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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-11-22
ARLINGTON

r. B. Case and family motored to
Manchester Friday.
Thomas Killion spent Monday in
Bennington shopping
Edward Buck OF Cobbleskill spent
the week end in town.
James Hill of Manchester was in
town Thursday evening.
Miss Ellen Conroy has employment
at the local telephone Office
Miss Adelaide Cross who has been
i'll with the grippe, is somewhat bet
ter.
Harold Walker was in Pawlet
Thursday evening to play for a
dance.
The Refrigerator company is now
running full time, that is, six days per
week,
James P. Culinan motored to Ben
nington Thursday evening with a
party,
Mr. and Mrs. George Towsley OF
Manchester motored to Arlington
Friday.
Mrs james Casey, who has been
Ill with the grippe is better, and able
to be out
Herbert Squires and party Of
friends motored to Manchester Sat
urday afternoon
Mrs. ze'la Moynihan, who attends
Albany Business College, was home
over the week end
Miss Cora Perry OF Manchester
Depot attended the dance in East Ar
lington Friday evening.
Quite a large number OF people
from town attended the play in Ben
nington Thursday eSt@ins
The Misses Katherine and Glenna
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-11-22
Walker were guests of friends in
Manchester Center Thursday even-

Walker were guests Of friends in
Manchester Center Thursday event
ing.
Mrs. ]. B. l.akin was the guest Of
her daughter Mrs. w y. Hitchcock
in Manchester Center Friday.
Mrs. Edward Sculley Of Cobbleskill
has been spending two weeks in town
the guest of her daughter, Mrs, VIII
liam Morrissey.
The Christmas sale which was
held at the Martha Garfield Library
last Wednesday was big success. A
more definite account of II will ap,
pear later.
Mrs. Ira Garfield, Mrs William
Delaney and Mrs. L. ]. Cullinan were
among those who attended the play
1.-THE Unloyed Wiie7,aat the Opera
.,ouse in Bennington last Thursday
afternoon
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-11-22
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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-11-22
Mrs. Horace Fuller.

The barn belonging to the Co. at
Freedleyyille burned Sunday night
also two horses owned BIZ John. Haley,
an automobile owned by Mr. Thayer,
quantity OF hay, grain, excelsior and
lumber. The origin OF the fire is un.
known.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-11-22
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Miss Hildred benedict Of Benning-
ton was home Sunday
Mrs. Il. j.. Whitney OF Manchester
Center was home Sunday.
David Belland OF the n =. 7 & T,
Co, was here over Sunday
James Bebee. it,. attended the
Farm Bureau meeting he'd in Man
chester Center last week.
Cecil Bowen, who has been spend
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-11-22
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New-York tribune., 1921-02-03
Court Reserves Decision
I'm Whitney Divorce Suit

Justice Cohalan reserved decision
yesterday in the divorce suit of Mrs.
Marguerite Linwood Palmer Whitney
against Nelson McStea Whitney, for
merly Southern golf champion and
member of leading New Orleans
family. The couple were married in
1909 in New London, Conn, where the
parents of Mrs. Whitney have sum-
mer home.
The examination of detective yes
terday as witness for Mrs. Whitney
brought forth the allegation that the
defendant was served with summons
n the suit Immediately upon his be-
ing discovered with the correspondent
early one morning last June in a West
Pifty-seventh Street apartment. The
witness admitted he had the summons
with him all ready to serve upon Whit
ney at the time the evidence was OBJ
tanned. Testimony was given that af-
ter the woman in the case was found
in room of the apartment by the
raiders she went to the door leading
to an adjoining room and called:
"Neise, ccme out" whereupon Mr..
Whitney appeared.
George R. Denkle, a cIassmate at
Yale Of Reuben Palmer, brother of
Mrs. Whitney, was a member of the
raiding party, He said his only in
terest In the matter was that he wished
to do favor for the sister 81 a
friend of his. Justice Cohalan sub
mitted Denkle TO long examination,
the witness corroborating the detec-
tive on the main points of his evidence.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-03
Connolly Urges Probe
Of Contracts i'm Queens

Borough President Maurice e. Con.
molly of Queens yesterday submitted to
District Attorney Dana Wallace an
affidavit. made by Comptroller Charles
L Craig in regard to Queens paving
contracts and suggested that the Comp
Sroller's statement was sufficiently ex-
piicit to warrant the District Attorney
to present the matter to the grand
jury.
The affidayit was filed by the Comp
troller in the Supreme Court, Brook
lvn, in connection with the contract of
the II. j. Mullen Contracting Company,
whose warrant for $35,244 has been
held up by the Comptroller. Part of
the Comptroller's affidavit quoted by
Mr.. Connolly follows:
"Thc investigation made by the
Comptroller personally diclosed the
condition of bidding for contracts
of the character in question in the
Borough of Queens, which, to say the
least, was curious and invited inquiry.
Information in the possession of the
Comptroller disclosed that certain
firms and corporations who were en-.
gagged in the business OF supplying
material for paving and sewer con-
tracts were regular bidders upon the
contracts to be awarded for such work,
but were never successful.
"In other words, the bids of these
material men were always high and
they were never awarded d construc-
tion contract during the year 1920,
which Is as far as the present inquiry
has extended
New-York tribune., 1921-02-03
Even Will Is Upheld
BY Surrogate's Jury
Testatrix Who Left Clergyman
$4,000 Held Not Under
Influence of Sister

The will Of Miss Maria Louise Even,
which was contested by John Even,
nephew, was sustained yesterday by
the verdict of a jury in the Surrogates'
Court Mr.. Even, who is lawyer,
objected to the probate Of the viii of
his aunt on the ground that she was
mentally incompetent to make Will
and that she was under the influence
Of her sister, Miss Eliza Even. Sur
rogate Foley dismissed the allegation
Of incompetency, which question did
not go to the jury, which was asked
to pass only on the charge Of undue
influence.
In summing up the case fol the ex-
ocutors, who asked the probate of Mss
Ewen's will, Arthur G. Train, referred
to the Rev. Aubrey Percy Nelson, v no
lived at the Even home and received
$50 900 in her will, as nothing, but
a weak, silly, pink-faced parasite Of Il
clergyman, who lived on this woman
for ten years"
Miss Even, a daughter OF the late
General John Even, wa bout sixty
FIVE years old when CHI died and 3eft
an estate estimated It about $500
GOO. Several years ago she msg.ied
Baron" Boto Won Koenitz a German
of doubtful antecedents, who was not
entitled to a title. He got about S-tj,-
000 Of his elderly wife's money, be-
fore she had their marriage annulled.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-03
50 Cases of Liquor
Stolen After Raid
AS Agents Guard IL
Whisky Disappears From
Newark Warehouse While
One Dry Enforcer Sleeps
and Other Holds Prisoner

While one prohibition agent stood
guard over prisoner and another agent
slumbered in the Office of Kanengiser
Brothers's warehouse at SO Fleming
Avenue, Newark, yesterday, some one
broke into the cellar and stole thirty
six cases of whisky, which the agents
had confiscated in their raid on the
place.
Prohibition Director George W. Van
Note personally directed the raid on
Kanengiser's place and the work was
done by agents of his staff instead Of
by Enforcement Agent Demos men.
81 am tired of the lack of efficiency
shown in enforcing prohibition and |
expect to lead the next raid myself"
said Mr.. Van Note some days ago.
His opportunity came when, after
an all-night wait, Inspector .Cayanagh,
of Van Notes staff, and Agents Brill
and Murray, early yesterday are al
legged to have seen two men loading
barrels on truck which had backed
up to the warehouse. The agents ar
rested the men, who said they were
Morris Kanengiser and William Merkle,
the Natter q driver. The men we're
turned over to the police, with the
truck and three barrels, said to con-
tain grain alcohol.
While Cavanagh went to make COM
plant, Murray and Brill were left to
guard the warehouse and its contents,
which had been seized. 1t is said there
were 1872 barrels of grain alcohoi on
| the main floor and thirty~six cases Of
whisky in the cellar.
Samuel Kanengiser, q brother of
Morris, appeared while the agents were
waiting, and he was put under arrest
and taken to the front office The
| agents had been awake all night, so
while one of them guarded the pris-
ener; the other caught few winks of
sleep. Samuel Cone, another agent, ar
rived not long afterward and found
that a paddock on the wine cellar had
New-York tribune., 1921-02-03
O'Corlnor Sees
His Own Finish
As Dry Chief
Says He Expects To Be
Prohibition Director of
New York Office for
Only a Few Weeks More
Denies Other Changes
Characterizes Runaors of
Shake-Up as All Bunk;
Permit Clerk Transferred

Charles r. O'Connor, state director of
prohibition, said yesterday that he did
not expect to be prohibition director
during the next administration.
He again denied yesterday that there
were any impending changes in the
personnel of the prohibition Offices
He was annoyed at the continued ru-
mors, and once more denounced them
as groundless.
eff there is anything on seriously af-
fecting lis" he said, 81 certa My do not
know it; nor do I know anything on
which it might be based"
Mr.. O'Connor took particular excep-
tion to the published statement that
his authority had been curtailed.
"That is all bunk" he exclaimed
washington knows that wnen cease
to be master of my position / will not
hold it a single minute. There is moth
ing to- that stuff"
1t became known yesterday that John
Connor, permit clerk, whose signature
used to adorn all withdrawal permits
under the stamp of Mr.. O'Connor, has
been transferred to the Albany office.
Mr.. O'Connor says that Connor's
health broke down under the strain oi
work and that he was transferred or
that account.
He denied that Connor had been
transferred q week or two weeks ago
just when Connor's transfer became
effective is not publicly known, but he
was seen at the prohibition offices
about two weeks ago.
DR.. John Dinges took Connor's place
Mr.. O'Connor says that he appointed
DR.. Dinges to do that work. He sait
with permits for about Two weeks.
| 1t had been understood that Mr.
| O'Connor did not designate DR.. Dinges
! but that DIR. Dinges was directed from
| Washington to take charge of the per
NIT desk here.
In view of the fact, however, that Mr.
! O'Connor says that he relieved DR.
| Dinges of permit work after he hat
been so engaged for two weeks, it il
not fully understood just what Dr
Dinges's position is. He has desk II
the permit department.
It is understood that DR.. Dinges i
checking up on druggists holding per
mits to withdraw liquor.
1t was reported in the prohibition
building yesterday that Daniel j
Chaplin, supervising enforcement agent
| is due back in Chicago by March /. H
still holds his position in the lnterna
Revenue Bureau there.
The National Wholesale Druggists
Association announced yesterday it's op
position to the new ruling which place
in the hands of druggists the sol
right TO deal in liquor. They say
means the demoralization of the drul
! business.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-03
Says Ford viii Ignore Gest
Secretary Alone Comments ON
Reporfe1 SG ll5l( ShflA Sr;,

DETROIT, Feb. 3.--Counsel for Henry
Ford and editors of The Dearborn In.
dependent declined to comment to-day
upon information from Chicago that
Mcrris Gest, theatrical producer, had
tiled preliminary papers there in a
%5,O00,000 damage suit against Mr..
.. Ford and The Independent.
"Mr. Gest will be ignored" said Mr..
Ford's private secretary.
Up until early this afternoon no suit
lad been filed here by Mr.. Gest.
cago charged that an article in The In
dependent, owned by Mr.. Ford. con-
tanned ''libelous, slanderous and false
statements" concerning Mr.. Gest and
certain stage productions he has
handled.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-03
Policeman Braves Death
To Rescue Man i'm Fire

Patrolman John Mitchell, of the East
Twenty-second Street station, rushed
through a smoke-filled paint store at
314 First Avenue yesterday, braved
danger Of death or serious injury from
exploding oil. rescued the aged pro-
prietor and later saved the man from
prosecution for violation Of the Sulli-
van law in having revolvers in the
store
Mitchell carried the storekeeper,
Bernard Kurz, sixty-seven years old,
from the rear of the store, where Kurz
was cropping at the combination of his
safe, in an effort to get $4,000, which
represented the savings of his lifetime.
Firemen found two revolvers on a
shelf. Kurz, after having his burned
hands treated by an ambulance sur
geon, was asked by tl,e police to ex-
plain the presence of The weapons. He
said they must have been placed there
by his son. now dead. Patro'man
Mitchell pleaded for Kurz before Magis-
trate Max S. Levine later in Yorkville
Court and the storekeeper was re-
leased.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-03
Police Say Man Admits
Killing Woman for Hire
Prisoner Spirited Away After
Alleged Confession of Murder
at Milford. Conn.

MILFORD, Conn, Feb 2.--Joh Kace-
aranskas, thirty-eight years old, was
arrested In his bed in room in Bridge
port early to-day, and is charged by
the police with the murder OF Mrs.
Joseph Chernock in her home here yes
terday,
The officials said the accused man adj
mitted killing Mrs. Chernoek by beat
ing her with a cobbler's iron stand
after which he searched the house until
he found $40 which the husband Of the
dead woman had saved to pay interest
upon mortgage upon his home.
According to the story told by Kace-
aranskas, he was hired by two other
men to obtain the money. These men,
he said, drove him from Bridgeport
yesterday in an automobile and waited
nearby while he killed the woman and
obtained the cash. The police started
search to-day to find these men.
When friends Of Cheruock gathered
around the Milford lookup the police
feared that an attempt might be made
to seize, the prisoner. This afternoon
Kacearanskas was placed in sn automo-
bile, with four officers, and taken to the
county Jail in New Haven.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-03
Uprising i'm British India
Troops Fire on 1000 Who Al
tempt Train Hold-Up

LONDON. Feb. 2.-Unrest continues
among the peasants of the united prov
inces of Agra and Oudh, British India,
according to dispatch to The London
Times from Allahabad. Agitators are
reported to be carrying on violent
campaign against the government, de-
spite the fact that legislation has been
promised to remedy their grievances.
In the latest instance of disorder a
thousand persons lay down upon the
railroad track in order to halt g. train
on which they believed their leader,
who had been arrested, was beng
transported.
When persuasion failed the police
were ordered to clear the track. The
crowd then made an attack with stones.
whereupon the police opened fire with
buckshot
New-York tribune., 1921-02-03
Only. Survivor of
5 Boy Musketeers
Home. Decorated
Trio, Is, LII and s Years Old.
Went to Europe TO Fight;
Two Are Killed; Hero
Fears He Will ssKetch IT,

The story of how three Polish bows
sfrom America-thirteen eleven anG
elght years old-met by chance on g
pier in the North River in the spring
of 1917, discovered that they were all
possessed by the same ambition, and
sailed for Europe, where they fought
the Germans and Russians, and where
two OF them died like heroes, was told
yesterday by the Oldest of the trio
John Wisniewski. who returned on
board the Polish-American steamship
Gdansk. According to Wisniewski, his
two companions lie in graves some
where in the Champagne area.
When asked for an account of his
adventures John said: "I've been away
four years, and q MT spoke much Eng
lish lately, and besides it's k nd of a
long story. just came away from
school in Newark one day and came
over to,the docks-don't ask me which
ones-and | met my two pals, John
Uraczinski and Roman Szedlowski
Rome came all the way from Chicago
so he said.
eve got in with some Polish troops
gimme igarette--thanks-- leaving
on a boat for Canada, and we became
their mascots.
"But when we got across and up
toward the front we told the soldiers
we wanted to fight. But they only
laughed at US. So when we got q
chance we fought like hell"
Wisniewski told of how his two pals
were killed in the Champagne area.
after that / drifted back with the
troops" he said, "and | was in the
muss little last year when the Rus
SLAMS drove on Warsaw"
A Polish decoration-a gold starred
Medal of Bravery, and numerous
scars testify to just what degree the
boy hero was MIXED up in the success
ful defense of Warsaw against the Boil
sheviki
"But that amt what's worrying me
now" said Johnny yesterday. 81 got
to go back to school in Newark. to the
second grade B class, and Pm sure to
ketch it for playing hockey SO long"
New-York tribune., 1921-02-03
Crafts before orga nizing the Sunday
Ripbtc Ascociot;ou

Crafts before orga nizing the Sunday
Rights Association.
"The Internationt Reform Bureau
he resumed, "has not a single bit of
Sunday legislation in it's proposed
legislation for the present wear, nor
did ii have any last year. The so-called
blue law agitation is ghost, as far as
we know anything about it. Therefore
your organization is fighting a shade
and beating the air, so far as I can
see, and it would be waste of time for
DR.. Crafts to enter into debate with
a modern Don Quixote.
INSTEAD of lighting spooks, hadn't we
better get together and fight realities
There are certainly plenty of them to
be fought. ! find that have part. of
the evening of February unoccupied,
and shall be very glad to see you and
any other members of your association
that can come, at my office, 8 West
Ninety-tifth Street, for half an hour at
any time that evening from 1880 on
that you designate"
The Rev. Mr.. Watson chided Mr.. La
Guardla for placing weeks time limit
on the Rev. DR.. Crafts to accept the
challenge.
He's a Very Busy Man
Il am wondering" he wrote, "if you
reailze Or. Crafts is one of the busiest
men in America and is booked TO,
every minute of time for months ahead
because he. is known to be, not only
nationally but internationally man
who stands for the rights of all the
people and who is seeking to bring
about the best conditions not only fol
Sunday but for every day of the week
for all the world"
Mr.. La Guardia was asked yesterday
why ne had failed to acknowledge the
Rev. Mr., Watson's invitation to NEE,
him and get together to fight realities
instead of spooks.
why, ! did not get the letter." sale
Mr.. La Guardia. ''If | had woulc
| have answered it most courteously.
Will telephone the Rev. Mr.. Watson
and explain it to him"
Mr.. La Guardia denies that he is {
modern Don Quixote. 4
New-York tribune., 1921-02-03
Calls La Guardia Don Quixote
Trying to Ensnare DIR. Crafts
Proposed Debate ''Blue Sunday Fails to Get
Beyond the Letter-Writing Stage, With One
Communique Going Astray in Negotiations

:, Does the United States need a blue
Sunday?
Is Fiorello H. La Guardia a modern
Don Quxote"?
The Rev. Robert Watson, pastor of
the Second Presbyterian Church, presi-
aent or the international Reform Bu-
reau and one of the board of managers
OF the. Lords Day Alliance, says La
Guardla is reenacting the role Of Ger
vantes' eccentric hero in trying to en-
snare the Rev. DR.. Wilbur Fisk Crafts,
advocate of blue laws, into debating
the first question with him.
Ihe Rev. Mr.. Watson made the mat
ter public yesterday, not having re-
ceived any answer to letter he says
he wrote to Mr. La Guardia. Mr.. La
Guardia says he did not get the letter
and that is the reason he didn't reply
to the pastors invitation to meet him
tonight Ut his study and thresh out
the thing. 1t is all kind of mixed up
1t seems that Mr.. La Guardia recent
ly found time in the midst of his duties
as President Of the Board of Alder
men and champion of scent fare to
Rights Association, recently organized
by Elmore Leffingwell, publicity man,
20 fight blue laws. He followed this up
by sending challenges to the Rev. DR..
Crafts and the Rev. Harry L. Bowlby.
secretary of the Lords Day Alliance.
to debate with Kim at the Town Hall
the question: pSes the United States
need blue Sunday?
La Guardia's Letter
To the Rev. DR.. Crafts Mr.. La Guar
dia wrote:
For many months YOU have been
featured as the leader of a movement
to restrict Sunday activities by en-
forcing the so-called blue law statutes
of the past, or by causing to be enacted
additional legislation which shall have
the effect you desire. The full realiza-
tion of the scope of your activities led
to the formation of the Sunday Rights
Association, which has pledged itself
to employ every fair means to protect
Sunday as day of rest and recreation
for all the people of this country. As
one of the directors of the association,
it is my duty to carry on and to lead
wherever possible in it's activities.
81 trust, my dear doctor, that l shall
hear from you as soon as possible in
answer to this invitation If do not
within one week from to-day, ! shall
take it for granted that you have &C.
cepted, and shall make arrangements
to that end"
The Rev. DR.. Crafts didn't reply
within the prescribed weeks time, but
meanwhile the Rev. Mr.. Bowlby had
condltionally accepted the cnal enge
and negotiations are now under way
between the Lords Day Alliance sec.
retary and Mr.. La Guardia to stage the
event suitably.
Beating the Air"
When the Rev. DR.. Crafts got arounG
to it, however, in the course of his du.
ties as superintendent of the Interna
tional Reform Bureau in Washington
he forwarded Mr.. La Guardias letter
to the Rev. Mr.. Watson, and that cler.
gyman wrote to Mr.. La Guardia thai
he was greatly surprised" and won,
dered if it wouldn have been wise cc
have communicated with the Rev. DR.