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Bellefonte, Pa., July 12, 1918.
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Miraculous Escape from Injury in Au-
tomobile Accident.
Miss Verna Chambers, daughter of
County Treasurer David Chambers,
and her friend, Miss Catharine Bron-
son, of Jamestown, N. Y., had a mi-
raculous escape from death on the
evening of June 29th, when Miss
Chambers’ automobile turned turtle
over the bank along the state road
just below Horatio Moore’s iron
works.
The two young ladies were on their
way home to Clarence. Ahead of them
was Ray Kelsey driving I. L. Harvey's
car. Miss Chambers signalled Mr.
Kelsey for road to pass and she alleg-
es he pulled to the right but just as
she attempted to pass him he pulled
over directly in front of her car and
stopped. In order to avoid a collision
she threw on the emergency brakes
and the rear end of her car skidded
around breaking the guard rail and
the car rolling completely over and
landing on its wheels on the Central
Railroad of Pennsylvania track, in
imminent danger of toppling into the
dam which at that point is about eight
feet deep.
When Kelsey saw what had hap-
pened he started his car and drove to
Milesburg, sending another young
man back to find out the extent of the
accident. In the meantime, a nearby
workman ran to the rescue of the
young ladies and helped them from
the car. Aside from being badly
bruised and suffering from shock they
were uninjured. The top of the car,
fenders and one lamp was broken.
Mr. Chambers was in Bellefonte at
the time and being notified he hurried
to the scene of the accident and
brought the ladies to Bellefonte then
secured help and had the car pulled
up onto the road. The motor being
intact it was driven to Bellefonte
with its own power.
Dr. Brockerhoff Resigned as Borough
Councilman.
One of the surprise events of the
regular meeting of Bellefonte borough
council on the evening of July first
was the written resignation of Dr.
Joseph Brockerhoff as councilman
from the South ward. The doctor
gave no reason for his resignation but
asked that it become effective at once.
No action was taken in the matter by
council at that meeting, but if Dr.
Brockerhoff insists that his resigna-
tion be accepted it will be up to the
council to elect his successor to serve
until the next general election of
councilmen.
Report was made that Hard P. Har-
ris had been elected a member of the
Executive committee and Burgess W.
Harrison Walker a member of the Ju-
dicial committee ‘of the Association of
Boroughs.
Mrs. Bliss Aikey presented a claim
for $70.00 for a broken ankle sustain-
ed on the board walk leading to
Bush’s Addition.
Mrs. C. E. Cooke, of Baltimore;
Mrs. Marilla Dawson, Miss Mollie
Snyder and W. R. Brachbill made
written protest against granting the
Bellefonte Academy permission to
erect a gateway at the intersection of
Spring and Bishop streets.
Other business of minor interest
was transacted after which authority
was given for the renewal of notes
for $1,500, $500, $1,500 and $3,000, a
new note for $2,000 was also author-
ized and bills approved to the amount
of $2157.56, after which council ad-
journed.
Young Soldier Killed in the Phil-
ippines.
On Sunday, June 30th, Mr. and Mrs.
George H. Waite were notified by the
War Department that their son,
Sergt. Harry Waite, of the mounted
police service in the regular army,
had been killed in a motor-cycle acci-
dent in the Philippines. The infor-
mation given was very meagre but so
far as could be learned the accident
happened about June 15th.
Sergt. Waite had been a soldier in
the regular army for ten years and
only recently underwent an examina-
tion for an officer’s commission, and
was hoping to be sent to France to
see real service. Hig death, therefore,
under such circumstances, is deplored
by all who knew him as a boy and
young man in Bellefonte. Assurance
has been given the young soldier’s
parents that the remains will be sent
home for burial, though it will prob-
ably be six weeks or two months be-
fore'they will arrive here.
Red Cross Auxiliary Organized at
Scotia.
A Red Cross Auxiliary was organ-
ized at Scotia several weeks ago with
forty-two members and the following
officers: President, Mrs. Vorie
Thompson; vice president, Mrs. Geo.
B. Thompson; secretary, Mrs. P. E.
Hicks; treasurer, Mrs. William H.
Farber. At a festival held the same
evening $29.00 were made, which was
turned over to the State College
Chapter to which the Auxiliary is at-
tached. Among the active workers
in the organization of the Auxiliary
were the Misses Pearl Fields, Bessie
Ghaner and Mary Tomco.
——DMrs. Ella Smeal was arrested
at her home at Pine Glenn last week
on the charge of obtaining a team of
horses from H. S. Baumgardner, of
Altoona, through false pretense. She
gave bail for her appearance before
the Blair county court.
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Fuel Regulations Now in Force.
The following regulations have been
established by the United States Fuel
Administrator:
(a) Until further notice no domes-
tic consumer of coal or coke shall pur-
chase, receive, or otherwise take pos-
session of, more coal or coke than is
required for his actual and necessary
requirements prior to March 31, 1919.
If such consumer already has a quan-
tity on hand he shall receive only such
his actual and necessary requirements
prior to that date.
(b) No person, firm, association or
corporation, whether acting alone or
in conjunction with others, shall, di-
rectly or indirectly, provide any do-
mestic consumer of coal or coke with
more coal or coke before March 31,
1919, than necessary, with the amount
already on hand, to meet the actual
and necessary requirements of such
consumer prior to that date.
(¢) On and after April 1, 1918, no
person, firm, association or corpora-
tion shall sell or deliver coal to a do-
mestic consumer who does not first
furnish to the person selling or de-
livering such coal, a statement which
the consumer declares in writing to
be true and which specifies (1) the
amount of coal the consumer has on
hand, (2) the amount of coal he has
on order and the name of the person
from whom ordered, (3) the amount
of coal used by him in the twelve
months ending March 31, 1918, and
(4) the amonut of coal needed to meet
his actual and necessary requirements
prior to March 31, 1219; provided,
however, that this regulation may be
modified by any State Fuel Adminis-
trator within his own State under
such circumstances and conditions as
he may deem proper.
(d) On and after April 1, 1918, and
until further notice, no retail dealer
shall, unless authorized by the State
Fuel Administrator, deliver or cause
to be delivered to any domestic con-
sumer more than two-thirds of his
normal annual requirements of an-
thracite coal until each domestic con-
sumer who has placed his order with
said dealer and is willing to receive
delivery of the same has received two-
thirds of his normal annual require-
ments forthe year ending March 31,
1919; provided, however, that orders
of six tons or less may be filled in full.
(e) Car load or barge load lots
shall not be delivered to a single do-
mestic consumer or to a group of con-
sumers, except with the permission of
the local Fuel Administrator.
(f) Dealers shall file with the local
Fuel Administrator, on the first of
each month, a statement containing
the names and addresses of consum-
ers to whom deliveries have been
made during the previous month and
the quantity delivered to each.
Any dealer or consumer who vio-
lates the foregoing regulations will
be subject to the penalties prescribed
by the Lever Act.
By order of
WILLIAM POTTER,
Federal Fuel Administrator for Penna.
HARRY KELLER,
Chairman Centre County Fuel Com.
Joseph Rodrigues, a Mexican,
escaped from the Rockview peniten-
tiary on the morning of July 1st. The
same evening he literally walked into
the arms of state policeman Evan
Jones on the state highway at Axe
Mann, who brought him to Bellefonte
and lodged him in jail. Rodrigues
was sent up from Erie county last
February for from eighteen months
to three years, and the day following
his escape and recapture he was sen-
tenced by Judge Quigley to serve out
his old sentence and an additional sen-
tence of equal time. He was taken
back to Pittsburgh on Friday by Sher-
iff Yarnell.
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Allies Soon to Outnumber Huns im)
Huge Combat.
The new German drive between
Montdidier and Noyon is rapidly be-
coming the foremost and most cruel
battle of the war. Into it, the Ger-
mans apparently are determined to
throw their last reserves, in a su-
preme effort to separate the Allied
armies and reach Paris before Amer-
ica’s full participation wrests from
them the last hopes of eventful vic-
ory.
Already, the steady flow of Amer-
ican, Italian and British divisions in-
to France, coupled with the terrific
losses inflicted on the Germans since
March 21 practically has wiped out
the numerical superiority with which
the Germans opened the offensive.
It is certain that if the Allies hold
out two months longer the Americans,
at the present rate of arrival, will
give them an incontestable and crush-
ing superiority.
As a consequence, the French are
resisting in the present battle with
extreme energy, equalled only by the
prodigality with which the Germans
are rushing up their last resources.
No longer is it a secret that the
French expected the present attack
and were as fully prepared as effec-
tives and material would permit. It
is likewise known that the Germans
knew the French expected and prepar-
ed for the attack, yet, facing the
heavy losses which such a situation
necessarily must entail, the enemy un-
hesitatingly attacked. They rushed
up reserves to replace their losses un-
til more than twenty divisions (240,
000 men) have been fed into the bat-
tle to date.
On both wings, where the French
are doggedly holding out, villages like
Courcelles have changed hands every
few hours, day and night, since the
battle began. The last carrier pig-
eons from Leplemont, which was com-
pletely encircled, brought word that
the French there were still holding
out, although they now possibly have
been submerged. ; ;
The Germans still are making their
greatest effort in the Matz Valley for
the purpose of reaching the Oise
above Compeigne, thus forcing evac-
vation of the entire Noyon salient
where, at the extreme northern point,
Carlepoint wood, on the east side of
the Oise, and Mt. Renaud, on the west
side have to date barred the German
advance into the Oise Valley.
Military experts consider it most
probable that the Germans will launch
a second converging attack from east
of Noyon, with identical objectives of
attaining the Oise from the east, and
forcing evacuation of the Noyon sal-
ient.
From prisoners and other sources,
it is established that the Boches are
sufering a severe crisis in effectives.
Many companies go into action with
only eighty or a hundred men. The
wounded are forced to return to the
fight as soon as they are cared. The
losses in infantry officers are so great
that cavalry officers are now substi-
tuted.
Among two hundred prisoners in-
terrogated a fourth were in the 1919
class, while many were in the 1920
class. The prisoners also included
minors and expert workmen who here-
tofore had not been sent to the front.
The fifth division of the Prussian
Guard, which is one of Germany's fin-
ést body of troops, lost fifty per cent.
of its effectives during the March of-
fensive on the Somme and lost thirty
more in the Chateau-Thierry drive, it
has been established.
gion of Vouty and Maercreaux report
heaps of German dead, often lying in
four or five successive windrows.
South of Faverolles, 670 unburied
dead were counted.
Twenty women and girls of
Philipsburg have volunteered for mo-
tor messenger service which has been
established in that town by the Cham-
{ ber of Commerce.
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: The little German compartment train—taking him
at flying speed into the heart of the German prison camp.
Next to him sat a German guard with gun loaded, ready
fast—the whole thing seemed so impossible. Yet to this
daring young American nothing seemed impossible—and
body knew what was going to happen—out of the win-
He was terribly wounded—he had to cover his
wounds with his coat so that his blood would not lead
And that was just the beginning of 72 days of fear-
ful adventure—of hiding by day and slipping by night—
of boldly walking past sentries—of starvation—of swim-
ming of rivers—of terror and despair—and of iron nerve.
Read this true story—such a story
‘before come out of the war—the story of Lieutenant Pat
O’Brien—that daring, dark and agile Irish-American
who flew in the Royal Flying Corps, in this paper.
What would have been death to any other man was
to him a great and glorious adventure.
He was born in Chicago—he joined the Royal Fly-
ing Corps—he was a prisoger of the Germans—but they
couldn’t hold him. Today his story is listened to breath-
lessly all over the United States.
The Dutch gave him an ovation—the English went
wild over him. The King of England received him with
joy. And now you can have the whole story by reading
Outwitting the Hun
By Lieutenant PAT O’BRIEN, R. F.C.
A glorious tale of 72 days’ escaping from Germany.
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That the resisting powers of the |
skull of Frank Carter, a negro of |
Sandy Spring, are out of the ordina-
ry was demonstrated when, in a game
of craps trouble occurred between
Carter and Walter Temple, another
negro. The latter, it is alleged, drew
a pistol and, when attacked by Car-
ter, fired at Carter’s head, but did no
damage other than to part his hair,
the bullet glancing off as if it had
struck a chunk of iron.—New York
World.
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