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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-08-31
DUPLICATION IN STATE
BOOKS, SAYS EXPERT
Again Makes Recommendation that
Accounts Be Kept in One
Office

Montpelier Aug. 3l,-M. l. Blan.
chard of Hartford Conn, who recent.
ly audited the books Of the auditor of
accounts and state treasurer, has
made his report which is not substan-
TALLY different from the report of last
year and includes his recommenda.
tion that the bookkeeping be in one
department. Last year he recommend
ed that the books be kept in one Of.
flee and then audited. thus avoiding
duplication of work. He states that
he audited several accounts and found
them sustained by proper vouchers.
In another place he states that.
with the exception of the two appro.
priation ledgers which are identical
there is comparatively no check be-
tween the records of the auditor of
accounts and the state treasurer. II
is therefore apparent that great
deal of duplication of records is not
used for checking purposes aud can
evidently be of little value
He also states that the records
should be kept in such a manner that
it would be possible to determine the
revenues and expenses as distinguish
ed from receipts and disbursements
In this way only can a budget be
made intelligently, it is stated. He
comments at length upon the expend.
ture OF the pledged revenue and
makes suggestions for legislation by
which each department and intitu
tion would turn over to the treasurer
its receipts from all sources, all pay
ments being made from direct appro
priation.
This would effect economy ant
would give the legislative body com
plete control over expenses of the
state form all appropriations, he
states He will make a supplemental
report at request of the auditor deal
| ing with the bookkeeping system.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-08-31
TEXTILE STRIKE NOW
MATTER OF HISTORY
Virtual Peace Reiens For First Time
Since March; Mills Open
Soon

Lawrence, Mass, Aug. 3l-The
Lawrence textile strike has become
a thing Of the past and virtual peace
reigned between workers and employ
ers for the first time since March a.
The two remaining mi Is which had
still held out for lower wages, the
Methuen and the Pemberton have
capitulated to the demands OF the
strikers and announced that on Sep.
tember the wage scale in effect be-
fore March q would be restored.
The greater part of the $4,000 tex
tile workers normally employed in
the mills of this city are expected to
be back at their old places early in
September and already the wheels In
several factories are in motion.
The first to accede to the demands
Of the strikers were the Pacific mills,
normally employing 5000 workers,
and their offer accepted by the Unit
ed Textile Workers. but tentatively
refused by the One Big Union, was
the only proposition made which did
not announce without reservation a
return to the old wage scale in all de
partments effective October 2, and
retroactive to September /, but with
the reservation that the old scale
could not be guaranteed after Decem
Der L in the cotton department All
other offers were plainly for a return
at the old scale
The second group of mills to move
towards a settlement includes the
Acadia, Monomac and Katoma group
These mills normally employing $500
Presumed operations last Monday with
about 40 per cent of their opt/Itiyes
at work at the old wage scale. They
had been running in part al during
the strike,
The Everett mills last Saturday an
nounced they would reopen on Sep
tember 8 at full time with the old
wage scale. This was the only mil
to promise returning workers full
time The mill had been closed
since the third day OF the strike
About 1900 are affected.
The Smith and Dove mills in An
dover, where there has been nc
strike, but where wages were reduc\
last March, have voluntarily announC
ed a return to the old wage scale
They employ about 400 workers
The Methuen and Pemberton mills
normally employing 25O and 500 WORK
ers respectively, were the last of the
cotton group to fall in line. They
will resume operations on September
4
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-08-31
FORD WON'T DEAL WITH
COAL BOOTLEGGERS
viii Close Plants Rather Than Take
Priority Shipments For Homes
OF Northwest.

Detroit, Mich. Aug. 31.-Henry
Ford yesterday refused to avert a
shutdown of his automobile plants
here September lG at the expense of
the. domestic coal users Of the North
west. it was learned today from a re.
liable source.
According to this information Ford
charges that priority coal consigned
to the Northwest has been offered TO
him by coal brokers in telegranG
reaching his office here. Tie man.
utacturer refused to purchase the
fuel, holding it would not be a hu.
manitarian act to take coal intended
to relieve the suffering of men, WON
en- and children during the coming
winter
Ford was quoted as saying that
coal boot.eggers" had offered to
steal this coal and sell it to him
Reports emanating from West
Virginia to the effect that the Ford
company had refused coal offered at
normal prices were explained at the
Ford plants. IL was asserted that
the fuel so offered was steam coal, a
product OF little use in the Ford in
dustries because 1t contains a high
sulphur content Only about 30 per
cent Of the coal used in the Ford
factories here can be Of the steam
variety, it was stated
Despite the often-repeated deter.
mlnation of Ford to close his fac.
tories here unless he can obtain the
kind of coal he needs at normal
prices, the Detroit industrial district
took heart yesterday when it was an
nounced the General Motors corpora
tion, employing between $4,000 and
100000 men, had a 30.day supply OF
coal available Closing of the var
GUS plants of the corporation in diff
ferent parts of the country, it was
explained, would affect hundreds oi
thousands of workmen employed by
concerns depending upon Genera
Motors for various materials.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-08-31
BENNINGTON ONCE HAD
CRACK CRICKET TEAM
Half Century Ago 5rtain's Popular
Game Had Its Devotees


In 1868, that was "a yearR ago
cricket was as popular with youns
men in Bennington as baseball is
now. Cricket is still a fayorite sport
in England but since the advent and
growth of baseball in the United
States it has taken a back seat, in
fact has quite disappeared.
Bennington. then as now, was not
behind in manly sports and had for
midable association known as the
Green Mountain Cricket club. The
team took on all comers and often
challenged Troy teams and quite Of
ten defeated them The players
we're: Fred Price, Leander Allen
Harry Shields, Charles Clapp. Amos
Harris, William Shields, Frank Arm
strong, James Bradford, Frank Gage
James Kelley, Mllard Flowers
Joseph Clark, Ransom Buss, Charles
King, c. A. Wood, and John Norton
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-08-31
WILL
SILVER OR Uc:[I. c:I....
20
B|TUMINOUS CUALI.
Northern New England Seeks
Only Available Fuel
HOME HEATING PROBLEM
Federal Distributing Committee
Looks for Improvement
within 10 Days
HOME HEATING PROBLEM

Washington, Aug 3l.-Urgent ap'
peals for coal are being received by
the federal emergency organization
from various states, Federal Fuel Dis
tributor Spencer declared last night.
THE demand from Mississippi
Mr.. Spencer said especially for the
cotton manufacturing industry is
quite insistent. A considerable ton
mage OF western Kentucky coal, prev
iously intended for use as railway
fuel, has been diverted to Mississippi
Demands from Michigan, Virginia
and Maryland are quite urgent.
New Hampshire and Vermont
which have practically abandoned
the hope OF obtaining anthracite, are
asking for bituminous suitable for do.
mestic heating
"The federal distribution commit.
tee looks for considerable improve.
ment in these local acute situations
within week or 10 days as the flow
of coal tends to move in natural chan
nels."
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-08-31
MAY BAR PELICANS
FROM YELLOWSTONE
Bird With Big Bill Declared to Be
Destroyer Of Parks Trout
Eiebi,o

Yellowstone Park, Wyo. Aug. 81
Excitement is rife in the wild animal
community Of the park since the
scandal about MI. Pelican received
public attention. The ducks are
quacking about it, the squirrels are
chattering 1t and the bobcats are
scattering it broadcast in their shrilI
voices.
Throughout all the whispers and
Inudges OF neighbors as he passes
Mr.. Pelican maintains his stately
lrealm, seemingly unconscious Of the
jibes OF the multitude, HIS actions
would Indicate he still holds his yalu
ed place in the community.
His trouble started with the
charge by Prot. Henry B. Ward, head
OF the department of zoology OF the
University OF Illinois, that he is
l'trout hog" and yiolator OF all the
tenets of good sportsmanship. Proof
of these charges probably will mean
that Mr. Pelican will become an out
cast with eyeryone's door closed tC
him and everyones hand against
| him.
Professor Ward is conducting al
exhaustive investigation for the fed
.eral bureau Of fisheries at Lake Vel
llowstone in Yellowstone National
Park as to the relationship between
the pelican and the trout supply
! His investigation, which has beer
progressing several weeks, will con
tinue through the present season.
The flock of pelicans that live anC
breed on Lake Yellowstone numbers
about 400. They summer" aristo
cratIcally at the lake feastlng on the
best the land affords from spring un
ltil September, then go to their win
ter resorts along the Gulf of Mexico
The bird diets almost exclusively
on fish and so far as the Yellow
stone and other Rocky Mountain
lakes and streams are concerned
this means exclusively on trout H'
estimates that the 400 pelicans con
sumo more trout than are taken dur
ling an entire season by sportsmen.
The pelican is no respecter of size
limits or open seasons, Professor
Ward charges. He declared he hat
seen a platoon of SO pelicans ranged
across a stream in regular formation
praving on the trout as they swan u
to spawn. Hitherto, the stream ha'
yielded trout eggs by the millions
Hatchery men this year could gather
only fraction of the normal amount
The fact is granted that Mr.. Peli
cans home life is above reproac1
He is good proyider, good hus
band and father and is strictly monO
gamous. For the 400 birds in thu
Lake Flock, there are just 200 nests
one for each couple and one mate TO
each bird. There are no "triangles
in the Yellowstone 400.
If further Investigations justify il
Professor Ward will ask the fedora
government to bar the pelicans a
summer visitors from the Park.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-08-31
JOHNSON LEADING BY
$4,000 IN CALIFORNIA
Only Two Counties Go For Moore in
Republican Senatorial
Contest.

San Francisco, Aug. Ex-senator
Hiram w. Johnson's lead for Repub-
lican nominee for United States sen.
ator from California in Tuesday S
primary stood at 62,711 last night.
with about two-thirds of the votes in
the state counted His vote in 1925
precincts out of $685. was 21S,Ol3 to
155,3O2 for Charles c. Moore, San
Francisco engineer and president of
tae PanAmerican Pacific exposition
in 1915
Only four counties in the state out
of So went for Moore, two of them be
ing Los Angeles and San Diego,
where substantial plurGities for
Johnson's opponent were rolled up.
Elsewhere Johnson was successful
by varying maiorites, the total San
Francisco vote being 52,S83 to 34,292.
a margin of 1881 for the incumbent
senator.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-08-31
HOLDEN, LEONARD MINES
CONTINUE TO WIN
No. 2 Aggregation Defeated Y. M. C. A.
In Twilight League Series
Last Night, 9 to 6.

The Big Mill" teams in the Twi-
light league continue to win their
games. Last evening the No. 2 ag-
gregatlon defeated the Y NJ. c. A. 9
to c. The "Y" boys opened the con
test by scoring Ave runs in the first
inning and for brief period thought
they had the Weavers on the run.
The rally continued for only the init.
ial inning, however and in the third
stanza the Weayers forged to the
front. Tho score
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-08-31
PHYSICIAN SLAIN
WHEN SUMMONED
TO HOME OF NURSE
Young Woman Surrenders to
Sheriff after Shooting
ARIZONA TOWN EXCITED
Miss Encinas Moved to Peniten-
tiary When Crowds Gather
on Business Streets

Florence, Arizona, August 3l.-Dr.
w. c. Randall was shot and killed
here last night by Miss Katherine
Encinas,. a nurse at Florence hospi
tai, who officers said claimed that
she acted because OF remarks by the
doctors wife. After the shooting
Miss Encinas surrendered to the
sheriff
Miss Enclnas told the officers that
she had teephoned Dr. Randall ask
ing him to call at her home. When
he arrived, she shot him
The sheriff removed her to the
state penitentlary for safe keeping
when the excited crowd began gath
ering on the downtown streets 10 dis.
cuss the killing Of DR.. Randall.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-08-31
SWEDEN WET BY 44,54s
Vote Stood Aga nst Prohibition, e42,
1923; for II 997,584.

Stockholm, Aug. 31.-A majority
of 44,545 against prohibition is shown
by the unofficial tabulation of the
vote cast in Sundays referendum
throughout Sweden on what are be-
lieved to be complete returns These
figures show: Against prohibition,
942,129; for prohibition, S97SS4 ma
jority against, 44,545
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-08-31
SCHOOL TRUSTEES
MAY BE DISCHARGED
Governor Miller Acts Upon Report Of
lnVetlaatlon Made at Farm.
lnddaIe

Albany N. Y, Aug 81 Governor
Miller today served notice on nine
trustees Of the state institute of ap.
piled agriculture at Farmngdale, l..
J., that they be summoned to appear
before him September to file
answers and show cause why they
should not be removed from Office on
charges filed by Edward G. thinner,
special commissioner who investigat.
ed the administration of the school
for the governor.
Zimmer's report charged the i'm
proper expenditure of money.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-08-31
BLOOD TAINTED; KILLS SELF
Bar to Marriage Drives Nurse to Sui,
eide.

Rochester, N. Y. Aug 31-Despond
ent because she knew blood ties
barred her marriage, Margaret Van
Cleas, q, a nurse, leaped to her
death from suicide bridge" spanning
the Genesee river The body was
identified by her roommates yester.
day.
They tod OF how she often reiter.
ated her desire to die because she
could not tel her fiancee that Negro
blood flowed in her veins.
Her friends said that she disap-
peared Friday when she was to have
met her lover and give him final an
swer on his marriage proposals .
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-08-31
GRAHAM HAS OPPOSITION
John Dutton Candidate for Town
Representative In craftsbury.

Craitsbury, Aug. 31.-Thers will
probably be two candidates for town
representative In the primary Sept
u on the Republican ticket ExGoy.
ernor Horace f. Graham and John
Dutton, the creamery owner will be
the candidates. Mr. Dutton is the
owner OF several creameries and both
men have a large following In town.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-08-31
MOVIE TRIANGLE ARREST
scuIlon Charged with Buying Pistol
That Killed Bergen.

Edgewater, ~ j., August 81
Charles Scullion, brother OF Mrs
George Cline, whose husband is held
for the murder OF JOIN Bergen, NOV.
ing picture actor, was arrested today
on "A charge OF murder.
Witnesses say Sculllon was present
at the time of the murder and thu
he procured for Cline the pistols with
which the shooting was done.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-08-31
BEAUTY PRIZE FOR BAIL
Put Up by Young Woman to Keep
Fiance Out of Jail.

Bingham, Aug. 31,-Fiye 500 gold
pieces awarded to Miss GJ ce Cliff
ford of Someryille as first prize in a
beauty contest at Nantasket beach
last week were handed to the clerk
of court here yesterday as ball for
John p. Sullivan.
Arraigned with five other young
men on charges of disturbing the
peace Sullivan told the court thai
Miss Clifford, his lancee, gave hin
the money she had won to gain his
liberty.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-08-31
HOPE FOR ENToMBEo MEN
Fire In Argonaut Gold Mine Hal
Been Extingulshed.

Jackson. Cal, August 31--Rescue
workers today In the mine sklps and
on ladders reached the 25OO foot level
Of the Afgonaut gold mine as the fire
Is now out Hope that ~ entombed
miners are still alive was firmly held
by consulting experts.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-08-31
FARrHEsT NORTH COLLEGE
viii Be Opened September 1s al
Fairbanks, Alaska.

Fairbanks, Alaska, Aug. 21.-All is
in readiness for the opening here
September 1S of tie farthest north
college on this continent, the Alaska
Agricultural college and School of
Mines. Charles Ernest Bunnell is
president.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-08-31
MAY KEEP ON 80 DAYS
General Motors Corporation Has
Coal Enough For That Time.

Detroit, Aug. 31.-Detroit manufac-
turers were considerably heartened
Yesterday by announcement from
Charles S. Mott, vice-president OF the
General Motors corporation, one OF
the most important industries OF this
district, that the corporation had IA
supply of coal sufficient to maintain
present production for about thirty
days
The General Motors corporation, 1t
was explained by Mr.. Mott, furnishes
great volume of materials to other
industrial concerns. IA
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-08-31
Standing Of the Clubs
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Yesterdays Results

Boston 2, Philadelphia first
game)
Philadelphia G, Boston 4 (second
game)
Brooklyn 10, New York 3.
st. Louis 6, Chicago 90 innings).
Pttsburg 2, Cincinnati 0,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-08-31

BIG LEAGUE BASE BALL
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Yesterdays Results

Boston 6, Philadelphia 8 GO in
nings).
New York 8, Washington 4.
st. Louis II, Cleveland 3.
Chicago 2, Detroit / (ll innlngs).
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-08-31

Chicago, Aug. 31.-The Chicago 4
Alton railroad was placed in the
hands of receivers In Federal court
Friday by Judge Carpenter. w G..
Bierd, president and w, w Wheel.
ock, an attorney we're named as the
receivers. y
According to statement by Sllss
II. Strawn, appointed counsel for I've
receivers. the recelvership was pre-
cipitated principally by the great
falling off in the earnings OF the com
pany due to the coal strike and by
the extra expenses due to the shop
mems strike.
The suit resulting in the receiver
ship was filed by the Texas company
of New York and Chicago creditor
with a claim Of about $4,000. At
the offices Of Mr.. strawn, 1t was stat
ed that receiyership will not in any
way change the operation OF the
roads trains
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-08-31
PoPE's CAR REGISTERED
First Given a Try Out in Vatican
Gardens.

Rome, Aug, 31.-Pope Plus, after
trying out in the Vatican gardens the
automobile presented to him by the
Milan archdiocese has had 1t dWy
registered by the Italian authorities
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-08-31
TRAIN WRECK|NG \
~. ~ nT" 1.1,e', rFATNRIMG
eptlS
\ STRIKE SITUATION
Several Actual Attempts at De-
railment Reported
RECEIVERS FOR ONE ROAD
Extra Operating Expenses Put
Chicago & Alton Under
Financial Strain
RECEIVERS FOR ONE ROAD

Chicago, August 31-The passing
of Chicago and Alton railroad into the
hands of a receiver, disclosures of
new plots to wreck trains and sever
al actual attempts TO cause derail.
ments and blow up railroad property
were high lights today in the ma
tion's railroad situation. Dynamite
bullets and flrebrands played an i'm
portant part In developments.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-08-31
Posting Notice
senator.

My wife, Minnie Bassee, having
left my bed and board without due
cause or proyocation, | hereby forbid
any and all persons trusting or har-
bouring her on my account after sSss'
date.
William Bassee.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-08-31
WEATHER FORECAST

Fair and moderate temperature to-
night and Friday.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-08-31

ScOre hY innings:

score ny innings
Holden. Leonard No, 0342OO-s
", NJ, C, A. 5000 O--b
Game called on account Of dark
ness in 9Th.
Earned runs, Holden, Leonard No.
p, 8; Y. NJ. C. A., 5; home run, La
Francise; 3 base hits, Coyne, Brown;
double play. Harwood-J. Litster-Hyde;
innings pitched by Frahar 6, by Shaw
0 Ito first 8 batters) hits off Shaw
4, off Frahar 4; struck out by NAL
lory Z. by Frahar 4; bases on balls,
off Mallory 6. Frahar 2. Shaw /; wild
pitch, Mallory; passed ball Stein, Um
pires. Smith and II. Leahy.
Tonights game Is Scale-Wholesale-
Howitzer VS.. Merchants-Bradford at
6:15 p. m.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-08-31
William Bassee.

Bennington, Vt, Aug. 81, 1922.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-14
Just a Suggestion.

Would it not be a wonderful idea If in APP
pointing members to the new federal commits
sion for studying the coal industry the presi-
dent should include among them man or two
with experience in settling labor troubles? 1t
happens that this country possesses sorae men
who have had really very considerable exper-
fence in settling labor troubles, Nevertheless
it happens that during the whole course of the
late coal strike and during the whole course of
this still existing railroad shopmens strike the
advice that could be given by such men appar-
emily has not been thought worth having at
Washington.
1t would be interesting to know just what
labor troubles have been ended by that excel
lent man, Herbert Hoover, or by that excellent
man, Albert D. Lasker, or by that excellent
man. Harry Daugherty, by that excellent
man, Senator Cummns Of Iowa. These men
in their respective spherese are doubtless high
ly admirable. But If the department of agricul-
ture was going to try to dissuade boil weevils
from eating cotton crop it doubtless would
begin by trying to find some men who were
acquainted with few boil weevils and who
would know how boil weevils behave when ap-
preached. The presidents advisers, including
the secretary of labor, have so little first hand
personal knowledge of the psychology of the
dissatisfied wage worker that they have mis-
calculated his prospective behavior at every
STEP
With them strike is theory and they try
to settle it out of a blueprint or a handshake
or law or fierce GRAFTON. There are at least
| q hundred persons in this country who have
had wide actual experience in settling strikes
or in preventing strikes by knowing both en-
ployers and employees intimately and by acting
as mediators or umpires on numerous occas-
ions and with frequent successes. 1t would be
wonderful-it would be almost incredible III
president OF the United States in appointing
an industrial commission should make use Of
the services Of any such men.