Seiten
- —The fight is over and we're all
friends, we hope. We have apologies
to make to no one, for we treated our
opponents with far more charity than
we know some of them would have
* treated us.
—Of course Judge-elect Fleming
will very probably repay the people
of his home community for the splen-
did compliment they paid him on
Tuesday. Applicants on this side for
the various appointive positions the
Judge will have to make should bear
this in mind. We should think that
Judge-elect Fleming would be very
ungrateful if he were vo deny appli-
cants from Philipsburg and the Rush-
es the desire to serve the county:in
any position his prerogatives permit
him to fill. :
. —We know that there Is nothing so
boresome as post mortems, - but we
can’t resist the urge to say what we
think elected Dunlap, Herr and Smith.
“Dep” got it because everybody who
really knows him likes him and be-
cause Centre county has not forgotten
1917. Herr got it because Centre
county is opposed to a third term.
Smith got it because his opponent had
the courage to make the fatal politi-
cal mistake of declaring himself in a
primary fight and because the voters
of the county were leery of voting for
a candidate whose eligibility might
mean a law suit.
—Those of you who recall the cam-
Ppaign of 1923 will remember that it
was the Prohibition vote that elected
Mr. Wilkinson Prothonotary. He was
on both the Prohibition and Republi-
can tickets in that contest and while
Mr. Herr, who was his opponent then,
had him defeated as a Republican
there were enough votes for him on
the Prohibition ticket to give him his
majority of 54. It is not often such
things happen, but in the fight last
Tuesday the situation was exactly
reversed. Herr had the Prohibition
endorsement and Wilkinson was run-
ning on the Republican ticket only.
Herr was defeated as a Democrat, but
the votes he got on the Prohibition
ticket gave him his majority of 27.
. —Of course council was volunteer-
ing to do the grandiose thing when it
offered to send our burgess to the
conference of Mayors of cities on the
transcontinental air route, by aero-
plane. Can’t you see Hard arriving
in Chicago on a “Miss Bellefonte” and
greeting its Mayor, “Big Bill” Thomp-
son, who called the conference.
‘Gosh, but Hard would set “Bill” right
on those English books that Queen Vic
slipped in for the public library out
* there after somebody’s cow had kicked
over :a lamp that started a fire that:
‘burned up Chicago, and left no rendez-
vous for gunmen. Almost we would
‘hike to the windy city to see our bur-
gess fade Lindy, Levine and Ruth El-
der off the Cook county map, but he
refused. Refused, for the same’ reason
‘that we would have. “Nobody knows
‘Hard's “milk route.” In other words,
our burgess feels that even the hand-
some salary he doesn’t get isn’t suf-
ficient urge to take a chance on an
aeroplane.
—Mrs. McCauley’s letter of con-
«demnation of the Centre County jail
doesn’t get us excited at all. Dr.
‘Ellie Potter, who was Governor Pin-
chot’s welfare expert, had much the
same ideas about penal institutions.
We recall her insistence that the plans
of the new western penitentiary were
all wrong and that instead of cell
blocks it should hays had little colony
houses for the inmates. Last week
an eminent judge in Philadelphia
condemned, from the bench, the maw-
kish sentiment that “coddles” con-
victs and that sensible utterance took
us back to the days when a woman of
Bellefonte knitted carpet slippers for
a murderer awaiting hanging here for
having killed two members of his own
family. It is quite possible that the
penalties for crime have not improved
much, but will Mrs. McCauley tell us
that crime has progressed to the point
that demands more consideration. It
is our belief that a natural criminal
never can be permanently reformed
and that an accidental criminal is
more likely to shun prison if its en-
durance causes some physical discom-
fort.
—Many have been clambering for
the liberation of a few of the Watch-
man’s old roosters. Goodness knows,
they have been penned up so long that !
a little chance to get out and crow
would do them good, but if we drag-
ged them out for “Dep” and Claude
and Lyman we might affront those
splendid Republicans who gave Walk-
er what he deserved from his home
town. They were commendably broas
minded in the compliment they paid
a very honorable and useful citizen, |
but they might not be so much so as
to understand that Watchman roost-
ers have never crowed for anything
that its editor did not feel was right.
—Among other things we are won-
dering about is who was who and
what was what on Tuesday. The vote
on County Commissioner, for instance,
looks mysterious to us. We can’t see
why all four candidates were not
elected. The Keystone Gazette pub-
licly announced that Spearly would be
elected and its editor voluntarily
promised Doctor Parrish that he was
going to vote for him so we can’t un-
that it would- appear tha if Mr. Har-
ter and his Gazette wasn’t “stringin’ ”
somebody they all ought to have been
elected.
»
ym
RD
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION,
VOL. 72.
Hope for More Perfect Accord with Attempt to Defeat Justice.
Mexico. | The trial of former Secretary of
Incidents attending the ceremony of the Interior Fall and Harry Sinclair
presenting the credentials of the new for conspiracy to defraud the govern-
Amabssador to Mexico may well in- ment in the lease of the Teapot Dome
spire hope for friendlier relations ©il reserve was brought to an abrupt
between that country and this. In end on Wednesday of last week. One
presenting his credentials Ambassa- of the Washington newspapers had
dor Morrow said: “I welcome the op- made a charge, based on affidavits of
Excellency in finding a mutually sat- tablished, through the Burns detec-
isfactory solution of the problem with tive agency of New York, a compre-
which our countries are now faced. It hensive espionage of the jurors en-
is my earnest hope that, animated by gaged in the trial, and that one of the
a common desire to promote the wel- number had expressed expectations of
fare of the United Mexican States and 8aining large financial reward for vot-
the United States of America, we ing for the acquittal of the defend-
shall not fail to adjust outstanding ants. In consequence of this revela-
questions with that dignity and mu- tion counsel for both sides asked for
tual respect which should mark the in- 2 mistrial, which was allowed by the
ternational relationship of two sover- Court. ited
eign and independent States.” This was the most startling incident
To this gracious and manifestly Of the long-drawn-out effort of these
sincere declaration President Calles defendants to escape the just penalty
replied: “As your Excellency hopes, 1 for their great crime against ‘the
am disposed that the government of government and people of the United
Mexico co-operate with that of the States. It reveals in complete and
United States of America in finding 0dious form the turpitude of the pol-
a mutually satisfactory solution of the iticians n control of the government
matters pending between both na- at Washington at the time the crime
tions, and I join with your hopes thar Was committed and since. They didn’t
upon those bases of indeclinable dig- hesitate to approach the administration
nity and respect between independent through the medium of the Cabinet
and sovereign nations there will be es- 0 promote their corrupt enterprises
tablished cordial relations which will and they have the temerity now to
do away with all misunderstandings, Pollute the fountains of justice in or-
once and for all, and fix solid prin- der to escape proper punishment. It
ciples for constant co-operation, har- Was the most dastardly and danger-
mony and real friendship, which Ous attempt to pervert the agencles
should govern the relations between Of justice recently perpetrated.
two peoples of so many correlated im-
f such intimate im- Criminal enterprise are not fully
hog , 24d of such fntimate proxim identified. But conjecture has a fal-
In this mutually expressed recogni- 1oW field in which to speculate con-
tion of independence and sovereignty Cerning the subject. The defendants
of each by the duly accredited repre- in the case in court were the only
sentatives of both lies the hope, if Persons on earth who could be bene-
not actually the guarantee, of friendly fitted by a “hung Jury or mistrial.
relations for the future. The blame espionage of the jury was prob-
for the recent past disagreements may ably for the purpose of discovering: a
be ascribable in part to the attitude Weakness that could be employed to
of public sentiment in Mexico. But C0rce a juror into sinister service. A
it must be admitted that in much Ung” jury would be almost as ef-
larger part it is due to the truculency fective as an acquittal, because tt
y. to
trying ‘to enforce” the mandates of 2nd thusafford opportu
speculative “eapitalists * operating n= the Witnesses away.
Mexico. If the government of the Serves this purpose in a lesser degree
United States will recognize the right but in view of the facts was: unavoid-
of the people of Mexico to enact and 2ble- : :
enforce laws for the government of —DMore and more, as we study elec-
Mexico there will be less cause of tion results in Centre county, NY we
becoming convinced that the Prohibi-
tion party is a “tail that is wagging”
: not only “the dog” but two dogs. On
——Mr. Forker, designer of air- numerous occasions its vote has been
planes says “the time is coming when the deciding factor in contests be-
quarrel here.
portunity of co-operating with your four persons, that Mr. Sinclair had es-.
of the Washington administration in Would delay the penalty. indefinitely
n strial
the sky will be darkened with air-
planes.” And posibly “the wish is fa-
tween Democrats and the Republicans.
In the recent fray Fleming owes his ;
ther to the thought.” election to votes he received on the
Prohibition ticket and Herr is indebt-
ed to the same source for his election.
——————————e———————————
Faults in Criminal Prosecution.
Addressing the National Crime
Commission, in session in Washington
exhibition of economic ignorance as the other day, Chief Justice Taft
did Colonel Theodore Roosevelt in his Pointed out some of the weaknesses
5 h bef Ii 2 of “our system of criminal prosecu-
ton 31 Bochner "Bo. “thos vgs fin Thi sublet haa bon Sisens
have listened, year after year, to the ed at irregular intervals, during the
absurd statements in support of tariff past 3e veral years, by association and
taxation, this seems strong language. judicial conferences, but Jo, Progress
But listen to what Mr. Rooevelt said 12s been made in the direction of
on that occasion: “We pride ourselves correcting the faults. One of them,
on the fact that in the United States 2¢cording to the opinion of the Chief
the wealth of the average citizen 1s Justice, is that “we have not through-
greater than in any other country m ©ut the States an adequate police
the world,” and he added, “the tariff force who van apprehend criminals
has created and maintained this aver. and bring them to justice.” This may
age wealth and wages.” be a solution ‘of the problem in part
The World’s correspondent inter- but it is hardly a complete answer.
Young Roosevelt’s Absurd Claims.
A correspondent of the New York
World says “few public men attempt-
ing to talk economics on a political
platform have ever made so naive an
prets this literally. “That is to say,” There are other weaknesses,
ihe writes, “in a country where the
i bounty of nature is unparallelled and
inexhaustible the material advantage
enjoyed by the inhabitants, the great
majority of whom are not engaged in
tariff—protected industries, are to be
ascribed, not to the beneficence of na-
ture but to a ‘Republican tariff.’ ” It
iis small wonder that he accuses the .
Colonel with “economic ignorance.”
But that hokum is the sum and sub-
stance of the advocates of tariff tax-
ation. Under the existing law the
consumers pay upward of $4,000,000
; a year for a revenue of half a million
.and the balance goes into the pockets
i of the tariff beneficiaries.
Within the last third of a century
inventive genius and scientific and in- |
dustrial development have not only
produced ninety per cent. of the in-
creased wealth of the country but
j created and maintained the high rate
, of wages. The electric light and pow-
jer, the telephone and the automobile
| industry have contributed more to the
prosperity of the people in one year
than the tariff has provided in a cen-
tury. Improved machinery has had
a considerable share and better indus-
trial and agricultural methods have
exercised a vast influence for good In
the direction. Yet there are in every
section of the country ignorant mount-
ebanks insulting the intelligence of
the people by such preposterous
claims as that of Roosevelt.
To the average mind a good deat
of the fault lies with the lawyers who
invoke technicalities of the law to de-
lay judgment. Take the Vanetti case
in Massachusetts which recently pro-
voked protests in nearly all parts of
the world, and the case of contempt ot
the Senate which has kept Harry Sin-
clair, the oil millionaire, out of jau
for several months. If legislation
covering those cases had not provided
the means for delay, there would have
been little or no scandal associated
with them. But the laws were made
mainly by lawyers and with intent to
create the conditions complained of.
The restraints upon the action of the
bench is another factor.
The scandals as well as the delays
in criminal prosecutions in this coun-
try are of comparatively recent orig-
in. If a thorough analysis of the sub-
ject were made it might be discovered
that the political systems that pre-
vail in large centres of population are
the real causes of the faults. The
political boss pays for sinister party
service by the promise of immunity
from punishment for crimes and the
underworld is thus encouraged to vio-
late the laws. If the judges and dis-
trict attorneys were freed from the
domination of party bosses and left
to the exercise of their own impulses
there would be less crime for the rea-
son that punishment would be more
swift and certain.
‘BELLEFONTE, PA.. NOVEMBER 11. 1927,
Opposition to Mellon’s Tax Bill.
The public hearings on the propos-
ed revenue bill though just started
have already revealed a considerable
opposition to Secretary Mellon’s
schedules.
on sales of automobiles. It is said
that this tax has already yielded to
the treasury the sum of $1,068,000 and
just. Thomas P. Henry, president of
says that while levies on sporting
goods, chewing gum, furs, yachts,
motor boats, art works, silk socks,
jewelry, perfumes and cosmetics have
been wiped out, those on automobiles
have been retained. Those articles
exempted are quite as clearly luxur-
ies as automobiles.
Secretary Mellon seems to be ob-
sessed with the idea, common among
the Republican leaders in Pennsyl-
vania, that automobile owners are
“easy marks” for the tax collectors.
In this State whenever a treasury
deficit looms into view the first
| thought turns toward the automobile,
on the theory probably, that it is a
luxury of plutocrats who can afford
and therefore should be willing to pay
any expense that may be piled up
against its operation. In the early
development of the industry there
may have been some reason in this
reckoning. But the automobile has
become an important unit in the sSys-
tem of transportation and all other
transportation taxes have been repeal-
Of course the real culprits in this ed.
As a matter of fact the automobile
is no longer a luxury. It has become an
important element in the commercial
and industrial life of the country.
‘When it was subject to a moderate
tax for the purpose of constructing
and maintaining public highways it
‘was not only just but appropriate.
But such a tax could only be legally
| levied by the States responsible for
i the maintenance of highways. As a
tax during a period of actual hostili-
ties the Federal taxing power may
‘of automobiles. But “war emergency
| taxes” are out of order In times of
j peace, and automobile owners, deal-
ers and users have a right to com-
plain now of discrimination,
| —If you want to read something
that is true a Holy Writ look in col-
umn five on this page and read Rick-
ard Child’s idea of a reformer. It
describes a type so perfectly that we
think it worth a place in anybody”s
scrap book.
Republican Leaders in Confusion.
|
Senator Borah, of Idaho, has re-
, cently thrown the leaders of his party
(into a state of confusion by declaring
: that the next Republican convention
must take a definite stand on the sub
ject of prohibition enforcement. In
this attitude he is supported by Sen-
ators Fess and Willis, of Ohio, and a
‘good many of the leading prohibition-
ists of the country. According to
these men the negative position the
party has maintained in the past will
no longer serve to satisfy the vast
,army of prohibition voters. Whilst
the late Mr. Wheeler was in absolute
control of prohibition propaganda it
. Was easy enough for Republican lead-
ers to make terms to fool the voters.
But there is no longer a prohibition
despot. ;
{ _ On the other hand Nicholas Murray
Butler, president of Columbia Uni-
versity, equally conspicuous in ‘the
councils of the party, with quite as
much emphasis, demands a plank in
the platform directly repudiating the
. Volstead law, and he is supported by
Senator Edge, of New Jersey, and oth-
ers who are in sympathy with the wet
element but are not willing to commit
the party in a formal declaration on
the subject. A meaningless expres-
sion in favor of “law enforcement”
has served their purpose in the past
and they hope will accomplish the re-
sult in the future. If Mr. Wheeler
were still alive and in control of the
Anti-Saloon League that might be
true.
In any event the question is prac-
tically certain to breed a good deal of
trouble in the next Republican conven-
tion. It is believed that a wet plat-
form would produce a generous cam-
paign fund and that is a potent force
in a Presidential contest. But if the
prohibition voters should carry their
resentment of such an attitude to the
polls even the millions of money thus
made available might be inadequate
to buy a majority. Murray Butler
and those with him who favor that
sort of a paltform are relied on to be
regular in any event, but the party
managers are not quite sure of Borah.
He usually capitulates in an emergen-
cy but he might “carry on” with dis-
astrous results.
——Vote for Dunlap for Sheriff.
The most formidable op--
position is to the three per cent. tax !
that it is both discriminatory and un- .
the American Automobile association, :
- tion, which thus far has defied all ef-
has provoked this speculation.
ve been justified in exacting tribute
‘the Fe pting users
FATE
imine
Translation from 3 -
Weiland, of Yate Goethe it” Prone
| Who never eats his crust in tears,
| Who knows not vain silent Sorrow,
Or has not dreaded the morrow,
Him Fate loves not nor lends her years.
Fate leads us into life and strife,
Her poor debtors ere life's begun,
Paying in pain to set of sun,
So guile on earth no more be rife.
Whe Got These Millions?
From the Philadelphia Record.
Through civil suits the Government
has recovered the navy’s oil deposits,
corruptly leased by former Secretary
Fall to the Doheny and Sinclair inter-
ests. In one case criminal prosecu-
tion resulted in acquittal; another is
to follow.
proceedings are of great
All these
public importance. - But back of them
is an issue with momentous implica-
forts to elicit a complete explanation:
At one stage in the alleged Fall-Sin~
clair “conspiracy the insiders divided
more than $2,000,000 in profits. Of
this sum about $200,000, in Liberty"
bonds, was traced ‘to ‘Fall, the Gove
ernment asserts. But to this day the
distribution of the rest of the huge
sum remains a mystery. Moreover,
disclosure of the facts has been pre-
vented by a secretiveness so stubborn
and by individual sacrifices so re-
markable that the protection of pow-
erful names hitherto unsuspected is
widely surmised. In the New York
Herald Tribune, Mark Sullivan has
set forth the astonishing record which
The Government has shown that at
the time of the Fall-Sinclair deal a
Western producer contracted to sell
400,000 barrels of oil to a group of
companies affiliated with the Stand-
ard Oil Company of Indiana, the re-
spective heads of the buy concerns
being James E. O'Neil, Harry M.
Blackmer, Robert wart and Harr,
F. Sinclair. But delivery was not made
to these companies. Instead, the men
named, together with H. S. Osler, a
Toronto attorney, organized on paper
a Canadian corporation, which had no
refinery, no storage tanks, no equip-
ment except a charter. This dummy
company bought the oil é seller's
price, $1.50 a barrel, and immediate-
ly resold it to the O’Neil and Sinclair
interests at $1.75. > ri
The question is, what division was
made of the $2,100,000 profit from a
secret transaction which the United
States Supreme Court has declared
?,
FEE - —— TT —
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE,
—Disregarding his broken neck which
he received in a football game, on Satur-
day, at Wildwood, Angelo Destano, 20, of
Philadelphia, walked out of the Wildwood
hospital and took a train home. He 1s
in a critical condition.
.—While police were investigating the
smashing of plate glass windows In one
store, in New Castle, robbers on Monday
took a safe containing $500 in cash and
$75 in checks from the Lawrence Confec-
tionery Store, two blocks away.
.—Postal officials at Pottsville ‘have an-
nounced the removal of postmaster Alfred
Bowe at Port Carbon, who is accused of
the shortage of a large amount of money.
Since Bowe isa disabled war veteran, the
case may not be pushed against him.
—Through a snuff box found in the
mountain cabin of Solomon Gummerson,
near Uniontown, brutally slain last week,
the authorities expect to trace the slayer
of the lumberman, who is alleged to have
been robbed of $600 and his gold watch,
—William Johnson, driver for the Lock
Haven Baking company, coasted down a
hill near Lock Haven, Saturday, and
stalled the car on the railroad just as a
westbound passenger train came through,
demolishing the truck. Johnson escaped
injury.
—After swallowing a quantity of dis-
infectant in a suicidal attempt, Mrs. Eva
Aprubis, 35, of Wilkes-Barre, died in a
hospital. The woman and her husband
are said to have agreed to separate, and
it was while the drayman was removing
the furniture that she committed the act.
—Elen Fahringer is in a hospital at
Elysburg, her face horribly disfigured as
the result of an attack of a huge dog. The
animal leaped at the young woman as she
was about to enter the post office and
slashed her face to ribbons before it was
beaten off by witnesses. It was Iater
killed.
—Angered because his wife had dis-
closed his whereabouts to prohibition
agents who wanted him as witness, Sam-
uel Zolkowski on Friday, slashed the wo-
mans throat with a razor at their home
in Sharpsburg and then attempted suicide.
The wife died a few minutes later, her
head almost decapitated and the man was
reported dying in a hospital.
—George D. Killen pleaded no defense
in federal court at Pittsburgh, on Satur-
day, to charges of misapplying funds of
the First National bank of Bellwood, Blair
county, and making false entries. He was
paroled for three years. Killen, who way
cashier of the Bellwood First Nationa?
bank, was alleged to have misapplied more
than ‘$9,000 of the bank’s money.
—Mrs. Lillian Reed, a prisoner in the
Mifilin county jail since October 21, for
the non-payment of her taxes, was dis-
charged from her prison cell last Wed-
nesday, when her husband, Ralph B. Reed,
paid . the tax, $5.35. Her imprisonment
covered a period of eleven days and the
the prosecution was brought by A. B. Cal-
houn, - tax collector of Armagh township.
Mrs. Reed is a resident of Milroy.
| ~~Hurry Conklin and Harry Fell, two
Norristown -policemen; returning from a
gunning “trip: with ‘one rabbit, “told : thelr
fellow-officers how they had been stoned:
joff a field by a woman and chased by a
farmer on horseback armed with a re-
volver. They finally decided to quit hunt-.
ing when Conklin accidentally shot and
killed a valuable hound belonging to a
farmer, who demanded $50 for the animal
“apparently illegitimate?” As stat-
ed, more than $200,000 in bonds pass-
ed from the Canadian company to
Fall, but the Government has traced
no other part of the fund. Osler
avoided testifying by pleading a
counsel’s right to protect his clients.
Sinclair cannot be forced to testify
against himself. Stewart went to
South America, returning only after
the civil suits had been tried. O’Neil
and Blackmer went to Europe, and
have remained self-exiled for five
years rather than obey subpoenas.
The present trial is considered a
matter of great public moment. But
it is unlikely to solve two mysteries
not less sinister in anpearance than '
the revelations thus far made. The
unanswered questions are: What per-
sons shared in the $1.900,00 wunac-
counted for in the deal mentioned?
What is the influence that has been
powerful enough to defeat all at-
tempts to identify them?
i
The Reformer. i
Richard I. Childs in the National Muni-
cipal Review.
“A reformer is one who ‘sets forth
cheerfully toward sure defeat. His.
serene persistence against stone walls |
invites derision from those who have
never been touched by his religion
and do not know what fun it is. He
never seems victorious, for if he were
visibly winning, he would forthwith
cease to be dubbed “reformer.” It is
his peculiar function to embrace the
hopeless cause when it can win no oth-
er friends and when its obvious fu-
tility repels that thi k-necked, practi-
cal, timorous type :. citizen to whom
the outward appearance of success is
so dear. Yet, in time, the reformer’s
little movement becomes respectable
and his little minority proves that it
can grow and presently the statesman
joins it and takes all the credit, cheer- :
fully handed to him by the reformer
as bribe for his support. And then
comes the politician, rushing grandly
to the succor of the victor. And all
the crowd! The original reformer is
lost in the shuffle then, but he doesn’t
care. For as the great band-wagon
which he started goes thundering past
with trumpets, the crowd in the intox-
ication of triumph leans over to jeer
at him—a forlorn and lonely crank,
confidently mustering a pitiful little
odd-lot of followers along the roadside
and setting them marching, while
over their heads he lifts the curious
banner of a new crusade!”
——Big Bill Thompson has been
vindicated. Investigation has reveai-
ed that Queen Victoria contributed
books to the Chicago library after the
great fire. 3 fo
——Mrs. Knapp, Republican, delin-
quent Secretary of State in New
York, declares she was forced to com-
mit crimes by political pressure.
. Somerset.
and compromised on $10.
—A woman bank employe and her hus-
band were under arrest, on Monday, fol-
lowing discovery by State Banking De-
partment officials of a shortage of $10,-
900 in accounts at the Exchange Bank of
Franklin. Mrs. Ada Kauffman was charg-
ed with embezzlement and her husband
with abetting the theft. Banking Depare-
ment officials said the woman admitted
taking the money from ‘quiet” accounts
and giving it to her husband. The bank
announced a bonding company made good
the loss.
—William Naugle, 55, lumberman of
Somerset; fatally shot his wife, Bessie
Weirner Yost Naugle, 30, Monday after
‘noon and then fired a bullet through his
head, according to the police. The woman
died three hours later and the husband’s
death is expected at Community hospital,
The Naugles had been living
apart for some time, the wife at home and
the husband at a Somerset hotel. Mrs.
Naugle’s first husband, a Mr. Yost, com-
mitted suicide some years ago. Some
time ago the wife had Naugle in court on
a charge of non support.
—TFor the second time within two weeks
thieves are being sought for participation
in the robbery of a parsonage While the
Rev. E. E. McKelvey, of the Diamond
Methodist Episcopal church, was conduct-
ing services his home was entered by
‘thieves who secured $10 after ransacking
the entire house and even digging inte
. the pockets of trousers that hung In
clothes closets. Two weeks ago the par-
sonage of Trinity Lutheran church was
- similarly robbed, the thieves getting $40 mm
"cash. Rev. McKelvey was formerly pas-
tor of the Bellefonte church.
—The stadium at Bucknell University,
at Lewisburg, will be dedicated tomorrow
as a memorial to the alumni who serv-
ed in the world war. The dedication will
precede a football game between Bucknell
and Washington and Jefferson Universi-
ties. Four bronze tablets at either end of
the stadium bearing the names of about
700 alumni who served their country dur-
ing the war, will be unveiled by Dr. Em-
ory W. Hunt, president of the university.
Besides the unveiling, the dedication serv-
ices will consist of the reading of the
names of the 29 alumni who died in the
war,
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| —Mrs. Mary Stanik, formerly of Wilkes-
Barre, but a resident of Poland since 1915,
was awarded $6,817 by Federal Judge
Johnson in civil court at Scranton in her
action against the Kingston Bank ana
Trust company, of Kingston, Pa. Mrs.
Stanik married Michael Stanik, in Poland
in 1910, and the following year both came
to Wilkes-Barre. ~ Five years later the
wife returned to Poland, but her husband
remained in Luzerne county as a mines.
In 1923 Stanik disappeared and has not
been heard of since. His wife across the
sea sued to recover the money that her
husband had in a bank and tke court suse
tained her. :