INK SLINGS.
. —Parsons Weems dodged public
condemnation a good while and no
great harm would have been done if
he had escaped it for all time.
. —From down in Florida comes the
report that the fish “hop right into
‘the boat” for the would-be Senator
“Vare. Down in Philadelphia they do
‘the same. The “poor fish.”
—Gene Tunney has been challenged
‘by three fighters and, being an ac-
commodating gentlemen, he has ac-
«cepted all of them. ‘The Marine could
‘probably lick the trio all at the same
‘time. :
—Here’s hoping that nothing will
be found that might arouse suspicion
that the late President Harding was
implicated in the scandal that is shak-
ing the very foundations of the gov-
ernment.
' _The scarcity of Irishmen at the
St. Patrick’s day banquet of the Un-
dines left the good Saint in the posi-
tion of being patron to a large party
that had mo ancestral right to be
“wearin’ o’ the green.”
— The Prohibitionists of Wisconsin
have endorsed Dr. C. W. Huntingdon,
of Williamsport, for Vice President
.on their ticket. The gentleman will
probably get the nomination, but what
if he does? We have never heard of
-a candidate on the Prohibition ticket
.even being accorded the solace of be-
‘ing listed among the “also rans.”
— Albert B. Fall, Secretary of the
Interior in the Harding cabinet, is
said to be near death’s door. He is
‘the person around whom most of the
Teapot Dome oil scandal focuses and
has expressed a desire to tell all he
knows. The former Secretary is a
pathetic figure and probably realizes,
now that it is too late, that the mis-
teke he made was in the company he
kept.
—_Of course we all deplore the slow-
ing up in business and we all have
our ideas as to its cause. We are not
going to air ours just now. We are
going to wait until things begin pick-
‘ing up again and then, if a single
Republican undertakes to tell us that
his party is to be given credit with
‘the revival we are going to ask him
whose party should shoulder respon-
sibility for the depression that is be-
ing revived.
—Senators Capper, of Kansas, and
Borah, of Idaho, are for kicking a lot
.of fellows out of the Republican par-
ty. My, how the two gentlemen would
.enjoy the job. Theirs has been a long
Jane and they ought to be given the
chance now that they have come to
‘the turn in it.
—The death of former Governor
Sproul, which occurred at his home
near Chester, Wednesday night, re-
moves a rather notable figure from
public life in Pennsylvania. Govern-
or Sproul was a rich man, but it was
never charged that he acquired his
wealth in the political game.
—Down in New Jersey public util-
ity corporations cut off the service of
patrons who have dogs that menace
the meter readers when they visit the
properties. We have always thought
‘that the meter reader’s job is a much
easier one than that to which we fell
heir, but we never took into consid-
eration the dog menace. Now that
we know that there is one all desire
to be a meter reader has vanished.
Three times during our life we have
been “dog meat” and now, even a
stuffed canine urges us into a bursts
of speed that makes the flight of
Eliza over the ice when those blood-
hounds were after her look like the
progress of an ai. :
— After the war a Republican Con-
gress spent two years in a vain en-
deavor to find a single case of mis-
feasance in office during a time when
there were the greatest opportunities
for unscrupulous men. In all the
eight years of the Wilson administra-
tion not a governmental scandal arose
to besmirch the country. Since then
they have been dragged into the light
with such frequency that those who
are so alarmed at the growing: disre-
.spect of law might well look to other
-causes beside the Eighteenth amend-
ment. While we are ready to admit
that rascals are likely to turn up in
all parties we little thought that the
Republicans had such a majority of
them.
—The Hon. Holmes is plumbing the
-madir of his political expectations.
Dr. Ebullient Ham thinks he’s sitting
on top of the political world. Jim
Heverly says he’s going to be nomi-
nated. There you have the latest
.dope on the fight of the three h’s
for a chance to be licked by Andrew
Curtin Thompson when the ides of
November arrive in Centre county.
Since last we made a paragraph out
of him we have met Dr. Ham and
might now write an entire page were
it needed to fill up. He’s an engaging
sort of person, whose candor we ad-
mire and whose political unsophisti-
cation should be alarming—unto him-
celf. He is a physicist and special-
izes on the ultra-violet ray. We didn’t
know that at the time we remarked
that the three h’s in the Republican
“race would likely raise a lot of h—.
If we had we could have put a more
superlative adjective into appropriate
use. While the Doctor is not exactly
a reticent person there were a few
things we didn’t find out so we took
a chance on looking him up in “Who's
Who in America.” He’s there, all
right, but he’s got to go through with
a lot of political gymnastics in April
and November before he gets into
Who's Who in Centre county.
VOL. 73.
BELLEFONTE,
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Evils that Mean Disaster.
In an address delivered before the |
Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, at Phil-
adelphia on the natal day of that re-
vered saint, Senator Joseph T. Rob-
inson, of Arkansas, said: “Propagan-
da by secret agencies, legislation cun- :
ningly drafted and sanctimoniously
proposed by selfish interests, intimi-
dation or promise of preferment of
public officials, the readiness of in-
fluential section of the press to serve
base purposes, apparent indifference
of the public to dishonest or corrupt
practises, intolerance and all its
lcathsome brood—ignorance, false-
hood and oppression—all these warn
of a real danger which may come
close before its existence is generally
recognized.”
All these evils are already present
and assiduously working their de-
stroying results. The zero election
districts in Philadelphia and the emp-
ty ballot boxes in Pittsburgh are
manifestations of the wickedness of
party machines and the “indifference
of the public to dishonest or corrupt
practices.” The vast expenditure of
tainted money to buy public office for
unfit candidates, pledged to sinister
purposes, is made possible by the
same influence, and the cruel destitu-
tion in the soft coal regions of Penn-
sylvania
in the anthracite coal fields are the
fruits of promises of preferment and
protection made by venal politicians
who have acquired power by fraud.
Recent exposures have called atten-
tion to these lamentable conditions,
but it remains to be seen whether they
have aroused the public conscience to
the point of resentment. National
chairman Butler and Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon have shown no signs
of relinquishing their control of the
party responsible and except for the!
suggestion of Sen- !
futile, if not silly,
ator Borah, no signs of penitence or
improvement has been revealed. Pres-
ident Coolidge, who derived the great-
est benefit from the Sinclair contribu-
tion, has not said a word, and Herbert
Hoover, who sat in council with the
guilty cabinet officers, is as silent as
the grave.
e————— A ————
— They are still hunting up Demo-
cratic candidates for President, thus :
increasing the probabilities of a con-
vention dead lock.
P—
Duty of Newspaper Editors.
The most valuable asset of the Re-
publican machine in Pennsylvania is
a group of newspapers, professing to
be Democratic, which traduce men of
their own party, for one reason or
another, who aspire to party favor or
public service. Every newspaper ed-
itor is entiled to a free choice of can-
didates for office, just as every other
man or woman exercises that right.
But because he favors one candidate
is no reason why he should vilify an-
other. If the candidate of his choice
is nominated he expects not only the
newspapers which preferred another
candidate but all voters of the party
to support him or her. It is only fair,
therefore, that he should be equally
amenable to the rules of his party.
It is a lamentable fact that certain
newspapers in this State are constant-
ly denouncing distinguished members
of their party who are aspiring for
nominations to high office, thus creat-
ing prejudices which cannot be re-|
moved in the event the candidate they
opposed happens to be nominated.
Political organizations are precisely
like all other associations of men and
women. There is on the part of each
one a moral obligation to be loyal to
the others. If this obligation is vio-
lated the organization necessarily de-
teriorates and the - opposition reaps
an advantage, great or small, accord
ing to the influence of the recreant
on public sentiment, Whoever is
nominated at Houston is entitled to
the cordial support of the friends of
the disappointed candidates.
Every newspaper in Pennsylvania
professing to represent Democratic
principles is at full liberty to eulogize
his favorite candidate for any office
to be filled. But in doing so there is
neither reason nor wisdom in traduc-
ing rival candidates. An editor or
other individual trying to prove to-
day that he slandered a fellow man
yesterday presents a poor spectacle to
public view. But that unhappy spec-
tacle may be presented in several
counties in Pennsylvania after the
Houston convention has gone into his-
tory. The alternative is to help the
Republican machine in its manifest
purpose to continue its criminal rec-
cord in Washington for “four years
more.”
— Whatever else comes out of the
oil scandal it may be set down as cer- |
tain that Harry Sinclair “has got
himself disliked.”
: The sweater makers of Brooklyn |
have formed an organization and this
may cause shivers throughout the
country.
and the crimes of violence
| Senator Borah’s Futile Enterprise.
Senator Borah, of Idaho, appears to
have persuaded himself that a plea
| of nolle contendre will serve to lift
' an “obligation of shame” which has
"been imposed upon the Republican
party through certain transactions of
its accredited leaders with Harry F.
' Sinclair. In an appeal issued recently
to the Republican voters of the coun-
‘try to raise, by popular subscription,
a fund sufficient to “return to Harry
F. Sinclair the $160,000 in bonds
which he secretly contributed to the
Republican National committee’s def-
icit in 1923,” he states that $5500 has
already been subscribed and profes-
ses to believe that if the full amount
is secured and paid to Sinclair, the
party will be completely whitewashed.
By a singularly perfidious trick Mr.
Sinclair stole from a gr¢up of equally
crooked conspirators a bunch of Lib-
erty bonds so large that he had to
employ a “fence” to dispose of them.
The Republican National committee,
being heavily in debt and Sinciair be-
ing under Leavy obligations. to the
party leaders, he appointed former
chairman Hays as “fence,” and au-
thorized him to dispose of the bonds
and use the money thus acquired to
pay the committee’s debts. It was
| altogether a curiously complicated
piece of rascality, involving nearly
all the active leaders of the Republi-
can party, including two members of
the President’s cabinet and the cheair-
| man of the National committee.
| In view of these fully established
! facts the collection of $160,000 by
| popular subscription and paying it to
| Mr. Sinclair will not absolve the Re-
| publican party from responsibility for
' the most atrocious crime against the
| people of the United States perpe-
i trated within recent years. All that
can possibly be accomplished by Sen-
ator Borah’s undertaking is the stulti-
fication of all concerned in it, for the
i reason that they are trying to pro-
tect criminals from the just penalties
of their crimes. The only way to re-
store public confidence in the Repub-
lican party is to drive out of its man-
agement every person concerned in
"the Sinclair operation, including sec-
retary Melloa and chairman Butler.
| a parsed
—A good memory will recall the
fact that Senator Curtis, of Kansas,
was somewhat “mixed up” with the
| deal between Sinclair and Secretary
' Fall.
Harding's Estate to be Investigated.
The oil investigation has finally
cast a shadow over the reputation of
the late President Harding. Senator
Nye, of North Dakota, Republican,
chairman of the committee, in an-
nouncing the purpose to investigate
the estate of the late President said:
«There would be a lack of satisfaction
if this committee submits a report to
the Senate without it determines
whether there were any Continental
bonds involved in the estate of Presi-
dent Harding.” At the same time he
expressed confidence that none will
be found. But the suspicion is pres-
ent and persistent. It is remembered
that about the time these bonds were
being hawked about Mr. Harding’s
small-town newspaper was sold at an
“absurdly inflated value.
| It may also be recalled that after
his death the estate of President
Harding was appraised at a surpris-
ingly high figure. His life work had
been conducting a small-town news- |
paper with reasonable success. He
served a term as Lieutenant Govern-
or of Ohio on a salary which probably
left little after his expenses were
paid. He served one term as Senator
in Congress at a salary which has
since been declared inadequate to cov-
er the cost of the service. It is true
that he was neither a spend-thrift nor |
a miser. It is hard to figure how,
under the circumstances, he could ac-
cumulate an estate of upward of a
million dollars, though that was the
amount reported by the appraisers.
President Harding was known as
“gn easy going” fellow, fond of life
and given to rational enjoyments.
Such men usually accept money as it
comes without much inquiry or con-
cern as to its source and the iniquit-
ous “Ohio crowd,” feeling under ob-
ligations to him for its prosperity,
.may have put something over on him
which will cast a cloud over his rep-
utation for integrity. But even if the
proposed investigation does reveal
some of the Sinclair tainted bonds
among the assets of his estate no one
will believe him guilty of any crime
involving moral turpitude. Public
opinion will hold him more deserving
of sympathy than blame, which can-
rot be said of his associates.
Sl ae
— The Pennsylvania relief depart-
ment paid to employees and their de-
! pendents the vast sum of $46,635,~
| 284 during 1927.
Pr——
| —Harry Sinclair ought to be will-
ing to give a few dollars to the Borah
reimbursement fund.
PA..
MARCH 23. 1928.
NO. 12.
Appropriate Name for Hays.
Senator Caraway, of Arkansas, cor-
rectly and appropriately labeled form-
‘er Republican national chairman and
Postmaster General Will Hays a
“fence” for the loot fraudulently ac-
quired by Harry Sinclair. In a
speech delivered in the Senate, the
other day, the Arkansas Senator said
“no one that believes that men of in-
telligence do not act without infor-
mation, has any doubt but that they
knew where the bonds came from and
what the purpose of Mr. Hays was in
handing them around. The most that
could be said for Mr. Hays is to say
that he was a “fence,” that he knew
that certain goods were stolen goods
and he was trying to help the thief
find a market for them.”
It must be equally clear to all
thoughtful persons that Secretary
Mellon knew where the bonds offered
to him by Hays came from, and that
because of his understanding they
were returned to Hays. That being
obvious the return of the bonds was
not a complete fulfillment of his mor-
al obligation as a high official of the
government and a good citizen. It
was his duty to report to the Senate
committee investigating the disposi-
tion of the stolen goods that at least
a considerable part of them were in
the possession of Will Hays, who in
hawking them about had offered
them to him. If he had done this
promptly the work of clearing up a
mystery and exposing a scandal would
have been greatly helped.
The truth is that the Republican
administration at Washington and the
Republican organization of the coun-
try are in this disgraceful scandal.
Having obtained the bonds through
fraud Harry Sinclair was anxious to
get them off his hands. He employed
part of them to bribe Secretary of
the Interior Fall and used Hays as a
“fence” to dispose of those remaining.
Secretary Mellon might have cleared
| his skirts and national chairman But-
ler might have exculpated himself by
declaring to the Senate committee
the information that had come to
them through Hays. But party exi-
gencies required silence and party
prejudice had stronger appeal than
ntoral principles.
__If the Public Service Commission
grants the request of the Pennsylva-
nia Railroad company the morning
train on the Lewisburg and Tyrone
railroad will be taken off on or about
ed for some time that it has been los-
ing money on the operation of this
train. There is practically no traffic
of consequence on the train when it
leaves Bellefonte at six o’clock in the
morning and returning here at 4.20
in the evening the most it carries are
the Harrisburg newspapers and the
mail matter from Pennsvalley and
State College. So far as the papers
are concerned, they can be brought to
Bellefonte by way of Lock Haven and
would reach here at 5.02 instead of
4.20. But so far as the mail matter
is concerned, that would be a more
important matter. It would mean a
delay of at least fifteen hours in all
mails coming out of Pennsvalley or
from State College, with no possible
way of overcoming it. This matter
will probably be given consideration
Public Service Commission for a de-
cision.
— Philadelphia and Boston experts
'in public utility undertakings were in
Bellefonte during the fore part of the
| week making a general survey of the
| proposed gas plant for Bellefonte and
| State College. It is reported that
| they were very favorably impressed
| with the outlook and its assurance
seems probable.
— Senator Capper, of Kansas, de-
| clares the record of the Republican
party is “slimy, odorous and reeking
with corruption,” yet he zealously
| supports the leaders responsible for
| that condition.
| —It may be of importance to know
| that Charles R. Forbes received his
| distinguished service medal before he
| was sent to the penitentiary and not
| after he came out as reported in the
| newspapers.
eee dp lpr
—Spring is here. Don’t cheer too
much, for in two months December
| is likely to be trying to kid us into
| thinking it’s as pleasant as May.
That's what we had to go through
last year.
a
—The Republican aspirants for the
nomination for Legislature drew for
places on the primary ballot on Tues-
day. Holmes will be first, Heverly
second and Ham third.
——————————————————
Senator Capper, of Kansas, has
a better idea of discharging “an ob-
ligation of shame” than Borah’s. The
Kansan would “throw the rascals
out.”
ARR
|
April 1st. The company has contend- |
when the question comes before the
“Average Good Business.”
From the Pittsburgh Press.
The National City bank of New
York, as a result of a survey of the
entire country, comes to the conclu-
sion that there is no apparent hin-
crance to “an average amount of
good business during the year.” This
great financial institution is conser-
vative in its opinions. It does not
paint a rosily misleading future when
facts do not warrant. Its views, there-
fore, need not be looked at as doubt-
ful of progress and increased em-
ployment, but rather as a caution to
industry not to engage in over-ex-
pansion as a result of mushroom
booms.
This is sane advice. Inflation either
of employment or plant expansion
brings its penalties, more severe in
the dislocations they impel, than the
even tenor of “average good busi-
ness.” The National City bank does,
however, see a year of gradual im-
provement, not to be brought about
by any magic but through the sound-
ness of this country. :
Money for investment is plentiful,
and it will seek outlets. This means
the paving of the way for “projects
whose carrying forward involves em-
ployment of labor and consumption of
materials,” to again quote the bank’s
review. It brings out the point that
so long as the world’s wants are un-
fulfilled and the need for production
to meet them exists, there “will be no
limit to the possible expansion of in-
dustry and trade.”
What capitalist and worker are pri-
marily interested in is steady im-
provement, stevs taken prope lv in
their turn, and not in the spirit of
feverishness which brings its later
penalties. Financial institutions do
well to warn against expectation of
any sudden entrance into Utopia.
The “presidential year”. specter is
being discarded rapidly by business
as something curtailing movement.
No candidate, apt to be chosen by
either of the two majority parties will
bring to the White House revolution-
ary theories related either to business
or government. :
As the construction period opens up
with the coming of spring there is
certain to be a better time, in which
men will earn more, have more to
spend, and thus revolve money about
the circle and aid in the stabilization
of conditions. This is the ideal of
“gverage good business,” which meets
the demands of all classes. =s-
Everywhere, even in the midst of
unemployment and semi-depression,
men are saying that this to be a “bet-
ter year.” That spirit alone is des-
tined to be an assistance, for it cre-
ates confidence.
Senator Walsh’s Candidacy.
rom the Charleston News and Courier.
An able, accomplished and honest
man is Thomas J. Walsh, Senator
from Montana, who has entered the
contest for the Democratic nomina-
tion for President. His name has
Leen placed on the ballots in Califor-
nia by William G. McAdoo and his
followers. Senator Walsh is a dry.
Mr. Walsh is one of those men who
can address an audience of average
intelligence for an hour on the tariff,
on the League of Nations or any oth-
er important subject, hold its atten-
tion and inform it without telling stale
jokes or indulging in cheap humor.
He is a student, thoroughgoing and
sagacious. He is aggressive and in-
defatigable, as the oil rascals and oth-
er varieties of rascal well know. In
the period before, during and after
the World war he was a supporter of
the Woodrow Wilson policies.
The short of it is that Thomas J.
Walsh is one of the strongest and
best Democrats in America. His can-
didacy will arouse the same terror
and anger in the Tom Heflins that
Governor Smith’s does, because he al-
so is a Romsn Catholic, but the cir-
cumstance that he enters the contest
encouraged by Mr. McAdoo and his
friends is sufficient evidence, were ev-
idence needed, that the Heflin element
is negligible in the national Demo-
cratic party.
Esch Victim of Greed.
T'rom the Harrisburg Telegraph.
Interstate Commerce Commission-
er Esch, beaten for reconfirmation at
the hands of the Senate, is a victim
of the greed of the worst bipartisan
group that has ever traded away the
prosperity of a great industry for a
few dirty dollars.
And worst of all, in this group of
slimy lobbyists are a band of wealthy
Pennsylvanians who demand the last
penny of profit from Southern coal
fields rather than a little less for
themselves and a square deal for
Pennsylvania raines and mine work-
ers.
Esch was dismissed by the Senate
because he favored a fair freight rate
for Pennsylvania coal. The South
had long enjoyed an unfair differen-
tial at the expense of Pennsylvania
—a rate that plunged the Pennsylva-
nia mines into their present deplor-
able state, ruined financial backers
and threw thousands of workmen out
of employment.
a en
—Andy Mellon may not have en-
couraged the Sinclair contribution to
the Republican campaign fund, but
he was certainly “accessory after the
fact.”
———The “Watchman” is the most
readable paper published. Try it.
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SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
— Ludwig C. Tross, of Johnstown, for-
mer Cambria county delinquent tax col-
lector, was sentenced, on Monday, to make
restitution, pay the costs, and serve from
two and one half to five years in jail af-
ter he pleaded guilty to embezzling $36,-
000 of county funds. y
—A fund of $50,000 was left by the will
of Mrs. Alice R. Russ, widow. of Patricio
Russ, late Harrisburg hotel owner, for
the foundation of a home for aged women
in Harrisburg. The estate is valued at
$425,000, and James C. Ryan, of Sche-
nectady, and the Commonwealth Trust
company are named executors.
—Believed dead three years, Harry A.
Blankenmyer, 37, has returned to his home
in Lancaster. He says that three years
ago he was without money and without a
place to sleep. He walked to Reading,
joined the navy and was sent to South
American waters. Mrs. Charles Baldwin,
Philadelphia, the man’s mother, always re-
fused to believe he was dead.
: __The State Health Department has an-
nounced that during the year 1927 not a
single case of small-pox originated in this
State. There were but seventeen cases
reported every one of which was imported.
There were no deaths from this cause.
This is the lowest record ever established
in Pennsylvania and is nearly 50 per cent
lower than the record of 1926 which then
set a new low point.
Formal acceptance of his election as
president of Susquehanna University has
been forwarded by Rev. G. Morris Smith,
of Buffalo. He has advised Senator
Charles Steele, chairman of the executive
committee, that he will move to Selins-
grove about May 1 and his inauguration
has been arranged tentatively as a high
light of "the commencement season, which
will end on June 11.
— Within a period of only twenty-three
years, Curt Reeser, of York, Pa., who is
just twenty-three years old, has been en-
rolled on the patient list of hospitals and
sanatoriums exactly thirteen times. He is
at present confined to the West Side san-
atorium, at York, with an injury to the
thigh of his right leg. The majority of
Mr. Reeser’s sessions with hospital at-
taches and surgeons have been the result
of accidents.
__Sentence has been withheld on peti-
tion of defense counsel in the case of
Captain. David E. Miller, of Greensburg,
commanding officer of the State highway
patrol in that district, found guilty of
malfeasance in office. Counsel indicated
a new trial would be asked. The officer
was found guilty Saturday in connection
with charges that he had cansed reduction
of a charge brought against a motorist,
Miller was found not guilty of conspiring
to defeat justice.
—Thirty-two of the forty years that the
Rev. Dr. A, M. Mehrkam has spent in the
ministry have been spent in the services
of St. John’s Lutheran church, at Col-
umbia. Sunday Dr. Mehrkam celebrated
the preaching of his first sermon there,
March 18,1888, when he was then a stu-
dent in the Mount Airy theological sem-
inary. After serving the church twenty-
one years Dr. Mehrkam accepted a call
to the Lutheran church at Rochester,
where he served eight years and then re-
turned to St. John's.
Thomas J. Ayres, an automobile deal-
er, of Lewistown, and G. D. Hetrick, for-
mer assistant. cashier of the Mifilin Coun-
iy bank, in Lewistown, were fined and
paroled for one year when they entered
pleas of guilty in Federal court, at Scran-
ton. on Monday, to misappropriating $4,-
500 of the Mifflin bank funds in 1925.
Ayres. who figured in a similar charge
with a McVeytown bank, was fined $300
and Hetrick $100. It was charged by the
government that Ayres engineered a
“check kiting” scheme that involved Aa
number of banks.
—_The demand for ring neck pheasants
by the State game commission is so great
that the markets will not provide the
number desired, so the commission de-
cided today that it will propagate the
pheasants by hatching them in the game
preserves. Ordinary barnyard hens will
be used in the hatching. Ten thousand
eggs will be distributed to the refuges
and game protectors will be instructed
how to care for them after they have been
placed with the hens for incubation. Five
thousand of the eggs will come from the
New York State game commission.
| (Colonel Charles Lindbergh will have
to make a few more goodwill flights if
he expects to cover in his world-famous
plane the distance that Samuel Masemer,
a York, Pa. street car motorman, has
traveled in the past twenty years. Mase-
mer has been motorman on the trolley
line between that city and Hanover since
it was established twenty years ago. The
reil distance between these two points is
twenty miles each way. He makes five
trips daily, averaging 3650 trips a year.
The veteran motorman has rounded out
over 73,000 trips for an aggregate dis-
tance of 1,460,000 miles. He has traveled
over the same territory so often he says
he knows every fence post along the line.
! ~ His neck broken almost three years
| ago, Rody P. Marshall, Jr, 17, who
' through his injury became acquainted with
| several well known sports idols and was a
familiar figure at National league baseball
games in recent years, died at his home
in Pittsburgh on Sunday night. The boy
| was injured while diving in shallow wat-
er at Narragansette, R. L, and until re-
cently seemed to be T egaining his
strength, although he was confined to a
wheel chair. Marshall, a lover of sports
i and admirer of Babe Ruth, Bobby Jones
‘ and others of the sport realm, was visited
; by those notables when they were in Pitts-
, burgh. Marshall's keen interest in the
Pittsburgh Pirates and their interest in
him was credited to some extent with
| prolonging his fight for life.
| Victor Lingle, 37, patrolman of the
Lewistown police force, died Saturday af-
ternoon at the Lewistown hospital from
injurics sustained when run down by an
| automobile driven by Joseph Stemley, 42,
| humane officer for Mifflin and Juniata
| counties a month ago. Citizens of Reeds-
ville reported a woman kidnaped, thrown
jnto a car in which there were several
drunken persons and driven at high speed
in the direction of Lewistown. Lingle
took his post at the foot of Stratford's
Hill and was struck. The impact broke
the steel frame of his heavy service re-
volver and bent his mace almost double.
His body was driven into a sewer inlet.
It was Stimley’s claim that his brakes
would not work. Stimley is under $1000
bail. . Chief of Police 8. E. Peck said that
there is evidence that Stimley had made
his brags that “he would get Lingle.”