INK SLINGS. BY GEORGE R. MEEK. —Burt Shottons’ Phillies have got- ten away to a start that indicates ‘that the National league might well begin advertising a basement apart- ment for rent. ~—We predict that the stock mark- et will soon stop going down, Not that we have any inside tips. Merely because it has such a short distance to go and is falling so fast. i —Pity the poor President. The Woman's National Committee for | Law Enforcement has just notified him that he can't run as a dry on a | wet platform and Mr. Hoover was! ‘Just getting ready to try that very —This Mr. Ivar Kruger, the Sweedish match king, seems to be | ee Allotment to be Made to Districts by | County Commissioners at Earliest Possible Date. | — | Centre county has received its first | allotments from the ten million dol- | STATE ESCAPED PRISONER DRAWS 18 TO 36 YEARS ADDITIONAL SENTENCE How would you like to have a 36 to 54 years penitentiary sentence staring you in the face after you had served almost 23 years behind barred doors? That is the situation confronting Henry Lehna, an escap- a person to whose memory the much lar Talbot fund appropriated at the oq Rockview prisoner sentenced by vaunted financiers of the world Special session of the Legislature. | Judge Fleming on Saturday. When should doff their hats. Incidentally, The first check, $3,509.94, was re- no wag 29 years old Lehna was con- they were the cheese for the Sweed- ish Mickey Mouse. —Governor Pinchot had to have more clerks in his office because as! he says: “Five times as many speeches are required of me as of Governor Fisher.” If he would stop | inciting his wife and his political | lickspittles to run for office he could | reduce the demand for his speeches about five hundred per cent. ceived on Saturday by the County | Commissioners and promptly turned | over to the County Treasurer. It | was to cover relief for the month of December. Another check for $7,- 199.83 was received on Tuesday for | the months of January and Febru-' ary, and it, also, was turned over to the County Treasurer. The big question confronting the | Commissioners now is the proper al- | lotment of the money on the basis of | victed in the Crawford county court of keeping a young girl chained to a tree where he kept her for im- moral purposes. As that was prior to the passage of the’ Ludlow act he | was sentenced to the penitentiary for 55 years. When the Ludlow act was | passed his sentence was automatical- ly reduced to 36 years. In due course of time he was transferred from the western penitentiary, at Pittsburgh, to Rockview and, on December 29th, —George M. Graham, president of | Unemployed during the three months | 1955 after serving 18 years, he es- Rockne Motor's Corporation told the Senate finance committee, on Mon- day, that the automobile industry “is sicker right now than it has ever | been since its start.” He probably told the truth, but the industry he | represents is like the young people of | our country, they came into exist- ence in the golden era and are hav- ing their first taste of hard timea. Necessarily it is an awful dose. —E. G. Richardson, president of the Anti-Saloon League of America, to the Methodists of Pennsylva- Jer is dry, without apology or equiv- ‘ocation,” In his opening speech of the —On Monday we met Merv. Betz on the street and he was “all het up” over his prospects of election as State committeeman for Centre sail convention of my party in Chicago, in June. In the language of the late . James G. Blaine it would be “a work of supererogation” for me to tell the readers of this column that I am a Democrat. For thirty-eight years I have been exhorting Republicans to the seat of penitence with more or less success—mostly less, In all that time I have never asked my for a favor for myself. I didn't ask it for the second-fiddle honor that it ‘has now conferred on me. Since I have no opposition the possibilities are that I will be elected. If it should be so I hope that the ore in- ‘dividual in my home town who re- fused to sign the petition that put | my name on the ticket voes against | me. I did more for him when he ran for the most important office he ever sought than he was able to do for himself. I am asking nobody to vote for me. All I want to be sure of is that all ingrates know that I don't : the money is designed to cover. The Commissioners have reports from the boards of auditors in every district in the county but eight. These are fairly correct. However, the Commissioners, at their meeting on Monday, did not definitely decide | returns or have another survey made. They have in mind selecting some responsible man in each district to make a thorough survey and submit a report, but such service would have to he gratuitous as no part of the money is available for adminis- | tration. | The money will be divided among | the various districts on the basis of | | the unemployed during the months :£ whether they would use the auditors’ caped from Rockview and made his way to Lorain, Ohio. In 1927 he was arrested there for breaking, entering years. After serving four wears and eight months he was released, last week, and was brought back to Cen- tre county to answer to the c escaping from Rockview. He | plead guilty and was sentenced to serve a term of 18 to 36 years. As he still has 18 years of his old to serve he has 36 to 54 years in pen confronting him. As he 54 years old this probably that he is in for life. Harry McCullough, who in Febru- ary, 1931, was given two to four years in the Allegheny county 5 : : costs amounting to $88.00. William Winton, of Bellefonte, 4 2 iE s2E 2 the unemployed. According ict of the Legislature the must be spent by the over! seers for ‘shelter, § § 2 ty's total allotment of the fund is $26,080. The amount received, $10, 799.77, is to cover the months of De- cember, leaving $15,269.23 for March, April and May. A ——— A mm—— LOCAL GARDEN CLUB HELD FIRST MEETING LAST WEDNESDAY | The Bellefonte Garden Club held it's initial meeting for 1932 at the home of Mrs. Harry C. Yeager, on north Spring street, on Wednesday’ afternoon of last week. Thirty-three members and one visitor were pres- ent. , Mrs. Gregg Curtin, president of the club, outlined the work in view for the coming summer season and suggested the advisability of ap- pointing committees to look after the various phases of the work. Plans were completed for a joint meeting with the Woman's club in the Presbyterian chapel this (Fri- day) evening, at which time the speaker will be Miss Anna Bright, of Philadelphia, who will exhibit color- ed slides to illustrate her talk on Spring and Lamb pavement on both streets and as soon ground will be club for beautifi- and garden purposes. New members taken into the club included Mrs. Eben Bower, Miss May Crider, Mrs. 8. Claude Herr, Mrs. Newell Long, Mrs, George A. Miller, Mrs. Paul McGarvey and Mrs. Cecil Walker. Mrs. George A, Beezer gave a brief talk on the care of growing delphiniums, and the secretary, Miss A. Blanche Underwood, gave a brief resume of what the club accomplish- ed last year, the first of its exist- ence. Mrs. Curtin told of the books on gardening available to members of the club and Mrs. Yeager, the hostess, exhibited a display of gar- care a damn what they do, | dening tools. January and February, court order child, was dition he to and faithfully comply of the court ually brief and devoid of sational features. $13.58 for old iron sold from the de- molished Lamb street bridge. The Water committee reported va- rious repairs and the collection of $800 on water taxes and $101.20 on rents, etc. Meter bills for the first Guster of 1932 amounted to $1984.- The Finance commitee reported a balance in the borough fund of $1,. 052.78 and $379.28 in the water fund. One note of $1000 was renewed, one for $500 ordered paid and new notes totaling $3,700 authorized. Reporting for the Sanitary com- mittee Mr. Beaver stated that a de- cided nuisance exists in the hollow between Curtin and Beaver streets where a sanitary sewer drain from the Schad houses has been connected with a surface water sewer and drains out on top of ths ground some distance west of Allegheny street. The deposit was likely the cause of so many mosquitoes infest- ing that section of town last sum- mer. The matter was referred to the Sanitary committee to see that the nuisance is abated. The Special committee reported the arrival of a consignment of big trout which were placed in Spring creek, last week, and suggested that the trout ought to be fed until they become acclimated. The question of feeding was left in the hands of the committee. Mr. Jodon called attention to the fact that the floor in the Phoenix mill property is in very bad condition and looks as if tractors with lugs on wheels had been run over it without the protection of plank runways. Referred to the Water committee for investigation, Borough bills amounting to $607 and water bills for $707 were ap- proved for payment, after which council adjourned. ——West Point will be Penn State's baseball opponents, on Beaver field, tomorrow afternoon. house for breaking, entering and RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA. APRIL 22. 1932. NATURE SAVED THE TROUT ON THE OPENING DAY OF THE FISHING SEASON —— CLOSING SPRING CREEK NO. 17. THROUGH BELLEFONTE : TO SAVE THE TROUT Mother nature was kind to the | Several weeks ago a movement trout on the opening day of the fish- was started by a number of residents Not only of Bellefonte interested in the pro- had she flushed the streams almost tection of the big trout in Spring (creek to have the closed portion of | the Stream extended from its pres- ing season, last Friday. full with water but she sent the mercury tumbling below the freez- ing point and the result was that many enhusiastic fishermen lacked the hardihood to go out for the first got few trout. Logan's branch had probably more closing the stream within the bor-| ee at the Kistler tannery, | silk mill footbridge—to a point where |it would afford a larger range for day's sport; while those who did 80 ‘ent limits—the railroad trestle to the the trout. There were some who advocated With a bullet hole in the right tem- ple, the dead body of leonard T. Mc- Elroy, 50, manufacturer, was found in a cottage near Corry. A pistol nearby indicated suicide, ~Using a heavy hammer to crack the safe in the office of the Hilbush Lumber company, at Weight Scales, a short dis tance west of Shamokin, robbers on Sat- urday night stole approximately $10¢ in cash and a nuinber of valuable papers. Blair, of Montgomery, Ala., submitted the low bids for both types of construction of a new federal building at Lewisburg, Pa., offering to build it of limestone and granite for $168,830 and of sandstone and granite for $176,520. There were 18 bids, —Racing forms and $400 in cash were seized and 210 men arrested in a raid on the Fourth Ward Athletic club in the heart of the business district of Chester, on Monday night. Each prisoner was fined $8.50 and costs by Magistrate David Ulrich, in Swarthmore, —Mr. and Mrs. John E. DuBois have completed the legal transfer of 775 acres | of land within and near the borough | limits of DuBois for location of industrial | sites, a flying field and other purposes, | The land includes what has been known | as the Beaver Meadows in the Third | ward of that borough. | —John Jeirles, of Castanea, an employ- Lock Haven, fishermen per mile than any other ough limits while others suggested fell into an alkali vat on Tuesday morn. stream in the county. They were from the breast of the phoenix dam ing but was rescued immediately by fel- probably attracted there in the be- to the end of the tail race leading | !0W workers. He was rushed to the Lock lief that because the Bellefonte fish |out from the Gamble mill. Naturally hachery is located along the stream more trout would be found there. John J. Bower Esq., with his two sons, John and Jimmie, and Jack Yeager composed a party who fished the Branch, Between them they got | opposition developed against both | limits, and protests wera sent in to | Fish Commissioner O. M. Deibler, at Harrisburg, with the result thaf | nothing has been done so far and the closed zone stands as it has been for 19, hardly a good catch for one, the past several years. man. Patsy Bathurst went up Spring creek and the best he could do was land 5, and that was poor fishing for him. Frank T. Kern caught the biggest trout of the day, a 22-inch brown speciman landed on Bald Eagle creek, near Curtin. Joe Baney got three which meas- ured 16, 17 and 18 inches. . Among other catches reported were John Hines, three; “Merry” Connerby one, 16 inches long; Ed- ward and George Brown, dive each; Russel Shuey, 15; Willis Shuey, 20; John Shuey, 15; Robert Valentine, 4; Robert Evey, 15; Morton Smith, 14; trout are not in the streams, but it is more likely that the real cause of the poor luck was weather conditions. Be the reason what it may, however, they'll all be at it again as soon as they get a chance. TELEPHONE COMPANY TO ERECT NEW BUILDING AT STATE COLLEGE Plans are being prepared for a Telephone central office building to be erected at 224 south Allen street, State College, by the Bell Telephone Company of Penna. The building which is being designed by John T. Windrim, a prominent Philadelphia architect, will have a frontage of approximately thirty-five feet and a depth of sixty feet, and will be one story high. Tentative plans call for the Georgian style of architecture. It is scheduled for completion early in 1983 so that it will be possible to install the central office equipment for service the following summer. It is proposed to discontinue the present central office and replace it with a new dial unit so that all local calls may be completed by dis- trict dialing. Operators will, of course, continue to be needed to handle toll calls, information and other special classes of service. The new building will be of an at- tractive design, in keeping with the surroundings, and will be capable of expansion to care for the future growth of telephone service in that community. Engineering studies have indicated that the dial type of serv- ice will be best adapted to the needs of State College and with the new of- fice there will be adequate provisions for handling the inquiries in its tele- phone requirements in the most ef- fective and satisfactory manner, ac- cording to telephone engineering. COLLINS TO BE EXECUTED WEEK BEGINNING MAY 15. Last week the Watchman predict- ed an early date for the electrocution of Fred Collins, the negro who, on January 13th, assaulted and murder- ed Miss Elizabeth Hickok, in her parents’ home at Rockview peniten- tiary. The forecast was correct as, on Monday, Governor Pinchot set the date for the week beginning May 15th; which, as has been the custom at the penitentiary, will be on Mon- day morning May 16th. Opponents to any further closing of the stream contend that it would work a hardship on the elderly fish- ermen whose choice spot for fishing is in the creek, near the old pump house. Others contend that the silk mill bridge is far enough down stream to afford ample range for the trout. : . Ordinarily trout do not range far afield unless driven to do so by ab- normal causes, such as a disturbance S558 7 Sisziil SHE There was a time when Bellefonte was widely celebrated as the “Home of Governors” but that has become ancient history, or rather submerged achieved through its natural trout Because of this fact GREGG TOWNSHIP FARM good portion of it's ing a loss estimated at $3000, on which there was no insurance. The fire originated from a spark from a flue fire. When the fire was discover- ed an appeal for assistance was sent to Bellefonte but the request was countermanded when it was realized that there was no adequate supply of water at hand. Later another appeal was made when sparks . from ., the - -burning building set fire to the property of Grover Walker, nearby, The Logans went over and by the use of chemi- cals succeeded in saving the Walker buildings. in or unusually low water in their nat- under the reputation the town has | Haven hospital where the liquid he swal- lowed was pumped out with a stomach pump. His condition is not regarded as serious, —Members of the Scranton poor board have decided that in the future no re- quests for relief be considered unless the applicants have disposed of their automobiles, Two directors, M. J. Mec- Hugh and Thomas F. Wells, reported to the board instances in which applicants for aid had continued to drive their autos. In one case a woman was asking for $20 more a month from the district, It was shown that in spite of this and a back store bill of $200, the woman's fam- ily had not sold its auto. 1 =A bequest of $5,000 will ultimately go {to the Lewisburg Presbyterian church, at Lewisburg, under the will of John Halfpenny, which was admitted to pro- bate in Philadelphia on Friday. Half. penny, who died March 24 leaving a per- sonal estate listed at “less than $35,000," and realty of $8500, directed that his sister, Kate F. Halfpenny, should be per- including ‘refilling porch boxes with flowers annually, painting the house with white paint annually and installing fllow- ers in the rear yard.” ~—In the midst of gloomy reports of factories closing down and thousands of workers unemployed, at least one bright said the first unit of the new penitentiary will be completed early in the summer and prisoners sent there from the northeast section of the country, Hill has been war- den of the Illinois penitentiary since 1929. He will receive a salary of $6500 in his new post. Hill was born at Hamilton, IIL, in 1877. He commanded Battery A, 1st Illinois Artillery, in the Spanish American War, and was major of infantry in the World War. : : | —A woman inmate of the Erie jail seized a pistol from a policeman and fired six shots before she was overpowered on Saturday. The bullets lodged in the ceil. ing. The prisoner, Helen Pifer, 34, took the pistol from the holster of patrolman John Vogel. Five other women, including four held as runaways from OH City homes, were endangered by the shots. The Pifer woman was arrested for throw- ing bricks through the window of a gar- age. She fought police when they arrest- ed her and threw water on othr inmates of the jail after she was locked up, Vogel was attempting to quiet her when sHe obtained his pistol. —Gannett, Seelye and Fleming, En- gineers, Inc, of Harrisburg and New York, announced, on Tuesday, that con. struction would immediately begin under their contract to build a 250,000,000 gal- lon dam on Still creek, a tributary of the Schuylkill, near Tamaqua. They also announce employment of a large number of engineers, construction men and la- borers, most of whom will be drawn from communities surrounding the project. The dam is to have a breast fifty feet in height. A five mile line of thirty-six inch diameter cast iron pipe will be built in connection with the project. Several hundred thousands of dollars are to be ‘spent on the project by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation company through a sub- sidiary, the Panther Valley Water com- pany. The water will be supplied to the communities and industries in the vicin- ity of Tamaqua and the Panther Creek valley. ~—Whiie fifteen directors and officers of the Ligonier National bank met in the director's room a package of bonds valued at $50,000 was stolen from the vault of the institution, not twenty feet away. G. C. Frank, president of the bank, said that the theft was discovered by a clerk. Secrecy was maintained in the mat- ter while a State bank examiner and rep- resentatives of the Melbank Corporation of which the institution is a member, in- vestignted. State police were not notified of the theft, Captain Carlson, of the Greensburg barracks, said. The doors of | the bank had been left open, Frank dis- closed, so that directors and officers could enter for the meeting. The vault door, also was unlocked to permit direct ors to study books and other records. The room where the directors met is quite close to the vault. The only theory dis. cussed was that the thief entered the bank while the directors were in session, pro- cured the bonds unnoticed, and escaped.
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