Odd and CURIOUS in the = NEWS = Don’t Shoot If you decide to do a little hunt- ing out Huntington. Ind., way this Fall and spot a racoon with a red tall light-—don't shoot, That is the plea of the Huntington County Hunters’ Association, who have been capturing live female raccoons and fastening red deflectors to their tails, In the hope that hunters will avoid killing them and thereby let the coons multiply for better hunt- ing in the near future. Conscience Eased A Northumberland county man “got religion” and now Attorney Truman J Purdy of Sunbury, has a pair of shears, The convert re- turned the shears and admitted that Purdy had left them on a property which had been rented to him by the lawyer 20 years ago. Selective Larceny Mrs, Cleo Newson of Zanesville, Ohio, complained to police about a | milk thief “so impudent he plans his menus.” Not content with stealing milk from the doorsteps, she sald, he takes orders for the milkman to leave whipping cream, and swipes that, too. . » Has Nicest Patient Jean Alice Matty, of Monesson, although only eight weeks old, has already had her first tooth yanked, She was born With the tooth. When | it began to bother her, a dentist extracted it. “Nicest patient I ever had,” he said. LAND ABANDONED FOR AGRICULTURAL USES An abandoned farm Is the record of financial disaster of at least one | family, perhaps more. Soil maps and other information might have help- ed them to avoid locations naturally too poor to support permanent ag- riculture, says W. E. Keepper, agri- cultural economist of the Pennsyl- vania State College. In classifying the land in county recently, Keepper found that one-fourth of the area In farms in 1900 now is out of agricultural use. Five classifications were used. land class 1 being mainly idle or forest ed; class 2, recently abandoned farms or places about to be given up: class 3. areas which are only holding their own agriculturally; and classes 4 apd 5, highly produc- tive areas. BROADCASTING PICTURES BY THOUGHT WAVES n————— in a studio, staring at random at photographs while members of a | Blair | Ihas served as secretary of Group | Bix Pennsylvania Bankers’ Associa- f tion. How a “Human Transmitter” sat | The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County. SECOND SECTION we — VOLUME 6 9 . BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1940, The “Forgotten Man” o—— LL — Four Adventurous Renovo | Girl Students Back Home - After Hitch-Hiking Trip Seemingly Tiring of Dull School Routine, Quar- | tet Leave Home to Seek Employment 1 (co A In New Environs ol 7" ON. UNTIL ELECTION DAY the girls had journeyed as far as Washington, returning to Milton where one of the girls got a job, She was recognized at her place of | employment from the description sent ou, when the pair was reported missing. When the Luchetta girls were Four adventurous Renovo girl hitch-hikers. all students at the same class at the St. Joseph's High | School, are back home again after | traveling a good many miles of | highway in quest of employment | Frances Wagner and Madeline | Celline, both 14 or 15 years old, re- { turned to home and books early | Friday morning, from Milton. The two other girls, Louise Luchetla { and Rosina Pisani, both 15, miss- ing from Wednesday morning of | last week, were back at home the | same evening. ; The Wagner and Celline girs disappeared Saturday without noti- | fying their parents. Becoming | alarmed, the families sought the the police seeing the pair in her | aid of police in an effort to APPre- | 0 oynorhood and acting in a sus- | | | and Pisani discovered missing on Wednesday the former's mother telephoned Lock Haven police to be on the lookout for them. They were found in that city in the af- ternoon and by supper time were back at their homes The girls were taken into custody through the assistance of Mrs Joseph A. DiCello, who reported to hend them. During their absence, | ........ manner near her home. - - " ; Meetings When told that the description of | 411 be held at Pennsylvania the girls tallied with the missing giate College this weekend Renovo pair, Mrs, DiCello followed | pupnnsy 1ia Historical them out East Walter street where |. hold its annual meetings on | they were attempting to secure an campus Friday and Saturday automobile ride, Engaging them In [the Pennsyivania German | Centre County Native and, conversation about the autumn wil] meet on Friday { . a . landscape succeed ha Ciaran Reuhaiv Former Resident Gets ing their oind My an — | Honorary Post patrol wagon : . to headquarters At the police office they | ficlals that Renovo wasn't enough for them and they to go to the city. They had to they sald, but cause they didn't like thelr teacher of two historical groups i the ‘Meyer Elected to pone Boclety she interest the arrived to tak organization burger the society Frederick John D, Meyer, former Bellefonte {resident and prominent Tyrone | banker. was recently elected to the {board of trustees of Hood College, iat the annual fall meeting of the i board. Another member selected is ‘John B. Kuns, bank book manufac- i WELL WERE SURE OF FINDING A FULL MAIL BOY FROM Now The 1 4 Sn v TWO HISTORY GROUPS TO MEET Robert len Erdmar Cope. Bellers: Bren- er, Reading lentow? Lancaster Alle Reading a— Hard -Riding Tom Mix of Che Centre Democrat ——— — —— —. —————. ——————— i A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. | —— NEWS, FEATURES NUMBER 42. Western Drama Fame Dies Under Over-Turned Auto Popular Hero of Thousands of Movie-Goers, Who Escaped Death in Daring Feats of Horsemanship, Killed by Own Car Tom 60-vear-old died when roadster ir near Flor- hard-riding y Of Lhe oid vie fans 14 mpiexioned { go west to find fame he was 26 {turer of Huntingdon A graduate of Franklin and Mar- ishall College, John D. Meyer is now vice president of the First Blair | County National Bank in Tyrone. A native of Centre county, he started his career in the teaching field, first as head of Alexandria public schools and then superintendent of the Bellefonte schools An active alumnus of Franklin and Marshall College he is now i w i | president of Central Pennsylvania acceptance speech, Willkie the utll- | Alumni Association. For 25 years he ity president, has already answered it—over a period of seven years ang in terms that seem fairly con- ciusive. That answer is the labor record of the Commonwealth and Southern Corporation, the billion. doliar utility chain which Mr Wil. WILLKIE AND L. What Wendell L views on labor and its right to or- ganize freely and bargal tively? While Willkie, the date, has yet to be heard issue, except {or a few words | are bitter including girikes, ang revealing flagrant repealed viol i rights Fyre # BRT Wi $7,000 Farm Fire Such lems unquestionably ABOR Reprinted by New Republic AFL find M: Ht reson catia 5 & is sharply disputed by the Alrbamrs aheve NLRn Alabama Power Come ner to disband a the ordered the the Brotherhood of Rallread Tralnmen from Publication of the “The Oficial : aith subsidiaries irr up as clienis of the hotorious lnbor-gpy speriring that specielize in the dedtruction of labor's righis and iberties the Philippine island ish-American Rebellion in Ching with the British army war in Bouth Africa He went to Oklahoma and he Miller Brothers 101° in Kansas and \ a deputy E a sherif! lahoma ar Texas Rangers Talking picture: career, but he ; aous popularity sudeviile and wit VAs dressed he appeared on (Continued on Mix page sf Gifford Pinchot For Roosevelt Random [tems aa | MULTITUDES: We fear the Clubs 0 late of Centre ¢ a ree barbecus Weeks aR SOMETHING? We're aguely Former Governor Declares |, This is No Time For ‘Green Hand’ am ss Wo —-——— Religious Survey F ITE Pest Fess were the President's cars, gol Pittsburgh to esoort him on his tou of defense industries in thal area HOW ABOUT ©8? If and when Bellefonte gets a kie headed until he became the Republican nominee. It is a record that must be giving his men a terrific neadache unmistakably anti-labor psychic society tuned their minds to him to prove that telepathy exists, The results of this demonstration are released in the October 27th is- sue of The American Weekly, the President A H. Li In the period covered by the La- y Central la. p te re 1834-36, one Willkie s Oeorgia Power Com- y ¢ a serious labil a buflding, the members , BO matier Iu man Is he may have a bor belween now and November made clear by President In Nittany Valley «= «= ie mtadien port Near Petersburg ‘Hay, Grain and Farm Imple- would y if the board could for Four Townships in Centre. sw fit to provide in the school di- rect room & press table big magazine distributed with the Baltimore Sunday American. On sale at all newsstands. — nn Named {0 Red Croey Board Mrs. Amos Neyhart and John T Taylor have been named to the Sta'e College Red Cross board, Mrs, J. C. Cobb, chairman, announces The Red Cross roll call will get underway on November 11 and will continue until November 30 under the direction of Mrs John Ishler, Mrs, Cobb also said. m———— —— pit Auto Ride For Guesis The Tyrone Kiwanis Club, follow- ing their annual custom, treated the guests of the Methodist Home for the Aged to a colorful thirty-five | mile automobile ride, The caravan toured the Janesville Pike to Olas. gow, to Blandsburg and returned via Bellwood. Loses State Pect. Announcement was made Friday by the Highway Department of the dismissal of John B. Coder, of Lib- erty township, Centre County, as assistant inspector In District 2. Clearfield, al $1140 a year. Escaped Inmate Captured. Prank Rifnosky, 21, who escaped Oct. 8th from the Pennsylvania In- | dustrial school farm at Huntingdon, was captured a few hours later by a prison guard in the vicinity of War- riors Ridge station. Braving the dangers of war, a purebred ram has come across the ocean to head the Southdown flock at the Pennsylvania State College. Nicknamed “The Bomber,” his of- ficial name Is Luton Hoo “877 of 1939” Ram (25100) V. 49, bred by the Lady of Ludlow, Luton Hoo, Bed- fordshire, England. “The Bomber” had been held since May 1 at the farm of Walter Biggar, Dalbeattie, Scotland, world. famous judge of livestock. Event. { ried no insurance, it was reported j and 17 cows and calves, Unable to 1 quench the blaze, Huntingdon and he RAM RISKS DANGERS OF WAR Significantly, a considerable § of the record is to be found in the files of the LaFoilette Civil Liber. ties Commitiee and the National Labor Relations Board, where Com- and Southern. through subsidiaries, appears Their testimony reveals {lity has been extremely ments Are Total Loss to Owner Fire of undetermined origin de- molished a large bank barn on the C. O. Shoemaker farm at Chilcote Hollow, near Petersburg, Hunting- don County, Thursday night, killing three calves and causing $7,000 in property damage. Mr. Shoemaker who rents the barn from a Maryland bank, car- t the ut Farewell Party Held For Pastor 188 Parishioners Gather at Houserville U. B. Church to Honor Rev. Gauntt His son Robert, discovered the, blaze in the upper part of the struc- ture when ii began to spread rapid- i iY. Y he loss to the building was esti- | mated at $4000. Thirty-five tons | of hay and 17 tons of straw, grain | and farm implements, all of which | were consumed by the fire, were | listed as a $3,000 loss. Members of the Shoemaker fam- | fly rescued nine horses and colis. A farewell party Was held Tues. day evening in the social rooms of the Houserville United Brethren church for Rev. Homer Gauntt and family president of the College township school board, of which Rev Gauntit wag a member, presented him with a beautiful painting. “The Rector's Study.” Several of the churches of the charge presented the Reverend and Mrs. Cauntt with gifts. The population of the United | Those who gave short talks dur. States may be growing slower than | ing the evening were Guy Stearns, | heretofore but maybe people are George Bohn, Mrs. Claude Corl, | improving. Mrs. Clair Lose, James Schreck, __ | Harry Meek, and Marvin Lee. — | Refreshments were served by the {ladies of the Woodycrest Valley | View, Buffalo Run and Houserville | churches. days, and the party arrived at Que-| cr Roy hha Phy oy bec on August 17. {| Gummo, Mrs. Dalles Zauffman, Eu- Held in quarantine at Quebec 07 | gene, Eimer Kauffman, Mr. and Mrs. | 30 days, “The Bomber” Was released gg Gill, Nelson Olll, Mrs. Charles upon payment of customs fees bY| poster, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Meek Professor W. L. Henning, of thei ang children, Betty and Lywellyn, Penn State animal husbandry de-|agr and Mrs. Thomas Stine, Mar. partment, and completed the Jour-! saris Stine, Mr. and Mrs. M. c! ney to State College on the back| Rinehart, Leda, Maxine and Made- | of the professor's automobile, | line Rinehart, Willlam Bilger, and | “The Bomber” will be mated with Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Reigh and | the daughtsér of “Cough Drop.” Lu-| daughter, Janet; from Buffalo Run, ton Hoo 678, to continue the line Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Fike and breeding underway at the Lady of | daughter Faye. Mr, and Mrs. Hugh Ludlow's farms from which both Longwell and children, Grace, Ray- | i Alexandria firemen conducted their | efforts to saving other buildings | Mr. Shoemaker has been confined | to the J. C. Blair Memorial hospital, { Huntingdon, the past week wih an fliness. made | rams were obtained. Sons of “Cough | mond and Marion, Mr. and Mrs for four Drop” bred and exhibited by the Andrew Shivery, Mr. and Mrs. | College were grand champion weth-! Claude Corl and son Kenneth, Mr. | er lambs and pens of lambs at the and Mrs. Jeffrey Tressler, Mrs. Fred | | International Livestock Exposition, Marshall, and James Shilling; from | | Chicago, in 1938 and 1939, | Valley View, Mr. and Mrs. Miles | Eleven-month-old Joseph White, Jr, of Wellsboro, is alive and well today only because the unusual ac- cident he experienced last Thursday occurred the “safe Way.” Physicians sald that had it happened the other possible way, death would have been almost certain. Joseph was seated in his high chair at his home, playing with a BRUSH IN CHILD'S THROAT | ; Houser and family, Mr. and Mrs, | | Claude Johnsonbaugh and daughter, ,and Jack Stere. | Mary Walters, Mr, and Mrs. Olar- | It was the fact that the bristled! ence Sheesley, Adeline and Ruth! ther than the handle, enter- Sheesley, Mr. and Mrs. L. R. 8ny- | throat, that permitted the der and son Paul, Mr. and Mrs. J.| the, preventing strangu- | A. Dale, Mr. and Mrs, John Poor- | Dr. William FP. White stated man and children, John, Jr., Mar. after he and Dr. Webster had re- | garet, Mary Linn, Mn. Ralph Hook. | brush. (Continued on page six.) Was Kie as Hebert ¥ ind more cl Woman Dies of Crash Injuries Clinton County Victim Auto Accident Resided at Youngdale of Injuries received in an automo bile accident August 20 at the Me- Elhattan bridge, resulted in the death of Mrs Grace Keiffer 55, Wednesday of last week at the Lock Haven Hospital. No inquest is con- templated The vehicleg involved in the ac. cident were driven by Emert and Robert Hurrle of Lock Haven, who with a companion, John C. Buller. worth also of Lock Haven, were in- jured. Mrs. Kieffer resided in Fleming- ton until the death of her husband, Harry, 20 years ago. For 18 years she kept house for George Emert, Youngdale. with whom she wag re- turning home when the crash oc- curred, Surviving are the following broth- {ers and sisters: Oeorge, Avis, Har- ry, Los Angeles, Calif: Floyd, New- berry; Clarence, Albany, N Y., Ed- ward, Lock Haven, R. D.; Mrs. Bertha Ergott, Mrs. Mary Wrye, Mrs, Keiffer atiendeg the Pirst Church of Christ Scientist. -» The main reason why you shouldn't argue with a fool is that fools should be kept apart, Youth Is Killed Near Mill Creek Struck By Auto While Walk- ing Along Huntingdon County Road Merle Prough. 23. of Calvin Pa. was instantly killed Saturday night just west of Mill Creek, Huntingdon county, when truck by an aulomo- bile while walking ainng route 22 with a companion Junior Har- baugh of Huntingdon. BR. D State motor police, who quoted Dr. William B. West, Huntingdon ootnty ax saying an in. quest would not be held, sald Prough suffered a skull fracture and broken neck Potioe onroner, disclosed hold the motorist hoider., 30, of Downingtown, BR. D., who they said struck the youth while passing another car. The vie. tim was struck from the rear while walking on the roadlane on which Burkholder was passing, it was said they would not Paul C. Burk. sania WE A— Loses Finger in Planer Clarence Ro hrock, of South Phil- ipsburg, had the middie finger of his left hang cut off and two end fing- ers severed at the joint when his hand came in contact with a Tlaner one day last week, at Monument, { where he is employed by the Harbi- son-Walker Refractories Company. | He was taken to the Lock Haven hospital for treatment and then taken home fa Clinton Counties to Participate Company agency devoled Auxiliary espionage tely 1 Continusd on page six) will coopera‘s in t Emme | HE CTECUOn Gl the Reverend Pair Injured When 757 nok oes Auto Hits Freight Clinton County Man and Wife Have Narrow Escape From Death going together will be made the Townships , Walker, and Marion hip wil] be of one of the local pas- under Rev, R. Roland under Rev. Paul under Rev. IL. E Kline: and Marion, under Rev Jahn R QGulick. The information sought will have 10 do with the re- ligious and genera] community sta. tus of the people of the valley. It is hoped that each family territory will cooperate fully with the visitors in giving the informa- tion. Such a Burvey, carefully and faithfully made, can mean much to the growth and progress of the life of our community a upervision tors-Lamar i Ritte; Porter Keller: Walker Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Degarmo. of Cartanea, near Lock Haven, narrow. | scaped death about 8:30 o'clock | Saturday night when the auto in which they were riding crashed into a moving NeW York Central freight train at a crossing on the Water ville road Both were given first ald treat. ment at the Community Hospital and returned to their homes They suffered multiple cuts and bruises According to a report of the ac. cident. Mr. Degarmo, who was driv. ing, passed another car before he discovered the raliroad crossing, the first one after jeaving the Jersey] Shore road enroute to Waterville, | After crashing into the middie of the moving train, Degarmo turned the wheels and drove along the tracks, parallel with the freight, The right side of the car was de- in this Presbyterian Conference Pastors, church school officers and teachers of Presbyterian churches in Philipsburg and towns within a radius of fifty miles of that city, | will attend an afternoon and even- ing Christian Education Crusade” conference, Friday, October 18, in molished, damages being set at philipsburg * Presbyterian church $200. Degarmo Was knocked uncon-| Rev. Charles W. Maclay, pastor. The scious when struck on the head by meeting in Philipsburg is the arth a piece of wreckage, He fell from of 5 geries of nine conferences be. the car when his wife opened the ing conducted In Pennsylvania be- left front door to get out of the Ve. tween October 14 and 25. under the | hicle auspices of Presbytery’s Committee ‘on Christian Education and the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education, which has national head- i quarters in Philadelphia, Pa | Cn ——— Character. In the last analysis, is measured bY what you give, not by what you gave, under the mation to the schoo tows Tm sa Y ma td pUNUAr goui-sal WPA INCREASE: Several years ago v Van Zand: was cam gress the first time vith Oentre county on the low wage the: ing. He promised them he'd work for a wage of around $80 a month What did he do? When jt came to deciding on so simple a 1 WPA appropriation. our Jim X ed in favor of a big cut. And ih teams of publicity he releasss from Washington office Iu raid anything about Congress James E. VanZandt doing an] ut all to increase WPA wages the field. however we hear Tepnris he is back to his old tactics of prom ising WPA workers that if re-elecls ed he will fight for more money for them LOVE FEAST? A news item Mondas that while the 15-car Willkie spec ial train tarried in a densely wood- ed sidetrack 12 miles north of Al bany. Sunday, Joe Pew, multi-m lionaire Gi. O. P. leader in Pennsyi- vania, paid the Republican nominee a visit. There is no Indication as 0 what went on at the conference but with all the money back of the combine, we shouldnt be in doubt too long. CONSCRIPTION: A year's service in Uncle Sam's army showtid be of grest benefit to nearly all of us. Regular hours, Meg- (Continued on Page 5) he sympathized workers WFA ware lis reports By POP MOMAND ‘KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES’ — A Foul Blow, Really fe i THATS WHAT © CALL HITTING BELOW ™ BELT, ALM j!
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