A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. ™ ’ en Random The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County. | Zhe Centre Democrat | Odd and Curious News SECOND SECTION NEWS, FEATURES Items NUMBER 22 Paty VOLUME B58. USE PLANE TO LOCATE YOUNG MAN'S BODY IN RIVER AT LOCK HAVEN Two Aviators Find Chester LeRoy Dick, 19, Drowned While Swimming in Susque- hanna River, Below Dam 1, 1939. PHILIPSBURG NEGRO, KILLS LOVE RIVAL Thomas Benjamin, 19, Shot To Death By Wil- liam G. Patrick, In Street Fight at Altoona, Saturday DN A FRIEND PASSES ON 14 A Good Rain Check Samuel Johnston bet his friend Horace Williams $10 it would rain at a certain store in Bloomsburg, on & ¢ertain day and at a certain hour. Willams accepted the wager and with about 100 unofficial witnésses was on hand at the appointed hour It rained all right—synthetic rain, which fell in a window display Williams thought he'd get even on | the pay-off. He wrote a “cheek” | with charcoal on g strip of carpet 27 | inches wide and six feet long and | “dared” Johnston to cash it. A| ’ . ~~ Memon with real regret that v al Dey bank told Johnson i would accept | the “check.” rn MP ——— : . $1 Up On Bandits A couple of confilence men grab- bed the wallet of John Edward Oso- iin, 21. of Boston, and then jumped into a cab. Osolin jumped right in | with them. During the fight which | ensued one of the men escaped, bul the other, taken to a police station, had $31 on him which police gave to Osolin. Later, just as his bus was about to leave the city, police also | raced up and gave him $20 they had found on the cab's rear seat. Oso- | lin found he was $1 to the good, hav- | ing originally had $50. Family Man + Tom Ramos, of Los Angeles, slept in his automobile four years to save money to bring his two chil- dren here from Greece. The chil- | dren have arrived and Ramos, a | restaurant operator is trying to save enough for his wife's ticket. “I don't regret a single uncomfortable | night 1 spent in my car,” he said “I'd do it over again if necessary.” | unl cian —— | Retriever State Rep. AA M. Hawkins and séveral friends, of Greenville 5. C,, | while cleaning out their favorite) fishing hole, threw a stick of dyna- mite into the water. A dog jumped | in, retrieved the stick snd started | returning it to the fishermen. They | ran. The dog followed—until it was | blown to bits } Unreconstructed Informed by a welfare worker | that her name was being transfer- | red from the Confedergté widows’ | pension list to the old age assist- ance, the widow of a southern sold- fer at Goldsboro, N. C.. snapped “1 don't want no dam Yankee mon- | eyt™ Motherly Mixup Mrs Herman Schmidt, of Archer, Neb., said she went out to check up | on.a new hatching of turkeys and found the family cat mothering five | turkeys. The mother hen wis her nest, surrounded by the tumb- ling progeny of the cat. i Ingenious Cop ter nejghbors worked vainly for 20 minutes to {ree the foot of Fileen Billet, 3, which had become gtock in a drain, at Philadelphia, a policeman was summoned, He poured soapy water into the pipe and the foot slid out easily. | ML - Sheep for Sheepskin Starting (wo years ago with one lamb, bought with e¢ash from her | bank. Dolores Yrigoyen, 8 of Canoga | Park. Calif, expects to go to college on the proceeds from her flock of sheep, Wiich now number 116, » ’ . Didn't Mind While spearing suckers in the Yellow River, at Wisconsin Zabaska missed a big fish, but he didn't wor- ry about it. Instead of the fish, he | speared a pocketboot containing $8. | b orcem—————— Dog Seek Dog | State prison guards at Crouch, | Idaho. lost a bloodhound. They were at a loss how fo find him. Then a guard had an idea: “Get another | bloodhound.” Tt worked. Sonm——— ——_ Concerning Bramble Plans. | It is unlawful to sell or offer for, amlé any bramble plaats, which in- | cludes raspberries, blackberries, | ‘dewberries, ott, unless they have Ben inspected and certified as stat. od in the Pennsylvania Plant Pest Act of 1937. Bramble plant growers | who wish to have their plants in. | spected during 1989 should make ap- | pliostion immediately to the Bureau | of Plant Industry, Pennsylvania De- | Philipsburg, Friday afternoon when | Basi rment of Agriculture, Harrisburg, | li Fined by Father ! | Ian Scott, of Wanpaca, Wis. was warned by the justice that a second | school, had gone swimming follow. | eering buflding, a Physics building, a Biological Sel. | offense would be punished by a jail | sentence. The justice was Scott's Tourniquets were applied at the dam | ence building, a new Mineral Indus- | father. tries unit, a Forestry building. an | | Glenn Englert, of Woelrich, | in mystery. Michael | hemorrhage, they failed to fix Two aviators flying low over the | Susquehanna River at 7:25 o'clock Friday morning located the body of Chester LARoy Dick, 19, who was drowned about 8 o'clock Thursday night while swimming just below the dam at Lock Haven son's first drowning In that area, Jack Terry, of Lock Haven and made the discovery while flying a plane of the Lock Haxen aircraft corpora- tion. The search had been resumed Friday morning at 6:30 o'clock afte; having been suspended at midnight. | The body was found 1.000 feet down stream from the point ai the dam | abutment where the youth was last | seen hore by De Bryerton, who It was taken to puty Sheriff LeRoy ‘CCC Worker Dies Of Knife Wounds Vietim of Roadhouse Brawl Succumbs to Internal Hemorrhages Edward Gebhart, worker of Juniata, Blair county, who was stabbed in a roadhouse braw! Tuesday morning of last week, died Thursday night at the Altoona Hospital, Gebhart, who lived with a sister, Mrs. Missouri Keith, was severely slashed across the abdomen and in- ward hemorrhages caused by wound were said to have resulted in 23-year-old CCC the his death. It was disclosed that the H-inch cut slamtwise across the ab- domen had pierced the liver and sev- ered two ribs The cutting was alleged to have been the outcome of a brawl at the Newberg Inn, just outside the Al- toona city line. Clrocumstances sur- rounding the case have been veiled Labue and Harry Mullhoilen, believed by police to have some knowledge of the stab. bing, are being detained as material witnesses Edward Lewis CGebhart Jr, was borm In Juniata, April 27 1917. a son of Edward L. and Martha E (Mutzabaugh) OCebhart., both de. ceased. Members of the family in- clade seven brothers and sisters. He had been a member of a COC camp in Virginia, home on furiough, BE R—— Tyrone Man's Death Probed Coroner's Jury Fails to Place Blame in Aftermath of Fatal Quarrel While a Blair county coroner; jury determined that Thomas John - sori, of Tyrone, died from a cerebral the CARuse, Johnson was allegedly severely beaten in a fight with a nephew Robert M. Sprow, 28, who has been held on charges of assanit and bat- tery. Johnson died at the Altoona Hospital, May 12 Held in the Blair county jail Sprow was represented at the hear- ing last week by Attorney Samuel Jubelierer. It was brought out at the inquest, hed in the Tyrome municipal building that both men had been drinking and that cerebrsl hemorrhages may have resulted from a variety of causes, Three persons testified. including Officer L. F. Wagner. of the Tyrone borough police and William Bloom {and EF. Gallagher, bystanders who | had witnessed the fight i m— Girl Injured by Glass Injured at Cold Stream dam ness she stepped on broken glass, Miss | June Cuppels, Newtown, Osceola | Mills, daughter of Mrs, Edward Cup- | ples, was admitted to the Philipsburg | Fined $50 for reckless driving, Al- | State Hospital. The young girl, a | group, a College library, an Educa- | { tion building, an Electrical Engin | student ax the Philipsburg high ing the completion of her classes | before she was taken for treatment. i Speed Train Fash Over Bald id High Eagle Valley Unidas: present plans fre unex. Oi TOIOTTOw. Jone Tag. Over. the ‘iald Eagie Valley railroad from ck Haven to Altoona. It is ex- -— Set For Tomorrow | and is sponsored by the Associa- | hectedly changed, the first high | tion of American Railroads with the indd of the Pennaylvanis Railroad | facilities in Altoona. Reasons for choosing the Bald Eagle Valley branch road for the It was the sea- | Was using a boat in the search, and | | Clinton County Shoemaker was I Dr. Shoemaker eath due to drowning and stated that no in | quest held ch Coroner W. J notified declared « would be Dick aller i Chester Appeared a few | minute making a dive from the dam abutment, LeRoy Page, 16 A& companion, reported that they had been swimming in that vicinity for some time and were sitting on the abutment when Di jumped i Into the water Page sald he the ; Kk aw Dick and when he weond time, Page As- had gone to a cave under the dam brea boys who swim ati the A hang-out k had been absent abou Page and Orvig Myers, a became glarmed and no- A grappling party was shortly after 9 clock direction of Depuly Bryerton brother with a nine- waler when head al failed irface once to appear a {sumed that he like hollow where the dam have After Di 15 minute Fioyd, 18 Old the ng CAr %¥ In shallow tragedy occurred Dick the oldest som of He resided wit grandparents, Mr. and Mrs Nihart, 911 East Bald Eagle Other surv are seven brothers {and sister Donald, Carl Floyd Freda, Cleo, Clara Jane and Robert all at home The youth was a member of Troop K. and was employed at the Piper Aircraft plant. He had attended Lock Haven High School, wa Dick Mr: h W. E Street Mabel vor Are—————— . 50th Anniversary of Johnstown Flood Recalls Bellefonte Man's Experience Gilbert Love In a AY sary last Pri Preas, of CAD™ ~t stows oO ++ 3 giv many es A Erapin descrip almost unbelievable ¢ One of the ONCPT NS able experience of Th father of Mra. Arthur C. Dale, wile of Judge Dale, who makes hi al he Dale family residence on Ea Linn street. The part Mr O'Neal in the great » the remark 5ETLA O'Nea » ved bh played i558 «1 'om O'Neal Johr mall carrier, was traps ] postoffice with another man kept afioat as the rose in the room. Pinally they had « a few ye rl cater We have no hesitancy in saying that many readers of this article will remember when the automo- bile was introduced as a vehicle for travel It 15s not so long ago that the airplane was looked upon as an im practical experiment and still fresh in memory is the prediction that the “gasoline wagon” would never take the place of horses. How many would hold to that belie! today? Each new method of transports tion has und & period of vonderment and curiosity. Old res ents have related with io road trains upon in the early days of their op- eration at Bellefonte. It is told how citiaens would flock to the station ver a rain was to ts-looking coache engine ergoOne w hat cur- ity rare were looked due EO by run steam we have curiosity Was in history the same the first wagon y Centre county Farther back tan example of existing when brought fret etter of the a general rule. persons of all $ ability, some of them cholars, which sceounts, county It may be difficult to im hes eft between the water and cian =i] go mple platform r Jess work” fee re inte he | money | FIRST WAGON WAS A CURIOSITY agime citizens of Centre eoun- ty getting excited over the sight of a four-wheeled wagon. But they once did, and it nee tion fo understand why whe wheeled vehicles were in use erable over a hundred vears ds no stretch of the imagina- n His known that only two. at one time. That was consid- ago. Then came the improved wagon which proved a curiosity. ton enc exist greater extent. for ¢ that has since Among from Lewistown Mountains The wagon on the back Huston ¥ Potter Huston was an P. Cobtirn of the First fonte, and over wits of mul at on Nation Dr Lebanese ad on the bre ed from tw gingie«axin wagon, with rr Care a known ° i ich a nknown ee ocd thing as in of any hme vehicles » exceadingly nd = BCALCE Benjamin, 19 we LE of Altoona killed early Saturda street Thoma Knows Negro wa hot and evening during a ity which Altoona athis floss figh i yl ’ 21a | EA died ice sald Arone Benjamin almost that «¢ vel ! Patric 19 Negro mem bh V (eons Falrbank, Pa a CCC camp at Philipsbur ing held without bond on ha in nne 1 ing Three member amp, Leroy Plackstock ROY 18, and John Pa Philadelphia, are being de P i A Villlam Nn H KE am Le ol; other Ler erial witnesse sled by jeaion Altoona High Patrick as Rd Wik i CAMO Yal d three mths 1! ee fridint ads of . + the ci meters gf ty ded ir Cx IC KIC who lan rea edure end EL] weekly according to police Both Benjamin ar acquninted with Miss Pearl I vhom the disp the the evening larly recreational pro d Patrick were ore He which enda- to } ve Rh a | killing sald ® biood between the palr and va nod ne entirely upon y foot Long Th ag Ale were then undertaker as little hesitation a PB Lerizen the 1 raveier t About the same valird then as trip Philadelphia though anocest consumed eral ds scoomplishing it whide we make it in few hour As showing hb thought of what aorrinar Ara indiffarencs 3 now in regard in wh 3 A S| lr was Itt id nasriaxing wor sein 10 ww ovt bye related He rte ma Mu sixty miles numbering several the thar than back The party pies, en loved ride as ard perhaps m the m A ere wedding “tour” is enjoyed by those making it —— Fake Money Cost $62.002 te Jul T Bervice Ar Raker | the cording Serre States accepted more than " Hh ue tnd 7.004 counterfeit more than $62 .902, during notes for a loss 1968 BUILDING PROGRAM AT COLLEGE NEAR COMPLETION Several thousand alumni of the Pennsylvania State College who will ‘return to the campus on June 10 for 3 reunions will find the 11-unit program of the College vir. completed. The installation of equipment, however, has only just begun and will take several months for its completion At the present time workmen are ] millwork in the Chemistry ; valcs building which will be the last structure finished. Paint ing, grading and landscaping on all buildings, and decorative carving on the new library are now occupying workmen on the other ten | units | New College buildings, all part of | the two-year program financed by the COeneral State Authority with asiistance from the Public Works cost of $5,000,000 are: Chemistry and Agricultural Engineering building, | building. Two other buildings, financed hy the College at a cost of $1,500 000 and dedicated at the beginning of the present academic year, are the Hall, Women's recreation building. Had Fish Pome Removed. Hmestone | Administration at an approximate | A central unit for the Liberal Arts | a Poultry building, and a new service | ; Atherton Hall a women's dormitory, and Mary Beaver White | A fish bone, an inch in length | HOWARD COMMUNITY DAILY VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL The Vacation Daily 11 begin ob run for two the differ- and Howard Communit; Bible School = Monday. June 5th, an weeks, It will be held in ent churches of Howard will held each morning weeks except Saturd fo 11 a m, Rev | Methodist Church will be and he will be assisted by ¢ H. Gullick and Rev. LL. E schedule for the school follows: Beginners, ages 3 to inclusive will be held in the Reformed Church with Miss May Moore as Lhe instruc. tor in charge, with M Eleanor | Moore, Lois Allison, Neille yviand and Marjorie Painter as her assis tants Primary ages 6 to 8 inclusive, wili be held in the Methodist Church | with Miss Nora Waite as the instruc (for in charge, asisted by Misses Anita Day, Miss Julia Trostie and Bara Neff, Junior, ages 9 to 1! inclusive, will be held in the Evangelical Church [with Miss Evelyn Williams as the in- structor in charge assisted by the Misses Virginia Schenck, Nancy lee Stauffer and Mrs. Mary K. Peters, | Intermediate, ages 12 $0 16 inclu- sive, will held in the Church of Christ with Mrs. Ellen Berkebile as k of the the dear he Bey J Kline. The will be as Pe DeArment Wagner raction of k has ! recreatic ted by Mrs. Spigeimeyer will also help In the children Rav been placed In mn and he will be others. Registration day thre various church n Sunday June 4th and the and teachers are very de- of securing the whole hearted co-operation of the parents of the COIL for this school id in { Astor: sirous 44 « Hy sss A— Centre Hall Man Escapes Injury H W franiz of Centre Hall es- caped injury Sunday morning when his automobile joft the highway a short distance east of Tyrone and crashed into several guard rail posta Slate Motor Pelice Private Walleck of Philipsburg, reported he learned Frantz lost control of his machine when he fell asleep momentarily Damage wag placed at $50, in Aa - 25.000 Chickens Burned Approximately 25000 chickens and everal buildings were destroyed by fire at the Thomas KE. Mack and Sons chicken farm at West Sunbury, ner Butler, ona of the states largest poultry plants Owners reported the fire started near a heating plant and estimated the joss at more than $20.000 Did you Send Your Child to College For This? An eminent psychologist explains campus show-offs do cuch silly things as eating live goldfish and phonograph records One of many informative illustrated articles In the June ith issue of The Ameri- can Weekly, distributed with the Baitimore Sunday American. On saje at all newsstands ——— Bull Meets “Bullgine” A heayy and costly bull owned John Censemer of Scott Townsh near Bloomsburg, broke from pa ture on the farm of owner and started out to tackie any bull he met. In his flight and search for opposition the bovine met a “bull” type engine on the tracks of the D 1 & W. Railroad and al the same time met its death 100 Ways To Be A “Sap.” The yokels are stil] being “laken in" by age-old tricks. An article | reveals some of the everyday rackets and how to detect them. One of many illustrated features in the June 11th issue of The American Weekly, distributed with the Balti- more Sunday American. On sale at all newsstands, Th by ip, §4z Ee Hitler and Mussolini preach ware | fare; one day they may get more { than they can enjoy. mach, s good health as prevention present wien (Continued on pag Hunters To Decide If Doe Be Killed Right of Decision to Citizens of State Legislature Grants appointment game Commassion Haines R-Cen- neerning the change groumde season, Haines sald . (Continued on page four) 15 To Complete Health Course local Bell Company Employes Will Receive ‘Diplomas’ Tomorrow Pifiects Bellefonte telephone wo- men zhortly will complete a respondenioe health course which the Bell Company available to ifs women employees a few ago - Wal mage months were J cal operators who will dipiomas™ tomorrow gir] will graduate within weeks, according to Jesse H manager urieen Os their The other 3 few Caum refeive Bell Company's offered to the Prepared by the department and employees without charge course covers such fandamentals of of illness tregt. medical care of the sick ment for accidents ercise Mr emergency and proper ex Caum pointed out that 2.000 f the company’s women. employees n Pennsylvania enrolled in the course and took advantage of the opportunity Farn more about good health. He explained that the promotion of good health and ac- cident prevenlion among i= em- ployvees has long been a major ac tivity of the Bell Company Local telephone women who ens i to rolled in the health course are Elea- | nor 8 Armstrong, lorraine F Campbell. M. Edith Corl, Gladys M Dawson, Helen E Garbrick, Hilda L. Haupt, Mary E Ishier Beitr L Jones, Louise H. Kiine, Thelma M Sones, May A Toner, Lucille M Ultich, Emily H Waite, Ella E {| Young and Helen M. Oderkirk FISH, NOR FOW] PORTRAIT OF A SPORTSMAN: He angles n Fisherme: Pars FINE WILL REPLACE FISH Bersuse 8 00 six- reside hen ) escaped ints Logan rh will pes rar bap of the fish kill reel Bren) ery? A actical =. f pe ly all THERE SHOULD BFE MORE LIKE HER oles : Ruth Parsons Hoes BLANEY Centre JOINS n CLUB Farm Agent reat EERE RC here harrier member of Club’ pe smoker gave weed in Pebrussy i ached iI since { East C moking AG DAET - CONCERN PAYS RENT AFTER 268% YEARS Rent day for Company of land Trading finally the Governor and Adventurers of Eng- Hudson's Bay around after 268 was payed recently when thelr reprecentative gave the King of England two alk heads and two biack beaver ckins According to Anderson, Davis snd Platt of Rockefeller Center, In 1870 when company was founded King Charles II of England grant- od the conesrn the right to exploit and administer a domain almost o«thirds the size of the present Dominion of Ganada. For this, the compsny must psy. upon demand by the King of England, two «lk and two black beaver skins. int has come years. The rent the heads Secrets of Jungle Witch Doctors Unusual ill-fated article re- vealing strange facts about weird rites, savage sorcery and mystifying magic in the forests of dark Africs One of many features in the June 11th iszue of The American Weekly, distributed with the Baltimore Sun- day American. On sale at all news stands Pupils Learn Pennsylvania pupils are Jesrmning thrift in the public schools. Ap proximately 120 schon] districts have reported a program of etematic saving on the part of pupils enrolled. The point of emphasis in the pro- gram i one of developing useful habils of thrift on the part of chil- [dren amd youth of the Sate seted the Lock Haven-Altoona run {test runs ave because of its almost | which became lodged in the throat | Il continue indefinitely. far as 18 known the fest train 1 consist of a Jocomotive of | perfect water level | Tyrone and Lock cause the branch schedules can ling his supper Wednesday evening, route between of Ralph Shade, son of Mr. and Mrs, | Haven and be- | John Shade, of Danville while eat. ndard steam type, and two cars better accommodate the test than | way removed at the Oeisinger Me. | with the new wheel-and- any other line. ' morial Hospital, after which the lad device: The trucks will be The right-of-way from Tyrone returned to his home apart periadically in the Al- to Lock Haven has been given a | complete reconditioning so that it | shops and examined for signs or other damage that {wilh be in shape to handle the — Arm Seared by Lightning be cawwed by the excessive stisin the track will be put through During a recent electrical storm, | . Unless traffic warrants it, | by the heretofore unheard of speed. Mrs. Edward Wertz, of Watsontown, train will make no stops over All rails that showed any signs of suffered a searing burn of her right | route. ie development of this new un- ase progress for some time & : £ 1 3 3 ¥ | | | commodate the high speed test, through the house and striking a kettle ghe was holding, wear or defect. have been replaced, arm. Lightning struck and destroy- | | curves have been banked and the er the chimney of the home, the for high speed service roadbed has been made firm to ac- charge traveling i i Mis A DRSCRIO- | ME KHIOW WHAT ME KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES’ — Eddis’s Tongue Can't Back Up His Eyes
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