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INK SLINGS.
MUSIC.
. We had just approved a contribu-
tion from the National Bureau for the
Advancement of Music, last Monlay
morning, and sent it to the copy hook
when we opened a communication,
signed, “Two Devout Readers of Ink
Slings.” The contributions were so
diametrically opposed that we publish
them on page four, column five of this
edition and urge all readers of the
column to read them, as well as this
confession—which they have dragged
out of us.
It is coming Christmas time. All
the world is atune to the spirit that
brings out the best there is in it. So
a discussion of music, precipitated by
an anonymous contribution, seems pe-
culiarly appropriate, and we shall de-
vote this column to it.
All we know about the technique of
music, as artists construe it, could be
expressed in one word——nothing. We
do know that in our soul something
has tried to find expression and noth-
ing has ever come as near to releasing
the pent-up tide as rhythmic harmony.
We have memories of the Academy
of Music in Philadelphia, and Patti
singing with a flute—when we
eouldn’t tell when the flute stopped
and the Diva went on or when she
stopped and the flute carried the mel-
ody. We have sat in the critic’s gal-
lery in the Metropolitan opera house,
N. Y., when Damrosch was directing,
and Nordica and the DeReskes—Ed-
ouard and Jean—were singing. We
have heard DelPuenti, Caruso, Calve,
McCormick, Werinrath and all the
rest of them sing. We have heard
every grand opera—that is recognized
as grand. We have heard every band
that has been a real band in the U. S.
A. —Gilmour’s, Sousa’s, Pryor’s,
Heckers, of Elgin, Ill., Diaz, National
band of Mexico, the band of McCook,
Neb., and Johnny Fagan’s, of Cole-
ville, and of all of them the band of
McCook, Neb., played to us the sweet-
est because it was the first to thrill
us with that glorious old time inter-
pretation “The Georgia Campmeet-
ing.”
We have sung in the chrous and
leads in comic opera. We have sung
ballads and been on the end in min-
strelsy. We have directed a ten piece
orchestra and a fourteen piece band—
planned, staged and directed the only
amateur vaudeville show that this or
any other town ever put on for a full
week at “ten, twenty and thirty.” We
organized and led the first Christmas
carolling on the streets of Bellefonte.
We have sneaked away from roister-
ing pals in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia
and New York and spent many a clean
afternoon under the sway of a great
symphony orchestra. All of this—
and we don’t know one note from
another.
We marshal these experiences not
for a parade of the ego, but more to
show that music strikes a chord in our
soul so responsive that tears well and
we sit a-quiver often under its inex-
pressible charm. We love music. We
adore it. And while we know noth-
ing of its technique we do know what
it is.
There are only four persons in
Bellefonte who could have written
such a communication as the one we
want you to read in this issue. We
want you to read it because it is an
intelligent presentation of a subject
all should be interested in. Especially,
since there is now much talk of a def-
inite contribution to the world of mu-
sic by America.
Our “Devout Readers” intimate that
Whiteman might be on his way to a
place among the immortals. And,
possibly they're right. Certainly he
tickled the toes of the boys at State
last week, but did he start anything
fine and pure and ennobling vibrating
in their souls? We think not. The
bedlam that broke loose after each
number was not that kind of an ex-
pression. Old Jim Fiske’s Williams-
port orchestra of twelve pieces, play-
ing “Dream of Heaven,” by Hermann,
“Andalusia,” by Waldteufel, or the
“Blue Danube,” by Strauss, right on
the same stage with Whiteman would
have left them listening to a small,
clean voice within them, rather than
thinking of shaking a mean hoof in
a Charleston with a girl clothed in lit-
tle more than a brassiere and a step-
in.
Whiteman and his band are artists
in execution, but as we said last week,
abominations in interpretation. We
say this not in criticism; rather as an
expression of our utter failure to re-
act to their music. It awakened no
memories of lovely, chaste girls, it
lulled us into no dreams or castle
building, it thrilled us never once. To
us it was a musical cacodoxy.
Mr. Whiteman gets seventy-five
thousand dollars a year for directing
that band. “Red” Grange gets almost
that much for playing football for an
hour. The newspaper sports-writers
made the iceman and we have a no-
tion that soulless flappers made
Whiteman.
So we have to tell our two “Devout
Readers” that we can’t reconsider our
evaluation “of this type of music” and
that it is too late for us to start, with
Kipling, at our beginning and never
breathe a word about our loss. Rath-
er do we feel like the friend who was
with us to hear Whiteman. When we
had left the auditorium and were al-
most half-way home he said: “My
God, how a band like that might have
played ‘My Old Kentucky Home.’ ”—
And there, if America is to give a
contribution to the world of music, is
a type with a soul—and not a pas-
sion.
time. No power contiguous to Russia
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 70.
Russia and United States Prevent
Peace.
The United States will be invited to
participate in the conference soon to
be held under the auspices of the
League of Nations to bring about
world disarmament, according to an
Associated Press dispatch from Ge-
neva, and if information which comes
from Washington may be relied on
President Coolidge “is in full sympa-
thy” with the purpose of the confer-
ence. The members of the council of
the league realize that no world dis-
armament is possible unless both the
United States and Russia are in con-
currence with it. The military possi-
bilities of either of these countries
would render any agreement futile
that is not supported by both of them.
The temptation to conquest would be
too great.
The President recognizes that dif-
fienlties may stand in the way of
American participation in any move-
ment under the auspices of the League
of Nations, but he also realizes that
the proposed conference is so preg-
nant with opportunities of achieve-
ment that he feels that some way
ought to be found to promote rather
than retard its purpose. The crying
need of civilization is enduring peace
and the only instrument of accom-
plishing that result is through the ac-
tivities of the League. If he had been
less hasty in committing himself to
the preposterous idea that che League
of Nations is dead, he would have no
trouble now in placing the United
States in its proper position as the
leader in the movement for world
peace. It occupied that position in
1918.
No European power would take a
chance of cutting its armament down
to the bone, as the pending proposi-
tion contemplates, while the United
States or Russia continued to main-
tain its defensive facilities at the pres-
ent standard. Such a course would
simply invite warfare. If the defen-
sive strength of Great Britain were
reduced to a minimum an invasion
and conquest of Canada would be a
matter of small expense and little
would dare cut its armament consider-
ably while Russia maintained its pres His. message. to.Congress.on.Tuesday.- 4
ent militaly equipment. Every right
minded man and woman desires reduc-
tion of armament and most powers are
willing. But Russia and the United
States stand in the way.
When Pinchot meets Mellon
then will come a tug or a thug on pro-
hibition enforcement.
Perplexed Republican Leaders.
The Republican leaders of Pennsyl-
vania are in a state of confusion. All
efforts to confer have proved futile.
The wiser heads feel that something
ought to be done in the direction of
“ironing out the differences but are
afraid to ‘start something.’” A con-
ference might make matters worse.
One of the leaders is quoted as saying
that “delay may tend to soften asper-
ities between individuals and modify
the bitterness of factions.” Another
expressed the opinion that hope lies
in letting “the situation work itself
out to solution at the polls.” There is
hazard in either course. Pinchot won
the nomination by delaying the con-
ference too long. The Governor is
still the uncertain quantity.
The organization places its faith as
well as its expectations on President
Coolidge. It would make fidelity to
the President the paramount issue.
Pinchot will not subscribe to this pro-
gram. He has openly denounced the
President, quarreled with Secretary
Mellon and is unfriendly to Senators
Pepper and Reed. He has long been
in favor of making prohibition en-
forcement the issue and has recently
been converted to the view that ballot
reform is a popular measure. Phila-
delphia and Pittsburgh party leaders
“shy” at ballot reform. Congressman
Vare and State Senator Leslie are
equally dependent upon ballot frauds
for success and the organization is de-
pendent upon Philadelphia and Pitts-
burgh. :
During the past several weeks the
“breaks” have all been in favor of the
Governor. His efforts to settle the
coal strike, the exposure of ballot
frauds in Philadelphia and the contin-
ued delinquency in prohibition en-
forcement supply all “water to his
mill.” It is expected that within the
next few days new developments will
be made equally to his advantage.
The extra session of the Legislature
is practically certain and with it will
come all sorts of trouble for the ma-
chine. No Senator or Representative
in the General Assembly who aspires
to re-election will dare vote against
ballot reform and with effective bal-
lot reform legislation the end of the
Republican machine will come into
view.
The President seems to think
because he was raised on a farm the
farmers ought to be satisfied
BELLEFONTE, PA.. DECEMBER 11. 19
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Sixty-ninth Congress in Session. Election Frauds in Philadelphia. | What Do They Think of Themselves?
The first session of the sixty-ninth
Congress assembled on Monday in a
frame of mind which indicates a per-
iod of turbulence. The scant Repub-
lican majority in the House of Repre-
sentatives was not only able to elect
its candidate for Speaker but to re-
store the autocratic power of the
Speaker, Nicholas Longworth, of
Ohio, which upon his own motion was
relinquished, as a tub to the independ-
ent whale, two years ago. The vote
on the Speakership was Longworth
229, Finis J. Garrett, Democrat, 173,
and Henry Allen Cooper, Insurgent,
13, a majority of 43. The vote on the
change of the rules reduced this ma-
jority to 12, the Wisconsin Represen-
tatives voting with the Democrats
against the change.
The Senate session was brief and
uneventful. In caucus previous to the
meeting the Republican Senators in-
vited young Mr. LaFollette to join
with them which he declined, thus
forecasting an attitude of opposition
to the administration policies during
the session. Williams, Missouri, and
Robinson, Indiana, new Senators,
were admitted to membership and the
claim of Nye, of Nevada, was refer-
red to the committee on privileges and
elections, for investigation as to eligi-
bility. Williams and Robinson are
Republicans and Nye an insurgent of
the LaFollette type. The question is
upon the authority of the Governor to
appoint. The real point is probably
an effort to coerce LaFollette into
obedience.
The administration tax bill, it isn’t
called by that name this year, was the
first bill introduced and its sponsor,
chairman Greene, of the House com-
mittee on Ways and Means, expects
to railroad it through in record time.
In the Senate the dominant issue will
be the question of joining the World
Court, which is scheduled for consid-
eration on December 17. As the Dem-
ocrats are particularly unanimous
in favor of the proposition and the Re-
publicans are being dragooned into ac-
quiescence, it is reasonably certain to
get the necessary two-thirds majority,
though considerable time will be giv-
en to debate. President Coolidge sent
——Evidently the time isn’t ripe for
the Methodists—north and south—to
unify. The Methodist Episcopal
church—south, has failed, by nineteen
hundred and fifty votes, to give the
necessary three-fourths endorsement
of the get-together movement. Of
course they are all heading for the
same objective, but by different
routes.
Secretary Davis Bumps the President.
In his report to the President the
new Secretary of War, Dwight F. Da-
vis, hands an appropriate bump to the
Coolidge economy program that is
likely to make a strong impression on
the public mind. The national defense
law of 1920 puts upon the War De-
partment certain obligations requir-
ing large expenditures of funds. Some
time ago the President served notice
on the department to make a consid-
erable cut in the budget, and the Sec-
retary informs him that it is not only
impossible to comply with the order
but that unless the budget is consid-
erably increased “the situation of the
regular army is extremely serious.”
In other words the department will
not be able to meet the demands of
the Act of Congress.
In presenting the matter to the
President Secretary Davis states that
the cost of national defences is not es-
timated by either the War Depart-
ment, the general staff or other mili-
tary bureaucracy. It is determined
by Act of Congress and apportioned
among the several agencies of dis-
bursement by Congress, with the ap-
proval of the people. Among the ex-
penses are maintenance of army posts,
pay of officers and men, hospitaliza-
tion, coast defences and protection of
the Panama Canal. All these obliga-
tions cost money and must be met
promptly. If they are neglected the
service lapses into a state of ineffi-
ciency that is not only dangerous to
the safety of the country but expen-
sive to make repairs. -
In this presentation of facts the
Secretary of War is not only accurate
but fully justified. The President has
for one reason or another made econ-
omy a hobby, but in his processes he
has shown a lack of understanding.
The people of the United States want
economy but not at the expense of ef-
ficiency or under conditions that in-
volve danger. The President seems
to have imagined that the army is un-
popular and that curtailment of its ap-
propriations would meet with public
applause. It may be true that the ar-
my is not in enjoyment of the high-
est popular approval but that fact is
not ascribable to a desire to check its
useful activities. It is because of con-
ditions revealed in the Mitchell court
martial.
Last week in a Philadelphia court
an entire election board was put on
trial for permitting or perpetrating
ballot frauds. The accused testified
that the return sheet was signed at
noon of election day; one of them con-
was proved that a fight had taken
place in the voting place during the
voting period and that a constable
had been called in to remove one of
the members of the board. It was
shown that the judge of the election
refused to allow other members of the
board to see the ballots as they were
counted and that a number of un-
creased ballots were found in the bal-
lot box after it was opened.
It must be admitted that the evi-
dence of violation of the election laws
was cumulative and overwhelming.
Yet the jury which heard the evidence
deliberated twenty hours and then re-
ported to the court that it was unable
to agree on a verdict. It is small won-
der that the Judge who presided at
the trial remarked: “I cannot resist
saying that I am surprised you were
unable to agree in the case. In view
of such numerous and gross violations
of the law, it seems but one conclu-
sion could be reached and that of de-
liberate and conscious fraud by these
defendants.” With this comment the
jury was discharged and the case set
for a future hearing. The record
doesn’t show the customary thanks to
the jurors.
Upon taking their seats in the jury
box each of the twelve persons who
composéd the jury took a solemn oath
to render a just verdict according to
the evidence. As the judge declared
the evidence showed that “deliberate
and conscious fraud” had been perpe-
trated and that each member of the
jury who failed to find them guilty
committed deliberate and conscious
perjury. It may have been impossible
: to determine which of the “twelve
| good men and true” thus "violated
their oaths. One of the newspaper
reports stated that eleven of the
twelve voted for acquittal from the
first ballot. In any event the disagree-
on of the jury reveals a moral de-
appalling.
Mr. Bell was a victim of a “book-
keeping mirage.” Wrong. He was a
vietim of a mismated marriage of pol-
itics and banking.
Sense of Proportion Lacking.
On Tuesday morning of last week
Judge James Gay Gordon, Jr., presid-
ing in a quarter sessions court in Phil-
adelphia, expressed to a jury sitting
in judgment upon a group of election
officers, charged with various forms of
ballot pollution, the opinion that the
crime of which they stood accused is
one of the gravest in the calendar.
“Corrupting the ballot is striking at
the very foundation of free govern-
ment,” he said. On Wednesday anoth-
er group of election officers pleaded
guilty to a charge of having debauch-
ed the electoral machinery of the city
by falsely registering non-residents
of the district in which they sat and
children and dead men in order that
pollution of the ballot might be ac-
complished.
Judge Gordon presiding, sentenced
these self-confessed ballot thieves to
imprisonment in the county jail for
periods ranging from four months to a
year. That would indicate that the
judge is deficient in the sense of pro-
portion. If the crime of which the
accused confessed guilt is “striking at
the very foundation of free govern-
ment,” and one of the “gravest in the
calendar,” the punishment inflicted by
the court was inadequate. Possibly
the fault lies in the law rather than in
the court. But for one reason or
another the delinquent officials got off
with a punishment that could not be
considered severe if they had con-
fessed to a charge of the most trifling
character.
A sentence of four months or even
a year in the county jail for padding
the registry of voters with the delib-
erate purpose of facilitating fraudu-
lent voting is neither a corrective nor
a deterrent of crime. Men who will
commit such offences against “free |
government” are without shame, and
if the corrupt officials whe have prof-
ited by their sinister operations will
supply them with money while in pris-
on they will be ready and willing to
repeat the offense the moment they
emerge from the prison. If the courts
of Philadelphia really want to check
the crime of ballot pollution they will
impose sentences on convicted or self-
confessed criminals that will make an
impression.
It may be true that sometimes
“absence makes the heart grow
fonder” but it. frequently makes the
mind ramble along “the primrose
paths of dalliance.”
fessed that he had been absent from
the polling place nearly all day; it .
cy-.in-the community which is.
The defence lawyer in the Car- :
negie Trust case, in Pittsburgh, says
1
: From the Pittsburgh Post.
| Abandonment by the government of
the last of the so-called war fraud
| cases that Harry M. Daugherty was
' going to prosecute while he was At-
| torney Genreal draws attention again
i to the senselessness and injustice of a
lot of the criticism of a war adminis-
tration. Republican politicians eager
‘to get something on the Wilson
‘regime conducted more than fifty in-
vestigations through Congressional
committees into the war management.
Although lacking the manliness and
the justice to say so themselves, the
result of their work was really a no-
table tribute to the war administra-
tion. With more than 100,000 officials
having discretion in expenditure of
funds for war purposes and in the
making of war contracts, and with a
total expenditure of some $18,000,-
000,000, there was not found one case
of graft or peculation on the part of
responsible officials. That was in
striking contrast with the “embalmed
beef” and other scandals that marked
the management of our part in the
Spanish-American war. - However,
atter Daugherty became Attorney
General, war frauds were to be un-
earthed and those involved in them
punished. No more came from that
talk than from the work of the con-
gressional “smelling committees.”
The truth was indicated in General
Dawes’ famous Hell’n Maria speech in
which he cut loose on the swivel chair
critics who strained at flaws in emer-
gency expenditures and overlooked
the great victory won. When a mem-
ber of the family is taken sick sud-
denly does the head of the household
sit down and figure out how he can get
medical service at the minimum cost ?
No. He gets all the help he can and
. takes up the question of cost after-
i ward. Dawes, who was chief of sup-
| ply procurement for the American ar-
imy in France, snapped back at the
i critics: “Sure we paid. We didn’t
| stop to dicker. Why, man alive, we
i had to win the war. It was a man’s
i job. We should have paid horse prices
| for sheep if the sheep could have pull-
ed artillery to the front. Oh, it’s all
right now to say we bought too much
vinegar and too many cold chisels, but
we saved the civilization of the
world.”
Although Dawes some years after-
ward was elected Vice President .on
the fame of that speech, the 1920 Re-
publican campaign pith
of the Democratic
the charges of war frauds. The Re-
: publican administration could find no
evidence of them. Now the last of
such attempted prosecutions has been
dropped.
! What do those heated critics of
+ 1920 think of themselves now ?
| Heavier Penalites for Various Crimes.
| From the Philadelphia Record.
! A grand jury in New York, in a
{ presentment addressed to Governor
{ Smith and members of the State Leg-
| islature, asks that “because of the
| prevalence of violent crimes,” the pro-
i visions of the penal law relating to
; the punishment for the crimes of
i burglary and robbery, in the first de-
' gree, he amended so as “to permit life
l imprisonment to be imposed as the
{maximum punishment therefor.”
i There is little likelihood that the pre-
| sent law will be so drastically amend-
ed, and yet something surely will have
to be done to check the modern crook.
There are some jurists in this country
who will not even be averse to a re-
i turn to the old English law that im-
| posed the death penalty upon forgers
i and robbers of all sorts. It was only
: a little more than a century ago that
i that law was repealed. At that time
: also, horse stealing was a hanging of-
{ fense here in Pennsylvania.
i
| Henry Ford and His Hoopskirts.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Henry Ford is becoming a voracious
| collector of antiques. Perhaps it is a
| natural reaction from the manufac-
i ture of that very modern article, the
| cheap motor car. He has already got
| beyond the old furniture stage.
| He bought at Doylestown, on Satur-
' day, relics of early farm life among
| the Pennsylvania Dutch, including a
i large number of hoopskirts.
Few people would have thought of
! these as having any particular inter-
| est. As part of his collection at the
: Wayside Inn they seem rather gio-
i tesque. His purchase of the fine old
| tavern made famous by Longfellow
{ was resented by many at the time. If
he makes it a miscellaneous museum
he will quite destroy its historic at-
. mosphere, The hoopskirts would be
“more appropriate in the birthplace of
the tin Lizzie.
i
|
Enroll Aliens.
| From the Wilkes-Barre Record.
An enrollment of all aliens in the
' country would enable the authorities
to determine who among them came
in legally and who came in illegally,
and at any time those who could not
show registration papers would be
subject to deportation. For that rea-
oe one enrollment should be pro-
vided.
——There are signs in view that in-
dicate Joe Grundy is “losing his grip.”
The Manufacturers’ Association, of
Berks county, is arranging for a re-
ception for Senator Pepper.
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SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Meyer Gross, of Harrisburg, reported
to the police on Sunday that burglars had
entered his place of business on Saturday
night and stolen 17 pounds of butter, a
crate of eggs and 700 pounds of lard.
—As a result of burns received recently
when her clothing ignited from a gas stove,
Ella May Johnston, 14 years old, who lived
in Johnstown with a sister, died on Sat-
urday. She was a daughter of Earl John-
ston, of Philipsburg.
+ —Names of famous men were bandied
about recklessly before magistrate A. 8.
Stover, at Chambersburg, on Monday, when
George Washington, colored, was charged
with larceny of a watch, and named Hen-
ry Ford, colored, as his principal witness.
Washington was held for a hearing and in
default of bail was placed in jail.
—Judge W. Rush Gillan, of the Frank-
lin county courts, on Monday began the
last session of court at which he will pre-
side, after twenty years on the county
bench. At the beginning of the new year
his term will expire and Watson R. Da-
vison having been elected to succeed him,
Judge Gillan will retire to private life.
—Walter J. Cartwright, negro known as
the “Hooded bandit” who terrorized the
Oakland and Shady Side districts, where
he entered scores of homes, was sentenced
last Thursday to serve from 18 to 36 years
in the western penitentiary. Cartwright
pleaded guilty to 54 charges of burglary
and one of carrying concealed weapons.
—A jury in criminal court, at Pittsburgh
on Tuesday found John A. Bell, banker
and coal operator, guilty of embezzlement
and misapplication of more than $600,000
of funds of the closed Carnegie Trust com-
pany, of which he was president. The
jury reached its decision on the first vote
after thirty-five minutes deliberation. Four
women were on the jury. Application will
likely be made for a new trial.
—Theft of $500 by a man who posed as
a lawyer seeking to obtain information
from them about an estate of which they
were the beneficiaries was reported to the
police by Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Baker, of
Bloomsburg, late Thursday night. The
man remained with them over night and
several hours after he left the house on
Friday morning the loss was discovered.
Mr. Baker described the man as about 55
years old.
~ —A turkey and an automobile colliding
on the macadam road, near Freeland, Pa.,
resulted in damage to the machine of
Luther List to such an extent that he had
to. abandon his car and get another to
complete his trip. The turkey, which was
a young gobbler, weighing about 16
pounds, was flying across the road when
the automobile struck it puncturing the
radiator. The turkey is none the worse
from its experience.
—Charles Vandevander, indicted at
Franklin, Wednesday, for the murder of
Mrs. Ada Hammer, at a tent religious
meeting on September 9, has submitted an
appeal for a change of venue, alleging’ feel-
ing prejudicial to a fair trial, when a mo-
tion to continue the trial until next term
was overruled by the court. Arguments on
the motion were set for December 16. Sen-
ator M. M. Neely appeared as one of the
counsel for Vandevander.
'—Mrs. Isabel Wolf, 74 years old, of Mt,
Pleasant township, Columbia county, was
burned to death in her home Sunday night
while attempting to extinguish a fire on
-the roof, started by sparks from the chim-
ney. The charred body was recovered sev-
eral hours later. Mrs. Wolf, a widow, and
who lived alone, went to the attic to put
out the fire. The flames spread and cut off
her escape, and when neighbors arrived
they were unable to save her.
—While hundreds of persons were dis-
cussing what a good fellow “Hen” Luttner
was, after a report had been circulated that
Luttner had been found dead in the Lau-
rel Hill mountains, near the Rolling Rock
Club, Westmoreland county, Luttner
walked into Latrobe with the word that he
was unable to find a deer. Members of
his family, police, undertakers and others
had received a report that Luttner had
been shot dead by a stray bullet.
—J. C. Seibert, of Hollidaysburg, has
brought suit asking for $10,000 for dam-
ages on account of slanderous statements
alleged to have been made by G. P. Hep-
ner and G. H. Reed, who are charged with
having said he was a “scab” in the em-
ploy of the Huntingdon and Broadtop
Railroad during the strike in 1909. The
statement he says, caused his rejection
when he applied for admission to the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.
—Frank Herry, an employee of the Ber-
ney Bond glass factory at Clarion, is in a
critical condition from burns as the result
of a practical joke. The young man had
worked two shifts of eight hours each and,
lying down near his machine, he went to
sleep. Fellow workers thought he was
only feigning sleep and called him. When
he did not answer they lighted a handful
of oil waste and threw it on him. His oil-
soaked clothing caught fire and he was
burned about the face and body. Herry
started running at the same time trying to
subdue the flames, then dropped exhaust-
ed. No action has been taken against the
jokers.
—Michael Deloza, of Pittsburgh, a jew-
elry salesman, reported to state police at
Greensburg, on Saturday, that a sample
case, containing jewelry valued at thous-
ands of dollars had been stolen from his
machine while passing through Young-
wood. A detail of officers was rushed to
the scene and located the sample case in
New Stanton, where it had been taken by
the driver of a truck who had found it
on the highway. The officers took the case
containing rings, necklaces, stick pins and
other jewelry, to the Point Lookout bar-
racks where it was held for the owner.
The driver of the truck was trying to lo-
cate the owner of the sample case when
the officers arrived in New Stanton.
—Charged with voluntary manslaughter
State policemen A. R. Jackson and Walter
J. Lyster, of Greensburg barracks, and
chief of police Fred Lytle, of Cresson,
were held for court by Alderman Turner,
of Johnstown, on Saturday. The arrest of
the officers grew out of the death of An-
thony Misoura, a Cambria county farmer,
who it is alleged, they clubbed during a
liquor raid. A blanket bond of $6,000 for
the release of the policemen was furnish-
ed by Lieutenant J. L. Marshall, of the
state police. Judge McCann accepted the
bail. Misoura’s widow testified that the
officers brutally beat her husband and that
when she appealed’ to them not to kill her
husband Corporal Jacobson struck her
twice in the face. Lyster is the state po-
liceman who, while located in Bellefonte
last March was charged with beating up J.
'Cleveluad Packer, of Boggs township.