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The St. Charles herald., 1919-04-26
HELD CHILDREN'S
HANDS ON STOVE
Chicago Father Uses Unusual
Method Of Pedagogy in
Rearing Family.

Chicago-Three small children, wht
were the unconscious cause of the ar
rest of their father, Joseph Bessinger
of Chicago, covered behind the skirts
Of their mother in court while the pris-
oner explained to the judge the method
Of pedagogy he used in rearing his
family. Little Frank, Michael and
Susie showed their scabby hands with
The St. Charles herald., 1919-04-26
Held Their Hands on a Hot Stove.

the marks Of the burns they received
month ago when their father pun
ished them.
Bessinger admitted that. angered by
the loss of pair Of curtains to which
the children had set fire while playing
with matches. he held their hands on
hot stove while they screamed with
pain.
II wanted to teach them q lesson"
he declared.
Despite the sympathy bestowed on
the children by the court attaches,
Mrs. Bessinger defended her husband,
who was fined $500 and costs. but the
payment Of the fine was postponed
while an investigation was made.
HE earns our living" the mother
declared. Don't send him to prison."
The St. Charles herald., 1919-04-26

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Eoo1sn.

Eoolsm.
"Bligglns seemed exceedingly thank
ful yesterday.
Yes. But he somehow manages tc
make his gratitude sound like sheer
personal boasting."
The St. Charles herald., 1919-04-26

II man has neither friends nor en-
'emies he has lived in vain.
The St. Charles herald., 1919-04-26
Natural Proeeduee
KEEP IT HANDY

II you paid a specialist $500 for q
prescription. you would not get any
tning that would give quicker reliet
Tor Group, Catarrh, Colds, or Sore
inroat' than VACHER BALM, which
only costs 25c In Jars, or tubes.
Write for Samples and AGENTS
Fnces. Beware Of limitations. 3. W.
Vacner, 1nc., New Orleans, La. Adv.
The St. Charles herald., 1919-04-26
Undigested food! Lumps of pain;
oelching gas. acids and sourness. When
your stomach Is all upset, here is In
slant relief-No waiting!

The moment you eat a tablet ar
fapes Diapepsin all the indigestion
pain' dyspepsia misery, the sourness,
gases and stomach acidity ends.
Papes Diapepsin tablets cost little
et any drug store but there is no surer
Or quicker stomach relief known. Adv.
Natural Procedure.
What do you think Of that new
gas schemer' "Oh, everybody js max
ing light of it."
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-07
TO FIX SCALE OF PRICES
FOR BASIC COMMODITIES
Secretary Redfeld Has Asked Pres. VIII
SON to Name Commission to Investi-
gate and Decide What the
Government VIII Pay.

Washington, j. c., Feb. President
Wilson has been asked 10 name a com
mission Of industrial leaders and gov.
ernment representatives which will have
the power to investigate and suggest a
scale of prices for basic commodities at
which the government viii buy during
the post war period, Secretary Of Com
merce Redfeld announced to-day.
The step was taken after conferences
of producers and labor representatives
and government officials, who were unan-
imous, the secretary said, in recommend
ing it.
General unemployment and industrial
depression were threatened, Secretary
Garfield said. by the waiting tendency
noticed in nearly all industries, due to a
doubt as to the trend of prices, and it
was decided that if someone having Off
cial sanction could determine the price
levels for the government itself this
would furnish a guide for private enter
prise in resuming activities.
There is no prospect in the immediate
future for a restoration of pTe-war prices,
the secretary's statement said.
II is understood that the men who act
ed as division heads of the war indus
tries board prior to its dissolution on
Jan. are among tlose suggested to the
president.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-07
FRANCE AND ITALY
REFUSE TO GIVE UP
MILITARY SERVICE
PRICES TO DROP
IF BILL is PASSED
But Government Would Be Expected TO
Stand the Loss Between the
Purchase and Sale Price
of Wheat.

Washington, D. G., Feb. Members
of the House agriculture committee to-
day expressed the opinion that<the price
of -four would be lowered and that the
cost to consumer of other principal food
stuffs would decline should Congress
pass the bill for carrying out the gov
ernment wheat price guaranty as ap-
proved last night by the committee.
The bill provides that while the gov
ernment would carry out its promise
to the farmers of 1925 bushel for the
1919 wheat crop, the price to the con
sumner would be fixed only by the law Of
supply and demand. The government
would lose the difference between the
purchase and sale price, and the bill
proposes an appropriation of $l00O,00O,-
900 for this purpose.
Members of the committee said to-
day that testimony submitted at the
hearing on the subject developed gen
eral forecast that under the law of sup
ply and demand a probable price would
be about Sl.25 a bushel,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-07
GUERRILLA WARFARE IN BREMEN
Insurgents Are Said to Have Suffered
More Serious Losses.

Berlin, Wednesday, Feb. 5 by the As
soeiated Press ).--Unconfrmed press dis
patches from Bremen indicate that the
insurgents there are continuing guerrilla
warfare in the outskirts of the city and
in the harbor, notwithstanding the gov
ernment's claim that the uprising was
quelled Tuesday. The casualties are es-
timated at 30 dead and more than 100
wounded, the insurgents being the heay-
lest losers, The communists retreated
toward the suburbs as soon as govern
ment troops began to advance in earnest.
Gustav Noske, who is in charge of
military affairs in the Ebert cabinet, has
ordered the soldiers council at Erfurt to
return the arms which were illegally alb
stracted from the arsenal there and dis
tributed among the civilians If the or
der is not obeyed within four days, it is
announced, the government will disarm
the civilians, who are said to be presum-
ably organized for an attack on the ma
tional assembly at Weimar.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-07
NATIONAL GUARD UNITS
ARE on WAY HOME
They Are Included In Total Of Nearly
5000 Men on Five Transports
That Have Already Sailed.

Washington, D. c., Feb. Sailing Of
five transports from France with about
200 officers and $500 men, consisting
mainly of former National Guard units,
was announced to-day by the war de.
partment.
The cruiser Huntington is due TO ar
rive at New York Feb. Is with elements
Of the l63d infantry, 4lst division, and
Of the l6lst infantry; the l64th ambu-
lance company and casual company for
Pcnnsy sylvania.
The Heredia, due at New York Feb.
20 .sis bringing detachments of base hos
pitals numbers IA, IS and 66. The T. j..
Luckenbach also will arrive at New
York Feb. 20 with few casual officers.
The Mercury is due at Newport News
Feb. l6 with the Goth regiment, coast
artillery complete; 54th ammunition
train: s35th stevedore company; a de-
tachment of battery +, 6lst regiment.
coast artillery; conyalescent detachment
No. 65; 20 casual officers and six Off
GERS and 339 men of the navy.
The steamers Eurane, due at Newport
News Feb i6 and F. X. Luckeubach due
at New York Feb. 20 bring few casual
officers.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-07
The Epidemic Caused Three
Deaths in One House in
36 Hours
HAMLIN G. BARNES
FAMILY AFFECTED
In Addition, He Has Lost
Three Others from Pneu-
monia in Seven Years

Bethel, Feb. THE third death from
pneumonia in the same house within SO
hours occurred this morning when Ray
mond i. Barnes, aged 10, passed away at
the home of Mrs. Walter NJ. Winot in
Rochester, and Mrs. Winot is herself crit
ically i'll with the same disease. The
others who died were Roy Coady, aged 80,
of this town, who died Wednesday night,
and Mr.. Winot, aged 20, husband of the
woman now seriously i'll, who died yes
terday morning.
All really are members OF the family OF
Hamlin G. Barnes, whose son, Shirley
Barnes, died Of pneumonia seven years
ago, his wife OF pneumonia six years ago,
his stepson, Louis r. Dean, Of pneumonia
Oct ! last year and now another step
son, a son-in-law and a son. Mrs. Wal
ter NJ. Winot, who is critically i'll, is his
daughter, Gladys. Mr. Coady boarded in
the Winot home
Funeral services for Walter NJ. Winot
were held at A. Lee Cady's undertaking
rooms in this village yesterday, with in
terment in the Barnes lot at Fairytew
cemetery. Services for Mr.. Coady were
to be held at the same place to-day, with
nterment in the Dean lot at Cherry Hill
cemetery, Rev. J. Wesley Miller ofticiat-
ing.
Raymond +. Barnes, who died to-day,
was the youngest Bethel soldier in the
present war, having enlisted when Is
years of age, in December, 1917. He
went to Fort Slocum and was transferred
to Camp Meade, where he almost imme-
diately went to the hospital, having a
tubercular trouble. He was discharged in
March. 1918, and came home, going TO
Rochester last August to work as fire
man for the Eastern Tale company and
to live with his sister, Mrs WiuotT
Hamlin q. Barnes, father Of the young
man, has another son, Leon, who is with
the 26th division of the L. S. army in
France and who is believed to have gone
through the war without a scratch or a
serious illness
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-07
Declared Chancellor Ebert
in Opening National
Assembly
WILL MAKE EMPIRE OF
JUSTICE AND TRUTH"
He Addressed the Assembly
in Democratic Way as La
dies and Gentlemen"

Weimar, Thursday, Feb, tby the As
sociated Press The old order in Ger
many has gone beyond recall and the
people are determined to rule themselves,
declared Friedrich Ebert, the chancellor,
calling the national assembly to order
here this afternoon
1--WE will cal on the old German spir-
it of Weimar," he said. Eve viii be an
empire of justice and truth"
The chancellor opened the proceedings
of the assembly at 3;l5 o'clock. He was
received with applause as he advanced
for the ceremonial In opening he ad-
dressed the assemblage as Ladies and
gentlemen "a form Of address never be-
fore heard in a German legislative body.
The ehancellor's speech was an earnest
appeal for unity and untiring labor.
The assembly. 397 members of which
were present, adopted the old standing
orders Of the Reichstag as temporary
rules of procedure. The assembly will
meet again tomorrow.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-07
WAGE REDUCTION
MAY CAUSE STRIKE
Montana Mine Owners Reduced Pay of
Their Men One Dollar Day,
the Action Affecting
About 10000.

Butte. Mont. Feb. THE official pub
lcation Of the miners union declared
to-day that the metal trades union and
the independent miners union are con
sidering a strike because OF the wage
reductions Of one dollar a day, announced
yesterday, affecting approximately 20,
600 employees in Butte, Anaconda and
Great Falls. The new wage Of S4.75 for
miners is based on the contract entered
into several years ago with the Western
Federations Of Miners, which provides
for bonuses Of SO cents day for every
two-cent increase in the price Of copper,
except that the present wage figured on
Is cents, copper is 80 cents above the
contract schedule.
Those announcing the reduction are;
Anaconda Copper Mining company,
Butte g. Superior North Butte. the W.
A. Clark properties the East Butte and
Davis companies.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-07
FRANCE OPPOSED
TO LIFTING BLOCKADE
Because Germany, Having Wiped Out
Large Part Of French Industry,
Would Be Able to Start
Up Sooner.

Paris, Thursday, Feb. (By the Asso-
ciated Press Captain Andre Tardieu,
one Of the French representatives on the
commission on the society Of nations, an
nounced tonight that the program for
the society will be ready sometime next
week He said also:
France is opposed to the raising Of
the blockade on raw materials against
Germany until her damage to French in
dustries has been made good Germany
was responsible for the destruction of
one third of the factories of France and,
if allowed to resume production with
equal facilities, it will be a serious eco
nomic handicap for us"
Captain Tardieu expressed the belief
that the allies would not disagree with
the contention of France. He added that
THE blockade committee advocated rails
ing the raw material embargo against
neutrals at the earliest possible date,
with the understanding that materials
are not to be reshipped to Germany.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-07
After Much Debate in the Conference on a SOci-
ety of Nations. 1t Was Voted to Allow Each
Country to Decide Upon It's Own System.
WAS THE ONLY ARTICLE
NOT APPROVED AT PARIS
MORE DRASTIC TERMS
PLANNED FOR GERMANY

Paris, Feb. THE allied premi-
ers, who viii meet this afternoon
the supreme inter-allied war coun-
ell, probably will fix new terms to
be imposed upon Germany, whose
tactics of obstruction and recrim-
ination are said to have reached a
climax in a threat made at Wei
mar by Chancellor Ebert that Ger
many would break off negotia-
tions with the allies.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-07
LAURENCE STRIKER
WAS FATALLY SHOT
Five Men and a Girl Were Arrested for
Minor Disturbances in Connection
with Picketing To-day.

Lawrence, Mass, Feb. Five men
and a girl were arrested for minor dis
turbances in connection with picketing
when the mill gates opened to-day. 9th
erwise the textil strike situation here
was quite. The great plants Of the Amer
lean Woolen company and the Arlington
Pacific and Uswoco continued in oper-
alton, but only in part,
A systematic search of the district in
which Biaggio Ventino, a striker, was
fatally shot early to-day, was begun by
the police at daybreak This shooting
was the first fatality Of the strike, which
began Monday to enforce a demand for
81 hours pay and for 4s hours week.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-07
WHOLE CITY SHUTS DOWN.
Dusseldorf, in Germany, Has Completely
walked Out"

Berlin, Wednesday, Feb > CBy the As
sociated Press The whole city of Dus-
seldorf has walked out" officials clerks
and other employees in the service of rail
ways, posts, telegraph, telephone and
service lines; bankers, lawyers, physi-
clans, school teachers and other people
engaged in professions have quit work.
The employees on all public service lines
are striking in keeping with the threat
to the executive council of the commu-
nistic government to call general strike
of all bourgeois classes if their demands
were not granted.
Theatres and restaurants are forced to
close, as they are without service Big
industrial plants have shut down, as Of
flee forces everywhere have joined in the
walkout, This unique protest is the first
of its kind to be applied on a big scale
as a retaliation against Spartacan terror
ism.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-07
FRENCH PEOPLE DISTURBED.
Are Complaining Over the Reported
Scarcity Of Food.

Paris, Thursday, Feb. 6.-During the
debate on the bill introduced in the
chamber of deputies to-day by Louis
Nail, minister of justice, imposing Sc
we're penalties on profteering middlemen,
Deputy Pierre Laval, socialist, said the
measure was intpduced simply in an
effort to quiet popular recriminatiou 5"
He declared it would prove wholly in
effective" saying the cause for high
prices was insufficient foodstutfs in
France to meet the demands Of con.
sumption" He added that the minis
tries of transportation, justice and pro-
visions were to blame for the situation,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-07
BOYS WERE ELUSIVE.
Wormed Their Way Out of Bradford
Cooler" but Caught After Two Days.

Harold and Arthur johnson, two West
Newbury boys who had been convicted of
grand larceny and sentenced to the in
dustral school at Vergennes, only TO
escape from the Bradford Cooler and
give the officers merry chase for two
days into New Hampshire, were placed
in the county Jail at Montpelier last
night by Sheriff George Tracy of Chelsea
and were taken to-day to the industrial
school at Nergennes.
After being placed in the Bradford
Cooler" the boys wormed their way out
and headed for the hills of New Hamp-
shire. 1t took the officers two days to
find them in the hill region Of Pike in
that state.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-07
POWER STRIKE POSTPONED.
London May Go in Darkness at Midnight
Next Saturday.

London, Thursday, Feb. 6.--Postpoue.
ment of the electrical trades union strike
set for tonight was announced this even
ing. 1t is understood that the latest
plan is to call out the engineers in Lon,
don's 60 powerhouses at midnight SatW-
day.
Some Of the electricians struck during
the evening, but up to late hour none
of the public services was affected, All
the powerhouses were working as usual.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-07
DIED SUDDENLY.
Lucius A. Curtis, Janitor of the st. Al
bans ArmOry.

ST. Albans, Feb. 7.--Lucius A, Curtis
died suddenly at his home on Rugg street
this morning at s o'clock as he was pre-
pairing TO leave for the armory, where
he was janitor. He had been in poor
health for some time and a week ago
tonight had bad fall.
He was born in Massachusetts April
2s, 1857, and was in his 62d year He
came to st, Albans 80 years ago and was
in the fruit business and later in the
meat business, He was janitor Of the
city hall and public library several years,
and since janitor of the armory. He is
survived by daughter, Miss Marion
L. Curtis, of this city.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-07
A FoRD-NEwBERRY COMPROMISE
Is Likely to Be Developed, 1t Was An
nounced in Senate.

Washington, D. c., Feb, In view of
negotiations toward a compromise plan
for proceeding with the Ford,Newberry
Michigan senatorial election contest
Chairman Pomerene Of the Senate priv
ileges and elections committee formally
announced in the Senate to-day that he
would not press his resolution proposing
an immediate investigation at the pres
ent time, but would consider further
steps which give promise of satisfying
bot h sides
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-07
ARRANGE FOR WILSON'S ABSENCE
Premier Lloyd George of Great Britain
Is Also Expected to Be Away.

Paris, Wednesday, Feb 6.-Confer-
ences between President Wilson and Pre-
mier Lloyd George are understood to be
in progress for the purpose of determin-
ing the program to be followed by the
American and British delegations, re-
spectively, while the president and the
premier are absent. They are arrang-
ing affairs so that the business of the
conference may move smoothly after
their departure while the campaign for
speed in dealing with the peace settle
ment which they have been heading is
considered to be responsible for much of
the more rapid progress that the con-
ference has made.
It is stated that Premier Lloyd George
will probably leave Paris on Saturday,
to be absent for two or three weeks,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-07
BURLINGTON NAN
LMPERSONATED OFFICER
Said He Was an Army Captain and En-
deavored to Defraud--He Gave
Name of Robert Brown.

New York, Feb. Robert Brown,
who said his home was in Burlington,
VT, pleaded guilty in the federal district
court to-day to impersonating an army
captain with intent~to defraud and was
sentenced to one year and six months
in the Atlanta prison. He was accused
Of collecting money for charity and fail
ing to turn the money in.
~ Brown, who is "a years old, told the
court he had become addicted to the drug
habit and to this he attributed his trou-
BILE. Arrested here month ago, he es-
capped, but was recaptured in Boston.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-07
CASUAL TROOPS BROUGHT
On Two Steamers Which Arrived at New
York To-day

New York. Feb. THE French line
steamship Espagne arrived here to-day
from Bordeaux with 422 troops, all cas-
uals. They included casual companies
2G of Pennsylvania, 30 Of New York, and
80 of Illinois.
The steamship Zacapa, also from Bor,
deaux. brought six officers and seven men
of the headquarters company of the 37th
brigade, coast artillery corps, 73 casual
officers, 20 nurses, five of whom were i'll,
and six children.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-07
GREEK DELEGATES ARRIVE.
And Slams Representatives Will Reach
Paris To-day.

Paris, Thursday, Feb 6.-Basil Sari-
kides, brotber-in-law of Premier Veni.
zelos of Greece, accompanied by Alex
ander Rhallis and another member of the
Greek delegation to the peace conference,
arrived at Marseilles to-day en- route
to Paris. The Siamese governments del
egation, headed by Prince Traidof, will
arrive EEidaY.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-07
ARABIA'S CLAIMS PRESENTED
Country Wants to Be Under British Man
datory and France Objects.

Paris, Thursday, Feb. 6.--The supreme
council to-day heard the claims of King
Hedjaz of Arabia, speaking through his
son, Prince Feisal, The prince main
tanned that Arabia, including Syria and
Mesopotamia, had non-Arabic popula.
tion of less than | per cent and that the
principles of nationality enunciated by
President Wilson should leave the Arabs
to govern Arabia with possibly some
mandatory to develop intercourse with
the outside world.
The prince is said to have advocated
Great Britain as the mandatory for Ara
bia. This has aroused sharp criticism
from French newspapers, owing to the
French interests in Syria.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-07
MILLIONS OF TAX BLANKS
Are Ready to Be Distributed When vii
son Signs Bill.

Washington. D. c., Feb, T. Several
million tax return blanks for incomes of
$4,000 and less were dispatched to reye-
nue. collectors to-day by the internal rev
enue bureau. These will be released by
collectors as soon as President Wilson
signs the revenue bill, nearing completion
in Congress. Corporation incomes and eX-
cess profits return forms and blank forms
for individual incomes of more than So
600 now are being printed and viii be in
the hands of collectors before March !.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-07
ICE NOT VERY THICK.
Only 10 Inches at st. AIbans Bay, Con
trasted with q Last Year.

St. Albans, Feb THE A, w. Fish
er Ice company has begun cutting ice
at its pond and expects to harvest 5000
tons from the large pond built on his
farm Just outside the city. The ice at
st. Adams bay, where cutting has be
gun. is 10 inches thick, Last year i.
was from "A to q inches thick,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-07
NEW TREASURY CERTIFICATES
Offering of $6oooo0,ooo Was Made By
u. S. Government.

Washington, D. c., Feb. IA new Of
fering of treasury certificates of indebt-
edness amounting to $600,000000 with
interest at the rate of 4l5 per cent, was
announced to-day by the treasury. The
certificates will be dated Feb. l3 and will
be payable July 10, next. Subscription
books will close Feb. 20.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-07
BOLD HOLD.UP
on BOSTON STREET
Elisha H. Wilcox, Superintendent of the
General Fire Extinguisher Co., Was
Robbed of 5000 by Two Men.

Boston, Feb. Two men held up Eli
sha II. Wilcox, superintendent of the
General Fire Extinguisher Co, on busy
street in the downtown district here to-
day, robbed him Of the weekly payroll
amounting to 5000, and escaped.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-07
WANTS CASE DISMISSED.
On the Ground That Subpoena Was Not
Served According to Statute.

Before Judge L, P Slack at Montpelier
was heard today the case of Hamilton
S. Peck VS.. Mary Louise LcGrande, the
hearing being on the motion OF the de-
fendant to dismiss the bill on the ground
that the subpoena served on the defend
ant was not according to the statutes,