Odd and CURIOUS in the ~ NEWS Whoa, Mule Down at Temple, Texas, an old blind mule went for a stroll down a high railroad trestle, Along came a fast train, whistle screaming. mule balked. The train stopped. Out piled the engineer and flreman and pleaded with the mule to gel out of the way. The mule Wis adamant. Two hours later the mule still stood there. So did the train. In desperation they shot the mule. Then the fast train sped on —two hours late. Jails Self Scampering through several blocks to elude officers, a Concord N. C, man ducked down some stairs to a basement. He fumbled in the dark, found a small room. In the room | was a mattress and he covered him- self with it. He didn't unti] Jailer | Bert Ball found him, a little later know that he was hiding in the “dungeon” sometimes used for in- corrigible prisoners. School Closed i Ca The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County. A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. SECOND SECTION @he Cenfre Democrat NEWS, Random FEATURES VOLUME 69 BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1940. NUMBER 45. a A A State College R. D. Man, Wife Injured When Their wo 00 Armistice Day > 3 wa Car Crashes Rear of Truck Victims Fail to See Towing Truck Parked Along #8 Highway, Called to Scene Near Bald Eagle | 7 As Result of Previous Wreck A State College R. D. man and his wife narrowly escaped death Saturday night when his car ram- med the rear of a truck, parked on the road two miles east of Bald Eagle for the purposes of towing away another car that had wrecked in a nearby fleld a short time be- fore. As a result of the accident! both occupants of the car were pain- fully injured and their car sustain- | ed damage to the extent of $200. The victims were Jacob Neidigh 68, and his wife, Alice. 42, who es- with cuts and bruises when Hallowe'en is the season of black | thelr auto crashed into the rear cats, and when a group of New | Columbia school boys found one | of the truck the operator of which, Dorsey F. Decker, 21, of Tyrone, (with a white stripe along its back) | had gone into a nearby field with they shut it in the school house. There was no school the following day, and a scheduled meeting of the skunk had made its escape, but the odor remained, Didn‘t Bother Him Sixty-vear-old Albert Schwamline of Ashland. wes accidentally shot in the back by a small calibre rifle as he leaned over to inspect an old oll drum. First he pursued the boy who fired the shot but didn't catch him. Then he carried home the oll drum. An hour later he went 0 the Ashland Hospital where physi- cians extracted the bullet, Worth Digging For Harry Robertson, © Brookfield, Mo., thought there must be a catch when he discovered someone had scattered 0 shiny silver dollars about his potato patch one night. He sent a sample to the Treasury Department and Uncle Sam pro- nounced it a genuine, minted doi- lar. Want To Buy It? Manheim borough in Lancaster its three-cell jail. There isn't room tor the cell in the jail building, said Police Chief Charles Hollinger, and all three occupied at once.” : Beaned Charles Berry, of Colhan, Colo. started for market with a six-ton load of beans on his truck. He ar- rived with a four-ton load. An end-gate had loosened—scattering beans for 15% miles. — p— ESCAPES INJURY WHEN TRUCK STRUCK HIS CAR George F, McFarland, an employe | of the O, W. Houts Lumber Com- pany, State College, escaped injury at 6.30 o'clock Friday morning when a truck crashed into his car on the mountain east. of Potters Mills on Route 322. Mr. McFarland, traveling towards Lewistown, pulled off the highway when he saw the huge vehicle coming towards him on his side of the road. It is believed the truck driver had fallen asleep, Mr, Mec- Farland, a resideny of Punxsutaw- ney. escaped injury. —r— co—— TWO ESCAPE INJURY IN MISHAP AT COLLEGE Occupants of two vehicles escap- ed injury at 3:45 o'clock Saturday morning when the machines crash- ed on West College avenue, State College, A car operated by Aaron Rabin, Penn State student, stopped to dis- charge a passenger when another vehicie driven by M. E Gruver of DuBois attempted to pass the Ra- bin car. An on-coming vehicle made it necessary for Gruver to cut sharply in front of the Rabin car, according to the report of Borough Police Officer, Grant N. Kough. Damage totaled approximately $30, according to the officer's report. a; NATIV Haven, August 2, 1871. is returning to timt city for his first visit since | the age of §. Mr. Sloan, now a famous Ameri- | can artist, whose family left Lock Haven to lve in Philadelphia, 4s regarded as one of the finest teach- ers of art in the United States and is hailed by artists everywhere as one of the fathers of American realism He left high school to work in a book store, studied art in the even. 10:15 a. m.- -Welcome-—Rev county wants to sell one-third of | E. Meyers, Secretary E SON John Sloan, who was born in Lock | A ———— gC ‘Fall Convention Townsend Club was cancelled. The | ‘of Church Workers Centre County Council of | | Christian Education to Meet | | at Blanchard County Council The Centre i Christian Education will {annual Fall convention Church of Christ at Blanchard on Thursday, November 14. The theme | for the three-session meeting will be: “Teaching Stewardship in the i Church School.” | Morning Session Presiding officer—Thomas G. Haugh, First Vice President 9:30 a. m.—Registration of | gates (no registration fee.) 110 a. m-—Devotional Period--Rev of hold its in the the operator of the. wrecked car, | Ivan Fleck, 18, of Tyrone R. D. 2. Flack had wrecked his car a short | time before when he is alleged 10 | have lost oontrol of it. The car 12 | reported to have careened from the highway, struck a pole and come to a stop in a fleld. Fleck was unhurt, motor police said, After Fleck crawled out of car, police reported, he went to rone and secured the services Dorsey Decker who brought back to the scene in his truck The men had parked the truck at the side of the road and gone into the field to prepare the wrecked car for towing when Mr. Neidigh came upon the scene. He failed the parked truck unt! avoid a crash. While damages to Mr. Neidigh's car amounted to $200, the Fleck car Marshall his Ty- of him to see too late to Gates of State d College a aeil Y sd 8 Fd ¥ ! proud possessor of one of | pair bill : reed Ath ar atsle S28 the escaped with approximately $35 re- hia he 9.000 biue capsules used in the ional lottery under the Belective a : ANOTHER GREAT DETECTIVE | Service Act in Washington STORY BY A MASTER SLEUTH last Astonishing revelations about s vendetta that wag responsible i the strange death of four men wi Dele- | M. 8. Rogers, Pastor Church of Christ, Blanchard Packer, Assistant Supt. Church of Christ School 10:20 a. m Address—Mr. Walter nnsylvania State Council, Philadelphia 11:00 a. m.; Discussion Period 12:00 Noon—Dinner, 25 cents. anyway “never in my memory Were Afternoon Bession | Presiding Officer—Prof. J. F. Wel-| zel, 2nd Vice President 12:00 p. m.: Devotional Period—Rev L. E. Kline, Pastor Evangelical Church, Howard 2:15 p. m.; Dedication of District No. 5 Project—Dr. W. R. Heaton, | President 12:30 p. m.: { the Church 3:00 p. m.: Divisional Conferences— | (Continued on page five) i Hymn Sing-—8ongs Leg Is Severed, Saves Own Life | Vietim of Train Accident Holds Wounded Stump Under Water H i i Physicians at Connellsville Hos- | | pital say Merle Overly, 27, of Mt | Pleasant, earned himself a 50-50 chance to survive by Keeping the | stump of his right leg in the cold | water of Dunbar Creek after the | lower part of the leg was cut off by { 8 freigh train. ! Overly was hit by the train while | walking along the Pennsylvania | railroad tracks at Dunbar Friday | night. Knocked into the creek. he | managed to swim and crawl to a ! bank. There he lay for more than i an hour, moaning for help, until a flagman on another train heard him and summoned an ambulance. Taken to the hospital, he was re- ported in critical | doctors said that by keeping his in- | jured leg in the cold water. thus somewhat staunching the flow of | blood, he had temporarily saved his life. TO RETURN ings, designed trinkets for a fancy {goods business, illustrated for a Philadelphia newspaper and rose to {the heights of his chosen fleld. { Mr. 8loan has been engaged to i speak in the auditorium of the Lock Haven State Teachers’ College at 8:15 o'clock Priday evening, Nov. { 15. Bome of his pictures will be on ! view in connection with the Clinton | Cournity Art Exhibit, Nov. 13 to 17. ‘open afternoons and evenings. | Members of the Centre County Historical Society are irivited to at- ‘tend. FORMER PRISON Nearly 10 years ago the president of an Oklahoma investment com- pany stood before Federal Judge Kennamer and was sentenced to gerve 15 years in prison and pay a $5,000 fine for using the malls to misrepresent ofl royalists to pros. pective investors. During his “stretch” Ben F. Fields was transferred to Lewisburg April 7, 1038, and on January 13 of pardon by President Roosevelt. Today he lves in Tulsa, Okla- ER AIDS OTHER homa, where he devotes all his time to the task of helping other paroled, pardoned and discharged ex-con- ivicts regain a respectable place In society. He has dation, a, stitution whose purpose nized the Fields Foun- man's word Is required. Ben Fields is doing a unique and uplifting job. condition. But ritered non-profit in- | is to grant| to school, Mary Ann Carnan, died loans to ex-convicts from the time while being rushed to the Clearfield they are released until they get a’ Hospital as a model prisoner. He Was paroled | job. The Foundation makes loans with. | D. MI | Beech | of Bellefonte and Jesse Snyder of i i of _ Cr — Were mysteriously murdered after , each received a welrd waming. Read ELECTRIC IRON CAUSES this thrilling story in the November FIRE AT STATE COLLEGE 17th issue of The American Weekly _/"_ rk the big magazine distributed with veri the Baltimore Sunday American. On © sale at all newsstands > Enough cash in the palm will get a soothsayer to see anything Mummers Are Awarded Hundreds of Prizes In Hallowe'en Celebration i Pv Motor George Police k dowry " Many Unique Characters Seen In Huge Parade or Staged In Bellefonte Last Thursday Evening—List of Prize Winners wid I prizes ana MAN HAS DRAFT CAPSULE 8:30 Buys Hose at Auction reads the Classifieds RECALLS 38-YEAR-OLD R. R. WRECK Saturday's Tyrone Daily Herald quoted Engineman John Leitzel) of that city hav recalied the day before as marking the 38th anniver- sary of the head-on collision ing A ci —_— met Lhe Ris . ‘ aven Creek in which John Haupt was | k Py curred y suns wd he BEY and Ue willl aAanos Tyrone lost their lives idental- hel Incidental men on the twe iy, Mr. Leitzell is the only lving member of the two crews still in the service of the company, whil George Young, retired, and Law- rence Lawis are the two other lv- warning to trains, time io seek safety by jumping to 4 , We ground the ines Came | ing members of the two crews The wreck referred 10 occurred in 1902 in the vicinity of what was known as the Red Barn about two miles east of Beech Creek On the morning of ie event, the Tyrone work irain ed by Engineman Austin, n adits nw He side tragic Phot ~ "ee es Was Was on its None of the crews had any | ro. of save ¥ rote wer che . - Luves in £ u that cast a2 Ds FF wtih . A = - Seg frill 44 Mid of gloom over the enitire Bald Eagle ne LOLA he Ab vat rar Charlies, Johr Pa 1 at hor LATTENCE, 8 Phi Beta for Buckneil College To List Sheep and Swine Exhibit to Be Part of Chicago Live Stock Expos- ition Camps to Operate Until March 31st Ninety-Six Hundred Enrollees to Benefit By Federal | Pennsylvania exhibitors at the | 18040 International Livestock Expos. | ition will include the Pennsylvania | State College, State College station, | which will exhibit in the sheep and {swine classes of this largest annual | stock show, 4 { They have listed entries for the { Shropshires, Hampshire, Bouth. down, and Dorset sheep classes of | the show, where both last year and {in 1938 they exhibited the grand champion lamb over all breeds in each case a Southdown, Claude G. Alkens, owner of Wil- lowbrook Farms, near State College, is also sending entries for the sheep classes of the forthcoming show, which will be held at the Chicago Btock Yards from November 30 to December 7. Although entries for most depart- ments of the Exposition close No- vember 1, a complete tally will not be available until later in the month after the final date for accepting entries for the carlot livestock con- | tests, November 23. The latter com- prise the largest annual showing of prime market animals in the world The listing for the purebred class- es of cattle, sheep, swine, and draft horses, as well as individual animals for the fat stock classes, filed by prospective exhibitors up to the November ist deadline, has been so heavy that the management feels confident the 1040 Exposition will Ninely-six enrouses in 48 Civilian Conservation Corps camps in Pennsylvania are assured employment uniil March 31. 1941 Two hundred enrollees will be as- to each camp, with 6.400 men engaged in the improvement, protection and development of state forest areas, according to word from CCC Direcior James J. McEntee, at Washington Of the remaining will be projects SIZ 3.200 men on 1400 empl soil erosion 1200 in national parks and recreation areas. and 1500 in Alle- gheny national forest it was said The 48 camps are Grove Furnace, Richmond Furnace, Marienvilie, Kane, Sheflield, Pine Aitch, R. FP. D.; Petersburg, Coburn, Loganton, Mifflinburg, eel novo, Wesiport, Masten. Waterville, Sinnamahoning, Cross Fork, Gale- ton Cedar Run, LePorte, Ridgeway, Laquin, Blain, Milroy, Clearfield, Philipsburg, Farrandsville, port, Cameron. Greentown, R. F D.; Austin, Asaph, S8lickville, Way- town, Birdsboro, Rockwood, White Haven and Pavia Freedom is a gift from the past but it is not at all certain that ik will be a legacy to the future. Weikert, | Waynesboro. R. F. D.; Hyner, Re-| Elims- | | nesboro, 8ligo, Glen Rock, Lancas- | | ter, Homer City Sunbury, Burgetts | unabic 10 agree with themselves, U.S. To Form ‘Chute Army Seek 412 Volunteers For Bat- talion of Behind the Lines Fighters Broken Windows Brings $144 Fines Penn State Fraternity Mem- bers Penalized For Shoot- ing in Boro. State ed 812 and 83 costs p.ing in the borou on Sat October 19, Burgess Wilbur F. Leitzell announced. The amount of the fine was decided by a secret p lot t by three students and Penn fraternity The U. 8. Army has asked for 412 fy rn i £ were gh daring” American parachute battalion Promised extra pay and unusual chances for promotion they will be from twenty-four regular infantry regiments. No man for 8 Years se need i was said SBtressing that there would be exiremely careful selection of per- sont the War Department lisi- vice 8 of the borough 1 student government ganizations were commitice thal night to decide the amount of the fine shots pierced a window of a private Men volunteering lo fight behind home, it was disclosed at the hear- the lines of a foe in the event of ing war must be single, between 21 and 32 years old, weigh not more than 185 pounds ang must be free of heart disease. They must have had ai least a year's Army service and sufficient education to absorb read- instruction in map reading, sketching, radio, use of explosives and other specialized subjects. The volunteers will combine with small experimental platoon al- in service at Forl Benning, Ga. to form the 501st Battalion, At least one other such battalion is contemplated, Secretary 8 imson has disclosed. oF - appointed on a nel.” these qualifications for the haz- ardous servioe, fim iy Several of © nn apni MP se — ninth Strange Coincidence James C Union County man who held the first drafi num- ber drawn at Washington, 158, now living in the same house near the Trutt school house, south of Winfield, where his uncle, Harry Fetter, lived in 1017 when he also held the firs! number drawn in the World War lottery You can usually get in touch with an individual if you are ready to him money. Sanders is is Wy a ready pay — There are individuals in the world (Continued on page five) Parachute | Some thirty-four parachute of- | ficers will be required for the first | IT IS OVER ¢ Altoona Shopman ... . Takes Own Life oe Wife Discovers Body Lying Jed After Returning From Drive MAYBE £8 | HE'S RIGHT: emple with a has a bullet from his hope IC o Pb warned I jong rifle organize K he © bed iid M 5 we dK . THOUGHTFUL: Educator, Known In County, Dies Began Early Teaching Career |... _".. ng in Centre Hall Public Schools noises in bie throat couple of bucks from 2 Frida ¥ 4 Now, are you sure a heart oon- in od od BA ang 4 guny JANITOR: One of the rooms in Bellefonte is in Fire House, East Howard of you who has how difficult | mace room clean our hand over the op © r matriculated there as a stu- after early native Huntingdon an 4 . i ie ”~ best-kept {furnace TT the LO — net veel fired el rical reses for Bucknell's historical nace, pi and other equipment 3 wiergraduate days he Logan House t | was captain of Bucknell's ‘aut finding a trace of baseball team which lo floor. even in front one game in four years After is always spotless he was graduated in 1872 he taught school in Centre Hall and Mans- NOTE TO MAYOR: field, Pa, Limerock Conn and! This corner doeshii mind paying Union Grove, Wis a $1 fine once in a while for over- Until his retirement as professor time parking. but we do hate like emeritus in 1827, Doctor Barto] was the dickens upon paying a fine to head of the university mathematics have borough bigwigs comment department. He also war director ~YOUTE a S&p, no one else pays.” How about a refund? of the observatory a bullhvag which PHONEY FHOTO? he planned and supervised — —— — Photographer William Sage: Farmers should nol lose sight of 'rentiv is delightedly the Imct that agriculiure has a long friends a photo in a ‘popular dete way to go {0 have real parity tive magazine. The pl ing the story of a murder I —— Women still smile sweetly at men eriand. shows an investigator who. they know, think they posedly at the crime scene, making good looking notes on & pad Sager points out - that the investigator is Lt. Donald Wagner, ecommunicationg officer for : (Continued on Page 5) pipes Doe famous t oniy s of the Year LE show Sup- are MI ss —— A campaign year turns loose an | amazing amount of foolish talk. be one of the largest on record A total of approximately $100,000 | will be paid in cash prizes at this | year's show. ! - — CS AS ——. — ay a dn A — ‘KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES' — Exercise Hasn't Helped Eddie's Memory Nearly all of the railroads serv-| ing Chicago have notified the Ex-! position managsment that round trip fare reductions have been granted from many points along their lines to Chicago during the first week of December. In many | instances the fares will be the low- est ever established for this event, Student Killed at Clearfield i 3 i i i i i i out interest. No security except the serious injury. Struck down and run over by al skidding truck as she was walking Her cousin, Rita Marie | Krenan, who was walking with her, was struck by the truck, but escaped —3hop the Classified columns, By POP MOMAND Por em h i i AL og =F FF ~~ & #
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