Odd and Curious News ene Curb Service For curb service in obstetrics-—call Tom Toranto of Waltham, Mass. He ran out of a variety store the other night just in time to assist a mother, whose ninth baby, a girl, had just been born on the sidewalk of a busy street. The woman had been shop ping. “I wrapped the baby in a coal and put it on top of the mother,” said Tom, father of two children himself, “because you can never figure what might happen... Careful to note the baby was breathing all ri Tom then waited until an ambulance took the mother and the 6 pound 3% ounce daughter to a hospital \ ght Cousins Re-United An accident bare ught toge cousins, Francis L. Crist son, and Agnes Altoona, the first teen vears, Crist's car Mrs. McKenzie's machine, ga snowdrift on Route 56 near san. While making thelr state motor policeman identity Mrs to Al Florida her the sther two Cres~ McKenzie, of time In fif- crashed into stalled In Cres. of Aq A for reports Lo they dis- McKen- two red thelr toona but tives codlision ed m un up wad retun years failed had to look No injured re.a one was in Suspended In Air When his automobile shot over a forty-foot viaduct, at Columbus, Ohio Ward Hanna §-year-old Negro hut eyes and heard ange! wings flapping When the expected cra failed materi opened nd suspended in mid alr, wheels of the the those 43! wo lize, Hanna his eye found the car real ol ie ar on edge wheels pale about eight duct Brother Act Pau! and Leon English of Jersey Shore, certainly and the front jammed against a from i 4 the viaduct it phone Via~ feet the they both R same automobile tured leg and sicle They J Jersey Shore Communit y Oliver Berfield, of Avis, car when Hos- was Of the griver Hard Luck When his car ran black skunk, P. R Fox, of Wa N. Y. decided to salvage the « and sell the skin. However, bad luck began A few biter the car crashed into a and a fence rail pierced the dash- board barely missing Fox. When Pox tried to rémove the fence rail, thie cur burst into flames, destroy- ing the car and the skunk Socked Her Alas, Sarah her's was ¢ and gingham-clad ped in a4 ga delphia swerving ver fence Plaster Pari Be-ribboned Sarah was | the poor rop- ad near P that moto F, hitting the dum- my, would turn into his station and maybe buy gas It worked some ungallant soul just Sarah down Delayed Card A Post mailed twenty-iwo years ago by a merchant in North Carolina was recently received by R. P. Beasley, of Lynchburg. Va, president of a shoe company which liquidated over twenly years ago. It lease have your salesman come ee me about February 20, 1917." ndant red +l Antu mowed card read and Baby Bonus A $50 "baby bonus” for every child born to needy parents would be paid by the state under a bili Rep. John J. Baker seid he would introduce in the legislature this week. He proposed to ensure "every needy mother having a child the medical atention she deserves Pawns Teeth In order to gain strength enough to pass a physical examination ne- cessary to enter a CCC camp, a war veteran, of Missoula, Mont, in des- peration. pawned his false teeth to get money to buy food. Because he lacked teeth, he was rejected. Now he is attempting to raise money to repossess his teeth. Drinking Spree Fatal Joseph B. Weaver, 64, and his son, of Hanover, died from the effects of a drinking spree. When thelr liquor | gave oul, they began drinking rub- bing alcohol and when that was exhausted, they turned to automo- bile anti-freeze solution Joke On Yeggs When ordered into @ washroom by tow bandits, S. F. Stone, a filling | stution attendant, of Kansas City, obeyed instantly, happily smiling. | The joke was on the hold up men | ¢8 Stone had all the station's re- « ‘ipts in his pocket. Coal Shortage Anthony Marielle bias to go down | into & mine to gel back four tons | of coal he put in his cellar at Pitts- ‘ton, Pa. The bottom dropped out of his coal bin nto an abandoned chaft, A Real Hog Arthur G. Gray, of Blain, Perry county, butchered a hog last week weighing 1030 pounds which ralzed on his farm In Jackson town- ship. When an after-dinner ing, he has about reached his last notch, he | A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. ™ The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County, SECOND SECTION dhe Cenire NEWS, FEATURES VOLUME 68. BELLEFONTE, PA . THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1939. NUMBER 5. Random [tems TWO CONFESS HOLD-UP OF TEACHERS’ COLLEGE GIRLS AT LOCK HAVEN Daylight Stick-up of Students, Netting $16, and Similar Robbery at Muncy Being Investigated By Police The arrest of three young men in that city is thought by police to be a bold stick-up of ven college similar cr Muncy The men th the Williamsport on Monday the solution to on Sunday and mmitted recentl) student ine x and charged robberies are Clayton Bird home, and Donald Gardner, 18, # nut Police say both up Phoebe Var- two Lock Ha- Coliege girls arrested wi 17, no sed to holding i Olga Morvek, te Teachers ucceeded $16. Ly! ams port and Gardner with then Jail Man For Stealing Car lL.ock Haven Man in Round of "Auto- Comes lo Grief mobile Rustling’ 1 CAI NEAT eft of an- cleared up atiem Saiona pled th Was given Alderman Max J Lock Haven on the n car ¢h 8. He was found guilty fault of $500 bail, was committed to the Clinton County Jail for appe arance in count The as dev ned by Hos is that around midnigh t of Wed- sday Ber gle the car which belonged to M. L. Claster and Sons and which was parked E. Clinton Street. He drove 4 h Salona visited in Rote Lock Haven about half 4 ont stoi Oty the po- rig * skidded, Rote, left in a field show a few the road, ver the jal Berry harles Ww al " of Berry the parked y W. Ramsey ted tart it, bu ed alizer hear ing the noise grabbed a wd ing fleeing Berry in the alr Thi on ng Ww alt= $ though not fired GI - the several Znots Wall ZeT Was shooting at “Dont shoot! my hands up?” and held until y Sheriff Roy L tigation follow. alter questioning, ad- aster car Berry the arriv Bryerton ed with mitting Nive Munson Youth Struck By Car Sustains Broken Leg and Other Injuries When He Steps in Path of Car Badly injured with one leg broken and injuries to his other leg unde- termined John Wesesky, 15, of Mun- son, was rushed to the Philipsburg State Hospital last Thursday morn. ing alter being struck by a car near the Munson postoffice at 8 o'clock Wesesky ran out from behind a parked truck directly into the path of a car operated by Stella Duttry, Winburne., He was knocked to the [ground as the bumper and headlight of the car hit him. The youth, when he saw the car was about to hit him, attempted to stop but slid off the slippery pave iment into the jeft front part of the ‘machine, He was picked up and taken to the Jocal hospital, ann a— Raid Nets 80 Pernoms The mnellsville resulted in the arrest {of 80 persons charged as inmates iof a disorderly house. State, county | jand city authorities joined forces in the drive Saturday night man was accused by liquor control agents of selling beer without a l= | cense scans MP Watch Out For Rackets There are hundreds of them to snanare you and take your money. | Rend how schemers trim Innocent victins in ap illustrated article in the February 12th issue of The | American Weekly, distributed with {ihe Baltimore Sunday American, On isale by all progressive newsdealers, ] — Hipple to Die March 27. Governor James has fixed Monday, | March 27 for the execution at Rock- » two Lock Ha-! hd a ib 3 the car | i Lime, the { servation Committee has announ- largest rald ever staged at] | Government One | instances the weapon used date the victims is a water pistol The arrest was made port Sunday evening while police were on the lookout for a car stolen » residence of Luther Trion of police Good stated car was taken about 11:30 Sat day night by Gardner The pair apparently went held up two Muncy women proceeded birthplace, Bird to intimi- said to have been in Willlams- he Irion o'clock 1 Bix y MAG ¥e hog Hen and med to are be- up Esles at ir & ninued on to WIN tude nt Haven » COlicye anit Lock Haven Of LSe number of t wd police Lorities aid in Lycoming prosecution Lake Diace county L. Kills Self Employee Moma & Railroad oye x from his d been Wis Gallitein autamobile rough the automat pistol he body. Coroner tt said It was yards shot th an lay near t Mc Der suicide TK a s 0 Scran~ She's in Good Hands Boys Name Is “Do nald Duck”; Embarrassed When Introduced happened Donald fel y Ou l name causes hin consicer abie embarrassment al Uumes name is “Duck’ WO together is Donald Duck is the appeliation Wait pplied to one of hix pen several years ago. mry-wide familiarity of both young and old, with taining cartoon, has Duck no of amuse well as nbarrassment about, expecially on - ¥ a Young rece y Dine him OR ited CiLy find Sandy has Ame Disney [ reg The everyone, Diar . oou 14 travels when making a business call tald busines man “1 Duck.” the embarrass young fellow must feel aforesaid stald bus “how you do? Mouse ™ teiing a Lonaid ww the ness I'm — whlies ao ALives OCCRsIOT i n } beet 14] ob ged 0 send tele mes senges to Mr. Duck and that ally have quite a bit of aim- 1 conv the 0g tors Ley are NOL atiempling a joke. Duck visited Oll City re- to drive his mother to their at Lodi, Ohio, when the roads me bad and she wa ¢ machine by herself upon a incing ronald afraid wo FORMER STATE SENATOR FLAYS JAMES’ ATTITUDE ON SCHOOL PROJECTS Sponsor of Legislation Which Would Author- ize Construction of 751 Schools, Charges Governor Playing Unfair Governor James’ attitude on the Thompson School Plan was assailed this week by Edward J. Thompson, of Philipsburg, former state senator and sponsor of the recent legislation which authorized the construction of 761 schools In this with WPA ald Replying to James’ condemnation the plan which would furnish 750 school bulldings at a cost of not over J million dollars a year the James administration, ‘Thompson sald he felt the governor was con demning the whole thing because I was a Democratic measure tale of Lo Centre County's sald that © offered “absolutely for the Governor's SCHOO former senator plan jegisiation ibstantiation omention that replacemen program d be dropped becuse Lhe Jed erad government would have a mort Rage on the Pannay) Choo) &y “1m “Ther plan whereby the would deed over thelr the PWA or mortgage federal government’ Thompson, who stated wt PWA merely offered an outrighn 45 per cent grant toward the cost, with no strings attached, “It is difficult for me to under sland why anyone would not be sympathetic toward a plan to bulld 751 school buildings at a cost of over 1% milion dollars a we Choo] no 1 Shou g Resid hool districts properties LO them to Lhe declared sel 2 not year tw THE SHOOTIN Story of an Old-Time Cop Who ‘Always Got His Man’ Recailis ties ents of UO ig ev a of the early nine- will bring to mind quite vividly the familiar names of those who composed Bellefontes police force al that time, Among the outstanding figures were Capt, Amos Mullen Capt. He Montgomery, William Garis and Jathiua Folk war known, had a career during he a8 a police r five feet in height, show of ' 1 appear- Was er one (0 inspire fear in ind of a law-breaker. Garbed the regulation police clothes his i adorned with a helmet obvious- intended for a larger man, and th night-stick in hand, this dimin- “keeper of the peace” invari the impression of the vil- onstable stepping out in char- from a rural melo-drama But what Officer * lacked in stature, or failure to imate obedience to the law, he up with courage. Some claim- ed. his fearlessness ran to fool-hardi- others styled it plain “guts” 1 for this one and commendable attribute he was generally respected except by those who didn’t know him well enough to judge Bevond outward appearance served nev ever Folk may Because of his aggressive efforts to maintain jaw and order on the streets, Officer Polk naturally incur. red the lll-will of certain elements in and about the town, and particu larly wags he despised by the puddiers who worked at the Nall Mill that stood opposite the railroad tracks from the oid fair grounds. They Farm Payments Outright Grants Back In days lice force had a much larger present day The the when tl main reason for thi who were usally of the rou of the Nall Works and it try earned above ths of spending it Drinking was the prin Saturday va relaxation Anything puddiers {1 the Nall W Argument an ght avery of f IY start fight the and down the streets iting in themselves a nui of the poplice officers to o ng in sidewalks The story related in this ant of rowdyism that took place in! boom whenever the puddiers When the Puddlers “Went to Town.” was which employed eertaln workmen known as he ded 0 liefonte's required at po the w greater number of industries the “foaling type” This was esis true element would parade e consti- a var relsom the combined efforts but is only one of many similar acts hev-day of Bellefonte's industrial ‘80 to town were an unruly class of citizens who drank 0 excess, caroused on streets caused frequent bances One night in the year 1800, a 1 tragedy was enacted in Bellefonte in which Officer Folk played the lead- ing role. Il was a Saturday and as usual the puddiers from Nail Mill crowded the bar-rocing and drank with abandon It wus their custom WwW go one bar-room to another, and each time they appeared on the streels they would become more boisterous It was the natural duty of the po- lice to subdue them, and more often they were induced to quiet down without resorting to force on ihe part of the officers Not 50 with “Bandy” however, who on this particular night was one of a group of pud- and dis » by TE Fry h PROPOSE BILL FOR ‘YES'—'NO' ELECTION OF STATE JUDGES A bill designed to take Pennsyl- { vania judges out of politics was in- Not to Be Paid Back to Fed- eral Government, It Is Announced Payments mvide to servation Program are outright payments for compliance and are not to be returned or paid back to the Federal Government at any State Agricultural Con- ced With cash payment to farmers for compliance under the program the sends the following statement: “The enclosed check is the pay- ment you earned by participating in the 1938 AAA farm program. This payment represents the Feder- al Government's share in carrying out the program. It Is intended to offset, at serve and improve the soll resour- ces of the mation, and maintain adequate the national income” The commitiee points out understinding that | (Vontinued on Page €) farmers who | participate in the Agricultural Con- | (2 to stabilize | food sup» plies for consumers, and 1) tw help | farmers secure their fair share of that | view, of Ernest M. Hippie, 21 year old | these payments for compliance ug | speaker | mountaineer of Sullivan county, who | der the program are made with the begins to joke about women's cloth- | pleaded guilty to the glaying of 70- | definite soll | | year-old Mrs. Jennie D, Porter last | conserving practices have been car | Pebruary troduced Monday night in the State Senate It was one of a series prepared for recommendations of a Legisia- | tive committee, appointed in 1937 {to study Court procedure. The principle bill of four, intro- duced by Senator Prank W. Ruth. Berks county Democrat, who Was chairman of the commission, would | revolutionize the election of judges, | through a constitutional amendment | permitting n jurist to gain re-elec- ition by a “yes” or “no” vote of the electorate. He would have no oppo- gitlon. If a majority voted “yes” he would serve another ten years; MoGrath, diers bridge dy” standing on the High Street near the Bush House. "Sane was unusually hilarious and dis- turbing in manner, and was warned by Officer Folk 10 cease his oud talk and noise or he would be locked up. This seemed to arouse the resents ment of the drunken gang Who was thiz runt of a cop that threaten ed 10 Jock one of them up? They defied him. Then something hap- pened that surprised them. Officer Fpik walked up to “Sandy” snapped the nippers on his wrist and started with him for the lock-up. The borough “calaboos” gt that time war located along the hillside on South Water street, a short distance beyond where Big Trout Inn now tands. The prisoner's companions object- ied to his arrest and started to res- Cue him but were held back by Offi- if rejected, the Governor would ap- point a successor to serve years, subject to approval by a qualification commission consisting of the judges of the Supreme and Buperior Courts and the Attorney General, is MP —— Quail Run Riot Pupils of a Bloomsburg high schol were flushing a covey of par Uciples when a quail broke through & window, sailed scross three rows of seats and struck a girl student with both, being more bewildered than hurt a A The dodging pedestrian will, In a few years, have to look up to keep were destroyed, and other parts of few others who think = they the house were damaged by smoke. right. airplanes from landing on his neck, | four | OF "SANDY’S’ CHUM A Mere Incident in the Hum-Drum Life of a Policeman cer Garis who asrived on the scene. The jatter had difficulty tin handing Sandy's frends and one of them, 8 fellow by the name of John Thomas, slipped past the officer and started out Water street. He caught up with Officer Polk and his prisoner before hey had reached the lock-up Thomas’ appearance had the effect of making Bandy fighting mad, and he became 50 violent that Officer Polk caied upon Thomas to assist him in placing the man in the Jock- up. Instead of complying Thomas threw himself upon the officer and yelled: “Now Sandy. Jets kill the pf 2 With savage ferocity Folk was dragged across the road to the creek nd tossed head-first over the railing The officer saved himself from fall- ing on his head on the rocks ten feet ar more below, by grasping the edge of the walk. They kicked his hands loose, however, and then started fo run back to the High street bridge and from there 10 Thomas street In the mesnwhile OMoer Folk. who was unhurt by his drop into the waler, crawled up to the sidewalk and stariad In pursuit of the two men. He caught up with them a short distance below the U. B. ¢hurch lon Thomas Street. They apparently heard him following them and were $08 .000,000 program temporarily near the end of the Earle administration due to financing difficulties Governor Jumes has succeeded Earle as the president of the Author ity, 8 quasi-official agency compietl- ing a $656000000 institutional Une ovement program. James (ndi- cated that his Republican adminis- make no effort to re ram. ——— would prog tration Vise Lhe Former Kaiser 80, Friday Former Kalser Wilhelm, who 80 years old on Friday, enter group of fr group, led by 86-Year shal August Admiral Ehrhardt greeted Lhe half { the army ang navy presented Wilhelmn The former Kad fealty, exprensed flag Cermany just Was wed «Q Th ain uncheon «old Field Mar- MacKensen and on Schmidt J 70, Peron “ ends atl a von former em on be imiperia rnan Von MacKensen with “ i Ver Cul noved by th old Cw =r aa every Pays for Peanuts After 25 Years Woman W io “Snitched’ Hand- ‘ave Back Tyrone Grocer ful of Gubers, who snd a handful of peanuts 25 long years ago paid for her borrowed goods last week when she sent A. J. Hicks, Tyrone ETO0CTYINAD twenty-five cents in change The woman nut nut A man hed Ww ott wv FULLY with the ge oR conscience was Mrs. EM. Don- oidson of Rector, Arkansas, Hicks used to in ver a Store at Coalmon Top coal district the grooer's eye wasn't usual the lady wi iTS ROTie the Broad day when as sharp as 10 pald her debt 10 the groceryman after a quarter of & century stopped in al the store, made a gnall purchase and on the way out noticed a bag of peanuts " One which looked wo tempting 10 resist, took a handful and munched she them on the way home For some long years Mrs ied to pay pack hes Donald- debt by : ate Lis grocer Finally she traced him to Tyrone and In a few days came the change wrapped neatly in a piece of paper, Hickes now has iwo alternatives, Charge the woman for the interest on twenty-five cents for twenty-five years or give the lady the remainder of the bag of peanuts, Enraged Man Attacks Cop Arrested Threats, Al toona Man Strikes Patrol- man With Poker Attacking a satrolnan serving a warrant charging him with threats to kill his wife. James Higham, a Seventh ward, Altoona, WPA work- er, was jailed last Saturday night after he had gone berserk with a stove poker The patrolman, Christ Hauser, 46, ryt 1 er FLUE For walting 10 earty out the murderous Struck across the head, received intentinons they had been deprived of a few momenta before. As the politéman came nearer (0 where the men had halted, Thomas told Sandy to run and he would “kill the dcop.” Drawing his re volver Officer Polk called upon S8andy Conlinisd on ¥ Pare 6) STATE COLLEGE HOUSE IS DAMAGED BY FIRE Considerable damage resulted about 2:30 o'clock Friday afternoon from fire originating from an over- heated room stove in the Jonas Stine home, Hartswick Avenue, Stale Col~ lege. The house, vacant at the (ime, was {being prepared for ococoupancy by Mr, land Mra. Robert Potts, of Bellefonte, who were 0 have moved into the one-story dwelling Saturday mom- Jn The owner, Mr, Stine, has been living ‘with his son-in-law and daughter; Mr. and Mrs. Lioyd Shuey [since the first of the year. treatment al Altoona hospital dis pensary for a laceration of the scalp requiring three sutures As a result of the attack Higham, 40, faces charges of disorderly cone duct and resisting arrest in addition | to the charge filed by his wife. Higham, who was subdued prompt~ | ly after he had swung at the patrol man, was also treated at the dispen- | sary. He suffered a jsceration of the forehead requiring four sutures and a bruise of the back. The attack occurred at 10:35 o'clock in the kitchen of Higham's | home and Patrolman Robert Gor- such, who was stationed at the front of the house, was unable to reach Patrolman Hauser's side in time to preven) his injury: | Members of the Alpha Fire Company removed most of the household ar- ticles which had been mowed into the property, and soon had the flames under control. The logs is partly covered by insuranoe, -— You don't have to agree with! The walls and ceiling of one room | what we write. There are quite a | are | > The Butler Got the Turkey Tom Pletcher, well known Howard resident, killed and dressed a fine gobbler the day before inauguration, for personal presentation tw Gove ernor James, in 1 hope that the gL might soften the hearts of those who hand out ale Jobe Tom took INBURUrs- L deliver 0 the 1 before the cere- Lhe outgoing get the bird. knocked and LK but Crovernor Wo the slion Another Police Change? A mor week Orme Bellsfonte Cropped £4 ried dabbling wish we ii years the great 1 ther Ne WES New! ry table leellng been the not oan 1 une mabie enc : details but 1 ake of H cheat estate which three or four comiortably do- an menaging aging the family's swer to these ques~ 1g sidelight which past iron it wealth Lefonte families n nearly every case now dwindled the point iy the memory of it re. kind of feudal system inte resi e the +3 4 Ww | remember those times. The Iron masters were usually Kindly empiloy« ers who were much looked-up-to and revered by the working people. build up the of the owners. Class thes now, and the part and posi- than are more respect on drawn there was of those without nd for those who had those as- sets. According to one old resident's views, there was something of the reverence shown the Iironmasters which is supposed have been ac- corded Kentucky nels in the middle of the last tury. The fore tunes which made possible the erec~ of the many palatial homes in Bellefonte have ghne, and the mas- old stone piles have in many been turned into apartments eam their own upkeep. Today there are more families with com- fortable incomes in Bellefonte than there were in the hey-day of the industry. but the town has lost much of the oolor which we imsg- ine it had in the days when the ap- pearance of Mrs. George Ironmaster driving down High street in a fancy rig drawn by splendidly outfitted horses hitched in tandem, with a liveried coachman handling the reins from the driver's seat was an event spoken of at the supper table, Is the change for the better, or for worse? Your guess is as good as anyone's, OTLEY money ‘ von Col cen + tion BVE CARE On le Brag Costly. Accused by a patrolman of drive ing at 65 miles an hour, Edward Si- mondell, 25, brought before a New York magistrate, declared, “That's nothing, I often do eighty.” Instead of the usual 85 fine for a first of- fender, the magistrate sent Simone dell to city prison for three days. Kills Benefactor Arrested and charged with the | murder of J. W. S. Bricken, Ti-yenr oid farmer, Cleo Ramsey, 15-years oli runaway from the Btate Chile dren's home at Carroiton, Mo. ade mitted that a year before Bricken had taken him into his home, fed him, given him clothes and sent him | to school. a i ——— There are those who deny the greatness of the Bible but they have | ot produced a greater book. ‘KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES' — Eddie Is All Atwitter By POP MOMAND EDULE Bowers LAST WEEN THAT ME vaults TO BE riExXT ON WIS IST OF nC TirMg THIS NEWS IS ALL THAT IS NEEDED TO SHAT TER AN ALRGALY OVER TAXED NE SYSTEM ~ | i | . Er IE TH ALDRCH HW COL CON IGEIT + THAT NERVY BGO- MANIAC VaRNING YOU . 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