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.
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| 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.
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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 Ȣ
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
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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)
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‘KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES’ — Valuable Gray Matter!!!
Pr
wAIT !! DID MY
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