Odd and CURIOUS in the = NEWS = Enis MARV TIRED OF IT Motorists on the Cadron High- way at Conway, Ark., were nat- urally surprised when a man alighted from his automobile threw it into gear with motor running and stood by while it plunged into a flooded creek, Police pulled the car from the creek. They found it contained luggage packed with extra suits, a new typewriter, radio, law- books and an expensive set of golf clubs. The owner of the car, identified as a Washington, | D. C., attorney on a pleasure trip through the southwest, told | police: “I was tired of fiddling with it, and tired of all that | stuff in the car. It was my | property and I had the right to | get rid of it.” The owner left | for home by bus. GOOD SHOT Seeing a squirrel in a tree, | Sam Arena, of Pittsfield, Mass, | hunting for the first time, pul- | led the trigger. The squirrel escaped, but instead, down fell | four raccoons which he had not seen concealed in the foilage. | The largest coon weighed four- teen pounds. HEN PENSIONED Grace Irwin of Pawnee, Il, | has pensioned one of her hens. The bird lost both legs when | they were frozen seven years ago. She recovered, however, and for- aged about on the stumps of | the legs. She continued to lay | eggs MISFIT PAJAMAS Some months ago Mrs. Her- man G. Bonds of Belleville, 111, lost a pair of expensive pajamas to a thief who ransacked her laundry as it hung on the back- | yard clothesline. Recently she | received a package. In it were | the pajamas and a note: “Sorry, | they don't fit.” | GOT THE BREAKS Returning from school, Everett | Case, Jr., 15, of Clarksburg, W. | Va., fell down and broke his left | leg for the seventeenth time. He | was carried to the hospital to | have his twenty-fourth fracture | in twelve years treated. He may | lose the leg. 1 PUBLISHER ANNENBERG AGAIN DENIED PAROLE M. L. Annenberg, publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer, has been de- nied a parole a second time, justice department officials announced this week. Annenberg is in the federal peni-| tentiary at Lewisburg, serving a! three-year sentence for tax evasion imposed in federal court at Chi- cago. He entered the prison July : 1040, and his first request for a pa- role was denled early in July. Of- ficials sald a second review led another rejection of his applica- tion on November 8 As matters now stand, the pub- lisher will be eligible for release November 11, 1942, provided he wins full credit for good behavior Child Killed by Train Wayne Oswald Reichelderfer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Reichel- derfer, of Milton, was killed over the weekend, after he had wandered from his home, near the Pennsy- vania Railroad, and was playing on the tracks. Hit by a southbound freight train, he was thrown be- tween the rails by the locomotive and the entire train passed over him. The body was not mangled, death resulting from a broken neck, suf- fered when he was struck. The body lay in such a position that the car wheels did not touch it. Fractures Leg in Fall John Schrack, Loganton mer- chant, suffered a fracture of the left knee Thursday when he jumped from a wagon he thought was about to upset. Mr. Schrack was admit. ted to the Lock Haven Hospital where the fracture was reduced. His | condition was said to be good Just a Broken Leg Floyd Wood, a lumberman, limp- | ed into a physician's office at Em- | porium. Saying he was sorry 0 trouble him, he asked the doctor to lock over an injury he received at work. An x-ray examination dis- | closed Wood had a broken leg. Er) Lloyd Landis of Coatesville has lived three weeks with a 22 calibre bullet embedded in his heart, Fri- day he left his hospital bed for the first time, took a few easy steps— and the bullet disappeared. The bullet, fired by a boy at tar- | get practice, pierced the 31-year-old construction worker's heart three weeks ago. Fearful that probing might cause instant death, surgeons decided to leave it alone in hopes =a = {yards at | went out of control. It tm gr erent ein The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County. A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. dhe Cenfre Democrat SECOND SECTION NEWS, FEATURES | VOLUME 60. BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1941. NUMBER 47. Freight Conductor Killed When He Fall In Juniata Railroad Yards Edward E. Mauk, 59, Had Both Legs Crushed s Under Train By Wheels of Car; Was Member of Ty- Tyrone Borough Council Freight conductor Edward E. rone and counciiman-elect of that borough, was fatally injured Satur- day night when he fell beneath the wheels of a freight train In the | Juniata | With both legs crushed Mauk | died at Altoona Hospital Sunday | morning of shock and loss of blood. | The accident occurred in the re-| ceiving yard of “WH” tower Satur- | day about 6:15 p. m., it Was report- ed. Mauk wag hanging onto the | small ladder of the tender of a lo-| cal westbound freight train as it) pulled into the yards when he slip- | ped and fell beneath the wheels of | the first car | The train was moving slowly, it was said. Mauk had finished work and would have started [or his automobile, parked nearby, when the accident happened He" was councilman-elect Seventh Ward and was the past sixteen years Republican com- | mitteeman in Tyrone Mr. Mauk was born September 5 1882 warriors Mark, a son of | just of for at Frank and Marian (Sutter) Mauk. | ———— out Die | i {the front quarters riddied with (Cargo Being Delivered to Pot- ter County Meets With Disaster Potter county and neighboring fishermen were deprived 3.600 potential catches Wednesday mom- ing of last week when a tank truck from the Bellefonte hatcheries up- § of set on the highway near Couders- | port and the trout were killed 3 mest Claycomb, Bellsfonte, dri- ver of the truck, said he was de- scending grade on the Austin- Keating Summit road, enroute for) the latter place, when the right] rear spring broke and the truck went off the road and upset. He was uninjured Cargo of the vehicle Ingluded the 3600 trout that were to have been stocked at Eleven Mile, Oswayo and | Whitney creeks. The fish were be-| tween six and 12 inches in length | They were being furnished by the | State Commission. No estimate on] the value of the fish was given, but damages to the truck Were listed at} $50 | — ———— Girl Saves Life of Neighbor Child Rescues 4-Year-Old Shirley Vallalla From Icy Walters of Pool Nine-year-old Norma Jean Green- awalt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. | John QGreenawalt of Graham BSta- tion. Clearfield county, now holds the title of that area's life saver, | She saved the life of 44-year-old Shirley Vallalla, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Vallalla, also of Graham Station. Norma Jean was walking across a bridge with Betty Hoffner and little Shirley was crossing the bridge behind them. They heard a splash but thought it was a stone being thrown into the water. Norma Jean, however, walked back to look and saw Shirley in the pool of icy cold water under the bridge. Quickley taking her shoes off, Norma Jean jumped into the water and grabbed the little neighbor girl. Neither girl seemed to be suffering from exposure, but Norma Jean suf- fered a badly cut foot when she jumped into the water. She was hauled to school in a little wagon, pulled by her sister, Donna Rae, and a neighbor and playmate, Joan Walls In view of the courageous stand made by the Russians the people of the world might as well revise their Liv it would become surrounded by a protective covering of muscle, Their judgment has apparently been con- firmed. “The chances are he will go through life with the bullet still in his heart.” said Dr. Charles Stone, | his physician. Cheerful, despite his confinement, he is anxious to return to his job at the Lukens Steel Company plant, where he was working on a con- struction job when injured. The Office of Civilian Defense] gave notice last week that In case of emergency areas within 300 to 600 miles of the seacoast “probabil will be required to black out every night.” As Centre county les within the | blackout scope, it might be well to) reflect on the waming given that “a burp from a bus can be as dead- | 1y as a piece of shrapnel.” For foggy blackout nights, the use How We Would Dress for a ‘B lackout’ of “small, tinkling bells on canes, umbrellas, anklets or bracelets is recommended. It is suggested that luminous and reflecting discs may be used as belt buckleg or lapel and hat ornaments, The lght-reflecting “dickey” is worn over the ghoulders so that a white square hangs on the chest and back like a sandwich-man's sign. White olicloth, silk or patent leather may be used for this pur. i *hildren {company in their freight train g the ja | edly On February 18 of Tyrone He is survived by his parents, his wife, one son and five daughters Harry J. Mauk, Bellwood; Mrs, Ray- mond Bistline, Mrs, James Beck- with, Tyrone: Misses Ivaloo and Evelyn Mauk, at home: four grand- and one half-brother Mauk, Warriors Mark He was a member the United Brethren church of Tyrone lodge B. P. O Elks 212; of the Brotherhood of Rallroad Train- men; Order of Rallway Conductors; of the Sheriden Troop Veteran as- sociation, having served enlistment in the Sheridan Troop in 1902. He erved the Pennsylvania Railroad r man Charles First the of Mr. Mauk office of vice for over 37 years was just elected To the councilman t last election Republican committeeman over 16 years n— ssi. MP ————————- Small Dee Killed Apparently mistaken for small game, a doe weighing between 90 and 100 pounds wag fired on repeat. in the wooded section on edge of the Girton farm in Colum- bia county. The left front leg of the was torn completely off He served as ¢ in Ty the rone for the and bul- was iors doe The by wounded animal two Bloomsburg lets found hati nu Vv e Thanks Let Us Gi 1902. he was unit- | | Mauk, 59, prominent resident of Ty- [ed in marriage with Ellen May Neu- | for the Beventh Ward Sunday, in Hanover, Pa, TE Tra —— ed i " ol . ! . » \ GIRL REPORTER HONORED was paid to a wom- an reporter who trudged 15 miles through the cold winter air to cover Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Ad- dress and who was the only news reporter to praise what many con- sider was the greatest speech ever delivered in the English language Long overdue tribute Mary Shaw Leader, who died in Hanover in virtual obscurity in 1913 uninvited to the 50th anniversary of Battle of Gettysburg which was being held as she passed away was atl least fittingly honored On her unmarked grave in Mt Olivet cemetery there was unveiled the amid simple ceremonies monument bearing scription This tribute was pald to one of Pennsylvania's first women repor- ters, a girl who printed in the Han- over Spectator, the full text of the fddress and termed it a "remarkable speech a granite a suitable in- Residents and organizations of the community where Mary leader Hved and died subscribed $402 for the monument in a campalgn ini- fnted by William Anthony, a Han- over job printer who learned the printing trade under the Leader family | | Young Bride of Six Months Killed In Leap or Fall From Bedroom Window at Altoona ‘Husband of Victim, a City Patrolman, Being | | firemen Held in Technical Custody, Pending Probe of Affair; Pair Had “Differences” Mrs of City ick, of Sunday 18, wife | Emer- | early leaped window apartment at | Margaret J. Emerick Patrolman Willis D Altoona, was killed morning when she or fell from the bedroom of their second story 2527 Union avenue Rothrock, termed the Emerick suicide young woman's body window of the before falling Chester Blair County death of Mrs He sald the penetrated a | Emerick bed- 16 feet to the round A fractured skull her death At the Mercy Hospital, where the young bride was taken, it was disclosed she had a swollen and discolored eye with a brush burn below it District Attorney Wray Blair | county immediately began an in- vestigation with the result that the woman's husband being held technically until the probe is com- pleted Emerick and his wife had some “differences” the district attorney indicated. He said the young wom- an had an overnight bag packed with her clothes and several of her husband's pictures before falling or leaping to her death He sald a search of the apartment disclosed Mrs. Emerick had evidently planned to leave her husband According to the district attorney Emerick and his bride of 6 months met early Sunday morning in the t business section and went CitY¥ 5 4 Coroner hard caused of SO-THAT’S THE LAW . The Human Interest Side of Legal Oddities By Elliott H. Marrus Thinking in Bed—Is a lawyer entitled to be paid for thinking in bed? “Yes” ruled a Court recently in a case in which an attorney had to sure for his fee. This decision is based on the fact that the real val- ue of a lawyer's services may be the result of his thought about the le- gal questions involved, while at or away from his office, at home or in bed A ‘bright ides thout a pending case may come to him while shav- ing, while riding to his office, or while listening to a news broadcast And so to bed Paradie—The court records of Texas show that Lucille Angel sued Joe Angel for a divorce, Evidently marriage was not exactly like hea- + hd * | venn to this couple Seven Fleven—Joseph Howard was found guilty of gambling The Judge asked him whether he had a pair of dice in his pockets. The prisoner said “Yea.” “Then.” order- ed the Judge, “roll the dice now.” Howard did as he was told, and the ——— ————— cubes tumbled about the court- room floor until they rested with a’ ix and a two showing “Eight days in jail’ ‘was the Judge's sentence on » Random Judicial following ideas were court opinions at their friends » » WisdomThe expressed in “Those who shoot for amusement, | ought to warn them first that #t isl, Unsfaithfal-Henry , “Where an unauth. aéhen mere sport” orized perSon forcibly throws af woman's freshly wathed and froned clothes on the floor, It is 8 question for the jury whether she should lay hands on him more genily than y means of a baseball bat applied to the back of his head” A bar- room joaler is an unfortunate sejec- tion for a legal adviser r Our National Sport-—At the recent strike at the Roebling steel plant in Trenton, N. J. six hundred C. 1 ©. union members picketed, carry. ing baseball bats with signs attach. ed. The union representative ex- plained that was egal to Carry a sign on a stick—and since bats were sticks » ™ » since {t therefore the car- ying of baseball bats Batter up! was legal Batts You may not toss cigarette bulls on the street in Port Worth | Texas. An old cily ordinance pro- vides for a maximum fine of $100 for this heinous offense met Jennie! she was but 14 years old, and | fie: Bad seen but ten years more | They fell in love, and shortly there after, in December, 1806 to be exact became engaged Evidently - they didn’t believe in short engagements because theirs lasted until] Septem- ber. 1918 when Henry suddenly de- cided that he did not really love Jennie, and didnt want to marry her. When poor little Jennie heard this, she weeped and weeped Her eves were probably still red when she appeared in cowrt at the trial of her breach of promise sult against the cruel Henry-—because the Nebraska jury gave her a ver- diet of $17.000--0or approximately $3.15 for each day of the 22 years he Jed her On Murder And Inheritance—Mas who murders his father inher t the parent's property? The courts in several states have answered this question by saving “Yes” Such was the law in Pennsylvania until 1817 when a law specifically forbidding such inheritance was passed A Nebraska case of 1884 upheld the right of a father inherit his! daughter's property after he mur gered her, Actually, he did not have a On to [time to enjoy these [ll-gotten gains | because he was hanged a short time | after However, in most Of the states of the Union, the law is clear that a personi does not have the right to legally acquire property by his own crime A word the io U wise plc t » EL Easy DivoreeDivorce is Java. All that is required the couple go before a priest and break a ring or cut a piece of cord and presto, they are free * rasy Ww ¥ » € Outdeor Life in Massachusetis— According to the laws of Mass (Contisned on Pape Siz) Altoona Man Is Instantly Killed ————— David A. Kiser Walked Front of Auto Driver Tells Police rm ——— Lumber Dealer Dies Suddenly Heart Attack is Fatal to Wil- liam Grebe of Philips- David A. Kiser, 83-year-old Blair county plasterer. was killed instant- ly by an automobile driven by Rup- ert J. White, on Fouth street, Al- toona, last Wednesday afternoon Kiser had done some plaster work on a Juniata Gap home during the day, and was believed enroute to his home at Fairview, White, driver of the automobile, told police Kiser loomed before him 50 suddenly while driving north on Fourth street that there wasn't even time to use auto struck him with the front fender and headlight, White said he received help get- ting Kiser's body into his car but nobody offered to accompany him right to Altoona Hospital, where the vic- | tim, who lives with a sister, Mrs. Myrtle Holderman, was pronounced dead. Kiser is survived by Andrew and Charles M., of Altoo- na; one brother and two sisters, T A. Kiser, Mrs, Holderman and Mrs. Harry Decker, all of Altoona, Government Job Open The U. 8. Civil Service Commis- sion announces that it has received insufficient applications from quali- filed persons to fill vacancies in the cer, $2000 a year, at the Federal Penitentiary in Lewisburg. Detailed information may be obtained from the Secretary, Board of U. 8. Oivil Service Examiners, at first, or sec- ond-class post offices In the Btate of Pennsylvania: or from the Man- ager, Third U, 8. Civil Service Dis- trict, Customhouse, Philadelphia. Church Steeple Removed Work of removing the steeple of the Watsontown Lutheran church was completed Thursday by the Ryan Contracting Company, of Mil- ton, which immediately began con. struction of a lower one, The old steeple was struck by lightning on two occasions during the summer months, and provided a hazard to She walking oni the nearby side- walks, (fatal his brakes before the Presbyterian church, the Improved | | life {Regina Brafler Grebe, two sons, | made in the Philipsburg cemetery. position of Junior Assistant Engin- | operator of the Moshannon Mill and Lumber Company, died at his home in Philipsburg at 7.35 Priday | evening. of a heart attack. Mr Grebe had been in his usual health | ‘and had worked Thursday morning. Complaining of not feeling well, he remained home in the attack which was followed by anoth- er attasx in the evening that proved | i Mr. Grebe was a member of the | Order of Red Men, Loyal Order of | Moose, B. P. O. E., Central District’ Firemen's Association, Hope Fire | Company and the 1. O. O. FP i | He was born in Philipsburg May 22, 1882. and had lived there all his He was a son of Dittmar and ps | Funeral services were held Sunday .d The average number of demerits awarded each midshipmen at the Naval Academy is 54.137. i = a 2 Lewistown Men Killed In Crash Employes of Street Depart- ment Fatally Injured in Collision Collision of an automobile with a | trailer truck killed two Lewistown street department workers Saturday as they were returning home from a football game at Mt. Union. Samuel Edward Silks, 34, and Samuel Walter Wagner, 31, died of | skull fractures. Fred L. Duncan, | afternoon (23, riding with them in the car, es- | land Priday morning suffered the caped with lacerations and contus- | ‘fons. Donald Montgomery, 31, of Everett, was in the truck and es- I | MTS, caped with bruises, Karthaus Woman is 92 i Mrs. Mary Gilliland, of Karthaus, is one of the few persons living in this area who can recall the Civil War. Last week Mrs. Gilliland cel- | ebrated her 93rd birthday. During! ithe day she received 108 birthday | their crochet which has ‘eards and 20 friends called at her eligible for the nationa] finals, the home, She reads dafly without the ‘use of glasses and enjoys talking tractive lapel pins, Mr. Grebe is survived by his wid- with younger people. She is a keen fifth anniversary ce jdow, the former Blanche F. Abbott, student of politics and present day contest. The grand national winner | land by an odopted son, Jack. A events i | brother, Harry F. Grebe, of Phili | iburg, also survives Hemlock trees from the State Nur- | afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the sery are now being planted along Grebe home, in charge of the Rev, the main drive of the Laurelton {Charles W. Maclay, pastor of the State Village, and it is expected that | Presbyterian church. Burial was other shrubbery will be placed this, the state to bring back the glory of | ivear around the various pew bulld- chestnuts, wiped out years ago by Squirrel lings and drives recently finished in” blight, George Holmes, Hustingdon While hunting recently, Dick Rice | Mills, Columbia county, postmaster, of Monroeton, shot an albino squir-| has 10000 of the trees, which have rel. The fur of the rodent, the size Central Pennsylvania town of any hy gray squirrel, wag pure white, size reveals that a wide expansion program. Charity is a great virtue but it is #eldom seen in economic sctivities, i 7 Women Enter Crochet Contest To Take Part in Nationwide Competition For Cash Awards Seven Centre county women have! entered thelr crochet work in the fifth annu&l Nation-Wide Crochet | Contest, to be judged in New York | this month. The local contestants are: Mrs Clarence M. Hoy, Bellefonte RD | 2; Miss Bernice Kraft, 8pring Mills; | Mrs. Charles Miller, Mrs. A. E Limbert, Rebersburg: | Mrs. Harold Bohn, Centre Hall: | Miss Teckls Tate Bellefonte, ana A. H. Bpayd, Centre Hall entering the contest the local | Centre Hall: | In | needlewomen will try for. the title o! national crochet champion in| competition with more than 400.000 of the countrys outstanding cro- chelers. In recognition of the quality of] become | local contestants will receive at.) a feature of the! jebration of the! of the contest will receive the cro-| het title, $250 in cash awards, and | a trip to New York City {| sonville | harmed by the fire, home together preparing for bed, Emerick was in another room “apparently getting a bite to eat,” when he crash. Investigating his wife's ab- sence he found her unconscious body lying beneath the window took his wife to the hospital in his Car Although Emerick in technical custody formal arrest asserted there foul play Mrs February George A is being held The district attorney was no evidence of 1923, the daughter of and Preda R. Shields. She “+ “de is survived by her parents and one | John, at home Arm s—- tl S———— College Student Has Head Injury brother Penn State Man in Accident in Which Wellshoro Man Dies A Wellsboro Tew n a killed and others lege student in a collision of tw tersection Shore Max driver ¢ man wag ! 104 weit hospital Cumberland, Md in which t dead are he with fractures leg: Mrs both thi in Laid of the and Kline with h ghs, and possible fractures of the pelvis and ribs: and Albert A. Price, Penn State student Upper Darby driver of car, with a Ci pound fred am fractures of the h fractured skull and com- ure of the jaw ot hy ouer nc Ml co Cars Damaged on Jacksonville Road Two Persons Slightly Injured When in Crash of Autlo- mobiles Cars driven by B. C ard. R. D. 2 “ Fike, How- and John H. Carroll, Williamsport, traveling in opposite directions crashed almost headon at 4:15 p. m. Sunday on the Jack- road six miles east of Bellefonte, Kenneth 1. Fike, How- ard. R. D. 2 traveling in the Fike car, and Marvin Craven of Wil- llamsport, a passenger the other sutomoblle, suffered cuts and bruis- PS in Damages were $400 to the Carroll vehicle and $50 Ww the other car Hurt on First Hunt Misfortune came Ww Franklin Rog- ers, 15. son of Mr. and Mrs Lin- cord W. Rogers, of Farrandsville Clinton county, in his first hunting expedition of his life last Tuesday, when he tripped and his gun went off while he Was hunting alone, bad- iy injuring his foot He walked a mile after he was Injured before he was able to get aid. The bones of the foot ‘je badly splintered. He is {a patient at the Lock Haven Pri- vate Hospital 25 Acres Bamed A forest fire that swept over 20 to | 125 acres of good timberland north {of the Selinsgrove State Colony for Epileptics was brought under con. | trol by Fire Warden James F. Kern, of Beavertown and 18 fighters from the Selinsgrove section, after dam- age was caused 0 the extent of about $75. Little of the timber was which was fought in a brisk wind, sprinkied with flakes of snow at nightfall > Bam, Crops The large bam on the Walter Brown farm in Centerville, Brad- ford county, was destroyed by fire, with all the summer crops. All of the stock was saved, with the ex. ception of one calf, and some of the farm machinery was saved Victim of Paralysis Little Shirley Heddens, daughter of Mrs. Corabelle Heddens, Wash | ingtonville, is a patient in Geisinger | Hospital, suffering from infantile 10.000 Chestnut Trees | paralysis. the first case reported in In perhaps the greatest effort In that section in a number of weeks proved resistant to the blight, grove i8 17 acres in size, The Wh Shoots Albine the squirrel had pink eyes FIREMAN: It is an establizhed fact that the Bellefonte Fire Department Bn’ what it used to be years ago (thank goodness). It has improved mmeas- urably. But this pected pee one Corner never ex- bg, burly standing on a street 175 smoke ~eaters corner of our | a | | | One While they were | unpaid inspectors on the high school heard a | Emerick | he is under no | Emerick was born in Altoona | irom | selling Jehovah Witnes Is the day coming when our will find a tambourine a of! equipment fire hose? tracls “ds “a | necessary phece INSFECTOR: of the mort faithful of the | construction job is Edward Garman {of East High street, well known tired Bellefonte merchant. Mr, Gar- {| man, who dally visits Lhe site mar. vels at high quality of work- manship and the skil] with which the big building is being assembled He points out that the igh ne Crete work ire finished a: concrete was | VANZANDT: Congressman James E. VanZand! last week voted against (he revision of the Neutrality Bill, thereby pleas. ing the Lindberghs Bund ists {1 Wheelers and di Whether he pleased anyone in inis Congressional district seems to be of little importance repre- Je sentauve HEARING: Earl K. Stock, supervising princi- pal of the Bellefonte schools, § | be given a public hearing on charge {of incompetence persistent negli- gence, and persistent and willful vi of the school code, pre- ferred by School Director Franklin | B. Schad, We're afraid Mr. Schad has a big order on his hands, for | proving any one of the three charges be about as easy trying two r Joe Blotz doesn Pat. Motherhood, or the Banc- the Home In other words ns are abstractions. You get teeth one man would i1 npetence, another ght over- look as merely the evidences of an off day.” SIGN: Back the YMCA is a parking space bearing a large sign: “Re- served for Army.” The driver of the car bearing labels showing it to be from one of the large raining camps t had no way of knowing that “Army is Armstrong L. Francis’ nickname {or he probably wouldn't have park- {ed In the space during the week- end STRIKE: { Wonder if John L. Lewis in the privacy of his boudoir and while en- | joying a long and fragrant pipe ever admitted to himself that he'd like to be a dictator? Sometimes you can almost see how “it could happen here” PROPHET: Local weather suge early last week predicted that Indian Summer would arrive November 17. He miss- ed it by only a few days. Indian Summer began November 13 or thereabouts, MISCELLANEOUS: Anyhow, Mr. Stocks hearing won't cost mueh. School Board member: figure that about the only cost will be the wage for a disinterested pub. lic stenographer. Witnesses will get nothing. Where the prosecution at. torney or attorneys get their is their business. Mr. Stock will pro. vide his own attorney, it is believea REASON: Maybe some of you customers may wonder why Chis corner seems to be {taking sides in the forthcoming {saga of the court room to be en- titled “The Trial of Earl K. Stock.” jor “Where Were You on the Morn- {ing of Pebruary 13, 1838?" This super-duper colossal spectacle which we predict you'll forget to tell your | grandchildren, is scheduled to be- re- the re e on the struct is as well so-called “finished a few Cars 20 the Lato ne the clator vo our w | olations as t favor your fn ' dé | y te {reg [gin Monday evening, December 15 | and will run nightly until the school | board has decided enough is enough {or until something else happens to {put an end to the thing. This cor- | ner ures you to attend the “trial It should be entertaining | BATTLEWAGON: | Almost fabulous stories are told |about the navigating abilities of | the chief navigation officer aboard [the U. 8. fleet's mammoth battle {ship North Carolina. They claim | the officer can steer the huge ves- sel almost with the same precision {that a mother sooots a baby car- | riage through traffic in a Christmas irush. On recent tests they told the {lad to slip the ship through two | buoys spaced just far enough apart [to let the craft through He did it | without scraping either buoy. On another occasion he rammed a buoy head-on, Sounds simple, doesn't it? But have you. for in- stance, ever tried to drive a bus? Think how much more fguring vou'd have to do to navigate a ship as long as Bellefonte’s business dis trict! CHRISTMAS: A visit to practically every other merchants Continued on Pape Siz) and PETER PUBLIC—Ain't It th’ Truth? gd Aone ¢ R= i Hu EH.
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