The Call to The Colors Is a Call For Dollars! i ghe Cenire Democrat let Your Answer To Bombs Be BONDS! VOLUME 61. NUMBER 7. BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1942, SUBSCRIPTION—$1.50 PER YEAR. HOUCK NOW WITHOUT LEGAL COUNSEL Jubelirer, hi vey No Longer Re:ained 2-Year Sentence For Attack on Clinton County Girl GRAND JURY HERE ENTERS WORKHOUSE FINDS 5 TRUE BILLS, TO BEGIN TERM District Attorney to Seek | Sixth Indictment; Jury Completes Work BULLETIN Reliable announcement was made last night that Attorney Samuel Jubelirer, of Altoona, and Attorney Lewis Orvis Har- vey, of Bellefonte, are no longer retained as counsel for Hoy Ken- neth Houck, Bellefonte, whe was indicted here this week for at- tacks on five Centre County women, The source declined to state whether the attorneys withdrew or whether they were dropped by Houck. Houck, taken from the Clinton County jail at Lock Haven to the Allegheny Workhouse, at Pitts- burgh Tuesday to begin a 2-year sentence for an attack on a Clin- | ton County girl, is scheduled to face trial on the Centre County charges at the May term of court here, Unless attorneys are retained before that time In Houck's be- half, he will face trial without counsel, unless he requests the court to appeint an atierney to represent him at the time of the trial. Court-appointed atiorneys re- ceive no fees from defendant or the county except in murder cases, it was reported last night, Jubelirer represented the local at A Lock Tate! oun ekatner and Harvey represented him "at a p hearing on the Cen. tre County charges here last week. ? 1 Reason For Change Is Not Draws Announced ; Court May Name Attorney May Revive Technical- ity in Arrest | | | | | Hoy K. Houck, 22, former Belle- |fonte orchestra leader Saturday {morning was given the maximum | sentence, two years in the Allegheny {County Worklfouse for assault and | battery, of which he was convicted {in the Clinton County court, Lock | Haven, last October. The sentence | imposed by Judge Henry Hipple, will {be computed from September 3 Houck also was assessed the costs {in the case and $1 fine and will |stand committed until the full sen- | tence is complied with. The sheriff's office announced that Houck will be {taken to the workhouse as soon as driving conditions improve. From {there he will be brought back to Centre County for six cases against , him here scheduled for trial in May, Samuel H. Jubelirer, of Altoona, defense counsel indicated after sen- tence was passed that an appeal for arrest of judgement will be made to the Superior court of Jennsylvania, based solely on the aldermanic jur- { isdiction question which was one of the reasons cited for an arrest of | judgement against Houck in Clinton i county and which was later refused by the court there. | Before sentence was passed Mr | Jubelirer asked the court to con- | sider Houck’s previous reputation as | testified to during his trial by char- | acter witnesses and also to consider {the fact that Houck’s wife, partic. { ularly, has suffered and been pun- ished greatly as a résult of his arrest and following events Judge Henry Hipple asked Mr. | Jubelirer: “Is that not true in every | case, that the innocent suffer along l.with the guilty?” Mr, Jubelirer ans. Five true bills against Hoy Ken- | wered that unfortunately that is so neth Houck, of BelleTonte,’ whbd last September confessed to six attacks on Centre county women, were re- turned by a Centre, Goynty, Grand Jury here Monday and Tuesday The jury ignored one count of one of the bills of indictment The bills found Yrud Montay af- ternoon and on Which Houck |s (Continued on Page Four) Pine Grove Mills Youths Sentenced i Jesse Dean, 23, and Robert John-| gon, 18, both of Pine Grove Mills, | who in court .Iast week pleaded guilty to twice robbing the J. E| O'Bryan service station near State College, but who implicated two others in the chines SPpeared hee fore Judge Walker here Monday morning and Bere sentenced to pay | chandise and cash ’ wal The D. H. Heim service station, She bouts. mks hori and serve. the Bishop street school, and the of - 5 Japs reported that they thor- fices of the Federal Match Company oughly investigated the claims of the youths that they had accom- plices in the crime, but found noth- ing to justify additional arrests, 3 More Local Places Robbed cate Same Gang Re- sponsible for Series Belief that a rapidly growing ser- ies of robberies in Bellefonte is the work of the same gang of thieves possibly youngsters—was strength- ened during the past week when The loot included about $50 in mer- Bellefonte police reported. ket, both on West High street, were | robbed, the loot at the “Y" including about $75 in cash. Other business houses in town have been broken into in the past month or so and | police believe the entire series was committed by the same persons, The Heim service station on North Water street was entered after shut. - ter bolts were removed and a window Ihstructions for persons eligible shattered. A used truck tire, two in the nation’s third Selective Ser- | Continued on Page Five) vice registration, to be held Monday from 7 a.m. to 9 Pp. m, were an. | officials o e county's | tro el draft od {ler of Pleasant Gap, left Wednesday Volunteer registrars are drawn for Ohio and other western states primarily from .the teaching forces to buy a carload of horses. Upon of the public schools, who will be his return he will hold a public sale (Continued os Pegs. Four) iat his sale barn. All Men Over 20 and Under 45 Must Register, Monday | T. E. Jodon Leaves For West Prominent C entre Hall C ouple Observes Golden Wedding Event Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Pisher, the old Keller homestead east of prominent residents of Centre Hall | Centre Hall, Which was her father's who are spending a month or more birthplace. Her mother’s home was with their son-in-law and daughter, | near Mifflinburg, Union county. Mr. Rev. and Mrs. E. Roy Corfnan of | Keller was a farmer and for several Wilkinsburg, on Tuesday of this years was secretary of the Centre week celebrated their fiflfeth wed- County Mutual Fire Insurance Com- ding anniversary with an “at home” pany, a4 subsidiary of the Grange. at the Corman residence | The Gi Kelle? Somestest 3 M10 In # Fisher, tive of Penn | the eller name, uM. 2 A Rt of Centre| As a boy, Prank M. Pisher attend. February 10 1892. Mr, Pisher, a son | Studied at the Spring Mills academy, of Jared B. and Sarah Louise Fisher | after which he and his twin brother, was one of six children, and was Charles entered their father’s store himself a twin. HIS father was a Where they were employed for 14 native of Berks county and his moth. Years until 1806 when they purch- er Was born near Woodward, this ased the business from their father. county. His father operated a flour | 1hey also continued to operate the mill at Farmers Mills and s general | flour mill for the next five years and | conducted the store in partnership | stare at Benn Ball for about 50 YEATS. | until thie death of the brother Char les in 1916, Mrs. Fisher, daughter of James A.| Upon the death of his brother and Charlotte Keller, was born on| (Continued on Page Five) : Appeal to Superior Court List Grows as Police Indi- three more places were broken into. | were entered during the weekend, | Week before last the Bellefonte | YMCA, and the Walizer meat mars | T. E. Jodon, well known horse dea- | n Fought | ! ] | Although names such as Luzon Is- land, Cavite, Singapore, Buez, Mals ita, Gibraltar and many others proms | | * Long Series of “oc Me = | inent in the news these days are n fl {nothing more than mere names LO pmost of us, they are in the ! f minds of George W. Sunday, prom - nent Bellefonte tailor Caplain F a R. "Dick" Taylor, and Milton Rees both of Bellefonte, and Clyde Long Howard real William H o llenbaugh, Rockview Fugitive, Ad- mits Many Robberies IS APPREHENDED IN MIFFLINTOWN Questioned After RECeiV- i or ar. doy Ms iv avi . - y ’ from the UUme he enlisted in Belle. ng 5-10 X ears’ Sen- fonte the U. 8. Army on Seplems- tence Here i fo Lon at those men Insure century many curiently World Wa: Fo ibpine the 4 al 1h ugl 4 4 and lived which pres of the places ! Lhe of tu nt onflict scene II « 1€ an ber 7. 1809, until his return hume on July 7, 1601. In the 76 pages are sandwiched hig account of a 13.840. mile voyage from New York east Lo | Gibraltar, through the Mediterran- ean Sea to Suez through the Suez {eanal and thence east to the Phil- ippines; from there to ports in Jap. «an, and from there c¢ast across the Pacific to San Francisco. In the i. booklet are reminiscences of his army life on the Island of Luzon ang elsewhere. On the yellowed time worn page yu find the brief en- 4 tev try William Hollenbaugh, 20. Juniata county, who escaped from Rockview penitentiary on April 10, 1941, an who was resentenced here Monday morning, has confessed to five rob- berdes in Huntingdon county dur. ing the time he was at large, State Police at the Huntingdon sub-sta- tion reported yesterday Hollenbaugh was captured Satur. day afternoon by Bheriff Ralph B Potter, of Juniata county at ¢ home of Mrs. Marion Willowby, in Mifflintown, Rockview Deputy War den C. C. Rhoads sald, The may been living around Juniate in Huntingdon, Bedford, Mifflin : ! mia Perry counties, since his escape, fre- quently sleeping in bain 00) U State Police yesterday reported Ww ( If houses and homes that Hollenbaugh has confessed the following Huntingdon county’ rob. beries The Clinton Irvin store at Barre W. H. Turner, Member of USS. Brooklyn Crew, Suffers Wounds tle i ' [81 Bth. Delall of 30 men left Seville 11 ». m., marched all night ad n about November 7, 194] The B. E. Rethart store at Spruce Creek, about August 27 Two robberies at the Michael Tree! store in Morris township last fall The A. 8. Buchanan service sia- tion at Mapleton Depot, about Sep- | tember 22 4 i County youth, member of the U. 8 At the Buchanan place Hollen- 8. Brooklyn has been wounded in baugh is reported have sidlen action, according to word received two guns, one of has teen Mohday by his uncle, E. A. Turger, recovered. Loot in the other places of Port Matilda ‘consisted principally of food and; Tyrer is the first Centre Countian cigarettes, police said. known 10 have been wounded since Huntingdon State Police also re- |i, Japanese attack on Pearl Har- ported that Hollenbaugh is suspect- yor jast December 7 ed of a series of similar robberies in| Juniata, Perry and Mifflin counties but yesterday it was not known {Continued on Pape Five) | The message received by the un- cle at Port Matilda briefly stated that young Tarner had been shot through the hips by a machine gun and had been taken to a Naval Hos- pital where a successful operation was performed. No indication was given as to the location of the ship at the tithe of the engagement Truck Hits Train ———— Turner visited his uncle at Port $800 Damage to Truck-Trail-: Matilda some weeks ago and de- vi . Seema scribed his many experiences as a er at Wingate; Two Freight |; amber of the 100-man crew of the Cars Derailed yU. 8 8, Brooklyn. He gave a gra- phic eye-witness description of the | Two occupants of a truck-trailer Pear Harbor disaster, the Brooklyn {outfit escaped Injury about 225 o'clock last Thursday morning when the attack the machine crashed into the side of Turner has been a member of the a moving frieght train on the Win- Brooklyn's crew for the past two gate crossing. years and has traveled extensively Two steel freight cars of the train by land, by sea and by alr {were derailed]. Damage to the truck loaded with canned goods destined | Escape Injury as a. [for Bellefonte, was estimated at about $800. The freight cars were (slightly damaged. The accident happened as the | train was moving north of the Snow {Shoe branch railroad. The truck driver, Albert N. Kurtz, of Altoona, and his helper, Ira Dey- armin, also of Altoona escaped with- out a scratch. The truck was owned by the Elliot Trucking Company of | Altoona, | Motor Police who investigated the jerash sald the truck was dragged {along the tracks for about 30 feet. | The impack broke the airline on one {of the freight cars halting the train’ | It required more than four hours’ {work to get the truck and trailer {from the right-of-way and to pldcé {the freight cars back on the track. | The engineer of the train was T. { B. Resides, of Tyrone. | PROMOTED Catholic Bazaar a3 Held This Weekend The annual pre<Lénten bazaar sponsored by memberg of St. John's Catholic church opened in the {church hall last night and is to con- | tinue tomorrow and Friday nights, | Tonight's and Priday night's supper {will be fifty o®nts per plate, | with two crab cakes, potatoes, salad, | Battlefields of Present War | rrupled William H. Tumer former Centre having been nearby at the time of | bread, butter and coffee. Sandwiches | of all kinds, ice cream, cake and coffee will be served throughout each evening. Decorated booths have been erect. ed in the large’ hall from which fancy work, , ice cream, candy and groceries be sold. Bingo and other games will be played, The public is cordially Invited to attend the bazaar, Child Fractures Arm Clair Lyons, two-year-old son of Mrs. Betty Lyons, of Howard, was | treated at the Centre County Hos- | pital Sunday afternson for a frac- {tured arm received when he slipped ‘and fell on the lee. The child was {taken to its 1 after receiving | treatment at the hospital dispen- IST CLASS PVT. ROBERT GATES Robert Gates, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gates of Howard R. D. 2, a4 member of the U. 8. Army in Hon- olulu, has been made a first class private, according to information re. ceived recently. Under date of December 20, last, Pvt. Gates wrote the following lef ter to his parents: “Just a few lines to let you that I am O. K. and feeling fine. are pretty busy here and don't (Continued on Pape Five) Stolen Car Recovered 40 Years On through mud and wale; Was wounded at 2 p.m the 18th at 0 ! Thal the entry points to his right ear plainly visible Lire Ling t= walst deep reftirned a.m Mr. Sunday where a Something struck La scar @ Ne eXpiain long for excerm There example } Loo { The diary bs pi n full, In hig March 2 The and sos hundred fect ang 8.280 Wn Ve ’ shit ught for i »” } { f i wt i voleang th lava It (the moun- feet high and 16 miles n diameler, 1 was on guard me and it wis the prettjest ever Saw ™ November “On guard Evora Iga i at thu $ ' ! iad I Was [ v 13 notation Oiders Lg leave only picks of cigarettes 6 boxes matches and 10 pounds of rice pess through the lines” y Qi tr #4) The December entry cqntains this note: “Major four men and mysei] crogsed river under cover of the big cannon, bullets striking all around the boat. Landed and s’nt for more men, fired 30 foots, charged through a Cocomnut grove and found four dead.” On January 24 the news was; “Re- ceived Christmas box from Mrs Kate this a m.” Mrs Kate Mr. Bun- day explains, is the late Mrs John M. Bhugerts, of Bellefonte (Continued on Page Five) Teachers Aid Defense Work 82 Local Faculty Members Actively Engaged in Pro- gram; Others Volunteer A large majority of the teachers employed by the Belelfonte School 4 dre engaged in either Civil. ense Work and associated no Heh or In parsultly courses to improve themselves In their reéapec- tive professional fields, according to | a recent survey made by the Teach- ers’ Association | Some are busy five nights a week with sctivities quite apart from and in addition to their regular school duties. Many are engeged in more than one defense activity. The survey reveals that three of the teachers are giving First Ald Instruction to two separate classes a week, a total of six hours. Two "' others are conducting one class in First Ald each week. Beven others are taking First Aid Courses ohe night per week. Three of the wom- {Continued on Pape Four) Six Escape Injur ry In Unionville Crash Bix persons, including an eight vear-old school girl who jumped to the top of an abutment to avoid be- 1 { ing struck, escaped injury about 8:30 | {o'clock Friday morning when a car ‘and truck collided about 1% miles west of Unionville on Route 220 The crash resulted during a per- | iod of poor visibility due to a heavy {fog when a car driven by Charles | of Bellefonte, H. Eckenroth, Sr. pulled onto the highway from the Dix Run road at the Nucker service station The truck, operated by J. W. Em- inhizer, of Julian, R. D., traveling along Route 220, struck the right side of the sedan, causing it to run into the side of the road. Police re- ported that a girl who was walking to school escaped being struck by one of the cars by leaping on a bridge abutment. (Continued on Pape Five) State College Man Awarded Damages John Brindle Anstine, of State! College, has been awarded $20,000 by Dauphin County court for injur- ies he suffered in a car accident on | October 29, 1928 at Providence, Pa. while a student, at Harrisburg Aca- demy The court ordered the Pennsyl- vania Rallroad Company, Harry R. Davis, Paxtang, owner of the car in train, and Harty R. Davis, Jr. dri- ver of the car to pay the damages. ‘Boy Scouts to Collect Paper, Junk Metal i Scouts of Bellefonte and Pleasant Gap on Saturday, February | i ! { | | { Bruce Krumrine, of Plessant Gap, {was traveling toward Bellefonte Lyons Sawmill Borough Teachers AtHoward Is Seek Salary Increase Razed by Fire Damage Several Thousand Dollars as Blaze Levels Mill Building FIREMEN SAVE PILES OF SAWED TIMBER Structure to Be Rebuilt Immediately; Employs Up to Ten Men Damage estimated at several thou. sand dollars resulted eariy ‘i uesoay morning from a fire which destroyed the Clair Lyons sawmill pear How- d. The loss includes the building and a quantity of new machinery recently installed The blaze was discovered about 5:30 a. m by William Leathers night watchman on the premises. He called Harry Lyons who assisted him in trying to fight the with & garden hose The Howard Fire Company and the Undine Fire Company of Belle fonte were summoned the but upon their arrival the blaze was out of control and their efforts were devoted principally to preventing the spread of the flames to large piles of lumber nearby. All lumber outside the struciu re Was ar flames 0 LOU 3 i ucius saved The mill, located st the southern boundary of Howard borough, along the Howard-Jacksonville road, em- ployed up to 10 men and had been operated for the past six years by Clair Lyons Prior to that time was owned by his father, the late John Lyons According to reports the mill will be rebuilt and placed in operation as soon as possible ‘Williamsport Man Dies Suddenly Here Palmer P. Wiahd, for 37 years an employe of the Williamsport Mirror and Glass Company. dropped dead on the sidewalk in front of the Y [{M. C. A. bullding, West High street, Bellefonte at 12:30 p. m. Monday | February §, 1942 Wiand, aged 85 years, was carried to the offices of a nearby physic. inn by Edgar Weaver of Bellefonte, and two employes of the Williams. port Mirror and Giass Company who were with him at the time He was pronounced dead upon exam- ination at the physicians office, { death being attributed to a heart attack. Coroner Charles Bheckier of Milesburg, investigated the fatality Mr. Wiand and his aides were en- gaged in putting In a new window {at the Levine store on South Alle- | gheny street, and the three were re- turning to work after lunch When the death occurred. Burviving are a son, Raymond B, of Williamsport; nidaughter, two | brothers, Merle and Harry, both of Sunbury. Services will be held at 1:30 p m {| Thursday st SBpitler's funtral home, willlamsport. Burial will be in Wild- wood. ’ $700 Damage In Crash hil Town Damage was estimated at $700 but ino one was injured aboud 9:30 o'- { clock yesterday morning when a car driven by Lewis P. Smith, | fonte contractor, and a truck driven {by William Sampsell of Bellefonte, |R. D. 2, collided on a curve about | { 1'2 miles south of Bellefonte on the road to Pleasant Gap. 8mith was driving toward Pleas. ant Gap and the truck, owned by {when the brakes of the truck grab- bed while the machine was rounding |®& curve and it veered into the path {of the said coming sedan, Motor Police to the Smith car was placed at $400 and to the truck, $300, Chester Miles, of Milesburg, was a passenger in the Smith car at the time. Milk valued at about $20 in the Krumrine truck was spliled over the highway #5 a result of the crash. Belie- | Car Runs Into Rear | of Road Ashing Truck One ou ms Way in Ya injured and damage aced at 125 cident pi Rout south of Poller lock Baturday ariven by struck the rea; L. 4%) Ry A 4 On ‘ nl Gis- Lan é sedan ol Milroy truck driven by Potters Mills Barger, a road employe, was Lray- elng down toward Potters Mills An instant the first crash, & edan operated by John C. McAtu of Madera, Clearfitld county, struck the rea; Houser'’s sedan, and the Houser car again * Gerald Duck who truck, escaped injury when himself fiat ad of Milroy redan windshield during © oO Ne Hounialn aft Baer : of was shov on the a passeng anoed his pac The icy assigned Judge Humes Hurt In (rash Members of Family Also Injured in Accident Near Hublersburg as Judge Samuel HA. Humes, of Wil- Hamsport, Lycoming county judge escaped with minor bruises in an au- | tomobile accident Bunday morning at 9:18 o'clock on Route 220, one! mile esst of Hublersburg, but other | members of hls family and Miss Mary Finney, aiso of Williamsport, | suffered fractures and additional in. ! juries, Miss Finney suffered a t pelvis and lacerations of The three Humes bovs injured. Graham, 8, Is suffering from | Continued on Pope Pour) Stewart N fractured the face. | alan wore | ow Head Clyde M. Stewart, of Bellefonte, | was elected chairman of the Muncy | District Boy Scouts at an annual organization meeting held last Thursday night at the Penn Belle Hotel. He succeeds Jesse H. Caum, who had been chairman for the past year i | At the session anhouncement was | made of the resignation of Foster | T. Augustine as commissioner of the | district. Mr. Augustine, active in| scouting for the past 15 years, is! scheduled for appointment to a post | on the Juniata Council. Carl Hall, | Jr., of Bellefonte, was named to the | vacancy created by Mr. Augustine's; resignation. Hall formerly was com- | missioner in the Willlamsport dist- rict The Muncy District includes seven scout troops in Bellefonte Miles- | burg, Unionville, Howard and Jack- sonville Valley View Girl Is Struck by Car Mildred Shuey. 18, of Valley View, | ‘suffered a bruise at the back of the! head and lacerations of the thumb! | last Thursday when she was struck! | by a car hear her home i According to reports the machine, | driven by Gilbert Sager of Valley View, dragged the pedestrian for about 15 feet before the machine] {came to a8 halt. The driver had to dig snow from in front of the front) axle to extricate the girl, whose in- | juries were not of a serious nature | i { i | Flag-Cons i { i cious 5 With scores of brand new Amer! o | Jess thelr demands ron the , | 10 finance such isay in the board meeting {the Centre Democrat from Mrs. Humes has a fracture of the right leg above the ankle, face lac-! erations and fracture of three ribs | Bellefonte Revives Service Flags of World War No. | Committee Tells Board of Strike Rumors in Faculty CLAIM SITUATION IS SERIOUS ONE Spokesman Says Janitors Are Better Paid Than Some Teachers Agitation for a general salary in- crease for Bellefonte school came 10 a climax at a regular meet- ing of the Bellefonte School Board Monday night when a teachers’ com- mittee hinted at a possible strike un- were met, while that would action found teachers board indicated be stempeded into any til some satisfactory way increases not is Members of the commit appeared at the board session were Glenn Aumilier Ralston Derr, Franklin Hoy and Floyd Hill Derr, one of the chile! spokesmen claimed that ja wgher wages than some teachers and that the average weekly wage of teachers ot school is $2059 He said at nmercial students graduated from the High : last year receive approximatel a week on average out that teachers spend much money preparing for their profession and he claimed that unless salaries are increased many local teachers will seek positions elsewhere Derr claimed that he had been instructed by the teachers what to and he of strike tee which $ ] “ chairman nitors receive } th . wi cot ” ii said that there is talk | among teachers Questioned by Board member E (Continued on Page Twe) What Say, Grandpop? According to informa‘ion reaching the pub- lic relations office at Randolph Field, Texas, Private Pirst Class George Socash gels one letter each week which he may as well not get It's written In Slavic, a language he doesnt understand The letters come from his grands | father In Bellefonte. Private Socash (says our informer) tried ito get his grandfather to have his correspondence translated. The next letter was accompanied by a brief note in English “Poppycock!™ the note said. “The Democratic American Army is made up of all kinds of people. Get some- body to read your letters to you Private Bocash has appealed to the personnel office to ald him in finding that somebody. HARMAN DAIRY CHANGES MILK DELIVERY SYSTEM The Harman Dalry, Bellefonte, re- cently cancelled the usual daily de- liveries ar instituted a system of every-other-day deliveries because of the national defense program Contrary to a statement published in an advertisement several weeks ago, Christian Harman owner of {the Harman Dairy, is not chairman of the Bellefonte dairymen’s group. According to reports yesterday, jo- cal dairies have not adopted any unified “war” delivery system at this time, although most of them are try- ing out changes because of exjsting conditions. -~ Howard Man's Car Stolen In Bellefonte A car owned by Charles Confer, of Howard, R. D. parked in Belle. fonte Monday while members of the family were shopping here, was stolen from its parking place Up until yesterday afiernoon no trace of the car had been found, State Motor Police ot Pleasant Gap said, The machine is a 1837 Ford V-8 cpach. ET er ‘onte is not alone in its desire to LEGION AUXILIARY TO "| can Flags and Victory Flags alread: BUY $100 DEFENSE BOND flying in the crisp winter bréepes of Bellefonte, and with scores of othe: Decision to purchase a $100 De- | flags on order, few residents or vis: | fense Bond ahd tentative plans for {tors in this town can complain o {a “Buy-a-Bomber” card party fea- lack of visible evidences that thi {tured a meeting of the Auxiliary of community is showing a renewed | Brooks-Doll Post American interest in the National Emblem. rang nig | Authority on the flag situation in Mrs. | Bellefonte is Homer P. Barnes, who {for a number of years has been the {local representative of “The Largest | Flag House in the World." | “During years of peacetime” Mr. Barnes commented, “we go for . | months on end without a call for a flag : A “But when war breaks out, or Be aay ts: Samat Be a to the Drs,” Stina “business booms Over night.” Mr. Sarnes pointed out that Belle ‘isplay the outward signs of pat- fotism. It seems to be nationwide, he said, “In ordinary times we can get dee livery of flags in any quantity and any style within three or four days, Sut now it usually requires that many Weeks for delivery.” he de. “The biggest flag sold hese for a umber of years is a 10 by 15 foot [ demand y . favorite size in this locality tor Vies tory Flags is the 4 by ¢ foot model, {Continued on Page Four)
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