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NUMBER 39. — BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1940, SURSC KIPTION—$1.80 PER YEAR —— COUNTY IS PREPARING FOR DRAFT Labor Trouble Altoona Man Killed Local Dra ftee>To Go To Fort Meade Commissioners Ask Elec- tion Boards to Serve October 16th 2 COUNTY BOARDS ARE TO BE NAMED Registration Day To Be Held Annually Un- til 1945 BELLEFONTE DRAFTEES GO TO FORT MEADE Draftees from Bellefonte will go first to Fort Meade, Maryland, one of the 13 Army posts designated as receplion centers for conscript troops, it was learned here today, Either direct from their homes, or from temporary “assembly points” at which they will stay less than a full day—only long enough to be inducted into the Army and grouped for transpor- tation—~t he Bellefonte drafices will go to Fort Meade for a four or five day program of orientation. AL Fort Meade, according to present plans of the war depart ment, they will gel the prelimin- ary “shaking down" designed to settle them speedily into Army routine, They will get intensive elementary military training. They will be given aptitude tests and on the basis of results will be classified as to aptitudes. Then they will be assigned to Regular Army or National Guard units, either at Fort Meade or elsewhere, Since the capacity of the Fort Meade reception center will be only approximately 1.500 conscrip- tees, reporting dates will be “stag- gered” and draftees will be sent through in contingents of 1500 each four or five days. until all have been handled. This means some of the draftees called In Preliminary arrangements for Centre county's part in the com- pulsory military conscription were made by the county commissioners at a conference of the state's coun- tv officials with Governor James at Harrisburg, Monday The Centre county Charles F. Hipple, Fred C and Harry V. Keeler, and (Continued on page seven) ————— Police Investigate Philipsburg Stories Pvis. Harold D. Ream and John Eisenhooth, of the Rockview sub- station State Motor Police, alter in- vestigating the finding of “hair” and clothes in the Philipsburg area during the weekend, significance to either find, Murder rumors spread through Philipsburg when Harry Hassinger, of Philipsburg, reported the finding of a woman's clothing in a heap in a field three miles from Philipsburg along the Port Matilda highway, while he was hunting mushrooms The items included a hat, brassiere, step-ins, dress, slip, shoes and stock. ings. The grass was much trampled for an area of six feet around the clothing, it was said, The clothing, nol new. is believed to have been there for some time. Rumors were renewed last Thurs- day when a man fishing in the Black Moshannon lake said he found entangled in his hook what he thought to be a woman's hair, Police, after grappling in the lake, decided that the hair was nothing more than fine roots from trees and pther vegetation in the dam Undine Ladder Team To Give Exhibition The ladder team of the Undine Pire Company, Bellefonte, will hold a practice drill at the Temple Court building, South Allegheny street, Bellefonte, at 2 p m. Sunday, Sep- tember 20, officials announced yes- terday The practice drill is being held in officials, Mensch their preparation for an exhibition to be | were ragged and. in addition, How-| county, and general chairman of the | given at the State Flremen's con- vention at Lewistown. i m— I ——— RIFLES, FLAG PRESENTED JOLLEGE HIGH BAND Wars, presented the State College High school band with equipment for its color guard in a colorful ceremony between halves of the State-South Williamsport football game at High School Hollow Friday | annual event at the Egg Hill Evan} 10:30 a. m. Luncheon was attended night Hays made the speech to the school. \d Bellefonte may wait even as late | as December before being order |. .... Major Metz gave no indi- attached no The State College Pulton-Baudis- | Koon Post, V. FP. W., No. 321, fur- ured prominently in the early his-| was presided over by the district nished the equipment—an American tory of the Evangelical church. The president, Miss Margaret Gilliland, flag, the school flag of maroon and! edifice prior to the present one was BR. N., of Clearfield. .gray, and two rifles—for the or- among the first six church bulld-| ganization. Supervising Principal Jo ings erected by that denomination.| Attorney Arnold of Clearfield, who of accep- The church is located about three|spoke on Legal Advice to Nurses and tance and turned the colors over miles southeast of Centre Hall at) how to exercise thelr rights, Find Big Snake Under Bed Mattress | A group of Jacksonville residents, { spending the weekend at a cabin In the Allegheny mountains, had their outing brought to a sudden and un- pleasant close Monday morning when two couples upon arising Sun- day morning found a large black- | TO SPEAK HERE | snake under the matlress on which | they had slept The couples who unknowingly shared their bed with the reptile were Mr. and Mrs. George Weight {and Mr. and Mrs, Richard Vonada {Others in the party were Mr, and | Mrs, Deimer Ertley, Mr, and Mrs, | Ted Dixson, and Mr. and Mrs. John | Dietz, all of Jacksonville Gely Super-Highway Job | Pve. Harold R, Hancock, who [ul the past two years has been station. | #¢ at the Pleasant Gap sub-station | State Motor Police to aid In policing the new super- highway, was announcefi this week. Pvt. Hancock will underge | a three-week training course at Hershey before s.arting his new auties ir Insped Siles For Hospital Maj. Walter R. Metz, of Veterans’ Administration, Spends Weekend Here Ma} spent the weekend in the Bellefonte area inspecting local sites proffered for the proposed new Vet- erans’ Hospital for Central Penn- | cation ag to Bellefonle's chances [or the new hospital The official came here Fri day afternoon from Willlamsport where he had viewed about 10 sites in that vicinity and at Lock Haven Late Friday afternoon, in company with a group of Bellefonte citizens, { he inspected the proposed site on the A. C. Grove and Bayletl farms (Continued on page three) Guard Setup Is Still Indefinite Bellefonte Artillerymen May Receive Training at Shelby, 4 Mississippi early ww v tional Guard unit, now designated as Battery B., 100th Field Artillery, have received no official word as to | when new equipment is to be deliv. {ered or when the unit is to leave {for a year of intensive training, un- official sources have possible an- swers to those questions Reports have it that the various batteries of the 190th and the 166th Field Artillery are to leave for training before the other Guard units in Pennsylvania, which are scheduled to receive orders about the first of the year. Hence It is possible that the Bellefonte organ- fzation may get its orders sometime this fall. The two fleld artillery arms are reported to be slated to go to Shel. | by Mississippi, for their year of in- tensive training, although local of- | fieers could not confirm this report. The four 155 millimeter guns which are to replace the Bellefonte (Continued on page six) Bellefonte High | Defeats Howard, 25-0 Bellefonte High opened its 1940 grid season Friday alternoon with a 25 to 0 victory over Howard High {school at the Community athletic {field here. Although the score indi | cated a decisive game, both. teams iard’s players seemed small in size | Bellefonte scored one touchdown in each quarter of the game, and {made the extra point on the final | one. The first score was made by Lea- | State Commander Leo Moersch. mer on a six-yard run after a 75.) bacher of the Veterans of Foreign yard drive down the field Woody | Johnson skirted the end from the i (Continued on Page 4) ws, Home-Coming Service ! The Home-Coming service, an | gelical church, will be held on Sun- day at 2:30 p. m. This church fig- the western extremity of Egg Hill . has been chosen | Walter R. Metz of the Vet. ! ierans’ Administration, Washington, tD. C. While officers of Bellefonte's Na- HAROLD WAGNER ‘Democratic Caravan To Visit Bellefonte A Democratic caravag Bellefonte Tuesday evening, 1, and will give a half-hour program of music and addresses on the Dia- mond it wa The caravan | ht at 7 p.m Among the Wagner, State 71 er. of Spring Mills Democratic nomin eral Assembly The caravan a public addres gram of musi Bellefonte the aill vixtt Willi Visi October announced vesterday old for reps ANG will to go to Ciint Sewage Plant Operator Dies Tooth Infection Assigned As Indirect Cause of Death of Charles Mox, Aged 20 Charles of Bunnyside, operator of the Bellefonte Borough sewage disposal plant the completion since about three Years k Satu Co Centre plant ARO afternoon Hospital {r fection According been has eral teeth for did treatment died at 5 o'clod renoris to some trotibie with seve. ome seek dental weeks bul he medical abale or not 1 an 58 developed advice he entered the September Aid not ag ne 15. and whet \ improve, he underwent Saturday morning establishir drain- a ing infected area his tion an operation for the purpose of age from jaw and neck Shortly after the he be- (Continued on page three) the a of t operation Bellefonte F. F. A. Elects Officers the first meelin At g fonte Future Farmers at the High schooj | following officers elected David Shope Charles McKinley, vice esident,; Budd Corl, secretary: Fred Miller, treasurer; Jack Walker recorder, and Guy W. Ksrman, adviser The chapter decided to purchase an F. F A nner and pictures of Washington and Jefferson 10 use in connection with meetings. Yester- day the chapter held a weiner roast in Green Valley of the Belle. America, | ast Thurs were president; of held day, the a ‘Democrats of 27 Counties to Meet Monster Rally to Be Held at Rolling Green Park, Selinsgrove United Btates Senator Theodore] G. Bilbo, twice governor of Missis- | isippl. will head a delegation of] prominent Democrats who will ad. | dress the big 20-county rally to bel held Saturday afternoon and even | ing at Rolling Green Park, Selins- | grove, Earle P. Koch, West Milton, Democratic chairman for Union | affair, announced today | Other Democratic luminaries to { participate In the monster affair (Continued on page six) -» i District Nurses Meet at Clearfield { District No. 5 of the Pennsylvania | Btate Nurses Association met in the | Dimeling Hotel, Saturday, Septem. {ber 21. Board of directors met at by more than seventy nurses. The general meeting in the afternoon The speaker {or the meeting was | | idual i men's i bv Undines Purchase Pumper, Squad Ca { Announcement of the purchase by The ill be more in {the Undine Fire Company, Belle-'the nature of an all-around piece fonte. of two new of appara- of emergency than stri | tus was made by officials ly a fire implement {of the company B-man « tw Both vehicle each | pumper outfit with -a two-man cab, be ample and a squad truck with an 8-man Under the cab, will be mounted on Ford V8 gontaining heavy duty chassi officials a flood | stated Both cus~ signed tom built and wili t ical or modern equipment their kind In which may I the Central Pennsylvania area of fire or When the new machines have The been delivered to the Undines, the and t present Ford V-8 500-gallon pump- wv er, which has been service about opened six years, will be sold to the Miles burg Fire Company, arrangements having been completed for the transfer. The Undine machines will {be financed completely out of com. pany funds, the borough not to be asked for any part of the it was stated. Up to this time, tall apparatus has been purchased either entirely by the borough or with borough aid on page six) Trappers Will School Bonds Convene Here Meef Approval Expect Over 300 Dele- gates at 2-Day Session frie quad kK w» pieceg apparatus fighting ab will and in pace stercay ve have y doors the will for carrying hose bed will be a locker emergency cot one a 600-gallon ide ere rear u host an and the cab is 50 de- i le light f¢ | trea’ men for victims machines be yr be he most ' of edd NeCeSSAry accident pace between he floor of th ab will be of locker: LER TST storage ianterns de- ted enti rie ir in i hese locker room and cost, enable fir “n =m (Continued No Objections Heard as $200,000 Project is Ex- plained to Citizens host to the AL ian for 1 n of the North Association ¢ Sunday. October 26 construction was officially announced yesterday by the Beliefonte Cham. ber of Commerce The convention, which ls expected to bring more than 300 delegites here from all parts of the Slate] will hold itg session at the Baltery B. 190th Pleld Artillery post armory just east yMicials Members sociation als ¢ eslanil ’ ”r ee Eee OrPOrasion I O00 in {ors new bond of a Are Droge: board me reported § and io date there have been no objections to the plan The system has been explained detail during work men bet i banking nd caf in the 144] Bel bo past tefants Vary of tow sail of the As Many Applicants For Trade School Machinist Finds No Lack of Students; Classes Local To Begin Soon of Commerce ofl mt $3 Community Fair Opens Tomorrow Two Days of Activity Sched- uled at Spring Mills Event; Many Prizes Offered she conclusiol Clyde machinist in columns of nnouncesd thal he will school to the each § the udiments of —— Almos The 23rd annual Community Fair sponsored by the Gregg Township schools, will be held on the school grounds at Spring Mills, Friday and Saturday of this week Business men and organizations in Spring Mills and vicinity have offered the follownig list of indiv- prizes in WAS ry newspapers Mr. Swartz began receive applications the school. and up unt”. yesterday more han 60 men and oovs had applied | for the coveted bertl The appli- | cations came from every part ol Centre County and one came from a resident of West Virginia, Mr | Swar z declared Senior Project: $10, by Pirst Na.| Most of the applicants are YOU tional Bank, Spring Mills {| mel, although ~AREre 31S 3 Sp Junior Project: 85. by ghefrietd | a wk wip are eager 10 leary Parms, Inc. Spring Mills | (Continued on page six) wa Wo - High School class $5, by Dalry-| “ 8 . League Coooperative asso- | ‘Publicity Night’ Is ciation, Spring Mills Observed by Lodge i Elementary School, 3rd prize, $2 | Bellefonte chapter Women of the by Robert Neese Elmentary School, pv J.C. Robinson | Moose Tuesday night donned unique (Continued on page four) ant original newspaper costumes, - arranged a program of entertain. n wt " iment and refreshments and invited WOODWARD COUPLE HONORED newspaper representatives to ibe their gues's at a “Publicity ON 55TH ANNIVERSARY 1 | Night” for the purpose of promot. ne C 3a 74] {or 4th prize, 81, Two of Woodward's oldest and most respected citizens, Mr. and Mrs Thomas H. Motz, were guests of honor at a dinner last week at the farm home of their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Stover. near Woodward, in celebra- Litke 2 4 $ . governor of the Sons of the Hy otw ANNIVETSATY | Moose Lodge urged chapter In the group Who participated in| (Continued on page seven) the celebration was E. H. Musser, | another of Woodward's older men, WPA to Improve a friend and neighbor of long stand- . ing, whose eighty-four years topped Curtin Twp. Schools Presidential approval has been Mr. Motz by one, to be the oldest member of the gathering Mr. and Mrs. Motz, in spite Of | given to the following WPA project: their more than four score Years, Curtin Township. Centre County are quite active about their com-| improve Mann, Knoll. Quay, and munity and able to handle all of Orviston the work about their home, nds, Attending the celebration were: | fio ing, Mr. and Mrs. Motz, E. H Musser,! pain ing, reconstructing roofs, con- Mrs. Tome Krumrine, Mrs, William | structing fw] houses, grading McCool and children, Joyce and grounds, and performing appurten- Gerald, Earl and Iva Orndorf, all of | ant and incidental work. Publicly- Woodward; Mrs. Mabel Snyder and owned property. Sponsor: Ouriin daughter, Orace, Dean Snyder and Township Board of school directors children, Dale, Nancy and Joan, all! The allotment for the project i {Chapter and newspapers in regard {to publicity sided as chairman Bellefonte come a IE A a including replacing poreh papering, varnishing, (Continued on page seven) of Tower City. $1,494, y eler {ing mutual cooperation between the Mrs. Rebecca Williams, publicity | director of the chapter, capably pre- | William W.! School buildings and] Osceola Mills Sheriff Called To Halt Violence as Picketers Barricade Road UNION ASKS NLRB TO SEND MEDIATOR Picketing follows Charges Between Mine Owner and Union Men Barricading roads 3 temporarily of men to got (irr ry aril the firs men (Continued on page six) Emerick Heads Convention Group Other Prepare For Firemen's Fete Here Next Year pea 7, nvenc an whirl y be i Bellefonte next summer p Gross, Fred Love, Guy Glenn 4 Jaseph Delallo The official nvention commit his Thursday at the Logan Three In Hospital After Collision Car And Truck Sideswipe al Boalsburg: All Victims Recovering Four persons were Injured in a collision between a car and a truck on route 322 at Boalsburg, about 8:40 o'clock last Thursday night Three of them were admitled to the Centre County Hospital for treat ment. while the fourth received treatment at a physician's office Those brought to the hospital were: Bernice Horner, 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Horner, of Spring Mills, fractured right arm at the elbow, and lacerations of the arm: Marjorie Lingle, 18, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray L. Mingle, of Spring Mills, R. D., fracture of the lower jaw: and Floyd Vogt, 14, son (Continued on page Six) meeting of the will be held night at 7:30 o'clock Hose House apt Hurd oe Women of Moose Awarded Certificates Ten members of Bellefonte Chap- ter Women of the Moose received | putstanding honors from {tional headquarters this week when |they were awarded certificates of | development in recognition of their | services to the improvement of the {chapter and to the ideals and aims lof the lodge. The members and the branch of | service in which they received hon- jors are: Rebecca Wil 8, publicity; {Brma Kane, Mooschaven work; | Elizabeth Corl, Mooseheart work; Madeline Quicl, ehild care; Mary J. Martin, alumni activities: Agnes Derstine, ritual: Julia MeNichol, homemaking; Annabelle Bickle, membership, and Bessie Hassinger, social service, The certificates, attractively en- graved, bear the signatures of James J. Davis, Governor, and + Officers Named; To the Na- 82 Aliens Register At Postoffice Here Engagement Announced y i + H | P ye , 553 Work Out Relief Granis Sponsors of Projects Re- port Work, Valued at £33,000, Satisfactory eddy The Centire ’ of Public a ra y wt 'y » T a Meguiar meeting of o ¥ ORT ¢ Depar e terion t rime tar review - Relief Work Wie yy ot 51 project 183% Oe jis on August The board consisting of lewis Hohnka chairman Phil Mrs. Helen ©. Beatly, Rey C. Thompson, Bellefonte Strub Zion; Gilbert G. Nefl and Newton Hartswick H. Holm ind thal sinc « 4 a ed o Ee William Howard Mill- ipsbur WE heim; James for - e ih ed 553 persons $32,067.15 Twenty- Aj proved Work maintenance work boroughs, hospiials ter departments, commur ing: Deparment d on page Armories ' ana ne Cor Continues In County Four special registration days for Centre county still remain according to the schedule released by the Centre County Commission- ers. Registration has been complet. ef In Centre Hall and Snow Shoe Polls are open from 10 a. m pm 78pm ¥ Following is the volers schedule for to 3, r Flares Up At On Road Near Julian ' Albert Musselman, 21, Is County's Sixth Motor Vietim in Month HURLED 75 FEET BY MINISTER'S CAR Companion Narrowly Es- capes Death as Car Strikes Right Leg or ne ol eal i Altoona ¢ of Dix Run Highway. H t 75 feet from U As carrying abled towed, nrding the County of M esbhureg ne were . A tit at Celilin Sheckler pals in H. Danieis the Charlies Altoona truck dri for William Burns, of that city, who was towing the truck with a Chevrolet sedan: John H Shade, 21 Altoona, who Was {Continued on Page seven) gent 1s 5 “5 PY. A or of i Brick Plant Kept Busy brick pl of the Harbi. ~ ihe fire am ~-Walker t Monument! has keen BE 4 Refractorie: mpany received sufficient plant rn ti] al least 5 reported ing +3 he - i ders the Taw sul capac:'y end of th a nlant has been working only on part time The plant of the General Re- fractorie Company in Beech Creek and the ge at Orviston also have orders ensligh to keep them busy remainder of this vear These vear * hae 4 two plants creased an werks indus on ifi- several the we steel § in increased active aking refractory Farmer Witmer to Aid in Campaign Prominent Northumberland Counily Poultryman Joins State Commitlee other Centre county towns and bor-| oughs Philipsburg September cluding Philipsburg borough, South Philipsburg borough, and Rush township, at the office of the bor- ough secretary Slate College: September 27, in cluding State College borough, Har- ris, College, Ferguson, Hallmoon and Patton townships, at the Alpha Fire Company building Millheim October 1, including Millheim borough. Penn, Haines, and Miles townships in the munici- pal building Howard: October 2, including Howard borough, Howard, Curtin, Liberty and Marion townships Persons may register at the com- missioners’ office in the court house al Bellefonte each day up to and including October 5 ts Ma — —-— 26. in- REDEDICATION AND 8TH ANNIVERSARY SERVICES On Sunday and Monday, BSep- tember 20 and 30, the congregation | iof the First Evangelical and Re-! | formed church at Howard, will ceie- brate its fortieth anniversary and | rededicate the building, having just | completed extensive alterations and | repairs On Bunday morning at 10:45 the be | service and rededication will ‘held. Dr. O. 8. Frantz, a member | {of the faculty of Lancaster Semin. ary, will be the guest speaker { On Sunday evening at 7:30, the ‘Rev. George R. Johnson, of Allen- town, former pastor, will be the | speaker. This service will be in rec. jognition of the charter members. | On Monday evening, September {30 st 8 o'clock, the speaker will be the Rev. John M. Runkle, of Wil- liamsport, [This will Appointment of Mark N. Witmer, prominent Northumberland county farmer and a past president of the Pennsylvania Poultry Association, as head of the Agricultural Division of the Democratic State Campaign Committee, has been announced by Chairman Luther A. Harr In accepting the appointment Mr. Witmer said: “I consider it a dis tinet privilege fo join with other Pennsylvania farmers in working actively for the Roosevelt-Wallace Democratic ticket in State and Na- tion “Our farming people—men and women—are eager to bend every effort toward safeguarding and ex- tending the great gaing won for agriculture during the last seven and a half years. That is why they will vole Democratic this year.” Mr. Witmer, who operates a farm near Dalmatia, haz been an active member of Stone Valley Grange No. 1367 for more than 30 Years, and {x currently serving a: a die (Continued on page six) Penn State Girl Named Dairy Queen An 18-year-old sophomore in home aconomiocs at Penn State Col- lege will reign as queen of the Na. ‘tonal Dairy Show In Harrisburg October 12 to 18. She is Sarah E. Paxton, of Wash ington, Pa. R. D. who was select. led by the Pennsvivania Dairymen’s Association meeting at the College Saturday, from s field of seven {finalists representing various dairy cooperative districts in the stale | Miss Paxton is a daughter of a alto a former pastor. | | be Community Night Edna Hull, library: Ministers from other churches in’
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