Odd and Curious | News § Kidnaps Plane Truman Netzley, 17, of Troy, Ohio explained to playmates that he just “Wanted to taxi around the pasture” in his brother's second-hand mono- plane, The next thing they knew Truman, who had never had a flight lbsson, was up in the air and won- dering how to get down. Finally, however, he made a perfect landing in another pasture, to the delight of his family and on-lookers. [ Honeymoon on Skates Jack (Skates) Hyland and his blonde bride Pauline, recently mar- ried at Waco, Texas, made thelr honeymoon trip on roller skates They met on a skating rink at Cor- pus Christi, Texas. Hyland had just completed a roller skating trip around the world. The couple will now undertake a second one, roller skating even on ships Cross Atlantic in Boat Three ntl sailed from the Montauk Yach! Club, Long Isiand., in 31-foot double foresail sloop for Hamburg Germany. The boat, built by Heinz Forder, 30-year-old captain fand owner, of Hamburg, is rigged with a jib, staysail and mainsail. They ex pect to travel about 3.600 nautical miles In from 35 to 40 day Taker Takes All Rigging up a bulb outfit 10 reo: young Germans a camera and catch a suspected th of stamps, officials of p State De- partment of Educatic at Raleigh N. C., suffere h embarrassment and financial when, the next morning, they found not only more stamps but the $180 camera. USSINg, aso . » Pigs Is Pigs Pithecanthropus thropus dawsoni, a pig or what? That's what is puzal- ihg Boalsburg amateur archaeolo- gists these days as they study a jaw- botte, some teeth. and a few bone remnants dug up recently workman's plough at ti Boalsburg tavern erectus eOoan- preiustoric wild othe by a Tests Disturbing ¢ ~3y p hern OF sou nen Inhabitants Danish fslands were so frightened by fire from the German Navy has been holding extensive 1 veres in the Baitic sea jumped {rom beds, believin the rumbling to be that of a seve earthquake Sharing Their Jobs Banks Township, Luzerme county, pchool teachers are going to share their jobs this term with two in- structors dismissed because of a de- crease in the number of schools Bach teacher will take three week off during the term to provide em- plosment for ti their WMICU we deposed teacher: Many Ears Elevan—count ‘em-—ears of com fre growing on giant stalk in J H Melring's cornfield, at Littietown The unusual stalk is 12 feet high and nearly as thick as a man’s arm Bach of the 11 ears is topped by a tassel such as normally grows at the top of the stalk Breeds Flies While householders are doing thei: best to “swat the fly.” the Govern- ment is raising thousands of them to be used by Federal experts to de- termine the efficiency of insecticide offered the public on the open mar- kel Frances Opal Trvin, 9, of Oklaho- ma City. Is rid of a pesky sandbur First it stuck on her leg. She jerk- ed it out but it clung to her finger Then she pulled it free with her teeth but the bur lodged in her throat. A physician removed it. Gold From the Dead I plans of a group of Japanese dentists are carried out, gold from fillings, plates, crowns and teeth will be gathered at crematories from dead bodies and used to help carry on Japan's war in China EUROPEAN NATIONS KEEN FOR AMERICAN DOLLAR Competition among European na- tions to attract the American tourist dollar Is steadily becoming more in- tense, according to a report made public recently. The réport was based on statements made by motor ists returning from vacations on foreign highways The foreign travel division states that an outstanding example of this competition ig the drastic slash made by Italy in gasoline prices for tour- ists, “Under a newly-established price level,” the association reports, "for- £ign motorists touring Italy can ob- tain limited supplies of gasoline at twenty cents a gallon, compared with the regular price of about seventy cents a gallon. “This action represents a strong bid on the part of Italy for winter tourist business. With more than 150.000 miles of roads, and served by vessels capable of carrying upwards of sixty automobiles each, Italy now stands in fourth place among Eu- ropean nations as an objective for JJ cationing American motorists. * has recently been a substantial | increase in the number of tourists debarking with their cars at Italian ports.” The United States could get rid of some of its surplus wheat by do- yg 3 Lumgicd million bushels to we Chinese. A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week, The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County. SECOND SECTION dhe Centre Democrat VOLUME 57 NEWS, FEATURES BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1938. Di Lod NUMBER 237. Random [tems ONE KILLED, ANOTHER INJURED IN TRAGEDY AT MORRI Forty-Seven Yea SDALE MINE r Old Miner Victim of Misshot That Suddenly Exploded in Rock Tunnel Where He Was Working — Fellow- Workmen Makes Escape Conrad Urbansky, 47 vear old Munson miner, died last Thursday afternoon in Philipsburg State Hospital two hours after he was seri- ously mmjurdd in the Morrisdale Coal Company's No. 1 slope when an explosion which had been misshot suddenly exploded in a rock tunnel yhere he was working Charles Price, 40. Morrisdale. who was working with Urbansky and wa standing fifteen feet him, was struck on shot and rock but way the rear of he to make of men id of the to the the managed look be EES DF lo where a group whom he WM IAS were working to accident From face and the Urbansky 1s believed he was mt of spot wl wounds of body fy the ere exploded at the badly the Philipsbur Thursday batiered 1 was torn off by May Now Obtain Wheat Insurance Centre County Farmers to Benefit ment’'s New Plan From Govern- “tive 5 week when Jame roft State Ag Committ ne oe Pennsylvania, ments witl t ricultural Cons tion Office ¢ cept insurance applications Wheat farmers of the counily who are interested obtaining insur- ance for their wheat as offered by the Federal Crop Insurance Corpor- ation are urged to get In ouch with the county office jocated in Past Office Building, Bellefonte All wheat farmers, whether or 1 they led in the Parm gram, may tn policies covering in the Are f cent of the average viel for their farms Next year those farmers who keep within their wheat allotments will policies Ona} Urance EY ural # pops H i NAZATAS percent of the crop. Since Pennsyl- vania 18 a low-risk area the cost the insurance is expected lo be re- | atively low The crop insurance premiums are payable in terms of wheat. the cash equivaler being the local market price of wheat at the time the pre- mium is paid. These premiums ate payable in advance of the seeding of the 1939 crop. when policies are is- sued. Any losses paid to farmers will be paid in the cash equivalent of wheat at the time of the loss. Thus it wag pointed out, the policies in- sure yields. not price. The amount of the premiums for each farm is determined By averag- ing county joss figures with the indi- vidual farmer's crop loss experience Under this plan, it is explained farmers in low-risk areas such as Pennsylvania, are not sharing cost of the insurance in other higher-risk sections In addition to paying a premium for the policy covering the 1939 crop farmers may deposit an equal amount to be applied on the pre- mium for a like policy to be issued for the 1940 crop. Thus, it is urged. the farmer hag a possible advantags of paying now for two years’ protec- tion with wheat at a relatively low price. Should he have a loss from any cause during the term of the policy he will be reimbursed in the cash equivalent of wheat at the time of such loss When a farmer pays for his policy this premium money is forwarded to the office of the Corporation in Washington. The corporation then buys wheat with this cash and holds the actual wheat in reserve. This wheat is used to pay losses. The loss wiil be paid in the cash equivaien: of wheat, Indicted for Death of Houtzdale Man A 63-year-old resident of Martins- | burg, West Virginia, L. O. Carr who was recently held for the Indiana Vounty grand fury on a charge of in- | voluntary manslaughter in the high- | (Way death of Michael Adams, { Houtzdale, at Armaugh July 30 was | Friday indicted by the jury on the | same charge. i Adams died as a result of injuries {when the car he was driving and | | Carr's car met and collided at an in- | i tersection on the William Penn | Highway. ] | Mrs. Adams, a : former Osceola | ted in the of her hus- | Mills resident, was | crash which took the | band. | or two wa Urbansky and Price were working al the bottom the No. 1 slope 160 feet the “C" seam rock tunnel Lo small shot of one permis explo nserted in the the of on and " ie Wels Za B 5 of ible rock to explode when applied » foremas and inser nterval Jui Wh to redrill expired attempted not kn WHR accident Wl standing 1 vestigated : y home afternoon a’ Reig Tank Explodes At Lock Haven Emplove Suffers Burns When Safety Valve of Air Compressor Fails Garage Jones street, an Haven burned emplove of the Lock Automobile Company. was about the face and chest, He to the Lock Haven Hos rm ndition was agen " nos of Lock we MT pres Haven, oa Al stald Grieco of tation, escaped injury because rather oR ner Blast than wion wags felt a block. with windows the 1: House Roxy and Carden Theatres and Parts of windows by yf +H Fe SS { the expi shattered in vin the EY - eral 4s were knocked noose and furniture inside the build- ngs trembled w COTM . 'wo ale bia reported » hose leading from compres r nd the second were the fires mn of the boiler ar front of wid House on Jay street machine was being front of the damaged were for more th used i ; The “ » fp in Allie ) maoreie in BNE by station the explosion Called into action, the Lock Haven fi department found no service was necessary. Fire and police officials announced that the Department of Labor and Industry would be asked to investigate the cause of the bias! whlch was ——— Glass Is Used to Filter Studio Air Glass is employed to filter dust out of the air in the unique air-con- ditioning system which is ued in all of the twenty-seven broadcasting studios of the Nationa] Broadcasting Company at Rockefeller Center, New York he glass is spun into fine filaments, which are coliectively referred to as glasg wool, and when piaced in filters, these filaments have the property of collecting tiny par- ticles of dust and dirt from the air as it passes through the filters, a ———— Murder or Suicide? The body of W. C. OConnell, 61 unemployed carpenter of Raleigh, N C., was found with a chisel driven three and a half inches into the top of his head. Officials are puzzled as to whether it is murder or suicide because they oould not decide whether it was physically possible for a man to do it himself. —— Our Main Sail k Moshannon inbe] timber It with some wyeabie 519 LT DNEMIOCK ano Siegiried old of the Immens stand irgin timber that ones stood on the ground now being clear - od and graded for Pennayivaniat i %% airport waz all big tin GINGERY REUNION # Le u ber with held The with folloaed Dt Pacer approved God Wii Take Care Stive Mor Mollie ars Harvey vice-president. Row treasurer ¥ ipsburg Philipsburg; Matis jieott, N Pearl Morris 1 The time and place for our reunion was then decided upon all #ood joined hands forming circle sang, "Blest be the The Russell Weaver pronounced the ben- ediction. There were 57 presen namely, Mrs. Mollie Matis Mr. Dorse Matta, Mrs. Teletha Morgan, Mis Callender, Miss Anna Brant an Robert Langford, all of Endicott, N Y.. Mrs Elsie Waedel Mrs Charlot’: Fisher and daughter Sandia, of San- dusky. Ohio; Mr. and Mra. Robert Stiver and sons, Harvey, John and Theodore, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wood- hall and son Norman and Miss Edna Gorsuch, all of Bellwood. Mr. and Mrs. William Bickle and daughters Delores and Janet of Warriors Mark: Mr. and Mrs. Vallaise Gruber and three chifidren of Atlantic, Pa; Mr and Mrs. Rudoiph Gingery and gon Kyle, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Williams and daughters, Margaret and Rosalie Mr. and Mrs. Russell Weaver and sons, Paul and Donald. all of Pout Matilda, Mr. and Mrs. Eiwood Steele of Julian; Mr. and Mrs. Bill Malts and daughters, Pauline Gladys and Delores and Ralph Cower all of Hannah Purnace: Mis uth Powely of Tyroné; Mr. and Mrs, B. F. Williams and daughter Goldie, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Acton and daughter Mildred, Mr. and Mss. ROY Morrison and daughters, Marjorie and Patty Lou all of Philipsburg. socal next Ww Moshannon De Ley 4 too nd i would be make anybody of timber that Speaking of the operations, he Wid how it and sawed and d Unionville neal he declared tTets WETE ( led to Philipsburg pring rrogator, whe tarieg i clearing th land on Forge Run airport now is the first Ume 08 ut of Black the floating o “e, Maoshannon many he alled house along W. R fiamond many re Dr s a8 he knew of it a8 soOn w {id anything. He told of walking in the early morning and When circuses of the boy on Last Page) he in lown eh ack wr night see here he sald severs! (Continued Governor Signs Relief Measure £25,000,000 Appropriation To Be Used For Relief of State's Unemploved George H Earle an- inced Saturday he had signed the 25.000.000 appropriation relief vivania's unemployed designed to repair the legisibture recetsion- wrecked $138 000.000 appropriation thought sufficient unemployment needs throughout the bien nium. will transfer revenues in ex- ress of anticipated taxation A formal opinion from Attorney General Guy K. Bard delivered to the governor in Philadelphia, auth- orizing signing on the grounds the exceNy revenies were not arbitrarily pledged to retirement of the current £60 000 000 tax anticipation notes is- sue Republican House and Senate leaders warned during enactment of the bili that on the basis of Su- preme Court decisions and opinions handed down By former Attorney General Charles J. Margiotti all revenues from the emergency taxes were pledged for retirement of the anticipation notes until interest and principal of the issue were secured. The transfer of exofss revenues spared the administration the ne- cessity of sponsoring election-year taxes or special fund transfers to strengthen the relief budget. unbail- anced by the increase of unempioy- ment accompanying the recession Wmn— Cars Skids on Mountain Road. When hér ofr skidded into an embankment near Pleasant Gap while she was descending the Centre Hall mountain Sunday afternoon. Miss L. V. T. Simmons, head of the German Department of the Penn- sylvania Staté College, éscaped in- jury, but her car was damaged to the extent of about $80. Miss Simmonds was alotie at the time Wet rodds were assigned as the cause of the mishap, (Governor for Penn we bill 1537 0 be for relief —| CONFESSES TO MURDER HE COMMITTED IN PRISON AT LEWISBURG Slayer Plotted Ambush and Used Iron Bar In or Hy nea Attack —- Victim Was Young New York Negro Joseph P. Lynch, 20 of Chicago J inmate of the Northeastern Federal Penitentiary at Lewisburg early Saturday moining signed a conie of Alvin commitied ion to the glaying Brook; 23. Negro found beaten basement Wi nounced from Newark to death Priday in a hop at the Penitentiary Henry C. Hil the confession the fir the six-year history of no other prisoner A personal alterca- tion, not explained ied the killing, which from a planed attack KILLED WITH TRON BAR Brooks, who was sentenced May of thi to forging a government Kilked by bows on the J "Ith an ron bar three -{ raen who an- saying in ue son, sald that were involved yet apparently to resulted ye ur SETVe LWO Vea ourths an tam where body each nop Hs blows of wich we broke bones » skull found soon af Attack SUBIC on Lynch was settled and was pléoed In an Bola- cell at 2 o'clock Priday after- noon. At 2 o'clock Saturday morn- ing being questioned by War- den Hill and an agent of the Pederal Bureau of Investigation sent here be the Philadelphia office, he admitted t attack and related how it PON a5 a aller hw OCour- red Young Rooster Mothers Chicks Half -Grown Male Fowl Ten- derly Cares For His Fam- ilv of Two A rooster mothering most unusual sight. but vouched for by reputable citizens of Pine Stallion. Clinton counts cording 10 the Lock Haven Express In his early life the rooster the property of George Wilson, had the misfortune to fracture his Jeg in tw" pisces. The bivaks were reduced a mee and the injured member place ed in splints and taped. During his onvalescence four ttle chicks were placed ih his quarters and he took a fancy to them, mothering them alter a fashion As s00n 48 he was able walk he sel about his task of caring for them. The little family was later reduced 10 1W0, as the others had fallen prey 0 an enemy Now about hall grown, the rooster stil] caring for his family, taking them out each day after breakfas! Some davs he does not retum until it Is lime 10 sek supper and shelter They hover under his wings al night or as close to him as possibile i—— Bingo Operator Fined $50, Costs M. A. Allison, of Williams Grove wis fined $50 and costs in the Cum- beriand County Oowt at Carlisle on Saturday moming when he entered a plea of guilty to charges of op- erating a bingo game at Williams Grove Park Allison had been arrested August 24 as the first violator after Dis- trict Attorney J. Boyd Landis launched a drive to rid the county of the game. In addressing the court on Saturday. Landis told Judge Fred 8. Reese that Allison's sland wag the largest bingo stand in the county In imposing sentence, Judge Reese said that because the case was the first of its Kind in the coun- tv he would nol give the maximum undér the law. At the same time. the Court issued a general warning that future sentences on bingo op- erators would be heavier Insect Sting Fatal The sting of an unidentified insect proved fats] to Dr. Horace M. May- field, 31, of Tyler, Texas. son of for- mer U. 8 Senator Earl B. Mayfield, who died 16 minutes after he was stung. Dies of Shock After Fall Mrs. E I. Van Doren, 60, of Troy, N. Y.. diag of shock shortly after she sufféred a fractured hip in tripping over 4 tightly-siretched wire. She wae visiting at a nearby farm home ChICK the go aC~ 0 at Bl A FLOTTED AMBUSH According 10 the by Warden Hill working in the basement of on ings. About side 1 moke Oly Brook concrete 1 ne 0 a cigarel 1 violating apm UNDER FEDERAL COURT Te vif cust e nad oth h A NIESENON alid OL Boy Scouts To Hold Field Day Indian Summer Tournament Will Be Held at Greenwood Furnace. October 14 Sooutiesders the J ny Boy Scout Council @ Ber of conferences during . werk to perfect plans for the In- dian Summer Scout Tournament which will be held at Greenwood Fumace on Priday afternoon, Oct 4th. The toumament will be the first Council-wide Scout mally of the 1838-1838 activities program. It will be a great field day where the boys will have an opportunity to demonstrate their Scouting skill and have a Jot of fun competing with Boouts of other communities The 1938 sponsored by vanis Rover THe Rovers ne a n tournament is being the Central Pennsyl- Crew of Bellefonte ia branch of the Senior studied the tourns- in the past and believe ournament will challenging and contain higher adventure for the boys than &hy vel conducted. The Rovers have also planned to conduct a camporal in connection with the tournament This will give troops an opportun- ity to qualify as “Standard Camp- ers” for the year Ore The tournament will start at 2:45 p. m. The District Scout Commis- SOners are making arrangements in their respective communities to have the Scouts taking part in the tournament excused from school early In order that they can get to Greenwood Purnace for the open- ing of the tottrmament The field events will consist of a flag relay, patrol wall scaling, a surprise event which will not be an- nouriced until the tournament is under way, a knot tying contest tent pitching, Scout pace, water boiling, nfture trail, a wood chop- (Continued on Last Page) Takes Own Life After Ten Years of lliness Dr. E E Erhard, Clearfield coun- iy coroner, issuéd a suicide ceriifi- cate for the death of Miss Fbba Frendburg, 36-year-old Lanse rési- dent sho died early Friday momrm- ing. Hearing a gunshot, a neighbor in. vestigated and found the body in a too] house in back of the Prendburg home. A 12 gauge shogun with which she used to shoot herself through the temple was found near her A 10-year period of poor health was blamed for Miss Prendburg’s death. She was a daughter of Charles Frendburg and had been living with her father glong with Br sister. ‘KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES’ — Suimething's Come Over J. P Bowens’ TH HOUSE AND I WANT by SEE HIM THES INSTANTY TA. ON YOUR Way, MAN '! 7 Ma, MUGS THAT WE HAVE RETuRNED TO | TO EVER THING HAS SLIGHTY CHANGED Mr. powgnrg! You'll END TW OER IN Las LIBRARY THE . n BOWERS! -- 1 MUST ABK YOU NOT TO SUOUT AT ME SDDS YOU JUST DID £'™ A BUNDLE OF NERVE S50RIY, Crime DDENLY LIKE BER rps MUGS SAD TO NOWUNCE WE hy X | A RETLAN NN & If and when Gilbert forte and Pleasant another accident the Righways of the Btate his 34th Of number died of their of Belle- picks up victim along it will he # have Noll Gap molor tha injuries fine world this would be if Us Saw as youngsters do! other evening on a vist * wionte, everylhing Wk litiered the oid wood Lhe area 0 Be dino: der Just ras The Hers ing EF aebris, A A three. Ar exc.aimed Look = Cadi nag about fie ETO 4d ’ Le covering 1 bloom alter eT Ooooh! few weeds Vear-oia were mi ested 1 eT woncering hye fore £new be- haser ad was to in the paper wid . Press We Jor here Twelve men the Distrect ve if at Deen) Attorne and turned defense atior- Hey Ad ter i Tit Another person J fendant ciation whispered 10 his attorney half- Juryman. A them Mean- Attorney was appar- bul when passed back immediately struck the new from the jury. Some sage has ald that lawsuits are won and the selection of juries, During the past month or so the colored population of Bellefonte has shown a marked increase Practi- cally all of the increase results from the Ht ng program at the Penn- gYivania Stale College, new familie y relide while the mes on the Prosec Whether addled population will continue ax residents of Bellefonte after the building program is com- pleted remaing 10 be seen. Belle. fonie's colored population has shown 2 gradual decline since the days when the iron and glass plants here provided steady employment for ail classes of labor alg 0 view the new turnnd glance passed betwee: while Distr enlly gaz: the Ty him he man rus ost In g al Ne CPLR LOOK Was k a coming here 1 Are empioved the igh the band concer: to be al the Community Athietic Bellefonte, Saturday evening é 24. by the United States Band. is scheduled to last only about two hours, the program can be prolonged almost indefinitel; by the audience. Like any enter- tainers me..ders of the Marine Band appreciate applause. and according to those in the know they play as many encores az audiences demand Aside to C. L. Gates. writer of the ‘Hodge-Podge” in the Democratic Watchman: Just about the time we've educated friend Jim Pinge adjoining property owner. 10 cut the weeds on this departments vacant lot, vou start a campaign to have the borough compel property owners to do the work. This column's policy in such matters is to jet a sleeping dog He, Let's have a little co-operation ho From the storm of protest we heard last svwek when school tax statements were mailed in Belle- fonte, a veritable tornado will result when taxpayers receive their bills sometime in the future for maintain. ing and paying for the County poor home, and the proposed Borough steage disposal plant In other words, you haint heard nothing pet Rents will probably go up. generally, and the increase will probably be more than enough 10 cover the added ax assessments. Attorney Nam T. Lith law partner of M Ward Fleming, is sporting a neat young mustache, bul he war 50 busy in court when we dis- covered the adornment we didn't Have an oppofunity to interview him. STATE COLLEGE MAN'S CAR 7 : i 388 7 / ; 18 of A 5 3 if gE $i § 3 2% Ld i ! iz
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