INK SLINGS.
o —Governor Smith’s visit in the pro-
hibition South might be called an in-
wasion of “the enemy’s country.”
—Naturally the Germans claim
credit for the accomplishment of the
Bremen, but Ireland has some rea-
son for elation, too.
—There is still talk of the third
‘term in Washington, which indicates
that the President’s neighbors have
little faith in his veracity.
—The German and Irish aviators
failed to reach their destination, but
they achieved a great triumph over
the elements and saved their lives.
—Congressman McFadden “started
something” when he accused Mrs.
Pinchot of indulging in bibulous hab-
its. Cornelia is red-headed and re-
sentful.
—While everyone is overjoyed that
‘the Bremen succeeded in making the
westward flight over the Atlantic we
wouldn’t be a bit surprised if inter-
national complications arise as a re-
sult of it. An Irish and German crew
‘is a bad combination when it comes
to keeping peace and harmony in the
family.
—PFor State Committeeman write
«on your ballot the name of Dr. F. K.
“White. Dr. White is not a candidate
for the office, but as no one else has
‘filed for the position we feel that he
‘would not decline to serve were he
elected and Centre county could find
no more representative Democrat to
git in the council of the State organ-
ization,
—Well, the opening of the trout
season turned out much as we pre-
«dicted several weeks ago. A grand
army of hopefuls utterly disconsolate,
cold and disgusted, straggled home
with nothing but alibis to show for
‘the day they had waited months to
enjoy. And we happened to be one
of the most disgusted, for we didn’t
get a fish.
—Since the women have cast off
‘their tendrils and no longer elect to
be the clinging vines of yore the man
only kids himself who thinks his bur-
den of responsibility is being light-
ened. Take the lady who has gotten
her first taste of investing a little
money in stocks, for instance. She
can ask more fool questions and get
‘50 excited because her three shares
‘have gone up or down a point that
she makes life an abomination with
her eternal: “Would you sell if you
iwere me?”
—We hear by moccasin telepathy
‘that Dr. Ham is not counting much
on Philipsburg. Why should he? We
‘told him months ago that Senator
Scott and Judge Fleming had not put
‘the seal of approval on his candidacy.
And when Senator Scott and Judge
‘Fleming are not favorable to budding
Republican hopes in Centre county
lots of buds are going to be nipped.
Now if the Hon. Holmes could only
be persuaded that he’s shot his wad
and request State College to go one
“hundred per-cent for Ham the Doctor
might have a chance to nose Heverly
.out. Otherwise it looks very much
as though the former county treasur-
-er will come through to victory next
"Tuesday.
—Through his daughter, Mary
Waddle Adams, “Uncle Jimmy” Wad-
dle writes that he hopes” that “just
now and for some weeks to come
‘we’ may have our wish”
To dig a can of angle worms
And catch a mess of fish.
Think, if you can, how one feels
when a man of ninety-four, alert in
every faculty except sight, sends
such a message to you. “Uncle Jim-
my” just couldn’t wish else than hap-
piness to anyone. When he ran the
local on the B. E. V. he was loved by
every kid from Lock Haven to Ty-
rone. Why? Simply because he
was always looking the other way
when they “hopped” his freight for a
ride that had millions more thrills in
it than when all dressed up their par-
ents took them a trip on a real pas-
:senger car. His daughter, Mary, pos-
_ sibly didn’t know how truly she has
inherited the spirit of her splendid
old father when she wrote to us:
“Don’t worry is the best prescription
for long life in the wonderfully beau-
‘tiful world.”
—Next Tuesday will be primary
day. The Democrats in the county
have no contests so that very little
interest will be taken in getting out
the vote. There are eight delegates-
-at-large to the national convention to
be elected, however, and those who go
to the polls should inform themselves
as to which of the aspirants best rep-
resents what the voter would like to
have the Pennsylvania delegation do
when it comes to nominating a candi-
‘date for President at Houston. The
eight we elect at-large from Penn-
.sylvania will have only half a vote
each. Our district candidates, James
Kerr and Charles F. Schwab, will
have a full vote each. There is
another matter that the Democrats
of the county should not lose sight of.
We have no candidate for member of
the State committtee and we are en-
titled to one. The position is im-
portant and should not go by default.
"Therefor we suggest that the name
of Dr. F. K. White, of Philipsburg,
be written in the space that will be
blank on your ballot, Dr. White
knows nothing of this suggestion and
would probably disapprove of it, but
he has never failed to serve his par-
ty in any emergency and we know of
none who would fill this position with
more credit to the Democrats of Cen-
“tre county.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 73.
Political and Economic Freedom. |
If the admirably phrased platitudes
uttered by President Coolidge in ad-
dressing the Congress of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution, in
session at Washington on Monday
evening, were other than lip service
to the principle of self-government,
he would be entitled to high praise.
But his purpose to bolster the electric
trust and other monopolistic enter-
prises and discourage the operation of
the Mussle Shoals property and the
Boulder dam project is so palpable
that all the virtue of his illustration
is lost. “If the people are to remain
politically free,” he admonished the
ladies he was addressing, “they must
be economically free,” which is both
trite and true.
But there is no promise of economic
freedom in licensing a giant corpora-
tion to control an industrial necessity
and vesting in it power to crush out
all opposition. Governments are or-
ganized and maintained to protect
the interests as well as the property
of the people, and this obligation
stands as firm against dangers within
as enemies without. To secure this
protection the citizen must yield
something to government and it is in-
finitely safer to trust freedom,
whether political or economic, to re-
sonsible rather than to irresponsible
monopoly. Government control of im-.
portant sources of electrical power
can do little harm, while absolute con-
trol by monopoly might work much.
So long as the people are able to
“keep their own business in their own
hands” the wise policy is to do so.
But it is not always possible. In the
postal service, for example, govern-
ment managment and ownership has
inflicted no wrong upon the people
and has conferred much good. No
doubt monopoly would be glad to take
over the service if the people were
willing that government should relin-
quish it. Whenever it becomes nec-
essary to make choice between yield-
ing freedom to the government or to
monopoly the lesser evil is the gov-
érnment, even though “advance agents
of monopoly” sometimes, by accident
or otherwise, get temporary control
of the government. |
rere
—Mr.. Wilson will probably: assent
to Vare’s demand for recount in coun-
ties where no suspicion of fraud ex-
ists merely to show what a stupid
politician Vare is. :
Mr. Vare’s New Gesture.
What Mr. Vare had in mind when
he demanded that the ballot boxes
used in the election of 1926 in thirty-
cne counties of Pennsylvania be taken
to Washington for recounting is be-
yond the reach of conjecture. At the
time that Mr. Wilson asked for the
impounding of the boxes used in Phil-
adelphia, Pittsburgh, and in Deleware,
Lackawanna, Luzerne and Schuylkill
counties, Mr. Vare made a pretense
that he wanted a recount’ of all the
votes cast. It was an absurd proposi-
tion, for no fraud was alleged in coun-
ties other than those named by Mr.
Wilson. But Mr. - Wilson promptly
assented to it and steps were taken
for the impounding process. = After-
ward Mr. Vare revoked his demand
and the recount was ordered.
Considerable time has elapsed since
that Vare gesture amused the voters
of the State and for the past two or
ing the ballots, a slow and tedious
process.
county has been completed and that.
of Philadelphia about half finished.
Some amazing frauds were revealed
in ‘Pittsburgh and almost equally
startling disclosures made in Phila-
delphia, according to reports that
not be known until the recount is fin-
verdict until the expiration of the
term.
From the start of this contest Mr.
Vare's policy has been to delay and
confuse the operation, and in this sin-
ister purpose he has been supported
by the Republican organization of the
State. If Senator Dave Reed had not
obstructed legislation by inaugurating
a filibuster during the closing period
of the last Congress all the facts
would have been revealed and all the
frauds uncovered before the opening
of the present session. The delay has
cost the people a large amount of
money and the State of Pennsylvania
its constitutional representation in the
the State are just to themselves he
will be fitly punished by defeat.
—Mayor Thompson, of Chicago,
hasn’t resigned as he promised but he
is’ somewhat subdued in manner.
—No Ku Kluxer will ever again bhe-
lieve that Judge Thompson, of Pitts-
burgh, is a 100 per cent American.
three months a sub-committee of the
Senate has been engaged in recount-
have leaked out, but the result will
ished. Possibly Mr. Vare’s purpose .
| in asking for an examination of the
additional counties is to postpone the !
Senate. Mr. Reed 1s now a candidate |
for re-election and if the voters of | = | § L
‘neis primary election returns with
! greater dismay than William S. Vare,
| of Philadelphia.
|
BELLEFONTE, PA.. APRIL 20. 1928.
Iniquities of the Klan.
If half the evidence brought out in!
the Ku Klux Klan trial, dismissed by
Judge Thompson, of the United States
District court at Pittsburgh, last week,
is true, that mysterious and hooded
fraternity ought not only be prohibit-
ed from operating in Pennsylvania,
but driven out of existence every-
where. The reason given by Judge
Thompson for dismissing the case was
lack of jurisdiction. The organization
having been chartered by the State,
he said substantially, only the State
courts could revoke it. “If the charges
against the Klan were sustained,” he
added, “it would not only be right but
the clear duty of the State to revoke
the license so granted.”
The litigation grew out of a contro-
versy between two factions of the
Klan organization, each claiming the
right to control its activities. Part of
the evidence was in the form of a dep-
osition of a man named Stevenson,
formerly head of the organization
and now serving a life sentence in the
Indiana State penitentiary for mur-
der. He testified to all sorts of out-
rages perpetrated by the members, in-
cluding a statement that men had
been sent into Mexico to organize
raids into the United States. Other
witnesses testified to the murder of
men and women, the burning of
churches, floggings, burning victims
at the stake, inciting riots and de-
stroying reputations.
A man named Barrickman, one of
the Pennsylvania members who has
been expelled from the organization,
who appeared in court as counsel for
one side in the trial, declared that
Hiram W. Evans, Imperial Wizard of
the organization, “boasts that he can
make Presidents, dictate to Congress,
dictate to courts and overthrow Com-
monwealths.” He alleges that there
have been as many as 300,000 mem-
bers in Pennsylvania and that $20,-
000,000 had been paid by them to the
officials whom he now charges with
corruption and mismanagement of the
funds. It is small wonder, in view of
the testimony, that Judge Thompson
declares it the duty of the State to re-
voke the license.
—The recent cold spell failed to
make the front page. of metropolitan:
journals because the Delaware pedch
crop was not far enough on to be
damaged by it.
Exposure of Pittsburgh Ballot Frauds.
The trial of the two or three hun-
dred election officials of Pittsburgh,
accused of frauds in the primary elec-
tions last year, was begun on Monday
and is still in progress. The first
case considered was that of Joseph H.
Klein, an official on the board of the
fourteenth district of the Twenty-first
ward. The first witness called was
Mr. Klein, himself, who had volun-
teered to serve as “State’s evidence,”
and he testifled that the return sheets
“were marked at the direction of non-
members of the board without the
ballot boxes having been opened.”
The non-members he named will be
arrested at the instance of the dis-
trict attorney and put on trial with
the rest of the crooks.
This is a promising beginning of a
legal crusade against ballot pollution
in a community in which improve-
ment is needed. One of the accused
is chairman of the District commit-
tee and the others are party workers
or watchers. It is a step in the di-
rection of the higher-ups” in the
The recount. in Allegheny | transaction. If either or all of them
will follow the example of Mr. Klein
and tell who influenced them to com-
mit the crimes the root of the evil
will ultimately be reached and just
and proper punishment imposed.
Everybody knows that the serviie
election officers are not the real crim- |
inals in election frauds. The men who !
devise and direct the operations and
promise protection are responsible.
In the case in point the witness de- .
clared that “the ballots were later
| erased and changed to make them
conform to the tally sheets.” This is
a stupid method of accomplishing the
criminal purpose but better than that
used in the election of 1926 in some
districts in the same neighborhood.
#
Near East Relief Drive is Now On.
To save more than 100,000 or-
phaned children who have been cared
for by Near East Relief institutions
from back sliding into vagabondage,
as well as to carry through 32,131 or-
phans still in orphanages or in sub-
sidized homes to self-supporting live-
lihood, Near East Relief asks the
American people to raise $6,000,000 in .
the shortest possible time—not later
than June 30, 1929, according to an
' announcement made today by Miss
Mary H. Linn, chairman for Centre
county.
More than one million lives, includ-
ing a disproportionately large number
of orphaned children, the announce-
ment points cut, have been saved in
Near East countries, devastated by
war, deportations and other emergen-
cies, during the past 12 years of hu-
manitarian service. Exclusive of the
children assisted through or with their
parents, 132,366 have received special
institutional care. More than 100,-
000 who have gone out on their own
from Near East Relief training schools
constitute a new and powerful con-
structive influence among the 244,-
000,000 people dwelling in Near East
lands. At least $100,000,000 have
been invested in this unparalleled
philanthropy. Successive unforeseen
emergencies—war’s aftermath, the
| Smyrna catastrophe, deportations, ex-
‘change of populations, earthquakes—
have been met, while all the time
steadily developing the largest con-
| structive child-welfare service ever
| undertaken by one nation for other
afflicted countries.
Practical occupational training for
{ both girls and boys is the keynote of
this educational work, ‘calling also
follow-through assistance to “grad-
{ uates” at the early age of 14 or 16
' of the economic and social conditions
in the Near East. 30 chapters of a
mutual service league or “ex-or-
phans,” several working boys’ homes
and working girls’ homes, and other
community centers of social service
have lztely been established.
| In accordance with the best recog-
‘ nized principle in child welfare work,
| the announcement states that in four
|and a half years more than 45,000
children were outplaced in homes in
more than 11 countries, principally
Macedonia, Greece, Egypt, Syria; Pal-
estine, Armenia, Georgia, Persia, Bul-
_garia and Rumania, accompanied by
jan educational campaign of teaching
native housewives hygiene, sanitation,
good cooking, skillful baby tending by
older orphan girls trained as commun-
ity nurses.
Of the children now in the orphan-
ages b4 per cent are still under thir-
teen years of age. Their years of de-
pendency up to the age of 16 repre-
sents 28,653 child-year units, and this
alone, according to present per-capita
cost, calls for a sum of $3,556,410, to
carry through. The $6,000,000 bud-
get supported by the report of a two-
year’s survey committee of specialists
—Dr. Otis Caldwell of Lincoln School,
Prof. Paul Monroe, of Columbia, Dr.
Thomas Jesse Jones, of the Phelps-
Stokes Fund, and fifteen others repre-
senting all American agencies in the
Near East—and approved by the Ex-
ecutive committee of Near East Re-
lief, seeks to “insure the completion,
with honor, of all of America’s com-
mitments to the orphans of the Near
East and communities where they
live.” Full orphanage care and train-
ing for the children still in orphan-
ages, “parental” follow up work for
the children outplaced in homes or in-
dustry, and contingent provision for
health and welfare work among grad- °
uate orphans and for contribution
toward a constructive and final solu-
tion of the refugee problem, are the
three divisions of the projected con-
summation program.
A Ghazir rug, a large quantity of
‘beautiful linen work, pottery and
many other articles made by the
‘wards of the Near East Relief, will
be for exhibition and for sale at Miss
M. H. Linn’s home, on north Alle-
gheny street, for the next ten days.
Half of the proceeds from the sale
will be credited to Centre county’s
quota for this last drive, the other
half going to special work among the
crippled and blind. Every one is in-
vited to look at them.
In that instance the boxes were op- |
ened and the ballots dumped into the
sewers. [Either of these methods
would be effective enough if there
were no investigation afterward. But
fortunately the public has become
aroused, agencies for the prosecution
of such crimes organized and from
this time forward every suspicious
case will be thoroughly investigated.
—Probably nobody read the Illi-
—1It has been a slow process but the
time is coming when Harry Sinclair’s
postoffice address will be: the: Wash-
ington jail,
—Subscribe for the Watchman.
{
—On Monday local freight on the
Lewisburg branch of the Pennsylva-
nia railroad left Sunbury with forty-
six loaded cars of freight for points
along the line, Bellefonte and State
College. When the train struck the
heavy up-grade the load was too
much for the locomotive and ten cars
were set off on a siding. When the
grade became steeper it was neces-
sary to set off ten more cars with the
result that only twenty-six cars of
the original train load could be
brought through to their destination.
—Some esteemed contemporaries
appraise the Deneen victory in Illi-
nois as equivalent to “jumping out of
thé frying pan into the fire.”
hs
"A deputy Commissioner of Prohibi-
NO. 16.
Epochal Achievement in Aviation.
From the Philadelphia Record.
For the first time the East-to-West
i crossing of the North Atlantic has
been accomplished by a heavier-than-
air machine, and the laurels—snow-~
| sprinkled, but none the less fresh and
‘fragrant—are on the brows of the
German and Irish aviators, marooned,
but safe, upon a tiny island off the
bleak coast of Labrador. Baron von
Huenfeld, Captain Koehl and Captain
Fitzmaurice (Colonel now, as a
prompt reward for his daring) failed
in their main objective, but what they
did was a splendid achievement; and
it was enough to satisfy an anxious
and watchful world.
They are safely through their haz-
ardous venture, and the Bremen, the
stout ship that carried them, is said
to be only slightly damaged. This,
in view of the tremendous difficulties
to safe landing in that barren country
of rough ice, seems almost miracu-
lous. Baron von Huenfeld speaks of
this landing upon Greenly Island as
merely “intermediate,” and expresses
the determination of going on to New
York as soon as his plane can be re-
fueled. But, if the fliers are comfort-
able where they are, there is no need
for hurry—and, for that matter, there
is little likelihood of it. The island
is so thoroughly icebound and so far
from large settlements that supplies
may be a considerable time reaching
it. The triumphal entry into New
York can wait. It is enough to know
that Friday the 13th was a lucky day
for the Germans and the Irish.
How lucky the outcome of this mem-
orable flight was! The Bremen, we
are told, was sailing through a snow-
storm when forced down by lack of
fuel. In that fierce North Atlantic
weather the fliers had got off their
course. They seem to have missed
Newfoundland entirely, and the veer-
ing of a bare hundred miles further
toward the northwest would have car-
ried them out over desolate seas, or
upon bleak, uninhabited shores from
which they might never have returned
alive. The experience of the men of
the Bremen may explain what hap-
pened to one or more of the predeces-
sors in that westward flight over the
ocean.
i
Bunk.
From The Chicago Tribune.
Federal prohibition enforcers have
worked the newspapers into saying
there is to be no liquor in Kansas
City and Houston: availably. for the:
‘delegates to the national conventions,
tion is conferring with the local au-
died less than an hour later.
of ‘Wayne township, Chzten
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Henry Jackson Dean, aged 69, died at
his home, Electric avenue, Milroy, of
blood poisoning from a cut on the inside
of his left thumb by a piece of barbed
wire. .
—It is rumored that a resident of Wil-
liamsport will start an air line between
that city and New York. The report
states that a field is now under construce
tion and that two five-passenger planes
will be used at the field.
—The “red heads” of the Bloomsburg
State Teachers’ college have formed a club, -
the only requirement of membership of
| which is to be the proud possessor of
slightly better than auburn tresses. On
the night of the organization, 21 charter
members were enrolled.
—More than two large truck loads of
clothing, shoes and provisions as well as
over $500 in cash have been donated. by
Oil City residents to the Central Labor
Council for the relief of destitute miners
aad their families in the soft coal regions
of Clearfield and Jefferson counties.
—Falling asleep with her feet in the
oven of her kitchen range, Mrs. John Bis.
ker, of Yoe, York county, caught fire ana
was burned about the head and bedy.
When she awoke her apron was ablaze,
It was burned from her body. Mrs. Bis-
ker said she had felt ill, so she sat down
to warm her feet in the oven.
—Two men entered the home of Mrs.
Merle O'Connor, an invalid, at Vander-
grift and after robbing her, according to
police reports, bound and gagged the
woman and set fire to the house. The
woman’s husband and neighbors dis-
covered her plight and put out the fire
before she had been seriously burned.
—Tyrone Methodists, on Sunday, dedi-
cated their new $98,000 Sunday school
building, which is of block granite, is thor-
oughly equipped and admirably appointed
for the work of a modern church. The
morning sermon was preached by Rev.
Dr. Samuel McWilliams, of Johnstown,
and in the evening the dedicatory sermon
was delivered by Bishop McDowell.
~—After sending three young children
with their father, who was going on an
errand, Mrs. Earl Hogg, Kirkwood, Lan-
caster county, went to the parlor of her
home and ended her life by shooting her-
self with a heavy-caliber revolver. The
woman, acocrding to members of her fam-
ily, had been ill for some time and be-
came despondent. The body was found
by the husband and three children when
they returned.
-The realty of the bankrupt Simth Ice,
Cold Storage and Fuel company has been
sold by the trustee to the Hanover Ice
company for a consideration of $16,500.
The property is located two miles west
of Hanover, Pa. The purchase includes
two tracts of land, improved with a con-
crete block building together with ice
cream making machinery and fixtures.
‘There is a railroad switch alongside of
the plant with roadway rights.
—Arising at the usual time, Saturday
morning, to prepare to go to work at the
Cameron Colliery, Thomas C. Salter, of
Shamokin, finished dressing when he was
seized with violent abdominal pains and
By the time
the doctor arrived, the man had lapsea
into a state of coma and his heart failed
to respond to medical aid. He died with-
out regaining consciousness. His wife
and one daughter, Sarah, survive.
—Ralph Miller, 40, peace loving farmer
: county, went
a v
insane Thursday and was taken to the
Clinton county jail after bis actions haa
alarmed his wife and seven children. There
thorities to make sure that the boot-
leggers will suspend operations until
after the nominations are made. An
effort alsc is being made to tighten
the coast guard lines at Galveston to
prevent importations to nearby Hous-
ton. .
Bunk. Prohibition officials know
that they dare not interfere with the
drinking habits of politicians, Wash-
ington is among the wetter cities of
the land. Most of the State capitals
are as wet. Legislators may vote dry,
but they want their liquor, and pro-
hibition enforcers know that any in-
terference with the regular supply .
will be requited in the appropriation
bill for enforcement officers. And,
what is true of Congress and the Leg- |
islatures is equally true of other;
gatherings of politicians. Prohibition
enforcers dare not antagonize the men
on whom they are dependent for jobs
and salaries. :
Any one who believes that liquor
will be harder to obtain in Kansas
City and Houston during the conven-
tion week than it is today will be-
lieve anything.
S-4 Exonerations.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
In a final review of the findings of
the Naval Court of Inquiry on the
submarine S-4 disaster, the Navy De-
partment has pronounced a general
exoneration. Rear Admiral Brumby,
who was in charge of rescue opera-
tions, had been criticized by the court
as lacking the knowledge required by
his work in the submarine-testing
area, and his removal had been rec-
cmmended. The court divided respon-
sibility for the actual collision be-
tween the commanders of the submar-
ine and of the Coast Guard destroyer
Paulding. Secretary Wilbur rejected
all these findings, though leaving the
case of the Coast Guard officer up to
the Treasury Department, which had
already exonerated him from blame.
This decision, in effect, places the
S-4 disaster in the category of un-
avoidable accidents. It is probably
the most acceptable view under the
circumstances. Yet it also seems to
mean that no lesson is to be drawn
from the tragedy. From this view-
point, it is not so satisfactory. If it
could have been indicated that strict-
er vigilance might have avoided the
accident, there would have been some-
thing more to go on for the future.
mb ernie
Worth Recalling.
From The Springfield Republican.
Will the game laws prevent the
Democrats from recalling that Will
Hays was among those seriously con-
sidered for the Republican nomination
. for President in 1920, and that after
‘ he and Fall had got into the Harding
Cabinet, close advisers of President
Harding’ were prepared to &ce Fall
made Secretary of State on the retire-
when he approached him.
ment of Hughes. \ fr.
he wrecked his cell, tearing out the toilet
and breaking up his mattress and ‘bending
the iron cot, threatening the sheriff's life
Miller thinks
he is the son of the Saviour and that he
is intended to preach the Gospel.
—Frances Marie Myers, 4-year-olad
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Myers,
of Butler, probably holds the State record
for her number of living grandparents.
. Recently she attended the funeral of her
great-great grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth
Jackson, of Bryds Bend, near there, ana
“she still has a great-great grand father, a
great-great grandmother, two great grand
parents and two grandparents still living.
All reside in the vicinity of Butler.
—Thirteen persons, including a mother
and her six children and six members of
a wedding party at the home of Ambro
Krepachalk, Slavish miner, were burned
to death in a fire which destroyed their
home at Blair Four, Blair county, on Sun-
day night. The fire, believed to have
started at midnight, swept the frame
dwelling before the occupants could es-
cape. All apparently suffocated and the
bodies were charred beyond recognition.
—Recause nobody knew why he was in
jail, at Bloomsburg, Michael Yanko, of °*
Fishing Creek, committed last November,
was released by court order, on Monday.
The commitment showed a charge of as-
sault and battery but no transcript was
ever returned and no one appeared to
press the charge. The district attorney
was never given any information about
the case. Yanko told the court he had not
figured in a fight and did not know why
he was being held.
—Plans are being made for the erection
of a $125,000 unit of a new training
school building at the Lock Haven State
Teachers College, work on which will be
hegun early this summer. The building,
when complete, will cost approximately
$400,000. The new senior high school
building, which will cost nearly $300,000,
and the new $70,000 State armory are al-
so under course of construction in Lock
Haven at the present time as well as sev
eral industrial plants.
—Seven small trees from the Gettys-
burg battlefield have beeen shipped to
Napa, California, where they will be
planted on the grounds of the California
Veterans’ Home. In making the request
to Colonel Davis, superintendent of the
park at Gettysburg, for the trees, the
commandant of the soldiers’ home in the
western State said the plans for the beau-
tification of the grounds there called for
trees from every battlefield on which the
United States forces have fought.
—The rush of applications for the re-
newal of certificates of convenience
stopped on Saturday which was the date
set by the Public Service Commission “as
the last day they would be’ received if
they were to be heard at places other
than where the Commission usually meets.
As all applications’ granted in 1926 must
be renewed this June, the commission
announced that hearings would be held
at seventeen different places throughout
the Commonwealth for the convenience of
those who wish to renew their certificates.