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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-26
ANTT-SUFFR4GE SIDE
FULL OF CONFIDENCE
Claim That They Have Votes Enough
TO Defeat Ratification by
Delaware.

Dover, Del. March 26.-Plans foI
disposal of resolutions to ratify the
women suffrage constitutional amend.
ment were uncertain when the Della.
ware legislature reconvened to-day
The struggle of suffrage workers and
antagonists had reached climax, with
the time for voting and the result of
both houses in doubt.
Overnight gains in strength were
claimed by the suifragists, but conf
dence of the opposition was indicated
in plans of Representative McNabb,
Democratic leader in the House, TO
call up the ratification resolution i'm
mediately. Suffrage forces were pre-
pared to filibuster against a vote.
Developments in the Senate were
equally dubious, suffrsgists and oppo-
nents both claiming a majority.
With the fight at high heat and ad-
iournment planned tonight until Mon
day, vote in either House before
next week was doubtful
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-26
MRS. SARAH SCOTT
Died After Relapse Brought on BY At
tending to Other Sick Ones.

Mrs. Sarah Scott. aged 81 years, died
last night at $3.50 at her home in lower
Graniteville of pneumonia, which re-
suited from an attack of influenza.
After her first illness with the latter
disease. she was able to be about and
assisted her neighbors who were in,
this bringing on relapse and the fa-
tai attack Of pneumonia
Mrs. Scott was born in Ireland and
came to the United States at the age
Of Ia, living in Graniteville for the
past "a years. Her husband, James
Scott, died there Is years ago.
She is survived by six children,
James Scott of Barre City, Patrick
Scott, William Scott, Mrs. George Nc
Leod. Mrs. Robert Lynch and Miss
Catherine Scott, AL of Graniteville.
and a sister, Mrs. Thomas White of
Capelton, p. Q.
The funeral will be held from st.
Sylvester's church Saturday morning
at O'Clock.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-26
GERMAN REDS LEADER
ONCE 4 "NON-COM'
Sergeant Major Weber Exemplifies
Saying That Every Corporal Car
ries in His Knapsack the
Baton of Marshal

Washington, D. G., March 26.-Na.
opleon's statement that every corporal
carries in his knacxsack the baton of q
marshal, has been partially exemplified
in Sergeant Major Weber, leader OF
the spartacist forces in the Ruhr val
ley, estimated to number 10000 men,
During the war, Weber, according TO
reports received here, was non-com
missioned officer. attached to General
Ludendorff's staff at German general
headquarters. When not engaged in
running errands. Weber. the reports
state, listened to the discussions of
military strategy by the headquarters
officers. On one occasion Weber is said
in these reports to have overheard
General Ludendorff quote Napoleon's
famous dictum, and to-day the former
non commissioned officer carries the
"baton" of the German red army.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-26
CAN RAID ON SIGHT,
SAYS COMMISSIONER
When an Officer Suspects Person of
Transporting Liquor He Has
Right to Search.

New York, March I'd The peril of
carrying ones liquor about in over
night bags or suitcases has been en-
HANGED in Brooklyn by a ruling of
United States Commissioner Mctool-
drick that such containers may be
searched on sight by official enforcers
of the dry" act
overruling contentious of attorneys
that their clients rights had been vio-
lated by search of his suitcase, Com
missioner McGoldrick held Robert
Walsh, of Kings Park, for action by
the federal grand jury.
81 believe that when an officer sus-
poets a person is carrying liquor in
package or bag he has the right to
search the package or bag, and does
not need search warrant to do it,
the commissioner said, II don't be-
lieve the recent federal ruling against
raiding without search warrants applies
here"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-26
CLAIMED SERIOUS ILLNESS
As Result of Tripping Over Telephone
Co.'S Rope in Montpelier.

The trial of the case of Catherine
Holleran VS.. the New England Tele-
phone & Telegraph company com
menced in Washington county court
this morning. The first thing was to
show the jury the spot where the ac-
cident took place, near the head of
State street in Montpelier, last summed
when workmen were repairing the q
bic in the conduit and when, it
claimed, the plaintiff fell over vi
rope. She sues for $4,000.
Efforts to settle the case have
without avail Mrs. Holeran was
first witness and told of heart tro,
that developed and of other pains
she has suffered since the accident
her general health conditions. Exp,
are expected to testify in the case.
The jury is composed Of G.. A. Ada
L. b. Dodge, Arthur Averill, @,
George. W. G.. Andrews, w. J. BsS
elder. NJ. J. Long, c. ". Andrews, G
Bouldry. A. II. Bartlett, +. NJ. Ken
and j. r Nye.
The jury took the case in the 81,
jacques vs.. Camp in county court
evening and shortly returned v
for the defendant TO recover his
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-26
CANADIAN VETERANS
WANT $1,000 BONUS
Call Upon Canadian Parliament to
Take Immediate Action Look
ing to Payment

Montreal. March 26.-Canadian ex-
service men want bonus from the
government ranging from a minimum
of 81 900 TO a maximum of $500, ac-
cording to resolutions adopted last
night at the annual convention Of the
Great War Veterans Association of
Canada.
The resolutions call upon Parlia-
ment to take immediate action be
cause of the serious difficulties con
fronting the soldiers in their efforts
to re-establiSh themselves. The sol
diers also ask that dependents or ben
eficiaries of men killed receive lump
sum equal to the amount the soldier
would have received up to the signing
of the armistice.
Dominion Secretary Treasurer Mac
Neil informed the delegates that the
proposed bonus would cost the govern
ment S2l5.OO0,Oc0 He said the pres
ent government had declared itself
against an indiscriminate cash bonus.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-26
WANTED IN FIVE STATES
FOR FALSE PRETENSE
John H. Ryan, Jr., Arrested as He
Stepped Out of Worcester. Mass,
House of Correction.

Worcester, Mass, March 26.-Johr
H. Ryan, jr., of New London, who is
wanted by the police of five states for
obtaining money under false pretense,
was arrested to-day as he stepped from
the Worcester house of correction,
where he had completed two months
sentence imposed on him in Fitchburg.
The arresting officer had five war
rants for him from as many cities and
the Worcester police decided to turn
him over TO the Hartford authorities,
as he is wanted by them on two differ
ent charges. Ryan came to the Worees-
ter house of correction from the Law
renee house of correction.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-26
TALK OF THE tow

Clyde Lawliss. a census taker vi
ing from the local Office, returned
terdsy from a trip that included ter
tory in Island Pond. East Hsveh
Maidstone and Ferdinand.
Robert Gordon Of Orange street. for
33 years a resident Of this city and for
the past 2l years financial secretary
Of Clan Gordon, No. II. o. s. C.. leaves
tonight for Lynn. Mass. where he
expects TO find employment and 10
which city he Is contemplating moving
his family soon
The last examination for the school
term az Goddard seminary was given
st 10 o'clock this morning and sessions
suspended with il for the Easter vaea-
tion Of a school week, school reopening
on Tuesday morning, April 6. Since
yesterday morning q number Of stu
dents left with each train for their
homes. Graded schools and Spaulding
high schocl also closed to-day for tie
seasons vacation but for a two-wesk
period. reoPening Monday morninz,
April y.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-26
BANGOR, ME-, LARGER.
Population Increased 81 Per Cent in
Ten Years.

Washington. d. C.. March 26.-Popu.
lation statistics for 1920 announced
to-day By the census bureau. inelude
Bangor. Ne. 25eiS, increase las
OF az per cent.
Elgin. Ill. p .43l, an increase Of L.
SIS. o. SO per cent over 1910.
Saratoga Springs. y. Y l3,lsl. in
crease As. OF IS per cent.
Andersou. :. G.. lass. increase Of
81. or 3ls pr cent
Mource. Ia. 1865. increase 2.i66.
~ pa pr cent.
Co,umhus. Neb- 5,4lO. increase SOS,
g - per cent.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-26
ONE CAR WRECKED,
ANOTHER DERAILED
Freight Accident on Central Vermont
at Bethel Occurred When Truck
Climbed Frog.

Bethel, March 26.--About half past
three yesterday afternoon, two cars
near the middle of Central Vermont
freight train No. 420, southbound, left
the rails when the left forward truck
of loaded box car climbed frog at
the junction of the Bethel Granite rail
way with the main line of the Central
Vermont, about a quarter of a mile
south Of this station.
The train, in charge of Conductor F,
l.. Tatro, was moving very slowly, as
the engine was about to take ON water.
This averted much worse break than
that which occurred, The box car
pulled off the iron thesnext car, an
empty tank car returning from the
Barre Gas company.
When the train stopped, the box car
had been torn from its trucks, which
were left on both sides of the track
and the car itself was wrecked and
partly overturned. The tank car was
intact, but its trucks had plowed into
the road bed aim most as much as those
ing diagonally across the track, which
was torn UP for about six rail lengths
and about 80 ties.
The wrecked car contained l,26l cans
of condensed milk, billed from Rich
mond to about 20 different cities in
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine and
New Hampshire. The weight of the car
go was about 6l,000 pounds. This had
to be transferred to another car. 1t
was noLapparently damaged.
Although the break occurred on the
main line, traffic was not retarded seri-
ously, the siding being used instead.
One of the freight trucks was left so
near the siding that it was deemed nee
essary to jack the side track six inches
outward, so that the steps of the pas
senger train, due about $50, would
not collide with it. All the local Sec
tion men and some men additional,
including day operator H. N. Senay,
worked with bars on this part of the
big task Of returning normal condi-
tions. A wrecking train was called
from st. Albans and arrived before
midnight.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-26
.SCHOc 4LEADERS
!ySsPAULDING
l4Tc Honor Won by Miss
Lucy Rose Lucchina; Sec
ond, Floyd A. Mitchell
Sd, LENA A. VALLI;
4TH, ALDO C. POLETTI
General Standing Of Class
Is High, s Others Hav-
ing 80 Per Cent or Over

Announcement of the 1920 commence
ment honors was made at Spaulding
high school by Principal Lyman Hunt
this noon, the closing day of the win
ter term of the school. The first hon
or and the right to deliver the valedic-
tory go to Miss Lucy Rose Lucchina,
whose average for the four years is
94.07. The next three members of the
class in point of scholarship are within
one-third of one per cent of each other,
and the leadership of that group goes
to Floyd Allen Mitchell, whose average
is 92.73. Next Is Miss Lena Albina
Valli, with 02.47; and fourth is Aldo
Charles Poletti, with 92.39.
That the scholastic standing of the
class is high is shown by the fact that
eight Others maintained 30 or over
during their courses, the eight being
Carroll Clayton Tucker, Lucy Irene
Wells, Orlo Rowland Spear, Harold
John Blackmore, Ralph Weir Daffine,
Mary Rennie Geals, Peter Pironi and
Ada Trentini There are about 50
members in the class. One of the
number, Floyd Mitchell, the winner of
second honor, is preparing to enter the
West Point Military academy on the
completion of his course.
After a two weeks vacation the
school will resume for the spring term
and the final preparations for COM
meneement. The dates for the chief
events in connection with commence
ment have been fixed as follows: Prize
speaking. Tuesday, june s; commence
ment ball, Wednesday, June O.; class
day. Thursday, June 10; commence
ment banquet, Thursday, June 10;
graduation exercises, Friday, June H.
Speakers for prize speaking were
announced by Principal Hunt to-day
as follows Mary NJ. Milne, Mildred l.,
Lander. Lillian NJ. Papin, Hester B.
Dwinell. Wayne H. Perry, Dino Valz.
Lloyd f. Eisenwinter and Lawrence II.
Seaver.
Assignment of parts for the class
day program, also announced to-day,
are: Address of welcome, Aldo Charles
class history, Helen Sanborn
Roscoe; class will, Lucy Irene Wells;
music: essay, Lena Albins Valli; class
prophecy, Ralph Weir Dafiine; class
ode, Corinne Eastman: presentation to
school, Mary Rennie Geals; address to
class, Carroll Clayton
Tucker; music.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-26
MERRIM4CK RIVER
Is RISING FAST
Came Up Three Feet in "a Hours at
Lowell, Mass, and Is Raging
Torrent.

Lowell, Mass, March 26.-With all
the Pawtucket dam fashboards torn
away by drifting ice, the Merrimack
river has been transformed into rag
ing torrent here during the past "a
hours. An actual rise of three feet
was measured between $3.50 a. m. yes
terday and the same time to-day The
canals will not be drained off over the
week end, as is the custom, in order
that all the surplus water possible
may be cared for.
The Concord river has spread out
over considerable low land within and
nearby the city, cellars of manufactur-
ing plants on its banks being flooded
to depth of six feet.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-26
KIDNAPPER
LOST HIS NERVE
Left Boy in Hotel Room
and Boy 'Phoned to
His Mother
RANSOM" PACKAGE
WAS NOT TAKEN
Man Who Brought Boy to
Hotel Registered as "E.
c. Cox, Cincinnati"

| Lexington, Ky, March 26--Paul Lit
tie, l2-year-old son Of L. R. Little
Lexington capitalist, who has been held
for ransom by kidnapers, was found
this morning locked in a room at a
local hotel
| Mr.. and Mrs. Little first learned the
whereabouts OF their son when he tel
ephoned his home from the hotel room,
He said he had been kept prisoner
there since Wednesday night.
Investigation disclosed that the room
had been reserved in advance by man
registered as Z. G. Cox of Cincinnati.
The frantic parents, overjoyed at the
news of their boys safety, hurried to
the hotel and took him home.
The boy disappeared Wednesday aft
ernoon from in front of the Lexington
postofiiee, where he had been seen in
conversation with a man. Playmates
said the Little boy had told them he
was to be given dollar to deliver a
box of candy. Soon afterward the ia
ther received note stating that his
son, Paul, was being held for ransom.
Little intimated that the amount asked
was So, 200. Last night, Little deposit
ed package containing the ransom
money in Main street garbage can.
When he returned half hour later,
the package had not been removed
Believing the kidnaper failed to show
up for fear of being "double-crossed," :"
Little pocketed the money and went
home, intending to-day to seek other
means of obtaining the boy.
AT o'clock this morning the key for
the room in which the boy was found
was turned in at the hotel desk. At
7:l5 Mrs. Little, called to the tele-
phone, was oyerioyed to hear the voice
of her missing son. Nothing has been
seen of the "Mr. Cox" since he left the
hotel at o'clock.
katherie Sartain, maid on the sixth
floor of the hotel, said she had not
been able to get into the room occu-
pied by Cox for two days, or ever since
the boy was kidnapped. She gave
description Of the man. County De-
tectwe l.. J. Roy, who thinks the kid
mapping plot was concocted in Cincin-
natl, said he expected an arrest at any
time.
Weak from his narrowing experience,
though physically unhnrt, the boy was
put to bed soon after being brought
home.
During his two days confinement,
he said, he had been given only two
bananas, a cake and an apple to eat,
and was constantly terrified by grue-
some stories related by his eaptor who
many times showed a pistol in his
face.
lie said he spent the first night sit
ting on the edge of the bsthtub, afraid
to sleep.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-26
Sub Committees Worked in
Boston To-day on Cut
ters' Wage Scale
THEY WILL REPORT
THIS AFTERNOON
Main Committees Contin-
ued Discussion Till
Last Evening

Messages from the granite cutters
wage conference in Boston to-day in.
dicated that the progress thus far had
been more or less along preliminary
lines, there being the necessary work
of organizing the conference before
getting down to the fundamental
points at issue Representatives of
the Monumental Granite Producers as
sociation and of the Granite Cutters
international association met and or
ganized by electing s. Hollister jack
son of Barre as chairman and Alex. w.
Russell of Quincy, Mass, of the granite
cutters, as secretary.
Then ensued the presentation of the
request of the cutters for wages of 81
an hour to take the place of the scale
Incorporated in the present agreement,
which provides for S640 a day begin
ming April !, 1920, and $3.50 a day on
April |, 1921. James Duncan, for the
granite cutters, presented the argu-
ment for the support of the demand,
referring in some detail to the high
cost of living and, in fact, using That
as his basic argument. After the sit
uation had been discussed at some
length, the main conference adjourned
last night after delegating further ne
gotiation to sub b-committees, with in
structions to those committees to re-
port at 2 O'Clock this afternoon.
The subcommittee chosen to con-
tinue the negotiations were made up
as follows: For the cutters, James
Duncan, Alex. w. Russell of Quincy,
Mass, and Henry Alexander of Barre;
for the producers, George Straiton of
Barre, Thomas Bishop of Quincy, Mass,
and Herbert c. Fletcher of West
Chelmsford, Mass
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-26
BACK IN VERMONT.
George R. Batten, Who Is Charged with
Defrauding Vermont Farmers.

Rutland, March 26.-George r. Bat
ten. alias Henry Anderson and George
Brown, charged by federal authorities
with wholesale defrauding of farmers
in Vermont by improper Use of the
mails, was delivered to the United
States marshals Office in this city yes
terday, having been arrested at George
town, XIV, March 23 on the authority
of Marshal II. NJ. Cox of Covington,
who had been notified that the Yer
mont court held an indictment for Bat
ten.
The man was brought to Rutland by
Deputy Marshal Oscar Vest. He was
admitted to 5000 bail by the Ken
tucky officials.
Operating at Bellows Falls last De-
cember, Batten. it is alleged, advertised
that he wanted to buy farm produce
at attractive prices. When he OBJ
tanned some consignments he immedi-
stely shipped them out of the state,
Sending by mail in payment checks
which were worthless. BY the time
the checks had appeared at the banks
on which they were drawn he had dis
appeared.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-26
THE SITUATION IS
SAID TO BE GRAD
UALLY CLEARING
Communists Headquarters
at Lipperdorf Brought
Under Fire and Were
Partially De strOy ed
Reds Forced Back by a
Double Flank Attack by
81
Government Troops.

Berlin, March 26.--Wesel, the be
sieged fortress northwest of the Ruhi
coal basin, was still holding out to-
day against the revolutionary work
ingmen, according to Freheit.
The situation in the Ruhr industrial
region gradually is clearing, the news
paper says.
Buderich, Rhenish Prussia, March 2j
fBy the Associated Press Ebert gov
ernment troops still held Wesel, across
the Rhine north of this city at o'clock
this afternoon, Fighting which had
been in progress during the day was
seemingly dying away at that hour,
although Wesel was under fire from
artillery in the hands of the workers
army, the troops had succeeded in re-
pelling all infantry attacks.
To-day's battle opened during the
forenoon when government troops at
tackled the workers forces which had
advanced to within a few hundred
wards of the Wesel brideghead. Nov
ing rapidly to the onslaught, the regu-
lars drove the reds south across the
Lippe river and southeast out of Mppe
Schloss.
In the meantime government artil-
lery opened fire on the workers head
quarters at Lippedorff and partially
destroyed them. Working southwark
from Lippe Schloss and eastward from
Lippedorlf, the regulars began dou-
BILE flank attack which swept. the reds
back. they being forced to retreat un-
der heavy artillery and machine gun
fire. An armored train pushed along
toward the bridge across the Lippe
river. about 3h miles from Wesel and
kept up a steady fire on the workers.
Many shells fired by the workers ar
tllery flew wild during this struggle.
One of them struck at the gate of Fort
Bluecher on the Belgian bank of the
Rhine, and then ricocheted, bursting
harmlcssly.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-26
DEMAND TROOP WITHDRAWAL.
Labor Representatives, Decide Not to
Abandon Struggle Till Then.

Amsterdam, March 26.-Decision not
to abandon the struggle in the Ruhr
district of Germany was reached at a
meeting Of representatives of labor
councils Of the Rhineland and West
phalis az Essen last night. The only
condition under which the workers will
consent TO peace is the withdrawal Of
government forces from the Muenster
military district, says a dispatch re-
ceived here.
Until these forces retire. armed
r-orkers will undertake to maintain
public order in the district.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-26
BELvIDERE VOTED YES
Making I37 Yes Towns in Vermont
Vote: Yes, 1861; No. II,sos.

The last town in Vermont 20 report
on its license vote is Belvidere, where
the toWn meeting occurred Tuesday,
March p. The town veted YES By II
20 6. and yes on the druggist license
Der of yes towns IN the state this year
is7. whil- the total vote cast was:
Nes. l6.oS7s no. ll.soS. Il makes l24
druggist license toWns and the total
vote Wzss Yes, 1884 no. a,SS3.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-26
JUST LIKE WAR TIME.
German Reds Have Established Great
Headquarters.

London. March 26.-workers' forces
entrenched along the Lippe river, south
and southeast Of the city % Wesel.
threaten. II they fail TO capture We--
81. to destroy al factories and ulinr-
in western Germany. saws : -gfrh
20 the England Telegraph ccul1anv
filed in Berlin this morning. Ths rods
have established great h-ai1ua-re-s
similar - that II the Cd German army
and arr issu- nficis' -ts.r-lcnts.
In last rirht's conmuai1-fr The I'D
claim - hrrr cantured several vi n -ps
ard t. hsv- faksn nor thar 21o mis-
oncrs d-rirg -he is~ Thy say - F.
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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-26
THE DOROTHY PALMER
is SINKING RAPIDLY
There Were Fears on Shore That Res
cue Ship Would Be Too Late
TO Save Her.

Boston, March 26.-The schooner
Dorothy Palmer sent a wireless call
for assistance from Great Round
Shoals channel to-day. reporting that
she was leaking dangerously. with
pumps out Of commission On account
Of boiler trouble. She had seven feet
Of water in her hold. and the message
said that az the rate the water was
gaining she would sink in y hours un-
less a coast guard cutter or tug were
sent 10 her Immediately.
The Acushnet. the nearest available
cutter, was az New London and coast
guard officers here said il would take
her eight or nine hours TO reach the
disabled schooner.
The Dorothy Palmer left Norfolk
March % for Bost0n.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-26
FOUR MORE PAID FINES
In the Raymond, N. X, Rioting Cases,
Heard at Exeter, N. II.

Exeter. n. H., March 26.-Fines Of
$50 each and costs were imposed to-
day on four more Of the men charged
with rioting in connection with the
strike az the Chase Chamberlain shoe
factory in Raymond on Oct Is, 1918
Like the five sentenced yesterday for
melting to riot. they pleaded nolo con
teudere. All the defendants. Augustus
Foster Of Haverhill. organizer 81 the
Shoe Workers' Protective union. Lewis
Buiterfield. Nelson Wheat and Arthur
Davis II Raymond. paid the fines and
divided the costs amounting % Sl64.