Odd and Curious News SECOND SECTION Che Ce nfre Democrat A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each WeeR, fd The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County. pn rail) SS ———— a — NEWS, FEATURES VOLUME B58. BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1939. NUMBER 15. | Random Items “ . Hit-And-Run Dog Seeing a truck pass close to Mrs Ear! Thompson and her 2-year-old son, and apparently knock them into a pit, James Jensen reported the license number of the truck to the police, of Bear River City, Utah However, Mrs. Thompson exonerat- el the driver of the truck, declaring she and the little boy were knocked down by a dog which was chasing the truck. Operator of One-Man . Dies at Organ Five hundred Easter worshippers | HOW a a: Immanuel Reformed church, Bal- creat ive d timore, their heads bowed in pray- | find express| er, were startied by a drashing chord low ing article from the organ. Ushers hurried to Oentre county ; the choir loft, while the Rev. Samu debted to ‘Squire el A. Troxell continued the services | ty information withou{ music their ¢ | ory he announced that the 62-yea Fa organist Charles J. Schlicker had | Whos 8 at died at the keys from a heart reign bit \ i attack. | , Hen Gives Service Other might ake a pointers from the one owned by Ivan Martin, of Montroevia, Ca Thi hen, folks, not only lays rs on schedule, but lay them in the | fatal handios They OR breakfast nook, on a chair KS { ry fancy Drices fo aiways the same chair,’ Martin | hickory ’ For the last 11 days sl the She time. At egy promptly at 8:30 a. m ' ADet imbued with will instinctively told in the fol- concerning « former We are in- Pletcher for in the life truly desire: on, is ident A.A contained Ie 1878, Bert peed nh to How formed a yt \e Shutt Po ulse he or about manner ol CAINE and a man men erects the PR. R mgh where re county hip with gether the med | factors | How Ard to Car “Boi operate a hens new nau in the valuable Bald Eagle vert wed along SAVS \ : and maple timber this of e 1 Paul date wreely amed 1 Mi Strange Coincidence | George Cornell Chattano a. | New Loganton Tenn., had the misfortune of ha: R. F. D. Route his automobile stolen. Two weeks | later, however, he bought a new car and went to Rome Ga busin g Postal Expected to Start Mav | of on 0ES To his surprise, alter returning to his parked car, he found that some- body had parked his old car along- sid¢ the new one Service About Extension of Generous Citizen Believing that every pay something fo support ernment, whether he had come taxes or not an citizen of Brooklyn recently check for $10 to the Intern enue Collector. $5 self and 85 for his $30,000 To Cats When Mrs. Ida We! Piedmont, Cal, she left her estate, approximately $30 000, te vide for six cats 14 her and three neigh However, her cals had died her death and the three neigl hood cats will inherit the Horses Apiece William Walker, of Carmi IH. | bought a horse from Harry White on the instalment plan. The animal died before Walker had paid the last instalment of $10. White [filed suit when Walker refused to make final payment. A circuit court upheld Walker Wills $5,000 to Cat While Tommy Tucker may nol possess a cat's pedigree, he never- theless will live the life of a cat Nine- king, under the provisions of the Raney will of Miss Louise Baier, of New lo die York, who left $5000 take care of him until his death one should the to pay In CoOv- unnamed sent a ] 1 Rev- wa | wi 3008 Haugh } home south of rast to Logan Mills and Greenburr and east on fortune le thence on the Winter (Continued on ii six) Gets Easter Gifts From 47 States Doomed Clearfield County Boy Made Happy By Gen- erous Donors Jury Johr 3 eg year Cie arf of a rare Monday fo » played will laughed in weeks as | chick, colored Easter gifts stiles Although John can’t ther described the toy read the Easter greell ngs dreds of children and tions Otie contained an offer to pay transportation to Denver, Colo, so the lad could receive treatment from chiropractor. Philadelphia phy sald John could wehildre ¢ inflammation of the BE a to gent him Camera Shy Although had snapped tures of thousands of persons, Axel E. Pearson, for 23 years a photo- grapher of Rockford. Ill, was cam- era-shy. When he died after a sud- den heart attack recently, réporiers could find no photograph of him Bad Tobacco Becoming enraged when Dieberry made a zlighting remark Facute about the kind of tobacto he was | smoking. Iley Plerce, 34. of Grundy Va, pulled out a pistol and shol | Dyeberry in the head i sr —— he see hi to him and from hun- organiza- Ha letter a cian recover from have i brain Cireen i not £R New Spring Recipes to your menus! of your family lowing the recipes in the Housewife’ | Almanack a regular feature in The Anierican Weekly, distributed every Sunday with the Baltimore Ameri- can. On at all newsstands rive the appetite rst Most speakers 1 i they were in. the audience guestions would think clear- sire that somebody would ask a few hi shale nr Here's The ‘Batting’ Strength of Present European War Line-Up Europe's new Hitler” line- | der arms up shows a formidable land and sea | reserves force, but in the estimation of The land American experts, the German and | (Aude: Italian combine has the greater air Soviet Russia—a 500.000 force yesibly 18000000 trained re- It Is also a fact that ber of troops actually under arms, Germany and Ilaly together pos- presses greater immediate striking power. It 8 in trained reserves naval might, and resources for a Jong struggle that an alliance of Creat Britain, Prance and Poland appears to be better equipped-ex- ciuding the possibility of aid from Soviet Russia, Rumania or other nations Because of the immense aerial equi nt of Germany and Italy, | en London would be subject | have warship tonnage of 2.842000, to the perils of destruction in the | compared with 1180000 for Ger- event of war, | many and Italy. i . | The relative strength of land! The United States navy's latest | forces in the various countries is | revised comparative figures credit shrown as follows: | Japan with 808.691 warship tonnage. Great Britain, exclusive of do- | The American navy's total is 13,407, minjons—208.500 men under arms, | 949, including vessels overage and 573,500 including trained reserves, | Out of commission. France—725000 active, 6025000 Aerial strength is the most diffi- including reserves / cult to measure, because of alten- 8.066.000 | dant secrecy and the complex fac- Pojan 00 tor of production capacity which including reserves. | would determine prompt replace. ny 830.000 active, 4.080.- | ment of wartime losses. u reserves, | By one authoritative estimate, Ttaly 917.000 active, 7,412,000 in- Germany and Italy could put as cluding reserves. least 12,500 warplanes into the air Hungary a possible Rome-Berlin immediately, compared to 17,700 ally, is credited with 50,000 Wen un- | (Coutinued on Page 6) “stop , and an additional 650000 of {orces other powers active army, serves Rumania--212,000 acti including reserves Japan--1 500.000 arms pressing the conflict with China and guarding the Siberian border, pius 4.748.000 reserves By comparison, the United Stales has some 185000 men in its active army, and reserve forces of about | 315000, including the National | Guard. At get. Great Britain and France | in the num- 1 B28 H00 ve or more under acdve, 1713000 FORMER CENTRECOUNTY MECHANIC, AT 82, FINDS ART ENJOYABLE HOBBY Factory, Making Tool Handles, Puts In Spare Time Paint- ing and Drawing Hi having cornet. Ii Deen an exp the evenit he even hg J matrimony companion 1 of these (Continned on Page Present Day Influence COAL HAULERS REPORT PERSONNLY, I DONT BRAVE i VANE RS HR wil, WIN Tu PENNANT THIS VEAR o Tr rE BONAAY BLOUTS - A ’ FrECY THIS ALM OW Largest Boy Scout In America Is cuTE (|! MFO / HARSH TREATMENT AT Altoona Drivers Threatened As Coal Is Dump- | . ed — One Helper Claims Miner Held Knife At His Back tempts told nal 11 riteid ile making threau Hor ¢ Of ly mtention the pDurpose blockade foree Monday tainlop ana among of rie ket i A in Hite ’ ) the ntained The be Near imped Buried At DuBois; Weighed 527 om——» Faithful Pog’ Dies With His Master 2, (Clearfield Blind Resident Vie- tim of Fire Which De- strovs Home satimated ried rocks and de Hr COUN Wf Reuben at the ha been years that } (EF } : vi i Jame Limes elapsed than a deat! ds of Monks has during the since . an told many FRAY occurrence, more ® quarter ago of the wn have i ury and The [act ded de een rarrative wm Become % 8 Mace indeed with fantasy weird as tale Centre } slayer n tried and convicted being second place in the it Appears, ca parents whe ip at the ) es towns date nB 24th hie t year of two children wife and children Howard township, part was consider- and inoffensive i with his Mar Creek, and for the moat ed an Indus citizen Monks, however, the habit of yielding drink, wl begun strangely, especially became prolonged he was very he kept away but when his bSraln flamed under its suffered from hallucinations maniacal impulses On the day the crime, which was Bunday November 16, 1817 Monks was his way home from Clearfield county, where he had been on a prolonged spree. He was in a stale of mind that caused dis- torted imaginings to control his ac- tions, and a dangerous person fo deal with Trudging along with his which he Invariably carried him, Monks met a man on horse back and as they passed. the man, who proved to be Reuben Guild, bid Monks “good evening.” Monks contidsued a few steps and then stopped. He turned and looked 34 + Sots WE AOUs to to strong affect him his In It Is peareible from Hauer, became In ch tn when duligence ald that a hen and of on gun, One Killed, Seven Injured at Altoona Head -on ( ‘ollision of Cars Re- sults in Serious High- way Tragedy In a smashing head-on collision | near Altoona late Baiurday night {one person was killed and seven | injured when two cars collided three west of miles Duncansville at | Mountain Park Lake, The victim of the accident, Ar- thur Woolridge, 27, Williamsport, died in the Mercy Hospital at Al- | became addicted | ible Infitience he | with | Shortly after Monks came prevalent that he had been his death became a basis for Joseph Guild, It was h al Powshiek, lowa, shot, and he apparent stranger. Monks his murderou Aa I i not me ing over the thou nd ‘went a A _. ¢ na sine « {1 om gave a | gun down on up to Bim. Culld ‘and as Monks ang fd up at him and friend. you have kille The murderer events shirk “THe hnroe stopped, and mal I. then went b to the nian whom 1 had shot nol guile dead. 3 looked him a while and then. still somewhat dazed 1 led the hore another spot and tied him. The tame Back to Guild. The man dead by this Ume, but 1 was afr he wasn't, 50 1 took my tomahas and stn ik om teie on the head If IT had known the shot wa deadly 1 do not think 1 would struck him on the head “My brain was beginning to clear up somewhat by this time. and began to realize 1 had killed 5 man who had never done anything ime. T knew that I must hide body before someone else along “1 picked up shoulders and, walkifig backward dragged it through the woods. B) chance I came upon a hole where a tree had been uprooted and into (this I dumped the body. I left it | there and went back to look for my tomahawk. and hunt the place | where I had tied the horse. 1 found | Poth, and was about to start away horse ud shriek the his It laid and went OnKs ground Wa roached iitered Yates followed ran fz md after the a 1 went tn rate if He an nl being " Have 3) came the body hy execution was a witness In 'Y’S SECOND MURDE in cen alive “spook” glories won of the mardered mun, is watch his father wore when 1 decide onged killed. T went dumped bods the ’ ry fy ripped off all “1 began to g the body someone cover it wiz and tx fare Bl Then 1 ant ng a red the AF TR & fhe DORE indie the tied not rett Then 1 spread saddle and laid the trousers and then it, and over them nd went back , climbed on role for and ind and DOCket eral do ele On he found lars in the fly the word book. This erty now it long’ The song book which belonged to and dropped by Monks while | be was gathering up the dead man's Company Gulid, absurd afterward, and at the time, court to identify m back nu the man foe] CRY might I went back irned the beds vowwered decided to clean was lying where that when 1 open. YY thierry y drunk and it then slept I examining the pocketbook he had taken from the murdered man's | it money, ~leal Reuben Guild's pocket- pocketbook is but 1 know { AFFAIR i pcion envi d the 1818. He was ably fefended by Messrs. Norris, Bum- side and Poller. The Common wealth atiornevs were Messrs. Etting Bradford and Blanchard fifty wilnie Bes were of the the thn ndow first red by the mother whose Creams awakened The brothers falling In efforts to shove the blind brother through a window rushed to the | outside and began frantically tear- ing boards {rom the oulside of the window. Even as they did they sew the flames envelop the blind brother who lost his sight 20 years ago when he was struck by a piay- mate's stone The fire ig believed to have start- ed from a fire in a stove anguished others the rumor be- ctod at eT] ang wember term died in 1882 gworn on Nearly the part fret ARY s fir any it. prosecution of December he re the death sentence, which noed by Hon. Charles 1 president judge He was hanged on Saturday ry 23, 1819, by John Mitchell, high on a gallows located in the ow south of the court house On his way to the galiows under guard of a military company Dream.” a plaintifl alr, was played, at his request, by the fifer | William Armor, instead of the Dead I March used on such occasions rived PEIN } : then a an Ee] wkd Mo verything had Jan. Jersey Shore Man Gets Into Trouble Newspaper Employe Threat- ens Hotel Owner if She Refused to Pay Him ana ciothes whee sheriff hole i ¢ a heavs MALY , | THREE HELD IN THEFT OF James Horace Thomdson, $4. Jer- | WIRE FROM B. E. V. RAILROAD "°¥ Bhore printer, employed on the Jersey Shore Herald, pleaded guilty Railroad officers Fred Giles and 0 a charge of extortion and was John Wertz, Tyrone, captured three 'tmanded to nil in default of $1. men w who were cutting down and 000 bail for tion of the federal | , | taking wire from railroad poles Be- A, bah R tween » Vail and Dix Bald Eagle Val- dg C. Whipple, Lycoming | > ley. last Thursday night about 8:30 |°0unty detective, quoted Thompson l ory and 100k them to police | ®° saying he demanded $200 from | headauariers at ‘Tyrone where they Mis Jirginta A Mn Aeryey it % . N Shore el owner ander reat of | sighted a written confession of their | bombing or ‘burning her hotel A railroad employe en route He oy arfesied Monday, Whipple work on Thirsdey aflernoon noted | 52'd, as he attempted to pick up a | the wire nd Been cut from the poles directed Mrs. Malte to place | | and notified the railroad authorities [on a highway near the river bridge | [ The officers went to the scene and | as a container for the money | made the oaplume of William Denny, | Whipple ald Thompson told him | # book | 88. Tyrone: Arthur Hinson, 40, Au- | he needed the money for epurt costs | it, for 1 Was | oicta Maine, and Mason Pox, 40, of jon a hit and run driving case oh | was getting | wo hington, D. ©. along the state | ¥ ach he was hgheduled to be tried. highway near the gcoene of their Thompson went to Jersey hone | rime. | about 12 years ago after working They testified they had been work. po mpostg rote of am Als | ; " | ing on the project of cutting down | : put on my | the “dead” lite since March 30th wf to the road, got | 4rd 10ld the officers where they had Dr. Tibbens Burs Building i the horse and | hidden the 100t in the woods. | The three-story bullding st the | | The three were given a formal | corner of East Main and Grove | hearing and were committed to the | #ireels, Lock Haven, owned by Ed- | | Blair County fail at Hollidaysburg, |€2r F. Heffner, Sr, was sold Satur- | | to await appearance in court. {day moming al public sale at the | | office of Sheriff J. B. Bryerton. Dr. | [P. McDowell Tibbens, of Beech | | Creek, who instituted the action as | the principal claimant, bought in] the property at $28000. The bid. | ‘ding started at $20000, there being | {two other bidders. The bufiding has been the site of a drug store for | years i i | uneasy i med], as come it around ved Tet hypos and lead it lay, | and ! shirt. to! fe sued le lag ean he bled had 1 into my fell out my blanket over the doubled ome distance iaid down on till daylight. Reimbursed For Bananas Burgess V. F. Hatch, of Renovo, [has received u check for $408.50, from the American Red Cross | Washington, D. C, to reimburse my prop- Renovo Borough for the carload of I won't own | bananas which was taken over by the borough during the flood of 1936, and for which the borough had paid the Pennsylvania Railroad to contain sev. some Jjetiers, were written Patriotism. in times of peace, Is! ‘in working for the general welfare. |* - Harrisburg and HANDS OF PICKETERS 2 It'y News To Us Department: WB Houtzdule Citizen last week ied Senator Letzler is rapidly assuming a place of importance in without ques~ deal of good will on ww Lhe Gist accomplish a great i Away With Hadrbreadth harry! hero, Hairbreadth Bu omic has step downward, and fall any lower vement 10 have {ore The ned Lo erry Onur ot Ha takes lidhood re the nay they hry hing a m of the way ve artist assig Yime oe quite serjonus- cher every. was run -over by rough a sone 1 brie! our feel 3 oy igus ning ss who gave a silent Ra steam “about my! nx ime sesendste or the cad the whol roller he i er the effect h of a patient ny (ruth in he : of Eng- they 0 the ang «LOD 3.000 n betwee PUTO Prom glalement b Roosevelt "11 be back Iz { we dont have a war the rear platiorm of his train as he goudbye to a group in Warm Springs, Ga. last week, a Phiiade- | phia newspaper, Monday, got a Mg, black scare streamer “Roosevell Voices Pedr of War” The ary said the President's statement was unexpected and apparently unpre. meditated, He was merely waving goodbye to the small assemblage of friends at the health resort, sid the words quoted were the only. ones he uttered the story cofitinued President the fall " made from a Volers of Bellefonie borough be- tween how and hext Tuesday. April 18 when s special election on 2 $55.« 000 debt increase will be voted opin, persons seeking to attain their own ends Remember 85 You go to the polls that only one issue is vi dod al the election. That whether the schoo! district debt is to be Increased $55.000 for the purpose of constructing s new school Build- ing to replace the one lost in the February fire. Nearly evervone will agree thal we neéd a school bulld- ing and that the only way we. gan hope (0 gel one is 10 provide-at Jeast I part of the cost of one Tei this when you vole, Tues deci dw ~ The fish tegeing experiment con- ducted on Spring Creek this year suggests a new and unique form of lottery. The Biate could tack fifty cents on the price of licenses, and pool the exira money into a fund which would be given out in prizes Trout bearing the prize winnigs nimbers would be stocked in varions rireams throughout! the Btate afd [those who gof the right nimbars [would win prizes On #eoond [ thought however, this dea ian’ so good. Its all you can do now find enough vacant spice on the streams 10 cast a fly Arrest ‘Flimflam® Artis Lock Haven police have been no- tified of the arrest al Elmira, N Y. of & Negro who gave the name of Vineent Roland. The man is re- ported to have secured a small sum fof money al a gasoline station at Lock Haven last week by conduct ing a “flimflam™ game Since it I= understood that he has been conducting the same racket in other jocations, one of which was Elmira, police reported they did not expect him fo be returned for pros. ecution - Inasmuch as it is natural for hu- {man beings 10 have differences of opinion i is not a crime oo oppose any proposal. KEEPING uP WITH THE JONESES' oe Protection Comes High _— i hte RS Si Bl AR ic coi ~~ By POP MOMAND toona 45 minutes after the accident | A fractured skull caused his death Raymond Allison, 21, driver of the other car suffered head lacerations and had several teeth knocked out, Cresson, | The steering wheels of both cars| were bent and twisted upwards and the windshields splattered by the | crashing impact Bmart boys are now thinking up | thelr pranks for Saturday. AND ELMORE «COULD YOu LEND ME FIVE DOLLARS «-« TW’ POLICE ARE PAYING ANOTHER SOCIAL, CALL, ON MY ICE-BOx AGAIN rm gO " A ———— THANKS, OL DID You SEE ™' BOY --THIS 15 PAPERS? "TH eat” MIGHTY WHITE DID “TWO MORE OF YOu ROBBERIES LAST i SURE, I TiN I CAN, EDDIE vous I HE DOSN'T HAVE
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