p—— Odd and Curious News The Most Widely Read Newspaper in Centre County, A Visitor in Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. —— SECOND SECTION he Centre Democrat Hews, Random FEATURES [tems VOLUME 59 BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1940, NUMBER 5. Bas Alone in Zephyrs The zephyrs of January wafted breezily around Francis Serafini for a short time last Wednesday as that young man stood, clothed in shoes, stockings and gogeles—and nothing else—near the Pennsylvania Rall. road ash pit at Renovo, And all be- cause of a bit of waste in his once, hip pocket, Serafini did his mid- Winter and unexpected disrobing stunt when the waste 'n his pocket accidentally caught in the shaft of the conveyor near the ash pit, as he backed up against it. First the waste caught, then the pocket of his over alls was drawn in, and finally, there was just Prancis—and the goggles, the shoes, the stockings-—and the January zephyrs. Aside from losing his clothing, Serafini also got some bruises, TAPROOM PATRON IS FOUND GUILTY IN DEATH OF AVIS MAN Clinton County Jury Recommends Defendant To Mercy of Court After Conviction on Involuntary Manslaughter Charge Vincent Palusgak, of Avis, worker | his finger in Paluszak's ribs, yelling in the Jersey Shore Steel Mill, was | in his car and otherwise annoying found guilty of involuntary man- | him, Paluszak had told him to get slaughter by a Clinton county jury | away from him several times and last Thursday as the result of the had even walked away [rom the death of Alfred Lupild, 63-year-old | man, bul time Lupold went Wl Getting Peeved When Benjamin Krall Louis, paid off a loan to a finance | company he made an error and sent | a check for 1 cent less than the full] amount. He fot a letter asking for | the penny, but didn't take the dun| seriously. The company showed it] meant business, however, and sued Krall in justice court. Including | court costs, the blll rose to $6.01 Krall was astonished but again let) the matter ride. Now his salary has been garnished. There was a $6) charge for this. 8o with his bill now | $1201 Mr. Krull is beginning to get| mad. Too Cold for ‘Heat’ Dr. J. A. Stewart, pastor of the| Baptist church at West Point, Miss, advertised in the dally newspaper that he would “make it hot” for anyone who used the weather as an | excuse not to attend services on Sunday morning. He could not carry out his promises, The mer- cury slid to 11 below Saturday night, causing the church water pipes 10 burst and services were suspended. | Liked the Movies The world's champion movie fan probably is 14-year-old Victor Was- sell, of Kansas City, Mo. When found after a two weeks absence, po- lice said the boy admitted to spend- ing one week in one theatre and the other week in another. They said he slept in the theaters at night, sub- sisting on a diet of water and bor- rowed candy. of St. | Dress Designing Gerald Livingstcn, a farmer re- | Avis resident, | G. Emerick taproom at Avis, where | other patrons | Dies From Wounds Suffered | from gunshot wounds of the head | home earlier { the base i ed. the gun's hammer was tripped | sending last summer. Wil- | back to him bartender at the F Seeing thal Dui Nichols, Lupold making a himself, as he had on when Ham Ww ance of Lupold is supposed to have received injuries which resulted later in hi death, was acquitted of the charge but directed to pay a share of the costs The pold had showed that Lu- to Emerick’s tap- testimony come | room In Avis early in the evening of June 24, visibly intoxicated, and had been botheri Pluszak and during the evening particularly been poking The lalier striking his hea no ng He had Tyrone Trapper against him a with placed the ( He contended thal § believe s0 it did not occur doctor Nichols ss at 12:10 o'clox Lupoid's house prietor of the taproom was and they had taken the Emerick's automobile, after ¢ ter had gone to Nichols’ get him, (Continued on Page 6) in Accidental Discharge | co it d of Weapon Baughman, 25 Vail yrone, died at the Philips- burg State hospital Saturday night Aid he ck Sun Mr ’ Ol his shotgun accidentally discharg- ing, according to investigators, while on a trapping expedition near ni in the day. e to Get U H(-HO- HOM TIME TO GET (OP AND. DO My STUFE ‘ ’ t mi f eal numer Oi 10 bear tween 3 T28 1038 niso were far more (Continued on Page 6) be kn a ERAN. or HOUTZDALE SUFFERS | $10,000.00 WORST | Firemen From Three Towns Respond to Call | For Aid; Fight Blaze Under Difficulty ———— of Scarcity Houtzdale experienced ts most disast fire in 14 years, las! Thursday evening about 8:35 o'clock when an overheated stove ignited the three-story frame Gulbranson building houseing two two offices, and two apartments. All three stories of the bullding were destroyed Ww ©. Guibranson estimated the Joss at $10,000 i wml no insurance wa FOL sores wner It wrted t re repo iu lL soon became Houtzdale Tire i rol § alone, as Are, threat ) wipe out row of wooden frame building business street reaching m's corner to the jarge the site where the ned down in 1926 “Ar "TyaY company the cOn~ ent " main Gulbransc Si i theatre opera house bur to nearby by A for ald was sent responded Philipsburg ire “Qsce- Due WwW es 2m: Jom art alt " town was doomed Several plugs were sald to have been 1: en and water In Lhe Dearocy was unusually low, Piremen, } the creek and n getting enough walter ever ceeded La Al had lef js home to of his trap line along the Bald Fagle ridge and, according in front of Baughman make a tour of near his home reports, had stopped the John Denny home 1: was Indicated by Chester C. Rothrock that Baugh man had assisted Denny in starting the latter's stalled automobile : ing his gun against the machine When the machine suddenly siart- STAGE Coroner From good of early Centre county, we gather the following story of one of most picturesque old-time comch drivers who plied ithe over the Bellefonte to Lewisiown route. Our informant was not so sure about the name of this peculiar character, although his recollection coming from tales told by his grand- whip the charge into Baugh- man’s head. Coroner Rothrdek stated. Kenneth Baughman was a son of William and Bertha (Dawson) | Baughman and was born pear Vail, father gave him the impression that {on November 21, 1914. He is sur- busy with her own call. Ger- ald tied a white towel around the red-faced cow's head and the calf dropped all proteéts. Third Set of Teeth The Rev, J. J. Kelly, 88-year-old retired Methodist minister, of Mid-| lebourne, W. Va. boasts that he is cutting his third set of teeth. He had bis second set pulled three months 8g0, with the itnention of getting artificial teeth. Several new molars gan pushing through the gums a few days ago. Bill Wrong 20 Years In 1919 John O'Laughlin, of Pitts- field, Mass, he discovered he has the extra charge ever since. He is to get a $200 refund covering the 20. | year period, One of the Chief Police Chief Russell R. Love, of | DuBois, hurriedly parked his car To attend a meeting. to find an auto parked illegally and was writing out a before he | . tag | seeking reinstatement to his IONDET | morning through a skylight in the discovered it was his own machine Love paid the one dollar fine. Divorce a A Mistake Harry J. Young and Mrs. Harry J. Young took out a marriage license at. Philadelphia last Thursday, de- claring their divorce in 1928 was all! "a mistake.” Witnestes at the wed- ding Monday were their two married children. BROTHER OF MAN HE SHOT SEES SLAYER DIE IN CHAIR A brother of the man he killed Witnessed the execution Monday morning of Benjamin (Duke) Gin- yard, 28, Negro slayer of a Pitts burgh policeman, In the electric ® 3 the words “Jests save me,” and - help them for they know not what they do.” as he sat in the elec tric chair. His ejaculations ceased abruptly when Execut Frank Lee Wilson, of Pittsburgh, the switch. Ginyard turned to religion for so- lace in his last hours. Before jeav-. | as a trackman by the Pennsylvania had bedside telephone | Service for two montis and recently | been paying | He returned | it was “Daniels” However, as the old codger was commonly known as “Dusty” this was the name that dominated the story. After a brief discussion of comparative methods of travel over the past hundred or more years the subject of the old time pronght tale vived by his mother and two broth- ers. Melvin and Bobby He was a member of Brethren church of Tyroue, funday school and wes employed the Pirst he also Railroad company. He had served two years in a COC camp stare conch forth ti itis MB n—— I used to hear my grand- dad speak of old Dusty as one of the dog-gondest rou t customers that ever drove over the Lewistown trail He could chew more an think up more cuss words any man lv But a pecyl- ial thing about Dusty’s cu INTERCOLLEGIATES TO Yes. sir BE HELD AT COLLEGE The annual intercollegiate boxing meet will be held at Penn State On Friday and Saturday, March 8 and i 9, according to the Penn State box- | ing schedule tobacco » - than ng. it seemed cing will COACH REMINISCENSES make the ! and he asked his horses were Ad al : - J {el} 2 mare . Dusty how much | wri. Dusty told y 41 uiars apiece He A could tell a lot o stories about the many experiences he had during the senrs he the stage coach, He said the work » Poy La: Dusty you A # were cheap In were + who had ¢ on Well iwhters or was | would get him about sevenly | i iw aI aii the nsisted, so he accepied them. As the horses were all right | — | COMPLAINT Whether by are ident these Wedneasday night special mee ings of the Bellefonte school board effectively delay getting the news 0 | the rural areas, which are vitally af- | fected bv the board's contemplated of out-of-town The weeklie “rs which get Into the 1 na . 5 » om 4 FIRE LOSS; N 14 YEARS | ouster | counts the only nrwsps large senle, go 140 pres | time the Board meet ngnt | NEW VOICE i Who i» { Dace { change? | CAMERA FAN'S DELIGHT Borough Wa Commi James D. Seibert is one of § photogenic of Water nearby property from igniting. The Guibranson Fairlawn grocery store and meat shop, in the corner storeroom, was entirely gutled and nearly all the store's hea merch- andise stotk was Jost The big meat cooler was mtirely ruined Flames getting into the insulating cork of the cooler caused much dil- fcully Jie fire out The Broberg wis damaged OQuUiDInent was ing damaged On the : Lie save Oe a ter BATSOTS DeTSon well confectionery bus most removed store | TRAINED MAID SERVICE Slack @nc { pefietonte how before be- to hire trained {atl dinners and teas {of the children. Mrs. O. B. Malin {and Miss Marie Chandler, of Social Service League of the Ey { pat church, have formed a { about girls t school, who are being given insiroc tions in the proper care of ehildre: proper manner of serving a din- and similar malion { in home economics. Classes are held | every two weeks 8t the homes of or {of the students or instructors and { new topic Is discussed at each meet- {ing. AL the conclusion of the course { the trained girls will be svallable to [ the public at an hourly rate of Of this wage. five oenis Wives Wi girs or 0 aEs {able i Clr floor, two mining offices of Guibranson Mining Company badly damaged Two apartments on the third floor were damaged. One was occupied by Mr Swan Swanson and the oth vacant. Much ol or some of the ex- the building is a charred | | ner or a tea ODN Lhe were ong eight anc the terior of Ass The bullding by the Gulbranson's 33 year: The mest market closed at 5.30 Thursday eve All wag repori~ (Continued on Page §) Coal Miner Killed; Heavy Rock Falls ir! been for nas occupied i” a ning LAE J ’d | cents will £0 10 the church, while the giris will retain the remalr ornis : probable that arrangement be made whereby girls can be employ- led through a central agency, per- haps by calling the home of one of the girls. This department sees a bright future for the idea { one of the mejor problems of par ¢nts to secure dependable giris take care of children, while pracu cally every housewife at * | or other has need of depend serving dinners or leas HAD ONE OF HIS OWN { Our good friend, Boynton Daggett, { of East Linn street { the Logan Pire Company wh {ont of bed anytime 10 go {was caught between devil { the deep blue sea about 6:30 o'clo { Priday momning. Boynton was in th {oellar firing the furnace when | alarm for a flue fire at ihe ing en i wii Investigation Reveals Acci- dent Was Purely Un- avoidable Crow Charlies Smith, a coal miner in the employ of the Morrisdale Cosl Com- pany, was instantly kiied last Wed. nesCay moraing by a fall of rock in what js known as the Cunard Slope After an extensive probe of the ac. cident, Mine Inspector Willlam G Knapper, of Philipsburg, pronounosd it purely unavoidable 11 oval membes 0 was determined the rock ] without about 4 feel by 4 thick It was stooping with a pick that ¥ fell the and about 5 struck him while he over brushing coal inches Rz 55 next day, Dusty concluded to let the | breaking his neck. company keep them and he kept the | the old made a And thals shere fool money. hornv-fisted cussin’ good day's sages Dusty cent mond, eonld tel! of another teresting experience on Lt) road... helned ( get 5 when he god in 8 reminis- Py » the if hWwreak He was carrying a Biri and ber Beliefonte. He had picked them up nt places on the Pretly soon the young fellow was weing him to drive fagier. He could see thal the fellow and the gir! were kind of nervous like. and it wasn't until the girl herself coaxed him, (Continbed on Page 8) time he a je a8 ymihg coupie swoeetheart-4o different i Other meets on the College sched- ile are as follows February 3, Army February 17, Virginia. away February 24, Michigan State, here. February 28, Syracuse, away March 2 away ‘Renovo Eagles’ Home Is Looted ‘Thieves Take $2,000 in Well- Planned Robbery Early Sunday 2, Cornell, here March 8-9. Intercollegiate March 15, Wisconsin, away i March 28-30, N.C. A. A. Tourna- ment, away — a d——— Police Chief Wants Job Back | Harry 8. Carey, who recently was removed from his office as chiel of lay of the police of Altoona, has filed sSull Home at evidently knew U land entered the Eagle's Renovo early Sunday Thieves who ie post, Carey maintains thal 8&C+/ roof and, working leisurely and thor- { cording to an act of 1831 no person | oughly, removed approximately $2.- may be appointed without first! gg bar receipts, equipment and having passed all examinations in| merchandise. The loot was loaded the act. The act is alieged 10 3312 {j;y06 3 truck parked at the rear en- that the city council of Altoona od trance on St. Clair avenue aproitit «a police chief So ne The Eagles held a dance Satur- regular police force. March 4 has day ‘night in th - Hick been set as the date for the hear- | “87 ne. In We grt oom Which ing. in’ Carey's salt to get back Bix] Was well pationized and, because of 14 ich : | the crowd, did an unusual business old Job. at the bar. Receipts were heavy and ithe thieves apparently knew the time was opportune. How thoroughly ithe job was done may be judged { from the fact that the night barman {left $11 in small change for the Sunday morning opening in the bot- tom of a half-filled pretzel can and this, too, was gone, indicating that an ing Allegheny county jail in Pitts- biizgh Jar Ruciiviey bn Hhturday, he the job was done by someone who wiote a in which he gr’ thad first-hand knowledge of the ugg of Ouimars fami y jor | club habits } that he would “meet them in Later in the morning an abandon- ed truck with a flat tire was discov- tered on the PRR ball field near the . | west end bridge. A check-up réveal- | led it was ov¥ned by William Guil- borg. South Renovo merchant, and had been stolen from the garage in the rear of the store during the night. The loss had not been discov. ered because the store was closed | Sunday. Drury: Run residents reporied with a flat tire had passed the vicinity after 6 a m. Residents on Bt ir avenue near the rear entrance to the club’ reported hearing a truck start about | 5 a. m. from that vicinity but at. | {tached no significance to it. | - , an accomplice in tiempt, is serving Waiker, i Recipes far American Housewives | { A collection of tasty, tested re. Read the results of Interesting cipes to stimulate jaded appetites, | experiments with eollage students to| helpful hints to lghten housework find the reason for our virtues or and other valuable information. faults. Ome of many interesting il- Don't miss the Housewile's Food lustrated articles in the Febrodry | Almanatk every Sunday in The 11th, fssue of The American Week- | Ameritan Weekly the big magasine ly the big magagine distributed with | distributed with the more the American. On sale | American, On sale at all Dews-| Atal stands. ! committees that they will bid for Osceola R. D. Man Exploding Torch Suffers Leg Injury Sets Man On Fire Knocked Down by Car While Osceola Mills R. D. Resident Walking Along Bigelow Run Road Struck down by a day morning the Bigelow Run road near enginehouse on the outskirts of Oe- ceola Mills, Edward Monde], 33 Rolls in Snow to Put Out Blaze iast Satur asl along he wn Fast redited o » 1 4 ’ ": and { while walking thinning RETRIAL acing was with =zaving of Frank Frantz of Osceola Mills. R. D. who was badly burned Priday . " ““ at his home in Frenchtown when Oageala as : of Fushag! . _ | the blow torch he was using to thaw Philipabuce Sie hospital where Pa ou pipes in the basement of hi leg injury py , Ene EXDinded and set fire to his ghar freon Fae xi 4 1% o Boos a = ; While his gas-saturated clothes operated by Chester Barnett, Phil- dazed Prantz seised a blanket, ipeburg, who was traveling towards wrapped it around him and then ran Osoeola Mills at the time. Barneit outs ide where he rolled in snow un- stopped and took Mozdel to the hos- bl the flames put out. His pital, where it was revealed Mozdel Clolhes were half-burbed off him. was suffering from a leg injury. Frantz was holding the torch in Motor police said they did not his left hand when the heating unit know whether Mozdel® had walked “Xploded, threw gas on his hands, into the path of the car or whether clothes and parts of his (ace. He was Tit the ue 3 we Oi ithe i wore the rar had skidded and struck the admitted to the Philipsburg State! Hospital Saturday Dr. G. A. Rickeits, who treated Cities Bid for Convenloins Frantz. said Frantzs left hand was Chicago, Phiadelphia St Louis badly burned, and that the skin of and San Francisco have notified the hand had been entirely burned the Democratic and Republican Off pedestrian, a — A ————— sti MAS AM the national conventions of the {wo A burglar at lshoma City { major parties. Others may enter climbed a box ear, jumped to a shed the competition later. Chicago roof, foreed open a hardware store and Philadelphia groups were said window, knocked a hole in the brick to be prepared to offer substantial wall of the vault and knocked the sums to secure the convention. knob off the safe. All for $4 | U uck, owned by Harry Thieves Clean Up Butter and Eggs Remnants of Wrecked Truck Disappear From Scene of Disaster On top of the loss of some 36 0’ worth of bul'er and eggs and O00 worth of damage 'o the big {trailer truck hauling the load cast- [wArC to Baltimore, about 100 Cases of eggs and 2000 pounds of butter were stolen from the broken-dowsn iraller at the scene of the accident ‘we miles beyond Westport, Clinton county. The accicdint happened last Tuesday, when the butter-and-egg trailer collided wi'h an empty coal E. Batclelet.! and driven by C. L. Aber ! The wreckage of the produce truck remained af the scene of the acci- | dent over night. Wednesday a résoue’ TY a Luck arrived from Baltimore to col- ext the salvage, Hut there was not tavch salvage as might have been expected due to the depradation: that took place in the darkness About 100 cases of eggs remained. 84 of which were estimated to be whole, out of the 3680 on the truck. The but- | jo which disappeared was packed in ubs, The collision, causing damage and Joss estimated at $13,000, blocked the P. R. R tracks for a time, when the tricks tumbled down the ten-fool embankment, some 125 feet apart,’ from the highway io the railroad. | | apartment { family unit jcupy about 25 per cent of the land | Thanks, Sid, But honest-to-goodness, | Accomodations will be provided for piween two and three tong of (Tock fell at the time bul mirsed Smith and hiz buddy. The fall was caused by a clay slip In the rock roel. The roof broke aboul 20 feet jong and 6 feel wide The acide octurred a mile and 3 half {rom the drt opening Wark stopped neaday afternoom Cunard Biope as soon kz the falality was learned by the other emploves a dmesg eA ——— . Boynton | Lamb street upon hearing fire rocks ‘in that ares, After scamming the sky ‘line to the southeast in sesrch of | smoke, and finding none, he tamed Laronund for a check to the rear. What he saw took him galloping b down toward home, where he spent the next hall hour 8 ONeMA ,oomisny standing by while the of his own home burned ot {CAN'T BE DONE A friend reports {hat 1 time he has been trying to wrang) ‘a permit from Pennsylvania R road officials to ride the locon {of one of the crack streamline train from Harrisburg to Altoona, but far he's met a stone wall of opp tion. Ii just cant be done | OLD LOGANS Collins Shoemaker. ne C2 i of the Logan Fire Company, wh nounced yesterday by Leo A Kirk, {Deez Making ah up lorgen a oe Federal Housing Administration Di | mm of The comtmnt is Chas rector for Eastern Pennsylvania and | einher of the pompany is Cha State of Delaware This operation, 24 Cook. while the sectnd oldest is Reward “Ul, 1dames D. Seibert. Mr. Seibert join according to Mr. Kirk, is the first Ty. - aT development of this type to be ap- { on November 8, 1819, a short time 4 : y ; aller Mr. Cook became a member proved for Centre county. and will { winiam 8B Rankin joined before be located at East Posier avenne and ] either Mr. Cook or Mr. Seibert. but i ') ‘ Locust Lane, State Oollege | did not continue his membership Total cost of construction includ. | ing land «ill be $120.000 NOTE FROM FLORIDA The project will consist of three, | Sid Bernstein. of Bellefonte three-story semi-fireproof walkup | With his family is spending some buildings containing 91 Hme at Lakeworth, Florida, sends a rooms. The estimated average rent- | note to this department by air mall ale will run from $45 to $68 per | 0 complain abont the cold weath- The buildings will oc-/ er they're having down there ri temporarily Wed. the "e Ba 4 in Housing Project by FH Administration For State College WN 8 scale housing project accomodate 24 families in nf State College was an- Wn ohn area, the balance being devoted to i we can't do 2 darned thing abou landscaping and recreational center, | Whe weather, even in Bellefonte CHRISTMAR TREE DOWN | The “Singing Christmas Tree on PATTON COUPLE, ENROUTE TO | soncan hag taken 00 a dings appea’ HOSPITAL, FIND SON DEAD ance from smoke and dirt finally { was cul down, Tuesday morning. ai- Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Gellormino, | ter some between 12 automobiles - of Palton, 1aking a pneumonia- emploves of the First Nationa! Bank stricken son, Edward, to Miners and Karl Kusse, secretary of the Hospital, Spangler, last Wednesday, Chamber of Commerce. Bank work- were told by hospital authorities! ers called Kusse Saturday morning that another of their sons had just) and asked when the tree was to be been killed In an auto accident. | felled. He promised to have it down Tony Gellormino, 22, died of in-! by noon, Saturday, but he was un- juries received when his car skidded able to carry oul the promise. Mon- and overturned on the Spangler day he received the following note Carrolitown road. The parents iden-| from the bank employes: “This is tified his body at the hospital mor. to advise you that up to this time gue. (CopWipued on page six) ‘KEEPING UP WITH THE Er % JONESES’ — Eddie Into Action For A oo a y - His STmaN ICME EFEORT - BERR" ¥ igh
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers