| 7,000 COPIES EACH WEEK; LARGEST CIRCULA- TION IN COUNTY. Zhe Centre Democral PAGES OF COUNTY NEWS AND WEEKLY FEATURES FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY 14 VOLUME 60. NUMBER 23. BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1941, SUBSCRIPTION—$1.50 PER YEAR MOTHER, SON DIE IN H .J. Ben ford Stale College Father,W an Vidim Of Break Ground Impressive ground-breaking cere For School; Construction Work Begins | Mr. Pugh declared that the gen- Parking Meler Installation Is EAD-ON CRASH State Seeks Lands Alon o Fishing Creek Adopled Here... rimwing [Revort privat cottage Fire in Car Cushions on 13,000-Acre Tract Are Threatened TITAN CAMP IN DESIGNATED AREA monies, Monday, followed by pré- eral contractor does not anticipate! liminary activities yesterday on the any great delay through inability to site by the general contractor are secure materials. The order for steel the first physical evidences that was filed two months ago and ar- Bellefonte's two-and-a-half year ratgements were made for prompt dream of a new $450,000 high school delivery. National defense prioritie 4 # building are to be realized {however could take precedence, Mr jured When He Refuses | Earl L. Cump, of Chambersburg, Pugh sald {who holds the general contract for he ground-breaking Beer to Customer the structure, yesterday had a small Monday alternoon on the of the S————————— crew of men work constructing building destroyed by fire on Feb. were withessed by Critically Injured M RA dl ey Family Car and Truck| Victim of Accident Collide on Three-Lane | Road Near Harrisburg | ACCIDENT HAPPENS Knife Atfack Lunch Room Owner In-| “ouncil Approves Pur- chase of Machines For High, Allegheny Sts. Leroy Scull of Bellefonte, West Penn Power Company lineman, suf fered serious burns about four fin- gers of h left hand early Friday morning, while ripping blazing se exercises K ite at th atl DURING HEAVY RAIN | | | Hospital Reports Surviv-| or’s Condition ‘Unsatis- | factory’ Last Night Mrs. William J. Benford and son, | William Chester Benford, 23, of | North Allegheny street, Bellefonte, | were killed, and the father, William | J. Benford was critically injured | shortly before noon yesterday when their car crashed head-on into a| truck-trailer outfit near Harrisburg. | Reports at 7:30 o'clock last night | from the Harrisburg Hospital, where | Mr. Benford is under treatment were that his condition is “unsatis- factory.” At that time there had | been no signs of improvement since the time of his admission. UNDER BAIL OF $2000 S. W. Henninger Recover- ing at Local Hospital; |the contractor will be Roy Pugh, of learth for the new structure. In the Wounded in Abdomen 8. Walker Henninger, of East college avenue, State College, pro- rietor of Henny's Western Lunch in ommunity, is recovering stead- ly at the Centre County Hospital from knife received Saturday night when allegedly was attacked by William Kerko, 35. of Lytles Addition, State College The scuffle is said to have occur ASSAILANT JAILED |a small office building near the in-iruary 13, 1939 | tersection of Allegheny and Lamb | streets, and a concrete storage shed | is to be built along Lamb street in | the next few days | The general superintendent for Chambersburg, and the contractor's | engineer is Elwood Joder, also of | Chambersburg. Mr. Pugh declared yesterday that as soon as the office building and cement shed have been | completed, his engineers, under lhe | supervision of engineers from Hunt- ler & Caldwell, Altoona architects wounds of the abdomen | will stake out the ground to be €x-| corporation and guests he i cavated. A power shidvel is expected | here early next week to begin €x- | cavations crowd estimated at more than 3000 persons. Approximately 1400 school pupils marched through town filed onto the commons witness {ie turning of the first spadefu] of anda 4) student parade parochial as schools, and the three Be bands were in the line of march | The ceremony was held atop the terrace overlooking the commons {Chairs were provided for members lof the school board, building and a pub- were well of the public tnd elon pupils as the the He address system carried the pro- | ‘gram to all parts of the grounds | (Continued on page four) COUNCIL SPECIFIES MANUAL MACHINES Withdraw WPA Project For Shope Street; Boro to Take Over Task onte Ce unctl Me nday wed to night the mm 0 ¥ » ‘ he purchase of parking meter fistrict The portions meters vote r. manufactured in Co | The meter is a manual ated machine costing $46.50 each will provide one hous five cents: 12 minutes one cent, or 24 minutes cents approved by of Council is the } parking for for parking y time for two s | ames “(ie Stall As cushions from his car Informed by ] neighbor smoke was coming from his garage on East High street about 2 a m Scull found fire in the cushions on the rear seat of his car. He drove the car out of the and sul- fered the bur in blazing uphol ; Both fire companies responded 0 an alarm and extinguished th chemicals Scull under- went treat al the Centre Coun- y Hospits th | & ot al Claim Game Commission Contemplates Estab- lishing Preserve garage 1'Cés tearing : he Blate Game Com- is negotiatin r sine 13.- 000 acres of forest along Fish - Creek widely I ‘Ha Ppy ana yesterday out : LEBELON ng owners {in who have been approaches the matter have expressed great concern over the move Among the cottages and alleged to be involved are camps Cause Of Crash C. A. B. Report Claims Sherm Lutz Plane Last modernly - equipped tetoleaveit,” owned by ny of Bellefonte: a oot Homer P. Barnes her Bellefont E. Dor- Mr. Benford's injuries are listed as a broken back, fractured skull, fractured jaw and lacerations and contusions. Tentative funeral arrangements were announced late last night. The remains of Mrs. Benford and son, william, were being brought to the Wetzler Memorial Chapel, Miles- burg, where they will remain until the time of the services, which are to be held at 2 o'clock Saturday af- ternoon in the Bellefonte United Brethren church The services will be In charge of | Rev. G. E. Householder, pastor of the church, and interment will be made in the Union cemetery, Belle- | fonte, The crash happened near (Continued on page eight) 14 New.Players oe iy red in the lunch room when Hen-| r ninger refused beer to Kerko i dfis an Lt: lid es Kerko, charged with assault and | with intent kill, at a! before Justice of the Peace | Wilbur P. Leitzell at State Colleg Tuesday morning, was held under $2000 bail for court. In defsuit 0 bail he was brought to the coun) Jall here According to testimony of nine] witnesses at a preliminary hearing | before Justice Leitzell, Sunday, Ker- | ko entered the restaurant on South | Allen styeet about § o'clock Satur A solemn warning that “it ean} A long list of prizes for exoellence day night in an intoxicated condi- | pn, nen here” was issued in a stir- in various departments of sch tion. Henninger refused to sell him | ino address by Frank E Gwynne, work will be awarded at the annual beer and ordered him from the| sr Ajentown, past State Command-|Sommencement exercises of the premises | or of the American Legion, late Pri- Bellefonte High school in the Plaga receive 25 per cent of proceeds until When Kerko failed to go, Hen-| 4.0 afternoon before a crowd of | theatre at 8 o'clock tonight the machines have been ior dal nil nvine | ninger made a move 0 put him oul | every] thousand assembled at the! * pooe. will be awarded and di. 8{ter which the borough will receive oiling om pilot was giving in- It was then, witnesses sald, thatl| ohool crounds for the annual Meme | plotnas, distributed to the 158 mem. | 311 pn s. In the event the bor. |Fruction a. Neyhart, the formal] Kerko drew 8 pocketknife abd cut | ,pa Day services sponsored by vets of the class by E. K_ Stock, su. |OUEh is not satisfied with the meters | CAB report states. During the man- | Approximate 140 machines are to be Installed, according Coun- | r H y ellman John Weber, alrman : the Special Committee, which | given authority to purchase and i _- - ie machines, They will be : bo i Tne red Ave now owned by ata ; fidmanns of Lock Haven; the alternate blocks of meters and A o 4 "a virsee | Mensch estate cottage the Ernest f 11 stored sys + JET 444 il 44 : ‘ i “i Th Page ia wy paces. 3 n cabin, and inclu ae he 5 " 8 we Hs ” " a number of large cottages hour mit will prevail vy Lock Haven resides . y LAAN a ASTI IN Meters will be Installed on Alle- ¥ r h M wii be 1 oy + C A near State Ox It understood th gheny and High streels and will be c " Ney pr aries Ne; to a six-months’ trial per. a €] pl " ere seric The manufacturer will retain|™ , b " 3 «caused by 5 per cent and the borough will fall : cover from a s Bh The accident occurred while Lutz, paid WILLIAM J. BENFORD { Injured As (ar Hits Train Car Badly Damaged at Old Fort; 6 Mishaps During Holidays battery to to nearing [4 1 é Dares any to Receive Awards 15° For Achievement in School Activities 1 ‘Memorial Day Speaker i i | Warns Nation to Combat, Enemies of Democracy | _. i others ing inmetered spaces usu owned Board in 4 ed that ject arried to be (Continued on page sub ject od : YO i area will CiOBed most iod 0 t, i six) Six motor accidents, bringing in- juries to five persons, were reported in the Central part of the county as | the highway toll for Memorial Day { ang the weekend. None of the in- Digrt are moaedious condition. Mr. and Mrs Prank Clung end | daughter, of Butler narrowly es- the Blanchard Man ininger it - ; hob {euvers of the imstruction flight the! Held For Court Henninger in the lower abdomen. |erany organizations pervising principal of schools. Dr.| 8% fhe SPUEUOR OF TU EX-WOR plane went into & stall and spin and ia Henninger is said 10 have knock-| Iy t vigilel, ] i Rass . > Led. Kerko- Gown, Sal Biiod isn 4 ited that anly constant vigh<s W. Long, frrsigent of Dickin: | . (Crashed to the ground from an alt-| Will Be Tried in Clinton Coun- ark over Tim oat the] hice on’ the part of all ATiericars/ Bn Juice College; Wiamsport, | Yoroush. will nol_be tiable’dor. fur- fy de pe Ba { ; A . ] safeguard us against the forces will give the address page ae No defects in plane or equipment | ty For Part Taken in Stabbing Affray | can (Continued on page eight) i i as boa elg | which seek our destruction. just as! pollowing commencement exercis were cited by the board in the find- | of BD BE a In School Band 2 Drum Majoretites, 2 Banner Carriers, Manager, 8 Play- ers in Graduating Class Harold A. Wion, director of the Bellefonte High School Band, has announced that 14 new playing members have been added to the organization and will take their places as soon as uniforms ordered for them arrive. The ‘band this month will lose eight playing members, two drum majorettes, two banner carriers and the manager, but all of them will remain with the band during the coming summer ! Miss Dorothy Kline and Miss Stella Confer, two of the band’s] three drum majorettes will gradu- | ate tonight. The third, Miss Jean | (Continued on page seven) | Alumni Dance At | Hecla Park Tonight Following commencement exer-/ cises at the Plaza Theatre tonight, | the annual Bellefonte High School Alumni Dance and reception will be held at the Pavilion at Hecla Park. The dance is scheduled from 10 to 2 o'clock (DST). The Campus Owle, of State Col- lege, will furnish music, and features of the dance will include award- ing of prizes. Members of the graduating class will be admitted free of charge. Al-| umni will be admitted upon presen- tation of their paid-up cards. Ad-| mission for friends antl guests of | alumni will be 50 cents. The public is cordially invited to attend i According to reports yesterday, a | number of B. H. 8. classes will hold reunions tonight in connection with | commencement exercises and the annual Alumni dance. Child Suffers Cut | In Fall from Tree Janice Markle, aged 5 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Markle, of | Howard R. D., underwent treatment | at the Centre County hospital dis-| pensary, Saturday, for a laceration | of the chest suffered when she fell from a tree, The little girl had climbed to a limb and in falling was caught on | another limb which inflicted the laceration, Anglerette Suffers Fracture of Ankle Mrs. Fannie Bright, of Bishop street, Bellefonte, is confined to her | fishing along Spring . Mrs. Bright was admitted to the | Centre County hospital about 8) | caped seriou day mor: jury or death Satur- their car ran + sha ino the L. & T. branch train a grade crossing just east of Old Fort Ha! Mr and daughter escaped with bruises (Continued on page seven) —- NLRB Hearing in Quarry Case, June 12 The National Labor Relations Board regional office in Pittsburgh has set Thursday, June 12, as the date for a hearing in the Court House, Beilefonte, in the matter of whether or not an American Fed- eration of Whiterock Quarries, represents a majority employes The union several weeks ago ap- pealed to the NLRB for determina- tion of the question when employes voted against a ten-day interim ten. tatively agreed upon by union of- ficers and company officials Whiterock of A union spokesman claims a “sub- | i stantial majority” of the 180 to 200 Labor organization at Pleasant Gap, Bellefonte CDA Installs Officers Committees Named; Annugl Picnic to be Held at Hecla Park, June 25 Miss Catherine Hartle was stalled as Grand Regent of Court Patrick McArdle, Catholic Daugh- in- ters of America of Bellefonte, at in~| tiation ceremonies held Monday night in the court room on West High street. Miss Louise Carpeneto re.iring grand regent, has held the office for the past three years Miss Elsie Seymore of Tyrone, dis- trict deputy, was the installing of- ficer, assisted by Miss Carpeneto. | The following were also installed Madeline Carpeneto, vice regent; Marie Kelleher, prophetess; Mary Beldin, lecturer; Anna Mae Haupt, historian: Rose Pearl monitor; Elizabeth Dunlap, financial secre- | tary; Mary J. Gray, treasurer; Jean ¥Y. Bauer, sentinel; Ethel Carpeneto, | organist. Alice Fox and Ruth Cas- per, trustees for three years Following the ceremonies the reg- | ular meeting of the court was heid | (Continued on Page 6) Rockview Fugitive Nabbed in Arkansas Whiterock employes are eligible for | union membership st a MP SS sar Farmer Suffers Cut While Mowing Hay Sherman Zeigler, aged 23, of Bellefonte, R. D. 1, underwent treatl- ment at the Centre County Hospital dispensary, Saturday, for a lacera- | tion of the back suffered when he was struck by a mower blade while | cutting hay that afternoon. He was permitted to return home after receiving treatment cass MI SA ——— Centre County Family Busy Mr. and Mrs. Charles Noll, of Hublersburg,. were kept busy last Tuesday, May 27, atlending com- mencement exercises. They had the | unusual experience of having three of their children graduate the same day. In the morning, Gordon Giles Noll completed a four-year course in physical education at the Lock Ha- ven State Teachers College and in the evening their twin daughters, | Bettie and Jacqueline Noll, gradu- ated from the school. Hublersburg High >. 100F TO HOLD MEMORIAL SERVICES HERE SUNDAY Odd Pellows and Rebekahs mem- orial services, conducted by Holli~ daysburg Canton and Rebekahs, will be held in the Odd Fellows lodge {| Louis Fisher, one of the two Rock- | view inmates who escaped April 19 {by scaling the prison stockade, was apprehended register for the draft, Deputy War- den C. C. Rhoads, announced Satur- day Fisher is reported to have waived extradition and has agreed to re- {turn voluntarily to Pennsylvania to face the escape charge, ments have been made for Pennsyl-| | vania State Police to go to Arkan- sas to bring him to Bellefonte. | Pisher, aged 20, and William Hol- | lenbaugh, 18, escaped early in the {morning while prisoners were being assembled In gangs to be taken to the fields. Hollenbaugh is still at large. Fisher was serving 5 to 10 years for damaging railroad property and iearrying concealed weapons in Fay- iette county. His short term would {have expired in November 1042. : Postponed Concert o Be Held Sunday : The annual concert of the Amer- ican Legion Junior Band, scheduled to have been held last Sunday af- i ternoon and which Wag post because of rain, will be held at 4 p. m. (EST) this Sunday afternoon at the Community Athletic field, it was announced last night, A feature of the concert will bé o'clock Sunday night and remained room in Bellefonte on June 12, at | the appearance of Eddie Anderson, in the institution until Monday | morning when an X-ray examina- | tion of the injury was made. She Is now at her home. | 8:30 p. m. (DST). All Odd Fellows, Rebekahs and the general public are cordially in- vited to attend. | Penn State student, who is widely known as an acrobatic baton twirler, The public is cordially Invited to the concert. in Texarkana Ark. | last week on charges of failure to! Arrange | { the rapidly growing list of European inations are being destroved, Commander Gwynne ited specific the activities of subver- s In the United States He mentioned the activities (Continued on page six) pxamples of {sive element i today i A —— ‘Banjo Band To Go | To Niagara Falls V. H. Pifer. director of the Belle- fonte Banjo Band will go to Niagara Falls today to make arrangements for the band to attend the National Banjo Band convention there, July! 17.8 and 8. Various contests will fea ture the convention program Mr. Pifer expects to retum 0 | Bellefonte in time for the regular practice session and business meet- ling tomorrow night, when final | plans for the trip will be completed. S— ona Co. To Erect Voice Amplifier Augment Line Between Bellefonte and Lock Haven Will i The Bell Telephone Company &C- iquired a plot of ground in Beech Creek township, Clinton county, as [a site for a repeater or amplifying i station which will be associated with ithe storm-resisting telephone cable {line under construction from Lock { Haven to Bellefonte.’ | Jesse H. Caum, local manager for ithe telephone company, said the newly acquired lot is located on the north side of highway No. 64, ap- | proximately six miles west of Lock { Haven. The lot is of irregular shape, {with a frontage of #5 feet a rear {width of 80.25 feet’'and a depth of {about 100 feet. It was part of the {8. R. Peale Haagen farm, . The repeater station which the Bell Company plans to erect on this plot will be equipped with facilities for the amplification of volce cur- rents. This amplification equipment will be used 0 maintain voice transmission at Bell standards when the cable line now being built is placed in service. The land, repeater cost about $25.000. Meanwhile, linemen for the tele- phone company virtually have com- pleted the erection of the pole line needed for most of the new long- distance telephone route between Lock Haven and Bellefonte, Later work will start on placing about 78 miles of buried cable along the route, Exclusive of the repeater sta- tion costs, the entire project will require an expenditure by the tele- phone company of about $135,000, Is Susquehanna Graduate degree at Busguehanna University's 83rd spring commencement in the Seibert Hall Chapel on the Selins< grove campus Monday morning. station building and equipment will} Melvin W. Jones, son of Rev. and Mrs. Thomas G. Jones, of Boals-| burg, received his bachelor of arts es the annual Alumni dance will be held at Hecla Park Following is s List of prizes to bw awarded to high school students to- General Excellence, academic and general subjects, $1000, given by Col. W. Fred Reynolds: won by Gor. don Vars; honorable mention, Mary | O Hara General Excellence. commercial (Continued on page seven) ———— A — Firemen’s Carnival Here Next Week Final plans for the carnival to be held from Wednesday to Saturday, June 11 to 14. inclusive, on the High school playgrounds, West Lamb street, were announoed yesterday by O. A. Kline gnd Carl Cronemiller, {general chairmen of the commitiee iin charge | The carnival is being sponsored iby the Firemen's Convention Com- i i | mittee, made up of members of the | cal chapter. A total of 1690 yards of | {Undine and Logan Fire Companies, {who are cooperating with the Belle- 3 . fonte Elks Club in that iza- | of { New Cable fone s Club in organ Kusse Speaker at | {tion's annual Flag Day celebration {All proceeds will go to the Firemen's { Convention fund. | Special attractions on Flag Day. | | Saturday, will include a parade in {which firemen from this county as| i well as from many other counties will participate. After Elks Flag Day {services in front of the Court House {the parade will move to the carnival | grounds. | The committee has booked a fam- ous aerial trapeze act as a free at. {traction for each of the four nights, | The act is The Great DePolo, who ‘specializes in serial acrobatics, tra- i peze loop-the-loops and many other daring aerial stunts The committee is arranging an attractive list of prizes, refreshments and entertainment. - JOE MILLER NAMED TO POSITION AT WATCH PLANT Joseph R. Miller of State College, former Penn State athlete, Monday began work in his new position as personnel director of the Hamilton Watch Co, Lancaster, | Mr. Miller was a member of the {staff of the Informal instruction di- | vision of the Extension Services at {Penn State, He has worked for the Westinghouse Electric and Manu- facturing Co., the Union Switch and Signal Co. the Pennsylvania Rail- road, and other industrial concerns. {more recently he did research for {the Public Service Institute, was senior field agent for the Pennsyl- Falling on the pavement while home, Sunday af- Novosal. aged 2, Local Red Cross Shatters Quotas Organization Exceeds De- mands Upon it From Jan. uary 1 to June 1 fo 8 report submitled by Mrs. W. Harrison Walker, pro- [duction chairman of the Bellefonte Chapter of the American Red Cross, the local organization exceeded its quotas in the period from January {1 to June 1 The Bellefonte group was allotted 8 quota of 2882 miscellaneous ar- ticles, and 322 Knitted articles for the period. The report shows that {3046 miscellaneous articles, and 407 knitted articles were finished and According sent to storehouses in Jersey City. Supplies for making the items came {from Washington, D C | Statistics reveal the large scope | tof the work accomplished by the lo- i (Continued on Page 4) ! i | Rotary Club Meeting | {| Speaking on the topic, “The Grass | {is Always Greener on the Other Side | lof the Fence,” Karl E Kusse sec-| [retary of the Bellefonte Chamber of | Commerce, addressing the weekly | | meeting of the Bellefonte Rotary | Club, Monday night, declared that statistics’ reveal business conditions| here are much better than in many | {other communities. | {| Figures on retail sales reveal, he! | said, that Beliefonte, with a popu- | {lation of 5304, and a volume of re- | {tail sales last year totaling $3.411.-/ {000, averaged 3640 per person. The] {same figures for Clearfield revealed | {a per capita expenditure of about | 18536; for Willlamsport, $471, and for Altoona, $400. He also added that Bellefonte has a larger humber of stores of various kinds than most towns of comparable size, and of many towns much larger. { VACATION CHURCH SCHOOL TO BE HELD IN MILESBURG A vacation church school will open on Monday, June 8, at the Milesburg public school and will continue for two weeks. The Baptist, Presbyterian, and Methodist churches are sponsoring the school for all the children of Milesburg and Central City. No Eh cou The Rev. the school. Mrs, Malone, Miss Elizabeth Ann and Miss Eileen Rossman are department su- Bumbarger, of Saturday was brought to the Centre County Hospital for treatment. No. per Chemica manent injury is expected to result, ings and the only Cause assigned | was that which must have been ap- renit to any atehing - “Pliot Jailed to recover Irom Stall andor, charted with aggravated assault png and batiery on the person of God- b fred Laubscher at the Beech Creek SL NB Hotel, May 17, was given a hearing before Alderman T. Mark Brungard Is Are Lock Haven Monday afternoon and was held for the next term of Defense Need {Clinton county criminal court in the sum of $1000 bail. Ball was fur- _— . . - nished Kiwanis Speaker Outlines Im-| p[aubscher, 22 of Castanea was portant Role of Laboratories |! a dance al the Beech Creek Ho- : . {tel when a brother of Dean Kunes, in War Research {Floyd, who was also at the hotel v {that night, wanted to dance with “Chemical Contributions to the |him, the testimony revealed, and in National Defense Program” was the | the dance, or scuffle which ensued, subject of an interesting address be- | several wiinesses, including Laub- fore the Bellefonte Kiwanis Club at (Continued on page seven) the meeting Tuesday by C. J. Lewis, | of Pittsburgh, chief chemist of Whiterock Quarries, and in charge | of technical sales. His discussion | entered into the four fields of met- | als, food and agricultural contribu- | tions, medicines and drugs, and syn- | thetics In metals, Mr. Lewis stated, there | is progressing rapidly, Dean Clarence Kunes, of Blanch- - in n 2 New Highway May Open Late in June Work on the new highway be- tween Bellefonte gnd State College, although has been nothing spectacular on ac- ; opening of the road is not expected until the latter part of June or early In July. i was announced yesterday. All the paving work has been , completed, the finishing of berms is i well toward completion. and guard | fences are being erected. The ma- jor task holding up the opening of { the road is the construction of stone gutters through the two major cuts | just south of Bellefonte, it is re- | ported. The contractor in charge for sev- eral days jast week permitted traffic over the road. hoping motorists would observe the caution signs and | drive slowly through the cuts where workmen are constructing gutiers | Flagrant abuse of the privilege by motorists who poomed past the danger points without® reducing | speed, caused the contractors to re- i place the barriers on each end of | the road, it is said. count of the great progress made during the last twenty years. How- ever many important advances have been made such as the nickel (Continued on page six) MATTRESS MAKING CENTER NOW OPEN AT REBERSBURG The second work center for mak- ing mattresses for low income groups in rural areas sponsored by the Agriculture Conservation office!’ in Bellefonte, opened in Rebersburg yesterday. The office has been con- ducting similar work in Spring Mills for several weeks, The program at Rebersburg is be- ing carried out at the Harold Brun- gart home Members of the com- mittee in charge of the work are Mrs. Harold Brungart, Mrs. Fred Bohn, Mrs. Lee Kidder, and Miss Miriam Zerby. ~~ 'K idnappi g’ C harge Interrupt Cou e's Honeymoon Adventure Release on Monday of Henry!rived and the quizzing began. Lasch, 26-year-old physical educa-| The young bride of only a few tion student, from the State College hours testified Lasch, who had been jail, on orders from Erie county her friend for a long time, picked authorities, is hoped to bring a her up early Saturday morning and peaceful settlement of a mar- offered to take her to work, She ried couple's plight. Lasch had been said he refused to let her out of the held since Sunday on a charge of car and continued driving after kidnapping a 19-year-old girl and showing her a marriage license and making her his wife, ring.
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