The Call to i Ih The Colors Is a Call For Dollars! be Centre Democrat Let Your Answer To Bombs Be BONDS! Sh VOLUM - E 61. NUMBER 11. _ - BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1942, SUBSCRIPTION—$1.50 PER YEAR. Rit INSTALLS NEW TRAIN $662,000 Program Now Under Way; to be Completed this Fall | New Building at Miles- burg Will House Controls | for Entire Branch ALL BLOCK STATIONS | TO BE DISCONTINUED New Signaling System to! Speed Schedules on | 52-Mile Road Installation of a centralized traf- fic control system on the 52-mile- | lcng Bald Eagle Branch of the] Pennsylvania Railroad, was author- ized by the Board of Directors of | that road on February 11, 1942, it was announced officially yesterday. The estimated cost of the installa- | tion is $661,748 | The new system, an important de- | velopment in the handling of trains | efficiently and safely, will control all trains operating between Tyrone ana | Lock Haven, and is scheduled to be placed in operation by October, 1942. | Work already has begun under the | supervision of H. G. Hostetler, Su- | perintendent of the Middle Division and H. J. Kerstetter, division engin- eer, both of Altoona | New Building at Milesburg Control of the entire branch road | will be centralized in Miiesburg, | where an up-to-date, one-story brick | fireproof building will be erected as suitable quarters for the operator | who will have charge of the entire | territory. Tracks at Milesburg will be rearranged to eliminate present curves. All present manual block signal stations on the branch will be aban- | doned and altomatic signaling on the single-track read will be install- ed. Switches at interpassing #ldings | will be operated by remote control, : +Milesburg will control the en ngth of the road, receiving his orders from the train dispatcher at Altoona, At the] present time orders gre relayed from orf® black station to another. Discontinue Rlock Stations Manual block stations fo be dis- continued when the new system is placed in operation are those at Mill Hall, the wood-interlocking and block station west of Howard, and the ones at Port Matilda, Julian, and the Eagle block station west of Bald, Eagle The presant block station at Miles- burg also will be discontinued. but at this point the central control sta- | tion will be located. | The project includes the installa- tion of remote control switches and proper signal control over the switches so that all train movements can be readily, efficiently, and safe- | ly made either on main tracks or sidings. The following remote control points have been designated: east end of Park siding at Vail: east and (Continged on Pape Four) Accident Victim's Daughter Dies Genevieve Nyman, 14, Suc- cumbs to Rare Malady; 111 9 Months | burglary | city New Signals Control B.E. V. Trains _— Photo shows one of new signals similar to the ones being installed on the Bald Eagle Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad. All signals and switches on the 52-mile road will be controlled from central sta at Milesburg. Fugitive Found Special Police al Frenchville From Williamsport Lock- up, Recaptured in Cabin Williamsport law enforcement reached into the wilds of Snow Shoe Mountains in Clearfield comnty, four, miles north of Frenchville, Monday, to nab Andrew Bergey, 22, of Wil- Hamsport, who sawed his way out of the city lock-up there last Oct. Ee “i, Capt. Joseph M. Schmucker, Wil- liamsport detective, still garbed in disguise of a hunting cap and cont, dark glasses and »oots, re- turned with the prisoner early Tues- day. Bergey H charged wit jail break, a8 misdemeanor which carries two-year muximum penalty, and for which he was held when be managed to escape After months of investigation, cor. respondence and report checking, the detective determined the gen- eral vicinity in which Bergey wes living. Monday the officer left for Clearfield county According to Captain Schmucker, Frenchville is a community of three houses and a general store, It was learned at the store that a young man answering the description of Bergey was staying in a one-room shanty, north of the isolated com- munity tha will h a » Back in Hills Following directions given, the captain drove over a DOOr SDOW- (Continued om Page Three) Sheriff E. R. Miller | named five deputies whose thief du- Miss Genevieve Nyman, 14, daugh- | ter of Mrs, Charlotte Nyman, of Or- viston, died Sunday evening at 7:30 | o'clock at the Philipsburg Hospital | after an illness of nine months with | 2 rare disease culminating in a series of growths on her neck and hesd. The young woman had re- | ceived treatment in local hospitals and clsewhere during this illness. She was a daughter of the late Pronk Nyman who was killed in an | | ties will be confined to civilian de | | fense work. The five are, Malcolm L. Wetzler, Milesburg: William H. Batchelor, Pleasant Gap: Ernest B. Long, Belle- fonte, R. D. 2; Clair 8. Parsons, of Bellefonte, R. D. 2, and Terry A. Noll of Pleasant Gap. The last four members of the group have been assigned to special duty at the Belle- fonte airport ——— a between Lock Haven and Tyrone tion in new building to be erected Officers Named Into Office in New De- fense Unit A group of 42 Bellefonte men who volunteered their services for special { | | | { Boys Arrested In Burglaries Two of Them Minors, Sent to State School; Third Held For Court CAUGHT IN ACT AS | THEY ENTER STORE | Youths Admit $200 Dam- age to Truck and Tires at Coal Mine Three Clarence youths, one aged { 16 and two under 18 years of age, | are in the tolls of the law today j after a series of crimes which ine | cluded three burglaries of the Clair { Hall & Sons store at Clarence, and the wanton destruction of six tires and other equipment on a truck owned by Von B. Johnson, Snow | Shoe coal operator and funeral di- | rector The three boys are: Sleve Spriliia, { 16; Frank Schall, 13, and Paul Pon- { ish, 14. Sprillia, at a hearing before { Justices of the Peace Harold D. Cow- her, at his offices on East Bishop sireet Bellefonte, Friday night, pi¢aded guilty to charges of burg. lary, and is being held without bail for court The other two, minors, appeared in Juvenile court and were sentenced to indeterminate terms in the Stats ndustrial School at Kis-Lwyn According to 8 report by Pvt, John L. Eisennhooth, of the Rockview sub- station State Motor Police, Sprillia {on February 17 Broke into the Hall | store by breaking a window with a i pick. He took about $850 in cash i {(Continged on Poge Four) C Teachers Form police duty durigg the war emer. | gency wer€¢ 80TH In By Recorucr of ! Deeds Leamer BR. Woodring at the | Legion Home Monday night After receiving the cath, the group which is part of the Civilian Defense set- up, elected officers Officers of the new unit are: Cap- tain Herbert M. Bees2er, Licutenant O. T. Lambert, First Sergeant Hugh M. Quigley, Sergeants William M Garis and Harrison G. Kline: Corp- orals Gene E. MoGregor, William Yates, Eimer E. Rockey William H. Kline, Robert E. McClellan and Joseph P. Kelleher, The present members of the unit were sponsored by Mayor Hardman P. Harris and the identification cards which they carry are signed by Chief of Police Harry A Duke- man and Governor Arthur H. James The units are being organized by Governor James throughout the state under a 1918 act of the Legis- (Continugd on Page Three) a mt Air Raid Signal Not Satisfactory Old Steam Heat Whistle Not Heard in Some Sections During Tryout | Tests made Saturday noon of an air-raid warhing for Bellefonte were | declared to be unsatisfactory by| Bellefonte Civilian Defense Council { officials and borough officers, The signal, a series of blasts from | the old Steam Heating plant whistle | which was installed at the Universal | Match Corporation plant, was not | heard in some parts of town, and in | some sections the signal was not loud | enough, Some persons ving several miles ! out of town reported they heard the | | whistle | Arrangements now are being made To Present Program of War Activities For Approval of School Board A Teachers’ Advisory Committee to assist in making decisions and to work out plans for the defense pro- gram in the schools has been named by Supervising Principal E. K. Stock it was reported by Mr. Stock at a meeting of the Bchool Board, Mon- day night During wartime Mr Stock said, the schools must carry some instruc- tion in regard to war and defénse, and must take an active part in the community program. He added that since there is danger of not doing enough, as well as of doing too much iat the needless sacrifice of regular { education, he appointed the teach- ters’ advisory committee to astist. He { asked that the board study, and re- | vise if necessary, a code of wartime { activities for the schools which is to { {Continged on Page Two) : tines A A 6th Grade Pupils Organize Club | The Young America Victory Club | held its organization meeting in the | Spring street school on Tuesday and | elected the following officers: Patsy i Mattern, president; Margaret Olson, vice president; and Catherine Keller, secretary-treasurer. Fourteen meme bers of the club were present. i The purpose of the organization is to help save and salvage defense | materials Membership has been lim- | {ited to date to pupils in the 6th] i grade of the Spring street school, | and the teacher, Floyd Hill, is serv-| ing as advisor, v4 i ‘Barrens Camp Three Clarence |i» Coost Guar Allotment for y ¥ 3 b PAUL H. EBERHART Petty officer Paul H. Eberhart, ra- dioman 3rd class in the U. 8 Coast Guard, Is spending a ten-day fur- leigh with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul D. Eberhart, at the family hone on East Logan street Eberhart, a graduate of the Belle- fonte high school in the class of 1039 was employed here by his uncle, Councilman Walter Eberhart, until he enlisted in the Coast Guard Jan- vary 10, 1541 After preliminary training at Ellis Island, he spent six months at the New London, Maas, raido school, having completed his work there last week Upon his return to du he will report for assignment Philadelphia area bo ity next week in the Fire Official Is Club Speaker weorge Carpeneto, Fire School Instructor, Claims Most Fires Preventable The problem of fires and fire loss es was discussed before the Kiwanis Club at Tuesday's meeting in con- nection with the showing of a pic- ture dealing with the fighting kilo magnesium (Electron) incendiary bombs The speaker was George Carpen- flo, who has been active in the training of firemen of the local de- partment and in other towns. The Bellefonte companies. he stated, have become efficient due to excel. lent equipment and the training re- ceived in fire schools. They have ma- terially cut down losses by the use of salvage covers to prevent smoke and waler damage. The establish- ment of a modern fire alarm system is a pressing borough need In 1941 Mr. Carpeneto said the fire losses of the nation were $322,000,000, of which about two-thirds would have been preventable. The highest {number of fires octuwrred during March, the least In July. A tota] of | {11.000 lives were lost, homes, add there were 35.000 injur- ies. The war started off with greatly mostly in increased fire losses, January show- ing an increase of about 50 per cent Four fires had losses of over $2000 - 000 each. The wooden shingles on which sparks fell accounts for | about 60 per cent of fires. America about such things. A plane carries from 1200 to 2000 (Continged on Page Eight) ‘Rev. H. H. Jacobs Is Retained Here Rev, H, H. Jacobs, pastor of the Bellefonte Evangelical church, was returned to Beliefonte for another i year, at the annual conference of { the Williamsport District of the de- nomination held during the weekend method of | — ' | | Seek Payroll | Defense Bonds | 1 | Launch County Campaign | to Get 30,000 Income | Earners to Sign CLAIM SAVINGS PLAN FOOLPROOF Drive’s Success Judged by Number of Signers, Not Money Pledged A grand total of some 30,000 Cen- re countians in all walks of life at ‘ast have an opportunity to do some- hing substantial to help win the war The 30000 persons, all of whom {have regular incomes from employ- ment, are to be invited within the next few weeks to take part in one of the greatest satYMgs programs ever attempted in any nation, any- where They are to be asked to request their emplovers to retain from each pay check a small amount to be used for the purchase of Defense Savings Bonds | Technically the proposal which is being conducted throughout the na- tion 15 called the Payroll Allotment Plan. Tis reasolis for being are many, and all of them are good It will provide the government with money to conduct the war It will give the worker an easy and fool-proof way of Investing mone; at up to 2.9 per cent interest against the time when employment may drop, and the worker is without in- come. Finally, by converting surplus earnings into savings, it will pre- vent reckless spending which ultd. | mately would lead to a disastrous | condition of inflation. | A surrey has revealed that in this county there gre oie. 30000 work! ers, and before March 27, the nine y district Defense Savings leaders un. | der the general chairmanship of Claude CG. Alkens of State College, hope to have every one of them signed up under the Payroll Allot- ment plan “The success of the campaign, Mr. Alkens declared yesterday, “will not be judged by how much money (Continged bn Poge Fight) a Millheim Man | Hurt In Cras Impact Damages Wagon, Tears Harness Off Span of Mules Paul Snavely, of Miliheim, suffer- ed shock, contiisons and slight con- cussion Priday night when the mule. drawn wagon he was driving was struck by a car on Route 45, about two and a hall miles east of Spring Mills. Snavely underwent treatment | at the offices of a Millhelm physic. ian. The car, driven by B. A. Cox. of Centre Hall, is reported to have run into the rear of the wagon which was traveling without lights. The team of mules hitched to the ve- hicle was uninjured. i Damage to the car was estimated at about $100, and to the wagon, in| | cluding the two sets of harness torn | from the mules, $75. The wagon and | mules are the property of Ray Car- | per, of Aaronsburg. | Damage totaling $100 resulted Fri-| { day afternoon tn a truck oper-| {ated by Donald Hipes, of Btate Col-| {lege. R. D., and a coach driven by| A. 5 Musser, of Aaronsburg, col-| | lided in Aaronsburg. One of the ma | chines was entering the road and {the other was attempting to pass, e u | | { | auxiliary | State Defense Program | Those offered as gifts J bullding and is believed to {in flames Board CONTROL Seeks to Close Part of Lamb Street Defense Council Needs Cots, Blankets The Bellefonte Council of Delense is In need of coats and blankets with | which to complete the establishment of first aid units stations and required hos pital under the These articles are solicited either outright “gifts” “loans without need of being returned will be collected immediately. while those that are available as loans only will be cat. alogued 50 as to be called for if ard when needed Buildings scheduled to be used these emergency stations are Evangelical and Lutheran chur in Bellefonte Grange Hall in Pleasant Gap, and Bantist church in Mllesburg This appeal is directed to the peo- ple of the community who have al. ready responded so willingly to the many needs of the Defense Pro- gram, requesting that they register at once with the Defense Council Information Center cots or blankets which could be spared The information center for Area located Council Chamber Bellefonte Home af Hecla Razed By Fire Two-Story ; Structure on John Workman Prop- erty Destroyed The two-story frame house on the old John Workman homestead prop- erly at Hecla Park was destroyed by fire iste Tuesday alternoon. Nearly all the household effects of the ten. ants, Richard Workman and his housekeeper was saved The blaze broke out about 4:15 o'- clock in the upper portion of the have been caused by a defective chimney Flames spread rapidly 0 the roof, which consisted of a layer of wood as or & fe the hes the the Pe Bony this the Borough Logan Fire Hall Phone 2448 i in {shingles and an upper layer of roof- ing paper A call for ald was sent to the Bellefonte Fire Department and members of the Logan Fire Company made 8 quick run to the scene in the Studebaker pumper. The Undine Company also responded with the emergency truck. By the time fire- men arrived the house was enveloped Firemen used approximately er was stationed. They performed effective work in preventing wind- blown sparks and embers {from set. iting fire to other buildings in the area. The property is covered by insur-! ance, but the owners have no plans at this time for rebuilding the structure. Mr. Workman housekeeper have moved their ef.! fects into a smaller residence near- | by on the same property } Opens Bus Line For Titan Workers Palmer C. Bierly, of Rebersburg,! has been granted a certificate of public convenience to operate a bus! line between Rebersburg and Belle- fonte, via Millheim, Spring Mills, Centre Hall and Pleasant Gap, to transport Titan Metal Company | iworkers to and from their work. Operation of the new bus line will bagin on Monday morning, March 118, with busses operating every eight | i 17 sections of hose in running a line from a nearby run where the pump. | and hisi | Classroom Section of New School to be Under Roof in Month RECEIVE PART OF STRUCTURAL STEEL " Teachers’ Salary Increases to be Considered in New Budget Con ' Bellefonte i i asked to close that part of Lamb street between Spring street and TR a soon is to be the alley ¢ rear of t perty a pr oncay night at a meeting he Bellefonte School Board The board, long of the belief the closing of section en: school to join the ) the high sch regular Le ne n ia] building commities to ] matier and have drafis and Although Council never hag formally asked to close th been discussed there on occasions and tf eemed to be that t street to the grade of the would burs and se inder many feet of earth structions to the special cc Monday night, the boa that this matter be stu n engineer's opinion as ulty might be overcome should included in the proposal to be made 1p Council The special building commitiee created to oversee the construction of the new high school building. re- ported that the contractors hope jo bave the classroom section under roof by the middie of April. More workmen are 10 be employed as soon as the weather permits. A number of trees cut down slong the Lamb street and Linn street sides of the school property were reported to have reached the peak of their growth, and most of were ound to be badly rotted inside inning of the trees bel wili give remaining trees a chance for healthy growth first truckload of (Continued on Pape Eight) tat — > —— Booster Banquet A Big Success NAS waiter § them ph The th it is ed terymtreval g\viucidlal Christian Endeavor Union Hold Enthusiastic Meeting at Pleasant Gap The Booster Banquet, held at the Grange Hall Pleasant Gap, on Sat- urday evening. was a big success Ninety persons were served and in all, one hundred were in attendance The Central District Christian En- deavor Union, which sponsored the banquet, was represented by En- deavorers from Centre Clinton, Juniata, Mifflin, Snyder and North- { umberiand counties, Union county | being the only one not represented Rev. Ivan Miller of Pleasant Gap. { was the toastmaster, while the songs were in charge of Keiineth Walker {of R. D, State College. Ernest Leit- i zell of Richfield, the District Presi- dent, and Marvin Lee of Houserville, Centre County Union President, ex- changed a number of jokes and | stories. President Leltzell especially | delighted to tell fish stories while I Mr. Lee told an auto story. The (Continued on Pape Four) ———————— Order Blackout of i |hours to accomodate employes on Uncontrolled Lights each of the Titan's three dally shifts. | - The bus line is a direct outgrowth | The State Council of Civilian De- of the present rubber shortage. The | fense has ordered a blackout for the operation of the plant, working en- | guration of the war of all store {tirely on defense orders, is essential signs (lluminated advertising bili- {to give the signal another tryout, | Project Fading at Bower Memorial church. Berwick. | Police said. No ope was injured. | possibly at another plant. | The only change in Centre county | 5.4 No Indication Army is Con-| Kenneth L. Bower wag cansterred| 1NrEE Nearby ccc If that | | does not prove satisfactory, a dif- | pastorates is at Howard. The Rev. : | from the Howard charge to the west | Cam rdered Closed. templating Move; Petitions | 5. ocx church, He will be succeed. | ps 0 re Being Circulated Three ©CC accident on the new Beech Creek- Howard highway in October while i on the way home from the Lock | Haven Hospital where he had been | visiting her. Born in Mill Hall, Genevieve had | Annual Undine Banquet, Tuesday The Annual St, Patrick's Day ban- sidered, it is reported. ferent type of alarm may be con- STATE COLLEGE CAR IN {ed at Howard by Rev. R. L. Prees, | attended school in recent years at Central City, continuing until the carly fall when the family moved to Orviston. 8he had been unable to continue in school after that time due to her illness. i Surviving her In addition to her mother are four brothers, Gaylord, Gerald, Calvin and Melvin, all at, home; and her grandparents, John | Packer of Orviston, and Mr. and) Mrs. James Nyman of Howard, Funeral services were held at the! residence Wednesday afternoon, fol. | lowed by further rites at the Romola Church of Christ at 2:30 p. m.. with the Rev. Robert J, DeBoer officiat- ing. Burial was made in the ceme- tery adjoining the church. Cancel Elks Minstrels | Due to changing World War con- | fered painful but not serious burns | ship, with Robert Corman as chair ditions and the various defense ac- | tivities coupled with the inability of the members and cast to appear for rehearsals, it has been decided to postpone indefinitely the annual Elks quet of the Undine Fire Comany of ! Bellefonte, will be held next Tues- day evening at the Knights of Col- umbus Hall, Farmers National Bank building, West High street. Members and guests of the com- pany are requested to meet at the Undine House, East Bishop street, at 6:30 p. m., to march in a body to the banquet hall. The committee in charge has ar- ranged a program of entertainment. National Gypsum Co. Employe Suffers Burns walker Twp. Schools Willard Eminhizer, of Coleville, employed as a mechanic by the Na-| tional Gypsum Company here, suf- about the right hand early yester- day afternoon while operating a switch. As the switch opened a flash which resulted caused the burns, it was re- ported. Eminhizer received medical treatment in the offices of a Belle fonte physician. CRASH NEAR LOCK HAVEN | Mrs. Edith Hurwits, of State Col- | | lege, suffered shock and bruises of the face and arms in an auto crash on Route 220 west of Lock Haven in Allison township, early Sunday af. ternoon. The car in which she was riding, driven by her son. Hassell Hurwita 1 of State College, collided with a ma- {ehine driven by Ardell J, Spotis of | Flemington, who received a lacera- | ton of the chin, — Contribute to Fund The five schools of Walker town- | man, contributed a total of $17.03 to (the annual March of Dimes cam- ipaign held In connection with the | nationwide celebration of the Presi- {dent's birthday, Mrs. Balser Weber, {of Howard, county chairman National Infantile Paralysis Pund reports. While farmers in pper Penns! Valley and in the Glades section of | Centre county were preparing a sur- | vey to show that the land in that! area is more valuable for farming | purposes than for Army use, and while petitions were being circulated | in the area west of State College protesting against a rumored plan | of the U. 8. Army to establish a camp in this area, unofficial reports | became widespread that the Army | at this time is not seriously consid ering such a move, Rumers thal army engineering corps have been surveying in the Barrens area and that Army air- (Continued on Page Eight) POPULATION OF JAIL IS LOWEST IN YEARS The offices of Centre Count who comes to Centre county from | Liberty, Pa. > STATE COLLEGE WOMAN SUFFERS HIP FRACTURE | Miss Mabe] McDowell, of State College, a member of the Home Eco- nomics Extension staff at Penn State College, suffered a fractured hip when she fell on the ice while boarding a bus in State College last Thursday. After riding to Lewisburg, she was taken to the Evangelical Hos pital there. It is expected that she will be in the hospital for at least 12 weeks. Clarence Soldier Transferred Private Albert G, Ludwig has just arrived at Camp Polk, La, from the reception center in hig area. Private Ludwig has been assigned for training purposes to the 33rd county have been ordered closed by the director of the Civilian Conser- vation Corps. The camps will close down someliine between March 15 and April 1. Bu intact for possijje use, The camps are 5-80, Whipple's Dam, Huntingdon county: Hallway House, Hg, county, fourteen miles ; and 8.76, Clin- cluding the Cle Nursery will be shut down at the same time. To Hold Tea For Benefit of Red Cross Schaeffer, on fonte, Saturdas, 14, from 2 5 o'clock. The affalr will be tical non-poli and proceeds go to the Belle {onte Chapter, Red Cross. offers regular transportation facil- ities to workers who are no longer able to obtain tires for their private (Continued on Pape Eight) Wolf Furniture Co. Sponsors New Contest The Woll Purniture Company of Bellefonte, in this issue of The Cen} © : | | All Pennsylvania is said to be in - Thursday, March 19. All entries must be mailed or delivered to the store, in an envelope, before midnieht of \ pros near Centre |to the war effort, and the new line | boards, store window lights and oth- | er outdoor lighting unless such lights {can be immediately controlied upon | the sounding of an air-raid alert, | according {0 an announcement yes | terday by Aaron Leitzell Civilian | Defense chairman for the Bellefonte area. The order. coming from A 8 Janeway, acting director of the 3rd Civilian Defense Region, is to be- | come effective immediately, Leitzell | | the air-raid “danger zone” and un- less lights can be turned out tumed- iately upon the sounding of an alarm they are to remain unlighted at all ! times, it was oxplained. Ea a... P YARNELL, MELROY SEEK REPUBLICAN CHAIRMANSHIP George H. Yarnell of Walker township, has announced his candi- | dacy for the office of Centre County Ray of Pleasant Gap, also has as a candidate for
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