| The Most Widely Read Newspaper in Centre County. Odd and Curious News SECOND SECTION dhe Cenfre Democrat A Visitor in Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. ny Random FEATURES : Items VOLUME 58. -— Abe Old-Time Punch. W. H. Curry, 19-year-old Altoona | resident, deciding it was Hme to] teach the young bloods a lesson, | unloosed a rusty but capable left hook to the stomach and pul to rout & young bandit who accosted | him with a gun on Altoona streels one night recently. After asking | Curry for a match the unidentified | bandit pointed a gun and demanded money. Then Curry let him have it The surprised bandit was knocked | against a car where he scrambled | to his feet and fled Curry reported | the attempted theft to police who | falled to find a trace of the young | Whiting Fox, a Washingtod lawyer, Wilson nearly a year ago mann. } M Walks Off Train Tired after a trip to the World's Fair, Rocco Marcketta, 14, fell asi¢ep on the train. Suddenly awak- | ened as the train was about to reach | his home station at Newark N. J. | the boy sprung up and walked out | of the car and right off the rear platform of the moving train. He | suffered a scalp wound and other bruises No Partiality. Victor B. Wolfe, 19, and Herman J. Kuhn, 27, crashed head-on into each other's automobile on the highway at Hagerstown, Md, Each | claimed the other was over the center-line of the road when their cars collided. Magistrate E. H. Mil- ler believed each and fined them both. Nose-Prints Dogs. In order to end the stealing | } } t of valuable dogs for reward money or’ for sale, a plan for nation-wide | identification of dogs by “nose- printing” to eliminate “dog-nap- ping” was presented to the Ameri can Humane Association at its re- cent meeting in Albany. Gets New Pipe Most acceptable among the gifts received on his fourth birthday, celebrated recently by Walter Craw- ford, of Trenton, N. J. was a new pipe, which replaced a Christmas gift pipe he broke several weeks ago. Walter has been smoking since he was little more than a year old. | Play ‘Big Bears’ To aid in getting small children to don their gas masks air-raid | wardens of London have taught them a new game—"big bears.” With the game, the children are easily coaxed into putling on the masks, in order to become “big bears.” Wind to Snow. When Judge Vince A. Day grant- ed a divorce to Mrs. N. E. Wind, he also gave her permission to resume her maiden name, Gladys Snow The couple resides at Minneapolis TWO JOHNSTOWN BOYS FOUND IN LOCK HAVEN Two 14-year-old boys, both of Johnstown, were picked up oh a street in Lock Haven Saturday night by Officer Raymond Croak after a police teletype description had been received from Johnstown reporting them missing from home | afternoon about 4:25 o'clock feom | since Sept. 19 The boys, Henry Zabola and Leonard Lubinsky, told police they had visited the World's Fair and | were on their way home. They sperms the night in the county jail and Sunday their families came for them Hospital Supt. Resigns Miss Almena Wuerthnef superin- tendent of the Philipsburg State Hospital for the past four years, resigned from her position and left Philipsburg Monday morning. She returned to her home In York It Is likely that the newly appointed board of trustees will meet some- time this week to formally accept the resignation and elect a new su- pesintendent to {ill the vacancy “Cooking Around America” A series of beautiful paintings by James Montgomery Flagg duced in full color in which “Cook- ing Around America” ls . glorified You'll want to save these pictures and try the splendid recipes con- tained In this series. Now appearing in The American Weekly, the big magazine distributed with the Balti- more Bunday American. On sale by all newsdealers. . Sometimes a poor golfer can out- lie & good player after the shots have been made. repro- | BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1939. HOW ADOLF HITLER VIEWS ROOSEVELT'S | FOREIGN POLICIES Washington Lawyer Relates Result of Inter- | view with German Dictator At His Berchtesgaden Retreat In the following article Albert! tells of a recent interview with the | Chancellor a this Berchtesgaden re- | treat. Tis Importance is all the more significant because Mr. Fox is the only American who has talked with Hitler since withdrawal of the Unit. ed States Ambassador nearly a year ago The article is re-printed from the" New York Times as It appeared in last Sunday's edition I have very recently conferred with the«German Chancellor, Adolf! Hitler, concerning President Roose- velt's policy on matters relating to the proposed lifting of the Ameri- | can embargo on arms. The confer- ence was held at the Berghof Hit- ler’'s mountain retreat near Berch- tesgaden, I am the only American Career As Writer Uses Trained Dog to Guide Him in Travels About College Buildings With a trained dog to guide him, Robert A. Ross. of Altoona, blinded seven years ago in an explosion, Is setting out confidently on a career rarely attempted by the blind, news- | paper reporiing Ross is 21. He entered the Penn- sylvania State College this month as a freshman in journalism, and | already he and his dog, Rita, are a | familiar sight on the campus “Rita still gets mixed up on sev- eral of the buildings.” When I tell her to go to Schwab | Auditorium, she usually takes me to Old Main. On other buildings, | though, she is fairly accurate” There are sixty major buildings on the campus. Rita and her master {go to class in only seven. The, dog {les at his feet during class, Between classes, however, the two (the 5800 students, and this | prompted Dean of Men Arthur Rr | Wamock to request publicly that students avoid helping either the idog or her master ‘Loaded School Bus Strikes Car No One Hurl in Crash on Flemington Highway Last Thursday | No one was injured bub damage i totaling $115 resulted last Thursday traffic congestion on the highway between the two bridges in Flem- ington The car of Reynold I. Martz, Lo- ganton, was damaged to the ex- tent of $110 when it was struck hy la Johnston bus transporting shu- {dents from Lock Haven to Beech [Creek | The accident was precipitated | when a beer distributing touck be gan to turn off the highway to | Johnell’s place. The Porter Town. ship school bus carrying pupils from {Lock Haven to that area, stopped | to allow the truck to make the turn The Johnston bus, following the Porter bus, could not get stopped. { however, according to the driver, ind was swerved sharply to the left jto avoid striking the Porter bus, ithe left front of the vehicle hitting i the left side of the Martz car, which | was traveling east. The Johnston bus was damaged { to the extent of $5, according to the ireport of the State Motor Police who investigated i Despite the fact that the bus was Ffull of school pupils. no one was in- jured. i Lemont Band Wins Prize The Lemont band, which accom- | panied the Alpha Fire Company, of | State College, to the Clearfield | Fair early last week, was awarded a second prize of $25. The first prize {went to Houtzdale. Costs $32.89 to Live In Centre County orion government gests to the in- lax ist Centre county has been cstablished at $3280 and in Clearfield county at $2482 by the State of Internal the frst time in iy costs and per he by capita rates Taxes in Permaylvania, it disclos- ed, cost the a person $8760 a year, The ie paid $262 to the slate and of that 5 Sor Ed SE Local governments collected $428, - the importance of recording the sources of these funds and purposes | for which they are spent becomes | increasingly evident” Livengood said. | The reports pertain to 66 coun- j ties (Philadelphia is listed as a city | 47 cities, 930 boroughs, 1577 town ished); and 2582 school districts, Per capita cost In Huntingdon | B15 | county for the same year was $25.08; | J. Martin Pry of | Fange from a low of $1854 In Ful- county, Curiosity Causes Burns Curious, Richard Murphy, ‘ said Ross. | | ships, 424 poor districts (since abol- | ton county to 86275 in Allegheny | the withdrawal of Ambassador Hugh : His view | Program of hi kb thal the President's ib a vebtural consequence | desire to support Great Rrit- ain In defenee of the Versailles Treaty. “This Versailles pact,” sald Herr Hitler, "is the root of all the trouble. Ht lias become necessary for Germany to break the chains that bind it. Since America did not rati- fy that pact, I cannot see why she should now be helping to enforce It. 1 cannot understand Mr. Roose- velt's postion. What i= his reason for his attitude toward Germany? What has Germany ever done Ww America except to seek friendship and good-will?” Our Own Affair Re pecking the proposal, Hitler wa cerned. He as it now Germany cash-and-carr: not deeply eon- considers the embargo tinds detrimental to because it permils ship- ment of Ingredients of war mater- ials and implements of war and Germany has no shipping and is not in a position to purchase, while Great Britain and France have sur- plus cash and the necessary ships. | on munitions | simply | discrimination | against Germany, according to Hit- | Lifting the embargo and implements of means a further War ler’s view, but he considers it essen- not consider it Important except for its possible effect on the Ger- (Continued on Page I) | FHA | | | | | oe NUMBER 39. HE SELLS BELLEFONTE MAN ma A Legion Convention Ti » | try HO Federal Housing Administrition insured loans In Centre county are increasing this year as compared with those issted from 1934 to 1038 inclusive, it was learned yesterday According to a special tabulation and county this made by FHA for Centre 147 loans have been Insured year up to June 30, with a value of $835,730. Should activity during the last six months continue to equal the first two quarters there would ibe 204 loans insured for the entire tally America’s affair and he does year first vee During the fiz Centre countly buyers borrowed four ars of home more owner and than ME LOANS INCREASING IN ‘ CENTRE COUNTY THIS YEAR 25 Years from Now | Big John Porton, of the West I i 4 | A T i N C K A £ H A | | Penn offices In Belleforite, honored this office with a social call the | other evening After looking around WARRIOR'S MARK, R.D. © a thai ee the | “Why don't you get some ght We argued that we had Inmination, tv shich he vesh ‘ f Aan A rl for developing Mike Mills Suffers Fractured Jaw in Auto sents of Collision-Hawk Run Driver Escapes pegative Injury When Car Overturns REMEMBER? Ww ugh the ofher day we came upon an is. rding the election of A H of Houtzdale, a: Senator Clearfield Centre oouinty the yermmernt ie mulling thre our {i= ran ina H y wi Apes! burg, Joe Krupa, of Hawk his car off the road and field. It is sald that Krups car was sideswiped by a cdr driven by from William Robison, of Wheeling, W.| Damage 0 the Krups car was estimated at M400 and the Robison machine $200. No one was serious) injured in the mushap ————— Mike MI suffered a jaw, lacerations aged 50, of Bellefonle fracture of the and bruises about the right eye, when the car In | wich he was a passenger figtired [in a collivion Saturday night two east of Warriors Mark of the figuring In accident was driven by Bteriing Nataleu of Oak Grove, Altoona, R and was damaged to the extent The second car was driven Terror so Noll. of Warriors Mark, tom.” fearless adventurer, disporis with whom Mills was travel- | 10 the ertertainments of followers © son mn (0agn = News ewe, Huntingdon motor police said the tributed with the Baltim re Sun- cars came together at the brow day American Two new pages have hill on a township road and been added to the comic overturned, damaging ull find all of your amount of $50. Mills wa ipplement distri given Lreaiment by a physician Another acciaent occurred ounty early Sunday morn. ving a narrow escape {rom the d While aris ay near Ee rece om POESIDIL Letzler Lh the ri Our representatives in various wem departments of gx de be extremists. Congressman Zandt and Assemblyman Ken- neth Haines, conduct weekly eo imns weekly newspapers and otherwise keep their names and pic before the people Letder bas Vv i“ nile Var Yall Omni Cars the TH - Meet “The Phantom” The Phain- of evil doers os - MEMORY They say that Deputy Warden Rhoads of Rockview penfientiar can ratile off constantly the ntum- ber of any who has beer incarceraled at Rockview during the past ten years. All you have 40 men. tion is the name Most remembering our «¢ phone munbers WINCHELL AGAIN All the time people atk us wh » NM 3-Car Collision we don't write 3 columzs like Wir Collision on Altoona-Tyrone : chell. We mean Highway Results in $500 ought to publish such items as Damage fact that Mr and Mrs. So-And-So are expecting the stork; thal some- one’s marriage is about to fold; that some married man is two of » ST} section #1 favorite C in led reg- Noll car to Lhe inmate in Americar ———— -———— Two Men Hurt In Centre ng inve | death for of ur have dollars 14] ndred thousand ny 735 FHA loans, 181 vet driving wn ej of aver- talong the highw per cent i FHA will continue to in- | two YEA lowered its require- Mem ment a new plan for men’s organizations fir ng $2000 homes. This Is ex- the firemen’ day activities at the pected 0 give additional stimulus Clearfield County Falr last week Ww FHA activity in Centre county had a busy time The Hand-in-Hand during the balanee of the year Drum and Bugle Corps carried off Me third prize. $20, in the parade The company’s pumper, and several of 25 firemen attending from Lock pressed Into 1 a large fire destroyed a bulld- Firemen Have Basy Time of the Lock Haven lire- who attended for another ber presume they ve ho. ve. offering tems Two Philipsburg residents C J Hart) f \ r u thd | @t ‘ Hartle, 45, and Mrs Marion Burhs, | srnund with someone else A 45, and a Philadelphia WOMAN, |, similar items In the firs, place ” lw iba] i, > 37 were M § # i 4 vy v » hy BOTYIee aging Stine of Chester Hills WETS | this department no Winchell tovieayh ort , ' injure¢ one mong ha week M1 the id place we hereby bE 51a 08 1 19 OMIA ~ T ¢ sion on the Altoona A to move to any small cr 0 get away with 4 a tiered ’ $ running ay can do some wile improve the standard of of the peonle that Hye ir were . i Pie Linas i — e001 a three.ear onl T highway inlersection Pe + he | * y A rinte weal fe Tl Wabi ads brin resulis Lell a " yrone the munity and try munity ang ry RAILROADING IN THE LONG AGO Rallroading, with its fund of ro- | mance, never loses ils glamor in song and story, and the experiences told by old velerans of the ral never cease to be interesting. There are very few living today | lifetime was spent in Buch a colorful Individual was i Conductor Bill Irvin, | early days of the Tyrone and Clear- field raliroad. was one of the men i best known to the traveling public jand one of (he mest popular. Al- { though he later had a more digni- {Hed run on the main line, Caplain jIevin, as be was fasnilarly known (Was fond of minting his early ex | periguoes while amploved on big first [fans In the days when telegraphy {was in Wg infancy It was in the long ago thal the following reminiscevces were relat- tock by the old knight of the rail, but thelr ro-teiling wilh always be in- teresting reading. When interviewed on the subject of his early experiences Mr. Irvin | obligingly replied :, | “The quesrest aceident | was ever in” related the MEI many years | 8g0.” was at McCann's Crossing, on i whose | railroading | j that could not tell some interesting | | experiences, if prevatled upon. And! must find their way past many of {the tales of the old-time radlrond- | Hak “er usually camry Lhe most suspense. | who. In the! Interesting Reminiscences Conductor of Philipshurg the wostern slope of the mountain, where Mains Circus was wrecked and all sorts of animals sel al large among the hills. 1 wasnt in accident, The day 1 spoak of ‘Yank’ Latham was my and he continued allerwards the same road “We were going down the moud- tain af the usual speed My work was all done and 1 was in the bag- gage oar talking to the mail agen! and the baggage master. There it a reverse curve at McCann's Cross ing, and the grade is heavy there “Jud ns we reached the curve | felt a slight fer and daw he Smoke stack of a locomelive scraping She side of the baggage cdr T ran 0 the window, threes i ap and 160k] out. Thers was our engine rolling down the grade | “We ran out and began twisting the brakes. We got the train gion. ped soon and then we went back 10! the rescue of Latham and Josh’ Cox, his fireman. We found hem | safe enough, barting a few scrateh- | €s, al the bottom of the hill where the engine was ying. | “Yank tid me that the fire in! the engine world have {0 be draen (fe BR y 1! ’ what he does in Wit al Bellwood New York The first sue of his column would bring such abuse, physical violenos legal action and torture that he'd gladly hie himself back to the big city he can be Jost In shuffle and doesn't have to answer for every word he puis on paper OVER THE HILL People used to shudder ai the thought of going fo the poor house From now on Centre countians will have no need to regret such a move for the Asmodeta, more complete, aad more {luxurious than anything we've ever even those who have lived well dur ing thelr Wfetime II Belicfonie | could secure a buliding one-half as substantial as the Poor Home, to house the High school, the school district would be well served According to motor police, Louis Katz of Altoona was driving east ane collided with the car driven by Hartle. A third car, also traveling west, was unable (0 stop and became involved in the accident Hartle suffered a bruised should- Mrs. Burns, lacerations of the ‘eve and head and body bruises and Theima Sting Philadelphia, re- orived a possible fracture of ribs. The mjured were treated by a Captain. “There was no telegraph | Bellwood physician and then re- line over the mountaing then and! turned to thelr homes in Philips. when we were in doubt we had to! burg for further Urestment. Dam- hers was he waler handy. 1! Tun curves’ : | ose to the cars was estimated at ran back 10 the train 10 get some | TRURBNIDE curves Wieatiy 10 Seid 4 4500. buckets to po in search of water apd | Man ahead at every curve 0 flag | biess if there wasnt the anything that might be coming the | engi safe and uninjured other way. Ii waz a slow method | on § af the ftraln. We got of raliroading, particularly where! L § Mad I and put out the fire there are 30 many curves that they Death By Gas | sometimes cross each other, but nn —— 2 the i we cond od ] 3 wa best we comid do ' Hollidaysburg Man Overcome IT was bringing the last train In i CS ) It was a passenger. All of the By Fumes While at Work freight engine; had gone down the | i * g ad Eg in Shop mountain and 1 had the only engine where the of an Old-Time Railroad or nutes “That was only y accident 10 of an d in the earlier days of that rosd”™ continued the experience 1 ha the We Lhe ¢ ¢ ier would explode ih, OWIRT WO we concluded water. But wa Lingua was the rub - wilh -. eyes fank | | § the train down ta Vall where the Clearfield and the Haid Eagle roads {, and wi ght the Bald Eagle mall 1 just coupled onr train on belind and we god into Tyrone only fiinrtes late {that side of Tyrone. Bob Emith ™ia created wensatinn lnstng | Was ih charge of tt We were go-| Otis Querry, Hallidaysburg bar our engine on the way and fetehing | Ing up the eastern slope of the | ber, had 4 nArTOW escape Irom train in nearly on time 1 af. mountain as fast as the engine death by aaphixiation by fumes terward learned that the flange of | could haul the train, which was not | from a gas waler heater when ai 4 pony wheel broke and sent the very fast, and between Powelton | work in his shop st Hollidaysburg, engaging over ihe hill The stram and Sandy Ridge there was an old | Saturday on the tank couplings eaus-|Y.’ : | Mr. Querry complained of a head- ed them io give way and nothing “The swilch was misplaced ana ache and drowsiness, and worked was damaged except the Jocomotive. | the engine was thrown off the for some time under this handicap en we dropped Bicycle Endurance Record Four boys of Shelbvsville Ind George Lamore, Jim Vaubel Herb ert Lewif nd Msurice Brokering eli in their teens, recently finished a marathon which ther estimated had taken them 11.400 miles riding one bicytie In two-hour shifts, siner July 29, establishing what they be lieve ia a new national bicytle en- durance record of 1.135 hours of continuous riding aT, u hep Lie Babies | oord for accidents Bu: 1 think that establighed a re- track and over against the side of | Toward noon, when shaving a cus | tomer, he suddenly collapsed, fall- | ing 10 the floor. The patron leap- {ed from the chair and carfied the I have never beard of if being equaled Yank Latham took a good bit of pride In a small cut. That left us in a fix Tyrone was 15 miles away and there An informative article in which authorities explain why the rearing of the young is a much greater (Continued on Page 6) . te man through the door Problem for human beings than for : Seek Fugitive . Who Struck Man : | Wanted in Lock Haven For Cutting Vietim's Head in Fight ————— | Lock Haven police are seeking | John Farrenberger who is charged | with aggravated assault and bat- tery. alleged to have been commit- ted at a fight early Saturday morn- ing at the home of Mrs. Helen Mat. thews, rear 710 East Bald Eagle street, In that city Harry McCollum, the victim of Farrenberger’s alleged assault, was treated at the Lock Haven Hospital i for a severe scalp wound which was i closed with six clamps. He was then {able to return to his home. Both men are negroes. Constable David 1. Probst has | the warrant and will serve i§ when jhe leans the whereabouts of Far- | renberger, who paid a fine and costs {in July on a charge of assault and | battery. He left the city after the fight. The police were called to the { Matthews home about 8 o'clock. On | their arrival they found McCollum | bleeding profusely from the wound, sald to be inflicted when Farren- berger struck him over the head with a bottle. It is also charged he in the | | smashed some furniture | house before leaving. | STATE COMEGE RESIDENT HEADS STATE KIWANIANS —— a — Pennsylvania Kiwanians named the close of their 22nd annual ses- | sion last Wednesday at York, Pa. | Lressurer, FLOYD GIBBONS College as | Blair, $3252; Bedford, $22.48; Cam. ‘heir president and Scran- | | bria, $33.52. The survey disclosed a | "0 as the 1009 comvention city at | DIES AT STROUDSBURG HOME Floyd Gibbons. one of the worlds moet famous newspapermen and war correspondents. died Sunday | night at his home in Stroudsburg. The 52-year-old writer and radio speaker, whose rugged features and patch over one eye made his face familiar to millions of houséholds, life as a spectacular news-getier | during recent months. He had been fll for some time. Beech Creek Man Hurt John McCloskey. of Beech Creek. | mine above Beech Creek He sulfer- ed lacerations of the lower Hp and over the face and forehead and was aot considered in a serious condi- Poultry Course is Annoupeed The nineteenth annual poultry short course and semi-annual meet- ing of the Pennsylvania Stes) Poultry Association will be held at’ the Pennsylvania State College! from Oct. 16 to 20, 1% was announced | today by D. R. Marble of the Ool- | lege poultry husbandry department. ' RE ——— some instances, while in others the us dally bread if we shiould happen | parents among the other creatures ion earth. You'll find this article iin the October Sth issue of The American Weekly, the big magazine | distributed with the Baltimore Sun- {day American. On sale at all news. stands ——eeee—— | 10 fhe sidewalk as he detected the odor of gas GERMANS A physician was hastily summon- jed, who upon examination found pn ——— | the victim's blood heavily charged New food rationitg cards went|plained officially, was ordered 0] gin ong Ne, : into effect in Germany this week. | “maintain our grest national tread! Amer congidersiile 4ifculty. he Restrictions have been tightened in and grain reserves and to guaranties ... restored to oonstioufbess and is now steadily recovering at his) Upside Down Boy 0. K Now {to experience smaller hatvesia” | home The doctor stated that had | Richard Kemealy, 8 of Chicago. The weekly ration for the average | he continued to Inhale she gas a few whose World for some time seemed is about as follows: 53) minutes longer, he would have died | atid upside-down place 6 him be. of bread or 4.1 pounds of] Mr was nof aware hat | cause of faulty vision now uses both | ihe gas had gone out, as it was Dot | eyes normally, thanks fo Dr Bd. j turned on full force and gradually, mund J Krump, trained him to ger SKIM MILK FOR a amounts have been enlarged The average household is aliowed | Un. | person ere butlerfats must be conserved fo in- wire a supply for solid soldiers and | Ounces workers in heavy industries, Who 318 oufices of cheese or 4.37 ounces I : will be given special food cards ok uhiey ooisgi bi Ag ed -| averaged 12.937 pounds of milk | ists were with an average bullerfat of | biles to di H : 33 per cent, said A. LL. Beam pro- from bad. At least, that's what he |fessor of dairy production. This told newsmen after an address at ee | AMounts to 427.1 pounds of butter- York last week | fat per cow. | barley, graots (cracked grain), and flour products ——— LX m——t CEE fo J a. Rm" STATE'S MINERAL {| Dean Bdward Steidie said gains INDUSTRIES IMPROVE In output and employment were re- {ported in coal, refractories, fron, A noticeable pickup in Pennsyl- steel zihe smelling and related vania's vital mineral industries bas! Oelds. Bituminous coal appears to been noted by specialists in the be reacting more than anthracite! sequent Fall dog field trials for the School of Mineral Industries at the for the present, he said because of and won $123.50 in prises for his! thelr car, Permsylvania State College since | increased consumption by the steel! new owner, Charles Barnes, the outbreak of war in Europe. | industry and the railroads. Glencoe, Pa A —— EEPING UP WITH THE oe Can't Believe Dolan La — JONESES' — Elmere | climbed onto a stool to peek into a pot on the stove at his home In, Girl For Rebersburg Couple He lost his balance,! A daughter born knocked the pot from the stove and | Mrs. C. 8, Hovierman, o Reaper | burg,
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