Odd and | Curious { News A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. SECOND SECTION The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County. Che Cenfre Democraf Random NEWS, FEATURES [tems VOLUME 658, — Something Slipped Steve Sedillos, 34, of Denver, be- came angry os 34 A woman com- panion warned him of a train in the path of his automobile “I've been driving never ran into a train yet her. Then his automobile smashed into the side of a freight car 80 heated over the argument I forgot to stop.” he explained to patrolmen. Gedillos escaped injury. The wo- man, Julia Ball, concussion, broken cuts, nose and face Walks 4 Miles Clad only in a nightgown and a pair of stockings, a 16-year-old girl | of Yakima, Wash. walked four miles from home in her sleep and roused a slumbering family to tell them a bi- gare story of peing kidnapped amid a hall of gunfire. Investigation by police revealed that story had been a nightmare. Her family told of their daughter's fre- quent wanderings in her sleep, but she had never before gone so from home re far st Relieved of Relief A Philadelphia Negro woman relief for six years—won $150,000 i the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes $ “T guess I'll take things easy now, beamed Mrs. Pear] Mason, 38, while her two children pulled at her skirts “T'knew I was guin to win..I had a dream two nights ago” She had yefused half a dozen bids for the ticket. She had signed it “Just Must Win." Her husband Benjamin works in a garage when “there's any work to do.” on . Criss-Crossed When a surgeon examined George Vales, 21, of Chicago, prior to op- erating for appendicitis, he found that the patient's heart was on the right side of the chest cavity, his liver on the left and his stomach on the right. Therefore, an incision was made on his left side and there, sure enough, was the ruptured ap- pendix. A Real bon William Sibbia er, of Frankfurt, ket ball fan. nessing an year-old farm- i a real bas- while wit- school didn't Giga In Recent ly exciting high game, he fell off his seat and discover until the game was over that the fall had fractured one of his legs. om ar A ———— Loses All During recent years, Tom John- son. of Arkansas, lost faith in banks | a 300-1! and placed his savings in pound safe in his home Recently, while he was away from home, thieves broke in and took his sav- ings, $2000, and the safe Aged Man Sentenced When he pleaded guilty to parti- cipation in the robbery of the post office at Woolrich, Thomas Donahue, 72-year-old New York man, believed to he one of the oldest post office robbers ever to appear in Federal court, was sentenced last week at Beranton. to a ten-year term in prison. The robbery cbtained $14.- 000 in cash, stamps and bonds mi. ——— Hurt in Fall From Horse George Kirkpatrick, 19. Tyrone was admitted the Philipsburg State Hospital Sunday for treat ment for a back injury received when he fell from the horse he was riding. Kirkpatrick is employed by the Pennsylvania National Guard at Tyrone Lo Fined Aged Man Dead, A three day search for John Shafter. 18. a farmer residing near Bloomsburg. ended when three youths found the aged man lying gead across a heap of cord wood which he had been cutting W. FP. Ross, Columbia County death was due to a heart attack Coroner said nt — -———— If you want to go places in life a You have to do is to get going FIRE WARDENS SUPERVISING PENN DIST. CENTRE COUNTY Following are the names adress and telephone numbers of Forest Wardens operating in District 10, Centre county den immediately if you see a fire in the woods Address Name District Forester Miles T. Bressler Richard Brooks Lioyd F. Boob John E Bubb J. W. Coder Leslie E. Deitrick John E. Poreaman Elmer D. Foust LC. 1. Grenoble Jos. C. Hassinger Jd. C. Holmes Chas. Houser (Tow'rm'n) WwW. J King o. H Knarr Wm. Knoffsinger A. B. Lee Fred Lutz iH. K. Mattern. H A. MeCiellan Will MeClintic Wo]. ¥. Mecker (Rang) Farl G Myers Bpring Centre Hall, Bt pring Mills, Bellefonte, fiuy H. Nolan Poe Mts. Tower Purdue Fire Tower Fred Reitz Owen Smith Edw. Bweetwood P. D. Bwabb (Towerman) ‘Lee Vonada i. L. Weaver . R. Allen Wingard al. B. Yearick ..... yd A. Yearick . W. Zerby... How yard, moving | y long time and | * he told | 24. suffered a brain | the harrowing | Centre Hall Millheim Blanchard Hublersburg Howard Madisonburg Coburn ...Biale College Beilefonte, Centre Hall Pleasant Gap Spring Mills Pleasant Gap Julian Tusseyville Linden Hall Spring Mills, Port Matilda {C. T. Musser (Rang.) Spring Mills, R. D. 2 Nittany Poe Mts, Purdue Mt. Boalsburg Aaronsburg Spring Mills «Spring Mills Coburn Millheim Coburn Parvin __Centre Hall R. D. 1 Lemont George J. Boho ROY LOCKARD DIES IN ELECTRIC CHAIR FOR “1 got | 'Reprieved Fifteen Times, Altoona Man Pays Death Penalty at Rockview Peniten- tiary Monday Morning Roy Lockard, 20-year-old former (ed to hi | Altoona WPA worker, died in the | Rockview, | electric chajr at Rockview early | like | Monday morning for the spike-slay- | other. 1 of his one-time sweetheart's | pounds | The ! Sunday death father tepmothe and kin remained in the death hour through twelve ready to go. Of said, “1 think 1 than the gained two here.” fate and Lockard place better I've been ma this believe I've condemned the | Ing | son Lockard calmly execution chamber at 12:31 led by Rev. C. F, Lauer, chaplain, and two guards. He ed In unassisted and made no ment. Contact was applied at o'clock. At 12:34 and a quarter, the prison physiclan, Ii Ww Ww Schwartz, proagounced the condemn- ted min dead When Lockard walked with chaplain to the death chamber, the chaplain was reading a passage, "I lead thee into the paths of right- eousness.” He asked no requests nor my special favor a left no mes sage for any Lockard § the chaj since Ww visited house by his uncle. His house an Lockard acm walked Into the mn He was prison walk- state- 12:32 conversing with bar hallway Strayer en chur relative two red n v-f00t The Rev Uni Brethr fed Lockard house Cheerful, but ette after brought to from spent Por ted smokin another Lockard wn Rockview peniteniiar Blair county 35 month condemned to electrocutio ally fixed for March 1 A model prisoner; western novels for t his incarceration his three-year repeatedly itfe there keep my chin up He saw only a thread « maining after Governor the pardon board fused to intervene fur Lockard Margaret wife of a 3-year-ol ! one cigal the Saturda where nd me 5 to have wa reported told y } Bible during Iain he during he prison re R.R. Worker Killed By Flying Missle Track Struck By Piece of Steel Hurled From the layer fight again erted wher I have LO ass 3 hope fh Jame Frida ther with slats Laborer was convicted Karmendi ijk mill worker, « Matthew (Sonny) 1936 because, Lock e interfered with Passing Freight Train mendl in tified h Struck by steel from Unifer fatally inju while working near Grazier of Tyrone iving freight Tyrone sheet car wi urday morning track laborer two iii a date Paras nk : Woman Escaped Chair Mrs, Karmer mtinued on Page 6) red State charged a (Ce tower, about west A mately tim as is believed freight Parascak was picked up ar to the office of Dr W railroad company surgeon one. He died In before he d be pital piece © heet tre approxi hit the water, thound 43 inches he was It fl r train QUAre gROINK ew off & i 1 £4 id taken Musser mn is goin ab dN 8 gO a TY - . and doctor's office re of in Cent taken to a hos Aken . the mistake membership | newspaper there are ate eligible organization understood he good-natured re entertaining liars 0 be exclu po Some day the write 5 . 1" 0 Call A {§ Liar d Cub make the Har form a the h inty eonil : of concit g 1 will be limited fraternity @ others, many others, who And when and if the & eitecied fet it be | embrace wh A Heth the . Four Sentenced In Clinton County alone liars and harm- ded we Former Centre County Offen- to encourage the arting oft with proportions Hy at by a fellow we intend to t eligible In ord we Are story der Gets Term in Western Penitentiary name lub’'s mo bie Fibber we kr ow fancies garden maki ing, fishing storie So far as the or of this incident is concert - sts that snakes keep alive congregatling he spring the and. ane woman were WwH05€ Judge Henry Hipple Lock Haven nl ecial Three sentenced by Saturday mon wfter pleading f° ession of Jack Berry, charged automobile, wa nd was sent tem Penitentiary for VOArs Berry took a car belonging to M. L Cinster & Sons and wrecked it near Salona in January Paul Wert, charged With obtain. $175.98 relief funds under pretenses, Was L 91 and wa sentenced to Allegheny Workhouse for inde- terminate term Kenneth Leathers, charged with breaking and entering and larceny, after a robbery March 17 the Sam Bavrock store in Lock Haven was fined $81 its and was sen tenced to the Western Penitentiary for six years. Leathers was | ¢ on probation from Huntingdon for stealing chickens in Centre county Mrs. Alice Yost, his. . companion was sent to the Womens Industrial Home at Muncy for an indefinite term on the same charge men . the NO Ab and Sprin when thoughts and narrat ed, he Ins during the winter into huge balls. In snakes thaw it and themselve he claims Against our storm of skepticism we were entertained with a good story in substantiation of this old fibber's” theory It happened, thn mm ’ tirp So - is Wns $e 44 ' our Hghiy COLrs iaroeny and wilh fined 81 Wes two to four snake of an costs to the by t 0 unt angle 80 ing 1¢ false costs ed and the an he explained quite a number of years ago. The chief characters were two residents of tHe Seven Mountains nimed George wallis and James 8hingleion, who met with a thrilling adventure while hunting rabbits heir particular haunt on this oc wi was the thickets surrounding nt and ox three to Asi TRAFFIC OFFICERS ‘COLLEGE’ WILL BE OPENED ON APRIL 17} capsule college” for traffic of ficers of Pennsylvania, which al- ready has an alumni association of 100. will open again on April 17 The “college’ is the third annual traffic officers training school spon- sored by the Institute of Local Gove ernment at the Pennsylvania State College. For two weeks traffic offi- A Notify the nearest ware oughs and Townships will undergo a rigorous training In traffic safety | education H. 8. Carey, chief of the Altoona police department and chairman of {the educational committee of the Pennsylvania Chiels of Police Asso elation, will again be director of the | school. A faculty of 14 leading Exchange No, ~Reedsville TIR2 Spring Mills 22R12 Centre Hall 55R11 Milltheim 9R3 Centre Hall 1834 Lock Haven 42 (Widemire) Zion: 622 (Harry Stitzer) Howard 0111 (Klines Store) | safety Sprg. Mills GRA (J. Reeder) | has been assembled fo present the Miliheim 35R32 (Confer §t.) | course, Millh'm 6RA5 (J. E. Hartt) | Judging from requests for infor. State College 663 mation concerning the school, atten- Bellefonte 917R3 dance this year will be as great as Beflefonte 917R4 that of last year, H. C. Rountree, Centre Hall TR3 | acting executive secretary of the Bellefonte (A. Chilcoat) institute sald. A number of mayors Spring Mills 33R2 burgesses and chiefs of police have Bellefonte Jaana requested enrollment blanks for silefonte Centre Hall 18R24 hte officers, Centre Hall T2R14 Centre Hall 5R4 Boalsburg 908 Spring Mills 0R3 Zion 91811 (Pecks Store) Spring Mills 2R22 Bellefonte P1TR3 Boalsburg 59 Millh'm 48R12 (Smiths BL) | Centre Hall R13 Poe Mts. Tower 2R22 Millheim 6R31 Clearfield Camp 8-118 Ne ite | sylvania's woods. How'rd 92232 (N. H. Year'k) _ Spring Mills 5R13 College 3633 Mills R.D RD RD RD ——. Fire Towers To Open R.D tory, of Rlack Moshannon Bandy Ridge will be manned by April J, Alvbert Stewart, Clearfield, : of Porests and Waters announced last week. The manning {of the fire towers §& part of the | State-wide system ol preventing | forest fires. The Sandy Ridge and | Black Moshannon towers are part of R.D.. People would understand the Bible (etter if they understood mare of It. | fo | SLAYING OF INFANT | cers from Penndylvania’s cities, bor« | and trafic control experts | The two fire towers in the terri. and | BELL IF ONT KE, PA, THU RSDAY. MARCH 30, 1939. ————————— NUMBER 13. April 2 ANNUAL MUSIC FE) | fain FESTIVAL AT PENN STATE, THURSDAY, JUNE5 = “YE GODS AND GREAT | r r and down your spine--better pe fs ing anything osireTning usal fneryYyos He x will alte 1 of the ahd tin Waming. Dot \. the Bear Mead the At arent arate directis bagging Had beet | Wallis derided made wal However ing Pio d along about two-thirds the distance when he was fo feel the carth give way him. He attempted to jump, but with a thud down some towels fifteen feet The hasty ious desoen earth was "lo Re ACES slow and | di ] start] beneath fell ye or and rather uhoeremon- into the bowels of the enotigh to try the nerve of any mah, continued our DarTa- itor, but the sight tit subsequently met the gaze of Wallis was suffic- fenit to terrify even hardier men than he The hole or he had fallen square before chamber into whith might have been en fort it was partly TO HONOR EASTER WITH HUGE FLORAL DISPLAY Ciardens will grow overnight to honor Easter in Rockefeller Center this spring Overnight on April Tth, ledges of {the Cliff-llke RCA Buliding, prom- lenades and the Lower Plaga will bloom with thousands of yellow and {blue flowers and shrubs Secret of the man-made miracle is all-night work by the gardeners. With flood- Hghts as {llumination, they will | holst masses of yellow forsythias to the second-floor setbacks of the IRCA Bullding, plant thousands of | | hyacinths along the pools of the Channel, arrange primroses to mask | granite walls, and plant many gold- ‘en mimosas, in the first outdoor ‘display of this t tempted In New York i - An honest, may be a rarity but it is worth a lot} to the place where it happens to be The Cretpiess Local Snake Story on Record 3! frathihites ropic shrub ever at- | ¢ unselfish newspaper | ommodated hi from the na- N\ touch ven mention of words, if the mere talking gd sends chils ip this Bana We're Bt shivers up article not mrantes that BAY Put we do aid incre the blood pressure retiring at night wiling clay wa t deemed snakes eptiles were ro bushel sia find Inc basket Wy Wallis huge quiver constant rising of the dislodged that more falling motion arth was evitle ikes were there were Und up In those : 4 f Just how many slimy masses iid only guess as he Jook- horror. Thete seemed kind of reptile from the a8 garter snake to the deadly allies ot with be every harmie iar The reptiles were torpid weather. They kept themselves nd up In balls, but the iis in constant motion, wriggling, thing, contoriing But more than all else, forcibly declared the author of this grue- tale, waz the snake smell i the only word applicable deseribe fa fetid, over-power- ng stench, that made the eyes of An LF] re Ome Stencl ir from the | 1 PURCHA URGED TO PURCHAS NOW FOR THIS SEASON | Anglers Cautioned to Exercise Care in Prevent ing Loss of License Provision Exists Fishermen contemplating making | an early spring cast when the trout season opens an April 15, are being { urged by the Department of Reve nue to obtain their leenses well In advance of that date Fishing licenses can be from County Treasurers agents throughout the wealth The careful button: obtained or issuing Common « fis} of which unce law ied In thie the ermen thelr were licenses warned to be and the receive at the there is no provi- wreby duplicates case of loss Department say license and button the law re- be purchased a H- purchasing OD they time the same sion in wi may be Is OfMicials of that if both are lost or destroyed ure hin L new one sherm an avall himself of the im to get a summary of fish saws for 1039 which be him free Bu of Miscellaneous the i; artment of Rev- sald that the Pennsyl- ommi epared re thas legal ing i will given to At th Licenses enue §1t nia sion is pr 0) O00 Is streams nweal This is a of ) the history of Penn- Comme k sylvania fishing The new fish being ix state hatcheries devoted to ne record sto in are trout dropped into 0 be before ™ ‘ ney wil the water shed e SPE TRON “YY (BOO npst y br efit. Owing and baer streams SNAKES!” in Sheds The wor der is rma ons Lx reiain oo Wl space of time Wallas er in the den When he realised his jfonn Wallis tried to craw! out the groutid, which seemed 0 be of an oopey., sandy loam. erumbing be. his grasp, and his «Tort In direction was baffled Along with trying tr encane Wallis was compelled to constantly change his position to keep out way of the rolling, twisting balls this ae nour i first neath this of ne snake In half merest way he spent perhaps a when Bhingieton, by chance, followed in his trail the marsh and discovered predicament. Tt was then bit the work of a few minutes {&« secure a pole, by the ald of which the hunter was brought to the sur- face and fresh air When pulled to the surface Wallis fainted from the reaction of the terrible strain he had undergone, and it was at least an hour before Be wag in proper shape to make the journey home. The men were glad to get away from the plate without any attempt to exterminate the reptiles That's the story as it was unfold- the writer. We do not vouch truthfulness the ACroOss Wallis’ ed 0 for its It is really surprising how non. chalantly some pedestrians walk In front of an approaching automobile CORONER HEATON NARROWLY AVOIDS RAILROAD COLLISION | Only the flashing of white num. bers Kar inst thaus rallmad crossing early Thursday morning saved Cen- tre County Coroner and Mrs. W. R. | Heaton, of Philipsburg, from pos- sible death Unaware that a train was on the ck because of the dark back- md of the night Dr. Heaton ddeniy saw the train Jooming up in front of him. He jammed on his brakes and came to a feet from the moving cars trac Ere 84 {had broken the black space and en- abied him to distinguish the train Dr. and Mrs. Heaton were re- urning from Keewaydin where the dolan had been called | i [Make Jife amusing is the pleasure | {some people get out of publicity. on Ioaded freight cars at the | stop a few | The | | White numbers on one of the cars| One of the little Jokes that help to | PHILIPSBURG HIGH SCHOOL nem —— Presidential approval for the aud- itorium addition to the Philipsburg | High school, Centre county, i announced this week The total of $4040 was allotted for the work which will include con. | struction, incidental and appur- tenant work. was The contract also includes finish. | ©® ing the interior of the room in the existing building. The Philips- burg borough school board is the SPONSOT — Lad Has Year of Misfortune Richard W. Crispen, of Mill Hall, | has found the year of 1939 exciting | thus far. In January he broke a rib in a coasting accident at Mill | Hall; early this month the lad took {an examination at Washington for i entrance in the West Point Military | | Academy and Saturday morning he | underwent an emergency operation for appendicitis at the Lock Haven | | Hospital His condition is good | CANADA ONCE HOTTER PROJECT GETS APPROVED | ent for the youngsters ia been placed ng gum ven- Parris Drug only one in The week's ~y | town's three<year-old | that a new “man | in the mechanics | der in front of | Store. We also learn of the machine's t operation. Nothing formant claims penny in wrong siot h matter immediate adjust news Ha chew the E LICENSES Hg) that ls Is our in~ your the for ment and Buttons, As No for Duplication Paul Jones, messenger al National Bank, Bellefonte made Nis appearaniee L008 week In a | natty new uniform provi ced Dy the bank. With the uniform and cap with John Paul recently mustache easily one of the most dapper m sengers in County John he First ake: are available at the of Miscellaneous Licenses ment of Revenue or at Commission office Sh. Bureau Depart - the Fish SMArt new together acquired Centre THAN THE TROPICS back the lon years Canada of a tropical climate Dr M. Fritz and Tayvion ochester woke! Dr th When Clyde Stewart wants doesn't want to Rround a switch home being Ampleted East Linn Street Michael! Baker, Jr.. of Hroh- avy swite} for town room we could turn he mere $00 mil id discover calen- or 80 the acecord- grope new on Jave In for ™ for the woul him in throes Te 7 ith Ru oy ir or rer eq in vol State Col more more than in an You can from bulletin at eet nore os out} square L early : i hing on southwestern ring ! ntario and Sponge over Ham- fiton. On 4 pt sits {f Pet- n era ot} walk from I< floor floor gt $x off as the to 1 emer wild ere room Ig them SCINg small he bat in the sprir as You wave wywt electric take Off ig and fall when opera you i= ru IY PON ig i — . Cron your siens al A bull nroom Wu a heater in the chil '" furnace t in are floodlights just below line at each corner of the dwell 1 operated from switches jo- d second floors ide, a slip inate every These are Just 3 which prom-~ tewarts home 3 There roof What A 4H Club Has Accomplished the first ar 3 are heard outs the ct ) £ n of ¢} SAT ide few of the se Members and Director Carry make Mr. St Out Commendable Work in ; Small Community wo Mr Communication) Power Commany " ab ' abl ric gl J community 4H Clut agreed ic nt #3 he Ab prt r ng p Ci HT a eH LE White urch attache headphones nied are iid assigned so The club was y as the ial room of the iz really a community cen. sO | his hearing rated three 12st at different times are given sach pupll to make certain that some temporary condition did not effect the sccurracy of the ex- amination. If the shows a hearing Joss of more than 12 per cent in either ear, school guthorities report the condition to parents, with the recommendation tha: medical treatment be sec : some educators centration plays an in hearing. Person: heed 0 what 1s oftentimes have some other matter an not hear what is bel have learned to pay n tention to noise unless they specifically turn attention toward such sounds. anything $0 and § in fart ass to prove the Maybe wel on this some After discussing many for raising mobey club decided to garden.” They were given the use of 1% acres of good garden ground and the lay In a urrounded by wood-capped hills chiidren decided take the name of Sylvan Crest 4-H Garden Ciub They met plans the ond 1 sinner plot onve pup the to orn last Thursday m ng and after a brie opening exercise, worked in the garden about two and a half hours. This was followed by light refreshments games he whole community seemed to imbibe the garden spirit Two farmers plowed and prepared the ground for planting; others gave barnyard fertilizer. many of the ladies grew fine plants. The di- purcha sed seeds, plants and fertilize The children, under su- pervision, planted seeds and set plants surprisingly well Mistakes were made and were many trips to “the spring” a cool drink, but the garden fou ished and the children were quite proud of the 17 different kinds of vegetables. They watched the but- terflies polinating the flowers, and oollected many curiosities of nature, Help came from many different sources. One very warm busxy day | the minister baked potatoes (scout way) in a pit, while his good wife important part fail to pay id Yo them minds on d actually do sald, They po wo 8 Fy and homie Beli their Bo far we've never seen disprove this theory, Priday’s test tended soundness of rector the idea prepare a monograph day. This department turned a hand- spring last weekend upon resding in the Centre Reporter, Centre Hal newspaper, that two large oak trees were cut on the William Jevtero iE ‘farm. One of the trees, the story claimed, measured over 14 feet gcross the stump, while the snmier {One Nad a Firth of over 98 feet baked beans and made stacks of | ‘Thet, ladies and gentlemen is real sandwiches and set the lunch on | news, for how many trees with 19- a table under the trees | foot diameter stumps have you seen The club had a flower show—it this week? How many have you was & real snow, too—and sold [seen in your Hfetime?® They grow flower seeds, pop corn, home-made them that way out west but never candy and ice cream. A big-heart- | in the east. The trees in question ed bus man took the club to the | were on the George Peiteralf farm, “4-H Roundup” al Hecla Park | but they weren't as large as reportet | When the garden “sass” was! THe biggest one measuredd feet 8 { ready to market, several ladies used | inches across the stump, and » their cars to take vegetables to a member of the family counted 200 camp of 200 colored boys 16 miles | Tings, indicating the tree's age ™ away. Other ladies helped to dry | three tenturies. Severs] other trees sweet corn, make tomato juice, rel- | | all smaller ones, also were cut down shes, etc, from surplus vegetables [on the same farm, | When the Patrons of Husbandry | - {held their annual exhibition, the | Released Dog From Sewer, | club as slowed to enter an exhibit | porous amploves of Danville it, vegetables and | were compelled to dif up a section of Ny a work. For this they won al, surface sewer 1 Ha 480 0 release a small cash prize of $10 | beagle hound which had become fm - Specialists from Stale College | prisoned in the pipe. The sleep of gave much Sujusbie help by devot- | residents of the section was mo- ing an evening pictures and Aa jested the mournful howling of lecture on how to market produce. the a 3 the night. Feng | Later each child was asked to se- | vestigation revealed the howls smit- lect five different kinds of veget- | | ting from the entrance of the sewer (ables to be inspected by the Coun- | and borough employes were notified. , (Continued on Page 6) | The animal was rescued unharmed. KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES' — I 's the LOOK AT THAT -- iitite } DOG THEY GAVE ME! {the 144 towers which guard Penn- : A He ANT BATIN' EVERYTHING IN TH HOUSE --- HE GOERS TO BLEEP! WHAT A RINE WRT CH x Nervous Strain, Eddie By POP MOMAND
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