| ll A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each WeeR. Odd and Curious News SECOND SECTION vor, U ME OR, The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County. he Cenfre Democrat BEI LEFON' r E, PA, NEWS, FEATURES THU RSDAY, MARC H 9, 1939. NUMBER 10. Random [tems ——————— DE —Y. Everything Borrowed Two Tipton vouwths, from the gion near Tyrone, not only borrowed two chickens tO cook but they also borrowed the home and stove 1o cook | them In. Iv seems that Jim Nau, | : re 20, and Porter Miller, 19. were hun gry and had visions tender drum sticks. They broke Snvde Township chicken two hens and clean and cook of Walter ol into a shat then. proceeded thewirds in the hom Hard: nly the Hardy weren't at home. It cost the two youths $5 for fea which wa broken up by police and then they were ordered to clean up the Hardy | kitchen as well a ind they used banquet.’ . where he was admitted Gosh! Gee Whiskers! du night after having An excuse for letting whis- | Knife wou na br keris grow was pi Pitts - | returning from a part) kurgh barbers od Wit the attack, Johi Lounced they al being iceal competition Open Whisker Growir cach prize and a trip the mento-Golden Emit entenn.al CHLY=-5IX ce.webration to close the giows the longest Potter between March you have op thir 40, a member of CCC Camp In in a critical con- Haven Hospital, Batur- received six awl on x Jame J. Potter he Farrandsville Clinton county, | dition in Lock the for theh pots pans Lhe vhere he late te your a bru by ML Del Isoring tha Nath contest Oct an- Miller al weld i A | Lock Haven NH : LAS ad e mroliee, is jall at i 0 name Lo sadiant awall CH YS blood to There One UR HAY the arm gives i LO allegedly AL r ’ { rT wed "3 3 Corry tr . Mille nad ried 1 i 1 Lie i Judge Hirt Named “To Superior Court Jurist to lake Seat Ull~ Generous Drunk A prudent dru hailed Ira Smith on th or ask ~ Wig him to drive hi Smith took the job. Soon the inebriate or Geted a stop. He climbed out, waved 3 hand, said mobile,” root ree you can have the aulo- Va cated When James Became and w Erie before Smit Id breath The impro turned the and t er Ww quer AWAY , RUOMOobI le (Governor hey expect claim it his | " Wrong Luncheon Asked to ak a Legion ! I N Ra N. ( I viv i hief Li-G Ver] hotel and went into luncl A peg Hon over his almost Judges he realized that he had crashed an irt, of Erie, to the automobile 4 af apclogie: ed to his hotel afier becoming executive HUT CORRL ap William T $18.000-a year Laon James IKige wheth APT taking his promotion courts meet at Harrish 13th. He said Hirt avorable omen 13 was ne udicial tment 1020 While govern Superior aroused » DT-year- any ov- grounds, when the I'gE on told him that was Hirt was born on willed of his first m February > asked er ne tion Litiou Short Term Two days after taki ; office, as Sheriff «f Alamance . North Carolina Mv Robert and Policeman 8 ¥ } lington, were ki which followed ar a robbery robber, Roy killed Try It On Cow I your child baiks a ach Dr. Thurman B. Ri diana URiTeai Scho advises that t} cow and let Lhe milk. Not bad a cow, Lhe 21: 4 (8 : appoir migning for the Was Chm ucige action wotest James and sii J Court- that Democ: and a the commiltts n elth- Ameri ASSO numerous § were tioned as his the benel Among aC tar) "Mis COUNLY Cumber- of the i= men- UCCPSs0r on these were Jame 5 re. AZerne Finds Lost Eye erm ex; While seinir i Rapids Cherney's eye. Geor ing that ago while = Altoona ‘Man Dies Of Bullet Wound Lying on Floor By After Shot is Heard in Bedroom Bi Kans a Loui RELIEF CHISELING CASES FOUND IN CLINTON COUNTY Found Family Alderman T Thursday iss Haven for HOTS, charged by the lie Assistance ing." The cases ar nature in Cl YeRrs Implicated. for stated, are the following Crawford, Farrandsville James I. Mosley. Drury 60; Fred G. Hill. Mc 4); Howard E. Wren $2240. and from Lock Haven, Geo E. Beybold, $5331 Zacharia Pec- chia, $50.04; Michael Mulqueen, $17 - 50. Nora English. $5480, and Paul R. Wert, £17598 Mark Br ed last Lock ungard wararnts at the : Found | the floor by ber: started ov Lee Calvin known ona mem- been ving on family a thud White patter one woman sho in his 82, of Ablloona nmaker the foundry Al toona works died suddenly at his home Priday might at 18:30 o'clock A bullet pierced his temple Born in Altoona, March 21, 1886, he was a son of Joseph D. and Mary Alma (Geesey) White. He had been employed in the South Altoona foundry for the past 31 years Members of the family ine hide his wife Mrs. Alma Mary (Keagy) White; two sons. Joseph W., of Washington D. €. and Charles R., at home. one sister and one brother, Mrz, Nellie Miller and Raymond G White, both of Altoona Mr. White was a member of the which wa de- First Church of God, oWhite Cross t Tuesday night, lodge, Knights of Pythias, of the Robert Packer | Blair County Game Fish and For- for examination, | estry association for the past ten to determine if they are the remains years, of the M. B. A. and of the P. of a human being. A skull, leg R R. Veteran Employes association baties, and a hip joint were found —————— by men who cleared away the de. Alert Mail (lerk. biz. They were in another part of Mrs W. 8 Coates recently ree the barn from the spot where sev- | ceived a letter from her mother in eral cows were burned. It is thought | Australia, which was addressed, that a transient might have lost “Ms W. 8 Coates, Oregon” An his life in the blaze. alert mail clerk in Portland, who a had visited in Tillamook. remem- COST TO BOTH FAIRS COULD bered that he had met Mrs. Coates, BE BOUGHT WITH GAS TAX and sent the letter on to her. of had nton « 3 n of the he alleged sum Melvin J $23 10, Run, $23. Elhsttan, $83 - Loganton, Human Bones found in the ruins the M. J. Ryan Thoughi to Charred bone of the barn on farm, near Troy, stroyed by fire were Laken to the Hospital in Bayre Be las Every man, woman and child in | New York. Chicago, Philadelphia 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 Institute al Kockefeller Center The total gasoline tax collections in 1838 reached nearly $1.00000), Thiz 15 enough to buy a $70 round- | operation at the Lock Haven Hos- trig bus ticket for 139000060 persons pital for amputation of the second ta both of this year's fairs, toe. The toe was nearly severed by gh the axe. Girl Fatally Injured A voung Cresson girl. Stella La- 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 regularly with the Baltimore Sunday American. On | sale at all progressive newsstands, Beeck Creek Man Loses Toe His left Don't ever ask Steve Chollock. 30, of DuBois, to help you get your stuck car out of the mud. Choilock is in the hospital recovering from atlempts to extricate his own car. hospital without regaining con- He nearly froze to death after he | sciousness. 8he was one of a group became exhausted from his extricat- of four struck bya ear while walk- ing efforts. | 108 along & highway near her home. CCC VETERAN KNIFED BY COMRADE AFTER FALSE ACCUSATIONS "2 Member of Clinton County Camp In Serious Condition at Lock Haven Hospital As Result of Stabbing Affray bedroom, | 125000 delegates and visitors will be foot split when the axe | with which he was cuting logs slip. | ped, Carl H. Heverly underwent an | lclasses can subscribe to the "We ‘Wake 'Em Service” Certer Crimn | Litta, 20. died at the Altoona Mercy | Shearing Time r \ I the Lruck over lighted © four thi JACK thant one of the him men had struck man then struck pocket knife with injured aroused out with the which Potter Privi JLate small was te Harry R wor Police Hau Dx all In of the Attor- B Le enbloom District Sherif J puty Sherif of Lock Haven Hewry G. Hager | thal there wa men had been i , " wir World War Phiinde WUD, DOR ‘TRAVELING TOWN MEETING’ NABBED IN ATTEMPT To SCALE JANI WALLS enmclied a Gay and wall of Vuh sloped wid Kling- ng with other wid he rear of Sherif been held December proceedings ORGANIZED AT PENN STATE Before Lhe of the 28 members g in tests weording Ww F. OBrien, assistant profes- spect conch of debate nsored by the on the end season all squad will of ne col i Toye ob V i and meelin Wants Chaw w bound in h vas bad enough, but for two weeks withou wis more 1 | a two-year-old baby | yard 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 cruelty comes from Mifflin county where Paul W Barrick, 22, is being held in the Mifflin county jail for fatally beating girl, The child, born out of wedlock Helen Wolf, a domestic in a rural Juniata county home, died in the Bunbury Hospkal Friday, of In- juries inflicted by Barrick, Young Barrick, a former employe, is quoted as that he beat the undersized tot “at least Hlty times” and branded her with ah tove lid lifter “because 1 was falous of her father” The mother is being held for crim- inel negligence in not reporting the bruise marks. The charge {it is sald was placed to insure her detention Baby Miriam, with & brain in} and hall of her bruised body para. lyzed, died at Bu y Hospit: where she had lain ious A days Prematurely born ed one pound, nine ounce and physiclang struggled lor months to save her Ife Lo years ago Nurses at Harrisburg Hospital who al u time helped coax along the spark 11s her diminutive body, were death They kept in fod thre to brick - saying " hot ivy Uneonst ve the child weigl al bi rth, al of saridened at news of her the wal and heyy recalled that infant an Incubstor for week: ugh a tube-—she was 50 cotidn’'t take nourishment in inary way. they sald. They dy ralled h phe the sd fon ore or “Rosebud ’ he "jooked just like a mother held at MIfIn Jal, Lewistown wept al her death and begped o "let me out 50 1 ca IT HAPPENED IN SUGAR VALLEY Creek to Rug bridge wher viding Hoe separates Logan and Porier town. the traveler will come upon wene of the most das and revolting crimes known tunatels 1 the history of Clinton county Line Li till referred to as the Culvey murder, and enacied more than its memory will erased from the the vicin to a point the di AL en VET! [HEINONE Were Tig rio this Wing vi reooraed sole § poet ‘ the in bield on nips, Qs PEC ser ane of EXOT + location Suspicion | Fell on Many Parties a 4 meweral Cgitve songnly various thoes following Among Whe mmmber citisons, who, jor. unraveled AL one bul was re- Hiz arrest atl the LUme rowing parent, IL was not H secured that the sai tiie becan we orumne CaRr ” if an ght ugar Valiey this lonely section, apart from r habitations, Isaiah Culvey and : wife began housekeeping marriage some Their home was a t it was & happy one uple. Isaiah culti- farm oul of which It he could do to make living; ie pair were in the peaceful serenity that their home In the time a little daughter to add to their happiness. The was a little more than a year time this story begins in that longer she wen! ing. Benzing neglected from cry had been it should have been search o The eae strange | couid be seen about the and that they gone across the creek | son. She walked to end of ti field, past = Cherry run flow. crossed the bridge which span ned ram and had about H ope of Jocsting them she made a horrible hel premise must have some Tes young Tit gecited ttle . chun 1 the 8% much As but young aappy surrounded eotirae of came ch ed the str up h when discovery. Both Had Been Sheil to Death few of iid ie old at the 1887 Grandmother Discovers Bodies Early on Monday morning of Aug- 15t Bth year, Mrs. John Cul- the mother of Isaiah, by pre- arrangement oame fo the of the young people to help son harvest his oats. Entering ise Mrs. Culvey found no one the baby, which had the pearance of having exhausted it- Lying on the ground, but a feet apart, were the dead bodie her son and his wife. Isalhh was 13 ing on his side. with a bullet hole under his left eve. By his side stood 8 basket of gras The woman had a bullet hole be- hind one ear, and one through each shiotlder Hhe glmost entirely naked, showing wver kille of that vey viens home her the hot there hit wa at that wh ——————— - a —— | REBERSBU ROG MAN REPORTS ON FARMERS' BUYING MARKET M W. Wert of Reber aburg. has re turned from atiending the 2ist an- nual meeting of the eastern Stales Farmers’ Exchange in Springfield, Mass. He is a director in the or- ganization, There are in the state about 30.330 memberz of the Exchange who buy feed, fertilizer, seed, motor oil, paint spray materials and other supplies through thelr cooperative organiza- tion. The Exchange operates in New England, Delaware, Maryian! and Pennsylvania, and has a total membership of 88.240 farm owners Membership increased 5681 during 1968 At the Springfield meeting reports were given showing to what extent farmers are calling on the Exchange ito serve as their cooperative pure chasing agent. Eastern States pro- gress and problems during 1938 were discussed. Records show that farm- e1s In Pennsylvania purchaced coop YOUNG DEMOCRATIC OLUBS TO CONVENE AUG. 10-12. A change in the date of the bien- nial convention of the Young De=mo- 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- rangementis commitiee. Originally scheduled for August 3 4 and 5. the convention will be held in Pitisburgh 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 year in Pennsylvania,” he declared “bo. cause it will be a curtain-raiser for 1040. Every presidential candidate or would-be candidate will be rep- resented, and the trial balloons sent up at 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 Wp lust either be- ghe had been gratified his fore alter shot The wis a terrible shock to he mx and it was with diff- culty that she made her way to the house to tell her story. The preading of the news coresled wave of hi yughout the come munity of Bugar Valley si t igh ther nearest orror thre Crime Stirs Community he terrible details of the mur- jer and outrage stirred Clinton and Centre counties to & high pitch { indignation. Peeling became in- tensified as the fact became known at the crime had been committed the previous Saturday evening and the child had been left unattended til discovered Monday morning The Culveys were quite young, Nora being abot 20 and Isaish shout 27 years old. The bodies were buried at wm OM, 3 and the cidid was taken into the home of the grandmother. Then came the search far the murderer. The authorities of Clinton oo made umber of arrests In tempting to solve the mystery amor ope held on suspicion were two Cenire county citisens. They were exonerated. however, when the true facts became known ater, Luther Shaffer Arresied Sometime previous to the Culvey tragedy a8 number of robberies had been committed In Sugar Valley, and #t was thought! that the young couple had been slain In an effort to cover up & robbery at their home. This theory was strengihened by at- and mity the discovery that a number of ar- | ticles were missing from the Culvey house Circumstances poinled to a young man by the name of Luther Shafer who had been seen in the commun- ily, upon whom suspicion might rest. Shaffer who had left the vicin- ity afler the murder, was Jooked upon as having taken part in the robberies, and was well worth con- sidering as knowing something about the death of the Culveys. A warrant was issued for his ar- rest, and officers got upon his track. | He was finally captured by Chief of | oo or 3390 years behind prison | Police Westbrook of Lock Haven and Officer Vermnes of Renovo, al & lumber camp near Galeton, in Pot- | ter county. Shaffer was brought to Lock Haven and pisced In fall and al the December term of court was trier and found guilty of the double | pr {Caroline C. Parkinson, who lay | { dead al the Ome, 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 tong of | feed, 10588 tons of fertiliser ang fer. tilimer melerinls, and L487.950 pounds of field seed during the past VORr, During 1938 the Exchange pur- chased for all jis members in nine eastern states commodities valued at $17.808 360 It distribuled 401.4561 fertilizer materials and lime, 5.860, £28 pounds of field seed. and a large volume of miscellaneous thes, ———— — on When Crime Poses as Spirftualism MEE eho esse thn YOUTH ADMINISTRATION HOLDE QUARTERLY MEETING Al a quarterly meeting of the cetitral Penbsylvanis National! | Youth Administration district held inst week nt the NYA office in the | under the supervision of W. 1 | Soot, district director. The prepar- tons of feed, $0568 tons of fertilizer, | commodi- | ations were made for the spring projects and a discussion of new guidance projects was held. . i i i | { |came up in court st Pittsburgh &n [for the academic “grind” a habeas corpus action and heard | ‘Logan Fire building in Bellefonte, | my baby.” They said she would be released to attend the funeral Cray said that Barrick held a Juniata County Jail, Mifflintown had “spent all day praying on knees that the child would Three physicians performed autopsy and found death due to ” injury of the brain, kidneys and in- Les A cor mer's jury found that the baby “must have been sub jected to considerable mistreatment” before its removal to a hospital. Al the same time, the jurors concluded that the injuries “must have been inflicted by a blow or blows from unknown his live.” an an tin 0 Hawar thor DETBOLS Sherif! County said au Barrick to the feeling there quite tense ™ Barrick and her mother brought Miriam to Sunbury Hospilal 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 Montour county gir] whose mother and grandmother she was "hexnfl™ was or- Juniata s did not bring nquest ee ation the (at MMAintown) was Carl of Vom iad charged dered placed in a foster home in the | Elizabeth B. Vas- officer. following a court st Dan- custody of Mis , probation ring ai juvenile ville, Ssturday morning Mrs. Paul Hartley, 39, told the court her only child, Savina, 12, had “rm spell cast over her” which was responsible for her poor health reason she has ailended but 220 days during the 580 chool days of the past Tour terms. The girl's father, 48, a native of Switzerland, told the court he did believe in witchcraft and de- nied his daughter was in poor health, declaring it wes but & belie! tire nea and the school not of hiz wife and mother<n.law, Mrs | Caroline Keefer, who lives with the Hartley {amily in a one-story four- room Trame home which the hus- band. 8 WPA worker, erected during We spare hours He said he had received anony- mous letters, staling his daughter was “hexed” and tha! hls mother- in-law had spresd salt on the door step of his home to keep out the “witchcraft.” Convict's Freedom Is Short Lived Rockview Fugitive Gramied Liberty, But Virginia Officers Take Him in Custody Freedom was short-lived for Wil- lam Wright, who has spent the bars Wright escaped Irom Rockview penitentiary at Bellefonte in 1826, fled to Washington, Pa., where he | had been sentenced four years be- fore, andl robbed the home of Mrs. | he was | given an afditions] ®% n 11 yours ha. bel { imprisonment. Last December the State Supreme | Court riled his extenfied sentence | ‘only should have been 2% to 5 | years. And Friday, the aged Wright | {the words thai meant freedom. He walked Trom the courtroom. He got only as Tar as the corridor. There 8 Richmond, Va. detective clamped handcuffs on him. Rich- mond hadn't forgotten that Wright escaped from its jail in 1810 and still owed time on a house | charge. Those who attended the meeting | { were Arden Miller, Philipsburg; Paul | ‘1. Frantz, Lock Haven; E. C. Gro- | ver and David A. Ritchie, Ulysses; | Investigator makes startling dis- | closures aboul charlatans tray and plunder heartsick victims One in the March 19th American Weekly, the big magazine distributed regularly with the Bal- timore Bunday American. On sale | at all newsstands ———————— ~The most news for $1.50 who be-' {adn Dr. Harold 1. Holbrook, Jose! Conk- | John C. Pella, George Teats, all | of statr headquarters at Harrisburg; Roy Decker, State College, and Miss of many interesting features | issue of The | poy or tale and Mrs. Virginta Kes | { singer, of the Bellefonte office. The i | district includes Centre, Clinton, | Cameron and Potter counties, ~ Want ads bring results. Youlh Robbed Father A — _pee under the laws of a Highlight of the three-day conclave | will be election of all national of- ‘KEEPING. Up WIT H THE JONESES' — Costs Ate tncransing ficers for the ensuing two years. i Invitations are being sent out to clubs in every State, and i Is esti- | imatad by convention officials that HAVE TO worry ABOUT TW Cat” COMING TO Chil ON YOU NOW Thr OFFICE ugreni 5 STAYING You! —~— ve, ~ou ron )< on hand for ‘the GogAsion, “Wake Up” Service Sold Students at the University of Washington who have trouble wak- ing up in time for early morning | and Art Meyer offer the service and they telephone their clients accord ing to a prearranged schedule. The people of the United States spend enough money on education every year tobe wertain that the [ony has some of it. gy x HAVE " OTHE: WORRIES! THAT BIRD 1S GONG TO EAT ME OUT OF — MAYBE IT WOULD HAVE A New: Item From United Press at Los Angele: “Becret filles of the | naval Intelligence department, ine | troftuced at the trial of three alleged | Boviet Russian spies, discloses thal | United! Stutes agents had discovered just below the border in Mexico 2 cache of powerful acid, which poured into the ocean, might eat { through the armored plates of bat- itleships and sink them.” Bomeone's getting a little hysterical--either In {the navy intelligence department, or in the Los Angeles United Press bureau. If any acid was found a safe bet It was Intended for some- | thing more practical than to cone 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 Pala gonia, with the idea of blowing up these United Btates These horoscope columns yo in the newspapers re most found and far-reaching in their vice. Bamples culled from last week's advice to those born in Oclober in- clude: “Refrain from eating foods that don’t agree with you" and “Avoid mistakes.” iz ins 1 read pro- al~- We pause to pay tribute io memory of Midshipman Samue Noll, of Pleasant Gap, and to der briefly the workings of an in- serutable Pate which claimed him in the prime of a life Ti of great promise. Noll was brilliant, likeable, ambitious. He had nearly completed his tHird term at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis last 1411 when he was stricken Ili. An ex- {amination at that time revealed him to be suffering from a congli- tion for which there Is no known | cire. Death was 8 matter of wait- ing. and although Noll for 2 time believed he would get well, he did ot flinch when the truth became apparent to him. He faced death bravely, fearlessly—like all good soldiers. Although he dled on the threshold of his life's work, in the way he met death alone left &h everlasting sermon fo those of who remain the R ON - VR iii phd The Centre County poor home at Howard and Wilson streets, is going to be one of Beliefonte's oculstand- ing bulldings It will be clearly vis- ible from various paris of town, and from present indications will occupy approximately the same prominence {rom a distance gs dots the Bellefonte Academy building One of the minor indoor sports in lielonte these anys is the show- ing of motion tures of ithe Belie- fonte High Schoo] fire. A number of amateur movie cameramen Were on the soene, and are now invite | their friends lo view the regu their work. Among those — having showingy Martin Miller, whose Mims are in nature] color and George E. McClellan, both of East Linn street, and Car] Joh: ison, West Penn Power Company employe, who resides at the Talley. rand Note to Chamber of Commeroe: A prominent Bellefonte business man likens Bellefonte to a ship | without a rudder. The town is go- ing somewhere, but no one has the | faintest idea where. There is no charied course. The prominent citi- ven suggests that the Chamber plan a future course for Bellefonte, and then aim to hold fast to the course. Such matters as extending borough limits, housing conditions, | definite policies to be followed in many lines of town activity should { be charted. Phally, he said, political and business bickerings should be buried in the interests of the town a: a whole. Individuals should for- {get that wher some Dew proposal lis made it is not their first duty to ‘get control so they can smmsh the {whole proposition if things srent done so they get a few hundred or a few thousand dollars of benef] from the idea. The campus tract the coef, 4 State TI or fessor declares, but hell be welung in he ‘next decade Or 80.” Dr ‘Raber: 0° Bernyerer a ciate anf pey- |chology of Pennsylvania State Col [tage said that while “grinds” may be future “big shots” they “often go through an entire semester withont talking to a girl socially.” They miss the chance fo abguire "sncia ease” and a knowledge of the types BLED of women, he concluded.
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