Odd and CURIOUS SAVING GAS The Rev. Dr. J. Earle Edwards, pastor of the Queens Baptist church, New York, preached on conservation of gasoline at ser- vices last Sunday-—and today he is practicing what he preach- «' A friend, Abraham Ross, service station operator, gave Doctor Edwards a bicycle, which the clergyman said would save him 100 gallons of gasoline a month in making calls on his parishioners, NO EXCITEMENT A warning to avoid excite- ment because of heart trouble didnt mean a thing te Mrs Ethel Sherer, of Bethlehem, when she was threatened by a three-foot rattlesnake. Encoun- tering the reptile while return- ing from huckleberry picqing, she held its head down with a pointed stick while her daugh- ter, Dorothy, clubbed it to death. NO USE FOR IT A man returned a marriage license to probate Judge Flora K. Snowden at Kingstree, S. C., with this notation: “I got the li- cense to have it ready whenever my girl said ‘yes.’ But when 1 get drunk she refuses to marry me and when I'm sober | wouldn't have her.” HE GUESSED RIGHT Charles Tobin of Elwood, Ind. appeared at the police station to turn in a lost automobile li- cense plate, and remarked that “someone probably would be looking for it.” He was right. He returned the next day after he was told the plate on his car was missing. It was his plate. NO HAY! Mrs. Emilia Rivera's maltress got renovated in a hurry at Albuquerque, N. M. The com- pany received a frantic wire about the $500 worth of postal saving certificates inside. and speedily started the money back home, a Natives of County Married 40 Years Mr. and Mrs. Willis A fitherite 1216 Vine street, Connellsville, anietly observed their fortieth wed- ding anniversary last Priday Mr. and Mrs. Witherite were mar- ried August 8, 1901, at Snow Shoe Intersection, bv Revs: Zeigler, and have spent all their married. life in Connellsville, where Mr. Wither- ite is a passenger conductor on Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Both are natives of Centre coun- ty and have many friends in and around Bellefonte. They frequently visit Mr. and Mrs. John Gross, of Valentine street, Bellafonte, Mrs Witherite being sister of Gross of the a Buffalo Run Homecoming The annual Homecoming services of the Buffalo | Rt in United Brethre will be held Sun- with Sunday school 8:3 worship services at 10:30, 2:45 and 7:45. Dr. J. 8. Ful- ton, Johnstown, who served as Superintendent of the Allegheny Conference of the United Bret hre church, will speak at all thre vices. Choirs of 1008 and 1918 expected to sing at the afternoon and evening services. Dinner supper will be served by the ladies of the church, to those who attend the services, at reasonable prices. A cordial invitation is extended to all former members and [riends of the church 50T = are and aa a Find Injured Youth Along Track Pennsylvania Railroad police are investigating the case of Donald D. 8Spaugy, 18-year-old Pitcairn youth found unconscious from in jur- ies on the railroad tracks near Lew- istown. The youth was found by the crew of an eastbound engine and was taken to the Lewistown hos-, pital, where atiendants sald he had | suffered a fractured skull, broken | legs and other injuries and that he | was not expected to live, | ————— Motorist Killed Instantly Apparently falling asleep at the wheel, Willlam Winters, aged about 52, was killed almost instantly when his car rammed into the rear of a| big soft drink truck parked in| Northumberland. Winter's neck was | broken and he received internal in- juries, also. The car was demolish- | ed. The owner of the truck notified | the Mary M. Packer Hospital but | Winters was dead when he reached | the hospital. | at a fire near Montrose on Friday While a fireman was laying a hose- line to help battle the flames that destroyed a barn on the Pennsyl- vania State College experimental farmhouse milking station. a bel- | The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County. ' SECOND SECTION A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. dhe Cenfre Democrat NEWS, FEATURES VOLUME 60. BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1941, a9 | ed. NUMBER Auto Accidents Bring Toll of Injuries Over Weekend In Philipsburg District Four Members of Port Matilda Family Hurt In Crash; Police Report One Arrest Made; Two Pedestrians Are Injured Three major accidents on Centre land Clearfield counties’ roads in the | Philipsburg area over the weekend injured nine persons and cau ed the arrest of a motorist for reckless | driving Injured mile west afternoon were Ang Agnes Or- and Daniel the In- reported Saturda} f Houtzdale Orgls, 45. Miller Orgls, 20 gis. 3, all of Madera Higley, Houtzdale. None juries were serious police | although two of the Orgis family were treated by a Houtzdale phy- sician The 0 of accident happened when Mt. Eag le Man Found In Field John Shope. 71, is Victim of Heart Attack Last Wed- nesday Henry of Mt dead last Tuite Wyilig John ident found noon Shope Eagle Wed: Alkey The Alkey's Mosler four been hom later daugn of Belle Mrs ers, and they old | farm at now the site of a federal unt] a few years ago went to live with Mrs The two sisters are well od in years, Mrs. Leather: 92 and Mrs. Alkey 85. Mr who had reached the age of marrie athers Mt Eagle tree nursery when Alkey dvan they held Sat- at he Leather: @ Wallace Cumming officiating. Interment ; 1 cemetery Ces were Drowns In Creek At Hyner Camp Find Body of CCC Enrollee Who Had Been Missing Two Days The body of Edward Francis Intyre 18, of Scranton, an enrollee of the Civilian Conservation Camp at Hyner, Clinton county, was found Saturday morning lying in several feet of water Hyner Run, the stream which 1 camp, Mac- flows near th The young man had been missing since Thursday, and had been listed as “away without leave.” The body was discovered by several other en- rollees as they went to the stream to wash at a shallow place in the run about 100 yards from the camp where members of the camp often go for swimming and washing They saw the body lying face down, fully clothed in the regular camp uniform . Young MacIntyre had been a member of the camp since April 3, 19041. Fellow-enroliees told Clin- ton County Coroner Shoemaker that | the boy had been melancholy re- cently. He disappeared Thursday night. After examining the body and questioning friends of the young man, Coroner Shoemaker expressed the opinion that the death was due to suicide by drowning. No quest will be held. An advertisement in The Centre Democrat is profil able provided the advertiser has something to see at a price that is profitable to those who have money to spend. ligerent bull appeared on the seene and chased the fireman away the end the fireman stoned the bull into an adjoining field. The fire started from a spark in a threshing machine, The loss of the machine and feed was estimated at $6.000. ~ . - Valuable Ox-Team Sold to Farmer In these days of horses and trac-| tors on the farm, it is a rare oc- ctirrence to note the sale of a team of oxen. Mrs. Katherine Marshall, Re ESE SS of Cherry township, Sullivan coun- ty, sold a team of five-year-old ox- en to James Burke, a farmer, for $314.10. The team, well broken to | work, weighed 3.400 pound, nm pl ll l/h " Anmwal Visit of Tortoise to Camp A tortoise with the initials “T. D.” and the year 1876 scratched on its shell, is its sixth annual visit to the Pilgrim Holiness camp,’ midway between Beech Creek and Howard. The tortoise will eat from campers’ hands, but retires into its shell when strangers are about, | Cal at Port Matllda Saturday nls Leroy in- In| skidded police said Cal and struck Orgls’ Injured idesw necldent tht broken NoOKe his children 4 in a ipe were Bennett dri- [ one of 27, ar It mia H les Wenzel, 54 of dent 28 the id their and Saundra Ch wile two wii O03 Port Mati involved ted by mo cart Was arres n Selby. Pl w rane Ruth possible concussions earl night at Point Lookou erated by Blaine Wood mmed into the driven by Charle msant Hill Big od er re ur, re A Car Pleasant me to an preceedir had « Lhe car a pedestrian the Selby around the stoppe traffic approachir direction Wood who wind in m wl wa wburg State wns tak Car wm use os » opposite the 4 riding received al tak”: en commissioner of State Police ationwide 40-mile way to con- re commend: need 11m pee inn ixed by would cut lower ] government, The from 25 mit in 10 60 miles oy show IR speeds w, sald Adams averaged 20 miles figures com mob ie company to mption of ¢ fuel at varylr i led ped coll Experiments sh OCK CAr State Plans Enlargement of Black Moshannon and Poe Valley Parks in County Program Said to Include Acquisition of Addi-| tional 1,000 Acres Each Around Fourteen Recreational Parks In State of county's immer recreational resorts Moshannon State Park near Phil- whurg and Poe Valley Park in the oburn vi are to be enlarged d improved under an outlined gram announced last week bY ‘« Secretary of Forests and Albert Btewart two-fold program wil the size of the states nd improve their facllities, Mc ewart stated that steps will be to acquire an additional 1,000 around some 14 of the recreational parks secretary declared to- the recent acquisition of mile Delaware division canal and the proposed purchase of Pick- Glen “will be the begin: ol tem of state parks’ 7 Two Centre Black The crease il in- parks each his, the gelher wilh the 60- ung The canal flows through Jd Bucks counties while the 800- » Picketl's Glen area lies in Lu- ne, Sullivan and Wyoming coun- Lehigh ti Now for a i-sized acre » Caledonia Park in iy which Stweart desc: real recreational sta! nave on to Black Mos er nearby Hannon parks to be In- The Human Interest Side of Legal Oddities By Elliott H. Marrus Convenience—The a law Just mee passed 24 hours ne millionaire get man was Her who made his money in Standar! Oil with the Rockelgllers 1 1895 his wife was adjudged Insane New York Stale and put in a sani- tarium. He set up a trust fund of $1,200,000 tor her, Flagler, who was Uvihg Tn splendor (n Florida, want. to marry another woman. How- ever, Ret ff civorce uo Florida because the laws then as now, did not divorces merely because a spouse insane. Fiagler used his influ- and a law was passed making insanity legal for divoree The law was repealed 24 hours late” that time, Flagier wai but during granted a divorce by a Florida cour! peaied it el a divorce. Th y W. Flag the ale ie ed of state permis Wis en retired ETrounas Guaranty—In ancient Babylon al nD $11,000 L : | Was age budget 4 ral gov d+) tax bill in 1042 of over three and a half billion doilars—an average ol» $27, for man, woman and every wel every I almost might meet ang gave th the begis situation a King John of Br tis ee generally Magn equality However by the a became tl} Gratiu Mag: dbert Alon a Cart ie conoept of “Th is Du ten and jurist lived about 162 Hig book “Deo Jure Belli Bt (Law of War and peace) was beginning of modern inter- law heads Unfortunately cer- ernments have L there is such a nat alionad BON forgetting ONDA, or Just ce b sued A RNeAS a Jarge sum o bestif in court eave Immediately busines: Later 4 + Judge handed do man . AIA {money then had another ci ml for ied and for afternoon decision Old Tyrone Pike Landmark Razed One-Time Popular Dance Spot Being Torn Down by Workmen Ihe big dance pavilion which has been a landmark along the Tyrone pike, one mile south of Philipsburg has been torn down because the once popular Royal Arcanum pars is no jonger being used as a recrea- tion center The park first came into existence 50 years ago and it was one of the area's moat popular picnic locations Later it developed into a dance lo- cation known throughout the cen- tral part of the State. Horse drawn carriages used to run between the park and town to furnish transpor- tation Twenty years ago, some of the biggest name bands in the country played at Royal Arcanum as dancers twirled over the hardwood floors ol the enlarged pavilion. For the past few years, the pavil- ion has been used as a roller skat- ing rink but the income resulting | Shoe, from it was sald lo be too little 0 | pay the taxes. The pavilion has been torn down hardwood floors have been purchas- ed by persons who plan to put new floors in their homes. All that remains is the grove ol} pines. The grove has not been used | fur picnics for years. It was first bought by 20 local men, charter members of the local Royal Arcan- um Lodge. Somler Batcheler later bought the other stockholders out | John Batcheler, Train Smashes Car to Bils at a DuBois crossing as she hopped from her car just before it was struck by a New York Central freight train. Bhe watched tha train smash her car into wreckage. Her car became stalled on the cross. train was just a few feet away. Drowns at Bloomsburg Blipping into water beyond his | depth, Ronnie Colder, 9, Blooms burg, drowned in Fishing Creek at | Bloomsburg, Friday night. The body | was recovered, and the plot now belongs to his son. | | | and the jumber sold to several per- | | sons for building purposes. The | Snow Shoe Man To Stage Thrill Irish Kelly to Smash Auto mobile at Huntingdon Fair Local visitors to the Huntingdon county fair Friday. August 20 will witness a Centre county man demol- Ishing a stock automobile in an end-over-end crash roll, while cling- ing tightly the steering wheel Irish Kelly B8now Shoe, will per- form this stunt as one of the sensational highlights of the Jimmie Lynch thrill show to of thrilling The crash roll stunt was origin- ated by Jimmy Lynch. king of dare devils, during the Chicago World's fair in 1834. and a young lad named Irish Kelly. a Pennsylvania Irish- man whose home is at Snow Shoe, Centre county, will perform the stunt at the Huntingdon fair Kel-| ly, a former football star at Snow is well known throughout central Pennsylvania due to his gridiron success, and many friends look forward to seeing him at the fair on thrill day In the crash roll, Kelly will take an old stock car, racing the machine up an elevated runway and then flip the steering Wheel, causing the {car to plunge with several complete The lumber | | will be used for construction work | by others. Firemen Chased by Bull During Blaze A bull caused a lot of excitement |= ! ] | | i Mrs. Alica Halwig, of DuBois, had | a harrow escape the other morning | ing. After several futile attempts to start it, she hopped out when the | rollovers In another daring event, one of the Lynch dare-devils will plunge from the end of an elevated road- {way, diving a stock car some 60 | feet through space to hurdle a bus or truck and crash into the side of {Continged on Pope Siz) death-dodgers auto of his! His hod wei eQ iawyer the attorney cli the case!” End Vacations—J was recently brought before magistrate in New York City harged with disorderly oonduct ONeill was arrested aller a violend argument with hix wife about the onlent pay envelope, The she would itke 10 series of weekend habit ol Frida; since wire “Appeal from his ent, answer Week O'Nel} onn a wn OO said Lhat ve the man a erms break his Ung with his wile every about pay weekend sentenoes are not permit. tee! by New York law, O'Neil was entenced to five days in fact, he sentence was suspended per good behavior judge Ei 0 ia Fy Jal to rat EH h ah However, Investment tinged Department—The on Page Biz) Does ‘Human Fly’ Break from Jail Aid of Electric Wire, Pris- oner Scales Wall of Al- toona Prison With unusual] ingenuity and skill John Hershel 18 escaped from his cell on the third floor of city hall prison at Altoona, early Sunday morning, and by means of a length of electric wire made a “human fiy” escape to the street. He was captured at Blairsville Sunday night, Herschel, an Atianta, Ga. youth was being held for a series of rob- beries. Time of Ward's escape was not officially known, but it was con- jectured he fled about 4 a. m, Police said his first method of an appar- ently well-planned scheme to flec wag permitting the latch of the door to nck when the jailer closed it on By | him Saturday night. fter he opened the door before dawn, police ped down from the corridor celi- i ing a metal conduit containing elec- trical wiring. The end of this he bent hook-shaped and used as » scaling device to descend the out- side of the building into Thirteentn avenue alley. What puzzied police mostly was his means of squeezing his body through a small space between the window bars and the brick window frame. Ward had to pass a window of the telephone operators room on the second floor but the operator re- (Continued on Pope Biz) [the theorized, Ward rip-, Retired Minister Falls From Car ——“—— Fractures Leg Stepping From Car While Visiting in Lock Haven Dr. Charles W. LeVan, of Walk- ersville, Md., who had been visit. ing in Lock Haven, is a patient at the Lock Haven Hospital the re. sult of a fall Bunday night, and may have to spend at least weeks in the hospital while his in- juries heal Dr. LeVan has been home of his daughter Clifford Weber, 115 East sireel, and was getling out of the Weber car in front of their home Sunday footing and fell. Mrs. Weber had gone ahead with her baby expecting a Ruecst at Mrs ito return to help her father. He de- cided to get out himself, however, and lost his balance In the fall he fractured both his right leg and wrist. He had expect- ed to return to Walkersville later this week but now his visit in Lock 'Haven will be prolonged A retired minister, Dr. LeVan preached for 50 years in the Re- formed church, serving three pas- torates, Baltimore, Md. Alexander {and Mechanicsburg, Pa. He retired about three years ago There is no asset as valuable for Bellefonte as communily coopera- tion, the general concern for the common good and the common con- | | everybody is interested in his views, cern for the general welfare. Classified Ads bring results. popular elt | 12, six, | brothers and sisters: Church | night when he missed his) in the en and im Poe V i and Parker county. ided largement provement program are Park in Centre Counts Dam Park, in Clear rfileld A five-year plan being worked out by the De epartment of Parks Stewart po t that many ol the state's par now limited to lake limited parking areas. The acquisition surround- ing state land, he that scenic beauties places will not be despolled expansion wil t limi re Lhere ri ou forest insure the o! these The places whe | . land ted state forest To Sue For Loss Of Son at Sea Altoona Family Seek Damages For Victim of Torpedoed Robin Moor man -torpedond Rs $4 600 DOO revert tr roamens WA sea in lileb amount of com pan; : has not been family’s atiorney said ss M —_———— he Joss for sel as yel, Bellwood Bay, 12, |=. Killed by Train Believed to Have Fallen Un- der Wheels While “Hop- ping” Freight OOS. ‘Bel: wood last Wednesday in just east severed nd knee is th Officia were unable to determine how the lad came to his death, only discios- ing that a member of the tral: crew sighted his body along the track. It was the belle! of the cor- oner, however, that young Brooks was attempting to get on or off the train when he met with the acci- dent, Elwood J Brooks was born June 1828, at Bellwood and was the son of George A. and Eva Margaret | Shawley Brooks Members of the the parents, and family include the following John, Juniata, Harry, Tyrone; Russell and Harold at home: Mrs, Jane Rice, Altoona; Mrs. Anna Miller, Bellwood; Mrs Eva Jones, Juniata; Verna Snyder Tyrone, Helen and Pear] at home. | RAYMOND H. SMITH IS NEW COMMERCE DEPUTY Raymond H. Smith, Boalsburg, has been appointed deputy secre-! tary of the Commerce department Secreatry Marks 8 James, an- nounces Mr. Smith had been executive assistant to the secretary and as- sistant director of the State Plan- ning Board. The 57-year-old deputy served as comptroller at Pennsyl- vania State College for 17 years, leaving the post in 1835 to act as consulant in corporate organization | and public relations studies in pri- | vate industry. A self-centered — I ——— individual thinks the state of his realth and his op- | inion of others. Ye gods! ki | Justified statement tated willl? | the ul | clack. The THAYER L ARGUMENT SETTLED: molorists seem their complaints thal the parking meter stalls in Lown are narrower than they should be, For some time borough officials Dave joudly and vehemently defended the spaces on the grounds that exactly the same width as State College This error. The distance lines measured along he State College st. The distance between ne curb in Bellefonle you don’t belleve measure them ADDING MACHINE: Malooim W shoe store Bellefonte y FR4) present Ley are the ones at in between iro al and Yeager doesn’t he #4] one, { 0 add pra of fi need or he h an) 1s head 4 Ma hetically Rules 4 fen heard ol ng abllities but h ‘demor istralion Dagpes ned to dro; werk. a sae al t Wo WARNING: Don't par the Far- k building, os- y; k The base, outer ree mers tional Ban peciai) of rotted of : ARREST: Cc tree and onl wood core badly shell the thin supports lhe President Th Beav- CRT Abi, CAI RCIA ly in to register a mild complaint arti week's lack ol lefonts ; Vil a tickel king. Mr. Beaver partly store unci Mas tn a the Bell par agwever, De Ha Ak was Ee ciric cled a drive pion- &a 4 nf 3 merated of Lh n this instance CLACKS: clack? Clacks, for yo are motorists who someone else has for in metered parkin Since the installation of parking meters in Bellefonte last week this corner has derived no end of fun in parking in spaces which some other motorist vacated before the time expired. One day we gO 48 minutes of free parking which is almost timate goal of every good practice is perfectly informatic up the time wl, paid g Spaces legal. | IDENTIFICATION: Frank Hockman, owner of Hecla Park, has a new device for “tagging” persons admitted to dances there For some time persons paying ad- | mission to» dances had tickets clip- ped to their coats, while ladies had little bracelets snapped about thel wrists, But such methods were i crude and easily evaded. Many a man exchanged coats with a friend to get into the dance floor. Unde the new system, persons entering the pavilion extend their hand to an attendant, who presses a stamp oD the back of the hand. The stamp leaves no visible mark, but under a *black light” device nearby, the mark is clearly visible. Hence any- one whose hand falls to reveal the mark under the light has not paid admission. The substance which makes the mark cannot be washed off, and remains active for about | 24 hours. The only way to beat the | system is to cut out a section of hide from the hand of a person whe | has paid admission and graft it on the hand of a would-be chiseler, {Continged on Pape Five) KEEPING uP WITH THE JONESES' — ~ What a Development!! I'M TELLIN Yous , AL Mang I" EDDe HAS ANY GOOF DER BUT ™ se one OF Tw’ FAMILY... NEVER! ' NOTHING CAN STAND By POP 'MOMAND X's \TUST WhACIcY HE'S 50-00 SHy in
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