almost fllat, is allowed to start 383} THE PA N cars, but more than ten of these will I sh—— - t Thos. A. Owens, Editor & Prop. |! i, F. Bradley, Associate Editor |" Published Every Thursday, Entered im the Post Office at Patton, Pa. as Second Class Mail Matter. X Subscription Rates $2.00 per year In Ad- f vamce. Single Coples 5 Cents. inch, or fraction thereof, for 3 insertions Card of Thanks, 0c; Business Locals 10¢| known racing genius, shipping his new per line; Business Cards, $10.00 per year, | Display advertising, 30c per Inch; Full} oo oh. woesk from Los Angeles in position, 25 pet. extra; Minimum charge, $1.00. Cash must accompany all crders for | a special express car. foreign advertising, All Advertising copy must reach this office by noon Wednesday | =o 0 4 5 used by Lockhart in T i . Unsigned correspon-|}*™" 4 3 dence will PO SII times. his fleet Black Hawk special, the speed juggernaut which crushed out hig life GETTING THINGS IN SHAPE on the tragic sands of Daytona Beach, x iy NU 4 x gsi gard = mimesis ——————— FOR BIG AUTO RACE EVENT Although Frank Lockhart, one of the world’s most fearless racing pil- ots, sacrificed his life on the alter! gq, ething of Interest for Everybody of speed just a few days ago, his tragic death has left no effect on the daring of the other drivers, accord- ing to an announcement today by Al- toona Speedway officials. be the principal feature this year of Elimination. trials will have to be |]the great industrial exposition, to be held because of the extremely heavy | held on the grounds of the Cambria for the June 16 world’s| County Fair Association at Ebens- championship 200-mile classic here at | burg, the Fourth of July week. Not entry list the speedway, the officials stated. only will there be the industrial fea- Mourned by his fellow knights of | tures which are the foundation of the the roaring road, who covered his|big exposition, but there wil lbe a dog coffin with the proverbial tribute .of [show July 3 and 4, which will be the racing to a dead comrade, a mam-|first licensed show in this vicinity. moth floral checked flag, Lockhart’s end has been taken with the grim fatalism of the drivers, who always {ican Kennel Club, but the licensing think that it will be some one else committee of that organization has, who will crash in the mad careening | this year, issued a license to the ex- around the steep curves of the huge |position management so that the timber bowl. The first major championship event of the 1928 automobile racing seson here at the speedway on June 16, coming two weeks after the annual 500-mile endurance sweepstakes at Indianapolis, will find close to 40 in- ternational famous drivers eager to mp EE) : : compete in the 200-mile event, but |been made. There will also be a horse this field must be narrowed to 18 to |show. For the free entertainment of comply’ with the iron-clad restrictions of the contest of the beard of the A. A. A. Five Jean Jacksons who aer consider- ed the cleverest trick and faney bi- cycle riders on the stage or track, will also be preesnted. Axel Mirano wil lbe there with a novel act, which will require only about 90 miles an ” ——= | the Pacific coast has already started, RATE OARD—Legal Notices, $1.50 per) wiv} Happy A, Miller, internationally erican Cat Fanciers’ Association, on July some of the fancy prize cats in this country and of many different breeds. tures will include Eugene Randow and his company, which really menas that The Indianapolis brick track, be-|three of the funniest outdoor clowns cause it is 2 12 miles in length and [in the park and fair business will be famous among its patrons for its out troupe of ten tumblers and jugglers. including another clown or two, will be eliminated immediately because of he minimum speed of 1256 miles an ur required for qualification in the he June 16 clash here. . Indianapolis wur to quality, The hegira of celebrated drivers & racing ‘engineers from Europe and from the American winter quaters on nystery front-wheel drive race car Miller was the designer and build- DIVERSIFICATION OF ENTER. TAINMENT AT THE BIG EX- POSITION AT EBENSBURG Every Day at Industrial Event Week of July Fourth. Diversification of entertainment will Former dog shows, held at Ebensbury were merely sanctioned by the Amer- show will be authorative. Following the dog show there will be .a cat show under the auspices of the Am- 5 and 6, at which will be shown Many notable entries have already the people on the race track the fea- present. The industrial exposition is door clowns. Grix Gregory with a follow the Randow bunch and the he performs while whirling around May 9 WILL BE THE 453RD SUBURBAN DAY IN ALTOONA BOOSTER STORES AND ALSO SELL’S FLOTO SHOW DAY Arrange to visit Altoona and double the take advantage of attraction on Wednesday, Booster Stores will have spe- cial Suburban Day for their out of town patrons in addition to offering complete stocks of new merchandise for personal wear and home use from which you satisfactory ions of the things merchant cannot supply. Spend the morning shopping in Booster Stores and attend the circus in the afternoon. The Strand theatre will pro- vide an interesting program of evening entertainment. Shop in Booster Stores and home ALTOONA BOOSTER ASSOCIATION. me sd THEATRE, STRAND Altoona, Penna. Week Commencing Saturday Delores Costello in THE HEART OF MARY- Se and hear Waring’s Penn- gylvanians and Mary Lewis, with Vitaphone. at the top of a rather tall imitation of the Eiffel tower and it is consid- ered one of the breathless kind that sends thrills down the spines of spee- tators. For those who are dog lovers and eome for the dog show, the Alf Loyal dog entertainment, on the tarck will be something worth while. This is said to be the best tarined troupe of dogs in the business and for many seasons was a center ring feature with both Ringling and aBrnum and Bailey shows, before they amalgama- ted, and since. Last but not least, the greatest outdoor novelty in the amusement business, which has caused laughter and amusement from Canada to Aus- tralia and from London, England to San Francisco will be Walter Stanton wit hhis human rooster, human chicks and real fighting roosters, al lin a whirlwind act of amazement and lau- ghter. Of course there will be midway shows and also boxing matches and a week of dancing at the pavilion not to mention the fireworks, which have become a feature o fall the big shows given at Ebensburg. There will also be horse racing each day of the ex- position. DEER PROVE BIG PROBLEM Some immediate method of reduc- ing the number of deer running loose in the State must be found to pre- vent a famine like that in the Kai- bad Forest, Rocky Mountain district, three yea ro, the State Game Com- mission has announced. Hundreds of deer in the State are dying of starvation, since there is not enough food to supply all the wild animals the commission reports. In Clearfield and Huntingdon counties especially, where the food situation is most acute, dozens are found dead close together. Although no suggestion for solv- ing the problem formally has been adopted by the commission, three proposals have been offered. The first is to name a State-wide doe season; the second, to let local hunters reduce the number of deer until-food supplies are available for the susvivors; and the third, to hire gunmen, through the Game Commission, to kill off numbers o f the animals. The commission has found that feeding of the deer is disastrous since the animals at the first feeding at- tempt to eat too much and many die as a result. STEEL FRAMED KITES AND TRANSMISSION LINES BAD Kite flying season is now close at hand and officials of telephone and electric light and power companies are making strenuous efforts to call attention to the hazards of flying kites with meal fra says the Pennsylvania Public Service Informa- tion Committee. Theer is no disposition on the part of these officials toward discourag- ing or porhibiting the small boys’ an- nual exhilaration which accompanies the ground end of a kite string. They simply advise the use of the “wide open” spaces away from power trans- mission or telephone lines. It is not the old fashioneq kite of dwooden frame that motivales the warning. It is the “new fanglei"” box arrangement and the still newer metal aerial devices with wire “strings” i that menace the person of the kite flyer as well as the cutting off of service by cross-circuiting .of wires. Wire “strings” should never be at- tached to kites. NAVY AVIATOR GETS | REVENGE ON ARMY Outstunts Record Holder in Other Branch. Washington.—Lieut, Alford J. Wil llams, navy aviator and speed record holder, has gained revenge for his branch of the service over its friendly enemy, the army. Back in 1925, Lieut. James H. Doo- little of the army aflixed pontoons to his land plane, entered the Schneider international seaplane race and flew away with first place in the record time of 232 miles an hour. Then, on May 25, 1927, he performed the un- precedented feat of turning an “out- side” loop, and chalked up another mark for the army. The honors are even now. Lieuten- ant” Williams has not only duplicated Doolittle’s feat, but created a stunt new to aerial acrobatics—an outside loop from an upside-down position, In addition to shattering an army record he used an army type land plane. How He Did it. At a height of 3,000 feet, the navy pilot's plane described a horizontal figure eiglit, 600 feet high, the first loop made on the Doolittle pattérn, and the second starting after a half roll, while flying upside down. In a normal loop the aviator puts the nose of the machine down sligintly to obtain maximum speed, then, pull- ing back on the control stick, rises slowly at first and then more rapidly as the top of the loop is made, Just after the top is reached, he shuts eff his motor and lets the machine fall through the last half of the loop, which looks like the letter “E” in script. The “outside” loop begins and is completed with the airman’s head on the outside instead of on the inside, as In the conventional loop. The new maneuver begins and ends with the pilot flying upside down. In a normal loop the pilot feels he is glued to his seat. In the “outside” a force seems to pull him out of the cockpit, “Everything seemed to rush to my head,” Lieutenant Williams said, “and for a moment I was blinded.” Crisis Comes at Half Circle. The crises of both loops were reached when they were half through he added, and there was a strong temptation to believe they had heen completed, He admitted his flying senses deceived him, and he concluded he was through with the circle when In reality he had gone but halfway around, Fliers estimate that the centrifugal force exerts a pressure of eight to one, making it necessary for the seat of the plane to be able to support a weight of 1,200 pounds. The difficulty experienced by the pilot in maintain ing his own position with reference to the controls, with the blood rush Ing to his head, was well known to the pilots at the naval air station at costa, who witnessed Williams’ flight amid gasps of amazement. French Hoard of Gold in Secret Flooded Moat Paris.—A fortress with a moat guards the gold of the Bank of France. Deep in the cellars of the last-built branch of the bank, in an old aristo cratic palace, there is always an armed sentinel with orders to let no one but the chief director enter. The entrance to the strong room is a metal safe door seven feet thick. Inside, the gold is stored in other, supposedly burglar-proof, boxes. The moat. G5 feet deep, has a swift 10-foot flow of water in it, diverted from an under- ground river, Should some master cracksman reach the big steel door, he would be in a smooth steel corridor, the floor of which would disappear from under him once he began operations. Below him would be the swift stream and all about him polished steel surfaces offering no grip. What devices there are to cause the floor to vanish are secret, Officials are so certain of the safety of their treasure that they are willing that burglars should know where France keeps her billions, Smokes Way to Degree St. Louis.—One student at Washing- ton university here is helping to pay for his education by breaking in new pipes. He charges a nominal fee for aging the briars, and reports a lu- crative business. HHH it Law Makers Keep : Eye on Weather Washington.—Members of the house of representatives often pause while hastening to the floor for a roll call vote to find out how the weather is “back home.” Fastened to the wall in the corridor behind Speaker Long worth’s rostrum 1s a huge weather map, which Is marked dally to Indicate atmospheric conditions all over the nation Direction of the winds is shown by arrows, the color of which Indicates whether sunlight, rain or snow prevails. This silent spokesman for the weather bureau finds an audi ence almost every hour of the day. Those especially Interest ed apparently afe the repre sentatives from agricultural sections. \ CE OH HHH OH OHH HOO CO OO Er PRE THE PATTON COURIER SHE HAS NO FEAR OF NITROGLYCERIN Woman Hauls It to Fire-Fight- ing Husband. Amarillo, Texas.—Her husband’s dangerous vocation is shared by Mrs. Tex Thornton, wife of the man who puts out fires in the oil fields by toss- ing nitroglycerin into the flames. But she finds no thrill in it. It is Mrs, Thornton's job to haul nitroglycerin to her hushand. Recent- ly she drove an automobile 800 miles over rough roads, carrying 1,500 quarts of the explosive.” Scores of motorists who saw Mrs. Thornton approaching abandoned their automobiles and scurried across the prairie. But she insisted there was” “nothing to make a fuss about.” Mrs. Thornton had to change tires five times before she delivered the nitroglycerinito her husband, who was lighting a costly gas fire at Corpus Christi. “My work is just colorless routine,” she remarked after the perilous trip. “Tex has all the fun, and 1 envy him, His work really is dangerous, and he accomplishes something. . My bit is incidental and anybody could do it.” Thornton’s “fun” consists of don- ning an asbestos suit, crawling to the edge of a fire crater and hurling 50 te-100 quarts of nitroglycerin into the flames. If several blasts fail to extin- guish the fire, he digs deeper: into his bag of tricks and gets water and steam to help him. Mrs. Thornton also takes care of the storage of the family stock of nitroglycerin, While she does not dread the explosive, she does fear the mice and snakes which she finds in the storehouse. Since their marriage five years ago Mrs, Thornton has been helping Tex fight the fires. Her hobby is airplanes, and she longs for the day when her husband can buy her one, Man-Made Earthquakes Aid Railroad Builders Leningrad, U. 8. 8. R.—Man-made earthquakes, recorded some distance away upon a simple form of seis: mograph weighing only a few pounds, are helping Russian engineers to sur- vey the site of the proposed Turke- stan-Nibéria railroad. The method is to detonate charges of explosives underground and to re- cord the travel of vibrations through the ground in different directions. By a minute study of the records so obtained it is possible to secure data on the geological formation of the lo- cality. The new seismograph invented by Prof. Paul M. Nikiforov, director of the Physico-Mathematical institutes of the Russian Academy of Science at Leningrad, is similar to one recently i ted in the United States by Dr. A. Anderson of the Mount Wil- son observatory in California. Its main part, the pendulum, is a small vertical cylinder of pure gold sus: pended a little off center on a pair of fine wir Whenever there is any vibration the cylinder turns slightly in proportion to strength of the shock. A tiny mirror attached to the pendulum reflects a e beam of light on a constantly advanc- ing sheet of photographic paper. Every turn of the cylinder, no matter how small, shifts the light spot con- 1 siderably and it traces a wavy black line, Several of the new instruments are now installed at earthquake sta- tions in Turkestan and Crimea and give complgte satisfaction. Rock Deflects Drills, Oil Engineer Finds Tulsa, Okla.—Because of deflection of oil-boring tools in underground strata, it is a wise oll man who ac- tually knows where and at what level his well hits production, H. P. Bowen, Tulsa oil engineer, believes. Bowen says flatly that no drill hole is svertical, and points to the recent instance of two offset wells coming together at a depth of 2,100 feet as proof. He has worked out a deflection ta- ble which shows that a 6,000-foot hole that strays 25 degrees from per- pendicular ends up almost half a mile from its surface location, and actu- ally is only 5,433 feet deep. “As a rule a rotary hole shows the rreater amount of deflection,” Bowen says. “It has been reported that a 6,200-foot rotary hole of the Roxana Petroleum corporation, on being sur- veyed, showed a deflection of 25 de- grees from perpendicular, Actually, then, it was only about 5,600 feet deep.” Britons Must Import 3,700,000,000 Eggs a Year London.—Great Britain consumes 1,700,000,000 eggs a year, and native fowls produce only 2,000,000,000 eggs. Forty-seven per cent of -Britain’s imported eggs come from countries outside the British empire, The sum of money spent for these eggs ex- ceeds the value of all the motor cars, motorcycles, cycles and rubber tires which Britain exports, and the im- perial economic council wants some- thing done about it. English hens are now laying 100 eggs each annually gs against 72 4 in the pre-war period, but their eggs are smaller, Denmark and Chipa are the chief sources of Britain's import: ed eggs. It is suggested by the eco: nomic council that ~ home-laid eggs should be identified in such a manner that the public may give them pref erence. Announcing Another Opportunity To Become A Profit Sharing Partner in A Successtul Enterprise We wish to announce an offering of a new no par Cumulative Preferred Stock. This stock will eb known as the $2.80 Series, and will have all the rights and privi- leges of the $5.00 Series except the price, yield, liquidation and call values. We are offering this new Preferred Issue at $47.00 per share. With an annual dividend re- turn of $2.80, thsee shares yield 5.957 per cent. Proceeds from the sale of this issue will be used for permanent improvements which are necessaries in communities served by the Penn Central Light and Power Company. Electric Light, Power and Gas properties, are stable enterprises. They render indispensible service to people and industries. Electric light, Power and Gas are es- sential to home comfort and to manufacturing progress. From time to time for the past seven and one half years, the Penn Central Light and Power Company has offered their prefererd shares to their customers, employees, and public, with the result that the ynow have more than 7,300 Prefer- red Shareholders. Ninety-five per cent of . these Shareholders are customers and employees who have been receiving dividends regularly since date of issue. Thus the Company has been able to share its earnings with its customers, employees and some of the public. INSURANCE COMPANIES, BANKS, TRUST COMPANIES— ALL— HAVE A FINANCIAL STAKE IN “POWER SECURITIES.” Financial men look with favor upon the Securities of Electric Light and Pow- er Companies. The reasons are easy to understand. 1. Exceptional safety. 7. Industry Solves Big Problems 2. An Attractive Return. With Electric Power. 3. Easily Converted Into Cash. 8. For Service Rendered Electri- 4. Tax Free. city Is Economical. 5. Dividends Paid Since Date of 9. The Demand for the Service Issue. Is Constantly Growing. 6. Modern Life Will Not do With- 10. The Business Is Almost Entire- out Electricity. ly on A Cash Basis. NOW IS THE TIME FOR YOU TO INVEST PRICE PER'SHARE AND DIVIDENDS We are offering this new issue of Preferred Shares $2.80 Series, dividends payable quarterly, at $47.00 per share either for cash or on savings plan. The terms of the savings plan are $4.00 per share with the subscription and $4.00 per share per month, or the equivalent, within the period, until fully paid. Interest at the an- nual rate of 5 per cent will be allowed on all payments, to be accrued and eredited on completion of payments. At a dividend rate of $2.80 per share, the yield is 5.957 per cent on your investment. These shares are preferred as to assets and dividends and are cumulative. Subscriptions for shares can be made at any of our offices or thru any of our employes. Penn Central Light @. Power Co. J. H. SHEARER, VICE PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER calls to your out-of-town friends, even though they live as far as forty or fifty miles away, are handled by your local operator. She takes charge of your call and sees it through. You don’t even hang up your receiver. WW Your out-of-town friends can be reached as easily and conveniently as your “in-town” friends. 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