Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, May 16, 1930, Image 1

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    Dowson atcporn
INK SLINGS
— Let us hope that there issome-
thing in the old French proverb that
plenty of lilacs mean plenty of
corn.
— Unless we have copious rains
soon Centre county will suffer
seriously from being too dry, inone
way at least.
— Congressman Beck's straddle
on the tariff and the liquor ques-
tions may cost him his seat in the
House of Representatives.
—“Waxey” Straub says: “I don’t
see what the “wets” are holler'n
about, anyway. They can get all
they want to drink anywhere.”
—The lilacs and honey suckles
will be gone by Decoration day, but
the peonies will probably be out to
take their place in the cemeteries
of the county.
— Three thvusand women have
volunteered to guard the polls
against frauds in Philadelphia at
the coming primary and if they
only minimize the evil they will
render valuable service.
—At least five times as many
turned out to greet candidate
Pinchot here as appeared to shake
hands with candidate Brown. It's
votes, on primary day, however,
that count and not handshakers on
barnstorming visits.
— A. South ward Republican lead-
er is credited with the prediction
that Pinchot and Grundy will carry
that precinct next Tuesday. We
would not be surprised at such an
outcome, but the leader in question
is a very ‘“cagey” politician,
—If the Republican voters of the
rural districts of Centre county get
out to the primaries next Tuesday
Pinchot will likely carry Centre
county, notwithstanding the fact that
both wings of the regular organiza-
tion are supporting Brown.
—Oh, yes, we Democrats
candidate for Governor: His name
is John M, Hemphill, he lives in
Delaware county andis avery able
lawyer. More will be heard of him
after the primary. Up to that date
of determination Mr. Hemphill will
sit “mum” and let his gabby Re-
publican friends tell all they know
about each other.
— Census takers have discovered
that the population of the Second
ward of Philadelphia declined by
ten thousand souls during the last
decade. In the face of this dwind-
ling population the number of voters
registered in the ward increased
three thousand. Only Philadelphia
political arithmetic can give answer
to problems like that.
_ Those who heard Pinchot speak
in Bellefonte heard him pledge him-
self to do everything in his power
if elected, to reduce the tax on
gasoline. They heard him say, also,
that to accomplish the many things
he promised he would have to have
a Legislature in sympathy with such
proposed reforms. Weeks ago we
told you that John G. Miller was
have a
our choice to succeed the Hon.
Holmes in the Legislature. We
also told you that John G., would
do everything in his power to take
the tax off gasoline. Republicans
who believe in doing something
for themselves and not eternally
voting to make jobs and graft for
“the big fellow” in their party,
might write John G. Miller's name
on their ballots when they vote
next Tuesday. It might not get him
their party endorsement, but a few
hundred Republican ballots marked
for Miller might scare the Hon,
Holmes into deciding to be one
thing or another: “either a mouse,
or a longtailed rat.”
—We know what brought the splen-
did rain that came Wednesday to
break the drought that had parched
crops and emptied cisterns in Cen-
tre county. It was because we had
just had the office windows washed.
Did you ever notice that it hardly
ever fails to rain just after you have
had the windows washed or gotten
the automobile all slicked up? Of
course there isn’t anything to them,
but “signs” are so eternally mak-
ing good that it is a wonder that
many of us are not voodooists.
Benner run once was to our lament-
ed father just what Fishing creek
is to us. From the time we were
nine years old, up to his last trip
into the mountains, we had accom-
panied him, hundreds of times, to
his favorite fishing grounds. And
it always rained sometime or other
while we were gone. In fact fath-
er's going to Benner run became
almost an infallible “sign” of rain.
Once we had had a long and devasta-
ing spring drought. It seemed that
it just couldn't rain. Then mother
got to thinking of Benner run and
started pestering father to go fish-
ing. It didn’t suit, but he yielded
and off he went, happy as we are
when we are behind the wheel of
the old fish wagon rattling down
Nittany valley. Less than eight
hours after he had gone the awfulest
rain that we had had in years
started. There were floods every-
where, one of his horses broke its
tether and ran away into the moun-
tains and, to get home, he had to
walk in rain-soaked clothes from
five miles beyond “the Rattlesnake”
clear in to Unionville. He was 80
near dead when he got back to
Bellefonte that he was laid up for
Es
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Watchman;
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL.
Senator Ashurst, of Arizona, was ,
entirely within the bounds of rea-
son when, the other day, he de-
manded that a current rumor to
the effect that a Senator had been
offered a seat ona Federal court
bench if he would vote to confirm
the nomination of Judge Parker
for Justice of the Supreme court,
be investigated. There have been
so many rumors of sinister influence
at work in connection with this
nomination that as Mr. Ashurst de-
clared, “Judge Parker's supporters
approached the frontier line of
culpability.” If a public patronage
trading post has been established in
the White House the people of the
country have a right to full in-
formation concerning its operations.
The Lobby committee had already
exposed the fact that the appoint-
ment of Judge Parker was in pur-
suance of a partisan plan to
strengthen the Republican party in
the South. The scheme was con-
ceived in the brain of an under-
secretary of one of the Depart-
ments and conveyed to one of the
secretaries of the President with
the request that it be forwarded to
the President. Within a few days
from the date of this communica-
tion the nomination was made. The
Attorney General protested that the
President never saw the letter and
therefore couldn't have been in-
fluenced by its contents. That is
certainly putting a severe tax on
public credulity. Still there may be
something in telepathy.
What Judge Parker might have
thought or said on the race ques-
tion was of little consequence in
estimating his fitness for serviceon
the Supreme court bench, But the
reactionary spirit expresed in his
decision affirming the validity of the
“yellow dog” contract is a sign that
he values property rights above
human rights and thus puts him-
self in conflict with the best im-
pulses of American citizenship. But
if there had been no other reasons
against his confirmation the fact that
he was chosen for partisan reasons
and that every sinister influence had
been employed to secure his con-
firmation are sufficient to convince
right thinking men and women that
his rejection by the Senate was a
very proper action.
—Congressman LaGuardia, of
New York, like Congressman Beck,
is’ only moist, instead of wet. That
is he is for the Republican party
first.
i
——— eee
Hoover Growing Impatient.
President Hoover is no longer able
to conceal his impatience with Con-
gress. In a special message ad-
dressed in the usual way to both |
branches, but obviously intended as
a rebuke to the Senate, he complains |
of the failure to enact legislation
recommended in previous messages. |
Among the reforms demanded and
neglected was improved prison con-
ditions. “Bills providing for this
relief were passed by the House,”
he declares, “and are now, Iunder- |
stand, in course of being reported to;
the Senate by the Judiciary com- |
mittee.” This clearly exculpates the
House from blame and quite as
certainly fastensit upon the Senate
committee, of which Senator Norris, |
of Nebraska, is chairman. i
The neglected legislation was the |
transfer of prohibition enforcement
from the Treasury Department to |
the Department of Justice; relief |
from congestion in the courts;
extension of federal prisons with |
more adequate parole systems
and modern treatment of
prisoners; vigorous reorganization of
the border patrol in order to con-
solidate various agencies so as to
effectually prevent illegal entry of
both aliens and goods, and adequate
prohibition legislation for the Dis-
trict of Columbia. ‘The above re-
forms are necessary,” he adds, “if
I am to perform the high duty
which falls upon the executive of
the federal laws,” and demands the
necessary legislation during the
present session.
Other Presidents have had differ-
ences with Congress and various
methods have been employed to
bring about agreements. For a time
it looked as if the powers of the
executive department were gradual-
ly vanishing before the aggressive
methods of Congress. Cleveland
made an effort to restore equilibrium
in his polite but firm way and
Roosevelt swung a “big stick” with
partial success. Wilson's vast power
of persuasion accomplished much in
that direction but Harding and
Coolidge supinely let slip all that
had been achieved in a quarter of a
| century. Mr. Hoover hopes to re-
| cover the lost ground, however, by
"applying the methods of a contrac-
two days. But he brought the rain. tor-engineer.
‘frying pan into the fire.”
{of Ohio,
‘have no right to claim for him all
,of the naval battle of Santiago in the
BELLEFONTE. PA.. MAY
Jumping “out of the frying pan
into the fire” is a futile gesture
but frequently practiced. The friends
of chairman Huston, of the Repub-
lican National committee, are doing
something of this sort in justifying
the use of money paid to him for a
semi-public purpose to personal spec- |
ulative operations. By his own ad-
mission he received from the Union
Carbide corporations a considerable
sum of money to be employed in
promoting the Tennessee river im-
provement enterprise. At the time
his margin account at his broker's
office was shy and he deposited the
trust fund to strengthen it, tempor-
arily. That is what the defaulting
cashier of the Parkesburg, Pa. bank
did. He is now on trial in court.
Mr. Huston, still quoting his own
statement, made a profit out of his
transaction, and subsequently for-
warded the money to its destina-
tion. The Parkesburg bank cashier
lost on his adventure and was sent
to jail as a criminal. No doubt Mr.
Huston would have been able to pay
even if his investment of that par-
ticular sum had been disappointing.
It is equally certain that the Parkes-
burg bank cashier would have
restored the money taken if his,
hopes of gain had been fulfilled.
But there is no difference in the
matter of turpitude. If the bank:
cashier is guilty of & crime in what
he did, the chairman of the Repub-
lican National committee was equal-
ly involved, at least until the money
was restored.
But our purpose is to show that
in justifying Mr, Huston for tem-
porarily misappropriating funds in
his possession his friends fasten up-
on him an equally grave offense.
They say he used the Union Carbide
contribution to the Tennessee river
improvement association not to
bolster his feeble margin account
but to conceal the fact that the
Carbide corporation was contribut.
ing to the lobby fund being used
to rob the government of the Muscle
Shoals property. That makes him
a party to a conspiracy, the pur-
pose of which was to convey to
the Power trust a monopoly at al
sacrifice of hundreds of millions 6f
dollars worth of property of the
people. That is literally “out of the
——Nobody will have much
sympathy for Secretary Davis if he |
is double-crossed in the primary
next Tuesday.
force after Grundy, for good
sons, had refused to “sign up.”
rea-
Roberts for Supreme Court Judge.
The appointment of Owen J.
Roberts, of Philadelphia, to the
vacancy on the Supreme court
bench is more creditable than the
impulse which influenced it. Mr.
Roberts is an able lawyer of fine
character and high attainments in
his profession. But he wasn’t
chosen because of his fitness for the
service. The vacancy was caused by
the death of Judge Sanford, of
Tennessee, and the South was en-
titled to the succession. The Presi-
dent recognized that fact in nomi-
nating Judge Parker. But because
some of the Southern Senators re-
fused to ratify the nomination of
Parker Mr. Roberts was named. It
was a Spite choice.
No doubt the nomination of Mr.
Roberts will be confirmed, as it
ought to be. He is not among the
very great lawyers of the country
and is not entitled to all the credit
of the oil cases, Mr. Pomerene,
was senior counsel in all
litigation and though Mr. Roberts
was an efficient helper, his friends
the credit of achievement,
they do.
which
As Admiral Schley said
Spanish war, “there is enough
credit to go around.” The cause of
the government was presented with
signal ability and considerable suc-
cess.
The only opposition likely to be
offered against the confirmation of
the nomination of Mr. Roberts will
probably come from the prohibi- |
tionists. In a speech delivered in |
New York, some time ago, he de- |
nounced the Eighteenth amendment |
as “the insertion of a police regula-
tion into the constitution which |
was thus reduced to the status of |
a city ordinance.” Of course Ge
|
prohibition fanatics within the Sen-
ate will not stand for that plain |
truth. Mr. Roberts’ relation with
some of the leading utility corpora-
tions may provoke some protest,
also, but it is a safe guess that he
will be confirmed with reasonable
promptness.
——— RT —————
——Somebody seems to be over-
curious about Senacor Hi Johnson's
correspondence.
Suspicious Rumor in Washington. | Huston and the Defaulting Cashier. .
most effective system of
Grundy’s Grave Charges.
: Senator Grundy has adopted the
the delinquencies of his enerhies in
his party. He has been running in
the rural newspapers an advertise-
ment alleging that the Philadelphia
Vare machine “want to name their
own United States Senator, control
the Commonwealth, exploit its
treasury, dictate the personnel and
policy of the Public Service Com-
mission and dominate the Supreme
court of the State.” He could have
chosen no more certain method for
achieving his purpose. The country
newspapers of the State hold a
high place in the confidence of the
people and they are read with
scrupulous care and implicit faith
|by a vast majority in their several! oi "ip "eo
communities.
It is a grave charge when made
supported by substantial evidence;
It had been previously asserted by a premium but
former Governor
petent witness, and made a
impression on the public mind. But
Mr. Pinchot’s statement lacked cor-
roborative support. Mr. Grundy’s
charge is not thus impaired. He
quotes Mr. Charles Hall, present
head of the gang, as saying ‘the
as it should be is to get a Phila-
delphian for Governor. As for the
State of Pennsylvania, it is drunk
with money,” This form of in-
ebriation has aroused the -cupidity
of the Vare machine, according to
Grundy.
But after all, the
feature of the Grundy indictment.
“He who steals my purse steals
trash.” Mr. Grundy declares that the
purpose of the conspirators, in ad-
dition to looting the treasury, is
“to dictate the personnel of the
{ Public, Service Commission and
dominate the Supreme court of the
State.” That is a real menace to
the welfare of the people. It is
writing a mortgage on every dol-
lar’s worth of property in favor of
corporate cupidity, welding bonds of
slavery upon every individual and
urverting the powers of govern-
{ment into agencies of graft. Grundy
ought to know what may be ex-
pected. He was part of the machine
for many years.
——If the vote for Phillips nearly
reaches the predictions of his
He joined the Vare | friends the Vare ticket will be de- li
feated and the Vare machine elim-
inated.
The Brown Ticket and Vare Slates.
As evidence that William S. Vare
still cherishes the absurd idea that
he is a figure in the politics of
Pennsylvania a statement that he
has assumed charge of the Brown-
Davis headquarters in Philadelphia
appeared in the newspapers the oth-
er day. Both Brown and Davis, in
their campaign speeches, have been
protesting that their ticket is not
a Vare slate but at arecent meet-
ing of ward workers in Philadel-
phia Mr. Vare declared that “a
vote for Davis is a vote for
Vare and a vote for Brown
is a vote for Vare.” Thus like the
proverbial coon hunter Mr. Vare
imagines that he gets the quarry
“coming ana going.”
Of course the former boss of the
Philadelphia machine is badly mis-
taken in his appraisement of the
situation. But the candidates are
equally in error in their statement
of the facts. Their ticket is the
Vare slate but it was made by Mr.
Brown and the Vare war board
composed of Tom Cunningham,
Senator Salus and councilman
Charles Hall. In the negotiations
with Mr. Brown to form the slate
they flattered Mr. Vare’s vamity by
pretending to act in his name and
it is quite likely that he will be
considered in dividing the “rake-off,”
if there be any, that is, if the
slate wins. Davis was also a dum-
my in the transaction, having been
adopted after Grundy refused to
invest in the enterprise.
But it is a safe guess that the
slate will not be strengthened by
giving it the Vare name, In the
vote for Senator four years ago Mr,
Vare carried only five or six coun-
ties out of seventy-six in the State,
and it is certain that he has not
increased either in reputation or
popularity since. Neither will it
acquire strength by effacing Vare
in the equation for in that event
‘the slate will be obliged to carry
‘the odium of the war board and all
its iniquities. ‘Taking one con-
sideration with another,” as they
‘have it in a comic opera, the slate,
by whatever name it is called, and
the ticket which it sponsors, is in
bad repute and more than likely
will go down to defeat.
16. 1930.
exposing
NO. 20.
| FIFTY YEARS AGO
| IN CENTRE COUNTY.
i
Items from the Watchman issue of
May 21, 1880.
—The beautiful town of Milton,
‘on the West Brancn of the Susque-
hanna, was almost totally destroyed
by fire last Friday. 666 buildings
out of the 1000 that made up the
town were entirely consumed by
the flames that swept over that
thriving towh. The fire originated
in the framing shop of Murray,
Dougal & Co's, car works. 1500
.people are homeless there. At a
meeting held in the court house
“here on Saturday $350 in cash and
much clothing and provisions were
given for the sufferers.
| —Immense forest fires are blazing
: (at this writing) all over the State.
| The smoke is dense, so much so
the eyes and the at-
| mosphere smells of it everywhere.
The universal cry 1s for rain, rain,
“by a responsible individual and is rain.
—A. wolf scalp generally brings
it would take a
cers the precious head of a litttle
|one that came to the home of W.
''W. Wolfe, on Penn street, about
{five o'clock yesterday morning. Bil-
{ly says he is now going to make a
brick layer of him.
—Census takers for Bellefonte
| city finances must be strengthened |are: North ward, A. M. Hoover;
| and the best way to get it done South and West wards J. H. Criss-
‘man, Albert Owen will take the
| census for Philipsburg; Rush town-
|ship, John B. Long; Howard bo- |
‘rough and township, J. Gardner;
{ Union township and borough, A. F.
| Leathers; Spring township, Edward
iC. Woods; College township, W. L,
{ Foster; Penn township and Millheim
Iris township, John Meyers;
Fergu-
‘son township, W. H. Fry.
ia place near Topeka, Kansas, on
| April 29th James M. Holt, formerly
| of Milesburg, this county, with his
father, mother, three sisters, and a
| small brother, were caught in a
prairie fire and all of them nearly
lost their lives. They were traveling
in a covered wagon and were driv-
ling their stock, cows and colts,
!when the fire surrounded them. The |
"hair was burned off the animals
iand the faces and bodies of all the
. Holts blistered before their plight
‘was discovered by men who were |
back firing to stop the progress of
[the fire.
—Miss Rosa Apt, of Hublers-
burg, daughter of the late Martin
Apt, died last Friday and the
cemetery.
| —Mr. Amos Garbrick is now de-
vering milk to the people of Belle-
|fonte. He has an excellent dairy at
Ithe fair grounds and his milk can
Tu Sspended on as being clean and
resn.
—Grasshoppers by the million have
put in their appearance in the
crops are threatened with destruc-
tion by this unusually early visita-
tion of the insects
—Special order No. 11 issued from
headquarters in Harrisburg disbands
Co. B, of Bellefonte. It has been
necessitated by the bad record of
the Company. At the election of a
second lieutenant, held last April
10, the entire organization got into
a fight and a terrible melee ensued.
It is reported that Lt. Col. D. H.
Hastings will immediately muster
in a mew company.
—So dry and dusty a May as
this has been has not been exper-
ienced within the memories of
our oldest residents.
—On Sunday night last the tobac-
co shed and contents on the farm
of Philip Crider, above Blanchard,
were totally destroyed by fire.
—The fishing party alluded to
here in the last issue, and of which
the editor was a member, came
home on Friday night; having
caught over five hundred of the
“speckled beauties.”
— Prison inmates at Rockview
penitentiary worked side by side
with a cordon of guards, last Thurs-
day afternoon in an endeavor to
conquer a fierce forest fire which
for six hours or longer raged on
Nittany mountain. The fire broke
out near the new reservoir, in Mec-
Bride's gap, and burned up over
the mountain and back to the site
of the Houser farm before it
was gotten under control. More
than two hundred acres were burn-
ed over and it was 10:30 o'clock
at night before the flames were
extinguished. A carelessly thrown
match or stub of a cigarette is be-
lieved to have started the fire.
——The much needed rain came
on Tuesday night and Wednesday,
enough of it to freshen up vegeta-
tion and help the gardens. It start-
ed with a hard thunder storm,
Tuesday night, accompanied with
vivid flashes of lightning. There
was mot enough of rain, however,
to relieve the water famine which
exists among those farmers who
have to depend entirely on cisterns
for. their supply.
While moving from Ellsworth to
re-
| mains were interred in the Catholic |
vicinities of Lemont and Zion where '
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
Jesse Forney, of Lewistown, motoring
over the Seven Mountains one day last
week, stopped to gather wild flowers,
and going down the mountain he
heard a noise in the back of the car,
and discovered a rattlesnake coiled on
the rear seat. The snake was killed.
—The number of horses on farms in
Pennsylvania on January 1st, 1930, was
346,000 as compared with 349,000 on
January 1st, 1929, according to figures
announced by the State Department of
Agriculture. However, the number of
mules on farms in this period did not
fluctuate, there being the same number,
51,000, on both dates.
—Lying undiscovered,
conscious, for nine hours after falling
from a three-story building in Pitts-
burgh, on Sunday, David McHugh, 59,
attracted attention to his plight by
hurling a brick into the ventilating fan
of a restaurant. J. Rookley, the res-
taurant proprietor, discovered McHugh
while seeking the cause of the ap-
pearance of clouds of smoke in the
at times un-
restaurant. McHugh suffered a broken
left leg.
—Edward W. Kissell, 60, of Dubois-
town, was fatally injured and Joseph
Zimmer, of Williamsport, burned when
a three-inch shell , exploded while the
men were reconditioning a ¢ mnon in
preparation for use by the Sons of
Veterans on Memorial day. The explosion
blew off part of the roof of the Zimmer
shop in the rear of his home, where
the men were working. Windows were
broken in neighboring homes. Part of
Kissell’s head was blown off.
—More than 800 inmates of State
penal institutions are drawing pay each
month for work done in prison manu-
facturing industries, the Welfare De-
partment reports. They include 320 at
: eastern penitentiary, 299 at western
| penitentiary, 91 at Rockview peniten-
Pinchot, a com- much bigger bounty than the coun- |tiary and 122 at the Industrial Reforma-
strong ty pays to get the scalp that cov- (ory at Huntingdon. These do not in-
| clude other hundreds who are employed
|in farming, improvement projects, nursery
{ work and other prison labor.
—A burglar was shot and his two
| companions captured Saturday night as
i they attempted to rob the service sta-
tion of James Switzer, near Mifflintown.
Switzer, who lives next door to his
service station, was aroused by a bur-
glar alarm and found Leroy Haag, John
Borbach and William Wieland carrying
| cigars and cigarettes from the station
! car. Switzer fired his revolver
| ana wounded Haag. The other men
| put up no fight. Haag is in the Lewis-
| town hospital. His condition is not
contemplated | borough, Frank P. Musser; Potter | serious.
raid on the treasury is not the worst . township, Ellis B. Hosterman; Har- |
—A five-foot blacksnake which attack-
led Donald Meadows, 3-year-old son of
| Mrs. Meader I. Williams on a farm
near Gettysburg, was shot by Mrs, Wil-
liams, who rescued her child. The
mother was in the house when she
heard the little boy scream outside. She
ran to the porch, where she found the
snake coiled around the child's legs.
Making a noise to attract the snake, she
lifted Donald through a window to
safety and then obtained a rifle. She
fired one shot, the bullet hitting the
reptile in the head.
—Missing since April 22, Miss Helena
Frey, 16, of Hanover, is being sought by
police and private detectives. ..She left
her home on a Tuesday to return sev-
eral books to the library and was heard
from in York the day following after
she had her chestnut brown hair tinted
‘red in a beauty shop. She is described
as 5 feet4 inches tall, weighs 148 pounds,
gray eyes. When she left home she
wore a dark blue dress with hand-
smocked trimming, a blue coat with fur
collar and tan-trimmed sleeves, black
pumps and light-colored hosiery.
| —A powder explosion may cost James
McDevitt, an eleven year old Northum-
{ berland county lad, his sight. The boy
is in Shamokin State hospital badly
burned about the head and face. His
companion, Charles Maloney, 12, also
was burned about the head. The boys
were wandering about the hillside near
their homes when they found a rifle
cartridge. They cut the lead top off
and scratched out the powder into a
milk bottle. McDevitt held a match
over the mouth of the bottle and both
boys were burned in the explosion
which followed.
—A 58-year-old Philadelphian narrowly
escaped death early Sunday, when a
cigarette he was smoking in bed set
fire to his clothing. He is William
Bradley, of 3314 Lancaster avenue.
Prompt arrival of firemen from Thirty-
seventh and Ludlow streets saved his
life, according to Presbyterian hospital
authorities. Bradley was unconscious
from smoke when they broke into his
second-floor apartment and carried him
into the open, where he was given first-
aid treatment. Hospital attendants
worked over him for two hours before
he revived. Bradley was then treated
for minor burns and discharged .
__The State Department of Justice
in a legal opinion made public this week
informed the Department of Public In-
struction that school boards may not
require employees to attend educational
conventions nor pay their expenses while
in attendance. The opinion was prepar-
ed at the request of Dr. John A. H.
Keith, superintendent of the de-
partment, who desired to know whether
the expenses of a superintendent of
schools, city superintendent, principal or
supervisor, while in attendance at educa-
tional conventions, may be paid from the
funds of the school district. Such at-
tendance, the opinion pointed out, is not
required as properly incident to the
discharge of their specific duties as de-
fined in the school code.
—Charged with impersonating an
electric meter inspector in order to steal
$81 from a trunk in the home of James
Neiswender at Locustdale, Michael Dul-
linski, of Mount Carmel, is under $500
bond for court in spite of the fact that
he returned the stolen money. Dullinsk:
went to the Neiswender home and said
he was an inspector. The aged resi-
dent permitted the man to go upstairs.
He remained so long Neiswender became
suspicious and obtained the license
number of the car in which the alleged
inspector was traveling. After he had
gone a trunk upstairs was found broken
open and $81 in cash was missing. The
owner of ths car was traced by the
police and his arrest followed in short
order.