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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-10
MoRToRs cAMouFLAcEr'
Some We're Hidden in Flower Beds
Near New York.

New York, March 7.-Hugh Nor
tars, standing on cncrete emplace-
ments and abundantly supplied with
half ton proieetilcs, were erected dur
ing the war among the flowers and
shrubbery of private gardens in
New York city and elsewhere along
the Atlantic coast ready to repel the
attacks of German naval or air ships,
Macmillan Toch. one of the first
American camouneurs. told the New
York sections of the American Chem.
ical society here tonight
Mr.. Toch, who directed several OF
the navy's important camoullage pro.
jects, spoke with the consent of Sec
retary Daniels. He described how
honeysuchle, morning glory and Ivy,
as we'll as paints, had been employed
to conceal or lower the visibility OF
coasted Notifications.
Abrose channel. the mouth OF New
York harbor was protected. in add,
tion to the guns in the regular army
forts, by mortars having . range OF
l2 miles said Mr.. Toch. Some OF
these auxiliary cannon. he declared
we're placed two and a half miles in
land on private estates and SO con
cealed by arrangements of trees
shrubbery and flowers that passersby
were ignorant of their erection and
even aviators found little or no evi
dence' of their location. They were
manned by army gun crews, ready fol
instant action
The camoufeur described also hi.
work in Disgusting navy yards ant
docks along the Atlantic coast not
ably the ensacola and Key Wes
bases, which were exposed to attacks
by German raiders and submarines
operating in the south Atlantic. Th'
navy believed. Mr. Toch asserted
! that the Germans had secret bas,
on the north coast OF Cuba, adding
that "rich German firms In Havana
were notoriously aiding the centra
powers" and that there were "mor
German spies and propagandists ol
the island than in the United States
| Mr.. Toch declared the army "di
not take kindly to camouAage at tn
beginning OF the war" and said tina
he had great difficulty" in oonvinC
ingarmy officers OF the necessity Q
camouilaging Notifications adjacen
to navy yards.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-10
INCOME TAX INFORMATION
Partnerships Must Make Tru
ReturnG.

Washington, March lO.-Herewith
please find quotation from Sec, 25G
OF the Revenue Act Of 1918. This is
Of vital interest to all concerned as
penalties for failure to comply With
this section will bo asserted later.
That all individuals corporations
partnerships in whatever capacity
acting. who paid to another indiyi.
dual partnership, or corporation in.
terest, rent, salaries, wages, premiums
nnnuities, compensations. renumera-
tions, emoluments or other fixed or
determinable gains, profits and in.
come OF $1,000 or more are required
TO render true and accurate return
10 tho Commissioner of Internal
Revenue o. all such payments.
The fact that the payee himself
has no Income Tax return to make
does not relieve him from this Guty.
+. The time for filing these returns
has been extended to May |. Proper
forms for making these returns can
be had by applying to the Collector
Of Internal Revenue. Ask for forms
1906 and 1909.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-10
RECEIVE RsHIP
FOR CANADIAN
GRAND TRUNK
Minister of Railways Takes
Over System
NO MONEY IN TREASURY
Canadian Government Is Informed
That There Are No Funds for
Its Operation

Ottawa, March 9.--John J. D. Reid,
Minister of Railways, has been ap-
pointed receiver Of the Grand Trunk
Pacific Railway. 1t was announced to.
night,
The appointment followed official
notification by the railway that it
would be unable to continue opera.
tions after March 10, because of lack
OF funds.
Under existing legislation, continu.
ed operations could not be ensured
by application to the courts for re-
ceiver The War Measures Act. how
ever, was found to provide authority
for action by the Government, and
consequently an order in council
was passed appointing the Minister
of Railways receiver His control
extends over the entire system in.
GLIDING Branch lines, telegraph,
steamships, hotel, and subsidiary dc.
yeIopment organizations.
w. p. Hinton, General Manager OF
tho system, has agreed TO conform to
the requirements Of the order and to
facilitate the carrying out of the pow
ers and duties required of the Minis
ter OF Railways as receiver
An important feature of the Order
in Council is that 1t preserves for the
Government any other and ultimate
remedies which it possesses under
the provisions Of trust mortgages Sc
curing tissues it has guaranteed
Similarly. the rights and remedies OF
other parties are not interfered with
by the order.
The acting Prime Minister will
make q full statement to the House
tomorrow on the situation. The cor
respondence leading up to the ap
pointment of the Minister OF Rail
ways as receiver viii he read at that
time and legislation win be introduc
ed TO obtain the sanction by Parlia
ment of emergency measures alread,
adopted
The Government in February in
formed the officials Of the Grant
Trunk and the Grand Trunk Pacili,
Railways that it was not the inten
ton to ask Parliament to provide ;
further vote. For the Grand Trunl
Pacific Railway. while negotiation
with the Grand Trunk Railway Com
pany remain in the present unsatis
factory condition"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-10
OPIUM IN GREASE BOX
Customs Men Found $4,000 Worth
Slowed Away in Engine

Newport. March Z Four men
charged with smuggling opium were
taken from the train arriving here at
$3.50 o'clock Wednesday night after
bag containing $4,000 worth of smok
ing opium had been found in grease
box on the engine. 4 man by the
name OF Warren. another whose name
could not be learned, Fireman Pom.
ton and the baggagenlan were taken
from the train and placed in the Or
leans county Jail.
When the train reached North
Troy, the trainmen notified Deputy
Collector Alfred II ButterGeld that
they were suspicious of two men on
board and officers searched the train
inside and out, the opium being found
on the engine
Inspectors Harvey and Dowd OF
Boston. who have bocn here for sov.
cral days working on the opium
smuggling cases, assisted in the ar
rests, which were made when the
train reached this city.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-10
MISSIONARY
REMARKS ARE
MUCH RESENTED
Says President Is Playing Into
Hands of Reds
THEN THERE is TROUBLE
Audience Cries "Treason - Three
Sailors Demand That Or. ST.
mons Apologize

New York. March 9.-Rev. DR..
George A, Simons, Il Methodist mis-
sionary who was stationed in Russia
for IL years and who appeared as a
witness before the Senate committse
investigating propaganda, started
tempest when he declared in an ad-
dress at the Central Y. NJ. c, a. in
Brooklyn today that President VIII
son was playing into the hands of
the hands Of the bearers of the red
flag."
Instantly there were cries Of THAT
is treason!' and throw him out" but
a sergeant of police and three patrol
men saved the speaker from rough
handling by persons in the audience
OF 700 who heard his assertion.
Three sailors In uniform demanded
that DR.. Simons apologize. He re-
sponded by saying he believed Presi-
dent Wilson "as fine. a Christian gen
tleman as we have in America.
Later a Y. NJ. c. A. secretary apollo
gized on behalf of the association for
the remarks OF the missionary.
Il believe in respecting President
Wilson so long as he respects the ira
ditions OF our fathers said Dr.
Simons in his address, but when he
is guilty of criminal fooling and play.
ing into the hands OF Bolshevists and
the Bolsheyist vote getters. it is time
that President Wilson should come to
the mourners' bench to be reconse-
Grated in the spirit of Americanism. .
The audience indicated displeasure
at this attack on the president but
there was no serious outbreak until
the speaker referred to the late Col.
Roosevelt as Saint Theodore"
What wouldn't he (Rooseyelt) say
10 the Bolshevists? What wouldn't
he say about the red fiag2 iwant to
tell you gentlemen that if Roosevelt
had gone to Washington there would
have been sort Of a hurricane in
! the vicinity of the White House"
) Then there were cries of throw
him out" and someone cried: "That's
sedition Of the worst kind while 9th
! ers tried to make themselves heard
above the din When about 200 OF
the audience had left the auditorium
and the missionary was able to &c
ON. be seemed decidedly nervous.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-10
HOOVER TO QUIT
HIS EUROPEAN
J. RELIEF DUTIES
Says He Must Return to Private
Business
TO CONTINUE TILL JULY
Predicts Wheat at $3.50 as Market
Will Dc Far from Over
stocked With Il

Paris. March s.---That Herbert c.
Hoover, the American Food Admins
traitor, and lately appointed Director
General of the interallied relief or.
ganization, Is to cease his relief work
IN the summer was indicated In u
statement issued today by Mr.. Hoov-
er concerning the wheat situation.
He intimated that majority OF his
co-workers would also return to pri.
vate life.
4 Speaking of various problems con.
nected with the wheat situation, Mr.
:. Hoover said that they would need to
be solved by some one else. because
neither myself, nor most Of the men
In the Food Administration will be
able to continue in the service of ..e
Government after next JULY Il.
When he was asked today whether
the United States Government would
lose the $l,0OO,0OO,O0O appropriated
to support the guarantee for next
years wheat crop Mr. Hoover said;
THE question OF Government loss,
IL any, will revolye around several diff
ferent factors: First, whether ave or
the world will have any surplt from
the 1913 crop to carry over into next
year; second, what the supply and
demand will be for the 1919 crop.
and third, whether the Government
should deliberately decide to take a
loss in order to lower the price OF
bread. IL
AS to the supply and deman for
the 1918. crop, changes In the rid
demand during the last month N
by widespread investigation ul the
food needs OF Europe. indicate that
there will$be no surplus to carry over
into the 1919 crop. The indian fam
Inc has proved so serious that a
large parted the ausaraiiaii wheat
must go there at once. In addition
a considerable proportion of the
Austrian supply, which has been pill
ing up for years, has sporcA.
THE needs Of Europe are larger
than our previous estimates. Altogetl
or, the balance OF the supply and de
mand for our present wheat now
looks as though We might see wheat
at $3.50 a busel, as it was in the
spring of 1917, II there is free mark
ct In wheat and uncontrolled prices
!. Altogether, IL would appear nov
that there would be no bread Il
waste in any quarter of the world fol
the next year, even il the world hat
the money to pay for 1t and If tn,
Bolsheviki did not get more territory
Therefore, to all present appear
ances 1t should be possible to marke
the whole Of next years wheat croI
without loss to the Government.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-10
SERBIA Is RUINED
Or. Dublin Reports Of His lnvestga.
ton.

New York, March 9--Serbia, from
Belgrade on the north to Monastir
on the south, was described today as
both ar economic and physical ruin
by Dr. Louis Dublin, statlstician Of
New York, who has just returned
here from an important mission in
the service OF the American Red
Cross which carried him into Italy.
Greece, Serbia and Jugo-Slavia
DR.. Dublin, who was engaged in a
health survey. declared that in every
one OF the countries rayaged by the
enemy the number of deaths from
disease in the civilian population
fer out.numbered the war casualties
As an example of this he mentioned
Italy. where he said. nearly 100000
civilians died from the influenza cpl
demic
Serbia, he added. has suffered
worst OF all and nc estimated II
would take 10 or 90 years to restore
here to her normal condition.
Dr. Dublin declared that clothes
was one Of the chief needs Of Serbia
because the entire peasant popula
tion was a mass of rags. Railroads
and rolling stock are also needed. he
asserted as we'll as food. Referring
to the conditions of Greeks in Mace
donia, DR.. Dublin said that when the
Austrians and the Bulgarians broke
through into Saloniki they segregated
10000 Greeks from tho population
and drove them to Bulgaria, where
they treated and worked them lik,
slaves. Only $4,000 of these cam,
back, he said. and they were so veal
that II will be long time before
they regain their normal health anC
working capacity.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-10
Will Twenty-Five Pay Uncle Sam Ia
LARGEST OF UNIVERSITIES
Vermont Man Is at Head OF Faculty
Of 800

Paris, March 10. - The American
Army University, the largest uniyer-
sity in the English-speaking world,
has been opened in Beaume. south
east Of Paris, it was announced here
last night
Fifteen thousand soldiers have en-.
rolled for three months course. The
faculty OF 500 members, chiefly drawn
from the American Expeditlonary
Force, is headed by Colonel Ira l.
Reeves. formerly President of Nor.
wich University In Vermont The
study halls and dormltories were an
American hospital during the war
a farm of GOO acres is used as the
main agricultural college, while for
mer workshops OF the hospital supply
quarters are being utilized by classes
IN engineering The university has
opened a branch at Bellevue, near
Versailles. for nearly 1000 students
of art and architecture.
The American Army University Is
one of the four features of the educa-
tional system introduced for the ben
eft of the expeditionary force. The
other features are post schools in all
organizations for elementary work /;
division educational headquarters in
all armies, corps, and divisions for
vocational training and general edu-
cation of high school grade and de.
tails Of officers and soldiers as stu
dents at French and British univer-
sites for post graduate college work,
Post schools have been established
in units Of five hundred or more men.
There are generally forty of such
schools IN each division. which will
make more than LOCO in the Ameri
can Expeditionary Force
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-10
MRS. HARRIET BRADFORD DEAD
Widow Of the Late Frank Bradford
Passed Away Suddenly.

Mrs. Harriet Armstrong Bradford
died suddenly just before one o'clock
this afternoon at her rooms on Main
street. Death was due to heart fall
ure caused by acute indigestion,
Mrs. Bradford was the widow of
Frank Bradford, SON Of the late Gen.
Bradford Since the death Of her
husband Mrs. Bradford lived for a
time in Claremont N. H.. but re.
turned to Bennington few years ago
and has for some time had rooms
with Mrs. Albro. she was about l6S
years Of age. teri
Mrs. Bradford was highly es'
teemed woman who was greatly loved
by her many friends. She was "a
member of ST. Peters church and al
ways interested in every good work.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-10
MRS. ADELlA M. KEYEs
Lifelong Resident Passed Away Sun.
day Night.

Mrs Adelia NJ. Keyes, widow of the
late Lyman b. Keyes, died Sunday
night at her home on School street.
TWO months ago she suffered shock
of paralysis and had since been stead
lily falling.
The deceased was native of Ben
nington, was the daughter of the late
Daniel Robinson Burt and Elizabeth
Ford. She was married fifty years
ago last September
Surviving are brother and sister.
Miss Emma Elizabeth Burt with
whom she lived aud Gilbert f. Burt
OF this village.
Mrs Keyos was esteemed and re.
specied in the community in which
she had passed her entire life and the
news of her death win be received
with deep regret, particularly by the
older residents among whom she
numbered many friends.
The funeral, which will be private
will he held from the house Wednes
day afternoon.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-10
MODERN AND ANCIENT MAGIC
Spectacular Performance at Opera
House Thursday Evening

Through the efforts of Archibald
Hurley the Henri jacques company
has been secured to give its spcctac'
ular performance at the opera house
Thursday evening for the benefit of
the Bennington City band.
While he was In the service, Mr.
Hurley made the personal acquaint.
ance Of the magician who was IN.
duced 10 come to Bennington for one
performance.
This master magician has appeared
in the leading theatres of the country
and has on every occasion delighted
large audiences He is the inventor
of nearly every act in his remarkable
repertoire, including the $4,000 mys'
terry, ASLEEP in Aidair."
The magician will be assisted by
Miss Ethel Russell, dainty singing
and dancing artistic and the enter
talnmenl should attract large at
tendance.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-10
soLsHEVlKl TAKE KAplsH
Russian Village Has Changed Hands
Six Times

Archangel Mar THE Bolshevi-
hi took advantage yesterday OF the
first clear day with the thermometer
above the freezing. point by attempt
ing 10 bomb the American positions
on tlie Vaga from an airplane. The
machine was the first one observed
to bear the now Red Army identifica-
tion mark, six-pointed red star. The
bombs fell without creating any dam
age.
Since the beginning of the cam.
paign last summer there has been
much confusion on both sides OF the
line because the Bolshevikist air.
planes bore the old Russian marking.
red white, and blue circle. This
was 80 similar to the marking on the
allied planes that it was hardly pos.
sible to distinguish the one from the
other, and the enemy machines were
sometimes able from this cause to fly
within revolver range of the allied
troops gunboats, aud armored trains,
while the allied planes were similarly
able thus TO approach the Bolsheviki
The general situation on the vaga
front was unchanged today. Late yes
terday the enemy renewed his bonn
bardment on the Dvins. There was
also considerable patrol activity.
On the railroad from the Bolshevik
yesterday afternoon twice begaI
shelling but were speedily silencet
by the allied guns.
The village of kadish, which ha,
changed hands six or seven times. il
again in the hands OF the BolsheviSi
The Americans found It useless [,
hold the almost destroyed village an,
withdrew to their old positions ut th,
bridge across the Emtsa River.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-10
REPUBLICAN HARMONY
Moore Wthdraws as Candidate for
Floor leader

Washington. March S-Thc can.
didacy for Republican floor leader of
Representative j. Hampton Moore of
Pennsylvania was withdrawn by him
yesterday in order to avoid any dis
sension in the majority controlled
by the forces behind James r. Mann
of Illinois, in the Republican Commit
tee on Committees. Further harmony
was promoted in the Republican
ranks by the selection of Gillett sup
porters to important committeeships.
thus decreasing the possibility that
the fight against the seniority rule
will be carried to the Republican eau.
Gus which must approve the select.
ions.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-10
GOVT. TO HAVE EXHIBIT
At State Fair In White River juno
ton Next Septemher

White River Junction. March IL
Secretary Fred l.. Davis of the Yer
mont State Fair association Is in re.
ceipt of information from the nation.
al department of agriculture. Wash
ngton. d. c. that It is the purpose
of the department to make an exhibit
ut the coming state fair in White
River Junction, Sept 912. The de.
parument asks for no less than TO-.
600 square feet for its proposed ex.
hibit and such an area will make a
big show in itself Secretary Davis
aud all officials are pleased because
OF the coming exhibit which will In.
clude many features OF American
farm life.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-10
oess VERDICT SUSTAINED
Supreme Court Rules on Its Con-
stitutIonallty,

Washington. March 10.-Supreme
court sustained the conviction of
Eugene v Debs. socialist leader.
found guilty of violating the espon-
iage act through statements In Can
ton, Ohio, speech last June and SEN
fenced ten years IN prisonment. The
court IN effect upheld the constitu-
tionality Of the enlistment section OF
the act az
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-10
FORMER EMPEROR RESPONSIBLE E
He Wished for The War and Conduct
ed Il Himself.

London, March lO.-There is no
doubt that the former German emper.
or was the first and responsible au.
thor of the war He absolutely
wished for It. and conducted II him
self In all it's ruthlessness and bar
barity" This statement is attribut.
ed to the Prince of Monaco by the
Mails Paris correspondent who inter
viewed the prince.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-10
INCOME TAX
PAYERS HAVE
A WARNING
To Persons Who Fail to File
Returns
SUBJECT TO PROSECUTION
Commissioner Roper Calls on Honest
Taxpayers to Aid In Round
Uo OF slackers
SUBJECT TO PROSECUTION

Washington, March 10.--A warning
has been issued by Internal Revenue
Commissioner Roper that persons
who fail to file income tax returns by
Saturday night will be subject to
prosecution. He called on honest
taxpayers to aid In the roundup ,of
slackers by reporting any infonna
tion that would assist In detection.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-10
NEW FLIGHT RECORD
From Dayton, ohio, TO Mineola, 654
Miles

New York March s. "A new Amer.
lean aviation record for distance and
for elapsed time in covering that dis
tance was established yesterday
when Major Reuben T. Fleet and
Capt Earl f. White of the United
States Army Air Service flew from
Dayton, Ohio, TO Hazelhurst Aviation
Field at Mineola l.. l., in four hours
and thirty.three minutes The dis
tance from Dayton to Mineola by di.
rect air route is $40 miles, but Major
Fleet and Captain White actually
flew 65a miles, as they were forced to
go more than 100 miles out of their
way because of fogs and storms
which they encountered soon after
the beginning of their flight
The flight was made at the rate oi
los miles an hour
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-10
NEW TOWN HALL


One of the articles III the warning
for the recent town meeting had for
It's purpose an investigation of the
probable costs OF a town hail. The
article called for the appointment of
committee and it was voted that
such committee be appointed by
the chair Moderator b. II Holden
at the time stated that he would
make the appointment announcement
through the columns of the Banner
and he has selected the following:
d. B. Keeler. and Fred G. Martin from
Bennington village, Charles Bretell
from Old Bennington, A. S. Payne
from North Bennington, Harrie G.
White from Bennington town
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-10
RIOT IN LONDON
Americans and Australians Start
Something.

London, March GA riot on the
Strand this afternoon in which Ameri.
can soldiers and sailors and some
Australians engaged resulted In three
or four of the Americans being in.
jured in a police baton charge Seven
Of the Americans were arrested.
An incorrect report that one of the
Americans injured had died in the
Bow street police station caused a
demonstration in front Of the station.
This was broken up by another baton
charge,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-10
NO GERMAN opsRAs
Theatre Management In New York
Cancels ARRANGEMENTS

New York, Mar, iO,--At the request
of the mayor and police commission.
or, who declared the projected per-
formances might provoke disorder.
the Lexington theatre management
today cancelled arrangements for the
season Of German operaa, the first Of
which was to be presented tonight, .t
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-10
MANY KILLED ANo WOUNDED
epartacans Drowned Several Stud.
ents and officers.

London, Sunday March 9.--Alany
were killed and wounded in the fight
ing at Halle, Germany, yesterday,
says a Copenhagen despatch The
Spafatacans drowned many students
aud officers and there was general
pillage. Government troops eyenttr'
ally gained mastery.