INK SLINGS.
—Yes, last Friday’s snow was the
saplin bender. We know, because we
saw some that were bent.
—Inasmuch as profane language
doesn’t appear to us as compatible
with the dignity of a J udge of any
court we’re for firing George W.
English, the East St. Louis jurist, who
is trying to convince Congress that he
doesn’t deserve impeachment.
- —Senator William I. Betts is an
aspirant to succeed himself in the
upper branch of the General Assem-
bly and having given a very good
account of himself during his first
term in the Senate we are of the opin-
ion that the voters of the District are
going to give him another.
—We haven't heard of much
Beidleman strength in Centre coun-
ty. There’ll be some, of course,
but as yet it has shown no signs of
organization. At this distance from
May 18th Centre county looks like
Fisher for Governor and doubt as to
which party the Republicans will pre-
fer in the senatorial race.
_—It was to be expected that his
managers would try to capture the
dry vote for Senator Pepper, but if
the dry vote is smart it will stick to
Pinchot, since he has the best chance
of defeating Vare. And, besides, Sen-
ator Pepper isn’t as dry as the ex-
igencies of the campaign will paint
him, nor is he so dry as to expect
nothing from the wets.
—Talking about counting noses, it
is some job to do it in Republican
circles in Centre county these days.
Leaders, lieutenants and rank and file.
are all alike. Very few of them will
stand still long enough to be tagged
with either the Pinchot, Pepper or
Vare label. They're all between the
devil and the deep sea. They want to
be on the winning side and there is
no one to tell them which one that
will be.
—TIt ill becomes Republicans to look
with holy horror on the Vare candi-
dacy for United States Senator. Vare
is no wetter, either personally or offi-
cially, than most of the other leaders
of their party always were and, be-
sides, his present traducers yell their
heads off in partisan exultation every-
time his Philadelphia machine stuffs
enough fraudulent votes into the bal-
lot boxes to count one of their party's
zandidates in.
—Uncle Sam is getting to be so
nuch of a tight-wad that patrons of
‘he Bellefonte post-office have every
fust reason for registering complaint.
When it comes to the point that this
lewspaper, which is delivered to the
fice before six usday
ng afternoon it is time for a shake-up
ome where or the employment of
nough people in the office to give the
ublic adequate service.
—Democrats should exercise their
wn judgment in voting for nominees
or Governor and ‘Senator.’ Because
hairman Bigelow and Vance McCor-
lick point the finger of preference
) certain aspirants there is no ob-
gation on the part of any Democrat
» take his or her cue therefrom.
he very fundamental of Democracy
the expression of the untrammeled
ill of the electorate and every action
ibversive of that principle works to
© destruction, rather than the up-
iilding of the party.
—The stock market has been in a
ump for some weeks and is likely to
main there until the middle or end
June when it will gather itself to-
ther for a rather appreciable rise
July. How do we know this? For
irty consecutive years we have
ent the greater part of the month
July in a fishing camp where we
ve had little to do but chop wood,
ok, wash dishes, catch and clean
out and figure out ways of beating
1e big market” game. In all those
ars we recall only one when
few shares of standard stocks
1ght when we started to camp and
d when we came home would not
ve yielded enough profit to have
d the expenses of the expedition.
—We are of the opinion that the
gislature of New York is about to
a very wise thing. It is apparent-
getting ready to take the Prohibi-
1 question out of politics by calling
a State-wide referendum. By such
rocedure every Assembly and Sen-
rial district can vote directly on
question and go of record for the
dance of those chosen to repre-
t it in legislative halls. Then any
cessful candidate of any party,
ther he be personally wet or dry,
id know for a certainty the senti-
it of a majority of his constituents
vote on prohibition legislation
1 their wishes in view. Were such
*ferendum to be held in Pennsyl-
ia Centre county would undoubt-
" vote dry. That would be notice
wmyone seeking legislative honors
1 the county that he would not
erly represent his constituents
ss he voted dry on any Prohibi-
legislation originating at Harris-
It would end the tendency to
. mediocre men merely because
are known to be or have declar-
hemselves to be dry. It would
the Prohibition question out of
ics and stop the inconsistencies
lot of dry famatics who shout for
enforcement from the back seats
ir automobiles while their four-
year old boys are sitting’ behind
vheel on the front.
VOL. 71.
Senate Democrats in Agreement.
Both wings of the Democratic party |
in the United States Senate appear to
be “flapping together” in the consid-
eration of the Italian debt settlement.
On Monday Senator Robinson, of
Arkansas, Democratic leader, and
Senator Reed, of Missouri, head of the
insurgents, spoke on the subject and
the only difference in the sentiment
expressed was in the language em-
ployed. Senator Robinson declared
the agreement made by the adminis-
tration with Italy was a “cancellation
and repudiation, not a settlement,”
and Senator Reed characterized it as
“giving away the money of the Amer-
ican people to our European debtors.”
There are a few Democrats in the
Senate who for one reason or another
favor this palpable deal for the Ital-
ian vote in the coming Congressional
election. But happily there are more
Republicans, not in accord with the
administration, who will resist this
scheme to trade American interests
for Italian votes. Senator Reed called
attention to the fact that the adminis-
tration promised that “no debtor na-
tion would be treated better than
Great Britain,” whereas Italy has
been favored “at the ratio of eighty-
six to twenty-three.” The Italian vote
and that of Great Britain in this coun-
try is in about the same ratio.
The reasons given for the generous
terms to Italy are that Italy has been
impoverished by the world war and
cannot pay more than the meagre sum
agreed upon. But as a matter of fact
the impoverishment ‘of Italy is not
ascribable to the world war. It is due
to the militaryism that has taken pos-
session of the ‘dominant power in
Italy. Senator Robinson declares that
the purpose of this element in the life
of the people is to provoke and wage
BELLEFONTE, PA.. APRIL 2. 192
wars of ‘aggression and: conquest for
and John A. Bell, of the now defunct
the aggrandizement of Italy. Mus-
solini maintains a standing army far
beyond the needs of a peaceful pur-
pose, and if she can do that she can
pay debts.
—1It’s lucky that the public mem-
ory is short. The evidence brought
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
EARS
Mr. Fisher and His Platform.
Former Banking Commissioner John
'S. Fisher, of Indiana, the Mellon-
i Grundy candidate for the Republican
i nomination for Governor, announced
his platform at a largely attended
public meeting in his home town on
Monday evening. After pleading un-
qualified support to President Cool-
idge he rather fulsomely praised Sec-
retary of the Treasury Andrew W.
Mellon, whom he appraises as “a
financial leader and genius who had
been years in silent preparation for
just such a supreme national erisis as
the financial aftermath of the world
war.” This ought to recompense Mr.
Mellon for the favor bestowed on
Fisher in hitching him up with Pepper
and attaching Grundy to the fortunes
of the combination.
But the real platform is expressed
in a promise to continue the budget
system organized by Governor Pin-
chot; to “faithfully observe and en-
force the provisions of the Eighteenth
amendment and all the laws growing
out of it; check the rising tide of
crime; foster public education, the
welfare of the farmers and protect
the free use and fair count of the bal-
lot.” Finally, he declares, that he
“will not bring any undue pressure to
influence the freedom of action of the
legislative body or the fiscal officers,”
which might be construed as an as-
persion both on the former Governor |
Sproul and the present Governor Pin-
chot. It will be remembered that in
the closing hours of the session of
1921 there were some “high Jinks”
along that line, -
These are “fair promises” and prob-
ably well meant. But it will likely
be remembered that it was during the
period in which he exercised control
over the banking department of the
State that State Treasurer Kephart
Carnegie Trust company, juggled the
finances of the State. Of course Mr.
Fisher was not inculpated in the
scandal but he certainly revealed an
‘absence of that vigilance necessary
out in the Teapot Dome investigation
will be forgotten before that of tho
Tariff “Commissisn” SS EONTD Bly Tio
Governor Pinchot’s Platform.
Governor Pinchot’s platform as can-
didate for United. States Senator is
brief and to the point. Whether it
will appeal to the Republicans of
“to check the rising tide of crime.”
However the interests that are behind
his ambitions measure money by mil-
lions and pay little, if any, attention
“to trifies of ‘that sort. Having "$861 ohosen, Mr. Vare is boastingly wet,
isfied General Atterbury that he “is
“safe,” nothing else matters.
Pennsylvania is a question. His first :
pledge is to “carry out the principles ’
laid down in the Republican national ;
platform and President Coolidge’s
inaugural address.” This opens up a
wide field of conjecture. It goes
further than the President himself has
gone and promises more than the Re-
publicans in Congress have done. Bui
in the circumstances it was a neces-
sary figure of speech. There will be
little objection to his promise to
——Italy has stood for Mussolini
for seven years. But Italians are
proverbially partial to monkeys and
hand organs.
ee ———
Senator Reed’s Surprising Claim.
When Senator David A. Reed, of
Pittsburgh, claimed deduction from
his income tax of the amount he had
contributed during the tax period to
the slush fund of his party consider-
able surprise was expressed through-
out the State. The income tax law
provides for deduction of such sums
“strengthen law enforcement and
resist every attempt to weaken the
existing liquor laws.”
His next pledge is to “drive the
gang out of control in the Republican
party of Pennsylvania.” That is an
herculean undertaking. The gang is
strongly entrenched. He will find it
equally difficult to “secure a national
law to punish ballot-box frauds in
elections for federal office,” so long
as his party controls Congress. He
will recommend no one for federal
office whom he knows to be unfit, will
“stand by the people against the
monopolists and gangsters” and will
“do his level best to give the people a
Roosevelt square deal.” The rest of
his platform is made up of “glitter-
ing generalities” about justice to
farmers, world peace and “conserva-
tion of natural resources.”
These neatly rounded phrases and
briefly paragraphed pledges sound
well and possibly are a sincere ex-
pression of a fine purpose. But the
Governor is not always dependable.
When he was a candidate for Govern-
or he promised to “clean up the mess”
at Harrisburg, but after election set
about to form combinations with the
crooks in office for his personal ad-
vantage. After it was too late to
accomplish results he did the best he
could to redeem his pledges by calling
an extra session of the Legislature
but the result was failure. If he had
demanded ballot reform legislation
during the session of 1923 the ballot
thieves of Philadelphia and Pitts-
burgh would be less a menace now.
~——-It will be noticed that the big
bankers attach no importance to a
slump in values amounting to billions
during a Republican administration.
——All the parties have candidates
for all the offices and it is now up to
the voters to pick the fittest for the
service.
——————————
——Your enemy never gives short
measure in making trouble.
as are contributed to churches, chari-
ties and educational institutions but
makes no mention of contributions to
party organizations. = Senator. Reed,
being a lawyer, was supposed to be
able to accurately interpret = this
rather ambiguous Act of Congress
‘and when he set up a claim for ex-
emption on account of a fairly liberal
donation to the Requblican State and
county committees a good many
others imagined that they had missed
something,
In Philadelphia, some years ago,
the Republican organization set up
a variety of “schools” in which the
phantom and other bogus voters were
taught how to evade restriction in the
election laws and control the results
- of elections by fraud. At first it was
conjectured that Senator Reed had
construed this provision of the in-
come tax law as covering such
“schools.” But he promptly and
frankly disavowed that purpose and
openly declared that his claim for ex-
emption on his campaign contribu-
tions was based on an entirely differ-
ent and much more substantial foun-
dation. He claimed the exemption on
the ground that it was a necessary or
reasonable item of expense incurred
in his business.
The income tax law provides for
certain deductions on account of busi-
ness expenses. For example, interest
on capital employed, rents, deprecia-
tion in values, repairs of automobiles
and other vehicles used in the ‘opera-
tion of the business, clerk hire and
wages of labor employed. Senator
Reed, being counsel for various in-
dustrial trusts and concerned in the
prosperity of several manufacturing
plants, in and about Pittsburgh, rea-
sons that the continued control of the
Republican machine is essential to the
prosperity of his business and his con-
tribution to the slush fund of that
party is a legitimate part of the ex-
penses of his business. It was a bold
step but Reed is a daring person.
elec
——Now that April is here we are
entitled to expectations of more
spring-like weather,
Obviously some of the leading pro-
hibition advocates are influenced more
by party prejudice than moral prin-
“ciples in their attitude on the pending
contest between Senator Pepper and
Governor Pinchot with respect to the
, enforcement of ' prohibition laws,
. fundamental and statutory. For ex-
ample, the Rev. Dr. Watchorn, chair-
jman of the Temperance committee
‘and others of the Methodist confer-
"ence, accept Mr. Pepper’s perfunctory
| statement that “I am under a con-
stitutional duty imposed upon me in
| the name of all the people to doall I
[can to effectuate the prohibitory poli-
'ey,” as a perfect balance for Governor
| Pinchot’s militant service of a life
(time in the interest of prohibition
! principles and legislation.
| Senator Pepper is a fine lawyer, a
i ripe scholar and an intelligent public
| official. In many respects he may be
| better equipped for the service in
| Which he hopes to continue than the
Governor. But in allegiance to the
cause of prohibition, in effort and
| achievement in preaching and practic-
ing total abstinence, he is not in, or
any way near, the same class. During
the three years of Governor Pinchot’s
| administration Senator Pepper has
not uttered a word or emitted a sound
that directly or indirectly promoted
the purpose of “driving the saloons
out cf Pennsylvania,” to which the
Governor has dedicated his mental
and physical energies constantly. The
temperance leaders have a right to
preference but false pretense is “bad
form.”
We admit that prohibition is a
poor standard upon which to measure
the fitness of candidates for Senator
in Congress. Total abstinence is a
virtue of much value but not a com-
plete qualification for Senatorial ser-
vice. There have been distinguished
and efficient Senators who indulged,
and some time too frequently, in the
if that standard is to be accepted or
adopted in the selection of a Repub-
lican candidate for Senator in
P
be
no. question
Fram
Pepper complacently moist and Pin-
chot an energetic crusader, a veritable
“hot spur” in the cause of prohibi-
tion. ’
re —— i —————
——A recent issue of the Morgan-
town W. Va., Post carriers an inter-
esting story of the blowing away of
an entire mountain top near the plant
of the Greer Limestone Co., at Greer,
in that State. It was an experimental
blast ip that it was made by tunnels
into the side of the mountain, rather
than from a series of drill holes from
the surface. 6,375 pounds of dyna-
mite and black powder constituted the
charge and when it was set off the
mountain top just seemed to heave
up and then settled back into place,
a pulverized mass of rock ready to be
handily removed by the steam shovels
used in the operation. This is the
plant of which David J. Kelly, form-
erly of Bellefonte, is making so much
of a success of as manager.
tet comme pees
——A mail robbery of three years’
standing was cleared up last Thurs-
day with the arrest in Mansfield,
Ohio, of Daniel 8. Hoover, reported
to be the son of a minister. On
March 27th, 1923, the sum of $12,000
was stolen from a mail pouch while
in transit from Colver, Cambria coun-
ty, to Ebensburg. The robbery oc-
curred on a gasoline car in use on the
Cambria and Indiana railroad on
which Hoover was a demonstrator,
and although he was suspected it took
federal agents three years to gather
i sufficient evidence to warrant his ar-
j rest. Over $2,900 of the stolen cash
| has been recovered.
elmer
—Ten counties produced over
[half of Pennsylvania’s 1925 wheat
crop and Centre county was not
| among them. They were all south-
: eastern counties and they averaged
from 28.2 bushels per acre in Lancas-
ter county, down to 19.2 bushels per
acre in Berks,
|
——ge
—DMore people might be in sympa-
thy with “modification” if they were
convinced that that’s all the modifi-
cationists are after.
Se — i e————
——The Governor of New Jersey
; wisely believes that forty-five years
18 too. long a period between a crime
and the punishment.
Ee — i ———
It may now be said that the
pretense of the Duke of Orleans to a
throne in France was not only false
but futile.
Ee ————— x
——That Cornelia would be’ brought
(into the Senatorial contest was in-
i evitable. Cornelia can’t stay out of
anything.
i
{
6.
Pepper, Pinchot and Prohibition.
| exhilaration of the “flowing cup.” But | red
engsylvania this. year there can |
‘guestion a to which of the
many committees,
cities.
in the same State;
experience.
three complete laws,
hicles
where there
rural roads 35 miles.
being reserved
Af OF far
main—first, to procure “uriformity
i through their enactment by all States
i and municipalities, and second, their
without which’
e in safety, As
tly said, there
persistent co-
operation by the entire public if there
13 to be a reduction in the highway
“the criminally
reckless, the negligent and the incom-
strict enforcement,
must be intelligent,
hazards caused by
petent.,”
eral,
tion.
ness.
with the public.
retired.
Department
or partisan hate,
of course,
posed
purposes.
tice against Wheeler.
few over six hundred,
Uniform Traffic Laws.
From The Philadelphia Record.
If complete records could be ub-
lished daily of the persons killed
injured in traffic accidents in the U' 1
ed States they would look like the
casualty lists of the great war. For
that reason every community, and in-
deed, every citizen, is deeply concern-
ed in the program for reducing these
dreadful losses which has been form-
ulated by the National Conference on
Street and Highway Safety. This
body, with its 1000 delegates repre-
senting the Governments of 46 States,
scores of municipalities and many
civic organizations and transporta-
tion interests, has just held its second
annual meeting in Washington, the
sessions covering three ‘days.
plan, the result of two years’ work by
embodies a model
traffic code which will be recommend-
ed for adoption by all the States and
As Secretary Hoover told the con-
ference, there is obvious
formity of traffic laws
States and as among municipalities
h and it is equally
manifest that the regulations should
apply the principles learned by the
He declared that in
States which have adopted scientific
measures of control the ratio of acei-
dents is lower by 25 per cent. than in
those with backward laws.
The code recommended: ¢
drafted by ex-
perts, the first covering the registra-
tion of vehicles and titles, the second
the licensing of operators and chauf-
feurs, the third the operation of wve-
on the highways. After ¢on-
siderable debate the conference fixe
16 years as the minimum age
drivers of automobiles.
States the limit is now 15
six States it is 14, and twelye States’
have no age restriction.
would make the maximum
business districts 20 ‘miles an
where there is traffic contr
is mo control, - Te
I By a close vote
it was recommended that on cars sold
henceforth the tail lights be ye
for the w.
“stop” lights. The conference ui
strict regulation of pedestrain tr
with fines for violators, “i
The drafting of these laws vey pre-
sents a work of high value. Yet:
greater .
need for uni-
as among the
| cians.
| dors of the hospital.
there can be no advane
Secretary Hoover jus
reall —————
Information the Public Should Have.
From The Pittsburgh Post.
The call upon the Department of
Justice by the Senate, by a vote of
sixty-one to thirteen, for an account-
ing of the money spent in the
cution of Senator Wheeler, of Mon-
tana, deals with a subject upon which
the public should have light.
recalls the unhappy administration of
Harry M. Daugherty as attorney gen-
Wheeler: headed the Senate
committee that inquired into charges
against the Daugherty administra-
While that investigation was
at its height the Department of Jus-
ice obtained an indictment of Wheeler
in Montana on charges of misusing
his cfficial influence in private busi-
At the time Wheeler flatly de-
clared the prosecution a
designed to discredit his
tion of the attorney gener:
tigators were declared to ha
sent into Montana to “get Wheeler.”
Accordingly the case never sat well
Fears were raised
that the Department of Justice was
being used to vent a private grudge
or serve a mean partisan purpose.
This impression was deepened when
body after body that inquired into
Wheeler’s record exonerated him. The
United States Senate cleared him so
far as it was concerned, and finally,
when the case was put on trial in
Montana, the Senator was acquitted.
Still the Department of Justice pur-
sued him, and even after Daugherty
It would be a frightful thing if the
supposed to
ost dignified
which is
serve justice in the m
and most impartial manner should
fall in any instance to such a mean
use as that of a weapon for private
At the same time,
the pubic money is sup-
to be used strictly for public
The public has the right
to know how much of its money went
into the undignified and futile pro-
ceedings of the Department of Jus-
— pA
——Maybe if the Republican ma-
chine were less opposed to Governor
Pinchot those Philadelphia clergymen
would estimate the relative merits of
the Governor and the Senator as Pro-
hibitionists differently, °
i min i
——Fishermen evidently have not
started the rush to procure their li-
censes. Up to Wednesday county
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
~—There- now -are. 74 cases of typhoid
fever in New Milford, which has a pop-
ulation of 660.
—Sixty locomotives, involving an ex-
penditure of $2,000,000, will be built by
the Pennsylvania Railroad at its Altoona
shops. $
—DMorrison Firth, 17, of Chester, was
held up and beaten by two highwaymen
as he was returning home, and robbed of
$15, a watch and valuables. He was found
unconscious by John Sloan, a neighbor.
—Awakened by a noise in his bed-room,
Daniel McKinney, a Chester patrolman,
found a burglar ransacking his house.
Rushing to grab his gun, the patrolman
found that the burglar, who escaped, also
had the weapon.
—An alleged attempt of a mother to kill
herself and four other members of the
family is now being investigated by the
Reading police as the result of the finding
of the family of five near asphyxiation at
their home there.
—Jewelry and clothing, including two
shotguns, a revolver and a diamond neck-
lace, valued at $1500, were taken from the
home of Dr. G. Cherry, of Ambler, by
thieves who gained entrance through a
rear cellar door.
Pleading guilty to shooting and killing
Floyd Craft, 23, several weeks ago, Louis
Chambrone, of Carbondale, was sentenced
to serve from ten to twenty years in the
Eastern Penitentiary, after the court fixed
the degree at second degree murder.
—Mrs. Violet Clayberger, Fisher's Ferry,
near Sunbury, was last week awarded
$3563.50 by the State Compensation Board
for the death of her husband, who con-
tracted tuberculosis while at work in the
Cameron anthracite mines at Shamokin.
—Two months after the office of the
Norristown Machine Works was broken
into and ransacked, George Scott, negro,
of Bridgeport, was arrested and confessed
to police that he stole $250 from a desk of
C. W. Gardner, superintendent of the
plant.
—Just as he had finished singing “Near-
er My. God to Thee” in Lenten services at
St. Mary’s Church in Erie last Friday
night, Prof. Alexander Senger, soloist and
vocal instructor, dropped dead. A sud-
den attack of heart disease was the
cause of death.
—Mrs. Mary D. Camwell, a former clerk
inthe Midland Savings and Trust com-
pany bank, at” Beaver, Pa, was convicted
by a jury last Thursday on embezzlement
‘| and forgery charges involving $5,200 of.
funds of the institution. The indictment
against Mrs. Camwell contained 218 counts.
The jury was ‘composed of seven women
and five men. :
—Salvatore Vereria of Girardville, Pa.,
is Hving with a bullet in his heart. He is
at the Fountain Springs hospital, where
an X-ray on Friday showed that the bul-
let is being constantly whirled about his
heart as it beats. Vereria was shot Feb-
ruary 12. He apparently has recovered
| from the effects of the shooting, but is be-
ing detained for observation by physi
He is able to be about the corri-.
—Stating in a will probated at Doyles-
town, on Saturday, that his wife tried to,
; gotaon him: twenty-three “years ago, and
Becatise she {hire years #g0 cooked ‘the
méals for his family without salt, result-
ing in sickness he claims to be the cause
of death of one of his children, George
Kasparitis, who died ‘at his home in Ben-
salem township, Bucks county, on March
7, has put off his wife from a share in the
estate, valued at $21,500. The will, dated
February 10, 1926, lists the personal prop-
erty at $6500 and real estate, a farm, at
$15,000. Three daughters shure the estate.
They are Anna, Elsie, and Mary Kaspari-
tis.
—Charles Baranowski, aged 11, of Scran-
ton, was awarded a verdict of $20,000 in
Common Pleas court last Saturday against
the Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley rail-
road for loss of an arm and burns about
the body. The boy tripped and fell on
the heavily charged third rail of the
Laurel Line railroad, owned by the Lack-
awanna company, and was later run down
by a passenger train near the Virginia
station in June, 1923. The third rail Sys-
tem operates between that city and
Wilkes-Barre. The boy’s father, John
Baranowski, was given a verdict of $5000.
Former Governor William C. Sproul is
president of the Laurel line.
—Northumberland county commissioners
appealed to the Supreme court on Monday
from an order of Judge Whitehead, of
Lycoming county, especially presiding,
that it join with Union county in building
a $600,000 bridge across the Susquehanna
river, between Watsontown and White
Deer. The allegation of Northumberland
county, is that the structure would not
be used by 200 persons a week, that the
county which it would serve is sparsely
settled, and that the building of such a
structure would impoverish Union county
for many years te come. It'is also de-
clared that it is not necessary as a good
bridge exists four miles on either side.
—*I love you—but I am going to take
my life as well as the baby’s” Mrs. Helen
Geressy, 19 years old, of Florida street,
Farrell, wrote the above brief message on
Monday morning to her husband, Steve
Geressy, and leaving it where he would
find it when he returned from work,
dressed her 10-day-old son and went to
Sharon. Two hours later with the child
nestling in her arms, she climbed the rail
and poising momentairly plunged to death
in the cold waters of the Shenango river
below Budd street bridge in the latter
city. Policemen and firemen found her
body a half hour later near the bridge,
but efforts to revive her were futile. An
hour later the body of the infant was
found two miles down-stream.
—Mystery attends the disappearance of
Mrs. Florence Wrigley, 32 years old and
mother of six children, who has been miss-
ing from her home in Clearfield since
Tuesday March 16. Police have searched
Tyrone, Altoona and Willamsport. They
say they have discovered that the woman
participated in a party with two strange
men and a woman, on the night of her
disappearance, and have traced her to
Woodland, ten miles away. Men who ad-
mitted they were in her company, told
the police she had refused to leave; their
automobile when they attempted to take
her home, but after coaxing her at length,
she asked to be taken to a store to make
2 purchase before going home. This was
done and from the point where she léft
treasurer Heverly had issued only a
the "antomobile, police have lost all trace
of her.