a fly. The minnow
reporting the only
worth mentioning tonight.
SPAWLS FROM THE XEYSTONE
——
~The thirtieth gas well to come in in
Tioga county is on the Charles Thomas
operation of the East Penn Development
company, in Farmington township. The
flow is estimated at 22,000,000 feet.
—Thomas Sobloski, 40, a miner, of
Saltsburg, tied several sticks of dyna-
mite to his body, on Saturday, and blew
himself to bits. Sobloski was employed
in the Seeart mine at Saltsburg. He was
unmarried.
—William A. Vensel, 26, of Wilkins
burg, who charged his wife objected to
his acting as a Sunday school superin-
tendent, was granted a divorce in common
pleas court in Pittsburgh on Friday from
Mrs. Helen Bond Vensel.
—When the Mountain City Trust com-
pany, of Altoona, made a 4 per cent
payment to depositors, Leonard P. Fa-
| sick, of Wehnwood, received a check for
| one cent, representing the amount due on
The Supreme court having declar- Property Owners Anxious to Know Last Friday's Philadelphia papers |a long forgotten deposit of four cents in
ed the Talbot bill passed at the spe-' When They'll Get Their Pay For carried the announcement of a di-| the closed bank.
cial session of the Legislature ap- Buildings. vorce having been granted, on Thurs- | —Grover Fleck, 88, a driver for the
— | propriating ten million dollars for | et |day, to Virginia Bell Hiller Norris | American Express company, at Philips-
“One of the first things I'll do, if the relief of the unemployed in the, The owners of the three properties from her husband, Septimus Edward burg, committed suicide shortly after 9
1 am elected,” Seciares Set Smed- State, as constitutional, Centre coun- bo Jileghesy street Which Seve been | Nora, of that city. Mrs. Norris is o'clock on Monday, shooting himself
pick ley Darlington er in speech | ty will receive as it's allotment $9,- y selected asthe or the | the est daughter Of the late| through the head with a .23 calibre rifle.
When loping Pig 8 the supposed i Bellefonte last Saturday after- 295. | new postoffice building in Bellefonte | pr, ous RB oD Blanche Hayes | Overburdening financial obligations were
Siauappe Eg h Lindbergh oe aa a autive |” ue vaoney is “wo be. paid gill thejure becoming deservedly restless over | Hiller, of Chester. Her mother, prior | ¥IY°n as cause for this action.
Was. ot. 3 with of nis Membership of the United States overseers of the poor to be used at the delay in Washington in taking to her marriage, made her home| —The winner of the 1923 Atlantic City
WD wt decile Wit | Senate 10 _ (ome into Ey IVor | co aiccretion. In Centre. county (Over the properties snd paying OF | oe al Vian: Wilson, of Belle. | eouty pageant-ilrs. Imbelle line
and make inquiry into unemployment
| same and are quite anxious to know | | prefers a one-third share of her husband,
stuck to the C. O. D. plan, for men | gor iti chore there are 36 boards of overseers of : fonte. | Frederick G. Nixon-Nirdlinger, late of
| Gen. Smedley Butler Deplored Pres-
| ent Conditions in Speech Here on
afternoon,
them, Many that we have heard or
read certainly justify such an infer-|
ence.
just what is being done if anything.
or women who woul the poor and if the above sum were ’ | It was on December 6th, 1927,
9s Vomieis WHO YOild RiSvap 3 US| CT wash tiie fouste and hear, 10 | to. be: divides stumlly agent mere Jo far as the Watchman has been when Miss Hiller, then 18 years old, leu of the OA
parents a minor matter. themselves, the underlying reasons | districts it would mean but 20 able to learn nothing definite has and Mr. Norris, 16, eloped to Media | residue provided for her in the former
why a great army of able-bodied a district, but the allotment will not been done up to this time. A dispatch where they were married. The elope- | theatre owner's will.
—President Hoover must have workers is jobless in this State.” from Washington, last Thursday, ment was carried out because the
be made in that way. —With the price of haircuts at Mones-
read the Watchman's leading edi- them -hand
torial iast week. On Sunday he of- ar ash | as Lo, Se pe of
fered to serve for the next four goer coal miners are either complete-
years as a dollar-a-year man. Offer- 1y jgle or working a day or two a
ing to knock $74,999.00 dollars off ae)
his annual stipend is a very pretty «1 want the Senators to look upon
, but the present temper of (j5e] mills and factories, abandon-
He sons LB to the effect that his oq quarries, brick plants and lumber-
ces would still come too highat jpg plants, and find out for them-
a dollar a year. selves why these one-time prosper-
—After having persuaded Gen. ous enterprises are now in the grip
Butler to enter the lists against Dav- of an industrial palsy.
js for the United States Senate, it “One big reason why many of our
that Gov. Pinchot is about producers have hung the “closed
to let him paddle his own canoe. The sign on their plants is the railroad
Governor hasn't gotten cold feet. He
has his own eye on the Senate and if Pennsylvania has been and is now
Butler should win now that bubble subjected.
would be pricked. He | “It is the paramount duty of a
claim that the western end of Pennsylvania Senator to wade into
the State is not entitled to both situations like this and get a square
| deal for the products of the State.
| He should not confine his
to special interests of the
ie
—Charles B. Hall, Republican
of the Seventh ward of Phila-|
and retired member of the
ie” He ought to fight harder for
“little fellows,” because they
people with piffile and prom-
Butler and party, which in-
Judge Joseph Stadtferd and
Flinn, of Pittsburgh, cam: to
Bellefonte direct from Clearfield.
They were in charge of Bond C.
White and had lunch at The Mark-
land.
ing was comfortably filled when the
made their appearance at
1:30 o'clock.
Mr. White presided and at his re-
quest Major H. Laird Curtin intro-
any who have been in contact with duced Capt. Flinn, candidate for
cluded
gsdfid
gic
HE
invited and frequently of
initiative they have come
county to cheer Democratic hopes
and arouse enthusiasm. We challenge
freight descrimination to which)
activities
“big fel-
it most. He shouldn't try to
Under the provisions of the bill,
the allocation to districts will be
made on the basis of the unempl |
ed as reported at the time the act |
was passed. As a number of dis-
tricts in the county did not report
any unemployed at the time they
will not share in the division of the
fund, while those districts which |
did report unemployed will share in
the fund on the basis of idle men at |
that time. Just how the money will |
be paid over has not been decided |
‘at this writing. !
Since the above was put in type,
a new allocation of the fund has |
been made. Centre county is credited |
with 3822 unemployed and has been
apportioned $26,060 for the months
of December, January and February.
That's something worth while.
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GOVERNOR PINCHOT SHOT
UP THE WRONG TREE
On Monday Governor Pinchot
wrote a lengthy letter to the board
‘of trustees of the Huntingdon re-
formatory, . of which Miss Mary
| Blanchard, of Bellefonte, is president, |
| demanding an explanation as to why |
three convicts were released prema-
turely and illeging that he had been
| informed that from
cash had been expended in the trans-
action.
| Jersey, BE ie he Gor
| ernor, had been convicted and sen-
| tenced to the reformatory for five
| years for beating into unconscious-
ness an employee of a gasoline sta-
| tion and robbing the station. They
| were sent to the reformatory some
i
stated that owing to the necessity of bride's mother was planning to take
retrenchment in expenditures during her to Europe to break up the love
the ensuing year the public building tangle with Norris.
program will have to be considerably The couple have one child, a son,
curtailed. A list of preferential ap- who had been named Richard Cooper
ons was then given which Norris, after an uncle, but in April,
was followed with a list of twenty- 1931, the parents petitioned the
two new postoffice buildings in court to have the name changed to
Pennsylvania for which the Secre- S. Edward Norris Jr., after itsfath-
Un She Treqa UT mae no pref- oF. .A2 the records in the divorce
on for an ap- were impounded grounds
popriation, and included in the latter pre the an a. Lot dis-
list was the Bellefonte postoffice. | closed.
The following day (Friday) anoth- Norris, it is alleged, has achieved
er dispatch from Washington an- more or less success as a movie
nounced that “The secretary of Rep- actor at Holywood, having doubled
resentative J. Mitchell Chase, Con- for Charles Rogers, in “Wings” and
gressman from the Twenty-third | taken a part in the filming of “Beau
district, announced that he had been | Sabreur.” Mrs. Norris and child are
informed by the Treasury Depart- with her mother, at Chester.
out tat bids for the new postoffice |
onte probably would be ad- RELLEFONTE'S RAL
vertised for late in June or early in| TROUT A
July. Q M GETS
“Plans and specifications for the ¥ su yor
building, to cost not more than $125,- | Bellefonte's natural trout aquari-
um, Spring creek, opposite the
000, are now being drawn by the
supervising architect's office,” he Watchman office, got a new supply
of fish on Monday. They were
added..
“The Treasury Department said” brought here direct from the . ponds
concluded the sécretary, “that con- ‘of the Mount Pleasant hatchery in
for the site accordance with the promise of the
way will not delay either 'gecretary of the fish commission,
Oliver B. Deibler. There were some
seventy-five or eighty of them, rang-
|
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to the statute provides that the work | ing in size from twelve to sixteen
BAY ahead and the contr OVersy | inches or longer. adi 5a Yen i
and with due ceremony were dump-
ed into the creek just below the
falls. They evidently had not been
Regarding the above it might be
added that up to the present time
no condemnation proceedings have
been started in the courts of Centre)
county to obtain possession of the
three properties, and attorneys rep-
fed for a day or two because they
had not been in the water any length
of time until they began to jump at
| 15 cents—tonic free—
| the barbers’ price war has spread to
| other lines with the following quotations:
Shoe shino, five cents: pool, two and
a half cents a game: 50
| cents a suit—called for and delivered.
| Barbers are selling family tickets for
| tonsorial services.
| —Fred D. Felt, a $15-a-week doorman
| at a Norristown theatre, pleaded guilty
{in Federal court to charges of evading
| payment of $51,360.81 in income taxes for
11925, 1926 and 1927. Feit, once a million-
| aire Philadelphia theatre owner, agreed
to pay the government $3,000 within two
years in order to stay out of jail. The
government accepted the offer,
—A proposed western journey of two
run-away girls was nipped in the bud at
Hagerstown, Md., on Tuesday, by detect-
ive William Peters, who a
Thelma Himes, 18 years old, and Minnie
Murschel, 14, both of Lewistown, Pa. The
young girls, who left their homes on Fri-
day, said they were en route to the west.
Police in Lewistown as well as the par-
ents of the girls were notified.
—Burglars early on Sundcy adopted a
new method of robbing a chain store in
West Grove, 15 miles from West Chester,
After breaking into the store, they car-
ried a heavy safe containing more than
$500 out to their machine. Unable to
get it into the car, they tied it behind
the machine and dragged it a mile out-
side of the town. The rifled safe, with
papers scattered about, was found by:
church-goers. dedied
—The number of messages transmitted
by the police teletype system, under the
supervision of the Pennsylvania
lice, reached a new high record during
March, when a total of 5238 official po-
lice messages were handled. While the
Lindbergh kidnapping had a consderable
| influence toward this increase, police
| ascribe it largely to an increased interest
| on the part of local officers in all parts
‘of the State.
the gentlemen to name a single oc- | Auditor General, as the first speak-| time in July, 1931, and were released
casion when their utterances, either er. The captain talked on the pres- | on August 13th, 1931. | resenting the property owners have
poo pia war 2 riged on Mgh coo waling (ae Sale| "rue Gover charged, 0, WI Tne!" Sity one 0 4 | ot str hy gn ty rom he SE ey
| : | . , | turn is back to a o of the -
rather than for their personal po- | dollar to audit every $190 of Stale | wijiam R. Dosghas and several Io the meantime all the properties | .qge of the stream so Tre was 10 ler Brothers 101 Ranch Circus, when it
litleal fortubes. | money. He promised a much Detter | others were active in securing the | have been vacated and the OWRErS w.u of telling how they were receiv- exhibited in Pittsburgh two years fH
—A noted eye specialist has link- | pro rata if elected. release, and that Mrs, Edna Me- 3" out the income they vould |e by the big trout already there. | was awerded $2600 damages by & JU
ed up farsightedness with criminal | Judge Stadtfeld was introduced as | Green, of Westfield, N. J., an alleg have derived from the tanants, 3 | at Pittsburgh on Friday. Although the
tendencies in the human being. He the second speaker by Mr. White. i tive of Vare, was the intermedi- | thus they have just ease 0 i m- | SPATE COLLEGE TO GET circus now is in the hands of eeu.
says that an examination of the in- The judge stated that his candidacy ,,.. and handled the money. |ing restless over the delay and un-| C OF __ | ers 1t is claimed Fisher can co ec fie
mates of our penal institutions re- was opposed by W. S. Vare and the 1 nis letter to the members of | certainty. ARGO FREE FLOUR amount through a bond posted by e
veals that a very large percentage of | Philadelphia organization because | | show when he filed suit.
them are far sighted ee number | P Zan the board the Governor demanded Major Eugene H. Lederer, burgess _ yi. Mary E. Wilson, 40, was sen-
they wanted a hand-picked candidate |
an immediate and complete explana- | of State College, has been notified 8 i refo
that are near ted are as | of their own elevated bench. | tenced to serve a year in a rmatory
to ki os nrll 0.50 Tow as . 10 tie bend tion; an attested copy of the min- | by the officials of the National Red when she plead guilty in federal - court
: fice wind At the request of Mr. White Gen. utes of the meeting at which the re- | Cross, at Washington, that his appli- | in Pittsburgh, last weak, of charges of
we ean a i Te Ie cation for a car load of flour has | misapplication of funds of the First Na-
Butler was introduced by Hon. PhilE. , was granted, names of the
Womelsdorf, of Philipsburg. The Sate ’ he
| members of the board present at the | been honored and the same will be | tional bank of Ebensburg. All the money
nearly three squares away, and then meeting lasted only about forty min- | es and a report B to the al- might occur in this section of the | shipped frdm Chicago in the near | Miss Wilson told Judge Nelson McVicar,
can't see the face of the watch in utes and the Butler spellbinders lost || ed payment of money to procure State later in the spring fire wardens | future. | was spent for living expenses of herself
our hand, when we look to see if it|no time in departing for Jersey . = 1 ce of the three men. | held meetings at Milesburg and Snow
flies and bugs which drifted down
—G. A. Fisher, a Roanoke, Va., steel
over the falls. Unfortunately the | yorker, who was hurled 15 to 18 feet
————— A —————.
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FOREST FIRE WARDENS
HOLD TWO MEETINGS IN
LINE OF CONSERVATION
Anticipating any forest fires which
| and family.
specifically for the misapplication of $7.-
= She was indicted in Erie,
is right, this dope about farsighted- | Shore. The Red Cross chapter at the Col
ness being indicative of criminal
‘tendencies is rather disturbing.
—1In referring to Dr. Tom Orbi-
son’s connection with the Fortescue-!
Massie trial in Honolulu a contempo- |
rary describes him as “the most color- |
ful of the seven alienists in the case.”
When we read that reference we
wondered whether the writer knew
what a perfect picture of Tom he
had painted. There isn't an adjective |
in the English language that por-
trays our distinguished friend more
consummately than “colorful.” In ad-
dition to personal characteristics
that were unusual his complexion
and his hair were a shade of pink
we have never seen matched. Even
the famed pink whiskers of Senator |
Ham. Lewis, in their most resplend-
ent days, were drab in comparison
‘to Tom's hair.
—At midnight twenty-one years
ago one couldn't walk on the pave-
ment from the High street bridge to m—————
the falls of Sprig fog the BIG DAMAGES ASKED BY
Watchman office. inch of | RINTIN
space was pre-empted by expectant DUNMIRE P. G CO:
fishermen. It was the spring thatthe The Dunmire Printing company, of
big flood on Logan's branch swept | Altoona, on Monday, instituted pro-
most of the breeders from the hatch- ceedings against H. C. Dunmire and
ery pools near Pleasant Gap. Word | Harold B. Dunmire, the two men who
of their release had swept over the | recently opened a job printing office
State and disciples of the Waltonian in the basement of the Bellefonte
sport swarmed in Bellefonte thicker | postoffice building, seeking $8000
than the locusts that plagued Egypt damages and a permanent injunction
in Bible times. With each fisherman | restraining them from participating
there was at least one bottle, with in the printing business within cer-
many there were two or three, all | tain prescribed limits of Altoona.
standing sentinel along the curb, It According to the charges in the
was such a sight as we had never petition filed in Hollidaysburg the
seen before and never will again, for | Dunmires have violated a contract
that section of the great stream ia | entered into when the Dunmire
closed and closed, also, are the | Printing company was taken over on
sources from which flowed the indis- | October 1st, 1926, by the present
pensable exhilaration of the fisher- | operators, H. Melvin Himes and John
man of two decades ago. { T. Davis.
EDWARDS BUS COMPANY
HAS MADE APPLICATION
FOR INTRASTATE RIGHTS
The Edward’s Motor Transit com-
pany, which now operates interstate
service between the western part of
the State and New York city, has an
application now pending before the
Public Service Commission for a cer-
tificate for intrastate rights. The
Edward's company now operates
through service from Sharon, Pa.,
to New York city by way of Philips-
burg, Port Matilda, Bellefonte, Lock
Haven, Williamsport, Pottsville and
Tamaqua, The application is opposed
by the Johnson Motor Bus company,
the
the Golden Arrow Coach company
and Carson and Lose, all operating
local bus service in the central part
of the State.
Fullington Auto Bus Company, |
| Herr on Tuesday and one copy was
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The Governor got an answer soon-
|er than he expected and it didn't |
| come from the board, but from Judge |
| Thomas F. Bailey, of Huntingdon,
who imposed the original sentence
(and who granted the parole. Accord-
|ing to Judge Bailey the boys were
|all High school students, of Plain-
| field, N. J, and members of good
| families. Instead of robbing they had
| taken a car without the owner's p.r-
| mission and gone for a drive. When
the facts were made clear to the
Judge he granted the parole, and he
denies there was any money used.
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DATE FOR EXECUTION
i OF FRED COLLINS WILL
LIKELY BE NAMED SOON |
Fred Collins, the moronotic negro
inmate of the psychopathic ward at
Rockview penitentiary who, on Jan-
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Shoe, last Friday evening.
The meeting at Milesburg was
held in Wetzler's band hall and over
125 people were in attendance. In-
structive talks on the best extinction
methods to be adopted in case of
fire, and proper conservation of the
woodlands were made by James E.
Swartz, an overseer on the Tama-
rack fire tower; assistant forester i if
C. Williams, inspector Ira Hall, game
protector Thomas A. Mosier, district
forester Charles Hoagland, Hon. x
Laird Holmes and Gecrge H. Wirt,
of Harrisburg, chief forest fire war-
den.
At Snow Shoe the meeting was
held in the High school auditorium
with over two hundred present.
The speakers there were State
Senator Harry B. Scott, of Philips-
burg; Lewis E., Staley, who succeed-
ed Charles E. Dorworth as Secretary
of Forests and Waters; game super-
|
uary 13th, assaulted and murdered
‘Miss Elizabeth Hickok, will likely |
soon have his expressed desire
to “sit in the hot chair” satisfied. |
It will be recalled that Collins was |
convicted and sentenced to death in- |
side of five hours on February 25th. |
The court records were forwarded to
Harrisburg within ten days but the
Governor asked for the testimony in
the case. Acting on a court order
two copies of the testimony were
transcribed by court reporter Gilbert
S. Burrows. The testimony was re-
ceived by prothonotary S. Claude
mailed to the Governor that day.
| Tha fact that the Governor seem-
ell anxious to get all the records in
the case is taken as evidence that he
will name the day for Collins’
electrocution without much delay. So
far as known no legal steps will be
taken to delay the execution.
visor John B. Ross, of Lock Haven;
H. A. Seeley, division engineer on
the New York Central railroad; Prof.
Stetler, principal of the Snow Shoe
schools; D. R. Thomas, observer on
the Snow Shoe tower; T. C. Williams
and Ira Hall
Considerable enthusiasm was man-
ifested among those in attendance at
both meetings and if the occasion
arises there will likely be no trouble |
in enlisting a force of fire fighters in|
eich of the districts represented.
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Six weeks Or more #go an un-
known hunter killed a deer in an
open field, near Dale's Summit, cut
out the hind quarters and left the
rest of the carcass lie on the ground,
where it was discovered shortly
after by the resident on the farm. Tt
is just possible the deer was killed
by somebody who needed the meat
for his family.
lege will take care of those in need
in the townships of Patton, Fergu-
son, Harris, Gregg, Potter, Penn,
Haines and the boroughs of Centre
Hall and Millheim. Burgess Lederer
has communicated to the overseers
of the poor in all the above districts
and has been furnished lists of the
families entitled to aid.
— Dr. Thomas J. Orbison, of Los
Angeles, California, who has been
as expert alienist in the
Fortesque-Massie trial in Honolulu,
was born and raised in Bellefonte.
Dr. Orbison is recognized as one of
the foremost alienists in the world.
He is a son of the late Mrs. Nancy
J. Orbison and the family home here
was the property on street
now occupied by the W. M. Bottorf
family.
——A log summer house and wood
shed on the farm occupied by Lyman
White, near the Zion cemetery, were
destroyed by fire on Tuesday eve-
ning, with a loss of $500. The Logan
fire company went down and render-
ed material aid in saving the farm
house and other buildings.
—— Both fire companies were call- |
ed out about twelve o'clock, Satur-
day night, by a slight fire at the
home of Mack Longwell, on east
High street. The fire evidently orig-
inated from a defective flue and was
confined to the kitchen. It was ex-
tinguished with chemicals.
—At an adjourned session of bor-
ough council, Monday evening, it was
definitely decided to advertise for
bids for the repair of the Bellefonte
reservoir along the lines recommend-
ol by borough engineer H. B. Shat-
|
| 817. She was employed by the bank as a
| bookkeeper and assistant trust officer.
{ om of his 22-year-old wile,
Eva, who left their home clad only in
| pajamas and a light coat, was reported
| to police, on Tuesday, by Car! Rath, 25,
| of Wilkinsburg. He said he believed she
| was kidnapped by burglars when she
went to her kitchen to obtain food for
her infant son. Rath said he was awaken-
ed by the child's cries. Lights were on
in the first floor rooms and the front
door was open. There was no trace of
the wife and the only clothing missing
were the pajamas and coat.
—Mrs. Mollie Nash, of" DuBois, has
gone to court to recover her false teeth
for the sake of her digestion. Filing suit
against Dr. Herman C. Rothman, a dent-
charged with the stealing
a gold bridge of three teeth which she
left for repairs, Mrs. Nash pleaded for a
. “I'm suffering from nervous
teeth and its
she told the
assistant district
get those teeth. I don't want to buy a
new set, if I can get my teeth back.”
The prosecutor promised s& speedy trial
in an effort to help her recover the im-
portant adjuncts to her physical well-
peing. Rothman was indicted immediate-
ly and released in $800 bail. The teeth
had a value of $77.
—Reuben Shook, aged 40 years, of Mon-
toursville road, his son, Luther Shook,
aged 20 years, of Nisbet, and John Maley,
aged 34 years, of Barbours, all of Ly-
coming county, were gentenced in the
Montour county court on Tuesday, to
from 10 to 20 years each in the eastern
penitentiary for the hold-up of the Ex-
change National bank, in October of last
year. They were also fined $1,000 each
and costs. Judge Charles Evans, of Mon-
tour county, who imposed sentence, told
the trio he was. sorry that the Ludlow
law prevented him from giving them more
than 20 years. Luther Shook’'s young
bride, whom he married since the rob-
bery, wept after the sentence was passed.
None of the $1,163 loot was recovered.