The Most Widely Read Newspaper in Centre County. A Visitor in Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. Odd and Curious News SECOND SECTION Che Cenire Democrat VOLUME 58. amram NEWS, FEATURES BELLEFONTE, PA Beware, Boys! Fifteen-year-old June mother, of Twin Falls, Idaho, never | worries about her daughter when | she gets the wanderlust, Wherever June goes, an ample-sized brown box goes with her It contains a 5- foot black diamond rattlesnake June said she never has trouble with miotorists who give her HITS on her jaunts around the country Tripp's For Shooting Edward Survives 6-Story Fall Over Former’ Going to the roof of the apart- ment building at Jersey City, in which she lives for an airing, Mrs May Laden, 48, fell through an open door at the top of the dumbwaiter shaft and dropped six floors to the basement, Although severely] cut and bruised by friction and suffer ing & possible fractured skull, Mrs Laden will probably recover He's Got Proof Harry Walker, of Huntingdon, went hunting for fishing bait and found a two-headed water snake The reptile lay under a rock that Walker overturned in a search for bugs and worms. Formed like a branch, the snake had two perfectly shaped heads. Walker killed the reptile and brought it to town as proof of his story Undressed Man One way tw undress quickly was recently demonstrated by Andrew Wilson, 70-year-old farmer of Val- ley City, N. D., when his overalls caught in a tractor drive shaft, When he recovered consciousness, all he had on were his shoes and shirt cuffs. The rest of his clothes were in the tractor a block away. Deposits 5,745 Pennies Using a counting machine, it took a bank teller at Baltimore, more than forty minutes to count the pennies brought into the bank by Mrs. Idella Vitak in a gallon can.| The pennies, 5,745 of them, repre- sent the savings of her two sons, | James 9 and Joseph, 7, over a period of three and a half years Cx in court, kin in mvicted of first degree murder | he Northumberland county Andrew Schurtz, of Shamo was sentenced on Friday to the electric chair for the slay- ing for his foreman Edward C Isher, -of Sunbury, on a Northum- land county road project last April The date for the execution will be fixed by Governor James. In the meantime, it was Indicated | Schurtz’s altorneys, that an | peal will be made for a new trial The tragedy occurred near Au- Rust on Friday morning April 21, last, when Schurtz shot and kill ed Fisher wl blamed for being interested his dismissal from the slay ing was the result gument dle DY Ap~ aville wom ne y in Anger Causes Death | Liritated by the noise, Roger Huntley Hovey, 53, Boston insur- ance man, seized a 22 calibre rifle which some small boys had been firing at a picnic, and hit it against an automobile tire. The weapon discharged and the bullet pierced Hovey's chest, instantly killing him > . * Dies in Pipe When a 20-inch pipe used dredging sand st Woodbury, N, J, became clogged, Charles Muhlber, 33, crawled inside to Investigate Failing to emerge, other workmen took the pipe apart and found him | dead, apparently suffocated Headache The European war has kited sales) of headache tablets to a new high | at Carbondale, Druggists report last week by a Federal Alcohol In- sales as much as three times above Spector from the U. 8. Treasury De | normal because of a rior that the partment who is making a tour of war would put headache powders (he entire stale collecting eviderion at a premium for presen in federal court in Ph { lonage autl by liceiise um concern The agent, Joseph | companied by Officer Fred 1 of the Lock Haven police picked up 21 bottles bearing Kol and bay rum labels Recovering From 20 Foot Fall | 014 coral bed near the t Frances Hart, daughter of Mr. bald rah Valles and Mrs, Clingan DeHart, of Mil- | oo 00 oon ton has returned to her home from |. rast Ar the Geisinger Memorial Hospital | CC oun a, Apparently ici 8 al Danville, after X-ray pictures | Buch rubbing picohol and bay rum had been taken of her right arm (Continued on pege three) fractured near the shoulder Sun- a eH day afternoon, when she plunged | approximately thirty feet to the ground from a platform she and neighborhood playmates had built in @ tree. The girl, 8 an eighth grade pupil in Milton's public schools. LIEUT. E. C. FISHER . Road Boss Shot to Death by Employee Collect Bottles | At Hobo Jungle Agent of Alcohol Unit Visits Lock Haven to Get Evi- dence for Suit for i A collection of bottles from Lock Haven's princi jungle” put hobo | was gathered up and photographed & 5 ation in a it - * * Finds Ring in Carrot Biting into a carrot grown in her garden, Mrs, F. J, Zanon, of Wal- senburg, Col, struck something hard. I: was a ring she had lost in her garden ten years ago and bay ac Miller alee of the where | liquid | Tack Railroad, Of gainer for NO DANGER OF BREAD SUBSTITUTES war in Europe and the | fact that wheat will, as usual, help | win it, there will be no necessity | for bread substitutes in this coun- | try. Officials of the American In- | | stitute of Baking declare that wheat | supplies in the United States are ample and that American bakers i will continue to produce the types War Department at Washington of read a YO wants commissioned him second lieuten-,, oh pr 4 ; ant in the infantry reserve corps. | OC; Of cther substitutes required | The gold bars, insignia of his rank, during the | World War rt d i ——————— yu aNenun, Duet Even if you read a book last vear, in the event of a national emergen- |, BHENE be 3 good idea to read an- | pe | other in 1939 IN LU. S| Despite rm Gets Military Commission Clyde Wesley Duffield, of Lock Haven on Wednesday was launch- ed upon a military career when the at &L ge ——— i ps APPEALS FOR JOB The following letter malled from a little spending Cleveland, Ohio, last week to this | clothes, a hair cut, office is published for the unique- everything. I want need | in tact | money, shoes, ‘WPA WORKER TO DIE AT ROCKVIEW FOR SLAYING FOREMAN Death Sentence Imposed on Andrew Schurtz | train | Capps, | was old man 81 years of age, who leerving a nf { tre county two decade | mind foree, | i nish information concerning along the | ‘Tyrone Motorists , THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1939. —— ! Random [tems UMBER wn The Thrill of a Lifetime C. Fisher in Dispute s Dismissal over Schurtz’s alleged “loafing on the job.” Edward Burk keeper on the was s'ationed of Shamokin, time- project where Schurte stated that the fendant argued with Fisher morning over a war tice he had received concerning alleged loafing 8 hecked tod ( then Don™t want to have a § or de- | that hurtz asked Burk him in that had replied if he had! he =i 1 bother, 11 Just wowdown with Fish Wher job the the foreman arrived on Schurtz approached him remark: “1 want to have a pri- secret talk with you™ led “Okay pe: the | with | vate and ; the AWRY Kaiser Wilhelm at Door warning t was Former wel ellor Adolf ed Sunday The y his wil H LD (Continued fiom but 4 oy u delivered Moe news Kalser's alde-de-camp, OTGE message, Baron ti ae Amputates Own Fool. Slipping from a movin at Lorain, Ohio, 18, negro, fell under the train and his foot was rom Taking his pocket knife, the boy cu! his foot off at the ankle, fashion- ed a tourniquet from his clothing and made a pair of rude crutches from limbs of a nearby wee. With these he hobbled nearly a mile to nstead, he was seen by Vermilion, Ohio, and from Halem, an official of the taken to a hospital. His con- Foreign Ministry, who was dition was pronounced good and toid the Baron Te i » ac vo w {reight Wiliam redelve Le Dew von man rien Ai Dr Ge there ga —— Lhe rréat- WaAr- CONSIDERING OUR ——— PAST AND PRESENT NEUTRALITY LAWS ———————— First Proclaimed When World War Developed in 1914-All Warring Nations Sought Market in United States tand | tie Ocean, bought what legis i1 he United Sihales pose that, during the denly the United B embargo 4 0 unce they needed let us suUp- World War, 5 had put the e neutrality ck and consider t id War a quarter of 4 ne situation AY beg on nto effect an LE war developed ir Thi had the efiect Allied power: supply and would would have ting off source of States prociaimed This with inlernall Vids given Ww United Stale Lon engaged in of shu Lhe from a been co law world that the | have id treat - powers Sea war alixe during 1 Germany A Similar mation: sued by Lhe; As Lhe war procia . . ’ the supplies » Beancinavian avallable for export would have consider- Lo ne all unneuira] act, A wv ] F Yo and her bs a War the nations SUpPees HE RLY ang nn iid a . dinestieh Pup feularly the I .i- rolling the Ballic Sea, import oh ’ Der: dling the Ballic atic 1 greatly impressed supplies from the nati ao 8 {C ontinusd on page three) controlling - Freed Of Blame In Dynamiting Home mg throughout Lae both and worid 104 turned inued nAachns cont tral ns On that the sale except of » the bio K ade id maintained by the Bril- when the German sub- marine De ichiand, made a spec tacular trip across the Atlantic it rried back a cargo of des Charged with plies dynamite during the Rementber that) in World |W spring Andrew War, Germany, through her conic he Baltic Sea was able 10 im- nds * GY fy . £2 00 Wo mas fron CATH ban on many lished an tee By Clearfield County "1 Grand Jury felonious use ol soft oonl striks John Pollock ired sup- | the the Raymond Run grand crue bill in Lhe case om when Jury Hawk Lhe 1 # ¥ foun county last week foun CONFESSED AFTER 20 LONG YEARS Death- Bed Confession by Committed in io e history ol Centre county cone many uncommon incidents will be lo. t to fulure genera- because of the lack of in recording them. One of th strange events was sa murder come mitted near Howard in the early part of the year 1863, a crime that | {did not come to light until twenty | “VU yeurs later, when (i was fade Curran’s confession known through a death-bed canfes- Centre county ion played the leading roid giver foliow I was near the years ago In my youth 1 jeducation, my parents being gaged in the upmiion of bleaching | est ose fore he was able His Williamsport at Ly self remains the expense Of Ry wl ¥ TAETGS ii Wicd i” According to the facts surround- Patrick Curran, an was | sentence in in November, i para.ysis, , . 5 it ing the incident, ne-months’ Williamspe jall was stricken it n toid by a physician th his life was almost an end, cone fessed to a erime commit Cen | Upon my father's ‘what! money was eft bling and drinking and ¢ number of arreated the 1885, and whe art received oe nt ted In before The old man told the sheriff that he had killed his companion inf an! old barn near Howard, Centre cotin- wv is i ry NY | ET od i ty. during a quarrel over a girl to I joined the whom both had been paying atten- | der of tion : the SCTRADS Fenians and a number irgectioh al of men which was stars 1 O'Brien. M ro Hi m m 8 mit in an effort ase his | by Willi before passing (0 another COMPINION Was a young man nai world, promised the sheriff to fur- Pal Mart un, and a niim- | caused my ruin coming | Martin and I got into myster- | and that, together wilh Curran, this acquaint ber of county dark crimes that had ren L3 ined of a el | AVIATION MAGAZINE SHOWS SCENES FROM LOCK HAVEN The brilliant red Piper Cub plane Injured Ir In Crash | with the blue Susquehanna River Car Overturtied V When Strack|and the bridge from Lock Haven ito Lockport below It made a hand- By Approaching Vehicle some cover for the October issue of al Intersection { Popular Aviation. The picture was | taken this summer by Hans Oroen- Two Tyrone persons were injitred | 4ol, famous aviation photograph- early Saturday evening when their © car was struck as it pull rom | Pulled out fom |; zines. a pictire is used showing a stop sign near East Freedom. the Cub after landing on the golf John W. Hassler, of Tyrobe, driver | coupes of the Clint ton County Club of the car, suffered lacerations Of | naar the residence of A A. Arter. the scalp, his wife, Mrs. Clara Ha8s- | upich shows In the background ler, received injuries to the head &nd | Miss Dorothy McGhee plage the chest. Their (fifteen-year-old-gson, | part of hostess welcoming the vis-! | Merrill, was taken to Altoona hoOs- | jing fliers ne {pital for examination. Hospital at-| |tendants said the boy was not in-| j Jured. According to State motor police, {coal operator, has been appointed {the Hassler car was upset on itslas senior claim adjuster for the {left side by a car operated by Ho- | State Workmen's Insurance fund ™ Cub ads recently in national Appointed to Insurance Board Mr. H 8 Kanour, New Liberty | mer Smith, of R. D. 1, East Free-|this Central Pennsylvania region dom, at the East Freedom inter-|The New Liberty coal operator is] | section of route 220 and 164. A third | president of the Centre-Clearfield regan iting de | | | nel 81. Year- OM. M: an of Crime Centre County {lee We Jk diss WW 4 me 0 Atneric fier Enocking nlx faoatne Line, we © ¥ i ALG AN ed th We ned M res and ere ieader New You Penney mets wr Aine 1 Lie + +P at tv ai 1 0 Howa We had heard ther counterfeiton work - wed y LES we fXbecind to i ETew arresie ad by stale PO- the armas ig which of tbreaks and war o AXer hed " a series ch fueled pia in the soft al field to a fever pitch The dynamiting of the Schnarrs’ home destroyed a section of the poreh but caused no injuries, Mrs Schnarrs wife of the coal opera- tor, was alone the upstairs of the house when the explosion occurred | early in fhe morning, May 7 At the time the explosion was in- | terpreted as a warning to Schnars, ) occasions attends | Whe operated throughout the so conte | Gailed AbUtdown, 10 ORREe ODETA~ mingled upon al in vernment agent: i Martin and my- ing respectable lives, ) rdly both were | OE Dnerous Qulwa self and od vices and appeals citizens of the town to be well acquainted chide Bi to charitable with We yg oc the le] One Mile Run mine where he had “My pari: Jong s% xourred friends} We attention to th not be fair alter make public her meniion were ge i ng “OMe 2 break in our beg > girl A three-foot section of fuse was found porch the biast burned { the An paying | It would years 10 should be L# rH Lethe Lene name, It Coal Upswing Is Expected In Area Hawk Run Man Exonerated Schnars was returning fro his | been on guand duty when he heard | ving near | Re | TRIFLES: Bellefonte radio stores | and repair shops were sold out of a | common size radio tube last week. | Some blamed It on the war. A news-hungry public had radios put | in condition to receive war bulle- ting, they claimed... It has been suggested that the Chamber of | Commerce give Malcolm W. Yeag- er the job his father, the Jate Harry C. Yeager, performed so creditably | for the pas lwo YeRrs-—-supervising the trimming of Belielonte streets | during the Chrisimas season | | INVITATION TO BURGLARS ? During the week workmen ai the Plaza theatre laboriously affixed pegs into the brick walls of the |building, on the side facing the Elks Home. Persons who walched the work were somewhat surprised to learn that the pegs were insiall- od as a convenient parking place | for the ladder used in changing the sign on the theatre marquee. The ladder nangs in full view of pedes- trians passing down High Street and in easy reach of anyone who | might have second-story intentions, | COMMITTEE POLITICS Centre County candidates seem | to like this business of having thelr advertising matter come from 2a “committee” supposedly interested 1 nothing but the election of that candidate. The signature “Snod- | glub for Sheriff Committee” on the bottom of an advertisement or plece of campaign literature, has a kind of impressiveness, but we have 2 consiantly increasing Ccesirg WwW know just who is on the various commitiees, | “SOCIAL REGISTER" NEWS: This department marvels at the “editor” of Bellefonte's first “social register.” Several weeks ago this ! brave lad, proprietor of a local tap- | room, issued invitations to a Ifttle party at his place of businéss. The invitations listed the names of all the other persons who had been invited. Many of the fown's best known citizens were on the first ir “ 411s. Monday, we saw a copy of the second (maybe the third or | fourth) list. On are many of those who occupy the upper crust of | Bellefonte's social strata, inch ing several drys of long and un- | questionable standing. Nothing rucoeeds like success however, and from what we learn the parties are | entirely successful. But what amazes this department which can- | not with impunity waver so much as an iota from the straight and Garrow pain of publishing only such | material a8 we're willing tw lay gown our lives in defense of, is how is iv | N. Y. HANGING GARDENS OUTDO THE BABYLONS are being built atop the third, f and sixth floor terraces of the hits | Centre-Clearfield County Coal! ®t sixiesn-story structure in Rocke- The treated us but it a COOiness devek tin and 1. For vears of our {1 3 both with ong between the first time in rien p 1 began With the supply of English coal to distrust Martin, Perhaps he had cut off from Canada and South the same feeling for me, As time America coal operations in Centre went on we barely spoke a clvi and Clearfiel id counties expect word Lo each other see a boom In territory coal busis (Coneed on es Both Canada and Soutn Americh girl equal favor Field May Experience Boom was not ped it~ Mar fhe page six) Contre Coutity Hospital Notes Tuesday of Last Week Admitted: Mra Marvin J. Roth rock, Bellefonte; Spring Mills, Miss R. D 2. Discharged Mazgaret Boal, Belicfonte, R D, 1. Births: a daughter to Mr. and Mrs ly Lose Jr, Pleasant Gap. Admitted Tuesday and discharged Wednesday: Miss Lucille I. Mael- | arn. State College; Bellefonte Wednesday of Last Week Admitted: Mrs Ela Marquebeck, | State College; Miss Martha L | Joh ton. Discharged: Mrs. Mich- Urban, State College; Miss | Marte BE. Brouse, Stale College; Mrs. Clarence Sprankle, State Col- lege. Births: a daughter to Mr, and Mr: 8terman E Putt, Howard R.) D. 2; Expired: an infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs rrmdie 1. Rock~! ey of Bellefonte R D. 1. died at 10:35 p. m. Admitted vednetns | to get on a car, operated by John W. Lee, Al-| Coal Operators’ Association which! and discharged the same day. ness of ita appeal. The Centre| farm. Want to make a connection | toona, was also damaged when the | Is made up of coal operators from | Paul Fortney, Bellefonte Democrat has no knowledge as to with a good loving, kind and pa-| the identity of the writer and as- | tient farmer. Am not used to rough sumes no responsibility for the con- | or profane language. Prefer a far- | ters. The letler follows: mer who has no hired help or one) Cleveland, Otifo, Sept who has small ehildeen, One thal | would give me a good home The Centre okie, Friends will tell you that I am rm ; | dependable, honest, reliable, trast. Dear and kind friends: { ful, and trustworthy, a loyal and This is au 8 ©. 8-1ast Hope | steady worker. Do not drink or an 11th hour 10 you and the | steal, a home boy Like to go to farmers around Won't | church. you pledse let the fafmers who come | Can and have cleaned out chick- into your o read thix letter? | en houses, hog pens, stables. Have Better still woh'y you plese print | bedded and fed cows, horses, have it in your fine paper 4nd send 4 | fed chickens, hogs. Have helped copy of your paper to me with it gh? | make hay, husked corn both on Please do. Only wish could pav | stalk and in shock. Have helped | you for it. { haul in wheat: oats; have dug up| Am a single, protestant, white | potatoes. Want to learn how to! young man, Am gall alone in this | hitch up horses, milk, plow and world. Out of work. Broke. Room | learn farming in de'ail. Cannot | rent soen due agath but, have no drive a truck. Can do housework. ¢y for it. Can't éven buy a | make beds, mow lawns, sweep Show. dish washing job here at no price. Can cock a little, Take care of Can't sleep nights, just worry all | stoves, furnaces, Empty ashes the time. Go without eating 3 and | have no farm clothes whatever 4 days at a time. Can't even mL. 4 It the farmer who hires me would buy | me farm clothes and shoes, also pay | greyhound bus fare 0 appreciate | (Confined on page two) | woh 1! killed deer meat. Hassler car was thrown over against | this bi-county section. it. Damage to the Hassler ear m No system is worth anything un- | lestimated at $228, the Lee car $75 /10% somebody is willing to follow and Smith machine $15 through —— | Thursday of Last Week Births: A daughler to Mr Mrs, Prederick K. Whitehall, | mont i; 4 son 10 Mr. and Mrs, os George BE Wells! George Baney, | Bellefonte; Miss Norma Thomas, | | Huston, served the p | Sunday | Bellefonte: Miss Jean L. Whitehill, | have been steady customers of Enge drew O. Myers, Julian; a daughter | Jand in coal shipments and Ameri. to Mr. and Mrs. William Cunning- | can mines are opiimistic of gaining ham, Pleasant Gap: a son to Mr the losi English market. and Mrs. Bay FP. Walker, Aarons- | Belligerant nations, however, will burg Discharged: Mrs. Leonard | Bot furnish a market and a rune Witmer and infant daughter Belle. | away boom market is not expected. fonte, | With ibe expected upswing 1B steel business ooal is expecied WwW Friday {low its hand-in-hand partner, Admitted: Mrs. Lilly Wert, Cen- steel, tre Hall, R. D. 1; Lynn Blazer, Cen- tre Hall Discharged: Miss Mar- gare: Muirhead, Bellefonte; Mrs. | Eidon E Harpster and infant son, | Pine Grove Mills; Mrs. Francis Benner and Infant daughter, Betle- | Resigns as Matron fonte R. D. 1; Mrs, James O. Sum- | Mrs. Mary H. Ryder, of Lewis. | mers and infant deughter, Wingate, | UTE. has moved into her new home | Admitted Priday and discharged 4! Milton, after having resigned | Saturday: Mrs. W. W. Bickett, her position as matron {or the iged Bellefonte |at the Evangelical Homes at Lewis. burg, a post she accepled after the Saturday {death of her husband. Mrs. Ryder, Admilted: Mrs Miller, | who before her marriage was home for | much of the coal Europe will need. Della Coburn. Discharged : Master Hoy | ars 85 matron. Rock, State College. Births: 1p | daughter to Mr, and Mrs. Harry w | Weaver, Howard, R.D. 1; { to Mr. and Mrs, William T. Henszey, State College. {ley Yearick and infant son, Spring | Miss Lucille Ulrich, | Mills. There were 41 patients at the | : Mrs. Fred E. | hospital ai the beginning of this | Admitted: | Lemont. and | | Cain, Bellefonte R. D, 3; Paul S.| Week. | Kerstetter, Spring Mills; 'L Finkbeiner, and infant daugh- | Club donation of foodstu i i ok iy ¥ Mrs, Geo. | From the Pleasant it, oa Civic | the last 8. | have not feller Center. By October, the bare | concrete rooftops will be transforms. ied with fNowering crab-appie trees, | yews, and English ivy. The new gare | dens, covering about 10000 square feet. will give Rockefeller Center a | total of nine landscaped rooftops ww! English coal will be used at home | while Russia 15 expected to supply | a professor of phywics at the Penn. | sylvania State Oollege, prior to his | retirement in 1907, og | Reginelll, had a the numbers N. J, the GAME LAW VIOLATORS FINED AT LOCK HAVEN Three violators of game laws ih Clinton county were arrested - | day and fined before Justice of the Peace W. B. Nufiehacher, Renovo. Daniel Robert Kunes, Lock Ha- ven, arrested ofi Route 220, was {fined $20 and $10 costs for hunting without a license, Herbert Probst, Jr. Gleasonton, was fined $100 and $12 costs for killing a deer ont of season and his companion, Clyde E. Hovis, Gléas- onton, was fined $100 and $12 comnts for having possession of illegally Ws —— Don't worry about the world comn- ine 3 ai hdl The chances are you | "KEEPING up WITH THE JONESES' — Eddie Has Too Much Money, Now ady dow Ey gs