INK SLINGS,
BY GEORGE R. MEEK.
—"Horatius” Culbertson seems to
be in trouble defending the bridge
against the Etruscan army of Sid-
ney Lenz.
—If anybody has an extra fifty
they don't know what to do with
there are still sixty-three Centre
county ballot boxes to waste it on.
—From the way the hunters are
slaying the does Pennsylvania woods
are not going to have many prim-
rose paths for the buck that are left
to philander over. |
—if and when Helen Kane and One by Hunting Companion
VOL. 76.
BEL
TWO HUNTERS KILLED
IN CENTRE COUNTY
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY,
the Oth- |
Ruth Etting get to heaven we do er by Shot Intended for a Deer, passed in 1929 counties in Pennsyl-| gestions to Beautify Bellefonte
LEFONTE, PA.,
hope St Peter cuts their vocal or-
gans before he lets them in. What
A man and 4 boy are dead and
such voices would do to the angelic | buried as Centre county's dread toll |
chorus : (of the deer hunting season so far
Would be awiul land four days yet remaini before the
—President Hoover's message to shooting comes to an end. |
‘Congress suggests an exceedingly The man who lost his life was
involved program of legislation for Thurman O. Witherite, of Clarence.
that body. Under present condi- He was one of a hunting party
tions immediate relief should have located at the Pine Plantation camp
been the paramount thought and near Snow Shoe. He was out on
congressional attention should have the trail with Lee Confer, of Belle-
been centered only on such benefi- fonte, and Jacob Confer, of Wil-
cent legislation as could be made liamsport, sons of Jerry Confer, of
‘operative at once. Wasting time on Bellefonte. The thre men were
problems that may ultimately solve traveling through the woods, Indian
themselves is sheer folly. file, wit, Witherite in the lead. The
hammer of Lee Confer's gun caught
—Hollywood is in for a dismal on the underbrush and the weapon |
‘Christmas. Warner—First National was discharged. The bullet went
has asked all of its stars to take a through the trouser leg of his broth-
twenty to thirty per cent salary cut
er, Jacob Confer, just searing the
and the other big producers are fol- skin, and hit Witherite in the left
lowing suit. Think of Bebe Daniels, og below the knee, severing an ar-
Joe Brown, Dorothy Mackaill, Win- :
| tery.
nie Lightner and other pampered The accident happened about 9.30
pets of the silver screen trying to
‘o'clock and the Confer brothers ren-
keep the wolf from the door with a | gered first aid as well as they could
measly two hundred thousand a
(and took Witherite to a doctor as
Year. Our heart bleeds for anyone goon as possible but he had already
in such destitute circumstances. We
{lost a large quantity of blood. He
hospital at 12.30 o'clock and died
‘with the poor dears, if and when he | about 6.30. Coroner W. R. Heaton
gets it. | made and investigation of the shoot-
—We congratulate those members | IPB and decided that it was purely
of the council of Bellefonte who | Sssidenal 80 that an inquest was
balked at passing an ordinance that tind CRAY wi in Bites]
would give Harrisburg practical con- A ‘itherite was born 88S |
trol of streets in our town that !OWNShip dnd was forty years of
might be eligible to State-Aid in age. Hs was empl oat the brick |
their upkeep. Boroughs and town. Plant at Clarence. s survived |
ships have already gone too far in| DY his vie aud fou Shilren, his |
vesting rights in Harrisburg. We | Parents, Mr. Mrs. George With-
think we express the feeling of erite, of Clarence; one sister, Mrs.
most of Bellefonte’s taxpayers when Roy Mechtly, of Juniata, and two |
we say that the town had better brothers, Norman and Merlin, both
sacrifice what aid it might get from °f Clarence. The funeral was held
‘the State than sacrifice any right it | O° Monday, burial being made at
‘has to comtrol of itw streets. Belle- POW Shoe. |
fonters should run Bellefonte, not |
ever changing political employees in | i
‘Harrisburg. shooting of Henry Linn Stover, 16 |
3 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ber-
. —Governor Pinchot's special ses- nard Stover, of near Lyontown. It
Sion of the Legislature has turned took place in Greensvalley about
“turtle on him. All his plans have 30 o'clock on Saturday afternoon.
‘been knocked into a cocked ‘hat and | young Stover, with his brother,
‘the Mentbers and Senators have woodrow Stover, James Ritter, of
started a program of their own on ‘Pleasant Gap, and Paul Zimmerman,
the ‘way to enactment. There will 'of Bellefonte were out for the day
. y
be no $120,000,000 fund for the Gov- only. They had eaten their lunch |
ernor ‘to dally with. $27,000,000, 4¢ the Twin Maple hunting camp
{
| bonds,
‘will be $542.50 a year, as the bonds |
‘must be renewed yearly.
COUNTY MUST PAY
PREMIUMS ON BONDS
|
Under an act of the Legislature:
vania are liable for the premiums
on the bonds of all county officers. |
Prior to the passage of that act the
officers themselves were obliged to]
pay the premiums on their own
In fact hete in Centre coun-
ty the premiums have all been paid |
| by the office holders up to the pres-
‘ent time, but as it looks now the
| county
will b8 asked to stand the
expense fof the new officers, as
neighboring couaties are reported as’
falling in line with the new act. i
The total cost to Centre county
A .
ferent rate prevails on the bonds of |
the various officers. {
The Sheriff is required to give |
two bonds of $15,000 each on which
the rate is $5.00 per thousand, mak-
ing the premium $150.00.
The County Treasurer must also!
give two bonds, one in favor of the
county for $30,000 and one in favor
of the State for $15,000. The |
premium on these bonds is $5.00
per thousand on the first $25,000 and |
$4.00 per thousand on $20,000, or a
| total premium of $205.00.
The Prothonotary gives two bonds,
one for $10,000 and one for $3,000,
on which the premium is $4.00 per
thousand, or $42.00.
one for $24,000, one for $7,500 and
one for $3,000. The rate on his
the total premium $108.50.
The Recorder gives only one bond, |
and that $5,000, on which the rate is |
$3.00, and the premium $15.00.
Each County Commissioner miist
file a bond of $2,000 and the pre-
miums on the three of them amount
to $18.00, while the commissioner's
clerk is bonded at $3,000 on which
the premium is $9.00.
i
AMATEURS TO COMPETE
IN DRAMATIC CONTEST -
AT CENTRE HALL
Centre county people interested in
home talent plays should attend the
rural dramatic contest to be held in|
the hall of Progress Grange, Centre |
Hall, next Monday evening at eight
o'clock.
»
It will be an elimination |
contest to decide the group which |
will go to Harrisburg, in January, |
to take part in the State-wide con-
test. Three groups are entered.
PLANNING TO MAKE
A TOWN BEAUTIFUL,
is
FOR COUNTY OFFICERS. go
| Through Aid to Unemployed.
Tr
|
‘end of Union cemetery.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
DECEMBER 11, 1931.
Grove, Landscape Archi-
‘tect, Makes Interesting Sug.
The purpose of that which is to
follow is to ald in making Bélie-
fonte and its environs more pro-
gressive; to make it more useful in
serving the surrounding communi-
; to stimulate and develop the
town's industries #&rd business; to
aid the unemployed; and last but
not least to make Bellefeite more
attractive and all those who are
fortunate enough to have been born
and raised here will have a warm
place in their hearts for the town
and community and will aid it wher-
ever they can.
Following is a list of major pro-'
jects which will be taken one at a
time and described in some detail
when they are in season, if there
seems to be any chance of getting
them executed:
1. Development of a “Big Spring |
Trail,” which will make an inter-
esting walk from the “Big Spring”
down to the point where it's waters |
flow from the town. | were bound for the Association's of-
{fice and on reaching there took in
2. Development of a
Lane”
in all
“Memory
which will be a trail taking
be shown to advantage.
4. Convalescent garden for
Centre County hospital.
5. Removal of all trees beyond
regis in Borough in view of prop.
erly replanting and respacing with
new trees.
6. Evergreen plantation along east
7. Perméate niore beauty by es-
tablishing evergreen boundary lines
on the already Melutiful Catholic
cemetery. :
a evelopment of new scheme of
a ment about the county court
house which would call for a new |
site for the misplaced but beautiful
War Memorial which now acts as a
screen rather than a frame for our
most ideally located county build-
i
| Drew is free on 50,000 bond.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—As John A. Evans of South Connells-
ville sat on the ground eating his lunch
during a hunting trip
hear Seaton's
Lake, last Saturday, a large doe leaped
over him and struck his gun, breaking
—Webster G. Drew, ousted city treas-
urer, of Smethport, has denied charges
of embezzling $122,336 of city funds,
He at.
tacked the legality of the ouster action
and claimed fe is still treasurer.
—A church dinner was called off in
i
NO. 49.
PHILIPSBURG HAD A
REAL HOLD-UP THRILL. |
BANDITS CAPTURED.
Philipsburg had a real hold-up |
Green Ridge, near Mount Carmel,
Thursday, because somebody stole the
chairs, tables and china. The supper
was to have been conducted in the Union
church by the young people's society.
—The high tension wires completing
the system from the new Safe Harbor
power plant to Baltimore have been com-
pleted and the $30,000,000 hydro-electric
development on the Susquehanna river
last
thrill, about 7 o'clock on Monday Will be a going concern in a few weeks.
evening, when three masked ban- —Operation of a passenger train around
dits invaded the offices of the Citi- ® curve at a speed in excess of instruc-
zen's Building and Loan Association, tions was responsible for a wreck No-
3. 3, tive cemeteries of the now. ‘and Miss Hall were quickly released
velopment of a “Town ] land Mayhue told of the direction
which will follow some of the busi. 4
2688 nnd residential sirects lead | taken by the bandits and was able
The Register gives three bonds, people by all our public buildings, |
to homes and places of historic in- |
terest and to sites from which the
!bonds Is $3.00 a thousand, making beauty of the town and country can
forced Frank Dunkle, president of |
the office at the time, to lie on his
face on the floor, while they trussed
him hand 4nd foot, then turned
their attention to ransacking the
safe. While thus engaged Miss
Katheriné Hall, stenographer, enter- |
ed the room, and she was forced to
sit in a chair where they also bound |
her hands and feet.
Before they completed their job of
rifling the safe Paul Mayhue as-
cended the steps to the Association's
office but the lookout man at the
door told him to come back later,
as “the boss was busy.” Mayhue
waited outside the building and saw
the three men leave it, jump into a
high-powered car and roar away
in the direction of Clearfield.
Just as the bandits left the build-
ing Mrs. George Boyle and daugh-
ter, of Osceola Mills, entered. They
the situation at a glance. Dunkle
to furnish a fair description of the
men.
Word was at once telephoned to
the State police barracks, at Clear- |
fleld, and Corporal Foley and several |
.
land where they held up all cars and |
finally got the one containing the |
three bandits. In the rear of the |
car the police found a flour sack con-
taining the $150 stolen from the
safe In the Association's office. In|
the car were three revolvers, plenty |
of ammunition and & rubber hose
filled with lead shot.
The men gave their names as J.
W. Woomer, 42 years old, of No. 1
Chestnut street, Oil City; T. M. An |
derson, 38, and W. Y. Williams, 34, |
both of R. D. No. 15, Franklin, Pa.
They all refused to make a state. |
ment. . They were brought to the
Centre county jail on Tuesday. The
capture of the men took place in
ing.
9. Elaboration on and develop- |
ment of the following suggestions
made by Arthur W. Cowell,
scape architect of State
land. |
College, |
specifically allocated, will probably ang were just starting out for an They will be allowed forty-five min. | Pa In his paper to the Bellefonte
be the extent of the ‘emergency | afternoon trek through the woods.
funds ‘to be dispensed this winter. | Stover was Bh between Rit-
There will probably be no extra tax | ter and Zimmerman and as he was
on cigarettes and if one cent isadd- ip the act of stepping over an old
ed to the gasoline tax it will go joe laying on the ground a short
back to the counties of origin in gigtance from the camp, there sound-
direct proportion to the amount col- oq 4 report of a gun and Stover |
lected therein. dropped to the ground. His com-
| panions thought at first he had
—With earnings of the railroads |
of the country only half as much as | stumbled and fallen down but when
they were last year no one can fore-
see what is to become of the great | Cicovered that he was
carriers unless they can either re-
duce wages or increase rates. Re- |
trenchments so drastic as to impair
the value of their physical proper-
ties have already been made and | i
they continue going deeper in ‘the | Nishment, in Milesburg, where Cor-
red. While a reduction in wages |
dead. He
the back of the head, the ball pass.
ing through and coming out of his
forehead. His remains were taken
day.
GR Ip, A Sylasirophe | cause of death was a gunshot wound, |
labor ‘to an understanding of pe iue ye Jing been fired by an un-|
} ! y. |
Plisat poli pec thotisalila The shooting, however, was clear-
ed up, on Monday, through an in-|
from their investment of life's Sav- | estigation made by county detec-|
Is it right that they
should be denied any return for the
money they have provided ‘to make | |
ampl ent ‘for others? {in the hands of Gerald Little, who |
{was hunting in a hollow some fifty
or sixty yards distant. Biddle
claims that he shot at a deer and
did not know that there was any |
night be saved by reducing salaries ©ne hunting in that vicinity. As
ind getting rid of useless employees |the Shooting was purely accidental
it Harrisburg. If the Governor pe action will be taken against Lit- |
would start acting on the Spangler | te. i
suggestion the public would have Stover was a son of Bernard and
‘ar more faith in him than it does. Lulu Johnson Stover and was born |
increases in salaries have been the in Buffalo Run valley on April 22nd, |
ule in Harrisburg since Mr. Pin- 1915 hence was 16 years, 7 months
‘hot fooled the Legislature into | 2nd 13 days old. He is survived by
resting all its former control over DIS parents and the following broth-
mch matters in his hands. There °'® and sisters: (erald Stover, of
ire numbers of men on the State's Bellefonte R. D.; Mrs. Edgar Grove,
»ayroll who are being paid twiceas 2! Shiloh; Woodrow, Fred, Ethel,
nuch as they could earn by follow- | Bernard Jr. and Lois, all at home.
ng the professions they left tofeed | Stover was a member of the Weav-
it the public crib. Nearly every |er Methodist church, the organizer
ig industry in the State has made 2nd Secretary of the young people's
Irastic cuts in the salaries of itsde- |¢la%8 in the Sunday school. Fu-
ineral services were held in the
)artment heads, nearly all of whom D© 2
re highly trained specialists in | ctyreB at 9.30 o'clock on Wednesday
. | morning by Rev. M. C. Piper and
ot th. Bederar Goverment and Rev Mtager, Dural bing made 1a
ndividuals to do something for the Meyer's cemetery.
’ennsylvania, while he goes on in.
reasing the salaries of political -—Read the Watchman and get all
enchmen. | the news worth reading.
The bullet that |
—Representative Spangler, of |
York county, has the right idea.
He is of the opinion that much
killed Stover was fired from a gun (daddy bucks of them all while hunt-
‘had two other bucks that the aver-
utes each and will be heard in the
following order: |
First, Rebekah lodge, of Pine |
Grove Mills. |
Second, Penn State Grange, of
State College.
Third, Halfmoon Grange, of
Stormstown.
| Competent judges will decide the | 150 billboards, posters, Etc. within
winner of the contest, which will
they undertook to help him up they represent the county at Harrisburg. Pation of community advertising. |
Victor Grange, of Boalshurg, was the |
‘had been shot in the right side of Winner last year and was success Week” for the purpose of ridding the
ful in taking second place in their |
division at the State contest.
In order to defray the expense of |
to the Wetzler undertaking estab- Preparing the plays and to help pay usefulness, Etc.
the trip of the winning team to Har- |
i its feelings and attitude to-
oner Heaton held an inquest on Sun- risburg an admission fee of 25 cents express
would probably precipitate a strike | With no definite information Vill be charged for adults hems poses aD, vauume
ws =z y Pp a 3 {at hand the jury could do nothing cents for children. The money will | ugges y
s might be the very time to have | else than return a verdict that the | Pe divided between the three groups. be sent to or expressed at any of
The public is cordially invited to at-
tend the contest.
COLEVILLE MERCHANT
BAGS 14 POINT BUCK.
Harry E. Garbrick, the Coleville
merchant, brought down one of the
ing on Rock run, in the Alleghenies,
last week. It was the first deer he
had ever shot, had fourteen points
and dressed 225lbs. And just to
prove that Harry didn't get buck
fever when he spied the monster is
the deadly accuracy of his shot.
He hit it just behind the ear and it
fell dead on the spot, without a
twitch.
In the party were Clif. Don, and
Lester Davis, Harry and Walter!
Emenhizer, James Kelley, Sam Coble
and Paul Justice. All of the party
were from Coleville and when they
came in to town last Saturday they
age hunting crew wouldn't sneeze at
either, for one was a ten pointer and
the other was a four.
They said they could have had all
the does they wanted, but they
scorned shooting the lady deer.
——Attached to their papers to-
day all subscribers on the Watch-
man's Bellefonte list, who are not
paid in advance, will find bills for
the amount due. We woud appre-
ciate remittance, either in full or in
part, for these accounts.
Woman's Club some years ago.
a. Improvement of the south |
gateway.
b. Improvement of the east Bish-
op St. gateway. |
c. Improvement of the north!
gateway.
10. Removal of approximately |
and just outside the town in antici-
i
11. Institute a “house cleaning
town of many of the simple eye-
sores such as ash heaps, small
buildings which have outlived their
The author wants the public to
the offices of newspapers publishing
these articles or to the author him-
self.
It is our hope that some of the
| city for the unemployed.
various organizations of the town
will come forward and carry out
some of these p . |
ALBERT W. GROVE, |
Landscape Architect.
BELLEFONTE SCHOOL
BOARD REORGANIZES.
The Bellefonte school board met
and re-organized, on Monday eve-
ning, in accordance with the school
code which requires that it be done
the first Monday in December. Dr.
M. J. Locke being confined to his
home with an attack of rheumatism |
the four members present were
Charles F. Cook, George Hazel, Miss
Mary Miles Blanchard and Mrs. |
Helen Crissman Broderick.
Dr. Locke was re-elected president
and Miss Blanchard vice president.
Under a provision of the school
code both the secretary and the
treasurer of the old board, Mrs. M. |
H. Brouse and Charles F. Cook, re-
spectively, will continue to serve.
They were both elected in July, 1927,
for six years, so that their terms
will not expire until July, 1933.
This provision was inserted in the
code for the special purpose of keep-
ing experienced people in the two
important offices until new members
become thoroughly conversant with
the duties and obligations of school
directors.
| year was $385.
less than forty minutes after the
hold-up.
‘ing to records submitted
vember 7, near Johnstown, in which two
persons were killed and fourteen injured,
| the Association, who was alone in 4. public Service Commission's Bureau
of Accidents reported on Saturday,
—Some chemical in the waste from an
oil well in Leetonia has caused the
death of numerous deer, according to of-
ficials of the State Game Commission.
The deer have died near the well after
having licked the waste, it is reported.
Lungs of several deer, and samples of
| waste from the well, are being analyzed.
| Meanwhile, the Game Commission has or-
| dered the well fenced off.
—It cost $1.67 per pupil to supply free
school text books in public schools
throughout the State last year, accord
to the State
Department of Public Instruction. The
cost has been declining since 1927, when
each pupil's supply of books cost, on the
average, $1.71: but in 1921 they cost only
$1.19, it was shown. Total cost of sup-
| plying free text books last year was $3.-
189,977.
—An 18-inch power saw, run by a gas-
oline engine, broke in half during its
| operation at Reading. on Saturday, one
half severing the foot of Frank O'Grat-
tis, 26, and the other half hurtling
through the air to land a block away.
| Half of the blade dropped into a small
pile of bricks in the rear yard of the
nearby Meslinksy home, barely a mo-
{ment after Mrs. Leon Meslinksy had
passed the spot.
—Plans for two more road labor camps,
making a total of six, were announced
yesterday by Governor Pinchot. The
the | troopers made a quick run to Wood- new camps will be located at Curwens-
ville, Clearfleld county, and in Jefferson
county at a site to be selected. Each
camp will provide accommodations for
seventy men who will be émployed on
State highways. The Curwensville camp
| will be located at the Irvin Park, and
construction work has already started.
—Official boards of Trinity Methodist
and St. Paul's Methodist churches at
Danville, have voted to merge, effective
with the next annual conference, and
will submit the question to the congre-
gations December 13 for a vote. Rev.
¥. L. Henninger and Rev. J. M. Bren-
nan, the pastors, favor the merger. The
combined membership is about 800. The
plan contemplates using St. Paul's for
worship and Trinity for a recreation cen-
ter.
—An organization in Lancaster county
almost 60 years ago for protection against
horse thieves is nearing its end. A peti-
| tion to dissolve the Pequea association
———
STATE COLLEGE BURGESS
GIVES LOAD OF LAMBS
TO FEED UNEMPLOYED.
Burgess Eugene H. Lederer, of
State College, last week sent a
truck load of lambs from his farm
at Manor Hill to Altoona as a dona-
tion to the relief committee of that,
The
ing, as they weighed an average of
110 pounds each. In making the
donation theburgess stated that he
wished to give relief where it was |
most needed, and he felt that State
College is not faced with the unem-
ployment situation that exists in|
Altoona.
EXAMINATION FOR
{
BOALSBURG POSTMASTER !
WILL BE HELD SOON.
The Civil Service Commission has
announced that an examination will
be held at State College in the near
future for the purpose of filling the
vacancy in the fourth-class postof-
fice at Boalsburg. The compensa-
tion of the office during the past
Applicants must
reside within the territory served by
the office and must be not less than
21 nor more than 65 years old. All
applications must be properly ex-
ecuted and on file with the Commis-
sion in Washington prior to the hour
of closing business on December
18th.
SUDDEN DEATH OF
CHARLES A. SNYDER.
Charles A. Snyder, district attor-
ney of Schuylkill county and known |
throughout the entire State, was
found dead in his office on Monday |
evening. He had spent the day in
Harrisburg motoring to his home in
Pottsville, that afternoon. A heart
attack was the cause of death. He
was 69 years old and had held a
public office of some kind continu- |:
ously for twenty-eight years. In,
1903 he was elected a member of the
State Legislature and since then had
served as State Scnator, Auditor
General nd State Treasurer. He
had also been a candidate for Gov-
ernor. When not holding a State
office he filled a berth of some kind
in his home county.
of Lancaster county, established for ‘‘the
| detection of thieves and recovery of stolen
property,” has been presented to the
court. A hearing has been fixed for
January 9. According to the petition,
the association has no debts or liabilities,
no assets and had paid all taxes due the
Commonwealth,
—Persons who while working contract
anthrax, a disease sometimes found
among persons who handle hides, hair
and like animal products, may claim
| lambs were transported in a truck compensation whether the anthrax is in-
(donated by the Shoemaker Bros. | ternal or external, the Workmen's Com-
and will undoubtedly make good eat- pensation Board has ruled. The ruling
was on an appeal from a referee's de-
cision by F. P. Woll and Company,
Philadelphia. Dr. Z. Chelmicki, vice-
consul of Poland, was claimant in be-
half of Teodozja Smaczlo.
—At Pittsburgh on Wednesday, of last
week, Federal Judge R. M. Gibson meted
out a sentence to Charles Bruce Gardner
Jr., whose defalcations resulted in the
closing of the Peoples National Bank, of
Osceola Mills, on Monday, February 2,
1931. He pleaded guilty to the charge
of misapplying between $90,000 and $100,-
000 of the bank's funds and using the
money in speculation. Judge Gibson
ordered him to serve three years in the
penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga., but owing
to the fact that there has been an out-
break of meningitis at that place he
might be transferred to Leavenworth,
Kan,
—A one man private fire company,
operated as a business proposition, will
commence work in the rural sections sur-
rounding Shickshinny early in 1932. Ray
F. Smith, garage mechanic and former
Berwick fire chief, disclosed the plan to-
day with information that an order has
been placed for a triple combination
pumper for his individual use. Resi-
dents of the rural districts who want
their properties protected will pay an
annual fee. Smith will be available at
all hours of the day and night to re-
spond to alarms. He figures on enough
volunteers responding to rural fires to
help man the apparatus.
—L. M. Irwin, formerly cashier of the
closed Linclon National bank of Avella,
Washington county, pleaded guilty in
criminal court at Washington, on Mon-
day, to charges of embezzlement and
fraudulent conversion, made by the Cross
Creek township supervisors, the al-
leged thefts amounting to $25,500. The
indictment contains 10 separate transac-
tions involving 87 counts. Sentence was
ed at the request of District At-
wnaey Warren 8. Burchinal, who told
Judge Howard W. Hughes, Irwin was
wanted for trial in the United States
Court on charges of violating the nation-
al banking laws. As the embezzlement
from the township is tied in with the
closing of the bank, the defense entered
no objection to the transfer of Irwin to
the Federal Court for trial within two
weeks,