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iome Plants Grow Rapidly
in Hours of Darkness
Other things being equal, corn prob-
ply grows most rapidly on warm
ights, Many plants, including corn,
tinue to grow. after dark, notwith-
anding the fact that photosynthesis
ker place only while the plants are
)eelving sunlight. The rate of growth
| plants, says the bureau of plant in-
astry, is influenced by many factors
ther than the formation of the food
@aterials through photosynthesis, and
1e photosynthetic products themselves
ay require further change before be-
ig utilized in growth. Accordingly
ame plants not only continue to grow
fter nightfall but actually grow more
apldly at night than they do during
se day. Apparently, however, this Is
ot true of all plants. There is no
articular period in the course of the
¢ hours of the day during which all
lante grow most rapidly. Even among
jose that reach their maximum rate of
rowth in the night the period of most
apld growth in some seems to begin
1 the early part of the night, while
2 others it does not begin until after
Mdnight. Certain plants will continue
» elongate rapidly even in prolonged
arkness, but in such cases the type
t growth differs materially from that
hich takes place when the plants are
xposed to the light—Pathfinder
fagazine.
Nhy Old Bridal Custom
Called for White Horse
The ancient Britons often ascribed
o the horse human and sometimes
iivine qualities. At one time no Eng-
[sb wedding ceremony was complete
vithout the presence of a white horse
0 carry away the bride, and this old
mstom had a very deep significance
n British folk superstitions. It 18
elieved that this custom came from
he East Indians, who still use at
veddings an effigy of a horse, made
# white wickerwork. The horse is re-
farded as the emblem of the sun and
he symbol of creative life—a sort of
spoken prayer for a large and hap-
yy family.
The horse's influence on men’s im-
\ginations is found in the nightmare,
8 we call our bad dreams. Mare is
jistinctively a Saxon demon, a vam-
sire which was supposed to sit upon
he chest of sleeping victims, in the
‘orm of a horse.
Why Called “Nasbys”
Postal officials are called Nasbys
rom the fact that D. R. Locke many
rears ago wrote a series of articles
or a Toledo paper and signed them
‘Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby, Postmas-
er at X Roads, which is in the state
)f Kentucky.” For a time Locke had
yretended to be an old-time ignorant
whisky-drinking, negro-hating politi-
+dan who was determined to be post-
naster of the “post orifice” at “Con-
tederit X Roads, Ky.,” a position then
aeld by a “nifgur.” At any rate, the
:omic papers of Nasby were very
popular throughout the country and
it was in those days that “Nasby” was
yaddled upon postmasters and postal
fficials as a general title.—Bxchange. |
Why Windows Were Broken
Attention of Rockville Center (L.L)
police was called to what looked like
bullet holes in several store and of-
fice windows. Patrolmen Sam Grif-
fiths was sent to investigate. While
he was puzzling over the case a small
pebble struck the wall beside him.
Glancing ‘across the street, he saw an
automobile just going over the edge
of a small pile of gravel in front of
a new building and the mystery was
solved. The tires of cars running over
the small stones were snapping them
ncross the road and several had found
windows as their marks during the
night.
Why Glider Stays Up
The modern glider is a soaring
plane. It is, for ail practical purposes,
an extremely light airplane without
an engine, while the construction is
greatly simplified, all parts being made
as light as consistent with strength
and the lifting surface so designed and
set as to give high lift at low speeds.
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The fact remains that the craft is sus- |
tained in the air by means of the lft
on its surface, caused by its motion |
lies to get some sleep.”
relative to the airship,
Why Called “Balkan States’
The Balkan states have been so
named since early in the Nineteenth
century. It is the name given to three
southern prolongations of the European
continent,
mountain, and though In modern usage
applies only to a part of a mountain
belt lying south of the lower Danube.
Fail to Find Body of Boy
Men Are Indicted
for Killing.
Wooster, Ohlo.—First degree mur-
der indictments against Charles Han-
nah and Earl Conold in connection
with the mysterious disappearance of
four-year-old Melvin Horst were re-
turned recently by the Wayne county
grand jury despite the fact the boy’s
body has never been. found. The only
basis for the indictments ig that Han-
pah in one of his many statements
confessed that he killed Melvin and
charged that Comold disposed of the '
body.
The grand jury’s action in return-
ing the murder indictments without
Melvin’s body having been found and
without a scintilla of direct evidence
other than Hannah’s questionable con-
fession to indicate a crime has been
MURDER CHARGED {
WITHOUT VICTIM |
committed probably has few paral
lels in legal annals.
May “Scare” Prisoners.
Voting of the murder indictments,
further complicating an amazing and
tangled mystery, was regarded as a
criterion of the sentiment in Wayne
county against Hannah and Conold. :
Unless Melvin’s body is found the
prosecution itself has little hope that
the murder charges will stand, but
the indictments were returned, it was
reliably reported, on the belief this
action would “scare” the two defend
ants into giving more information.
The authorities handling the inves-
tigation endeavored to administer
“twilight sleep,” a drug supposed to
meke a person unwittingly tell the
truth, to Conold. He resisted the ef-
forts and the potion was not admin-
istered. “Twilight sleep” was admin-
istered unsuccessfully to Hannah.
The {indictments against Conolu
and Hannah were returned after the
grand jury had heard the testimony
of eighteen witnesses, many of them
county and local officers conducting
the investigation into the disappear-
ance of the four-year-old Orrville boy
the night of December 27, 1928.
The murder and child stealing in
dictments were voted without recom-
mendation of the prosecution, Prose-
cutor Graven said, and were based on
the evidence the prosecutor and his
aids assembled since Melvin's disap:
pearance and in the month Hannah
and Conold have heen held in the
Wayne county jail for questioning.
Graven said he was not greatly sur
prised that the murder indictments
were returned.
“I merely presented the evidence ;
and the grand jury saw fit to vote
against both men,” the prosecutor
said. “I believe we have plenty of
precedent for returning such indiet-
ments even though the body has not
been found. This is an unusual case.
We are going about it in an unusual
way with unusual results.”
While the plans for the trial o1
Hannah and Conold go forward, both
will remain the center of the investi-
gation seeking to determine Melvin's
ultimate fate which, the prosecutor
admitted, was apparently no nearer
disclosure that it had ever been.
Authorities will continue to ques-
tion Hannah, .
Conold has refused to answer ques-
tions unless his attorneys are pres-
ent.
Because of the murder indictments
poth will be held without bail. Since
they were held to the grand jury on
charges of child stealing three weeks
ago they have remained in jail in lieu
of $10,000 bond each.
Based on Confession.
The evidence on which Hannah ana
Conold were indicted on both counts
is reported to have been largely cir-
~umstantial, the exception being Han- .
nah’s most recent confession, which
was presented to the grand jury by
Graven.
In this confession Hannah said thai
his ten-year-old son, Junior, brought
Melvin Horst to the garage where
Conold kept his car and that there
he (Hannah) killed the boy by strik-
ing him over the head with a scant-
ling. He asserted Conold buried the
body. But every place Hannah indi-
cated as the burial spot failed to hold
any trace of the body.
This confession, like two previous
ones, was repudiated by Hannah. He
said: “The authorities weren't satis-
fied with the truth, so I told them
Hannah’s first statement was ob
Fur Farmers Get
Million for Pelts
Winnipeg.—Fur .arming in
Manitoba is making big strides,
the last available figures show-
ing 280 farms in the province
as compared with 12 in 1928
and two in 1920.
In the last fiscal year pelts
to the value of $1,286,587 were
taken in the province, muskrats
being the most numerous, nuUm- J
bering 288,004 with a value of
$285,204, The rest, in order of
importance, were weazel, mink ¢
and wolf.
Famous Shot Tower Is
Aglow After 150 Years
Baltimore.—The famous Shot Tower,
© still preserved here as a memorial of
the Revolutionary days of. 1776, is
aglow again for the first time in more
‘than 150 years. But this time the
glow is not the result of a seething
caldron of fire for turning lead into
liberty bullets, for which it originally
was used.
Today, it represents merely a novel
method of illumination, to be perma-
nently maintained as-a living memorial
of fire to the heroism of Continenta!
troops.
Clouds of steam are generated below
in an automatic boiler and then re-
leased from the crest of the tower to
be reflected, in turn, in the glare of
cleverly concealed red and amber
lights.
The lighting effect, according to fi-
juminating engineers who. designed
and supplied the equipment, portrays
in realistic fashion a fire under a
boiling pot of lead, a familiar scene in
the heyday of the old shot factory.
When recently turned on for the
first time, with what appeared to the
uninitiated to be flames swirling up-
ward from the crest of the old tower
and dense volumes of smoke ascend
ing skyward, the effect was sald to be
so realistic that witnesses
aghast, lamenting the passing of a
historic landmark.
Since completion of the installation,
che lighting effects are turned on each
night. The method here employed is
said to be similar to that used for
illumination of the famous War Me-
morial Shaft of Kansas City.
Court Docket Read
Like a Bill of Fare
Pittsburgh.—When Magistrate Leo
Rothenberg looked over his calendar
in Central police station recently he
found it was a menu card instead of
a police docket.
The names were Earl Lamb, charged
with being drunk; Mike Coffee,
charged with vagrancy, and Frank
Sinker, charged with being drunk.
Lamb was arraigned first.
“Were you stewed last night, Earl®
Rothenberg asked.
“Then I guess that makes a lamb
stew,” Rothenberg concluded when
Lamb admitied he was.
“] guess you had better go for five
days where they will enjoy lamb
stews.”
“So your name's Mike Coffee ana
gou are a vag, eh?’ Rothenberg ad-
dressed his next prisoner.
“Guess you had better join Lamb, |
since no lamb stew would be com-
plete without coffee,” Rothenberg said
as Coffee was led away for a 80-day
stretch.
“And last we have Frank Sinker,”
Rothenberg said, “and sinkers always
go with coffee, so join the procession
with Coffee and Lamb.”
Research Puts Cost of
Average Baby at $110
Chicago.—How much does a baby
cost?
The answer may depend on whethe:
the stork flies over the Gold Coast
or “back of the yards,” but the ex-
' penses incident to the arrival of a
new helr can be covered by an out-
lay of $110, including layette, care of
mother before birth, doctor's services,
hospital and miscellaneous items, ac-
cording to the American Research
foundation.
A recent survey of 8540 newly-bor.
pabies In a community of 300,000 peo-
ple, says a bulletin of the foundation,
indicate that the expenditures for the
average baby work out as follows:
hospital care, $26; doctor's services,
$47: nursing, $8; baby’s clothes, $23;
: medicines, $1; and miscellaneous ex-
| tained by the prosecutor & month ago, !
after Junior,
under rigorous ques-
i tioning, had told the story of taking
The name is Turkish for ;
It was formerly regarded as a general
name for a chain supposed to run from parently “broke” after that siege and
east to west across the peninsula.
Why Day Is Remembered
Germany on a very hot day—July 18,
Melvin to Conold’s garage on Cleve-
land avenue in Orrville.
Hannah then related that Conold
killed the missing boy and buried his |
body.
The night after Hannah made this |
statement Conold was questioned in |
vain for nearly twelve hours. He ap-
| dictated to Mayor A. U. Weygandt of
Orrville a terse statement, without
| the slightest detail, that Hannah had
Probably the most terrific hail |
storm In history was that which swept |
across France and Belgium and into |
1778. The natives still remember it, |
after a century and a half.—Boston
Globe.
Why Soap Cleanses
Do you know how soap cleans your
skin? It does this, in chief part, by
its power to emulsify fats and greases
on your skin, alkali being liberated,
and renders the dirt easily removable
in the washing process,
killed the boy in the garage.
Girls to See West
Missoula, Mont.—Mary Howe, East
Pepperell, Mass., girl, whose hitch-hik-
ing trip to western Montana induced
a nation-wide search last summer, is
coming West again; but this time she
will not be alone. Mary plans to lead
a bevy of girl acquaintances into the
wild West so they can see for them-
selves If her descriptions of the hesau-
tv-and charm of western Montana were
exaneverated.
IRET—. ~~
penses, $5.
“Only 42 per cent of the cost of the
average birth was devoted to the doc-
tor’'s services,” says the bulletin.
To Pay $213.50 Fine
at Rate of $5 a Week
Marshall,
stallment plan.
weeks’ probation a€ a down payment
and the remainder of a $218.50 penal- |
ty imposed upon bim after he was:
convicted of breaking and entering
will be paid at the rate of $5 per
week.
Auto Salvaged From
Pile Is Worth $1,000 |
Calumet, Mich.—An automobile
made in 1902 and salvaged from a
junk pile 20 years later by Alfred
Paulson is one of the main attractions
at fairs in this region now. Paulson
has refused $1,000 for the recondi-
tioned machine, which he pilots be-
fore the grandstands at 10 wiles per
hour.
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STOLEN JEWELS
BACK AFTER YEAR
Dissaonds Taken During Di-
vorce Suit Returned
Through Mails.
Kansas City, Mo.—More than a year
from the day she was held up by ban-
dits and robbed of $10,000 in diamonds
and jewelry, Mrs. Howard J. Vroo-
man of this city received back all her
valuables by mail. Where jewel thefts
have provided mysteries, ihis strange
turn of affairs bas provided even @
more puzzling aspect.
in a plain package, bearing a Kan-
sas City postmark and addressed in
pencil, were all of the jewels and dia-
monds taken the night three bandits
robbed Mre. Vrooman and her daugh-
ter, Miss Howard Jesse Vrooman, as
they were entering their home.
The robbery occurred during the
height of the marital difficulties of the
Vroomans and as a result of eur-
tailed finances during the divorce ang
separation litigation, Mrs. Vrooman
was forced to drop the insurance she
carried on her valuables. The result
was she stood the loss of $10,000 her-
self.
Wife Gets Divorce.
Recently Mrs. Vrooman was granted
a divorce from Howard J. Vrooman,
former judge of the County court, a
position similar to the county commis-
sioners in other states. During the
long litigation as result of the marital
tangle, the husband once was accused
of assault with intent to kill Floyd
Jacobs, Mrs. Vrooman’s attorney.
Later the charge against Vrooman
vas dismissed and a settlement wus
reached whereby the wife obtained
the bulk of her demands in the divorce
action.
With such a chain of events behind
them, Mrs. Vrooman won the sympathy
of friends for her bit of bad luck of
being robbed at a time when her
gems were not insured. Police worked
‘on the case for weeks and charged off
the crime to a band of diamond
thieves active at tbe time in holding
up roadhouses.
Gems Worth $10,000.
“The jewelry is worth fully £10,000,"
Mrs. Vrooman said when it was re-
Mich.—Lewis Burt will
pay for hig indiscretions on the in- |
He was fined two |
turned, “although I listed it to police
as being worth less than that. Many
of the diamonds cannot be duplicated
i for four times what they cost us. I
shall take no further chances with it
| and from now on will leave it in a
safe deposit box.”
Mrs. Vrooman, a social leader as
‘well as an active club woman, said
she had no intimation where the jew-
eiry came from and said she had
never been approached concerning its
raturn.
She said the writing en the pack-
age appeared to have been disguised
but she also said she did not intend
to pry into the matter further.
This is not the first time Mrs. Vroo
man received such an anonymous gift.
A year ago she received a floral piece
and in it was her original wedding
ring. The marital difficulties of the
| couple were reaching their climax at
| about that time.
Boy Father's Brother
by Act of Adoption
Newark, N. J.—If a petition for
adoption by his maternal grandparents
is granted, twelve-year-old Harry R.
Tryborn, of Newark, will be legally
brother to his mother, brother-in-law
to his father and his own uncle on
both sides. He is already his father’s
brother, and the latter is trying to
bring the situation back to normal by
adopting his son.
The father, Henry A. Tryborn, was
shell-shocked during the war. While
he was in France his wife died. When
ha returned he was mot in condition
to take care of bis son, so the boy was
adopted by his paternal grandmother,
Mrs. Augusta O. Tryborn. Last month
Mrs. Tryborn died, leaving an estate
of $10,000 to her two “sons.”
Thereupon the maternal grandpa:
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Rendy, of
Boston, filled a petition to adopt the
poy. The father, now recovered, filed
a petition to adopt his son. Both are
pending.
Mexican States Trap
Rats by Wholesale
Mexico Clty.— Agents of the depart-
ment of agriculture are waging de-
termined warfare against a plague of
rats, which recently have invaded
wide areas in the states of Jalisco
and Michoacan.
In response to appeals from the
farmers of the affected districts,
enormous traps have been constructed
| and, according to latest reports re-
coelved at the agriculture department,
| the ranks of the rodent army are be-
| ing reduced rapidly. The capture of
| 50,000 rats in a single night in a trap
half a kilometer long was reported
| by one of the agents operating in
| Jalisco.
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Change Religion to
Gain More Wives
d Belgrade.—Jugoslavia has is-
? sued a decree forbidding Ser-
bian Christians to change their
religion. The authorities are
alarmed at the number of Chris- §
tians who have become Moslems £
in order to have more than one
DEALER in hogs re-
ceived an unexpected
order for a large shipment. In
his desire to fil the order promptly he was
willing to sacrifice some profit and offered to
buy at 11% cents above the market price.
Hogs were scarce in his section at that time.
While making inquiries by telephone among
farmers with whom he regularly did business,
however, he learned of a distant farmer who
had a number in good condition. He called him
up and secured fifty hogs for immediate deliv-
The deal netted the farmer an extra profit
oO . a:
rn Farms
ELEPRON
a proper balance not only gives one
money in hand for present needs, but
what is much more valuable,’ ‘establishes a
certain credit with the Bank.
The banker knows this, and prospect-
ive borrowers who tell him they have no
bank account, show a lack of business
sense, and are at a disadvantage.
There are few people, who at one
time or another, do not have to borrow—
often the need is urgent.
Relations with a strong Bank will al-
ways help. The account may be small,
but it puts one on better terms with those
from whom one wishes to borrow.
A Bank Account, with the maintenance of
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Come to the “Watchman” office for High Class Job work.
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