Brwrrai ato
——Boulder City, Nevada, is to
a “sinless town,” but there will
more fun in Reno.
——The Athletic champions
moving forward in fine form but it
is a long way to the end of the
S08: ad may be a BAN. yuad to tray.
—~What has become of the
fashioned fellow “who stuck to
flannels until they stuck to him?
he would only come back, maybe
American Woolen preferred would
follow.
—J. A. , of Philadelphia,
put it all in a nut shell, the other
day, when he said that Pinchot is
the kind of a man who would tear
down a ten story building to catch
one rat,
—We had written a fine little
paragraph congratulating the Demo-
crats of Pennsylvania on having
gotten rid of a distinguished disturb-
er when Genie Bonniwell went and
spoiled itall by wishing himself back
on us again,
As dividend disbursements by big
corporations are cut or passed en-
tirely those share holders who par-
ticipated in the “mellon” cuttings
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that were so popular several years |
ago are beginning to wonder if it
wasn’t lemons that were handed
them.
Judge Baird, of the Clinton-Elk
district, discharged a man who was
indicted as a ‘common scold” be-
cause he believes that only a woman
can be arraigned on such a charge.
If the Judge is right what becomes
of the belief that class legislation is |
unconstitutional ?
—A good laugh came to some of
when we saw
last Saturday night. They were
Democrats who wouldn't vote for
Bonniwell when he was their candi-
date for Governor because he is a
Catholic.
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before the public realizes that they
impend. It does the same thing
months hefore revivals become appar-
ent. As you probably know, the stock
market in still going down and is
hasn’
to put it on a “rainy-day” schedule.
In other words the road couldn't oper-
ate on any but rainy days. Well,
you know what happened last June.
The big drought set in and what it
did to your lawn, your garden, your
farm, your cistern or spring was
nothing as compared to what the
dry weather did to a railroad that
could operate only on a rainy day.
It dropped dead, just like Lewie
© Mann did when he found the fifteenth
the next corner where the fif-
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VOL. 76.
SUICIDE OF YOUNG MAN
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| Virgil S. Shuey,
Lloyd and Lillian Shuey, of State
| College, climbed up on the side of
ithe hill near the stone quarries op-
| posite the Kelley ice plant, about
/seven o'clock on Sunday morn-
'ing, and calling good bye to a com-
panion, Joe Davis, placed a ,32 cal-
iber revolver to his right temple
(and pulled the trigger. He fell
| left hand.
| plausible solution of the tragic sui-
cide has been arrived at by his
family or the authorities,
| Shuey was one of four young men
from State College who had been in
and about Bellefonte most of Satur-
day night, but so far as can be
learned they had all been well be-
{haved and congenial. They all left
| here between three and four o'clock
but shortly before seven o'clock Shuey
|and Davis returned in Shuey's car.
| It was shortly after that that they
drove out the State highway and
| parking his car Shuey climbed the
‘hill and fired the fatal shot.
| Sheriff H. E. Dunlap was notified
| and
telligible manner, merely contained a
goodbye to his parents and other
members of the family.
that the case was one of suicide the
sheriff authorized the removal of the
body to Widdowson's undertaking
establishment. Sunday afternoon
coroner W. R. Heaton came over
from Philipsburg and after being
told the story of the shooting deem-
ed an inquest unnecessary and is-
sued a death certificate with the
cause “suicide.”
Shuey’s real name was Virgil S,
Stine, and he was born in Buffalo
Run valley. He would have been
nineteen years old tomorrow. When
thirteen years of age he was adopt-
Lloyd and Lillian Shuey, of
CHR
ar enlistment in
arrested for shooting torpedoes by
throwing them on the stones in
Logan branch, at the Phoenix pump-
ing station, and at a hearing, on
Monday, the burgess imposed fines
of $25 each. Similar fines will be
imposed on any others caught in
the act,
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——Last Saturday morning ten-
year-old Ethel Houser, of Pine street,
was in the business part of town
selling potato ships for her aunt, Mrs.
Blanche Houser Ferguson, She had
sold most of her packages and was on
her way home for a new supply. At
the Logan street entrance to the
Bellefonte Academy, an unknown boy
about her own age, snatched her
pocketbook and ran away before he
could be identified. The pocketbook
contained $1.60, and it's loss was
. {quite a blow to the little girl.
Some experienced politicians
are of the opinion that a State wide
election of delegates to the next Re-
publican National convention might
do Governor Pinchot more harm than
good.
EARLY SUNDAY MORNING.
adopted son of
Stine, a son of William and Myrtle England
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION,
| GOVERNOR PINCHOT
TALKS TO LARGE CROWD
Governor Pinchot shared honors
with the Barnett Bros. show in council, on Monday evening, the Centre county, composing the May Kingston.
His secretary read a letter from borough court grand jury, want the county
Bellefonte last Saturday night.
appearance here was the end of his
two weeks tour of the State in an
effort to evoke public support for his
Fair Rate Board measure and his
attack on public utilities. He, ac-
companied by Judge Bonniwell, of
Philadelphia, came here from DuBois
and had dinner at The Markland. In | future,
recognition of his position as chief
executive of the Commonwealth
Troop L. acted as his escort from
The Markland to the court house for
the meeting at 8 o'clock, which was
an outdoor affair. The Bellefonte
band was on hand and their music etery and use an auxiliary pump at
helped to draw the crowd. There or near the old reservoir to supply
‘were probably seven hundred peo- it with water. To do this, however,
ple massed in front of the court house it would be necessary to put check
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BELLEFONTE, PA., MAY 22, 1931.
—
BOROUGH COUNCIL
HOLDS BRIEF MEETING.
At a regular meeting of borough |
engineer H. B. Shattuck in which he |
stated that he has almost completed |
a map of south Railroad street
GRAND JURY RECOMMENDS
BUILDING NEW JAIL.
Twenty-four men and women of
commissioners to build a new jail,
one of a more modern type than the
present structure. Such was their re-
pleces of meat from his
thieves but recovered most of the meat.
—Complaining for months because he
could not find employment, Thomas Wolf-
gang, 73, hanged himself in his home at
Ashland on Monday. He used a two-
strand cotton rope which broke as soon
as deputy coroner C. W. Sener touched
it. Woolfgang's will disclosed an estate
of from $80,000 to $100,000.
—After he had been missing nearly
| three weeks, the body of David Wamp-
(fler, 70 years old, of Columbia county,
‘was found on Saturday hanging from a
tree on Montour Ridge. Wampfler dis-
| appeared the day after his daughter,
| Mrs. Dolores Nugarra, took poison at
She died ten days ago.
—Realizing that smoking was a danger.
our practice while cleaning the brush in
ia woodlot, a Cambria county farmer
| placed his pipe in the pocket of his coat.
Unfortunately the pipe was not extin.
which shows that the Kofman build- port to the court after an inspection guished and burned throu
! gh the coat,
ings are considerably over the line of the public buildings, last week. (go to the ground and started a forest
and on the street.
The map will be | After stating that they had passed fire that destroyed five acres of timber-
submitted to council in the near upon 37 bills of indictment, 30 of land.
gested as ways of assuring a good
Engineer Shattuck also sug- which were found true bills and 7
ignored, the report says:
—Russell Butler, 40, an employee at
| the Alexandria Clay company quarries,
supply of water for thehighspotsin, We have examined the public | Was painfully and perhaps fatally injur-
Bellefonte, the repair of the present buildings, and the front part of the |®d: on Saturday, in a premature dis.
reservoir so it will hold water up to
the top, or the building of a new
reservoir out near the Catholic cem-
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building (jail) which includes the
sheriff's office and living q y
we find in fair condition, but the
wall paper in the hall and office is
r. The jail, proper, that is the
cell block, we find in a deplorable
condition. The cells are poorly
charge of a dynamite blast at the quar-
| ries. Butler's left hand was ripped
from his arm and the arm itself was
shattered by the force of the blast. He
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'in poor condition and in need of re- | Also suffered severe body burns.
| —Kane's unique ‘‘rainy day" railroad—
| the only railroad in the wdrld operating
| in wet weather exclusively—is now in the
for the meeting, while probably valves in the water mains supplied ventilated and lighted, the plumbing hands of its new owner, the Baltimore
twice that many, most of whom were from the new reservoir.
Council of an ancient character, walls, floor
country people in town, did not go favored repair of the present reser- (and ceiling an ideal breeding place
‘voir and the Water committee was for germs.
near the gathering.
speaker introduced Judge Bonniwell.
(He began by reiterating the fact that solicitor N. B. Spangler in which he
investigated the shooting but he is still a Democrat but one who |advised bringing action against for- |
was unable to uncover any reason. ‘believes in the principles advocated mer tax collector Herbert Auman
| A note found inthe boy's pocket, but |by the irreproachable Governor and and his bonding company to force
| written in a rambling, almost unin- was simply doing what he could to settlement of the tax duplicates for
|help along his good work.
| When Mr. Fleming introduced the | committee is in full accord with the |
Satisfied Governor he stepped to the front solicitor’'s suggestion.
with a wave of the hand as a good
fellowship greeting. He talked for
| three quarters of an hour and while
(his speech was not as vitriolic as
that delivered in some places the gen-
eral tenor of his talk was a plea for
public support and influence in com-
| Public Service Commission and utili-
ties, generally, declaring that New
| Pennsylvania and sell it to consum-
| ers far cheaper than itis retailed at
|in this State. Naturally the Governor
was applauded at various times, but
that was to be expected, as nine-
tenths of the men and women who
composed his audience were Pinchot
sympathizers, and the election last
fall showed a
in Centre county.
RAINS CAUSE BIG SLIDE
NEAR PORT MATILDA.
The tremendous pressure against
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come down. A fairly large red
oak had seemingly withstood the
avalanche and it was thought a
blast would be necesary to dislodge
it. Boring a hole under it with
District supervisor Geo. H. Yarnell
is in charge of the work and is tak-
ing every care to see that the men
are protected against the danger of
being caught by the slides that con-
stantly let go without warning.
——Harry BE. Jenkins, former well
known resident of Bellefonte, has
closed his home in Tyrone and gone
to Pittsburgh to live. Harry has
not been well for a long time and
we Have been informed that the
change has been made so that he
may be in close touch with special-
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Republican county chairman W, L instructed to get estimates of the
Fleming presided and as the first cost,
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A letter was read from borough |
1924, 1925 and 1926. The Finance |
The Street committee reported re-
moving a tree from in front of the
Presbyterian parsonage and the re-
ceipt of $8.00 for deing it. Also
that 210 feet of sewer line had been
laid on north Water street, to the
Philip Ficarro home, the borough
furnishing and laying the pipe while
Ficarro dug the ditch, covered the
pipe and paid $30 for the sewer tap.
council to consider the matter until
the next regular meeting
Borough bills totaling $748.38 and
water bills $964.89 were approved for
payment, after which council ad-
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garden, trample down his shrubbery
and do other damage. On Sunday
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county commissioners, for their seri-
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complete new cell block, including |
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In the meantime the pilot, with
the assistance of men who had con-
gregated at the scene of the landing,
pushed the plane out of the wheat
field onto the State highway and
after making sure that the ship was
——The defeat of Aristide Briand,
for President of France, was a disap-
pointment to many right-minded peo-
ple in many parts of the world, and
may prove a hard blow to liberalism
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and Ohio, which purchased the Kushequa
| line for $50,000 and assumed accounts
| totalling $7,000. Trains on the Kushe-
qua line are permitted to run on rainy
| days only becuse its trackage extends
| through a thickly grown forest region
and it is feared that sparks from the lo-
comotive might cause destructive forest
| fires.
—Winning a $100 prize for representing
the type of student that the University
of Pittsburgh aims to produce will help
the plans of Edward Shultz greatly. He
will use the prize as a wedding gift on
the occasion of his marriage to Grace
| Fye, of State College, upon his gradua-
tion. Election to this honor climaxed
a record of brilliant achievement through-
out Shultz’s college career. His scho-
lastic record is perfect—all A's. He has
been on the ‘Varsity football squad for
three years, was a member of several
honorary groups—and in addition worked
his way through the University.
-N. R. Buller,
ed by Senator Reed for a place on the
joint international committee to investi
gate fishing conditions on the Canadian
border. Reed sent the recommendation
to President Hoover with the statement
Buller knows ‘‘more about fish than any
other man in Pennsylvania.” Buller's
selection for the place carried the en.
dorsement of Edward Martin, Republican
State chairman. After 20 years as State
Fish Comnissioner, Buller was replaced
by Governor Pinchot last January with
another man,
—Orville C. Skinner, 60, president of
the Lewistown Aircraft & Airways, Inc.,
and former head of the Standard Steel
Works, a Baldwin Locomotive subsidiary,
committed suicide at his home in Lewis-
| town, on Tuesday, by shooting himself.
| Coroner W. A. Barr said Skinner had
| been ill for some time. Since his re-
| tirement from the steel plant Skinner
{had been devoting his time largely to
aviation. He had two pilots and took
frequent trips in his plane. Skinner also
was identified with a number of ' local
business establishments. He was presi-
dent of the Community Discount com-
pany and a director of the Russell Na-
tional Bank. He was head of Standard
Steel for 25 years.
| —While the open hearth department of
| the Steelton plant of the Bethlehem
Steel company will close down within
‘the next ten days for a three-months per-
fod, all other departments will remain in
operation on a slightly reduced scale,
Frank A. Robbins, Jr., general manager
of the plant, said yesterday. Employees
of the department will be given part
work in other departments, He in-
he expected operations to be at
lower level at any time within the
few years and added that he feared
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Police are of the opinion the burglaries
are the work of an outside gang of pro-
fessionals, trained to expertness in jim-
mying heavy office doors, desk and cab.
inet drawers without leaving noticeable
evidence of an
Scranton Life and Davis Bliss Buildings
were entered, it was revealed early Tues-
day night, following an investigation by
city detectives A. J. Reilly, Angelo Man-
ino, George Green and Neddo Kelly. A
| number of the thefts were not discovered
until the police probe was well under
Way.
—John A. Schulkins, aged 21, of pitts.
burgh, a former state fire ranger, was
sentenced to life imprisonment, on Mon-
day, in the Allegheny county court by
Judge S. John Morrow, of Fayette coun-
tl, specially presiding, for the murder of
William A. McClintock, aged 36, a watch-
man. On being arrainged on a murder
charge Schulkins pleaded guilty. The
court then took testimony to determine
the grade of homicide fixed at first de-
gree murder, and set the punishment at
life imprisonment. Schulkins shot Me-
Clintock in Pittsburgh, the night of
February 22, after McClintock had chased
Schulkins following a holdup at a gar-
age in Hamilton avenue where McClin-
tock was watchman. Schulkins, who
was wounded when McClintock was kill.
ed at the time of the holdup, was traced
to Ohio and then to a cabin near Spruce
Creek, Huntingdon county, where he was
arrested and where he had formerly
worked as a fire ranger,