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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-01
PEACE TREATY
SOON OPERATIVE
Exchange of Notifications Will
Take Place January 6 at the
Quai D'Orsay When the Ger.
mans will Sign the Protocol
mo CEREMONY PROBABLE
Allied Troops VIII on Jan. ~ Proceed
to Territories which the Germans
Must Evac,iate or where Faebiscites
Are to BE Held

Paris, lBy the Associated Press) Dec.
3o-Exchange of notifications Of the
treaty OF Versailles will take place Jan
uary at the DUAL D'Orsay. Baron Won
Lersner head of the German delegation.
and Paul Dutasta. secretary of the peace
conference, tonight set.'ed all points In
connection with the signature, except
that relating to naval material. which 1t
is expected will be solved shortly.
The Germans will sign the protocol and
at the same time the allies will hand let
ter to them agreeing to reduce their de-
mands to 100000 tons If the total available
tonnage has been over-estmated, or Ger
many Is gravely menaced economically.
In any case, after the signature. the al
lies will get 42,000 tons of material and
the balance based on the report of ex-
perts who are now checking up at Dan.
zig, Hamburg and Bremen.
! The British prime minister. David Lloyd
George, will be present at the ceremony.
which will be carried out without any
display. Diplomatic relations with Ger
many will be resumed the following day,
when the French charge d'affaires will go
to Berlin and French consuls will resume
their posts.
Allied troops will proceed on January
evacuated by the Germans or where
plebiscites are to he held. 1t Is estimated
that 100 trains will be needed for this
purpose.
Ellis Loring Drese an American mem-
Der of the peace conference as expert on
German affairs. it is understood. will 60
to Berlin as soon as notifications are ex-
changed He will be accompanied by a
staff. This is presumed here to he a
temporary expedent until diplomatic rela'
lions with the United States are resumed
He was appointed acting commissioner
and charge d'affares in October,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-01
NEW MOTOR FUEL
CHEAPER THAN GASOLINE

New York. Dec. Unsuccessful tests Of
a motor fuel, declared to be more
economical than gasoline not only but
also easier on motors, were announced
to-day by Otto Praeger. second assistant
postmaster-general in charge of the air
mail service. The fuel consists of 80
parts of alcohol 30 of gasoline. 10 of
benZol, rs of ether and four OF toluol
ingredients, making up the remaining
one and one-half parts. were not given
Mail plane number 35 was used in the
tests between New York and Washington
Another plane. using high test aviation
gasoline, was used as a check. A saving
of 39 gallons an hour in favor of the
synthetic fuel was indicated. Economy
Of lubricating oil also was shown by
the tests, After 125 hours in the air, the
two motors We're torn down. and that in
which the new fuel had been used was
found in fine condition, with a smaller
deposit Of carbon.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-01
XMAS DINNERS
GO BEGGING
Free Roast Turkey Does Not At
tract Crowds of Other Days
in New York

New York, Dec. 25.-Christmas dinners
went begging on the Bowery tonight.
Roast turkey with all its trimming
candy and mince pic failed to attract
half SO many hungry men as were serv-
cd in former years. This was attributed
to prevailing prosperity and prohibition.
The famous Bowcry mission served only
400 persons, where in former years they
have been called to provide for at least
1900 At IIadley's rescue hall less than
800 appeared for dinner. Many missions
did not serve the usual Christmas repast
because of the lack of applicants.
The usual Christmas noon-hour dinner
at the McAulcy Water street mission
was postponed until tonight because Of
the lack of applicants. Not a man APP
pcared at noon. although 400 pounds OF
turkey and many good things had been
prepared. A few years ago it was not
unusual for the mission to feed 1900 but
tonight fewer than 800 hungry men APP
peared.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-01
FORMER VERMONTER
KILLED IN BROOKLINE
DIR. n. II. HoughtOn, Victim Of Trolley
Accident. Native of barnet

st. Johnsbury, Dec. 2s,-Dr. Neidhart H.
Houghton, who was killed by being struck
by trolley car in Brookline. Mass. Fri
day, was native of Barnet, where he
was born g years ago, He was the son
of DIR. Milo G. Houghton, who came to
st. Johnsbury in the early sixties and
was long the leading homeopathic physi-
clan of this section. After graduating
from the New York Homeopathic Medical
College in 1887 he began practice in Bos-
Ion and was at the time of his death a
prominent nose and throat specialist in
that city. His wife was also st, Johns
bury lady, being daughter of the
late L. ID. Hazen. the towns leading lum-
Der manufacturer and for many years
postmaster. DR.. Houghton and his family
were members of the famous summer
colony at Caspian Lake in Greensboro
and his death is the tenth in this colony
In the year 1919,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-01
WIRED WIRELESS"
NEWEST |NvE N ITO N
Carries 10 Voices Over Single
Line-Long Distance Phon-
ing Made Limitless

New York, Dec. 2S.-The perfection of
a method of wired wireless by means
of which at fewest ten and possibly more
conversations may be carried on
simultaneously by means of a single wire
by persons thousands of miles apart, will
soon be announced by Maj.-Gen. George
O. Squer, chief signal officer of the
army, it was learned yesterday.
The method, it was said, makes long
distance telephone communication virtu-
ally limtless. Conversations from Nome
to Rio. and from Argentine to Alaska
will be a matter of course. provided
single wires are strung between the
points mentioned. The new method will
save telephone and telegraph companies
large sums of money as by its use one
wire will do the work now done by ten
or more.
1t is expected to put the new method
in practical operation between New York
city and Albany in the near future.
Successful tests of the method have
been made by government experts re-
Gently along the line of the Harlem
division of the New York Central rail-
road. The experiments are still going
on, but the results have been so crafty
ing that General Squier will soon make
his formal announcement.
A government experiment car has
been established at Mierton, Dutchess
county. under the direction of Lieutenant
r. d. Duncan. The experiment were be-
gun by General Squier in 1903. and in 1911
he patented his method, dedicating it to
the public and thereby renouncing a
potential fortune.
Little work had been done to perfect
the method when the war began. and
after that General Squier had little time
to work op it until the armistice was
signed. Since then the experiments have
been pushed with vgor.
Wired wireless" is system of guild
ing radio currents by means of a wire
| The currents travel through the air along.
side the wire, which guides them to their
| destination. ii was explained, The
method eliminates one fault of the ordi-
+ nary radio which sends the messages
broadcast in all directions. Under the
| Squer method the wave currents stay
close to the wire, thus insuring relia.
bility and secrecy.
The principal difficulty in long distance
telephoning has been that to carry the
direct current to u great distance requires
conductors so large as to be almost
impracticable. The new method has
adapted an alternating current of high
frequency to the use of the telephone
through adaptation of the instruments
used in wireless telegraphy to the pur
pose.
The high frequency current travel.
along the wire, but not in 1t. passing
through the ether as do radio waves. will
the difference that instead of being diff
fused 1t travels in a path of which tn,
wire serves as core, Enthusiastic per
sons who know of General Squer's worl
believe that as many as so messages ma.
be sent along one wire simultaneously.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-01
WOULD USE HEAT IN
ATMOSPHERE FOR FUEL

st. Louis. Dec 3O.-Heat energy of
the atmosphere is sufficient to replace
fuel for all purposes, according to a
paper II. II. Plat of Philadelphia read
at the convention to-day of the Amer
lean Association for the Advancement
of Science He urged the scientists to
use their energies to bring about
means of abstrac ting this fuel as to
relieve coal oppressed humanity. Bot
anisits and meotrologists discusse cd
ways and means of furthering produc-
ton of food stuffs and reducing the
living cost.
The recent discovery in Utah of the
bones of a dinosaur, a re-historic ami
NAL, which, it said. is believed to be
the largest specimen ever found, was
disclosed by DR.. William J. Holland
director of the Carnegie Institute
DR.. Holland said the monsters neck
bone was five feet long.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-01
HAS EVIDENCE OF LOST
CONTINENT IN PACIFIC
Hawniin Professor Starts Expedition to
Prove Truth of His Belief

Prove Truth of His Belief
Buenos Aires, Dec. 2s.-Evidence Of
lost continent in the Pacific ocean,
6,OOO-mile prehistoric bridge Of land
between South America and Hawaii, long
submerged. is being sought by an Ameri-
can scientist, William Alanzon Bryan,
professor of zoology and geology In the
College of Hawaii. who left Honolulu last
June on his remarkable quest.
DR.. Bryan, who came to Argentina by
way of Mexico and the west coast of
South America, where he studied vol
canoes and Andean geology, is about to
return to Valparaiso to board a ship to the
little island Of Juan Fernandez, 400 miles
out The island is inhabited by a small
colony of fishermen.
In the Philadelphia Academy of Natural
Science" said the professor, 81 was sur
prsed a year ago to discover certain
little fresh water moluscs from Juan
Fernandez that were extraordinarily
similar in their characteristics to certain
molluscs in Hawaii. So | decided to visit
the island study those shells and its
entire flora and fauna
! If the Juan Fernandez molluscs should
prove to be closely allied with those of
Hawaii, Dr. Bryan explained in an ad-
dress here. II would prove that land con-
nection had existed, as the spices must
have travelled from Juan Fernandez to
Hawaii vice versa by the rivers of the
prehistoric continent. He hopes this visit
! ing the island to find evidence OF the
date of submerging of the continent. its
geology. confguration and the direction
in which the rivers ran. He is supplied
with divers suit and other paraphenailia
for making scientific research.
Professor Bryan considers it not I'M
likely that the lost Pacific continent pre-
ceded that of South America in the dark
ages of time.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-01
FORMER CROWN PRINCE
WILL ALSO BE TRIED
His Name Included in List OF Germans
Demanded by the French

London. Dec. 2S.-Frederck William. the
former German Crown Prince. will be in
cluded in the list of persons whose sur
render for trial Is demanded by the
French, according to an unofficial report
of a recent meeting between British law
officials and Edouard Ignace, French
under secretary for military justice.
The ex-Crown Prince. 1t is said, will
be charged with criminal offenses, includ-
ing 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 the former Emperor
William.
A list of the men whose surrender will
be demanded has been completed. 1t is
stated and the steps which are to he
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 next month.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-01
SHE CHANGED HER MIND

Judge White Is telling with relish OF
his encounter with a certain young
matron of the Wiltshire district II seems
her husband had been spending most OF
his nights at the club and the lady limited
to his honor that one of these days she
might bring The matter into court 1t wy
serious. The other day, however, en-
countering the Judge on the street, she
buttonholed him, saying Judge I'm Sc
sorry ] said all those things about my
husband. He is all right after all" "WhS
the change of hearth" asked White
curiously. "Well, the other night {
burglar broke into the house and m,
husband laid him out with poker
heard that he was poker expert and nov
understand. The dear hoy has beer
spending his nights preparing for jus
such an emergency."-Los Angeles Times
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-01
REDS THREATEN LIFE
OF GOVERNOR LOWDEN

Chicago. Dec. 2s-Two secret service
agents in formal dress attended the
presentation to society yesterday Of Miss
Harriet Lowden. second daughter OF
Governor and Mrs. Frank o. Lowden
as the result of the receipt by the Gov
ernor of threatening letter, it was
disclosed to-day. Postoffice inspectors
believe the author of the threat was an
anarchist.
The Governor took little notice of the
letter except to turn it over to the post
office department.
The letter follows:
Mr.. Governor Your life will soon be
taken. You are mixing with the enemies
of society--the plutocrats and capitalistic
class This cannot continue. You will
not have long to wait the time when you
will pay the penalty
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-01
THREE TO HAVE TROUBLE
IN GETTING AUTO LICENSES

Montpelier, Dec. 2S.-Three more per-
sons will have trouble in securing auto
mobile operators licenses next year. two
at least of whom will be unable to
secure them. Il. Giroux of Hyde Park,
whose license had been revoked by the
secretary of State for being intoxicated,
while David Trudeau of the same town
has lost his license through suspension
because he is unfit in the opinion of the
official. to operate a car. The third man
is A, c. Hebert of Beebe, whose license
Is suspended because of an accident
and failure to report the same.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-01
CANADIAN WHEAT GOES UP

Winnipeg. Man. Dec. 2s.--Effective
to day, the Canadian wheat board has
ordered that the price of Manitoba
wheat to mills in Canada be raised
from s2,3O per bushel to $2.sO "A bushel
in store at terminal elevators at Fort
william or Port Arthur. Another re-
gulation increased the maximum whole
sale price of government standard
spring wheat flour from $1,000 per
Darrell, basis Z, o. b. cars Montreal
In connection with the above ad-
vances in the price of wheat and flour
James Stewart. chairman of the Cana
dian wheat board. stated to-day that
in order tht the consuming public may
have advantage of supply of cheaper
flour in the United States, permits will
be issued for import of the American
product
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-01
CLAIM ORGANIZED BAND
SOLD WOOD ALCOHOL
Headquarters mt New York-Five Men
Placed Under Arrest

New York. Dec. 2S.-Federal agents late
tonight arrested five men whom they
claimed to be the heads of an organized
band responsible for the recent wide
spread sale of wood alcohol connections
through five States. One of the men ar
rested was described by the government
agents as "the kingpin of the ring" Two
of the men in custody were described as
New York business men.
For ten days since the first fatalities
were reported from wood alcohol poison
ing. Col. Daniel l.. Porter, supervising
revenue agent for New York, and II. B.
Dobbs. special federal agent. have been
working on the theory that the poison
which caused scores of deaths through
out New England and New York orig
mated In this city. The arrests made
tonight were effected in widely separated
parts of the city.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-01
SUITED ALL AROUND

DR.. w. G. Downs. an Evansville dem
list, was In indianapolis the other day
and while there a friend gave him a bot
tie of whiskey. He could not Nse the
liquor. "Jes right boss" said the dusky
ether in the bottle. He gave the liquor to
a coored walter at one OF the Indian
apolis hotels. The next morning he
asked the colored man how he liked the
liquor. "Jes right. boss said the dusky
one. "It was jes exactly right IF 1,
had been any better you wouldn't have
gave It to me and II it had been any
worse I could not have drunk TIN.
ldianapolis News.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-01
CHECKER MEN MEET
W. u. Ingnils OF RichfOrd President Of
Vermont Club

Montpelier. Dec. 30.-The annual meet
ing and checker tournament of the YER
mont Checker club is taking place in the
Apollo club rooms in Montpelier. The
annual meeting took place at one O'Clock
this afternoon, when the following Off
GERS were elected President, w. d.
ingalls, Of Richford; vice-presldent, l.. j..
Eggleston of Rutland; secretary-treas-
urer, W. C. Hoag of Burlington; direc-
tor of games, o. G. Eaton of Waitsfield
executive board, President ingalls,.
Quincy Perry of Barre and j. y. Tag
CART of Randolph. About % persons from
different parts of the State are partici-
pating in the check match for the cham
pionship in the coming year.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-01
CALIFORNIAN FAVORS
VAIL FOR CHAIRMAN

st. Johnsbury. Dec. 30-In endorsing
the suggestion of the Free Press that
Theodore y. Vail, head of the Vermont
delegation to the next republican con-
vention, the Coedonian Record says:
THE Hon. Alexander Dunnett of St
Jonnsbury has been very favorably men,
toned and would have been glad to have
been a delegate, but in view of the
large acquaintance Of Mr.. Vail with the
powers who are likely to control the con-
vention, it Is more for the interest of
the State and its position in the conven-
lion that Mr.. Vail occupy the position of
chairman and Mr., Dunnett is more an
Nious to have Mr.. Vail head the YER
mont delegation than TO be delegate
himself"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-01
MAYO ALSO OBJECTS TO
NAVAL MEDAL AWARDS
Congressional Committee Will Inves-
tlgate the Entire Subject

Washington Dec. 2s-Secretary DAN
iels has made public letters from more
naval officers who have Joined Admiral
William s. Sims in protesting officially
to the navy department on the subject
of the awards announced for men in the
service in recognition of their war rec
ords Secretary Danies's action in d.
recting the board on awards to recon-
slider the awards Aas not served to stop
the proposed Congressiona investigation.
Representative Lufkin of Massachus-
sets, after comforting Saturday with
members of the Senate committee on
naval affairs, announced tonight ETAO
naval affairs. announced that joint
committee of the Senate and House would
investigate the comforting of naval
awards for war services He said that
Secretary Daniels. Admiral Sims and
Rear Admiral Knight would be called as
witnesses.
Secretary Daniels Saturday gave to the
press copies of letters of protest he had
received from Admiral Henry T. Mayo,
Rear Admiral Benton C, Decker Rear
Admiral Hilary p. Jones and Captain r.
De l.. Hasbrouck. The Nst two, Il press
dispatch from Newport, r. l.. reported,
had declined awards of war honors. Sec
| rotary Daniels also let II be known to-
J day that Admiral Henry B. Wilson had
written to him concerning the failure Of
the naval board to follow his recommended
/ tons of awards to officers who had
served under his command,
/ According to reports. Admiral Sims had
| charged Admiral Wilson with lack Of
cooperation in the work abroad Secre-
tary Daniels would not admit the cor
rectness of this, but admitted that GER
tain recommendations of Admiral Sims
affecting Admira, Wilson had not been
approved. The board which had disap-
proved the recommendations OF Admiral
Sims. Mr., Daniels indicated. was respon-
sble. and no criticism could lie against
! Admiral Wilson in this connection.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-01
LEGION POSTS
NUMBER 1851
Total Includes Those in U. S.
and Foreign Countries
Vermont Has 76

Indianapolis. Dec. 2S--American Legion
posts in the United States and foreign
countries now tota, 6,j6i, IL was announce
ed to-day at national headquarters here.
France, England and Carada each have
one post. Alaska has four posts. Hawaii
five. cuba one, Panama one, Mexico and
the Philippine Islanjs one. Ten States
have ncre thar 200 posts each.
New York leads thr States with TT
posts and Pennsylvania Is second with
497 New Jersey has 224 and Vermont 76.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-01
SEEKS DAMAGES FOR
HER HUSBANDS DEATH

Montpelier. Dec. H,-Two hearings are
set to he held in st. Adams January g. at
The Tavern, the first of which will he
the case of Nina Mitchell VIZ. the Central
Vermont Railway company. The question
in this instance is whether the defendant
Is liable because 1he woman's husband
was killed by Rutland railroad train
The second hearing is: Celia Roberts VS.
the Remington Arms company Of Swan
ton, a question relative to injuries.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-01
SAID TO HAVE PUT TRAPS
IN MUSKRAT HOUSES

st. Adams. Dec. ,9.--Arnold Brooks
and Charles Norsted of this city were
arraigned before Judge N. n. Post in
the city court this morning charged
with opening muskrat houses and set
ting traps therein. They pleaded not
guilty and were held for trial at some
future date before a jury, furnishing
bail OF $50 each. The case was prose
cuted by A. J. Croft of Enosburg Falls
game warden for Franklin county
through States Attorney A b. Rowley
and M. II. Alexander appeared for the
respondents.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-01
INVESTIGATE THE DEATH
OF YOUNG GIRLS CHILD

Waterbury, Dec N-An autopsy was
performed yesterday ON the body Of an
illegitimate child born to the l5-year-old
daughter of George Greenslit of War
rem. DR., Stone and Earl Davis. States
attorney Of Washington county. visited
Warren yesterday to invcetigate the af-
fair.
The child was born the morning of De-
cember 90 II died the same day. The re-
port of DR., stone is understood not to
have been received by states Attorney
Davis.
The Greenslit girls father was indicted
for the murder Of a man by the name of
Heath a short time ago. but on the trial
the Jury disagreed and Greenslit was
discharged
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-01
More Deer Killed

Montpelier. Dec. 3o-Morc reports OF
deer killed are being received at the
fsh and game commissioners office.
These include 80 received from Essex
county this morning, while seven others
were reported, making u total Of 10 de-
layed reports Of deer killed in the open
season. which have reached the commits
sioners office, This makes the total
number of deer reported killed Ala dur
ing the open season
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-01
UNLICENSED MACHINE
IN BURLINGTON ACCIDENT

Montpelier, Dec. 30.-The report of an
accident which took place in Burlington,
in which A. Boucher was involved, has
been received at the secretary of State
office and Is under investigation. 1t
appears that the driver of the car was
operating an unlicensed machine which
may result in criminal action in the mat
ter unless the license fee for 1919 is paid,
it was stated at the secretary's office
this morning.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-01
MONTPELIER UNDER CARD
SYSTEM FOR SUGAR

Montpelier. Dec. 29-Sugar jumped from
IL to 10 cents a pound here to-day. Mer-
chants had a meeting this morning rela-
tive to amount of sugar to be distributed
under card system. Amount this week to
be one-half pound per person.