a —_
Bevel
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=
" —We're not exactly sick, but we
just don’t feel right, It's hard to
-rise above the political depression |
“that is weighted on the old bean
tonight. You say we ought to be
cheering because most of the coun-
try has gone Democratic. What ifit
~has. What does that amount to tous.
Nothing, absolutely nothing! Demo-
crats might be parading tonight in
other States, but they are not doing |
it in Pennsylvania. We have been
feeding on husks for exactly forty
years and just when we got !
near to the loaves and fishes that
the old party had merely to reach
out and grab them and bulge its
slats for four years, what did they
do? Yes, What did they do? They
let the Pied Piper from Pike swap a
camel stuffed with bunk on a don-
key that would have given them
many a happy ride had it only
gotten a little nibble at the public
crib. {
Our hat is off to the hundreds of
thousands of Republicans in
Pennsylvania who went so far in
self sacrifice as to voluntarily take
their feet out of the trough so that
we could get ours in awhile. God
give us grace to think charitably of
and not to hiss the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals on |
keepers who are wilfully starving
donkeys to death. !
i
i
!
Captain Arthur Dale is sitting so
pretty just now that we fairly writhe
as we write. Writhe in an agony of
regret that it isn't some Centre
county Democrat who is in his
shoes. From now until January will
seem a century to Arthur, but if
Hemphill had been elected we Demo- !
crats, who have fasted forty years, :
would have viewed the sixty days:
as merely a split second. !
Not that we covet anything that
Arthur so richly deserves. Only'
that we deplore the deafness of
Democracy when Opportunity was
knocking at it’s door.
“The trouble with us is that we
have too many Andys and not
enough Amoses.
Prohibition wasn’t an issue. Mr.
Pinchot told his hypnotics that him-
self. Anybody with the wit of a'
nit should have known that a Gov-
ernor of a State is impotent as a
law maker, yet the drys flocked to
Pinchot and the wets to Hemphill,
unmindful of the fact that Davis
and Kistler, candidates for United
States Senator, and the Congress-
officials who could possibly affect
the Volstead Act in any way. And,
incidentally, brother Chase carried !
Centre county by 1319 more votes
than brother Pinchot. Dry Centre
county giving Mitch Chase that lead
over Gif. Pinchot was so ridiculous
that we dug out a pair of Boy
Scout boots instead of calking up
the seams of the old boat for the
journey up Salt River. i
We knew that the fanaticism of
the misguided drys would lead them
to dip the water out of the familiar old |
stream so that it wouldn't be wet
enough to float the label on a bot-
tle of pop.
Some paragraphs above we took
our hat off to Republicans who laid
their votes at our feet. We've got
another hat. We are taking it off
‘in serial form, an interesting story
mk
VOL. 75.
BELLEFONTE
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
—
President Hoover a Poor Sport. |
President Hoover shows poor
sportsmanship in his bitter attack
on the newspapers which published
Ralph F. Kelley's charges that the
Interior Department had favored oil |
speculators in disposing of the oil |
shale public lands in Colorado. Mr."
Kelley had been for twenty-five
years a trusted and efficient em-
ployee of the Interior Department.
He had frequently remonstrated’
against the practice of the Depart-
ment in disposing of the govern-
ment’s property in the shale lands
in direct violation of the law andto
the prejudice of public interests. |
Copies of the correspondence in
which the facts were fully revealed
were given in support of the charges
and there were no reasons, ethical!
or othrwise, against the exposure,
Mr. Kelley’s statement appraised |
the value of the oil shale lands |
owned by the government in Colora- |
do at several Dillion dollars. The
President estimates the value as
negligible, Mr. Kelley based his
estimate on the report of the geo-
logical survey, which fixes the po-
tential value at adollar an acre and |
the area at 40,000,000 acres.’
As long as the oil remains in the
shale and the government retains
title to the mineral there is no ac-
tual loss. But the charge, sup-:
ported by ample evidence, is that
the title to the mineral was being’
rapidly and fraudulently alienated to
powerful and unscrupulous oil cor-'
porations in the face urgent protests’
made not only by Mr. Kelley him-!
self but by the commissioner of the |
Land Office and the engineers of the |
Department. t
It may be all right for the Presi- |
dent to entertain abiding faith in!
| the integrity of the Secretary of |
the Interior. But a simliar confi-
dence in the integrity of Albert’
Fall enabled that recreant officialto!
convey to Harry Sinclair and Ed-,
ward Doheny hundreds of millions of |
dollars worth of oil in Wyoming and i
a prodigions amount of energy.
California, the partial recovery. of
which cost vast sums of money and !
Singularly enough some of the per- |
sons involved in the transactions
then were concerned in the manip- |
! ulations in Colorado, and the record
of the present Secretary of the In-
terior in the allotment of prospec-
tive power of Boulder dam is any- |
thing but reassuring. As a matter’
of fact the President ought to be
grateful that an impending scandal
was ‘“nioped in the bud.”
————a—
——Now public interest may be
directed toward restoring prosperity
instead of repairing political fences,
The Man in the Green Hat. |
Some of the leading newspapers
of the country have been publishing |
concerning the habits and appetites |
Unofficial Retur
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Bellefonte, W. Wooo ee] 136] 88] 108] 123|| 117) 102 | 128] 94{ 93] 100] 31} 94] 131
Centre Hall. ooo ooo —e----| 159] 143 184] 124]| 151] 142 | 163| 138|| 142] 136] 28i| 150| 150
Howard BOTO... ooo —au-—m-| 197] 87|| 224] 60]| 210] 60 221] 62) 149] 71] 68] 189] 95
MileSDUrE ——omooomo meer] 208| 26|| 192| 42] 197] 29 | 197/ 28|| 121] 42| 72 180] 52
Millheim =| 165] 173![ 177| 168|| 165 173 | 159] 171|| 144] 168] 29] 158] 178
Philipsburg, 1st. W..._.——s----| 278] 97|| 264| 134|| 267] 85| 315| 64|| 335] 53] 7 ea 101
Philipsburg, 2nd. W._.___--~----| 348| 124 220| 187] 325| 124 | 386] 93|| 421] 72| 7|| 343( 136
Philipsburg, 3rd Ward--—--—--- 323] 143[( 285{ 218|| 309] 131 | 376| 105|(-408| 77| 21{| 320] 146
South Philipsburg —-——.--—--—| 88| 41] 81] 68|] 77] 40| 77| 40|| 103] 33] 11}| 90] 46
Port Matilda =| 124| 32{| 109] 61] 108] 33 | 130] 30} 103] 32| 31|| 113| 49
Snow Shoe ———-—-ceeo- __| 134] 20l[ 126] 38|] 134] ‘16 | 144] 12) 117] 21] 25|| 130] 27
State College, E. D 590| 112|| 587] 157|| 570] 113 | 599] 120|| 586| 103| 35|| 607| 123
State College, W. D. 596] 115|| 577| 176)| 575) 121 | 622| 120{| 613| 106| 74] 631] 124
Unionville: -.cooveemnn- 95| 29|] 110! 31|| 89] 26 96] 27)| 91] 20 24[] 96] 33
Benner Twp., N. P.__ 47] 28}| 55] 20fl 51} 24| 491 25{| 46 29 7 3 38
Benner Twp., S. Pao —_ooee——| 35 15|| 43] 11] 35] 14 33] 16{| 30| 10| 14] 28 22
Boggs Twp., No. Poemceeee.| 39] 14{| 39] 13}] 38 13| 39] 12}} 33 12] 7|| 38 14
Boggs Twp., B. Pee —aee—-| 35 17|| 36[ a6]| 32 17| 33] 16{ 20{ 7] 25|] 20] 33
Boggs Twp, W. P. =m 159] 69|| 178] 66] 150] 55| 170] 59|| 82] 64] 90} 131] 102
Burnside Twp... ——=———-| 34] 20]| 46] 10] 34] 20| 37] 18) 16] 6 36{l 32 23
College Twp... —i-——| 261] 57|| 279] 49(| 260] 58 | 259) 61[| 222] 68] 35] 210] 114
Curtin, N. P. —=---| “68 48|| 88| 30i 71] 35| 70 37|| 75] 25 18|| 57 56
Curtin, S. Pu eee 38 22/1 42] 20) 37] 22| 38] 22|] 20] 21] 22] 34] 26
Ferguson, N, Pome! 64) 77|| 74] 721| 64] 77! 67] 75) 50] 71 26] 60| 86
Ferguson, BE, Puoooooo———a-—-1 103] 84} 117] 78] 100] 85| 109] 81|| 81] 88] 25] 84] 109
Ferguson, W. Pi iii 74] 29|| “sol 22|| 70] 32! 70. 37|| 57] 31 21f| 77] 34
Ferguson, N. W. P.______ 46| sli 48] 7} 46] 9! 48] 7) 43] 8 4|l 501 5
Gregg, N. P..oopne 10] 41|| 1io{ ail 10] 37| 11] 35{| 9 29] 19)] 8 42
Gregg Twp., BE. P._ 34] s1|| 38] 84|| 33] 83| 34] 84|| 21] 72| 30|[ 33] 85
Gregg Twp., W. o1( 146(| 99] 152{| 86] 145 | 90| 149|| 63] 142] 42|] 70] 167
Haines Twp., BE. 49] 69l| 56] 66]| 49] 64] 50 66 39] 59] 22] 41] T1
Haines Twp, W. Po... sg! 94|| 105] 84] 92[ 86| 93| 88|| 69] 76 42|} 92] 95
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Harris Twp., B. P....._._. A 43! 3a|] >52| 27 41] 34| 43] 35{ 38] 16] 21] 31] 47
Harris Twp., W. 106] 64|| 131] 52] 105] 64| 105 64] 86] 59] 36] 82] 91
Howard. ome ee-- 89 39i( 113[ 19[ 88] 31| 95| 28] 69] 36] 26] 85] 45
Huston ooo o5| 281 10°] 28] 90] 26! 99] 27|| 86] 22] 26] 94 34
Liberty Twp., E. P 163] 67|| 209] 50([ 163] 56 | 168 55(| 122] 40 92|| 148] 78
Liberty Twp., W. P.____. 55! 30i| 65] 25|| 52] 27! 56] 25|| 62] 13] 21]] 55 26
© Marion TWP eo meee 65! 51|| 83] 41ll 67] 46! 69] 52|| 40] 43] 42i] 55] 68
Miles Twp, B. Pconuwm—-~ -i—--| 20| 30fj 23] 30] 21] 27| 21 29 16] 27] 7 20] 29
Miles Twp, M. Pee. | 55] 153] 74| 146] 61] 144 | 66] 149)| 49] 145] 27|| 59] 158
Miles Twp., W. Pociooo——a-—-| 23] 56|| 28] 50] 25] 48] 28) 48| 24] 47[ 7] 24] 53
Patton TWp-eomoeee -| 58] 19|| 55| 29] 59 19| 62] 16{| 51] 24] 9]] 49] 34
Penn TWp.ooeeen 70! 126] 86| 114]] 57] 125! 74| 120] 45] 111] 42| 59( 130
Potter Twp., N. P._ 53| 71|| 76] e6|| 55] 72| 53] 83|| 47| 55] 37] 41] 97
Potter Twp., 8. Pi______.._| 57| 53|| 64] 49]| 60] 48 59| 50|| 50| 44] 18f| 55 55
Potter Twp., W. P| 51] 53|| 52 b7|| 47] 55| 50| 57|| 42] 52] 1 45] 63
Rush Twp.,, N. Peooeoe_see—-| 181] 83|| 177] 106]] 184] 71| 203] 64|| 202] 60] 32[[ 171] 90
Rush Twp., B. Po___—..| "28 28/l 29| 27|| 20 23| 38] 21 27{ 238] ol 27 25
Rush Twp., S. Pio ——__| 211] 42[[ 225] 54|| 212| 30| 229] 27|] 203] 28] 58] 207| 46
Rush Twp., W. P. i---| 146| 89|| 150] 95[| 132 88 | 146| 84|| 123| 60 51} 139] 86
Snow Shoe Twp., B. P.._—.a—| 195| 46{| 79] 166] 172] 61| 180] B58|| 159 51 37|| 97| 144
Snow Shoe Twp., W. P.—_..——! “gg| 23|[ 95] 29{| 81] 20| 85| 34] 74] 23] 29]| 78] 38
Spring Twp., N. Pea. 108] 79|| 92| 105] 95] 88| 99| 85(| 71 96] 25] 83] 107
Spring Twp., S. Poo —-u--| 227| 168{| 225] 200] 211| 159 | 228| 161|| 144] 187] 80|| 115| 293
Spring Twp., W. Peccmmeaeae--| 73] 65|| 64] 82[] 66] 61] 74] 56|| 47[ 63] 29]] 55] 79
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TRIN TWD... mrs oem =—--| 120] 25|| 136] 28| 109] 25 | 117| 29|| 109| 26| 25|| 116] 34
Walker Twp., BE. Poo ___——o—| "44 42{| 50| 36) 49] 33 50] 33|| 38 24 29 45| 41
Walker Twp, M. P.. -=-—-| 571 57|| 71} 51|] 58] B54] 62] 52| 48] 49| 23] 58] 58
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CENTRE COUNTY STICKS
TO REPUBLICANISM.
Two things were noticeable at
Tuesday's election in Centre county,
the one the large vote cast, especial-
.ly in the boroughs, the biggest vote,
‘in fact, ever polled at a Guberna-
torial election and the only time it
was exceeded was at the Presidential
election two years ago; and the
(other thing how consistently most
of the Republicans stick to their
ticket and some Democrats are re- |
creant in their party obligations,
The largest vote polled in the
county was for Governor, Pinchot
having a majority of 3304 over John
to the Republicans of Bellefonte and of Senators and Representatives in Hemphill, the Democratic nominee.
- Spring township, :
districts are largely Republican, yet
all but one of them returned ver-
dicts for Hemphill and John Miller
had a majority of 84 in their con- |
solidated vote and Senator Scott |
was 118 short of a majority in them.
Of course holding post mortems
is the natural pastime of losers. We
have never indulged in it much, but
we can’t resist reference to our
loved old West ward of Bellefonte.
There Hemphill, Gingery and Miller
came through with nice . majorities,
notwithstanding the fact that the
registration shows the Republican
strength to be three to Democracy’s
one. And if we can borrow some-
body’s hat—for we haven't three—
we'll take it off to the thirty-eight
Republicans who voted the straight
Democratic ticket to help the
seventy-seven registered Democrats
get a poll of sixty-seven straight
votes.
It isn’t going to be all “beer and
skittles” for the new line-up in
Republican boss-ship here in Centre
county, either. Mr. Secretary Dor-
worth has faded out of the picture
and only Senator Scott remains,
But there is a fly in the Senator's
ointment. What's he going to do
with Capt. Arthur Dale, or what
is Capt. Dale going to do with him?
Of course, the Senator has Grundy
to fall back on, but the Capt. has
Pinchot, and when it comes to
handing out the plums the Governor
is a real ace in the hole and Capt.
Arthur has always been besmeared
with luck.
Outside of a congested liver,—a
heart that ticks as erratically as
the Ingersoll that nestles over it, a
tongue that usually looks like a
celluloid shoe horn and chronic
symptoms of “pip” we are not sick.
We are just depressed because Cen-
tre county and Pennsylvania Demo-
crats didn’t lean heavier on politics,
than nature, this fall, to get enough
corn to keep their donkeys over the
winter.
“The Man in the Green Hat.” It,
seems that during a period of ten’
years one George L. Cassiday has
been conducting a _ lucrative but
somewhat secretive business of sup-
plying, with perfect impartiality, the
wet and dry Senators and Congress-
men with fluid refreshments, va-
riously called hootch, white mule,
moonshine and chain-lightning.
His first business location wads in
the House office building which he
subsequently removed to the Senate
office building.
According to Mr. Cassiday’s “con-
fession” a very large proportion of
the national law makers are habit-
ual drinkers, and a considerable num-
ber of them make no concealment
of the fact, The customers were
liberal in all cases, prompt in pay-
ment, and surprisingly easy to satis-
fy. That is, they were “poor judges”
as to quality and easily deceived.
The change of base from the House
to the Senate building was the re-
sult of an accident. The vendor
carelessly let a package fall which
revealed the character of the mer-
chandise with the result that the
House officials became too vigilant
for safe operations thereafter. But
the change of location made little
difference in the volume of trade.
Besides generous profits the enter-
prise afforded Mr, Cassiday con-
siderable amusement. When he had
nothing else to do he found abun-
dant diversion sitting in the galler-
ies and listening to prohibition
speeches by his customers. of
course the enterprise had to come
to an end sooner or later and
finally information was lodged against
the vendor which couldn’t be sup-
pressed. Now a complete exposure
is threatened. Senator Brookhart,
of Towa, declares that he will de-
mand an investigation upon the
reassembling of Congress next month
and a considerable number of Mr.
Cassiday’s best customers are in a
state of terror. Happily the elec-
tion will be over before the expose,
All these six! Congress under the cryptic titleof Holmes, for the Legislature, had
the smallest majority of any on the
Republican ticket, 2014, but that
was plenty large enough to return
him to the Legislature for a fourth
term.
Senator Scott’s majority in the
county over Gingery is 3450, while
his total majority in the district will
be ten thousand or more.
Congressman Chase had a ma-
jority of 4423 in Centre county and
his entire majority in the district
will be close to twenty thousand.
There were no unusual incidents’
in connecilon with the county elec-
tion. Party leaders worked assid-
uocusly to get out the vote and were
successfully in the towns, but some
of the country districts, especially in
Pennsvalley, were far short of what
they should have been.
The returns, on Tuesday night
were received in the court house.
Manager M. W. Hall, of the Western
Union Telegraph company, was in
the main court room where a tele-
graph instrument had been installed,
and received all the returns from
the State and country at large,
while the county returns were re-
ceived over a special phone installed
in the jury room. Election boards
were on the job and got the re-
turns in in better time than ever be-
fore.
Following is the complete vote for
all the major candidates:
United States Senator:
James J. Davis, R.
Sedgwick Kistler, D.
| pEMOCRACY SWEEPS
OVER THE COUNTRY.
The result of Tuesday's voting in
{ the United States is unmistakable
| evidence of a general trend back to
| Democracy.
In every State in the Union can-
! didates on the Democratic ticket
| either won or reduced the majorities
of their - opponents tc margins so
‘small as to be nothing to crow
over,
Congress is probably Democratic.
. The Republicans have lost 40 House
seats and 28 more are still in doubt,
The Senate will probably be tie
‘with 48 Democrats, 47 Republicans
and one Farmer-Laborite. This means
that the Democrats have made a
gain of 9 in the Senate and 53 in
the House.
All - over the country there were
turnovers that might be regarded as
i land-slides. Republican Governors
were replaced by Democrats in
Massachusetts, Ohio, Connecticut and
Idaho and the South went solid for
Democracy. :
Here in Pennsylvania the fight
was really non-partisan so that the
greatly reduced majority by which
Mr. Pinchot was elected Governor
means little in national affairs
other than the discomfiture of the
Republican national organization.
+The Democrats have gained three
‘Congressman in the State, as well
as small gains in both houses of the
General Assembly.
Pinchots’ majority will be nearly
75,000. He carried all but 8 of the
67 counties in the State. Those
giving Hemphill majorities were:
Berks, Lehigh, Montgomery Mon-
tour, Northampton and Philadelphia.
On the wet and dry question the
complexion of Congress has been
changed materially, but not enough
to threaten immediate changes in
the Volstead act. Overwhelming
victories were scored by the wets
in States holding Prohibition refer-
enda—Massachusetts, Illinois and
Rhode Island. They increase the
number of States that have abolish-
ed Prohibition enforcement entirely
to eight. There is no doubt of a
reversal of feeling about the 18th
re Evick Ristlen, D rrr ren 4415 Amendment. As to whether it will
Gifford Pinchot, R. gigg Pecome a real national issue in
Jo Hemphill, D_... ~ 1932 only the actions of Congress
eutenant Govermer: i i
euishant © Jpruoe: rN oto during the next year and a half will
Guy K. Bard, D. 4370 reveal
Secretary of Internal Affairs: As official compilations have not
Philip. H Dewey, R. cin
Lucy D. Winston, D, Tom f171 been completed in any of the States
Judge of Supreme Court:
George MAXEY, BR... iii 7662
Henry C Niles, D. vey 4453 Maxwell J. Moore, D. ..... 4117
Judge of Superior Court: For State Senator:
lliam B Linn, R. Harry B. Scott, BR. cecnciiin1307
James B Drew, R. .. Don Gingery, D. a... reenssnensne3 ODT
Aaron H. Reiber, D, Clarence A Keiser, F, L. eescscnsacse 1965
* George F. Douglas, D. 4039 For Assembly:
For Congress: John L. Hol oR rns 7392
J. M. Chase, R. woman ween $540 John G. Miller, D. TTI 5878
Cunningham’s Case Revived.
The United States Supreme court,
on Monday, directed the Court of
Appeals to reverse its ruling made
some time ago releasing Sheriff Cun-
ningham of Philadelphia from arrest
on the charge of contempt of the
Senate. Mr. Cunningham has hada
long period of rare pleasure in defy-
ing the Senate but this action of
the highest court is likely to put an
end to his immunity Irom just
punishment. Richer and more con-
spicuous men have “served time” for
similar offenses against the law but
for some unexplained reason this
flagrant offender has been able to
defy the Senate for upward of three
years,
In the Republican primary cam-
paign of 1926 Mr. Cunningham, then
earning $8000 a year, contributed
$50,000 to the Vare slush fund. The
source of this generous donation
came under suspicion. It might
have come from bootleggers and
other elements of the underworld
and it could have been extracted
from the official life of Philadelphia.
Either would have been a violation of
law and against public policy. But
Mr. Cunningham flatly refused to re-
veal the facts and the Senate ob-
for contempt. Upon his arrest in
Philadelphia on a warrant from the
Supreme court of the District of
District court at Philadelphia fora
writ of habeas corpus, which re-
leased him from custody and ap-
parently ended the case.
But the dignity of the Senate was
not as somnolent as the Philadelphia
politicians were stupid. During the
time that has elapsed since the release
writ was issued the personnel of the
court officials changed and the writ
was not altered to comply with the
changed conditions. Accordingly, a
few days ago, Solicitor General
Thatcher brought the matter before
the Supreme court and obtained an
order to the District court of Phila-
delphia to reverse itself which order
automatically returns Cunningham
to the custody of the Sergeant-at-
Arms of the Senate and incidentally
within the shadow of the District
of Columbia jail.
we shall attempt no guesswork as
to actual results. Next week, how-
ever, we will be able to give you
something definite.
——That this country is political-
ly-minded is shown by the increas-
ed activity of the effort to restore
prosperity - as election’ day ap-
proaches.
tained an indictment against him.
Colunibia, he applied to the Federal
—More than 300 miles of cable guard
fence was erected by mainteance em-
ployees of the Pennsylvamia Department
of Highways during the past year, ac-
cording to a report recently made to
Samuel Eckels, Chief Engineer.
—A half completed Lebanon county
school building upon which work was
abandoned six years ago after taxpayers
objected to the expense, was sold for
$1950 to R. F. King, head of the Lebanon
County Trust company realty depart-
ment, at public sale at Lebanon.
—A bag containing jewelry and
securities valued at almost $25,000, ac-
cording to State police, was found on a
highway near Chicora, Butler county,
and police are seeking the owner. Cloth-
ing in the bag indicated it had been in
possession of a person from California.
—A 3300-pound weight from the class
of 1907 memorial clock in the West Col-
lege tower of Bucknell University crash-
ed through three of the five floors of
the building late last Friday. The
falling mass ripped holes six feet wide
in the floors and ceilings and fell through
two student rooms,
—Visions of wealth intrigue the farm-
ers in West Penn township, Luzerne
county, where the State has cut locations
for a new road through beds of rock 80
to 100 feet thick. Veins of a white,
greasy, crumbling material are white
lead, the farmers say. Others say veins
of coal have been disclosed.
—Overcome by turpentine fumes while
pain the interior of an unoccupied
cottage, according to the finding of W.
J. McGrath, coroner, John Yarab, 25, of
Sharon, Pa., died a short time after be-
ing found in an unconscious condition.
The doors and windows of the small
structure were closed as he worked.
Yarab leaves his widow and two children.
—George ‘Beisel, 27, of Shamokin, died
in the State hospital at Ashland, on Mon-
day, after having "been burned in the
Reading Railway yards at Locust Sum-
mit, He was hoisting a pole which came
in contact with.a 66,000-volt high-tension
line, burning three of a crew of five.
Fred Zenzel, of Ashland, and William
Beisel, father of the dead man, will re
cover.
—Register and Recorder Robert W.
Bullock has recorded fifteen leases of
land in the western part of Clinton coun-
ty, bringing the total number secured
‘by the Summit Oil and Gas company, of
Pitsburgh to fifty in Clinton county. The
leases are all for a period of ten years
and must be operated within a year.
Extensive oil and gas drilling will be
begun, the company representatives have
declared.
—During the first nine months of 1930
the Pennsylvania Department of High-
ways completed or placed under con-
struction contracts for the elimination
of fifteen grade crossings, elimination of
two grade separation structures and re-
location, with consequent improvement
of safety conditions, of fifteen grade
crossings. The total estimated cost of
the work is $2,526,468.81. Thirty-eight
cases are pending before the Public
Service Commission. :
the attempt ~ of her husband to avoid
running into a deer which appeared sud-
denly on the highway. Kast drove his
machine up an embankment and as the
j car drifted back it crashed into a mov-
{ing van. The truck rolled down an em-
{ bankment on the other side of the
, road, but a steel cab protected the three
men in it from injury. The van was
driven by John Hockman, Ephrata.
i ~—The Rev. W. B. Cox, of Williams-
port, presiding elder of the Williams-
port district of the Evangelical church,
of which the Bellefonte church is a part
was recently elected to a general church
office, that of secretary-treasurer of the
General Church Extension society, at the
recent session of the general confer-
ence held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The:
Rev. Cox will relinquish his duties as
presiding elder on March 1. He at one
time was pastor of the Bellefofite church.
—As a result of several complaints
reaching the office of the bureau of en-
gineering in the State Health Depart-
, ment alleging pollution of a stream in
{ Jackson township, Luzerne county, and
for which pollution a rendering plant
was blamed, personnel of the bureau of
engineering located a 10,000-gallon still,
the mash of which was being dumped
into the stream. Investigation also prov-
ed that the rendering plant was blame-
less. Operators of the still were ar-
: rested by the state police.
! —Possibilities of mining for petroleum
instead of drilling, which were pre-
, sented to producers of this State by
| geologists in the School of Mineral In-
"dustries of the Pennsylvania State Col-
‘lege some time ago, received consider-
‘able attention at the 75th anniversary
conference of gas and oil producers at
- State College. Paul D. Torrey, consult-
ing engineer of Bradford, estimated that
mining in Pennsylvania oil fields opened
. possibilities of recovering 80 per cent.
{more petroleum than present methods
. produce, and at a smaller cost per bar-
rel.
| Charles F. Brandler, 23, of Johns-
| town, Pa., a Georgetown University law
student, early on Monday held a small
ibox up before his brother and two
friends and announced: ‘I've taken this.”
{ Then he went to bed. Some time later
| Robert Brandler found his brother dead
_in the bathroom. The box had con-
| tained poison. Police said a few hours
: before Brandler’s death they went to the
‘ apartment in which the brothers lived
| after neighbors had complained of noise.
, When they left, police reported the
| brothers and two fellow students were
{ arguing.
—A fire fed by tons of lard and butter
' swept the Chester Packing & Provision
company’s plant at Chester on Monday,
causing more than $100,000 damage. A
large part of the business section was
endangered. A general alarm was
sounded. The building is at 18 West
Second street near the center of the
business district. Firemen fought the
blaze for more than five hours before
getting it under control. Sixty firemen
were saved from suffocation only because
they had been equipped with gas masks
when refrigerating lines broke and flood-
ed the section with dangerous fumes.
Thousands of pounds of lard, butter,
fresh and cured meats were destroyed.
This is the second time the company’s
plant has been destroyed by fire. The
other fire was in 1916. John Shorts, a.
night watchman, discovered the flames.
_ —Mrs. Robert Kast, 45, Dushore, Brad-
ford county, was killed last night through -