Brunia
INK SLINGS.
—Senator Jim Watson is the
Barkus in the Republican dilemma.
He’s willin’ to be their candidate for
President.
—Bellefonte kids were very unhap-
py on Tuesday. They are always un-
happy when they have to do some-
thing they don’t want to do and
mighty few of them wanted to start
back to school.
—Already the wise guys have the
heavy weight crown back on Demp-
sey’s head. It will be recalled that
these same wise guys laid heavy
money that Tunney couldn’t knock it
off a year ago.
—Have you ever known a Septem-
ber with grass, flowers and foliage
looking as verdant as they do now?
There is little in nature except the
cool nights to indicate that fall is only
twelve days off.
—Just by way of making a predic-
tion based on no firmer foundation
than gossip of Republicans who
should know Frantz and Wilson are
slated to pull down their party’s
nomination for County Commissioner.
—It is still a neck and neck race
for the Republican nomination for
Judge. According to our dope the
week has brought little change in the
situation. If there has been any at all
it has been Judge Furst’s neck that’s
grown slightly longer.
—Talking about birth control. Why
the necessity forit? Let babies come,
then buy them an aeroplane and in-
terpose no objection when they want
to start oceanic hops. The auto and
the airplane are almost certain insur-
-ance against over population.
— After the primaries we shall have
something to say about some of these
gentlemen who are saying so much
about themselves in the political ad-
vertisements appearing in the Watch-
man. We grant that they have been
telling the truth, but not quite all of
it.
—In these days, when the air is
.so full of political gas, women whose
faith has been shattered by the
erratic electric service to the com-
munity, might be interested in know-
ing that a project is afoot to give
both Bellefonte, State College and
possibly Pleasant Gap the real arti-
-cle.
—C. M. Parrish, local druggist and
long time resident of Bellefonte, has
filed papers and his name will appear
on the Democratic ballot as an aspir-
ant for nomination as County Com-
missioner, instead of that of the late
John Yearick. The candidacy of Mr.
Parrish gives the voters of our party
three from whom to select its two
nominees.
—Chatles “Evans Hughes is home
from Europe and predicts that Cool-
idge will accept a renomination and be
elected. He didn’t, however, repeat
the declaration he made some time
ago to the effect that he is too old to
think of running himself. If Cal.
sticks to his “I do not choose to run”
program Charles Evans will grow
twenty years younger over night.
—The Iowa ladies who have sug-
gested Mrs. Woodrow Wilson as the
nominee for Vice President on the
Democratic ticket must have forgot-
ten that the beautiful Edith Bolling
won her way into the affections of the
American people through the very
traits of modesty, as first lady of the
land, that would make her shun any
attempt to exploit her marital rela-
tions with a martyred President.
—The death of Wayne B. Wheeler
has removed the most dynamic force
associated with the cause of Prohi-
‘bition enforcement in the United
States. He had become so powerful
“in the cause he represented as to have
‘been credited with actually holding a
whip hand over Congress. He was an
-able lawyer, but it was his gift as a
political manipulator that made him
so powerful in the lobby at Washing-
ton. It is not at all with disrespect
that we say that “there’ll be many a
-dry eye” in Congress over his passing.
—We have heard enough to indicate
that some of our readers think it
strange that a Democratic paper
should carry advertising of Republi-
can office seekers. Without going into
a lengthy discussion of what might
appear as an anomalous position we
want to make two statements, the
first of which will doubtless be a sur-
prise to a great many. It is this:
“The Watchman probably has as many
Republican readers as Democratic.
The other is the fact that outside of
‘its price for subscription, which
doesn’t pay for the white paper and
type-setting, the Watchman hasn’t a
‘thing to sell but advertising space.
And by all the ethics of business it
"has as much right to sell that to any
purveyor of legitimate goods as a doc-
tor of Democratic political beliefs has
to sell his professional services to a
Republican patient or as a Repub-
lican lawyer to serve a Democratic
client. The Watchman is Democratic
from principle. It is not dependent
on what it gets from the party. If
it were it would have ceased to exist
long ago, for the Democrat isn’t liv-
ing or dead who was ever charged a
cent for any support this paper gave
him after he became the regular nom-
inee of our party for the office he
~sought. And while we are saying it
we might as well add that the Watch-
man has paid a mighty high price in
business for its steadfast loyalty to
its party candidates, a number of
whom have turned to bite the hand
that fed them.
VOL. 72.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE. PA. SEPTEMBER 9.
1927.
NO. 35.
er ——————
Fighting to Prevent Exposure.
The purpose which Senator James
A. Reed, of Missouri, had in mind in
calling the Slush Fund committee,
the Senate committee of Privileges
and Elections and the Pennsylvania
Senatorial candidates of last year
into conference, at Chicago, is left to
conjecture. Presumably it is to devise
methods for impounding the ballot
boxes used at the election of 1926 in
all the districts, as requested by the
committee on Privileges and Elec- |
But there is little time to ac-
The meeting
tions.
complish that result.
was called for the 7th, day before yes- |
terday, and the primary election will
be held on the 20th, less than two
weeks later. It would be a physical
impossibility to form and execute a
plan within that time.
As the Watchman has repeatedly
said there is no use in assembling all
the Pennsylvania ballot boxes used in
the election of last year to determine
which of the candidates for Senator
was actually and honestly elected. No
question has been raised as to the in-
tegrity of the vote in any of the coun-
ties except Philadelphia, Allegheny,
Delaware, Lackawanna, Luzerne and
Schuylkill. The boxes for Philadel-
phia, Allegheny and Delaware have
already been impounded, the first two
in Washington and the other in the
court house at Media. Unless suffi-
cient frauds to overcome the majority
claimed for Vare in those six coun-
ties is shown there can be no chance
for declaring the election of Mr. Wil-
son.
Probably Senator Jim Reed’s pur-
pose was to laugh Dave Reed’s smoke
screen out of court. He may have
imagined that by revealing the
absurdity of impounding the ballot
boxes of sixty counties in which there
is not even a shadow of suspicion
that Senator Watson would be
shamed into withdrawing the request
of the committee on Privileges and
Elections to waste money and energy
in such wanton manner. In partisan
matters Senator Watson can’t be
shamed. He knows the purpose of
the call for all the boxes was to de-
feat an investigation of the frauds in
the six counties where it is not a
question of “suspicion, but a matter of
actual knowledge, that frauds were
perpetrated, and hopes to prevent the
exposure.
——1In the elections in Turkey, the
other day, the Kemel delegates won.
Kemel had appointed all the candi-
dates for all the parties. He has just
a shade the better of Bill Vare in
politics.
Worthy Effort to Save Life.
The American Bar association, in
session at Buffalo, last week, started
a movement which ought to, and prob-
ably will, meet with universal ap-
proval. Its purpose is to decrease, if
not entirely prevent, the “loss of lives
in unworthy” air ships. A resolution
was introduced by Chester W. Cut-
hell, of New York, chairman of the
association’s air law committee, which
“pledged members of the association
to urge Congress to pass legislation
extending the powers of the Secretary
of Commerce to include regulation of
such flights.” Under existing law his
authority to regulate is limited to air
craft engaged in, or operated for,
commercial enterprises.
In support of his resolution, which
was unanimously adopted, Mr. Cut-
hell stated that during recent trans-
oceanic flights twenty-five lives have
been lost, if all reported missing are
dead. This is altogether too high a
toll on human life for carelessness
or inefficiency in enterprises of doubt-
ful value. In so far as the operations
have contributed to the development
of the science of aviation they are
worth some sacrifices. The army and
navy enterprises may have been
worth-while, for they were in the
nature of experiments for useful pur-
poses. But most of them, for example
the venture of Mr. Levine and that of
the Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim,
had no higher purpose than personal
ambition.
The same may be said of the recent
competitive flight from California to
Hawaii and the venture from Bruns-
wick, Georgia, to Brazil. It is difficult
to imagine any real value from such
enterprises yet they enlist public in-
terest and human sympathy goes out
freely and properly to the victims of
failure. If there can be devised a
plan by which the Secretary of Com-
merce or some other agent of govern-
ment may exercise authority to pre-
vent adventurous fools from attempt-
ing hazardous flights in inadequately
equipped machines it will meet with
popular approval. Such ventures may
be polite methods of committing sui-
cide but even at that they ought to be
discouraged.
rm —— A —————
——The week-end automobile death
rate continues to increase and the
reckless driving is to blame as usual.
| Enveloping Hughes in Mystery.
Mr. Charles E. Hughes, former
Governor of New York, former Jus-
{ tice of the Supreme court, former
| candidate for President and now the
{leading corporation lawyer of the
‘ country, returned from Europe, on
! Monday, and promptly registered as
[ among those who believe Mr. Cool-
| idge’s “do not choose” declaration was
| an electioneering gesture. Mr.
i Hughes had been widely considered
i as a probable candidate for the nomi-
| nation in the event that Coolidge is
| really out of the race and was prompt-
ily sounded on the subject upon his
{ arrival in New York. His reply was:
“TI think President Coolidge will be
renominated and re-elected. I do not
i think it is necessary to say anything
| more than I have already said.”
Strangely enough the political ex-
perts in Washington, according to the
newspaper correspondents, interpret
this as meaning that in the event that
Coolidge is not a candidate Mr.
Hughes “is willing to answer his
party’s summons.” All that he had
previously said was that in 1929 he
would be too old and it is not easy to
see how that can be construed as
| expressing a willingness to run. Still
these experts have various ways of
constructing opinions and approach-
ing conclusions. They have differed
widely in interpreting the Coolidge
curiously worded message to the pub-
lic on the subject, and may have rea-
sons unknown to the average mind
for enveloping the Hughes statement
in mystery.
It is of great importance to Mr.
Hughes’ corporate clients that the
next President is in full sympathy
with their methods and purposes. Mr.
Coolidge is entirely satisfactory to
them, and at the time Mr. Hughes
referred to his age handicap it was
generally understood and fully believ-
ed that Mr. Coolidge would be re-
nominated. But in the event that he
actually means to retire there is no
other man in the entire list of “Bar-
kuses” who would meet the require-
ments as completely as Mr. Hughes.
He is by nature educated and by en-
vironment the type of man the cor-
porate interests could depend on to
continue the policies through which,
Mr. Coolidge has made the corporate
managers masters of the government.
| ——The Boston professor who will-
i ed $10,000 to remain in trust and ac-
‘cumulate interest for 100 years gave
little comfort and less help to the
1
| present generation.
i
Sad Situation for the Machine.
On the morning of the first regis-
tration day in Philadelphia one hun-
dred of the division registrars refused
to enter upon the duties of the office
for which they had just a short time
before been appointed. All these men
probably went to considerable trouble
and possibly some expense to secure
the appointments. The ten dollars a
day compensation for the service
would have “come in handy” to most
of them after the comparatively light
labor involved in the brief service.
But without reason or explanation
they declined to take the oath of office
and the risk, and put the Registration
Commission to the trouble of securing
substitutes.
But even in the absence of explana-
tion the reasons for the surprising
action are obvious. These minor offi-
cials were placed literally “between
the devil and the deep sea.” The chair- |
man of the board of Registration
Commissioners and the district at-
days previously, issued a warning that
every violator of the law governing
the process of registration would be
prosecuted and punished, and the
timid registrars knew that Mr. Bren-
nan and Mr. Fox meant business. On
the other hand the Vare machine had
them named on an implied condition
that the registration would be padded
as usual and that disappointment of
expectations along those lines would
be severely punished.
So there they stood within the
shadow of an uncertain but condign
punishment whether they did right or
wrong. It was a case of “heads I win
and tails you lose,” and they imagined
there might be immunity in dodging
and dodged. It is true they have
escaped the penalty of violating the
law because there is no punishment
they have lost the reward the machine
pays generously for registering dead
men and dogs in order that crooks
may subsequently stuff the ballot
boxes with fraudulent votes. It is a
sad situation for the machine and the
crooks and has fooled nobody. A
blind man can see why they refused
tc serve and honest men will vote
against the machine because of it.
——-Whatever euphemistic name
the veterinarians adopt a good many
people will still call them horse doe-
tors.
torney of Philadelphia had only a few |
for declining such public service. But |
Various Forms of Slavery.
Glenn Frank, president of the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin and a graceful
writer on subjects of human interest,
recently said, “the average school boy
probably thinks of slavery as a thing
that disappeared when Lincoln signed
the proclamation of emancipation.
But a recent survey made by the
slavery commission of the League of
Nations uncovered the fact that there
are still about 500,000,000 human
throughout the world.”
slavery exists in twenty countries,
two millions in Abyssinia and two mil-
lions in China, the balance being in
various other parts of the world. A
considerable number have been freed
since the world war and the good
work is still going on.
These slaves are held in bondage as
the negro slaves were held in the
Southern States before the Civil war
but, Dr. Frank says, “there are less
obvious but highly objectionable
and even in the United States. We
have slaves to illiteracy, we have
slaves to bad heredity, we have
slaves to bad environment, we have
slaves to soul-killing routine, we have
slaves to preventable accidents in in-
dustry,” and he continues, “we have
slaves to preventable diseases.” All
these forms of slavery “cry aloud for
emancipation no less than the slaves
in Africa.” They are with us and
shame us but no concerted or adequate
effort has been made thus far to re-
move them.
There is another form of slavery,
much too common in this country and
especially in this State, quite as
obvious and even more odious than
that in China and Abyssinia. It is
the slavery to the political boss,
which Dr. Frank has omitted from
his list of evils. Slavery to illiteracy,
killing routine, preventable accidents
and diseases are bad enough, but they
reveal none of the atrocities of human
bondage so flagrantly as the slavery
to the political boss who, like Simon
Lagree, slashed his whip over the
naked bodies of his victims.
fair-minded men and women.
——Half the Democratic National
committeemen favor repeal of the
: two-thirds rule, according to a poll by
, the New York World, but half is not
a majority, and besides it’s a matter
, for the convention to decide.
Loyd Bertaud and John D. Hill Lost
| in Atlantic Ocean.
{ Loyd Bertaud and John DeWitt
I Hill, the two airmail pilots who sailed
away from Old Orchard, Maine, on
| Tuesday morning, on a flight to Rome
lin their monoplane “Old Glory,” car-
rying with them as a passenger Philip
Payne, are down in the great wastes
of the Atlantic ocean and there is
| grave fears that all have perished.
{An S.0.S. call was sent out by the
ship at four o'clock on Wednesday
morning, giving its location at about
500 miles off Newfoundland.
A dozen ships plying the sea sped to
the assistance of the daring aviators
but up to this time have found not
even a trace of the ship or men. The
fliers had with them a collapsible boat
and a supply of flares and rockets,
{ and if they had time to float the boat
{ would be able to survive for several
| days.
Both Bertaud and Hill are well
'known in Bellefonte, having piloted
| airmail planes between New York
i and Cleveland during the past four or
| five years, and their many friends
ered are still hoping that they may be
ound.
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Treating Criminal Insane at Rockview.
been established at
|
A ward has
| Rockview penitentiary for the treat-
‘ment of the criminally insane as one
i of the means of relieving the over-
crowded condition at Fairview. Sev- |
| eral months ago, when State authori-
ities were confronted with the fact
{ that the Fairview institution was so
i overcrowded as to render adequate
treatment and care of the inmates
impossible, arrangements were made
‘to open wards at each of the three
_penitentiaries in the State and the one
at Rockview was established during
July.
Dr. Asa Hickok, an eminent phy-
chiatrist, formerly of Fairview, is in
charge and at the present time the
though it has a total capacity
of forty. Dr. Hickok is an enthusi-
ast in his profession and is strong
in his belief that all manner of crime
has its origin in a certain form of in-
sanity, and if the man or woman can
be cured of insanity he or she will
lose their criminal instincts and hab-
its. And it is to this end that he is
devoting his life’s work.
—Subscribe for the Watchman,
beings in bondage here and there
He adds that °
forms of slavery at the present time, |
bad heredity, bad environment, soul-’
That is '
i upreme evil in. American life
: challenges the resentment of all
| ward has ten patients, or inmates, al- |
One Dollar in 500 Years.
From the Pittsburgh Post.
A Michigan man has deposited one
dollar in a bank, directing that it be
kept at compound interest 500 years
and the total then be distributed to
his male descendants. Bankers cal-
culated that at three per cent, the
fund will be $2,900,000.
Some calculating may be done on
the other side. It is possible that in the
year 2,427 the founder may have 100,
000 male descendants, in which case
each will receive $29, less administra-
tion costs. The fund may amount to
less, or more; the descendants may
exceed 100,000, or fall far below.
i Benjamin Franklin in his will left
i the tons of Boston and Philadelphia
{one thousand pounds each. He di-
| rected them to “let out the same upon
i interest at five per cent. per annum
to such young married artificers,
| under the age of 25, as have served
. an apprenticeship. . . .and faithfully
| fulfilled the duties required. . . . so
| as to obtain a good moral character
i from at least two respectable citizens,
| who are willing to become their sure-
ties . .for the repayment of the monies
| so lent, with interest.” In 100 years,
i Franklin calculated, each fund would
amount to 131,000 pounds. Nothing
of the kind happened. Boston’s fund
: contained $391,000 in 1891, Philadel-
i phia’s less than $100,000. If Frank-
-lin had been ambitious to establish a
| great family it would interest him
i now to know that no descendant bears
! his name.
In a letter written a short time be-
fore his death Franklin wrote the
last words on this subject:
world nothing is certain but death
and taxes.” /
| Food Handler Arrested at Grange
Fair,
Bernard Wolfe, of Lockport, Maine,
i a food handler, operating a concession
jo the Grange fair, in Centre Hall,
during the encampment was arrested
by state health officer J. L. Tressel,
Bellefonte, who was on duty in Centre
county. Information was made by Mr.
D. W. Miller, state health in tor
from the Harrisburg office ore
Squire Cyrus Brungard, of Centre
Hall. The violator was selling “Aunt
Priscilla Fudge” and the evidence in
. the case was to the effect that Wolfe
was warned by Mr. Miller, at the
Lewistown. fair several weeks fro $0
‘protect his food from flies a st”
as required by the health law. On
August 29, he was also warned by
Mr. Tressel while making a sanitary
inspection of his stand, to properly
protect his food stuff as required by
the health law. On the 31st of Au-
gust a reinspection was made by the
state inspectors Miller and Tressel
and Wolfe was again warned to abide
by the law and was threatened with
arrest if he did not heed the numer-
ous warnings. At noon the insanitary
condition still existed and it was at
this time that he was arrested and
taken to Centre Hall. At the hearing
he entered a plea of guilty and was
released upon the payment of $15 fine
and costs and with a severe reprimand
by the Justice. This case should serve
as a lesson to all food handlers in
Pennsylvania.
There were 126 good handlers on
the fair grounds and 50 eating stands
were inspected by the state health
inspectors. An increase of 33 em-
ployees and 16 stands over that of
last year. All food handlers were
; equipped with health certificates as re-
quired by the health law.
i vs rg mm mmemeien
i
Bellefonte Troopers at Altoona Horse
Show.
+ A half dozen or more members of
| the headquarters troop and Troop B,
52nd machine gun squadron, of Belle-
. fonte, attended the horse show, held
tin Altoona on Sunday . In the rid-
i ing contests Lieut. C. W. Roberts, of
the headquarters troop, took first
prize. In the enlisted men’s jumping
| contest H. T. Howard, of Bellefonte,
won first prize, T. J. Garbrick second
and P. Fanning third. The show was
in charge of Major H. Laird Curtin,
president of the association.
———In Labor Day addresses to
members of the organization officials
of the American Federation of Labor
urge support of candidates who are
i friendly to labor interests.
When it comes down to staging big
fights Centre county will put on one
| on the 20th that will make the affair
'in Chicago, two days later, look like
: a pink tea.
i rn Es
| ——If it be true that Mrs. Eddy
has been born again and is now twelve
| years old there is no telling what
will happen to the spiritual life in the
future.
Henry Ford is threatened with
!new trouble. Mme. Schwimmer de-
mands that he absolve her of blame
for the failure of the peace expedi-
| tion.
|
The Philadelphia bandits who
took the shoes off their victim’s feet
used their heads as well as their guns.
——It is a happy registration that
promises victory to the managers of
both parties.
“In this.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYTSONE.
—James DeHaas, of Castanea, fell from
a coal tipple late Saturday afternoon and
fractured his skull.
—Returning as mysteriously as it disap-
peared. $1,000 worth of silverware taken
from the home of Mrs Maude Bennett, at
Sunbury, three weeks ago was found on the
doorstep early last Wednesday morning,
ending a widespread search by the police.
—The Bell Telephne Co., of Pennsyl-
vania, has asked f%e Interstate Cmmerce
Commission for uuthority to acquire the
properties of the Huntingdon and Clear-
field Telephone Co., for $500,000, and the
properties of the Summerville Telephone
Co., for $400,000.
—Returning after spending the summer
at their country home, Mr. and Mrs. John
B. Campbell found their residence in Ty-
rone completely ransacked, everything of
value being removed. All the silverware
and dishes and much of the furniture had
been hauled away and the loss amounts to
$8000.
—M. E. Honetter, Mill Hall merchant,
left his home Sunday a week ago, stating
that he was going to Clearfield to look for
work, and has not been heard of since. It
is said that he was confronted with a
number of outstanding bills which he was
unable to collect, and was in financial dif-
ficulties.
—Convicted of arson two years ago,
George Nehas, of Monessen, on Saturday
was sentenced to from five to ten years in
the western penitentiary. He walked from
the courtroom when his trial closed two
vears ago and disappeared. State police
traced him through many States and last
week he was arrested in the West.
—Plunging into water up to his neck,
Robert Pegg saved the life of his super-
jor, Master Mechanic Robert Reeves, in
the depths of the Pike mine, near Browns-
ville, Pa., after Reeves had suffered a
fractured skull as the result of a burst-
ing cylinder head. Reeves was unconscious
when taken from the water, but will re-
cover.
—Land granted Bucknell University
promises to be one of the greatest boons
ever given the school judging from the
prices of property near it. Two hundred
and fifty acres of land was given the school
by Dr. James Schwartz, New York. It lies
in the center of a land development near
Alexanderia, Va., near Washington. It is
valued at more than $500,000.
— Believed to have lost his grip and
fallen to the tracks while ‘riding the
rails” an unidentified youth was almost
instantly killed while traveling from Lilly
to Cresson early Tuesday night. A brown
felt hat, carrying the stamp of an Altoona
haberdasher, provided the only clue to
his identity, and lead to the belief that the
boy was a resident of that city.
—Beeoming angry because Edward
O'Hara, a Negro, tried to persuade hig
sister-in-law to leave a festival with him,
Neal Williams, also colored, is alleged to
have shot and instantly killed O'Hara at
Claysburg, Blair county, Monday night.
All parties resided in Roaring Springs.
Williams escaped and state and county
authorities are searching for him.
_—While attempting to hang up a siab
of bacon in the butcher shop of Harry M.
Beyer, at Pottstown, by whom he is em-
ployed, Raymond Reisnyder ran a large
meat hook into his left arm as a box on
whieh he was- standing tilted. Fellow-
workmen went to his assistance as he hung
in midair, suspended by the hook. The
flesh of his arm was horribly mangled.
—A resourceful Pittsburgh bride-elect
last week refused to permit the arrest of
her prospective husband to interfere with
her wedding plans. A few hours before
his scheduled march to the altar, Stanley
Folick was taken to a police station,
charged with the theft of §95. As the hour
for the ceremony approached, the bride
rushed into the police station and obtain-
ed Folick’s release by depositing $120 for
his appearance at a hearing the next day.
She already had the license.
—Philadelphia’s gold rush is over. After
four days of diligent digging along the
Parkway, where earth excavated from a
building operation has been dumped, the
gold mine has petered out. In the four-
day period of the rush, the hundreds of
men, women and children who swarmed
over the shifting mass of earth and debris
in sunshine and in storm found gold coins
in denominations of $20, $10 and $5,
amounting in all to about $3,000. Some of
the golden discs were minted by the United
States as far back as 1836.
—A new high record for week-end travel
over the Delaware river bridge was re-
corded at the bridge commission office in
Philadelphia, on Tuesday, when the toll
collectors’ reports showed that during the
three day Labor day holiday, 135,051 ve-
hicles crossed the span for which $33,746
was collected in tolls. Monday's travel
was 50,995 vehicles, which paid $12,599 in
tolls. The peak of the homeward travel
from seashore points was reached between
9 and 10 p. m., when motor cars crossed
at the rate of 93 a minute.
—On the verge of collapse because her
youthful husband is said to have refused
to see her, Mrs. Grant Young, 24, pretty
Northumberland matron, is in the county
jail at Sunbury after being returned from
Baltimore where police said she confessed
to forging $124 in checks. Baltimore police
said Mrs. Young walked into the city hall
there and said she was “tired being hunt-
ed.” She had been sought in four States
for the past several months. Taken back
to Sunbury, she fainted in her cell when
tcld her husband had refused to see her.
—Frank Thompson, occupant of the chair
of electricity at Rutgers University, New
Brunswick, N. J., fell from a third story
window in the rear of the Coleman Hotel,
Lewistown, Pa., at noon on Sunday, and
died before medical aid could reach him.
He was born at Milroy 57 years ago, a son
of Rev. Samuel Thompson, a Presbyterian
minister, was graduated from Princeton
in 1924 and was a frequent visitor in Lew-
istown, the guest of his cousin, Andrew
Thompson, of the Thompson Knitting
Mills. He went to Lewistown on August
20 for a two weeks’ vacation.
—The First Methodist congregation at
Blomsburg has fixed September 18 for the
dedication of the new church school build-
ing, erected at a cost of $60.000. Bishop
McDowell and District Superintendent
Swartz will be the speakers at the dedi-
cation services and on the three days pre-
ceding. Rev. Dr. E. R. Heckman, of Clear-
field; Rev. Dr. A. L. Miller, of Lewistown,
and Rev. C. W. Wasson, of Altoona, form-
er pastors of the church, will be the other
speakers. The new building will house
the Sunday school and recreational and
social activities of the congregation, which
is the largest in the Central Pennsylvania
Conference, with nearly 1500 members.