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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-05-25
ONE MILLION MEMBERS,
SLOGAN OF ASSOCIATION
Organization for Recognition Of Irish
Republic Plans Formidable
Petition to Hardinn.

Washington, May 25.-W. LYONS
one OF the officials at the national
headquarters Of the American Assoc :
alton for Recognition of the Irish Re.
pubic, took prominent part in an all
day session of the national officers of
that association. John ]. Hearn of
worcester, the national treasurer. was
also leading spirit. The confer
ence decided three principa. actly ties
First to launch at once an intensive
campaign to double the membership
with the slogan "a million members
by the Fourth of July: second. to
make a nat onal canvass with the pur.
pose OF reaching every person in the
country with petition asking recog.
n.tlon OF the Irish republic. This idea
orig mated with the Massachusetts
members and has a double purpose to
compile a national directory of all
persons in the country fayoring the
cause of Irth freedom and to pre-.
sent a formidable petition to Presi.
dent Harding and the senate commit.
Tee on fore gn relations; third to
draft and send telegram to De Val
era, congratulating him on the strug.
Z G IN Ireland and pleading the full
moral and financial support Of the
American association.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-05-25
DUBLIN CUSTOM HOUSE
DESTROYED BY FIRE
Building Cost s5,ooo, ,ooo-sinn Feiners
Charged With Job-Three are
Reported Killed

London, May 25.--The custom house
in Dublin says a Central News de-
spatch from there. was burned this
afternoon. The burning adds the
message, Is attributed to the Sim
Feiners. The building destroyed was
one Of the finest in Dublin and cost a
million pounds. The inmates of the
building fed as the fire broke out.
Another account says the building
was set on fire through bombs that
wer thrown into the build ng. A rail
road bridge, running past the building
was occupied by large number of
men upon whom a fulsade was
opened Others near the custom
house also were fired upon. Lorry
loads Of military were bombed as they
were driving up to the scene. The
soldiers fired machine guns, rifles and
reyolyers. Several persons were seen
to fall SO far three appear to have
been killed.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-05-25
FAIRIES FESTIVAL
Primary and Grammar School Pupils
Entertain Large Aud ence.

The play given last evening at High
school hall proved a success N every
respect. The tots were well trained
and much credit is due Mis- Bessie b.
Kinne and Miss Gertrude Carney who
have been so untiring in Their efforts
not only for this occasion but the SER
les of school enterta nments given
throughout the winter.
The hall was nearly filed to its ca.
pacity last evening 9Th a most en-
thusiast audient W., ens the
smallest tots received orn1on, ap-
plause for their splendid @o~s State
preciation was shown of the -
done by the older girls who must have
devoted much time to practice in or
der to memorize the songs rendered.
The play was short and when the last
selection was given and the curtain
drawn the spectators were reluctant
to leave hop'ng for more until Miss
Kinne announced that the program
was concluded.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-05-25
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
CONVENE IN RUTLAND
Bennington Council Sends Delegation
OF Three to the Annual
State Meetinu

Distr ct Deputy p. J. Prendergast
and Marthew Meagher and David T.
Murray returned Tuesday night from
Rutland, where they had gone to at.
tend the twenty-third annual conyen-
ton of the kn ghts of Columbus Of
Vermont.
The convention opened in Rutland
Monday morning with a relig Gus serv-
ice and a brief business sess on which
was preliminary to the principal meet
ing in the afternoon when officers
were elected and resolutions were sub.
m tied on various questions of vital
interest to the order The presence
of b shop ], Rice of Burlington was
one of the interesting features Of the
afternoon meeting. Rev j. ]. O'Brien
of Castleton spoke on the good and
accomplishments Of the knights of
Columbus order He called attention
to the part that the organization had
had in acts of Christ anity in bring
ing about good government and in
every big undertaking which has come
before the people. The relief work Of
the Knights OF Columbus in the World
War stands as an example.
State Secretary p p. ] Kinks Of
Midd'ebury reported that there were
II councils in the state, the total mem
bershio being 1862, which is a gain Of
GAG since the last convention.
Tho program of the day closed with
dance at the state armory in the
evening"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-05-25
ALBANY TRANQUIL;
MARTIAL LAW IS
PR0TEGTINGCITY
State Troopers Parade Streets in
Motor Cars and Afo0t
CLOSE THREE HOTEL BARS
SearchIights Play on Roofs of
Buildings for Hiding PAGES
of Snipers

Albany. N. Y. May - 25.-Albany's
business section is practically under
martial law with state troopers pa
trolling the streets on horseback and
on motorcycles, in automobiles, and
afoot. preventing crowds from con
gregating in any OF the danger spots
where roits occurred on two nights
last week, due to the prolonged str. Ike
of street car employees.
Even from the tops of office build
ings the state troops kept watch on
the situat on, to detect rioters VINO
might try again to drop rocks into
the streets or snipe the strikebreak-
ers with revolvers. From time to time
the strong beams Of searchlights
grouped across the roofs, probing h d.
ing places where on previous occa-
s.ons gun men lay concealed.
Police raids on unlicensed jitney
busses during the day tightened the
tension, and the sheriff, at the re-
quest OF the state troopers. closed
three hotes and their bars in the
trouble zone, near the Union depot.
Traffic was closely regulated in that
region.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-05-25
MONEY FOR NAVY s
WEST COAST BASE,
SENATE REFUSES
Friends of Administration Sur
prised at Action of S0Ions
FLEET TO GO TO PACIFIC
Discussion of Plans Abandoned
to Avoid Rousing Anti-Ameri-
can Feeling in Japan

Washington, d. C. May 25--Admin.
'stratlon leaders, both in and out of
Congress, are greatly disturbed over
the refusal of the senate to approve
the development Of the Alameda navy
supply base on San Francisco Bay,
which is one of the essential steps in
the new scheme to Concentrate a
large part of the batt,esh,p fleet in
the Pacific.
1t was learned today that the fail
IRE of the senate Monday, by a vote
of 40 to 80, to vote for the initial ap.
preparation of S6,500, 600 to start work
on the Alameda base, which resulted
from the combination of nineteen Re
pubicans voting in the negative with
twenty-one Democrats, will not deter
the secretary of the navy from con-
centratiRg a large fleet in the Pacific
so far as that is feasible with the pres
ent supply and repair bases. The
policy of the Harding administration
in this respect will remain unchanged.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-05-25
RESUL LTS PROVED
GREAT SURPRISE
Squires Says He Never Felt Bet
ter In His Lie Than He
Does Right Now.

81 don't believe could possibly feel
any better than | do now since TAX
ing Tanlac for it has fixed me up so
fine" said f. W. SQures Of Airing
ton, VT.
Il was in a badly rundown condi'
tion for several years and finally got
to where was ju3t physically used
np. | had such awfu dizzy spells that
tblack spots would come before my
eyes. my heart would palpitate terribly
and ! suffered so from shortness of
breath that many times / felt IKE
was going to smother. | was so n
yous and it was nearly day before
could drop off to sleep and when got
up in the morn ng and dressed myself
/ Just had to lie back down and rest
for a while before going down stairs
! seemed to have no energy or strength
fe tired out all the ME and my work
was a mighty big effort for me.
ut is certain Y surpris ng how
-FOUR bottles of Tan ac have butt me
up, and done away with all that di2zi
ness and palpitation and my breath
ing is now free and easy. The uer
vousness has entirely disappeared and
l sleep all night long without waking
up. get up in The morning full OF
strength and energy and ready for a
good days work and I'm simply fee
ting fine in every way. Tanlac is what
( did the work for me. And it's a pleas
lure to me to let others know what &
great medicine II is
/ Tanlac is sold In Bennington by w
l.. Gokay; in Pla nfeld BY Il. +. Lea
witt and in North Bennington, by a
NJ Shepard
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-05-25
CHICAGO MAN HUNTERS
NOW USE SHOT GUNS
They Surpass Rifle for Close-Range
ahtino-Also Are Less Dan
aerous to Public.

Chicago, May 20 Substitution of the
shot gun for the rifle is the latest
development in man-hunting by the
Chicago police. The time-honored
rlle squad has given way to the
pump-gun squad
The reason for the change was thus
outlined by Michael Hughes, chief of
detectives.
In close.range fighting the pump
gun Is much the more efficient weapon,
for within 80 feet of the objective
it has a spread OF four feet, each
shot carries nine rounds of lead
corresponding IN size to that in a
iSS revolver bullet
IN street lighting, So the chances
of hitting the innocent bystander are
greatly minimized by the use of the
shot gun, because the effective range
is so short
"The other day we discovered a
new use for the shot gun. During
race after bandits in an automobile,
one Of our men emptied his gun
through the rear curtain Of the speed
ing machine ahead. The hail OF bul.
let's stopped that ear as no rifle shot
would ever have done
"The gun we use has the shortest
stock. Every one OF the detective
cars carries these guns as regular
equipment
Another innovation IN the detect
shield as high rs mans head,
from behind which the operatives
can direct, in comparative safety,
their fire at band Is barricaded in a
building. This portable armor is
mounted on rollers, and is light
enough, so that one man can operate
it. Port holes, through which to fire,
and heavy gass peep hole are
appurtenances.
Bombing. which is now reco
gni2ed part of police tactics in Chit
cago, can be carried on with great
impunity from the shelter of this
shield, said Chief Hughes.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-05-25
BROWNS IN CANAL
Pulmotor Fails to Revive 10Year Lad
Of Coionc.

Troy, n. Y. May 25.--John Powli-
koski, ten years old son of Mr., and
Mrs Peter PowlikosM OF Twenty
seventh street in the town of Colonie,
was drowned in the old Erie Canal
early Monday even ng. The boy was
playing on the banks Of the old state
waterway when he stumbled and fell
into the water His cries were heard
by John Opalka, who jumped nto the
water without removing his clothing.
When the boy was brought to the
dock he was in an unconscious condi-
ton. Word was telephoned TO the po-
lice station for the pulmotor, which
was operated by Or. II. S. Albrecht OF
Green Island The efforts, however,
failed to revive the boy.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-05-25
CATHERINE sARRATr CONE
Passed Away at Putnam Memoria
Hospital Sunday Morning.

Catherine Barratt, wife of George
Cone, died early Sunday morning at
the Putnam Memorial hospital, after
lingering illness.
Mrs. Cone was born So years ago in
County Cork, Ireland. She spent her
ch ldhood years there and came to this
country when a young girl. Most of
her later life was spent in Troy. In
1909 she married George Cone and
since that time has resided in Ben
n.ngton.
During her residence here Mrs.
Cone has made host of friends who
will learn Of her death with sincere
regret She was deyout member Of
St Francis de Sales church.
Aside from her husband, Mrs. Cone
has no immediate surviving relatives.
The funeral was he'd from st. Fran
cs de Sales church Tuesday morning
a 8 o'clock.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-05-25
GOV. HARTNESS TO SPEAK
AT "Y" ANNIVERSARY
Thursday Evening, In the
Baptist Church

The sixty.third anniversary of the
Bennington Young Mems Christian
association will be celebrated In the
Baptist church at o'clock Thursday
evening. An Interesting program for
the occasion has been arranged by
General Secretary Winslow.
II EXcellency, JAMES J. Harness,
governor of Vermont, will be the pr nci
pal speaker. DIR Lucius II. Ross,
president of the board of directors in
1902, viii preside. A history of the
Womens Auxiliary will be given by
Mrs. w. b. Sheldon. The general
secretary's address will be q brief his.
tory of the assoc alton. Several other
speakers are on the program
Rev. VIM G. Towart will represent
the churches; Dwight c.. Drew, inter-
national committee; Arthur ]. Holden,
the state committee; Byron n Clark,
the state office. The High school or
chestra will furnish music.
At the close of the meeting an in
formal RECEIPT on will be held in the
church par'ors.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-05-25
RAPS NEWSPAPERS AND
WALLOPS PROHIBITION
Congregational Minister In Salt Lake
City Says Dry Regime Makes
Amateur Distillers

Salt Lake City, May 25,-Rey. Elmer
!. Goshen, a Congregational minister
who edited the Salt Lake Telegram to
day. in an editorial condemned news
papers and prohib tion He declared
that the average newspaper is con
cerned with the mere making of mon
ey and that to make profit will keep
st Il on every great question and fill all
its co umns with ush.'
He declared that the prohibition law
had failed to prohibit and that ii was
producing the finest crop of youthful
brewers and dist'llers that the world
has ever known"
He advocated that the United States
government manufacture liquor and
dispense it.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-05-25
MoDEsTY IN DRESS
"Hi" G rls Advised to Eliminate Low
Necks--NeW Dance Rule.

Troy, n Y, May 25.-An assembly
of the girls Of the Troy h gh school
was called yesterday and Principal
Robinson spoke on immodest dress
and dancing, particularly cheek-to-
cheek dancing, He advised the girls
to lengthen their dresses somewhat
and to refrain from wearing dresses
with low cut necks In connection
with dancing Mr. Robinson stated
that cheek.to-cheek dancing should be
abolished, and any attempt at such
dancing at any school affair would be
stopped
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-05-25
RADIO DIRECT TO PARIS
Relayire of Messages From New Yorb
Ended Yesterday

Beginning yesterday wireless mesa
ges from Paris to New York wi ! be
dispatched direct from Paris without
reayng at CroX d'Hins. near Bor'
deaux. French experts having compile
ted their experiments in connecting
sending boards with wireless appara-
tu'
1t is believed this will result in re-
ducng the send ng time Of dispatchc>
by two hours.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-05-25
JEWS TO CAMP ON TRAIL
OF THE FLIVVER KING
Birth Ahraht\, Ready to Begin Fight
Against al Anti-Memitic
Publications.

New York. May 25 Isidore Scherer,
counsel for the Independent Order OF
Birth Abraham, announced yesterday
that the organizations campaign
against the anti-Jewish propaganda of
Henry Ford would be started at once.
The order, at a convention just closed
IN Atlantic City, voted to spend 1000
600 combating Mr.. Ford S and simil.
ar propaganda in the United States.
THE first move" said Mr., Scherer,
''w.ll BE to call mass meetings OF the
order, which is made up of $40
lodges throughout the country and
represents 100000 Jews. Meetings
viii be held not only in the larger
ieities but n every commun ty where
there is an appreciate number OF
Jewc.
"The second move will be taken
this week, when Judge Aaron j,
Levy, newly elected Grand Master OF
the order, accompanied by myself as
counsel, will visit President Harding
and Attorney General Daughterty TO
ask that the Dearborn Independent
and all anti,Semtic propaganda
per odicals be suppressed"
Mr. Scherer said that following the
announcing of the campaign which
the Independent Order of Birth
Abraham had decided to make, he
he received a number of anonymous
letters, some of them threaten ng per
sonal violence to himself and others
predicting riots against the Jews.
81 cannot understand" said Mr..
Scherer, how some of the le'ters
which had vicious statements written
on the back Of them got through
mails but regardles Of that point they
were received and / regard them as
good evidence that the peace of the
country is threatened by the writings
of Henry Ford and others
Mr. Scherer said that the IndeNen
dent Order of Birth Abraham did not
intend to attack Mr., Ford personally
because 1t is believed the manu-
facturer is i'll advised
"The menace is not Mr.. Ford, y
said Mr. Seherer. His money is the
real menace. His attacks are not so
much aga nst Jews as again the we !
being of the United States.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-05-25
PlTTsFIELD BOY MISSING
12-Year-Old Lad Goes Swimming
Fails to Return.

Pttsfeld, Mass, May 25 After an
all n ght search, Tony Discisnier Of
33 Circular Avenue reported to the
police yesterday morning the failure
of his 12-year.old son, Tony, to return
last night from fish 'ng trip with an
other boy, whose name he did not
know.
He told the police that the boy left
home yesterday afternoon at 4:30, af'
ter stating that he intended to go fish
ing with h s friend. He neglected to
say where he was going, and when,
as the hour grew late and the boy did
not return, the anxious parents did
not know where to look for him. In
spite of this, Mr.. d scisnier spent al
Pmost the entire night looking for h
son, while other members OF the fami-
ly kept an all-night vigil in the home.
No trace Of the boy, nor word Of him
which would ind cate where he had
gone, could be obtained.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-05-25
PUT MILLS ON LIST
Rrattleboro Concern, Exempt 10 Years.
Now Target Taxpayer

! Brattleboro, May 25.-The l0'year
tax exemption of the FIT. Dummer Cot
ton Mill property having expired. the
Brattleboro listers set the property in
to the tax list yesterday at a valua-
tion Of SS50,000, making the corpora
on the ,argest tax payer in Brattle
'boro, the tax being larger than that of
the Estey Organ company or the Dun
ham Bros. company
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-05-25
BANDITS HOLD UP BANK;
ESCAPE WITH $4,000
Disarm Policeman, Keep Pedeotrians
on Street Moving-Load Cash
Into Auto-Sk,ddoo

New Castle, Pa, May 25-Four
armed bandits entered the Union Ma
tional Bank here yesterday afternoon.
and while a fifth disarmed police
man and kept pedestrians moving on
the sidewalk outside, they he'd up the
bank officials and employees and dump
ed $4,000 in currency from the
vaults into a satchel.
Firing their reyolyers into the air,
the bandits Jumped into an automobile
and escaped with state constahulary,
city police and deputy sherffs in pnr.
suit
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-05-25
HoNoRs BEST FRIEND
London Welcomes American Admiral
Who Stands by Britain.

London, May 25.-Newspapers of
this city We'd yesterday in extend .ng
warm editorial greetings to Rear
Admiral win am S. Sims, commander
of American naval forces in the war
zone during the last two years of the
world struggle Admiral Sims, who
arrived here Monday to receive a de.
gree of doctor of laws from Cam.
bridge university was described by
one newspaper as the best friend in
need that England found during the
wa"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-05-25
5APTISTS CONVENE
State Convention Opens at Bellows
Falls

State Convention Opens at Bellows
Falls.
Bellows Falls, May 25.-The 9th
annual meeting of the Baptist state
convention convened here Monday at
ternoon and about 800 delegates are
in attendance. The opening session
was held in the state armory A
stereopticon lecture was given by
Rev. S. n. Vinton of New York, The
we'come was given by Rev. j h.
Clark of Bellows Falls and the re-
sponse by Treasurer Elmer b. Ba ley
of Burl ngton. Addresses were given
by Rev A. f. Ufford of Shaohsing,
China. and Dr.. Charels A. Brooks OF
New York.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-05-25
GIRL lG KIDNAPPED
Miss Gertrude kenworthy, %, Miss.
Is ing Since Saturday Niqht

NJ ddlebury, May 25.--William Ken
worthy, living just outside Of this /.
lage on the New Haven road. has re.
ported to the local police that his
daughter Miss Gertrude Kenworthy.
y years old, was kidnapped between
10 and 1890 o'clock Saturday eve
ming by parties in a five passenger
automobile. The father states that
his daughter was sitting on the D az
"a of their home when car stopped
at the foot of the driveway leading
to the house. The daughter thinking
that somebody had come to call on
her father, went to where the auto
was standing when she was suddenly
seized and forced into the car, which
was at once started at full speed.
The car, which was headed north,
passed man some distance from the
Kenworthy home and he states. il is
said, that he heard somebody scream
and make an attempt to get out of
the car as 1t passed him The Mid
/ idlebury police have been notified but
all efforts to locate the young woman
or the parties who Kidnapped her
1 nave talleu.
The young woman IS described as
being about five feet n height dark
hair and eyes and at the time of the
kidnapping she wore no hat and was
thinly clad.
Girl Is Located
! Middlebury, May 25.-M,ss Gertrude
Kenworthy, 23, who disappeared Sat.
urday evening when she was supposed
to have been kidnapped by an auto
party of two young men and two WON
en- is back home again and admitted
this afternoon to States Attorney
George Stone of Vergennes that she
left home Of her own accord as the
result of a quarrel between her father
and her stepmother in which she too,
became mixed up The girl was
found late Monday night at Bristol at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Smith, where she had been engaged to
WORK.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-05-25
SUGGESTSAPLAN
FOR Sc ETTLEMENT
OF S|LESIAN JOB
Give Poles and Germans Zones in
Which They Won the Vote
ALLIES TO HAVE CONTROL
For A 30-Year PeriOd-Briand
Urges ConciIiation-HOOted
By Many Deputies

Paris, May 25-The latest plan for
a settlement OF the Upper Siesia CON
troyersy, supposedly of Brit sh sugges
tion, is to give Poland and Germany,
respectively, the communes that vot-
ed in their favor at the recent plebis
cite, but to hold the entire territory
under the control of a special commits
sion for thirty years.
Following two-hOur defence by
Prem er BRAND Of his policy at the
London conference when the German
reparation payments were decided and
his course in the Silesian crisis, the
chamber OF deput es adjourned last
evening until this afternoon without
reaching a vote of confidence in the
government in its policy toward Ger
many The result of the days pro-
ceedings was distinctly favorable to
the government.
Keeps Ship From Rocks
"In the present world or sis no peo-
pie can live isolated he said. Il am
on the bridge and will not let the
ship 90 on the rocks. ! will not place
France in the position she was in
1916 and in 1871, nor can | forget
that n 1914 the English came and
the Americans also.
Continuing Prem er BRAND said
this policy did not exclude iirmness'
but he added that there was some
kind of frmness which had the ap-
pearanee of weakness.
Premier Is Hooted
NJ BRAND declared that the cham
Der must assume its responsibility, as
| have mne,' If it wished the occupa-
tion of the Ruhr.
When he described Premier Llyod
Georges speech as having been badly
interpreted and badly transmitted, in
dicating, apparently that the two pre-
m.ers had patched up their differences
there were loud boots from many
deput tes, but despite many interrupt
ions during his long speech, the pre-
mier seemed to keep a majority Of the
deputies with him by his promise to
use force II Frances vital security
was ever in danger although not be-
tore having notified Frances allies.