.. —Up to this time October has been
as unpleasant as September was other-
~ ——The President said to the Gov-
ernor “it’s up to the Mayor,” and the
answer is, who got the snub?
——Lacarno, Switzerland, has
shown to the United States that we
are not “the whole cheese.”
——There will be no real cause of
complaint if the weather remains
mild until the coal strike ends.
——Lloyd George advises a London
audience to investigate prohibition.
‘The bootleggers in this country are
experimenting with it. :
——The Prince of Wales has arriv-
‘ed home safely and the gossips will
resume the pleasant task of starting
rumors of his coming marriage.
——An esteemed contemporary re-
marks, “Governor Pinchot is going to
be more closely observed this coming
week.” He seems to have “thrown a
scare” into the machine.
——Nobody knows whether there
will be an extra session of the Legis-
lature or not, but the significant news
comes fiom Harrisburg that the legis-
lative halls are being put “in order.”
. —William Groh Runkle made a very
capable District Attorney from 18
‘to 18 He knows the ins and outs
of the office and the county would be
very wise in calling him back to public
service. ’
——Russia has abandoned prohibi-
tion and returned to the use of the fa-
vorite tipple, vodka. It was probably
a question of revenue. The Russians
want liquor enforcement to yield rev-
enue instead of cost.
——The Governor hasn’t announced
his candidacy for Senator yet but
Senator Pepper suspects. In his Leb-
anon speech, Monday evening, Mr.
Pepper said “Pennsylvania wants in
her Senators service not conserva-
tion.” :
—All that Governor Pinchot is say-
ing about the rottenness of machine
politics in Pennsylvania is true, but is
the Governor the right man to say it?
About the only ones who might be-
lieve it are the ones who never go out
to vote. That's the type he’s catering
to now.
—Women are purifying politics
amazingly in Philadelphia. Three of
them were on the election board of the
forty-sixth precinct in that city and
all are under indictment for having
made a fraudulent return of the votes.
Certainly we regret the vote we cast
to give that trio the franchise.
—General Butler is more or less of
a picturesque character to Pennsylva-
nians. Most of we outsiders have
looked with interest on his attempt to
“clean up” Philadelphia, but Governor
Pinchot won't be able to make another
tail for his own kite out of Smed’s no-
toriety. Calvin Coolidge will see to
that.
—Judge Dale’s announcement that
he is “standing on his record” inter-
ests us a lot. We are not quite sure
just what the gentleman refers to. If
it is his record on the bench he wants
the voters to look into, we’ll save them
that trouble by stating that he hasn’t
any. He hasn’t been on it long enough
to make one—either good or bad.
—What'’s a few gallons of gasoline
to the man and woman who have sud-
denly thought of sone acquaintance
who might invite tl.em to dinner if
they were to motor out their way on
Sunday? The motor car has done
much to brighten up the memory of
those who just hate to provide and
prepare their own Sunday dinner.
—=Supt. Broome, of the Philadelphia
public schools, says “parents are not
taught thrift as much as their chil-
dren are.” Little he knows about it.
The parent of today is compelled to
give every spare moment he or she
has to intensive study of thrift in or-
der to meet the drain that their chil-
dren are putting on them because of
superior education.
—If the Democrats of Centre coun-
ty get out the vote and stick to their
ticket they will have taken a long step
toward destroying the power of ma-
chine politics. Every little office
every little job that a Judge—how-
ever well meaning he may be—throwa
to the machine that has helped him to
his. place means just another imple-
ment with ‘which it digs in to stifle
and corrupt the electorate.
—With Mr. Walker on the bench
there’ll be no dilly-dallying with legal
business. It will be right up to the
minute all the time. Cases will not be
continually continued because this,
that or the other party presents some
flimsy excuse for having it done. Mr.
Walker is of the “do it now” type and
he will speed-up the court and save
thousands of dollars to tax payers who
have to bear the expenses of main-
taining them. -
—The spirit of Centre county is re-
acting to the earnest and aggressive
campaign that Mr. Walker is making
for Judge. People like to rally be-
hind a wide-awake, upstanding person
who is not afraid to work. It inspires
their confidence and arouses enthu-
siasm. They know that a man who
hastens to meet them face to face has
nothing to fear from any searching
inquiry they may make of him, and
where is the sensible person who does
not admire grit and determination in
another, especially when it is fused
with a pleasing personality and sound
argument. Mr. Walker is gaining in
strength every day.
bill.
Complicated Contest Impending.
The contest for the Republican
nomination for Senator in Congress
is assuming a complicated form ac-
cording to gossip. Instead of a bat-
tle between Senator Pepper and Gov-
ernor Pinchot, as seemed likely a
short time ago, it will really be a
death struggle between the “wets”
and the “drys.” Between Pinchot and
Pepper the drys would naturally fa-
vor the Governor and the wets incline
toward Pepper. But the wets are
not entirely satisfied with Pepper,
who recently declared himself a tee-
totaler and had about determined to
turn to Ralph Straasburger, of Nor-
ristown, who defeated Pinchot for del-
egate to the National convention at
Cleveland last year. But Hampie
Moore, of Philadelphia, has thrown
his hat into the ring.
This enrollment of candidates com-
plicates matters. If the contest had
been of the three cornered variety
with Pinchot and Pepper dividing the
dry vote there might have been a
chance for the wets to win with
Straasburger. The drys are unques-
tionably in the majority in the party
but not sufficiently so to win with a
divided strength. Now ‘that Mr.
Moore, ex-Mayor of Philadelphia, ex-
Congressman and formerly Joe Grun-
dy’s spokesman on tariff questions, is
an aspirant with wet proclivities the
wet vote will also be divided and the
chances of victory decidedly turned in
favor of either Pinchot or Pepper.
As between Moore and Straasburger
Moore has the popularity and Straas-
burger the money.
But in any event it will make an in-
teresting fight. It is practically set-
tled that Vare will be behind Straas-
burger and Grundy will be the chief
attendant in Moore’s corner. The cor-
porations will be strong for Pepper
and the Prohibitionists for Pinchot.
When these several forces meet in
combat it may be expected that con-
siderable fur will fly. There will be
money as well as booze in the air and
unless the election laws are materially
improved there will be such a carnival
of crime as has never been witnessed
in Pennsylvania. An extra session of
the Legislature might avert such a
saturnalia of political corruption bus
nothing else can.
tied
—Vote for William Groh Runkle for
District Attorney and secure to the
county an experienced man for that
important office.
Tax Bill Hearings Begun.
The House committee on Ways and
Means has begun hearings on the tax
It is understood that the admin-
istration will not have a “pet” meas-
ure this year but Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon will express to the
committee his ideas of the lines upon
which the measure should be laid. He
will recommend cutting the surtax
and high taxes considerably and some
reduction of the smalier incomes. The
President is in accord with this policy.
Representative Martin Madden, chair-
man of the committee on appropria-
tions, has thrown out a cautionary
signal against too great a decrease in
the revenue from incomes. It is prac-
tically agreed among them that the
cut must be limited to $350,000,000.
There is not as tense a feeling be-
tween the leaders of the parties on
the subject as was shown last year,
but Representative Garner, who will
direct the movements on the Demo-
cratic side, is of the opinion that the
income tax may safely be decreased
to an extent considerably greater than
the amount estimated by Secreta
Mellon, and his scheme proposes to
cut in greater ratio on small incomes
than on the larger ones. His proposi-
tion is that all incomes under $5000
be exempt entirely and the surtax and
big income rates be reduced as far as
possible after this allowance or con-
cession to the industrial element of
the taxables. Mr. Mellon declares
that would be a ruinous policy and the
chances are that the fight will be cen-
tered large on that point.
Last year the Democrats won easily
and that fact accounts for the relue-
tance of President Coolidge to identi-
fy himself directly with the Mellon
plan. He is not confident of the result
and wants to avoid the humiliation of
a personal defeat. He is strong on
economy and saving at the spigot is
his favorite indoor sport. But he is
anxious to make a record in the mat-
ter of paying off the public debt and
for that reason protests against the
Garner plan to levy no tax on small
incomes. Wise business would be con-
served by less speed in payments and
spreading them over a longer period.
Later there will be more people to pay
and greater resources to draw from.
ise i em
—Vote for W. Harrison Walker and
put an-up-and-doing Judge on the
bench of Centre county.
mer i striais
——DMellon continues to manifest
great interest in the tax bills of the
poor millionaires.
BELLE
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION,
FONTE, PA.. OCTOBER 28, 1925.
Let Us Elect an Up-and-Doing Judge.
ply them with liquor.
As the judicial campaign in the county draws to a close we find un-
mistakable signs of the growing strength of Mr, W. Harrison Walker.
There is a reason for this rapidly swelling tide in his favor.
The contest has been unusual because it has devolved on the candi-
dates themselves to carry their cause to the people and the manner in
which each one of them is doing it has had its effect.
At no time in the history of the ballot in Centre county has any par-
ty presented a candidate whose personal efforts have attracted so much
attention as have those of Mr. Walker. He has a service to offer and the
will, the energy and the personality to present it to the people.
Courage, determination, hopefulness and courtesy are traits to be
admired. Mr. Walker has all of them and the people who didn’t know it
before the campaign are finding it out as he travels over the county and
greets them. They are beginning to see that the spirit of the man,—the
progressive, do-it-now, nothing is ever too much trouble spirit—is some-
thing very much to be desired on the bench. Because many of them have
been annoyed by needlessly delayed legal procedure and all of them re-
alize that much money in taxes could be saved by speeding up justice.
Mr. Walker is amply qualified legally, but, as we said last week, the
best lawyer doesn’t always make the best judge. In addition to his legal
training, which is of the best,he has thése other attainments in a degree
far more apparent than any of his rivals for the office.
You would be amazed to know the number of Republicans who are
convinced that Mr. Walker offers Centre county its best chance for four-
square justice, administered in such an expeditious way that it will cost
the tax payers least. They are rallying to his support in all parts of the
county. All they ask is that the Demoerats stick to him and help them
give the county an up-and-doing Judge. .
Judge Dale hasn’t a chance of election. The contest is between Mr.
Walker and Mr. Keller. Of course those who don’t know that the wake
over old John Barleycorn’s body was over way back in 1918 are still sit-
ting with pallid, pious and prayerful lips at the side of the imaginary
corpse and determined that Arthur is the one man who will hit it on the
head if it attempts to come to life again. They’re going to stick to him
and they should, if they feel that way.
But the voters of Centre county know that law can’t keep people
from drinking, nor does fear of punishment deter them or those who sup-
We made this statement in these columns seven
years ago and Wednesday night President Coolidge used almost our ex-
act words when he told the biennial meeting of the Council of Congrega-
tionalist churches that the only solution of the problem is through the
Sunday schools, the churches “and religion.” The President lost sight of
the most important agency for good when he failed to include the home.
After all is this question of bootlegging a matter that ought to be
injected into a campaign in which a man is to be selected who for ten
years will hold the scales of justice over thousands who don’t know or care
what a bootlegger is. a ai ‘because when the hoine and
the churches discover that they are wandering far afield they will realize
that there never would have been such a problem had both not failed to
inculcate morals such as would have averted it.
Judge Dale hasn't a chance. His candidacy is only splitting up 2 vote
that should go to Mr. Walker who offers the only hope of facilitating le-
gal procedure in the Centre county courts and saving money for those
who have to pay for conducting them.
Governor Pinchot’s New Enterprise.
Governor Pinchot having finished
the third leg of his now famous “tour
of inspection,” on Saturday, turned
his attention to the herculean task of
obtaining a further extension of the
leave of absence of Brigadier General
Smedley Darlington Butler, of the
Marine corps. In this enterprise his
colleagues are Senator George Whar-
ton Pepper and Mayor Kendrick, of
Philadelphia. Tt can hardly be said
that this will prove a congenial as-
signment. The appeal must be made
to President Coolidge, who is not like-
ly to entertain the most kindly feeling
for the Governor. Neither of his col-
leagues are under obligations to him
for the courtesies in the past. Tak-
ing one consideration with another it
is not a pleasant prospect.
But the Governor is equal to the
emergency. He says his ambition is
to leave a record of courage and fidel-
ity to the people. His appeal to the
President in such an environment af-
fords plenty of proof of courage, even
if it is a trifle shy of wisdom. A year
ago President Coolidge extended the
leave of General Butler more or less
reluctantly and declared that he would
not do so again. Coming as a polit-
ical enemy the Governor asks him to
stultify himself by a reversal which
the President’s friends, his party or-
ganization, ‘are opposed to and the
President’s enemies, the independent
element of his party favor. If the
President accedes he helps his enemy
and injures his friend, Senator Pep-
per.
In his appeal to the President Gov-
ernor Pinchot represents the better
element of the community concerned.
The church people are unanimously in
favor of the extension of his leave so
that 'he may continue his fight for
clean government in Philadelphia. It
is fair to assume that this element is
in the majority in that city, as it is in
every other community in Pennsylva-
nia. But the President, who is a rath-
er shrewd politician, knows that on
election day the better element is a
negligible quantity in Philadelphia
and that Governor Pinchot’s failure to
urge ballot reform legislation is large-
ly responsible for that. If he can
make the extension of leave look like
a help to Pepper, however, it may be
made.
—Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
Pepper Sees the Point.
In a speech delivered in Lebanon,
on Monday evening. Senator Pepper
said “unpleasantly significant is the
reported attitude of those diplomats
who imagine that the Locarno com-
pact can be used as the basis of an
European coalition unfriendly to the
United States. Having borrowed our
money, killed our sons and turned the
world upside down, they are now mak-
ing the additional blunder of trying to
irritate President Coolidge and force
the hand of the United States.” This
shows that Mr, Pepper appreciates in
part at least the significance of the
Locarno compact. It “can be used as
the basis of an European coalition un-
friendly to the United States.”
But he is widely and wildly mistak-
en in his belief that the diplomats who
created and adopted this splendid
structure in the interest of enduring
peace were “trying to irritate Presi-
dent Coolidge.” In all probability
they never gave President Coolidge a
thought. It makes little difference to
anybody outside of the circle of syc-
ophants who hope to profit by his fa-
vor whether President Coolidge is ir-
ritated or serene. But if the Euro-
pean powers which pledged them-
selves to peace and helpfulness among
themselves should organize an indus-
trial or commercial boycot against the
United States it would make a vast
difference to the people of this coun-
try.
That such a movement is possible
every intelligent man and woman in
the country realizes, but not likely.
The treaty made at Locarno was not
conceived in spite or inspired by mal-
ice. Its purpose was to fulfill in so
far as possible the beneficent purpos-
es which influenced the late Woodrow
Wilson and expressed in the covenant
of the League of Nations already ac-
cepted by all the civilized world ex-
cept Turkey, Mexico and the United
States. Senator Pepper is “borrow-
ing trouble” because he knows that
his party committed a grave crime
against the people of the United
States, when for the malignant pur-
pose of “fighting Wilson” they led the
country away from rather than into
the League of Nations.
tn etme erases temesnan.
—Vote for W. Harrison Walker and
put an up-and-doing Judge on the
bench of Centre county.
The Security Key to Peace.
From the Pittsburgh Post. 340d
It looks as if the European nations
represented in the conference of Lo-
carno, Switzerland, on security and
other matters related to war preven-
tion had at last found the key to peace.
Germany, for the first time in the
years following the outbreak of the
world war, sat at the conference ta-
ble as an equal to help shape an
agreement instead of to hear terms
laid down to her. By the main’ pact
rmany, France and Belgium virtu-
ally outlaw war; they are not to at-
tack or invade one another’s territory
and are to abstain from any act that
might lead to hostilities. Great Brit-
ain and Italy stand as guarantors of
the agreement, promising to throw
their force against any of the three
that violates the terms. A number of
related pacts also were made, and it is
believed that there is sentiment in all
the countries involved to bring about
prompt ratification of the agreements
by the parliamentary bodies. *
The League of Nations has so im-
portant a relation to the results of the
conference as to call for Germany's
becoming a member of it, with the un-
derstanding that she will have a per-
manent place in the council. The Per-
manent Court of International Justice,
the league council and boards of con-
ciliation are listed as possible agen- |
cies for arbitration of differences that
may arise under the operation of the
treaties. Arbitration was one of the
high notes sounded. ;
e importance of such agreements,
supposing that all are ratified as ex-
pected, cannot be overestimated. Right
away there is a renewal of hope for
early action for arms reduction. The
question of security naturally had to
be dealt with every time reduction of
arms was suggested. With this ques-
tion apparently settled at last the out-
look for development of the League
as well as the move to stop racing in
armament is much better.
Rather Disturbing.
From the Philadelphia Record.
To those optimists who have hoped
that the enfranchisement of women
would mean a purer era in our politics,
and that the new voters would rise su-
perior to the temptations to which
mere man is subject, it must com as a
rather disagreeable surprise to learn
that of the five election officers ar-
rested for alleged fraud in the Forty-
second division of the Forty-sixth
ward three belong to-the weal
We would not impute any wrong-do-
ing to the ladies, although an inves-
tigation has shown that Judge Ren-
shaw’s vote was reduced from 72 to
40, while that of the gang candidate
was boosted from 57 to 152. It thus
appears that while the Judge carried
the division by 15 in the primary elec-
tion he was returned as having lost it
by 112 votes—certainly a very strik-
ing discrepancy.
We are glad to see that the women
deny the charges as ridiculous and a
pack of lies, and declare that “if a
mistake was made it was because of
ignorance of the custom and not
through any desire to do wrong.” A
lazing automobile in front of the
polling place is said to have caused
such confusion that an error might
have been made.
Clearly, woman suffrage has not
brought the political millennium that
was hoped for, Very likely it was ig-
norance or inexperience that permit-
ted the gross miscount in the divis-
ion to be made, and the women are en-
titled to a suspension of judgment in
their cases. It can hardly be expected
that voters comparatively new to the
business can at all times cope suc-
cessfully with the old male malefac-
tors hardened to the game. :
Ballot Reform the Big Issue.
From the Clearfield Republican.
There has not been an honest elec-
tion in Pennsylvania in 25 years.
Every time the Legislature attempted
to “reform the election laws of the
State” the “reforming” was done by
the Quay machine and later, the Pen-
rose machine. Result: Conditions
worse than before; easier to play the
“old army game;” more difficult to de-
tect the fraud, and next to impossible
to get the courts to open the crooked
ballot-boxes. In both Philadelphia
and Pittsburgh they simply vote the
registry list of the district, and in a
majority of the gang wards the regis-
try list is as crooked as is needed.
This condition has prevailed ever since
the special session of 1905 passed the
personal registration act. It is “per-
fected” more and more each year, It
existed in 1928 when Bill Vare an-
nounced, within five minutes after the
polls closed, that Philadelphia had giv-
en Gifford Pinchot at least 175,000
plurality.
Philadelphia did not give Pinchot
half that plurality, to say nothing of
183,000 finally counted up. The voters
were not out in Philadelphia in No-
vember of 1923. But a little thing like
that did not stop the counting. There
were no Democratic watchers and the
gang sent out orders to “go the limit.”
And the election district lieutenants
did that very thing. Same is true in
Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Erie, Lacka-
wanna, Luzerne, Schuylkill, Delaware,
Fayette and some other - populous
counties. Curative legislation along
practical, common sense lines is the
biggest issue in. Pennsylvania today.
There never can be Yepresentative
government at Harrisburg so long as
the crooked counting system is per-
mitted in the large centres of popula-
tion. : :
ee ——— a ——
eT 2 — ry £5
—Thi r day night broke into the
Bast Ear -and stole stamps, en-
velopes and post cards valued at §100. -
‘—Five hundred attended a banquet
which marked the closing of exercises held
in dedication of York’s new $1,000,000 ho-
tel. : 3
—Thrown from a car in the Pennsylva-
nia Railroad yards at Altoona a week ago,
Albert H. Morritts, a freight conductor,
died from his injuries. = Tinh
—Struck by a Pennsylvania railroad
train while he was working on the tracks,
J. P. Swanger, of Mill Creek, was instant-
ly killed on Saturday afternoon.
—The loss of $48,000 in a card game at
| Pittsburgh on Friday night by T. C. Jen-
kins, a Pittsburgh business man, resulted
in the arrest of BE. J. Lawrence and Wil-
bert Jennings, who registered as Austra-
lian cattle breeders. A third man, accord-
ing to the police, escaped with the $48,000
check to New York.
—After they had separated following a
disagreement, W. Adam Moyer shot and
killed his wife and then committed suicide
at the home of S. BE. White, in Punxsutaw-
ney, on Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Moyer
were residents of Altoona until two weeks
ago when they separated, Mrs. Moyer going
to Punxsutawney and the man to Clear-
field.
—~County detective Crowe, of Clarion, has
recovered a gold watch from Angelo Dan-
iglia, stolen from attorney Fry, in Seattle,
Washington, more than seven years ago.
The watch immediately was sent to the
owner at Seattle, and Daniglia taker into
custody, but released when Seattle author-
ities stated that they could not connect
him with the theft.
—Judge Albert W. Johnson in federal
court at Scranton on Monday afternoon
imposed $25 fines on Fred C. Wyatt, of
Providence, R. I., and F. B. Ruff, of Con-
nellsville, Pa., on charges of having defac-
ed monuments at Gettysburg. These were
the first of twenty-nine defendants under
indictment on charges of defacing these
monuments. Judge Johnson indicated he
would impose the same fine in all other
cases,
_. —The work of Frank B. McClain, of Lan-
caster, former Lieutenant Governor and
long-time leader in State politics, who
died last week, will live after him. His
will, probated on Monday provides for
Christmas celebrations at the Home for
Friendless Children, in that city. These
celebrations were provided by Mr. McClain
every year and were a big event in the life
‘of the children at the home. The value of
his estate is estimated at $60,000.
—George A. Dale, a well known resident
of Clearfield county, was found dead in a
corn field on the Woods farm near Cur-
wensville, Wednesday evening of last week,
by his brother, John Dale. He had gone
to the field early in the morning to husk
corn, taking a noon-day lunch with him.
No one visited the field during the day.
From the manner in which he was found,
the body being cold and stiff, it was sur-
mised that his death occurred early dur-
ing the forenoon. Heart failure was at-
tributed as cause of death.
—C. H. Swigart, treasurer of Grange
Trust Co., Huntingdon, accompanied by
Dr. M. D. Campbell, of Loyalton, and C. E.
Keppel, of Mifflinburg, returned home Fri-
day last from a three week's hunting trip
in Canada, 200 miles north of Quebec. They
eamped out, cooking their meals in the
woods far away from settlements and are
TN Chtiset bri thoh experiaine. ME
Swigart shot a moose seven feet high and
the party captured another moose and sev-
eral bear. Mr. Keppel brought home two
bear cubs captured in the hunt.
—At the most exciting moment in the
third period of the Carnegie Tech-Wash-
ington and Jefferson football game at
Washington, Pa., on Saturday afternoon,
the wooden grandstand bordering the field
and extending over Catfish creek gave
way without warning. Several hundred
persons were precipitated either to the
ground beneath the wreckage or covered
by debris into the creek. Twenty-five were
taken to a hospital, but none of them
were fatally injured, although two women
were almost drowned before being rescued.
The accident put an end to the game.
—Paul Blose, 40 years of age, a civil en-
gineer for the Pittsburgh Coal company,
who had been missing since July 20, was
found last Thursday in a cave in a dense-
ly wooded section of North Homestead.
Blose was found by John Robb and was
unable to speak. His legs were bare and
his only clothing was a piece of burlap
wrapped around his shoulders. His hair
was long and matted and a shaggy beard
covered his face. There was no water or
food in the cave, and the opimien was ex-
pressed that Blose had not eaten for a
long time. He was very weak and was
taken to a hospital.
—=Shot by some unknown person, Mel-
vin Orner, of Bendersville, Adams county,
is in the Warner hospital at Gettysburg,
with a bullet wound in his abdomen and
two in his left forearm. His condition is
serious. He had been hunting raccoons
with several companions and was seated
on a log when there was a report of a
gun and a moment later he found blood
trickling from his arm. His companions
hauled him 15 miles to the hospital, where
the course of the bullet was traced into the
arm and out of it into the abdomen near
the intestines. Neither Orner nor the men
with him have any idea who fired the shot.
—One man was killed and another se-
verely shocked by electricity on Saturday,
while working on a line at the sub-station
of the Pennsylvamia Power and Light com-
pany, at Bloom ir The dead man was
William Erdman, of
Bloomsburg. He was working on a pole
when his head came in contact with a wire
carrying 22,500 volts. He was burned to a
crisp. When Erdman’s head touched the
live wire the current went through his
body to a dead wire on which his foot rest-
ed, charging a transformer on which Har-
ry Greenwalt, of Danville, was working.
Greenwalt was badly shocked but will re-
cover.
ged 35 years,
—Three men on Saturday robbed Clar-
ence West, paymaster of the West Knit-
ting company, at Plymouth, Luzerne coun-
ty, of $8278 while he was taking a two
weeks’ payroll to the company’s office, The
robbers fled into Wilkes-Barre and were
last seen going south. West was carrying
the money from a bank to the mills in an
automobile and was forced to stop by
another car as he was turning a corner.
As he did so two men jumped into his car
and took his money at the point of pis-
tols. At the same time another car bear-
ing New Jersey license tags approached
and the two robbers jumped into it and
soon were out of sight.