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INK SLINGS
— Pinchot is flirting with Vare
\gain and when Gif. deals with the
>hiladelphia boss he is always taken
‘or a ride.
_Tt is much easier to like some-
yne who agrees with you than one
vith a mind of his own and the
ourage to express it,
—The terrible earthquake that
tilled hundreds in Italy on Wed-
jesday was one thing beyond the
sontrol of Mr. Mussolini.
—The back-bone of the hot wave
was broken on Tuesday, but not be-
‘ore the back-bone of the genus
somo had wilted to the consistency
»f the spime of a jelly fish.
— It is said that Pennsylvania
will be the greatest loser by the
sew Congressional apportionment.
But Pennsylvania sends about the
worst bunch of misfits to Congress
anyway.
__The President has ordered his
~abinet to cut expenses wherever
:hey can. ‘Uncle Andy” Mellon will
orobably construe that as license to
aut the tax on the incomes of mil-
lionaires,
—The iniquitous tax law passed by
Pennsylvania’s Legislature last year
should be wiped off the statute book
it the next session. Let us send
John G. Miller down to Harrisburg
to help do that, as well as help
take the tax off gasoline.
— Not every clean desk one sees
indicates that the gentleman behind
it has his work up to the minute.
We have seen lots of clean topped
jesks that conceal drawers crammed
full of work that ought to have
peen attended to months before it
was raked into them.
—The optimistic farmer will fig-
ure out that he is nearly twice as
well off as he was this time last
year because his wheat crop is twice
as large. The pessimistic one will
knock the cup of happiness from his
lip, however, by reminding him that
last year, at this time, the price of
wheat was nearly twice as high asit
is now.
— Meteorologists, or whatever the
fellows who dope out the weather
are called, are. telling the world that
it was the “Bermuda wind” that
made everything so hot during the
recent calisthenics for the perspira-
tory glands. It might have been
so. We can imagine the winds
sweeping over the onion fields of
Bermuda, wafting away the heat so
that when the Bermuda onion comes
onto the market it will not be so
hot,
—The attempt to get John M.
Hemphill, our nominee for Gov-
ernor, to withdraw is not being
made either for the good of our
party or for the State. Mr. Hemp-
hill cannot cut caperson a ballyhoo
like Pinchot can, but he isa sound,
clean man with a conviction and the
courage to espouse it. His ambition
is to do something for his fellow
Pennsylvanians, while all that mo-
tivates Mr. Pinchot is an ambition
to be President of the United States.
—Old Bishop Cannon has married
a woman forty years old. He is
sixty-five. Our Methodist friends may
say what they please about the
Moses of their church South. We've
got our own ideas about the gentle-
man, but we are not going to air
them here because we spent thirty
years on probation in getting into
the church and, if we were to say
just what we believe about Bishop
Cannon’s real religion we would be
fired out again in about thirty sec-
onds.
— The crickets will be chirping
before long, After they start it
will be only six weeks until fall.
After fall, comes winter: Cold, drab,
furnace stoking, snow-shoveling win-
ter. And what are we going to do
next winter, if the good Lord wills
that we shall be sticking around
here through those bleak days to
come? We might get committed to
the borough home. We'd have a
soft time there, because if nothing
else in the food line appealed
there should be plenty of strawberry
preserves. We love strawberry pre-
serves and we know that the bor-
ough home buys them by the crate.
—The report of the proceedings
of the latest meeting of the Belle-
fonte council gives the impression
that Bellefonte’s solons were a bit
wary when it came to expressing an
opinion as to how, when and where
the pipes should be laid to connect’
up the Big Spring with the Gamble
pumping station and hook the out-
flow up with the mains. Council
has been dallying with this pro-
ject for seven months. The borough
has been paying five hundred dollars
a month on the purchase of the
Gamble water power and between
four and five hundred a month for
electricity which the Gamble power
is estimated to supplant. This has
been going on for seven months
and it will probably be ten before
‘the plant is put in operation. The
loss to the borough by such shilly-
shallying has already run into
thousands of dollars and if there
aren't enough brains in council to
handle the project it is high time
the body admits it and employs
someone to complete the installation.
If it doesn’t do something soon the
taxpayers of the borough can be
justified in thinking there is some-
thing rotten in Denmark.
VOL. 75.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. JULY 25. 1930.
Something Like a Conspiracy.
Frequent conferences between lead-
ers of the Francis Shunk Brown
faction of the Republican party and
managers of the Pinchot contingent,
recently, have aroused a suspicion
that there is a movement on foot
to withdraw the legal contest against
Mr. Pinchot’s nomination and give
him the support of the Vare . and
Mellon machines in consideration of
patronage favors to be bestowed in
the event of Pinchot’s election. The
first of these conferences was held
at Mr. Pinchot’s Pike county home,
several weeks ago, the emissary of
the Brown faction being General
Martin, chairman of the Republican
State committee. Several other con-
ferences have been held since and
the utmost secrecy has been preserv-
ed.
It is recalled that after Mr. Pin-
chot’s nomination, eight years ago,
though the most intensely bitter
feeling had developed during the
primary campaign and the candi-
date’s demand for the courtesy of
naming the chairman was contemp-
tuously denied, the organization
earnestly supported his election. He
had promised to ‘clean up the mess,”
but that didn’t impair the energy
of the Vare machine in his behalf
and after his inauguration, instead
of cleaning up the mess, he entered
into an agreement with Vare to re-
tain all his friends in office. In
fact Mr. Vare, having had himself
elected Senator, became the voice
of the administration on the floor
of the Senate during the subsequent
session of the Legislature.
When Mr. Pinchot entered upon
the office of Governor in 1923 he
could have had any reform legis-
lation he wanted, With the patron-
age of the office at his command
the Legislature was obedient to his
will. The friends of clean elections
urged him to move in that direction
at that psychological time, but he
was deaf to their appeals. Mr.
Vare was “his guide, philosopher
and friend,” so long as he had pat-
ronage to dispense, and Vare didn’t
want ballot reform. After Mr.
Pinchot quarreled with Vare he be-
gan a crusade for ballot reform but
it-was too late. He had wasted his
opportunity. Are the secret nego-
tiations with the Vare and Mellon
machines leading to a repetition of
this history?
— In trading with the Vare ma-
chine Gifford Pinchot’s principal cap-
ital is hypocrisy.
Tariff Propagandists Rebuffed.
The highly organized bunch of
propagandists who have been sent
into the wheat belt by the adminis-
tration to fool the farmers met
with an unexpected rebuff in Kansas
the other day. Alexander Legge,
chairman of the impotent Federal
Farm Board, and Arthur M. Hyde,
Secretary of Agriculture, having
undertaken this job, were making a
series of speeches in the Middle-west,
urging the farmers to reduce their
wheat acreage to domestic consump-
tion and thus make the increased
tariff tax on sweet milk and pea-
nuts benefit agriculture. They made
several speeches in Nebraska and
got away with the bunk without
encountering any serious trouble and
then passed on to Kansas.
Their first meeting in the State
of sunflowers and Hades was held
at Hays, a small town in the cen-
ter of the wheat belt. According to
reports of the event “men who take
their livelihood from the soil” were
present by thousands. After Mr.
Legge and Mr. Hyde had finished
their speeches Clyde M. Reed, Gov-
ernor of Kansas, took the improvis-
ed rostrum and said: ‘Now for the
first time in the 141 years of our
national existence it is proposed
definitely to subordinate agriculture
to industry by asking that it be re-
stricted in its production to that
amount necessary to supply those
occupied in the industrial world.”
Then he declared there is “no sub-
stantial overproduction of wheat in
the world.”
“Interest of the assembled farm-
ers was intense,” the press report
continues, and it is natural that
they should be deeply concerned.
They live in a section where the soil
is better adapted to growing wheat
than any other crop and the cur-
tailment of their planting practically
means to leave their fields idle and
nonproductive and their mortgages
unpaid, But Legge and Hyde are
correct in their opinion that it is
the only way to make tariff tax on
farm products affect the farmer, one
way or another. If the tax on
wheat were a dollar a bushel the
selling price in Kansas would be the
market rate of the surplus in Liv-
erpool. Maybe Governor Reed is al-
so correct in his belief that imple-
ment makers “get the cream,” and
Legge is an implement maker.
!
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penses.
After four days of diligent digging
Senator Nye, chairman of the new
Slush Fund committee, announced
an indefinite recess of the inquiry
into the expenses of Ruth Han-
na McCormick’s campaign for the
Republican nomination for Senator
from Illinois. During that period of
time some interesting facts were
revealed. In her sworn report to
the secretary of the Senate, im-
mediately following the vote, Mrs.
McCormick gave her expenses as
$252,000. It has been shown that
the total cost to herself and mem-
bers of her family and a few out-
side friends amounted to approxi-
mately $350,000, and that one check
for $10,000 contributed by her broth-
er-in-law was not included for the
reason that it hadn’t been used.
In connection with the investiga-
tion Mrs. McCormick filed with the
committee a complaint that her
Democratic competitor for the office
had said her nomination cost a mil-
lion dollars and asked that some-
thing be done about it. But she
admitted that she knew nothing
about the sums spent by the cor-
rupt Chicago machine and various
other organizations that had been
active in her behalf. It is well
known that Chicago politics is of
the most expensive type, and as she
carried that city by an immense
majority Mr, Lewis probably as-
sumed that it had cost considerable.
At - any rate the Nye committee
; took no steps toward censuring Jim
i Ham. Probably Mr. Nye knows
something about Mr. Lewis’ fighting
spirit.
But the public concern is not so
{much as to the amount spent by
Mrs. McCormick and her family
;and friends in the campaign.
the menace which such vast expen-
{ ditures in Senatorial contests pre-
i sents to the public life of the coun-
try. It is practically a public notice
to the men and women of the United
States that only millionaires are
eligible to that office, and that
certificates of election are commodi-
ties attainable only by bargain and
sale. In, the contest for the .office
now pending in Illinois Mrs. Mec-
Cormick’s competitor is a man ~ of
splendid ability, high character and
eminent fitness, but not rich. If
the office is to be sold to the high-
est bidder Mr. Lewis has no chance.
Prince Mohammed Hassan
Mirza, who aspires to the throne of
Persia, is “hunting trouble.”
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Sad Blow to Vare's Hopes.
As the threads of the Republican
primary contest are untangled only
disappointment comes to the Vare
machine managers. The Luzerne
county vote has been certified to
the Secretary of the Commonwealth
at Harrisburg and the Pinchot ma-
jority of 20,099 has been written
into the record. No fraud has been
revealed to challenge the validity of
the returns and the question of the
mutilation of ballots by perforation
can be raised only under conditions
that are practically impossible. It
may be assumed, therefore, that
Gifford Pinchot is the Republican
nominee for: Governor and that the
transfer of the Vare machine head-
quarters from Philadelphia to Har-
risburg has been indefinitely post-
poned. :
This is a ard blow and a rude
shock tothe War Board, Tom Cun-
ningham, Charlie Hall and Sam Salus
confidently expected four years of
fine picking from the treasury of
the State with the complacent Shunk
Brown dispensing the favor of a
profligate administration. When the
carpet baggers in the South, dur-
ing the infamous era of reconstruc-
tion, were about dispairing of fur-
ther loot one of them, a Pennsyl-
vanian, revived their hopes by
writing that “there are two years
of good stealing in South Carolina
yet.” The opportunities for graft in
Philadelphia are about exhausted
and the prospect of a new and rich
field in Harrisburg was very en-
ticing to the bunch of political
pirates.
But sad as the blow was to the
War Board the greatest disappoint-
ment came to William S. Vare, the
former boss of the machine. While
the satelites expected much, he cov-
eted a vastly greater prize. It has
leaked out that one of the objects
of the enterprise was to place the
power and influence of the Brown
administration behind Vare as a can-
didate for United States Senator
against Reed in 1932. In pursuance
of this plan Secretary of Labor
Davis, of Pittsburgh, was put on the
ticket for Senator this year, thus
giving that city its share of the
party favors and correspondingly
diminishing Reed's claim next time.
But “the best laid scheme “o’ mice
and men gang aft agley.”
Mrs. MéCormick’s Campaign Bx
It is
Clan Gatherings in Flower.
The “clan” season is on and for
a period of five weeks in the im-
mediate future family reunions will
be held in this and other counties
in central and eastern Pennsylvania.
We have no means of ascertaining |
the origin of this beneficent custom
or where it began. But it can
easily be seen that it is increasing
in popularity, and it may be added,
in enjoyment and importance. It
prings together widely separated
members of conspicuous and some-
times pioneer families of the commu-
nity in which it is held, andnot only
renews but strengthens the bonds
of friendship and fraternity which
‘under the necessities of life have
been severed. :
It is a long way from the Atlan-
tic seaboard to the Pacific coast but
; there are men and women who were
born in Centre county, or whose
| forbears were resident within her
'porders, now living in most, if not
‘all, of the States between those
points. The “clan” gatherings bring
them together and afford opportuni-
ties to discuss the vicissitudes of
life and compare their experiences
during the year that have interven-
ed since their separation, in some
cases fifty or more years before.
Family trees are traced from root
to branch, family traditions and
peculiarities discussed to the inti-
mate enjoyment and vast improve-
ment of all concerned.
There is nothing more interesting
to a group of kindly-minded men
and women assembled in a spirit of
fraternity than a review of the fam-
ily history with full details of early
trials and triumphs and equally
complete and confidential accounts
of subsequent successes Or failures.
The highest merit of the “clan”
gathering lies in the opportunity for
these recitals, and the even more
precious privileges of tendering help
| where help is needed or expressing
felicitation when it is more = ap-
propriate. Quite a number of these
family reunions are held annually in
Centre county and this year they
Som to have aroused more enthu-
yo.
sm than ever before.
— Power, oil, aluminum and
steel interests are combining to pre-
vent the re-election of Senator
Walsh, of Montana. It's a case of
a combination of evils.
Farm Board Falls Down.
Having completely subdued the
Senate the Hoover - administration
has now determined to force the
wheat growers of the country to
obey the order to curtail production.
The Farm Board will buy no more
wheat. That absurd expedient to
“stabilize the market” has been
abandoned as a hopeless, if not ex-
actly a “noble, experiment.” Until
the surplus is reduced by voluntary
action, that is by “reducing the pro-
duction to a point where it practi-
cally parallels domestic consump-
tion,” the Grain Stabilization Cor-
poration will not intervene again.
It has 69,000,000 bushels of wheat
on its hands now with storage
charges pryamiding and no prospect
of relief,
‘One of the most conspicuous apol-
ogists for administration blunders
writes that “there is a strong im-
pression that those most intimately
concerned have reached the con-
clusion that the stabilization provi-
sions of the agricultural marketing’
act have been foundto be uneconom-
ic and impractical as a means of
dealing with the surplus problem.”
When it was under consideration in
the Senate, more than a year ago,
a considerable majority of the
Senators declared it to be not only
impotent but vicious. But President
Hoover insisted on its adoption and
its passage. The responsibility for
failure is upon him.
‘The debenture plan of farm relief
was abhorrent to President Hoover
put it would have accomplished
the result which the Farm Board
experiment, a Hoover invention, has
failed to achieve, and in substantial-
ly the same way. That is, it con-
templated a bonus to the producers
of surplus farm products, and the
purchase and storage of wheat by
the government works precisely the
same result. Neither is economically
sound but the plan rejected was
practical, while that adopted has
proved a failure and the farmers
are the victims of the blunder. The
Congressional elections mext Novem-
ber will reveal how the victims will
react to the disappointment and be-
trayal.
———
——There is an increase fire haz-
ard in the long continued and hot
dry spell, which should influence
everybody to greater care.
——This would be an appropriate
time to recruit forces for arctic or
Politics in Pennsylvania
From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
There is much talk of “irregu-
larity,” a more or less indefinable
term in the present very much con-
fused state of affairs political in
Pennsylvania, over the proposal of
Gifford Pinchot to organize an inde-
pendent party and the endorsement,
expected soon, of John Hemphill,
Democrat, by the Liberal Party.
But there is nothing unusual about
the situation. The political history
of Pennsylvania is literally filled
with incidents of this kind. Third
parties, fourth parties
fifth and sixth parties have not been
uncommon. And it has been quite
the fashion for mominees, either for
the purpose of strengthening them-
selves outside their own party or to
prevent the invasion of their pre-
serves by enemies within, to accept
endorsements of the kind now pro-
posed or to organize independent
| party movements,
The practice started as early as
1811 when Simon Snyder was elect-
ed to the governorship as a Demo-
crat in a field in which his oppo-
nents ran on the Federalist and In-
dependent tickets. The much dis-
cussed Joseph Ritner also profited
by another such a split, being elect-
ed on the Anmti- Masonic ticket in
1835, over. George Wolf, Independent
Democrat, and H. A. Muhlenberg,
Democrat, who divided the opposi-
tion between them.
But coming down to more recent
years the present trend is even more
apparent. Samuel W. Pennypacker,
for example, was named on two
tickets, and Robert S. Pattison in
the same election was nominated on
three and lost the election, Edwin
S. Stuart in 1906 was a candidate
on two tickets and Lewis Emery,
Jr., his unsuccessful opponent, boast-
ed of no less than five nominations.
The late Martin G. Brumbaugh was
a candidate on the Republican, Key-
stone and Personal Liberty tickets,
while his opponent, Vance C. Mc-
Cormick, claimed the Democratic
and Washington party mominations,
losing to the Philadelphian by a
majority of 130,000. William Cam-
eron Sproul ran on two tickets and
Eugene G. Bonniwell, whom he de-
feated, was also the candidate of two
parties. - ty
This is the most recent example
of mixed poltics. Pinchot and Mc-
Sparran battled it out eight years
go on the straight Republican and
Democratic nominations and four
years ago John S, Fisher had but
the Republican and Bonniwell only
the Democratic nomination.
So it is apparent that what is
happening this year is not so new
nor unusual as some folks would
have it appear. Rather it is a re-
turn to methods long in use and no
more to be condemned on the part
of Hemphill than it is for Pinchot.
' Both are looking for votes and any
| endorsement or movement in agree-
ment with the policies each repre-
sents will be, naturally, more than
welcome.
Farm Relief: Skunk Cabbage or
Rose?
From the Philadelphia Record.
Governor Clyde Reed, of Kansas,
attacks Chairman Legge, of the
Federal Farm Board, because, as
he contends:
1. The Farm Board bought and
stored wheat. ’
2. It pledged itself not to sell this
stored wheat in competition with the
new crop wheat as it came in.
3. It sold 2,000,000 bushels of old
wheat.
4. These sales,
opinion, were the
in the market.
Chairman Legge replies tartly
that the sales were necessitated by
expiration of grain elevator (storage)
arrangements made by the - Grain
Stabilization Corporation. He said
that “sales of grain in closing up
agreements with mills would be re-
placed by purchases of ‘an exact
equal quantity in order to avoid
reductions in holdings involved in
stabilization operations.”
To the ordinary Eastern metro-
politan reader it’s all ‘“clear as
mud.” But it does not take a wheat
grower or professional economist
to perceive that the Government,
which so long and with such bitter
determination fought off the equali-
zation fee and the export debenture
plan, is now up to its eyebrows in
a project of artificial control of
wheat production and marketing.
and presenting a price-fixing skunk
cabbage as the rose of farm relief.
And it is perfectly clear that
whatever is being or not being
achieved in farm relief, the Farm
Board is making mighty hard go-
ing for the Administration forces,
politically.
The President has abandoned his
idea of a tour of the agricultural
West, and Congressmen from that
section are urging the President to
clap a stopper on Chairman Legge’s
jaw tackle, lest his endeavors to
win the farmers result in & land-
slide of votes against the Adminis-
tration in coming elections.
Farm relief cannot make good at
the polls unless it can make good
in the fields.
in Governor Reed's
cause of the break
——So long as there are millions
of hungry people in the world it
will be hard to prove an over-pro-
antarctic explorations.
duction of wheat.
and even!
|SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
— More than 12,000 ring-necked pheas-
ants are being raised at the two farms
owned by the State Game Commission.
—Eva Lau, 13-year-old York girl, was
tied to a kitchen table by a 12-foot chain
because she tired of caring for her four
younger brothers and sisters and ran
out to play like other litle girls her age.
Her father has admitted chaining her,
saying he and his wife had to work,
leaving only Eva to care for the others.
and head, sustained in the struggle
—During two months 800 dogs have
been killed in Schuylkill county ~ by
State employees in charge of James G.
Fox. The dogs had been let roam at
large without muzzles. Fox is enforc-
ing the rabies quarantine, which has
another month to run. Seven persons
have been bitten by dogs this summer
throughout the county and of these
two suffered rabies, but. recovered.
—Fred Winnai, Philadelphia race
driver who suffered severe burns of the
body when his machine caught fire
while rounding the Tipton bowl during
the Flag day race, was permitted to use
a wheel chair at Mercy hospital, Al-
toona, Monday night. Hospital authori-
ties, however, pointed out that his con-
dition has not materially impFoved and
that he still remains in the danger
list at the institution.
—The largest group of officers assign-
ed by the United States Navy to study
Dissel engines this year have been sent
to the Pennsylvania State College. Seven
lieutenants are now at the college for
one year’s study as graduate students.
This is the second year the Navy
has selected Penn State to train some
of its officers in advanced engineering
with emphasis being placed on Dissel
engines and auxiliary equipment ap-
plicable to naval power plants.
—Private Charles Stewart, of the Penn-
sylvania state police, slain in a gun bat-
tle in which he killed a blackmail sus-
pect at Monessen Friday morning, was
| buried at Reynoldsville, on Sunday. He
| was accorded military honors by brother
| members of the state police. Captain
Albert Carlson, of the Greénsburg bar=-
racks, and a squad of forty troopers
accompanied the body to the Emerick-
ville Methodist church, where the Rev.
Roy P. Miller, of the Reynoldsville
Presbyterian church, conducted the serv-
ices.
— Edwin W. Kruse, 112 East Washing-
ton street, New Castle, Pa. has ap-
plied to the Federal Radio Commission
for a construction permit to erect anew
broadcasting station to use fifty watts
power, a frequency of 1210 Kkilocycles
and to operate from nine to twelve
hours daily. The commission has set for
hearing the application of the Pennsyl-
vania State College, State College, Pa.,
for a renewal of a license to use 500
watts power and to operate on 1604,
2398, 3256, 4795, 6425, 8650, 12850 and
17300 kilocycles.
—Burglars were very considerate
when they robbed the cash register of
the Charles M. Rice grocery store, in
Lewistown, taking only $62, and leaving
$180. The thief or thieves only took part
of the money, evidently hoping that the
amount would not be found missing un-
til the weekly checkup on Saturday
night. This is the fifth time the Rice
store has been robbed im the past sev-
eral years and it is believed that per-
sons familiar with the most recent hid-
ing place for the store’s cash at night
were responsible for the robbery.
__Because his brother took exceptions
to his assuming charge of arrangements
for their mother’s funeral, Howard Ken-
pedy, 49, near Wayne's Castle, Franklin
county, on Monday, is in the Waynes-
boro hospital with a punctured wound
in the left lung, another near the heart
and a third less serious wound. At the
same time, David Kennedy, 44, near
Green Castle, was being held in the
Franklin county jail on charges of as-
sault and battery with intent to Kill.
He is alleged to have thrust a manure
fork into Howard's chest, while arrange-
ments were being made for the funeral
of the mother, Mrs. Sarah Jane Ken-
nedy, 71. Efforts are being made to
have a sanity commission appointed to
examine David, it was stated.
— Plans and specifications for the pro-
posed new $300,000 unit to the Cresson
sanatorium have been completed and
bids will be opened Wednesday, July 30,
in Harrisburg, according to recent an-
nouncement. At the present time, every
available bed at the institution is oc-
cupied and more than 500 patients are
on the waiting list, The new addition
will be used as a children’s unit and
will be one of the most beautiful on the
sanatorium grounds. It will be built of
native stone, with limestone trimmings.
The main part of the edifice will consist
of two stories and a basement, 240 feet
in length and 60 feet in depth. A brick
wing will be located in the rear for a
children’s playroom and dining hall and
which will be surrounded by a deck
porch.
—Joseph Elko, 37, of North Scranton,
snatched his five-day-old baby from its
crib early Tuesday morning and, taking
it into the yard, was about to crush its
skull with an ax when neighbors, who
had been aroused from their slumbers
| by the commotion raised by Elko, rush-
led to the baby’s rescue in time to save
its life. Police were called and the
baby was taken to a hospital where it
is in a critical condition suffering from
shock, bruises and cuts about the face
between Elko and the baby’s rescuers.
Elko tried to commit suicide about a
month ago and on Tuesday was taken
to jail to await an investigation. He is
the father of seven children who were
taken to an orphanage after Tuesday
morning's occurrence. The mother was
taken to the General hospital.
—M. B. Rich, senior partner of the
firm of the Woolrich woolen mills, has
just published a book giving the first 100
years history of Woolrich, the tiny
woolen manufacturing village located in
the mountains eight miles from Lock
Haven, where the Rich families and
their business associaties will celebrate
the 100th anniversary of the founding
on
of their town and industry today, to-
morrow and Sunday, July 25, 26, 27,
1930. The speakers will include former
governor Gifford Pinchot, who will make
the Friday night address: Bishop Joseph
F. Berry, who will make the closing ad-
dress Sunday night, and M. B. Rich,
eldest of the firm of the Woolrich
woolen mills, who will give a history
of the mills at the opening session of
the centennial celebration this morning.