The Most Widely Read Newspaper in Centre County, ODD and curious NEWS SECOND SECTION dhe Cenire Democraf A Visitor in Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. ~ Swe: Random FEATURES Items VOLUME 69 . MAMA AMMA MAAY Needs His Teeth A loyal Canadian mumbles his hopes for a short war as he won- ders how long he could hold out on soup. He Is in Canada--his teeth in the United States—and the chances of reunion, he thinks, are | pretty slim. It happened like this: | The man sent his false teeth to! the United States for a repair job before the monetary restrictions | were applied. Now he is unable to send money across the border to | pdy for the overbaul, and the den- | tal firm can't see its way clear to return the teeth free | Coburn And Camp for Use as Sc The Coburn and Philipsburg CCC camps are scheduled to remain in their present location at least un- Turtle Power | til October 1, and a national de- Anybody who sees a rowboat rac-| fenge training program soon will be Ing over the surface of Lake Michi- | giarted at the camps to turn out not gan without anyone In it need noi| joes than 75 per cent of the men be alarmed to the extent of sWear-| for war work, it was learned yes- ing off anything. The rowboat 15 terday being pulled by a fifty-pound turtle | The defense training program of which Charles Ducharmene of Chi-| the CCC has not yet been formulat- cago caught on a fishing trip | ed but certain of its features are Peshtigo, Wis. He tied the turtle 0 | known, officials say Regulations the boat and pulled the boat on| gre expected to be changed to make shore. A little later turtle and boa training compulsory had disappeared At the Coburn and Thief Keeps Tally camps, an additional be constructed for use Additional skilled Sheriff Walter Felger, of Fort| will be employed Wayne, Ind. is looking for a chick- en thief with a frustrated “business” complex, Lawrence Lepper reported to the sheriff that his hen house has been raided six times Each time the thief keeps his “record” straight by marking the number of | his visit and the number of fowls taken on the wall of the hen house Philipsburg building will as schools teaching help Instead of send- Burning Hay Load Endangers Barn Quick Part Workmen Prevents Ser- Action on of Fooler Fooled When Charles Witlach's car ran over a blue racer, at Oskaloosa, Ia, he picked up the shake, and think- | ing to freighten friends riding with him, threw it on the running board The snake came to life, streaked across the car's hood and down the ventilator. After virtually taking the | car apart, Witlach found the rep- tile dead in the upholstering Upsets Hospital St. Vincent's Hospital attendants at Bridgeport, Conn, discovered a patient who persisted in swallow- ing test tubes and other medicinal articles which were handy. He was Nelson Bresset 23, a circus per- former. who disconcerted doctors and nurses by sewing a button on his chest, and munching a photo- grapher's flashlight bulb ! Get Their Man Burglars are hereby warned (0 steer clear of the Bullamore Broth- ers’ general store in Somers, Wis | In twenty years the brothers, James B81. and Albert 60, have caught eleven burglars and only one has escaped them. Bight of the twelve have gone to prison and one wa shot and killeq when he tried to escape ious Fire Quick work last Wednesday after- noon about 3:30 o'clock prevented a barn from burning on the farm of E. E. Schmick, west of Blanchard, when a load of hay on a truck caught fire It was reporied that some of the hay wound round the axle of the truck. setting up friction and caus- ing the blaze. J. E. Fleisher, driver of the truck, drove it away from the barn, while others pitched the hay off along the road. The truck was slightly burned The Beech Creek-Blanchard Fire Company's truck went to the scene, but did not go into action EA 3 Drivers Figure In Traffic Mixup Two Trucks and a Passenger! Car Damaged in Ac- cident 7 a collision Baturday Port Matilda borough, property damage of $300 I has lice old Williams, 25, of Warriors Mark, operator of a truck-trailer; Harry Hassinger, 25, of Philipsburg, driver lof a coal truck: and Devon Wins. low, 22, of Tyrone, operator of a sedan The accident occurred, police re- morning in resulting in an estimated M is reported that information Beesy Firemen been filed by Btate Motor Po- With a little cooperation, the Fire Department of Oshkosh, Wis, might have saved Henry Berhoiltz barn. Angered by the blaze, thousands of | bees attacked the entire fire depart ment. Unprepared for the onslaught the firemen withdrew and the barn burned. into Hassinger's truck {been forced sidewise on way after side-swiping {trailer which had the high- the truck- Double Theme Song Grant Ege. a Kansas City music store manager received this letler and 8a money order from an IoWa| po singer sustained farmer: “Please send me phono-| ne face, and a passenger graph records of ‘God Bless Amer- | wi. iow, Fannie Moswen, fea’ and ‘Let the Rest of the World | , : , |rone, received a bruised nose, tie By’ That's how I feel abouli,nly two injuries of the mishap ngs.” ho scratches with the Cow Killed by Truck Motor police are searching for the driver of a truck which struck and injured a cow owned by Ken- neth Sones, north of Washington- ville, so badly that it was necessary to kill it. The driver swerved to avoid hitting a herd of cattle being driven along the road, but the ma- chine hit one of the animals which strayed a short distance from the others. The driver continued on his way without stopping truck a glancing blow by an au- tomobile as he crossed the highway in front of his home on North Atherton Street, State College about 8:30 o'clock last Thursday night, E H. Kreamer, aged 69 re- ceived abrasions of the right leg shoulder, and back and suffered greatly from shock. The car, driven by Mrs. Edna) Musser, of West Beaver Avenue State College, was traveling south at a low rate of speed when the THREE ENLIST IN ARMY Three Centre countians are among | partment, Army Medical recent recruits in the United States Washington, D. C. Army, it is reported by the recruit-| Johm Warren Milton, son of Mr. ing officer who is at the Bellefonte and Mrs. Ernest Milton, Bellefonte, post office each Priday afternoon R. D. 3. quartermaster from 1 to 4 o'clock. The new en- Langley Field, Va. listed men are: william Irvin Holt, son of Mrs, Clair Randolph Sowers, son of Zells Holt, of Biate College, medi- Mrs. Maude Sowers, State College, cal department, Army Medical Cen- R. D. 1, enlisted in the medical de- | ter, Washington, D, C. TO BUILD 2120 R. R. CARS F. 0. Grimshaw, manager of the| Pitcairn shops 225 cars. Pennsylvania Railroad's Altoona, Work assigned to the Alloona works, states the shops will build shops include 1900 general purpose 2.120 cars and 25 big locomotive mill-type gondoias; 200 70-ton all- tenders as part of the rallroad's re- steel freight cabin cars for train cently announced $10,000,000 equip- crews; 20 heavy duty type flat cars ment construction program. ‘for extra load capacity; and 25 In addition, he sald, the Enola tenders of 21.000-gallon capacity for shops will build 200 cars and the use with heavy [reight locomotives. Some Nerve A prize for something-or-other goes to the man who “borrowed” a typewriter out of Judge A. E. Swoy- er's office at Scranton while the jurist was vacationing, and failed to return it mess MP ———— Advertising never hurts the man who uses it intelligently, but it penalizes the merchant who is too busy to pay any attention to it. 0 elderly man, apparently failing ic see the car, walked out on the highway. Mrs Musser swerveq the car to avoid the pedestrian but the right front fender struck him. Mr Kreamer rolled partly under parked car. Members of the V. F. W_ home nearby ran to his rescue and sum- moned a physician. Latest re- ports from the home are that the injured man is recovering slowly. Center, = A —— | Ing { togenarian Club 3 {lived with her daughter, The drivers of two trucks and the | operator of a sedan were involved in} at Pleasant Gap against Har-| of | of Ty-| corps at! Philipsburg CCC Camps to be Used for National Defense Training Additional Building Will be Erected at Each | 1 hool; Skilled Teach- ing Help Will be Employed ing all molorized equipment to a i | centralized shop whenever it needs repair some of it will be repaired al | the camp | Even now, without a training program, more than the enrolleas are trained for might be considered wartime jobs officials <laim. They become me- chanics, cooks, truck drivers, opera tors of nsarby motorized equip- ment handlers explosives operators, and drafting CCC officials emphasize that In addition to dally work, fifty per cent of thie enrollees have been at tending regular school classes, ac- quiring book knowledge and voea- tional training The U Army the CCC as the for a huge Army engineering corps which will rival that of the Ger- mans in efficiency CCC training in construction of Yoads, bridge dams, bulldings in is good training engineers defense half what of radig clerks Ss has ource of material ts eye on and for potential Army surveying News quarterly Pomona meeting will be held Wednesday, August 7, at Stormstown, with Half- moon Grange as host, with morning session devoted to business, After- noon session will be based on the theme of Priendship, Fidelity and Fraternalism More information on the day's plans will be In next | week's issue County Grange The regular — NUMBER 30. BELLEFONTE, PA.,, THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1940, : Centre County Member of Governor James’ Cabinet Dies After Week's lliness ‘John I. Thomas, of Philipsburg, Secretary of Mines, Had Served In the Department Under Five Governors TOUGH ASSIGNMENT: This department commends the | Bellefonte School Board for cour- | ageously handling an urgent and (difficult matler in a thorough -going | manner. Last Wednesday the board {met specially to consider reports of | improper conduct against a teacher {by a COC camp member. Both the | accuser and the accused were gues- {tioned minutely in regard to the alleged acts and since neither of them could offer anything but their (own statements &s evidence, the in- | vestigation boiled down into a mat- {ter of believing one side or the other. Because no reason could be advanced why either of the persons involved might have been testify- {ing falsely, the board did the only thing it could do falrly under the circumstances--give the accused the | benefit of the doubt { FREE ADVERTISEMENT: | In response to an 8. 0. 8 issued {by this department last week Clif. {ford Hess, proprietor of the Hess Billiard parlors (formerly Hood on West High street, called to in- form us that old-fashioned clay pipes for blowing bubbles are sale at his establishment. The pipes are most salisfeciory, the youngsters report, and we're happy lo Inform ithe public that they can be pur- chased for the nominal sum of two for » nickel We might add, in dis- missing this meatier, that it pays Yo | advertise THE REV.s HAT: When the mail-plane flies over Slate Secretary of Mines John Ira mother, Mrs. David H. Thomas, of Thomas, 58, of Philipsburg, died at | Philipsburg; two sisters, Misses Lulu 6 o'clock Saturday moming in Mc- | Thomas of Philipsburg, and Hilda Girk's Sanitarium, of heart and | Thomas, a teacher, of Wilkinsburg, kidney diseases. He was removed | and Morris Thomas, a brother, of from his home to the sanitarium Johnstown Thursday night when his condition became worse rs ™e TO QUIT -THERE €OES TU MAIL PLANE } | PROMISED MV MOTHER | WOULD ART FOR HOME Lr Fay, mu A ap 5 / Funeral services were held Mon- day afternoon at the home, in charge of the Rev. 1. L. Clark, min- ister of the Baptist church, Philips- disaster near Portage burg. State mine Inspectors served and caused heart as pallbearers, both active and hon- (orary. By order of Governor James all Btate offices were closed during the funeral Alling for some Lime to be recovering recent mine upset him pasm he appeared when news of the a Born in a Clearfield county fam. of bituminous coal miners Thomas' experience as an engineer and executive in the anthracite and bituminous coal fields was gained in the United States, northwest Can- ada and Alaska before he first was named inspector in 1918 by Governor Brumbaugh. He was appointed by Governors Sproul and Pinchot Following the flv My Thomas on can and National Was staunch Republi- attended the Republican Convention at Philadel phia last month, but did not take an active part in it being already fil. Governor James’ wife, the late Ada (Morris) James, was a cousin of Mr. Thomas i CCC Camps To Resin According to an official announce. In the financial ment all five COC camps in Clinton | Bellefonte Academy Alumni Ban- county will continue te operate dur- guet held May 18, 1940, at Pitts. ing the three months which began | burgh, is this expense item Res July 1. These camps are ai Logan- Charles Boving, Replacement ton, Hyner, Cooks Run st Renovo, Hat, $5" Bensing a good Hem for State Camp a! Westport, and Far- | this column we instituted a probe randsville | to learn what had happensd to the | Reverend gentleman's kat. Former | Judge Pleming, toastmaster at the [dirmer, and James R. Hughes, in | whose honor the event ul ABLE RELATIVES MUST HELP A reminder that relatives who are! able 10 pay for the upkeep of per- song on obligated to d¢ So Is given the Depatiment of Pub » stale the take ¢ re amount of income the scale into consideraton ih the number of fact that carries increased relief out are bv dependents and ana of oreased income reorganization ! Department of Mines by Gov John Pisher, Thomas was appointed deputy secretary of mines in charge of the blluminous region In 1927 He served In that position until Same 1932 when he retired because of ill health, His appointment the James cabinet as Secretary of Mines took place in January, 1938 He was born at Brisbin His father, the late David HA. Thomas served as a mine inspecior un- Governors Patterson and Hast- | lic obligation The scale a contribution month An Income ans no al amount from a relative inoctne of $160 a dependents } Was pointed Lhe report of the while public funds he minimum no other wh for example of five dollar alive who ha month i Lhe who has an with five i ¢ 4 4 | { are provid need sOUrce 10 meet of those who have those relatives dre financially able are expected now, as In the past, to assume 28 reasonable responsibility for meet- ing these needs rather than shif this responsibility altogether to the general public A statewide “relatives” contribu- tion scale” is used to determine the amount of contribution for which a relative may be considered respon- gible. All contributions specified in re $7 dependents por JT0mMm A af LH of help ‘ of “ Wa 10 | month The Pennsy ol 1937 ivania support law the Department of Public husband said Assistance ‘ # id wii ANG der ing: Mr surviving ! was held, both supposed that the hat was Jost But there's no fun in that Suppose, for example, it developed that hat had been thrown playfully from designates the e, chi father, mother, grand- and grandchil sponsible f Hurt At Work Victim of Accident Suffers In- parent d legally re- support a never His his married near-reiatives include his r that person STORY OF AN ACTIVE Centre older then county prod of every now and or more join- and honorable Oc- This week special of Rebers- Thursday, July 18, her 85th birthday anni- is and we hear of one the ancient citizens, tribute due a native burg. who last observed VErsary This remarkable woman is is Mrs | Emmaline Pehl, who since the death of her husband. 17 years ago. has Mrs. Glen Stroble, Quiggieville, Lycoming county, but who Is now visiting her son, The Rev. Noah Pehl, pastor of the Memorial Baptist church, New. berry. In a recent interview with a represeriative of the Williamsport {8un, Mrs. Fehl related incidents of her long and active life 8he was born at Rebersburg, and ffved the greater part of her life in Centre county, to which her par- ents moved from Lebanon, because wages were betler in Centre county, where men were paid 50 cents for a day's work Mrs. Fehl of i whose malden name ported, as the Winslow car crashed | Was Wolf, has four grandchildren |to 50 cents apiece. One of these hats | bined also utility, was going to pick {a window of the banquet hall In the | Willam Penn Hotel It might have | heen used to take up a collection for the walters. It could have been | the victim of an amateur magician’s is recuperating at! proken egg trick. Any number of juries to Body and Arms LIFE huckieberr John Huey, 46 is home in Mil Hall from severe (things onuld have happened to meke injuries sustained recently while good reading But. drat the luck, he working on the WPA project on! gpparently just lost the hat, and Weaver street at that piace there's nothing more to it Mr. Huey was sweeping sereen-| ings when one of Claster's huge! WAR: trucks of Lock Haven backed sud-| This department has a desire to denly, hurling him down the steep write something pithy and mpor- grade where he rolied over several! tant about the war, but the subject times before he was helped into al is 50 broad we haven't been abie 10 nearby car by fellow workmen Inafli down a portion small enough His injuries inciuded lacerations (to cover in this corner As time and bruises about his bexdy and goes on we have an increasing de. |arms. State Police investigated the {accident immediately Wo smi — A ———— Retired Minister Dies In Hospital | Rev. John J. Weaver Served! Lutheran Pastorates in County ¥ af WB of pl , } ¥ her girl- r ir} expedition memory miles a wiles BAA TIAN whieh shis of Bellefonte Members eral families wend a big wagon drawn by two horses. They took pro- visions and blankets and stayed all night. They had no tent, but spread their blankels on the ground Men took tums in walching the fire which was kept burning all night because of the danger of wild beasts Mrs. Pehl reads much, English and German, mostly of a religions natore. and can Scripture fluently. She Is in good health for her age Congressman’'s Widow Dies Edith Wolf Pocht, 77, widow of the late Congressman Benjamin F Focht, of Lewisburg died Friday | night following a heart altack. | Focht died March 27, 1939, while | Congress was in session, He spent 8 19 years in the House A nation is as strong as its aver- age citizen and no stronger. it in wer The making of quilts a few hobby } RDXIONA and braided Mrs finish nti 3 o'clock a. wr ved | of t of f and Fehil's come mall for the ond of receiving dally watches eagerly ing of the mail carrier 0 in a quilt she » in . ir " her * moming High made candie the a8 home- wt On A Bormw and her pie plate on of the rugs she still bedroom Recalling changes during time, she stated that when she was a girl, ii was considered perfectly: hr | appropriate for women to work wr ® FBO the harvest fields, and that as a girl When she and other young women, raked ders and scouring powders hay for a day (from sunrise to sun- not availabe and few farmers sel), reeciving As payment three bought bar soap. Grease was saved shillings On and when enough was hand, it jon 8 generous farmer paid her 3 was made into soap with lye which cents for a day's work, but this was had been made from wood ashes most unusual This soft soap Was used iw the family washing. which n strenuous job, with the use of hand rubbing on a washboard The soft soap with sand was also applied by a home made hickory broom to the which were Rept while and in 8 manner Enjoyed RBerrying her Hie. top of the quilt were very large one in anes ”» she wns yOUNg soap pow were in both books quote fairly ipever hear what the masses are saying or doing. which. we Suppose, lis one of the “blessings” of Hitier- ism FINGERPRINTS: We didnt know until] Saturday that police had found legible fin- { gerprints in the Paye Gales car and on the stone with which she is be- | lieved to have been beaten to death — | Maybe they haven't, but in a peli- | Rev. John J. Weaver, of Millheim, A tion to Court asking that the Com- | a retired Lutheran minister, disd at | monwealth be required to produce the Lewistown Hospital at § o'clock | “real evidence” against the accused Sunday morning after a short ill-| slayer. Richard Millinder, Defense | ness | Attorney Lewis Orvis Harvey lists (37 ornta) one oOra- ofr in doing wan Made Halts, Quills, Rugs Another source of inoome was making of straw hats with a sickle, and the at the joints and bound in bundles for use In the making of the hats She remembers making 200 of these hats, which sold at from 15 cents the Rye was cut # $osn wr 114 straw cut | a... ciean One of the pleasures, which com- Airport To Be Military Base | State Committee Recommends | Owner Philadelphia New s-| Clinton County : Pp. 0. S. of Al I New Building at Black Moshannon investigating Pennsylvania's air de- fenses in #5 report to Gov. Arthur H James ast week recommended making the Black Moshannon air. port into an adequate military base and building at least one large han. | to complete his sentence for violat- | holding of the annual state con- gar for repairs and supplies The hangar, costing approximate. | seed ly 8125000, could be built in about five weeks, according to the com- mittee, | “Black Moshannon is an aerial |oasis and a milltary necessity,” read {the committee report. “It won't be ieasy for any enemy to land near the Black Moshannon If he is {forced down." | Lights should be Installed at the field. the commitiee recommended. The committee urged the reten- {tion of CCC camp buildings near ithe Black Moshannon for possible ‘use as barracks in event of emer- igency. Placing a fence around the airport also was proposed to keep out deer, i “Black Moshannon airport, despite [the huge investment already in it, {does not have a satisfactory road linto it, but has a reasonably good all-weather unsurfaced road” con- tinued the report. “A hard surface ought to be put on it at once” : Burned After Stroke Judsors Rockwell, 77. of Orwell, was found unconscious in his home and taken to the Packer Hospital in Sayre, where his death ocour- red. Bruises and kerosene burns led to fears of foul play. County Cor- oner A. E. Dann, of Canton, per death was dine to a cerebral hemor- rhage. When he suffered the stroke the old man fell and tipped over an ofl ean. He lay in the ofl for some time before he was found, and Burns were caused by Kerosene, Many of those who shout the foudest aboul prejudice have much of It. governed expect to receive benefits. Born in Pine Grove Mills Centre among the items, fingerprints, ai- | county, June 20, 1876, he was the leged to be Millinder’s. found in the | gon of the late John A. and Alice! car and on the stone. At a hear- | Musser Weaver. He was married to ing, August 5, the Court will decide | Mande M. Landis of Altoona, May whether or not the defense will Unemployed Man . » . - Victim of Suicide | 20, 19068, who preceded him in death have an opportunity to examine the | June 2, 1938 | evidence before Millinder's trial in John Davis, 52, Takes OWN = gerore his retirement, Rev. Mr | September. Annenberg Goes Rescinds Lodge To Lewisburg Pen Convention Bid The Kane legislative committee | land once ruler i nasty that embraced doséns of corp- | oralions, paper Must Serve Term in Prison M. I. Annenberg. owner of a prominent Philadelphia newspaper of a financial dy- will enter the Federal Penitentiary at Lewisburg this week Camps Withdraw Invita- tion For Convention Life by Shooting Near Philipsburg Leaving a note telling of his in- ability to secure work, John Rich. ard Davis, 52-year-old coal miner residing at Chester Hill, killed him- self with a shotgun sometime Sun- day night. His body was discovered Monday morning in the outhouse of Because of a disagreement over the handling of an appropriation of $1000 by the State Camp of the P 0 8 of A, the Clinton county ¢on- vention committee last Friday even ing withdrew its invitation for the Weaver served in the following par-| ishes: Aaronsburg pastoral charge, | I ary ps Bb nd strong bid to have the 1041 district a a Aen: Wor veseran] convention held in Bellefonte—for ' : | the first time since 1907. They have serving Wall Comgnny'B. Pitti Tog | the assurance of hearty support (iment, P. V. I . ) ; Members include | from many other towns in the dis- She Tanily 8 rt abd Tt is probable that during daughter, Mrs. C. ©. (Franoss) | EO Fragier, Osterburg; a son, Rev. | the summer Tie N. Weaver, Ashland; one grand- | (Continued on page six) CONVENTION: Bellefonte firemen are masking 6 formed an autopsy and found that | child. Josh A. Weaver, Ashland; and | the following brothers and sisters iing the government income tax vention in Lock Haven. August 28 laws, 27. 28 and 29 A dispirited old man Annenberg! The dispute between the Clinton {now 63, will begin serving a three- | county committee and the State | year sentence. It will be the end of | Camp was reviewed at the meeting ia lengthy and unsuccessful battle Friday evening by the Clinton coun- | for freedom. On the civil side he has | ty representatives and Dr, Edward | Agreed to pay the United States Ray Strayer of Oreland, Pa, State Treasury $8.000000 within six years president of the order. in settlement of an estimated $12- It was pointed out that logal | 000.000 debt he and his corporations commitiees of previous conventions {owe the government. On the crimin- | had been paid the $1000 contribu- {al side, he has been denied proba- | tion beforehand. When the ocom- {tion and must serve his time, mittee asked where the appropria- | Annenberg would be eligible for HOD was and when it would be | parole after serving one year. With | fortheoming for the approaching | maximum time off for good behav. | convention the answer given bv C {for, his term could be shortened to B. Helms, State secretary, and Dr two years and 113 days. Strayer, was that the State execu- Objecting to this method of fin. | tive committee wishes to follow the ancing the convention, the ocom- proceedure this year, of having bills | mittee withdrew {ts bid. Dr, Stray- The defense of the United States submitted to the State camp, to be od salq arrangements would be |is a matter of concern to every citi- | palg by orders drawn for each bill made to hold the convention else. {zen; you can't defend a country and approved by the State presi- where, possibly at Harrisburg, on | with money alone. dent. the dates originally set. ] | i | "KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES’ — No. Mrs. Catherine Courson who rents) part of his home and keeps house Mrs. Courson told of geiting up (at 5 minutes after 8 and calling | yer Warren i Davis to get up. Upon going to his . - room she found his bed empty and Nr 4) - er Er | thought he had sone 10 ob Pog y some matier of Ness, T, | however, she noticed his glasses and a ME Wut 149 e Tadsdsy ot watch laying upon the table, and 2 pn knowing he would not go without them, continued her search until she found the body slumped on the floor of the outhouse in a pool of vice for summer comfort by an, blood. eminent authority on household eof- | (Continued on page six) 1 H Covers Variety of Queer Incidents | J i
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers