EB ES Sia,
——General Andrews professes to
be satisfied with his achievements as
prohibition chief, and everybody else
might be if he would tell what he ac-
complished.
—Maurice Rostand is poet-laureate
of France. After having read his ef-
fusion, in thirteen verses, to Lind-
bergh, we have come to the conclusion
that Sheriff Shearer has a chance of
‘becoming poet-laureate of Centre
county.
—And the citizens of Montgomery,
Alabama, sent Captain Lindbergh’s
‘mother a thousand dollar silver chest,
filled with candy. How much more
sensible an empty candy box filled
with a thousand silver dollars would
‘have been.
—Say men, don’t rail about the wet
weather. Don’t you know that as
long as the ground is too wet you
have a perfect alibi for the nagging
lady who is eternally asking you
when you are going to finish digging
the garden.
—Beacause we have always felt that
there is more in anticipation than in
realization we are not at all unhappy
because the streams are muddy. Too
muddy for the other fellows to get all
the fish before we can get our work
caught up enough to get out and get
them ourself.
—Dr. Abbot, secretary of Smithson-
jan Institute at Washington, esti-
;mates that there are thirty billion
stars in the heavens. Of course he
knows more about such things than
- we do, but it seems to us that every
time we get a good crack on the
“crazy bone” or a tumble on the ice
we see far more than that.
—According to the dope the rich
man has to squeeze through the eye
of a needle before he has much
chance of getting into the Kingdom
of Heaven. That’s some job, but not
so hard as that of the poor man who
is trying to keep square with the
‘butcher, the baker and the candle-
stick maker in order to squeeze
through on earth. .
—Its’ all right with us if Mrs.
Snyder wants to use cosmetics in Sing
: Sing. But if she gets painter’s colic
and dies before the law has a chance
to exact its “eye for an eye and tooth
for a tooth” the warden of that in-
stitution is going to have some un-
comfortable moments explaining his
consent to converting a death
house cell into a beauty parlor.
—The million dollars or more that
will be Lindbergh’s, in consequence of
his flight to Paris, looks like easy
money; and it will be when measured
with tle yardstick of labor that
others have to perform to amass even
ten thousand dollars. But Gene Tun-
ney will get a million dollars for his
next fight, that can’t possibly last
" more than thirty minutes and might
be over in thirty seconds and Red
Grange got nearly as much for play-
ing a few games of foot-ball.
—An old friend from “out where
the tall grass grows” has invited us
to visit him this summer. As an in-
ducement he suggests that when the
_ President has set up his summer
White House and fishing parapherna-
lia at Lake Okoboji, Iowa, we will
drive up and visit him “and, maybe,
catch a sucker.” That would be a
fine trip and we can imagine nothing
much more delightful than a visit
with the old Centre countian, D. M.
Kerlin, who has lived in Rudd for so
many years; especially since it in-
cludes a fishing orgy. Orgy it would
be, for Iowa must be alive with suck-
ers else Cal. wouldn’t be planning to
spend the summer there. He knows a
good fishing ’ole when he sees one.
The announcement that London
papers have refused to support a
campaign in that city to raise funds
for our Mississippi sufferers startles
the sleeping cells in the old been to
wakefulness. They carry us back to
. the wet spring of 1889 when Johns-
town was almost washed from the
map of Cambria county, and our
‘famous - War Governor, the late
Andrew Gregg Curtin, was making
his last public. appearance as the
commencement orator at the Pennsyl-
vania State College. All. of the
nations of the world, except England,
had sent substantial succor to the
Johnstown sufferers and the notable
old statesman, commenting on the rel-
ative value of words and deeds, said:
In this time of unprecendented disas-
ter “the Sultan of Turkey sends a
* thousand dollars and the Queen of
‘England sends her sympathy.”
—Young Captain Lindbergh has
thrilled the world by his solitary
flight from New York to Paris. It
was a feat that might never be dupli-
cated. From his viewpoint it proba-
bly wasn’t such a wonderful thing, for
his plane functioned perfectly and at-
mospheric conditions were fairly
‘favorable. The world looks at it
from another angle. Veteran flyers,
in the mechanics of aeroplanes and
the science of hydrography, prepare
and train for years for such an under-
taking and while they are working
out a prevention for every possible
cause of disaster this youth comes out
of the west and does the trick with
no other aids than ‘a cool, steady
nerve and a machine that held out.
Had Lindbergh fallen‘into the sea and
never been heard of again many
would have said: What a fool he was.
He didn’t fall into the sea and he is a
world idol today. A wise boy, too,
- gince he has decided not ‘to attempt
to fly back.
VOL. 72.
BELLEFONTE,
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Another White House Rule. | Sinelair’s Sentence and Cunningham.
A new rule has been issued from
the White House governing the twice-
a-week conferences between the Pres-
ident and the newspaper correspond-
ents. Some time ago a condition was
laid down that in reporting these
conferences, though they were with
the President, Mr. Coolidge’s name
should be kept out of the record and
a mythical person to be known as
“the official spokesman,” substituted.
The result of this strategem was dis-
appointing. The discerning public
mind soon visualized the President in
the cautious and sometimes blunder-
ing official spokesman. It is hoped
that the new rule will work better,
and there are good reasons for this
expectation, for it will not only sup-
press embarrassing questions but un-
fortunate replies.
It has been asserted upon the au-
thority of some prominent Massachu-
setts politicians that in 1912, when
the late Theodore Roosevelt under-
took to smash the tradition against a
third term in the office of President,
Calvin Coolidge, then a Senator in the
Massachusetts Legislature, joined
with other supporters of Mr. Taft in
an address to the public protesting
that there would be infinite danger
in electing Mr. Roosevelt or any other
man to a third term. This assertion
aroused a good deal of public com-
ment and some of the correspondents
at one of the conferences asked the
question directly of the President.
He flatly refused to answer it, and
most of the correspondents published
the fact that the query had been put
and the answer denied.
Of course the public interpreted
the refusal to answer as an acknowl-
edgment of the truth of the state-
ment and the supporters of the third
term for Coolidge were greatly dis-
turbed. They realize that if a third
term for Roosevelt was a menace to
the perpetuity of the government, as
the Coolidge manifesto declared it
was, the election of Coolidge to a
third term would be even more dan-
gerous, for the Taft term had inter-
vened since Roosevelt retired, and the
dynastic element was less in evidence.
But they could conjure up no argu-
ment in rebuttal except to muzzlé the
press, which seems to be a favorite
method of the President in dealing
with such subjects. He evidently
| imagines that if he can silence oppo-
sition of the press he will have easy
sailing.
——While Commander Byrd’s
monoplane “America” was going
through elaborate christening cere-
monies in New York, Captain Lind-
bergh’s unchristened air craft was
scooping up the prize in Paris.
Menacing Attack on Volstead Law.
The most formidable attack upon
the Volstead law thus far organized
is that of the American Medical Asso-
ciation declared by the convention of
that society held in Washington last
week. Its strength lies in the fact
that its proponents protest that their
aim is not to “break down prohibi-
tion” but to “prove that no body of
law makers is qualified to take over
the functions of a physician, and that
the curative value of anything is a
matter of scientific finding.” The
attack is upon that provision of the
Volstead law which sets a limit on
the amount of alcoholic prescriptions
which a practising physician may is-
sue ‘within a given period of time.
Naturally the Anti-Saloon League
interprets this gesture as an effort to
nullify the Eighteenth amendment to |
the constitution and restore the
saloons, with all the attaining. evils of
the pre-war period. The physicians
stoutly deny this aspersion upon
them and allege that the constitution-
al amendment is not the object of
their attack. They have no quar-
rel with it at all, for it doesn’t
attempt to interfere with their prac-
tice. It is the Volstead law that puts
a limit on the prescriptions with al-
coholic content and that that provi-
sion of the law might be eliminated
without impairing its value as a
moral agent. The saloons and public
sale of alcoholic beverages are ended.
Of course the Anti-Saloon League
is justified in its opposition to even
this modification of the Volstead law,
if it is justified in anything. That
law is largely responsible for keeping
the league in existence and providing
the generous salaries for its officials,
and if it is amended once it is likely to
be shot to pieces later. The only safe-
ty for it lies in maintenance intact,
and if the physicians of the country
set their faces and forces to the task
of eliminating a provision that re-
strains their professional rights and
impairs their usefulness in their com-
munities they will make a strong im-
pression on the public mind. The
family doctor is a potent influence.
——Captain Lindbergh is a Mis-
sourian willing to show as well as
anxious to be shown.
The jail sentence of Harry F. Sin-
clair, multi-millionaire oil operator,
who was convicted in the Supreme
court of Washington, D. C., accused
of contempt because he refused to
answer pertinent questions in the
Teapot Dome investigation, will in-
spire confidence in the courts of the
country. For some years an impres-
sion has been growing on the public
mind that “malefactors of great
wealth” were immune from punish-
ment for such offences as that!
charged against Mr. Sinclair. The!
action of the Washington court in the
early proceedings in this case con-
tributed to this unfortunate suspicion.
Sending the defendant to jail will tend |
to allay if it doesn’t entirely remove
it. : >
It has been several years since the
complaint against Sinclair was made
and irritating delays have followed
each other until expectation of justice |
had about vanished. The conspiracy
case against former Secretary of the
Interior Fall was defeated, though
the evidence in support of it was;
strong enough to convince the public
that all the accused were guilty.
This was bad enough, but the delays
in this particular case encouraged
others to believe that the United :
States Senate had no power to en-!
force its mandates. This impression,
now refuted, helped to prevent a com- '
plete investigation of the slush fund
iniquities perpetrated in the Senator- |
ial contest in this State last year. :
In the slush fund investigation
Thomas Cunningham, of Philadelphia,
refused to answer relevant questions
and thus postponed for a time the ex-
posure of the wickedness in this State
which enabled William S. Vare to
temporarily enjoy the fruits of an
election obtained “partly by purchase
and partly by fraud.” But the jail
sentence of Sinclair will nullify this
palpable miscarriage of justice for it
will bring to proper punishment a
contemptuous scoffer of law. Sinclair
will exhaust every expedient avail-
able, at any price, to escape the pen- :
alty pronounced, but he will fail in
this purpose and Cunningham will
complains that the City of Brotherly !
Love is becoming a safe retreat for |
gunmen and other crooks driven from |!
other cities. Probably the success of
official grafters entices them to so
alluring a field of operations.
The Question of Time in Office.
plaint, in a published interview, ‘that
the voters of Pennsylvania are not
sufficiently appreciative of efficiency |
and fidelity of public servants. “I!
know men who, during the period
they held office, were continuously on !
the job in behalf of the taxpayers, |
who were as conscientious as though |
they were operating their own private |
business. But,” he continued “when
these men came up for re-election
they were defeated by opportunists. |
In time, of course, the electorate
learned heir mistake, but it was too
late.” There is an inclination on the
part of public officials to shirk or
shift their duties and therefore some
ground for the complaint. ,
But there is no single thing con- |
tributes as much to “loafing on the !
job” on the part of public officials as |
long continued tenure incident to re- |
peated re-elections. The official who |
is conscientious and industrious in the
beginning too frequently grows care-
less after a few years experience and
the electorate may be influenced to its
attitude on the subject by this fact.
Besides there is a deep seated aver-
sion in the public mind to bestowing
all favors on a few who soon develop
into “professional office holders” and
come to imagine that they are masters
rather than servants of the people.
The thought of a “dynasty of office
holders” is repugnant to the average
mind.
From the beginning there has been
a decided inclination among the
voters to favor rotation in office and
short terms in public employment. It
is possible that some evil has come
out of this, but infinitely greater
harm might result from long tenure
and frequent re-elections. Public
officials become as adept in “covering
up” malfeasances as in growing care-
less or neglectful of their obligations.
At all events, Mr. Lewis has little
cause for complaint. He has been in
office a good while, probably a just
reward of merit, and has been ad-
vanced from unimportant place to
high office with considerable rapidity,
while his place on the pay roll has
been made certain in the future by
special legislation.
——There are 30,000,000,000 stars,
according to scientists, but during
the past several weeks most of them
have been too modest to show them-
I selves.
| demanded their removal.
learn that the Vare machine is im- | Stptes S
potent to save him from prison. Ei Rs
PA.. MAY 27. 1927.
ET ——— am
Governor Fisher Not a Bouncer.
The pressure of the spoils-mongers
for eligible places at the public crib
has been exceedingly burdensome to
the Governor, since his consideration
of legislation left on his hands at the
adjournment of the General Assem-
bly. Importunate office-seekers, dur-
ing the session, were assured that
after adjournment the business of
weeding out the Pinchot followers
would be attended to. When that
time arrived they were told that as
soon as the Governor disposed of the
legislation the work would be prompt-
ly undertaken. About the middle of
the month the bills were all signed or
vetoed and at once the crush set in.
It was a formidable force of hungry
and hopeful aspirants for party
favor.
Usually when one Republican Gov-
jernor of Pennsylvania succeeds an-
‘other equally orthodox Republican
few changes in the personnel of the
public service is expected. But this
time it is different. The adherents of
Governor Pinchot are anathema to
the supporters of Governor Fisher
and a State-wide demand was made
for a “clean sweep.” Another dis-
turbing element forced itself into the
equation. The Vare-Beidleman-Baker
contingent had a large number of
followers on the pay roll and Grundy
In the case
of Beidleman and Baker this seemed
easy enough, but Vare continues a!
potential force in the party organiza-
tion and it is important to go into the
next campaign unencumbered by
strong factions.
The result of this mixture of malice
{and cupidity is that Governor Fisher
is greatly troubled. He would like to
meet Grundy’s wishes and probably
feels obliged to obey orders from
Mellon ‘who is much more interested
in next year’s Senatorship contest
than in the crumbs which fall from
the patronage pie counter. To ful-
fill his hopes it is necessary to pre-
serve harmony, and scuttling the
Vare-Beidleman-Baker ship might
i Senator Dave Reed to private
life and deprive the Steel trust of an
attorney on the floor of the Unite
s Senate after the expiration of
hig" present’ term. To avert this re-
sult ‘Governor Fisher has announced
to act the part of a bouncer.”
——The Bell Telephone company
announces that on and after May 23rd
telephone calls to London and the rest
This is an extension of four hours to
the daily period during which calls
across the Atlantic may be made.
When trans-oceanic telephone service
was originally opened the service was
available only between the hours of
8:30 a. m. and one o’clock.
——-One of the hardest rain storms
of the year occurred on Sunday even-
ing. It was accompanied with thun-
der and lightning and considerable
wind. Two big limbs were broken
from one of the old trees in front of
{the Zeller property, on Allegheny
street, and dead limbs were broken
from a number of trees. Ploughed
fields and gardens were badly washed
and Spring Creek looked like a big
mud puddle.
.——One lone one-horse wagon,
with. rhubarb, radishes and onions for
sale, was the opener at the Bellefonte
curb market last Saturday morning.
As no one had any notice of his com-
ing the huckster was not overrun
with customers for his produce.
e—————— re e—————
—Sanitation is a wonderful thing.
In fact it is becoming so wonderful
that it is taking all the joy out of
life. Our homes are so darned clean
that we can’t enjoy them for fear of
“messing them up.”
——Latin America has appealed to
the League of Nations to “free them
from America.” Recent events in
Nicaragua and Mexico have spread
alarm throughout Central and South
America.
——A careful analysis of the sub-
ject compels the opinion that though
Captain Lindbergh’s adventure was
successful it was a fool-hardy enter-
prise.
——The jail sentence of Harry Sin-
clair has met with wide popular favor
and when Big Tom Cunningham “gets
his” there will be few regrets.
——Mrs. Snyder is taking exercise
in her Sing Sing cell to reduce
weight. “Vanity of vanities, all is
vanity.”
—-“Well, here we are,” is a
simple salutation but it means a lot in
certain circumstances.
NO. 21.
Common Sense for Crime Commis-
sion.
Irom the Pittsburgh Post.
Pennsylvania, by a resolution of
the Legislature just approved by Gov-
ernor Fisher, is to join the States hav-
ing commissions studying the in-
crease in crime and seeking more ef-
fective methods of combating it. The
Pennsylvania commission will have
eight members, two of whom shall be
prosecuting attorneys, two judges of
common pleas courts, one a member
of the Senate and another of the
House, and two others, at least one
of whom shall have had experience
in social welfare work. The spirit of
this seems to aim at obtaining prac-
tical results, with four of the mem-
bers experienced in criminal prosecu-
tion and with the defects in the lay
or court procedure that favor the
criminal. Judges and prosecuting at-
torneys alike have complained that
their hands have been tied byathe law
in respect of certain points where
common: sense and the interests of
justice demand that they be free. Yet
' the State but recently had a commis-
i sion created by the Legislature to re-
vise the Penal Code. Created by a
resolution of the session of 1917 and
continued by other sessions, its final
report was submitted in 1925, but
with practically no action taken on
it. This makes clear that if results
are to be obtained by the crime com-
mission, the public will have to be
aroused to effective support of it.
The way to arouse that support is
i to get the facts of what is wrong with
law enforcement in the State and lay
‘them fearlessly before the public.
Let the public recognize that its own
! attitude of indifference in. many in-
stances is, as always in a democratic
government, .the main defect. Where
the citizenship is alert. and bearing
fully its part of the responsibility of
government the criminal laws are not
allowed to become full of loopholes
for violators or courts and prosecu-
“tors to neglect their duties or betray
: their trusts. 4
By all means point out what de-
i fects there are in the law and in court
, procedure, but at the same time ex-
| pose mercilessly the public author-
ities who may not be doing their duty
under the laws that are held sound.
It is but common sense that the
{ first thing to do—and performance of
tit can and should start right now
| without waiting for any word {rom -a
; commission—is to rid the State of the
. crime-breeding resorts that have de-
——A Philadelphia contemporary that “this administration is not going | veloped by vice protection through
treason on the part of the public au-
i thorities whose duty it is to suppress
i them. Treason is the only word to ap-
i ply to that condition. Officers entrust-
i ed with public protection and enforce-
ment of the law have entered into
"of Great Britain may be made at any partnership with the enemy for a
hour of the day between 6:30 a. m. share of the spoils.
‘and 5 p. m., eastern standard time, involves exposure—and should bring
corresponding with 12:30 p. m. and 11 Prosecution—of the corrupt politi-
St . : . p. m. summer time in Great Britain. | ¢ians who interfere with the police
ate Treasurer Lewis mules com. 2 | service or themselves traffic in privi- |
This, of course,
| leges for law violation.
A crime commission that would ig-
nore the political grafting that un-
dermines law enforcement could
scarcely make an effective report.
The demand is for the bringing out
of the whole truth. With all the
facts before it fearlessly, the public
would be aroused to support the ac-
tion required.
Lindbergh’s Victory.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The astonishing feat of the amaz-
ing and youthful Mr. Lindbergh is
wonderfully spectacular and soul-
thrilling from every point of view.
Here is a boy of whom comparative-
ly few persons had ever heard a fort-
night ago. Like young Lochinvar, he
comes out of the West, and, undeter-
red by the fate of two far more ex-
perienced aviators, he accomplishes
that which no man had ever done be-
fore—a non-stop flight of 3600 miles
across watery wastes of the Altantic
in unprecedentedly rapid time.
And the youngster did it in such a
casual fashion, too. Starting alone,
with only a few hours’ sleep to invig-
orate him for unknown perils, with
five sandwiches to sustain his bodily
strength and with insufficient equip-
ment in his plane to guide him in his
flight and to insure reasonable pre-
caution against disaster, he sails
through the air at splendid speed and
reaches his destination hours before
he had been expected. The perform-
ance is one that recalls the dashing
D’Artagnan and should appeal espec-
ially to the imaginative French, who
greeted him with wild enthusiasm.
It really is one of those achievements
that stand out in human history be-
cause of their unique interest, and for
which the impetuosity and magnifi-
cent self-confidence of youth are es-
sential.
Still we venture to hope that other
aviators will not be spurred on to at-
tempt trans-atlantic flights in the too
foolhardly fashion of Captain Lind-
bergh. His supreme audacity has
carried him safely through many dan-
gers of which he was probably un-
aware, but such luck is not likely to
repeat itself often. If aviation is to
make headway as a reasonably safe
method of travel too great precau-
tions cannot be taken for the safe-
guarding of human lives. Young
indbergh has accomplished a mag-
nificent stunt, for which he is deserv-
ing of the highest praise, but his
methods should not find any imitators.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYTSONE.
—Accused of beating his 9-year-old step
nephew with a metal hose, Francis’ Crow-
ley, 53, of Philadelphia, was sentenced to
three years in prison by Judge McDevitt.
—Windows were shattered in a score
of homes, and many persons within a
radius of ten miles were hurled from their
beds when two mills at the Moosic plant
of the E. I. Dupont De Nemours company
in Lackawanna county, blew up on Sun-
day. The blast was heard within a radius
of twenty miles. ’
—Harry E. Keller, of Coatesville, was
awarded a verdict of $2750 in his damage
suit against the Conestoga Traction com-
pany, of Lancaster, by a jury on Saturday.
He had sued for $25,000, claiming that a
pipe extending from the side of a car
fractured a leg as he was walking beside
the tracks. He was in the Coatesville hos-
pital for 26 weeks.
—The wheels of justice in Montour
county are becoming rusty. There has
been no jury trial in the courts of the
county for a year, and jurors who had
been summoned for the May term of court,
opening on Monday, were notified not. to
appear as there were no cases for their
consideration. - Montour county officials
fear if the condition continues they will
forget the usual procedure, for the next
term of court is not scheduled until Octo-
ber.
—-Putting $1600 in a tin box with a
package of bills produced by two strang-
ers who were “negotiating” for the pur-
chase of his gasoline station near Baums-
town, Berks county, Jacob Schostak is
minus the $1600. The strangers left the
bex, carefully sealed, in his possession,
while they went away for a meal. After
three hours Schostak began to worry and
ripped off the tin cover with a can open-
er. He found newspapers, cut to dollar
bill size and three dollar bills.
—Working together in accordance with
well-laid plans, two men stole 12 diamond
rings, valied at approximately $2,000 from
the Acklin Jewelry company, Tyrone,
about noon Thursday, and made a clean
getaway before the theft was discovered.
Taking advantage of thé noon hour, when
only one salesman was in the establish-
ment, one of the men took the tray con-
taining the rings from a display window
while his companion held the salesman’s
sttention in another part of the store.
—The blonde preference of her gentle-
man friend was worth exactly $1265 to
Miss Annie Vinceno, New York brunette,
in the eyes of a Schuylkill county jury,
which last Saturday awarded her that
amount in her breach of promise suit
against Stanley Domin, of Coaldale. She
alleged she was to have been married to
Stanley until he met and wed a blonde.
The verdict is supposed te reimburse her
for mental and heart anguish and the
money she expended in her wedding
trousseau.
—John P. Hoagland, 21, son of former
Mayor A. M. Hoagland, of Williamsport,
who was shot and seriously wounded by
Dr. J. D. Coney early last week when he
attempted to attract the attention of Dr.
Coney’'s daughter by climbing over a
porch roof to her bedroom window, is un-
able to make any statement yet owing to
his critical condition. He was wounded
twice before Dr. Coney or his daughter
recognized the young man. Both families
are prominent and no action has been tak-
en by the police.
—Coming into contact with a live wire
carrying 2,300 volts while helping to tear
down a carnival on the Conemaugh show
grounds, at Johnstown, Daniel Brown,
aged 40, of Elberta, Ga., a member of the
carnival, was almost electrocuted early on
Monday. The victim was severely burned
and is in a serious condition in the Memo-
rial hospital. In an attempted rescue, an-
other carnival man was badly burned
about the hands.” Brown's life was saved
by the means of artificial respiration, ap-
plied by two safety experts from the
Cambria Steel Works.
—Convicted of having robbed George
Novak, of Centreville, Washington county.
a guest in her home, of $1,500 after he had
become intoxicated from wine, Mrs. Annie
Casola, aged 38, of Centreville, was sen-
tenced to the Industrial School for Women
at Muncy on Monday, by Judge James I.
Brownson. She was also ordered to re-
store Novak’s money to him, but she stub-
bornly insisted she had not secured it.
Novak carried $1,500 on his person, in-
tending to use the money in making a trip
' to his native home in Europe. After he
| had “wined and dined” at the Casola home
| he discovered that his money was miss-
ing. ’
-—John D. Shaffer, Marion Hunter, and
Charles E. Forbes, members of the Pon-
haus gun club, of Huntingdon, were ma-
rooned in their club camp Saturday night,
by the playful operations of two black
bears, who had gained entrance on the
first floor. Fearing to attack the bears
without fire-arms, which were on the
lower floor, the clubmen were kept im-
prisoned for twelve hours, before their
forest tormenters withdrew. In apprais-
ing their losses on venturing below, the
men found that the bears had devoured
and destroyed a bucket of maple sugar,
three hams, several cartons of breakfast
food and a score of jars of preserved
fruit.
-—A steam shovel engaged in subway
construction, in Lancaster, scooped up a
sedan motor car last Friday, turning it
upside down and spilling out its owaer,
Harry Sarn, of Park Terrace West. Sarn
fell a little to one side, and when the
steam shovel dropped his car from a
height of eighteen or twenty feet an in-
stant later, it did not strike him. Never-
theless, his left shoulder blade and col-
lar bone were broken. He was taken to
the Columbia hospital. The automobile
wasn’t worth taking anywhere. Emil
Schuler, who was operating the steam
shovel, said that a mistake had been made.
His assistant, he said, should have warn-
ed Mr. Sarn that the shovel was shoveling.
—A. 8. Baumiller, former assistant
treasurer of the Commonwealth Trust
company, of Harrisburg held for embez-
zlement of approximately $700,000 of the
bank’s funds will face seventeen charges,
the district attormey’s office announced
last ¥riday. He will be called to trial at
the next session of quarter sessions court
which opens on May 31. Six charges will
be brought against Charles A. Delone,
proprietor of a cut rate store, who is un-
der bail of $20,000 on charges of conspir-
acy and evading and abetting in embez-
zlement. Two indictments of conspiracy
and two of forgery will face Edward J.
Glancey, former treasurer of the institu-
tion. Four other employees of the
bank. will be called to trial at the same
There must be limits to even his luck. | time.