Odd and CURIOUS in the = NEWS Dreams Come True Ida Randall, of Pittsburgh, dream- | ed someone handed her three one- | dollar bills and the next night had | a vision of holding a whole bank- | roll in her hands. Two cays later | she went to the basement of her | home hunting an old picture of her- | self. “Something, 1 don't know what it was, made me tear out lining of a trunk my father used for camp- | ing trips before his death, I start-| ed to throw the lining and a news- | paper which was behind it into the | furnace, Then 1 saw a roll of bills, $200 in musty old national bank notes.” | Almost Dunked Harry Potts, of Philipsburg, came | close to taking a dunking in the icy waters underneath the Hawk Run bridge one afternoon recently when his car, struck by another vehicle, headed for the creek. Just one more inch and Potts’ car, which was part- ly hanging over a shoulder of the road approaching the bridge, would have fallen into the water, police said. Potts was put in his precar- fous position when a car operated by Andrew Watrow, Hawk Run, skidded on the icy bridge and struck | 1 The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County. A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. SECOND SECTION he Cenire Democral | NEWS, FEATURES VOLUME 60 BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1941. NUMBER 3. | Altoona Railroad Shops To Build 4,500 Freight Cars; 5 Electric Engines | Announcement of P.R.R.’s $17,500,000 Con- | | | | | | | | struction Order For Mountain City Comes as Welcome News to Citizens The huge 17 and a half million dollar expansion order announced last week by the Pennsylvania Rail- road board of directors will be per- formed in the Altoona shops, it was | learned Monday night Altoona shopmen had expected to receive a large portion of the order because of the facilities available Consequently they welcomed news that the entire order will come to Altoona General Chairman Nelson sald the order provides for the construc- tion of 4.500 freight cars, 200 cabin cars, five electric passenger loco- motives, 20 locomotive tenders, 600 bulk freight containers and the re- modeling and air-conditioning of 80 Potts who was traveling in the op- posite direction, additional passenger coaches Included in the freight orders {than 10 feet authorized are 1,000 double-door | all-steel box cars, 50 feet 6 inches long, with an inside height of more | at the eaves, Their! larger cubleal capacity will possible the most efficient and eco- nomical handling of a wide variety of bulky commodities now moving in volume, Also to be built are 1,000 double door all-steel box cars, 40 feet 6 inches long, and more than 10 feet high inside at the eaves, Both types of box cars will be of 50 tons pacity Cl- lg Rabbits Released Near Muncy, Seventy-six Western cottontall rabbits purchased by the Glades Run Srortsmen's Association have been released in the Muncy Water Supply Company land, near Muncy | make | The Inaugural } ANNOUNCE AIRPORT CHANGES According to Information from 1 tics Administration, is not only in- Truck Driver Held In Death Of Minister's Son After Fight Over Girl Accused of Slaying Young Man With Ham- mer as They Fought in Latter's Car; Forced Victim to Drive to Lonely Spot The battered and burned body of (10 a crossroads where he knew a 10-year-old son of a Dunkard | Hackman would have to stop on his minister was found beside his auto- {way home from the girl's house, mobile lonely mountain road] About 2:30 a. m. Hackman drove nea Lancaster county, up andstopped, Redcay entered the Bur machine and the two drove off ar. guing. Shortly after, they started to fight and Hackman pushed Red- cay from the car The minister's son started to drive away when Redcay jumped on the running beard, smashed a window with the hammer and struck Hack- man who lost control of the ma- chine. The car swerved against a tree and caught fire Then, Hackman climbed out and Continued on Page 6) on no Ephrats Hackman was earlier in the day when he left the home Union Grove, It is b assailant hid car king the of a girl at lieved that in the rear of Hackman at a lonely point in The interior of the car wg bummed and all the windows smash- ol On Menday, Willlam G. Redeay the the attac a road ley Roads Cause He Skidded : p W. P. Stonebraker, Puitipeburg| TPE Brothers groceryman, traveled 89 feet in un-| Beat Up Officer orthodox fashion near Sandy Ridge! and miraculously escaped injuries. Here's the itinerary of the jaunt he| hopes he won't repeat: car skidded | 21 feet on road, skidded 18 feet off} road, struck culvert, traveled end] over end in air for 20 feet, landed | on roof then rolled 30 feet into the] . woods. The accident happened when| John and Lloyd Vanderpool, bro- I caeuraker, Craveling lowards | thers. are being held in the Holli- paburg, 5 on the icy roads) daysburg Jull, while police are as he attempted to slow down be- | searehing for a third brother, all of Blair County Constable Pum- meled in Attempt to Ar- rest Trio The sportsmen’s group purchased the these Missour! rabbits for restock- ing from funds secured from issu- ing permis Lor Lhe communica ios of Vv B. Beurmne, actin Federal Airways 8 reporting and facilities now located town Airport will probably ferred to the Black Moshannon Air. port on July 1st Acting Director moving of radio would take place as soon & work at the Black Moshannon air- port is officially « In reporting planneg from Kylertown to Black it was revealed that Kyvlertos re vice ati 1 Yor K at the Iu Refer to Il Duce as ‘Finite’ Thomas J. Smith, a Philadelphia artist, reported on his return from Rome that there was great unrest in Italy and that the common joke among Italians was to refer to Ben- ito Mussolini as “Finito” Mussolini, “Finito” is the Italian word for “fin- hed ’ Beurne the weather inlet 1 mpieted the i change Mocha non rt ———— A ——————— 23-year-old truck driver, was ar- rested and charged with the mur- der of Hackman. Investigators sald the Lragedy grew out of a quarrel over a girl Hackman, had been keeping company with girl Redcay had “dated” until last August driver as saying he planned to give Hackman a “good beating.” The police sald this was Redcay's story of the slaying fter attending & party at a hotel, Redcay parked his car a hall mile size but because ol the of the field from time to time, Thess Ley result | irface mining operations ¢ relocation of fac- serve flying colvidered necessary clopment and Chicago-New dangerous for Cave. adequate in by large ship ins which have occurred on Lae area L4H " { have thie tier sald the { the further imnrovement Org 8i1rway fon dev af the BR, fn smart sa amart trouble with most hat i. - WEY are nog very the State police said, | ai He quoted the young truck | Two Accidents Clinton County Highways Are Scenes of Automobile (Crashes Two automobile accidents, due to icy condition of the Clinton county highways, were reported last Thurs- day The first occurred at 12:30 p. m on Route 220, four miles west of Mill Hall, when cars operated by William I. MeClintock of Mill Hall, hind a truck. Jimmy Gets Pie Jimmy Stewart, Hollywood star, was sent a hot apple pie by his mo- ther, Mrs. Alexander Stewart, on the first day flight of the air ex- press inaugurated at Indiana, Pa, last week. Taken out of the oven and rushed to the airport, plane landed, the pie was handed $0 the pilot with these words, “the pies still hot, Mr. Pilot.” He smilingly replied, “It’l} stil] be warm when it gels to Hollywood.” Wilmer is Subdued where the, whom are charged with assault and Fvervhody rea Classified { battery on an officer as the O1 8 The family’s newspaper, from his home and took a hammer mm the tool kit. He then walked fw RD. 1 and Hugh G. Price, of Ak- ron, Ohio. traveling west in that or- { Constable William G. Cunning- { han was the victim of the brothers’ {attack. It is reported that he was about to arrest Paul Vanderpool first while he and his brothers were creating a disturbance at Park Al- ley and High street, in Willk - How well do you know House? Ever think of it ag any- thing else than the huge-pillared Coloniai-type structure has al- iamse- burg, Saturday night, All three of the men are alleged to have attack. ed the constable, one of them strike. ing him with a hard object. The peace officer used his blackjack on ways been? Lloyd which resulted in a head in. Take a glance at the accompany- Jury. He was treated by a jall phy-|ing picture and fancy looking at sictan. { Ceritre county's Temple of Justice Cunningham was reported fo be land seat of goverment. If couldn y our Cour: $ Next time Wilmer Salmon, 22, of | Kansas City, argues politics he will! do it with less emphasis. “The! trouble with the Republicans amd! Demoerats x x x x.” he began at dinner, bringing his fist down. He missed the table—hit 3 bowl of do. tatoes., The bowl broke, cutting Sal | mon's hand severely and showering guests with mashed potatoes High Crimes Allentown police are having a tough time establishing a connee-! tion between (Wo new types of! thefts In the community. During the course of a night thieves stole 3 sewing machines from an overall factory and 58 canaries from a bird shop i8ehool {against dropping these courses in favor of special defense courses fin- Bond Issue Approved A bond issue of $5615 for road Improvements by Pine Creek Tovn- ship, Chotos rounty, has be, If you're perplexed about naming DBAN ADVISES STUDENTS 1 { the state and have a total night-| under a physician's care af his hone be you say. bu: it actually is the with a head injury conception of what might have oe- | curred al one time in the coutny's { history, Yes, many years ago, our Court House was threatened with a distinct “face-Hifting™ that would have completely changed its pres. ent classical design It was so long ago that only our grandfathers will remember that the county officials got together and decided thai the old Court House must be enlarged to meet the re- quirements imposed on it. The pic- ! ture shown here {1 the form the new structure would acquire. | It was proposed to build an ad- dition of about 80 feet to the front of the present structure, which! would have brought it down to CONTINUE EXTENSION WORK Men who are enrolled in mineral industries extension courses oon- ducted by the Pennsylvania State Loliege have been cautioned by Ed. sard Steidle, dean of the Ooliege's of Mineral Industries, anced by the federal government, Pointing out that the extension Qourses operate on a three-year basis, Dean Steidle sald that the U. 8. Office of Education had speci- fled that existing. thorough educa- tional programs of this type should A FANTASY THAT FADED der, collided The McClintock machine wan struck from the rear by the other vehicle when it slowed down to pick Dp a pedestrian and was forced into a telephone pole alongside the high- Centre County's New Court House? No! Only a Vision of What Have Been in the Long, Might Ago. feet of way. Damages were $30 to each car and $25 to the pole An accident on Route 64 involved the car driven by James FP. Goetz, of Renovo. Mr. Goetz was traveling east, a mile west of Mill Hall and within a monument The addition would have deen five feet wider than the present building and buil: of white sand- few the soldiers Long stone, similar to the stone used al wag going down a hill when, he re- (the county jail. The siyle of archi- | ports he noticed ancther automo- tecture, as shown in the picture, ! wis 10 bave been in harmony will the jail bullding, s0 that there would be a uniformity in the ap- pearance of these public buildings It waz planned that the front of the building would have a large, square massive tower, with the town clock in the top, and a spaci- ous room on the second story. The ———— south corner would have a half ; round tower, while the north cor- ner would be square. The clock Lock Haven Giri : - en soe we snin| IMjured In Wreck 7 {eet high This addition was to have af- forded sgace for iwo large offices on either side of the hall, on first | floor. The setond floor would like- | | wise be enlarged to give more room | (Continued on Page 6) hand side of the road. In attempt. ing to get out of its way he ran off the road. When he tried to get back {on the highway, his car skidded 150 feet and then struck the guard ral fence, forcing one pole out and dam- aging about 25 feet of the fence Mr Goetz was not seriously injured Car in Which Victim Was Riding Strikes Truck Near Philipsburg Twenty-two year old Virginia § not be disturbed by the temporary defense {rairing. Penn State's mineral industries extension classes, started in 1803, now operate in 106 communities of | Vietim of Il Health Was Alone in House When Fire Occurs Mrs. George Kalmbach, of Hard: scrabble, between Woolrich and] Name For Baby? your work may not be permanent. Six-County Area Represented By Farmers and Their Wives A total of 288 persons whom were stockholders 113 of attended ‘Woman Burned as Annual Meeting Social Security Fire Sweeps Home| Of Credit Group Aide To Be Here Will Assist Wage Earners in| Session to be Held at Snow Filing Claims For Payments For the purpose of rendering aid | Meyers, of Lock Haven, was injured {two miles east of Philipsburg on the {Port Matilda road early Saturday {moming when the car she was rid- ing in struck a truck which had stopped on the highway. | Miss Meyers received body bruis- ‘es and lacerations of the face, while Frederick Eischenlaub, also of Lock | Haven, driver of the car, escaped in- | juries as did Carlton J. Rowles, Ol- "lanta, Clearfield county, driver of Schedule Sabbath School Meeting Shoe Methodist Church, January 19 The Centre County Bunday School bile coming toward him on the Jeft| the baby for instance, you migh! | A man went to the authorities in consider some of these novel tac-| Detroit the other day to change his Bwissdale, is a patient in the Lock [the seventh annual meeting of the Haven Hospital suffering from burns | Hollidaysburg Production Credit As- in filing claims under the Social | Association will sponsor a conven. | g cl | | Which was headed in the same di-| com representative of Hon for the Bunday schools of Dis- Security law, g i curity law, a {trict No. 2, at the Snow Shoe Meth- rection as the car, tics that have been advanced. A baby gir] born in Uniontown | during a wind storm was named Wendie Dae. Triplets born in Lit- | he was named Finis, tle Rock, Ark., were named ,‘Cone,”! “With,” and “Wind.” And a Bos- ton college football coach let the J. P, Jensen sounds like an innocu- two highest scorers in the Sugar | Bowl game choose the names for his | new tively unspectacular selections were “Helen” and “Ann.” Bear in mind, however, that no matter | first name. what name you choose, | It seemed that he had been born. the tweifth child in the family, when his father was 70, so You never can be sure that any name is safe from complications. ous enough handle, but three resi- dents of Springfield, Minn, discov- twin daughters. The rela-| ered they all had that same name To avoid spending all their time | swapping letters with each other, | they called an armistice, providing (Continued on page six) The Hoboes of Americd, Inc., fam- ed national organization of 1,000,000 members, has announced the start of a campaign to put the nation’s 250,000 “tramps and bums” to work, as a further contribution to the de- fenge " Hobo King Jeff Davis, who drop- ped into Pittsburgh last week from his home town of Cincinnati, Ohio, for a special of hobo of- ficers, declared “it be the best house-clzaning the United States ever had.” “First,” he zald, "all hoboes must get off the road this year. They ee nt Says ‘Bums Must Work’ a A STI AINE, SET anc bs o— sands have already done this.” Davis, a baldish man of 58 with sideburns, long has orated on the Jorulia oF Ls he calls tramps and; Ww praising the qualities of the hoboes, who boast the dis-| tinction of “working as we travel” | “Tramps and bums are chiselers! of the worst kind,” he said heated. | ly. “They think the world owes! them a living, The draft took the Cream of rour young men and left the bums to continue living on the taxpayers “We're against this kind of dic- | tatin’ to the decent element, and | must settle down to real jobs. Thou- on The Continental Machine Com.- pany of Minneapolis has adopted an | Missed (Continued on page 6 § = enn To Workers EE. liver oil capsules and other vita- min tablets when taken consistent. the winter months is that an effective resistance | of the face, hands and body, which | she received Saturday moming| When the Kalmbach home was prac- | tically destroyed by fire. Mrs. Kalmbaell, who has been in| ill health, was alone in the house] at the time the fire began, from! unknown origin. George E. Fravel, | {who resided at the Kalmbach home, had gone to Lock Haven earlier in| i the morning. When the fire was discovered, Walter Heickel, a neighbor, found) Mrs. Kalmbach on the floor of the) house and he and Lawrence Weaver, | another neighbor, carried her to] safety and brought her to the hos- pital at Lock Haven, The fire apparently started about 10:30 o'clock and was not discovered immediately, Fire fighters from Woolrich responded to the alarm, but were unable to save the house, Some of the furtiture on the lower floors was carried. out, but other furnishings were destroyed, The house was covered by insur- ance, but there was no insurance on the contents, which included $200 worth of tools owned by Mr. Fravel, a carpenter. Mr. Fravel had been at the Private Hospital, receiving at- | tention for a fracture of his right, foot suffered several weeks ago, only | 8 quarter of an hour before Mrs | Kalmbach was brought in. Household Hinty For Busy Wives Helpty ighten ra Rm stands. Struck by Tree Roy Williams, Jr, 16, of Wysox, was kllled when he | [the board of directors and sociation In the Morrison Cove High school, Martinsburg, Pa, Wednes- day, January 8. from 10a. m. to 3:30 p. Mm. Farmers and their wives were present from a six-county area. John A. Rink, of Huntingdon county, president of the association, presided at the meeting and intro. | 8 Ti ” i duced the principal speakers Blough, Johnstown, director for Cambria county, gave a report of stated | that the assoclation had loaned a total of $290,000 during 1940 to elig- ible farmer members William H. Bishop, secretary treasurer, of Hollidaysburg, gave the treasurer's report and brought out the fact that the association was in sound financial condition and mak- | ing progress each year. His report | showed that there Was a reserve | fund of more than $21,000 to take! care of possible losses and as the | local farmers had an Investment of | almost $18.000 in cooperative stock | there was more than $100 of re- | serve for every $1.00 of the farm- (Continued on Page 5) dents of the Williamsport Field Office of the 8oclal Security Board will] be in ! Bellefonte on Tuesday, January 21. at the Employment Service Office, corner Spring and Pike Slreets. ! The hours for consultation will be from 10a m to lp m This service is maintained reg- ularly on the third Monday of each mon:.h for the convenience of reii- this area. The purpose of this part-time service is {0 assist retired wage earners and the famil. | les of deceased wage earners in fils i ing claimg for payments under the old-age and survivors insurance provisions of the Social Security Act. The representative is alsd pre. pared to render assistance and an- | swer inquiries concerning socia] se- curity account numbers, wage re- cords, or other Social Security Board matters. All persons who invited to call upon the represenia- tive for an Interview, There is no charge for such assistance. (Continued on Page 6) jodist church on Sunday, January 19, {with a session from 2 to 4 p. m. District No. 2 includes the follow. vealed ing Sunday schools: Clarence Meth- | odist, Snow Shoe Methodist, Snow | Shoe Presbyterian, Moshannon *° Presbyterian, Moshannon Methodist, Mozshannon Free Methodist, and Pine Glen Methodist, motor police said. The Pennsylvania Turnpike Com- mission has collected more than | $562.666 in tolls from motorists us- | ing the 108-mile super-highway be. | arn ogi "S| ten Oct 30 and Sr t 1+ A commission spokesman sald {School Association, will preside at {the convention, while Mrs. Ruth Wat 563671 vehicles used the turn. | iHarrls will be the convention chor- { ister. {| The program follows: 12 p. m, song service, led by Mrs. Harris, 2:18 p. m. devotional services, Rev. | | worse. Suppose : Ww. J. Kerry. ‘3 p. m, offering and songs. 13:10 p. m., address, “There is a Lad Here,” Rev. L. I. L. Clark, i 13:40 p. m., installation of officers. 4 pm, hymns and benediction, Rev, C. H. Hammond, ! i Al | Damages to the truck and car will] total at least $100, motor police re. | Random i [tems Wave DOCTORS: The old-{aghioned oouniry doelor is still with us. He rides in o shiny car: he wears no beard; his fees are higher; he doesn't like 10 Wall more than three years for a pay- ment on his bill but under ihe hide he's the zane fellow youve heard our grandfather k 80 fondly about. When occasion de- mands, hell bedride all day and all night 11 rol] up us sleeve and tap his own veins Tor binod to revive a sinking patient; | he'll be jus. as deeply concerned over a patient's welfare as any of the musty old “country” doctors our elders used to talk about. The present-day doctor is not the 5Ci- cold-blooded machine we sometimes imagine he He's Just as ready as his prototype of bygone centuries Ww go through terrific physica; and mental strain for a patient—the kind of punishment tha: money cannot repay mes change, but the that count are the same now as When the world began RICHES: This corner’s idea of financial in- dependence is 10 reach dhe position where, come pay-day, we don't owe the second linotype operaior from left, 17 cents for yesterday's The unfortunate thing about iL 5 that practically no-one ever reaches that stage, anywhere Your income geetus 10 have nothing io do with fhe cpndition The eret, they tell us, led in financigl management, whatever that I S 0.8: Councilman Henry A Brocker. hoff, of Bellefonte, one of the lead. ers of the Democratic party in Cen. tre County and one of the county's eligible bachelors, last week receiv- ed an invitation to atiend a recep tion at the White House in Wash ington D. C., on the day of Presi dent Roosevelt's third insuguratio January 20. Since the invitatic: twas addressed to “Mr. and Mr Henry A. Brockerhoff,” ii might » a good idea for some Bellefonte 1a: forget that this isn't leap Fear and snare Henry in time for the in- auguration It would Hb a hice wedding trip. GRAPEVINE REPORT: The “grapevine lslegraph” s! Rockview reports that officials have learned the identity of the “lawyer i | tal 8 ol, thing Lungs he 4 : igarelles o to Ww pus wills nd olher legal afeaitn- gans on behalf of prisoners in Rock- view. We don't know what is be- ing dohe about the learned gentie- man, but we have our private ideas of what we'd do if we had anything in the matter. It has long been our opinion that criminals, through the sloppy sentimentality of welfare , agencies, are treated 100 darned well. Prisons should be prisons not free boarding schools for a lot of punks who grad the whole loaf | when you extend them g slice or two of the leaven of mercy NICE GOING: Our Orviston correspondent re- ports that the Misses Maxine and May Watson have just completed nine years of perfect Sunday Schoo] | attendance. If anyone can better that we'd like {0 hear from them Anyone who can get himself or her. | self out of ded every Sunday morn- ing in time to go to Sunday School. for nine years without fail, come | Tain, snow, cold weather, or a bad | Baturday night, deserves same kind | of medal | WILLKIE | fe d | i { | DUST BOWL: Marbe the Bellefonte lime indus. | pike during the three-month period. | gardens. they Acodrding 30 present indications the Bellefonte School Board will be ready to advertise for bids for a building about the middle of (Qontinued on Page 6) ‘KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES' — The Diagnosis Es
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