Random Items A Visitor in Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. The Most Widely Read Newspaper in Centre County. SECOND SECTION dhe Cenire Democraf NEWS, FEATURES VOLUME 57% BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 193 NUMBER &. Dr, Richards H. Hoflman stopped in at John Junifous' hot dog stand the other night for a littie bedtime stack. After eating four hot dog sandwiches and a slice of pie, and drinking several bottles of chocolate dik, he expressed the belie! that he was ready for bed Other notorious bedtime snackers include George Carpeneto, Arthur H. Sioop, and E E. Widdowson. George likes to talk at his midnight repast. Arthur usually reads a newspaper, while Eddie prefers just to eal Ray White, master at the White Drug Store t 100% like Santa Claus to scores of Belle fomte’s Infants, for evary time the see him they know 1 they be getiing a bite of jce cream sliver of pretzel hew on any nice afternoon t are jammed full of baby while the booths at t Lem crowded with young mothers their offspring, in f freshmen ing. Many child psychology chocclate milk eagerly await ol ceremonies must hat soot or a Mo: store isles CAITIAZES are 0 oe he or during the afternom a proble m in + soived their sl and Ivan two quit attonre) 5 a Judge Ney are As an firey different persons. Judge Walker was and quick to take advantage flicting testimony. As a is calm but a Gone & tant attitude as he assumes the role of referee t than mbatant His cf ey di piay the faculty he’s always shown to a marked degree-—getting to the roo of ] ] i Yor eT m LAR cem he n he matier Jou hesitation There's something ridi is abou Lie way passenger trains come into the Bellefonte staticn. Train )e proaching the High 1 > et O&SINK the busiest OWI ome to a a rain ead ) ole full stop while a member of ¢ r jumps and rw ah I the train pull the P. RR R 10 stand the expense watchman at seems thi would more in keeping contributions tw to have a {freight sia- impoverished of a full crossing, it more fitting with the town's freight traffic ficn employe walk tance 0 he crossing at to regulate traffic m——————— $32,532 Allocated for Statistics Project Congressman Don Gingery been notified that the President approved an allotment in the sum of 331532 for the purpose of pro- viding employment for needy pro- fessional, educational and clerical persons in compiling, tabulath summarizing. and preparing grap! of existing data on maximum h minimum wages, onal n ment workers and I ticeship for Pennsylvania; muni pal personnel tarnover in sele municipalities ol Pennayivania the development of administ: functions in and ernment Pennsylavni T will delphia time has hae 0 pa - r "1 age of 34 with at Phils employed placed. The DONSO yivania Department Industry -> CRIME IS THE NATION'S Labor and in the United © ates today Intry’s biggest business, a cording to a recent report made by the Cleary-Kelly Detective Agency Rockefeller Center, whith has come plied figures based on a speech given recently by a Federal Bureau lden- tification operative The report states that there & major crime every 20 minutes In the United States; there are 12000 murders every year (one every 45 minutes) 200000 people living today in country who will commit } before they and 300.000 who will ) hands of murdere: a ue at dis i —— U. 8. WAGE SCALE IS THE HIGIWEST IN THE WORLD Wages in the Uniled States are the highest in the world, according 10 a recent study made by personnel executives in Rockefeller Center taking the wage scale In Great Brite alll as 100, wages in the United States equal 190: in Canada 1565; in Germany 73; In Spain 40; and In Raly 39 — one fo — Reesives. Two Large Deer A large buck and doe of the red alk species were shipped last week from Wyland, Towa, to Dr. G M McCullough, Lock Haven, RD. The deer are of the large type and when full grown reach a weight of 500 pounds. The specie is almost extinet. They will be placed on Dr. | McCullough's game farm along the | Coudersport Pike, Visitors may see them after March first. — Di ease Kills Deer An epidemic oye disease which hag attacked deer in the Denver re- | glon Is costing the lives of scores of | deer. Comunonly called “pink eye.” the disease blinds the victim, ren dering it helpless, unable to find food or water. They eliher die of thiist or starvation, or unable to see, become the prey of other wild beasts Dismantle Monument Camp CCC Camp No. 121 at Monument, | abandoned some time ago, is being dismantled and the will be sa for use at other camps. The furnishings were removed pre- viously and | t { Philipsburg. Lady Ghost Turns Oul To Be—Well, Read It Yourself | Blair County Spector Lured Many Motorists to Buckhorn Vicinity— “Lady in White" Was Nightly Attraction West of Altoona wckhorn road thoroughfar ounty as weird py Hollow of ame ) Lown For gendary S00 WOR 2 ua all figure which popped In out again, called White," wll i SS in her fled on sce- ave traveled ght looking for whit Lost Worker Was Missing For 23 Hours Fred lace each nl o Brighton Discovered Safe and Sound at Moshanpon Dam velhreg hour leaves leep gh ’ mud od WPA i worker former bic r. who takes care of the fires and bullding: at the WPA alrport project at Black Moshafinon, near worit oul Thursday to look for some fre wood was not missed until 2 o'clock afternoon ww glass nuon He that Bec rried over the miss n§ =t Harti: and C. O Searched to Jack YET aiEence Paul found Bright- Apparentls TITTLE experien shannon mfortabi for NW d of th ‘AT Ld | Civil Announced The United Commission Serivee Exams Stats Service ha announced open ompet examination: for the following position Landscape archite $2.6000 to $3,800 a Park Service, and Park and Planning Comunis~ medical pathologist (re- $3500 a year, and associate medical pathologist (research), $3.- 00 a vear. National Institute of Health U Pubic Health Ser- vice Al as, Maryiand Various grade Na- tional tional Hon Tear the Na- earch 8 Kan Minnesota, Missouri North Dakota. Rhode lsiand, Utah Virginia, Washington, and the Dis- triet of Columbia have received less than their quota of appointments in the apportioned departmental service at Washington, D. € Full information may be obtained from the Postoffice, State College or Secretary of the U. 8. Civil Ser- vice Board of Examiners, at the postoffice or customhouse in Wash- ton D. C ——— R—— “Old Man River” Stories of the famous Mississippi River and its tributaries related by the last of the river steamboat cap~ tains, Interesting series now ap pearing In The American Weekly the big magazine distributed regu- larly with the Baltimore Sunday American. On sale at all news: stands State: exce Colorado i ———— ——— — 106.000 Accidental Deaths Accidents caused the death of 106,000 persons in the United States during 1937, according to figures somputed by the National Safely Council. Tiaffe accidents were re ponsibie for 30,700 of these, an all time high. 1n addition, 376.000 oth- ers were permanently injured and 9.400000 temporarily Injured Lignor Revenus Up. Liquor tax receipts in 1987 totaled $687,306 610, an increase of $4,221,731 over 1986, according to reports of the Internal Revenue Burenw. Of this amount $278365.208 came from fer- mented malt liquors, such as beer, while $236360574 was collecled Ms tite. i a excige tages on distilled ' Potato Stocks Below Average fel caer nd in Pennsylvania Indrly fi with potato- Depart mpared othr State ores thie 1837 crop is 5.771.000 bushels 5.536.000 a year ago y-Over two YoRrs ago and from bughel 12. 460.000 bushel winced State mr of the ture re 25. - that were iit 1.780 000 bushels the farms ] were saved for seed In 1° locality where grown and 17200000 boshels, or GO per cent of the crop, were avalis able {or male Last year the Pennayivania crop 0.215000 bushels, of which 1.281. 000 bushels mifit for food or 4 4 6820 000 bus were saved for food on the arms where gros, 2.980 000 were saved for the looalily where grown 0 bushels 65 oLatoe whet i DOO ne were bushels or et Top made avall- ile wore P| 1 rehantable on hand n January 1 his year In the thirty-seven late and intermediate taled 108.506 000 bushels we Is 28 per cent grealer that for January 1837. but i per cent below the [five-year 1933-1936) average Prisoner Burns, Cellmates Watch Howell, 28, of Norristown an 18-month sentence for icken thievery, fired the matiress his Norristown Jail cell, lay 1 In the flames and was burne- potatoe: of t tates Lan Robert erving : jeath Other prisoners were frightened mit orderly untill firemen arrived Wendell Forest Bowers, 20, under desth sentence for the murder of Mrs. Wilma V. Carpenter, was in a Il near the entrance to the block 1 knew a guy that did that onee in Huntingdon (the Pennsylvania industrial school for boys st Hunt. ingdon,)” Bowers sald, “but he was nuts He Just struck matches his mattress and lighted them and lay down and died. He was crazy.” Authorities sald Bowers watched efforts to rescue Howell with ap- parent unconcern, a — — Offers Weather Maps To Sehools David Bruce, head of the U. 8 Department of Agriculture Weath- er Bureau at Kylertown airport an- nounces that the office has avails able, for free distribution. an ex- tensive series of past weather maps These are the Hthographed issues published dally by the U. 8. Weath- er Bureau, Washington, D. €. This offer applies solely to schools and only one month's maps per request can be considered Waiting Is hard work quite 50 bad a8 working but not We Hope Not! g GY, POP DOES A FELLAM Earle Administrotion Righting 40-Year-Old Wrongs, Speaker Says The accomplishments of Democratic party in Pennsylvanis during the first three years of Governor Earle's adminis ( cannot be contained In a entence nor statement, To list omplete record of the necessar reforms affected by Democrat) de In Pennsvivania would requin iderable time and would fil fed volume,” Mr. James P Counsel for r. Chief ml Authority stated in a the Centre g addr before arficid County Democratic Clul their monthly dinner and Wednesday evening. Pebruary the American Legion He Cum d "The Democratic party in Pen: ies the unique pos attempting to prove In I that much of the experienced In last forty year Le ass misu the mec! wring nia oceuy of rovernment the 5t has ber taxpaye nave or ec of money 1, } . . Pus gt Wh ive DU h to cite one exam) that of Utilit regulation, to = that the p v is determined ug action rather than upon jromise his been the practics with the fing party heretofore For forty years. and especially the sdministration just previou tor the Deomiratic rule 4 the State tw yotors were harrangued: anitiai. ly with the promise of low rates ng better service, bul, unfortun thing was ever done alx nati] the present a» imnistration began fs efiective tack m existing rales and p : i the ULities rs 0 mer MTSE £ matter been for many yea f Erle ar Justices of Peninsy ivi Rossiter who Liss Democrat ais formerly Mayor vas a candidate for Superior Court of 1948. In & reminiscent mood recalled the das his campaig ing throughout the State, mention ed his Intimate with ma local ’ of many Democnrtie ig ures of earlier days He especialll aoguaintanceshin Inte John P. Short, er Clearfield Republican the finest examples of citizenry in the lend [erred to the inspiration. editorials Short hs en and his poitiend of ince that date. He les of Senator Jack 1 renitie. \ the of Mr isced on lier College figures tiornes mminemt utiness meeting of the newly president president secretary. Misg sistant secre. treasurer Executive Commit- the follow- of Mr D Alexander and Mins clrcted retiring president, Charles T wilted with a beautl- electric clock in recognition of ke ouetvior 110 behalf of he Senn. Jack T mpson Club during Music aid dancing com- er eve ‘ tainment f 7% member LF. re the 1} eT TOR # "Tis IDWAr g of the Tuesdn 1! and will be in Bt. Patrick's Day Ti mt detall which onrint to 1) pri y 3 at Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs Wall, Disney's ’ ad rr. amos re Sunche) all newastand Scientist Tells of Spoon-Fed Plants Which Produce Enormous Yield Joth war world's some day be smothered hemich ls This remarkable prediction made at Baltimore last week by Ar- thur C. Pillsbury, author-scientis! Every man no matter how poor may have & full stomach and happy outicok. In a tiny space hi will be able to ralse enough vege: taney 10 keep his entire family fc all the yenr round Feeds Plants With Spoon Plants to which Dr. Pillsbury re fers much as a mother does to her ables have been “fed™ at his lal omtories with a teaspoon. The most remarkable results have been achieved among which are these Potato plants seven feet high Tomatoes tremendous In diame- ter Bean plants yielding enough In six weeks to feed a lmrge family throughout the winter, Pegonias nine and a hall inches diameter Rose bushes eight feet high Soon man may feel walking about hig garden as an ant on = blade of grass or as Guiliver left in Brob- dingnag. hunger. two of pestilences, not distant ating ean of and greatest in the in future wa mn Dt Pillsbury Some day there will be no need for expansion when man is able to row enough to eat the year round mull so-called back yard. The ity of it all is that vegetables be grown both in winter and pnmer” Dr. Milsbury explains that a tiny an of chemicals fs placed in the "1 similow tank full of Over the tank goes a wire nelting ang over tht exrelsior is prinkled in which Mttly plants are Inced. Thelid foots go down Into the water and feed on the chemi i Every day or so they require tablespoon more of this or that hemieal, Respond Like Children Dr. Pillsbury sald “Each one requires a certain amount of iron each day And In mixing the chemicals the greatest care must be thken because some ngredients can be held on the end of a yater of a toothpick and if you over-feed'' them the plant jeaves will curl or their growth will be dwarfted. But feed them properly and they re- spond Nke healthy chiléren™ The doa of planting a bean stalk like Jack's 15 not a remote possibil- ity 0 Dr. Pillsbury who states: “We don't know how far these experiments may go. We may only have scratched the surface” Altoona Man To Die In Electric Chair, March 14 Pardon Board Refuses to Ask Clemency For Roy Lockard, Convicted of Slaying Par- amour’s 3-Year-Old Son Roy Lockard, former WPA work- of Altoona, convicted by a Blal sounvy jury for the splke-siaying of j-vear-old Matthew Kaimendi, Jr almost two year: was moved another step toward the death chal last week by the refusal of 1 board of pardons to con manner of clemency in hi ©3 ago ne slate wer 1 March end ol him a5- Mrs Lockard is scheduled to ® leath chair ag Rockview 4th. He [s now nearing the fourteenth respite granted ince his conviction with Lhe vear-cld mother of the child Margarets Karmendi Mrs, Karmendi, also Altoona, now serving a 10 wo 20 year term in the State Industrial School for Wo- men, cocaped ihe same fate alter he State Supreme Court ordered a of venue, Convicted twice degree murder, with Lockard ws her secomplioe, zhe wos ialer in Cambiia county where a ury returned a verdict of second de- ; I ler ol change of first ted Baby Boy Is Born Two Hours Before Its Mother Dies born bs hours be- A seven-pound Cnergency DOY war operation (wo fore his young mother died from buns, in an incubator at 2 See wickiey hospital near Pitlsburgh delivered the baby bY Caesarian operation ont Me. Anna Haus, stared as overheated bottle of floor wax ploded and igulted her clothes teraay Burgeons performing a an eX~ Ye Ls TP ol tart The 25-year-old vill CX alone in her Corapol sprayed love er Was ax the wax bottle on the She an screaming from th home, stinging 0 beal oul the flames with hey hands. A neighbor extinguished te bier by throwing | fn rg sound hor, Another heigl bor called an ambulance In Valley Haus ofice from ‘ irs Dr. C was tte hospital, where was & matron K. Shanor decided there chance of saving the mother—-but there were hopes the undorn Quickly, he performed the Arian OPTALION, uUSIng anaes thetic sparingly Two bours ater. Mis Haus ral- and mitmied 2 few words her mother and husband, Wil- Haun Haus, an employe of a steel mpany Nurses brought in baby the Haus' first-born, Mrs, Haus smiled and touched him. The baby was returned to the nursery and (wo hours ater the mother died for mi.d Lent 0g Fy) ' ie Crop Loans Can Now Be Secured Farmers who are in need Alle sistance In financing their farm products will be interested to Jesin that loafis are now being made for the purpose of puwrehasing seed and fertiliver for the moduction of crops. The maximum mount loan. ed to any ohe farmer is $400, and the mate of Interest is 4 per om Per annum. Louis B. Schutker, Stale Super- visor of the Emergency Crop and Feed Loan office. will be at the points shown below to accept ap- plications for crop loans. Any one interested In this Joan should call on him ot the time indicated Nearby points of contact Mr. Sehucker will be: Huntingdon-Thursday. March 3 Court House, 1 p. m. 10 4 p. m. Bellefonto--Friday, March county agent's office. 9 a. m 12 m Lock Raven—Friday, March Recorder's office, 1:30 p. m. Anyone wishing to get in touch with Mr. Schucker and who cannot meet him at the Hme and place mentioned, should write to him at Box 864, Harrisburg What Bellefonte needs is intelll- gent cooperation and some gener osily on the part of those who can afford to be generous for the pub- lic good. of with 4 to 4 igental ue Laler boul had been cach ] Fra A) oLOeT ng J unsey 1908, ada ‘Economic Security’ for Postmasters Officials in 24 Centre County Postoffices Would Benefit Under New Bill in. Fleming, Hublersbu an, Kato, 1s Livonia, Madi- ponburg. Martha Furnace, Mies burg, Monument, Moghanpon, Oak Hall Station, Orvistont, Pine Olen, Pine Grove Mi Pleasant Gap Powelton, Rebersburg. Sandy Ridge, Smullt Wingate Woodward fourth-clas C v wil mont ia ang wet Of § pope postoffice lamp oahce orgs all Ih t on 1 postmas cone postinaster salary basis as her ranking offices hai Nai fications of asters $1.1 postin $160 u Wl i ependent yf the office. and year, the silaries under scheme solid be fixed alway A Year In each postmaster wot how much to expect of he want ib ject little this far = revi gion each postmas. Lo One (es plan. in addition omic security™ postmasters, is t largely eliminate the templatior postmasters the smaller offices 0 make large mailing themselves s0 45 0 increase stamp cancella- tions and boost their own salaries FH RS ’ ol THOUGHT HE WAD KILLED LAST DEER BACK IN 1888 In the autumn of 1888, John M Philllps trudged through Pennsyl- vania woods all day hunting for game he could not find and decided to work for game conservation Today. at 77. he told of Peansyl- vania’s game conservation program at the North American Wildlife conference in Baltimore “On that fall day, back in 1889 he sald, “1 thought I had killed my last deer in Pennsylvania. 1 was wrong. During the past season Pennsylvania hunters killed nearly 100000 deer. AL present Pennsyl- vania has close to 1.000000 deer in the field. and 1 believe that it leads all other stides In the abundance of ity wildlife ™ ins MP ——— Government Employe Killed Chester W. Zeigler, 63, chief as sayer at the Philadetphia mitt, was killed almost instemtly when 5 jumped or fell from a third-floor window of the National Stonmmch Hospital, where he had been a pat fent sinee February 3. 7 T——— By POP MOMAND EE IE Odd and Curious News ROBS POLICE OFFICER 3 WR ~DO0KE ws i J, ONE MAN'S BTREANGE HOBBY Oru J iM Talige WOE eve MILE WORTH 35.256 of a 3-year ge CHILD'S & The 1 ng er w Mrs, S8hal wer daughter evered and 1 pain be able 10 A PERVE( Sherlock ROADS 5 000 $309 TO QUIT JOBS Empiloves of the New York Tele one were offered 1 treet ih ompan a 00 each Vou hot oy eChreascs 54 Students On B. H. S. Honor Roll 00. aulh freshraen wit attendance. Jed In seniors runn with 18 10 honor ™ sophomores had i students only 8 on The full roster i= as follows istericks denoting addi tioned roll information Three gx weeks Final semoesier requirements Boys—Donald eye” Rupert Koski** Spangler Sirks—Jovoe bell** Virginia Beriram Conrad**, Ruby Davidson Dawson. Nellie Donovan® Eckman. Jean liaagen® Jeanette Haagen" Mary Maloy Extor Nail**, Mary Reese, Betty Sommers Anna Thomas, Lotraine Yates'* Juniors: Boyvs~Theodore Lind quist*™, James Mumper David Thompson**, Jack Weaver* Girls. Anne Dorworth**. Maiy Nelo, Hel en Olsen**, Irene Selders, Mary Shope**, Geraldine Woodward*” Sophomores: Bovs-—Franklin Hil lard James Hoffer Richard Walker** Donald Wion**. Girls Betty Howard™. Ann Kelly* Freshman: Boyss-James TY son**, Richard Valentine Vars** Olris--Gunnel Bialme** Jean Cleverrtine’ Stelln. Con- fer**. Mury Grace Horisock™, Bd- pa Hinds, Georgeansa Holt**, Phy- Jodon. Carolyn Kaghik, Patri cin Kelly*. Dorothy Kiloe™, Bare McDowell**, Cyrene New. Mary O'Hara. Ruth Ol Virginia Stover*, Virginia with ave! honor Seniors Kings James Camp- Eve Gladys: Doris "wom CGoraon pene 32 fi} nl
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