Odd and CURIOUS in the = NEWS = SAMA AIWWW WITHOUT BANK If Lieutenant Hobson 27 Omaha, joins the Army there's go ing to be some confusion. Lleu- tenant (thats his real] name) ex- plains that his father named him in honor of Lieut, Richmond Pear- son Hobson, Spanish-American war | hero, calling him merely Lieutenant because he couldn't remember the soldier's first name REMEMBER TO STARVE Soldiers of the 368th Coast Artil- | lery Regiment at Fori; Ontario, N Y.. must either write their mothers in observance of Mother's Day, May 11, or go hungry. Col. Chauncey M Hooper has ordered that a soldier must give his sergeant a card or Jetter written to his mother to gain entrance to the mess hall May 8 THE LAW STEPS IN A Muncie, Ind., woman telephon- ed the police station that boys play- ing baseball on a vacant jot were disturbing the neighborhood with arguments over decisions, Juvenile Aid Officer Al Guzz! went out to see | about it. The woman calleq up headquarters again, “Well” yelled, “your officer arrived and now he's umpiring the game!” WANTS LEISURE A chance to sleep late was reason given by an 18-year-old farm boy of Buffalo, for enlisting in the Marine Corps. ‘I get up at 4:30 every morning she officer. reveille sounds at 5:45, YOUNG TEAMSTER Kenneth Stoddard 9 of Eaton Me. is perhaps the youngest team- ster In the state. This winter, with a pair of 2-vear-old calves, he haul- ed 30 cords of pulp wood Marine el — Barber For 52 Ye€ars. Frank E Keller, barber at Lock Haven | vears, retired from ac- tive work last week. Mr Keller started his barbering career as an apprentice shortl after th 89 flood. At tha: time he had as pat- rons a great many of the old river raftsmen who came to that city - Joins U. S. Navy r 59 or Ve e so this should be a | vacation’ Edward F, Staebell Jr. of | Andover, N, Y., told the recruiting! | _The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County. | | SECOND | SECTION A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. he Centre Democrat NEWS, FEATURES VOLUME 60. BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 8B, 1941. NUMBER 19 One Killed, Four Others Are Injured In Collision | On Flemington Highway Police Say Car in Which Driver Met Death Failed to Negotiate Curve In the Cut; Rcbert Jefferson Williamson, 27 of Flemington, was ins antly killed and four other persons were injured in a head-on automobile collision at 12:30 a. m. Sunday In ton cut, a short « Lock Haven Williamson, driver volved in the Sunday pinned in the front ses when collision drove Uu through t dash used to remove the body. Wii son died of a crushed skull fractures of the legs and body bone Private B. L. Welborn, investigat- ing officer, explained the William- son car was en route from Mill Hall Park to Logk Haven that the driver failed to negot a turn | 11 mi-daj tof} ESS oupe ne he Crowbar In { and L.ate the | Rev. Lambert To Resign Charges Young Minister to Relinquish Pastorates Before Going on Trial yr ff th H : ree urches wg Valley Lutheran par- ¥ jon of their young pastor Rev lan CI Lambert, who will go on trial before a federal court in Pitis- burgh the rollowing day |! to register for the natic service, act, and The minister fused to register unde Y { which he against bis rights as Constii' ution of the Given his choice of either a hear- {| ing or a trial before a federal grand | jury, Rev. Lambert to'd authorities i he would wait for a trial before a f jury and make it a case of the law, opposed ang granted by the United States fod Wa tog: 125 Chicks Killed MISS DOROTHY McCULLOUGH Within a few days, Miss Dorothy McCullough, formerly employed by the Adrian Hospital of Punxsutaw- ney, will leave to begin active ser- vice in the United States Navy Miss McCullough was born in Pine Glen, where her parents, Mr and Mrs. A. G. McCullough, still live. She was graduated from the 8now Shoe High school in 1835 and from the Philipsburg Hospital school of nursing in 1938. Miss McCullough took her exam- ination in Pittsburgh on March 13, and has received orders to be ready to leave on May 6. but has not yet been informed as to where she will be stationed. She is a member of the American and State Nurses’ As- sociations and has an excellent rec- | ord for all her years of work. PARTIE Just Information: More than 420 000,000 handkerchiefs are manu- factured in the United States every year. In Explosion Oil Brooder Blows Up on Mill Brook Farm Near State College When an oil brooder stove in the chiken he of George Rebar at his home on the Mrs David H Knepp farm at Millbrook exploded about 10 o'clock last Wednesday night, approximately 125 baby chicks were killed nse Injured Treated At Hospital the crashed head- Le Englert Lock Dam- cu The vehicle 1 into a car traveling In posite direction. Puart 315 East Bald Eagle Street Haven, was the other driver were placed at $600 he motor policeman Williamson vehicle, alt he other car, swerved highway into ti right nn back into the left bank taining wall of the road Admitted to the Lock Haven Hos- Mr. and Mrs. Engler riding alone: Miss Katherine Loh- man, riding in front with William Miss Miriam Hawkins ar. James J, Carpenter riding with Miss Haw- raped with minor injurie and Mrs. Englert were treat r laceration { and after being observation were unday. Miss Lohman Hawkins both siflered of the scalp and brush ody. Miss Hawkins was riously They were Lrans d Sunday to the Private Hos where they were reported a comfortably ot op age explained ter strik ACT bank Ston e are along both side rit were pial were Mr of held over discharge and Mi william m. Tuesday page eight) (Continued on Call for Unity 5 rogram of engineers « already giving ruction to 10000 worker state be anded th introductory wii ex; to provide 100 Pen: vill be ernment the escent program, opers ndustriai center the od by any De country nasizing thal the new classes wit ) to for coliege looked upon as a8 sub- training, J. Orvis assistant 10 President Ralph fzel In charge of extension that all qualified graduates of will gh hoo] programs ble to enroll (Continued on page eight) Centre County Coal Miners To Get 2 Weeks’ Vacation With Twenty Dollars Pay ‘New Rates Announced Held in New York; 7 Following Conference 200-Day Minimum Working Clause Evidently Dropped Centre and Clearfield coal miners a 10-day vacation at the of $2 dally under the new con- ! bY miner represen - mine operator It wa n Saturday. At same for a working sched made public wil receive ale tract eached ard the rates 00-day muumum working ohe of the demands made rd Mine Workers’ of Am- I ft coal miners, has evi- iropped, an authorita- lated ‘ source The valent following rates n District 2 of A which int aeld counties be pre. UMW of Clear will the iudes Centre and ive $108 per and .0f men cutter ton will 19 ne day men inclu po $1023 per hour $7.16 per spragger, $1 per hour or $7 per pumper, 866 per hour or $6.76 day, greaser, 736 per hour or per day, dumper, 881 per hour per day. car cleaner, 837 ir $6 per day; slate pickers per hour 2.15 per day Rates {or je: mu lor mer day: day per £5.15 or $6.25 or per hou 766 ow conference rates the result of in New and miners’ rep- “" Ale held coal mer THE OLD MISERS GOLD the concluding ident Note-—-This Is alment of s $14 thre TT. taiment of an in nat occur- han lower Penns Valley ago. Last week's told of two old brothers living alone systematically rob- savings by some un- person Their nephew of the robberies, decided to secure the services of a detective The events that followed make ir teresting reading ed It more ¢ thirty years story who were bed known learning being of their and Mr Jets and in The home of Mr was well in the mountains deed nearly three miles from the town though ii was fairly close tO the Haas farm, enabling the pair t reach work by geiting up atl daylight. Frank Getz was popular and hi wife was feared by the lolk of the countryside, but every Saturday night his house was the gathering place of the sullen-faced fHotzam their and jetsam of the county Members of the Alpha Fire Com- ipany, State College, saved the chick- en house from destruction, although the Interior of the structure was badly charred Snm—— RY — Quills Penetrate Tire | i has been into he Because a feller the jail ye! ain't no reason why aint a good feller,” was Mrs Getz motto, and the constable of th town used to shake his head every time he drove past the place Thus it happened that on a par- icular Saturday night the kitchen shivering who blew nd stared Wackerstowy wrong road.” on the r Mr Teach the eh ght Oetlz road al volunteered “bus 'n grinned 1't go. no bar Cele aeridly ang don’t this peakeasy » be all {riends peaking ier voloe detective nere said 2c «5 nO 1 and neigh- together friend- gfew ahriii ookin' lor : yet Mebbe eoi're a ATHOT 8 1-1 the ory My Gawd, 1 ain” tell you that The men jooked ug terest and the man with asked slowly Mebbe Uke 10 se yOUu For tated Oelz with #4 Lady.” Hee, T em ain™ a moment the newcomer hesi. then turned foward Mr: gesture of appeal I ask you: 1s a place 5 hell on in away? I enlisted vy when I was drunk, and r tol ye J stranger, the police would | me 1 gotta stay four; fret, sald Mrs “We aint got no lovin yolice round here. Set down I us your name ang have a Getz ler thus “Ed” was added to the Saturday night parties at home, Ed proved not only good fellow, but 5 clever one. He it was who robbed the very minister himself of two fat hens to grace the board one Saturday night, and he § Waa when complimented this exploit swore al it was game” and that he in hi done some mightly sahnkster the Gets n who UDOT that small turn deeds On one of Bd's visits he remark- d. “1 suppose there's nuihin’ dois’ is part of the world.” he sighed Not a crib 10 be cracked or a fat sock 10 be hooked--nuthin and mountains” . the Hans boys” suid Jake big had HE at (Continued on page three) Wheat Intentions Require Quota ‘Centre County Conservation George Houseknecht, of Near To- | wanda, reached town with numerous | quills from g porcupine sticking in. the right front tire of his car. He had sideswired the porcupine al Long Valley, and the quills had i sunk deep into the rubber. To Make 3.000 Tanks Work on $70.000.000 worth of tanks one of the largest orders of its EFind—is being speeded at the Ber- wick plant of the American Car and Foundry Co. The farm population comprises about 229 per cent of the nation's total but, when it comes to divid- ing the nationm] incume, the farm- ers fali to get anything like the | Same percentage, New Fast Lockheed Plane a Wonder An airplane which flew by so fast it disappeared before ils motors could be heard has made its debut —at a speed, its pilot sald, of 458 miles an hour. {spectators heard the thunder of engines, Burcham later sent the craft straight upward at an estimated 300 miles an hour and put it into spec- its tacular rolls and dives Eighty junior high school child- rent were taken up in commercial transports, after the landing of scores of troops from Fort Mac-Ar- ithur, to demonstrate, officials said, that Southern Callfornia‘s 300 avail- able transports could land 23.000 troops and evacuate 30,000 school children within 24 hours, Lockheed aircraft calls it P-38 in- terceptor, given its first public dem- onstration before 50,000 spectators at an air show at Los Angeles, the world's fastest fighting plane. Test Pilot Milo Burcham sent the plane so fast on a level course over the municipal airport that it disap- peared into the horizon before the a ———— in a Altoona Selectee Found Hanging : Private Joseph Weudert, 27 wht | was tied to an exposed pipe in an was Inducted into the army at Al- | unused ward of the camp hospital. toona on March 20, was found He was hospitalized April 3 for a! hanged at Camp Croft, Spartans- | foot deformity. burg, 8. C, Sunday. Weidert was| His nearest kin is Andy Weidert, found hanging from a cord which | 3 brother, of Crosby, Pa, Common Grave to Serve for Three A mother, her 9-year-old son and stricken mother, Mrs. Tillie Thiele- | an unborn child who died within man, who was expecting another | two days, were buried in fhe same child, collapsed and was taken to a | grave at Pittsburgh, Monday. Nor- hospital where she died. Physicians man Thieleman, victim of a heart sald her unborn child preceded her | ailment, died Wednesday, His grief-| in death by several hours. | 3 or a—— a A Lo | terialize, the situatic | prove, Committee Points Out Market Status The prospect of g wheal supply well above the level which calls for a marketing quota was emphasized by the recent winter wheat crop estimate sby the Defertment of Agriculture and the spring whea' intentions-to-plant report, accord- ing to the Centre County Agricul- tural Conservation Committee, composed of W. FP. Rishel, Blair M Pletcher and Daniel J. Beck. According to Government esti- mates, the spring wheat crop will run about 17 million acres. At average yields this acreage would make a spring wheat crop of about 180 million bushels. With an in- dicated winter wheat production of 616 million bushels, based on April 1, and a carry-over of 380 million bushels, the total supply for the 1041-42 marketing season would be about 1100 million bushels The committee pointed out that this is more wheat than we normai- ly grind into flour in 2 years. To- tal annual consumption, including | food, livestock feed, and seed, has been running about $75 million bushels. On this basis the quantity’ available for exports and carry-' over will be more than 526 million bushels. Exports this year may to- tal 30 to 35 million bushels. In 3 years time, war blockades | and economic barriers have reduced Unlied States exports from more’ than 100 million bushels to the level expected this year. This Joss of markets plus favorable wheat crops | during recent years, has brought about the surplus, “If present ts ma | call for | a quota proclamation and a vote by | wheat farmers,” the commitiee ex-| plained. “To keep the quota in ef- | fect, two-thirds of the farmers vo’. ing in the referendum must ap- Marketing quotas are a guarantee that all wheat growers {| will share equally in the available market and in handling the ur | plus.” i Wheat farmers who have planted | in excess or their wheat acreage allotment will now have an oppor-. (Continued on page five) BCRR to Abandon Grade Crossings 14 Crossings Under Ban in Cenire and Huntingdon Counties The Public Utility Commission Thursday announced an investiga- tion of ihe Bellefonte Central Rail. road Co. to determine whether the company should be permiiled abandos: 14 grade crossings in Cen- tral and Huntingdon counties On March 31, the company filed | with the Interstate Commerce Com- mission an application seeking au- | thority to abandon a portion of its St line extending from ate College to Stover, near Tyrone--a distance of approximately 22 miles, A commission spokesman pointed out that the investigation was insti. tuted to make certain that rails and ties will be removed from the hignh- way and that the road surface will | later be made traffic safe for highway £25 Damage in Crash Damage estimated at $25 resulted about 7:15 Ssturday morning when cars driven by Robert A. Graham, of State College. and Samuel L, Shank, of State College, R. D,, col- lided on South Allen Street, Slate College. No one was injured. as — The trouble with the jury system is ths lvrors, Aaronsburg Takes Part In Concert Six Musicians Were Members Hitch-Hiker Makes Rome of All-Master Band at State College 8ix Aaronsburg musicians members of the All-Master band at the sixth annual All-Master High School Band Pestival held on the Susquehanna University campus at Selinsgrove during the weekend. The six. who played in concert under the baton of Dr. Edwin Franko Coldman, internationally- known conductor, and march com- poser, were Geraldine Hast first al- to saxophone; Olivia Stover, solo clarinet, Carl Mots, first clarinet; Tillie Bowersox second aito saxo- | phone; Meyer Hosterman, director Human Babies Brought Up By Baboons | Reporting startling cases which | prove that children can be reared by iwild animals. An unusual story by | an eminent anthropologist, in the May 18th issue of The American Weekly, the big magazine distribut- ed with the Baltimore Sunday American. news- were | second ciarinet; ang P, F. Bartges, band | Screams Arouse College Residents Howl in Wee Hours of Morning Siate College borough police, in- vestigaling the source of blood-curd- ling screams which awoke residents of the downtown area about 2 o'- clock last Thursday morning. found the screams were the result of “jit- bers” | Police said a State College man driving over Bky-Top mountain had ipicked up a hiteh-hiker. Arriving {in State College the hilch-hiker {suddenly indicated that he wanted to get out, and the driver brought the car to a stop with tires squeal- ing on the pavement, Two girl pedestrians, believing the {men in the car were about to accost them, screamed and ran. { The driver's story. police added. {was substantiated by the { hiker. i | Fall Against Saw Fatal | Edward Morrison, 22, of near Som- erset, Fayette county, was fatally {injured when he fell against a cir leular saw al a mill he operated in but show hitch- On sale at all stands. partnership with his two brothers. >— : - Newspapers with paid cfrculation are usually read, including the ad- | vertising. Our own advice, if you want io ! watch foreign { your eye on the Par East. | es following t resentatiy 1 the two-year contract -. Saves Brother From Drowning moned a doclor resuscitation were Ks One-Man Fire Co. Puts Out Blaze Saw Mill Worker Borrows Fire Truck Before Mem- bers Respond Willlam Hughes, a »¢ worker on the du Co proved too fast bers of Lee! Fire company when he borrowed the fire truc cl SAW mi. Dear AleXAanc for vo the Alexandria commandeered a the fire the t 0 e doors In the mean- of the fir t fire hall, ) and re.urned to his work time, the other members company heard the alarm the fire hall, falled and ook 2 0 miss bot} Hughes, and U belore they went fire, oni) manned 1 WAS out Boys Confess To Firing Orphanage Youthful Inmates of Potter County Institution ‘Didn’t Like Home’ Three youthful residents of | Harrison Valley Orphanage a! Coudersport, Potter county, dgestroy- (ed by a $10000 fire early March 16 {are reported to have confessed to | the crime. They are Lyle Kibbee, II: the | Raymond E. DeWeese. 15. and Rob- | ert Tadder, 13. They will be taken | before fuvenile court soon In their confession the boys ex- ained they had planned the fire | in advance, because they didn’t like 110 stay at the home.” The youths told of having soaked a woodpile, next to the coal bin with kerosene to aid oombustion and that Deweese and Tadder were in the basement to start the fire Made homeless by the March 16 fire were 33 residents of the orphan- age, between the ages of one and 17 years a —— Bicycle Patrol Formed Boy scouts of Kane have estab- lished a bicycle patrol on the Kane- Kinzua road, where they have ex- tinguished numerous fires started along the highway by cigarets and matches thrown carelessly from cars. The scouts in groups of four or five make a continuous patrol on Sundays and holidays, when travel is exceptionally heavy, a — cn Clinton County Boy Injured William J. Pyfer, 3, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Pyfer, of Chathams Run. Clinton county, was seriously injured Friday morning when struck by an automobile on the highway near his home. Taken to the Lock Haven hospital the child was found to be suffering from a bad fracture of the skull. W, R. Chilcott of Punx- {Which struck the child. | Random [tems DROUGHT: It would 1941 bx down no Kon he great wWalerane Pennsyl ARE WE MICE? How lng nave portan half to the fall { the British Empire, bul many of it cling lo the belief that somehow he tight ttle -¥ Sedna td WEIR conauest COngQuUesis to keep the democracies ing until that time comes GARDENER: George H Hazel merchant and last ner's place a load of of former has week in wen Benner manure for Aller the fertilizer § and Mr. Haze] tried the machine woultin® mote the driver tried deeper the truck went down bog of the barnyard half a day in ut of the mud HOBBY: One of the more interesting sights to be seen this year along Spring Creek is Dr. Richard P. Noll, Belle- fonte dentist, in pursuit of trout Dr. Noll never fished until early this season when a trout blundered into a hook he was dangling in the water more to be doing something than {anything else, He was smitten by the bug and now has a complete angler's outfit. CORNER: With the new Sunoco filling sta- tion on the old Brandt House site rapidly nearing completion, the cor- ner of Allegheny and Bishop streets § undergoing a vast change in ap- pearance. The steep hill behind the {station is being terraced and will be {planted in grass i | BUILDING: Workmen engaged in the con- construction of the Bell Telephone Company's new building on the old Talleyrand site, North Aliegheny street, are loud in their praise of the materials being used and the solid construction of the building Many builders seidom have the op- portunity to work on a structure of J that quality, it is reported ISLAND: Next time you're on South Walter street. take particular notice of the old Gamble Island, The tract, once A community eyesore, grows more beautiful each year and it is now one of the most attractive spots in dener Ben der loaded AWRY And the Three geting affairs, is to keep sutawney, was the driver of the car town (Continued on page five) i AR St ‘KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES’ — Valuable Gray Matter!!! Pr wAIT !! DID MY —
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