Ben
INK SLINGS.
—The Hon. Holmes’ made a very
graceful speech at the banquet of the
‘League of Women Voters, but he had
an awful time trying to make it ap-
pear that it was he who got the ap-
propriations for Centre county insti-
‘tutions without the assistance of Sec-
retary Dorworth. Of course he didn’t
say just that. But that is what he
wanted those who were there to be-
lieve.
—If you are against any of the
amendments don’t fail to vote “No”
on them. Keep this in your head: A
majority of the votes in favor of an
amendment carries it. If you are
against any of them vote “No,” be-
cause those who are in favor of them
are organized and will vote “yes”
and a very few yes’s might put one
of the amendments over if those who
are opposed to them think it won’t be
necessary to mark their opposition on
the ballot.
—Herbert Hoover is a strange man
to stand silently by while his cam-
paign ballyhooers are charging that
the administration of the man who
made him was not efficient. We are
being very charitable, indeed, by
merely saying that he is strange,
when he points with pride to an ad-
ministration that failed to condemn or
even rebuke such rotten betrayers of
trust as were Fall, Miller, Forbes,
Stephenson, Florence Knapp, Daugh-
erty, McCay, Sinclair, Denby, New-
berry, Hayes, Smith, Jackson, Small
and so on ad finitum.
—In other words, the idea of vot-
ing for a new tax of $17,000 on the
people of Centre county for a travel-
ing library means $2,000 a year for
books and $15,000 for librarians, au-
tomobiles, tires, gas and chaffeurs to
peddle them around to five per cent.
of the people who will read them.
The next thing we know a lot of anil-
ists will be advocating a tax to haul
lolly-pops and ice cream cones around
to everybody’s front door. It’s ridic-
wlous, of course, but the other nine-
ity-five per cent. wouldn’t trade one
lolly for a yard of books, so what's
‘the use?
—Several weeks ago we confessed
that we have no expectation of prof-
it from the election of either Smith
or Hoover. Letters on the desk prove
that often we expect what we don’t
get and get what we don’t expect.
Mrs. James, the Lake Helen, Florida,
lady who tore us out so unmercifully
has repented and is going to send us
a box of oranges if Hoover is elected.
And Charles Potter Miller writes from
Beverly, California, to say that he is
going to make us post-master if
Smith is elected. So we've got ’em
going and coming. And. isn’t it nice
that Mrs. James didn’t select lemons
as the best expression of her olive
‘branch.
—The Mr. McCabe, the gentleman
who made the very interesting appeal
‘to get out the vote at the banquet of
the League of Women Voters, had his
figures well in hand. He showed up
the delinquents in Philipsburg, Belle-
fonte and State College. Even after
Mr. McCabe was introduced we didn’t
know him from a side of sole-leather.
Such is our obtuseness as to what is
going on in Centre county. Notwith-
standing the fact that he never utter-
ed the word “Republican” or “Demo-
«crat” we knew, however, before he had
gone far with his carefully prepared
and forcibly presented talk that he was
a Republican hynotist. If he is mere-
ly a non partisan statistician why
didn’t he carry his message over into
Pennsvalley where all are Democrats
and only forty per cent. of the vote
usually gets out? Why were Philips-
burg, Bellefonte and State College—
all Republican strongholds—the Uto-
pias of Mr. McCabe? We know.
Mr. McCabe is the fox. So bungling
a fox that he stated that “Christo-
pher Columbus,” a Catholic, brought
“the spirit of liberty to America”
while at the same time he knew .e
was urging Republicans to get out to
vote against Al Smith because he
happened to be born in the same faith
that Chris was.
—The greatest kick we got out of
the dinner given by the League of
Women Voters last Thursday night
was when we nearly went cockeyed
watching one of the hoipoloi har-
pooning bread at one table and one
of the intelligentsia gesticulating with
his fork at another. We know we're
shallow and trifling, but we just can't
resist certain silly reactions we have.
Now when Judge Fleming facetious-
lv referred to Al Smith’s brown der-
by we had an entirely different reac-
tion. If the Judge had listened in to
the sermon preached in the chapel at
State College Sunday morning he
would have heard a Jewish Rabbi say
something that might have shown
him how little he knows of the man-,
ner in which character and force ex-
press themselves. Al Smith’s brown
derby might mean just the same to him
—no more, no less—than the white
string tie that the man who edited
this paper for fifty-seven years meant
to him. Both little sartorial idiosyn-
crasies mean strength of character.
We can’t say, however, that
it was strength of character
that prompted a lot of Bellefonters
to put on white plug hats one time
and journey out to Canton, Ohio, and
wave them at a “front porch.” The
Judge has our admiration and re-
spect. We just couldn’t laugh at
him. We knew he wasn’t old enough
to remember who wore the white
plugs on that pilgrimage to Canton.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 73.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. OCTOBER 19. 19%
NO. 41.
Governor Smith’s Tariff Views.
In his very forceful speech at
Louisville, Kentucky, on Saturday
evening, Governor Smith made his
ideas on tariff legislation entirely
clear. “First,” he said, “I believe
that the tariff should be taken out of
politics and treated as a business and
economic problem. Second, I believe
in the Democratic platform, which
recognizes that the high wages and
constructive policies established by
Woodrow Wilson and the business
prosperity resulting from them com-
mitted the Democratic party to tar-
iff. Third, I condemn the Republican
policy of leaving the farmer outside
our protective walls. Fourth, I re-
gard general tariff legislation as pro-
ductive of log-rolling, business con-
to the American working man that
the Democratic party will not do a
single thing that will take from his
pay envelope a five cent piece.”
These are the salient features of a
pledge solemnly made to the voters of
the country by a man who never fails
to keep his promises. If he had
stopped there his pledge would have
served to completely refute the pre-
posterous statements of Herbert
Hoover and otsher Republican spokes-
men that Democratic success would
mean industrial paralysis and com-
merical distress. But he went fur-
ther. He declared for a tariff commis-
sion composed of fit men, absolutely
free from partnership or prejudice,
to recommend to Congress needed
changes in tariff schedules and
prompt and periodical publication: of
its reports. This would eliminate the
“packing” of the commission and the
suppression of its findings, as has
been done repeatedly by President
Coolidge when the recommendations
of the commission failed to meet his
favor.
Finally, Governor Smith proclaimed
to the world that he will oppose with
all the vigor he can command, “the
making of the tariff a shelter of ex-
tortion and favoritism or any attempt
to use the favor of the government
for the purpose of repaying political
debts or obligations.” The present
tariff law and all its predecessors
| framed diider Republican auspices
were not intended to protect legiti-
mate industry or conserve the inter-
ests of wage earners but to reimburse
generous contributors to the campaign
slush fund. In testifying before the
Senate Slush Fund committee inves-
tigating the Senatorial election in this
State in 1926, Joe Grundy practically
admitted that fact. The success of
the Democratic party in the ap-
proaching election will end the im-
moral and disgraceful practice for all
time.
Mayor Mackey’s Part in the Affair.
When Harry Mackey was a candi-
date for Mayor he openly declared
that the police department of Phila-
delphia was saturated with crime and
graft. He said he knew every grafter
on the force and the source of their
levy. Recent events have fully cor-
roborated his charge of corruption.
As he had managed Vare’s campaign
for Senator the year previous it may be
assumed that he was equally accurate
in his statement as to the source of the
graft. Tom Cunningham, now sher-
iff of Philadelphia county, contribut-
ed vastly in excess of his resources
to the Vare slush fund and though
he refused to tell the Senate com-
mittee where he got the money he
was probably more frank with the
campaign manager who disbursed it,
While Mr. Mackey made no direct
pledge that in the event of his elec-
tion to the office of Mayor he would
eliminate the crimes and graft from
the police department, such a prom-
ise was plainly implied and the op-
portunity was certainly present. But
instead of doing so Mayor Mackey
so arranged the force as to make
grafting easier, safer and more cer-
tain. He made the police officials ab-
solutely subservient to ward party
leaders and inferentially instructed
the leaders to go the limit in protect-
ing saloon keepers, bootleggers and
other criminals in consideration of
bribes to be divided between the col-
lecting agents and the campaign
treasury, in proportions not yet re-
vealed.
In view of these facts the apparent
efforts of those now endeavoring to
expose the evil to shield Mr. Mackey
from blame are futile and may as well
be abandoned. He may not have re-
ceived any part of the tainted money
but he has aspirations which may be
greatly promoted by a well filled cam-
paign chest. There was corruption
before he became Mayor and the Cun-
ningham contribution to the Vare
stush fund shows that it served its
purpose. But the evidence brought
out in the pending investigation
proves that it wag trifling compared
with the operations since he became
head of the municipal government
and winked at the partnership be-
tween politics and crime.
fusion and uncertainty. Fifth, I say |
William Draper Lewis for Smith.
Every lawyer in Pennsylvania
knows William Draper Lewis, «of
| Philadelphia. For many years he was
I dean of the Pennsylvania University
I law school and the associate of Geo.
| Wharton Pepper in the preparation
i and publication of Pepper and Lewis’
; Digest of the laws of Pennsylvania.
; Most of the laymen of the State know
‘Mr. Lewis. He was active in all
movements for civic improvements in
| the city and State for years, and in
11914 was the candidate of the Pro-
gressive, or Roosevelt, party for Gov-
ernor of Pennsylvania. The clergy
{ of Pennsylvania know him because he
| has invariably stood among the lead-
ers for civic advancement and moral
i improvement.
Mr. Lewis had been a Republican
{up until the “first three months of
| the Harding administration,” to quote
‘his own language. Since that time
| he has been an independent “looking
| for a non-radical but constructively
i liberal party.” The nomination of
Governor Smith for President has
solved the problem for him and he
states that he will vote for the Dem-
ocratic candidate “because he is a
leader of tested political moral cour-
age. The country needs as Presi-
dent,” he adds, “a leader of men'cap-
able of giving to the rest of us ideals
of a prosperous American that will
be something better than merely
prosperous. Governor Smith’s inter-
est in others as human beings, the
record of what he has done in New
York to improve the public ideals of
public service and his power to in-
terest us in public’ questions makes
me confident that in him we have
that kind of a leader.”
William Draper Lewis is a man of
mature judgment, wide experience in
public affairs, and strong reasoning
power. Three months of the Harding
administration satisfied him that
there is no hope for real progress in
the country so long as emissaries of
monopoly and instruments of corpor-
ate greed remain in control of the
government at Washington. Cool-
idge continued the Harding policies
and Hoover promises to perpetuate
them in the event of his election. In-{
telligent and patriotic men cannot
stand for such a prospect and Mr.
Lewis points the way to avert it. He
was a friend and follower of Theo-
dore Roosevelt and acts as he thinks
Roosevelt would have acted.
The tariff issue has also failed
of its purpose. Governor Smith’s
Louisville speech knocked it “into a
cocked hat.”
Pertinent Questions to Governor
Fisher.
The evidence that the Republican
leaders in this State are in a panic
continues to grow. Last week Gov-
ernor Fisher and State chairman Mar-
tin visited William S. Vare, in his
Atlantic City home, and begged him
to save the party from defeat. Only
a trifle more than two years ago Mr.
Fisher was publicly denouncing Mr.
Vare as a political wastrel without
principle or character. Now he is
practically on his knees praying for
his help in a desperate effort to car-
ry the banner Republican State for
the candidate of his party for Presi-
dent. Imagine the spectacle of the
Governor of a great State thus plead-
ing before a disciedited political boss
helpless in his sick chamber.
“To what base uses may we re-
turn, Horatio! Why not imagination
trace the noble dust of Alexander till
he find it stopping a bung hole?”
When Vare was a candidate for Sen-
ator Mr. Fisher repeatedly said he
represented nothing but a beer mug.
Now, though reduced by infirmity to
a physical wreck, he is recognized as
the only instrument of saving the
party from impending bankruptcy and
the Governor of the State becomes
the messenger of the machine to urge
him to action. Has the great office
of Governor of Pennsylvania ever be-
fore been so prostituted? Has the
decent impulses of the people of
Pennsylvania ever before been so
glaringly outraged?
And how does Governor Fisher ex-
pect Mr. Vare to save the party from
defeat? There is only one way with
which Mr. Vare is familiar to build
up majorities for the Republican par-
ty in Philadelphia, and that is fraudu-
lent voting and false returns of the
vote. Does the Governor of Pennsyl-
vania want Mr. Vare to invoke the
methods which have already sent a
number of his henchmen to prison
and ought to have sent many others
there? And how does Governor
Fisher intend to recompense Mr. Vare
for putting his life as well as his
liberty in jeopardy by saving the par-
ty by fraud? Is he giving Mr. Vare
the promise of a seat in the Senate?
These are pertinent questions.
The vote on the voting machine
constitutional amendment will irdi-
cate whether or not the voters of
Pennsylvania favor honest elections.
Will Centre County Support Nefari-
ous Game Law?
We promised in our columns last
week to tell the voters of Centre
county what part our representative
in the General Assembly, the last two
sessions, has played in protecting our
county from the deadening effect of
overripe centralization of power. It
was interesting to note that in an
open letter to the Keystone Gazette,
last week, someone by the name of D.
Glenn Moore, anticipated our ex-
planation on one of the propositions,
and began offering excuses for Mr.
Holmes before we could even tell
about his vote upon the game bill.
Prior to the session of the Legisla-
ture in 1925, it was possible in differ-
ent localities to have a special doe
season not exceeding three days,
when conditions warranted it. But
how was this to be done? Two hun-
dred citizens of a county desiring to
have a special season, petitioned the
game commission, setting forth that
the game had become a nuisance.
Ninety days before such special sea-
son opened, this application was re-
quired by law to be advertised for
three weeks in two county papers.
This gave every citizen of the county
affected a chance to raise a voice of
protest or approval as he chose.
By Act of Assembly, dated May 14,
1925, P. L. 752, the game code was so
amended that “upon information ob-
tained by the board” deer without
visible antlers may be killed for a
special season” “of such length as the
board may deem advisable.” The
ninety day advertisement was reduc-
ed to thirty days, making organized
protest pratically impossible. Loeal
choice is now entirely eliminated.
Certainly Mr. Holmes did not vote
for the game code of 1923, but he did
vote for the nefarious amendment of
1925, and cannot relieve himself of
the responsibility. To date more
than 56000 special doe licenses have
been issued, over two-thirds of which
have been issued to non-residents. If
the people of Centre county want an
open season for does they should have
it, but it should not be thrust down
their throats without having a voice
in the matter. A representative who
(V3tés to take away the voice of his
constituency in a matter of local im-
portance is not a representative at all.
The people of Centre county want
a man who will at all times work for
the best interests of Centre county,
and for strict home rule in all mat-
ters of local concern, hence, we be-
lieve, they will cast their ballot for
Andrew Curtin Thompson.
——The “whispering campaign” has
proved a failure and its sponsors are
now trying to get away from it.
Chairman Work Proved a Falsifier.
We have been waiting more or less
patiently for some weeks for chair-
man Work, of the Republican Nation-
al committee, to reply to the letter
of chairman Raskob, of the Demo-
cratic National committee, bearing
date of October 7th. On September
28th Mr. Work stated that Governor
Smith, in a public speech, had “de-
clared that the Underwood tariff act
embodied the ideal method of hand-
ling tariff legislation.” Mr. Raskob
denounced the statement as a delib-
erate falsehood and added “it is not
true, as you very well know, that Gov-
ernor Smith ever declared that.” In
other words the statement of Mr.
Work was not only a deliberate but
a malicious lie. It was reasonable to
expect a response to that charge.
Just as our hope for gach an ex-
planation from Mr. Work as would
exculpate him from deliberately and
maliciously “bearing false witness,”
was approaching the vanishing point
the information comes that Congress-
man Good, of Iowa, western manager
of the Hoover campaign, has written
to Mr. Work advising him to make no
reply to Raskob. It was a needless
service. Mr. Raskob had completely
proved his charge by quoting the ex-
act language of Governor Smith on
the subject which was not even near
like that attributed to him by chair-
man Work. The only reply that could
possibly be made was an acknowl-
edgement of a grave offense and an
apology for committing it, and Work
isn’t that type of citizen.
The truth is that one of the most
startling developments of the cam-
paign is proof positive that Mr. Hu-
bert Work, chairman of the Republi-
can National committee, is not only
a notorious liar but an arrant hyp-
ocrite. While ostentatiously professing
detestation of the “whispering cam-
paign” he is suspicioned of maintain-
ing and financing a bureau for the cir-
culation of campaign literature too in-
decent to be distributed through the
mails and which is being circulated by
free delivery through messengers. We
have had dirty campaigns before in the
political history of the country but
none has been so flagrantly outra-
geous as that now in progress, and it
is fair to assume that chairman Work
is largely responsible for it.
; Put the Farm Problem Into Com-
petent Hands.
From the Philadelphia Record.
From the language of the Repub-
lican national platform we gather the
impression that ‘God in His infinite
wisdom has conferred upon the Re-
publican party a monoply of con-
structive statesmanship. If we be-
lieve in the statements solemnly
! made in that immortal document only
Republicans are competent to gov-
ern; they only can guide the nation
along the paths of progress; they hold
the keys to individual happiness and
general prosperity.
Let us check up on this widely-ac-
cepted assumption.
For 16 years prior to 1913 the Re-
publican party was in undisputed
control of the executive and legisla-
tive branches of the Government.
In all that period the chief source
of governmental weakness lay in an
unstable financial system. ough
four successive Republican Adminis-
trations futile efforts were made to
solve the complicated problems of
currency and banking.
In 1913 the Democrats came into
power. They promptly enacted, un-
der the leadership of Woodrow Wil-
son, the Federal Reserve law, ac-
knowledged to be—when no Presiden-
tial campaigns are pending—the most
successful and soundest financial
measure in the history of the coun-
try.
After eight years of Democratic
rule the Republican party was given
another chance to demonstrate its
capacity. It was almost immediate-
ly confronted with the necessity of
stabilizing agriculture, just as the
Democrats had stabilized finance. Its Hivanit of Gladrs. Midms Hater, 5 orn
efforts have resulted, as in the case
of banking, in disagreements, bicker-
ings and miserable failure.
What is there in the Republican
record to justify the belief that the
Republican party is better fitted than
the Democratic party to devise work-
able measures for the relief of the
farmer? Is demonstrated incompet-
ence a recommendation? Are brok-
en promises a guarantee?
In the mills and factories of the
East these questions are worthy of
serious consideration. Agricultural
prosperity is essential to industrial
prosperity. The farmer is the manu-
facturer’s best customer. He is im-
Joverished. He must be set on his
ee : pigs 50 AE vr
The farmer's problem is every-
body's problem. It demands prompt
and effective solution. The party
which created the Federal Reserve
System, after long years of Republi-
can effort had failed, is best quali-
fied to rescue agriculture, Republi-
can claims to omuiscience to the con-
trary notwithstanding.
—— A rt ——
Mrs. Willebrandt and Hoover.
From the DuBois Express
When Herbert Hoover entered the
campaign for President of the United
States it was announced in his behalf
that he would make few speeches
himself, but would rely in great meas-
ure for success upon the work ac-
complished by the lesser lights of the
Republican party. It was not to be
exactly a front-porch fight, as it was
in the days of William McKinley, and
as it was, in a lesser degree, in the
later days of Warren Harding, but a
fight in which the lieutenants were to
stand the brunt of battle, carrying
the party banner along lines prescrib-
ed by the commander-in-chief.
This strategy puts up to Herbert
Hoover the character of the fighting.
Those American citizens who would
like to think the best of the Republi-
can standard-bearer, whether they in-
tend to vote for him or not, have long
been wondering whether he approves
of such tactics as those pursued by
Mrs. Mabel Willebrandt, assistant at-
torney general. It would be idle to
speak further of her antics to Dr.
Hubert Work, Republican national
chairman, and, as such, manager of
the Hoover campaign. He says he
does not know when “she (Mrs.
Willebrandt) speaks, where she
speaks or anything about it.” Dr.
Work obviously does not care to be
bothered about the matter. He told
one reporter that he had not read
what Mrs. Willebrandt was saying,
and would not have time to until
after the election.
Cause for Removal.
From The Chicago Tribune.
In one instance Governor Smith
scores soundly and that is in his ref-
erence to Mrs. Mabel Willebrandt,
assistant Attorney-General, who has
been given so much to do in the pro-
hibition enforcement. In what she
said to the Ohio Methodist confer-
ence, by any construction of her lan-
guage, she appealed to religious prej-
udices and urged that they be stirred
and used against the Democratic
candidate. It is an act for which an
official should be removed from office.
Governor Smith says that the silence
of the administration gives sanction,
and that stands as an effective charge
ig it is answered equally effective-
vy.
——1If Hoover would tell the pub-
lic how he proposes to work out the
results he promises to achieve the
public would have a better chance to
appraise the value of his promises.
———Subscribe for the Watchman.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Forty-five years as organist of the
First Methodist church, at Bloomsburg,
one of the largest in the Central Pennsyl-
vania Conference, have been rounded out
by Mrs. Fred Holmes.
—'"Stop—Through Traffic” signs have
proved so effective, according to Samuel
Eckels, chief engineer of the State High-
way Department, that 5000 additional
miles of highway will be designated as
through highways.
—Mrs. Eva G. Stiger, 36, of South Re-
novo, near Lock Haven, committed sui-
cide on Sunday by drinking a cup of poi-
son. She walked a block from her home,
entered an old automobile standing there
and drank the poison. She died in fifteen
minutés. :
—Autumn is the proper time to fall
from houses. John Bolek, Marion Heights,
was repairing his house roof when he
slipped, rolled off the roof, landed 10 feet
below on his porch roof, then fell to the
ground, where he dropped on a pile of
soft dry leaves, escaping with injuries to
his right shoulder.
—Daniel Harman, 85, of Berwick, failed
in an attempt to commit suicide on Tues-
day, when a thin rope with which he
tried to hang himself broke. He was un-
conscious when found on the ground by
his daughter-in-law. Mrs. John Harman.
and suffered considerably from shock and
exposure, but is expected to recover.
—Lycoming county has a record of 104
divorces granted - and = 488 mariage li-
censes issued in nine months of the year,
up to October 1. The approximate propor-
tion of one divorce to every five marriages
in 1928 has been true for the last few
years, although in the last ten years, a
steady increase in the number of divorces
has been noticed in the county in general.
—In order that there would be no con-
t. oversy over his estate after his death
Moses Ross Thomas, founder of Thomas-
dale, Fayette county, called his heirs to-
gether, last week, at his home and ap-
portioned his estate. Thomas is in his
82nd year and says he expects to live to
be 100. He is in fine health. Most of his
time is spent in fishing and gardening.
—Mrs. John Gresko, of Upper Potts-
grove, Montgomery county, went to a
small pond near her home for a bucket
of water. As she stooped over the water's
edge powerful jaws snapped at her hands.
Her screams brought her husband, who
armed himself with a shotgun and went
on watch. After an hour’s wait he cap-
tured a two-foot alligator. The presence
of the saurian in the pond is a mystery.
—A sixth finger was removed from each
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Har-
er, residing near Williamsport, the opera-
tion being performed at the Williamsport
hospital. The child also has six toes on
each foot but in this case an operation is
not necessary. Their 15 year old son was
also born with six fingers and six toes,
having the extra digits removed when he
was a few weeks old.
—Fire badly damaged the Kappa Sigma
Fraternity House, a three-story frame
dwelling on the edge of Bucknell Univer-
sity campus, on Tuesday. Thirty students
were routed from their beds. The stu-
dent’s personal belongings and the furnish-
ings of the house were saved. Damage
to the house was estimated at $6,000.
Students assisted the local fire department
in extinguishimg the blaze, which was
caused by a defective flue.
—Application of Harry R. Deeter doing
business as the West Branch Transit com-
pany to operate a group and party bus
service between Watsontown and Mifflin-
burg was denied on Monday by the Pub-
lic Service Commission. The commission
however, gave Deeter permission to run
his busses between Lewisburg and Mifflin-
burg. Deeter’s application was protested
by the Smith Transportation Company,
which operates a group and party service
from Watsontown to Milton.
—The building committee of the board
of trustees of Gettysburg College have
selected the plan for a new library build-
ing, to be erected on the campus. The
new building will stand where Cottage
Hall, the smallest dormitory on the cam-
pus, now stands, and the work of razing
this old frame building will be started at
once. The library is the gift to the col-
lege of Rev. Dr. H. H. Weber, of York, in
memory of his wife, and will be known as
the M. Emma Weber Memorial Library.
—The nine-mile detour between Thomp-
sontown and Mifflintown, on the William
Penn highway, will be lifted within the
next six weeks, the State Highway De-
partment announced on Friday. Four
miles of the new paving have been com-
pleted. Included in the improvements in
the nine-mile stretch are relocation of the
roadway for a short distance, construction
of a forty-five-foot span of bridge, recon-
struction of four other smaller bridges
and a six-foot culvert. The entire stretch
of new paving is eighteen feet wide.
—Homesick and desiring to chat with
members of the Uniontown police force
“just to see how things were going in
Uniontown,” Edward Woods, formerly of
that city, but for the last six months a
resident of California, on Saturday night
spent about $34 for a telephone converia-
tion from Los Angeles. He said he had
just come from the beach, where he min-
gled with movie actors and actresses, and
became lonesome. His first minute’s con-
versation cost him $6, with $2 for each
succeeding minute. He talked about fif-
teen minutes.
—After pleading guilty to a charge of
embezzling $15,000 from the State Teach-
ers’ college at West Chester, on Monday,
Dorothy Currey, 24, former stenographer-
clerk, was sentenced to an indefinite term
in the Woman’s Industrial home, Muncy,
Pa. The sentence was imposed by Judges:
Frank E. Hause and William Bulter Win-
dle, after proceedings which occupied only
15 minutes. Miss Currey made no state-
ment to the court, but a plea for clemency
was made by her counsel, J. Paul McCel-
ree. Miss Currey heard her sentence ap-
parently unmoved. She was held in $1,000
bail pending her removal to the home.
—Flames believed to have originated
from men and boys stealing into the
buildings to play poker and smoke, caus-
ed the loss of $10,000 at Lewistown, last
Friday. The first fire occurred at the
Hower Lumber company’s sheds in the
Hollywood section when the buildings and
six cars of yellow pine lumber were de-
stroyed with a loss of $4,000. The second
blaze was at the barn at Juniata Terrace,
owned by the Viscose company and leased
by Cloyd Shade. The loss on the build-
ing was $1000 and 700 bushels of wheat,
600 of oats and 50 tons of hay were burn
ed, the loss being estimated at $5000.