COPIES EACH WEEK; LARGEST CIRCULA- TION IN COUNTY. ———— 1,000 he Cenire Democrat —— AND FOR 16% PAG ES OF COUNTY NEWS WEEKLY FEATURES THE ENTIRE FAMILY — BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1941. - SUBSCRIPTION—$1.50 PER YEAR VOLUME 60. NUMBER 31. 2 YOUTHS HELD IN ATTACK ON GIRLS Car Stolen Loss $10, 000 in Barn Here found al Fire at Pleasant Ga p Officers Hint 2 cerious Charge Against One Preliminary Hearing Scheduled Soon; Place Not Revealed { suffered V IC TIMS AC C E PTED | nesday when he and a team of RIDE IN AUTOMOBILE horses fell through the B. H. Wil- {llams barn floor at Port Matilda, {landing on the ground floor. One o the horses was badly injured | Mr. Willams who was helping | [to harvest, had unhitched the team [from a binder on the barn floor —— and was leading the horses away 4 'k a large piece timbe Two Osceola Mills young men are | 1 SCT a nie » oe of y 3 1 arn r broke in the Centre County jail 1e bart here | ™ injured ma awaiting a preliminary hearing on |, 1 Pt re an charges that they jo Tad pales attacked two Hawk Run girls, Saturday night Where th gh The two are Samuel Cowfer | vealed that had and James severe Krouse 20, ceola Mills Police and other officials said two would be given a preliminary hearing as soon as the investigation of the alleged erime has been com- pleted. Some sources sald the hear- ing may be held this morning, but the name of the Justice before! whom they are be arraig: could not be learned At least one of the men mav be charged with a serious crime, it was said The two girls, whose nameg have been withheld, were sald to be hitch-hiking along the Philipsburg- Hawk Run road Saturday night when a car stopped and they were given a ride Instead of stopping with them in Phill] the two boys were said have driven through town without leaving girls out of the car They drove out past Cold Stream dam to a point near the Dumple- ton mine and stopped From there one girl Is said have made her escape and ran for help. Arriving at the Samuel Walk- er home she gave the alarm and] borough and State police were noti- fied. The car with the two boys and | Continued ow Page i ——————in Child Hurt In Fall From Moving Car 15 Mon and Team Fall Through Barn Floor williams painful injuries George last Wed- One of Gi rls Escapes, | Runs to Nearby Home to Spread Alarm was taken to State Hospital examination escaped with a rou re- th bru he ws 18, both of Os- . $15,000 Loss In Barn Fire Combustion f the to ed! Spontaneous is Assigned as Cause o Pine Hall Blaze through a large barn J. Markie farm at Pine State. College, early night, destroying the barn and o nearby building: and a ity of farm machinery Dam- WAS at $1 3.000 combustion in put in the harn was thought he the fire which menaced the Markie home The Markles were attending Thompson reunion at Legion Park, : State College about 6: 30.0kcleck when the fire was discovered by Richard Flames we J wept ine west on ti Hall turday ther whurg of to Sa the quant age estimated Spontaneous fifty of hay weeks ago cause of tons BiX to the to { Markle, a son who had not gone to, He found the west end in flames | the reunion of the barn Finding the house locked, Richard Baney, four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Baney, of East Linn street, Bellefonte, suffer- ed severe bruises and brush burns | Saturday afternoon when h out of a moving car The child and his motor guests of Mr. and Mrs Ed- gar Mallory, of West High street, and were enroute from the Ameri- can Lime and Stone Company em- ployes’ picnic at Hecla Park at the time. The accident happened about two miles east of Bellefonte Mrs. Baney and son were occupy ing the rear seat of the four-door sedan, and the boy was standing up. holding to the back of the geat. As the car rounded a (Continged on page Five Second — > Investigate Rubber . jew state police are He Rocks gating t robbery of tion in Millheim longing to Stewart larized sometime when a8 window at building w broken ly a dozen cart tire was Brachbill Store 100 Years Old Under Family Ownership For Century; Centennial Sale Announced A IV: The stat Breon was Tuesday the rear of the Ap of cigarettes £3 bare mother were DUrg- as ons a battery and about in stolen front curve Section Rockview Inmates In Knife Battle Rockview prison officials report- | ed that one Negro inmate was in- | jured by another in a knife battle between the two at the prison dur- ing the weekend One of the men suffered a wound which required several stitches to close, but he is reported to be re- eovering in the prison hospital, of- ficials said The baltie grievance, it was — J. B. WAGNER CLEARANCE SALE OPENS TOMORROW In celebrating its 100th anniver- sary today, the Brachbill Purniture Store claims a unique distinction in | this area—it has been in direct con- trol of members of the Birachbill family and has been located at the same site in Bellefonte during its entire century of existence The establishment, which brating the anniversary with a storewide sale, which begins today, is arose over personal reported on ——— in 1841 came to Bellefonte Reading. purchased the on South Spring street Brockerhoffs and | inal building A mid-sumifer clearance sale will be held by the J B. Wagner & Co store, Bellefonte, beginning tomor- row, Friday, as a closing feature of! the first year the well known store hag been under its present manage- ment Since it is necessary to provide shelf and counter room for incom- ing fall and winter merchandise, the present stocks have been priced to assure a quick clearance. Con- sult the advertisement In this issue for further information i ceeded in business by his two sons, | W. R. Brachbill and J..C. Brach-| bill, both ducted the store together until 1802 when the former bought out brother's interest remained in charge until the hands of his son, Charles P| Brachbill. Upon Charles death three years later, his Continued on Page Eight) TURTLE REAPPEARS AT PORT MATILDA AFTER 20-YEAR JAUN A twenty-year jaunt on the part. the McFeely Brick Yards, Homer of a Port Matilda turtle came to Putt, who immediately recognized an end, Monday, when the turtle, |the initials “TWP.” as being those whose shell was carved exactly 20 years ago, was found within 500 yards of the place where the carv- Putt, now living at Howard ing took place. | In 1921 the Putts lived in a small The homecoming of the turtle, house near the brick yards, where according to a report by M. E {the carving is believed to have tak- Moore, of Port Matilda, was her- | en place. The house, no longer alded by the barking of the Moore | standing, was located not more than family dog. The dog Wasn't partic- 500 yards east of the present Moore ularly glad, for the barking was oc- dog pen. casioned when the strange reptile! Mr. Moore concludes his interest- invaded the dog yard. {ing report with the statement that Members of the Moore family, in-| the shell bore evidence that the dis- specting the visitor, found carved tance covered by the turtle in the Sms “E. Putt” Is his brother, Elwood] of Fort Matilda serionsly ! the! Judge Walker morning | proximata- | cash | cele | was founded by John Brachbill, who! from | store site} from the! erected the orig- a In 1880 John Brachbill was suc-| now deceased, who con | his | W. R. Brachbhill| his death | in 1935 when the store passed into Brachbill’ Ly son, | of his father, now deceased, while! Fur Thieves Senfenced For Store Robbery : Two Plead Guilty to Burg- lary of State College Jewelry Store THIRD MAN HELD FOR GRAND JURY Testimony of Defendant’ 8 Wife Helps Police in Solving C rime Two Altoona men, both of whom were convicted early last week in a $0.000 fur theft received additional last Thursday in pleading guilty to rob guilty State jewelrs of participating at Clearfield, on sentence got after pl bery of a Colieg hop They were Edgar Swartz, 33 William L. Kelly, 36. charged wit} aking more than $3000 in me chandise from the 8ho imberg Je elry in State Coliege last F Swartz wn entenoed Ivan Walker ty 2-4 Western penitentiary who changed =n to one of received ant r Ww slore b ruary t | 1g re the Kell nocent move A nson nant of Year plea Of ir guilty in a on to two Ar defendant, Reuben Rob- Curwensvill MIT ve third vil Swarts's part Colleg 55-year-old was accused by having purchased t from the State v 1 { loot He released on the Cen month store entered sien wa bond and ing action of tre county sentenced earlier last imprisonment 21 months 4 for their robbers new expiration Swartz was week 2-4 and to a term of thr a half years part the Clearfield ruled begin to Kelly and in vORTS LE the on AT ~ tences should pol those terms. Kelly after Mrs Ruth Swariz testified before Justice of the Peace Harold Cowher. Bellefonte, in the presence of District Attorney Musser Getlis that Kelly was implicated with | husband in the Stats College Continued on Page + Two Men Hurt In Auto Crash Were Passengers in Car In- volved in Collision Near Tussey ville er rot- Three Two persons suffer ed painful in- in a two-car accident on Route 322 near Tusseyville about noon, Sunday The injured are Dwight McDon- ald, 37. of Grazierville, near Tyrone, and Benjamin Barnes, 60, of Phil- ipshurg. McDonald suffered a frac- ture of the right leg and a back in- jury, and Bammes received a severe laceration of the forearm Both | were admitted to the Centre County | Hospital for treatment. The men were passengers in a sedan driven by Leota Elizabeth Collar, of Julian, when the sedan and another machine driven by M W. Wilkins, of Clearfield, collided { as one of the cars attempted to pass the other. The Collar machine left juries the road, hurdled a ditch and came ! {to rest in a field about 30 feet from the road McDonald was brought here the Widdowson ambulance and the other man received treatment from State College physician before he | was brought to the hospital Dam- age to each of the two machines was estimated at About $50. George Kellerman Overcome By Heat George 8. Kellerman, Allegheny street, emploved as an electrician by the American Lime and Stone Company, was overcome {by heat while working at the plant, | Monday afternoon. i Kellerman was taken in the EE of Bouth | Widdowson ambulance to the Cen- | tre County Hospital where he re- | sponded readily to treatment and | Was discharged from the institution Dimer afternoon LOCAL YOUTH IS ELECTED MAYOR OF SCOUT CAMP For the second week in succession. a Bellefonte Boy Beout was elected | Scout camp last week. Hassel Cartwright, of Troop 34, | Bellefonte, was chosen mayor Beede, of Troop 32, State College, his closest rival, was elected chair- man of the water committee. David Dean. of Troop 35, Bellefonte, was mayor the week before. Harold Tarpley of State College, was named head of the departmient of parks and highways The police on its shell the date “1921” aryl the past 20 years was much greater force was placed under the direction initials “T. W. PP” and “E. Putt.” than 500 yards Mr. Moore showed the exhibit to his| But it may have traveled in cir- close friend and fellow workman at!cles, of Malcolm White, Troop 32, State College. David Dean of Bellefonte, leads the fire fighters of the camp. changed his plea to gum ty! {mayor at the Seven Mountains Boy | | BELLEFONTE SADLY LACKING IN PLAYGROUND FACILITIES Bellefonte, thriving center of a rural community which has some | reputation throughout the State As summery lacks even the most elementary facilities for the recreation of its resort, tet length and seal town wher afety to YOUuneg the ve th unty there yOUng amuse Many ommunity pity children in presumably, are « in the hot streets shows that youngster: have far more ample and far greater joy themselves Bellefonte it} children not ones in the There Isn't a place in where families can gather evenin while the co! themselves healthful play isn't Y. M swim There vicnics pi And | Ler whem of this soc mn 1 citizens ten expres large cities, w impeiled play Bul a survey in most cities accomodations for to to en- youth opportunity than have the of our who merit citi pity Bellefonte in the RIN There utside of the child can of afely where iidren e in town whers degree A place £3. A. } with isn't in ol a any a piace » held CArcel) any Jurors Drawn Grand Jury to Meet Aug- ust 25; Criminal Court Opens September 8 R. Miller, drawn by Ww. Con- 4 Merril the as. Mrs. Vir- been John Spring Mills, an rteher, of Howard, with sistance of Sheriff Miller family other! town of comparable size in this area which has such a complete lack of playground or park [acilities Our children are not completely without swimming facilities. At the old foundry dam on Willowbank street, the youngsters annually ree pair the dam in Spring Creek deepen the water enough for swim. ming purposes. But the botiom cone sists of sharp rocks, inches of oory mud, and a collection of old wire tin eans and other debri Beores of kiddies swim there On South Potter street, amid the charming surroundings of ware- houses and gasoline storage tanks, the voungsters have found another place swim. A large willow overhanging the water provides diving platform, but there js vi the safety f year-old children who frequent the swimming hole. Below the hole, the waler swift Prec. {ably the _bottom CONS of mud 174] to tree n no pros of and 7- ion for quite deepens Here rocks an added which have been vicinity Al ™ Ir fenders fishing by allo attraction last f an and a hooks lers in ADE There for children 1 § piace f, arn to Pe is ho to Je wim safely pe Eight rel unger Conlisgrd ” Jail Breaker For September Is Sentenced Cooper Gets 4 to 10 Years For 1938 Escape; 1 to 2 For Fleeing Jail Ww rent iam Cooper in his all Sunday pleaded charges before last Thursday Rockview inmate was ¢ a four- {bo-10-year sentence for his break {fromm Rockview in 1038. and one to Who was 111 attomet to LF] ALeMmMD is county afternoon two Ivan The week © guilty tn ar Judg marning De Walker former given iglnta Miller was clerk of the home St=d yess In his stiempted escape The Grand Jury Monday, August 25 will open two week September 8 Civil ¢ orn Mor will Criminal Osurt Inter —Monwday “ourt sehied. uled September 15 Following are jurors drawn GRAND JURORS {Meet Monday, Biack, Elizabeth. hk Boob, Mrs Carrie hk Spring Millis Boob paperhgr Condo Emerick mer Felding lab Aurast 25) Phllipaburg RD 2 Miltheim Howard ir. € J. F Pat Bellefonte Cee D Centre Hall nd R Ree Sects | No. | Trumpeter | in HARRY JAMES Prepraations have been completed | for the 14th annual picnic of the Lock Haven Club at Hecla Park Wednesday, August 6 Climax of a (full day of sports and amusement will be a dance in the pavilion that inight to music of Harry James, “World's No. 1 Trumpeter” and his orchestra | The official program for the pic- i nie calls for seven and a half hours i of entertainment, including two ball games, a boxing show, roller skat- ing, bathing, boating. musical acts, | a novelty roller skating act and dis- i tribution of attendance prizes, as {well as other forms of entertain. fContinged on Page Three) Lightning Hits 70-ft. A 12-foot section at the top of | the 70-foot sheet metal smokestack | {of the Sheffield Milk station at { Howard was blasted off the stack Monday afternoon when a bolt of la severe wind and electrical storm | in the Howard area. In addition to the 12-foot section which was torn off, another four. foot section was ripped off and hung precariously by a small section of metal until it was removed by re- pair gangs, High winds ripped a large section of roofing off the George Bitner service station at Howard, while a number of trees, mostly apple trees, were blown down by the wind. Sev. eral other trees were struck by Hghtning, it is reported, meet on! lightning hit the structure during! ast Bunday Three Rellefonte youths Breon, 189. William Lucas Edward Muirhead. 19 15 in the county for breaking into the Kenneth service statior Metal Company yotithe pleaded (ordered to pay restitution for The ths bad you July ii Rufus and sen. fail Mii- Titan July 18. The They were and make tolen since - 17 were teneced to days ler near the lant guilty the costs the gonds been In jail * Band Jamboree This Weekend Proceeds of Festival Will Help Finance Trip to Conven- tion Next Year | The Bell efont te Banjo Band, 104] { National Champions, will hold its eighth annual jamboree and festi- | val on the Undine Fire Company | {lot this Priday and Saturday, Aug- just 1 and 2 The Banjo Band will play each night, featuring “Voloe of Niagara | March.” which was broadcast coast. | to-const by combined bands during {the National Convention at Niagara { Palls July 7-10. The Maciay Bro- | thers of Belleville, will feature elec. tric guitar selections {festivals is the tea garden. where {diners may sit down In comfort at on a phonograph. Usual stands will be on the lot including bingo, prize wheel, wheel, and others. There will be a home-baked cake and candy sale onieach night. Funds earned by this event will be used to finance the band's trip to Springfield. Mass, next year to) tests there, All are urged to come and have a grand time with the Banjo Band ——— Furst - Watkins Nuptials, Aug. 2 Carlisle Girl to Become Bride! of Former County Judge's Son Stack at Howard | The Watkins, Francis Austin ©. Purst, Judge James C. Furst and Mrs. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. | B. Watkins, of Carlisle, and son of former James Chamberlin Purst, of West Linn street, Bellefonte, will take iplace in the Becond Presbyterian church, Carlisle, at 4 o'clock Satur day afternoon, August 2. The cere mony will be followed by a recep. tion In the James Wilson Hotel, Carlisle. Miss Watkins was graduated from John Harris High School, Harris. burg, attended Randolph Woman's College at Lynchburg, Va. and was graduated from Smith Coliege. She Is quite well known locally through frequent visits here. Mr. Purst is a graduate of the (Continged on Page Three) A special feature of Banjo Rand! | tables, Latest hits will be played | ferris | | enter the national Banjo Band con- | wedding of Anna Margaret] Montoursville Machine Abandoned in Residential Areas; Police Expect Arrest HITCH-HIKER IS SUSPECTED IN THEFT Car Slightly Damaged But Articles Inside Were Undisturbed A 1937 Ford twodoor seda Edgar Weaver Bellefonte Dean stolen ’ n owned manager of the Phipps Auto Store its parking place beside the Weaver home on East Bishop Street, abou: midnight Saturday wag found parked the residential] section Montoun Tuesday night The machine is believed to have been taken by a hitch- hiker who was seen attempting to get a Sige near the Weaver home {or about hour bef theft Mr. Weaver went Montours ville Tuesday night to claim the sedan, He found the rear bumpe slightly damaged. but otherwise the was in good condition. A flash- light, umbrella and other articles in it when it was stolen were The gasoline supply was |} Montoursville "police deseriptio the arrest left the keys In to go downtown when he was through work about 11:30, but when friends called and invited her to go with them she accepted. Expecting to be gone only a few minutes Mrs, Weaver jeft the living room and porch lights on, and the doors of | the home open Although the Weavers returned {home in a short time, discovery of | the theft was not made until about 8 o'cinck inday morning when they had occasion to use the car From a neighbor, Robert Roan Mr Weaver jearned that about mid- night the Weaver car backed out of the driveway with great speed. Ar- riving on the highway the machine by from in the driveway v of ville re Lhe to Car of : ker promised an early AEs MN the Weaver had car, intending her husband f ior wl . he tinged on Pope Fight Legion Planning For Convention Brooks-Doll Commander Out- lines Program for State Meeting in Altoona Many members of the Brooks-Doll Post American Legion, Bellefonte, are planning to attend the Legion's State Convention in Altoona, Aug- ust i4, 15. and 16, Alex Stergiakis, (post commander, reports “The Altoona Convention pro- gram shows it will be one of the best the department's ever held” sald Commander Stergiakis “The delegates will have some ser. lous business to atiend 10.” he con- tinued, “but their meetings will be held in an air-conditioned theatre And the Ladies Auxiliary sessions Continued om Pape Eight) a CH. Former County Boy Drowns In olorsdo Relatives in lower Bald Eagle Valley have received word of the {death by drowning, Monday, of | Walter Ridge, aged 23, son of Mr.| and Mrs. Victor Ridge, of Walsen- (burg. Colorado. No details of the accident are known here. The young man’s parents formerly resided at {ing necessary because of Mr. Ridge’s (health. They have resided in the {west ever since that tise Local survivors of the drowning [victim are his grandmother, Annie Ridge and an uncle, George Davy, both of Blanchard, and an- other uncle, John Davy, of Howard Mrs. Ridge wag the former Mary | Davy, of this county. | | done by the Six Granted Final U. S. Citizenship Six Centre county residents were granted final citizenship papers at a session of naturalization court! held here during the latter part of | the week The six who became U. 8 citi. sens, their native lands and their present addresses are: Marys Kresevich, Ttaly, Ooleville John Frederick Walker, Britain, Philipsburg Lauterbock, Yugoslavia, Julia Philipsburg Donald Mitchell Marvin, Britain, State College. Luby OGregal Yugosiavis, Osceola Mills, R. D. 1. Kegham Aryshavir Varteressian Turkey, State College. Mrs. | i | closed Three County Groups Win Parade Awards Three Centre county tions were among the in a spectacular Marys Baturday night of a firemen's carnival units were in the 18 division mammoth parade The Brooks-Doll Legion Junjor Band A prize of $35 for the best junior band in the parade. 7 band ¢ champions gave a con ing the afternoon The Centre Hall-Potter High Bchool Band =» 1 of $25 ber in the of marci gation the he miner: @y pr LE -W parade held at as Post Americar Bellefonte, won stat cert aur he RAO - Townshis for the line of Cent: parade The Undine F fonte, garnered fered for the best ire Comps ere Titan, Union In Agreement Contract Covers Wages, Hours, Working Condi- tions; Checkoff Allowed On July 11 the Tit 1941, representatives an Mela! Co Manage ment and Federal Labor Union N 1008], affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, entered to a collective bargaining agreement The agreement oovers wages, hours, and working conditions for! a period of one year affciling ail | Titan production and maintenance ; employees and was the result of a! or in | geries of meetings held between rep- | Mankgemant over the past resentatives of the and the Labor Union seven monihs from m Excerpts the Agreement fol- lows Several changes became effective on A S° hourly ( regarding wages dale of signing increase in base rates nlinged om pope Five rond Section Bi-County Clinic Submits Report Crippled Childrens’ Society Schedules Many Operations For Late | Summer { he aring | Harold 80 far this year Centre- Clearfield Crippled Children’s Soc- fety has held seven full-day two half-day clinics. 43 new cases! have been found with 263 the Andrew Rockey with | re-ex- i Burned About Face, Hands, in Rescuing Stock 150 BUSHELS WHEAT, HAY DESTROYED Bellefonte, Pleasant Gap Firemen Keep Flames From Farm Home Whi rast terock of Darn on LwWo and } MUK CODer bushels of wheat, 200 bushels of corn, a mow full of new alfalfa hay, | a manure spreader, a plow, electric pump over the well and many {smaller items Whiterock Quarries {carriey Insurance on the propels, Continged on Pope Seven--Second Section) Ml sists State College Hotel Employe Is Arrested Burt th on C. Hermann, 22, employe of the State College Hotel Coliege, charged with the of $210 from the hotel since July 12 last, on before Justice D. Cowher, of guilty and was under $500 bail ed the released State laroeny cash register Monday at a of the Peace eniered a held | Ball was following day from piea court she was or £110 iurn and he jail According Detective Charles J. Hanna, of the State Motor Police stationed at State Coliege, Her- mann (ook money al various times He was arrested Saturday afternoon land was in fall the time of the hearing 0 until UNTONVILLE MAN JAILED IN GAME LAW VIOLATION aminations of old cases. Total num- | ber of operations to date is 21. but a large number of operations have | been scheduled for the balance of | (July and August, taking advantage of the vacation period for school children The Valley region county has supplied 11 43 new cases listed above These new cases are jocated in the fol- lowing territories Bellefonte, 2: State College, s Spring Mills, 4; | Pleasant Gap, 1; and Howard, 1, or a total of 11 wh Centre out of the of The next clinic will be held this | ‘coming Thursday, July 31, the Philipsburg Stale Hospital Any new cases should be referred to any (Continued on Pape Eight) Earlystown Road to at Open Next Week Blanchard, moving to] Colorado about 1918, the change be- | If weather conditions remain fav- orable the Earleystown Road be- tween Boalsburg and Old Port, will be opened to traffic about the mid- | {die of next week. The road has been since last fall for major | reconstruction and resurfacing, Aar- | on D. Leitzell, superintendent of | highways in Centre county reporhs. | Work in changing the grading and right-of-way of the road were highway department. | | The sompletion of the berm and! placing of guard fence will be car- | ried out as soon as possible but] will not hold up the opening of the road WOLF EMPLOYERS TO PICNIC NEXT THURSDAY Employes of the Wolf Furniture Company are looking forward to the | annual employes’ picnic to be held | at Bt. Prancizs College. Loretto, next | Thursday. August 7. Since all Wolf stores will be clos- | ed on picnic day the Bellofonte store will remain open all day next Wednesday. i Approximately 50 Wolf employes and their families are expected to! attend the outing, which naluges of games served at the! |S | Willington R. Lucas, of Union- | ville, charged with a violation of the game jaws, was committed to the | County fall last Thursday when he was unable to pay a fine of 825 and costs imposed by Justice of the Peace Harold D. Cowher, at his of- fice on East Bishop Street Lucas was arrested hy Game Pro- tector Thomas Mosier of Bellefonte, on a charge of entering a state game | preserve in Union township while in possession of firearms. - YOUTH ARRESTED FOR MILK BOTTLE THEFTS A partial solution of the series of cash thefts from State College milk bottles was reached Friday with the arrest of a State College boy by OfMder Grant N. Kough The boy, about 15, was turned over to Centre county juvenile au- thorities, and may be sent to a State Industrial School DEFENSE BOND QUIZ @Q@ What is the reason for buy- ing a Defense Bond? A. To keep America free. To show your faith and pride in your country. To warn foreign dictators that the United States is the strongest country in the world. Q But if I do not have enough money to buy a Defense Bond, what {can 1 do? A. Buy Defense Postal Stamps, on sale almost everywnere. Your i posi office, bank department store {or druggist has them or can get them for you, at 10 cents upward Save enough Stamps to exchange for a Defense Band. Note—To purchase Defense Bonds and Stamps, go to the nearest post office or bank, or write for informa- per ot thie Ukiid wr
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