HERO BRIGANDS
turesque Figures Passing
as Result of New
Poiice Campaign.
yme.—Sardinians look on their
nds as heroes and betray a feeling
egret over the passing of these
iresque figures owing to the strict
ing of the island during the last
years. “There are only 8 few out-
left in the mountains of Nuoro,”
rdinian afd recently, “as the bold,
e ones have long since been caught
he net, apd those remaining are
small fish, and they will soon lose
t and give themselves up.”
1e impression one gains in discuss
prigandage with the people of the
id is that, while these deflers of
law are second in the popular
| to the legendary heroes, all real-
hat their day is over.
ie intensive campaign begun abou.
g years ago by the authorities to
he mountains of Nuoro of outlaws
milar to that undertaken in Sicily
the rooting out of the Mafia. It
take months, or even years, but
fate of these brigands is practical-
2aled.
jix Thousand to Capture One.
ssibly they will die fighting for
+ relatives, or be surrounded, as
the case of Samuele Stocchino,
of the cleverest brigands of mod-
times. His death when he was
sted made a hero of him, as in
r to catch him it was necessary to
ound the mountains ahove Arzana
6,000 men, who closed all roads
scape.
ery one knows Stocchino’s history
nghout Sardinia, and in the town
[uoro he is second in fame only to
patron saint of the island. Saint
o. His history has one detail in
mon with that of all hrigands; he
idered himself wronged. He had
tht valiantly during the World war
much so that he received a silver
al. After long service at the front
‘eturned home and found that his
ner and sisters were no! receiving
rge enough pension to live on.
e decided not to return to the
t, but to remain on the island and
yort then:. Orders were issued for
arrest, but he escaped to the moun-
s and became an outlaw. When-
© word reached him that some one
notified the police about his hiding
e he swore vendetta against the
rmant, and to his first offense of
rting he added several murders
‘h were committed in Barbaglia
astra. :
llere was one man who gave in-
iation that almost cost Stocchino
liberty. His name was Nieddu.
chino warned his friends and fol-
ars, “Nieddu.must die. I. have sworn
It was ‘not a simple death he
ned for his former friend. He first
(ht him in an ambush. Then he
ured him, as he was tied in a cave,
having shot him threw his body
he pigs.
Family Swore Vendetta.
he Nieddu family swore a vendetta |
nst the whole family of Stocchino.
news of this was brought to him
iis hiding place. He never worried
himself, but he feared for his
hers and sisters, as well as his
her.
e decided to visit the village ana
n them to keep indoors. He was
king down a road in the vicinity
n he saw three children playing.
asked two of them if they were re-
d to Nieddu, and they replied no.
the youngest, not recognizing the
and, answered yes. He drew his
: knife and stabbed her. :
he two others rushed away to bring |
news to the village. The authori-
redoubled their efforts to bring
at his capture. It was decided that
ertain number of military police
ild disguise themselves as shep-
is and strive to find the hiding
e of the brigand.
Escaped Traps of Police.
hree times they thought they haa
cornered, and three times he
ped through their fingers.
ce were baffled. One man, Vittorio
ta, of Ullassal, received a letter
a Stocchino warning him that un-
he brought him 10,000 lire he
ld be shot. The brigand said he
weary of the continual police
‘ch and wanted to get off to Cor-
With 10,000 ‘lire he could live
the island.
ittorio was not anxious to be
:d or to pay the sum demanded.
in desperate straits, he suggested
friend to take the woods and play
part of the outlaw. The latter
ed and made for a part of the
intain far removed from Stocchino.
*d was brought later to Stocchino
: there was a man in hiding. The
‘and went over to the part of the
d where the new outlaw was, seo
: he could take a good look at him.
10 are you?' he asked. “You can
ak freely. I shall not betray you
I have my own vendetta. Remem-
before TI became a murderer I
a victim of man’s injustice.”
he newcomer gave him his name
said that he was hiding from the
ce as he was accused of stealing
tter of pigs im the nearby province,
that he was innocent. “If I am
wn into prison, I shall never be
> to clear myself.” This appealed
the brigand, and they agreed to
ch during the night. When dark-
3 came, and they sat in a cave close |
he fire, Stoechino unburdened him-
of all his troubles.
seemed almost too good to be true
he who had kept his own counsel
The |
vied
|
|
for so many years should now tell a
new-found friend: his plans for the
next day. “I am going down to Ar-
gana and paste up some notices regard-
ing those two carcadies who spied on
me, and then®I-think shall returp
here,” he said.
Plans Sent to Police.
How the pseudo-outlaw managed to
get a letter down to Arzana is not
known, but the police were warned.
Never before had the brigand fulfilled
his program. Usually he did the op-
posite to what he had planned. But
this time he followed the plans he had
autlined. >
The police had received the order
from Rome that Stocchino must be
caught. dead or alive. Six thousand
military police and national guards
surrounded the woods, leaving not a
stretch of this district unprotected.
Stocchino, unconscious of the large
numbers, walked down the mountain
road toward Arzana,
Suddenly he felt he was being
watched and made for the upper slope
of the mountain. Here again he saw
shadows. He had a secret hiding place,
a cave, and he knew if he could only
reach it in time (it had loopholes with
many guns) he could keep a large
force at bay. But every step was
watched. Then he decided to kill as
many of his pursuers as he could and
to die fighting.
Body Taken to Church.
The price on his head was $10,000.
and besides this the carabineers who !
were hunting him remembered that
twenty of their companions had been |
killed during the nine years’ campaign
% catch him.
Hidden behind a tree at first, and |
afterwood in the branches, he fought,
but soon he fell dead at the foot of
the tree. His body was carried to the
police station, and later to the church.
When his body was laid out In the
chapel, all the villagers walked past
the bier, kissing the feet of the dead
man as a sign that they had forgiven
him. z
While outlawry in Sardinia is cen-
turies old. in modern times it has been
confined to mountainous districts of
Nuoro, as here there are woods. hills
and caves as hiding places. It was here
during the World war that the desert-
ers could live and evade arrest. It has
been estimated that more than 100
soldiers found this district a good
place to live in. Once they chose to
become brigands their friends and rela-
tives were bound to help them, not
only by supplying them with what
they needed but also by warning them
when the police were on their track.
Hobo Arrested; Defaced
Signs at Rendezvous
Upland, Calif.—Out-of-town hoboes
are becoming a bit “snooty” over the
scenery surrounding their rendezvous ! and the status of the mortgage on the
adjacent to the Santa Fe
tracks.
When Dallas Chapman, twenty-one,
tramp from Minnesota, was arrested
by Chief of Police J. F. Sawyer for
destroying signs recently placed near
the “Willies’"” jungle, Chapman said
that it had been a place for bums so
long that the general public has no
right to deface its beauty by erecting
signs near it.
The priority rights plea fell on dear
railroad
| ears, and Chapman was lodged in jail.
Led to the Altar, Then
Will Not Take Vows
Lawton, Okla.—You can lead the
oride to the altar, but you can’t make
her get married.
A couple and several friends called
on Justice of the Peace G. W. Horn.
The couple wanted to be married, they
said.
The party and the court clerk wem
to the courthouse to procure a li-
cense. Just as the license was about
to be delivered the would-be bride
said she was not going to be mar-
ried.
And she was not.
French Farmers Seek
Right to Kill Larks
Paris.—The lark, the symbol of
poets and favorite dish of epicures,
has lost prestige in France. where a
movement has just been started for
its extermination.
As a result of losses to agriculture
caused by larks sweeping down from
the skies and making a meal on new-
ly sown wheat seeds. deputies repre-
senting the farming districts of the
country have asked for a revision of
the hunting laws to bring about a
more general slaughter of these birds.
Chinese View Plane
as Deadly Dragon
Hankow.—There is at least one
district in interior China where
the airplane is regarded as the
greatest enemy of mankind and
is given the name of the most
wicked creature known in
Chinese mythology.
One of the American-imported
planes recently flew over Shen-
chow, an ancient city in West
Hunan, on its way to the fight.
* ing front. The populace in the
district had never seen or heard
of an airplane and when the ma-
chine sped above the clouds with
its roaring noise a great con-
sternation was caused.
“This must be the nine-headed
hird,” the farmers and the local
gentry shouted and they took no
chance. Immediately the whole
town turned out and with gongs
and cymbals they started to
frighten away the mysterious
monster.
FIND SERUM: FROM SHEEP
DESTROYS: GANEER- TISSUES
Success With New Method of
Treatment.
San Francisco.—What appears to be
one of the most important steps in the
fight against cancer has been taken in
this city by two eminent surgeons,
working at the Southern Pacific Gen.
eral hospital.
Drs. Walter Bernard Coffey and
John D. Humber have discovered a
serum that kills the malignant tissues.
They call it nontechnically “the cap
cer-killing serum.”
The treatment consists of injections
in the patient's body of a serum ex-
tract.
The serum, Doctors Coffey and Hum-
ber said, is a potent extract from
a special portion of the cortical re-
gion of the suprarenal or adrenal
gland of the sheep, and when injected
into the human body is powerful
enough to destroy the tissues of the
malignant areas.
“Our serum is injected inte the pa-
tient’s body far remote from the ma-
lignant area, the cancer itself,” they
said. “It produces no local reaction.
There is no irritation or swelling
where the serum is introduced. Nei-
ther is there any general constitutional
disturbance, no bad after effects what
aver.
“The serum kills only the malignant
tissues. That is, it causes no destruc
tion whatever of the normal body: cells.
In this respect the serum challenges
comparison with the use of strong X-
rays or radium rays that are apt te
hurn normal tissues. too.”
The doctors first told of their work
in a preliminary report before the So
ciety of Pathologists here.
As the result was sensational, some
of the foremost scientific authorities
pronounced their work highly impor
tant.
Dr. John Gallwey, who attended the
meeting of pathologists, said:
“It is inadvisable to hail it as a cure
at this stage, but it is unquestionable
that the extract has proven itself
potent in killing malignant tissues and
that, properly guarded, publicity of
these results is quite in order.”
Urge Women to Give
Aid to Census Men
Washington.—American housewives
are being urged in a governmental
campaign to give every aid-to the
census takers who will begin their
1930 task in April. This can best be
done by answering every question
promptly, even down to their ages
old homestead.
“There need be no fear in answering
all questions freely,” declares the
Country Home, in an. article aiding
the movement. “All census enumer-
ators are sworn to secrecy in the“in
formation they secure and there is a
penalty for divulging facts secured,
as there is for giving false data. Not
even the banker will ever see a fami-
ly’s statement of its economic status.”
The 1930 census will be the most
complete ever taken since the country
first counted its 4,000,000 noses in
1790. The census bureau only came
into being in 1902 and since that each
census has been more and more ef-
ficient.
“If you consider the census taker’s
| visit a bother,” says the article, “you
should thank your stars that you do
not live in Turkey. When the first
census was taken there in 1927, the
! nation was put under martial law and
| all citizens were locked in their houses
until the census was completed that
' might.
In Constantinople the doors
were not unlocked until after 10
o'clock in the evening.”
35,000 Eagles Killed
in Alaska in Decade
Juneau, Alaska.—The intensive cam:
paign against the bald eagle the last
ten years, during which a bounty of $1
per pair of talons has been paid. has
greatly reduced their numbers with:
out threatening their extinction, ac-
cording to reports made public here.
More than 35,000 eagles were killea
for bounty since the war began. In
dians, fishermen, hunters and boys
helped to make salmon, small game
animals and wild birds safe from their
depredations. A chief cause of com
plaint against eagles came from fox
farmers who charged that they car-
ried away young blue fox pups.
Chinese Are Urged
to Use Native Silk
Peiping, China.—*“Dress in Chinese
silks rather than in foreign woolens”
is the slogan of the Native Silk Prod
ucts Salvation association, printed in
Chinese newspapers here.
The association urges students ana
all persons who can afford to do so
to wear silks made in China, rather
than woolens made by foreigners.
This campaign {8 the opposite of one
made a year ago by Marshal Feng Yu:
hsiang’s adherents, who urged the peo
ple to wear cheap cotton cloth, no
matter how rich they were,
Lonely St. Bernard Dog
Now Has Chicken Pal
Emporia, Kan.—"Barrie,” a St. Ber-
nard dog brought from Switzerland by
Mr. and Mrs. Selleck Warren a year
and a half ago, has been lonesome.
Now he has a companion. It is a
chicken which he brought to the house
in his mouth a few days ago. The
chicken refuses to desert the dog nnd
eats and sleeps with him.
— mh a ——
: the charter of an
75-5-3t.
England Gets Laurel
as Kissing Country
Stoekholm, Sweden. — It ‘develops
that England was the first great kiss-
ing country, for they have discovered
that in the early Seventeenth century
the ambassador to the court of Swe
den, Bulstrode Whitelock, was espe-
clally requested by the queen to teach
her ladies “to kiss after the English
fashion,” which he did very obligingly,
considering that he was a strict Purl-
tan. [It is recorded that his pupils of-
fered merely “a few pretty defenses.”
A century and more earlier Vene-
tian visitors to England had recorded
how the London ladies kissed even
their man friends when they met
them in the street, and Erasmus him-
self described the English habit of
greeting with a kiss as ‘‘praiseworthy
beyond description.”
Jesuit Gets Plane to
Visit Alaskan Missions
Washiugton,.—Bpother G. J. Felter,
3. J., Alaskan missionary, has become
a “sky pilot” in fact. Brother Felter
recently obtained a flying license in
San Francisco and then came to Wash-
ington to “sell” his plan to the Rt.
Rev. Msgr. William Hughes, director
of the bureau of Catholic Indian mis:
sions. With an airplane, he explained
he could visit the 17 Indian posts in
Alaska. As a result Brother Felter
left for New York to purchase a plane.
which he will fly to his Alaskan post
Photo Causes Scare
Tokyo.—Police dashed through a
cold drizzle at 4 a. m. to the home of
Dr. Bunzo Hasegawa, who reported a
burglar peering into his window. The
“burglar” proved to be a reflection of
a picture hung the night before by the
doctor's wife,
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
| A DMINISTRATOR’'S NOTICE—Letters
of administration on the estate of
Anna T. McLaughlin, late of the
borough of Bellefonte, county of Centre
and State of Pennsylvania, d
having been granted to the Cg
all persons knowing themselves indebted
to said estate are hereby notified to make
immediate payment of such indebtedness
and those having claims will present
them, properly authenticated, for settle-
ment.
J. M. CUNNINGHAM
75-4-6t Administrator.
OTICE.— Notice is hereb given
that the First and Partial Account
of W. M. Poorman, Guardian of
Paul W. Wieland, weak minded person,
will be presented to the court on Wed-
nesday, February 26, 1930, and unless
exceptions are filed thereto on or before
February 22, 1930, the same will be con-
firmed.
Also The First and Final Account
of Farmer's National Bank and Trust
Co., of Millheim, Guardians of Katie
Burrell.
S. CLAUDE HERR, Prothonotary
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OTICE IN DIVORCE.—Agnes Ruth
N Summers vs. Nevin Floyd Summers.
In the Court of Common Pleas of
Centre County, No. 47 November Term
1929." Libel in Divorce]
To Nevin Floyd Summers, Respondent.
WHEREAS, Agnes Ruth Summers, your
wife, has filed a libel in the Court of
Common Pleas of Centre County, praying
a divorce from you, now you are hereby
notified and requested to appear in the
Court on or before the fourth Monday
of February, 1930. to answer the com-
plaint of said Agnes Ruth Summers, and
in default of such appearance you will
be liable to have a divorce granted in
your absence.
HARRY E. DUNLAP,
Sheriff of Centre Count
January 22nd, 1930. 75-4-4t
HARTER NOTICE.—In Re-Applica-
C tion for Charter of Beta umni
Association of the Pennsylvania
State College.
In the Court of Common Pleas of Cen-
JLS,Conniy, Pa. No. 231 February Term
1930.
Notice is hereby given that an ap-
plication will be made to the above nnam-
ed Court on Monday, the twenty-fourth
day of February, A. D. 1930, at ten
o'clock A. M. or as soon thereafter as
the convenience of the Court will
mit, under the Act of the General
sembly of the Commonwealth of Penn-
sylvania, entitled ‘““‘An Act to rovide
for the Hicorfioration and Tesuiation i
certain corporations,” approve
twenty-ninth day of April, A. D. 1874,
and the several suplements thereto, for
ntended SOFpITetion
to be called BETA ALUMNI ASSOCIA-
TION OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE
COLLEGE, the purpose for which it is
formed is for the promotion of moral
and social culture among its members,
devotion to the cultivation of the intel-
lect, the rendering of mutual aid and
assistance in scholastic endeavor and the
eneral _ welfare of the Pennsylvania
§tate College as objects worthy of the
highest aims and purposes of associated
effort, and for these objects and _pur-
poses to have, possess and enjoy all the
rights, benefits and privileges confer-
red by the said Act of Assembly and the
several supplements thereto.
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