OVER 7,000 COPIES Printed and Distributed Each Week. Covers Thoroughly Every Town and Village In Centre County. @he Cenfre Democrat VOLUME 58. NUMBER 19. BELL £ FONTE, PA. THU RSDAY, DEC EMER 7 7, 1939, ———— MORE CLASSIFIED ADS Per Issue Than All Other Centre County Newspapers Combined. A Quick and Economical Selling Medium I ———— __— ” . - TWO IN SERIOUS CL.<)TION; { HIT IN MISTAKE FOk SAME ‘Yarnell Man Gets Largest Buck Reported; Had 30-Point Antlers KILLING OF BEAR BRINGS $100 FINE Deer Reported to be in Fine Condition; Pop- ulation Small A swwvey of Cenire count report esterday, as the Arst of the 1939 deer season drew close, revealed: A fair kill of deer; Three hunters injured, two by bullets and the third by a fall; Few violations, ingluding ome ave rest for the illegal killing of a bea: A sample of the kind of luck] hunters are meeting with in Centre county was protudly displayed here Satirdey by Harvey Kissling, of Yarnell, who won the envy of thou sands of mimrods when he a J0-point huck near Yarnel deer's antlets were the finest here in manga year, although deer was not specially the scales at 148 pounds was estimated to have | years old, and the unusual spret of antlers attracted widespread in terest in Bellefonte when Mr. Kiss- ling brought the animal here have it weighed Lloyd Spicer, 26, near State College, | the Centre @ounty Hosp going treatruent for a bullet rind ir the region of his left eye. The bullet is lodged behind the pose. and he is to be taken to Philadelphia within the next day or so for treats ment Leroy Beckwith, 26, of Hannah Fumiace, was admitted to the Phii-| Near a Ya evened Nn large. tip } The buck T O01 wed to of Woodyerest, 3 patient i ital red soipeiry State Hospital for treatment | {Continued on page aX) 11 Cases Heard By Judge Walker Pleas of Guilty, Domestic Relations ters Are Aired Appeals, Mat. including two ple of guilty, five appeals [rom mary convicticns, and domesti lations matters wee head OD Jugige Ivan Walker al a special ses- sion of Court here last Thursday B. M. Trabue, ¢f Washington C.. entering a plea of gulity fo a charge of drunken driving, was sentenced to pay the costs of pro- segution, a fine of $100 and to serve 10 days in the County jail Charles E. Coble, Jr. Mills, pleading guilly (0 a of failing to support a child. rected to pay fine of $200, and to spend six-month: county jail Malcolm B. Reed, of near Belle forte, who was found guilty by a Jus toe of the Peace of resisting al game protecior, appesied the deci ston to the Court and was adjudg- ed not guilty Reed was charged with sirik Continued | on Pans kK) Another Robbery at Sandy Ridge Motor Police at Rockview barracks reporting a second robbery al Bandy Ridge, yesterday express~ ed the belief that a gang of thieves are beginning operations in that nares. Monday night the Gull service station was broken inte amd about $5 in eash and a number of cans of anti-freeve and motor oil were taken, Officers Ream and Richard- son are investigating On Thanksgiving Day the Jew Spittler tavern was broken into and an undisclosed amount of mon- ey was taken. The loot also included some merchandise. The intruders were believed to have entered the building under cover of noise from a passing freight train. on — MD i — HOWARD (COUPLE ESCAPE INJURY AS TIRE BLOWS OUT Mr. and Mrs T R. Robb, of How. ard, R. D., narrowly escaped injury during the weekend while on a mo~| tor trip to Baltimore. Md. i About a mile beyond Mexico the right front tre blew out. and the machine swerved from the road. Mr. | Robb brought the car to a halt at’ Eleven cases Sum re i D Sprin cha ar td id Was di the cost in thei ~ wi ing State tt gasoline ran out of the tank passersby had to stand on the ning board to keep it from pling over, while Mrs. Robb was ing assisted out over the edge the door. A wrecking car Jom 2 nearby garage pulled the ear f its precarious position and the re- mainder of the trip was ul. and | run- top- of a comm uuly, m PAI | licenses as required by coal 2D, Deon Sampsell, Zion, Shot Through Chest by Neighbor BLOOD TRANSFUSION GIVEN AT HOSPITAL Woodycrest Hunter is Struck in Eye by Glancing Shot right chiral ney home afternoon Donald of Zion on of Mr 3ovd Sampsel]l of that sterday afternoon was it r ¢ ition at ital wher and trans- Appeal Dio] Genry hunting the same 'e wa wi Da wounded vediatel i State Mc or Jemes H. Oriffith barrack: that while 5 o'clock Tuesday af- AW A movement ne at toric) nt, told ternoon | WoO : 13 { braves said, and Sambs the bul- (Continued on page eight) —————— 3 HELD IN LOCAL THEFTS Two Bellefonte Girls And Man Plead Guilty; Un- der £1000 Bail Each rd v's antlers. bh hot 11 eried out when of crimes believed On tae Belle - arrest women robberies defendants, who jail under $1000 bail en Mary E Allison, 23; Larue M Woomer, 25. and James W. Bar lett, 20 all cf Bellefonte They Fs ia ded A . he lowing erimes: July 7. breaking u the D. H. Heim service ion, North Water Street, and stealing 1 and merchandise to the value 30: the same nigh: breaking and miering the Angelo Genue iap- (Continued lo Last Page-—2nd Sec.) - To Enforce Coal Peddling Laws three The held in re gui i tn Council Orders Drive on Truckers Who Have No Borough Licenses A of street discuasion the propose mapping project for Belle- fonte by the WPA and decision 0 enforce the borough ordinance re- i quiring retail coal truckers to take a meeting of Council here, out licenses, [featured Bellefonte Borough i Monday night. The mapping project was ex- plained by an engineer frem WPA headquarters at DuBois who answered questions asked by Coull- cilmen. No action was Laken In the matter Decision to enforce borough re- gulations in regard to retall coal truckers was reached after a letter {rem the Brewer and Thomas Coal Yards was read. In the letler, the owners of the yards declared that peddlers of coal were seriously crip- pling their business. and that most f the truckers do not hold borough law. The | yards offered to police Whe town, deducting from the license fees so collected the expenses in- curred in their work, and turning | | the remainder over to the borough | Council did not favor having ths (Continued on page four) ; Santa Free to AlL ——— -p | DEER KILL ‘FAIR’; 4 MEN IN the | A Lock Hoven "Man Posts Bond for Court 30, of Lock Haven ball for ap- here on charge Frank Passell has posted $500 pearance in court public indecency Passell, arrested last night by Chief of Police Dukeman, of Bellefonte, Is sald ! have commii.ed [ndecencies belore women and girls near the old Hign School bullting, corner of Alle- theny and Linn Streets Police have been receiving complaints for scme about similar actions b a man who was described as ! his oO. Thursda Harry week Villawbank inst week stislied to de with wk Haw ven a hearing befor Justice the Peace Harold D. Cowher, We Bishop Street, Friday afternoon winch ed bond SAY MOTHER KILLED BABY Centre County LIne Oe pf Former Woman Held in Smother- | of 3-Day- Old Infant Bem ison ston gg with smother: the Green F ts the Buckiall of Hyner, p Inst Thursday degree murd Alderman T. Mark Brungard was comm to the Clin- unity jail without ball to await cing hy the court. Mrs. Diehl f three children by hes age with Joseph Diehl, of ute, is 8 native of the Jack- sogville area. this county John M. Whear, also ton had been friendly for years, was taken 10 Lock Haven, Thursday, and charges of f. and b referred against him by the Cline ton county authorities. He wt liberty on similar charges ir non He was committed to the I In default of bail, pending a ‘Continued on Page nD canst Mn Three Injured In Motos Crashes Two Deer Killed by Car at Woodward; Eight Acci- dents Reported a series of eight motor acci- in Centre count ; during the three persons were ing ing Nellie Hart! Diehl TOC "e Cast is hearing to first toed of Hartle- about three yandl county county In dents week, none of them seriously, 2 deer were! fon a bald and ps i the Alleghenyy Mountains in Cenwe i County with whom Mrs. [Heh] said she | | prices {large individua ured, | the last nook NE HUGE AIRPORT TITAN LOSES IS BEING BUILT APPEAL TO IN CENTRE (0. Project Scheduled For Completion Next Sum- mer; Owned by State 500-FOOT RUNWAYS NEARLY A MILE LONG Black Moshannon Port Will be One of Finest in the East Virtually unk wn 0 many Countiasns, one of the airports in nearing competion |, lonely plateau slop Cen- largess Unit fir the Jai Lie 6. how and Blales The airport, (© be known as Black Moshannon Alrporti and be operated by the Conunonwesiis of Pennsylvania, is about one mand from thw annon Stale Park lies al 2 point about 20 miles from Belle- fonts and 10 miles from Philipsbass widely and From the air the alrport will hs appearance of a giant croas with ing 4700 feet in length and 500 feed in width. The ecast-west Nnway also 500 feet in width have 2 total length of 5000 feel. Most ol he runways are paved w uk ail RE halt material. From various parts (Continued on page 7 ion will nd sect ed |, the , 0... known Black Mo- . ssa N the nertheotth axis measur- A HIGH COURT Company Claimed NLRB Lacked Jurisdiction in Labor Case DECISION MAY BE FINAL LEGAL MOVE Order Calls for Reinstate- ment of 110 Employes Who Went on Strike ¢ Titan Metal pany of Belle wal to Manufacturing Monday lost States Bu- sfonte the United preme Court for a review of a Na~: 8 tional Labor Relations Board order resulting from a Sigike in January 1927. The company maintained that Labor Board the case an officials are reparisd to be iecided on thelr pending further rinclic 453 Juri HW lacked i stily of the The Bellefonte industry, which | received an adverse ruling from Clrast Cowrt of had asked the permission 10 record of purpose of the Oireuit ition © 0 United Stale late Ju feme Court fake before that body the . ain BE 4 0 far f r the an appeal from ( t decision. Final di Was mer king $08 expected Local Merchants Adopt New Policy as Yule Season Nears of Bellefonte yesterday that “buy al home” oui. A Survey revealed paigns conducted here in past years Siore hing of the Da un “ arnt year ave Ve poles of making the town 80 8 hoppers will have no shop prob g 1 » elseuhere ghiy not a he § art if the nibly, f Bel fe {ise of equal mme or lower aL in larger the buying will be quick to realize the clrewhere ] this Christmas season is brighter, more attractive, and will have more appeal to shop- everywhere than ever before if present residents for the Yule season varied. Prom the trees along the business area, nd cranny of the merchants, It develop fhe readizal can offer merchamn Quality and at of Lhe cities public uselensness of going Bellefonte du NE Pe b) in the memory The progra is far-flung and m { sidewalks of the | smallest store, killed and damage to cars involved | ing through the Retall Division of totaled upward of $1000 Forest Beckley. Dale C. King Miles 8miitz, all of Bellefonte, R D. 1, were injured when sedans op- erated by Eekiey and King sides | swiped on the narrow Valley road af 1:3 ocioek Priday rn Fi | head chin lowes ff Pas ceived and | £ . kiny suffered a bruised fore. and lacerations of the face King had lacerations of and the wenger In the King car brulses of the forchead Damage to the Fekiey car was estimated al $360, and to the King sedan, $150 A large buck and doe were killed ‘Continued on ‘page five) sass Viewers Approve New County Home| {ent residents of Bellefonte will be Horatio 8. Moore, of Bellefonte, and Dean Kennedy and Pred 8 tHanson, of State College. viewers appointed by the Ceurt to examine the new County Home to ascertain whether or pot all centracts had been completed fully atid properly, yesterday formally reported to | Judge Walker that everything has i been completed according to plans | witliam E. Downes. The Rev. H. H.| and specifications In accepting the report Judge Walker filed an order allowing the viewers £30 eagh for their services i agin natin Ais. Coo i . Practures Rib in Fall ! Harry Pifer, 53. of Lamar. is a patient in the Lock Haven Private | {| Hospital suffering from a fracture | of the eighth rib near the spine, | jan injury which resulted when he! i View | after. | lip and deft knee, and Shultz, | re. ! ied to attend the annual | Veterans { here, the dinner, {begin at 6:30 o'clock Expect Over 200 or VFW Banquet Veterans to "Entertain Prom- inent Guests at Event, Saturday the merchants, work | the Bellefonte Chamber of Come | i ! ! More than 200 persons are expect- | banquet Jackson-Crissman-8avior of Porelgn Wars, Balle at the Brockerhoff Hotel Saturday night, it was report. vestertiay by James Leiteell, of fonte, ed { chairman of the banquet commils tee Department officers and promin- speakers at scheduled % among the guests and which is John G. Love will act as loast- master, while the principal address will be given by Judge Ivan Walk- ei mer Judge M. Ward Fleming, Char- les E. Dorworth, and the Rev. Father Post,’ Other speakers will include for-| Jacobs will give the opening pray-| er Department offices who are ex-| Kontinued on page. aon) Driver | Injured When Car Skids Into Bank Walter Auman, of Spring Mills | ree. have renoval the business ocd windows are brilliantly ighied and attractively decorated or eason. Miu and iabor has been put inte most of the displays, and the net resqlt gives the ihe feeling that this will " Christmas remembered Stores carry unusually heavy stocks { merchandise, and it seems that are surprisingly reasonable 120 sidewalk trees are larger more perfects matched than before. and when luminated colored lights night pliractive A Inrge ree has erected on the Diamond and ioutispeakers hidden in ib foliage. as well as from smalicr speakers all through the area. nightly programs of Christmas music are to be presented The Centre Democrat would like fo be able to review the Christmas features in every one of the local stores, but lack of space prevents such an undertaking and, the stores must seen to be preciated. Merchants exiend a ©or- (Continued on page four) ' y " ¥ “er ’ the h thought bre te The reer wilh most been from ya ie ISINess AD Pastor Becomes Army Chaplain Rev. B. F. Hehry to Pleasant Gap Methodist Church Next Week Rev. B. F. Henry, pastof of the Pleasant Gap Methodist chureh, has | resigned from that position to ao- | cept a commission as chaplain In the U. 8. Army al Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, N. ¥. it was an- nounced on Monday. The pastor will leave Pleasant Gap on Desember 16 to report for duty at Fort Wadsworth two days later The Rev. Mr. Henry, a graduale of Shippensburg State Teachers’ College and Drew Theologioal Sem- inary, has been stationed at Pleas- ant Gap singe 1838. During his pas- torate there an addition was built to the church, membership has been increased. and a number of organ- izations for members of the church and Sunday school have been form. Because of his departure, the tiuarterly conference will be held at {the church en Friday sight, De- | ember and friends have expressed deep regret at ihe | departure of the pastor but extend 16 him every wish for success in his jhew line of duty. i Tell six or seven feel fo the ground | suffered minor injuries and his gar [FEN ROAD VIEW CASES from a rooftop and landed on his | | back on a pile of bricks. Mr. Pifer | | had happened earlier in the morn- ing at Milesburg where he was em- ployed by Mr. Markle, contractor. . Pifer was helping put on a new roof and apparently tripped when he went to step over some shingles. Visit the mi Go Mg air and choose one 10 suit your needs, * wns damaged to the extent of $200 about 9:30 o'clock Mi Hu! Ig i i ; ! 2 H HEARD HERE MONDAY NE | near future sourse of | anyway, | | be {| been Leave SUBSCRIPTION—$1.50 PER YEAR A —— —— (Bam At Yarnell Is Destroyed By Fire Fire of undetermined origin early | on Saturday morning destroyed the barn on the Bdward Coakley farm Yarnell, The baliding and conleny including Nvestock implements was woy- its grain ang ge €Q The blaze was discove! 1:30 o'cleck by a neighbor sounded the alarm. There way to batile the flames and tatcrs were {01 stand by the bur: ed alx who was no spec- whe th #4 Ls ced buliding was wd ground Included In no tW0 COWS WAROnN Part insurance owner of the farm a anc - School Gels The Bnow Bhoe Loya Legion has presented the Puayent Teachers Association with two Wrge framed pictures of Frances Willard They prese! ed to the room Pa 1 Budinger, and the Snow Shoe Pictures Temperane: were 113 CASES ARE 10 BE TRIED Osceola Truck Driver To Stand Trial In Deaths of Picnicers 1 by hirteen cases have been Attorney Musser \ at the December whi will District ug fo inal court Monday md slated for tral remalr four day's Among is that Ciravia Osceola Mil driver of truck which was involved In a fatal accident. Gravigsh is charged wilh involuntary mansiduehter A sore oner's jury probing (he accident al Sandy Ridge. the worst in this area 3 marly years found the driver ity pontributory negligence ™ ¢ truck driven by the defendant and loaded with returning picnieers med and spilled iis occupants ¢ road on uve near Sands One girl died soon aller the (Continued on page four) BCRR Purchases 2nd Locomotive Another 100-Ton Unit Added to Power Equipment of Local Road ng BOSE the cases 0 £ of Tafieid rr. of Bsn of 8 C Ridge Another 100-ton unit was added to the power equipmerf of the Bellefonte Central Raliroad bere this week with the delivery of a 100-ton jocomotive which was pur- chased from the Virginia Central Railroad, in Virginia The locomotive, of the same as the one purchased about a year ago from the Virginia Central will placed in service shortly after the first of the year after it has undergotie thorough tests and has adapted to the requirements of Bellefonte Central service The lighter locomotives had been wpe er powerful enough to haul heavy | trains over the steep grades of the (Continued on page 62nd a ————— Hospital Plan Treatment in Any of Member Haspitals “Capital Hospital Service you freedom from financial offers in the hospital,” said Margueret interview yesterday “Membership in the service en- titles the subseriber to {treatment at the Osatre County Hospital or aay member hospitals in the 14 counties surrennfing Harrisburg.” Miss Edwards added, “We pay for 21 days in a semi- private room for each member of your family, x-rays, anesthesia, op- erating room serviee, general nurs ing care, dg examinations, complete blood counts, metabolism (Continued on page four) Injured "a Collision Approximately $70 damage result ed to cars driven by Martin L. Spotts, Jullan, R. D. and Thomas Ural, Spring Grove, York coubty, when they crashed al Wetzler's shore in Milesburg late Monday after- noon, Jesse Zeigler, & passenger in the Ural car, suffered a brajeed of the cars was driving onto the highway from a side road ai the time of the accident, police report ed which | used exclusively by the { oral road before 1928, are no lang- Well Received Subscribers Entitled to Free nose and an injury to his back. One SCHOOL HEADS JURED STRIPPED OF ALL PERSONAL AUTHORITY Request Reports on Red Cross Roll Call 5 on the mem- wens Permanent offices moved quarters 1 ne building now occulped bb lector FOOT a wo CRITIC x she week Seven Mountains Man Shoots Self in Foot . Cal [aor Mountains, a bimaeal! through the foot ing Monday Beyer dent with a friend He was spital for Acoording 0 report wa BINGINE ih Liem gun resiing or conversing taken 1 treatment Wen. tes TE PARKED CARS AREDAMAGED Operator of Careening Car Here Charged With Drunken Driving The dr'liver of the car fo ¥ of ted by Ch v Dukeman, is being jail for court Robert Condo WAS x pay ~ a fine of $n an [ 84 h Houtz R owner of the car whic h Frye s driving, and Condo's wife, wl reported to have been passen- gers in the car, were not held At a hearing before Justice of the Peace CG. Earle Hoffer. in Criders (Continued on page 62nd section) ———“.-——e a ———— Townsend Meeting A Towpsend meeting wit be held in the Odd Fellows Hall si Oentre Hall, December 8th, at 7:30 p m., for the election of officers. All enh members are requested to be pres. ent sectdon) 1 L imited to Power Granted specifically by State School Code S. MOORE NAMED BOARD PRESIDENT A. ney Dale Elected Attor- as New Board Goes Into Action Horat Gent . Credit Members In Social Meet Logan Grange Hall Scene of Hollidavsburg Association One hundred fit y members and friends : Hollidaysburg Production society oh peihered ¢ iH toe Grange e Hall ; at Pleasant Ca 3 nesday 4 en joved social m Director stated that! the endeav( 1834 had g by year and n months of on page 62nd sectio assnCiatio 1 COODETs grow a a I i finangng in sistently year te ow during the first i838 had (Continued s—— | U, S. Army Corporal Found Near College Al patel tly suffering from a belief that he was being persecuted, a U nited Bate: Army corporal wi reported to have wandered from Miller's Field, Staten N. Y. was picked up by county jail officials near crest, Bunday The man is Corporal Joseph White, aged about 24, who is report. ied to have been wandering about in the woods and en the hichway: for approximately ohe werk The man was picked up by Sher if! Harry V. Keeler, Deputy Sherif? kee Tice, and Private 8 R. Richard. soti, of the Slate Molor Police is away Island Centex Woo Wy - OFFERS PRIZES FOR THE BEST “LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS” Prises, oonsisting of portable | | blaskboards, suitable for home use, | are being offered by the Wolf Pur-! | niture store, Bellefonte, for the best | {letters to Sania Claus i The jetters are to be dropped in ia special letter box which has been werTy | when it is neoemary for you to &lay on West High street. Bach week a | committee selevls the best lellers Edwards, field representative, in an { erat set up in front of the Woll store for publication in The Centre Demo- you have to do is to clip it from this newspaper and present the ¢lip- ping at the Wolf store blackboards will be presented. Lei ters must be deposited in the spec. inl box to receive recognition Here are this week's winning tors: James Waile writes in colored cray- on: “Wagon, footbell, bird book ™ We don't know his this elipping to Wolf's Bellefonte, Pa. Dec. 3, 1030, Dear Sania: Will you please bring me a ool ored football Don’t bring sister oo Your friend Kenneth Miller Bush Addition, Bellefonte, Pa. Dear Santa I am hoping you will bring me a | If your letter is published, all | where | let | aduress. bat | he'll get his blackboard if he takes | nothing. Bring me a coloring book, | doctor and nurse set, dress sno | shoes and twin swesler set Thanking you with love, Gladys Lois Hollotaugh, age 11 Bellefonte Pa Nev. 30 1839 Dear Santa Claus 1 am a nice ttle boy 3 yours old and 1 live with my grandmas and (papa. 1 have been looking in the store windows and 1 would like in jhave for Christines, a spow suit {pair of high boots, some sulls. a wheelbarrow, "and a bicycle, and some candy and nuts and dont {forget my thee little cousins Jo- | Ann, Billy aud Susan Marie John- [son. of Houtegale, and don’t forget {al the other litte kiddies Robert Lee Novak ; 212 So. Bpring St a 108 E. Bishop 81, ! Beliefonte, Pa | Dear Santa: i I thought 1 would write you a {letter and Wal you what 1 would | like to have for Chrixtmas { 1 would like to have a doll with jeurly halr. a» sewing machine, =» sundry oullil and a bed for my doll. also I would like to have a | vouple of Rew. dresses and slips and
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers