_ —One of the reasons that so many
people are well is that they can't
afford to be sick.
. —Vote for Johnston for District
Attorney and put that office in the
hands of a young man who is free
from all political alliancés and in a
position to conduct it without fear or
favor.
. —If we are to believe former fire
marshall Bob Kline and George Car-
peneto, chief of the Undines, all the
joy of running to a fire is now taken
out of life. They're so convinced
that the new Undine pumper has
occult powers that all the firemen up
on Bishop street will need do when
the alarm sounds now is say:
“Hiss!” and keep on playing pinochle
while the new machine goes out and
puts an end to the conflagration.
_ —Our local hospital acquitted it-
self very creditably last year. Out
of nine hundred and seventy-four pa-
tients, many of whom were taken
there at the eleventh hour, forty-
three died. A four and one-half per
cent. mortality rate is low; just about
four ut of every hundred. Only
those who shun the thought of tak-
ing a chance on being one of the
four would think that rate too high.
Anyways, the hospital brought more
than two new ones into the world
for every one it failed to keep from
going out.
—There are more than thirty-two
thousand students in the forty-three
colleges in Pennsylvania. The per-
centage is probably as high in the
colleges of other States. More and
more are seeking higher education
each year and that causes us to
ponder a bit. How are the people
who have to do the work going to
manage to keep enough cars on the
highways to pick up this ever grow-
ing army of “thumb jerkers” when it
is hitch-hiking home for week-ends
or somewhere to root for the Varsity
foot-ball team?
Mr. Horace Hartranft has laid on
our desk a circular big as a bed
sheet. Attached to it is a letter in
which he says: “We guarantee re-
sults.” Horace has supplemented the
advice “H. S. S.” gave us last week
as to how to solve our (heat problem,
which is becoming so pestiferous that
it carries us back to 1898 when we
had the plain, though now obsolete,
seven year itch. By the way, that's
not such a bad analogy—if you've
ever had the itch. All that “H. 8. 8.,”
advised us to do was buy a special
five dollar clock in which he had no
interest. What Horace wants us to
jo is buy a contraption that he is
jgent for and on which he’d take
jown a fair commission. You see,
ie’s not an unselfish friend so we
ave to meet him on his own ground.
if the company for which Horace is
che agent, and for which there is
ione other more ubiquitous, will in-
itall, free of charge, one of its con-
raptions in our furnace “we’ll tell
he cock-eyed world” whether its
3ellefonte representative is right or
vrong when he “guarantees results.”
—The determination of Mr. J.
Levying Tribute a Party Policy.
" Levying tribute upon the . State
job holders has become not only a
settled but a systematic policy of
the Fisher administration at Harris-
burg. For many years it has been done
in furtive fashion. Quay and Pen-
rose permitted it but in a shame-
faced manner. Since the Mellons
and Grundy have come into control
of the organization, however, it has
become an open operation. Last
year nearly $400,000 was forced
from State employees, all of which
except $67,000 was expended during
the campaign. That considerable
balance is said to have been used
to . defray the cost of a poiltical
breakfast for Governor Fisher
at Harrisburg and breakfast and
luncheon for the Governor’s invited
guests in Washington at the Hoover
inauguration.
State employees for contributions
was only made in National or State-
wide campaigns. But this year, and
presumably in all future time, it
will be made every year. The proc-
ess is simple but certain. The
State Treasurer sends to the coun-
ty chairmen lists of the State em-
ployees resident in the several
counties and the - chairmen, under
an implied promise of continued
employment, make the levy. “We
have tried to the best of our abili-
ty,” the chairman writes to the
victim,” to take care of you during
the present administration—and if
we succeed in retaining you we
must have an organization that will
have standing with the new admin-
istration.” !
The Republican women of Adams
county have already issued a vigor-
ous protest against this brutal meth. |
od of brigandage and the better
element of the party in all sections
of the State is complaining. The
Mellons, Grundy, Vare and Fisher '
are abundantly able to pay expenses
incident to their ambitions and en-
‘joyments and it is not only cruel
but contemptible to exact from
scrub-women and other not too gen-
erously rewarded minor employees
the price .of breakfasts and lunch-
eons in Harrisburg and Washington
for the Governor and -other party
leaders. It is. all right for those
‘who ‘can afford it te contributé for
campaign expenses but to collect by
force is a moral if not statutory
crime. 3
— Ramsay MacDonald was sorry
to leave this country. Well, if he
can. crash the immigration gate he
will be welcomed here to stay.
ditchell Cunningham to retire from
he council of Bellefonte with the ex- | .
siration of his present term will be
. matter of much regret to those’
axpayers of the: borough whose in- |
erest in its welfare is unselfish. Since
ie has formally withdrawn his name 1
Ss a candidate for re-election from
he West ward we do not hesitate to
onfess that against his wishes and
rithout his consent we circulated the
etition that put him in the primar-
3s. We did it because we believed
hen and believe now that there
.re too few as peculiarly fit-
d as he for such positions.
Ve had no motive other than what
re thought was best for the town
hat is our home. Over a period of
early forty years we think we need
ot take second place to any resident
1 the matter of active interest in
hat is going on in the governmental
ircles of our borough. And during
11 that period we can say we have
ever asked a councilman, or any
ther borough official, for a favor
rom which there was any personal
enefit. We make this declaration
s proof that our interest in trying
» force Mr. Cunningham to run was
s unselfish as his long service to
1e borough has been. As a citizen
e has done more than his duty, so
1at, perhaps, our insistence was
resumption. When Harry Fenlon,
7illiam H. Derstine and W. R. Jen-
ins tore away the tumbling board-
alk on Water street, walled it up
1d made the beautiful promenade
1at’s there now there was a great
1e and cry, but would Bellefonte go
wick to the board-walks on stilts?
"Then Mr. Cunningham, Ben Brad-
y and W. H. Brouse rebuilt
ie water works, increased the
nd about it and made the Big
ring the beauty spot of the town,
'en some of those who saw him
ere supervising the improvement,
iy in and day out without a cent
. compensation, rolled their tongues
their cheeks and said things they
e ashamed of now. He did it be-
use he thought he was doing some-
ing for Bellefonte and if you see
thing else constructive in his long,
nscientious and gratuitous service
you as a resident that splendid
rk, alone, should cause you to ad-
't that Bellefonte is going to lose a
uncilman who has been fearless
d fair in standing for the interests
the taxpayers and one whose con-
-uctive work will be apparent as
1g as Bellefonte is Bellefonte.
The Base Ball Championship.
The contest for the 1929 world
championship in base ball ended in
a blaze of glory at Philadelphia,. on
Monday, in.a victory for the Ath.
letics. . It was a great series and
worthily won, for both teams gave
their best in the struggle. It attract-
ed nation-wide public interest and for
the first time enticed the President
of the United States from his press-
ing duties in Washington to witness
the spectacle. We most cordially
congratulate Connie Mack on the
success achieved. He spent years of
time and thought in selecting and
training the players whose prowess,
skill and valor brought him honor
and glory and victory.
The World Series is no longer an
event. It has become an institution,
and that one which has just ended
revealed incidents which were both
surprising and dramatic. The open-
ing games at Chicago were compara-
tively tame and easily won, though
without default on the part of the
vanquished. The “breaks” were on
one side and gave victory not with-
out merit on one side or because of
faults on the other. For this reason,
though popular interest was not in-
tense it was present and sustained.
But the games in Philadelphia were
thrillers. Those on Saturday and Mon.
day were extraordinarily alike in
process and results.
That base ball continues to grip
the Araerican heart, notwithstanding
a: few minor set-backs in recent
years, is proved by the wide-spread
interest in the contest just closed.
There was danger in the trend to de-
grade it from a sport to a commer-
cial enterprise but let us hope that
danger is past. Some .years ago
Connie Mack won a series of vic-
tories which he converted into coin
by - selling the players who had
brought him honor and fame. To
put Foxx, Haas, Simmons and Mil-
ler on the auction block after their
achievements this year would be a
sad spectacle.
It's a sacrifice of the flexible
provision or defeat of the tariff bill
in the Senate. The administration
can take its choice.
——The General Motors corpora-
tion is going into the radic field and
mussing up of the static may be ex-
pected soon.
“BELLEFONTE, P
p————————————
| debt. :
In former years the demand upon
. methods .are
the same
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Party Mac
: Machines.
Voting
A.. OCTOBER 18. 1929.
Scandal Postponed or Averted.
A public scandal has been post-
The amendment to the constitu. PoRed, if not entirely averted, ac-
tion of Pennsylvania giving the
voters of several political units an
option to adopt the voting machine
was carried by a very large major-
ity, But it is not certain that it
will result in the installation of the
machines where they are really
needed. A couple of weeks ago we
noted that important State officials
were secretly circulating propaganda
against the adoption of that safe
system of voting. Since that we
have noticed an apparently con-
certed purpose of the Republican
newspapers of the State to alarm
the public on the ground that voting
machines will greatly increase the
cost of elections and involve the
communities which adopt them in
There are a great many com-
munities in Pennsylvania that have
no need of voting machines, though
they are diminishing in . number.
The voters in such districts express
their political sentiments by their
ballots and their votes are fairly
counted and honestly returned
Such communities are entitled to
the right of adopting the cheapest
method of conducting their elections.
But in all of the big cities and in
some of the smaller municipalities
the art of debauching the baliot has
been so highly developed that elec-
tions are not only a farce but a
fraud. In such places no expense
can or ought to be great enough to
deter voters from declaring in favor
of the machines. r
Previous to the Primary election
the Vare machine promised to favor
voting machines. But since ‘the
Primary the leaders of that sinister
organization have been adopting ex-
pedients to scare the voters into op-
position. In Pittsburgh the same
being employed. with
object in view. In
Lackawanna, Luzerne, Schuykill and
other populous counties the Republi-
can machines are becoming. active
in opposition and in Dauphin coun-
ty the party managers are becom-
ing aggressive in their fight against
the - voting machines. - These are
¢ communities in which voting
these places is adverse the value of
the constitutional amendment is lost.
——Judges as well as doctors dis-
agree. A New York judge declares
buying liquor is no crime while a
Louisville judge declares it is. In
the circumstances what is a lay-
man to do?
‘Defensive Tactics of Fall's Lawyer.
The obvious purpose of those de-
fending Albert B. Fall, in the Su-
preme court at Washington, D. C,, is
to appeal to the emotions of the jury
rather than - depend upon the evi-
dence presented. - Mr. Fall is a very
sick man. = During the first session
of the court assembled to try him on
a charge of conspiracy to defraud the
government he collapsed and the
hearing was halted. The judge di-
rected an examination into his physi-
cal condition and four eminent phy- |
sicians reported that the ordeal of a
trial at this time migh cause his
death. Thereupon counsel for the,
government moved for a mistrial and
the attorney for Mr. Fall objected
and demanded that the trial proceed.
It was a surprising action.
Albert B. Fall was Secretary of |
the Interior in the administration of
President Harding. He had induced
the too complaisant President to
transfer control of the national oil
reserves from the Navy Department
to that of the Interior. Having ac-
complished this, according to evi-
dence brought out in a civil action,
he leased the reserves to E. L. Do-
heny and Harry Sinclair, after having
received financial favors from both of |
them. Doheny gave him $100,000 in
cash and Sinclair an equally large
sum in Liberty bonds. Doheny sub-
sequently declared that the lease he
acquired was worth $100,000.000. The
lease to Sinclair was quite as valu- ;
able and the difference between those
figures and what they paid was stol-
en from the government. There is
no escape from that fact.
When Fall was carried into court,
“wrapped in heavy blankets,” the
other. day, former Senator Pomerine
was urging the postponement of the
trial as a humanitarian measure. The
situation was almost tragic and every
person present was deeply touched
with sympathy. And the attorney
for the defendant promptly proceed-
ed to capitalize the emotions. He
felt that no juryman would vote to
convict a man of felony who was
thus hovering over the grave and
insisted that the trial proceed. It
was the one hope of acquitting a man
from blame in a transaction which
the Supreme court had previously de-
clared was saturated with fraud. It
is a pity that the law affords such
protection to criminals.
—Subscribe for the Watchman.
‘cording to press dispatches from
"Harrisburg, bya promise of Gover-
nor Fisher, “to take the whole mat-
ter under consideration.” The cause
‘of complaint is that inthe read-
fostment of salaries the execu-
tive board cut the compensation of
the managers of certain State hos-
pitals from ten to eight thousand
dollars a year, plus maintenance.
The victim of this purpose protested
that while the salaries of judges and
and other State officials are being
increased generously it is unfair fo
decrease their compensation for the
important and exacting services
they render to the wards of the
State.
- The protest was entered some
, months ago but received little if any
attention in Harrisburg until re-
cently when the complainants began
circulating stories or indulging in
gossip of mismanagement of some
of the State institutions. It was
whispered that liquor supplies had
been taken from the hospitals and
given to politicians and that in one
instance “some of the hospital lig-
uor went to Washington and was
used at a dinner party.” While it
is always possible to be good it is wise
for them to be careful and Governor
Fisher called a meeting of all con-
cerned in the controversy at his of-
fice in Harrisburg, “to consider the
whole system of administrating
State-owned hospitals.”
Speakers who attended the meet-
ing in behalf of the hospital super-
intendents offered no objection to
the increase of judicial salaries for
the reason that “the average trend
of salaries is upward.” They con-
tended, however, that the ‘public
spirited professional men” whose
salaries have been = slashed “took
their positions with the knowledge
that $10,000 was the maximum
salary and a reduction is a viola-
tion of a contract.” Possibly this
statement of fact and law may have
impressed the Governor and maybe
uncertainty as to the accuracy of
the rumors influenced him to promise
another conference on the subject.
. any event the victims of the cut
Ee
¥
——Dr, William S. Taylor, dean of
education at the University of Ken-
tucky and one of the able instructors
at teachers’ institute this week, made
an assertion, on Wednesday, that the
children of today can “write better,
spell better and are better in arith-
metic. than they were ‘forty years
ago.” Without seeking to enter into
any discussion of the matter our
observation and experience of more
than forty years in newspaper work
lead us to believe that the children
of today are not as thoroughly
grounded in the above branches as
they were forty years ago.
ns fp toi
——Hallow-een is only two weeks
away and so far there is no indica-
tion of a public demonstration of any
kind. It is a fact much to be regret-
ed that the Elks abandoned the big
parade they held for a number of
years. That was always an event
that was looked forward to with con-
siderable anticipation by both old and
young. But the interest in it had be-
gun to flag and that was the princi-
pel reason for it’s discontinuance.
—Philip H. Johnston would make
a splendid District Attorney. He is
a most exemplary young man with
fill the office with great credit to
himself and the satisfaction of the
‘county. There would be no pussey- |
| footing - if Mr. Johnston were the
prosecuting officer of the county. He
would be fearless, but fair.
——What the Republican Senators
need is better “team work.” The
chairman of the Finance committee
and the floor leader have made con-
flicting reports to the President.
——The American Legion will op-
pose any parity plan that involves
. an abandonment of the naval build- some serious 1
ing programme adopted by the last
Congress.
———— A A———————
——Men may work and women
may weep but the State job-holders
must pay campaign assessments or
give up their meal tickets.
——Miss MacDonald urges Ameri-
can women tc work in peace. That's
a good suggestion, especially if it
begins in the kitchen. . :
rr ———— A ———————————
——If the tariff bill fails, as now
seems likely, there will be few com-
plaints outside of the perennial tar-
iff mongers.
——Now that the World Series is
finished there is grave danger
that Shearer will get back to the
front page.
~ depths the next generation
NO. 41.
|-_ Friends of Freedom—and Sugar.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Two United States Senators, sim-
ulating a lofty passion for human
rights, started a six-hour debate,
over Philippine independence the oth-
er day, and their absurb proposal to
grant it forthwith was defeated only
by the close vote of 45 to 36.
An unedifying exhibition of in-
Sincere trifling with a serious ques-
on.
The motive was not idealistic, but
selfishly commercial.
The professed champions of Fili-
pino liberation were Senators King,
of Utah, and Broussard, of Louisi-
ana. But the cause would have been
more accurately represented by a
bag of beet sugar and a bag of
cane sugar, commodities for which
their States are noted.
Domestic producers are not satis-
fied with the protection they enjoy
in a stiff duty on Cuban sugar,
which constitutes 80 per cent. of the
country’s supply. They make piteous
outcry because the relatively small
imports from Porto Rico, Hawaii
and the Philippines—all American
territories—are admitted free.
They tried to have Philippine
shipments limited to 300,000 tons a
year, but this proposal was beaten
upon Governor Stimson’s showing
that it would be disastrous to the
island’s chief industry.
They have fought persistently for
.a tax on imports from the archipel-
ago. But of course, the United
States cannot in justice or common
decency collect duty on products
from its own territories.
So the sugar men resorted to the
transparent device of advocating
cutting the islands adrift and got
the support of ‘some Western agri-
cultural interests which compete
with other Philippine products.
The United States is pledged to
grant independence to the islanders
when they are economically and
politically fitted to exercise freedom
and maintain in safety its responsi-
bilities.
- But even the most ambitious of
the native leaders admit that the
change must be long deferred, and
some of them see greater economic
benefit in remaining under the
American flag.
In any case, a proposal for offhand
action mow is nonsensical. And its
use to mask a cold-blooded grab
of a tariff advantage makes it dis-
honest.
From The Paris Mo., Appeal.
We are now able to account for
the fact that 19 out of every 20 hus-
bands are so woefully henpecked. It |
is because the boyhood days of the
present adult generation were spent
in grade schools which had none
but women teachers. The habit of
obedience—sometimes inspired by
puppy love for dear teacher and
other times by fear of the rod she
wielded—persisted into manhood and
made easy marks for wives who
otherwise might never have thought
of wearing the pants. There never
was a time in the world’s history
‘when husbands occupied a lower
place in the scheme of things. Wht
reach can hardly be conceived, un-
less the present crops of dubs mus-
ter up courage to legislate a two-
room schoolhouse for every district
with a roughneck man as principal
and special courses in caveman
tactics for all the boys. Elimination
of masculine teachers from our pub-
lic schools was a direct siep to pet- |
ticoat rule and furnishes a satisfac-
tory answer to the universal ques-
i tion, “Why are men afraid of their
wives ?”’ Something ought to be done
about this.
Optimistic at 86.
From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
i In these days, when so many peo-
| ple believe that the world is going
‘a fine education and legal ability to to the dogs, it is refreshing to hear
'an opinion to the contrary, especial-
ly when it comes from an earlier
generation. Most of the oldsters sigh
over the glories of a departed age
when things and people were so much
, better, according to their notions,
| than they are today. Now along
| comes Dr. George Alexander, a New
{ York pastor, who came
| troublesome world eighty-six years
jago. And he’s a busy man despite
; his years. Perhaps that is one rea-
| Son why he can retain his optimism
‘and his benevolent outlook on life.
The venerable preacher when in-
| terviewed on his birthday anniver-
| sary, declared that “on the whole the
world is getting better, but with
. I feel that it
is a pretty good time to live just
| now. The world is moving much
| faster than when I was young, and
| the city in some respects is decidedly
Beiter;
| Aviation Mortality.
1 remem,
From the Wall Street News.
The chance of death in an air-
plane trip operated by licensed pilots
over scheduled passenger routes is
about one in 400, it was disclosed in
a report of the committee on avia-
| tion statistics of the Acturial So-
ciety of America. The investigation
was based on the "hazard during
1928, when thirteen passengers were
| killed out of about 50,000 who were
, carried in scheduled flights. Inas-
much as figures were not available
on the number of 185 rs ac-
commodated in other ‘than scheduled
trins, the committee: was unable to
compute the death rate for this class.
into this
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONR
—Action on protests against the erec-
tion of the Columbus memorial on the
grounds of the senior high school, at
Easton, will be taken at a special meet-
ing of the school board Monday.
—Negotiations are under way for the
sale of the Johnstown Telephone com-
pany, representing an investment of
nearly $3,000,000, to the Independent Tele-
phone company, operating on the Pacific
coast and in Pennsylvania and New
York. :
—Traveling bags of an orchestra lead-
er, left on top of a bus parked all night
on the street in Berwick, were stolen,
and Fess Williams, the leader, is out
$600. A gold saxophone, clarinet, dia-
mond ring, uniform and other clothing
were taken. 3
—Charging that both her legs were
frozen when ejected from her home into
the snow, on a cold day last winter, Mrs.
Esther Ely, of Reading, has brought
suit for $5L72 damages against her land-
lord, George A. Heckman. She claims
she was permanently injured.
—Greene county in 1928 was purely a
man’s county in industry so far as wage
earners were concerned, according to
records filed with the Bureau of Statistics
of the Pennsylvania Department of Inter-
nal Affairs. Reports for the year show
that no women were employed in indus-
try as wage earners during that period.
—A jury in Northumberland county
court awarded Howard R. Zimmerman,
23 of Shamokin, $18,500 damages against
the Pennsylvania railroad for injuries he
suffered in a grade crossing accident
near Locust Gap, May 8, 1928. Both
legs were broken, and he was otherwise
hurt, the testimony showed. Surgeons
said the injury is permanent.
—A $10,000 home is the wedding gift her
dead father will give Miss Elizabeth Blish,
of Lansdowne, the day she marries. This
was revealed, on Tuesday, when the will
of Samuel A. Blish, late Philadelphia,
manager of the brokerage and invest-
ment firm of Henry L. Dougherty Com-
pany, was filed for probate with the
Register of Wills of Delaware county.
—A week-end search in which hundreds
of residents of Schuylkill county partici-
pated has revaled no clew to the fate of
three-year-old Allen Geiger, Palo Alto
boy, missing from his home since last
Tuesday morning. That the boy -was
either kidnapped or the victim of a hit
and run driver who later disposed of the
body to conceal the accident are theories
held by State police and private investi-
gators. r
—Patrolman Thomas Knowles, of the
William Penn Motor Club, Pottsville, was
robbed of $50 and his automobile by three
bandits near the Ringtown hotel on
Tuesday. He was forced to halt when
one of the men apparently was thrown
on the road directly in the path of his
car. The bandit who ‘faked’ the fall
aided in the holdup, taking Knowles’
money and throwing the empty wallet
in his face.
—Edward R. White, of Williamsport,
has’ a collection of more than 100 canes,
ordinary walking sticks cut from the
woods. Many kinds of wood are included,
and they include straight ones as well as
sticks with unusual curves. He has ob-
tained them in his walks in the woody
about Pennsylvania. He has given scores
to friends, and declares he would not
part with: his collection for any amount
of money. a4] ’ ;
: =—Chester ‘A. Lyon, farmer, of Franklin
county, has “a Guernsey cow ' which is
considered a class leader and ‘a record
cow. During a ten-month period, milking
twice daily, the cow produced 9698 pounds
! of milk and 520.8 pounds of butter fat.
Only five Guernseys in the history of the
. breed have beaten this record. Mr. Lyon
i purchased the cow two years ago, it hav-
ing been shipped direct to him from the
. Isle of Guernsey, off the coast of France.
| _The residence of District Attorney Leo
H. McKay, of Sharon, was dynamited ear-
ly on Saturday. The front porch was de-
molished and the front of the house dam-
aged. McKay, his wife, and their baby
were thrown from their beds but were
‘not hurt. The Mercer county prosecutor
was active recently in liquor law prose-.
' cutions and in a number of extensive
‘ raids, including a fashionable club in
i which more than a score of arrests were
‘ made. Ten sticks of dynamite were used
{in the attack, police said.
i
—Louis Muff, said by the police to be
the ring leader of the underworld in
i Schuylkill, Northumberlrnd and Columbia
! counties, was arrested o.. Tuesday, at his
home, in Exchange, taken to Lewisburg,
where after a hearing he was held in $3,-
‘000 bail to prove he does not own and
operate a still in Mowry, west of Ashland.
IA large still valued by prohibition agents
at $25,000, was seized. A coat alleged to
be Muff’s and containing papers bearing
his signature was found in the building.
This evidence caused State trooper Robin-
hold and constable Fox to arrest Muff.
—Three men were killed and eight
others burned, one seriously, on Monday,
in an explosion of hot metal at the plant
of the National Tube company, McKees-
port. The blast occurred when molten
metal overflowed from a ladle into water
at the bottom of a pitt under the recep-.
tacle. Julius Burtasky, 45, McKeesport,
was almost instantly killed and Carl Hoff-
man, 80, and Philip Sandmeyer, 49, both
of Greenock, died later at a hospital from
burns. John Hando, 19, was reported
‘in a critical condition. The plant was
not damaged to any great extent by the
explosion.
‘—Three Clearfield county peace officers
are under arrest on charges of conspiracy
and attempted extortion. They are L. L.
Lewis, justice of the peace of Helvetia;
Bruno Vilkanofsky, constable, Brady
township, and James Fitzpatrick, con-
stable of the Third ward of DuBois. The
arrests were made by State policemen.
They are charged with an attempt to
quash a case against Alex Phillipi, of
Sandy township, charged with violation
of the prohibition law. Vilkanofsky is
said to have been caught accepting $100
from Phillipi, and is alleged to have con-
fessed implicating the other two officials.
—With game, especially bear, rabbits,
squirrel and turkey, more plentiful in the
hunting grounds of Mifflin county than
for a number of years, the temptation to
do a little ‘‘early” hunting is too much
for some men to resist, according to
Jesse Hassinger, State game trapper, who
arrested two Reedsville men, John
Specht. and Nelson Griffey, one with a
rabbit and the other with a squirrel,
which they confessed shooting out of sea-
son without even a hunting license, They
were each fined $10.. Trapper Hassinger
also arrested Ralph D. Mertz, of. Centre
Hall, and he was fined $10 for killing a
raccoon.