The Most Widely Read Newspaper in Centre County. A Visitor in Seven Thousand Homes Each Week, ' ODD nly, i dws |e @he Contre Demorraf VOLUME 69 . BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1940, AMMAR AAR | - —————————— a. rs ———————— sn sr ———— t—— ————— Old Hound Dog Houtzdale Moose Pavilion | Beginning fo Flow Uncle Sam Seeking Many "55" For thirteen years, Jack, an old Philip B. Ray, personnel direcigr houng dog, owned by Game Warden 3 — od i the Tite tal an) : wy nin Burns; Fourth Fire In Week ETT) T— |v | Qualified Mechanics For me me oun id i. ed bob-ca the t enemy Wl {at the Nittany Country Club golf door and © game life More : pf rte, Friday afternoon Lorn ise than 3 of * . at fell be-| Leads to Firebug Theory National Defense Program er ahol RR a 00h copvalls La BRCIuevemment & chironicisd here, in - fore the persistent hound Covel ALELLLLLLLRAAARAWMWND Random [tems NUMEER 32. | i nor Barrows of Maine invited Gray o bring Jack to te capital te Report That 90-Foot Structure Had Been Set i H » intended to give Lhe t in recognition of hs services. But Om Fire at Both Ends; $6,000 Estimated — rf abi | fz " phi Navy Yard and Frankford Arsenal; Jack was foung dead Just ¢ week before the award was made Loss In Series of Conflagrations a— (Vf - wd Maximum Age Limit Increased stead. Phil drove off on No. § tes Experienced Craftsmen Needed at Philadel- "co whimea down the fairway towerd its gounl, but lead of con Sow's Surprise rhe Moose Park pavilion ats covered at both end of . 1 il- - - La Er Ee “ 8 ! Vo J The Inited 8 . Government | Heavy Pires) Heat Treater Avia thre 3 windo of the Workman ¢ Houtzdale burned to the ground ! lon. No evider {6 were | h : AZT Dur gust / Ad Rd " Lh hh its Civil Service Commis tion) Boatbullder end of Heda For two weeks Henry Hyde, of Ane wn inn dou \ : ly 4 } mw Kane Ill. was unable to locate one ently Monday THOM ” a vid Lunininay Foie oie ry) ; sion. is making a strenuous effort | (Wood) 3) ! Calker and Park y J : four the ) fire Houtzdale has “We ave god 1 O1 eve y ; ‘ t secure qualified mechanics for | Chipper rol 3 : " ge 3 NY ‘hia fives 1 hci ih Nin . : 4 PLAYMATES: experienced dur the ast IVE | that the oth fil ut zca be / ¥,/ i National Defense Program in ina - jon thy wad 1 wi t) ’ ¢ fi 4 GC ¢ Lv certain ritical rade: r Od { {ver : ” AL Mi re 8 a little ! ily he dug Into a fresh strav t hat had buried a smal] sie wide he foung SOW with during the work of fir y ‘ | h yl A y f Bind oY y tion: in whi the 4 been dif thy f cially {1 § y “ dan hiail 1 iL arink pRrior VE by Lhe younger gen - Jitterbur ” A nickel- : nil ; A i parentl : " 4 : Current music st sl y toxin le + chiel Jil ted £ . ’ di hii maker Met ' a t4 fi =nle a une, An observer 1 M Fi id \ . a : - y al for BOMe « Hste ol ssn \Wialor " . 4 ty & a Mull 0 nt le a aLiol fOr sn i i : A A Rp : " v ry TR vend : Teg #t 9 Canine First Ai liam Lewls, who said thi Monda . nick Was d : i TY) ne of Lhe arachute Mechanic; Sheet Metal |} ha ening Jast week "3 Rowe {(armeér oO Rock JA Nn \ i ’ 3 i : SHOWN De orker Ww } r number Playmate Edwar n t armen 4 : paviion vx : ; I recs played exactly 104 times What ! the observer risonme malion concerning whi ed dam tm ig ; “ A . yt $4000 1} i 1 I ADPAr- that some of our reader : ’ like Wo be informed of pre ration from entl Lt on ¢ Ce : : gpporiunities for empioymen reome ‘and * hd bi : : Ww a M Sy : a ; with 1 5 ax Sister Does + rapidly 4 tadale. firemes ese position n ped I 3 ne nformation receiv : LET rs of Engineering It might cost a bit more to buy and h : od back to hi ce wate Brave Rescue week th ewcom barn a d by Te Centre Democrat Vers teria fechanical (Optical In- | 80 article that is guaranteed, but on him and revive him ou ¢ Ned and was T0NOW hundred jobs are open at the Navy 542 nt 6 like money irom home when the ; + Franko J f Applicants for any © " 1 articie goes bad WW jesrn LOE pe the Pederal Government ; ¥ ‘ ¥ Haven Girl Saved From | um; station August ‘1. Anothe : al in Philadelphis ons must have had previous ex- | Pairs will cost nothing Pays To Advertise " Harold Acker noe Fairbury, Neb urveye4 hot cioud Haven River Drowning in Lock ¥ } ‘s sgilai : th special (Continued on 4 . mnission has ir d th ‘Show ; i) G 0 4 | o'clock Bunday morning en East Bears on Stroll naxinum age anil lor id ni us 0 n Ling street resident called the Dis- Awe A Allen of Leroy | Of positions to sixty-t ! y nd asked to have . . mond aur oe Despite | J Yy “ Hoe : 0 Wa area 4 invest- Farmer Injured in Runaway i n ur ry a £1 mph w Morr Lei! . cumstances The awiah >, . resident hung up an ; 4 y doris. 144 ling In the Task | have to than gs v : B Sous. f8 oHlcat 8 Hv 2! Aerialist Who Lost Thumb in | grat he expected would be " (0) h! oY 2 asl der sister, Vivian, 15 {joa of wheat harvested in his field, | 50 ©) © am thelr month ‘ ¢ saw 6 bear vident-' the Philadelphia Nevy Yarg for th Accident Ready to Re- siderable wail, In less than three ucn. wa or nie a mind , T | Wa n jured en dragged 3 feel ; ; t 2 Stroll WW positions of raft Pabric Worker, 5 » Hi minutes by the click g car bearing william 8. Steph henceforth | widen x heim 1 when the rece purchased teal : 2 8 ‘ fl raft { Metal W ! jreraft sume His Act rs Donald Johnson and Ralph will kes h | y on 1 § y er for a swim o h ‘ ' he } \ i . . i¥ BE ns Ho nsirumen y Alt arrived on the scene locomotives when he go bathing | o_o or farm at Monseytown. TH Rl Ok Th Tare we 177 a mont : : ert ate Yiduals whe, crail instrument Mechanic, Angie NR 3PUE OL 4 njury involv- | MAYOR COOPERATES: in the {ver ear neaster { a do A in Im wag ! f ¥ S ' . » ‘ ey nith L% nan 5 5 y in He 0% ih iumb, 10rre: Tt dens tment + wisi exhaust watch dy side hi ree | inert PILGRIMAGE yor Hare 1 Memories of Days Bgaly oy pe as chair OMm- | " a different tell ’ f # nd soon 0 TROY ai : . By 3 4 4 : Le We het Ir. 3 . mis rk ERS : in { | n - . "nt ; ly Maye he Pi s ¥ ox nn lo 2 * Man's Body Is gt Tivuasday witébseion | s Suk ols. He spoke” on the /Hartietan, the Seven Mile Narows,| ind was pulled off And | lor. Sere , : : ; n # i ‘ i tig wh y & sty - 4 Starting at Bucknell Universit ng I ta e | John Baltzer Kline. Woodward and Miliheim, the » (Continued on page That,” ssid Mr memaor be wel by Lal iE wm Bucknell cat i Eel n front © TH a was in the Bik Creek, and into Brush Valley you one dollar!” 1t is, indeed, 8 hard they hitched a bisck mile to a rig . moved westward, pausing at the Old Main ve 4) lle A et ¢ 4 The ety oh Turnifie wesg they went through Th P A life and cruised about Philipsburg and {inemploved Blair County monument to Samuel Maclay, eighth placed seats for ; i Be! wet tly Ye ' was Kk Muadisonburg tw Penin’s Cave They ree ersons re LINDBERGH AGA: the surrounding countryside 4 "United State TEE from Penn- tion of gue Dr. Lewis E Theil . " reled the ere is and Went to the A id Vi y : " y ¢ Brou : c : : 1 " n / ¥ ures shel, maa 3% Wd ToL ! Col Lindbergh f= on the front The rig they rode In i TOUQ Man Hangs Self in F it vivarnis y Penn [4 4 meme | B § i 1 THe ‘ 3 of i mous ie AY cn 1 AWE. cc ent ictims pages again gs = ¢ department has v pointed out till i § Foo . . 1h ‘t a rel $y by ; ; ad t TY Sob i i y ibid ¢ ly p une - a % Bead A of De jection 4 < m teh . y . g Lem WH . a i repeatedly commented that the Col a condition a } 4 R yon ter rt in West Ou ee} : 50 piloep th , ¢ GOACHArie | Wald th w- Mall Hall Ww oman Burned by for all hb pparent dislike of pub- { Avast i # HH i 3 | LEFT} § 5 " # 5 " ‘ LH] 4 Yea 41 ayette Stine o n ! II and 1 Found In Shack which will obwerve 5 Tit firiind The party dren t 4 } Fruit Ji { 1 780 ed into the picturesque narrows of tml ————— that brooked no haggling, “will cost C. Hoover, of South Philipsburs 1 within six she pilgrimnag 55. ™ ; . md By ) TR lev (now a resident of Bellefor The lifels ly of Harry A.ltion The program ended at Hairy before it had dia - L Kline ad her 10% flair ‘With an earls Spilling Hot Water on for the we of car dgnin or : ) live in a shanty 1 vind bots y : . py. once | 4 hill {is latest sheriff of tre ounty He wa ! wen nea AlLoon J follo \ v ” ut ¢ of t ¢ ‘ thn £0 XK 3 . i : oo u Shr pra om” Yamad fie LS wrk tab Herself speech favoring appeasement of Shelf N . ‘ followed 1 i id fo | R g 3 : d into Wu Hitler confirms the belief of many and 69-vear- of us that Lindbergh is a geal gVia- used tor. Henry Ford is a great manu- 3 facturer. But when they get out of the m hat 11} rhe Nb ma hath hh ‘ 7 ‘ nth : , : Whe TOVe 4 4 ! ib ash . ig their chosen vocations they usually FRENCHVILLE PICNIC TO near his home Saturd REht. to aa the oublls Be ge wd Fy Arrk ops 1 tant 0 ing place hear his home | CXoAusuion In the wal i ie | Cy aflernoch when she soilless hot | 37¢ Just as stupid as the rest of us BE HELD ON AUGUST 21... o0ined He believed to have | nictireams tile of TH hn’ this aw Ne, | 10 the burving ground og ea : LL 1 water on hersslf Bim hed NOU! The old saw about the shoemaker The 70th annual Frenchville pi oroney lothrock pronou th - " Ania vad theres ; Cy oy ; 4 uo] Bu wa “ HA a bod pi eg 5 arentiy tri: BY tne | Of its truth $ 311 nt : nn ¢ 3 : i i x £13 : (8 0 8 i i } only Wo 1 . i » Bie WIL be Dell Al AN admitted to TAYLOR CLUE: Claarliey = y town on yyedl ~ the acq-{ n the opinion of this pillar of ] vives th rh Base ‘ontinued on page six) wg . . La . thought the police working on the viva bj le Drone ? Faye Pelers, of Beech Creek.! Taylor murder case Have passed up He wa utheran by faith “ - in @ lent in the Lock Haven Hos- “ ’ ¥ et % a1 £ 3 bey 1} ” ty, just must § in we public the best clue—and one of the most - ¥ . i . . . .— : PH 1 ving treatment for a! gbvious—discovered since Rachel hn tense. 1:aat Instantaneous Etiquette Rattlesnake Pike McClellan Clan Shot Wounds Williams Family ripcture ‘Rn ge om of hey fi| Taylor's body was found at the Le- «OI e = 000 nersons attendees The sixth page of a clever serie (0) en To Traffic Annual Re nion Alt I 4 h ] rr w Ri i ent cenit). Wile mont school on March 28. Accord- tine and temporarily swelled of amusing sketche 1 color-by : M Miss Peters was roller skating ail ing to reports they ran the clue ing and tempor: oe Fi an 8 uohe m o ty P : u oona an n t Reunion Hecla Park during the Union Bun- } to earth ur a Bl opulation of Pl i Laie hb iisdmmreilonin pou : ! a iday school picnic of Mill Hall and . whe ormal psoulation vera! with captions by the notegq hu-!g wid ‘ . ; . + _ ad . ’ : i lla al they got to where things might ROTA Pipninm L. Arthur “Bugs” Basr. tha Surfacing Completed on Road Members From Four-County Said to Have Been Wounded History of Clan Read at Gath- | Betth Creek Sunday schools ast orove interesting. Maybe theyll get a this being the centennial Se] e. wh ey & je oo” One ot] Between Unionville and Area Gather at Laurel by Companion While ering in Sinking \ alley, Mary Ellen Yearick., 3. daughter jas - We an to ve preparations are being made pany features in the August 18th | ps . h / . ’ ¥ : . Ry. x ; ¥ wer ogi this pienie tf reate t in| issue of The American Weekly, the | Philipsburg Run Park, July 2i Shooting Mark Near Tyrone of Mr. and Mrs Ocean Vearick. of | some unusual goings-on in State h hist rv of the Pre es par-i Big Magazine distributed with the] p— : i J | Hublersburg last week broke off a College at about the time the slay- pie many = onsored by the | Baltimore Sunday American, On| Motorists will Jen " tit ha ans I RT : or | sewing machine needle twice in the| jg took place ish. The outing is gponsored by the | BALIRG Sunday American ni Motorists will learn with satisiac- J ann Clellan reuniol Said to have been accidentalls The fourth annual reunion of the | forefinger of her left hand. She| ; : hill - EE. Known fiz the Rattl dike bh t Laurel un Park Qs “ lwounded with a shotgun in the | Williams family descendents of the i was treated by a physician and FIREMEN'S RELIEF: Fienchyile Canal Landmark Razed hoy pr vin o lemnage Pike hil. Tul . Pa on Sunday (hands of a companion, Millard William Williams family, was held | rapidly regained the use of her! Lock Haven making ready for the . . been lifted and the road from Phil. | July 28 Behm, 27, of Altoona, is reported in at the home of the late Oscar Wil- | hand | Central Pennsylvania District Fire- or hee . : : a serious condition st J. ©. Blair liams in Sinking Valley near Ty- ———————— | men's Association convention next Donald Overdor!, of Ralston. who When they razed an old barn at to traffic yor on surfacing the by relatives from four oounties Memorial Hospital Huntingdon, | Tone, on Saturday, August 3. The | gnow SHOE FIRM | week, is remedying a deficiency of hadls ash mbar from near Wells- Lock Haven recently Instead they | road was finished last Wednesday. Snyder. Clinton, Mifflin and Cen: where he was admitted Sunday af- | day was ideal a bright sunshine | AGREES ON WAGES |public toilet facilities. On vacant boro for the McLaug! Nin baseball discovered the building had been | thus completing the last gap in this) t The day was spent in greel~ ternoon flooded the verdant landscape, and a jots throughout the eity, small tents J) { | #1 ¥ 4 Riiiil d Mont tooethe writ dy _- . ivi 13! " ey - py $e - salad i p * : - Be tact oty van fis log into a spike put Jo ¢ her with wooden pins, in- | route between the : wo towns : ig friends ang relatives and at Behm and his companion, whose | ® cool breeze kept the temperature | +h. gnow Shoe Knitting Com- are being erected. The facilities in ski “when rolling ash Jogs ohio 8 dicating it was between 80 and 100| The traveling pulilic is requested | the noon hour the tables were Jaden |... was siven as Charles Brown | At a comfortable point. / | pany, Clarence, Oentre county, and [the tehils are being connected With skid when rolling ash IOgs ONL 9 gyegry gold. Old timers believe the | to drive with caution over the new-| with delicacies of the season and Why ‘ | 4 : A. " pute truck, and received a deep Pun: porn jg the last of those which used | ly constructed pavement as there isi relished by all who participated of Altoona, were shooting at a tar-| At noon an exceptionally boun- | the McAdoo Sportswear Company {the city sewer System. 6 WOUnNA penetrating 1 one | 4. ats on wind 37 raf y 4 aheg M7 all who Mcp get in ,Bhavers C ralley 5 | Danville Montour county, last | LB K: ure woung penetrating to the bone nr REL " ne | ate? watderal uy ge 1 Shaver reek valley, near teous dinner was gpread on the Jong | n ' Mc y. MILLBROOK : The wound was ( suterized and YO onder nh hye foal ud was | on Form NOPE oR ne | Among those present were: MI |Huntingdon. Brown, it was learned. | table in the large pavilion where | Thursday fileq consent decrees in | with the construction of the new dressed at the office of 4 physicain. | poue he ive — apruing 19 the: proj t is fin nl o joted. | 20d Mrs. Charles W. King and was handling the gun and sudden- | the reunion is held. Ice cream and | United States Court ai Scranton | peflefonte-State College road under 3 3 house their horses and mule yA I eet ia a HY Te. will Margie, Mias Goldie, Florence and ly spotted a groundhog at which he | cake were served as dessert. After | agreeing to be restrained from fur- way. residents of Millbrook, one ey Pw - Er RE fon ink Bhi Elda McClellan Mr William | fired, but the shot struck Behm In| digner games were mayed with { ther violations of the Fair Labor { mile east of State College. are hav- ti UU d HH P H | trame going to Bellefonte The Phil- | Bratch ) Harriet Speckt, Charles the chest prizes for the winner, which were | Standards Practice Act ling a trying e of i . "4 1 roi ] | $e 1 af ¥ | : : ) tim, The right acation rge or risoners ipsburg-Unionville foad is regarded Freed all of Beavertown, ick y| Ib was reported from Huntingdon won by Mrs. John Kimport, Bobby | In complaints that accompanied of-way of the new road passes with. Sa ! My and Mrs. Henry Hetrie Ah that Brown was quoted as saying | Williams, Zane Williams. A treas- | the decrees, Philip B. Fleming, ad-| in inches of the front porch of sev- $3 A 4 5 N : 3 2 A Pittsburgh Baptist minister] nia can’t take it up. We have central part of the state Jt passes Shildaren, Baber Joanne, My {the Incident was “accidental” bul! ure hunt took the guests scurrying! ministrator of the wage ang hou! | eral homes. Many persons have Jost s . 3 at a 2? i & fie “1 contin : . > $ : ye 1 ted i comes forward with a proposal that nothing much to lose and a lot t¢ | over Black Moshannon Dam, going dren ar and Twila Mr, and Re ed o Siscum Wr Helin wy he pg ny i. which | vision oP EE So i Sher rt Jang pod pry Ton sterti penitentiary inmates get ai gain” | right y 2 n y : os Sogn ' "further. eq to a i wale t f : . allege . | Dus! : we ‘ if feriiten i" 4 h a oe get 3 a ay : a | right through the Black Moshanne N| Mrs Clarence McClellan and sons | ol > rd EE Rl Do oe mays Tom an Thth Du ured a of t weeks” vacation annually fo is plan is to rewurd prisoners State Park. It passes the Rattle-! 4.0.0 cn Glenn Middleburg: Mr | Thomas Bell and other enforoe- | 3 i 3 " f Aeeis™ he ; d : ¢ E with the cold mountain water cool- | minimum wage required under he doesnt help things these hot, sticky oom good behavior. And he says the! for good behavior by giving them snake fire tower and the short wave : ~ 1a tats | ment office stat m soner heartily fs ; eo wenks is v faz rmbt be and Mrs, C. EL McClellan, Mr, and it officers of the stale game com- ] . : prisoners are heartily in favor of it | two weeks at home with their fami- | radio relay station of the Depart-| yo Are Pisher. Miss Stella Me- [mission at Huntingdon, are con- (Continued on page five) Fair Labor Standards Praciice Act days. But when the road is In fact, the Rev. Lester Snyder | lies ang friends at Christmas time | ment of Forests and Waters Which | cqaian Mr. and Mrs. John McClel- [ducting an investigation, it was . | and. worked Suir Sapa; mn bi {peta the community will adjust first broached the idea to the con- “It would give a man something! is located on the summit of the Rat- |... 4 oon Ronald, Mr, and Mrs [said Harshbarger, who immediately went y as . " fs Hzelt to the change, ant will pith. viets themselves in the prison chap- | to jook forward to behind the drab |tlesnake mountain. The road passes hd 80 ‘ 3 : : | Har: rge Whe § y { in the act without paying time and ably benefit from the Improved el and received “such splendid re-| walls of prison” asserted Mr 8ny-| within a mile of the huge Black} Jotun on page sig Behm 3a the son of, Mrs Guy (Yo her son's es ane-lalt for Gye me. jatar. action” that he feels justified in| der. “He's made to pay for his Maoshannon airport. i . . waging a one-man campaign for it | crime against society, but 1 don't] Although this route is 37 miles! ‘It's not a new idea.” declared the | think society should be vindictive | shorter to Unionville and Bellefonte | ‘KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES’ — Anxious Days and Nights Northside pastor. “It's being done! about it. Just because he has fall- | and will be used extensively by mo- | in Alabama and if a state like Ala-| en from grace society has no right | torists, the old route over the Port | bama can do it, I don’t see why an! to lay forfeit to his very life except | Matilda mountain and up the Bald | enlighiened state like Penmnsylva- | of course, for murder” { Eagle Valley will still be used by | BY GOL ~X JUST CAN'T GO ion em | truckers because of the wider roads, | TO Sweep! 1S IT POSSIBLE less severe turns, and lower grades, | is § TTY DID RUN OUT ON t I CANT BELIEVE Sie Walks Block and Half In Slee With the surficing completed on || \ MS 2 SIT Bien Se se ahh hdd : oy the Rattlesnake Pike, highway em THOSE TENDER PIER TN HASN'T STAYED IN HER ROOM Mis ployes started surfacing the Black | BE MADE «AND Lor eCHRS I DON'T Wow ss Lillian Luchetta, 12 year| pounded on the door of the Audi- | pMoshannon-Julian road, A total of | CENT LOOK IN MER AREY [WHAT TO THIAgC = old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jo- | utori home. They took her in, and | 357 miles, reaching from the Black ol ERS BUT x've seph Luchetta, of Renovo, Soverd then saw (hat she got home. { Moshannon bridge to the Under- quite a lot of territory last THUR | Wo. Lo 0 tia wearing a night-| WOod road at the top of the moun- day morning between 2 and 3 tain ighw fic | dress and in her bare feet, walked '2i0 will be paved. H ny officials o'clock when she walked In her _..= = 0 ov Ave 10 12th St and | reveal that it will take three to four sleep. | then turned south. Residents on 98Ys of good weather to place the o n t 8he went to sleep in her bed at the west side heard knocks at {he | SMiesite top on this stretch of road hi - home and woke up on the pore | door about that time but did not No detour is i effect on the road. R Sider of ung hiya piv Aa investigate. Miss Luchetta (eh | other side Lk ney, Su She ’ | apparently crossed the street to th . : W : away from her home. She was| ahpa Ror porch, d g to the l ihe only portion of this 8-mile road (Continued on page six) St Mary's 'atholic Church at! sale at all newsstands tion that the detour on route 868, was held | ww Beven Mountains wh “k? mw A : : Workmen didn't find any nails | ipsburg to Unionville is now open T ! sot « well attended Workman Injures Leg in Any od Sisson vin } I at ng w well attended las one of the most scenic in the alarmed when she awoke and!
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