BY GEORGE R. MEEK. —Burt Shotton's “Phillies” seem to have lost their bearings. Just when we fans believed they were at | last headed north they got all mixed up in their compass reading started back south. —The Governor says Pennsylvania | “is a fisher’'s paradise.” Maybe it nt STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. A | SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE —James Bugel, 35, arrested in Janes- ville Sunday night charged with being head of a chicken-stealing gang, com- mitted suicide by hanging himself im the Ramey jail sometime during the night. He strangled himself with a short piece of rope. —Pennsylvania's State forests earned more than $40,700 for the State Treasury during the last year, sccording to a re- port by the Department of Forests and Waters. The largest single item of reve- nue came from renting camp sites, which brought in $25,000. —Miss Edith R. Schlimm, of Glenside, former note clerk in the closed Glenside VOL. 77. BELLEFONTE, PA. MAY 20, 1932. NO. 21. | PHILIPSBURG MAN KILLS SELF IN PREFERENCE TO STANDING COURT TRIAL George Harris, of Horn's Heights, Bank and Trust company, on Friday was committed to the State Industrial Home at Muncy for an ‘indeterminate time” on a charge of fraudulent conver- sion of the bank's funds. —Going into the Franklin Hardware and Plumbing company store during the Philipsburg, committed suicide DY | ,,,n nour Saturday and asking for a shooting himself with a shotgun, gallon of turpentine, a man described about 11:30 o'clock on Tuesday as of medium build, with dark hair and morning, in preference to standing | dark suit, took $81 in currency from the trial in court on the charge of re- cash register and walked out. The clerk ceiving stolen goods. had to go to the basement for the tur- About a month ago the Goldthorpe | pestice. idk Tm : groce . 3 ! ester inslow, ag years, Oo stole like a thief in the night into Sy ones "hu ES Boon | Beech Creek, a member of the section the home of the man who had Prov-{ George Jr. and Carl Harris wers | 5% of the New York Central rafirond, en his greatest benefactor and, in! ted for the 70 and mopt | 2teTpted to cross the street on Friday his absence, criminally assaulted the | oe the wore 9 oy, hidden al’ front of a moving automobile and, only daughter and, in an effort to, gy S90ds We arrested i} dently Tuisjedgine me nau — | arris . When ocked sustai conceal his fiendish crime, xaurdered | ty, poys implicated their father as | cuts, bruises, lacerations and contusions her in cold blood by cutting her! accessory beiore the fact by de-| of the head, face, nose and body but no throat. with: a butcher Imife. | claring that he had sent them to| bones were broken. e The crime was so hellish in it's pg) the store. Two weeks ago they | —George Savinsky, 51, of near Hazle- ton, a coal miner out of work for more. is, in the Governor's estimation, but —— - — She WS St VS desolate JHieTS vo Ma PLEAS OF GUILTY TWO 15-YEAR OLD BOYS meet on streams give us | | MADE, LAST THURSDAY, i ROBBED “BIG TROUT” INN. impression that the sage of Milford En RE E FLEMING | CAUGHT LAST THURSDAY got mixed in his places. | BEFO JUDG | — Two fifteen year old boys, James | — —Now that this John Hughes Forty-eight Year Old Woman Loses | Curtis has admitted that he was in- Support Action Against Husband, Alterio and William Goodla, robbed dulging in “big talk” when he made | 21 Years Old. the “Big Trout” Inn, owned and | conducted by Mr. and Mrs. William $3 Lindvergs Dillon a ot | Last Thursday was cleaning up McAlarney, on south Water street, his baby a suspicion has arisen as day in the Centre county court Tuesday night of last week. They to whether “Jafsie” actually tossed | Prior to the regular session which were arrested last Thursday, out that fifty-grand into a cemetery. | convened on Monday morning. | near Pleasant Gap, and at a juve- | The first man up when court con- | nile hearing, on Monday, were com- | —The cold comfort the Centre| yoney was George Reed, of Belle- mitted to Glen Mills by Judge Flem- county Court gave the middle aged | fonte, who plead guilty to a surety ing. | of the peace charge. He was sen- The boys recently escaped from & i i i Electrocuted at Rockview Monday Morning, Four Months After Kiii- ing Miss Elizabeth Hickok, | Exit Fred Collins, negro moron. He went the route of the electric chair, at Rockview, almost in sight of the house where, on that beauti- ful morning of January 13th he woman whose youthful spouse de- serted her leads us to wonder ;.nceq to pay the costs and give reform institution at Buffalo, N. Y. whether “His Honor” would be justas pong jn the sum of $500 to keep and hitchhiked to Centre ’ county, discouraging in the case o% a8 od) the . |The Alterio boy's father is said to man's darling” as he was of | Bert Parks, of Bellefonte, was be- | be living at Lock Haven and his the who: look a: Loy tore the court on a charge of vio- | mother at Pleasant Gap. Goodla's lating the vehicle code, but after | father is supposed to be in Califor-| _ —A recount of the ballots in the First legislative District of Wash- | ington county reveals that D. Glenn Moore was defeated for renomina- tion for Assemblyman. Mr. Moore «came into limelight at Harrisburg as Pinchot's floor leader. And his glim has been doused, undoubted'y, ‘becauss of that very fact. —The Centre county grand jury's suggestion that the pigeons be re- moved from the portico of the court house was easier to make than to «carry out. In the recipe for making a rabbit potpie we are told to “first, ‘catch the rabbit.” The members of ‘the grand inquest failed to clarify “their suggestion by adding the most pecessary step to be taken if the pigeons are to be removed, —It is admitted that there was a “rake-off” of $169,000.00 in the sale ‘of voting machines to Allegheny ‘county, but who got it will likely remain as much of a mystery as were those as to who stole the votes that would have made the late Ed- die Beidleman a Republican nomi- nee for Governor and who chiseled John Hemphill out of the place Gif- ford Pinchot now holds. fear that we Democrats will squab- ‘ble ourselves out of the best chante we have had in years to elect 4 President should ease their mindson that matter. The best chance any outstanding Republican ever had to - get his s nomination has pre- " 5 guy Ry Hairé, Luther Weller, Cloyd Smith and Harvey Shemory were in the Lewisburg railroad and when before the court on am appeal from | they left town walked out along the a decision of a justicé of the peace railroad. It was because of this fact who found them guilty of a viola- tion of the game laws. The four men, residents of Northumbérland county, had been charged with flle- gally killing a deer during the hunt appeal was allowed and the case dismissed. The sensational case of the day was that of Mrs. Bessie V, Laird against her husband, S. R. Laird, for desertion and non-support. The 48 years and Mr. Laird stated he is only 21. The woman was formerly Miss Bessie V. Richards and has lived in Mr. Laird is from Altoona and testified that before coming to Bellefonte he had worked for the Shaffer Stores had received $35 a month. He had been laid off owing to the depression and came to Bellefonte on the hunt of a job. He Richards woman and a week later, or on February 29th, sented itself this year, yet not one . of them had temerity to go after it. The Republicans will nominate Hoov- . er only because there isn't a man . of presidential size in their party who would accept it, if offered on a - gold platter, —At a reception recently given by the Alexandria, Va. Chamber of | - Commerce, Mrs. Pinchot, wife of our | Governor, ‘kicked off her slippers to | rest her feet. The incident has be- - come quite a newspaper sensation. We see nothing in it except a rare opportunity to commend Cornelia for something. She, at least, had seen to it that there were no holes in the . toes of her stockings. Most women * have so little concern about the un- exposed parts of their raiment that ~ an ‘old fashion "boot-jack wouldn't have pried the slippers off many of “ the others at that reception. —The class of 1932 of the Belle- fonte High school merits the admira- tion that those who realize what it has done must feel for it. Instead of the usual custom of pub- lishing a year book out of ali pro- portion in cost and pretentiousness to the resources or needs of students * in our public schools they have made their own. It is a neatly typewritten publication, filled with clever student ‘patter and the fact that it shows initiative in calling a halt to need- less waste is a matter that the boys and girls of the class can be eter- nally proud of. It is the most hope- " ful sign we have seen the youth of this community post since the days when school children were ‘satisfied --with what their parents could really afford to. provide for them. —According to the Altoona Tri- bune’'s wet and dry poll Tyrorce is seventy-one per cent for modification. Memories of the days when we fore- gathered with the finest bunch of | ing season last fall. Their fellows our sister town ever had are awakened by tbat revelation. Most | costs, $5.50 restitution and placed on + of them are gone now. They lived] when “a hot bird and a cold bottle | made for friendship and community contacts that were consirictive. Then Tyrone would not have voted seventy-one per cent wet, because most of it thought our pals were lead- ing the town straight to hell. If the Tribune's poll is an accurate reflex - of . the present temper of Tyroners it is | evident that they have come to the conclusion that bad as Dick and Kelly and the three Johns, and Horace and Clayt and Reu, and -the three Bills, and Pat, and the others of - the gang, might have been; nothing they did contributed: to - the plight their town is in now, hearing a statemient of the case he was discharged. R. F. Stamm, of Lewisburg, plead guilty to issuing checks without suf- ficient money in bank to meet them, the checks having been passed in Millheim. He was sentenced to pay the costs, a fine of $2.50 and placed on probation for three months. George Poorman, of Philipsburg, plead guilty to the charge of adult- ery and was sentenced to pay the | costs, a dollar fine and six to twelve months imprisonment in the Alle- gheny county workhouse, H. L. Davis, of State College, en- tered a plea of guilty to the charge of false pretense and was sentenced to pay the costs, make restitution and placd on probation for three months. Ralph Reeser, who plead guilty to the larceny of an automobile, was remanded to jail for further consid- eration of his case. Rody Biggert entered a plea of guilty to a violation of the liquor about eleven dollars in cash and laws, at State College, and was sen- tenced to pay the costs and placed on probation for ome year. Clayton H. Krebs, of State College, g plaintiff gave her age as Bellefonte six years or longer, company and met the they were married by Rev. A, Ward Campbell. They month and three days and then the young bridegroom left and returned to Altoona. His wife had a warrant issued for his arrest on the charge non-support and Laird was arrested in Altoona and brought back to answer to the charge. After hearing the evidence in the case the court refused to make an order for support, stating that any woman of the age of the of desertion and plaintiff who would marry a man as young as the defendant had to take her chances of being supported. Laird, howver, was remanded to jail until the court decided what to do in the matter of the costs. J. J. Jones, of Philipsburg, plead guilty to a violation of the wvehicle code and was sentenced to pay the probation. Carl Auman, charged with a vio- lation of the liquor laws, was san- tenced to pay the costs and placed on probation for one year. In the case of J. A. Garrison, of State College, a petition for an ap- peal from a summary conviction before a justice of the peace was granted. Alvia Fetters plead guilty to mak- ing threats and aggravated assault and battery and was sentenced to pay the costs and give bond in the sum of $500 to keep the peace. On Saturday Z. M. Nerhood, State College, plead nolle conten- dre’ to the charge of fraudulent con- day to one year in the county lived together a of ‘nia and his mother in Johnstown. | nature that the perpetrator never had | appe ! a chance for life or freedom. Bundled ' guilty to larceny and at the same time declared that they had lied about their father and that he had in solitary donfiiement there until nothing to do with the robbery. The brought to Bellefonte for trial on elder Harris, however, was held un- | | The boys reached Centre county ‘about two weeks ago and made their way to Pleasant Gap. Having 'no place to stay they dppropriated ‘an old telephone booth along the railroad south of the fish hatchery. | With no money and no work they started in on a career of bu y |in order to subsist. How m | stealing they had done was not re- ! vealed. | They were arrested in their box- | like home last Thursday. In the | small building were four blankets | which they had stolen from automo- | biles, and which they used as bed- | ding. That they had robbed many hen's nests was evident from the quantity of egg shells scattered | about the place. In fact there were | so many of them that it looked asif | the boys had been living ox little else | than eggs. | On Saturday night, May 7th, they | robbed the gas station of Ed Wit- | mer, at Axe Mann, where they got cigarettes, cigars, candy, Etc, to the amount of approximately twen- ty-five dollars. Last Tuesday night they robbed the “Big Trout” Ian. Suspicion pointed to the two boys as the robbers because of the fact ‘the i actions had been so suspicious that Mr. McAlarney kept an eye on them | and noticed that they always came that McAlarney and chief of police Harry Dukeman found them on Thursday. They simply traveled the railroad until they reached their shack near Pleasant Gap. McAlar- | ney recovered about one-third of the | Stuff stolen from him, and also brought back the four stolen blank- ets, which he has in his possession and which will be given back tothe rightful owners when they can be located. version amd was sentenced to pay the costs, make restitution and plac- ed on parole for two years. IN COURT THIS WEEK When the regular session of May court convened, on Monday morning, Glenn Poorman plead guilty to a charge preferred by a young wo- man, and was given the usual sen- tence imposed in such cases. * Paul M. Shawley entered a plea of guilty to the charge of larceny and was placed on probation for two years on condition he pay the costs, Homer L. Illian stood trial on two counts of violation of the liquor laws by selling to students at State College. He was convicted and on each count was sentenced to pay the costs, pay $1000 for the use of Cen- tre county and imprisonment in the Allegheny county workhouse for 1% to 3 year, the sentences to run consecutively. A detainer was also issued against Illian and when his sentence expires he will be brought back to Centre county and tried on the charge of perjury. Rafel Paschal, an escaped convict from Rockview penitentiary who re- fused to plead guilty two weeks ago, was placed on trial, convicted and sentenced to pay the costs and serve not less than 4 years and 9 months nor more han 9 years and 8 months in the western penitentiary follow- ing the expiration of his original sentence in Somerset county. The case of Lena Spingola, of Philipsburg, charged with arson for starting the fire which destroyed her home about two months ago, occu- pied the attention of the court all of Tuesday, and at a short night session. After the Commonwealth had produced all it's evidence at- torneys for the defendant asked the court to direct the jury to return a verdict of not guilty for lack of evidence, and the jury was so direct- from Shippensburg, who spent a ' was scared white.” Another said “if division. Snow Shoe branch, and the fonte branch, the two miles of track Eagle, years ago were made a part of the Williamsport division, have been de- of the Middle division, effective Monday of this week. Comparative- ly few employees in this section will be affected by the change. registering a trifle below the freez- ing point, though no frost was re- ported. Christ Beezer, who lives at Roopsburg, told us that it was 30 degrees at his homie when he got ed and the defendant discharged. up. back to Pittsburgh the day the crime was committed he was kept | the morning of February 23. ared in court and plead; than a year, on Monday blew himself to’ pleces with a charge of dyfiamite in the { yard at his home a short distafice from { a stone cross which he had chipped out the past two weeks. He apparently had fastened the charge about his waist. His His | der bail on the charge of receiving yi, his sole survivor, was in bed at trial was merely a perfunctory légal | stolen goods. His case was called | the time. The blast was heard for blocks formality, There was no question as! gor trim); last Monday afternoon, but | away. had not proceeded far when court The only thing at adjourned. Hé asked permission to issue was the question of insanity. go home for the night and the court | : to his guilt. He had confessed the horrible crime. An alienist pronounced him sane. A jury of his peers convicted him and | chair as the only punishment com- mensurate with the crime. Fleming pronounced sentence chot fixed the week beginning May | 15th, as the time for his electrocu- | tion. He was brought in from Pitts- burgh, Saturday evening, reaching Rockview about 7:30 o'clock. Inthe death house, on Sunday, he display- ed no fear over his approaching doom. He had as a visitor a cousin few minutes with him in the death house. y morning he walked to chair with firm footsteps. of the witnesses said that “he he was afraid of the end he didn't show it.” Prison officials stated he went to his death “without falter- ing.” So his bearing depended up- on the way the different witnesses saw it. Collins made no statement of any kind. He had no last message for his brother and sister, or for his other relatives. He was taken to the chair at 7.02 o'clock. It was just a minute later when executioner Rob- ert Elliott threw the switch that sent 2200 volts of electricity coursing through his body. The smoke curled upwards from his ankle and one of the witnesses aver- red that he could hear the flesh siz- zling, but this was probably a fig- ment of his imagination. He was pronounced dead at 7:08. The body was not claimed and was buried in the penitentiary ceme- tery. And thus ended the career of Fred Collins, negro, His was the first electrocution le- gally accredited to Centre county, yard but which should be morally charge- able to the county from which he was committed to the penitentiary. Collins paid for his crime with his life, but his death can never wipe out the ignominy of his double of- fense to society. One lesson to be drawn from his act is that it does not pay to pamper criminals. They are sent to institutions for punish- ment because they have broken the laws of the Commonwealth, and pun- ishment should be their portion. BALD EAGLE VALLEY ROAD HAS BEEN ATTACHED TO THE MIDDLE DIVISION In an effort to further cut down expenditures a new alignment of the Pennsylvania railroad has been made. The Elmira division has been made a part of the Williamsport The Bald Eagle Valley branch, the Belle- connecting Bellefonte with the Bald at Milesburg, which two tached from there and made a part Karly risers, Wednesday morning, found their thermometers permitted him to do so. But when court convened, ofl, recommended death in the electric | Tuesday morning, he failed to ap- at Philipsburg Judge were notified and requested to place im- him under arrest and produce him | mediately after the jury rendered in court. They went to his home but | it's verdict and Collins was taken he saw them in time to escape and back to Pittsburg the same night. make his way to a strip of woods Three weeks ago Governor Pin-| Dear the house. They followed and as they came in sight of him he fired the fatal shot which pierced his left side. He died almost instant- pear. State police ly. Harris, who was 45 years old, and nine children, ranging in ages from one to nine- teen years. He also leaves his moth- er, one brother and seven sisters, The two oldest boys, Carl and George Jr, who were sentenced to the Huntingdon reformatory two weeks ago but who have not yet been taken to that institution, will be permitted to attend the funeral of their father in custody of an of- leaves his wife ficer. A ———— A I ——— GRAND JURY RECOMMENDS REMOVAL OF THE PIGEONS FROM COURT HOUSE PORCH In it's report, last Thursday, the grand jury for the May term of court, recommended the removal of the pigeons from their roosting and | nesting places under the eaves of | = cently arrested at Hershey. On the pers son of one Frank Marcine, of Flushing, |N. Y., 97 counterfeit 10-dollar bills were foutid, police charge. B. W. Powell and Walter Powell, brothers, claimed they did not know Marcine, while thé latter said he slept on a bench on Riverside drive and when he awoke the counter- feit money was there in front of him. The trio Is in jail at Harrisburg, as the Federal authorities demand $50,000 bail. —Francis Kuneman, 24, of Tunnel Hill, is held in the Blair county jail on charges of shooting and wounding a watchman at the Summit-Blair Gap Water Co. reservoir near Duncansville. He was captured in the mountains after State police and highway patrolmen com- bined in a search. Kuneman refused to make any statement. Officials said he shot James Feigh, 43, of Cresson, in the back and fired two shots at C. J. Galla- gher, of Williamsport, assistant watch- man, but missed. Feigh is in the hos- pital. ; —Miss Genevieve Rausch, Larue Mc- Mullen and David McMullen, all of Bt Union, convicted of robbing Joseph Christ of $1900 in a roadhouse near, that town, were sentenced on Monday by Judge Thomas F. Bailey to serve one and one-half to thrie years in the wes!- ern penitentiary. Christ had drawn the money from a Mt. Union bank and was preparing to leave for his former home in Bulgaria when he visited the road- house, drank considerable liquor, offered to kiss the lady manager and left minus his cash. —Zion Reformed church, of Allentown, will receive almost $1500 by the will, ad- mitted to probate Saturday, of Mina Smith, a resident of Philadelphia, who hs the court house porch, but did not| ,..."y,y 3 in Washington. The testa have a word to say about the re- moval of the cars from their park- ing place on the concrete plaza ad- joining the court house, although one county official, at least, called In their attention to the latter. their report they said: We have examined and passed up- on 26 bills of indictment, 22 of which were found true bills and four not true. We have examined the pub- lic buildings and recommend that a cement walk be laid ia the jail and a new cement walk alorg the sheriff's residence, A portion of the interior of the jail wall should be red, Window screens shouid be put in the windows in the cellar of the jail. The floors in the sheriff's residence and the office should be refinished. The outside jail yard doors should be repaired. The wo- men’s quarters should be improved and a better ventilating system in- stalled in the entire jail. The pigeons should be removed from the court house porch; a mir- ror should be placed in the women's rest room and the plaster on the wall in the hall of the court house should be repaired. WEST PENN POWER CO WILL REDUCE RATES EFFECTIVE JUNE 15. The West Penn Power company will put into effect a new schedule of rates on June 15th which will re- duce the cost of electric service to both the domestic and commercial consumers. In fact the rates will be enough lower to make quite an item to the consumer in a year's time, whether it be for domestic or commercial purposes. This reduction on the part of the West Penn Pow- er company will doubtless be more appreciated by the consumers when they realize that it will come as a through voluntary action and not coercion of any kind. ——E. J. Thompson, of Philips- burg, has been appointed an auditor to adjust any and all damages that may accrue to either State College borough or College township through the annexation of Lytle’s Addition to State College. trix, who left real estate valued at $50,- 000, directed it be sold by her executors. After bequeathing $1000 to Mrs. Jennie Hawk, a niece, she directed one twen- tieth of the remainder be paid to the church and the balance held in trust for the benefit of Mrs. Agnes Allen, Williamsport. After Mrs, Allen's death, the principal will revert to Mrs Hawk. —A highway robber was knocked down’ and injured fatally by a Clearfield county motorist he sought to hold up Saturday night. The robber, unidentified, died on Sunday. He attempted to stop the automobile driven by Ivan Breth, of Mahaffey, but Breth speeded up the machine and bowled over the man. A short time before the bandit robbed the gasoline station opened by Mrs. Clara Bradbury, near McGee's Mills, and four patrons of $264. Breth was driving to- wards McGee's Miils when the mun s'ep- ped into the road and flourished a re- volver. —Struck by an automobile near the Nealmont bridge, below Tyrone, on Sat- urday morning, William Knode, 55, of Birmingham, was picked up by the motorist, hauled 110 miles to a point near Clarion and then abandoned behind a tree on the side of the road. Knode was found by a passing motorist and taken to Brookville hospital. His condi- tion was described as fair on Sunday night, although he has internal injuries. Knode said that the car that struck him was driven by a negro and that there were two white men in the rumble seat. After hitting him, they got out, examin- ed him, loaded him into the car and then headed for Clarion. —Two nephews will contest the will of Mrs. Rebecca E. Edge, of Harrisburg, which left practically her entire estate of $50,000 to the Commonwealth of Penn- sylvania. Mrs. Edge was the widow of Thomas J. Bdge, first secretary of agri- culture of the Commonwealth. The neph- ews, J. Lynn Johnson, of Kingston, and L. B. Johnson, of Forty-Fort, filed ob- jecticns on Monday with the register of wills. James G. Miles, deputy register, said that Mrs. Edge's bequest to the Commonwealth is the first in his 13 year's experience. She died April 17, Mrs. Edge bequeathed B. HE. Perry, a mail carrier, “who served me so many years” $300. She also left $500 for the upkeep of a cemetery lot for herself and Mr. Edge. Contents of her “curio room’ are to go te the Harrisburg public 1i- brary and the residue of the estade, jewels and personal property goes to the Commonwealth, —Three alleged counterfeiters were re-~a