INK SLINGS.
—A New York scientist declares
that foot-prints are far more positive
as identification of human beings
than finger-prints. We have seen
feet that lead us to believe that there
might be something in what Dr.
Interland says.
—Those Democratic women who
are offering a prize for the best
slogan or catchy phrase to offset that
of “Coolidge Prosperity” which is to
be used by the opposition in 1928, can
hand it right over to us. We win with
the one work: “Bunk.”
—Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray are
in the death house at Sing Sing. Both
have a chance to come back. Albert
Snyder, their victim in almost the
most diabolical murder of record, is
in his grave. He has no chance,
whatever, to get out of that.
—Bellefonte has a real police-
woman. So real, in fact, that there
are only two places that a lot of slips
of girls who had been running the
streets all hours of the night can go
now after nine o’clock. One of them
is home. The other is the calaboose.
—Governor Ritchie, of Maryland,
is scouting in the west. Of course he
doesn’t admit it, but there is general
suspicion that he is out there to find
out whether his presidential bee can
get enough honey in the alfalfa and
prairie grass regions to sustain life
until 1928.
—Farmers who have planted their
corn are concerned lest the cold, wet
weather will rot the grain before it
germinates. Should such be the case
they will be in a bad way, for very
few of them would be able to get
good seed corn for replanting, be-
cause it is so scarce.
—“Fatly” Arbuckle, premier screen
comedian of former days is to return
to the legitimate stage next month
and will make his debut on Broadway.
Strange world, isn’t it, that drives an
actor from the screen as punishment
for immorality and prepares to wel-
come him to the speaking stage.
—The awful thing about the Mis-
sissippi flood is its lazy way of pro-
ducing devastation. The current moves
so slowly that the crest of the flood
is still three weeks away from the
homes along the lower part of the
valley that have been under water for
many weeks now. The situation is
bad enough, but think of the hopeless-
ness of waiting three weeks for “the
worst is yet to come.”
—The result of the county field
meet, held at State College, last Sat-
urday, would indicate that the ath-
letes of the Beliefonte High have
been so concentrated on their arms
that they have forgotten their legs: |
They won’ second place in the meet,
took all the firsts but one in the field
events, but not a single first on the
track. It would seem that petting
parties develop the arms better than
dancing does the legs.
—There are insurance companies
for boot-leggers now. For stated pre-
‘miums the purveyors of “moonshine”
can insure their wares, get any
amount if they are killed “in line of
duty” and fixed indemnity for every
day spent in jail. We are spending
millions to punish violators of the
Volstead act and permitting organ-
ized effort to make the punishment
almost as profitable to them as the
‘business for which they have been ap-
prehended.
. —After a month’s stay on our
shores Ramsay MacDonald, former
Prime Minister of England, has ar-
rived at the conclusion that prohibi-
tion “is a praiseworthy effort to keep
people decent.” The distinguished
visitor has discovered nothing new.
Prohibition is and always was a
praiseworthy effort and it is keep-
ing many decent, but it has also
been the cause of many who had been
reasonably decent before its advent
‘becoming shockingly indecent since.
—The American Medical Associa-
tion is in session in Washington and
one of the very first things it did was
to demand that the red tape be cut
away so that doctors can get whiskey
without so much difficulty. Since
they are permitted to procure it only
‘because it is viewed by the law as a
medicament it does seem that they
ought to be able to get it as easily
as they can any other. This would
probably be thn case if all doctors
would be law abiding in their use of
it. Since it is reasonably certain
they would not they are treated just
as are the laymen who once had
whiskey without stint. Those who
knew how to use it had to be deprived
of it entirely ‘because of those who
did not.
—NMiss Mary N. Spencer, a govern-
ment clerk in Washington, died and
left a clause in her will that its exee-
utor should erect a monument to cost
one hundred thousand dollars over her
grave. Remote relatives in Ireland
have instituted suit to prevent spend-
ing so much money to memorialize
such an ‘hunible person. Of course
everyone knows what they are after.
They want to spend part of cousin
Mary’s “dough” on themselves. They
are probably a poor, shiftless lot and
can’t get anywhere near grasping our
thought that a woman who worked
all her life, at never more than twelve
hundred dollars, and amassed a for-
tune of nearly a quarter million de-
serves a great monument. If the law
doesn’t permit her wish to be carried
out the public ought to build it for
“her.
multitude of guest lodges, its private
VOL1. 72.
Mr. Coolidge a Sybarite. - |
A Washington correspondent
writes: “So positively has the vision
of President Coolidge as a frugal,
unostentatious soul been registered
on the eye of the great American
public that it comes as a shock to re-
alize that he is actually the most
Sybaritic executive that has ever
presided over the destinies of this
nation.” This startling conclusion
was arrived at after a careful com-
parison of the vacation expenses of
Mr. Coolidge and some of his prede-
cessors in office. Grover - Cleveland
took a small house in Washington
and at intervals went fishing during
the hot season. Benjamin Harrison
spent his vacation at the Old Soldiers’
home near Washington. William Me-
Kinley spent the vacation period at
his home in Canton, Ohio. William
H. Taft “took an unpretentious house
at Beverly, and sometimes visited his
brother.”
Woodrow Wilson took no vacation
during the first three years of his
first term and during the summer of
his fourth year occupied a mansion,
Shadow Lawn, Long Branch, provided
for him by the Democratic National
committee. During his second term
he took no vacation, the World war
having held him to his duties in
Washington. Theodore Roosevelt
spent his vacations at his own home,
Oyster Bay, where he indulged in
considerable ostentation. It has been
said that he drew rather heavily upon
the resources of the railroads in his
several trips throughout the country
and used one of the government
owned yachts pretty freely. But he
was content with a body guard of a
small contingent of secret service men
whose wages and cost of maintenance
were paid by the government. Presi-
dent Harding took no summer vaca-
tions.
President Coolidge’s vacation last
year was a perfect orgie of luxuri-
ance. The correspondent says White
Pine Camp is “a veritable little city
in the woods, set down amid the play-
grounds of New York millionaires,
with its beautiful master’s cabin, its
Yeor. “but the Presi-
dent could fish.” He “finds it neces-
sary to travel with a retinue of 200
people, which includes a guard of a
hundred marines to police the envir-
ons of whatever country seat attracts
him.” Just now he has a group of
scouts under pay of the government
looking for a place in which to spend
his vacation this summer. He has
the choice of half a dozen places and
vast estates “ranging from the Bald-
win and Penrose mansions at Color-
ado Springs to the luxurious homes of
varicus lumber-jack millionaires in
Wisconsin.”
. Seen.
—The Williamsport lothario who
climbed onto the porch roof of his
sweetheart’s home, in order to throw
a bunch of posies into her room, was
shot twice by her father, who thought
him a burglar. Inasmuch as he is
very critically wounded his attempt
to “say it with flowers” might result |
in her having to do the same thing.
Sr ———— A ————————
—Floods in the Mississippi val-
ley continue to take toll in human life
and spread desolation in spite of
every effort to check them. This
shows the helplessness of man against
the forces of nature.
ri rie
——The condition of the State
charity institutions are bad and grow-
ing worse, but the political machine
is thriving under the care of loving
friends in control of the State gov-
ernment.
S———
——The Nicaragua Liberals killed
two American marines the other day. |
They must be trying to force the |
American people to support the Cool-
idge policy down there.
eg ete
——~Gasoline tax collections from
the dealers of Centre county for the
quarter ending March 31st totaled
$14,679.79. The total in the State for
the quarter was $2,629,110.52.
el,
——The doctors of the country are |
opposed to the Volstead law but the |
bootleggers are in favor of it, which |
makes it “hoss and hoss.”
rr ——— er —————————— ‘
——Jugo-Slavia had thirty-seven
earthquakes in forty-eight hours.
That experience out to subdue the
war spirit of the people.
ge iii |
——Esteemed Republican contem-
poraries are worrying too much over
the Democratic nominee for President
rext year.
nip serembiriadens
Winter isn’t “lingering in the
lap of Spring” this year. He has
simply kicked the old lady out of the
house.
—————— i piainin
——It requires courage to attempt
————et sett tte t——-g———
to fly over the Atlantic, and lots of
patience to get started.
BE
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
The Electoral Code Commission.
Governor Fisher, having approved
the joint resolution providing for a
commission to codify the election laws
of the State, the people of Pennsyl-
vania may hope for honest elections
some time in the future. Of course
much will depend upon the personnel
of the commission. The fact that the
Speaker of thé House of Representa-
tives and the president protem of the
Senate will be members of it, and that
the chairman of the Republican State !
committee will probably select the
others, is a discouraging element in
the equation. But even at that, a
code of laws on the subject may be
cbtained that will guarantee consider-
able improvement over the past.
Much depends upon the voters. They
have power to achieve.
It may safely be said that the orig-
inal purpose of the resolution was
not to improve the electoral system or
to promote honest elections. The de-
mand for ballot reform legislation
during the recent session of the Gen-
eral Assembly was so strong and in-
sistent that it could not be ignored.
The inadequate measures sponsored
by the Governor would have made
ballot box stuffing and false returns
hazardous and partially stopped the
slush system of buying: majorities.
The intense interest which the Mellon-
Vare partnership has in the Senatori-
al election next year made it neces-
sary to delay any substantial reform
legislation until after that event, and
this commission is the expedient
adopted.
But on the theory that improve-
ment “is better late than never,” the
people of Pennsylvania have some
reason to rejoice over the adoption
and approval of the resolution. In
all probability the scandals of the
last Republican primary will be re-
peated next year and the nomination
for United States Senator will be
bought then, as it was last vear.
There is even a danger that the com-
mission will be so organized that its
recommendations will be against,
rather than in favor of, just election
laws. But we may hope for better
results from this expedient, and if
the men and ‘women of" : id
who favor honest elections will assert
themselves with proper force “good
may come out of Nazareth.”
Ee — lr ———
——Clarence Darrow, famous
inal lawyer, thinks Mr,
titled to the Senate seat
partly bought and partly
he also thinks it would be “terrible”
to execute Mrs. Snyder. Long con-
tinued and intimate association with
criminals develop curious ideas.
ae pp i
Worst Salary Raiser Approved. |
crim-
Vare is en-
which “he
stole,” but
— i i
When the Governor vetoed: a bunch
of salary raising bills enacted during
the recent session of the General As-
sembly a hope was created that this
form of looting the treasury was
ended. But the hope has already
been dispelled. He has since written
his approval to at least two of the
worst measures of this type that was
passed. We refer to the bills increas-
ing the compensation of Senators and
Representatives in the Legislature
from $2500.00 to $3000.00, with a
mileage allowance that will add con-
siderably to the pay check, and that
increasing the salary of Big Tom
Cunningham, clerk of the Philadel-
phia Quarter Sessions courts, from
$8000.00 to $10,000.00 a year.
The increase in the salary of Mr.
Cunningham may have been in the
form of a reimbursement of his much
too liberal contribution to the Vare
slush fund last spring and fall. Aec-
cording to his testimony before the
Slush Fund committee of the United
State Senate Big Tom contributed
$50,000 to the Vare campaign fund, .
which must have been a heavy draft
on his $8000 a year salary. Of course
it is believed that the bootleggers and
other protected criminals in the city
made up most of this sum, but in any
event it showed that Big Tom was
“solid for Mulhooley” and entitled to
special consideration. But what in-
fluenced the Governor to approve the
salary raiser for the Legislators is
inconceivable. :
For many years really capable men
cheerfully served in the House and
Senate of the State for $1500.00 the
term. Since the cost of living has
been soaring upward that may have
been an inadequate recompense for
the service. But two years ago the
salary was increased to $2500.00,
which was certainly ample for the
three or four months devoted to the
work. There were emoluments in the
way of mileage, postage stamps and
stationery of the value of four or five
hundred dollars to “help - out,” and .
most of us imagined that there would
be no * further demands for many
vears to come. But this expectation
has been disappointed and to public
surprise the Governor has approved .
a salary bill that will run consider-
; ably above $100.00 a day of actual
service,
LLEFONTE., PA.. MAY 20. 1927.
Curious Methods of the Standard.
The Standard Oil company seems
to be a resourceful as well as a “soul-
less corporation.” According to in-
formation coming from New York, |
the officers of the company held a
long conference, the other day, to con-
sider the question of increasing the
price of gasoline. The reason given
for this movement is that there has
been lately an “unprecedented over-
production of petroleum.” It appears
that in some sections of the country
independent operators have been
unusually successful, with the result
that competition in the market has
forced prices downward to an amaz-
ing extent. The “Standard” stands to
lose heavily by this trend of the
market and hopes to reimburse itself
by increasing the price of gasoline.
Gasoline is a by-product of petro-
leum, and in fact petroleum is pretty
nearly the “whole thing” in the
manufacture of gasoline. In view of
this fact the average mind would
come to the conclusion that the cheap-
ening of the price of petroleum would
justify a corresponding decrease in
the price of gasoline. But the offi-
cials of the Standard Oil company
don’t take this view of the subject.
They are perfectly willing to engage
in competition with any weaker force
and drive it to the wall, but they want
some certain means of recovering
losses incident to such an operation.
There is little if any competition in
gasoline, for the rivals in that indus-
try are always willing to make a
“gentleman’s agreement” that prom-
ises profits.
In justice to the Standard Oil com-
pany it must be stated that the in-
crease in the price of gasoline was
not the preferred method of meeting
the decreasing price of petroleum.
The Standard managers would much
rather have gone after the independ-
ent producers with “hammer and
tongs” and driven them out of the
competition through bankruptcy pro-
cesses. Or, according to gossip on
the subject, they were willing to
“make an arrangement which would
have been satisfactory to all con-
cerned.” But the Sherman anti-trust
tip before them like a spectre
of calamity and there was no other
expedient than that gravely consider-
ed at a long drawn out conference,
of increasing the price of gasoline. It
is hoped by them that President Cool-
idge will wink at that plan.
——The defaulting Pittsburgh
banker and politician, John A. Bell,
may have to go to jail in the end,
though his friends still hope: to
switch him into a hospital.
The New Motor Law Approved.
Governor Fisher, having approved
the motor code bill enacted by the
General Assembly during its recent
session, it is to be hoped that there
will be no future tinkering with that
important subject for some years.
Since the first motor law was enacted,
eighteen or twenty years ago, the law
makers of the State have felt it their
, duty to pass a new law on the sub-
ject nearly every time they have con-
vened, with the result that the statute
books are cluttered up with a variety
of enactments, some improving and
the others conflicting with acts pre-
iouslv passed. These processes have
created such confusion that for the
last two years or more no motor own-
er or driver could be exactly certain
whether or not he was within the
law.
The new law commonly known as
the “Hess Motor Code,” makes some
important changes in the highway
regulations, which may or may not
prove advantageous to the public. It
increases the speed limit on public
roads to thirty-five miles an hour in-
stead of thirty, which pleases the
users of motor vehicles who seem to
be always in a hurry to “get there.”
It is claimed that this change will
decrease the number of accidents for
the reason that slow motion has a
tendency to congestion, which is the
cause of many accidents. This of
course is mere conjecture which will
be determined by time and exper-
ience. If the new law is not disap-
pointing in this respect it will be of
infinite benefit all around.
The new law also makes provision
for uniform traffic control and opera-
tion of signal lights in cities and
boroughs, which ought to be a decided
improvement. Wherever these sig-
nals are installed green will mean
“go” and turns either right or left
will be permitted where there are no
prohibiting signs. A red light will
mean “stop” and every driver will
understand these signals no matter
what section of the State he or she
comes from. The license fee for
trucks is increased and that will meet
with popular favor, but lower limit in
the weight would have been an addi-
tional improvement. We have not
been able to see the new law, as yet,
but if it repeals all other acts on the
subject it is well.
NO. 20.
| Betrayers of a Sacred Trust.
From the Philadelphia Record.
! The conviction at Wilkes-Barre of
six school directors of Hanover town-
ship on one of a long series of charges
of graft extending over several years,
, following so closely upon the sentenc-
ting to jail of a Philadelphia Magis-
, trate who had collected over $80,000
iin a single year by a wide diversity
of crookedness, might at first blush
| give the impression that public life
{in Pennsylvania is hopelessly corrupt
rand that such betrayals of trust are
{ common. Such an impression would,
'we believe, be quite incorrect. In-
deed, the prominence that has been
given to these two cases is fairly good
evidence that they are of such rare oc-
currence as to possess a spectacular
interest.
In saying this we do not mean to
condone such frauds, especially those
tin the holding of elections, as have
given the State a painful pre-emi-
.nence. These electoral iniquities are
‘in all conscience, bad enough, but it
must be remembered that fhey are
chiefly confined to Philadelphia, Pitts-
burgh and one or two other cities.
The overwhelming majority that
Pennsylvania, outside of Philadelphia,
gave last fall to William B. Wilson,
the Democratic candidate for United
States Senator, against William §.
Vare, is convincing proof of the
soundness of public sentiment in this
matter.
The betrayal of their trust by the
convicted school directors of Hanover
township would, if it were a common
practice, indicate nothing less than a
breakdown in our civilization. But
we cannot believe that such corrup-
tion is common. If it were we would
certainly see indications of it here
rin Philadelphia, which® is popularly
supposed to be addicted to all forms
(of official perverseness. Yet, as a
{ matter of fact, the public schools of
' the city, under the control of the
Board of Education, are conducted
| with a degree of integrity and a fidel-
‘ity to duty that cannot be surpassed
by any private corporation. With an-
nual expenditures of between , $30-
000,000 and $40,000,000 the Joard
spares no pains to see that évery dol-
lar of the taxpayers’ money S§pent
brings full returns and it fulfills its
important duties with a fidelity de-
serving of the highest praise.
{ And such, we trust, is the. spirit
: that animates school directors
7 Arge £188
n-
stricts e”
over township directors
form an in-
famous exception and have been guil-
ty of a crime that deserves severe
punishment. The man who would rob
fhe publi schools is a rascal of such
, base’ quality that not a word can be
| spoken in extenuation of his mis-
i deeds.
Peace in Nicaragua.
I'rom the Pittsburgh Post.
i It had been noticed for some time
i—in fact, from the arrival of Ameri-
. can marines on the scene—that blood-
Ished in the Nicaraguan revolution
had practically ceased. Hence the
. world was prepared to hear yesterday
| that the counsel of Henry L. Stimson,
' personal representative of President
| Coolidge on the ground since April
:17, had been accepted. Both sides are
to turn in their arms- to American
marines. President Diaz has signed
a general amnesty decree and added
that the freedom of the press would
soon be restored. Whether the Uni-
ed States is praised or blamed for
“interference” in the affairs of the
little country, the announcement of
peace itself finds the usual favorable
reaction. There does not appear to
be much bitterness in the words of
the Liberal General Moncada in or-
dering his forces to lay down arms.
“We are forced by a greater power
to cease our fight,” he said, “but as
peace will be the result, I shall devote
my effort to help in restoring order,
so that the Liberals may gain ulti-
mate and honest control in the 1928
elections, which will be supervised by
the United States.”
Whether such policing or umpiring
on our part is relished or not, it
seems to be wholly in accord with the
obligation implied under the Monroe
Doctrine. European or other foreign
powers are warned to keep hands off
on this side. Nothing appears to be
left, then, but for this country to do
what policing is necessary to the
guarding against civil war in South
American countries.
The good feeling on the news of
peace is pretty strong commendation
of the policy.
This grand Jury Means Business.
From the DuBois Express.
In Arkansas, after a grand jury
had indicted a negro for murder, it
took cognizance of mob demonstra-
tions that had followed his arrest and
issued a warning that it would take
action against any persons who made
further attempt to take the law into
their own hands. And this is surely
a hopeful sign. The weak point in
all plans to do away with lynching
has been the jury itself. Pass the
harshest kind of legislation against
lynching, and if juries will not indict
and convict, it all goes for naught.
But when people know that a jury
means business a lynching bee does
not appear quite so tempting. This
Arkansas jury has probably done
more to avert violence in this particu-
lar case than could be done in any
other way.
——The “Watchman” is the most
readable paper published. Try it.
A ——————————— ——— HN
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Yeggs blew open the safe in a post-
office sub-station in a New Castle store,
on Saturday. night, and escaped with
stamps and currency of an undetermined
value, ‘ ' :
—Four full grown beavers, trapped in
the Seven Mountains, :Miflin county, have
been sent to Mahaffey, Clearfield county,
where they will be used for propagation
purposes. The animals were trapped in
the region where a colony was liberated
nearly a decade ago.
—Mrs. Nellie Woods, of Altoona, was ar-
rested on Saturday and held in $2500 bail
on charge of involuntary manslaughter
following the death of Francis Dale Dick-
man, 7, of Juniata Gap. The boy, on his
way home from an Altoona school, jump-
ed from a truck and was struck by the
Woods car.
—Edward 8. Templeton, of Greenville,
Pa., has been awarded a medal by King
Albert, of Belgium, in recognition of Tem-
pleton’s services in behalf of the Belgian
government in adjusting the Christian H.
Buhl bequest of $2,000,000 to aid destitute
or needy war victims in Northern France
and Belgium.
—John Saunders, sixty years old, color-
ed, builder of a colony of small houses at
Sellersville and a trustee of a colored
Baptist church, of Quakertown, is in jail
at Lansdale, charged with chicken steal-
ing. Police say a ring of thieves have
stolen 4200 chickens from farmers of the
North Penn section in five months.
—Just after reading his report at the
annual convention of the Lutheran Sus-
quehanna Synod, in session at Milton,
William T. Horton, registrar of Susque-
hanna University, died as he sat down in
his chair last Wednesday, May 11th. He
was 68 years old and leaves a wife and
two children. A heart attack was the
cause of his death.
—Anthony Podrobarac, Nathan Podro-
barac, John Podrobarac, Joseph Herrick,
and Nick Vandenmergel, residents of
Cambria county, were arrested by George
Sperring, a State fish warden, for violation
of fish laws in setting lines in Fishing
creek, Clinton county. Taken before
Alderman T. Mark Brungard, of Lock
Haven, the men were fined $20 each.
—Burns received when he fell into an
alkali vat at the New York and Pennsyl-
vania Paper company, at Lock Haven last
Wednesday, resulted fatally on Thursday
morning to John Caskey, 30, of that place.
Caskey fell into the vat at 6 o'clock Wed-
nesday evening, dying during the night at
the Lock Haven hospital. His widow and
bis parents, Mr. and Mrs. Butler Caskey,
survive. .
—Acting the part of a “lawyer during
an initiation of new members into the I’.
O. 8. of A. lodge at Marklesburg, Paul
Moore, mail carrier, was shot through
both thighs by John Donaldson, of the
Huntingdon High school ' faculty. The
revolver used in the ceremonies was sup-
posed to contain blank cartridges. In the
hospital at Huntingdon, on Monday, Mr.
Moore absolved Donaldson of all inten-
tional blame.
—The Central Pennsylvania Lumber
company reports considerable progress is
being made in cutting virgin timber in the
Bear Creek secton, near Kane. Logs are
being shipped to Sheffield where they are
converted into lumber. The company hopes
to elear the Section of timber within two
‘4 years and at the present rate this would
|} not seem impossible.
Many of the trees
are so large that two men can hardly
span them by joining hands.
—Peter J. Hanlon, 37 years old, of Mon-
essen, former deputy collector of internal
revenue, was found guilty on. 51 counts
of embezzlement by a jury in. United
States court at Pittsburgh, Saturday
morning, Sentence was postponed by
Judge Schoonmaker, pending the filing of
a motion for a new trial. In the indict-
ment Hanlon was accused of stealing
amounts ranging from 81 cents to $130,
which he had collected as delinquent
taxes. The total was $3,000.
—Thomas M. Baker, vice president of
the defunct Merchants’ National Bank, of
Butler, closed by the Federal authorities
Friday afternoon because of an estimated
shortage of $200,000, was arrested on Sat-
urday on a charge of embezzlement. J.
H. Hutzler, cashier of the bank, who was
arrested on Friday, waived a hearing at
Pittsburgh and was released in $10,000
bail. Baker is seriously ill at his home
and a policeman is guarding hm. Hutzler
has confessed to irregularities.
—-The body of Ferdinand W. Duerr,
Pennsylvania railroad shopman of Altoona,
was found in the Juniata river three miles
east of Huntingdon on Wednesday, May
11th. Eleven days prior Duerr left his
home for a day’s fishing and after reach-
ing his destination suddenly disappeared.
His cap and fishing tackle were found on
the river bank. Constant search was un-
successful until the above date. when a
woman gathering wild flowers, discovered
the body lodged against driftwood.
—Awakened by shots Friday morning
at 4 o'clock, Edward Heintzleman, South
Fourth street, Sunbury, found the bodies
of Edward Miller, 45, a neighbor, and his
wife scantily clad in night clothes on the
pavement in front of their home. Mrs.
Miller was shot through the left side with
a charge from a 12-gauge shot gun. She
died enroute to a local hospital. Miller
was dead when found. The left side of
his head was torn away. Miller, known to
be a jealous husband, is blamed for the
double killing by police.
—William Fetters, a Tl-vear-old farmer
of Chaneyville, Bedford county rejoices
in the recovery of $000 from $1200 repre-
senting the last of his life's saving, stolen
from his home, while Fetters was plowing
and his wife was working in the garden.
Thomas Redinger, 63, a neighbor, and his
son Glenn, are in jail at Bedford and
officers say made a complete confession of
the theft. On his small farm, throughout
his lifetime, Fetters managed to amass
$4800 in savings. Three years ago, he lost
$3600 in stock deals. Distrustful of banks
his last $1200 was hidden in a bureau
drawer in the house.
—~George Sargent, 19, of Marietta, died
on Sunday afternoon in the Columbia hos-
pital from a fractured skull received when
gas from an iron furnace blew a plate
from a huge pipe carrying the fumes to
an exit outside the factory. Roy Tracey,
38, who was working with Sargent making
temporary repairs to the gas pipe, also
was injured. He will recover. Sargent
and Tracey were on a scaffold when the
gas blew the iron plate loose from the
pipe. The plate hit the scaffolding and
Sargent plunged twenty-five feet to a
cement floor. Tracey grasped another
pipe, breaking his fall. The accident oc-
curred at the Lavine iron furnace.