—Mellon consents to Beidleman as
National delegate for the Dauphin
-district, but it was a case of “Hob-
:son’s choice.” *
. —By way of advice—entirely gra-
tuitous—to a Republican friend who
is offering to immeolate himself on the
sacrificial altar in Centre county we
want to say: Keep out of it.
. —We don’t quite get the reason
why the Vare watchers of the Sen-
ate’s recount of the Pennsylvania vote
for United States Senator should have
quit their job “in a huff.” It seems
to us that if they were sure of their
ground it wouldn’t make a particle of
difference to them how many watch-
ers were present for the other side.
—We note that the highways in
Pennsylvania are to be renumbered.
We presume that the change is one
of necessity. Probably all the motor-
ists had become familiar with the old
numbers and might have found time
to start inquiring into affairs of State,
so they are being given new ones to
ponder over while the marker makers
and paint dealers run away with more
contracts.
—A ‘case of miscengenation is rock-
ing the Nutmeg State to the point of
riot. You ask what miscengenation
means? We would likely have asked
the same question had we seen it in
print before the Hon. Bill Kepler in-
troduced 2 bill in the Pennsylvania
Legislature that, if it had been en-
acted, would have made it unlawful
for a white person to marry one of
‘the colored race.
—The New York meeting of Penn-
sylvania’s Republican potentates ap-
parently resulted in giving Eddie
Beidleman back a seat at the polit-
ical pie counter. They found that the
square shootin’ Dauphin dictator was
needed more than they thought he
was and, incidentally, his rehabilita-
tion removes a lot of splinters from
the bench Senator. Scott has been sit-
ting on for two years.
" __It must be admitted that Eddie
Cantor, who was taking down forty-
five hundred a week, let Flo Zeigfeld
down rather hard when he quit the
Follies and the show had to close in
consequence of his departure. Eddie
said he had pleurisy. From what we
have read of the case we diagnose
it as one of “pipp.” We know the
symptoms well, because we get it so
often ourselves. However, Zeigfeld
hired Eddie because he is one of the
few comedians who can “stop the
show” and we can’t see that the im-
pressario has much come back now
that he’s done it.
—Who's going to succeed the Hon.
Holmes in the Legislature? The Hon.
“Holmes wants to. Jim Heverly, form-
er County Treasurer, wants to. Frank
Mayes, former County Treasurer,
wants to. And we are told that some-
‘body wants Robert Walker, of Belle-
fonte, to want to. Our ears are ring-
ing with rumors of the rise and fall
of prestige of Centre county Republi-
can leaders at Harrisburg. They are all
grist for our mill and that is the
reason wc suggest that Andrew Cur-
tin Thompson starts now to show
that he is the man the people of Cen-
tre county want to succeed the Hon.
Hclmes in the Legislature.
—Well, Paul Whiteman and his
band have been back to State Col-
lege and we presume there are those
who are expecting us to pay our re-
spects to him, as we did following the
occasion of his first visit there. Un-
fortunately Paul has reformed so that
what might otherwise have been food
for a whole column dissipates into
scanty sustenance for a brief para-
graph. He has put his laughing don-
keys »nd ma-ma dolls on the shelf
with Little Boy Blue’s toy dog and
tin soldier. We don’t know whether
he kissed them when he put them
there, but we could almost have syn-
chronized an osculatory effort with
him when we realized that he had
done so. The “Rhapsody in Blue”
carried us back to the days when
music was something more than saxo-
peal, not wholly because of -its sev-
eral exquisite passages. It started us
thinking again of the transmigration
of souls and wondering whether
George Brandon might be speaking
again to us through the perfect tech-
nique of the Whiteman pianist.
¢ —In our “Talks With the Editor”
column this week we suspect that a
eorrespondent is trying to inveigle us
into an academic discussion of the
proper use of the prepositions “with”
and “to”. Now with and to have al-
ways bothered us. Sometimes we re-
member that it is proper to “talk with
and speak to” but not always. Loi-
sette’s memory book doesn’t cover the
case. It tells us, for instance, when
we want to recall Napoleon to a wool-
gathering mind we “must think of
Waterloo,” That suggestion, of
course, might help those who could
think of Waterloo when they couldn’t
of Napoleon, but there is no sugges-
tion that we have ever heard of that
we might fall back on when we get
into a quandary as to whether it is
“with” or “to.” When we arrive at
that point we're the twin brother of
the fellow who admitted that he was
in no condition to articulate “sarsap-
arilla.” However, if our correspond-
ent wants to talk “with” the editor
the column is open to him and he
is taking on some job. If he wants
to talk “to” the editor he can do
that, too, but we reserve the right to
walk out on him whenever we please.
y
"STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 73.
Grave Charges Against Pennsylvania.
In response to a letter from former
Governor Pinchot, Senator Hiram
Johnson, of California, last week ad-
dressed the Senate on his resolution
providing for a thorough investiga-
tion of labor conditions in the bitu-
minous coal fields of Pennsylvania.
In his letter Mr. Pinchot placed much
of the blame for existing evils on the
Mellon family, and Secretary of La-
bor Davis puts the burden mainly on
the operators who failed to attend
conferences called for the purpose of
conciliation. After reading the state-
ments Senator Johnson declared that
“in Pennsylvania, today, there are so-
cial revolution and economic warfare.
Worse, far worse, in that great Com-
monwealth there are the dark evils of
bloody warfare—sickness, suffering,
hardship, privation, want and hunger
and the ever attendant infamies of
wrong, oppression and tyranny.”
As might have been expected the
Senator representing Pennsylvania
promptly entered a plea of confession
and avoidance. “No one could exag-
gerate conditions in Pennsylvania,”
he said, “and all I ask is that any in.
quiry. to be made be a fair and thor-
ough one. There must be some re-
lief from the situation but let us not
jump at conclusions about the caus-
es.” Referring to Governor Pinchot’s
statement that “coal and iron” police
are responsible for much of the suf-
fering Senator Reed added that Gov-
ernor Fisher “is investigating this
phase of the situation.” He assumed
much the same attitude during the
last session of Congress with respect
to the investigation of frauds in the
election of Vare. He professed to be
willing and anxious to expose fraud
but invoked every expedient, even a
filibuster, disastrous to important leg-
islation, to prevent it.
Senator Johnson’s resolution was
introduced a year ago and Senator
Reed promised cordial support and
sympathy with its purpose. His limp-
ing alibi now is that Governor Fisher
is making an investigation of the
subject. The suffering wives and chil-
dren of the Pittsburgh Coal company’s
evicted miners will find little comfort
in that assurance. One day last
month Governor Fisher commissioned
upward of “8000 coal and iron“police<
men for service in the bituminous
coal sections of Pennsylvania, and
that after complaint had been made
against the atrocities perpetrated by
them. Senator Reed justifies their !
employment because State policemen
are in service in most States. But
there is a vast difference between |
“State” and “Coal and Iron” police. |
State police are amenable to law |
while coal and iron police ohey only
orders of bosses.
a
—Next Tuesday will be Valentine |
day.
A
Vicious Deal in Offices.
On Monday of last week W. L. Mel-
lon, chairman of the Republican State
committee; John S. Fisher, Governor
of Pennsylvania, and William S. Vare,
discredited United States Senator-
elect, met in conference in New York
and completed the most vicious polit-
ical deal ever perpetrated in the
country. It involves the abdication by
Governor Fisher of the most import-
ant function of his office and confer-
ring upon Mr. Vare, whom he had
previously denounced as representing
nothing in public life but a beer mug,
the power to appoint a Senator to
represent Pennsylvania in the highest
deliberative body in the world. It
would be impossible to imagine a more
disgraceful incident.
David A. Reed, who now represents
the Mellon banks, the Gulf Oil com-
pany, the Steel trust, the Aluminum
trust and other corporate interests in
the Senate, aspires to re-election. His
fidelity to his corporate clients and in-
difference to public interests has
aroused such opposition that it has
been believed that any opponent
would defeat him. Friends of Justice
Gephart, of the Supreme court, had
been urging him to enter the race and
Vare had been encouraging his ambi-
tion. With Vare’s support he would
have become a candidate and Reed
would have been defeated. At the
New York conference Vare stated his
terms and the Governor and the chair-
man of the State committee had to
agree to them.
Thus the political agencies in au-
thority are contributing to the cor-
ruption of public life. One faction
has offices to sell and another has
what serves as currency to buy and
both are influenced by sinister pur-
poses. The Mellons need a Repre-
sentative on the floor of the
Senate and Vare’s Philadelphia
machine has power to defeat their
plan. So they get together in New
York and strike a bargain just as a
bunch of Hucksters deal for a carload
of potatoes. The interests of the
people get no consideration.” The in-
terests of the two machines are con-
sired only.
Another Oil Magnate Defiant.
The oil millionaires continue their |
defiant attitude respecting the inves-
tigation of the Teapot Dome lease to
Sinclair. Robert W. Stewart, chair-
man of the board of the Standard Oil
company of Indiana, was before the
Senate committee on Public Lands,
last week, and refused to answer per-
tinent questions concerning the opera-
tions of the mushroom Canadian cor-
poration which is said to have made
vast profits out of the transaction. It
has been shown by the evidence of |
other witnesses that the $325,000 paid
to the then Secretary of the Navy,
Albert B. Fall, came from that source,
and it is suspected large sums drawn
from the same fountain trickled into
the pockets of other government of-
ficials.
While negotiations for the lease of
the oil reserve were pending this Can-
adian corporation was organized. It
purchased from oil corporations con-
trolled by Stewart and Sinclair up-
ward of three million barrels of oil
at $1.50 a barrel and before any mon-
ey had been paid or oil moved sold it
back to the corporations controlled by
Stewart and Sinclair for $1.75 a bar-
rel. Immediately after this very
profitable transaction was completed
the Canadian corporation was dis-
solved and about the time the investi-
gation of the lease of Teapot Dome
was begun all books and records of
the corporation were barned and all
evidence of its activities destroyed. It
is believed Mr. Stewart could tell the
story. Ei =
Harry Sinclair, associated with
Stewart in the transaction, has al-
ready been convicted of contempt of
the Senate for refusal to answer sim-
ilar inquiries more than two “years
ago, but thus far he has escaped the
penalty. Stewart is now threatened
with prosecution for the same offense
but doesn’t seem to mind it. These
rich rascals imagine that they are im-
mune to punishment and the fact that
Fall and Sinclair are still at liberty
justifies their confidence in some de-
gree. The civil courts have been len-
ient with them. The leases corruptly
made to Sinclair and Doheney have
been revoked and a large part of the
profits exacted :
sriminal courts seem to be impotent
if not worse.
—Republican Chairman Butler is
threatening to take his National con-
vention away from Kansas City.
Probably they gave him a bad check.
Mr. Beck’s Absurd Claim.
It may be safely predicted that the
House Committee on Elections will
report in favor of seating James M.
Beck as a Representative for the First
district of Pennsylvania. It has been
clearly shown that he was not an “in-
habitant” of Pennsylvania, as ex-
pressed in the constitution at the time
of his election. But the committee
will be influenced by partisan prej-
udice as the Senate Committee on
Privileges and Elections was, the oth-
er day, when it voted to summarily
dismiss the petition of William B.
Wilson in the Vare contest. The cer-
tainty of an appeal to the Senate
caused a reversal in that case but
there is no terror in such a course in
the House. That body is “joined to
its idols.”
Mr. Beck set up the claim that his
residence in Washington did not make
him an “inhabitant” for the reason
that it began in pursuance of his duty
as an officer of the government. So
long as he remained in the employ-
ment of the government at Washing- ,
ton that is true. But he ceased to be
an officer of the government some’
yearsiago and since that has been an
inhabitant of New York and New Jer-
sey in turn and a qualified voter in
New Jersey. He became a repatriat-
ed inhabitant of Pennsylvania only af- |
ter he had entered into a questionable
bargain with William S. Vare to take
his place as a Representative in Con-
gress for a district that Mr. Vare
professes to own and control.
All these facts were clearly pre- |
sented to the House Committee on’
Elections by Representative Everett
Kent. It was admitted by Mr. Beck
that since his separation from official
life in Washington he has lived in
New York and voted in New Jersey |
and that he was registered in z Phil-
adelphia club, until very recently, as
a non-resident member. It is not
claimed by any business or profes-
ional resident of Washington that he
may reside and pursue his business or
profession there and still be an “in-
habitant” of the State in which he
was born. But that is the basis upon
which Mr. Beck claims to represent a |
Pennsylvania constituency in Con-
gress, and party exigencies will en-
able him to get away with it.
—Lindbergh at an altitude of 7,-!
600 feet writes “I have just come out
exacted from them: But the ;
BELLEFONTE. PA.. FEBRUARY 10. 1928.
Trouble in Pan-American Congress.
The Pan-American Congress, in
Havana, is not moving in the manner
desired by the administration in
Washington or as smoothly as the
royal welcome to the President in.
dicated. Mr. Coolidge’s glittering
speech made little impression on the
Southern delegates and the Hughes’
oration, redolent with sympathy and
profuse in promise, was accepted at
a considerable discount from its face
! value. But the delegates proceeded
with the organization of the confer-
ence as if they were hopeful of a.
The representa- |
magnificent success.
tives of Cuba, Nicaragua and Peru
had been carefully coached in their
roles and the preliminary proceedings
were all that could be desired.
! © But when the real work of the Con-
gress was taken up the atmosphere
changed as rapidly as the tempera-
ture of the weather in this latitude.
Committees were appointed to con-
‘ sider the various subjects to be treat-
‘ed and some of them seem to have
been packed to serve the purposes of
, Washington. For example, the com-
mittee on international law made a
report practically justifying the ex-
isting conditions in Nicaragua and
when submitted to the Congress it
was vehemently denounced by an ov-
erwhelming majority of the delegates.
Mr. Hughes, who is rapidly earning
the title of the great American prom-
iser, praised it fulsomely and one or
two others gave it qualified endorse-
ment. But the majority condemned it
emphatically.
The truth is that the people of the
. United States, as well as those of the
' several Republics of the Rio Grande,
[are opposed to such intervention as is
now being forced upon the people of
{ Nicaragua, and so long as this coun-
‘try persists in it the spirit of resist-
ance will assert itself in the Carib-
bean States. The doctrine of self-
determination expresses the true sen-
timent of self-respecting peovle ev-
erywhere, and regulating policiex and
controlling elections by alien bayonets
is the antithesis of this. The Panama
Congress may be able to point a path
to compromise on this questicn which
will save the face of the Washington
administration, but the Hughes plan
will not prevail. ; Tip
i
—In the regular report of the busi-
ness meeting of borough council, on
Monday evening, mention is made of
the request of Robert F. Hunter for
a franchise for furnishing gas to resi-
dents of Bellefonte from a plant to
be erected at or near the Pleasant
, Gap railroad station. The magnitude
,of Mr. Hunter’s undertaking can be
better appreciated by the fact that
the estimated cost of the plant, main
pipe lines to Bellefonte, Lemont and
State College, as well as service lines
into homes of prospective customers,
is close to half a million dollars, and
is more likely to exceed that sum
than fall below the estimate. To
contruct such a plant, lay the pipe
lines, ‘ete, will maturally give em-
ployment to quite a number of work-
men and Mr. Hunter expects to em-
ploy local labor so far as possible. As
it is his desire to have the plant
built and pipe lines laid during the
coming summer there is prospect for
jobs for most of the men who are
now out of work in this vicinity.
| —Probably those Pan-American
delegates remembered that Charles E.
Hughes solemnly assured the Amer-
ican people in 1920 that the surest
way to get the United States into the
League of Nations was by voting for
Harding for President.
—~The Milton girl who recently ad-
vertised for a husband with $10,000
says she “is a good cook and does not
mind washing dishes.” That sort of
a woman is cheap at any price.
i: —Secretary Kellogg says he is will-
ing to join with all other governments
in the world to abolish submarines.
Mr. Kellogg knows that is an entirely
safe proposition.
—Workmen in Barcelona are quit-
ting their employment as a protest
against the income tax. Most people
will think that a poor way of meet-
ing the issue.
—President Coolidge is perfectly
willing to let all newspapers praise
his administration and all other ad-
ministrations in power.
—Grundy will go to the convention
as a district delegate but there is no
record of a pledge to obey the big
boss in the voting.
—————— re ————
| —Automobile builders and dealers
are about the only people who can get
folks to pay for looking at their
| wares,
—As a neighborhood landmark “the
| Another Soft Coal Inquiry in Pros-
pect in Congress.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Reciting acccunts of shocking dis-
tress and charges of alleged cppres-
sion of labor in the soft coal fields
of central and western Pennsylvania,
West Virginia and Ohio, Senator
Johnson, of California, offered three
weeks ago a resolution providing for
a Senate inquiry. The demand gained
only moderate support, but it has re-
ceived unexpected indorsement from
Senator Reed, of Pittsburgh, and this
assent from a representative of the
operator’s point of view indicates that
the investigation will be made.
| That the prelonged strike has led
to deplorable results is nowhere dis-
i puted. Senator Reed admitted that
. miners in some sections “are living
! under conditions in which no Amer-
i ican ought to live,” and he declared
. that the market price of coal had
| fallen until neither operators nor
| workers could exist, with inevitable
impoverishment of their communities.
More explicitly, the Johnson resolu-
‘tion charges that miners and their
families evicted from their homes are
suffering from exposure and starva-
tion; that wage contracts have been
cishonored; that railroad companies
have conspired to cripple organized
labor by depressing prices and boy-
cotting mines employing union work-
ers and that injunctions have been un-
justly used to suppress peaceful and
legitimate activities by the strikers.
i = Undeniably the situation is serious
enough to justify a searching inquiry,
and such action by the Senate might
be useful in attracting public opinion
to the problem. But the truth is that
i the underlying conditions and the
causes thereof have been notorious
for years, and that the proposed in-
i vestigation can yield no new informa-
tion or make more urgent the need
for drastic remedies.
Nearly five years ago, in fact, an
exhaustive survey was made by the
Federal Coal Commission; but its
comprehensive recommendations have
been ignored by Congress, although
President Coolidge in half a dozen
messages has urged legislative ac-
tion. The Department of Labor like-
wise has intervened, but the confer-
ence it held a few months ago accom-
plished nothing because the most pow-
erful operating interests refused to
participate in it. Thus the dismal
and hopeless struggle has continued,
with vast numbers of workers suffer-
; iig misery, the Tony veaker companies
drifting into bankruptcy and the
stronger barely sustaining themselves
in a chaotic market.
The fundamental cause of all the
trouble is that the soft coal industry
is overdeveloped and over manned,
with 3000 mines and 250,000 miners !
in excess of bituminous consumption
requirements. Unless the proposed
inquiry leads to the complete reorgan-
ization, which alone can remedy over-
production, underemployment, low
wages and a profitless market, it
x be just another futile investiga-
ion.
———————— ——
Looking Toward 1936.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Rear Admiral Hilary P. Jones says
that he “gathered the impression” at
Geneva last summer that the Wash-
ington naval-limitation treaty would
be allowed to expire in 1936. There
is much reason to believe that one or
more of the Powers involved would
favor such a course. France and
Italy have never been satisfied with
it. This was plainly shown by their
i refusal to go to Geneva.
| But it is the other three Powers !
i whose adhesion to the idea of naval
limitation is most vital to. the peace
of _the world. . Two of them, the
United States and Japan, have ex-
pressed themselves as reasonably sat-
isfied. Neither would be disposed to
terminate the Washington treaty, de-
- spite the fact that it could not be ex-
| tended and supplemented at the Ge-
‘neva conference. It is Great Britain
which is the uncertain factor.
The British have shown plainly
their dissatisfaction with the idea of
equality with the United States, even
, though parity is confined to capital
i ships. They do not like it and never
- have liked it. Eight years from now,
i perhaps, they will have decided that
they can’t endure it any longer. But
‘in the next eight years the United
States may have an effective sea
: power equal, if not superior, to that
of Great Britain. This might make
the British change their tune.
|
|
! Everybody’s Newspaper.
: From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
i Hopwood, able editor of the Cleve-
land Plain Dealer, is right when he
says the only successful newspaper is
, “everybody’s newspaper.”
| He cites the fact that we all have
three great instincts—the instinct of
self-preservation, the instinct of race
perpetuation (sex interest), and ‘the
instinct of property and home preser-
vation.
Any newspaper which goes wild on
{any one of these “interest-centers” is
not a good newspaper. Any newspa-
| per which ignores any one of them is
{not a good newspaper. Newspapers
must serve all, interest all, face the
facts, tell the truth.
No editor has the right or the in-
telligence to set himself up ‘as the
of the clouds.” How Herbert Hoover black barn” is no more. It has turned infallible judge of what the people
must envy him.
yellow.
should or should not be told.
BE —_——___
| SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Frederick Herman, of Sunbury, drove
his truck_ in front of a Reading passenger
train at Lewisburg last Thursday night.
It. ‘was reduced to junk, and when the
crew went to look for the corpse they
found Herman sitting among the debris,
not having suffered even a scratch.
—Hal Hughes, who is in charge of the
Salvation Army barracks, at Hazleton has
forsaken the role of an oil magnate for
service as a captain in the corps and he
also has given up good chances of star-
ring in baseball and basketball circles for
the cause which he has made his life work.
—One of the most unusual acicdents re-
ported in Shamokin for several months
befell Mrs. George Shuey on Monday. She
was being led from her sick bed to bid
good-by to a daughter who was leaving
for the hospital when she fell into the
arms of relatives. She fractured her right
leg near the hip.
' —Coming in contact with a high tension
electric line, while descending a steel
tower in the mountain back of Seward,
Chalmer Bracken, 17, of Johnstown, was
killed. He was hurled forty feet to the
ground and landed at the feet of eight
of his companions, whp had watched him
climb to the top of the tower: to blow a
bugle. The boys were on a hiking trip:
—J. Walter Sharp, aged 75, a resident of
Castanea township, adjoining Lock Haven,
died suddenly of heart disease when he
was attacked by the malady in an acute
form as he was walking near his home,
Friday night. He entered a filling station
nearby and asked for liniment, but died
before a doctor could be summoned. He
worked for the Pennsylvania and New
York Central railroads and was a carpen-
ter and marble and granite worker.
—James H. Elliott, of Toledo, Ohio, was
sentenced to spend from two to ‘four
years in the Clearfield county jail! and
pay fines totalling $500 for passing worth-
less checks, when he was tried ‘before
Judge Chase at Clearfield on Monday, of
last week. Elliott had located in DuBois
several months ago and when he attempt-
ed to step out he essayed to pay his way
with checks that had no funds back of
them, which procedure brought him into
the toils of the law.
—Two Franklin countians, John Ham-
mond, of Stony Point, and Cornelius
Hockenberry, of Doylesburg, paid fines of
$100 each to State Game Board officials for
illegal collection of bounty on furs. The
pair were arrested by. C. B. Baum, division
supervisor, and Game Protector R. O.
Dunkle. It was said that both are fur
dealers and took advantage of their busi-
ness to collect State bounty on furs they
purchased. About a dozen weasels were
involved, it was said.
—Mrs. Adah H. Kauffman, aged 28,
former clerk for the Exchange bank, at
Franklin, Pa., was convicted of embezzle-
ment last Thursday. It was testified that
she transferred $4174 from inactive ac-
dgounts to the credit of her husband, John
Kauffman. She was acquitted on a charge
of having taken $6725 from a cash draw-
er. The husband, charged with conspir-
acy in connection with the transfer of the
money to his account, will be tried later.
He is in jail in default of $5,000 bail.
—TFor representing himself as a mem-
ber of various churches, fire companies
and several charity organizations in ob-
“tating merchandise and “funds through
fraudulent check transactions, Lester Me-
Sherry, 27 years old, was sentenced at
York, Pa., on Monday to serve three years
on pleading guilty to charges of false
pretense and passing bogus checks. He
was also sentenced to pay a fine of $100
on each of the three pleas. The swindle
. netted McSherry, he admitted, about $172
in cash and a supply of merchandise and
articles for which he had absolutely no
use.
—Six persons are being held in the
Blair county jail on charges of burglary,
robbery and felonious assault at the home
of R. L. Wilt, at Duncansville. Mrs. Wilt,
alone in the house, was bound and gagged,
kerosene was poured on her hair and she
was threatened with death until the bur-
glars were told the hiding place of $3,200
i in cash, Liberty bonds and stocks. Mrs.
| wilt was found unconscious some hours
later. Persons familiar with the family
are believed responsible, as the Wilts only
recently received the stocks and bonds,
which were duplicates of others destroyed
in a fire.
—A search for relatives of Walter Dud-
ley, former soldier, who was found dazed
on the streets of Harrisburg some days
ago and has been unable to give an ac-
count of his relatives, has been instituted
i by the Veterans Bureau, Red Cross, and
| Harrisburg Chapter of War Mothers. Ma-
1 jor H. H. Barnhart, head of the veterans
| bureau, had written to two soldiers near
‘Baltimore who were reported to have been
“buddies” of the world war veteran but
no definite data concerning his home has’
been obtained. Dudley is being cared
for by the American Rescue Workers at
their home in Harrisburg.
—After a search that had extended over
two weeks, James Rieg, 14-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Rieg., of 206 South
avenue, DuBois, has been located. Young
Rieg walked into a police station in East
Pittsburgh Thursday night at 7:30 o'clock
and asked for a night's lodging and was
imemdiately recognized by Pittsburgh po-
lice as the missing DuBois boy. His re-
quest for lodging was granted and Pitts-
of Police R. R. Love, of DuBois, who in
turn called the boy's father and advised
him that his boy was safe in the Pittsburgh
bastile. Mr. Rieg left early Friday morn-
ing for Pittsburgh to take charge of his
son.
—James Clayton McKinley, correspond-
ence school detective and alleged finger-
print expert, of Lewistown, has presented
his resignation to the courts of Miffin
county. The resignation was accepted
without comment, and McKinley is no
longer a private detective. Ten days ago
he conceived a publicity stunt at the me-
tropolis of the Kishacoquillas valley,
Belleville, in which he faked a note, staged
a burlesque on a bank holdup and kept
business men out of bed the greater part
of the night. McKinley warned business
men of the town that “a job” was going
to be pulled by robbers in Belleville, so
that scores of them remained at their
places of business to lay in wait for the
burglar. At two o'clock in the morning
a shot was fired and McKinley says he
was attacked by three men on the street.
Later he confessed that it was purely a
“hoax” and that he had ruined a perfect.
ly good overcoat by firing a bullet through
it to give color to his story. :