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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-14
LEGION POST TO
MAKE CANVASS
win Secure Record of All Ex-Service
Men in Town for National Head
auarters--Canvasser Named

Brattleboro post of the American
Legion is planning to take part in the
Legion service campaign which is being
conducted by the national headquarters
to get record of all the ex-service men,
their sentiment with respect to the so
called soldiers bonus. and various other
facts An effort viii be made to induce
those not now members of the Legion to
join the organization.
The membership committee of the post
has assigned members to cover the va
rious sections of the town to obtain this
information. Those who win make the
canvass are Roger Aiken, John Aher,
u. II. Smith, Bernard Haus. Frank Dun
levy, Fred Dimes, G.. w. Tidd, Il. w.
Gibson, Joseph Brouillett, jr., John
Fowler, Pearl Clapp, John Atkinson. IL.
Y. Brooks, Arthur Clapp, Allen Colt,
Charles Duke, Henry Dimes, Alphonse
Rate, Lawrence Cundif, Walter Fair
bank.
At the meeting of the post tomorrow
night Department Adjutant Allen
Fletcher of Burlington. manager of the
veterans bureau, will be present.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-14
NO EASY TASK TO
FLOAT LUSITANIA
English Authorities Doubtful of Success
of Scheme to Salvage Tor
pedOed Liner.

LONDON, June 1.-THE statement
cabled from New York that an Ameri-
can salvage company was going to try
10 raise the Lusitania has aroused keen
interest here But most of those who
speak with authority about lifting ships
from the bottom of the sea are scepticai
as to tho Lusitania ever being floated.
Sir Frederick Young is strongly of the
opinion that it will never be done. He
had charge of the Admiralty Salvage
section during the war, and brought
into port nearly 500 ships that had be
come war casualties Many of them
had been torpedoed and a considerable
number had been sunk No one knows
more about raising sunken ships.
To an interviewer Sir Frederick has
said it is very improbable, though not
absolutely impossible, that the Lusi
tania could be raised. The cost would
be out of all proportion to her value.
After lying seven years at the bottom
of the sea it would cost as much to re
instate her as to build new vessel
To build floating chamber 900 feet
long and 100 feet wide and to attempt
to raise the wreck by means of steel
Vables, would involve. Sir Frederick
Rointed out, an expenditure so consider
able as to make the undertaking by that
means quite impossible on any com
mercial basis. The alternative method
of raising the vessel by pumping in com
pressed air hardly seemed feasible. Be
fore that could be done she would have
to be made air tight by closing all open
ings. 1t is impossible for divers to work
at a depth of 250 feet, and they would
have to so that far under water to get
at the Lusitgnia. The greatest depth at
which divers now work successfully Is
$50 feet
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-14
CHARGES SLUR
ON JEWISH CADET
Alleged Indignity Perpetrated at
L. $. Naval Academy.

WASHINGTON, June I4-Senator
Sutherland of West Virginia Yesterday
called the attention of the senate to an
alleged indignity committed by the
graduating class at the United States
Naval academy at Annapolis against
Leonard Raplan, one of the graduates.
Kaplan, Senator Sutherland said, was
Of Jewish extraction, and he attributed
the indigHity of which he complained
10 racial and religious prejudice.
i The slight put upon Kaplaa, according
to Mr. Sutherland 5 explanation to the
senate, was in perforation of the inner
margin of the last page of the book OF
the graduating class. known as The
Lucky Bag this page containing a
photograph and a short sketch of Kap-
an, the apparent object of the peTfora-
tion being to suggest that the page
could be torn out without defaeing the
volume, very handsome and expensive
publication, printed on fine paper and
with sketches and photographs excel
Ientiv reproduced. The photographs of all
contained in the book. each with a short
Biographical sketch containing ironical
comment on the chief characteristics OF
the graduate.
Kaplan 5 name is omitted from the
index TO the biographies. There are two
sketches to the page. On the page with
Kaplan s photograph and biography,
which is termed ''an autobiography in
the book, is a crudely drawn picture of
fictitious member of the graduating
class designated as ''Porky,' - of whom
it is said that he was - born in the
Township of Zion, County of Cork,
State of Ignorance, Sunday, the 18th
day of March, l9C0.''
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-14
Agreement Reached as to
Use of Vernon Street
Land
WORK ON NEW
PLANT BEFORE LONG
Snowflake Canning Concern Agrees to
Release Portion of Land at Once and
VIII Give up Balance as Soon as This
Years Corn Crop Is Out of Way

As the result of a conference yester-
day afternoon between officials of the
Presbrey-Leland CO., and the Snowflake
Canning Co, an agreement was reached
in regard to the land on Vernon street
which the latter company is now occupy
ing but is to be decided to the Presbrey
concern as the site of an extensive gran
ite finishing plant.
BY the terms of this agreement the
Snowflake company win occupy a portion
of the land until the end Of the present
season but viii release enough of it so
that the Presbrey Leland company can
begin construction work within a very
short time.
c. II. Presbrey Of New York, who was
here yesterday, left last evening for
Barre to make arrangements for award
ing the contract for the new sheds to be
built here. During the day he went to
West Dummerston to inspect the work
now going on at the quarry, and ex-
pressed satisfaction not only with the
progress of operations but with the
quality of granite which is being taken
out.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-14
Living Miles Up in the Air.

What is the greatest height at which
people live ON the earth?
There is, it seems, a shepherd living
with his family in the Andes at a height
of 17,100 feet, and this has been claimed
to be a record. that is. for permanent
habitation.
When it comes to a question of
temporary abode, however, this altitude,
great as it is, is easily beaten, for on
one of the Himalayan passes. 1S.400
feet high, a small band of hardy men
live during the summer.
The men, numbering less than half
dozen. are Tibetan custom house officers,
and are specially selected for their pow
ers of endurance, as one would expect
them to be in order to exist even for
few weeks in air which must contain
SO very much less oxygen than there is
at sea level.
From such an elevated pass these
men must have a magnificent view of
the great Iibetan plateau, the inhabi-
tants of which themselves seem to live
as comfortably at heights of $4,000 or
more feet
It would be interesting to know at
what height human beings could accus-
tom themselves to live. There is no rea-
son to suppose that 1S.400 feet is the
limit.-Philadelphi Inquirer.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-14
LUTHER PLUMMER
DIES IN HOSPITAL
Well Known Brattlehoro Man Under
went Operation in Boston - Mem
ber of Laundry Machinery Firm.

News was received here last night of
the death of Luther r. Piummer at the
Trumbull hospital in Boston. where be
underwent an operation yesterday morn
ing and died about noon. Death was due
to acute kidney complications.
Mr.. Plummer. who was one of the
principal owners and vice president of
the Willie Co, manufacturers of laun-
dry machinery, of Philadelphia, was born
at the sO-ca1led Starr place on Western
avenue May 10. 1865, one Of four sons
of j. Howard Plummer and Jane (Rich-
artlson) Plummer. He attended West
Brattleboro academy. For some time he
was connected with the grocery store of
SimendS & pullen, and at one time con-
Quoted a cr0ckery store on Elliot street.
For the past % years he had been con-
nected in various ways with the laundry
business. His home always had been in.
Brattleboro.
Besides his wife. who was Miss Abbic
w. Staples of Brattleboro, whom he mar
ried Nov 6. 1888, he leaves one daugh-
ter, Gertrude, Mrs. Niles Coward of
Brooklyn. \. Y, who is about to move to
Providence, r, l., two granddaughters,
Gertrude and Sarah Coward also one
brother, Charles Plummer of Rawlins,
Wyo.
He was a member of Wantastiquet
lodge of Odd Fellows and of Oasis en-
campment.
The funeral Will be held in the home
at , Canal street at 2.30 o'clock tomor-
row afternoon. Rev. Edwin z. Wood.
pastor of the First Universalist church,
will officiate. The burial viii take place
in Prospect Hill cemetery.
Ror number of years Mr.. Plummer
had travelled for the firm of which ne
was a member and was instrumental in
building UP a successful business. lie.
was a man of pleasing personality, kind
ly and courteous, and had many friends
here and elsewhere. For many years the
family lived on Washington street.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-14
WOMAN FINED FOR SELLING.
DrewsyiIIe, n. H., Polish Family Vic
Tins of Raid.

NORTH WALPOLE, N H., June IA
Sheriff Frank A. Spaulding of this
town yesterday made a raid on the farm
home of Jacob Kasan, a Polander liv-
ing near Drewsyille, and captured 30
gallons of mash in process and many
appliances for making shooch"
The raid was made because Michael
j. Beumond of Bellows Falls disclosed
when before Judge Costin's court the day
before on the charge of driving an auto
mobile while intoxicated. Mrs Kasan
pleaded guilty last night in municipal
court to selling two quarts to Beumond
and was fined 500 and costs of $22. 20,
whcih she readily paid. Her husbands
statement that he knew nothing of the
manufacture was accepted by the court,
although he had been fined last spring in
Walpole village court $50 and costs for a
similar offence.
Michael J. Beumond came into Judge
Costin's court last night and pleaded
guilty to possessing the two quarts of
..hooch'' found by the officers Sunday
night in his wrecked automobile near
Cold River station, and he was fined $50
and costs of $3.50, which he paid and
went back to his home in Bellows Falls.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-14
SUPREME COURT
IS ACTUAL RULER
Senator La Toilette Attacks
Judiciary Before
Labor Men
SOVEREIGNTY TAKEN
AWAY FROM PEOPLE

Wisconsin SOIon Would Prevent Grad
uaI EnerOachment'' on Public Rights
by Amendment to Federal Constitu-
ton
CINCINNATI, o, June 14.-Assert-
ing that by a process of gradual en-
croaehments' the federal courts of the
country have ''wrested sovereignty from
the people" Senator LaFollette of Wis
consin. in an address today before the
American Federation of Labor conven-
ton proposed an amendment to the con-
stitution denying the power of lower
courts to set aside a federal law as un-
constitutional and providing for the nuiii-
fication of any such decision by the SUI
preme court by reanactment of the stat
ute. Citing the recent decision of the
supreme court holding unconstitutional
the child labor tax law as typical OF the
conduct of the federal judiciary and par
ticularly the supreme court whenever
congress has sought to enact progressive
and humane legislation which was often
sive to great financial interests" Senator
LaFollette declared the supreme tribunal
of the country was to-day the actual
ruler of the American people"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-14
The Truck Hazard on the Road.
(Holyoke Transcript

The death of two of the most promi-
nent club women of Vermont in an
automobile accident yesterday calls at
tention again to the peril to automobile
traffic that the heavy noisy truck makes
on the country road. The truck is usU-
ally driven by young men, sometime
one, sometimes two on the box. Their
machine makes so much noise that they
90 not hear light cars sounding their
horns for a chance to pass. Moreover
when there seems plenty of room to pass
the youthful drivers are very apt to
swerve their cars so that the passing
car has to take to the ditch at the mo-
ment of passing or be overwhelmed
The highways are for trucks as well
as for light cars. In the cities the truck
drivers stick to their side of the road
in q measure. But out in the country
roads they keep to the middle of the
road except when they meet a car or
team and back they swerve when they
get chance. They are the genuine
road hogs. In this particular case the
daughter-in-law of Senator Carroll Page
was driving four other ladies, one a
daughter of q former lieutenant COVER
nor of the state and in trying to pass
nor of the state. and in trying to pass
ment. Two of the Darty were killed
and Mrs Page badly injured. The
problem of the truck on the country
road is something for the automobile
clubs tc take up and regulate.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-14
Was Arrested in 1920.
BELLOWS FALLS, Jun

BELLOWS FALLS, juno II.
Investigation developed that Gilbert
Barnes, who escaped from the New
Hampshire officers in Westminster Sat
urday night after being held as chicken
thief, was arrested in 1920 in Keene for
breaking and entering and larceny of
grain. lie was then going by the name
of Gilbert Burnes. He spent some time
in iail. and his case was continued for
sentence on the payment Of costs. and
evidently never sentenced His wife 5
parents reside in Keene. lie is 81 years
old, FIVE feet. eight inches tall, and
weighs 40 pounds, smooth face, ard
sandy complexion When he escaped
from the officers he wore blue checked
overhauls, faded coat and cap, and tan
shoes
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-14
COMMITTEES FOR
CHILDREN'S PARADE
Plans Maturing for This Feature of
Fourth of July Celebration - Rib
bon Prizes to Be- offered.

Definite, plans are taking form rap
idly for the children's parade features of
the Fourth of July celebration and in a
meeting of the parade committee held in
the home of Mrs. Frank Z. Barber,
chairman, special committees for each
school were named and the best way for
the children to exhibit their pets was
discussed.
Children from surrounding towns are
invited to participate IN the parade,
(Which viii start at 9 o'clock. The Farm
Bureau is lending assistance in an effort
outlying towns The Red Cross will
furnish a feature, as viii Miss Grace
Holbrook's Green Mountain camp girls.
In discussing the exhibit of pets in the
parade it was suggested that cats, rab-
bits, etc, could be exhibited in cages
carried on carts made to represent ami
mails in a menagerie.
The committees appointed to assist the
children of the various schools with
their plans are as follows: Esteyville,
Mrs. George Dewitt and Mrs. Ii. G.
Barrett; Washington street, Mrs. Stew
art Chaplin; Canal street Miss Violet
Fidler and Mrs. G. S. Hamilton; Oak
Grove, Mrs. w. NJ. Rider and Mrs. @.
$. Leach; Chase street. Mrs. Murray
NJ Tucker; High street, Mrs Austin w.
George; Centeryille, Mrs. William
Erickson West Brattleboro, Mrs. John
Atkinson and Mrs. Fred Wilder; Main
street Mrs. Robert Emery and Mrs.
Frank E. Barber. hese committees viii
ascertain about how many children will
participate in the parade. An effort
will be made to have the school spirit
shown and the committee for each school
hopes that some one group of the school
will arrange for a school banner or
other distinctive school feature.
Following are the parade features for
which ribbon prizes will be offered:
Girl Scouts, best marching group !;
largest group in line from any school !;
best organized group; most original
group; best decorated bicycle, tricycle.,
auto. or roller coaster; best decorated
bicycle etc. and rider; Boy Scout, best
marching group; most artistic doll !;
most artistic doll carriage: most artis-
tic doll and carriage; unique doh and
carriage; oldest doll: Oldest carriage ];
most popular pet; best exhibited pet /;
unique pet; best decorated express cart !;
best wagon and pet; most artistic in
dividual costume, also unique costume,
boy and girl.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-14
Centre Congregational Church

Thursday, June II, at p. m.-Meet-
ing of the Woman's association in the
chapel. Business Home missionary pro-
gram. Shower for DR.. Parker's hospital
in Madura ANY of the following articles
are asked for: Towels, face cloths, safety
and common pins, soap, single sheets, old
cotton and linen, hospital gauzc, ban
dageS, absorbent cotton, money. Social
hour with light refreshments. Group
leaders are asked to notify members of
their groups. All women of the parish
are invited.
Friday, June 16, 7.3O D. m-Church-
night meeting Chapter u, Victorious
Personality. in the Meaning of Service
viii be studied.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-14
LELANDs TO DROP OUT.
Have Trouble with FOrds Over Lincoln
Motors Management.

DETROIT. Mich, June 14-Henry M
Leland and his son, Wilfred G. Leland,
of the Lincoln Motor Co, recently alb
sorbed by the Henry Ford interests,
have severed all connections with the
Ford Motor Co.
Differences arose soon after Henry
Ford took over the Lincoln plant as to
the conduct of the business. Mr.. Ford
has his own ideas of how an automobile
plant should be run and insisted on
their adoption in the Lincoln Company
shops. The Lelands, it is understood,
did not agree. The exact reasons for
the conflict of opinions could not be
learned.
At the Ford plant in Dearborn neither
Henry Ford nor Edsel Ford could be
reached. Henry NJ. Leland admitted
that he would resign from participation
in the Lincoln Company s affairs and
that his son would follow suit.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-14
REWARD OFFERED
FOR BARNES CAPTURE
WalpOle, \. H., Authorities Promise $50
for Apprehension of
Chicken Thief
Especial to The Reformer.l
WESTMINSTER. June


Walpole. n. H., officers have offered
reward OF $25. for the apprehension OF
Gilbert F Barnes, alias Burns, who es-
capped from them Saturday night in the
north part of this town while under ar
rest for chicken stealing perpetrated IN
Waipole. 1t has been ascertained that
he returned to his farm house Sunday
night and secured some things and drove
away with them in his team which he
had left at home when he escaped He
had peddIed milk in Bellows Fails and
it now is ascertained that he had done
a thriving business for some weeks in
selling chickens on his milk route, al
though but few were ever known kept
at his farm
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-14
APPLICATIONS FOR
O. r. C.. ARE SOUGHT
Capt Loren Il. Pierce and LIT. f. III.
HoIterman i'm BrattlebOro To-day on
Tour of the State

Capt. Loren r. Pierce of the 3SSth
Infantry and 1t. f. II. Holterman of
the air service, @. r. c., both of Wood
stock, are in Brattleboro today to see
ex-service officers of the World war in
an effort to induce them to enroll in the
officers reserve corps. Capt Pierce and
1t Holterman are making tour of the
state.
There are about 900 men in the state
available for enrolment in the officers
reserve corps, and it is estimated that
about 60 per cent of them will sign up
before an examination becomes neces-
sary.
All that is required now is the signing
of an application blank and a physical
examination After November. 1923, a
complete examination before board will
be required
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-14
CLAIM UNITED STATES
BUYS GERMAN BEER.

ST. LOUIS, June IA (Associated
Press Denial that the late Adolf
plus Busch "was possibly the
kaiser's closest friend in America"
as charged by Chairman Lasker of
the shipping board, was made at the
offices of Anheuser Busch, Inc, to-
day with the announcement that
second letter was in preparation to
the shipping board on the subject of
liquor sales ON shipping board yes
sells and answering Mr.. Lasker's
charges of the Busch connection with
Germany. The letter will state that
the Anheuser Busch organization re-
serves. the right ito protest when
the United States government buys
German beer to sell on its ships and
will not let American beer be
made" the announcement said.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-14
BAND CONCERT PROGRAM.
Selections to Be Rendered I'm EsteyyiIle
Tomorrow Night.

The Brattleboro Military band will
give an outdoor concert in Esteyyille to-
morrow night at o'clock. when the fol-
lowing program viii be rendered:
March, For the Nations Honor,
Friedman
Overture. Aladdin. Robinson
Fox Trot. Stealing, Sullivan
Waltz, With Merry Hearts, Beach
Fox Trot, Wabash Blues
Selection, Greenwich Village Follies,
Sloane
Waltz, When Shall We Meet Again?
March, Mt. st. Louis Cadets,
Laurendeau
Star Spangled Banner
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-14
SUSPECT THREE
OF STARTING FIRE
Pawtuclet Police Looking for Men Be
Iieved Implicated in Blaze in Tex
tile Workers Home

PAWTUCKET, r. T., June 14.-Po-
lice are trying to find three men who
were seen early today near tenement
house in Water street, where fire brOka
out and trapped number Of occupants.
including three employees of one of the
concerns affected by the textile strike.
Joseph Larcole, the owner of tho house,
SAYS the FIRE was preceded by an explo-
sion and that the entrance To the build
ing was covered with gasoline and kero-
sene. Police and firemen rescued sew
eral of thu occupants.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-14
PASTORS BAR EvOLUTIONIsTs.
Pastors Conference Acts Against q
Union University Professor.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, June 14-Un-
less Professor c. w. Davis, members of
the faculty of Union university, a Bap-
tist institution at Jackson, Tenn, Is
eliminated from its teaching staff, or de
clares his reputation of the theory of
evolution, all financial or moral support
of the Nashville Baptist Pastors con
ference viii be withdrawn from the in
stitution, according to resolutions
adopted by the conference
The resolutions declare the theory of
evolution dangerous and destructive, and
out of accord with the teachings of the
Baptist church.
The action of the board of trustees
in the reelection of Professor Davis.
after he had been tried upon charge of
evolution, was condemned by the con-
ference
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-14
TEAR GAS USED
TO SAVE CULPRIT
Michigan Officers Rely on 1t TO Repell
Advances of Mob
Spirited Away

JACKSON, Mich, June 14-Use Of
tear gas to repel the advances of more
than thousand angry citizens Of Jack
son who sought to take George Straub
confessed slayer OF Miss Alice Mallett
from the custody of the sheriff is largely
responsible for Straub's safety in an un
named Michigan city today. The priso-
ner, disguised. as a fireman, marched
through the ranks of the crowd that
sought his life last night. Each time the
situation grew threatening officers used
gas bombs.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-14
DOUBT AS TO DESTINATION.
Peculiar Epitaph on Tombstone of
Former New Hampshire Man.
fC,..oo;oI 70 Tho Raforroar
Especial to Ihe hetormer.)
FITZWILLIAM. ~. Ia. Inne ]

FITZWILLIAM, n. H., June a.
''Going. but know not where,' is the
unusual epitaph on the tombstone of
Phineas G. Wright, a native of Fitzwil-
liam. who died four years ago in Put
nam. Conn. He is buried in a cemetery
in Putnam and his grave is visited by
many tourists who have been told of the
inscription
After leaving Fitzwilliam in his boy
hood. Wright learned to be a carpenter.
He was noted in Putnam for his disbelief
in the life hereafter, which is expressed
so pointedly in his own epitaph. 1t is
said that Wright ordered the tombstone
before his death, and had it shipped back
to the stone-eutter because he did not
think the beard on ms likeness IN stone
had been trimmed enough.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-14
Universalist Church

Wednesday, June little Ladies'
Circle will be entertained at the cottage
of Mrs. Albert w Rockwell, Spofford
Lake. Basket lunch at nOon
Thursday, June 10, 3 p. m.-AIission
circle in the yestry.
Thursday evening, June 15-The
Daughters circle viii meet in the church
parlors. This is the last meeting before
fall and full attendance is desired