7,000 COPIES EACH WEEK; LARGEST CIRCULA- TION IN COUNTY. he Cenfre Democrat PAGES OF COUNTY NEWS AND WEEKLY FEATURES FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY 14 ——— VOLUME 60. NUMBER 27. BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1941. SUBSCRIPTION-$1.50 PER YEAR | { i IKE WIL 53 Claims Settled; 0 Others on File $7,400 Bill Fer Moving Three Homes From Site of Highway FUNDS COME FROM FUEL TAX REFUND County in Debt $80,000 Until State Repays “Raided” Fund A total of $37.997.00 has been paid to date by the Centre County Com- missioners to some 53 landowners along the right-of-way of the new pike between Bellefonte and State College, In payment of claims for damages resulting from the con- struction of the new highway Announcement of the payments was made yesterday by the Com- missioners, who report that nine claims remain to be settled. Every one of the claims to date was paid upon amicable agreement between the landowners and the Commissioners. So far no lawsuits are in the offing, although there is some dispute ever one of the nine Railroad Fireman Suffers Heat Stroke | Ralph ©, Hefferman, 48 of 1] niata, fireman on a westbound | freight passing over the Bald Eagle Valley branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Sunday afternoon, suffer. ed a kind of heat stroke, and was brought to the Centre County Hos- | pital for treatment. According to reports Hefterman | had consumed quantities of ice water during the run from South | Fork, N. ¥. and shortly before ar- | riving at the Snow Shoe Intersec- tion water tower the muscles of his | arms and legs became rigid. When the train halted at the water tower, | the man was transferred to the E. E. | Widdowson ambulance and brougnt | to the hospital, where he responded | readily to treatment, charged from the Monday Food Poisons He was dis- | institution on unpaid claims The $3793700 total does not in- | clude an additional $7400 expense | borne by the Commissioners in re- locating three homes which had to (Continued on Page 7) Woman Injured In Crash Near Runville Haven woman, Mary Bauer, 82, suffered a fractured enl- larbone in a motor crash near Run- | w ville Saturday afterneon: - 8he re- ceived treatment in the dispensary of the Centre County Hospital | where a splint was applied to the fracture i The woman was = renger am a Bodun “operated by E: fos Me Closkey, 18, of Lock Haven other car was driven by Richard L A Lock DeWalt of Irvona, Clearfield county. | erved at the picnic before definitely | Miss MeCloskey's car was coming | out a side road when the accident | happened. Damage to the about $100 and loss te the other | machine was approximately $25 ows aman Nittany Youth. Struck By Car Guy Rogers, 9, Suffers Mul-| tiple Lacerations of Head And Body Guy Rogers, 9, son of Mr Mrs. Thomas Rogers, Nittany, fered muitiple lacerations es of the head and bocly and bruis- was struck by an automobile near | his day home at 8 p. m. last Wednes- He was rushed to the Lock Haven | Hospital where his condition is sald to he fair State Motor Police from Pleasant (Continued on page six) I 11 Centre ‘Countians Are | mer The | DeWalt car was | 300 Af Picnic ito the Lock Haven chief Among Victims of Mass lliness at Williamsport Poisoning of nearly 300 persons, including 11 Centré countians, at the 35th annual Masonic reunion and picnic on the Ashhurst estate of for. Senator Charles W. Sones, at Williamsport, Friday afternoon. is | believed to have rem ited from taints | ied food eaten by Lhose at the out! ing. i Reports vesterday were to the ef. {fect that all of the victims have re. covers op mre recovering [rom the effects of the polson Officials are waiting reports. on laboratory tests being made of foods i fixing the « I ness The iliness came suddenly to only men who had eaten lunch at the (Continued on page seven) cause of the wholesale {ll- Searchers Find Lost College Man Discov ery Made Just as Alpha Fire Co. Squad Arrives to Aid Search i daughter of Mr. and { conscious condition since the attack | | Monday night of last weck, had re- i covered ficers to obtain her account of the tured her i ia swimming party at the Republi- { his i County | surgeons found several tendons over i permitted to return home Attack Victim » i i i | dent May or OK's Borough Officer Ralph Eyer, nine years a member of Bellefonte’s police sorce, Monday announced | that he has resigned from the force, | | effective July 1. The | he sald, is scheduled to be presented | at the next regular meeting of Bor- | | or Harris, Copneil President Thom- as B. Beaver, and Chief of Police upon action taken by Mayor Hard- | Harry Dukeman, Iman P. Harris ghd Council Presi- | Thomas B., Beaver, Saturday | when they recommended the ough Council, July 7. Eyer's resignation followed closely night, suspension of Eyer for 30 days for placing three loca] youths in the lock-up for more than an hour alter the boys are alleged to have whist. led the old tune “RootTi-Tool” as the Police car passed them, Eyer, however, denied that the | threatened suspension was the rea- MISS DOROTHY PETERS ~Courtesy Lock Haven Expres: Police Investigating the brutal at- | tack upon Dorothy Peters, 15, | Mrs, Albert | Peters, of Lock Haven, formerly of | Bellefonte, received encouragement | from two sources yesterday Miss Peters, who has been In semi- sufficiently to permit of- affair : i The second possible “break” same in the form of an anonymous irtier of police urging him to make a door-to-door check of a certain area not far from | {where the girl was found last week | after receiving a blow which frac- skull “Make a door-to-door check and question every boy and girl” sald the unknown writer. Police are ap- pealing through newspapers to the writer of the note to come forward and give whatever information hej or she may have regard ng the case - swimmer Suffers Lacerations of Feet — Winlie his class at the a H pre wl Te can summer camp, hear Curlin Sunday afternoon, Andre Toner, 14, | son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Toner, struck bo" sul of South Allegheny Street, feet against glass on the tom of the swimming hole, and s fared severe lacerations He was brought to the Centre Hospital dispensary wher? the instep had been severed. A slight laceration on the other fool i also was treated. After the In- juries were dressed the youth was | son { Chief of Police Harry Dukeman was { with him when the three boys were placed in the lock-up, and disclaim | for his act. He alleged that ed sole responsibility, The three who ended up in the lock-up after police had heard the hateful-to-police strains of “Root- Ti-Toot"” being whistled as the po- live car cruised on Water Bireet, | were Joe Ceprish, 16; William Scott, 18, and John Rackowski, 18 all of Bellefonte. Released the same night Titan Closes Plant Observes 4-Year Holiday w ith Pay In keeping with " custom estab. | lished some years ago the Titan { Metal Company plant, one of Belle. fonte’s leading industries. is closed | {down all this week while ils emi-! American G po Lan are on a week's vacation wit kb # Pas officials sald that approxi- | mately 550 workers are included in the Ainhal vacation this year, the holiday being accorded every wage | earner who has been with the com- pany ong year or more A force of about 150 men, not in- cluding office workers, 2 on duty this week at the plant. They are engaged mn maintenance and repair work, inventory, special duties, and in the construction of an addition | to the electric annealing furnace | which will double its capacity (Continued on Page 7 a ———-— ‘Woman Angler Lands resignation, | ! sglously | High Street, and upon turning into Banjo Band Is For Yacafion Leave Next Tuesday for 3- Custom; 550 Workers on | { will play with 1000 others in a Nat- | they were instructed to appear be- fore Mayor Hardman P. Harrls for a hearing Saturday night the three boys, W. 1. Scott, father of one of them, and Miss Agnes Ceprish, sister of the Ceprish lad, together with May- appeared for the hear.ng. Officer Eyer was no. pres- ent Chief Dukeman cited the com- plaint against the trio, and the boys declared that they had not con- whistied the tune to irritate police. They sald they had been whistling while walking dowa Water Street, began a “rehearsal” of “Root-Ti-Toot.” One of the boys said he didn't know the police car wag around until he saw officers ap- proaching the group. The incideat happened about 8 p. m. Friday night, and there was no evidence that the boys were in any way act- ing In a disorderly manner. Even police had difficulty in finding a name for the charge under which they were placed in the lock-up, it was claimed, One officer guessed ‘t might be “mockery of police” or something (Continued on page eight) Ready For Trip Day Outing at Niagara Falls Convention Eighty members and parents of the Belisfonte Bango Band will leave Lock Haven at 2 m Taeodey., July 8th to attend tel wild of Banjoists, Man- | dodinaata and Cullariils Conven- ton contests al AgAra Fal 5B NY The band will spend three full days there and special features of the visit will be contests in Hotel | Niagara Ballroom, a bus trip to} Canada and the illuminated falls | grand ball and party, visit to Shred- | ded Wheat plant, and parlicipation | in a parade to Hyde Park Stadium. | where marching units will drill. | The band also wil] attend a festi- val concert to hear the nations finest orchestras and artists, and | ional hookup broadcast (Mutua. {Contintied on Page seven) msm a and | suf- | when he | Just as a squad of Alpha Fire Com- pany members of State College, ar- | i rived on the scene to begin a search | 83-year-old State | { College berry picker, Jost for three | Plan Pageant At Grange Fair | William Yarnell {hours near Waddle late last wed- | i nesday, was found by friends. H | Mr. Yarnell and. his son-in-law | Special land daughter, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. | memorate 75th Anniver- Breon. of State College, were plck- | ing berries in the mountains near | sary of Grange Waddle when he became separated | rm (from the other two and wandered As a Dart of hr Shag mn eo |away from the spot where the Breon MemOrating the 15th anniversary o Event to Com- 123" In. Trout on Fly Ne | street, imen's Paradise, Tuesday night ied a monster trout and was prepar- | jing to land the fish when the tackle {broke and it got away {tied on fishing. A moment later she hooked gro Veterans Go To Poe Camp ——————— Veterans From Reedsville Scheduled For Transfer to CCC Camp Mrs. Samuel McGinley, of Thomas | one of Bellefonte's foremast anglereties, carved herself a place | in local angling history at Pisher- 160 Mrs. McGinley, fishing with fly and using light-weight tackle hook- | Announcement Was made yester- day that effective next Tuesday the Poe Valley CCC Camp in the Seven iMountains will become ga Negro Undaunted, she repaired the line, another fly and continued Bald Eagle Highway | car was “parked Detour i is Announced | When his absence was noted Mr, | State Highway officials report | Breon and Charles Schilling, also of | { State College, searched for a time | 2 ! that the road betwhen Howard 01 | before calling Pred R. Gearhart and | Blanchard was qd yes daY | or ester Poorman, of State College, | morning, in preparation for the construction of a new concrete | Cd them. highway between thote towns. When the hour grew late and it Officials advise motorists travel- | i was feared that darkness would fall | ing east to use either the Jackson- | ville road or Nittany Valley high- Way either of which is accessibl: | trom Howard over improwd roads sa Centre Cc ounty Native, Former ss A iis | the National Grange, Centre County | Pomong Grange will present a pa- | { geant, “Our State Grange” on Sat- yrday evening of Pair week. The Lecturer, depicts the Orange Founders in their first session fol- | lowed by a series of tableaus por- before the missing man was located | Iraying Grange history and symbol- | the Alpha Fire Company was noti- | fled. A moment before they arrived {the other searchers found Mr. Yar- ‘nell, safe and sound. Minister, Observes 100th Birthday | DR. THOMAS F. DORNBLASER “Courtesy Williamsport Bun The Rev. Dr. Tnomas Franklin Dornblaser, Centre county native, who has preached from Chicago to Berlin, reached the age of 100 on Sunday. He observed the occasion {quietly at his home in Chicago, | Dr. Dornblaser was born June 27, {1841, at Washington Purnace, Nittany Valley, Centre county, and! his early education was received in the schools of that vicinity. After at Susquehanna, he graduated from’ the Wittenberg Seminary, Spring- | field, Ohio a Lutheran pastor throughout the West and Mid-West. In 1919 he made his second trip to Europe to visit a son's grave in the Meuse Arponne cemetery and while abroad became sfBlinted with the American Protestant Union church in Berlin and a teacher of English in the ¥Y M. C. A there. Bince his second trip abroad he made 14 voyages, the last of which was in 1036 when he returned to the States During the Civil War he was a member of the Seventh Pennsyl- vania Cavalry, one of the regiments that captured President Jefferson Davis of the Confederacy, After the war he enrolled at the Missionary Institute, now Busque- hanna University, Selinsgrove, and now is the University's oldest living graduate, in| ism; a reader interprets each scene, | The Grange is shown as a social and economic force through its ser- vices to the community, Parsici-| (Continued on Page 7) 47 Pass Army Physical Tests Group Slated For Call to Ser-| vice Sometime After July 9 i i studying for the Lutheran ministry | Forty-seven Centre countians took | another step toward becoming a part of the Belective Service Army, | (Monday, when they passed rigid He served numerous parishes as|Army physical tests at Williamsport | Qf the 51 men sent from the two Local Draft Boards, two were re-| jected by Army physicians as being | unfit for any service, and two were (Caniinued on Page 7) GEORGE BROWN ANNOUNCES FOR BORO TAX COLLECTOR George M. Brown, of East Logan street, this week officially announced his candidacy for the cffice of Tax Collector of Bellefonte borough. He is running on the Republican ticket. Mr. Brown is the first person to authorize official publication of his candidacy. although several other candindates are unofficially in the field for the office, He is employed as assistant manager of the A. & P. Buper Market. corner of Alle gheny and Howard streets, pageant, directed by Mrs. Phoebe Cronister, Pomona Grange | ia giant trout, and after a battle got iit to shore The trout, a Brownie, was 23% | inches long and weighed five pounds, {four ounces And it was the same fish she hooked with the first fly. for from its mouth she recoverad the fly she {had fost, i Cuts Lip on Nail Ronald Kelley, aged 7, son of Mr. and Mrs. Guyer Kelley, of Miles burg. cut his lower lip when he fell ion a nail Monday evening. The site. |child received treatment at the hos- | | pital dispensary. World War Veterans’ Camp. According to reports, the 107 boys in the CCC camp, about 80 per cent of them Centre county youths, will be distributed among other camps. The camp will then be turned over to the Negro Veterans Company, of about 160 members, which is now at camp near Reedaville Established in 1833, the Poe Val- ley camp has been quite beneficial to that area. A number of mountain roads have been constructed and a large dam built near the camp The proposed camp change has {Continued on page six) INDEPENDENCE A i {Written for The Centre Democrat) Do you take Independence for granted? Did you earn it by something you've done? Is it only a creed to be chanted? Or a goal to be fought for and won! Do you think you've done much to deserve it? Do you think you've done all that you could? Your grandfathers fought to preserve it And their grandfathers bought it with blood Whatever it cosls tn retain it, Can you say that the price is too high? Do you know that for one chance to gain it, There are millions in Europe who'd die? Would you count life worth living without it? Would you give up your sons to be slaves? Well, your sons shall be free, never doubt it, Bo long as Old Glory still waves, But you'll never hold Freedom by dreaming, guard; Big Fireworks Display Here Friday Night Junior Legion Band to Play Hour’s Concert Beginning at 8 p. m. MANY CONTRIBUTE TO DISPLAY FUND Event Will be Postponed to Saturday in Case of Rain Final plans for the annual fire. works display sponsored by the Bellefonte Chamber of Commerce were announced yesterday by offic- ials of the Chamber Preceded by an hour's concert hy the American Legion Junior Band. Bellefonte, the display will begin at | the Bellefonte Community Athletic Field at 9 p. m. (Daylight Baving Time). In ease of rain the entire program will be held Saturday night July § This year's selection of fireworks is larger and more varied than ever before, according to reports. Pire Marshal Philip Baylor, of Belle fonte, aided by a group of firemen from Bellefonte's two companies will have charge of fring the many pieces, Robbers Get $20 At ‘Birdie’s’ Pool Room The Charles “Birdie” Anderson Garman Hotel building was broken | oat early Tuesday morning, ac- to Mr. Anderson, who dis- sording the robbery when he opened | the establishment about 8 a m The thieves, who apparently were pool room, gained access by break- ing a rear window which faces on an areaway. The areaway opens on an alley. The cash was removed from a hiding place in the room Nothing else in the establishment was disturbed Mr Anderson said. Police at Rockview sub-station, Police al Rickview sub-station. Several clues found at the scene | ed, police said, The Anderson pool room has been | in the same location for nearly 19 years, and Tuesday's robbery was the first such occurrence to take place there during that time, Board Names Among the sel pleces will be wel- come banner; musical set, Eifel | tower, stadium display of columns of | gold and silver fire, 20-foot mechan- | jeal action golden spray, 20-foot | mechanical revolving serpent, 20 fool radium dazzier, Liberty Bell, a | 30 by BO foot cross fire, 30 by 60 foot | fountain of youth, 30-foot national | color wheel, 30 by 60 fool sun clus- | ter, 135-foot candle batteries, a! bombardment, storm curtain with electric flashes, sinking of Bismarck with two planes and battleship par- | {Heipating, American Flag Nsgars | Fails, and 8 "good nigM™ number | I J shells, ant! 24 twelve-inch, and 12 wells of { filteen-ineh shell with flare. The flare will i- | (Ountinusd on DAge seven) New Road Plan Is Tested Here Highway Organizes ‘Pan- zer’ Unit to Speed County Maintenance Work An idea developed by 8id R. Col- lins, of Clearfield, district engineer of the State Highway Department for the area including Centre coun- ty, may revolutionize the depart. ments system of road maintenance, it became known last week when Collins’ plan worked out most suc- cessfully in experiments conducted in Centre county. Heretofore it has been the policy of the department for each county highway unit to carry out its own oiling and chipping program, and approximately two months’ work (Continued on page seven) G. A. Long Takes Over Markland Succeeds Morton Abelson in Post; Comes Here With 21 Years Experience Effective Tuesday of this week. Guy A Long, former manager of the Hotel Traylor, Allentown, be- came manager-director of the Hotel Markland, South Spring street, Bellefonte, succesding Morton Abel- son, resigned. Mr. Abelson had been manager of the hotel since the death of the late Mark Landsey ten years ago. Mr. Long comes to Bellefonte with 21 years of varied hotel experience fo his credit. Por eight years he was traveling steward for the Unit. ed Hotel Chain, At various times (Continued on Page 6 Large Boar Injures ine Grove Farmer While driving a Jarge boar to its pen, Earl Bickle, of Pine Grove Mills, suffered severe lacerations of the Hight hip and leg, Bunday morning, when the boar turned on him with ita tusks. Mr. Bickle Jud takin so the of. fice of a physician for treatment. He is the tenant farmer on the Me- Williams-Sunday farm near Pine Grove Mills, Gets Mall Contract Ralph Capperelle street, Bellefonte, has been award ed the contract for hauling mail from the Lemont station to State Sullege and from Lemont to Belle. i Election New Teache of Two New Di-| rectors Postponed Until July 14 Meeting Miss Bertha Josephine Howe, of | Biglerville, was named enmmercial teacher at the Bellefonte High | Bchonl atl a gpecial meeting of the {| nehont board, Tuesday night Miss Hower was elected tn fll 5 Nnsteiler, of Poti ve oe chosen for the position last week. the same na-| informed the board that she had Charles ture. There is also a 15-inch bomb. | { just accepted a similar position in the schools of Dover, Delaware Miss Howe is 21 years of age, was | graduated from the Bigierville High | School in 18937. and from the State Teachers’ College at Indiana, Pa. in 1941. Prom January to June, this year, she taught in the Punxsutaw.’ ney High School The board fixed! her salary at the usual minimum Although it was the intention of (Continued on Page 6) ———————— a ———— Ginger Ale ‘Explodes’, Clerk is Injured pool room in the basement of the | into and robbed of about $20 in | familiar with the interior of the | The mater was reporied to Belle- | of the robbery are being investigat- | COST COUNTY $00,000 ‘Root- Ti- Toot’; "Officer Ralph Eyer Resigns tor | Court Denies Plea of Theatre Owners ‘Upholds Ruling of Labor Board in Plaza-State Litigation HUSTON TOW NSHIP OUSTER DISMISSED |New Trial Granted i in Ac- | cident Case; Jury Ver- dict Set Aside A Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board ruling Issued some months (Ago against Howard J. end Elza- beth B. Thompson, of Curwensvilie owners of a chain of theatres includ. {ing the Plaza and Stale Theatre: | Bellefonte, was upheld yesterday by {the Centre County Court, according {to an opinion and decree filed by | Judge Ivan Walker. The Thompsons had been ordered {by the Labor Board to cense and de- sist from discriminating against | employes in any way for the pur- pose of discouraging membership in labor organizations; to offer Clifford i Miller (discharged in October 1838 {allegedly for union activities) ful {reinstatement to his former posi | tion; post a copy of the Order in a | conspicuous place in the two local | theatres for ten days, and furnish | satisfactory evidence to the Labor | Relations Board, within 20 days, that the order had been complied with | These and other requirements by {the Labor Board were upheld by the | Court ruling. which set forth in part that “The Court is of the opinion {that under the law and the facts | applicable to this case there is suf- | ficient, substantial and legally cred- | ible evidence to sustain the findings lof the Board" If they so desire, the {Continued on Pie 6) mrss ans sn MI Radio Important Defense Weapon 8S. Harris, Former Communications Engineer, is Kiwanis Speaker The importante which radio plays lin national defense was emphasized before the members of the Kiwanis Club st Tuesdays meeting by | Charles 8. Harris, formerly 2 com- | munications and research engineer swith the International Telephone | and Telegraph Company, New York { City, and now connecied with the Whiterock Quarries. Mr. Harris had 8s his subject, “Radio-Mechanical Brain and Nerve Center of Our | National Defense | In the mechanized warfare of our modern day, Mr. Harris said, radio {is essential in preserving communi- cations and in directing the army in the field. Through radio all units keep in touch with the central headquarters, to which information can be transmitted almost instantly and orders received back in the least possible time. Without radio mechanized (Continued on Page 6) Howard Watson, Jr. aged 18, of | Buffalo Run Valley. employed as a clerk in the Weis store, comer of Allegheny and Bishop streets, suf- fered a painful but not serious in- jury yesterday morning when a bot- tie of ginger ale “exploded” and a piece of the bottle struck him on the forehead, inflicting a lsceration. The socident happened as Watson was in the act of removing the bot- tie from an upper shelf. It is be- lieved that heat had caused the gas, in the liquid to expand to the point units that the simple act of moving the bottle caused it to break Watson was taken to the Centre | County Hospital dispensary where the injury was dressed. He return. =d to work yesterday afternoon Announcement At the request of the Treasury | Department we announce a new fea- | ture of interest and service to many readers who are buying or will buy | Defense Savings Bonds and Stamps This will be called the Defense Bond | Quiz, and will start in next week's | issue. The questions will be chosen from | High-Flying Barred Over Bellefonte Area Bellefonte flyers whose planes are | not equipped with two-way radio | are barred from flying more than { 3500 feet above the ground within | ten miles of the center of the city, {under new Civil Air Regulations | which went into effect July 1. it | was learned today. The new regulations prohibit use ‘of United States civil airways be- | tween the 3500 and 17.000 foot jev- ‘els (above the surrounding ter- (rain) to any plane not equipped with a radio receiver, radio trans. mitter, and sensitive type altimeter Bellefonte is directly on the civil airways from Cleveland to Allen among those asked by most Bond | 0Wn. Acording to Civil Air Regula- and Stamp buyers. The answers will Hons, airways are 20 miles wide. tell what the new Defense Bavings Therefore Bellefonte pilots will have Program means to the i gel at Jeast ten miles from the and to the Nation {Contined on Page ght) oma ee Committee To Aid Centre County Farmers Solve Labor Problems The Agricultural Advisory Defense Committee of Centre county, of which L. E Biddle of Bellefonte, R. D. 2 is chairman has been desig. , of West Beaver Board
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