7,000 COPIES EACH WEEK; LARGEST CIRCULA- TION IN COUNTY. he Cenire Democrat PAGES OF COUNTY NEWS AND WEEKLY FEATURES FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY p—— 14 VOLUME 60. NUMBER 24. BELLEFONTE, PA, TH URSDAY, JUNE 12, 1941, SUBSCRIPTION—$1.50 PER YEAR —— ®, LLE Unknow? Assailant Inmate Ends Inflicts Head Wounds Life In Cell At Rockview CT | State Police Head Arrives! to Take Charge of Investigation | VICTIM BROUGHT TO COUNTY HOSPITAL Mrs. Ernest J. Teichert | Struck Down Near Home | Late Tuesday ty's latest attack by an unknown as-| sailant underwent observation and treatment at the Centre County Hospital here yesterday afternoon, | the Pennsylvania State Police ganizations ace “murder squad”| under the personal direction of Col.} Lynn G. Adams, launched an in- tensive manhunt in the State Col- lege area The victim, Mrs. Bonna Teichert, 31. wife of Ernest J. Teichert, Penn State extension supervisor in the! mineral industries department is reported to be suffering from a laceration of the forehead and pos- sible head and jaw injuries, X-ray examinations had not been com- pleted late yesterdgy. Her condition is described as being “good.” Mrs. Teichert was returning alone to her home at 238 Fast Irvin ave- nue, State College, about 11 o'clock | Tuesday night when she saw her 4-vear-old daughter's tricycle on the! sidewalk. She dragged the toy down the driveway at the side of the| home, and had nearly reached the garage when a man appeared “from nowhere” and struck her on the head with some object Mrs. Teichert lapsed into uncon- | (Continued on i page three) or | Record Giaup Enters U.S. Army 63 Men From Centre County Inducted; Next Group to Leave Late in June Following the induction of 63 men, Monday, the largest county contin- gent since Selective Bervice began. both Centre county draft boards are well on their way toward prepara- tions for the next mass examina | tion at Williamsport Officials reported that the embar- cation by bus of 62 selectees to New | Cumberland and one to Ft. Meade, Md. where they will receive uni. forms and begin their year's train- | ing went off “without a hitch” early Monday Order numbers of the July quola may possibly be lower than in yes- terday’s. particularly for the State College board, because of the influx of previously-deferred students. Lo- cal Board No. | already has 27 men classified and ready for Army ex- aminations i In addition, 40 more registrants | underwent primary check-ups by | State College physicians and 21) were examined by the Milthelm phy- | sician this afternoon. Nine others | registered at State College are be- (Continued on Page 6) Milesburg Firemen’s Carnival This Week The Milesburg Fire Company will Iold a festival on the Milesburg | school grounds on Friday and Sat- | tirday, June 13 and 14 i The featured entertainment Fri-| day night will be the Hoosier Corn Huskers, radio entertainers from station WRAK, Willlamsport, Bat- ay a Little German Band from k Haven will entertain, tiractive prizes, including a 32- pie dinner set, will be awarded | veins kinds will be on sale. s of the carnival will 80 | the fire { from | Judg + still { dom Fisher | cealed | alter midnight by | Philip S tee for Annual Event at Com-| Rockview Fugitive Gets 5 to 10 Years 20 aped penitentiary © last April 10, and who was apprehended in Texarkana, ATRARSEE, May 26 [Sites he failed to gister for the aft, was se Py to serve 5 to g years in the Western penitentiary | When he pleaded guilty to the escape charge Monday morning before Ivan Walker Pisher had nothing to say Fisher who 08¢ Rockview Louis before | r i | sentence was pronounced While the victim of Centre coun | , ; Warden C Fisher and According Deputy Rhoads, of Rockview Hollenbaugh, 18, escaped about 6:45 a. m., May 26 by scaling the prison stockade. Hollenbaugh i al large At the time Was a charge of malicious to raliroads and carrying WeRpPONS having been tenced in Payette county Boy Drowns In Whipple Dam Alpha Firemen Recover Body of CCC Member After 3-Hour Search Alfred Joseph Figurella, 18, son Anthony Figurella of Williams- R. D. 2 Blair County, and a the Owls’ Gap COC in Whipple's in C William free- 10 in- cone bid Io, wrving 5 of his to VORArs jury on sen of burg member of camp, was drowned | Dam about 8 o'clock Sunday night | when he fell from a raft was recovered shortly (hree members | of the Alpha Fire Company, State College, alter a three-hour searc with grappling hooks Figurella, who could wim had been on a raft with a number of fellow members of CCC camp 8-60 (Cont fuel on Page 4 - Plan Fireworks Display on Fourth His body not Savior Heads Commit- munity Athletic Field The Bellefos ie Chamber of Com- merce again will sponsor a commau- nity fireworks display here on July 4 according. to an announcement made week The event is heduled to be held on the Commu athletice field at # p. m. (DST) on the Fourth. The Bellefonte Ju- nior Legion Band will play an hour's concert, beginning at 8 p. m Last year more than 5000 per- sons gathered at the field to witness the display--the only one held in (Continued on page three) sss MS ——— Al nity | Brewer Coal Company . Buys Coal Land Tract The J. O Brew er r Coal Company of Bellefonte, has purchased a tract | of coal property, the “C" and “B"” veins from the Claude Flood estate, near Kar- thaus The “C" vein 36 inches in heighth and the “B” vein is 37 inch. es. The tract involved in the pur- chase is about 128 acres in extent. The Brewer company has let the contract for the opening and oper- ation of the mine to Jacob Hazzard iand Blanchard Fye. Operations! have begun and a shaft hag been sunk is renin Future Farmers to Meel Future Farmers’ Week will be held at the Pennsylvania State College, | Was Scheduled to Be Giv- en Freedom on Sep- tember 9 CAPTAIN OF GU ARDS | DISCOVERS TR AGEDY Leaves Three "Notes; No Reason Assigned for Suicide A Rockview prison inmate whose minimum rm would have expired the Tollowing day. was found dead in his cell in the main celibloek of the prison early Sunday evening Centre County Coroner Charlie Sheckler Milesburg and prisor officials concurred in statement that the man had ended hi life hanging. The victim was tidale, who was sen Years a larceny term wo he | he woul ym prison on good tember 8, this year Discovery of Grist was made by A. E Ma) the guards, vhile on patrol of main cell block about 7:30 o'cloe Junday ght, The body wa indi cating that i irred only a short time before Man apparently had looped a hide belt around his neck ened the other end abdutc top bars of the cell door Dr. J. W. Claudy, sypetintgndent the prison. said he was at a Jo (to account for the suicide He said he had seen Grist in the prison yard [hat morning. had spoken to him passing. snd ‘thal she. sppesred normal in every respect. He had been employed as a laborer both in side and outside the stockade nid had never given any trouble, officials sald ' In Grist's cell block were found three notes: one gddpesged to hi mother: another addressed 10 a Dr Cole. who is believed to have been {Contin wey on page eight) Ra a —] Lime Worker of Onl 28 Of Se on minimum Monday, and informed that fy iifele captain ¥ of the death h an $ ol ¥ Overcome by Fumes Fol- lowing Dynamite Blast; U ndergoes Treatment fumes following a dynamite shot in the mine of the National Gypsum Company, in Buf- falo Run Valley near Bellefonte, Tuesday afternoon, Richard Davis, ‘aged about 25. of Central City, was {brought to the Centre County Hos- pital. { The man, dischasged from the in- {stitution about noon yesterday, re- sponded readily to treatment and is {reported to show no ili effects from {his experience. Davis, employed in the develop- ment of a new pocket at the foot Overcome Uy consisting of tWo|,¢ the mine, entered the pocket af-| ter a charge of dynamite had been {set off. allowing the usual time for [Two Bellefonte Students G raduate | From Dickinson Victim of Gas : —" STEVENS tudents from Bellefonte are of the class which Wa ted from Dickinson College cn Monday. June 9 Franklin K Steven rvens and Mr street and of Mr. and ast Blahoy FRANKLIN K. Two member gradun Carlisle f for the candidate degree in bi- ba: - a Scienos a member of the “Ban 0 Band to Visi Niagara 65-Piece Organization to Take Part in National I Contests eave July 8 The Lock Havre: have aboard jo Band 20 of mem- Niagara Falls three-day stay there ompete with iment groups Other features ide a visti to alls at night dreni’s party iagars UArag? Niagara Fall Mutual broadcast piayers will take » 5 eaving will te Ban parents train it 2.478 m the 85-piecr accompanied by bers, enol During the band will 60 other (relted for national } of the trip will incl Canada, viewing th grand ball and f the Hotel N through the streets and participate in 4 Broadcasting Comg in which over 1000 part, playing the specially written ‘march, “Voice of Niagara” The band also will have breakiast at the Shredded Wheat Company pliant Vv. H. Pifer, director of the band, visited Niagara Falls last week mak- ing plans for the trip. He report that members are working hard in the hope of winning a cup in thelr first national contest Expenses of the trip, as in ‘he wildwood. N. J and New York World's Fair trips, four and two years ago. respectively, will be borne by the band treasury wa —. A — Seek Applicants For Air Course Registration Opens For CAA Pilots’ School; Instruc- tion Free the 50 of ins Ono 44 4 of f he ny {the mine ventilation system to car-’ iry off the fumes from the blast | It is believed that because of its location, the fumes hung in the pit longer than is usually the case Davis, upon lapsing into sciousness, was immediately taken ito the surface by fellow employes and at the hospital was placed in an oxygen tent for a time, sisi WF ‘June 18 New Date for NLRB Hearing com@ny incurred in the purchase | June 18 to 18. It will include state- | of abew Pumper. wide judging contests. Ey bore Transformed Into Place f Beauty In ‘Friendship Garden of a large business building, includ- | Pittsburgh, who represented union | near future. where the “miracle” s at the rear of the building, West High The National Labor Relations Board hearing {Quarries case, scheduled to have | been held in the Bellefonte court | room today, | was reported yesterday. { NLRB attorney Robert Kleeb, of | uncon | in the Whiterock | June 12, has been post- | ’ | poned until Wednesday, June 18, it| Prothonotary Bond C. White's of-| regarded as serious. The Bellefonte Chamber of Com- merce yesterday announced college civilian pilot training course {which will open in Bellefonte about | July 1 The class will be limited to 50 | students, and only U. 8, citizens be- | {tween the ages of 10 and 26 years are eligible. Forms for registering in the course are available at the {Continued on page seven) 'Boalsburg Man Files Suit For Damages i li—— In an aclion in trespass filed in| {fiee this week, George Musser, of Boalsburg, brings suit against Wil- liam Greene, of Tipton, for damages | ing a busy garage nearby the iron | interests during the Titan Metal totaling $74580 as the result of a gates to “Friendship Garden” mit the visitor to a place of quiet, | peace, and riotous color. Here a little rill meanders through flower-lined banks to a) pool where goldfish disport them- | selves among water lillies, Birds] bathe in the shallows of the pool. Flagstone walks, flanked by flower. | bordered lawns lead up interesting | stairways and under attractive ar- bors The garden is a kind of sanctu- | ary—a little world all to itself—for | once inside the gates, most of the world outside is hidden by mam- moth masonry walls, which in turn are partially obscured by shrubbery and flowers. There are three terraces rising (Continued on page seven) ad- Company hearing some time ago. is motor lexpected to act as attorney for Whiterock workers. COUNTY ATTORNEYS TO OBSERVE HALF-HOLIDAYS The Centre County Bar Associa ition, at a dinner and meeting at) the Nittany Country Ciub, Friday night, voted to close all county law offices Wednesday and Saturday af- ternoons from now until the Sep tember term of court, it was report. | ed yesterday by former Judge James 1 C. Purst, president of the county association, Gifford Wright, former president of the Pennsylvania State Bar As-| may sociation, was the princi speaker st the dinner, a accident near Boalsburg | | about 8:30 p.m. May 22, 1041. Greene's car allegedly struck the {rear of the Musser machine while iboth cars were traveling west along the rond. Damages to the Musser car were listed at $245.80, and ser, who was rendered u in the crash, claims an additional venience. on View ed at the office of the Becretary by, cd citizens of the community who be interested. Final action on the budget will be taken by the Board on June 23. oo 5 ANNOY resent Col Hear the | opening of registrations for the non-| {$500 for pain, suffering, and incon- | | Bellefonte, Pa., Saturday June 14th. Doors, DELBERT M. FRANCIS ketball squad and a letlerman socoer. He 18 also president of the Dickinson College Religious Ass cation ontrolling group of the three faiths represented on the came ru Protestant, Catholic Jew an Francis wa Microcosm sla book well manager. Both Kappa Sigma social (Contined on jmge eight) ana 1940 year- a member of Lhe 4 oollege as varsity swimming members of Phi fraternity the " are To Dedicae Youth Cenfer Village’ at State College to be Formally Opened at Ceremonies Today ¥ i dedication gf the agric ural work center opbrated at College bs National You'h Administration u der sponsorship of the Pennsylvania State College will be held Thursday June 12. at 2 p. m. (EST it was inoed today by Isaac C. Sutton State KYA Administrator Included in the ceremonies will be talks by Prof. William V. Dennis State Ooflege School of Agriculture Dr. Stevenson Ww Fletcher, Dean, Bchool of AR? ulture. who will Ralph rari in Wal- TINA - tablished and Slate the Pr esident Dr D. Hetzel, and Mr. But pal address will be given by ter 8B. Cowing. NYA Consultant A feature of the dedication will be | appearance of the Pennsylvania State Champion Junior Drum and Bugle Corps from the State College American Legion Post 245 The Btale College consists of a group butldings located camps with facilities to take care {Continued on page seven) in Democratic Women To Meet, Tuesday fon. The of five frame The regular “monthly meeting of [action on both of them was deferred | girl the Women's Democratic Club of entre county will be held day evening, June 17, of the vice chairman, Miss Miller, Pennsylvania Furnace, The guest : speaker of the evening Maud {Will be The Honorable Ruth Griggs | women be allowed to act as sub- to a member of cach grade: Horting, Hinent of Lancaster. Other prom. | speakers will be present Bishop street, Bellefonte, clock p. m. (DST) at 7 o'- SHERMAN LOWERY IS INYURED IN ACCIDENT | the Centre County Hospital Yohiid ing treatment for Injliries suffered in a motor accident. He was admit- {ted to the hospital about 6 p. m last Thursday after an accident to ia car said to have been operated by LeRoy Fritz of Purdue Mountain ery suffered lacerations of the [chest, laceration of the abdomen, {and cuts of the right ankle and one {of his fingers. His condition Is not § TWO COWS DIE AS RESULT H. Kenneth Bauers of Siate Cole | lege ege escaped / with minor bruises about 5 o'clock Friday night when I his car struck three cows about two miles east of Boalsburg, One cow was killed cutright, one thad to be destroyed. and one was badly hurt. The oar was damaged (to an estimated extent of $350, The cows, belonging to G. Rufus | Sharer, were being driven across the road at a cattie-crossing when ‘they were struck. Value of the cows The Bellefonte School Board has was estimated at $100 each. prepared coples of the school bud-| get for 1941-42 which may be view-| Be sure to attend the big Auc- tion Sale at Claster's, Waler Street, at 1:30 P. M. Windows, screens, roofing, ete, will be sold. Bale rain or shine. ini, rePad NYA Center| near the College | Tues | at the home [all married women teachers whose | for highest conduct mark during $100 OF MOTOR ACCIDENT | Crash Vidim Is Recovering From Injuries Benford Injuries Listed as Fracture of Two Verte- brae, Thumb FUNERAL SERVICES FOR WIFE AND SON Scores of Floral Tributes; Nearly 800 Visit Fu- neral Home Aller a mrim bat tle of ne week again Injuries which time threatened to prove fatal, Wii- liam J. Benford well known resi- dent of Bellefonte Who was Injured in an accident last Wednesday in which his wife and son were killed, esterday was reporied to be ¢ ing gradual improvement Mr. Benford a patient Harrisburg Hospital is suffering from Wo broken vertebrae, one the neck and the other in the back, and from & {racture of one thumb It has been definitely determined that he was not injured internally, and are bright for his re- covery The ariy a for a how - in the m prospects much of other after now re patient, upoconscious the and brrational st times for the first five days the crash Harrisburg mtional members of the fam ported £roay Meanwhile, Saturday funeral services Were Bellet: United for Mrs who died ume Near dy yest alternoon held at the fonte ov - Ioiy th ily car collided head-on with a truck-trafler while the Benfords were en roule to Harrisburg on a business mission. The church was taxed to eApasi y 10 accomodate the Hinrge throng Of JArtends and acquaintances who went to pay thelr last respects The services were in charge © the {amily minister. the Rev. GE Householder, pastor of the Belle fonte United Bretdren church, and the sermon Was delivered by Rev. E. G. Sawyer, of Mount Pleas ant. who iz a close personal friend of Mr. Benford and Who was the (Continued on page seven) RE a Suggesls New School Policy May Ask Resignation of Married Teachers; Ac- tion is Deferred The Beliefonte school board mas {nel soon to request married women {teachers to resign, it was indicated {at a regular board meeting Monday | {night when motions to that effect if : fwere offered by board member | | Franklin B. Schad {| Schad presented two motions, but {until a later meeting One motion is to the effect that husbands earn more than imonthly be asked to resign. The jother provides that no married stitute teachers unless their hus- Cars | bands carn less than $100 a month, | Dolores {will jeave the headquarters on West or unless all single teachers on the | substitute list are unable to serve for any reason. The motions, apparently coming (Continued on page eight) pply For U.S. Citizenship, Naturalization Co Court Sched- uled Here Monday; Others to be Examined The following 23 persons will ap- pear in Naturalization Court before Judge Ivan Walker, on Monday, Jude 16, at § a. m. (EST) for final hearing on petitions for naturaliza- on ; Angelo Catalano. Bellefonte, R. D.; Edna May Glullet, Sybil E. Lid- elmann, Hans Hermann Neuberger, Helen B. Robinson, all of State Col- lege; Alfred Brnest CGoehringer, Elizabeth Mary Harris, Harry Porb- es, Alga Krebs, all of Philipsburg: Pawel Peter Coprich, George A. Kul- ton. Katarsyna Voenlak, George Pincak, John B. Panick. all of Clar- | the GE WOMAN VICTIM OF ATTACK June 24th Date Set for Highway Opening Few Welfare Pledges; $10 Cash Prize Offered Officials Alarmed for Be Name Suggest- ed by Public NAME CONTEST TO C LOSE ON JUNE 21 the Bel lefonte Lon. Fund Officials of munity Welfare concerned ov the pledges in the current funds 10 support Bellefonte's charities during the coming The drive is approximately short of the minimum goal $14.000 of the needed $19,000 subscribed 'o dar Officials yesterday ly that unless more coming soon, it will return the former and annoying me individual campaign for the institution Persons who have beh mi solicitors are asked send u contributions or pledges the fund offices | building. Those submitted pledges ar sider ng 1 this (amp Owners Discuss Ouster =~ W. P. Sieg Heads Commit- tee to Represent ‘Camp- pers’ on Tract are deficiency campaign 1 ecleve er Bellefonte, College Com- merce Groups Plan Ceremonies veal $5 declared funds are fOorin- 1 be NECEesSATY troublesome of conducting a h a «0 ¢ ening © to College highway for Tuesday of Commerce State Colieg snd By wed by plans fo Ho “ uo increas Year Fifteen owners 13.000-acre tract of ing Creek met at Titan Metal Camp “Hatetoleaveil” Bunday night | to discuss the proposed taking over of the lands by the State Game Commission FL is _seckis how by the fer BNA co Pittsburgh Coal Company, presume | ably for use as a Slate Game pre serve. In that event, it is believed. | § most {f not all privately owned cot- | tages would have 10 be moved irom the site | A highlight of the meeling, Sun-| day, was the naming of a three-mas (Continued on Page 6) | commitice Any person may send (Continued on page seven) wt soe of cotlages on a land slong Pisl the 4 | Flag Day Speaker the traciy —————— a Parochial School | Holds Graduation 19 Receive Diplomas for Com-| pleting Grade Work; Prizes Are Awarded Commencement exercises 19 students of St John's Parochial school, Bellefonte, were held Priday night in St. John's church, East Bishop street, Rt! Rev. Monsignor William E. Downes, pastor of the he o , ing sponsored church. - warded diplomas =a nd) is t oan a ig fone Fire prises as follows | dev stit. for the benefit of the | Ten dollars given by Knights of Separtmen ay SB reath ft olf {Columbus, to the senior boy and may Saturday when firemen girl with highest average, Richard | parts of Oentral Pennsylvania Kelleher, Agnes Rackoski; $5 bY |will gather here to participate in IMs. J. C. Rogers to senior boy and Flag Day ceremonies sponsored By for second highest average. ,, pellefonte Elks Club {John Delallo, Grace Sciabica: $2 The Flag Day speaker will be by Catholic Daughters of Americh wilbur G. Warner, of Lehighton Lodge. Lehighton, vice president of the Pennsylvania Elke Association The carnival opened at the high school playgrounds, North Spring street, last night following a parade of local firemen and visiting com- panies from the nearby area. “The Great DePolo.” aerial acrobat, orig- inalty scheduled as a free attrac (Continued on Page 4) for WILBUR G. WARNER ¥ here from the year, Mary Augusta Shoemaker Also $8 awarded by Catholic {Daughters of America for catechism first | BY ade, Mary Emily Dann; second, Boscaino; third, Louise (Continued on page three) Gas Company Adds | to Boiler Equipment Marsh Creek Youth | Held In Car Theft ier hag been delivered to the plant | of the Central Pennsylvania Gas| Floyd Warr, 16, of Marsh Creck, {Company and is now being installed [north of Howard, was committed to | Two similar boilers were a part of the Centre county jail Monday af- the original plant equipment | ernoon on charges of larceny of All of the gas manufactured al an automobile, after a hearing be- Axemann is pumped to Bellefonte, fore "Squire Harold D. Cowher, of State College and Centre Hall As East Bishop street, Bellefonte. He the cooking load increases periods pleaded guilty to the charge and of maximum “send out” are defin- was placed under $500 bail for his itely established. One such period appearance at court. oocurs at 11:30 a. m. and another]! Warr is charged with stealing a at 4:30 in the afternoon | car belonging to Raymond Rogers It is to handle this demand for | on June 5 and Keeping it for three Irtaied that the new boiler is how The car was recovered by brother, Irvin Jugers A new 105-horsepower steam boil BT —.. han Centre C ounty Shows Increase In Production And Employment The past year gave cmployment by 30 more than in 1939, and © SAE comparison 75 more gain in employment, | females found employment uction during Wages pald in 1040 amounted to ($3.647800, =m gaih of $687.800 over ithe previous , Salaried employes [received $106,700 more than in 16839. A summary shows that the total {horsepower used In industry was in- creased from 18.861 to 21.508: num. ber of electric motors from 1.456 to to Wa, 400,
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