DD and curious NEWS MAA Ungrateful Speaking of ingratitude, an Al- toona pastor (reated an out.of- town transient to a handout Sunday Later the preacher was facing his congregation from the pulpit when in walked the man who, without any preliminaries, cursed the cler- gyman loudly while the audience stared. Fleeing, the bum was pick- ed up shortly afterwards, He gave his name and address as Meyer Davis, 35, of Brooklyn. Police jail- ed Him on a disorderly charge Woman Driver A woman telephoned Dr. Austin Howard of Detroit's receiving hos- pital and asked what to do about a key she had just swallowed. Doc- tor Howard suggested she come to | the hospital for treatment. The woman explained she that because it was the key car she had swallowed scribed home treatment Accomodating Blair county has arrested the most | accomodating prisoner. When the | prisoner was being taken to the | county jail at Hollidaysburg, the car | stopped and would not start. While | the police officer sat at the wheel | and steered, the prisoner hopped out, pushed the police car until it started, hopped back In and was driven off to jail Cold Comfort Mrs. Blanche Fredette, 38, of] Sioux City. Ia., is learning the good | and bad things about ice. A 50- pound piece of ice slipped out ol her hands and injured one of her feet. Ironically enough, a docior| told her to keep the injured fool surrounded by—Yeg ice—to help the bruise heal. Water Dog Killed An 18-inch water dog, greatly re- sembiing a lizard was killed by two boys near the Reading Railroad bridge, at Sunbury. The first seen there for several years, it gave a hard battle before succumbing. The water 4ogs are said to be quite pois- onous. Stork Trapped The stork got caught in an eleva- tor at Boise, Idaho, so Thomas Truman Dodds was born in the lift “A jammed door trapped Mr ana| Mrs. Truman Dodds and a nurse in| the elevator in a Bois Hospital and locked out the obstetrician. Hot and Cold Scent Puzzied when bioodhounds could not follow the scent of Andy Hewitt who had escaped from the State | prison ai Sante Fe, officials discov- | ered the reason when he admitted after capture, that he hag spread | pepper behind him Bird Hoarder Miyton Bergstrom, of Neb., found a “nest egg” that ed peculiar in a sparrow’s There, beneath six was a dollar bill out and put it back in circulation nes. The police of Cape Guardean, Mo. | Ten | for Second Scout Rank at the Seven are going around in circles days ago, Mrs. Tom Carctust askea them to locate her missing husband. | They found him at Flint, Now, Mrs Carstust is missing. ge No Drawback Neither age, heat nor heavy sum- | mer traffic proved drawbacks to! John Prowant and John Strohecker, both 72. of Lewisburg, who left by motor last week to attend the Na-! tional Elks’ Convention at Fort Worth, Texas. The pair covered al distance of 425 miles during their, first day of travel, it has been learned. Mich o——— Kills Four Rattlers While picking huckleberries on the James English mountain, near Towanda, Clifford and Lareen John- son killed four rattlesnakes and a six-foot fact that the boys spent much of | or whether old age is creeping UD | wonees in addition to those who be- | their time killing snakes, they man- aged to pick a nice lot of huckle- berries it i ——. Americanistn: The belief that the United States can beat the world. INJU A man, woman and child were in- Jured Sunday night at Lakemont Park. Altoona, during a picnic when a car of the rotating “whip” broke loose from a cable and plunged through the wooden fence sur- rounding it. None of the victims was seriously injured and were immediately dis- charged after-treatment at an Al- toona hospital. They were: Rich- ard Cliber, 4, of South Lakemont; Charles Warshel, 35, of Windber and Mary Crosgrove, 26, of Wind- if, se i mais couldn't do | to the | He pre- | near SPAITOW egEs | Milton slipped i: | RED BY ‘WHIP CA SECOND SECTION The Most Widely Read Newspaper in Centre County, he Ce — fre Democrat | A Visitor in Seven Thousand Homes Each Week, NEWS, FEATURES VOLUME 69 BELLEFONTE, Four-Mile Par It remains only for favorable weather to make the Central Penn- svlvania PFiremen's Convention at Lock Haven, August 12 to 15, one of the most successful ang colorful af- fairs in the history of the Associa- | | tion | Host to the Firemen's convention for the first time, the city of Lock Haven is leaving nothing undone to make the four-day gathering one { the greatest in the memory Of i | the oldest fire-fighter of the Central | District. Mon- firs! nos start the will The convention will day, Aug. 12, although session of the association be held until the next day Thursday. Aug. 15, will, of course be the major day of the meeling, when the huge parade, with an esti- mated length of four miles will be held. Other features of the day will be the double drum corps com- petition and the pumper contest The huge prize list has reached the $1,400 mark. President Smith announces, There will be 34 f Bit Off Half of Opponent’s Ear Osceola Man Held For Clear- field Court on Charge of Mayhem After eluding police officers fod several days, Mike Patrick, of Osce- ole Mills, has been arrested and placed under $500 ball for appear- ance at the fall term of Clearfield county court to face charges of mayhem His from a fight! which took place in Osceola on July 4 in which the defendant is charg- ed with biting half the left ear off | his adversary and cousin, John 8So- kash. of Munson, a former resident of Osceola Mills Following fray. Sokash wa taken to a physicians office and | then sent to the Philipsburg hos-| | pital for treatment. After Patrick's | apprehension, he was taken 1 {| Clearfield where District Attorney Car! Belin permitted his being plac | ed under $500 ball sicians quoted Patrick as saying he must have temporarily lost reasoning after Sokash follow- ed him about all day seeking a | fight. Information was made be- fore Justice of the Peace Lawrence | Rittenhouse, of Chester Hill arrest resulted the ONeill | Jook- | —— nr lc ———— LOCAL SCOUTS WIN MERIT HONORS WHILE IN CAMP 2 of Scouts Collings Marker of Troop | State College; George Shugarts | Troop 6, Mount Union; { Christner of Troop 28. Huntingdon, worked off all of their requirements Mountains Boy Scout Camp last week and were advanced to this { rank by the Board of Review on Tuesday evening Scout Malcolm White of Troop 2, State College, qualified for the | athletics and first aid merit badges, | and was advanced to the rank of Life Scout. Scout Robert Kistler of Troop 1, State College, earned merit badges in scholarship, public health, personal health and safety. He was also advanced to the rank of Life Scout 8cout Harold Tarpley of Troop 2, State College, received merit badges | | for reading and pathfinding. New Use For X-Ray X-rays are being used widely now, even on telephone and electric light poles in order to determine black snake. Despite the | whether their “innards are all right {30 more pilots will receive their li- | on them. Myron Zucker, Detroil | engineer, said that portable X-raj | machines are being used in Detroit | to detect weakness in poles, which if damaged, are replaced before | storms damage lines. The accident was caused, it is re- ported, when the cable which was swinging the car in which Warshei | and Miss Cosgrove were riding. sna . The car, however, did not ve the cable until after i had passed the one end of the “whip” floor where the cars make a fast turn. Then the car plunged through the fence; hurtling Warshel dhrougn the sir. The Cliber chilq was standing outside the rail and was struck in the face by part of War- shel’s body. "WORLD'S TALLEST MAN DEAD in the world, died Monday, at Man- istee, Mich, of an infection. Wadlow became iil on July Pourth while appearing in the National Porest Festival at Manistee. A fool brace he wore to help Suppast his weight broke the along th ankle and an infection set in. Wadlow's extreme height was at- tributed by physicians to an over. active pituitary gland, He weighed 491 pounds, o! At 18 months he weighed | pounds. 122, 1918, Wadlow | Although he reached 30 pounds the end of six months, his unusua | growth was not noticed until he was ‘a year old. | His favorite dish was ice i and his favorite diversion was vel. His suits required nine yards of cloth and his shoes were size 30. Prize Awards To Feature oy Lock Haven Convention Volunteer Firemen From 18 Counties Expected | To Take Part In District Meeting Monday to Thursday, August 12th to 15th | drum {| Mt Police and phy- | and Carl | i —————— PA., THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1940, NUMEER 29. ade, Huge pgr— SE ; i awards, ranging up to $126 andj making a total of $13% including] five additional prizes The parade list includes 26 prizes | making exactly $1000. There arc to be six awards, $335 in all, for the corps competition which & divided into two departments—ju nior and senior. There will be tw prizes, $40 in all, in the pumpe contest ) 3 Hundreds of invitat al- ready been seni out the many fire companies by the commitiees which include every one of the near 400 fire-fighters wha comprise Lock Haven Fire Department’ three volunteer companies The 18-county Central Pennsyl- vania district includes: Blair, Cam- Cameron, Centre, Clearfield Elk, Forrest, Huniingdon Indiana, Jefferson, Juniata, Ly- coming, McKean, Mifflin, Potler Tioga ang Union counties ions have 0 Te wil WHY Servier) bria Clinton When nesday aft Camp in rector the dust or Boy etiled ernoon at Scout he Seven Mountins, Di- Phillips Pierce counted noses notified Boy Scout Headguar- there were exactly 100 Leaders the dining As Scouts make | a point never to miss a meal thi figure can be tak numbes in camp for the third week The for the Camp the Weaver Church Festival The sponsors of the festival held for the benefit of the Weaver church Saturday night are well pleased with the result, They re- port a large crowd present and ev- erything sold out. The prizes do- election nated, consisting of a desk. went to nor Council was held on Th R. L. Rhodes of Pleasant Gap, and evening. The Mayor of the Cam] an lamp Harry Hacket, this week is Scout Gilbert Rodi electric Lamb street, Bellefonte The following Sc are member and = Success | tors Scouts hall for supper as the Ju- rade to red a Jud The Oldfimer Deer Hunting To Permit ATCAING CRIN DADS BOYS 7 | (AN REMEMDBERTY | WHEN 1 WS A YOUNGSTER, Tis | | q any uc rn Lu Lone woes) | Bucks In State This Year THAN A MILE WIDE IN SOME PLACES. IT Mf | WAS ALIVE WITH GAME FISH IN THOSE DAYS. FATHER AND | WOULD ‘CATCH ALL TE PASS AND TROUT WE COULD (ARRY # IN HA BOY SCOUTS IN CAMP Wed-, a ‘Blitzkreig’ On Does And Decision of Game Commission Brings Protest From Sportsmen’s Association In Phil- ipsburg-Clearfield Area ” LF AN HOUR ow” - . Random [tems TAX: Before the new cigarette tax went into eflect the standard price was 1b cents a package. The tax amounts to one-hal! cent a package And yet many dealers and most vending machines are using the one-half cent tax as an excuse for increasing the price to 17 cents a package We dont mind being taxed, but we do object 0 being maced in the bar- | gain BUREAUCRACY: New speed limit signs have been and bucks hunters December 2 to 14 | year but shooting spike bucks will be prohibited, the Game Com- mission has announced Ross 1. Leffler, president of the | Commission stated that this action was taken because it is evident that both sexes should be hunt- to bring the within the avallable forage supply, to improve the health and virility of the herd, {10 relieve conditions for small game in large over-browsed areas and to overcome widespread farm damage complaints Does | gets Centre-Clearfield section, are em- phatic in stating that Central Penn. | sylvania can support many times! more deer than are now found In the Philipsburg region i Bportsmen also believe that the | ban on spike bucks will defeat its purpose of safety to the Instead of causing them 10 look be-| fore they shoot a “safeguard to| human life members believe ft! will hav opposite effect and! result in many hunters shooting “at anything that moves,” thus causing | many more hunting accidents Past doe seasons, they contend, | have resulted in killing off of thou-! sands of spike bucks reduc- ing rather than increasing the vir] lity of the herds { will be fair tar< in Pennsylvania inclusive, this for of deer of 5 a ed herd ¢ the Leffler sald shooting of thus bucks was banned {guard human life explained the the hunter spike “in order to safe- A commission prohibition will Announce Trapping Dates w to look before he! The Game Commission announced | Water | shoots on Monday its complete calendar char- | Mins | k ol (Cq 0 a e ) Leonard Levine Collins | Sportsmen Veloce Opposition Conlnued on page six Charles Margol!, Leonard Members of the State Game, Fish | chard Pri ohert 1 {and Forestry Association of 1th ; | Riehatd Hee Roe RO Le Tl ay ores Volond Lad Crushed To | Death by Tractor ‘owsey and Thomas Snyder unanimous opposition the | | alde ! force i artmenis as listed artment-—Harold Tarpley ichard Sidney thelr 0 Board of Health—David Dean doe slaughter, at their regular meel- Chairman; Charles Ammerman, Ing last week. Thomas DeHaes, Blaine to the Crouch. Dean Dubler Commission Robert Kepner sexes should be attemp! bring the forage association with wildlife Mag « ry gf +3 Bryan of U we of hunted in an herd within he statement ‘deer Contrary Game bot} rin, Joel Frank Hower Luther Kepler Department of He that and Grandfather's Farm at | Lewisburg to Lhe Miles r. Chairman; Donald Continued on page six) avaliable supply.’ through in the kendorn, Jr members of the actual contact Kenneth T. You 12-year-old LEGEND OF THE CRANBERRY BOG : # Myron C. Young y 4 was crushed | by tractor at! farm near Lewis- | son of Mr. and Mrs of Horseheads, N death Saturday grandfather's a o iB The iad, who was visiting on the The recent report that wild rasp- berry pickers, camped overnight on Zion, Clinton county, heard screams like an infant in distress coming from picturesque Ccran- berry bog. revises an old legend of- ten whispered about among the old- er ploneers veyor named aller babe to band k infant being MoeCalx n ry 1 McCabe in Sugar had returned wa deck th by ey wit the middic-ag fellow crue] beautiful There's no use laving to wild him oats.” old Hen Jameson told Col | rent © Henry W. Shoemaker, shortly before | her warrior the former's tragic death “Why whe that $15 bounty the game board mt her Harrisburg laid on *he made the cats heres oils than hen's teeth’ ‘Yet 1 can weil mind the when bab cats were plentiful these parts,” continued the old well- informed mountaineer, and then went on to tell one version the legend of the weeping cranberry bog an ML Zion's windy crest It appeared, writes Mr maker In his snessgaper column that Oucongenie, a comely Indian girl, was captured by a white sur- ected widoy which oS ongenie till loyal to Memo ne lO escape to young it as wife to husband's 5 had babe 8 chance determined night with varmints | cross scarcer ment in Quigley's gap where she inderstood her warlike relative day | Chief James Logan, was staying. so in | 8s tO be near his beaul Irish and ful coppery- {haired Scotch Jura McAvoy Ltheart wer of the burly venomous and Legree, having uld transport LF f i ohioe- | {came inexpeciedly and find- {ing the | black hair whose Jot her MIA W below wR Knees State College Trains 60 Pilots Flight Instruction is Under Direction af Centre County Men Farming a half century ang more ago entailed considerable more la- r than it does today, according to | Charles Shultz, of Farmers Mills i | who tomorrow will celebrate the al~ tainment, of the 80th. milestone of ; A Philipsburg pilot, William a life spent he au agricultural { Knapper, Jr. is one of the flying pursuits | instructors who is helping to train! Mr Shultz who for the past num- { the 60 pilots who will have received ber of years has been caretaker of | their private licenses at State Col- | 110 Evangelical church at Farmers {lege by September i= under the | ails lives only “24 steps from the | Civili Aeronautics Authsrity Civil | shureh” and when he {8 not mow- ian pilot training program which is ing the church lawn or otherwise being carried on as part of the na-| jooking after the property, he tional defense plans. spends much of his time in fishing { Penn State startzd its flying | which he declares “isn't any good {course last November when federal| ane more * ; | aid officials decided 30 students | Mr Shultz seems well qualified to jcould take the flying course which | speak on the change that recent { includes greund school Instruction. | years has brought to farming meth- | This year even the summer ses- | o4: because he has spent most of {sion will have a flying school and | his 8) years in actual farm work | Born in Miles township on July 19, in bat] | came pilots this June when the first | dren of Mr. and Mrs Jacob Shultz | course was completed. | He was a twin brother of Franklin i Sherm Lutz, pllot-operator of the | ghuilz now deceased. State College Air Depot, conducts! Mr Shulte’s education did not [the flight training and is assisted | pegin unti] he was eight years old {by William Knapper, Jr, and Jack | when he entered a school which { Matthews, of Hutingdon. Matthews | siooq on the south side of Rebers- i replaces Ralph M. Haines, of Sayre.| hurg When he reached the age of | World War pilot, who was affiliated | 1g years, Mr. Shultz's father took {with the {in Prance. He left State College | work on the farm. His early recol- {June 1 to join the Royal Canadian | jections of the first farm chores he Air Poree. | performed included cutting wood during the | instruct summer S€8- | . | tato planting; " To Cut Virgin Timber | mowing and hauling the hay to the One of the few remaining sec-| barn where it was pitched into the itions of virgin timber in Union | mow by hand, | county will soon be converted into | the mountains to the eNCAMP- {rj Viersmen 80-Year-Old Gregg Township Man Has Had Busy Career ‘of 50 1860, he was one of the ten chil- | barred him from continuing in that | trict of Centre British Royal Air Force | him out of school and put him 16 Mr. Knapper has been retained 10 for the summer; hauling manure | with a sled plowlhg: oals sowing: | | sion | fence making; corn planting; po-| corn working; and for the summer started to crank the tractor in the barn about 11 o'clock Saturday moming the machine apparently started sud- denly and knocked him down, run- ning over his body and pinning him between the front wheels and a log He died Instantly The boy's body was extricated by grandfather. J. A Young, and three Robert, Samuel and Chester Dr Lee R. Lerman, Mil- ton physician, was summoned to the seene and pronounced him dead His chest was badly crushed. farm soft there and baby’; cruel and he fone the revealed the shouted exullingly overt his budd surround he Indian's bog while he went in with the aliow the ad- TOR his BACT - babe was be ¥ CMErgency MoCabe was to so easily. Making a mis- a step, the burly surveyor siepped into a quagmire and was submerged lo the neck Tt took the rope and tackle he had intended to tie up the girl and beat her into submission to drag she him oul of his near tomb among the far out ints | Ditcher pianis ang sundew: At last, soaking. dirty and "mad- and then made off at a dog trot der than a wet hen,” he came upon across Mt. Zion and then Gown ih babe lying on a tussock, bul no Bpring Run Ww mother. With dreadful language he prings and 1 brave kicked atl the helpless little one and Arms knocked her down among pads of pond lilies The (Continued on page six) She's nave her Fain car surveyor soon be requested jes io of t the ¥ : rVer ugh the to uncies L) It wa quicker a Mar tithe fOr quick thought grtion The inlant was born only to make trouble for and sorrow for its family, ac- ts views the oot and hiere men reared Admits Slaying Juniata Youth Altoona Man. : Arrested at Scranton, Said to Have Confessed Crime ing the slern of Ad MITE De ith her jong, lithe arms threw One bog as the oent as she could igleys Logan s the front. panting and per: the aoRs piring they near- A 14-months’ search by slate po- lice for the slayer of 22-year-old Bdward LL Gephart of Junials, 8 COC camp enrolee, who was fatally stabbed last Thursday st Scranton with the arrest of Michael Randsa- zo, 37. alias Russell Labue, of Al- toona, whom Major William Clark of the state police there said con- fessed to the slaying At large ever sinte the stabbing Labus was arrested at Scranton on | a theft charge, Major Clark said : . | Blair Osunty Districk Attoeney While a radio blared at full blast, | . “ods anh Miss Dorothy Foresman, 25-year-| Chester B. Wray said another m Domenick Norgrosso, campanion of old nurse of Lewisburg. ended her ipa : Labue's, was still at large. Wray life Monday by shooting. Miss Fores- ped bue WOU i man went to the closet of her bed- said he ho 15 would adm: Norgrosso's in; room and with a revolver fired a ae 2 Rw bo connected {bullet through her mouth : with €he murder of Gephart, who Union oounty coroner William was found lying on the front porch Rogh said Miss Foresman had been of the Newburg inn in West Al- ill for two years, which accounted! toons, over the city line, by a com- for her commiting suicide | panion, who had been in his com- Miss Foresman's father was fa- pany earlier in the evening. It tally shot while cleaning a gun last was after taking severa] other mem- November. | bers of Gepharts party home that { the sompanion returned to the tav- | ern and found Cephart with a 14- inch gash across his abdomen, He was taken to Altoona hosptial where he died. His condition was so critical that stale police were unable to obtain any details from him of the affair. Gephar: had been home on a OCC furiough. and the a Lewisburg Nurse Ends Life In Room Shoots Self With Revolver! While Radio Deadens Sound - I came harvest time. The wheat was cul with cradles and was tied by hand, later being hauled into the barn. Oals also were Cul with cradles. Mr. Shultz recalls that four men cradieg a len-acre | field of oals in one day Some farmers, the aged man recounted, did thresh their grain until winter and sometimes the task re- quired a week to compiete, Alter harvesting wheat and oats the hexi job was to cut corn ang haul in the corn fodder After several years of farming and when he was about 22 yeals old, Mr. Shultz went to work in the woods, remaining in that work for | some years. He then worked for varioug farmers, peteiving a wage cents a day, until he was about 35 years old when his first wife died ang he returned to lum- i bering. After two years in that Lick Run Lodge No. 311, 1. O. O. occupation he became a thresher- | F. received notice last week from | man by trade, coniinuing in that the Philadelphia Office of the work until he was 55 years old when | Grand Master of Pennsylvania I. O./ his physician advised him to seek O. F. that one of iis members, Har- | lighter occupation. ry B. DeArment, has been appoint- | From then on he worked part/ed to the office of District Deputy time on various farms until age Orand Master of the Northern Dis-| county. This is the strenuous vocaidon, In recent years first time that a member of the he has devoted most of his time to | Howard lodge has been honored by! caring for the church property. { the appointment to this office. The | | Northern District of Centre county | the : 4 wh not Howard Lodge Man Honored PENN STATE OFERS DAIRY SHORT COURSE A five-day oourse in receiving weighing, sampling, first wife Penningion, who survives son by the first wife, George Shultz, who now resides in-Sugar Valley Mr. Shultz is the last member of ly taken in 3 classes of his immediate family, and has lived comprising 20 young men at Farmers Mills for the past 2z ard and vicinity. years, i (Continued on page six) burg. Snow Shoe, Blanchard and husbandry at the Pennsylvania Howard. Lick Run lodge has recent- | State College beginning on Augus® candidates 5. of How- | {of the course, will accept advanosd | registrations from now until the i ~Ciet all the news Jat 41504 yeat, pening g of the course. hunters. | . Met Death While Visiting! | | Centre County when | testing, and | studying dairy products will be with a Stormstown, Port Matilda, Philips-| given by the department of dairy erected in Bellefonte Borough, by Council, under specifications laid down by the Blate Highway Depart- ment. And if there Is any sense lo the Blate Highway's idea of speed regulations they aren’ very appar- ent locally. You can tear in Bish. op street, to the top of the hill, at miles an hour. From there in mit is 25 miles. Allegheny street's limit, from Howard to Linn, is 35 miles an hour. From the Jodon store west on Willowbank street the dangerous Hospital en- trance, the limit also is 35 miles an All the streets are heavily traveled. Bchools are located on two of them and conditions such that in daytime only a hair-brained driver would travel at 35 miles an hour {f left to his own devices The upshot of the thing is that the signs, instead of slowing traffic in town to a safe limit, will probably encourage drivers 0 travel al = speed somewhere near the legal limits FREE ADVERTISING: This department hereby offers any Bellefonte store which has in stock a supply of ciay pipes for blowing soap bubbles, a little free sing. A search last week failed to produce any such If you have some you want rid phone Beliefonte 85 this department not only will two choloe pipes, but will in- sert a little free advertising for the r 39 the past hour are In . ’ ) pe of { store where they can be bought BINDERY: The binding department ai the Library is conduct by two employes of the WPA vho take a real interest in their work. The two men are Blair Young and Raiph Myers, both of Belle- fonte, who have bound more than 700 volumes sinee they first began | work last September. Not satisfied with ordinary ‘tie binding in which the binding thread = run through the entire volume, making it impossible forever afler get { the volume to lie flat, the two men | organised a binding class, and with the add of Lynn Krape, who has studied signature binding, they have Jearned thal method. The SAuished | product cannot be told from a pro- fessional job and ifbrary officials declare they'd be “lost” without the services of Messrs. Young and My- ers RUMOR: A particularly nasty rumon, has been going the rounds in Bel nia for the past week regarding ons of the town's residents Authorities should leave no stone unturned fo either prove or disprove the reports and act accordingly THE CRIME RECORD: Centre county's 1940 crime record to date is quite astounding We've had three murders—the Taylor, Gates and Walker murders; and a reported kidnaping--Mary Tomb, of Milesburg. Officials believe they have 28 clear cut case against the slayer of the Gates girl The Milesburg kidnaping never aroused much in- terest in police circles, and the Walker crime was solved with the committment of Mr. Walker's house- keeper. Still unsolved is the murder of Rachel Taylor at State College. Five ace detectives from the State Motor Police at Harrisburg are spending thelr entire time on that case. And it seems only natural that if they were getiing nowhere, some nf them. at least. would be as- signed to other matters. The fact that the investigation continues un- abated may be taken to mean that [police have confidence that the cor- { rect answer will be found Ih the not too distant future. Police sources are absolutely closed to newspaper men, and not a hint of the trend of the investigation can be learned. — Home Found Via Phone A note found in the pockei of a | 90-year-old man at Bayonne N. J. unable to tell police who where he lived, contain- e name of a friend in Lansing, telephone call © the ing, 800 miles Away the man as G. D_ Fraser City, N. Y. ed to Professor W. D. Swope, in charge | executive secretary of the | Camber of Commeree { lumber, it has been revealed with | ah announcement of the erection | "KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES'— A Break for Kitty —_— — of a sawmill on the Richard Glover | farm northeast of Laurelton. The | 15-ucre tract, sold recently to Judge | D. R. Pursley, of Laurelton, was or- | ih : g
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