Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, December 04, 1931, Image 1

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INK SLINGS.
BY GEORGE R. MEEK.
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—What one thinks of himself is
usually what inspires him to run for
office. What others think of him |
is the only barrier in his way to the |
—Apparently the Governor, hav-
ing been baited into giving some-'
thing for charity, thinks Jim Davis
asked too much when he suggested
that they both give their shirts.
——As a benefit for the unemployed
the State-Lehigh game in Philadel-
phia, on Saturday, was a flop. As
HUNDREDS OF DEER
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VOL. 76. BELLEFONTE, PA. DECEMBER 4. 1931.
SLAUGHTERED IN COUNTY
KEELER ASKS RECOUNT IN
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ON OPENING DAY. |
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
MANY REQUESTS FOR WORK
BUT NO JOBS OFFERED TO
ASSOCIATED CHARITIES.
NORTH PRECINCT OF RUH.
WILL BE MADE TODAY.
NO. 48.
WEATHER TOO COLD FOR
ESCAPED PRISONER HE
IS EASILY RECAPTURED.
a garrison finish for State's fool- More Than Eighty Per Cent. of Kill On Tuesday Harry V. Keeler post- | Ten Needy Families Applied for Monday night's cold weather was
ball season, however, it was a wow. |
—The first snow having fallen on
November 27 some believers in signs
say we will have twenty-seven
snows during the winter. That
Are the Female of the Species,
According te Reports.
From reports received at this of-
be all right with us, since we have pennsylvania took place on Tues-
still one bird in the nest who is day,
husky enough to keep the side-
walks clean.
cent a gallon on gasoline
on a package of ten cigarettes.
dently that is as far as the special
session of the Legislature is
to go in the matter of imposing in-
creased taxes for the relief of unem-
ployment.
—We fear that Santa Claus won't
be coming around in a Rolls-Royce
next Christmas. He'll be lucky if
he can get enough lichen to feed
old “Dasher” and “Dancer”
and “Prancer” and ‘Vixen” into
strength enough to make the long
trek on the eve of December 24.
—The special session of the Leg-
islature that Mr. Pinchot said would |
cost the State a quarter of a mil- |
Evi- |
|game hunting season.
this writing definite information of | Another affidavit was secured and
of a the kill to date has not been ob- | the petition filed in proper order on
—It lovks like an Galva tax of S|, able because most of the. hunt. Wednesday morning.
|exceeded a thousand deer.
Bellefonte on Tuesday
with two deer strapped to their
the opening day of the big
While at
ing parties are deep in the moun-
afternoon
automobile stated that along one
road in the Seven mountain dis-
trict they counted sixty hanging up. ers and J. M. Myers.
ing up.
As an indication of how many
deer must have been slaughtered on
the first day of the season we cite
the following: C. A. From and his
son Kenneth, both of this place,
left Lewistown at four o'clock on
lion dollars has already passed a bill | Tuesday afternoon to motor home.
appropriating nearly four hundred
thousand to provide for its expenses.
Think of it! In session four weeks
to provide relief for the unemploy-
ed and all it has done is spend mon-
ey on itself for doing nothing. |
—Vice President Curtis must]
have discovered that the chances of
a Republican running for the U. 8.|
Senate in Kansas next year will be
mighty slim, else he would not
have swallowed his pride and an.
nounced that he will be a candidate
for his present office again. His
home State must be in bad shape,
indeed, if Mr. Curtis can see a
brighter prospect on the national
political horizon than Kansas re-
veals.
--In selecting Representative
Snell, of New York, as their candi-
date for Speaker of the next House
of Congress the Republican cancus
laid up some trouble for itself dur-
ing the coming session. Rep. Tilson,
of Connecticut, who has been the
| They arrived here at five.
In the
hour they were on the way they
counted thirty-five dead deer on
count
way.
‘ed another fifty dollars and filed a
| petition with the court asking fora
| recoun!
| November election in the North pre-
|fice it is evident that the greatest .inct of Rush township. The peti-
‘slaughter of deer ever recorded in
| woman, but the woman had written
'a letter to the court asking that her
Both Food and Clothing During
the Week.
As it looks now the Associated
Charities is going to have a bigger
{job than anticipated in giving the
necessary assistance to those in
need during the coming winter sea-
son. During the first week that
the bureau was open in Petrikin hall
a large number of requests for work
| were received but not a job of any
‘kind offered. Surely there must be
t of the ballots cast at the!
tion was signed by two men and a
name be stricken from the affidavit.
The woman who signed her name
willing | Of deer were slain and it is very Annie Gill, and her petition tothe Bellefonte that could be given to
This i8 name states that her signature was | :
indicated by the fact that two optained through misrepresentation Committee wishes to point out that ty, control at Rockview.
strange hunters who passed through of facts. Only one name which was | Dousework, odd jobs at carpentering, 730 and 8 o'clock on Monday eve-
‘signed to the original petition ap- | Cleaning up around the home or
thdra (some needy workman whereby he
wal of hor! ould earn a little money. The
usiness place, or anything at all
in the line of work will be appreci-
ated by those who are enrolled on
the list of applicants, and who
sorely need the work as a means of
manner and form similar to the one OPtaining money to purchase the
issued in the Millheim case, and ‘ap- | Dre necessities of life.
pointing the following men to make Ten families have applied for food
the recount: Charles F. Cook, John and clothing within the week, and
J. Bower Jr, D. Paul Fortney, of this is only a forerunner of what
Bellefonte; J. Randall Miller and may be expected during the winter.
Samuel McMullen, of Millheim. The SO far no reports have been receiv-
‘recount is to be made in the court ©d from any but the really needy
morning. Sheriff Dunlap went to has been organized for the purpose
pears on the second petition filed, |
that of George E. Adams. The oth-
er two signers are Carrie L. Show-
The court then issued a decree, in
| passing automobiles and only four Rush township yesterday and Of extending aid to all families in
|of them were bucks. This
did not include deer they saw hang-
ing up at camps or along the high-
brought back the ballot box under distress and anybody having know-
| his own seal. ledge of such cases should call Bell
While the affidavit alleges the be- Phone 3-W between 1.15 and 2.30 p.
party's floor leader, will not take a
back-seat gracefully and, especially
since he is said to have been favor-
ed for the honor by the President,
harmony will certainly not prevail
on the Republican side of the next
House.
-—Governor Pinchot seems to have
barked up the wrong tree when he
yelped at ‘“Puddler” Jim Davis about
giving to the poor. Jim was poor
himself once. He knows what
“hocking his shirt” means and has
announced his willingness to do itif
Gif. will do the same thing. The
Governor was “born with a gold
spoon in his mouth.” He might
“hock” that, but when it came down
to “hocking his shirt” he claimed
he didn’t understand “Puddler” Jim's
language.
—The election of Percy H. Stew-
art from the fifth new Jersey con-
gressional district was another body
blow to Republican hopes for 1932.
New Jersey is notoriously wet, but
that issue wasn't a factor in the
contest because both nominees were
running on a wet platform. Under
such circumstances a Democrat car-
rying a district normally Republican
by thirty-five thousand can be con-
strued as meaning only one thing:
A tremendous swing toward Democ-
racy.
—Of course it was politics that
let former sheriff Geo. H. Yarnell
out of his job of division supervisor
of highways at noon last Saturday.
It couldn't have been anything else,
for the State of Pennsylvania doesn’t
have on its payroll a man who gives
it more faithful and intelligent serv-
ice than George Yarnell gave it in
his work. In times like these a
job means a lot to a man, but to
one like him it could never mean
selling his birthright for a mess of
pottage.
——Evidently there are some people
in Centre county who don't want
John Boob to be Sheriff:. Another
ballot box is to be opened and John
is to sit on the anxious bench while
its contents are being counted. Be-
_ ing endowed by nature with an
ample beam we know the sheriff-
elect, though much more will be at |
stake, can’t possibly suffer as much
as we do when we indulge our un-
conquerable disposition to roost on
the seats of every circus that comes
along. And we hope he comes as
happily out of his next trial as we
do from the agony we endure under
the ‘big tops.”
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And just here it might be said committed no specific charges were
that it is not to be wondered at that made. As the recount of the Mill-
the kill was so large. In Centre | heim ballots
county alone over 7100 resident and Boob's majority to 14 it is not like-
more than a hundred non-resident ‘ly enough errors will be found in
licenses were issued, while hundreds the ballots of North Rush to change
of hunters from other sections of the result.
the State were in their regular
camps both in the Alleghenies and |
the Seven mountains.
On Tuesday morning, bright and
early, two young men from Cole- FOR RETIRING DIRECTORS.
ville, motored to the Sevem moun- 4
tains and before eleven o'clock they) In recognition of good work
passed through Bellefonte on their (well done during their twenty
way home with two deer. | year’s service as school directors
Harry Love, night foreman atthe Mrs. M. H. Brouse and Mrs. Caro-
Bellefonte silk mill, went up onto line Gilmour, who will retire from
Nittany mountain and bagged an 8- the board on January 4th, were
point buck which dressed 178 pounds. guests of honor at a dinner given
On a Sunday, several weeks ago, by the corps of te achers of
John Scholl, of Milesburg, walked the Bellefonte schools at the Hotel
BOROUGH TEACHERS
GIVE FAREWELL BANQUET
‘up onto the point of the mountain, Markland, Tuesday evening. Fifty
above McCoy's, and saw two big covers were laid and included in the
bucks, one an 8-pointer and the oth- | guests present were the two recent-
er with an immense rack of ant- ly elected women directors, Mrs.
lers. Tuesday morning he went up Helen Crissman Broderick and Miss
to the same place and was Success- | Mary Miles Blanchard, and the oth-
ful in bagging the 8-pointer. er members of the board and their
Pete Dunklebarger, of east How- wives. The dining room was pret-
ard street, bagged a nice two-point tily decorated for the occasion and
buck and had it home by mid-after- | the retiring directors were presented
noon. with floral bouquets. Supervising
A dozen or more automobiles, oc- principal of schools, E. K. Stock,
cupied by strange hunters, passed presided as toastmaster and re.
through Bellefonte on Tuesday with sponses were made by Mrs. Gilmour,
one and two deer strapped onto their Mrs. Brouse, Charles F. Cook,
machines. They were evidently men George Hazel and Mrs. Broderick.
who had gone out for the day and Mrs. Brouse and Mrs. Gilmour
having bagged their deer returned | were first elected in 1911 for a two
home, content for the season. | year term and were re-elected in
Hunting over in the neighborhood 1913, 1919 and 1925 for regular six
of Spring Mills, on the opening day, year terms. During the time they
Edward H. Miller, of Philadelphia, were on the board the Dale home
and his nephew, Eddie Miller, son of was purchased and converted into a
Harry Miller, of Bellefonte, each got building for the 1st and 2nd grades.
a doe. It is fifty years since Ed- The armory was bought and the old
ward had carried a gun in the woods | gas and steam heat lot. During
and the fact that he got his deer their long term dental hygiene, phys-
shows that he hasn't forgotten the
knack of deer hunting.
increased John M. |
ical training, domestic science, and |
musical courses were introduced and |
|lief that fraud or error has been ™M. and a prompt investigation will
be
The darrel for securing a ton of
(cause of the great need this year it
{is hoped that the public will be
much more generous with their pen-
nies.
“order to provide a happy
(Christmas for the boys and girls
who might be missed by Santa
Claus, this year, the Boy Scouts
are going to help the Associated
Charities by gathering toys, books
and games from more fortunate
families and deliver them to the As-
sociated Charities clothing room,
where they will be repaired and
| Cleaned by the Scouts and arranged
{in Christmas packages for distri-
| bution by the Scouts at Christmas
time. If you have any such call
| Walter Startzel, Scoutmaster, at
telephone number 84 (Eagle silk
mill) and he will send a Scout
|atound to get them.
COUNTY ENGINEERS TO
VISIT TYRONE TODAY.
| Members of the Centre county
| Engineers Society will go to Tyrone
| this afternoon on an inspection trip
|of the plant of the West Virginia
{Pulp and Faper company.
‘the local society has been in exist-
ence for a number of years it has
‘never been very active, but it was
‘recently re-organized and now has a
| membership of 125, including engi-
(neers, architects and others diregtly
|interested in engineering matters,
‘all residing in Centre county.
The officers of the society are:
| President, Arthur C. Hewitt, Belle-
fonte; vice president, Prof. H. G.
Heckler, State College; secretary-
While |
Up to the time the Watchman
went to press, yesterday, not an ac-
cident of any kind was reported in
Centre county, but an Altoona hunt-
er, Paul P. Karl, 40 years old, was
killed by the accidental discharge of
his gun, near Spruce Creek, in
Huntingdon county, and George W.
Sour, of Jersey Shore, suffered a
heart attack and died in the arms of
his son while hunting in the moun-
tains near Lock Haven. Over in
Clearfield county several hunters
were wounded and taken to the
Clearfield hospital.
Lack of space prevents the Watch-
man from giving a complete list of
the killings in the county but among
local hunters the John Hartswick
crowd got a doe on Tuesday.
Tom -Morarity, highway patrol-
man, and his crowd, bagged two on
Wednesday, in the Seven mountains.
Joseph Baney and crowd got two
on Tuesday, and one of the Haupt
men, from Bush's Addition, got a
nice buck on Tuesday.
Many hunters who heretofore have
been on regular camp rosters are
going it alone this season. As a
camp is permitted to kill only six,
no matter how many members it
has, the chances of each individual
getting a deer have been so luring
as to break a number of the big
crews up.
treasurer, Bayard Magee, Bellefonte;
| plans have been formulated for the ’
adoption of automobile and electrical Airectors, Col. W. P. Rothrock and
courses. The school debt of $85,-
000 has also been materially re-
duced, notwithstanding the big out-
lay in purchase of additional prop-
Prof. H. B. Shattuck, State College;
chairman of the program committee,
| Prof. J. E. Kaulfuss, State College.
| On Tuesday afternoon and eve-
(ning of last week Messrs. Hewitt,
erty and equipment, so that in re- |
tiring the two women must have a lieckler and Kaulfuss motored to
‘Harrisburg and attended a confer-
feeling of genuine satisfaction in
having so well served the public ®7C® With the officers of the Engi-
schools of Bellefonte. neers Society of Pennsylvania, which
|is a State.wide organization, and
| were present at a general meeting
——Dr. John Sebring moved his of the State Society that evening, at
(office, on Monday, from the Mont-| which time Governor Pinchot was
gomery building, on Allegheny street, presented with a certificate of hon-
to the Centre Dimosrat building, on orary membership. The Governor
High street. - James Clark has been a member of the State En-
will also move into the latter build. | Sines Society for a number of
ing as soon as it can be made into years. At this meeting a brief his.
a convenient apartment. These tory of Pinchot's activities in for-
changes are being made owing to|estry matters was read and the
the Montgomery property being in- Governor responded with a short
Sages : x the new postoffice ste | speech of acceptance, praising the
0 m . A. Rossman wor
a decided I he will move ta ih Se Stay bos. Philadel-
Chrysler garage, but is considering | phia attorney and member of the
one location in Bellefonte and one at | State Securities Commission, reada
Axe Mann. | paper on investments.
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Some of the camps have been kill-| —If you own a lot of securities
ing only bucks. If they do not get | that you will have to leave to your
their quota of the male species be- dependants this would be a good
fore the last couple of days then time to die. Prices are so low that
they intend turning their guns on | the inheritance tax would not eat
the does. (them all up.
not exactly to the liking of Walter |
Vance, a burly negro who made his
escape from Rockview penitentiary,
on Monday evening, and the result
was he made no effort to escape
| when Joseph Bertram, a guard,
found him wandering around on the
prison grounds about 6.30 o'clock on
Tuesday morning, on his way to re-
‘port for duty, and he had no trouble |
taking him in single-handed.
' Vance, who is serving a three to
six year's sentence for felonious as-
tains, yet it is known that hundreds to the original petition was Mrs. * few jobs in a town the size of gut and battery imposed in Alle-
|gheny county, is 36 years old, weighs |
163 pounds and has the reputation of
being one of the hardest prisoners
Between
ning he escaped by climbing over
He made his
way to the Zimmerman farm where
the wire stockade.
he secreted himself near the barn.
He remained there until towards
| morning when, almost famished by
the cold weather, he started back
toward the prison buildings.
. Bertram found him staggering
|along the back road some distance |
residence and
jabove the warden’'s
(had no trouble taking him in.
fact, it is
| thoroughly chilled he was glad to
get back where it was warm.
| EXPENSE ACCOUNTS
In
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| To be elected Sheriff of Centre
| county on the Democratic ticket cost |
'John M. Boob $567.52, according to
his expense account filed on Satur-
day. Harry V. Keeler, his Republi-
can opponent, filed an account show-
ing expenditures of $583.00, and an
unpaid account of $160.00, which was
a part of his assessment of $300 to-
wards the expenses of the Republi-
can county committee.
8S. Claude Herr's expenses for
election to a second term as Pro-
thonotary were $799.04, while it cost
Robert F. Hunter $421.40 to be
lelected County Treasurer, It cost
John 8, Spearly only $104.15 to be
elected to a third term as County
Commissioner.
In his successful campaign for
Register of Wills John L. Wetzler
spent $303.90, while in his unsuc-
cessful campaign for County Com-
missioner Howard M. Miles spent
$100 and has $30.00 in unpaid bills.
Homer P. Barnes, treasurer of the
Democratic county committee, filed
|a report showing receipts of $1,-
1626.48 and expenditures of $1584.91,
|leaving a balance on hand of $41.57.
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| ANOTHER DISMISSAL
| FROM HIGHWAY DEPT.
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|
George H. Yarnell was notified,
last week, of his dismissal as main-
| December 1st, although in reality
| his connection with the department
ended at noon on Saturday. His
dismissal followed close upon the
appointment of Edward E. Harnish,
of Wingate, and Aaron D. Leitzel,
of Bellefonte, as maintenance su-
perintendents.
sons and not “for the good of the
service,” as there is not a better or
more experienced road builder in
Centre county. He had charge of
the building of the first piece of
State road work in Centre county,
the road through Nittany valley.
That was before he was elected
sheriff. He served four years as
sheriff and four as county commis-
sioner and shortly after the expira-
| maintenance superintendent and had
served ever since.
~The A. B. Curtis Stores com.
pany, operating three stores in
Cearfield, three in Philipsburg, one
in Osceola Mills and one in Patton,
filed a voluntary petition in bank-
ruptcy in the federal court at Pitts-
burgh, last Friday. The petition
listed the assets at $238,306.60, and
liabilities $144,096.13. Inability to
cope wtih the present depressed fi-
nancial condition was assigned as
the reason for going into bank-
ruptey. .
——A. M. Deigle, a 68 year old
farmer living near Centre Hall, was
seriously injured when he fell from
a load of corn fodder last week. He
was taken to the Lock Haven hos-
pital where it was found that his
pelvic bone had been fractured in
five places. His condition is re-
ported as good as can be expected.
While he is in the hospital his wife
is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Paul
Seyler, at Avis.
likely Vance was so
FILED BY CANDIDATES.
tenance superintendent of State.
highways in Centre county, effective |
Mr. Yarnell's dismissal was un-|
doubtedly for purely political rea-
tion of his term he was appointed
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Robbers who jimmied a rear window
of the Morrison department store at Im-
perial early Sunday, escaped with loot
valued at approximately $1,500. The
booty included 35 silk dresses, 35 pairs
of shoes, silk hosiery, and four suits of
| clothing.
—Albert Foley, 3-month-old child of
Mrs. John Foley, Pottsville, was killed
on Sunday when his mother tripped
while going downstairs and dropped
him. Mrs. Foley was carrying the child
in a basket. The mother was bruised
but not seriously injured.
—Thieves recently entered the chicken
| pen of Fred Brodish Sr., of Winburne,
made off with fifty-five large hens and
!left two hundred others dead from the
‘effects of some gas or poison used to
| prevent them from sounding an alarm.
| Efforts are being made to trace the rob-
| bers, and if captured they will probably
| receive the limit of the law.
—Damages of $75,000 are asked by Mr.
and Mrs. Bartholomew James, of North-
| umberland, from the Columbia county
Fair Association in a suit filed in court at
Bloomsburg, on Monday. The suit grows
out of an accident a year ago, in Sep-
tember, at the fair grounds, when a
runaway horse leaped the fence into a
crowd, injuring 13 persons. Mrs. James
was the most seriously hurt of the group.
—Miss Mary E. Clowes, 21-year-old
waitress, of Monongahela, has offered to
| marry ‘any respectable white man who
! will give her $10,000 to care for her par-
ents who live on a small farm near Co-
| lumbus, ). Miss Clowes said she is the
since her
sole support of her parents
| three brothers were killed, two ia a
mine accident and the third in a fire.
(She is living with an aunt, Mrs. Fred
| Greene.
—Joseph E. Rondick, former teller of
the Farmers’ and Miners’ bank of Bent-
leyville, pleaded guilty Saturday to a
charge of embezzling $2,000 and was sen-
tenced to serve 15 months in Atlanta
penitentiary by Federal Judge R. M.
Gibson, at Pittsburgh. Department of
justice agents testified approximately
$4,000 more was involved on which
| prosecution was barred by the statute of
limitations.
—Allegheny county detectives are ine
vestigating the mysterious death of
Richard Compton, 67, of Millvale, whose
body was found floating in the Alle-
| gheny river Sunday. Compton retired
at midnight, Saturday, but was missed
{from his room at 9 a. m., Sunday. His
body was found a short time later. Tak-
en to the morgue, the body was discov
(ered to be badly bruised and several
ribs on the right side were broken.
—Accused of making a false statement
to get a duplicate United States adjusted
‘service certificate, Charles Ripple, 40, of
Johnstown, was sentenced to serve four
months in the Cambria county jail by
(Judge R. M. Gibson, on Saturday. Rip-
ple pleaded guilty in federal court. It
was charged he borrowed money on one
certificate, then reported it had been
burned and asked for a duplicate, on
which he also tried to make a loan.
© =A man was blown through a house
by a furnace explosion at Bentleyville,
Pa., early Saturday--and then the four
walls of the building caved in. Fire
| followed the explosion. Edward Asper,
| 22 years old, who wus alone in the dwell-
!ing in Bentleyville, was asleep on the
| second floor when the explosion occurred.
| Neighbors found him lying badly hurt in
the grass in front of the house. Asper
‘was rushed to a Washington hospital,
and physicians said he probably will die.
| —A ‘lovers’ quarrel” following a party
|in Butler ended in the suicide of pretty
| Doris Wilson, 26, at her home in Evans
| City, Pa. Richard F. Kelly, 28, a piano
player, and Miss Wilson's escort at the
party, was held for several hours in con-
nection with the shooting when State
police said it had not been explained
| satisfactorily to them. He was released
after the dead girl's father, Dr. H. M.
| Wilson, told police he was convinced his
‘daughter committed suicide atfer a
| quarrel with Kelly.
—Frederick Art, of Scranton, Pa., has
spent seventy-five of the 82 years of his
life at work in coal mines. He has
| been employed continuously since he en-
‘tered the mining operation of the late
George Scranton, when he was a boy of
seven years. His first duties were those
of a door tender. The veteran mine
| worker has served under nine mine fore-
men and five superintendents. At pres-
ent he is employed by the Scranton Coal
company. He declares that he remains
at his work because he likes it. He is
in good health.
—Wants of families at Hopewell, Pa.,
made homeless Ly a disastrous fire, on
Thanksgiving, are being cared for by
Red Cross chapters of Blair and Bedford
counties. A report to national head-
quarters said: "Red Cross women work-
ers provided a canteen for firemen and
victims, while the Red Cross disaster
relief committee provided shelter, furni-
ture, bedding, clothing and food for
twenty persons, in four families whose
breadwinners were unemployed. Other
homeless families were given refuge with
| friends and neighbors."
—Contracts for the construction of ad-
ditional drainage pipes at the Sunbury
Airport has been canceled by the Depart-
ment of Commerce, Airways Division, it
was announced by George W. Rockwell,
who was the successful bidder. The de-
partment will not expend any more mon-
ey on the fleld until it is determined if
the Sunbury Flying Club is able to fi-
nance the project for some years to come.
There is a difference between owners of
the land on the island and the club and
until that is settled the department will
not approve going ahead with the work.
—Once reported worth $500,000, Lin
ford F. Ruth, 70, of Washington, Pa.,
has been given a four years prison term
in the Fayette county jail. He also
was fined $5000 and ordered to pay costs
of prosecution, almost $1000. Ruth was
convicted last June of misapplication of
$60,000 of founds of the Title & Trust
company of Western Pennsylvania, at
Connellsville, of which he was president.
innocence, declaring
attorney that had he not
been without funds to have the steno-
graphic report of his hearing printed, he
would have appealed to the highest court
of the land. Ruth pleaded no defense
te seven other indictments, charging mis-
application of $100,000.