A ————
INK SLINGS.
—Would-be Senator Vare seems to
have picked the wrong Reed to lean
on.
—When Jim Reed gets through
with Big Tom Cunningham there will
be sorrow on “the rialto.”
_—Mr. Vare has no concern for his
own disappointment but his heart
bleeds for the suffering public.
._—An optimist is one who, because
his party is in power, kids himself
into thinking times are good when
they are actually bad.
* —If there should be no snow Santa
Claus might ride down on the tail
of that Skjellerup comet which is to
be visible at Christmas.
—Only the morons bemoan the
rain. They are too nit-witted to un-
derstand that it is easier to carry
an umbrella than it is to shovel snow.
~ —It looks like it won’t be long un-
til Bellefonte is minus the district
highway offices. The removal will
mean an appreciable loss in many
ways.
—Ambassador Morrow has ac-
complished a good deal in the way
of composing differences between this
country and Mexico, but wait until
Lindy has finished his job.
—If we were Santa Claus we’d
make the girls hang up socks this
Christmas. It’s unreasonable to ask
the good old soul to fill the lengthy
stockings the ladies are wearing now.
—That Chester county bride of
three weeks who fired four shots at
herself and missed every time, in an
attempted suicide, is the kind of
‘marksman one wouldn’t describe as
having unerring aim.
—When the hour hand has swung
around the circle ten more times the
shortest day of the year will be here.
‘Then as the days lengthen the cold
will strengthen and spring will be
only three months off.
—In Philadelphia the bandits beat
up their victims because they haven't
enough money to recompense for the
time spent in holding them up. Po-
litical blackjacking is conducted on
the same system there.
—Senator Dave Reed says it cost
‘three times as much to nominate Gov-
‘ernor Fisher as was spent to nomi-
nate Vare and the expense of recon-
ciling Mr. Beidleman to the robbery
is not included in the reckoning.
—Possibly we are pessimistic, but
we believe that banditry won't de-
«crease until parents train their chil-
«dren to work for what they get and
punishment for the crime is made so
severe that the most hardened will
shrink from it.
—Yes, a friend brought us a mess
of venison. You are curious to know,
‘we presume, whether there was any
sherry in the parcel. We shall not
gratify such curiosity for the reason
that we might incriminate both the
friend and ourselves. ;
—President Calles, of Mexico, is
quoted as having said that “any revo-
lutionary movement in that country
‘which threatens the authority of cap-
ital is bound to fall.” In the light of
recent occurrences in Mexico we are
inclined to infer that Calles means
‘that he is capital.
+ —Inasmuch as William 8S. Vare
stands practically no chance of being
given a seat in the United States
Senate Governor Fisher might have
a chance to appoint a Senator for
Penrsylvania. As to whom it might
‘be ve shall not hazard a guess, It
might ke Joe Grundy, but it wont
be Gifford Pinchot.
TLere being no more doubt as to
President Coolidge’s determination to
retire at the expiration of his present
term our friends, the Republicans,
find themselves with a problem on
‘their hands: A problem so difficult
to solve that they will have no time
to continue poking their noses into
our presidential woodlot.
—The most striking example ‘of
Tare presence of mind comes to us
through a Chicago dispatch. A woman
out there undertook to bite a police-
man who was attempting to arrest
her and the officer promptly grabbed
her false teeth out of her mouth.
‘The message didn’t say whether she
“gummed” him then or not.
—If you've never been impeached
and feel that you would like to star
in such a proceeding go down to Ok-
lahoma and have yourself elected to
some office. Just now the Legislature
of that State is trying to get rid of
‘the Governor, Chief Justice of the Su-
preme Court and the Secretary of Ag-
riculture; all by the impeachment
route.
—If Willis Beach and Mrs. Lillien-
«dahl killed the latter's husband they
must have done it with premedita-
tion. For that reason we can’t un-
derstand how that New Jersey jury
returned a verdict of manslaughter.
It must have been a compromise. If
such were the case justice was not
rendered either the State or the de-
fendants. Justice is not exact when
compromise holds the scales.
—Lots of hunters who will rail at
seventy-five cents a pound for a
Christmas turkey came home from
the woods elated with a few pounds
of venison that had cost them two
or three dollars a pound. Of course
they had the sport of the chase, but
is it comparable with that of a hap-
py family, in a cheerful home, gath-
ered about a table on which reposes
a great browned bird stuffed with
chestnuts ?
VOL. 72.
BELLEFONTE. PA
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNI
.. DECEMBER 16. 1927.
Electrical Monopolists Active.
The most important problem in the
industrial life of the country is the
development and control of electrical
power. It is a question that can be
properly settled only by Congression-
al legislation. Gifford Pinchot ex-
pressed a full appreciation of the
subject when he appealed to the Leg-
islature of Pennsylvania to enact a
law that would prevent the exploita-
tion of this great element in industry
by monopolists. It was a step in the
right direction and if his advice had
been followed the people of this State
would have been secure in their right
to use and control the electrical ener-
gy produced within the Common-
wealth. But the better method of con-
servation is by Congressional legisla-
tion.
There is now, and has been for
some time, in process of formation a
vast electrical trust which will, unless
restrained - by suitable legislation,
monopolize the production and distri-
bution of electrical power and put the
whole country under tribute. Those
concerned in this sinister enterprise
thoroughly understand that the Con-
gress is the only agency that can de-
feat their purpose. Among the lead-
ers in this scheme of spoliation is
Samuel Insull, of Chicago, whose ac-
tivities extend from the Atlantic to
the Pacific. His reason for contribut-
ing liberally to Frank Smith’s slush
fund in the campaign of last year was
that he might have an attorney in
the Senate who will guard his inter
ests. i
The determined fight to place Wil-
liam 8. Vare in the Senate may be for
the same reason. Mr. Vare may have
no personal interest in the matter and
little understanding of the subject.
But he will be obedient to orders and
vote as Big Business desires. The ap-
pointment of James M. Beck, as a
Representative in Congress, may be
in furtherance of this plan, also. He
is a corporation lawyer, with a repu-
tation for ability and success, and
will be a formidable opponent to any
legislation inimical to the interests of
monoply. Meantime the true friends
of the people, both in the Senate and
House of Represecentatives, are alert.
Senator Walsh and . Senator . Norris
are In"the witch tower. ;
—Another reason in favor of early |
Christmas shopping is that you have
a better chance of getting what you
want if you get there first.
Not a Partisan Question.
During the debate on the question
of admitting Mr. Vare to a seat in
the Senate, which Governor Pinchct
declared was “partly bought and part-
ly stolen,” Senator Dave Reed, of
Pittsburgh, inferentially charged that
the Democratic Senators were in-
fluenced by a desire to seize control
of the Senate. There are forty-seven
Republicans, forty-seven Democrats
and one Farmer-Labor Senator, in-
cluding Vare, and throwing Vare out
would reduce the Republican force to
a minority, giving the Democrats
control. But in that event the Farm-
er-Labor Senator could at any time
tie the vote and invest the Vice-Pres-
ident with controlling power.
Even if that were the purpose of
the Democratic Senators it would not
lie in the mouth of Senator Reed or
any other Republican Senator to com-
plain. At the opening of the Sixty-
sixth Congress a similar condition ex-
isted, except that the Democrats had
the meager majority and the question
of control rested upon the admission
of Truman H. Newberry, of Michigan,
who stood convicted of corruption in
his campaign for the nomination. Un-
der direction of the Republican caucus
it was made a party issue and New-
berry was given the seat and his
party control of the organization and
the committees. It was part of Sen-
ator Lodge’s “fight against Wilson,”
and kept us out of the League of Na-
tions.
In the Vare case the Governor of
the State had cast a doubt on the
validity of the nomination and elec-
tion of Vare by refusing to certify
that he had been “duly” elected. The
resolution to deny him the seat had
been offered by a Republican, the
chairman of the Committee on the
Judiciary, and was being supported by
a considerable number of Republican
Senators. It was not in any respect a
partisan question. It was simply a
protest against the purchase of seats
in the Senate by unfit men of large
wealth and small conscience. Senator
Reed had, himself, denounced Vare
as unfit and the Senate has approved
his judgment.
—If Mr. Coolidge would indicate
in even cryptic manner who he favors
as his successor he would relieve a
great many anxious minds. :
—Tobacco users paid $376,000,000
revenue tax last year, which accounts
for the smaller income tax of some
Distinction Without a Difference.
It is difficult to reconcile the rea-
soning of those who professed to
draw a line of distinction between
the claims of Mr. Smith, of Illinois,
and Mr. Vare, of Pennsylvania, for a
seat in the Senate and the facts in
the case. It is true that the investi-
gation of the Slush Fund committee
revealed the fact that the vast
amount of money used in the pur-
chase of the nomination and election
of Colonel Smith was obtained from
an illegal source. Samuel Insull, a
utility corporation magnate, had con-
tributed to the Smith slush fund a
very large sum. Presumably this con-
tribution was made in consideration
of favors previously bestowed or
services expected in the future. No
actual taint was shown in the funds
employed to nominate and elect Vare. |
The contribution of funds to can-
didates or political committees by
corporatiens is forbidden by law. The
contribution of funds to candidates or |
political committees by officials or
employes of State or municipal gov- |
ernments is forbidden by an act of
the General Assembly of Pennsylva-
nia. The contribution of funds to a
candidate by organized criminals is
obnoxious to every principle of mor-
ality. In the slush fund investigation
it was shown that a public official of
Philadelphia earning $8000 a year
had contributed $50,000 to the Vare
slush fund and he refused to tell
where the money came from. It is
widely suspected, and generally be-
lieved, that it was collected from pub-
lic officials, bootleggers and profes-
sional criminals in and about Phila-
delphia.
It is true that this suspicion and
belief was not supported by compet-
ent evidence. But the failure was not
the fault of the Slush Fund commit-
tee or the public outraged by the
crimes. It was the grave fault of the
friends of Mr. Vare, in and out of
the Senate, who organized a filibuster
and by sinister methods and at great
sacrifices of public interests choked
off the investigation before the whole
truth could be brought out. The pur-
pose of this eriminal “hold up” of
the processes of inquiry was to pre- |
vent the exposure of the sources of y pleasant
the Vare slush fund. = will ‘have to show
—Lowdon and Dawes are rendering
the “After You, Alphonso” act very
gracefully, if not exactly successfully.
—Justice Kephart is a vote-getter
and his friends are making the Mel-
lon management very anxious.
BE —
Vare’s Absurd Hope Vanished.
It is to be hoped that the vote in
the Senate, on Monday, renewing the
life of the Slush Fund committee, will
mark the beginning of the end of
William S. Vare’s attempt to break
into the Senate. If it should also
mark the elimination from Mr. Vare’s
mind of the absurd idea that he is
a political leader in Pennsylvania it
will be doubly gratifying. It is said
that he has fondly cherished for many
years an ambition to wear the Sena-
torial toga. But until recent years
the political morals of the State had
not fallen to a sufficiently low level
to justify the public avowal of his
hopes. The certainty that his cor-
rupt methods will now be exposed
ought to put an end to his dream.
Mr. Vare may not be altogether to
blame for the moral degeneracy which
inspired his ambition. Men of great
wealth, who for selfish purposes con-
tribute large sums of money to cre-
ate and maintain corrupt partisan or-
ganizations, are the real causes of ex-
isting political evils. Men of the Vare
type are simply instruments by which
the greater enemies of moral public
life accomplish their sinister purposes,
The recently adopted resolution of the
Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce
urging the Senate to admit Vare, not-
withstanding his tainted title made
every member of that organization as
culpable as the election officers now
serving prison sentences for frauds
in Vare’s interest.
Besides Mr. Vare had the encour-
agement of past experience to feed
his expectation of making the hurdle.
Newberry was admitted to member-
ship of the Senate, even after he had
been convicted of fraud, and it has
become a custom to buy or steal Re-
publican nominations. Vare had as-
surances from the Governor and the
Mellon organization of cordial support
in his claim which they knew to be
suspicious. During the primary cam-
paign Governor Fisher, Senator Dave
Reed and chairman Mellon declared
Vare unfit for the office, but Mr. Reed
organized a filibuster in the Senate
and defeated important legislation in
order to force him in. If such things
are stopped great good will follow.
entra Am i
—Major Eugene H. Lederer, of
State College, has been appointed ap-
praiser of estates for Centre county
by Auditor-General Edward Martin.
The appointment is said to carry a
of them.
Kansas City Gets the Convention.
After an intensely bitter contest
Kansas City, Missouri, has been chos-
en as the seat of the Republican Na-
tional convention, which will assemble
on the 12th day of June, 1928. The
other contestants for the party favor
were Detroit and San Francisco with
scattering votes for Philadelphia,
Cleveland and Chicago. On the first
ballot San Francisco had within four
votes of a majority but was unable
‘to increase its force. Philadelphia’s
‘three votes were cast by the two
Pennsylvania members and one Ver-
monter. The controlling influence in
the balloting was the preference for
Kansas City expressed by Chairman
Butler, of the National committee,
who is supposed to speak for Presi-
dent Coolidge.
Of course considerable party ad-
. vantage is expected to come from
holding the convention in the Mis-
souri city which is the market centre
of the corn belt and the most import-
ant city of the middle west. In recent
years the political complexion of the
State has been very much in doubt
and the electorate disposed to listen
to the appeals of the slush fund,
which is the only form of polities
chairman Butler understands. He
realizes that it will be necessary to
carry such States as Missouri, Ken-
tucky and Tennessee in order to cre-
ate even a hope of victory and im-
agines that holding the convention in
Kansas City will promote that result,
But voters are no longer so easily de-
i ceived.
Kansas City, in June, is probably
the hottest spot between Maine and
California and the delegates and oth-
ers who attend the convention may
look forward to a period of discom-
fort which is appalling to contem-
plate. But otherwise and in other
seasons of the year it is a charming
place to visit. The people are hospit-
able, courteous and progressive and
not too particular about the enforce-
ment of laws that are obnoxious to
some politicians. For that reason,
though the hot sun of midday may
pierce and the hot winds of midnight
torture, the delegates and other vis-
Litors to the convention may have a
- nably ‘time. But they
those Missourians
something in return.
Centre County Man Attacked by
Rioting Students in Rumania.
News dispatches on Tuesday includ-
ed a cable message from Rumania
about an unwarranted attack on Wil-
liam M. Keller, a son of Mrs. Tam-
mie Keller, of Linden Hall, Centre
county, who is now in business in
Oradea Mare, Rumania.
that Keller was walking through a
public square on the way to his home,
ten blocks away, when he noticed that
he was being followed by a group of
students with a menacing attitude. He
remonstrated with them, declaring
that he was an American citizen.
They ignored his plea, declaring he
must go to the police station with
them,
They took him by force back to the
public square, passing a Rumanian of-
ficer who knew him and who was
aware that he was an American. Kel-
ler pleaded with the officer to save
him, said the witness, but the officer
ignored the appeal. En route to the
square the students and their Ameri-
can captive passed three military
guards who did not raise a hand to
save Keller, the witness said, despite
his repeated pleas that he was not a
Jew and not a Rumanian.
When Keller and his captors reached
the Anglo-Rumanian bank the Ameri-
can was attacked by at least 25 stu-
dents. A sympathetic civilian observ-
er tried to assist the American, but
was ordered away by soldiers.
Keller is in the automobile business
there and has been since January,
1923. He served in the American army
in France.
Keller's wife was born in Oradea
Mare and is understood to be of Hun-
garian Jewish origin. Keller was
once connected with the American Y.
M. C. A. in Rumania, which esteemed
him highly, and also was employed
for a time by the Near East Relief.
Lindy Does It Again.
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh has once
again manifested his superiority as
a flier. Leaving Washington in his
famous ship, “The Spirit of St.
Louis,” shortly after noon on Tues-
day, he made a non-stop flight to
Mexico City, a distance of two
thousand miles, in twenty-seven hours,
landing in the Mexican capital at 3:34
on Wednesday afternoon. President
Calles and almost one hundred thou-
sand people were at the Mexican fly-
ing field to greet him on his arrival.
Now if “Lindy” can be induced to at-
tend that big military ball, at State
College in January, Centre countians
will also have an opportunity to line
salary of $100 a month.
up with the hero worshippers.
‘would make no
An eye witness to the assault said | N.
NO. 49.
The Chinese Puzzle,
From the Philadelphia Record.
For a few years after China became
a republic the internal political sit-
uation was x involved that even ob-
servers on the ground gave up trying
to untangle the threads of rival move-
ments. We had already sto won-
dering what Sun-Yat-Sen ly stood
for when the World war broke out
and caused all our attention to be con-
centrated for years upon events in
another continent.
Almost a year has passed since
China suddenly became a first-page
i news story once more in the press of
the world. The civil war had been
going on for a long time, but the
world was not aware of it until the
startling events of Hankow and
Shanghai seemed to call for foreign
intervention. Although Great Britain
gave up her special privileges at
Hankow, she ordered thousands of
troops to Shanghai. France and Japan
and the United States limited their
contingents for the defense of the
international settlement at Shanghai
to marines. Soon the anti-foreign
movement grew in intensity to a point
it had not attained since the Boxer
rebellion, 27 years before. Mission-
aries were called in from outlying
stations, and the shipping and com-
merce of all nations except Germany
were crippled, if not actually para-
lyzed.
A civil war between two parties,
with clearly defined opposing princi-
ples, is not a puzzle. The reason we
have a Chinese puzzle—and have had
one that appears insoluble to observ-
ers—ever since the beginning of these
internal troubles is precisely because
there never have been two parties with
opposing principles. © Civil war arose
in China, coincident with the estab-
lishment of the republic,
the opposition of the Liberal South
to the Conservative North. At least
this is the way it was represented
to the outside world. But the ex-
planation, if true at the beginning,
did not remain true very long. The
southerners, or Nationalists, had ef-
fective control only over the Canton
region, and the Peking government,
the ostensible government for all
China, was not always master even in
Peking. The Peking ronment had
to rely on generals 2 A were virtual-
ly independent of its authority to de-
fend it against the Canton govern-
ment. And the Canton government
move of & v sl
offensive character ‘without enlisting
the support of provincial leaders who
neither understood nor shared the. sin-
cere enthusiasm of the originators of
the Canton movement for a Liberal
regime in China and a sweeping as-
sertion of independence against for-
eign political and economic encroach-
ments.
Virtually the same situation pre-
sents itself again at the end of 1927.
The Kuomintang Central executive
committee of Canton has seen the op-
of its control. There
ationalist government
which claims to represent Young
China and the Liberal independence
movement by virtue of the successes
on the field of battle of the generals
and provincial governors who consti-
tute this government. Nanking now
calls Canton “red.” On the other
hand, there is no army, under a eom-
mon leader,
Ing and recognizing the authority of
the Peking government, but a group
of war lords, each hostile to the other
and shifting in alliances and each
hoping to dominate for his own per-
sonal aggrandizement the Peking gov-
ernment.
We understand that while there is
less actual fighting and danger to
fore gners in China now than there
was six months ago, foreigners living
there, with a stake in the country,
are more pessimistic than they were
last spring. They seem to realize that
at Nanking,
their ability to remain in China is
! ing was constructed between 1800 and 1820
due solely to the 54 foreign patrol
boats on the Yangtze and the soldiers,
marines and fleets at and near the
larger seaports.
—————————— ee ———
State Shows Up Well.
From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
Pennsylvania State College entries
won two class championships, seven
first prizes, one second place, two
third, one fourth, one fifth and one
eighth prize in the international live
stock exposition in Chicago this week.
is is only an example of the
splendid work State is constantly do-
ing for the agriculture and the in-
dustry of Pennsylvania. Only such
outstanding triumphs can be noted
among a host of everyday activities
that mark the institution as one of
the most useful among the colleges of
the East.
All the more remarkable is this be-
cause most of the wrok done at State
is under discouraging conditions and
difficulties. Until Governor Fisher
generously and wisely recognized the
needs of the school with the first real
appropriation in years, State College
was treated in most niggardly fashion
by the Legislature. It is to be hoped
the Governor will be able to persuade
fre next session to do as well, or even
etter.
—The new Senate committee on
Privileges and Elections, which will
count the Wilson-Vare vote, will be
made up of six Republicans, all hard-
boiled, and five Democrats. But the
five will be alert.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
~—Unless the State raises an additional
$200,000 by January 1, Cook forest, near
Brookville, will be offered at public sale,
‘according to announcement of the Cook
heirs, who are eager for. division of the
estate, and decline to wait longer for sale
of the tract.
—While on duty Thursday night Pa-
trolman Robert Mohr, of Allentown,
parked his car in the heart of the city.
After transacting his business at police
headquarters he made a quick return to
report the automobile had been robbed of
tools, bulbs, tire gauge, patching kit,
chains and flashlight.
—While 12-year-old Edgar Watson, of
Chester, stood in the central shopping dis-
trict, on Saturday, waiting for his mother
to accompany him on a Christmas shop-
ping tour, the mother, Mrs. John GQ. Wat-
son, died at her home from acute indiges-
tion. The boy, tired of waiting, went
home and discovered her body.
—Anthony Frak, Oil City grocer, saved
the $19 cash in his eash register but re-
ceived a bad cut on the head from the
end of a revolver when he mrde an empty
threat to shoot it out with the masked
and armed invader of his store Saturday
evening. While Frak was edging toward
a meat cleaver the robber slugged him
over the head and escaped.
—On the ground that Mrs. Mary Cyko,
of Kittanning, was not dependent upon
her husband at the time of his death with-
in the meaning of the statutes, the Work-
men’s Compensation Board last week up-
held the referee’s action in disallowing
compensation to the woman. The husband,
Andy Cyko, died two days after a piece
of rock, weighing several hundred pounds,
fell upon him while working in the prop-
erty of the Allegheny River Mining com-
pany, of Kittanning.
—Records in the Bureau of Motor Ve-
hicles, at Harrisburg, disclose the fact
that a majority of members of the Legis-
lature and of the Pennsylvania bench have
availed themselves of the opportunity to
obtain distinctive license plates for 1928.
The legislators have plates with the let-
ter “L” preceding the numerals, and on
plates for the judiciary the letter “J” fol-
lows the numerals. This is the first time
that special plates have been made for
these two classes of officials.
—Dr. Charles B. Smith, 62, of Newtown,
one of Bucks county’s most prominent
physicians, committed suicide, on Sunday,
over the grave of his son in the Newtown
cemetery. Grief over his son, Morrell
Smith, who was killed in the Argonne
drive during the World war, was said by
relatives to have caused Dr. Smith to take
his life. Placing a blanket over the grave,
Dr. Smith fired five shots through his
breast near the heart. His body, lying
across the grave, was found a few hours
later. !
—William Deemer, four year old son of
Mr. and Mrs. F. V. Deemer, of Burnham,
will not be compelled to travel through
life, short a large portion of his chin
as was at first thought when he was taken
to the Lewistown hospital. The lad ran
through the back yard at his home in
the darkness and falling sliced a goodly
portion of his chin off on a double-bit axe
that had one bit sunk deep in the chop-
ping block and the other as a snare for
the unwary. Doctors at the hospital say
they can graft the pieces on his chin
y [and the doy will not be disfigured.
—A cat owned by Mr. and Mrs. W. B.
Oliver, of Berwick, prefers snakes to mice.
Eleven snakes have been brought into the
Oliver apartment by the cat in the last
month, several of them copperheads, and
the cat plays with them as with a mouse
before killing them. In some unexplained
" manner she las avoided being bititen by
the copperheads. A son, George, aged 12,
investigated the source of the snakes and
; found a huge ball of garter snakes and
copperheads, apparently gathered for the
_ winter, on the hill back of the business
position to Peking get entirely out section. He killed or caught 30 of them.
is another | —The State of Pennsylvania has one
; unique position.
It is that of official
clock winder in the State buildings held
by Melvin D. Leonard. Once each week
Leonard makes a tour of the State offices
winding and rezulating about 850 clocks.
In addition, he cares for 336 electric
clocks which are controlled by four master
clocks. This work takes about five days.
Until a few months ago Leonard also had
in the north represent- | to do the clock repairing, but now a mas-
ter clock maker attends that work, The
official winder has been on the job for
three years and declares he likes the po-
sition.
-—The Logan flour mill, at Lewistown,
one of the oldest in this section of the
State, was destroyed by fire on Thursday
night with an estimated loss of $65,000.
Flying embers endangered nearby resi-
dences and the adjacent business section,
and all Lewistown’s firemen and those of
all the neighboring villages and townships
were seriously hampered by the cold. For
the past few years the mill has been
owned by H. J. Cohen & Son. The build-
over the bed of the old State canal, the
boats passing through under it when the
canal was in operation. It was three
stories” high and constructed of brick.
—Apples have been reported scarce this
year but a cold storage plant at Waynes-
boro is filled with 65,000 barrels. The ap-
ples in storage there are from the or-
chards throughout the Cumberland Valley
and other sections as far away as the
State of Washington. One hundred ecar-
loads of apples were shipped there for
storage, from Washington State. It is a
case of “in again, out again” at their local
storage plant. With the filling of the
storage rooms, orders for apples begin
to arrive from various markets. Already
twelve carloads have been shipped out of
storage at Waynesboro. Shipments will
continue from the plant, up until about
May 1, when the storage will be put in
readiness for the early apples of the 1928
crop.
—A certified check for $2,000, posted by
J. M. Breman, a former University of
Pittsburgh student, with C. J. Schin-
ninger, of Altoona, as a wager on the
recent Pitt-Penn State football game, was
returned on Saturday by Schinninger, who
is under arrest in Piittsburgh, charged
with defrauding Pitt supporters out of
approximately $8,000. The check was re-
turned in Morals Court after Breman
testified he wagered that amount with
Schinninger that Pitt would defeat Penn
State, but was unable to find the man
to collect his winnings after the game.
Schinninger, who represented himself at
the time as “C. BE. Hugus, representative
of a New York broker,” was ordered held
while police sought to locate other Pitt
men who were victimized.