Next Tuesday will be groundhog
day, but every day is some road |
hog’s day and they don’t all drive a '
bus or a freight truck either,
—Mr. Grundy’s coming out party
in Philadelphia, Saturday night, was
a grand affair, but lots of promis-
ing debutantes became complete
“wash-ou Tid NET :
. —Princes and paupers = shared
the; loot in Scranton - slot-machine
racket. The then mayor and the
dive-keepers were equal in the divi-
son, ‘so the news stories insinuate.
—All the news from- the London
maval disarmament parley indicates
that even if they don’t intend to
scrap a lot of war vessels the dele-
gates are determined not to start a
scrap among themselves.
—The uptown folks who are so in-
convenienced becaiise the post-office
has been moved ought to be reconcil-
ed to the change if for no other rea-
son than that they are meeting their
downtown neighbors half way.
—Spring is just around the cor-
ner. While we are likely to encoun-
ter some pretty rough going over the
seven weeks that intervene news
from the ball training camps in the
south will keep our minds from con-
centrating too hard on it.
—Soviet Russia has stricken Sun-
day off’ its calendar, That sounds
like Soviet Russia, but the acqui-
escence of a Boston Methodist preach.
er in a proposal by the clergy of
that city to have the law against
blasphemy stricken from the statutes
of the Bay State doesn’t sound like
the Methodist church.
—This Mr. Primo Carnera, who
has just arrived from Italy to fatten
his bank account at the expense of
American fight fans, is somewhat of
a mountain of flesh, “Big Boy” Pe-
terson tried to climb it last Friday
night and fell unconscious after sink-
ing only two hooks into the moun-
tain.
—If Governor Fisher could have
persuaded Senator Grundy to accept
Taylor or if Senator Grundy could
have persuaded Governor Fisher to
accept Samuel Lewis when they met
in Philadelphia, last Saturday night,
the millions of Republican voters
would have had no more say as to
who their nominee for Governor will
be than the Watchman will have.
Why waste money on a primary?
—In another column of this issue
we publish a lengthy communication
bearing on the proposed closing of a
portion of Lamb street in order to
provide more playground for the
school children, We hope that all of
our Bellefonte subscribers will read
it carefully, for it concerns a matter
that is much in controversy and
should .be - settled ..one way or the
other, soon. It is a public question.
One that should be considered whol-
ly impersonally. It is the duty of
every citizen to approach the solu-
tion of such problems guided only by
the fundamental principle that good
government is the greatest good to
the greatest number.
—In 1929 it cost New York State
$876,537.00 to keep 25,028 miles of
roads clean of smow. During the
same period it cost Pennsylvania
$914,809.00 to keep only 7967 miles
of roads passable. Out in Ohio they
swept 6,138 miles clear for $93,802.
[f a heckler should ask any of the
Republican spell-binders, who will be
on the stump next fall blatherin’
about the beneficence and economy
>f his party’s government, just why
such an amazing disparity in cost
should be, he will probably reply:
Hell, don’t you know that they didn’t
have as much snow up in New York,
or out in Ohio, as we had here in
Pennsylvania, And the crowd will
selieve it. We just can’t understand
Pennsylvania's abject submission to
solitical bossism, unless its elector-
ite is properly described by the lit-
le boy who declined the verb “dim”
18 “dim, dam, dum.”
—Candidly we think Congress is
wasting entirely too much time
>andying words about prohibition,
[t’s the law of the land and every
>ody who has the urge and isn’t
ufraid of being caught violating it
loes violate it. In fact the reaction
»f human nature to all law is exactly
‘he same. There are mighty few
»eople on the face of the globe who,
vhen the law crimps them a bit,
wouldn't take a chance were it not
‘or the consequences. The agrieul- .
ural regions of the country can al-
vays be depended on to vote for any
1ypocrite who bears a dry label yet
it their farm products show in Har-
‘isburg last week there was more
iquor in evidence. and the evidence
f more liquor about a certain hotel
vhere the big guns of the show
jongregated than there was there
luring the inaugural ceremonies of
yovernor Fisher, three years ago.
Jur idea of the prohibition question
s that it is really one of temper-
ince and not of law. And so far as
)ersonal experience is concerned we
relieve that Francis Murphy, Fred
Jota, who was once secretary of the
ocal Y, M. C. A, and several other
eople we might mention converted
nore people from the wet to the dry
lan of living than the Volstead or
ny other law could or will do in this
ommunity. Please don’t misunder-
tand us, We're not against the Vol-
tead law. We are only expressing
. deep conviction that law can't
hange human nature. It might re.
train certain of its impulses.
The fact that an alliance existed
between the American Tariff League
and. the . Repubican National com-
mittee during the Hoover cam-
paign has been . proved again by
evidence brought out by the Senate
Lobby committee the other day.
The American Tariff League, of
which Senator Grundy was vice-
president until his recent appoint-
ment professes to be a non-parti-
san and non-political organization
and by that false pretense has en-
ticed some Democrats to its mem-
bership. W. W, Barbour, formerly
president and now treasurer of the
League, testified that during the
1928- campaign it arranged to hook-up
with the Republican National com-
mittee through its chairman, Hubert
Work. ' Later the partnership was
dissolved for the reason that it was
in violation of law, :
But notwithstanding the dissolu-
tion the “hook-up” continued to func-
tion. The League agreed to ‘do the
tariff research and educational pub-
licity work” for the campaign com-
mittee and continued to do so clan-
destinely after the dissolution. In
pursuance of this undertaking the
League collected and disbursed a
fund variously estimated at from
$30,000 to $50,000. No report was
made of these collections and dis-
bursements to the Congressional
committee or anybody else, as re-
quired by the Corrupt Practices law.
Two employees of the government,
Clayton F. Moore, clerk of the House
Ways and Means committee, and
Edward N. Dingley, tariff expert of
the. Senate Finance committee, were
employed in the work, which was a
direct violation of another act of
Congress, :
Mr. Barbour undertook to treat
the question put to him facetiously
but didn’t succeed as well as some of
his predecessors in the witness chair.
When a member of the committee
characterized the tariff League as a
lobbying organization he asked “just
what is a lobbyist?” Senator Car-
away replied, “just look at your own
organization, You've got as fine a
lobby as any I know,” and Caraway
has learned a lot along that line
since the investigation began. The
significance in this instance, however,
lies in the fact that it shows every
feature of the Hoover campaign was
saturated with fraud and false pre-
tense, Whether the candidate ap-
proved the devious methods is a mat-
ter of conjecture but he seems to
fully enjoy the results accomplished.
——Grundy and Hoover are not
in agreement as to the date of the
beginning of prosperity in this coun-
try. Grundy fixes it at the time
high protective tariff set in and
Hoover at the time he entered the
public service,
Mr. Grundy’s Platform,
Senator Grundy’s speech, delivered
at the Manufacturers’ Club in Phil-
adelphia, on Saturday evening, may
be construed as a public procla-
mation that Big Business is in the
saddle and intends to shape the des-
tinies of the country in its own self-
ish way. He attributes all the pros-
perity of the past to tariff taxation
and measures the progress of de-
velopment of the country in wealth,
culture and population by the rate
of the tax levy on imports. He is
especially enthusiastic in praise of
that phase of the policy which has
eliminated small enterprises and
massed operation in mergers, com-
binations and monopolies of colos-
sal proportions.
Mr. Grundy divides the progress
of the country into three periods,
and very properly describes the
third or present period as revolu-
tionary, “It was approximately with
the enactment of the Dingley tariff
of 1897,” he states, “that we came
into what I would describe as the
second period of this internal
economic life—the period of the
passing of many of the small and
individual industrial units, with
their intimate contacts between the
owner and his employees; the peri-
od of larger enterprise in corporate
form and consolidations of many en-
terprises of like character into single
big businesses.” This is the policy
which Grundy worships and which
‘tariff taxation fosters.
But by what process of reasoning
does Mr. Grundy persuade himself
that the vast increase of wealth of
the country since the transition of
which he speaks may be attributed
to tariff taxation? Did tariff taxa-
tion produce electricity, the tele-
phone, the automobile, the radio?
Each of these elements, in the recent
life of the country, has added hun-
dreds of millions and jointly have
produced billions, without any help
from tariff legislation. And upon
what feature of his activities doeshe
base a claim upon the friendship of
labor? = All his life he has fought
the interests of wage-earners as
those who have endeavored to help-
ful legislation know,
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Good Service of Dubious Origin
By voting to continue hides, leath-
er and boots and shoes on the free
list the coalition of Democrats and
insurgent Republicans in the Senate
performed a valuable public service
to the people of the United States.
The bill, as reported by the Senate
Finance committee, provided for a
tax of ten per cent ad valorem on
hides, fifteen per cent. on leather
and twenty per cent on boots and
shoes. The insurgent . Republicans
protested that “the rate on hides
was not comparable to the duty al-
lowed on leather and boots and
shoes,” and asked for a Specific
rate of five cents a pound on raw
and ten cents a pound on cured
hides. This demand having been
refused Senator Borah proposed that
all the articles be continued on
the free list, which was adopted by
a vote of 46 to 28, .
While it is difficult to reconcile
the reasons for Senator Borah’s ac-
tion with the requirements of an
active conscience it is impolite to
“look a gft horse in the mouth,”
and hardly worth while to venture
an analysis. Mr. Borah seems to
have been willing to go along with
the proposition to burden the con-
sumers to the extent of $100,000,000
a year or more, with twenty per
cent tariff tax on boots and shoes
if an additional burden of several
millions were placed by a higher
tax on hides. In other words, he
had no objection to the robbery if
the loot were divided so as to give
the West an equal share. But the
allocation of the plunder was not
to his liking ard for that reason he
determined to prevent the robbery.
Some reformers are that way. ,
The pretense of the -demand for
a high tax on hides is that the
farmers who breed cattle need pro-
tection. As a matter of fact the
farmers who produce cattle would
derive very little benefit from a
tax on hides. They sell the cattle
“on the hoof” and the proceeds of a
tax on hides woud go almost en-
tirely to the packing house monopo-
lies. But if a tax is levied on hides
there is reason in the demand for
compensatory tax on leather and
boots and shoes even though it
does place burdens on the consum-
ers. Placing all of these items on
the free lst is, therefore, a happy
solution of an ugly problem and it
may be just as well to accept the
favor without going into an analy-
sis of the reasons which brought it
about. The people get little enough
anyway.
——Old fashioned winters may be
delightful for making conversation
but they are not pleasant to live in.
Public Service Commission Denounced
The Pennsylvania: ‘Threshermen
and Farmers’ Protective association
was addressed at a banquet in Har-
risburg, last week, by the former
Governor Pinchot who renewed his
just and righteous war against the
Public Service Commission of Penn-
sylvania. During the closing period
of his administration as Governor
Mr. Pinchot tried to correct the
faults and improve the methods of
the Commission and, as he told. his
audience in Harrisburg, it was the
hardest fight he had made in the
four years of his Governorship and
resulted in the worst licking he ever
got in his life, But he survived that
defeat and is back on the firing line
with a new supply of appropriate
epithets and a strengthened purpose
to win.
“I believe there is hardly a town-
ship, borough, town or city in this
Commonwealth,” Mr. Pinchot declar-
ed, “whose citizens have not been
given gfraw deal by the Public Ser-
vice mmission, I believe there is
no other body under the government
of Pennsylvania that has been so
competely, so continuously and so
notoriously controlled by the corpor-
ations as the Pubic Service Commis-
sion,” This is literally and shame-
fully true, The body has been per-
verted into a political machine
which, like the tariffmongers in Con-
gress, serves the purpose of collect-
ing slush funds to control elections.
Favors to corporate monopolies are
exchanged for campaign contribu-
tions,
As a matter of fact the actions of
the Pennsylvania Public Service
Commission have been a scandal for
years, Originally it was intended to
be a non-partisan, or at least a bi-
partisan body, but since the expira-
tion of the term of the late John S.
Rilling no Democrat has been ap-
pointed and it has become a bitter
partisan organization maintained for
the benefit of monopoly. Instead of
protecting the interests of the public
against the encroachments of cor-
porate rapacity it has become the
instrument through which corporate
crimes are legalized. In
and denouncing the Public Service
Commission Mr, Pinchot has per-
‘formed a distinct public service and
earned the thanks of the people.
= BELLEFONTE, PA.. JANUARY 31. 1930.
The Five Power Naval Conference
The London naval conference
opened auspiciously in the Gallery of
<he House of Lords, London, and is
proceeding hopefully to the achieve-
ment ‘of its mission. The King’s
speech, significant mainly as a sym-
bol of the unity of purpose of the
British people, was in the nature of
a welcome to the members of the
conference but without promise oth-
er than that of generous hospitality.
The other speeches, including that
of Secretary of State Stimson, con-
sisted of expressions of appreciation
of the King's courtesy and assur-
ances of “distinguished considera-
‘tion” of each toward all the others.
These exchanges of compliments are
agreeable and interesting but don't
mean much.
The second session of the confer-
ence was less amicable but more
practical. It was to give opportun-
ity for each of the groups to state
the needs or expectations of his gov-
ernment with respect to naval equip-
ment. Mr, Stimson was the first
speaker but he modestly declined to
set up a standard other than com-
plete parity with Great Britain. De-
crease or increase of naval strength |
is a matter of indifference to Amer-
ica according to his representation,
On the other hand France, Italy and
Japan. stated their desires clearly
and with some emphasis and Japan
made the only direct plea for de-
crease of present equipment. But
‘the spirit of compromise and accom-
‘modation was expressed by all.
That the conference will come to
an agreement is practically certain,
but the value of the agreement is
doubtful. Those who hope fora con-
siderable cut in naval equipment are
likely to ‘be disappointed. That un-
certain quantity, national security,
and the suspicions which pervade
the minds of politicians in and out-
side the conference, is the stumbling
block, But these influences will not
prevent a temporary or. tentative
pledge - to cover a ‘brief period of
time and save the face of, the enter-
prise. It may serve the additional
purpose of justifying our refusal to
enter the League of Nations that
‘much. longer, which may have been
the principal reason for the confer-
ence.
2“ Last fall John Tonner Harris,
of Harrisburg, vice president and
general manager of the Bell Tele-
phone company of Pennsylvania, of-
fered to give a dinner to all com-
pany employees who would secure
ten new subscribers during the
months of November and December.
In Bellefonte seven employees secur-
ed ten or more new subscribers and
one employee in State College, They
are J. H, Caum, manager; Misses
Sarah Love, Hilda Haupt, Catherine
Clevenstine, Helen Cruse and Earl
Miller and George - Hoffmier, all of
Bellefonte, and Harry Wagner, of
State College. The dinner will be
given in Altoona some night next
week,
—Bishop Cannon demands that
the government supply more money
and more men for the enforcement
of the prohibition laws, While we
don’t believe more money and more
men would noticeably improve the
situation we would like to see
the Bishop put in charge of the
matter and given every cudgel the
law can supply. We believe he
would make a more monumental
failure of enforcement than those
whom he is inveighing against are
doing.
—Several weeks ago Judge M,
Ward Fleming appointed Charles F.
Cook an auditor to audit the ac-
counts of the prothonotary, record-
er and register so far as their ac-
counts with the State are concerned,
but on Saturday advice was received
from the Auditor General that the
audits will be made by men from
the department in Harrisburg, so
that Mr. Cook’s appointment natur-
ally becomes void.
——If the Philadelphia papers
would keep Mayor Mackey off the
front pages for a few consecutive
days they might abate a provoking
nuisance,
——An investigation of the activ-
ities of “holding companies” may
only show the urgent need of dras-
tic legislation, but that will be worth
while.
———1It is certain that there will be
a Democratic candidate and an earn-
est campaign in every Congressional
district in Pennsylvania this year.
——Meantime the negotiations be-
tween the Vare machine, of Philadel-
phia, and the Mellon machine are
making slow progress.
——Walter H. Newton, secretary
to President Hoover, seems to be.
associated with every scandal expos-
ed in Washington.
NO. 5.
"BED TIME
Good gracious “me! I most forgot
To empty the kettle, and the
clock, aly ;
And put out the cat and bank the stove,
For it don’t seem to meito be so cold.
To feel if all the doors are locked
And stir down the batter in the
big stone crock.
And I must giraighten the chairs and
rugs, just : os ;
For geryining comes in the middle
of the nig!
And with things all st i
th th rewn at sixes nl
Darn me suds, who knows what'll
appen. :
And_there’s the ashes and apple skin—
Who left the cider in Ep a tin?
And we pp-lang sakes—I forgot
ho well Tl do that after I take
ron arm
Last night that — the
sheets all red
And oh, good gracious!
that? : -
to
my pill.
brick . made the
Now what's
Sounds like a mou i
Hk. se in the pantry
How in the name did the thing get in?
I'm sure I stopped that AE ath tin.
Where is the cheese?—let me think,
Yes, I'll bah the trap right here by
e sin
And_ if that mouse comes racking
I can leave things standi
fear. E fe mi
here
out a
Good lands, I wound the alarm too tight
Jt can’t be 10. That clocks not right
Wait now. I'll fix the hands ahead.
And tomorrow I'll start early to bed.
WINIFRED MEEK MORRIS-1930
America at The Hague.
If the statesmen rise above
: na-
tionalistic bickering and the mak-
ing of grandstand plays for the
home audiences, the reparations con-
ference now in session ai The Hague
should pretty well dispose of the
problem which has retarded Eu-
ropean reconstruction for eleven
years, :
With the reparations payments
fixed at $10,000,000,000 over a period
of fifty-nine years, and organization
of the Bank of International Settle.
ments agreed to by earlier confer-
ences the chief remaining issue is
political rather than economic. = It
has to do with sanctions.
Germany in return for
the Young plan which is to replace
the old Dawes plan, insists that
France relinquish her privilege to
occupy Germany. This France
refuses to grant.
But France is not so hard-boiled
on this question of sanctions as she
used to be. She has discovered to
Be rl, that a quick and final
settlement of reparations is as
sential to her lg well.
being as it is to Germany. ' There-
fore France must compromise the
present disagreement,
Foreign Minister Briand, although
lacking complete support in Paris
is expected to proposeas a compro-
mise that in case of a dispute over
German reparation payments, a spe-
cial arbitration board or the World
Court be empowered to determine
blame and possible sanctions.
Germany cannot afford to reject
such a compromise for by so doing
she would not only sacrifice world
confidence but also jeopardize the
youre plan and the International
accepting
Meanwhile the presence at The
Hague conference of a so-called un-
official Washington government - ob-
server is another reminder of the
selfish and contradictory American
position. Just as we forced the or-
ganization of a League of Nations
for. others and refused to join our-
selves, so now we have in effect
dictated the terms of the repara-
tions settlement and International
Bank without having any official
connection with either. Indeed, we
have just negotiated a separate
treatv with Germany, covering our
collections for army of occupation
costs.
Bv such slight of hand perform-
ances our government solemnly
tries to maintain the fiction that
there is no connection between Ger-
man revarations and American war
dehts and that we are not entangled
in Furonean and world affairs, This
pettv subterfuge fools no one.
Power without responsibility is
imnossible. So long as the United
States is the stromeest world power
and js ever reaching out for more
eomtrnl over international destinies,
we shall be in responsibilities up to
our necks,
All that is Needed.
From the American Mutual Magazine.
A real estate salesman of West
Texas had just finished describing
the glorious opportunities of that
part of the country. “All that west
Texas needs to become the garden
spot of the world is good people
and water,” he said. “Huh!” replied
the prospect. “That’sall hell needs.”
——Borah refused to comment on
the Crimes Commission report. But
he will have something to say on
the subject when the proposed leg-
islation appears on the Senate cal-
endar.
pofesses
of his
——Governor Fisher
great pride in the wisdom
choice of Grundy for Senator.
———There were plenty of million.
aires at the Grundy dinner but no
representatives og labor.
——The drys and the wets in Con-
gress are making it hot for Presi.
dent Hoover,
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
invita tind d ES Ed A cen fo Le RE
i —A sausage, -ferty-six feet, nine inches
long, was made on the farm of James H.
Marker, near -Ligonier.. Mathematicians
are ‘figuring “how many hot cakes should
accompany it. 3
i —Because an accurate count of small
game killed in the State depends almost
entirely upon the co-operation of sports-
men, the Board of Game Commissioners
has asked for the return of report slips
attached to hunting licenses.
{ —J. A. Sager, well-known farmer of
Mackeyville, in Nittany valley, sustained
a $15,000 fire ioss when his barn and
four out buildings were destroyed by
fire of unknown origin, on Monday, with
all the crops excepting the livestock.
—Clyde Miller, 38, married and the
father of four children, was killed last
Wednesday at his home in Montgomery,
while fitting a loud speaker arrangement
into his radio outfit. He touched a part
fully charged with electricity. He had
forgotten to switch off the current.
—A reduction of one cent a quart for
milk to consumers in Pittsburgh was an-
nounced on Monday by H. B. Steele, sec-
retary of the Dairymen’s Co-operative
Sales Company. The new price of 18
cents will be effective February 1. Cream
will be reduced one cent a half-pint.
—A coroner's jury has recommended
that Michael Sliss, of Primrose, Schuyl-
kill county, be held on a charge of mur-
der for the death of his neighbor, Peter
Yurchak. Sliss, it was alleged, shot
Yurchak because he would not turn off
his talking machine when requested.
—One man was killed and two women
were injured, on Monday in an explosion
of 50 quarts of nitro-glycerine being
hauled from Titusville to 10 Mile Bottom,
near Oil City. W. J. Sullivan, 40, Titus-
ville, driver of the truck containing the
nitro-glycerine, was killed. His body was
blown into pieces. The two women were
‘in a nearby house which was badly dam-
aged by the biast.
—Miss Isabelle McKean, 17, of Polk,
on Tuesday was discharged from the
hospital where she was treated for a
gunshot wound in the hand but Howard
Reisinger, Franklin, 19, her companion
‘during an automobile ride Monday
night, remained in the hospital with a
wound in the chest. Both termed the
incident was ‘‘accidental’’ and declined
to divulge details of the shooting.
—Firemen rescued nearly 200 women
and girls late last Friday night, when
the Masonic building in Turtle Creek, a
suburb of Pittsburgh, was damaged by
fire. Loss was estimated by firemen at
$35,000... The women were attending a
card party. Spontaneous combustion was
said to have caused the fire. Ten tele-
phone operators were guided ' to safety
from an exchange on the second floor o
‘the building. - : :
—An . automobile driven by C. L.
Drumm, Bloomsburg, struck Allen Fetter,
70, while he was crossing the Berwick
highway Sunday night. Witnesses sum-
moned = another automobile to take Fet-
ter to a hospital, and a hearse answered
the call. The sight of the hearse so
shocked Drumm that he fainted and it
was half an hour before he was revived.
Fetter suffered a fracture of the leg and
was said to be in no serious condition.
—Webster Saylor was elected mayor of
Johnstown, last Friday, by unanimous
vote of the four councilmen to fill the va-
cancy created by the sentencing of Jo-
seph Cauffiel to serve a term in the Cam-
bria county jail after conviction of mis-
conduct in office. . Saylor was defeated in
the last Republican primaries for the
nomination of his party as sheriff. The
Johnstown school board, of which he was
a member, met on Saturday afternoon
in special session to act upon his resig-
nation. :
—Closing of the largest forest land
purchase for public use in the history of
the State, was announced last week. In
the deal 182,000 acres of land were bought
for $3 an acre, the total price amounting
to almost $400,000, from the - Central
Pennsylvania Lumber company. The land
situated in 11 counties = in the northern
section of Pennsylvania, is to be divid-
ed between the Department of Forests
and Waters and the State Game Commis-
sion, the forestry department to get the
largest portion, 79,226 acres.
—Persons injured in accidents of mo-
torbusses which = carry school children
back and forth cannot look to the school
directors of that district for damages, ac-
cording to a decision handed down by
Judge S. John Morrow, of Fayette coun-
ty, in dismissing the $25,000 damage suit
of Eleanor Edna Thompson. The court
ruled that ‘furnishing free transporta-
tion in a school bus is a public govern-
mental function.” Miss Thompson sued
for injuries sustained when the Redstone
High school bus crashed into a telephone
pole, severely injuring her. :
—John McLaughlin, 36, and an un-
identified man were found dead on
Tuesday in McLaughlin’s home in
Pittsburgh and were believed to have
been victims of fumes from gas fires.
The bodies were found by McLaughlin's
widow who returned home from Johns-
town, where she had been visiting since
last Friday. McLaughlin’s body was
lying on the kitchen floor and that of
the other man was on a bed. Mrs: Mc-
Laughlin could not identify her hus-
band’s companion. Several fires were
burning in the house and all the win-
dows and doors were closed tightly.
—Mrs. Alta Olds, aged 80 years, for
many years a resident of Jersey Shore,
and an aunt of Mrs. Lee Larimer, form-
erly of Bellefonte, was found dead seat-
ed in the living room of her home.
Neighbors noticed that = the milk bottle
left by dairymen had not been removed
from her porch and on looking in the
window, saw the figure of a woman
slumped in a rocking chair in the room
within. Chief of police George Slifer
was called and broke open the door of
the house, and coroner Charles L.
Youngman, of Williamsport, conducted
an investigation, and decided death to
have been the result of natural causes.
—An automobile mechanic who went to
a moonshine plant in York county, to re-
pair a broken truck and was arrested
and convicted of conspiracy to violate
the prohibition law, was given a sus-
pended sentence and placed on proba-
tion for a year by Judge Henry C.
Niles, on Tuesday. The mechanic, An-
gelo Promutico, Havre De Grace, Md.
was declared to be a hard working me-
chanic with a good record by John T.
Allen, chief of police of Havre De
Grace, who appeared in his behalf. The
raid with which Promutico’s repair job
coincided resulted in four arrests and
convictions, and. confiscation of a huge
illicit Hquor plant in Hopewell town
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