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
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Allotment to be Made to Districts by |
County Commissioners at Earliest
Possible Date. |
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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
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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
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costs amounting to $88.00.
William Winton, of Bellefonte,
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the unemployed. According
ict of the Legislature the
must be spent by the over!
seers for ‘shelter,
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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
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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
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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.