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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-09
CLARK-SHOREY
PORCH WEDDING
Daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Carleton E
Shorey Becomes Bride of w. ID.
Clark of Seymour. Conn.

The wedding of Miss Mildred Warren
Shorey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Carle-
ton Il. Shorey of Brattleboro and Win
thrope Dean Clark of Seymour. Conn.,,
took place this morning at 10
o clock at the home of the brides parents
on DummerstOn road, only members of
the family being present. The ceremony,
which pas performed by Rev Edwin Z.
Wood, pastor of the First Universalist
church, took place on the porch. which
was decorated with garden flowers A
single ring service was used. The bride
gown was of blue crepe, heavily beaded
and she wore a blue hat She was at
tended by her sister, Miss Dorothy Shorey,
as bridesmaid, who wore a yellow organ
die gown. Archibald Clark of Bristol
brother of the bridegroom, was best man.
a wedding breakfast was served at IL
O'Clock, after which Mr.. and Mrs. Clark
left for a wedding trip of two weeks.
which will include a visit to the White
mountains. They will make their home
In Seymour, where Mr.. Clark has a posi-
ton as travelling salesman for a hardware
firm.
Mrs. Clark graduated from st. Law
renee university at Canton. y. Y, in
1914, and for the past three years she has
had a position in the Bridgeport. Conn.
high school as teacher of French She
previously taught a year in the Brattle-
boro high school.
Mrs. Chester Brown of Swampscott
Mass. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs Shorey.
attended the wedding
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-09
RE|NF FORCEMENTS
DENIED SLESIA
q
Supreme Council at Paris
Decides Against
Sending Them
AN AGREEMENT
ON LAND DIVISION
France and England Draw New Line
Between Polish and German Interests
Then Agree Further Military Ac-
tiOn Unnecessary.

PARIS. Aug. 9 (Associated Press).-
The allied supreme council decided today
not to send reinforcements for the allied
troops to Upper Si1esia. When the ques-
tion came up as to the sending of addl-
tional French troops as reinforcements
the British delegation voted against such
action.
Premiers BRAND and Lloyd George have
decided at a private meeting upon a com
promise partition of Upper Silesia, 1t was
declared here on good authority. The
compromise boundary line Is understood
to have been drawn approximately as fol-
lows: Beginning west of Pless on the
Vistula river and running west OF Glel-
witz west of Cost and between RosenburS
and Kreuzburg and thence to the frontier
of northern Upper Silesia.
1t was upon the private settlement be-
ing reached, it is understood, that the
council decided not to send reinforce
ments to Upper Silesia at present, the
British and Italian delegations voting
against the sending of French troops for
this purpose as France had desired. The
British Silesian commissioner and the
Italian commissioner argued that If the
council agreed Immediately on the boun-
dairy line it would not be necessary to
send reinforcements as they believed both
Germany and Poland would accept the
council decision.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-09
APPRECIATION BY
GOVERNOR HARTNESS
Recognizes Excellent and Effective
Services Rendered by Companies
A and | ut Bellows Falls.

By command of Gov. James Hartness,
Adit Gen. Herbert L. johnson has is
sued under date of Aug. 6, a general or
der in which he says:
Your commandment chief, feeling that
the quick response to an unpleasant duty
on the part of Companies \. 1. and at
tached hospital detachment on the morn
ing of July Both, and the splendid and
soldierly manner in which they have
conducted themselves during the week,
are deserving of high praise, desires that
the following letter be placed in the
hands of each officer and enlisted man
of the National Guard of Vermont ::
The letter of Governor HARNESS. dated
at Springfield. Aug. >, reads as follows
Il desire you to express to Major Leon
ard F. Wing and the officers and men un-
der his command my keen appreciation
of the excellent and effective service at
Bellows Falls
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-09
CONTINUED Cd Page S.)
NOVH UB 7 OF
BILL WOULD GIVE
100000 EMPLOYMENT
Director Meyer Explains Harding's
Plans for Funding Railroad Debts
to Government.

WASHINGTON, August o. Eugene
Meyer, director of the war finance cor
poration, which would have charge un-
der administration plans of the funding
of some SJ00,000,O00 in railroad debts to
the government, explained to the senate
interstate commerce commission today
legislation which President Harding re-
Gently urged in a special message to con
gress. Except for Director Meyers eN-
PLANTATION procedure for the bill was not
determined upon Republican leaders.
are to see the President and urge its
postponement until after the proposed
senate research.
Mr. Never told the commission that
the amendment of the transportation
act proposed was simple and would
facilitate the marketing of railroad Sc
|eurities held by the government as a
result of government operation of rail
roads
The President s message and the pos
sibilitv of this action already has had
considerable effect on the market for
railway securities. - Mr.. Meyer said.
To say that a million more men would
be employed ton railroad work. dur
ing the coming winter is, think, very
conservative estimate. y
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-09
MRS. PROUTY SUES
PELLETT & SKINNER
Seeks to Recover $1,000 for Injuries :
Says She Fell ON Debris from Bank
Job Left i'm Street.

Mrs. Fannie f. Prouty, who lives on
the east side of Main street, over DIR. III.
l.. Waterman's office. has brought suit
against Pellet & Skinner of Brattleboro,
contractors. to recover damages of $1,000
for injuries she received July 30, 1920,
near the Vermont National bank building.
The suit is brought through the law office
of Attorney o. Il. Hughes and is return
able at the September term of Windham
county court.
1t is claimed by Mrs. Prouty, who for
merly conducted a boarding house on FL
liot street and who for a few years has
been employed by the s. A. Smith Mfg.
Co, that on July 30, 1920. she was going
from the Richardson market on Elliot
street to her home and stepped on some
brick and other debris in the street and
fell. iniuring her right knee.
Pellett & Skinner We're the contractors
on the job of rebuilding the bank building.
and it is alleged that they had fenced off
and obstructed the sidewalk abutting the
building. obliging people to travel in the
street. and that they carelesSly left brick
nd other debris scattered about the street.
Mrs. Prouty says she is incapacitated
from doing any more hard work. that she
has lost $700 because of her inability to
work and that she has paid out 500 for
medical services and 500 for care.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-09
ITALY HAS BIG
POWER STATIONS
VIII Soon BE Developing f.5OO. 900
Horse Power From Water Powers
Planning Still More.

ROME. Aug. S.-Italian water-powcr
stations soon viii be developing l 800.
600 horsepower One-half of these sta
tions have been erected during the past
five years while present plans anticipate
the construction of 81 more stations
which Will generate 359,0O0 horsepower.
Before the war. Italy had 32S water
power plants which produced SO 900
horsepower. During the war IS sta
tions were constructed and these were
able to develop pit 900 horsepower This
immense amount of power has been used
in all kinds of industrial work. Some is
used for the electric power needed on the
electrified railroads
The biggest plant now in course of con
struction is situated in Sardinia. 4 col
osSal water basin with a capacity of 400.-
100000 cubic meters will serve to supply
the station with power.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-09
VISCOUNT BRYCE
CRTTICIZES TREATY
Tells Institute of Politics the Conferees
Failed TO Draw just
Boundaries.
WILLIAAISTOWN, Mass,

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass, Aug. p
Fresh statements by ViscOunt Bryce OF
the fault he imputes to the peace treaty,
final word in his controversy with Sena-
tor Tomasso Titonni over Italy's rights III
the southern TyrOl and a general review
|of the factors and influences making Tor
war or for peace in modern civilization
were the outstanding features of the great
British diplomats fifth lecture on Inter
national Relations of the Old World
States delivered this morning before the
institute of politics now in session at VIII
liams college.
In regard to the conferees of Versailles
Lord Bryce declared it was not their fail
ure to accomplish the impossible which
deserves censure but rather the fact that
in many cases they did not do what could
have been and ought to have been done
to draw just boundaries and to ascertain
the wishes of the populations concerned.
"In this and in other cases" he said,
1t is to be feared that discomfort due
to sense of injustice viii injure the
states who have received unwillingly sub
iects and will become the source of many
troubles in the future. Exhaustion will
prevent the belligerents of 1918 from en-
tering on wars in the next few years. but
some of the minor states may take up
arms against others whom they think no
better prepared than themselves
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-09
NAVAL AIRPLANE
DID SHOOTING
Court Inquiry to Investigate Affair -
Young Woman Berry Picker
Is Wounded.

NEWPORT, r. l., Aug. 9-Naval au-
thorities announced today that the air
plane which few over Narragansett bay
Yesterday firing a machine gun and in
iuring member of boat party had
been identified as a naval craft. Rear
ADMIRAL A III. Robertson, commander
of the destroyer force Immediately or
dcred court of inquiry to investigate
the affair.
Bullets from the machine gun riddled
he launch in which blueberry pickers
were returning to Oakland Beach after
trip to Hope island and it was with
difficulty that they were able TO reach
shore before the craft sunk. Grace
Buxton, one of the party, was wounded
in The leg.
The planes have their base at Potters
Cove off jamestown and the fiers knew
nothing of the wounding of the young
woman until intelligence officers went
to the base early today to investigate.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-09
NEED 100000 TONS FOOD.
State Department Hears of Needs of
Starving in Russia.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 9.-Alleviation
of the famine in 10 provinces of Russia
will require the distribution of almost
three-quarters of a million tons of bread
stuffs, according to estimates made in
Moscow and reported to the state depart
ment yesterday. The following summary
of telegraphic information on famine con
ditions was received by the department
from its representatives abroad:
From Saratoff to Niatka, i. e., the
middle Volga district. the famine situa-
tion is especially serious. The situation
is developing to an acute degree in the
eastern Ukrine, the north Caucasus and
south Ural districts. Not less than
GO, 900. 900 pools Ia pood is equivalent to
sc English p0undS) of grain viii be re-
quired for food in the Volga districts.
For the purpose of sowing a new crop
100000 poods will be required before
September l. A recent arrival in Riga
from Moscow reports that 100000 per-
sons are migrating to Siberia and almost
the same number are moving toward the
south. 1t is stated that within two
weeks 100000 persons will be without
| food.''
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-09
isTRuKE SITUATION UNCHANGED.
No Agreement Reached Between MOulders
and Scale Company.

RUTLAND. Aug. 9.-The situation in
the iron moulderS' strike at the Howe
Scale company's plant. which began about
three weeks ago. remains the same. The
men are still out and although some con
ferences have been held during the past
few DAYS present indications are that it
will be some time before a settlement is
reached, the men declare.
The moulders are asking that the union
be recognized and have accepted the cut
in wages suggested by the officials of the
company.
Representatives of the national organ
ization of iron mOulders have been in
Rutland during the past week, but thus
far all negotiations for a settlement have
been futile. There are few moulders
working at the plant which is working on
a four-day-a-week basis.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-09
TELLEGAN CAN HAVE CLOTHES.
Geraldine Farrar Has Sent Them to
Storage Warehouse,

NEW YORK, Aug. 9.-Lou Tellegan' 5
immediate problem was solved yesterday.
His personal effects. notably his ward
robe. which he has been trying to re
cover, were sent by his wife, Geraldine
Farrar-not to him at the Ritz or Long
Beach, but to neutral ground, storage
warehouse. There he is at liberty to call
for them. His secretary went to the
warehouse yesterday with dritten in
ventory of all the possessions the actor
remembered to have left at his wife :
home. 20 West Seventy fourth street. The
secretary renorted that a few odds and
ends were missing.
But of course. said Harry \. Stein
field. Mr.. Tellegan's attorney, this came
about through oversight, and we expect
to recover the rest of my clients be
Iongings as soon as we have told Mrs.
Tellegan's attorney what they are
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-09
CHILDREN'S OUTING
NEARLY AT AN END
on 800 Train-Wanted at Sta
ton Half Hour Earlier

The Tribune fresh ar children who
can't to Brattleboro and vicinity a
week ago last Thursday viii return to
New York Thursday of this week. They
will leave here on the train which ar
rives from the north at 500 p. m.
1t is especially desired by the local
committte that all persons having the
care of these children have them at the
Brattleboro railroad station at least
half an hour before train time, as it
takes much time TO check them up and
see that everything is in readiness for
their departure.
The children have enjoyed themselves
immensely, and some have expressed a
preference to stay in the country.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-09
TUFTS NOT CLEAR
ON BANK DEPOSITS
Thinks Stenographer Might Give Court
Desired Information About Refunds
for Auto Thefts.

BOSTON. Aug. 9.-District Attorney
Nathan 4. Tufts of AIiddlesex county
testified to bank deposits and expenditure
of funds in connection with restitution
for losses incurred by purchasers of stolen
automobiles. Taking the stand again be
fore the full bench of the supreme court
in Attorney General Aliens proceedings
to have him removed for alleged miscon-
duct. Tufts told of some of the transac-
tions involved in restitution activities
from 1917 to the present time. Only four
deposits of $1,000 or more made by him
in the past four years lie could explain.
Tufts said. suggesting that his StcnogTa-
pher. who kept records of his deposits and
receipts, could give the desired informa-
ton.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-09
TO CUT
FEDERAL TAXES
House Ways and Means
Committee Busy on
Revenue Bill
WILL ELIMINATE
LUXURY TAXES
Will Cause Loss of $500, 100000 In
Revenues-SpOrting Goods, Clothing.
SOdaS and Ice Cream TO Be Relieved
From Revenue Burdens.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.-Having
agreed to the elimination of the soda
fountain. ice cream and so-called luxury
taxes on wearing apparel and a 50-per
cent cut in the levy on sporting goods,
Republican members of the house ways
and means committee returned today to
the job of revenue revision determined to
make further reduction in the total tax
the American people will be called upon
to pay this coming year
The total loss of revenue from these
proposed changes would be slightly less
than 5000. 100000, and the deductions
are the first to be passed upon by the ma
jority members in their effort to carry
out the announced program of Republi-
can house leaders to cut SJ00,0000 900
from the national tax bill.
The wearing apparel levies proposed
for repeal are 10 per cent of the amount
by which the cost of women'S and misses
hats. bonnetS and hoods exceed S13 each :
women's and misses silk stockings or
hose exceed 81 per pair; mems. women's
misses and boys boots, shoes. pumps
and slippers exceed so per pair: mems.
and boys silk stockings or hose exceed
81 per pair; mems shirts exceed So each
mems and boys hats exceed 81 each :
mems and boys caps exceed 50 each :
mems and boys neckties and neckwear
exceed 81 each; mems, women's, misses
and boys pajamas. nightgowns and un-
derwear exceed 50 each kimonos. petit
coats and waists exceed SO each men s
waistcoatS, sold separately from suits. ex-
ceed 81 each. and house or smoking coats
or jackets and bathrobeS or lounging
robes exceed $50 each.
The sporting goods in which it is pro-
posed to cut the tax in half include:
Tennis rackets, nets. racket covers
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-09
SHIP RESTING EASILY.
No Panic Among Passengers When San
jose Hits Rocks

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9-Wireless
messages early today from the steamer
San Jose. which struck on San Pablo
reef about 500 miles south of San Diego
last night indicated the ship was resting
easily There were 33 passengers and
66 members of the crew on board. There
is no panic aboard" said one of the San
Jose messages THE passengers are
treating the accident as an adventure:
All passengers aboard the San Jose
have been landed and an effort is being
made to get the vessel off the San Pab-
To reef BY her own engines, according to
radio message received at the navy
station here today.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-09
PRICES START WITH
UPWARD TENDENCY
Gains Slight and Business Small-Spec
ulatOrS Seek Better Con-
ditiOns

WALL STREET. \. Y, Aug. o.
Prices started off in the stock market
today with a continuation of yesterday :
late upward tendency. Gains, however,
were slight in most instances and buSi-
ness small, traders holding off for fur
ther developments in general conditions
before taking a definite stand in the mar
ket
There was broad demand for railroad
stocks at midday. Call money held at q
per cent with the demand on the interior
from agricultural interests.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-09
McKe0Wn Is Released.

LONDON, Aug. ASSOCIATED Press).
The release from prison yesterday of
John !. McKeowns upon orders of Pre-
mier Lloyd George, removed an obstacle
which had threatened to wreck peace nego-
tiatiOns between the British government
and the Sim Fein. The prime minister
acted. it is understood. upon representa-
tions made by Eamonn De Valera.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-09
MEXICAN EDITOR
SHOT ON Street
Attacked By Five Armed
Men While Riding in
Automobile
GENERAL TREVINO
is RESPONSIBLE
Declares Me Caused Attack Because
Editor Criticized Him In Newspaper
Officer Held On His Own Recogni-


tiOn.
AEXICO CITY, Aug. 9. - Gen, Jose
Alessio Robles, brother of the Mexican
minister to Spain and editor of the news
paper. El Democratic. was shot and killed
last evening as he drove in his automo-
bile through one of the streets in the
residence section of this city. Five
armed men took part in the attack which
ended in the death of General Robles.
Following the tragedy General Jacinto
TravinO. director of the federal commits
sion revising army service records
placed himself at the disposition of the
police and is said to have been held upon
his own recognition, The cause of the
attack upon General RobIes is declared
to have been a declaration purporting to
have been made by him, published yes
terday morning, in which he criticized
General Trevino.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-09
FIGHT INDIVIDUAL
CONTRACT SYSTEM
Massachusetts Federation Sees Danger tO
Whole Labor Union Move
ment Is Plain

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Aug. o.
Among a large number of resolutions
adopted unanimously in today's session of
the Massachusetts state branch of the
American federation of labor was one
directed against the individual contract
system as adopted by concerns in this
city and elsewhere. 1t was declared that
this system menaces the entire labor
union movement Another resolve calls
for equal pay for equal work and is de-
signed to support the efforts of school
teachers to obtain pay based on service
and not regulated by sex.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-09
FORMER PRISONERS
MEET DE VALERA
May Make Joint Statement of COndi-
tiOns at Bailyminlar Intern
ment Camp.

DUBLIN, Aug. 8 tAssociated Press) J..
All the members of the Irish Repub-
lican parliament who have been released
from prison were received today by
EamOnn De Valera, Irish Republican
leader, at the Mansion house Although
the meeting was of an informal character
it is understood that the conference CON
sidered the desirability of making a joint
statement on conditions at the Ballymin-
lar internment camp of which members
who have been released make serious com
ulaint
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-09
BACK IN WASHINGTON.
EIeven-Day Vacation of President and
Mrs Harding Over.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9-President
and Mrs. Harding returned to Washing
ton this morning after an absence of IL
days. most of which was spent on vaca-
ton in the White mountains. The May
flower came up the Potomac ahead of
schedule and docked at $50 a. IN.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-09
HARDING SIGNS
SWEET BILL
Appoints c. II. Forbes Director of Vet
erans' Bureau Which Is Created
Ry the Fill

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.-The Sweet
bill reorganizing government service to
veterans of the World war was signed to-
day by President Harding and Charles
r. Forbes of Washington state. now di-
rector of the bureau of war risk insur-
ance. was nominated to be director of the
veterans bureau created by the bill.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-09
POSTMASTERS
ORDERED TO CALL
Postmaster General Hays lnstructs
Them to "HumaniZe" Postal
Service >

WASHINGTON. Aug o. - With a
view to further "humanizing" the postal
service Postmaster General Hays today
instructed postmasters to personally visit
the families of anyone injured by mail
truck or other vehicles operated by the
service and see what can be done IN
the circumstances to help in the situa-
tion.'
This should be done in all cases re-
gardless of whether or not an employe
of the department has been primarily
to blame" the order said.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-09
SHOTGUN STILL MISSING.
Officers Seek This Evidence in Murder
of j. b. Kennedy.

Los ANGELES, Aug 9-Search for
the shotgun with which John B. Ken
nedy was killed near his summer cottage
in Beverly Glen Friday night was pressed
vigorously today by county authorities as
the most important link still missing in
the chain of evidence which has been so
far discovered in the murder mystery.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-09
RECOVER DIR. STONES BODY.
Being Taken to Banff-Wife Also Re-
turning from Mountain.

CALGARY, Alta Aug S.-The body
of the late DIR. W. f. Stone, president of
Purdue university. has been recovered,
and is being brought to Banff, it was an
rnounced in a message received here last
night.
Dr. Stone lost his life in an attempt to
climb Mt canon on July 10, last, and
his wife, who was found alive after "
ing for eight days on a mountain ledge,
is also on her way to Banff Details re-
garding the discovery of DIR. Stones body
were not contained in the message