! INK SLINGS.
: Seat] all vote thieves were sent to
: jail the Philadelphia jail would be
* crowded.
—September, 1925, has gone, leav-
ing behind it memories of a month of
unusually lovely weather.
. ——Some Philadelphia judges seem
to imagine that courts are maintained
to shield rather than punish criminals.
—As long as “Old Sol” keeps on the
job as he has been doing we should
worry about when the coal strike is
going to end.
. ——General Wood must have donc
‘something to Colonel Proctor. Bring-
ing the Wood slush fund of 1920 into
public notice was a hard blow.
—Our single-tracked mind has been
so preoccupied with what is going to
happen next November 3 that we for-
got to run off on a siding long enough
to wire back to you that itis only
eighty-two days until Christmas.
—Some wheat is up with a promis-
ing stand while some farmers are still
waiting for their ground to get in con-
dition to plow, all due to vagaries of
rain clouds that have recently passed
over Centre county depositing copious
showers in some sections and giving
others the go-by.
—The sooner the subscriptions are
paid in the sooner the new hospital
unit will be ready for occupancy. The
board is very wisely declining to an-
ticipate these payments. It is only
spending the money that contributors
give it to spend, so if progress ap-
pears slow it is not to be censured.
—An old Bellefonter, gone many
years from scenes still dear and cher-
ished, looked at the improvements
.about the “Big Spring” last week and
exclaimed: “Well, I never thought
I'd live to see the day when nature’s
gift to us would be appreciated to the
extent of giving it such a setting as
“this.”
—There were twenty-nine inmates
‘in the Centre county jail on Wednes-
day night, almost the high-water
mark in boarders that a local sheriff
has been called upon to entertain.
Funny, how often we are disappoint-
ed in the way things turn out. When
the Volstead law went into effect we
had visions of the need of jails van-
ishing entirely.
—In all of his years in the legal
profession Mr. Walker has made a
practice of doing it now. He never
procrastinates, his clients will tell you.
Business entrusted to him is attended
to at once. It is a splendid habit and
one that insures the Centre county
court dockets against becoming clog-
ged with litigation when Mr. Walker
is elevated to the bench.
—The Governor will be in Centre
county on Menday. Every goed eiti~-
zen should remember that Centre
county was erected long before Gif-
ford Pinchot was heard of and it has
traditions to maintain. It has always
‘been respectful of constituted author-
ity. Let there be no lack of cordiality
and let none of the fellows who refus-
ed to sign the petition to Commission-
er Buller to protect the trout in
Spring creek lead “His Excellency”
out along the walk to admire them.
—A very unpleasant little encoun-
ter with our Congressman on the
streets of Clearfield within the week
was not utterly regrettable. For once
self-control failed us not and we re-
‘mained silent while the grandiose
Billy Swope did his best to “high-hat”
us. Aside from the ridiculousness of
ithe “boy orator of the Susquehanna”
assuming a manner with those who
know him it was politically edifying
to hear him say that he has not yet
come to a conclusion as to whether he
‘will be a candidate to succeed himself.
—To us, State’s alleged trouble in
«defeating Lebanon Valley, last Satur-
day, was only the touch-piece that will
«cure her of the actinomycosis that has
been her greatest trouble in recent
years. Running wild with college
teams under their class isn’t good for
men who, as the football season pro-
gresses, have to meet many teams in
their class. State needs to win this
fall only from Notre Dame and Pitt
and the more trouble the others of her
opponents can give her the more
chance she has to win the games that
mean something.
—Judge Potter has been presiding
over our courts this week. The hon-
orable gentleman from Snyder county
‘has comported himself with a dignity
that commands respect for the Bench,
yet he has not been so austere as to
find no leaven in the drab progress of
the law. We are in perfect agreement
‘with “His Honor” in the idea that a
‘moonshiner who makes good liquor
shouldn’t be soaked as hard as one
who dispenses poisonous stuff and that
the five hundred Mooses whom he
fined two smackers each had had more
than two dollar’s worth of fun out of
‘what he fined them for.
—Col. Bill Mitchell will probably
get no further than Gen. Smed. But-
ler has gotten in his attempt to clean
up Philadelphia. Mitchell has been
trying to tell why a man who risks
his life daily for his country should
‘know more than those who wear gold
lace, look over charts and appear
pompous in swivel chairs, should know
about the game they haven’t the guts
‘to get the rudiments of. Mitchell will
‘be just like Butler. The good people
‘will pat him on the back, say: Fine,
old boy, but they’ll wilt under the acid
‘test, when some of the sacrifices that
Butler and Mitchell ‘have made come
up to them.
Sa
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VOL. 70.
“Get the Money Boys.”
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Perverting the Court.
The announcement of the candidacy | The complete control of the Phila-
of former Governor John K. Tener for delphia courts by Congressman Vare day Governor Pinchot revealed hope-
the Republican nomination for that is clearly shown in the action of Judge ! ful signs of repentance. As we have
office next year has not aroused the | Bartlett in the matter of opening the ; frequently shown he has been entire-
enthusiasm his
BELLEFONTE, PA.. OCTOBER 2. 1925.
Eleventh Hour Convert.
In his Scranton speech the other
friends expected. Mr. ballot boxes of election districts in . ly indifferent to electoral frauds hith-
Tener made a fairly, it might be said | which fraud or error is _suspected. : erto. Possibly this fact may be as-
a surprisingly good Governor,
was exceptionally popular while in of-
fice. But he has been very much “out : voters,
and he | Under the Act of Assembly of 1919, cribable to the other fact that elec-
"upon the petition of three qualified 'toral frauds have contributed to his
the computing officials shall
political advantage in the past. The
of the reckoning” since and it is a open the suspected ballot box. In pur- , excessive and corrupt use of meney is
hard matter to stage a “come back” , suance of this act a petition so signed
under such conditions. New factional | was presented to Judge Bartlett con-
lines have been formed and new at- | cerning one of the ballot boxes in one
tachments created so that it is diffi- of the Vare wards of Philadelphia.
cult to enlist a formidable force to en- | Judge Bartlett promptly granted ihe
gage the uncertain element to be en- | petition as he was legally bound to do.
countered. Mr. Tener may have had The next day counsel for the Republi-
good reasons for expecting a warm can organization objected and the
approval of his ambition but it has Judge withdrew the order.
not materialized.
The only perceptible effect of his
early announcement is shown in a stir
among the friends of Auditor Gen-
eral Edward Martin, who seems to
have been cherishing a hope that he
would be the nominee. There has
been a sort of mutual understanding
that the candidate for Governor next
year would be a western county man.
General Martin lives in that section
and his vote for Auditor General indi-
cated at least a moderate degree of
availability. But former State Sena-
tor and ex-Banking Commissioner
John 8. Fisher, of Indiana county, has
many friends out that way and enjoys
a tenticle in the east in the person of
Mr. Grundy. Besides Governor Pin-
chot has not spoken yet and Fisher
helped him three years ago.
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Not long ago General Butler, serv-
ing as Commissioner of the Depart-
ment of Safety of Philadelphia, pub-
licly declared that Mr. Vare had used
one of the judges of Philadelphia as
messenger to convey a corrupt propo-
sition with respect to the conduct of
the police department. The accused
jurist, who was touring in the far
west at the time, promptly made long-
distance denial of the charge. Gen-
eral Butler repeated the charge, gave
details of the incident and the matter
was hushed up. But the stain upon
the courts of the city remains. The
prompt yielding to the necessities of
the machine by Judge Bartlett fastens
the Vare collar on another of the
judges of the city with the attendant
shame. .
Courts are organized and maintain-
As conditions exist at present a po- ed for the purpose of protecting the
litical map might be drawn with these public against criminals.
According
three names as salients, and a very to the only possible interpretation
pretty fight organized. It is intimat- | which can be put on the action of
ed that contractor Boss Vare is will- Judge Bartlett the purpose of the
ing to fall in behind Martin and there ' Philadelphia court is reversed. It is
is at least a possibility that Pinchot employed to protect criminals from
and Grundy would join the Fisher the just penalties of their crimes. A
force. That leaves Tener to organize greater outrage has never been per-
the stragglers with the chance that
the Mellons and Olivers, of Pitts-
burgh, would come in under his ban-
ner. In that event there would be
plenty of money available, though
Vare is said to be rather “close” in
disbursing his own funds while the
‘Olivers and Mellons as well as Pin-
chot and Grundy are inclined to prof-
ligacy. Itawould be a sert o
money boys” campaign.
——The federal council of churches
and the Anti-Saloon League differ
widely on the question of prohibition
enforcement but the churchmen are
not working on salary.
More Grabbing of Property.
Ever since the appointment of Al-
bert B. Fall, of New Mexico, to the of-
fice of Secretary of the Interior that
department of the government has
been under suspicion. For many
years before that it had been realized
that the department afforded vast op-
portunity for exploitation and was the
object of desire of many political
crooks and adventurers. During the
administration of President Taft, Sec-
retary of the Interior Ballinger al-
most succeeded in an enterprise to rob
getthe
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petrated and unfortunately it was
committed in the name of the law.
Judge Bartlett is not much of a law-
yer but he knows that in making the
decision which rendered it difficult to
expose the corruption of the primary
he was violating at least the spirit of
the law. But he was fixing himself in
the favor of Vare.
tmnt fy eines A 1
If the Governor would frankly |
state the purpose of his present po-
litical activities he would relieve the
tension of a good many anxious minds.
essere eee.
The Air Service Inquiry.
The evidence taken thus far in the
hearing before the President’s air
‘ service board may not serve to ab-
One after another of the expert and
the government of all its valuable
timber interests. The exposure of his
operations contributed largely to the
election of Woodrow Wilson and dur-
ing his eight years in office there were
no scandals.
But immediately after the inaugu-
ration of President Harding and the
installation of Albert B. Fall as Seec-
retary of the Interior the plotting was
resumed. Mr. Fall gave more atten-
tion to the mineral property of the
government:than to surface products
solve Colonel Mitchell from the charge
of insubordination but it has certainly
justified his criticism of the service.
practical airmen has testified to the
inefficiency of the service and corrob-
orated Colonel Mitchell’s opinion that
the urgent need of the service is an
independent air corps. Major Kilner,
executive officer of the air service,
and Major Royce, in charge of the pri-
mary school of Brooks field, Texas,
were emphatic on this point.
On Monday a number of air service
officers were examined and all agreed
on several major points. They are
that the controlling force of the serv-
ice is lodged in men unacquainted with
‘the work; that there are too many
minor officers and no officers of high
rank, and that when the minor offi- .
cers who understand are in conference
, with the higher officers who do not,
but let nothing of value escape entire-
ly. His first step was to procure from
2 stupid Secretary of the Navy and a efficiency in the service.
careless President control over cer-
tain mineral rights which had pre-
viously been under the care of the
Navy Department. With the transfer
of this authority he proceeded to dis-
pose of all the oil territory of the gov-
ernment to personal favorites upon
terms which enabled them to make
him rich.
The latest exploitation is not trace- : :
able directly to the officials of the In- trav diserepancy will be sufficient to
terior Department but involves a Sen-
ator in Congress who is more or less
closely affiliated with the Senator
Fall group. It appears that Senator
Cameron, of Arizona, and members of
his family have pre-empted about all
the things of value, including the
water and mineral rights along the
Colorado river for miles. The value
of these rights is variously estimated
at from millions to billions of dollars,
and the government has received noth-
ing for them. Several hundred suits
have been entered against the mem-
bers of the Cameron family for the
recovery of the property, though cur-
iously enough the Senator’s name is
not mentioned.
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——Even the political boss has
problems to solve. Congressman Vare
may have to support either Pinchot or
Pepper for Senator and it is stultifica-
tion in either event.
the uninformed officers prevail be-
cause of their rank and not because of
their knowledge. These conditions
create dissatisfaction among the per-
sonnel of the service and work for in-
Other offi-
cers expressed the same view.
The only grave disagreement with
previous statements of Colonel Mitch-
ell brought out during a long session
of the board, at which a considerable
number of witnesses testified, was in
the matter of penalizing criticism.
. The witnesses denied that they were
“muzzled” as charged by Mitchell and
hang a court martial and severe pun-
ishment on. But at that Colonel
' Mitchell’s insubordination will result
in a great improvement in the service,
for though it will cause the loss of
the most valuable man it will make
such a reorganization of the service
as will do much good.
a a...
—Of the three candidates who hope i
to be Judge of the courts of Centre
county we know there are two whose
hopes will be blighted by the frost
that will fall on November 3.
——1It may be truthfully said that |
Colonel Mitchell “left hope behind”
when he took the witness chair in
Washington on Tuesday.
——Those men who are sailing to
Bermuda in a cat boat must have a
strong preference for the “real thing”
as against the home-made.
"en out of power,”
! ate,
among the crimes forbidden by stat-
ute and condemned in the constitution.
Yet the Governor, in his primary cam-
paign three years ago, spent money
“like a drunken sailor.” At the gen-
eral election following it is reported
“and commonly believed that 100,000
fraudulent votes were cast for him in
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
Since his inauguration as Governor
he has had ample opportunities to
earnestly urge legislation which would
minimize if not actually prevent elec-
toral frauds. Senator Flinn, of Pitts-
burgh, who thoroughly understood the
subject, had prepared a series of bills
to accomplish that result. Senator
Flinn had supported Mr. Pinchot for
Governor and was known as his per-
sonal and political friend. But the
Governor completely ignored his im-
portunities to urge ballot reform leg-
islation and thus encouraged fraudu-
lent vote manipulators to indulge the
excesses which have finally aroused
the public conscience and forced the
Governor to take notice. In this case
he has lost rather than gained by the
frauds, but let us hope he is influenc-
ed by conscience rather than cupidity.
The Governor was tardy in moving
against these arch-criminals but
seems to be zealous now that he has
enlisted in the cause. They are guilty
of “the meanest of all crimes,” he
says. They have “ingrained in our
people some of the worst habits that
can afflict a free community,” he adds
and winds up with an imprecation,
“there is only one place for men who
are guilty of these crimes. They have
disgraced the communities of which
they are a part and they ought to be
put with the forger and the bandit for
whom I have far more respect than I
have for them. A political organiza-
tion which is willing to protect these
»spicable criminals ought
———— dp ———
——At the Sunday morning service
in the Bellefonte Methodist church,
the pastor, Rev. Charles Homer Knox,
found the opportunity to briefly ex-
press his thoughts as to the obligation
of our community to the Bellefonte
Academy. Inasmuch as the hour of
worship was to be dedicated specially
to young men, reference to the activ-
ities of the hundred or more boys who
come here every year from all parts :
of the country was wholly appropri-
Bellefonte could do much more
than she does for the Academy stu-
dents and we are one with Rev. Knox’s
idea that the easiest and most direct
contact to be had with them is loyal
support of their athletic teams. These
boys come here at the most impres-
sionable age, also at the period when
most of them are radicals. They miss
the restraining influence of intimate
home associations and friendships.
Bellefonte can supply that in a meas-
ure without cost and with hope of
great return, for besides bringing
more than one hundred thousand dol- |
lars to be dumped into our community
every year, these young men go out
to the four points of the compass to
scatter the name of Bellefonte. All
through their lives they will remem-
ber the name of the town in which
they spent their most impressionable
years in school. If they speak well of
us it will be because we have been
their friends.
panes pl re tens
——From Los Angeles county, Cal-
ifornia, comes the report that since
January, 1922, one in every twenty of
the residents of that very populous
area, has been arrested for violation
of the liquor laws.- The arrests on
liquor charges have been three times
greater than those made on all other
charges combined. The “Watchman’”|
goes into four Los Angeles homes
regularly every week. One of them
has already reported that none of its
members have contributed to the ap-
palling percentage of law infractions.
, We know the other three are also do-
ing their part in contributing leaven
of good Centre county citizenship to
benighted Los Angeles.
———— A ei cases
——According to Senator Walsh
the Coolidge administration takes or-
ders from Downing street as well as
Wall street.
reste fp A een,
——It is said the Governor is im-
proving in the art of oratory. He is
certainly making the politicians take
notice.
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~———Unless the friends of Gover-
nor Tener show more enthusiasm he
' may find out that “the first shall be
last.”
to be hid
Disarmament.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Count Apponyi’s propesal that a
committee of the League of Nations
should: prepare a project for imme-
‘diate disarmament is encountering
other opposition than that of Great
, Britain. France is reported to be op-
posed, although it is a steady sup-
porter of last year’s Geneva protocol.
France is the most heavily armed na-
tion now, next to Russia; it is afraid
of a disarmed Germany, and it finds
plenty of occupation for soldiers in
its colonies and mandatory territories.
France will not disarm while Germa-
_ny lies next door to it, and there is no
‘way of removing it. Germany is
about as thoroughly disarmed as it
can be, but France still looks under
the bed every night to see if an armed
German is there.
But there are other difficulties in
the way of disarmament. Russia is
not in the League of Nations, nor like-
ly to be. It has a government that
shouts its animosity to every other,
and it has a vast population whose
military value has never been propor-
tioned to its numbers, but its size is
alarming to the people of other coun-
tries. And there is our own land, op-
timistically confident that its latest
war is the last one it will ever be in,
but which goes on getting into wars
as often as any country. It keeps a
small army, but it managed to get 2,-
000,000 soldiers to Europe in a year
and a half, and it has a navy super-
ior to any other, with the possible ex-
ception of Britannia, which long en-
joyed the reputation of ruling the
waves and may still occupy that proud
position. The United States is the
, richest of nations and the largest, ex-
cept Russia and China. What the
United States does or refuses to do is
of some consequence in the world. It
will not join the League of Nations and
has so far refused to have anything to
do with the Permanent Court of In-
ternational Justice. It will decide
what to do when the time comes, and
,it can do a good deal. Naturally the
other countries do not care to divest
themselves entirely of arms.
Of course disarmament will come.
Big armies are no assurance against
war, because one country’s big army
obliges other countries to have big ar-
mies, and the confidence of a country
that it is invincible makes it a little
careless of the feelings and perhaps
the rights of other countries, If it
| reinforces its position by ‘an alliance
-other nations will ally themgelves, and
by and by something: will happen. The
_ nation that feels that it ean lick all
| creation will refuse to listen to rea-
son, and 1914 will be repeated.
We do not expect this to happen be-
cause we believe the world learned
something by the great war, and the
League of Nations is an agency of
peace, and the Hohenzollerns and
. Hapsburgs and Romanoffs are gone.
But world changes come slowly. Every
nation will be a little suspicious of
other nations until it has grown used
to finding them peaceful. This takes
time. There has been some limitation
- of navies. France is growing quieter
and may be willing in a few years to
; reduce its army. If suspicion can be
; allayed, and if friction between na-
. tions can be averted, and if nations
can acquire the habit of settling their
controversies by peaceful means—
and the habit is forming—they will
' realize that they can safely reduce
! their armed forces and lighten the
burden on their taxpayers. World
; peace will come, but it is not to ‘be
: rushed.
i Choosing Occupations.
¥rom the Altoona Tribune.
Years ago fond parents devoted
winter evenings to deciding the fu-
, tures of their numerous offspring.
i Johnny was to be a teacher, Mary
would be a trained nurse. Willie would
{be tutored in the ministry, and per-
‘haps a fourth progeny would be
| placed in business or kept on a farm.
{ And in the day time the school in-
i structors of Johnny, Mary, Willie and
i so on believed they had fulfilled their
i duty if they prepared them for grad-
uation. Few teachers realized that
| their’s was an exceptional opportunity
to help young men and women to pick
| their life’s work on the basis of their
i individual qualifications and peculiar
abilities.
All is different in the educational
system of today. Vocational guidance
jis an established science. The public
| schools and the institutions of higher
learning now strive to fit the curricu-
lum to the student, not the student to
the course of study. The student at
the same time is directed into a life’s
work for which he is especially suited.
Many men and women now failures
in life might have been pre-eminent in
their professions or trades had an
ounce of direction been exerted in
their youth to the selection of a ca-
reer. A boy with an aptitude for me-
chanics and the engineering branches
should not be forced into a legal or
literary career because a parent or an
instructor is partial to those latter oc-
cupations, yet countless have been and
many will be in the future, :
There is a “destiny which shapes
our ends” if it is the power which at-
tracts the individual to that thing in
Life for which it is most fitted by na-
ure.
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——W. Harrison Walker Esq. and
Judge Arthur C. Dale last week filed
their primary campaign account. Mr.
Walker gave his expenses as $1679.-
34 while Judge Dale states that he
spent only $911.56. ’
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—As the direct result of accidentally
stabbing himself while making a bird
house on Monday : of last week, Edward
Smith, 20 years old, son of Mrs. Frank
Carr, of New Castle, died on Thursday
morning in the hospital. The knife slip-
ped and cut a gash in his abdomen: Per~
itonitis developed. ; ?
—Buried under a fall of coal at the plant
of the Atlas Portland Cement company, at
Northampton, last Thursday, Michael Be-
cik, an employee. was suffocated before
fellow workmen could rescue him. Becik
slipped at the edge of a conveyor and fell
in, being carried down with the fine coal
and covered by hundreds of toms of the
fuel.
—Miss Gertrude Graham, aged 21 years,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Graham,
of Danville, was taken to the Jefferson
hospital, at Philadelphia, on Monday, in an
effort to have a tooth removed from her
lung. The mishap occurred as Miss Gra-
ham was eating an ice cream cone. An X-
ray examination at a Danville hospital re-
vealed the tooth lodged in one lung. Miss
Graham was taken to Sunbury and left for
Philadelphia on a midnight train.
—Carl ‘'W. Braznel, of Pittsburgh, has
been sued for $20,000 by Mrs. P. H. Stern,
of Cambria county, for the death of her
husband, Benjamin A. Stern, by an auto-
mobile owned by Braznell, driven by a
chauffeur. The accident happened on the
Kantner bridge, on the Lincoln highway,
where Stern was making repairs to the
bridge. Mrs. Stern also filed suit to re-
cover $1,431.35 for professional services,
hospital charges, and burial expenses.
—On the eve of his trial for possessing
$5,000 worth of clothing alleged to have
been stolen from a Selinsgrove store E. J.
Humbert, 36 years old, of Windber, broke
out of Snyder county jail in Middleburg .
on Saturday night, after knocking an at-
tendant unconscious with the arm of a
chair. He then jumped out of a second-
story window of which two bars had been
broken previously. He completed his get-
away by breaking the lock of the jail yard.
—Mrs. Clara Moul, of Hanover, who had
offered a farm near that town as the site
of the proposed Lutheran College for
Women, has withdrawn the offer because
no definite action had been taken by those
in charge before September 15, as was
promised. Just why no action was taken
by the church board has not yet been
learned. The site was approved by engi-
neers and architects who visited it at the
suggestion of the Lutheran church officials.
—While raiding a house of questionable
character in the southwestern section of
Hazleton, on Monday night private Smith,
of Troop B, state police, was shot by An-
thony Demyion, aged 26, of Hazleton.
Smith returned the fire and his assailant
fell with two serious wounds, one bullet
entering the right temple and another the
right shoulder, penetrating the lung. At
‘the state hospital the same night a surgeon
removed the bullet from Smith’s stomach.
—Losing practically all of his garden
and orchard crops in the hail storm which
swept the Five Forks section of Franklin
county several weeks ago, Ira Martin, who
lives a half mile south of that place, went
home Thursday night to find his home de-
stroyed by fire, his chicken house broken
into and half of his chickens missing. Mar-
tin and his family had been visiting Thurs-
day night with his parents in that place.
He purchased the Five Forks home last
spring, Laban Jhon Ln te
—David Bowman, well known: citizen of
Mpyersdale, who disappeared early Satur-
day morning, was found hanging from a
limb of a tree a mile southwest of that
town on Sunday, by a posse which had
searched all night. He had climbed on a
rail fence, fastened a rope to the limb of a
tree and then apparently kicked the rails
‘from the fence. Some time ago Mr. Bow-
man had his spine injured while at work
in the mines and the injury is thought to
have preyed on his mind. ps
—REarl Reichert, 25 years old, of Allen-
town, was electrocuted at the Fishbach
sub-station of the Pennsylvania Power and
Light company early on Tuesday after-
noon. He was employed as a lineman for
the Phoenix utility company and was en-
gaged in running a new 66,000 volt line to
Frackville when the line on which he was
working fell on another line carrying 23,-
000 volts which passed through his body.
His remains were taken to the Allentown
hospital morgue where they were later
claimed by relatives. a
—George Rodkey and Herbert Mottet,
living near Brushtown, Friday had a hear-
ing before justice Appler, of Gettysburg,
that morning on one of the most unusual
charges of theft in that county. The men
are charged with the theft of eight wagon-
loads of newly pulled corn, valued at $200,
from the farm on which Rodkey lives. The
farm belongs to the Littlestown Saving In-
stitution. The ears were pulled from the
stalks in the centre of the field, leaving
the corn on the stalks around the outside
to throw off suspicion.
—The heaviest sentence ever given in
Columbia county for automobile stealing
was imposed last Friday on Miles Probst,
of Berwick, who pleaded guilty before
Judge Garman. He received five to ten
years in the penitentiary, a fine of $100 and
costs. Probst previously had been sen-
tenced to two and a half years in the pen-
itentiary on a similar charge, and was pa-
roled after serving a year and a half. He
will be compelled to serve the remaining
year when he goes back. Probst was al-
leged to have broken jail once.
—@Gasoline thieves who drain supply
tanks of service stations after midnight,
are being sought by police at Shamokin
for stealing 400 gallons of gas at the Joe
Van Horn general store. The thieves drove
up to the store shortly after midnight,
Saturday night, according to a man who
lives near the store. He saw the truck
stop there but thought nothing of it as
motorists often stop there after midnight
and attempt to arouse the proprietor to
buy gas and oil. Other neighbors heard
queer noises, but believed they were caus-
ed by some motorist with engine trouble,
and did not investigate.
—The Northampton Country club, be-
tween Easton and Bethlehem, was looted
some time Thursday night of trophy cups,
silverware, cigars and tobacco, valued at
several thousand dollars. The thieves first
visited the clubhouse proper. From the
cigar case they stole cigars, tobacco and
cigarettes valued at more than $1000. From
the second floor they took silver trophy
cups and other articles. Among the cups
were those won by Robert 8. Gerstell, of
Easton; Henry Hayes, of Bethlehem, and
Dallett H. Wilson, of Washington, D. C.,
formerly of Bethlehem. In the caddie
house they stole thirty-six dozen golf balls,
valued at about $500. It is believed the
thieves worked in their stocking feet.