a —.
INK SLINGS.
—One thing is certain. There will
be no lover's lanes in the aerial by-
ways.
—Business in most places is flat-
tern a pancake and Cal. is as silent
as ever about it.
—If April showers bring May flow-
ers we haven’t much in the posy line
to look for next month.
—Talking about cleaning up the
mess at Harrisburg the Pinchot per-
fume doesn’t seem to have deodorized
it much.
—Congressman Vare was vaccinat-
ed on Monday. It was neither office
itch nor small-politics he was seeking
immunity from, however.
—The “Afaletics” are starting off
fine. They seem to have the April
pennant cinched, but there’s no telling
where they’ll be when October arrives.
—Of course the race for United
States Senator hasn’t begun yet, but
the entries are warming up and many
dopesters are impressed with Pin-
chot’s form.
—We are very low in mind just now
because we haven’t talked to a single
piscatorial crony who hasn’t had bet-
ter luck than has rewarded our three
attempts to provide a meal for the
family.
—Surely we need fear no further
freezes this spring. The I. O. O. F.
band emerged from its winter quar-
ters on Wednesday night, a bit weak,
of course, but evidently with the sap
coming up.
—Pinchot broke his political neck
when he fired Supt. Finegan, then
Vare and Grundy broke theirs by
striking at the public school appropri-
ations. And by breaking theirs they
re-set Gif’s.
—OQur climatic conditions have be-
come so erratic that pomologists will
have to set themselves to the propa-
gation of fruit trees that will be wise
enough to hold their buds back until
the last spring freeze has had its
fling.
—Vice President Dawes has given
the country “Hell and Maria” and the
underslung pipe. Certainly they are
wonderful enough as evidence of
statesmanship to justify his strictures
on the conduct of the United States
Senate. ;
— Let us hope that council hasn’t
taxed the one great thrill of child life
out of Bellefonte. Of course we're a
little nutty in that direction, but rath-
er than deprive the kids of the joy of
circus day we'd be in favor of laying
tax to create a bonus to induce them
to come to town.
“Philosophy is a wonderful thing.
With the ease and swiftness of greas-
ed lightning it sets everything right
or wrong according to the kind that
dominates the mental processes. For
example, there are those who rea-
son that “millions now living will
never die,” and then those who would
have us believe that “many now living
are dead but don’t know it.”
—Here we have been suffering with
pip to the extent that our doctor will |
permit us to work only half a day at
a time and a friend drops in to take
part of that with telling us of the nice
lot of trout he had sent to invalids
about town. Of course we were tQo
polite to flash the invalid high sign
on him, but we thought a lot after he
told us that one of his list was the
kind of invalid who could eat a bale of
hay at a sitting and never need a pep-
sin tablet to help take care of it.
—Last week we advised you to swat
the first fly and tried to impress the
efficacy of it on you by stating that
Adam would have been the only man
on earth had something swatted him
just before the apple episode in the
Garden. If that didn’t impress, let
us again urge you to swat the first
fly because we note that nearly twelve
thousand new members were added to
the D. A. R. last year. Think of it,
more Daughters of the Revolution
added in 1924 than George Washing-
ton’s soldiers had wives in 1776.
—The infant tornado that bobbed
up and down over portions of Centre
county was not as alarming as some
reports might have it. There was not
a single well framed building destroy-
ed. Most of the barn rooves that were
reported as blown off were not blown
off at all. In the College and Lemont
sections none of the large, substantial
buildings were damaged more than to
the extent of having the iron or tin
sheeting ripped off small sections of
the ends exposed to the storm. It was
an unusual blow for Centre county’s
mountain-locked valleys but there was
nothing in it to cause timid people to
fly to the cyclone cellar every time the
sky gets dark in the future.
—The very Rev. William Ralph
Inge, known as London’s “Gloomy
Dean” and generally recognized as
England’s greatest ecclesiastical
scholar, is in this country to deliver a
series of lectures. His first was at
Yale on Sunday afternoon and it re-
vealed this bit of philosophy: “Why
should we talk to each other at all
when we can read—it is much pleas-
anter to sit in an arm chair with our
feet on the fender fortified by such
creature comforts as our tastes and
the laws of our country allow.” That,
we construe, as the Dean’s veiled fling
at prohibition. If we are wright he
doesn’t know his subject. It isn’t sit-
ting with his feet on the fender that
many are protesting their denial of.
Americans didn’t take theirs that
way. They took it standing up with
one foot on the brass rail.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
_VOL. 70.
Pinchot Ahead in Senatorial Run.
That the activities of Vare and
Grundy during the session of the
Legislature have materially helped
Governor Pinchot in his campaign for
Senator in Congress is freely ac-
knowledged by a number of leading
Republican newspapers throughout
the State. At the opening of the ses-
sion the Governor was completely out | the contempt in which the recreants ; been trampling upon the constitution
of the running. His devious methods, | are held by the women of the League. and tearing it to tatters by obeying
insincerity of purpose and selfishness,
had turned public opinion against him.
But the “blundering leadership” and the Legislature bowed to the lucrative | others who have occupied seats in the
crack of the tax-collectors’ whip.” Of |
the “exhibition of political incompe-
tency,” as the esteemed Philadelphia
Ledger characterizes the management
of the Legislature, appear to have
restored him, not to popular favor,
exactly, but to a position of compara-
tive preference.
As the situation now exists Gifford
Pinchot has decidedly the lead for the
Republican Senatorial nomination.
There are certain to be three candi-
dates, Senator Pepper, Governor Pin-
chot and Congressman Vare. Senator
Pepper will have the support of the
old Republican organization and the
benefit of the skillful management of
State chairman Harry Baker. Secre-
tary Mellon and the moral force of
the Coolidge administration will help
some in keeping him on the front line.
Pinchot will have the State officials,
including the vast army of employees
in the Highway Department, as well
as the State police and the ultra dry
element of the electorate. The chances
are more than even that Grundy will
be with him also.
Congressman Vare will be a negli-
gible element, a sort of trailer, in the
contest. He will count nearly all the
votes cast in Philadelphia and that of
itself will be a considerable force. But
in the contest for a seat in the Nation-
al convention last year Pinchot got |
upward of 40,000, and it may be pre-
dicted that every vote cast against
Vare in the city will be for Pinchot.
Assuming that the strongth of Pepper |
and Pinchot is about equal outside of :
Philadelphia this considerable support
of the Governor in that city may de-
cide the contest in his favor. In any
event it promises to be an interpsting;:
and is'cert#fin to be a bitter fight.
——The boss will pick a judge for
this Federal district court at a back
room conference in Philadelphia next
Tuesday. Well, Judge Witmer was
picked in that way and he made a gun to function, but it moves in an ¢2lled our attention to the fact, a few
very good judge.
Rumors of Factional Wars.
Some bad feeling was developed
during the closing hours of the ses- |
sion of the Legislature that is more
than likely to cause trouble for cer-
tain leaders in the future. The news-
papers have given special attention to
a disagreement between Congressman
Vare and Senator Harris, of Pitts-
burgh, that is likely to figure in fu-
ture party operations. The Pitts-
burgh Senator charges the Philadel-
phia Congressman with “double-cross-
ing” him, and he has appealed to the
Governor to veto a certain bill in
which Mr. Vare is deeply interested.
Vare hasn’t done much for Philadel-
phia but he got one bill through which
provides that license fees for busses
operating entirely in the city should
be paid to the city treasury.
There is a good deal of reason in
this proposition but some danger as
well. The Philadelphia busses which
operate exclusively in the city cannot
possibly cut up the highways of the
State, and for that reason it would
seem fair to appropriate the fees to
the up-keep of the city streets. But
in thus diverting the automobile li-
cense fees a precedent is created
which may work much harm if the
other cities of the State were to claim
the same advantage. There are a
good many second and third class
cities in Pennsylvania and considera-
ble money is paid for auto licenses by
city residents. If the State Highway
Department permits a break into its
policy in this case there is no telling
where it will end.
Congressman Vare promised certain
people in Philadelphia that the neces-
sary legislation for this diversion of
fees would be enacted by the Legisla-
ture and approved by the Governor.
Now an attempt is made to induce the
Governor to veto the bill, not because
it is a bad measure, but to disappoint
Vare and make trouble for him. Con-
gressman Vare gets a great deal from
Philadelphia and gives little in return.
He adopted this bill as a sort of “sop
to the whale” and if he is not able to
deliver the goods, it may be bad for
him in future, and there has never
been a period in his life in which it
was as important for him to stand
well. But Pinchot is not concerned in
Vare’s political prosperity.
——A New York restaurant man
claims to have abolished the tipping |
system by adding a service item to the
bills of customers. But the customer
has to pay.
. BELLEFONTE, PA.. APRIL 24. 1925.
List of Recreants Published.
| The Women Voters’ League has
. fulfilled its promise to publish the
names of the thirty-seven representa-
! tives in the Legislature who promised
to vote for the Ludlow bill before
| the election and voted against it.
! The April Bulletin of the League con-
| tains the list and some expression of
“It was defeated,” the Bulletin de-
clares, “because machine elements in
‘course a victory thus achieved shall
‘not go unchallenged. The fight will
be resumed at the next session and
the same bunch or some other bunch
' will then have an opportunity to fool
the women.
| Naturally there is a good deal of
feeling among the women who com-
i pose the Pennsylvania League of:
{ Women Voters because they had been
' deceived by false promises of support.
The measure . the ‘women ‘had spon-
sored was one of much merit, and the
only pending bill in which the women
took a deep interest.
crowned their efforts in this case
they would have tackled future prob-
lems with greater confidence. It
would have given them encouragement
for greater achievement. It is true
that the thirty-seven recreants
strengthened by the twenty-nine
faithful members would not have put
the bill across. But sixty-six is a re-
spectable minority and in some cases
it’s respectable to be in the minority.
To the credit of Centre county the
brand of recreancy does not attach to
our representative in the Legislature.
But the same praise cannot be applied
to our neighboring counties. Clarion,
Clearfield, Clinton are all smirched
! lobby. But there is no penalty beyond
the brief lecture in the columns of the
Bulletin. Long before another elec-
tion of Representatives in the Legisla-
ture is due the Women of the Penn-
sylvania ‘League of Women Voters
will have forgotten their past dis-
appointment, and will be
i.dates of. the machine who will “de-
ceive and disappoint them again, That
‘is the way with women Republican
politicians.
|
i ——The new French cabinet has be-
, unsteady pace to an uncertain desti-
nation.
1
eee fp eee eee
Senator Reed Official Spokesman.
Upon the return of Senator Reed,
' next Tuesday, the activities of the Re-
‘ publican machine will begin. Senator
j Reed has been in Europe for several
weeks inspecting the battle fields of
the war, and though some of the as-
pirants for future party honors have
been looking the ground over during
his absence, nothing of importance
has occurred. It is now generally un-
| derstood that the Pittsburgh Senator
: has been selected as the official spokes-
man of Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon, and that Mr. Mellon has de-
cided to assume the actual as well as
titular leadership of the organization.
The numerous blunders made by all
the factions during the session of the
Legislature have admonished Mellon
of danger.
The first thing that will receive
consideration at the hands of the ma-
chine after Senator Reed’s return will
be the naming of a successor to the
late Judge Witmer, of the middle
United States District court. There
are several aspirants for this attract-
ive position. At this time indications
point to the selection of Andrew B.
Dunsmore, of Wellsboro, now prose-
cuting attorney in the court. Lieuten-
ant Governor Davis would like to be
placed in that life-time job and might
have been favorably considered by the
leaders but for the fact that Senator
Salus would inherit his present job
and incidentally help Congressman
Vare in his Senatorial aspirations.
The defeat of Vare appears to be the
objective now.
Senator Reed is comparatively
young in politics but his long asso-
ciation with the Steel trust and the
Standard Oil interests has inspired
confidence in his ability in the minds
of those who manage the party for the
benefit of those corporations. Besides
it is reasoned that even an inexper-
ienced politician could do better than
has been doue lately in the way of par-
ty direction. Mellon wants to contin-
ue Pepper in the Senate and he be-
lieves that with Reed as the spokes-
man and chairman Baker as the
“guide, philosopher and friend” he will
be able to accomplish the result. The
combination is likely to force Grundy
into an alliance with Pinchot and
make an expensive campaign, but the
money is in sight.
i
Maybe Coolidge had Pinchot in
mind when he spoke slightingly of
fishermen.
If victory had
with the loot of the tax collectors’
be as enthusias- | ¥
tic as ever in support of .other.esadi=-
| Vice President Dawes Progressing.
i Vice President Dawes takes him-
_ self entirely too seriously. He imag-
ines that he has been called by the
: people of the United States to “pre-
| serve, protect and defend the consti-
! tution.” For too long a time, one
hundred and nineteen years, to be
; exact, the Senators in Congress have
rules framed by such traitors as
Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and
Senate during the earlier periods of
the Republic. But Vice President
Dawes is going to put a stop to this
: vandalism, if we may use that term.
i He is going to poll every crossroads
' erowd in the country, if that is neces- |
sary to do it.
The Vice President imagines that
the rules of the Senate are a menace
to the liberties of the people, and that |
it is his duty to remove the evil. What |
he quarrels with in the rules of the
Senate is the provision that allows
unlimited debate on any pending ques-
tion. The majority in most any leg-
- islative body begrudges any power of
! restraint which protects the minority.
| Some years ago a cloture rule was
adopted in the Senate but upon con-
ditions that are almost impossible to
meet. Vice President Dawes proposes
to improve this condition by enacting
a rule which will enable the majority
to strangle the minority whenever it
wants to. And whenever the Vice
President is in the chair he will want
to.
But the Vice President is making
progress in his movements to reform
the Senate procedure. . Every soap
box orator in the country is enthus-
iastically for the reform and ready to
vote to amend or abolish the rules of
the Senate or the Senate itself at
everybody will ‘favor abolishing the
Senate in order to get rid of the Vice
President who is fast becoming an
intolerable nuisance. A reformer
ought to come to his work with “clean
ands,” and the partner of the late
raat
: of dollars is not a ‘very appropriate
figure in a reform movement, even for
a change in the rules of the Senate.
1 —————e——
——With Memorial day not far dis-
tant an old veteran of the Civil war
“days ago, that Gregg Post, No. 95, G.
t A. R., of Bellefonte, in the height of
its career, had a total of 197 members,
. and was one of the most flourishing
veteran organizations in the central
part of the State. A number of years
ago it ceased to function as an active
organization and today there are only
ten men living who still claim mem-
bership. Of course these ten do not
constitute all the Civil war veterans
in Bellefonte and vicinity, as there are
probably a few who did not belong to
the Post, but there are not many. Oth-
er Posts in the county have been re-
duced in like ratio. When the fact is
considered, however, that it is sixty
years since the close of the Civil war
it is not to be wondered at that the
veterans are so few in number.
a
——Borough manager Seibert was
not able * to report progress in the
work of fixing up Spring street, at
Monday evening’s meeting of borough
council, for the reason that no prog-
ress has yet been made. But to res-
idents of that street who have been
trying to have it fixed for three or
four years past we might say, contin-
ue to have patience; the chairman of
the Street committee says it will be
the next job after the holes are plug-
ged shut in north Water street.
© ——
. ——Senator Barr, of Pittsburgh,
has a notion to run for Governor, and
is probably only waiting an invitation
from Pinchot to join the combine.
——Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook,
who is president of the D. A. R., as-
sures us that the female of the species
is all right. This is encouraging.
——One week of the trout fishing
season has passed but we haven’t
heard of any one becoming ill over
the number of trout eaten.
——The President addressed the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion and told them exactly how to
bring up their families.
r———————
——Dawes might take a straw vote
on the question of the Senate rules
and he would be certain to have a ma-
jority on his side.
————, —
——Possibly the suit against Char-
lie Schwab is spite work. It seems to
ance of political activity, = Sin
am Lorimer in a swindle which }
Jemand | for i le
int: d and Ludendor
Von Hindenburg held
have been delayed too long for a gen-
uine case.
——They are still trying to find a
just cause of complaint against the
Wilson administration, but without
results.
“ NO«+ 17.
‘Von Hindenburg!
From the Philadelphia North Ameriean.
To millions of Germans, all French-
men and most Americans, the nomi-
nation of Field Marshal Von Hinden-
burg for the residency of
will seem inouss:. Yet
this selection a.jiot ]
ment of logic
to be decided at the“elec
26 is now undisguisedly*
versus republicanism.
voter can mistake the signifies
the choice presented to him, or justify
his failure to go to the polls. .
At the election on March 29
were seven candidates, with
proximate results: Jarres,
the Nationalists and other re
parties, 10,400,000 votes;
varian People’s party, 1,000,000; Lud-
endroff, Fascist, 285,000; Braun, So-
| cialist, 7,800,000; Marx, Centrist, 3,-
900,000; Hellpach, Democrat, “1,570,
000; Thaelmann, Communist, 1,870,-
000. Since a majority of the total
was necessary to a choice, there was
no decision; but the candidate who re-
ceives the highest vote on April 26
will be elected. Sify, LES
After keen negotiations the three
republican parties—Centrists,. Demo-
crats and Socialists—united “on Dr.
Marx as their candidate at the Second
election. The monarchist parties at
first proclaimed that their combined
strength would be put behind JFarres,
who had led the first poll; but his can-
didacy proved .uninspiring,. and he
himself joined in . the demand that
arose for the naming of Von Hinden-
burg, the idol of war-time Germany
and the outstanding representative of
the monarchical tradition. =~
While this implacable old militarist
bore a heavy share of ‘the odium of
Germany’s aggressive policies:-as an
empire and of her war of “frightful-
ness,” he earned the respect of repub-
licans by his early recognition of the
new regime and his serupulogs Bvoid-
; ce the
peace he has lived in retirement, reso-
lutely declining: to’ participate in any
any moment. In fact it may be that{movements against the republic. Al-
though never con
ing his complete
‘devotion to the imperial idea, and his
Joveience owen the exiled Kaiser,
e has always deplored po strife,
and has held that storation of the
throne should await a u
. Twice within the last week he re-
jected pleas that he accept a nomina-
tion for the presidency; he was disin-
clined to run because of the strong op-
position of Gustave Stresemann, lead-
er of the German People’s party, an
important factor in the monarchist
coalition. But finally he yielded to
the pressure. The popular belief is
that what impelled him to obey the
call was a command from the former
Kaiser.
The outcome must be a matter of
conjecture. Not a few Nationalists
doubt the wisdom of putting forth the
supreme exponent of militarism and
monarchism at this time, especially a
man who is 77 years old and is not
conspicuously fitted for the difficult
tasks of the presidency. Stresemann’s
party is likely to be split, and Luden-
dorff is against his old chief. Multi-
tudes of Von Hindenburg’s friends,
moreover, regret that his exalted per-
sonality is to be exposed to the vicis-
situdes of political strife. Yet it may
be expected that his candidacy will
give new strength to monarchist sen-
timent and rally all the monarchist
forces. It is just as certain, on the
other hand, to arouse the opposing
parties; for they realize that the elec-
tion of Von Hindenburg would be a
blow to the republic and would mean
grave disturbance of the country’s re-
lations with the Allies.
Herriot and Poincare.
From the Philadelphia Record.
M. Herriot rendered the world a
great service when he drove Poincare
from power. The war President of
France was keeping the world on the
verge of trouble by his incessant nag-
ging of Germany. His Sunday after-
noon speeches for months stimulated
French chauvinism and goaded Ger-
many almost beyond endurance. Had
he remained in power it is not likely
that the conference in London last
July would have been held, or, if held,
that it would have secured agreement
of all parties to put the Dawes plan
into operation. It took two weeks to
get Herriot into the frame of mind to
make the concessions required by the
international bankers for making the
loan without which the plan could not
have been put in operation. Indeed,
the Dawes plan itself would never
have existed if Poincare had not, for
reasons never disclosed, withdrawn
from an intolerant position.
It is not for the good of Europe that
Poincare should return to the Pre-
miership, but if he should he probably
would not undo what has been gain-
ed by the acceptance of the Dawes
plan and getting it into practical
working order. The voice of General
Grant ought to be heard in France—
“Let us have peace.”
ay Ap are en
Other States Likewise.
From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
The Legislature has stoned the
monkey out of the Tennessee family
tree by official decree, but it never
will be able to get all the monkeys
out of its own membership.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Frederic A. Godcharles, former Depu-
ty Seeretary of the Commonwealth, has
sold his weekly newspaper, the Miltenian,
at Milton, to H. M. Dentler & Son, it was
announced on Saturday, and Mr. God-
charles will devote his time to history
writing, he says.
—Suit for $10,000 damages has been filed
by Christ Episcopal church, of Danville,
against its next door neighbor, H. R. Ed-
mondson. The church officials alleged Ed-
mondson’s new porch half blocks one of
the entrances to the church. Should they
win the suit they plan to start another to
compel removal of the porch.
—William K. Robinson, former cashier
of the First National bank of Volant, Law-
rence county, was sentenced to serve two
years and six months in the federal peni-
tentiary at Atlanta, Ga., after pleading
guilty in Federal district court at Pitts-
burgh, last Wednesday to charges of em-
bezzlement of $25,000 of the bank’s funds.
—While tearing out the walls of an old
building at Sunbury, used for years as a
gambling house, workmen found a small
sum of money. But it remained for Levi
Schrader to find $900 in an old tin can be-
tween partitions. N. D. Masteller, owner
of the building, is said to have told Schra-
der he could keep what he found, little
dreaming it was a wee fortune.
—With an iron rivet lodged in her right
lung, Pearl, 7 year old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Harrison Troup, of Northumber-
land, was rushed to the Fountain Springs
State hospital on Menday for an opera-
tion. The child was at play when she
placed the metal in her mouth and acci-
dentally swallowed it. An X-ray photo
showed the foreign object, after she be-
came seriously ill.
—James McGuire, 30 years of age, of
East Mauch Chunk, was elcetrocuted last
Thursday while inspecting insulation in
the No. 3 shaft of the Lehigh Coal and
Navigation company at Nesquehoning.
Eleven thousand volts passed through his
body. He was employed by the Pennsyl-
vania Power and Light company. Mec-
Guire was an overseas war veteran and
was the sole support of his mother.
—A wound in the right leg of Charles
Spangler, and numerous holes in the floor
of the stage stand out as evidence of real-
ism in the wild west play, “Daughters of
thie Desert,” as given by the Senior class
of the Westville, York county, High school.
There was a large audience, which was
thrilled by the strenuous action in the last
aét, in which a dozen or more shots were
fired. Several of the revolvers were load--
ed.
—Vincent Brennan and Anthony J. Sera--
fin, former deputy internal revenue col-
lectors in the Scranton district, were fined
$300 each by judge J. Warren Davis in fed-
eral court at that place on Saturday after-
noon. Both had been convicted of unlaw-
fully receiving $5000 from a local hotel
Man a year ago while they were in the
employment of the government. Edward
Hartsock, a. third defendant, will be sen-
ténced later.
—Recognizing a suit on a man standing
in Wylie avenue,” Pittsburgh, one day last
week, as one stolen from the tailor shop
of F. C. Holder, of 2150 Center avenue, on
the night of February 9, police arrested
; dames Cunningham, colored, 19 years old,
Foi on
mperial, wearer of the suit. Wher
taken before. judge John C. Haymaker on
Saturday he pleaded guilty to the theft
and was sentenced to serve from one to
two years in the workhouse for larceny.
—An estate valued at more than $150,000
was left by federal judge Charles B. Wit-
mer, of Sunbury, to his widow and three
children, according to the will probated
last week. Seventy-five thousand dollars
is left in trust for the widow and at her
death the income is to be paid to a son,
John Witmer, during his natural life, and
at his death it goes to the remaining heirs.
John Witmer is given $6000 worth of bank
stock, Mrs. Herman F. Reich, $6000, and
Miss Isabel Witmer, $6000.
—Cyril O'Donnell, aged 17 years, of
Phoenixville had a thrilling escape when |
he lost his balance in the tower of St.
Ann’s Catholic church while attempting to
recapture several of his pigeons. The
youth fell fifteen feet to a steep slate roof
and then slid twenty-five feet to the edge.
There the cornice saved him from a furth-
er fall of thirty-five feet. It was neces-
sary to get an extension ladder to rescue
the badly scared bay. He received lacera-
tions of both knees and badly cut hands
and suffered from shock.
—Raymond Dugan and George 8S.
Thompson, former members of the notor-
ious “Blue Bandana’ gang, in Pittsburgh,
were sentenced to serve eighteen to thirty-
six years each in the western penitentiary
in connection with the slaying of Philip
Flynn, a bar-tender, and for robbery. In
sentencing Thompson, judge Howard W.
Douglas said: “Your verdict is the gift
of the weakest-kneed jury that ever
brought in a verdict in the criminal courts
of this county. I consider it one of the
darkest blots ever given this court by a
jury.” Thompson was found guilty of
voluntary manslaughter. Until broken up
the gang was a terror to Pittsburgh resi-
dents.
—H. Hobart Donaldson, aged 30 years,
who lost a leg during service in the world
war and was elected to the position of tax
collector at Cannonsburg, Washington
county, pleaded guilty before judge James
I. Brownson on Monday afternoon to ten
counts of embezzlement. Ie was sentenc-
ed, on one count only, to pay the costs of
the case and a fine of $16,109.55, and to
serve a term of not less than one year nor
more than two years in the county jail,
his sentence to begin January 1, 1925. The
case is the result of prosecution by his
bondsmen, who discovered shortages total-
ing $24,884.24. Commissions totalling $8437.-
70 were turned over to the bondsmen, mak-
ing his actual shortage $18,446.54. His
friends blame it to carelessness.
—Mrs. C. Glendola Crawford, wife of
Robert Crawford, former Lafayette Col-
lege star mile runner and member of the
1920 Olympic team, on Monday won a ver-
dict of $5000, at Easton, from Mrs. Ellen
Westwood Bougher for alienation of her
husband’s affections. Mrs. Bougher's at-
torney stated that he has not been able to
locate his client, and the case went to the
jury after the formal testimony of Mrs.
Crawford had been presented. She said
that after her marriage to Crawford, while
the latter was still a student at Lafayette,
she moved to Easton, and that since then
he deserted her four times. She caught
him living in the same house with the de-
fendant in this case. Crawford is now un-
der a court order to support his wife, but
has only made four payments and cannot
be located.