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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-04-14
FAMOUS TENOR
CRITICALLY ILL
John Mccormack Said TO Be Battling
For His Life With Throat
Disease.

New York, April 13-John Nc.
Cormack, world famous tenor, to-
night was reported by his physic1ls
to be battling for his life in his Park
Avenue home, Waere he Is suffering
from a severe afiliction Of the throat
His physicians announced that, while
they be ieved the crisis was passed
last night, the singer was not out Of
danger
He is very m, but the crisis pos
sibly was passed last night" sail
DR.. Harmon SIN III, one of the three
attending physicians. There will be
danger as long as the septic condi-
tion exists in Mr. McCo-mack's
throas.
Mr.. Mccormack was taken serious
ly III last Saturday Removed 10 his
home, he was found to be suffering
from combination of throat af-
fiictions. Complications were due to
general injection of the throat,
causing blood poisoning, On Monday,
according TO the physicians, tie
singers throat had so swollen that
he was threatened with death by
choking. He suffered a similar at.
tack on Tuesday night, the rdysici-
ans said, and was seriously i'll all day
yesterday, his condition coming to a
crisis last night Members of Mr..
McCormack's family are at the bed
side The singer has considerable
difficulty in talking. and his physi.
clans have forbidden him to converse
with Mrs Mccormack or MS chill
dren, Cyril Kevine and Gwendolyn.
According to the physicians, Nc
Cormack's singing will not be i'm.
paired through his illness, although
they say he will be unable to sing
for at least three months. All i'm
mediate concert engagements have
been cancelled as well as steam res
eryations for a trip to Europe which
the singer intended to take on May
y
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-04-14
rum RUNNERSHAD dental CLINIC
PLAN TOSTEAL OWN HAS STARTED To
BOOZE ENRan1E. 1l!I.t !. ..,.!! P CHILDREN
2OseplS
Alleged Chief of Whiskey Ring
Under Arrest
UNCOVER UNIQUE SCHEME
Shipments from Canada to Mex
leo Stolen While Cross
ing U. S.

Detroit, April 14.-Joseph Michael
ski, said by agents Of the department
Of justice to be member of an I'm
ternational whiskey ring" with head
quarters in Canada and Mexico, was
arrested here today.
Michaelski was held by United
States Commissioner Hurd under
bonds OF $4,000 for appearance
charged with violation Of the prohlb.
itory law. The hearing will be he'd
at Toledo where Michaelsh's confed.
crates are said to be in custody
Federal agents said the ring had
unique scheme wherein liquor was
shipped in carload lots from Canada
to Mexico, routing It across several
states.
Members of the band living at d,f-
ferent points between the dominion
and the southern republic would
break the seals on freight cars and
steal the liquor. When the cars
would arrive in Mexico they would
be empty.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-04-14
SIR ROSS SMITH KILLED
Aviator Planning for Round.World
Fiuh..

London. April 14-Slr Ross Smith,
the Australian aviator, who. with his
brother. Sir Keith. had planned u
start from Croydon on April 26 for
an attempted fight around the world.
was killed when his plane crashed
in practice fight at Brooklands yes
terday Lieut.. Bennett an engineer,
$50 was killed
The accident occurred 10 minutes
after Captain Smith and Lieut.. Ben
nett an engineer began their flight
Sir Keith Smith had intended to
make the trial flight with them but
arrived at the airdome too late and
was among the crowd that witnessed
the tragedy,
Sir Ross was killed instantly and
Lieut.. Bennett died few minutes
after the crash.
Captain Sir Ross Smith sprang IN.
to prominence in the World of avia-
tion in 1919, when. accompanied by
his brother Sir Keith, he made the
flight from England to Australia,
1880 miles, winning a prize of TO-.
600 pounds from the Australian gov.
.ernment as the first aviator to ac.
complish the England4Australl.d
flight. Both aviators were knight.
ed for their feat.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-04-14
WILL PRESS CLAIMS
AGAINST LINCOLN MOTORS
Attorney General Meets With Credit
ors and Announces Purpose
OF Government.

Washington, April 1.-THE govern
ment will proceed in an orderly way
to file and press payment Of the
claim of the War Department against
the Lincoln Motors Company OF De.
troit for approximately $9,1lS.0OO on
aviation contracts, Attorney General
Daugherty announced today after a
meeting with private creditors yester
day tie deunct corporation whose
claims a so approximate $9000,0O0.
The entire matter OF the claims
the Attorney General said, will
promptly reach the Federal Court
where the whole matter OF the LA
bi. ty OF the parties will be deter
mined"
The private creditors were repre-
sented by Harold II. Emmons OF De-
troit, acting for the Detroit Trust
Company, receiver. There are 900
odd creditors. Mr. Emmons said af-
ter the meeting, and to pay their
claims there is available S5,000O00
out OF the $4,000, 900 paid by Henry
Ford at a receiver sale for the prop
erty. The other 100000 he added,
represented preferred creditors in.
clud ng labor, mortgages and city,
state and county taxes.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-04-14
Work Was Begun Thursday and
Eight Were Treated
FIRST OF KIND IN VERMONT
People of Bennington Recently
Contributed Over $1100 to
Finance This Clinic

The Bennington Dental Clinic is
now in full operation. Eight children
were treated Thursday afternoon by
Dr. Jenney. The dentists will work
every Thursday afternoon in rotation
in the following order: Jenney, Gren
nan, Braley, Matteson, Bristol.
The clinic is located in very at.
tractiye room which has been par.
titioned off from the book room, ad-
iacent to the office on the second
floor Of the Graded School building.
This room is finished in fiat gray,
with gray enamel woodwork and
gray and green inlay linoleum. The
equipment Is all finished in gray
enamel and consists OF an excellent
operating chair, with cuspidor and
water supply; an electric engine for
drilling, polishing and so forth; an
electric sterilizer; folding wall
bracket; a cabinet in which instru-
ments are kept; and a number of
minor accessories. A good supply
Of instruments are already on hand
and more are on order. In one end
of the room is couch and a screen.
The total result is an unusually con-
venient, attractive and well-equipped
dental Office.
In the one afternoon Of its opera
tion much suffering Of several years
standing has been relieved. which,
Q" for the clinic, would have
l-ne on indefinitely.
1t should be emphasized that this
is the first clinic of its kind to be es-
tablshed in Vermont and was made
possible by the contribution of over
$1,000 by the people of Bennington.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-04-14
CASH REQUEST TO WESLEYAN
W. Il. Hall Gives Daughter Key 20
Wet Goods Cellar.

Winsted, Conn, April william
II. Hall of Wilmington formerly State
Senator, whose will was filed for pro.
bate in pittsheld Mass yesterday, be-
Queaths to Wesleyan University $25,.
GOO as an athletic fund and n Greek
fraternity of Wesleyan $4,000 as an
endowment. The widow receives Sll0,.
600 outright and each Of five children
$4,000
one paragraph reads: 81 give to
my daughter Doris the keys to the
brick vault in my cellar and give her
and her alone, the entire contents
of said vault consisting of wet goods
put up IN bottles. the same to be hers
forever"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-04-14
ESTATE OF HARRIET u. MORGAN
Stntc of Vermont,

District of Bennington, 50
The Honorable Probate Court for the
District aforesaid;
To all persons interested In the es-
tate of Harriet r. Morgan, late Of
Bennington, in said District. deceased,
GREETING;
WHEREAS. said Court has assigned
the 9th day OF May next for examining
and allowing the account of the Ad-
ministrator Of the estate OF said de-
ceased and FOR a decree of the residue
OF said estate to the lawful claimants
of the same. and ordered that public
notice thereof he given TO all persons
interested In said estate by publishing
this order three weeks successfully
previous to the day assigned, In the
Bennington Evening Banner a news
naper published at Bennington In said
District
THEREFORE,. you are hereby noti-
fed to appear at the Probate Onice In
Remington In said District, on the day
assigned, then and there to contest
the allowance Of said account II YOU
see cause. and 10 establish your right
ps heirs, legatees and lawful claimants
TO said residue.
Given under my hand this i3th day
Of April 1922.
AMY II. HARBOUR,
Register.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-04-14
LIVING COST NOW
81 PERCENT ABOVE
FICURESF0R 1874
Has Been Sharp Decline for the
Past Two Years
DROP NOW HAS STOPPED
Decline Seems to Have Reached
Bottom and Advance
Probable

New York, April 1.-THE cost OF
living in the United States at the
middle of March, 50 far as wage
earners families were concerned,
was SAT per cent higher than in
July, 1914, according to figures made
public yesterday by the National In
dustr!al Conference Board of 10 East
Thirty-ninth street which has just
completed a survey OF the changes in
the cost of living. But since July
1920, when the peak of the rise in
cost was reached there has been a
decrease of 244 per cent and a de-
crease of 1,9 per cent, was noted be.
tween the first of February of this
year and the middle of March
In a statement containing the fig
ures the board declares that they are
particularly significant at this time,
when the cost of living is an import.
ant feature in some o. the current
wage arbitrations, such as those in
the coal industry and before the Rail
road Labor Board. The figures OF
the board Indicate the statement
says, that while the sharp decline
noted when prices first began to fall
has slackened considerably, there
has been a slight but steady decrease
for year with total drop since
March 1921, of per cent.
The figures on which the boards
estimates are based were obtained
from practically every city having a
population of $4,000 or more, and
from many smaller towns. The Unit
ed States Bureau of Labor statistics
index number OF retail food prices
we're used as indicative Of changes
in the cost of that item. The most
important item, the board says, in
which a decrease was shown, is rents
which have declined all over the
country on an average Of 2.5 per cent
since November, 1921. OF 1863 cities
which reported on rents, ffty-nine
indicated that there had been u de-
crease in rents since last fall.
According to the boards figures
there has been drop Of S.6 per
cent. in food costs within the last
four months, and decreases also in
fuel prices, Clothing prices con
tinued to show Q decline, the total
increase in the cost o. clothing over
pre.war prices being "a per cent, IN
March Of this year, as against III
per cent. in March, 1920 Food prices
according to the board, are now 80
per cent. above pre-war prices. Rents
are Go per cent. higher and clothing
81 per cent higher
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-04-14
Globe but the Man Who Eats What He Knows Will Hurt Him
kAYsEEs ALL SET FOR BIG BALL
Preparations for Annual Entertain.
ment Completed.

The 10th annual Easter Monday
ball, to be given at high school hall
by Bennington council, Knights Of
Columbus, will open with concert
by Hurley's ten.piece orchestra which
will include number of musicians
from out of town. The concert VIII
begin sharply at o'clock.
Special effort is being made by the
committees that the grand march
may form promptly at O'Clock and
it is hoped that members and their
friends will assist in the accomplish
ment of this desire The grand
march will be followed by dance
program which will include some Of
the new and popular numbers The
decoration committee too, is plan
ming some surprises in lighting eff
fects at high school which will be
the scene of the festivities.
During interm!ssion supper will be
served in the domestic science de-
partment
Since the first entertainment 10
years ago, the Easter Monday ball
has become a fixture in the social
lie Of Bennington and there is every
indication that the 18th in the list
will addNto the reputation of its pre-
decessors
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-04-14
HELPING MRS. PRATT
Red Cross Nurses end Others Are
Arranging Donation.

Mrs. Oscar Pratt and children who
were burned out Wednesday and lost
their household goods have secured
a new tenement on Mill street through
th9 ass sstance of George NJ. Hawks.
Mrs Pratt and family are without
household utensils, furniture, clothes.
and some of their friends, assisted
by the Red Cross nurses, are giving
them an old fashioned donation party
t. help them get home started once
more
All sorts of things will be useful.
but t1pecia ly furniture and kitchen
utensils, but in order to prevent too
much duplication persons giving or
sending articles are requested TO call
up the Red Cross rooms, telephone 120.
Arrangements will also be made to
deliver articles which the givers can
not conveniently take or send to Mrs.
Pratt.
This is the third time Mrs. Pratt
and children have been burned out
and in this case their loss is complete.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-04-14
HEAVY HORSES WANTED
Demand For Horses Increases In The
Un ted States

New York,-The IA principal mar
kets of the central west show total
of 53.241 horses received the first two
months Of 1922 In a report just is.
sued by the Horse Association Of
America, this shows a gain OF 2402
head or 46 per cent These figures
do not take into consideration the
chief eastern markets, Boston, Buffa-
10, New York and Philadelphia.
Direct reports from eastern cites
just received show that all dealers
have handled more horses in the first
two months OF 1922 than in the CORE
spending months OF 1921. The drop
is not so great in the prices Of horses
and mules as it has been for other
farm products.
Wayne Dinsmore, secretary Of the
association, stated that the demand
for horses is steadily improving
throughout the country by reason OF
renewed activity in building excavat.
ing, road construction and general
merchand sing Paul Connolly. a well
known horseman Of Philadelphia stat
ed that more horses had been sold in
that city in the past three months
than in any corresponding three
months in the last ten years In East
St. Louis, the largest horse and mule
market in the world, reports for the
first part OF the month indicate that
sa es are substantially greater than
three months ago in SPITE of the fact
that the southern trade is not yet
back TO normal as farmers in the
south are still suffering from the
drop in cotton.
The horses most in demand this
spring are the wagon horse and the
draft horse The wagon horse or Eek.
presses" most used stands l6 to l62
hands in height and weighs from 1900
to 1900 pounds in working condition
The draft horses stand from l6.2 to
Ill hands in height and weigh from
1900 to 2000 pounds. The later are
much used today in cities by coal
dealers and trucking companies They
are relatively scarcer than wagon
horses
The demand for saddle horses IS
greater this year than it has ever
been, Greater interest all over the
country in horseback riding is the
reason, according to horse authorities
for the springs heavy demand for
well broken, well bred saddle horses.
Three weeks ago, the sales in Lex
ington Kentucky, set new records in
the saddle horse field.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-04-14
BUILDING
IN DUBLIN SEIZED
BY INSURGENTS
Former Seat of National Courts
Of Justice
CREATE A HEADQUARTERS
Have Barricaded Windows and
Communicated Adjoining
Hotel Property
REATE A HEADQUARTERS

Belfast, April IA (By the Associat-
cd Press) Two hundred and fifty
men Of the insurgest section Of the
Irish Republican army, under the
newly formed republican army exc
cutive or army council se'zed the
four courts building in Dubia at
midnight. The building, until the
passing of the Irish Free States act
was the seat Of the national courts
OF justice.
1t is announced in Dublin dispatch
es that the men intend to use the
building as permanent headquarters.
They have barricaded the windows
and have commandeered the adjoin-
ing Four Courts hotel,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-04-14
MERCHANT A SUICIDE.
Smith F. Henry, Wei Known Citizen
Of Burlington.

Burlington, April 12.-Smith F.
Henry, who for many years has been
identified with the wholesale hard
ware business in this city, committed
suicide by shooting this afternoon.
Mr. Henry, who was about his bust.
ness as usual, locked himself in his
private Office this afternoon. En-
ployes not long after heard the sound
Of shot and breaking open the door
found the man seated IN chair with
a bullet wound in h's head. He was
breathing when found and was i'm.
mediately rushed to a hospital where
he died about two hours later.
For the last two years he had been
in poor health Mr.. Henry was once
prominent in the hardware business
in Plattsburg, n. Y. In 1905 he came
TO Bur ington where he purchased
the Vermont Hardware company
which concern he had been associa
ted with until the time Of his death.
He was born April lS 1861. in Platts.
burg. He is survived in his immedi.
ate family by his wife and a son,
Lester l.. Henry.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-04-14
THIRD TRAGEDY
TRAILS MURDER Of
DR.. GLICKSTEIN
Widow Ends Life by Leaping
From Window
HAD BEEN NERVOUSLY ILL
Mother of Physician, Slain by
Woman, Dropped Dead
at Funeral

New York, April 14.-Another trag.
edy growing out OF the sensational
murder of DR.. Abraham Glickstein
by Mrs. Lillian Raizen in Brooklyn
last December was recorded today
when the widow, Mrs. Anna Click.
stein ended her life by jumping from
third story window at her mothers
hCmC
The doctors mother dropped dead
at his funeral.
Mrs. Gllcksten has been laboring
under a heavy mental strain ever
since her husband was shot
Mrs. Raizen, who was not appre'
hended for several days after the
shooting, confessed that she shot the
physician and is now in jail awaiting
trial.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-04-14
WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH
Putney Woman Poured Kerosene on
Kitchen Fire.

Brattleboro, April Mrs. Walter J..
Smith of Putney was fatally burned
in her home in that town this morn
ing and died in the Brattleboro me.
mortal hospital where she was
brought in an auto truck. Her cloth
ing caught fire when she poured kero-
sene oil in the kitchen stove.
Mrs. Smith, who was Sc years old,
started a fire to prepare breakfast,
and as 1t did not burn as briskly as
she desired she poured on oil from
stream of oil back into the can, which
exploded, and her clothing took fire.
The oil on the floor also started a fire
in the woodwork making it necessary
to call the fire department.
Mrs. Smith, formerly was Miss Kate
Maley of East Putney. Besides her
husband she leaves three daughters
and son.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-04-14
STATE BOARD OF CONTROL
Met in Montpelier at Gov, HARNESS.
Office Today

Montpelier April 1.-THE Yer
mont state board Of control met in
the Office OF Governor James Hart,
ness at Montpelier Wednesday morn
ing at 10 o'clock, with Governor Hart
ness. Henry B. Shaw, secretary OF
civil and military affairs, Walter r
Scott, state treasurer, Benjamin
Gates. state auditor John r.. Weeks
director OF state institutions and Ro
land y. Stevens of White River June
tion present,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-04-14
PREDICTS A COLD SUMMER
Pennsylvania Hunter Warns Of
Snow and sleet Until September


Snow and sleet Until September
Kane Pa, April 14.-A dull season
ilr straw hats and fappers is predict
ed by William Altman, a hunter and
trapper who lives in the woods near
Westline, about fifteen miles from
this city, and who has great local
reputation as a weather prophet. Ho
forecasts the coolest summer since
1879 when the corn ears were frozen
on the stalks
beginning April 10 and continuing
until the last o. August" says Alt.
man, there will be cold winds, rains,
snow and sleet. 1t will be the cold
est summer since 1879, when the
corn ears were frozen on the stalks
and were never fit for food Keep
your oyercoats handy because you
will need them almost every day
1T will be a duh season for straw
hats, and fappers will have little
chance to display thin stockings.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-04-14
GIRL STUDENT WINS SUIT
Face Powder Ban Ruled Unjust;
Can't Reenter School.

Corning. Ark, April 13.-Although
last night he held that the ruling of
the school board at Knobel forbid.
ding girl students using face powder
was unjust Circuit Judge w. w, Ban.
dy today refused Miss Pearl Pugsley's
application for writ of mandamus
to compel the board to readmit her
to high school following her Glsmlss.
al last September
In his decision Judge Bandy held
that face powder did not interfere
with the health of the pupils and
they could use II If they wished
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-04-14
SPELLING CONTEST
Dorothy. Williams and cecile Tet-
reault Winners.

A spelling contest in which Doro.
thy Williams and Cecie Tetreault
were the winners was held Thursday
afternoon in the assembly hall OF the
Junior High school There weru
twenty-five participants, two from
each room of grades five and six and
the Junior High school
These two winners will take part
next month in county contest
ch will be held In Bennington
High school There viii be two con-
testants from each town in the coun.
ty.
The winners OF the county contest
will go to 81. Johnsbury next October
to represent Bennington County in
the state Spelling Contest.
In the local contest, Mr. Orr acted
as conductor and the judges were
Miss Wech, Miss Carney and Miss
Caryl.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-04-14
Typographical Errorsl

"The bride was gowned In white
lace. The bridesmaids gowns were
punk. The whole color scheme Of the
decorations was punk"-New York
paper Probably the bridegroom was
also In the punk Of coalition.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-04-14
TEN PIN RECORD FALLS
New Mark Set by Hanley-Hurley
Team.

Team.
The G. Comar Dunham team broke
the low record in the rolling of the
High-Low Tournament when they hit
only SIG.
At $3.50 when all the spectators
were about to leave the all.star team
of Hanley and Hurley began to hit
the pins and before they had finished
the record OF 1910 established by ].
Comar and r. White had gone to
the discard by 81 pins. Both men
were over 500. Hanley had 544 and
Hurley SOB. II was the best exhib!.
tion Of duo bowling seen on the al
leys during the tournament Sum.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-04-14

Friday night the highlow tourna-
ment comes to an end with the fol-
lowing teams on the alleys:
1880, LaFlamme--Sears; s, Han.
sen Morse; $50, Mallory-Matti-
son; 9, Stewart--A. Barrett; $3.50,
powers-Cli.ford.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-04-14
LISBON AvlAToRs HALT
Bad Weather Prevents Leaving Cape
Verde Isles,

Lisbon, April 10 ASSOCIATED Pressl
Bad weather conditions prevented
start today by Captains Sacradura
and Couytinho, the Portuguese ayia.
tors. on the third stage of their
flight to Brazil from the Cape Verde
Islands to st. Paul Rock, in mid At.
lantic. The aviators cabled here this
afternoon that the conditions would
make It imnosslble for them to leave
before Sunday.