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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-08-30
Polish Delegates Are Ill

WARSAW-(By A. PA Minsk
wireless message last night says the
members of the Polish peace delega-
tions are becoming i'll because of the
unsanitary conditions of Minsk. Maur-
ice Pate, of Denver, member Of the
American relief administration, is
seriously i'll there.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-08-30
Feed Watermelons to Hogs.

YORK, S. C.-Farmers in this vi
cinity are giving away water1nelons
and feeding them to hogs. Three
weeks ago watermelons we're reported
selling at prices ranging from Soc to
$1.25 each. Now the crop has swamp
ed the market.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-09-09
McADOO IN FAVOR
OF VOLSTEAD ACT
Declares Changes would Ultimately
Result in Wrecking Entire Pro-
hibtion Amendment.

New York, Sept. Modification
of the Volstead act to permit the sale
of light wines and beer would ulti-
mately destroy the entire prohibition
amendmnt, William G. McAdoo, for
mer secretary of the treasury declares
in a prepared statement He added
he believed "a mod flying clause would
make every lunchroom, drug store
and soda fountain a saloon, encourage
youth to drink and bring a curse up
on the country greater than war"
Prohibition means prevention. he
continued 1T does not mean license
in any form. To permit the sale of
light wines and beers is to open a
crack in the door of prevention and
once the crack is open the door is
wide. 1t is impossible to administer
light vine and beer law in such a
manner as to prevent the grayest
abuses.
Brewers and wine merchants know
such modification would destroy the
prohibition amendment To restore
the liquor faction to political power
would be to re-establish liquor traf-
ticking in the worst form"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-09-09
1920 BEST SEASON
ON MONROE SKYLINE
Trail More Extensively Used Than
During Any Previous Year Since
First Defined.

4 Burlington. Sept Professor VIII
s. Monroe returned from the Green
Mountains Sunday night and left for
his home at Montclair, N. j., Monday
morning Professor Monroe spent AZ
days in labor on the section of the
Long Trail that bears his name. The
entire length of the Monroe Skyline
from Camel's Hump to Middlebury
Gap (43 miles, was cleaned, mile ar
rows put up along the mountain path,
and the blazes repainted new
lodge of the Swiss Alpine club type
was erected at Cowles Cove This
lodge was named in honor of Clarence
p. Cowles, Esq, OF Burlington, who
co-operated generously with Profes
sor Monroe iL the construction of his
trail. The lodge at Birch Glen was
enlarged by an addition and pole
hunks and a stove installed The
lcd dge at Cooley Glen was re-roofed,
the covering of the lodge having been
entirely eaten mp by procupines dur
ing the past winter Camp stoves
have been installed in allethe lodges
along the line of the Monroe Skyline
Trail.
In his trail operation the past sum
mer, Professor Monroe depended
largely upon volunteer labor, most of
the workers being members of the
Green Mountain club.
Professor Monroe reports that the
section of the trail that he has built
has been much more extensively used
by hikers the present summer than
any previous year that he has done
trail work in the Green Mountains.
At an early date new shelter of
the Swiss Alpine club type will be
erected at Dean Panorama on the
Stark mountain in honor of Theron S.
Dean Of Burlington and as a tribute
to his generous help in the building
of the Monroe Skyline during the
past FIVE years. This lodge will be
built from free-wil offerings Of New
York friends of Mr., Dean. Another
lodge is contemplated by the New
York section for Burnt Hill to break
the long hike between the Pleiad
Lake Lodge of the Middlebury section
and the Emily Proctor Lodge of the
New York section. With the contem-
plated additions, lodges and shelters
on the Monroe Skyline Trail will not
| be more than three or four miles
apart
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-09-09
BABBITT WANTS NEW
ROAD BUILDING PLANS
Declares That Trunk Lines Should Be
Con.trueted Under Exciusice
State jurisdiction

! Vergennes, Sept 8. Speaking be-
fore the largest and most enthusiastic
audience which has yet assembled
here, Frederick II. Babbitt OF Bellows
Falls, Republ can gubernatorial candi-
date, last night told more than 500
persons that he was against the pres
ent program of the state government,
that he was Tor a more efficient expen-
lditure of the peoples money, that he
was for return and development OF
the little red schoolhouse and that
he stood for reasonable modifica-
tion OF the Volstead or prohibition en-
forcement act Regarding the latter
question, Mr. Babbitt declared that
the governor of Vermont would have
little or nothing to do but that he mere
ly states it as his personal opinion be-
cause nationally it was an important
issue.
Mr. Babbitt emphasized over and
over again his conviction that no one
thing or favortsm to one feature OF
our state life to the exclusion of all
Others would give to the people hap
by and prosperous Vermont, but that
the four fundamentals to which we
may we'll give special consideration
are schools, highways, agriculture and
industry.
In conclusion he dwelt at some
length upon his Legislative experience
and his success in securing the pass
Df inNnnrtDnf
mea sures beneficial to labor and agri-
culture on the statute books He point
ed out that it was he who introduced
the first workmens compensation law
generally conceded to be a most con
struGtive piece Of labor legislation. He
wrote and secured the passage OF the
true weights and measures act which
the candidate declared insured the pur-
chaser of a 36 inch yard and a l6
ounce pound.
Regarding taxation Mr.. Babbitt de-
clared that the state tax was already
too h .gh and with no increased rate of
taxation the pubic, by a sound busi-
mess administration, and the elimin-
alton of unnecessary offices, could Sc
cure much more for their money. The
candidate declared for revised laws
which would place the construction of
the trunk lines exclusively under state
jurisdiction and at the same time leav
ing the money now available to the
towns for the purpose Of building up
the crossroads and connecting lines.
Mr.. Babbitt also put emphasis on the
necessity for maintaining the rural
schools, accessible to the farmers of
Vermont. He declared for revised
banking laws and for the natural well
balanced development of agriculture
'The two go hand in hand" he said.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-09-09
CENTER OF PICNICS
NOW IN PITTSBURGH
More Than 100000 Persons Have At.
tended Numerous Outdoor
Gatherings.

Pittsburgh, Sept 9.--More than
100000 persons have this year attend
ed the picnics given by industrial
concerns in Pittsburgh to their en-
plOyes, according to the estimates of
amusement park managers and a
number OF the most important are
yet to be held.
Arrangements for these great gath
eTings OF workmen and their families
are on colossal scale and carried
out by an efficient organization OF
trained engineers and Office men. 1t
occasionally happens, as in the case
OF the Clarion plant of the Carnegie
Steel company, that no picnic ground
was available SO the engineers
selected nice bit of virgin forest not
far from the town, built good roads
in and through IL, erected merry-go-
rounds and other traditional amuse-
ment devices, built refreshment
booths and a dancing platform and
when the thousands of steel workers
and their families reached the place
for days enjoyment, they found 1t
as complete as if it had been standing
for years
The quantity Of provisions required
fer the entertainment for a big plant
and its workers astonishes those who
know little OF such enterprises.
At one industrial picnic held here
recently three tons of beef and four
tons OF boiled ham were required for
the sandwiches. Five thousand loay-
es of bread were used, three men
working fifty hours tc cut it to size.
For the $4,000 persons who attend
ed this picnic .there were issued 65,-
600 free tickets for park amusements;
$4,000 American flags and 10000 toy
balloons for children were distributed
and $4,000 souvenir buttons were Civ
en- to the workers and their families,
while $4,000 knives, forks, spoons and
plates We're sent to the grounds fer
the picnic supper
To provide this FEAST the company
gave 10000 pickles, $4,000 rolls, 5000
pounds of baked beans, 1900 pounds
of coffee $4,000 pounds of franklin.
ters and l,500 gallons OF ice cream
The ood was cooked in an even erect
ed on the ground by the companys
workmen.
While this was one Of the largest
picnics Of the year number Of 9th.
ers have equalled it and many more
have come within striking distance.
Mill managers and corporation exc
cutives look upon the industrial pic.
mic as one of tbeir best weapons
against unrest and gladly give to
their employees the day for enjoyment
while bearing all the expenses, in
many instances even to transporta-
tion to and from the parks.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-09-09
LATER REPORTS
ADD To LIST Of
QUAKE VICTIMS
Hundreds Killed in City of
FivizzanO Alone
RESCUE PARTIES AT WORK
In Some of the Small Towns Whole
Families Have Been Completely
Wiped Out.

Florence, Italy, Sept. 9-The number
OF dead as result of Tuesdays earth.
quake Is steadily growing as additional
reports come in.
The latest .advices from Fivizzano
bring the total dead in that city alone
to 432 while in Vignatta 124 are known
TO have been killed and thousand
injured.
Numerous rescue parties are at
work, but food, blankets and medicines
are scarce. The lack of ice is espec-
tally felt, as there are many suffering
from cerebral conclusions.
From scores of small towns and vii.
lagos come reports OF great ruin TO
homes Some families were almost en-
tirely blotted out and each place has
its small or large toll of dead.
The shock was felt in the surround
ing provinces as far as Milan, but
there were no injury to life or proper
ty.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-09-09
WELFARE ASSOCIATION AIMS
Officials Have Progressive Program
for Coming Year.

1t is now recognized by all informed
peope that the kind Of recreation a
community supplies its citizens is
just as important as the kind of schools
it furnishes. There has been a great
awakening in this matter throughout
the country, especially since the war.
More and more are school boards and
chambers of commerce interesting
themselves in supplying clean and
wholesome diversion to all ages and all
classes of citizens. Getting together
and playing together is one of the sur.
est ways TO overcome the prejudices
and animosities that divide society.
This and every other effort to make
Bennington better and finer place to
live is what the Welfare association
aims to accomplish To further the
program of this pure y community or
ganization is public spirited and
worthy thing, and we believe all our
people will be interested in giving it
hearty and defin tie support.
1t is a matter of pride that Ben
nington is so widely known as a pion-
eer in community work. 1t is fact
that our town is cited far and wide as
a model Of progresaiveness in this line.
If the program the officers have
framed for the coming year can be
carrie dout successfully, there is small
doubt that Bennington will live up TO
her reputation in this respect 1t is
notable step In advance that has
been taken in framing a program in
advance and preparing budget, and
now the further effort will be made to
secure Pledges from our manufactur-
ers, business men and citizens to COW
er the part of the budget not account
ed for by the village appropriation.
This campaign will be put on during
the next week or ten days and is a
matter which should enlist the interest
Of every citizen.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-09-09
PoNzI HOPELESS BANKRUPT
Chairman of Federal Receivers Makes
This Report.

Boston, Sept 9.--Charles Ponzi is
hopeessly bankrupt, William r. Sears
chairman of the Federal receivers for
the get-rich-quick promoter announced
at a hearing in the United States Dis
trict Court yesterday.
The court appointed James M. Ohm
stead, referee in bankruptcy, to co-ordi
nate all bankruptcy proceedings now
pending against Ponzi, and to deter
mine among other things whether he
had any partners in the Securities
Exchange Company in which from
$5,OO0OOO to $7,0OOOO0,OOO of invest
ments are tied up.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-09-09
-----------------
JOHNSON MAN HELD
ON MURDER CHARGE
Arthur Mudsett Accused Of Killing
tsYear-old Amy
Shonio.

Hyde Park, Sept. 8.-Arthur Mud
gett, the 36-year-old lumberman and
jack-of-all trades arrested on war
rant charging him with the brutal
murder OF 19-year-old Amy Shonio,
factory emplcye at Johnson July 81,
was yesterday at a preliminary hear.
ing held without bail for the grand
jury at the December term of La
noble county court. Mudgett sat
through the hearing calm but pale.
He frequently consulted with his
counsel
The county court house was crowd
ed the largest crowd of spectators
the court room ever held. The hear
ing was before Justice Lafountain of
Morrisville. Attorney General Archi-
bald and States Attorney Tracy of
Johnson appeared for the State and
w. A. Dutton of Hardwick and David
E. Porter of st. Johnsbury for Mud
gett
Fifteen witnesses were called by
the State. DR.. B. H. Stone Of the
State laboratory, who performed the
autopsy on the body of the Shonio
girl, testified to his examination of
the body of the girl the day it was
found. He said the clothing was
soaked in blood that her tongue and
lips were swollen and there was
every indication she met death by
violence. He said she was about to
become mother.
Mrs. Harriet Foster, at whose house
Miss Shonio and Mudgett boarded,
said Mudgett had supper at the house
the night the girl disappeared and
that he came in at IL o'clock.
The ouia board figured in testimany
Mrs. Foster saying Miss Shonio used
to consult it.
Mrs. Foster also said Mudgett paid
| for visit of a physician called to
see Miss Shonio when she was i'll and
that she thought Mudgett also paid
for clothes for the girl.
Perley Mudgett, brother OF the de-
fendant, testified to seeing his broth
er at his house at eight O'Clock the
night of July 81. Ila Atwell, an EN-.
ploye of the Johnson Hotel, said Mud
gett was in her room for an hour the
night of the murder, coming between
945 and 10 o'clock.
Several other witnesses were called
and two letters, said to have been
written by Mudgett to Amy Shonio
were read. Neither one was signed,
but Mns Foster testified to have Civ
en- the paper on which they were
written to Mudgett last Christmas.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-09-09
Legs Don't Accepting Young With Wooden
HANGS HIMSELF
Irving j. Fifield Recently Brought
From West Found Dead.

Montpelier, Sept 9.-Irving J. Fl
field, who was recently brought home
from Detroit, Mich, where he had
been employed, committed suicide
Tuesday shortly before noon by hang
ing himself He attached a rope to a
hook in the kitchen, placed the rope
about his neck, and then fell forward
on it.
Mr.. Firfeld had been employed in
Detroit, Mich, for over a year and a
few weeks ago upon complaint OF his
family the States attorney issued a
warrant upon which he was arrested
by Sheriff f. II. Tracy in Detroit and
brought back to Montpelier. Last Fri
day he went to the Central Vermont
railway station, where he inquired
the expense of ticket back to De-
troit, indicating that he did not want
1t at that time. 1t was understood
at the probation department that he
was intending to go back to Detroit
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-09-09
VERMONT NOT PLACED
ON SOCIALIST MAP
Party Does Not Expect to Get on Bal
lot in This State During Coming
Campaign.

Chicago, Sept. 9.-The big issue in
the Socialist campaign this fall is as
usual private ownership of the means
of production, Otto Branstetter, ma,
tional secretary and campaign manag.
er of the Socialist party, said here to
day discussing the Socialist campaign
The League Of Nations issue was
viewed by the Socialists as largely
camouhage." he said The party felt
that the league questi oadb esennh
that the league question had been in.
troduced by the old parties largely to
cloud the issues and keep the people s
attention off domestic issues.
Eugene " Debs, the Socialist presi.
dental candidate, in prison at Allan
Ia, Ca, was not advising in the con.
duet of the campaign to any extent,
Use was being made in party litera-
ture of what he sad to Socialists
visiting him.
The chief speaker in the campaign
is the vice presidential candidate, Say
mour Stedman, of Chicago, reinforced
tional organization. He has complet-
ed tour of the southwest and on
September l started for the Pacific
coast After making round of the
central states he plans to go east
about October / for the balance of
the campaign.
Secretary Branstetter said the party
expected to be on the ballot in prac-
tically every state where it has prev
icusly had a vote of any consequence,
1t does not expect at this time to get
on the ballot in Vermont, Louisiana,
New Mexico, South Dakota. Idaho and
possibly in several other states in the
south and west
The three Big states this fall from
the Socialist standpoint, Branstetter
said, are New York, Wisconsin and
Oklahoma. He said the party expect
ed to poll larger vote in these
states than ever before
A large part Of the party member
ship outside of the foreign language
federations has come back, the So
cialist executive reported, referring
to the split, last fall which resulted
in formation OF the Communist Party
and the Communist Labor Party.
No'policy of concentration in sec
tions where Socialist sentiment is
strong will be carried on by national
headquarters, according to the party
secretary. He sad that the national
Office was making the campaign as
general as it could, leaving concentra-
tion to tn estate organizations, which
could undoubtedly carry on such a
policy in New York, Oklahoma and
Wisconsin
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-09-09
MRS. JOHN o'HARE
Died Suddenly This Forenoon of Acute
Indigestion.

Mrs. John O'Hare died suddenly this
forenoon Of acute indigestion. she
was the daughter of John p Kinville
of Rutland, a native of North Law
ence, N, Y, and was 2S years old
She was married to John O'Hare in
Bennington in 1917 and leaves one
daughter. Sallie, less than two years of
|age. Other survivors are a step son,
John O'Hare, jr., and step-daughter,
Teresa O'Hare, both residing in Ben
nington.
The funeral will be held from st.
ternoon at dounv ddfO b secoNy
Francis de Sales church Saturday fore
noon at o'clock and interment will
take place at Parklawn cemetery.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-09-09
sTENoGRAPHER BRINGS SUIT
Miss G. Sadie Smith Seeks Pay For
Transcrlbing.

Rutland Sept. Miss G. Sadie
Smith of this city has sued George
P, Eastman, president Of the Eastman
Marble company OF West Rutland to
recover $1S5 for ranscribing testi-
mony.
This suit, which is returnable in
City Court, is an aftermath of the
famous suit between Eastman and the
Vermont Marble company, which had
to do with the boundary line between
their respective properties and in
which an alleged 25-year-old agree
ment figured.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-09-09
SIXTY AUTOMOBILES BURNED
Spectacular Fire Started by Explosion
Of Gasoline Tanks.

New York, Sept. "a spectacular
fire caused by the explosion of gaso-
line tanks destroyed so automobiles in
a garage storehouse on 54th street to-
day.
The flames threatened to spread to
nearby tenements and so families
were driven into the street.
The loss is estimated at S150,000 tc
100000.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-09-09
RECORD CORN CROP
FORECAST FOR 1920
Cond tions September Indicate Yield
Of 100000 Bushels in Excess Of
Largest Previous Figures.

Washington, Sept 10.--The great
est corn crop in the country's his
tory is in prospect for this years
harvest. Forecast of production
based on Sept, conditions placed at
3,131 100000 bushels by the Depart
ment of Agriculture,
Such yield would exceed by 6,OO0,'
600 bushels the previous largest crop
on record, which was in 1912. A crop
of even larger proportions will be
harvested if frosts hold off until late
and permit maturity of much late
corn, now rated as of doubtful
promise
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-09-09
Eat Arsenic With lmpunIty.

In some parts of Austria, and espe-
cially In the hllly country toward
Hungary. there exists the extraor-
dinary custom Of eating arsenic. one
of the most deadly poisons. There,
however, the peasants are so accus-
toned to its use that they are able to
take huge quantities without harm,
and they assert that the remarkable
beauty of their women folk Is entirely
due to constant drugging with arsenic
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-09-09
APPOINTED LIBRARIAN
Mrs. Caroline n. Royce of New York
Going to Montpelier.

Montpelier, Sept, 9--Mrs. Caroline
II. Royce of New York has been ap-
pointed librarian of the Vermont His
torical society and viii the latter part
of the week come to Montpelier to
assume her duties, taking the place
of Miss Rebecca Wright who has
gone to Seattle, Wash. Mrs. Royce
has been II years employed in the
reference department of the public
library in New York She is a native
of Westport, N. v, Of which town she
has written q history.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-09-09
POSTAGE Stamns.

The adhesive postage stamp had Its
origin In England in 1910 as direct
outcome of the postal reforms OF Sir
Rowland Hin. In 1877 the United
States adopted this method Of collect.
Ing postages. with two beautifully en-.
graved portraits of Franklin and
Washington
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-09-09

New York, Sept 9--The majority
OF the strikers OF the Brot klyn Rapid
Transit Company not only ignored the
company's ultimatum about returning
to work yesterday, but the more radi-
cal element among them kept up the
violence that has marked each day OF
the strike.
Half dozen trains on elevated and
surface lines were stoned during the
day, and at about the time when Re-
ceiyer Garrison's time limit expired
strikers or strike sympathizers made
an attempt to wreck a train of the
Fourth avenue subway line near
Thirty-ninth street, Brooklyn, causing
panic among the passengers but no
loss of life or no injuries. The strike
breakers also took hand in the vio-
lence, but, curiously enough, they di-
reCted their activities against the com
pany's property also, eight of them
firing three shots from an automobile
at Culver line train.
The attempt to wreck the Fourth
avenue train was made by inserting a
iishplate upon the tracks so that it
extended above the rails about two
inches. 1t was az such an angle that
had the train been derailed il would
have been thrown against a partition
wall constructed OF concrete, and the
list of dead and injured would have
been large. Fortunately the truck OF
the car that hit the obstruction leaped
into the air five or six inches, cleared
the obstructing piece of steel and
bumped back upon the rails.
The ultimatum of Receiver Lindley
NJ. Garrison to the effect that employ
ees who failed to return to their jobs
by noon yesterday would forfeit all
privileges they had acquired through
past service failed to break the car
mems strike,
Instead of focking back to work en-
masse, as the company officials pre-
dicted they would do, the number of
strikers to walk back to their jobs
was only about 1000. or about 10 per
cent. of the number that went on
strike twelve days ago, paralyzing
every transportation line of the com
PAM.