THOUSANDS KEAD THE CLASSIFIED ADS CENTRE COUNTY'S FAMILY NEWSPAPER VOL UME | 57. NUMBER 33. en 2 HELD BELLEFONTE MAN CHARGED WITH PLOTTING JAIL-BREAK Third Fugitive Surrenders to Police At Mon- terey, Va.; Police Claim CCC Boy Admits Holding Bench \ VS, ile Trio Scaled Wall With the return two of the three men wl from the Centre County jail 29, and with apprehension of the third fugitive in Virginia, the Sheriff's office after an investiga- tion of the jailbreak, during weekend arrested a Bellefonte on charges of engineering cape plot, Phil dent on ¢h of 0 win their tempor Friday In Keeler turned apoli ier been ai cn he Cenfre Democrat BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1938. ER SUBSCKRIPTION-—$1.50 PER YEAR FOR AIDING ESCAPE HEAVY LOSS AS FIRE RAZES LARGE BARN AT BLANCHARD and Mill Hall Fire Apparatus Slightly Dam- Grange Fair Will Open August 26 Grounds Officially Open Aug- Back In Toils | 3 Sentenced E +. | At Special ; Court Here Unable vr Draw 30 Days; £100 Fine, Receives Fellowship | Howard Fireworks To Be Picnic Feature Pay Fines, Other Gels 10 Days Two, ust 25, Events Begin Fol- : kB gn aged in Collision lowing Day — FIREMEN ENDANGERED BY HIGH TENSION LINE -—————ros The PLEAD GUILTY annual DRUNKEN DRIVING Session Cut Short by of Jail Fugitives to Appear ALL TO COMMITTEE RELEASES PROGRAM FOR WEEK KE xhibitions. OCratic Mosha to Bellefonte and George Thompsor WhUrg, on charges three me: around the exercise 10 eSCaped of the 20- yard on July to scale Origin of Blaze Undelermin- ed: Three Farm Implements Lost COroing #1 i! Waiter E. Beer firework the Failure Concerts, Con- Calves, Crops, tests, The Thom Amusements Slated he sentence on youth | WHATVing a . sente For Tented City the eas disorderly charge, while Thompson a — 3 Le Yesi- Taner ge LCC camp mem- * hree persons, all charged with The annual Grange Encampment 100D ° band cONCEris, Acrobatic destroyed a large barn on the ver, wa RE before and Centre County Pais I E. Vater g Jan Park. Centre Hall two weekend Be escape — Origin Har - hard fire a 22 000~ | Dura " rea aiid 8 BOUrg "er neared IATEeS ’ % (a Walker George CCC freedom Sherif and and two speci plember Bellefonte \ 4 po : Indiana, with William Spang Hut pris & Wi0 con i i I'wo of them. unable ta and Harold Walker taken into custod: 4 rr in BIEEes Ui to GREGG RON ALD E UGENE Re Eugen 28 Greg it Lait age was the y } on fighlig tented ol 1) 5 1 A wer nienced to pay 1 I &® mndergo imprisor it In the County i 3 man he could pay Walker om Indianapolis er walked to the wall > been Ge- 14 jail for 30 days who indicated that a fine, was sentenced hibit tural r return Sui lenbe re ng ions products n Contests VATIOus k riding a ireig word was received from Va. that Glenn Sullenbe third and reported or Mor Hterey, reer } seni jubl of ogeih and third member of the rendered himself City With all who took active part the "=uilbreak once m in cu Sheriff Harry V Keel ! officials at the jail launcl vestigation which resulte arrest of James Thomas to police i tody i! other 1 in in Ordinance To Face Court Test Magazine | Rule State College Law Salesmen Ask Court to on Validity of A Btate College Borough governing the sol for magazines, laces a through the action of three mags Zine salesmen who recently were ar rested and fined for operating in that borough. Judge Ivan Walker this week granted the three sales. men permission to appeal from the ruling of Burgess Wilbur F. Leit- zell in the matter The salesmen Lindsey Altoona Cleveland, Qhio Columbus, Ohio on Thursday. Au College Borough Police Off er tin L. Kauffman, on violating a borough {Continued ation of rt COUr are Brooks M of i Tark "1 ang Jaf Mar. harges i or dian: 106. Ar- 4) from page CAR DOOR WRENCHES OPEN: WOMAN INJURED IN FALL An automobile door open near Philipsburg Sunday night throwing Mrs. Hannah Lines, of State College, to the highway and injuring her severely about arms, face and shoulder. She taken to the Clearfield ed wrench Hospital Mrs. Lines, who had been visiting with a brother, Ralph Cruikshank in Curwensville, was returning home with Clifford Corey of State Col- lege. The car was between West De- catur and Philipsburg when tl mishap occurred Results of x-ray pictures awaited at the hospilal yesterday determine if the right shoulder one thumb were [fractured woman's arms and face were bruised from the fall. The mobile did not pass over her were to and The badly auto- Heaton Brothers Injured In Crash Centre County Residents’ Car Hits Pole Near Beech Creek When Forced Off Road Chris Heaton, of Bellefonte RD 4. and his brother, Orvis Heaton, Howard BR. D. 1, were injured near Beech Creek about 4:30 o'clock Monday afternoon when, they al- lege, the car in which they were riding was forced off the highway into a telephone pole by a car which failed to stop after the accident Both nen were taken to the Lock Haven Hospital, where an examina- tion revealed Orvis Heaton to have suffered a possible skull fracture, (Continued on page two) Swimmer Seized With Cramps Mrs. Ruth Whiles Conklin, for- merly of Hawk Run, was rescued from Black Mosharnon Monday night near the bridge. Mrs. Conklin in swimming with Miss Betty Per- na, of Philipsburg was seized with cramps and shouted for help. How- ard Vail, standing ot the bridge, fully dressed, jumped into the wa- ter and carried Mr: Conklin io shore. - Teletype to Remain Here When the headquarters unit of the State Motor Police leaves Belle ‘onte about the first of the month, the teletype which has been in op- eration there for the past number of years, will be transferred to the sub-station which is to be moved from Pleasant Gap to Bellefonte, The site of the sub-station here has not been made known at this time. i Hoye Thursday. Aug st 25 to I (Cor ded na h rode to boarded Sulienberger, they boar Altoona another freight Chicago Missouri They n their back give iy tir four) ed on page Prizes Listed Val To 15 For Carnival uable Ground Be Distributed at Catholic Festival gi to be he St. John fonte, a ven aw (Cont House ay at Annus] id by congregati s Catholic church, t the rear of the Undine East Bishop street Friday and Saturday the refreshments of feat § 14 far 9 x fon tinued on page four) Injured Lime Worker Succumbs (;eorge View, A. King, 10, Dies Suddenly at Grove City Hospital Injuries Chemical two mon | himself compl serious (Co ths a he made § received in i Lime Compan go are believed to the death at Hospital, Monday A Rif 1g Valley Lo nigat of King, an emp ral Lime Company lar duties at the plant step and fell, twisti in the act. Although lained of considerable pain, he did not believe his injuries nature About ntinued on page four) hires PORT MATIL DA MAN HURT AS TANK EXPLODES Painfuly hurt when a gasoline tank he was repairing blew up in the Harpster Garage in Port Ma- Robert Ellenberger, tilda, of that weekend After removing the gasoline tank from a truck, Ellenberger was weld- when the accident occurred. He had rinsed it with water before starting to repair it but some of the gas vapor is mained in the tank and it exploded as the flames from the torch struck ing it it The end of the tank blew out. flying pieces of metal lenberger to the bone from the elbow to wrist town was admitieg to believed striking His right arm was - New Official Record for Cow. A new record, exceeding the aver- | age of the Guernsey breed for her age and class has just been compiet- ed by a five year old cow Penstate Vera 374443 of State Ool- ed and owned by Pennsyl- Her official re- Bybarite's test vanla State College cord supervised by The Pennsylvania State College snd announced by the | American Guernsey Cattle Club is 133304 pounds of milk and 6460 pounds of butter fat, lege, class A. I hr Ae Large Brood Young Snakes Members of a repair crew of the gan a 25-day sentence at the Cen- Buffalo Valley Telephone Company, | while clearing brush and repairing lines along Buffalo Creek, Mifflinburg, snake stretched Awards Valley View rephations was al when tobe of a weeka resident the Philipsburg State Hospital over the to have re- the El- cut the | players were from | Clinton. (ton Club; Miss Marjory King. north of found = copperhead freight gt ; Wa to pay WILLIAM SPANGLER HAROLD WALKER Joseph Rhoades Dies at Franklin Was Last Member of One of Bellefonte's Most Promin- ent Early Families al member d on page four - Fire Damages Unused Barn At Axe Mann Fire of stilted ITs Gos stiited in so indetermined damage to an Hote clock Bun barn at the rear of the at Axe Mann about 8 o day morning. Prompt and effective work by the Pleasant Gap pany saved the building able destruction When discovered the fire was cone fined to the entry of the building Neighbors formed 8 bucket brigade and kept the flames from spreading fo any great extent until the ar- rival of the fire company. Water pumped through a booster tank on the truck soon resulted in the quenching of the fire. Damage was store fire ocoom- from prob. Leonfined to several mangers and to a small portion of the ronf. The property is owned by Miss Nellie Armor, of near Bellefonte, and is tenanted by Ear] Cutetan. ER ——— Nittany Club Host To Women’s Tourney Forty members of the Central Pennsylvania Women's Golf Assoc- lation participated in 2 medal play tournament held Tuesday sfternoon at the Nittany Country Club. Play began at 1:30 p. m. and the tourna- ment coacluded with a dinner served at 6:30 o'clock. Participating the Clearfield. Centre Hills and Nittany Country Clubs. Awards for low gross scores went Mrs. Louise Arter, of the Clin- of to Centre Hills, Hoover, of Clinton Club. Low net score prize winners were: Mrs. Hugh Crumlish and Miss Ida Fisher, of the Nittany Club, and Miss Cather- ine Diack, of the Clinton Club. A- wards Were based on scores for 18 holes, Begging Jail Sentence George Julien, Detroit. Mich. be- tre county jail Baturday on charges of violatoin of the fish laws. Ar- raigned before ‘Squire J. Mac Pearce of Philipsburg, he was charged with | along a log. Lorn | fishing without a license. The fact Huffman killed the reptile with a that he is a non-resident of the brush fork, and the men found that | state added to the penalty, jail of- the body contained 57 young snakes. ficials said. and Miss Caroline’ the a fine of $100 days in jail who drew 1 VIET 8% Temes were R of Pleasant Gap, and H. 1 of Bellefonte, R. D of Police Harry Dukeman prosecutor in the acto the des COL: LOTve The tw ten o defendants Her, stated that arrested on May 21 ailer his (Continued on pege three) sine ————— Local Blind Man Cancels Pension as | Business Prospers | Norman Bellefonte A Kirk Kirk, of Harrisburg won of Dr. and Mr of West High Street, Bells forte, has notified the Centre Cou ty Public Assistance Board 1o canes his monthly blind pension Some months ago Normar E. Kel Howard Car Was Efficiency Gover Known MeLs mer Dai Mars treet, Be of Fast will be made possible b ’ Continued on page pW ee Injuries Fatal To Local Native be 4 Walker, 21, Former Dies After Hernia Operation R. Grid Star, frvin An operation for 3 hernia re an soOuienl while at wrk State College proved fatal i Ray Walker a native ne and caplain of the State Col- ege High school football team in ol In tr 1 WM AT ¢ through the State Council for — SESE who died at the OCmntre Coun- Blind, secured permission ste a refreshment etand in oh « needs the widely known Bome yours blind person 5 gecure a "Seeing him about he and Beures in Bell nie ahd ys DOCRIT I Tet sb 1 acing the first ide : Wane Belle ied tha familiar on streets, His dn weured another one Shor afterwards he opened his e in Harrisburg the dog leads trafie his WETH frst oe Duss and each da him through ahd dom work nes § Bugs Tee 65 C council S Sets Up 5-Man Authority == New Corporation Will Be in Charge of Operating Sew- age Plant Here Establishment of a five-man board chosen from members of Bellefant Borough Council to serve as 3 Bor ough Authority in the construction and operation of the proposed new sewage disposal plant here featured a regular meeting of Council at the Logan House Monday night The ordinance setting up the Authority was unanimously passed! after a third reading. Members of the Authority and the lengths of their term of office are as follow: W. J. Emerick. 3 years; W. W_ Sieg. 2 years; H. A. Brockerhoff, 4 years, Harry Badger, 1 year, Thomas, 5 years. Their periods of service on the Authority are fixed by State law. The new (Continued on page three) Mrs. Markle Seeks Custody of Goods A hearing is to be held in Court! here on Monday, August 20, in the matter of a petition by Mrs. Roy D. Markle of State College, for a| rule to show cause why property in| the possession of Constable 1. C Holmes, of State College, should not | be returned to her. This action is an aftermath of a series of events which occurred late in July. Mrs. Markie's husband left | home and took his life with a rifle bullet in a nearby woods at about the same time that Constable (Continued oh page two) Lingles Have Big Day. | Russell Lingle, of Spring Mills was | committed to the county jail this of Spring ‘week by ‘Squire Lingle, Mills, on an information 5, by Robert Lingle, of hg Mills Robert Lingle told ire Lingle that | Russell Lingle a $30 from his pocket while he was in his ear atl Spring Mills Saturday night. | [Russell was sent to jail to await the yaction of court, tn Ope and Leslie tv Hospital here isy morning Mr. Walker suf Bl 6 Oelock Mon fered rupture Wilson Biate Col admitted complications ay The deceased was 3 Elsie Miller © Cattle Dealers May Invite Prosecution | By Overloading Car | times be oie mas rweverthe penalty of progecu- governs the transportation of by truck and prohibits une » crowding of animals while be. paint to y v # vy ire om CRITioS a A HADOried ore ee] iw Any trucker who transports live i his ve- that the animals 1 alse the when hauling the large animals must not overload Hie the extent siiffer thereby of the trucker mi ads to separate animals from small ones by means of a partition. in order to protect the weaker animals from njury Attention is directed to this pro- vision of the humane laws in the hope that it will prevent fines being imposed. Georee ©. Glenn, of Belle- fonte, agent for the Society for the | Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, declares that all violations of this character reported to him will be prosecuted LUCKY DAYS TO BE HELD IN LOCAL STORES Thursday, Friday and Saturday. September 1 to 3. will be Lucky Days in Bellefonte stores, it was announc- ¢d yesterday by members of the Re- tall Divistbn of the local Chamber of Commerce, sponsors of the event The three-day special will culminate with the awarding of $60 in cash prizes Winners of awards are to be an- nounced from the Diamond at 10 o'clock Saturday night, September 3. With each 80-cent purchase made in the patticipating siores during the event, a ticket will be given free of charge. From the xed the corporation will begin to function as soon &s the set-up | {Stubs of these tickets the winners of | {the awards will be chosen. {85.00 awards, and ten $200 awards. | (According to a preliminary survey {most of the stores will cooperate in the merchandising event, further |etaily of which will be announced ater FAKS CHARITY DANCE Announcement was made last i night that the Bellefonte Elks Lodge | will hold a charity dance, for the {benefit of the organization's char- {ty fund, on Wednesday, August 31. The dance will be held at Hecla Park and will be open to the pub- lie jatics Satnils Xi) be pubian- | 6d in a later edition. of Belle There will be two $10 awards; two | With 8 wide varnety and entertainments The will and week ground ened 10 ™ iid campers irsday of next being schedul for this features for the balance of ti ted a ed week are lis follow Friday, M August 26 8:30 P Auditorium VETS Pia % un TEE Continued on page —————— Art Shaw's Swing Band At Hecla Park Next Week | Art have Westra Shaw and just been Harvest Moon his orch who selected to play the Ball at the Madi- son Square Garden in New York, August 3l--0ne of the biggest nus! dances in country-—will play a! Hecla Park Wednesday eve- ning of next week August 24 was announced yesterday by parE management Artie Shaw's new band the dance and radio sensation of the country. Long noted as the na- tion's greatest clarinet soloist, Artie hat proven that he has equal gual- (Continued on page three) pro Merchant Dies At Hublersburg Edward L. MeClintick, Succumbs; Conducted Store For 25 Years Edward Lawrence MeClintick, for about 25 years proprietor of a gen- era] store at Hublersburg, died soud- denly at his home in that commun- ity at 8:15 o'clock Sunday night af- ter a week's illness with a compli- cation of diseases. He was 70 years old Mr. MoClintick had been in fail- ing health for some time, but his condition was not regarded as be- ing serious and news of his death Sunday night came as an unexpect- ed shock to his legion of friends throughout Nittany Valley, The deceasad wae a son of John W. and Julia Close McCilintick and was born In Porter township, Clin- {Continued on page two) Breaks Both Arms In Fall From Tree In & fall from a tree at the Belles fonte High school commons Satur- | day night during the progress of the Logan Fire Company camival, Elwood Sager, aged 13, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Sager, of Halfmoon | Hill, had both arms broken between he swing is 79, the wrists and elbows, The youth was climbing the tree to get a better view of the carnival when a limb broke. He was rushed to the Centre County Hospital dis- pensary where it was found that one arm was broken in four places and the other in two places. He was | permitted (0 return home alter the fractures had been reduced and the arms placed in splints, An | his Couple Celebrate 50th Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. James Stine, Near Port Matilda, Are Principals in Event of ¢ James tine oclebraled their gol ANIVErsars Sun - 3 randchildren neighbors and riends ined In making Lh memorakale ole A sumptuous dinner and supper were enjoyed under the trees on the epacious lswn of their copy country ome M1 Mrs. Bline ved and mans thelr [rie COT - beautiful ang mele fuiations fron beautiful an gills rads sone f rer irom tabi H New Mex ROTWE an aunt in Line Resume Work On College Program Arbitrate Dispute Which Caused General Cessa- To tion of Operations esumed Tuesday after. the PWA-General State building program at the nia State College after a cessation of operations resulting from a strike last Wednesday of Local No. 832 Operative Plasterers and Cement Finishers’ International Approximately 700 workers returned to work pending arbitration of the matiers under dispute The cement workers {Continued on page En Howord Girl Named To High School Post Miss Eleanor Leathers. of Howard, hag been elected as a temporary physical education teacher at the Lock Haven High school She will take the place of Miss Edith Ter- rill, now on a year's leave of abe sence because of illness, Miss Leathers, who is the daugh- ter of Mrs. Hilda Leathers of How ard, is a graduate of the West Ches- ter Teachers College thiz year. 8he holds a bachelor of science degree in physical education established two) mas al A SA Bie ”~ Editorial A CANDID CHALLENGE { became aives U crops Jo four) Court Files Opinion In Hartswick Matter week in riswick, for the Corporation. vs executrix of A, Judge Ivan tong of law BE © a it tri x 1 her affi- and phim the Court gives the 0 file an al- to facts, with- Hartsw tswicrk, deceased dismissed ques Time The perms jefense as davs. Some time before his death on May 24 1937. Mr Hartwick en (dorsed 8 note for $1 M088 and Ee signed it to the ©. 1 T. Corpora- tion. The note was fo have been oft equal monthly install ts of $107 08 each, for 11 months. executrix contended that be the C. 1. T. granted several of installmenis, endorser. A. H. violated and that liability by such ourt did net up- Cntention execuinx S80n fidavit of nn fifteen «ki | paid 4 nen Tog monthly of $e ACTION IS DELAYED ON THOMPSON SCHOOL BILL the Legislature on 75.000.000 school bulld- been postponed roposed program til early in September The House deferred consideration two weeks on the bills to enable state and federal government jointly 10 start a huge construction program of school butidings The Senate-approved bills are in position for final action in the House but then must return to the Senate concurrence in House amendments, Governor Earle has deferred ac- tion until his return fo the capital on a companion bill appropriating $1.000000 to start the state's par- ticipation in the program. which is on his desk for his signature Paid $1, Net $5 Harold Walker, of Beliefonte R. D. 3. who last week was arrested because he failed to stop after run- ning over a dog owned by A 8 McCool, of Holts Hollow, Boggs township, writes to inform us that he was required to pay only $1.00, not $500 as reported last week 10 cover burial expenses for the dog. Mr. Walker wvoloes a suggestion which may have some merit when he declares pets should not be per- mitted to run at large. “If they were kept at home” Mr. Walker writes, ‘they would be in no tanger of be- ing run over and killed by cams” Nas ¥ 10T -— ~~ How ever one may view the con- troversy between Governor Earle and the Dauphin coutity court, eve ery fair-minded citisen will share the same feeling as the Governor in gtraightiorward endeavor to settle the affalr, whatever the re- Bult, in the open and in fall hears ing of everyone concerned His challenge, issued last week to the District Attomey, if accepted by | that official, will immediately break | the deadlock in the grand jury pro- ceeding With the same earnestness he showed from the beginning Gove ermor Earle calls upon District Ate | torney Shelley © arrest him and all others accused of wrong doing, if Shelley ts the eVitlence to war rant it. fant that what any honest citizen would do under the circum- stances? Had the Governor waited until ing Bat that has been his demand from the outset His latest challenge cannot be laughed off by the Dis. trict Atlorney or anybody else. In his address to the people last Thursday night the QCovermor pointed out that : hota of litiga- tion, there can no “show-down™ until late September), if then. Mean- while the Governor and thirteen of his officials have been declared “suspects” upon charges, the sup- porting evidence of which & locked up for a grand jury thal cannot sit for a month, The character of that evidence is unknown lo the public and is denied ‘the accused. If It & sufficient to warrant the ealling of a grand jury, ‘as the Covernor asserts, then it should be sufficient on which to | base an arrest and a hearing befdre | an akierman. The Governor thefe- | fore demands that in the interest later to throw down the gauntlet, he of himself and his associates, snd | might have Deen wocused of biuff~d 4 (Continued on page three)
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