Odd and CURIOUS in the | = NEWS Knew The Answers Newspaper reporter Roy Beadle of the Portland Journal was asked only one question when he register- | ed for the draft Wednesday at Port. | land. His wile was on the precinct draft board. “I know the answers | to all these other questions” she announced, “but did vou put the cat out?” A——————— Fractures Nose Violet Mulvenna, who won American Legion drum majorette contest at Boston, lost her place at the head of the University of Mis- sissippl band when it came to play for the Mississippi-Georgla football crowd-—by a nose. While leading an imprompiu parade, as the team ar- rived, Miss Mulvenna tosser her ba- ton upward, failed to see it come down. It struck her nose and pretty majorette awoke in a he tal with a fractured nose Bullet In Head Nine years ago Joseph of San Francisco, collapsed while working at a service station, pre- sumably hit in the head when a tire blew out, The other day a physician located a bullet in which wis the real cause Now DeCGenova wants for the man who ago the the Pi DeGenova ad Years Hard Luck Starting out on a trip, Glen pat lola, Kan While attempting to get help he was struck by another car. Whi being taken to a hospital someone stole his automobile Halt Broadcast When a black widow spider crawl ed on a “hot” wire of a transform= er at Los Angeles, jt caused a shor circuit which halted broadcasting the sheriff's station more fis minutes nave on ol Ba for ns JOHN MOKLE JR, TO WED BEECH CREEK TEACHER The announcement of the marriage Miss Jean Mann Beech Creek was made Satur evening at a meeting of the Young People’s Bridge Club at the Mann home, Miss Mann will become the bride of John H. Mokle Jr. of Bellefonte at the Beech Creek Me: hodist church on Thanksgiving Day. The bride-to-be, the daughter ol Mr. ang Mrs. Prank Mann, is. a ate of the Lock Haven State chers College and iz a teacher of the primary grades of the Beech Creek school. Mr. Mokle is man- ager of the Wels Pure Food Store in Mill Hall, Prize winners at the party were Miss Virginia Hall, Miss Mary Johnson and Mrs Harold A. Robb Decorations were in keeping with the Hallowe'en season etinincuiuomliis—— Appropriate For Accident Except for the damage resulting it wasn't much of an accident, for Mrs. Weber, L. Gerhart, Jr. and her 6-year-old son, Henry, urg, were only slightly injured but the collision in which their car ov- erturned couldn't have occurred at 4 more prepared spot. The inlersec. tion has doctors’ residences on two corners, the coroner’ other corner, and on the fourth ner the home of a judge of ay i —— The family's newspaper. The Jatest three-cent stamp Is- sued honors Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor of the grain reaper. The stamps were put on sale at Lexing- ton, Va, which is a few miles from Steele's Tavern where the inventor ved and where he developed the reaper, in 1831, and demonstrated it at Walnut Grove farm. This in- vention marked the beginning of a revolution in agriculture-—-the me- chanization of the farm--which in the intervening century has been carried to heights unimagined. IL has been a wonderful blessing to the ease, welfare and protection of mankind Incidentally it is recalled that one of the earliest demonstrations of the reaper was on the farm of Judge Watts, two miles northwest of Carlisle, Judge Watts was one of THREE FAVORED IN TOM MIX WILL of Lewis. | $s home on an-| cors- | The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County. A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. SECOND SECTION | Che Centre Democraf VOLUME 69 BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1040. NEWS, FEATURES North Tyrone Is Rocked By Explosion As Estranged Husband Dynamites House Perpetrator Jailed, Admits Cowardly Deed Aimed at Wife Who Occupied One of Six Houses Damaged in Blast-No One Hurt The residents ol the nort} Tyrone were uroused lock Sunday morning by blast which shook the community Wonderment ction wien Was yur sticks of dynamite had exploded outside the home of James McMullen, 10 West Fifteent! Shortly afterwards, Mar all E Hamer, 20 Pemberton, five miles of Tyr wi by police at his Hamer he at turned learn- 1 5B A of Me up east Slate readily admittec had committed A hole about made in the fo Mullen home, while broke window in house i racked the plastering ome he Reuben { © poll that act {et the 12 Jquare was indation of the Mc- the concussion every the an throughout the Hotel Proprietor Hurt In Accident Frank J. Norton of Beech (reek Becomes Local Hos- pital Patient Jack) Norton UCL | Hotel, was brought tv Hospital ics Ne Was the Bald Eagle stance west of Norton 1 by pass- from orists 150 feet mobile The car, almost wai removed 10 a Lock Haven garage. Four Members Of Family Injured demolished Treated at Philipsburg Hos- pital After Crash With Another Car Four members of a Tyrone R. D. family were when iltded another srnioonn four miles, Cause of the ac- the adverse thaplr west red Car 0 Saturday north of Tyrone cident was blamed on weather condition: Those Injured were: Oscar Baugh- man, 42, the driver, scalp lacera- tions and leg injury; his wife, Len 30, broken left leg and possible fracture of the right leg. and their children, Louise, 10, possible nose fracture and Harold, 12, eration of the chest All were treated at Philipsbi State hospital and discharged ex- cept the mother who is being de- tained for further treatment sry HE the most progressive agriculturists of his time: he experimented in crops fertilizers, livestock breeding, new types of barns and new imple- ments. He was for many years the leading citizen of Carlisle, and his chief contribution to the State at large was his successful advocacy of a State agriculutural college and his service as first president of the board of trustees of Pennsylvania State College We see it stated now and then that the Postoffice Department has been issuing too many new stamps, On the contrary we think that the series of stamps of recent years have been informative, interesting to the public, and a means of grant- ing due honors to our noted men alld women, such as Cyrus Hall Me- Cormick ir 18 The will of the late Tom Mix, 60- year-old pioneer screen cowboy, killed in an Arizona automoblie #c- cident last week, was probated in the California courts this week. His attorney, his widow and one of his daughters are the only oneg who wil] share in his estate. To the attorney, Ivon D. Parker, will Mix's “faithful horse and pal, Tony,” as well as his riding equipment, guns, trophies and ap- parel, annoncement of the will dis- closes. ; LARGE Large farm businesses lose more money than small ones when prices are low; but make more when prices dre high, according to J. E. McCord, professor of farm management and agricultural economies at the Penn- sylvania State College. From ga seven-year study of 1.262 sen TERS — ARMS MA | laborers, had minus incomes while {during better years those using the | The rest of the actor's estate is to be divided equally between Mabel Hubbell Mix. the widow, and Thom- asina Mix Matthews, 19. The lat- ter will receive $500 a month until she is 26, then her part of the principal, Specifically cut off are Mix’s four former wives A0d another daughter, Ruth Mix Knight. The will pro- vides that any contestant claiming to be a legal beneficiary shall re. ceive $1. i greater number of men had incomes {60 per cent better than average. | However, only those farmers with | gross recipts of $3.000 or more aver- aged plus labor incomes during the | period. The group handling the largest 1 section | 1:35 | a ter- | entire | McMullen, le ae house aller age TEES open for daylight landings and take KE MONEY, IF - - | was heavy during the completion of | Iddings home, next door, wag also badly damaged, while the window glass in five other homes nearby vas broken No One Hurt 1 force of Lh of the occupant injured, Hamer an Cat Hamer, have ated for about five Hamze stating that wd threatened her jile a number { times and that she had been forced to leave nim, going to Tyrone ike 1} with Mr and James McMullen te Saturday night Hamer call- the McMullan home and after with McMullen and art, an uncle of Mi eX he | Qh } © 187 8101 JERE pite ne none homes was Marshall w separ- weeks, Mrs her husband d his ile, Deen aerine m her homa argument phen Kephi revolver which saving he would use noting He quoted a: them later Had Dynamite at Howe Hamer visi if taprooms in Tyrol wer Home cording to police wo Nl secured oe {use the McMull placed the explosive next of returning where he ¢ ground (Continuea on page eight) to the founda- ANOTHER (By HENRY WW, SHOEMAKER) manner ne Barrens of nity are being immortal- ren and brush of Marion an All 1, Mr. Shoe (pressing praise for the Altoona his- road went to be sur- ancient ago, says the when the tram the route had through another Years lorian, t 2] through veyed ~The Oldtimer FIEHUCKS, WHEN | WAS A KID, THEY USED TO HAV: WORCH- LIGHT PARADES AND ON ELECTION HIGHT WE WOULD BUILD A GREAT pi CENTER OF MAIN STREET JE KIDS COLLECTING BARRELS AND y, BUT NOW oe BEFORE BONFIRE NH THE “SOAP BOR] THIEVES CART AWAY SAFE 800-pound sale ash and checks Beverage com- daysburg, some- night and removed Falling to crack an £ ung $1.24 at the Blair Offi y belween Lil fice floor evi- crack the safe he safe-crackers red the bul found on | denced an attempt to 1 [| » a oot -T police theorized. I . a Student Hegister in central Pennsyi- Blair county's much and sporiaman the intrepid found. kstown., and for whom y branch of Juniata Fran Isaac liked and dians and Isaacs de 8yiva was trusted by the In- though a shrewd bars mansion, which was pulled down 8 | oainer was honest and just in al the time the line was bulll All tha: one can see of It today are the outiines of the vast cellars, side of the fill. This was home of the de Bilvers some say, de Sylvas, a came 0 the Barrens the other pioneer fam- Harisocks, Gales, Rumbargers, others {amily wi long before ies—the Grays, Matterns, Samples, Meeks, Strayers, Kreps and de Bylva being the represéntative | his dealings. When to the Barrens about 1770, It was ory emMPorary assignment as ike but, like him, he soon 1 of the Barremy” and 1 to return to Lan- caster, where in 1771. he married Rhoda Levy, formerly of Phlladel- a. and related to David Levy, the uelilst, ang Aaron Levy, the great Andowner and other pioneer he first came 88 A Close Entrance noble couple Wollzed Le tie i dosenn fam- Jreis In the ineteenth Cen or their hospl- house, none atijiude - a i stranger. Though ie resident in flowd decade of the tury ali Ld auld wer we noted ters Mrs. Karmendi To Road To Airport Go To Laurelton Claim Heavy Traffic Has Dam- Altoona Woman, Involved in aged Highway Re- cently The nation's largest airport at Black Moghannon. nine miles east of Philipsburg, will re- main ‘open for daylight landings and takeoffs, but the mile-long road leading into the airport was order- ed closed las: Friday by SBuperinten- dent Robert E. Zook. Since the dedication of the near by mountain “haven” on September 14, a steady stream of cars has been constantly traveling over the half- cons. ructed road with the resulf it + claimed, that it has been literaily pounded to pieces, The entrance, reaching from the Rattlesnake Pike to the port, had a stoned NOUS emergency surface had never been ap- plied. With the increased heavy traffic, the stone base became lpos- ened and this resulted in deep ruts and holes being formed so that the road is now almost impassable, base bu: the amooth bitum- Dr 4 A barricade has been placed al | the roadway entrance, however any | person having business at the air- | | Muncy institution, she was examin- port may go through the barricade and drive to the airport. The Bu- reau of Aeronautics does, however, insist that persons not having busi- ness there will remain off the read. Officials of the Department of Revenue slate that they be placed i | | 1 | Slaying of Son, Adjudged Feeble-Minded Margaret Karmend! Altoons who Is serving an exlended eo for the murder of her in- fant son, Matthew Karmendi, is to be transferred (0 Laurelton State Village for Feeble-mindegq from the Muncy Industrial Home for Wo- men n order, directing the transfer, was signed Friday by Judge George G. Patterson at Hollidaysburg ac- ceding to a request of Superinten- dent Pranklin R. Wilson of the Muncy institution In the opinion filed by the Court, Judge Patterson bases his action on the finding made upon certificate of DM. Niple. of Northumber. land county, who hag made a thorough examination of Margaret K. Karmendi, and that in his opin. ion the woman is mentally defective and is in need of treatment in a mental institution for defectives, It was also pointed out that when the woman wag received In the ed and tested and it was found that she was feeble-minded, with a men- | tal age of 8 years. 4 months a w——-s A ——— Grows Pigs in Yard Vito Gnoffo, shoe repairman, of on the road in as much 4s they are | Milton, owns a fig tree which this anxious to have visitors at the air port. The measures are necessary to protect the balance of the road- way base and hope is expressed that | the road may be reconditioned and | surfaced early next so that | the public may visit aerial bage. William M. Schwartz, acting di- rector of the Bureau of Aeronautics. emphasizes that the order does not in ‘any way affect airplane traffic and states that the port is definitely offs. Although traffic into the roadway the port, the traffic was said to have | more than tripled following the air- | ports officiaj opening. The only re- | striction placed on the public was | that they remain off the two 5000 foot runways as several plane land- ings were interrupted because of cars using the landing strips. This resulted in officials placing tres | year yielded 100 figs. The tree is four years old and now is about three feet high. 1S | | i | ite Aaron Simon Kuhn, When DOYS LOOK Bellefonte, as NUMBER 43. | 28 Centre County Youths ent To CCC Camps From Bellefonte Last Friday Enrollment Held Under Direction of Thomas C. Williams and Milton W. Etters—-22 Boys Shipped to Poe Valley, 6 to Mill Hall Oclober enr of place Friday at 28 DOVER were ampinent oument the oce | ’ YMCA n Bellelonts accept CCC en were 2 reject { for and were LEGEND of THE BARRE Ou a member LADURSIEr jammuy Wo mansion instead of the oid fur trader's wile had studied medicine a: a girl Amsterdain ged 1 +L | we well know the de Sliver young Kuhn after mans } §T spell of Barrens (Continued on page eight) the reeping Lock Haven Youth Killed As Auto Seriously Injured Struck By Auto Near of Earlier Wagon-Truck Collision LeRoy Driver son of Mrs. Lee E Driver, is a patient in Lock Haven Hospital suffering a ia the from serious injuries received when ©! his he was struck by an ériver by Cameron Renovo, Saturday night. The acc dent urred in front of the hos pital, where a few hours before an- other wreck had taken place automobile Edwards oC Rolls On Him Scene Yeagertown Man Fatally Hurt Trving to Salvage Partner's Car Myron Pursell, 46, of Yeagertown was crushed fo death Sunday while directing efforis to salvage the car business partner and broil n-law, Charles H Wilson, Yeag- er of ertown ain eonnecling the car with s wk owned by Pursels and Wilson's trucking firm broke, and the machine rolled down an em- The boy is suffering from a pos- bankment, with Purse! beneath it. gible fracture of ture of U knee and the head removed Injured at the Blair Heverly, 22 suffered contusions When the skull, a frac. tight jeg between the ankle and lacerations of He was unconscious when to the hospital w fame Lime of Orviston of the hipe # 10 o'clock, Was who siruck at the landing thirty-five feet below on tracks of the Lewistown and Reeds. ville Raliroad Wilson reported he dozed while driving home early Sunday mom- ing, waking as the back wheels slid over Uw embankment. While it hung there, he telephoned his part- ner, who accompanied Carl Gin- two boys were standing at the spot grich, of Mifflintown, to the scene where, at 5:56 o'clock that evening, with a truck. 2 wagon load of corn drawn by two {mules driven by Henry Mader, aged {Bugar Run farmer, had been hit by an automobile driven by Alvin D Pursel's widow and seven brothers survive, 8mith, Lock Haven They were help. CENTRE COUNTY MAN ing to salvage some of the when Edwards’ car hit them com When an officer arrived to inves- {tigate the crash between the wagon Phillips, of Howard, R. D. 2, INVOLVED IN CRASH A a and Automobiles operated by Max and Smith's car, he found Smith in’ Miss Rebecca P. Gross, Lock Haven an argumentative mood, starting a collided at the intersection of Hen discussion with Mader, who Was derson and Bald Eagle stieet, Lock injured in the collision. Smith was Haven, Priday evening about 6:20 arrested on three charges: drunken- gelock, resulting in bumper and ness and disorderly conduct, reck- fender damages to both cars. No one (Continued on page five) wag injured Meyer Arthur Witt Confer Norman Richard Peter Joseph Hugh Robert J Os ph Edward Bosak WCTU Meeting At Moshannon Mrs. W, R. White, State Col- County President, Presides lege, from held at Chica- Colvin of State of the Stale Hkinsburg. by gO, OF College | Convention at Ida Wilmer of Wingate, Mrs Henry of Philipsburg: Mrs Raber: of Snow Bhoe and White The following county . £ Yario Fred Ww Mrs H directors reg on Lhe is phases of work Mrs Stormstown Mrs Ethe a. on “Visual Ed- Fred Henry, of “Sabbath Obsger- Witmer of Win- Contests ng of pe listlil org f Marth Mr On 1da auring ting. County Wasson gave Aarons Howard Jacobs of the Belle- Evangelical church delivered ess of the evening taking as ic “A Danger Spot in Ameri. This was followed by a Cold Medal speech contest under the supervision of Mrs, Witmer Mary Lou Erhart of Philipsburg was declared the winner of the contest in which the foliowinz others participated: Audrey Harnish of Snow Bhoe, Irene Shive of Snow Shoe and Dorothy Reese of Wine gale FIRST FATAL ACCIDENT ON NEW STATE TURNPIKE Injured in the first accident on the recently opened Pennsylvania turnpike. Arthur B, Turner, 66, of Bethlehem, died at midnight, Sun- day, in a Greensburg hospital. Turner's automobile skidded, giruck a bridge and overturned. His wife, Mary, suffered a {rac- tured skull and was taken to the same hospital, where physicians said her condition was fair The accident occurred on the Donegal-Irwin section of the $70. 000,000 “all-weather” highway link- ing Pittsburgh and Harrisburg via an easy grade route that tunnels under the Allegheny mountains, a Pn a Japan, lining up with Germany and Italy prefers a poor chance to none Mrs. | Random [tems WMAAMWWWA AANA HONOR: There seem be a need {or rege tation In the matter of closing Bellefonte business places during the funerals of prominent local citi zens. The George A. Deezer, for 31 years agent here and the LULOMOEN Le aegler In heey corde Other Je 7) inte Studebaker Bellefonte ed LU HBOUK have nonor men CONSCRIPTION WE FORGOT THE WIND ’ v * We Q 5 Wresstnal ay Wage rea FIREMEN CUT: Assemblyman Kenneth complains that the “whispering cam- paign” being conducted about him in regard to his voie in the Legisie- to tap the liquid fuels tax for relief funds. is 3 misrcepresentation We're going 1 pay tt back next he told a G. OP rally last the hand is worth he Legislative bush, Legislature 1} Haines Lure rad ROUX f el 1 4 To noersianc going he money the funds i H U VEAT § tapped Firemen’ Relief Bellefonte $1500 this Bal the deprives BPPIOvaL, Was Fund. which firemen of some $1200 Firemen oompiain show for promise seem year have to Assembly's they don? Us security fund {his $100 A PLATE: A former Luzerne Coun Yis Atiorney speaking at a Ce Coun- ty Willkie Club free feed and rally at Hecla Priday night attempted 0 show that the Demo party is inholy, or something, in that it is having dinners for which the price charged is $100 a plate. Such feast. ing. he sald is comparable to the wicked orgies of Biblical times. How anyone can be so starryv-eyed in this day and age is almost unbelievable. Such dinners cost perhaps $3 or at ithe outside, $5 a plate. The rest goes to the campaign fund And those who buy tickets are willing and able to do s0 PRODUCTION: The Republican campaign seems io have bolled down to a discussion on production. Mr, Willkie himself, dwells on the matter in every speech, Lyman Beecher Stowe, ofl New York City. grandson of the author of “Uncle Tom's Cabin.” and a speak- er at the Willkie rally at Hecla Friday, seized upon thic bone of contention and gnawed at it with. out enthusiasm. The large audience applauded politely several times during the speeches, but the ap- plause seemed perfunctory When the program chairman announced that the speaking program was over, the audience sat still, as though [they couldn't believe the speeches heard were all there Were to be They seemed, in short, 10 be awail- ing a message thal never came The {Continued on page seven) ty I ty nire trict - ‘KEEPING UP WITH THE J ONESES' — A Dieter's Tribulations (Cont'd.) EC ali———— p———, Pd wHOOPER "op DIETS STARTED ALREADY Y I'VE LOST A LOT OF wWeIGHT passing signs on the runways aml announcing that violators would be (Contined ox Suge eight) Pennsylvania farms, MeCord deter-| number of acres of crops per man, | mined that when prices were low ang the lafgest number of animal | those farms having two or more units, had the best returns, | » a a RE RR Ns RR *
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