INK SLINGS.
—Philadelphia is showing signs of
repentance and Aimee McPherson
‘Semple hasn’t even been there yet.
They actually convicted a crooked
election board within the week.
—And it is beginning to look as
though Vice President Dawes has
made up his mind that “hell’n Maria”
is one Vice President who intends to
be heard from after his term has ex-
‘pired.
—Commander Richard E. Byrd, who
was the first airman to fly over the
North pole, has announced his inten-
tion of trying a South pole flight in
1928. If there is anything in a name
a Byrd ought to do it.
—Rumor has it that another nice
plum from the Harrisburg tree is to
fall into the lap of a certain Centre
county gentleman. If it should be-
come a reality it will certainly be very
pleasing to us, especially since we
know it is deserved.
—A New York student committed
suicide on Monday and left a note to
his father saying that “the world is
not fit to live in.” There have been an
alarming number of such deaths late-
ly and thinkers are groping for a
cause. We are wondering just what
this boy did to make the world a bet-
ter place to live in.
—Prof. Lugad Albert, a Swedish
historian, has gotten so far up the
family trees of Queen Victoria of Eng-
land and Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany
that he thinks he can see Mt. Ararat.
He says both are direct descendants of
Noah. Possibly the Kaiser is, but he
evidently didn’t inherit much of the
seamanship of the ark’s pilot. Noah
ran his boat to a safe port and Wil-
helm steered the German ship. of state
right onto the rocks.
—My golly, we saw A. Mitchell
Palmer’s name in print on Wednesday
night. It was a two inch paragraph
telling of his arrest at St. Petersburg,
Fla., for driving a car with a 1926
license tag on it. We’re not gloating
over the misfortune of the gentleman
‘who helped read us out of the party
‘away back in 1910, we are only
Pleased to learn that he is still alive.
Time was when he was front page
stuff almost every day in the year.
—When the American Legion goes
to France next September it is to be
met with a “hard luck” story. The
object is to so impress the Legion-
naires with the economic poverty of
France that they will all return as
rooters for a more favorable debt set-
tlement. Maybe they will and maybe
they won’t. Most of them know, how-
ever, that American tourists spend
annually in France more than twice as
muchas any of her annual ‘payments
on the debt are.
—This new idea of making stockings
triplets instead of pairs, as has been
the custom ever since the world stop-
ped doing what Jerry Simpson always
‘did—going stockingless—is all very
good so far as providing Milady with
a spare against the unexpected “run-
ner,” but what’s to become of Santa
Claus? He has trouble enough now
getting two filled on Christmas cve
and should he be confronted with sets
of three hanging by the fire places
next Christmas the jolly old fellow
might quit the job entirely.
—Ida Clyde Clarke says there are
three women fit to rule the United
States and names them in the persons
of Anne Morgan, Alice Rooseveit
Longworth and Ruth Hanna MecCor-
mick. We have nothing more than a
newspaper acquaintance with any of
the ladies and may be ill informed as
to their superiority, but we believe
there are hundreds of others who are
just as competent to preside in the
White House as are the Clarke trium-
virate. With women it is just the
same as with men. The wheel of for-
tune turns some up and leaves many,
just as capable, to go on their content-
ed, obscure way.
—The Association of Medical Col-
leges has discovered that the country
doctor is on the wane. We don’t quite
get that announcement, because we
don’t understand just what is meant by
.. “the country doctor.” To our mind
“the country doctor” passed out of the
picture forty or more years ago. Today
the practitioner in the smallest vil-
lage had just the same course in medi-
cal college and passed just the same
examinations as the one whose sign
hangs on the door of the swellest
‘building on the swellest street in any
large city. Doctors are all made ac-
cording to the’ same specifications and,
just like any other professional men,
some of them attain eminence in their
profession because of inherent apti-
tude for it while the great majority
remain in the class of just good doe-
tors. Lots of the so-called eminence
in the medical profession is bluff.
The practitioner in the isolated terri-
tory is necessarily more resourceful
than the one in the urban districts for
he has no specialists in this that and
the other malady to send his emer-
gency patient to. He must act for
himself and the experience thus
gained makes him the man in whose
judgment on the treatment of common
diseases we will always have the most
confidence. What, with the medical
journals, the clinics, the radio, the
local hospitals and the private sani-
tariums that are within daily reach of
the most isolated practitioner today,
can suggest to the Association of
Medical Colleges that there is such an
“anymule” as a “country doctor.”
Nothing.
| delegates to represent this country in
‘some unexplained reason, imagined
VOL. 72. BELLEFONTE, PA.. FEBRUARY 25. 1927.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
NO. Ss.
SE
Cunningham in Contempt.
Themas W. Cunningham, Republi- |
can boss of the Tenth ward of Phila- |
delphia has again refused to reveal to
the Senate Slush Fund committee !
where he obtained the $50,000 he con-
tributed to the Vare campaign fund !
for the primary election. The signif-
icance of the question lies in the sus-
picion, amounting to almost a belief,
that the money was contributed in
part by bootleggers and other illicit
dealers in liquors and part by as-
sessments levied on the municipal
office holders of Philadelphia. Politi-
cal contributions from either of these
sources would be so palpably repug-
nant to public morals and so plainly |
offensive to decency, that an admis- |
sion of it would be fatal to the candi- |
date in whose interest it was made.
As an afterthought Mr. Cunning-
ham informed the Senate committee
on Monday that the contribution of
undisclosed origin was not contributed
to the Vare slush fund but to that of
his associate on the ticket, E. E.
Beidleman. Mr. Beidleman was a
candidate for Governor and the Senate
has no right of review of votes for
Governor. By this shift Mr. Cunning-
ham hopes to evade the penalty of con-
tempt which is imprisonment of a year
in whatever custody the Washington
District court commits the culprit. If
the Senate has no authority to review
the votes of a candidate for Governor
there is no contempt in refusing to
answer questions in relation to the
campaign expenses of such a candi-
date. .
Of course this statement of Cun-
ningham under oath sounds fishy. He
had been before the Committee three
times before and never uttered a sug-
gestion that his interest in the primary
election was in behalf of Beidleman
instead of Vare. Being a “hard-boiled”
politician, without conscience, he prob-
ably has no genuine interest in any
man except as exigencies arise and his
personal prosperity is affected. At
present, however, he is in for punish-
ment and it is hoped the full extent of
the penalty will be imposed. He is a
fit subject to make an example of and
the opportunity. should not be lost.
Tom Cunningha#i behind the bars
will be an admonition that will be
lasting. -
—This is “National pay your bills
promptly” week. Though there has
been nothing about this office to in-
dicate that it is being generally ob-
served the idea strikes us as a good
one. There is nothing we love better
than to pay bills promptly, but we are
restrained from indulging that ob-
session because our debtors don’t
seem to have the same passion.
Arms Conference Practically Of.
The French government has declined
President Coolidge’s invitation for an-
other disarmament conference. The
invitation was extended to Great Brit-
ain, France, Italy and Japan and pur-
ported to be a movement to curtail
building operations in the lesser types
of war ships. The League of Nationg
has been considering the subject and
the United States had already named
what was called a preparatory arms
conference. President Coolidge, for
that the Geneva processes were too
slow and that anyway dozens of small
nations, members of the League, had
no navies and consequently no interest
in the subject.
In declining to participate in the
movement the French government
rather broadly intimated that the
movement has a sinister purpose and
is in fact a “sniping” operation intend-
ed to impair the influence of the
League of Nations. It is true that many
of the nations embodied in the League
of Nations are without navies, but it
is not true that any of them is without
interest in naval armaments, for in the
event of war in which a naval power
is concerned war ships would be em-
ployed wherever they could be brought
into action. Neither can it be shown
that the processes of reaching an
agreement in the direction of disarma-
ment would be unduly tardy. The
League is a large body and though
slow is effective.
Every rational man and woman in
this country favors peace and the sen-
timent in favor of decreasing arma-
ments alike on land and sea is equally
unanimous. But it may be doubted if
anything of real value could have been
gained by the Coolidge proposition to
hold a five-power conference upon a
question already under consideration
of the League of Nations. There may
be more than suspicion that the pur-
pose was to impair the influence of the
League. It was scarcely denied that
the Washington conference of 1921
was called with the view of discourag-
ing the organization of the League,
and the “fight against Wilson” is quite
3s active and venomous now as it was
then.
Philadelphia Election Officers Con-
victed.
The trial of election frauds in the
Fortieth division of the Twenty-fourth
ward of Philadelphia ended on Friday
with the conviction of the five persons,
one a woman, who composed the elec-
tion board. The irregularities charged
were perpetrated at the primary elec-
tion last May. In the course of the
trial it was shown that 101 out of 383
votes cast were illegal and that two
dead persons and fifty-three unregis-
tered persons had voted. There were
383 votes returned as cast while there
were only 379 names on the list of
registered voters. The woman in-
spector was acquitted on the charge of
“falsely entering names on the voters’
list,” but convicted of all the other
charges.
The Twenty-fourth ward of Phila-
delphia is known as a comparatively
decent section of the city, politically
measured. The record established
in this trial proves, therefore, that the
entire city is honey-combed with fraud,
and that the primary election of last
May was in no respect an indicator of
the choice of the people of that city
for the office of Senator in Congress.
The ratio of fraudulent votes cast in
that single division or precinct carried
throughout even that section of the
city controlled by Vare would reverse
the totals for the two highest candi-
dates. Of course these facts will all
be brought out in the investigation to
be conducted by the Slush Fund com-
mittee.
In view of this disclosure, moreover,
the belief is justified that William B.
Wilson, the Democratic candidate for
Senator, now contesting the seat, will
be entitled to the certificate of elec-
tion. Vare had a very large majority
as returned by the election officers.
But if nearly a third of the votes cast
for him were fraudulent ballots there
would not be enough legitimate votes
cast to overcome the upward of fifty
thousand majority polled against him
outside the city of Philadelphia. Itis
not likely that the record made in this
particular division of the Twenty-
fourth ward, a eomparatively decent
| neighborhood, is exceptional. Other di-
visions of other wards will be found
worse.
——The Standard Oil Company
doesn’t mind how many new oil fields
are discovered. The Standard feels
able to hold its own in any competi-
tion.
Preparing to Loot the Farmers.
A short time before the expiration
of his term of office Governor Pinchot
refused applications for charters of
electrical corporations on the ground
that the schedule of charges for ser-
vice was too high. Any charge in ex-
cess of nine cents per kilowat hour,
Governor’ Pinchot declared to be un-
just. Since the induction of Governor
Fisher into office a number of these
corporations have renewed their ap-
plications and the new Governor has
publicly declared that he will approve
them. “The Public Service Commis-
sion,” he states, “will perform its
functions under the law without in-
terference on the part of the execu-
tive.” In other words the Public ser-
vice Commission will have free hand in :
the looting.
An electric company must make ap-
plication to the Public Service Com-
mission for approval of intended in-
corporation. Those approved by the
Commission must next be passed on
by the State Bureau of Corporations
and lastly pass through the hands of
the Governor. In the case of those
denied by Governor Pinchot all were
sanctioned by the Commission and the
Bureau. The schedule of charges for
service ranged above the nine cents a
kilowat hour, one, the Pennsylvania
Power company, having fixed a rate
of 11.46 cents per kilowat hour. All
these charges were declared by the
Governor excessive and he felt that in-
justice would be done to the consum-
ers who were entitled to fair treat-
ment at the hands of corporations
created by the State.
All of these corporations asked for
charters to serve rural communities
but were tied up with “parent” con-
cerns. These “parent” companies had
not only fixed the rates of service but
Governor Pinchot alleged had tried to
violate the purpose of the rural gener-
al electrification order, No. 27. Not-
withstanding these facts the Public
Service Commission had given approv-
al to their applications and it is now
semi-officially announced that their
re-application will be approved by the
Governor, regardless of the schedule
of charges, if the Public Service Com- |
mission repeats its former action. In
view of these facts the rural electrifi-
cation from which much was hoped
may be used to rob the farmers.
——State Chairman Mellon is also
in favor of ballot reform legislation
along. certain lines, but not too far.
Silly Legislation Pending.
Most thinking men and women of
Pennsylvania will cordially agre with
Republican State Chairman W. L.
Mellon that the proposed referendum
on the Eighteenth amendment and the
Volstead law is “silly stuff.” A bill
providing for such action has been in-
troduced in the House of Representa-
tives and is pending in the Committee
of Law and Order. Mr. Mellon is of
the opinion that it ought to die there
and Governor Fisher has declared,
without committing himself on the
measure, that Mr. Mellon is a very
intelligent man, which is variously in-
terpreted. It might mean complete
agreement on the merits of the pro-
posed legislation and it could mean
absolute obedience to the wishes of a
party boss.
The proposed referendum would
| cost the people of Pennsylvania a lot
' of money and would be entirely worth-
less. If the voters of Pennsylvania
should unanimously declare opposition
to the Eighteenth amendment by bal-
lot it wouldn’t have the slightest effect
on the amendment. There are only
two ways to eliminate the Eighteenth
amendment from the organic law of
the country. One is to amend the con-
stitution by adopting a repealer in the
same manner that the Eighteenth
amendment was placed there. The
other is to call a constitutional con-
vention representing all the States in
the Union and adopt an entirely new
constitution with the Eighteenth
amendment left out.
A vote against the Volstead law by
the people of Pennsylvania would be
equally impotent of achievement for
the purpose the author of the bill has
in mind. The Eighteenth amendment
to the constitution declares it unlaw-
ful to manufacture, sell,” keep or
handle, import or export intoxicating
liquors “for beverage purposes,” and
if there were no Volstead law or other
law on the subject the prohibition con-
tained in the constitution would put
the traffic in intoxicating liquors under
the ban of the law. For these reasons
the proposed legislation is silly as well
as futile. The measure will probably
ie in committee as it deserves to and.
will be revived again at the next ses-
sion.
——Miss Helen Grimes, Member of
the Legislature, has succeeded in get-
ting her “Beauty Shop” bill through
the House. It is designed to license and
regulate Beauty Shops. Inasmuch as
we’ve never been in one of these beau-
tification factories we are not pre-
pared to say whether they need regu-
lation or not, but since about every-
thing else we know of is regulated in
some way or other it’s all right to
gather them under the control of the
official snooper.
Under House bill No. 73 which
has passed second reading in Harris-
burg it would be unlawful to hold any
professional athletic competition, race,
game or sport before one o’clock p. m.
on Memorial day. Any such event for
which admission is charged or a col-
lection taken would be prohibited and
any kind of a parade in the morning
advertising such an event for the
afternoon also comes under the ban
this law would put.
——Representative Sarig, of Berks
county, is disgusted with his party as-
sociates in the General Assembly, who
take orders from the bosses of the Re-
publican machine. About ninety-nine
per cent of the Democratic voters are
in full agreement with Mr. Sarig.
——Now that the Governor and Re-
publican State Chairman Mellon are
taking a hand in the ballot reform
legislation it is safe to predict that
there will be loopholes of escape for
come of the criminals.
Lloyd George, no longer an im-
portant figure in affairs of Gt. Britain,
seems to imagine that the affairs of
the rest of the world are on his
shoulders.
The times are out of joint. The
destructive floods in California are
almost as bad as the devastating
storms on the Atlantic coast.
——Strike fomenters in Shanghai
will be beheaded which calls to mind
that a good many strike fomenters in
; this country lost their heads.
i ——Possibly in favoring a perma-
i nent tax commission Governor Fisher
, had in mind that it would create some
| fine political patronage.
|
| ——A California Justice of the
! Peace sends the automobile to jail
‘ rather than the driver for violating
traffic ordinances.
A ———— A tr —————
———The snow storm cut the week-
end automobile fatalities in half but
the improvement was too costly to en-
courage.
Pennsylvania Ignored.
From the Altoona Tribune.
Pennsylvania has been given the
“cold shoulder” at the white house and
an Oklahoman has been nominated by
President Coolidge for a position on
the Interstate Commerce Commission
—a place that originally was intend-
ed for a man from the Keystone State.
The appointment was made to fill a
vacancy caused by the expiration of
Frederick I. Cox’s term.
Cyrus E Woods, of Greensburg, first
named to the commission by the Presi-
dent through the influence of Senator
David A. Reed, of this State, was re-
jected by the upper house of Congress.
At that time it was understood that
another Pennsylvanian was to be nam-
ed for the position. At least it was con-
ceded that a State of such industrial
proportions as Pennsylvania and one
so closely connected with interstate
commerce is entitled to representia-
tion on that rate fixing body.
Mr. Woods was opposed religiously
by Senators from southern States
where preferential rates arein exist-
ence atthe expense of coal operators
and miners of the central and western
Pennsylvania districts. Unmerciful
character assaults were made upon him
under the cover of justice and the cry
of “unfitness.” Now that the smoke of
battle has cleared away, these men who
opposed Woods are found in the posi-
tion that brings more evil to them
than could have possibly been the
case had Mr. Woods, as incompetent
as they pictured him, been chosen for
the commission. They are like the
boy who started out with a prize Jer-
sey cow and through a series of trades
they have been tricked and have only
a proverbial whistle.
What can a politician from Okla-
homa know about freight rates that
effect this territory or any other indus-
trial sector? True enough, he may be
versed in oil freight tariffs or farm
products, but granting him skill in
these two things, it stands to reason
he could not be a competent judge of
the fairness of charges on interstate
movements of steel, coal, silk or the
many products of the busy marts of
Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio or
the New England States.
On the other hand, Cyrus Woods, in
spite of his holdings of rail and mine
stocks and bonds, would be more com-
petent to pass upon these cases than
a man who has not had his taining.
Incompetence? ~ Was that the objec—
tion of Senators from the southern
States? If it was, now is the time for
them to take the whistle they obtain-
ed through their unwise trading and
to arouse the whole upper house
against another “unfit” man.
Ending a Delusion.
From the Pittsburgh Post.
The indicated failure of the United
| States to secure membership in the
i Permanent Court of International
| Justice with the Senate reservations
"attached brings out once more that
the opponents of the tribunal have no
substitute to offer. Even the old de-
vice of proposing “a” court for “the”
court is recognized as having outlived
its usefulness. The truth at last has
become plain that if we are not to
join “the” League or “the” court
neither will we become a member of
“a” league or “a” court; for there are
no such organizations nor are there
likely ever to be. By this time that
delusion should be wholly dissipated.
Of course the opponents of both the
League and the Court are highly elat-
ed with the apparent effectiveness
with which they have kept the country
out of these organizations. Still the
hosts of friends of international co-
operation who followed them on the
assurance that there would be “a”
league and “a” court to take the places
of the existing bodies objected to may
have something to say on their having
been led into a blind alley. Are they
willing to have their country remain
on the outside of the only internation-
al organizations there are to be to
serve the cause of war prevention?
When the movement for such mem-
bership starts again it should find it
a most important advantage to be free
of the old delusion that opponents of
the League and the Court are to pro-
vide substitutes for them.
Japan’s Answer.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The Japanese Government’s reply
to the American note suggesting that
the delegates of the five Powers sig-
natory to the Washington naval limit-
ations agreement shall be empowered
to negotiate, when they meet in Gen-
eva as members of the Preparatory
Commission of the Disarmament Con-
ference, an extension of the Wash-
ington agreement, is eminently satis-
factory.
Japan makes it clear that she does
not subscribe in advance to the rigid
application of the 5-5-3 ratio to ships
not covered by the terms of the Wash-
ington Conference, and asks that the
discussion be postponed until June 1
in order to allow time for the selection
and instruction of her special dele-
gates and for their travels. That is a
reasonable request; and the reserva-
tion she makes in entering into the
proposed negotiations was anticipat-
ed. The object of President Coolidge,
as we understand it, was to make sure
that the nations which he addressed
should not only be willing to discuss
his proposal, but should empower their
representatives to act upon it. That
object, in the case of Japan at least,
has been attained.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Shot at by a man whose attentions she
had repulsed, Mrs. Olga Hall, of Philadel-
pria, fell dead from heart failure caused by
fright. Believing his bullet had killed the
woman, William Faust ended his oun life
with a shot through his head.
—When her husband was jailed for dis-
orderly conduct in Centralia last week,
Mrs. Joseph Moscow went to the bastile
with a crowbar and liberated him. The
next day she paid $50 fine, and Mr. and
Mrs. Anthony Rollings, who were supposed
to have been with the woman, also were
fined $50 each.
—The second triennial farm census in
Pennsylvania will be started this year.
The first census was taken in 1924 in co-
operation with township and borough as-
sessors and County Commissioners. The
1923 Legislature passed an act requiring
the census and plans are going forward in
the Department of Agriculture for the work
this year.
—Fire of unknown origin destroyed the
Samuel Beshore hardware store and ad-
jacent dwelling owned by Mrs. R. Heta
Stimmel, at Port Royal, at midnight Satur-
day with $30,000 loss. The flames broke out
in the rear of the store. The heavy sleet
storm and snow thrown on the adjacent
buildings saved other property until the
firemen arrived.
—Harrisburg is to have an increase in
population March 1st. In accordance with
an order announced at Altoona, one hun-
dred clerks of the Pennsylvania Railroad
are to be transferred to Harrisburg from
Altoona at the close of February. The
majority are married and have families.
Friends in Harrisburg are now looking
about for homes for them.
—Ninety school children were marched
to safety on Monday when fire was dis-
covered in a portable three room frame
school building in Swissvale, near Pitts-
burgh. The fire, which was believed to
have originated in a furnace in the base-
ment, destroyed the building with an esti-
mated loss of $4,500. The building was to
have been abandoned on Tuesday.
—The plant of the Dixon Motor Truck
company, in Altoena, was damaged to the
extent of $15,000 by the explosion of an
air tank last Friday. The entire roof was
torn off and the interior of the plant badly
damaged. One end of the tank landed on
the railroad tracks a block away and the
other end wrecked the roof of a nearby
house. Sixteen employes escaped injury.
—Wandering in his sléep from the Frank-
lin county home at Chambersburg, George
Forthman, 78, perished from exposure dur-
ing Saturday night's snow storm. The
man was clad only in his night clothes. The
body was found about a mile from the
home, lying face down in the snow and
partly covered. The coroner said death
was due to exposure in the snow and
cold.
—Vernon McCoy, 39, of Leidy township,
Clinton county, was seriously injured near
his home on Saturday when a tree he was
cutting fell on him as he slipped on the
icy mountain. He sustained fractures of
| the left shoulder, the left collarbone and
of two ribs, one of which punctured his
lung. To reach Leidy a doctor had to
travel thirteen miles through the deep
Snow.
—A professional rat catcher—he calls
himself a sanitary engineer—has heen em-
ployed to rid Latrobe of these rodents.
Traps were set which were capable of hold-
ing 200 rats at a time and were bated with
either castor oil or live pigeons. Latrobe
recently abandoned an old garbage dump
and the rat catcher was employed lest in-
habitants of the dump turn to the cellars
of Latrobe's citizens in search of food.
—Thomas Graham, aged about 80 years,
a life-long resident of Clearfield and vicin-
ity, dropped dead in front of the home of
A. H. Dunlap, in Clearfield, on Saturday
morning while shoveling snow from the
walk along the Dunlap property. He had
cleaned off the walk at the J. II. Gearhart
residence across the street from the Dun-
lap home, and had just finished the lower
half of the Dunlap walk when he was
stricken.
—The Workmen's Compensation Board
has been reorganized and territory appor-
tioned to each referee. The reorganiza-
tion was effected at a meeting in Harris-
burg a few days ago. Under the appor-
tionment, the State is divided into ten dis-
tricts. Bedford, Blair, Centre, Clearfield,
Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata and Mifflin
counties comprise the Sixth district, Jacob
Snyder, of Altoona, has been renamed ref-
erce of this district.
—Although warned that an explosion
was impending at the South Penn Colliery
company’s operation near Pottsville. An-
theny Robbin, aged 37, walked directly in-
to the path of danger and was killed. He
is survived by a widow and three small
children at Port Carbon. Charles Spulis,
of Minersville, set off the blast and warn-
ed Robbins of the danger. The latter
signaled that he understood, but apparent-
ly was thinking of something else and
failed to heed it.
—Congressman Edward M. Beers has
recommanded and the President sent to
the United State Senate a few days ago
the nomination of Fred Etnier as post-
master of Huntingdon. Mr. Etnier has
been in the United States postal service
for the past tewnty-six years and is a res-
ident of Huntingdon. He grew to man-
hood in Mount Union and was a school
mate of Congressman Beers. The outgoing
postmaster is A. J. Starr, who conducted
an efficient administration.
—Poison, chloroform, a belt and shoe
laces failed to help Cloyd R. Folk, 30, Al-
toona, in an attempt to commit suicide,
police said. He drank poison and fell into
the hands of police. When searched he
had a bottle of chloroform. In a cell, Folk
tried to hang himself, using his belt for
a noose, but he was cut down unconscious.
Later a second attempt, with shoe laces
used as a noose, failed, according to police.
A guard was stationed near the prisoner
to forestall further attempts.
—Again under the knife for removal of
more shrapnel, which he received in his
side and hip in the early days of the Ar-
gonne campaign in France, in Septmeber
1918, Walter Walcott, of Franklin, is in
the U. 8. Naval hospital at Philadelphia,
where the most recent operation resulted
in taking more of the bits of steel from
the hip-bone, and surgeons believe this
may be the last operation necessary. This
is either Walcott's seventh or eighth oper-
ation since he was caught by German shell-
fire. ‘He served with the 112th infantry,
28th division.
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