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The Washington herald., 1919-05-25
SEVEN BILLION
WILL BE ASKED
FROM CONGRESS
Railroad Appropriation Of
200, 100000 Heads
List Of Big Items.
TO SUPPLIES, 4 BILLION
Hines Budget Will Come in
For Thorough Investiga-
ton, Members Promise.

With Director General Hines asking
S.oo.ooe.Ooo for operation Of the rail-
roats. all appropriation records of
peacc-time Congresses will be broken
by the present session.
Besides the regular supply bills.
which will be close to A.000. 900. 600.
the railroads and other deficiencies
will push the total up above S7.O0O.-
c.00c, it is now estimated. Work on
the railroad appropriation. as well as
Chairman Kahn's billion dollar bill
for the pay and subsistence of the
army. will be taken up by the House
committees aext week. In addition.
deficiencies of 500. 900 900 for the War
Risk Insurance Bureau. Is. .oo0. 900 for
the Public Health Service, 5000, 90
for the Lighthouse Service: s400. COO
for the Postofice and $50. 900 for the
State Department have been asked
during the last week
viii Probe r. n. budget.
The request of Director General
Hines. which is s4Jo.Ooo.O go above the
amount asked of the last Congress.
will be thoroughly investigated by the
House appropriations committee. be-
ginning this week. Chairman Good an
nounced. The deficit of $50. .OOO. 90 for
the frst four months of this year.
with a deficit of SIS. IS. $40 for last
year. created much surprise in Con-
gress. While Hines indicates his
large request is for all expenses UP
to the close of 1919, when the Presi-
dent expects to return the roads, Ine
Director General states that even this
amount may not be sufficient, should
conditions change.
The estimate herewith does not at
tempt to forecast results beyonl the
first four months of this year." he
wrote the House.
900 to BE Returned.
Hines letter reveals that s441. .soa. AS
is needed to square up 1915 accounts
of the railroads. leaving S75s. .197 .56e for
1919 requirements. At the same time
CONTINUED on PAGE TWO.
The Washington herald., 1919-05-25
Evacuate City
After Blowing Up NUM-
ton Dumps-Esthonians
Aid Yudenitch's Corps
Kronstadt Shelled.

London. May 24.-Petrosad
has been captured from the Boz
shevists and is in flames, accord
ing to dispatches to the Psrs
Ebete and the London Daily
Mail.
Dispatches from Paris quoting
the Liberte. say the city was c.p-
tured by Gen. Yudenitch's Rus
sian corps of the white army.
aided by the Esthonian army. -
Muni6on Dumps Blown Up.
The Daily Mail information con.sss
from Helsingfors and reports the
Bolshevists destroying munftfo n
dumps, evidently in preparation for
evacuation OF the city. which al that
time was in the grip OF civil war.
CThe latter dispatch evidently had
been filed before that received by the
Liberte. possibly late Thursday or on
Friday)
The British also are reported to bs
hombarding the Kronstadt fortress.
one OF the main defenses of the city.
Lines Were Closing In.
The Esthonians apparently began
an encircling movement southwest OF
Petrogrsd which threatened TO cut
communications between that city
and Moscow.
The Bolsheylki. in an oficisl COM
muniIue wirelessed from Moscow, ad-
mitted that yesterday they were fght-
ing along the line OF feeling. Noro-
nino. Kilen. Alimisvetino and Ras-
kovo. These cities range from thirty
to forty-four miles from Petreerad.
Rumors are in circuls ton that the
inhs bitants Of the region around Pet
rograd have risen against the Bob
sheyikL = ~
sus-arIa-. Join Ft~et.
The British fleet in the ouN %
FINLAND, which already has fought
brief skirmishes with the Boishevfk
Baltic fleeI. sinking Ons vessel ard
driving another aground. 10 report
ed to have ben reinforced BY nve
submarines. which have arrived at
ReVal.
This is believed here to mean tbs
British ns,t is preparing a ina Do
attack on the BolsheVik naval
forces. as the sQusdrons co-operst-
ing with the Esthonian land forces
have consisted chiefly Of light cruis-
ers and gunbosts.
The Firms. driving upon Petro-
grad from the north, were last re-
ported to be making good progress.
They appear to be close behind the
Esthonians in the race to the former
Russian capital
Further to the north. Cen. May
nard. commander OF the British
forces on the Archangel front. has
moved his headquarters to KEN. 400
miles south Of ArchangeL
The BolsheViki claim 20 havs
CONTINUED on PAGE FIFTEEN
The Washington herald., 1919-05-25
Huns Heroic Feats
ConcededbyB British
Fighting Spirit of the
Men We Defeated
By PHILIP GIBBS

Copyright, 1910, Mcclure Newspaper Syndcate)
Nothing angered British the Western front than
about the cowadc of German soldiers and their
degenerate types The suggestion that the fe
strongly early days of
part campaign of propaganda and judge
articles served the public might have imagined that the
British and French fighting baons Of shaking old
undezd who ready Kamerad the first
sight of troops
Trained Army Earth
Our officers indignant For the Lords sake of them
TRY get the heads Of people
up against rabbits Tell the
German only the best trained and best disciplined in the
world but soldiers full of pluck and take lot of
beating"
The Washington herald., 1919-05-25
Senate Line-Up
That Threatens
Wilson's Hopes
No chancel

No chance!
Enemies of the league
of nations are in absolute
control Of the Foreign
Relations Committee of
the Senate.
The Republicans have
packed the committee
with irreyocable opponents
of the Wilson plan. The
new lineup is:
Asainst-Lodse. Knox.
Brandegee. Borah, Fall.
Johnson. Harding. New
and Moses.
For-Hitchcock, Pit
man. Williams, Pomerene.
Smith. Swanson and
Shields.
The Washington herald., 1919-05-25

buds and blue forget-me-nots
hidden away at the belt. adding
just that bit of girlishness that
makes the gown so suitable for
Miss Graduate.
If the gown is to be used as
a graduate dress, the bit of
color may be. removed and put
The Washington herald., 1919-05-25
CAPTURED
BY WHITE ARMY, AFRE;; :
BRITISH BOMBARD FORT
Polish Hostility to Ukrain-
ians Threatens to Plunge
Eutope Into New War.
Danzig May Be Seized.
Army Has Good Nucleus.

Paris, May 24.-Dark clouds are
arising over Eastern Europe.
This is caused by the hotsiIe at
titude of the Poles toward the
Ukrainians.
The Poles have already taken
two towns in the Ukraine and
crossed the Dneister at Zom. All
indications to a systematic plan for
the conquest Of the Ukraine.
Danzig as Objective.
With the Ukraine conquered, the
Poles. in pursuance OF their program
for extending their national boundar-
les. are very likely to turn their at
tention northward to Danzig and take
possession OF that gateway to the
Baltic. in defiance Of the wishes Of
the peace conference. The forces at
their command are fully adequate for
this purpose
Gen. Haller's command. which came
10 them from France with full equip
ment. has been used as the nucleus
for a strong national army. The
Polish legions have had easy work
overcoming the comparatively un-
trained and poorly equipped forces OF
the Ckrainians.
Allies See Grent Peril.
1t Is stated that Ignace Pad
erewski. the Polish premier. has
said. unoficially. "Our war is a ma
tional war" but the allies are not
of the same opinion and see great
danger in the aggressions OF the
fIedgeling nation
Some definite action to stabilize
the situatioa will be tsIcea-ss soon
as Paderewski returns to Paria A
note which President wiIssn has
been preparing will be mad. public
then.
Tire allies have decided tsst rhey
cannot tolerate a situspcn which
threatens to plunge Europe into an
other war.
The Russisn situation also is
growing serious.
While Admiral KoIchak is fighting
the RoIsheyists the hir fpur az.
trying to decide whether it is ad-
visa:le TO tender full recognition TO
the Kolchak government No de-
cis'or Las been arrived at
France is quite favorable to
recognition. Great Britain is in
clined to the same view and recog-
milton is being seriously considered
in American circles which have
hitherto been opposed to the sug-
eestion.
The Washington herald., 1919-05-25
Bolshevik Fleet Bombed.

London. May A.-A dispatch from
the Baku correspondent of the Daily
Mail reported today that British air.
men bombed a Bolshevik feet in the
Caspian Sea. consisting OF ten de-
stroyers and two submarines. and
made several direct hits
The Washington herald., 1919-05-25
u. S. TRUE TO IDEAL,
SAYS DIR. GRELLWG

both refused TO admit the response,
hility of. Germany
These men have aot Learned sry.
thing" declared GreNing. Such
declarations are false AID have lit
tie weight Germany made . war
to conquer more territory. The old
regime had long prepared it- The
people believed Il was a war Of de,
fense. because they were lied to.
All this has been proved
Praise for America.
Regarding the provisions OF the
treaty. GreIling said: g.
America does not take anything.
she remains true to her ideal pro-
gram. though Wilson had to accept a
few compromises.
England takes possession OF the
German colonies. Germany will have
TO bear this loss.
AS TO France, she eets back A.
sace-Lorraine. which is Just, and sh.
will occupy and make use Of the sssr
basin for fifteen years. This. too. "a
just. because our troops willingly
caused terrible destruction IN occu-
pied France merely to nd our coun-
try OF serious industrial competi-
ton
Powerful. Army OIIgarchy,
In discussing the situation an Ger.
many. Grelling made the following
statement:
"a kind OF omnipotent military
oligarchy is being formed. IL is more
powerful than the scheidemsnn gov
ernment, which only remains an Of
flee with the support Of the military
caste and mercensTy troops. The
army created by the Scheidemsnn
government is well disciplined, well
fed and well paid. The officers GET
fantastic pay and can do what they
like with their men.
The government can no longer act
as il chooses. II would be impossible
for the government to do anything
against the will OF the generals, who
tolerate the present ministers for lack
OF more suitable ones.
The situation in Germany is devel-.
oping in a dangerous way.
THE military caste is not YET
thinking Of the restoration of thGr
monarchy. but who can say Whist wtH
happen IL 1t persereres in this
~ y
The Washington herald., 1919-05-25

CONTINUED on PAGE FIFTEEN.
The Washington herald., 1919-05-25

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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-12-27
PROPOSED PARK
INCLUDED IN SALE
Parker Young Co Acquires Deerield
Pulp Co. Property-Not Known
How Sale Affects Project.

The 10000 acres of timberland,
largely cut over, which recently was
surveyed for the owners by Fred Cres-
sy of Brattleboro and f. s. Meigs of
Montpelier with the idea of determin-
ing whether the land could be convert
ed into fish and game preserve to
good advantage, is included in the pur-
chase of the Deerfeld Pulp Co. IS prop
erty by the Parker Young Co. of Bos-
ton. Whether the purchase will change
the status of the project is not known
here.
Martin A. Brown of Wilmington and
Boston is manager and treasurer of the
Parker Young Co., who do an extensive
business in manufactured lumber and
in making piano sounding boards.
The purchase includes the sulphate
pulp mill, sawmill and other property
at Mountain Mills in Wilmington and
timberlands in Wilmington, Somerset
and other towns The price paid is said
to be close to $l,000,00O.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-12-27
WILL ACCEPT
REVISED LIST
Secretary Daniels Ready TO Yield 70
Naval oficers' Protest Against
Demonstrations

WASHINGTON, Dec. 81. - The re-
vised report on naval decorations to be
made by the knight board, after sur
vey of all the facts. probably viii be
accepted, Secretary Daniels said today.
The secretary added that he either
would forward the report to the Pres
ident or act for the President in ae.
cepting it.
Mr. Daniels disclosed that he had
received letters from Admiral Henry h.
Wilson, commander of the Atlantic
fleet and formerly commander at Brest.
and Rear Admiral Henry P. Mayo, who
commanded the Atlantic feet during
the war, supporting the position taken
by Rear Admiral Sims and other Of
feers with regard to the decoration.
The letters called attention to what
the officers described as certain in
equalities in the published list and rec
commended that review Of particular
cases be made.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-12-27
GREAT ACTIVITY
IN BUILDING TRADE
Figures for This Year Surpass All Rec
ords-New England Shows
Great Growth.

BOSTON, Dec. 27.-In the great in
dustrial area of the United States, con-
tracts placed for building construction
and engineering works up to Nov. 80
of this year show more than $2,332,-
100000, or $700,000,000 more than the
figure for 19ls-the previous high year.
This covers the entire district north of
the Ohio river and east of the Mis-
souri, with a population estimated at
65,575,0 900 in 1919. This is $3.50 per
capita. The average figure for the first
II months in the nine years from 1910
to 1918, inclusive, is only $1,0o3, ,000,-
900; while the figure for the entire Il
months over that periad of nine years
averaged $1,070,000,000.
Corresponding figures covering the
New England district show building
volume of more than $200.000,0o0 dur
ing the II months ending Nov 80. The
figures for this year ($2S.l2 per eapi-
ta) are higher than for the correspond
ing period of any previous year and
are far more than the average of the
last nine years. The highest previous
years were 1916 and 1917. with 1894
100000 and $l93, 100000, respectively
while 1918 showed only $l42,615. .00O
and the average of nine years, 1910 to
1918, provided $l67 100000 of building
contracts.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-12-27
TWO MORE OFFICIALS
REFUSE MEDALS
Vice Admiral Jones and Captain Has
Brouck Follow Sims Example
Daniels Is Caring

NEWPORT. Dec. q. - Word that
Vice Admiral Hillary H. Jones and
Capt. Raymond ID. Hasbrouck had fol-
lowed the example of Admiral Sims in
declining to accept decorations award
ed them in the recently published navy
list, was received in naval circles here
last night.
According to the information re.
ceived here, Vice Admiral Jones, who
commands the first division of the At
lantic fleet, has written to Secretary
Daniels declining the award of the
distinguished service medal and pro
ject, How Christ Helps hLen.
testing against certain awards to mem.
bers of the force in his command dur
ing the war. His principal war com
mands were those of the first squadron
Of the patril fleet and of the Newpor,
News division of the cruiser and trans
port force.
Captain Hasbrouck, now in command
of the battleship Minnesota, is under
stood to have asked Secretary Daniels
to remove his name from the list oi
awards of the navy cross. He. formerly
commanded transport which wn;
sunk by q German torpedo.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-12-27
INDUSTRY SEEKS LOCATION.
Greenfield Hopes to Land the Woods
Methods Corporation.

GREENFIELD. Mass, Dec. q. =
The Woods Methods corporation.
formed to handle new process of
treating steel. invented by f D.
Woods, formerly of Turner's Falls, is
seeking a favorable site for locating n
factory, and it is hoped that the COM
pany will select Greenfield John L.
Eppler of Greenfield is secretary and
assistant treasurer of the company.
1t is planned to make axes by a
new method of Eliminating together
pieces of scrap steel, electrically
welded and forged into the proper
shape. It is claimed that by the new
process axes can be produced at half
the present cost. The corporation has
exclusive right to make other inven-
tions of Mr.. Woods.
1t is planned to increase the capi-
tai stock from $4,000 to 100000 and
to erect steel plant of SO tons day
capacity. 1t is the plan of the COM
pany to introduce the brotherhood plan
of factory cooperation.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-12-27
End Comes to Veteran of
Civil War in Union
Station
HAD VISITED HERE
OVER CHRISTMAS
Was Ready to Start Home When
Stricken - Albert Cobb Has Attack
of Apoplexy in Marsh Building
While Reading Christmas Cards.

Two sudden deaths from natural
causes but under unusual conditions oc-
CURED in Brattleboro yesterday, Mar
Gus Aldrich of Winchendon, Mass, dy-
ing of heart disease in the union rail-
road station and Albert Cobb, parole
patient at the Retreat, succumbing to
apoplexy in the Marsh building.
Mr.. Aldrich, who would have been
so years old next February, was Civil
war veteran and lived with his. niece,
Miss Mabel Haywood, in Winehendon.
He came to Brattleboro to visit over
Sunday in the home of his nephew, II.
H. Russell of 10 Myrtle street, former
ly a paper manufacturer in Hinsdale.
and Yesterday afternoon he went to the
station to board a train for home, in
tending to go north as far as Bellows
Falls.
He went to the railroad platform and
then climbed the stairs to the waiting
room, where he sat down on one of the
benches near the telephone booth with
out telling anyone that he did not feel
| well. Shortly afterwards employees at
the station saw him lean backward and
gasp, and they sent for DR.. Z. b.
Lynch, but death ensued in few min
utes.
The body was taken to Moran &
Continued on Page g.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-12-27
WILL ASK FOR
CROWN PRINCE
Allies Want Germany to
Surrender Him for Grim
inal Trial
NO FURTHER ACTION
ON FORMER KAISER
Full List of Germans to Be Surrendered
Has Been Decided On - Former
Crown Prince Will Be Charged With
Looting and Robbery In France.

LONDON, Dec 27.-Frederiek William,
the former German crown prince. will be
included in the list of persons whose sur
render for trial is demanded by the
French, according to an unofficial report
OF meeting between British law officials
and Edouard Ignace, French under secre-
tary for military justice. The -x-crown
prince, it is said, will be charged with
criminal oifenses including looting and
robbery with violence committed in
France.
There appears to have been no further
decision reached at the conference with
regard to the case of Former Emperor
William A full list of the men whose
surrender Will be demanded has been
completed, it was stated. and the steps
which are to be taken to insure their
surrender have been decided upon.
One or two questions still outstanding
will be submitted to Premiers Lloyd
George and Clemenceau when they meet
in Paris neXe month.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-12-27
27 Deaths in New York.

NEW YORK, Dee. 27.-Twenty-sev-
en- deaths from drinking wood alcohol
and several cases Of poisoning occurred
in Manhattan between Nov. / and Dec.
20, according to official figures made
public by Chief Medical Examiner
Charles Norris. DR. Norris declared
that, in his opinion these figures did
not nearly represent the full toll in
death and sickness due to taking the
poison as a beverage as he believed
that many deaths and illnesses report
ed as due to apoplexv, spinal trouble
and other causes We're really caused by
drinking wood alcohol concoetions
The official figures show that only
five deaths from drinking wood alec
hol We're reported in Manhattan for
the year 1918 and only four in Brook
lyn for Is months prior to July L. DR.
Norris said that two ounces Of ordinary
wood alcohol Were frequently sufficient
to cause death and that, taken on an
empty stomach, less might produce
blindness or even prove fatal.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-12-27
ORDER TO PROTECT
SPAWNING BEDS
Ice Cutters on Marlboro South Pond
Must Not Cut in Coves and Shall
low Waters Hereafter.

County Fish and Game Warden f. Fl.
Metcalf has just received the following
notice from State Fish and Game Com
missioner Linus Leayens, which he will
post at Marlboro south pond:
by authority of Section 635l of the
General Laws of Vermont, notice is given
that the spawning beds of trout and other
protected fish, located in the coves and
shallow waters of Marlboro south pond in
Marlboro, Vermont, shall not be inter
fered with by ice-cutting operations of
the general public"
The rason for posting this notice is
that persons cutting ice on the pond take
it from the shallow water, which inter.
fers Will. the spawning beds. Hereafter
they will be required to cut where the
water is deeper, if at all
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-12-27
MISSING MAN IN
BROOKLYN HOSPITAL
DR.. Vermilye Gives No Ex-
planatiOn Why He Did
Not Go to Wedding
MISS KEENEY HAS
GONE TO SEE HIM
Hopes to Secure an Explanation-Hos-
pital Authorities Instructed to Give
No Information Police Hear He
Has Undergone Operation.

NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-The reasons
why DR.. William g. Vermilye, for
mer naval surgeon failed to appear for
his wedding with Miss Ruth NJ. Keen
ey of Monson, Mass, on Christmas day,
were still mystery today. At the hos
pital in Brooklyn where DR.. Vermilye
is a patient he had given orders that
no information was to be given out
about him and that he would see no
one but intimate friends.
Hospital authorities admitted that
DR.. Vermilye entered the hospital on
Christmas morning, but declined to
comment on his condition. The police
were informed last night that the doe
tor had undergone a slight operation
but said that they, too, were pledged to
secrecy.
DR.. Vermilye refused fatty today to
discuss the case in any way.
DR. Eermilye walked into the hos
pital at 5 O'Clock Thursday evening
and stated that he was in need of an
operation supt W. F. Jacobs said
" We asked him for his name and ht
gave it to US in full. We requested
an address and he said that he hat
none, as he had just been released from
government service. We then sent hin
TO one of our rooms. After an exam
ination we found that he needed tn,
operation. He is not in a serious con
ton and has not yet been operated on
When he will b. | cannot say.
Superintendent Jacobs declared tina
he knew nothing of DIR. Vermilye's s con
neetion with the Monson case until h
read last nights papers. ~ spoke t
him about it after l had read the pa
pers, DR.. Jacobs said, "and he ad
mitted that he was the man, but he dit
not care to go into the details of tn
case aud declined to make any explana
ton -
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-12-27
WORKING TO HASTEN TREATY.
Groups of Senators Seeking During
Holidays to Bring Ratification Nearer

WASHINGTON, Dec 27-Groups of
senators who remained here over the
holidays and who favor a quick COM
promise on the peace treaty were at
work yesterday urging more vigorous
efforts toward agreement.
Some of the mild reservation Repubh-
cans, anxious that a concrete conciia-
tion plan be ready for submission to
the senate when it reassembles in Jan
uary, renewed pleas to Republican lead
ers that negotiations should not be per-
mitted TO lag during the holidays
Among the Democrats there also was
much compromise talk, but the general
feeling on both sides was that all that
could be accomplished before congress
reconvenes would be to lay the founda
tion for bringing the question to a
quick solution when congress recon
venes