-a Odd and CURIOUS in the NEWS STINK BAGS A number of towns report sales of asafetida, the drug that tastes like garlic and smells worse, are booming as the result of the infantile paralysis out- break in Pennsylvania. The gum resin was regarded as a “sure fire” preventative in grandpap- py's time for those who wore it about their neck in a small bag. Druggists report stocks are nearing exhaustion, They said the only benefit of asafetida is an anti-spasmodic or nerve sed- ative, DOG TIRED Eight-year-old Pat is home in Philadelphia arain but he's dog tired. Given away to a New Jersey farmer because he snap- ped at strangers lately, the Ger- man police dog traveled 30 miles and swam the Delaware River to get back to Harry Keller's dye works, where he resumed the job as watch-dog. “I could never let him go now,” com- mented Keller, “Pat's earned a right to stay.” ALL IN ALL As local registrar, the Rev. John W. Harrell, of Lakeland, Ga., issues marriage licenses; as the marrying parson he per- forms the ceremony; as local registrar, he issues death certi- ficates and burial permits; and, then, as local undertaker, he prepares the bodies for burial; as a minister, he preaches the funeral and, as funeral director, he buries the bodies. PRAYER ANSWERED In a banner line the Missouri newspaper, Monroe County Ap- peal, declared: “Lord, We Con- fess Our Sins, We Ask Forgive- ness, We Pray For Rain.” The much-needed rain fell the next day, and in the next issue the following appeared: “And The Rains Came; Praise God From Whom AH Blessings Flow.” SANDWICH BITES Private Glenn Martin, Fort Scott, Kansas, received the sur- prise of his life recently, when, upon taking a bite of a bread and jelly sandwich, the sand- wich bit back. A hungry bee was in the sandwich. SHE'S BOSS A store at York Village, Maine, displays a sign that reads: “The .le Ma General Store. Dry goods, wet goods, can goods. Bill Galla- gher & Son, Mgr, Mrs. Galla- gher, Boss.” SR —— MRS. I. M. BIERLY IS HONORED ON ANNIVERSARY Sunday, August 31, Mr. and Mrs I. M. Bierly took a drive to Lock Haven and on the return trip they stopped at their old home along] Jacksonville road, where their son: Sherman and family now live To Mrs. Blerly's surprise friends and neighbors had joined their son and daughter-in-law in a picnic| dinner in honor of Mrs Bierly's fifty-seventh birthday which occur- red on Priday, August 29 A long table, set in the shade of the stately evergreens, was laden with all the good things of the sea-! son including hot roasting ears and many other delicacies. For the eve- ning meal they were joined by their son, Nevin, his wife and family, of New York. Mrs. Sherman Bierly baked and decorated the birthday cake The following persons were pres- ent: Mr. and Mrs. I. M. Bierly, Mrs. | Minnie Hoy, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hoy, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel] Burris, Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Bierly and family, Donald, Jon, Robert and Nancy Belle, Richard Martin, Mrs Faletha Delaney and daughter, Ag- nes, Mr. and Mrs. Philin Baylor and children, Philip, John, Elizabeth and | Irene -— Gasoline Starts Fire Fire in a truck operated by Nevin Laubscher, of Lock Haven. R. D 1. due to an explogion of gasoline, | spread to the forest near the Samuel Frobst sawmill between Swissdale and Woolrich but was held to a small area and extinguished by neighbors, who assisted Mr Laub- scher. There was small loss. i - = wm a Government May Enforce Saving The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County, A Visitor in Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. SECOND SECTION dhe Cenlre Democrat NEWS, FEATURES VOLUME 60. BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1941. NUMBER 3 Family of Driver Killed at Hughesville Fair Given Winning Purse by Judges School Time Harry Harper, 34, Victim Race Track Crash, =X - Awarded Posthumus Honors on Recom- | . mendation of True sportsmanship and sym- pathy were demonstrated Saturday afternoon in the auto races at the Lycoming County Fair at Hughes- ville following the fatal crash In which Harry Harper, 34, of Chester, smashed into an overturned race car and received injuries from which | he died an hour later in the Muncy Valley Hospital The crack-up occurred in the first sion and wreckage of two racing cars, the race was not finished The six remaining drivers appear- ed at the judges’ stand and asked that all prize money for the heat] be donated to Harper's family When word that Harper had died | | track Oak Hall Man's Car Strikes Tree Joseph Isenberg Escapes In- jury When Automobile Turns Over Joseph E. Isenberg, Oak Hall Station, Centre County. escaped in- | jury Saturday night when his au- tomobile falled to negotiate a turn in Dunnstown, Clinton county plowed across the jawn at the resi- dence »f Mrs. Ellery King, struck a tree and then turned over on Its side The State Motor Police sald Isen- berg was going toward Swissdale He told them that as he was about to round the sharp curve, the ac- celerator on the car stuck and he ran off the right side of the road santo the King lawn. The lawn and were considerably damaged, while $50 damage was inflicted Ww the car Ka rthaus Chi Id Has Leg Broken tree ‘Struck By Passing Car Short ly After Leaving School House Shortly after being dismissed at the close of school last Tuesday at Karthaus, Duanone Guenot, 7, was struck by a car and rushed to the Philipsburg Hospital where he was treated for a fractured right leg and lacerations of the head Motor police sald the youngster and Robert Hodge, 8. a playmate were playing near the Karthaus highway when they decided to cross Hodge saw the car and stopped but his companion raced across into the path of a car operated by Clair M Benton, of Pine Glen, near Kar- thaus. Benton, accompanied by Guenot's father, took the child to the hospit- al. A right headlight on Benton's car was damaged. a— arin Die; of Injuries Harry Stine, 56, of Johnsonburg found unconscious on Route 219 in- side the borough limits, died Friday in Community Hospital. Stine re- mained in a coma until his death Borough police were investigating the possibility that he was struck by an automobile that failed to stop nmin Mn Minister's Wife Overcome Mrs, George B. Gensemer, wife of the pastor of the Presbyterian church at Sayre, Is in a serious con- dition at the Robert Packer Hospital as a result of being overcome by gas iin her home. Friends who went to | the ‘with gas and Mrs, Gensemer un- i conscious, manse found the house filled ————— Classified Ads bring results, Federal economists are studying a plan under which the government would force wage-earners of the’ nation to save a portion of their weekly salaries The plan has the two-fold objec tive of curbing current inflationary trends and to furnish workers with a lump sum whenever they lose their jobs, it is claimed. Details of the plan are being drafted by treasury, federal reserve, social security and labor depart ment experts, and congress may be; asked to enact necessary legislation to put the program into operation, The enforced-savings plan would be part of the Social Security pro- gram and would supplement the present system of unemployment in- | surance Under the proposdl, workers each | week would be required to give the government a prescribed percentage of their earnings. The government would return this money in a lump sum as soon as the worker becomes unemployed. Em Fr k That's the way W. O. Heiser, Bhamokin Dam, grows them in h Stalk Bears Bixty-two potatoes on one stalk!| he came upon the freak of nature. | age and class groups awards were i | of There are three averaged-sized po- made on the basis of the score at-| is. | tained, Contestant names not ap-| | garden. Harvesting his potato crop | ap oe emcee 62 Potat tatoes and the other 50 are smaller, some as big as a horsechestnut burr and others like marbles, mE Forgetfulness Costs Woman Her Life ‘of { overturned car Fellow Drivers officials, it was free-will offering | reached the race suggested that a be taken for the family. Racers us- ing their helmets as collection plates, passed among the spectators in the grandstand A substantial amount was received Harper's wife and one child were not at Hughesville for the races. He was considered one of the best and | fastest drivers on the circuit heat on the second lap of the after- | noon's races, Because of the confu- | George Ruddy, driver of the car which struck the fence in front of the main fair entrance and then rolled over, received a severe gash on the left leg. He, too, was rushed to the Muncy Valley Hospital but was released after treatment. Eight! stitches were required Near the end the races he was back at the Harper was traveling at a fast rate speed immediately in back of Ruddy. Because of the blinding dust it doubtful if he saw Ruddy The low-slung Har- per car crashed into the wreckage of Ruddy's machine, flew into t air, turned over and fell to the track ww and the grandstand, pinning Har- per beneath it. It did not catch fire America speaks! Answer the call of your country by buying Defense Savings Bonds and Stamps for protection and defense it SO-THATS THE LAW . 25 MEN TO B Centre County's Local Draft Board 1 will send the largest number men since Selective WAS inaugurated to Williamsport for final Army ph examinations Gov. Arthur H announced yesterday. The board wiil furnish 52 men {for examination on Wednesday, October 1 Lo Draft Board No. 2, with headquarters in Bellefonte, will send 16 men for examinations on the Mon will 1" call No of Service ysical James Btate College al 2 physical day a same who testa their Army induction on daily of the physical then within await 30 day: President's Mother Dies Unexpectedly at Home in Hyde Park, New York | Chief Executive at Bedside When End Came for Sarah Delano Roosevelt; Was Ex- tremely Active at Eighty-Six Delano Roosevelt, 86, son, the President.” Although noted who lived to see her only son be-| for her extreme energy and actly come President of the United! ity, she preferred o avoid the lime- | States, died Bunday at Hyde Park, | light, but If she could lend herself N. Y., at the ancestral Roosevelt on an occasion in a manner to “help home overlooking the Hudson River, Franklin” she usually did Death came at 12:15 p. m. of an She had watched acute circulatory collapse resulting command of a count principally from her advanced age. | of depression and The first intimation of her declin- domestic recovery ing health came last Friday when | leled in the nation’s President Roosevelt left Washing- she saw him become a ton for Hyde Park to visit his moth. of democracy opposed er whom, he sald he wished to un-| Vance of totalita ism ders wysical checkup at war Mrs. Roosevelt see her only of the United Blates to see him a I a Mrs. Bara take pth i her son ry in the de fight ral 3 mparai- | Then spokesman | to the | « ” f fad a for re rh i 1 144 Har history ad. rian a world ian } 30 Aa Pi Alarmingly Ill Saturday Dr. Scott L. Smith, the family physician announced that Mrs Roosevelt had been unconscious for hours preceding her death and that her condition had not be- come alarming until] Baturday eve- ning Even at her advanced age she was extremely active attending many charitable functions and state ¢ casions. She had spent the summer her cottage on Campobello Is- New Brunswick, jeaving Aug- for Hyde Park Both the President and his vere with his mother when died. They had spent Saturday n her bedside Her greatest whom when lived to Pres Als den not Deco but all precr ali pre only 1 HOT gent | lived | by | i i { i | i shatler t niinued om Page Five) Youth Sentenced | E EXAMINED twelve Pennsylvania's 422 draft boards will furnish 15.158 draftees to fill the U. 8 Army requisition between Beptember 16 and October 11 A Opens Practice at Philipsburg In P. Boott ator B. Scott has associated C. Lynn and Dr. Lester Luxenburg at thel in Philipsburg, it was annotnesd this week. Dr Sen't who is a graduate of the Hill School, Dartmouth College and Tempe Uni- versity, spent a year's interneship at Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh 3 at land ust 31 James Harry heed on of ex-Ben- Philipsourg with Dr. A Year-Old Girl Bellefonte From me wife - English. a sentenced offices she ight | youth ton lock Haver by the C ursday mor: f VEArs alter was county court Th serve from two the Western Penitentiary ' guilty 9 at as her son in occasionally “my joy WwW referred in public 0 wo ve she he speaking as a charge | of statutory mvolving a signed a plea of rape Th Bellefonte The Human Interest Side of Legal Oddities By Elliott H. Marrus questioning i came 10 Lhe aitention ¢ e oir mat to ge: a “or JE Marriage For Money—If marries a woman expect a substantial dowry, and after the eremony finds he gets nothing bul wife—has he the legal right to have the marriage annulled? That was the question which faced the New York Courts several years ago The man and the woman had known each other for several years, but had not married because he did “ | not have the means to support her. | In July, 1830. he had an oDpor- tunity to enter the jewelry business if he had $6000, which he didn’t The girl on her own volition of- fered him the money if he would marry her. She also sald that she had another $2000 to furnish =a home. The wedding bells rang- and when it was all over, the man found his wife had lied to him 8he had no money. He never lived with her. Shortly afterwards, he sued for an annulment claiming that she had tricked him into wedlock by fraud. The Court agreed with him Amateur Hour Winners Named Purchases Farm Assault Charge Scores Receive Cash Awards Clavton Hettinger Becomes Mahaffey Man Claims He Was in Competition at Grange Fair The following awards were made to the 1941 Amateur Contestants at | the 1941 Grange Fair, First Grand Prize: 87, Peggy Wil- son Lewistown; baton twirling; second $4.50 Edna Stover, Miliheim | piano solo; third, $3 Norma Pifer and Delores Martin. Bellefonte, vo- cal duet. First prize awards In age and class groups, $2: awards, Hilda Shuitz, | Rebersburg; Bernice and Betty Sto- ver, Spring Mills; Billy Rhoades, Pleasant Gap: Shirley Rhoades, Pleasant Gap; Mary Dunkelberger Lemont; Robert Hosterman Co- burn: Mary Gehret and Mercy | 8hreck, Bellefonte: Russell Whit. meyer, Boalsburg: Helen and Viola Wolfe, Smithtown, Alma and Alta Viedorfer, Pine Glenn; Velma Ei- der State College. Second prize awards in age and class groups, $1: awards: June { White, Millheim; Betty Auman Spring Mills; Lols Stover, Wooi- | ward; Esther Stover, Woodward; Ralph Waltz, Potters Bank: Carol and Kathleen Hosterman, Aarons- burg: Marlin Shope, Bellefonte; Jean Vonada and Ethel Musser, Co- burn: Jean Bartholomew, Centre Hall; Josephine , Stine, Coburn; Francis and Geraldine McCaleb, Ty- | lersville; Mary Thompson, Lewis town; Billy and Orand Keller. Axe Mann; Junior Hosterman, Aarons- burg, : Third prize, 50 awards: Jean Rishel, Spring Mills; June Pilefer, Bellefonte; ta Stover, Coburn; | Shirley McCaleb, Tylersville; Ger- | aldine Hosterman, Woodward: | Myles and Cerald Orove Spring | Mills; Bill Hazel Aaronsburg; June! | Blazer, Lewistown. Where no competition occurreqd in | pearing in the above list dropped | to 4th and 5th places for which no | prizes are awarded. Big Catch of Fish Ed. Leljedal’s catch on a fishing the marriage on the been brought serious misrep- girl, Similiar other stats have made and annulled i ground that had CARLe by arisen few gs i abou! resentation CASS but such Lhe have in them wriliy Tua Screwy lLaws—A North Carolina law {forbids anyone to hunt on Sun- days unless he has a dog with him. An ordinance of Fayetteville, Ark, bans the killing of any living cress ture fincluding bedbugs and fe). | Convicts And Law states have laws whicl person t Sults-—Most 1 provide that a Crime and sentenced to a term of less than life imprisonment loses all his civil rights during the term of his sen- tence. Thus he may not vote, may he start any law suit during that period. However, i he he may defend himself Wedding Bells-A marriage 1 cense has just been issued in Zanes. convicted of nos s sued when the girl was foun tomobile parked in ac near the Lock Haven Her father in Bellefonte was filed and it is sald, went ven and took the girl The oourt told Mr. English had taken into oonsideration number of extenuating fcators, recting that he could apply for Random Judicial Thoughts—"NO| parole at the expiration of two man's life, liberty or property are! years. He was also ordered to pay sale while the legislature is in ses-'a §] fine and the costs sion”... ."A fleshy woman has nl - right to vide on a thain and LO have a valise and parcels. and she 5 entitled to more time for alighting than might be required for a fool racer or a greyhound” “There is nothing certain about a lawsuil ex- cept the expense of it.” is th ville, Ohio Shipmar thelr me { years of The girls marriage because d ter was marryin pould take after her mother was gone.” Although there are laws which provide a minimum wage for youngsters who want ! Rel married, we know of none set- tng a maximum age limit # Funeral Parlors--Funeral Parlors that be a nulsance—or so the Couris have bheid Iy an undertaking es- tablishment is set up in residential section of a city, and makes the neighbors uncomfortable, the generally uphnlds the ni of near-by residents to stop (by legal means, the operation of the [funeral home in their vicinity. This is be- cause the judges realize that symbols of death which are stock in trade of the undertaker can depress the neighbors and spoll the enjoyment of their homes, a3] to Charles age, and Emma Schultz 1 mother consented to the pect—A New York of 16685 provided the a child over 16 t father or t 10 do s0 10 back Parental Res City d she was a Rind her man wi ordinance he augh g penalty for io of age who hi unless forced self -preservation. bed care of her “ads i" | 1d mother n | i di- | 2 a — Four Prisoners | Taken To Pen Clinton County Relieved of Men Sentenced For Var- ious Crimes Tt is av the us # il Money Saver--New York City has saved $4200 000 since 1935 by acting | as ita own Insurance Company! against fire damage and personal injury claims, Continued on Pepe Five) yo the Four or five male prisoners sen- tenced to serve terms in the West. ern Penitentiary at special court sessions of Clinton county oourt Young Farmer Owner of 183-Acre Lim- hert Properly Clayton Hettinger, 32-year-old Centre county farmer who has been working on farms all his life, has realized his life<long ambition to own and work his own homestead With the help of the Farm Secur- ity Administration, Hettinger and his family have bought the 183- { acre Limbert farm near Rebersburg, {with its pastures, timber, and till- able land The Farm Security tion's help. said Oakley 8 Havens, FSA Supervisor of Blair and Centre counties, was in the form of a Ten- ant Purchase Loan under the auth- ority of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act. Under the Bankhead. | Jones Farm Tenant Act loans are! made, on a forty year basis at three percent interest, to good responsible | | farm tenants and share croppers.| These loans are subject to approval| of a local county committee: George | | Mothersbaugh, Boalsburg: Charles: | T. Sellers, Port Matilda; and G. E.| | Ardery, Port Matilda | This is the third family who re-| cently became owners through the! ald of the Parm Security Adminis-' , tration. Eleven families throughout Centre county have been aided in the purchase of farms during the past three years. Applications for | these loans will be received at any time in the Farm Security Office | Building, Tyrone. Each Friday af- | ternoon is spent at the Post Office Building, State College, for the pur- ipose of receiving applications, Ap- plications may be secured from the Centre County Commitieemen at ‘any time, | i Administra-' : Bonds and Stamps. Road and Bridge Funds Approved £10,076 Due Various Town- ships in County, State Aud- itor Reports Policeman Faces { during the past week were taken there by Sheriff D. Edward Gren- obie The group included Robert Welk- er, Baiona, R. D. youth, who drew two concurrent terms of 10 to 20 | years and 3% to 10 years: William | | Giminiani, whe was sentenced to {wo consecutive terms of one and a half to three years; Paul B. Turley who was given 14 to 28 months, and | _-a"»s.Ps.bh | George C. English, sentenced to two Auditor Genera] F. Clair Ross last to five years week approved requisitions for reg-| Harry R. Bollinger, sentenced to! ular September-quarter payments three to ten years, is still at the totalling $982.085 for the constru’- county jail, having been granted tion and maintenance of roads and time to straighten out some private! bridges in 1416 second class town- matters before being taken away. | ships of the Commonwealth. Mrs. Gladys Fisher, given an in- | ; definite sentence to the Muncy In-| Still to be received from the De- q,44,) Home for Women, was tak- | partment of Highways are requisl- .. yore sarlier in the week | tions representing another $79514 tA dh due 104 townships which have beetl QUITS COLEVILLE SCHOOL delayed temporarily. With these | requisitions approved the total pay- ment will amount to $1.062500 and | Alton 1. Miller, of Beech Creek.) be shared by 1514 townships, Mr Colevilie, just outside of Bellefonte | Ross said, and pulled Pearce out. Pearce’s in-| Borough, has accepted the teaching | Ne ron accuses Shaw of striking Tne following amounts apply 0 action in the advanced grades of | hith with his night stick and break. Centre County areas: the schools of Monument where he | ing his nose, He also suffered body Townships Amount | Will function as principal. Mr. Miller | bruises, he claims. { $s 600.51 has taught in the schools of Spring! The Squire said Shaw counter. | Denner ~ township several] years. He is a harge ar ith reck driv graduate of the Beech Creek and | Shatged Pearpe with Tete Lovie Lock Haven High Schools and the | "Re 427.2% 10k Haven State Teachers College. | The case will likely come up in Curtin, 488.95 | Yor several summers he has atvend- | the mber. term of Clearfield Ferguson, 58864 od the sessions at Penn State in| County court. 783.28 | post-graduate work for his doctor- | 301.84 ate degree. At the recent Grange Church Opens Drive Lip Fair, Centre. Han lhe ville. thod i 263. Grammar sc , Which he taught] The First_Me ist Church of 453.35 | was awarded second premium in the | Bloomsburg has launched a cam- | 270 59 educational exhibit, thereby keep-| paign. for $20,000, $12.000 of which is P4994 ing up the record of winning such, planned to be used in redecorating 175.64 awards by schools taught by Mr.| and renovating the church, and $8.- | 33230 Miller in Centre county. 000 for indebtedness on the church 107997 with school building erected In 1927. 42036 Our nomination for the world's - 179.77 most misused word: “Love” i Slugged Over Auto Col- lision Dispute Patrolman Pred Shaw, of the Al-| toona police department, waived a hearing Friday and was held for court by Justice of the Peace J W Lang of Coalport. on a charge of assault and battery preferred by Lloyd Pearce of Mahaffey, R. D, who claims Shaw struck him with a night stick August 28 after a col- lision of their automobiles on the outskirts of Coalport. The Squire sald 8haw had stop- ped his auto on the highway about 100 yards outside Coalport when Pearce’s car struck the rear end The Altoona policeman then got out of his ear. walked back to the other, TO BECOME PRINCIPAL | who recently resigned His school in | be , Snow 8hoe, America is in a state of emer- Spring, gency. Every citizen is urged to do Taylor, ..........coiviivnn his part by buying Defense Bavings Union, . 50557! $10.076.01 | | or | 80 | where | ported | the On Rape Charge |: { port last | destroyer was | doesn’t seem to make any differ andom [tems BET: Bet the Lock Haven police cruls- that chased and caught Hoy Houck, of Bellefonte, alter he al- legedly attacked a Lock Haven girl last Thursday night, wasn't painted white OPINION: Police report Houck gave | his actions that he liked to hear women scream If there's something wrong some- We cream that wed give che] Ww hear repealed WHAT'S THIS: Among the lo have } we oniy reason or } wa never hearc a a eg ni Piug attacks Houck admitted was March 24 in Grace Gray, of 430 W. Nittany avenue State College, was the yictim If we remember t 8 niege police had writlen time ago as time ied was “solved was sch if the one on which correctly thi Orne s80IvVeQ to find the closest "but Lh get mumbled I boy street had bumped inl i @ 100 ry "1 rai some { heh THERE MUST BE Houck, it is reported ted allack 17, of He his alleged cian i the Bchenck 19. If the level he accounts that “a NeWsDAPeT reported at Involved in Crime Against 15-0 automobile Wee grabbed Mi ve around ali themse ives FIRST GRADE: Corner nes 15-1} How : this departments comprehension. We'd be ready a padded cell in thres days crowning blow to parental pride is that first grade teachers make the kids lke school, and darned if they aren't. a whole job easier lo contiol at home The moulding young and raw human clay into the shape of civilization is a terrific job, which makes us happs we the quiet and uneventful paperman. FIRING STOVES: Adding to this tment's re- week How to Fire Bucket-a-Day Stoves in Three Easy Lessons.” Ethan Vars, of East Bist op street, strongly recommends the of colliery coal inst the so-called bootleg uct, coal, he points out, is of even is free of dirt and has other chunks of foreign material { clog grates SEER IN SERVICE: We're at chairs Congressman Jimmy VanZandt get home from a period of duty the Naval Reserves. Then, by \ we'll get all the latest and hotlest dope on the U. 8. Navy. If we don’ it will be the first time Jimmy has failed in lip-service to the district ATTACK: We are a little amazed at all the fuss and furore being made over the to-do between a submarine and a U. B. destroyer somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean last week The rec ord is garbled as to whether the submarine attacked, or whether the the aggressor, It & i beyond 3 ah of is * that chose EWS. 14q f o Mar i 8 PO P| Ll ya AN cad of Colliers use rod pr size slate Or ence, anyhow. The surprising thing about it is that the country seems | s0 surprised there Was an incident of the kind. The United States is living dangerously--and rightly so Those who live dangerously must expect attack, The imporiant thing is for the U. 8. to be ready to meet any and all comers. TAYLOR MURDER: Whatever else Hoy Houck may have done this corner doesn’t think he knows anything about the Tay- lor murder, The crimes attributed to the former orchestra leader seem to have been purposeless and ama- teurish, The Taylor murder was a precision job by a madman who knew what be wanted and went ahead and did it. Houck, as far as we've been able to Jearn, never tried to get any of his victims into his car. One of the Tayler slayer's chief accomplishments was his neat job of getting his victim and her many parcels into his car without attract. ing attention. - Your original investment in De- fense Bavings Bonds, Series E, will increase 3834 peroent in 10 years Wonder! PETER PUBLIC—Small H Mrs. Marion Mello, 44, of North-| across the street, and was struck by day at Towanda last week included | umberiand county, that an eight-ton truck, carrying crush! eight bass the largest an 18-inch something which she had left on ed stone. 8he was killed instantly, plack one that tipped the scales at her stove might be burning, hur- her injuries including a broken neck | three pounds. Others were 16, 15%, ried from the home of a neighbor broken back and internal injuries. [1 and 12 inches long. ¥
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