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INK © INE sunes.
+ ——What we would like to know is
where the scullery maids on the Graf
Zeppelin throw their dish water.
"—A Shamokin printer was held up
and shot by bandits on Monday night.
All of which goes to show that ban-
dits don’t know that printer's have
lots of things but money isn’t one of
them.
——A new mile stone has been set
to mark the flight of time in this lo-
cality. Now, “before or after I saw
the Zep” will take its place with “be-
fore the big wind in Ireland,” “the
Johnstown flood” and “the World
war” as a basis for reckoning time.
—The entry of Edward Klinger in
‘He contest for Republican nomination
‘or tax collector of Bellefonte might,
or might not, mean more than the be-
ated announcement indicates. Mr.
{line is the gentleman who should
worry about that, however. Doubt-
ess he knows just what it means.
Leaves are falling from the
rees as though they had been nipped
)y a hard frost. There was a light
rost in many parts of the county on
saturday morning, but the falling
eaves are probably the consequence
f the prolonged drouth, rather than
f the frosts. We have had a frost
very month thus far in 1929.
—Circling the globe in twelve days
3 something that even the fanciful
1ind of Jules Verne didn’t conceive;
et that is practically what the Graf
eppelin did. The thing tna: Dr.
[ugo Eckner its pilot, did in select-
1g a course from (eveland east that
rought the great dirigible over
iellefonte dragged a iot of people
ere out of bed earlier than they
ave ever been up before.
—Some are getting excited because
1ey think they have discoverd that
[ayor Mackey, of Philadelphia, is
itting up his pins to be the next
overnor. Goodness me! The May-
: has been doing that for several
sars. We knew it the moment we
>gan receiving releases of speeches
» was scheduled to deliver. And, by
ie way, the Mayor is fully as well
1alified as most of the men Penn-
lvania has been in the habit of call-
g as Chief Executive.
—The Lindberghs were on our av-
tion field for twelve minutes last
inday and apparently nobody knew
for there wasn’t any more commo-
m over the distinguished arrivals
an there was over us when we
rked, several weeks ago, at Fifth
venue at Forty-second street.
e wondered at the time
1y there was no fuss made over
r arrival in New York. It certain-
me New Yorkers didn’t know any
re about our being there than we
1 about the Lindberghs being here.
—The death of G. Washington Rees
‘akened a lot of memories we cher-
Away back in the eighties, when
came to town, our life was cir-
mscribed by the environs of the old
me on Cheap-side.” Isaac Haupt
ned and occupied everything west
our line to Thomas street. The
s now occupied by the Gray and
*k houses were his truck patch and
their rear were a rambling lot of
bles, ware-houses and a tin shop
it were the haven through which
boys of the neighborhood romped
rainy days. The Haupts had a
le of everything in those days:
rses, cows, pigs. chickens, hound-
8, a tin shop and a cigar manu-
tory. In the latter we had our
t glimpse of G. Washington. He
ae there to roll cigars.
s of those days were not gold |
ies in which their children had on- | through “elysian fields,”
VOL. 74.
Mr. Ford’s Ktiavagint Statentent.
‘When Henry Ford said that “if
booze ever comes back to the United
States I am through with manufac-
turing,’ he was “talking through his
hat,” a weakness that is becoming
a habit with him. Mr. Ford is a
prohibitionist, and has always been,
and he was probably serious when
he said “I would not be bothered
with the problems of handling 200,-
000 men and trying to pay them
wages which the saloons would take
away from them.” He may have
been equally sincere and he was cer-
tainly 100 per cent right when he
added. “I wouldn't be interested. in
putting automobiles in the hands of
a generation soggy with drink.
Gasoline and booze don’t mix; that’s
all.” But it is not likely that he
would scrap a billion dollar business
on that account.
Henry Ford has had a wide ex-
perience in business and has proved
himself a supreme master in the art
of building and selling automobiles.
But he made a good deal of his vast
fortune before booze “went out” in
the United States, even though the
saloons may have taken in a consid-
erable part of the wages of his
employees. If he had said in his
magazine article that in the event
the saloons were restored he would
employ only strictly prohibition
workmen his statement would have
carried an element of good sense
and wise purpose that had strong
appeal to the public. But his broad-
er and manifestly sillier declaration,
that he will quite business in that
event, is too absurd to arrest the
serious attention of well balanced
minds.
The fact is that Mr. Ford is a
bluffer and doesn’t expect to be
taken seriously, and too frequently
his statements and actions are so
absurd that they provoke ridicule
rather than command respect. At
an inopportune moment during the
World war he organized an expedi-
tion at great expense to “get the
troops out of the trenches” within a
brief time. In that enterprise he
considerably embarrassed the ad-
¥ i
was an unusual event, but we. ey ministration at Wash ngton: “By med: |
dling in matters of which he had no
knowledge and led a bunch of light
headed advénturers on a wild-goose
chase through various sections of
Europe. His statement on the ques-
tion of business and booze is equally
foolish, though happily much more
harmless.
——Maybe Harry Sinclair wants to
get out in order to make room for
Tom Cunningham to getinto Wash-
ington jail. There ought to be space
for both.
——— ets
When War Might be Justified.
General Sherman correctly ap-
praised war as it was conducted in
his time nearly three quarters of a
century ago. He said “war is hell,”
and he was a highly qualified expert
on the subject. Since that time it
has steadily increased in horror.
The par- | The famous “march from Atlanta
to the Sea” was a pleasure journey,
compared
‘0 dig. We knew nothing of parks, | With the trench struggles during the
vies and sports models. If we had.
ickel to spend in a week we were
owed about by playmates hopeful
‘alling heir to a bit of the licorice
t we squandered the money for. .
'y were the days when children
ined their gizzards churning the |
cream freezer when promised the |
her to lick. And on baking day
er out of the crock when moth-
xd stiff because there was ‘“noth-
to do.” The day wasn’t half-long
igh for all we wanted to crowd
it. And the thing that a lot of
loved most was to ride up to
pt’s farm, on Purdue mountain,
a springless one-horse wagon
vn by old “Carey.” Trailing be-
| on the tortuous route would he
rey” the leader of the pack of
ads and the thrill of velvetly glid-
over paved roads in a Rolls-
ce today seems as nothing com-
d with the perfect joy of those
5. All of the Haupt boys who .
> old enough, John, “Dode,” Newt |
Bill, worked in the cigar factory
there's where we established
quarters always when we heard
a trip to “the mountain” was in
pect. It was the custom then for
who loafed about a place to
a hand at the work, so some of
:arned to strip tobacco and it was
2 doing that we had our first
pse of G. Washington when he
‘ed as “the new cigar maker.”
gone and soon will be only a
ory. Whatever others might
r-of him he’s one of our sou-
's for was he not a link in the
1 that holds us fast to those
dead days beyond recall.
, World war. And since that period
the “best minds” of the world have
been industriously working to create
! more forbidding forms of inflicting
punishment and death. The thought
of war is abhorrent to every worthy
human instinct.
Yet there are times when the pros-
i pect of war may be contemplated
g around the kitchen with the!
e of swiping a finger full of cake |
| problems.
back was turned. We weren't |
i ernment has sent to the signatories
with feelings of satisfaction when it
seems the only solution of involved
For example, in the com-
munication which the Chinese gov-
of the Kellogg treaty it is alleged
that the Soviet government of Rus-
sia has been “promoting secret plans
to nullify China's unification, to
' overthrow the Chinese government,
to organize secret forces for destroy-
to carry out a policy of wholesale
assassinations and thereby bring
about a world-wide revolution.”
, These are grave chargesand the rec- |
'ord of the Soviet government justi-
fies a large measure of faith in the
; validity of them.
A war at this time between Russia
and - China might, and probably
would, accomplish two highly desir-
able results. It might completely
unify China and make of the war-
ring factions in that distracted coun- !
try a progressive government cap-
able of much good in the affairs of
the world. It might also administer
to. the present government of Rus-
: sia such a castigation as would cause
reforms in -administration of domes-
tic and foreign policy that would pro-
mote the peace and prosperity of the
civilized world. = A few years of the!
horrors of war would be hard toen-'
dure but such an achievement would
“be worth the price and maybe more.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Governor Fisher Turns Reformer.
Governor Fisher's mind seems to
have adopted an economic slant. He
has pronounced definitely against in-
discriminate and too frequent salary :
increases for State employees. A few
weeks ago he entertained a different
opinion on the subject. In fact he
lent his assistance to juggling the
constitution in order that several
members of his cabinet might at
once enjoy salary increases provided
by the Legislature during its last
session. But these cronies, having
been provided for generously, he im-
agines things have gone far enough
in that direction. The other day he
issued orders to the heads of the
several departments to “soft pedal”
on the subject of increasing salaries.
This new, and in view of past rec-
ords, surprising step of the Govern-
or has taken the form of “a
thorough survey of salaries and per-
sonnel
When the survey is complete,
cording to capital hill gossip, “the
Governor will have at his finger tips
charts showing the position of each
employee, his or her salary and
work. When a vacancy occurs or a
request for increase of salary
reaches him for approval he will
have the information at hand to
help him in his decision.” It may be
added that he will also have the sever-
al employees “under his thumb” for
political services that may be re-
quired for the benefit of the Mellon
machine.
The Governor also admonishes
heads of departments against too
frequent requests for salary raises.
It seems that heretofore the several
secretaries in the cabinet were
the habit of rewarding favorites by |
increasing their salaries at will. This
privilege is to be curtailed hereafter
and limited to ‘once a year” and
the amount of increase to be award-
ed to any employee shall not exceed
| the amount of a single increment
fixed for the classification of the
grade.” This is also a wholesome
improvement on the system which
has recently prevailed. However
high ‘in favor. the employee is held
"he“can’t have “his . remuneration
doubled every month while Fisher
remains “watchdog of the treasury.”
—————p Ae se.
—What a week the Granger’s have
had! if they nave nothing else to be
thanktul for we think rrom every
tent at Centre Hall there should be
dispatched a posey for the weather
man.
‘“Hampy” Moore and Vare.
There is some measure of reason in
the attitude of J. Hampton Moore,
former Mayor and professed reform-
er, in the pending campaign for
county and municipal offices in Phil-
adelphia. One of the organizers of
the Republican League, and frequent-
ly the candidate of the “better ele-
ment” for important offices, he has
resigned from the League and refus-
es to support its candidates. The
League was formed by Mr. Moore and
others “in the interest of cleaner
elections and better municipal govern-
ment.” Its alliance with a group of
politicians, headed by Mayor Mackey,
is interpreted by Mr. Moore as sub-
versive of this laudable purpose. If
his appraisement of the movement is
correct he is absolutely right.
Harry Mackey is an infinitely
greater menace to clean elections
and good government than Vare be-
cause of his greater capacity to do
harm. Vare’s mental equipment is
small while Mackey’s is large. Vare
could get nowhere without the guid-
ance of Mackey and other political
racketeers to point the way. In his
campaign for Senator Mackey was
his manager and Greenfield his “an-
gel.” Without the help of these two
and Cunningham his campaign for
Senator would have been a joke. If
!he had agreed to give Mackey what
| he estimated to be his share of the
‘ing the Chinese Eastern railway and spoils in framing the ticket this year
i there would have been no revolt in the
camp. Justly or unjustly Mr. Moore
| imagines that the defeat of Vare will
work the elevation of Mackey with
{all its possibilities for evil.
Of course that is a provincial view
of the case, but “Hampy” is a com-
mercial politician. If the real re-
formers who are supporting the Re-
{ publican League ticket had adopted
| that view when Mr. Moore was a
, candidate for Mayor a few years ago,
the Vare control would not have been
‘even temporarily checked. Political
managers want votes and don’t de-
“mand a pedigree of voters who offer
them help. Mackey has aligned him-
| self against Vare for selfish reasons,
no doubt, and in the event of the
i success of the contest will want the
| lion's share of the plunder. But that
should not influence reformers to sup-
port Vare. There is a chance of im-
provement, and failure to seize it is
|
, stupid.
in the State government.” |
ac-
BELLEFONTE, ] PA.. AUGU ST 30. 1929.
Cm ——
Snsincority of Tariff Mongers, +
The action of the Republican
members of the Senate Committee
on Finance has again revealed the
absurdity of the pretense that tariff
, taxation has even a remote relation
"fo the rates of wages in this country.
The present tariff law carries a rate.
of one cent a pound on the manga-
nese content of ores imported. Its
principal source of supply is Russia,
and it is an important element in
the manufacture of steel. The pend-
ing House bill continued the old rate
but the Grundyites demanded a con-
siderable increase and the Senate
Committee raised the levy to. one’
and a half cents a pound. While the
. measure was still under considera-
“tion announcement was made that
trust had bought from |
the Steel
Russia between 80,000 and 150,000
tons of manganese ore a year for
five years.
That being an adequate supply of
manganese for that period, at least,
the tariff tax of one and a half cents |
a pound became a burden rather
than a benefit to the steel makers in
this country, and the Senate com-
mitte struck out the tax provision of
the bill and put manganese on the
free list, thus making the steel
manufacturers a present of thirty |
dollars on every ton of their prod-
uct of which manganese ore is a
The matter of wages |
constituent.
to the workmen who produced the
steel was eliminated from the equa- |
tion entirely, but the United States
Steel corporation, the Bethlehem
Steel company and other steel pro-
ducing corporations are guaranteed
, a speedy return of the money they
in | contributed to the Republican cam-
i paign fund last year.
This incident presents clearly the
purposes of tariff taxation as ex-
pressed in the present and pending
tariff bills. But it is not an entirely
isolated case. At the outset of the
consideration of the pending measure
the most active operator in the
work was Senator Smoot, of Utah,
whose obvious purpose was to secure
advantages for the Mormon church,
2 is largely concerned -:in- the.
sugar beet industry. He had secured’
in the House bill a rate on sugar so
high that the whole country pro-,
tested. Thereupon the Senate com-
mittee reduced the rate and Smoot
promptly lost interest in the matter
and turned the leadership of the
movement over to Senator Dave
Reed, of Pennsylvania, who is the
representative of the Steel trust on
the floor of the Senate.
mm—————— A ———
—The Huntingdon gentleman who
writes to flatter ‘us into believing that
we hold an enviable position in our
profession sings in music dulcet to
our ears, but if we had been gallop-
ing along on the road to success like
he is we would have had a bulging
bank account instead of having to.
buy new filing cabinets in which to
preserve our treasures. In these days
a stack of blue chips talk louder at
the gas station than a cabinet full of
wilted bouquets.
emerson.
——British Chancellor Philip Snow- |
den seems to be hard to get along
with, and if he wrecks the Hague
reparation conference he will assume
obligations equal to his obstinacy.
——A former St. Louis prohibition
officer has sued Mrs. Mabel Wille-
brandt for libel claiming $1,000,000
damages. If he wins it will take
most of Mabel’s pin money.
——The board of road and bridge
viewers met in the court house, on
Monday morning, to consider four
separate projects for new township
roads.
——The hope of Haiti for complete
independence will be disappointed. A
Republican administration never
gives up anything that is worth any-
thing.
——The ward leaders are flocking
to the Vare standard in Philadelphia,
but there are only a few ward lead-
ers and a vast number of voters.
————— pe —
——Vare government costs money.
Within nine years the public debt of
Philadelphia has increased from
$182,973,450 to $530,545,600.
ee ein
——If Russia is responsible for the
Mongol massacre it is another reason
why the Soviet. government should be
“wiped off the map.”
im fee rrrmiimis
——The girls of this merry world
have the assurance of a Philadelphia
health officer ‘that lipsticks contain no
poison.
Ci LL
——Mayor Mackey's “eleventh hour
conversion” fails to make a strong
| impression on the public mind.
NO. 34.
BIG GRAF ZEPPELIN
FLIES OVER BELLEFONTE.
Like ships that pass in the night
the big Graf Zeppelin, its huge mo-
tors sending forth a muffled roar of
defiance to the elements which sound-
ed like a pean of victory, sailed
majestically over Bellefonte at ex-
actly 3:01 o'clock yesterday morning.
It’s course was due west to east and
it was apparent that Dr. Hugo Eck-
ner was piloting his ship direct for
i Lakehurst.
| Only confusing reports of the big
| airship could be obtained all day, on
| Wednesday, and the gist of these
were that the Graf would fly over
| New York State. In fact it was not
i until Wednesday evening that any-
| thing definite was obtained and then
the wireless station at the Bellefonte
| airport reported it as having passed
over Detroit, Mich. at 7:17 p. m,,
flying about 65 miles an hour and ap-
parently headed the shortest route
to Lakehurst. The natural course
then would be from Detroit to Cleve-
land and over the airmail route east.
Working on the assumption that
i the Graf might fly this course J. H.
j Caum, manager of the Bell Tele-
phone company for this district, got
i officials along the line as far west as
DuBois with a request that he be
kept informed of the progress of the
Graf, if it should come this way, and
arrangements were also made to
| sound the fire alarm as a signal that
the ship was approaching. As it
sailed over Detroit at 7:17 at a speed
of 65 miles an hour it was quite ev-
ident it would not reach Bellefonte
until around three o'clock in the
morning.
And it was just two minutes of
three when the fire alarm warning
was sounded. Hardly had the echo of
the alarm died away when a roar of
an airplane motor was heard, but it
proved to be the east-bound mailplane.
A minute later, however, another
roaring sound came out of the west-
ern skies, and it was so different
from the noise of an airplane that it
was approaching.
the ship looked like a bright, twink-
i ling star in the western skies, butit
was only the space of a few seconds
star which grew bigger with the
nearer approach of the big ship. As
the Graf neared Bellefonte other
lights flashed on and through the
hazy fog the big ship was quite dis-
tinctly outlined in the light of the
moon. With field glasses the Graf
showed up fairly plain, both front
and rear cabins, dimly illuminated,
being visible.
Forest W. Tanner, manager of the
Graf was flying at an estimated
height of five thousand feet and a
speed of approximately eighty miles
an hour. When the big ship flew
over the Bellefonte airport light sig-
strued at being more a salute of
recognition of the field than a mes-
sage of information, then all lights
was lost sight of on the trail of its
flight to the east.
The Zep-reached New York at 6:06
o'clock yesterday morning, circled
the Statue of Liberty then flew south
at rest in the big hangar. All on
board were well and in fine shape.
In it’s trip around the world the Graf
covered a distance of 18,980 miles
and as it passed over Bellefonte yes-
terday morning it was on it’s 18,781
st mile.
Through Chicago.
From the Des Moines Tribune-Capital.
In connection with the Wabash
plan for a new eastern system, it is
suggested that this road will be the
first to run trains through Chicago
without transferring passengers. At
present it is the boast of Chicago-
ans that no train goes through there:
every one is made over.
A railway man of long experience
says that in the old days Erie was
a transfer point because old nar-
row gauge and new standard gauge
lines met there. From every train
goods had to be unloaded, moved by
horses and drays to the other width
cars, and reloaded.
Most of Erie lived by hauling
goods from one depot to another.
So when the narrow roads were
made standard width there was con-
sternation. Nearly everybody in Erie
thought the town would disappear.
Outbreaks in violence to prevent the
change were common.
‘We cannot expect Chicago to dis-:
appear, nor will the people there be
greatly concerned, probably, over the
prospect of a through train. But it
will be an improvement in service, no
doubt. It seems odd that for these
many years great transcontinental
trains have had to ston and make
over just because they were in Chica-
go.
—Subscribe for the Watchman.
was at once manifest that the Graf
“At first ‘sight ‘the beacon light on. ; “one night last
week, Luther ‘Steele; a retired Perry coun-
until it was discernible as a moving
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—A gas well producing between 2,000,-
000 and 3,000,000 cubic feet daily has been
brought in on the Joseph Hortle heirs’
farm, near Clarion, by the People’s Gas
company. :
—Details for the transfer of the proper-
ty of the Susquehanna Valley Telephone
company are being worked out and the
concern will changse hands September 1.
Exchanges of the Susquehanna Valley
company will be operated for some time
until line changes can be made to con-
solidated exchanges in towns where there
is duplication.
—Valdessa Saltsman, aged 17, is in the
Renovo general hospital in a critical con-
dition as the result of being: seriously
burned late Monday afternoon when she
attempted to use gasoline instead of ker-
osene to start a fire in the kitchen stove.
Her screams attracted the attention of
Mrs. Edmund Hugar, who lives next door,
and she rushed over to find the girl en-
veloped in flames from head to foot.
—The last request of Joseph Yost, 48,
proprietor of the Colonial Inn, at Allen-
town, that the best band in Allentown be '
hired for his funeral and that there be no
flowers and no minister, was complied with
at his funeral on Saturday. Yost shot
and killed Frank Frey, 52, Trumbauers-
ville barber, in revenge for Frey and his
wife giving information which resulted in
a raid on his inn. He then committed
suicide.
—Complaint against an overhead bridge
on the Tyrone-Altoona road crossing the
Pennsylvania railroad right of way, near
Grazierville, was filled with the Public
Service Commission on Saturday by the
Tyrone motor club. The complaint charg-
ed the bridge is unsafe for present day
traffic. The railroad, the Logan Valley
trolley company, the highway department,
Blair county and Snyder township were
named as respondents.
—The mystery of the disappearance of
a china nest egg from the chicken coop
on the farm of A. A. Dimm, in Perry coun-
ty, was solved in a very unexpected man-
ner recently when an unusually large
blacksnake was killed in the yard of the
Dimm home. Dissecting the snake to
discover the cause of a large lump near
the middle of the snake disclosed the nest
egg, which was probably swallowed in
mistake for the real egg.
—Taking advantage of his idleness
while he was laid off from work, Ben-
jamin Hemerka, of Shamokin, employed
as a machinist in the Susquehanna colier-
ies, has made application to the United
States patent office at Washington for a
patent on a muffler for a whirlwind air-
plane motor. Experts in the patent office
declare it is one of the most ingenious and
valuable devices that was brought out in
the recent research work.
—Politicians and office holders in New
Columbus borough, a municipality of 130
voters on the north-western fringe of Lu- :
zerne county, apparently are not much
concerned over the primary for not a sin-
gle petition for any of the nine offices at
stake has been filed. Clerks at the coun-
ty - commissioner’s office discovering the
blank pages in the section devoted to re-
cording the nominees from New Colum-
bus borough, started an investigation.
—In the act of disrobing in his cham-
ber preparatory to retiring one night last
ty farmer, narrowly escaped being killed
by a rifle ball that crashed through his
bedroom window and buried itself in the
plaster of the wall six inches from his
head. Several nights previous chicken
thieves had been chased from the farm
buildings and it is believed that the shot
through the window of the Steele home
was in retaliation by the thieves.
—James Martin, 15 years old, of La-
trobe, is in a hospital there with a shat-
tered right arm, the result of a rifle shot
wound suffered on Saturday, when he and
| Earl Stauffer,
! Stauffer was released on $1,000 bond pend-
Bellefonte airport, estimates that the ! ing a hearing on charges that he shot the
nals were flashed which were con-
to Lakehurst and by 7:50 o’clock was !
two companions were in the orchard of
farmer near that city.
boy. The boys said three shots were fired
when they started to run as the orchard
owner appeared. The farmer was said to
have fired in an effort to frighten the
boys into stopping.
—Three inspectors to examine voting.
machines submitted by manufacturers for
in Pennsylvania under the Harris
li machine law, were named this
week by Robert R. Lewis, Secretary of
were turnel off but one as the Graf {ne Commonwealth. The Harris act pass-
ed by the 1929 Legislature, provides for
appointment of the inspectors. They are
Jonathan S. Green, of Pittsburgh; John
F. Horting, Lancaster, and Ray Rathfon,
Harrisburg. Green is a patent law at-
torney the law providing that one of the
inspectors shall be an attorney. So far the
Automatic Voting Machine Corporation of
Jamestown, N. Y., is the only firm that has
offered a voting machine for sale in Penn-
sylvania.
—Picking up a heavy charge of dyna-
mite and throwing it into the Allegheny
river, Edward Nicodemus, son of G. M.
Nicodemus, Altoona, saved one of Pitts-
burg’s most crowded traffic bridges from
possible detruction early on Sunday. Un-
til two years ago, Edward Nicodemus liv-
ed in Altoona. He is a veteran of the
Spanish American war. At 4:30 Sunday
morning, Nicodemus was crossing the
Nineteenth street bridge on his way from
East Liberty to Sharpsburg, when he saw
a man place a bucket on the bridge and
run. He ran to the bucket, saw that it
contained a box which held a powerful
charge of dynamite and hurled it into the
river. Police have recovered the dyna-
mite for evidence and are searching for
the man who attempted to destroy the
bridge.
—The three ‘‘sheik bandits,” who rob-
bed a jewelry store and tailor shop at Mt.
Carmel, shot Leon Eisenhart, a Shamokin
printer, and stole his. car Sunday a quart-
er of a mile from Mt. Carmel, robbed Ir-
vin Rhoads, of Aristes, and his fiancee,
then stole the youth’s borrowed car and
escaped towards Locust Gap. The car was
parked near the Mt. Carmel cemetery
when a bullet broke the rear window. The
occupants then were covered with guns by
three flashy-dressed masked youths, who
relieved Rhoads of $50, and the girl of
her bracelets, She saved her diamond
ring by pushing it into her hair. The
couple walked three miles to Mt. Carmel.
Eisenhart’s car was found this morning
a half mile from Mt. Carmel with a hole
through the windshield, indicating the
thieves had later been fired ‘at. Eisenhart
has not been operated om, due to his
weakened condition.
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