The Most Widely Read Newspaper in Centre County. A Visitor in Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. Odd and Curious News SECOND SECTION | | NEWS, FEATURES 8. VOLUME 5 4 Zhe Centre Democraf BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 19 Lost His Grip Excitement over the World Series indirectly caused the death of 51- | year-old George Washington Nuau- man, of Pittsburgh, Intent on Thursday's radio play-by-play des- eription, he let his old-fashioned straight razor slip from his fingers while he was shaving. Nauman tried to catch the razor between his arm and side. The blade sever- ad an artery in his right arm. He bled to death before a {ieian arrived HOLD UP ALTOO Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Point by Youthful : rh pny I'wo well dressed young men, one armed with entered an Altoona store a 1010 Twentieth street Friday night at 10:15 o'clock and held up Mrs and her husband of € money in Pol aid . ‘Cutting Reply’ Ernest Simpson, profes swallower, was charged turbing the peace before tion Judge Joe Hill Dalla Patron a ate the gla “1 don't believe it reaching for glass wil cently. "Let pri el “Guilty fh revolver fonal gl ith dis « " corpora- Te Jacob Lurie " them cash drawer me walked atl Xia and robbed the tavern © 08 win ice two IKnown which on n, 11 out Olle Of a nted him store the ordered the money When she 1an drew a would shoot the nn © e Drees res adjoin he ys t ©¢ you eat tha mn ! A Real ‘Fan’ if she did Beatrice Jane McKechhie, 11 year quickly old co-ed at Penn State Mr classes for several col a last week Lo go to a ball college authorities Miss McKechnie is “Deacon Bill” ney skipped Lurie’'s husband who was room t ecutive days ing the game, bul her -o Charged With mana we was Murder of Cousin Qa Jol nears excused the ughter 4 Mahaffey Man Held for Court Following Hearing Over Fatal Fight Cat Returns Home Escaping from the vy which wa ’ i all a western Col - I Arm miles away tomcal, Was found two days later, footsore and Weary, on the doorstep of the un- occupied house from which owner, Mrs, Hazel Porte: ver had moved. held la week be Peace Shaw at v1 Hig ae ¢ Ol . New Crop Berries Although Summer | over, Mr : mersfield, near past two week raspberry hushes cious red berrie bore heavily Summer ..» Obliging To oblige a friend of Houston, Texas ¢ days at the friend's house to be sure the house wasn't robbed during his absence. Upon returning to his own home, Muegge discovered that burglars had taken $920 in cash, a. gold ring. diamond ring. a gold stick pin ang oid cross officially nieac not i ied He was taken to the Clear- a Fr (Contowed on page six) ———— Clearfield Miner Caught in Cave-In 25-YearOld Vietim Rushed to Philipsburg Hospital in Ambulance » Prefer Jail Drunk, but sensible enough to de- cide ud rather pay t! " nat ne an A fall of rock Viola mine an automobile, a man requested ni, § of the 8 J. Mountz Coal Min- permission fo spend the night IN ng oompany at Smith Mills last jail at Alberquerque. N. M ‘Thursday caught Edward Waite and : injured his back. The 25-year-old Olid Watch Runs miner was rushed to the Philipsburg Finding an ancient watch among some heirlooms. John Davis of | Bowling Green, Ky, wound it. It hag been running accurately ever ¢ ck in the he afternoon Hospital physicians stated that grandfather and is at least 75 years old, A Knitting Teacher For five days a week, Mrs, Ray- mond Duin, ¢f Shubert, Neb, goe to the schoolhouse and knits froin $80 a m. to2p m She's the reg- ularly elected teacher, but there are no pupils to tesch. —— A Mr Warning to Berry Plokers. Bitter Sweet, a shrub with red ber- | definitely determined timé 1xter Waite is the son of Mr. and Mrs Zeb Waite, of Smith Mills, and = a1 employe of the mines in which was injured, mm sella —— GOLDEN GATE FAIR IS NOT TO OPEN IN 19% The Golden Gate International Exposition at San Prancisco, wili hie in the Fall, should not be gathered | ler, president of the fair, has an- without Bret obtaining permission nounced, from the landowners, says the de- He explained that to reopen the partment of Forest and Waters. Al fair next year would require $1. State law provides a fine of $25 and'| 650.000 in “new” money by Octo- cost of prosecution for each plant or ber 15 for pre-opening expenses part thereof removed without per- and he felt this sum could not be mission of the landowner obtained. ec ee it PLANS FOR RECREATION | PARK ARE PROGRESSING eS AS bcs i AM MS In accordance with a promise made to citizens of Millheim several weeks ag Kevatone Amer- ican Legion, has gone ghead with research and tentative plans to make a recreation park out of the dam site where the McMullin mill dam was located. State officials of the Department of Fish and Game, ag well as the Department of Porestry, have been contacted and their engineers have made a report on the subject of dam building at that spot. The Wa- ter Power and Resources Board has also been consulted on the type of structure to be built, with the re- The legion will purchase turnover the title of the property to the borough if and when the bor- ough will sponsor the project. No strings will be attached The work 0. Post engineers of the departments men- tioned will have figures available with which to make out the neces sary application for WPA funds, That is the sum and substance of what has so far been done. The mat. ter of the project and sponsorship sult that at the present moment will probably be put up to the Bor. figures are available showing the ough Council at an early date for cost of the project | their decision in the matter TYRO us NE YOUTH HAS THRILLING EXPERIENCE Frederick Farrand, son of Dr. and] The bulidogging performance Mrs. F. C. Farrand, Tyrone, who is came near the end of the rodeo pro- attending college in Cleveland, O., gram. The dirt section between first had an experience and narrow es- and third bases was being used. cape the other day that he will not Wire fencing had been strung on soon forget, iposte, which had been knocked Frederick attended the big Rodeo over when bumped several times in the Cleveland Stadium, and dur- during the afternoon ing the course of the show & steer; The steer cleared the four foot used in the bulldogging exhibitions, | railing, and spectators scattered in broke loose and jumped into the every direction. The steer eyed the grandstand just near where Freder- crowd for a minute and then made ick was seated. There were seven- a running leap into a section of the teen persons hurt as the result, | seats. rs a GS = whose | Securis into | an State Hospitil in the ambulance in’ the spinal cord is uninjured as the | since. Th - sionged to hie YOUN man can move his legs. X- | nce. The watch belonged to rays dare being taken and the full textent of the injuries can not be until some | [BOL Tun a second year because of | ries, usually used to decorste homes lack of financing, Leland W. Cut | TWO ARMED BANDITS AND ROB 214 LI ), NUMEER 41. Random Items —— NA STORE Lurie Robbed at Gun Pair, Who Threat- ened to Shoot if Frustrated I nOis mg ont door ec, came the the into the store and sce- men, attempted to go for assistance when the bandits warned him they would shoot if he moved any farther Lurie h d money drawer to the bandits the men turned » leave when a sto and In away Un - nove and dis. darknesg of two y 4 nae { ne ey the re ot the a the Irie sald the men were clean look- good English was investigated by Haberstroh Sergeant Patolman Houzer Lieutenant Haberst {0 Poke holdup { wand ot I'he Lieutena | Kepner and rods had been Wn nnouncement stolen The Weird “Isle of Wamen™ A ini, true tory which 8 man ht he wrecked on the I Women” left to die They w Vas { this strange in the October ue of The American Weekly, distributed with the Baltimore Sumn- iay American. On News stand Don't miss trated feature reel § “an § » dle at all | 1 1492 — Columbus Day — 1939 SA : Searched for ‘Pot of Gold’ Peter in Allent INE A il endary arrested on 8 War- with ring pretense rq Blate his Oliver Steeley, 62, told Po- Reinhard came burg Lehigh to i the goid which according to a story handed down from Colonial times, was buried by tenants of the farm before they fled an Indian attack Steeley sald he aoquiesced and for three years Reinhard called lice that u near Cooper and offered fir al that farm time ¢ Reinh jot the gold collect Steeley to ra over to hide Sleeley y 1 used 0 see me tatoes and cor m the fleld farm ! county, | Wi have he TREE PLANTING MAY NET $245,000 FOR CENTRE CO. FARMERS ‘Fund Available to Encourage Improvement of Woodlands-Estim ated Many Trees Could Be Planted in Area More than $245.000 can be earned, y farmers in Centre county under the Boll Conservation and Domes- tie Hotment Act for care and planting of farm woodlands, it was learned at Department of Ag- riculture yesterday This Act AAA ad courage farmers farm woodlands the known benefit of the emphasized by the Forest Bervice 10 en- to Improve present plant little being and the and addi nil trees Each of inty 2100 farms in Cen- under the Act preservation of the is entit for tO $30 year present farm woodlands, making a total of $63000 avallable for this work, which Involves clearing of h and debris that better fire protection is offered A more substantial benefit from provisions of the Hs version crop ang and to soll conserving use through planting of forest trees” The pay for this is $750 per acre It is estimated that frees could be planted on 24.300 acres, or a tenth farm acreage in the county der the Clarks-McNary law, u ased for $2 per wand rood and $5 for pine, and a thousand trees could cover two acres or more. On this is of planting, most of the $750 acre payment would go to the farmer work planting Centre county farmers id earn could (Continued on Page 6) led Lo brs 50 de- Act idle rived “con ol of the Un § £4 i i0r i £y "ta 4 for hi in w- OLD HORSEBLOCK AT REBERSBURG " 1 following § sati pen of Col maker it appeared sue of the Altoona Tribun In inn at o a p rT il ront mine host Bierly picturesque old Rebersbu Centre county, stands g block of limestone, horse~-block of the hostelrs mounting block. if it could could tell many tales Once, old people say, David Lewis, the robber wis sipping his shrub al the bar of the ancient log inn now of course rebuilt and Weather boarded, when a Dutch stable boy rushed in by the back and i that he inted sherilis coming yuntain from Sugar Like a flash Lewis threw his re talk, Go0T uttered out of m the EF D mf out, In a moment he was on the i horse-block, and next his long legs were acrofs his favorite mare, Frax- ' inelia, and he was off towards his hideaway in the wilds of Minnick's Gap. Lewis once had the audacity fo mmry a pretty young widow Rebérsbarg, who was In comfort. 1 in gz. took place in ris | Pennsyly In Which a Hushand Kills His Wife For Failure to Return to The y ew Berlin, bride went to meet him at the home of a relative there, but when (he ania Robin Hood had the nerve to come {0 live in Rebersburg, [he was recognized ahd had to make off. The bride felt 50 chagringd ang humiliated that she the rest of her life with ! closed and never went ated in this griters fa Mountain Stories” marriage where the able circumstances # row tved & ed Rebers- 7. W. 8hoil house was jon, Governor as present and There the de- in blue His Home, many ooming mountain clearings on ox-carts. Actord- andma” Annmary Slat. erbeck ro at Wolfe's store, fur- ther doen the valley in 183M, Were “es slmost sn equally large cone Footie Io We Liat Ceneral “Unie” fe. pMayboy m0 beg Wail th of Ay 4 ¥ » i raeback iy he) Wg § anc Brielor utant-Cenefal an for servi in 1846, General Sim on Car 8 former adi ral being present is personal preseniative of COovernor Francis j Shunk, who was indisposed enerals Bowman, Cameron and fe are all said to have address. throng from the oid horse General Wolfe, as previously Lioned in this column, had late received a new full-dress uniform e¢ by best military Sogiray A War meron, the EK cae of the rs in London. Not having a val- batman or orderly. he unpacked : hurry, he forgot to re- move the tissue paper which cover. ed the gilt buttons on the beck of his tunic, and when he got up on the horse-biock, a murmer weni through the crowd. Yet in such awe was the prosperous pisyboy-com- mander held by the audience that not one person present was willing to calli his attention to the over sigh. What his feelings terwards, Grandma Sisterbeck said no one seems tO be aware Despite the fact that David Lewis had an estranged and personable wife living a few doors up the street, be had the “edge” to return to Re- bersburg. and even carry on a flirta. tion with the ttractive barmaid al the ancient inn. Perhaps Mrs. Blanche Stover Smull, gifted jocal historian of Rebersburg and for several yearns standby for Dr. Eu- e P. Berti, the “Mr. Sunshine” the department of public instruc. tion at Harrisburg during the Earle dministration. may have some chapters of Lewis’ doings in Rebers- burg among her vast fund of valu- (Continued on Page 6) LTH his ~~ Oi Railroad Not To Blame in Fatality | Coroner's Jury Exonerates Company in Death of Sandy Ridge Man i i i { | i | ‘The accidental death of William | Miller, 42, Sandy Ridge, near his (home there recently when he was {struck down and run over by @ [train was not caused by negligence fon the part of the raliroad, a cor- joner’s jury which convened in | Philipsburg Friday night reported. The jury was called to probe the Sand Ridge man's death when © {was reported to Dr. W. R. Heaton, {Centre county coroner, that the i i railroad may have been negligent | {in certain phases of the accident. Miller, father of six children. had and , his right arm severed and his head! i fractured September 30 when he was walking along the tracks near {his home. He heard one train ap- jproaching him from the rear and is to be handled on 8 WPA arrange- | Stepped off the track into the path | + ment, with the borough furnishing ©f another train, which he failed | Clearfield-Centre county 1939 high- : rel toll soaring to a {the materials (much of the latter $0 Se. Both trains were traveling Way being already on the ground). State OWards Osceola Mills at the time! ng number of highway i of the accident. | Charles Miller, fireman on the (first of the two locomotives which iran over Miller's body sald that {smoke was pouring out of the lead engine and obscured vision. He stat. ted he did not see Miller until the | lead locomotive was 150 feet away {from the man. He sald he yelled ito the engineer who bnmediately {applied the brakes but by the time { the train was brought {o a stop both engines had run over the man’s Body. The firemen testified that the tender of the rear engine was rest. | tng where the body lay at the time {of the investigation of the tragedy. { Harold Bratton and George Lor- igan, Sandy Ridge residents joint. ily testified that the engine train which killed Miller was overtaking the other train at the time of the accident, They stated that no tres. ' pass signs were erected in the vicin- ity of the accident and both stated 'as far as they could remember that the trains did whistle, They esti- ‘mated that the train which Miller avoided was traveling at 25 miles ‘an hour and that the other train which was overtaking the first i (Continued on Page 8) ‘Woman Killed By - Car at Clearficld Aged Pedestrian Steps From Curb in Path of Passing Automobile Coroner Dr. BE BE | elderly Clearfield { knocked down by a car opersied by | James Thomas of Glen Rickey. | who picked up the : Soman, tobk Des 0 a then to the . Memorial hospital, where | she died of a fractured skull one | hour later, Dr, Erhard stated he had not | completed his Investigation of the accident but did not believe that an inquest would be held into the death, The Clearfield fatality sent the | ~break- ths for | this bi-county area. This: year's | highway déath toll fiow stands at 136, two more than thé previous ; high year, | ——————— — | Unseifishness wili do a lot | build up any community and Belle- fonte is not an exception. On re —————— a AER Y ‘KEEPING UP WITH Huntingdon Industrial School Control Reorganized By James The James organized ia indu administration has re- control of the Pennayl- rial school at Hunting- new board of r of the former trustees re- sagned at Governor James request A fifth, who was retained, {2 Fran- cis Fisher Kane, of Philadelphia The new board, still incomplete but numerically big enough 16 func- tion on all matters, consists of: Joseph H. Mosser, Willlamsport leather goods manufacturer, or. Albert 1. Wise, Pittsburgh den- Fou n lisher Charles 8. Bentley, Corry, retired businessman They succeed Kenneth L. M. Pray, philadelphia; Hyman Rogal, Pitts- a I RT IT Sg SUB-STATION AT COLLEGE DAMAGED BY LIGHTNING During ote of the worst electrical storms in State College about 5 o'clock Priday morning, lightning struck a 44.000-volt light- ning arrester in the West Penn Pow- burgh; John H. Biddle, Huntingdon pub- | in years! er CO. sub-station on East College avenue, All power in the community was, turned off while repairmen were re- placing the ruined apparatus. Fran- {eis Miller, manager of the State ed the polish capital reviewed the units which conquer. | L. Oder Burket, Roaring Spring, and Daniel Leffler, Clear- field 1 James, at the UUme he requested’ their resignation. sald the Humnt- ingdon Institution was “a thumb” in the state's welfare sit- uation. It is used as a detention school for boys. ! A new institution, under oon- struction at White HIll across the Susquehanna River from Harris burg. will be opened soon to house | juvenile de penis. The Hunting-| don school be used then only for mental defectives, James declined to say whether) John D. Petnington, superintendent | of the institution and a Democrat-' ic appointee, would be retained or fired. He sald it is “up to the trus-| tees” a — College West Penn offices said no| other damage resilied to company property. es 10,572 Nazis Fell in Battle In the course of his speech last week Hitler announced that Oerman command reported Hitler's visit Iat- er to troops at Warsaw, where he wire af! about $182,000 for planting trees Farm woodlands conserve the sofl and provide farmers with an addl- tional source of Income, the De- partment of Agriculture points out, This income can be earned during the leisure months of winter time for felling trees for fuel and lumber Cooperation of the AAA with the Forest Service Is expected to stimu- Inte this work. Parmers Interested are asked WwW write their regional AAA director for particulars Failure To Duck Results in Death Clearfield Brakeman Killed When Head Strikes Underpass Fallure to duck head while straddling a box car passing be- neath an underpass was blamed for the death of John W. Hazel, 53, of Clearfie brakeman who was kill- ed Tues of last week on the New York Central lines at the Ir- vona brickyard Coroner E. E. Erhard, Clearfield county coroner, examined the body of the rallroader. Prom information given at the brickyard plant it 5 believed Hazel was sitting on the box car and failed 10 notice the low underpass. His head is belleved to have been struck ss he falled to duck. He was found dead by members ff the crew who decided to look for the brakeman when he did not ap- pear on scheduled time His body was found on top of the box car — District Legion Posts Are Filled Charles Hartle, the his fA Philipsburg, and W, Z. Zahniser, Union- ville, Named { Charles Hattie, member of the Philipsburg American Legion. and John Gravish, commander of the Oscecla Legion, have been appoint- {ed district officers by District Com- mander Villiam J. McMaullin, of illheim District Deputy Commanders: Ar- thur Gallup, Bmethport; Charles Hartle, Philipsburg; District Adju- tant, Walter 8. Zahniser, Union- ville; District Chaplain, Rev. H. J Culver, Emporium; Americanism Commitiee, J. Mitchell Chase, Clear- field; Community Service, Morris Davis, rt Matilda: Traffic Safety, Clyde Weaver, Kane; Membership, i T. Rellly Lytle, Clearfield: Athlet- | ics, Robert Russell, Custer City: Boy | Scouts, John Hathaway, Emporium; Boys’ Camp, Leo Morton, Bradford; Youth Activity, T. John Cravish, Osceola Mills; Emergency Units Captain Herbert Beeger, Bellefonte: | | Radio, Joseph Finberg, DuBois; Dis- trict Bervice Officer, Thomas Pat- | ridge, Houtzdale; Auxiliary, Mary Irvin Billett, State College. sore | | Panther Seen Chasing Deer In Clinton Co. PE. THEY'RE NOT BAD At the annus] meeting of the Belleforte Chamber of Commerce, Friday night, Toastmaster Ivan Walker, Judge of Centre county, in commending Bellefonte Council for its rapid decrease of the borough's floating Aft, cast a re- flection on this column for treating Council with something less than admiration. We think Counefl has done 4 good Job on the borough debt. We're further willing to go along and praise Council for bulld- ing a fine sewage disposal plant if you like sewage disposal plants, Individually we like Counefimen. Under the surface they're just hue man beings trying to get along. But collectively they're open at all times W allacks on the left flank, attacks on the right flank, and in the mid- Cle. As a citizen and taxpayer (Note to Tax Collector O. A. Kline: This is Just a figure of speech) we stand on our constitutional rights and dee clare with our last breath that whatever else Councllmen lack, they can “take it." With but two minor exceptions this department can't remember a single instance when a Councll member howled because he was knifed In the back in a Dhews- paper item! WHAT'S THIS, KARL? iso at the Chamber meeting, Karl E. Kusse, secretary, was called upon to make 8 few remarks. In be. ing introduced he had been gently | ribbed about his former residence in Barberton, Ohio, which most peo- | Slegal, Millhelm; Sons of Legion, of Woolrich, declare they were not were ai the Crider Cabin in gher Township, Clinton Oounty, and one afternoon recently panther six feet in length, and lithe, giving chase wo two or | extended stem will dip EE i i pie thought was a suburb of Pitts. burgh until Kearl came bers two years ego. Somewhat flustered the Becretary arose to his feet and in defending his love for Bellefonte he shouted: “Bellefonte has really gotien under my skin!” Well for give him if he didn't mean that the town has got under his hide. WATER SMELLER SPEAKS By the very nature of his calling you would naturally expect & water- smeller 10 be an old fogey with a beard and a lot of superstitious hocus-pocus. Cohseguently It was Quite 2 shock to this department when, upon being introduced to a well known Moose Run water smell. er, Clark McKinley, we found him clean-shaven, 34 years oid, entirely sane and entirely free of any super. stitious awe over his powers, “I think there's a big future in water-smelling,” sald McKinley, “If & man would take It seriously and work at it, I believe he could mike & greal success of IL” he repeated. Although McKinley is only a 14 by Reakeel ground you're testing.” he “When you pass over the wa sharp the ground, the bark will twist heave and you can be sure water isn't far off” “When you've found out where the water lies,” McKinley added, “you take a brass bution, tie it on a string, and hold it above a half- glass of water which is placed over the hidden water course. The but. 4] s¥ : | “Seein Things at Night” when they | © lieve him, but §¥ ! 2 : Hi EE Eh THE JONESES' — No Underfed Sleuthing for Dolan
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