INK SLINGS. -
—Vote for William H. Noll.
—Send William H. Noll to the Leg-
jslature and be sure of having a man
in Harrisburg who has no strings tied
40 him.
—If you would like to have this
District represented in Congress by a
real representative and not one who
does only what a machine tells him to
do, vote for Edward R. Benson.
/ —A one man band appeared in Phil-
-adelphia Tuesday night. It didn’t cre-
ate much of a sensation because it is
not a novelty in Pennsylvania. It was
only Giff blowing his own horn.
" It is altogether probable that
many of those volatile ones who were
burning German text books seven
years ago helped to oversubscribe for
the German bonds offered this coun-
1ry. :
— Butler has announced that he has
spent over a million dollars already
in his campaign to elect Coolidge and
«Cal is so silent that he can’t tell the
public whether Butler is keeping with-
in his budget.
—Edward R. Benson was in the
Pennsylvania Legislature in 1913 and
every one of his votes were for the
people. Send him to Congress and
give him a chance to vote for you as
against the crowd that is trying to
milk you.
—1In the years 1918, 1919, and 1920,
sinder Democratic administration there
were twenty-five thousand commercial
failures in the United States. In the
years, 1921, 1922, and 1923, under Re-
publican rule, there were sixty-two
thousand failures. Knowing this ask
yourself which party is the one of real
prosperity. :
— John W. Davis is neither radical
nor silent. He is as far above either
Coolidge or LaFollette as Mars is
above the center of Earth. He is
the one candidate in this fight who
seems to understand that the art of
government rests on getting people
who are unlike in most things to un-
derstand each other and work togeth-
er. That is the reason he hasn’t been
afraid to talk plainly to the voters.
“That is the reason he is 100% Amer-
ican.
—Reading the Christian Advocate
‘has always brought spiritual comfort
to us, but it is the last-place we would
ever have thought of looking for
political consolation until it came out
with the statement that every time
election day has fallen on November
4th, since the election of Jefferson to
the present, a Democrat has been
chosen to the Presidency. Election
day, this year, will fall on November
4th, so Davis must be the man if the
Democratic charm is not to be broken.
“Zi Yon’t "believe the bunk about the
danger of the election being thrown
into Congress. That is only being
spread about to scare the credulous
into voting for Coolidge. The pres-
ent Congress, not the one that will be
chosen next month, would act if a
choice is not made in the Electoral
College and in the present Senate and
House, leaving out all the Democrats
and radical Republicans, there is a
conservative Republican majority of
five. If the choice goes there and
Coolidge is not chosen it will be be-
cause the stalwarts know him to be
‘more incapable than they are admit-
ting now.
—Several people, among them Mr.
Holmes, himself, have questioned our
repeated statements to the effect that
he had pledged himself, in the event of
election, to support any legislation
suggested by Governor Pinchot. We
‘have, on file, a letter from an officer
of what was called the Centre County
Citizenship Conference, under date of
Februray 12th, stating that a com-
mittee authorized by it had visited
Mr. Holmes and after the interview it
was satisfied that he stood for all
Governor Pinchot might suggest. We
haven’t an idea what Gif might sug-
gest but whatever it is to be the Laird
of State College evidently committed
‘himself in advance to support it. Do
you want a Member in the Legislature
to vote for you or do you want to send
one there to blindly vote the way he
is told by men who have only a speak-
ing acquaintance with Centre county?
—Really Joe Grunday’s last letter
to the “suckers” is a peach. We use
the word “sucker” advisedly as appli-
cable to the mental delinquents on his
mailing list who look upon his fulmi-
nations seriously. Waiving discussion !
of the very debatable question as to
whether Joe hasn’t more money than
brains we want to ask him, right here,
whether the South hasn’t as much
right to “be in the saddle” as New
England? The South’s greatest of-
fense is that it is Democratic and the
South is Democratic because it has
ever produced statesmen who think of
the country and not of the pampered
few that Grundy caters to and preys
upon. In the same mail with his let-
ter begging “for liberal contributions
in substance and energy” came the
Philadelphia Public Ledger, a Repub-
lican organs, in which the national Re-
publican committee announced that
up to October 1st it has raised and
used $1,095,000. What explanation
does Grundy have to make of expen-
ditures of such colossal sums?
Coolidge’s election has to be bought
it is for only one purpose: That is to
take money out of the pockets of the
masses and put it into those of Grun-
dyized parasites. But the Ledger tells
us that Coolidge is certain of election
and Grundy tells the credulous that
more money is needed to make the
certainty a fact.
If |
VOL. 6
Grateful for Small Favors.
The Republican newspapers and the
leaders of that party are voluminous
and vocieferous in expressions of sat-
isfaction at the declared attitude of
Senator Borah, of Idaho, who has been
nominated for re-election by both the
Republican and LaFollette parties.
Senator Borah, like Couzens, of Mich-
igan, and Brookhart, of Iowa, was
nominated by the Republicans of their
respective States because they couldn’t
be defeated, and there was grave
doubt in the minds of the party man-
agers as to whether he would remain
in the party to fight it, as Couzens is
doing, or get out to fight it as Brook-
hart did. In a speech at Idaho Falls,
the other day, he announced that he
would follow the example set by Couz-
ens.
But beyond that bare announcement
Mr. Borah, who shows more concern
for the prosperity of the Mormon
church than the Republican organiza-
tion, gave the party managers scant
reason for rejoicing. In his carefully
| prepared speech he mentioned the
name of President Coolidge just once
and then only to say “he is a clean
man.” John W. Davis, who is the
principal candidate against him, has
said that much and William Jennings
Bryan and other Democratic speakers
have said the same thing. But they
have invariably added that he is a re-
actionary and represents the party
which has despoiled the government,
plundered the people by excessive and
iniquitous tariff taxation and pervert-
ed the powers of government to the
basest uses.
| Now listen to what Borah says on
that subject: “The men who have
' compromised if not imperiled the Re-
publican party, who sent hundreds of
thousands from its fold, who have
placed it tonight in a position of de-
fense,” he declared, “who are crying
‘regular, regular,’ have defended Lor-
imerism and Newberryism, have piled
taxes upon the people in order to cre-
ate offices for slavish henchmen, have
tolerated in the departments of gov-
ernment the miserable spawn of brok-
en down political machines—these are
the men who, while crying ‘Lord,
Lord’, have trampled under foot and
on which the party was founded. I
despise them all. Politically I would
dynamite the last one of them.”
Who could Senator Borah have had
in mind while preparing that just and
literally true indictment of the Repub-
licon leaders? When stupid, if not
actually venal Denby, offered to re-
sign his seat in the cabinet Mr. Cool-
idge urged him to remain in office and
assured him of support. When Sen-
ators Pepper and Lodge implored the
President to get rid of Daugherty,
Coolidge refused to grant their re-
quest. When the tariff commission
asked that the excessive tax on sugar
! be reduced Coolidge turned a deaf ear
to their request. The beet sugar
growers are taking fifty million dol-
lars a year from the housekeepers of
the country and contributing liberally
out of the loot to the Republican cam-
paign fund. They must be held in
good humor at any cost.
| Obviously Senator Borah had Cool-
‘idge in his mind when he said the
‘words above quoted. But he said
Coolidge is a clean man. That is the
comforting qualification of a severe
condemnation. While the blood of
Caesar was dripping from the mur-
derous blade of Brutus it was declar-
ed that “Brutus is an honorable man,”
and inferentially honorable men ‘do
not commit murder. Clean men don’t
plunder and pillage the public but
they may be unfit though clean. An
accessory to the basest crime may con-
ceal his part in the transaction and
be culpable. Coolidge has never been
| charged with personal uncleanness but
his affiliation with crooks has been
, sufficiently long and intimate to unfit
him for President, or popular favor of
any kind.
The Republican managers have rea-
son to be grateful, probably, because |
Borah adopted the course of Couzens |!
instead of that of Brookhart. Anoth-
er blow like that administered by the
Towa Senator would certainly prove
fatal. It can hardly be claimed, how-
ever, that Borah was influenced to his
decision by a desire to help Coolidge.
Borah likes his job and the Mormon
church, so dominating in Idaho, would
not consent to the election of any oth-
er than a Republican Senator in that
State.
are a grateful group and the Republi-
can party has done much for their re-
ligious organization. It is not unlike-
ly, therefore, that Borah was practic-
ing “safety first” in declaring his po-
sition.
If “Mugsy” McGraw had his
ear on the ground during the contest
for the baseball pennant he probably
found out that neither he nor his team
is popular with the fans of the dia-
mond.
——Mr. Grundy is having a hard
time in getting the boys to “get the
”»
meney.
eyery great. principle up-.
The polygamous churchmen
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
The Value of a Strong Minority iu the
Legislature.
On November 4th the voters of Cen-
tre county will have opportunity to
select a Member to represent them in
the General Assembly of Pennsylva-
nia for the two year term, 1925 and
1926.
Waiving discussion of the fitness or
the personality of either of the can-
didates in the field for the honor we
want to suggest a thought that should
have thorough consideration in the
mind of the voter before casting his
ballot.
Pennsylvania is a Republican State,
overwhelmingly so. Every session of
its Legislature, with the exception of
two, since before the Civil war, has
been completely dominated by Repub-
{ licans. Up to sixteen years ago the
Democrats had had enough represen-
tation in the body to constitute a check
on Republican legislation. In other
words there was a minority party of
sufficient voting strength and virility
to furnish a threat to those who un-
dertook to exploit the Republican ma-
jority for selfish, personal ends.
was a wholesome condition.
Of late years the minority represen-
tation has dwindled until it has be-
come practically negligible. And this
in face of the fact that everywhere it
has presented candidates of the high-
est type in the hope that their super-
ior character would have an appeal to
Republican voters who might be tir-
ing of voting for mediocre men pre-
sented by. their own party because of
the apparent certainty of their elec-
tion. :
There is only the remotest possibil-
ity of Pennsylvania’s having a Demo-
cratic Legislature for years to come.
There is a very urgent need of a
strong Democratic contingent in that
heads, as they are, if the license of
Republican adventurers had not been
so unbridled for the last quarter of a
century.
This is the time for a good citizen
to give this thought very serious con-
sideration. A strong minority repre-
| sentation in the next Legislature will
have a steadying effect that would go
far toward calming the present feel-
ing of unrest in Pennsylvania and
forestalling the activities of those who
are moving for a radical party in the
State.
In Centre county the Democrats of-
fer William H. Noll, of Pleasant Gap,
for your consideration. Surely he is
a man of the highest type and his se-
lection would go far toward re-estab-
lishing what Pennsylvania needs most,
just now, a capable minority party
representation.
—Billy Swoope has the Republican,
the Socialist and the Prohibition en-
dorsement for Congress. Of course
Billy stole the Socialist and Prohibi-
tion opportunities on the ticket, be-
| cause he is neither. Up in Bradford,
| some time ago, a lady asked him
where he stood on the Prohibition
| question and he replied: “I am
| TRYING to obey the law.”
|
—The world’s series in baseball
' turned out exactly as we had hoped.
Washington won and old man, Walter
! Johnson, came back, after two defeats,
| to prove to youth that it is never well
‘agé, isn’t valuable.
——The women “get-out-the-vote”
crusaders may not have greatly influ- |
enced the result of the election but
they had “a halcyon and vociferous”
trip through the State.
The real Sherlock Holmes was
“thin, wiry, dark and had a high
nose.” We make this announcement
2 that nobody need be deceived in
im.
—There are just two reasons why
Coolidge isn’t making any speeches
and they are: He has nothing to say
and, if he did have, he couldn’t say it.
| ——The anthracite coal tax is likely
to be repealed by the next Legisla-
ture. But it is not likely that the
price of coal will be reduced.
——Now that the world series is
ended the investigation of charges of
crookedness in baseball ought to be
resumed.
me —————————————_
——My, O my, how Republican "divorced. He was probably “too good i
hearts bleed for the constitution.
It
| odds in their favor.
body. Radicalism and Socialism would |
not now: be raising “their . dangerous ihe is a mental pigmy unable-to direct
| to figure that experience, begotten of '
BELLEFONTE, PA.. OCTOBER 17. 1924.
Republican Leaders in Panic.
In their frantic appeal to voters the
Republican bosses admit that they
have been deceiving the public in two
important particulars. They have
been constantly asserting that the La-
Follette party is drawing from the
Democrats in much greater proportion
than from the Republicans and the
election of Coolidge is certain. If the
first proposition had any basis of fact
the abuse of LaFollette would have
been avoided and his efforts to draw
from the Democrats encouraged. If
the second proposition had legs to
stand on there would be no reason to
fear that Governor Bryan might be-
come President because of the failure
of the House of Representatives to
elect either Davis or Cooldige.
The strength of the LaFollette par-
ty is greatest in States that have
been surely Republican in the past
and every electoral vote which LaFol-
lette receives will be cast in States
| that are necessary to Rpublican suec-
cess in the November election. LaFol-
lette will get a good many votes in
Pennsylvania. He may carry Penn-
sylvania or so divide the Republican
strength as to enable Mr. Davis to
carry it. But if LaFollette were not
a candidate there is no doubt as to
which candidate would get the elector-
al vote of Pennsylvania. It would go
to Coolidge by a vast majority. That
is the real reason why Republican
newspapers and speakers are so vehe-
mently condemning the LaFollette
party.
In the event of failure of the elec-
toral college to elect a President the
present House of Representatives
would make the choice, each State
having one vote determined by the
majority of the delegation. In twen-
ty-five States the Republicans have a
majority and in twenty States the
Democrats would control with tie
votes in three States, Maryland, Mon-
tana and Nebraska. With a candidate
of sufficient force of character to
chloroform their National convention
as Coolidge did Republicans ought not
to be afraid to go into a contest in the
House of Representatives with such
But they know
that Coolidge has no force and that
his own mind.
——For a usually super-confident
leader Republican ehairman W. Harry
Baker is showing a good deal of nerv-
ousness.
Pinchot’s Rebuke to Clement.
Governor Pinchot was everlastingly
i right but not altogether happy in his
letter accepting with “genuine satis-
faction,”. the letter of resignation of
Samuel M. Clement Jr., as a member
of the Public Service Commission.
The Governor’s statement that the re-
tiring Commissioner “had anticipated
by only a few hours” a letter of dis-
missal sounds like “baby buncombe,”
‘and his complaint of delinquency in
office was too long delayed to appear
genuine. Nevertheless the public, be-
ing highly gratified that Clement is
out of the Board, will cordially en-
dorse the rebuke which is expressed
in the Governor’s letter. It exposes
the hollowness of Mr. Clement's pro-
fession of sensitiveness.
When the Public Service Commis-
sion bestowed upon the Philadelphia
Street car corporation the right to in-
crease the rate of fares without first
giving time and opportunity for a full
hearing of the side of the patrons of
the corporation, the Governor ought
to have summarily dismissed the en-
tire board. Instead of that he waited
several weeks until after a local court
had affirmed the right of the Board to
ido what it had done because of the
language of the law and finally, after
one of the Commissioners had thrown
a harpoon into him, he answered in
: spiteful tone that he intended to re-
move him anyway and left the other
offenders secure in their seats. There
is neither good form nor dignity in
: such a performance.
The Public Service Conmimission has
been from the beginning almost unan-
imously the servile creature of corpor-
| ations. With the exception of Mr.
| John S. Rilling not a member has
raised a voice in the interest of the
public. Probably it was because of
Mr. Rilling’s willingness to speak in
the interest of the people that he was
| dropped from membership at the expi-
| ration of his term, though he was the
was intended to be non-partisan. But
Gifford Pinchot has such an aversion
to Democrats that he never appoints
i one to office if he can avoid it, and he
can in all cases in which the law is not
actually compelling. In this matter
he has done a good thing in a bung-
i ling way.
|
|
!
——Elect Democratic Congressmen.
President Davis will need help to put
his beneficent policies in force.
——The. “Perfect Lover” has been
to be true.”
only Democrat on the Board and it,
NO. 41.
! Why is Grundy Frantic?
From the Philadelphia Record.
i Mr. Grundy’s latest appeal to the
Republican electorate of Pennsylvania
is warm enough to melt a heart of
stone. Four times he has taken his
pen in hand and outlined as many
glowing pictures of the Utopia to
which admittance is to be gained by a
! contribution to the G. O. P. campaign
| fund. He has played successively up-
on the greed, gratitude and fear of
his clinetele. He has demonstrated
that they are indebted not to Provi-
! dence, but to Protection, for the ma-
i terial blessings they enjoy; that in-
: come in prospect is to be measured by
the proportion of their party’s plural-
| ity; and that failure-on their part to
‘ purchase the wares he offers will be
the precursor of dire calamity. With
what result?
0, generation of vipers! The pam-
pered plutocrats and wet-nursed work-
ers must have failed to come across.
For now Mr. Grundy is irresistibly
impelled to the indictment of a fifth
epistle, modeled upon the best style of
the professional debt eollecting agen-
cy. “Several letters have been sent to
you”—the writer is patently amazed
that you have continued to dodge your
obligation despite the repeated pre-
sentation of the bill. “Our money and
our energy must be given * * * *
Will you send all you can? Will you
send it at once? ]
Well, now, why all this urgency?
Why, “our country, our government,
our institutions and industries are in
peril.” What kind of peril? “It’s
Coolidge or Bryan, and Bryan will
have to pay his indebtedness to La-
Follette!” :
No wonder Mr. Grundy fails to un-
derstand the obduracy of those to
whom his fervent appeals have been
addressed. Mr. Grundy has e no-
table sacrifices for the good of the
cause and continuation of tariff favors
for the industry in which he is partie-
ularly interested (“We are all making
sacrifices,”) he says, and yet he seems
to have failed to touch a responsive
cord; that is to say, the purse-string.
Is it possible that any considerable
number of Pennsylvania Republicans
regard Mr. Grundy’s letters as bunk,
and believe that he is trying to collect
funds the use of which in the purchase
of legislative favors at the expense of
the general consumer will contribute
to his own further enrichment? Can
it be that, confronted with the terri-
ble, pliernative of “Coolidge or Bry-
an,” YO rs: juiehd 5
money and cast their ba
W. Davis? ’ :
Why is Mr. Grundy frantie?
sn —— A i er,
He’s a Human Being, Too.
From the Rock Island Argus. !
One generation of people has about
the same problems as another. As a
sample: The high cost of living is an
eternal problem. They had it thous-
and of years ago, just as much as we
have it now. And they tried about the
same remedies—such as laws against
profiteering, fair price lists, etc. The
reason our economic problems remain
unsolved, century after century, is be-
cause they are considered as cold-
blooded scientific problems instead of
human problems.
The trouble begins in our schools.
We teaeh the rising generations all
the truths, sophistries and bunk prop-
aganda of economics. But we. give
them very little training in human de-
cency—kindliness, fair play, the Gold-
ed Rule. Quite naturally, men who
have not been trained in christian
principles do not practice these prin-
ciples when they get power over the
necessities of life.
Take the problem of the farmer,
who has been getting less than his
share of prosperity. This“ problem
has, for the most part been considered
as cold-bloodedly as if it were a sur-
gical operation. Politicians and econ-
omists and writers have come forth
with numerous solutions, based on
statistics. Their arguments usually
wind up with the plea that, if the far-
mer’s buying power isn’t restored to
him he cannot buy city-made goods.
That’s true. But there’s more to it
than the selfish or material side. It’s
more than an economic problem. It’s
a human problem. The farmer is a
human being. He has a right to a fair
share of general prosperity. If he
doesn’t get it, he suffers—so do his
wife and children. His children, in
particular, suffer by not getting an
even chance in education and inher-
itance. But most of this is ignored.
The talk runs to law of supply and
demand, cycles, prices, balances, etc.
Some day this is going to be a mighty
fine world to live in—but not until
people realize that the only solution
for most material problems is spirit-
ual—Golden Rule, decency, tolerance,
Christianity. Material suffering is
the result of violating spiritual laws.
— Republican papers tell us .that
Democrats are going over to Coolidge
but give no names. This is like the
candidate of their party, a myth.
——— Ae ————
——Burning prisoners confined in
local “lock-ups” might be construed
as “cruel and unusual punishment.”
ee iti rem eases
——Hell ’an Maria Dawes refuses
Senator Brookhart’s request that he
withdraw from the ticket.
e————— pe ————
railroads is that each unit wants to be
: the main trunk.
m———— eer se ——
i ——Subsecribe for the “Watchman.”
ots for ind
nn ut consolidatin
The trouble abo 2 | his barn was fired fer revenge and tele-
hiding place. § aA AAFC 3
—All the employees of the maintenance
division of the State Highw ay Departmen nt
of Fayette county have been laid off indef-
initely. This includes all highway * fore-
men. Exhaustion of the appropriation for
highway maintenance is said to have been
the cause of the action. While many roads
are in need of repairs, the work probably
will have te go over until spring. . .
— Investigations of original grants of
land for highway purposes is being con-
ducted in’ several Central Pennsylvania
counties, which desire to widen the roads.
Where the grants called for a fifty-foot
highway the counties will be saved dam-
ages in the proposed widening programs.
Other than the principal roads, the grants
usually called for a thirty-three-foot width
of roadways. :
—John IY Baker, 21 years old, of Gei-
tysburg, committed suicide by hanging
himself in the garage of John Shindle-
decker, in that city. His body was found
dangling beside his automobile on Mon-
day afternoon by his grandmother, Mrs.
George S. Baker. When he did not return
for the noonday meal his grandmother
went in search of him, finding his body
suspended from a rafter in the garage.
—On the first raccoon hunt of the sea-
son in Scotch valley, Blair county, fire in-
spector Harry E. Chamberlain and son
Harry, Arthur Keckler and James Fowkes,
of Altoona, captured a ten pound speci-
men. When the coon was dislodged from
the tree it was found to ‘be wearing a
leather collar, indicating that it had been
a pet in some family and probably escap-
ed. The law forbids keeping a coen in cap-
tivity.
—Ralph Shadel, youthful farm hand,
was found guilty of murder in ‘the second
degree by a jury in the Snyder county
criminal court last Friday for the slaying
of Harvey C. Willow, his employer, last
December. The jury deliberated two
hours. Shadel was sentenced on Saturday
by Judge Potter to imprisonment in the
eastern penitentiary for not less than ten
years nor more than twenty, the maximum
punishment for the crime.
—Mrs. Catherine Baker, of Clinton coun-
ty, celebrated her ninetieth birthday anni-
versary last Wednesday. Mrs. Baker, who
is one of the oldest residents of that
county, is busily engaged, she says, all
year. In addition to weaving and dyeing
old-fashioned rag rugs, she makes her own
garden, planting flowers and herbs from
which she makes a salve. She has had two
husbands and says if she had a little more
time she would like to get married again.
—TPrack watchman Angelo Domastro, 42
years of age, for nearly eight years an em-
ploye of the Pennsylvania railroad, was
called to the door of his residence at Vine-
yard station, seventeen miles east of Hunt-
ingdon, last Wednesday morning and slain
by an unidentified assassin. Hearing three
gun shots, “V. F.” tower operator called
foreman Samuel Miller, who found Domas-
tro lying dead in his own doorway. His
face and head were riddled with shot. A
shell wad was found in his clothing.
~—Boarding a train on the Clearfield and
Indiana railroad in a demse thicket about
four miles from Colver, Cambria eounty, at
9:20 o'clock on Saturday morning, five
unmasked bandits killed James Garman,
aged 65 years, of Ebensburg, shot wildly
at another guard and seversl passengers
and escaped with a small safe containing
$33,054.64, the payroll of the Colver mines
of the Ebensburg Coal company, a Phila-
delphia corporation, headed by B. Dawson
Coleman, of Lebanon.
—A former Williamsport resident, now
an inmate of the eastern penitentiary, has
requested a transfer to the Lycoming coun-
ty jail in order to expand a business en-
terprise which he started in the State pris-
on. In requesting the transfer he said he
desired to employ other inmates in the
jail, paying them for their work. The
young man is said to be a model prisoner,
makes certain pullers and window edges
and has turned out 13,000 in one year.
Sheriff Little has acquiesced to the trans-
fer, declaring the prisoners will be glad
for the opportunity to do some kind of
work. :
—Chief of police Thomas Gray and his
officers in Downingtown, are investigating
a crude effort at counterfeiting which has
reached large propertions there. For a
week or more merchants have been receiv-
ing coins, apparently dimes, from Italian
children and have accepted a large number
of them. It was discovered that the sup-
posed dimes were pennies plated with sil-
ver. It was declared by the children that
the coins had been given them by an Ital-
jan woman of Johnstown and that they
were given a percentage for all they
passed. Chief Gray has reported the mat-
ter to the federal authorities in Philadel-
phia.
—The life of C. H. Ditzer, aged 47 years,
of Hollidaysburg, was saved on Saturday
night by the stoutness of Mrs. Jennie M.
Etter, 45 years of age, also of Hollidays-
burg. They were returning from a visit to
Ditzer’s chicken farm at White Bridge, be-
low Frankstown, in a small autotruck,
when they missed the road and went over
a forty-five foot embankment. Mrs. Etter
was killed, but Ditzer was not seriously
hurt. The truck turned over twice and
when it came to a halt, Ditzer and Mrs.
Etter were under it. Mrs. Etter was large
enough to keep most of the weight of the
car off Ditzer, but he was held prisoner by
the tangle af wreckage for seven hours be-
fore being released.
—A confession in which he alleged that,
with Mrs. Annie Salmon, of Beech Creek,
he had planned to burn numerous barns
and garages and otherwise get revenge on
witnesses who had testified against Mrs.
Salmon in a court trial, was made by
Grant Reeder, of Beech Creek, when he was
arraigned before alderman T. M. Brun-
gard, of Lock Haven, on a charge of ar-
son. Reeder is a one-armed man about 58
years of age, for twelve years employed by
Mrs. Salmon as' a “man of all work,” was
arrested recently as he returned to the
Salmon home after setting fire to a barn
on D. Mark Johnson's farm, three miles
from Beech Creek. Johnson, who had been
one of tne important ' witnesses against
Mrs. Salmon in her suit to recover heavy
damages in a civil suit involving a charge
of defamation of character, suspected that
phoned to friends at Beech Creek to watch
the Salmon home. They caught Reeder as
he ran toward the house, and he confessed
the next day.