Odd and Curious News . Everything Borrowed Two Tipton youths, from the gion near Tyrone, not only borrowed two chickens to cook but they borrowed the home and stove them In. IL seems that Jim Nau 20, and Porter Miller. 19 were hun gry and had visions of tender flicks. They broke into Pownship chicken two hens and then. proceeded to clean and cook thewdbirds he hom Walter Hard: Hardy weren't at home the youths $5 for which was broken up by police and then were ordered to clean kitchen as well as the they used for their Gosh! Gee Whi An excuse for le your keris grow was projecte! by Lurgh barbers The 1 bers Lounced oring th eal Nati contest Ie 1 COOK Snyde natcheda in { Pp ot thir iar lea they un the up Lie pots and pa banquet skers! whis- Pitts an- they are snon competition in tie Whisker Growir cash prize and a trip to t mento-Golden Em cewtration awall LOW t IL Open he Centenn.al man longe beaid < between March 1! 12 All you have fy blauk from a bal in next two mont you think vou have a : re ae vs 11) ven get all he —————— —————— —— Generous Drunk A prudent drunk in Atlanta, Ga hatled Ira Smith on the street ask- Mig him to drive his car. Smith took the job. Soon the inebriate ordered R stop. He climbed out, hand, said mobile ™ his you can have Ul Aulo- and AWAY Smith could recover his breath The turned the and er to claim it quers his hang walked before ”w wufleur they expect - Wrong Lunche Asked to Legion 14-Go hotel and KiMos he realized automobile of ap logies an ed to I hotel on peak a N i$ ¢ ¥ MN engagement rn —————— Short Term Two days afte; office, as Sherif! North Carvlina and Po lngton which a robbery robber, killed Try It On Cow I hild ; oman & were k Forbtowed of a your } ach Dr. Thu diana Univer A Vises nat cow and let th milk. Not a cow .4 vad Finds Lost While seini: Rapids Cherney's eye. Geor ing that he ago i — Eye in a a Biue 15a Louie nes or ge Barl had | while hunting raccoons RELIEF CHISELING CASES FOUND IN CLINTON COUNTY Alderman T Thursday iss Haven for FYI OTIS, Mark eed Brun last wararnts at Lock I { nine and ¢ gard the arrest o Der Wnt men of Pub- chisel one woman charged by the Depart Hie Assistance with ing." The cases are the first of this nature in Clinton county for veral Years Implicated. for ilirged stated, are the following Crawford, Farrandsviile £23 10. James I. Mosley, Drurvs Run, $23.- 60; Fred G. Hill, McEihattan, $83 .- 41. Howard E. Wren, Loganton, $2240, and from Lock Haven, Geo E. Beybold, $5331 Zacharia Pec- chia, $50.04; Michael Mulqueen, $17 - 50, Nora English, $5460, and Paul R. Wert, $175.96 m relie f I on § i " sum Melvin J Thought to Be Human Bones Charred bones, fo the ruins of the barn on the M. J. Ryan farm. near Troy which was de- stroved fire last Tuesday night, were taken to the Robert Packer Hospital in Bavre for examination, to determine if they are the remains of a human being. A skull, leg bones, and a hip joint were found by men who cleared the de- bris. They were in another part of the barn from the spot where seve eral cows were burned. It is thought that a transient might have lost his life in the blaze. COST TO BOTH FAIRS COULD BE BOUGHT WITH GAS TAX § in ing in by Away Every man. woman New York. Chicago, and Detroit. could get round-trip bus transportation to both the San | Francisco and New York World's Fairs with the money paid out for gasoline taxes in one year by the nation’s motorists, according to a report just made public by the American Petroleum Instituie at Rockefeller Center The total gasoline tax collections in: 1038 reached nearly $1.000005. Thiz 18 enough to buy a $70 round- trig bus ticket for 13800060 persons to both of this year's fairs, Don't s#ver ask Steve Chollock, 30, of DuBois, to help vou get your stuck car out of the mud. Chollock is in the hospital recovering from ptliempts to extricate his own car. He nearly froze to death after he became exhausted from his extricat- ing efforts. also two | Hardy | and child in | Philadelphia | ! F—3' A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each WeeR, SECOND SECTION VOLUME 58, —————————————— CCC VETERAN KNIFED BY COMRADE AFTER —————————— FALSE ACCUSATIONS ‘Member of Clinton County Camp In Serious arum | Condition at Lock Jame J he Potter Farrandsville 40, a member of CCC Camp In in a critical con- Lock Haven Hospital, admitted late Satur- elved six truck Unton county. | in Lhe De Was $ night after having rec wounds in a brawl on a ttack John being thie inton inty jall Haven. Polt sadiant Ww enrollee FT Lock fused Ww name Dis a Fifty-six stitch to close the wound yt N Pots Judge Hirt Named To Superior Court to Take Seat Va- cated When James Became Erie Jurist (sovernor mo of COSBOr, Ap- William 1 we $18.00 -a «year Hu Judge vy CRr- on- grounds, when the Lie he 57 * had any DUS £5 meel at OUTER On He sald Hirt L0ld him that was x favorable Hirt was born on notified of his first ial appoi nt on February 1920 While Jame LOVeTrTOn Superior was campaigning for still a hudge of the that nd a ana Court action test ittee on eth- Bar Associa- Son wire mien - ww on the bench BOCTO- Mis Cow James onweaith were 8 Altoona Man Dies Of Bullet Wound Found Lying on Floor By Family After Shot is Heard in Bedroom hey { his family sho had been startled bv a thud in his bedroom Lee © White. 52 of Alloona, well known patternmaker in the All foundry the Al toona works, died suddenly at his home Priday might at 10:30 o'clock A bullet plerced his temple Born in Altoona, March 21. 1886, he was a son of Joseph D. and Mary Alma (Geesey) White. He had been employed the South Altoona foundry for the past 31 years Members of the family include his wife Mm. Alma Mary (Keagy) White; two sons, Joseph W. of Washington. D. €.. and Charles R., nt home, one sister and one brother, Mrs. Nellie Miller and Raymond G White. both of Altoona Mr. White was a member of the First Church of God. o{JWhite Cross lodge, Knights of Pythias, of the Blair County Game Fish and For- estry association for the past ten years, of the M. B. A. and of the P, R. R. Veteran Employes association s——————— Alert Mail Clerk. W. 8 Coates recently letter from her mother in which was addressed, 8 Coates, Oregon.” An alert mall clerk in Portland, who had visited in Tillamook, remem- bered that he had met Mrs. Coates, and sent the jetter on tp her. vin Bau h of ry fa ir Ml Mrs ceived a Australia, "Mis W re. What's Going on in Hellywood All the news of screenland, pic tures of your favorite stars and other interesting features will be found in the Green Spotlight maga- vine, distributed reguleriy with the Baltimore Sunday American. On sale at all progressive newsstands, Boeck Creek Man Loses Toe His left ped, Carl H Heverly underwent an | operation at the Lock Haven Hos- pital for amputation of the second toe. The toe was nearly severed by the axe Girl Fatally Injured A voung Cresson girl, Stelln La- titta, 20, died at the Alloona Mercy | hospital without regaining con- | selousness. She was one of a group of four struck by a car while walk- | bg along a highway near her home Result of Stabbing Affray ' vious 125,000 delegates and visitors jon hand for ‘the occasion, foot split when the axe | with which he was cuting logs slip. | Haven Hospital As ruck that one ther men had struck used man then struck ockel Knife injured th i enbloom District Sherifl Lock Haven G. Hager there was nag I lice L. Ha Deput [44 ana i all olf Hew hat men Deen rid War Phiinde SUD, DORs NABBED IN ATTEMPT Io SCALE JAIL WALLS ernncied and of " irsciay wal Dull was ung nlie unde of d Kling- other whi) 15 rear of held in December 21 heen : clini Of in proces Canes IT HAPPENED | Creek to Run bridge dividing line and Porter will come ane of the most revolting crimes known story of Clinton county towin- upon hex Gate traveler 1 Whe ation still referred 0 as the Culvey murder. and acted more than ago, Its me will erased the Valley thon, apart Daiah Culvey and began housekeeping ir marriage some Their home was a t it was a happy one ! Isaiah little farm oul of which it uch as he could do 10 make but the young pair were ¢ peaceful serenity that their home In the time a HNttle daughter add to their hap The more A ne of en mory {rom $ ues . ir Cuiii~ A LVILE DBappy in th surrounded course of came 0 iness than a Year this story begins in a little time child was old at the 1887 Grandmother Discovers Bodies Early on Monday morning of Aug- of ti year, Mrs. Johin Cul- mother of Isaiah, by pre- Arrangement came on the home of the young people to help her harvest his oats Entering the house Mrs. Culvey found no one there but the baby, which had the appearance of having exhausted it- ist Bth at vey. the HOU YOUNG DEMOCRATIC CLUBS TO CONVENE AUG. 10-12 A change in the date of the bien- nial convention of the Young Demo- cratic Clubs of America was an- nounced this week at Harrisburg by Joseph Barr, head of the Pennsyl- vania clubs and’ chairman of the ar- rangements committee Originally scheduled for August 3 4 and 5. the convention will be held in Pittsburgh on August 10. 11 and 12 in order to avoid conflict with primary elections in several states, Barr said: "This convention will be the most important political event of the vear in Pennsylvania,” he declared “bo- cause it will be a curtain-raiser for 1940. Every presidential candidate or would-be candidate will be rep- resented, and the trial balloons sent up al Pittsburgh are going te tell! which way the political winds are blowing over the country.” The convention will be conducted! by a non-profit corporation set up under the laws of Pennsylvania. Highlight of the three-day conclave | will be election of all national of- ficers for the ensuing two years. | Invitations are being sent out to clubs in every State, and it Is esti mated by convention officials that will be f “Wake Up” Service Sold Students at the University of Washington who have trouble wak- ing up in time for early morning classes can subscribe to the “We Wake ‘Em Service” Carter Crimp and Art Meyer offer the servioe and i they telephene their clients accord- ing to a prearranged schedule The people of the United States spend enough money ob education every -year tobe certain that the country has some of It i Che € a The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County. ity BELLEFONTE, — ————————————————— A — 'A., THURSDA enfre Democrat NEWS, FEATURES Y, MARCH 9, 1939. NUMBER 10. Random [tems > Shearing Time Papsigss ® % 83 ‘TRAVELING TOWN MEETING’ ORGANIZED AT PENN STATE ave been communities: vidin in { g debate bi lger re f nat icy Of i N SU Bey end of { the 28 members used. in weph F. OBrien, @ of speech and coach of re Lhe the season all on the squad will according to sistant profes. debate onsored by schools contests Wants Chaw, hy for CHIT but being BABY DIES IN HOSPITAL AFTER BEING WHIPPED BY MOTHER'S SUITOR Juniata County Youth Held After He Confes- ses Thrashing Two-Year-Old Girl ““at Least Fifty Times” Through Jealousy A case of extreme cruelly comes from Mifflin county where Paul W Barrick, 22, is being held in the Mifflin county jail for fatally beating {a two-year-old baby girl. The child, born out of wedlock 0 Helen Wolf, a domestic ing rural Juniata county home, died in the Bunbury Hospital ¥Priday, of in- juries inflicted by Barrick, Young Barrick, a former yard employe, is quoted as saying that he beat the under-sized tot "at jeast fifty times” and branded her with a he tove lid lifter “because 1 was fealows brick - iH of her father™ The mother is being held for crim- inal negligence in not reporting the bruise mark: The charge {it is sald w insure her detention Miriam, with a brain in of her bruised body para- at Bunbury Hospital, she had lain unconscious five a placed tO Baby and hall lyzed, died where days Prematurely born, the child weigh- ed one pound, nine ounces at birth, and physicians struggled for months to save her life two years ago Nurses at Harrisburg Hospital who al that time helped coax alo the spark of lifer in her body, were saddened at jury recalied Lhat in an incubator a tube age nourishment WAY, hey called jooked just ke fed through cotidn’t FADNAT y she the Or Forres by pr mother Lewintow: i held Jali Al leas! seven eran Lh Vig LB Of ARPT were ox erated were a rion hie recorded in gledy Suspicion Fell on Many Pa were several Cgityve eos rties thine lollowing g he number cities, ww hn, for unrave jad AL tine crime bul was re- arrest al the Lime It was not secured that the ught re Bl vain shi Amo sy tse CRIN ow Hi SNTOWINE Parent G 8 confes red thelr on in LTue that tlw longer she wey {rom crying. Sensing had been neglected it should have been the pare; premise must have some Te end of about the they couid be soon decided that he Allg pan | act She gone creek for waiked fo the tl which Cherry run flow- the bridge which span stream snd had about hope of Joosting them made a horrible S00 field ned given up there, when discovery. Both Had Been Sheol to Death few of she he ground, but a were the dead bodies Isainh was Iv he Lying on feet apart her son and his wife ing on his side, with a bullet under his left eve By his side stood 8 basket of grams The woman had a bullet hole be. Hind one ear, and one through each shioylder almost entirely naked, showing th whoever ki PA She wa at fed REBERSBURG MAN REPORTS ON FARMERS BUYING MARKET M W. Werl of Rebersburg, has re turned from atiending the 2ist an- nual meeting of the eastern States Farmers’ Exchange in Springfield Mass. He is a director in the or- ganization. There are in the stale about 30.330 members of the Exchange who buy feed, fertilizer, seed. motor oil, pain! spray materials and other supplies through their cooperative organizs- ton. The Exchange operates In New England, Delaware, Maryviand and Pennsylvania, znd has a total membership of 88240 farm owners Membership increased 5681 during 1908 Atl the Bpringficld meeting reporis were given showing io what extent farmers are ealling on the Exchange to serve as their cooperative pur chasing agent. Eastern States pro gress and problems during 1938 were discussed. Records show that farm- ors in Pennsylvania purchased coop- Sap _—- wer had gratified his Just either be- th or alter she had been The { was a terrible shock to he mother, and It was with 4iffi- ity that she made her way to the nearest house to tell her story. The preading of the news crested a of horror throughout the come ty of Sugar Valley TT ini TAYE muni Crime Stirs Community The terrible details of the mur- jer and outrage stirred Clinton and Centre counties to a high pitch { indignation. Feeling became in- tensifind as the fact became known that the crime had been commitied the previous Saturday evening and the child had been left unattended intl discovered Monday morning The Culveyy were quite young, Nora being about 20 and Isaish about 27 years old. The bodies were buried at Tylersville, and the cidid taken into the home of the grandmother. Then came the search far the murderer GAR VALLEY The authorities of Clinton county made a of arrests In al- tempting the mystery, and among those held on suspicion were two Cenire county citizens. They were exonerated, however, when the true facts became known later. Luther Shaffer Arresied Sometime previous to the Culvey tragedy a number of robberies had been committed In Bugar and it was thought thai the young couple had been slain in en effort to cover up a robbery at their home. This theory was the discovery that a number of ar- ticles were missing from the Culvey house Circumstances pointed 10 a young man by the name of Luther Shafler who had been seen In the commun- ily, upon whom suspicion might rest. Shaffer who had left the vicin- ity afler the murder, was looked upon as having taken part in the robberies, and was well worth con- sidering as knowing something about the death of the Culveys. Vr srle or num oer to moive A warrant was issued for his ar- | rest, and officers got upon his track. | He was finally captured by Chief of Police Westbrook of and Officer Vemes of Renovo, at » lumber camp near Galeton, in Pol- | ter county. Shaffer was brought to Lock Haven and placed in fall and at the December term of court was tried and found guilty of the double | slaying. He later made a full con- | fession, which cleared up every de- | (Continued on page four) eratively through the Eastern States | Farmers’ Exchange 114884 tons of | feed, 10588 tons of fertilizer ang fer. tlizer melerinls, and L487.060 pounds of field seed during the past VORr, ! During 1938 the Exchange pur- chased for all jis members in fine! eastern slates commodities valued at $17.808 360 It distributed 401.461 | tons of feed. 40558 tons of fertiliser, | fertilizer materials and lime, 5860, 628 pounds of field seed, and a large ume of miscellaneous commodi- | 83 —————— When Crime Poses as Spirftualism Investigator makes startling dis- | closures about charlatans who be- | tray and plunder hearisick victims One of many interesting features | in the March 10th issue of The | American Weekly, the big magazine | distributed regularly with the Bal- | more Sunday American. On sale | al all newsstands ! i —— { —— | ~The most news for $1.50 i YOUTH ADMINISTRATION HOLDER QUARTERLY MEETING Al a quarterly meeting of the central Pennsylvania National Youth Administration district held last week ut the NYA office in the Logan Fire buliding in Bellefonte, | under the supervision of W. I Soott, district director. The prepar- ations were made for the spring projects and a discussion of new guidance project. was held, Those who attended the meeting were Arden Miller, Philipsburg; Paul | 1. Frantz, Lock Haven. E. C. Gro- ver and David A. Ritchie, Ulysses; Dr. Harold L. Holbrook, Jose! Conk- lin, John C. Pella, George Teats, all [of state headguarters at Harrisburg: Roy Decker, State College, and Miss Ethel Dale and Mrs. Virginia Kes. ginger, of the Bellefonte office. The district includes Centre, Clinton, Cameron and Potter counties, - ~ Want ads bring results. Valley, | strengthened by | Lock Haven | my baby.” They said she would be released to attend the funeral Gray sald that Barrick, held a Juniata County Jail, Mifflintown had “spent all day praying on his knees that the child would live” Three physicians performed utapsy and found death due to injury of the brain, kidneys and in- testines.” A coroner's jury found that the baby “must have been sub jected Lo considerable mistreatment’ before its removal (0 a hospital, At the same time, the jurors concluded that the injuries “must have been inflicted by a blow or blows from persons unknown a Sheriff Carl Hawar County said authorities Barrick to the inquest feeling tense ™ Barrick and her mother brought Miriam to Bunbury Hospital Irom (Continued on page four) ‘Hexed’ Child To Get New Home Mountour County Juvenile Court to Take Charge of ‘Bewitched’ Girl A 12-year-old Motitout county girl whose mother and grandmother she was “hexed™ was or- an “an ow of Juniata did not bring because the Mifiintown) was there (at quite - J ~ charged dered placed In a Toster home in the | custody of Miss Elizabeth B. Vas- ine, probation officer, following a ing al juvenile cour! at Dan- Sstiorday morning Paul Hartley, 38 told rt her only child, Savina, had “a spell cast over her” which was responsible for her poor health reason sl as attended school but 220 deys during the 580 school days of the past four terms The girl's father, 48. 2 native of Switzerland, told the cow! he did r believe in witchcraft and de- nied his daughter was in poor health, declaring it was bil 8 belie! af hiz wile and mother<in.dew, Mrs Caroline Keefer, who lives with the | Hartiey family in a one-story four room Trame home which The hus- band. 8 WPA worker, erected during his spare hours. He said be had received anony- mous letlers, stating his daughter was “hexed” and tha! hls mother- in-law had spread salt on the door [step of his home to keep out the “witchcraft” ~ Mr: the court 12, and the she + rit Convict’s Freedom Is Short Lived Rockview Fugitive Granted Liberty, But Virginia Officers Take Him in Custody liam Wright, who has spent the lagt 17 of his 70 years behind prison bars. Wright escaped from Rockview penitentiary at Bellefonte in 1926, fled to Wishington, Pa., where he had been sentenced four years be- fore, and robbad the home of Mrs. Caroline C. Parkinson, who lay dead al Uw time, Captured, he was | given an afiditional 5% %o 11 years | imprisomment. | Last Deceriber the State Supreme | Court riled Bis extenfed sentence only should have been 2% to 5 years. And Friday. the aged Wright {came up in court at Pittsburgh én ya habeas corpus action éand heard {the words thal meant freedom. He { walked Trom the courtroom. He got only as far as the corridor. There & Richmond. Va. detective clamped handcuffs on him. Rich- mond hadnt forgotien that Wright escaped from its jail in 1910 and [still owed time on a house-bresking | charge. Youlh Robbed Father Robert J. Winner, 27 of Williams port. is held in Lyvoming Oounty jail on a charge of robbing his own father. The {aiher, 6l-year-oid {Frank Winner, 10ld State Motor [lice that while he Slept on a his son entered the house of $3. Young Winner a {panion, John HW. Oon "KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES' — Costs Are Increasing a HAVE TO worry ABOUT TW Cat” COMING TO C240 ON YOU NOW THAT OFFICER DOLLY 1S BIAVING Freedom was short-lived for Wil- | | News lem From United Press at | Los Angeles “Secret files of the { naval intelligence department, in- | troduced at the trial of three alleged Boviet Russian spies, discloses thal United States agents had discovered just below the border In Mexico & cache of powerful acid whi : poured into the ocean, might eat through the armored Diates of bat. {tleships and sink them.” Someone's getting a little hysterical-—either in the navy intelligence department, or In the Los Angeles United Pres bureau. If any acid was found it a sale bet it was Intended for some- thing more practical than to ocon- vert the Pacific Ocean into a chem ist’s test tube. Next theyll be telling us they found three sticks of dyna- mite the Reds had cached in Pata gonia, with the idea of blowing up these United States These horoscope columns you read in the newspapers are most found and far-reaching in vice. Bamples culled from last week's advice to those born in October in- clude: “Refrain {rom eating foods that don agree with you and “Avoid mistakes.” We pause to pay tribute memory of Midshipman 8 of Pleasant Gap, and der briefly the workings of = scriutable Fate which aimed him in the prime of a life Tull of great promise. Noll was brilliant, likeable ambitious. He had nearly completed his third term at the United Btates Naval Academy st Annapolis last 1411 when he was stricken 11. An ex- amination at that time revealed him to be suffering from ss congi- | ton for which there Is no known cure. Death was a matter of wajtl- ing, and although Noll for a time believed he would get well, he did not flinch when the truth became i apparent (0 him. He faced death bravely, fearlessly—like all good soldiers. Although he died on the threshold of his life's work in the way he met death sions left nh everlasting sermon to those of who remain rh b pro- thelr ad- to mue the ie f Noll > Fd. cl re] M us he Centre County poor home, at Howard and Wilson streets, is going to be one of Beliefonle's oulstand- ing bulldings It will be clearly fbie from various paris of i and from present indications will occupy approximately the same prominence {rom a distance as dc the Bellefonte Academy building One of the minor indoor sports in Bellefonte these days is the show- ing of motion pictures of the Belle fonte High school fire. A number of amateur movie cameramen were on the scene, and are now invity~ thelr friends to view the regu their work. Among those having showingy %re Martin Miler, whose ims are in nature] color and George E. McClellan oth of East Linn street, and Carl John ison, West Penn Power Company employe, who resifies at the Talley rand ip ————— Note t¢ Chamber of Commeroe: A prominent Bellefonte business man likens Bellefonte to a ship | without 8 rudder. The town is go- ing somewhere, but no one has the | faintest idea where There is no charted course. The prominent citi- ven suggests that the Chamber plan a future course for Bellefonte, and then aim to hold fast to the course, Buch matters as extending borough limits, housing conditions, definite policies to be followed in | many lines of town activity should | be charted. Finally, he said, political and business bickerings should be buried in the interests of the town {as a whole. Individuals should for- get that wher some new proposal ' is made ft is not their first duty to | get control so they can smash the {whole proposition {f things sren’t dome so they pet a few hundred or {a few thousand dollars of benefit | from the idea. 'SEES SERIOUS STUDENTS AS FUTURE “BIG SHOTS | The campus “Smoothie” muy 2%- | tract the co-eds, 4 State College pro- | fessor declares, but hell be working {for the wapadémic “grim” in the “next, decade Or $0." Dr. Robert G. Bernreuter, assd- | ciate of efucation and pey- chology of Pennsylvania State Col- lege, said that while “grinds” may be future “big shols” they “often go through an entire semester withont talking to a girl socially.” They {miss the chance to stquire “social ease” and a knowledge of the types of women, he concluded Severed Ear Sewn Om Gilbert BR. Van Billiam, of Bethle- bem, Jost his Jeft ear in an sutomo- bile accident Sunday. Ten hours Mater the sar was found znd taken Zor
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