INK SLINGS.
—Another lot of trans-Atlantic
fliers have been lost. Again we note
our utter failure to work up any feel-
ing of sympathy for the hapless ad-
venturers.
. —We can’t understand the mental
attitude of the father who is more
concerned in where some fellow, for
whom he has no responsibility, is
getting his “moonshine” than he is
in where his own daughter is getting
her “necking.”
— Senator Capper has given Kan-
sas to Hoover by a staggering ma-
jority. He thinks Kansas is going
to stagger up to the polls and “vote
er dry.” It was only a few years ago,
if memory fails us not, that the Sen-
ator thought that Kansas was going
to put the cap on Capper, but it
didn’t.
__It must be all over fellows.
‘Within the last week the Philadelphia
Public Ledger has reported every
State in the Union—except six— as
being “safe for Hoover.” Now that
the Ledger has completed that bril-
liant bit of political Sherlock Holmes-
ing we would suggest that it devote
its talents to finding out who murder-
ed Hughey McLoon.
—Dean Steidle, of the department
of mines and metallurgy at the Penn-
sylvania State College, is of the opin-
jon that seventy-five per cent of the
oil originally in the sands underlying
Pensylvania is still there. Just be-
cause Doc Tom Glenn, a cousin, who
has a pint well in his back yard up in
Bradford, might see the dean’s an-
‘nouncement and be encouraged we
want to remind him that Dr. “San
Josie” Surface, once a dean of some-
thing or other up at State, told the
world that cabbage worms are good
to eat. We fell for his dope and bit
into a cabage worm, but never again.
—We have given considerable
space on page 2 of this issue to an ar-
ticle by Prescott C. White. We try
to let nothing get into the Watchman
that isn’t worth reading. But in this
instance we call special attention be-
cause we believe it to be a notable
contribution to current literature and
‘think all will find much food for
thought in its dispassionate discus-
sion of two matters that are upper-
most in the public mind today. Won't
you please turn to page 2 and read it.
‘We know that, no matter what your
belief may be, you will be interested
and, possibly helped to a clearer vis-
ion of a complex problem.
—Talking about the problem in
agriculture a prominent business man
assured us, the other day, that local
business would “pick up shortly be-
cause farmers will start selling their
grain” The" igentleman’s kno
of farm conditions in Centre county
having all been acquired behind the
counter of his own place of business
it was not surprising that he did not
know that probably half the farmers
in the county will have to buy their
seed before they can sow this fall.
The wheat crop is next to a complete
failure and as it constitutes the major
item in the farmer's sale of grain we
are of the opinion that our friend will
be sadly disappointed if he expects
business to pick up because the
farmers will start selling their grain.
—1In as much as the advisability of
putting mewers on all water consuni-
ers has been preliminarily discussed
in council we want to get in early
with a word of protest against any
such a plan. The cost of installation
would be fifteen or twenty-thousand
dollars, there would have to be an-
other paid official, more likely two,
‘to read and keep them in order and
while there might be a saving in cost
of pumping such a saving could only
follow the consumption of less water
and that would mean less income.
“There is no doubt that the meter sys-
tem is the most equitable way of
charging for water, but whatever
«disparity there might be in the pres-
ent system, in Bellefonte, charges
here are so low that no one pays half
as much for all the water he or she
wishes to use as people in most other
towns do. God has blessed this com-
munity with an abundance of water
and for God’s sake don’t let any
councilmanic Volstead put prohibi-
‘tion of any kind on the Big Spring.
—Foreseeing that they can’t make
‘an intelligent electorate believe that
Al Smith has horns and a tail because
he is a Catholic; being unable to
show that the Vare administration in
‘Philadelphia and the Thompson re-
gime in Chicago even approaches in
decency the awful (?) Tammany dom-
ination of New York City, and hope-
less of ever convincing any sane per-
son that Mr. Hoover didn’t lock up
the four cent Cuban sugar during the
war so that we were forced to pay
eighteen for that necessary of life,
the mangers of Harbert’s campaign
are about to abandon all other issues
and attempt to make it a straight wet
and dry fight. What a joke ! A party
that has been in power for eight
years, aiding and abetting the infant
industry of the moonshiners and boot
leggers, reduced to the extremity of
making it a wet and dry fight. Al
Smith couldn’t make it any wetter
than it is. Hoover certainly won’t
make it any drier than it is. He
might say that he will but the proof
of the puddin’ iz the eating thereof”
and why didn’t he make some attempt
to do that all the years he was sitting
in the Harding and Coolidge cabinets.
Demoeral
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 73.
Governor Smith's Reply to White.
No thinking observer of events was
surprised at the crushing force with
which Governor Smith squelched
Wiiliam Allen White who had charg-
ed him with moral delinquencies as
a member of the New York legisla-
ture some twenty years ago. With-
out knowledge or understanding of
the subject the Kansas scavenger al-
leged that the record shows that Mr.
Smith had consistently supported leg-
islation in the interest of saloons,
gambling and prostitution. The Gov-
ernor’s reply completely refutes the
slander. It shows that in every im-
stance he voted in accord with a large
majority of his colleagues of both
parties and in perfect agreement with
the sentiments of his constitutents.
It is a difficult matter for a man
conspicuous in public life to answer
scandalous charges made wantonly by
an irresponsible and slovenly mindzd
adventurer. In the first place Mr.
White declared that Governor Smith,
in his early service in the legislature,
had supported every measure consid-
ered in the interest of saloons, gamb-
lers and prostitutes. After this
slander had been spread upon the rec-
ords throughout the country he re-
tracted so far as gamblers and prosti-
tutes were concerned and sailed for
Europe. On arriving on the other
side of the water he cabled to the
publicity head of the Republican Nat-
ional committee a denial that he had
retracted anything.
Governor Smith’s reply to these
slanders is not a reply to William Al-
len White of Kansas. It is a refuta-
tion of scandalous charges made by
the Republican National committee
through Mr. White. It is an expo-
sure of the fact that the Republican
National organization is the fountain
from which flows the “whispering cal-
umnies” that have been spread
abroad to the disgust of fair-minded
men and women of all parties. For
this reason Governor Smith was jus-
tified in taking notice of and replying
to so unimportant a creature as Wil-
liam Allen White. And he perform-
ed the service in so masterly a man-
ner that no further attention need be
paid to the scandal mongers.
— Tammany may. have ‘been ‘bad
enough in its time, but gunmen
never ran the streets of New York
deluging the highways with blood as
they do in Philadelphia and Chicago.
Vote for Voting Machines.
Honest men and women may differ
widely upon questions of prohibition
without being either fanatic or wick-
ed. They may differ upon questions
of economic policy without being sel-
fish or prejudiced. But they can’t
disagree upon the question of honest!
elections. That is a subject upon
which honest people are unanimous.
Fraudulent voting ought to be rated
as the highest crime in the calendar.
Its purpose is to subvert the basic
principles upon which a “government
of the people, for the people and by
the people” is founded. It is treason
against the State and larceny of the
most valuable and highly cherished
right of the people. This crime can be
condoned by no process of reasoning.
There are various ways of commit-
ting election frauds. In cities it can
be done by padding registration lists,
by violating the poll tax law, by re-
peating, by stuffing ballot boxes be-
fore or after the polls are closed, by
buying votes and by fraudulent re-
turns. Recent investigations have
shown that in Philadelphia, Pitts-
burgh and other cities in Pennsyl-
vania all these methods are employ-
ed. In the smaller towns, and even
in strictly rural communities, some
of them are practiced, the expense
fund being supplied by wealthy lead-
ers in the business life of the Com-
monwealth, some of whom aspire to
leadership in the social life of their
communities. This is the burning
shame of it.
It has been found impossible to se-
cure legislation to prevent ballot
frauds in this State. Those who prof-
it by election frauds control the leg-
islation. During the last session of
the General Assembly Governor Fish-
er submitted a series of bills which
might have accomplished much. But
Chairman Mellon interposed and up-
on his demand the measures were so
emasculated as to make them prae-
tically worthless. But there is still
left one ground for hope. Voting ma-
chines will make ‘it difficult, if not
impossible, to corrupt the ballot, and
the people of Pennsylvania have an
opportunity to apply this remedy by
adopting, at the coming election, the
constitutional amendment authorizing
voting machines. ’
——Greek politicians seem to have
adopted the Chicago system of cam-
paigning. The supporters of one can-
didate are using guns against the ad-
herents of another.
BELLEFON
Reaction to Hoover's Relief Plan.
The reaction of the corn belt to Mr.
Hoover's proposition to seek farm
relief by tariff taxation has been in-
dicated by discussion of the subject
in the Institute of Politics at Wil-
liamstown, Massachusetts, and the
Institute of Public Affairs at Char-
lottesville, Virginia, last week. At
Williamstown Professor Charles R.
Fay, of the University of Toronto,
“a gpecialist in farm cooperatives,”
called attention to the fact that in
recent years a considerable trade has
been created in shipping “dairy cows,
breeding stock and ‘stockers and feed-
ers’ to be fattened in the corn belt,”
thus enabling the corn growers to
make profitable use of their crops.
The Hoover plan to exclude these
products of Canada from the corn
growers of Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska
and other middle western States
would work infinitely greater harm
in those States than in Canada. In
fact it would deprive the middle west
farmers of the only practical means
of disposing of their surpluses. A
prohibitive tariff tax against Canadi-
an products would inevitably lead to
reprisals on that side of the line, and
the corn used now to fatten imported
Canadian cattle would rot in the bins.
Professor Fay adds that “the stand-
ard of living is as high in the Cana-
dian west as that of the American
northwest and north,” and therefore
it is folly “to denounce this trade in
the name of a higher American stand-
ard of living.” :
In the Charlottesville Institute
“pound table” the opinion was prac-
tically unanimous in “deploring the
lack of a concrete and vigorous pol-
icy of farm relief” in Mr. Hoover's
speech of acceptance. Among those
participating in the discussion was
Dr. Victor Rosewater, a former chair-
man of the Republican National com-
mittee, and the consensus of opinion
was that Mr. Hoover's statements
were “unsatisfactory and colorless.”
| In view of these facts it is small won-
der that the farmers in that section
of the country are organizing clubs
| with the slogan “Al Smith, the Farm-
ers’ Friend,” as reported by an edi-
torial correspondent of the New York
; Times, writing from Omaha.
Sy
i
\ _The Mayor of Southampton,
England, arrived on our shores, Mon- 4
in the person of Mrs: Lucia Mar-"
. day,
ion Foster-Welch. She is the only
| woman in England officially called
| «Mr.” Her picture reveals that her
| skirts are down to her ankles and she
{wears a hat of Napoleonic vintage.
, Probably they call her “Mr.” because
‘she is man enough to dress like she
i thinks a woman should dress herself.
Opposition on False Pretense.
By a strange process of reasoning
Mr. Hoover and other Republican
spokesmen interpret Governor Smith's
statement that he favors the modi-
fication of the Volstead law as a “nul-
lification of the constitution.” Gov-
ernor Smith has not at any time, by
act or influence, expressed a purpose
to alter or change the Eighteenth
amendment or any other feature of
the constitution. He has noticed, as
all other intelligent observers have
noticed, that the expensive and crime-
breeding Volstead law has not prov-
ed an efficient instrument for enfore-
ing the Eighteenth amendment, and
proposes to suggest, and if possible
in a legal and orderly manner pro-
cure, legislation which will accoin-
plish that result.
There is a vast difference between
nullification of the constitution and
modifying an Act of Congress. Nul-
lification means, according to Web-
ster’s dictionary, “to render void or
of no effect.” Any legislation which
fails to achieve the purpose for which
it has been enacted is nullification,
and the Volstead law having failed
of its purpose to enforce the provi-
sions of the Eighteenth amendment
to the constitution is a nullifier. Gov-
| ernor Smith believes that he can sug-
' gest legislation which will eliminate
the evils that have multiplied in the
attempt to enforce the Volstead law
and accomplish the purpose for which
it was enacted. This would be sup-
porting rather than nullifying the
i constitution.
The fact is that the opposition to
Governor Smith on the ground that
he proposes to nullify the constitution
is a false pretense. The actual rea-
son for that attitude was expressed
by the Rev. Albert C. Dieffenbach, of
Boston, in the Charlottesville, Va.,
Institute of Public Affairs the other
day. He said, “a Roman Catholic
should not be elected President of the
| United States, and voters should face
i the issue squarely instead of hiding
behind a prohibition controversy.” He
| was properly hooted for his expres-
aon of bigotry and might have been
justly censured for proposing to nulli-
fy ‘the first amendment to the con-
stitution, which guarantees the free
| exercise of religious worship.
TE. PA.. AUGUST 24. 1928.
Senator Thomas J. Walsh, of Mon-
tana, after a conference with Govern-
or Smith, in New York, the other day, |
jssued a statement in which he said |
that he and the Governor “do not a- |
gree on some questions widely consid- |
ered, but it were vain to look for a
candidate with convictions represent- |
ing millions of voters who likewise |
have convictions and agreeing with |
them all on all questions.” This state- |
ment expresses the true spirit of de-
mocracy. It is the recognition of the
right of honest and sincere men and
women to conscientiously entertain
opinions on given subjects. It is the
spirit of tolerance and compromise
which influenced “the fathers” in
adopting the constitution.
Senator Walsh is an avowed pro-
hibitionist in a literal sense. That
is he uses no intoxicants himself and
encourages no one else to indulge in
intoxicants. Probably he believes in
legislation prohibiting the manufac-
ture and sale of intoxicants and pos-
sibly he may favor legislation such
as the Volstead law. But he recog-
nizes the right of others to hold
other opinions on that subject and
is wiling to support a candidate
for President who coincides with him
ont other questions of greater impor-
tance and more immediate public
concern, notwithstanding his different
opinion on the prohibition question.
In other words he favors the fittest
| candidate, in his estimation, regard-
sles of his attitude on the Volstead
law.
Senator Walsh was instrumental in
exposing the fraudulent lease of che
Teapot Dome oil reserve, the cancel-
lation of the lease and the recovery
by the government of several millions
of dollars which had been practically
Hoover he said, “he sat in the cab-
inet with Fall and Daugherty with-
out ever raising his hand to thwart
their villainies or raising his voice in
condemnation of them after they
were exposed. The shocking iniqui-
ties of other official associates, like
Forbes, escaped his notice if they
were not shielded by his tolerance.”
In the circumstances he prefers Smith
‘with his views on prohibition to Hoov-
Ter his record on criminals.
—Colonel George Harvey is dead.
He was the gentleman who sold his
political birthright for a mess of pot-
tage and said in London that we only
joined the great war to save our own
hides. The Colonel is credited with
being somewhat of a publicist. Per-
haps he was, but after he appeared in
silk breeches and silver buckled
: slippers as our Ambassador to the
! Court of St. James, we became inoc-
| ulated with contempt for his sort of
* publicism.
| —To Mary M. Williams, of Brook-
lyn, N. Y., who writes to us to say
| that “if your father and mine were
i living today I am sure they would not
"support Al Smith,” we make this re-
| Ply: My dear, good woman. Of
course you knew your own father, but
you evidently didn’t know P. Gray
Meek very well.
i
—While talking with a friend who
knows Dr. John Roach Straton very
well we had our suspicion confirmed
that the Brooklyn divine is somewhat
of a publicity seeker. Al Smith is too
smart, however, to help a parson ped-
dler of scurrility onto the front pages.
——Another woman has swum the |
English channel and a New Jersey
girl swam twenty-one miles down the
Schuylkill river the other day. Thus
it is revealed that the female heart
still hankers to be “in the swim.”
——One of the correspondents
traveling with Herbert Hoover notic-
es “a great slump of interest in the
outcome of the election” while anoth-
er describes his trip as a series of
ovations. Take your choice.
|
——Lloyd George's heart bleeds
when he recalls how badly Viscount
Haldane was treated by his country at
the beginning of the world war yet
Lloyd George was largely responsible
for the treatment.
——A straw vote of Episcoval
clergymen shows a majority favor
modification of the Volstead law. Dr.
John Roach Straton will be outraged
by this “falling from grace.”
——Philadelphia policeman cordial-
ly greet gangsters and the Mayor of
the city attended the funeral of one
of them. “Still we wonder at crime.”
——Radio reports of accidents or
death of Colonel Lindbergh are be-
coming frequent but nobody knows
what malign purpose inspires them.
—Get your job work done here.
Senator Walsh Praises Smith. |
stolen by the lease. Speaking of Mr. |
i been provided with special
NO. 33.
A HOME.
Inspired by a recent visit to the Pres-
byterian Home at Hollidaysburg.
Indeed, it did just seem
Like fairy land—come true;
The open door, the welcome through,
The atmosphere of peace and calm.
The lovely bits of furniture, set here and
there,
As if awaiting someone's comfort and
charm.
Far away from all worries of the out-
side strife
Time for retrospection from a busy life
A place of quiet, sweet content in which
To dream away one’s sunset of rest
Before the great passing
For the final—greater quest.
W. B. MEEK-MORRIS.
JUDGE JOHNSTON SUSTAINED
IN BANK CASE RULING.
On Saturday the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals handed down
a decision in the appeals of the re-
ceivers of the Centre County Banking
Company and George R. Meek from
the ruling of Judge Albert W. John-
son, federal judge for the eastern
district of Pennsylvania. Judge Davis
of the Circuit Court filed the opinion
which affirms the ruling of Judge
Johnson,
The litigation arose in consequence
of a petition filed by George A. Beez-
er, Geo. H. Yarnell and Elizabeth
Grenoble, creditors of the Centre
County Banking Company, several
years ago, in which they set up the
contention that the appointment of
Rev. Reed O. Steely, John Ginter and
John S. Dale as receivers of the de-
funct company, was an act of bank-
ruptcy on the part of the company
and as a result the federal Courts
could again step in and take charge
of its affairs. vow
It will be recalled that the original
tedious litigation in the case termin-
ated in a decision by the Supreme
Court of the United States that the
entire procedure had been irregularly
brought and that it was therefor
thown out of the federal court. That
procedure automatically ousted the
original receiver and petition was
presented to the local court, former
Judge Arthur C. Dale, presiding, for
the appointment of someone to, act
in the matter. - Judge Dale’ afpoint--
‘ed Messrs. Steely, Ginter and Dale,
While there was no question of the
competency of the gentlemen to do
the work assigned the personal equa-
sion entered into the rumpus it raised
and Messrs Beezer, Yarnell and Mrs.
Grenoble who had not been ‘parties to
any of the preceding legislation were
prevailed upon to permit the use of
their names for the institution of a
new process to take it out of the
hands of the local court back to the
federal court again. '
This could be done only on the as-
sumption that Judge Dale’s act, in
appointing receivers, constituted a
new act of bankruptcy.
It was argued before Judge John-
son and after mature deliberation ne
handed down his decision to the ef-
fect that the appointment of receiv-
ers did constitute an act of bankrupt-
cy and that, therefor, the federal
courts are in control again.
Messrs Steely, Ginter and Dale
and George R. Meek took an appeal
from this ruling to the U. S. Circuit
Court of Appeals, sitting in Phila-
delphia, and the opinion of Judge
Davis, referred to above, denies their
appeal.
We have not seen the opinion, but
the inference to be drawn is that
Judge Johnson’s finding stands as
filed. It’s effect would be to oust the
present receivers and give Geo. R.
Meek a stated time in which to file
his schedule as an involuntary bank-
rupt or present any defense he might
have for not doing so.
Of course an appeal! can be taken
to the Supreme Court of the United
States, exactly as was done six years
ago. The highest court, however,
must first grant a writ of certiorari,
which is equivalent to permisison to
carry such an appeal up to it.
Just what action either the present
receivers or Mr. Meek will take in
the matter is not known at this time.
According to the information at hand
they have three months in which to
file an appeal should they determine
to do so.
Hunting Licenses Must Await Special
Plates.
Treasurers of fifty-four counties in
the State were instructed to cease is-
suing hunting licenses until they have
plates
which will permit the holders to kill
a doe.
The order from the State game
commission here today followed the
decision last night to again modify
the ruling which will legalize killing
of does next December.
——The adventurers who are pre-
paring to sail around the world in a
| 38-foot boat have our best wishes but
meager hopes of success.
; having been made on April 1.
son Coal company announced a reduction
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
i >
| —The Pennsylvania Department - of
Highways has advertised bids during the
present year for 463 miles of road con-
struction.
— Metro Irot, 37, of Monessen, purchased
“a mirror but broke it shortly after he had
| reached home. Remarking that it was
ian omen of bad’ luck, he left to buy an-
other. Dashing across a street in the
business section, he ran into a delivery
truck and suffered a fractured skull which
resulted in his death.
—Benjamin Snowiss, proprietor of the
Lock Haven hide house, has received ap-
proximately 38,000 hides of furbearing an-
imals from. within a radius of 100 miles
of Lock Haven. The pelts include 12,000
skunks, 1000 grey fox, 850 red fox, 17,000
muskrats, 2200 weasels, 35 wild cats, 475
mink and 2500 raccoons.
. -While operating a hay hoist in a barn
at home, Tuesday, Mrs. Leona Goodhart,
31, wife of Lester Goodhart, Longsdorf
station, Cumberland county, was struck
by an iron hook which flew off the har-
ness of the team of horses used in rais-
ing the hoist and suffered a fractured
skull. She died before medical aid could
arrive. The hook was on a singletree.
—George T. Warfel, 82 years old, of
Huntingdon, while gathering huckleber-
ries at Warrior Run recently, was sur-
prised on looking up to see a huge black
bear standing up, with paws extended
and jaws open. Warful, thinking quick-
ly, dashed his well-filled bucket in the
bear's face, hitting the animal on the
shout. The bear made a quick getaway.
—Slipping under the wheels of a coal
train from which he had just alighted,
Leo Mulish, Swoyersville, aged 18, was
ground to death under the wheels late on
Monday. Mulish had been on an errand
for his mother and climbed on a train on
the Lehigh Valley West Pittston branch
to ride a short distance. When he alight-
ed his foot struck in a pile of culm and
he slipped under the train.
—Hitting a dynamite cap with a ham-
mer, in an attempt to find out what would
happen, Ruth Lloyd, 12, and her brother,
Cyrus, 10, children of Mr. and Mrs. George
Lloyd, High Rock, in southern York coun-
ty, were badly cut in the explosion that
occured. Ruth had her thumb and fore-
finger of the left hand torn off. The chil-
dren had found several dynamite caps in
the grist mill owned by thiir father. Both
were cut about the face and hands.
—In order to stimulate the sale of fall
coal several anthracite coal companies in
the Wilkes-Barre region have announced
a reduction in retail prices effective Sep-
tember 1. This is the first time that a re-
duction has been made during the late
summer, the only yearly cut heretofore
The Hud-
in the price of pea coal of §1 a ton and a
sliding scale or reduction on the larger
sizes.
—While at work with a power thresher
on his farm, about a mile from Salladas-
burg, J. Elmer Flook suffered deep and
severe gashes in his side and possible in-
ternal injuries when the cylinder of the
thresher exploded. Mr. Flook had just
stooped to hear what a boy with him was
saying when the accident occurred. Had
he been standing erect he would have been
instantly killed, it is believed. Hopes are
held for his recovery at the Jersey Shore
hospital.
—8truck by a bolt of lightning, Edna
Somers, 15 years old, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Hafry Somers, of Nine Points,” Lan-
caster county, escaped death but was
severely injured. The girl was standing
with her hands upon - a pump handle when
lightning hita nearby tree. The bolt ap-
parently entered the girl's body through
her hands and followed to the ground
through her feet. Miss Somers’ toes were
badly burned and a deep gash was inflict-
ed in her right foot.
—Paul A. Siple, 19-year-old Eagle
Scout, of Erie, Pa., has "een selected as
the Boy Scout to accompany the Byrd Ant-
arctic expedition. He will be special
assistant and orderly to Commander
Richard E. Byrd. Siple stood out at the
head of a list of six Scouts who had been
chosen from eighty-eight recommended by
local Scout Councils from thousands of
Scouts eager to qualify for the position.
The entire Scout field had been given am
opportunity to nominate Scouts between
17 and 20 years of age, who had certain
specified qualifications and experience.
—After pressing
against three men, Simon Chuck, one-
legged watchman, of a Trevorton col-
liery, Northumberland county, is now
serving a thirty day jail sentence. Chuck
told yesterday of how three men bound
him, removed his wooden leg and stole
$52 he had hidden in it, and then threw
the leg away so that he could not pursue
them. During the testimony the justice
of the peace ordered Chuck to produce the
article that was causing a bulge in his
pocket. It was a revolver. He was sen-~
tenced for carrying concealed deadly
weapons.
—Mrs. Josephine Bono, of Charleroi,
aged 33 years, has exonerated her daugh-
ter, Angelina, 17, whom she accused Sat-
urday of shooting her. Mrs. Bono is re-
ported in a serious condition in the hos-
pital, from the wound which police be-
lieve was self-inflicted. Police said Mrs.
Bono told them she was shot by a man
who entered her home and obtained a pis-
tol from a table. An operation failed to
reveal the bullet which entered the wo-
man’s abdomen. Police Sergeant Percy
Gelder said he believed Mrs. Bono accused
her daughter, fearing possible legal action
over her alleged attempt to end her life.
—Dr. H. R. Dapper, 30, of Pittsburgh,
was probably fatally shot late Monday
night by a man, according to police re-
ports, who took him into the country pre-
sumably to attend his dying wife. Dr.
Dapper was accompanied on the trip by
his father, H. A. Dapper, 55, and the
stranger, who asked aid for his wife. The
elder Dapper told police his son was shot
as the three men were leaving the ma-
chine at a point near where the stranger
said he lived. The father said he made
an effort to hold the man, who struck him
over the head with a black-jack. Al-
though stunned, the elder Dapper said he
saw the man remove his son from the
car and drive away. Both men were found
later and taken to a hospital, where Dr.
Dapper’s condition was reported as criti-
cal and the father was said to be suffer-
ing from severe lacerations. A reason for
the shooting was lacking, although the
father said his son had appeared afraid
to sccompany the stranger but gave no
robbery charges
reason for his fears.