\ | fre Democrat Merry Christmas VOLUME 59. NUMBER 52 BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1940. SUBSCRIPTION—$1.50 PER YEAR ———— - ULE NONE ENTITL 3 Official Statement Is Expected Soon | Four SH5000 Decision Affects Claimants to County Fund HAVE RIGHT TO APPEAL TO COURT Reported Action is Final Chapter in One of Coun- s Murders Notie of the claimants to the 85,.- 000 reward offered by County Commissioners for rest anid conviction of the Faye Gates will receive the rew ard or any part of it, according to official reports vesterday The information is misstoners will soon notify claimants by mail tha; not entitled to the reward It reported that the Com siocners will inform claimants their claims have been carefully, fully, and impartially that none of them furnished mation which led to the arrest and conviction of Richard Millinder for the brutal crime near Mt, Eagle Jast May 5. In considering the cial the Commissioners are reported to have (Continued oh page three) Nittany Scene the laver of the four i they are Mis [op that be » , but infor- me Ins, of $3000 Fire M. 7-Car Garage Owned By C. Long Burns to Ground; Car is Destroyed A two-story seven-car Nittany, owned by C known livestark dealer. was burn hie ground last Wednesday ternoon in a fire which is believed to have originated from a slOV which was used to heat bulid- ing. Included in car; a large crates. lumber, equipment. The total placed at $3,000, with ance. When the blaze was by residents of the area, a call wi sent to the Mill Hall Fire Company but when firemen arrived on th ene the struct wag doomed They devoted mos their efforis toward preventing the flames nearby building Long undecided as to whelli the building will be replaced. Dread of ‘Solitary’ Reason For Escape 10 % Lhe the joss numoer tools, ~ ac overe ire t of the of Mr § pread wo eg is Brewer, color who n Rockview told Judge Ivan Walker at a special session of Court here Monday morning his reason for escaping was his dread of finement in a “basket cell” at Rock- regula- for violating prison Henry ed, cabed cember 17 fro prison De- thm LIAL taken Rhoads Brewer bad beet before Deputy Warden C, C some time in solitary confinement, on a bread and water diet, as pun- jshment. While being taken to the “basket cell” Brewer broke away from guards and hid himself in a bullding Inside the stockade. At 12:30 o'clock the next morning he scaled the stockade and fled. He was picked-up near State Col Itge the same day by a truck drive who recognized him from a prison pholo he had geen. Brewer was sentenced to serve from 3 to 6 years in Western Peni- tent fary. His original sentence was from Alle gheny County, cm. smn WP —————— —— Elks Club To Hold Christmas Dance ss — The Bellefonte Elks Club's an- nual Christmas dance will be held at the Elks home, West High Street, | Christmas night, December 25, be- ginning at 9 p. m. The dance Is limited to members and their es- corts. The Ciu the annual New Year's eve party. Sh a —_— | many the Centre | ar- | that the Com- | considered {for | reprimand and was ordered to spend ' is completing plang for | State College Woman Heads VFW Contest “of State Col- in charge Mi ngle la ced Rigg has been the V. F. W. Au for the entire state ¢ > Penn vis it Was announced headqu arter I Mrs, Mingle assembling compet : and \ Mr: 1 ver pr [+] 1e5¢ {from the a com- munities il : y " n in urn, | Displays Open For Inspection "Three Bellefonte Men Completing Intricate Xmas Layouts fev erishls of their {ol North { Smith at John Stree Emel uled to be tion Monday ready public Inspec with tall The di more complete Albeit Sui consists of a large room pra (Continued on page three) rs A — done alr ‘Chemical Lime Transfer Nears National G1 psum « 0. Expect- ed to Assume Control Late This Month wrated management s action will organ ization program in January 1938 when filed In bankruptcy TB bankrupt or eel Tie complete brought of the npany has Clatense PP. Wvi the late Spe Townsend Shastnee-cn-the-Delaware tee January ong appointed by (Continued on page is Has Hand Mangled In Electric Wringer neer Hnce con- | diy were idge ree) Late last Mondny a afternoon, Miss Lottie McCool, chief operator of the Millheim exchange of the Bell Tele. phone Company, was the a very painful accident Miss MeCool the ithe home of Mr. and Mrs. 1. E Stover, every Tuesday morning, and r (had gone to the Stover home on Monday afternoon to fill the laun. dry tubs with water in readiness for the next day's task. Mrs, Stover turned on the wringer of a new ¢lectric washer and was showing Miss McCool how it was operated then the latter got too close to {the revolving rubber rolls and her uses laundry at victim of {right hand was drawn into the ma- | chine. She was rushed to the office of a | physician and then i County Hospital, The of the hand was most index finger severely torn, lacerated, broken, although no bones were but the back of the hand was also! i ' to the Centre! McCool suffered from! shock dnd it was thought advisable i to keep her at the hospital after the surgical treatment had been t) istered. a= =o 2 COUNTY BUYS PICTURE PROJECTOR FOR SCHOOL USE The County Commissioners have donated for use in the county Agri- cultural High School classes a pic- ture projector, This is a tri-purpose projector in which slides or films may be shown. Tt will make it possible for many farm boys to see actual improved | farm practices in pleture form thus helping them gain valuable infor- mation. - The machine has been turned over to the County Supervi- sor of Agricullura] Education, W Tucker, ang it will be immediately put to use in various centers where classes are now being conducted. i It will be possible for the small High Schools to use this machine upon request. Any teacher inter ested should get in touch with Mr. Rogérs. shown sanding consideration for rural boys and girls in this do- nation. ul Tucker or others in the office of | the County Superintendent F. G. | believe that it has done me good, The Commissioners have i admin- | Guardsmén To Leave Jan. 6; Neo Farewell Planned Be Re fonle’ is scheduled Miss. for training Mona Januvary © National Guard unit leave for Camp Shelby intensive represe rliefonte’s ir 18 to Nal- {to year of I'he st valuable Defense and are Lroop coll ional Officer nizatio their home hey may be t all of u ecome None members of the or- jeaving their job their families, better pre in case involved in war, Knows wil United States ] ir trooper war duty. IL before the Guard rlonte as a org undergone ser Hal Lo 1 I pared prolee we hou lies ahead It ootild are called could hap- men ii of wu thal re- iZaLon vice of : “ang morte Laan part of of nation. community ear of Lhe best interest devols ves al defense A one 3 thelr to the doesn’t real debt now owe them a 4 As thing stand e (Continued on page seven) Predict Changes In State Election Laws yivanis ub je “u 1041 Penn be fon during session opening Januai i some evidenee vid Republica: N Indications are election procedure 10 drastic ve that will revi LI ul ol ne Ch ronosal major munis LC DAU r Com part) mbursemen tical subdivisions ite-wide electd 3 Less | H hated’ Make on uttifor campangn requis £41 IC soparats ident and Nominees ih Ng fOr pre gent, exempt | director and TR » LL ER Tax Lrereq @ viewed Woodwa dynamite for intro @ Poni 5 been redraf leg } Next, Dislike of Dre 0 Few by f y 3 1pm : Jane sod by Coy view eR ma- be open commodat fp Tuesiay nig inft-minute she TO REWAR [Turmpike tami | Howard- Beech Creek Highway Link Scen For Defense Urged || By Moerschbacher || Moerschbacher Pl ipsburg | Commander of Veteran War HL d Federal Admiiniairat H. Jone Lr the pro- Yivania Phil reign Jesse of Perm Lion ung from Lruction fu cory h Jones m a a ance YOTR~ head fense standpoint, Moer- Tarr 100-mile exten Veterans Cr action ON A mnanger Hick the bottle. _/Eency not achieving realit wrote ibacher hould like Ww ibility avoid we where the respons lies the Let us here the ant ion th nde on mareec and he atal delay at {he i ( { i fal) of “The added public entitled Ww know “what cial delinguent in falling to tangible progress orized by JU (Continued on page 1" ni make Pro- off Bre Pg. more wet or “ elected three) sul repre. Sy sake man has many natat ga iekens n ire cha day as Among th racier th the STAVE ONE Marley's Ghost wis Gead? Of Scrooge and he wer: was his sole ex. riend, and Boerockee ul event Mar LTB will ‘“ that must be nothing wonderful ory I am going wees Ot perfectly t Hamiet ather died ¢ began, there woul re remarkable in u the we ing m tigh! Scrooge ! a ' ETRaping covetous, old on ) FEY Merry ! 1] Christmas. uncle ! God cried a cheerful voice Scrooge, “Hun a nbug. u nephew, “You do I am pure?” you Bab!” said bug!” Chri aid mean tmas urn SCTrooRe's thal al 8b." Christmas! to be merry? “Come, ew gaily, “What right have you to more? Youre rich enough ing no bebler answer spur of the moment, "again; “Keep Christmas in your way, and let me keep It in mine” “Keep IL!” repeated Scrooge’s nephew, “But you don't keep it.” “let me leave it alone, then” sald Scrooge. “Much good may it do you!” There sald Sorooge Merr What right you You're poor enough.’ ave then,” be Scr hay on the “Bah! with ooze ready aid up are many things from which I might have derived good, | by which I have not profited, I dare | say,” returned the nephew. “Christ- | mas among the rest. But I am sure | have always thought of Christmas | time. when it has come round { apart from the veneration due to its | sacred name and origin, if anything | belongng to it ean be apart from that—as a good time: a kind, for- giving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time 1 know of, long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-pas- sengers to the grave, and nol an- other race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, un- cie, though it hag never put a scrap of gold or silver in my. pocket. 1 and will do me good: and I say, God bless it! Come! Dine with us tomorrow." Scrooge sald he would gee him— ay | coming and followed it | in the | ris ail Judes rumeTous who are they were creats “So, a Merry ( He went the expression {i Be rooge’s neph- married?” fell in Good afternoon!” “Becaus you growled Serooge returned the neph- | undéle, but me before give 85 a now?” HAT ar LAE {10 gee | Why you that never came pened reason lor no. hay it “Good afternoon,” said Scrooge orry. with all my heart, 80 resolute, We any quarrel, Iam | find you never had hate | the trial in homage to Christinas, {and 1 keep my Christmas humour | | to the last. 8o A Merry Christmas” {| His nephew stopped to bestow the greetings of the season on the clerk “There's another fellow,” mul- tered Scrooge, who overheard him: “my clerk, with fifteen { week, and a wife and family, ing about a merry Chrstmas” Two portly gentiemen came in, “At this festive Mr. Scrooge,” said one gentleman, | “it Is more than tsaally desirable {that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries.” “Are there no prisons?” Scrooge, “Plenty of prisons.” “And the Union workhouses?” dé- manded Scrooge."Are they still In operation?” asked scarcely furfilsh Christmas cheer of ming or body to the multitude.” re- turned the gentleman. “a few of us are endeavoring (w raise a fund to buy the poor some meat and drink, love 17 1 io to which 1} | nave been a party. But I have made | shillings a | talk i season of the year. ; “Under the impression thai they | ristm. Carol AUTHOR greaie: WF LOT number great hristimas, 1 nele.” | and warmth, What torr or meals of ou down Scrooge replied. v1 the establishments mentioned--they are thae who can't mans; rather rather die” had belter do it surpius population and decrease the Seeine rf iT it would be useless point, to pur- ue the men withdrew Al length the hour of the counting-house arrived. “You'll tomorrow, 1 suppose?” The all day Scrooge. it want sald clerk fODCe a Year. “A poor excuse for picking a { mans pocket,” sald Scrooge. Scrooge took his melancholy dine | ner in his dsuas) melancholy tavern, {and having read all the newspapers, went to bed, Now, it is a fact, thai there was i nothing al all particular about the | knocker on Lhe door, except that it Was very Jarge. let it alse be | borne in mind thay Serooge had not | bestowed one thought on Marley t Then let any man explain how it happened that Scrooge saw in the knocker. not a knocker but Mar- iey's face, As Scrooge looked ab this phen- omenon, it was a knocker again To say that he was vot startled would be untrue. But he put bis (hand upon (he key he had relin- quished, turned 11 siurdily. cheerved was only himself in; double-locked limself in. which was not his custom, and sat down before the fire to his gruel. The fireplace wus afl old one, paved all round with quaint Duten oan | cost | badly | 2 1 sad0 shulling up | | upon He closed his door and locked | WORE dh writ. t of Png’ . ¢ prod inciude puch Nicholas Nicholby Pickwick Paper Great Expecia Tl 804 3 10 1LUSLTAL were Cains the SCT A a Abels Queens ¥ off to There dens rod REE PH the sEament room It was with great asto that as he ooked he zin to tvs ov this SWINE It wcoeeded by clanking noise n below, { some person were dragging a heavy chain over the casks in the wine mer- : chant’s oeliar. Scrooge then re. membered to have heard that gt i were described was 8 a deep dow as i Out Nn hauled hotise: dragging chains f I | gdoor | The AA Nn jocks i | a came on through he heavy passed into ihe room Marler's el an chain pad - heavy face; Cas ~DOXes dren eel, wie of ledgers and wrought in don’t believe in Ghost said Scrooge you doubt your ¢ J osald Scrooge, “a i them. A slight disor- the stomach makes i cheat You may be an undige: bit of beel, a blot of mustard, a; crumb of cheese, a fragment of an { underdone polata. There's more of { gravy than of grave aboul you.” At thiz the spirit raised a frigiht- ful Scrooge held tight to his chair, ave himsel! from falling Lin a swoon. But how much greater | { was his horror, when the phantom { taking off the bandage round head, Us lower Jaw dropped down | its breast! i Scrooge fell upon bis knees, “Mercy!” he sald, “Dweadful ap- | parition. why do you trouble me?” | { "It is required of every man” | the Ghost retuned, “that the spirit | { within him should walk abroad {among his fellow-men; and if that { spirit goes not forth in life, iL is condemped 10 go 50 aller death, It is doomed 10 wander through the { world-—oh, woe is mel—and witness | what it cannot share, but might have on carth, ang turned to hap- piness!” Again the spectre shook its chain. “You are fellered,” said trembling. “Tell me why?” “1 wear the chain I forged in life,” replied the Chast. “1 made it link by link. Is its pattern strange io you?” Scrooge trembled more and more. “Or would you know,” pursued { the Ghost, “the weight ang length {of the strong coll you bear your- sof? It was full ag heavy and as long as this, seven Christma; Eves (Continued on page two) “You gerved the “I dont” Why do Because { thing affects der of cry. 10 wrote Jones construction | R QOWI- | | Bouth | lliness with | 79 ! dil ! Poiecior College Firemen Inspect New Truck Four Stau College ficlals went to Allento day 12 inspect new truck bein ig assembled for Cota The four were and Daniel Krumrine the Alpha Fire Company; Guiden_ borough Porter eounci] fire ¢ borough of- wh Thurs- Mack ihe fire- Alpha the Walter Hosterman representing Hora L engineer, and ¥ L4H head mmiiiee Sri ——- ———— lliness Fatal *o W. R. Houser Former Court Officer Dies Here; Funeral Sched- uled Tuesday am m Wiis Centre Rlile Houser native county and former Cow officer, died at his home Water street, Bellefonte 1:10 o'clock Bunday afternoon, De- cember 22, 1040, after a lingering a complication of dis- eases. Mr, Houser who was aged years, 1 month and 27 days, had been bedfast for past five month Funeral to be held 2 o'clock Tuesday ternoon at the family home the Rev. Clarence E. Arnold of the Bellefonte Lutheran church officiating. Interment was Ww be (Continued on page seven) Sn are W —— 16-Year-Old Girl Held in Jail Here gir Baker, of picked alt R of ty on af court the services were scheduled al al with pastor n name (ilen: 18. . N College of Police College selling 8he jail Sherif? wiv year-old Hele v 8 giving her Watkis State Chie! State was un un: wa iD AL eTrHoon Juba that she oom unday John vy arrangemen Claim Coburn Men Posed As G-Man Flashing 3, Junior G-man badge on around Belle fonte and thelr traps Ralph Ker setter, a2 $-year-oid trapper living near Cobum, has been Impersonating a game officer for the past several weeks an eflort 10 keep other trappers out of ferriltory, evidence presented a hearing before Jusiioe of Peace Harold D. Cowher revealed lazy Wednesda Ker ‘Bg - 4 as aT LPT wa Thomas uel B. Reed, his Cams Mosier and Sam? deputy flor the caring he was held in the Centre pin all on $300 bail The was impersonation of an rselooted for Lhe hospital C onstruction of Section is Predicted Early in New Year CREEK BOTTOM ROUTE ABANDONED Claim Route 220 Will Be to Shifted From Nittany Bald Eagle Valley All indic struction Route 64 ang the ment west Creek early been in progress supplementing those period of several year: It is understood surveyed through lands for much of the been entirely abandoned because the CoOmmise tre county would not to the excessive i. ations to the ¢ of the "missing Unk tween Howard bor of the concrets variie dt point be end of the Oners appr damage enrou Apparently after the ar dam at highway r the ed long bridge above the the old point near Hill, where an makes north » entire he crossing of of the entails a tance, ge present deep cut ing back of the Neese crossing Mars! close by the house and bar eph Bechdel's farm and in & st line back of the town of Blanchar or north side of it, to curve throug another deep cut fo joi with the end of the concrete in front of the (Continued on page three) Back Loretto As Hospital Site Charles Schwab | Estate is Re- ported Available For New Vets’ Institution fos orn building oninaires in the Ebensburg dis- "ale renewing efforts to the government of the iate Charles Loretia as a site of the veterans’ hospital It was disclosed that those in harge of the Schwab estate are willing to sell the estale of the late steel {yooon at & price considered to be extremely low Congressman Harry Tibbott and Ebensburg Legionnaires believe that a strong possibility exists government may purct acre estate, In addition to giving ho to the government will alsy con- struct barracks where domiciliary care will be provided for velerans It is pointes out by Congressman Tibbott that the Loretto site offers an ideal location for this type of veterans administration facilities It is believed that General Fx ward Hines, head of {he Veterar Administration, will probably az nounce within three weeks the site Bellefonte the insti I theur have estate the purchase Schwab at proposed lan ald $F fhe GAN G40 pital care is a strong contender for tution in Mind Home Every year's subscription. 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