OVER 7,000 COPIES Printed and Distributed Each Week. Covers — dhe Cenfre Democraf MORE CLASSIFIED ADS Per Issue Than All Other Centre County Newspapers Combined, A Quick and Economical Selling Medium, Thoroughly Every Town and Village VOLUME 59. NUMBER 5. BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1940, SUBSCRIPTION—$1.50 PER YEAR In Centre County. —— —— 0 SC if % PUBLIC ACCOUNTAN - TO MAKE IMPARTIAL STUDY OF FIGURES No Action Taken On Pro- Town Meeting Favors | posed Ouster of Non. Out-of-Town Pupils | Residents by 162 to 2 Vote SETTLE DISPUTE CONFER WITH BOARD Board Invites Directors Authority Set-up Seen As of Outlying Districts Lone Hope for New to Conference Building A a—— | — At a special meeting of the | By a vote of 162 to 2, residents of | | Bellefonte at a public meeting in the | Court House Tuesday night indicat- | ed their desire to continue offering | facilities to ont-af-town pupils, in| oppasition lo the proposed ouster | [now under consideration by the | Bellefonte School Board. | ‘The meeting, one of the largest of its kind held in this community for many years, was attended by a {throng of about 400 persons, with a | majority of them being from outly- | {ing districts. | | Hy a unanimous vole the assems | bled eitizens authorized the appoint- ment of a committee to meet with | ithe Bellefonte school board at a | special meeting, scheduled to be held | last night. to convey to the board ithe sentiment expressed at Tues- {day's public meeting, which was called by the Chamber of Commerce (Continued on page four) TEE TE BURNS FATAL 10 WOMA non-resident question un- | Mrs. Ella Willians, ! ative L B to discuss the proposed ouster. | } i tion of the rear part of the Watson apartment caved in MILESBURG | Hiness Is Fatal to S. W. Smith, FIRE 10SS IS Well Known Centre Hall Publisher | FREE AS JURY | | ] OVER $2,000 Residence and Store Dam- aged by Fire and Water on Tuesday FIREMEN PREVENT DISASTROUS BLAZE Are Hampered by Serious Water Shortage in Town Reservoir Fire raging in the attic of the John Watson property at Milesburg. late Tuesday morning for a short time threatened destruction of the building as well as of the adjoin- ing residence of John Roberts be- fore members of the Milesburg Fire Company and the Logan Fire Com- pany of Bellefonte, got the flames under gantrol | Loss estimated at nearly $2000 resulted from the fire, and from water which streamed down through the Watson residence and through the V. O. High grocery which was housed in a wing at the North side of the property. The roof of the Roberts home, ablaze on several oc- casions, was not badly damaged. Most of the fire damage was con- fined to the roof and the second | floor of the Watson's living quarters While firemen were in action a por- Early efforts of the Milesburg Fire Company to get the fire under con- | trol were greatly hampered because { of the serious water shortage exist- | ing in the community. The pumper was attached to a nearby fireplug. but the volume of water was insuf- of Bellefonte Area, Dies | ficient to provide a steady or force- | Harry Laudermilk, of Bellevue, { Pittsburgh, Mrs. Ella Williams, of | Coshocton, Ohio, native of Centre teounty and former resident of Belle Father and Son |i sobs: ve Banquet Planned si residence the following day | Mrs. Williams, a sister of | Harry Badger, irs. Joseph Abt, and The Father and Son Committee) George and Harry Eberhart, all of (Continued on page three) of the Bellefonte Y. M. C. A. mel palisfonte, was a daughter of Dan- | Friday evening to make XTange-| jo and Elizabeth Witmer Eberhart ments for the twelfth annual ong was born at Jacksonville on Father and San banquet to be held aay 11, 1860, which made her age on Thursday February 20 at 6 a: {ime of death 79 years, 8 months o'clock. The date of the banquet 8 .n4 16 days the last day of the National Pallet Arter her marriage a number of and Son week, which begins on the (Continued on Page Eight) Bord. SVRERREE Sn i George I. Purnell was chosen to ike On Bald Eagle serve as toastmaster, with E E Widdowson as assistant, and L. C . Heaviest In Years Heineman was named general chairman of the commitiee. The —— Women's Auxillary of the Y. willi Bald Bagle Creek which from | Beech Creek west requires sustained — {low temperatures to freeze over to {Continued on page seven) EVENTS PLANNED BY any extent becatise of the water in PLEASANT GAP FIREMEN Spring Creek from the big spring {at Bellefonte, now has ice on it 14 Announcement was made yester- | inches thick. Spring Creek flows into day by officials of the Pleasant Gap Bald Eagle st Milesburg. This {5 the Fire Company that the annual drive | heaviest ice on Bald Eagle Creek In for funds will begin on Mareh 1, and | years. will continue until selleibors have! Jee on the Beech Creek stream at covered the area. | Beech Creek on the back water of The company’s annual earmival the dam is 30 Inches thick in places, will be held at the baseball grounds, | The stream is frozen its entire Pléasant Gap, from July 23 to 27.) length, in many places to the bot- inclusive, and the annual banquet | tom. of the organization will be held on{ The ice in small streams will be Saturday. April 20, at a place to be hard on fish life in the opinion of decided upon later. local fishermen. hrc dn co or SERS MR. AND MRS. JOSEPH H. HOY Sixty years of wedded life were township wit 31 years Bhs 18 rela- thelr | Cramer, i : when | they moved to State College, which sarly 80 v st the hote of her daughter, Mrs. ' | the blazing building. {firemen and spectators hurriedly : | Junior slream. i the Logan firemen arrived of hose was laid from the creek to Meanwhile, emptied the Watson home of most of its furniture, and the High store of most of its stock. OCroceries of all kinds were curried across the | street and piled In large heaps along the wide berm between the highway and sidewalk Firemen fought the blaze from (Continued on page four) Snow Shoe Man Hurt In Crash {James Uzzell Suffers Rib Fracture, Lacerations as Cars Sideswipe James F. Uzzell, of Snow Shoe, suffered lacerations of the face and | head and had a rib fractured about ’ ithe sedan he was driving and a truck driven by Frank Corl, of Belle | Tonte, sideswiped oni the Bnow Bhoe i mountain read, sbout 3 miles south jof Snow Shoe. | Passing motorists took the injured {man fo the offices of Dr. B. H. Har- i ris, at Snow Shoe, for treatment, af. | ter which he was taken: to hig home { Damage to the Corl sedan was es- timated at $500, while loss to the {truck was estimated at $150. Zeland Oreenlee, of Philadelphia, {injury or death about 1:20 o'clock Tuesday afternoon when the steer- ing column of his car broke while he was proceeding down grade on the Seven Mountain highway, near the Centre-Mifflin county line. The car, its steering mechanism uséless, crashed into & telephone i pole and overtumed, coming to rest {on its roof. Oreenlee was uninjured, but damage to his car, a Pontiac sedan, was estimated ai $500. The Philadelphian was traveling west to- accidents were investigated by State sub-station. As WW ———— Band Nets $250 From 1 Play Here ‘Rollin Rhythm” Scores Big Hit; Plays to Capacity | Audiences i i Good music, an unusually fine cast | and a variety of entertainment fea- | tured the talent production . ' Hhythm,” presented at the Stale T™h e hefe Thursday and Friday of last week. Packed houses for both evening performances and for the children’s matitiee Thursday afternoon netted imately } i f sr Band, Bamuel D. 5:45 o'clock Tuesday afternoon when had a narrow escape from serious ward Potters Mills at the time. Both | Motor Police from the Pleasant Gap | 'WPA Project Moved (Photo Courtesy Centre Reporter) 8. W. Smith, since the turn of the century editor and publisher of the Centre Reporter at Centre Hall, suc- cumbed at his home in that com- munity at 3:30 o'clock Monday morning after a two years’ jliness with a complication of diseases, He had failed rapidly since undergoing n operation about months £0. He was 76 year: Mr. 8mith three old staunch member of Democratic party, served two terms postmaster at Centre Hall, a former school dire in that comupunity, was aclive In Crange work, and was member of Lhe Bellefonte Elks Club and the P. O 8 of A Always interested in the progre and welfare of his home community Mr. Bmith took a leading part in piblic affalr and among many other projects, was instrigmental in the organization of the Patrons Rur- al Telephone Company some 25 ye 120. The company has since sme a part of the Bell Telephone (Continued off page three) ’ he 0s LOT AY Te Electric Welders In Big Demand While few Centre countians can see any great virtue in the low tem peratures and icy winds which have prevailed in this region for the past several weeks, the cold blasts have proved a bonanza for one group ol workers Normally this liste group of men is, engaged In the an elecwic welding, which on the face of i stems to have little to do with Old Boreas’ doings. But, when iwi discovered that the (tremendous heat generated. by welding ‘outfits could be harnessed to thaw OW frozen walter pipes with &lonost phenomenal results, the . weltlen ¢ os found they had something to tide Aged Physician i Dies at Howard Dr. Oscar W. McEntire, 80, Succumbs; Formerly Head- ed Medical Society Dr Oscar William McEntire, one of the oldest practicing physicians in Centre Couniy, passed away a; . His home in Howard al 6:45 o'clock Priday morning after a year's ili- ness with a complication of dis CaaeR Although Dr. MeEntire had been ccnfined to bed most of the time for the past several months, he leit his bed as late as las, Wednesday mommning to examine and prescribe medicine for an office patient. He was aged 80 years, § months and 14 days Dr. McEntire was a son of Law- rence H. and Nancy McEntire and was born af Houserville on July 12.) 1859. He was graduated from the Jeflerson Medical College in Phil- adeiphia, and began practice in Mil Hall 52 years ago. Three years later he moved to Howard, where he had been localed ever since For several years Dr, McEntire wag president of the Centre County | Medical Society, and served wo terms as secretary of thal organis- tion. He was well known and held in high regard throughout he county. He was formerly a school director in Howard Borough and was a member of the Disciple church The deceased was twice married. his first wife, having died a number of years ago Surviving are his second wife, the former Sarah Wistar: a daughter to the first union, Mrs. Joseph | Bower, of Reading, and a brother and two sisters: Harry E McEntire, Miss Ella McoEntire and Mrs, Boyd Cowher, all of Williamsport Puneral services were held on Monday afternoon at the home, with the Rev. Paul Mackey as the officiating clergman. Interment was made in the Schenck cemetery, near Howard, — To County Home The Bellefonte WPA sewing pio- | ject opened yesterday in new QuUAr-/ confer with officials {n regard to ters, having been moved this week from one of the rooms in the Penn Belle Hotel bullding to one of the basement rooms of the new Centre County Home at the comer of How- ard and Wilson streels, i The room being used is one local. ed near the laundry of the Home, and it is particularly suited to the requirements of the work. At Centre Nancy A. Sellers over a normally slack season he welding business { among the Mite group are } Bherrys, whtse name has Jong synonymous with the welding n the Bellefonte area. DP WIrY an ys son. Charles both { Milesburg, and D. -P. Sherry wrollier, Austin Sherry, of Pleasant Gap, form the nudtiete of the weld- g-~pipe thawing combine, The Milesburg Sherry: have in their employ Joseph 8hay, who alse 4 experienced in both specialities, and who, ‘like his employers, has been working almost incessantly for the everal weeks in kping water {Continued on page three) Branch Is Now In Use ————— Snow Shoe-Clarence Area Es- tablishes Branch in An Abandoned School 8) n d } in y past Snow Shoe borough and Snow Shoe township now have a library a branch of the Centre County Library of Bellefonte Following s meeting in Decembe: when Mrs Carl Ifversen, librarian, of the County Library outlined the procedure for establishing a brarch in the Snow Bhoe ares, the Parent. Teacher Association of Snow Shee and Clarence named a commitiee with Miz Zoe Meek, of Clarence. and Mrs Norman Harris, of Bnow Shoe, as leader, and on Wednesday, | January 17, the jointly operated Snow Shoe Borough and Township Library was opened The township has contributed the use of (Continyed on Dage seved) | Ia MP ——— NEW FORD TRACTOR DEALER APTOINTED Dunlap Motor Co, has been ap- pointed Centre Coutly dealer for | the pew Ford tractor and Ferguson | aheelless implements, Mr. Dunlap {announced today. The appoint ment wag made by Gash Stull Co. Chester, Pa. who are distributors in | Pennsylvania territory for the Ferguson-8herman Manufacturing | Corp., Dearborn, Mich type mechanized farm equipment | in action at demonstrations are im- | presped with its capacity for hard work of 4ll types although it is much lighter in weight than other tractors capable of equal work,” Mr. Dunlap said. “Tt weighs approxi mately 2000 pounds but plows two 1i-inch furrows with ease and uses only one gallon of fuel an hour un- der difficult soil conditions. “Wo oot ——" MAY SUPPLY CHRISTMAS TREES FOR BALTIMORE Cyrus Shope. of near Milesburg, | who furnished and erected the | Christmas trees ig the side- | walks of Beliefonte’s business dis | trict during the past Yule season, | went to Baltimore, Md. Friday, © | sipplying trees in that dity for the 11840 Christmas season, | Mr, Shope recently completed ar j “Farmers who have seen the new ACQUITS HER Mrs. Nellie Diehl Tried at Lock Haven For Smothering Child OVERCOME WITH JOY AS VERDICT IS READ Former Centre County Resident Plans to Re- turn to Parents Acquitied of a charge of smoth- ering her infant son, Mrs. Nellie B Diehl, 33-year-old Centre county woman, was released {rom the Lock Haven jail Saturday evening follow- ing a three-day jury tfial in the “linton county court. Visibly elated over the outeome of the trial and her restoration to freedom after two months confinement in jail, Mrs Diehl exclaimed: “It's the happiest moment of my life.” Surrounded by relatives and friends, as she heard the verdict of the jury at 8 p. m. Saturday even. ing. Mrs. Diehl declared she would go home to Jacksonville with her aged parents, Mr and Mrs. R H Bennison, after she had stopped in Flemington for a reunion with her three children Natalle, Bobby and Sally, who were cared for at the home of & relative during the trial Judge Henry Hipple's charge the jury at the end of the trial pointed out three visible verdicts guilty of either second degree mur- der or voluntary manslaughter, or aoquitial. The first degree murder {Continusd on page seven) a Firemen Called Out | For Four Flu Fires The cold wave Inst weekend again and Gertrude M. Hoffman, secretary kept the Bellefonte fire department un its oes, and within a space of 8) few hours the logan and Undine Companies ahswered four alana In every ase Lhe fires were COh- fined to flues, and there was vir- tually no damage. The first of a series of alarms occurred 2% 8 o'clock last Thursday night for a blaze at the Joseph Al- lison Home on West Linn Street At 7:15 o'clock the same night fire men were summoned to the Charles Saxion home on East High Street, and at 6:30 Priday morning they went to the Ross Bathurst residence on Burrowes Street. The fourth alarm was sounded at 11:15 o'clock when the chimney of the V. H. Pifer home and music store caught fire This fire burned unusually jong but firemen wet down the roof ol the building and stood by until all danger had passed, - PONTIAC AGENCY OPENS IN BELLEFONTE GARAGE E. FP. McClellan, formerly of State i College, has been degignated as the a pewly-renovaled and un- | Pontiac agent in the Bellefonte ages, | (and he has leased the L. A. Hill gar. | OARD AUTHORIZES SURVE MOTHER SET NAME POSTMASTERS FOR Y HUBLERSBURG, WINGATE Titan Credit Union Pays 5% Dividend Al the annual meeting of the Ti Federal Credit Uni F vidend me : yr ‘ lan Employe HE mii night, a Oiv er declared from earning loaned to member E J. Hauer, Bry Bai Leonard Witn vere elecled to © on Lhe roperty rcay in { a cent Was ey On d d er board of man and I the credit Robert ( and were member UPETrvisory comuriilied directors nd Geor New. R. Glenn comm ilies ¢ whi a Kt were named to Funk Br u J ane 1 3 A o wn hy Coon the arganised Titan em- and Oe memoers eredit Linu to union was among thrift The Ome oye ago promote 1 Vici cree tl BUILDING T0 BEGIN FRIDAY Ground - Breaking Cere- mony to Launch $100.- 000 College Project Announcement . y thal APPropriale ceremonies lomorrow H Was made ground will be broken with at 2 o'clock a" ailernoon « : 3 struction of a $100 000, §2-room, 24- family spariment house on the cor- ner of East Foster Lo- cust Lane, in State College The large-scale project of Federal H ing Administration, fin anced by the Prudential Insurance Company, is sponsored by the Low. i den Corporation of which J. J. Low- iden, of State College, is president, Tr 10 Con - . — _ A avenue ang the ons Pauline 8. Lowden, vice president, and treasurer Arrangements for the grounds breaking ceremonies are being made by FHA officials in Washington, and ithe program was not available here yesterday, Among the prominent Bellefonte citizens who have been invited to the exercises are J. Thom as Mitchell and W. Harrison Walk- er Late vesterday it was reporied that the ground-breaking exercises will be in charge of Leo A Kirk, Federal! Housing Administrator di- rector from Washington, D. C.. who announced the project last week Plans for the building. to be known as the Locust Lane Apart. Lemont Woman Services Yesterday for Mrs, Emma Bathgate; Inter- ment at Shiloh | age on East Bishop stroet as a sales | room and service depot |" Mr. McClellan now has on display iat the local garage several of the new Pontiacs, and the public is cor. {dially invited fo call and inspect (them. W. A. Homan has been re- {tained as manager of the agency. ni | CHEMICAL ENTERS SUIT | Buits were filed in Pederal court | at Scranton last week by R. Spen- {eer Townsend and Clarence P. | Wynne, trustees of the Chemical | Lime Company, of Bellefonte, | collect accounts for material sold | to three respondents, | The trustees seek $120.18 from W. |B. Bathgate, Jacksonville; $136 | from OG. B. Walker, of Bellefonte, R. iD. 3 and $10685 from Charles L. Robinson, of Bellefonte, R. D. 3. i ! mbr, a pn. u 1 82. | William and Sarah Murray Shaded. FOR THREE ACCOUNTS MRS, EMMA BATHGATE Mrs. Emma C. Bathgate, of Le- y | motit, widow of the late 8. C. Bath- | Centre county's best | gate one of known earlier school teachers and mother of seven children, died at 8:46 o'clock Monday morning at her home in Lemont atl the age of 82 years. Death was attributed to a compli eation of diseases from which she had suffered for several Years, A native of Centre county, Mrs. Bathgate was born at Calesburg on December 16, 1887, a daughter of On December 24, 1878 she was united in marriage with SBamuel C. Bath- gate, who passed away on January 10, 1817. Mr. Bathgate at various times taught in the schools of Spring, Benner and College town- ships. Mrs. Bathgate f2 survived by all of her seven children, namely: Dr. Eva B. Roan, wife of Harry Hoan, Appointments Assure the Continuation of Two Threatened Offices CHANGE FORCED BY NEW AGE RULING Miss Audrey Hall, Arthur McMillen Are Ap- pointees The fourth class postoffoes al Hublersburg and Wingate, which were threatened with abandonment beginning today because of difficulty in securing postmasiers to serve hem, are open as usual, and will r mein so indefinitely, it became known last night The Postoffice department's search or officers to repiace the ones foreed to retire because of age limitation has been successful, and it became known last night that these appoint- ments had been made: Hublersburg: Miss Audrey Hall has been named postmasier Lo suc- ceed George F. Hoy, who served in that office continuously for 46 years The postoffice will remain in the ! Hoy store at Hublersburg, t was stated authoritatively Wingate: Arthur McMillen been named postmaster to succeed Mrs. Ida Witmer. The postoffice will remain where It has been—in U McMillen service station and siore st Wingate which until recently was conducted by the retiring posto Mrs, Wilmer The change in postmasterships became effective at midnight last night, and from then on the pew (Continued On Dage eight) Mac H. Hall Leaves Western Union Post | Mac KH. Hall, of Milssburg, for the | past 19 years manager of the Belle fone Western Union offices, last week severed his relations with that company. Lewis K. Wagner, of Erie, who for the past four months had been in charge of the Latrobe office sent here Mr. Hall's il fw | i Lig we ter piace According fo reliable reports, Mr. Hall resigned when he was notified that he was to be transferred from Bellefonte to Pittsburgh Mr. Hall learned telegraphy while employed by the Pennsylvania Rail- road, and entered Western Union service in 1818 as manager of the Tyrone office. He was trancierred 10 Bellefonte in- 1924, and has had charge of the local office since then. While here he established a repulas tion for prompt. efficient wd teous service. | His successor, Mr. Wagner, is a native of Erie and has been in West- ern Union employ for the past ten (years. He and his wife and young | daughter are occupying the Mrs J. M. Bricker apariment on Reynolds { avenue until they have compleied { arrangements for permanent quar ters ‘Ralston to Head 'Dairymen’s Group G. W. Ralston was elected presi- dent of the Dairymen's League Oo- | operative Association at the annu- # al Cours i al meeting and banquet of that or- | ganization at the Cregg Township Vocational Schoel, Spring Mills, Wednesday of last week. The busi- ness session followed an oyster | Fupper. | Other officers chosen for 1040 | were: Ernest Homan vice presi- | dent; Henry Zerby, secretary-ireas- . W. Ralston, W. C. Ho- man, Charles Roseman, C. E. Reiber ‘and P. C. Spayd, directors. | Music during (he evening was {| furnished by Mrs Henry Zerby. | Ray Spayd, Harold Beckenbaugh | and 4 Beckenbaugh I N | Gettig, of Millon, addressed the i (Continued on page three) i | Bellefonte Firm Gets Tax Refund one Bele! tax Rel bo eon ag vy the House of Representatives which was submitted by the In. A meeting Council of Republioan Women a Be RE 2:30 p.m. At this fry ieeting x3 year plans LX I (Continued on page eight) | visiting speakers.
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