The Most Widely Read Newspaper in Centre County. A Visitor in Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. Odd and Curious | News SECOND SECTION dhe Cenire De mocraf | VOLUME B68. DL | BELLEFONTE, PA THURSD 5 $300 For Golf Ball A lost seventy-five cent golf ball cost Byron Nelson, National Open champ, $300 at Hershey, September 8. He was running second in the Hershey Open when he socked the ball on the fifteenth hole. He was in line for the $750 prize. But the lost ball cost Nelson two strokes end he finished fourth, with Felix Serafin, Scranton 284. Priday Nelson received a ter with a moneyv-order lor and an anonymous letter from New York whieh sald “Dear Mr. Nel- son: On September 3° at Hershey our group was leaving the match and did not know we were in the donal appropriation voted line of play. A lady in our party, | train 11,000 civilian pilots, | one of my guests, unwittingly pick- | rey week. ‘The college w ed up your ball. I did not learn use Black Moshannon Alrports of it until it was too late. 8he knows and of the best nothing about the game and did not the base from which realize what a lost ball meant to a pilots In aert player. 1 thank the Almighty that sroom work will be done it was only a money game and the resulting can tored As the lady my re- | an sponsible what She which wa has perceptibly Aeronautic the Incident and therefore her iGen- } rt) pa in this program tity must remain undisclosed. 1 be- rogram provide lfeve your loss was $300. T am en- closing a postal money order ior that amount.” with let $300 won State College $4.000.000 C Penn gel Rre Vivania a portion of the ealed last che largest the state, as train thelr the one thelr be re guest I happened becaus loss Was for suffered feel Approximate aurin tucenis n Homesick For Prison Lancaster Ie lie Buzzard, of ICK prison |i for 34 80 vears his wish last week-—a term in east- ern penitentiary for tealing a horse. Joe, last of three Weish mountain brothers wi once ter- riorizged Lancaster county, Judge Oli 1aefler doesn’t matter whether you give me 20 vears or life. Just send me to the eastern penitentiary. That place is home to me. I'm home 1 want to go back.” Joe home enjoyed a” the of hi Or Clinton County Man Shoots Self * Had nder Treatment at Danville State Hospital Lovett MM - James Nolan, ¢f Galla Saves Own Life Jie aa, of Ga The quick thinking and fon in ad condition last Mrs, Edward C. Waters Prin Nolan and expired Anne, Md., saved her life rece ras from a geil-in when after being struck hand by a copperhead snake cut the fang punctures open had been a kitchen knife and drained the ven early that m poison by means of her bleed.ir about from it. While her hand and for became badly swollen, doclors found h y she would suffer no ill effects Iro condition. The Nolan home is close the poison » Pine Lodge, Dr. Graydon ine’s cottage, and when Mr Nolan called at the lodge for help he found Dr. Mervine The latter arrived at Mr. Lovells side a short time before he died. Dr W | J. Shoemaker, Clinton county 0or- Victim Been U ver 8. Sci emp by town-~ loved cher of on wolltlid y Lock Ha- ng 8: Mr Rare Nerve After = fight, in which he had béen struck in the head with the blunt side of an age Arthur Cut- ting, 50-year-old farm hand, of Bedfard, Quebec, ate his lunch and then drove his own automobile into town to & doctor who found this his | skull had been fractured. After being treated, Cutting went back 10 the farm, where he collapsed and died. Not So Goofy His name might be Goofy, but after gl what's in a name Gooty is a dog, owned by Mr. and Mr J. C. McKeon, of Phildaeiphia, who was “ungooly” enough fo awaken his owners by biting Mrs Mc-| Keon on the ankle when his barks failed to awaken them, to let them know that their house was on fire Chicken Causes Death While chasing a chicken which he intended to have for his dinner Stephen Plorescu, 54-year-old drug- gist of Youngstown, stumbled his cellar and fell on the butcher knife he had in his hand. An ar- tery in his thigh was severed and he died from loss of blood before a doctor could arrive there suicide. No neces y Mr. Lovet: is survived by a broth- er, Guy Lovett, of Williamsport former Lock Haven merchant % Sister, Mrs. Ira Truckenmiller, of Itimore, He had been under treatment st the Danville State Hospital but had been and appeared to be getting along all right at the Nolan farm 2 Killed As Truck inquest was deemed Heavy Vehicle Hits Rear of Towed Car Parked Along Highway Dorsey Wallace, 55, and Mike Bar- onak, 38 both Hyde City, were killed and five others injured when a truck smashed into a parked tow- ed car near Clearfield st clock Friday night n Wallace, riding in Chagrined Officer truck operated b Hyde Cit was insta the truck ran into the towed car and feet down the Barovnak §y ia of the cab of the Fred Hoover intly killed after the rear end of el ea After recovering a stolen agutomo- bile, Deputy O. H. Trosper of Ripley Tenn. proceeded to give the owner a dissertation on how to protéet his car from theft. Imagine the offi- cer's chagrin, then when he re- turned to his office only to find that his own car had been stolen his body was crushed between p— towed car and the tower Wasp Causes Fall cleaning the windows on | Three Baronak brothers, John and Adam, op ta] nan | OWING car, owned by John ts second floor vi ie ga onak. and the towed car James Simmerman, the janitor adjusting the tow rope when greatly. Leaning out fo strike the (Continued on Page 6) wisp, he lost his balance and fell, - suffering & brain concussion “Not Mert;” Dies hough taken fo a Pittsburgh! Next? Bar] Woife, of near Smithfield, is wondering what's going to happen to him next. So far he has surviv- ed gangrene, peritonitis, a strepto- coecus infection, six major oper- ations and another for the ampu- tation of his jeft arm RE VRYy Lhw higow died at Clearfield the Mike, John | an automobile gecident, Mrs. Lau J. Miller, 73, insisted that she was “unhurt” No broken bones were found and Mrs Miller insisted that | was detained, however, ten hours later, apparently from in- { ternal injuries, cg al in _h— GOV. JAMES’ | SON DIES Arthur H. James, Jr, only son of snes he took office in January. Governor James, died eatly Sunday! The Owvernors mother-in-law, morhing in Boonville, Mo., following Mrs. Grade Morris, to whom he was an emergency appendicitis oper: | greatly attached and who lived with tion. { him for many years, died in Wilkes. Young Jimes went to Booneville! Barre General Hospital on March 8. ten days ao to enter the Kemper | Hardly three months passed to! Military school. He chose the west- | May 8 when Governor James was| ern school, it Was said, because he informed of the death of his cousin, | wanted $6 be on his owh, and not John J Roberts, Plymouth borough | known only as the Governor's sem. | controller, following a series of op-| The body was brought to the rx: frations in Philadelphia hospitals cutive mansion at Harrisburg where! Less than two months age an funeril services were held Monday other member of the Morris family, | night, after which the remains wére Montague Morris, of Kingston, 4 taken to the James home in Ply- cousin of Governor James, died mouth where further services were, ohe Governo 5 - . held Wednesday afternoon. Burial narals of other ony A So was made in the Hanover Green ymes including *that of Jonathan cemetery. {R. Davis, former Luzerne county Fourth Death This Year | commissioner, on August 13 Death has stalked the home and, The death of his son, Arthur household of Governor Arthur H. James, Jr, on Sunday was the latest James with increasing frequency in the string of bereasvements, onkr, was also called to the farm (Beckwith had sought refuge and pronounced the death due 0 Shreatened harm upon the anc consisted of himself, his discharged from his home, Crashes Into Car = 8:15 0'- i Hospital several hours after admit- | tance of injuries he received when, { tengion of | have received instructions she be permitted to go home. She Mium only oefore they and died their erop and thal no applications STUDENT CIVILIAN PILOTS TO TRAIN IN CENTRE COUNTY 27 State College Selected as One of Five Colleges and Universities to Develop New Civilian Pilots—To Use Moshannon Airport instru rato approved Authority Alrport LO « tion wil elected by | by annon shed s grou Ages the coun- marked a LNa~ A Y, NEWS, FEATURES SE IP PTE MEER 21, 1939, NUMBER 9g. Random [tems Summer LT SIEGFRIED AND MAGINOT LINES ARE MODERN WORLD WONDERS BE SON No-Man's Land nuesd on Page 6) yi¥ly 71 STUDENTS FROM COUNTY ENTER PENN STATE THIS YEAR State College Borough Fumnishes Largest List to Enter Freshman Class—-Bellefonte Provides 8 Students 1.1¢ Coun fresh- acoording Regsitiras Freshmal AN OLD SANDY RIDGE TRAGEDY On Sunday February 1 1902, Frank Beckwith walke hrough two feet of snow from hi home al Hannah to Bandy Ridge where he shot to death his wile The tragedy occurred at hame (of Lyle Edmonson, where Mis rom part of marry the her hus Frank age at the time and r Taylor town band Beckwith was 45 yen of ded at Han- The family wife and six children, He was employed at the Sandy Ridge brick plant, about eight miles across the mountain and during the week in a shanty He several years he nan days lived alone claimed that Ion noticed that other men frequented hi: home during his absence, whict caused frequent family quarvels. The week prior to the shooting Beckwith left her family hfldren alone, and without food and spent several days over in the vicinity of Sandy Ridge When Beckwith returned from hi work Saturday he found his if gone, children hungry. He started back to Sandy Ridge agin, his wife and gave her 75 cents retion home by train, Having but three cents IL he wilked back of locals In Which a Husband Kill Return to again and down to nnah, but «} futipet . she Tale ried back after her Sunday morning he Laally me of Ia resscent of found her at the 2 an elderty 8s nd Ridge recipitatec Beckwitl ANAaN Ie Edminisong eases fer 8 His W His Hi ife For Failure to ne, & 3 Ee LL 3 ’ sal cat A ithand Edmunascn Om 4 Beery that estos] { at In WwW e Eas ENR of modes mn Tan 80. oOnNeciions A bodied over and gas flame When relative, Mrs Wellman s her kit r in a pab sed Lhe ns A ———— ~The most news for $1.50 Crop Insurance Deadline Sept. 30 i then rolled 88 | Last Day For Wheat Farmers to Obtain All-Risk Insurance September 30 has been fixed as the last day for wheat farmers to obtain all-risk Insurance on their had parked the | 1940 winter wheat crop, Bar- | and were’ Conservation Committee has em- The Centre County Agricultural, phasized that there will be no ex- the deadline “iN is the committee stated. “We tO aglepuy on winter wheat final" no applications — for examination following | Biter the close of business Septem. ber 30, 1939" The commiftee pointed out that under the 1040 Program, growers gare eligible to make applications and pay the pre- ave planted can be accepled, even if the erop has not been planted, after the out- | off date. This means that ble | growers in this coumty do not Bave | many days yet to make application and pay the premium, if they have not already done so. Farmers who are interesfed in obtaining wheat insurance on the | crop about to be seeded should im- | mediately get in touch with the | county Agricultural Conservation og by County, located at the | Building, Bellefonte, Pa. | Gets Post as Tourist Director J. Herbert Walker, editorial writ- | or of the Altoona Tribune, was ap- | | pointed ax director of tourists and | | recreation information io the De- | | partment of Conunerce, Harrisburg, | ot $2.000 4 year. He succeéds Orson | {| N. Ritsman of Welser Park, who re- | i Engagement Announced : Mr, and Mrs. Walter Lebo, of | Lock Haven, have announced the! engagement of their daughter, Miss | Marguerite Lebo, to Ellis Williams, | son of Mr. and Mrs, H 8. Williams, | of Howard, TABLE THROWN FROM WINDOW, INJURES MAN were ne head of Ed- 54. Ashyie, neal WAS able Wal d Gallagher Coalport Whe O hie ad bY A Larowvn window Rosenheimer Hots e which was destroved by flames Sun- day noon. of the Five fire companies from Cresson Gallitzin, Newburg, Coalpor: and Palton answered the alarm for the fire which was the largest in Ash- ville region for many years, The first warning occupants of the hotel had of the flames was when smoke was seen pouring from the hotel's roof FIRE RAZES RALSTON MILL An unexplained blaze Priday de- stroyed the Ralston mill in Lycom- ing county which turned out rough blocks for shipment to Louisville 0 be made into baseball bats. Also consumed in the fire were approxi- | mately 26000 hammer handles Two of the 15 employes of the Ral- ston mill were hurt. Oswald Lom- bardi, 21, of Lake Ariel ed seriously from the walst up | ‘ William Hackett, of Ralston, ran into a saw and was cut, required 10 wag burn- | Announces Price For August Milk of Administrator Sets Rate S1.R9 in Milk Market ing Area E Harmon, administrator of the Federal-Stale orders regulating ! ndling of milk in the New bY 4 meiropolitan marketing area Anounced a uniform price of pr hundrediveight for 35 butterfat content milk re- from producers during the ith of August at handlers’ plants 201 210 mile pone from New rk City T price 0 be paid producers represents an increase of per hundredweight over announced under the Federal-State orderd mon In raid addition to the uniform price announced for August milk pro- ducre should receive from handlers T% cents per hundredwelght a; a “premium” payment. This "pre- minum” represents the amount by | which the uniforta price was in- | creased as the result of the higher “ 39 cenis | the price | for July deliveries, Mr. Har- | | from New York City will from handlers the uniform price dealers agreed (wo rs beginniiig Augusi lowing a conference calleg r F. H LaGuardia The August uniform price of $1.80 under the Pederal-Biste orders | based on a Class 1, or fluid milk price of $2.25 per hundredweight, a Class 11-A, or fnld cream, price of $1.35 per bundredweight and the folidwing prices for each of the re- maining seven classes of milk which represent the valve of milk used for various manufactured products Cisss H-B milk $1381 per hun dredweight; Class ITI-A. $1281 per hundredweight; Class HI-B milk $1051 per hundredweight; Class II-C milk, $5.1 cents per hundred- weight: Class IHD milk, 928 oenis per hundredweight. Class IV-A milk, 861 cents per hundredweight, and Class IV-B milk, 98.8 cents per hundredwelight. Producers delivering milk to plants jocated in pomes nearer or farther than the 201-210 mile zone receive prices aut plus or minus differentials for lo- cation. Differentials for buiterfat | content above or below 35 peroent are also required to be accounted for by handlers in thelr payments to producers. (Continued on Page ©) beih J Bilieit Dean 1 OL Page 8X) Car Tips Over 11-Ton Truck Injured When Heavy Vehicle is Thrown Its Side Two on LAL ogaY. ce stale that Lee's car struck the eat and that the car upped over { Se OA pong oad fashion had large Lruck " ones Lhe truck was CarTy- bed thrown so far truck Upped thai the the windshield of a oar op- vona were nn the scene of Supposedly Dead Buck Came to Life Clinton County Man Has Had Sixth Encounter With Deer on Road vouche which figured i mel along home Curing t aeer way yeal He was from Westport Trall whean he saw a the oppos He quickly allow the temporarily blinded ani- mal (0 run away, but the deer ran across the road into the path of the automobile Instead Believing the animal dead, placed #1 in the rumbie seal of car and started homeward, Infend- ng to deliver the carcass to a game protector, as he had done on five previous occasions with deer found dead along the road. Colng into his home for a moment, he was much surprised to find the deer standing beside his car when he came Out Becoming frightened when Nir. Bayer's dois and «ais approspched it, the deer ran across the yard but soon slumped down, exhausted When Mr. Boyer started his car fo refuming Ww the his home Buckiail pike buck on gide of the highway turned off lights to is on ite his he ¥ his leaped up and bounded nearby woods, And it his not been seen Ea Bellefonte Child since ‘ges 3 han | = A DANGEROUS PRACTICE: This department does DOL pre- tend Wo be the guardian of fhe morals of the younger geberalion It keeps us Dusy minfing our owh, jut the practice of some young Bellefonte girls In nileh-Diking Ww aud from Hecla Park 5 fraught with gredt danger. 13 Bb not beyond the realm of POAT! ty thal such gizle might be picked-up by the man, with gle coraeguecnes : thai Centre Courly Ras Of such crimes 18 LO guar- we are limuné NL a rents of such girls W WIGLE MN Pad MAYEE yore IT HELPED: weeks ago iL was suggested 1 that the liquor deal- y needed 4 good prevem ' time threst- mw owners in dis- and drys allke it happened Hquor dealers, unseemly at the dealers tisement voters criticism organization local tap ™at, in way, and the wh ich recon- bie two factions wer be Jounied tOpgelLher HERE'S TO “WILLIAM” any of you folks Xhow, Bellefonte’s miost erudite “William” 5 currently own- y D. M. Page, Othough he is y kind of carporation h fany persofis have af {ter He much $0 look &%, and id ANOEEY, even back one genera I £ open to guestion Bui {he what it fakes to pet dlong 3’ got Nig license several the Borough crack- cogs ind he nthe ger nergy round- Page boug Ent La Ncense dnd of oe bbrotgh dog “Ba uldht be Twice after the dog- him for Hiractiofis of i goL 80 thst the ald Chet Diukemar and Mayor 5 P Harris Had 10 be drall- him out ln ol cog - abort 10 Vitlories Bguor adyer thanked the congructive timate natter of how Ageted 3ellefonte ried wg "wy voskd WH hae | How Mn Wiliam” dog? a an " ™ ith ~Ogt ck 10 town screen door 1 ® his pa t feed by banging the screen door. In between times “Wiliam will po fo the back Hoor of the Diamond Restauran; a itchen help for food favorite time for prowlitig is al but the only Crimes ever him Have been arrests conistittes disorderly ter borotigh dog the A THOUGHT FOR A PENNY: Business establishments in which there are weighing devices or chew- ing gum, candy or cigarette vending machines would build up an enor- mous amount of good will among the public if they'd hang &bh Axe within reaching distanoe of the ma- chines for the use of persons who put a penny, nickel, or dime in the slot and get only the cank of the coin in the box as a reward. There is no minor pritetion this depart- ment can think of which causes greater rage then a danged sit machine that doesn’t work Of COUrse you can always get refunds by applying to the store owner or manager, but meanwhile the ma- chine just sis there and smirks REPORTER'S FIELD DAY: What with okt of ihe candi- dates for ihe Belelonte schoo! board comfifg bh oh defiite Plate forms of this aud that, it Jooks as tue year are gOlig to Have Wis of { good, reddalile copy. There might even be » TEN or two 1 of hundreds of offier Unsonvention {al things, DUl we Det Dot Ole those convention-defiers wold have enough nerve to wheel an empty baby Hh the business fhrong | section of Bellefonte at midnight. place it in the garage. the animal | into the | Adopt At Jast Thursday's session of | the Clinton County court adoplion pa- | pers wére granisd to Mr, Ang Mrs Charles L. Stelter of Lotk Haven | | for the adoption of a 4% months old Oarrity child of Bellefonte mT ‘KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES’ — Money Has a Way y With It
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