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CURIOUS
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SERMON ON HIGH
Rev. Dr. Bernard Clausen, pastor
of the First Baptist church, Pitts-
burgh, on Sunday conducted the
first Easter sunrise service in his
tory from an airplane. When the
transport plane bearing Dr. Clausen,
a 12-volce cholr, an altar and an or-
gan had climbed two miles above
Pittsburgh, the minister said: "“Be-
Jow is man's world—'the arsenal of
democracy! making guns that men
may find democracy through dealh
~up here ls democracy-—no duce, no
fuehrer, no chief." A special radio
broadcast cauried his words to lis-
teners below.
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NEWS,
FEATURES
VOLUME 60.
BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1041.
NUMEER 16.
Farmer Kills His Wife
Because She
Fire Sweeps F
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Refused to
Buy Herself. Coughdrops
Northumberland Coun
ty Man Brooded Over |
Wife's Persistent Cough and Her Unwil-
lingness to Spend
At first John Hogendobler, pov-|
|erty-stricken, 50-year-old Northum-
TOO NEAR TO SEE
After a life long hunt for her
family, 21-year-old Mary Jonszak |
found her mother and other rela-
tives less than three miles from the !
orphanage at Erle in which she had |
been brought up. An address found |’
on an old orphanage record provided |
the clue that brought Mary to her
had saved, for coughdrops. But she
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perland farmer, didn't think of kill-|
ing his wife because she coughed.
He did want to spend the $1.48 they
sald “No.”
Martha Hogendobler's repeated
*No's” to her husband's insistence
that she give him the $148 out of
the teapol to go into Sunbury and
finally cost her
$1.48 for Remedy
something else he could do for her. |
A 22 rifle stood in a corner of the
room. Hogendobler got it and put a
bullet in it Martha slept, She
coughed a little in her sleep. Hogen- |
dobler walked to the bed, held the
{rifle a foot from her head, and fired,
he told police. Then he laid the rifle |
on the pillow beside her !
“I just decided 1 would put her |
out of her misery.” Hogendobler told
police
Building At
Result of
ive-Story
Altoona As
Oil Explosion
‘Six Firemen Hurt, $45,000 Loss As Flames
Damage Commerce Building In Down-
town Business
A fire, met off by the explosion of
{an oll stove, swept the five-story
Commerce Bullding in the downtown
business rection of Altoona, last
Thursday, causing an estimate loss
yf $40 000
8x city
WOR
Cig
LY
firemen were disabled In
of bat Lng the flames, The
owned Berks
Reading
Carrier Floyd Miller, who was
J Uy the
Trust Company
Mal
deliveries
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Section of City
office of Phil Wayne, insurance bro-
ker
Black and choking clouds of smoke
from the flaming tar hampered fire.
men in geting to the source of the
blaze. Carbon monoxide gas that ac-
cumulated In partitions on all floors
exploded frequently
er and throwing
of the bullding's
Contractor (
Frankstown road
shialler
rubbie
offices
3. Da
wh
ing plas-
in many
twile
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TRICKY TIME
The following letter was received
f.om an anonymotis correspondent
n't we're publishing it because it
reems 10 make sense Here's the let.
} For heaven's sake why dont
they either keep the Bellelonle town
clock accurate, or stop it entirely
Either one would be a blessing. Al-
ler hoking at the town clock and
comparing i time Willi the version
by the clock on the Bellefonte
Com
idly
Ler
given
Tru any
neane
Felgon you have
A Ci
or Lelng |
IH
exactly
f
i
ie XCUuse
10 ¥eqy
Ue is
Lime Lt ¢
HORSE SENSE:
You
about
r¥
hich
who read the adverisement
the deadly accuracy with
ane 1
r
automobile and alrpi
are a nished
4 elie ve
MAKET
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fonte machi v r
mother, who lives in Erie. The girl buy her coughdrops
had been placed in the orphanage her Life.
yas early » morning of last
tw half months old It was early in the moming
him two ang » | Wednesday, a little before sunup
HIDEOUT
|John awoke and lay brooding vez
Fed his wife's coughing. She wouldn't
Laka ral agents stifled a an yy Him have the $1.48, which was
1 vage. 3 Scranton, 4 2 ed {all the money they had in the house
They he doghouse rou” gillons | sinee last December, but there Was
of untaxed alcohol in the doghouse |
with him. U. 8. Commissioner Jer- |
ome 1. Myers ordered Lakavage wa College Faculty
on a liguor law violation charge | Member Is Killed
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OLD TIMERS
The Hoats brothers, George and Micg Ethel I. Moody Dies Af-
John, of Wilkes-Barre, have worked | ’ N
a total of 122 years for the Hazard ler Motor Accident Near
(Canandaigue, N. Y.
in the Commerce
covered the while
ond floor, when SAW
oiling from the Frank Lisz-
man ba:ber shop, Miller sad he
melled smoke going in the eles
making the cooler d's ¢ #8 fOr embryg mact
séid he came Ww work at 6:50 a. m
and went to Lhe basement where he acy
lighted the ofl fumace used In hes
INg the tar composition
Leaving the fire in charge a
store employe, Detwiler said. he left
the bullding cn a mission but in the
meantime ne empioye could
(Continued on page four)
Merchant Held
In Fur Robbery
Prominent Curwensville
Clothing Store Proprietor
Held Under Bail
‘After that, 1 remembered the at the Simmor
$1.48, and got it and walked into
Sunbury. 1 decided I would buy some
coughdiops anyway, and I did 1
bought several other things too
Then 1 went to the relief office and
applied for relief. They didn't give it
to me |
In Sunbury Hogendobler met a
neighbor, Walter Kalb, and Kalb
drove him home. Hogendobler enter-
ed the Wd then came oul
again
‘My wife is dead,” he t
Kalb summoned police
Hogendobler let the police see his
wife lying with the rifle beside her
He did not tell them he had shot
her
Coroner Sidney Kallaway thought
Mrs. Hogendobler had committed
suicide
“1 would have certified it as sul-
cide, but State police found there
were no powder marks on the dead
woman's head,” Kallaway said
Police questioned Hogendobler and
he d them he shot his wife, they
(Continued oii page eight)
AN EDITORIAL ON JUST
The following is reprinted from
the Pebruary, 1941 issue of Feld &
Steam, a leading sportsmen’s mag-
azine. It is a written communication
Bre of the accur-
baliyhoo in h advertisements
8 pure eye-wash, and Leis new
class of beginners not 0 be fright
ened such impressions. ACK
acy, of course, is highly ess tial in
machine Work, Hul experiencec ma-
Enow that in most halr-ine
dimensions aUOWANCe |1 always made
for slight discrepancies either
ion. A purely technical
if given a micrometer
Ww inspect work turned in most
any factory, could close down the
entire defense program by insist
that 3 ten-thousandths of
be exactly I ten-thousandths
inch, no more Lens
MAGAZINE COVER:
Local persons buying
issue of the magazine “Outd
have been struck with the
blance of the angler on the cover to
Armstrong L. Francis of the West
Penn Power Company stafl here
even
Mmuexers
ne mak
each
Te
1p
ir-
valor oy
wnt
Simmond's, a ladies clothing store,
Lng Unity Shirt sp, suffered
the greatest damage. The fire
he basement gf SBimmond
Laic
PROFESSOR MAIRS RETIRES
so hts pr
—————— A Lhe TK
not nanasts
tart
A member of the School of Agri- eE80n the ed In
culture 8 ‘ at the Pennsylvants
LS College gince 1801, Professor
Tomas 1. Mair, director eor -
respondence oolrse agriculture,
retired Apri 1
A nati H HE our: Professor |
Mair: was graduated from the Unis,
versity of Missouri in 1886 and four
years later received 4 master of soi-
ence degree from the same jnstitu-
tion. He served as superintendent
of field exceriments at the Univer-
sity of lilinois before going to Penn
State
As a member of the facully at the |
Pennsy.vania State College, Profes-
sor Mairs was successively assisan
respondence courses, assitant |
r animal husbandry, as}
A
Qi
adi
wig
in same de. in
partment, and profesor of agricul
thrall ation before being placed
in charge of correspondence courses
Under nis supervision, al.alfs was
first grown succesfully an the Col-
lege farm 1902. HE served as
farmers’ institute lecturer and was
an tr in agriculture
rRmmer sessions of the
mia Chautauqua ai Mi
I Of Years
sor Malrs is author of Lhe
nnsylvania Pioneers
consisting
phies of early stall mem- 50(
ed
Flames licked from the basement
i second and third floor
Larber the
when an oll stove used
Cinposition hal
used in the Installation of floor
ing and cork walls of a new cooler
exploded and Ignited several barrel:
of tar that rapidly spread the raging
flame;
firemen
healing
ulty ect mach
wr wi .
Dose a $i anc
¢
ai LOT
ale § e ist
of oul
id Kalb
in
on
ve Of
instructo the of -
Rope company and the Chamber of |
Commerce thinks it's something of
a2 national record. George has been
on the Hazard payroll for 69 years
Practically all storerooms and
in the buliding were either
damaged or affected by smoke
{or water. George B. Bimmond
‘prietor of the ladies’ store, estimated
his loss at $20000. Damage to the
rt shop amounted to nearly §7.-
Manager Walt Myers report-
at
Pennsylv
Gretna, {
0
N| 8: | fices
+07 fire
When her attention was believed
to have been attrac ed by a flock of
ang Juhn lors. | sheep grazing near the roadside,
| Miss E'hel 1. Moody, an instructor
REMEMBRANCE : a! in mathematics at Penn State, was
Bach of the six men who Ulad killed in Rushville, near Canandal-
88 palibenzess a} fae mbiad 9 y | Bua, N.Y, at 5p m Friday as she
R. Harding, of Scottsville, : jumped from her car waen it
[ls Feqiest, p R. plunged over a 25-fcot embank-
m 1 me n "| ment
H” A $10 bill was pinned to each | Miss Moody
note. | Nittany avenue in Stale
was spending the Easter holidays
| with her {amily Rushville, She
An unusual baptismal ceremony | died in an ambulance on the way Lo
wis performed at the home of Mr. the Canandaigue Memorial Hospital
and Mrs. Jacob L. Kline, Shamokin, | without regaining consciousness
when members of three generaliols Her death was caued bY a fractur-
of the family were baptized by the od skull and internal injuries, ac-
Rev. G. H. Seidel. | cording :0 the coroner's report. NO
ore the current
pao
The arres. of a
le clothing merchant
nection with the detention
men and two women in
$7500 worth of furs from the Clear-
field Taxidermy Company last
March 31 was disclc week by
Clearfield county Atiorney
Car! Belin
Reuben R
chant, waived
held for court
prominent POSE -
th $)
ait i 3
at
retirement he age
SOT Maln was Sa down to the big
CVERHEARD:
A youngster
formed a friend
clock tonight come up u :
and whistle. I'll be up and will meet
you. Mother said I could go fishing
early in the morning and she won't
know how early I go.
HOPEFUL:
Commisisoner Lynn G. Adams,
head of the Stale Police, is reliably
uf pa pipe
1 " [1 ¢
tol 1 COf yf es
foe
prose
up to the
eACOINg
seC last
tu
of ontnued on page eight) ww shop and
A DOG’
across the field with blood running
from her mouth and down her while
chest, 1 hope You will see her eyes
“1 hope you will always see her
Ye riot
AJAS 13
who lived at 126 Eas!
Monday
College,
Bobinson
& Nearing and
on $15000 bond, on
Charges 0. consp.racy and burglary
The others, also held on charges
burglary by Ju tice Edgar Marke!
were Harry Walls, Wiliam Kelly
Edgar Swartz, Ruth Weyandt and
Swartz’s wife, Mrs. Ruth Swartz
ail of Altoona
Lhe mer-
was
in
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You went hunting on my properly Carolina together and Jock for quall
here in Preedom. You didn’t ask my Bul yesterday morning she ran down
permission; but that was all right iin the flelds in front of my house,
1 let people hunt on my land. Only. iand you saw a flick In the bushes,
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h————_— | one saw the accident and Miss
LOCKS UP KEYS
The next time Bob Ressler, of |
Lancaster, demonstrates how he can!
he's going to have the latter in his
poeket. Ressler showed a friend the
trick—and had to take a bus home.
He'd locked the Keys inside.
HORSE BITES—MULES!
Attempting to stop a runaway
horse in Boston, a man was bitten
on the leg by a horse. The man's
name—Henry Mules,
Loses Finger in Mishap,
Willlam E. Shultz, of Madison- |
burg, underwent treatment a: the
Centre County Hospital last Thurs-
day for injuries received while
working with a tractor. The index
finger of the right hand was ampu.
tated,
:
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(Continued on page eignt)
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Girl Trapped As
Fire Threatens
Mary D. Berry Rescued From
Porch Roof of Lock
Haven Home
| Miss Mary D. Berry, 18, was res-
cued from the front porch roof at
her home in Lock Haven, last Wed-
nesday evening when fire threal-
ened the house, owned by her fath-
er, Glenn E. Berry, on Park Street
The flames and smoke blocked
her exit through the stairway [rom
the second floor after fire broke
(Continued on page six)
pider Woman Collects Fine Web
Threads for Precision Instruments
Miss Mary Pfeiffer, the 66-year
old “spider woman,” of Hoboken, N.
J., who has been collecting spider
webs for 51 years for use in the mak-
ing of precision Instruments, has
again issued her annual call to the
youngsters to gather het a new ‘crop’
of spiders.
The little, energetic gray-haired
woman, who has a virtual monopoly
on the spider business, pays the chil-
dren 10 cents aplece for the right
species of spiders. The fine webs, ob-
tained from field spidars are used in
the “crosswires” of bomb sights, and
on similar instruments calling for
hairline measurements,
After obtaining her spiders, Miss
Pfeiffer places them on a wand, giv-|
ing a gentle flip sufficient to make
the insect fall off. As the spider
drops, it trails behind a single thin
thread of spider web, some of which
are 10 feet in length
“The spiders either get wise or get
tired,” she smilingly explained. “Af-
ter two or three tosses, they quit
‘throwing out any more ‘life lines’
and just drop.”
The right kind of spider, she said,
leaves behind a silken thread 3-10
of 1-1000th of an inch thick,
“That's finer than the finest line
you can draw on a glass with the
{point of a diamond,” Miss Pfeiffer
{ declared. “For its size its 1 1-2 times
{stronger than steel It takes about
£0,000 spiders to make one pound of
silk.”
et AR fe ee
Goes Joy-Riding In
George P. Pincin, driver of the
Mercy Hospital Altoona, ambulance, |
decided Saturday night to take two
companions for a “joy ride” and
chose—of all things—the ambu-
lance, for the trip,
Hospital attendants said they
have received many emergency calls
for the hospital's ambulance, but
Sunday morning wag the first time
call was sent out to
"Had Good Reason
When State Motor Patrolman
Stephen Calon stopped Robert
Brunner, 21, of Bellwood, for driv-
ing without lights near Altoona, trolman Calon raced to Altoona Hos-
Brunner : | pital
“My lights don’y work and I'm in
a urry.”
. Thére
sultation
between officer and driver.
SY
Ambulance
ambulance wi hout official permis-
sion, numerous calls were received
at the hospital from residents in
Hollidaysburg, Franktown and
Lakemont that the van was being
driven recklessly and through slop
signs.
Pingin was arrested at 1:50 a. m.
after he and his two companions
had completed their “joy ride”
Police said he had taken one com-
rade home. Pincin and the other
were booked on drunk charges.
eb er Sent er
For Speeding
Brunner and his wife, Katie 19,
were loaded Into the police patrol
car and with siren screaming, Pa-
i pital, i
|” Yep, you guessed it. Fifteen min. |
; ‘utes after her arrival, Mrs, Brunner |
followed a whispered con- gave birth to a five-pound daugh-
ter.
Er ————
Falling Ww
"When 15 clock weights of
pounds each dropped frofi & cable cover. It sourided like an echo from laymen
in the court house at Sunbury last
Saturday, and fell to the
fhe seat of Ue 1ABS oOUEt
eights Cause ‘Bomb’
the bombed cities of Europe.
Fortunately the floor was of double
nk thickness, which prevented
through |
th
"| painted, non-approved
are
100 place, and made haste to run for five church men and three other
| honored,
teriding conventions in Florida, Ar. |
‘to that magazine from Mr. Corey
Ford of Preedom, New Hampshire,
fand {t will no doubt find & ready
(accordance in the minds of every
true sportsman. Mr. Pord writes as
follows:
‘Editor Pield & Stream:
Dear Ray:—"1 know this is a kind
of unusual request: but I'd like ww
bOITOW some space in your columns
to write an open letler to a man I
do not know. He may read it if jt Is
in your columns; or some of his
frlends may notice his name and
ask him to read ity You see it has
to do with sport—a certain kind of
sport.
“The man’s name is Sherwood OG
Coggins. That was the name on his
hunting license, He lives at 1006
Lawrence Street, in Lowell He says
{he is in the real estate and insur-
ance business in Lowell
“This weekend, Mr. Coggins, you
drove up into New Hampshire with
some friends 0 go
and killed my bird dog
“Oh. it was an gocident of course
You sald so yoursel!l, You sald that
i
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bushes, and you shot it
was the flash of somellling moving
and you brought up your ¥ile and
fired. It might have been
hunter, It might have been athiid
running through the’ woody" As it
turned cut, it was just a dog
“Just a dog. Mr, Coggins Just a
little English setier I have hunted
with for quite a few vears, Just
little female setter who Was very
proud and staunch on point, and
who always held her head high, and
whose eyes had the brown of Oc-
tober in them. We had hunted a jot
of adler thickets and apple orchards
together, the little setter and 1. She
knew me, and 1 knew her, and we
liked to hunt together. We had
hunted woodcock together this fall
and grouse, and in another week
deer hunting. we were planning to go down
a
to
while you were hunting you shob®¥Wd you shot her.
you saw a flick of something in the itoWard You, dragging her hind legs
All you sewiShe
anther not
eves, Mr. Coggins, whenever there is
You shot her through the back.'a flick in the bushes and you bring
‘and broke her Loine. She crawled out your rifle to your shoulder beiore
of the bushes and across the field you kKhow what {i there.
“COREY FORD.”
>on
Aged Woman Fatally Barned
Mrs. Margaret Leman, 70, sister
of Edward H. Drye, of Altoona, died
al a McKeespory hospiia]l after she
was severely burned in a fire that
swept through the apartment bulld-
ing in which she lived. It was learn.
ed thal she ang a niece had been
Using gasoline as an iusecticide
when it became Ignited from a short
circult in a lamp cord and burst
(into flames, forcing the elderly
woman helplessly into a corner of
the room. Mrs. Leman, who was
born in Tyrone, is survived by three
brothers, Harry V., Wilbur, and Jos-
eph Drye, all of McKeesport, and
two nephews, Gerald Wherle and
William C. Drye, both of Altoona
was Coming to you to help her
Was » gentle pup, and nobody
ever hurt her, and she could
understand, She began hauling
hersell toward you, and looking at
with her brown eyes, and you
put a second bullet through her
head. You were sport®man enough
for that
‘T know you didn't mean it. Mr
Coggins. You fell very sorry after-
ward You told me that it really
spolied your deer hunting the rest
of the day. It spoiled my bird bunt-
ing the rest of a lifetime
“Al least. 1 hope one thing Mr
Coggins. That is why I am writing
you. 1 hope that you will remember
how she looked. I hope that the
next time you raise a rifle to your
shoulder you will see her over the
dragging herself! toward you
She
Sag
sight
Seek to Improve Decth Interrupts
Rural Mail Boxes Mass In Church
Carriers to Report on Non- Parishioner Stricken in Vesti-
Approved Types of Mail buie of Vintondale
Receptacles Church
The first part of the “Merry A priest interrupted an Easter
Month of May” will bring head- mass Bunday to administer extreme
aches to many of Bellefonte’s 1000 unction to Thomas Joseph Stiles, 70,
rural mai] patrons, the carriers who Who died a few moments later In the
serve them, and even the Bellefonte vestibule of Immaculate Conception
postmaster, church at Vintondale, Cambria
The patrons wil] be confronted county
wih “Rural Mail Box Improvement | Stiles, stricken with a heart at-
Week” May 5 to 10, quring which [tack as he sat in a pew, made his
they must replace unsightly mall way feebis to the rear of the church
| boxes, boxes improperly erected or and collapsed. The Rev. John Me-
: types Of [Guirk, T. ©. R., summoned from the
| boxes, such as those difficult 10 altar, gave the man the last rites,
open or which let the rain in. Mass was then resumed, together
Prom May 1 to 15 the carriers with prayers for the deceased
suffer, for they must count money |
orders received, value of s.amps on’
mail collected, value of stamps and | Feature
paper sold, etc, just to give the
Postoffice Depar nent an idea of | More fun! More thrills! Begin-
business transacted on their routes. | Ning wih the issue of April 20, the
The Bellefonte postmaster and Baltimore Sunday American wil
| his assistan: will really work dur- introduce as an added feature an
ing the week of May 10, when one or | 8-Page Comic Book printed in full
the other must make the rounds of | €0l0¥. Don't miss this new feature
every route, checking each with’ in the Baltimore Sunday American.
descriptions and maps. Postmas- On sale at all newsstands,
| ters generally find th a pain, |
land it's not a ne Fd aren] Not every dead-beat is a pauper;
them about it, fdr, during ghis some of them are well-to-do,
| period they are supposed to check
8 Page Comic Book in Celor—New
DuBois Farmer ¥ Lamar Hatch
e
Crushed to Death! Open This Week
Relatives Find His Lifeless Public Invited
Body Under Tractor
in Field
to Inspect 30-
Acre Federal Spawning
Project
When 64-year-old Fred Harsfeld.! R. P. Tanner. superintendent of
DuBois R. D. farmer failed to turn the Federal Fish Hailchery at La-
up for dinner Priday at his farm mar, has announced that the hatch-
home, his son-in-law, Carl Bloom, ery will be open for public Inspec.
and grandson, Gene Bloom, went out ‘tion as the Jocal observance of Na-
to the fields where he had been tonal Wildlife Restoration Week
working and found his crushed body this week. This is the only federal
lying under the upset tractor. hatchery in thie Jocality, the other
Acting Coroner E. 8. Erhard of two in Pennsylvania being at Ogle.
Clearfield county, said the farmer town and Allegheny Forest
had been instantly killed and had! The Lamar s cover 30
apparently been thrown from the acres and 47 rearing ponds, con-
Seastor 8s he was dragging a hill- structed since its establishment in
Sie He had been dead several hours | 1832. Work is being continued in its
{before the body was found. ‘improvement each year, and al-
{ The victim was a nephew of Adam though the output was intended pri-
A. Hoag, former mayor of DuBois marily to restock waters in nearby
i a areas, Superintendent Tanner says
| Five Generations Live distribution may be carried into
A son born this month to Mr. and hearby states under co-operative
Mrs, Arthur Miller, of Ulster R. D,, Planning.
Bradford county, is of the fifth gen- | -
Berw'ck Plant Speeded Up,
eration of the family now living. |
The baby has tw; grandmothers, The production of tanks at the
two grandfathers, four great grand. American Car and Poundry Com-
mothers and a great-great grand. pany plant at Berwick will be step.
| father, | ped up from four dally to six each
: i day. The order on which the com-
Use our Classified Ad columns pany is working is for 3,080 tanks.
FY
All but 13 of
been recovered
Ditrict Attorney Belin salsa Walls
Kelly and Swartz gave this version
of the burglary:
Robinson went to Altoong and
grranged with the three to take the
furs. Aller geiting hem, the)
went oo Robinson's establishment in
Curwensville, picked him up and
drove to DuBois, where Robinson
atlemptled unsuccessiully dispose
of them with another merchant
Then Robinson gave the men
money and ins ructed them to hide
the furs at the Bwartz home Al
osha, promising 10 gel them .aler
and dispo of them
{i Belin said Robinson told him the
men came {0 place with furs,
tha the accompanied them to Du-
Boils and gave them money, but
only atl the point of a gun
The women, Belin sald,
found at the Swartz home
iS
52 stolen furs have
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vo
-
an
his
were
| Soldier's Request Answered By Wife
{ Bomewhere in England Sapper Ar-
{chie Campbell, of Montreal, asked
{his quartermaster for a new pair of
isoCks—a large pair. The socks were
ruppiled from a shipment sent out
by the women's auxiliary of the
Royal Canadian engineers As
Campbell put on the socks, he found
a piece of paper in cne with the
words “made by Mrs. A. M. Camp
bell, 482 Ash avenue, Point St
Charles.” The socks were knit by his
wile,
A ast
Rev. Lambert's Trial May 19
Charged with failure to register
for the Selective Service, the Rev
Allen Clay Lambert, pastor of the
Sinking Valley Lutheran church in
Blair county, will go on trial in Ped.
eral Court at Pittsburgh on May 16.
The Rev. Mr. Lambert was indicted
by a Federal Grand Jury after he
refused to comply with the Selective
Service Act, although his profession
would have resulted automatically
in his deferment.
Mach nery Arrives
The first shipmen: of Pox-Knapp
machinery from the plant in Vir-
gina, which the company hag clos-
od, was unloaded last week at the
former Bob Company bullding,
which the Fox-Knapp Companv
will use for its new plant at Milton.
Additional shipments are expected
regularly until all the machines
have been ransferred from the Vir-
ginia piant,
quoted as having said recently that
there is No reason lo believe that
the Taylor murder case will not be
soived. For the Commissioner that
can be considered a quite hopeful
statement, It is rumored that police
working on the case have an “ace
the hole” which they will bring
to light after they've thoroughly
exhausted every other line of inves-
tigation.
LAWYER PASSES:
in the death of Willlam G. Run-
kle, the Centre County Bar has lost
one of its most colorful figures Mr
Runkle as &n attorney had a pecul
jar faculty of swayin juries by
placifig the members of the jury In
the shoes of his clients. Through the
use of homespun philosophy, he pre-
sented his cases in such a manner
thal many jurchs got a sense of
real personal interest in the clients
a fesling which oftentimes even
the best efforts of the proseculion
couldh’t shatter, Mr. Runkle was a
goldmine of witty stories, many of
them dealing with incidents that
happened during his long career as
an attorney. In his lifetime he en-
joyed prosperity. He also suffered
more adversity than falls to the lot
of many persons, but his optimistic
look on life never changed, and he
kept his courage in the face of mis-
fortunes which would have downed
many a man. He found great enjoy-
ment in everyday things of life—in
his home, his family, his friendships.
Money was 8 necessary evil, but lack
of it never prevented him from en-
joying himself. Billy Runkle is gone
but his memory always will be cher-
ished in those places where mem-
bers of the legal profession gather
PREATHER:
Like the old family doctor, the
old-time preacher is fast becoming
a memory. Centre county Jost its last
real contact with the preachers of a
bygone era in the death of the Rev
M. C. Piper, of Milesburg, this week
Rev. Piper was a minister of the old
school, traveling over his rural cir-
cuits in horse and buggy. He mar.
ried more couples than he could re-
member, and officiated at more fu-
nerals than he kept track of Al-
though he was #2 years of age at
the time of his death, he spent
much of his spare time in the base-
ment of his home where he had a
woodwork ng shop. For many years
he made it a custom to present to
the children of couples he married,
litle rocking chairs he made in his
workshop. The chairs were ruggedly
built and will withstand many years
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