of
ny chicks that energetic wo-
men ve been forcing along to pro-
vide early broilers for the curb
market, had to put on ear muffs and
galoshes when they ventured out
VOL. 77.
BELLEFONTE SILK
MILL
from under the “old cluck” on Mon- CLOSED TEMPO X
day morning, OWING TO DEPRESSION
—It is rumored that President t-down, However, Does Mean
Hoover is peeved because none OHO or Amn Mill.
the Republican Senators speak up for | Reopening Will Depend. Entirely
him when their Democratic colleagues Business Revival.
attack him. It does seem that they |
are a little willy-nilly in their sup-| The Bellefonte silk mill, one of
port of their leader, but what is the plants of C. K. Eagle & Co., Inc,
there for them to speak up about? was shut down last Saturday after.
—Chauncey Olcott is dead. He noon for an indefinite period. The
died at Monte Carlo last Thursday, universal depression and natural
When we saw him in the “The Old slump in the silk market were the
Homestead,” at the Union Square dominant factors in the shut-down
theatre away back in 1888, we little of the plant.
thought that in more mature years the mill had been operated on part
tears would trickle over our cheeks time only. Last Thursday James C.
as we listened to his souful singing Evans came to Bellefonte from
of “My Wild Irish Rose,” His was a Shamokin and personally arranged
voice. | for the closing of the plant. To clean
—Mr. Hoover is the boy who UP the stock on hand the mill was
should worry more than anybody | operated until Saturday afternoon.
else about the recent wet and dry As stated above the depression is
show down in Congress. The South, the direct cause of the shut-down.
where he can expect least, voted Another contributing cause is the
true to its traditions, but the middle fact that a number of small silk
west and the Pacific coast States, mills have been put in operation in
where he is supposed to have his country towns where they can oper-
strength, served notice on him that Ate at less expense than the plants
the “noble experiment” is a rather in the larger places.
slim reed to lean on if he expects to, All kinds of rumors were set in
succeed himself. | motion as soon as the story got
— And Congressman Chase walked Around that the mill was to be closed.
out on the wet and dry show-down One story had it that the shut-down
vote. It must have been a walk-out W38 permanent and another that the
because he was right back in the Plant was to be moved to Gettys-
House, within forty minutes, to vote PUrg. None of Jam wpe fre,
on another bill. A. Mitchell might Marlin E. Rumberger, w es
get away with that kind of stuff in SuPerintendent of the mill while in
his family-owned county of Clear- | OPeration, will remain in Bellefonte
|as caretaker of the plant until such
Bit: "ad Conte" ne nc i a8 revival of Boss its
whether the candidate they vote for Putting it in operation again. That
‘ » | this will be done sometime is the dec-
is “a mouse or a long tailed rat. |
—A prediction. If Governor Pin- laration of J. H. Jones, a member
|of the board of control of the com-
chot includes Bellefonte in his com- | in a letter to Robert F. Hunt-
ing itinerary in support of Gen. But- week wrote
ler for the U. S. Senate you will not BE, his we of wae rope, wr : Ihe
see Senator Scott and the Hon. ;
Watchman for the exact status of
Holitles standing beside Bim on “148 | ipo goer sows. Top 1 A aus Uf
court house steps, as you did on lows:
September 18, 1930. If we prove to :
be a bum prophet and the Governor Yr. Sonen I. Hunter,
again says: “I have just had a very .
satisfactory talk with your ais. (Dear Bobi— ’
they which necessitated the contraction of
abou operations to a few of our plants.
—Next Tuesday night Gen. Butler There is positively no foundation
will open his campaign for Senator to the rumor that we contemplate re-
in Pittsburgh. Among the missing | moval to some other town. It is sim-
Rah! Rah! boys of Allegheny will be Ply the necessity of curtailing pro-
Senator Jimmy Coyne. Jimmy was | duction, and, obviously, it is better
a Jig factor in Pinchot's election fOr us to on orally continye the
two years ago. Then he was practi- |
cally as virtuous as Caesar's wife. He | Plaats Lat A a Bh i gi
has fallen off the Governor's band | husiness which will again permit of
wagon since and we will be disap- reopening the Bellefonte plant. °
pointed if, when Smed and Gif open | Very sincerely,
up their big Berthas in Carnegie | JOS. H. JONES.
hall, he isn't charged with kidnap- While the above letter should set
ing the Lindbergh baby. at rest all wild rumors reg the
—At the dinner hour on last Wed- | future of the Bellefonte plant it does
nesday—we have our dinner at noon NOt help many young men and wo-
—~We walked home with a merchant Men who have been thrown out of
who said: “In all the years I have Work through the shut-down, even if
have been many, I have never seen Part of the company. When the
conditions as they are now. Yester-|plant was operated day and night
day my sales totaled just eighty | it gave employment to over two hun-
five cents.” His case, doubtless, was dred people, and almost a hundred
just the same as that of thousands had been working there on the part
of other small town merchants in [time basis. Many of these were girls
the country. We mention it, not be- and their twice a month payroll was
cause we have any panacea to sug-
gest, but because we want this rec-
ord to refer to when our Republican
friends start that old balony about
their's being the party of prosperity.
—The withdrawal of Harris Hugg
as a candidate for Republican State
Committeeman from Centre county
leaves only the Pinchot candidate in
opposition to Senator Scott. While
we know nothing that would tie up
Mr. Hugg's exit from the scrimmage
with the kiss and make-up speech
that the former of Forests
and Waters made at the Undine ban-
quet, last Thursday night, the inci-
dents, coming so close together,
make for a rather intriguing coinci-
ience.
—Since writing the foregoing para-
yraph big news has been b
ind the verbal osculations mention-
'd therein are explained. Mr. Dor-
vorth took Hugg out of the race
1gainst Senator Scott and the Sena-
or reciprocated by agreeing to take
come. Now that the sum has been
cut off it will mean greater priva-
tion for the girls as well as the mem-
‘bers of the families they were help-
ink to support.
QUARRYMAN INJURED
AT CHEMICAL PLANT
Edgar King, 23 year old son of
Charles King, of Coleville, an em-
ployee at the plant of the Chemical
Lime and Stone company, was pain-
fully injured by a falling rock, at
4 o'clock Saturday afternoon, and
has reason to be thankful that he
escaped with his life.
He was barring down a ledge on
the face of the quarry when a loos-
ened rock fell and missed his head by
inches and struck him on the left
leg. He was knocked down, his head
striking a stone. He was removed to
the Centre county hospital where an
investigation showed that his left
a welcome addition to the family in- |
STATE
CAR USED BY ESCAPING
PRISONER RECOVERED
| BY BELLEFONTE OWNER |
| The Ford sedan belonging to M.|
'P. Brooks, of Bellefonte, and which
was believed to have been stolen
| Walter LeBarr, when he made
| escape from the Centre county
| last
|faund between Hecla park
Hu-
| blersburg where it had been abandon-
ed when the gas supply became ex-
| hausted.
According to report the driver of
|the car reached the Harvey Hoy
home between 5:30 and 6 o'clock
Wednesday morning, when the carling
| ceased to run. Though LeBarr is a
| motor mechanic by trade he couldn't
| coax it to go any further. He then
|asked Mr, Hoy to take him to Lock
(Haven, offering to let him have the
car for pay for the trip. The latter
stated he did not have time to go
'but another motorist happening
along gave the
| Clinton county town. LeBarr repre-
sented himself as being employed at|
| the Elks club, in Lock Haven, and
was left out at the monument.
In the meantime word of the es-
caped prisoner and the theft of a
car had spread down Nittany valley
‘and Mr. Brooks was notified of the
finding of his car, near Hublersburg.
He went down, on Thursday, and
| brought it home. The ear had not
‘been damaged.
| Up to this time Sheriff Boob has
‘received no information as to the
| whereabouts of LeBarr or of W. G.
| Williams, who escaped a month ago.
| ER —— i —————
| JUDGE DALE TO MANAGE |
THE BUTLER CAMPAIGN |
| Former Judge Arthur C. Dale has
' been selected to manage the Pinchot
ation siute toe omar org
i on te in the co ,
| He had charge of the Pinchot pri.
\mary and general election campaign
two years ago and brought his can-
didate through to victory so that his
selection to manage the contest that
2 a A a
of the
fight is to nominate Gen. Smedley D.
Butler, a militant dry, for United
| States Senator, the thing most de-
i sired by the Governor is to gain con-
(trol of the State organization so
/that he can continue an important
| factor in Republican politics in Penn-
sylvania after his present term has
| expired.
| Judge Dale opened State head-
'quarters in Philadelphia on Tuesday.
| He agreed to handle the Butler cam-
| paign following a conference with
| General Butler at the latter's home,
'at Newton Square. He motored
from Bellefonte and arrived at the
| Butler residence Monday. The two
men discussed the political situation
| throughout the State and in the
(early evening Judge Dale let it be
| known that he was in the fight to
‘nominate the General.
He will have complete charge of
the campaign and will build up a
| strong organization in each county.
The campaign will be made for the
complete auti-organization ticket.
The administration, in addition to
| General Butler, is supporting Judge
Joseph Stadfeld, of Pittsburgh, and
William M. Parker, of V
county, for the Superior Court, and
Ralph Flinn, of Allegheny county, for
Auditor General. There is no oppo-
sition to Judge William B. Linn, for
the Supreme Court; Judge Robert
Gawthrop, for the Superior Court,
and Charles A. Waters, for State
Treasurer,
GETS PICTURES OF
MOTHER BRUIN AND CUB
Probably the first motion pictures
ever taken of a mother bear in hi-
bernation were secured recently in
Clinton county by Robert T. Leiter,
| photographer for the Game Commis-
sion. Mother Bruin, who had holed
up in a shallow depression under the
roots of a large pine tree about two
miles up the mountain from Lock
Haven, offered an unusual subject,
and the natural location of her den
AR
RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
(Ardery was present at
| preented the request of Robert Geh-
Every member of the borough |
council with the exception of Mr. |
meeting on Monday evening.
Were no verbal nor written communi-
cations. |
|
There |
cleaning snow off the streets and wd
gallons of street paint. |
Also that W. C, Smeltzer desires to
buy some of the hand railing off of |
the old Lamb street bridge if
get it at the right price. Such a rail- |
when new, would cost about 20
tents a foot and council is of the!
Opinion that it ought to be worth 10
cents.
Mr. Badger also reported that |
there is a lot of complaint about the |
condition of the pavement along the |
board's property at the corner
of Lamb and Spring streets, former- |
ly the old steam heat and gas works |
site, and the Secretary was instruct. |
ed to write the board and request |
them to put down good pavements.
The Water committee reported the
collection of $300 on water taxes and
$77.90 on rent, Etc. The committee |
also presented a communication from |
borough engineer H. B. Shattuck |
who suggested that the reservoir be |
lined with gunite instead of putting |
on a top of concrete. The suggestion
did not appear to appeal to members |
of the council as the proper method |
of repair and the committee was in-
Shattuck and fix a date when the
entire council can meet him at the
reservoir and definitely decide on
the kind of repairs to be made.
The Finance committee reported
a balance in the borough fund of
$570.86 and in the water fund $2-
149.96. Renewal of notes totaling
$7600 was authorized. The treasurer
was authorized to make a
transfer of $500 from the water fund |
to the borough fund to meet current
bills,
Neither the Fire and Police nor
The town committee
ret for a permit to build a garage on
Cherry alley, which was granted.
President Walker appointed A.
Miles Barr an auditor for the Pruner
orphanage fund, and reappointed Mrs.
R, S. Brouse a member of the hoard
of trustees. Mr. Walker also stated
to council that there is now in the
orphanage fund $7500, which is in
the Blair County bank, drawing 3
per cent interest and he suggested
that action be taken looking to the
withdrawal of $5000 of that amount,
half of which is to be taken as a |
loan by Bellefonte borough and half |
by Tyrone, at 5 per cent interest.
The suggestion will be up for action
after an audit of the accounts has
been made
The week of April 4th has been
designated as clean-up week.
Borough bills to the amount of |
$684.00 and water bills totaling
$725.35 were approved for payment,
after which council adjourned.
i
MADISONBURG MERCHANT
CATCHES THIEF IN ACT OF
ROBBING HIS STORE
At a quarter of twelve o'clock last
Thursday night merchant T. B.
Everett, of Madisonburg, was awak-
ened from his slumbers by a crash-
ing of glass. His residence is in the
same building with his store room
and dressing hastily he went down
stairs and over to the store room
where he found that one of the large
panes of glass in the front door had
been smashed.
“Who's in there and what are you
doing?” demanded Mr, Everett.
was no response. Everett
repeated his demand which brought
to the door a young man, LeRoy
Bechtol, who claimed he is 23 years
old and a son of George Bechtol,
weil to do farmer living near Wood-
ward, The young man attempted to
crawl out through the broken win-
dow and leave but KEberett push-
A dispatch from Lewistown, on
Monday, carried brief details of the
Mrs. Margaret Weaver by her hus-
‘band, David Rankin Weaver, as the ‘"0ustry-
result of an argument over the wo-
man attending services at a negro
church.
Weaver is 47 years old and his
wife was 58. Both were, former res-
idents of Centre county. Before her
he can marriage to Weaver, Mrs. Weaver |
was the widow of Adam
will be recalled
on the Dale farm, on the top of Nit-
tany mountain, when Josiah C. Dale
was murdered on November 12th,
1906, while on his way home from
the farm to Centre Hall. He was shot
in the back by a rifle bullet and kill-
ed instantly, his horse going on home
and into the stable yard, where he
was found late in the evening,
No trace of the murderer being
obtained by local authorities a New
It
James were arrested in March, 1907.
At a habeas corpus hearing held be-
fore Judge Ellis L. Orvis they were
discharged for lack of evidence and |
to this day the murderer of Mr. Dale
has never been uncovered.
Some time after the murder, the
Moyers moved to Bellefonte and lat-
er to one of Col. Reynolds’ farms,
structed to communicate with Mr, MW belonging to Rockview peniten- |
tiary and occupied by the Shuey
family.
Mr. Moyer finally died and his
widow married David Weaver. ‘The
latter was born in the western peni-
tentiary at Pittsburgh while his
mother was serving time there fol-
lowing her conviction for a crime
committed in Centre county. He was
never considered bright as a child
and as a man was not regarded
wholly responsible for his acticns,
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WOULD-BE ABDUCTOR
; ROCKVIEW PEN
Last week an attempt was made
to abduct the child of Mr. and Mrs.
I. Seward Johnson, near New Bruns-
wick, N. J,, and later a man, arrest-
ed as one of the participants, gave
his name as George Walden. On
Wednesday, however, he confessed
to New Brunswick authorities that
he is Richard Cowan, an escaped
convict from Rockview penitentiary.
Cowan escaped from Rockview on |
He was shocking |
wheat in the harvest field when he
July 22, 1931.
ducked down over the hill to Spring
creek and made a safe get-away. He
was convicted of burglary and rob-
bery in Lawrence county on Febru-
ary 4th, 1928, and sentenced to 8 to
16 years in the penitentiary. He was
transferred from Pittsburgh to Rock-
view on July 10th, 1931, and placed
in the psychopathic ward for ob-
servation. He escaped twelve days
later.
Cowan, before coming to Pennsyl-
vania, had served time in New Hav-
en, Conn.,, for a crime committed
there. After he pulled off his job of
robbery in Lawrence county, he es-
caped to New York city, where he
was finally located and arrested.
Rockview authorities have sent pie-
tures and a full description of Cow-
an to New Brunswick authorities for
full identification.
——p——————
FORTY TWO BAND MEN
BANQUET IN MILESBURG.
Last Friday night was one that
will linger long in memories of
Wetzler's band of Milesburg. It was
the occasion of their annual banquet
and they had it served right at home
80 that they could be in the environ-
ment that holds most that is dear-
est to them.
At 6 o'clock forty-two of them
met at their band hall and “ripped
off” as their beloved leader said
they would, a few marches. Then
they paraded to the social room of
the Methodist church, where the
that the Moyers lived |
|
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—An order for 15 stone crushers has
| been received by the Danville Iron and
Steel company. The company also is
working on an order for crushing ma-
‘ chinery for South Africa.
i —Dr. Charles A. Globe, of Jeanette,
answered his doorbell Tuesday night, and
faced the man who robbed him of $50
several weeks ago. The doctor called to
Frank Rugh, in another office, and the
robber fled.
—Mrs 8. S. Carnell, on Sunday, was
appointed to the pastorate of the Calvary
Methodist church, at Berwick, left va-
cant last week by the death of her hus-
! band. Mrs. Carnell assisted her husband
lin conducting services frequently before
his death following a mastoid operation.
—One out of every seven boys under
18 years of age, engaged in coal mining
. In Pennsylvania, met with an accident in
| @ one-year period, according to the pre-
| liminary findings of a recent study of
| accidents to boys in coal mines, under-
the regular murder near there, Sunday night, of !3ken by the bureau of women and chil-
| dren of the Department of Labor and
—Edwin Meager, Meyersdale fireman,
| nearly lost his life when a fire alarm
{ sounded as he was being shaved. Meager
{leaped from the barber chair at the
| sound of the alarm. The barber's razor
jcut a deep gash in his neck, penetrating,
| but not severing the jugular vein. A
| surgeon stopped the flow of blood and
| dressed the wound.
| Clair Moyer, 11, of Mill Hall, Clinton
| county, while walking along the axe
factory grounds there, on Sunday, pick-
ed up an old dynamite cartridge and
| scratched it on the wall of a bridge. It
| exploded and blew off parts of the thumb
and first and second fingers of his right
(hand. He was taken to the hospital,
where the three members were amputated
and it may be necessary to amputate the
| whole hand.
—A gas explosion followed by fire de-
stroyed the Zampogna building in the
| York detective was and on | business district of Meyersdale, on Fri-
| his findings Jacob From and his son |
day, causing property damage estimated
The blast shattered plate
| glass windows in three other buildings
{in the district. The Zampogna grocery
| and unoccupied apartment overhead were
destroyed by the blast and fire. The ex-
| plosion occurred when gas, leaking from
a small stove, accumulated and was ig-
nited.
—Jobless, penniless and without wear-
ing apparel of his own, George Senchak
was arrested on the streets of Pittsburgn.
Monday, for impersonating a woman
when he appeared downtown dressed in
his wife's clothing. Senchak told police
he had to get food for his wife and six
children, so he donned Mrs, Senchak’'s
clothing and went to relatives for help.
He said his own clothes were so worn
and tattered that he could no longer
wear them,
~—Residents of various communities in
Clearfield county have protested at a
Public Service Commission hearing against
the discontinuance of Pennsylvania:
Railroad passenger trains between Osce-
ola Mills, Centre county, and Madera,
Clearfield county, Witnesses for the pro.
testants testified the proposed abandon-
ment of service would be a “backward
leave the territory without reliable trans-
portation facilities,
—Martin Jensen, who finished second
in the Dole flight from San Francisco to
Hawaii, was given a suspended sentence
j at Harrisburg, on Tuesday, after he
| pleaded guilty to an assault and battery
charge. Charles Smith, dean of a local
| aviation school, brought the charge. He
| claimed Jensen struck him after Jensen
| misinterpreted remarks attributed to
| Smith about a plane Jensen built, Jen-
sen last fall planned a flight in the plane
from York to South America.
—Last week the Mifflinburg Body com-
pany received a sample of the truck body
similar to one they are to construct for
| the United States Government, to be used
| by the Post Office department. The Mif-
| flinburg company has a contract for the
construction of 500 bodies similar to the
sample but it must first build one of the
bodies and send it to the department to
see if it will meet the requirements. The
company has twelve days in which to
complete the sample and after it is ap-
proved will have 17 days to complete the
contract.
—While his wife waited in the court
house at Doylestown to press a non-sup-
(port charge against him, William C.
| Desch, 87, Fountainville, committed sui-
cide by drinking poison. Desch was sum-
moned to court on Monday to explain why
he had fallen in arrears in the support
order lodged against him. He attempted
to arrange a reconciliation with his wife,
Marie. Failing in this, he returned home,
while the wife went to court. Desch was
found unconscious in the yard of his
home and died before medical aid could
reach him. .
—Luther Mazer, 15-year-old Cresson
shaft youth who wrecked a Pennsylvania
railroad freight train on the famous
‘““Horseshoe Curve” last December, kill-
ing a brakeman, pleaded guilty to a
charge of involuntary manslaughter in
court at Ebensburg, last Thursday. He
was sentenced to serve from six to 12
years in the Cambria county jail. Mazer
was under indictment for murder, but the
district attorney agreed to accept the
manslaughter plea because of the defend-
ant's youth. Mazer boarded a freight
train last December 9 and turned a num-
ber of angle cocks, causing the wreck.
Seventy-six cars loaded with coal piled
up, killing Matthew Allison, 55, a brake-
>
man, of Altoona, and blocking the right
of way. Railroad officials estimated the
damage at $300,000.
—Here's a St. Patrick's day story and
the hero's name might as well be Liam
O'Geoghan, although he actually hides it
behind the modest blushes of anonymity,
The hero appeared at the home of Mrs.
Gladys Thompkins, of Philadelphia, with
a huge bunch of shamrocks for sale at
15 cents a piece. Mrs. Thompkins want.
ed to buy, but had no change and only
a $20 dollar gold piece. “You take my
shamrocks as security and I'll go and
tover, his candidate, out of the race
or County Chairman against Ross-
nan, Dorworth’s entry. The lion and
he lamb are all cuddled up in the
wolitical bed that Jim Davis has wet
or Centre county Republicans. It's
ncomfortable, of course, but what's
hat to the anguish of seeing Bond
Vhite, Merv. Betz. Smed. Butler
=.nd Pinchot run away with Centre
ounty, which they certainly would
ave done if the Senator and the
srmer Secretary hadn't started
permitted the camerman to approach
to within three feet of her.
Although still somewhat in a com-
atose condition she was lively enough
to make several lunges at the pho-
tographer when he approached too
closely. One very small cub, weigh-
ing about two or three pounds, also
was photographed although this was
difficult as the mother bear kept the
little creature well under her chest
so that it could not crawl away. A
large mongrel dog which apparently
ed him back and called a neighbor,
John Royer, who went to his assist-
ance. Royer took charge of the cap-
tured burglar while Everett went to
a telephone and called Sheriff John
M. Boob who went to Madisonburg
for the young culprit.
Bechtol had taken $1.05 in nickels
and dimes from the cash register
and a small bag of candy. These he
returned and pleaded to be released
but Mr. Everett refused. The Sheriff
brought him to the Centre county
ladies auxiliary of that organization
served the uet. And what a
banquet! Delicious food in such quan-
tities that everyone of them could
have had stomachs as large as the
bells of their biggest tubas and still
they couldn't have held it all.
After that was over they marched
back to their own hall and there the
speeches were made. William A.
Brown, of Huntingdon, noted old
Central Pennsylvania band master,
was the guest speaker and he got
ankle was crushed, left leg and head
cut and bruised
eC —— A ——————————.
BEDFORD COUNTY GRANGE
TO VISIT CENTRE HALL
L. E. Biddle, master of Pomona
Grange, No. 13, has that
Pomona Grange of Bedford county
will make a fraternal visit to the
Centre county Grangers on Satur-
| day, April 2,
| The occasion will be celebrated by
'aking goo goo eyes at one another. | morning and afternoon meetings in | had been killed by the bear when it|jajl. At a hearing before Squire S.|the boys in such a reminiscent mood SH the Stage Dt Yunus sleet Sle
ince the present development has Grange arcade at Centre Hall. The approached the den too closely had | Kline Woodring, on Friday, he that before the evening was over at ko aig valued at about $3,
solved the primary fight into noth-
1g other than a wet and dry show-
own there are going to be some
wful moments for Centre county
epublicans. Never before have they
*en called upon to make such a
‘cision between love and duty.
to be pulled from the entrance be-
fore pictures could be taken.
———————— A ————.
-—Fred L. Alexander, of Miles-
burg, who is a student at State, has
been elected a member of the “blue”
band.
every one of the forty-two had had
a chance to contribute something for
the enjoyment of the others.
A ———— A ————
——Up to March 17th, 1032, 295,
574 dog licenses had been issued in
Pennsylvania.
ceremonies will be conducted in the
Fifth degree and at the afternoon
session the Bedford Grange will
make formal presentation of the
traveling gavel.
All Grangers in the county are
| urged to attend the sessions.
stated that he had been out of work
for some time, had no money and
planned the robbery to get some-
thing to eat. He was held in $750
bail for trial at court and being un-
able to give bond at the time was re-
manded to jail.
she called police. Soon after the arrival
of a detective, the shamrock vendor came
back to the door. “Here's your change,
lady. IT had a hard time getting the gold '
piece changed,” he explained. The de- \
tective showed even more astonishment
than Mrs. Thompkins,