Bemorvalif; Malcom | EE ————————————— INK SLINGS. BY GEORGE R. MEEK. i —What one thinks of himself is usually what inspires him to run for office. What others think of him | is the only barrier in his way to the | —Apparently the Governor, hav- ing been baited into giving some-' thing for charity, thinks Jim Davis asked too much when he suggested that they both give their shirts. ——As a benefit for the unemployed the State-Lehigh game in Philadel- phia, on Saturday, was a flop. As HUNDREDS OF DEER a VOL. 76. BELLEFONTE, PA. DECEMBER 4. 1931. SLAUGHTERED IN COUNTY KEELER ASKS RECOUNT IN { i ON OPENING DAY. | STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. MANY REQUESTS FOR WORK BUT NO JOBS OFFERED TO ASSOCIATED CHARITIES. NORTH PRECINCT OF RUH. WILL BE MADE TODAY. NO. 48. WEATHER TOO COLD FOR ESCAPED PRISONER HE IS EASILY RECAPTURED. a garrison finish for State's fool- More Than Eighty Per Cent. of Kill On Tuesday Harry V. Keeler post- | Ten Needy Families Applied for Monday night's cold weather was ball season, however, it was a wow. | —The first snow having fallen on November 27 some believers in signs say we will have twenty-seven snows during the winter. That Are the Female of the Species, According te Reports. From reports received at this of- be all right with us, since we have pennsylvania took place on Tues- still one bird in the nest who is day, husky enough to keep the side- walks clean. cent a gallon on gasoline on a package of ten cigarettes. dently that is as far as the special session of the Legislature is to go in the matter of imposing in- creased taxes for the relief of unem- ployment. —We fear that Santa Claus won't be coming around in a Rolls-Royce next Christmas. He'll be lucky if he can get enough lichen to feed old “Dasher” and “Dancer” and “Prancer” and ‘Vixen” into strength enough to make the long trek on the eve of December 24. —The special session of the Leg- islature that Mr. Pinchot said would | cost the State a quarter of a mil- | Evi- | |game hunting season. this writing definite information of | Another affidavit was secured and of a the kill to date has not been ob- | the petition filed in proper order on —It lovks like an Galva tax of S|, able because most of the. hunt. Wednesday morning. |exceeded a thousand deer. Bellefonte on Tuesday with two deer strapped to their the opening day of the big While at ing parties are deep in the moun- afternoon automobile stated that along one road in the Seven mountain dis- trict they counted sixty hanging up. ers and J. M. Myers. ing up. As an indication of how many deer must have been slaughtered on the first day of the season we cite the following: C. A. From and his son Kenneth, both of this place, left Lewistown at four o'clock on lion dollars has already passed a bill | Tuesday afternoon to motor home. appropriating nearly four hundred thousand to provide for its expenses. Think of it! In session four weeks to provide relief for the unemploy- ed and all it has done is spend mon- ey on itself for doing nothing. | —Vice President Curtis must] have discovered that the chances of a Republican running for the U. 8.| Senate in Kansas next year will be mighty slim, else he would not have swallowed his pride and an. nounced that he will be a candidate for his present office again. His home State must be in bad shape, indeed, if Mr. Curtis can see a brighter prospect on the national political horizon than Kansas re- veals. --In selecting Representative Snell, of New York, as their candi- date for Speaker of the next House of Congress the Republican cancus laid up some trouble for itself dur- ing the coming session. Rep. Tilson, of Connecticut, who has been the | They arrived here at five. In the hour they were on the way they counted thirty-five dead deer on count way. ‘ed another fifty dollars and filed a | petition with the court asking fora | recoun! | November election in the North pre- |fice it is evident that the greatest .inct of Rush township. The peti- ‘slaughter of deer ever recorded in | woman, but the woman had written 'a letter to the court asking that her Both Food and Clothing During the Week. As it looks now the Associated Charities is going to have a bigger {job than anticipated in giving the necessary assistance to those in need during the coming winter sea- son. During the first week that the bureau was open in Petrikin hall a large number of requests for work | were received but not a job of any ‘kind offered. Surely there must be t of the ballots cast at the! tion was signed by two men and a name be stricken from the affidavit. The woman who signed her name willing | Of deer were slain and it is very Annie Gill, and her petition tothe Bellefonte that could be given to This i8 name states that her signature was | : indicated by the fact that two optained through misrepresentation Committee wishes to point out that ty, control at Rockview. strange hunters who passed through of facts. Only one name which was | Dousework, odd jobs at carpentering, 730 and 8 o'clock on Monday eve- ‘signed to the original petition ap- | Cleaning up around the home or thdra (some needy workman whereby he wal of hor! ould earn a little money. The usiness place, or anything at all in the line of work will be appreci- ated by those who are enrolled on the list of applicants, and who sorely need the work as a means of manner and form similar to the one OPtaining money to purchase the issued in the Millheim case, and ‘ap- | Dre necessities of life. pointing the following men to make Ten families have applied for food the recount: Charles F. Cook, John and clothing within the week, and J. Bower Jr, D. Paul Fortney, of this is only a forerunner of what Bellefonte; J. Randall Miller and may be expected during the winter. Samuel McMullen, of Millheim. The SO far no reports have been receiv- ‘recount is to be made in the court ©d from any but the really needy morning. Sheriff Dunlap went to has been organized for the purpose pears on the second petition filed, | that of George E. Adams. The oth- er two signers are Carrie L. Show- The court then issued a decree, in | passing automobiles and only four Rush township yesterday and Of extending aid to all families in |of them were bucks. This did not include deer they saw hang- ing up at camps or along the high- brought back the ballot box under distress and anybody having know- | his own seal. ledge of such cases should call Bell While the affidavit alleges the be- Phone 3-W between 1.15 and 2.30 p. party's floor leader, will not take a back-seat gracefully and, especially since he is said to have been favor- ed for the honor by the President, harmony will certainly not prevail on the Republican side of the next House. -—Governor Pinchot seems to have barked up the wrong tree when he yelped at ‘“Puddler” Jim Davis about giving to the poor. Jim was poor himself once. He knows what “hocking his shirt” means and has announced his willingness to do itif Gif. will do the same thing. The Governor was “born with a gold spoon in his mouth.” He might “hock” that, but when it came down to “hocking his shirt” he claimed he didn’t understand “Puddler” Jim's language. —The election of Percy H. Stew- art from the fifth new Jersey con- gressional district was another body blow to Republican hopes for 1932. New Jersey is notoriously wet, but that issue wasn't a factor in the contest because both nominees were running on a wet platform. Under such circumstances a Democrat car- rying a district normally Republican by thirty-five thousand can be con- strued as meaning only one thing: A tremendous swing toward Democ- racy. —Of course it was politics that let former sheriff Geo. H. Yarnell out of his job of division supervisor of highways at noon last Saturday. It couldn't have been anything else, for the State of Pennsylvania doesn’t have on its payroll a man who gives it more faithful and intelligent serv- ice than George Yarnell gave it in his work. In times like these a job means a lot to a man, but to one like him it could never mean selling his birthright for a mess of pottage. ——Evidently there are some people in Centre county who don't want John Boob to be Sheriff:. Another ballot box is to be opened and John is to sit on the anxious bench while its contents are being counted. Be- _ ing endowed by nature with an ample beam we know the sheriff- elect, though much more will be at | stake, can’t possibly suffer as much as we do when we indulge our un- conquerable disposition to roost on the seats of every circus that comes along. And we hope he comes as happily out of his next trial as we do from the agony we endure under the ‘big tops.” i And just here it might be said committed no specific charges were that it is not to be wondered at that made. As the recount of the Mill- the kill was so large. In Centre | heim ballots county alone over 7100 resident and Boob's majority to 14 it is not like- more than a hundred non-resident ‘ly enough errors will be found in licenses were issued, while hundreds the ballots of North Rush to change of hunters from other sections of the result. the State were in their regular camps both in the Alleghenies and | the Seven mountains. On Tuesday morning, bright and early, two young men from Cole- FOR RETIRING DIRECTORS. ville, motored to the Sevem moun- 4 tains and before eleven o'clock they) In recognition of good work passed through Bellefonte on their (well done during their twenty way home with two deer. | year’s service as school directors Harry Love, night foreman atthe Mrs. M. H. Brouse and Mrs. Caro- Bellefonte silk mill, went up onto line Gilmour, who will retire from Nittany mountain and bagged an 8- the board on January 4th, were point buck which dressed 178 pounds. guests of honor at a dinner given On a Sunday, several weeks ago, by the corps of te achers of John Scholl, of Milesburg, walked the Bellefonte schools at the Hotel BOROUGH TEACHERS GIVE FAREWELL BANQUET ‘up onto the point of the mountain, Markland, Tuesday evening. Fifty above McCoy's, and saw two big covers were laid and included in the bucks, one an 8-pointer and the oth- | guests present were the two recent- er with an immense rack of ant- ly elected women directors, Mrs. lers. Tuesday morning he went up Helen Crissman Broderick and Miss to the same place and was Success- | Mary Miles Blanchard, and the oth- ful in bagging the 8-pointer. er members of the board and their Pete Dunklebarger, of east How- wives. The dining room was pret- ard street, bagged a nice two-point tily decorated for the occasion and buck and had it home by mid-after- | the retiring directors were presented noon. with floral bouquets. Supervising A dozen or more automobiles, oc- principal of schools, E. K. Stock, cupied by strange hunters, passed presided as toastmaster and re. through Bellefonte on Tuesday with sponses were made by Mrs. Gilmour, one and two deer strapped onto their Mrs. Brouse, Charles F. Cook, machines. They were evidently men George Hazel and Mrs. Broderick. who had gone out for the day and Mrs. Brouse and Mrs. Gilmour having bagged their deer returned | were first elected in 1911 for a two home, content for the season. | year term and were re-elected in Hunting over in the neighborhood 1913, 1919 and 1925 for regular six of Spring Mills, on the opening day, year terms. During the time they Edward H. Miller, of Philadelphia, were on the board the Dale home and his nephew, Eddie Miller, son of was purchased and converted into a Harry Miller, of Bellefonte, each got building for the 1st and 2nd grades. a doe. It is fifty years since Ed- The armory was bought and the old ward had carried a gun in the woods | gas and steam heat lot. During and the fact that he got his deer their long term dental hygiene, phys- shows that he hasn't forgotten the knack of deer hunting. increased John M. | ical training, domestic science, and | musical courses were introduced and | |lief that fraud or error has been ™M. and a prompt investigation will be The darrel for securing a ton of (cause of the great need this year it {is hoped that the public will be much more generous with their pen- nies. “order to provide a happy (Christmas for the boys and girls who might be missed by Santa Claus, this year, the Boy Scouts are going to help the Associated Charities by gathering toys, books and games from more fortunate families and deliver them to the As- sociated Charities clothing room, where they will be repaired and | Cleaned by the Scouts and arranged {in Christmas packages for distri- | bution by the Scouts at Christmas time. If you have any such call | Walter Startzel, Scoutmaster, at telephone number 84 (Eagle silk mill) and he will send a Scout |atound to get them. COUNTY ENGINEERS TO VISIT TYRONE TODAY. | Members of the Centre county | Engineers Society will go to Tyrone | this afternoon on an inspection trip |of the plant of the West Virginia {Pulp and Faper company. ‘the local society has been in exist- ence for a number of years it has ‘never been very active, but it was ‘recently re-organized and now has a | membership of 125, including engi- (neers, architects and others diregtly |interested in engineering matters, ‘all residing in Centre county. The officers of the society are: | President, Arthur C. Hewitt, Belle- fonte; vice president, Prof. H. G. Heckler, State College; secretary- While | Up to the time the Watchman went to press, yesterday, not an ac- cident of any kind was reported in Centre county, but an Altoona hunt- er, Paul P. Karl, 40 years old, was killed by the accidental discharge of his gun, near Spruce Creek, in Huntingdon county, and George W. Sour, of Jersey Shore, suffered a heart attack and died in the arms of his son while hunting in the moun- tains near Lock Haven. Over in Clearfield county several hunters were wounded and taken to the Clearfield hospital. Lack of space prevents the Watch- man from giving a complete list of the killings in the county but among local hunters the John Hartswick crowd got a doe on Tuesday. Tom -Morarity, highway patrol- man, and his crowd, bagged two on Wednesday, in the Seven mountains. Joseph Baney and crowd got two on Tuesday, and one of the Haupt men, from Bush's Addition, got a nice buck on Tuesday. Many hunters who heretofore have been on regular camp rosters are going it alone this season. As a camp is permitted to kill only six, no matter how many members it has, the chances of each individual getting a deer have been so luring as to break a number of the big crews up. treasurer, Bayard Magee, Bellefonte; | plans have been formulated for the ’ adoption of automobile and electrical Airectors, Col. W. P. Rothrock and courses. The school debt of $85,- 000 has also been materially re- duced, notwithstanding the big out- lay in purchase of additional prop- Prof. H. B. Shattuck, State College; chairman of the program committee, | Prof. J. E. Kaulfuss, State College. | On Tuesday afternoon and eve- (ning of last week Messrs. Hewitt, erty and equipment, so that in re- | tiring the two women must have a lieckler and Kaulfuss motored to ‘Harrisburg and attended a confer- feeling of genuine satisfaction in having so well served the public ®7C® With the officers of the Engi- schools of Bellefonte. neers Society of Pennsylvania, which |is a State.wide organization, and | were present at a general meeting ——Dr. John Sebring moved his of the State Society that evening, at (office, on Monday, from the Mont-| which time Governor Pinchot was gomery building, on Allegheny street, presented with a certificate of hon- to the Centre Dimosrat building, on orary membership. The Governor High street. - James Clark has been a member of the State En- will also move into the latter build. | Sines Society for a number of ing as soon as it can be made into years. At this meeting a brief his. a convenient apartment. These tory of Pinchot's activities in for- changes are being made owing to|estry matters was read and the the Montgomery property being in- Governor responded with a short Sages : x the new postoffice ste | speech of acceptance, praising the 0 m . A. Rossman wor a decided I he will move ta ih Se Stay bos. Philadel- Chrysler garage, but is considering | phia attorney and member of the one location in Bellefonte and one at | State Securities Commission, reada Axe Mann. | paper on investments. | | —_——————— Some of the camps have been kill-| —If you own a lot of securities ing only bucks. If they do not get | that you will have to leave to your their quota of the male species be- dependants this would be a good fore the last couple of days then time to die. Prices are so low that they intend turning their guns on | the inheritance tax would not eat the does. (them all up. not exactly to the liking of Walter | Vance, a burly negro who made his escape from Rockview penitentiary, on Monday evening, and the result was he made no effort to escape | when Joseph Bertram, a guard, found him wandering around on the prison grounds about 6.30 o'clock on Tuesday morning, on his way to re- ‘port for duty, and he had no trouble | taking him in single-handed. ' Vance, who is serving a three to six year's sentence for felonious as- tains, yet it is known that hundreds to the original petition was Mrs. * few jobs in a town the size of gut and battery imposed in Alle- |gheny county, is 36 years old, weighs | 163 pounds and has the reputation of being one of the hardest prisoners Between ning he escaped by climbing over He made his way to the Zimmerman farm where the wire stockade. he secreted himself near the barn. He remained there until towards | morning when, almost famished by the cold weather, he started back toward the prison buildings. . Bertram found him staggering |along the back road some distance | residence and jabove the warden’'s (had no trouble taking him in. fact, it is | thoroughly chilled he was glad to get back where it was warm. | EXPENSE ACCOUNTS In i | To be elected Sheriff of Centre | county on the Democratic ticket cost | 'John M. Boob $567.52, according to his expense account filed on Satur- day. Harry V. Keeler, his Republi- can opponent, filed an account show- ing expenditures of $583.00, and an unpaid account of $160.00, which was a part of his assessment of $300 to- wards the expenses of the Republi- can county committee. 8S. Claude Herr's expenses for election to a second term as Pro- thonotary were $799.04, while it cost Robert F. Hunter $421.40 to be lelected County Treasurer, It cost John 8, Spearly only $104.15 to be elected to a third term as County Commissioner. In his successful campaign for Register of Wills John L. Wetzler spent $303.90, while in his unsuc- cessful campaign for County Com- missioner Howard M. Miles spent $100 and has $30.00 in unpaid bills. Homer P. Barnes, treasurer of the Democratic county committee, filed |a report showing receipts of $1,- 1626.48 and expenditures of $1584.91, |leaving a balance on hand of $41.57. i | ANOTHER DISMISSAL | FROM HIGHWAY DEPT. | | George H. Yarnell was notified, last week, of his dismissal as main- | December 1st, although in reality | his connection with the department ended at noon on Saturday. His dismissal followed close upon the appointment of Edward E. Harnish, of Wingate, and Aaron D. Leitzel, of Bellefonte, as maintenance su- perintendents. sons and not “for the good of the service,” as there is not a better or more experienced road builder in Centre county. He had charge of the building of the first piece of State road work in Centre county, the road through Nittany valley. That was before he was elected sheriff. He served four years as sheriff and four as county commis- sioner and shortly after the expira- | maintenance superintendent and had served ever since. ~The A. B. Curtis Stores com. pany, operating three stores in Cearfield, three in Philipsburg, one in Osceola Mills and one in Patton, filed a voluntary petition in bank- ruptcy in the federal court at Pitts- burgh, last Friday. The petition listed the assets at $238,306.60, and liabilities $144,096.13. Inability to cope wtih the present depressed fi- nancial condition was assigned as the reason for going into bank- ruptey. . ——A. M. Deigle, a 68 year old farmer living near Centre Hall, was seriously injured when he fell from a load of corn fodder last week. He was taken to the Lock Haven hos- pital where it was found that his pelvic bone had been fractured in five places. His condition is re- ported as good as can be expected. While he is in the hospital his wife is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Paul Seyler, at Avis. likely Vance was so FILED BY CANDIDATES. tenance superintendent of State. highways in Centre county, effective | Mr. Yarnell's dismissal was un-| doubtedly for purely political rea- tion of his term he was appointed SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —Robbers who jimmied a rear window of the Morrison department store at Im- perial early Sunday, escaped with loot valued at approximately $1,500. The booty included 35 silk dresses, 35 pairs of shoes, silk hosiery, and four suits of | clothing. —Albert Foley, 3-month-old child of Mrs. John Foley, Pottsville, was killed on Sunday when his mother tripped while going downstairs and dropped him. Mrs. Foley was carrying the child in a basket. The mother was bruised but not seriously injured. —Thieves recently entered the chicken | pen of Fred Brodish Sr., of Winburne, made off with fifty-five large hens and !left two hundred others dead from the ‘effects of some gas or poison used to | prevent them from sounding an alarm. | Efforts are being made to trace the rob- | bers, and if captured they will probably | receive the limit of the law. —Damages of $75,000 are asked by Mr. and Mrs. Bartholomew James, of North- | umberland, from the Columbia county Fair Association in a suit filed in court at Bloomsburg, on Monday. The suit grows out of an accident a year ago, in Sep- tember, at the fair grounds, when a runaway horse leaped the fence into a crowd, injuring 13 persons. Mrs. James was the most seriously hurt of the group. —Miss Mary E. Clowes, 21-year-old waitress, of Monongahela, has offered to | marry ‘any respectable white man who ! will give her $10,000 to care for her par- ents who live on a small farm near Co- | lumbus, ). Miss Clowes said she is the since her sole support of her parents | three brothers were killed, two ia a mine accident and the third in a fire. (She is living with an aunt, Mrs. Fred | Greene. —Joseph E. Rondick, former teller of the Farmers’ and Miners’ bank of Bent- leyville, pleaded guilty Saturday to a charge of embezzling $2,000 and was sen- tenced to serve 15 months in Atlanta penitentiary by Federal Judge R. M. Gibson, at Pittsburgh. Department of justice agents testified approximately $4,000 more was involved on which | prosecution was barred by the statute of limitations. —Allegheny county detectives are ine vestigating the mysterious death of Richard Compton, 67, of Millvale, whose body was found floating in the Alle- | gheny river Sunday. Compton retired at midnight, Saturday, but was missed {from his room at 9 a. m., Sunday. His body was found a short time later. Tak- en to the morgue, the body was discov (ered to be badly bruised and several ribs on the right side were broken. —Accused of making a false statement to get a duplicate United States adjusted ‘service certificate, Charles Ripple, 40, of Johnstown, was sentenced to serve four months in the Cambria county jail by (Judge R. M. Gibson, on Saturday. Rip- ple pleaded guilty in federal court. It was charged he borrowed money on one certificate, then reported it had been burned and asked for a duplicate, on which he also tried to make a loan. © =A man was blown through a house by a furnace explosion at Bentleyville, Pa., early Saturday--and then the four walls of the building caved in. Fire | followed the explosion. Edward Asper, | 22 years old, who wus alone in the dwell- !ing in Bentleyville, was asleep on the | second floor when the explosion occurred. | Neighbors found him lying badly hurt in the grass in front of the house. Asper ‘was rushed to a Washington hospital, and physicians said he probably will die. | —A ‘lovers’ quarrel” following a party |in Butler ended in the suicide of pretty | Doris Wilson, 26, at her home in Evans | City, Pa. Richard F. Kelly, 28, a piano player, and Miss Wilson's escort at the party, was held for several hours in con- nection with the shooting when State police said it had not been explained | satisfactorily to them. He was released after the dead girl's father, Dr. H. M. | Wilson, told police he was convinced his ‘daughter committed suicide atfer a | quarrel with Kelly. —Frederick Art, of Scranton, Pa., has spent seventy-five of the 82 years of his life at work in coal mines. He has | been employed continuously since he en- ‘tered the mining operation of the late George Scranton, when he was a boy of seven years. His first duties were those of a door tender. The veteran mine | worker has served under nine mine fore- men and five superintendents. At pres- ent he is employed by the Scranton Coal company. He declares that he remains at his work because he likes it. He is in good health. —Wants of families at Hopewell, Pa., made homeless Ly a disastrous fire, on Thanksgiving, are being cared for by Red Cross chapters of Blair and Bedford counties. A report to national head- quarters said: "Red Cross women work- ers provided a canteen for firemen and victims, while the Red Cross disaster relief committee provided shelter, furni- ture, bedding, clothing and food for twenty persons, in four families whose breadwinners were unemployed. Other homeless families were given refuge with | friends and neighbors." —Contracts for the construction of ad- ditional drainage pipes at the Sunbury Airport has been canceled by the Depart- ment of Commerce, Airways Division, it was announced by George W. Rockwell, who was the successful bidder. The de- partment will not expend any more mon- ey on the fleld until it is determined if the Sunbury Flying Club is able to fi- nance the project for some years to come. There is a difference between owners of the land on the island and the club and until that is settled the department will not approve going ahead with the work. —Once reported worth $500,000, Lin ford F. Ruth, 70, of Washington, Pa., has been given a four years prison term in the Fayette county jail. He also was fined $5000 and ordered to pay costs of prosecution, almost $1000. Ruth was convicted last June of misapplication of $60,000 of founds of the Title & Trust company of Western Pennsylvania, at Connellsville, of which he was president. innocence, declaring attorney that had he not been without funds to have the steno- graphic report of his hearing printed, he would have appealed to the highest court of the land. Ruth pleaded no defense te seven other indictments, charging mis- application of $100,000.