The Most Widely Read Newspaper in Centre County, A Visitor in Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. dhe Cenfre Democy BELLEFONTE, PA.,, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1940, Odd and Curious News Ch Falls 5 Stories, Lives Henry Grabowski, 20, a window cleaner, fell from a fifth story wins | dow in Pittsburgh, landed on the metal top of an automobile sixly Random NEWS, FEATURES SECOND SECTION Items NUMBER 2. VOLUME 59 PHILIPSBURG CCC CAMP YOUTH FREED fick tiv and, itved to teh, th OF MURDER CHARGE gheny General Hospital sald x-ray . fe failed to disclose a single bone had | - ———— been broken, but just to play sie William Patrick Exonerated of Intention to | pr. | | ———— COUNTY'S OLDEST VET OBSERVES NINETY SIXTH: uw one eins BIRTHDAY MONDAY | County 'uperinuendess ob 7 Capt. C.T. Fryberger, Philipsburg’s Grand Old | wh WE WERE WRONG, PARTLY The Old -Timer —=\ BUCK A 4 a RIVER 1 WHO lave v werk they had the hardy youth remain overnight. Grabowski told Dr. Wil- | lam C. Burry a window sash gave | way and he started to fall back- | wards. “1 twisted and looked down for a second,” he said, “Then 1 hit something and the next thing 1 remember they were picking me up.” Let Dishes Pile Up Dr. D. E. Beaman, addressing the American Pressive Chiropractic? Association at Los Angeles, bluntly told housewives how to do thelr work, if they want to avoid ills that resuly purely from the nature their work and their wrong way oO: doing 0 Is panacea was "rest more, eat five small meals a day instead of threé big ones, your dishes for the entire day and then do them at one dish~washing session.” § od Thanks For Repairs Edward B. Martin, of Bast Liver pool, Ohio, almost wishes the sane person who drove his car away from his home would do it again, because when he got i back, Marun was considerably to the good. Inspec- tion at the police station revealed | that although the car had more | than 300 more miles on ii, there were eight more gallons of gasoline in the tank, a new fuel pump and distributor head had been installed and the front wheels rebushed. | Funeral Called Off Relatives and friends gathered to-| gether at Brazil, Ind, for the fu- neral of William Lloyd, 66-year-old former coal miner, were amazed when the funeral was “called off.” A sister who had identified him In a telephone conversation with Ram- | sey (II) authorities discovered the! body was not that of her brother! when it arrived at the mortuary Mystery Solved Joseph Grande, a farmer of Con- estoga, called state police when he found 45 of his chickens missing But while the officers looked for fingerprints, Mrs. Grande heard a clucking and found the hens hud-| died under the chicken house The troopers theorized the hen house | door blew shut before the 16 ou enter. ; . i Transparent Fish Transparent fish, from two to five inches long and without eyes have been taken from the well on the Ozark farm belonging to Harrison Garreit, at Cureall, Mo. These fish resemble catfish and their bones are visible in the sunlight The well is 100 feet deep and the water comes from an underground stream. six feet deep. Penny Baby The pennies saved by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bucecino, Philadelphia, “for a blessed event” came in handy last week. After his wife gave birth to a baby girl, Buccino paid the maternity hospital bill with 3700 of |G | Philipsburg CCC camp pile up! ___. Kill Altoona Negro Athlete, With Whom He Quarreled Over Girl made by District Attorney B. Wra: and Patrick's Samuel Juhelirer, lasting hou Patrick shooting mn Che counsel for two te Charged with the murder on May 27 of Thomas J. Benjamin, 19-year- old Altoona negro athlete, William Patrick, former member of the was tried | court at Holli- and on Satur H claimed » Benjamin Alloont in the Blair county daysburg week day wa! guilty.” The the Ler last street ‘ t accords tr verdict of "no that 13 the Judg | Huntingdon vel climax at end two=day trial D. PFetlerhool Wally pre ol CRalr Wi e of wn e C . ol directed ul Wed WANE sequittal on charges the defendant Judge Fe * arguments Aged Man Dies In Blazing Home tierhool were » decision reached af Lock Haven Resident Victim of Blaze While Asleep in Bed Robert Crotaer, a WPA workers, believed to be abou 72 years of age, died in his blazing one-room house North Washington Street, Lock Haven, near the railroad shortly after 11 o'clock Friday night. Dean McCauley, hotel employe, saw the blaze and turned in the alarm. The building was a mass flames when firemen arrived, and it wasn't until after the blaze had been extinguished, that his body ved alleged Lthrea The ieller dated Philipsburg, May 24, 1838, and written by Patrick revealed when e¢ writer was walking wit! Benjamin, Bendamin had advised him to keep his hands out of his pockets or he would slice a knife. Under cross examination, Miss Iv- ory sald she had sent a letter to ! Patrick while he was && camp, ac- vising him to be careful when he visited In Altoona. Miss Ivory alw said Benjamin was peeved when Df (Continued Mom Page 4) tha on eres we wad BLITZKRIEG HITS RENOVO ON THE GOVERNMENTAL FRONT diiing ¢ recovered from ae ¢.ootion 21 piace dispenser 0! Renovg when an~ eR Jel! few ¢ (oree waen Ww of £6 linoleum (badly One flat-top desk. Qne garden variety kite Man, Thinks “Finns Are Awful Good Fighters To L | hat flitteg I. Fryberger siden! Philips. who on Mon- ANNIVErSary Th ome rece; a fp 1 Nd slenung ) 4 WwW many mad ¢ points that all t of Pittsburgh FF Deen rall- been ut have former resident here when about y locate in Philips. burg and has lived there ever snce He was hired to help manage the Hoover and Hug! Laks of fo iy wt Fi | could be recovered. He had ap- parently been asleep on his bed | when the fire started Its origin & | unknown. The firemen used a plug He is reported to have a daugh-| ter, Mrs. Myrtle Swaria Johnstown | Dr. W. J. Shoemaker, Clintor | County coroner, was called and di rected that the body be taken to th? Helt Puneral Home. — nn A ———— STATE COLLEGE 1. 0. O. F. ELECTS 1880 OFFICERS State College Odd Fellows last | week elected the following officers: | pretident, Edwin H. Rohrbeck; first’ vice president, Harry W. Lonberger; | second viee president, John M Hartswick, secretary, H. Prank Reed; and treasurer, C. Edgar Book Walter 8. Jackson was elected a’ new member of the board of direc tors. Other members of the hoard in addition to the officers, are: John the warm atmosphere of the cuey W. Miller, Newton N. Hartswick, G. room. They preferred to sit » Clifford Reed, and John M. Shope. | while and talk—-and talk they did — As pearly alli were huniers-—-or had Slush Causes Aute Callision { been in their time—the conversa A car operated by Harry Olewine bon took on that subject. of Reading was damaged to the After several good stories had amount of appromixately $150, Sun- | gone the rounds, ene fellow inquir- day when {t was struck by a ma- | ed if the others had ever heard of chine operated by J. F. Riley, of pepper being used as an ald to beag Pine Grove Mills near Tyrone air- iting. Some thought they bad port at Tipton. Riley's car, it a There's something aboyt story that never falls to thri audience, and no matter how oflen a hunting adventure is related onc {| can invariably find plenty of listen. ers It is not strange, therefore, thal the haogers-on who Sai around io one of the lodge rooms the other night. become interested when someone SEFUEd to tell of Nis ex- perience with a bear during the Pust season Toe meeting having closed the wind outside Dbiowing an ic) gale, the doven or 80 membess who had braved the zero weather to at- tend the session were jocath to leave * ang ¥ H s blinding a had wi : ne never ame in nia } ah wild had actually Wied Lhe experiment “Weil A speaker 0 had asked the question, “my ner d to tell of an ex- perience of this kind he had when he was 6 young man, “He lived out be Air ininued the wl = ed i Tay 4 “He had er that a pound of pep pocket. 80 that if 3 quarters with a bear you could dash a bandiul in his eyes and been told by ar ¥ WA f “Gran with an ang: before and it rowest margin that oH clawed death carrying red pepper as a proleciion appealed to him, and ihe next time he Car- of the " Ww he went out with him a pocketfu] wr Brvting deer huniing ried said hit some slush and joe on the the copper coins Rats in the Lead The American Chemical Society reports that rats outnumber the hu- man population in the United States almost two to one. The society also; estimated each rat does at least $2 dusaage 8 year—a total of $500,000, road causing the left rear end of! the machine to skid into the center { of the highway, hitting Olewine's machine which was traveling in the epposite direction. Damage to the Riley car was estimated at $75 ————— ——— The prudes would abolish sex but the inlelligent know that it lsn® | being done. — Accused Slayer Is Called Bandit Suspected of Taking Part in Maryland Bank Holdup in December GETS PARALYSIS THIRD TIME A Janesville, Clearfield county res~ he was cured of his disease, Then ident whe mampied because he while working in a steel mill at Am- thought he was cured of the dread- | bridge he again felt the creeping ed creeping paralysis is still hopeful paralysis strike him. His system be- Be will be cured of the disease which | came wrecked. He could scarcely eropped out on him again after bis’ see ar use his hands and legs, murder in the slaying a State motor policeman, Brice Mann, Sr. 59, McConnellsburg osttle dealer, hag been identified as one of the two men who held up the Clear Springs, Notional Bank, Clear Springs, Md, last December 20, and escaped with $3500 in cash. Also under arrest as a suspect {in the bank robbery was Eugene Already charged with degree n him. | 1928 while he w ine that he first | felt the symptoms of terrorizing disease. He lost his semse of balance] and staggered like a drunken man, losing the use of his legs. He went to Mercy be Wo THREES Re .S. Inventor Has Parachute | weather. His feet are a bluish red | Hospital where he thought! out of baseball j Te Booker, of Three , Pa, 25 miles from McConne , & nep- hew of Hann. He was at the request of Maryland authorities Hann is awalling trigl for the killing of Stale Motor Policeman Frederick J. Hutlon, 26, of Mercer, when the officer attempted to serve a warrant last January 3, charging the cattle dealer with issuing a fraudulent heck for $50. and became a barber. Several years later the disease again hit and hit! him hard. : Charles’ feet today appear to be frozen. Sometimes his feet feel cold and sometimes hot, regardless of the color as though blood has suddenly rushed info them in one big splurge. | But Charles is still optimistic and | thinks some day he will be cured of | the disease which put Lou Gehrig) Hann was identified in a police Hmeup by C. B. Haugh, cashier, and G. 8. Brewer, assistant cashier, of | the Clear Spring Bank, as one of two men who held a oni Brewer State Motor Police Detective | William Miller, of Harrisburg, said Shell To Trap Planes In Web during the bank h $ ra — [PO BOF A. CAMP INSTLLS OFFICERS FOR NEW YEAR A recent mesting of Washingion Camp No, 887, Pathetic Order Sons of America of Bellefonte, the fol- fastened to a parachute. The slowly drifting tape Is design. «d to foul propellors of any aireraft that may strike It. Officials sald that 8 rapid fire barrage of these Jectiles would make a network no could pass he ese experts said that the shells had an effective range up to 25,000 feet, high enough to wreck any ace 5 H 4 at goa H i g “frick” in the weapen is in the wind. ing of the tape. .{ Hundreds of feet of rieal cord ae wound tightly in the elongated jack et of the shell. This unravels éven-| ly under the weight of the nove of | the projectile as it breaks loose from the jacket, thus permitting it to tra-| Thinking I downward in a fairly straight Gauee they have 10. 0, 3 Ld ‘Woman Injured By Assailant SAraALe : 0 | WO ¥ vas stauoned a path, The ended around & hill, expeciing to start a deer, nd either bring ££ down gr chase in Oranddad's terrilory "The hunters had not beén gone : Heard the fle, ang they been nddad Kk near yh a N ' i“ TR we fo 5 a A. i ey » : Pat 1 ak rprise to find perched on a mb « Le feet fix bear ently LEE a Granddad m earring grea. "ty ne n ev: y presumed Grand. Dear t hp $ BN ae DULL s * Ju A shot $s he was stand- hing | leer oping along y* A ‘PEPPERY’ BEAR STORY him. when he suddenly turned 1d climbed into the branches of & tendly oak tree nearby, losing his fie the ascent The bear sgiarted up the ree after him when he thought of ihe pepper in his pocket, and as it was abotil to reach for Rim he threw & handful in its face Well, gir. Oranddad said sommenced roaring wilh dropped to the i on as one of Lhe men could raw a bead on the orased beast he fired and fortunately killed | Granddad then came Yosn out of the tree and related the story of wow he came 10 take refuge in Hs branches, “Granddad bad a rche that bears hide 1 g it when I was a boy but n't know what became of After that, Oranddad never went into the woods without a supply ol red pepper, although he never again had occasion to use i." » ’ 3} n thal oiQ Bruin and groun AR B® t made oul rememoer 1 Woman Dies After Three-Story Jump Judge Scores Bond Salesman Brutally Assaulted on River Despondent Altoona Woman Dubbed by Court as ‘City Bridge at Lewishurg, Saturday State molor police are investigni- ing the brutal saitack on a young woman Sa night about 10:30 o'ciock on Susquehanna river bridge at Lewisburg The victim is Miss Louise Oaks, 21, of East lewisburg, who was found in a semi-conscious condition | on the pedestrians lane of the bridge by motorists. She was re- moved to her home and then to the Evangelical Hospital, where it was, found that she suffered three frac- tures of the jaw, a badly bruised eye and severe bruises of the chest Miss Oaks was returning to her home from the Roxy theatre in Lew- isburg when the attack occurred. | She “as able to tell little of the at- tack, because of her serious condi~ tion : ma I ————— Long Delayed Sale For the first time in nine years a | public sale of seated land for unpaid taxes will be held in Union county at the courthouse in Lewisburg, 10 o'clock Thursday morning, February 1. Properties for sale in East and { West Buffalo, Gregg, Hartley, Lime- istone. and White Deer townships {have been listed by Treasurer Joho ' R. Middlesworth. Fatally Injured in Leap From Window Bertha Norton, 62, of Al- died in the Altoona Hos Sunday afternoon from in- when she jeaped flcor window at het Avenue, Friday morning An examination disclosed she sul- ered fractures of both Jegs just above the ankles. The soles of her feet were burst against the bricks and ashe suffered internal injuries, Police learned from neighbors that Mrs. Norton had been living aicne for the past week. Her hus- band, Russell L. Norton, took his own life last August 31 and Mrs Norton had been highly nervous and despondent since then, Born near Newry, she was the daughter of Jacob and Catherine Plummer) Stultz. Members of | the family include a son, Harold of Alooma, and one grandson. Also a hall sister, Mrs, Dessie Clapper, of Eldorado Ee —— hammer To Restore Girard Will The Philadelphia Board of City ¢ ‘Trusts has voted to spend $350 out of the $86,000,000 estate of Stephen operating machine at the Bethichem | Girard to restore and preserve his steel plant, Frank Fistoer, 34, was Canadian Red Crosg will, a century-old document. Slicker’ Who Sought To Dupe People Walter J. Buttersan, Brooklyn, N Y. man who sold fake stock in the sum of $6700 to the late Rev. Dr. J. PF. Anderson and his daughter, Miss Jessie Anderson, of Bellwood, plead. ed guilty last week at court st Hol- lidaysburg before Judge Chester D Fetterhoof of Huntingdon. Qutierson was dubbad by the Judge as a “city slicker” who sought to dupe people after gaining their confidence, He was sentenced fo pay $150 forthwith to Miss Anderson and to pay also $750 foliowing the de- fendant's parole from the federal penitentiary at Lewisburg, where he is serving a term of three years for imail fraud and from which penal institution he expects parvie within the next several months, Stocks valued at $4900 and placed in Gutierson’s hands had been re- covered, so that Miss Anderson's loss is recuperated, by reason of the an- ticipated $900 restitution as ordered by the court last week. | Crushed in Gear Drawn into the heavy gear of an (crushed {o death Thursday. uy! ick Russians” Mr Pros * Many f Mi Mi Philipe DUE he mised! Ww he Low: Dog Wins Honors “ Hawk Run Boy Sent To Hospital Nick Chutko to Undergo Men- tal Observation at Warren day. and ihe day you're lef remember, f Waa) yo4 al SeTmence Nick Chutk PAGING “BILL HOFFMAN:" Our oid friend f feature pages, Dor een Wilh charge: slaughter and v § act alread) sailional « nst Lhe neart LAK — rige AAs werk oolumn - Cartwright | also fe n. who was fatally wor ed In u left temple in a she near Pardee, Mortis township, when | 8 revoiver Chutko was holding went | off and struck Cartwright Curtwright was dying when a dog tor arrived at the shanty. The boy was laken to the hospital where he an hour afte the B Norman few “new” men There Hawk Ru be a regular Slate C« t I met at least two w claim ed 0 hail from Bellelonte Bil Hoffman one of them, was Getided- ly atiractive” There Is no Bill Boflman in Beliefunle and neither Dick nor Pele Hoflman re B tended. Dot, however fant dumb. Y i men who ¥ Bellelonte.” Theres many i Btate man who from Beliefonte, and a one who likes 0 else's name. IT'S IMPRESSIVE: Anyone salk.ng into the spacious new dining room of Me American h Legion Home Saturday night, oould 8 New York investment bro- | hardly help but be Impressed. The ker and an attorney who showed up | pidoe was jammed from wall 10 Wall nt the gates of the United Btates | ¥ith Tian Malal em Penitentiary st Lewisburg at 8 o'- | | clock Wednesday morning and de- manded admittance to begin serving sentences Vo Ek CCeRa~ ie ion Jia p- &0 wi Hed 00g CEA OE 50 sia oo — claimed irom Penn Clam él eres InALy use sSomecne nas GQ 2 From New York Demand Admission To Federal Prison | Breaking into prison is » new wil Pe rie of He The two men had Leen sentenced in the prison by a New York court and wished to surrender. Commit ment papers were requested by the | guard. but the pair had none, and they just could not get into prison, | for the guard has orders forbidding | mitment papers signed by the trial fudge. After sulking in the big car in 'which they had travelled from New Pe | York, the men took rooms in Lewis. | burg, Inviting the guard to call them if he should change hi: mind A | | check with New York authorities in | the meantime resulted in the addi. | tion of two satisfied new prisoners ito the penitentiary population, The men made the trip in their | own car apparently not desiring © | come under the custody of a police § jailing of anyone without com- { mpioyes were present, and that every one there was either the head or chisel! bread-winner of a family { you got some ides of what the Titan Metal industry means to Beliefonte | HERE COMES SCARLETT: | This department fears that from {now on Joull see more Scarlet OHarss every city, town and hamiet of these United Stales than all the Oreta Carboe, Bette Davises, Shirley ies and Joan Blondells | of Lhe past years put together They're now offering prises to gals who look most like Scarlett, and it is not beyond the realm of prob- ability that Bellefonte will be ii 10 | death of the sight of her imitaioms | before “Gone with the Wind” has | blown within 80 miles of his city. | NO HELF WANTED: i | officer. : — Piremen snswering an alarm a2 the American Lime and Stone Co. {| plant, last Wednesday afternoon when the office of Superinienden: . : | Prederick Warner was discovered wo A pian to take the Dionne quin-| py anisms were somewhat shocked tuplets to the New York's World| pn geriving at the plant entrance | Palr this spring has been submitted i to see a JArge sign: “No Help Want- | to the gintuplets’ board of guar ™ | ans J. C. Holmes, vice president of A Pair Corporation, The guar- MAID GETS NEW SHOES: dians have not yet replied to the! A Bellefonte woman last week offer. {hired a maid for the day. The Under the plan the quints would maid upon arriving ai the residence be in New York for four or five changed siveet shoes for work shoes, | weeks, starting May 31. They would and wiapped her street shoes | return to their der home (brand now ones) in a newspaper. | before the tourist rush starts in During the day the lady of the mid-June, | house, burning odds and ends, came | WORLD'S FAIR SEEKS QUINTS FOR MONTH | i The falr would guarantees the! at Jest $100, across 8 rolled-uwp pewspaper and threw it Into (he fire. Ii was the package 000 for the guints “visit, | hoe § en et E_~——a ‘td Ci BS NES SL St BARA KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES’ — If Eddie lowing officers were installed: Har- | FOR PUTTING MY UNDER SUS 1
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