Bewenifitipn
INK SLINGS.
—
— Governor Smith’s plan would
make the bootlegger’s
story.
— The multilateral pact outlaw-
ing war has been signed but the man-
ufacture of war materials still goes
merrily on.
— The victory of Connally over
Mayfield for Senator in Texas indi-
cates the collapse of the K. K. K. in
one of its strongholds.
— The Commander Byrd expedi-
tion to the South Pole is on its way
and carries with it the best wishes
and highest hopes of the whole world.
Now if Philadelphia and Chi-
cago would come to an agreement to
wage perpetual war on outlaws the
hope of permanent peace would be
strengthened.
—It often happens that the fellow
who saw an opportunity that looked
rattle-brained to you turns out to be
the one to whom you think of apply-
ing for a job.
—The Granger’s picnic is on at
Centre Hall and the sons and daugh-
ters of the soil have had a wonderful
time thus far. Why shouldn’t they?
The grounds have been warmed by
sunsine in day time and flooded with
moonshine by night. Not the kind
of “moonshine,” however, that is
flooding some other parts of Centre
county.
— Before Bellefonte starts spending
thousands of dollars for additional
fire apparatus so that we can get as
low insurance rates as a sister town
has that doesn’t possess more than
half as much fire-fighting machinery
as we have now, it would seem that
an investigation should be made to
find out what is rotten in Denmark.
There's no room for argument. Som=-
thing’s wrong. Besides, what guar-
antee will the propagandists give us
that after we do buy all the appara-
tus they are urging, so that we muy
secure lower rates, the reduction will
stand long enough for the premium
payers to have compensated them-
selves for the cost of the apparatus.
—Czecho-Slovakia is considering
legalizing the killing of incurables.
We'd hate to see such a law written
into the statutes of the good old U.
S. A. Some times we think it would
be the humane procedure in cases
purely physical. But we know what
would happen if there were such a
law in this country. It would be
twisted, distorted and generally re-
sorted to in all manner of cases. For
instance, the Republicans being in
power so continuously that we're get-
ting mighty tired of it and spending
most of our wakeful hours conjuring
up schemes to help Al Smith root
them out, what would prevent them
from declaring Al and me political
incurables and sending us “west” be-
fore we've told anybody what our
“meat route” is.
—Incidentally, can anybody tell us
just why everybody heads for Canada
when they decide to take a motor
trip? Is it just a craze, a game of
follow the leader or what? Canada
has been sittin’ right up where she
js for a good many centuries. In the
old days an occasional bride and
groom went up to Niagara Falls and
came home to boast that they had
crossed the bridge and put feet on
foreign soil, but there was no such
curiosity about seeing Canada as is
apparent everywhere now. What in
the world do you suppose is the cause
of it all? One might think that the
rummieg are going up to get a drink,
but there are more not regarded as
such among the pilgrims. Candor
urges us to add that the only per-
sons we positively know of as having
been caught and fined for trying to
smuggle liquor back across the border
are the kind who vote dry here and
act wet in Canada.
—Somewhere up or down this col-
umn is a paragraph in which we
quote the words “meat route.” We
say up or down this column because
we don’t know whether the paragraph
referred to will be longer or shorter
than this one. If it’s longer it will
_ be down. If its shorter it will be up.
Be that as it may, that “meat route”
reference needs amplification and clar-
ification. So we proceed to tell you
that when good old Gottleib Haag,
than whom nobody ever made better
grape wine or purer spirits frumenti
found himself without a license to do
either he started business as an itin-
erant butcher. All over the county
Gottleib drove with his butcher wa-
gon. He was a good butcher and he
sold his meat much cheaper than it
could be bought elsewhere. He was
a soul of friendliness and accommoda-
tion and was persuaded by some of
his customers to let them have por-
tions of the wines and liquors that
were in his vaults out at Pleasant
Gap. Gottleib believed in men, but
his faith was misplaced for one of
those to whom he had sneaked a jug
“peached.” He was brought up be-
fore Judge Furst and convicted of
illegally selling liquor. When he
stood before the bar of Justice to hear
hig sentence of twenty-five days in
the county jail, he said: “My God,
Judge, I can’t go to jail. Nobody
knows my mest route.” Now that’s
the reason we're against this Czecho-
Slovakian idea of killing incurables.
If the Republicans should put me and
Al to death there would be nobody
left who knows what Democracy is
or where it might lead.
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VOL. 73.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. AUGUST 3
Governor Smith’s Acceptance Speech.
The acceptance speech of Alfred E.
Smith, Democratic nominee for Pres-
ident, is characteristic. It is a frank,
forceful and courageous expression of
his opinions on public questions and a
correct interpretation of the princi-
ples and purposes of the party of Jef-
ferson, Jackson, Cleveland and Wii-
son. On every subject in controversy
in the pending campaign he declares
lis views openly and honestly. There
is no evasion of responsibilities, no
dodging of issues, no pussyfooting.
He understands the problems and
knows how to solve them to the ad-
vantage of the people of the United
States, and he dedicates himself with
all his power and energy “to the serv-
ice of our great Republic.”
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, who
was the Republican nominee for the
Vice Presidency in 1912, says “the ad-
dress of acceptance of Governor
Smith is a statesmanlike document,
well conceived, well phrased and ad-
mirably expressed. It shows the Gov-
ernor at his best . . . On all three
paramount subjects, agriculture, for-
eign policy, with respect to interna-
tional peace, and prohibition, the Gov-
ernor speaks with no uncertain sound.
His treatment of prohibition is frank,
constructive and forward facing.”
Samuel Rea, former president of the
Pennsylvania railroad, says “the pro-
posals of Governor Smith are in ac-
cord with the historic attitude of the
Democratic party,” and will receive
his support.
Nothing we could say would add
force to the praise of such men as
Dr. Butler and Mr. Rea, one a dis-
tinguished Republican and the other a
traditional Democrat. But we may
be permitted to express profound ad-
miration for a man, born in poverty,
in an environment more baneful than
benevolent, whose achievements, elo-
quence and ability have commanded
the commendation of all fair-minded
men, party friends and enemies alike.
The acceptance speech of Governor
Smith revealed a thorough under-
standing of the science of government
and a perfect knowledge of the de-
tails of administration. More than
that it fixed ‘his place .among the
great. statesmen. and orators of his
day and generation. =
No candidate has ever been con-
confronted with more perplexing
problems and none has ever met them
with greater candor and courage. His
treatment of the farm relief ques-
tion is so adequate that the real
leaders of that basic industry, irre-
spective of politics, are drawn to his |
support. The Repbulican party has
done nothing except make promises
for the relief of agriculture. Gov-
ernor Smith proposes to “substitute
action for inaction and friendliness
for hostility.” If Congress enacts
legislation that has the approval oi
the best minds in the farm industry,
he will not veto it. In other words
the farm industry will be placed on a
level with other enterprises and will
be equally well favored.
With respect to the prohibition
question none but fanatics can take
issue with him. First, in obedience
to his oath of office he will earnestly
and faithfully support the Eighteenth
amendment and the laws for its en-
forcement. He will propose amend-
ments, not to weaken but to strength-
en both, and he is unalterably opposed
to the restoration of the saloon. It
is admitted that the Volstead law has
not accomplished its purpose and
Governor Smith’s aim will be to get
a law which will. Why should advo-
cates of temperance object to that?
The bootleggers, the hijackers and
the racketeers have reason to oppose
such a system, for it will put them
out of their lucrative jobs, but no
others ought to complain.
In the matter of conservation of na-
tional resources Governor Smith is
equally clear and candid. The water
power of the country is a priceless as-
set and should be guarded with un-
tiring vigilance. The electric monop-
oly has been making rapid progress
in its efforts to seize and control
this important element in the indus-
trial life of the country. It will be
Governor Smith’s policy to keep this
important agency in the control of
the people. He will devise means to
make the Muscle Shoals plant an as-
set instead of a liability, and the
Boulder Dam an instrument of service
to the people of the States through
which the Colorado river flows. All
in all Governor Smith’s speech is the
product of a master mind.
——It would require an analytical
mind to discover any difference be-
tween the operations of Boss Tweed,
in New York, fifty years ago, and
those of Mayor Mackey, of Philadel-
phia, and his late law-partner now.
——Harry Daugherty, Harry Sin-
clair and Will Hays are not making
much noise in the campaign but they
are “solid” for Hoover.
OH
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Valuable Feature of Smith’s Speech. |
If there were no other merit in the |
acceptance of Governor Smith his
complete exposure of the Coolidge
false pretense of economy would
mark it as a masterpiece of campaign
oratory. “The appropriation bills
signed by the President of the Unit-
ed States for the past year are just
one-half a billion dollars more than
they were for the first year of his
administration,” he declares, and
“the appropriation for the executive |
department, the President and Vice!
President, have increased more than
ten per cent. under President Cool-
idge.” Notwithstanding this fact Re-
publican papers and spokesmen have
dwelt so persistently on the economy
theme that “some people begin to be-
lieve it.”
The claim that taxes have been
greatly decreased during the period
covered by the Coolidge administra-
tion is equally without foundation, in
fact, according to figures quoted by
Governor Smith. “The total taxes col-
lected are $25,000,000 more than dur-
ing the first year of the Coolidge ad-
ministration,” he proves, and adds:
“While tax rates have been reduced
and some war-time taxes abandoned,
the government actually took from
the people in income taxes $383,000,
000 more during the last fiscal year
than during the first year of the Cool-
idge administration.” It might just-
ly be added that the greater part of
the tax reductions were on big in-
comes and for the benefit of multi-
millionaires.
A large part of Herbert Hoover's
speech of acceptance was given over to
fulsome praise of President Coolidge
on account of his economical adminis-
tration of the government, and tax
reductions made at his urging by a
Republican Congress. The figures
taken from the records of the treas-
ury reveal the absurdity of this claim.
Vastly greater tax reductions might
have been made without impairment
of the service, and the decreases that
, were made might have been appor-
tioned so as to compass better results
i for the public good. But the pur-
pose of the administration and the
leaders in Congress was to lighten the
tax burden on such financial invalids
as Andy Mellon, who framed the leg-
| islation.
|
| Governor Smith has also been
notified, unofficially, that the sover-
|eign State of New Jersey is very
imuch alive to the fact that he has
| been nominated for President.
|
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Sex Distinctive in Sports.
A good many traditions with respect
to men and women have been scrap-
ped within the last few years and a
recent dictum of the International
Olympic Federation is now the sub-
ject of a barage that is likely to
knock it “for the count.” The Fed-
eration recently declared that “there
are certain athletic enterprises for
which women are not physically fit-
ted and that participation in them
would result in serious harm.” Among
these are the 800-meter run, the shot
put, the broad jump and the 200-me-
ter dash, which events are considered
“most grueling and injurious to wo-
men,” and that “participation in ath-
letics is detrimental to women as
mothers.” ?
A number of physicians, male and
female, have taken issue with this
theory and boldly declare that “no
arbitrary distinction in process can be
raised by masculine edict.” Dr. Lida
Stewart Coghill, of the Woman’s Med-
ical college; Dr. Charles W. Burr and
Dr. Edmund Piper, of the University
of Pennsylvania; Dr. Marjorie Jef-
fries Wagoner, medical director of
Bryn Mawr college, and Dr. Alice E.
Johnson, of the Woman’s Medical col-
lege, have joined in a protest against
the dictum of the Olympic Federa-
tion, and declare that “women are
physically fit to engage in all sports.”
Recent incidents in the sport world
fully justify their confidence and en-
list sympathy in their contention.
There are sporting activities the
nature of which might repel women
from participation, but not exactly
because of want of prowess, in which
the average woman is equal to the
average man. For example, the box-
ing game as exemplified in recent
contests would be repugnant to most
women. The baseball game and the
football game are hardly enticing to
women though in basket ball, scarce-
ly less vigorous, they have held their
own with the best male contenders,
“Taking one consideration with an-
other” the advocates of equality have
the best of the argument and present
the stronge~ ‘ase. But we have the
better of even our athletic sisters in
one matter. We can beat them rais-
ing whiskers.
——There are two billion different
insects in operation in this suffering
world and one mosquito can make a
hundred men miserable.
Perjury Mill Going Strong.
The perjury mill has been operat-
ing at a high rate of speed and per-
fect standard of efficiency in Pitts-
burgh this week. Senator Waterman,
as a subcommittee of the Senate com-
mittee on Privileges and Elections,
began the investigation of the Sena-
torial election of 1926 in that city,
on Monday, and the most startling
exhibition of “false witness” was the
result. It was shown that the Re-
publican machine had employed 5640
messengers in the campaign and
James P. Maline, president of coun-
cils of the city and chairman of the
Republican County committee, swore
positively that there was “no ulterior
motive” in paying that number of
messengers, and there was “no fraud
of any kind” in the balloting.
Dozens of election officers serving
at that election have been tried in
court and convicted, many of them
upon confession of guilt, for frauds.
It has been proved that ballot boxes
were emptied into sewers to conceal
frauds and it is freely admitted that
every form of fraud known to expert
ballot crooks was used to elect Vare.
Yet a man holding an important of-
fice swears positively that there were
no frauds in the election. County
commisioner E. V. Babcock was less
positive or more cautious in his tes-
timony. He replied that “he didn’t
know” to a number of questions and
palpable frauds perpetrated in the
commisisoner’s office were covered up
by his defective memory.
An examination of the records in
all the counties which poll big Repub-
lican majorities reveals the same sys-
tem of bribery. One voter in a fam-
ily is paid for some sort of servicein
consideration that all other voters in,
the family vote the ticket. In some
places they are designated as “work-
ers,” in others as “disseminators of in-
formation,” and in others as “messen-
ger.” But the purpose is precisely
alike. The 5640 messengers in Pitts-
burgh were expected to produce 28,
200 votes on an estimate of five votes
to a family. The money to pay these
political Hessians is obtained by lev-
ies on bootleggers, office-holders and
criminals, who are in turn compen-
sated by protection in their criminal
operations.
Appreciation of Faithful Work.
It is not usual for a candidacy for
Assembly in a rural district to enlist
State-wide interest but the aspira-
tion of Hon. Wilson C. Sarig, of Tem-
ple, Berks county, has achieved that
result. But there is a substantial rea-
son for it. Mr. Sarig has served ten
consecutive terms in the House of Rep-
resentatives at Harrisburg, and dur-
ing the last three terms has been the
alert and efficient floor leader of the
Democratic minority. He is an elo-
quent speaker, an expert parliamen-
tarian and a tireless worker in the
vineyard of Democracy.
While Mr. Sarig is an active and
intense Democrat and ever watchful
of the interests of his party, his
greatest service in the Legislature
has been directed toward reforms and
improvements of the public service.
He has been an indefatigable worker
in the cause of legislation for the
benefit of the people irrespective of
the party. During several sessions
his energies have been directed to the
remodeling of the tax law of the
State and the reconstruction of the
laws governing assessments in the
hope of securing equalization in the
burden of government.
It is gratifying to learn from
sources which may be relied upon that
a considerable number of the Republi-
can voters of his district are cordial-
ly supporting him for re-election.
Berks county is widely known as “the
Gilbraltar of Democracy,” and Mr.
Sarig would be practically certain of
success without help from the outside.
But it is encouraging to learn that
his past efforts in the interest of good
government are appreciated by his
neighbors who are not in sympathy
with his political views.
——Some of the people living along
north Allegheny street are anxious
to thin out the shade trees along the
street because they are becoming too
dense. Too dense for their own good
and just dense enough to afford a
good roosting place for thousands of
blackbirds, which not only disturb the
peace and tranquility of that neigh-
borhood but clutter up the street and
pavement in a manner not in keep-
ing with the rest of the town. If you
don’t believe it take a walk out Al-
legheny street about dusk in the ev-
ening or five o'clock in the morning.
a —— A ——————————
——Representatives of Montgom-
ery, Ward & Co., were in Bellefonte
during the past two weeks on the
hunt of a location to start a branch
store. Several buildings were inspect-
ed, among them Petrikin hall, but so
far no location has been selected.
CO-OPERATION BETWEEN
BANKERS AND FARMERS.
Farmer-banker-county agent coop-
eration for a successful community
agriculture was the keynote of a
week-end by members of the agricul-
Pensylvania State College agricultu-
ral school and experiment station last
week-end by mémbers of the agricult-
tural committee of the State Bankers’
Association and their “key bankers”
in agricultural advancement. Attend-
ing the convention from Centre coun-
ty were David F. Kapp, C. H. Gould,
H. L. Ebright and N. E. Robb.
Farm relief by legislation is impos-
sible, the local delegation learned at
State College. The bankers saw and
learned enough of scientific agricul-
ture to bring home the fact that
“teaching the farmer how to spend”
can become the means for turning a
failing or indifferent farming commu-
nity into a success. The State Col-
lege officials and bankers agricultur-
ists were highly successful in “sell-
ing” Pennsylvania bankers on the
soundness of scientific methods urged
by agricultural colleges.
The farmer who cannot show that
the money he wants to borrow from
the bank is to be used in a recom-
mended project that is assured of ad-
equate financial return to himself,
should be turned away by the banker
without a cent. But the farmer who
. shows convincingly that his project is
one that should succeed, and backs it
up with facts and figures, will not on-
ly get the loan but will do good to the
entire community. It ig this sort of
farmer who goes first to the county
agent, and if necessary calls in a
State College agricultural extension
specialist for advice, and then goes to
the banker with his proposition, ac-
cording to Mr. N. E. Robb.
“I have seen enough of how they do
iit at State College to convince me
that the application of the principles
of scientific agriculture is the way to
better farm conditions in this county”
Mr. Robb continued. He said that
one-third the number of hens in the
United States could be made to pro-
duce the same number of eggs annu-
{ally as the present number now pro-
| duces, if attention is paid to breeding.
i In the same way, the numbe; ~f Cows
{could be reduced fifty per cent, for
some farmers pay as high as $50 a
| year in free board for the privilege of
i milking some low-producing cows.
{ Sheep, swine and farm crops also
need careful selection.
“More than 100 bankers represent-
ing every county in the State were ut
this State College conference,” said
Mr. Robb. “We came away feeling
that a new era is in sight for Penn-
sylvania agriculture. These bankers
are planning to call their fellow-bank-
ers together in each county and tell
{ them what we saw and learned on this
: trip. State College is performing a
. wonderful service not only for farm-
"ers but for all people of the Common-
| wealth, and by urging closer applica-
tion of the college recommendations,
our community agriculture can be
wonderfully improved.”
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An Anti-Tammany Smoke Screen.
¥rom the Springfield Republican.
This anti-Tammany smoke screen is
so thick that no one sees through it
the oil well pillage under Secretary
Fall, or the foray of the Ohio gang
under Daugherty, or the well-mapped
corruption zone created by various
Republican State administrations and
officials in the past seven years.
Tammanyized New York city can
easily stand comparison in saintliness
with Republican Chicago, where a
citizens’ commission and the grand
jury are now making disclosures of
the local alliance between politicians
‘and crime staggering to the surviv-
ing civic patriotism along the lake
front. Gang warfare, bombings,
murders are the final expression in
Chicago of municipal government, as
well as police and judicial protection
‘for vice and thuggery, the plundering
of the taxpayers and political as-
saults on the school system. Mayor
Thompson’s towering Nordic front
rand Puritan heritage form the cap-
| stone of the system which no editor
{ from Emporia, Kan., has challenged
|in this campaign as peculiarly a men-
"ace to our Puritan civilization.
| Everyone capable of detached
thinking on party responsibility for
Government knows that the Republi-
can party is responsible for the major
Government scandals following Hard-
ling’s inauguration as President. This
|is the first national election in which
i the country has had the opportunity,
with full knowledge of the facts dug
up with such prolonged labor, to ap-
, praise party responsibility in terms
| of punishment.
——Naturally the British press
speaks kindly of Herbert Hoover. He
has spent most of his adult life “over
there” and made a good deal of mon-
| ey for English capitalists.
——The peace pact was signed in
silence. Everybody seems to have
been afraid that discussion would lead
| to explosion.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Falling down a flight of stairs, Mrs.
Mary A. Hoover, aged 82, of Hollidaysburg
suffered a fractured neck. Her body was
found at the foot of the stairway by a
son-in-law early on Friday. Coroner
Chester C. Rothrock is investigating.
—Falling from a ladder while attempt-
ing to climb to the haymow of his father’s
barn, Clair Eckenrode, aged 4, son of Vin-
cent Eckenrode a farmer near Carrolitown,
was fatally injured late last Friday. He
died four hours later from a fractured
skull, never regaining consciousness.
—Sergeant William McMillan, of Com-
pany D., Pennsylvania National Guard,
died in the Gettysburg hospital, on Mon-
day, of injuries suffered in an automobile
accident while his company was encamped
at Mt. Gretna several weeks ago. Me-
Millan suffered a broken back. His wid-
ow and two children reside at Gibsonia.
—Walter Tillman, 15-year-old
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Tillman, died at the
Lock Haven hospital of internal hem-
orrhage, due to an injury of the abdomen
sustained Thursday when he fell over a
steel girder while he was carrying water
to employes of the Case Construction com-
pany, at work on the new senior high
school building.
—Striking his leg with a knife while he
was pruning raspberry bushes at his home
in Harrisburg, on Monday, Lewis D.
Wiltse severed an artery and bled to
death. Fifteen doctors were called by his
widow and daughter, the only survivors,
before they could summon aid to the dy-
ing man, fourteen of the physicians being
out of their offices.
—The Pennsylvania Department of the
American Legion at its closing session
Saturday at Uniontown, selected Harris-
burg as the convention city of 1930. Gov-
ernor Fisher had sent an invitation to the
department to hold the convention there
in 193¢, when the State Street Memorial
Bridge will be completed and dedicatory
ceremonies are planned.
son of
—Argument over possession of a can of
sardines ended fatally for Ray Smith,
Negro, aged 35, early Saturday when he
was struck on the head by an iron pump
handle by William Biddings, Negro, of
Sharon. Smith suffered a fractured skull
and died shortly afterward. Biddings was
held for court without bail and was re-
moved to Mercer jail to await trial.
—A greyhound bus, going east about
7 o'clock last Friday morning, burst into
flames about four miles east of Newport
when a tire blew out and the bus struck a
fence, overturning twice. A score of pas-
sengers were badly shaken up and
bruised, but no serious injuries were re-
ported. The Newport Fire Company an-
swered an alarm. The bus was practically
destroyed by fire.
" —Awakening after his mother and six
emall brothers and sisters were asleep and
his father was at work at the mines, 11-
year-old Ernest Rorabaugh, of Marion
Center, found the walls and floor of his
bedroom in flames. With presence of
mind he led two children sleeping with him
to the hall and then guided his mother
and the other children through the smoke-
filled room to safety.
—Hanover will lose one of its manu-
facturing enterprises, the John M. Bair
cabinet works, which gives employment to
more than thirty men. The plant is to be
moved to Abbottstown, where ground has
been broken for the erection of a new and
modern factory building west of that bor- .
ough. The new building will be a two-
story structure with a large basement,
forty-eight feet wide and 100 feet long.
Employment will be given to a large force
of cabinet-makers after the plant is mov-
ed to its new structure.
— Refusal of an injured man to undergo
an operation for possible relief does uot
necessarily constitute cause for terminat-
ing compensation by the employer, Chair-
man Houck of the Workmen's Compen-
sation Board ruled last week. Joseph
Yalich, of Uniontown, while employed by
the Richmond Radiator Company, Union-
town, suffered an injury which resulted in
the loss of his eye. The radiator company
asked permission to stop paying compen-
sation because Yalich refused to consent
to an operation for prevention of the loss
of sight of the eye. .
—Former Governor j) William Cameron
Sproul, who died March 21 at his home
near Chester without making a will, left
an estate appraised at $1,721,578 according
to the inventory filed with the register of
wills at Media, last week. Under the in-
testate laws the estate will be shared
equally by his widow, Mrs. Emeline Roach
Sproul; the son, John Roach Sproul, and
a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Sproul Sharp-
less. The adiminstrators are the son,
John, and the Bank of North America
and Trust Company. The estate consists
largely of security holdings in industrials,
public utilities and banks. The appraisal
did not include 2000 acres of orchard land
owned by Mr. Sproul jn Delaware county
and the Susquehanna Valley.
—Although a P. R. R. passenger en-
gine and two cars passed over her,
Irene Gardner, 16 months old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Gardner, Alexandria,
was picked up by her parents uninjured
on Monday. The baby was playing in the
back yard of the Gardner home at 2:45 in
the afternoon and erawled, it is believad,
to the tracks of the P. R. R. line, which
run past the end of the Gardner yard.
Going into the yard as the train drawn
by engine No. 6203 came by, the parents
were horrified to see the train pass over
the child’s body. Rushing to the tracks
as the train came to a stop a few feet be-
yond, the parents found the baby unhurt
except for a few scratches and bruises.
The child had fallen between the tracks
and became wedged in the ties, the wheels
of the train missing her body.
Arrested on a charge of false pre-
tense in the complaint made by the man
she promised to marry, Helen Kay, who
gave her address as “just plain Philadel-
phia,” occupies a cell in the Chester coun-
ty prison unable to obtain $500 bail, af-
ter a hearing held before Justice Patrick.
The woman, who police say has another
pame, was employed as a nurse at the
hospital for the Insane at Embreeville un-
til last week when she went home. Her
former sweetheart, Nuverina Verico, of
West Chester, who says he gave large
sums of money and presents learned
that she was returning to the hos-
pital for her clothes and caused the war-
rant to be issued. Verico would not ie-
lent and drop the charge against his form-
er fiancee and jail was the only alternative
When arraigned for a hearing, Helen
told the justice she had taken the gifts,
bunt denied breaking the marriage con-
tract,