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INK SLINGS.
: —The tip is out in Philipsburg to
“spoof” Dr. Ham, but vote for Hev-
erly.” i
_ —If you are beginning to feel that
your shoes are too full of feet then
you can rest assured that spring is
really here.
—Out in Iowa Herman Appel re-
cently married Miss Charlotte Sass.
‘Think of the “applesauce” on that
‘honeymoon.
.—With fishing and golfing both
opening up why talk of the prospect
of unemployment says the fellow
whose only work is clipping coupons.
—Speaking of “birds of a feather”
iit is not surprising that Harry Sin-
clair and the Philadelphia organiza-
‘tion should “pool issues” to evade a
law.
—DMeasured by a purely mercenary
“yardstick there are thousands of fish-
<ermen who will pay a dollar sixty for
-a license and not catch thirty cents’
“worth of fish all season.
—From what we read in the metro-
-politan press we’d rather be a rabbit
during the open season in Centre
«county than a human on the streets
«of Chicago when gangdom is taking
a day off.
—The passing of “Jim” Connelly,
city editor of the Clearfield Progress,
and active for many years in the
political arena of the Twenty-third
congressional district, is noted with
regret. “Jim” made his own way to
the front. Untiring, courageous and
most companionable he was respected
‘by those with whom he was at war
and loved by those with whom he
fought.
—Anyway, good sense prevailed at
the first meeting of the Democratic
‘women of Pennsylvania in Willliams-
port last week. They saw that the
party of Jefferson, Jackson and Wil-
son was not founded to become a
mere policeman for the enforcement
of a single act of Congress and re-
* fused to abandon fundamental prin-
ciples to please the few who think
drinking is a political issue.
—We thought we might have to
“wait until after the primaries to write
it: the Hon. Olmes. Buf we have
‘heard enough already to justify us
in writing it now without the H.
Yes, they've knocked the h— out of
‘the member from Centre’s chances of
succeeding himself. And who has
«done it is going to remain as much
«of a mystery as the personality of
the individual who struck Billy Pat-
“terson.
—The preferential straw votes be-
“ing taken in the seats of learning in-
~dicate that the College boys favor
Smith and Hoover as the presidential
.candidates of their respective parties.
~ “While collegians are net likely to have
much to do with what will go on at
Kansas City and Houston, we are en-
couraged by the evidence that there
.are so many boys in college who are
Deriocrats. Possibly we're building
on the sand. Maybe they are only
wet.
—The Massachusetts Daughters of
the American Revolution have a
“ “blacklist.” That is, individuals with
radical ideas and representatives of
societies having socialistic or com-
munistic sympathies are not permit-
ted to address any of the Bay State
chapters of the society. We ques-
tion the wisdom of such a procedure.
It only gives the persons whom they
seek to squelch more prominence and,
to a degree, creates sympathy for
‘them. Besides the ladies of the D. A.
“R. would be forewarned if they were
to hear first-hand the propaganda
‘such un-American agitators are dis-
seminating.
—Only one picture, that of the
President, is to adorn the Republican
national convention hall in Kansas
City. Being as charitable as we can
the best we can say for a picture of
Mr. Coolidge is that he evidently does
‘not photograph well, so the walls of
the Missouri meeting house will not
be greatly adorned. Every time we
look at his phiz we think of the re-
mark a departed cousin once made
about a relative who had about as
much chance of placing in a beauty
pageant as Cal would have. He said:
“She undoubtedly is God’s handiwork,
but certainly not one of his master
pieces.”
‘ —Judging from the crowds gath-
ered to hear the testimony for and
against the ambitions of the Belle-
fonte Central railroad to break
out of Buffalo run valley the road
has more interested friends than its
“business in recent years indicated.
For those of you who don’t know we
might state that the road was built
in 1886 by the Collins brothers, Phil-
lip, Tom and Peter. When it was
. discovered that the field traversed
«couldn’t furnish enough traffic to
make it pay they built the Bellefonte
furnace in order to get the ore ton-
nage from Scotia and the Struble
farm over near State College. As a
business proposition it never had a
very hopeful outlook, but worried
along and today is the only railroad
we know of that is entirely out of
- debt. It is the one road on which it
.can be said that there was never any
joy ridin.’ Now that it is nearing a
place in the sun we do hope that if
-any of our readers are remailing their
used copies of the Watchman to
friends in Heaven Ross Parker and
F. H. Thomas will get to see the stor-
jes of its progress. For they held
the line together when fish plates
were missing everywhere and there
were no sound ties to spike the ones
they did have onto.
SN an
CULL
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 73.
Mr. Fall’s Lame Confession.
As we predicted last week forme:
Secretary Fall’s promise to tell the
whole story of the Teapot Dome oil
lease was the result of a conspiracy
of Republican party managers to shift
responsibility for the crime. A few
days before the promise was made
public Senator Robinson, of Indiana,
delivered a speech in the Senate in
which he declared that the project to
lease the naval oil reserves originated
during the Woodrow Wilson admin-
istration and that President Wilson
had authorized the leasing of govern-
ment owned oil territory adjacent to
Teapot Dome in Wyoming. The main
feature of the confession of Mr. Fall
consists of a reassertion of that ma-
licious falsehood.
But Mr. Fall made one statement
in reply to questions put in cross-ex-
amination, that may prove worth -
while. It will be remembered that in
an early period of the investigation
Mr. Fall stated under oath that he
had obtained from Mr. McLean, pub-~
lisher of the Washington Post and an
intimate friend of President Harding,
a loan cof $100,000 which was subse-
quently proved to be the exact sum
sent to him by Mr. Doheney in the
famous “little black satchel.” In his
confession the other day he declared
that he had been induced to make that
false statement by two Republican
Sen: tors and a member of the Hard-
ing cabinet in order “to avert suspi-
cion that the Republican party was
behind "Doheny’s Mexican enterpris-
es.
It is known that about that time,
while Mr. Fall was confined to his
bed by a serious illness, Senator
Smoot, chairman of the Senate Com-
mittee on Finance and acknowledged
leader of the party in Congress and
Senator Lenroot, of Wisconsin, visit-
ed the sick man and suspicion points
to them as two of the three named in
Fall’s confession. Lenroot was de-
feated for re-election at the follow-
ing Senatorial election in Wisconsin
and was immediately appointed to a
“lame duck” position by President
Harding.. The name of the member
of the cabinet in the case has not
been revealed but the committee con-
| ducting the in ion can -be de--
pended upon discover. his identity.
—The Philadelphia & Reading rail-
road proposes to erect the biggest
business structure in the world which
calls to mind that it has been rapidly
moving toward the top in transporta-
tion service,
Secretary Davis’ Partisan Report.
The report of Secretary of Labor,
James G. Davis, in response to Sena-
tor Wagner's resolution concerning
unemployment throughout the coun-
try, surprised no close observer of
events. Secretary Davis reports ap-
proximtely 1,800,000 wage earners out
of jobs, and adds “that is a very small
percentage of these at work,” and
“not so extensive or grave as the
estimates which have been circulated.”
Moreover the Secretary expects im-
provement in the immediate future
“through the federai building pro-
gramme recently adopted by Congress
providing for extensive constructional
operations at Washington and other
points throughout the country and by
State and municipal building pro-
jects.”
It may be said without prejudice
or injustice that any report on the
question of unemploment by Secretary
Davis at this time was reluctantly
prepared and unwillingly presented.
He would have much preferred silence
on the subject until after the federal
building programme which contem-
plates an expenditure of $100,000,000
in Washington and other points
throughout the country, had gotten
well under way. The big corporations
and politically controlled municipali-
ties are also preparing for liberal ex-
penditures during the interval be-
tween the present and the Presidential
election, and a few months later Mr.
Davis might have been able to make
a much more favorable report.
Secretary Davis is simply a ma-
chine politician whose highest idea of
public service is to promote the inter-
ests of his party. He was appointed
to office by President Harding at the
same time and for precisely the same
reason that Albert Fall, Harry Daugh-
erty, Edwin Denby, Colonel Forbes
and other misfits were called into con-
spicuous public service. His report
on unemployment was not made for
the purpose of correcting an evil or
improving industrial conditions, but
in the hope of concealing the actual
and lamentable facts, and to accom-
plish that result he deliberately. mis-
represented the record.
than 4,000,000, and it is still increas-
ing.
—In the absence of a full dinner
pail the Republican party may go in-
to the approaching campaign with an
empty teapot as its symbol.
An honest |
survey an unemployed force of more !
Mischief-makers Justly Rebuked.
The Pennsylvania Federation of
Democratic Women, in session at Wil-
liamsport last week, wisely defeated
a resolution “pledging the support of
the organization to all dry Democrat-
ic candidates” by the decisive major-
ity of 58 to 8. The resolution was
offered by the Dauphin county dele-
gation. The Democratic party in that
county has just enough physical
infirmities to make trouble, and is al-
that sinister service. Twenty years
ago the Democratic organization of
that county was a militant, vigilant
force with a fighting chance for vie-
tory. At the election of 1908 the
head of the Republican ticket polled
didate 11,402,
Since that time the Republican vote
has been regularly increasing and the
Democratic vote diminishing in about
equal ratio and at the election of
1926, the last of which the statistics
are available, the head of the Repub-
lican ticket polled 25,632 votes and
the head of the Democratic ticket 5,-
944, At the former period the Dem-
ocratic organization contended for
fundamental political principles and
just economic policies. Since that the
efforts have been diverted to the pro-
motion of sumptuary measures with
the professed purpose of creating
moral atmposhere and elevating so-
cial standards. These laudable aims
are admirable in churches and homes
but not quite relevant in politics.
The Democratic party is approach-
ing a campaign of great importance
with abundance of real political issues
to offer the people. There is evi-
dence of venality in every depart-
ment of the government. Senator
Capper, Republican, declared the oth-
er day that “for spectacular rotten-
ness I doubt whether we have the
equal of Teapot Dome in American
history, or ever will have.” We in
Pennsylvania have the eleetion frauds
in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and
the injustice in the bituminous coal
fields to condemn. In view of these
facts there is “neither rhyme nor rea-
son” in lugging in non-political issues,
chief-makers of Dauphin county.
—The Dutchmen who set out for
our shores in a non-sinkable boat
have discovered that their craft is un-
sinkable, but since it also refuses to
move the work of all reception com-
mittees has been postponed indefinite-
ly. What's the use of a non-sinkable
‘boat if it won’t boat.
Death of Willis Might Help Hoover.
The sudden death of Senator Wil-
lis, of Ohio, might considerably im- |
prove the prospects of the nomination
of Herbert Hoover at the Kansas City
convention or it might proportionate-
ly impair his chances. Mr. Willis was
a candidate for the honor with little
prospect of support outside of his
own State. But Mr. Hoover was con-
testing with Senator Willis for the
Ohio delegates and it is not usual to
cast ballots for dead men, and as there
‘is no time to substitute another on the
ticket Hoover might get the entire vote
of the State instead of about one-
‘third which was all his friends
i claimed. The difference,
thereabout, might decide the question.
The chances of harm to Mr. Hoover
come from the fact the relations be-
tween Senator Willis and Mr. Hoover
had become exceedingly hostile. In
nounced Hoover very bitterly and
though Hoover and his friends re-
frained from attacks in like language
it was known that they felt a deep
resentment. It was generally believed
| that after a few ballots the Willis
delegates would switch to Lowden
who is the strongest centender with
Hoover and the failure of this expec-
tation is likely to put Lowden put of
the running. Some of the more ar-
dent supporters of Willis are disposed
to continue the effort to elect Willis |
. delegates with the view of holding |
| strength from Hoover.
| Of course the suggestion of Senator
| Heflin that Mr, Willis might have been
i poisoned is absurd and could have
found lodgment in no other brain
than that of the Alabama crank. But
there are a good many sane persons
in Ohio who believe that Hoover’s ef-
fort to compete with Willis for the
with his sudden death.
come a custom in both political par-
| ties to allow “favorite sons” unop-
posed control of the delegates from
their own States and the violation of
this unwritten law put Willis to the
necessity of overtaxing his energies.
If that idea is widely adopted the re-
moval of Willis might work great
harm to Hoover.
—Big Tom Cunningham is still
hopefully fighting the Senate pro-
ceedings tb land him in the Washing-
ton jail. But it is a hopeless fight.
ways ready and willing to perform '
13,109 votes and the Democratic can-
thirty or
his campaign speeches Mr. Willis de- |
Ohio delegation had something to do
It has be-'
| Tariff Commission Prostituted.
| . In resigning a seat in the United
States Tariff Commission, which he
has cccupied for ten years, Mr. Ed-
ward P. Costigan makes some rather
startling statements. In a letter to
Senator Robinson, of Arkansas, he
declares that he can “no longer be
an unwilling and protesting party to
the prostitution of the Commission by
' the President.” He accuses Mr. Cool-
idge of “packing the commission by
appointing to it and retaining on it
‘utterly unworthy men; by playing
politics with it; by overruling its rec-
ommendations, made after months nf
study at great cost, because of the
political pressure brought to bear up-
on him by those who line their pock-
ets through unjustifiably high tar-
| iffs,”
| This is not a new complaint against
President Coolidge but it is presented
‘in more concrete form than previous
| ¢harges have been made. The chair-
‘man and another member of the com-
| mission were professional lobbyists
| efore they were appointed, and still
nother openly declares that “he is
on the Commission to do the will of
! the majority whether he believes in
{it or not.” It is small wonder under
these conditions that “the sugar report
lin favor of tariff reduction was thrown
overboard because of an unpiecedent-
ed series of lobbying drives and po-
litical maneuvres, in some of which
est man should revolt against such
conditions. :
In five years, according to Mr. Cos-
tigan’s letter to Senator Robinson, at
an expense to the government of
about $3,000,000 the Tariff Commis-
sion has rendered thirty-two reports
to the President which have resulted
in twenty-three Presidential procla-
mations changing tariff rates. Of
these the rates have been reduced in
only five, being on mill-feed, bob-
| White quail, paint brush handles, phe-
nol and cresylic. All the others have
been increased, and mostly to the
full limit, and in face of recommenda-
tions to the contrary. Yet the people
tamely submit to this exploitation and
¥
{him an honor never before given any
one.
League of Women Voters Meeting.
The Centre county League of
Women Voters held a meeting in the
‘High school building, last week, at
‘which Miss Lucile Buchanan, one of
| the League’s State organizers, spoke
ion the direct primaries and the bond
‘issues, on which we will vote in the
| coming election. She also exhibited
ia small voting machine.
Miss Hudson, here to organize Cen-
tre county for the final Near East
| drive, was given a part of the even-
| ing, to put before the League her
work, which means an intensive drive
through all parts of the county dur-
ling the month of April.
The League has arranged for a
i demonstration in the court house, on
Friday, the 138th, of a real life-sized
voting machine, to be exhibited by the
Automatic Registering Machine Co.,
‘of Jamestown, New York. Time will
be provided for the pupils of the
schools to see the demonstration.
f
1
—Philadelphia is justly proud of its
magnificent art museum just opened
which is somewhat surprising in view
of the fact that it is also proud of
.its political machine.
—The better informed Washington
correspondents still insist that Presi-
dent Coolidgs is not only willing but
anxious to be drafted for a third term
| nomination. :
|
| —The Vare machine, through its
i obedient servant, “Jimmie Irvin” has
taken over the Sinclair stables thus
helping the oil magnate out of a
slimy hole.
—The third term ghost is still hov-
| ering about the G. O. P. camp like a
‘nightmare and the several candidates
for the nomination are losing much
sleep.
—General Atterbury insists that
freight rates must be maintained but
he might be persuaded to agree to a
decrease in wages.
—Possibly Heflin believes the Pope
hit the late Senator Willis with a
poisoned axe.
| —A silver trophy cup, the gift of
Major Benjamin C. Jones, has been
| won by Troop B, 52nd machine gun
| battalion, Capt. Ralph T. Smith, com-
manding, of Bellefonte, for the high-
est rating in the 1928 federal inspec-
{tion of the battalion. Headquarters
troop, of Tyrone, rated second. The
cup is now on exhibition in a Tyrone
jewelry store but will be presented to
Troop B in the near future.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. APRIL 6. 1928.
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and the Democratic women at Wil- ‘many of them express a desire to re- |
liamsport . properly rebuked: the ‘mis: {#ard Mr. Coolidge by bestowing up
NO. 14.
Robinson’s Fabrications as Pure
Propaganda.
From the Philadelphia Record.
If it were not for the fact that a
great many people derive all of their
information about public affairs from
headlines in the newspapers, the at-
tempt of Senator Robinson, of Indi-
ana, to fasten the guilt for the oil
scandals upon the Wilson Administra-
tion would be laughable. The Robin-
son speech, however, is not a laugh-
ing matter. . This will be apparent to
any one who stops to reflect upon
what can be accomplished by efficient
propaganda. There was a time, just
after the close of the war, when
: American opinion was almost unani-
mously in favor of the organization
of a League of Nations, wit!
support of the United States, as a
means of furthering permanent world
reace. The initial attempt to make a
partisan issue of the League project,
iin view of the war-weariness of the
nation, seemed destined to failure.
| History records its complete success.
It will not do to take Robinson too
| jocularly. He may have struck the
keynote upon which the next partisan
, air is to be played.
| “Robinson Says Democrats Origin-
ated Oil Scandal.” “Robinson Assails
Wilson’s Cabinet.” “Wilson Demo-
crats Linked to Oil Plot in Senate
Attack.” “Democratic Chiefs Linked
to Oil Fraud by Senator.” “Robinson
Lays Oil Leases to Wilson Cabinet.”
| “Oil Conspiracy Placed at Door of
{ Wilson Regime.” These are the head-
lines from metropolitan newspapers.
the White House actually shared.” It They embrace all the information nu-
is not surprising, either, that an hon- ' merous citizens will ever
t about
the contents of Senator binson’s
speech. The truth or falsity of the
Senator’s allegations will never be in-
vestigated by hundreds of thousands
of busy readers of the captions. The
speeches that will be made in rebuttal
will pass unnoticed by the many. A
new idea has been implanted in their
minds. They thought that Secretary
{of the Interior Fall had been bribed
by the oil barons to acquiesce in the
looting of the naval oil reserves, be-
cause they know he received the mon-
ey and that his part in the conspiracy
has been denounced by the Courts.
But now they will see that it was all
Wilson’s fault. Wilson is dead and
cannot talk back. Another lie will
fight with faets for place in the an-
nals of the nation. 2
The sad failure. of all his is ‘the
moons, i toe Jub, tee, he
es of controversial matters. This trait
is responsible for much of our bad
government and many of our national
ills. - The newspapers are fairly ac-
curate recorders of the news. They
make the facts available to all who
will read. What a pity that hurried
men and women content themselves
with examining the largest labels on
the news columns and pass up a prof-
itable examination of the contents!
— pte.
Farm Relief with a Sting.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Evidently a farm relief measure is
to pass at this session of Congress.
Events of the week made this prob-
able. Whether it will receive the sig-
nature of the President is another
matter, for the sting of the equaliza-
tion fee remains.
The McNary-Haugen bill is the
base of the proposed legislation.
There has been considerable revision
in an effort to remove objections re-
cited in the veto of the original plan.
The perfected draft has made its ap-
pearance in hoth Senate and House.
The House appropriates $400,000,000
for the use of the Federal Farm
Board, the Senate $250,000,000. Oth-
erwise there is virtual agreement by
the two committees that have been
handling the matter.
The old bill required the President
to select members of the board from
names submitted by leading farm or-
‘ ganizations. This restriction, which
Mr. Coolidge criticized, has been cut
out and the President is left free to
make his own choice, subject, of
course, to confirmation by the Senate.
The board is instructed to endeavor
to stabilize agriculture by means of
loans to the cooperatives. Only in
case of failure is the equalization fee
to be resorted to. Representative
Purnell, of the House Committee on
Agriculture, declared that even with-
out the equalization fee provision the
bill would set up a thoroughly work-
able machinery. That being the case,
one wonders why it was retained, see-
ing that its presence may invite an-
other veto. The suspicion cannot be
2Yoided that politics is at the bottom
of 1t.
That is the trouble with this ses-
sion of Congress—politics. Nothing
would please certain Democratic lead-
ership and the Radical Republican
bloc more than rejection of the farm
bill by the President. Wherein it is
seen that partisanship outranks a
genuine desire for farm relief.
Will Wait for the Primaries.
. From the Springfield Republican.
Senator Borah is impatient because
Mr. Lowden has not answered his pro-
hibition questionnaire, yet Mr. Low-
den still has nearly three months be-
fore the convention meets and, in the
meantime, primaries will be held in
Chicago. :
—Two hundred and ten people took
advantage of the cheap excursion, on
Saturday night, to take a trip to Phil-
adelphia.
the full .
|SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Convicted of having embezzled more
than $4000 from a Franklin bank, Mrs.
Ada H. Kauffman, 27, was sentenced to
10 months im jail and fined $500.
—L. H. Oswald, of Butler, Pa. claims
the champion egg-layer of the State roosts
in his hen house. On gathering his eggs .
recently he was amazed to find one seven
and a half inches long and six and a quar-
ter inches wide.
—Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Battin, of
Bloomsburg, who recently celebrated their
69th wedding anniversary, saw their first
motion pictures here recently when they
were the guests of a theatre showing a
reel of local pictures in which they took
part.
—The Waynesburg school beard has
adopted a resolution stipulating that it will
hire no more married teachers. It also
provides that married women now teach-
ing will not be re-hired and that those
who marry during the school term will be
discharged.
—Michael Proch, of Fayette county, who
shot and killed Steve Humura with a bul-
let intended for a pig, has been sentenced
to pay Humura’s funeral expenses and to
contribute $10 a month to the Common-
wealth for a period of two years. The
shooting occurred several months ago.
—John Kelly, aged 58 who visited every
world’s fair in the country in the last
40 years, was found dead last Friday
morning in a telephone booth near Aristes,
Northumberland county. Because of the
sleet on the wires Kelly, who was a line
patrolmen, was on duty that night. When
he failed to report investigation was made,
—Funerals traveling for a mile or more
along State highways in Columbia county
are escorted by details of the State high-
way patrol to prevent motorists from cut-
ting into the procession or passing it.
This practice was recently put into effect
after several processions had been nearly
disrupted by other cars cutting into the
line.
—A jury in the Northumberland county
court, Thursday night returned a verdict
of $14,000 for Mrs. Harold C. Hill, of
Tharptown, against Palmisano & Co,
wholesale fruiterers of Shamokin, for a
broken back the woman suffered when
run down by one of the firm's automo-
biles near her home on January 31 last
year.
—Ludwig C. Tross, of Johnstown, a
former ‘delinquent county tax collector’
pleaded guilty in Cambria county court
last week to four indictments charging
the embezzlement of county taxes approx-
imating $36,000, and was immediately sen-
tenced to make full restitution and to
serve not less than two and one-half nor
more than five years in the county jail.
-—Caught under a falling ceiling 6f an
open hearth furnace at the Bethlehem
Steel company plant, William Forten-
baugh, 31, Harrisburg, was burned fatal-
ly, at Steelton, on Sunday. Fortenbaugh
had crawled into the furnace after the
molten metal had been drawn, to repair
brickwork when the ceiling fell on him.
He was buried under several tons of hot
| bricks.
—Percy Whitley, 35, of Norristown, died
in the Pottsville hospital, on Sunday, from
electrical burns suffered three days pre-
vious while testing insulators on a 15,.
000 volt line at the Pottstown power plant.
He slipped and fell on a lightning arrest-
er. and, received, A0CK Of. e
entire voltage of the line, Whitley was’
making the tests in an effort to eliminate
leaks which caused trouble to radio fans
in the borough.
—Rebecen Strubanus, of Pottstown, was
granted a divorce at Norristown, on Fri-
day, from John Strubanus, the ‘silent’
husband. Before the master, Darlington
Hoopes, she testified she never gave her
husband any cause for unkindness. He
became peculiar at times, the wife said,
and would engage in long periods of si-
; lence, refusing to talk to her, or to any-
i one. She said she continued to work after
| their marriage in a knitting mill at Potts-
! town while her husband worked in a mill
at Boyertown.
—In sight of a dozen persons, two mes-
sengers for the Franklin Savings bank, of
Pittsburgh, were robbed, on Monday, of
$5,000 in cash and $11,000 in checks and
money orders by three men who stepped
from an alley with a levelled rifle,
snatched a bag carried by one of . the
messengers and escaped in an automobile.
! Police were given complete descriptions of
: the bandits. The messengers had just left
{ the plant of the Ward Baking company,
| where they had collected deposits when
they were accosted.
| —Brooding over a succession of acci-
dents in which he figured with a newly-
. purchased car, the last of whieh occurred
on Saturday, on the White Haven-Weath-
lerly road, Grover Bube, 35, of Weatherly,
shot himself through the left lung with
_a rifle on his return home and died several
; hours later in the Hazleton State hospit-
{al. As he returned from the scene of the
, accident in which he and two companions
were shaken up and the automobile dam-
| aged when it struck a pole, Rube re-
‘ marked: “This ends it all,” and fired the
fatal shot.
—Ross Haulman, 35, Mill Creek, a sig-
| nalman for the Pennsylvania railroad
| company, died a short time after coming
in contact with high voltage wires while at
i work near Newton Hamilton, on Satur-
day. The exact manner in which the man
received the injuries which lead to death
is not known. He was working under a
signal bridge near Newton Hamilton and
fellow workmen noticed that something
had happened to him. They rushed to
him and found that he had been elec-
trocuted. A passenger .train was stopped
and Haulman, unconscious, put on it. At
Mount Union the train was met by Dr.
W. J. Campbell, but the man died before
the physician could render aid. F. L.
Schula, coroner, is investigating.
—District Attorney O. R., Hughes, of
Greene county, who has held office for
eight years, was cited last week to ap-
pear before Attorney General Thomas
Baldridge, of Pennsylvania, on April 11,
to show cause why he should not be re-
moved from office for alleged failure to
comply with an act of the 1927 Legisla-
ture requiring that all district attorneys
be admitted to practice before the State
Supreme and Superior Courts at least
eighteen months before taking office.
Hughes, it was said, was admitted to
practice before both courts as soon as
the act was passed, but the time elapsing
before he was sworn in for his third term
as district attorney, the first of this year,
was held to have fallen short of eighteen
months.
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