|
Dewar Wald.
INK SLINGS. |
—Hay making has begun.
—Don’t forget to swat the fly.
—Let us welcome the boys home
right.
—Next week old Centre will have
its greeting and express its gratitude.
—And the scientists who say the
earth is cooling off haven’t been heard
from for a long time.
—Little is heard of the activities
of former Secretary of the Treasury,
William G. McAdoo, these days.
—While we still believe the Ger-
mans will sign the peace terms, their
bluster about refusing might result in
the command to the allied armies to
advance
—Next week will mark the close of
what Centre county has done in the
war. Ours has been a record to be
proud of. Let it not be marred by a
single jarring incident.
—Every once in a while, as the
junior Senator from Pennsylvania
goes Philanderin’ about, a bright
idea seems to strike him. That is, the
junior Senator thinks it a bright one.
—AIll the fuss and feathers have
been ordered off the naval full dress
uniforms and probably none of the
officers will be sorry except these who
have been longer on regalia than
work.
—Of course it is expected that you
will give something to help defray the
expenses of the “Welcome Home” cel-
ebration, but if you find yourself out
of funds, you can at least give them
the glad hand.
—As the first of July approaches a
lot of people, whom we never have
suspected of being interested in the
matter before, are making veiled in-
quiries as to whether the country re-
ally will be dry.
—The Senate has killed the day-
light saving law and it will end next
October. It has also killed the pro-
posal to furnish a pulmoter with
which to keep King Alcohol alive for
a little while after July 1st.
—~Cherries are being contracted for
at twenty-five cents the quart. The
only reason we can ascribe to explain
why promises to pay such a price
should be made is that there is said to
be “one born every minute.”
—The man who takes the new po-
sition as borough manager for Belle-
fonte will have to work for nothing.
The salary attached to the job will all
have to be expended in buying seda-
tives to keep his nerves quiet enough
to listen to the complaints and sass
he’ll get.
—Two years ago we had our whole
army hiking into Mexico to catch Vil-
la. Today he is just across the river
from El Paso and one regiment of
cavalry could grab him in twenty-four 1
hours. He is just as guilty now as
he was then and Uncle Sam ought to
grab while the grabbin’s good.
—It is now assured that there will
be more than a thousand soldiers in
the parade next Thursday. This will
be the greatest body of uniformed
military men seen together in Centre
county since the encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic in this
place many years ago.
—An unusual feature in the big
parade we are to have next week will
be two soldiers who survived to read
their own obituary notices. Both
were reported killed and forthwith
sent to Heaven by the county news-
papers. Nothwithstanding this hap-
py disposition of them they will be
here to parade on Thursday.
—Alcock’s wonderful performance
of flying from New Foundland to Ire-
land without a stop lost much of the
thrill it would have occasioned had it
not been for the three-stop flight of
the American aviators and the failure
of Hawker. It is none the less won-
derful, however. It is one more
clincher to the optomist’s argument
that there is no such thing as “It
can’t be done.”
—If the Germans refuse to sign the
peace treaty and war is renewed at
the cost of more precious lives the
fault will lie more at the doors of
those Republican Congressmen and
Senators who have labored so despic-
ably to discredit President Wilson
abroad than to any other source. It
has been this propaganda that Ras
made the Hun murderers insolent
and hopeful.
—TUnder a new law, just signed by
the Governor, every vehicle that trav-
els a public road at night, must dis-
play a white light ahead and a red
light astern. This law covers every
kind of conveyance except hay wag-
ons loaded and agricultural imple-
ments. In addition to this, no convey-
ance will be permitted to stop in the
centre of a road and every driver of
a conveyance will be liable to fine and
imprisonment if he does not immedi-
ately turn to the right and permit a
driver following him to pass, if he so
desires. This is a splendid act and
should go far toward reducing dan-
ger in travel on our highways.
—Last Friday a strawberry huck-
ster drove along a certain street in
Bellefonte. To one customer he offer-
ed berries at twenty-five cents a box.
She said she’d “see about it.” Then
he drove on and was hailed by anoth-
er woman to whom he oftered them at
thirty cents. When she told him they
were too high, he said: “Git-up!
I'm going to Linn street.” We
haven’t heard what Linn street paid
for the berries, but fresh home-grown
strawberries were being offered at
several stores that day for twenty
cents and this huckster knew it, for
he had tried to sell his at one of the
stores before he thought of going to
STATE RIGHTS AN
D FEDERAL UNION.
—aL ut
BELLEFONTE, PA., JUNE 20, 1919.
NO. 25.
Welcomes an Investigation.
The proposed investigations of the
conduct of the recent world war has
not frightened the Democrats in Con-
gress. In fact they are rather eager
to present for public comparison the
records made by the Republicans in
the wars conducted by them and that
of the Democratic administration in
the great war just ended in complete
triumph. For example RepreSenta-
tive Henry J. Steele, of Easton, Pa.,
issued a challenge, the other day, to
the Republicans of the House of Rep-
resentatives “to an investigation of
all the activities of the government
during the war instead of confining
their inquiries to the War Depart-
ment.” There are no indications of
an anxiety to accept the challenge.
Mr. Steele offered the evidence on
none but active Republicans in show-
ing up the delinquencies in the con-
duct of the Civil war and didn’t even
refer to the proportionately greater in-
iquities of the Spanish-American war.
He freely exculpates President Lin-
coln from blame for the evils of the
Civil war but shows that “our sailors
were sent to sea in ships built of
green timbers, fitted with engines
good only for the junk shop, and were
given guns that would not shoot,
powder that would only half explode,
shoes of which the soles were filled
with shavings, hats that dissolved
often in a month’s showers and cloth-
ing made of cloth ground up and fab-
ricated over again. In the navy yard
of the period,” he continued, “there
was a system of corrupt bargaining
between public servants and contrac-
tors under which goods of inferior
| quality and short of quantity were
accepted as of the lawful standard
and count.”
Those who were familiar with pub-
lic affairs of that time as well as
students of the history of the period,
living in Pennsylvania, are not sur-
prised at the revelations made by
Congressman Steele. “Public proper-
ty was purloined,” he declared, “and
carried off in open daylight; scores
of superfluous men were quartered on
the pay rolls by politicians; navy
agents colluded with ring contract-
ors to buy of them all supplies at
highest market rates on agreement
for fifteen per cent. commissions and
clerks in
tion, would ‘slip the pay requisition of
these ring thieves from the bottom to
the top of the.pile that awaited. the
official certificate of approval, so that
they might draw their money at once
to the prejudice of honest dealers.”
The Legislatures of Ohio and Michi-
gan, both overwhelmingly Republican
at the time, passed resolutions pro-
testing against the venality but to no
purpose.
We all know of the orgie of crime
and corruption that ran riot during
the Spanish-American war when em-
balmed beef and rotten fish and vege-
tables were fed to the troops who had
a choice of eating the poison furnish-
ed or starving to death. And the au-
thorities were deaf to protest. Presi-
dent McKinley might be exculpated
as Congressman Steele exculpates
President Lincoln but the evils could
easily be traced into the inner sanc-
tums of the War Department and the
Navy Department the very heads of
which were sharing in the profits of
the vile traffic. Congressman Steele
may confidently invite an inquiry that
will reveal these records and invite
comparison. His party has nothing
to fear.
——Senator Boies Penrose couldn’t
find time to keep his engagement to
deliver the commencement address at
State College on Wednesday of last
week, but he did have time to spend
most of that day in Huntingdon hob-
knobbing with politicians and spend
the afternoon and evening at the
Spruce Creek club fishing. In fact
most of the week was spent in this
section of the State, his latest ap-
pearance being at Williamsport Sat-
urday where he made the Flag day
speech at the Elk’s club. On Friday
the Senator stopped at State College
and gave that institution a look over
then made another stop at the Rock-
view penitentiary and after inspect-
ing that institution was accompanied
to Williamsport by warden John
Francies. On the way to the latter
place he dropped in for a call on
Judge Quigley who was a member of
the Furst-Curtin camping party on
Fishing creek.
——Senator Vareis throwing bou-
quets very freely toward Governor
Sproul now.
nor Brumbaugh fell for the same sort
of chaff.
— Tt was rather unkind of the
Peace Conference to begin a revision
of the treaty on the very day the Sen-
ate called on the President to submit
a copy.
——Senator Lodge has been fooling
the people a long time but now he
stands revealed as one of the scurviest
demagogues of his day and genera-
tion. :
——Hungry Hi Johnson’s Presiden-
tial boom has been launched but it
needs Jim Reed as a tail to operate
Linn street.
the steering apparatus.
the yards, for a econsidera- |
Four years ago Gover- |
| Peace Treaty Completed. !
| The peace terms have been finally
Either the Party or Germany.
of
Representative Fess,
Ohio, |
fixed and placed in the hands of the chairman of the Republican Congres- |
; Airplane Crosses the Atlantic in Six-
y teen Hours.
London, June 16.—London celebrat-
with a time limit of seven days for Proposed investigations into the war British airmen who yesterday com-
| German delegates in the conference Sional committee, protests that the | ed today the achievement of the two
|
the signing. The text has not been '
given to the public as yet but it is
substantially the same as that pre-
sented several weeks ago against
which objections were made and con-
cessions demanded. It may be ex-
pected that further objections will be
made and other concessions asked,
but to no purpose. Premier Clemen-
ceau, of France, has expressed the at-
titude of the United States and the
allies from which there will be no re-
cession. It is either sign or hostili-
ties will be resumed. It may be pre-
dicted that the signing will be execu-
ted within the time limit.
In what is termed a “covering
note” Premier Clemenceau presents
the case in its true light. “The war,
which begun on August 1st, 1914,” he
declares, “was the greatest crime
against humanity and freedom of the
people that any nation calling itself |
civilized has ever consciously commit- |
ted.” | There can be no compromise in
such circimstances, no negotiation, no
concessions. Justice demands repa-
ration and punishment. Mercy is
misplaced if it defeats these elements
of justice and the conditions present-
ed to the German people are. as gen-
erous as possible in view of the facts.
. Reparation is not enough. There
must be guarantees against the re-
currence of the great crime in the fu-
ture.
It is gratifying to feel that the end
is approaching. We have no fear of
a resumption of war. That is too hor-
. rible to think of, too costly to con-
template The world needs rest and
recuperation. This country needs its
great President at his post of duty in
‘Washington. And these beneficent
prospects are in view. As soon as the
treaty is signed President Wilson will
come home but until that is accom-
plished he cannot be expected. ‘His
guiding hand has been the potent
force in the work of the conference |
and must continue so until the task is |
completed. But happily that time is |
near and within a fortnight we may !
expect him with the full fruits of his
labor accomplish 5,
——Meantime it’s just as well that
“the Republican Senators had an op-
. portunity to cavort. ‘When the Pres-'
. ident gets home they will be the bus-,
iest men in this broad land of liberty.
Lodge’s Mare’s Nest Contained a
Goat.
The mare’s nest recently discover-
j ed by Senator Lodge, of Massachu-
: setts, contained a “goat.” We refer-
; red last week to the discovery and the
' sinister use of it made by Mr. Lodge.
, Since then an investigation has dis-
i closed the fact that the copy of the
tentative peace treaty which had been
shown to him was brought to this
country by the head of the American
Red Cross who had obtained it in a
legitimate way for a proper purpose.
It had never been in Wall Street, was
never used as a speculative pointer
and was entirely innocent of the ul-
terior motives which Lodge had infer-
entially ascribed to it. As a matter
of fact it wasn’t even the real text of
the peace treaty.
But it served the contemptible pur-
pose which Lodge intended for a brief
period and if the friends of the Pres-
; ident had been less courageous might
have been “a good enough Morgan
until after the election.” In fact it
did create considerable excitement in
official circles. The idea that the
President or any of the agents of the
administration should employ such an
instrument for speculative purposes
was abhorrent to the moral sense of
the country and justly aroused a
storm of resentment. But the mask-
' ed accusation didn’t endure long. The
friends of the President promptly de-
manded an investigation which quick-
ly disclosed the fact that the story
i was a figment of Lodge’s cankered
brain.
i The facts are that Mr. Davison,
! head of the American Red Cross, was
| in Paris when the copy of the tenta-
tive peace treaty was handed to the
| German delegates to the conference,
. and procured a copy which he brought
with him home. In the course of
time he handed it to former Senator
and Secretary of State, Elihu Root.
That gentleman without any evil pur-
pose showed it to Senator Lodge and
| he, for selfish and political reasons
decorated it with sinister trimmings
and handed it to Senators Borah and
Reed, for use as an instrument
against the President. The investiga-
tion soon extracted the teeth from it,
however. It proved that the only evil
connected with it was in the malicious
mind of Henry Cabot Lodge.
——Of course the expenses of gov-
ernment will diminish as war charg-
es are cut off but that doesn’t prove
greater economy in management of
public affairs.
——Sergeand York having been
married the other day it may be safe-
ly predicted that his “triumphal
march” through the country is ended.
‘for political
iat
activities of the government are not
purposes. Chairman
Hays, of the Republican National
committee, professes the same view
and in a recent public speech declar-
ed that such an investigation in the
interest of politics would be repre-
hensible.
concur. Whatever mistakes
of the head rather than the heart. As
Admiral Sims said a few days ago
war equipments were bought that
were not needed because the war end-
ed a year sooner than was expected.
But there was nothing criminal in
that.
But if the proposed investigations
are not intended for political effects
what are they expected ‘to accom-
plish? There are only two possible
results from investigations of war ac-
| tivities at this time. One of them is
advantage to the Republican party
and the other advantage to the Ger-
man autocracy. It would be difficult
to decide which of these interests
! would be more directly or in greater
measure benefitted by a Congression-
al inquiry that would hold up to. pub-
lic reprobation an error of judgment
on the part of some agent of the gov-
ernment. If it were possible to show
criminal intent the answer would be
easy. The party would be easily the
gainer. But criminal intent is not
even charged in the indictment.
Obviously, therefore, the intention
of the Republican machine is to help
the Imperial government of Germany
to bear its burden of disappointment
or aid in restoring it to its former
place “in the sun.” It has already
helped considerably in that direction.
It was largely because of the nagging
of the President that Germany has.
been emboldened to demand condi-
tions of peace that would feed the
pride of the military autocrats who
still fondly hope for a restoration of
the empire. Nothing since the arm-
istice has gone so far in this way as
the resolution of Senator Knox with
the probable exception of the mali-
cians lie invented by Senator
ing ‘the copy of the League
“covenant.
——The air route across the ocean
‘has been successfully negotiated but
there are no indications as yet that it
will become popular for excursion
purposes.
Palpably Unnecessary Orders.
It was hardly necessary for A.
Mitchell Palmer to write instructions
to the Democratic Senators and Rep-
resentatives in the General Assembly
of Pennsylvania as to how they shall
vote on the question of ratifying the
Woman Suffrage amendment to the
Federal constitution. The chances
are that every Democrat in the Gen-
eral Assembly will vote for ratifica-
tion and if any of them cast negative
votes it will be because of resentment
‘at the “butting in” of this self-ap-
pointed political overlord. This imi-
tation of the methods of Republican
bosses is not agreeable to the inde-
pendent minds of representative Dem-
ocrats. :
Two years ago Mr. Palmer instruct-
ed such Democratic Senators and
Representatives in the General As-
sembly as were willing to take orders,
to oppose pending legislation divore-
ing the police of Philadelphia from
politics and defeated a reform which
had been earnestly advocated by Dem-
ocrats for years. The defeat of that
measure made the primary election
riot and murder in the Fifth ward of
that city in 1917, possible, and inci-
dentally made the Democratic party
accessory, before the fact, to that or-
gie of crime. But the Democratic
Senators and Representatives who
have since been retired. Those who
continue in the service of the State and
the party look elsewhere for counsel.
The Democratic National conven-
tion of 1916 practically declared for
Woman Suffrage. Nearly all the
Northern Democratic Senators and
Representatives in the present Con-
gress voted for the amendment and
most of the Democratic newspapers
of the State favor ratification. Tt is
a safe guess, therefore, that the Dem-
ocrats in the General Assembly would
have voted for ratification without in-
structions, selfishly offered, from Mr.
Palmer. Woman Suffrage is inevita-
ble. The process of bringing it about
is justified by precedent and there
was no necessity for correspondence
school instructions on the subject.
The vast number of Liberty
bond holders in this country is some
lice vigilance is not a bad thing even
under the most favorable conditions.
—After July 1st old John Barley-
corn will be added to the collection of
skeletons in a good many family
closets.
—Some parts of Centre county need
rain badly while others have had more
than they need.
In this view we cordially |
were
made in the conduct of the war were !
obeyed his orders on that occasion |
protection against Bolshevism but po- !
| pleted the first non-stop trans-Atlan-
{ tic flight, meanwhile preparing for a
formal reception to the air victors,
| Capt. John Alcock and Lieut. Arthur
: Whitten Brown.
{ Formal examination of the Vick-
; ers-Vimy bombing type airplane in
which the two men flew 1,650 nautic-
al miles in sixteen hours and twelve
minutes from St. John’s, N. F., to
Clifden, near Galway, Ireland, has
been completed by Aero club officials
who found the seals intact on the
marked parts of the airplanes, thus
| officially establishing the authenticity
of the flight.
Meanwhile, the aviators, tired but
happy, are on their way to London
and may reach here tomorrow. Both
are well, but Lieut. Brown, the nayi-
gator of the plane, suffered injuries
on the nose and face when the ma-
chine landed in a bog. The biplane
was badly damaged and may have to
be dismantled.
Features of the trip were the car-
rying of the first aerial mail across
the Atlantic and the transportation
of two mascots, a dog and a cat.
BARELY ESCAPED PLUNGING INTO
SEA.
Enthusiasm over the success of the
trip has not been accompanied by any
minimizing of the dangers the avia-
tors encountered. Once, the airmen
said, they barely escaped being plung-
ed into the sea when the machine
went into a flat spin. Early in the
flight the half gale in which they took
off from St. John’s tore off the propel-
ler that drove the wireless dynamo
and made radio communication im-
possible. At the 8ame time Lieut.
Brown said, a stay wire broke, but of
this he did not speak to his compan-
ion until they landed. Capt. Alcock
said he would have turned back had
he_known this. JY
Bad weather, accompanied by fog,
rmitted only three observations for
aying the course, while sleet stopped
the working of the petrol indicator.
Captain Alcock describing his ex-
periences while flying at an altitude
of 11,000 feet, said:
MACHINE COVERED WITH ICE.
“It was hailing and snowing. The
machine became covered with ice by 6
so until 23 hour before We landed. M+
four or five hours. Lieut. Brown con-
tinually had to climb up in the fuse-
lage to chip off the ice with a knife.
The air speed indicator also gave
trouble, being full of frozen particles
which came out when we descended to
a lower altitude an hour before land-
ing.
Captain Alcock said the Vickers
company was sending two men to sal-
vage the damaged biplane, but he ex-
pressed the opinion that the job would
require several men and that they
would have to lay a track to get the
machine out of the bog.
The aviators said they did not feel
hungry during the flight but were ex-
tremely thirsty.
“For a time,” Captain Alcock said,
“we spoke to each other through the
communication telephones, but these
broke down after four hours and we
had to discard them. Then I had to
shout to Lieut. Brown. Most of our
‘conversation’ consisted of tapping
each other on the shoulder and going
through the motions of drinking.”
Luxury Tax Must Go.
From the Williamsport Sun.
The so-called luxury tax must soon
go to satisfy the demand of the suf-
fering public which no longer sees
any need of paying a penalty for the
purchase of certain good grades of
merchandise and in reply to this de-
mand Congress is getting the repeal
machinery under way. It is not like-
ly that the recall will also include the
tax on soda water which these days
is a considerable item in the revenue
of the land. The public, however, is
willing to compromise on an addition-
al cost for its drinks providing it is
relieved of the tax on wearing appar-
el and many other inappropriately
classified luxuries.
Aerial Mail Route Officially Declared
Open.
According to postmaster P. H.
Gherrity the Wilson aerial mail route
from New York to Cleveland, Ohio,
was officially declared open on Mon-
day, though up to yesterday noon no
planes for carrying mail have passed
through Bellefonte either east or west.
The first plane with mail was sched-
uled to go through yesterday but fail-
ed to arrive. A number of planes,
however, have come to Bellefonte,
several of them without mishaps,
while several others were forced down
| at other points on account of running
! out of oil and gas, and were damaged
iin landing.
{| Superintendent Powers, of New
York city, arrived here on Tuesday
and will remain ten days or more un-
til after the service is established.
Just when the first mail will reach
Bellefonte or be taken out by plane is
uncertain, but there is every reason
! to believe it will be in a very few
days, and once the pilots become ac-
quainted vith the route there should
be little difficulty in their getting
through without delay or mishap.
—We will all welcome the kind of
military occupation there will be of
Bellefonte next week.
o'clock in the morning and remained’
~.| ping itself around his leg. :
fon it with his other foot and the life of
‘the snake was ended. -
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Among “Pennsy” shop employees at
Altoona receiving belated classification
back pay, one woman will receive $600.
—Cambria county has six murder cases
scheduled for its June criminal court
and its jail is filled with prisoners. The
city of Johnstown is a strong contributor
to the criminal list of that county.
—Robbers early Saturday morning forc-
ed the safe of the Trexlertown postoffice
and secured Allentown bank stocks, Lib-
erty bonds, cash, war savings and post-
age stamps to the value of upwards of
$6000.
—President Judge H. W. Cummings, of
Northumberland county, captured a mon-
ster turtle while fishing along Penn’s
creek one day last week. The turtle, which
weighed twenty pounds, was presented to
C. A. Summers, of Milton, brother of Pro-
thonotary Edgar Summers.
—Mrs. Maria Herr, who last week cele-
brated her 101st birthday anniversary,
died Thursday of last week at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Abram Stively, at
Collins, Northumberland county. She out-
lived her husband by twenty years. She
possessed her faculties to the end.
—Captain W. C. Kress, of Lock Haven,
has celebrated the eighty-third anniversa-
ry of his birth. Captain Kress has been
an attorney in Clinton county for nearly
sixty years, and for several years was Su-
preme court reporter. He is one of the
few surviving members of the old Cata-
ract Steam Fire Engine company, of Lock
Haven. .
—The Adrian furnace at DuBois and the
Punxsutawney furnace at that town were
closed indefinitely last week. Manager St.
Clair, of both furnaces, says that the shut-
down is for repairs and because of little
iron demand. Workmen employed at the
DuBois plant say that they were asked to
take a reduction in wages before the
plants were shut down.
—Plans of the State Armory Board for
reconstruction of additional armories for
the re-organized national guard will have
to be curtailed in view of the fact that
less than $200,000 for construction has
been allowed by the House of Representa-
tives. The State has received offers of
free sites for buildings which would cost
twice as much as the sum available.
—The State Compensation Board has
ruled that Indiana county must pay com-
pensation to the widow of Constable Art-
ley, of Blairsville, because he was shot and
killed while trying to make an arrest. It
is held that the constable has been duly
elected by the people, had given bond and
was acting under control of authorities.
The manner of his selection to the office
does not enter into the case.
—The United States Supreme court has
decided in a car discrimination case
brought some six years ago by James H.
Minds, of Ramey, against the Pennsylva-
nia Railroad company, that the latter cor-
poration must pay Mr. Minds $75,000. Mr.
Minds has three suits pending in Clear-
field county for discrimination in intra-
shipments. One of these cases was tried
and a sum of $300,000 obtained after a
three week's trial.
—Charles Hershey Mengle, of near Ver-
dilla, Union county, related a strange ex-
perience he had with a snake. While
walking through a grass field, he noticed
something - hanging to his trousers, and
stopped to remove it. He found it to be
a good sized black snake. The snake had
itself fast to his trousers and was wrap-
He tramped
—Goaded to a frenzy of jealousy by sup-
posed intimacy of his wife with another
man, Frank Lotz, of Reading, waited for
her early Sunday morning, and as she
came out of the house where she boarded
he fired three bullets into her head, and,
turning the revolver to his own temple,
fired on himself. Both died immediately.
Lotz and his wife had been estranged for
some years. The husband left a statement
in which he named a man as responsible
for breaking up his home.
—Miss Lillian Barclay was elected
Johnstown’s first policewoman at the reg-
ular meeting of city council last week.
One of Miss Barclay’s most important du-
ties will be to supervise city dance halls,
in accordance with the act recently passed
by the Legislature giving the mayors of
third-class cities power to regulate such
places of amusement. Miss Barclay will
be formally appointed as soon as the city
solicitor prepares the necessary legislation
concerning the dance hall act.
—In a sensational daylight raid on an
alleged whiskey distillery in the heart of
Midland, Butler county, on Saturday,
three persons were arrested, apparatus
said to be in actual operation and forty
gallons of new whiskey were confiscated.
Those arrested were foreigners, Eli Bon-
divi, his wife and daughter, all of whom
are alleged by the police to have been con-
nected in the operation of the still. This
was the first raid of the kind reported in
years in Butler county. That county has
been known as a dry county since the 1st
of April.
—Harry Drey, 28 years of age, married
and the father of three children, was shot
from ambush in Hampden park, Reading,
early Monday morning by an unknown
assailant concealed in the shrubbery.
With him was Helen Noll, aged 24 years,
a single woman, to whom he had been pay-
ing attention, and whose story coincides
with Drey’s. She was taken to police sta-
tion as a witness. Drey, with a bullet
through his stomach, is in a hospital, ex-
pected to die. He was prominent in the
past several years as a semi-professional
ball player.
—Sergt. Genn Leitzel, of Mifflinburg,
who was taken prisoner by Bolsheviki
forces in Russia, March 29th, and held in
Moscow with four others, has been releas-
ed through the efforts of Frank J. Taylor,
a correspondent of the United Press. Re-
ports of the capture of Sergt. Leitzel were
received in Mifflinburg a short time after
he was taken by the revolutionary forces
in Russia. Some time later word was re-
ceived in Miffiinburg from the War De-
partment that he had been killed by the
Bolsheviki troops, but fortunately this re-
port proved incorrect.
—A roll of bills, containing $670, was
found by Edward A. Fleming at the en-
trance of his clothes pressing establish-
ment in Sunbury last Friday. Many
passersby had overlooked the money, al-
though one man is thought to have gotten
a stray bill or two that was loose from
the roll. Some hours later Willard D.
Leiby, a merchant, telephoned the police
he had lost a roll containing between $500
and $1000, which he had left in a pair of
trousers. These trousers, with other
clothing of Leiby’s were taken to Fleming
to be pressed. They had been tossed
about with not a thought that they con-
tained money and they lay for a long time
within everybody's reach. Fleming turn-
ed the money over to the police.
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