Odd and CURIOUS in the = NEWS Father's Da Maynard and ¥ etiam Cohick brothers of Willlamsport R, D. 2 became fathers in the same house Wednesday within eight hours. Mr and Mrs. Maynard Cohick became the parents of a daughter at 3:25 p. m, Wednesday. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs, William Co- hick at 11:57 o'clock that evening Mrs. Abbie Kent, Red Cross Nurs- ing Center representative, attended the two mothers who occupied the same room. Deaf or Dumb? Traffic Patrolman Tobe Mercan- tel is still wondering who was deaf | or who whs “dumb” When an | automobile full of young people] made a wrong turn he whistled them to a stop, went over, and be- | gan his lecture. All in the car| made signs that they were deaf and mute. He waved them on but as| they sped away the thought struck him: If they were deaf, how had | they heard the whistle? It was| too late then to find out. No. | ‘Mother’ Mrs, Maule Leisering claims to be Pennsylvanias No 1 soldier mother She has four sons serving in the | U. 8. Army and she is a member of the regular army women's reserve composed of women relatives of ser- | vice men. The sons, three of whom | are sergeants. are Robert, Charles | and Francis, in army service, and | Bruce. a first class private in the | medical corps at San Juan, Puerto! Rico. | Well Oiled | A 27-year-old Negro fis ill in| Charity Hospital, Shreveport, La, a| victim of his own “toothache re-| medy.” When an aching tooth] persistently pained him, he filled | his mouth with kerosene ang re- | solved to keep it there until the | pain ceased. After an hour he fell] asleep—and swallowed the kerosene | Crackless Crack-up | Mr. and Mrs. Homer Kimmel, of | Olney, 111, put all their eggs in one | basket and started their car across the rallroad tracks enroute to their| home. A train struck the auto,| spinning it around and throwing Mrs. Kimmel against the wind- shield. The eggs, In the rear seat, escaped damage. Perfect Score Farmer J. J. Parker, of Dunn, N C.. bought his children a bicycle. He | went riding and broke a leg. His little daughter tried out the wheel the next day and broke her nose, | His son hopped started for the family groceries. He fell and broke an arm, ¥ PENN STATE BUILDS ~ AIRPLANE TUNNEL More comprehensive instruction! in aeronautics will be ushered in at the Pennsylvania State College upon completion of a new wind tunnel now under construction inh the Col- lege’s mechanical engineering lab- oratory The tunnel, which will manufac- ture wind velocities up to 125 or 150 miles per hour, will be used to test the effects of various velocities on model: or segments of airplanes. It also cen be used to test model au- | tomobiles or houses. The equipment fills a floor area of about 1200 square feet, ! Where Does Death Valley Scotty Keep His Gold Interesting story of the career of No. 1 Mystery Man of the Desert Castle who has been spending for 40 years without even tax collec- tors finding where he gets his "mil. | Hons.” Don't miss this illustrated feature in The American Weekly the big magazine distributed with next Sunday's Baltimore American On sale at all newsstands. — — a - The man who continually borrow: money is apt to bemoan his hard luck. Breaks Nose Shooting At Snake i Centre, and | proving the road and | track switch were | time | native of Flemington | Central Sta‘e i tended Penn The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Ce SECOND SECTION ntre County. om— mo A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. he Centre Democrat VOLUME 69 . | NEWS, | FEATURES Random Items BELLEFONTE, PA.,, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1940. NUMBER 39. Premature Blast In Mine Results In Death of Young Osceola Mills Workman Accident Occurs on Coaldale Mining Property at Center, Only Half Mile From Where Two Boys Were Killed Edward Cowfer, 23-year-old Os- ceola Mills mine worker, died at the Philipsburg State Hospital Thurs- day night, following injuries he re- ceived as the result of a prema- ture mine blast the day before His skull fractured in several places by rocks hurled by the blast Cowfer’s condition had been critical since Wednesday morning when the explosion occurred He was working alone in a drift on the Coaldale mining property. at two brothers and a brother-in-law working outside im- removing a unaware that the shot had injured Edward. He was “shooting bottom rock” and the others were expecting to hear the | shot fired. Edward was discovered a short later by his brother, Russell 30, who had been removing the switch from a nearby abandoned Native of Clinton Co. Found Dead Ralph Vanatta Missing Three Days, Discovered in Tour- After being missing for several days. the body of Ralph E. Vanatta Clinton coun- ty. was found recently in a tourist camp near Fort Wayne, Indiana Vanatta 47, formerly employed as safety director at Barberton, Ohio was a prominent resident of that city Born October 21, 1892, at Fiem- ington, he was the son of Lott B Vanatta and Anna Mary Walker Vanatta, and was well known In this vicinity He was a gradua‘e of the then Normal and aiso atl- State. He taught schoo] for eight years belore going with the Columbia Chemical Com-| pany at Barberton in 1919 He is survived by his widow, Ma- | on it next and rian; a son, Robert; his father L | B. Vanatia; a sister. Mrs. Harry! Valentine. and two brothers, Mer vin LL. and Eugene B Vanatta all residents of Barberton Man Jailed For Annoying Minister Demanded Money and When Refused, Posed as Police Officer Ben Hale, Hollidaysburz young man, who on August 20 held up Rev. R. E. Martin, a Hollidaysburg i minister who supervises a charge at Philipsburg, was committed to the { Blair county jail last week for 60 days in default of a fine Hale, who is sald to have served a term in the Huntingdon Reform- atory, pleaded guilty at a hearing and sald he was very drunk ai the time and did not realize what he was doing. On the day of the assault the preacher and his young son started from their home at Hollidaysburg to take a walk. The boy was sent back for a Bible to take along, and when Rev. Martin was waiting along ‘the railroad track he was accosted by Hale, who appeared from high (Continued on page six) Ernest Dershem, of Lock Haven | bridge of the nose, into the mine some 300 feet, he saw his brother lying unconscious and bleeding on the ground. He tried to drag him out, but because of the cramped quarters was unable to do 50. He ran for help and his broth- er, Chester, 27, and Stanley Baugh- man, 29, helped carry him out, The two had been cracking stone on the! | « the road short above mine Rushed to the Philipsburg pital, it was reveaied that the vic- tim had suffered the loss of his left eve and had several holes broken into the side of hls head by rocks flying in the explosion, {| For the second time within month the Cowfer family has been | struck with a mine disaster, and each of the times it occurred on the Coaldale Mining property, but not in the same mine, The olher acci- | dent was on August 11, when three { boys hitched a mule to a mine cal {and went In to explore the Coaldale mine | The car jumped the track and hit a mine timber knocking the post down, This resulied in joose dir! from the roof caving in and smoth- ering the two boys in the car. The third boy escape! injury and was reported to have been leading the mule. Amos Cowfer, Jr 15, of | Philadelphia, and Kenneth Thomp- (Continued on page six) a distance i { drift mouth, After Russell went | hos~- | \ ECONOMICS TEACHERS MEET The Oldtimer WW THOSE DAYS ALL YOU HAD © DO WAS Drop A LINE WITH A HOOK ON IT IN THE WATER AND YOU HAD | A PICKEREL OR A BASS AND UNLESS (T WEIGHED FOUF | OR FIVE POUNDS, WE THREW IT BACK, BUT NOW, | IF YOU CATCH A STRING OF CROPPIES YOURS | ir _— | | | Dispute Over Cus Dispute over the cus'ody of a 3- year-old child, given upon ture birth to an elderly Gallitzin for care, resulled in tb death Sunday morning of 74-year old Philips Titler. retired PP R. R Jack foreman who succumbed to ¢ heart aliment, police sald legedly being choked by the child’ father, James A Rainey, 28 miner at Lilly From what could be learned of the history the case, it is sald that Rainey and his wife gave thel: child, who was not expec.ed \» vive | to the elderly couple to nurse back health Under the care of Mr. and Mrs Titler, it was sald. the child rallied and eventually became healthy and sirong. It was reported that *n custody of the baby isclosed number of years Police said they learned tha! Mra of the Titler home Saturday morn- ing and gathered up her son in he arms, bu; Mrs. Tiller, who imme- diately arrived on the scene and after a s.ruggle on the reet front of the Titler home the bay Meantime the Kl of it to t hey " fo of ht Schon! Hoffer structor T? th order b line B tonic for disc Allied to Hom ports on co ni i Mis Economics Christine in- yiggut pus Home The September Cen.re C Association was burg. Wednesday meeting Home Economics held at Philips- evening, Septem ber 18, when the Home-making Teachers of Clearfield County me with the Centre County Lleachers A dinner was served Hote! Philips Miss Helen Geer, County Home Economics Advisor and Mrs. Anna B. Green, Chief of Home Economils Educa Department of Public Instruction, Harrisburg Pres. After the dinner to the Phillipsburg hip busines meeting called f the President of ” was Miss Boalsburg ISSI Was Making Aug Pau al the Lid wt ATR 51 re gained t were g na — ati yen oy Arde d the & Mr. Titler followed street where he wa y who, with Dy J900 oul an ven 1 A001 set 1i0on his hand tht fr y Edu Problems on : X were cating the teacher nad High ent retired (Continued on page six) ~ PROTECTING THE BE Touching on the recently incor- porated “Cenire County Historical Society,” Col. Henry W. S8hoemake: of the Altoona Tribune expresses the hope that the group will be abie to direct its efforts in protecting the General Philip Benner mansion at “Rock.” Colonel Shoemaker his dally newspaper point out the historical val Benner home, in the following com- makes use ol column IK ue of the | ment: This remarkable home, where re- sided the greatest lronmaster in Central Pentis¥ivania—Johft Pht- ton was probably the first and ancestor of three Pennsylvania gov- ernors, to say nothing of Innumer- | able industrialists. financiers, writ- | ers, artists and historians—should be preserved as a4 memento of a vanished age of baronial grandeur i Sald one old white bearded sage to this wriler al Roopaburg, “When ¥ NNER HOME | > " " they took Lhe mammoth trou id aradise he one that was wri Rusty Ld | ee met by | {a ter af .er to grow bigger and “ron tonic” 2 apart that blemish wag fines; and brightest colored Penn- sylvania native trout 1 ever saw In my 73 years of fishing {The name of gentieman will be gladly 1 aprlica’ion) Governor James who many friends in Centre y, plas lives hoped, may interest himself! in tention st the Altoona art exhibit) cant come Od’ the Benner mansion before it is toc “Well, when somebody shared! Spreckies’ at the Benner spring, 21] late. With such historians as Mr Old Rusiy” ar we call him, one fits dale Rusty” al the ‘Chimney’ spring’ Meek. Mr Nalie. “Dutch” Herman tafler another swept the barrens | in size or marking both of which® Ves Stevens Mrs Magdalene C and the timber industry buill up by were our nalive Pennsylvania trou! | Thompson, Jack Thompson, Mis the Thompeons and others virtually ' and grew up on the ordinary insect! | Hilda Thompson, Dr. Dunaway and ceased 4 ir fish urse, the spdendid descendanis “These Old of immortal John Blair Linn--fore. went on, “were mos. central Pennsylvania histor. inches. and a ian Henry 8. Linn and Mary Linn heavier each all backing up and working as hooked by sie, perhaps the blockade, what my acquaintance al (Continued on page six) 1a from troduced the trash baskets “I+ was the sam trou: in the Ch Creal Pine Miss Marion years ago which atiracieg su al this grand oid furnished y spring at the {The one nied severa ats were beautifu fish n AIL AS Ofe Lroul has of but of course the coun and tn ch ed 0 ’ 4 # A . os O ff © two ir Rusty’ get thal tly eoinred? the oid joyce ‘cut oO the patriarch by several hal! pound two record hau anglers of | with rusty 3 did bigger ROOM than the two jady the Pisher coliapaed. a handmade spring teoted mens the Olid Car Thief Flees Lock Haven Jail Clarence Emeril, 45, Escapes During Evening From Prison Yard Clarence Emert, 45, of Duryea, Luzerne county. is still at liberty after his escape last Thursday night | from the yard of the Clinton county jail at Lock Haven. Emert was serv- ing the first day of a 10-day sen. itence on a motor code violation | prior to facing further prosecution on charges of auto thefts Emert was arrested Tuesday night of last week for reckless driving and driving without a license when ithe car he was operating crashed into the rear of a Philadelphia man’s car on the highway east of | Mill Hall { In making hig escape he is said ito have crawled up the cell | block outside his cell, fastened knot- { ted sheets to a bar at the cell win. dow, threw the improvised rope | which was | over the outside jall wall, and then | met with an unusual accident last| broken. and entered the flesh. Had! jumped the intervening six feet to|. vive Thursday which resulted in painful | the shell struck him either to the the top of the wall, letting himself | Trailer-Truck Burns On Road Driver and Helper Hurt When Estimate Truck Wrecks Renovo Road W. P. A. Worker Crowd of 23,500 Killed By Train See Dedication Vietim Walks Head-on Into ea Passenger Locomotive on Cars Parked at Airport Near Tyrone Event ; : The official car count al the re- laceration: cent dedication of the Black Mo- truck and trailer WAS shannon airport was 4700 cars, ac- by fire In an accident cording to Mahlon Wells, general after midnight Prides chairman in charge of the event I enOv0 aM: BX |. According to this figure, and on dh . the accepted basis of five persons : Hodsman to a car, the crowd would be ap- driver n hh rive, or Bd proximately 23.500 persons crawled from the vehicle which)! This is considerably in excess of burst into flames immediately, They the estimated figure used by this were taken to the Lock Haven Hos. Paper but, due to the way the crowd pital where the driver is being WAS scattered along the mile long treated for injuries to the pelvis and TUNWAyS, it was practically impos. bruises of the face and body. Barr Sibie to arrive at an accurate fig- suffered minor injuries oi! N tatbed ainkin well te tol orkmen s g a . LR Ro eq Wi ray. | Dear the administration building. a eling toward Lock Haven and was week pro JodAY The well is now | coming down the long grade west . " | of the Scootsc bridge when it ran NOW that the field has been offi- oft cially opened, it is being used as a ! Getting completely out of control landing place by a number of Walking head-on into the P R Ome R. day express passenger train as it raced eastward through the Graz. fer block station, just west of Ty- rone, Ceorge T. Rulridge, 61, of Thomastown, near Tyrone, was kill- ed instantly Priday afternoon when the train locomotive severely smash- ed his body and hurtled it against a westbound train man njured seriously another hy > 3ia hy WAL and suffered when des roves shortly : morning miles Fayne Mich of Baginaw hiz relief man he victim's wife revealed her husband was enhrou'e home from work on a project in Tyrone 8he said she did not know why her hus. band, who wag walking along No. 2 track of the raliroad’s main line! would have taken that route, un-| {less he was berry-picking, which | | he mentioned he might be doing be- | { fore he left for work in the mom. ! {ing His widow and three daughters off the right side of the road Miner Is Jailed In Death of Veteran Railroader at Gallitzin After Quarrel tody of 3-Year-Old Child Ends in Aged Man Succumbing to Heart Attack After Allegedly Being Choked | abovt prema- | couple of | | Police alter al- | sur- Rainey jumped over the fence | Based on Number of COUGHLIN SAYS STATIONS | MAGIC TOUCH: The magic touch we have previ- | ously ascribed to Larry Woxdin secretary of the Wellsboro Cham- ber of Commerce, seems to be hold. ing out in great shape Larry ap- parently has convinced the boys with the Department of Commerce in Harrisburg that there Just isn’t anything in Pennsylvania like the “Grand Canyon” near Wellsboro for in large advertisements appear- ing In magazines and newspapers the Department of Commerce de- votes most of the space (0 a photo of the Canyon. All of us are pay- ing for those advertisemen's and maybe we're getting tired of hear- ing about larry Woodin's brain. child. For the Department's bene. fit we repea. that al] nis Canyon does Is sit there. Here in Cen're County we have fish hatcheries and nurseries galore, and in Bellefonte our famous trout will furnish plenty of thrilling action as long as someone gives them a scrap of hamburg to fight over of MONUMENT: A Bellefonte man last week sug- the aged man’; was reported by police been withessed, id the street was fairly | lined with bystanders who, so far | remain unquestioned of what thes witnessed | Rainey denied choking Titler and Mrs. Rainey said she did not see anything that occurred police dis- closed Police asserted Titler, the alleged assault, staggered to the fence in fron: of his home and made his way to the gate by grasp- ing Lhe pickets. After going through gesied that the Civil War monu- | the gate, police sald, the victim ment in front of the Court House had nothing to support him as he acts as an undesirable screen 1i£ (Continued on page 6) the County's Court House. He said - i o—— that the monument might be moved Howard Men Lose iio and ensarsed uo ineiuds toe Game Law Appeal neck, whicl as having ry following veterans of all wars. In front of the Court House, he said, statues of Governor Hastings and Governo Beaver should have a place near the present sta ue of Governor Curlin All is fooq for thought, but would entail considerable expense and might not meet with public ap- proval, ge Henry Hippie, of BOUQUET: Lock Haven, Thursday filed an This corner feels that Dr. Theo- th Yibuatircss 78 4 1 in State, ang Dr. Pauline Berry 9.1m fhe case 5 Hogi and Dan Bots | ack, sof DF. J. Bred Oesterting o : i th th x ile chemistry department a ler, brohers of Howard, Centre 4.1 institution are entitled to # which had iis origin In 2 yoe of thanks from Centre County season arrest Dec. 15 | The three persons, all witnesses a! the trial of Richard Millinder, were instrumental in weaving the net of circumstantial evidence which sent fllinder to prison for life and none of them is going to charge Lhe county one cent for their highly specialized services, They will be paid for the material they wed Iv making tests of bloodstains found on the mek, and of scrapings taken from Pays Gates’ fingernails and from Millinder's clothing, and will receive 85. a day as wilnesses in Court, but wmside from that fim Hugh and Dan Butler Must Pay Fine of Alleged Violation this President Jud > " {eounty ate 10039 Judge Hipple confirmed the de- on of Jus ice of the Peace George F. Hess Beech Creek the But! guilty of fil w 1s iiy nun 2 cis of ers rd Ii terferred with officers of the Com- monwealth the performance of their duly under the Game Lav.” Mr. Hess found the brothers gulily and fined them each $100 and costs. The penalties are payabie al the office of othono ary Fred § Tysoni within the time stipulated by the cour, order, or the defen- 1" " \ ’ dants will be commitied, in leu of Faly charge for their professional services have been waived in the | payment, to the Clinton Count) i erests of justice Jail, a day for each dollar of the ; | penalties TRIAL COSTS: : -— | Oflirt House officials have esti- ALTOONAN DIES WHILE | mated that the of Richard TRYING TO HOP FREIGHT Millinder will oost the county ap- ——— | proximalely $2500, which includes Trying % hop a freight train at about $400 for the 100 jurocs calied Altoona Bunday morning cost the for the first day: about $600 for life of Robert Sheldon Moteser 25 Seven days’ services of 14 jurors, of Altoona, who met instant death heir mileage. and hotel bill, $250 when he fell beneath the wheels of for Defense Altorney Lewis Orvie (the train He was decapitated and Harvey, $208 to Dr. Miton Eddy ‘his right arm severed He fell un- biology instructor at Dickinson der the train when he missed the College, Carlisle. for his tesis ol ladder on the car he tried to hop hair found on the deaih weapon; A brother, James. 26, saw his young about $100 for the Sheriff's office er brother swept beneath the train [Of attendance of the Sherill apd but was powerless to help him Deputy in cour: and for transporia- STR, tion of the defendant; abou: $35 for Millinder's board at the oounty jal] from June 14 until he wa: taken to prison last week; about $200 for Commonwealth Witness fees. and abou $100 for the Coron- er's inquest and post mortem ex- amination by tw liefonte physi- cians, Not itemized are the Pro- thonotary's costs, costs of materials used by expert wilnesses in con- ducting tesis of evidence, and vari- ous other miscellaneous charges some of which have not been com- | puted at this time. It is believed | however, that the tolal cost will not . exceed $2800, which seems to be a nominal amount considering the | vast costs piled up in comparable | cases elsewhere, Te an the hundreds of dollars they could le- TURNED DOWN HIS TALK The Rev. Charlies E Coughlin has abandoned his plan for a new series of weekly radio talks. which has been scheduled to open on Sun- day, Oclober 20 In an interview in the current issue of “Social Justice” the priest | charged that “men powerful in the felgd of radio and other activities” tad “forced the decision upon me.’ HANGS HIMSELF IN JAIL AFTER ARRES1 Captured in the act of robbing # pool room, a Blairsville man hang- od himself three hours later in the PRISON COSTS: borough jail, at Blairsville | For every day Richard Millinde: The man was identified as Clar- spends in the Western penitentiary ence Weed 20, Patrolman Alber! ai Pittsburgh, the county will be Cummings arrested Weed in the required to pay about 65 cents fot pool room, jailed him and later his maintenance there. If he found the prisoner hanging by hi: should live to be 70 years of age belt from a cel] bar. | and remains tn prison all that time - | the total cost 'o the ocouniy would Wins | be about $11,400. Scholarship A student who was graduated in ROOSEVELT: [ft rolled over on its right side Planes. | " Kylortown. Plags Alp Show | ASSIS the “embankment | and injuries to his face. | right or the left, it might have down on the outside into the alley! Dershem, a truck driver who buys | destroyed his eyes, and if it had| which runs along the jail yard, ! Nameg Acting Head and sells cattle, was delivering a! struck him in the middle of the! When he disappeared Emert was nderway to hold | been awarded the national Phi Eta | : cow at the Russell Kaler farm in forehead there is the probability wearing a gray suit and no hat, He | Plans are now. uliderway 10 { The Citizens Hose Company without getting a litle star-dus i of, President Ralph D. Hetzel has ‘ a big air show at Ames Pleld, Kyler- |, ’ 9 approved the designation of Dr. W | Sigma graduate scholarship, totaling | iy, our eyes, but despite that we Caldwell, Shaton Sousty, ¥hen the | oat Hs 2am pave Xilleg him: om lis describid as being 5 feet 8 inches | tum airport, early in October. The | Lock Haven was called to extin- BPP esig {about $300 annually. The winner, iil Smit that he's made mis- ; ! guish the blaze A. Broyles to be acting head of the | | Der weighs 150 pounds, with gray, is now being mowed in prep-| 5° | Robert Sites Voris, of Hagerstown, | ad- his Shem Prosured yp Hie fiom the nose fracture and also suffered | brown hair, brown eyes, a small scar port a for CE Pea he department of rural education of takes. The eight years of his true 8 e snake. a the Pennsylvania State College| Md. plans lo take graduate studies ministration have served to con A oo : Bo cuts on his face. After receiving on the tip of his nose, two one-inch | nd mattress jumps and a model Nurse Travels Much | during errs leave of SLOHORE [at the University of Illinois. | vince us thai whatever he does 1s aba model ¥ith a g# TY wha compelled to re- scars on the forehead between the |. lane contest will be included on Miss Rhoad Klose. of Mifflin | granted to Professor H. 8 Brunner - | done with absolute sincerity and The gun backfired as he shot, the | To Bore of Me The doy Bg Bo greirows, and hoody of the middie the program, | burg. Union county nurse, reported | The latter will spend his leave at Blossoms and Fruit with the best interests of the peopie shell casing striking him on the' Hepler, in Jersey Shore. : cai | i Monday of last week that she has Ohio State University. An apple tree on the farm of as a whole at hesri, In those {chemical engineering at the Penn. t stop Roosevelt, Per- sylvania State College last June has | Rin. a look at the man | covered 8178 miles visiting pati Ea Ee HL SP. H Mrs, Anna Pride, at Dibble Hollow eight years he has never had Social Suffering of Our Fashionable Smart little boys and girls al- ents during the ten months that Human nature, being what it is | near Westfield is ocoasioning much have a Refugees | ready have an idea that it will not) she has been serving. men and women constantly seek | interest in that section. It is bear. explain Revelations by a prominent wo-| be many months before Santa a — excuses for their own short-com- ing both apple blossoms and grow- man author about the hordes of ex- | Claus starts around again, ~Classified ads bring results. | Ings, | ing fruit at this season. patriates, broke and otherwise, whe have taken refuge in the United | States. One of many unusual! stories in the October 6th issue of | ed bc is No False Teeth. No Gray Hair From the venerable halls of the| “Death we assume is and always University of Pennsylvania at Phil- | will be inevitable,” Dr. Pepper said adelphla, celebrating {ts 200th “buy the not far distant future may “birthday” anniversary, comes see us coming to this final step i - Eddie Loses His Control forth the hope that man some day may be able to grow old without showing the outward signs of age. Advances in preventive medicine and dietetics may so improve men physically that they may stay out- wardly “young,” asserted Dr. Oliver Hazard Perry Pepper, of the uni- versity medical school. in a medical conference v without having undergone many ol the changes which today we accept as part of normal life. “For example, loss of teeth and hair and whitening of the hair may perhaps be preventable by proper hygiene and diet and by lifelona health. It may well be that pre- ventive medicine will win an un- expected victory, in that direction.’ Wounds Himself George J. Gebhart, 50-year-old | Pennsyltania raflroad brakeman, | shot himself through the chest over | the grave of his late wife in East : cemetery, less than 24 hours after he was indicted in Dau- og 7 on Wife's Grave phin county court on a morals charge, An ambulance was called by! A. T. Raffensberger, who sald Geb- | hart walked to the Raffensbherger home after shooting himself at the nearby with a 32-calibre revolver, The American Weekly, the big ma- | gazine distributed with next Sun-| day's Baltimore American. On sale! at all newsstands, ; Absolved of Blame. A coroner's jury iast week absolv- | ed George 8. Mowe, of Mill Hall, of | all blame in the death of Dean Ivan Fritz, six year oid son of the Rev and Mrs. Ivan W, Fritz of Flem- ington, who was killed when he was | struck by the right front fender of the Moore automobile, Purchases Old Tannery Max Herr, of Centre Hall, well known junk dealer, recently pur-| chased the old Kistler Leather Come | pany at Lock Haven and will dismantle it for salvage. H i | |
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