Odd and | CURIOUS in the = NEWS The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County SECOND SECTION A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week | dhe Centre Democraf * EWS, EATURES VOLUME 61. BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1942, NUMBER 9. | Random [tems = MALE KNITTER IS 80 The trouble Is, says 80-year old James B. Griffith of Detroit, a person can't find enough yarn these days. Griffith, a retired lumberjack, is a one-man knit- learned to knit when he was 14 and has been busy turning out woolen garments as a hobby ever since. SEES SUN RISE Charles Leroy Foster, 85-year- old Denver mason and minor, who had been blind for more than four years, regained his vis- fon for 30 minutes before he died. He called nurses to his bedside at dawn; they found him point- ing with a trembling finger at the sunrise. As he watched the sunrise he told them that he knew he was dying, his last words were, “I knew I would see it all agin.” DREAM SOLVES MURDER DOG A PLANE SPOTTER Being alergic to the drone of an airplane motor makes Sandy, 5-year-old shepherd dog, a top sound of trucks, automobiles or boats. SLEEPWALKER SAVED John Tobin, 10, of Philadel phia, was saved from probable serious injury when his 75-year- to re- time week, and when full operation established more than 150 persons will be em- ployed, orders now on hand provid- ing t for from six to nine months. The Government project is expected to be followed by addi- tional orders, using nylon rather than silk. ; A Loot Returned Exactly one week after jewelry) rives at Decision; For the second time in the fifty years’ history of the Central Penn- sylvania Firemen's Association, the annual convention. scheduled to be held at Philipsburg in August, has been cancelled. The decision to abandon the convention this year was reached by the Board of Con- trol at a meeting held in Philips- burg on Sunday. Monday's Dally Journal has the { following to say: | Members of the Board of Control | met here yesterday and voted to dis- continue conventions for the dura- tion of the war. The convention was to have been held here this summer. { The only other district convention {to ever have been cancelled was in [ 1918. It too, was to have been held | here, where the association's first | Girl Recovering From Gun Wound Flora May Dunlap’s Condition Reported Good After Shooting Self | Flora May Dunlap, 16-year-old | daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold T. | Dunlap of Chester Hill, near Philips- | burg, is reported to be recovering at {the McGirk sanitarium after being { admitted there Saturday midnight | a week ago with a self-inflicted bul- {let wound. { Andrew Humanick, State Motor | Policeman from Clearfield who in- | vestigated the mishap, stated that a | bullet from a 38-calibre revolver en- | tered her body below her left breast Firemen’s Convention at Philipsburg Is Cancelled; Second Time In 50 Years Board of Control, Meeting at Philipsburg, Ar- Anniversary to Be Observed Quietly This Year convention was held, but it was can- celed because of the World War, The fiftieth anniversary of the as- sociation will be observed quietly this year as a result of the board's decision. Plans were well underway to make this year's convention the most outstanding and elaborate in the history of the association but members felt that with conservation being the order of the day and many members working on war production that it would be best to scrap the plans as they dd not tie in with the government's war time program. Delegates and members of the as- sociation will hold the annual busi- ness meeting here on August 19, Ii was decided, but there will be no par- ade, races, and contests. Board mem- bers requested that the town not be elaborately decorated and that noth- ing elaborate be done to prepare for | the meeting which will probably be attended by about 500 members. While no plans are yet made for a banquet or ball, it is likely that the Philipsburg fire department will fol- low the usual custom and have the banquet and ball following the all- day business meeting. Members passed a resolution exon- | erating members in the service of their country of dues for the time they are in service. They réecommen- ded that companies follow suit and that each company get a service flag with a star for each member in ser- viec. Sunday's meeting was held In the Reliance bullding. L. 8. Batcheler (Contmued on Page Siz) At Large WANTED DEAD orALIVE MEMBERS of AXIS GANG AND ROBBER. HEAVILY ARMED OPERATING WN EASTERN EUROPE AFRICA AD ASIA MARAVDER A WH OF HITLER UNCRUPULOVS TREAMHEROD S PIRATE AN PANDAT OVERATING HN CHINA AND THE PACIFIC AREA WA Uncle Mam SHER FE, NEW BIBLE COLLECTION | Including three Bibles which were printed before Columbus discovered America and 18 which came off the press before Shakespeare was born, the Pennsylvania State College li- brary has recently added 94 volumes to its unusual collection of Bibles and other religious books. The new additions to the collec- tion were secured from the estate of the late Professor Charles 8. Plumb, of Ohio State University, The books were presented to the College library by Claude G. Alkens, of State Col- lege. in memory of his father, Char- les T. Alkens, for 22 years president of Busquehanna University The acquisition of the valuable Plumb collection gives Penn Btate one of the outstanding Bible collec tions in the country. The outstand- ing tems in the collection are six incunabula-—Bibles published before the year of 1501, | The most interesting English Bible is the Robert Altken first edition of the Holy Bible of 1782. This is one of 32 extant coples. It was prin- ted in Philadelphia and is the first Bible printed in the English lan- guage in America bearing an Ameri. can imprint The Bibles in the Plumb collection are printed in English, Ethiopic, Hungarian, Italian, German, Latin, French and Greek. Tower Operator Says He Mis-Routed Freight Train In Fatal Railroad Wreck Greensburg Towerman Admits He Had Rever- sed Block Signal, Put Freight On Same Track with 1 A veteran of 47 years service with the Pennsylvania railroad testified Friday at an investigation into a fata] train wreck near ‘ast Tuesday that he had inadvert. ently mis-reuted an eastbound freight train onto the same track with a westbound express A few minutes later the 39-car freight and the 11-car express col- lided head-on at high speed kill ing the engineers and firemen of both crews and injuring two others. | Filiam Rouff, 67, of Greensburg operator at the railroads “JD” tow- er, about sly miles west of Seward where the wreck occurred, testified that He first had set the signals prop- erly for pouting of the freight, giv- ing the express a clear line on track three. Then, Rouf! sald, in the press of other work he forgot he had re- versed the block signal and threw the device ‘back to normal putting the eastbound freight on the same track ds Near the close of and several other railroad employes, including surviving members of the train crews, had testified J. G. Den- nin, Pittsburgh divisional operator in charge of block signal lowers, testified that Roufl's record was €x- cellent “Some Kind of Bungie” The Seward agent, J L. Fox. 61, with the raflroad 35 years testified that the “JD” operator phoned him LAST {and passed through her stomach | { and liver. { the cellar, where the shot was fired, {near the furnace | Police reported that five other | young people had been at the Dun- | lap home earlier and held a party. | The group of three boys and two | girls were said to have left the home | abet 10:45 o'clock and police re- ported that the girl was wounded | sometime shortly after 11 o'clock. The police stated that the wounded girl told her parents that she had {the gun in her own hands when she | was wounded. | The Dunlap girl was found lying in {a pool of blood by her parents when | they arrived home at 11:20 o'clock. Osceola Youths In Hands of Japs Navy Lists Clearfield County Marines as Wake Island Prisoners The navy department announced Inst week that 26 Pennsylvanians {are assumed to have been taken as | prisoners by the Japanese in China and Pacific Island outposts. Among the names included in the valued at several hundred dollars jist of those presumed to have been had been stolen from a store win- taken prisoner at Wake Island were: dow at Bayre, most of the stolen platoon Sergeant John P. Blandy goods Was returned by mall in tW0 and Private Pirst Class Michael Ol- | boxes, bearing as address, the print. ed name cut from an advertisement, A necklace valued at $465, eighteen | were rings and three bracelets among the articles returned. ienowsk!, both of Osceola Mills. | They are U. 8. Marines, | Consumers Haul Water . After a temporary pipe line laid The bullet was located in I DAYS OF (Prom a copyrighted article in ser Prince Eugen, left the Norwegian | Harper's Magazine, as condensed in | coast and headed for the broad pas- The Readers Digest) | © To Naval experts the sinking of the pride of the German navy was an important professional case study For 20 y (involved as well: what kept men steady and carageous, what unnerv- ed them in the supreme ordeal? | The navies of every nation have ‘used their utmost resources to gath- er every scrap of information ob- { tainable, and ls now possible to tell | the dramatic story of what happened gboard the great ship during her last fateful days. Every fact every | incident here related is wholly auth- entic. { On the night of May 22, 1941, the Bismarck accompanied by the crul- sage between Greenland and Iceland. At dawn on the 24th the enemy was sighted—Britain's largest ship of war, the famous oid batile-cruiser Hopd. Then another warship ap- peared, the Prince of Wales. The Hood opened first and the Bismarck answered with all her d turrets. Then the German directed - her fire at the Prince of Wales. The latter injured was unable to keep up with the running fight. It was a duel between Bismarck and Hood At the Blsmarck’s third salvo a cloud of black smoke billowed up from the foredeck of the Hood She listed to port then buckled and broke in two. The stern hall sank at once, the other floated for several minutes, then slowly slid between the surface. To every nook and corner of the Bismarck the news ran swiftly. There were outbursts of wild cheer- ing. The top deck, empty during the action, was now full of officers THE BISMAR and men singing and embracing each other The Bismarck had paid a cheap price for the destruction of Britain's biggest ship. She had been hit but her injuries were trivial. A mere handful of men were wounded. All that day and the next the jubilation went on. Admiral Luet- mustered the crew on deck and one of his flery, triumphant speeches. The thunder of applause and the deep “Sieg Hell” went rol- ling out across the waves. It was the Admiral's 52nd birthday, which added a touch to the celebration. An exulting madio message came from Hitler. The Puhrer awarded the Knight's Insignia of the Iron Cross to the First Gunnery Officer, Commander Schneider. Other dec- orations came over the ether, The busiest men on board were the motion picture operators from Dr. Goebbles’ office. They had film- ed the action with the Hood, now they were recording the ceremonies. CK | Boon Berlin would see on the screen how Britain's rule of the ocean had been ended. Most of the crew were young-— in their early twenties Aboard were also some 500 naval cadets In their teens. This glorious victory was exactly what they had oonfi- dently expected. Atl their age could hardly remember a world fore Hitler. As Hitler Youth, un- questioning belief inthe Master Race had been driven into thelr souls every waking hour: “Today we rile Germany, tomorrow the whole world.” One thing they knew: Ger- mans are invincible, And this ship too was invincible It was indeed. by far the strongest warship ever built, No one outside the German High Command knew her actual fomnage. It is certain that it was far greater than the 35,000 to which she was limited by | Sotne rate her at 50,000. In | treaty. her trials she is said to have made (Continsed on Page Five) Federal Potato signed as Chief Reason For Defeat of Bill The proposed Federal Law to es- jtablish production quotas and con- {trol the marketing of potatoes has the Crippled Children’s Clinic | been tabled, due, in large measure, to the opposition voiced by Pennsyl- | Dr. Royal L. Simon of Williams- | | port, has been appointed surgeon of the end of by | their continuous investigation of the ‘since 1928, died suddenly of a heart! == { the board of directors of the Centre. slaying of Rachel Taylor, 17-year. attack at Lock Haven Hospital] Fri-| | Clearfield Counties Society for Crip- old Wildwood, N. J. New Orthopedic : Law Is Tabled, Surgeon Named | Pennsylvania Opposition As- Williamsport Physician is to Succeed Dr. Galbraith as Head of Clinic Release Suspect In Co-Ed Murder State Police Say Man Held Sgt. William T. Devling, Never Attended Penn State College | | RY — Police Officer Dies Suddenly of Lock Haven, Victim of Heart Attack Johnstown | day-long ses- | sion of the investigation after Roufl | 1-Car Express that there “was some kind offhun. igle” and asked him to “flag the | westbound train” | Pox related that he walked more than 800 feet down the track and that “I saw the express and swung (signalled) on him. Then I heard [the freight” Pox explained he sig- nalled with a handkerchief “that one of the engineers heard me land answered me with a whist but I was not sure which one’ Saw Crash Coming “1 saw they were going to crash 80 1 took to my heels. Then ti n and ow there was so much steel and splinters and rubbish flying about me, I couldn't (Continued on Page Siz) cs fy ns Two Sisters Are Badly Injured Two Girls, 14 and 16, in Hos- pital After Accident Near Philipsburg Suffering serious injuries when struck by a truck near Philipsburg last Wednesday night Betty Dullen, sisters are reported to be impr Philipsburg State Hospital Police sav the sisters were walking across the highway at Alipor they were struck down at curve by a truck operated by Nesman, 33, of Lanse. Police say {driver swerved hi k when he saw the girls but was unabi avold striking them Wanda received a fractured skull, and Betty had sev- eral ribs broken. Both were in a semi-conscious state when rushed to the hospital by Thomas and Blair Irvin of Allport ss A ssmsp—— HERDSMEN'S CONFERENCE TO BE AT PENN STATE xtor the § tru e to Herdsmen's conferences in dalry and livestock husbandry will be held at the Pennsylvania State College from March 9 to 14. These two an- nual conferences which are held sep- arately are of particular value to persons who wish to review or ob- tain additional information regard- ing the management of flocks and herds. Subjects covered will include gen- eral care, breeding, feeding and dis- ease control. Special attention will be given problems connected with fitting and showing animals on sale and exhibition. No tuition is char- ged. i p— Injured by Bull James Wertz, aged about 60, of IMilton, R. D. 2, is a patient at the | Geisinger Memorial Hospital, Dan- | ville, after being attacked by a bull {on the J. Daniel Smith farm where {he is employed. It is said that Wertz was pinned against the bam by the janimal, which then knocked him over and rolled on him. X-ray exam- | inations revealed that the patient is {suffering from a fractured pelvis, Pre-medical students in Class A medical colleges are eligible for ap-| < SPEECHES: We didn't hear Congresamar al Zandtl's spell-binding off -the-recorc address to the Bellele Kiwanis Club, Monday noon. but from ports we hear of the speech, the talk was of a type that President Roowe- velt Monday night specifically warn- ed the nation to beware, In fac those who Orating Jimmy's speech Monday noon, sald President Roosevelt's add night directly contradicted sc the things VanZandt had sai sorry we don't have a cops VanZandt's Kiwany should not have been “0 ord.” Persons holding s as Mr. VanZandt should be heid re- sponsible for what they tell those who e¢lect them HOARDERS: We hear tell of Bellefonte citizens who are buying case af aller Case canned foods agair nts Te- heard sar that pers may be n nib rassed if the government should see fit to make a house-to-n of family larders SNAKES: Bet none of the people who at- tended a party near Bellefonte not 50 long ago where neerly 100 quarts of champagne were consumed could tell a true story that could hold a candle to one that comes from fas off Trinided, where Philip Mig son of Mr, and Mrs Jc of East High street, is currentl; ployed on a8 construction job writes his parents thst h charge of were f) 5 clearing « Wanda and AXONS pagne bottle to see g sneak Robert i. + il these woods, ank good: OBSERVATION: It takes 250 pounds: locomotive smaller your reaches that figur You won’ operate larger pounds to run indicalor on plant come alarmed MAYOR: Hizzoner Hardman P. Harris, may- of Bellefonte, tumed early Saturday morning for the ebra- ticn in honor of Seclectees, At the station hz hoarded the train and be- came 50 Interested In a conversation that the train was down around Mo- Covy's Dam before he realized it was moving. Informed of ihe Mayor's predicament, the story goes, the train crew shifted into reverse and hacked into Beliefonie again so that the town would not be without iis mayor. QUESTION: Wonder why most of us never re- alized before that Australis is near- iv as large as the United States? We always have felt that school cur riculums are sadly lacking in ade- quate ooures in geography MISCELLANEOUS: Reporis are that the iron ore banks at Scotia are to be reopened to help supply pig iron for the ns tional defense effort. If so, it's t bad the Bellefonte Central Rail has just finished tearing up Its Fairbrook branch for now the ore will have to be trucked to Spruce Creek and there loaded on railroad cars. Otherwise the Bellefonte Oen- tray could have hauled it to Tyrone and there turned it over to the P R. R. But maybe it wouldn't have been a paying proposition. anyway ones $4 steam healin t 3 ! t Know i u Hy PTT oO Cul es Pennsylvania State Police came to| William 7T. Devling, 44, member of | ointment in the U. 8. Naval Re-|1f Scotia should come back into its another blind trail in| co-ed at the the Lock Haven Police Department day afternoon, Feb. 20. He had been serve, Continued om Pope Siz I RE EES: } ONE OF RUBE GOLDBERG'S INVENTIONS i pled Children. He Was appointed to Pennsylvania State College, March hospitalized since suffering a frac. | fill the vacancy caused by the death | 28. 1940. |ture of the leg in a fall at Renovo of Dr. John H. Galbraith, of Holli-| Mayor Charles C. Keller, discard- | on New Years Day. | daysburg, who served the society ined the possibility that Arnold Gas-| The patrolman’s advancement to the capacity of orthopedic surgeon Parro, 27, of Scottdale, Pa, under rahk of sergeant came last Fall for! for more than 15 years, arrest at Cooperstown, N. Y., might his promptness in the arrest of Hoy | In making the announcement of | De connected with the case after Kenneth Houck, convicted attacker. the appointment, T. 0. Jackson, |checking the story the Cooperstown | Sergeant Devilng was a World War | president of the society, paid tribute | police reported he told them there. | veteran, member of the V. F. W. | to Dr. Galbraith when he said that| Keller hd Ciliiiario {tia The New| Fraterual Order of Police, and Citi- | an . | “a great many children owe Dr. Gal- authorities he went (zens Hose Company. Oo TA % |1t ay of A uneement rows: | braith a debt of gratitude for being | College, but the palice official added Among survivors are his wife, Elva Noy a TeASORA a check-up showed “all he did was Pennington Deviing: a sister, Miss Two State College men, Dr. S. W. | Nearly 400 books were contributed # signal victory singe the restriction |{ibte ta nies. 4 Fetus ble degree Of |, attend an extension course for| Bartha Deviing, of the supervisory | Fletcher and Carson ¥. Mertz, have by Philipsburg citizens for the. Vic- imposed on Pennsylvania Potato | “ooo 0 ooiiar clinte under the | !Wo months and he never was on| staff at Willlamsport Hospital, and | been named to the 16-member state. | tory Book Campaign held under the Growers is unreasonable and unjust- |... of Dr. Simon was held at | he campus.” {his father, John T, Deviing. wide advisory salvage committee re- | auspices of the Red Cross, with Mrs. | ified when it is taken into considera the Philipsburg State Hospital on - quested by federal authorities. The | Lawshe Baird as chairman of the tion that we Motiday committee will serve under former drive. These books were sent to Crop for the needs 4 State Senator John 8. Rice, of Get- | Harrisburg with others from the stone State. { to supply Montandon with water un. | Tyrone Soldier Honored til the broken malin could be repair-! This announcement was made to- The parents of Floyd D, Nestlerode | ed, had frozen up, it became neces- day to E. B. Bower, of Bellefonte, former Tyrone High School athlete, sary to use truck service to supply general manager of the Pennsylvania received word that he has been cited | Montandon and East Lewisburg con- Cooperative Poiato Growers’ Asso- by Brig. General H. C. Davidson, sumers. Men from the Willlaméport | clation, Bellefonte, by Congressman commanding the army Air Corps and Northumbérland Water Com- James E. VanZandt, who joined Interceptor Command for “splendid | pany are assisting the workmen, | Pennsylvania's Association in resis- attitude and bravery exhibited un- who are working 24 hours a day on | ting legislative approval of this dis- der bombing and machine gunning.” | the repairs, crimnatory proposed law. $n i THIS IS MY SPECIAL MACHINE 70 TIE STRING ON MY FINGER SO | WON'T FORGET TO BUY ~~ i 1 | Named to Salvage Group | Teacher Volunteers In Army | Big Steel Contract Carl D. Sassaman, music supervis- | The Milton Steel and Supply Oom- | or at the State College High School, | i 1230 ASSIGNED DUTIES tysburg. et Cee | county on Wednesday, February 18. Tn ee NESS mS Sa SS Jap Soldiers Travel Sleepless “The spirited opposition by your group during the on the measure ences that followed In contacting in- dividual members of the House Com- mittee on Agriculture, stressing the IN CASE OF AIR RAID More than 230 persons have been assigned specific duties in case of an air raid or other attack upon the has been granted a leave of absence | to serve in the United States Army. | Mr Sassaman, a volunteer, left State College during the weekend to enter | a training camp. His duties at the of the Hygrade Sylvania Corpora- tion at Montoursville, Involved are 530 tons of steel, loads of steel shapes, Pennsylvania State College, accord- school will be taken over by Miss '0 De fabricated at the local ing to George W. Ebert, ten- | Elizabeth Pippert, H. C. Smith and | dent of grounds and buildings, and College seniors. chairman of the protection commit- | tee which includes both the campus’ Uncle Sam's Bluejackets will con. and. the borough of State College. | sume in one form or another 2.300, The list Includes air raid wardens, 000 gallons of oils, sauces and vine fire wardens, and building wardens gar before next New Year's Day. for each of the 15 posts into which | - the campus has been divided. Buy Defense Bonds now! An American Army officer who required to trot at double time fact, that, if a ruinous effect was {around their barracks area just to caused throughout the country by prove that they were “not nearly surplus potatoes, there was no jus- as tired as they may think they tification for restricting Pennsyl are.” vania production Where deficiency To accustom men to great exer- | exists, tion in extreme heat, such as the| “The Chairman of the House Com- Japanese invaders have met in the mittee has asserted that this reason- tropical Southwest Pacific in the |ing, in the of Pennsyl- last two months, Doud sald bay- | Vania, caused the ->. two days and nights without sleep. Major Harold Doud a former lan- Navy pressure gauges, considered the best in the world, have substi- tuted plastics for brass casings. “The letter “V™ in Nava} itera ignifies heavier-than-air ships terthan-air On New Year's day the Navy had | enlistments, the Marine Corps had 139. 'PETER PUBLIC—This Sick World! Find Hidden Fortune In Home Hidden caches of money and jew- aged woman. The * hidden cash | provide els, totaling nearly $20,000, were amounted to $10,331, $15.00 of which
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