The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week Odd and CURIOUS in the SECOND SECTION he Centre Democraf NEWS, FEATURES VOLUME 61. | NEWS ~ BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1942. NUMBER 6. | I Random [tems od POOR JUDGMENT Two colored men, brothers, were recently arrested in New York. One was charged with stealing $825 worth of camera equipment from the FBI and the other with trying to sell it to two detectives. GOOD PERCENTAGE Police of Parsons, Kas. are irritated more than a little at absent-minded motorists who keep clogging nickel parking meters by using the wrong coins, But they're rather reluctant to do anything about it, The mis- fit coins—hang it all—invari- ably are dimes, FAIR WARNING | A negro maid in the home of Howard J, Curtis at Mobile, Ala., was followed into the house by a small dog. She turned to the animal and said: “What are you doing in here?” At that remark a burglar broke from an adjoin- ing room and fled, dropping his loot. ARGUMENT NO GOOD Applying for a permit to buy new tires for his 21-year-old jalopy, a Washington resident with a wife and 17 children, ar- gued that his car was used for the “wholesale” transportation of food. But—he didn't get the permit. SMOKED TOO MUCH (7?) Willlam Klinck, of Philadel- phia, who always smoked a cigar “the first thing in the morning” died Sunday at the age of 102. Klinck, a retired cabinet maker and carpenter, attributed his Jong life to a daily breakfast of hasty pudding. STIRRING NEWS A cafe at Anderson, 8. C. took cognizance of the sugar shortage with this sign posted to patrons could see it: “Go Easy on the Williamsport ard, Whose Advice o According to information just re- leased, a different story might have | been written about the Pearl Harbor | tragedy had the warning of a young | Pennsylvania soldier been taken ser- ously. Private Joseph L. Lockard 20, of | willlamsport, Pa. was the soldler who detected Japanese planes ap- proaching Pearl Harbor while prac- {ticing at the listening device | morning of Deceinber 7, only to have nis warning disregarded. According to Representative Har- ness of Indiana the information | was furnished him by the War De- ! partment, at his request, and that { he had written President Roosevelt urging a citation for Lockard. | The report of the commission headed by Justice Owen J Roberts | of the Supreme court, which disclos- led the Incident, identified the list- | | | | | | | | | i } ‘Former Student AL | Member Penn Stale Naval Training Class Relates Harrowing Experience A miraculous escape from the U | Harbor in the Japanese { December 7. was described in a let- | ter received at the U. 8. Naval | Treining School at the Pennsylvania State College the | Safe By Miracle 8. 8. Oklahoma, torpedoed at Pearl | attack of | Soldier's Unheeded Warning Might Have Saved Pearl Harbor Military Citation Sought for Joseph L. Lock- f Approaching Japan- ese Planes Was Disregarded The Oldtimer Tyrone Youth ME. HE | ener without mentioning his name, | {45 a "non-commissioned officer who | {had been receiving training” at the { detection device and asked to be | permitted to remain at the station | after it closed at Ta. m He Told Lieutenant The commission's report, yublic, January 14, related: “At about 7:02 a. m. he discovered { what he thought was a large flight {of planes slightly east or north of | i | made I {Oahu, at a distance of about 130 | { miles. He reported this fact at 7:20 (8. m. to a lleutenant of the Army | {Who was at the central information {center having been detailed there | to familiarize himself with the op- { eration of the system, “This inexperienced lieutenant, {having information that certain { United States planes might be in! { the vicinity at the time, assumed | that the planes In question were | friendly ones, and took no action { with respect to them. The record- | Ing of the observation made indi- cated that these airplanes were | fucked toward the island and then ost.” Quit School to Enlist At Willlamsport, Mrs. George | Lockard, the youth's mother, heard { the report of his exploit quietly but (Continued on Page Three) | | NO ORCHIDS AT STATE Corsages may be a thing of at the Pensyivania Btate College According to Thomas J. Henson of Harrisburg, and Peter J. Krones senior ball, those who attend traditional bouquet In place of the floral adornment the committee will suggest thet the young ladies wear red white and blue ribbon Buying a Defense Stamp is be- ("| NEVER FORGET THE DAY | SENT My TEACHER A FUNNY VALENTINE AND | NEVER PID FIND OUT WHO TOLD HIM 1SENT IT. WELL HE FOUND OUT IT WAS RULERS ON ME WELL SIR | LEARNED MY LESSON. | ANT SENT NONE BUT \ PURT ¥ ONES AFTER Ar) the past for undergraduate social events of Philadelphia, co-chairman of the this function will be asked to give their girls defense stamps instead of the WAS 50 MAD HE BROKE TWO | Charles Leroy Hamer 12 Others Inj Huntingdon Co. Mishaps Dies 20 Minutes After Accident; Car Skids On Icy Portion of Killed and ured In Two Highway and Crashes Into Tree { Charles Leroy Hamer, 19, a Tyrone | youth died 20 minutes after an {automobile in which he and four | fellow -workers were enroute to Ty- | for visits, skidded on an Icy of route 522, four miles Shade Gap, SBunday, into a tree | Tone | portion th 1 ahd | ed all of rone. were 19. dri of the car kull fracture and head lac- Jat . Robert Phillips 18, lacerations and bruises: Francis E Harlow, 19, head and facial lacera- ons and concussion, and Jack O Pe 20, broken nose, facial cuts and concussion. All but Phillips was detained at the hospital. State Mo-| tor Police sald hone of the victims remembered anything of the crash aller the terrific impact had knock Len Unconscious Hamer died In a nearby house of | a broken neck and fractured gkull | He and hig friends were employed at the Glenn R. Martin plane factory in Ballimore, Born September 5, 1022 in Tyrone Hamer was a son of Wilson and Alice (Harris) Hamer, both of » injure I Maoist Ty 0 head Lrce LES coming a habit with Penn State stu- dents, according to George L. Dono- van, Student Union Manager, who has charge of thelr sale on the cam- pus. Student leaders set up booths or tables at all important student gatherings, and hundreds of defense stamp books have already been sold Ty- rone High School, and one year ago he was employed by the Glenn Mar- tin Alrplane factory Baltimore While in Baltimore he resided at 4405 LaBalle avenue Members of his family include one brother, John C. Hamer, Baltimore — yn. - Every man. woman and child in Centre county will be called upon to make some sacrifice for the na- tian before the present struggle is won and we mean sacrifice sugar bowl, and stir like hell! We don’t mind the noise.” Loganton Men Arrested Harry Keller and Dale Rudy, both of Loganton, R. D.,, ez. They are being held in $500 bail for court. The pair was arrested by Constable David L. Probst following | numerous instances of gasoline theft | in Loganton and vicinity and In Green township, Keller was arrested | earlier but the case was postponed ._ until authorities apprehended his > Fire Threatens School Only the early arrival gt the hig schicol at Berwick of the building superintendent prevented a serious fire. When he entered the building et 5:30 he discovered tliat a fire In a ventilafing shaft had bummed a hole through the floor of one of the rooms. A cigaret was blamed for the fire, against which an extinguisher was used. The room is used for night school. Park Robberies Pennsylvania Motor Police are in- vestigating a series of robberies and pleaded guilty | to charges of larceny this week at a | hearing before Alderman M. J. Lip- | | myself a bit lucky and fortunate | quitted by a court martial after wi be ling such language to his superior try | Ensign A. H. Mortensen, U. 8. N R. who was a member of the first The Human Interest Side of Legal Oddities | timore; | mp HL SO-THAT’S THE LAW . By Elliott H. Marrus naval training school class at Penn | | State, wrote that the Oklahoma was “really blitzed,” that she capsized in about seven minutes with a num. ber of torpedoes in her side “She is now bottom up, and 1 was fortunate in being skinny enough to ‘a bill was introduced into the New | York State Assembly which would { require all women to be in their homes gt 10 p. m. It never became a law In Kentucky there is an ordinance which forbids a member squeeze through a porthole and come | of the fair sex to enter a saloon up through 20 feet of water 15 min- | without permission of her father or utes after she went over,” he wrote. | mother . . . They are the “weaker “1 still wonder and try to figure out | sex.” you know. just what happened and how I man. . . aged to do as I did. To me it 8] WHO'S A PUNK?—May a private nothing short of a miracle, and I call a leutenant a “punk?” Erident. endl i the ninth wonder. of _ibedly world. . . Needless to say 1 consider | tille still here” {| Pointing out that practically all officer. ! his worldly possessions were lost in- | cluding his certificate for complet | * * x » 1 L HEAVEN--In KEEPING THEM PURE--In 1013 § * scolds » A DEMOCRACY In spite of our ef- forts to give equal rights to all per- sons living the United States § in ng punishment for women who were there are atill In existence many laws which discriminate against aliens some of these are restraints which prevent the non-citizen from earn. ing a living. For example, some states forbid an alien to work as a salesman, a barber, a miner, a junk dealer, 8 chauffeur gr an Insurance ve AAA Cunadtun Areiagent © SAW wen oy nar ownas : Du ri wan ac-| dog in certain states—in others he ” us- | ix not aliowed to picnic in the coun- A new low in democracy | was reached by a Rhode Island court which held that a bus driver must 2, Virginia pass- be a citizen because “aliers as a ing tha course at Penn State, En-| ed a law which provided that bab- cjass are naturally less interested sign Mortensen requested thal a NeW bling women should be punished by in the state, the safsty of its citi certificate be issued and sent to him | ducking . . . The lnw-makers of Col« zens, and the public welfare than { onial Massachusetts were also wise citizens” Therefore, continued this { men. They provided the same duck- | court decision, td allow aliens to op- asst a ——— Hit-Run Victim | erate buses would cause more ACC. dent Mast, if not all of these laws are unconstitutional and would be held so if they became before the Supreme Court s » THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE LAW--I! took an Illinois judge Ww admit: “It Is not evidence of Insan- ity Ww disagree with the judgment of 8 court.” . * » SPORTS DEPARTMENT —In a wife sued ber husband ! cruel because every Sunday he took | thelr 13-year-old son fishing, Need we tell you that she didnt get a divorce? | THE NEW ORDER--It is against the law fo be cick in Oermany-— | or rather yon may not call a doctor uniess you have more than 101 de- grees temperature, Women cannot, | except in special cases, gain admit- | * . . . tance to a hospital, event when they are about to give birth, The reason given is that “illness is a sign of in- ferfority and a good racial German cannot be sick.” French trial by jury has been changed by a decree. | No longer does the jury relire to consider their verdict. Now they must deliberate In the presence of the judge—probably to insure that and five sisters, Carrie Hamer, Bal- Clair and Marjorie, both of Mooseheart, Indiana: Lois wood, Tyrone Mary Alic ang ¢, War- | rlors Mark Eight Hurt in Second Accident Eight persons were injured SBun- day night when two automobiles crashed Leadon one a « one mis outh police said They were Richard Broad Top City ¥ Hoover 18, and Inez Todd, facial lacerations Runk,k 18 Broad Top City, and Herman McNeal and 18 Lee ru Martin Mount Union machines 21 Ihe oldest Up cults facial in & car driven Richard Py operator { Lhe his brother head ed a head gash s Wok over 40 sutw was detained with his oldest Hoover girl ger with Martin 16, was not hurt Poll d u Found Dead In Own Parked Car Missing Newport Man Discov- ered Near Lewistown Vie- tim of Suicide uy 19 er and suflered laceration receive i i teh 4 * SR. ” search for the m e all A two-day Newport servic y manager William G. Knisely, ended Friday with the discovery of his body about four miles from issing $ I Lewislown The 38-year-old man Monday night after sls his right wrist with a razor biade and penning farewell notes to his wife and daughter, Connle, 11. Police vanithed they wil] bring In a verdict suitable | from Duncannon, Selinsgrove and to the New Order - LAR . ARMS AND THE CHURCH-In body finally was discovered by school | , She CII Wat Be waa FOolonialY days thee states, South Tohlidren. Knisely died from gs shot- Carolinia, Georgia and Virginia, had Isws which made it mandatory for men 10 carry thelr guns to church It was a safeguard against Indian attacks. - * * * | | { INDIANS—Iu 1794, the United | States of America made a treaty | with a tribe of Indians by which the “redskins” were to receive $2700 Continusd onelafe Three) Seriously Hurt Killed While He eid | Pete Karp Found Lying Along | Takes Off Chains Road By Passing Motor- | : ‘Tyrone Man May Bakery Truck | Be Jap Prisoner Rams Road Plow Gets 30 Days For Outbursts | i Milton, and scores of joined the search for Knisely volunteers His North- | irve on route | { 1183000 a year nd [the pay checks show.) 7% PROGRESS REPORT: NURSES’ SCHOOL This department can't see any {good reason why the nurses’ train- ing school at the Centre County hos- pital should not be reopened, The | school was discontinued several years {ago, because if we remember core {rectly it was felt that so many new nurses were entering the field that | the entire profession was being jeop- ardized. The picture has changed {since that time, and there is a pro- | nounced shortage of nurses in the country. The shortage, it is reason- able to assume, will become much {more pronounced with nurses being needed in the armed forces, In |industry and as hostesses on air- liners and deluxe trains. Even now the shortage of nurses Is s0 great that nurses who now are married ‘and have children are being called back to duty. This corner cant see what possible objection there could be to a reopening of the school at the local hospital, and we feel that the school would be a great aid to that institution From comment {heard on the streets, we believe the Nurses’ Alumnae Association of the hospital, or any other organization, {would have plenty of public support in any move toward the re-estab- lishment of the Nurses Training re | Bchool OBSERVATION: We never knew untill just this week that at least one Republican clerical job in the Court House pays t least that's what We are pleased to report that Bellefonte officialdom is taking steps tw correct the loose and dangerous practices which have been going on hereabouts in regard to medical cer- tificates for persons employed In eating places. Borough Health Of- ficer W. W. Bickett at Council Mon- day night recited one case in which a man employed in a local restaur- ant was asked for his health certi- ficate and forthwith presented the same. The Health Officer had rea- son to believe the man had not un- dergone a medical examination so he interviewed the physician who had issued the certificate. The phy- sician, Mr. Bickett said admitted that he didnt examine the man, ex- piaining that the health certificates have long been regarded merely as a matter of form So the medico readily agreed to examine the man in question. But when Mr Bickett approached the man and told him to report for examination, the res- taurant employe is quoted as having sald, In effect: “Skip it. IU resign my job here!” Couneil has instruct- ed the Sanitary Committee, the Health Officer and the Solicitor to gun wound while sitting in his car on the playground of a rural school Relatives told police the victim had been in poor health the last two months Badly Hurt in Fall Oliver Powler, of Renovo, suffered a severe injury to his back when he fell from a scaffold 35 feel into! a concrete pit, while working on the new coal wharf project in the P. R. R. yards He was taken in the West Branch ambulance to Renovo Hos- pital where his condition waz re-! ported as {air, — a Rn sider medical examinations as med- ical examinations instead of as forms to be filled out as a matter of rou- tine. PARKING METERS: Somewhere or other we recall hav- ing heard 4 quotation to the effect ithat a person who refuses to com- promise in a dispute is a dolt or something to that effect. Members of the group which petitioned Coun- Continued on Pape Five) shtempted fobiieries 8 Bet fot. Sunday (Clouded Windshield Blamed Rev. Carl Eschbach, Mission- stands were entered, after the lock di For Fatal Accident ary to Philippines, Un- on the amusement building had been | go 1.100 “Pete” Karp, 35, of Bec- | N entered. No money was secured, but .,;jq is in a serious condition at | Near Irvona heard From at one stand between 76 and 100... pyyipehurg hospital after being One Man in ‘Hospital With John Ritchey, Sunbury Man, | Broken Leg as Result of Jailed For Criticism of Highway Accident Flag, President PALOOKA PRIVATE JOE SAX of | records were taken from phonograph mechines. Man Freed In Theft Charge The jury in the case of Robert Ungard, 54. Salona resident accused of taking about $7 worth of meat from the Morrison Abbatoir last fall, acquitted him in the Clinton county court after deliberating an hour Thursday. Costs were placed on the prosecutor, M. Morrison. Puy Defense Bonds now! | by a passing motorist, received a F.! "| Radiator steam which clouded the | Rev. Carl Eschbach. @ f Mr | keoeped Sows i Boecsfia Sunday | Windshield of a motorist was blamed | and Mrs. John W Eschbach, o r | hy und lying along the read for the death Monday near Irvona | rone, is belie A Curwensville man is a patient in the Clearfield Memorial Hospi- ved to be a prisoner of tal as the result of the way of 55-year-old Mike Leshnovich, of = the Japanese army in Bagnio, north- | truck from which he was a liway Irvona, who was killed while taking | ern Luzon, in the Philippines | ashes being rammed In the rear by the chains from his oar. | Although the Japanese are known |# Morningstar Bakery truck from Philipsburg motor police, who in- | to have taken over on December 27. Philipsburg. The accident occurred | vestigated the accident, sald Lesh- | the territory where Mr. Eschbach is | ©8rly last Tuesday morning | novich was struck by a car operated | engaged as a missionary with the highway between OCurwensvil Japan seems to be bent upon win- | by Arthur Killion, also of Irvona. | United Brethren church, his wife, { Grampian. ning the war right now but the Leshnovich, who received a frac- | the former Miss Ruth Myers of Ty- | Hoyt Sperring, 57, is stiffering a | trouble with the ¥ar Eastern situa- | tured skull had parked his car part- | one, who is now in Detroit, Mich, | broken leg and body bruises as a re- Nis story later. tion is that the United Nations will [ly off the highway while he was | With their three children. received a |sult of the impact. Elmer Jury, dri-| When arrested he was giving to keep on fighting. changing his chains when Killion | Cabiegram on New Year's day stat- | ver of the highway truck was thrown Outbursts against the President. the | traveling in the same direction as Ing he was safe and well No word | against the steering wheel. He was | American people and the flag, but Whether the defendant is intoxi- ‘cated or sober, Police Magistrate | Charles E. Jackson pf Sunbury, de- clares he will not tolerate expres. sions of sympathy for Nazi Ger- many 1 John Ritchey 47, Sunbury, who! on the was arrested by Lieut. G. 8 Moon | le and | for disorderly conduct and pane! {handling at Pourth and Walnut | street Thursday evening, changed | | | | | ME, TO fractured skull brain concussion, fractured right leg and lacerated left leg. His recovery is reported as doubtful. amas orm i nt MI a———— rrr ere Leshnovichs car, rammed into the has been received since that time » . . F J * » Russia Winter, Hitler's Alibi Adolph Hitler addressed the |til the present time claimed to have Reichstag and the people of the defeated England in 1940 and prai- German nation on the ninth anni- sed Japan's entry into the war. versary of his rise to power, Priday, | In Russia. he said, the Russians but failed to promise victory this have advanced only a few kilometers year, In previous speeches he had at a great cost in men and mater- promised victory to the German ials, “but in a few weeks winter will military powers in 1941. | break in the south and the ice will “I do not know,” he said in the melt and the hour will come when course of his extremely lengthly ora- | the ground will be hard and firm tion “whether the war end this again and our armies will storm r." : ahead again.” He declared that Germany was far “It was not easy to change our ahead of the United States in taking tactics in the east and to fight in care of its workers, all of whom. he the bitter cold,” he sald. claimed, have liberty and work. | “When this difficult change be- “But,” he warned, “the Democra- came necessary, I regarded it again cies have the entire world. One bad as my task to assume personal re- have i 1 | Hitler that he had never planned Hitler covered the whole course a winter war in Russia and had hop- of history from the middle ages un- | (Continued on Page Three) Prophet Saw Defeat of Nazis If you believe the Eighth Century) from the banks of the Danube ophecies of 8t. ; present . . | He will win victories on land as many raw materials as car, fatally injuring Leshnovich and damaging his car, police reported. Police said Killion claimed steam coming from his radiator obscured the vision on the t side of his windshield and that failed to see the parked car or the operator. to an Irvona physician, Jack Oakland and Prank Swede, both of Irvona who were passengers in Leshnovich’'s car, escaped injury as did Killion. An inquest into the death will be held next Monday night, police said. GIRL HURT IN WRECK ON SANDY RIDGE ROAD Jean Coins, Chester Hill, near Philipsburg was slightly injured on Sunday afternoon on the Sandy Ridge mountain road 12 miles south of Philipsburg, in an automobile ac- cident, motor police reported. Miss Collins, a passenger fh a car operated by Vers LaRue Mills, 19, of Sandy Ridge, received slight lacerations when “His winged warriors will be seen - | in unbelieveable attacks to rise up to . Stack, OMI, has| the firmaments and to seize the Sulla, the Bind dash. became convent | and light gigantic fires. | "The conqueror will have attained : bellig- | enemies will not submit and the war will | will continue, | “The second part of the war will : war on | equal in length the first half , . | . +.» The conqueror . will! (Continued on Page Three) the fore-| stars and throw them down on towns | i . About | the apex of his triumphs in the middle of the sixth month of the Boys and girls will | Ger- | the yoke of my domination.” But his happened, Total damages were estimated at $75. No other persons were injured. “Aladdin, Jv,” New Comic terious adventures of “ new comic added to tures to be found | Weekly “Puck | with the (ean. On § ‘Read the Classified 84s. Leshnovich died while being taken | Rev. Bachbach is a graduate of | Tyrone High School and of Otter- | bein College, Westville, Ohio. He | Was ordained to the full ministry in | the United Brethren church in the | Philippines, where he has served as | & missionary for the past 12 years. Mrs. Eschbacn and the children | were in the Philippines until about {two years ago when a son suffered {from an eye Injury and was taken {to a hospital in Detroit for treat. ment. Thieves Steal Sugar ceived the day before 300 bars of soap, two S0-pound tubs of lard, eight large cakes of cheese and other loot to the value of $300 or more was taken by burglars who broke into the Thomas Cretella gro- cery store at Berwick, Similar rob. beries, believed committed by the same gang, have been reported at other towns. It's almost time for us to plant our annual ten-foot row of radishes, just for fun. Four 100-pound bags of sugar re- | | treated at the t the next day he denied he really felt | | bruises. hospital. . for by that way and blamed it on his De- | Francis Tozer, a passenger in the | 02 drunk. i cab, was thrown out and landed on| Nevertheless, the magistrate re- | the highway when the right door duired Ritchey to recite the pledge | flew open. Paul Garman on the Of sliegiance to the flag and then’ back of the truck with Sperring, was, Sentenced him to 30 days in the | thrown off, but like Tozer he was | COUNtY Jail during which time police | uninjured. | authorities will have ample oppor- John Rodgers, of Chester Hill, op- | tunity to check on the defendant's erator of the bakery truck, told po- | record lice that he did not see the highway | SEDANS IN COLLISION truck until he was close behind it. | He then swerved the big truck and | WEST OF STATE COLLEGE semni-tratler to the left, but in so | oing, hit the left rear end of the | : | highway truck. | State College, R. D. and John Pat- Damages to the highway truck terson, of Johnsonburg, were were estimated at $1,000, and about | volved in an accident on $200 to the Morningstar truck, | of | Pleasant Measles Epidemic | that the Patterson College, Towanda is in the midst of the! in | German or thiee-day variety of | chine ey | measles. Many children are out of underwent treatment {school and the great amount of of qo State College | sickness hindered the Beout collec minor injuries, | thon of waste paper last Baturday, | - | Education depends upon an abil. Beware of anything that anybody | ity to read and to think and enough tells you is a "perfect setup.” energy to do both, i. i i { | ] i physician for i i i i | | i IF YOU CAN'T N UP WITH THE BEST Hine HE : US LICK THEM MAD DOGS 15 TO BUY ALL THE UNITED STATES SAVINGS TER PU BLIC—Where It's Needed! Ae
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