: INK SLINGS.
'—That predicted German May-day
revolution turned out to be nothing
but a hisser.
The moon shines east,
The moon shines west,
But my pap knows
‘Where the moonshine’s best.
—Really these radio experts ought
to be stopped. The idea of using one’s
bed springs as antenna. Catch us do-
ing such a thing and have all the
world listen to our snoring.
—Gradually the girls and women we
pass on the streets seem to be coming
out from under the coats of paint they
have been laying on for the past few
years and we're surprised to see how
beautiful they really are.
—At the age of sixty-two Arthur
G. Dewalt has taken unto himself a
wife, Arthur is one grand Democrat
and here’s hoping that the new voter
in his family never goes out to spill
the beans by nullifying his ballot.
—Tuesday was Penrose Memorial
day in the Legislature at Harrisburg.
Splendid tribute was paid to the last
of the big party bosses. Little was
heard from the moons that reflected
the Senator’s living light but much
from those little lights that were con-
cealed under his living bushel.
—Let us hope that the million dol-
lars that the Carnegie Foundation has
just given for the promotion of a re-
statement of the common law of the
country will result in such a codifica-
tion and clarification as will make it
impossible in the future for technical-
ities to prove that black is white.
—Of course the announcement that
a new job drawing a salary of seven
thousand a year has been created at
Harrisburg won’t concern the tax pay-
er much. He’s so obsessed with the
idea of cleaning up the mess that he
doesn’t stop to think that his posteri-
ty for ever will be paying for the job.
—However Berlin may be deceiving
the Allies as to Germany’s ability to
pay; her latest offer of a pact for peace
for ninety-nine years seems to us to
be worth serious consideration even
without the seven billion dollars she
offers in cash. It would pay the world
all the world round, even to forgive
debts, for a century of peace.
—Personally we're having daylight
saving all to ourselves. There’s so lit-
tle to do in the old town these nights
that we hit the hay so early that the
first gilliloo bird that gets its bill out
from under its wing far enough to
start its matutinal song unlocks the
arms of Morpheus and we crawl out
to start over again just where we
started the morning before.
—The trial of federal prohibition
director McConnell blew up in Phila-
delphia, on Wednesday. Each day
since it started the prosecuting attor-
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 68.
BELLEFONT
Why Pledges Are Not Kept.
The several ballot reform bills in-
troduced in the Legislature at the be-
ginning of the session were all quiet-
ly dropped from the calendar of the
House of Representatives last week,
according to the press correspondents
at Harrisburg. As at the burial of
Sir John Moore “not a.drum was
heard, not a funeral note” disturbed
the silence or contributed to the fes-
tivities of the occasion. Ballot reform
legislation is a menace to the comfort
as well as the liberty of political pi-
rates who build up majorities for the
Republican party. The only safe place
for them is the legislative graveyard,
and they were consigned to that se-
cure retreat last week, “unwept, un-
honored and unsung.”
Republican, ventures to ask: “What
about the pledges he (Pinchot) gave
about crooked election officials and
crooked bosses responsible for crook-
ed election returns? Does the fact
that Gifford Pinchot received one hun-
dred thousand crooked votes in Phil-
in other large centers of population
prevent the redemption of these pledg-
es?”
swer that conundrum, though an ex-
planation might be found in another
statement of our contemporary to the
effect that immediately preceding the
vote a bulletin sent out from Republi-
can headquarters read: “Go the lim-
it. He will treat the organization all
right. We never lied to you before.
It is widely and well known that a
week before the election Pinchot was
slated for an overwhelming defeat.
Then he went to Philadelphia and
made terms with the Vare machine.
Nobody except himself and a few of
ithe machine managers know what
{terms were made but everybody knows
{that the Vares are not in politics for
{their health and that it is their cus-
tom to exact “the pound of flesh.”
| After the conference with Pinchot the
floodgates of corruption were opened
‘and 100,000 fraudulent votes were cast
{for Pinchot in that city alone. Since
that he has not spoken a word against
|crooked politicians or corrupt elec-
. neys have announced to the court that tions. It is
y reasonable to be-
more of thelr documentary evidence lieve that his silence on that subject
had disapeared in some mysterious
way and it is probable that finally it
was found to be all gone and the case
against the Senator and his fellow
«defendants had nothing but thin air to
rest on.
—1If the State is so poor that it will
have to cut its aid to the hospitals to
the bone we can’t understand why
Governor Pinchot has insisted on hav-
ing a quarter of a million dollars ap-
propriated for special purposes of law
enforcement. Most every one will
agree with us in the belief that there
are enough district attorneys, enough
sheriffs and enough policemen in the
State to enforce the laws. If they
don’t do it they ought to be replaced
with officers who will, instead of tak-
ing this sum away from the needy
poor and giving it to extra enforce-
ment agencies.
—The circus is coming to town next
Monday and, my! What we’d give for
one of those days when we used to
carry water for washing the wagons,
pasted paper on the hoops that the
bare-back rider jumped through and
_ missed dinner; all to be chucked under
the side wall of the menagerie by
some razor-back and be herded up at
the end of the big top until the an-
nouncer called for volunteers for the
boy’s race. Them. were. the days.
Them were the days when kids were
real. We had only one Little Lord
Fontleroy then. Now it seems that
they’re all understudying the part.
—Writing to the Philadelphia Rec-
ord on the question of taxation one
who signs himself “Richard Wayne”
argues that the tax on anthracite coal
ought to be taken off and placed on
bituminous. He says that as bituminous
is used only in industry it should bear
the burden whereas anthracite heing
used by the poor should be free of
tax. We don’t doubt Richard’s sincer-
ity. But we are certain his investiga-
tions of the question he discusses have
been limited. Up this way it is a sign
of opulence when a ton of hard coal is
delivered at one’s home. All us poor
people use soft coal and we protest
against his proposal te transfer the
tax,
—We have often said that we have
too many laws but after looking over
some recent shipments of hard coal to
this place we think we could agree to
having a law passed that would make
it a misdemeanor for a miner to load
slate and demand pay for it as coal
mined. Always the miners are de-
manding laws to protect themselves.
It seems to us that the public should
reciprocate in this respect. Don’t
blame the trouble on your local dealer
and don’t blame it on the honest op-
erator. Both of them want to give
you: good coal and would if the miner
would stand for having the slate
thrown off his car before it goes over
the scales.
was the price of those votes.
|
| ——Bill Vare has not heretofore
'been regarded as over credulous but
the is about the only member of the
lold machine who takes Pinchot’s word
at par value.
cetyl.
The Pinchot Frame of Mind.
A correspondent of the esteemed
Philadelphia Record, of a recent date,
expresses a doleful story of his dis-
appointment in Governor Pinchot.
“To wake up some morning and find
one’s idol shattered is a rude shock
to one’s feelings,” he declares, and
adds: “At least I thought so a few
days ago, when I read Governor Pin-
chot’s statement in which he voiced
his determination to cut the hospital
appropriations ‘to the bone’ in order
to pay for the ‘joy rides’ of previous
administrations.” Such things are in-
expressibly sad to men and women of
philanthropic minds. Thousands of
others who imagined him an idealist
are equally disappointed for the same
reasons, and quite as many for other
causes.
Last week we cited the trial and
treatment of former State Treasurer
Harmon M. Kephart, plainly the com-
pounding of a felony, in order to shield
more guilty rogues from exposure and
punishment, as an expression of the
Pinchot frame of mind. Since then
another incident has occurred in Har-
risburg which proves the correctuess
of that appraisement. In the so-call-
ed “budget,” as prepared by the Gov-
ernor, there was an item appropriat-
ing $250,000 to the Attorney General
for no expressed purpose. It might
have been used to buy adherents to the
Pinchot personal machine, as his vast
contribution to the primary slush fund
was used to buy votes for his nomi-
nation. In any event it was of doubt-
ful validity for the reason that the
constitution prohibits appropriations
of that kind “except for ordinary ex-
penses,” and this item was certainly
extraordinary.
In its wisdom the House committee
on Appropriations cut that item out
of the bill. Of course Pinchot was
disappointed. And what did he do in
the circumstances? Did he appeal to
the conscience of the Legislature? He
and discredited Philadelphia politician
restore the mysterious item to the ap-
propriation bill. Everybody knows
vors has been made.
would afford the opportunity.
1
1
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Harding is “Kidding” Himself.
President Harding, in an address
delivered at the annual meeting of the
Associated Press, in New York, last
that there is no connection between
E, PA., MAY 4. 1923.
: Democratic Minority Saves the People
| The positive and very proper stand
of the Democratic minority in the
General Assembly may save the peo-
week, declared with some vehemence {ple of Pnnsylvania at least twenty
! millions of dollars within the next two
NO. 18.
At the evening dance
Most every one knows
The better the shape,
The scarcer the clothes.
The Open Door.
the League of Nations and the Inter-'years and hundreds of millions in the | prom the Philadelphia Record.
national Court of Justice. He is evi-
dently® trying to “kid” somebody or
else he is “kidding” himself. The In-
‘ternational Court of Justice is a crea-
ture of the League of Nations. The
judges who sit on its bench were chos-
en by the League of Nations and the
jurists who prepared its jurisdiction
and procedure were named by the
League. Without the action of the
League it could have no existence and
‘whatever jurisdiction it exercises is
|
‘ervations or conditions. Most of the catory and an increase of from ten to opp
adelphia, over twenty thousand in Al-
legheny county and tens of thousands
‘sence of this country is not fatal in and Representatives in the General |
any way. Whether we are in or out | Assembly declared they would oppose
We will not undertake to an- |
the League of Nations and the Inter- any and all increases of taxes and
|
in accordance with the authority given
Speaking on the subject, our es- 'by the League.
teemed contemporary, the Clearfield |
As Woodrow Wilson said the other
day, it would have been better if the
United States had entered the Inter-
national Court of Justice without res-
future. A tax once put on is hardly
ever taken off, and the Republican
‘majority in the Legislature had fully
'determined to increase taxation to the
extent of ten million dollars a year in
jorder to promote Gifford Pinchot’s am-
bition to be President. With that in-
‘crease in the taxes and a little care-
fully conducted juggling of accounts,
the Governor might easily have clean-
ed up the financial mess at Harris-
burg within the first two years of his
administration.
But the operation would have been
an enormously expensive one. It
{would have been like cutting off a
{man’s leg to cure a corn on his toe.
i The taxation is already almost confis-
The United States has a perfect right
ito insist at the second Lausanne con-
ference on the maintenance of the
‘open door in the Near East. It has
long been our national policy to in-
'sist on equal opportunities for all na-
‘tions in the backward countries which
are dependent upon the Western na-
tions for their development; “exploit-
ation” is the common term with peo-
ple who would leave barbarians and
semi-barbarians in undisputed posses-
sion of a large part of the earth’s sur-
face. The term is not justified; the
backward countries cannot develop
their own economic resources, and
they are benefitted by the application
of Occidental capital and skill. We
have insisted on the open door in Chi-
Ina, and we have the greater claim to
ortunities in Turkey because we
important governments of the world ffifteen millions a year, which was con- are one of the nations that won the
are already in and it is performing |templated by the Governor and the world war.
its judicial functions regularly. The
addition of the United States to its have driven thousands of industrious government showed as much interest
membership would materially
strengthen it in every way but the ab-
‘majority of the Legislature, would
{men and women into insolvency. Re-
lalizing this the Democratic Senators
We would be glad, however, if our
in humanity as it does in kerosene.
| When it has been urged to press upon
the Allies the fulfillment of their
promises to this country in regard to
the Turks and their victims, the De-
partment of State asks sarcastically
‘national Court are striving hand in | they spoke with such emphasis and if this country is expected to make
hand in the splendid work of promot- unity of purpose that the conspirators | war on Turkey. Why should it not be
ing peace and advancing prosperity.
But they are joined together “for
weal or woe” and can neither be di-
We know what we are talking about.”
vorced nor separated.
In his New York speech President
Harding accurately stated the atti-
| were frightened away from their
(plans. The payment of the unlawful
| debts created by administrative prof-
ligacy in the past will be spread over
four years instead of two.
Paying a debt of forty million dol-
"asked in turn if its message about the
open door means that it is ready to
make war upon England and France
and Turkey, any, or all, of them?
| Why should the Department of State
{be so pronounced about the open door
for money-making purposes, and so
‘tude of the Republican party as ex- lars within two years without serious- | profoundly and cynically indifferent
pressed in its national platforms cn 'ly impairing the machinery of govern- !to the massacre and deportation of al-
the subject of international disputes. ment would have been a great achieve- most the entire christian population of
Until Senator Lodge set out to “fight {ment and ample foundation for a Turkey, and even discontinue on June
President Wilson” it was committed to
arbitration. But the League of Na-
tions was the most effective instru-
ment of putting that policy in force
that has ever been devised and Pres-
ident Harding, as a Senator in Cou-
gress, joined in the conspiracy organ-
ized by Lodge to defeat it. The In-
ternational Court of Justice is a me-
dium aiming for the same results and
we sincerely hope our government will
join it. It may be a back or side door
or cellarway entrance but it will get us
into the League.
how many votes Great Britain may
have in the International Court of
Justice, but as a Senator he was much
concerned as to her votes in the as-
sembly of the League of Nations.
Lodge and the World Court.
If Henry Cabot Lodge has the cour-
age of his convictions and the con-
sistency of his pretense he will make
President Harding’s excursion into the
International Court of Justice a haz-
ardous undertaking. He has already
given expression to a decided opposi-
tion to the enterprise. In a letter ad-
dressed to the Republican Governor,
of Missouri, he classifies the court as
a creature of the League of Nations,
and as he has frequently declared op-
position to the League in whole or any
of its parts, he can hardly consent to
Harding’s plan. But Lodge is such a
servile creature, so sycophantic a
bootlicker, that he may be forced into
support of the scheme notwithstand-
ing his feeling against it.
In his letter to Governor Hyde, Sen-
ator Lodge quotes from the New
York speech of the President and fig-
uratively sticks a stiletto between his
ribs. The President said the League
of Nations is “serving the old world
helpfully” and Lodge added: “I have
become convinced that it was fortu-
nate the Senate rejected it and that
it is best for the world, for the cause
of world peace and for the American
people that the United States should
not, under any circumstances, become
a member of the League.” Then by
way of making his opinion more em-
phatic he declared that the Senate
will make its own reservations and
fight them through at any cost to the
President or the party.
Of course nothing else could be ex-
pected of Henry Cabot, for he imag-
ines that he is the fountain of wisdom
and that patriotism is bogus unless it
has the Lodge brand “blown in the
bottle.” But happily he no longer ex-
ercises the control of the Senate
which made him so potent in the
senseless fight against Woodrow Wil-
son, and he will have less majority be-
hind him than that which gave him
support during , the last Congress.
Some Republican “bitter-enders” may
did not. He appealed to a corrupt join in his effort to keep us out of
the court, but practically all the Dem-
and sent him as an emissary to Sen- _ocrats and a majority of the Republi-
ator Vare to request that venal party cans will support the movement which
boss to coerce his colleagues in the will ultimately line this country up
Legislature to reverse themselves and with the best thought of the world.
—Just naturally we are curious to
what methods are necessary to influ- know how it remained for a professor
ence the Vare mind and most people of a college where they make Metho-
believe that an offer to exchange fa- | dist preachers to invent a vest pocket
The approach- |“hootch” detector such as professor ing.”
ing municipal contest in Philadelphia Vuilleumier, of Dickinson, has just an-
nounced as his contribution to science.
si rR ART a RT
President Harding doesn’t care
claim for higher honors, even though
the processes had been cruelly de-
i structive. But the Democratic Legis-
ilators could see no reason why such
| sacrifices should be made to satisfy
the ambition and feed the vanity of
one man’s wife. They are willing to
do anything in reason to assist in the
righteous purpose to clean up a dirty
mess for which they are in no respect
responsible. But they are not willing
to impoverish thousands of people to
_confer upon Mrs. Pinchot the title of
2 AC
x
The women politicians are anx-
ious for a constitutional convention.
Probably they have “something up
'their sleeves.”
Cleaned the Big Spring.
Borough manager J. D. Seibert gave
the big spring, Bellefonte’s everlast-
ing water supply, a thorough cleaning
out the latter part of last week and it
now presents a more attractive ap-
pearance than it has for some time. In
ordinary seasons Bellefonters go the
.even tenor of their way without giv-
ing more than passing consideration
to the spring, but in times like the
prolonged drought of last summer
every one of us feels doubly thankful
for the abundant supply of pure water
which gushes up out of the ground
with such consistent regularity day
after day and year after year.
| In fact the fame of the Bellefonte
spring has spread clear across the
continent. Several years ago the head
of the Department of Education in
California sent to Bellefonte for data
on the spring, for use in the physical
geography used in the public schools
cof that State. The data furnished
‘gave the size of the spring as 60x80
feet with a mean depth of 8 feet. Vol-
‘ume of water, 7,000 gallons per min-
ute, or 10,080,000 gallons a day.
(This is a very conservative computa-
tion, as the flow is generally conceded
to exceed 10,000 gallons a minute).
The Bellefonte reservoir is 195 feet
above the level of the spring, which
‘gives a pressure throughout the town,
according to location,
‘pounds. Notwithstanding the fact
‘that some of the - water from the
spring is used to operate a pump ful-
ly eight horse power of water goes to
| waste as surplus over the tail gate.
i The water has been repeatedly an-
‘alyzed and always shows up as abso-
lutely pure as water can be.
—The United States Supreme court
has ruled that no vessel, whether fly-
ing our flag or that of any other coun-
try, has a right to carry liquors aboard
‘when within the three mile limit of
our shores. The ruling has the re-
verse action of making it possible for
| American vessels to take liquor
aboard, once they are outside the three
mile limit, and dispense it to passen-
‘gers as long as they remain outside.
The result of the ruling will probably
be to establish liquoring stations one
inch outside the three mile limit on
{all the lanes of travel for boats leav-
ling the ports of the United States.
——The Kentucky girl who married
a dishwasher under’ the delusion that
he was a real prince has “no kick com-
A man who can wash dishes
well is a prize while most Princes who
marry in this country are paupers.
Sha samiaiater
of 15 to 100
'30 the aid the American’ Red Cross
thas been giving to Greece in the care
‘of a million refugees from Turkey in
ithat small and impoverished country ?
{Is the Department of State under Mr.
‘Hughes interested in nothing except
the opportunities of American syndi- |
cates to make money?
And what has curdled the milk of
human kindness in French and Turk-
ish bosoms? From the time of the
peace conference down to a few weeks
ago France was acting as the next
friend of Turkey. In the language of
ow Lhe lang
‘a Frenchn in Turkey
a
ue Erp a
a7 5. thet
the Christians of the Near East to the
beasts, and they have on several oc-
casions strained their vitally import-
ant relations with Great Britain near-
ly to the breaking point in their effort
to secure for the Turks the status of
one of the conquerors, instead of one
of the victims of the world war. And
now the Turks are massing troops on
the Syrian frontier, the French have
warned them against acts of belliger-
ance, and have sent one of their most
eminent commanders to Syria. Is it
the French policy that the door should
be opened to French interests, but not
to American interests? And is Mr.
Hughes going to make war for petro-
leum which he would not make for hu-
manity, not even calling upon the Al-
lies to keep their promises made to us
in January, 1917?
1
Italy Goes to Work.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
| Benito Mussolini, Italy’s “Black
Shirt” Premier, may be the arch four-
flusher of the world, as his enemies
charge, but he has been good for what
ailed Italy. He has put that nation of
some 40,000,000 souls back to work
and taken the Italian mind off some
of the Italian troubles.
In the early autumn Italy was about
half-minded to go along with the
“Bolos.” The “old gang” of official-
dom was drifting, cowed, afraid of
revolution, afraid of its own shadows.
Italian labor was refusing to work
for the “dirty capitalists.” Italy’s
farmers had got into their heads the
notion that it would be a smart thing
to let the shop-keepers and “white
collars” starve, so they let their crops
waste in the fields and the fruit rot
under the trees.
Italy had been in a bad state for
better than three years. Messrs. Le-
nine and Trotzky, Kamenev and Kras-
sin had high hopes of Italy.
| Then along came Signor Mussolini,
a pop-eyed, little “reformed” Social-
(ist, with the Italian version of the old
Captain John Smith doctrine that the
man who does no work shall not eat.
He and his “Black Shirts” were a
minority, but there were plenty of
them to throw the “old gang” out and
tell Italy a few wholesome truths.
“Only hard work can redeem us,”
was.one of these truths. Another was
“Every man has a right to work but
no man has a right to strike against
the interests of the nation.” Capital
was reminded that it could not get
.along without labor and labor that it
could not get along without capital.
Benito Mussolini had much to say
‘about work and precious little to say
about special privileges for anybody.
i Strange to say, Italy took this cu-
rious little man at his word. Work-
ers are offering extra hours of labor
and turning in the extra wages for
| “the good of the State.” State em-
ployees, and that is a shining miracle,
are following the lead of dock work-
ers, tobacco workers, railroad em-
ployees, metal workers and a hun-
dred other trades and crafts in_in-
creasing production, lengthening their
hours and turning over to the State
these extra earnings and services.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Anna M. Smith, of Norristown, has
been #ivirded damages for the death of
her husband, Isaiah Smith, who was killed.
by a car of the Reading Transit and Light
company.
—The Lycoming and Clinton county
Commissioners, at a joint session, have let
the contract for the construction of a
three-span concrete bridge over Pine
creek, connecting the two counties, to
Whitaker & Diehl, of Harrisburg, at their
bid of $86,467.
—Rvery article of furniture in the home
of the Rev. Reese F. Thornton, pastor of
the All Saints Methodist church, of Pitts-
burgh, was removed by thieves during the
absence of the minister, the police report-
ed Saturday night. The loot, which includ-
ed a piano, was hauled away in a wagon,
neighbors said.
—John Garrett, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L.
Garrett, of Mifflin county, was painfully
burned upon his face, arms and ankles
Friday afternoon, when he fell while car-
rying a bucket of hot tar in the construc-
tion department of the Viscose company.
He stepped on a stone, which turned, caus-
ing him to fall and spill the contents of
the bucket upon himself.
—Thomas Casey, a car builder employed
at Bloomsburg, was working on the inside
of a box car, while a fellow workman was
on the outside. Casey was standing along
the side of the car when his fellow work-
man drilled a hole through. The drill en-
tered Casey’s leg and drilled a hole imto
the calf before he could get away. The
drill passed between the two bones in the
leg.
—Mrs. Dillington Shaffer, of Sunbury,
and Elmer R. Hall, of South Danville, were
married in the First Baptist church at
Sunbury, on Sunday, by the Rev. T. Car-
son Hanna. Six weeks ago Miss Shaffer
was waiting at her parents’ home in Mid-
dleburg to marry Hall, but he did not turn
up. He said he forgot he was to be mar-
ried, and at the hour set for the event was
in church at Danville.
—Mrs. 8. C. Jack, of Hazleton, who re-
cently celebrated her eightieth birthday
and is spending a few months at Provi-
dence, R. I., has enrolled as a student at
Brown University and is taking a course
in French. Mrs. Jack is the mother of the
Rev. Robert Bonner Jack, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church, of Hazleton,
and is the widow of a minister who was
prominent years ago in the Lehigh Pres-
bytery.
—Harry V. Il. Hager, of Johnstown, Pa.,
a stockholder in the Cambria Sieel compa-
ny, has asked Common Pleas court, of
Philadelphia, to appoint three persons to
appraise the damages incurred by consol-
idation of the company with the Bethle-
hem Steel Products company. Mr. Hager
is one of the few minority stockholders of
the Cambria Steel company who refused to
surrender their shares at the time of the
consolidation.
—Roy Richards, of DuBois, now about
45 years old, and unable to hear a sound
since he was 20 months old, was able to
hear radio programs from Pittsburgh,
! Newark and Schenectady one night last
!week, through head ‘phones. The radio
| was turned in on second stage of amplifi-
cation, and Mr. Richards’ face showed
| great joy as he listened to the music. They
were the first sounds he had heard in more
than forty years. He would motion with
| nis fingers as the sounds grew dim or
‘louder. :
ahd $s Be A AE ee a
—The bursting of a flywheel weighing
seven tons, last Thursday, caused a loss
estimated at $100,000 at the plant of the
West Chester Cold Storage and Ice com-
pany. The engine room was wrecked, but
all the employees escaped injury. Sections
of the wheel weighing 500 pounds were
hurled in every direction. One piece tore a
huge hole in the roof. Another was hurled
over a stack 100 feet high and in descend-
ing wrecked two furnaces in the engine
room, while another was found 300 feet
away at the plant of the West Chester
wheel works.
—J. H. Conway, chief of police of Mal-
vern, is in the Chester county prison
charged with shooting William Mitchell,
a negro student in Malvern High school.
Mitchell is in the Chester county hospital
in a critical condition. William and his
brother Harvey were waiting at the rail-
road station for their mother, when Con-
way opened fire on them. According to
state police the prisoner was drunk. Con-
way attempted to draw his revolver when
Corporal Lewis, of the state police, went
to arrest him. Lewis covered the man with
his revolver and took him to jail.
—Two arguments in two coal mining
towns in Fayette county, on Sunday, cost
three lives. Fred Douglas engaged George
Nelson in an argument at the Douglas
home. Shots followed and Douglas fell
dead. Police are looking for Nelson. The
shooting occurred at Revere. At Eden-
born, William Joyner and Chester Ingram
became involved in an argument. Guns
were pulled and Joyner was shot through
the breast. He died almost instantly. &.
F. Riley, special officer, was shot and fa-
tally wounded when he attempted to ar-
rest the two men, both of whom escaped.
—The body of Harold FF. Van Dermark,
a Bucknell University Senior, who was
drowned in the Susquehanna river at Lew-
'isburg over three weeks ago when a ca-
noe capsized, was recovered at Blue Hill,
on Sunday, seven miles below the scene of
the drowning. Wesley Rowe, a track walk-
er for the Philadelphia and Reading rail-
road, who was patroling his beat along
the shore, saw the body floating face down-
ward. He pulled it ashore with a pole, se-
cured it with a wire and notified the crew
of a passing train. Van Dermark's body
was sent to his home at Nanticoke, where
the funeral was held on Tuesday, with a
group of college friends in attendance.
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—James S. Zerbe, 28 years old, bride-
groom of three weeks, last Friday con-
fessed responsibility for a shortage of
$6400 in his accounts as assistant cashier of
the Dalmatia State bank, after it had been
discovered by Blake Harper, a state bank
examiner. “It all comes from having a
good time,’ said Zerbe, who recently mar-
ried a daughter of Charles Deppen, one of
the richest men in Northumberland coun-
ty. Deppen made good the shortage as
soon as he learned of it. Zerbe received
$135 a month. Although the bank has lost
no money, officials of the state banking de-
partment at Harrisburg indicated to F. A.
Witmer, Zerbe's lawyer and a director in
the Dalmatia bank, that they would pros-
ecute him. Zerbe waived a hearing and
gave $10,000 bail for the May term of
Northumberland county court. His fath-
er-in-law filed the bond. Zerbe is said to
have helped friends out of difficulties
through his peculations, which lasted over
a period of eight years.
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