\; OVER 7,000 COPIES Printed and Distributed Each Week. Covers Thoroughly Every Town and Village In Centre County, he Cenfre Democval MORE ~ CLASSIFIED ADS Per Isspe Than All Other Centre County mm VOLUME 59. NUMBER 29. BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1940, i a SUBSCRIPTION—~$1.50 PER YEAR MURDER SUSPECT DENIED FREEDOM Habeas Corpus Plea [tose Is Denied by Court Defense Unsuccessful in Forcing New Evidence From Commonwealth SUSPECT IS CALM DURING HEARING Confessed Slayer of Faye Gates Appears Unmoved by Testimony With arms folded calmly on the table in front of him with visible sign emotion, Richard Millinder, 22-year-old Bag youth, Monday momrming the Court room here, heard witnesses describe the ghastly wounds which the Commonwealth contends he in flicteg on his 24-year-old neighbor Faye Gates, after she resisted advances on the “Spook Hollow detour on the morning of May § Millinder’'s calm continued at t conclusion of the hearing when Judge Ivan Walker denied the writ of habeas corpus sought by the de- fendant’s attorney, Lewis Orvis Harvey, in an effort to secure the accused glayer's release under bond During the half-hour the hearing was in progress, Milinder's sole evidence of [feeling came when Charles J. Hanna, ace detec for the Pennsylvania Motor Police, told of the youth's' confession the crime. The defendant's head drop- peg briefly and his fingers moved (Continued on page seven) Officers of Nittany and no ol Mt ie nu 3 ia tive to Club Are Re-Elected | Officers of the Nittany Country Club were reelected for another term at the annual organization meeting held at the club last Thurs- day night. The officers are: WW. Sieg, president; Russel] P. Beezer, vice president and Hugh M. Quig- ley, secretary and treasurer Two changes in the board of di- | rectors resulted from the resigna- | tions of two members, Frank Henne. | man and Ralph C. Blaney. Elected in their places were Ebon B. Bower and Mahlon K. Robb. Other mem- bers of the board retained for an- other term were W. H. Brouse, James B. Cralg, John Curtin, 8r, 8. Ward Gramley, A. Prank Hock- man, and John G. Love Approval was given at the meet- ing for the construction locker and shower rooms for women mem- bers as soon as possible, The new facilities will be housed in an ad- dition to be built ti present men’s locker room Painter Falls 25 Feet From Roof of House f Oi to e Samuel McGinley, of North Thom- | as street, employed by the A. L. Mec- Ginley painting and papering es- tablishment, escaped serious injury when he fell 25 feet from a house roof, Saturday moming. McGinley was helping to paint the James B. Craig home on West Curtin street and was working on the roof when a rope supporting him broke and he dropped from the edge of the roof to a flower bed beside the house, The soft earth is believed to have broken his fall to some extent, and no fractured bones resulted. The workman was conscious and was taken home where a physician was unable to find any injuries, aside from severe bruises, minor lacerations and ghock. Yesterday McGinley was re- rendered une ported to be recovering rapidly at] the family home A——— — A —————— it Lime Worker Injured In Fall from Platform William Calvin Brachbill, aged 38, | of Coleville, suffered a painful injury about 11 o'clock Friday morning while working in the mine of the American Lime and Stone Company, Bellefonte. The accident was the first which resulted in lost time, gince last December. According to reports Brachbill was drilling from a platform when the drill bit broke, knocking a prop from the platform. The driller fell about 12 feet landing on the boards, He was taken to the Centre County Hospital in an ambulance, According to reports from the in- stitution he is suffering from a back injury which is not believed to be of a serious nature. Mishap on Mountain A car driven by Paul Sebian, Painesville, O., was damaged in an { - -— | Wi hway Worker Hurt In Fall From Truck i i Allen Yarnell, aged 51, of Nit. tany, son of Mrs. Emma Yarnell, of that community, an employe of the State Highway Department, suffer- ed painful Injuries Saturday maorn- ‘ing In an accident near the Nit- tany Inn, at Nittany Mr. Yarnell was standing on a truck loaded with stone as stone was being distributed over the road I'he machine, moving slowly, is believed to have given a lurch which threw Yarnell to the ground He suffered a fracture of the col- larbone and minor injuries of one shoulder and about the head. He re- ceived treatment in the offices of a Bellefonte physician and is now re- ported to be resting comlortably his he Parade Here at me Take Part in Opening of Logan's Carnival The annual two-day camival the Logan Fire Company, Bellefonte will open tomorrow (Friday) night with a parade in which 7 musical organizations marching and fire companies from many near- by towns and cities will appear The parade is scheduled to move promptly at 7 p. m., and will dis- iband at the high school commons | where the festival will be held Logan officials report that organ- {zations from State College, Boals- burg. Centre Hall, Pleasant Gap, Lewistown, Howard, Milesburg, Ty- rone, Lock Haven and other com- {mmalitiss have signified thelr inten tion of taking part In the parade The Logans are particularly anx-' jous to have a successful carnival this year in order to bulld up a fund toward promotion of Belle- fonte as the place for the 1941 con- vention of the Central Pennsyl- vania District PFiremen's Associa- tion On the carnival grounds there will be a wide variety of entertain- ment and amusement will be provided both evenings ———————————— Pays Penalty For Officer's Death Philadelphia Slayer Spent Last Hours on Earth Sleeping in Cell of tim if Wiis 25 After sleeping away his last hours, George Howell, 21-year-old Phila- { delphia Negro, calmly went to his ideath in the electric chair early Monday for slaying Charles J. West- dahl, 31, Pennsylvania railroad de- tective The Negro appeared concerned as™he walked into the death chamber with the prison chaplain. He didn't say a word while | being strapped into the chair but leaned back and closed his eyes just | before putting on the death mask. | Executioner Frank L. Wilson threw the switch at 12:31 a. m (EST) and the slayer was pro-| | (Continued on page 62nd section) totally un- ‘Bellefonte Men | Injured In Crash Two Bellefonte men were injured | {and the car they were driving was practically demolished in an accl- dent near Mill Hall about 11:15 | o'clock Tuesday night, | | The men, Robert .P. Bmith, of | North Water street, and Clyde Cor- | man, of East Lamb street, were oh {their way to Bellefonte when the | lear, owned by Smith, (failed fo {make a sharp curve near the axe | factory dam at Mill Hall, and ran | off the road, striking a light pole | | with sufficient force to break off! ithe pole near the base. i Smith escaped with lacerations! and bruises about the side, while | Corman is reported to have suffer-| ed a severe laceration of the head, | a laceration of one ear, and bruises, | He received treatment at the offices | of a nearby physician. » ! Tom Mix at Millheim accident on the Centre Hall Moun-, tain near Pleasant Oap, Sunday af- | fernoon, when it hit stones at the Se of the road on a sharp curve, $35. No one was injured. Gets State Appointment Mrs Wallace J. Ward, of the First North Alle- appointed to the board of trustees of the State institution for women at Muncy. Tom Mix and his company of Western Players will arrive in Mill | heim today (Thursday) for their! persons appearance at the Municl-' and music | i the RICHARD MILLINDER Who must remain in custody of Sheriff Miller until called for pial in Seplaaver, a smss——— ———— Escapes Death In Motor Crash Local Youth, Thrown From Car, Sees Machine About to Run Over Him Back Away A Bellefonte youth a car In an accident near Waver N.Y from serious Injury or death under the wheel of his own machine when the force of the impact threw the machine reverse it backed away before thrown out of last Thursday vas saved into and striking ust Just { him The youth is Robert Hoffer, who with his aunt Miss Roxanna Min- gle, also of Bellefonte, were on their way to Luserne, N. Y., for a visit with Hoffer's younger brother, Janes, whe is enpsased in a girly’ ieamp. According to reports a car ahead of the Mingle machine halted to discharge a hitch-hiker and in up the driver attempted to make a left turn in front of the Mingle sedan. In the resulting crash the door of the Bellefonte car flew open and Hoffer was thrown from the driver's seat to the road, (Continbed on page eight) starting sss MP site Troop Will Undergo 3-Week Encompment Battery E. 166th Field Artillery Bellefonte, will leave Saturday, Aug- 10, for Pine Camp, N. Y., along Lawrence River, to join 100,000 guardsmen from all parts of country in mass maneuvers The three week's camp in New York will replace the annual two weeks’ training at Indiantown Gap. Cap- tain Herbert M. Beezer, command. ing officer of Battery E said The Belleforite Guard unit spent! the weekend on a bivouac at Camp Ritchie, Maryland, Included in the | party were T0 men and officers, nine trucks, four of them new ones received last week: two station wagons, and a8 motorcycle — ust } 14 the Bt Typographical Union | Holds Annual Outing —————— Members of the International Typographical Union No. 980, in-| cluding employes of the Centre Bellefonte and the Centre Dally’ Times and Nittany Printing and { Publishing Company in State Col- lege, held their third annual picnic at Elk Haven, near Port Matilda, Saturday. i Horseshoe and quoi pitching, soft | ball, and other games featured the! afternoon's entertainment. A picnic supper was served on the grounds, | Among members and guests pres- | ent were: James P. Alkens, A, J.| Zimmerman, Mr, and Mrs, Paul’ Rider and children, Paula and Tom- my, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Warfield, Mr, and Mrs, Hayes Griffin, Mar- | garet Ehrenfeld, Mrs, Phyllis Dip- | (Continued on page eight) | Bilk Hose, 2 pair for | our July Clearance | The Katz Store, Bellefonte, | ~Kayser $1.00 during Sale. Pa. Ld Wenn MP ————— HAS ANYONE SEEN ‘BOOTS? Boots, the mascot of the Centre County Library staff, has disappeared. Boots 8 a black and buff tiger cat, with white feet and white breast, four months old, and has done good work in keeping the mice | jutant General Edward Martin. | Miss Mary Linn, of {member of the Northumberland County Historical Society, has been | selected to mhke the main address of the day upon the occasion of the annual pligrimage of the His torical Society to Centre county next Thursday. Miss Linn will ad- dress the group upon their arrival at Old Fort. She will speak of Gen- eral James Potter and fort The pilgrimage, conducted by the officers and committee headed by Charles F. Snyder, chairman, will start from Lewisburg Thursday af- ternoon at 1:30 o'clock A drive will be made through the grounds of Bucknell University where Dr. Lewis E. Theiss will speak briefly of Lewisburg? and its Continuing to Dreisbach hort address will be made Samuel] Maclay his coliege church on U Launch Drive For Convention Organizations Pledge Aid to Firemen in Bringing 1941 Event Here a 8. Benalor More than one hundred represen- tatives of various municipal, civie, and fraternal organizations in 3ellefonte and surrounding OWNS, meeting at the Undine House here Monday night, gave their unguali- fief approval to plans to have the Central District Firemen's convens tion in Bellefonte in 1941 All of the representatives at the meeting, in addition "to giving thelr approval to the proposal to have the three-day event here, expressed a belief that the groups they repre sented would ald financially of necessary to bring the convention here Selection of the 1841 convention site will be made at the 190 cun- (Continued on paige Tour) NYA Conference Studies Defense Two-Day Session Devoted to Planning Non-Combatant Activities For Youth Centre county will ed at the conference of Nallonal Youth Administration leaders from Pennsylvania to be held this Thurs- day, and Priday at Harrisburg, by W. 1. Scott, of Bellefonte, local NYA Supervisor The two-day meeting will be de- voted to planning the operation of the NYA work program for be represent- | ithe Bellefonte, | whose State monument there marks {his grave Following a motor tour through the grounds of the Laurelton State Village, the pilgrimage will con- Unue to Millhelm and thence tw Penn's Cave, where it will pause 0 hear Hon Henry W. Shoemaker tell the legend of Penn's Cave From Centre Hall the group will journey to Old Fort hear Miss Linn's address, afterward going tw Aaronsburg Lower Fort, where Ch wili tell It Lory The Hairy will will Yoneda add acter Council Cus Bonded Debt Water Department Turns in $2000 to Sinking Fund: Approve Sale of Home 0 and the alrman Snyder be where Col of last stop will John's Park eaten made at supper Shoemaker rustic John expected oft-quoted cling be tell the Ollie 8 §¥1 are Ww a word of A number of routine matters, including the the bonded indebledness ough in amount of §$2.000 throug! of the Water De- occupied the attention of Bellefonie Council a regular meeting Monday ; The debt reduction was recom. mended by Councilman W. W. Sieg of the Waler committee suggested that the $2000 be added tw the sinking fund Council received a letier from Board giving permisson to widen south west g business reduction of the bar. of Lhe receipts partment the the borough the curve at corner of the inter. section of Allegheny and Linn sreeia, al borough expense The (Continued on page cight) MR ———_— School Work On Route {street of Howard borough is the | 1940-1941 fiscal year and to outline | plans for further cooperation with | bau {being held up pending adjustment local state school groups for Uain- ing young people in relation to the national defense program According to word received here from Walter 8. Cowing, Slate NYA Administrator in Harrisburg, the conference will study the means and | (Contined on page eight) EN Man Suffers Head Injury At Milesburg George Smith, aged 61, of Miles- burg, returned to his home Tues- day night from the Centre County | Hospital where he had been under of the brain, According to reports Mr Smith suffered the injury during an al- tercation at Milesburg, on Saturday July 6. He received a blow on the head, and is reported to have been | unconscious for five days, his con- dition being regarded as quile se- rious for a time, He showed marked improvement’ during the weekend and upon leaving the hospital was believed to be well on the way to recovery, although he will remain under treatment at home for some time, GEORGE P CURTIN GETS LIEUTENANT'S COMMISSION George P. Curtin, son of Mrs, H Laird Curtin, of Curtin, last received a second lieutenant’s coms- mission, if was annouriced by Ad- Curtin, who had been a nt {of construction costs railroad company. Commissioners of | | Democrat and Keystone Gazette in| treatment since July 8 for a fraf-| | ture of the skull and | ] ] | | i | | | {State In the latter's 64 Progressing Main Street of Howard Bor- ough Torn Up During Operation The pouring of conarete on the new section of State Highway Route 64 between ML Eagle and Howard is reporied to be progressing rapid- ly. The new construction & about four miles in lenglh. The main now torn up the entire length of the borough, the conerete ending at the eastern limit of the borough. The old underpass at Mt. Eagle has not been widened, work on it between the Centre county and the Public Util ity Commission, representing the share This apparently will defer per- manent construction of a small sec. tion at the eastern entrance of the underpass, where temporary use of the old macadam will be made, In- cluding some new macadam surface to connect up with the new crete highway A survey between Howard and! for the construction ' Beech Creek of the remaining unimproved sec- tion of Route 64 has been in pro- gress for several weeks. Last week soundings were started for the lo- cation of a new bridge across Bald proportionate | oon ~ School Taxes Board Directs Collector to ‘Take Any Steps Neces- sary’ to Get Funds GRACE CORMAN IS CHOSEN AS TEACHER Tax Drive Prompted by Failure of Over 1400 Citi- zens to Pay Per Capita meas Npaia per Bell Authorization of drasty coll 1400 counts In of Mise Grace Corman as teacher English in the High school, were highlights of a special meeting of the Bellefonte School Board at the Academy bulld- ing, Tuesday night. Tax collections awe 20 be achieved through pay check deductions, if necessary Decision to enforce collection of the personal school taxes was reach- ed by the board after a study of reports submitted by Tax Collector 0. A. Kline the pas! four Mr. Kline's accounts showed more than 1400 Belicfonte citizens have falled to pay thelr per capita assessments of $4 each--$4.20 wi the § per cent penalty now added and that the schoo district stood 10 lose Gpproximately $6,000 through (Continued on page four) ires Lo lect some ipita school ax fonte HE | and election of for years that Alien Registration Slated to Begin Soon Meek Postmaster of Bellefonte announced that postoffices in this area are not yel prepare (o register aliens under new law enacted by Congress A number of aliens have been report- ing to postoffices fo register, but Oearge R yesterday a the necessary forms have not been | (received = Tis time Mr. Meek i said He indicated that as soon as the materials have been furnished by the government, public notice will be given in the newspapers regard- ing the beginning of , registration My. Meek also sald some persons | are of the belief that registrations | are to be made in the Court House Thiz impression is incorrect, since ‘the Postoffice department has agreed to take complete charge of ne work Has Leg F rac tured By Road Machine Leroy Bhaffer, aged 23, of Leban- on. was admitied to the Centre County Hospital about 11 o'clock Monday morning for treatment ol a double fracture of the left leg According to reports the man wag watching a bull-dower in oper- ation on the road construction job near Mi Eagle when his foot was) caught in the caterpillar track ol the huge machine. Bystanders re- ported that had the machine con- tinued jn operation a moment longer Shaffer would have lost his! jog. | A: the hospital the breaks were | located at the ankle and midway tween the ankle and knee COLLEGE MAN SUFFERS | INJURIES IN AUTO CRASH | ————— i J. R Harpster, of South Allen | | street, State College, received in-| | juries In an accident about a mile | land one-half east of Boalsburg on | | the Earlystown road Saturday night. | a laceration on | Eagle creek above the dam in the | creek. Cn Two-Year-Old Child Injured By Wringer Agnes, 22-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Swarm. of Pike street, Bellefonte, suffered painful injuries yesterday morning when one of her arms was caught in the wringer of an electric wash- ing machine at her home. | man's car, was uninjured. i | Harpsier's coupe toppled over on | [its side on the highway after run- | ining into the bank at the left of | the road, motor police reported. Po- | lice said that Harpster, while pass- | {ing another car, ran to the left to, {avoid colliding with a sedan driven | iby Ralph F. Deitrick, of near Mif- | | flinbure. age to Harpster's ma- | chine was esid at Loss to | Deitrick’s car was shout Two Persons May Seek $5,000 Reward Although no official Information is available in regard to probable claimants for the $5000 reward of- fered by the Centre County Come missioners for the arrest and con- viction of the slayer of Faye Gates, of Mt. Eagle, reports have it that at least two persons are contemplat- Bellefonte Woman To Address | Authorize Pay Heirs To Receive Historical Pilgrimage To County Deducdlions For Civil War Fortune Council's Victory Over Mosquitos Is Dimmed By Lime Councilman irew Council nry Brockerhofl 2 mild state a regular meeting when, during a brief ton of busines tl into ul consternation at Monday night lull hie the transa nrked “By the way, what has become of Beliefonte's mosquitoes? Councilmen, stunned ment, looked one suddenly realized tha for a number in for the mo- another and Bellefonte the home of DUNEry mos~ ’ am Of Ue pest ' Of years and 1 iree . f 1: EWAIIE Of Aree quit Lis Finally someone found hig volce and recalling that advocales of sewage disposal some Years ago contended that sewage in the creek was prolific breeding material for mosquitos, suggested Maybe the sewage disposal plant did it." As Councilmen settled themselves | back in their chairs with a feeling of having performed an outstand- ing public service, someone spoiled the whole thing with a crusty: “Yeh, but how about the lime dust? (Continued on page eight) AJ Al NE UMATILY year | College Youth Held In Thefts Pleads Guilty to Larceny tributing Plant A series of robberies ai State College was believed cleared Tues- gay left in trust and in the event day night when James Arthur Rote, | ghee died without children, the es- 24. of State Coliege pleaded guiliy) 10 a larceny charge af a I before Bquire Harold D, Cowher, of | Bellefonie. Rote was Jodeed in wz, default off in Centre County $200 bail. Jad] Officer Harold Hand took Rote] into custody early Tuesday morn-| ing when the officer found a number of cans and a siphon hose in the man's car, parked on South Frazer Street, State College Rote pleaded guilty to the theft of gasoline at the G DD Krumrine distributing pliant in College Town- ship. Because the case was out of the borough officers’ jurisdiction Chief of Police John R Juba pre- ferred the larceny charges as a de- puty sheriff Rote, on two years’ probation for larceny of articles several years ago, had been under observation for some time. Officer Juba recov- | ered from Rote's car an auto robe reported siolen from W. D Swope of 122 8 Sparks Street, Staje Col- lege, on Dedember 17, 1838, Tenant Purchase Program Active 32 Counties in State Now| Eligible For Farm Loans | Pifer and the only The Farm Tenant Purchase Pro- gram will operate in 32 Pennsyl- | {vania counties during the new fis. | cal year, which began July 1, it is] | announced by Oakley 8 Havens, Supervisor of the Farm Security | Administration, U. 8. Department | has designated 11 counties for the! introduction of this program, and | has approved its continuance in 21! other counties. The Tenant will be introduced this year in Bed- | (Continued on page seven) Fire Causes $250 Loss In College Apartment Sparks from a cigarette were as- signed as a possible cause of a fire which resulied in $250 damage to the apartment occupied by Major and Mrs. Donovan P. Yeuell in the Orlando apartment building, State College, about 3:30 o'clock Monday morning, The blage In a large davenport in the apartment was discovered by | Maj. Gilman K. Crockett, a guest Purchase Program | {next room to Kentucky Appellate Court Rules Finally on Wil liam Miller Estate COUNTY FAMILIES ARE AMONG HEIRS Decision Reverses lower Court’s Ruling on Mrs, A. Wilson Norris’ Will A number of Centre county fam- lies are affected Ly a recent ruling af the Appellate Cowt of Kentucky in regard Ww We selliement of the estate of Willlspn Miller, former Bellefonte resident, who died in 1862 The eslate, ar the portion of it | affecting local families, is unofficial- dy appraised at from $5000 to “much more than that” and the history of the case comprises a rather full insight into the family | trees of those involved Willis Miller, founder of the fortune which has just been ruled upon by the Kentucky court, came io Bellefonte as a young man, with his mother and other members of the family, He lived with the Val- epline and Thomas men, ronmas- ters, near the black barn between Bellefonte and Pleasant Gap In the cowrse of time Valentine and Thomas sent young Miller to Pittsburgh to establish a sales agency for Centre county iron. Lat- er, feeling that headquarters would function betler at Loulsville, Ken- tucky, Miller went there and amas- sed a considerable fortune. Upon his death in 1862, he left half of . . - . {his estate to his wife, and the other of Gasoline From Dis- | half to his daughter. Martha, who later married A Wilson Norris, elecled Auditor General of Pennsyl- ivania in 1886. The daughier's hall of the estate {Continued on page seven) Confirm Reports On West Penn Expansion Confirming reports published in this newspaper some time ago, an- nouncement! was made last week that the West Penn Power Oom- pany will move its store room from iis present location in the north section of Crider's Exchange build- ing, North Allegheny street, to the the north, formerly occupied by the Hagel grocery. The West Penn also will occupy four rooms ani the second floor of the same building Under the George Sunday, new arrangement who for 14 years | has conducted a tailoring establish- | ment in the extreme northern end of the second floor, will move to the western side of the building A (Continued on page aight) HIGH SCHOOL BAND TO HOLD ANNUAL CARNIVAL The annual carnival sponsored Banjo Band, directed hy Victor H. of fis kind in the United States replacement, pair of uniforms, as necessary band expenses, The B. H 8 band pany the marching | Bellefonte Eiks Club state conveniion Washington, Pa., the A KOZY CAVE REPORTED SOLD TO SID BERNSTEIN
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