INK SLINGS.
—_And after reading that it was the
“Pea river that caused that disastrous |
flood in Alabama you ask: od
in a name?”
—Taking the tax off anthracite
isn’t going to impress many as jus-
tification for putting more tax on gas-
oline. Especially those who don't
use anthracite coal.
—As per the calendar spring is
‘here. We won't believe it, however,
until we've had the saplin benders,”
the “poor man’s manure,” the ‘‘rob-
in” and the “onion snow.”
—Occupants of apartments that |
‘have nothing more than wall board
partitions can expect the family
skeletons to be parading all over the
place unless they put in sound proof
closets to keep them in. :
—We don’t know what our Metho-
dist brethren of Malvern church,
Philadelphia, are fighting about—nor
do we care. All we have to say is
that 2 Methodist church without a
war department would be as inane
as an Uncle Tom’s Cabin without a
‘Topsy.
—You’d be surprised if we were 10
‘tell you the name of the gentleman
‘who has an idea that he would look
very well sitting in the chair now oc-
.cupied by Senator Harry B. Scott.
We said you would be surprised, but
not nearly as much as we were when
he told us of his ambition. While we
don’t consider this particular aspira-
tion as anything for Senator Scott to
take seriously we do hear that at
least two entries are being groomed
to contest with him in the coming
primaries.
—Reports of deer starving in the
woods of Pennsylvania are finding
their way into metropolitan papers
again. Special investigators of the
State Game Commission have drag-
ged the carcasses of fourteen off Pen-
field mountain in Clearfiela county
and the ballyhoo for another doe kill-
ing orgy is on. Either that or the
‘Commission is still trying to apolo-
gize for last season’s blunder. Does
the fact that fourteen apparently
starved deer have been found prove
anything? If it does why not de-
clare an open season for gypsies be-
cause hundreds of them froze to
death in the Balkans last month dur-
ing the rigors of unusual weather.
And why not kill off a lot of those
Alabamans to save them from another
flood such as they are now having ?
—Inasmuch as onion sets are a
timely subject we shall discuss them
briefly. If you were to buy them now
by the quart undoubtedly you would
get more little onions than you would,
were you to-defer purchase until they
have sprouted in the dealer's con-
tainers and become so bulky that a
few would fill the measure. But the
dealers don’t sell them by the quart,
So one buys them by the pound now.
And that condition of sale provides
the food for the present thought. In
buying onion sets by the pound do
you get as many if the purchase is
‘made before they have sprouted as
you would if you were to wait until
you have dug up your garden and
they have shot up tops an inch or
more long? We're worried about
this. Not that we are wilfully tight,
but we just don’t want to be “gyped”
by a purveyor of onion sets.
-—Governor Fisher has finally an-
nounced that he favors the levying
of a four cent tax on gasoline. This
means that all the power of the ad-
ministration will be used to force the
measure through the Legislature. As
a salve to the users of gasoline it is
stated that the extra cent is only to
be put on for a period of two years.
Let them that will be deceived by
such bunk. The three cent tax is to
be made permanent by the new bill.
‘When the gas tax was only two cents
they put on an extra one, saying that
it would be taken off in two years.
Now they are trying to make it per-
manent and two years from now the
four cent tax will probably be fasten-
ed on us permanently and another ex-
tra added. It seems that Harrisburg
thinks it can fool all of the people
all of the time. Local gas users had
better talk to Senator Scott and Rep-
resentatives Holmes about this.
——Signs point to President Hoov-
ers’ making Washington a new Ar-
mageddon. If he intends doing what
he is purported as planning for the
Watchman shouts Amen ! and turns
a deaf ear to those who will shortly
be yellling: Come down here and help
us. The President is a business man.
‘With him a job is an opportunity for
a person who knows how and has the
will to fill it. Always government
jobs have been looked upon as noth-
ing more nor less than sinecures. It
is not to be wondered at, then, that
Washington is in a panic because the
new President has the revolutionary
idea that a person working for Uncle
Sam should be just as competent and
diligent as if he were working for
Henry Ford, or any other individual
employer. We look with hopeful in-
terest at this second “noble experi-
ment” the President is about to
make; this effort to get a dollar's
worth of service for the country for
every dollar paid for it. It is a dar-
ing adventure and it’s going to be a
mighty delicate operation to perform.
A business administration and a polit-
ical organization have widely diver-
gent ideas on what a job should pro-
duce.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 74.
Woodrow Wilson On Prohibition.
Senator Glass, of Virginia, who
was Secretary of the Treasury during
part of the Woodrow Wilson adminis-
tration, has recently, in an article in
the New York Times, brought the at-
titude of the World war President
lon the question of prohibition into
controversy. During the recent cam-
paign both the wets and the drys set
up claims that his sympathies were
on their side. The fact that he ve-
toed the Volstead act justified the as-
sertion that he was not in accord
with the provisions of that measure
but could hardly stand as evidence
that he was opposed to the Eigh-
teenth amendment. Senator Glass,
who was probably as close in his
confidence as any other man, categor-
ically declares that he approved the
amendment.
There can be no doubt that Wood-
row Wilson was a temperance man,
alike in precept and practice, and the
inference is justified that he favored
any expedient which gave promise of
eliminating or lessening the evil of
drunkenness. For that reason he may
have favored the purpose of the pro-
hibition amendment. But it doesn’t
necessarly follow that he approved
the processes by which the amend-
ment was written into the fundament-
al law or the intrusion into the sov-
ereign rights of the States involved.
Thousands of men and women of the
country are persuaded that this usur-
pation of power by Congress will ul-
timately do more harm than good,
though they are consistent believers
in prohibition.
There is no misunderstanding, how-
ever, as to Mr. Wilson’s attitude on
the Volstead law. His veto of the
measure made that plain, and Sena-
tor Glass’ statement reveals influenc-
ing reasons which were not express-
ed in his mesage of disapproval. Mr.
Wilson realized that the vast expense
and the confusion incident to the di-
vided responsibility of Federal and
State authorities in the enforcement
would destroy the efficiency of both
forces. His idea was that each
agency should remain within its own
province, the Federal authorities to
‘prevent the importation and traffic
across State boundaries and the State
authorities to enforce the law with-
in the State limits. That was the
logical theory.
— The President is having trou-
ble to find men to serve on his pro-.
posed prohibition commission. He
wants to please the prohibitionists
without being too hard on the boot-
leggers.
Political Surprise On Both Ends.
When Senator Sam Salus, of Phila-
delphia, volunteered to sponsor the
city manager bill for that city, a few
weeks ago, a ripple of surprise passed
over the State from the Delaware
river to the Ohio. Senator Sam was
widely known as a hard-boiled polit-
ical gangster and the measure in
question was the product of the Com-
mittee of Seventy and had the ap-
proval of all the civic organizations
of Philadelphia. There was a strong
suspicion of “a nigger in the wood-
pile” but the Senator declared that
he had become a 100-per cent. re-
former and was out for the gizzards
of the political crooks who had been
misgoverning the city of Brotherly
Love for ever so many years.
But when Senator Max Leslie, of
Pittsburgh, sponsored the greater
Pittsburgh charter bill, the other day,
and announced that he “is for it 100
per cent. just because the people
want it, as indicated by the Novem-
ber election,’ the ripple was augment-
ed to the proportions of a tidal wave.
Max has not heretofore shown much
concern about the wishes of the peo-
ple. His interests have been center-
ed in the desires of the political ma-
chine and the ambitions of a group
of party pirates who have been ex-
ploiting the Smoky city since almost
“time out of mind.” ‘As supreme
boss of “The Strip,” in which elec-
tions are proverbial jokes, he long
ago acquired the undisputed title of
king of the ballot crooks.
Unfortunately Senator Salus has
already revealed symptoms of back-
sliding. What grievance he had
seems to have been appeased and
now, instead of vociferous denuncia-
tion of “the new combination,” he
“will roar as gently as any sucking
dove.” But the change has brought
little disappointment to close observ-
ers of events. In the beginning his
promise was half-hearted. There was
a mental reservation to say the least.
With Senator Max, however, it is
different. He has figuratively ‘“burn-
ed the bridges behind him” in an un-
qualified declaration that he is 100 per
cent. for the reform measure he has
sponsored. But it would be wise for
his conferees to temper their optim-
ism.
Legislation Making Progress.
After an all-day conference at the
Executive Mansion in Harrisburg,
last Sunday, in which Governor Fish-
er, W. L. Mellon, Joe R. Grundy and
ticipated, the General Assembly be- ; that she was not placed at the head ' for the Union cemetery in Bellefonte.
gan to function in earnest on Mon-
day. Business moved tardily during
January and February, only a few
appropriation bills having been sent
to the Governor. Mr. Mellon was
otherwise engaged most of the time,
and being absent from the State on
his annual mid-winter vacation in the
South for a fortnight or more, it was
impossible for him to give that atten-
tion to public affairs which seems to
be necessary. But he managed to
reach Harrisburg on Sunday morning
and set the machinery in motion.
Released by the party machine both
branches
busy on Monday evening. In
the Senate an agreement was made
to take up the voting machine enab-
ling act “in such form as to meet
the approval of everybody.” An
agreement sems to have been reached |
to repeal the anthracite coal tax and
increase the gasoline tax to four
cents a gallon, which is regarded as
a substantial victory for the Gov-
ernor “in the face of State-wide on-
position to the tax and the open hos-
tility to State Treasurer Lewis.” But
the glory really belongs to Mr.
Grundy, for it guarantees his pledge
to slush fund contributors that there
will be no taxation of industrial cor-
poration shares in the near future.
The House of Representatives
transacted a good deal of business on
Monday night but along less contest-
ed lines. It fixed March 27th as the
last day upon which bills may be in-
troduced and made practically cer-
tain that the Woodward bill, author-
izing the purchase of “underliers”
separately, which has already passed
the Senate, will be concurred in by
the House. Taking all the events of
the session together it was a great
day for the Grundy-Mellon machine.
The road-roller has been brought into
service in fine form and it may safe-
ly be predicted that all opposition. | 58)
the administration programme will
be futile during the remaining days |
of the session. It may be bad for
the public but “what’s the odds.”
| — According to State Treasurer
Samuel H. Lewis if the four cent
gasoline bill passes the Legislature
and becomes a law automobile own-
ers of Centre county will have to pay
an additional tax of $53,227.48.
Pinchot’s South Seas Cruise.
After having tried with all the force
at his command to believe that Gif-
ford and Cornelia Pinchot have in-
vested a large sum of money and are
preparing to take the hazard of a
15000-mile cruise to and in the South
seas for the purpose of ‘capturing
an elusive giant bat of the Genus
Nanta,” we are compelled to ac-
knowledge that it is impossible. Gif-
ford and Cornelia are not built that
way. They are not victims of fads
and while they are willing to spend
freely in pursuit of civic honors and
! political power, they are not profli-
' gates in other directions. No doubt
|
|
|
the conquest of one of those myster-
ious monsters would afford them a
thrill as any unusual achievement
might, but not at the price.
There must be another and more
. substantial reason for the contem-
i plated cruise into that practically un-
charted portion of the world. If the
' Pinchots were noted pioneers the
| spirit of adventure might have en-
ticed them into the enterprise. Or
if either of them had shown deep in-
terest in scientific development the
hope of great discoveries might have
presented an allurement. But out-
side of forestry Mr. Pinchot has not
revealed what might be called an ab-
sorbing interest in either science, ad-
venture or nature, so that his pro-
posed cruise to the South Seas must
be ascribed: to some unknown cause.
Obviously the ambition to catch a
big bat is not the principal reason,
though it may be contributory.
Our esteemed contemporary, the
New York Nation, while not discuss-
ing the Pinchot enterprise, paints a
pen picture of the South Seas which
might afford light on the subject.
“to most of us is a mental symbol
rather than a geographical fact. Our
picture is a strip of sandy beach,
silver under a tropical moon, and in
the purple night behind it a thatched
hut under a palm tree beside which
a native, lightly dressed in clothes
of grass and leaves, sits strumming
a love song.” What more bewitch-
ing picture could be presented to the
minds of a man and woman complete-
ly enamored with themselves and pos-
sessors of ample means to gratify
any desire that could arise?
of the Legislature got |
“The South Seas,” says the Nation,
TA
BELLEFONTE. PA.. MARCH 22. 1929.
| Mrs. Willebrandt Justly Rewarded.
L The desire of President Hoover to
retain * Mrs. Mabel Walker Wille-
NO. 12.
Proposed Mausoleum for the Union
Cemetery. ’
A large granite mausoleum with a
pte
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Six bandits held up fifty men in a
poolroom at McKeesport, Saturday night,
and took between $300 and $400 from their
pockets and drove away after locking the
men in the cellar.
—The sum of $448 was paid in bounties
to Clinton county hunters for their efforts
in securing noxious animals during the
month of January. The animals killed
included 83 gray foxes, 35 weasels, 13 red
squirrels and 5 wildcats.
—Surprising five boys as they were rob-
bing her home in Allison Park, a suburb
of Pittsburgh early on Monday, Mrs. Al-
bert Heingleberg forced them to flee by
spraying them with tear gas which she
kept in a fountain pen for such an emer-
gency.
—For injuries received in an automobile
accident, Miss Anna Gutowsky, 22 and
| pretty, of Forty Fort, near Scranton, was
awarded $18722 by a jury in the Northum-
| brandt in the service of the adminis- capacity of three hundred cripts, a berland county civil court against Hugh
tration is altogether natural.
of the Department of Justice instead
of being continued in the subordinate
position chosen for her by Harry
Daugherty away back in the Hard-
ing period. Mr. Hoover understands
Mrs. Willebrandt and she understands
| Mr. Hoover. Other campaign work-
| ers took Mr. Hoover's statement on
| the subject of religious tolerance at
its face value and soft-pedaled
through the rest of the campaign.
But Mrs. Willebrandt made no such
| mistake. She simply became more
earnest and insistent in her appeal to
| bigotry.
The two persons who contributed
! most to the election of Mr. Hoover
{ were Colonel Mann, of Tennessee, who
and Mrs. Willebrandt, who appealed
to the religious bigotry of the mid-
dle west. We learned with genuine
regret, the other day, that Mr. Hoov-
Colonel Mann and it is comforting,
therefore, to know that he is deter-
mined to be just to Mrs. Willebrandt.
The ill-treatment of Colonel Mann
may be ascribed to jealousy of Hu-
bert Work, chairman of the National
Republican committee, who wanted a
greater share of the credit than he
deserved. But there seems to be no
complaint against bestowing favors
on Mrs. Willebrandt. She “stands
without being hitched.”
Besides, the designation of Mrs.
Willebrandt as the head of the pro-
‘hibition enforc:ment bureau of the
Department indicates that the Presi-
dent proposes to play fair with the
Anti-Saloon League. It has been an-
nounced that prohibition enforcement
will be transferred from the Treas-
ury Department to the Department
of Justice where it will be in charge
of Mrs. Williebrandt. That action
might be variously construed. it
might mean a surrender to the Anti-
Sajéd Teague or a suspicion-of the
sincerity of Uncle Andy. Mr. Hoov-
1 er yielded to big business in continu-
ing Mr. Mellon in the cabinet, but his
reservation of some sort.
—We don’t know what yours might
have been but the dearest of our
childhood memories are of the hope-
the coming of Santa Claus. The myth
so charmed us that we fought against
disillusionment until we were quite
a big boy. In fact we tried to believe
long after more sophisticated play-
mates had ridiculed us for doing so
and we were nearly broken hearted
when the final convincing evidence
was shown us in the person of a de-
livery boy from Ceader’s bakery and
confection shop carrying in the gim-
cracks, pop-corn balls, clear toys and
stick candy that we had thought
Santa always brought to trim the
day last week we were back in those
happy, guileless hours. We opened a
letter from C. C. Goss, of Harrisburg.
It started off by advising us to “close
one eye, look at the contents and nev-
(er say again you don’t believe in
Santa Claus.” It contained a check
covering all of his back subscription.
We had been worrying about where
to get enough money to make up the
weekly pay-roll and that check help-
ed out so much that momentarily we
were indeed believing again in Santa
Claus and probably would be still if
there had been more Charley Gosses,
but, unhappily, there weren't.
eee ff neeensemertei—
——The Philadelphia Public Ledg-
er, on Sunday, carried a very good
picture of C. H. Buckius, a State
highway engineer, along with his im-
pressions of the amount of money
needed to carry on the highway work
during the next two years. Mr.
Buckius was among the first highway
officials located in Bellefonte and at
that time showed that he had the
stamina to go up in his work by roll-
ing a peanut with a pike pole from
the Diamond to the railroad in order
to pay an election bet. It was slow
work but he persisted until he landed
the nut at the railroad.
—It has been announced from
Washington “that there will be no
high-powered drives, no sensation-
alism, no fanatical demonstrations”
in prohibition enforcement. Just
what does this mean? Surely Mr.
Hoover isn’t starting to pussey-foot
already.
——Mrs. Willebrandt protests that
she is not the inventor of the espion-
age system in’ federal penitentiaries.
She declares it: was Sargeant’s
scheme:
manipulated the Ku Klux contingent, '
er has repudiated his obligation to
subsequent order to make public all
tax refunds would indicate mental |
ful hours we spent in day dreams of |
tree with. For a few moments one ,
‘Many people today abhor the idea
of laying away their loved ones ‘“un-
derneath the sod,” and the mauso-
leum as in days of old, best solves the
sorrowful problem. The board of
trustees of the Bellefonte Union cem-
etery association have long consid-
ered and discussed the proposition of
a community mausoleum, but only re-
cently has the question reached that
stage where public announcement can
be made.
| Hassler & Albright, of Harrisburg,
prominent architects in this line of
‘work, are now preparing plans and
specifications for the mausoleum and
as soon as they are completed they
i will bring them to Bellefonte for ap-
proval of the cemetery board. The
plans are being made along lines
already specified by the board, so that
there is every reason to believe that
they will be approved.
As now planued the mausoleum
will be located at what is known as
| “The Circle” in the cemetery, out
near the Beaver and McCoy lots, but
far enough away from them to per-
mit of a driveway between. The
building will be approximately 90x45
feet in size, 25 feet above ground and
one story underground. It will face
north with the entrance just off the
| double driveway leading out through
the cemetery. The exterior of the
| building will be of granité with a
| granite roof and finished inside with
marble. The roof will be supported
| by reinforced concrete partitions be-
| tween the cripts throughout the
building.
| In the underground story there will
be four tiers of cripts and above
ground there
There will also be a small section de-
voted - to small cripts in which to
place the ashes of anyone whose
last wish it may be that his remains
| be cremated. There will also be fam-
“ily compartments containing six or
| more cripts, which will be shut off
, from the main part of the mausoleum
i by heavy bronze grill doors.
| The funeral chapel will be located
in the centre of the building close to
the main entrance and the receiving
vault in the rear of the chapel. The
chapel will be large enough to accom-
| modate eighty to one hundred peo-
ple and the receiving vault will have
a capacity of about twenty bodies.
| There will be two main corridors run-
ning east and west through the manu-
soleum and the tiers of cripts will all
' be built inside and independent of the
‘outer walls of the mausoleum.
Naturally the question arises, how
will the construction of such a mau-
soleum be financed. The answer is
| simple, by the sale of the cripts.
| There will not be any subscription or
stock list, and the price of the cripts
will be far less than the cost of a fam-
ily monument.
The mausoleum will not be built
for Bellefonte families alone, but
anyone in Centre county desiring to
make preparation for his final rest-
ing place can purchase as many of
the cripts as he will have need for.
i Just as soon as the plans have been
completed and approved, and the con-
tract executed, representatives of the
Harrisburg firm will come to Belle-
fonte, and with the assistance of the
cemetery board, will make a canvass
for the sale of the cripts. This can-
vass will not be confined to Bellefonte
but will extend to State College, Cen-
tre Hall, Millheim, Milesburg, How-
ard and, in fact all territory within a
reasonable distance of Bellefonte. As
soon as the sale of cripts justify go-
ing ahead with construction, work
will be started. Already one man
has signified his intention of purchas-
ing ten of the cripts and a number
of others are also anxious to engage
one or more, so that the board ap-
prehends no difficulty in disposing of
all the cripts.
the case, work will be started early in
the summer.
It might also be added that in
building the mausoleum space will be
arranged for the placing of bronze
memorials for anyone who may de-
sire them.
— In view of the current gossip
at Harrisburg it wouldn't be much
out of place to call the General As-
sembly a parliamentary trading post.
——In his early experiences with
the newspaper correspondents Presi-
dent Hoover scored high. All Sun-
day papers sound his praises.
eer— ene
— Another heroine has been add-
ed to the list. Miss Louise McFet-
ridge has acquired the endurance rec-
ord in the air’ for women.
|
will be seven tiers. |
If ‘such proves to be
The | funeral chapel and a receiving vault M. Marsh, Milton. According to the tes-
State chairman Edward Martin par- surprising element in the matter is now looms as a strong probability |
timony the young woman had a broken
pelvis and internal hurts. A new trial
was asked.
| —Raymond Alfred Gharrett, of Lock
' Haven, who is in the Clinton county jail
. awaiting court trial on the charge of
chicken stealing, and Miss Florence Gusty
Duck, of Castanea, were united in mar-
riage in the parlor of the Clinton county
jail at Lock Haven, last week, in the pres-
ence of a few friends of the couple and
| the sheriff and his family.
{| —John Depedro, 45, a miner of Shamo-
kin, was fond of boasting of his ability
| to eat large quantities of food and drink
large quantities of liquor. On Monday he
ate 12 fried eggs and consumed a large
| dishpan full of green peppers. He drank,
after eating was completed, about two
quarts of moonshine whiskey. A few min-
utes later he dropped dead.
| —Wwilliam Chesney, 31, assistant fore-
man at the Scott Mines, near Shamokin,
fell 1000 feet to his death when he plung-
ed down one of the four compartments of
the mine shaft soon after he started work
last Thursday. Chesney slipped in some.
' way while pushing a mine car from the
cage. Colliery officials are at a loss to
explain just how the accident occurred.
__After searching with a lighted match
for an object in a shanty, Mrs. Kate Sal-
amoski, 30, of the mining town of Wood-
vale, Huntingdon county, dropped the
match into a 15-pound can of blasting
powder which exploded. The woman’s
clothing was stripped into shreds, and
her body burned almost beyond recogni-
ion. She died in a Huntingdon hospital.
—Henry Wolf, retired manufacturer, fell
dead in the Otterbein United Brethren
, church in Mt. Wolf borough on Sunday,
‘ shortly after he had finished a prayer for
his friend, Jacob G. Dunkel, who had died
several hours earlier, Wolf appeared to
choke with emotion in the midst of his
| prayer. He stopped abruptly, retired from
the platform, walked into an adjoining
room and died from a heart attack.
—Allen Crissman, aged 17 years, and
Lester Englert, aged 18 years, both of
Lockport, narrowly escaped drowning in
the Susquehanna river, on Saturday, when
the boat which they were using to carry
drift wood to shore, capsized as it struck
a loose ice floe at the bank, and the boys
were thrown out into the deep water. The
boat and its load turned upside down
and floated down stream on the current,
. but the boys were successful in swimming
to shore, in spite of their heavy clothing.
—Fifteen coal cars and much mine ma-
chinery were lost in a $40,000 fire that
swept through the Newborn Mine tip-
ple, Carrolltown Road station, early Sat-
| urday, razing the structure. Firemen ex-
perienced difficulty in combatting the
flames, as water had to be pumped from
ia stream a considerable distance away.
Burning slack outside the mine is believ-
ed to have set fire to the 12-year-old tip-
ple. Some of the coal cars that were de-
stroyed had been loaded. No men were
in the mine at the time.
—That an offer of $5,000,000 had been
made for the Reading and Danville plants
of the Reading Iron company by Charles
M. Schwab was disclosed by Mr. Schwab
when he was tendered a testimonial din-
ner by more than 200 Danville residents.
Mr. Schwab also spent some hours in-
specting his plant there. E. T. Stotes-
bury, of Philadelphia, is one of those in-
terested in the plan to buy the Reading
Iron company plant, Mr. Schwab said.
The offer was made a week ago, but the
answer of Reading officials has not been
received.
—It pays to wear two pair of trousers
when returning to your home from the
mines on pay day. This was learned last
week by two miners. Stanley Boris and
Peter Ramowski, of Mt. Carmel, who were
accosted by a hold-up man while they
were returning to their homes from the
Alaska collieries of the Philadelphia and
Reading Coal and Iron company. Boris
was relieved of his pay amounting to $80
while Ramowswi, who wore two pair of
trousers, kept his pay amounting to $50
when the hold-up man searched the pock-
ets of the outer pair of trousers and. found
nothing.
| —Joseph Cauffiel, mayor of Johnstown,
was convicted of misdemeanor in office,
extortion, perjury, conspiracy and keeping
a gambling house, by a jury in criminal
court, at Ebensburg, on Saturday. He
was acquitted on a charge of failing to
properly file an election expense account.
He was admitted to $8000 bail pending
disposition of a motion for a new trial
and arrest of judgment. Mayor Cauffiel’s
trial began last Tuesday. The charges
were the outgrowth of his alleged pro-
tection of gambling in Johnstown. On
the charges of which he was convited he
could be sent to the penitentiary for
twenty years and fined $7500.
—Rita Doran, 27, alleged ‘bandit
queen,” of Lancaster, is no longer a bru-
nette. She is a natural blonde now. The
pretty accomplice of Wilbur Cole and Ed-
ward Touhey, long-term prisoners, who
kidnapped State highway patrolman Rus-
sell G. Troup, near Lancaster, last Oc-
tober, was a brunette when she was com-
mitted to Lancaster county jail last De-
cember 22 in default of bail. She told
State police she had dyed her hair black
so that identification would not be so easy.
Rita is showing marked interest in her
trial, scheduled for the April term of
‘quarter session court. She is charged with
highway robbery on two counts, one being
brought by patrolman Cole, the other by
Witmer Cameron, of New Texas, who was
held up and robbed of his automobile.