a
INK SLINGS.
—To Greece, at least, the terrible
Turk has lost none of his terror.
—Pennsylvania needs McSparran
far more than it needs “magnificent
achievement.”
—All of the plant life raised its
head in gratitude for Monday’s rain.
Did you bow yours in thankfulness?
—~Centre is twenty-ninth in rank
among the sixty-seven counties of the
State as to the aggregate value of the
* farm crops raised.
—1It is altogether likely that Greece
doesn’t think as much of Constantine
today as she did when she called him
back to the throne in 1921.
—Who can recall the night when
there was a lodger in the borough
lock-up? Possibly the person who
thinks the world isn’t getting better
can.
—Senator Lodge has been renomi-
nated by Republicans of Massachu-
setts. It is well, for otherwise the
Democrats would not have had oppor-
tunity to give him what he deserves
in November.
—Pinchot has admitted that he
won’t be able to do much, should he be
elected Governor, unless he has a Leg-
islature to back him up. Take it from
us: His chance of being elected Gov-
ernor is not of the best and it is a
cinch that the next General Assembly
of Pennsylvania will not take orders
from him, even if he should slip
through.
—We haven’t essayed any advice to
the Irish for some time. Every time
we do it a shilalah has been brandished
by some of our friends who can trace
their ancestry no nearer to Erin than
we do our own. But we just have to
remark that unless the tail stops wag-
gin’ the dog over there there won’t be
any Ireland to “be Ireland when Eng-
land’s but a pup.”
—We note, with relief, that Belle-
fonte girls are gradually pushing their
skirts down. The relief comes only
through dissipation of the fear that
our women might be looked upon as
passe by their sisters in other places.
Short skirts haven’t been in vogue for
three months or more and if we once
get out of style we might as well have
Bellefonte taken off the map.
—Hopeful news is coming from the
White House concerning the health of
the first lady of the land. Mrs. Hard-
ing has been very seriously ill and the
fact that she has taken a turn for the
better is reassuring. She has been a
very important personage in her ‘hus-
band’s administration; her gracious-
ness-and democracy having accom-
plished much for its popularity in
Washington. :
—A Paris inventor has placed a
new kind of alarm clock on the mar-
ket. It is fitted with a diaphragm so
that before retiring you just shout in-
to it what time you want to arise in
the morning and at the appointed hour
your own voice tells you it’s time to
get up. We predict that the clock, in-
genious as it is, will not be a success.
The man who loves to lie abed in the
morning has no fear of his own voice.
It’s “the old lady’s” that routes him
out.
—Some of his Republican friends
are peeved because Pinchot so persist-
ently refers to his party’s conduct of
affairs at Harrisburg as a “mess.”
They don’t like the word and much
prefer to have Gif. speak of it as a
“muddle.” As a matter of fact it is
worse than either. It is reeking cor-
ruption and since Pinchot was part of
it he is not the man to do the drain-
ing and use the antiseptics. John A.
McSparran should be the next Gover-
nor of Pennsylvania. He has no
friends on “the Hill” to shield, neither
is he a millionaire with ideas of
spending the public money as if all
Pennsylvanians were millionaires.
—William I. Betts, our candidate
for State Senator, spent part of last
week in Centre county and found much
fertile ground here. He is so genial
and sensible, so straightforward and
earnest that he made a splendid im-
pression on those who met him for the
first time. In company with J. Frank
Snyder, he toured certain sections of
the county and both candidates were
convinced that the present outlook is
very hopeful for the Democratic tick-
et. People everywhere were outspok-
en in denunciation of the extravagance
and corruption at Harrisburg and the
do-nothing policy at Washington.
They are determined to have a change
and as the Democratic nominees offer
them the only opportunity of obtain-
ing that they are going to support
them, regardless of politics.
—John E. Dubbs is a true son of his
lamented dad, John G. The elder was
and the son is a reader of the “Watch-
man” and we don’t believe either one
of them ever thought anything polit-
ical appearing in this paper had a
grain of truth in it. In fact John E.
is so convicted of our hide-bound De-
mocracy that he wagered his business
against that of another one of our
readers, that the “Watchman” would
not publish Pinchot’s speech at Centre
Hall. We published it and John lost,
but he probably wouldn’t have been so
much out of luck if Giff. had said any-
thing worth while. The only reason
we published it at all was to show our
readers what piffile Pinchot is exuding.
He didn’t voice a single constructive
thought. All he did was harp on the
“mess” that he must have smelled
during the three years he was on “the
Hill,” yet hadn’t the temerity to pro-
test.
VOL. 67.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA,, SEPTEMBER 15. 1922.
NO. 36.
McSparran Will Clean Up.
In introducing Mr. McSparran to his
audience at Centre Hall last Thursday
Colonel Spangler said: “Gifford Pin-
chot said this morning that he is ea-
ger to get to Harrisburg to let in the
light and clean up the mess, but what
we want to hear is how it happened
that he sat at the mess table three
years and failed to discover the mess
until he became a candidate.” And
all the people of the State share in
this desire for information. Pinchot
became a member of the Sproul cabi-
net soon after it came into existence.
He participated in all its activities
from that time until he became a can-
didate for Governor without complaint
or protest. He even encouraged prof-
ligacy by asking increased appropria-
tions.
The “mess” is certainly a rotten
thing and needs “cleaning up.” But it
is not customary to invite those who
create a nuisance to remove it. Prob-
ably the worst feature of the mess is
the salary grabbing. The treasury in-
vestigation shows that fictitious names
were put on the pay roll and money
paid for services never performed.
The records reveal the fact that new
offices were created and salaries in-
creased without reason, and that the
first offender in this abuse was Gif-
ford Pinchot. Is there any grown
man or woman in the State credulous
enough to believe that he would be a
fit person to clean up that part of the
mess? It is the rule to set men up in
judgment of their own faults?
The great State of Pennsylvania is
overwhelmingly in default on pay-
ments of appropriations made during
the Sproul administration by the Leg-
islature. Vast sums of money have
been collected to meet the obligations
which are unpaid. Mr. Pinchot sat jn
conferences with his associates white
these deficiencies were being created
and made no objection. If he didn’t
know what was going on about him he
is not fit to be Governor because of
his stupidity. If he did know and
failed to protest he is unfit because he
is faithless. Asking the people to
commission him to “clean up the
mess” at Harrisburg is a piece of im-
pudent assurance which deserves the
rebuke it is likely to receive.
——Some kind friend ought to call
Gifford Pinchot’s attention to the fact
that a nomination is not an election
and that assuming the duties of an of-
fice before election is usurpation.
Newberry Scandal Again.
Upon receipt of assurance that he
was renominated Senator LaFollette
announced that his first effort on his
return to Washington will be to com-
pel a reopening of the Newberry case.
That is both interesting and import-
ant. The presence of Truman H.
Newberry, as a Senator in Congress,
is a public scandal. In a court presid-
ed over by a judge of his own party,
in the State in which he lives and by
a jury of his political faith he was
convicted of fraudulently using mon-
ey to procure his nomination and elec-
tion. In the face of these facts, and
notwithstanding a declaration of the
Senate against such misuse of money,
Newberry was awarded the seat.
Since that the purchase of nomina-
tions has become quite common. Gif-
ford Pinchot procured the Republican
nomination for Governor of Pennsyl-
vania last May by spending one hun-
dred and twenty-five thousand dollars
of his own and his wife’s money, and
George Wharton Pepper bought the
same party nomination for Senator m
Congress by spending eighty thousand
dollars. Probably Mr. Pepper might
have been nominated without expend-
ing that sum or any sum but it cannot
be said that Pinchot would have been
so fortunate. In any event it may
safely be said that neither of them
would have been so free with their
money if Newberry had been deprived
of the purchased seat in the Senate.
It would be impossible to imagine
a greater public evil than that of pur-
chasing nominations and elections to
office. It simply disqualifies citizens
who are not wealthy for public serv-
ice. It practically puts offices or oth-
er forms of party favor on the auction
block to be disposed of to the highest
bidder. It is not invidious to say that
Mr. Alter, who was defeated for the
nomination, was better fitted for the
office than Pinchot. But Pinchot had
the money and dumped it into the
campaign with a prodigality that pro-
duced the result. He will probably
try to procure his election by the
same methods, and if the voters are.
mercenary he may succeed.
——It may be true that when Greek
meets Greek “then is the tug of war.”
But when Greek meets Turk a mara-
thon sets in, if recent events are con-
sidered.
——It should be borne in mind that
the first motion to impeach Attorney
General Daugherty was made by a
Republican Congressthan.
>
Lame Defense of a Bad Act.
The Philadelphia Ledger, influenced
more by prejudice than conscience, at-
tempts to justify Gifford Pinchot’s
shameless salary grab by stating that
the proceeds of the operation were ap-
propriated to the public service. It
admits that his salary as Commissioner
of Forestry was increased in violation
of the constitution, which he had sol-
emnly sworn to “support, obey and
defend,” but claims that the money
thus acquired was paid to other em-
ployees of the department who were
not adequately recompensed for their
services, under the law. That is an
absolute and unmitigated falsehood
and it is not going too far to say that
the author of the statement knew that
he was falsifying the facts.
The records of the government at
Harrisburg show that salaries are pro-
vided by law for every person employ-
ed in the Department of Forestry, and
that every person so employed drew
his salary regularly. Some of the sal-
aries may have been less than the em-
ployees thought just. But if Mr. Pin-
chot shared that opinion he ought to
have asked the Legislature to increase
that particular salary. Instead of
that obviously proper course he be-
gan a canvass of the Legislature to
increase his own salary and was so
persistent and importunate that the
Assembly consented. After the law was
enacted it was discovered that an in-
hibition in the constitution made it
unavailable for his purpose when he
entered into a conspiracy with the
Governor “by which the strict letter
of the constitution was evaded,” as
the Ledger states. He sent in his res-
ignation and was immediately reap-
pointed.
This was not only deliberate con-
spiracy to violate the constitution but
it was a betrayal of the obligation to
“support, obey and defend” the organ-
ic law of the State. If Mr. Pinchot
had been a poor man, who needed the
| increased salary to support his fami-
ly, it would have been bad enough.
But as a matter of fact he is a multi-
millionaire by inheritance and could
have been influenced to the act only
by cupidity. He is not in public life
for altruistic reasons or he would have
for the salary fixed by law when he
assumed the duties. He was in office
for the money and in spending $125,000
for the nomination for Governor he
probably imagines a way to get even.
—If Germany makes a payment
on account let us hope it will not be
in paper marks.
People Can’t be Deceived.
The movement to prosecute former
State Treasurer Harmon M. Kephart,
under the criminal code, comes very
near to expressing the full measure of
farce comedy. The Attorney General
admits that the statute of limitations
will protect him against all criminal
acts committed except one, and that
the law provides no penalty for that
one. But the Republican machine
managers imagine that even a futile
prosecution will look well and may
fool the voters into the belief that
they have undergone a change of
heart. So they propose to make Kep-
hart serve the purpose of a “goat,”
and Kephart appears willing to as-
sume the role. Anyway he says he
welcomes the opportunity for vindi-
cation.
The superficial investigation of Mr.
Kephart’s administration of the office
of State Treasurer revealed various
misfeasances and irregularities in
many forms. He paid men for serv-
ices never rendered and misappropri-
ated funds in many ways. But the
same things were done by other offi-
cials in other departments and the
practices continued up until the mo-
ment the investigation was begun. It
was entirely safe, therefore, to inves-
tigate and expose Kephart for the rea-
son that the time limit had expired
within which he might be punished.
If Treasurer Snyder had been investi-
gated it would have been different.
Possibly such an investigation is con-
templated after the safety zone has
been reached.
The Kephart investigation was be-
gun for the purpose of helping Mr.
Pinchot to get the nomination for
Governor. Kephart was an active
partisan of the other faction of the
party. It may be assumed that the
criminal prosecution is for the pur-
pose of helping Pinchot to secure the
election. It is a drastic process, now
that both wings of the party are
“flapping together,” but existing con-
ditions require desperate measures.
Pinchot’s campaign is breaking down
at every point and the false pretense
that the Republican party means real
reform is the only promise available
to check the tide of opposition. It will
be as futile as it is absurd, however.
The people can’t be deceived this
year.
—The people who do least for the
i community: talk mueh about those svho
' do most. :
been willing ‘to adniinister ‘the office’
Pinchot Will Serve the Machine.
If Gifford Pinchot is elected Gover-
nor of Pennsylvania he will be indebt-
ed to the Republican machine for that
distinction. W. Harry Baker, Edwin
H. Vare, Max Leslie, Larry Eyre,
Joseph R. Grundy and a few kindred
spirits compose the close corporation
which is “masquerading as the Repub-
lican party of Pennsylvania.” These
men are selfish and sordid politicians.
They are governed by no principles.
Their only reason for activity in poli-
tics is cupidity. Gifford Pinchot is
equally destitute of principle. The
only reason for his activity in politics
is lust for power. When docility to
the bosses promotes his purpose he is
docile. When contumacy promises
better results he is contumacious.
The Republican machine has neither
affection nor admiration for Pinchot.
It only admires men who “will stand
without hitching.” But it is always
willing to “deal” on liberal terms with
any one who will meet its demands.
In the case in point it is more than
willing tc bargain. The election of
John A. McSparran, to the office of
Governor, would be disastrous to its
plans. - It wouldn’t allow Pinchot to
get control of the organization. That
would be depriving it of its franchise.
But that point secured it is willing to
support Pinchot and even allow him
to say unpleasant things in considera-
tion of his promise to be good after-
ward in the event of his election.
Under existing conditions the elec-
tion of Gifford Pinchot is essential to
the future activity of the Republican
machine aud if Pinchot is elected the
continued activity of the Republican
machine is assured. Mr. Pinchot an-
nounces that he has no enemies to
punish. He admits that many of the
present officials will be retained, if he
is elected. The machine managers
know that he will have to keep his
pledges to them because they are in
position and have the power to com-
pel him, while the people have no
means of redress for violation of
pledges to them. If Harry Baker or
Edwin Vare were the nominee the vot-
ers would revolt. Pinchot will serve
the machine as well as either of them
could. :
—The new Republican tariff bill
has at last passed the Senate and is
in the House for final action. It isan
emasculation, of course, with rates av-
eraging slightly lower than those of
the disastrous Payne-Aldrich act. The
Senate put a snake in the bill, too,
when it wiped out the Reed publicity
amendment. With this proviso gone
the Tariff Commission will be able to
carry out the flexible provisions of the
act without the public having any
knowledge of what has been done. In
fact the Commission is virtually em-
powered to make tariffs without re-
gard to Congress.
——1It is worthy of note that the
Tyrone division of the Pennsylvania
system has the unique distinction of
having passed through the shopmen’s
strike without the loss of a single
man. This division, which connects
with the main line at Tyrone, is 279
miles in length, employs 1720 men,
and serves some of the most import-
ant coal mining territory in central
Pennsylvania. The reason for this
condition can be attributed mainly to
the admiration and intense loyalty of
the men to their superintendent, J. K.
Johnston.
——Fred M. Warner, member of the
Republican National committee for
Michigan, has organized a protest
against “Newberryism.” Here is a
chance for Senator Pepper to “spit in
the eye of a bull dog,” for Waraer is
a fighter and is staging the contest
for the meeting of the National com-
mittee.
——The judges throughout the
State are beginning to manifest an
appreciation of the evil of reckless
motoring. Several jail sentences have
been pronounced upon persons for in-
toxication while driving, recently, in
various sections of the Common-
wealth.
rm ———— A A ——
——“Maine went,” beyond question,
and probably “hell bent” as the Re-
publicans won, but the normal major-
ity is considerably reduced and there
is comfort in that fact.
me
——Mr. Pinchot declined the nomi-
nation of the Progressive party after
Harry Baker told him it wouldn’t do
to betray the Senatorial candidates on
the ticket.
i LF
—No wonder the German printing |
presses are running night and day |
turning out paper money. It takes a
lot of stuff to make something out of
nothing. |
——The anthracite strike is ended !
and the railroad strike might have |
! been if Daugherty had not projected
his absurd injunction into the matter.
Revolt is in the Air. F
From the Philadelphia Record.
At the August primaries in Cali-
fornia the redoubtable Hi Johnson, at
the head of the invincible machine and
with special gift of gab, pulled
through with a comfortable lead over
the novice who opposed him for the
Republican Senatorial nomination.
At the same time Governor Stephens,
who has been operating the Johnson
machine during the Senator’s absence
in Washington, was defeated for re-
nomination by Friend W. Richardson,
California’s present State Treasurer.
It seems curious that the builder of
the machine should score such a pro-
nounced triumph while its active man-
ager goes down to defeat. In search
for the explanation of this anomaly
we find that the people of California
have at last become aroused to the ex-
travagance of their governmental
agents and rebelious against the re-
sulting high taxes. Richardson made
his primary campaign on the issue of
economy. He toured the State in a
Ford—rather a neat bit of strategy,
that—pledging himself if elected to
reduce the State expenditures by from
twelve to fifteen million dollars dur-
ing the coming two years. The ex-
penses have reached $91,000,000 dur-
ing the past two years, and though
California has no $41,000,000 deficit
to meet, wanton waste of public funds
is frowned upon by the taxpayers,
even including those who worship the
demagogic Johnson. ;
We see in the result of the Califor-
nia primaries a hopeful augury for
the campaign of John A. McSparran
here in Pennsylvania. The same issue
is paramount in our State that has
upset machine calculations in Califor-
nia—a revolt against Republican ex-
travagance is in the air. Farmers are
getting less for their products, labor
is confronted with wage cuts, eom-
modity prices in general are lower,
and the tax burden falls with heavier
weight upon those who have to earry
it, and who in war-time conditions
were more or less oblivious to the
strain of the load. There is no charge
in California that the State’s money
has been dishonestly spent; the accu-
sation concerns waste and extrava-
gance alone.
Here in Pennsylvania the breach of
trust has been more serious, and the
offense so much the graver. Unless
the people of Pennsylvania are far
more indifferent to their own interests
than are Californians John A. Me-
Sparran should be elected to the #uv
ernorship in November. :
The Madness of a Few.
From the Philadelphia Sunday Ledger.
So unreasonable does the attitude of
the Irish insurgents appear to most
Americans who make an honest effort
to understand it that the slightest ray
of light is welcome. It may be that
one such slight ray is supplied by an
utterance of Lawrence Ginnell, who
was thrown out of the Irish Parlia-
ment for disorderly conduct. Among
the shouts with which Ginnell inter-
rupted the proceedings of the Cham-
ber was one in which he called it a
“foreign” Parliament.
Mad as this description is, it may
vet be taken as showing how these
darkened minds are working. Ginnell,
of course, means that this Parliament
for the South of Ireland is imposed
upon that country by a foreign power,
Great Britain. There never was any
sense in that argument, but there was
a certain plausibility in it before the
elections were held. At the elections
the Irish people took the matter into
their hands and elected the men who
are now meeting in Dublin.
From that moment the last ray of
plausibility had departed. If the
Irish people had not wanted this Par-
liament to meet, they could have re-
sorted to the well-known practice. of
refraining from voting. Instead, they
picked out their candidates, went to
the polls and voted their preferences.
The world has been unable to under-
stand the workings of those minds
which are still fighting against the
rule of the Irish people. This dema-
gogue had made them clearer. They
simply have ignored the elgetion and
regard the majority of the Irish peo-
ple as traitors to Ireland. It is they,
the minority, who have the only per-
fect knowledge, and wisdom will die
with them. This is the frame of mind
which is doing Ireland to death at
Irish hands.
Hog-Tied.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Miners at Herrin, Ill., the Golgotha
of the coal strike, were out of work
from April 1 until. the other day.
Within forty-eight hours after return-
ing to their labors 600 coal diggers
went on strike again. The operator
of 2 mine where they were employed
refused them permission to park their
automobiles within the fence around
the works. This was deemed to be
sufficient invasion of their recently won
paramount rights in all disputes with
capital, and they asserted their free-
dom by refusing to mine any coal un-
til their terms were accepted. No
| parking space, no coal!
Sr —— A
——Statistics compiled by Auditor
General Lewis shows that 748 whole-
| sale and retail firms did business in
Centre county during 1921 and the
volume of mercantile business han-
dled was $16,122,320, or $228.79 per
capita. On this basis the average fam-
ily of five people used up $1243.95
eR ee
“+ SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Farmers in Northumberland county
say that the late potato crop will be a fail-
ure, due to the lack of rain.
—A masked bandit held up and robbed
Rollin Hauze and Arthur Delucco, of Ha-
zleton, as they were on their way home by
auto. truck from Mauch Chunk, where they
had made collections. He forced them, at
the point of a gun, to hand over the $200
they carried and then disappeared into the
woods.
—Miss Anna Dickinson, 21 years old,
daughter of former Solicitor Joseph R.
Dickinson, of Reading, was sworn in on
Monday as a member of the Berks county
bar, the first woman to win this honor.
She was given a commission to hear a di-
vorce suit as her first case. She will prac-
‘tice with her father. Miss Dickinson wears
“her hair bobbed.
—A lone highwayman, shooting from
ambush on a lonely road near Pittsburgh,
last Thursday night, wounded two men,
one perhaps fatally, and escaped while his
victims, faint from loss of blood, stagger-
ed nearly a mile to a Millvale store. Rob-
bery is thought to have been the motive
for the shooting, which is said to have fol-
lowed a crap game.
—Leslie L. Lanker, of Sommerville, on
Saturday drew a pay check for $247 for
eleven days’ work as a miner in the pits
of the Oak Valley Coal cobpany, in Jeffer-
son county. He was paid at the rate of
$1 per ton for coal loaded. In the eleven
days, Lanker loaded sufficient coal to com-
pletely fill five full-size gondolas. Lanker
stated that he had worked a regular day
of eight hours during the eleven days.
—Threats of death by a burglar who was
discovered late on Sunday in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. C. F. McMurray, on Beech-
wood boulevard, Pittsburgh, failed to
shake the nerves of Mrs. McMurray. She
deliberately walked to an open window
and blew a police whistle. The bandit
threatened to shoot her husband unless she
“stopped her racket.” When she ignored
his second threat the burglar fled without
any loot.
—After plumbers had worked for three
days, a container hoMing two tubes con-
taining radium valued at $2500 was recov-
ered on Monday at the office of Dr. F. A.
Sherrer, of Easton. The tubes slipped
down a drain pipe after the physician had
treated a patient last week. As each sec-
tion of piping was torn up, he used a flor-
oscope, and finally the tell-tale glow ap-
peared on the screen and the container was
found on the next section.
—“Bring me the baseball scores while
I'm here,” was the request of Walter Zech-
man, aged 13 years, after he had been tak-
en to the Sunbury hospital, dying, as the
result of a 20,000 volt electric shock. He
died about twenty-four hours after being
admitted to the hospital. The boy climbed
a pole and threw one leg over a high-ten-
sion wire carrying a current sufficient, ac-
cording to electricians, to kill twenty men.
One foot was burned off and a deep hole
burned in his back.
—The tri-county camp for the Sunday
school young folks of Blair, Huntingdon
and Centre counties is now assured, as the
officers from these counties at a meeting on
Saturday decided to furnish money enough
to finance the project, supplementing the
amount which will be given by the State
association. The sum will be sufficient to
insure a splendid camp for the training of
Sunday school leaders. The site will be
site was visited on Saturday, but decision
as to locality cannot be made in a hurry.
—Curwensville drillers have commenced
the “prospecting” of the huge Irvin tract
in Penn township, Clearfield county, and
propose to make a thorough test of the
soil in that section, in order to determine
exactly its coal deposits. Superficial tests
have already been made and if the drilling
operations verify the belief that has arisen
from results of the superficial tests, it is
said that one of the largest remaining vir-
gin coal fields in the district will be plag-
ed under devleopment and some of the big-
gest mines in Pennsylvania will be estab-
lished there.
—Professor Carl Elschner, recently em-
ployed in important research work at the
Mellon Institute of the University of Pitts-
burgh, fainted on Saturday when he was
sentenced to three months in jail after he
had pleaded guilty on the complaint of
Marie Sands, aged 17 years, of having lived
with her without the formality of a mar-
riage. “You are an eminent scientist,”
said Judge Cohen in imposing sentence “but
you have broken the law. It is true you
have lost your position, your good name
and your reputation, but you must be pun-
ished further.”
—Nelson Hayes, 54 years old, a Marys-
ville railway mail clerk, had his right
thigh broken, and a score of passengers
were shaken up, when four cars on the
second section of the Pittsburgh mail
train, westbound, were derailed at 6:50
o'clock Friday morning at Kittanning
Point, a few hundred yards east of the
horseshoe curve. The train was made up
of postal cars and one day coach. A brok-
en axle caused the second mail car to leave
the rails, the three following cars toppling
over on their side into the ditch. Hayes
was in one of the fallen cars, being pinned
against pouch bars. He was taken to the
Altoona hospital. No passengers were
seriously injured.
—TFrederick Fawlmer, a resident of York,
Pa., and one of the type of iron workers
|’ known as floaters, was seriously injured in
| the yards of the Mifflin and Centre county
branch of the Pennsylvania railroad at
Lewistown, early Saturday morning, when
in some undetermined manner he was
thrown beneath a draft of cars at the Lo-
gan scales. Brakeman James Van Bas-
kert found the man upon walking around
the draft the accident having gone unno-
ticed since Fawlmer made no outcry, he
evidently having been rendered uncon-
scious before he could call for assistance.
Fawlmer was taken to the Lewistown hos-
pital, where it was found necessary to am-
putate the right arm at the shoulder.
—Sentence of from 17 to 20 years in the
eastern penitentiary was imposed on Fri-
day upon Charles Benner, convicted of the
murder of constable Thomas M. Ulsh, on
the night of September 1st, 1921. The sen-
tence was handed down by Judge Barnett,
at Mifflintown, Friday morning, following
the reaching of a verdict of second degree
murder by the jury, which had been dead-
locked from 4 o’clock Thursday afternoon
until late that night. The jury with its
verdict included a recommendation for len-
iency. Benner previously had been con-
victed of first degree murder, but he suc-
ceeded in getting a new trial, Benaer kill-
ed the constable when the latter attempted
to arrest him at his home in Turkey val-
worth of merchandise of all kinds.
ley, near Miffintosvn,
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