Dewaraaic alm
INK SLINGS.
—Two things that we hope for a
lot are to see both the Giants and the
Yanks pushed out of first place.
——Probably Coolidge will author-
ize Senator Watson, of Indiana, to
speak for him on the Ku Klux ques-
tion.
—If, as candidate Wheeler says,
there is hope of his ticket carrying
Pennsylvania, what is to be left for
Calvin.
——=So long as Slemp remains at
his elbow the influence of Fall and
Daugherty will not be far from the
President’s mind.
—As part of an administration that
has been notable chiefly for uncom-
mon scents Coolidge just naturally
suggested one of common sense.
—If Gif. would really like to be
President the cost of sending Cornelia’
down to Texas to get a few lessons
from “Ma” Ferguson might be money
well spent.
—Possibly if the narrow way were
wider and the primrose path narrower
Bellefonte and other communities
would not be so frequently shocked by
domestic tragedies.
—Judging from the successes of Mrs.
Ferguson, and former Governor Wal-
ton, it would appear that the K. K. K.
has been making more noise than
votes in Texas and Oklahoma.
—The Governor’s proposed swing
around the Pennsylvania circle to tell
the people what he has done seems
like “hauling coals to New Castle.”
Most of them feel already that he’s
done enough.
—General Dawes may say that he
doesn’t feel free to talk, but that
doesn’t convince any one that he isn’t.
“Buck” is free enough. His trouble is
probably a lack of a vocabulary that
would express in polite terms what a
candidate for Vice President might
have to say.
—A Columbus somnambulist is
alive after walking out of a third
story window and landing on his head
on a concrete pavement. And, the
head lines say, he has frequently had
similar experiences. It might be
added that he must have an ivory
bean as well.
—Next week the Grangers. will pic-
nic. After that there will be a few
fairs to attend and then Indian sum-
mer and then the furnace fires will be
lighted and we’ll commence to count
the days until Christmas. Isn’t it
awful how tempus fugits after one
has passed the meridian of life?
—The great great grand-children
of Miss Leonora Cahill, of St. Louis,
if any there shall be, are already as-
sured of something to brag about. A
half a century or more hence they
it be telling that their grand-
1 d eleven times in suc-
cession with the Prince of Wales.
—Anyway John W. Davis starts his
first western trip with everything to
gain and nothing to lose. The corn
belt country is said to be prejudiced
and apathetic to his candidacy, but it
doesn’t know him. When it meets and
hears him it will know why he is the
country’s best bet in the Presidential
race. :
—Fifty million Russians are facing
famine because of a short grain crop
and the Soviet government of that
country is planning to export grain
with which to secure credits on which
to buy uniforms for its red army and
finance propagandists who are urging
you to try Russia’s panacea for free-
dom and happiness.
—In Philadelphia, the other day,
contributors to a political campaign
fund received - checks refunding the
unused portions of their contributions.
In Philadelphia, mind you, .this hap-
pened. It is up to Mr. Grakelow to
get this news to Mr. Root, for it is not
too late for Elihu to revise his opin-
ion of the “corrupt and contented’ »
politics of that city. is sh
—The Berengaria will arrive at
quarantine off New York, this after-
noon. = Ordinarily the arrival of a
boat at New York is only a passing
incident, but as this one happens to
carry the Prince of Wales, it’s differ-
ent. And we hope the Prince takes
quarantine seriously. He needs inoc-
ulation if he would be immune from
flapperitis while in this country.
—The American Society of Teach-
ers of Dancing, in session in Chicago,
have put the ban on all cheek-to-
cheek, shivering and wabbly forms of
dancing for the reason that “they are
twisting young bodies out of shape
and displacing their internal organs.”
Are we to infer from this that modern
dancing is begetting generations of
floating kidneys, dislocated livers and
galls jammed up into the place na-
ture made for brains.
—As for us, we don’t regard the
great Middle West as the real battle
ground in the presidential campaign.
All this talk of Davis’ weakness west
of the Mississippi is wish rather than
fact in the first place and, in the sec-
ond, he won’t need any of those States
to be elected if the Republican reason
for his being weak there has any sub-
stance. If Davis can’t carry any
western States because he is a great
corporation lawyer and allied with
big business—and big business, as
Corp. McCurdy says—is only Bonfat-
to’s banana stand grown into the Unit-
ed Fruit Co., then he has a good
chance of carrying New York, New
Jersey, Ohio, Illinois and Indiana.
With these States, the South and the
advantage of the three that LaFol-
lette is almost certain to take from
Coolidge he is surely sitting about as
pretty as any candidate could hope to. |
VOL. 69.
Lust for Spoils a Potent Force.
The Republican factions of Pitts-
burgh have signed an armistice until
after the November election, accord-
ing to current political gossip. Max
Leslie, head of the hostile forces, and
Mayor Magee, boss of the other crowd,
will pull together this year just as
they did four years ago in the inter-
est and under the hope of spoils. Ma-
gee appraises Leslie as a political
bandit capable of any and all of the
crimes in the calendar. Leslie esti-
mates Magee as a political pirate will-
ing and anxious to perpetrate any
atrocity that will promote his own
selfish interests. Neither of these
political crooks would believe the oth-
er on oath and those who know them
well concur in their opinions of each
other.
For many years Max Leslie and
William A. Magee have been leaders
in the political underworld of Pitts-
burgh. Most of the time they have
been partners in the work of looting
the city, each taking his share in the
sinister activities. Some years ago,
however, a quarrel between them over
the division of spoils ensued, and since
they have been bitter rivals for con-
trol of the sources of plunder. The
conflicts have been intense but the
forces are so evenly balanced that
neither has been able to acquire mas-
tery. At present Magee controls the
city and Leslie the county patronage
and the plunder is about equal. For
nearly a year both have been laying
lines of battle for the municipal con-
test next year.
After the Civil war one of the
northern carpet baggers, having sat-
isfied his cupidity, left the South with
the purpose of settling down to a life
of ease in his old home when another
implored him to return for the reason
that “there are two years of good
stealing left in this State.” In the
face of danger these Pittsburgh
bosses came to an agreement to sub-
merge their comparatively trifling
differences for a time in order that
the opportunities for bigger piracies
may not be impaired. After the elec-
tion®ifi* November the hostilities will
be,gesumed with infinitely greater
chances for spoils because of the mu-
tual agreement for temporary peace.
| Lust for spoils | is a Potent force
among men.
——President Coolidge admonishes
his campaign managers to avoid debts.
Harry Sinclair may not be able to
make up deficiencies in future.
The Ku Klux Klan Problem.
Such a statement as that made by
John W. Davis, in his Sea Girt speech,
upon the Ku Klux question was inev-
itable. That sinister subject was in-
jected into the campaign for the pur-
pose of diverting the mind of voters
from the real issues to be determined
at the November election. The Ku
Klux organization, whatever its orig-
inal purpose may have been, has been
perverted to a great evil. Of uncer--
tain proportions and favored by the
Republican managers of certain doubt-
ful States it was skillfully dodged by
the Republican National convention in
the expectation that the Democratic
convention would be equally evasive
“tention to the: exclusion of greater
‘matters.
The Ku Klux Klan is the illegiti-
mate progeny of the Know Nothing
organization which flourished for a
brief period during the last quarter
of the first half of the last century,
with added wicked propensities. It
aimed to proscribe citizens of foreign
birth and religious faith. The Ky
‘Klux Klan goes further and makes
race prejudice a party policy and em-
ploys unlawful and even criminal pro-
cesses to enforce its dogmas upon the
public. It required a high standard
of courage in a candidate to publicly
declare his opposition to such an or-
ganization, but fortunately the Dem-
‘ocratic candidate for President has
‘the stamina to meet the condition, and
in his Sea Girt speech expressed him-
self clearly.
Whether Mr. Coolidge follows his
example or not is now of little conse-
quence. General Dawes, his associate
on the ticket, has condemned the hood-
ed organization with reservations. It
is a wicked and vicious force in the
country, he admits, but justified in its
activities when labor troubles are in
progress and its energies are directed
against the ‘wage earners. That is
precisely what was to be expected of
the originator of the “Minute Men”
enterprise. Any misuse of authority
is to be encouraged and supported
when striking laborers are contending
for their rights. But this attitude of
the Republican party will not serve
the purpose of diverting the public
mind from the questions at issue.
—It is a singular fact that only
those who ‘favor good government
neglect to vote.
I ————— A A ———————————
——When Giff “takes the stump” it
Jay be expected that the Mellon will
cut,
-and thus made to absorb popular at- |
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. AUGUST 29. 1924.
NO. 34.
Butler Fearful of Pinchot.
Governor Pinchot’s announcement
that beginning early in September he
will make a speaking tour of the State
has created considerable alarm among
the Republican campaign managers.
The Governor has assured national
chairman Butler that “he will bespeak
support of the candidates named at
the Cleveland convention” is not sat-
isfying. The Governor is not always
sincere in his declarations.of fidelity
to party requirements. During the
primary campaign he had the State
leaders “buffaloed” almost up to the
last moment when they discovered
that he was clandestinely working
with Senator Couzens to expose the
false pretense of the administration
in the matter of prohibition enforce-
ment.
It is known that he has recently re-
newed his activities on this subject.
Last week he held a conference with
the various district attorneys and
urged them to greater earnestness in
enforcement of the prohibition laws,
State and national, and it was imme-
diately following this event that he
came to the conclusion to stump the
State. There has never been much
cordiality in the relations between the
Governor and the President and the
national party leaders are fearful that
the delinquency of the national ad-
ministration will be the principal
theme of his speeches en tour. It is
wisely reasoned that after a vigorous
denunciation of the President's delin-
quencies before a prohibition audience
a half hearted request to vote for
Coolidge would accomplish little.
Andy Mellon, Secretary of the
Treasury, is obviously “the power be-
hind the throne” of the Coolidge ad-
ministration. Mr. Mellon is the head
of the federal organization for the en-
forcement of prohibition legislation
and an attack on that weak point be-
fore a prohibition audience by a pro-
hibition Governor could hardly fail to
work damaging results to the Coolidge
ticket. Chairman Butler, of the Re-
publican National committee, is mor-
tally afraid that Goveronr Pinchot
contemplates just such an attack in
his speeches during his tour of the
State. We do not share this appre-
hension with chairman Butler.
ernor Pinchot: is for Gifford -
and ‘ambition rather than: conscience
will guide his tongue.
——LEven if Mrs. Ferguson, of Tex-
as, is elected Governor it can hardly
be said that she will be. the first:wom-
an to exercise the authority of that
-| office. There is Cornelia, for example.
‘Pinchot Approves with Reservations.
Governor Pinchot approves Presi-
dent Coolidge’s “mobilization day” en-
terprise with reservations. That is,
he loves peace and hopes the time will
come when war will be declared a
crime by international law, and of
course that will be the end of war just
as burglary - and bootlegging have
been stopped by legislation. But so
long as war is legal and therefore en-
couraged by law “it would be folly for
America to be. wholly unprepared,”
.the Governor believes, and that prob-
‘ably makes it unanimous.
‘Until war
is legally - made a ‘crime, however,
“such small force as the people of the
United States and the several States
elect to maintain should be the best
of their kind,” he sagely adds.
Besides, the Governor has great re-
spect for the office of President as
well gs a lingering .but probably di-
minishing hope ‘of attaining the dis-
tinction, and he feels that it is “his
obvious duty to comply” with any
suggestion coming from that source.
“Accordingly,” he adds, “I have in ac-
cordance with ‘the President’s desire,
directed that the National Guard of
Pennsylvania shall assemble on that
day,” meaning the 12th of September.
He has not indicated where the guard
shall assemble. Presumably they will
meet at their several armories. It
would cost a considerable sum of mon-
ey to mobilize the whole force at a
given place and no appropriation has
been made for the purpose.
But the Governor draws the line on
the mobilization of industrial resourc-
es as contemplated in the plans of the
President. The President is’ com-
mander-in-chief of the military estab- |
lishment and under existing law the
National Guard is a unit in the “land
and naval forces of thé country.” But
he exercises no compelling authority
over: the industrial life of the country
and therefore highly as Mr. Pinchot
regards the President he is not willing
to stop work on the farms and in the
factories because the President wants
to impress upon the minds of the rul-
ers of the world that the government
of the United States has the men and
the money to take care of itself should
any emergency arise.
——1If Dawes had shown the text of
his Maine speech to Coolidge in ad-
vance of delivery that detour to Ver-
mont might have been avoided.
——t———————
Experience isa good teacher
Gov- |
but sometimes it costs too much.
No Cause for Worrying.
Some of our esteemed Republican
contemporaries are worrying their
lives out with the fear that in the:
event of the election of the Democrat-
ic ticket Mr. Davis will die before the
expiration of the term and thus ele- | by
vate Governor Bryan to the office of
chief magistrate of the country.
There is no reason for worry on that
subject. John W. Davis is young
enough to justify the expectation that
he will live long beyond the period of
a term in the Presidency, and if this
expectation should be disappointed
Governor Bryan may be depended up-
on to meet the requirements and dis-
charge the duties of the office with
perfect satisfaction to the people. He
is not a wild man by any means.
Charles W. Bryan, the Democratic
candidate for Vice President, is a
man of high intellectual attainments,
wide experience in business and thor-
oughly familiar with problems of gov-
ernment. As mayor of the city of
Lincoln, Nebraska, he worked some
improvements in government = which
impelled the voters of the State to
elect him Governor. As Governor he
introduced greater reforms. The gas-
oline monopoly undertook to fleece
the people there as it did in other sec-
tions but he stopped it by establishing
supply stations at convenient points
and furnishing gas at fair prices. - He
also prevented extortion in the coal
supply and forced dealers in that
household necessity to deal justly.
In all these movements for the ben-
efit of the people Mayor and Governor
Bryan held himself safely within the
lines of the law on his side and com-
pelled obedience to the law on the oth-
er side. Those who were disappointed
in their expectations of unearned and
excessive profits may be unwilling to
take even a remote chance of making | bes
him President of the United States.
But no rational minded man or woman
in the country who is willing to take
only what is justly coming to him or
her is, or has, any reason to be afraid
of Mr. Bryan becoming President. He
is fitter for the office than either the
Republican candidate for President or
Vice President. Besides Mr. Davis is
the candidate for Preside:
re + we
Rockview" hes rectly hens in the
limelight because of escaping prison-
ers, and now it is to be made the ba-
sis of mandamus proceedings institut-
ed by Attorney General Woodruff to
compel Auditor General Lewis to pay
for work done under contracts made
prior to the adoption of the adminis-
trative code. The outcome of the pro-
ceedings will be of considerable inter-
est, as a favorable decision will mean
increased building activities at Rock-
view. :
Firemen to: Get Death Benefit.
At the annual . convention of the
Central Pennsylvania Firemen’s asso-
ciation, held at Patton last week, the
constitution and by-laws were amend-
ed to provide for the payment of a
death benefit Jinsurance of fifty dol-
lars, and an insurance fund of $500
was created. =
‘Houtzdale was selected as the place
of meeting next year and the follow-
ing officers were elected: President,
John Miles, Houtzdale; first vice pres-
ident, Charles Ammerman, Philips- |
burg; second vice president, J. R.
Musser, Barnesboro;- third vice presi-
dent, S. Boyd Smith, Clearfield; sec-
retary, John E. Johnson, DuBois;
treasurer, H. B. Scott, Philipsburg.
——All hope of permanent repairs
to Spring street through State-aid
seems to be gone until 1926, at least.
The county commissioners made no
application for Centre county’s' share
-of the last appropriation and as there
will be no ‘more funds available for
such purposes until the 1925 session
of the Legislature makes further ap-
propriations hope of repairing the
street, unless the borough bears the
entire cost, has been abandoned.
SE RU A. A —
: ~——Common sense is all right as a
rule but may be variously interpreted.
Fall imagined he was exercising it
‘when bartering the resources of the
country for his own enrichment.
——Farmers who have any doubt
as to their corn maturing should hold
onto enough of their old corn to be
sure of having good seed for next
spring.
———— lee ——————
——The alleged “dog days” ended
last Friday, which probably accounts
for the more seasonable weather we
have had since that time.
———— A ————
———An analytical mind might form
an opinion that the Coolidges are cap-
italizing their recent bereavement for
campaign purposes.
——Almost the last of August and
there is still some oats to out in Cen-
tre county,
rem———p pe ———
——When you sée it in the “Watch-
man” you know it’s true.
Ty again a helo d
"As to Republican Revolt.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The effort on the part of Republican
newspapers of the East to minimize
and misrepresent the revolt in the
Northwest continues, notwithstanding
the space given to Senator LaFollette
Mr. Dawes in his speech of accept-
ance. It was adopted as a policy two
years ago Yi y Lesponsiple party lead-
ership at Washington, and at that
time readers of Republican newspa-
pers in this part of the country only
learned the facts of a great political
revolt when the election figures came
in, and not before. The big popular
vote for Harding in 1920 had given
the Republican - leaders unwarranted
assurance, and their views found re-
flection in the columns of their news-
papers.
The elections of 1922 revealed a sit-
uation of grave party danger to the
eyes of discerning observers, particu-
larly after the death of Mr, Harding
and when President Coolidge sought
to assert his leadership in Congress,
with very discouraging results. The
purposes of the Coolidge Republicans
were thwarted at every turn by the
group under the guidance and direc-
tion of Senator LaFollette, as an in-
dependent Republican.
Now that LaFollette enters the
Presidential race with trumpets
sounding and with banners flying the
people of the East are told by the reg-
ular Republicans that LaFollette’s
strength in the Northwest is falling
off and that his followers are desert-
ing to Coolidge, in all the surround-
ing States, and even in his home State
of Wisconsin. But while they are con-
cocting these stories and explanations,
a little incident occurs that is illumin-
ating as to the nature and extent of
the Republican revolt.
In North Dakota LaFollette Repub.
licans have named four out of five of
the Presidential electors on the regu-
lar Republican ticket, so that if Mr.
Coolidge carries the State he can at
et only one vote out of five. The
Fe lette organization is not, how-
Lan satisfied with picking up four
electoral votes .in North Dakota.
Against this ticket it has put forward
another ticket of five LaFollette fol-
lowers. Such an anomalous situation
has never existed in any previous elec-
tion. If it is a true measure of La-
Follette’s strength in North. Dakota,
what is it in Wisconsin, Minnes ta a
Sau yi
po
ection does ot
augur well for Mr. Coolidge.
Why Radicalism Thrives.
From the Milwaukee Journal.
Radicalism is going to thrive as
long as General Dawes and his party
refuse to clean their own household.
To be sure, the Republican nominee
denounces “the stealing on the part of
candidates of the habiliments of a con-
servative party for election purposes,
and then, after election, the betrayal
of that party to those arrayed against
fundamental principles of the Consti-
tution.” Yet these are but empty
words.
off Senator LaFollette, but tepk him
into regular - membership when ‘the |
y needed his vote to organize the
enate. It is not now fighting Sena-
tor, Brookhart. It might lose Iowa.
It is not asking the Republican voters
of Nebraska to defeat Senator Norris, |
who rebuked President Coolidge on the |
matter of turning over Muscle Shoals
to Henry Ford as few Presidents have
been rebuked. It did not cast off Sen-
ator Couzens, of Michigan. ' To stand
| up and fight these men for principle
might hurt the party.
is is the insincerity of General
Dawes’ ringing words.
World Court for his party, and the
World Court was rejected by his par-
by.. President Coolidge favored it, but
the party inside. the Sehate was
against it. Does General Dawes call
for the defeat of the Lodges and the
Peppers? Does he call for the driv-
ing from public life of the men within
his own party who have turned gov-
ernment in- Washington into a stale-
mate by their quarreling? He does
not. The phrases that come from his
tongue are those of the ordinary poli-
tician, willing to ignere fundamental
ills in government for the sake of
winning an election. It is the sort of
straddling and political trickery that
has sown the seeds of discord within
the Republican party, and has given
LaFollette and his followers power
and prominence.
. The Stay-at-Home Vote.
From the Boston Post.
All sorts of ways to get out the ab-
sentee vote have been suggested. It
is so important a problem that there
will be considerable sympathy with
the plan suggested by a prominent
woman of New Jersey, who would
have negligent voters fined $100 for
each offense. It would bring out a big
vote. But the idea of voting by coer-
cion is not palatable. It is questiona-
ble whether a vote cast because of fear
of a heavy fine is the sort of vote that
we want to see cast. Moreover, the
man who votes under compulsion. is
less apt to vote his convictions than
his irritations. The abséntee vote is
a weakness in democracy, but will
conditions be improved by substitut-
ing the compulsory vote?
——Secretary Slemp has been
named head of the Republican strate-
gy board as the price of his humilia-
tion by chairman Butler at the Cleve-
land convention.
nd to the wall.
Mr. Dawes’ party did not cast
He claims the
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONR
—Thieves early on Monday broke into
the Reading railway station at Meyers«
town and stole a number of mileage books
and small coins. The place was thorough«
ly ransacked. ;
—James P. Kline, of Sunbury, 91 years
old, has been made defendant in a divorce
suit brought by his wife, Mrs. Fannie
Kline, 64, to’ whom he has been married
for forty-two years. ’
—The tallest fireman in the State is cone
nected with the Sharon fire department,
according to A. G. Dolby, local fire chief.
He is Irving Turk, who stands six feef,
nine inches in his stocking feet and is a
recent appointee to the Sharon department.
—Returning for their first reunion since
the government closed the famous Carlisle
Indian school at Carlisle, hundreds of
graduates of the institution will gather in
connection with old home week, to be held
October 19th to 25th, the general commit«
tee in charge of the affair has announced.
—One of the features of the annual pic.
nic of the Modern Woodmen to be held in
the Seven Mountains, Saturday, August
30, will be an old-time log-rolling contest
on the Thompson mill dam. Some of the
old-timers who used to raft timber down
the West Branch of the Susquehanna are
expected to participate.
—Recommendations will be made to
every city and borough in Pennsylvania to
adopt standard traffic rules drafted at the
eleventh annual convention of Pennsylva-
nia Chiefs of Police at Reading last Thurs-
day. Copies of proposed rules adopted by
the International Association of Chiefs of
Police will be printed and distributed to
all communities.
—Knocked down and trampled by an
enraged cow on his father's farm, Russell,
9 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. John War-
ner, of York, was so severely injured that
he is in a serious condition in a hospital.
Russell, in company with a hired helper,
had gone into a field on the Warner farm
to bring in a cow and her new-born calf.
The cow became angry and charged the
boy, stepping on his head.
—Leo J. Coin, of Kane, is completing
arrangements for starting a fox farm in
the McKean county mountains next month.
He was a former resident of Charlotte
Town, Prince Edward Island, where silver
fox farming is common, and he is confi-
dent that the foxes with the valuable pelts
can be successfully raised in this climate.
Capital assembled in his home community
will be used to finance the stocking of the
farm. >
—Closing up the business of the first
State-wide pure-bred ram sale which was
held at New Castle last week, officials an-
nounced that the average price paid for
the thirty-one selected rams was $35.50.
The top price of the sale was $80, paid by
Treesdale Farm, of Mars, for a Hampshire
lamb consigned by A. R. Hamilton, of
Johnstown. The sale was so successful
that the management plans to make it an
annual event.
—Harry Young, of Erie, attempted to es-
cape from the Clinton county jail at three
o'clock Wednesday afternoon. He suc-
ceeded in getting out of jail, but landed in
the Lock Haven hospital with a broken
leg. Young, held in jail six weeks on a
larceny charge, scaled a drain pipe and
climbed to the roof, which communicates
He walked to the rear of the
il and dropped from the wall, but made
ling, suffering a ‘bad fracture.
“—A bid for $277,000 for mssets, Mens and
or of the Keystone Auto Gas and
Oil Service company, was offered at a
meeting held in Pittsburgh last week. The
bid was divided, $211,000 for the company
property and $66,000 for liens and mort-
gages. This amount is sufficient to pay all
preferred creditors with a slight possibili-
ty of having a small surplus to divide
among common creditors. One of the
Keystone service stations is located in
Bellefonte.
—Mrs. Oden Lauver, 21 years old, com-
mitted suicide Sunday at her home in
Richfield, Juniata county, by placing the
muzzle of a double barrel, 12 gauge shot
gun against her left side and leaning over
pulled the trigger with a yard stick. The
charge of small shot tore an ugly gaping
wound in her left side and the entire
charge entered her heart killing her in-
stantly. Mrs. Lauver had never made any
threats of self destruction and the only
. cause that can be assigned for her rash
dct is ill health.
_Alleging that she was kidnaped from
her home. at Cresson, a week ago, forced
info a marriage at Cumberland, Md., and
held" prisoner’ on a farm near Elizabeth,
Allegheny county, by Patsy Drubis, of
Homer “City, Lucy DeBana, 20 years old, of
Rexis, was found by officers late last Fri-
day ‘afternoon. Drubis and an alleged ac-
complice, Vincent Buchelle, were placed
under arrest and lodged in the Indiana
county jail. A formal charge of kidnap-
ing has been ‘placed’ against both men by
the girl's father, Samuel DeBana.
—Repairs at the plant of the Pennsylva-
nia Brake Beam company, at Danville, are
being rushed preparatory to the ‘starting
of work on a million dollar contract for
the manufacture of an automobile gear
shifting device which was recently secur-
ed by BE. M. Applebaugh, manager of the
company. The last of the large stacks for
the new furnaces at the plant have been
placed in position. The contract for the
gear shifting device calls for the produc-
tion of 100,000 within the shortest possible
time and 10,000 are to be completed within
the next six weeks.
—Dressed in the garb of a western i
girl, Mrs. Peggy .Searing, alias Rogers,
came to grief on a Lancaster county high-
way early last Thursday morning when
she was run down by an automobile short«
ly after she attempted a holdup, the occu-
pants say. She is the “bobbed hair” ban-
dit police have been looking for for some
time, as several hold-ups were reported in
that section. She had figured in several
episodes, the police say. She is in a Lan-
caster hospital with minor injuries. Mon-
tana is her home, she elaims, although she
has been living near Lancaster for some
time. :
—Damages of $11,135 are asked from
the Altoona and Logan Valley Hlectric
Railway company by Miss Amanda M.
Harvey, of Altoona, in a suit filed last
week in the Blair county courts. Miss
Harvey alleges she was injured while a
passenger on one of the company’s cars on
July 10th. In the statement filed with the
suit it is alleged that Miss Harvey was
standing on the platform of an Eighteenth
street car waiting to alight when the door
was suddenly opened before the trolley
had stopped, throwing her to the street.
One foot was thrown under the wheels
with the result that three toes had to be
amputated it is claimed by the plaintiff,
Other injuries are also said to have been
suffered.