ve responded to our
for ali of our sub-
the Delaware, from up
January, is finding far
r on the Susquehanna.
to go on the rocks any
lies and gentlemen who
eap notoriety through
icing are only proclaim-
Jd that they have a good
ir legs than they have
erick bill, which would pre-
nunity in the State from
ht saving, if it wants to
meeting with very proper
If Bellefonte wants to go
f six o’clock instead of seven
a day when four rolls round
siness is it but Bellefonte’s?
r a new Act, just signed by
nor, one need not apply to
Assembly if he wants his
pally changed. The court of
n pleas now is empowered to do
p to this time the local
is have had the power to change
sundry names to Dennis, but now their
prerogative is considerably extended.
—On Wednesday Governor Pinchot
signed the bill which does away with
traveling auditors for the Auditor
General’s Department. It is a step
toward economy and a release from
what has been regarded as useless an-
noyance and will be very generally
acclaimed if they are not to be super-
seded by more from another Depart-
* ment.
—Sure Governor Pinchot is the lucky
Sm
T etnaeral
7H)
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 68.
Latest Phase of the Mess.
The latest development of the rot-
ten “mess at Harrisburg” indicates
that the visits of Senators Reed and
Pepper, at the State capitol, on Mon-
day, was for the purpose of putting
a check upon the activities of the Gov-
ernor. The machine managers have
arrived at the conclusion that he is
going too far and unless he is re-
strained the machine will be wrecked.
He was allowed free rein in the mat-
ter of prohibition enforcement be-
cause he was running in line with pop-
ular opinion. But when his policies
and purposes carry a practical neces-
sity for taxing manufacturing corpor-
ation stock, the ghost of disaster put
in an appearance.
The machine managers want to
avoid increased taxation.
is already near the crushing point.
The Senators believe that if the pay-
ment of over-due obligations is spread
out over a period of four years, rigid
economy will work a clearing up of
the mess without additional taxes. But
the Governor insists on speedier ac-
tion in the cleaning up process. By a
levy of twenty million dollars of new
taxes he imagines the clean up can be
achieved in two years. But the odium
of new taxes would rest on the ma-
chine, while the glory of the speedier
The burden |
boy. His yroiles 8 farisrg are accomplishment will go to the Gover-
ri os te Ue Bh nh mt pei
. - 51 i for the interference. :
a million that his uncle Eno left him | Thys far no agreement on the sub-
some time ago it has just been an- | ject has been reached. The House
nounced that he is to get sixty-six committee on Ways and Means has
Do SE ii ee Tn
: 2 at the sympathies o e Members
the water and come out brushing dust | ro with the Senators. But the Gov-
off their clothes. & ernor is a powerful persuades When
. —The Fordney-McCumber tariff put he brings the patronage of his office
a duty of two cents a pound on bacon, linto action and it is not improbable
ham and other pork products import- | that he will put up a fight. In that
ed into. this country. The farmer is event we will “see a pretty fight,” as
getting ‘nine cents for his ‘hogs and ' Sir Lucius O'Trigger would say, and
American bacon is selling in English | the outcome would be uncertain. The
markéts at twenty-five cents the , Governor is very fond of popular ap-
pound, whereas the same quality is Plause and a successful battle against
selling in New York at thirty-two. the Old Guard, under the generalship
Who is getting the difference? ue of the Senators, would feed his vanity
packers, of course. They're the boys to satiety.
who se the slush funds to wheedle :
into voting for the party
g - ; —Having just been presented with
int=makes: the tariff. They: get it, goiq.headed cane, if some other
goin’ and comin’ while the farmer sits f,jonq will come through with a wheel
on the fence and tries to figure it out. [chair we'll be feeling old enough to
—The third Asiatic exposition of try to make the Hons. A. G. Morris,
the American museum of Natural his- John P. Harris and Thad. Hamilton
tory is under way with the hope of believe we = were their first Sunday
discovering the Garden of Eden. They school teacher.
think it must have been located some- |
where in the Gobi desert, which lies
just at the rim of Inner Mongolia. | : ; —
‘What if they find it, what then? It’s The signs plainly indicate that Gov-
too late to kill the serpent that brought ernor Pinchot will have the fight of
all of the sorrow into the world and his life over that preposterous piece
as for discoveries that might cause a of legislation called the “Pinchot
revival of the Garden fashions in Code.” The more it is studied the
dress, as did the delving into King less attractive it appears. If enacted
Tut’s tomb, there’d be nothing to that. [into law no agency of government
We are so near the fig leaf stage now {could function without the consent of
that a little nearer wouldnt cause a the Governor, Even the General As-
Pinchot’s Premier Battle.
ripple.
—Dr. Elien Potter, the new head of
the Department of Public Welfare,
says that Rockview penitentiary is be-
ing built along mistaken lines and that
she hopes to complete the remainder
of the institution on the small group
plan of prison farms. You will note
the statement that she hopes to com-
plete. Being too busy to read up on
Dr. Ellen’s long and varied experience
as a builder and warden of corrective
penal institutions for men we are in a
fog as to how to comment on her con-
templated treatment of Rockview and
are inclined to regard her statement
as only meaning “My, what a long
tail our cat’s got!”
—Harrisburg seems to be more con-
cerned about exercising complete con-
trol over the hospitals of the State
than it does over financially aiding
sembly would be obliged to secure his
‘consent to buy a box of pens. No au-
{tocrat ever dreamed of such abun-
dance and variety of power. Oppo-
| sition to his wishes, however fantas-
(tie, would be speedily starved into
| submission. The Governor would be
the State, under the “code” and the
| State would be supreme.
| The Attorney General, the Secreta-
iry of State and Commissioner of
‘Health would have complete control,
not only of the revenues but of the
| disbursements of the State, and all of
| these officials, being appointees of the
| Governor, would be obedient to his or-
!ders. It is small wonder that the
Senators in Congress have remon-
istrated against this absurd legisla-
tion. It is not surprising that the
| Representatives in Congress have
' joined in the protest. If the bill pass-
(és the Governor will not only become
them. The latest effort to harrass the absolute boss of his party but the
them is incorporated in House bill No. unchallenged master of the Common-
1285, which would make it “neces- | wealth. The thought of it is stagger-
sary for small hospitals to maintain ing.
records showing whether effort had | Yet if the question comes to a vote
been made to make charity patients, in the Legislature this vicious meas-
their sisters, their cousins, or their ure will be enacted. There is such a
aunts, pay for the service rendered by lust for spoils in the Legislature that
the institution. These records being |a majority of the votes can be ob-
for the purpose of inspection by a
traveling political hack from Harris-
burg who would know about as much
as to the ability of the patient to pay
as we do about who hit Billy Patter-
son.
—To D. J. K. and V. J. B., who have
written from Greer, West Virginia, to
kid us about our skill as a fisherman
it behooves us to reply mildly. If they
hadn’t known the trick of getting fish
somewhere, somehow neither one of
them would ever have had anything
but a vegetable dinner on any Friday
that the calendar has turned since they
were able to sit up and take notice.
We admit that they know more about
fish than we do, but their idea of how
to get them is pathetic if they really
thought the three smackers they sent
along would be sufficient to entice our
deserting ‘boot-legger back - with
enough bait to do any good. Three
dollars might be the price in West Vir-
ginia, but you couldn’t hire a fellow
to blow his breath in your face for
that money up here.
tained for any iniquity by the prom-
ise of office or patronage in one form
or another. The more reasonable
among the Representatives are trying
to defeat the “code” by preventing a
vote on it. The present plan is to fix
a date for final adjournment at a per-
iod so early that the “code” will be
left on the calendar of one branch or
the other. This plan may succeed, for
there are plenty opposed to the bill.
The impending fight is to prevent ad-
journment.
——Whether Woodrow Wilson fa-
vors the nomination of former Justice
J. H. Clark, of Ohio, as the Democrat-
ic candidate for President next year
or not, there are a good many intelli-
gent people who believe that any par-
ty “might go farther and fare worse.”
It is only just to Senators Pep-
per and Reed to say that their propos-
ed tour of the State is not for the pur-
pose of “giving the ladies a treat,”
though they are handsome men.
{Harding’s Embarrassment Increasing.
| The embarrassment of President :
Harding caused by Attorney General
Daughery’s premature announcement
of his aspirations for a second term
is increasing every day. It was the
intention to make “the swing ‘round
the circle” a sort of non-partisan af-
fair in which the leading figure might
express compliments to the communi-
ties favored by his presence and in-
cidentally cultivate the friendships of
the men and women he chanced to
meet. He had announced the elev-
enth-hour conversion to the League of
Nations and hoped to justify his new
attitude by such arguments as he
could invent in the minds of those he
had previously helped to mislead as
Senator and front porch orator.
The premature announcement of his
candidacy has completely robbed him
of all opportunities along these lines.
He is now compelled to meet the pub-
lic in the capacity of a candidate for
popular favor and the opponents of
the Teague of Nations as a porch
climber trying to sneak into the
League through the back door. The
result is that both he and some of his
friends feel that the “swing ‘round the
circle” will do him harm rather than
good in every way, and a considerable
number of his supporter;
gone to the extreme oF suggesting
that the trip be abandoned. Of course
that is an impossibility. He will have
to fulfill his agreement even though
it may make his defeat for the nomi-
nation certain.
But a graver complication has de-
veloped which is also ascribable to
the Daugherty faux pas. It seems
that pending the negotiations for
Harding’s nomination in 1920 his
friends agreed that he would not be a
candidate for re-election, and that
they would support Senator Watson,
of Indiana, for the favor. It will be
recalled that previous to the conven-
tion both Harding and Watson visited
Penrose at his home in Philadelphia
have even
and substantially agreed to thus mort- [the National constitution which was |she howls with fear
BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 20. 1923.
Pinchot Invites an Odious Comparison.
In his address before the school-
men in conference in Philadelphia, on
Saturday, Governor Pinchot came per-
ilously near to condemning himself.
“No one is a decent American,” he
declared, “who breaks the constitu-
tion.” Section 13 of Article III of the
constitution of Pennsylvania is as fol-
lows: “No law shall extend the term
of any public officer, or increase or di-
minish his salary or emoluments, after
his election or appointment.”
after the inauguration of Governor
Sproul, Gifford Pinchot was appoint-
ed to the office of Commissioner of
Forestry. In 1921, while he was still
in commission the salary of the office
was increased from five to eight thous-
and dollars a year.
The increase of the salary by Act of
Assembly could hardly be construed as
la violation of the constitution. The
|General Assembly has the constitu-
'tional right to increase or decrease
the salary of an office, but not of an
officer. If Mr. Pinchot had continued
to draw salary at the rate provided by
law when he was inducted into the of-
fice of Commissioner of Forestry, his
successor in office might have drawn
propriety. But Mr. Pinchot entered
into an agreement with the Governor
to resign one day and be reappointed
the next. If this wasn’t breaking the
constitution it was a conspiracy to
bend it badly and “no one is a decent
American” who does such things.
In the case of indulging in a dram
of moonshine by .the average man,
which the Governor construes as
breaking the constitution, there is no
wicked intent or symptom of turpi-
tude, while conspiring to draw from
the public treasury funds in excess of
ing true the Governor is taking a long
shot with public opinion in inviting a
comparison of his own act with that
of a man or woman who technically
violates the Eighteenth amendment to
Soon
the larger compensation with entire |
a just claim involves both. This be-
NO. 16.
France and Germany.
———
jErom the Philadelphia Kecord.
So long as we are on the outside of
the League of Nations, and are pro-
ceeding on the theory that nothing
that happens in Europe can be of the
i slightest concern to the United States,
‘the French occupation of parts of Ger-
many can be of little more than aca-
demic interest to us, and we have, of
course, no right to offer advice or sug-
gestions either to the bill collector or
to the bad debtor.
Dispatches from the occupied terri-
tory, however, are the subjects of le-
gitimate unofficial comment, and they
give rise to the following observa-
tions:
First, that the attitude of the civil-
ian population of the cities and towns
under French military domination
seems to be almost identical with that
of the Belgian and French population
of territory overrun by the Germans
during the war. It is one of obstruc-
tion, fierce hostility and defiance.
Might breaks the strength, but not the
spirit, of subjugated peoples. If the
Germans in the occupied territory to-
day are trying the patience of their
French overlords to the limit, it must
be remembered in justice that just se
the Germans five to eight years ago
goaded their French and Belgian
wards to desperation.
Second, harsh as may seem the
methods of the French army in deal-
ing with a people inspired to lawless-
ness and recalcitrance by patriotism,
they afford a strong contrast with the
methods of Germany when the re-
spective positions were reversed.
, France has been driven to holding a
whole population responsible for the
acts of a few hot-headed zealots, and
inflicts fines as a punitive measure.
Germany, in the like circumstances, re-
sorted to wholesale and indiscriminate
executions. France recognizes the
laws of civilized warfare and applies
‘them to the limit. Germany wiped
those laws off her slate and relapsed
(into barbarism. In view of the acts
iof the German army in France and
‘Belgium the voice she now raises in
protest grates at times on the ears of
{impartial observers. She is not get-
ting a dose of her own medicine, but
and rage at the
gage the office for the future. Daugh- ‘adoped by questionable if not actually mere sight of the bottle.
erty’s announcement is a repudiation
of this agreement and Watson has de-
clared war against He
get: .-into .the = :
through the medium ‘of the Interna-
tional Court of Justice. ‘
——The tariff board, according to
current news dispatches, has complet-
“ed its inquiry into the cause of the in-
‘creased price of sugar. If it will con-
vey the information acquired to the
President a lowering of the price may
be expected.
Coming Crisis on Taxation.
Governor Pinchot, having, finally
been forced to an approval of addi-
tional taxes, the Legislature is now
under compulsion to decide what form
the new taxation will assume.
man Woner, of the House committee
on Ways and Means, offers five propo-
sitions from which to choose. The
first of these is a surtax of twelve and
a half per cent. on all existing levies
plus an increase of one cent a gallon
on gasoline. Next he favors a luxury
tax plus a half cent increase on the
gallon of gasoline.
erty tax to the State, plus a half cent
increase tax on gasoline and next a
three mills tax on capital stock of
manufacturing corporations.
Hither of these methods would pro-
duce the needed revenue of twenty
millions of dollars and make the bud-
get figures of the Governor feasible.
His fifth plan involves a variety of
levies including an increase in auto-
mobile licenses, a surtax of ten per-
cent. and a miscellaneous levy of three
million dollars.” The surtax is elim-
inated by a direct declaration of the
Governor that it won’t do. The luxu-
ry tax is too vague and uncertain and
the return of the personal property
‘tax to tha State would simply be “rob-
bing Peter to pay Paul,” for it would
leave the counties and cities now shar-
ing the proceeds of that tax with in-
sufficient revenues to meet their obli-
gations or force an increase of local
taxes.
Obviously the purpose of all this ma- |
neuvering on the subject is to save
the face of Joe Grundy, who is oppos-
ed to any tax on manufacturing cor-
porations. Grundy has had an un-
written agreement with the Republi- |
can machine of Pennsylvania for many |
years that in consideration of gener- |
ous contributions to the slush fund of |
the party manufacturing corporations
would be exempt from taxation. Mr.
{ Woner estimates that a three mills
‘tax on the capital stock of such cor-
‘porations would produce the needed
revenue, and Grundy reckons that it
is much cheaper for the corporations
to pay a million or two to the slush
fund. The public will find out within
a short time whether or not Grundy
has lost his grip.
——Pinchot now admits that new
taxes are necessary but not to carry
out any of his plans. It’s to square
up the deficiencies of his predecessors
in office.
ing’s plan to
Chair- |
His third prefer- |
ence is a return of all personal prop- |
sinister methods. The critic of other
{men’s actions should be careful that
5 own are above suspicion and that
i
i
{
Fo se
——Col. C. A. Rook, director of pub-
ilic safety, of Pittsburgh, inaugurated
‘a scheme on Wednesday to get rid of
{the loafers in that city. He instruct-
ed the police to arrest all men whom
they believed to come under the class '
of habitual idlers and 170 were
brought before him during the day.
{To each one he gave the option of
{going to work or going to jail and
lonly ten chose to go to work. If the
'same thing were tried out in every
county the jails would soon be filled
‘to bursting.
Stars” is one of the best stories ever
'written by that well known author,
‘Zane Grey. It depicts life in the great
‘southwest as it used to be with a viv-
idness of detail that is most absorb-
ing. Don’t fail to read the opening
' chapters in this issue of the “Watch-
‘man.”
—For a real fisherman there is
about as much sport in catching the
tame trout in Spring creek, near this
“office, as there would be for a hunter
to pin a license on himself in the fall
'and go out into his own back yard and
shoot his child’s pet rabbit.
It is said that President Hard-
ing has given up fishing. As prohibi-
tion has taken much of the joy out of
| fishing it’s small wonder that golfing
is increasing in popularity.
——Speaking of conferences gener-
“the case. ~ na ie eg
“Under the Light of Western |
i. War is hell, and the exercise of mil-
itary power against a disarmed foe is
rutalizing. The present situation,
how: y 18 of the rermal n
ch , and it is too late'in the day
for them to expect the sympathy that
, would be due to an honorable debtor.
meted reales
| Mr. Harding Cannot Understand It.
From the New York World.
It is puzzling that anybody should
suspect Mr. Harding of political de-
signs in planning his coming trip
across the continent. The President
cannot understand it. Nothing could
possibly be further from his purpose.
The last thing he has in mind is to
present himself to the people of the
‘country during his swing around the
lcircle: as a candidate for renomina-
j tion.
It just happens that Alaska lies far
off at the extreme corner of North
America; that for some time Mr.
"Harding as head manager of the gov-
ernment has desired to look person-
‘ally into conditions there, and that
{there is no convenient way of reach-
'ing Alaska except by crossing a large
inumber of States, where naturally the
people will expect him in passing to
{make formal addresses, impromptu
| speeches and rear-platform remarks.
‘He could not escape it if he wanted to,
‘and he cannot talk about the weather
and nothing else.
Congress is on vacation, and the
progressive Republicans have been
turned out to pasture for the summer.
, The President will have time to leave
| Washington and look about for him-
| self. His eye has been fixed on Alas-
‘ka as a place that needs his attention,
{so why shouldn’t he go there as well
as anywhere else?
| Just because his friend, Senator
| Watson, of Lndiana, proclaimed one
| day that Mr. Harding would be renom-
!inated by the Republicans in 1924 and
| triumphantly elected, and just because
Imail. Harrison, who is now
ally will some one kindly point out Harry Daugherty, of Ohio, his polit-
‘what good was accomplished by that ical manager and Attorney General,
{ much lauded conference held in Wash- anannoad that Mr. rd 2
ingt ? | candidate for renomination, is that the
{gloria year ormonge slightest reason why the President
| should not be interested in Alaska, its
——After Henry Ford has secured {mineral resources, timber-lands, sal-
(everything he wants in this country he mon-packeries and all that? It is dis-
might take title to the German em- :tressing that the newspapers should
pire and pay the reparation bill.
{ ———Secretary Mellon’s heart still
. bleeds for the poor multimillionaire.
i But he will hardly get the incomes of
| that class reduced next year.
If it is true that excessive tax-
i . .
ation reduces revenues automobiles
|
‘may be taxed out of their present class
of revenue producers.
——If poverty were really abolish-
ed there might be some chance for the
average family to pay the rents that
are asked.
Pinchot appears to have yielded
to the pressure of the Senators. He
admits new taxes are necessary.
——Out of chairman. Woner’s five
plans for increasing revenues gaso-
line figures in four.
——No wise man loiters about; the
house much in house cleaning time.
[imagine that he is on the lookout for
| delegates to the 1924 convention, or
that his speeches on the way to Alas-
ka will be tuned to the needs of his
campaign for renomination. It is
| Steange how this kind of gossip gets
‘about.
A Reflection on Senators.
From the Columbia State.
It is difficult for the President to
understand that the Fordney-McCum-
| ber protective tariff law can have any-
thing to do with the mounting prices
of sugar. So he said in a telegram
from Florida ordering an investiga-
| tion.
| “If the Democratic Senators of Lou-
isiana and the Republican Senators
from the sugar-beet States did not
| vote for the Fordney-McCumber tariff
in the hope and expectation that it
would cause a rise in the price of su-
gar, why did they vote for it?
‘Would President Harding insinuate
that the Senators of Louisiana are‘im-
| becile ?
——Subseribe for the “Watchman.”
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Walter Frick, a Lewisburg, Union
county engineer, has been seletced to
draw the plans for the proposed bridge
between Milton and West Milton. It is
estimated it will cost from $250,000 to $400,-
000.
—The Rev. Robert E. Mock, two years
pastor of St. John’s Lutheran church at
Juniata, has resigned to become an in-
structor at Wittenburg College, Springfield,
Ohio, and will close his ministry there on
July 1st.
—Anthony George, of Bethlehem, gave
his bride of a month his pay envelope on
Saturday before he left for his work. When
he returned home he found she had disap-
peared with all the furniture. George im-
mediately swore out warrants for her ar-
rest and that of a man with whom he
thinks she eloped to Detroit.
—Officials of the Tressler orphans’ home,
the largest orphanage of the Lutheran
church, have announced the appointment of
Rev. G. Robert Heim as superintendent of
the institution. He has been assistant su-
perintendent of the home for two years
and succeeds Charles A. Widle, who died
on Monday after heading the institution
for 33 years.
—At a meeting of the congregation of
the Second Methodist Episcopal church at
Easton, on Friday night the Rev. Charles
Roads was greatly surprised when his par-
ishioners presented him with a handsome
residence, on Seitz avenue, which is now
occupied by William Gunning, a promi-
nent silk operator, and which the congre-
gation just purchased, without the knowl-
edge of their pastor.
—C. W. Doughty, of Pittsburgh, was giv-
en an “honor parole” last week when he ap-
peared in criminal court in that city be-
fore Judge Howard W Douglas, and plead-
ed guilty to the theft of more than $3000
on forged payroll checks. Doughty was an
employee of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie
railroad. He pleaded guilty to seventy-
four separate indictments. Judge Douglas
placed him on parole for five years on con-
dition that he pay back the $3000 and stand
thé court costs which totaled about $1200.
—Women of Sharon will have equal
rights in barber shops so far as prices are
concerned. With the adoption of a new
wage scale a list of prices was agreed up-
on for 1923. This is the first time that
rates for women have appeared on the list.
Bobbed hair will cost 50 cents, clipping the
neck, 10 cents, and trimming the bangs 15
cents. The last two prices are set to take
care of the women who wish to have their
hair “dolled up” between the bobbing
times. .
—Uniontown is to save a rat hunt in the
near future to rid the city of 25,000 or
30,000 of the pests. It is probable that two
prominent men will organize teams and en-
gage in a friendly contest as to which will
produce the most dead rats in a given
time. It is understood that the city coun-
cil will furnish all implements of war re-
quired. . It has been suggested that coun-
cil appropriate $1000 for the expense. A
ten-day hunt is being urged by persons
back of the project.
—In twenty-seven years William BE. Har-
rison, veteran letter carrier of McKees-
port, has walked 162,000 miles for $30,000.
He has walked on an average of twenty
miles a day on 8100 days since he joined
the postoffice force in April, 1806, and he
(has distributed. about 8000000 pieces of
60 years old,
has worn out fifty uniforms and 100 pairs
of shoes on the job. When he started car-
rying mail there were four carriers in Mec-
Keesport, Now there are thirty-two.
—The new Park Avenue Methodist Epis-
copal church, at Northumberland, the Rev.
H. R. Reader, pastor, was dedicated on
Sunday. The property cost $51,000, and a
total of $46,000 was raised by the congre-
gation, the balance being pledged. There
are 375 members in the congregation. The
Rev. J. E. A. Bucke, of Sunbury, super-
intendent of the Sunbury district of the
Central Pennsylvania conference had
charge of the services. The Rev. J. E.
Long, of Dickinson Seminary, Williams~
port, preached the night sermon.
—An interstate cocking main was
brought to a sudden termination at three
o'clock on Sunday morning at New Ken-
sington when a squad of state police raid-
ed what appeared to be a specially con-
structed building, barred the only exit and
arrested 211 men. Each of those arrested
posted $50 forfeit before a justice of the
peace at Arnold. Various cities in west-
ern Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia
were said to have been represented. A sil-
ver loving cup that was to have gone to the
winner was confiscated, as were fifty
birds.
—The fifth generation of blacksmiths ia
one family is in the making in Brookville.
Donald Walton, 18 years old, is being
trained by his father, Charles C. Walton.
The father of the latter, John Walton, who
died in Punxsutawney a few days ago,
traced the blacksmith trade to his grand-
father and his father, in County Kerry,
Ireland, where he was born. John Walton
declared that all of his brothers and 20
of his nephews were blacksmiths, and he
did not know of any of the male members
of the family who had not followed the
same trade.
—His throat slashed almost from ear to
ear, the body of Philip Unangst, of
Bloomsburg, 55 years old, missing almost
four weeks, was found on Sunday on the
east end of Gerger's island, in the Susque-
hanna river, about five miles below
Bloomsburg, by Simon Derr and Willard
Walters, who went in search of the body
when they learned a reward of $100 had
been offered for its recovery. The body
was taken to Berwick and coroner Davis
held an inquest, deciding that death was
due to suicide. Unangst had been melan-
choly, due to a long illness with a nervous
breakdown. :
—Unannounced and without the knowl-
edge of any individual save his attorney
and district attorney Fetterhoff, Frederick
L. Orlady returned to Huntingdon from
New York city, where he was recently plac-
ed under arrest, on Friday night and on
Saturday went before Judge Bailey at a
special session of court, and pleaded guil-
ty of a charge of embezzlement which had
been hanging over him since 1917. He was
sentenced to from 10 to 18 months in the
western penitentiary. In 1917, while Orla-
dy was a practicing attorney in Hunting-
don, five indictments were preferred
against him at the instance of Auditor
General Powell. The amount embezzled
was $11,500, being money collected by Or-
lady as delinquent corporation taxes. In
offering his plea of guilty Orlady’s attor-
ney pointed out that he had enlisted and
served abroad in the world war, had been
wounded and during his subsequent busi-
ness career large sums of money had pass~
ed through his hands without loss.