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Bewori an
INK SLINGS.
. —The calendar to the contrary not-
withstanding next Tuesday will be
‘the first day of fall for a lot of aspir-
ants for public office.
—Governor Fisher didn’t tarry as
long in the county as he was expected
to have done. Of course there was a
reason, but what was it?
—Everybody who can possibly get
‘there should go to the primary on
‘Tuesday. Candidates for all of the
county, borough and township offices
are to be named and it should be the
-aim of both parties to name strong
tickets.
—AIll we can say about the situa-
tion is that Fleming’s friends are
cock-sure that he will carry off the
Republican nomination for Judge on
Tuesday and Judge Furst’s advocates
are just as sure that he will land a
winner.
—Wreckage of “Old Glory,” the
‘trans-Atlantic air ship has been found
at sea. A grim reminder of the fate
of the three daring men who took
their lives in their hands when they
launched their attempt of a non-stop
flight to Rome.
—If you want to be convinced that
Monday is no longer “wash day” in
thousands of homes in Centre county
go out to the aviation field next Mon-
day and view the crowd that will as-
semble to watch the Class B fliers, in
the National air derby, check in.
—If we were to believe all the
stories that have been whispered to us
during the last week we would almost
have to believe that the Republicans
in Centre county are as bad as those
whom Elihu Root accused as “mas-
querading as Republicans” in Phila-
delphia. We don’t believe half of it.
—The west coast of Mexico has
‘been devastated by hurricanes and
‘tidal waves, the island of Kiushiu,
Japan, has been almost obliterated by
‘a typhoon and the former Kaiser of
‘Germany predicts another world war
in 1937. Gosh, what a cloud to rise
up on the horizon of these beautiful
August days that we are enjoying in
September.
—The political dopesters have it
that Holtzworth has the Republican
momination for County Treasurer
sewed up. They say that he will come
over the mountain from Philipsburg
and the Rushes so strong that the
vote on this side, divided between can-
didates Harnish, Hurley and Long,
won’t leave any of them with strength
enough to stop him.
—Who do you suppose Judge Furst
has reference to in the latest issuance
of his campaign propaganda? He in-
sinuates that somebody is “tearing
down” the Republican party while he
‘is ‘building it-up.~ We should like very
much to know just who this person is.
We’d like to hold him up and grab
his recipe. We've been trying for
forty years te tear the darned thing
down and we’ve never shown enough
results to motivate any Republican
“into paying for a half-page advertise-
ment to warn his party against our
nefarious endeavors.
—Of course the Governor’s visit to
“Centre county Wednesday wasn’t
timed to get his finger in the judicial
contest that has about reached white-
“heat. He came up to visit the State-
-aid institutions in the county. Gov-
ernors seem to have a habit of bob-
"bing up around here just about
the time we are having a lot of fun.
You will recall that Pinchot arrived
“in the county just before his appointee
was going to bat to try for a home
run to the Bench. The Philipsburg
‘brewery raid was the grandstand play
then and we are wondering what this
visit is to develop by way of excite-
‘ment.
—To say the least the attitude of
"H. E. Holtzworth in the present cam-
paign is a bit daring. He is an as-
pirant for nomination on the Repub-
“lican ticket for County Treasurer.
* While all other candidates are giving
an exhibition of sitting on the fence
in the matter of judicial preference
Howard has publicly declared his
advocacy of Mr. Fleming’s candidacy.
It is unusual and typical, but can be
explained by the fact that Holtzworth
is strong in most of the territory in
which Fleming is strongest. This is
not because of any combination they
might have, but because much of Mr.
Holtzworth’s business activities have
been among the people of Philipsburg
and Rush township. Tuesday will
reveal how Judge Furst’s friends
“have reacted to the outspoken attitude
of ‘the aspirant for County Treasurer.
—In June Frank Hess wrote us
from Los Angeles that his son Harold,
well known as a foot-ball star at
"State some years ago, was about to
stake a homestead ‘claim in the virgin
forest of the Rogue fiver region east
of Medford, Oregon. We imagined it
was more for a fishing retreat for
Pop. Hess than a fruit or grain ven-
ture for Howard. Frank said he ex-
pected to go up in July to remain
until after Labor day and would write
us of results upon his return. We
have been looking for that letter be-
cause we know that there was a time
when two fishermen could catch a
‘wagon load of trout in a few hours
up there. Years ago we partook of a
trout breakfast at Eugene, Oregon,
to which over three hundred people sat
down and every trout served to that
party—and there were plenty of them
—had been caught on flies by two
fishermen from sun-up that morning
<until nine o’clock, the hour at which
- the breakfast was scheduled.
Demacrat
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 72.
BELLEF
False Pretense a Party Policy. :
The managers of the Republican
machine think and act alike every-
where. A few days ago Secretary of
the Treasury Mellon summoned the
recently appointed director of prohi-
bition enforcement to his office and
rebuked him, according to current
gossip, for criticising the methods of
enforcement heretofore employed un-
der Mr. Mellon’s direction. The sub-
ordinate official had publicly stated
that a large proportion of the enforce-
ment agents were crooks, and that it
would take fifty years to educate the
country to accept prohibition unless
the processes were greatly improved.
Mr. Mellon interpreted this line of
talk as reflecting on the administra-
tion and appraised it as damaging to
the party.
In Philadelphia the Vare Republi-
can machine refused a nomination to
district attorney Fox for the reason
that he ‘had been active in prosecut-
ing violators of the Volstead law and
election’ crooks. In Pittsburgh three
of the sitting judges were refused
nomination by the Mellon-Leslie Re-
publican machine for the reason that
they had pronounced severe penal-
ties on bootleggers and saloon keep-
ers. In Dauphin county the Beidle-
man Republican machine nominated
Robert T. Fox for re-election to the
office of district attorney because he
was lax in prosecution of liquor
cases and election crooks. In Dela-
ware, Lackawanna and Schuylkill
counties the liquor interests are pro-
tected by the local Republican ma-
chines.
Before the Eighteenth amendment
was adopted and the Volstead law
enacted the liquor league supplied the
greater part of the slush fund for
the Republican machine of Pensyl-
vania and the bootleggers and saloon
keepers contribute freely to it yet.
The action of Secretary Mellon and
the policy of the various local Re-
publican machines are in part recipro-
cal favors to the liquor interests. Yet
the Republican party pretends to fa-
vor the enforcement of the Volstead
law and promises support of prohibi-
tion measures in the future. Thus
far they have succeeded in fooling the
real friends.of that cause. How long
the voters, especially the female vot-
ers, will be deceived remains to be
seen.
King George made a great
“hit” as a flower salesman in Scot-
land the other day. If ever he loses
out as king he will be sure of a job.
Vare May Defeat Investigation.
The conference
Senate Slush Fund committee, mem-
bers of the Senate committee on Privi-
leges and Elections and the rival
candidates for the Senate seat for
Pennsylvania, participated, came to
an agreement to impound all the bal-
lot boxes used in the election of 1926.
Mr. Wilson, the Democratic contest-
ant, has agreed to pay the expenses
incurred in the counties where fraud
has been alleged and Mr. Vare en-
gages to pay the costs. in all other
counties. This will practically split
the expenses even for the six coun-
ties in which fraud is alleged have
nearly as many voting districts as the
sixty in which there is no suspicion
of fraud.
The process of carrying out the
agreement has not been revealed and !
the success of the enterprise is con-
jectural. Apparently the plan is for
each of the claimants to the seat to
petition the authorities of the coun-
ties to which he is responsible for the
expense. But the authorities are un-
der no legal obligation to deliver the
boxes and in the event of refusal it
would be necessary to get a court
order, and in the counties where fraud
has been committed every available
expedient to delay the operation un-
til primary election day when the bal-
lots may be destroyed, will be invok-
ed. - There may be a way found to
avert this danger but at this time it
is not perceptible.
Meantime it may be set down as a
fact that Mr. Vare has no desire to
have the boxes impounded in any elec-
tion district in the State. His demand
for boxes that are not even under sus-
picion was to consume time sufficient
to prevent the recount, under the
auspices of the Slush Fund committee,
of the votes where fraud is known to
have been practiced. Vast frauds
were perpetrated in Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh, but probably not enough
to overcome the bogus majority re-
turned for Vare. But a recount in
Delaware, Lackawanna, Luzerne and
Schuylkill counties is more than like-
ly to produce this result, and for this
reason he has adopted obstructive
measures in the hope of defeating the
investigation.
——The Coolidge home-coming
created little enthusiasm. The peo-
ple in Washington don’t get excited
over retiring statesmen.
held in Chicago, |
last week, in which members of the ;
Hughes May be the Candidate.
reveal, in part at least, the reasons
why the political experts in that city
interpreted the rather vague state-
ment of Mr. Charles E. Hughes that
he thinks “President Coolidge will be
renominated and re-elected” as indi-
cating his own willingness to accept
the nomination. It is now reported
that Secretary of the Treasury An-
drew W. Mellon, favors the nomina-
tion of Mr. Hughes, and if that be
true “it goes without saying” nol
only that Mr. Coolidge is out of the
race but that Mr. Hughes is in it
“with both feet.” Mr. Mellon and Mr.
Hughes were ship-mates on the re-
turn trip from Europe, and it is prac-
tically certain that they came to an
understanding on the way.
In referring to this subject, a week
ago, the Watchman expressed the
opinion that next to Coolidge the cor-
porate interests of the country would
prefer Mr. Hughes in the White
House. As putative head of the Alum-
inum trust, largely interested in the
Steel trust and deeply concerned in
several other trusts Mr. Mellon is
more competent to express the wishes
of the big corporations of the coun-
try than any other individual. It is
equally certain that he is most likely
to know the innermost thoughts of
Calvin Coolidge on the subject. If
Coolidge desired to continue in the of-
fice for another term the Secretary of
the Treasury would be for him with-
out mental or moral reservation.
In view of this newspaper rumor,
therefore, we are constrained to re-
verse our opinion of a week ago that
Mr. Hughes construed the “do not
choose” statement of Mr. Coolidge as
an “electioneering gesture,” that he
takes it literally and that his rather
equivocal comment was really in the
nature of a “feeler” of the public
pulse on the question of his own
candidacy. It is remembered that
twelve years ago he made rather a
sorry spectacle of his campaign for
President and naturally feels timid
about making another effort in that
direction. He has no doubt of the at-
titude of the corporations. But he
has grave doubts of the attitude of
some Republicans -and ‘most of "thé
people.
There is a good deal of mental
speculation as to the future of the
' Anti-Saloon league, now that Wayne
Wheeler “has gone the way of all
flesh.” There is a suspicion that
Wheeler's policies were not always
approved by the league.
A Time Worn Political Trick.
The Mellons of Pittsburgh, Andy
1 and Bill, came into the political game
{late in life, but they are playing it
hard. Not long ago chairman Mellon
butted into the primary fight in Phila-
delphia and was so sharply rebuked
by Hampy Moore, candidate for May-
or, that he was forced to apologize.
Since then his manner of dictating
the policies and candidates in Alle-
gheny county so aroused popular in-
dignation that several judges of the
courts were constrained to protest in
public speeches. The latest adven-
ture, in which both uncle and nephew
appear to be interested, is a movement
to give them absolute control of the
Pennsylvania delegation in the com-
ing Republican National convention.
The plan is to present the Secretary
of the Treasury as a candidate for the
nomination for President. Mr. Mellon
protests that he is not a candidate,
and every Republican in the country
knows that he could not be nominated
if he were. But the machine is set-
ting him up as a “stalking horse” for
trading purposes. That has long been
a favorite sport of the Republican
{machine in this State. Hartranft
| was the first victim of this false pre-
tense and Brumbaugh and Sproul
were made more or less ridiculous in
turn. But it is believed that Mellon
‘can “turn the trick” and the party
! publicity agents are warning all other
candidates for the favor to keep out
of Pennsylvania.
| With the eighty delegates securely
fastened to Mr. Mellon, and the
corporate interests of the country
manifesting a friendly feeling toward
him, all other aspirants in the conven-
tion would realize that he must be
reckoned with. A trading post with
such a capital is too formidable to
ignore, and the Mellons reason the
nominee, whoever he may be, will not
only be willing but anxious to make
any promise in the way of patronage
that may be demanded. Mr. Mellon
got his first and only political office
by making a generous contribution to
the slush fund in 1920, and probably
imagines that handing over the nom-
ination, plus an equally generous con-
Pibution, would be highly appreciat-
ed.
Mr. Vare imagines that his
dilatory tactics will win a seat in the
Senate but he doesn’t know what Jim
Reed of Missouri has “up his sleeve.”
Recent reports from Washington |
ONTE. PA.. SEPTEMBER 16. 1927.
"More Work for the Committee.
|
i
{ On the second and last registration
«days in Philadelphia thousands of
voters were disfranchised by what
seems the willful neglect of public of-
ficials to perform their duties. The
assessors had neglected to enroll them
and when they applied for registra-
tion were informed that because they
had not been assessed they could not
register. Under the law it was the
duty of the assessors to sit at the
day and assess any otherwise qualified
voters whose names had not been
previously entered on the assessment
roll. But in most of the districts
there were no assessors on duty and
the voters were therefore unable to
qualify for the election.
It is said that this is one of the
favorite methods of the Vare machine
to keep its majorities up by keeping
the number : of independent voters
down.
penalty for. this neglect of duty but
heretofore it has not been enforced.
The servile officials have felt that the
indifference
perfectly safe for them to pursue this
method of fraud, and as a matter of
fact, the previous experiments justi-
fied their confidence. But this year
a different policy will be adopted by
the wronged voters. It is announced
that they will prosecute the delin-
quent officials and punish them to the
full extent of the law. Voters other
than Democrats are concerned.
Another rather startling announce-
ment comes from Philadelphia in re-
lation to the approaching primary.
In a speech delivered recently Magis-
trate Carney, who though a Repub-
lican is aspiring to the Democratic
nomination for Mayor, declared that
the Vare machine has arranged to
have 15,000 Republicans registered as
Democrats in order to secure the
nomination of a perfidious Democrat
for one office and prevent the nomina-
tion of a true and worthy Democrat
| for another, The Philadelphia Record,
after an investigation, verifies this
scandalous statement and appeals to
honest Democrats to qualify in force
Eo be wise to give the facts to
¢ Slush Fund committee.” ~~ ~~
——It has been some years since
| Centre county has had such an inter-
| esting primary contest as the one now
| drawing to a close. Naturally the
judicial fight has taken prominence
over all the other contests, but every
county office is of so much importance
to the taxpayers that just as much
care and judgment should be exercis-
ed in the selection of candidates to
fill them as in the nomination of a
man to put upon the bench. For this
reason every good citizen, man and
next Tuesday and vote their prefer-
ence for every office to be filled. Only
by so doing can the will of the people
prevail.
——A story comes from lower Bald
Eagle valley regarding the leasing of
hundreds of acres of land in Curtin
and Liberty townships for the purpose
of prospecting for oil and gas. Up to
this time the names of the parties
back of the movement have not been
revealed but according to the report
driling operations are liable to be
started most any time.
——O0ne Governor of Indiana, hav-
ing just been released from the peni-
tentiary, proceedings have been start-
ed to send his successor to prison.
The “Hoosier” State is paying the
penalty of crooked politics.
——The Vare candidate for Mayor
of Philadelphia boasts that he has
the cordial support of the Vare ma-
chine behind him, which should guar-
antee the earnest opposition ef all
honest voters in that city.
——About fifty per cent of the corn
fields in Centre county are now mak-
ing a fair showing, and if the frost
holds off long enough for the corn to
mature there will be a part of a crop
in the county.
——It may be all right to erect a
monument to the late Jesse James
in Missouri. We have some surpris-
ing monuments in Pennsylvania.
——Harry Mackey confidently as-
sures the world that Bill Vare and
“Big Bill” Cunningham are satisfied
that he is a genuine reformer.
——
——The Pullman porters want
“tipping” abolished, and it is a safe
bet that most of the Pullman patrons
are of the same mind.
——————————
——Book censorship has taken such
strange courses in recent years that
some religious folk are becoming un-
easy about the Bible.
—Another one-time celebrity who
hasn’t been heard of for some time is
Col. E. M. House.
several polling places on registration !
The law provides a heavy |
of voters has made it |
to prevent it. This is good advice and i
womiaz, should go to the primaries |
The Spotlight on Pharitol
[ras the Philadeiphia’ Record. "id
The issuance. by the * Philadelphia
Registration Commission L special
J
warning to the proprieto
tenants and employees of hofels and
lodging houses, and to officers and
i employees of clubs, notifying them of
| their responsibilities in connection
with the registration of voters, is still
another gratifying assurance of the
{good faith and energy with which
| that body has undertaken its import-
| ant duties. The warning in question
is in the shape of a four-page circular,
‘mailed to all whom it concerns, and
typographically prepared with a view
to impressing its recipients. Such
| striking red-ink captions as “Spotlight
ion Phantom Resorts,” “Heavy Pen-
"alties for Law Vialotions,” and “Two
{ Years Jail—$500 Fine,” dominate the
| pages of the circular and are calculat-
ed to arouse the curiosity and invite
the interest of the most blase accom-
| plices of the gentry who lave been
{in the habit of padding the enrollment
lists with the names of large numbers
| of nonexistant or nonresident hotel
and lodging house guests and club
| members. ; ry
A law that is consistently and per-
sistently violated, as “The Record”
discovered when it canvassed certain
! questionable divisions - after the late
| Senatorial election, is that which pro-
, vides that “in every public lodging
i house a register shall be kept in which
| shall be entered the name and address
| of each and every Iodger, together
| with the. time of his arrival and de-
parture, and such register shall at all
times be open to inspection.” The
phantoms. who are registered and
voted from Philadelphia’s hotels (of
ja certain type) and lodging houses
; are not entered in such registers, and,
in fact, in many of them no such reg-
isters are kept. It is the habit of
the registration crooks to assign as
{ many phantoms as they please to the
| lodging houses in their divisions, and
{to supply . the proprietors of such
places with lists of the nonexistant
; guests in order that they may be abie
| to lie plausibly if subsequently inter-
rogated. Of course, -the phantom
guasts, when sought by investigators,
have “just left town.”
i It is encouraging to find that the
{new Registration Commission is not
| going to confine its activities to the
i removal of fraudulent names from the
, lessees,
lists, but is making energeti efforts
to. prevent phantoms Peo ant en-
| tered in the first place. Honest voters
i should and will appreciate this ser-
vice.
Vare and Wilson to Pay.
From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
This time a year ago the whole
country was supposed to be ringing
with demand for investigation of the
Vare-Wilson senatorial vote in Penn-
sylvania. The foundations of the na-
tion were still presumed to be shaking
from the scandal of the Republican
senatorial primary in this State, with
expenditures put at millions and
Vare’s nomination listed at $800,000.
No expense was to be spared “to get
to the bottom of the whole iniquity.”
In Chicago Wednesday Vare and
Wilson representatives, in conference
with the Senate committee on privi-
leges and elections and the Reed in-
vestigating committee, had themselves
to assume financial obligations to
prevent the burning of the evidence.
The ballot boxes are needed for the
primaries on the 20th. By law the
ballots of last fall ordinarily would
be burned. But they contain the Wil-
son-Vare votes that the Senate was
to re-count in the contest started by
Wilson. Only the ballot boxes of Phil-
adelphia and Allegheny counties were
taken to Washington last year. These
two counties have had to provide new
boxes. Authorities of practically all
the other counties declined to give up
the ballots on the mere appeal of the
Senate. Now it has been agreed by
the contestants to permit the contents
of the boxes to be transferred, under
proper guardianship, to sacks to be
taken to Washington. Wilson is in-
| terested chiefly in six counties—Phila-
delphia, Allegheny, Lackawanna, Del-
aware, Luzerne and Schuylkill—in
which he charges gross frauds. But
Vare finally took the position that the
entire senatorial vote of the State
should be counted. He made no
charges of fraud, but declared that
errors might have been made against
him as well as against Wilson.
Whereupon this arrangement was
Jade for securing custody of the bal-
ots:
Mr. Wilson is to assume the burden
of all costs and expenditures in the
four counties he named, in addition to
Philadelphia and Allegheny counties.
Mr. Vare is to assume the similar
costs in the sixty-one other counties.
Both, of course, expect to be reim-
bursed.
m————— en —————
Hetzel and State College.
From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
This writer read with delighted in-
terest the other day that Dr. Hetzel,
the new head of State College, on as-
suming charge had swept into discard
a bulky bunch of documents when told
that the contents thereof related to
the “policy” of the institution. He
let it be understood that he proposed
to work out his own program. Dr.
Hetzel is no copy-cat. He has ideas
of his own and should be given a free
hand. Governor Fisher and the Leg-
islature have provided necessary
' funds.
| ation. resorts. fo corporal
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYTSONE.
+ —Thomas F. Hopkins, formerly teller at
the Safe Deposit bank at Pottsville, was
‘sentenced by court to two years in the
county prison after pleading guilty to
embezzling $7,500 from the bank. He was
te have been sentenced several months ago
but ill health deferred the sentence.
—The deep experimental well being
drilled at LaMont, near Kane . by the
United Natural Gas company, is now more
than 6,300 feet in depth. A new cable is
being installed which will permit the drill
to sink 8,000 feet. A few days ago the
drill penetrated a vein of salt 80 feet thick.
—Pittsburgh has a champion mad dog
killer in the person of motorcycle patrol-
man Arthur Jennings. Since an epidemic
of rabies struck that city six months ago,
Jennings has been kept busy shooting
dogs. On Friday he registered his 100dth
killing. Jennings was selected for the
task because he is an expert with a pistol.
—TFourteen-year-old Mary Richardson, of
Pittsburgh, bled to death within 15 min-
utes last Thursday after she severed an
artery in her shoulder when her arm went
through a glass door panel in West View
Junior High school. The girl had just
finished her lunch and was hurrying to
the playgrounds when the accident occur-
red.
—A dynamite blast, set off on a hill at
the north end of Tyrone, hurled sleeping
residents out of their beds and shattered
hundreds of windows at 3 o'clock Satur-
day morning. The Tyrone plant of the
West Virginia Pulp and Paper company
was also damaged. Police are investigat-
ing the explosion. Damage was estimated
at $2,000.
—Harold E. Monheimer, Chicago travel-
ing salesman, is in jail at Greensburg,
having confessed to setting small fires in
a dozen western Pennsylvania hotels with-
in the last few weeks. Charges of arson
have been placed against Monheimer but
no date for a hearing was set, pending
arrival here of his parents. Monheimer
was arrested at Pittsburgh Saturday after
state police had trailed him for several
weeks.
—A two-headed black snake attracted
much attention at the American Legion
bazaar in Philipsburg. last week. ° The
reptile was captured in Clearfield county
several weeks ago and aside from its dual
head is the same as any other snake. The
bazaar committee was faced with a serious
problem of feeding the animal. It can eat
with either mouth and from the quantity
of food it consumed it has been hinted
that the reptile might be blessed with two
stomachs.
—John Ayers, 66, of Claysburg, Blair
county, is the confessed slayer of a lite-
long friend, Albert Mock, 68, because of
non-settlement of a $2 debt. Mock was
found dead on the porch of Ayers' home
on Sunday. Ayers was in bed. A blood-
stained axe was found nearby, but Ayers
said he had beaten Mock, but had not
used the axe, District Attorney Marion. D.
Patterson announced. The attorney said
Ayers told him he beat his friend when
le failed to settic the debt.
—A wife who lies in bed in the morn-
ing until she has had her “beauty sleep,”
refusing to get her husband’s breakfast
and fill his lunch box, has no claims for
support, even if her husband in exasper-
J punishment,
Judge Erwin Cummins decided in the
Washington county court last Thursday.
Mrs. Lilly Stephenson, of Roscoe, left her
husband, Robert Stephenson, and had him
arrested for desertion and nonsupport. Be-
fore Judge Cummins she endeavored to
argue after admitting her dereliction re-
garding the preparation of meals. Judge
Cummins refused a support order.
—The body of W. H. Barton,
ployed by the department of internal
revenue, was found on Monday on the
bank of Darby creek, north of West Ches-
ter pike, near Manoa. Two policemen of
Haverford township, who had been search-
ing for Barton since his wife reported
him missing on Sunday, found the body,
hatless and coatless, a few feet from. the
creek. There was no evidence of violence
and nothing to indicate suicide. Barton
left home at 11 a. m. Monday and left a
note, in which he said he was going to
swim in the creek. Police said that death
probably occurred a short time afterwards.
60, em-
—Believed to be runaways, Grace Baum-
garten, 17, Lewistown, Pa., and Mary
Dudick, 17, Bighth street, Burnham, Pa.,
found sleeping in a truck in the rear of
a garage in Yunkers street, McKees Rocks,
last Thursday are being held in the Al-
legheny county jail. The girls were found
by a McKees Rocks patrolman, who ar-
rested them. At a hearing before Justice
of the Peace James J. Westwood, they
were fined $10 with the option of serving
30 days in jail. They said they went to
Pittsburgh in search of a cousin, Minnie
Carr, who, they claimed, operates a road-
house in that district. They said they
left home August 30. Police never had
heard of the Carr woman.
—A $50,000 damage suit with Lehigh
county as the defendant was filed last
week by attorneys in behalf of the widow
of Gransville Holben, Weisenbery town-
ship farmer, who was shot to death a year
ago after he had slain Sheriff Mark Sen-
senbach and Deputy Sheriff Harry Sieg-
fried. The shooting of the sheriff and
deputy came when they went to Holben’s
farm to arrest him when he ignored a
court summons in a case which involved
the payment of a $2 fine for failure to send
his children to school. Holben had re-
fused to pay the fine as “a matter of prin-
ciple.” After the shooting of the two of-
ficers Holben took refuge in his home
which was later burned and he was fa-
tally wounded as he ran from the blazing
| structure.
—A piece of steel that Frank Saleme, of
Park place, Juniata, has carried in his
right arm since 1891, has emerged near
the base of his thumb, Mr. Saleme, who
is now engaged in business in Altoona,
was a young man when a spawl of steel
penetrated his arm near the elbow as he
worked at the anvil in the Juniata black-
smith shop 36 years ago. The wound
at the time gave him but little trouble
and the bit of metal could not be located
by .the probe of a physician, the X-ray
being then unknown. As the years passed
Mr. Salemé was occasionally bothered by
what seemer to be rheumatic pains but had
no idea that he was carrying about an
ounce of steel until the angular fragment
had worked its way down his arm a dis-
tance of about 12 inches. Early last week
he discovered a sharp point projecting
from a silght swelling on his hand and a
bit of simple surgery revealed the scrap
of Pennsylvania railroad property. The
hand is now healing nicely.