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MATHER, PA. May rs. Hope
that the last Of the bodies Of the
1877 miners killed in the Mather col
Iiery explosion could Be- brought to
the surface today spurred weary
rescue teams on in, their grim search
In the wrecket nina.
with no hope of finding any
more OF the victims alive, the work
resolved itself into the task or 1ocat-
ing and removing bodies. AT an
early hour 152 bodies were out. and
ii is believed rs more remain. Four
teen men escaped alive, one after Be.
ing enton1bCd more than 20 hours.
/ Each succeeding trip Of the mine
elevator brought more canvas
covered bodies to be taken to the
temporary rncrgues. Every under
takcr III the district has been pressed
into services, and volunteers from
Waynesburg College nearby are as
sisfing in the work.
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Community Center
Activities Increasing

The annual report of Miss SibyI
Baker, director Of the Community
Center. which was delivered yester.
day, shows that attendance at com.
munity center activities has more
than doubled. A total of 2S8, 900
persons participated in the center's
activities. The report was unani-
mously adopted.
Detailed plans for cooperating in
the Fourth of July celebration and
establishment OF recreation insti.
tute here during the summer by
the Playground and Recreation A..
ISOLATION of America, were contained
in Miss Bakers report
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Levine and CharnberIin
May Both Get Medals

Clarence Chamberlin, the New
York-to- Germany flier, and Charles
A. Levine, passenger-owner on the
flight. probably win both get q
medal Of honor from Congress. 1t
appeared today.
After first voting out a bin which
would give Chamberlin a medal but
not Levine, the House Coinage Com
mittee rescinded its action and voted
out instead a bill which already
passed the Senate which would give
both men the award.
1t will be passed unless 1t gets
caught in the last weeks legislative
jam.
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.C0I | INDIE R.GH
TAKES Up NE "
AIR POST
b international news Service


NEW YORK, May 2s.-col.
Charles A. Lindbergn. at the offices
l3Of the Transcontinental Anyways.
today confirmed the announcement
made by the company that he would
serve In an advisory capacity in
connection with their proposed
pIane-train passenger service from
New York to the Pacific Coast.
Lfndbergll added. however. that
he had not become a member OF
the company, and stated that he
had no contract with them
I'm going to assist them in every
way can. in the organization OF
routes, and In other technical de.
/, tails. he said. in praising the
project as an important and practi.
cal development of aviation.
The Transcontinental Air Trans
port, Inc, $4,000 900 corporation.
plans to establish a coast-to-coast
train and plane service. cutting the
travelling time from New York to Los
Angeles to 4s hours. or exactly In
half.
'Lindy's" title Is Chairman OF the
technical committee" His salary has
not been announced. although it is
said TO be extremely liberal.
Railroads In On Plan
All matters concerning choice of
equipment. fields. general service.
flying routes and safety appliances
will come under the authority of the
committee Of which Lindbergh Is
the head. The president of the
company is G. NJ. Keys. who is also
president OF the curtiss Aeroplane
and Motor Corporation.
1Lindy's" new company are the
Pennsylvania and the Atchlson. To-
peka and Santa Fe. The two air.
plane companies involved are the
. Curtiss Company and the Wright
Aeronautical Corporation.
The route to be followed is: By
train from New York to Columbus.
Ohio; by plane from Columbus to
wichita, Kansas: thence over the
Atchison by train to some station
yet to be selected in New Mexico
and then by plane to Los Angeles.
Three Big Planes In Use
The route was selected upon the
recommendation of Iindbergh who
was In conference with officials of
the railroad and airpIank companies
before the new corporation was OF.
Ranized.
It has been decided that three
f1otored planes, capable Of carrying
twelve TO fourteen passengers and
fselr hand baggage, will be used
over the transcontinental route hut
10 make Of plane has besn selected
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Greeters Here Elect
Convention Delegates

Roger S. Creel, Charles H. Pease
and Russell Conn were elected dele.
gates to the Greeters' convention
next month in Houston, Tex, at
meeting of Washington Chapter, No
81. Hotel Greeters of America, held
in the Hamilton Hotel last night.
Pease is president of the Wash
ington chapter. and Connis Is man
aeer of the Hamilton Hotel. Plans
were drawn up for dinner-dance
to be held Friday at Meridian Man.
siQns.
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says. Nor does she want to divorce
Cromwell.
ITS hard for children to live
here she sighed, pointing around
the low-ceilinged kitchen, papered
in dirty gray. with holes in the
plaster here and there. "I feared
for all of them but Alice. I thought
she'd last it out; but she went, too.
when she was a year old.
Cromwell refuses to talk about
the case with any one but those
who, as officers Of the law, can
compel him to do so. He sits all
day in his cell, where he was
lodged two weeks ago, nursing a
dark grievance against the State.
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Twisting a soiled apron, Mrs.
Cromwell announced she bore her
husband no i'll will.
IT am willing to live with him, 1
she said, IF I don't have to be a
mother any more. I've had all the
babies can. The next one would
kill me.
But Edward Cromwell, morose
and taciturn in the county Jail, will
make no promise not to demand a
fourteenth child from his frail.
sickly wife.
What Wives Are For
"A wife is to have children by
he told DIR. Daniel p. Griffin, state
alienist, who examined him today.
"Nobody's got a right to say we
can't have any more. I've got my
rights-and I'll stand by them"
Thus, there seemed no way to
settle the case by arbitration be-
tween the principals-and so far
the authorities have failed to dis
cover any handle by which the law
can save Mrs. Cromwell from what
she insists will mean her death.
The charge of technical breach
of the peace" admittedly trumped
UP against Cromwell, will be heard
tomorrow before Judge William j.
Buckley, But Prosecutor James G.
Shannon is not confident of the re-
suit of that prosecution. The hui
name society is helpless without an
applicable law.
There remains one loophole by
means of which society, as em.
I1ndind In he OF Iu nf fIAiC
try, may save Mrs Cromwell from
the man who threatened to keep
you bearing children until you die
and then IN get another woman"
If DIR. Griffin finds that Crom-
we'll is subnormal he may, under
the law, be subjected 10 steriliza'
ton.
Humane society members and
other socially inclined persons point
out as justification for that meas
ure that 10 of the IL children Crom-
well presented TO his wife died In
infancy. Another, 10 months, the
latest OF the brood. was horn with
out a spine and IS doomed to die
in "a local hospital.
Mrs. Cromwell sat today in the
house, little more than a shack,
where dwclt until her revolt. her
husband, and three children, Ed
ward Cromwell, four, and two child
rem by former marriage of hers,
Harold Stilwell, nine, and Flea
nor, IL. ~
Thirteenth on Way
Listlessly she talked of the case
while the big-eyed children hung |
to her skirts
lis it my duty to do what he
says?" she asked. Maybe I'll die
when this one Is born" indicating
that she awaits Cromwells thir-
teenth. She loves children, she
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LOOKING IN VAIN FOR HER NEWsBOy
Wife Rebels asSpouse
Demands nth Baby

BRIDGEPORT Conn. May 23.--Whie Connecticut authOri
ties hunted through musty old law volumes in search of
solution the problem presented when mother of 13
children had her jailed protect her from further
motherhood the little wife remained aamant in her tumble
down dwelling and husband behind the bars reiterated
The Washington times., 1928-05-23
CITIZENS TO CELEBRATE

The twentieth anniversary cele-
bration of the Rhode Island Avenue
Citizens Association will be held in
the Sherwood Sunday School Hall,
Twenty-second and Rhode Island
Avenue Northeast, Friday night,
June 1.
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SHE KILLED
| 0 GE I
HOUSE

NEW YORK, Jan. 11.-Greed-a.
ruling passion in the Snyder SASH
weight murder, for which Ruth
SNYDER is expected to die with
Judd Gray, Thursday night-also
prompted the crime that strapped
the last New York woman, Mary
Farmer, into the electric chair.
Mrs. Farmer, stolid drudge
living in the little paper mill town
OF Brownsville, near Watertown, on
the northern fringe Of New York
State, killed her friendly neighbor,
Mrs. Sarah Brennan. for money.
administrative in Z her squalid
poverty, Mrs. Farmer coveted the
cheap story.and-a-half clapboard
cottage in the section known as
Paddy Hill in which Mrs. Brennan
lived with her husband. 1t was
place worth perhaps. with the
furniture, $1,000.
Mary Farmer forged deed
transferring the property from
Mrs. Brennan. Her neighbor was
then enticed into Mary Farmer 9
two-room cottage and struck down
from behind with an ak in the hands
OF the plottef. Crumpling the body
into an old trunk, the murderess
moved her husband. James. their
one-year-old baby boy and the trunk
across the alley into the victim $
house.
Fantastic Impulse
In an unused stove in the
Farmer cottage police later found a
circular rom a Rochester real es-
- .
did it ever occur to you that
| you can get a home of your own
without it costing you a cent?
That was the source of the IAN
tastic impulse that routed the
heavy. broad.faced Farmer woman
to the death chair--the second
woman in New York state to die
by electrocution.
This revolving crime took place
| on April %, 1908. After a speedy
trial and in the face of thousands
| of appeals to Governor Charles
Hughes for mercy, Mary Farmer
persisted in the Auburn prison deatn
house on the morning Of March 20,
| 1909.
There were six women in the
grim chamber of the chair that
night, for among the witnesses to
Mary Farmers atonement were five
| of her own sex. Two of the women
were prison attendants.
Mother Of Small Child
BY a coincidence, Mrs. Farmer, :
| execution occurred ten years, al
most to the minute, after MRS.
Martha Place was put to death IN
| the Sing Sing death chair.
! Both Ruth SNYDER and Mary
Farmer were mothers of small chill
dren. Avarice played parts in their
crimes Their crimes bear a further
resemblance in that the upstate
woman also sought until the last
moment to shift the whole murder
| to a man--her husband.
But the resemblances cease
there. Ruth was a good-looking,
smart. gin-drinking suburbanite. the
wife of an art editor. Mary was
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ing last interview between Mary
and. her husband in the grim Au-
burn death house, a parallel OF
which is depicted graphically by
Theodore Dresser in IAN American
Tragedy" For an hour the dumb,
hopeless creatures talked. Then
the guards moved James away. to
his nearby cell, where he also
awaited death.
''Good-by JIM" Mary called out,
weepingly. eff 1 don't see you
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I25 KILLED
IN PL ANE
CRASHES

Casualties resulting from a1rcrate
accidents in 1927 were estimated ~
125 dead and about 100 injured ~
the Commerce Department aeronaut.
ical division today.
Figures for the first ten months
Of the year gave 10S dead and ~ IN
i1Ired. Inspectors, charged with To-
porting all accidents to the Commerce
Department, have not compleLeu
their November and December dat..
Deaths and injuries IN attempted
transoceanic flights are not incluaeu,
since these accidents are ATTENDED Dy
special hazards. y
Fatalities included Sc members q
aircraft crews and ~ passensers'
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TomOrrOW the lying COIOHeI pIalI"
to go to Colon, on the Atlantic
side of the canal, and on Friday
he hopes to hop off again. His
exact destination has not as yet
been announced
The highlight Of Lindbergh's &C
tivities yesterday was acting as pilot
for President Chiari during that
officials first airplane ride. With
his host in the cabin of the Spirit
of st. Louis. Colonel Lindbergh flew
for is minutes above Panama,
Ancon, and Balboa.
When the plane returned to earth
President Chiari emerged from the
cabin with a wide grin on his face
and announced he had been thrilled
beyond expectation. After seeing
the presidents enthusiasm, Vice
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dull none too clean. peasant
type. Her husband, the industrious
but illiterate James, was a paper
mill workman.
Man Escaped Chair
And James Farmer, unlike Gray,
escaped the chair. For on the eve-
ming before she died in the same
chair that burned" Chester Gill
lette, Mary confessed that she alone
welded the ak.
Her confession followed touch
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Lindy'sOun
Story Of
Life

In the three preceding in
sediments Of "We," Indy told
Of his first flight; of his first
aOinS.wolking and parachute
Jumping: Of his purchase Of
second hand plane; of his first
solo flight; Of his first cross
county hop, and Of his first
erosh.
NOW GO ON WITH THE
STORY and folloW it every
upeek-day in The Warrington
Times and on Sundays in The
Washington Herald:
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again in this world I win in the
next
Then she threw herself on her
cot and sobbed. 1t was her first
show OF emotion from the instant
of the crime. AS for Jim, he passoA
the rest of the night on mis- knees
praying for Mary and their child.
Clears Husband
Before she went to the CHAIR
Mary sent for the Rev. ]. J..
Hickey, Catholic chaplin and her
spiritual advisor, and dictated .
statement absolving James.
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BY Chas. A. Lindbergh
CHAPTER Nv

That afternoon a group or whites
shipped in so cents apiece to give
one of the negroes a hop, provided,
as they put it, I would DO a lew
'.flip flops' with him. The negro
decided upon was perfectly wiling
and confident up to the time when
he was instructed to get in; even
then he gamely climbed into the
cockpit assuring all of his clan
that he would wave his red BAN
danna handkerchief over the side
of the cockpit during the entire
flight In order to show them that
he was still unafraid.
After reaching the corner of the
field I instructed him, as / had the
previous passengers, to hold the
throttle back while was lifting
the tail around. When climbed
back in my cockpit I told him to
let 60 and opened the throttle to
take off. We had gone about 30
yards when it suddenly occurred to
him that the ship was moving and
that the handle he was to hold on
to was not where it should be.
His Death Grip
He had apparently forgotten
SNSIILll1I1& Jul luoG NA4OSSASS @~AA~
with a death grip he hauled 1t
back to the closed position. We
had not gone far enough to pre-
vent stopping before reaching the
other end of the field and the only
loss was the time required to taxi
back over the rough ground to our
starting point. Before taking Off
the next time, however, / gave
very implicit instructions regard
ing that throttle.
I had promised to give this negro
a stunt ride vet I had never had
any instructions in acrobatics.
had. however, been in a plane
with BAIL during two loops and
one tailspin. ] had also been care
fully instructed in the art Of loop
ing by Reese, who. forgetting that
/ was not flying Hisso standard
with twice the power of my Jenny,
advised me that it was not neces-
sary to dive excessively before a
loop but rather TO fly along with
the motor full on until the plane
gathered speed, then to start the
loop from a level flying position.
Up in the Air
climbed up 5000 feet and
started in to fulfill by agreement
by doing a few airsplashes, steep
spirals and dives. With the first
deviation from straight flight my
passenger had his head down on
the floor of the cockpit but con-
tinued to wave the red handker-
chief with one hand while he was
holding on to every thing avail
able with the other, although he
was held in securely with the
safety belt.
Finally, remembering my ground
instructions, leveled the plane
off and with wide open motor
waited few moments to pick up
maximum speed. then. slowly pull
ing back on the stick I began to
loop. When / had gotten one
fourth Of the way around the ship
was trembling in a nearly stalled
position: still. the Curtiss motor
was. doing its best and it was not
until the nose was pointing dI.
rectly skXWard at a 80 degree
angle thar the final inertia was
lost and for an instant we hun2
motionless IN the perfect position
for a whipstall. ] kicked full right
rudder Immediately to throw the
Continued on Page 9, Column %
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President Duque also went for
short aerial iaunt with Colonel Lind
bergh. He, too, was extremely
pleased.
Indy to Visit Porto Rico
BY international News Service
SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Jan. IL
Governor Towner, of Porto Rico
has received the following an
nOuncement:
Il accept with pleasure your kind
invitati ito visit Porto Rico and
will wire the date of my arrival
later.
(SignedD 'LtNDBEhIf1.
News that Colonel Lindbergn
would include Porto Rico in his ar
itinerary was given out by the
governors secretary.
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GENERAL WA5IH MINES GENERAL
NEWS sEcTIoN WEDNESDAY JANUARY H. 1928 NEWS SEcIl0N
Indy Gives Panama
President Ride
BY international News Service

PANAMA Jan 11Further official ceremonies, receptions
and sightseeing tours for Col Charles A LIND
hereh today prepared spend his last full day mere
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1928-06-15
MONTANA'S SPLIT
VOTE GETS LAUGH
REFUSES The
DELEGATION TIME TO PULL
ABSENT MEMBERS

KANSAS CITY, June 19.-Mon-
tana's fractional vote, given offl-
cial EXPRESSION Wednesday for
the first time during the report OF
the credentials committee to the
national republican convention
tickled the risibilities of the con
vention.
Difficulties in polling the state
% representatives, half OF them
in the delegates seats and the
others in the alternate section
caused delay that focused atten
tion on the state. Then DIR. X. Z
Monahan. chairman, announced
the state would pass, seeking fur
tber time to determine its attitude
but without explaining that fact'
A chorus of mo" greeted ms an
nouncement. The chair announced
that while there was no provision
in the convention rules whereby
the state could be forced TO vote
on the matter, there also was
nothing to permit delay by
that time. DR.. Monohan was ready
70 report and his announcement
that Montana votes 51s aye and
51h no drew laughter ana
cheers from every part of the hall
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1928-06-15
WOLF PIT. WOOL POOL
SELLS CLIP AT 4Oc

Tho Wolf Point Wool Pool con-
tracted Wednesday with oa,n
Ross representing the Minot Hlae le
and Fur Co.. for the sale OF 3ooo
fleeces at 40c per pound. Inc
nool was represented by its pusl-
ness agent. A. V. Appelgren quite
q number of owners OF small
flocks are included in the pool
and the sale will aggregate more
than $4,000. Mr.. Appelgren mas
had different buyers bidding 1or
the wool, but held out for the
price of a straight 4Oc with l per
cent dockage. The sale was maze
at fortunate time, seemingly, as
the price has since declined &c.
Mr.. Ross makes frequent trlps
into this territory and expects 10
buy more clips here this season
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1928-06-15
.SCOBEY-WOLF PIT.
HAVE GOOD MEET
FINE WEATHER MAKES DAY
PERFECT FOR EIGHTEEN
HOLE GOLF MATCH

A large delegation of golf deVo-
tees came from Scobey Sunday ior
the match with the local club and
an exceedingly pleasant afternoon
was spent on the links. Sixteen OF
the visitors were matched with 10
locals for two rounds of play, total
strokes to count. The Wolf Point
total was 1876 less than that of their
opponents.
On account of the dry spell the
fairways and greens were not I'D
condition coducive to extra goou
scores and few low cards were turn
en-. The course was new TO the
visitors which was handicap ano
not MANY of them played up to
their usual form. Most of the local
nlayers were also several strokes
above their average figures.
Hugh Marion led the local team
with 80. and Roy Johnson headed
tbe visitors with SS. The remain
ing seven in the visitors first div
ision were: Lloyd Hanson 80, Ste
phens SO, Ben Peterson 80, Lloyo
Schaefer 9S, Thomas Clifford 30
Rurlev Bowler 80, A. B. Collinsor
80.
The first eight of the Wolf Point
team, in addition to Marion, were
Cook S5. Catlin S5, Foor 81, FINN
80 Burgess 80, Chapman 92, 0. c
Johnson 92.
The Scobey boys are bunch o
genial sportsmen and it is pleas
ure to have them come.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1928-06-15
COME
TO EQUITY PICNIC
THEY'RE CELEBRATING JUNE
% AND WANT LOTS OF
GOOD HELP

The Equity Elevator had big
year last year.
And they don't care who knows
it.
So they're going to celebrate at
Vida on Saturday, June 20, with
a big all-day picnic, followed py
movies and a dance in the even
ing. It's going to be a genuine
old-fashioned picnic, with games
and sports in the forenoon, paii
cams and horse shoe contests IN
the afternoon.
Harry Stebbins, a member OF the
committee in charge. says: Ihe
elevator did a nice business the
mast season and has a lot OF good
friends. so the company feels that
celebration is due. We want
everybody to come, bring a Dasket
fof eats and his cups for coffee,
which will be served free, and en-
ioy the day with us. There II De
ono big table for everybody. Lots
If ice cream and lemonade.
Music for the dance in the even
ing will be furnished by the Vlda
svncopators or the KICK radio
orchestra.
After such a cordial invitatiol
as that it is to be expected ina
both the town and country people
will turn out in large numbers Z
eniov themselves at the Vida pic
mic on June %.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1928-06-15
yoITNC PEOPLE HOME
FOR SUMMER VACATION

Among the young peopie
are home for their summer sa ',os
t;on are cleo Flint and ohai,e1
.potbert Dot, who arrived Mohoas
norning from Missoula wne
thev have been attending the un =
uersitv Lucille zimmerman 40
hona from Valley City Wneie ~
hos been attending the state 'ee,on ~
rs, nas college. Fred Yandel' has a
ea9 ',at,,rned after completing ni9
aourse at Bozeman. Mr.. ana VIZ m,s,
+ A. Schmidt arrived Nth Nth
rhnrsday morning brlngins W. W.
thom Miss Amanda Smllh W. W.
hos heen teaching at noN 80
md sylvester and Elida VINO nar. 'or.
saen m attending the state uhivea
sitv Miss Doris Everett Is no hann
from Havre where she mas ~
teaching the last year.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1928-06-15
CROWDS ATTEND
BUREAU PICNIC
IDEAL WEATHER MADE BALM
WILLIE MEET MARKED
SUCCESS

Favored with ideal weather con-
ditions. on June 7th Bainville en-
+ertained one of the largest
crowds ever assembled for Farm
Bureau picnic Committeeman III
charge of each part of the pro
gram kept things moving through,
ont the day and the crowd founo
something of interest at all tllhes'
The address of welcome was
given by Harry Sands, Mayor .,
poinville and was we'll responded
+o hy Ole P. Olson of McCape'
nresident of the Farm Bureau
Short talks were given by j. =.
Tavlor, director of extension, anu
R. A. Bodley, director OF MUTUAL
AUTO Insurance in Montana. AZ
+be completion of the speahins
nrogram, a meeting was heio -
aIect director for the newly VI
oanized Tri-County turkey MAJ
1,a+ino association. H. c. BJorge
was elected. caohov
The ball game between Scopey
and Plentywood resulting IN a
score of 80 in favor OF Pleh'y,
.mood met with general approval
from the fans and was a 1lttlns
a,;,,ax 70 the sports program.
A free showing of the film Ine ne
D pomance of Sleepy Valley" at the
plnabird theatre at $50 drew !.
packed house as did the aanGe nant;eDal -
the evening given by the Na'ioi'
Guard unit. -, of or
committeeman in charge oi ~ -
n;aotion details are to be con
graduated on their gooa "a ~s Aqent.
IA w. WARDEN, co. Asen''