INK SLINGS.
. ——1If Mexico survives the shock
incident to the assassination of Presi-
dent-elect Obregon there is a basis
for hope of a stable government in
the future.
— Bank resources in Pennsyl-
vania show fine increases, but it is not
certain whether greater profits or
diminished enterprise in business Is
responsible.
— John Sharp Williams, “the
Grand Old Man” of Mississippi, is
enthusiastic for Smith and Robinson,
and the people of the South listen
when he speaks.
— Mayor Walker, of New York,
is home from an extended tour of the
West loaded with confidence that Gov-
ernor Smith will be elected. And
Jimmy Walker is a famous guesser.
© _The craze for trans-Atlantic fly-
ing received a serious backset on
Monday. New York didn’t make any
fuss over the Courtney crew that
they would want to write back home
about.
—1It’s amazing how clearly a num-
ber of Republican Senators see the
necessity for a revision of the tariff.
They see it only because they can’t
see so clearly the election of Mr.
Hoover.
—With the thermometer hanging
around the nineties for the last two
or three weeks, we are wondering
what has become of those scientists
who were so busy trying to convince
us that the world is gradually cool-
ing off.
—More power to the arm of the
law in New York. At least enough
power to give “Tex” Guinan the legal
spanking she so richly deserves. A
long trip to Atlanta for that female
would, we should say, eliminate
some of the pestilence that walketh
in the darkness.
—We are genuinely glad to note
that Senator-elect William S. Vare is
recovering from the stroke of paraly-
sis that a few days ago was feared
would prove fatal. As the head of a
rotten political machine Senator Vare
is one thing. As a private citizen
possessed of a pleasing’ personality
and many estimable qualities he is
quite another. We are sincere when
we say that we hope he may survive
his present serious illness, because wz
have always felt that Bill Vare would
see the glory that would be his if his
political life were patterned more af-
ter his private life.
—1In the August issue of “The Kour-
jer Magazine,” published by the
KX. K. K., at Atlanta, Georgia, Dr. H.
W. Evans, Emperor and Imperial
Wizard of the Klan, arrogates to him-
self the right to tell klansmen how to
vote. A lot of the Bishops of the
Methodist and other churches are as-
suming the same prerogative. It seems
to us
United States has sunk to the level
that it doesn’t know how or what to
vote for, from its own conception of
what would be best for it, the whole
works ought to be disfranchised and
the klansmen and the clergy called
upon to pitch pennies to select a dic-
tator.
—Harrisburg is after Bellefonte
again, but we do hope Council will
have back-bone enough not to be
scared into saddling another salaried
official onto us. All milk, no matter
how sanitarily it is handled, contains
a few thousand—maybe its millions—
bacteria per ¢ c. It’s been making
fat babies around here as long as we
can remember anything and there
ought to be enough officials on the
pay rolls now to see that the dealers
are reasonably careful about their
community without appointing a
milk inspector who will either have
to be paid through advanced milk
prices or higher taxes. The financial
knees of the community are wobbling
now with the load they have to carry
and what it needs most is a govern-
ment at Harrisburg that will concen-
{rate more on reducing the number
of public officials than on increasing
them.
—Mr. Hoover ought to thank the
Secretary of War. Mr. Davis told
Herb the truth on Monday. He told
him that the way isn’t easy and that
the sleddin’ isn’t good. Up to that
moment there doesn’t seem to have
been a Republican observer with the
courage to frankly tell his candidate
that at the present state of the game
the fight for President is anybody’s
fight. Mr. Secretary Davis has made
a tour of the country. Naturally, he
came in contact mostly with Republi-
can lieutenants, but he is convinced
that Hoover “is facing a battle” and
we believe Davis has absorbed the
right dope. They can give the Owens,
the Simmons, the McCormicks, the
McSparrans and all the rest of the
flunking Democrats as many scare-
heads as they please in Republican
papers, but that is only whistling to
keep up courage. For every one that
we have seen named we can name ten
Republicans, right here in Centre
county who won’t touch Hoover. Cen-
tre county, of course, will not count in
the final vote, but human nature is
human nature, the country over and
it’s a pretty darned good sign that
there’s a lot more Republicans who
think Al Smith would make a good
President than there are Democrats
who think he could annul prohibition
or persuade the Pope to step out of
the Vatican into a kitchen cabinet in
this country.
that if the electorate of the |
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STATE RIGHTS'AND FEDERAL UNION.
..YOL, 73
The Vance C. McCormick Bolt.
Some of our esteemed contempor-
aries are taking the “bolt” of Mr.
Vance C. McCormick, the Harrisburg
publisher, much too seriously. Mr.
McCormick is simply “running true fo
form.” He is a born bolter. Prev-
“ious to 1912 his political activities
were restricted to local affairs and
though professing to be a Democrat,
he never voted the full ticket. In 1910
he bolted the nomination of Webster
Grim; in 1918 and 1926 he bolted the
candidate, Judge Bonniwell. In 1914
' he was the nominee of the party for
Governor and urged all Democrats to
be faithful to party obligations. But
‘it was an open secret among his
friends that if his opponent for the
nomination had been successful, he
{ would have bolted.
i It will be seen by this record that
. Mr. McCormick is an habitual bolter,
‘ a sort of chronic kicker. But his bolt-
{ing doesn’t amount to much. His
newspapers enjoy a considerable
| clientele within a limited area but
| few of the readers of them place much
i confidence either in his political integ-
{rity or judgment. While a contest
{is in progress he predicts victory for
‘his side and continues to predict to
the end in the face of conditions
which make his predictions absurd.
In the recent contest for the Demo-
cratic Presidential nomination his
morning paper, on the day the ballot
was taken, declared that Governor
Smith would not be nominated, and
until- his bolt, the other day, if they
had no other source of information,
his readers never would have known
that he was nominated.
Like most other selfish politicians
Mr. McCormick’s principal aim is to
control the organization of the party.
By profligate use of money he has
succeeded in this respect in Dauphin
county, and until this year held Cum-
berland county fairly well in hand.
Thus far the party organization of
Dauphin county has taken no action
in the matter of the endorsement of
the ticket, and it is whispered about
that it will take none. But the vote
in the county will show a consider-
able increase over that of recent
years, notwithstanding the attitute of
Mr. McCormick &nd his newspapers,
“according to esfimates of well inform-
1
i
made a careful survey of conditions.
——Watch Connie Mack’s Athlet-
ics climbing the pennant staff.
Status of the Senatorial Contest.
Every fair-minded person in Penn-
sylvania will sincerely sympathize
with Mr. William S. Vare and his
family in his recent afflicticn, but it
doesn’t in the least measure alter
the status of the dispute over the
seat in the Senate which he claims.
It is charged first that he is disqual-
ified because of the excessive and
fraudulent use of money in the cam-
paign for the nomination. That ques-
tion has been under consideration by
the Slush Fund committee of the Sen-
ate, of which Senator Reed, of Mis-
souri, is chairman, for nearly two
years, and while no report has been
made a precisely parallel case from
Illinois was decided against the
claimant with less evidence to justify
the finding.
But if the Slush Fund committee
should declare that because of frauds
Vare was not legally elected, as it
did in the Illinois case, there wonld
be no vacancy in the office that might
be filled by executive appointment.
William B. Wilson is contesting the
claim of Mr. Vare and the Senate
committee on Privileges and Elec-
tions considering that question. Mr.
Wilson had upward of 50,000 major-
ity in the State outside of Philadel-
phia and nearly 100,000 majority out-
side of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
A recount of the votes in Philadel-
phia has shown vast frauds and a re-
count in Pittsburgh is certain to re-
veal a similar condition. If the
fraudulent votes in those cities are
thrown out Wilson will be entitled to
the seat.
cause of Mr. Vare's infirmity, in the
This would simply be an inexcusable
condonation of ballot crimes. It is
all right to sympathize with Mr. Vare,
but it is quite as certainly all wrong
to condone crimes that are the
outstanding menace to just and
orderly government in the United
States. If William B. Wilson was
legally elected he is entitled to the
seat, no matter what the Reed com-
mittee reports. If the Reed committee
reports adversely to Vare and the
Elections committee reports adverse-
ly to Wilson there will be a vacancy
to fill by the Governor, but not other-
wise.
ed observers @esiding there who have .
and the excessive use of money Mr.
It has been suggested in some of
the newspapers of the State that be-:
event he survives, both the investiga- .
tions be abandoned and he be permit- |
ted to qualify and assume the seat.’
BELLEFONTE, PA.. AUG
UST 10. 1928.
NO. 31.
————
Prominent Agriculturist for Smith.
After a full and frank conference
with Governor Smith, the other day,
Mr. George M. Peek, of Illinois, prom-
inent leader of the farm relief move-
ment, and heretofore an equally prom-
inent Republican, publicly announced
his intention to support the Democrat-
ic candidate for President. Mr Peek
was an ardent supporter of Governor
Lowden, of Illinois, for the Republi-
can nomination, and an advocate of
the McNary-Haugen Farm Relief bill.
The Kansas City convention disap-
pointed him alike in the candidate and
the platform and since the Houston
convention he has been actively
sounding public sentiment in the corn
belt with the result that he has deter-
mined to sever his relations with the
Republican party.
After the conference with Mr. Peek
Governor Smith issued a statement in
which he said, “the Democratic plat-
form soundly declares the fundament-
al basis for the relief of the appalling
agricultural distress which not only
threatens the farmer, himself, but is
also destroying the farm market of ten
billions of dollars, for the industries
of the country. Control of the sale
of agricultural surplus is recognized :
by our platform as an essential need,
its cost to be imposed on the unit to
be benefitted. That principle is fix-
ed upon our platform on which I
stand, only the details of its accom-
plishment remains.” In solving the
problem of Jetails Governor Smith
will consult friends rather than foes
of agriculture.
The policy of the Republican party |
has been to foster manufacturing and
commercial interests at the expense
of agriculture. The last Congress en-
acted two measures of legislation of
precisely the same import. One pro-
vided a subsidy for ship builders and
the other relief to farmers. Presi-
dent Coolidge approved the ship sub-
sidy and vetoed the farm relief in bit-
ter invective. The tariff law benefits
the manufacturers and robs the farm-
ers. Yet it is admitted on all sides
that agriculture is the basic industry
of the country, and if Governor Smith
is elected President he will strive for
legislation that will guarantee agri-
culture equal advantages with other
industries of the country.
If President Coolidge is as suc-
cessful at other sports as he is re-
ported to be at trap-shooting he won’t
i have to whittle his life away.
{ Tariff Tax and Textile Prosperity.
|
i
|
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i In an elaborate survey of the tex-
‘tile industry of Philadelphia the es-
teemed Philadelphia Record has con-
: clusively proved that protective tanff
‘taxation exercises little influence up-
on the prosperity of that industry.
; Thousands of skilled operatives in
that line of enterprise in that city
‘are idle, and other thousands are
working on half time or less, and the
mill owners invariably lay the blame
to inadequate tariff protection. If
the tariff schedules were prohibitive
of importations, the employers as-
sure the suffering wage earners, there
would be abundance of work at high
rate of wages, and the Republican
party at Kansas City obligingly made
a platform promise to increase the
| tariff rates.
Mr. Andrew McClean Parker, who
has made the survey for the Record,
| gives various reasons for the exist-
{ing depression in the textile indus-
try in Philadelphia and cites inade-
| quate tariff protection as among the
{ least. He quotes a Republican poli-
tician who describes the condition as
‘an “industrial calamity,” and de-
i clares that “the sole cause of the de-
| pression is our present tariff which
| has been demonstrated to be wholly
‘ inadequate to afford the protection it
i was designed to give to American in-
‘ dustry,” but that is hardly convinz-
.ing. In any event, he shows that un-
i der the elastic provision of the pres-
ent law the President might have
Tissd the rate to the prohibitory lev-
el.
As a matter of fact, Mr. Parker
proves that the real cause of stagna-
tion in the textile industry in Phila-
delphia is “stupid management, ob-
solete machinery, intellectual lethargy
and political strabismus.” He might
have added that most of the mill own-
ers of that city spend more time and
invest more energy in collecting slush
funds for the Republican machine
than in taking care of their own busi-
ness. This may be advance payment
for prohibitory tariff protection which
is not realized, for partisan reasons,
but they have no right to squeal be-
cause of disappointment. The textile.
manufacturers in the South and some
of them in New England are prosper-
ous for the reason that they depend
on intelligent effort.
——Those who predicted a “cool
summer” may be entitled to another
guess.
Governor Smith and Temperance.
A Washington correspondent of one
of the several press news services pre-
tending to have advance informaticn
concerning Governor Smith’s acept-
ance speech, ventures the assertion
that the Democratic candidate “will
declare for a modification of the Vol-
stead act in order to permit the saie
of liquors containing in excess of the
one-half of one per cent. limit now
provided in the law.” The obvious
purpose of this prediction is to en-
list prohibitionists against Governor
Smith. It is based entirely on con-
jecture but justified, in the mind of
the correspc ident, by the well known
fact that G vernor Smith has repeat-
edly said that the Volstead law has
failed to accomplish the purpose for
which it was enacted.
The Volstead law has been in ope-
ration more than six years and ex-
pensive raids recently made in New
York city have clearly shown its in-
adequacy for the purpose of suppress-
ing the liquor traffic there. It has
proved equally futile in every other
city, and town of considerable popula-
tion. ‘Governor Smith believes that
more effective legislation might be
enacted, and that opinion is concurred
"in by a vast number of intelligent and
law-abiding people. Governor Smith
is in favor of enforcing the Eighteenth
amendment and the Volstead law so
long as it is a law. But in its present
form that law has not achieved that
i result and his purpose in modifica-
| tion is to correct the faults which
i have made it ineffective.
In the event of Governor Smith’s
election to the office of President his
“first act would be to assume an obli-
{ gation to obey the constitution and the
laws. So long as ‘the Volstead law
stands in its present form he would
be obliged to obey it, and if Congress
(refused to alter or amend it at the
‘ sugéstion of the President or other-
: wise he will enforce it to the full ex-
| tent of his power. Unless his recom-
i mendations for modification appeal to
“the ‘judgment of Congress they will
i not. be enacted into law, and it wiil
be the duty of the President to do his
best for prohibition with the instru-
- ments at his command! and it is a safe
“befighat Alfred E. Smith will do bet-
Iter than his predecessor. :
| ——The Philadelphia husband who
i lost his wife out of the car on his way
! home the other evening has no cause
; of complaint against back seat driv-
ing.
Judge Fleming Files Two Opinions
: in Spring Twp. School Case.
On Wednesday evening Judge M.
Ward Fleming filed two opinions and
decrees in the famous Spring town-
ship school case. One was in the in-
junction proceedings instituted by
Thomas Beaver and others against
the township school board to restrain
them from issuing bonds, levying high-
er taxes or otherwise increasing the
school indebtedness in which the court
decreed in favor of the petitioners by
making the injunction perpetual.
The other decision was in the case
of Anna Zelesnick vs. the Spring
township school board, in which the
plaintiff had instituted injunction
proceedings to restrain the board
from taking her property for school
purposes. In this case the injunction
was dismissed and the school board
granted the right to take the proper-
ty subject, of course, to the usual con-
demnation proceedings and payment
of damages as assessed by a compe-
tent board of viewers.
ago the Spring township voters au-
thorized a bond issue for the purpose
of erecting a new consolidated build-
ing at Pleasant Gap. Contracts were
let for a two story, twelve room
building but because of a fight over
the location of same the legality of
the proceedings was attacked in the
courts. The bonds were never issued
and the plans for the consolidated
building were cancelled.
Last summer, however, the board
erected a four room, one story build-
ing on the old site. Last winter the
new building was overcrowded and
some of the primary schools had to
be shifted to the Horntown school.
This, of ocurse, is not satisfactory,
and many patrons are kicking. But
possible with the funds at its com-
mand.
———Senator Underwood, of Ala-
bama, knows the South as well as any
man living, and he “tells the world”
that it will be solid for Smith.
——A declining birth rate in Italy
has aroused alarm among the Fas-
cist leaders and they are blaming it
on the doctors.
——William Allen White has gone
to Europe to stay until after the elec-
tion. “He who fights and runs away
may live to fight another day.”
A Church in Politics.
From the New York Times.
It wouid be without profit to dis-
cuss the differences between the Bish-
ops of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South. Apparently the ma-
jority of them sincerely believe it
their duty to take sides in politics.
Here we must discriminate between
general approval of what are called
moral issues and a specific attempt
to enforce the authority of the Gen-
eral Conference over the political
conscience of church members. This
is the significant and disquieting thing
in the recent manifesto of the four
Bishops against the two. A parade
is made of the fact that the General
Conference “represents a Christian
citizenship of more than 2,600,000.”
Southern Methodists are reminded
that the utterances of the General
Conference “must be accepted as the
final authority.” Moreover, notice
is given that “the-pronouncement of
the Bishops should be read from
every pulpit in the Church.” All told,
there is the most sweeping assertion
of the right of the ecclesiastical au-
thorities to dictate to Southern Meth-
odists how they shall vote in the com-
ing Presidential election.
Needless to say, this action by the
Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South is precisely in line with
what they have for years charged the
Catholic Church in America with do-
ing. today an equal number of
Catholic Bishops were to attempt to
control the Catholic vote of this coun-
try, no one would be louder or fiercer
in condemning them than these very
Bishops. They attack in others what
they permit themselves to do. Dis-
guise their purpose as they may, un-
der fair-seeming words, it is unmis-
takable. Their endeavor is to per-
suade politicians that they are able
to “deliver” more than 2,000,000 votes,
and that they will do it as«seems to
them best. Their ambitious aim
reaches from the Presidency down to
the minor offices, for they say that
“from constable to Governor, from
revenue agent to President, officials
must be selected who believe in en-
forcement.” There could hardly be a
clearer case of a church urged by its
leaders to go bodily into politics.
The Bishops of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church South make a at
virtue of standing on the Constitu-
tion. The Eighteenth Amendment,
now a part of it, is the law of the
“absolutely regardles
It will be noted tha
nothing about that other part:of the
Democratic plank on law enforce-
ment, which states that “all other
provisions of the Federal Constitu-
tion” ought to be enforced. Will the |:
Southern Bishops undertake to make
a like heroic stand in calling for the
enforcement of the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Amendments, which would
plainly result in cutting down the
representation of the Southern States
in the National House of Representa-
tives? It is safe to say that they will
not. On that part of the law of the
land they will not do their moral
thundering, for they know perfectly
well that not even the smallest frac-
tion of their Church following would
give heed to them. When they de-
clare that they stand on the Consti-
tution they evidently mean the parts
of it which they like. Their silence
about the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments exposes them to the
satire of Hosea Biglow against the
old advocates of Southern slavery,
who said that they stood on the Con-
stitution, for otherwise they would
not be able to trample it under their
hoofs.
~ In violently arraying themselves
against Governor Smith, the South-
ern Methodist Bishops may find that
they are running before they are sent.
. One of them, Bishop Cannon, express-
It will be recalled that two years
ed himself at Houston as entirely
satisfied with the Democratic law-en-
forcement plank. But that plank
was promptly accepted by Governor
Smith. This was because, as was
openly avowed at Houston by Sena-
‘tor Glass, it left every Democrat, ev-
ery candidate, free to propose modifi-
i cations or repeal of the Volstead act.
But without waiting to see how Gover-
nor Smith may avail himself of this
freedom, the Methodist Bishops vehe-
mently oppose his election for the
Presidency. They do this in the name
of religious liberty. But in the act,
and under all the circumstances, they
lay themselves open to the suspicion
, that their real motives spring from
an incurable religious intolerance.
rn —— fr ————.
Can’t be Bought.
{ 'rom the Harrisburg Telegraph.
Nobody is astonished to learn that
the Wisconsin girl who promised to
wed a wealthy man in return for his
the board claims it has done the best | generosity to her parents hes decided
she is sick of her bargain and is not
going on with it. “I am sick of mon-
ey, for I find it brings only trouble,”
she says.
Of course she isn’t quite fair by
money. It brings much more than
trouble. It relieves a great deal of
trouble. While it cannot buy happi-
ness, it can make a wondrous contri-
bution to happiness. In her bitter-
ness the Wisconsin girl loses her per-
spective and misplaces her emphasis.
Money is all right and properly to be
desired—even in large quantities—
but to help toward happiness it must
be well adulterated with brains.
——The Watchman gives all the
news while it is news.
ss. of thedatist”.
the Bishops Say
| SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—G. I. Rodgers, 222 East Third avenue,
Altoona, a fireman on the Pennsylvania
railroad, died in a hospital at Harrisburg,
late last Thursday night, from injuries
believed to have been suffered when he
was struck by a car door of a passing
train. He was making a run on a freight
train between Altoona and Harrisburg
when he was injured.
—Claude Lacount, 22, is under arrest on
a charge of felonious shooting after he
.is said to have fired into a crowd of men
and women near his home at Patton, Cam-
bria county. The shooting was the cli-
max of a drinking party. Two women
were seriously wounded, one of them be-
ing Lacount’s wife, while five other per-
sons in the crowd were slightly injured.
—When she walked into the living room
of her home at Smith Valley, near Mount
Union, a few days ago, Miss Lillian Dell
found a large blacksnake taking posses-
sion of the room. Miss Dell ran to call
her father, and while she was out, the
reptile hid in the parlor organ in the
room, and it was with difficulty that the
snake was found and killed by the father.
—Compelled to go out of business be-
cause of improved highways, the Eagles
Mere railroad, historic narrow gauge road,
which spanned the nine miles from Sones-
town to Eagles Mere for forty years, was
sold last week for virtually junk prices
at the Sullivan county courthouse, at La-
porte. The price was $4500, and the euip-
ment will be scrapped. Mark T. Milnor,
a Harrisburg attorney, handled the af-
fairs of the bond-holders in the sale.
—Men with either red noses or flushed
cheeks cannot buy “canned heat” in a
Sunbury chain store whether it be on Sun-
days or week days, the management an-
nounced last Saturday. And this is un-
derstood to be a national wide order is-
sued by this organization. So popular has
this concoction become as an intoxicating
beverage it was explained that it is feared
that prohibition agents will get busy and
make raids. So the red nose ukase was
issued.
—While rocking on a swing at a picnic
last Thursday, at Springwood park, near
Dallastown, Harriet Swartz, six years old,
of Spring Grove, wis killed and Charles
Hawkins, a yeuth, was injured by a shot
from a rifle used in a shooting gallery on
the picnic grounds. The shot came from
a rifie used by Jesse W. Stambaugh,
former postmaster at Spring Grove. He
laid the rifle on the counter of the gallery
when he had shot what he believed to be
a complete round and a final shot killed
the child.
~—Charged- with obtaining $2500 from a
finance ‘company ‘on a fictitious name,
Thomas J. Ayres, 48, Lewistown auto
dealer, was arrested in Harrisburg
last Thursday, and has been held for a
court trial. Ayres is charged with giving
the name of a Lewistown resident as the
purchaser of an automobile and explain-
ed he had signed a lease for the loan.
When the company asked the man for the
first payment, the Lewistown resident ex-
plained he never bought a new car and
did not sign a lease.
—Two hundred gallons or one-fourth
of the confiscated moonshine liquor seized
in two recent raids by State police in
Sugar valley, was stolen from the court
house in Lock Haven, last Thursday night.
A man living near the court house was
land, and as such must be enforced, |
aroused by the noise made by the three
men » whe were. loading the ligner om a
truck and inquired why they were mov-
ing the liquor. They immediately jumped
on their truck and escaped. The local
police and sheriff were notified but were
unable to block the escape of the thieves.
—Donald Carlos, 41, a music teacher
with a studio in Scranton, lost his speech
Sunday afternoon when a bolt of lightf-
ning, evidently following the wires, struck
the telephone in a booth in a cigar store
while he was talking to his wife at Oneon-
ta, New York. The booth was illuminated
by the flash and Carlos dropped to the
floor. He was revived in a short time,
but was unable to talk. Patrolmen took
him to headquarters, and three hours af.
terwards his speech began to return, al-
though at night he still spoke with great
effort.
—Police at Trenton, N. J., last Friday,
delivered John Lucas to Detective Duhon,
of Braddock, Pa., where he is alleged to
have swindled John Schraffa out of $8,000.
Lucas gave Homestead, Pa., as his resi-
dence. It is alleged that Lucas and two
other men obtained the cash by the sale
of a machine for “making money.” When
he realized he had been victimized, Schraf-
fa obtained a warrant for his arrest. The
arrest was made after Michael Pollack,
a nephew of Schraffa, had trailed Lucas
through Pennsylvania and as far west as
Detroit. Lucas went to Trenton about two
weeks age.
—Tudor Alex, of 158 Ridge Road, Lack-
awanna, N. Y., has been granted permis-
sion to roll a barrel through the State
of Pennsylvania, enroute from Buffalo, N.
Y., to Miami, Fla. the only restrictions
imposed upon him being the requirement
that the said barrel must contain no in-
toxicating beverage and must be manipu-
lated in a way which will not interfere
with traffic in municipalities. Alex sought
a permit from the State Department of
Internal Affairs, but was informed that
no permit would be required in this State
as long as the restrictions mentioned were
observed.
—The 1929 encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic will be held at
Gettysburg as the result of the action tak-
en by the executive committee of the or-
ganization and its affiliated bodies at a
meeting in Philadelphia last week. Vet-
erans, while at their last encampment at
Scranton, in June, selected Philadelphia as
the convention city for next year. The ex-
ecutive committee, however, announced
that a large number of the members of
the G. A. R. had expressed a desire to
meet once more at the historic Gettys-
burg battlefield, and for that reason the
convention city was changed.
—John Oudett, 60-year-old watchman in
the C. H. Smith Sons company store at
Oil City, met two robbers on the main
floor of the store one night last week, and
put them to rout with four revolver shots,
wounding one of the men. At the sound
of the shots, a third man, posted in front
of the store as a lookout, ran in and car-
ried out the wounded robber. The trio
fled in a waiting automobile. Police were
unable to find any trace of the robbers.
All physicians in that region were asked
by police to be on the lookout for any
wounded man who might have been involv-
ed in the attempted robbery. Three years
ago three men obtained $1,700 in cash by
forcing open the company safe.