OVER 7,000 CO Printed and Distributed Each Week, Covers Thereughly Every Town and Village In Centre County, PIES he Contre Democral MORE CLASSIFIED ADS Per Issue Than All Other Centre County Newspapers Combined. A Quick and Economical Selling Medium, VOLUME 59. NUMBER 19, SUBS( ‘RIPTION—$1.50 PER YEAR i ad BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1940. Man Fatally Injured While In [ne coc nes | Open Bids is Average | | | | | Cabin; Deer Kill i Bellefonte Boy, 14, And! State College Woman Each Get Deer YOUTHS USE PLANE TO LOCATE HERDS Few Violations Reported Many Camps Closed in | Seven Mountains Centre County's two-week open season on deer began Monday with cne of the greatest armies of hun;- €I's ever seen here in hot pursuit of big game, The woods, mountains re-echoed to the resounding reports of high-powered rifles as hunters | rought buck and does with impar- | tiality. Came Warden Thomas Masier of Bellefonte. yes.erday summed the first three days of the seaso with a report that considering that both bucks and doe are legal game, the kills only average, The num-' ber of hunters in the coun'y's woods was believed to be on a par with any previous season, although many camps broke up after the first and second days, and from now on the number of hunters {n the woods i expected to dwindle rapidly Warden Mosier reported there are few known violation this time. There have been five or’ six accidents, one fatal, and inves- tigation of these cases is occupying the clase attention of some wardens, Mosier said that a number of spike bucks have been killeg take for doe . ’ and fields tha at in mi Youthful Hunter A Bellefonte youth is believed to have been the youngest successful hunter In the county to date. He is James Foley, aged 14. of Delle fonte, who on Monday brought dawn an 8-polr buck while hunting: along Dix Run, Woman Succeeds Mrz, May Weiser, of Bast Harts- | wick Avenue, State College, claims to be the first woman in the county (0 get her deer. A few moments after she had began to walch in (Continued on Page 7—Col. 1 | ty Co j convi Jury Commends New County Home Grand Jurors Recommend Re- pairs to Jail And Riddance of Rats There The Grand Jury for December cotirt completed its deliberations on Tuesday of last week and in sub- mitting its report to the court noted | that of 8 bills of indidtment con- sidered, 6 were found true bills. J. B. Reed, of Pine Grove Mills, was! foreman of the jury. Of its inspection of the county property the Grand Jury reported gs follows: "We recommend that! two new floors be laid in the bed- tooms on the second floor of the living quarters of the jail. New paper 8 needed on the southwest | corner bedroom on the second floor of the jail. Sheriff's office should be redecorated and “floor refinished. (Continued on page six) Carpeneto To Collect Fines “All Traffic Violators Will, Have to Pay Penalty,” New Officer Promises Bellefonte Council, after another | of - iis countless discussions upon | the problem of enforcing traffic and other borough laws, Monday night designated Borough Treasur- er George Carpeneto as the fining officer for all traffic violations, Heretofore Burgess Hardman P. Harris has been the fining officer, but a part of the fallure of law en- forcement in the borough has been latd at his doorstep by Council, which contends that the Burgess’ practice of fining some violators, and hot fining others, disrupts the morale of police and fosters a care- jess regard for borough regulations, It was reported that a number of son who received tickets in, r and November have ignored instructions to appear before the Burgess. In accepting his new position, (Continued on page six) i nA —— Father and Son Get Turkeys | Harvey Hoy, Jr, and his seven. hi -o0ld son, John, of How- . D. 2, were two of the lucky irkey ‘hunters last week, On Thurs- | oi he son brought home an 11 pound hen, the first he had ever thot and naturally a well-prized trophy, The next day the father duplicated the son's feat by bagging & hen of about the same weight } ’ | was dragging the carcass ! hunter, { furnished “They Were Small, Sol Took Two,” Hunter Explains | An unconfirmed report from th { Centre County deer battlefield con- cerns a hunter who was overtaken by a game warden while the Nimrod of a small deer up an embankment The wa:den, walking over asked “Waere tag?" (He rred f requ to be | to the your to the 1slen- ig game re.e g which is ired » hunter went searching tood by moti The ong of warden ud | without 5 became embarrass- iter gave in nd to the rea: unlocked the and 1 on which was big game tag hunt er explain- both hie Nimrod i the lid all deer fastened the prope Stammering were o small t be any harm took um 4 Seek $5000 Gates Reward J. L. Tressel, Phil Buding- er, Elmer Pownell, Lewis Heverly Applicants Pour applications for the $5,000 | reward offered by the Centre Coun the glaver of in the Commiss pie Of deadline cial applications The four who seek all or the rewar] are: J. L. Tressel East Bi Street, Bellefonte, who claims he State Motor Police with the ormation which led arrest and conviction Millinder, Mi. Eagle petition is a lengthy one and names officers to whom information al {Continued from page 6) {ion of Gates were filed on- part © f of f 3 43 nt Two Appeals Are Granted By Court Two persang were found guilty and costs were placed on the { county in two appeals from sum- mary convictions heard by Judge Ivan Walker Wednesday of last { week, One plea of gullity was taken and another case was heard at the i #ession which followed the close of the Grand Jury's deliberation Mrs. Ellen M. Steidle, State Col- lege, was found no; guilty on a motor violation charge arising from a parking controversy on College avenue, Costs were placed on the county, Costs were also placed on the county when James Moore of near State College was found not guilty of violating a State College (Continued on page six) ‘Bellefonte Youths Injured in Collision Raymond Walker, 11, and his bro- ther, Russell, 8, of nesr Bellefonte, | i received treatment al the County Hospital dispensary Centre Mon- day afternoon for injuries received Hin a motor accident at the southern ‘end of Willowbank street in Belle- | fonte, The boys were treated for lacerations about the lips. Cars involved in the accident were toperated by the Injured boys’ fath- ier, George T. Walker, of Bellefonte, | R. D. 1, and Joseph Merletti, of , Chambersburg. The two cars met on the turn where Route 550 turns) ito Bush Addition. Ice on the road was given 88 a contributing cause! of the accident. Total damage to the cars was about $100 rr itr WP —— Mishap at College In a slight accident Tuesdhy night on West Colege avenue, Stata { College, cars driven by Samuel E. | Strayer, of Pennsylvania Purnace, | and Hugh Crumlish, of Pleasant { Gap, were involved. The Strayer ear is reported to have skidded into | the parked Crumlish machine, To- | fal damage was placed at $40 and no one was injured. C—O — in M ilesburg When cars operated by Merrill §, | Reese, of Wingate, and Hilda Leath- | ers, of Howard, crashed In Miles. burg abotit 4:30 o'clock Monday af ternoon, no personal injuries result. ed and damage was approximately $25. 1 of the | ° evealed |, shoo | no. | James Shaw, 49, Kato Miner, Victim of ‘Stray’ Bullet POLICE INVESTIGATE ACCIDENT SERIES Yaxinos Hunter Succumbs to Heart Attack; Man and Wife Wounded one death 1 and three One fatality iral causes wounded That was the county Monday j day the twe om Persons score fon night as the first week deer season idrew to a close. And since that time, no additional been reported The fatality claimed James Shaw 49, of Snow Shoe, who dled sl after a bullet believed to have a hunter nearby s he Was sitt Monday aft Centre of been passed uffed out bul let that passed body and a total of six inches of wood before being halted in its destructive flight An element of mystery the case when the bullet i three-inch board ‘abin und to be a bullet which ordinarily mus upon striking any object let Wed no signs of Some observers claimed tor was not significant CRAlLSe rience has under certain conditions bullets fail to spread Shaw, whose family resided in Snow Shoe, was employed as a min- er at Kato and shared a small cabin with Richard Langton, of Snow {Continua on Page 7--Col 3) Shaw's life was by a " 3 WOW eT through his entered pried from small nosed hrooms The bul- mushroom- the was { oft she be hown that i expe soft-nosed Youth Injured As Shotgun Backfires Paul Billett, aged underwent treatment v Hospit fonte late sed by mmissidners for the arrest and | Faye | 19 of Colevilie at he Centre I dispe cau gun The gun at hu gun, rag The barre] se and pellets s¢ ken breech in a. gla After mm and treated he was home Six Criminal Cases Listed District Attorney's Sched- ‘ule Calls for One-Day Ses- sion; Starts Monday youth t A shell in the weapon, and fired parated from the stock ttering from the bro- head d face ed the an recely ing hav ine anti-tetanus the lacerati rmitted to ret Only six cases are listed for trial at the regular December criminal court which will open here on Mon- day morning, December 9 District | Attorney Musser W. Qettig revealed yesterday All" of "the cases are a possibility that the work may not be completed in one day it wag in. | dicated The trial list follows: Ray Patterson. Altoona, burglary PF. E. Meyer, Bellefonte, drunken | driving John Ballenger drunken driving Jeorge Harris, Philipsburg, ceiving stolen goods Mark Olenowski, Osceola Violation Miners Act Harold Ream, Pleasant Gap, hit- and-run John G. Love Named Appeal Board Attorn’y State College, re~ Mills, street, board, one of 14 in the state form-| ed to decide appeals of Pennsyl- | vania’s was announced by Gov. James. Area Bix takes in Potter, Tioga, | Bradford. Cameron, Clinton, Ly- coming, Clearfield, Centre, Bullivan, Arthur H.| Union, Snyder, Columbia, Montour, | and Northumberland counties, The five-man appeal boards in- clude representatives of labor, dustry, medicine, law and agricul- (ture. They serve without compensa- ition, Mr. Love represents law Sis a — —— STORES OPEN EVENINGS Beginning Tuesday, December 10, Bellefonte stores will be open every evening until Christmas, it was an- nounced last night the retail division, Chamber of ce, { Fred listed for! trial on Monday, although there is | States, | former prest in air mail history Attorney John G, Love, East Linn | prestige ih ord Bellefonte, has been named tion. Ine. a member of the Area Six appeal | sarvice through Central Pennsyl- | ‘Draft Board No. 2 prospective draftees from... decisions of the 422 loeal boards, it| and pick-up mail at Bellefonte's in-| Structure shoe Ine named Commerce presiden Xmas Program To Begin Soon Music And E ntertainment to be Broadcast Over Townwide System The Christmas program Uréadcas wrdughout Wie Duslaess area of Bellefonte through a series of speakers 1c be erected along th reels will Thursday, De. Minced ye OF « of Commerce to + ” open on Nn every es rs on. Foy wen mA rpef programs will studio to be Jo Johti's Luthetaa of Allegheny and Pag Beave Pare seve be rom a chtinued from - Unionville Scouts Advanced i in Rating Al a Muncy Dist rict Board of Re. view meeting held at the Bellefonte Trust Company Wednesday of last week, with Earl 8 Orr acting 4% chairman, two members of Troop No. 1. Boy Scouts of Unionville, were awarded the Star Scout rank They were Fred Hall. and James on ‘Baxton Merit badges Hall Milf were awarded to James Saxton, Charles Hall ord Hall and Edward Bar. ton On November 13 these members of the Unionville troop, Scoutmaster E. C. Holtzworth, were advanced to first class ratings Walter Lucas, Edward Barton and Milford Hall 8pecial prizes consisting of merit badge sashes, were awarded to Wale ter Houtz, Fred Hall and James Saxton HO — Pickup Airmail Service Begins Heavy Mail, Trouble With Pick-up Device Delays First Flight Bellefonte, one of the principal {landmarks in the early development of air mail service in the regained a United measure of its Monday when All American Avia | inaugurated its pick-up | vania The first eastbound flight of the service, scheduled to deliver station along the Jacksonville road, { was just 2 hours and 11 minutes late. | The plane, due here at 9:24 a. m., did not arrive until 11:35 a. m., but | since then the planes have been fly- ing close to schedule. Delay in the first fight was oc- (Continued on Page 7) Cuts Off Finger Cuiting Wood Mrs. Robert Bloom, of Potters Mills, had the misfortune on Sate urday while splitting wood, to cut! off the first finger of his left hand. | He was brought to the Centre Coun ty Hospital by Mr. Harry frown, | where it was dressed, after which | he retumed home, : | port ! ghoe, | Port ‘and Snow Shoe churches. { 2, Bellefonte, For $75,000 Building Here Contract For New Tele- phone Exchange To Be Awarded Soon STATE COLLEGE MAN IS AMONG BIDDERS on Talley rand Site Will Be Colonial Design oLened wt} were Monday Harr new yo 5.000 site of the North Alleghen) t se Lh ontem tem exchange ! area While no offic he bids hw derstood that annour ructessiu] bidder Ain a whi day Or ie of the bid. ders Is Contractor John H He: MELE of State Coll wee who had the tract | the construction of Murphy & Co tare building (Continued on page seven) May Organize Home Guard Veterans Asked to Attend Meeting at V. F. W. Home Here, December 13 A meeting to discuss the organisa. wigesr 4% Ww RUT "Wo Peplace Batlery B Beliefonte which will leave f will of Foreign December All members of the A those men who have on foreign soil or he (Continued on page seven) ho plated ¢ the Bel al repotis reg 1 report been released ’ cement of th to be mad CON ~ Cr. C here be h a Wars he 1 ary 19 seen service tile waters are Hunter Narrowly Escapes Death MoMullin missed detith by a inch or so while hu the Sbow mous annual deer Fred P Mileaburg gin of deer on Monday opened McMuilin 20 of Mmar- an s 318 i the SEARON a rock while two other members of his party drove up a valley, was “creased” across the middle of the back by a bullet fired by an unknown hunter The bullet caused a lateration across the muscles of the back, but caused no serious injury. MeMullin was able to walk several miles over rough mountain land to the groups car With MeMullin were his brother (Continued on Page 6-Ind Sec) ——— ——— Methodist Church sitting on School Under Way First of Four Sessions For Workers Held at Miles. burg, Monday A school for guidance to workers in rural churches in the Williams- District of the Methodist church is being held In Milesburg on Msnday and Friday nights, De- cember 2 6, § and 13, it was an- nounced this week The school. promoted by the De- partment of Leadership Training of | the Central Pennsylvania Confer- Board of Education, with] headquarters in Harrisburg, is be- ing held with the cooperation of | the Pleasant Gap, Penn's Valley, Matilda, Half Moon, Howard Dean ¢f the school is Rev. M. F. | (Continued on page 6-—second sec.) | In New Headquarters Officers of Local Draft Board. No. in charge of John Smith, were moved Priday from the attorneys’ room on the second floor of the county court rosm, to the! <ffices of the Internal Revenue Col- lector, Room No, 16, in the base- | ment of the Bellefonte. postoffice. The new quarters are more suit- able for the needs of the board and a fireproof storage vault 4s avail able for conscription records. A telephone is to be installed in the near future, it is Teporieq. = Eiéetrioal pits are gifts of dis- tincdon. DeHaas Electric Co. . ¥: Bast —— 2 HUNTERS DIE, 3 HURT, FIRST DAY | Deputy Resigns | Titan Workers Vole For A. F. of L. Union JAMES H. HUGG BULLETIN Sheriff Edward R Miller lxst night announced the ppointmeny of Lee Davies, of Blanchard Street, as Deuply Sher iff to succeed James H., Hugg, re vigned. The appoiniment is to be tome effective January | Mi, Davies. a resident of Pelle- fonle for a number of years is now employed as storeroom clerk at the Pennsylvania Department of High- ways garage just rast of Bellefonte Mr. Davies, 3 former employe ol the Central Pennsylvania Ga, Com pany, is well known locally mes Hugg he ”~ on reste ne 0 age December as office m ore accepi Three Penn State Fraternities Robbed The bery In there 1 major iratemnity rob. Sate Coliege in Nearly prrveied early Mond mornitig. when three housey in the Flops robbed of approximately $380 The fraternities were Pi Kappa Alpha, $24. Tau Kappa Epision $160 Kappa Delta Rbo, $50 All (Ses are tuated a section of Prospect and Garner s.ioetls The robberies are believed 10 ha taken piace between 3 and 5 Al houses robbet! {those } the dormitory where boys sieep in rooms frogn their study The thieves showed a decd ference jor paper money (Continued on page | geven En a “ Fire Destroys Coleville Home — — Two Families Homeless: Lose All Furniture And Clothing Two {amilieg 10st their homes and all their possessions late yesterday af ternoon in a fire which destroyed he Fred Confer residence at Cole ville. The cause of the fire is un- known The blaze, dlztovereg about 3:45 | o'clock by members of Justice family, In a neighboring house, spread with that nothing could be saved. E'- vi a m req were eDAra’e rooms ded pre- Change Lhe Prospect, avenhiug section were | [AT das yslem | i present at ¢ the Pau | ‘Car Leaves Road; Crashes Into Pole the extent of clock Friday machine yan no a Route pear Marthe Ice now on t! ) signed the ca afternoon od 220 ang # a CLAIR HOOVER MANAGER ATLANTIC SERVICE STATION Hartranft Is School Head . Blaney Chosen Vice Presi- dent; Gettig Attorney For Board Horace Hartranit president of the Bellefonte School Biwid Ql Whe annua orgabizstion | meeting of ‘the board, Monday night. R. C. Blaney was named vice pres- ident, and District Attorney Mus. ser W. Geille was chosen the board's solicitor Rartranty Schad a candidate for Mr. Blaney ranft as vic resident only nominee for the voir was unanimons Oettig succeeds Arthur C. Dale as the board's attorney. Mr. Gettic had ser ved post prior to M: Dale's elec year, Dale was a nomin ion, Monday night All vas elected Aas succeed: TS La Nr re-elec ag president Mr He office and the suroeeds Hart- was the in the Lion ia for re-elect members of the the meertiing, Hartranft, Mr. Schad William H. Brouse and board namely: Mr Mr. Blaney Bossart J were | DeHaas Because of the new classification of the school district, owing to an increase of population as shown in the 1840 census, the board next year will consist of seven members It is expected that in July 1841 the board will name two additional members to Serve until the next general election when the citizens of town directors Monday's meeting mediately after the other business being ast so Russian To Speak at adjourned im- election, nc transacted Evangelical Church such rapidiiy forts to remove a washing machine | | from the back porch had to be abandoned because of intense heat. | will choose the additional | NLRB Poll Rev als Favor Affiliation: 140 Opposed NEGOTIATIONS FOR CONTRACT TO BEGIN yay cher Election is Peaceful quel to Strike Four Years Ago Se- Kiwanis Club Names Directors Bellefonw Ralph C Thome Stabile Fred Bon d Cc Wh and E Worms were elected the membership of the board of direct. ors for 1941 James R. McConoghie, superin. tendent of the National Park Geliysburg, showed. a rel of souno {movies of the battlefield and also spoke concerning the battle of Get- tysht re and the field. rm i= lecture with st pictu Coroners OFviee Is 136 Years Old Roland Curtin Was First County Coroner; Dr. Heaton Served Longest Time wugh the office the Cor- is widely acclaimed to be the dest office in civilised countries records for Centre county o } by Charles Peter, of Bellefonte search assistant for the Works Pro- gress Administration. indicate that although the Coroner's office in county is 136 Fears old, the Com- missioners’ office 48 three vears old- er Available récords show that while the first Board of County Commis. sioners, congistine of John Hall David Barr and Matthew Allison took office mn 180), a Coroner was (Continued on Pale §—2nd Sec — Five Injured In Two-Car Crash 27 Stitches Needed to Close Wounds in Face of One of Vietims Five persons were injured slight. Wer . £ 4 Vo an Alt of os pro once thi lly and damage totaled about $750 Occupants of the house were Mr | |i {Continued on h page seven) R. C. Witmer 25 Years In Business Here || Roy C. Witmer, proprietor of the | | who is ob | | Witmer Electric Store, serving his 26th anniversary in bBus- i iness here, ranks high among the | town's oldest merchants | Exclusive of firms founded by | | others and now i cendants of the founders, Mr. Wit- {mer ranks within third or fourth! {of being the oldest business man in| i town street. Later he moved to a room on Bishop street, remaining there lets than two years before moving | to.a location on the southeast cor- iner of High and Water streets. At {about the close of the World War Ta ie Tate building, West High street, and in 1919 bought the building next door to the Tate property in which the Witmer store has been located ever since. res, ellefonte’s gh + storage ates silefon | plant for furs: and handles nation “ known makes of electric ranges, ators, washing machines, | hie radios and smaller ap conducted by des- | | stereoptican pictures, a number of In addition to his electrical con | «| Mr, Voronaefl is oh a nation-wide {in a motor accident on Route 322 {near Woodycrest Sunday afternoon {The cars were operated by Anthony I Bernesky of Emeigh. Cambria coun. : iy. i | ville, R. 1! Injured in the sccident were Ber- if nesky, | Joseph Bernesky, I} i right side of the bead and of the 1 left hand; Betty Letavich, lacera- if | tions right eve andl on the bridge of the §} nose, three stitches were required Mr. Witmer entered business onl 4 | November 1, 1015, in a small build- | ing at the rear of the present Elec. | tric Supply Co. store on West High | "What's Happening. in Russia” will be the subject of a talk by a | young Russian Evangelist, Paul! } Voronaef! at First. Evangelical | Church, Bellefonte, . Friday evening | at 7:30 o'clock. His mesupe will | under the present Communist Re- gime. This message will be illus- trated with some 180 startling photo which were smuggled from Russia, speaking tour. Thousands have heard his message in more than (Continued on Page 62nd Sec) — ——— — ~-Hieotric gifts are the most prae- Electric Co, * | | Hand R and George Neatham, Coates- D lacerations of the right knee; cuts about the of the forehead along the {Continued on Page 62nd Bec.) ns From College Police Force Harold C. Hand resigned Sundsy ins a member of the State College | borough police force. . Mr. Hand has gone lo Williams- port to actept 8 position as a guand iat the Aviation Manufacturing | Corporation, formerly a branch of | Pennsylvania Motor Police. Mr. Hay hag been with that organisation for three years and fs especially noted for his trick-riding exhibitions given in conjunction ‘with the annual State Police Rodeo. He will arrive in State College on Sunday, Hand went to Stale College on April 17. 1088, from Willlamsport. He previously served over two years with the Pennsylvania Motor Po- lice.
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