Odd and Curious News The Most Widely Read Newspaper in Centre County. SECOND SECTION A Visitor in Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. he Centre Democrat EWE: Random FEATURES [tems VOLUME 59 . BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1940, NUMBER 12. i . One of the strangest chicken flocks ever seen by mortal man is owned by Mr. and Mrs. Harry Sam- ples, of Port Byron, 11. Each of the 230 super-strain white leghorns wears glasses. And if that enough, the glasses are rose-colored The chickens were fitted with the glasses to rid them of cannibalistic tendencies. Previously, in pecking at one another, if blood appeared, the whaolé Nock made a mass attack on the viclim. Now the glasses distract the chickens’ atten- tion fram the blood, and there are no mare killings, The glasses cone sist of a red square glass, ate tached to aluminum frames are fastened to the chickens’ heads by. means of a cotter pin which runs through the beak 3 Times in a Row of Good luck or bad comes in triple | doses, théy say. For Paul Blend, dalry farmer of near Coatesville, it was good luck. On Tuesday one of his cows gave birth to twins. On Wednesday another cow gave birth to twins. Blend looked hopefully at a third cow soon to enjoy a blessed event. His hopes were realized on Thursday, when he was presented with the third set of twin calves on successive days Annual Affair While two detectives were taking & man they had caught stealing an automobile to police headquarters, at Kansas City, the man suddenly ask- ed what day of the month and what time it was. When given the infor- mation, the man sald it was exact ly a year to the day and hour before that he mas arrested on the same charge. The records at headquar- ters bore him out nan lP ————— Lucky Unlucky Call In his haste to answer the tele- phone, Ralph Lyman of Clarinda Iowa, slipped and broke his leg Crawling painfully to the phone, he heard ‘a voice say, “This is Dr. Bur- nett, I want you to come and look at my furnace.” To which Lyman re- plied, “I think you'd better come and look at me first.” The doctor ob- liged and set the leg Alter walting in Me fdr more than two hours, a young man at Baltimore, got to wondering and dis- covered that instead of being in a Hine to get a marriage license. he was be numbers of people who were Theré was no line before the Mmar- riage license window: be Worms Want Chénge Because their names have " con- stantly exposed us to rididule and embarrassment.” Mr. and Mrs Stanley W. Worm and Mr. aid Mrs. Everett A. Worm, of South Bend Ind. have filed a petition 40 have their names changed to Walren The male Worms are tins Forced to Change Frank lea an exccutive of the Carnegie-1llinois Corporation at Pittsburgh, often signed his name “FP. Lea” He doesnt any more, though, because he recently receiv- ed a fetter. addressed to “Mr. Flea’ . * Wrong Prediction When Mrs. Augusta OriSsman of Los Angeles was a little girl, she was Stricken with tuberculosis ‘and given only a short time to live. Re- cently, she celebrated her 100th birthday. Homing Pigeon Found A Boming pigeon. bearing a band inseribed Atlanta, Ga. Aug. 24.112, is an apparently well-contented guest at the hore of Robert Bryan, | Monioursville. The bird, which was first noticed in the chicken yard, iater flew to the roofs of the barn and woodshed. and at night entered the bedroom of Miss Bryan, where it slept on a stand. It {§ being fed and cared for I y Flock Wears Glosses | isn't | rose-colored | They gether in | continuing the dairying phase | the sale, one of { ducted in Unioh gounty for some { tithe, : | proximately $7000, cows bringing 0 get automobile licenses HOUTZDALE FACES LOSS OF PRINCIPAL SOFT COAL INDUSTRY For the Second Time In Three Years Collery Closes, Throwing Out of Work 275 Men; Daily Production 600 Tons thie second time the loss of Citizens of it roads barricaded to take it away Local effort ralsed nearly $10,000 again banded and the Bud Coal company ol ave thelr mall | Johnstown contributed 853.000 coal mine Former Gover Earle « Company | fered { ’ Lie midnight man Houtzdale {om three years faces principal industry community that have Lo a fight to Qf Income, a Brookwood Coal uspended operation Friday in the throwing out of work 275 men wh had been bringing up about 600 tons af soft dally. The com- pany said operations were unpro fitable Three commerce mine when the conpany went equitment wa who bought the source 0r Chorge The nds Lo Brockwood workings lour puting o al mpali district pit, an} coal chamber aved Hill Coal and the dealer Years ago ol and cou Madera bankrupt old. Junk machinery +h OR! zens th al I re hy the ann Q CGulbr CENTRE COUNTY YOUTH NOT WANTED IN BLAIR Farmer Trampled | By Cow at Sale Well Known Union County Potato Grower Suffers Injuries oi it 20 (814) : A ih . rancis Geénua of Bellet Le hould be boarded by Centre count’ and not Blair since the Blair coun- ty offenses, said to have been com- mn tted the youths, were negli- gible compared to their series of - 1 Centre county now serving a pen while Byran are at Huntingdon, parole ( } I ge » J. Louis Reitz well-known Union county potato grower, sullered a ches: injury and lacerations of t face when he i trampled by a « ] sale last Brook Park by offenses Lucas Western Charles under term in and Genua near MAb SCS SE » i Reitz, who public sale of ing held by Mr p= What you comes up in of his was leading do the nm farm activities COUrLIoo one of He Move Along, Get G 0ing th SLOT week ago, he th Mrs. Ellen For their the bride's ¢ » had $200 Welen honey ar. an Cc Swan- a- Swanson the couple neared Chic the new Mrs picious. 1 money un When Came 5 nm. run of related we gO parking k g she'd SAY ou but suck out pant ao the i what to back ht come bride Wo know 10 gO to a— . Gots $10,000 Gem He Found of John por Cifi~ man days no ed by Lhe story 31-year-old Negro - had found a large od at $10.000, the eld In York nin Were © for eleven However for the n February require stody City tered New d for ' Segui - — LEGAL ENTANGLEMENT INVOLVES MRS. DIEHL'S CASE IN UNION COUNTY Question of Where Woman's Infant Child Died May Establish Jurisdiction of Court In Event of Trial The { Mrs. Nellie B. Diehl Jacksonville, Centre county concealing the death child, is aL a nee oO of charged with of an illegitimate standstill The defendant ted January at a Clinton county jury infant who was acquit- Lock Haven by of smothering along county her week-0ld ly iain road ir last June, entered a plea of guilty the body, when eourt convened ident Judge Cur- on {he bench yom that a ie mous to eoncealment of the Union county inxt week with Pres Le ! sher plea was net acceptable ver, to the court, which argued was out of their jurisdiction since child had died in Clinton coun- But the district ! of Un- county felt the plea belonged In as the body was found Court recessed Tuesday 6+) the matter until Saturday decision Wi 10 be an- attornes that count there msider when a meed At Sat irther session, the court matter Nolle no fu been case irday’s { ned until pro- riher sug - ! the the next term in May action meaning prosecution, which had pose the was pon by Attorney General Reno in an opinion that state official there decide to the grounds that Jurisdictior the the Clinton contin gested to dis of frowned Claude Te 00s A nounoeaq T oy al~ should the ot her coyrt on their pica of to | 200 during the wd of 8500 po wget led No- anc hey ' in to $300 he platform pened the LOOK r of the sale, was given later for when Charle farmer’; in ge of the rema the injured attention by a physician, a removed ¢o Haspital observation More than brother adiately [N Trial and Sentoncing of Green and Dillon Celsinger 1.000 ple attended Lirgest ooti~ peo » o3e Previous instaliments of this story told in detall of the murder of Jer iy Condo, turnkey at. ie Centre county jail in 1904 Last week's { chapter described the man hunt { that followed the jail break. which {ended in the capture of Green and I Dillon In the vicinity of Mill Hal and the seizure of Dominic Con- stance in the mouniaing above Cole- ville. Included in the posse who ran Huge Amount Necessary to down and captured Constance wer James Kellie; John Bweitser Jor ’ bt Protect Lock Haven Shaughnessy, Robert’ Montgomers Community Fred Hollabauih William Lo Herst Corman Charles Hartsock Roger (Bert) Bayard, James J West Blair and James Rowan Returns amounted to BP up to $200 each Flood Control To Cost ; $5,000,000 The Federal gover for a systém of dykes safeguard the Lock Haw from foods have been plac display in Lock Haven Cit} Concrete walls and earthen warks would extend community's southern alcng Bald Eagle creek and ward to Flemington about distant The cost of wase stimated nment and J four Hen- men cells a the capture of ihe on, Green, nstance-—the separate Following "{ jail breakers--I tderson and Cx turned to the fail. and George Eberhart Phil. Garbrick employed to guar were aroun u £ re ar od cl 3 A u The men had originally been held in jail under the following charges: the Ira Oreen for stealing a watch at proposed work | at $5,000000, with AIL TRAGEDY liam Dillon wa Clearfield oo leged attempt at rape; C i atiempled store in Julian; whose hon J for al- derson Turner's robbery at Dominic ner Walker em clive poe Harr (1 10 defend ' 24 n He Te Trial Jury Sciecied Constance for felonious nreom: manatee case agaitisi Green and Dillon George Livingston, the youngest of the group. for taking a horse and : without » OWDET'S eonsen! time of his arrest Livingston was working | Daniel Grove, near Shiloh Grand Jury indicts Twe 3 ine the bad wa nresented Aug I eons nH form O ring the the common case vyab § rand ignored the bills of Indictment murder of Turnkey Condo against George Heh derson and Dominic Constance, and found true bills of first degree mur- Ira Green and William of in for John 0. Love presided at the trial the men District Attorney N. B Spangler was assisted in the prose- cution by Ellis L. Orvis and Edward R Chambers H.C Quigley, former Judge A. O. Furst Clement Dale ‘ of was opened Thursday afternoon with Judge Love an the bench. The sltormeys at once proceeded to em- pane! a jury, which required a hall avs time Pre entire jury list was xhausted and a number of specia- the court room were calied briore twelve me chosen was Citizens The Ol ret : HL wir Wilhams Van Tries. Fe % Eile William: chin: 4. H. Sands, Belicfonte: 1 L Burrell. Ferguson township: Wallace Shimmel. Philipsburg: Daniel Elsen- ith. Haines township: G. W. Ream, Cregg township. John Shontz, Phil- J KH. Griffin. Halimoon p: George Carbrick, Belle. £3. 1 Rebersburg, D. Wagner, Bellefonte ars 4 raisom Worth town- LOW Gramies William Dillon's Story this account ony of the ¥ hee Yom irr indo been eliminated of § he trial the witnesses proceed Ap ar a ings confined f NE to efend the storig sis he wincipal d Dillon william Dillon testified in his de. | fense as follows: “Am 18 years old; | born at Ansonville, Clenrfield coun- ty. Parents are dead, was quite small when they died. LI there until 7 years oid, then went fo my bro- Hastings. Stayed with my : about eight years and have been working for myselfl--raiiroad- ing. brick yard and coal mining Thiz i» the first time 1 have been In hotise. 1 have known Jerry since 1 have been In jail. We in cell 8, Green and 1. When we were first put in they allowed us knives and we sawed off the p hinge. We sawed it when we were first put in there, about a month before we broke They stopped giving us knives Green and vod Art were fo have wo out Edward MoCullough handed us the T-shaped iron. We got out of the oell about 8:15 and then went to the bath room. We wanied © put him into a 11 80 we could escape. McCullough in with Condo and came up I had the iron in my left (Continued On page #x) ce —— Lock Haven call land on which ed an to pay fo: — protection walls] _ ro . oe ich * protection ¥alSlsoours 10 HOLD SWIM ¢ funds would be sought lor the re- MEET HERE, SATURDA mainder of the project Bh assopuioe fi Kenyon Woody, for Juniata Valley Council, Boy Scouts, announces that a swimming meet will be held Saturday night March 23, from 6 10 8 o'clock in the Bellefonte ¥. M. C. A. All Scouts from Muncy District may participate and Scouts from the following towns are particularly urged to take part: Howard, Jack- sonville, Zion, and Bellefonte John ¥. Kuste, Scoutmaster of Troop 5, will be in charge of the meet a ———— bait mmm Helping Hand William Brenner, of Grove City, said he saw a dog gingerly walking on thin ice of Wolf Creek and ex- lending a paw to another dog floundering about in the water. The rescue effort failed but Brenner got planks and crawled out to save the canine while the other watched eagerly Rat Independente ie something that the married man brags about = — - SA ——— - ESMEN a % { VISIT LINCOLN PLANT i + Fred Staats (extreme left) of Btruble & Riley, Turtle Creek, Frank Keller (center) of Dunlap Motor - Co , Bellefonte, and Clell Riley (right) of Struble & R'ley. Turtle Creek. were members of a group of people | who recantly visited the Lincoln Motor Company to take delivery of new Lincoln-Zephyr cars. The above | pigture was taken on the Roads of the World at the Ford Rotunda in Dearborn Scout executive’ , WOMAN 18 GIVEN JAIL Cu SENTENCE FOR CONDUCT Mrs. William Ringer. who is said to have moved from Bellefonte Lock Haven recently, was given J five day sentence the Clinton county jail last week in lieu of fine and costs on a disorderly con- duc: charge Harry L. Wilson, who resides al the rear of East Bald Eagle siree testified that Mrs, Ringer had been on his premises on a cern night creating a disturbance, molesting his family and behaving in a dois- | terptis manner. The Ringer family sided in Lock Haven { ing to Bellefonte they had been or- dered by the Clinton county Court to quit the county for six months ; after multiple entanglements with the law in Hi A formerly re- Before com- AP as —— | | 18 Children at Home. | With the arrival son, Mr. and Mrs, William Andrew White, of Washington. the former | a Treasury clerk. are the parents of | eighteen children, all of whom are { living at home. Their eldest child is | William, 22 H a mal o— The average business man | against governmental aid to busi- | nesses other than his own. of their tenth a Accidents Occur Over Week-end Philipsburg Woman Hurt in Crash on Mountain Road uth Callahan, of Phllips- suffered slight lacerations and bruises of the forehead and the knees when the car She was operat- | sideswiped a truck operated by William Diehl, of Huntingdon, Sat- urday morning on the Tyrone moun- Ale FER ire ing {tain road north of Bald Eagle In another siieswipe accident Sunday night no one was injured when cars driven by Michael Ma- nock, of Munson, and John Shaw. of Snow Shoe, collided at Morris-| dale. Motor police said the cars skidded on the icy highways, Sideswiping was blamed for the {accident involving James Gearhart, and Mike Johnson. both of Philips-| burg, BR. D.. when their cats collided at Gearhartville at 10:30 Saturday’ night Both a telephone pole anc a car | were damaged but the driver es-| { caped uninjured Saturday night five! | | miles south of Port Matilda when a | car driven by Blaine Moore, of Jul- | (Continued on page five) i ' roof and Suffers Burns As Fire Guts Home! Lock Haven Man Compelled To Seek Treatment at Hospital Trapped in the room where he had been sleeping as fire raged through the interior of his fathers home at Lock Haven, early Batur- day morning, Jesse Shaffer suflered painful burns before he managed to escape through a window The cause of the blaze, which ap- | parently originated in Mr. Shaffer's’ bedroom, is not known. The alarm | was given by the young man’s sis- | ter, Miss Ruth Shaffer, asleep in| another room, who was roused bY the smell of smoke. Unsuccessful’ in arousing her brother, she rao across the street to the George F Wurster home, from where the fire department was called. In the meantime, Mr. Bhafler awoke, broke the glass in a window to a poren efiber jumped or fell from there 10 the ground. In ad- dition fo the burns suffered before | - be could ges out of his room. he also | has a cut on one arm. Mr. Shal-| fer was taken immediately fo the Lock Haven Hospital Pa BOOK REVIEW "Agent Death of th Robert CG officiel executioner for ang fowr other esting 1 Wry of an JTRS I fension of memoirs former varia re lata Ello Penns tals TD n ang a he me Erno against capital pun Events that ha ig hE the death house at Rock ten n Bellefont through u $ 1 “bd Lirm strong hgent pired Ir vie wr Lary are iberally spr me. In hook a kindly, thoughtful CONLrary sensational and magazine slories man who walked mal family man an i 1 arew hin inkled the ed A 0 reriewed enewed in Ma ball was alone her appearance In - Roosevelts Married the thirty President Roosevelt m i vely return whose | que position PRESIDENT: We James ning & fe il alg Hn anni Mz Roose western Roose - Wad Of Sunday VOTSar . VETSAl had houg arriage was definitely 2 Presidential car et 4 100 we yw Lhe ire " ’ itt Whites FTP Pa PETE bu ¥ u ial no sj wi arried ou a al hopes upon n velt wl m hare th iner’'s wh- Hf conclusion that be more common — The Straight and Narrow A Patterson immer War six Altoona Judge Holliday [4 | youths charged i stealing 16 automobiles on condition that they PEACE MOVES: salute the flag. go 10 bed by 5:30 p The E m. &nd attend school and ow hurch regularly (George Du Ww years ago ropean Aer unoe: Bunds ——— tn AP _——————— Over 200 Attend P. O. A. Session Centre County Lodges Repre- sented at Mill Hall : Meeting leaves I Someone ix going down the river, and the further United Btates keep the the les its nose he mes Hkely th be the one who gets the knockoul blow ROAD BARRIER: Much discussion is rounds concerning the State's action sidetracking the con the proposed new road Bellefonte and Btate Col- which was scheduled be built this spring. Some believe He itics is the cause of the move Wh ever Lhe reason we feel U Belle fonte is entitled to the road and i politics is Lhe cause, it beh cal politicians to wield thelr m- fluence in the right direction Ws NA we » week In of inst - struction between lege Camp 5, P.O. of A Mil Hall entertained P. O of A camps from Lock Haven Fleminglon Beech Creek Onrviston Loyvalsock lic Milesburg, Asronsburg, Howard and Reading last Wednesday al 5 atirnced day. Guest honor wa Stumph Reading dent, who gpoke in th and at the public ning 1 ion Rumors have it that ubjects the local Schoo! Board coor The drill th three complaints against sessions ombin frill ™ are teams of Mill Hall and Be in Mrs. Julia Bittner the th was recommended for district pres- that school officials 1 order ident n Coumty more than $300 so that bids we Mrs. Nia Wolfe, under whose lead- not have 10 be advertised for ership the program was planned that school officials gave permission During the evening session, when lyn a janitor 10 remove some wood the men of the P, ©. 8. of A order | yuinsenating and hardwood flooring joined the women, the Rev. JOhh from one of the basement rooms of 8. Lousinger gave the MVOCRLON, ruined 1aing and C. A Miller, P.O. 6. of A. dis-| bet triet president, snd A. T. Palmer RADIO MENACE: gave interesting talks During the past ien days Mrs. Wolfe sas presented with a groups of Centre county youths } basket of flowers by the drill team. been brought before juveni and two charier members of the on charges of robbery and Mill Ball camp. Mrs, Gussie Pal- In attempting to determin mer, #4. and Mrs. Mary Eider, were youths, most of them also given flowers homes. turned i Refreshments were learned that two radio prograr ocial period following youngsters had furnished for thelr deeds. Oue of the ) grams has lo do with gangs and th other with Western thrillers programs have 2a large | among the youth of the nal LABOR UNIONS: Many persons upon hearing the term. “Labor Union” immediately picture bearded bullies, with a bomb in one hand and a torch in th other. Nothing good. they imagine William Berry and his son James, Can come from them. The other day and Clair Miller, all residing at 141 We heard a discussion en unions East Bald Eagle street, Lock Ha- which seemed eminently far A ven. were released last week bs Chamber of Commerce, it was point- Justice of the Pearce Oeorge F od out is a union of the business Hess a1 Beech Creek, after they people of a community: lawyers agreed 10 a cash settlement and medical men, dentists and in Tact payment of the costs in the coal persons in the same lines of busi- stealing case which led to theiriness everywhere have their asso- arrest on charges of larceny. The clations, which are nothing more charges were withdrawn and no than unions. The purpose of a un- hearing was held fon is to work for the betterment of The trio had been arrested on the all members of the group. and, the complaint of Ray O Meas, super- speaker concluded, there is no rea- imendent of the General Refrac- son why the laboring man should be tories plant at Beech Creek, who frowned upon for wishing to have had charged that he found them his own association. The prime cs- taking coal from the storage piles) sential in any union, whether it be belonging to the brick plant, and for professional people or laborers putting it in sacks. with the appa’ is good leadership, he commented ent intention of hauling it away 0. a car. Six safks-of coal, about 600 pounds, had been put in sacks bu: C it had not been removed from the! premises $1 al a Cis- 4 eonventior yer "IVE - of Heien of member of fmnia Hehe O00] was the ey that there delay time of of 10 sucored id | re a "w ak) to 0 the meeting ners Mo A Coal Stealing Case Is Settled Trio Released and Charges Withdrawn Under Agreement tit Wi f - OLLEGE DEBATERS URGE RE-ELECTION OF FDR i | Resolutions approving the new deal and urging re-election of Presi- Will Translated | dent Roosevelt were adopted bi Before the will of the late John! representatives of 20 colleges at the Holhuber could be probated at pennsylvania debaters convention Mount City. Ind. a transiator had at State College. last week to be found. The will was written Other resolutions approved sug- in German and none of the court! a fa rn gested expansion of reciprocal house employes could read it trade agreements and recommend. cd that the Dies committee inves tigating un-American activities be replaced “by a bi-partisan com- | mittee appointed by the senate’ and composed of persons who were The interior of the dwelling was not sensiors. practically ruined by the fire. Only: Samuel! Rodgers of the University a few articles of furniture were of Pittsburgh was elected presi- saved, | dent of the debaters. There are individuals whose rea- son is impaired by the use of epi- theis and adjectives. } |
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