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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-09
CARS COLLIDE ON
CANAL STREET
Hinsdale Machine Gets Worst of Argu-
ment with New York Touring Car
Man Claimed He Was Hurt.

Four Polish residents in a Ford auto
mobile from Hinsdale, n H., came to a
sudden halt near G. Z. Aliens on Canal
street yesterday afternoon when their
car collided with big New York touring
car, No. 24S296, owned and driven by
Allen Wardwell of 10 Broad street, New
York city, who was alone and who was
driving to Cornish, n. H. The Ford was
owned and driven by John Bozak, car
number l472S. Three tires were stripped
from the Ford and the front axle was
sprung.
Mr.. Wardwell would not allow either
car to be moved until the police had in
vestigated One of the Hinsdale men
claimed he was injured and DR.. w. FL.
Lane had him taken to the Memorial hos
pital, but it could not be found that he
was hurt and he was discharged. The
Hinsdale car was said to be on the
wrong side of the road and Mr.. Wardwefl
remained on his own side until i1 became
apparent that he must cross over or be
run into, and as he swung to the left the
Ford pulled toward the center of the
road and collision followed. The police
say there was strong odor of some
thing besides gasoline around the Hins-
dale car.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-09
Arthur Pease Stayed on
Mountain and Was
Out in Storm
CAME HERE ABOUT
/ THIS MORNING
Condition Reasonably Good and Com
plete Recovery Is Expected = Will
Return With Brother to Hyde Park
to Stay for Present on Farm.

After going without food nearly a
week, except what berries he found, and
having no shelter except the woods, Ar
thur B. Pease, an employe in the COM
posing room of The Reformer who dis
appeared last week Tuesday morning,
returned to town about l o'clock this
morning and made himself known to
Policeman Ellis G. Worder, who took
charge of him hntil his brother, Royston
Pease of Chicago, who had been here
looking for him several days, came and
took him to the home of Frank B.. Ten
ney of 1872 Main street, where he has
roomed
He is in fairly good condition, and he
can account for large part of the time
since he left, but portions of the time
are blank to him. He lost his hat and
glasses, and his clothes were soggy from
being out through the hard thunder
storm yesterday, but apparently he did
not take cold, and he is rational. His
brother will take him to HYDE Park
(Vt.l, where his parents and married
sister live. DIR. Thomas Rice, who at
tended him, thinks that after being on a
farm for time he viii be all right again.
During his absence Mr.. Pease stayed
Continued or Page A.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-09
GERMANS IN PLOT
TO BALK LEAGUE
French Government Finds Document
airy Proof-Will Prosecute
Offenders.

PARIS, Aug 9.-The French govern
ment announces that a remarkable set of
documents has been taken by it's agents
in the SaTe Valley from Herr dinners,
former deputy in the Reiehstag, which
outline a complete programme of agita-
ton and propaganda to be carried ont in
the Sarre region in order to break down
the administration of the Sarre commits
sion under the league of nations
The documents, it is said, reveal the
fact that the German government propa-
ganda bureau is the author of the plan.
The announcement says the Sarre commits
sion has taken steps to begin legal pro-
secution of dinners and some of his assO-
ciates, and that the French ambassador
IN Berlin win make representations there.
The documents show, according to the
foreign office, that the propaganda bureau,
''The Heimatdienst, has been provided
with a fund of 100000 marks by the Ger
man government for the Sarre campaign
alone, and that it was directly responsi-
bic for the general strike now in progress
in the Sarre region.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-09
LIGHTNING BOLT
HITS STEEPLE
Small Damage Done at Universalist
Church-Tre7s Blown Down in
Hinsdale and Farther South.

Brattleboro was visited by a severe
thunder storm yesterday afternoon, but
the severest part of the storm occurred
east of Wantastiquet mountain and far
ther down the Connecticut valley. For
few minutes there was a continuous
roar of thunder, accompanied by rapid
and vivid flashes of lightning, hard
downpour of rain, little hail and some
wind.
Lightning struck the steeple of the
First Uniyersalist church about l.30
O'Clock and took off some of the corner
boards and some slate and splintered one
of the inside tinibers.
Automobile parties noted that between
here and Hinsdale and between Hinsdale
and Keene several trees were either
blown over or splintered by lightning,
while corn, tobacco anI other crops in
various places to the south were badly
bent over.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-09
SCHOOL TEACHERS IN CREW.
Two Women Adopt Novel Method of
Getting from Porto Rico to Baltimore.

SAN JUAN, ?. R., Aug 9.-When
the schooner Cornell p White arrives
at Baltimore, Md, it will lose two
women members of its crew, Miss
Georgiebelle Iusser of Denver, Colo.
and Miss Jane Waters of Bonner
Springs, Kansas, pusser and assistant
purser, respectively, who, until recently,
were school teachers in Porto Rico.
The difficulty of obtaining passage
on any of the passenger ships, together
with desire for adventure, were the
reasons given by friends of Miss Mus
ser and Miss Waters for their signing
up as part of the crew of the Cornell
p. white They believed they would
arrive home safely, sooner or later, if
they went on schooner while there
seemed to be no end of uncertainty
when they could get away if they
waited for regular passenger ship.
So, after much persuasion, the skipper
of the Cornell p White, who has a
daughter of his own in Baltimore
agreed to take them.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-09
DEMOCRATS TO HAVE
TICKET ON BALLOTS
Had to Write In Names Two Years Ago
May Endorse Whitney, Re-
publican, for States Attorney.

Three of the five members of the Wind
ham County Democratic committee met
in DIR. E. r. Lynch's office here Saturday
to discuss plans for placing a Demo
cratic county ticket on the primary elec-
tion ballots. The ballots two years ago
contained no Democratic ticket and it
was necessary to write the names in
John Z. Gale of Guilford, Fred H.
Miller of Halifax and Dr. f. R. Lynch
were the three who met here. The two
others, ID. II. Cray of Bellows Falls and
Leonard A. Brown of Wilmington could
not be present.
A complete ticket will be prepared
within few days, and it is expected that
Attorney. Harold E. Whitney of Brattle-
boro, Republican, viii be endorsed for
states attorney, none of the Demoratic
attorneys being candidates for that office.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-09
ARRESTED AT END
OF PRISON TERM
John Kelley Brought Here
on Government Charge
Saturday
GOES TO JAIL IN
DEFAULT OF $4,000
Said to Have Forged Postal Certifi-
Gates and Tried to Cash Them in
Pittsfeld, Mass. - Wanted by Navy
Department on Desertion Charge.

United States Marshal Arthur 2. Car
penter of this place arrested John
Kelley of New York, alias Alloys Knoll,
alias John DeForge, when his term for
grand larceny expired Saturday at the
state prison in Windsor, to which place
he was sentenced in Burlington Sept. 20.
1919. He was brought here and late in
the afternoon was arraigned before
United States Commissioner Clarence NJ.
Miller on the charge of attempting to
secure cash on three United States postal
savings certificates on the back of which
he is alleged to have forged the name of
Alloys Knoll
Kelley was placed under bonds of
$1,000 to insure his presence when
wanted, but as he could not furnish bail
he was taken to the ounty Jail in New
fame to wait until an order comes for
his transfer to the district of Massachu-
setts.
1t IS claimed that on Sept 10, 1919,
Kelley presented to William III. Clifford
clerk in the postoffice at Pittsfeld, Mass,
three certificates, one for $50 and two for
Elu0 each, and asked for the money, after
endorsing them with the name of Allows
Knoll. Not being able to identity him
self to the satisfaction of the clerk he
did not receive the money from the post
Office, but it is understood that he
cashed the certificates elsewhere. 1t is
said also that he had three more eertifi-
Gates and that all six were stolen from
Mr.. Knoll in Canaan, n. Y. Some of
them are in the possession of the officers.
Among kelley's effects were two bank
books belonging to Mr. Knoll, but the
money was not obtained on them. The
books, also some checks, are in the pos
session of Marshal Carpenter.
When the government is through with
Kelley on the Pittsfield matter he is
likely to face other charges, as he is
wanted in New York state, also bv the
navy department on the charge of deser-
tion. kelley's finger prints coincide with
finger prints of a man named DeForge
who deserted May %, 1919, from the
naval training station at Newport, r. /
Kelley gives his age as 24 and saws he
was born in New York Sept ?, 1895.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-09
MRS. EMILY A. sHUMWAY.
Death Occurred Saturday Afternoon
After Two Years Invalidism.

Mrs. Emily A (Gordon) Shumway, IS,
died Saturday afternoon at AIS O'Clock
in her home on Clark street. She had
been an invalid the past two years, but
had been confined to her bed only two
weeks. Death resulted from a general
breaking down due to her advanced age.
She leaves one daughter, Miss Mabel G.
Shumway, who had cared for her mother
For two years, and one son, William A.
Shumway, who succeeded his uncle, the
late r. h. Gordon as tax collector, which
position he held several years, recently
taking position as secretary of the
Brattleboro Trust company She also
leaves two grandsons, Frank and Hadley
Shumway, two sisters, Miss Luthera V.
Gordon of Brattleboro and Miss Lila
j. Gordon of Honolulu, and two
nieces and one nephew, who live in Vir-
ginia.
The funeral will be held tomorrow af-
ternoon at / o'clock in her home on Clark
street. Rev. ID. Z. Trout, pastor of the
First Universalist church, will officiate.
The burial win take place in Prospect
Hill cemetery
Mrs Shumway was born in Winhall
April l6, 1912, and was one of eight chill
dren of William and Betsey (Taylor) Cor
uon. She married AlDeFJ y. fonuHWdy OF
Londonderry March %, 1864, in keene,
/ n II. They lived a short time in ia
maica and Keene, moving to Brattleboro
about four wears after they We're married
and Mrs. Shumway had lived here since
! that time Mr. Shumway, who was a
Civil war veteran, died Al years ago.
Mrs Shumway was a regular attendant
| of the First Universalist church and was
member of the Woman's Mission Circle
of that church She was a devoted
mother. bringing up her two children
alone from their early childhood, and
her love for home and her family was
FIRST in her thoughts. She leaves a wide
circle of friends, to whom to know her
was to love her. She was interested al
most to the end in the current affairs
and her great pleasure in life was in good
literature and the daily newspapers.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-09
Bolshevists Get Another City.

WARSAW Aug. s ASSOCIATED
Press)-All foreign legations in War
saw left for Posea tonight on a special
train.
Przasmysz, city about Al miles
north of Warsaw, has been captured
by the Bolshevik advance which is
sweeping westward along the Prussian
frontier, according to an official state
ment issued here tonight. Smaller de-
tachments are approaching Nlawa
about nine miles further west, and
some have been reported at points still
nearer this city This is one of the
most rapid strides the Soviet forces
have made since they crossed Orzyc
river in the drive designed to cut the
Warsaw Danzig railway.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-09
CHINESE SLAVE
GIRL RESCUED
Dropped Note on Streets of San Fran
cisco Which Led to Her Libera-
tion-May Be Deported.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 9.-Shuf-
fling homeward through the fog in China
town the other night, a Chinese youth
noticed piece of white paper futter
through a circle of light from street
lamp and fall to the pavement He picked
1T up and read its message, in Chinese
characters:
Il am slave girl. | wish to get away
from my cruel masters | have been
kept prisoner six years on the fourth
floor of Ills Stockton street Ny name
is Loi Alui. l was brought here from
China when / was little girl / have
. friend who says if | can send word to
the man who passes in blue clothes with
star they will help me. | want to 60
back to China Please help me-
The young Oriental to whom the note
had fallen happened to be American-born.
He knew that it was dangerous to inter-
fere with the girls captors and to inform
might mean death for him and his fam
lily. He went to the hall of justice with
the note and his name will never be
known to anyone but the police.
Police Captain 0'AIeara, with federal
officials and a representative of a Chinese
mission, raided the place an hour after
the letter was dropped out of the window.
They battered town three doors and on
the fourth floor found Loi Mui
The girl is held in the city prison while
| federal officers investigate her story. She
may be deported. She said she was sold
! as a slave in China when she was y and
| brought to this country afterward. De
/ tectives say she was held by the Hop Sing
tong, one of the strongest factions Of
| Chinatown.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-09
No Evidence of Large Deal
ings In international Re
ply Coupons
STATEMENT BY
ATTORNEY GENERAL
Ponzi Claimed He Did Business Through
Large New York House - Declares
He Will Pay All Notes With Interest
Whether Matured Or Not.

BOSTO1z Aug. 9.-The investigation
of the business affairs of Charles Ponzi
being conducted in behalf of the state
have thus far failed to disclose any
thing to confirm his claims that he had
dealt extensively in international re-
ply coupons, according to statement
today by Attorney General James Wes-
ton Allen.
1.-THE examination being conducted
on behalf of the commonwealth IS not
completed,'' said Mr.. Allen, " but it
is possible at this time to give certain
information in the public interest. Al
though Mr.. Ponzi claims that his deal
ings in international reply coupons have
been conducted upon a very large scale,
aggregating millions of dollars, the in
vestigation has disclosed nothing to
confirm his statement. Mr.. Ponzi
claimed in his voluntary interview at
this office that all the funds which he
claims to have transferred to Europe
by drafts or credit for the purchase
of international reply coupons have
been sent through a New York institu-
tion and in a later interview last week
he stated he has received large amounts
from Europe from the sale ana redemp-
tion of coupons through the same in
stitution
''While he refused to disclose the
name of the institution in New York
or his agents in Europe in his first in
terview at this Office he stated that
the institution in New York through
which he did his business was a branch
of a well known financial institution
with a main office in Milan Italy; that
he was born near Milan and had known
this financial institution since his
birth; that the institution has branches
in Italy and in foreign countries and IS
known practically all over the world.
He further stated that funds from the
branch in New York were transmitted
to branch located in Naples which
was acting as a general agent of the
Continued on Page g.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-09
ROOSEVELT JOINS
COX FOR LEAGUE
In Formal Address Accepts
Democratic Vice Pres
idental Nomination
AMERICANS NOT
AFRAID TO Do PART
Our Relations With the World and
Organized Progress at Home the Two
Big Problems for Next Administra-
tion-Reorganize Departments.

HYDE PARK, n. Y, Aug. 9.-Frank
lin D. Roosevelt, in formal address
accepting the Democratic wee presden-
tial nomination at his home here today,
Joined with his chief, James NJ. Cox
in accepting the challenge of the Re
publican party to make the league of
nations one of the principal issues OF
the national campaign.
''The Democratic party" he said,
"'has offered to this nation treaty OF
peace which to make it a real treaty for
a real peace must include league of
nations > 'sTodav, y he continued, Eve
are offered a seat at the table of the
family of nations to the end that the
smaller peoples may be truly saved TO
work out their own destinies. We shall
take that place. | say so because ! have
.faith-faith that this nation has no sell
fish destiny; faith that our people are
looking into the years beyond for bet
ter things and that they are not afraid
TO do their part The league of nations
is Il practical solution of practical
situation. 1t is no more perfect than
was the original constitution, which
has been amended is times and will
soon be amended the 10Th
Continuing, Mr.. Roosevelt said IN
part:
Two great problems will confront the
next administration; our relations with
the world and the pressing need OF or
panized progress at home. The latter
includes a systematized and intensified
development of our resources and a pro
gressfve betterment of our citizenship.
These matters win require the guiding
hand OF a president who can see his
country above his party, and who, hav-
ing d clear vision of things as they are,
has also the independence, courage and
skill to guide us along the road to things
as they would be without swerying one
footstep at the dictation of narrow
partisans who whisper party or of
selfish interests that murmur profits
In our world problems we must either
shut our eyes, sell our newly built mer-
chant marine to more far-sceing foreign
powers, crush utterly by embargo and
harassing legislation our foreign trade,
close our ports and build an impregnable
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-09
No Communication with Shore.

FISHGUARD, Wales, Aug. 8 (Asso-
ciated Press) steamer Baltic
from New York with Archbishop Man
nix, the Australian prelate, on board
passed Fishguard at $50 O'Clock this
morning without communication with
the shore The Scotland Yard men,
who came here yesterday coineident
with receiving an order to the harbor
masters of Fishguard and nearby sta
tions "stand by to take a passenger
off the Baltic,'' returned to London
during the forenoon.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-09
COMPANY / FIRST
TO REACH CAMP
Brattleboro Boys Now Fully Equipped
Dinner Waiting on Their Ar
rival at Camp DeUns
Especial to The Reformer.)

JAAT DE Ems, AIlg. y.
Company I, Vermont National Guard,
arrived in Camp Devens at noon Satur-
day. Everyone was glad to reach camp.
Dinner was waiting and was greatly APP
preciated by the men. The afternoon
was devoted to cleaning up barracks,
grounds, receiving equipment consisting
of cots, blankets, slickers, buttons, etc.
Quarters have been Strengthened out
the hunks have been arranged so that
each man has plenty of room. They have
good clean quarters, plenty of light and
ventilation, shower baths, and post ex
change handy. Inspection was held by
Capt. Roy B. Miner at 430 p. M, fol-
lowed by mess at 5 P. m. and retreat at
$50 p. m. Company l was the first
company to reach camp, and is now fully
equipped.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-09
POLISH GOVERNMENT
LEAVES WARSAW
Bolshevik Troops Continue to Capture
Towns Foreign Legations
Also Leave Warsaw.

LONDON, Aug. 9.-The Polish gov
ernment is leaving Warsaw, its capital,
it is asserted in a wireless despatch
from Moscow received here this after
noon.
Russian Bolshevik troops have brok-
en- into the town of Sokolow, about 40
miles northeast of Warsaw, and have
captured several points south of Brest-
Litovsk, according to an official state
ment issued in Moscow yesterday and
received here by wireless
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-09
DINNER TO COOLIDGE
TO START CAMPAIGN
Massachusetts Republicans to Meet at
Hotel Somerset Thursday Evening
Governor Clement Expected.

BOSTON, ANG. 9.-The Republicans of
this state will start their campaign this
week with a dinner to be given by the
Republican Club of Massachusetts at the
Hotel Somerset in Boston on Thursday
night in honor of Gov. Calvin Coolidge,
nominee for vice president. Former Gov
Charles S. Whitman of New York will
be the principal speaker Gov. PercivaI
w. Clement of Vermont is expected as
one of the guests.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-09
Mannix Lands in England.

PENZANCE, Eng, Aug. 9.-Arch-
bishop Mannix was landed here from II
destroyer at 415 o'clock this afternoon.
1t was stated that he intended pro-
eeeding to London. He declined to
give out a statement further than to
say he expected to leave on the first
train.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-09
ARCHBISHOP TAKEN
FROM STEAMER
Landed Today at Penzance, Eng, by
Destroyer - Steamer Baltic
Gives No News.

QUEENSTOWN, Aug 9.-According
to a report here Archbishop Mannix
was forcibly taken from the steamship
Baltic and conveyed to Cherhourg,
France, on destroyer which did not
return to port with the other destroy
crs which met the Baltic off Queens
town.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-09
Masonic Temple

Tuesday, Aug 10-Columbian lodge
No. SO, stated communication.
Thursday, Aug. 12.-Fort Dummer
chapter, No. y, stated convocation.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-09
Red Men S Hall

At the request of many there will
be a dance in Red Men s hall every
Saturday night until further notice.
Monday, Aug 9, s p. m.-special
meeting of Pocahontas council, d. of
P. Business of Importance is to come
before the council and a large attend
ance is desired.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-09
QUIET AT REVERE TODAY.
Military and Police on Patrol to Pre-
vent More Rioting.

REVERE, Mass, Aug 9-Law and or
der reigned at Revere beach today. The
military and police patrolled the beach
to prevent repetition of the rioting that
occurred last night when several hun
heseiged the station house Of the Metro
dred sailors reinforced by few civilians
politan Park police and troops were
called out Authorities at the Charles
town navy yard said an investigation
would be made and charges preferred
against sailors implicated in the riot.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-09
SOLDIER HELD FOR MURDER.
Sergeant Vandecarr of Camp Devens
Charged with Killing Policeman.

LEOMINSTER, Mass, Aug Ser
geant Harold Vandecarr of Camp Dew
ems waived examination when he was ar
raigned in the local court today charged
with numbering Policeman Charles A.
Thomas July 81 and was held without
bail for the grand jury which sits Aug
is. He was returned to the county jail
at Worcester.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-09
THE WEATHER.
Partly Cloudy Tonight Showers Tues
daY-SlightlY Cooler

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9-The weather
forecast Partly cloudy tonight. Tues
day local showers. not quite SO warm
Moderate south and southwest winds.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-09

The difference between the tallest and
shortest races in tn world is one foot
four and half inches, and the average
height is five feet FIVE inches.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-09
Odd Fellows Temple

Tuesday evening-Regular meeting
of Dennis Rebekah lodge.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-09
sUFFRAGIsTs HOPEFUL.
Look to Tennessee Legislature Conven
ing Today to Ratify.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Aug. 9-The
legislature of Tennessee meets in spe-
eial session today to consider ratifea-
tion of the woman suffrage amendment,
and suffrage advocates hope to com
plete the list of SO states necessary TO
enfranchise the women of the nation.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-09

Lady Rhondda, known as England Is
foremost business woman, has been APP
pointed a justice of the peace.