson
w. BattleY.

Jackman, Me-, Nov. PA prelim.
mary hearing for John Burke. former
tax collector and constable here and
ex-deputy sheriff Of Somerset county
charged with the murder of Nelson w.
Bartley, local hotel keeper, whose
body was hidden in the woods two
miles north Of here after he had been
shot Through the head on Oct. Is, was
given to-day by Judge H. Fl. Brazzel
of the Western Somerset municipal
court.
More than 40 witnesses summoned
by the state were ready to testify but
it was sunderstood only enough evi.
dence would be introduced to establish
the crime and probable cause for hold.
ing Burke for the grand jury at the
January term of the supreme court at
Skswhegan. County Attorney Edward
Z, Morrill,, appeared for the state.
1t was understood that the counsel
for Burke, which included former At
torney General William r. Pattangall
of Augusta, would not attempt to make
out defense at this hearing, and
would attempt no witnesses.
Burke has recovered from a bullet
wound in the leg which he claimed
BARLEY inflicted the night he disap.
peared,
The hearing was expected to last
through the day
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-11-25
SUBMARINE SINK
COASTING SCHOONER
The Rs Colided with the oakwoods at
the Entrance to Cape Cod Canal
Grew of Latter Rescued.

Bourne, Mass, Nov 25-The coast.
ing schooner Oakwoods was sunk in
collision with the submarine Rs Off
the Buzzard bay entrance of the Cape
Cod canal late last night, and the crew
of two men were landed at New Bed
ford to-day.
The Oakwoods, bound from New
York for Parresboro, N. s., was about
to enter the canal She had all sails
set. The submarine had just left the
passage en- route from Boston for New
London. The vessels met off Wings
Neck. The schooner went down almost
Immediately, but the crew got away
safely The Rs continued on her trip.
Her damage if any, win be ascertained
at New London.
Cape Cod officials stated that the
accident would not interrupt traffic, as
the canal is 300 yards wide at the en-
trance and there is 20 feet Of water.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-11-25
JUGo-sLAvs READY TO FIGHT.
Are Getting Impatient at Delay Of AL.
lies in Curbing Italians.

Switzerland, Nov. kilograms re.
ceived by the Serbian bureau at Berne
from Belgrade, Zara and Spalto, con
vey the impression that only prompt
interference by the allies can prevent
war over the Adriatic situation, as the
Jugo.Slavs are said to have lost pa
thence and to be ready to fight the
Italians.
I'VE are astonished that the peace
conference permits our people to en-
dure constant Italian persecution, ,"
says one Belgrade paper received here.
e0ur peaceful attitude is praiseworthy
when we might throw D'Annunzio and
his filibusters into the sea.
Another newspaper accuses Italy of
desiring to blockade Jugo-Slayias ex-
ports and imports and thus "strangle
her" A third repeats recent reports
that a reign Of terror prevails in Zara,
that everybody must wear brassard
inscribed ITALY or death" and that
Slays are borbidden to leave their
houses.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-11-25
"MADE SHOCKING PROFITS"
McAdoo Wires to Garfield in Regard
to Soft Coal Operators.

New York, Nov 25.- Soft coal mine
owners made Shocking and sindefensi-
BILE" profits in l9l7, and there Is grave
doubt" that they are entitled TO in
creased prices because of the proposed
81 per cent increase in miners wages,
William G.. McAdoo, former secretary
of the treasury, declared yesterday in
a telegram to Federal Fuel Administra-
tor Garfield. The owners profits, as
shown by their income tax rate re-
turns examined by him as secretary Of
the treasury in 1918, he said, showed
earnings on capital stock ranging from
10 to 100 per cent
II am convinced that the wage in
creases proposed for the mine workers
are just and reasonable" he stated
Before deduction of excess profits
which were less in 1917 than now
these income tax returns showed that
earnings of 100 to 800 per cent on capi-
tai stock were not uncommon" Mr.,
McAdoo's telegram asserted.
Referring to the bituminous mine
owners income tax returns for 1918,
which he said he had not seen, the
telegram said: IF they disclose any
such profits as earned by the bitumi-
nous coal operators in 1917, it would
be a grave wrong to permit the op-
orators TO take from the public addi-
tional profits in the form Of increased
prices for bitummous coal"
Mr.. McAdoo urged that no increase
in prices Of coal to consumer be al
lowed, and that the income tax returns
of the soft coal owners be made pub.
lie.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-11-25
FOUND UNCONSCIOUS ON SHIP.
William Charles, Jro Seaman, Died
Shortly Afterward.

Word was received in Barre to-day
by Mrs. Henry Alexander from her
husband, Henry Alexander, who is in
Quincy. Mass, for the time being, that
William Charles, ir., son of Mr.. and
Mrs. William Charles of Quincy, for
merly of Barre, died at a Florida port,
where the ship to which he was at
taehed, was stopping The firx tele-
gram to Mr.. and Mrs. Charles was that
their son was found unconscious in the
engineroom Of the ship and after Mrs.
Charles had started for Florida another
message came, telling of the yosng
mans death. No arrangements for the
funeral are known.
William Charles, jr., was born in
Barre 25 years ago and had resided in
this city nearly all his life, having at
tended the public schools and gradu-
ated from Sprulding high school. He
went to Lynn, Mass, on graduation
from high school and entered the EN-
ploy of the General Electric Co., after
which he was with .he Fore River Ship
building Co, at Quincy. Two years ago
he enlisted in the navy and was still
in service at the time of his death.
The young man leaves his parents,
as the only near relatives.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-11-25
PUTS THE ISSUE
UP TO GERMANY
If the Treaty Of Versailles
Is Not Put into Force
by Dec. |
GERMAN DELEGATION
SHARPLY QUIZZED
Is Asked by Supreme Coun-
sci to State Intentions
of Germany

Paris Nov 25.-Surprise at the de-
parture of DIR. Simson, head of the plen-
ipotentiaries sent by Germany to this
city in connection with the protocol
relative to the carrying out of the
terms of the armistice, was expressed
in note delivered to Curt Won Lers-
ner, head of the German delegation at
Versailles, by the supreme council last
night.
If the treaty of Versailles is not
put into force by Dee |, the note adds,
the responsibility will lie with the Ger
man government, as the departure Of
DIR. Simson inevitably delays further
conferences which must be held. DR..
Won Lersner is asked, in conclusion, to
state what are the intentions Of the
German government.
1t was learned to-day that Won Lers-
ner sent a letter to Secretary Dutasta
of the peace conference last Friday to
the effect that the head of che plenipo-
tentiaries had become convinced after
the conversations he had in Paris, that
he must consult the German govern
ment regarding the protocol especially
as the national assembly have to ap-
prove the decisions reached
The Won Lersner letter protests
against the question of the repatriation
of prisoners again being bound up with
that of putting the treaty into effect,
it being pointed ont that the allied gov
ernments had previously separated
these issues II the promise of France
was not kept, the letter declared, Ger
man public opinion would not have
confidence in any further promise
France might make. The letter, in this
connection, drew attention to an article
published recently in the Presse de Par
is on the surrender of war criminals.
Premier Clemenceau, as president of
the peace conference, replied on Satur-
day, saying that Won Lersners letter
made him question if the treaty could
be put into force on Dec |, owing to the
German governments action, although
that government had known the con.
tents of the protocol since Nov. !.
The delay, NJ Clemenceau said,
would be regrettable, as it might raise
doubts of the sincerity of Germany's
intention as regards the execution of
the engagements made in the armistice
and the peace treaty.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-11-25
TALK OF THE TOWN

The attempt TO secure competitive
high school football team here to meet
Spaulding's sturdy eleven on Thanks
giving day was all in vain Yesterday
and the management of the team has
decided to consider the season ended.
Way down in distant Kentucky went
the news that the Barre granite indus
try lacked the necessary number of ap-
prentices and that for this reason the
wage scale was being greatly increased
to induce young men to learn the trade.
Through granite dealer in Louisville.
Arthur Solberg, late Of the United
States navy, learned of this opportu.
nifty to enter this vocation and arrived
here yesterday from Kentucky The
association secretary assigned him to
the johnson & Gustafson manufactur.
ing firm, where this morning he was
learning the fundamentals Of the work.
Sugar cards were still in demand this
morning at the city court room, where
ex.,Iudge n w. Scott, with his stenog-
rapher, has been distributing the cards
to citizens of Barre and Barre Town.
Eight hundred and eighty had been dis
posed of from yesterday morning at 9
o'clock until II o'clock to-day. During
the present week the supply on hand
among the various merchants allows
but half pound to person even
though a consignment came in this
morning to one or two of the large gro
Gerry firms. Whenever possible dealers
will distribute more than half pound
to person, in fact, as much as pos
sible but with the present outlook the
increase in output is not likely to come
soon.
With the football season at close,
Goddard seminary will begin prepara-
tions for one of the hardest schedules
in basketball that this aggregation has
ever undertaken, which includes a trip
through western Massachusetts,. The
teams played on that trip will include
Deerfeld seminary at Deerfeld, Hol-
yoke high school and Springfield " M.
C. A. college seconds at Springfield
The seminary boys will also take trip
into the eastern part of Massachusetts
This trip will include Fitchblrg State
Normal school, Gushing academy and
Dean academy All candidates reported
to Coach Leahey to-day in the gym.
nasium. The squad win observe regu-
lar practice meets on Tuesday, Thurs
day and Friday at $3.50 in the after
noon. The gym will be used on other
afternoons by the class teams. The
first game of the season will be staged
in Barre on Dee Il, Goddard and st.
Michaels battling.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-11-25
FARM ORGANIZATIONS
ARE OF BENEFIT
Declared Speakers at Washington Coun-
ty Meeting of New England Milk
Producers Association.

The Washington county meeting of
those associated with the New England
Milk Producers association occurred in
Montpelier Monday evening in the Odd
Fellows hall, being attended by IS per-
sons. M. II. Moody of Waterbury in
troduced as speakers during the even
ing j. B. Phelps of Stowe, +. S. Adams
of Bowdoin, Me-, and Richard Pattee
Of Boston, who are connected with the
milk producers association.
Mr.. Adams was the first speaker and
discussed organization. He said that
the dealers do not like to have the
farmers organize but that the farmers
must do so to get the results and do
away with the middlemen getting all
the profits He told what system has
done in Maine for the apple growers,
who are able to have expert packers in
stead Of doing the work themselves be-
cause they find it cheaper and that
when a barrel of apples il marked with
the trademark established by these
packers the consumers know Just what
they are getting. They have been fol-
lowing about the same plan in potato
business. He told what the farmers
unions have done for the farmers of
Maine and said that Standardization
must come and that at has come in the
automobile business, nearly everyone
being unable to afford other than a
Ford, so the farmers must standardize
on farm machinery.
Mr. Phelps spoke of the movement in
the northern part of the state to CO.
operate the creameries into a stock
company of 100000 capital. He did
not agree that the Turner Center plan
is practical. He favored having the
ereameries in Vermont at present make
butter and cheese because of the pres
ent high price received for these.
Mr.. Pattee said that the work of the
year showed that progress was being
made and that the farmers are coming
to appreciate what the organization is
to them, for on Jan. l, 1919, there were
1865 members but now there are
1851, and over 5000 increase viii be
shown by the end of the year. He con-
graduated Washington county upon
what its society has done and spoke at
some length upon the organization and
imperfections. He said that the farm
ers will have to agree on what they
are going to do and not wait for what
phlanthropic persons or bankers hand
out to them; the farmers must meet
their problem in a business way and
they can do it. He expressed appre-
ciation Of the help Montpelier gave the
organization when the milk strike oc-
Cured in Boston some time since.
Mr.. Pattee explained how that for a
long time four or five corporations have
controlled the shipment of milk be-
cause they had all of the cans but That
the farmers will have to take over this.
Ii will cost them at the rate of $40 a
COW but they are not now asking to
do il because they want to get away
from the above named corporations,
Each farmer pays in proportion to the
amount of business he does or cows he
owns.
After the addresses Mr.. Pattee an
swered many questions pertinent to
the welfare of the organization. 1t
was one of the best meetings the pro-
ducers have enjoyed since the organ
igation was formed.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-11-25
THETFORD WOMAN
VAS BADLY HURT
When Train Struck Automobile Garry.
ing -Four People at Lebanon, N. H.,
Yesterday Afternoon.

Lebanon, ~ H., Nov. 25.-An auto
mobile, owned and driven by A. T..
Smith of Thetford Center, Vt, was
struck by train yesterday afternoon
at Jones crossing in this village, Sc
riously injuring Mrs. Smith, who was
riding on the front seat with her hus-
band She was taken at once TO the
Mary Hitchcock hospital in Hanover,
where she is in a critical condition.
Other occupants Of the car were
James Barrett and Mrs Frank Fayory
Of Thetford, who saved their lives by
jumping. Mr.. Smith also escaped Sc
rious injury, but was somewhat shaken
up and bruised.
The touring car WAS practically new
and became stalled on the crossing
just as the train came around the
curve. Witnesses say the train was
proceeding very slowly, as it had just
pulled out Of the station, but ON ac-
count of the curve, the engineer did
not see the machine in time TO stop.
The automobile was carried about 10
feet down the track and wedged in be-
tween the raiN and bank wall. The
car was demolished.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-11-25
SIX ARE DEPRIVED
OF Their Right to Operate an Automo-
bile in Vermont.

Harry A. Black, secretary Of state,
to-day suspended six automobile oper-
ators' licenses for one cause or anoth-
er. Those included William Laundry
of Calais for an accident, His car ran
into that of Henry Berry recently. Fred
Stinehouy of Springfield lost his on the
grounds Of being an unfit person to op-
crate car. Leonard Withinshaw OF
st. Albans lost his for an accident that
recently took place in that city, and
failure to report the same, Charles La
Monda of Sheldon Junction was de-
prived of his for operating car while
under the influence of liquor, accord.
ing to the report received by the sec
retary. David Moody of Orleans loses
his .for reckless driving; Ernest H.
Russell of Burlington, for conviction
in Rutland of operating a car when he
was intoxicated.
The secretary of state has received
the report of an accident which hap
pened in Montpelier Nov, %, when
Maurice w. Dewey drove his automo,
bile into hay rack that was being
driven out of the Perkins stable al,
lev. The excuse given for the accident
was that there was no light on the
hay rack Mr., Dewey offered to settle
for damage done, but from the report
it appears none was done.
w. b. Mackenzie of Barre reported
that his car slid off the highway near
the end of the car line on State street
in Montpelier Sunday afternoon, that
the ear was soon replaced on the street,
and that no damage took place The
reason for the accident was not given.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-11-25
FUNERAL AT wILLIAMSToWN
For Mrs. Clayton c. Spencer, Who Died
in Boston Last Friday.

Private funeral services for Mrs.
Clayton G. Spencer, who died from
pneumonia at the Boston HOMEOPATHIC
hospital last Friday afternoon, were
held from the home Of Mrs. Laura
Ainsworth in WiIliamstown at o'clock
yesterday afternoon, only the relatives
and immediate friends attending. Rev.
John Irons, formerly pastor of the Will
Jamestown Congregational church. but
now of East Hardwick, was the offieiat-
ing clergyman. Inferment was in the
village cemetery,
Esther Call was born in Williams
town April %, 1894, the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Call. Practically
all her life was spent in WiIliamstown.
where she attended the public schools.
Her mother died some years ago. while
Mr.. Call lived until year ago. She
had been brought up by her aunt and
uncle, Mr. and Mrs. w. II. Stewart
Mrs. Spencer, after completing her
studies in the public schools. entered
Montpelier seminary, graduating in the
class of 1912, She went to the normal
school at Castleton, where she graduat-
ed in 1916. From that time until she
was married she was engaged in teach
ing in various schools Among the
schools in which she taught were the
Boyce and Lynde schools in Williams
town, and Cabot, Plainfeld' and New
bury
On Sept 3, 1917, she was united in
marriage to Clayton G. Spencer in Will
Jamestown, Mr. Spencer being an in
structor at the Holderness school at
Plymouth, N H. Last December the
couple took up their residence in Need
ham, Mass, Mr.. Spencer having been
engaged as an instructor in chemistry
at Tufts college A daughter, Esther
Elizabeth, was born Nov. II, armistice
day. and the illness which proved fatal
to Mrs, Spencer was contracted soon
after
Besides her husband and daughter,
the deceased is survived by a half
sister. Dorothy Call, nurse at the
Natick 'hospitat half brother. Ken
meth Call OF Wtlliamstown, and her
aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs w. Fl.
Stewart, also of Williamstown.
BY the many friends she had made
dufing her life in Williamstown, in her
school activities and by those with
whom she was associated in later years,
she was highly esteemed and the SYM
pathy of all viii be extended the be-
reaved husband in his untimeIy loss.
Floral tributes, beautiful and many.
came from friends The bearers were:
w. II. Stewart, NJ f. Spencer, S. K.
Spencer and G. G. Spencer,