Democratic watchman., April 01, 1932, Image 1

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INK SLINGS.
BY GEORGE R. MEEK.
—At last we've had a break. We
are exempt. i
—Dr. Einstein and Mr. DeZitter
have reduced lambda to zero. We
haven't the remotest idea what lamb-
da is, but Einie and Zitter say it is
“cosmological constant” —and
that explanation helps only to the
extent of making it as clear as a
mud fence. |
—If you haven't had your car in-
don't venture out in it to-
day. Last mid-night was the legal
VOL. 77.
COUNTY SPORTSMEN
HOLD BIG MEETING
AT STATE COLLEGE |
Definite Action on Forming
Association P Until Meet-
ing to be Held May 4th, in Belle-
fonte.
Over two hundred enthusiastic
County |
| Harry Trostle,
Pine Grove Mills, and Miss Edith
| Davidson, 20-year-old daughter of
| Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Davidson, of Ty-
| rone, are patients in the Centre
| County hospital, undergoing treat-
limi ow inspec 1
tut ‘sie ins how it Hone | hunters and fishermen attended the ment for serious injuries sustained
don’t take a chance. Highway patra). | EDEL and meeting at the Nittany in an automobile accident on the
EE Lars re woo, of, Gem | Lich Jun, Stuls College, last Thurs- State highway between Graysville
4 ‘day evening, for the purpose of dis- ang the Seven Stars about one
you should resort to saying you are
only April fooling them.
—Gen. Butler says: “The para-
mount issue today is not whether!
Pennsylvanians shall drink but wheth-
er they shall eat,” Smed might know
what he is talking about, but our
observation—and it has been a fairly
broad one—leads us to believe that
there are more Pennsylvanians in
distress about where they can get a
drink than a bite.
—Japan killed 6,080 civilians in
China, wounded 2000 more and des-
troyed property to the value of $350,-
000,000. Nippon insists it wasn't war.
It was just a sort of Boston Tea
Party. In 1898 we had an unpleasant-
ness with Spain that cost us $130,-
000,000. We killed 1480 Spaniards
and never for once, since, have we
thought of trying
believe that that rumpus was any-
thing else than war.
—63,280 brook trout were planted
in the streams of Pennsylvania dur-
ing January and February. That is
about one one-hundred-and-sixty-fifth |
of a trout for every man, woman and
child in the State. It also means that
we'll have to snitch six hundred and
fifty-nine one hundred and sixty-
fifths from somebody else, if we
hope to have one fish a piece for our
‘family during the season.
Wood, of Indiana,
protest when his Republican col-
league, McFadden, of the Fifteenth
Pennsylvania District, publicly
coarged the ° President with having
sold out to Germany.
—~-Winter certainly was bearing
down heavily on the lap of spring
when this section wakened up last
Monday morning. We don't know
whether it was the “onion snow,”
“the robin snow,” “the poor man's
manure” or “the saplin’ bender.”
Whatever it was there were sixteen
inches of it and that was the heavi-
est snow fall we have had in years.
‘In the big storm of April 27th, 1928,
probably more snow fell, but as it con-
tinued over two days and much of
it melted as it fell there was no
time at which ‘it reached a depth of
more than twelve inches.
—In retiring from further active
interest in the paper that he made
.to make him, Mr. Harter, former
owner and editor of the Keystone
- Gazette, overstressed his and its po-
sition on the Prohibition question,
so we think. It seems to us that he
needlessly threw down a torch that
. the two estimable successors that he
delegated to carry on his work are
- going to burn their fingers on lots
of times if they intend to be as sin-
cere as their salutatory would have
us believe. After its ‘last week's
a time squaring’ itself with those who
think it committed itself to support
Butler, the dry candidate for United
States Senator, and those who think
Jim Davis, the wet, and the Repub-
lican organization's candidate, ought
“to be renominated.
away the thing we
safe. Upon our
discovered that the rod swung
‘loose at the tip and had n trail-
ing for miles, evidently, anchored-by
the carrier at the reel. Only two
joints of it were left and they were
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had
bee
battered almost beyond repair. And |
so we saved it from possible thieves
‘cussing the advisability of forming
a county association. Most every
| section of the county was represent-
ed, some thirty or more being in at-
tendance from Bellefonte,
| Dean R. L. Watts presided and the
| chief speaker was Oliver M. Deibler,
| State Commissioner of Fisheries.
| Others who added their bit of ora-
| tory were John Ross, of Lock Hav-
| en, district game warden; Congress-
man J. Banks Kurtz, of Altoona;
| Representative J. Laird Holmes, Re-
| presentative Stewart, of Clearfield
| county; Robert F. Hunter, Charles
E. Dorworth and Thomas H. Harter.
| No definite decision was reached
in regard to the forming of a county
| association. This was probably be-
| cause of the fact that members of
the various local organizations
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| throughout the county had a feeling
to make anybody that they would lose their identity,
locally, if the county organization
was made. However, a committee
composed of members of the several
|@portsmen’s associations was ap-
| pointed to consider the matter and
report at a meeting to be held in the
| court house, Bellefonte, on or about
| May 4th, when it is believed definite
| action of some kind will be taken.
| The men, and several women, who
| attended the meeting got an eyeful
of something they had not anticipa-
ted. While the dinner was in pro-
gress a waiter told game protector
Mosier that he was wanted
outside and he got up, left the table
He did not show
meeting.
broke
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Mosier was called out the dining
‘room it was to investigate a report
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that hundreds of dead trout had been |
| found along the banks of the stream
{flowing from the dam at Centre
| Furnace to connect with Slab Cabin
| run. He had gone there and gather-
led up the trout that he took back to
the hotel for exhibition.
Just what killed the trout has not
| yet been determined. They were not
dynamited but evidently died from
poisonous matter of some kind that
had drained into the stream, but an
investigation that has been under
way ever since has not resulted in
uncovering any definite information,
according to Mr. Mosier. No dead
| trout were found in the dam at Cen-
| tre Furnace. But they were found
from a point a short distance below
the dam down to Slab Cabin run
and along the banks of that run al-
most to the point where it empties
into Spring creek. Mr. Mosier and
| deputies patrolled the streams on
Friday and Saturday and he esti-
‘mates that close to a thousand dead
trout were found. None were found
along the banks of Spring creek.
| The game protectors are working
(on the theory that either an under-
ground seepage of ammonia from the
artificial ice plant at the College or
poisonous acids from the sewage
disposal plant have contaminated the
water and resulted in the death of
‘the ‘out, but so far this is only
| conjecture. The investigation will be
| continued, however, in the hope that
the true cause can be and
the source of the poison satisfactor-
|ily abated.
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GRANGERS WILL MEET
TOMORROW AT CENTRE HALL
Pomona Grange, No. 13, of Centre
county will meet in Grange Arcadia,
at Centre Hall, tomorrow, April 2nd.
There will be a morning session at
9:45 and an afternoon session at
1:30.
The occasion will be a fraternal
visitation by the Pomona Grange of
Bedford county to present the trav-
eling gavel to the Patrons of Cen-
tre and all members in the county
are urged to be present.
——Robert F. Hunter, J. H. Caum
and John Sommerville motored to
| Shamokin, Wednesday of last week,
to consult with officials of the C. K.
Eagle Silk Mills. Inc., regarding the
| future of the Bellefonte plant and
were assured that whenever condi-
tions warrant the putting in oper-
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‘only to regret that one of them didn’t | ation of another spindle it will be
get it before we busted it all up.
jat the Bellefonte mill.
| o'clock last Thursday morning.
Trostle has a badly fractured left
‘arm at the elbow, and cuts and
bruises. Miss Davidson also has a |
| fracture of the left arm, a head in-
jury and cuts and bruises. Her con-
| dition was
| first, but the head injury has a
cleared up. "
Neither the man nor the woman
| can give any definite account of the
taccident. They left Tyrone about
| twelve o'clock at night for State
College. They were driving along at
an average speed when their car
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skidded and overturned, Both Trostle |
‘and the girl were pinned under-
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‘time after the accident happened,
‘and securing help, released them and
| rushed them to a doctor at War-
riorsmark. He advised getting them
‘to a hospital as quickly as possible
‘and the Tyrone ambulance Was
| requisitioned to bring them to the
Centre County institution. Both have
good chances for recovery.
| STATE COLLEGE WOMAN HURT
| Mrs. Mary Rimmey, of State Col-
| lege, suffered bruises and contusions
lin an auto accident, near Mill Hall,
last Thursday afternoon, and was
| taken to the Lock Haven hospital
| for treatment.
: Mrs. Rimmey, Mrs. Wilson Rogers
| and Mrs. Carl Hoenstein, all of State
| College,
|a shopping trip. With them were
Mrs. Rogers’ daughter, Mary Eliza-
sister, Mrs. Alice Yeager,
| car broke,
‘against a boulder at the side of the
‘road, Mrs. Rogers and Mrs. Hoenstein
| also suffered cuts and bruises but
| were not seriously hurt. None of the
| others were injured,
| Last Thursday three young wo
| men from Philadelphia, driving a
| Whippet car, had a mishap near
‘Rock Springs when their car skid-
ded into the wire fence at the George
Rossman place, knocking down sev-
era! posts. None of the women were
hurt and they were able to drive the
car to a garage for repairs.
Motoring over Nittany mountain
toward Centre Hall, Saturday eve-
ning, Arthur Corman and daughter,
of Altoona, drove into a rock slide
with sufficient force to overturn
their car. They were not injured but
the car was considerably damaged.
A collision occurred on the State
highway, near the penitentiary, at
noon on Tuesday, between a car
driven by LeRoy Gleason, of Shamo-
kin, and an autobus in charge of
Paul Chamon, of Lewistown, Gleason
had with him as a passenger L. J.
Fletcher, of Peoria, Ill. All three
men suffered injuries but not suffi-
cient to send them to a hospital.
Both the car and autobus were con-
| siderably damaged.
Two boys are in the Centre County
hospital with broken legs sustained,
on Tuesday, by being hit by autos.
William Solt, 9 years old, of Axe
Mann, has a compound fracture of
the left leg below the knee, and Wil-
liam Packer, 8 years old, of Fleming,
also has a fracture of the left leg
below the knee.
ESCAPED PRISONER
THOUGHT TO BE IN CANADA
have recently been elected to mem-
bership in Alpha Lambda Delta, hen-
orary scholastic fraternity at the
College. To be eligible for the honor
students must have an average grade
2.5 or better. The highest grade pos-
sible is “3.”
—The Penn State base ball team
will open the season on Beaver field
on Saturday, April 9. St. Francis
college will be their opponents.
as critical, at|
neath the car. A young man living | 3
nearby discovered the two some |
beth, Mrs. Hoenstein's sons, and Mrs. | of
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of the liquor laws.
costs, a total of $289.25, are paid.
tions have
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MEEK'S CEMETERY ASSO,
be filled, as well as
for other
the prison buildings.
"ASKED CHANGE OF VENUE.
First Time Such a Demand Has Been
Made in History of Rockview Pen-
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$100 fine and costs and serve two
months to a year in jail for violation
granted on condition the fine and
Notice was also filed that applica-
been made for parole
hearings for Guy Coll and Roy Hee-
Another parole requested was for
Andrew Billy, who has been in the
work house for fourteen months be-
cause of failure to pay a court order
for $30 a month for the support of
his wife and child, The court order
was reduced to $15 a month for the
support of the child and parole
granted to become effective when
arrangements have been made for
the payment of the costs in the case.
TO BE REORGANIZED
It will be of interest to those hav-
call will be issued for all interested
to gather at the cemetery for the
purpose of choosing officers and pro-
viding for its permanent endowment.
All but one, J. Milo Campbell, of
State College, of its trustees have
died and it is imperative the vacan-
provision
contingencies that
soon as the weather settles. It will
include another new cell block at the
west end of the quadrangle, refor-
estation on the water shed, a new
——E, J. Thompson Esq. of Phil-
|ipsburg, has been elected president
of the Clearfield-Centre counties
baseball league for the coming sea-
son.
| Money to be Used to Pay Indebted-
ness and Build Nurses Home
The board of directors of the Cen-
| tre County hospital makes official
| announcement, this week, of the
mortgage gold bonds dated April 1,
1932, and payable April 1, 1852. They
will be free of State tax and the in-
‘the terest payable October 1st and April
| 1st. Principal and interest payable
|at the First National bank of State
trustee. The bonds will be
!for sale at the following banks on
(and after April 1st:
of
|of Spring Mills;
| bank of Millheim;
| bank, of Port Matilda.
| property ownad by the hospital.
As an investment: The
been approved by M, Ward Fleming,
Judge of the court of common pleas,
and has the endorsement, with the
promise of a whole-hearted support,
‘of virtually all the bankers of the
county, except Philipsburg, which
has a hospital of it's own.
Property value:
and equipment of the Centre County
hospital is estimated at $150,000.00,
and the addition of the $40,000.00 for
the nurse's home will increase the
value to $190,000.00.
With the growth of the hospital,
and to keep its high standard in
taking care of the sick, and to have
‘that it is absolutely necessary to
apart from the hospital.
ABSCONDING HOTEL CLERK
RETURNS AND SURRENDERS
Fred Loveland, who for two years
or more held the position of chief
clerk at the Penn Belle hotel, and
who departed very suddenly, on the
evening of January 25th, for parts
unknown and was joined the same
evening by Peggy Dyke, a married
woman, returned, last Thursday, and
surrendered to chief of police Yougel,
at State College, where he was
| wanted for embezzlement of $960.70
from the Pennsylvania Greyhound
Bs company, for which he was
agent at the College, He was held
in $2500 bail for trial at court, his
father, J. Blaine Loveland, of Mans-
field, Pa., and J. C. Jodon, of Belle-
fonte, going on his bond.
Since the return of Loveland it
develops that county authorities had
trace of the fugitive pair almost from
the time they left Bellefonte but
never were able to overtake them,
although on one occasion they came
within three hours of it. It will be
recalled that when the two left
Loveland went in his own car and
Mrs. Dyke in hers. Loveland’s car
was abandoned at Port Matilda and
the pair continued their trip in the
woman's car.
They went east then south as far
as Tampa, Fla. Their money begin-
ning to run low and no employment
in sight they struck north. At Rich-
mond, Va., they went to the post-
office to mail a letter and officers
there recognized Mrs. Dyke and
her under arrest. Loveland
woman's car and got out of Rich-
to make as to the date for such a who took him to State College and
gathering or anything else of benefit | surrendered him to the authorities.
to the cemetery are advised to com- |the Dyke woman. It is understood,
municate with Mr. Campbell. His ad- | has been released by Richmond
dress is State College authorities and at last reports was
— stranded in that city.
stock of
distribution among the needy, has
been honored and the wheat has been
sent to a mill in Indiana for grinding
into flour. The allotment will be be-
tween 500 and 600 barrels and the
shipment should reach Bellefonte
some time next week. Officials of
State College and Philipsburg chap-
ters, having failed to make a re-
quisition, are anxious to secure a
portion of the Bellefonte shipment,
but as it will not be more than is
needed in this locality it is hardly
likely that a division will be made.
First National Bank of Bellefonte, ! routine,
| College, and People's National bank |; oq
= | of State College; First National bank | —A plea of nolo contendre was entered
‘of Centre Hall; First National bank | peore U. S. Judge Albert W. Johnson,
Farmer's National |g; Scranton, Thursday by Harry Cohen,
Rebersburg Na-
tional bank of Rebersburg; First Na-
| tional bank of Howard; Community assets totaling 380.000 in a banieupey
The purpose of issue: The $70,000,-
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| 00 bonds are to liquidate a $30,000.00
( mortgage against the hospital and
|to build a nurse's home at an ap-
| proximate cost of $40,000.00, on the,
issue of
| this $70,000.00, 69; gold bonds has
The real estate
have a nurse's home, separate and
ran out of the office, jumped into the
$1,000,000. Calvin R. Armstrong was
president of the Lock Haven Trust and
W. 8. Harris of the Clinton. Deposits of
the merged banks totaled $3,000,000.
—Ninety-two per cent of the 27,111 ar-
rests made by the State highway patrol
in 1981 for various violations of the vehi-
cle code resulted in convictions, accord-
ing to the annual report of Captain wil.
C. Price, superintendent of that organ-
ization. The patrol is under the direct
supervision of the Secretary of Revenue.
—Five hundred and sixty-six employees
ws | engaged in construction of the Pymatun-
| ing Reservoir have 2391 dependents, Lew-
is BE. Staley, Secretary of Forests and
Waters, said. There are 479 laborers with
112 dependents, 27 foremen and fillers with
70 dependents, 10 office workers with 30
dependents and 22 construction and tract-
or workers with 75 dependents.
| —Walt Bridges was costing Bedford
| county more and more every day so they
| jet him out of jail. Because he couldn't
| pay $6.09 taxes, he'd been incarcerated
| since January 25 when the county com-
| missioners ordered him released. He hur-
{rid back to his farm where work had
| been piling up as he stayed in jail, his
| board bili mounting at 65 cents a day
| till it totaled $39.
| —Thomas Fitzgerald, Towanda barber,
| who recently found $10,200 his mother
| had hoarded in their home there is again
| at work in his shop, Fitagerald said the
! money was making no change in his
adding that besides attending to
business he also was taking
care of “farm duties.” Later in the year,
| Fitagerald said, he is going on an ex-
tended visit to Ireland. He plans to sail
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| retail shoe dealer of Williamsport and
Sunbury, to the charge that he concealed
| case two years ago. Cohen had heen con-
| victed of the charge a year ago but was
granted a new trial. Following his plea
Judge Johnson suspended sentence, but
ordered the defendant to pay costs not
exceeding $300. ?
—~J, R. McClure, Lawrence county
game protector, was acquitted of an ex-
tortion charge by direction of the court
on Saturday. McClure arrested Ralph W.
Boyd for hunting without a license.
Boyd's father paid the $20 fine and 2
costs and took a receipt. The prosecu-
tion claimed McClure could not collect
the fine and costs without a hearing.
Judge Thomas W. Watson, in directing
acquittal, said that such officers have
authority to collect and give receipts,
—Arthur C. Dale, chairman of the
Workmen's Compensation Board, on Tues-
day announced that attorneys represent-
ing claimants in cases before the board
will not be permitted to charge excessive
fees. When the board learns an excessive
fee has been charged, steps will not only
be taken to effect a refund, but the of-
fender will be debarred from further ap-
pearance before the board or its referees.
|an efficient training school for stu- |, ,
Lo | repayment of fees deemed excessive, Dale
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said.
Juvenile delinquents know now what
Mayor McCloskey, of Johnstown, meant
when he sald recently: Boys under 16
will not be incarcerated in the city Jail.
He meant something worse than jail, two
of them protested on Saturday. Juveniles
went on the rampage recently with a
series of store thefts. They were arrest-
ed but McCloskey refused to permit their
incarceration, One of the young offenders,
however, is busy cleaning the cellar of
a store he robbed; another has to sweep
out nights after the store closes. They'll
all serve time at hard work with no pay.
| “1 did not mean they would not be pun-
| ished,” the mayor explained.
—While playing in an abandoned house
that had been vacant three years, John
Collins and Charles Tonuitis, 12 years
old, of Girardville, found a sack of
money that had been hidden in an old
mattress, the property of Misses Bridget
and Mary Barry, both deceased. The
money was in various denominations and
was said to amount to several hundred
dollars. The youths turned the money
over to the police, who in turn present-
ed it to a cousin, John Cleary. of Big
Mine Run, near Girardville. The paper
money, which was of the old style, show-
ed that it had been stored away in the
mattress for a long time and no doubt
forgotten by the women, who died in
poverty.
—Fire practically destroyed the plant
of the Elk Tanning company, at Curwens-
ville, last Thursday night. The loss is
estimated at $100,000. Only a small grind-
ing shed and the boiler room of the
company were left standing. Several
large buildings filled with hides burned
with their contents. The fire broke out at
8:30 p. m. in a shed 60 | y 150 feet. The
origin is unknown. It quickly spread and
responded to the call for assistance, but
only the boiler room and grinding shed
could be saved. The sheds were filled with
and finished hives. A crew of 80
men have been employed there five days
a week. A building 50 by 70 feet practi-
cally filled with finished leather hides
ready for shipment, was totally destroy-
ed. It is uncertain as to whether the
plant will be rebuilt.
| —Two Lock Haven men were acquitted
| and two were found guilty on charges of
conspiring to {ntimidate a government
witness against them in a liquor case by
a jury in federal court at Scranton, on
| Wednesday. The men adjudged not guil-
ty were Martin Peters and
william Devlin. . Detective David L.
Probst and patrolman Webb were found
guilty, The jury, which returned its ver-
dict shortly after 11 a. m. after deliber-
ating since 5 o'clock Tuesday afternoon,
recommended extreme mercy for the two
men found guilty. Probst, Devlin, Peters
and Webb were charged with conspiring
to “frame” Frank Hedges, a Lock Hav-
en barber, who gave testimony against
them before a federal grand jury iast
May in a dry law case. Judge Albert L.
Watson deferred the imposition of sen-
terice on Probst and Webb when defense
attorneys made known they would ask
for a new trial.
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