————— Odd and Curious News A Visitor in Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. The Most Widely Read Newspaper in Centre County, SECOND SECTION dhe Cenfre Democrat NEWS, FEATURES VOLUME 57 BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1938, —— NUMBER 81. Random Items -. 3 Huge Plane Planned Planes and designs for a 100-pass- enger flying boat, built in three decks, with a gross weight of 168,000 pounds, a wing span of 104 feel, an overall height of 31 feet, a length of 101 % feet and a fuel capacity of BAS0 gallons, have been completed according to an announcement by the Consolidated Aircraft Corpora- tion. The plane will have a at 20,000 feet of 276 miles per hom with a range at the same altitude ol $.000 miles To Burn $10,000 The $5. $10. $20 and $50 bills which made up the $10000 patd in a futlls attempt to ransom little James Ball- ey Oash, Jr. of Jacksonville, Fla. from his kidnapper has been take: out of circulation and will be burn ed. Bank officials explain that this 5 necessagy i speed because heir serial numbers had been broadcast and in nocent persons might suffer if they received them through regular trade channels All but $5 of the $10,000 has been found Crasher Can't Fly home - made Okla many M Ou Schapansky of Weatherford t one Herman plane piiot crashed jus time Btate Safety Commissioner J Centry has ordered him stay of the alr. Schapansky ds his oxn planes and crashes them often that his wife literally lives b the telephone, with and trailer waiting, him and the wreckage neighbor's pasture Thirsty Harvesters Sheriff Fr 100 Ww the family om RO Ret of a ready to out ed Clemmensen threshed out 8 labor dispute with a threshing crew 26 men at Audubon, In, buying ‘em beer. Charles Tunman called in the sheriff as mediator when the men quit work on his farm and demanded bee: The sherifl looked at mercury soaring the 80's. bought a couple of rout of beer and the men went back to Tunman's farm and finished ing Not Helpless Although both tated after an ac ago, Joseph A. Durko son, Pa.. can » feed himself, write wood and welld a pick Although married and th 2 2-year-old son, Durko attended school and recently gradu- ated with honors from the local high school. Dentist Collects Police by screams, rushed to the office of Dr Huston G. Holland, dentist Mi- ami, Florida, and found him pulling gold fillings out of i Bailey's teeth while protested violently explained that he had done $47 worth of dental work on her and she paid him only $25 0 he was taking back $22 worth of fillings Father Sues School John A. Petro, of Nanticoke $1.9M from the Perkiomen because his boy, Joseph, falled in his exams and wasn't graduated. Petro claims that he had been assured his boy would get sufficient college en- trance requirements by attending Perkiomen. He asks $1.000 for the joss of the scholarship and $800 ex- penses in sending Joseph to the schoo] of the hares hands ident e ampu- an attracted A woman's wants school Crime Will Out Johnny Kimbrel, of Walsunburg, Va.. had a prt bull snake which he allowed to occupy a soft nest in the hen house in order to keep down the mts Kimbrel detected a bulge In his pet's mid-section, and suspected the snake had tumed egg thief Holding the reptile head down Kimbral worked at the bulging ob- Sect. Out popped a wooden nest egg Will Bequeaths Child The will of the late Mrs. Anna Getto, of Redwood City, Cal. dis- closed the fact that she had not only willed away her property in the customary legal manner but that ashe had also willed away the possession of her B-year-old adopted daughter to friends. Her husband is contest- ing the right to vill away a child, Borrows Stolen Car On Jeaving a meeting, David Buck, of Balt Lake City, got into what he thought was his car and drove home The next morning he recognized his car in front of the meeting place hurried to police headquarters and found that the car he had driven home the night before was a stolen car Popular Turkeys 0. H Thrashers drove of 4000 turkeys are popular in his commu- nity. Torrington, Wis. The reason they dearly love to eat grasshoppers and Thrasher is kept busy transport- ing his flock from farm to farm in the neighborhood in order that they might “dine” on the insects. Whiskey Was Missing Workmen demolishing the old post office building at Philadelphia. found the bottle that held three ounces of whiskey when the cornerstone was laid In 1817 -but the whiskey was missing. The bottle "apparently had sprung a leak. Penny Saves Two For a penny, a man was allowed to look through a telescope at South- end, England. He saw an overturn- ed dinghy to which two men were clinging, and gave the alum which | pesulied in thelr rescue, HOUTZDALE MAN DEAD, ONE WOMAN INJURED, IN AUTO COLLISION West Virginia Motorist Held After Fatal Ac- cident Which Occurred at Highway Inter- section, Saturday Morning col in WaS Mill 63 being held automobile Johnstown resident result of an Saturday nears Houtzdale forme! 0 As dsion which a killed and a woman injured, L Martinsburg. W. Va by the Pennsylvania of Johnstown ident has gated Killed In the acc in lock Saturday pel Adams iriving fractures of Mrs Mary wife, formerly o Albert Stoffan and Johnstown hospital treatment According to Osoeoia Cart of motor police until the been thoroughly dent heavy morning 45-year-old Adams neck rred wh died and skull Adams his and son one Al the Stoflan f Osceola both discharged received cul from the y receiving were after Carn police reports Turning The Heat On Justice, Warms Court House Crowd Many pace any place that it | You might do justice to ain al temperature by Wilkes-Barre sLher yarn i AVIDK wa curious sound. as of a serpent hiss- ing. He listened intently. It seemed o come from a steam radiator. And it was even so. for it bumt his hand when he touched it. The courthouse happened to be heated by a pant in the ad county jail ————————— Paris Stylists Decree "Wacky" Fall Hats Paris r Latest cabled French fashi 1 back once more to goofy Whs In headgear according to a fashion academy in Rockefeller Center Among the odd samples of millinery seen shows, social events events in Paris to resemble drums One woman Was afen wearing a velvet cushion on her head with a veil attached to it, while another had a hat resembling a cinnamon bun perched over her forehead like a saucer, One socially prominent woman had on a wilch- hat of black velvet with little bows set on the peak of the cone Hike bird wings, and another wore a flat, pink velvet crown which had been drawn into wavy folds to re- semble a giant fingerprint Huge Boulder to Be Raftsmen’s Memorial A two-ton boulder that has tested the navigating skill of many ral! pilots has been selected as a per- manent memorial to be erected at Burnside to Susquehanna River rafting and raftsmen The stone was picked from Rocky Bend, one of the most dangerous points in the river. It will be in place in the Burnside Park and dedi- ested during the jumbermen’s and raftsmen’s reunion in this Clearfield County village August 8 to 10 A simple bronze tablet commem- orating rafting from 1827, when the first raft left the upper reaches of the river, to 1938 when the “last raft” made itg ill-fated Journey, will be placed on the stone. The “last raft” cracked up at Muncy last March 20 Seven persons lost thelr lives when it struck a raliroad bridge pier. going recently at style and sporting hats tailored doughnuts at the races were and es’ British Order Planes An order for 200 Lockheed air- planes, similar to the plane in which Howard Hughes and his companions made their recent round-the-world flight. has been placed with the Curtiss-Wright Corporation and the Wright Aeronsitical Corporation by the British Air Ministry. The planes will be powered by 400 Wright Cyclone engines identical with the type used by the Hughes plane, Wrist Ws —— Sowed and Reaped While sowing oats in 1910, Brooks W. Grindle, of North Brooksiville, Me. Jost a graduation ring he had worn since 1888. Recently while working in the same field, he turned | up the long missing ring, when auto- intersection nshed the Carr widside. The lather vehicle turned over by impact but i escaped CrOSSIngE an YA Adams ( into mobile bri the WO pASSCNEers nor oHru nearly Adams at- Adams machine was lished | t! Nision 20 minute cated | rom Lhe rty was the ia- m pa whet of Brisbin injured Adams Ho WallacetonFamily Lose Home by Fire Members of Household Awak- ened bv Roar of Flames in Attic: £7.000 loss Hope truck pumper m but Lhe sq und answered fire wi Hurryin : Ley QisCovereq } floor was a mass of flames The smoke from the fames was so thick no attempt coud be made 10 ex- DREULSH LD we onfined their g the buildings » Wolf home walter One handicapped the well was : to save one gide of further Mng wa the water in flings caught he damage to fing furniture was not cov- ered by insurance attempt oe ua 2 i Fogo fir ome bu pumg 210DDed LO CONSE TYE Can the buil Takes Own Life Altoona Workman Was Vie- tim of Nervous Breakdown and Worry Henry Burgess 51. of Altoona, a Penmnavivania railroad car inspector ill Tor the past eight weeks, died Fri- day afternoon at Altoona hospital a razor wound of the throat Deputy Coroner Chester H. Wag ner sald that Burgess, reportedly despondent and on the verge of a nervous breakdown, out himself! shortly after 3 o'clock Friday morn- ing in the bath reom at his home Discovery of his act was made by the victim's wife, Mrs. Mary M Burgess, who sald her husband had locked himself in the bathroom. I was also learned that Burgess wan- dered away from his home Thursday afternoon but was found at 8 o'clock that evening by Boy Scotts and re- turned Henry Burgess wag born in Staf- fordshire, England, March 18. 1886, a son of Thomas and Sylvia (Holt) Burgess. Members of the family include his wile, Mrs. Mary M. Brumbaugh Burgess, his father in England, one son, Henry Jr. of Pasadena, Cail- fornia, one daughter, Mrs. Thomas Willams of Linesville, Pa. of Balloons and Bombs! Minds Just As Keen After Sixty wery that mos! sixty anda The surp women SINE dis men and between minds a eporie Hospital Madsaghu- evenly have as gm v . ’ prime og the Worcester youll wa f roy State Research Twpmrtiment ett Ia week wiern test iligenoe beg! one knows of a few nd busines power and ow mental APE general intelliger the command ov omy Eig wmber were between eighty i eighty-nine pecial allowances were made education Doc ors that fo Gojdanan soared Shakow and men abd women found Ke All walks of ICIAN: nurses clerk teacher: life were represent. samen, as altendante, house janitors farmers and preacher 86 1 showed : 1 Twn ts 4 DUS VOY inal The average score of the ability of wing words practically atl the game level igh the sixth decade of lile SIOWiy In (SREY : begin to drop we wventh deonde.’ Bete: persons showed 2 r mastery of words at all stages from eighteen to ninety fou ; made at Yak ve Institute of Human rated of persoias of advan past fifty and even mexpeciedly mont educated tale 11% Un Rein ost Previous test have demon hat the abililie aa wel “A108 4 GICerted The vooabulary 108% appear arm his general impression BUYING A USED CAR {Reprinted from Science and Mechanics Magazine) Note While the CArs are soid there are 8 omg to many rick (Editor's ity of . eputal used ma jor 4 dealers ye tain few who res in palming off juisk as tation. The purpose of this to describe the tricks most used and how they may be de- 7 nt efficien Lranspor od car should be bought wWithomt =a When road test we aay a “road lest” wi don't mean just around the block A real test must include traffi open country, hills, and rough read The test must be lang enough to get the car really or Rt mean mighty little. There are plenty of tricks that can be pulled to maks r seem O. K on a short run Heavy in the engine transmis- sion, and rear axle will cover up noise in these units until the car gris hot. Then the ofl will get thi and the noise will appear. Car with composition wood and stee baddies that may have become nois: are sometimes sprayed with water to tighten them up. If driven for a eouple hours they will dry owt enough to get nolay. hot oil A thorough test should start wit a full tank of gas, and the oll exactly at the “full” mark on the measuring rod. Then when the test iz over the oar should be placed In exactly the position it was wher these items were checked. Failure to pisce the oar in the original poaition may result in large errors in caleu- lation of the fuel and oil used Un- less the car is a really bad oll hog the vil consumed in 50 or 100 miles will be hardly measured. Listens to the engine when it is first started. If it produces a siap- ping noise that quiets down when the engine gets hot it is a sign that the pistons are loose. If it idles ex- cesaively fast, it is possible that it is in bad mechanical condition and the owner has speeded it up so ir- regularities in the operation will not be noticed leaks In the exhaust gystern mas be spotted quickly by having some- one hold a rag over the end of the exhaust pipe while you squirt a Jit- tie oil in the carburetor as the en- gine is speeded up. This will make blue smoke which will be seen wherever there is a leak in the ex- haust system. As soon a8 you met under way J I a vail slike note of how the cluich acted by Did it gb when starting? Or did sip when you er the gun? Now speed oRr up to miles ook backward and i al slam the brakes. If ali wheels lock and show approxi- mately equal skid marks, the brakes probably ©. K. though a a brake machine would sirable if convenient Now clutch and brakes performing O. K your being on guard for ihe weaknesses if any exist) you are ready Ww continue test Bring the oar up 10 as fast a speed as ja pemitied by law and wisdom in view of existing traffic. Get the really bot 4f possible. Then when runnning at 35 miles an hour or better take your foot off the sc- eelerator and let the car push the engine until you have siowed down 0 about 20 miles an hour. Glance ing backward or watching the rear view mirror, step hard on the aceel- erator A big puff of blue smoke indicates worn pistons, rings and cylinder walls. As you continue to accelerate, if the smoke changes from blue to black, the carburetor mixture is too rich-—a stunt resorted % by some to soften the explosions and reduce the poise of operation In engines A clattering noise during decelera- ting Indicates a loose main bearing or flywheel When the road test 3s hall over it is a good plan to stop, far from the dealer who is selling the oar, and take another look at what you are planning to buy Walk twenty feet from the car Look at it from all angles. This may reves] things never seen before Possibly there is a badly gprung hood. a missing hub cap or some other detail. In Tact this check-up applied by one used oar buyer dis- closed that the car he was about to buy. ang which. #0 the seller claimed. “had been used very little by an old couple who only took it out on Sunday afternoons” had actually been a taxi cab! When he got just the right light on the side of the oar he could see under the paint the lettering of the cab com- pany that had originally operated the cur. Now while you are out in good light, look carefully at the interior (Continued on Last Page) ; gave the pa. hour clear an teat te with Are be or Your Car LOCK HAVEN MAN HIT BY AUTO; IN HOSPITAL SERIOUSLY INJURED Sustains Broken Leg, Fractured Shoulder and Skull, When He Stepped in Front of Approaching Car Lock Haven citizen wis injured and another, a den- put out of practice temporar- by a Tractured wrist, in automo- socidents over the week-end Christ Troxel escaped death was badly injured when struck by & car on the Flemington road at Johnell's room Dn John Davies is the person who will have to forego his practice until his wrist mends, Mi Davies also fered a broken rib in the same | in which her husband mvolved The extent of Mr. Troxel's njur- les were such that it was (inst thought he could not survive HI left leg is broken in two places be- knee bores the of shonuider are He also sustained a frac- frontal bone of the One jously ist Ly bile H but or tea ciaent wr low of knee and fractured the the and the the left ture of skuil He 5 reported from the shock but it or five day: before any definite knowledge of the outcome of hi in juries determined Mr. Troxel Johnell's ar parked on lhe the As he behind an aulo parked on of the road where the tea be walked directly another y Raup. of Lam direction of right front fender struck him and pavement have rallied will be four an had had unch at proceeding to hi opposite side for step gd out 3% and wa of road the » room located into 1 path of i by W. XK mg In the ven. The Raup ong him to the WRT In addition Troxel! sw bruises about the his body He an ambulance fo the Private Hospital In PE + M aT circumstance alls laceration: ana shoulder: ret tained face and wa wea in Have n the investige - Lock view of an Contact With Wire Results In Death Youth Emploved on Construc- tion Job at Huntingdon Killed While Sweeping Coorge A Bosiet 18. a son of Mr and Mrs. Oeorge 1. Boslet, of Ard- enbeim, was found dead Priday al his work at the Pennsyvivania In- dustrial school. Huntingdon where he was employed by the MoCloskey contracting company Death, according ans, was caused by electrocution, the resuit of his coming in contact with a light current! wire whih furnished the light at the point he was work- ing. The youth was sweeping ou the pipe way between the top ceil- ing and the roof of the new ce biock at the time of his death ou to two physici- Worker Fatally Hurt Frank E Muffly, 55. of Milton was fatally injured Thursday when a bus of the West Branch Transit Company of Milton fell upon his chest and shoulders. He died in the Owelsinger Memorial Hospital Dan- ville. His chest was crushed and one shoulder was injured. Mr. Muffy, who was a welder, em- ployed st Clemens Machine Shop was lying under the big vehicle when the jack and blocking holding up the machine became dislodged After being given first aid treatment, Mr. Muffty was removed to the Geisinger Hospital at Danville, A gmall boy playing nearby told other workmen of the accident. Red Cars Are Taboo For Japanese Subjects Since rod is the imperial color in Japan no red oars are sold in that country except to the roval house- hold. ac to an export omgan- ization in efeller Center. There is no law prohibitiing a private Japanase citiseti from purchasing a red car: they just don't. The organ- ization also reports that most for- eign countries order black oars. or cars of a4 darker shade: only South the lighter colors. In those countries Americans and Asiatics seem to iike beige, tan and light blue are the most popular shades. tH ion by Was Police, Mr tody. The ac 20 pn Dr oocurred the Molo not taken into cus cident occurred about The accident in which Mrs, Davies figu 0:50 ociock Baturdas rect 1 it Route 64 near Palrpoint wiki tralier atta | B. Park A tru 0 beet proceeding Lo- opposite direc- 1 Olson, of Bul- passer - Pauline three 2 NSO wn ! speed beyond Whatever sideswiped cars follow- ram Was ry curve fo ut = 4 PHA rats 3 v far ver too Ia Lhe Olson Car rosd ¢ +3 on Wie Olli Car Y r | t Ha P rs were laken ven Private Hosphial und former actured right if the left Davie that the the fr rations 0 the ell arm fractured be loyw left yf thie eye Bre left on the besides cuts d right hand !} ™ right Aon Millet { an treated for Haven thelr Injur- Hospital he Lock We Dare You Te Believe This Tall Yarn About Fishing of Pollsville, has added his name to the rolls of fish tale Wwllers with a yarn about fsb jumped into boat fast reach short Jack Murphy Lids NO most didn™ at the Hauto Dam fishing one day last week but was having no luck. Tt grew dark. 1 Hi my oar- bide lamp and hooked it en a ilk poe the center of the boat While I was baiting my hook. I jot of little bugs fying amp. but paid no atten in noticed a around the tion Suddenly a into the boat 12-inch fish bounce I was mystified Be- fore 1 could finish batting my hook another big fish jumped In My buddy declared they were jumping at the small insects hovering around the flame of the carbide lamp “While 1 wag not convinced that this was the case. I watched and sure enough--4in another few minutes an- other fish jumped into the boal Then 1 was sure my pal was right In jess than two hours the boat was so full of fish that we had a ough time rowing to the shore” Two Minor Accidents At Cold Stream Dam Delbert Sharpless, 13. of Bandy Ridge, attempted to gwim from the pier towards the breast of the dam on Friday, when he became exhapst- od. He was removed from the water by a life guard and treated for shock. He suffered no ill effecis Tom his experience On the game afternoon Harman Reese, 10. also of Sandy Ridge, was snapped by a dog while running across the bridge of the dam. The bite was nol deep and was imme- diately given first aid trestment House Damaged by Blast Forly<two panes of glass were blown out in the hane of Game Warden Hove Lammigh at Red Rook near Berwick. when a road worker set off 15 sticks of dynamite about 100 feet away. Rocked by the blast the house was extensively damaged In addition to the panes, plaster was knocked from the walis and doer jocks shattered. Mrs. Larrish and three others. in the house at the time escaped injury. FISHIN NEVER WUZ A HOBBY WITH ME, BOWSEY “* {'T WUZ A BUSINESS -- Fone T RETIRED «<= THEY AIN'T NUTHIN' IN THIS ‘KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES’ — That's a Lot of Money, Eddie! Era T1 By POP MOMAND THEN KID ME ~~ T'L. BET X CAN CATCH JUST AS MAYBE ~~ I SHOULDN'T Mave BET THAT PIETY LES A CAGEY OLD DOG, AT Tar? - Apparently the method whereby the three men who escaped from the Centre County jall here last Priday moming waf not an original one. A short Ume alter the escape was discover ed this department mentioned man who has frequently served time fn the Jall and who had not heard of the break. The former Inmates first comment upon hearing the news wa I'll bet they got one of those benches out of the block and propped It the wall” That nt way learned Was exactly how they got out, Then, too, tL reported that Some weeks 280 A prisoner In the jall yard scurried to the wp of the wall on a bench, but was ha before he got any fur- ther “0 a Cea BEALS nler Ley herit! John M. Box ner whi wed a b lost shed Jail ing over the in this re gown further though the 4] or glement strands siee) wall but bull agair one corner of the A INeAans Aller te Bherni manner, Lhe irate nt yard s wa. gett Lhw second escape If 4s the bullding and had nu Now 1 either Woninis they'll Dench perneaps ig a "lop Lhe of barbed posts should stop practic: magicians ang ghosis Bee nave wal ploye of the end a cabinet average ability st completed ie slor- Wetzler designed BO Br- ranged a rack may be removed from its compart- ment without rbing any of the others. The cas and rimmed a useful Wels MIE an Band ne cabinet hi i. and has n wWainut tings, is and to the Ban Buick agent ainting wildlife he be. he has wildlife the east hobkyies periraits COIs Deen hag that paint ciubs In Scout other wrote camp Lhe day for shoes and his old ting is such that sheels and an nile 4 ram ir ¢ 3 a Pea Ol Note 10 Diogenes: Your search for an honest person 4s at an end One say recently while walking through Pishermen's Paradise, Mrs, Albert Gilmer, who is vacationing at the summer cottage of her par- ents, Mr. and Mis. BH. P. Schaeffer along Spring Creek along the bank of the stream a Leica camera, (price. sbout $150 Mrs. Gilmer. the former LaRue Schasf- for, took the camera 10 the adminis tration bullding Where she learned that the expensive instrument was the property of the State Fish Com-~ mission, and had been misiaid Navigation was resumed on Spring Creek. just above the falls. Mon. day afternoon When a number of youths obtained a ralt somewhere and enjoyed an outing off the shores of the Cambie Island £ 4 oun Several vears age when Roland Hickoll, of Bellefonte, passed away, the survivors included a dog, which has been living on the generosity of residents of the West Ward since his master's death. The animal has been on the verge of collapse for some months, and Monday evening he dropped in his tracks on West High street Residents thought he should be humanely killed and bur- ied. They appealed to Council. May- or Hardman P. Harris and Presi- dent of Council Thomas Beaver be- fore they learned that a constable is the appointed dog-kilier in bor- oughs of Pennsyivania. No one, it seemed. knew just who the constable of the West Ward is. 50 Justice of the Peace Harold Cowher was ques. tioned in the matter. He started out to jearn the identity of the constable. and happened to put the guestion to Bob Houser. “17 said Bob, “am the constable” Further inquiry revealed that Houser couldnt kill the dog without a pol- ioe order. So they hunted up Offi- eer Ralph Eyer, and the two of them went to West High street While preparations were being made for the execution of the animal severs] carloads of assorted officials arrived on the scene. and everything was made reatly for the Law fo take fla course. The Oonstable stepped up with his billy and dispatched the dog with a couple well-aimed blows. The carcass was loaded into a car and whisked away to be bur- ied. And that was that! Penn State Trustee
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