k —
INK SLINGS.
—Valentino is done as a sheik. Who
ever heard of a desert idol being
minus an appendix? Rudolph had his
cut out on Monday.
——Senator Borah, of Idaho, de-
nouncing the slush money in the Penn-
sylvania p-imary, declared “expendi-
tures of money in elections is a fear-
ful national evil.”
——The President announces that
he is perfectly willing to meet Mr.
Flaherty, of the Knights of Columbus,
and confirm whatever Secretary of
State Kellog has said in a previous
meeting.
—Anyway Fanny Hurst was not re-
ferring to us when she said that the
‘resentment of France, against Amer-
icans, is not so much because of the
debt settlement as because of the up-
pishness of our visitors to that coun-
try.
—“Sheriff” Shearer said that
Hen. Kline sweat so much, while pa-
rading with his pet fire company, the
Undines, in the Tyrone parade, that
the sewers of the city were all choked
“up and there was a small flood in the
Juniata.
—Evidently the Street committee of
council didn’t know what it was letting
itself into when it fixed up the alley
leading to one of its member’s busi-
ness place so magnificently. Now,
everybody wants his or her alley
macadamized.
—Mr. Vare has returned from Europe
and announced that he is going to let
“Mr. Mellon make the platform on
which he will run for the Senate. In
other words, he knows he is going to
get the wet vote, so he will keep quiet
on that and let Mellon corral what
drys he can for him.
—No, dear, there is nothing signif-
icant in the fact that Doc. Ritenour
was the sweepstakes winner in the
“second annual flower shower at State
College. He is the College physician,
but the mortality rate there is sub-
normal. Now if the winner had been
one of the undertakers of the village,
‘why that would have been something
else again.”
—Gosh! The county fairs have be-
gun. And that reminds us that it is
only fifty days until we’ll have to
light the furnace and start the grind
"of stoking coal and carrying ashes
again. The Lord, only, knows what
has become of the summer. We don’t
Last week was the only period that
was hot enough to lead us to believe
“that we have had any at all.
—At the recent P. O. S. of A. con-
vention at Altoona a resolution was
“passed that puts the Order on record
as being squarely against “expendi-
ture of money to corrupt voters.”
‘Such a stand is quite in line with the
principles of the P. O. S. of A., but we
are wondering how many of its mem-
bers will be guided by this resolution
when they go to the polls next No-
vember and see the names of Fisher
and Vare on the ballot they. are given
to mark. - Millions were spent to “cor-
rupt the voters” and win nominations
for those two candidates.
—Since nobody else seems to be
able to make the State dry why don’t
we hiss Dr. Watts and this fellow
‘Hibshman up at State College on it?
We note that they are taking the
nicotine out of Lancaster county to-
bacco. If they can do that why can’t
they take the “kick” out of apples,
dandelions, grapes, elderberries, rheu-
barb, corn and rye. It would be the
economic sensation of the age. Mil-
lions would be saved in the cost of
maintaining an army of snooping offi-
cials and our Alma Mater would go
down in history as the institution that
waved a wand and the Desert of
Sahara encompassed the earth.
—The case of Max Carey, “Babe”
Adams and Carson Bigbee, star play-
ers on the Pittsburgh base-ball club
interests us. They were given their
release, without a hearing, supposed-
ly because they had conspired to break
down the morale of the team. While
we have always maintained that an
employer ought to have the right to
let an employee go, whenever he feels
that it is to his interest to do so, the
contract of a base-ball player is a
very different obligation from that
entered into by the employee
in any other business. When
the player signs he is no longer a
“free agent.” He puts his service on
the block and his manager is the auc-
tioneer. He is a slave on the market
and as such has a right to know why
he is sold “down the river” or chucked
out in mid-season without a hearing.
—The death of the widow of “Coal
0il Johnny” Steele, in Omaha, recent-
ly, recalls the spendthrift days of the
poor Venango county farm boy who
became rich over night and squander-
ed the fortune of nearly a million
within three years. It had come so
easy that he thought there was more
where it came from and threw it away
like water until he wound up as bag-
gage master at a little station near
Oil City. That was in the 60s.
There was only one “Coal Oil
Johnny” then and his extravagant
doings were the talk of the country.
Today there are millions of “Coal Oil
Johnnies.” Boys who are taking
down four times as much as their
daddies did at their age and not one of
them with a bank balance, a bit of life
insurance or an investment to come
to their rescue when physical infir-
mity or age puts a crimp in their
earning power.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 71.
How the West Views If.
Under the caption, “The Shame of
Pennsylvania,” the Locomotive En-
gineers Journal, published in Des
Moines, Iowa, says: “Eight years ago
the nation was scandalized because
Truman H. Newberry, of Michigan,
spent $195,000 to buy his seat in the
Senate. The Republican machine in
Pennsylvania spent from fifteen to
twenty-five times as much, and then
resorted to the fraudulent counting of
ballots in order to debauch the will of
the electorate. The men responsible
for this shameless corruption, such as
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and
Senator David Reed, actually have the
audacity to condemn the direct pri-
mary as the guilty offender, since,
forsooth, it would not have required
so much money to corrupt an old-
fashioned party convention.”
We quote this high-standing class
journal because it is published in the
heart of the corn belt and for the rea-
son that it ably and faithfully repre-
sents an important element in the in-
dustrial life of the country. The Lo-
comotive Engineers Journal has no
politics in a partisan sense. But it
has a keen interest in the prosperity
of the country and a sensitive re-
sponse to whatever is good or evil for
the people as a whole. Though pub-
lished in the middle west it circulates
in every section enriched by railroads,
and its voice is the honest expression
of the industrial element of the coun-
try. What the Engineers Journal
‘says is what the thoughtful railroad
employees think, not only in Iowa but
in Pennsylvania.
The shame of Pennsylvania may be
turned to useful purpose if the people
of the State will follow the lines point-
ed out by the Locomotive Engineers
Journal. “If the people of Pennsylva-
nia have any sense of decency or
shame’ let them show it “by defeat-
ing Boss Vare, the corrupt Philadel-
phia gang leader for the Senate, and
Fisher, the tool for the big manufac-
turers for Governorship. The only
way these men can be defeated is by
voting for their Democratic oppo-
nents. © One of these is William B.
Wilson, former Secretary of the Unit- |
ed Mine Workers and the first Secre-
tary of Labor in President Wilson’s
cabinet.”” With equal accuracy it
might have recommended the support
of Eugene C. Bonniwell for Governor.
They represent the hope of escape
from the machine.
The Republican State head-
quarters have been removed to the
Pennsylvania building, 15th and
Chestnut streets, Philadelphia, but the
Baker building will be held for emer-
gency work, and to please Baker.
Governor Pinchot’s Attitude.
Governor Pinchot is a curious per-
son. He has been a fairly good Gov-
ernor and it may safely be said that
in most of his administrative acts he
has been influenced by lofty ideals.
He has an abnormally developed am-
bition that has at intervals led him
into blunders, and he has a self-confi-
dence that is frequently misleading.
Barring these weaknesses he is an ad-
mirable guide and reasonably safe
philosopher. Because of them he is
likely to break out at any time and
spoil a lot of the good work he has
achieved himself as well as that of
others. In fact he is threatening such
a break at this point.
During his visit to the National
Guard camp, some one asked him
whether he intends to be an independ-
ent candidate for Senator. Such
questions afford him great delight.
They indicate that he is in the public
eye and that there is an urge for him
in the public mind. It appeals to his
self esteem and flatters his vanity, al-
ready over-developed. His reply was
precisely what might have been ex-
pected. He said he was considering
the subject and would take the public
into his confidence in a couple of
weeks. He ought to have said he not
only would not be an independent can-
didate but that he will put all the
moral and material force he can com-
mand to elect William B. Wilson.
Governor Pinchot has contributed
largely to the beneficent work of mak-
ing Vare and Vareism odious. From
the beginning of his activity in Penn-
sylvania politics he has fought Vare-
ism. Whether in Philadelphia or
Pittsburgh, and whether Vare or Les-
lie or substitutes, the Governor has
been ready to attack. It would be a
pity to destroy this admirable record
now that its purpose is about to be
achieved, and we do not believe Gov-
ernor Pinchot has such a purpose in
mind. We believe that in the heat of
the campaign Pinchot will be found
among the supporters of the Demo-
cratic ticket for Senator and Gover-
nor.
——Mussolini would better look out.
Gabriele D’Annunzio is about to pay
him a visit.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. .
Several Reasons Against Fisher.
The nomination of John S. Fisher,
for the office of Governor of Pennsyl-
vania, cost the Manufacturers’ asso-
ciation and the Mellon banks consid-
' erably more than a million dollars. If
there were no other reason against
his election that fact ought to com-
pass his defeat. It makes the ques-
tion of public service a matter of
purchase and sale rather than a ques-
i tion of merit.
{ spend much more in the interest of
: Fisher. The election of Fisher is
worth more than ten times that
' amount to the interests represented
by Grundy, and it was assumed by
| those concerned in the purchase that
the nomination was equivalent to an
! election.
There is another substantial reason
i why John S. Fisher should be defeat-
ied. In his nomination he has violat-
ed the Corrupt Practices act. That
act forbids the payment of money,
the giving of" promise of money “or
any valuable thing” for votes. By
Grundy’s statement before the Sen-
ate slush committee .fund John S Fish-
er had entered into an agreement
with Grundy to oppose legislation im-
posing a tax on manufacturing cor-
poration capital. This legitimate sub-
ject of taxation has escaped for years
necessary to encourage productive in-
dustry. This fallacy was exploded
long ago but Grundy has kept it alive
by coercing Legislators.
There is another strong reason why
John S. Fisher should be defeated at
the polls next November. His nomi-
nation was bought with money of
tainted type. In pledging action val-
uable to Grundy he violated the Cor-
rupt Practices act and disqualified
himself for service. These indict-
ments ought to be enough to condemn
him to overwhelming defeat. But as a
matter of fact he was nominated by
| fraudulent juggling of the votes in
certain sections of Pittsburgh. When
the polls closed on the evening of May
18th, John S. Fisher was defeated by
several thousand majority. But the
Grundy and Mellon “dump cart” ran
in sufficient boodle to change the fig-
ures and Fisher is said to have gotten
a nomination by fraud.
Secretary of the Treasury Mel-
lon arrived in Geneva, last week, but
1 his presence had no influence on the
deliberations of the League of Na-
tions.
Grundy is Hunting Trouble.
The new leaders of the Republican
party in Pennsylvania may be able to
buy or browbeat the voters in the
future as they have done in the re-
cent past but they will encounter
trouble here and there. For example,
an attempt recently made by Mr.
Grundy to control the federal patron-
age in the Berks-Lehigh Congression-
al district has stirred up a protest
that will be difficult to appease. Mr.
Grundy has named one of his own
faithful followers for the office of
postmaster of Reading and county
chairman Thomas C. Seidel has fixed
upon that comfortable post for him-
self when he is forcibly retired from
the office as workmen’s compensation
referee. Having opposed Fisher he is
slated for retirement.
In the Elk, Forest, Mercer, Venan-
go and Warren Congressional district
there is a good deal of bad feeling as
a result of the defeat of Congressman
Bixler for renomination. The friends
of Mr. Bixler openly declare that he
was counted out in Elk county and
that friends of Mr. Grundy perpetrat-
ed the fraud. In view of this senti-
ment the announcement that Mr.
Grundy would assume control of the
federal patronage for the district is
sharply resented. In fact it has cre-
ated a movement to enter Bixler as
an independent candidate for Con-
gress. Mr. Bixler has not consented
whether he runs or not the regular
nominee in the district will have a
hard road to travel.
The Mellon method in politics is
precisely the same as the Mellon
method in the stock exchange or the
fish market, and Grundy is in com-
plete accord with it. It is to buy
what they want at any price and de-
pend on future adjustments to make
the transaction profitable. Mellons are
behind Grundy in this encroachment in
the two Congressional districts in
which the sitting member was not re-
nominated. He may win out as he did
in the primary election by dumping
vast sums of money into the campaign.
But he will not have an easy time of
it or win an enduring victory. Mr.
Seidel is a formidable figure in Berks
county and Harris J. Bixler is a vigor-
ous fighter.
——1It is a safe bet that Vare will
not be expelled from the Senate. He
will never get into the Senate.
It has been said that
| Grundy was ready and willing to
under the false pretense that it was '
as yet to this form of reprisal but |
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Last Week.
The “Watchman” was up against it
last week and narrowly escaped miss-
{ing the mails with the bulk of its edi-
tion. As it was, a small portion of
the papers got into the postoffice too
late for Thursday night's outgoing
mail, but it was not our fault. The
paper was put to press early enough
Thursday afternoon to be put out on
i time but when about one-third of the
edition had been printed the electric
current snapped and did not come on
again until after six o’clock, and then
it took fast work to get as many of
the papers as possible in the office for
the night train.
It later developed that the break in
the current occurred on the Penn Cen-
| tral’s major lines over in Mifflin coun-
i ty, the result of a terrific storm that
| swept down through the Juniata val-
ley. As soon as the break occurred
the Keystone Power company put
‘men to work fixing up the emergency
i plant at Milesburg but it was six
| o’clock before they could get up a suf-
| ficient head of steam to operate. In
, the meantime John McCoy’s plant was
i kept in operation but it was not suf-
{ficient to furnish enough juice to
supplement the broken current on the
| Penn Central.
| In the meantime lightning struck
, one of the power company’s poles on
| Halfmoon hill which burned out a
| transformer and workmen cut around
it temperarily. Over in Pennsvalley
a stray wire fell across two live wires
and caused a short circuit that put
out all of the lower end of Pennsval-
ley. After the plant at Milesburg
was put in operation one of ‘the big
compressors went bad and it was nec-
essary to shut down the plant but for-
tunately a few minutes later the juice
came in over the Penn Central lines
and full service was again established.
But the Keystone Power company’s
troubles were not yet over for on Sat-
urday morning trouble developed be-
low Milesburg that put out the serv-
ice down Bald Eagle valley. All of
which shows that the electric company
has plenty of troubles of its own.
" ——The fact that borough council
i had two propositions on Monday night
from manufacturers of traffic signs
and signals would indicate that Belle-
fonte’s trouble in regulating automo-
bile traffic has seeped into the outside :
world.” With five large traffic signs
and a number of silent policemen now
{on the streets, and “no parking”
| signs stuck up along the curb at nu-
merous places in the town it would
| seem as if the borough council is do-
ing its share toward regulating traf-
: fic without investing in any more con-
.traptions. In these days every motor-
{ist should have knowledge of the or-
, dinary traffic laws and any one who
‘persists in disregarding them should
be given a wholesome lesson by ar-
| rest and fine, and that will have more
effect in solving the traffic problem
than a dozen signs and signals.
The new mail service has been
iin operation in Bellefonte almost two
weeks and while it may be advanta-
i geous to the employees in the post-of-
| fice, the banks and some of the busi-
i ness places, it has not been coming
i through with enough regularity to en-
: able patrons of the post office to tell
whether the mail comes in in the
morning by bus, on the morning trains
or in the afternoon. Possibly it will
i adjust itself in due time but at present
it does not appeal to everybody.
——William 8. Leib, former politic-
al boss in Schuylkill county and after-
ward for some time a prisoner in the
ment,
——The election of Fisher and Vare
would be interpreted as popular ap-
proval of slush fund nominations and
the disposal of public office by auc-
tion,
——The rainy weather of this week
and there’s plenty of it in that condi-
tion on the farms of Centre county.
—1If it is a crime to spend $600,-
000 for a nomination for Senator what
would you call spending $1,800,000 for
a nomination for Governor?
————— el reese —
——If Judge Lewis is correct, and
nobody disputes him, the Volstead law
might be enforced if the politicians
kept out of the cases.
——The Governor is not always
wise in politics but he knows that the
only way to defeat Vare is to support
William B. Wilson.
——Evidently chairman Mellon is
not: particular as to the character of
those in confidential relations with the
campaign,
UGUST 20. 1926.
Electric Current Badly Demoralized
eastern penitentiary, is to be restored .
to leadership by the Mellon manage- ;
will be hard on the oats still in shock, '
More Procrastination for Spring
Township School Building.
A first-class murder trial would not
have drawn a much larger crowd to
i the court house than that on Wednes-
day to hear the injunction case
. against the Spring township school
board, contesting their right to erect
; the new school building on the site se-
"lected.
S. D. Gettig and J. Kennedy John-
ston Esgs., represented the petitioners
in the injunction proceedings while
the school board’s attorneys were
John G. Love and Orvis, Zerby & Dale.
The school board was represented by
the secretary, John H. Barnhart, and
the first step in the proceedings was
a request of Mr. Gettig to see the
minutes of the board. An examina-
tion of the records disclosed the fact
that the secretary had failed to record
just how each member of the board
voted at the various sessions in which
action was taken relative to the erec-
tion of the new school building.
Some half dozen or more witnesses
were heard in the interest of the peti-
tioners but no evidence was produced
to show any collusion on the part of
the board or that the members had
exceeded their authority in selecting
the sight they did. In fact the school
code gives them arbitrary authority
to select the site if it meets with the
approval of the State board of educa- |
tion, which it did.
; After hearing the evidence submit-
ted in behalf of the petitioners Judge
Keller stated that they had not pro-
duced any evidence showing that the
| school board had exceeded its author-
ity, but granted the request of the
petitioners to amend their bill on the
| technicality that the board failed to
make a correct record on its minutes
, of how each and every member voted
at the various meetings held. In the
meantime the temporary injunction is
still in force and will so continue until
another hearing is held at a date
thirty days hence.
|
Work on the Port Matilda—State
College Route Has Been Started.
|
men has been put to work on the sec-
ondary highway from Port Matilda to
State College. It is only the begin-
! ning, of course, but means the early
completion of that route.
The road runs from Port, over the
mountain to the Quaker church, thence
down the Buffalo Run highway to
Waddle and from there directly across
the Barrens to Pine Hall and down to
State College.
It will prove a decided short cut to
State College for travelers from the
Philipsburg and Clearfield regions and
give the Halfmoon valley folks an im-
proved road to a market that many
of them visit.
Philipsburg business men have
started an agitation for the perma-
nent improvement of the road over
the mountain to Port Matilda. While
this stretch of road, which has been
included in the secondary highway
system and is due for improvement
some time in the future, is kept in as
good condition as possible to keep 2
dirt road, it is traveled so much as a
short cut on the Lakes-to-sea high-
way that it requires almost constant
attention to keep it in shape; especial-
ly during a season of severe rain
storms or wet weather. It is the most
direct route between Philipsburg and
Bellefonte, the county seat, as well as
Bald Eagle and Halfmoon valleys and
, the entire southern portion of the
county. It is the one stretch of much
traveled road in Centre ccunty that
has not been given improvement of a
permanent character.
——The people of Blair county had
{ a thrill, last Friday evening, when it
i was reported that an army ship carry-
ing two aviators had fallen in the
mountains near Dysart and no trace
could be found of either ship or men.
The ship left Washington, D. C., that
morning bound for Oak Field, N. Y.,
and enroute came down at Middle-
town, Pa. Late the same afternoon
an army ship circled quite low over
Bellefonte then took a western course
and it is quite likely it was the same
ship. But it did not fall in the moun-
tains of Blair county. It was merely
circling at a low altitude for the prob-
able reason that the pilot had lost his
bearings. Be that as it may, how-
ever; the ship and aviators finally
reached their destination on Saturday.
SE ir ae
——The new fence around the
graveyard of debris out at the Phoe-
nix pumping station has been erected,
and when the gates have been swung
in place and the fence painted a bat-
tleship grey it will make a very de-
| cided improvement in the looks of
that locality. “
——The estimated number of trac-
tors in use on the farms in Centre
county last December 1, was 262.
During the * week ~a small cféw" of
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Marion D. Long, manager of the New
Castle Paper Products company, died of
sleeping sickness Monday night in the
Shenango Valley hospital.
"—Mrs. Belle Arthur, of I'orwardstown,
Somerset county, was burned to death,
last Thursday, while attempting to save
some furniture from her home, which had
been set on fire by lightning.
—Midas, at whose touch everything turned
to gold, died no more miserably than
Isaac Abrams, of Philadelphia, who starv-
ed himself to death at the age of 80 years,
although possessed of $100,000. Abrams’
will filed for probate showed he owned 26
houses besides considerable cash.
—Jesse Wheeler, employee of the Pitt
Construction company, contractors for the
new Huntingdon reservoir, near Hunting-
don, was struck and slightly burned by
lightning on Saturday morning. Mr.
Wheeler was operating a mixing machine
when the bolt struck the handle, knocking
him unconscious. He was rushed to the
Blair Memorial hospital where it was
found that he was not seriously burned.
Several nearby workmen were dazed by the
flash.
—Fishing for chickens is the latest and
Ralph Serfass, of Foxtown Hill, near
Stroudsburg, the originator of the scheme,
is in the Monroe county jail in default of
$100 bail, while Louis G. Tyreman, a poul-
try breeder, is happy in the solution of
the loss of thirty fowls. He had been
missing chickens with regularity and set
a watch only to see one of his flock skid
across the chicken yard. Investigation
showed Serfass baited hooks with worms
or corn, threw them into the chicken yard
and when the fowls became hooked simply
dragged them away.
—Two dogs owned by Steuben Thomas,
of Maple Lake, near Moscow, Lackawanna
county, were badly wounded and clawed
on Saturday, in a fight with a large ani-
mal believed to be the wild Indian leep-
ard that escaped from Red Bank, N. J,
some days ago. Thomas, who fired a
charge from his shot-gun at the animal,
said he saw the beast not far from his
home and that it was about six feet in
length, had a striped body and a long tail.
Moscow is in the farming country, and the
news of the appearance of a leopard cre-
ated intense excitement.
—That rum runners ‘toting” guns
should be shown no mercy was the opin-
ion expressed to the constables of Wash-
ington county by Judge Erwin Cummins,
in criminal court at Washington, Pa.
While not encouraging the use of weap-
ons by officers where liquor violators car-
ry guns, Judge Cummins intimated that
rum runners with weapons could only
blame themselves if they became targets
for bullets. “Self preservation is the first
law of nature,” said Judge Cummins, “and
a rum runner cornered can be considered
a potential gunman if he has a weapon.
And a gunman’s life is not worth that of
any good officer.” -
—High tribute was paid Mrs. Mary L.
Kirby, telegraph block operator at Port
Allegheny, Pa., on the Buffalo Division of
the Pennsylvania Railroad, when on Au-
gust 1 she had the honor of being the first
woman employee of the Buffalo division to
be retired on a pension. Mrs. Kirby has
worked under seven superintendents dur-
ing her forty years’ service on the road,
commencing her railroad career at South
Wales on October 6, 1887. Later she work-
ed at Keating Summit, being transferred
in 1903 to Port Allegheny. She learned
telegraphy during her spare momeuts
while teaching school in Wentworth coun-
ty, and Edmonton, Michigan.
—Miss Jessie Mix, a seventeen-year-old
Smethport girl, has been recommended to
the Carnegie Hero Award Commission for
recognition as the result of the rescue of
a five-year-old child from drowning. Miss
Mix saw the child slip from a rock, fall
into a deep pool and although unable te
swim she plunged into the stream and
seized the child. Then unable to remain
above the surface, she stood on the creek
bed and held the child above her head, be-
ing completely submerged herself. A man
passing hurried to the scene and recov-
ered the child without at first realizing
the rescuer was under the water. He then
pulled ‘Miss Mix to the shore in an uncon-
scious condition.
—When she failed to buy back her
twelve-year-old daughter, from whom she
had been separated for six years, Mrs. Kd-
ward Cooks, of near Connellsville, on Sat-
urday filed habeas corpus proceedings to
get the child. It is contended by Mrs.
Cooks that Anna Elizabeth Chain, her
daughter, has been forced to peddle moon-
shine for Mr. and Mrs. John Yousko, of
Upper Tyrone township. Mrs. Cooks al-
leges that Yousko was arrested on a charge
of violating the liquor laws, and that the
child was forced to sell liquor. It appears
in the petition that a deal was made for
Anna Elizabeth, but when the money was
forthcoming the price was increased until
the mother refused to meet the demand.
—Mrs. William Seiple Sr. of Easton,
aged 60 years, en route to Clearfield to vis-
it her son William, in charge of the Dodge
agency at that place, was almost instantly
killed, and her daughter, Mrs. Walter
Headley and her eleven-year-old son were
painfully injured at 2:15 o'clock last
Thursday afternoon, when the sedan in
which they were riding skidded on the wet
pavement of the William Penn highway
one mile west of Mill Creek and turned
over three times. Mrs. Headley was driv-
ing the car when one of the wheels drop-
ped into a shallow gutter along the road.
When she attempted to steer the machine
back onto the highway, it skidded and
rolled to the edge of a wheat field. Mrs.
Seiple was thrown clear of the wreckage,
but her skull was crushed and her body
cut and bruised.
—Ray Hammond, seventeen years of age,
and Louis McGovern, eighteen, erstwhile
society youths of Johnstown, Pa., were
saved from a year’s sentence in the Atlan-
ta penitentiary by the timely appearance
of McGovern's father, Joseph W. McGov-
ern, civil engineer for the Bethlehem Steel
company of Johnstown and known as a
designer of golf courses, at Norfolk, Va.
The youths, who admitted robbing the
treasury box in a Catholic church on the
Fort Monroe military reservation, were pa-
roled in the custody of the elder McGov-
ern, who took them to Johnstown Sunday
night. The boys said they committed the
robbery because they were hungry. The
elder McGovern told court officials the
youths had left home several weeks ago
and since that time he had knewn nothing
of their whereabouts.