“INK SLINGS.
—Of course we don’t know who is
going to be the next postmaster of
Bellefonte, but we know who isn’t.
: —All indications are to the effect
that the Thanksgiving turkey is roost-
ing so high that no one without a col-
ossal wad will be able to bring one
~ down.
—The war veterans celebrated fit-
tingly yesterday. It was a momen-
. tous anniversary occasion and it is
proper that it should be observed ac-
cordingly.
—Ain’t it too provoking! Now that
coal is getting down to the point
where we could keep warm the weath-
er won't get cold enough to make us
need it much.
—Some band! That male aggrega-
_ tion from Milesburg. Why is it they
. always have the pep and the music in
Milesburg to lift them clear out of the
class of country bands?
— Bank deposits in the United
States have increased over four bil-
lions of dollars during the last year,
which probably accounts for the de-
sire of voters for a change.
—Prices seem to be doing some
grand and lofty tumbling now and
wages will be next. Commodities
can’t stay down, except in cases where
there was unconscionable profiteering,
unless wages go down to meet them.
—My what a scandal they are try-
ing to scare up over the work of the
Shipping Board. And, my, won’t
there be a whitewash when it is dis-
covered that Charles M. Schwab, a
patron saint of the Republicans, was
one of the big fellows in charge of its
operations.
—Horri billie dictu! The State Col-
lege contingent in the parade Tuesday
night carried a banner on which was
painted: “State College remembers
her Alumni’s.” Where, oh where
were the arts and sciences when the
technical school was practicing such
. an abortion?
—President-elect Harding had the
_ record breaker tarpon hooked at Point
. Isabel, Texas, so the stories coming
3
er
=» —The Susquehanna, Silk Corpora-
_“% tion, with plants at M
+i ‘Lewistown, and Marion, Ohio, has cut
ES :
.
out of his resting place advise us. He
should worry, after the haul he made
on November 5th. The kind of fish he
‘caught then are just beginning to dis-
cover themselves.
filton, Sunbury,
the wages of employees.’ Cutting them
Marion will make some of the home
ks who saw rain bls hanging all
pout the “front porch” rub their eyes
wonder if it was a mirage.
Elihu Root’s chances of being the
' Secretary of State hinge wholly
os ow clever he” cdn hypnotize the
eague of Nations so that it will play
the part of the “Deceased” in a way
that will fool the people into believing
that President-elect Harding has made
good his promise to kill it.
——And now the Republicans are
preparing to steal all our glory by
swinging round to the point where
they will decide to go into the League
of Nations. They may fool themselves
into thinking they have turned the
_ trick, but history will place the credit
. where it belongs—to the name of the
greatest American living today.
—Reports of a relapse recently suf-
fered by Senator Penrose are report-
ed as unfounded. While personally
we would regret exceedingly the Sen-
ators inability to regain his former
vigor we especially sympathize with
the boys who are hanging on every
tick of his pulse, and every degree of
his temperature because they think of
him as their one best bet for a govern-
ment job.
—The Supreme court having just
decided that it is not unlawful for a
person to have liquor in storage at
other places than his or her home,
provided that it is for his or her per-
sonal use and that of bona fide guests,
we fancy that there will be quite a
time deciding whether liquor in bond-
ed warehouses comes under the recent
ruling. If it does many a fellow will
be happy who has been blue ever since
the confiscatory interpretation was
put on the Volstead act.
—We hope the Republicans knock
the Civil Service classifications into a
cocked hat. Not so much because we
want to see efficient Democrats lose
their jobs, but because we want Dem-
ocratic powers that be to see what
ninnies they have been during the last
eight years. The party got no credit
and no votes for letting a pack of Re-
publican inspectors hide behind the
civil service regulations all the while
they were spragging the wheels of
both the Postoffice and Treasury De-
partments for purely partisan purpos-
es. That game has been going on all
over the country for eight years and
because we have been soft enough to
stand for it is one of the very big rea-
sons that we are where we are today.
—The Pennsylvania State College
football team won a really remarka-
ble game from the University of Ne-
braska last Saturday. The outstand-
ing feature of the contest was the
physical condition of the visitors to
Beaver field. We have been watching
football games since 1887 and in all
the intervening years we have invar-
iably observed that in gruelling con-
tests State’s teams have been in mark-
ed contrast to their adversaries in
ability to stand the strain of the game
and “cover up” before impending
shocks. Rarely is “time out” for a
State man. On Saturday Nebraska
showed the same kind of physical per-
fection and that, with her superior
defense and weight, was what forced
State to resort to the aerial game. °°
|
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 65.
Governor Cox Sounds a True Note.
In his only comment upon the re-
sult since the election Governor Cox
| Don’t Disappoint Taft.
Though nearly four months will
elapse before patronage becomes
BELLEFONTE, PA., NOVEMBER 12, 1920.
Party Wreckers Have Succeeded.
The party wreckers who have been
betraying the Democrats of Pennsyl-
reveals not only the master mind but | available to the Harding administra- | vania for the past eight years ought
the splendid patriotism of our superb
candidate. “It is my hope and firm
belief,” he writes, “that the Democra-
cy of the nation will not attempt po-
litical sabotage. The country has had
quite enough of that.” There will be
no yielding of principle, no surrender
of high aspirations, “we are in the
midst of an emergency and the na-'
tion’s every resource should be co-
ordinate in behalf of the things that
are helpful.” It has not been so in the
recent past. Republican leaders have
exhausted every resource available,
not to promote but to impair prosper-
ity.
The suggestion of Mr. Bryan thata
new party be organized is justly ap-
praised by Governor Cox and proper-
ly condemned. “There is a distinct
difference between defeat and surren-
der,” he declares. “The flag of De-
mocracy still flies as the symbol of |
things more enduring than the pas-
sions and resentments that come as
the aftermath of war. Talk of a new
party is absurd,” he continues.
might as well discuss the destruction
of human emotions.”
spirit of meeting disappointments and
the heart of Democracy is in full sym-
“So long
pathy with the sentiment.
as government exists the principles of
Thomas Jefferson will be the center
about which human hopes will gath-
er.”
Governor Cox is as proud of Democ-
racy in defeat as in victory. The
principles are not altered because a
purchased election removes the rep-
resentatives of the party from the
seats and sources of authority. Mr.
Bryan sees no reward in victory be-
vond the spoils of office and is ready
for abject surrender at the first sign
of disaster. But the spirit expressed
by Governor Cox is that which fills
the hearts and inspires the hopes of
the Democratic people of the country
and it will endure until righteousness
prevails and the Democratic party is
again restored to power in the nation.
And as he is proud of his party the
Democrats are proud of him and will-
ingly share®n his defeat.
——Democrats of Pennsylvania are
not without reason for thanksgiving.
The recent election not only eliminat-
ed Mr. Bryan but it “scrapped” the
trading posts in Harrisburg and
Washington.
Not so Great a Disaster.
The esteemed New York World de-
clines to dispair because of the over-
whelming defeat at the recent elec-
tion. “The Democratic party has been
practically wiped out of existence so
many times during the
years,” it says, “that another obliter-
ation can hardly be more than an in-
teresting incident in its career.” We
were wiped off the earth in 1872 when
Horuzce Greely was defeated by a ma-
jority quite equal in proportion to the
total vote, to that of this year. But
in 1874 we carried Congress by a big
majority and elected Samuel J. Tilden
President two years later by a consid-
erable majority of the popular vote,
and were cheated out of the victory
by frauds perpetrated by Republican
leaders.
In 1896 we were again reduced to
the vanishing point when Mr. Bryan
went down before the forces of Wall
street and in 1904 when the same in-
fluences and elements gave Theodore
Roosevelt 336 votes in the electoral |
college out of a total of 457 and a pop-
ular plurality of more than two and a
half millions out of a total vote of
13,525,301, less than one-third of the
total of this year, and in about the
same ratio as the plurality of Hard-
ing. But eight years later the Repub-
lican party was practically wiped out
when its candidate for President, our
fat friend Mr. Taft, carried only two
small States with a total electoral
vote of eight. Political parties have
vast recuperative power.
The esteemed World adds that the
defeat of the other day is not disas-
trous because the party was right. It
has “never lost an election in which it
had less to regret.” It is lamentably
weak in organization but strong as a
giant in resources.
pecially the party organization has
been a trading post at which a couple
of selfish men have been conducting a
thriving business ever since the in-
auguration of President Wilson near-
ly eight years ago. But even at that
it was necessary for those hucksters
to bolt the nominee for Governor two
years ago in order to prevent a Dem-
ocratic victory in Pennsylvania and
restoration of the party management
to the real Democrats of the State.
Judge Anderson, of Indianapo-
lis, seems to forget that Mitchell Pal-
mer was a candidate for President at
the time those coal cases were on.
If popular estimates on the
subject are accurate the expectations
from the votes of women have not
been fulfilled.
“One !
That is the true |
last sixty
In this State es- |
tion the rush for spoils has already
set in and is likely to be at flood tide
soon. The party has been on the out-
side a long time, considering that pa-
tronage is the only magnet that draws
some voters into the ranks, and
it is perfectly natural that the
hunger should be acute. It is to
be hoped that nothing worse than
a rush will develop from the anxiety
to get on the pay roll. It will be re-
membered that on at least one occa-
sion the lust for office led to the mur-
: der of a President and there had been
no long hungry period before. These
Republicans are very ravenous.
Of course the old time principle
that “to the victors belong the spoils,”
will be revived and the greatly in-
creased offices will add to rather than
diminish the intensity of the pursuit.
The leaders are already busy devising
schemes to circumvent the civil serv-
ice regulations in order that postoffice
appointments of the various classes
may be brought into use in providing
places. The civil service regulations
! were all right so long as they only
worked to retain Republicans in office
who had been inherited from previous
administrations. But now that they
threaten to prolong the tenure of
Democrats in commission they are all
anathema and must be done away
with.
! Of course we have no personal in-
i terest in this scramble for office
; among Republicans, though we hope
ithe fond expectations of our fat
| friend, William Howard Taft, will not
| be disappointed. Mr. Taft has been in
‘ office so many years that the pay en-
velope has become more than second
nature to him. In fact he must be on
the pay roll and as he has stultified
himself, sacrificed every principle of
decency and prostituted the station in
life to which he had been raised, in
order to get a seat on the Supreme
Bench, he is entitled to the job. It is
suspected that Mr. Hughes, Mr.
Wickersham and one or two others
have their vision focussed on the
i to be satisfied that their purpose is
' finally achieved. At no time in the
history of the party has its strength
"been at so low an ebb in the State.
With one representative in Congress,
three in the State Senate and a
‘“baker’s dozen” in the House of Rep-
_resentatives in Harrisburg, there is
no chance for a formidable opposition
to the plans of Mr. Palmer’s college
‘chum, Governor Sproul. It took a
‘ good while for the wreckers to accom-
plish this result. But stupidity, ve-
nality and perfidy are powerful forces
in politics and the Palmer-McCor-
mick-Donnelly outfit employed all of
them.
The real Democrats of Pennsylva-
nia have struggled manfully against
the wrecking force since the untoward
‘moment that the trading post was es-
‘tablished in Harrisburg. Two years
ago the conspirators were beaten in
‘the primary contest but subsequently
saved themselves by bolting the ticket
and forming an alliance with the Re-
publican machine which gave them
.control of the minority patronage of
the Republican State administration.
This renewal of their lease to operate
in office brokerage with augmented
capital, enabled them to complete the
wreck of the Democratic organization.
It could hardly be possible to make it
more complete. Even the single Dem-
ocratic Congressman has Republican
leanings and is embellished with
doubtful trimmings.
Of course the principles of the
Democratic party are immortal and
will survive the wreck which has been
wrought by the selfish and sordid
leadership of the past eight years. To
accomplish this result, however, it
will be necessary for the Demoratic
people to raise up in their might and
hurl the false and feeble pretenders
out of control and reorganize on a ba-
! sis of patriotism instead of commer-
| cialism. Well meaning Democrats
have been deceived and beguiled by
the specious promises of selfish party
hucksters. They must awake to the
same fayor, But. Taft must not bedfrands that have been. imposed upon
disappointed. The others can earn a
living.
——Only thirteen more days until
Thanksgiving and up to this writing
little has been heard of the Thanks-
giving turkey. Of course there is
. probably the average crop of turkeys
in the county, but what concerns the
most of us is the price. During the
past two or three years turkey has
been beyond the ordinary dinner ta-
ble and if it continues at the top notch
there is little doubt but that there will
be more chicken eaten at Thanksgiv-
ing than turkey. .
Red Cross Roll Call.
In urging generous support of the
Red Cross on the occasion of the ap-
proaching fourth annual roll call
President Wilson utters a panegyric
worthy of the man and the cause.
During the war the work of the or-
ganization spoke for itself and was
felt in thousands of homes of men
who suffered from wounds of battle.
Since the end of hostilities it has been
equally zealous and efficient in doing
good. Not only among the disabled
soldiers still suffering from the ef-
fects of the war but among the desti-
tute families of soldiers its ministra-
‘tions are felt every day and every
hour.
The activities of the beneficent or-
| ganization are as important in peace
as in war as it has been developed by
the earnest and willing men and wom-
en who have been concerned in it. In
sickness they render help and in death
! give comfort to the bereaved. They
(are everywhere that suffering exists
, and efficient in providing relief. This
| splendid work entails large and ever
! recurring expenses and the only
| source of supplying the means of
: meeting these expenses is the gener-
| osity of the public. For that reason
' every man and woman who has oppor-
tunity to do so should enlist in the
i cause and become a member of the or-
! ganization.
We are convinced that the people of
Centre county will do their full and
generous share in fulfilling this hu-
| manitarian obligation. The ‘local
Chapter will receive subscriptions or
enroll members gladly and it should
be the proud boast of the people when
the drive is closed and the roll call
finished that in proportion to popula-
tion this county is well up or ahead of
her neighbors in this patriotic work.
No community can afford to be lag-
gard and there ought to be no slack-
ers.
——The New York court of appeals
i has refused to approve an eight-cent
| fare rate on a street car line. The
Pennsylvania Public Service Board
! would never take that view of the sub-
ject.
——Mr. Bryan’s latest recommen-
dation would indicate that his head as
well as his heart is in the grave.
them and join in an unselfish and de-
termined effort to rescue the party. It
can and will be done and in the near
future.
Sr iE Cn
~——The celebration of Armistice
day yesterday, in Bellefonte as well
as all over the country, recalled only
too plainly the wonderful rejoicing on
that day two years ago when it was
officially announced that the armistice
had been signed and the death-dealing
guns had ceased to boom in France
and Belgium. Hundreds of families
in Bellefonte and Centre county had
sons in France, and while a few of
civilization in freeing the world of
despotic rule, the big majority had
escaped with their lives and as a com-
munity we all had cause to be grate-
ful that the sacrifice was not greater.
Two years have passed, and the boys
of this community are all at home and
have filtered back to peaceful pur-
suits, so that the celebration yester-
day was one of commemoration as
well as thanksgiving. But the two
million young men of this country
who played a great part in bringing
about the signing of the armistice by
ther valor on the battle fields of
France, have yet a great work ahead
of them in helping to stabilize condi-
tions in this country, and we sincerely
hope they will play their part as man-
fully here as they did over there.
— The wild turkey season will
open next Monday, November 15th,
and continue fifteen days. Just how
plentiful these birds are in the moun-
tains of Centre county remains to be
seen, as few reports have been receiv-
ed of any great number of them in
any locality. The wild turkey these
days is a hard bird to get. The law
prohibits the turkey call and shoot-
ing them on the roost before daylight,
so that to be successful on the hunt
the hunter must at all times match
cunning with the bird, and that is a
pretty difficult thing to do.
—Lenine’s attempt to smuggle
twenty-five thousand Bolshevik lec-
turers into this country should be
frustrated if it takes the entire secret
service and all private detective agen-
cies in the land to do it.
——If President-elect Harding
overlooks Sylvester Viereck while dis-
pensing his favors, he will be an un-
grateful man. Nobody did more than
Sylvester toward the result of the
election.
——A “set-to” between Senator
Lodge and Senator Johnson to decide
the foreign policy of the incoming ad-
ministration, with Harding as referee,
would be interesting if not valuable.
——The weather this week has not
been very favorable for husking corn
and other outdoor farm work.
them had paid the price demanded of '
NO. 45.
The Lazy Back.
| From the Tyrone Division “Special.”
| The following editorial from the Oc-
tober issue of a small pamphlet pub-
lished for the benefit of the workers
on the Tyrone division of the Penn-
! sylvania Railroad company, goes so
simply and directly to a fundamen-
tal cause of much of the unsatisfac-
tory labor condition that we are pub-
lishing it with the hope that it may
prove a stimulus to any of our read-
ers who have temporarily lost sight of
the fact that true values are always
appraised on the basis of honest pro-
duction cost.
This booklet is issued every once in
a while, for the benefit of railroad
men who are followers of Safety
First. It is exclusively a railroad
man’s paper. It is made up by rail-
road men and its various articles,
which appear from time to time, are
written by employees of the Tyrone
Division.
_ While its chief aim is Safety First,
it must be born in mind that Safety
First covers a broader field than that
of personal injury or loss of life. A
man who does not safe-guard his fam-
ily by practicing self-denial, economy,
and moral conduct, is no man at ail.
If he is inefficient, indifferent and
careless in the performance of his du-
ty, he is aiding, immensely; in bring-
ing about the “no hour day,” which is
so popular in Russia at present, and is
doing his part toward the early return
of the “empty dinner pail,” an un-
thinkable condition for full blooded
Americans.
While pre-war efficiency is slowly
returning, here and there, slackers, la-
zybacks and don’t-cares are still in ev-
idence. Goods of German manufac-
turers are flooding the country in un-
precedented quantities. While it is
true that these goods are responsible
for a slight reduction in the high cost
of living, at present, what does it
mean for labor here? Less work for
you and I later on, and a further step
toward the “no hour day” and “emp-
ty dinner pail.” Why are these goods
flooding our country? Because we
are dropping far below our pre-war
production in every class of work, not
by reason of scarcity of labor, but be-
cause you and I who work and gi
our best services in return foi
we receive, are helping, :
indifference to miaix Bh
laz: gh 2 WH pay 3
wholly responsible
or our inability
to produce as we once did in competi-
tion with German, English and for-
eign made goods.
The German flood, at present, is
carrying small goods, but as ships be-
come available, the big things, in the
form of iron and steel, will arrive on
the flood tide, not only from Germany,
hut from England and France. Then
you and I, if we have failed to elimi-
nate the lazybacks, sooner or later
shall live the life which the “no hour
day” and “empty dinner pail” hands
out to labor in Russia, which consists
“of hunger, starvation, murder, rapine
and annihilation; the survival of the
strong, the death of the weak.
Fellow railroad men, let this warn-
ing sink into your brain, let it sear
| like a firebrand, for it is as true as
, waters run and grasses grow. It is
Safety First for your father, mother,
, wife, children and for America. Fail-
_ure means ‘that you and I shall be
| judged as we stand looking out over
ia land of desolation and destruction,
| once so grand, magnificent, the envy
of the world, the home of a once hap-
py and prosperous people, which
through our indifference we helped to
destroy. ?
Cox Not Discredited by the Result.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
In spite of the size of the majority
| against him, Governor James M. Cox
is not discredited by the result. It is
doubtful if any other man the San
Francisco convention could have nam-
ed would have been able to do much
better under the circumstances. The
political stage was set for a swing of
the pendulum. Nineteen-twenty was
foreseen to be a Republican year and
only a miracle could have prevented
the realization of Republican expecta-
tions.
Though the election of Mr. Harding
will be construed both here and
abroad as a repudiation of the League
of Nations, there is not the slightest
doubt that millions of voters support-
ed the successful candidate in the be-
lief that Senator Harding as President
will make good on his oft-repeated
pledge to lead America into some kind
of an international association for the
preservation of peace. The Harding
vote is by no means wholly an anti-
League vote.
The Trouble With the Japanese.
From the San Francisco Chronicle.
Japanese statesmen persist in con-
fusing the situation in California with
the question of racial equality. The
problem in this State includes ele-
ments of racial difference making as-
similation difficult, but this is not the
same thing as racial inequality and is,
after all, not the fundamental ques-
tion, which is economic. Granting
that the Japanese stand with the oth-
er advanced races of the earth, Cali-
fornians object to economic displace-
' ment by a people with whom admix-
ture is difficult and inadvisable as
much from the Japanese as from the
American point of view.
——Obviously Judge Anderson
doesn’t know Mitchell Palmer.
“Mitch” imagines he’s the whole show
' every time.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Wm. Nye, 94 years old, of Hively's
Chapel, York county, assisted his son, Ja-
cob Nye, in husking corn.
—Throwing a lump of coal, Clyde Hel-
ler, a truckman, killed a skunk by the side
of the road between Sunbury and Shamo-
kin, and got $8 for the hide. :
—Falling under the wheels of a coal
train when he attempted to board it, Rus-
sell Brenna, 17 years old, of Ranshaw, near
Shamokin, was fatally injured. He was
dragged a half mile under the train and
died a few minutes after being removed to
a hospital.
—Chief of Police Mincemoyer, of Dan-
ville, on Monday got a deserter from the
navy. The deserter is being held in .the
Montour county jail awaiting the arrival
of an officer from the Brooklyn Navy yard.
He is the first prisoner the Montour coun-
ty jail has had in eight months.
—Miss Emma High resigned as choir di-
rector of the First Presbyterian church,
Pottstown, and left for Constantinople te
be married to Charles Wylie, a former
captain of the Lehigh University football
team, now a superintendent in Turkey and
Syria for the Standard Oil company.
—The Lewistown Pure Milk company
opened a large plant at Lewistown last
Thursday. This is one of the largest and
most modern condensing plants in central
Pennsylvania and will handle virtually all
the whole milk from the central Juniata
and part of the Kishacoquillas valley.
—A bridge across the Kishacoquillas
creek between Lewistown and Burnham,
and opened to traffic only six weeks ago
by the State Highway Department, col-
lapsed with a truck load of railroad ties
last Thursday. The driver, Edward Leach,
escaped serious injury by jumping. The
stringers were found to be rotten.
—The Chestnut street opera house, Sun-
bury, considered one of the finest inland
theaters, has been sold by the estate of
James G. Packer to Dr. 8. S. Koser, for
his son, Ralph 8. Koser, owner of a mov-
ing picture show at Lewisburg, according
to announcement made last week. The
price paid was $30,000, about half its val-
ue, it was said.
—Funeral services of Henry Kisner, vet-
eran ccuncilman of Millville, Pa., were car-
ried out on Monday exactly - as he had
planned on his death bed. The minister
he chose officiated, the hymns he selected
were sung by his chosen trio and the men
he desired carried his body to its last rest-
ing place in the local cemetery. The fun-
eral was the largest Millville ever had.
—Employees of the Standard steel works
at Burnham say they were notified of a 40
per cent. cut in force, effective at once. Al-
most the entire night force has been laid
off indefinitely, and from 900 to 1000 are
affected. The men are looking for an ear-
ly proposition to return at reduced wages.
The Viscose and other plants building there
will provide work for the majority of the
men thrown out. :
—D. M. Marshall, aged 62 years, of Nook,
a former superintendent of schools in Ju-
niata county, was killed in the barn of his
farm as he attempted to tie a vicious bull
When Marshall attempted to get the bull
in its place it became enraged, knocked
Ay shot
—The body of a well dressed stranger
riddled with bullets was found in a small
stream in Hepburn township, Potter coun-
ty. An autopsy revealed thirty-two bullet
holes and eight balls of two different cali-
bre. Evidently robbery was not the mo-
tive as forty dollars were found in his
pockets. It is believed that he was mur-
dered at some point and his body was car-
ried to the place where it was found. The
man is thought to be from Olean, N. Y.
—The Public Service Commission Has
postponed further hearings of the protest
filed by citizens of Milroy, Reedsville,
Yeagertown, Burnham, Lewistown and in-
termediate territory against what they
term excessive and uncalled for increases
in rates by the Lewistown-Reedsville Wa-
ter company filed July 1st, effective imme-
diately, in which the company not only 'de=
mands payment of the increased rates in
advance, but adds a penalty of 10 per
cent. in the event of failure to pay within
ten days after the bill is rendered.
—While men posing as cattle buyers
dickered with William Caliskey in his cat-
tle barn near Ulysis, Potter county, last
week, four women of their party engaged
Mrs. Caliskey in conversation and two oth-
er men ransacked the house, securing $21,-
600 in Liberty bonds, war savings stamps
and cash, the savings of a life time.
When Caliskey became suspicious and
tried to go back to the house the men tied
him to a post. The party, occupying two
automobiles, drove away. Caliskey, who
didn't believe in banks last week, does
now. ‘
—While a negress held up Mrs. Anna-
belle Gemas following a hold-up along the
West Penn street car line near the Gemas
home, in Connellsville, Saturday night, two
negroes searched her, secured a pocket-
book, appropriated the contents, about $30,
but returned a gold service medal, which
the woman’s husband, the late George Ge-
mas, had been awarded for service in the
Spanish-American war. The trio was very,
polite, halting Mrs. Gemas with the re-
quest, “Please give us your money, lady.”
The victim believes she will be able to
identify the negress and her accomplices.
—Suit to collect $50,000 life insurance
money on the death of James Magee, mil-
lionaire Bloomsburg carpet manufacturer,
who died suddenly a year ago, has been
brought against the Mutual Life Insur-
ance company, of New York, by the Har-
risburg Trust company, which is adminis-
trator of the Magee estate. Through a
clerical error, the examination of Mr. Ma-
gee was not thoroughly completed and
that only one policy for $50,000 was issued
after the deceased had applied for $100,000
worth of insurance and had undergone the
examination therefor. Mr. Magee was on
a trip through the west when the mistake
was discovered, and the next month he
died suddenly.
—Lewis F. Platt Sr., of Marysville, was
killed on Friday when an airplane in
which he was to go as a passenger to
State College to join his wife, son and
daughter at the State-Nebraska football
game on Saturday, fell a short time after
leaving the landing field in Harrisburg.
Chester Shaeffer, of Marysville, owner of
the plane, was seriously cut and bruised.
Hundreds of persons saw the aircraft fall.
It reached a height of 250 feet, when it be-
gan to fall, turning over twice in the drop.
The motor was driven two feet in the
ground, and Platt was thrown against it,
fracturing his skull, Platt was proprietor
of a pool-room in Marysville, and was 50
years old. His son is a student at State
i College.