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MURDERED MADERO WITHOUT HUMANITY Constitutionalists Give That Ex cuse for Execution of Federal Officers WERE SHOT IN SQUADS "It is No Time to Cry Says Rebel General Obregon NOGALES, May 28. Thirty five Federal officers, captured by the Constitutionalists at the city of Tepic, were executed May 24, according: to a message received here today from General Alvaro Obregon, the Consti tutionalist commander. General Obregon's message says that Rear Admiral Howard, the American naval commander on the Pacific coast, telegraphed to the German consul at Tepic to intercede for the lives of the Federals "for the sake of humanity," but Obregon answered that the execution of the of ficers was necessary to prevent them making trouble in the future. The Federals were taken to the cemetery and shot in squads. General Obregon's reply to the of fer of intercession said: "When the assassin, Huerta, mur dered Madero, the nation hastened to recognize his government and humanity was forgotten.

Now that pun ishment is about to overtake Huerta and his minions, it is not time to cry The soldiers of the Tepic garrison, for whose lives the American admiral also Interceded, were paroled. WOMEN DIE IN MEXICAN BATTLE Thirty Five Lost Lives in the Fight in Vicinity of Paredon AMARGOS, Coahuila, May 23 (By courier via El Paso). Thirty five women camp followers lost their lives with 300 Federal soldiers In the battle of Paredon, it was learned today. Fifty seven Federal officers were executed after the battle. Reports of the execution of General Munoz.

a nephew of ex President Por firio Diaz; General Orsono, and nine colonels, which at first were denied, now seem well established. The men phot, it was said, reiterated their loyalty to the Huerta government, and rather than violate their oath of al legiance gave their lives. Twelve members of a Federal military band also were shot, although this was done by Constitutionalist soldiers without sanction of their officers. As if toshow that no harm had been meant the soldiers, after a stop had been put to the carnage, asked the remaining seven members of the band to give a concert, a request which was promptly met. 522 MARIANS AT TELEPHONE TALK 3ell Company Entertains Popular Club Members and Their Friends Members of the Rotary Club with heir wives and friends were enter ained at the Masonic Temple on 'hursday evening, when the Bell 'elephone Company were hosts at hat will be their last public meeting the club this season.

Norman B. general manager of the cal branch of the service gave an il tstrated lecture on the growth of the lephone system from the time of its vention by Alexander Graham Bell i 1875 to the present day when it is 10 prime factor in the business and icial world. Every department of system; the installing of the wire, le action which takes place at the ntral office when a call is made and ie life of the operators while on duty aa shown with numerous lantern ides. Following the lecture the embers enjoyed a social evening, inee music provided by Gundrys or lestra. Five hundred and twenty persons attended the PINK GROVE MAN KIHRD POTTS VI LLE, May 28.

John Bat rf, of Pine Grove, died today of in rios received when he was thrown orri a wagon. His horse was frighted by a motorcycle, which sped past aiid in swerving threw out Batdorf th such force that internal injuries sulled. SOCIAL) CENTER CLOSES Tojight will mark the closing of a "cessful season of the Seventh and url Social Center. The various nrriittees planning for the festival bj held next Wednesday evening Hold a meeting this evening. The 5cefds of the festival will be used to gymnastic paraphernalia for next so.

THE READING NEWS TIMES The Weather: Cloudy today and Saturday, probably showers. The Guaranteed Circulation of the Telegram and News Times yesterday was 26,361. VOL 1 No. 71 Time Established 1S58. New Established 1912.

READING, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 191 4 FOURTEEN PAGES ONE CENT EVERYWHERE. ASSASSIN HDERTA THE WEATHER Ftp! the Man who Writes This Feels the Touch that Makes the World Akin The wild hawk to the wind swept sky. ue urcr iiic inA th hpart nf a man to the heart OI a maid. And then the whole story is told. JCXE the mating season for.

all things alive is knocking on the door again and will soon get a wel come unequaled by the other seasons. The little feathered sweethearts are chirping love stories in the tree tops and "Everybody is doin' it now, Even the flowers make love to each other when nobody Is looking. The voice that breathed o'er Eden, that earliest marriage day, the primal marriage blessing Is breathing yet today. Tommy Moore pictured the season thusly: "New hope may bloom and days may come of milder, calmer beam, but there's nothlnfc half so eet as love's young dream. Local Office U.

S. Weather Bureau, Reading, May 28, 1914. 8 A.M. 8P.M Barometer 30.14 30.17 Temperature 75 78 uirection or wina vv. m.r..

Velocity of wind 7 Precipitation 01 Weather Clear Pt.cloudy Highest temperature, ss, at 2 p. m. lowest teniceiature. SI', at 3 a. m.

Following are the temperatures at the end of each hour: 1 A. 69 1 P. S7 2 A. 2 P. S8 3 A.

67 3 P. S7 4 A. 67 4 P. 5 A. 6S 5 P.

$7 A. 70 6 P. 7 A. i 7 P. 8 A.

75 P. 73 9 A. A 10 A. 81 11 A. Noon S5 WASHINGTON FORECAST Eastern Pennsylvania: Partly cloudy Friday; Saturday overcast, probably local showers; not much change in temperature; light to moderate vari able winds.

SHIP MOVEMENTS NEW YORK. May Cleared: Steam er Philadelphia, Southampton. Sighted: Meamer Baltic, from Iiverpool. MKUW HEAD (Wireless) Steamer Cedric, New York for Liverpool. U2AKU (n ireiessi sighted: Steamer New York, New York for Southampton.

HAVRE Arrived: Steamer Ijd Provence, New York. QCEENSTOWN Railed: Steamer St. Paul (from Southampton), New York. HTMA.Mriii. ssilf(l: stpamer Im perator (from Hamburg), New York.

KKPOOL fa led: Steamer Adriatic. New York. STANDING OF P. R. CREWS The standing of the R.

crews af lllnnra TO 1 ter o'clock this morning follows 68, 51, 77, 74 61, 61, 72, 67. 56, 76, 57, 63, Ul. CasRldy, Ijautrich, Rhodes. irrmtn raust, Hyers. Ftaufer, Sheip, Davis, Hmmmer, Hatt, Krey, Htffner, Connor, Moll, McGovern, Bon ell, Huber, Hi ester, Glasa.

INDEX TO THE NEWS PAGE ONE Rodeheaver faces suit. Reading man's murderer confesses. Local opera singer sues for breach of promise. Forestry needed for Improvement of parks. PAGE TWO Dives, Pomeroy Stewart advertisement.

PACE THREE Basic plan for mediation is now agreed upon. To prevent price dixcrlminatlon. High tribute to women of churches. Dives, Pomeroy Stewart advertisement. PACE FOCR Mine conspiracy against Mitchell is not sustained.

Safety branch planned for the city of Reading. I AUK FI Protest against anti trust bills. Offer warships at cost price. Lord Gage advertisement. PACE SIX Editorials.

Theatrical guide. Voice of the press. PAGE SEVEN Rauen gets work of cleaning city. Kllne Eppihlmer advertisement. PACE EIGHT Reading Hospital nurses graduate.

Fashion hints. Social news. PACE NINE Berks county news. PACE TEN Track meet chief event of holiday menu nere. Reading heats York White Roses.

Ray Ramsey wins for Allentown club. PACE ELEVEN One hundred and sixty nine boys enter Saturday's five mile walk. Two Brooklyn pitchers dickering with Federals. PAGE TWELVF New timetable to be activ soon. Dump to be made county chairman.

Weddings. Obituary. PAGE THIRTEEN Financial and commercial. Classified advertisements. LAST PAGE America needs merchant marine.

U. S. to increase powcer factory at In dian Head. DRISCOLL HOUSE AFIRE Blaze of Mysterious Origin Discovered nt 403 Walnut Street Fire of mysterious origin was dis covered in the city home of Daniel J. Driscoll, 403 Walnut street, a few minutes before 9 o'clock Thursday night.

The blaze was confined to the rear of the house in the neighborhood of a stairway and the damage of a bRdly charred set of steps. Near by residents discovered the fire and called the Neverslnk and Junior com panies. It was extinguished before it had gained any considerable headway. Mr. Driscoll and his family were at their river home, "Doneraile." They were not appraised of the affair till later in the night The cause of the blaze will be in vestigated by Mr.

Driscoll. He will ask the assistance of the police. STORES CLOSED SATURDAY Memorial Day will be a general holiday for the clerks of most all of the stores on Penn and other streets. The business places will remain open until 9 o'clock this evening and will not he reopened until Monday! morning. BOY MURDERER IS AN IMBECILE BY YERDICT OF JURY Crushed His School Teacher' Head With a Monkey Wrench Without Remorse GIRL ALSO STABBED Teacher Was on Way to Confer With Father Over Boy's Future HERKIMER, N.

May 28. Jean Gianinl, the 16 year old boy charged with the murder of his school teacher, Lid a Beecher, was ocquitted here on the ground of criminal imbecility. The jury reached its verdict shortly before 3 o'clock this afternoon, after having been out since 5.40 o'clock last evening. Lida Beecher was murdered at the little village of Poland, N. on March 27.

A farmer, driving to town discovered the body in a clump bushes near the roadside the next day, Her skull had been crushed with a monkey wrench, and she had been stabbed repeatedly. Young Gianlni was immediately stis peeted of the crime. He had been seen with the girl the night before when she had gone with him, as it later transpired, on the understanding that she was to have a conference with the boy's father over his son's future, tJean had not done well at school, had been for a time in a reform school and was generally backward. Arrested, the boy confessed the crime. He expressed no remorse.

In the face of this confession there was iitle the elder Gianini could do but employ eminent counsel and make a fight along the lines of his son's ad mitted peculiarities. WANT VOTERS TO BE SURE TO REGISTER Because Some Signatures Says Fifteenth Ward Democrat Fell From Referendum That the volunteer firemen are well able to take care of themselves in get ting out a referendum vote against a paid fire department, and that they can make the politicians look like "30 cents," was the gist of a state ment made by Chairman Heber Ermentrout at a meeting of the Fifteenth ward Democrats held at the Krick Hotel, Schuylkill avenue and Oley stree, on Thursday night, when some one suggested that a meeting lie held to hear arguments for and against the paid department. D. M. Blatt, in this connection, said that the names of quite a few voters of the ward were dropped from the petition for the referendum because it was found they were not registered.

He thought it would be a good idea for each member of the club to see to it that these voters be registered in time for the fall election. He said the names of the men dropped could be obtained at city hall. W. B. Zel lers and Wood M.

Schwartz spoke along the same lines. In accordance with the usual custom it was decided to dispense with the June and July meetings but to meet again the last Thursday In August. Chairman Ermentrout thanked the members for the elegant vote given him for city committeeman and Leonard G. Yoder, the other committeeman, did likewise The former said that he didn't know what effect the non partisan law will have on the activities of the city committee. He declared that all wards elected active Democrats to the city committee and he expected good results of some kind to be obtained.

None of the successful candidates at the recent primary was in attendance and the session was not marked with any special interest. The attendance was small because of the heat. LANGLEY'S FOLLY' FLIES AT LAST Doctor Inventor Died of Broken Heart Because Not Recognized ELMIRA, May 28. The theory of Dr.Samuel Pierrepont Lang ley, who proclaimed to the' world that he had solved the problem of the air several years before the upper elements had been sky navigated by a heavier than air Machine, was vindicated at Hammondsport today, when Glenn Curtiss avitor, went aloft in "Langley's Folly." The Langley machine but little resembles the trim and powerful flyers of today, but, in its crude state, it combines the basic priciples of aviation, and after many years of neglect, the "old Junk' came in its own, giving its aged inventor his deserved place among the recognized pioneers of aviation. UMTO THIS, ev GRADt CROSSES) jJ "DJEJjjfcS.

syPiSr CAN YA. HAFER'S COMRADE ADMITS KNIFING READING NATIYE George Bond, Under Pressure, Confesses to Murder in Brisbane's House FOUGHT ABOUT CHICKEN Today the body of John R. Hafer, murdered in a brawl In the Mount Pleasant, N. summer home of Ar thur Brisbane, editor of the New York "Journal," will be brought to the home of the family at 1749 Rose street, Reading, by F. F.

Seidel, fu neral director. George Bond con fessed he killed Hafer. Dispatches from the New Jersey re sort say that the investigation being conducted by the district attorney and the detectives shows that Hafer, company with another man, ar rived there Monday afternoon. They entered the Brisbane home by break ng a window and had been living in he house. The floors of the rooms were littered with empty champagne and whiskey bottles from the Brisbane wine cellar.

George Bond, who was found washing blood from a nasty looking knife shortly after the discovery of the crime, broke down and confessed after three hours of severe cross examination by county detectives A charge of murder was lodged against him and he is confined in the Jail at Toms River await ng trial. Though Bond in his con fession implicated no one else, this phase of the murder is being investigated by District Attorney Newman. Bond said that he was a Philadel phian, living on 51st street near Chestnut. He had traveled with Hafer, he said, for the past several months. In describing the events that led up to the brawl which re sulted fatally for Hafer, Bond said that yesterday (Wednesday) Hafer stole a chicken in a nearby yard and while he was cooking the fowl a fight started.

Hafer struck Bond and Bond followed him to an upstairs bedroom nd the fight was renewed there. He said he remembered nothing more until he was arrested He said he and Hafer, who he be lieved came from Reading, arrived In Point Pleasant on a freighj train several days ago. BIRDSBORO GRADUATES Class of Ten Received Diplomas at Lincoln School BIRDSBORO, May 28. Ten young graduates received their diplomas at the Lincoln High School on Thursday night with exercises at which a large number of their friends and relatives gathered. The valedictorian was William Shaniman and the salutatorian Miss Bessie Smith.

The graduates were Eugene Delong, William Geiger, Agnes Johnson, Emma Selfrit, Bessie Smith, Ruth VanReed, William Shaniman, Esther Willets, Kendie Woods and George Fleam. The High School Alumni will hold its annual reunion and banquet tonight. The social features will be given in Main Street Hall and the banquet will be served at the Hotel Washington. The Frederick Five orchestra, of Reading, singing, games, speeches, will be the order of the evening. A Penn Pointer ISAAC GRAEFF DEAD AT BELLEMAN'S CHURCH One of Best Known Retired Farmers In Centre Township Special to The News Times.

HERNVILLE, May 28. Isaac Graeff. one of the oldest and best known retired farmers In this section fthe county, died this evening at 7.40 o'clock of general debility at his home near Belleman's Church, aged 89 years 9 months and 23 day Notwithstanding his advanced age, he enjoyed the best of health until a week ago Mr. Graeff was born in the old Graeff homestead in Bern township. He lived at the latter place until 1887, when he purchased the farm In Centre towrshlp, which he conducted until he retired in 1893.

In politics Mr. Graeff was a Democrat and he served as school director. He was a member of Belleman's Reformed congregation and for many years served as deacon and elder. The following children survive: Daniel, Centre township; Isaac and Samuel, Reading; Milton, Dauver ville; Adam, Kansas; Aaron, Lees port; Kansas; Catharine, wife of Frank Bucks; Ella, wife of Howard Zerby; Sallie, wife of Levi Becker; Ida, wife of Milton Rentschler; Mary, wife of Samuel Mast, and Jacob, of Kansas. MUST KEEP ROAD OIL OFF TRACKS Wyomissing Council Warned by Transit Company Against Accidents At the regular month end meeting of Wyomissing borough council Thursday evening the secretary reported that worth of bonds have been sold and paid for and that $3,000 worth more have been contracted for.

There still remain 8 bonds for $1,000 each to be sold. The secretary was instructed to make out bills for the use of the street roller and road oiler to the amount of $56. A communication was received from the Reading Transit and Light Company asking the borough to avoid getting oil on the car tracks when oiling the streets in the future. They say that the oil makes it hard for cars to be controlled on a grade and there Is also the probability of an accident caused by the wheels slipping. A communication was read from W.

A. Rick, solicitor for the borough of Sinking Spring asking Wyomissing to confer with them and West Reading as regards the double track of the Transit Company passing through all these boroughs. Messrs. Mercer and Smith were appointed on this com mitee. Dominie Maurer and Sons, were given the contract to lay all the curbs on Reading Boulevard at the cost of 52 cents per lineal foot; the total cost not to exceed $1,300.

Iabor bills to the amount of $538.29 and miscellanous bills of $779.46 were ordered paid. LEAVES $5,000 TO SEMINARY YORK, May 28 Mrs. Louisa F. Wirt, widow of Henry Wirt, of Hanover, has left an appraised estate of approximately $92,000. She made many public bequests.

The Theological Seminary, at Lancaster, gets the board of home missions of the Reformed Church, the board of foreign missions, $1,000, and the Ministerial Association, $1,000. SONG BIRDS TUNE ONE TIME JOYOUS NOW PLAINTIVE Expected Mate Refuses to Build Nest for Two and She Sues SPRING ROMANCE FAILS The song bird's happy note changed into a plaintive and mournful one In the rase of Miss Viola S. Guest, so prano and stage beauty, of 108 West Oley street, when she started a suit for breach of promise against Ralph Becker, of Pen Yan, Yates county. New York, who, according to her statement, promised to mate with her in the springtime of 1914, but has per sistently refused to provide a nest for them and keep his promise. Miss Guest, who is one of the best known singers in this community, she having appeared in public since she was a young girl and later having won an enviable place on the stage, with the prospects of taking up grand opera in the near future, says in her statement to the court that her engagement to Mr.

Becker was announced by the press in this city on December 17, 1912, and in Yates County soon after January 1, 1913, and It also appeared in the papers of Altoona, Lancaster, Columbia, Harris burg and Wilkes Barre, where she was prominent in musical circles. "Confiding in the promise of Mr. Becker," Miss Guest says, "I have always since remained and now am ready and willing to marry Mr. Becker." Says She Abandoned Musical Career. She also states that before making the promise to marry Mr.

Becker, she had devoted much time and expended large sums of money qualifying herself as a professional singer, but that after becoming engaged to Mr. Becker, she abandoned her purpose to sing In public at his request and discontinued her study and engagements, of which Mr. Becker was aware. She says the marriage was to take place in the spring of 1913, but that when the time came Mr. Becker refused to marry her, and still refuses "although reasonable time has elapsed between the time of the promise and engagement and the commencement of this action." The last paragraph of the statement of Miss Guest continues by saying that "the marriage of the" defendant to Miss Birkett is announced for January 8, 1914, at the city of New York, and the invitations therefor have been Issued, all to the damage of the plaintiff in the sum of $10,000." Defendant Says Agreement Was Violated.

The defendant in his answer to the court admits that he was engaged to Miss Guest, but that it was an understanding that the wedding should not take place until he was able to earn a certain sum of money per year, and also that Miss Guest should give up her stage career. He says that for a time she did give up her public appearances but later again appeared in public, which he takes as a violation of their agreement. He also says he never has earned the amount of money they deemed necessary to get married on, and was not earning that much at this time, and because of that, also, he considered their agreement of no effect. 1 ESCAPED ANCHORAGE Woman and Girl Break Away Oxer the Back Fence Making their escape through the beak yard and over the fence two girls, Cecil Helen Huntzberger, 16, and Mrs! Ellen Brennan, 26, escaped Beulah Anchorage last night. The former was placed in the insti tutlon on Jan.

9, 1914. She was an in. corrigible and County Detective Straub placed the girl in the Anchorage. Mrs, Brennen, together with her one and one half year old baby, were placed there on May 20, 1914. Later the child was placed in a home.

FORESTRY WORK IS NECESSARY IN IMPROVING PARKS Should Clear Off Stump Growth and Plant Good Healthy Trees SHOULD PRESERVE SHOOTS "The conservation of the mountains around and about Reading is perfectly proper, if their foliage Is also to be preserved," Bald Chief Engineer W. I Hoch, of the Bureau of Parks, to a representative of the News Times on Thursday, but, he further added, that if at any future time they should be acquired by the city, that forestry methods should be adopted in improv' ing conditions as they now exist. In dwelling on this particular sub. Ject, Mr. Hoch made no special men.

tlon of that portion of the mountain now under the jurisdiction of the city, but the mountains as a whole, and par. ticularly Mt. Penn. A noteworthy fact is that a large majority of the trees on Mt. Penn are not of the substantial kind, but consist chiefly of a stump growth of chestnut or a second growth of almost anything else.

In other words, Mt. Penn shows evi dence of having been cleared of heavy timber by Its owners perhaps once or twice in years gone by and the pres ent growth consists chiefly of small timber from the stumps of old tfees. If at any time the stumps die the small timber shooting up from them will also perish. Should the city acquire the mountains in future years, the proper plan would be to clear the land of all superfluous growth, and plant good, heathy trees, according to for estry methods. Now and then healthy trees spring up from seed, but they are not per mitted to remain there very long.

Strollers on the mountain sides come along, whip out their knives and cut off the young shoots and use the twigs as canes. This is a practice that should be stopped, for every shoot means a big tree at some future time. Of course, all upshoots or twigs do not grow to maturity, but many of them do and especially where the soil and drainage is good. Last year many chestnut trees on the mountains had to be removed because of the blight. The appropriation for this work being, meager, the work could not be completed, and quite a few more will have to be cut down.

The leaves were burned and the timber reduced into kindling wood. Some of it was sold by the city at $1.25 a cord, but very little of it was disposed of in his way, ths majority being used for firing purposes at the Pagoda and other places in the city departments. There are few mature trees of any kind on the surrounding mountains, and most of the trees are of a second growth. The 30 acrs of land on Mt. Penn, presented to the city by the late George F.

Baer, were cut over before given to the city. The tract was cleared of stump and second growth trees and shrubbery, removed to give a number of small trees, which sprang up from seed, a chance to grow. This tract is still bare in spots. but many young trees are growing nicely. About the oldest group of trees on Mt.

Penn are those on the Eckert tract, at the extreme end of Mineral Spring road. Nearly all of them have matured and they are of substantial size and in a healthy state. Of the larger varieties the chestnut tree predominates on Mt. Penn. Other varieties there are oak, maple, birch, beech, poplar, pine, cedar and a few walnut, butternut and hickory.

Of the smaller varieties are included dogwood, sassafras, wild cherry and a few paw paws. SMASHES INTO POLE AT HIGH SPEED Motorcyclist Avoids Car and Runs to Wreck at Ninth and Walnut While driving his motorcycle out 9th street at a high rate of speed. Homer Feller in attempting to turn the corner at Ninth and Walnut streets in order to avoid a Walnut street car going east, was unable to make the turn and crashed into a telephone pole on the north side of Walnut street directly in front of the restaurant owned by Henry Kohl. The accident occured at about 6 o'clock, when the streets are thronged and in a few minutes a crotrd of several hundred were atti acted to the scene of the accident. Both the machine and the rider escaped serious injury.

The fault it is said rests with the rider, as it would not have been necessary for him to turn to i void the car which was at a standstill on the west side of the crossing. 7 RODEHEAYER FACES FAIR CHARMER WHO SUES FOR $50,000 Golden Voiced Choirmaster Sang His Way to Reading Girls in 1908 ENCAGED IN A I A Says Georgia Jay Declaring Homer Told Her She was AH the World to Him A breach of promise stxit, filed against Homer Rodeheaver, "golden voiced choirmaster" for "Billv" Rim day, the evangelist, by Miss Georgia W. Jay, a stenographer, is on hearing before a Jury in Judge Honore's court, Chicago. Rodeheaver pranced around Reading on a heart breaking tour when was here with Blederwolf. the evan gelist.

In February, 1908. He is a masner or raven locks, languishing tenor voice and a ravishing slide trombone. Miss Jay asks $50,000 da.mii on claiming she became engaged to the singer in a taxicab in AdHI. 1911 nn.1 that he sealed the betrothal with a KLss, only to break his envnf ement the Christmas night following. From the first." said Miss Jav on the stand, "we talked of how wonderfully we were fitted for each other.

He told me then that I was his girl his mate. "We used to' go horsehaok riding and one day we got lost in the woods." res, yes," her attorney said. "We got lost in the woods." he re peated, "and again he told me of how much he loved me and of how we were fitted for each other. He used to tell me everv time met that I was his ideal eirL that was Just the kind." Rodeheaver Sighs A heavy sigh distracted the Witness for a moment. The sigh was from Kodeheaver, his eyes riveted upon tl window ledge.

The witness continued averting her own eyes from him and smiling, albeit mirthlessly. S'he told of her coming to Chiram and of his waiting eleven hours at th station, for her train was late. This was the 1st of January, 1910. She also told of his leavine that same night for Iowa to complete his negotiations with "Billy" Sunday, and then of his return three weeks later to Chicago, when she met him at the station. Then followed a recital of the 'sweet little nothines." such Rnrl heaver is alleged to have poured Into ner ears.

There were tender scenes and kisses and sighs she said. "He used to tell me." Mis Jav tified, "that I was his mate because 1 could sing, and because I could help him in his life. We used to feel aa though the world was constructed for just two and that everything would turn out happy. My folks moved to Chicago after a few years, that is in 1911. I had seen him off and on and he had never once wavered in his vows.

I was planning ahead of how we were going to get married, and of how we were going to be happy, and: then everything ended." Miss Jay wept. Homer fidgeted again. In addition to Miss there was the testimony of Mrs. Maimei Kelly, of Waterloo. Iowa.

Mrs. Kellv.i in a deposition, related her con'ersa tion with Homer Rodeheaver, whlle he was a visitor at her home. She told of his informing her that Mis Jay was, among other things, the most wonderful woman in the world and th only one for him. "He told me our marriaee would ruin his career," said Miss Jay last night just as if the fact that mv whole life dream was shat tered amounted to nothing. Our love was the greatest thing in the world." EIGHT HOUR DAY FOR TELEPHONE MEN Bell Company Will Reduce Hours Without Cutting Wages It is announced by L.

H. Klnnard, viec presldent of the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, that on and after September 1st, the nine hours working day of all plant department workmen except a small numiber of maintenance and house service men will be reduced to eight hours. The necessary readjustment of working forces to care for the constantly increasing volume of construction and up keep work will be undertaken at once and the pay roll schedules will be so arranged that the. dally and weekly wages of all employes affected by this change will be maintained at their present amount regardless of whether the employe is now paid on an hourly, daily or weekly basis. ROBFSOM.V SESSIOX A score or more of new members were obtained at the boom session of Camp No.

75, P. O. S. of of Robe sonia, held on Thrusday Delegates from several of the local camps attended the session and mem bers who are in a position to Judge, declared that the degree work of the, Robesonia camp is beyond criticism..