JAIL, State >mned it for Soners better | Sen- 0 he mat. week rule insti. wom- n the uture S the Prop- on in t the pris- rison erage 1930, nmig- more, with I'S on The heriff table rans- from > en- only, .Somewhere ness of this winter A —— INK SLINGS. BY GEORGE R. MEEK. ——Hirin’ and firin’ bids fair to be the greatest achievement of the present Pinchot administration. —The Watchman has no favorite for President, but it will go so far as to say that Governor Ritchie, of Maryland, would make a mighty nandsome looking one. —william Wrigley, the chewing gum magnate died in Phoenix, Ari- zona, on Tuesday. It might well pe said of him that he kept more jaws wagging than any other man in the world, if that be claim to fame. —Dr. Joseph J. Klein, associate professor of taxation at the College of the City of New York, is of the opinion that ‘“boot-leggers” should be taxed. That's a novel idea. But how can the government tax a busi- ness that it has outlawed? —A Democratic Congress passed an appropriation of five hundred mil- lion dollars for the President’s Re- construction Finance Corporation in just three minutes. It's Republican predecessor would have taken three years to do that job. —When it is considered that sixty per cent of all taxes paid in the world are to maintain the engines of ‘war it would seem that total dis- armament would relieve humanity from a greater burden of taxation than any other conceivable retrench- ment. —Bishop Cannon, the hypocritical prelate of the Methodist church South, is credited with having said that alcohol “is all right if you take it as a sauce or a tonic.” A “tonic,” we should say, is exactly what nine- ty-nine percent of those who use it take it for. —Undersecretary of the Treasur- ery Mills thinks that if fear were routed it would do much to pave the way to recovery. Perhaps it would, but how it is going to be routed when every other person in the country might be classed as the “burnt child” who ‘dreads the fire.” —We will not feel easy until Japan and China get their ruckus over Manchuria settled. It looks to us as though Japan is strutting around with a chip on her shoulder and not a big power dares to knock it off for fear of starting the world into the greatest war it has ever known. —=Snyder county is in such a mud- .dle that criminal court can’t be held there. Two lawyers are each claim- ing to be the legal District Attorney -and until it can be decided which ‘one is the lawful prosecuting officer ‘the wheels of justice have stopped grinding. The newly elected Judge Lesher is evidently not as versatile as the managers of ‘Tom’ shows used to be. They always made the public believe they were bigger and better if they advertised two Little {Evas and two Uncle Toms. —Wild geese are flying north, herring are off the coast of New Jersey, dandelion, violets and pan- sies are being picked every day in Pennsylvania and those who went te Florida to es- cape our winter's rigors might well ‘have stayed at home. Sun spots, changing gulf stream or what have _you, might be the cause of having made January as pleasant as May will probably be, but we are not go- ing to believe spring is here until George Bush drags out that brown straw ‘hat. —Mr. Bliss, the weather man at Philadelphia, denies that the mild- indicates any radical change in climatic condi- tions. He says the ‘“highs” and “lows” of atmospheric pressure con- ‘trol the weather and that the ‘“high” wanders at times, causing marked rises in temperature in the areas over which .it wanders. Doubtless Mr. Bliss knows exactly what he is talking about, but if you should ask us we'd say that his “high” is Soused and: staggering around like a drunken sailor. —The conspicuous weak spot in the defense of those who wish to prevent modification of the Volstead "law is their determined stand against assenting to a vote on it. If, as they say, the country doesn’t want & change it would be most convinc- ing proof of their assurance of such a nation wide feeling on the matter if they were to welcome a chance to show that the country does feel as they contend. Their present atti- tude of opposition to any opportu- nity for a referendum certainly gives rise to suspicion that they fear a show down. —Much is expected from the re- cently created Federal Reconstruc- tion Finance Corporation. It is being hailed as the crowning achieve- ment of the Hoover administration. In view of what Mr. Hoover's ad- ministration has accomplished thus far any achievement, however small, might well be a crowning one. How- ever, the Federal Reconstruction Fi- hance Corporation is not the crea- ture of Mr. Hoover's brain. It is Nothing more than an adaptation of the War Finance Corporation Act, bassed under the Wilson adminis- tration, and attempts to appropriate its anticipated benefits to glorify Mr. Hoover are political plagiarism. | I cial entertainment. SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —A baseball bat that slipped from the hands of a batter killed 10-year-old Clare | Springer, at Warren, on Saturday. He was watching older boys play. The boy was struck in the stomach and died en- route to a hospital. The coroner exon- erated the batter. —A third operation to remiove a pea- nut from his lung was performed, on Saturday, on 6-year-old Robert Moore, of Sharon. He sucked the peanut down his windpipe January 12. A small particle STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. not obtained in the two previous opera- tions was removed and physicians believe VOL. 77. BELLEFONTE, PA., JANUARY 29, 1932. he will recover. —Dr. Edward Bleakney speaking from NO. 5. COUNTY EXHIBITORS WON BIG PRIZE MONEY AT STATE FARM SHOW. Pine Grove Mills Girl Honors for a Special ment of Six Minutes. Won First Entertain- Centre county exhibitors at the State farm products show, in Har- risburg last week, “brought home the bacon” in the shape of $675.00 in cash and enough colored ribbons | |the State demonstration contest with | to festoon a large hall, as well as honorable mentions galore. And in addition a Pine Grove Mills girl won first honors for a six minute spe- The show drew an attendance of 278,000 people dur- ing the week and Centre county fur- nished a goodly representation. County winners, as far as it was possible to asemble them, were fur- nished the Watchman by county agent R. C. Blaney, and are as fol- lows: In the horse department the Penn- sylvauia State College won first on an aged percheron stallion and first on a two year old Percheron stallion, also winning grand champion with the aged Percheron stallion, “Sir Laet.” The swine department, in the Po- | land China class, second on junior | yearling sow, 6th and 8th on junior | sow won by Hartle Brothers, Belle- | fonte. 8th place junior sow pig won | by Peters Brothers, Stormstown. | 5th in the senior sow pig and 4th: on junior sow pig won by the*® Penn- Sylvania State College. In the Berkshire class, 5th place | junior yearling sow, 3rd and 7th on | junior sow pig won by the Pennsyl- | vania State College. The Chester White class, 4th place on junior yearling sow, 1st and 3rd on junior sow pig and reserved | grand champion won by the Penn- | sylvania State College. | Duroc Jersey class, second place | senior sow pig, 3rd junior sow pig | won by the Pennsylvania State Col- | lege. | In the dairy department, Holstein ! class, bull calf, four months and un- der one year, 8 entries, 4th Place won by Peters Brothers, Storms- | town; bull three years old or over, | 8 entries, 5th place won by Peters Brothers, Stormstown; heifer 4] months and under one year, 31 en- | tries, 3rd and 5th place won by Peters Brothers, Stormstown; heifer | 18 months and under 2 years, 24 | entries, 3rd and 6th place won by Peters Brothers, Stormstown; cow three years and under 4, 10 entries, 5th place, Peters Brothers, Storms- town; exhibitors herd (5 animals), 4 entries, 3rd place, Peters Brothers, Stormstown; breeders young herd (5 animals), 6 entries, 3rd place, Peters Brothers, Stormstown; pro- duce of dam (2 animals), 19 en- tries, 3rd place, Peters Brothers, | Stormstown. The egg show; 1st place in class of 5 dozen white eggs, Kerlin Grandview poultry farm, Center Hall. 3rd and 4th place in class of one dozen white eggs, Roy Detrow, Center Hall. 4th place in farmers class of one dozen white eggs, Thomas Delaney, Centre Hall, 4th and 5th in farmers five dozen white eggs class, Thomas Delaney, Center Hall. Centre county, 4H lamb club ex- hibits, Hampshire class, 2nd place, Charles Harter, Nittany. Shropshire Class—2nd place, Min- nie Tate, State College; 3rd place, Eugene Lederer Jr. State College; 8th place, Richard Luse, Centre Hall; 10th place, William Hipple, Pine Glen. Southdown Class—T7th place, Mar- garet Ross, Centre Hall; 8th, Carl Burkholder, Centre Hall; 9th, Rich- ard Ross, Centre Hall; 10th, Albert Homan, State College; 11th, Lee Homan, State College. The Center County club consisted of 10 pens in the three breeds men- tioned. The lambs were sold at auc- tion on Friday for an average of 834 cts. per pound. In the small grains department, 5th place on a sample of wheat, H. A. Hoy, Bellefonte. Rebekah Lodge, of Pine Grove Mills, presented the one act play ‘Mothers Old Home” in competition with six groups in the Central district. They were awarded 4th place in the dis- trict. Miss Elizabeth Goheen, Pine Grove Mills, won first honors in a special ‘entertainment presentation, which was not to exceed six minutes, and to be presented between acts of the one act play groups. Center County was represented in the horseshoe pitching contest by L. P. Fielder, Aaronsburg, and Wert Bohn, Boalsburg, who substituted for Howard Stere, of Unionville. The contest was won ‘ by the defending champion of last year, Mr. Straw, of Clearfield county. Centre county boys and girls en- | rolled in vocational agriculture, who sent exhibits to the show, were (awarded many prizes. Some will receive cash rewards while others will receive the customary place tag. However, the honor of winning in such a large show against such | keen competition will repay any who might not have received some cash award. The county was represented by thirty-five vocational boys and girls. Gregg township boys competed in 'a very fine exhibit on soil testing. | Harris township boys’ and girls’ | teams competed in this contest, also, the boys demonstrating the judging | of livestock and the girls a demon- |stration on the uses of apples as ‘human food. Susan Wagner, of the | Harris township school, won honor- |able mention in the demonstration | contest. | The Gregg township vocational | school again carried away the coun- |ty bonors in the State project con- ‘test. At the meeting, last Tuesday | morning, the following boys from Spring Mills received the project awards: | Senior Contest—Samuel Wise, 9th {on hees; Russell Mark, 1st on truck and 2nd on corn; John Zubler, 4th on corn and 2nd on dairy records; | Dean Ilgen, 2nd on Rearick, 8th on winter 10th on dairy. Junior Contest—Gerald Johnson, 5th on gardening; Richard Felten- berger, 4th on potatoes; Ellsworth Stover, 2nd on swine; J. Adam Con- do, 4th on swine; Jean Rishel, 1st on dairy. Harris township vocational school sheep; Ellis grain and {also had two winners in the project contest, William Ross, 6th on dairy, and Lynn Mothersbaugh, 7th on sheep. The Keystone chapter of the Fu- ture Farmers of America, an organ- iation of boys enrolled in vocational agriculture in Pennsylvania, of which William Campbell, a former student at the Gregg township vo- cational school is the retiring presi- dent, again honored several of the boys from Spring Mills. Those re- ceiving the Keystone degree being Ellis Rearick, Russell Mark, John Zubler, J. E. Zerby. In the egg show six exhibits were entered from the classes of the county vocational supervisor, W. S. Jeffries. Four of these won places, as follows: Jean Krape, of the Hub- elrsburg school, 2nd; Mahlon Bailey, Rebersburg, 7th; Mildred Hinds, Hublersburg, 8th; Morris Way, Port Matilda, 9th. By winning the above places Centre county was awarded 2nd place in the county class. In potatoes, John Miller, of Hub- lersburg, won 1st in his class; Wal- ter Cummings, of Rebersburg, 5th, and Ocean Yearick, of Hublersburg, 6th. In small grains Gerald Zimmer- man, of Spring township, won 1st in oats, and Ellis Rearick, of Gregg township, 4th place. Gerald Zim- merman also won 2nd place in wheat. All of these exhibits were selected either by the pupils themselves or under the direction of their teacher of agriculture from their own pro- ject. VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OPEN CLUB ROOMS. Members of the Jackson-Crissman- Saylor post, No. 1600, Veterans of the Foreign Wars, have opened club rooms on the third floor of the Watchman office building, the first time since the organization of the post that they have had permanent quarters. The officers of the post, who were installed on January 16th by a delegation from Lewistown post, are as follows: Commander, Ray W. Eckman; senior vice commander, Richard S. Taylor; quartermaster, Herbert S. Miller; adjutant, Charles C. William- George W. Sunday | son; trustees Harrison G. Kline and Joseph Ber- tram. The post meets the second and last Fridays of each month and all overseas veterans are cordially invited to visit the club rooms at any time. ——The fire companies were call- ed out shortly before ten o'clock Sunday night, by small fires on the roofs of the Adam Grafmyer and Harry Sager homes, on Halfmoon hill. The fires were caused by sparks from a flue fire at the Graf- myer home. They were extinguish- ed before much damage was done. ——The second half of the Senior basket ball league of the Bellefonte Y was inaugurated on Wednesday evening and that of the Sunday school league will start tomorrow evening. All the games in these leagues are free to the public. | CARBON MONOXIDE GAS PROVES FATAL TO A PHILIPSBURG MAN. | ESCAPED PRISONER = | his pulpit in the Mt. Lebanon Baptist | church at Pittsburgh, on Sunday, de- | nounced police for being ‘‘too quick with | their guns.” He said no law—ecclesi- astical or political—can justly punish a GETS SALTY SENTENCE | Ata Session of court, last Satur- | 00 for stealing food when he or his Man Had Apparently Been Dead day morning, Fred Williams, who es- | children are hungry. | Several Hours When Body Was | caped the morning of June 27th, 1931, | _gpvin A. Heindel, stock and bond | Found. | James H. Miller, well known resi- |dent of South Philipsburg, and fa- | ther-in-law of Leo Boden, county de- | tective, was a victim of carbon mon- | oxide gas, in the garage at his home last Friday morning. He was employed as a truck driver by the Lauderbach-Griest company. He went to his garage shortly before seven o'clock, last Friday morning, |and when he failed to report for (work an investigation was made | between eight and nine o’clock and his lifeless body was found lying on the floor of his garage. Tools scat- tered about on the floor showed that he had been at work on his car and a temperature test of the solution in the radiator showed that the mo- the solution. Miller, who was 63 years old and a native of Lackawanna county, came to Centre county securing the cally known as the where he remained for twenty-seven years, then took a similar position on the New York Central. He was with that company only a short ‘time when he quit railroading and became a truck driver for the Lau- | derbach-Griest company. He was a | member of the I. O. O. F. and the | Railroad Conductor's association. In 1902 he married Miss Jennie Roberts, of Houtzdale, who survives with two children, Mrs. Leo Boden, of Milesburg, and Clifford, at home. He also leaves his mother and four brothers. Funeral services were held at his late home at 2 o’clock on Mon- day afternoon, by Rev. G. S. Womer, burial being made at Brisbin, Clear- field county. PENN BELLE HOTEL CLERK AMONG THE MISSING. Fred Loveland, who the past two years has been chief clerk at the Penn Belle hotel, left Bellefonte un- expectedly late on Monday after- noon and up to the time the Watch- man went to press no trace of his whereabouts had been discovered. The young man left the hotel about four o'clock in the afternoon and go- ing to his home, on east Curtin street, packed a bag with clothing, telling his wife he was going away to a Greeter’s convention. He drove away in his car and that was the last seen of him. Loveland also conducted the Sweet Shop, on Beaver St. State College, which was in charge of a Bellefonte woman who had formerly been a waitress at the Penn-Belle. The Shop had the college agency for the Lake-to-Seas bus lines. The woman referred to is also missing, and it is alleged that sev- eral hundred dollars belonging to the Bus company is gone. Natural- ly all kinds of rumors are abroad and authorities are endeavoring to trace Loveland through the license tags on his car. Loveland’s father, Blaine Love- land, came here from Mansfield, Pa., on Monday, and on Tuesday took his son’s wife and two children to the home of her relatives in Mill Hall where she will remain for the time being. The young man’s accounts at the Penn-Belle were all straight and he was very much liked in the hotel, both by his employers and the traveling public. Those who know most about him think he was just so hopelessly in- volved in debt that he could see no way out and, under strain of press- ing bills, became so discouraged that he ran away from it all. It is reported that Loveland’s car was found abandoned at Port Ma- tilda. That has given rise to the theory that the woman in the case left the Shop in State College, drove to Port in her own car, and picked him up there. —Congressman J. Mitchell Chase is authority for the statement that the Treasury Department in Wash- ington has the papers all prepared and that in the near future con- demnation proceedings will be insti- tuted to take over the Krader, Hib- ler and Montgomery properties, on Allegheny street, as the site for Bellefonte’s new federal building. Only one of the buildings, the Mont- gomery property, has been vacated up to this time, and so far as can be learned, the tenants of the other properties have not yet received a notice to vacate. ‘tor had been in operation long | enough to raise the temperature of | | | | position of conductor on the Pitts- company, of Cedar Rapids, ; ing of 2 Li and Susquehanna railroad (lo- {made a trip to State College selling | is furnishing aid to several thousand per “Alleypopper”) {candy vending machines. He made a and was captured at Charlotte, N. | salesman, formerly of West York, but C., last week, was given an eight to lately a resident in Gettysburg, is being sixteen year sentence in the western |sought to answer for embezzlements and penitentiary in addition to serving |bad checks totaling over $25,000. It is out his original sentence. Williams | alleged that Heindel was entrusted with was convicted in Erie county of | certain stocks and bonds to be sold or breaking and entering, larceny and exchanged. He is said to have disposed receiving stolen goods and was sent | as i aperoprisied the up for eight to sixteen rs. [) 2 . i Fons 27th, Yost = - fone Be Mow Vehicles vii 3 ’ | ports that 155,724 unclaimed and undeliv- another prisoner by the name of | opeq operators’ renewal applications have Reed were routed out between five |been returned by the post office author- and six o'clock for kitchen duty. On |ities. This represents seventy-nine bags their way from the cell block to |of unclaimed mail. Of the number, 95,- the dining hall they turned from the 406 were unknown to the post office; beaten path, dodged through a gap | 52.845 applicants had moved, but for- in the wire stockade where repairs | warding addresses were not known; 5,- were being made and made their | 365 had moved from the State and 2,108 escape. It was not until last week | ‘2d died: ; that Williams was located in Char. ~—T7 order to be A Soeaite | any county, ate or ederal relie; a lotte, N. C. arrested and brought may be granted to the Panther Creek back here for sentence. | Valley Relief Association, the association _ M. L. McKenzie, of Lancaster, was nas started making a survey of each pr¥ought before the court on a charge town in the valley to learn the exact of false pretense preferred by F. A.|number of unemployed and what may be Keller, of State Colege. McKenzie, | required in the nature of relief if the representing the Appleton Novelty | present depression runs into the sum- number of sales and collected in ad- vance $1475. When the machines failed to arrive an investigation was made and it was found that McKen- Mich., | mer of 1932. | i | | | At present the association sons. —Three youthful bandits obtained $483 in a holdup of a drugstore in the center of the business section of Pittsburgh late Saturday night. They drank soft drinks at the soda fountain until other custom- |zie had cashed the checks and con- | ers left, and then drew pistols on the verted the money to his own use. employees, forcing the assistant manager His arrest followed shortly after the first of the year. When called for sentence after pleading guilty to a charge of false pretense, John J. Bower, acting district attorney, told the court that McKenzie had made arrangements with the firm he rep- resented for the delivery of all the machines within ninety days, and if that is done Mr. Keller would not press the prosecution, and he sug- gested placing the man on proba- tion upon payment of costs in order that he might have an opportunity to make good on the delivery of the machines. Ivan Walker, Esq., repre- sented McKenzie and also asked that he be given a chance. The court placed him on probation, as request- ed, but gave him to understand that he must make good or he will be brought back for sentence. CHILD WELFARE WORKERS MEET TO PLAN FOR 1982 The annual meeting and dinner of the Centre-Clearfield Crippled Chil- dren’s Society was held at the Phil- ipsburg hospital on Wednesday eve- ning, January 20th, 1932. The meeting was conducted by its presi- | dent, the Honorable Harry B. Scott, assisted by the secretary and treas- urer, Mis Anna Laumen. The prin- cipal guests of the evening were, Miss Jane Marshall, executive-secre: tary of the Pennsylvania Society for Crippled Children, Harrisburg, Pa., and Miss Sara M. Murray, supervis- or of the partment of Welfare, Pa. About fifty-five interested persons from Centre, Clearfield and Elk counties sat down to the dinner. The meeting was probably the most in- teresting and spirited held in a num- ber of years. Great progress in the work of aiding the crippled child was made during the year as is shown by the report of the secre- tary. The funds of the society are low and are, frankly, inadequate to finance the proper care of the large number of crippled children which they have handled and will handle during 1932. However, with the financial assistance of all who are interested in the problem of the crippled child, it is believed that the budget for 1932 will be met. During 1931 ten full day and ten half day clinics were conducted at the hospital as compared to nine full day and nine half day clifics in 1930. A total of 643 examinations of crippled children were made at these clinics; a gain of 129 over 1930. 87 new cases were found during the year and brought to the clinics. A total of 52 operations’ were perform- ed as compared to 33 operations in 1930. 56 casts were applied as compared to 59 in 1930. At the end of 1931 there were 198 active cases in the file of the society. Harrisburg, —During 1931 the motoring pub- lic of Pennsylvania paid into the State Treasury for automobile and drivers’ licenses the stupendous sum of $31,402,253, and of this Centre county is credited with $183,- 306. The county is 44th in the list of counties in the amount spent for licenses, there being 23 counties from which the money received was less than Centre County's total. orthopaedic unit De- |’ amount | "station at Jersey Shore, to open the safe. Once it was opened they herded the four employees into the basement and locked the door. The manager of the store was killed in a holdup several months ago. —A note saying someone had put a ‘spell’ on him was found in the pocket of Orval Stiler, 49, Briar Creek township, Columbia county, who shot and killed himself with a shotgun at the foot of Knob Mountain last Friday. Fishermen on their way to a stream found the body. Stiler had taken his daughter to work in a silk mill in Berwick earlier in the day. Mrs. Stiler said she believed the ‘“‘spell” was worry because of lack of work. The widow and six children sur- vive. —The Public Service Commission has approved the acquisition by the borough of Tyrone of the property, rights and franchises of the Tyrone Gas and Water company at a hearing in Harrisburg Thursday, the 21st. Purchase price is $400,000 covered by an issue of $400,000 in municipal bonds. The purchase in- cludes 5,000 acres of watersheds, two reservoirs, 22 miles of mains the system. installed in the borough, and the good will of 2,200 consumers. The gross in- come of the company is $48,000 annually. —The New York Central passenger was robbed some time last Thursday night. When James Morrow, the agent went to work on Friday morning he found all four doors had been broken open and the candy and weighing machines rifled. As only $2.50 was in the safe, it had been left unlocked. This money was taken and investigation revealed the thief had disturbed nothing except the cash and ‘the amounts in the various machines. The property damage amounted to much more than the amount obtained. —Justice speeded up in Williamsport, last week, when William G. Stiffler re- ceived a two-to-four-year sentence in the eastern penitentiary on a charge of ar- son, less than three days after causing a $35,000 blaze. Stifler was arrested within 20 hours after a large storage building was destroyed Tuesday night by investigators from the State fire mar- shal’s office. He signed a confession stating the fire resulted when gasoline ‘he was stealing from an automobile in the building exploded. He pleaded guilty to charges of larceny and arson in com- mon pleas court on Friday morning and was Sentenced. —Sale of the historic site of Fort Au- gusta, Northumberland county, which is one of the last remaining reminders of the days of Indian warfare, by Mrs. ‘Ella G. Rossiter, Albuquerque, N. M., to the State of Pennsylvania, was formally concluded in the office of C. M. Clement, at Sunbury, on Saturday. The purchase includes the old mansion erected for Colonel Hunter, the first commandant of the fort, and the old powder magazine. Plans by the Northumberland Historical Society will now go rapraly forward for ceremonies to mark the dedication of the fort. Recently the Legislature appropri- ated $15,000 for the purchose of the old fort which was erected in the year 1756. —Re-opening of the Sunbury Safety Tire company was assured at a meeting of the stockholders in the court house, at ‘Sunbury, when $8000 was subscribed by eighty-one persons. About $4000 is still needed, it was pointed out, but this sum is expected to be raised without any dif- ficulty. With that amount of money all of the urgent debts of the company could be paid off and the plant would be ready for operation. Although the re- opening depends entirely upon the de- cision reached by Federal Judge A. W. Johnson, it was pointed out that if he finds the stockholders are anxious to re- tain their holdings and is confident the present liabilites can be met, he will dis- solve the receivership now in charge of the plant and return it to the board of directors.
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