INK SLINGS.
—Bezdek will not leave State Col-
lege. We guessed his spirit right two
weeks ago.
—If you feel that you are not get-
ting your share of gratuitous advice
get laid up for a week or so and you'll
get all you want.
—1It isn’t any wonder that the Turk-
ish delegates won’t give in at Lau-
sanne. If they do they are to be
hanged when they get home.
—One more week of torment for the
deer. It is not likely to be so disas-
trous to them as the past one has been,
for most of the best shots have gotten
theirs and come home.
—1If the Ku Klux Klan keeps on
spreading the two major parties are
in for a lot of trouble in the fall of
1924. Neither one of them will dare
adopt it, yet both will be glad enough
to get the votes of the night-shirt
hordes.
— For the fourth year in succession
Ty Cobb, of the Detroit baseball team,
has batted over four hundred. Clean
living and determination have enabled
Ty to keep his eye on the ball and
they will do the same for the rest of
us, no matter what the profession.
— Ireland is at last a Free State.
Starting off with all the prerequisites
for a prosperous and useful govern-
ment, without debt, hers ought to be
a happy future. But will it? It’s up
to the Irish themselves. For seven
hundred years they have laid their
troubles at other doors so the world
awaits with interest and hopefulness,
now that the problem is all their own.
— Tt is only natural that the fellows
who have never had much of a show
should be doing most of the talking in
favor of a new deal in the organiza-
tion of the House and Senate at Har-
risburg. Them that think Pinchot is
going to turn everything upside down
have another think. It’s our guess
that Harry Baker knows more now
about the organization of the next
Legislature than Pinchot will know in
December, 1926.
— Unless appearances are very de-
ceptive a seat on the sliding board is
being prepared for the Rev. John T.
Davis, federal prohibition enforcement
officer for Pennsylvania. It is very sig-
nificant that no sooner had Senators
Pepper and Reed divided the State, so
far as distribution of federal patron-
age is concerned, than they began to
explain that Rev. Davis would not be
removed unless “a better substitute
can be found.” There’s just one of
two things wrong with the Davis
regime: Either it has been too busy
or not busy enough and if the preach-
er is bounced you can bet it will be
because he has been too busy.
— The Pennsylvania State Chamber
of Commerce is apparently laying its
plans to steal some thunder from our
newly elected Senator William L
Betts. One of Senator Bett’s cam-
paign pledges was to undertake the
passage of a law that would protect
Pennsylvanians from peddlers of
“wild-cat” stocks. Our State has been
the dumping ground for fake promot-
ors for some years. Not so much be-
cause there is a belief that there is
more than one born every minute in
Pennsylvania as because we have
never had legislation tending to curb
the exploitation of our “sucker lists.”
The State Chamber of Commerce, if it
fathers a bill giving protection to the
credulous investor here, may steal the
glory that we hoped would be for Sen-
ator Betts, but it will find him an ar-
dent supporter of the measure, never-
theless.
— The newly elected Members and
Senators of Pennsylvania will meet in
Harrisburg on December 15th, to con-
sider plans of procedure when the
Legislature convenes in January. Our
party will have a representation of
forty-one in the House and seven in
the Senate. It will be a great gain
over that in the last session and while
our total is still relatively small there
will be opportunity for it to render
great service to the State. Should
Governor Pinchot cut up the capers
some expect him to there will be
varying allignments among the Re-
publican Members. Some will be with
the Governor and some against him
so that the forty-one Democrats may
find themselves in position to accom-
plish more than now appears proba-
ble. All they need to do is watch and
wait and keep from fighting among
themselves.
—Next week Clemenceau will sail
for home. “The Tiger” has had the
courage of his convictions. He be-
lieves that America can save his be-
loved France and by inference has told
us that in saving France we will be
saving ourselves. Many will regard
the warning of this courageous old
man lightly. We don’t, for tranquili-
ty in Europe means tranquility in
America. Right now the Kemalists
are denying the rights of Christians
to leave Turkey and there isn’t a sin-
gle power or a combination of powers
in a position to interfere because of
involvements and the uncertainty
of the future of all of them. Suppose
some of those Christians, whom the
Turks are threatening to deport to the
interior, should prove to be citizens of
the United States? We must protect
them even if it means going to war
with the Kemalists. Such an unhap-
py eventuality is possible, whereas if
we were taking an active part in com-
posing the disturbances in Europe
there would be other and less direful
means of bringing the Turks to time.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 67.
Great Victory for Democrats.
The successful “filibuster” of the
Democrats of the United States Sen-
ate on the Dyer anti-lynching bill not
only revealed a splendidly efficient
leadership of the minority party but
clearly established the intellectual
poverty of the Republican majority in
that body. There are sixty Republi-
can Senators to thirty-six Democrats,
the Republican majority being nearly
two-thirds. Yet on a party question,
which had been made paramount by
the party caucus, the minority con-
trolled the proceedings for nearly a
week and finally compelled the ma-
jority to relinquish the fight. A more
signal triumph has never been re-
corded. The nearest approach to it
was in the fight against the Force bill
years ago.
The anti-lynching bill is a most in-
iquitous measure. Its purpose is to
create race prejudice and inflame par-
the ‘South. Its plan is to remove the
adjudication of such crimes from
State to federal courts.
against it, therefore, the Democratic
Senators had justice as well as rea-
son in their favor. But justice and
reason have little influence on the
minds of the bigoted Republican Sen-
ators who exhausted their resources to
force it through the Senate. They
would cheerfuly destroy every prin-
ciple of right in order to gain party
advantage. They failed in this in-
stance because malice is impotent in a
contest against mental strength.
A Washington correspondent of one
of the leading metropolitan newspa-
pers says it “is generally conceded to
have been one of the most efficiently
conducted filibusters in the history of
the Senate.” It has differed from
others, the correspondent writes, “in
that it involved no long speeches.”
But it completely stalled the legisla-
tive machinery and prevented the con-
firmation of more than a thousand ap-
pointments made by the President
during the interval since the adjourn-
ment of Congress a year ago. The
lust for spoils brought the Republi-
cans to ‘their knees and they not only
-agreed- to «abandon the fight during
the special session but that it will not
be renewed during the regular ses-
sion.
—Monday night's rain was surely
a blessing. Let’s pray for a lot more
of them before winter sets in. If it
were to freeze up now, with springs,
wells and cisterns in the depleted con-
dition they are in at present we would
have both hardship and suffering in
Centre county. Along the main
streams there is yet plenty of water,
but in many of the highlands of the
county both springs and wells that
have never before been known to fail
have gone dry.
Get-Together Dinner.
State Chairman McCollough has
taken the first step toward a more ef-
fective and efficient organization of
the Democratic forces of Pennsylva-
nia. He has invited all the late State
candidates, and the Senators-elect and
the Representatives-elect to the Gen-
eral Assembly to a dinner at Harris-
burg on the 15th of December, a week
from today. The purpose is to coun-
sel together with the view to “carry
out as far as possible the pledges
made in the Democratic platform,”
and to discuss plans for improving the
party organization for future cam-
paigns. A recent incident in Wash-
ington shows what a minority may do.
It is not invidious to say that the
Democratic organization of Pennsyl-
vania had almost reached the vanish-
ing point when chairman McCollough
entered upon his duties last midsum-
mer. It is only just to add that he
accomplished much in the direction of
resuscitating it. The party had an ex-
cellent ticket to encourage him and
the voters to the efforts they made
and the very substantial vote polled
is proof of his achievement. But there
is much to do yet and it can’t be ac-
complished in a brief period of time.
Organization is a slow process and re-
quires constant and vigorous work to
guarantee success.
The proposed meeting will afford
opportunity to lay the lines for a real
organization. Those participating in
it will be free from selfish interests or
ambitions. But it might also be per-
verted into an instrument of danger.
Twelve years ago a similar meeting
was called and the bosses set out to
instruct the Legislators-elect as to
their official action. Democrats will
not stand for such bossism, and in-
stead of good the meeting did harm.
We have faith, however, that the com-
ing dinner will not have such a result.
Chairman McCollough will not permit
such action as might lead to trouble
for the party.
——The Supreme court job seems
to have pursued Mr. W. Harry Baker
so sedulously that it has at last got
him into a hole.
Passing the Buck to Harding.
When Herbert Hoover, who is in
California, declared the other day
that Warren Gamaliel “is obviously
the logical candidate” of his party in
1924 he simply “passed the buck” to
the President. It is up to him to say
whether he wants the nomination or
not. It he wants it there can be no
opposing candidate. In 1916 the late
Champ Clark correctly diagnosed a
precisely similar case. Upon being
urged to contest with President Wil-
son for the noriination he said “if
Woodrow Wilson has made a good
President in the opinion of the Dem-
ocratic party he deserves to be re-
nominated, and if he has made a poor
record then the nomination isn’t worth
having.”
Of course Mr. Harding has a right
to decline the nomination and in the
event that he adopts that course the
: opportunity for sacrifice will be open
tisan passions among the negroes of :
| stronger than his discretion.
| suspected that Secretary of State
In the fight |
to any Republican whose ambition is
It is
Hughes still cherishes an ambition,
if not exactly a hope, to be President,
and the bee is buzzing in the ears of
Secretary of War Weeks, who has
been fairly well forward among
“those who also ran” on one or two
occasions in the past. Then Secre-
tary Hoover, himself, who has faith
almost equal to his self-confidence,
might be willing to undertake a re-
versal of adverse public sentiment by
chucking his beaver into the ring.
But it is hardly probable that Pres-
ident Harding will choose this discreet
expedient. It is probably true that he
is the most unpopular and inefficient
President who has occupied the office
since the late Mr. Rutherford B.
Hayes. He has signally failed in
every undertaking except that of
“tourist,” since his induction into the
Presidency. But through it all his
self-complacency has not been disturb-
ed in the least, and he probably imag-
ines that the popular dissatisfaction is
with others rather than himself. To
decline a re-nomination would be an
acknowledgment of delinquency, and
it can hardly be imagined that War-
.ren Gamaliel is-suffering from: that
form of weakness.
— Probably Senator Lodge imag-
ines that the anti-lynching bill has al-
ready served its purpose. But he
can’t fool all the negroes all the time
either.
Flirting with Futility.
The proposed impeachment of At-
torney General Daugherty, author-
ized by the House Judiciary committee
on Monday, may contribute a trifle to
the “gayety of nations” but beyond
that it is likely to be futile. Repre-
sentative Keller, of Minnesota, is
probably in dead earnest in his pur-
pose to rebuke the chief of the “Kitch-
en Cabinet” and he has abundant
causes of complaint. But he will make
slow progress against the forces that
will be assembled against him.
Daugherty is the fountain of spoils
and every Senator and Representative
in Congress who has even hopes of
patronage will be summoned to his de-
fense and the “lame ducks” will vote
as a unit for his vindication.
Still the impeachment proceedings
may be worth while. Chief Justice
: Taft, of the Supreme court, will be one
of the witnesses and it is unusual for
a former President of the United
States to appear in that capacity.
Besides it may be that answering
some of the questions relative and
consequential will be embarrassing to
a man under suspicion and trying to
be “good.” What is expected from the
testimony of Justice Taft is left fo
conjecture, but it may be assumed
that it will relate to the interpreta-
tion of law. Mr. Daugherty appears
to differ with most lawyers frequent-
ly, and the Chief Justice will proba-
bly assume the role of an expert wit-
ness.
That Attorney General Daugherty
ought to be impeached will hardly be
denied even by his friends. From the
beginning of his term he has prosti-
tuted the office to the service of spe-
cial interests and his perversion of
power in the railroad shop men’s case
was not only outrageous but danger-
ous. In his advice to candidates for
Senator in Congress to ignore the
corrupt practices legislation of Con-
gress and the State Legislatures he
sowed the seeds of anarchy and in
most of his official acts he has been
harmful rather than helpful to the
cause of good government. But he
will not be impeached for the reason
that Senators lusting for spoils will
save him.
——The manifest of the Lusitania
has been made public just in time lo
prove Bill Hohenzollern a liar while
he is in the enjoyment of his honey-
moon.
————————————————
The new government of Greece
seems to be trying to justify the ac-
tion of the Turks at Smyrna.
BELLEFONTE, PA. DECEMBER 8S. 1922.
Simple Process of Taxation.
It has been figured out that the tax
on anthracite coal will average twelve
and a half cents a ton. It has also
been announced that in order to re-
imburse themselves for the payment
of that tax the coal producers will in-
crease the price one dollar a ton. The
difference between the added cost and
the increased price is said to be to
meet the expense of collecting and
paying the tax. At first sight that
seems unreasonable. But it is about
the rule in all taxation that comes in-
say twenty-five cents on a pair of
stockings increases the cost of the
stockings to the consumer something
like a dollar. The tax of a cent a gal-
lon on gasoline adds five cents to the
cost.
The Fordney-McCumber tariff law
will yield to the government about
$3,000,000 a year, according to the es-
timates of experts. To get this
amount of revenue the people of the
country will pay between $4,000,000,-
000 and $6,000,000,000. The differ-
ence will go into the pockets of do-
mestic producers of the commodities
taxed. It is collected by increasing
the price to the consumer. From ten
to thirty dollars will be added to the
price of a suit of clothes and from one
to two dollars on a pair of shoes.
But the consumer doesn’t see the tax
collector and in nine cases out of ten
he doesn’t know he was taxed. He
but ascribes it to the war that ended
six years ago.
The late Mr. Barnum had the right
dope. He said the American people
like to be fooled. If there were a tax
collector at the tailor shop when a
man buys his suit and would ask for
the money that represents the increase
in price there would be a scene. No-
body would hand the money over
cheerfully. But he hands it to the
tailor without question and feels that
he is supporting the government. As
' a matter of fact the tailor had pre-
viously handed most of the amount to
the cloth manufacturer who in turn
Pars a small portion of it to the Re-
can” campaign
great scheme of legalized larceny but
it keeps the political machine oiled
and enables it to run smoothly right
along.
—Many towns in the State are busy
now casting up accounts to ascertain
who has been their most useful citi-
zen during the year that is rapidly
drawing to its close. Bellefonte has
many useful citizens. In fact it would
be a very difficult task to differentiate
among them. To our way of thinking
it is not an unusual attribute to be
useful. It is a duty we owe to each
other, to the community and to our
country. Public esteem increases, of
course, in proportion to one’s useful-
ness and for that reason we are won-
dering how some people who live
wholly to and for themselves must feel
when they stop to consider, if they
ever do, what their fellows think of
them.
—1923 will be here before we know
it. How about getting the label on
your paper fixed so that it will be up
to date when the New Year arrives.
We need money badly right now. And
a few hundred remittances would help
us a lot and probably never be felt by
those of you who are in arrears.
——The ancient and absurd fiction
about the inaccuracy of a woman’s aim
has been finally and forever disposed
of. A woman who lives near Hazle-
ton killed. a seven-pronged deer the
other day.
— Mayor Moore, of Philadelphia,
is greatly worried over the scarcity of
coal in that city. A good many Phil-
adelphia politicians will have no oc-
casion to worry about coal after they
die.
——Governor-elect Pinchot is keep-
ing quiet concerning his future plans
as effectively as he kept quiet about
the iniquities of the Sproul adminis-
tration before he became a candidate.
A ———————— A ———————
——Sam Gompers will give the
Senate, sitting as a court of impeach-
ment, an ear full when he tells what
he knows about Attorney General
Daugherty.
——————— A ——————
— There was no necessity for Sen-
ator Pepper to say that Prohibition
director Davis will not resign. Every
body knows that “few. die and none
resign.”
——If the allies act in time Turkey
may be satisfied with some small con-
cessions. But delays are dangerous
in front of a powerful and victorious
enemy.
—— A ———————
——Bellefonte thermometers reg-
istered twenty degrees above zero
yesterday morning.
realizes that he pays more, of course, :
collector: It io at TEENIE 12,
NO. 48.
Lame-Duck Government.
From the New York World.
With a Republican majority of 167
in the House of Representatives, Mr.
Harding managed to obtain a majority
of 24 for his Ship Subsidy bill.
This majority was made up entire-
ly of Representatives who had been
defeated in the election of November
The Sixty-six Republican lame ducks
stituents provided the votes by which
the bill was passed.
Washington has never known a
more cynical manifestation of the
power of Presidential patronage. The
! job on March 4th, flocked to the sup-
‘port of Mr. Harding because Mr.
| Harding can provide places at the pub-
!lic crib for them when their term of
! elective office expires. If there was
certed effort to save an Administra-
tion measure which will have few
friends in the next Congress, that mo-
tive is yet to be revealed. \
So far as the House is concerned,
Mr. Harding has his Ship Subsidy
bill, but even before the lame ducks
carried it through it had been so muti-
lated that its distinctive features had
become unrecognizable. In view of
| the fact that 69 Republican Represen-
| tatives voted against it and that it is
weaker in the Senate than it was in
the House, the chance that the Presi-
dent will ever attach his signature to
it is slim indeed.
Mr. Harding has staked his leader-
ship in Congress on this measzre, and
the showing is anything but flatter-
{ing to him. Getting it through the
: House by the votes of men who had
been beaten at the polls will add noth-
ing to the prestige of the bill or of
the President in the Senate. Even if
the Senate should yield to the de-
mands of Mr. Harding, which is high-
ly improbable, he will be compelled to
go to the next Congress for an appro-
priation, and there is very little doubt
as to the attitude of the next Con-
gress. Republican antagonism is such
that it is safe to predict that not a
dollar will be appropriated for ship
subsidy purposes.
Mr. Harding admitted in his message
to Congress that in the matter of the
ship subsidy “a more resolute hostili-
ty was never manifested before,” but,
of
oO a
with the inexplicable
br
on a contest in which he is certain to
lose. And he is certain to lose, no
matter how many lame duck Repre-
sentatives and Senators fly to his as-
sistance, because he lacks all that
backing of public sentiment which
alone could give effect to ship sub-
sidy and make it worth while for cap-
ital to take an act of Congress ser-
i iously.
The Pennsylvania Coal Tax.
From the New York Times.
Pennsylvania has been trying to tax
anthracite ever since the Civil war
tax ended. The World war tax may
be permanent, and carry with it the
possibility of similar taxes. Several
intervening coal taxes have been an-
nulled by the Pennsylvania courts, for
reasons interesting mainly to lawyers.
For the first time the Federal Su-
preme court has upheld the tax, for
reasons important to all consumers of
coal. During the argument of the
case the Attorney General, of Massa-
chusetts, representing nine States pro-
testing against the tax, maintained
that if the Pennsylvania tax were sus-
tained the agricultural States could
tax their produce, the industrial
States could tax their manufactures,
the southern States could tax cotton,
and so on. Now the court decides
that this tax on coal is not a tax on
interstate commerce. Federal juris-
diction does not begin until the goods
are shipped. It seems that the lan-
guage of the Pennsylvania statute
taxing coal assimilates coal to any
other product. The fact that it is a
natural monopoly alters nothing. The
Federal law applies only to interstate
commerce.
It is unusual for a law to
pass through its final stage of
litigation in the year next after
its enactment. The court said
that it would be “curious” to
make a decision which would tend to
nationalize all industries from the in-
stant that production was complete.
But the precedent opens the prospect
of a possible tax war between the
States. For example, Minnesota might
increase her tax on iron ore to an ex-
tent which might embarrass producers
of iron and steel as much as the tax
on anthracite burdens consumers. Oil
and natural gas are other examples.
If several States producing goods used
in Pennsylvania should do the same,
the accumulation of retaliatory taxes
might persuade Pennsylvania to take
a different view. Possibly Congress
might enact a law, resembling Repre-
sentative MecGregor’s bill, forbidding
entrance into interstate commerce of
goods taxed like Pennsylvania’s éoal.
It is certain that Pennsylvania cannot
consume her anthracite alone.
Disarmament at a Standstill,
From the New York World.
Great Britain having stopped fur-
ther naval disarmament under the
provisions of the Washington treaty,
the treaty is now at a standstill, with
the four powers—Great = Britain, Ja-
pan, Italy and America—waiting for
France to act.
who had been repudiated by their con-.
any other motive back of their con-
| SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
— William A. Godcharles, of Miltofi, has
been awarded a contract to complete the
| $50,000 stadium at Bucknell University. ~
| Harry Greenleaf, an inmate of the Lan-
| caster county insane asylum, escaped for
| the eighteenth time in eight years Sunday
night by picking the lock on his door.
—Harry P. Ottey, of Media, last Satur-
; day picked six large Smokehouse apples
| from a tree in his yard. They are the sec-
! ond crop of this season. This is the third
time in the history of this tree that it
has yielded a second crop. .
—Earl Hoffa, teacher in the publie
schools of Bethel township, Lebanon coun-
ty, was sued last week for $10,000 damages
in behalf of Ernest Wolfe, who alleges that
Hoffa, in punishing him for an infraction
of rules, struck him with clenched fist,
choked and kicked him, inflicting perma-
i nent injuries.
—TUnder the terms of a will filed at
Smethport last Friday for John Magner,
the hermit farmer who died a week ago,
Father P. J. Donahue, priest of St. Eliza-
beth’s church, Smethport, is made princi-
pal beneficiary of the estate, which in-
cludes a 120-acre farm, buildings and live-
stock and about $80,000 additional.
—The Berks county orphans’ court ruled
|
directly on the people. A tariff tax of | Representatives who will be out of a!
that LeRoy Raab is entitled to $1000 with
| interest from the estate of George J. Raab,
of Reading, who left the young man the
legacy to provide for his education for the
priesthood. The boy refused to enter the
priesthood and the bequest was contested.
The court held the legacy was not a con-
ditional one.
—Mrs. Anna N. Hankey, who died re-
cently at New Kensington, willed $450 to
the Home missions and $450 for church ex-
tension of the United Lutheran church.
Mrs. Hankey was the widow of a Luther-
an clergyman. Checks for both amounts
have been received by Rev. H. H. Weber,
of York, general secretary of the Board of
Church Extension and Home Missions.
—-Mrs. Irene McD. Henderson, aged 24
years, postmistress at the New Derry post-
office, New Derry, Pa., accused of embez-
zling postal funds amounting to over
$9,000, was arrested Friday by Deputy
United States Marshal D. A. Goldman and
taken before United States Commissioner
Ray Patton Smith, at Johnstown, where
she was held under $3,000 bond for a
hearing.
—One of five bandits who invaded the
Esterly woolen mills at Esterly, Berks
county, "Sunday night, and packed up a
lot of goods, shot at the watchman, Na-
thaniel D. Wayne, 65 years of age, when
he refused to throw up his hands after
coming upon the bandit while making his
rounds. The bullet clipped off the tip of
Wayne's nose and struck the safe. The
gang fled in an auto without taking the
goods.
—After 40 years as a mail carrier in
Altoona, Edward O. Babeock has retired,
fellow-workmen in the postoffice present-
ing him with a gold watch and a purse
filled with gold. Babcock was one of the
original carriers in that city, having been
appointed when free delivery was intro-
duced. It is estimated he has walked 150,-
000 miles, carried 624,000 pounds of mail,
handled 8,736,000 pieces and made 4,992,000
| delivery stops. net
— Watch is being kept on thousands of
dozens of eggs coming out of cold storage
by agents of the Bureau of Foods, be-
cause this is the season when the time ex-
pires upon many of the eggs sent into
storage when hens were busiest. Under
the law cold storage eggs must be sold as
such, and in the years gone by they have
been offered as strictly fresh and have
been mixed with fresh eggs and marked.
Owing to the demand for the holiday trade
State agents say there is danger of per-
sons buying eggs out of storage without
inquiry as to their age.
—Democratic State chairman Austin’ E.
McCollough, of Lancaster, has invited the
Democratic members-elect of the Legisla-
ture and the State Senate and the candi-
dates for State offices at the recent elec-
tion to be his guests at a dinner at Har-
risburg Friday, December 15th. There are
forty-one Democratic members of the low-
er House and seven in the State Senate.
The object of the dinner, Mr. McCollough
said, would be to discuss policies to be fol-
lowed by the “Democratic bloc in the next
Legislature and to -try as far as possible
to carry out pledges made in the Demo-
cratic platform.”
—John McDermott, aged 27 years, of
Marstella, Cambria county, died in the La-
trobe hospital Friday night of injuries re-
ceived in an automobile accident Thursday.
McDermott and a party of friends were en
route to Pittsburgh for the Pitt-Penn
State football game. Near Ligonier, the
driver, Donald McKinnett, also of Marstel-
la, lost control of the machine, which
crashed into a telephone pole. McDermott
was thrown from the automobile and
alighted on his head. He was taken to the
hospital suffering from: a fractured skull
and contusion of the brain. The others in
the party were uninjured.
—What is considered to be the heaviest
damages ever given by a jury in Delaware
county for injuries sustained by a person.
run down by a motor vehicle were award-
ed on Saturday to Floyd R. Morgan, of
Darby, when a jury rendered a verdict of
$10,542 against John M. Drew, owner of a
public bus service between Darby and Six-
ty-ninth street. The evidence showed that
the driver on the night of November 18th,
1920, was running a bus on Marks avenue
without a light, and that it struck Morgan
and R. W. Whitworth, both being badly
injured. Morgan was taken to a hospital
and later his left leg was amputated.
Whitworth, who is colored, and who was
a pitcher on the Hilldale baseball club,
was paid $1500 damages some time ago.
—RElizabeth Harley, 15 years old, was
found dead and Eva Perri, of the same age,
was picked up badly injured in the eastern
part of Lock Haven Friday night, and To-
ny Capello and Leo Kitchen, both of that
town, were arrested at Elmira, N. Y,, in
connection with the case. The police «l-
lege that the four young persons were rid-
ing in an automobile Friday night when it
ran into a telephone pole. It is charged
the men then placed the girls in the street,
where they were found, stored the auto-
mobile in a garage, went to Williamsport
in a taxicab and boarded a train for El-
mira. The two men were arrested on in-
structions of the Lock Haven police when
the train arrived at Elmira at 4 o'clock
Saturday morning and were taken buck
to Lock Haven, where they will probably
have to face the court in a trial for man-
slaughter.