Berni Bithoms
. INK SLINGS.
* «If the trial of former Attorney
General Daugherty fails to result in
‘conviction the verdict ought to be that
Scotch ~ classie, “guilty but not
proven.”
—The further they probe into the
Hall-Mills murder mystery the more
evidence accumulates to give rise to
the thought that the departed rector
wasn’t the only one of his congrega-
tion who found the pasture in De-
Russey’s lane worth jumping a fence
or two to get into.
—Next week fall will be here. That
means the prologue to four months of
drab, dreary days of whistling winds
and drifting snows—except for those
who are going to sneak off to Florida.
Gosh, how we abhor the thought of it.
Surely this expression should qualify
us for membership in the Grand
United Order of Joy Killers.
—Listen Mr. Voter. You're to for-
get all about the fact that Joe Grundy
wants to own a Governor and that Bill
Vare wants to be boss of Pennsylva-
nia. What you are to do is vote for
Fisher and Vare to save the “protec-
tive tariff.” Isn’t it the bunk? What
is the “protective tariff” doing FOR
the farmers, the miners and the
laborers of Centre county?
—The Watchman’s columns are
open to all self respecting Republicans
who might feel that their conscience
would be eased by a public explana-
tion of their intention to vote for
Vare. We will be glad to publish any
communication on this subject sent us,
without comment and with omission
of the name of the explainer, if de-
sired. We-are anxious to know if
there is a real reason why any one of
them should support a candidate
whom John Fisher, their candidate
for Governor, said has no other plat-
form than “a beer mug.”
—Governor Pinchot’s long awaited
pronouncement as to what he purposes
doing in the campaign in Pennsylva-
nia this fall is published in another
column of this issue. Those of our
‘readers who will have the privilege of
voting in the State’ in November
should not fail to read it. The Gov-
ernor has quoted Mr. Mellon, Mr.
Fisher, Senator Pepper and Senator
Reed, showing what each one of this
quartet of eminent Republicans
‘thought of Vare as a prospective nom-
inee of their party prior to the June
primary. They still think the same
of him, but they are asking you to
vote for him in November because
they are ready to stultify themselves
to gain selfish ends and think you are
‘as loose in principle as they. If you
.are, vote for Vare.
- —Out in the Pine Glenn region of
‘Centre county, last Sunday afternoon,
We saw a lone farmer hauling in
ng in oats.
into the hinterland we had been ap-
prised of the fact that a woman for
whom we have much respect was can-
ning tomatoes. Always the Third
Commandment has been the anchor to
the windward which we have hoped
would save the sanctity of the Sab-
bath day from modernism. Being
somewhat of a farmer we know why
the agrarian resident of Burnside
township was getting his oats into the
barn. There was real need for that.
‘There might have been some reason
why the lady had to can tomatoes on
Sunday, but there was none—abso-
lutely none—for our having made the
garage boy inflate tires and give us
gas in order that we might roll over
‘the country and report how others des-
ecrate the Sabbath. It’s an involved
problem, folks, this matter of Sunday
observance and we want to watch our
own steps before we dissertate on
those our fellows are taking.
SA
—Since the Rev. H. J. Collins, pas-
tor of the A. M. E. church, Bellefonte,
asked us a fair question in his com-
munication published in last week's
Republican, we shall answer it: We
don’t believe that our “colored breth-
ren” have anything to do with the
making of the weather and if they
did they’d make a damnable mess of
it. We do believe that the Rev. Col-
lins, whom those for whose judgment
we have considerable respect say can
preach a good sermon and sing well
too, doesn’t know what he is talking
about some of the times. The Watch-
man is not apologizing for anything
it said about its “colored brethren” or
Rev. Collins’ “new Afro-American
citizens.” It knows the former better
than he does. It has lived on friendly,
helpful relations with them for many
years. It has made annual cash con-
tributions to their church, of which he
is pastor, for more than forty years
and it had no thought of making a
butt of them when it stated that it
was no wonder that it rained the day
of their church picnic. We don’t know
why, but it always rains the day they
take their annual outing. In fact it
has been so consistently so for
years that everybody looks for rain
that day. This being the fact, we
present our compliments to the Rev.
Collins and advise him that some years
ago the A. M. E. church had a pastor
who came dangerously near becoming
a smart Aleck because he had a little
more education than the average. Also,
we might inform him that “Mr. Meek”
didn’t write the “two sentences” in
question, didn’t know they were in the
Watchman and would never have seen
the blubber about them in the Repub-
lican had not his attention been called
te it two days after its appearance.
protection.”
A. ion
Demat
VOL. 71.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. SEPTEMBER 17. 1
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION,
Protective Tariff as an Issue.
The Republican managers who are
trying to make protective tariff the
campaign issue in Pennsylvania this
year reveal a meager understanding
of the subject and little knowledge of
the history of politics in this country.
Since the end of the Civil war every
Democratic victory has been won on
that issue. It is true that Mark
Hanna projected it into the contest of
ed President. But the question that
influenced the result was not protec-
tive tariff. It was the gold standard
and the agency of achievement was
the “slush fund.” If the Democratic
party had not been split on the cur-
rency question and the banks and
predatory corporations had been less
liberal in contributions Mr. Bryan
might have been successful.
The first Democratic victory after
the Civil war was the election of a
majority in the House of Representa- !
tives in 1874. The most important
was the election of Grover Cleveland
in 1884 and the issue in both cases was
protective tariff. The Garfield tariff :
was then in force and the Democratic
platfcrm declared “we denounce the
abuses of the existing tariff,” and |
“demand that Federal taxation shall |
be exclusively for public purposes and |
shall not exceed the needs of the gov-
ernment, economically administered.”
The Republican platform demanded |
that “the imposition of duties on for- |
eign imports shall be made, “not for
revenue only; but so that in raising
the necessary revenues of the govern-
ment such duties shall be so levied as
to afford security for our diversified |
industries and protection to the rights
and ‘wages of the laborer.”
During the first Cleveland admin-
istration an unsuccessful attempt was |
made to reduce the tariff rates, not
exactly to a revenue basis, but by a
horizontal cut which would have pro-
vided ample revenue and abundant
The Harrison adminis- :
tration followed and the Garfield tariff |
continued to loot the people’s pocket
books. In 1892 the Democratic plat-
form boldly proclaimed: “We de- |
nounce Republican protection as a
jority of the American people for the
Benet of 8 ~The Republican
hy orm. ‘of that) id “We. ye-
tection. * *. * We denounce the
efforts of the Democratic majority of
stroy our tariff laws piecemeal.” The
Democrats had attempted during the
previous session te cut the rates on
necessaries of life.
As stated above the tariff question
had no influence on the minds of
voters in the election of 1896. The
Democratic convention had committed
the candidate to the “free and unlim-
ited coinage of silver” and the “slush
fund” contributed by monopolies,
banks and corporations bought the
election for the Republican candidate.
It was the first time in the history of
the country that money attenmpted to
control an election for President and
the people didn’t know how to meet
such an antagonist. The seed then
sown developed into full flower in the
primary elections in Pennsylvania
and Illinois this year. But it
didn’t dismay the Democracy. The
public didn’t realize the full meas-
ure of evil concealed in this innovation
but the Democratic party held to its
principles courageously and consis-
tently.
Theodore Roosevelt was elected
President on his personal popularity
and a private understanding with
Harriman and William H. Taft won
on his reputation for amiability and a
secret agreement with the Timber
trust. The tariff had no part in the
campaigns. The public had become
indifferent to extravagance and graft
which ran rampant. But meantime
the Democrats were gaining in favor
and in 1912 set themselves for a real
battle. In convention at Baltimore
they nominated that profound scholar
and statesman, Woodrow Wilson, and
declared unabated fidelity to princi-
ples. They proclaimed that “the high
protective tariff is the principal
cause of the unequal distribution of
wealth.” It ig a system of taxation
which makes the rich richer and the
poor poorer. Under its operation the
American farmer and laboring man
are the chief sufferers.
The Republican convention of that
year was held in Chicago and renomi-
nated Mr. Taft. “Drunk with the
spoils of office” and consumed with
greed for graft, they quarreled long
and bitterly dnd practically broke up
in a row. But they held tenaciously
to their tariff idol and declared that
“the Republican tariff policy has been
of the greatest benefit to the country,
developing our resources, diversifying
our industries’ and protecting our
workingmen against competition with
cheap labor abroad.” The lines thus
clearly drawn a fierce battle was
fought and Democracy won. In 1916
1896 and William McKinley was elect- |
mon sons
"the Democratic party renominated President and Solicitor General Dis-
Woodrow Wilson and reasserted its : agree.
' position on the tariff question. The J
Republicans with Judge Charles E.| The Solicitor General at Washing-
Hughes as their candidate again stood | ton, William D. Mitchell, is likely to
| upon their tariff policy, and tariff re- | lose his job. In a recent brief submit-
. form, as interpreted by the Democ- | ted to the Supreme court he declared |
! racy, won its biggest victory. | that “Congress has full power to re- |
| The Democracy of Pennsylvania quire corporations engaged in inter-
‘would gladly welcome another battle | State commerce to disclose their pri- |
| on that basis but it is out of the ques- | Vate affairs and business trans- '
| tion this year. President Coolidge’s | actions.” Professor William Z. Ripley, |
| tenure of office runs beyond the date | of Hartford, recently raised the point
lof another Congressional election. | Which brought out this official opinion
throughout the State.
fraud—a robbery of the great ma- |
affirm the American doctrine of pro-
the House of Representatives to de- |
‘There can be no decrease in rates
while he is in office and the tariff will
be the main issue then. This year the
people will determine whether or not
a man who has acquired wealth as a
favored municipal contractor and pow-
er as a manipulator of fraudulent
votes may buy a seat in the Senate
and corporate interests may spend
$1,800,000 to place a servile tool in the
office of Governor. That is more im-
portant than booze or tariff and the
men and women of Pennsylvania will
not condemn their sons and daughters
to perpetual political slavery and the
election of Vare and Fisher will work
that baneful result.
Preparing a Vigorous Campaign.
The Democratic State committee is
making preparations for a vigorous
campaign which will be opened within
a few days. Judge Bonniwell, candi-
date for Governor, and former Secre-
tary of Labor William B. Wilson,
nominee for Senator in Congress, will
tour the State and make addresses
wherever possible. The State Ex-
ecutive committee met in Philadelphia
yesterday (Thursday) to prepare an
itinerary which will include all the
cities, and centres. of population
In so far as
possible it will be arranged for all
the candidates to appear together.
But when that can not be accomplish-
ed they will travel separately. The
object is to get the message of the
Democracy to all the people.
While the Republican managers are
striving to dodge the principal issue
of the campaign the Democratic can-
i didates are eager to spread it before
‘the people. The records show that
| the Republican candidates spent $3,-
| 000,000 for their nominations and it
{ 18 believe oub!
sum was disbursed. That means, if
those candidates are elected, that pub-
i lic office in Pennsylvania is limited to
millionaires and that men without
great fortunes, however able and
worthy, are barred from public ser-
vice.
fundamental principle of equality in
opportunity. There is no equality in
an auction sale. Whatever the rich
man wants he gets in competition with
one of less resources.
If a man who has acquired wealth
as a favored municipal contractor and
power by manipulating fraudulent
| votes may buy a seat in the Senate,
iand one whose servility to corporate
interests induce such interests to pur-
chase for him a nomination for Gov-
ernor, the future of our government
is in jeopardy. The voters of Penn-
sylvania, intelligent men and women,
will not put the seal of their approval
jupon candidates thus chosen. The
men and women of Pennsylvania will
not condemn their sons and daughters
to a permanent political servitude and
the election of Judge Bonniwell, as
Governor, and William B., Wilson, as
Senator, will avert that great evil for
a long time. That is the issue of the
campaign.
—~Since Mr. John Fisher has es-
poused the cause of his fellow candi-
date, Vare, we presume he will soon
be giving an exhibition of eating the
pre-primary words he used when he
said that Vare was making “an entire
platform from a beer mug.”
——The people of Washington are
preparing to “make a drive” for a
right to vote. Recent developments in
Pennsylvania have probably led them
to imagine that voting is a profitable
industry.
——President Coolidge has express-
ed regret because of the defeat
Senator Lenroot. After the 1928
election Lenroot can reciprocate.
——The defeat of Lenroot in Wis-
consin makes a majority in the Senate
in opposition to the Coolidge admin-
istration a certainty.
——Congressman Vare protests
that he is still wringing “wet,” but
admits that he is muzzled for cam-
paign purposes.
——The Governor seems to be as
unsuccessful at deep sea fishing as in
politics this year.
~~ —Swimming the English channel
is becoming a popular out-door sport.
ns a 1t
ouble that enormous’
This is a direct denial of the
of |
of the Solicitor General, in a demand
for “publicity of all stocks held and
transferred, in fairness to stock hold-
ers.” The President had previously
expressed an opposite interpretation
of the law and it is not likely that he
will allow his subordinate freedom to
register the different view. :
President Coolidge, in discussing
this subject, expressed the opinion that
“it is the province of the States, rath-
er than the Federal government to
give the 20,000,000 stock holders of
the country a better insight into the
financial affairs of the corporations.”
This lip service to the cause of State
sovereignty was, of course, a subter-
fuge. The President and the man-
agers of his party are anxious to en-
courage the corporations to continue
their liberal contributions to the slush
fund and a promise of immunity from
investigation of their methods and
operations is entrancing music in their
ears. Senator Butler needs such
soothing appeals to monopoly in his
campaign for re-election.
In his brief to the court Solicitor
General Mitchell said “we conclude
that the power of Congress to require
the disclosure by corporations engag-
‘ed in interstate commerce of informa-
, tion respecting their private affairs is
not limited to cases where some spe-
cific legislation is under consideration”
and added “such information may be
called for in the form of periodical
reports and that an appropriate
method of obtaining such information
be, if Congress requires it, complete
information, and if the corporations in
question are engaged in other activi-
ties information respecting them may
be properly demanded.” This must
have given a rude shock to the slush
fund party managers.
General McCarl had $850 rugs put in.
his office. Have they no sense of pro-
portions ?
Governor Pinchot’s Wise Action.
The withdrawal of Governor Pinchot
from the Labor party ticket fulfills
the highest expectations of his best
friends. At the May primary Mr.
! Pinchot was nominated by that party
for the office of Senator in Congress.
If he had remained a candidate he’
probably would have polled a consid-
erable vote, mainly believers in pro-
hibition and friends of labor. His
withdrawal opens an opportunity to
the men and women of Pennsylvania
of that frame of mind to vote for Wil-
liam B. Wilson, the capable and con-
scientious candidate of the Democratic
party. It is inconceivable that any of
them will vote for William S. Vare,
and unlikely that they will help Vare
by refraining from voting.
In withdrawing from the Labor |
ticket Governor Pinchot frankly de- |
clares the reason which influenced |
him. After quoting Senator Pepper’s |
statement that “Vare’s leadership is
a sham” and “Vare must go;” W. L.
{ Mellon’s declaration that the voters
are to “determine if Mr. Vare or the
people are to runthe State;” John S.
Fisher’s charge that Vare represented
nothing but “a beer mug” and Senator
~Reed’s opinion that “Pennsylvania in-
dustries will receive a back-set if
| Vare is sent to the Senate,” the Gov-
| ernor adds; “Vare represents all that
is worst in Pennsylvania politics.
{ Fraud and the protection of criminals
are the strength of the Vare organiza-
: tion.” No sane mind will question the
: adequacy of the indictment.
is is admirable, of course, as far
{as it goes. It ought to and will help
| William B. Wilson amazingly, for
.clean-minded voters will refuse to
| abase themselves by supporting a
candidate for such an office with such a
character defined by the leaders of his
own party. But the Governor might
have gone a step farther and vastly in-
creased his service to the public and
his contribution to good government.
He said boldly that he will not vote
for Vare. He ought to have said that
he will vote for Wilson and urge all
his personal, political and prohibition
friends to pursue the same course. It
was a great chance for a “crusader
for righteousness” to score heavily.
——A Belgian woman recently had
her tongue cut out for slandering her
neighbors. It is to be hoped her ex-
perience will have an admonitory in-
926. NO. 37.
Paddle and Never Say Die.
Two frogs fell into a bucket of cream
And paddled to keep afloat,
But one soon tired and sank to rest
With a gurgling in his throat.
The other paddled away all night
And not a croak did he utter,
And with the coming morning of light,
He rode on an island of butter.
The flies came thick to his island home,
And made him a breakfast snappy;
The milkmaid shrieked and upset the pail,
And froggie hopped away happy.
A moral the hustling man finds in this
rhyme,
And hastens at once to apply,
Success will come at the most difficult
time ,
If we paddle and never say die.
—Author Unknown.
But Who Created Federal Reserve?
From the Pittsburgh Posts
Ignoring the distress among farm-
ers in the West and the general cry
for less interference by Government
in private business, Representative
Wood, of Indiana, chairman of the Re-
publican Congressional campaign com-
mittee, shows anew the party Bour-
bonism that never forgets and never
learns. Having deceived the country
at one time into believing that the Re-
publican party is the only agency of
prosperity, there is the same old at-
tempt to brazen through on this de-
vice, ignoring all other issues, such
as those of the use of Republican
slush funds in the primaries of Penn-
sylvania and Illinois. Prosperity is
the issue, says Brother Wood, who
continues: “Why change to the Demo-
crats, who in 1914, under the Under-
wood tariff, brought about soup kitch-
ens in our cities?” Can Pittsburgh-
ers recall any soup kitchens in that
year, and if they can, wherein did
they differ from those of the Roose-
velt panic of 1907, the long period of
depression under the Taft administra- |
tion and the hard times of preceding
Republican administrations? Every
financial panic in this country for
more than sixty years came under Re-'
publican tariff laws. It was the Me-
Kinley tariff law that was on the
books during the 1833 panic that was
inherited by the Cleveland adminis-
tration from the Harrison Republican
regime. $0
h at the at-
| SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Attorney Leo. F. Sessong, of Carnegie,
was disbarred by Common Pleas Judge
Rowand for embezzling funds from sev-
eral Carnegie building and loan associa-
tions.
—Peter Cawley, aged 33, of North Scran-
ton, was killed when he was dragged into
the shaft of the Leggetts Creek mine in
trying to stop a runaway trip of mine cars.
—The body of William J. Jones, missing
Columbia riverman, was found on the edge
of an island in the Susquehanna River
about half a mile below the dam at Holt-
wood.
—Coming in contact with a high tension
line of the Pennsylvania Light and Power
company, Fisher McLane, George Hale and
Harry Engels, all of Castanea, Clinton
county, were electrocuted on Tuesday
morning.
-—Mrs. Della Rilling, widow of John S.
Rilling, of Erie, former public service com-
missioner, is named sole beneficiary of his
estate in a will filed for probate last Fri-
day afternoon. The estate is valued at
$65,000, according to inventory.
—Walking into the bedroom of his home
at New Castle late Sunday afternoon,
Francis A. Humme, 53 years old, ended his
life by shooting himself through the heart
with a shot gun. Members of the family
who had heard the shot rushed to the room
and found the body. No motive was learn-
od.
—Because a telephone pole leaned over
the highway Connie Marian, of Mt. Car-
mel, asks $21,800 damages from the com-
pany controlling the pole. He claims that,
due to its position his motor car struck
the pole and was demolished in an accident
in Centralia, February 23, 1925. He asks
$1,800 damages for his automobile and $20,-
000 damages for personal injuries.
—When Andrew Holzmann, 46 and pen-
niless, of Seattle, was arrested as a dan-
gerous and suspicious person in Altoona,
last Tuesday, he told the police he had re-
quested the State National Bank at Sno-
qualine, in Washington, to telegraph him
$75. The police paid no attention to it.
On Wednesday evening Holzmann commit-
ted suicide by hanging himself in his cell
at city hall. On Friday the money was
received by an Altoona bank. It was used
to. defray his funeral expenses.
—Crushed between two trains in the
Lewistown freight yards, James Roush, 52
through freight conductor of Millertown,
Pa., was probably fatally injured on Sun-
day morning. Mr. Roush’s crew was en-
gaged in making up a train when he was
caught between his own and a west bound
freight train that was passing through at
the time. Mr. Roush was rushed to the
‘Lewistown hospital where an examination
disclosed punctures of both lungs. Lack
‘of clearance between the two trains prob-
ably caused the accident. :
—Recommendations that the voters of
€learfield county be given an opportunity
‘to vote on a proposed increase of indebt-
edness for the building of a new court
house and repairs to the county jail were
‘contained in a report made to Judge A. R.
Chase by a committee of representative
citizens appointed by him last February.
The proposed increase in indebtedness
would amount to approximately $500,000,
providing $400,000 for the erection of a
new court house and the remaining $100,-
_p—Government. employees. . who. disposed
have had their expense accounts cut menltes & the tariff ges, wl
. are raising a fuss because comptroller P ; >
But real economists |
tempt either to blame o verything up-
on politics or to credit prosperity
: wholly to any party. Recurring again |
to the fact that business men are more
000 for repairs to the county jail.
—Mrs. Mary D. Camwell, former clerk in
the Midland Savings and Trust company,
5 | at Midland, Beaver county, convicted in
; ir of eh artonint in connection ‘with
who find | 2 shortage in school funds totaling $5000,
, the Republican party a means of, ob- | was sentenced on Monday by Judge Wil-
. taining special privileges, we ape! re- | liam A. McConnel to serve from five to
‘minded that, after all, the squrces of | fen years in the western penitentiary. Her
' prosperity in the United Sates are , counsel filed notice of appeal to the Super-
not found in artificial laws, but in the dor court and posted bond in the sum of
natural resources of the country and $5000, and Mrs. Camwell will enjoy her
| the ingenuity and energy of the peo- | liberty until the appeal is decided, which
le. Here, for instance, is the Pitts- 1 may be anywhere from six months to a
Duh district with a wealth of coal, ' year. me
but held back for years in that indus- | Mrs. Laura Berry, of Homestead, filed
try by Governmental discrimination | suit in common pleas court in Allegheny
against it in the matter of rates for | county, on Saturday, against the Pennsyl-
Lake shipments. The function of the !vania railroad and railroad detectives for
Government is to keep the opportun- | $20,000 damages in connection with the
ities for prosperity open to all upon ; death of her husband, Samuel Berry. The
an equal basis. Even if that ideal | woman in her statement of claim asserts
! should be reached, there still would be | that Berry was shot to death June 13,
' economic problems to solve, the chief | 1925 by Harry W. Smith, a railroad @e-
of them being how to prevent the de- ! fective, while he was either trying to ar-
pressions that have come periodically | rest Berry or have him move off the rail-
from the beginning of the race. road tracks, in Homestead. Smith and
i The failure of every political party | William Jamison, another railroad officer,
. fluence on this side of the sea.
to prevent bad times at certain per-
iods seems to expose the claims-of any
of them to being inventor of good
times. Both good and bad in the
main may come not by reason of them.
In a business bulletin issued in 1924
by the Cleveland Trust Company the
score of the Democratic and Republi-
can parties in respect of good times
and bad was declared equal. Con-
sidering a 40-year period it found that
in that time Republican administra-
tions had been at the head of the Na-
tional Government twenty-four years
and Democratic sixteen. Of the Re-
publican administration it found that
fifty-five per cent. of the months had
been months of business prosperity
and forty-five per cent. of them
months of depression. Precisely the
same percentages were found in ex-
amination of the sixteen years of
Democratic administrations under
consideration—fifty-five per cent of
the months prosperous and forty-five
per cent. marked by depression. In
the entire 40-year period, irrespec-
tive of whether Democrats or Repub-
licans were in control, the principle
of the protective tariff remained in
operation, even though the Democrats
may have been pleased to call it one
“for revenue only.” As emphasized
by President Wilson, “there cannot be
trade in the United States so long as
the - established fiscal policy of the
Federal Government is maintained,”
and he added that he knew of no
thoughtful Democrat who contemplat-
ed a program of free trade. The Dem-
ocratic demand on this point is sim-
ply that no unreasonably high rates
be allowed, such as would amount to
giving some business interests virtu-
ally the privilege of preying upon con-
sumers,
——An expert burglar doesn’t wait
for an exposed latchstring to enter a
house in which he believes there is
plenty of loot.
—When you see it in the Watchman
it can be relied on.
with Smith at the time, it is asserted, age
named as defendants with the railroad
company.
—The T. W. Philips Gas and Oil com-
pany brought in a gas gusher on property
belonging to T. M. Kurtz just northwest
of Walston, Jefferson county, late Friday
that promises to be a record-breaker.
Although definite figures have not been
given out by the Philips company, it is
said that the well registered more than
2,000,000 cubic feet in the initial test.
Rumor places the output as high as three
millions. The well is in practically new
territory. There are several good pro-
ducers some distance west of the new well
but the field is practically virgin territory
and the big well will probably result in a
wild scramble for leases in that particular
section.
—Two young men fleeing from a police-
man after violating a traffic rule, were kill-
ed at Parnassus late Saturday night when
their automobile was struck by the Buf-
falo express on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
R. G. Baggus, 20, met instant death, and
Arthur Stinger, 18 died in a hospital. Both
lived in the Pittsburgh district. The youths
had driven past a traffic signal set against
them, near the crossing, and a patrolman,
commandeering a passing machine, start-
ed in pursuit. The policeman said he saw
the approaching train and tried to warn
the boys by blowing his whistle, but that
his act only served to make them increase
their speed.
—The post office department at -Wash-
ington, D. C, through Edward C. Brent,
post master at Lewistown, has asked for
bids on a ten year lease for a room in that
place with 3,000 feet of floor space to date
from July 1st, 1927, and to be used as a
post office to succeed the one now located
in the Masonic temple, It was the idea of
many that Lewistown’s new federal build-
ing would have been in service before this
date. When the general appropriation bill
for financing federal buildings was passed
Lewistown was one of the three towns ful-
ly meeting requirements. They had their
site purchased eight years ago. The gov-
ernment paid $16,500 for it and has since
been offered $60,000 by Henry Krentzman
from whom it was purchased.