Odd and | CURIOUS in the The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week SECOND SECTION Che Cenire Democraf NEWS, FEATURES VOLUME 61. = NEWS ~ / BELLEFONTE, PA.,, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1942, ‘NOT HUNGRY’ Two men entered a restaurant at Madison, Wis, and told the walter that they wanted just “a little snack” before break- fast. This is what they order- ed: No. 1-16 eggs, 4 slices of bread, 32 slices of bacon, three servings of potatoes, 4 cups of coffee and 4 cookies. No, 2 11 eggs, 4 slices of bread, 20 slices of bacon, 4 cups of coffee and 4 cookies. ICE CREAM FOR PLATES Herbert Boyer, of Carlinville, NL, is collecting old license plates ~he already has 950 sets stacked away and is saving them until he gets 20,000 which, he says, it reguires to build one tank. He has offered an ice-cream cone from his soda fountain for every pair of plates brought in. COSTLY MISTAKE A farmer of Yakima, Wash, whose haystack had been visited regularly by a couple of elk, got Five People In Four Funeral Collide Nea Four automobiles in the funeral cortege of Mrs. Catherine Burd, of Howard, R. D, proceeding west to Unionville Friday afternoon were involved in a crash on route 64 be- {tween Mill Hall and Beech Creek, {resulting in five people injured and { heavy damages | State Motor Police said the fol- {lowing vehicles were traveling in {the order named, with damages lis- ted: Jacob Miller, Jersey Shore, $20; | | Forrest Lucas, Juniata $75; Norman |M. Smay, Clearfield, $325; and Har- iold F. Robb, Castanea, $100. The accident occured when the |18 cars in the procession slowed and | some stopped as a car in the front i part of the line drew off to one side | {and halted to remove chains. The {cars to the rear stopped too, most {of them safely, including the Miller | car, which was the seventh in line, | The Lucas car, however, did not | get stopped, and slid into the rear ‘Question Man | In Death Case uspect Taken in Pittsburgh Case in Which Hoy Houck Was Quizzed i i | | Qe |S | | | | ——— | City Detective Inspector Walter {| Monaghan, of the Pittsburgh Police { Department, announced last week | he had found another suspect in the | fatal beating of Rose Haber, a drug | store clerk, on an East End street {last July 14. | {| This is the case in which Hoy | Kenneth Houck of Bellefonte, had | {been taken into custody for ques- {tioning about the slaying and sub- | sequently released i Inspector Monaghan identified the | latest suspect as a 28-year-old man who already has been held on a charge of assaulting and robbing a girl in McDonald last Saturday. | Miss Haber was slugged and rob- bed as she stepped from a bus. Babies Ill After | i i | Pye, jured When Cars In Line r Beech Creek One Car Completely Burned When Gasoline Ignites from Punctured Tank; Funeral Cortege Was Enroute to Unionville + ———— of the Miller car, and a similar ser- fes of events brought the Smay car against the Miller ear. A third im- pact was added when the Robb car | bumped into the rear of the Smay auto. One of the last two impacts caused a puncture of the gasoline tank on the Smay car, which caught | fire and burned completely, so noth- ing was salvaged except the two front tires, The Bmay car was locked to the Miller and Robb cars by the bump- ers, but the other cars were pried loose by a neighboring farmer who came to the rescue with a crowbar, so that the fire did not damage eith- er of them. Injured were Joseph Bmay, 64, of Clearfield, severe contusions of the | forehead and right arm; Miss Jane | Merrefield, 27, Clearfield, lacerations | of the lower lip, bruises of the left | leg and several lower teeth knocked out; Mr. Robb 35, fractured ribs; his wife, Mrs, Mildred V. Robb, se- i vere lacerations of the right eye, re. {quiring eight stitches to close, and bruises of the leg; Mrs. Dora E. Fye, 62. of Lock Haven, fracture of the left leg and bruises of the head. All| were treated at the Lock Haven hos- pital and discharged excepting Mrs whose condition is reported good. Mr. Smay was in the Smay car | Miss Merrefield in the Lucas auto- mobile, Mr. and Mrs. Robb and Mrs Fye In the Robb vehicle. NUMBER 17. —_— | Random [tems Abraham Lincoln Harbison-Wal WANT | [1%] URGED TO BUY COAL NOW “Buy coal now, store all you can get, use every pound carefully.” In this way, says Luther Harr, Bi- tuminous Coal Consumers’ Counsol, every factory manager and individ- ual home owner can make a vital ! contribution to winning the war “Bituminous coal] is the greatest single source of energy America hos: and it must flow from the mines to power plants, railroads, factories and hema: (in a steady stream.” said Harr “If each of the 15000000 families using bituminous coal to heat their homes saves a shovelfulf a day, the | | Destroys Larg | ih. A ! | | ker Brick Co. Have $25,000 Loss As Fire e Storage Shed ——— Firemen From Four Companies Battle Blaze at Company's Retort Plant; Origin of | Fire Is Still Undetermined | Discovery of a fire of unknown origin at the Harbison-Walker Re- {ractories company plant at Retort, {eervices of four fire companies | save the main divisions of the plant { The damage, ee « mated at $25.000 early Friday morning, required the! tol | stored in the shed after being taken {from the kilns. Company officials | later discounted this and stated they did not know what may have caused the fire—unjess it may have been defective wiring was confined to the large brick stor- | age shird which was completely de- | stroyed The fire was discovered shortly af- ter 3 oclock and the Sandy Ridge firemen were called immediately Alarms were. also sent to Osceola {and Philipsburg. The Osceola, Re- | liance and Hope companies al] re- sponded. Crowds of spectators from Philipsburg, Osceola, BSandy Ridge and Retort watched the fuemen as they battled the spectacular biaze { which destroyed the storage shed | covering haif a town block The joss of thousands of dollars included the large shed and ends of two other adjoining build. ings and material supplied in the sheds. A number of the bricks in dally saving will be 75,000 tons i “Estimating that 14 days are re- quired to move a car of coal from mine to market and return, this the | R. A. F. bombers, doubling as de- livery boys for U.B A strewing occupied France with } phlets by the millions laiming the gigantic coope of America’s war plans and conveying to a conquered { people the implicit message: “The Yanks Are Coming” stim li r—— "HH “vr ihe are am Droe prox | Sisters Unaware i of Others lliness Both Submit to Operations Without Each Other's daily saving of 75.000 tons would re- lease 1500 cars and 40 locomotives daily with an aggregate release of 21.000 cars and 560 locomotives for the movement of troops, munitions and war supplies. “By ordering now for late winter spring and summer needs the con- sumer enables the miner owner and transportation executive to plan pro- duction and delivery to avold seas. {Continued on Pope Three) | expect this Joss to be high the storage were known to be ruined | Knowledge although company officials do not - Although neither knew other's lliness, two sisters Mrs Clyde A. Poorman of Castanea, and Miss M. Faye Kinley of Punxsu- tawney, formerly of Lock Haven submitted recently to serious tons. Now that both are on the way to recovery, they have been told of | each other's condition. Their moth- er, Mrs. Amelia Kinley, resides | Blate College s of the In another shed a plle of crate lumber and piles of crates, for ship- ping bricks, were burned. Some ob- solete hand presses and a boring machine were burned in the fire ac- cording to fire department officials At first it was reported that the fire may Have been caused by pine planks catching from hot brick a ai \\ While complete information is not { avallable as to the measures to be adopted in Centre County for the collection of articles to be salvaged for war industry it is not too early for our patriotic citizens to be “look - ing around” in order to get together things of value so that the collect fon campaign will proceed smoothly and expeditiously. i The siivage Dt is nation | Householders farmers are u to L thelr attics, | of j HAT HAVE YOU FOR DEFENSE? that seemed to include everything . one ever recalled noticing around the | house ! That broken lamp and juniors! outgrown sled in the attic, for ex- | ample; the 1841 license plates in the garage, the year-old magazines pil- | ing up on the livingroom end table, | and a pair of worn-out overshoes in | the coat closet. The list, with hints on where to look for the articles follow: What to Look For in Your Attic : § 4 i Ornaments—Metal ash trays stat- | ues, bowls, vases, ete, Porch and garden furniture made | of metal Radios—Broken parts containing metal Screens made of brass or copper Toys-8leds, ice skates, roller : skates, ele Vacuum cleaners—Broken parts made of metal. ws What to Look For in Your Cellar Coal stoves that are worn out. i ! Mrs. Poorman has been a patient for several weeks at the Lock Haven Hospital and will be there for some {time yet, while Miss Kinley had her {appendix removed at the Punxsu- tawney Hospital Miss Kinley who is manager of the Western Union office at Punxsutawney, is expected to leave the hospital this week Radiators. Refrigerator parts-lce trays, in- side linings; ete. Tools—~All old tools. Hhat to Look For in Your Garage Pries Automobile parts-—Batteries, lic- ense plates, chains, parts of motors, etc. tires and tubes | Bicycles‘and tricycles. Garden tools—Lawn mowers, hoes, pick-axes, rakes, shovels, etc. | Ic t—- os — t Unhurt In Car Crash Struck by Clinton County Man's Automobile TT it opera- ¢ read the telegram over the telep iof 24 minutes for a penny ‘Has Car Damaged When A </ NUGGET RIDDLE: That Republican clerical job at the Court House which we reported (last week paid $3000 a year is not in the Commissioners’, the Regis- ter's, the Recorder's, the Treasurer's nor the Auditor's office. This ex- planation is made In fairness to Re- publican clerical jobs which pay considerably Jess than $250 a month. INTEREST : There's plenty and swrounding areas over | Counell expects to do about par meters of interest "wy With nearly ail Bellefonte merchants and hundreds of private citizens signing petitions asking for the removal of meters, it hardly seems that Council will ignore the pleas, After all elected to represent the people, and it seems that an jority of the : Councilmen are against rr WAR NOTES: The butter your meals in are wafer thin ter , It is Councilmen overwheumning who elected the eer patties you restaurs But sald that in one of ti U. 8. Army storage houses in the ecast—-one of many in the country there are stored 9.000 freight cars of war materials a freight n some 85 miles long Hope we soon get a chance to throw it at Hitler and the Japs DEFLATION: As one by tem i Le Aa in Philadelphia was Del. to cover story torpedoed tanker line on the story newspaper friends by sending him a telegre It 50 happened that Jerry when the message was del spr 4 BEN of survivors in touch with iis new boss ic when he got he asked } a “Nice Y, 13 nen Here's what the boss read: going on story, but what th did you do with the broom yo to sweep out the office here? SUGGESTION: A farmer Bellefonte might meter problem by which give one-hour © one cent, or ten hours He claims that under pr ditions Bellefonte {s twice desirable & town in which to park as State College, where some meters give two hours’ time for five cents Here all meters are based on a five-cents- an-hour-rate FIRE: i What moet People can't under- stand is how, with some 2000 men &t £ u used reader suggests solve 1 ¥ What to Your Yard | phe vi 3d Farm i Farm tools. | Logging chains, Beds made of brass or iron. Fireplace equipment — Andirons, | Electric cords (they contain cop- | grates, pokes, etc per wire) Fire extinguishers The Rev. Father J. P, Connely of { Bnow Bhoe escaped injuries at 10:20 Swallowing Pills i.2 5. kien arawers and ywoep | {out the hall closet and even to look work aboard, a fire could have gained the headway of the one which over the back yard to see what they Wire fending and fence posts Thursdfy night of last week, on a ' Baby Brothers Stricken From Effects of Nerve i Medicine | San Quentin prison, California] Two baby brothers were admitted mostly condemned prisoners or life to Altoona Hospital Saturday, suf- | termers, have offered themselves to fering from the effects of nerve pills | the government to act as a “suicide | they accidentally obtained from their | squad” in any tpe of attack against mother's purse and ate America’s enemies. A spokesman for The Hospital sald James Ceis, 2, the 13 men, in a radio broadcast son of Mr. and Mrs. G. E Gels 1411 | from the nation’s largest Prison, sug- | gi;caenth avenue, was thé most ser- | gested the convicts could man small |, His brother, Samuel 3, was fighting craft for suicide attacks! ,.oordad as “fairly good.” pains An, i. | The youngest child was taken to] dnokehouse: Burns {the hospital Saturday afternoon At 8 . The hospital reported Loss estimated at $100 resulted in =e les as ED in a a Saturday fire at the smokehouse | stupor from consuming the pills had of Chester G. Grove, West Milton, fallen out of his bed shortly after when 4 of meat fell into the | 110 noon hour and struck his head i lon the floor. } 4 an un- and West Milton residents kept the | Tire oy mate in | fire under control until they arrived. | Returning home, the mother and | - | father discovered Samuel had also Green Registration Cards | swallowed some of the pills and was Pennsylvania Selective Service likewise in a stuporous condition. | headquarters announce that green | He was admitted to the hospital on | cards would be used Feb. 16 to regis- | Saturday at 8:45 o'clock. | ter men between the ages of 20 and . at 45 for possible military service. Reg- | Let freedom ring on Uncle Bam's) istrants will recelve White tempor- cash register! Buy U. 8. Defense) ary cards when they enroll Bonds and Stamps. For Victory, Buy Bonds. Schools to Issue Sugar Stamp Books Pear of what the neighbors might | which could be invoked to prevent think or say 18 to prove a sugar hoarding or bootleg buying. powerful deterrent to sugar hoard-| Each householders knowledge that | ing under the stamp rationing plan | the people next door might gossip, which will start in a few weeks with | and that the gossip might reach the registration of consumers in their ears of the local rationing boards neighborhood school houses. | which will supervise the issuance of For Victory: Buy Bonds. | Electric toasters, irons, heaters, : fans, or any electrical equipment | Hardware—door knobs, hinges, | Actually it wotlld ‘be better to de- | keys, locks, trim, springs etc. : cide to see what couwid not be sal- | Kitchen uténsils—Old knives pots | vaged for war industry. Por the and pans, scissors, ete. i Civilian Defense Officials offered a| Lamps and lighting fixtures made | list of ‘about fifty common articles of brass, copper or iron can contribute in the way of materials, | Furnace paris—Old grates doors, ete. | Iron and nickel! parts of old gas | stoves. Pipes-—Pleces. of copper piping. Plumbing fixtures Bath tubs, fau- | eets, sinks, etc { iron, brass or Motors and motor parts. Playground equipment, Pieces. of old metal-—well handles, ele ! Plough, wheelbarrows, etc. How to Save Paper Stack newspapers in large bundles. (Confinudd on Pope Biz) {side road at the Cooper Township High School building when a car skidded and struck his ear : Motor Police said Rev. Connely | stopped atl an intersection road near the high school athletic field when 8 car operated by E. P. Smith, Wool- rich, Clinton county, skidded on the Banker Found | Dead In Garage For Burning Barn Coroner Pronounces Blair Clinton County Couple Admit-| Buffalo, N. Y., Man Held Un- Offer Made to Stimulate Poul-/ County Man's Death to | Be Suicide | Charles A. Cunningham, widely! At a special session of court held | known in banking circles in Blair in Lock Haven last Wednesday, with | and adjoining counties, was found Judge Henry Hipple and Associate | dead shortly after 11 o'clock last Judges Bridgens and Dunn presid- Thursday morning in the garage at Ing, Mrs. Ruth Stimpson of Keating | the rear of his residence at Wil-| and Sylvester Stroup of Renovo, liamsburg. Mr. Cumningham had were both sentenced for arson, taken his own life, according to the | coroner's investigation, by inhaling fumes from the engine. He was found by a neighbor, Dr. Ralph R. Whittaker, | ance. The money was not paid, how- | who was summoned by officials at ever. , | e Williamsburg First National] Mrs. Stimson was sentenced to! Bank, where Mr. Cunningham was serve an indefinite term at the Mun- | missed, the bank employes having! cy Industrial Home for Women, | & message for him. whiie Stroup was given two to five Cunningham's wife, Annie years in the Western Penitentiary. , is a patient —_—— $a], being in a ted Arson Charge to Col- lect Insurance | { Gas Proves Fatal Ralph C. Cox, 26, Bloomsburg, R. | D. 4 truck driver. died at the Mary +i M. Packer Hospital Saturday with- out regaining consciousness from the | | ime he was fouthd in the gas filled rong oounty, he was a/cab of his truck at the Ray Wat- and Emma Mar-! kins service station above 8hamokin garet (Smith) Cunningham. He was dam Friday afternoon. educated at Freeport public schools - | Sent To Prison ; “Said to Have Sold Farmers Can Get | Worthless Stock der $20,000 Bail After Hearing | Charged with fraudulent the malls, Royce Grimm, 38 falo, N. Y.. who had jail al Bloomsburg. The postal fraud involved sale of stock in a “mine scheme” at Dead | wood, 8. D., it was reported Batur- day night by Postal Inspector H. S. McMinn, who ordered Ofimm’s ar- rest here at the request of postal | authorities in 8t. Paul, Minn. Grimm | will be returned to South Dakota to face trial. Grimm was picked up at the Pal. { lon Hotel last Thursday Morning and held in the county jail until Friday night, when he was trans- in Williamsport. From there he was taken to Lewisburg for the hearing - ferred to the Lycoming county jai | point of delivery, ! unscraped road and crashed into the priest's car Damages 10 Smith's car were es- timated at $100 while damages to Wheat For Feed “""* = tre = *¢ | Fire Company Buys Bonds. At a meeting of the Hand-in-Hand Hose Company of Lock Haven, last {week, the group voted to use its jbullding fund of $7500 for the pur- {chase of defense bonds. The lot ad- i joining the Hose Company’s build- ing is the site on which the building {will be erected, but the cost of ma- ‘terials and buliding at present is too thigh, the firemen decided, St. A ———— Ea — try and Dairy Production Goals Money talks! United States De- Stamps wreaked havoe to the liner Norman- dy in New York Monday. A few of them, at least must have been around to cheer on the flames as they first began to spread TAYLOR CASE: For the last ten days ti in which the maize of facts, rumors, and suppositions surrounding the Taylor murder case has been sim- mering, gave off a few wisps of steam in the form of a rumor through newspaper circles to the ef- fect that there were some “develop- { ments” in the case. Reporters were ‘able to learn nothing with the ex- ception that some police heads blew off steam when they head that al- leged “tips” were leaking out NOTE TO TEACHERS: Talk about a teachers’ strike in the Bellefonte schools if teachers don't get an increase in wages seem- ed to have rubbed the school board {the wrong way Monday night. Most iof the board members seem to fa- vor increases, without a strike, as isoon a8 ways and means can be found to provide the money. The matter is to be considered when the Continued on Pope Sz) pis ketile plus cost of freight and handlt The price of this whest delivered | in Centre county is ninety-seven (83c) whole per bushel at the pres. | ent time, Orders must be approved by the Centre County Agricultural Conser- vauon Commitiee. Producérs may order the wheat | tarcugh their dealers or direct from | the regional office of Commodity Credit. Detalled indormation is a- SAY BOSS. PAY ME WITH DEFENSE STAMPS AS PART" OF MY SALARY BACK WEEK. cents (976) cracked or hinety-three | AND, IE YoU Like To &IVE ME A RAISE You A MALE IT BONDS | vailable in the Centre County Agri- The announcement by Price Ad- ministrator Leon Henderson that school teachers would be his agents | ficials noted. - r | tation to hoard might disappear as neighborhood basis, 12 Ounces a Week That fact, some officials thought, might be as effective ag the stern but hard-to-enforce legal penalties | stamp books, might head off any ih clination to hoard sugar, thése of- Other OPA officials said the temp« or close to it, | would be available unfailingly in | grocery stores. | The person who registers for his Continued on Page Five) rn ER “Jap Prisoner Relates Strange Story A United States Army Field Hos- pita] on Batan Peninsula, (Delayed), Jiro Suzuki, (not his feal name) a can-Philippine front lin%, bas been receiving the best medical care the American army con give for the past several weeks, The American doctor attending him has pronounced Rim well on the 7 un inter Suzuki hag signified his will tioning and rore is questioned if he is sericusly vounded, This was Iie story: “I am 24 years old, a native of Osaka. am unmarired. My mother is dead and my elder brother is serve ing in the navy. As a civilian I worked as a manufacturer of fish cakes which were very tasty and sold throughout Osaka, “Three years ago this month 1 was called into the army and both in infantry and artillery, My regiment was on duty in Japan and fever went to China or Manchukuo, “Barly in December we sailed from PeHones Jovan tf pally so quis. |... iy (Continued on Page Five) oa the time of his death, Members of his family include his | quehanna University, has announced | the resignation of Professor James | wife; one son, John Banks Cunning. ham, Philacelphia; two brothers, George A, Charleston, W. Va.; Frank B., ; one sis- | ter, Miss Elizabeth Cunningham, of Cleveland, Ohio, Firemen's Relief Funds Four Piremen’s Relief Associations in Centre county sire slated to re- ceive payments ‘week from the Fire Insurance Tax Fund of the state, Auditor Gen. ¥. Ross has announced. They are! State College, $1,047.63; Perguson township, $158. 31; Haines , $4745; Spring township, $168. There is no tse for aby reader to borrow this in order to Indian in Ireland Pvi, Charles Kennedy, a full- blooded Indian fromm Annin town. ship, McKean county, is with the American Expeditionary Force in Ireland, according to word received by his mother, Mrs. Anna Hubbell, Resigns Position G. Morris Smith, president of Sus- C. Freeman, instructor of English and Freeman has been appointed to cultural Conserva Office. Has Sentence Commuted hon Governor James last week signed i. ® pardons and unlocked the prison Green Light to Army gates for 23 convicted persons whose ; Military vehicles of any size will appeals were heard by the board of be permitted 0 use Pennsyvivania | pardons last week. Among the cases highwafis to speed the movement of | receiving communication of sentence | convoys, State Police Commissioner {was that of George Bogenshutz, of Lynn G. Adams and Highway Sec- | Centre county. {retary 1. Lamont Hughes have de- i | cided. Dr. Locke Dies i { Dr. M. W. Locke, notel {oot spe- | cialist, of Ontario. Canada, died of | il —— a. the isculty of Bowdoin College, his a heart seizure while cranking his almo mater, at Brunswick, Me. , automobile. PETER PUBLIC—Cupid’s Pet Peeve CS ——— Ren By F. O. ALEXANDER \ A r £ /
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