Brora
—Let us make Judge Kunkel the
nominee for Supreme court justice.
—Why was all the money spent in
rounding up the “Reds” if they were
to be captured only to be released
again.
Tt seems to us that Centre county
Republicans would vote Scott and Boal
for district delegates with a great
deal more self respect than by voting
Scott and Gaffney.
— General Wood is getting strong-
er in the Republican presidential pos-
sibility class, but we still stick to our
January prediction that the General
will not bring home the bacon.
— Anyway Herbert Hoover said
pleasanter things about Senator John-
son’s victory over him in California
than the Senator could find it in his
heart to say about Mr. Hoover.
— Looking over the seeding chro-
nology of Centre county for the past
forty years, as it appears on another
page of this paper, there is not so
much to be discouraged over by the
backwardness of this season.
__ What if Governor Sproul should
come out in the open for Gen. Wood ?
Would the Penrose satellites in Centre
county then vote for Major Terry
Boal for district delegate to their Na-
tional convention or would they still
blindly follow the big boss.
__So Philander C. Knox is the man
whom Senator Penrose thinks is “just
such a man as Senator Harding.”
Well, all the pro-Germans ought to be
for Knox, for he certainly has left no
doubt in well informed minds as to
where he stands with regard to Ger-
many.
—1If
al convention declares against
kind of a League of Nations, as the
stand-patiers in that party are now
trying to force it to do, more certainly
than ever will the next President of
the Unitéd States be a Democrat. The
country hasn't forgotten the sacri-
fices it made during the war and the
unrest and distress since is such as to
convince most of it that anything
striving to prevent wars in the future
is worth a trial at least.
—Just why the Highway Depart-
ment won't make the new Bishop
street. improvement of brick instead
of conercte we are at a loss to know.
The main street in State College, to
be paved this summer, is to be of
brick, and Bellefonte is told that
brick are not to be used any more. It
seems to us that council should insist
on some uniformity. that will save our
streets from taking on the appearance
of a crazy quilt. There is mow red
brick on the two High street bridges,
buff brick on the sections of the
#» streets approaching them and buff
brick and asphalt macadam on Alle-
gheny street. Add to this variety
concrete on Bishop and our town will
look like an experimental plat.
— Those Democrats of Centre coun-
ty who think that it is time to regis-
ter a protest against the selfish lead-
ership of Palmer and McCormick will
have a chance to do so at the coming
primary. They can write in some
other name than that of Mr. Palmer
for President and some other name
than that of Joe Guffey for National
committeeman. While Palmer will
probably get the endorsement of
Pennsylvania we can show him that
he got it by default and not by an
expression of a majority approval.
The writer would suggest that all
real Democrats unite on the names of
either Mr. McAdoo or Governor Cox,
of Ohio. Either one of these men
would give the party a candidate be-
hind whom it could rally with enthu-
siasm and with hope of a victory at
the polls.
—The public health lessons that are
supposed to be running in every
newspaper in Pennsylvania now may
be being read very generally, but
those most interested in the benefits
it is hoped parents of children will de-
rive from them have little or no as-
surance that their splendid work is
bringing results. Up to this writing
not a single person in Centre county
has sent a card to the county health
department informiing it that he or
she is reading the lessons. While such
an act would be entirely voluntary on
your part, if you are interested in the
lessons, it is only fair to bear in mind
that the work of those who have pre-
pared and are publishing the lessons
is voluntary, also. It is a gratuitous
labor for the public welfare on their |
part and a post card informing them
of your interest would at least encour-
age the thought that their labor of
love is not in vain.
—Judges Kunkel and Sadler are
both Republicans. There is no Dem-
ocratic jurist or lawyer who is an as-
pirant for the vacant seat on the Su-
preme court bench. We Democrats
can nominate and, possibly at the pri-
maries, elect the Supreme court jus-
tice if we concentrate on one of the
two Republican aspirants. Judge
Kunkel is the man to whom we should
throw our strength. He is opposed by
the Republican machine, but will poll
many independent Republican votes
nevertheless and these with all the
Democratic votes in the State would
give him fifty-one per cent. of the to-
tal in the primaries and thereby elect
him without opposition. Democrats
should remember that it was Judge
Kunkel who presided over the court
that punished the capitol grafters
after their public official, State Treas-
urer Berry, had exposed the rotten-
ness and if he had been a machine
judge they would probably have gone
without punishment.
VOL. 65.
Vote a Presidential Preference.
In the third week of the Literary
Digest’s poll Mr. McAdoo has 18032 |
votes and Mitchell Palmer 3449. The |
ratio is nearly six to one in favor of |
a man who has not announced his can-
didacy or asked, directly or indirectly,
a single man to vote for him against
a candidate who has hunted votes like
a ferret hunting rabbits. Mr. Palmer
has invoked and employed every con-
ceivable trick which the fertile minds
of such political sharks as Charlie
Donnelly could imagine to lure votes.
But upon an appeal to the highest
standard and best class of voters, he
lands next to last in a field of eight,
neither of the others having solicited
a vote. This test clearly exposes the
absurdity of his pretense.
There is no question of State pride |
The decent .
in the premises, either.
and self-respecting Democrats of
Pennsylvania cannot be bound to the
support of a candidate picked for
them by Charlie Donnelly, of Phila- |
Brennen, of Pitts- |
delphia, or Bill
burgh, because sordid and selfish im-
pulses influenced them to select a man
of their own type who was born in
, | Pennsylvania. In his methods of cam-
. . . 1
the coming Republican Nation- |
any |
paigning Palmer has dishonored the
State and debased the office so that
Pennsylvania is more honored in vot-
ing against than for him. His can-
didacy is a false pretense, an expedi-
ent to remew his license as an office
broker and provide capital for trading
operations in delegates at the conven-
tion.
Every Democratic voter in Peni-
sylvania who has love for the princi-
the party will vote against Mitchell
er on his ballot or indicating the
choice of another by using stickers.
This process will cost a little trouble
buke to Palmer.
traitor all his life. When President
Wilson was pleading for a Congress |
which would support his policies two
years ago, Palmer was trying to de-'
feat the Democratic nominee in the
District in which he lives as well as in
4
the
ning of a candidate in
district.
These are the men who ask Pennsyl-
vania Democrats to be
whenever their selfish interests are
promoted by regularity. Charles P.
Donnelly, William J. Brennen, A.
Mitchell Palmer and Vance C. McCor-
mick comprise a group of political
guerrillas which has been plundering
the Democratic party in Pennsylvania
for ten years. Now they are begging
contributions from federal officers and
employees, in violation of law, to cre-
ate a fund to debauch the Pri-
mary ballot that their lease of looting
may be prolonged for another period.
Cast your vote to defeat this base pur-
Dauphin
Palmer for the nomination.
— Out in Cambria county the
printers are charging $34 a thousand
for printing the official ballots for the
May primaries and $15 a thousand for
the sample ballots, or a total of ap-
proximately $2100 for the job. It will
cost Clearfield county $850 for the
primary ballots for that county. Just
what it will cost Centre county has
not yet been divulged, but from the
business for their health.
— Senator Lodge ought to be
National convention.
sentiments of the party and his false
pretense is an appropriate trimming.
————
— Don’t be too certain.
hat and shabby shoes may represent
pure niggardliness instead of a no-
hats and shoes.
tee ee ee le
— Having exhausted the possi-
bilities of promising lower prices as a
medium of getting the front page
Mitch Palmer has fallen back on the
“red” alarm.
er fA
—__We have not seen any state-
ment of where General Wood gets his
campaign funds but evidently the
source has been seriously interrupted. |
ere ———e eee ——
— Heavy frosts occurred on Sun-
day and Monday mornings, but fortu-
nately there is nothing far enough
advanced to feel the effects thereof.
ee etme ff
— Tt is believed that a cigar store
Indian could beat Tom Watson in
Georgia and maybe it could but Mitch-
ell Palmer couldn’t.
—If our memory serves us right we
had six fogs in January and already
we have had six frosts in May.
—Tt looks as if Casey has left the
bat and gone to the barrel.
ples and respect for the traditions of |
Palmer by writing the name of anoth- |
bat it will be worth tHe price as a re-
He has been a party |
that ‘represented ‘by Mr. Dewalt and !
“Vance McCormick prevented the run-
“regular”
pose. It may be done by expressing |
a preference for any other man than '
above figures it is evident that the.
Cambria county printers are not in:
President of the coming Republican !
His opposition |
to the peace treaty represents the
An old
ble protest against the high cost of
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE.
On Thursday of last week Mitchell
Palmer, our grotesque Attorney Gen-
| portance of the Primary election this
eral, sent out from his office in Wash-
ington, an alarm of impending slaugh- |
ter. He admonished the public that
! on the first day of May there: would
be a sort of orgie of murder and pil-
‘lage and rapine which would run
through the length and breadth of
the land. On Friday he supplement-
ed this statement with a public assur-
ance that he had averted the calamity
' by the timely interposition of his vast
power and the exercise of his great
sagacity. Thus he kept the front
| page of the leading newspapers of the
country for two days in succession at
a time when the uppermost thought
in the public mind was the selection of
delegates to a National convention to
which he is appealing for favors.
| According to Mr. Palmer’s “alarm
bulletin” the anarchists, nihilists, 1
| W. W’s and all other lawlessly inclin-
ed persons within the jurisdiction of
this “land of the free and home of the
brave,” were to break out everywhere
and murder public officials on May
Day. Of course he admonished the
proposed victims of the slaughter to
“take keer of theirselves” during the
proposed eventful day. Bub he didn’t
entirely trust their discretion and
took steps on his own account to pro-
tect them. Just how he proceeded is
left to conjecture but according to his
subsequent statement he obtained a
list of those marked for destruction
and warned them. Of course he did
other things for their safety but has
not revealed what. In any event no-
body has been killed though some
wouldn't have been missed, probably.
An esteemed contemporary com-
menting upon this curious episode of
‘ our public life expresses surprise that
none of the miscreants concerned in
this murderous conspiracy was placed
under arrest. If Mr. Palmer was able
' to discover the names of the propos-
ed victims he ought to have been able
to lay the heavy hand of the law upon
some of the conspirators. Plainly our
contemporary doesn’t understand the |
| processes of the Palmer mind. The
arrest of a murderer either before or |
after the event is a common occur-
rence and though Palmer is an expert
horn blower, the public officials and |
prominent citizens might never have :
known that their precious lives were
" Palmer as Life Saver.
men who will support treasonable bar- |
| the future.
PA., MAY 7, 1920.
Paramount Duty of Democrats.
|
i We again call the attenton of the
voters of Centre county to the im-
year. Not only will the contest {0
the Supreme court be decided by the
primary vote on the 18th of May, but
all contests for party offices and for
delegates to the National conventions
will be determined. In view of the
pending movement to alter or amend
the constitution of the State, the of-
fice of Justice of the Supreme court
is unusually important. It would be
a grave mistake to allow this decision
to be made by the professional politi-
cians who always vote at primaries
for the reason that those who have
real interest in the affairs of the Com-
monwealth have neglected their du-
ties.
The delegates chosen at the Prima-
ry election one week from next Tues-
day will express the voice of Pennsyl-
vania in the choice of a candidate for
President. Every professional poli-
tician in the party, every subsidized
office holder, every selfish employe of |
the office-trading machine will be at
the polls dragooning and cajoling
voters to renew their franchise as of- |
fice brokers. But the real and earnest
Democrats who vote for principle
rather than profit are likely to forget
their obligaticns of citizenship and al-
low the traders to get away with an
unearned and undeserved victory. We
implore the real Democrats of Centre
county to lay aside all other things
that day and go to the polls.
The rotten and perfidious machine
of Palmer, McCormick, Donnelly and
Brennen hopes to renew its control of
the Democratic organization of Penn-
sylvania through the neglect or cavre-
lessness of the real Democratic voters
of the State at the Primary election
this year, by the election of Joe Guf-
fey, of Pittsburgh, to membership in
the Democratic National committee
and the selection of State committee-
gains with the enemy such as they |
made in the last Gubernatorial con-.
test. Every earnest Democrat in Cen-
tre county should go to the polls on
against such deals in the past and in
1t is the paramount duty
of the time.
elle
It may be said that nobody en-
‘saved by the vigilance and efficiency | joyed Penrose’s declaration for Knox
' of the Attorney General.
Now it’s | less than General Wood though it can
| different. They owe gratitude and | hardly be said that Governor Sproul
| know it.
i eee lees tet
{ ——Mr. Taft says his attitude on
. the peace treaty puts a proposal that
' he runs for President “out of the
! range of practical possibilities.” So
| it does. So it does. He reverses him-
"self so frequently that nobody can
| tell what his attitude was.
Democrats and Liquor.
The Democrats of Pennsylvania
must divorce themselves from the il-
legal liquor traffic now said to be in
progress under the sanction of the
party leaders in Philadelphia, Pitts-
burgh and the Anthracite coal re-
gions. It is openly declared by some
of the leading newspapers of the
State that thousands of barrels of
whiskey are being handled every
“week in violation of law in Scranton
“and that officials of the government,
‘ whose duty it is to prevent such traf-
‘accusations reflect upon President
| Wilson’s administration of the gov-
‘ernment. They are grave aspersions
upon the Democratic party. No po-
litical exigency justifies such a pros-
titution of power. :
Last week we referred to state-
ments published in the Philadelphia
Record and to accusations made by
| former Congressman Diffenderfer, of
Montgomery county, a Democrat, on
the subject. Since then the charges
have been repeated and amplified by
the Philadelphia North American and
| Pittsburgh politicians are quoted as
| saying that the authorities must “not
be severe in handling liquor cases un-
til after the State primaries, May
18th.” This is connecting the Demo-
cratic party too closely with a law- |
less traffic. Liquor cases of the kind |
in question are exclusively within the
jurisdiction of United States District
courts which are officered mainly by
Democrats. There can be no mistake
in the inference.
The liquor traffic is bad enough
“when legally followed. A good many
of the evils charged against it are
justly and properly placed. But un-
‘der a license of the courts and the
protection of the law it has rights that
| must be recognized. When it is con-
| ducted in violation of the law, how-
| ever, and the officials of the govern-
| ment are prostituted to its base serv-
| ice, it becomes intolerable and every
man responsible for the criminal pro-
cedure deserves popular execration.
| The name of Mitchell Palmer is asso-
| ciated intimately with this nefarious
traffic of the underworld and the evi-
dence against him is so convincing
that he ought to be held responsible
until he vindicates himself.
fic, are aiding and abetting it. These |
wnet into ecstisies over it.
Disturbing the Machinery.
Senator Penrose appears to have
thrown a monkey wrench into the ma-
chinery of the Sproul-Wood combina-
tion which was making such fine pro-
gress in dispensing the vote of Penn-
sylvania in the Republican National
convention to be held in Chicago next
month. After a prolonged and confi-
dential conference with Mr. Will
Hays, National chairman, the other
day, Senator Penrose issued a state-
ment favoring the nomination of Sen-
ator Knox as the candidate for Pres-
ident. As a favorite son movement
such a shift of affections from Sproul
to Knox would certainly have a dis-
turbing influence upon any little ar-
rangement like making General Wood
the second choice of the delegation,
for Wood belongs to the other side of
the factional fence.
Various reasons have been advanc-
ed for this unexpected action of Sen-
ator Penrose. When Governor Sproul
took Gifford Pinchot into his official
family we expressed a doubt as to the | P
ber of the House or Senate who par- |
ticipates in such a tour to be paid for |
acquiescence of Penrose in such use of
the official patronage. Pinchot is
known as the bitterest and most vi-
tuperative enemy of Penrose and the
Senator has not been widely celebrat-
ed for amiability toward enemies. The
incident was interpreted, however, as
a harmony deal and Penrose is strong
on harmony, and the nine days’ won-
der passed out of public view and was
forgotten. The declaration for Knox
gives the affair a new aspect, though,
and indicates a break between the
Governor and Senator that may great-
ly alter the Republican political map
of Pennsylvania.
There are other suggestions which
come from well-informed partisans of
both the Senator and the Governor
with respect to the matter that may
be worthy of attention. The National
Republican organization is not only
against General Wood but has recent-
ly shown signs of alarm at the grow-
ing friendship between Governor
Sproul and the General. On the day
that Hays and Penrose were together
in Philadelphia Sproul and Wood were
in equally confidential association at
Pittsburgh as guests of the Americus
club, and it is possible that the Knox
announcement was intended as a
“keep off the grass” sign to Sproul.
Meantime those of us who are not in
the confidence of either can do no bet-
ter than wait future developments.
e—————— ee —
— Possibly the extravagant hab-
its adopted by the public during the
war are responsible for the opposition
to saving day light.
t and. register a protest
NO. 19.
Candidate Knox.
From the Philadelphia Record.
There was a time when the Repub-
lican party owned the German-Amer-
ican vote. That was a good while ago.
!In 1916 the Republicans tried to re-
j cover it by putting up a candidate who
. would not tell what he would do if he
were elected, and for that reason he
was not elected. The active pro-Ger-
man elements were enthusiastic for
Judge Hughes, but the greater part of
‘the citizens of German origin were
‘ thoroughly American, and divided be-
‘tween the parties, and Mr. Wilson
| won.
: it has now occurred to the saga-
cious Senator Penrose that, the war
being over, it is a good time to make
| another effort to reclaim the lost Ger-
-man-American Alliance. Mr. Knox is
{ almost the only public man who has
| denounced the peace treaty on the
| ground that it is burdensome to the
| Germans. General opposition to the
| peace treaty—a treaty which does not
‘meet with the approval of the Ger-
| mans—naturally inclines the non-
| Americanized German voters to sup-
| post the party that has prevented the
ratification of the treaty. It is hoped
| by putting Senator Knox in the field
to clinch this disposition and carry the
| election by the help of those voters
{who are more concerned in the inter-
| ests of the country of their origin
| than in those of the country of their
adoption. The German-American Al-
| liance could not keep the country from
| defending its rights when they were
| assailed by Germany, but its member-
| ship—the organization was dissolved
during the war—hopes to do some-
thing for the Fatherland by getting a
friend into the White House.
Mr. Knox is an excellent gentieman
and an eminent lawyer, but we do not
suppose that he has been proposed as
sons. There are other excellent
tlemen and eminent lawyers.
Mr. Knox is not only opposed to the
peace treaty, as most of the Republi-
i can Senators are, but he is opposed on
grounds that the others do not dare to
set forth. He is opposed because the
penalty imposed upon Germany for
causing the world war is too severe
for so moderate an offense.
It is an ingenious play. It is de-
signed to bring to the support of the
ularly concerned in the comfort and
enjoyment of Germany. A majority
of the Republicans in the House sup-
abrogated the rights of Americans
upon the high seas, that would have
waived our rights as Americans to
help Germany win the war. The ef-
fort to elect “Pussyfoot” Hughes, who
could denounce what the President
did, but could not be induced to tell
what he would do, was a failure, and
this minor effort in the same direc-
$ion is not likely to be more success-
ul.
ree lee
A Governmental Joy-Ride.
From the DuBois Express.
Early in June more than 100 Amer-
ican Reperesentatives and Senators,
with their wives, their children, their
secretaries, their valets and other at-
tendants, will sail from San Francis-
co on the greatest official junket in
the history of the nation. They will
go to Honolulu, to Guam, to Manila,
to Japan, to China, to Korea, and to
Siberia. It will be a pleasant trip. It
will be a tour of educational value and
of many new and strange sights. Also
it will broaden the outlook of many
statesmen who have never seen be-
yond their local horizon.
No possible objection could be rais-
ed to this pligrimage if the members
of the party paid their own expenses;
if they paid the expenses of their fam-
ilies and their retinues. But the fact
that the federal government is called
upon to bear all of the cost but $75
er head is an outrage, and the mem-
out of the Treasury of the nation will
find himself under merited reproach
for the remainder of his official ca-
reer.
To make such a trip as proposed
would cost the average individual not
less than $1,000 possibly $1,500. If
150 Representatives and Senators go,
as is now the prospect, with an equal
number of wives and others, some-
body must put up the million or more
dollars to pay the cost. And the gov-
ernment must do the putting up. The
$75 per junketer, which is the sole ex-
pense involved under the present pro-
tips going and coming.
It may be too late to call this joy-
ride off, but if it is not the far-seeing
Legislator who had planned to make
the trip would do well to consider the
unpleasant possibilities involved in it.
It is not enough for him to say that
the government transport which will
carry him and his family will make
the voyage whether there is an official
party aboard or not. The voyage
would not be made in the expensive
fashion that is now proposed. With
the country still staggering under a
heavy load of taxation, it will not look
with favor or indifference upon such
a junket.
Has no Influence.
¥rom the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
One notes that John D. Rockefeller,
Jr., drives an electric. That is prob-
ably his mute protest against the
price of gasoline.
——The Overall Club seems to have
lost its suspenders.
| SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—The school directors of Punxsutawney
at a recent meeting voted to raise the
school tax levy from 19 mills to 22 mills,
and in addition impose a per capita tax of
$5 on each male resident.
taxation was found to be necessary on ac-
count of the increased cost of maintain-
ing the schools.
—Peter Egger was shot and fatally
wounded late Sunday night at a “home
brewing’ party at Coal Run, a mining
town near Indiana, Pa. Shortly before he
died Egger, it is said, identified William
M. Polksowicz, a miner of Coal Run, as
the man who fired the shot. The alleged
slayer was arrested. ;
__Earl Eddy, of Powell, who pleaded
guilty in court at Towanda on Monday to
operating an automobile while intoxicat-
ed, was sentenced to pay, a fine of $100 and
spend one year in jail. He was arrested
by state policemen. In sentencing Eddy,
Judge Maxwell said that every offender of
this sort would get the limit under the
law.
Adam Trotski, of Kulpmont, has sued
H. 8. Evert in the Northumberland coun-
ty courts, to recover $2000. Trotski alleg-
es that in buying Evert’s saloon for $2000,
there was an additional agreement to the
effect that the money was to be returned
in case of constitutional prohibition. He
asserts that Everet refused repeated de-
mands for the check.
—Having been assured that he is sole heir
to the immense estate left by his grand-
father, General Patrick Sarsfield, in Ire-
land, Thomas Sarsfield, a retired miner, of
Westmoreland county, is preparing to sail
for England to present his claim. General
sSarsfield’s estate includes 1300 acres of
Jand in Ireland, much real estate in Lon-
don, Dublin and other cities and bank
credits of £44,000,000.
— That York people have fair private
supplies of wet goods in these supposedly
bone-dry times was indicated by the num-
per of applications for permits to move
intoxicating liquors received at the inter-
nal revenue office at York during April.
But few permits for removal of large sup-
plies of liguor were issued. Applications
were chiefly for small quantities, ranging
from two to six quarts.
When the automobile in which they
were riding was struck by lightning, Wil-
liam Dunlap, of Somerset, and james Dun-
lap, his three year old brother, were ser-
jously injured and the car was wrecked.
So far as is known this is the first time a
moving automobile has ever been struck
by lightning. William Dunlap’s right eye
was torn out and the younger brother suf-
fered severe cuts and bruises.
—One of the largest realty transfers in
a Presidential candidate for those rea- !
gen- |
But |
| for a consideration said”to be over a mil-
Republican party all the elements that.
opposed our entrance into the w ro
and all the elements that are partie-
ported resolutions that would have |
gram is just about enough to pay the
Indiana county in some years was recent-
ly consummated at Blairsville when the
Columbia Plate Glass company’s plant was
sold to the National Plate Glass company
lion dollars. The deed has just been re-
corded in Indiana. The revenue stamps
| attached to the deed amounted to $833.
One of the stamps is a $500 denomination.
—_Emuse Nicora, 25 years old, of Mercer,
pleaded guilty last Wednesday to murder-
ing his wife, and was sentenced by Judge
McLaughry to from 18 to 20 years in the
western penitentiary. Nicora shot and
killed his wife in Wheatland several
months ago. She refused to leave herpar-
‘ents’ home when he started to work in
Sharon. Returning one night he fired one
shot through the window into her body,
killing her instantly.
‘—The big woolen mills at Lewisburg
were destroyed by fire at an early hour
last Thursday morning. The loss will ex-
ceed $150,000. The origin of the fire is not
known. The firemen were hampered in
their work by low water pressure, and the
flames, which broke out about 2 o’clock,
swept through the big three-story ‘strue-
ture. Much available machinery and stocks
were destroyed. Two former mills on the
same site were destroyed by fire several
years ago.
Edward Wagner, 64 years of age, a
Pennsylvania Railroad crossing watchman
employed at Montgomery, Lycoming coun-
ty, was virtually scared.to death. While
on duty Sunday night Wagner narrowly
escaped being run down by a freight train.
After the train passed he was found lying
on the ground near the crossing where he
did his duty. He had suffered a nervous
collapse. Wagner was carried home and
his condition grew steadily worse until his
death yesterday. :
— Bratton VanZandt, thirty-three years
old, of Lewistown, was arrested late on
Saturday by an United States postoffice in-
spector, charged with appropriating mon-
eys to his own use that were given him by
patrons with which they desired him to
purchase and forward money orders to
mail order houses in payment of purchas-
es. VanZandt was a rural carrier for one
year and is the second of the local post-
office employees to be arrested in as many
weeks, Frank Mateer having been arrest-
ed for stealing the contents of parcels post
packages.
— Leo J. Russell, superintendent of
Bradford county schools, was advised last
Thursday by Dr. J. F. Marshman, of State
College, who is directing the state-wide
and county speaking contests in the pub-
lic schools, that a thorough investigation
will be made into Mr. Russell's charges
that the twelve county contests held at
Lock Haven two weeks ago were a vicious
frame-up. The charges resulted when
Miss Anna Holmes, of Towanda, was
dropped from the list after she had been
officially declared a winner in the first-
class High school contest.
Music was transmitted half a mile by
radio at Pittsburgh on Sunday and was
sufficiently loud at the receiving end for
dancing, according to announcement from
the University of Pittsburgh, which with
Carnegie Institute of Technology conduct-
ed the experiment. University of Pitts-
burgh students danced to the music ren-
dered by the Tech orchestra. The orches-
tra sat in Central Hall of Tech and played
a jazz tune with the Pittsburgh students
gathered in Heinz house, half a mile away.
Scores of radio students in the district re-
ported having “listened in,” on the music.
The Burton Clay Products company,
according to officers of the concern, plan
to expend in th& neighborhood of $600,000
on improvements to their brick and tile
plant at Sidney, near Punxsutawney, Jef-
ferson county. The company has acquired
437 acres of land on the Bellwood branch
of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The total
clay deposits, flint or hard clay, and Bur-
ley, or soft clay, are estimated at 7,000,000
tons, and the veins average in thickness
from four to twelve feet. In addition to
the clay there are coal and sand and an
abundant water supply. Tests show that
the crude clay will stand 3300 degrees of
heat, which insures a fine quality of brick.
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