Odd and High Power Farmer Jack Jones' cider should pass the taste test, if that wasn't fooling. Jones, who ives al wintrop, Wash, made cider last fall and left the apple residue out- | A herd of deer be- gan coming to sample it. Now, re- | side his cellar ports Jones “1 saw a four-point buck stop nibbling at the pomace and hake his head. One antler fell off. 1 thought he didn't like the stuff, but he came back the next night and shook off the other ants | ler.” Traveler A hitch-hiking hen from wood, Miss. has arrived in ford, Ont. When a freight car of lumber sealed at Redwood was open- od. the hen, a white rock, bustled out with much squaking and flap- ping of wings. Inside the car, work - men found two eggs—{rozen solid Canada’s cold weather didn’t both- er the hen, though. She chased all over the railway yards before work- men cooped her up No Profit Farmer Seymour P. Lang, of Snow Hill, Md., sent two bushels of tur- nips to the Philadelphia market, but says he isn't going to do it again The turnips sold for 30 cents a bu- shel, freight cost 29 cents, the com~ mission house charged 30 cents for handling. Lang got a check for one cent Red- Expansion The 24'%-acre tract Mrs, Laura Crites, of Olympia, Wash, bought years ago proved a mighty good In-| Her property boundary River-—moved, When the tract had grown vestment the Chehalis rhe sold out, 10 41% acres ———————— ——————— Beech Creek Bank Election. At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Beech Creek National Bank last week, all the di- rectors were reelected, as follows: Shuman 8S. Williams. who hag been president; Harry J. Earon, Joseph Bechdel, Allen W. Gundlach and Ellery P. Gummo, the latter of Monument. Mr. Williams and Mr. Bechdel reside in Blanchard, J Aaron Haugh is cashier and Mrs. Franklin Courter his assistant a s—————— A —— — Badly Hurt in Fall Truman Whitmyer is a patient in the Oeisinger Hospital, with badly sprained wrists, the fracture pelvic bone, injuries of the col possible fractures of Never warm up leftover coffee for drinking purposes, as the delicately | fine flavor departs soon after being made. Leftover coffee may be used for mixing gingerbread or gelatin desserts. It also may be used in the rinse for tinting curtains or dollies To Write in Silver To produce the effect of writing having been done in silver, mix one ounce of the finest pewter or block tin, and two ounces of quicksilver, together until both become fluid. Then grind it with gum waler. Use as you would ink. deer | Brant- | The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County. ' SECOND SECTION A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. | dhe Cenfre Democraf NEWS, FEATURES VOLUME 60 BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1941. N.Y. C. Railroad Towerman of Karthaus Results Leaps To Safety As Tower Is Toppled Into River Collision of Freight Trains Seven Miles West in Slight Injuries to Two Members of the Crews A rallroad signal towerman, see- ing that a collision of two freight | trains in front of his tower, seven | miles west of Karthaus, was inevit- able. last Thursday morning leaped 95 feét into the shallow water of the Susquehanna river near the gank and escaped injury Seconds later, the two trains came together, toppling the signal tower into the river, badly damaging one locomotive and derailing six loaded {coal cars. Two trainmen, Joe Hart a conductor, and Flagman G. M Haney, of Jersey Shore, were - jured slightly, The collision occur- red at Mowry, Clearfield county, on the New York Central Cherry Tree- Williamsport line The telegraph operator | Aged Mother Is ' Burned To Death Daughter Looks on Helplessly as Parent's Clothing (‘atches Fire {Her nightgown ignited | roam ga ier at In a last Thursday dea : he Al i th 14} toon morning | Ethel Goldberg, 64. burned to i while her horrow-stricken daugh looked helplessly on The daughter tried to beat out the flames but wa waved aside by the mother who i cried out that she feared the daugh- i ter's clothing also might catch | | m for a number of months, Mrs | Goldberg had gotten out of bed and {went to the bathroom for a drink lof water when her sleeping garment apparantly contacted the heater, it iwas believed by members of the { family, Her screams brought the !daughter hurrying to her side only ito be ordered away er 30-year-old Bessie ire ! ‘Altoona Nurse | Arrested as Driver of Car in Which Companion Was Killed Miss Margaret Matias, 25 of Al- toona, a nurse at Princeton, N. J, was arrested last Friday as the dri- ver of an automobile involved in the fatal injury of Anthony Bellis, 38 in Philadelphia, December 12 According to the testimony at the coroner's inquest, a car operated by John Broadhead of Trenton, was sideswiped on Roosevelt Boulevard by the Bellis machine, Later Miss Mattas' car struck the Bellis auto- mobile causing it to run into the owner, Bellis died a few hours later Police claim that the nurse was driving at a high rate of speed Lived 3 Months With Dead Sister Two sisters, who rolice say ap- parently were unaware g third sis- ter had died and who lived in the house with the body at Camden, N. J., for three months, are being cared for by welfare authorities of that city. The dead woman was identified as Miss Jennie Miller, 63, and the coroner who examined her remains sald she died last Oclober. The body was discovered by a police of- ficer, covered with overcoats, quilts end blankets, in a room on a second floor bedroom. He had gene to the SCREEN STAR SITS Bette Davis, the popular screen! star, felt like taking her meals from a mantel jast Thursday-—-and prob- ably did. While making a picture in Death Valley, Bette's stunt was to crawl from a disabled airplane and make a casual jump into a pile of soft sand. Miss Davis always does as ghe is told, so she jumped-—but not into a plle of soft sand— She landed kerplunk in a bed of thorny cactus. |EmTTTaT TO STORE 50,000 The American Red Cross has that within 24 hours after donation | residents. started to work on one of the most unusual of the thausands of nation al preparedness orders—50000 pints of dried blood for the navy. From al] over the east, blood of volunteers will be brought to Phila- delphia by the swiftest means so a a home to investigate after finding one of the sisters. Rebecca 55, wan- dering in the streets. When he asked Rebecca and the other sister, Margaret, 60, if anyone elfe lived in the house, he said heswas told: “Oh, yes, we have another sister in the bedroom upstairs, but she has been sick along time and she may bd dead” The officer reported he the sisters had more than $2000 in i savings accounts in 1831 and 1632 The two sisters, - — -) ’ 4} STANDING UP’ At a nearby hotel, Dr. Lester! Clark removed 45 cactus needles] from the star's—er, ah-—anatomy! and then ordered her to take a rest on a couch-face down, | To add Insult to injury, Miss! Davis was informed that another! scene in the script called for Jim-| my Cagney to shoot her with a! slingshot, the pebble to strike her! in the same sector of the anatomy. | The scene was temporarily post | i { ; Smarr ————— sean | | i i | PINTS OF BL {it can be reduced to plasma and | | dried for storage. | Plasma is the fluid portion of the | | blood left after removal of the cor | for hemorrhage, shock | aster and war, fe pe ee ie 98-Pound Woman Mother Quadruplets Mrs, Eva Swanson, 35, who weighs ical anncls, and said Mrs. Swanson | only 4 feet, 11 inches tall. was “fine.” | 98 pounds, and was previously child- thony's Ind, Dr. R. A. Gilmore, hér persnoal physician, announced the multiple births, a comparative rarity in med- They 'bators and given oxygen, but reported to have expired a short (time later. { mark found | | bank books in the house indicating | it was sald, hag | been living on relief funds | of Pollers- the Wesl- Cars move collision 124 the J. C. McGonigal leaped as he saw train of 85 empty iding toward the east-bound train The cause of Cs Lowe dale, bound from a with the loaded coal car was not of \ wreck 108d ESCAPE INJURY WHEN CAR OVERTURNS WoO Two person jury early last wien u Car Thursday in which they were riding skidded sideways for 200 feet rolled over and landed sideways in ditch on North Atherton Stree! College. The machine was driven by Mearle Stumpf, of Lew His passenger wag Cathet lish of State College The fo by 1 we State om the Car Damage 10 t $200 - Champion Conunuter Coll daily tudents who commute classes have nothing on Dr. Ammaud C. Marts Bucknell Uni- versity ident, who ha more than 100000 miles in hi Y tin n [| nee covered com- ing i 0 the campus since university at In addi- weekly trips to the col- office in New York also travels private firm t leave him time even mate the extent of his annual 14) he became head of the p } Lewisburg five vears ago Marts al Kill i DAL | Making Up the Social Cale ndar HE SE NTH JIMS PIRTHDAY ON THE THENTY SEVE NTH. SARAH 5 BIRTHDAY on THE FIFTH OF MARCH FRANKS BRTHOA/ He ix [HOF MAY, EONA ( CELEBRATES HE BRTHOAY OM THE SIXTH OF JUNE STRAWBERRY SOUAL HIUNE, [7] 3 SUNDAY SCHOOL, PING LAST (4 SATURDAY IN JUNE ad | . at Harrisburg amazement last seer ait ref H Lewishur nn a patronage cal appointment ries FP. 1 we Auditor Roberis that ndig, of Ceneral oud red him be he offe ical job med down appralser for wi Demo- House tht times been the cratic candidate for the State of Represeniative J by rs BROWNS THIRTY FIFTH ANNIVER CARY (OW LS ——————— J Adams Of Police, | he Is about investigators perfect crime’ Rachel) th tn month (8 aig nn at ut Taylor Aigo poke NE near of 16838 took a definit y and 1 BOBS nave mercanile direct. NUEANnce seember 17 Wyomi lisciosed an Hsmembe; been seen CENTRE C0 | In every major war crisis in which this country has been involved, Cen- tre county never failed to contrib. ute its full quota of defenders. Of | these, many through patriotic Im- Held In Crash pulses became volunteers, From the Revolutionary War deer throngh the strifes of Civil War, the Span- tish-American struggle to the late memorable first World War, local history i replete with the names of patriotic Centre countiang who voluntarily offered their services in time of need In the present turmoll of national defense, Centre county has come forward with its usual patriotic fer. vor. Volunteers have signed draftees have cheerfully enlisted, and as a crowning event Bellefonte about to send forth its first or- ganized un Battery B, 100th Field Artillery, as a part of the reg army With this up { is it ilar Hat war preparation geting UNTY'S FIRST VOLUNTEERS IN ’61 underway, it back the pages of history to eighty interesting to tun a iin years ago when the war into flame. January of | Bellefonte at fever heat Over expectancy of what wos take place in the nation Early in January, 186] ceived in Bellefonte indicated startling that if Wasi City was not put in a defen: titude it woulld be seized an armed mob, whose object would be prevent the President Lincoln The news had on the citizens whose amoti already stirred to a by the aj 1861 jetters res rn — {RCT ing Ye Al~ upon 4 Eyam Io t thane of V0 inauguration of Ales ? effect ms a iris were feverish vil Wa Dis- proaching Ww be tween the States was about to burst aw ihe uh fem Te) by 1 sending immediate aid in defense of under 2 firm conviction of the neces. the Capital idea was atl sity of enforcing all laws enacted once adapted by the home military in conformity to the Constitution, organization known as the Belle- of protecting the Constitution and a yd ana ithe OX DET and at thease hereunto annexed } followed action 0 have the organisation offer for the defense of This was the first military service county, although nished many defend- period of the war volunteer mpany by (later Gove had aT a. Th beh meeling agen t do hereby other weir Washingt recorded volunteer our common country and our Indiv. dual hohor, to hold ourselves in readiness to march, at any time obedience to the requisition of Governor of Pennsylvania, made {or the purpose iy ae offered in Centre the Cyrus Strickland, John H. Btover John A. Rodgers Mot ¢ Armor William A. Raphile, George A. Bay- Samuel Nichols, David Barlet B. Snyder, Willlam p. Wil promptly son John B Mitchell, James A Beaver, Henry H. Montgomery, Har- vey 8 Lingle, Charlee: R. Bullock Jeremiah Oleary, Henry & Ww Continued on Page position the ¢ Beaver Ivania) COM Pan iwo men 16 the who a vel Big on the » present distracted a] affairs S1Oone t and | 6) Clinton County Gains By Census lock Haven and Nearby Towns Reveal Advances in Population Figures released by bureau reveal that Clinton county's growth between 1930 and i940 was exactly 2238 residents Lock Haven ig one of (he four in- corporated cities of Pennsylvania whose population passed the 10000 in the decade between 1930 and 1940 census Figures released give the popula- tion of Clinton County's towns As follows 1930 9.668 3.947 1.268 590 1.10 264 1940 10.810 3784 1,161 502 1301 207 Lock Haven Renovo Avis ... Beech Creek Flemington Loganton Mill Hall 148 1513 South Renovo ..1054 1.018 These comparisons show an in- crease of 1,152 in the population of Lock Haven during the 10 years be- | tween the last two census-takings, | or growth at the rate of 11.8 per | cent, as compared with an increase of 13 per cent during the period be- | tween the 1920 and 1930 population counts, Beech Creek gained two residents, Flemington picked up 110, Loganton | higher mathematics, have you ever should be trusted with these powers,” gained 33 and Mill Hall added 92, Renovo lost 163 Avis dropped 107. and South Renovo had 36 fewer Williamsport experienced a 3 per a total of 134 How Much Time Do You Waste? | usual feature, enables women : through self-analysis to find out if the census cent slump from 1930 to 1940, losing | " residents, as the | population fell from 45.720 to 44355, | | pulscles. It is used in transfusions | During the preceding 10 years, Wil- | and burns, | liamsport had gained 383 per cent. | | some of the major casualties of dis. | 5 ou pe | i Well known quiz expert, in an un- 4911 To Get Next Draft Call Will Begin Year's Military Service Between Feb, 5 and Mar, 7 Major General W wanding officer of third corps area, 1 upon Pennsylvania to supply men fo be drafted Into a military training between FPebruary 5 and March 7 Governor James immediately ine structed the dralt headquarters jo treak down the total 4.400 whites and 442 Negroes—so that the 422 local draft boards will have their individual quotas within a few days The draftees will be inducted, af- {ter selection by the local boards, at stationg in Philadelphia, Wilkes- Barre, Harrisburg, Altoona and Pittaburgh In the two the stale was required approximately 4.100 men »> 8 Grant the U. 8 as Issued come army a call 49011 ne to supply § i Valuable Paintings Lost The sinking of a ship enroute to New Yoik caused cancellation of a scheduled exhibition of landscape painting in the Pennsylvania State College art gallery. The paintings ito be shown here went down with the ship the | Speaking of mysteries of ‘tried to balance a bank account? —— vRRTS | previous inductions, | Willkie Backs F.D.R. In Crisis Calls Upon All Americans to Give President All Needed Power New Equipment For Airport Here Local Grounds to Be Used as Emergency Landing Field Az a measure {h the expanding national defense program, addition al equipment is eéxpecied to be in- stalled at the Bellefonte airport, ac cording to reports. Challenging Socialist leader Nor- | man Thomas’ opposition to the Pres. dent's “lease-lend™ proposal for ald | to Great Britain, Wendell 1. Will- kie called upon “all Americans” on Thursday evening to give Presl- | ne airport, used as an emergency dent Roosevelt all the power he | y ; ; field and radio station for the gath- needed 50 “that we can debate with | ering and dissemination of weather {him again in another free election.” | 4oi0 iso has radio beacon facili- | Called from the audience to com- | ties. It is reported that earlier plans {meat on Thomas’ speech at “Amer- | {6 trafsfer some of the Bellefonte jfiea's Town Meeting of the Ar” field equipmen: to Black Moshan- broadcast over the National Broad- | on Airport, have been abandoned {casting Company Blue network. Tne fleld is In charge of R. P | Willkie asserted that “we shall not | westery Pleasan : { preserve this great standard of Hv- Neatervt ih 3 Fieus ALP. Who: a [ing In America hy withdrawing | {within ourselves | . “It is only In expanding trade, | Eight- Year-Old Girl Killeq in the opening of the world’s mar.| FEight-year-old Grace Krise, of | kets, in the peace that will ome af- | Altoona, died in a hospital in that ter the crushing of dictatorship,” | city Sunday night after being struck he sald, “that America can go on to | by an automobile near her home ite true development, { velt, call upon all Americans to give ed to police ihat he was driving {him such power in this most severe | north on Washington Avenue when (crisis 1 believe, in the history of | the child darted out in front of the | The victim. who resided with | free elec- an aunt, Mrs. Yingling, was struck | : by the left front fender of the auto | | show cause, if they have any, why | {the bankrupt should not be dis- America, so that we can debate with | car (him again in another | tion.” { Thomas argued “no one man and knocked unconscious, (Continued on page six) | i ~—Everybody reads the Classifieds | fonte Pencibles. A huge parade was maintaining the Union of the Blates on the 8th of January in which Which now exists, we, whose names was solemnly bind ourselves, pach to the by the duty which we owe 10 | | earlier in the evening. The driver, | | “I, who opposed Franklin Roose. | Joseph B, Carr, 17, of Juniata stat- Head of State Police Says Investigators Have Been Baffled in Arriving at Solution of Pretty Co-Ed’s Foul Murder ROOTES Adams 0 have not given but-—if “perfect q alifie The | o¥ls " highly j questioned th e Kile able 0 one su From ‘ { i a Slaten (Continued on page six) f persons In emphasized Lis there crime” ne comm robable | NUMBER 4. | | State College Student | as cottlli Slaying Conceded to be | Nea ia Nearly ‘Perfect Crime’: both Cas . orate investigator up” on either cas iI£ such a thing as a ¢ither Gl these declared iB0ONe] 1) al some but that wake th tpt pecied now on 50 Lh he ¢ i geting ¢ 3 wnt IANS ase Driver Acquitted of Manslaughter Freed Because of “Insufficient Evidence,” But Must Ot charged siaught ‘ay Costs with ter ¢ cident in whic wan 4 cl acquiiie Warge of 1 Sommer state ich occurred at Decembe: of Poe night fis 4 wi crash leaning Car i ! sth sommes head {i from the The prosecution charged Sommer wos under the Influence of | who Was killed in was severed wl window of the that Random [tems SAMA AAA AY GUN Baliery B 155 Oe i $26 BOG 10 i ; fo OB he iis #0 only MM elit va government welghs 15 ton al 2000 1x Iv et been fir Ww 10 attend ago father's the Zion bogey fre 1 Ip bobsled Union 1 Bunday schoo! anyone oan betler Lthese fine rec ords, iet’s hear from them intoxicating Hguor at the time of | MONEY: the asocitient his car veered 10 was testifisd the left It side of the road and sideswiped an auto- mobile operated Iv Jack E. Pettit of Btate injured his face bn College Pettit’s eves were ass being showered in Judge Patterson in approving motion the dele case for v . “ ndant acquittal directed the cosis pay — S— OFFER AID IN FILING 3€ ow Deputy in Centre counts git at t taxpayers rent . relam Colieciors INCOME TAX RETURNS are Tinta listed the itinerary” of Internal Revenue Oollectors he ™ VAETIOus wil rer TT The collectors will places assist h thelr 1940 income tax is no charge fc Viles 74) iH i ES r H The county schedule follows Ballefonte February 1. 8 15 Centre Hall building, February Postoffice bullding March 1, 3, 4 a1 First 10 Port Matilda, Community National Bank, Pebruary Millheim, Parmer’ February 28 oe “i National Bank Philipsburg, Moshannon building, February 24, 25, and 28 8now 8hoe, Cherry Run Coal Co building, February State College, Postoffice 20, February 17 and 8 January Mareh 6, 17, Modern Greek Amazong Terra of | How the their yn wi, ” 21 18, and - modern celebrated woman warriors of ancient neither fear nor mercy when in bat- ' Italians Creek women. like legions, know tle. A timely article by a celebrat- od world-traveler in the Pebruary 2nd the the 44 i issue of The American Weekly, big magazine distributed with Ballimore Sunday sale at all newsstands American. -— Bankraptcy Notice, Notice is given that a meeting of | ¢reditors of Emerson M. Bateman, of Millheim, a bankrupt, will be hald in the U. 8 District Court at | Scranton at 10 a. m. on Tuesday, March 11. at which time creditors and other interested persons may charged. that, the | Cal Nationa] Bank ,. building, ‘ernment -subsidizad This department shortly wil ceive $85.000 We just wrote ter which puts us in £ amount, Several days down in Mexico City Bellefonte man explaining Mex But . 4 t All Me iru ago § ican pe he hag in a United States comtaine 2B5 mi He wants man in (whose name he obflained omewihere) 0 go to Mexico City and pay lor the release trunk. For his tx £ 2 In a prison eT ICY notes the fonte of ie Wie Belle wil] receive one-third of runk. The Bellefonte got he letter 4 seem d and turned task on department 3d Lume to help stineons uble. The thing sounds exposes in a al months ago, but different We dM the letler is kindly man R405 v's Lali L Magazine we feel thi Le lieve C Liegrt, for dear caugh- ter” who will benefit from the mon- ey. And s0 We've written and offer ed to try 10 help the prisoner oul of his trunk troubles. It is of no consequence that we wouldn't go to the expense of buying a three-cent stamp to mai] the letter DAY DREAM: What Uo Bellefonte chosen as the site {of Veterans® hospital for Central Penn. sylvania? Tlie thought provides plenty of mest for day-dreaming The construction of a §2.500,000 gov- business would be a tremendous boom to this ares The 500 employes would have to be housed, fed ang elothed, and in pro- viding those nDbcessities the town would have & man-sized job on its hands. It Is not too early to begin consideration of how Beliefonte could meet the situation if the Vet- erans’ Adncinistration should point ils finger at “The Home of the Gov- shod be tiie proposed J ernors.” TAXES: The Pennglvania State Chamber of Commerce has just issued a bul. letin which includes a chart show. ing the ~xpengitures in the general fund and for public assistance and other purposes during the decade 1830 to 1940. Without going into de. tall we note that the block repre- senting the expentitiures for 1830. (Continued on page six) | she makes the most of her time. | | ed with the Baltimore Sunday Ame. | | flean. On Sale at all Newsstands, | were placed immediately in incu. | i are. The trouble with most unsuccess- | (ful organizers is that other people ‘refuse to do all of the work, ) li] i yo Wi, - M | H \ ] BB a By POP MOMAND
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