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ON ERRAND OF MERCY NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 29. A cheery, twinkling little man, an undertaker by profession, but dedicated to a life saving errand of mercy, reached New York yesterday and within an hour had given a pint of his blood to a stricken priest, Father Jeremiah Twoomey, in St. Elizabeths Hospital. "I came as fast as I could," said James R. Clegg, fifty-eight-year-old mortician of Toledo, Ohio. "Im not too late?" "Not at all," Dr. Harold X. Connolly, Father Twoomeys physician assured him. "And now we are confident that Father Twoomey has a good chance of recovery." Undertaker Clegg, one of the fev persons in the nation who have successfully battled the deadly streptoccocus verdans, was asked by radio station WSPD of Toledo to come to Father Twoomeys aid.
