Demon faton.
INK SLINGS.
—Max Schmeling is the name of
‘the German heavyweight champion
who has just landed on our shores.
Max is probably Schmeling around
for ‘some of those fat purses they
hang up for heavyweight matches in
this country.
—Well, Memorial day is over. Next
comes Fourth of July, then Labor
day and Thanksgiving. Hustle up
you fellows who haven't let your
furnace fire go out. It will be time
to fire up again before you get last
.season’s clinkers cleaned out of the
grates.
—Gypsies held up and robbed a
preacher and a layman, up in Blair
county Monday, getting one hundred
.and eighty dollars and forty cents by
the operation. Don’t ask where the
preacher got one hundred and eighty
dollars because, true to type, he had
only forty cents to contribute to the
loot.
—When a stone mason steps up to
a white-collar job man to present his
bill at a dollar and a quarter an hour
and the white collared employer
quails because he is earning only half
that much himself, what’s the an-
.swer? Start a movement to train
more stone masons and fewer white
«collared workers.
—Many old hunters in this section
are not in accord with the State Game
Commission’s theory that Pennsyl-
vania deer are dying for want of food.
They insist that the does, especially,
.are dying of old age, if anything, and,
.do so in face of the long accepted be-
lief that a deer never dies, that it al-
“ways meets a tragic end from attacks
«of its natural foes.
—Thank the Lord the carriage
rates on deciduous fruits are to be re-
duced. Oranges, and not very choice
ones at that, are selling here at sev-
.enty cents the dozen and we are told |
‘that high freight rates make the
«charge necessary. We don’t eat two
oranges a year, but we have a lot of |
sympathy for the fellows who need
the juice of the deciduous fruits for
disguising moonshine.
=
—Eighty per cent of the jokes
cracked by the Kiwanians during
their impromptu minstrel appearance
at the State theatre, last Thursday
night, had reference to the running
gears of woman, Not ten per cent
of those pulled by the Academy boys
who followed them onto the stage had
any suggestive reference whatever.
We can explain this rather surprising
fact only by the suggestion that the
Kiwanians are getting old.
—A Jewish student at the Univer-
:sity of Michigan has been honored
with the Kenneth Sterling Day award
as having the best “essential Chris-
tian worth of all the students in the
University”. Gosh, what's the. world:
coming to anyway? About all the
Jews have left for we Gentiles was
‘the belief that we are still about one
_jump ahead of them in the matter of
Christianity and now they come beat-
ing us out of that.
—Now they are telling a story to
‘the effect that while Herbert Hoover
was food commissioner during the
‘war that he bought up the entire Cu-
ban and Porto Rican sugar crops at
{ive and one-half cents a pound and
left it lie in storage on those islands
while we were paying twenty-eight
.cents a pound for the commodity here.
If Herbert did that, and the Ameri-
,can voters find it out, he’s one sweet
.coated pill they won’t swallow.
—We commend the action of the
Democrats of North Carolina for hav-
ing defeated the attempt of the
Smith forces to capture the delegates
of that State. Not for the reason
that some of you might imagine, how-
ever. Senator Simmons, aged and in
bad health, has been the leader of the
North Carolina Democracy for mary
years. He has been an honrable and
creditable leader. His leadership was
in the balance and the voters ap-
praised it as a matter of greater im-
portance to them than the question
of what aspirant for President should
have their delegates. The North Car-
_olinians are a loyal people and their
refusal to strike down a man who has
‘grown old in their service was a
mighty fine thing and that is what
we commend them for.
—On the way to our work, Monday
morning, we saw a text out of which
some preacher more gifted than we
could make a mighty powerful ser-
mon. As we rounded the corner of
High and Spring streets we saw a
gentleman who we know is eighty
years old or better walking gallantly
by the side of a matron who hasn’t
seen half the anniversaries he has cel-
ebrated. Her arms were ladened with
the purchases of early morning shop-
ping and in his were heavier parcels
that we know she started home with
and couldn’t manage. Just to be sure
of our conjecture that the old boys
have something the younger ones are
missing we lingered at the corner
long enough to see the lady reach
her home. There the venerable and
voluntary escort stopped too and after
depositing the bundles on the porch
" made a courtly bow and went on his
way. The boy scouts are taught to
- do their daily act of kindness and
most of them do it, but what of their
elders? How many of the slicked
hair, wide panted variety who have
steady jobs holding down the side-
walks in front of the eat palaces of
the town would step out and help a
feeble old lady or man up High street
“if opportunity presented?
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL
UNION.
VOL. v3.
Veto of the Farm Relief Bill.
In vetoing the Farmers’ Relief bill
President Coolidge employs unusual
and unnecessary epithets. He de-
clares the measure is unconstitutional,
highly objectionable, repugnant, vi-
cious, fantastic and that it contains
“ a formidable array of perils for
agriculture which are all the more
menacing because of their being ob-
scured in a maze of ponderously fu-
tile bureaucratic paraphernalia.” He
Congress in enacting legislation to
which he had previously expressed
opposition. That is probably the par-
amount reason for the veto. Sena-
tor McNary is justified in his state-
ment that the President revealed a
“lack of sympathy and a lack of
knowledge of the subject.”
The President gives various reasons
for his opposition to the measure but
makes it plain that his principal ob-
jection is to “the equalization fez,”
which he characterizes as a tax. “This
taxation or fee would not be for the
purpose of revenue in the accepted
sense,” he said, “but would yield a
subsidy for the special benefit of par-
ticular groups of producers and ex-
porters.” But what else does tariff
taxation do? It has been shown that
for every dollar drawn from the con-
sumers of tariff-taxed commodities
that goes into the treasury five dol-
lars go to the producers of like com-
modities in this country, and if the
“fee” is a price-fixing device the tar-
iff tax is a profit-guaranteeing ini-
quity. :
It is probably true that the mea-
sure in question was intended to pro-
vide profits for the producers of farm
crops, but it is equally certain that the
guarantee profits to the producers of
tariff-taxed products. Both projects
are fundamentally wrong and equally
subversive of sound economic prin-
ciples. But why should President
Coolidge favor one evil and condemn
the other? The records show that
whenever opportunity presented it-
self he has increased tariff rates.
Possibly the more generous contribu-
tions to the Republican slush fund on
the part of the benficiaries of tariff
taxation is the influencing cause. In
any event ‘the favor is obvious.
could ot pe — ot ra
—The weather prophet who came
mighty riear converting us to the idea
that a frost in the light of the moon
never does any harm to fruit or vege-
| tation ought to see a few of the bar-
ley fields and several gardens we have
seen since the two frosts of last week.
Third Term Ghost Still Stalking.
The late Mr. Banquo’s ghost has
or done since the “I do not choose to
run” came out of the Black Hills, last
August, obliterates it from the men-
tal view of his adorers or obscures it
from the apprehensions of his politi-
cal enemies. “The actuality is that
though he has frequently said “I do
not want it” he has never said ‘I will
not take it,” writes the Washington
correspondent of the New York
World, and the attitude of his closest
friends, who are the potential leaders
of the party, indicate a firm belief
that he is not only a trifle willing to
run but somewhat anxious to get a
chance to do so.
The rather equivocal statement
made by Secretary Mellon, at the Re-
publican conference in Philadelphia
several weeks ago, brought the ghost
into plain view of friends and foes
alike for a few days, but skillful
blanketing prevented the breaking
out of a flame. Conditions were not
considered auspicious for an open dec-
laration and the friends of Hoover
were permitted to misinterpret the
language as an endorsement of their
candidate. But the veto of the Farm
Relief bill has thrown the doors of
the ghosthouse wide open and the
spectre is now walking about, though
as noiselessly as possible, in the polit-
ical highways of the eastern States.
The managers of the enterprise
would have preferred seclusion for a
few days longer if it had been possi-
ble. The present exposure is based
on the absurd impression that the ve-
to was inspired by Hoover, that the
Secretary of Commerce rather than
the President is to blame, and that
the corn belt, certain to reject Hoover,
may accept Coolidge. This flimsy
theory might have worked if there
had been no time to analyze it. But
in the time which will intervene be-
fore the assembling of the convention
its fallacy may be exposed. The men-
tal operations of the mid-west farm-
ers may not be rapid, but they are
sure, and with a few. weeks to think
it over they will get the facts.
—~Colonel Stewart, of the Standard
Oil company, of Indiana, is obliged to
answer in court for contempt and that
brings Tom Cunningham a few steps
closer -to the District of Columbia
jail. :
shows resentment of the temerity of
principal purpose of the tariff is to |
‘nothing on the third term spectre. :
Nothing that Mr. Coolidge has said |
Why Republicans Shy at Hoover.
, The opposition to Herbert Hoover
among the real leaders of the Repub-
lican party is not based, as has been
widely assumed, on his reputation as
‘an independent thinker and idealist.
Such men as Andy Mellon, chairman
Butler, Senator Watson and National
committeeman Willis are neither de-
i ceived nor alarmed by professions of
! morality. Their complete success in
controlling the policies and directing
the actions of President Coolidge has
persuaded them that there is no rea-
son to fear that Mr. Hoover will be
less docile in emergencies. What they
are afraid of is that when the light is
turned on in full force Mr. Hoover
will not measure up to the high mor-
al standard he professes.
It is true that Mr. Hoover is an
ultra opinionated individual and tries
to have his own way in everything.
It will be recalled that when he first
entered the cabinent of President
Harding, in a comparatively subordi-
nate position, he undertook to run the
whole machine and came to realize his
relations to his associates in the ad-
ministration only after he had been
sharply rebuked by several of them
for meddling. Having thus been prop-
erly disciplined, however, he meekly
settled down to the administration of
his own department and became “a
fairly, but not conspicuously efficient
‘public servant. It is not likely that
politicians as crafty and observant as
‘Mellon and Butler have overlooked
{ these facts.
| When the Senate committee created
to inquire into the expenditures of
i candidates for President interrogated
| Mr. Hoover he became highly indig-
‘nant because certain questions were
put to him. All of the other candi-
dates were asked similar questions
and answered them frankly and in
‘kindly language. Mr. Hoover's petu-
lance naturally aroused suspicion that
he had something to conceal. He had
been associated with Fall and Daugh-
erty and Denby during the time nego-
| tiations for the Teapot Dome lease
| were in progress, and though compe-
| tent lawyers were “combing the uni-
| verse” for information on the subject
‘for years he remained silent. It is
‘such things that make really saga
. cious leaders careful, ¥,
1
FR
‘farm relief are wrong, but if certain
‘industriés are to be pampered with a
tariff why shouldn't that of agricul-
ture have some sort of governmental
succor? And what would be the mat-
ter with giving a little relief to the
editors of country weeklies.
Gratifying Improvement in Service.
The bureau of statistics of the
' State Department of Labor and In-
dustry shows a gratifying decrease in
‘ the number of accidents in the indus-
trial life of the Commonwealth during
| the month of April. During the
, month there were 139 fatal accidents,
which is a decrease of 12.8 per cent
as compared with March of this year
and 18 per cent less than in April
last year. In non-fatal accidents
there were 10,928 in April this year,
a decrease of 13 per cenf,_from the
record of April last year. The report
covers the transportation activities as
well as operations in mining, building
and other construction processes and
miscellaneous enterprises.
Whether this result is acribable en-
tirely or in part to the official declara-
tion of April as “safety month” is
left to conjecture. The improvement
seems to have begun with the begin-
ning of the year. During the first
four months of 1928 the total number
of fatal accidents in the industrial
processes of the State were 596, 13.1
per cent fewer than during the cor-
responding period of last year, while
the non-fatal accidents decreased up-
ward of 100 per cent, The only shad-
ows on the April record are shown in
the steam railroads, which showed an
increase in fatal accidents of six and
in miscellaneous industries of two.
In the haazrdous industry of mining
the highest improvement is shown.
But to whatever reasons the im-
provement may be credited the result
is most gratifying and shqws what
may be achieved by proper and well
directed effort. It is said that the
Pennsylvania railroad has organized
“Safety First” clubs at the various
terminals between New York and
Pittsburgh where systems of prevent-
ing accidents are taught and first re-
lief methods cultivated. This is a
wise as well as humane endeavor and
ought to be adopted in every indus-
trial concern which employs a consid-
erable number of men. It is especial-
ly desirable in the railroad service
where the big engines, long trains
and increased rate of speed. vastly
add to the hazard of service.
——— ———————
—The . Republicans needn’t = worry
much over their platform. “The old
flag and an appropriation” will ex-
press the aspirations of the party.
|
|
i
1 —In principle we believe that both
i legislation for tariff purposes and
BELLEFONTE. PA.. JUNE 1. 1928S.
The Muscle Shoals Problem.
After a battle extending over a per-
iod of nearly ten years a bill provid-
ing for government operation of the
Muscle Shoals nitrate plant has final-
ly passed both branches of Congress
and is now in the hands of the Presi-
dent. The measure provides for a
government corporation with a limit-
ed capital and the enterprise is erip-
pled by a provision prohibiting the
commercial manufacture and sale of
fertilizers. Senator Norris introduced
the bill soon after the end of the
World war for the purpose .of sup-
plying the farmers with fertilizers at
moderate prices, and
furnishing electrical current at fair
rates to a considerable section of the
country. :
The plant was created during the
war for the purpose of developing ni-
trogen to manufacture explosives and
it cost in the neighborhood of eighty
million dollars. Just about the time
it was completed the war ended and
it became useless. Thereupon it oc-
curred to some one that with slight
and inexpensive changes it could. be
converted into a plant for the manu-
facture of fertilizer. This alarmed
managers of the Fertilizer trust and
they at once set about to prevent it
by proposing to lease the plant. They
were soon joined in the opposition by
the Electric Power trust and support-
el generally by corporate monopoly
and big business, common enemies of
industrial freedom.
The principal argument advanced
against the enterprise was that “it
is putting the government into busi-
ness competition with private power
and fertilizer concerns.” If private
power and fertilizer concerns would
supply their products to consumers
at fair prices there would be sound
reason in the objection. But it is the
duty of government to protect the in-
terests of the people against purposes
of predatory monopoly, and govern-
ment operation of the Muscle Shoals
plant affords a splendid opportunity
to fulfill that obligation. President
Coolidge may prevent this obviously
fair solution of the problem for a
time by vetoing the bill.
—Severe earth shocks were report-
ed in Washington the other day. Pos-
drafted.
Bias Shown by Senate Committee.
The prejudices of the Senatorial
committee investigating the charges
of fraud in the Pennsylvania Sena-
torial election of 1926 was clearly
shown when former Governor Pinchot
was testifying the other day. The
question of admitting the report of
the Committee of Seventy-six was
under consideration. That body had
been created by Mr. Pinchot for the
purpose of investigating: frauds and
recommending remedies. It was com-
posed of prominent citizens, leaders
of both parties, and its work was
searching and thorough. It conveyed
to the public the first authentic de-
scription of the methods employed by
the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh ma-
chines to fraudulently poll and false-
ly return the votes cast.
The offer of this semi-official and
absolutely reliable evidence was ob-
jected to by Francis Shunk Brown,
counsel for Mr. Vare, on the ground
that “they were merely papers from
Gifford Pinchot’s private archives.”
As a matter of fact they are the pro-
duct of a long continued and pains-
taking investigation made by a strict-
ly non-partisan committee composed
of eminent and discerning men and
women. But the chairman of the
Senate sub-committee, Senator Wat-
erman, of Colorado, ruled that “none
of this documentary material is per-
tinent to the conspiracy charged here
under review. As long as I am chair-
man of this committee it will be held
to be inadmissible.” Big Tom Cun-
ningham couldn’t have Served Vare’s
purpose better.
Under this ruling, without the con-
fession of some of those who partici-
pated in the crimes, it would be im-
possible to procure a conviction. Mr.
Brown, who is at present serving on
a similar commission under appoint-
ment of Governor Fisher, insisted on
the former Governor citing some spe-
cific case of fraud. Of course that is
impossible, as Mr. Pinchot was not
present when the frauds were com-
mitted nor in the confidence of those
concerned in them. But if Francis
Shunk Brown were in a frame of
mind to “turn States-evidence” he
might find a way to reject his evi-
dence.
—The consideration shown to Vare,
Cuningham and Max Leslie sort of
negatives the professions of reform
the Mellon machine has been trying to
put across.
—Maybe an altitude record is of
great importance to the flying force
of the navy but it is to be hoped it
will be achieved without loss of life.
incidentally i
sibly it was the popular reaction to
i rumor that Coolidge may be
Filibuster May Defeat the Naval Bill.
. From the Philadelphia Record.
ington President Coolidge has start-
jed “a vigorous fight” to prevent
strangling of the naval building. bill,
i which for two months has lain disre-
garded in the Senate and is now in
, danger of being lost by default. To
i save it he will have to display more
| than his customary energy, for while
passage of the bill is assured if it
comes to a vote its opponents threat-
i en to resort to a filibuster to block ac-
tion, and the legislative jam during the
: few remaining days of" the session will
‘ give them every chance to carry out
the reckless scheme. ;
Defeat of this measure would be
' gravely insidious to the nation, since
it provides for the minimum of con-
struction necessary to keep the navy
leven theoretically efficient. That
{ such a deplorable result is possible is
due primarily te pacifist obstruction,
but more to administrative and legis-
lative muddling. :
In his message to Congress last
December the President outlined the
navy’s needs with convincing empha-
sis. He showed not only that the
country required “a very substantial
sea armament,” but that no limita-
tion agreement made in the past or
possible in the future would be “in-
consistent with a considerable build-
ing program on our part.” The plan
drafted by the Navy Department
called for 25 cruisers, 32 submarines,
nine destroyer leaders and five air-
craft carriers—71 ships, to be built
during nine years at a total cost of
$750,000,000. This program was ap-
proved by the White House as mod-
erate, noncompetitive and in line with
budget economy.
But by reason of mismanagement
it soon lost headway. Some voluble
Rear Admirals applauded it as a nec-
essary preparation for war, and spe-
cifically a challenge to Great Britain.
The House committee, which had been
ready to approve the bill, was thrown
into confusion because of conflicting
cost figures, some estimates running
into billions. There was uncertainty
whether construction should be
pushed, or should be subject to delay
in the event of another limitation con-
ference. Secretary Kellogg further
befogged the situation by suddenly
announcing that the United States
wants submarines outlawed, and that
item was abandoned.
Inevitably these contradictions and
iy ig arouged Be of
every ree, and they male a deter-
mined. drive agai Alia Say a de-
vice of “navalism” and a provocation
to war. A stream of protests from
churches and ‘peace societies poured
in upon Congress, and in the end the
House yielded to the propagandists
and cut the program by three-fourths,
making provision for only 15 cruisers
and one aircraft carrier. Obviously
this did not represent a rational com-
promise, but was virtual repudiation
of a program which the Administra-
tion had urged for national security
and peace. Yet the pacifists were not
satisfied with having crippled the
project; they organized to destroy it,
and with the assistance of Senate
radicals they have been able to hold
up the measure in that body until it
1
death.
Clamorous charges that the build-
ing of 16 warships would be extrava-
gant or competitive are baseless and
dishonest. As a matter of fact the
vessels would be largely for replace-
ment, and their completion would
leave the British, American and Jap-
anese cruiser ratio, 5-2, 6-2, 6 in-
stead of the 5-5-3 of the Washington
treaty. It is to be hoped, therefore,
that President Coolidge’s belated ef-
forts will salvage at least this man-
gled remnant of the program which
he recommended as necessary to the
national defense.
emer pees
The Joy of Earning a Living.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
There is a wealth of philosophy in
the story of the young Russian count
who, bereft of title and property, is
now earning a living by working from
morning until night in a great indus-
trial plant in Pennsylvania. If he de-
sired to do so he might have a string
of names, but he prefers to be known
as plain Mr. Davidoff. He was for-
tunate enough to have a good educa-
tion and later secured his degree in
engineering from Harvard. After
learning the business he expects to
go abroad with the foreign sales force
of the corporation with which he is
now employed.
But the moral of this tale is the
manner in which it has affected the
young man’s outlook on life. He in-
sists that the transformation is the
very best thing which could have hap-
pened to him. “If the revolution had
not occurred,” he says, “I shouid
probably have gone into the army,
taken up drinking in a serious way,
and eventually have died in a gilt and
satin bed. Circumstances have pleas-
antly ruled to the contrary. I am in
good health, I earn my own living in
a congenial occupation, and I am de-
pendent upon no one for anything I
need or desire.”
Wealth and position have their ad-
vantages and charms, but it is a mis-
take to assume that they are essen-
tial to happiness. The best gift of
all is the ability to take a philosoph-
ical view of life.
—————— ee ——————— 4
—The conviction of Mrs. Florence
Knapp, at Albany, indicates equali-
zation of sexes in .crime anyway,
{ According to reports from Wash-.
has become possible to talk it to,
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONK
—More than $600 was cleared at the
poppy sale conducted at Lock Haven for
disabled soldiers, by members of the aux-
iliary to the William Marshall Crawford
post, American Legion, on Saturday.
—Financial worries are given as the
cause of the suicide of. Mack Boyle, 70,
oldest riverman in the central part of the
State, who shot himself through the heart
{as he sat in his son’s automobile in Cas-
tanea township,
evening.
—After being hit on the head by a 10-
pound brick with such force that six
stitches had to be taken to close the
wound, “Bill” Cleveland, a Negro, of Can-
onsburg, merely smiled when he appeared
fn court and admitted that he had a
“slight headache.”
—An old fashioned community well,
which formerly supplied all the inhabi-
tants of Uniontown with water when it
was only a small village, was discovered
recently during excavations for a new
building. The well is lined with concrete to
within a foot of the bottom and is in a
good state of preservation.
—David Collins, serving a 10-months’
sentence in the Lackawanna county prison
for the theft of an automobile, has made
application for parole en the grounds that
floors of the jail are too hard. Collins
states that he does considerable walking
in the institution and that the floors have
played havoc with his feet.
—Buried beneath a pile of cinders, Rob-
ert W. Grove, 52, of Greenwood, Blair
county, was suffocated Monday before
workmen reached him. Grove was help-
ing to unload a car of cinders when he
fell into a bin where tlie cinders were be-
ing dumped. He was covered up before
his plight was discovered. Coroner C. C.
Rothrock said he would investigate.
Clinton county, Sunday
—Mrs. Edith Flanagan, of Pittsburgh,
appointed as social secretary to the
Governor in 1923, by the former Governor
Pinchot and continued by the present
administration, has tendered her resig-
nation effective June 1. Mrs. Flanagan
has given up her position to take a motor
trip through England and France this
summer. She will sail for Europe on the
Adriatic on June 9.
—Citizens at Wilkes-Barre can tolerate
the usual city noises, but they balk when
they have to listen to frogs sing. A num-
ber of residents on North Franklin and
Jackson streets recently complained that
a colony of frogs in a puddle opposite the
court house. were keeping them awake.
County commissioners met the complaint
promptly and ordered the frogs removed
and the hole filled up.
—Orville Mix, uncle of Tom Mix, pop-
ular movie star, is employed as an dssist-
ant at the State Forest Tree Nursery lo-
cated near Clearfield. Medix run, rising in
northern Clearfield county, a tributary of
the West Branch of the Susquehanna, and
the town of Medix Run were named for
the Mix family, pioneers of this mountain
section. It was there that Tom Mix grew
up with that ardent love of out-door ad-.
venture in which he stars today.
—Little Jane Hubbell, 7-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert S. Hubbell,
is under guard at her home in Lancaster,
following a threat that she would be kid-
napped unless her father paid $2600. Mr.
Hubbell said that he is confident the let-_
ter is the work of a erank. He added that
he does not have $2600 to pay, and that
if he did he would use the money to find
the writer of the note, rather than pay
for protection. Preparations have been
made to guard the Hubbell home at night.
—Partially destroying the J. L. Hyder
business block, at Osceola Mills, and gut-
i ting two other store houses, fire of un-
| known origin early Monday morning
|-caused loss estimated at $40,000. Tiremen
unable to cope with the blaze, sent dis-
tress calls and two Philipsburg and one
Houtzdale companies answered and assist-
ed. As the flames continued to rage, Ty-
rone and Madera companies answered, but
did not see service, the blaze finally being
quelled after more than two hours of
fighting. :
! —E. B. Zimmerman, Philadelphia, form-
er secretary of the Democratic State com-
mittee, was reappointed to that position,
last Friday, by John R. Collins, Couders-
port, the new Democratic State Commit-
tee chairman. It was also announced that
State headquarters will soon be opened in
Harrisburg. For several years the party
has had no State headquarters. The of-
fice at 19-A North Fourth street, which
was used by Warren Van Dyke as head-
quarters for the Smith primary campaign.
will soon be taken over by Mr. Zimmer-
{ man.
—The State workmen's compensation
board has held, that desertion by a hus-
band is not sufficient reason why a widow
should be denied compensation. The case
was that of Mrs. Anna Butroy Wolfe, of
Iselin, whose husband was an employee of
the Pittsburgh Coal Co. He was fatally
injured in an accident after he disap-
peared with a $415 dowry of his wife.
The referee disallowed compensation on
the ground that the widow was not de-
pendent upon her husband at the time of
death and she appealed the case. The
board allowed her $8 a week.
—Leaking gasoline ignited by a mateh
on Monday resulted in injury to John
Miller, of Ironsville, near Tyrone, and a
four year old daughter and partial de-
struction of their homu. The condition of
neither, both suffering burns, is consid-
ered serious. Miller had gone to the third
floor of the residence to find some articles
he wanted. A leaking gasoline can caught
fire from the lighted match he was carry-
ing. Grabbing the can, he hurléd it
through a window and it landed near his
daughter in the yard below, igniting her
clothing. A Tyrone fire company an-
swered a call to the home and limited the
damage to the house.
—Members of the Pennsylvania railroad
crew of the Shenandoah-Pottsville local
rescued Joseph Sakawski, 22, of Shenan-
doah, from death, when his automobile
caught fire on the State highway, near
Pottsville, last Saturday. The trainmen
saw the automobile crash into another and
turn over. In less than a minute the ma-
chine was a blaze and Sakawski was
pinned beneath it. The machine rolled
over a six-foot embankment and Sakaw-
ski was pinned so that he could not es-
cape. Flames shot from the rear of the
machine ' and the trainmen pulled him
through the front of the car after break-
‘ing the windshield and frame. Two min-
utes after they had rescued him from his
perilous plight the machine was a mass of
"flames. nd !