Bewraiitdpn
INK SLINGS.
- —The oyster is in the soup again,
but it still takes a magnifying glass
to locate him.
——The young Hindu theosophist,
Jiddo Krishnamurti, may be lacking
in some essentials as a world teacher
but he has plenty of nerve.
—Valentino being dead, who is there
to challenge the claims of all the
ladies who are claiming they were
engaged to the departed Sheik.
It is announced that “Eva”
Duncan, who was injured in an auto-
mobile accident recently, may dance
again. This relieves a heavy strain
on the public mind.
——Bascom Slemp, the famous
Virginia office broker, is confident that
Mr. Coolidge will be re-elected. There
must be some federal patronage avail-
able now or soon in Virginia.
—The merchants and miners in the
Philipsburg coal regions just natural-
ly smile every time there is another
prosperity message from the Presi-
dent’s retreat at Paul Smith’s camp.
—A German baker has beaten
Gertie Ederle’s channel-swim record
by over an hour. Needing the “dough,”
here is probably a quicker way of get-
ting it than kneading it. Smart
baker.
The Proportional Representa-
tive League is uncertain as to who had
a majority for the Republican nomina-
tion for Senator, and intimates that
William B. Wilson ought to have the
majority in November.
—Gertie Ederle is among others
who have discovered that the nerve to
do a thing isn’t all that is requisite.
Nerve to stand up under what one has
done is also something to be consider-
ed as a desirable asset after the fact.
—The kids are all railing about
having to start back to school next
Tuesday yet they would be dead with
mental exhaustion if they had to de-
vise amusement for themselves for
another month of separation from
their books.
—If, as Dr. Fueloep-Miller, the Ger-
man writer, says: the ultimate aim of
Bolshevism is the utter wiping out of
religion then the thing for those who
don’t care to go back to the cave-man
state of social relations to do is start
in to utterly wipe out Bolshevism.
—Newton D. Baker, former Secre-
tary of War, is for cancellation of the
obligations of our foreign debtors.
While we admit that Newt’s most
recent setting for a come-back isn’t
being very enthusiastically received
on this side it might be better to for-
get it than have to start another war
to get it.
~ —The tariff as a political issue gets
the gillies, but as a prosperity maker
it is all the bunk. When somebody
proves to us that wages are not higher
and living conditions better among
employees of industries not protected
by a tariff than they are in those that
are protected we’ll devote this entire
column to admission that we don’t
know what we're talking about.
—As for being somewhat of a
weather prophet didn’t we say, last
Friday, that the Grangers would have
good weather for their picnic at Cen-
tre Hall this week. Of course the
weather yesterday was not exactly the
picknicky kind and because it was
“the big day” at camp we presume
the Grangers will forget all about the
five lovely ones that preceded it.
—It is natural that Governor Pin-
chot should defend the primary sys-
tem. If it had not been for it he
would never have been Governor of
Pennsylvania. Gifford could never
have landed a nomination in an old
fashioned party convention in this
‘State. An uninformed electorate con-
ferred an honor on him that its most
astute counsellors would have been
fearful to have done had the job been
theirs.
—Marconi has announced the per-
fection of a new loud-speaker that can
‘be heard ten miles and the papers are
full of the wonderful invention. Lord,
‘how little the world knows. The local
lodge of Red Men, years ago, had a
Joud-speaker calling off their square
-dances who could be heard thirty
‘miles and most of the people within
‘his wave lengths, instead of exploiting
him, have been hoping that some Jus-
tice would give him thirty days.
—The Bell Tel’s proposed new long
‘distance rates sound to us much like
“applesauce” when they have to be
‘justified by the statement that they
“may save the public three million
dollars a year.” Who ever heard of
.a corporation interested more in the
public than it is in itself? The scheme
:is to reduce considerably the rates to
points to which people rarely want to
talk and increase slightly the rates to
points to which they talk most. Its
just the old army game in another
form,
—During recent perigrinations we
"have discovered a prolifically laden
wild grape vine. We feel that, later,
a few pheasants might be “potted”
‘there. We know, also, that something
with more kick than a shot gun gives
could be made out of those grapes.
Either possibility would be a sneaking
undertaking. We know that barbe-
cued pheasant is the ne plus ultra.
We have heard that wild grapes
«crushed and let alone for awhile are
wonderfully potential. What would
you do if you had both a shot gun and
‘a maul ?
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 71.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. SEPTEMBER 3. 1926.
Principal Issue of the Campaign. |
The principal issue in the present !
campaign in Pennsylvania is the
“slush fund.” As an esteemed con- |
temporary has said, “all the party
Crusade for Honest Government.
Senator Norris, of Nebraska, is not
the only distinguished Republican out-
side the State who will plead with Re-
publicans within the State to repudi- |
|
“Shall Legislation be Sold?”
NO. 35.
The Wilson-for-Senate Movement.
“Shall Legistation be Sold,” is a From the Pittsburgh Post.
pertinent and practical question put
to the voters of Pennsylvania by the |
esteemed Philadelphia Record of re-
questions and all the questions which | ate the slush fund candidates of their | cent date. In his testimony before the |
run across party lines can be settled party in Pennsylvania, and vote for 'Senate slush fund committee Mr.
at another time.” The ratification of the candidates of the Democracy. | Joseph R. Grundy admitted that he
the $3,000,000 slush fund, by the elec- | Senator Norris is a veteran in his | | contributed $300,000 and assumed |
tion of John S. Fisher to the office of | | party and for many years has helped { responsibility for an additional $180,- | churches will join in. the demonstra-
Governor of the State, and William | to frame its policies and create its [000 to the boodle campaign in behalf ; tion.
The others who have ex- | of John S. Fisher, candidate for Gov- |
not only | pressed an intention to join him in | ernor, for the reason that he was
S. Vare to that of Senator in Con-
gress, would be a crime,
against the people of Pennsylvania |
but against the people of the country.
It would be registering approval of a
policy that degrades our elections to
the level of the auction block and ex-
cludes all except the very rich or
hopelessly venal from public life.
In the campaign to nominate John
S. Fisher for Governor more than one |
million dollars, contributed by selfish
interests under an implied promise
that they would be reimbursed by dis- |
crimination in taxation at the expense
and to the prejudice of farmers, mer-
chants and wage earners of all kinds, i
was spent. The nomination of Wil- |
liam S. Vare for United States Sena-
tor cost $800,000, which is alleged and
believed to have been contributed by |
law breakers and outlaws who expect
to be reimbursed by protection in
their future criminal operations. The |
election of these men would not only |
serve to approve of this infamous |
policy but it would convey license to
those who profited by it to continue
the practice.
In the face of such a condition of
affairs what difference does it make
whether the opposing candidates are!
prohibitionists or indulge liberal views
on that subject? The prohibition ques-
tion will be settled and settled right
in the course of time. The protective
tariff has been a source of party con- |
tention for many years but it may
safely be laid aside this year in order
that the greater questions of the in-
tegrity of elections and the equality of
opportunity in public life may be re-
established in this Commonwealth and
this country. This is the essential is-
sue before the people of Pennsylvania |
and it must be met and determined
this year, and the battle ground is |
Pennsylvania. ;
——~Clemenceau threatens to write
another letter to the people of the
United States on the war debt ques-
tion. Well, the old tiger is amusing,
anyway, if he accomplishes nothing
else.
One Practical Lesson Enough.
The Patriotic Order Sons of Amer-
ica, with a membership of 125,000 in
Pennsylvania, in a convention held in
Philadelphia last week, set its face
sternly against the prostitution of the
ballot as practiced in the primary
election by the opposing Republican
machines. In opening the session
Gabriel H. Moyer, State president of
the fraternity, said: “When men and
women, employed ostensibly as watch-
ers, sell their souls for five and ten
dollars, then this convention feels that
it must act. IT want some kind of leg-
islation by American-born men and
women in Harrisburg that will give us
the desired result.” This declaration
was enthusiastically applauded by the
members in attendance.
Judge Albert W. Johnson, of Lewis-
burg, president of the United States
District court for the Middle district
of Pennsylvania, who was elected to
succeed Mr. Moyer as president of the
order, said in his inaugural address:
“We have come to an epochal period
in the nation’s history, perhaps I
should say the world’s history. There
are tendencies of which we have be-
come cognizant but which have been
neglected in recent years. We now
see them clearly and know that it
would be dangerous to keep on drift-
ing as we have.” He was referring
to the same subject that provoked Mr.
Moyer’s protest. The inference to be
drawn from his remarks is an urgent
appeal to the membership to rebuke
the guilty party.
Secret and industrial organizations
do not always live up to their profes-
sions or prove faithful to their frater-
nal obligations. Favors or promises
of favors held out to conspicuous or
persuasive members mislead bunches
of voters. But the positive and em-
phatic declarations of the past and
present presidents of this particular
organization, dedicated to the splen-
did work of improving the moral
standard of our citizenship, justifies
the confident belief that its member-
ship will this year ignore partisan
sympathies and prejudices and vote at
the coming election against the candi-
dates in whose behalf and for whose
benefit the slush fund crimes were
committed. One such lesson will be
enough.
e———————
——In the matter of variety the
weather man is doing his
please.
States.”
State.
traditions.
the work, which they regard as a
patriotic service, are Senator Nye, of
North Dakota, and Senator LaFol-
lette, of Wisconsin. These distin-
guished gentlemen will tell the Re-
publican voters of Pennsylvania, in a
series of speeches, the evil of trans-
planting Newberryism here.
It will be strange, indeed, if the
arguments of these eminent and elo-
quent Republicans from the West fail
| to arouse the consciences of their
party associates in Pennsylvania.
i They represent intelligent constituen-
cies, and, as a Washington corres-
pondent states, are “the unpurchas-
able and uncompromising foes of the
group of money interests seeking to
control the Congress of the United
Their first contact with the
people of Pennsylvania will be in
Philadelphia, and after that they will
visit and speak in various cities under
| the auspices of an independent Re-
| publican organization now in the pro-
cess of organizing. The dates and
places of subsequent speeches have
not been fixed.
1
‘afraid Fisher’s principal antagonist
would favor a tax on the capital stock
of manufacturing corporations from
which he collected or expected to col-
lect the money. Such a tax would cost
Mr. Grundy and those he represents in
the Manufacturer’s association $10,-
000,000 a year.
The Mellons, of Pittsburgh, contrib-
uted with equal liberality to the fund
in behalf of George Wharton Pepper,
"who was a candidate for Senator in
Congress. They are alleged to own a
controlling interest in the Aluminum
trust and the importance of having
officials in power who are friendly to
that corporation is shown by the fact
that a lawsuit is now pending, insti-
tuted against that monopoly since the
primary election, for $45,000,000.
Both these contributions were made
with the purpose of “buying” legisla-
tion. Grundy aimed to prevent the
: levy of a just tax on property in which
he is largely concerned and the Mel-
lons hoped to secure legislation by
Congress that would avert such law-
‘suits as that recently begun.
This movement which may be justly
characterized as a crusade in favor of
honest government, and equal oppor-
is not a |
tunity for official service
Democratic partisan enterprise. It
was conceived in the minds of a num-
ber of independent Republicans of the
On their arrival in Philadel-
phia the Senators will be received by a
committee of Republicans who are op-
posed to the slush fund method of
buying nominations and feel that
greater public service will be rendered
by defeating the candidates who were
chosen by such methods than main-
taining a partisan majority in the
United States Senate at this time.
| The better element of the Republican
I party in the State concurs in this
opinion and will vote accordingly.
the Fergusons, of Texas, are eliminat-
ed from the politics of the Lone Star
State.
Governor Pinchot’s Best Speech.
Governor Pinchot’s speech at the
Sesqui-Centennial, on the occasion of
celebrating Pennsylvania day, was
easily the most important as well as
the most forceful he has made since
he began activities in the politics of
the State. He fittingly eulogized the
achievements of the State in indus-
trial, educational and economic pro-
gress. But the salient feature of his
discourse was his arraignment of the
people for their delinquency in civic
obligations. “Millions default in thei:
duty at every election,” he declared,
and as a result they “leave the door
open to combinations composed partly
of selfish financial interests and partly
of sordid politicians to obtain control
of the government.”
This is a literally true statement of
the conditions revealed in the Repub-
lican primary election on the 18th of
May. The selfish financial interests
contributed upward of a million and
a half of money to secure the nomina-
tion of John S. Fisher, for Governor,
and the sordid politicians, equally
anxious but a trifle less liberal,
dumped nearly a million dollars into
a slush fund to nominate William S.
Vare, for Senator in Congress. If the
voters of the State had fulfilled their
civic obligations even this deluge of
tainted money would have failed of its
purpose. In fact it is fairly well
understood that the nomination of
Fisher was accomplished by manipu-
lating the ballots after the polls
closed.
But isn’t the Governor somewhat
delinquent in his civic duty in his
failure to go a step further in treat-
ing this subject? The selfish aim of
the financial interests is shown in the
implied agreement between Mr. Fisher
and Mr. Grundy to discriminate in
tax levies of the future in favor of the
manufacturing corporations of the
State, and that of the sordid politi-
cians in the presumed pledge of pro-
tection to the bootleggers, burglars
and pickpockets in their future opera-
tions. That being true Governor Pin-
chot ought to have appealed to the
conscience of the State to rise in full
force and defeat the candidates who
are thus mortgaged to selfish finan-
cial interests and sordid politicians.
—“It’s an ill wind which blows
no man good.” The recent rains
at the Sesqui- Centennial.
It may now be safely said that
There has been a long standing
personal friendship between Mr.
Grundy and Mr. Fisher, based largely
on a common selfish interest. During
all the time Mr. Fisher served in the
General Assembly he voted for and
spoke in behalf of the interests rep-
resented by Mr. Grundy. But that
friendship was hardly strong enough
to draw upward of $400,000 in good
money out of the pocket of Grundy to
feed Fisher’s ambition. Plainly the
inspiration to generosity in this case
was a desire to control legislation that
directly affected Grundy’s invest-
ments, and the election of Fisher will
simply be an approval of that sinister
RpFvose by the people of Pennsylva-
and license to continue the malign
practice.
——Another reason for the failure
of labor organizations may be found
in the fact that the president of the
miners’ organization in Illinois has
abandoned his comrades and gone to
work for a mining company at $25,000
a year.
Coolidge Economies Begin.
Coolidge, like the late Ar-
temus Ward’s kangaroo, is “a amoos-
in’ little cuss.” The President has a
mania for economizing and whenever
time hangs heavy on his hands he in-
vents some story of saving public
money from a rapacious Congress. It
is a comparatively easy matter to put
such things over on the public. All
that is necessary is to have the heads
of departments submit exorbitant es-
timates and then by executive order
pare them down to the extent of a
hundred millions or more and collect
the applause by radio or otherwise
that invariably follows such an an-
nouncement. It is a simple process
and capable of indefinite repetition.
The other day Brigadier General
Lord, director of the budget, paid a
visit to the President at his summer
camp and submitted the budget for
the next Congress. Immediately the
President took his pen in hand and
cut $99,000,000 out of the total and
the press agent promptly reported it
as a fine achievement in economies.
But it turns out that after deducting
the $99,000,000, which the President
cut from the budget, there remained
$55,000,000 more than was appropriai-
ed and spent last year. In other
words the Coolidge economy is a pure-
ly imaginary quantity. It cuts from
a possible total far in excess of a sum
needed and provides for a vast in-
crease of expenditures.
The truth of the matter is that the
expenses of government have increas-
ed regularly since Mr. Coolidge be-
came President. In 1925 the actual
expenditures amounted to $3,529,000,- .
000. In 1926 it was $3,618,000,000 and
in 1927 it increased to $3,953,000,000. |
In each of these years the press agent
paraded figures to show that Coolidge
had a hand on the safety valve hold-
ing down appropriations. The esti-
mates for 1928 were generous enough
to allow the customary Coolidge cut |
and leave an excess of $55,000,000
over the high figure of 1927. Mean- |
time the House committee on Ways
and Means will determine the amount |
of the appropriations. All Coolidge
can do is exercise the right of veto.
President |
——The tide of popular favor did
the tides in the British channel.
The announcement of a field day to
be held by the churches in the Pitts-
burgh district early in October in the
| interest of the candidacy of William
B. Wilson for the United States Sen-
ate against William S. Vare gives an
idea of the rapidly gathering force for
that campaign. It is stated that 107
It is but a reminder that none
{ of the forces for prohibition or for
election law reform can be for Vare.
Prohibition could not fare worse in
Philadelphia than the election laws.
Again and again the Philadelphia ma-
chine has shown itself to be a menace
to the cause of honest elections. The
forces of good government generally
are challenged by the Vare candidaey.
The head of the Philadelphia ma-
chine is very far short of represent-
ing the Republican majority of the
State. He had a majority in only one
of the sixty-seven counties. With
Philadelphia excepted, the combined
Republican vote of the primary was
against him in every county of the
Commonwealth. The only county out-
side Philadelphia in which he received
a plurality was Dauphin. The com-
bined Republican vote against- Vare
in the primary was more than 200,000
greater than he received. He was
promptly repudiated as the Republi-
can candidate by hosts of the mem-=
bers of that party, thus being assur-
ance of a wide Republican revolt
against him this fall.
It is fresh in mind that both the
Pepper and Pinchot forces declared
that the election of Vare would cause
the State to hang its head in shame.
They described him as representing
the lowest form of politics. And their
combined vote was something - like
: 800,000 to his less than 600,000. Who
could expect many of the Pinchot stp-
porters to turn in now for Vare? Who
can figure out where the Pepper ad-
herents owe any loyalty to Vare,
whom they described as taking a
mean advantage of the situation “to
grab the Senatorship” without having
any qualifications for the office? Out
of the 800,000 who so talked against
Vare and so voted against him, it is
but logical to assume that most of
them will vote against him this fall.
Some have gone so far as to place the
minimum estimate of the number of
Republicans who will vote against
Vare in November at 500,000.
There is no more faithful vote in
the country than that of ‘the, Sue, Dene.
cratic party of Pennsylvania.
practically no patronage to sustain
. its organization, often almost leader-
‘less and frequently torn by factional-
ism, it yet has maintained an average
State-wide vote over a period of more
than forty years in excess of 428,000.
With only men voting in 1916, it cast
521,784 votes for re-election of Pres-
ident Wilson. In 1922 it cast nearly
600,000 for its candidate for Governor.
It was credited in 1925 with an enroll-
ment in the State of practically 700,-
000. United for William B. Wilson—
no Democrat in the State would run
against him for the Senatorial nomi-
nation—it is but logical to assume
that it will give him its mexinum
vote.
Bear in mind that usually more of
both parties vote in the general elec-
tion than in the primaries, and that in
addition to this an increase in regis-
$radion and enrollment is expected this
all.
The maximum Democratic vote for
Wilson under the circumstances might
easily be 650,000. The great opportu-
nity this presents to the Republicans
who believe that the election of Vare
would cause the State.to hang its head
in shame is obvious. If they unite
with the Democrats, as their fathers
did in the election of a Democratic
Governor, Vareism will be crushed. It
would present a party of more than
1,000,000 against the Philadelphia ma-
chine candidate. In addition a num-
ber of minor parties are likely to in-
dorse Wilson.
There is nothing fanciful about it.
It has been done before. Such a com-
bination, as pointed out, twice elected
a Democrat to the Governorship, and
in 1905 it elected a Democrat to the
State Treasurership. It is absolutely
the only way to defeat Vareism. The
Anti-Vare forces have the votes over-
whelmingly. Victory for them is just
a matter of their using their strength
intelligently—in combination.
The movement has started strongly.
Let every opponent of Vareism join
promptly in adding to the impetus.
The people who in 1882 and 1892 elect-
ed a Democratic Governor and who in
1905 elected a Democratic State
Treasurer can in 1926 elect a Demo-
crat to the United States Senate.
They owe it to themselves, to their
State and to their Nation to do it.
Pinchot Returning to Form.
From the Clearfield Republican.
New York wired out the story Wed-
nesday evening that Governor Gifford
Pinchot had sent his request to Tex
. Rickard for 200 reserved seats at the
Dempsey- Tunney fight in Philadel-
phia November 23. Also, that he vio-
lated all precedent of officialdom by
' sending his check along for the price
' of the seats. Thus again does Gifford
offer concrete testimony that he is
: fast returning . to old time human
form, same as he always carried
around before he permitted his ambi-
tion to: submerge his better self and
best to greatly benefitted the flower exhibit more harm to Gertrude Ederle than lined up with the nuts, bugs and im-
agined super species of human kind.
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Se \ E SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
I \ : —A warrant was issued last Saturday
for the arrest of R. H. Taylor, cashier for
the last twenty years of the Milroy Bank-
ing Company, Milroy, Pa. Examination of
the bank’s books indicate a shortage of
$15,000.
—Second story men broke into the
parochial residence of St. Patrick’s Roman
Catholic ehurch at Erie and carried out a
safe which they smashed in a yard in the
church, finding $500 in bonds and a pearl
necklace, the property of Miss C. Cauley,
a niece of the pastor of the church.
—Misg Minnie Schenck, for many years
a servant in the employ of Mrs. Agnes
Kelly, formerly of Renovo, is bequeathed
the bulk of the estate of her late employ-
er in a will probated in the Lycoming
county courts. The estate is estimated at
$75,000. In addition to a home and fur-
nishings in Williamsport, Miss Schenck is
gven $50,000 of which $5,000 is in Liberty
bonds.
—Because he claims Fritz Krause, Sr., of
New Kensington, deprived him of the
affections of his wife, Henry Krause has
field suit asking $20,000 damages. Krause
claims his father began to pay special at-
tention to his wife about June 15, 1923,
presented her with money, flowers, candy,
silk hosiery and other things, and took
her to social functions, as a result of
which, Mrs. Krause deserted her husband
March 26, 1925.
—Rainy weather that previously pre-
vented clothes from drying was responsi-
ble for trapping a clothes thief at Berwick.
When Peter Lynn hung out an exception-
ally large number of clothes to dry last
Thursday three women called the police
and identified the clothing as theirs. It
had been stolen, they said, from the lines
on Monday night, the rain preventing the
clothing from drying. Lynn was commit-
ted to jail in default of $900 bail.
—During a party on Monday afternoon,
at the Martinezzi boarding house in Nant-
y-Glo, Cambria county, John Chiappini,
aged 23 is alleged to have kissed Mary
Martinezzi, aged 14, daughter of the board-
ing boss. Paul Valentino, aged forty,
pulled his gun and shot the kisser, accord-
ing to witness, with a bullet lodged in
the abdomen, Chiappini is in a serious
condition at Memorial hospital, Johnstown,
where he admits having kissed Mary.
—Curiosity cost John Tarneski, 23, of
near Wilkes-Barre, $10 and costs when
taken before Alderman Ruddy Saturday
night, on a charge of disgraceful conduct.
Tarneski, who has left his wife twice
during the ten months they have been
married, met her on Public Square and
accused her of wearing “rolled down”
stockings. He insisted on investigating in
public. The defendant said he considered
it improper for young women to ‘roll their
own.”
—Harold B. Wood, of the State Health
Department, has notified H. E. Fetteroff,
Lewistown health officer, that the recent
near epidemic of typhoid fever was due
entirely to “bottle infection.” The health
officals believe they have traced the infec-
tion to Mrs. Lee Reed, one of the three
dead in the outbreak. They say Mrs.
Reed visited friends in a small town in
Lancaster county where there was an epi-
demic of typhoid, and became infected
with the germs of typhoid.
—C(Caught beneath a slide of earth at a
flint quarry on a farm in Perry county, on
Friday, Daniel Brownawell and John Salts-
burg, both of Oak Grove, were buried
under the mass of earth and rock and died
shortly afterwards. The two men were
loading a wagon with stone for use on a
road nearby when the ground gave way
and threw the wagon on them. Harry
Boyer, roadmaster, escaped with an in-
jured leg. Brownawell is survived by a
widow and five children. Saltsburg is sur-
vived by a widow.
—Being hit by a Pennsylvania railroad
freight train didn’t do anything to Charles
Sanforth, 84 years old, Homestead, but
scare hm a bit. The accident hapepned at
the Amity street crossing, Homestead.
Sanforth was rolled twenty yards by the
force of the blow from the engine. He
jumped up, bewildered and excited, and
ran away. Friends found the man later
and took him to a physician's office. All
that the physician could find was quite a
large quantity of fright in the man’s sys-
tem. Sanforth said he didn’t see the train.
—Suit for $37,000 has been filed in Mon-
tour county court by Mr. and Mrs David
Thomas and daughter Elizabeth, of Scran-
ton, against H. Reese Edmondson and
daughter Elizabeth, of Danville, as an
aftermath of an automobile accident last
Memorial day on the Danville-Northum-
berland road, when the Thomas and Ed-
mondson cars collided. Miss Edmondson
was driving at the time. Miss Thonas
asks $5000 for her injuries and her father
seeks $25,000 for injuries to his wife, $500
for damages to the car, $1500 for medical
attention, $5000 for the loss of the ‘“‘assist-
ance, aid, comfort and society“ of his wife.
He alleges she suffered paralysis of the
arms as a result of the accident.
—Peter Pannacci, a resident of Curwens-
ville for many years, was killed at 7.15
Monday morning while at work near one
of the derricks in use at the stone quarry
near that place. Attached by an iron ring
to a hook on the arm of the derrick which
had been lowered, a heavy spawl box used
to carry spawls away from the stones the
cutters were working on, had been lifted
several feet from the ground at the epera-
tor’s signal. The heavy box slipped from
the hook and struck Pannacci on the head
in its descent, instantly killing him. The
quarry was immediately shut down and
the body of the workman removed to
Lininger’s undertaking establishment for
preparation for burial. Pannacei is sur-
vived by a widow and four children.
—A suit for damages has been filed in
the Clearfield county court by the widows
of Amos and Eldon Read against Edward
J. McCormick, owner of the Altoona Coat,
Apron and Towel company, whose truck is
alleged to have forced off the road the ear
driven by Amos and Eldon Read on July
4, on the Lakes to Sea highway between
Grampian and Luthersburg. The widows
in their suits, are asking that the owner
of the truck make reparation to cover the
loss which they incurred. Mrs. Anna May
Read, widow of Amos Read, asks for $15,-
000, while Mrs. Hannah J. Read asks ¥s5,-
000 for the loss of a husband and father.
Reckless driving of the one and one-half
ton truck by David E. Eckelberger is the
cause of the deaths, as charged in the suit
filed. The truck was taking a load of
household goods to Olean, N. Y., when the
accident occurred.