INK SLINGS. |
* ——Governor Smith has set up the
target in plenty of time for his en-
emies to get the range. J
-—Well, are you still sticking to
that new leaf you turned on January 1,
or have you slipped already.
—If Col. House can keep quiet
under the lashing that Carter Glass
is giving him he merits the soubriquet
of “the silent Texan.”
——The city of Philadelphia has
collected more than a quarter of mil-
lion dollars in tolls on the Delaware
river bridge and the city never needed
money more.
——It is gratifying to know that
the League of Nations has entered up-
on the New Year in unimpaired
health and strength and machinery in
perfect order.
—Out of twenty-two news articles
on the front page of a leading met-
ropolitan journal, Monday morning,
twelve recorded terrible calamities of
one sort or another.
—Bellefonte has been broadcasting
all week and it evidently hasn’t been
“hot air” that has been pouring into
the Mike, for there has been no notice-
able change in the temperature.
'——Congressman La Guardis, of
New York, accuses Secretary Mellon
of discriminating in favor of Pennsyl-
vania breweries in levying fines. Well,
Pennsylvania brewers are helpful in
politics.
——1It is said that the Republican
machine will support ballot reform
legislation during the present session
of the General Assembly. The horse
having been stolen there is no further
need of locks on the stable door.
—We have a suspicion that the
family over in Huntingdon whose
head writes that they “enjoy the
Watchman from the Ink Slings to the
market reports, but not its politics,”
is another monument to our failure as
an evangelist in the gospel of Democ-
racy.
‘—Yes, thank you, we saw the new
moon over our right shoulder and then
slipped on the ice on High street,
kissed a concrete pavement with the
back of the old bean and had a fleet-
ing glimpse of more stars than we
ever knew could be in the firmament.
That's the kind of luck seeing the new
moon over one’s right shoulder brings
to this one.
—We have read with much pleasure
and gratification the installment of
Dr. Colfelt’s autobicgraphy in this
issue of the Watchman. It so ably
and brilliantly presents thoughts on
Prohibition that we have been trying
to express for years that we hope all
of our readérs who have misunder-
stood our attitude and criticised it will
read what one whose motive is beyond
question has to say on the subject.
—The Governor’s parting fling at
Vare was to word his certificate of
election to the Senate as no other
document of that kind in Pennsylvania
has ever been written. Instead of
using the regular form of saying the
«candidate “has been duly chosen by
the qualified electors,” ete., the Gov-
ernor said “William S. Vare appears
to have been chosen.” A jolt more or
less means little to Bill. He got used
to them when he rode an ash cart over
the cobble-stones on Philadelphia
streets.
—Leon Sazie, French writer of con-
siderable note, is out to shatter an-
other treasured bit of history. He
«claims that French Basques came
over here to catch cod-fish long before
Columbus ever thought of sheiking the
‘Queen of Spain into hocking her jew-
els to buy the Nina, the Pinta and the
‘Santa Maria for his globe-trotting ex-
pedition. We never knew the Basques
were so keen on fish before. We al-
ways thought them to be long on
sheep. But we get Sazie’s idea, be-
cause the lure of the tricky trout has
led us into so many fool exploratory.
pilgrimages.
_—According to the Hon. Carter
‘Glass Col. House was three thousand
miles away when the Federal Reserve
.act was passed. According to the
Colonel’s memoirs, as amplified by
Professor Seymour, of Yale, it was
House who not only framed but assed
the Act. Glass can’t understand how
the Colonel could have had anything
“to do with it when he was so far away.
Waiving the possibility of his having
done it by absent treatment he might
have accomplished the feat like Samp-
son won the battle of Santiago. You
will recall that Sampson was eleven
miles away when Schley was sinking
‘Cervera’s fleet, yet Sampson claimed
he did it.
Again we want to sing a few
lines of praise of Bellefonte’s volun-
teer firemen. At seven minutes after
four o'clock yesterday morning we
sent in an alarm. At twelve minutes
after four the Undines were on the
scene with a pumper and hose truck.
At such an unseemly hour of a winter
morning such speed in responding to a
call is out of all reasonable demand of
service from a volunteer department,
yet it was made and we know it be-
cause we timed it. As we said in this
column last week everything is rela-
tive. At moments of great concern,
like those of yesterday were, time
seems longer. Often when we are
prone to say “it was ages before the
firemen got there” in reality it was a
‘miraculously short time. Just as it
seemed to us fifteen or twenty minutes
-and turned out to be but five.
VOL. 72.
BELL
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
EFONTE,
PA. JANUARY 14. 1927.
NO. <<.
Investing Money in Politics.
Governor Pinchot said:
run as a part of the business of cer-
tain great moneyed interests. These
the same purpose, to make money.
But instead of property they buy men
the expense of the people.”
been exempt from taxation.
encouragement to investors in that
line. It may have been a wise course to
adopt then but has long since ex-
hausted its merit for the reason that
the advantage of such helpfulness
ceased. The manufacturing corpora-
tions became so strong as to dominate
the industrial life of the State and
oppress rather than promote the com-
mon good. It became an evil rather
than a helpful influence. :
In the recent primary campaign in
this State Joseph R. Grundy, president
of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’
association, contributed $400,000 to
the slush fund of one of the candidates
for Governor for the reason, as he
stated under oath, that the opposing
candidate favored imposing a moder-
ate tax on corporation capital. It has
been estimated that such a tax would
produce revenue of $10,000,000 a year,
which would have come from the
treasuries of the corporations. In
four years that would have amounted
to $40,000,000, which Grundy hoped
to save.
The expenses of the State govern-
ment must be paid. It should be the
aim of these administering it to make
the burden as nearly equal upon the
people as possible. The corporation
tax would have fallen on people able
to pay and might have relieved men
and women not so fortunate of that
amount of taxation on coal and other
necessaries of lifée.. But Mr. Grundy
had no interest in the other people.
His concern was for himself and his
associates in the Manufacturers’ asso-
ciation and he invested $400,000 in
politics to make a much larger sum.
Ses ——— pees ——
———1It may be remarked that Joe
Grundy has lost no prestige in pcsi-
tics by the election of John S. Fisher
to the office of Governor.
Intervention Openly Avowed.
The reasons which influenced the
President’s officiai spokesman to
complain against the attitude of the
newspapers of the country ten days
ago have been revealed. The admin-
istration had determined to complete
an outrage already begun against the
people of Nicaragua and it was hoped
an appeal to the patriotism of the
press would silence opposition. The
first step in the movement aroused
considerable protest. It consisted in
the dispatch of a force of marines,
under pretense of protecting American
interests, to support a bogus govern-
ment which was negotiating with New
York capitalists to sell all the rail-
road property of Nicaragua, presum-
ably for a selfish purpose.
Against this palpable attempt to
interfere in the affairs of a weak but
friendly nation the newspapers
promptly protested and the official
spokesman assured them that there
would be no real intervention and that
the force dispatched was only suffi-
cient to protect’ the property of
American citizens in Nicaragua. Sena-
tor Borah, chairman of the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations, after
an inquiry into the subject, declared
that no property of Americans in
Nicaragua is in jeopardy and that
the government of Nicaragua, which
has been recognized by the Washing-
ton administration, was organized and
is being fostered by residents of
Washington who are not Nicaraguans.
Since the mask of the administra-
tion has been cast aside and interven-
tion openly declared. On Friday last
several war ships were sent into the
waters of Nicaragua and an additional
force of marines landed on her soil.
The destination of the ships and the
orders of their officers are still held as
secrets but the purpose to protect the
bogus government of Diaz has been
practically avowed. If the press will
silently assent to the perpetration of
this outrage we shall be greatly sur-
prised. It may be said that the Presi-
dent has power to do what he likes
with the navy and authority to send
the marines anywhere. But a misuse
of the power may be rebuked never-
theless.
————— t————
——Congress reassembled on Mon-
day and signs point to an unusually
busy and somewhat exciting session.
| Governor Pinchot’s “Swan Song.”
In his message to the Legislature |
“For many | an almost accurate record of his four
years the politics of this State has been ! years in office as Governor, and “then
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Governor Pinchot’s “swan song” is
some.” It is an arraignment of the
corrupt machine which governed the
interests invest in politics as they do | State before his election and aspires
in mills and mines and banks, and for ; to resume control when his term ex-
pires. He did most of the things dur-
| ing the period which he promised to
and votes, favors and legislation. | do and enjoyed the labor expended. He
What these interests buy is noninter- | drove the licensed saloon out of the
ference, tax exemption, extortionate | State and tried to eliminate the hoot-
rates allowed public utilities and other | leggers. He cleaned up the “financial
special privileges for themselves at mess” but failed to remove the polit-
ical rottenness that has been fester-
For many years the manufacturing ' ing for years and is likely to continue
corporations of Pennsylvania have 'so long as rich men are willing to pay
When | corrupt politicians for legislative and
manufacturing was an infant industry | administrative favors.
the policy was adopted as a means of |
Governor Pinchot’s. administration
of his office deserves approval because
of the good he achieved. But if he
had directed his energies to an en-
forcement of all the laws alike he
might have accomplished more to
merit approval. Four years ago, as at
present, the greatest evil in the public
life of the Commonwealth was cor-
rupt elections. Mr. Pinchot knew this
as well as any other man. But he
failed to avail himself of the power he
then enjoyed to correct it. He was
urged to do so just as he was urged
to “build up a personal machine.”
Properly he refrained from doing one
and neglected to do the other though
he must have known that if elections
were honestly conducted and returned
the other evils would correct them-
selves.
In retiring to private life Governor
Pinchot carries with him the bitter
and deep-seated hatred of a wide
circle of political crooks and profes-
sional criminals. But he will be able
to bear up against that burden for he
enjoys the admiration of many and
the respect of more of the opposite
element of the people of the State.
And both in his successes and failures
he points the way to his successor in
office to avoid mistakes. If Mr. Fisher
earnestly desires ballot reform he will
press it on the Legislature at the |
beginning rather than at the close of
his term. He can get anything he |
wants along that or any other line.
from the first session of the Legisla-
ture after his inauguration.
——We have no authority to speak
for the President but as a progressive
newspaper feel it our duty to say that
the “third term” myth has disap-
peared from view.
Reed’s Challenge Accepted.
The promptness with which Senator
Caraway, of Arkansas, accepted the
challenge of Senator Reed, of Penn-
sylvania, to investigate elections in
the South fairly dazed the Pittsburg
“strip” politician. In addressing a
group of negroes Senator Reed de-
clared that colored men in the South
were unlawfully prevented from vot-
ing, and that if Southern Senators
voted against the admission of Vare
to the seat he bought and paid for
there will be reprisals in the form of
a Congressional investigation. In
reply to this Senator Caraway said:
“If that is Senator Reed’s purpose I
must serve notice on him that he
must get ready to do what he wants
to with the South because we are not
going to ratify that sort of a bargain.”
For many years Republican leaders
in Congress have been employing this
or similar threats to perpetrate civic
and political outrages and it is re-
freshing to feel that the southern Sen-
ators have determined to resent it.
Frequently the threat has taken the
form of a movement to apportion
representation in Congress upon votes
cast rather than population. Since it
was discovered that a greater number
neglect to vote in the North than in
the South that threat has been aban-
doned and now Senator Reed has: dug
up and offered as a substitute the
statement made to an audience of |
colored men, no better informed than !
himself, that colored voters in the
South are frightened out of the fran-
chise.
In Pennsylvania, at the recent elec-
tion, though the Republican organiza-
tion expended nearly half a million
dollars in the work of creating inter
est in the contest less than fifty per
cent of the qualified voters cast their
votes. On the Democratic side hope-
. . '
lessness made voters indifferent. The '
Mellon family had assumed charge of
the campaign, which was interpreted
to mean the election was to be bought,
and yet only a fraction of voters went
to the polls. There may have been a
light vote cast in some parts of the
South, too, but the ratio of delinquents
was no greater anywhere than in
Pennsylvania outside “the neck” and
“the strip.”
——They’re going to have harmony
in the base-ball world even if it be
necessary to destroy the reputation
of every popular player.
Mr. Wilson Appeals to the Senate.
During the recent Senatorial cam-
paign William B. Wilson, Democratic
nominee, declared that if the signs in-
dicated that he were defeated by
fraud he would take an appeal to the
Senate. Aside from the abominable
bribery and corruption in the primary
campaign there has been revealed all
forms of corruption at the general
election in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh,
Schuylkill and Lackawanna counties.
In Philadelphia it has been shown that
more than 300 fraudulent votes were
cast in one precinct and there are in
the neighborhood of 1500 precinets in
the city. In Pittsburgh the corrupt
area is smaller but the ratio of evil
as great. In the smaller counties a
considerable number of frauds were
committed.
On Saturday last, in Washington,
Mr. Wilson fulfilled his promise to ap-
peal to the Senate. In his petition he
alleges his belief that he received a
majority of the legal votes cast. That
he carried fifty-five of the sixty-seven
counties of the State and that outside
of Philadelphia he carried the State by
59,392, and that if the votes cast for
him in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
had been counted and only legal votes
cast for Mr. Vare had been counted,
the returns would have shown a ma-
jority for him and he would have been
entitled to the certificate of election.
The petition was presented by Senator
Robinson, of Arkansas, Democratic
leader of the Senate, and is supported
by every Democrat in the body.
This action was supplemented on
Monday by a resolution to impound
the ballot boxes, “ballot return sheets,
voters’ check lists, tally sheets, regis-
tration lists and other records, books
and documents,” by the Slush Fund
committee of which Senator Reed, of
Missouri, is chairman. Senator Reed,
of Pennsylvania, who appears to be
attorney for Vare, professed to be
entirely satisfied with the trend of
events but is nevertheless trying to
commit the investigation to the Sena-
ate | Committee on Elections. The
seating of Wilson would convert the
Senate into a Democratic body and
in that committee while it is certain
no such thing is likely in the special
committee.
——— emma,
——The Democrats in Congress will
resume the effort for tax reduction
next week. The Republicans of the
Committee on Ways and Means
imagined they had bottled this ques-
tion for the session but they will be
wakened from their sleep.
Editor Dorworth Likely to Get Juicy
Plum in the Fisher Administration.
We know that Governor-elect John
S. Fisher has Charles E. Dorworth,
editor of the Republican, in mind for
a place in his administration.
Just what the position is to be we
are not prepared to say. Political
gossip on the street here, on’ Wed-
nesday, connected Mr. Dorworth’s
name with the office of Secretary of
the Commonwealth. That would be a
position most anyone would feel hon-
ored to have. It carries a salary of
$8,000 a year and is an important post
in the State government.
Early last fall we stated that Mr.
Dorworth had his eye on a member-
ship on the Public Service Commis-
sion. That job doesn’t afford quite
the same opportunity of being in the
lime light as that of Secretary of the
Commonwealth, but it carries a salary
of $10,000 a year and is for a longer
term.
As to whether Mr. Dorworth will
land either of these positions we know
not. However, it is reasonably cer-
tain that some nice plum is to fall
into his lap and it will be deserved.
He has long been a personal friend of
the incoming Governor, was an ardent
supporter of his short candidacy for
the office five years ago and managed
his campaign in this county very suc-
i cessfully last fall.
| Color is given to the probability
| that brother Dorworth is already
| “sitting pretty” by another rumor to
' the effect that he has taken up nego-
tiations with a former Bellefonte
newspaper man with a view to having
him return to assist in the publishing
of his paper.
——Senator Reed, of Pennsylvania,
welcomes the investigation of the re-
cent election about as the victim of
an execution welcomes the electrician
who starts the machinery.
——Senator Gould, of Maine, prac-
tically “owns the soft impeachment”
but protests it was his partners in the
enterprise who paid the $100,000 bribe
to the Canadian official.
——Mr. Mellon protests that he is
no party boss. He prefers the title
of “benevolent director” with power
to order everybody around.
The Wilson Petition.
From the Philadelphia Record.
“The Record,” a Democratic news-
paper and an ardent advocate of the
election of Ex-Secretary of Labor Wil-
son to the United States Senate, in
November last, has never claimed
that William S. Vare, certified to have
been elected by a plurality of 173,507
votes, won his credentials by fraud.
That claim is now formally made,
however, by Mr. Wilson in a petition
to the Senate which is bound to pre-
cipitate a searching investigation in-
to Pennsylvania election methods.
Congressman Vare’s friends profess
to welcome such an investigation.
Certainly it will be welcomed by all
honest citizens of this State, who,
witnessing year after year the de-
bauching of our elections on a whole-
sale scale, have found existing laws
inadequate and the Courts powerless
or unwilling to defend their rights
and safeguard the ballot-boxes.
Mr. Wilson in his petition cites
facts that are matters of common
knowledge in Pennsylvania and which,
we have reason to believe, are sus-
ceptible of legal proof under the probe
of a Senate committee. Our regis-
tration lists are padded with the
names of persons not resident in the
divisions where they are voted; of
minors, unnaturalized aliens and the
deceased, and of phantoms. Our elee-
tion boards in many divisions, are all
members of one party, and, operating
in the absence of watchers, or in the
presence only of watchers of their
own party, as corrupt as themselves,
they do what they will with the re
turns. Such majorities as were turn.
ed in for Vare in one-third of Phila-
delphia’s most populous election dis-
tricts, indicating in uncanny wunan-
imity of opinion on the part of the
voters, are inconsistent with known
probabilities. Even assuming that all
the voters in our zero divisions and
nearly all the voters in the near-zero
divisions wished to mark their ballots
for Vare, a considerable percentage of
them would be unable correctly to do
so. The fact doubtless is that thous-
ands of them were spared the trouble
of puzzling over cur complicated bal-
lot. The ballots were marked for
them— or not marked at all. When
a gang election board does the count-
ing what difference does it make how
the ballots were marked? ;
William B. Wilson is officially cred-
dted- with a -of “the votes-in
55 of Pennsylvania’s ‘67 counties. He
was defeated by the vote of Philadel-
phia, Pittsburgh and a few other cen-
tres of notorious political corruption.
It may be that he was cheated out of
more than 178,507 votes all told. 1t
may be that in wards so obviously and
vilely tainted with fraud that nobody
can tell what the genuine figures
should have been the Senate Com-
mittee on Elections will find it nec-
essary to throw out the entire return
as null and void. Where Vare will
stand if from his total are subtracted
the votes not actually cast for him,
or illegally cast for him, and if Wil-
son is given the votes properly mark-
ed for him by Democratic and inde-
pendent voters, no one can foretell.
William B. Wilson owed it to his
supporters and to the State to file the
petition presented to the Senate yes-
terday. Whether he shall be seated
or not, the revelations that will follow
should have a wholesome effect. “The
Record” congratulates him.
Turn on the Light.
From the Pittsburgh Post.
It may be that the American State
Department is pursuing the only
course open to it in dealing with Nie-
aragua, but the public cannot deter-
mine this without the facts, and these
the authorities at Washington seem
not yet to have furnished in the full
and connected manner necessary to
enlightenment. In this the State De-
partment injures itself. It leaves the
way open to the breeding of suspicion
that might not otherwise arise. In-
stead of taking the public fully into
its confidence and thereby holding dis-
cussion to the conditions, it permits
confusion due to the spreading of
rumors and conflicting reports.
At first the impression was given
that American marines were landed in
Nicaragua simply to protect Ameri-
can citizens. If it could be shown that
that was all there was to it, the De-
partment, of course, would have been
but performing its duty. Next came
the story that we had acted in ac-
cordance with the Monroe Doctrine.
Great Britain and Italy were afraid
that their interests in Nicaragua
would suffer by the revolutionary
troubles in the little country. Since
we do not allow powers on the other
hemisphere to send war-like expedi-
tions to this side, we may be forced
to do some policing in Central and
South America. Little as we may rel-
ish that we may have to do it on oc-
casion to be consistent. But reports
also persist that we are, in fact,
intervening in the domestic af-
fairs of Nicaragua through bolster-
ing a conservative government against
an attempt to establish a liberal one.
Meanwhile there are other impres-
sions sought to be given that our mili-
tary forces are being used in a way
to serve private American business in-
terests.
nn —— A etre enn
——Senator Pepper is a great lin-
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SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Jacob Whitenight a Nescopeck farmer,
ended his life with a shotgun.
—Thiel College, at Greenville, was given
$10,000 in the will of Charles W. Wattles.
—The Hanover & McSherrytown Water
Company has been sold to the North Amer-
ican Water Works Association of New
York.
—Andrew Ebright, for 30 years driver
and chauffeur for the Rescue Fire Com-
pany, at Lebanon, dropped dead while out
for a walk.
—Overcome by heat and smoke, when
the home of his parents, near Canoe Creek,
was destroyed by fire, Sunday night, Wil-
liam Douglass, Jr., 8, died of suffocation.
—The annual report of the Mifflin Coun-
ty Fair association, just issued, shows a
balance of $4102.51 in the treasury. This
is the first time in the history of the as-
sociation that it has not been in debt and
the stock never has paid a dividend.
—Results of surveys during the summer
of 1926 indicate that white pine blister
rust, a disease which is extremely destruc-
tive to young, white, 5-needled pines, is
still of comparatively rare occurrence in
Pennsylvania outside of Wayne county.
—William Lysinger, aged 82, died at his
home in Bedford as a result of bleod
poisoning which followed an operation
performed in Cumberland, Md., for the
removal of a needle from his side. How
the needle got into his body could not be
explained. His wife and one daughter
survive,
—-Kenneth Keller, an Altoona orchestra
leader, on Thursday was sentenced to eight
months in jail and fined $100 by Judge
Baldridge, on charges of involuntary man-
slaughter, driving an automobile while in-
toxicated and failing to give assistance. On
October 17 he ran down and killed George
W. Spotts, a street sweeper, in Altoona.
—Rufus Lowe, who one month ago cele-
brated his 100dth birthday anniversary is
dead at his home in York, Pa. In an in-
terview on his recent birthday he said
that he believed his “first 100 years of life
were the easiest.” He was York’s oldest
citizen. Death was caused by a complica-
tion of ailments which developed from a
fractured hip.
—~Charles Leitheiser, brakeman, of Har-
risburg, was killed and P. R. Fairman,
brakeman, and George W. Zellers, conduc-
tor, both of Harrisburg, were injured when
a west-bound Pennsylvania freight train
was wrecked near Huntingdon early last
Friday. Thirteen cars were piled up,
blocking the tracks for about five hours.
The train had a helper engine pushing it,
and is said to have bucked when the front
locomotive stopped suddenly.
. —For transforming a house cat into a
flaming torch, William Schull, aged 17, of
South ' Union township, Fayette county,
was committed to the Fayette county jail,
last Friday, on the charge of cruelty to
animals. Schull is alleged to have saturat-.
ed the cat with gasoline and to have ap-
plied a match. Barns and other buildings
in the vicinity were threatened with de-
struction by the agonized cat, which ran
wildly about the neighborhood.
—While 200 members of the Kiwanis
Club of Pittsburgh waited in the Fort
Pitt Hotel at noon last Thursday to greet
him as their new president, Charles A.
+ Wilson, a well-known real estite man, was"
lying dead on the floor of the garage at
the rear of his home. His wife found his
body at 4:30 o'clock. Death was ascribed
to carbon monoxide poisoning. The open
hood and tools scattered about indicated
that Mr. Wilson had been working on his
automobile.
—Charles Gibson, 19-year-old bank clerk
at the First National bank, of York. Pa.
who was found guilty by a jury of em-
bezzling more than $14,000 from the in-
stitution, on Saturday was sentenced by
Judge Niles to the Pennsylvania Industrial
School for Boys at Huntingdon, there to be
dealt with according to law. Attorney
Harvey A. Gross, counsel for the defend-
ant in making a plea for his client said,
“He was too young—not mature—
for such a responsible position. He had
the mental capacity to do the’ wark but
not the mental firmness to resist tempta-
tion.
‘'—When constabules appeared at the
home of his alleged sweetheart in Oil City,
on Monday, to make an arrest on a charge
of passing worthless checks, Earl 8. Loiz,
of Altoona, asked for a moment in which
to pack his suitcase, walked upstairs and
fired a bullet through his right temple
which brought instant death. Lotz had
been employed in Oil City for the past
two years, leaving there shortly before
Christmas, and returning to that place on
Monday. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
George Lotz, of Altoona. He was married
and leaves a wife and young daughter liv-
ing in Altoona.
—The two unmasked bandits who stole
$1,300 at the point of guns from the Elys-
burg bank Monday evening of last week,
were evidently from Ohio, thé police decid-
ed when the outlaws’ abandoned car was
found two miles west of Mt. Carmel, hid-
den by bushes, thirty yards from the main
Natalie road. Three Ohio license plates
were under the back seat, evidently re-
moved from the car when the stolen tags
of Harry Neese, of Millheim, were substi-
tuted, while cigaret stubs, cigar stumps
and a package of summer sausage and
buns indicated the men had lived in the
car a few days.
‘—Plans to resume examination of high-
way water supplies next summer were an-
nounced today by the State Department
of Health, The plans call for tests along
approximately 1.000 miles of highways in-
cluding the Roosevelt highway and the
new road constructed between Greensburg
and Warren. Last year two field labora-
tories covered approximately 2,700 miles
making tests of these sources of water
supplies and this year a third laboratory
will be placed in use to speed up the work.
After the tests are made the department
posts the wells or springs showing whether
or not they are contaminated.
—“0ld Club Foot,” a huge black bear
that had been sought hy hunters in vain
for some years, is dead. The bear which
appeared to have a charmed life, was found
by game warden Ed Carpenter near Lead
Run, Columbia county, the carcass having
been partly eaten by wildcats and other
flesh-eating animals. “Old Club Foot”. got
his name from a limp with the right front
foot, believed to have been caught once in
a trap. He weighed well over 500 pounds
and had eluded hunters by the score,
guist. He maintains silence on the | wie several dozen bear dogs had been
Vare troubles in about forty-seven killed by him. Whether he died of wounds
languages.
or old age will never be known.