Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, May 24, 1929, Image 1

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Reminiscent of Circus Days
You need have no further concern
because of the vagaries of the weath-
er. Tomato plants and beans are not
going to be nipped by any more frosts
this season. The weather is settled
and summer is here. We make this
prophecy not because we know any-
thing special about the signs of the
Zodiac, or have we any inside dope
about what the Gulf Stream is going
to, do to the temperature along the
Atlantic coast States during the com-
ing six months. We simply know
summer is here and vegetation is safe
because, on Wednesday, we received
our annual message from old How-
ard Sergant. It came in the usual
form—a program of the thrilling acts
that go on under the big top of the
greatest show on earth. We knew
before the paper knife had slit the
wrapping on the gaudy covered pam-
plet what it was and memories that
we nurture dearly transfixed us at
nce. Years and years ago, when
-he Logan house in Altoona was an
arid desert, flanked on the right by
jhe Globe oasis, and on the left by the
3randt oasis, Howard could always
se counted on to join us on the broad
seranda of the Logan, just intime
snough to wrangle a bit as to which
yf the oases was the right one
hrough which to start the trek to
he show grounds. Year in and year
wut we met there on circus day un-
il business engagements took How-
rd from Philipsburg to cast his lot
n distant cities. Since then we have
arried on alone and every year we
ecome more conscious of the fact
hat circus seats were never designed
or humans of the wasp variety. We
idn’t mind their hardness in the old
ays, but if it weren't that we're al-
10st as crazy about them as Harry
Valkey we'd never endure another
ne, unless it advertised pneumatic
ushions free to all visitors who have
o objective for reducing.
Our recollection runs back more
aan fifty years to the first circus we
smember having seen. It was O’
rians’ and exhibited out in what is
ow Bush’s Addition, on the flat op-
osite the Dave Miller store. It ar-
ved in town on Sunday and Sunday
*hool was in session in the old “Wig-
am” that stood on the south-west-
‘n corner of the present High school
ay ground. The tawdry wagons
lled down the Spring street hill
om Linn. The Sommerville boys,
arry, Al and Robb, Billy Butts, Gil-
rt Beaver, Don. McCafferty and
who made up the class that Rev.
mes P. Hughes had to wrestle with,
led hard to-concentrate on the les-
n. We don’t know how well they
icceeded. As for us, when the soli-
ry elephant of the aggregation
me along we became a “Toby Ty-
»”’ scrambled out the window and
llowed the lumbering pachyderm tc
»d knew where—for to us in those
ys the present Bush's Addition
emed as far away as Stormstown
es now.
That was the beginning. Since then
: have seen every circus that has
retched canvas on a lot.
The first of the then really big
ows to visit Bellefonte was Fore-
ughs. It came in October, 1889.
e remember that because we had
1yed “hookey” from school to go to
3 Grange picnic on the top of Nit-
iy mountain, and when Johnny
urbeck arrived up there with the
nouncement that the bill car was
town, we forthwith beat it for
ellefonte, walked every inch of the
y, biting dust such as is not
own ‘today, and all for the thrill
sitting on our hunkers at the side
car that didn’t have “a darned
or elephant painted on it.”
e first railroad circus to come
p Bellefonte was Bachelor and
pis. After them O’Brians’ grew
: of the wagon show class and
k to the rails. Then there was
Is Seven Elephant Show, John
sin’s, Robinson’s, W. C. Coupe,
Iter L. Main, Gentry Bros,
wnie’s, Sparks, etc., that made an-
Jd visits, but it was not until May
1898, that the really biggest show
earth had Bellefonte on its itin-
ry. Then Ringling Bros. came
t for their first tour and when
y rolled into Bellefonte on fifty-
r cars we saw that they were
yer than either Forepaugh’s or the
num and Bailey shows, neither of
ch up to ‘that time required so
ay cars to transport. We had met |
four Ringling Bros., when they|
d in Baraboo, Wisconsin, and
sted ownership of a country news-/
er and a little wagon show. All of
1 are gone ‘now but one and the
ibition they then apologized for
become the greatest tented
1sement enterprise the world has
» seen and probably ever will see.
e since 1898 a larger circus than
zglings then was, has visited Belle-
e. It was the Hagenbach and
lace shows with fifty-seven cars.
’e love them all. The spirit of
us day is-in our life. When ‘“Lal-
Rookh” comes riding her ele-
at through the streets and the
ope strikes up “Suwannee River”
zrow restless for the smell of the
agerie, the jostle in finding seats
the thrill of the grand entry.
you don’t react like that you
't understand why we just had to
70 of some of the thoughts that
: awakened when we fingered
ugh that circus program.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 74.
BELLEFONTE. PA.. MAY 24. 1929.
NO. 21.
A Bright Future for Pennsylvania
Democrats.
In an interesting review of politi-
cal conditions in Pennsylvania, in the
Philadelphia Record of Sunday, Mr.
Robert B. Vale, a most competent
authority on the subject, presents a
very encouraging prospect for the
immediate future of the Democratic
party. He declares that Republicans
admit our “party will have more than
a fighting chance” to elect the Gov-
ernor next year and adds, “there is
rising within the Republican party a
progressive movement that great in-
terests are fighting to stifle,” and
“in Pennsylvania there is a serious
split in the Republican ranks.” To
the arrogance of Mellon and Grundy
and the blunders of Governor Fisher
Mr. Vale lays the blame for most of
the Republican troubles in the State.
But the hope expressed by Mr.
Vale is not based upon the troubles
in the Republican ranks. It is in-
spired by the changed conditions in
the Democratic party. ‘Leading
Democrats of the State are practical-
ly unanimous on the proposition that
their party must go progressive,” he
writes, while “the Republican State
organization is reactionary and grow-
ing more so every year.” This is lit-
erally true and is increasingly pro-
voking public resentment. The Mel-
lon methods are sinister and the
Grundy policies offensive to independ-
ent minds. “There are revolts in all
parts of the State against this sort
of rule,” Mr. Vale notes, and the op-
position is crystalizing into a great
force about ready to strike.
On the other hand the Democratic
organization is growing rapidly in all
sections of the State. Differences
among leaders which have worked
harm have been ironed out and for-
gotten. Bi-partisan trading has been
eliminated and the State leaders are
moving forward in full determination
to deserve the confidence that has been
reposed in them by the voters. State |
chairman John R. Collins epitomizes
the conditions in a statement that
“yoters of the State are heartily tir-
ed of the orgy of extravagance go-
ing on under the present Mellon-
Grundy administration, and in 1930
we will give them a good chance to |
bring about economical and efficient
State government.” That will be a
splendid consummation.
——Press reporters continue to
predict a Hoover victory on the farm
relief bill. In other words, they real-
ize that official patronage is a more
potent force than conscience in the
Senate.
Test of Hoover’s Sincerity.
Colonel Samuel O. Wynne, prohi-
bition administrator for the eastern
district of Pennsylvania, speaking
from the pulpit of the Arch Street
M. E. church, in Philadelphia, told
his interested audience that ‘the
greatest stumbling block to prohibi-
tion enforcement is the fact that
United States district attorneys still
are being chosen for political reasons
and not on merit.” This is an open-
ly avowed arraignment of the Hoov-
er administration. Federal district
attorneys are appointed by the Pres-
ident on the recommendation of the
Attorney General. If the officials
named to fill these important offices
are not up to the standard of effi-
ciency, the blame rests on the Presi-
dent and Attorney General.
There are three vacancies in Penn-
sylvania at this time. The district
attorney of Philadelphia and one of
his assistants have recently resigned
to avoid investigation of charges of
failure to prosecute violators of pro-
hibition laws, and the office of assist-
ant district attorney for the Middle
district of the State was created by
a recent act of Congress. Colonel
Wynne ‘has recommended for the
most important of these vacancies a
man who is entirely capable and in
full sympathy with the purpose of
prohibition legislation. His nominee
has been cordially endorsed by the
prohibitionists of Philadelphia and
the district. If a less satisfactory
candidate is chosen it will be an ad-
ministration fault.
Colonel Wynne declared that “the
keystone of all law enforcement is
the United States attorney. A weak;
dishonest or inefficient United -States
attorney can absolutely break down
the entire system.” President Hoov-
er, in his address before the Associat-
ed Press a few weeks ago, said en-
forcement of all laws is the first and
paramount obligation not only of ev-
ery public official but of every good
citizen. The sincerity, the real hon-
esty of President Hoover. will justly
be measured by his appointment of
a Federal district attorney in Phila-
delphia. If he names a man’ recom-
mended by the Vare machine he will
confess himself a hypocrit. He will
be' degrading the power to the service
of corrupt, politics.
a
Remedy for a Great Evil.
The recent exposure of an attempt
of a power trust to acquire control
of leading newspapers for a sinister
purpose is a matter of grave impor-
tance. It had previously been shown
that schools, colleges and even pupils
had been perverted to the service of
power corporations in disseminating
propaganda to confuse the minds of
the people. Tl-se facts properly
aroused public indignation and protest.
But not until the discovery that the
public press was being prostituted to
the same base use did the country
awaken to the seriousness of the
evil. An investigation by the Feder-
al Trade Commission confirmed the
charge and the power of Congress has
been invoked to stifle it.
But great as the evil may be the
| remedy suggested by Senator Norris
| might be worse. “If the time comes
when all the press is controlled by
| the power trust, or by big business,”
he declared in a speech in the Sen-
ate the other day, “there is no other
' position for a free people to take
than to have the government take
over the press.” That would be
“jumping out of the frying pan into
the fire.” It would be a Mussolini rem-
.edy and that sort of remedy could
not possihv satisfy a free people. It
‘ might fool some for a brief period
and deceive the verv' eredinlaus for a
considerable time. But it will not
cure the evil which is certainly
! threatening and may be in actual
| existence now.
| The suggestion of Senator Dill, of
| the State of Washington, has a truer
iring. “The right of special mail
' rights,” he said, “could be denied to
| papers being used to influence read-
ers in behalf of special interests.”
Senator Wheeler, of Montana, added,
“newspapers get special privileges
from the government in reduced
mailing rates which presuppose that
these papers shall not be subsidized
or printed in behalf of particular in-
terests.” This remedy might easily be
enforced. At present newspapers are
required to reveal their ownership as
well as their obligations and a news-
paper deprived of its mailing privi-
leges and advantages in mailing rates
would soon find its way to the news-
| paper grave yard.
i rim bi
— Bishop Cannon asks, “who can
imagine the nefarious liquor traffic as
part of the Kingdom of Heaven?” It
would be equally difficult to believe
it a prosperous industry in the other
last resort. :
Approves the Wrong Repeal Bill.
Governor Fisher has surprised no-
body by approving the Heaton bill
for the gradual repeal of the anthra-
cite coal"tax and vetoing the Jones
measure which provided for the im-
mediate repeal of the entire tax. He
is absolutely consistent. In approv-
ing the Mansfield coal and iron po-
lice bill he choose the larger of two
evils, for both bills on that subject
presented to him for consideration
were intended to regulate an evil that
ought to have been abolished. But
he approved the one that conveyed
the least improvement. In the mat-
ter of the coal tax legislation the Gov-
coal owners and vetoed the one de-
manded by the public.
The coal tax, which was levied first
in December, 1921, was made an ex-
cuse for increasing the price of an-
thracite coal to consumers in much
for this reason it was cordially ac-
cepted by the producers of the coal.
' But the result was disappointing. The
' increase of price influenced consum-
ers to seek substitutes and instead
| of benefitting it injured the industry.
| As a revenue producer, however, it
| was a great success. In eight years
{it has brought into the State Treas-
|ury $41,607,996, and has become one
| of the greatest revenue producers.
[To an administration ambitious to
| score as the most expensive in history,
|it was a valuable asset.
! But the vanishing prosperity of the
| anthracite coal industry influenced
ithe coal producers to urge a repeal
of the tax. Self preservation is as
important in business as in nature
(and in order to promote their pur-
| pose the operators promised a reduc-
'tion in the price to consumers if the
| tax were abolished. That was per-
| suasive propaganda and the public
| joined in the petition for repeal. The
| Governor suggested the gradual pro-
| cess but the operators protested that
iit would afford so little relief that
they couldn’t afford to reduce prices.
| The double bill expedient was then
i proposed, a stupid Legislature adopt-
| ed. it, -and the Governor has approved
| the bill of least value to the public.
| ——President Hoover spent Sunday
in "his fishing camp but . didn’t fish.
| Probably there .are “blue laws” in
| Virginia, '
ernor signed the one preferred by the
greater amount than the tax. Mainly
| Memorial Services at State College.
General Edward Martin, State
Treasurer of Pennsylvania, will be
the Memorial day orator at State
College, next Thursday. Completed
plans for a proper observance of the
day in upper Pennsvalley provide
for services at Lemont, Linden Hall
and Pine Hall on Sunday, the 26th.
At Lemont, tne services will be in
the Presbyterian church at 10:30,
with Rev. J. Max Kirkpatrick the
speaker.
The services at Pine Hall will be
at 2 p. m., in the Reformed church,
the program to be in charge of Cap-
tain W. H. Fry.
At Linden Hall the services will be
in the cemetery at 3:30 o'clock. The
speaker will be John T. Taylor Esq.
and music will be furnished by the
State College school band. The col-
lege military department will fur-
nish a bugler and the firing squad.
Children are requested to take flow-
ers.
The services at State College will
begin at 9:50 on Memorial day with a
parade which will come to rest on
the campus, where the exercises will
be held at 10:30. Music will be fur-
nished by the College band. The in-
vocation will be delivered by Rev
John F. Harkins, Dr. Ralph D. Hetzel,
president of the College, will intro-
duce the speaker, Gen. Edward Mar-
tin. Rev. Clarence A. Adams will
pronounce the benediction and the
services will close with “The Star
Spangled Banner,” by the College
band.
State College will be honored with
the presence of Mr. George Cretziane,
Minister Plenipotentiary from
| Walter Reichert and Henry Sholly
Rumania, and his secretary, Gover-'
nor John S. Fisher and other State
officials have been invited.
Services at Houserville will be held
band.
At the Branch services will be held
at 2:30. Rev. Edward Frear will be | connection with his proposed airport
the speaker and the College public | marker but as he has not yet secured
_|a definite location; --and because of’
school.band will furnish the music,
Historic Tablet for Gray’s Cemetery. | pany is unable to give the exact cost
On Memorial day an official revolu-
tionary marker that has been placed
on the grave of Elijah Chambers, in
Gray's cemetery, will be unveiled.
It will be the occasion of an im-
posing ceremony and Rev. Wardner
Willard is coming, specially, from
Harrisburg, to make the address.
Elijah and James Chambers came
'to Centre county from Cumberland
county in 1790. Both having had
‘grants of land from the government
they settled in the Halfmoon valley
and were pioneers there. Elijah had
served throughout the revolutionary
war; having enlisted while living in
Cumberland county. While it has
never been officially determined it is
commonly supposed that the town of
Chambersburg took its name from
them.
Among the Elijah Chambers direct
descendants still living in this com-
munity are Wm. C. Chambers, a
grandson and his children; Charles
Larimer, a great grandson and the
latter's children: Elizabeth and Mar-
ietta, great great granddaughters.
Marietta will draw the cord that will
unveil the tablet. Rev. Wardner Wil-
lard, of Harrisburg; Mrs. Morris
Hazel, of Altoona, Willis Hartsock, of
Tyrone, and Lee R. Larimer, of Jer-
sey Shore, are other great grand chil-
dren. 3
It has been due largely to the inter-
est and material contribution of the
latter that the tablet memoralizing
his distinguished forebear has been
| placed in the cemetery where he lies.
|
| ——Governor John S. Fisher has
| appointed E. B. Dorsett, of Mansfield,
‘master of the Pennsylvania State
! Grange, as a trustee of the Pennsyl-
vania State College. For many years
jar. Dorsett has had a close interest
in all phases of State College work
and has given his help many times
{in its development. He succeeds W.
"S. Wise, of Meadville, as one of the
six trustees appointed by the Gov-
‘ernor, Mr. Wise retiring because of
| failing health. Governor Fisher re-
' appointed Jesse B. Warriner, of Lans-
ford, to the trustees board. He is
{a graduate of the college and has
been a trustee for several years. Mr.
Dorsett was the speaker at the even-
(ing meeting of the Farmer's Field
| Day gathering at the College yester-
| day.
| A
| —Secretary Stimson . says this
| country will have nothing to do with
German reparations. Yet we ‘have
been managing the whole business
{ from the beginning.
——Tt'is worth while for our Re-
publican friends to remember that
Gifford Pinchot will be home in time
| to take a hand in the next : primary
election, . y ry f
A | Mrs. Alice Showers
at 9:30 a. m., with Thomas I. Mairs, | person and asked exoneration of taxes
as speaker, and music by the Lemont | ang the matter was referred to the
i
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| Mr. Hunter also reported to council
Many Puzzling Questions Up to the
Borough Council.
At the regular meeting of borough
council, on Monday evening, a writ-
ten proposition was presented by the
West Penn Power company offering
to make a thorough survey of the
town, at the company’s expense, in
connection with the water pumping
proposition, the communication car-
rying the inference that the company
could possibly make a proposition to
council which would be more attrac-
tive than going ahead with the con-
struction of a borough generating
plant at the Gamble mill. Supt. W.
T. McCormick and R. H. Lightner,
of the West Penn, were present and
made it plain that the company is not
at all antagonistic to council’s desire
to reduce the cost of pumping the
water. To this end they proposed
that a thorough survey be made both
of the company’s plans as well as the
boroughs, and if the question is not
definitely determined by September
1st, the date of the expiration of the
present contract, the company will
continue to furnish service from
month to month as long as the bor-
ough needs the same. The matter
was referred to the Water committee
for conference with West Penn of-
ficials.
A communication was received
from the Central Pennsylvania Gas
company, authorizing the borough to
make all repairs along gas pipe lines,
on a cost-plus basis, bills to be sub-
mitted monthly.
were present to ask for building per-
mits for the construction of houses
on Burnside street. The matter was
referred to the Street and Village
Improvement committees and bor-
ough solicitor.
appeared in
Finance committee.
Robert F. Hunter was present in
this fact the West Penn Power com-
of lighting, president Walker suggest-
ed that he get his proposition in def-
inite shape then return to council.
that the Central Pennsylvania Gas
company has undertaken a settlement
of the claim of Mrs. Harvey Schaef-
fer, made against the borough for in-
juries sustained in a fall.
Mr. Hunter further stated that he
has been in conference with two men
who are desirous of starting a knit-
ting mill in Bellefonte and they would
like to secure the brick building at
the Phoenix mill. The building is at
present under monthly lease but the
matter was referred to the Water
committee. '
The street committee reported re-
ceipt of $40 from R.L. Mallory for
sewers, and repairs made on various
streets. The committee further re:
ported that an inspection of the
streets of the town showed that some
places should be oiled and the com-
mitteee asked authority to purchase
'a carload of oil and the necessary
chips to make the repairs, which
should be made next month. Authori-
ty was granted to make the purchase
from the lowest responsible bidder.
The committee also reported a num-
ber of pavements in town that are
badly in need of repair, and it was de-
cided to notify the owners to make
same.
The Water committee reported va-
rious repairs, the collection of $45.00
for rent at Phoenix mill and $350 on
water tax.
The Finance committee asked for
the renewal of notes totaling $7,400.
which was authorized.
Bills totaling $1520 were approved
for payment after which council ad-
journed.
——Plutarco E. Calles, late Presi-
dent of Mexico, has announced his re-
tirement from public life. Maybe it’s
a case of “taking time by the fore-
lock.”
——Democratic State Chairman
Collins serves notice that Trading
Posts in the party have been perma-
nently discontinued.
——The Athletics are scoring
strong in the fight for the pennant,
but it’s a long run to the finish.
——The proposed tariff schedules
fail to satisfy Grundy. He wants
both the earth and the sky.
——Al Capone probably imagined
that Philadelphia is a safe harbor for
captured crooks.
rn see er ples ————
——The air is still exacting . toll
! deposits.
! profitable industry for many years near
i Mertztown. where a paint mill turns out
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—Twenty-one Boy Scouts of the Lehigh
county council set 4,000 trees around their
camp in Monroe county this spring. Al-
| though inexperienced the boys averaged
about one tree a minute in the planting
operations.
—DMiss Marian Clarkson, Shamokin High
school senior, has neither been absent nor
tardy once in the twelve years she has at-
tended public school. She is the only stu-
dent in the high school of 700 or more
pupils with this record.
—As a result of Governor Fisher's ap-
proval of the Heaton bill, which provides
for a gradual removal over a period of
two years of the tonnage tax on anthracite
coal, the price at the mines will be re-
duced five cents a ton on June 1, accord-
ing to an announcement made at WilkKes-
Barre, on Tuesday. iin
—No clue has been found to the rob-
"bers who took $250 to $300, stole the safe
| and escaped with fifty pounds of butter,
! a large quantity of sugar, candy and cig-
arettes from the Vengold store on one of
the main streets in Sandy Lake, Venango
county. The robbery is the fourth in
eighteen months at the Vengol@ store.
—1It takes a lot of public spirit to give
away 100 broilers for a chicken supper.
That is what Henry Hocker. Milanville,
and Livingston Blauvelt, Bethany, did for
the Wayne county poultry association
meeting at Indian Orchard. Women mem-
bers of the Indian Orchard Grange pre-
pared the meal which was enjoyed by 140
persons.
—Eleven families were driven from their
homes early Sunday morning by fire which
swept a six-story brick apartment house
in Pottsville, and threatened four similar
structures during the four hours it rag-
ed. To combat the flames, the largest
mobilization of fire apparatus seen there in
fifteen years was necessitated. The loss
was estimated at $50,000.
—All persons desiring ringneck pheas-
ant eggs from either of the two State
game farms, recently acquired by the
Board of Game Commissioners, must make
formal application on regular blanks sup-
plied by the commission. These applica-
tion blanks can be secured either at the
i offices of the board at Harrisburg or from
the various county game protectors. Full
instructions governing the hatching will
be furnished with each shipment of eggs
— Thomas E. Bevins, of Pittsburgh, has
failed, at least temporarily, to regain the
bride he claims is being kept from him
by her parents. After a hearing on Be-
vins’ habeas corpus petition. Judge Thom-
as J. Ford continued the case indefinit2-
ly and the bride remained at the home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William
Monoghan. Bevins charged that the day
after he married the girl, they visited the
Monoghans where the bride was seized
and locked up and their marriage certif-
icate destroyed.
__Mrs. Jessie E. Taylor, 29, post-mis-
tress at Claytonia, Butler county, was
sentenced to one year in the Federal wo-
men’s reformatory at Alderson, W. Va.,
after she pleaded guilty to a charge of
embezzling postal funds at Pittsburgh,
on Tuesday. Mrs. Taylor, mother of two
children and the support of her aged par-
‘ents, told the court she used the$3570.71
she had embezzled to pay doctor and hos-
pital bills. A postal inspector, however,
said part of the money had been used for
payments on an automobile.
—Michael Kowaleskie, living near Sha-
mokin, has brought suit in the Northum-
berland county court seeking $200,000 from
Leslie A. Lichtel, Shamokin, for the death
of the former's wife, which he says was
due to an automobile crashing into the
plaintiff’s home. According to Kowales-
kie's statement, Lichtel’s car left the
road and crashed into his house so hard
that it caused a pipe in a hot water radia-
tor inside the parlor to be dislocated; wa-
ter ran out, the wife got her feet wet.
pneumonia developed and she died. The.
accident happened September 12 last.
—Charles Foster, Claysville, Pa. was
convicted of the murder of Martin Parko,
alias Mike Baker, by a jury at Tombstone,
Ariz., Saturday night. The jury recom-
mended the death penalty after a delib-
eration of 25 minutes. Baker was slain
near the Mohave desert last February af-
ter he had given Foster a ride in his auto-
mobile. The body was found with a bul-
‘at wound in the head and Foster was
later arrested with the slain man’s car
in his possession. Foster was hitch hik-
ing from Los Angeles to his home in
Pennsylvania when the murder occurred.
—Owners of ochre or natural paints ore
deposits in the Mertztown-Longswamp
region of Upper Berks county are much
interested in the discovery of what is be-
lieved to be continuation of their vein,
i over the Lehigh line, some distance west
| 0. irlin farm and seems to be of large ex-
of Alburtis. It was found on the John
tent. New Jersey paint manufacturers
have sent prospectors to examine the new
Mining paint ore has been a
large quantities of powdered ochre every
week. The product is dug from large oOp-
en pits, dried and then pulverized.
—Twenty-two persons on a Greyhound
Lines, Inc., bus were injured, two ser-
iously, near Butler, Pa., on Sunday when
the big vehicle, enroute to Cleveland from
Pittsburgh, skidded on a slippery pave-
ment, rolled over twice and took fire.
The flames were quickly extinguished.
The injured passengers were taken to a
Butler hospital in ambulances and given
treatment. Gerald Whan, 28, Youngstown,
the driver, said it was raining and that
the accident occurred as he attempted to
swing the bus into a dirt road from the
paved highway at a place known as Cran-
mer's hill on the New Castle road. Whan,
who was severely bruised, said he was
not running fast at the time.
—The Bureau of Engineering of the -
Pennsylvania State Health Department is
making necessary arrangements for the
enforcement of the new law which pro-
vides for the licensing and regulation of
dealers in milk used for human consump-
tion. Several months will be required bee
fore the necessary details of the inspec-
tions can properly be arranged for but
dealers are advised to maintain the san-
itary standards formerly set by the De-
partment; and the minority of individuals
and firms ‘that has not as yet reached
those standards to interest themselves
toward that end. Detailed ‘information
relative’ to the actual enforcement of the
but the aviators refuse to be dis~
couraged. 1
| be issued in the near future.
law by the State Health Department will
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