— Another vitamin has been dis-
sovered and it is a twin. Possibly if
‘he scientists would set themselves to |
t they might find out “who struck
Billy Patterson.’
__When wondering why the mail
yrder houses and chain stores are so
sonsistently successful remember that
hey get your money or you don’t
yet their goods.
—Tt is beginning to look as though
‘he President hasn't any more idea
»f what will give the farmers relief
han anyone else has. We never did
selieve that he had a panacea for
agriculture and his message to Con-
yress confirms it.
—The suggestion Soviet Russia is
naking concerning disarmament
sounds fishy to us. Being under the
‘mpression that about all Russians
do is join the army we are, natur-
ally, curious to know what they
would do if there were no army to
join. .
__Our solo Senator, David Reed,
has let it be known that he is fer-
ainst President Hoover's plan for lim-
ited revision of the tariff. Senator
Reed's political training has been en-
tirely along the line of no limit when
it comes to favors for special indus-
‘ries. : !
__All we have to say about the
kind of weather we've been having
for the past few days is that we are
not getting the “break,” because the
junior member of the household
joesn’t know how to stoke the fur-
nace and he does know how to push
the lawn mower.
!
Now that the enforcement offic-
ors have every other source of sup-
oly cut off from those who crave
something with a slight alcoholic con-
tent they are going to find out what
pecomes of the California grape crop.
Thus they proceed to waste millions
and spend years in officially discover- |
ing what everybody knows right now.
— Mrs. Ganns has won her fight for
2 seat in the amen corner of social
Washington. We can’t say, however,
that the fuss she raised over the mat-
ter won much admiration for her
throughout the country. People who :
raise a hullabaloo about the deference
to be paid them usually leave the
public wondering as to whether they
are actually entitled to any.
Rita Doran, the blond bandit who
nelped kidnap highway patrolman
Russell Troup, last October, drew
sight to sixteen years in the Muncy
home for women. That will give the
young woman plenty of time in which
to figure out whether she got as
much out of her short fling at deviltry
as she might have gotten out of the
eight to sixteen years of clean, decent
living.
—Now that the tax on gasoline has
been raised a cent in order to pro-
vide funds for the Highway Depart-
ment that State Treasurer Sam Lew-
is says it doesn’t need and can’t spend
prudently when do you suppose it will
be taken off? Our prediction is that
the extra cent will be taken off about
the time the Leslie precincts in Pitts-
purgh and the Vare districts in Phil-
adelphia vote favorably on the instal-
lation of voting machines.
—Now that the Legislature has ad-
journed the great group of near
statesmen are getting back home to
tell their constituents of all the benef-
icent work they did while in Harris-
burg. Yet they didn’t do a thing that
Governor Fisher didn’t tell them to
do. And they didn’t do a thing that
he told them they couldn’t do. Ver-
ily, the General Assembly of I’enn-
sylvania was little more than a pup-
pet show.
—To our friends who will be anx-
ious to know we want to say that
so far as our personal experiences
were concerned the opening of the
trout season was most auspicious.
We darned near froze in camp the
night before. While we laid on a bed
that was comfortable enough we
don’t recall having had a wink of
sleep, mostly because the tonsils of
the companion who slept next to us
kept back-firing all night. At four
we got up, cooked breakfast for the
trio and started out into as gray and
drab and cold a morning as we have
ever spent on a stream. When icy
rain drops were not trickling down
the back of our neck we were trying
to invent a wiper for our campus
windshields to which the intermittent
snow flakes clung like death. At ten
we returned to camp, washed the
breakfast dishes, dried our clothes
and started out again. It was snow-
ing hard then and knowing that no
trout would rise to a fly in such
weather we demeaned ourself to the
estate of an ex-President and decid-
ed to use worms. While this mental
processing was going on we had
treked a mile or more down the
stream only to discover that we didn’t
have a bait hook in our equipment.
When we got back to camp it was
time to start dinner and by the time
dinner was over it was time to start
home, so that, we should say, wasa
wonderfully auspicious opening day.
Oh yes, we forgot to tell you that in
the party we got fifty-six trout. Al-
so. we want to tell you that it is a
good plan in making up a fishing par-
ty of three to be sure to have two
companions who would sooner fish on
a day like Monday was than cook and
wash dishes.
STATE RIGHTS AND
FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 74.
BELLEFONTE. PA.. APRIL 19. 1
929.
NO. 186.
3 ; ee !
| Reasons for and Against the Jones The General Assemb
Law.
The wisdom of the Jones “five-and-
ten” prohibition law is a moot ques-
tion. The complaint that it magnifies
trivial offences into grave crimes is
just. Selling a pint of moonshine is
not a felony and carrying a case of
beer to the consumer on the next
block is not as serious an offense as
burglary. The aim of the law should
be to measure the punishment accord-
ing to the turpitude of the crime.
The Jones law doesn’t accomplish
this result. It provides the same pen-
alty for a first offender as for a pro-
fessional crook and provides for the
same sentence on a conviction for
toting a pocket flask as is imposed
for kidnapping or passing counterfeit
money. This is a serious fault in the
law.
In support of the Jones law it may
be said that a pint of moonshine may
be as destructive of human life as an
automatic pistol. Carrying an auto-
matic pistol is a misdemeanor and
the penalty is imprisonment for a
year or a small fine. Nzither does
much harm if kept in the pocket. But
the moonshine is the more reprehen-
sible because it implies a guilty pur-
pose. A man may have good and
sufficient reason for carrying the au-
tomatic. It is hardly possible to
imagine a good reason for carrying
| the pint, under existing conditions,
But neither is there any substantial
reason for so wide a discrimination
in the penalty as the Jones law
creates. An imprisonment of two
years for the pint would make a
more reasonable balance.
The professional bootleggers, those
miscreants who wilfully and wicked-
ly peddle poisoned liquor, deserve
the severest punishment that can be
imposed upon them. Influenced by
greed they deliberately commit mur-
der and in the most cowardly form.
If the Jones law had made proper
discrimination between these offenders
there would be no just reason for ob-
jection to it. But even in that case
Senator Jones would have no right
to say that persons who oppose ‘his
law are “undermining the rights and
liberties. of .our- people.” The right
to oppose any law in a lawful man-
ner is inherent and has been indulg-
ed by men of the highest type at var-
jous times. Those who fought the
fugitive slave law are still lauded =s
patriots.
— The baseball season is on and
the Mexican revolution will have a
hard time holding the front page.
Wise Use of the Veto Power.
Common fairness requires the cor-
dial approval of Governor Fisher's ve-
to of the Woodward resolution pro-
viding for eight delegates to repre:
sent Pennsylvania at the next ses-
sion of the American Legislators’ As-
sociation. This association meets
somewhere and for some unexplained
purpose just previous to the annual
meeting of the American Bar Asso-
ciation. The last session was held
somewhere in the far west and Sen-
ator Schantz, of Lehigh county, since
president pro tem. of the State Sen-
ate, who turned in an expense account
of over $800.00, represented Penn-
sylvania. Governor Fisher said he
would be willing to stand for one or
two delegates at that price but eight
of them are too many and too expen-
sive.
There seems to be a spreading
mania for associations of this type
throughout the country. In addition
to the American Legislators’ Asso-
ciation there are city organizations,
county commissioners’ organizations,
sheriff’s organizations, county audi-
tors’ organizations, tax collectors’ or-
ganizations and others “too numerous
to mention.” They meet annually at
one place or another and enjoy a
“halcyon and vociferous” fime for a
few days at the expense of the tax-
payers. It will be recalled that the
last session of the sheriff's associa
tion of this State was raided by pro-
hibition enforcement officers and it
taxed the ingenuity as well as the
political pull of the sheriffs to sup-
press the scandal.
If these several conventions serv-
ed any good purpose they might be
justified, but we have yet to hear of
any beneficent results from their an-
nual meetings. They serve the pur-
pose of providing a holiday for the of-
ficials who attend them, which would
be perfectly all right if those who in-
dulged the dancing should themselves
pay the piper. But the system
doesn’t contemplate such division of
the pleasures and the burdens. The
delegates have all the fun and the
taxpayers pay all the expenses. The
recent trip of Senator Schantz may
have been worth to him all it cost
the people of the State, but there is
no evidence that it was worth any-
thing at all to those who paid.
ly of 1929.
The 1929 session of the General
' Assembly of Pennsylvania ended yes-
terday after three and a half month’s
service to the political machine. The
session began with abundant oppor-
tunity for achievement. Plenty of
good work was cut out for it. The
crime commission had prepared for
it a number of measures that had
been cordially approved by the judges
and district attorneys of the State.
A committee of eminent citizens pre-
sented it with a group of bills the
passage of which would guarantee
fairly honest elections. Individual
members offered numerous meritori-
ous measures that would have inured
to the advantage of the public. But
only a few bills of this character have
been enacted into laws.
The work of the session began
auspiciously. The presiding officers
in both chambers are experienced and
capable men. If they had directed
their energies to service of the people
instead of the party machine the ses-
sion of 1929 might have acquired the
distinction of exceptional merit. The
work was there to do and the incen-
tive came from every section of the
State. The exposures of vice and cor-
ruption in Philadelphia, the flood-tide
of crime in other sections of the Com-
monwealth and the earnest impor-
tunities of good men and women con-
stantly urging high ideals ought to
have brought out of the session a rich
harvest of beneficent legislation.
But, no such result followed the
deliberations of the body. The vot-
ing machine enabling act was passed
finally during the closing days of the
session, but little else was accom-
plished. During the hectic sessions of
the last three days a number of bill¢
were rushed through, and some of
them might be deserving of approval
by the people. We have not had op-
portunity to survey the work of the
present week. But measuring it by
comparison with that which preceded
it there is not likely to be much to
commend. Taking it from beginning
to end the General Assembly of 1929
was a boss-ridden body which re-
flected no honor and bestowed no
benefits on. the people of Pennsyr
vania.
— Mrs. Gann, the Vice President's
sister, won the bloodless social battle
and “the government at Washington
still lives.”
Voting Machines May be Delayed.
Though the voting machine enab-
ling act was passed in a form to sat-
isfy its author, Senator Harris, of
Pittsburgh, it presents little cause
for worry to politicians in election
district where it is most needed. 1n
an address before a civic organiza-
tion in Harrisburg. a tew days before
| the final passage of the act, Senator
Harris said: “It will take years of
struggle before you have the voting
machine to vote on. A petition must
be signed by one per cent. of the
voters of a voting district, presented
to the county commissioners and the
question of whether or not a voting
machine shall be installed must be
printed on the election ballots and the
people must then vote upon it at the
next election.”
This time consuming process may
be started promptly by procuring
signatures to the petitions. But there
is no time fixed for filing them at the
commissioners’ office. However they
_ will get there sooner or later. At the
convenience of the commissioners the:
question of adoption or installation
will be printed on the election ballots
and the people will vote upon it. In
some districts this result may be
reached next fall and the machines
made available for use at the elec-
tion of 1930. But this measure of
expedition can only be expected
where there is an active and urgent
demand for honest elections. Where
electoral reform is most needed the
question may not be decided for years
to come.
When Governor Fisher encouraged
the mutilation of the law by stating
of this session could
that mistakes
be corrected in 1931 he had probably
overlooked the chances for delay even
if there were no mistakes this year.
But he, as well as Mellon and Grun-
dy, realized that in the absence of |
other proposed and badly needed bal- !
lot reform legislation there will be
abundant chances for controlling
elections by fraud for three or four
years in the future, by which time
their ambitions will either be fulfill-
ed or scrapped. It may be true, as
the news dispatches allege, that Fish-
er finally saved the enabling act from
emasculation. But it is equally cer-
tain that he failed to aid in other re-
form legislation sadly needed.
Have you noticed how rapidly
Mr. Vare's health has returned since
the adjournment ' of the last Con-
gress?
|
{ has scored another home run.
|
Bewildering Legislation History.
The history of the four cent gaso-
line tax bill is an anomaly in legis-
lation. In the first place the reason
for it has never been revealed. It has
been alleged that the ten or twelve
million dollars which it will add to
the revenues of the Highway Depart-
ment are necessary to carry out the
construction programme of the ad-
ministration. But this claim has been
flatly contradicted and completely
refuted by the State Treasurer, who
submitted figures which show that
without this tax the Highway Depart-
ment will have $27,000,000 more mon-
ey available for the coming biennium
than it had for the two year period
now drawing to a close, which was
ample to meet all its requirements
without restraint to its activities.
It is conservatively estimated that
eighty per cent. of the people of the
State are openly opposed to this tax
increase and every civic organization
that considered the subject at all pro-
tested against it. The automobile
organizations which have been favor-
able to every movement for highway
improvements consistently and em-
phatically declared against the bill.
privately three-fourths of the mem-
bers of the House of Representatives
and four-fifths of the Senators in the
General Assembly were against it.
! But, as one of the press correspond-
ents wrote, they voted for the bill and
will explain to their constituents that
“they were helpless.” The dynamic
force of “invisible government” co-
erced them.
During the campaign on the conrti-
tutional amendments, last fall, Gover-
nor Fisher warned the people that un-
less the highway loan were approved
increased revenues would be neces-
sary. The Governor didn’t “suck this
idea out of his thumb.” He got it
from James L. Stewart, Secretary of
Highways, who is the personal repre-
sentative of W. L. Mellon in the ad-
ministration. - What purpose Mr. Mel-
lon has in thus burdening the gasoline
consumers of Pennsylvania is a mat-
ter of conjecture. The fact that he
is the principal owner of the corpor-
ation, which produces “Good Gulf Gas”
may’ have “something” to~do with if,
and possibly he is influenced solely by
.a desire to help Joe Grundy to keep
corporation shares free of tax.
——Now that the Legislature has
adjourned the Hon. J. Laird Holmes
will have ample time to explain to
the motorists of Centre county how
they are going to be benefited by the '
extra cent tax on gasoline which he
voted for.
Lusty Nightcrawlers Just dote On
Lettuce.
While in Bellefonte, on Monday, a
i State College woman told us a tale
! of woeful experience with nightcrawl-
ers in her garden, which for the past
two or three years have lived and
grown big and fat on her lettuce. In
fact, last year, they evinced such a
partiality for this luscious garden
green that they ate the lettuce as fast
as it was planted and the result was
that the family got very little to eat
themselves.
| In an effort to fool the nightcrawl- |
ers the woman planted lettuce among
her cabbage, between tomatoes and
other vegetables, but it was no good,
the nightcrawlers found it and de-
voured it a rapaciously as boys make
way with sugar plums. Collegé au-
| thorities were appealed to and they
advised the use of salt or lime. Last
year she tried salt and that just
seemed to aggravate their activity.
This spring she is trying lime on a
small bed of lettuce but she avers
that she might as well have used
sugar, as the tender shoots of the
lettuce are disappearing gradually
but surely. And the strange thing
to the woman is that although they
have lived in the same place for
‘twenty-five years it has been only
during the past two or three years
that the nightcrawlers have become
' depredatious.
— The opening exercises in Con-
gress drew an unusually large crowd
this year. The uncertainty as to the
| reaction to Hoover's plans has sharp-
' ened public curiosity.
| ——The investigation of Mr. Mel-
lon’s right to sit in the cabinet will
be futile. To paraphrase Tim Camp-
i bell, “what's the constitution among
millionaires.”
| ——The voting machine enabling
| act got through by “the skin of its
| teeth,” but nearly all the other bal-
{lot reform legislation was scrapped.
The President “has Congress on
his hands” and everybody is anxious
| to know what he will do with it.
It may be said that Babe Ruth
Into the China Shop.
From the Philadelphia Record.
On the whole it is probably just as
well that President Hoover did not
offer the Secretaryship of State to
Senator Borah, as was suggested.
The Senator’s letter to the Canad-
ian Chamber of Commerce in the
United States on the question of pro-
posed tariff changes is ample evi-
dence that he lacks the qualities nec-
essary for a diplomatic career.
It is a big, bluff, Western letter
but that it will be helpful in the
present rather delicate situation is
not clear.
In it the Idaho Senator declares
that mucn as he loves Canada he
loves his own country more, and that
he will vote for whatever customs
duties our farming interest seems to
require, no matter what Canadians
may think or do about it.
Any business man who spoke this
language to his best customer would
be considered unfit to carry on his
job.
And Canada is our best customer.
She buys $916,000,000 worth of goods
from us and sells us $489,000,000
worth. And what we buy from her,
in the way of raw material, is much
more necesary to us than are our
goods to her. She can buy in other
markets, whereas she holds a practi-
cal monopoly on much that we need.
But Senator Borah seems to think
that this does not matter, that no
country has any right to resent any-
thing that we may do in the way of
‘shutting off their markets.
This is a most dangerous attitude.
Tariffs, before all else, are matters
of business and should be regarded
as questions of business policy. 3o0d-
will is still a factor in trade, and if
we forfeit goodwill in our internation-
al business dealings our internation-
al business is going to suffer, and suf-
fer severely.
For Canada is not the only coun-
try that is watching the outcome of
the hearings on the tariff thar have
been held in Washington.
France has already framed her pro-
test, while several of the South Amer-
jcan nations, Argentine, especially,
are wondering if a prohibitive tariff
is going to be the first fruits of Mr.
Hoover's tour in which “goodwill’ was
so heavily emphasized.
But the possible trade antagonisms
leave Senator Borah cold.
~So long ‘as the farmers of Idaho
are made happy, conditions in Can-
ada or any other part of the world do
not matter.
| Nor, would it seem do conditions
in the remainder of the United States
worry him. Yet a trade war would
be felt in the industrial east much
more than it would be in the Sena-
tor’s beloved home.
Pedestaled in Triumph.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.
The victory of Mrs. Edward Ever-
ett Gann over whatever powers there
be in social Washington which tried
to deny her the standing and prece-
, dence ordinarily accorded to a Vice
President’s wife has had early con-
firmation in physical facts. At a din-
ner given by the Chilean Ambassador
in honor of the Chilean Minister of
Finance, Vice President Curtis’ sis-
ter and official hostess sat in place
number one to the right of Ambassa-
dor Davila, with Ambassador Vel-
arde, of Peru, on her other side. Op-
posite, at the other end of the table,
of course, was her brother.
But the maps of Washington's so-
cial front as of Thursday night show
other interesting points. Four little
x’s indicate what might have hap-
pened to Mrs. Gann had she not
triumphed. She might have had to
sit between the Minister of Uruguay
and Senator Jones, of Jones-law
fame. She might have been placed
between the Chilean Finance Minis-
ter and Senator Capper. It might
have been her lot to have been put
between Senator Copeland and the
Secretary of Labor, or between the
Minister of Colombia and Senator
King. Well—horrors!
And, oh yes, mere Mr. Gann, hus-
band, was at the table, too. He did
not have to eat in the pantry, after
all. No one worried much about him
when the rockets’ red glare and the
bombs bursting in air gave proof
through the night that the flag of
social precedence in the world’s great-
est democracy was still there. But
i it is some relief to know that he sat
down—or up—*“among newspaper men
and others.”
|
1 emer eee
“Joe” Bailey is Dead.
| From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
| “Joe” Bailey died Saturday, while
i trying a case at Sherman, Tex. and |
in his passing the Lone Star State
lost one of its most picturesque fig-
ures.
There was a time when Bailey
“made” the first pages of the news-
papers on an average of three times
| a week, but in recent years the fiery
' old word-spouter of the South had
| been a silent figure save as he plead-
|ed a case in his own county courts.
{He fought Bryan tooth and nail for
nearly a generation and went into re-
. tirement of his own accord about the
time Woodrow Wilson began to loom
large for the Presidency. He made a
{vain effort to achieve the limelight
again in 1920, when he ran for Gov-
| ernor, but was defeated.
I ET GE I ITO, Were
' SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE...
! —The New York Central car shops at
| Avis, it is announced, “have received - an
order to build 300 flat cars of 55 tons
| capacity each. Work on the order will be-
| gin as soon as materials arrive. The new
: job will keep the present force busy for a
| long time, making good prospects for the
coming summer.
| —Robbers early last Thursday broke in-
| to the shirt factory and warehouse of M.
| Spoont and Son, at Shennandoah, loaded
$4000 worth of shirts and materials onto a
truck and escaped. They entered the build-
ing while the watchman was making the
rounds of a second factory of the com-
, pany a block distant.
1
—A man gave a child a dime at Home-
stead, on Friday, for telling him that no
one was home and then looted the resi-
dence of $200 worth of jewelry, according
to a report made to police by Mrs. A.
Dempsey. The child accosted by the man
was one of the Dempsey children, and the
place entered was the Dempsey home.
—A bequest of $4,000 to St, Matthew's
Protestant church, Sunbury, and of $1,850
to the Mary Packer hospital of that place,
was contained in the will of Henry B.
Dunham, of Philadelphia, who died April
1 at Chesnut Hill, leaving an estate valued
at $350,000. Mr. Dunham's father formerly
conducted the P. R. R. hotel at Renovo
and the Logan House, the former Pennsyl-
vania hotel at Altoona.
—Fred Jackson, his son, George Jack-
son, and H. E. McGonigal, of Renovo, who
were fined $1875 by C. A. Uhler, Renovo
justice of the peace, for illegal trout fish-
ing, have appealed their case. The rule
for hearing the appeal was granted by
associate judges S. H. Rich and Charles
Dunn, and the case will be settled by
Judge Eugene H. Baird, April 24. Dis-
trict attorney William Hollis has made a
motion to strike off the appeal.
—Plans for the twenty-seventh district
conference of Rotary International to be
held in Erie, May 6 and 7, under the aus-
pices of the Erie Rotary club, have about
been completed and indications are that
it will be the largest and most successful
in the history of the conference. L. B.
Page is general chairman of the conven-
tion committee. More than 1000 are ex-
pected to attend the two-day meeting.
Judge Fleming was a former district Gov-
ernor.
—W. W. Cunningham, manager of the
Lewistown Housing and Deevlopment
company, organized to build homes for
citizens of Lewistown and break the hous-
ing shortage, due to the advent of the Vis-
cose plant which brought 3,000 people to
Lewistown in a year, announced that his
company would invest $250,000 in financing
and building seventy-five homes this year.
Twenty-two of these houses have already
been started and six of them completed
and sold.
—John Gorney, 21, of Shenandoah, was
instantly killed on Sunday afternoon when
he dove headfirst down the shaft of the
Kohinoor colliery of the Philadelphia and
Reading Coal and Iron company, near
Pottsville. A friend said the youth, who
had suffered head injuries in a mine ac
cident about a year ago, had told them
he intended to commit suicide by jumping
down the shaft but they were unable to
to prevent him when he finally fulfilled
the promise. He was instantly killed.
—The Blairsville plant of the Apollo
Bottling company was demolished by an
explosion and then swept by fire early on
Sunday. Cause of the blast was unknown
and authorities were conducting an in-
vestigation. The two-story brick building
which housed the plant was leveled by the
' explosion. Fire broke out immediately
' afterwards. Numerous windows of hous-
resin the vicinity were smashed by the de-
‘ topation. An apartment house near the
bottling plant was damaged slightly by,
fire. !
—George Weidler, 60, of Lancaster,
wrote out a check for his funeral expenses
and made three attempts at suicide before
he succeeded in eluding his two daughters
and blowing off his head with a shotgun.
One of the daughters saved his life when
she found him hanging from a rafter. She
cut him down, but a short time later:
Weilder attempted to take an overdose
of medicine. The other daughter
knocked the bottle from his hand.. Then
he obtained a shotgun, locked himself in a
room and pulled the trigger while the
two daughters tried to smash in the door.
—Although C. Marshall Wardrop, assist-
| ant cashier of the First National bank of
Tamaqua, has been missing since April 4,
directors gave out their first statement on
Saturday, announcing a shortage of $24,-
899.44. Their reticence was due to lack of
knowledge of the exact sum involved in
the alleged defalcation. They also hesitat-
ed about making the matter public, due
to the high esteem in which the accused
was held, and feeling that he might re-
turn and make good the missing sum. It
is reported that the bank has received a
letter from the missing official admitting
the shortage and that he is preparing to
return home and face charges.
— Pottsville business men are liable to
be fined no less thn $5 or more than $25 if
they smoke a cigarette or pipe in their own
stores, provided city council adopts an or-
dinance introduced last wee k by
Councilman Bearstler. The ordinance has
passed first reading and will not become a
law until it is finally approved a second
time. The ordinance stipulates that smok-
ing is prohibited in any place open to the
general public “for any purpose of busi-
ness, pleasure, religious worship or grati-
fication of any curiously, or any garage, or
! place in which inflamable material is stor-
| ed.” Smoking, under the proposed law,
| would be banned in hotels, cigar stores,
restaurants and most every place except
in private homes and in the open air.
| —Acting on a tip furnished by William
, D. McClintock, sergeant of the Pennsylva-
| nia Railroad police, Sheriff Irving Wenker.
' of Clinton county, and State policemen
motored to Howard, Centre county, Friday,
| and arrested Ralph Hale, 29, of Lock Hav-
en, who with Percy Emert, 28, also of Lock
' Haven, is charged with breaking into the
; Clinton county court house last August,
i and stealing stored whisky from the
| vaults there. Emert was arrested shortly
| after the theft. Hale was living under
| the name of James Steele. He was re-
manded to the Clinton county jail in de-
fault of bail. Two truck loads of moon-
shine liquor seized in Sugar Valley, known
as the “Kentucky of the North,” was stor-
ed in the court house basement last year.
Its theft caused a sensation at the time.