—His head blown away by a dynamite
explosion, the body of Frank Litawa, 45,
unemployed miner, was found in a shan-
ty in the rear of his home near Shenan-
doah, on Monday. Deputy coroner Joseph
Popatis reported Litawa had committed
suicide. He is survived by his widow and
seven children.
—Spring seeding and transplanting
sotivities recently have been completed
in the four State Forest tree nurseries
operated by the Pennsylvania Department
of Forests and Waters at Mont Alto,
Franklin county; Clearfield county; Pot-
ters Mills, Centre county, and Greenwood,
Huntingdon county.
—Ralph Payne, of Allegheny coun-
ty, was off to market last week, to buy
chickens with the $168 he had in his
pockets. While driving on the Steuben-
INK SLINGS.
BY GEORGE R. MEEK.
—Enacting buylaws will prove
just about as futile a way to revive
business as resolutions con-
demning the practice of using lip
sticks and smoking cigarettes.
—The counterfeit one-thousand
dollar bills that are said to be in
circulation are not worrying us. If
we were to “lamp” a bill of such
denomination we'd go crazy and |
then we'd never know it was
“phoney.”
— After all, the idea of the gov-
ernments’ guaranteeing bank de-
posits might not be so bad. If it List of Prizes “Awarded at
were done for a few years it might ,..ncement Exercises in Richelieu
uring a lot of money out of holes! peatre Last Evening. |
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BELLEFONTE, PA.
VOL, 77.
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BELLEFONTE HIGH
GRADUATES SIXTY-ONE i MOTHERS’ ASSISTANCE
IN CLASS OF 1982 IN CLEARFIELD COUNTY
Com-| Clearfield County Commissioners
' have notified the Mothers’ Assistance
board of that county that effective
May 31st there will be no more
LACK OF FUNDS CANCELS
in the ground, from under the kitch- | a—
en carpets and safety deposit vaults. | Sixty-one young men and women, county funds available to meet the
—The Governor is going to call | the same number as last year, were State appropriation to carry on the
another extra session of the Legis- | graduated at the Bellefonte High | work of furnishing aid to dependent
er afte mil This time, however, | school commencement exercises Jast | mothers and children. Slow tax col-
he is starting about it as if he had night, held in the Richelieu. The exX- | jactions with the resultant low con-
found out that the regularly eiected | ercises began with the baccalaureate | dition of the county finances rend-
representatives of the people of services in the Presbyterian church ers such action imperative, accord-
Pennsylvania are not merely his oa Sunday evening. Rev. Stuart ag to Commissioners.
decree
INSECTS AND WORMS ville pike west of Crafton, three men
him, and got the $168 and a watch.
Death the Result, | this week requesting all property |
an automobie the cotaty, 3 oF) automobile trip with his mother was
State hospital at that place, last 55 numerous this spring in gardens ™Y car,” wept Mrs. Hope Young Strodes,
It is known as the tented cater- | College student when they were married
attempted to avoid hitting a COW ,ioug of pests. If not destroyed they ' .rpieq. bu
“yes men." Gast was the preacher and| (oarfeld county has been receiv- | op Monday morning as & salesman gro choice of the caterpillar as 8 victed in
AND OTHER DESTRUCTIVE
rose from under the coverings in the
—— f his truck,
Tumed Out to Avoid Hitting Cow, A well known resident of Belle- Jog 2 poised revolvers 2+
Car Upset, Skull Fractured and | fonte asked us to insert a notice | _, noneymoon in which the bride was
1 left at home while her husband took an
' Shay. | owners, not in Bellefonte alone but
rvin f | described in divorce proceedings In
salesman, of Philipsburg, died in the | gestroy the caterpillar nests that are Pittsburgh, last Thursday. “And it was
| Tuesday evening, as the result of a| and orchards. | testifying against her husband, James L.
fractured skull sustained in an auto! Strodes, of Beaver. Strodes was a State
accident the same afternoon when he | pinay and is one of the most vora-| = gc. ember, 1929. The
wi ran across the road in front tree of it's foli in a
| of his machine. Shay went to work Jo ar Wild es Sit Py X Jey, Nel Riley and I
the church was crowded to the] n Lusern a — iolatee
—The McMullen gentleman, Who | ing $40,000 of the State appropria- . | Lumine sously. of
proven such a stormy petrel in| Hoos That the Sermon touched 2 | tion for two ? work, whiclimust for he aye Bice. | Source of food supply, and because the election laws, were sentenced by
has politics for several | por dor on was y deneed Tom | be matched i like amount f psburg esday afte | such trees are of little or no value | Judge W. S. McLean on Monday to
started out on a trip to sell a Chrys-| so the land owner he does not take | each pay a fine of $250, the costs and
has been given a State job. Net a mented specially on ita appro. | foe county. This money was used to
ler touring car, taking with him his, trouble to kill the pests. to serve six months in the county jail.
very hot one, so far as emolument | _ or teness for the On: furnish aid to 160 mothers and 508 ' wife and fifteen months old baby. Next to the cherry ign cater- | They were then paroled from the prison
goes, but probably all the Republi-| | children, With the aid cancelled the Op the hig rrisdal | sentence in the custody of their cou
cans think Mr. McMullen's services Ion He Jugior 2 ameter Mignon mothers and children will have to) gana a ba ig 3 Mo 8 pillar Jretars the apple re aul ey Tas 7 ana the bi og
to them are worth held in the High school audi- be taken care of by their home ing at the roadside. As he neared ered from it's revenous appetite. | pay the fine and costs.
violating
—The oftener we go fishing the | communities.
more convinced we become of the |
fact that the State's Fish Commis- |
sion needs more hatcheries if Gov-|
ernor Pinchot to be saved from be- |
coming the honor member of Lowell |
Thomas “Tall Story Club,” for hav- |
ing said that “Pennsylvania is the |
fishermen's paradise.
—Balancing the budget would be!
a chid’s job in the U. S. A. or any
of her component States if
President and the Governors and |
every one who has a job under them
‘were to prove that they have earn- |
ed their salaries and made the de-
ents in which they have been |
«employed self-supporting,
—Judge Samuel Seabury might
cause Mayor Jimmy Walker, of New
York City, some uncomfortable mo-
ments but he'll never knock the
colorful tin-god of Gotham off his
pedestal. Jimmy, like the Prince of
Wales, is one of those rare fellows
whom everybody seems to love and
for what particular reason nobody
seems to know.
—And this is June, the month of
roses,
the blushing brides, We'll have the
roses and the sweet girl graduate,
hut not the blushing brides. They
don't do that anymore. They grab
“the boy friend,” tie him in the
matrimonial knot and then go into
court for an order confiscating nine-
teen-tenths of his earning possi-
bilities and proceed on their “hard
boiled” way.
—The motto ‘States Rights and
‘Federal Union” that has been under
the mast head of the Watchman | kinson and Gladys Sampsell; honorable |
ever since it was established, has
frequently been commented on by
persons who know nothing of what
the Democratic party was founded
.on. True, the party had drifted far
from its original mooring, but evi-
“dence is accumulating on every side
to assure us that it is finding its
‘way back and gaining in popular
respect with each inch of the way.
—Henry Ford says that “hoarded
labor is as harmful to the nation
as hoarded cash,” and that, we say,
is the greatest truism that has ever
come from the rsjuth of “Lizzie’s”
papa. There are enough deserted
farms in Centre county right now
.to produce food for every unemploy-
ed person in the county for the
coming winter and “hoarded labor”
4s the one thing that is keeping
them from doing so. Is it “hoarded
1abor,” or is it only “hiding labor”
in its habitual obsession of expect-
ing the government to provide.
—1In the first four months of this
year foreign trade of the United
States fell off nearly seven hundred
million dollars as compared with
‘the same period in 1931. If that ratc
continues throughout 1932 the loss
will total more than the most op-
timistic of those who think business
can be revived by artificial stimula-
tion have suggested that the gov-
ernment inject into it. The fallacy
of raising our tariff walls higher
«ought certainly to be apparent to
anyone in face of this tremendous
shrinkage in our foreign business.
With no money to buy our goods
foreign countries simply have to do
without them, because our tart
AS to the graduating
class of Oglethorpe University, at
Atlanta, Ga., on Sunday nignt, Gov-
ernor Roosevelt said: “In the future
we are going to think less about
the producers and more about the
consumer.” The present state of af-
fairs is due largely to neglect of
constructive thought looking to
stabilization of the purchasing power
of the consumer, but we fear Mr.
Roosevelt's very pertinent remark
will not please the southern cotton
growers or the western farmers.
They are so much concerned about |
the condition of the producers right
now that they are blind to the re-
lief that might come to them if
people had enough money to buy
all the cotton fabrics and grain
fabrications they would like to have,
the girl's prize to
| the Richelieu last evening, were also
the sweet girl graduate and
torium on Tuesday evening. There
were ten contestants, Betty Woomer,
Roy Wilkinson, Gladys Sampsel,
James Bair, Margaret Mills, Norman
Kirk, Mary Hartle, Philip Mabus,
Helen Myers and Calvin Purnell.
The judges, James R. Hughes, Mrs.
Robert M. Beach and Rev. A. Ward
Compbell, awarded the boy's prize
to Roy Wilkinson with honorable
mention for Calvin Purnell, and the
Gladys Sampsell with
honorable mention for Margarct
Mills.
The commencement exercises, in
largely attended, friends of the
members of the graduating class
predominating. The commenceniént
speaker was C. William Duncan, of
Philadelphia. Dr. M. J. Locke, presi-
dent of the Bellefonte school board
presented the diplomas and awarded
the long list of prizes as follows:
Col. W. F. Reynolds general excellence
prize, $10.—Martha Brugger; honorable
mention, Pearce Rumberger.
Miss Myra Humes general excellence
| prize (commercial course), $10.—Betty
Campbell; honorable mention, Pearl
Rote.
Civic Club prize, $10.—Martha Brug-
ger; honorable mention, Pearce Rumber-
ger. a uk ‘
Mrs. M. E. Brouse senior biographical
essay prize, $10.—Martha Brugger; hon-
orable mention, Elizabeth Herr,
Walter C. Cohen senior manual train-
ing prize, $10.—Lee Alexander; honorable
mention, Charles Sellers and Kenneth
Lucas.
Walter C. Cohen orchestra prizes—Gold
pin to each member of the orchestra.
Col. W. Fred Reynolds Junior de-
| clamatory prizes, $7.50 each.—Roy Wil-
| mention, Calvin Purnell and
Mills.
George R. Meek general courtesy prize,
$5.00.—Allen Weaver; honorable mention,
Eleanor Johnson.
George R. Meek bookkeeping prize,
$5.00.—Luecille Ulrich; honorable mention,
Kathryn Coble.
Dr. John M. Keichline Freshman hy-
giene prize, $5.00.—Madeline Carpeneto:
honorable mention, Mabel Musser.
Mrs. John S. Walker houseold
prizes, $5.00 and $2.50.—Eleanor
and Mabel Musser.
Charles F. Cook mechanical drawing
prize, $5.00.—Ben Gryoctko: honorable
mention, Howard Armagast.
D. A. R. American history prize, $5.00.
— Divided between Roy Wilkinson and
Betty Woomer.
A. C. Mingle
—Divided between Francis
and Virginia McClellan.
A. C. Mingle Civics prize, $5.00. —Di-
vided between Eleanor Wion and James
Musser.
Migs Myra Humes
prize, $5.00.—Jane Beatty:
mention, Josephine Cohen.
Mrs. M. E. Brouse girls’ general science
prize, $5.00.—Lorraine Crawford; honor-
able mention, Eleanor Wion.
W. C. T. U. temperance essay prizes,
$5.00 each.—Philip Cronemiller and Beu-
Margaret
art
Wion
world history prize, $5.00.
Alexander
Sophomore Latin
honorable
lah Schultz; honorable mention, Edwin
Taylor and Eleanor Wion.
W. Harrison Walker boy's biology
prize, $5.00.—Carl Rossman; honorable
mention, Howard Armagast.
william J. Emerick girls’ biology
prize, $5.00.—Lucille Ulrich; honorable
mention, Jane Beatty.
C. G. Decker Senior science prize,
$5.00.—Dale Zimmerman; honorable men-
tion, Pearce Rumberger. .
The list of graduates was publish-
ed complete in last week's Watch-
man.
General excellence honors in the
grades were announced as follows:
BISHOP STREET BUILDING
Grade 1.—Emily Smeitzer.
Grade 2.—Richard From, Junior Kerch-
ner.
Grade 3.—-Mary Grace Hartsock, Jean
Clevenstine.
Grade 4.—Betty Auman, Jean Fanuing
Grade 5.—Jean Caum.
Grade 6.—Irma Schlow.
Grade 7.—Carolyn Caldwell, Mary Gehret.
Grade 8.—Betty Ann Hartswick.
ALLEGHENY STREET BUILDING
| Grade 1,—Harry Zerby, Ann Tanner.
Jere 2,—Virginia Clark, Elesnor Fors-
! burg, Blanche Locke.
8.— Richard Valentine,
Thompson.
§.—Richard Walker, George Pur-
nell.
| Grade 5.—Helen Olsen.
| Grade 6.—Lorraine Yates,
erick.
| Grade 7.—Jean Monsell, Janet Woomer,
i Grade 8.—Ruth Brewer.
| Grade James
| Grade
Frank Brod-
|
by Centre county during 1931, by
the Mothers’ Assistance board, was
| $10,668.68, half of which, or $5,334, |
| 34, was appropriated by the county |
to meet a like appropriation by the
‘State. This amount was sufficient
| to furnish aid to 37 mothers and
| about 100 children under the age of
16 years. When the act creating the
| mothers’ assistance was passed by
the Legislature it provided for a
| maximum payment of $20 a month
| to a mether with one child to sup-
| port and $10 a month for each ad-
| ditional child, but the fund appropri-
| ated has never in any one year been
| large enough to meet the maximum
| payment, In fact, it is estimated that
it never at any time exceeded about
| 39 per cent,
| In Centre county the board uses
it's discretion in making allotments,
| so that there is no stated sum paid
| out to each and every ome. If the
| mother owns her own home, has no
rent to pay and partial means of
support she is not given aZ much per
child as the mother who
solutely nothing. It is in
that the board
HL
ites
uing the mothers’ assistance.
PENNSYLVANIA PASTORS
HONORED AT CONFERENCE
The Central Pennsylvania confer-
| ence of the Methodist Episcopal
church won considerable recognition
at the General Conference of the
church held at Atlantic City, and
which closed on Thursday of last
week, Six ministers were appointed
by the board of Bishops to import-
ant commissions and boards to serve
during the ensuing four years. They
were as follows:
Rev. Dr. A. L. Miller, superintend-
ent of the Williamsport district, a
member of the general board of for-
eign missions; Rev. A, S. Williams,
pastor of the Newberry church, a
member of the general board of
home missions; Dr. J. Edward Skill-
ington, superintendent of the Altoo-
na district, a member of the world's
service commission; Dr. Morris BE.
Swartz, superintendent of the Har-
risburg district, a member of the
union board; Dr. Horace Liacoln
Jacobs, of Bellefonte, a member of
the commission to codify the church
laws, and Dr. Edgar R. Heckman,
of Carlisle, a member of the gener-
al board of pensions and relief.
Herbert T. Ames, nestor of the
Lycoming county bar and former
| mayor of rt, was given a
| resolution of felicitation by the Gen-
eral Conference during its sessions
following the action of the confer-
ence admitting laymen to the an-
nual conferences for the reason that
he was the first man a number of
years ago to make a motion for such
action, thus starting the movement
that now allows laymen in the an-
nual conferences of the church.
The Central Pennsylvania confer-
ence, by the way, will convene in
Williamsport, for its annual sessions,
on June 15th. Bishop Francis E. Mc-
Connell, of the
preside,
LOCK HAVEN NOT HIT
BY GENERAL DEPRESSION
According to James C. Brinton
traffic engineer of the Greyhound
Transit company, Lock Haven is
“one of the most fortunate towns
ijn the country; it's industries
are depression proof.” Testifying
pefore the Public Service Commis-
sion, last week, Mr. Brinton stated
that “95 per cent of Lock Haven's
working population is employed
steadily. But just thirteen miles
away lies Jersey Shore, with a popu-
lation of 5000, and only about 100
persons with steady employment.
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Read the Watchman and get
all the news worth reading.
the animal it made a dash to Cross Ag gsiated above caterpillar nests are
usual
Shay
| The amount of money expended the road. In order to avoid hitting
| i bundan year than
|it he turned out, The car upset and | HOTS A this
sustained a crushed skull. Mrs. trees of them. It is not a difficult | number of cartons of brick ice cream.
Shay and the baby escaped Without |y,g and will mean dollars in the
The unfortunate man was a son
of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Shay
was born at Howard on August
17th, 1880, making his age 51 years
9 months and 7 days. He had been
employed as an automobile salesman
for a number of years, having work- |
ed in Pittsburgh, Altoona, Morris-
dale and Houtzdale prior to locating
in Philipsburg last September,
He married Miss Dorothy Jane
Stockport, of Morrisdale, who sur-
also leaves his mother,
| Howard, and the following brothers
and sisters: Lionel Shay, of Howard;
Arthur, of Williamsport; Edward,
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL
TO OPEN NEXT MONDAY
The daily vacation Bible school
will open in the High school building
Monday morning, June 6th. Sessions
will be held each school day mr ming
from nine to eleven-thirty o'clock.
The school will continue for a period
of three weeks and will close with a
public exhibition of the work done
on Friday morning, June 24th.
The school, which is held under
the auspices of the various churches
of Bellefonte, had its most success-
ful season last year when over three
hundred and fifty children were en-
rolled. No charges are made for at-
tendance and all children of the
community from five years of age
up to High school age are welcomed.
Bible and character building instruc-
tion are given and recreation Is
provided. It is hoped that this
year's session will exceed even that
of last year.
The school will be under the prin-
cipalship of the former Miss Cather-
ine Gardner, who served as princi-
pal last year. An experienced teach-
ing force has been provided, -
sisting largely of the teachers of
former years, which assures efficien-
cy in the work.
TWO MORE PINCHOT MEN
LAND JOBS IN HARRISBURG
Two more Pinchot supporters have
landed jobs in Harrisburg, both of
them having been appointed on
Thursday of last week. They are
Raymond E. Murphy, of State Col-
lege, who was named as head of the
economic geographical research bu-
reau at a salary of $3360 a year,
and Samuel J. McMullen, of Mill-
heim, who received a clerkship in
the Department of Labor and In-
dustry at a salary of $1200 a year.
Mr. McMullen was formerly a Dem-
ocrat but changed his politics about
the time Pinchot ran for Governor
and was made Republican county
committeeman in Millheim. He
claimed to have secured a number of
votes for Pinchot in 1930 but he
was not quite so successful for the
Republican ticket last fall.
ANOTHER PRISONER
WALKS AWAY FROM PEN.
Joseph Papallo, an Italian inmate
sent up from Cameron county for
10 to 20 years for second degree
murder, and who was an inmate of
the ic ward, escaped from
Rockview penitentiary at 7:30
o'clock on Wednesday morning, With
a number of other prisoners he was
being taken from the ward to the
new power house, where they were
employed, when Papallo dropped out
of line without being seen by the
guard and made a safe getaway.
and |
i
pockets of every orchardist.
Tent caterpillars feed only at | Plant
night when there is no danger of
birds. With the first streak of dawn
they crawl back into their tent to
remain until darkness falls again.
The easiest way to destroy them on
wild cherry or other trees of no
especial value is to tie a newspaper
to a long pole, Set it on fire and
burn the nest. A few seconds to
each nest will suffice.
On apple and other valuable fruit
trees other methods of destruction
must be used. One of the best is to
cut a forked stick. Insert the fork
into the centre of the tent, twist it
around several times and the entire
nest and all it's contents can be
pulled down. Then burn or crush the
caterpillars and the eggs in the nest.
The nests should be destroyed now
before the eggs have time to hatch.
Cutworms are another pest that
be more num-
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THREE AUTO ACCIDENTS
DURING THE PAST WEEK
Last Saturday afternoon a col-
lision occurred on the Nittany moun- |
tain highway between a car driven
by Lewis Fibberbaum, of Oil City,
and one operated by Carl Wharton,
of Mount Union. Fortunately no one
was injured but both cars were
damaged. Fibberbaum assumed re
sponsibility for the accident.
On Sunday afternoon another col-
lision occurred on the same highway,
a short distance above Pleasant
Gap, between a car driven by Mrs.
F. R. Barnes, of Pleasant Gap, and
one operated by Andrew F. Heine-
man, of Pittston. The latter's sister,
Miss Marian Heineman, was cut and
bruised about the head and face, but
the others escaped injury. Mr.
Heineman accepted the blame for
the accident.
Down on the Marsh Creek road,
a short distance north of Blanchard,
a car operated by Raymond Fisher
was crowded off the road by another
motorist and ran into a bridge
abutment. Miss Eleanor Courter, a
r in the Fisher car, suffered
a dislocation of the lower jaw, sev-
eral loosened teeth and lacerations
on one side of her body. Fisher was
cut and bruised and suffered from
shock.
——Looking over the list of prize
winners in the Bellefonte High
school we have been impressed with
the fact that the big money went
to out-of-town students; one young
woman, Miss Martha Brugger, of
Fleming, not only winning
honors but pulling down $30 in
prizes out of a total of $142.50
awarded. We are not questioning
the fairness of the awards. They
undoubtedly were deserved, and it
should impress the boys and girls
of Bellefonte with the fact that a
little closer application to their
studies and less running to the
movies and riding around in Dad's
automobile might result to their
advantage when they come to grad-
uate.
——The 63rd annual convention of
the Centre county Sabbath School
Association will be held in the Luth-
eran church, at Millheim, Monday
and Tuesday, June 13th and 14th.
The opening session will be held at
2 o'clock Monday afternoon and the
closing session Tuesday evening. All
Sabbath school workers in the coun-
ty are urged to attend and take
part in the proceedings, Dr. Homer
W. Tope and other members of the
State Sabbath School organization
will be present.
—The Bechtel Milk plant, near Sunbury,
| in Northumberland county, was entered
| and robbed early Tuesday morning, the
is the time to rid YOU | thieves taking about $15 in cash and a
| Entrance was gained by cutting part of
| the screening from a side window of ‘the
Examination disclosed that a
thorough search of the entire plant had
| been made for valuables, Borough police
| them falling prey to insectivorous | .... tified and are investigating.
, —Thomas Crossley, of Montour county,
| father of eight children, was sentenced
|to two to four years in the eastern
| penitentiary after confessing to entering
| and robbing the home of Dr. H. BE.
| Bekroth. Although confessing the theft,
| Crossley said he made no use of the
household articles he stole and which
were recovered in his home. A son,
Thomas Jr., is held in jail pending trial
on assistng in the robbery at the Eck-
roth home.
—Charges that she is a ‘‘common
scold” kept Catherine Cairns, 40 years
old, behind bars at the Abington police
station, this week, under $500 bail, pend-
ing action of the Montgomery county
grand jury. Browder Benningfield swore
out the warrant for her arrest and at a
police hearing testified that the defend-
ant “had destroyed the peace of his
neighborhood for six years and that
verbal attacks from her had made life
miserable for the residents.” His testi-
mony was corroborated by seven other
i
‘| residents of the neighborhood, -
—The plight of an aged couple whose
son forced them to live in a chicken
| coop while he converted his home into a
| speakeasy was revealed by their daugh-
| ter and police last Friday. The couple,
| Mr, and Mrs. James Rowean, both near
| 75. were found asleep, cramped up in
| their dingy quarters on straw pallets,
when troopers raided the son's dwelling.
| In the house, a three-room cottage, [wo
miles from Langhorne, the raiders found
|a drunkel revel in progress, they said,
| with the living quarters transformed into
| a makeshift barroom. James Kile, 35,
| the son, was arrested as proprietor.
| —Five prisoners escaped from the
| Northumberland county jail on Tuesdwv
| night by walking from their cell dvors
which a trusty unlocked and digging
their way through the floor to the cuter
grounds. Donald Bastress, 26, of Trever-
ton was captured a short time later. The
others, still at large, are Charles Stone,
27, of Sunbury awaiting trial for rob-
bery; Coleman Tyson, 25, of Sunbury,
| the trusty, serving a term for larceny;
Charles O'Neil, Mt. Carmel, serving sen-
tence for larceny and breaking ard en-
tering and Thomas Murphy, 81, of sha-
mokin, awaiting trial for hold-up and
robbery.
—Heavy mattresses saved the lives of
Thomas Nichols, a coal miner, and his
wife and three children at Avella, on
Tuesday, when a bomb exploded with
such force that the bed posts were
thrust through the ceiling of the bed-
room. All five were bruised and shocked.
Nichols estimated damages to his home
at $1500. Nichols, employed at the P.
and W. mine of the Pittsburgh Terminal
Coal Corp., was one of the 150 who
signed a petition asking Governor Pinchot
for State police protection at Avella
during the mine strike. He had been
threatened several times recently,
Washington county authorities said they
learned.
—Recovery in Pennsylvania of seventy-
seven stolen motor vehicles was reported
to the title section of the Department
of Revenue in April. These vehicles were
recovered either by the State highway
patrol, local police, garage owners or
other agencies. Their total estimated
value was $34,950. Fifty-seven of the re-
coverad vehicles had been abandoned by
thieves, Ten were out-of-State cars that
had been stolen and were found in Penn-
sylvania. Nine were found in the posses-
sion of persons not the rightful owners,
but not the thieves. Since the first of the
year, 359 motor vehicles with an estimat-
ed value of $168.587 were reported as
having been recovered in Pennsylvania.
—Two of the men who on March 6th
dynamited Lycoming creek at Winslow
Flats, about a mile above Ralston, have
been apprehended by game protector W.
B. McClarin and deputy Ira H. High, and
are now in Lycoming county jail, after
pleading guilty to the offense charged.
Robert Bastain, of Ralston, was arrested
on April 18, pleaded guilty but refused
to give information against any of the
other members of the party who dyna-
mited the stream, killing all the fish in
that locality, Through other sources the
game officials secured evidence against
three other men, one of whom, George
Gearhart, of Holsopple, Somerset county,
was arrested May 28 at Blossburg, Tioga
county. Gearhart told the officers that
since the dynamiting of the stream he
had been in seventeen different States,
at one time being as far south as Texas.
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