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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-30


Brattleboro's Department Store
TOMORROW Is THE SIXTH DAY OF THE
Annual Contest Sale /.
Of the Goodnow, Pearson & Hunt Stores
The following lots of New Desirable and
Wanted Goods will go on sale at Big Reductions
beginning Friday.
In Our Downstairs Dry Goods Store
$3.50 Royal Worcester Corsets, in pink, good,
strong number, and one of the best makes
with heavy hose supporters. All sizes,
.s.@.e,. Contest Sale 1925
Womens $3.50 White Petticoats, with extra
deep r1ffles of fine embroidery. Assorted
styles of materials. Cost more than we are
asking you, Contest Sale $50
Csc White Outing Flannel, quantity limited,
good quality; less than wholesale price,
-. Contest Sale 24c
Csc White Cotton Cloth of fine grade, soft, no
starch SO inches wide. You will want this
quick at the price in our Contest Sale ESQ
$500 Bed Sheets of fine, heavy cotton. Size Tx
90;wide hem and less than price at mill,
-... Contest Sale $1.6S
Soc Bates Bingham in very pretty plaids; all
50 inches wide; big assortment from which
to select, Contest Sale 39c
45-inch Plain Colored Crepe in pink and blue.
A cloth used for so many purposes,
Contest Sale CSC
Csc White Shifting Madras, Sc inches wide, in
satin stripes. Fine quality. Also used for
waists, Contest Sale 45c
Women's soc Tan Lisle Hose, full fashioned of
very fine quality Odd lot to close out in the
Contest SaleT24c
Women's s1.5O Knit Boomers, in pink; of very
fine euality-the we'll known Munsng
80 81 make All sizes for the Contest Sale $50
Women's 69c Burson Hose, with white feet; all
regular and out sizes in the lot. Note the
reduction in the Contest Sale $50
$3.50 'Her Majesty" Corsets, in pink; one of the
best models and of very fine material All
sizes, for the Contest Sale $3.50
Children's 75c Knit Boomers in pink, and alsosg
in white. Just what you have been asking
for, Contest Sale 42c
Women's $3.50 Seersucker Petticoats, white and
cOlOred. Best to launder, and no ironing,
Contest Sale S1.19
soc COlOred Ribbons for hair bows; fine quality,
good assortment, Contest Sale SIC yard
So.5O Australian Blankets OF heaVy quality, IN
white and gray Good, big blanket, double
size. Slightly soiled,
Contest Sale $3.9S pair
35c Figured ChalIies, all SO inches wide and fine
quality. Suitable for kmonos and other
purposes. Assortment of colors,
Contest Sale 1870
$3.50 Wool Plaid in cashmere weave for dresses
or skirts; 40 inches wide. Fine quality,
Contest Sale $1.95
75c Fancy Figured Bath Towels-These are all
white with fancy colored border and very
pretty, for Contest Sale sec
25c Huck Towels, not large, but of good quality
All hemmed ready for use,
Contest Sale $50 each
S1.35 Mercerzed Table Damask of extra good
quality; different designs, all perfect goods
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-30
ar.zyI Wants Immlorsnts.

Brazil Wants immigrants.
Brazil Is encouraging immigration In
the hope of opening up uninhahited
territory and of supplying more labor
for growing industries.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-29
STRIKE SITUATION IMPROVED
Greater Percentage of Railroad Switch
men in East Have Returned TO
Work, Officers Say.

New York. J. Manten, chairman
OF the Railroad General Managers
Association, has issued a statement
saying that ''by far the greater per-
centage" of the striking railroad en-
ployees In the metropolitan district
had reported for duty. The railroads
proceeded at noon to Till permanent
", he said, the places Of men who had
failed to report.
Mr.. Mante1 declared further that
there was ga substantial improvement
in the general situation" that 'the
backbone OF the strike is broken"
All the roads, he added, will move
freight trains now.
Individual reports from various lines
were more optimistic than heretofore.
The Central Railroad of New Jersey
announced the strike on that road was
over. The men who went out, 1t
stated, will be reassigned to their
old duties and freight would be moved
at once. Passenger traffic was re-
ported as normal
The Pennsylvania and Lackawanna
railroads also reported many OF their
strikers were returning.
Passenger service on the New York
Central was said to be normal, with
strikers returning at Ashtabula, Buffa-
10 and Toledo. Three hundred cars Of
food and fifty cars Of news print paper
are on the way from Albany to New
York During the twenty-four hours
ending at noon the railroad reported
twenty-five hundred cars Of merchan-
disc had arrived at the Motthayen
yards, which was said to be better
than normal.
Influenced by the Lackawanna rail
road engineers, who voted to go back
to work, the firemen and enginemen on
both the LackaWanna and the Erie
also voted to return. Only a small
minority voted to continue the strike
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-29
WORLD SHORTAGE OF WHEAT
Europe Turns to America
for Supplies.

Observation-Disclosures of a world
wide shortage of wheat this year and
a worldwide increase in demand was
reported by the American agricultural
trade commissioner at London, who
said bread was selling in England at
what was generally considered the
highest price the wOrkingman would
tolerate without grave disorders. With
Russia still in a chaotic state, there
is little to be expected from that coun-
try in the way Of wheat exports and
Europe naturally turns to the United
States, Canada, Australia, India and
Argentina
Some European countries will be
compelled to import much larger guam
titles of wheat than in pre-war times,
provided they are able to arrange sat
isfactory credits, the report said. Con-
flicting reports in London from Rus
STA place wheat available for export at
35 million to lao million bushels, but
railroad equipment is not sufficient
to move any large quantity. England
and other European countries Will
have to depend on the United States.
Canada and other wheat exporting ma
tons.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-29
WHEAT GROWERS NEED LABOR
Representatives of Nine States Meet
in Kansas City to lay Plans
for Coming Harvest.

Kansas City.-That the procuring
and distribution Of harvest labor in
the grain belt from Texas to Canada
is momentous problem of national
Importance was evidenced by federal
and state labor commissioners from
nine states who met in an all-day ses-
sion at the Hotel Baltimore here for
the sixth annual conference of the
National Farm Labor Exchange to dis
cuss phases of this question.
Charles McCaffree, industrial COM
missioner for South Dakota and presi-
dent of the exchange, told the farm
managers and agricultural representa-
tives that the big trouble now is the
scarcity of men willing to help in the
great wheat harvest. Because of this,
he said, wheat acreage had increased
Is per cent over that of last year.
Already railroads have been asked for
a reduction OF rates for harvest work
ers. Mr.. McCaffree estimates that by
the third week in May, when harvest
ing begins in Texas, 100000 will be
thrown open. In a normal season these
workers can advance northward at the
A6(C VI (A4A 0dyS LA0S Pei
ting one man to hold from three to
four jobs. The army Of harvesters will
finish their work in North Dakota in
September.
The nine states represented in the
conference to take care Of wheat belt
troubles and to put business and or
ganization into the harvest system
e.
souri,, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming,
South Dakota and North Dakota. A.
L. Barkman OF the department Of Ia
Dor and B. L. Hopson, assistant d.
rector Of the division of farm man.
agement of the department OF agri-
culture, also attended the meeting.
It was decided that Kansas City, the
logical gateway for the intake of the
harvest movement, would be general
headquarters as usual for the mobiliza-
ton Of harvest hands. J. D. Dunn,
superintendent Of the Missouri state
labor bureau with headquarters at 804
Grand avenue, will be in charge of
the harvest forces here. Men will be
assigned and transferred from one
place to another from here. Kansas
alone last year used 10000 harvest
employees.
A new idea that will be tried out
this year is the organization of four
unit camps conducted for the social
welfare of the men. Camps will be
started at Kansas City, Wichita, Kas.;
Lincoln, Neb., and Sioux City, Ia, and
then moved from town to town.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-29
FRENCH TROOPS IN AINTAB
Answer Appeal for Aid of American
Relief Workers Menaced by
Turks in Asia Minor.

Constantinople.-Fre troops SEN
tered Aintab, Asia Minor, April IA,
and have relieved the situation there,
according to a statement made public
at the French embassy here. Mes
sages sent from Aintab April II, ask
ing for immediate aid for American
workers there. were received last
week.
The French positions in Cilicia is
viewed as difficult. Railroad COM
munications between Mersina, where
French forces landed last week, and
Adana, were interrupted April II, trav-
elers arriving from the Asia Minor
coast said. The railroad traverses
level country without important
bridges and the Turks removed rails
from the road, thus cutting off the
French at Mersina from their chief
base of supplies.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-29
RAIL TRAFFIC NEAR NORMAL
Tie-Up of Freight Caused by "outIaw"
Strike OF Switchmen Being
Gradually Cleared Up.

$ New York-Freight traffic, almost
completely throttled by the unauthor-
lied strikes of railroad workers, had
reached 40 to so per cent Of normal
on lines entering New York and Jer-
sey City. With passenger service viz
tually normal again the roads are con-
centrating efforts on clearing up the
freight tie-up and hope to be operat-
ing normally by the end of the week.
i Chicago-Increased movement Of
freight and the return of more strik-
ers in the district was reported by
railroads. Freight traffic was said to
be 20 per cent normal.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-29
SURGEON SLAIN IN CHURCH
Or. James Markoe Physician to J. P.
Morgan, Shot Down by Al
legged Maniac.

New York.-Dr. James Markoe, a
well known surgeon, was shot and
killed while taking up the offering at
the morning service in the fashionable
ST. Georges Protestant Episcopal
church, Fifteenth street and Stuyves-
ant place, in the old aristocratic dis
trict Of New York.
His assailant was captured after a
short chase by a group of pensioners
headed by William Fellows Morgan,
president of the Merchants Associa-
ton Of New York; DR.. George E.
Brewer and J. Morgan Jones. At the
East Twenty-second street police sta
ton the prisoner gave his name first
as Thomas w Shelley and later as
Thomas w. Simpkin The police said
he told them he had escaped Thurs
day from the Eastern state hospital
for the insane at Williamsburg, Va.
Dr. Markoe, a wealthy vestryman Of
the church, was a friend and personal
physician to ]. Pierpont Morgan, also
a parishioner there. He was So years
old.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-29
MANY SLACKERS
EvADED TAX LAWS
Revenue Bureau Says 800, 900
Firms Snd individuals
in Their Duty.
A NEW ROUNDUP is PLANNED
Person Accused of Making Dishonest
Reports on Incomes and Profits
to be Punished.

Washington. = Despite the govern
ment's wartime appeal for tax pay
ments as patriotic duty. more than
make honest returns under the rev.
enue laws in the last two years, the
bureau of internal revenue announced
recently. In six months drive, which
ended on February 1, SIS, 051, 900 in de-
linQuent taxes were collected, Commits
sioner Williams reported.
Large Number Dodged.
The amazingly large number of per-
sons who did not respond to the gov
ernment's appeal has caused treasury
officials to consider the delinquent tax
roundup of alleged delinquents has
been Instituted to cover the tax period
on which returns were made March Is.
OF the total delinQuents, 131, 1886 had
not paid any income taxes, and an
additional 1920 did not pay the full
amount of taxes due. From these two
sources approximately $11, 0O0,0 600 was
collected.
Many Firms Delinquent.
Discovery was made also, the report
said, that 164, 1886 firms had not turned
over to the government the entire
amount of the sO-called luxury taxes on
sales and admissions. In some cases,
firm failed 10 make any returns of
the collections. Internal revenue col
lectors in all cases forced the delin-
Quents to make good the entire amount
as well as pay heavy penalty, Mr..
Williams said
The bureau estimated that for the
present year more than 100000 firms
and individuals will pay federal taxes.
1t is utilizing every avenue of informa-
ton to check up on tax slackers'' and
an average of 1900 persons will carry
on the governments investigation Of
suspected delinquency.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-29
ALLEN REDEDICATES NAY /
Governor Asks Kansans to Observe
Radical Anniversary with Patri-
otto Parades in Every Town.

Gov. Henry ]. Allen has proposed to
Kansas to have a Showdown" May
on the Americanism of her people.
The governor fixed this day as Amer
lean Day in the state and asked that
the occasion be observed in all the
cities and towns OF the state. In an
nouncing the plan, the governor said:
"An organized group Of radical agi-
tators is threatening the foundations
OF organized society. This government
Of the people, by the people and for
the people is on the defensive. The
principle OF majority rule may be en-
dangered at this hour unless that un-
mistakable majority organizes for pro-
lection.
1.-THE bad of foreign birth have been
accepted to our shores along with the
good on an equal basis and no ade-
Quate attempt has been made to in
struct them in citizenship. The vicious
element among the unassimilated
aliens, in spite of the large element OF
loyal American labor who believe in
UNFOLDING the laws of our country,
constitute a menace to Angle-Saxon
institutions
1.-The question whether the Amer
lean spirit and our historical institu-
tons shall predominant is as vital as
was the subject of preparedness four
years ago, when the preparedness pa
rades revealed wholesome public senti-
ment at that time.
Recently this group has transplant
ed in America the policy, long in vogue
in Europe, of making May day Civ
en- over to parades to the forces Of
irreconcilable radicalism. To the end
that people may have the opportunity
publicly to demonstrate their Amer
icanism and their determination to up
hold it against the vicious assaults Of
radicalism and internationalism,
hereby designate and set aside Satur-
day, May I, as American day, and rec
ommend that the day be observed in
all the cities and towns of Kansas.
"Parades could be arranged in all
towns, featuring the indiscriminate
marching together of men and women,
headed by the mayor and his commit
tees, by the local posts and the Amer
iCp" Legion-always 100 per cent
Az erican. Special divisions of school
children and teachers should be given
prominent places as the makers Of
America.
az have supreme faith in this coun-
try and its people. The heart of our
people beats passionately for the in
tegrity of American ideals and for our
Constitution and the institutions be-
queathed by it to us. This day, ap-
propriately observed, will give con-
crete expression Of the motions and
convictions of our people, that Amer
lea will fulfil her proper destiny in
the final realization of the ideals of
equality of justice and opportunity for
ALL"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-29
WORLD SOVIET is THE AIN
The Common object of Third Inter
rationale Communists and BoIshe-
Wiki, State Department Hears.

Washington.-The state department
has made public a detailed memOran-
dunn from original soviet sources,
showing that the creation Of a world
soviet republic" by international revo-
luton is the common object Of the
communist party. the third information
ale and the Russian soviets, all three
having a common personnel"
This revelation will have a hearing
on the effort to deport Martens, the
soviet envoy to the United States, who
now asserts he is not a member OF
the communist party. According to
the state department memorandum,
Martens, even if not q communist
member, is identified through the So
Wet government with the scheme to
promote resolution in this and other
countries.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-29
TELEeRAPHIc BRIEFS

The army reorganization bill has
been passed by the senate and now
goes to conference. The measure pro-
vides for regular army of 297, 900 Of
ficers and men, a national guard of
425,OOO and voluntary system Of mil
itaTy training for young men between
the ages of IL and 81.
John Bannon, vice-president of the
Brotherhood Of Railroad Trainmen, an
nounced recently that the charters Of
eight locals Of the organization in the
st. Louis district uad been revoked by
order Of the grand lodge.
John Grunau, president of the out
law Chicago yardmen's association.
was taken to the county Jail at Joliet
recently by federal officers after he
had refused to give $4,000 bond on
charge Of violating the Lever act, for
which he was arrested with twenty
four other strike leaders.
Hard fighting on the Polish front
was reported by the Russian soviet
government in its communique issued
at Moscow the other day. An advance
by the Reds in the Black Sea region
also was announced.
The Swedish government has de-
cided that it VIII not grant extradition
for DR.. Wolfgang Kapp, leader OF the
German reactionary revolt of March
IL, in the event such action is re-
quested by Germany, the newspaper
Vorwaerts has learned from an author
itatiye source.
Fighting is reported between Jap
anese and Chinese troops on the rail-
road to the west Of Hardin, Man
churia- South OF that city the Jap
anese have occupied several stations
on the railroad to the north.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-29
w w. Pickets Shot.

Butte, Mont.-Fourteen men, be
Iieved to be Industrial Workers of the
World strike pickets, and one police
man are in local hospitals suffering
from gunshot wounds sustained in a
clash on Anaconda road near the
Neversweat mine recently. Physicians
believe two of the alleged 1. W. w. will
die. Police were searching for three
other men, said to have been wounded
seriously. Striking miners were mass
ing in Finlander hall and the street in
front of the building Feeling was run
ming high. Police reserves have been
called out.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-29
KANSANS LYNCH
A NEGRO BRUTE
Mob at Mulberry Hangs Assail-
ant of 15-Year-Old Girl to
a Telephone Pole.
HARD FIGHT MADE BY SHERIFF
But When Young Victim Identified
Fiend Mob Stormed JaiI-oirPs
Throat Was SIashed.

Pittsburg, Kas-A negro tramp,
whose name is unknown, was hanged
by a mob at Mulberry shortly after
o'clock the other afternoon. A few
hours before his Iifeless body dangled
from a telephone pole, the nearest one
to Mulberry's 1-room Jail, he had bru-
tally assaulted Sylvia Brown, a Is
year-old girl, in the country two miles
northwest of Mulberry, tied her to a
tree and when she screamed for help
as he left, had returned and slashed
her throat with a razor
The mob, numbering from six hun
dred to one thousand persons, was
held off for an hour by Sheriff Milt
Gould Of Crawford County. newly ap-
pointed to the place, and two other Of
ficers, who arrived on the scene from
Pittsburg after Gould already had de-
fled the mob successfully for half an
hour.
The mob attack the small city Jail
on all sides, tearing the bars out Of
the three windows. But Sheriff Gould
had nearly won the crowd over to the
attitude of allowing the law to take
is course when a thing happened that
set the crowd wild.
Brought Girl to the Jail.
Someone went to the hcme of the lit
tie girl and brought her to the Jail. As
she was taken to the door the negro
saw her He threw up his hands in
despair He identified his victim be-
fore she had a chance to identify him.
The girl said the negro was the man
who attached her and tied her to a
tree and slashed her throat.
The Identification settled the fate Of
the negro.
There are three windows in the little
Jail, on the north, the east and the
south sides Of the building door
opens into the water and light plant of
the town. The mob gave up an at
tempt to enter through the door
From P. E. Pickard, a Pittsburg patrol
man, who was guarding the east win
dow, the mob wrested big bar. Ross
Armstrong, chief OF police Of Pitts
burg, was on guard on the south side.
He was overpowered by the mob.
Sheriff Gould was taken from his
stand on the north side. He was car
ried to a telephone pole and his arms
pinned around the pole.
Was Strung Up Quickly.
The mob soon made an entrance
iLto the Jail through the south window.
The bars were torn out of the brick
wall and two or three men went into
the jail. The negro soon was thrust
out and carried, with a rope around
his neck, to the telephone pole, where
he was strung up.
A white boy. is years old, who said
he was Benjamin Franklin Caldwell
workman Of Springfield, Ill, was with
the negro when he attacked the girl
and was captured with him south of
Mulberry this afternoon. He was
saved from the mob by the quick work
of the officers
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-29
Acid Stomach
Makes the Body Sour
Nine Out Of Ten People
Suffer From i

It sends It's harmful acids and gases al
over the body, instead of health and
strength. Day and night this eeaseless dam
age goes on. No matter how strong, its
victim cannot long Withstand the health
destroying effects of an acid stomach
Good news for millions Of sufferer
Chemists have found . sure remedy-o1e
that takes the acid up snd carries It cut
IF the body; Of course, when the cause i
removed, the sufferer gets well.
BIoatins, indigestion, sour, acid, sg
stomach uiseries all removed. This e.
proven By over half million aiIing folks
who have taken EAToNIC With wonder
fuI benefits. It can be obtained from any
druggist, who VIII cheerfuIy refund fts
triifing cost If not entirely satisfactory.
Everyone should enjoy its benefits. Ere
quently the first tablet gives relief.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-29
FRENCH PLAN FOR VISITORS

New York-Motor bus lines from
the principal railway centers in
France to all the important battle
fields and American cemeteries have
been established by the American Red
Cross for the benefit Of soldiers rela-
tives and sightseers.
Red Cross barracks where visitors
may take shelter in Indictment weather
and obtain food and refreshment also
have been provided. At Romagne, the
largest American cemetery in France,
the Red Cross has erected a hotel for
the accommodation Of the visitors ex-
pected there this summer.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-29

Methodist hospitals and homes in
Kansas will receive more than 1 mil
lion dollars from the interchurch world
movement collections to be made in
Kansas beginning April 25.. The Metho-
dist home for the aged in Topeka will
receive 100000, Wesley hospital at
Wichita will receive 100000, Hutchin-
son Methodist hospital will receive
SIS. 900 and Bethany hospital in Kan
sas City, Kas., will receive S199,500.
Kansas is expected to raise Ga million
dollars for the fund.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-29

The supreme court has supplemented
it's decision in the Barton County road
case, with an order permitting the
county commissioners to continue con-
struction of the highway across the
county, provided the cost is kept be-
low the figure named in the road petit
tion-$3O,0 200 a mile
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-04-29
Cincinnati Papers 6 PAGES.

Observation-Disclosures is made
by the Cincinnati afternoon news
papers that, owing to the shortage of
news print paper, accentuated by the
railroad strike and resultant restrfc-
ton of transportation facilities, edi-
tons will be limited to eight pages
until the situation is relieved.