i ad
INK SLINGS.
— The Mayor of Johnstown is in
jail but a bad mayor
harm in jail than out.
— Senator Borah’s demands for
stricter enforcement of the prohibi-
tion law may cost a lot of lives.
—The old year died in a halo of
glory so far as the weather was
concerned and the new one was born
in the gloemiest of atmospheric con-
ditions.
Those Philadelphia Democrats
who expect Governor Fisher will ap-
point a lawyer of their
faith to an existing vacancy on the
bench don’t know Governor Fisher
very well
—The lady who writes from Rich-
mond to hint that she ought to be
miade the victim of our idea of pub-
lishing the picture of our most de-
linquent subscriber is hereby notified
that her scheme to get her picture
in the paper won't work. If she
thinks two years
nas another think coming.
Sheriff and us would be going in op-
sosite directions, instead of toward
sach other, if none of our readers
were further back than she discov-
sred herself to be.
—One never gets a chance to live
n the atmosphere of the present,
Nhen some incident isn’t stirring up
nemories of the past hope is eter-
wally leaping away into the future.
sitting at the desk last Saturday
fternoon we were about to concen-
rate on what was doubtless a very
nteresting affair that was going on
n an automobile parked at the curb
utside the window. The young man
vho hopped into it certainly was a
ast worker but before we got a
hance to see how fast, the postman
anded a seed catalogue in and in-
tantly we became oblivious of the
wo in the car and could see nothing
ut spring, the fifteenth of April and
shing tackle.
When I Was in the “Arn” Bizness”
When I was in the ‘Arn’ business,”
1id Wesley to us on Christmas eve
-and he said it as naively as if he
ad once been master of a mighty
last furnace—‘“I had a lot of trou-
le with Mr. Mitch Cunningham,”
Knowing that Mr. Cunningham's
seling toward Wesley is exceeding-
+ friendly we inquired as to what
1d been the cause of the trouble.
“Well, you see, it was this way:
Then I was in the ‘arn’ business I
as
supplying his foundry with
You know it was out where
si lumlsé rd is now. And
We bd to sell him that
me piece of ‘arn’ He didn’t say
iything more, but it worried me
id I tried to find out what was the
suble.”
Wesley became reticent then and
» insisted that he must finish his
ory so he went on and told us the
use of the trouble, It appears that
th his grandmother and his moth-
were ill at the time and he
uldn’t get out long enough to
ther up iron, so he had gone into
e brokerage business. His best
urce of supply was in a family
at lived in the “Brown Row,” just
posite Cunningham’s foundry. It
pears that the youngsters in this
night shift in their
‘would visit it and
t m "take the scrap out
d ‘sell it to Wesley. The same af-
noon Wesley would haul it back
the foundry and sell it again.
At this juncture he chuckled and
d: “I don’t know how long that
s guing on, but Mr, Cunningham
dme afterward that he knew I
i sold him a certain piece of
sting four days in succession and
uppose I did because I didn’t know
at them kids were doin.”
“You see I might have broke Mr.
nningham up because he couldn't
sp on buying his own ‘arn’ for-
sv and he put me out of the ‘arn’
siness because all I was gettin
s from them kids and I didn’t
st take that anymore.”
Ne might add that rags and
jes were side lines in Wesley's
mn business.”
Ne have told this little story
nking that it might start you
o the New Year with a smile on
ir face. Certainly you can’t be
spier than Wesley was over the
ristmas Watchman readers and
ers made for him. He told us: “I
sreciate these gifts very much,
it’s nicer to know I have so
ny friends, for often fellows tell
no one cares.”
ook at the picture of his new
ne on anocher page of this issue,
ile, if you please, but it is a pal-
to Wesley. The lot is 40x200.
bought it for $200 and is paying
it at the rate of $5 per month.
» palace is to cost $83 when com-
ted and that is being paid for the
16 way.
fe is happy and hopeful because
vill be the first home he has ever
sed. To us his courage and his
tentment with the trail fate
zed for him is a constant source
wonderment.
f he can be happy with his lot
rest of us ought to be able to
» the New Year with a courage
t will bring heaping measures of
sess.
can do less |
political
is far back she
The
VOL. 75.
Former Congerssman Kent Makes
Suggestions.
Former Congressman Everett
Kent, of Northampton county, ona
professional visit to Harrisburg, the
other day, was interviewed by the
vigilant press correspondents in that
city and made public some informa-
tion that ought to encourage the
Democrats of Pennsylvania. Mr.
Kent, though no longer a member
of Congress, is still the Pennsylva-
nia member of the National Con-
gressional committee and is in con-
stant contact with the activities of
that body. “Chairman Joseph W.
Byrnes, of the Democratic National
committee, has assured me,” Mr,
‘Kent stated, “that within a few
weeks he will meet the State Dem-
'ocratic leaders in Harrisburg and
lay plans to elect a delegation of
, Congressmen from Pennsylvania.
It is hoped that at least twelve
| districts may elect Democrats at
‘the next election.”
| Mr. Kent's services to the Dem-
ocratic party of Pennsylvania have
‘been varied and valuable and his
| opinions and recommendations de-
‘serve careful consideration. He
‘urges an intensive fight in every
Congressional district. Of course
some of the contests would be
hopeless but they would serve the
"purpose of keeping the opposition
busy at home. It is of record
that Republican candidates in close
. districts are frequently saved
{by help of one kind or another
{ from districts that are given to
them by default. An active con-
{test in behalf of a worthy candi-
| date in every district would prevent
such a miscarriage of results
some cases and in others might re-
isult in an unexpected victory for
| the Democratic candidate, Such
i things have happened in the past.
Mr, Kent offers another sugges-
| tion which deserves careful atten-
tion. Recalling to mind the fact
that the Mellon machine in Pitts-
| burgh, which counted out Beidle-
jman and returned Fisher as the
| Republican nominee, also counted
lout Judge Samuel E. Shull, of Mon-
| roe county, and. adds:. “Now we
ye an exceptional opportunity to
together and cure the troubles
of the past, nominate Judge Shull
for Governor without opposition, and
| wage an intensive fight in Novem-
ber.” It may be a trifle early and
in a measure arrogant to pick a
candidate at this time but it is
none too soon to think it over
! carefully and in the spirit of har-
mony. It is certainly true that
Judge Shull's nomination would
“appeal to all classes of voters,
and his election would usher in an
administration which would relieve
the people of heavy burdens of
taxation.”
1
Borah Kicking Up Trouble
Senator Borah’s recently express-
ed dissatisfaction with the enforce-
e was very handy. | ment of prohibition legislation has
, created consternation in administra-
tion circles in Washington. What
| the outcome will be remains to be
seen. The indications are, however,
| that after a brief period of activity
the matter will be dropped. The
Hoover Law Enforcement Commis-
"sion will probably report progress
soon after Congress reassembles
next week and recommend patience,
and the dry Republican Senators will
accept the promise of ultimate im-
| provement in the interest of party
prosperity and to save the face of
the President,
Senator Borah is absolutely right
in the wording of his complaint that
the cause of the failure is the man-
ne- of enforcement. The law, fun-
damental and statutory, is ample if
the power of execution is applied.
But it has not been applied for the
reason that the agencies are corrupt
‘and their purposes are political
rather than moral, That the Presi-
dent is largely responsible for this
condition is beyond question. He
has power under the Volstead law to
create an enforcement organization
that would achieve the purpose.
But such an organization in accom-
plishing the result would wreck the
Republican party.
But while Senator Borah has cor-
‘rectly stated the facts it is not clear
that he has a right to complain. In
other words he is somewhat a party
to the delinquency. When Hoover
stated that the movement is a ‘“no-
ble experiment to be worked out
constructively,” he made no promise
of improvement, But Borah accept-
,ed the sophism as a guarantee of
good faith for the future and in-
fluenced thousands of credulous vot-
ers to support Hoover on the
strength of it. If he had been con-
cerned for prohibition rather than
politics at that time the result might
have been different. In any event he
would have justified his attitude
now.
——A Happy and Prosperous New
Year to every Watchman reader.
in
‘welware and labor legislation is such
AR ae————
allman:
Republican Ticket Practically Chosen
The Republican candidate for
Governor of Pennsylvania will be
named at a conference to be held in
the New York office of W. L. Mel-
lon early in February. St. Valen-
tine’s day has been suggested asan
appropriate date for the event but
the majority of the
aspirants are
likely to object to that. There are
a considerable number of candi-
dates for the party favor but aec-
cording to late reports the process
of elimination has reduced the list
to five, namely: Francis Shunk
Brown, of Philadelphia; Secretary
of Labor James J. Davis, of Pitts-
burgh; Sam Lewis, of York; State
Treasurer Martin, of Washington
county, and State Senator Horace
Schantz, of Lehigh county,
The issue among these aspiring
gentlemen will be determined by an
equally limited group. According
to the indicated programme those
who will compose the conference
will be Senator Joseph R. Grundy,
Governor Fisher, W. L. Mellon and
a proxy for William S. Vare, which
is probably all the vanishing
Philadelphia boss will get out of it.
Mr. Vare will not be present in
person for the reason that he in:
tends to spend the remainder of
the winter in Florida, His repre-
sentative, however, will champion
the claim of Mr. Brown and
threaten to “rough house” the or-
ganization if he is not chosen, At
this distance from the time and
place of the conference, however, it
is safe to predict a failure of the:
plan. Vare is no longer a formid-
able figure.
It is surprising that the rank and
file of the Republican party of
Pennsylvania so tamely submits to’
this Mussolini method of politics.
Less than eight years ago Gifford
Pinchot issued a protest against
star-chamber nominations and won
against a fitter candidate than has
since been chosen. But that was
before the Mellon millions had be-
come a controlling factor in the.
management and Grundy’s im-
perialism had fully developed. Pos-_
sibly some crusading twill ap’
pear during the impending primary
campaign and upset the plans of
the bosses, Even now the atmos-
phere is charged with dynamic
elements. If Davis and Pinchot
should “hook-up” there would be
plenty to support a real revolt, i
1
i
——Mr, Grundy’'s Doylestown
newspaper plant was flooded, Sun-
day night which may be premoni-
tory of a more serious submersion
later on,
eee deem
Davis—Pinchot a Probable Combine
The recent announcement that
Secretary of Labor Davis
switch his ambition and become a |
candidate for United States Senator |
instead of Governor is susceptible of
two interpretations. That is, the
purpose may be to scare the
Mellon machine and Mr, Grundy into
accepting him as their candidate for |
Governor or it may be to open a
way for former Governor Pinchot to |
slip into the scrimmage. It is well |
known that the Mellon machine is
anxious to run Grundy through with-
out a contest in the primary cam-
paign. Mr. Grundy’s record in the
Harrisburg lobby in opposition to
that a full exposure and wide spread
discussion might be disastrous.
For several years Secretary Davis
has been fondly cherishing a hope
of occupying the executive mansion
at Harrisburg and exercising the
prerogatives of Governor. Some
months ago he had dispatched from
labor organizations’ headquarters a,
“return” post card soliciting him to |
become a candidate for the Republi-
can nomination and promising to en-
ter the campaign if the response
were sufficiently formidable. More
recently he announced.that the pres- |
sure upon him is so strong that he
may not be able to resist it. The
other day, without explanation or |
apology to his petitioners, he declar- |
ed in an interview that he might be-
come a candidate for Senator in’
Congress instead of Governor, !
It is well known that former Gov-
ernor Gifford Pinchot is willing to
run for something. He has made’
two attempts to break into the Sen- |
ate without success. He won the
Governorship on a single trial and
liked the job amazingly. Many of
his friends are now persuaded that |
a hook-up between Davis and him- |
self as candidates for Senator and
Governor. would have a strong ap-
peal to popular support, and an’
equal proportion of the friends of.
Davis are of the same opinion. H
many respects Mr. Pinchot made a
fine record as Governor. He might
have done better if he had been less
self-centered in his administration.
But that is another story and com-
parison of his work with Fisher's
has created an urge for Pinchot,
— A —————
—Subseribe for the Watchman.
may ‘basketball team, business manager
ganda with respect to prosperity.
mm
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. JANUARY 3. 1930.
Not Yet but Soon,
A member of the Vare family an-
nounces Mr. Vare has no intention
of retiring from political activity
and that he is still in the race “to
the finish” for the Republican nom-
ination for Senator next Spring.
A recent relapse of his infirmity
is responsible for this announce-
ment. His physician had expressed
an opinion that impaired physical
force disqualified him for the labor
of an intense campaign and that he
would be compelled to forego his
long cherished ambition to occupy
a seat in the Senate. If this opin-
ion had been accepted by the Vare
family the anxiety of the friends of
Mr. Grundy would have been reliev-
ed and the troubles of the Mellon-
Grundy machine abated.
Miss Vare, who served as spokes-
man of the family in the matter, is
mistaken. Mr, Vare has not with-
drawn but he will in ample time to
relieve the Grundy mind and as-
sure the “king of the lobby” an un-
opposed nomination in the coming
primary election. But it will not
be on account of impaired health
or inability to withstand the rigidi-
ty of a keen competition. There
will be no campaign of that
character. The Mellons and the
Grundys and the Fishers will run a
steam roller over the State which
will crush everything in its way
in the event Mr, Vare remains in
the running, and every close ob-
server of political events in the
State, including Mr. and Miss Vare,
understands the situation.
The truth is that Mr, Vare's fol-
flowers have deserted him with the
unanimity and swiftness that “rats
flee from a sinking ship.” He has
never had many real friends. He
has held, subservient to his will, by
“the cohesive power of public plun-
der,” a group of grafting politi-
cians who are as ready to fight
him now as they were willing to
serve him when he could satisfy
their greed for power and plunder.
He may make a pretense of being
a candidate for Senator for a while
the hope of neg
tat “will dave his face.”
due time his bluff will be called.
The gang has his number and he
will withdraw from the fight in or-
der to avert the humiliation of an
overwhelming defeat. ;
|
Elmer T. McCleary, who as
president of the Republic Steel
Company heads the third largest
steel company in the United States,
was graduated from the Pennsylva-
nia State College in 1901. In his
college days McCleary took an ac-
tive part in the campus activities, |
being manager of the football team
in his senior year, captain of the
of the La Vie, and a member of the
Thespians, McCleary advanced to
his ‘present position from the presi-
dency of the Republic Iron and
Steel Company, which he assumed
last year after having risen to the
vice-presidency of the Youngstown
Sheet and Tube Company from the
position of assistant to the chief
chemist. The new combination of
steel companies was formed by the
amalgamation of the Republic Iron
and Steel Co., Central Alloy Steel
Corp., Donner Steel Corp. Bourne-
Fuller Co., and their subsidiaries.
—_ The final meeting of the old
borough council, administering the
oath of office and organization of
new council will take place next
Monday evening. With four new
members going in whoever is elect-
ed president will have to do some
figuring in making up his list of
standing committees for the ensu-
ing two years. .
If all those “sons of wild
jackasses” should come into Penn-
sylvania during the coming cam-
paign they might kick some of the
conceit out of Mr. Grundy.
——If the Mellon-Grundy group
would put Francis Shunk Brown on
its slate for Governor it might avert
a good deal of mental anguish dur-
ing the primary campaign.
— The numerous celebrations of
Woodrow Wilson’s birthday show
that popular appreciation of his serv-
ices to the country is increasing. :
——Jt might be worth while for
the lobby committee to look into
the source of the prevailing propa-
——Probably Mr. Vare is too gick
to withdraw now but he will be bet-
ter after awhile, and meantime ne-
gotiations will proceed.
——There seems to have been
enough money spent by the sugar
lobby to sweeten the whole world
negotjating 3.2 :
- ministration.
‘From the New York Times.
for a generation,
NO. 1.
Tax Retunds Show Costly Blunder-
ing.
From the Philadelphia Record.
As the Christmas bills come roll-
ing into the households of the land
there will be found in some of
them, no doubt, stray items that
will be disputed.
But considering the millions upon
millions of transactions represented
the number of mistakes will be in-
significant. Modern merchandising,
despite the bewildering detail of
the work of sales, delivery and ac-
counting departments, is astonish-
ingly accurate.
Certainly it could teach the Gov-
ernment something about efficiency.
Federal tax refunds made during
the last fiscal year have just been
reported to Congress. They amount-
edto more than $190,000,000, an in-
crease of $48,000,000 over the pre-
vious year.
Claims paid numbered about 200,-
000. One corporation received no
less than $25,850,000. A private es-
tate was reimbursed in the sum of
$6,456,000. Several firms and in-
dividuals recovered more than $1,-
000,000 each.
Nearly 5 per cent. of the total
revenues collected had to be return-
ed on account of illegality or error
in the levies made.
Uncle Sam is the most exacting
and peremptory of creditors. His
rule is “Pay first and argue after-
upon conclusive evidence of wrong-
ful collection.
In every one of the cases making
up the vast total of refunds, there-
fore, glaring mistakes in the official
computations were established,
Business operations in these days
are intricate. and provisions for
their equitable taxation are neces-
sarily complex. Large enterprises
have to employ high priced account-
ants to prepare their returns. Yet
even with this precaution innumer-
able disputes arise.
It is not unreasonable to expect
that experts of the Treasury and
the Bureau of Internal Revenue
should be familiar enough with the
law to interpret it correctly. But
the yearly record reveals a liability
to error which suggests either in-
competence in the official staff or
needless uncertainty in the terms of
the statutes... . . i +
The results, at any rate, are pro-.
digiously costly. = Not only must
claimants go to great trouble and
expense to obtain adjustments, but
the public must pay for the labor-
jous processes of investigation and
settlement.
No great commercial organization
would tolerate such a system as
that which has compelled the Gov-
ernment to make good its own
blundering to the extent of $190,-
000,000, plus $41,000,000 interest in
a single year.
Congress should either clarify the
law or inquire into its slipshod ad-
remem fp eee
The Wakeful Senate.
Of all our public bodies, the Unit-
ed States Senate has now won the
reputation of being the most easily
“aroused.” Hardly a day passes
when it is not, In fact, the Senate
never sleeps, or at least never
takes more than cat-naps. It al-
ways keeps one eye open, and the
bed covers loose so as quickly to be
thrown off when the call comes to
awake, arise or be forever fallen.
What aroused the Senate recent-
ly was the discovery that an adver-
tisement about the tariff had been
placed in a hundred or more news-
papers in Minnesota and other
States. It was an appeal, too trans-
parent to be ingenious to Congress
to hurry up and pass the tariff bill,
with all the blessings for farmers
which it contains, and to do this
without cutting down the protective
rates on industries. The obvious
attempt is to make the farmers be-
lieve that they will get nothing un-
less they consent to let the manu-
facturers get a lot. This strategy
is naturally abhorrent to the insur-
gent Republicans in the Senate, who
have set out to give agriculture
everything and manufacture noth-
ing. Accordingly they are propos-
ing the usual Senate investigation
to find out who paid for this adver-
tisement, so that the western States,
where it has been published, may
find out exactly which are the ‘‘so-
called country editors” who have
“hetrayed” their farming constitu-
ents, :
Senator Allen, of Kansas, who
has himself been a ‘successful
resented the attack
class. He might
have pointed out that it is no crime
to print an advertisement of a
political bearing in which the edi-
tor does not at all believe himself
and which he may, in truth, sim-
ultaneously attack, If a mnews-
paper has space to sell for the de-
cent publication of political opinion
—as, for example, when Republican
newspapers in New York city
print the political advertisement of
the Democratic party-—there is no
impropriety in the procedure. Cer-
tainly no one but a continually
wakeful and excited Senator could
gee in it a ‘party “betrayal.” But
the Senate, by a process something
like self-flagellation, seems to have
got itself into a state of nerves
where it sees many things that do
not exist. .
country editor,
on that worthy
| seven months,
! George W. Levengood, who
i entries were made
wards.” And he doesn’t relinquish a | week,
dollar once in the Treasury except |
' SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
1
—Nazareth has $20,000 worth of bonds
on its hands which it must sell to meet
| paving costs. Council advertised for bids
i and these were to have been opened
Monday night. Not an offer was receiv-
i ed.
| —The State board of voting machine
' examiners has announced approval of the
| Shoop voting machine. It is manufac
! tured in Union City, N. J. The only oth-
jor machine approved so far is that of the
Jamestown Automatic, Jamestown, N. Y.
| —Mrs. Blanche Hay, of Bethlehem, in
a suit instituted in the Northampton
county courts, seeks $10,000 heart balm
from Florence Fisher, of Bethlehem. She
| alleges the defendant alienated the affec-
| tions of the plaintiff's husband, William
Hay.
—Driving by a piece of woods west of
.of Lewistown, Clearence Neff saw
, what he took for a pretty kitten by the
roadside. He pulled it out from a pile
of brush, where it had taken refuge. It
was not that kind of a kitten and cost
him a suit of clothing.
| —The Bellefonte Lime company, oper-
, ating the stone quarry at Salona, has ob-
tained a favorable decision on a protest
y fled against the freight rates charged
i the company by the New York Central,
the Pennsylvania, the Reading and the
Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh rail-
roads.
—Basing suit for divorce on the fact
that his wife did not speak to him for
Edward H. Jendricks, of
Coplay, seeks freedom from matrimony in
Lehigh county courts. Jendricks averred
they were married in 1924, but lived to-
gether unhappily from the beginning.
The greatest humiliation, however, says
he, was her refusal to speak to him.
—A wrecking train was required to re-
move from under a Pennsylvania Rail-
road passenger locomotive the body of
committed
suicide by leaping onto the tracks in
front of the depot af Coatesville, on Mon-
day. Police said Levengood, a former P.
R. R. brakeman, had been drinking hedv-
ily and had threatened suicide several
| times.
—Informations charging embezzlement,
conversion, false entries and omission of
at Greensburg, last
against Frank D. Peoples, 42,
treasurer of the Irwin Savings and Trust
company of Irwin. J. D. Swigart, chief
examiner of the State Banking Depart-
ment said that as a result of the irregu-
larities, the bank suffered a loss of $114,-
427.01. Full restitution has been made
and Peoples surrendered himself.
—Referee G. Scott Smith has announc-
ed that $3,827, believed to be the first
workmens compensation award made in
Pennsylvania for a death as the result
of an airplane accident, has been given
Mrs. Bernice M. Michaels, of Bradford,
for the death of her husband, Ellis
Michaels. The man, a machinist, was one
of four persons killed in the crash of a
seven-passenger plane piloted by Lieu-
tenant Harry Emery, Bradford, several
months ago.
—Cooking her own meals, reading her
Bible, and taking an occasional automo-
bile ride are among the chief delights of
Mrs. Caroline Lewis, of Indiana, Pa., who
is 102 years old. Whether or not her
cooking - has been the secret of her good
health, Mrs. Lewis will not say, but her
love of preparing her own meals is so
much a part of her life that last elec-
tion day she declined the opportunity of
casting her first vote because she was
baking bread.
—The one hundredth anniversary of
the opening of the Philadelphia and Co-
lumbia railroad, the oldest line in the
United States, occurred last month. An
advertisement published at that time
cailed the attention of the public to the
convenience of the new form of travel
between Philadelphia and Columbia by
rail and Columbia and Middletown by ca-
nal. The time for the 80-mile trip to Co-
lumbia was ten hours, and the cost of a
ticket was one dollar.
— After a delay of ten months, Mifflin
county's new almshouse, erected at a
cost of $76,000, is to be occupied by the
poor of the county just as soon as the
poor directors can bring them back from
other institutions in neighboring coun-
ties where they have been kept since the
old almshouse was condemned. The final
approval of the new building was given
by Mrs. M. J. Magee and Mr. Wilson, of
the State Welware Department, when
they made a tour of inspection, in com-
pany with the Mifflin county commission-
ers and poor board.
—A call for a conventon of the Prohibi-
tion party to be held in Pittsburgh, Jan-
uary 29, has been issued by the party's
state chairman, Dr. B. E. P. Prugh, of
Harrisburg. The party lost its standing
as such in the State by failure to poll
the required number of votes in the Iast
election, but has pre-empted the name
of the Prohibition party and will nom-
inate candidates for the various State-
wide offices by petition, Dr. Prugh said.
The petition must have 6362 signers,
which is one-half of one per cent. of
the number of votes cast for the candi-
date polling the highest number of votes
at the last election.
—Fifty-three persons were killed and
210 injured during the 1929 hunting sea-
son in Pennsylvania the State Game Com-
mission announced on Monday. The fatal
accidents show an increase over the 1928
hunting season when 45 hunters were kill-
ed and 238 were wounded. During both
years the bulk of the fatal and non-fatal
accidents were during the small game
season which closed with the end of No-
vember. This year 12 fatal and 33 non-
fatal accidents occurred during the big
game season, which closed December 15,
as compared to five fatal and 25 non-fa-
tal during the 1928 big game period. The
figures for 1929, the commission admits,
may be increased by later reports.
—Johnstown’s mayor is in the Cambria
county jail as a convict to serve a two-
year sentence, but he still maintains he
is mayor of Johnstown and will try to
exercise functions of that office from his
cell. Other city officials of Johnstown
hold a contrary opinion, maintaining Jo-
seph Cauffel forfeited his claim to the of-
fice by his conviction and sentence on
charges of misdemeanor in office and con-
spiracy, with a few side charges of con-
ducting a gambling establishment for
good measure. Cauffiel gave himself up
at the prison on Monday, afternoon. He
arrived unescorted, ending his long and
bitter - battle to have his conviction and
sentence set aside. He lost his last
chance of escaping punishment when
the Cambria Court: ruled it would not
—Read the Watchman for the news
consider his petition for a stay of execu
tion.