EY
nobody who' can do it.
7
could beat anything with a club, but
INK SLINGS.
—Most everybody wants to see th
Yanks licked and there seems to be
—Always we have thought that one
McKechnie couldn’t beat the Yanks
with his. Possibly, McKechnie’s isn’t
a club.
—Better go into the ditch in your
effort to keep out of the way of the
other fellow than have him knock you
into it because you want to show the
“hog” that you have as much right
to hug the white line as he has.
—We’re not alarmed by the in-
creased registration in the cities. We
believe it means more for Smith than
it does for Hoover. Aren’t our Hoov-
er friends admitting that the larger
centers of population are where the
Smith strength lies. If that is so
isn’t it reasonable to infer that in-
creased registration in them means
‘more votes for Al.
—Philadelphia papers lose no op-
portunity to tell the world what the
good people of that city have given
towards Florida relief. Bellefonte is
not given much to boasting, but we
think the world should know that we
have given more, per capita, than the
great city where even policemen are
millionaires.
—Qur conscience is troubling us.
Last Sunday afternoon we listened in
on the ball game. About the sixth
inning we got to thinking that we
were just as guilty of making a holi-
‘wday out of the Sabbath as were the
“about bare knees in Bellefonte.
to the moment of reading that self:
thousands who were jammed on that
‘ball-field in St. Louis, where the
Yanks and the Cards were fighting
it out. What do you think about it?
‘Were we?
—According to William Randolph
Hearst’s Los Angeles Examiner there
were more persons arrested on drunk
charges in that city last week than
for any similar period since prohibi-
tion went into effect eight years ago.
‘William Randolph, you know, is sup-
porting Hoover and prohibition, but
if we are to believe that it would
seem that he’s making a h—1 of a job
of it in Los Angeles.
—Old Ed Howe, “the Sage of Po-
tato Hill,” railed against bare-leg-
ged girls and then when two dames
called on him to protest his mid-
Victorian ideas, he never noticed that
neither of them had stockings on. Ed
is one of the famous writing men of
the. country, but he is growing old
and hasn’t the eye of the writing man
on the Watchman, who surprised us,
several weeks ago, with a paragraph
Up
confession we had thought him to be
too old, too.
—To the good Methodist sister who
' hag written us urging that we should
not lose faith because our church has
gone into politics we indite this mes-
sage of reassurance. Faith is not giv-
en or taken away by the dogmas, doc-
trines or rituals of a church. Thank
‘God, it is something higher and finer
than forms enunciated by humans
just as likely to err as we. No, Mrs.
we're thinking of the Skilling-
"tons in our church much as Christ
must have thought of the money
changers when he drove them out of
the temple.
—We note that the Tyrone Herald
has developed elephant “ears.” We
note, also that the Herald announces
that Miss Beatrice Vare, daughter of
the contesting Senator-elect William
S. Vare, is going to take the stump
for Hoover in Pennsylvania. Accord-
ing to her program she is to bally-
hoo for Hoover and-the entire Re-
publican ticket, a high protective
tariff, continuing prosperity and light
wines and beer.If the Hearld has been
listening in at head-quarters—and if
it isn’t what does it have elephant
ears for— Miss Vare has quite a
comprehensive program. We would
suggest that she might make it more
so were she to lift a collection for
Philadelphia policemen at each meet-
ing.
—Please don’t write us any more
letters about Smith and Hoover. The
desk is piled so high with them now
that if all were to be published the
Watchman would contain little else
until way beyond the fourth of next
March. It’s embarrassing, because
we know the authors of many of them
spent much thought on their argu-
ments, pro and con. However, since
we have no expectation from either
Mr. Smith or Mr. Hoover of anything
by way of paying for enlarged edi-
tions in which to publish the praise
of their advocates, we see no other
way out of the dilemma than to treat
all alike and publish none. Two ex-
ceptionally thought out articles are
before us at the moment: One by Will
H. Fielding, of New Dorp, N. Y., who
is for Hoover, another by James F.
McCulley, of Bellefonte, who is for
Smith. We would like to publish
both, but they would take nearly an
entire page in the paper and while
they are much longer than most of
the other letters on the desk there
are scores beside them. The anony-
mous correspondent from Pyrt Matil-
da, who sent us a marked copy of
“Bob Shuler’s Magazine” is advised
that cutting the address label off the
cover didn’t have the desired result
for the impress of the mailing ma-
chine is discernible on the following
sheet and we observed that the mag-
azine was originally directed to “Rev.
W. C. R——" If it was the parson,
himself, who sent it he is probably
just another Skillington.
an.
en
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
acm
OL. 73.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. OCTOBER 12. 1928.
NO. 30.
Hoover’s Appeal to the South.
Herbert Hoover hasn't acquired
much wisdom during the considerable
interval that has elapsed since the
delivery of his speech of acceptance.
That speech consisted mainly of ab-
surd claims of achievement by the
Republican party. In his speech at
Elizabethton, Tennessee, on Saturday,
he repeated most of the preposterous
claims and added inferentially that
the defeat of the Republican party
would plunge the country into an
abyss of distress and disaster. Only
a few days previous to that dire pre-
diction the President of the American
Bankers’ association, in convention in
Philadelphia, in addressing the mem-
bers, declared that no matter which
party is in power or which candidate :
is elected prosperity will continue un-
impaired.
Mr. Hoover had wisely chosen a
small town in the mountain section
of Tennessee in which to issue his ap-
peal to the credulity of the South.
Public schools are few, information
limited and intelligence circumserib-
ed in that section, and the Republican
managers probably imagined the
candidate could put over any kind of
bunk on the mountaineers. And the
candidate “went the limit.” He told
that owing to “the sound policies” of
the Harding and Coolidge administra-
tions “we have come since the war to
be the greatest reservoir of the
world’s wealth.” This bunk wags tak-
en with such relish that he was en-
couraged to higher flights of fancy.
He told them that all these fine
things are built on a delicate econom-
ic system, the dislocation of which
would impoverish everybody.
Then in a solemn and sobbing tone
of voice he reminded his audience that
“the unit of American life is the fam-
ily and the home.” But the home must
be intrenched in spiritual ideals and
creature comforts and the tariff is
the guarantee of these essentials. Tt
stimulates commerce and preserves
the home market for domestic pro-
ducts and “the great manufacturing
industries of the South are dependent
upon it.” As a matter of fact
the South never derived any benefit
from the tariff. Its single industry
has ‘prospered because of proximity
to raw materials and local labor leg-
islation. The kindred industry in New
England - has languished ~ notwith-
standing the tariff. But he left noth-
ing to conjecture in reference to the
electric trust. He guarantees its
prosperity.
Governor Fisher still claims a
majority for Hoover in Pennsylvania.
To save his face Mellon ought to give
him a new figure.
Actions Refute Predictions.
The sincerity of the claims made by
Republican managers of a huge ma-
jority for Hoover in this State is
brought under suspicion by the des-
perate efforts they are making to se-
cure any majority at all. In recent
campaigns, with ample majorities as-
sured, comparatively little work was
done in Pennsylvania. The
managers were urged by the big boss-
es, in a semi-confidential way, to get
out the vote and that was all that
was deemed necessary. Of course lev-
ies were made on the office holders for
campaign funds but the money thus
collected was sent to doubtful States
where it was expected to “do more
good.” But this year things are dif-
ferent. Both money and work is
needed in Pennsylvania now.
Accordingly the levy on office-hold-
ers for funds is made for a larger
percentage and in a vastly more pe-
remptory manner and the money is
not being sent abroad. The demand
is made by a member of the Gover-
nor’s cabinet, for the first time in the
history of the State, for the purpose
probably, of giving emphasis to the
demand. It is true that the bootleg-
gers and the criminals of Philadel-
phia and Pittsburgh may not be able
to give generously as usual this year
because of the inopportune activities
of the district atorneys in those cita-
dels of corruption and Republican ma-
jorities, which may account, in part,
for the more urgent demand on the
office-holders. But it is safe to as-
sume that the danger of defeat is the
moving cause of the increased activ-
ity.
Another evidence of anxiety on the
part of the Republican managers is
revealed in their calling in their heav-
iest oratorical artillery. No voter un-
der middle-age can call to mind a
campaign in which the leading ora-
tors of the Republican party were
called into service in Pennsylvania.
But this year such “stars” as Sena-
tor Borah, of Idaho, and Colonel
Roosevelt, of New York, as well as
the party candidate for Vice Presi-
dent and others will be “on the hust-
ings” platitudinously pleading to save
the tariff and “the old flag and an ap-
propriation.” But even these expedi-
ents may not accomplish the purpose.
There is a strong current of public
sentiment in favor of Governor Smith
in all sections of the State.
local |
Hamilton Fish Talks Plain.
Mr. Hamilton Fish, of New York,
is so securely established as a poten-
tial leader in the Republican party
i that he doesn’t have to employ the
' methods of a sycophant when he ap-
| proaches the throne. This fact prob-
| ably accounts for his candor during a
| recent visit to Mr. Hoover. Instead
| of flattering the Hoover hope as Sen-
' ator Borah and other party servitors |
have been doing, Mr. Fish plainly
{told the Republican candidate that
: conditions are very bad in New York
'and that unless Mrs. Mabel Wille-
brandt is called off and the circula-
| tion of religious literature stopped,
I not only New York but other eastern
i States essential to the election of the
i Republican candidates will be lost to
the party.
The nomination of A. B. Houghton,
Ambassador to Great Britain, for
{ United States Senator by the recent
Republican convention of New York,
was a particularly stupid expression
of party tactics, Mr. Fish told the
candidate and chairman Work.
Stoughton is not now and never has
been a citizen of New York State. He
was Senator from Minnesota some
years ago and was placed in the
“lame duck” class by a large major-
ity in 1922. In pursuance of custom
he was then shifted into the diplo-
matic service and finally advanced to
the Secretaryship of State. His op-
erations in Mexico were so raw that
he had to be “called off” but his re-
cent exploit with the peace pact has
given him temporary popularity which
the party machinists are now trying
to capitalize.
With this purpose in view the Re-
publican State convention of New
York nominated him for Senator in
Congress. Probably the idea is to
secure a vote, which may be needed,
for the ratification of the peace pact
and possibly the poverty of available
timber of Republican faith in that
State influenced the surprising action.
But in any event Mr. Fish declares
that it will not strengthen the chances
of Hoover carrying the electoral vote
of New York in November. Other
Republicans of the State interpret #
as an insult to the party leadership
in New York and resent it as an ex.
hibition of - stupid -and futile nranagé--
ment for which candidgte Hoover and
chairman Work are responsible.
——The Philadelphia district at-
torney is still gathering in the Vare
leaders and decreasing the Hoover
majority in that city.
“Compounding” Crimes in Court.
If evidence were needed to prove
that the Volstead law is inadequate
for enforcement of the prohibition
amendment to the constitution of the
United States it was abundantly pro-
vided in the Federal court at Phila-
delphia, last week. Eleven defend-
ants were put on trial for “illegal
sale of liquor and maintaining a com-
mon nuisance.” The penalty for “il-
legal sale” of liquor is imprisonment.
That for “illegal possession” of li-
quor is a nominal fine. When the de-
fendants were arraigned under an
agreement between their lawyers and
the district attorney representing the
government, they pleaded guilty to
“possession,” the other charges were
dropped and they escaped with a fine.
The United States district attorney
in Philadelphia is a Vare politician.
No explanation was given for drop-
ping the more serious charges of il-
legal sale of liquor and maintaining
a common niusance, and the sitting
judge was powerless to prevent the
“compounding” of crimes involved in
the transaction. But it served the
purpose of a conspiracy to defeat the
ends of justice and impair the pro-
cesses of law. It is well and widely
known that the illicit dealers in
moonshine are indifferent to fines.
They can reimburse themselves in a
few days of business and they braz
enly continue the nefarious traffic.
But a jail sentence is a serious mat-
ter and by collusion can easily be
avoided.
This is one of the principal rea-
sons why the enforcement of the
government are servile tools of the
Republican machine rather than serv-
ants of the people, and the bootleg-
gers and liquor dealers are support-
ers of the machine which protects
them. It is because of these facts
that a vast number of good citizens,
men and women who believe in and
want temperance throughout the land,
demand such amendments to the Vol-
stead law as will make collusions be-
tween corrupt officials and criminal
liquor dealers impossible. The elec-
tion of Governor Smith as President
will achieve this result beyond ques-
tion.
——What this country really needs
is a guide who can point out the abid-
ing place of the prosperity that is so
freely talked about.
The American Bankers’ association
which completed its fifty-fourth an-
nual convention at Philadelphia, last
week, revealed the deep interest of
its members in the matter of farm re-
lief by adopting a resolution on the
subject. “We believe,” the resolution
declares, “that an important contri-
bution to remedying the agricultural
depression lies in the adoption of
i methods which will lower the unit
costs of production, and believe that
the agricultural colleges and experi-
mental stations are successfully da-
i veloping the means by which they
{may be accomplished.” No doubt
| there is a good deal of truth in this
| statement of the case if the farmers
have patience to wait the completion
of the process.
The last speaker on the subject in
the convention was Dean Russell, of
the University of Wisconsin, said to
be “nationally recognized as an au-
thority on farm eccnomics.” He said,
“the future success of the farmer lies
in improving his labor income rather
than in the unearned increment due
to advance in the price of his farm.”
This may also be accepted as a true-
ism. But since deflation of farm val-
ues after the close of the world war
no farmer has depended upon 2n
earned or unearned increment of that
sort. It is not clear either how he
may improve his labor income so
long as the prices of his products are
going down. The labor income of
the farmer is the difference between
the cost of production and the price
obtained for his product.
The inference to be drawn from
both the resolution of the convention
and the speech of Dean Russell is
that farm relief cannot possibly be
accomplished by legislation. Admit-
ting that legislation may not be the
best method of achieving the result,
and that relief by legislation might
be temporary, it is nevertheless ce»-
tain that it is possible. The fact is
amply proved by the effect of tariff
tax legislation on manufacturing in-
dustries. The same men who depre-
cate legislation for the farm relief
advocate it for protection of manu-
facturers. The day the President ve-
toed the farm relief bill he approv-
ed .a measure. providing - for liberal
bonusses for ship builders. This dis-
crimination needs explanation.
——Pleading guilty is an easy way
for grafters to break the chain of evi-
dence that is leading too close to the
higher-ups. Most of the Philadelphia
grafters are likely to adopt that
method.
What Price Centralization?
For the past few years our State
government has been directed with
alarming rapidity toward the cen-
tralization of its functions in the
hands of a few men, the heads of
bureaus. Local government and !o-
cal administration, will in a relative-
ly short time become completely sub-
merged if we follow the path along
which we are traveling at the present
time.
We are fast becoming a “rubber
stamp” government rather than a
government “of the people.” How this
menace has directly affected us re-
cently, can be demonstrated by a few
of the measures passed at the last
two sesions of the Legislature:
First, the change of the House
Rules so as to substantially prevent
minority members of the committees
from bringing proposed bills on the
floor of the House and before the
public eye.
Second, allowing bureaus, such as
the Highway Department, to create
penal offenses by their fiat, without
legislative enactment.
Third, condemnation of private
property without knowledge of the
owner, and without compensation be-
ing paid to the owner for its con-
demnation.
Fourth, placing in the hands of a
small body of men practically the en-
tire control and regulation of the
killing of the wild game which by law
belongs to the people of the Com-
monwealth as a whole.
Fifth, the diversion of taxes from
the localities in which they are col-
lected and needed, and placing them
in the hands of centralized bureaus
for expenditure, without regard to
local necessity.
Other changes in our government,
less significant than those set forth
above, might augment this list to
considerable proportions. These that
we have mentioned, however, are not
simply dangerous from a point of
policy, but have actually become an
abuse.
In later issues we will discuss
these problems more particularly and
the effects of each. We shall also
inform the people of Centre county
what part their Representative in
the Legislature played when these
matters were before him for adoption
or rejection. '
STEER.
Problems in Farm Economics. : Bellefonter Completes Thirty Years
With Telephone Company.
Thirty years of continuous service
in the telephone industry was com- |
pleted on Monday by John Tonner!
Harris, vice president and general
manager of the central area of the
Bell Telephone Company of Pennsyl-
vania, whose headquarters are in
Harrisburg.
It was shortly after he had been’
graduated from Pennsylvania State
College, in 1897, that Mr. Harris ob-
tained employment in the plant de-
partment of the Telephone company,
and during the three decades that
since have elapsed he has risen by
progressive stages to his present im-
portant post. The Central area of
the company embraces, roughly, all
the territory between Altoona and
Reading and between the northern
and southern boundaries of the State.
Mr. Harris directs the activities of
3,800 employees in this large section
of Pennsylvania.
A son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry P.
Harris, he was born October 29, 1876,
in Bellefonte, and after completing
his public school education entered
Penn State. He began his telephone
career at Altoona with what was then
the Central Pennsylvania Telephone
and Supply company. He was ap-
pointed district manager for the com-
pany at Philipsburg January 1st,
1900, and was transferred to Altoona
as local manager a year later. He
remained in that post for six years.
He then was appointed traffic super-
intendent for the Pennsylvania Tele-
phone company, at Harrisburg, in
January, 1907, and during the follow-
ing year was made division traffic
manager for the then newly-organiz-
ed Bell Telephone Company of Penn-
sylvania. In this capacity he had
charge of the operating forces in the
entire Harrisburg division. In 1920
he was transferred to a correspond-
ing office in the Pittsburgh division.
He was appointed general traffic
manager at Philadelphia in March,
1923, and held that position until May
1, 1926, when he was transferred to
the central area as general manager.
His title was changed to that of vice
president and general manager Au-
gust 25, 1927. ; 3
His duties as an executive of the
company take him to all parts of the
presides, and he is widely known
large telephone area over which he
throughout Central Pennsylvania.
—When Andrew Curtin Thompson
goes to the Legislature we're going
to urge him to introduce a bill that
will relieve counties like ours of the
expense of printing ballots that are
not necessary at all. In order to pro-
vide space for candidates for whose
party there hasn’t been a single reg-
istrant in Centre county the ballot
here will have to be of blanket size.
It will cost the county at least nine-
teen hundred dollars to print it. In
addition, the Sheriff’s election procla-
mation, because of its size, will cost
at least $2317.60——probably twice
as much——. It’s robbery. Not that
the print shops and the newspapers
will charge one cent more than their
regular rates, but there is a lot cf
needless State printing and adver-
tising. Why? Simply because it is
a form of subsidization, and, unfor-
tunately, there are not enough hon-
est and unselfish newspapers in the
country to protest against such need-
less waste of the taxpayer's money.
—An Iowa farmer’s daughter is
for Smith not only because she wants
to see a smile in the White House
but because she “wants to see a smile
in the farm house.” What a psychol-
ogist this girl is. Smiles come from
the heart. You never saw a cruel or
selfish heart smile with a ring that
you knew was true. Look at Al
Smith’s face. If you know anything
at all of physiognomy you will know
that there isn’t a line furrowed there
that indicates anything but good will
for every person and every thing
about him.
——Tomorrow at 2:30 p. m. station
W. P. S. C., will broadcast the State-
Bucknell foot-ball game, play by
play. State College is easy to get
on your radio and it has been our =x-
perience that reception from W. P. S.
C. is fine.
——H. T. Craven, of the Philadel-
phia Record, is worried about the
whereabouts of Vice President Dawes,
and by the same token somebody
ought to say something concerning
the present location of Tom Cunning-
ham.
——Mayor Mackey laid the lines
for graft when he turned the police
of Philadelphia over to the political
leaders. Maybe when the graft is
traced to its destination his reasons
will be revealed.
—Subseribe for the Watchman,
_SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
| —Suit to recover $5000 damages has been
brought by Miss Mary Carns, a Newport
' school teaclier, against R. W. Berger, be-
| cause of an automobile accident at Amity
! Hall, last May, in which Miss Carns al-
! leged she was badly injured and her face
| disfigured.
i —Mrs. Frances C. Jakabcin, of Reading,
i recently re-elected supreme president of
! the First Catholic Slovak Ladies Union
| of America for the tenth successive year,
| has refused a cash gift of $1000 voted her
' by the directors. She heads an organiza-
| tion of more than 50,000 women, with
i many more in junior bodies.
| —More than a “million dollars” in cur-
{ rency rests at the bottom of a pulp pit in
| the mill of the Schmidt and Ault Paper
' Company, at York, Pa. The paper money
and bonds were sold by the Farmers’
{ Trust company, Lancaster, as junk. They
! were issued by the Confederate gov-
ernment during the Civil war.
—Dr. George H. Ashley, State geologist,
says that Pennsylvania's culm and silt
. banks in the anthracite region are worth
$200,000,000. Dr. Ashley’s statement fol-
lows a survey of the situation, just com-
pleted. Culm and silt banks are refuse
rock and dirt piled up from mine exca-
| vations. Coal in small sizes is mixed with
the cast-off earth.
—Struck by a trolley car in Lock Ha-
ven on Thursday, while coasting in his
i toy wagon, 5-year old Norman Gehret, son
| of Mr. and Mrs. John Gehret, Bennage
: Heights, was critically injured and died
the same night in the Lock Haven hospi-
tal without regaining consciousness. The
child crashed into the car, which crushed
his arm and shoulder and injured his
head, before the motorman could stop the
trolley.
—Laning Harvey, of Luzerne county,
Republican nominee for the State Senate
and former State Game Commissioner, has
offered a reward of $500 for the arrest
and conviction of the highwaymen who
shot and seriously wounded George Meiss,
State game warden, of Forty Fort, and
Harry Hyman or the Nescopeck Moun-
tain last Tuesday night. They are both
in Hazleton State hospital in a serious
condition.
—Vandals broke into the Presbyterian
church at Vira, Pa., broke off the stops
of the organ, cut the cords of the piano,
wrecked the church clock, tampered with
the electric lighting system, and tossed
the large Bible from the pulpit and wiped
the floor with it. The church was never
locked and had just been renovated
throughout at a heavy expense. Officers
expect to make arrests before the end
of the week.
—After 23 years spent behind the bars,
James Salerno, oldest “lifer” in the east-
ern penitentiary, has been pardoned. He
is 76. The State Board of Pardons rec-
ommended a pardon for Salerno, who was
originally sentenced in 1905 to be hanged
for the murder of his step-daughter in Ly-
coming county. The death sentence was
subsequently commuted to life imprison-
ment. Three previous applications for
pardon were rejected by the board.
—Walter Bagnel, aged 35, who a few
weeks ago took over the management of
the Kline hotel at Mi®dletown, Pa., was
found hanging from a rafter in a barn
in the rear of the structure. Despondency
over the death of his wife about a year
ago is believed to have been responsible
for the act. Bagnel went to Middletown
from Bultinore; “Md. The Kiine ‘hotel is
owned by Harry Kline, who went to Mid-
dletown from Bellefonte over forty years
ago and had had personal charge of it
up until a few weeks ago.
—Officials of the Harrisburg Welfare as-
sociation are looking for a man who a few
days ago opened an account at a Harris-
burg bank with a deposit of $2,000.01 and
then drew a check for $2,000 on the ac-
count. He gave the check for the money
to the association. They are looking for
the man to thank him, for he had deposit-
ed the $2,000.01 in crisp green and yellow-
backed bills and a copper penny. The
check conveying the money was accom-
panied by a note signed a friend. In-
vestigation has revealed that the name
and address given by the man when he
opened the account were fictitious. The
bank honored the check, however, and the
association has its money.
—Secretary of Highways James Lyall
Stuart has decided that the operation of
ice cream trucks and similar vehicles,
dripping salt water upon pavements of
Pennsylvania highways, will not be per-
mitted, and that, unless such trucks are
constructed to prevent dripping, the own-
ers will be prosecuted for violation of the
motor vehicle code. Laboratory tests of
the Department of Highways have con-
clusively demonstrated that sodium chlor-
ide, or common salt, has an injurious
effect upon concrete, and highway offi-
cials have taken this action to prevent de-
terioration through the dripping of salt
water from ice cream trucks or other ve-
hicles carrying salt water.
Because her husband is in prison and
her three children are in a charity home
Mrs. Ida Rinehart, 21, of York county,
wanted to die. She swallowed some poi-
son but officials at the York hospital say
she will recover. The young mother was
found in Farqualar park, York, Pa, in
apparent agony from the effects of the
poisoning. Mrs. Harry Billet, the girl's
mother, said that her daughter left home
Tuesday, asserting that she was not com-
ing back. She returned home the same
night and was denie¢ admission to the
house. Nothing more was heard of the
woman until she was found ill in the park.
The parents claim that Mrs. Rinehart is
beyond their control and that they have
no interest in her future,
—Alleged to have filched John C. Sny-
der, contractor on the new Altoona High
school annex, of lumber and copper valued
at more than $2,000, H. T. Thomas and J.
BE. Helsel have been arrested and each is
held under $2,000 bail to await hearing be-
fore Robert A. Conrad, alderman. Accord-
ing to Snyder and Gill, Helsel had been
given a subcontract as drayman on the
job. Thomas was the foreman. They
combined, the plaintiff alleged in his in-
formation, to systematically steal supplies
belonging to Snyder. Snyder places his
loss at $2,150 and declared in making the
information that such estimate is “very
conservative.” In investigation it was
learned, the officer says, that much of the
copper, valued at $1150 was sold in the city
to junk dealers. Several persons who had
bought the metal produced cancelled
checks, which they contend were tendered
in payment. Helsel denies all knowledge
of the theft or that he was associated with
Thomas in any way.