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INK SLINGS.
—Chairman Lasker’s million dollar
junket on the Leviathan every day in
every way is looking more like thirty
cents.
——The State-wide tour of Sena-
tors Pepper and Reed is nearly finish-
ed but nobody has found out what it
was for.
—And new the fly has gotten busy
at the work of cutting down the little
bit of grain that did grow on the
fields of Centre county.
——The unexpected treasury sur-
plus is gratifying, of course, but it
indicates that the Secretary of the
Treasury is a poor guesser.
—The ordinary white-collared clerk
has to work two days in which to earn
enough to pay the fellow in overalls
for pottering around his home one
day.
—There was one at least who didn’t
realize there were so many kids in
Bellefonte until we saw the horde of
them that the Elks exhibited on Wed-
nesday night.
—Just naturally the question aris-
es: Why should the isolationists of
this country be so much concerned
about Japan’s plans for the domina-
tion of China?
—The burning of the Broad street
station, Philadelphia, almost convinces
us that the more fire-proof the struc-
ture the easier it burns and the hotter
the fire it makes.
—This is the year of the “seventeen
year locusts” and the amount of noise
they seem to be making in many parts
of the county indicates there must be
millions of them.
—The Governor has his code now.
It becomes effective today and it is
up to him now to show it the panacea
for all of Pennsylvania’s governmen-
tal ills that he has insisted it would
be.
—For this season at least we're off
further comment on the weather.
Every time we prepare a dissertation
on how hot or cool it is the weather
changes before we get the thing into
circulation,
—Having evaded the mandates of
the constitution so adroitly himself
the Governor thought he could teach
Finegan the trick. Finegan is a
teacher, however, and he declined to
take lessons in the little matter of vi-
olating his oath of office.
—With all our doubts and misgiv-
ings as to the results of the pet meas-
ures of the Governor we take our hat
off to him as the manipulator of Penn-
sylvanja Legislatures. No other Gov-
efor within our memory has so com-
—Of course we haven’t an idea that
our advice had anything to do with it,
but it is a fact, none-the-less, that less
than twenty-four hours after we told
Mr. Finegan what we would tell the
Governor about the job of Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction he went
and did it.
—Take it from us: Any day but
Sunday is a good one to cut bean
poles. We didn’t know this until last
Sunday when we cut a few, ran a
thorn into the finger that should be
guiding this pencil and have been suf-
fering the torments of the damned,
with an infection, ever since.
—Voting five million dollars for a
fair in Philadelphia, when they
acknowledged inability to find enough
money to support the schools and hos-
pitals of the State, was what might
have been expected of the Legislature,
but, happily, this was one of the times
when the expected didn’t happen.
—Because the “Watchman” did
what it thought to be its duty last
week! Told what it believes to be the
truth about the western penitentiary,
one minister of the gospel called the
office to congratulate it, while another
came down to discontinue his paper.
If for no other than purely selfish rea-
sons this community should be solidly
behind Rockview, since it means so
much in a business way to Pleasant
Gap and Bellefonte especially.
—The recent decision of the United
States Supreme court, affecting the
Kansas law on wages, is one of far
reaching consequence. A new enact-
ment of the Legislature of Kansas
gave power to an Industrial court, it
had created, to arbitrarily raise wages
in any industry coming under the ju-
risdiction of the court. If wages
were to be fixed by law what would be-
come of the fundamental law of sup-
ply and demand? The efficiency and
quantity of labor are the only two ele-
ments that should enter into an ad-
judication of what it should receive
and unless this can follow the only
alternative is the falling of the entire
economic fabric or governmental own-
ership of all industry.
—What is he? Big faker or ignoram-
us! Within four days of the time he
knew the Legislature of Pennsylvania
would adjourn the Governor of the
State writes a letter to Senator Barr
asking him to present a concurrent
resolution to investigate the past op-
erations of the State Treasury. Let
us tell you that a concurrent resolu-
tion can only be constitutional if six
legislative days have elapsed between
its introduction and final passage.
Having told you this we ask all read-
ers—friends and foes of the Governor
—to answer to their own satisfac-
tion the inquiry that started this
paragraph. They are the only per-
tinent questions that could be asked.
Think a bit, be honest with yourself,
and deduce what you may from the
facts set forth.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 68.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JUNE 15, 1923
NO. 24.
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Pinchot’s Hypocrisy Palpable.
In his letter to Senator Barr re-
questing the introduction of a concur-
rent resolution to investigate the past
operations of the State Treasury, Gov-
ernor Pinchot reveals sublime faith in
the credulity of the people of Penn-
sylvania or scant respect for their
intelligence. The request is presented
precisely four days from the date fix-
ed for final adjournment of the ses-
sion. Under the constitution a con-
current resolution requires six days
for passage through both branches.
Therefore, unless the Governor is ab-
solutely ignorant of or utterly indif-
ferent to the provisions of the consti-
tution, he knew that his request could
not be fulfilled and that his purpose
was te deceive the people.
Soon after the opening of the ses-
sion Representative Rhodes, of Mon-
roe county, Democratic floor leader,
introduced a similar resolution and in-
vited Governor Pinchot to promote its
passage. Instead of doing so, how-
ever, the most obedient followers of
the Governor exhausted their ener-
gies in rushing it into the “pickling
vat.” Now that it is too late to make
it effective he asks for a resolution
and assigns a false reason for the de-
lay. That is, he states in his letter to
Senator Barr that “he has refrained
from addressing the Legislature on
the subject until after the courts have.
finished with the case.” The courts
finished the case and the Attorney
General whitewashed the culprit ex-
actly three months ago, giving ample
time to start and finish the inquiry.
In view of these facts there is no
escape from the impression that this
gesture of Governor Pinchot is a fla-
grant fake pretense made for the pur-
pose of fooling the people. He spe-
cifically promised during the cam-
paign to thoroughly expose the cor-
rupt practices of Kephart and his as-'
sociate treasury looters until he com-
pleted a bargain for their support,
and he has since refrained from carry-
ing out his pledges because he was
negotiating corrupt deals with Kep-
hart’s friends for: legislation to pro-
mote his selfish ambitions. But now
that his plans have been consummat-
ed, with the help of the recreant offi-
cials, he comes out with a request for
an investigation which it is impossi-
ble to make. =
——If it turns out that Dr. Becht
entered upon the agreement with the
Governor which Dr. Finegan refused
to consider, the incident is an injury
to the public school system which will
require years to repair.
Finegan Carries Off the Honors.
Whatever differences of opinion
may exist as to the qualifications of
Dr. Thomas E. Finegan, for the office
of Superintendent of Public Instruc-
tion, fair minded and clear thinking
men and women will agree that in his
recent controversy with the Governor
he has carried off all the honors. His
educational system and methods as re-
vealed during the four years of his
administration are expensive, auto-
cratic and centralizing. All these
faults are undemocratic and danger-
ous. Because of these facts a consid-
erable part, if not a preponderance, of
public opinion was and is against his
reappointment to the office. But the
manner of his removal from the im-
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portant and honorable office is greatly :
to his credit.
Article 4, Section 8, of the constitu-
tion of Pennsylvania declares that the
Governor “shall nominate and, by and
with the adviee and consent of two-
thirds of all the Senate, appoint a
Secretary of the Commonwealth and
Attorney General during pleasure, a
Superintendent of Public Instruction
for four years, and such other officers
of the Commonwealth as he is or may
be authorized by the constitution or
by law to appoint.” Obviously the
purpose of this clearly expressed dis-
tinction was to protect the school sys-
tem from the intrigue of selfish poli-
ticians or the plots of ambitious ex-
ecutives. Governor Pinchot tried to
inveigle Dr. Finegan into a conspira-
cy to evade this provision of the con-
stitution.
Both these gentlemen had taken a
solemn oath to “support, obey and de-
fend” the constitution of Pennsylva-
nia. The proposition of the Govern-
or involved the violation of that sworn
obligation and Dr. Finegan properly
refused. In that refusal he forfeited
the generous emolument of his office
and relinquished an opportunity to
vindicate the wisdom of his education-
al policies. But he has written him-
self up as a man of honor and integ-
rity, and that is as great an achieve-
ment as laudable ambition could hope
for. In this matter, at least, Dr. Fin-
egan has earned the confidenec and re-
spect of all right thinking people, and
that is a triumph which will endure
so long as merit is justly appreciat-
ed.
—————— ———
——The capture of a 40,000 pound
fish off the Florida coast the other
day proves that the big ones don’t al-
ways get away.
. mess existing at Harrisburg.
‘publican
is so slender as to afford small pro-
Lasker’s “Joy Ride” a Menace.
Chairman Lasker, of the Shipping
board, one of the Presidential pets, is
inviting trouble for the administration
in his proposed million dollar “joy-
ride” in connection with the trial trip
of the Leviathan. Mr. Lasker is
about to retire from public life to re-
sume his vocation, which is selling ad-
vertising space in newspapers, and de-
siring to leave in the official circle
some enduring memory of his public ;
service, he conceived the notion of a
junket de luxe as a convenient medi-
um of achievement. He thereupon in-
vited some 600 guests, mostly Con-
gressmen and newspaper men, who
might be useful to him in the future,
and made preparations on a grand
scale for a week’s “life on the ocean
wave.”
Everything looked favorable for the
fulfillment of Mr. Laskei’s fondest
hopes until some curious Congressmen
of inquiring minds began an estima-
tion of the cost of this hilarious and
hifaluting enterprise. One item after
another was noted down and figured
up until the fabulous sum of a million
dollars stood staring them in the face.
Then it was recalled that both the
President and chairman Lasker had
been complaining for some time at the
enormous strain upon the national
treasury caused by the maintenance of
the ships under control of the Board,
and a mighty roar of protest against
this useless addition to the total was
made. Republican Congressmen were
overtaken with fear and are protest-
ing against it. :
Chairman Lasker probably imagin-
ed that his close friendship and inti-
mate relations with the President
would shield him from serious criti-
cism, especially as a large proportion
of his guests were to be Senators and
Representatives in Congress, but he
seems to have “reckoned without his
host,” for several leading Republicans
of the House and Senate have appeal-
ed to the President to call the event
off. Now chairman Cordell Hull, of
: the Democratic National committee,
who is a member of Congress, declares
that he will demand an investigation
of the affair immediately upon the re-
tection.
Possibly that Washington sten-
ographer may have trouble in get-
ting the $50,000 claimed as heart-
balm from former Representative
Herrick, of Oklahoma, but it’s certain-
ly worth that much to escape mar-
{ riage with him.
Perfidys at Harrisburg.
Those Democratic members of the
House of Representatives at Harris-
burg who voted to increase taxes, on
Tuesday of last week, wrote them-
selves down as party recreants. Ac-
cording to the newspaper reports of
the proceedings the Democrats “split
even,” one-half voting for and the
other half against the measures.
There was no valid reason for any
Democrat voting in the affirmative.
Auditor General Lewis, whose busi-
ness it is to know, had repeatedly de-
clared that no additional revenues
were needed to meet the obligations
of the State. Unnecessary taxation is
simply legalized robbery.
As we have repeatedly said, the
Heaven Help Pennsylvania.
The reorganization code was forced
through the General Assembly at Har-
risburg, last Thursday afternoon, and
within a brief period afterward was
approved by the Governor and became
a law of the State. It was a great
' event and “a cheerful occasion” for
| the Governor, as he stated at the time.
It made him master of the people. It
invests in him a power greater than
the Czar of Russia ever wielded. But
‘even in this there is a recompense. It
completely and for all time smashes
the odious and corrupt Penrose ma-
chine. There is grave danger that it
will create another machine more de-
structive and more selfish than the
Vares and the Leslies ever dreamed
of. But the peril is present.
The measure was forced through
the House of Representatives by the
most reprehensible methods. A law-
less combination of political mercena-
ries rode ruthlessly over the rights of
protesting Legislators and outraged
every principle of parliamentary prac-
tice in order to secure the favor of a
huckster in spoils in consideration of
patronage promised or implied. But
there is no surprise in this result.
Soon after the measure was introdue-
ed the “Watchman” expressed the be-
lief that if it came to a vote it would
be enacted into law. The lust for
spoils and the servility of the Legisla-
tors gave the Governor a guarantee
that a crafty trader with favors to
offer could get what he wanted and
“when he wanted it.”
There may be an appeal to the Su-
preme court to protect the rights of
the people under the constitution.
Under the authority of this monstrous
‘law the Governor will undertake to!
usurp functions committed by the con-
stitution to other departments and
that tribunal may revoke the unlaw-
ful authority and rebuke the usurpa-
tion. The Auditor General, the State
Treasurer and the Secretary of Inter-
nal Affairs have ample cause of ac-
tion. But they will enter the contest
without powerful support. The old
machine is so completely crushed thet
it is as helpless as it is worthless and
the spi ure has openly
ility and im-
Fortified with handsomely en-
grossed diplomas, over five hundred
young men and women left State Col-
lege this week to go out into the world
and enter the never ending struggle
for success. With some it may mean
a battle for supremacy in some chosen
calling, while with others, and proba-
bly the largest percentage, it will be
a fight for existence. The lines of
' competition are now so tightly drawn
"in all of life’s activities that only
those who are willing to put up a
stubborn fight become masters of
their calling or profession. The mid-
night oil counts as many points now
in the pathway upward as it did be-
fore Edison invented the push but-
ton illumination. Ten years from now
every one of the five hundred who
graduated at State this week will
have stamped their record on the
sands of time and none can tell at
this time what that record will be.
In the meantime the permanent resi-
dents of State College will now have
a fortnight’s breathing spell before
the influx of teachers for the opening
of the summer school on June_28th,
when from 2500 to 3000 are expected
|
‘some 500 of them: into law.
| In Terms of Barter. .
From the New York Herald.
A man who runs a farm in Virginia
sent to the New York Herald the oth-
er day a letter in which he translated
the cost of construction, at present
wages, into food at the price the far-
mer gets. The examples are most il-
luminating:
It takes 63% dozen, or 762 eggs to
pay a plasterer for one day of eight
hours’ work.
It takes 17% bushels of corn, or a
year’s receipts from half an acre, to
pay a bricklayer one day.
It takes 23 chickens, weighing three
pounds each to pay a painter for one
day’s work in New York.
| It takes 42 pounds of butter, or the
output from 14 cows, fed and milked
for 24 hours, to pay a plumber $14 a
| day.
It takes a hog weighing 175 pounds,
representing eight month’s feeding and
care, to pay a carpenter for one day’s
work.
Thus reduced to terms of barter, the
charges made by skilled labor in the
building trades are startling. Yet
these are facts beyond argument.
Men in lines of endeavor other than
farming can figure how much of their
produced wealth they are compelled to
give in exchange for construction
work. How much coal must a miner
dig in order to have his house paint-
ed? How many volumes must a book-
binder bind that he may have a new
front porch?
Barter is never so well expressed,
however, as in terms of food. For
that is the coin of the earth. All else
in trade depends in one way or anoth-
| er, upon it.
Law-Making—a Moral Fireworks.
From the Nation. 3
Laws, laws, laws! More laws! Still
more laws! Bad laws, needless laws,
| conflicting laws, unintelligible laws,
unenforceable laws, unconstitutional
laws, laws that nobody ever heard of!
—doubtless ‘a sprinkling of necessary
and constructive laws. ore -than
200,000 measures—federal, state, city,
town and COunfy are passed annually
in the United States, aceording to an
estimate of the national get com-
mittee while some 2,000,000 are in ef-
fect as a result of past performances.
Congress and the State Legislatures
alone pass an average of 10,000 laws
a year. The last Congr received
a than... hile ad _enactd
man in one of our large cities needs
a working knowledge of at least 15,000
statutes, it is said, if he is to do his
work intelligently. Our national pas-
sion seems to be to pass a law and
then forget it, violate it, or upset it in
the courts. Law-making is a kind of
moral fireworks, mistaken by many
for morality itself. Then, too, the
separation in this country between the
legislative and the executive branches
leaves many hundred men with noth-
ing to do except pass laws. How dam
this appalling flood? The spread of
. the commission form of government
among our cities and the tendency of
the States to regulate more through
administrative bodies than through
specific laws may help. For the rest
we shall have to wait, apparently, un-
til the burden bends our back to a
point where, willy-nilly, it slides off.
| Likely to Help State Machine.
+ From the Philadelphia Record.
' The so-called code for the reorgan-
ization of State Departments, now on
| the statute books by action of the
i Legislature and the approval of Gov-
i ernor Pinchot, is the product of the
| Governor and his backers. The an-
nounced intention of the law is to cre-
‘ate a condition under which savings
ican be made in the cost of govern-
Democratic party is not in the least to report for the six and ten weeks 'ment. The Governor urged that this
- measure responsible for the financial
true that Democratic members of the
General Assembly are morally and le-
gally bound to concur in legislation
providing sufficient revenues to finance
the operations of the State govern-
ment economically administered. But
levying taxes beyond that is robbing
the people. Providing funds to em-
ploy spies or pay the expenses of es-
pionage is not only unjust and undem-
ocratic, but a criminal usurpation of
authority. Democratic assemblymen
who voted for increased taxes at that
time have committed this fault.
At the opening of the session of the
Legislature the Democratic Senators |
~and Representatives pledged them-
selves to vote against increased taxes
unless the need for additional reve-
'nues was clearly shown. So far from
' this need having been established the
Auditor General repeatedly stated
that there was no need for increased
taxes. Some of the misleaders of the
party who are in sympathy with Gov-
ernor Pinchot’s centralizing policies
because of his prohibition proclivities,
may have encouraged this party rec-
reancy.
fidious on that account.
It is a safe bet that the chair-
man of the Republican National com-
mittee will not have a commanding
influence in dispensing patronage dur-
ing the rest of the present term of the
President.
E————— er —————————
——Now that some contemporaries
are discussing the quality of patriot-
ism the definition of our late friend
Sam Johnson deserves some consider-
ation.
It is |
But it was none the less per-
' courses.
——While ‘in town on Monday
i Squire A. A. Pletcher informed us
that the wheat fields down ‘Bald Ea-
| gle valley have improved considerably
in appearance in the past ten days or
| two weeks, and that the farmers of
; that section are now anticipating a
, crop that will not be much below nor-
| mal. Similar reports have been re-
| ceived from the western end of the
county, also. = Of course, there are
! some fields that are quite spotted but
the crop will not be as short as ap-
i pearances in the spring indicated.
| ——aA. D. Houck last week resigned
as business manager of the Altoona
Tribune, following a continuous serv-
ice with that paper of more than fifty
years. He started in as a carrier and
rose from one position to another un-
til he was made vice president and
business manager.
——The tariff commission is help-
less against the Sugar trust but it
tackles the tariff on paint brush han-
- dles with a courage that is amazing.
——The Legislature leaves Harris-
i burg and Mrs. Pinchot returns to that
| centre of politics this week, so that it
must be a cheerful time for Giff.
| ERE
| ——Even if Germany paid the rep-
‘arations bill in full .she would stand
to lose less than any other country
concerned in the world war.
——The billion dollar offer for the
| fleet of ships appears more like a
practical joke than an “iridescent
dream.”
could be done only through this law
giving him greater power than he held
before the passage of the code bill.
The constitutionality of the act is
questioned, and it is intimated will be
tested in the courts. The wisdom of
many of its provisions is doubted by
students of government.
We were about to say, having in
mind the Governor’s Decoration day
speech at Gettysburg, that it might be
all right to place unlimited power in
the hands of a Governor with such
love and respect for the Constitution,
but when we read anew the charge
made by Mr. Finegan that the same
Governor tried to get him to enter in-
to a conspiracy to violate the State
Constitution, what is the use?
The chances are that the code, like
most of the modern helps to better
government, will not do what its re-
forming friends claim for it, but, like
i so many more of their dreams, will
serve machinists who make govern-
ment control a means to private prof-
it far better than any device they
might have attempted to make graft-
ing easier.
But who cares?
Might be Improved.
From the Easton Free Press.
The bill signed by Governor Pin-
chot which compels all automobile
owners to register will help some. But
a law to adjudge the fitness of driv-
ers would help more by going nearer
to the prevention of accidents.
Too many owners and drivers of
cars are permitted to operate them
who are ignorant of traffic regulations
and the highway etiquette which com-
mon courtesy demands they should ob-
serve.
— Passengers on foreign ships
might swim to shore from the three
" mile line.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—~Contracts for road building in Blair
county totaling $100,870 have been let by
the State Highway Department to the
Paul Construction company, of Philadel
phia.
—For the loss of his left leg, Henry
Fink, of Conemaugh, former brakeman, has
been paid $17,500 by the Pennsylvania rail-
road. He was thrown from a draft of cars
at Conemaugh.
—Four young men, masked and armed,
held up a dozen men of a mutual aid so-
ciety .in Philadelphia on Saturday night,
seized in cash and checks over $1,800 and
made off in a large touring car.
—Colonel Henry W. Shoemaker has of-
fered a reward for the return of an Algiers
jackal, which dug its way out of the cage
in which it had been placed in the Shoe-
maker park at McElhattan several days
after it reached there.
—When Miss Dorothy Hummell found
$1400 in diamonds under a pillow in a
room at the Neff House, in Sunbury, last
Thursday, she firmly refused a $100 re-
ward. She is a housekeeper, and declared
it her duty to return the jewels, which be-
longed to a party of tourists from Florida.
—Walking upon the track at the Penn-
sylvania Railroad station at Portage, on
Saturday, and being confronted by a fence,
Fannie and Gertrude Tursky, of Cardiff,
aged 14 and 16 years, became bewildered,
and ran up the tracks in front of a fast
train. Both were run down and killed,
the bodies being horribly mangled.
—Mary M. Trinkley, of Patton, has filed
action through Leech and Leech, her at-
torneys, in Ebensburg, alleging breach of
promise and naming George O’Brien as de-
fendant. The plaintiff alleges that upon
promise of marriage she advanced to the
defendant the sum of $1,022.50, which has
never been returned. She also asks $10,000
damages.
—The executive board of the Central
Pennsylvania Volunteer Firemen’s associa-
tion at a meeting in Clearfield, at which
nearly every company in the district was
represented, decided upon August 16 and
17 as the dates for holding the annual con-
vention. The convention will be held in
Clearfield in accordance with the action
taken by the 1922 convention at DuBois. |
—Elmer L. Lippert, seventeen years old,
and his team of horses were struck and
killed by lightning while harrowing in a
field at Byberry, near Honesdale, on
Thursday of last week. There was no
mark on the man’s body, but a large hole
was found in the crown of his straw hat.
Another brother, John Lippert, escaped in-
jury when a barn was struck by lightning.
—Seventeen year locusts so plentiful that
they interfere with motor traffic and delay
mail service are reported by Ermone Bai-
ley, mail carrier on Tyrone R. F. D. 4. Ou
Saturday, near Union Furnace, his car ran
into a swarm of locusts which swamped
the machine. It was necessary for him to
stop and brush off the insects, picking
them from mail sacks and even from inside
the hood before he could proceed.
—Returning to his burning home to re-
cover $800 he had left in a trunk, after he
had once been trapped and only escaped
with difficulty, was fatal for Elmer Brown,
a New York Central trainman of Walton,
Clearfield county, for he received burns
that caused his death in a Clearfield hos-
pital a few days later. Brown plunged
: | back into the flames when he recalled the
olice-
‘money in the frunk and was horribly burn-
ed before rescuers, attracted by his fran«
tic cries, got him out.
—Lightning last Friday struck the barn
of John Houck in Salem township, two
miles from Berwick, destroying it together
with four horses, two automobiles, pigs
and chickens, farm machinery and grain.
The loss is about $10,000. Firemen were
called from Berwick and saved the house,
although it was damaged considerably.
Many trees were uprooted by the high
wind in the Savage Hill area and an oveér-
flowing stream tore away practically the
entire wheat field of Erwin Stiner.
—Former postmaster Fred McClure, of
Downingtown, who had been missing since
November last, returned home last Friday
night. McClure simply dropped from
sight, leaving his family and for no ap-
parent reason. His accounts as postmaster
were found correct, and he was in no finan-
cial trouble. He was traced to Philadel-
phia, and there the trail was lost. He ex-
{ plained that he had remembered nothing
until he found himself in a hospital in
Richmond, where he remained for several
weeks. :
—Walter Snyder and J. Y. Groton, of
Scranton, employees of a local garage, were
held in bail for Union county court at
Lewisburg, on Sunday, charged with hav-
ing knowledge of the theft of $14,000 worth
of diamonds from the Cherry Run bunga-
low of Federal Judge Charles B. Witmer,
of Sunbury. The diamonds were in a vest
owned by Charles Hinckley, of Buffalo, N.
Y. The young men were sent to the bun-
galow to repair an automoble and after
they left the diamonds were missing, it is
alleged.
—Several dozen silk shirts, believed to
be part of the $13,000 worth of shirts stol-
en from the Pottsville factory some time
ago, were located in Lock Haven by a
Pottsville officer and a State police, who
searched homes in the eastern end of that
city on Friday. They found twenty-one
silk shirts in one home and a number in
others. The shirts were confiscated, al-
though no arrests were made. The officers
said they will continue the search this
week. Trail of the loot has led them into
a dozen cities, they stated.
—Lewis Brown, former brewer, connect-
ed with the Westmoreland Brewing plant
at Suterville, who is under sentence in the
federal court at Pittsburgh for contempt,
was granted permission last week by
Judge F. P. C. Schoonmaker to go to EKu-
rope to attend the wedding of his niece.
Brown was directed to return to Pitts-
burgh before October 15th. Brown was
fined $500 and sentenced to thirty days in
jail in connection with the operation of
the brewery at Suterville after it had been
closed by an injunction order.
—Deputy sheriffs Edward Mannison and
D. J. Riley, of Allegheny county, charged
with the murder of Fannie Sellins, organ-
izer for the United Mine Workers of Amer-
ica, were found not guilty by a Pittsburgh
jury late last Friday. Mrs. Sellins was
shot and killed at Ducktown during the
1919 steel strike. The verdict of acquittal
was reached after fifty minutes of deliber-
ation. In the case of Mannison the court
had instructed the jury to return a verdict
of not guilty. Witnesses for the defense
testified the woman union leader was at
the head of a charging mob of men armed
with clubs and stones when she was killed
at the Allegheny Steel company’s coal
mines, where Mannison and Riley were
guards.