Odd and CURIOUS in the + NEWS SECOND SECTION The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County ‘A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week i [ he Cenfre Democrat NEWS, | Random FEATURES | | Items VOLUME 61. BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1942, NUMBER 11.! WELL! OF ALL THINGS! Whe could imagine anyone bold enough to steal the tires from a 's car? Well, it did happen in Philipsburg. Assis- tant Chief of Police Edwin Gus- tafson after going off duty at 12:30 the other morning, drove into the driveway of his home and then went to bed. While he slept in a room directly over- looking the parked car, thieves went to work on it and removed the two wheels on the far side, leaving their jacks on the scene. Eddie slept through it all 4nd didn't hear a thing. {fean Lime Company, National Gyp- | {sum Company, Titan Metal Com- | pany, and other firms have been | awarded certificates of completion | | for having satisfactorily passed the | courses in preformanship offered by HAWK CRASHES WINDOW A hawk, pursuing a sparrow, crashed through the dining room window at the home of Mr, and Mrs. Richard Bryerton, at Duns- [the Pennsylvania State College town, near Lock Haven, and |through its Extension Services in| wrecked the dining room interior | Bellefonte. before Mr. Bryerion, Piper Air- | craft Corporation test pilot, cap- tured the bird and killed it, find- ing the hawk to have a 27-inch measurement from wing tip to wing tip. The Bryerton’s dining room floor was covered with bre- ken glass and dishes, The announcement was made by M. T. Bunnell, superintendent in | charge of class centers. One of sev- eral supervisory training courses of- fered by Penn State, the classes were {offered under its fourth engineering | defense training program which re- {cently closed in 109 cities and towns {of the Commonwealth. A new pro- FORGERY COST LIFE gram is being given in 135 towns, in- Instead of delivering a $29 | cluding Bellefonte. check to its owner who was lock- | The following students received ed®up in a city jail, Allan King, certificates: 41, of San Diego, Calif. endorsed Preformanship taught by H CG it himself and $i. The |Quiteras: Martin W. Ardary, Wil prisoner, Roy ! , unable to pay a $5 fine, was given 3 two- and-a-half day sentence. During | that time, the jail burned and | Nessler lost his life along with | four ether prisoners, King has | been arrested. NOW HE KENOWS HOW Mrs. George Saunders, of Hun- Instructors in State College Pre- foremanship Course. & it ; & : ti | renege A ——————— DOUBLE TROUBLE Frink W. Seciman, 20, of Dun- kitk, N. J, was anhuri when his ¢ struck a pole support - ing electric wires. However, af- ter he left his car, he brushed against a high-tension wire, dis- lodged by the crash, and was electrocuted. NEGRO SAYS HE'S 169 Docketed on a minor charge, an old gray haired negro calmly | told a desk sergeant at Memphis, | Tenn., that he was 169 years old. Born in slavery, the negro de- clared that he was more than 9 when Lincoln was shet, STILL AT IT Martin L. Smith, of Berne, Ind, learned fo when he was 12. Now, in the time he can spare from his furniture factory i aninminsiar WP ———— Gets Lesson on Trapping Possession of a state fur license | commission made clear last week |The commission armounced that it , he’ knowledge had fined Edward D. McCarthy, J Jes yu! Lidl orm Wellsboro trapper, $50 for driving He's 82. a pipe through the roof of a beaver ; den and pouring half a bottle of Vietini Trapped by Fire chloroform ‘into it in an effort to » lent the kill all the animals within. For his FEO Les. Bi. lo 3 Patient Bt he unsuccessful attempt, he was fined suffering from burns received when | 2nd his trapping license will be rte. his farm home near Sotith Warren voked, according to the commission, burned. The home, over 100 years | old, was destroyed with its contents, | as drifted roads prevented help from arriving in time to extinguish the fire, Mr. Lee was forced to escape by jumping from a second story window. His condition lg serious, Ra 2 “Off King" is the petty officer aboard a Naval vessel In charge of fuel ofl storage. —— i WP — Blair County Population The population of according to final data from the | 1940 census Is 150,348. There are 69,- 385 males and 70.793 females. The foreign-born total 5905. The rural farm population comprises all per. sons living on farms in rural ter- ritory and totals 0976. There are | 88.000 persons over 21. E dorky’ | Has Many Good Points Disappearance of Pennsylvania condescend to nibble on a plece of State College's captive porcupine bread or dog biscuit. The business named “Quills” brauogist this sug- end of her quills are so fashioned gestion from authorities Jast week: that they are almost impossible to “II any one sees . you can get out. Consequently if the porcu- curry her fawor by feeding her pine is slighted, the finder may chocolate drops, ice cream cones find it more advantageous to call and particularly a dish of salt. If the wild ife unit at the college or she is hungry enough, she may ' wear gloves in dealing with her” Sheep are Patriotic . Columbia County Columbia County sheep are doing [the farm of H. G. Townsend, eat their bit ense In the way of | Light Street, have given birth to ov ie Bit fou Bot on wool hort. | triplets, an unusual occurence, as ie / . | ewes generally have only one or two age. In recent weeks, four ewes on | offsprings. a 2 Milton Motorist Has Tires Stolen | A Milton car owner, who asked |was parked on a Milton alley Thurs- that his name be withheld, reported | day night. Police are conducting an to police that two tires and wheels investigation of the theft, were stolen when the automobile! J H OC. GUITERAS | {tween the Sheffield Parms and the does not carry with it the privilege | of ¢hloroforming beavers, the game Blair county, | Sixty-Three Industrial Workers From Bellefonte | Area Complete Courses Classes from American Lime Company, Nat- ional Gypsum Company, Titan Metal Co. | and Other Firms, Awarded Certificates | Sixty~three employes of the Amer- | fred C. Cassidy, Earl E, Espenshade, | Linus C. Gill, Richard Gill, Joseph M. Herman, Earl O. Heverly, Joseph A. Johnson, James A, Kelley, Guy A. Kline, Henry Ollila, Leroy Samp- sell, and Lloyd Sampsell, All are employes of the National Gypsum Company Preformanship, taught also by Mr Guiteras: Ivan Bjalme, Walter Con- rad, Latham Gray, Willis Grove, J, D. Gunsallus, Clair Hazel, Oscar Ha- zel, Leonard Lambert, George Sa- | ger, Robert Spencer, Harry Traxler, William Troupe, and Harry Ulrich This Is a composite group represen- ting several local industries Preformanship, taught by C. G Seashore: J. Willard Barnhart, Bam- uel H. Bricker, Edward Hamish, Guy | Johnson, C. W. Keller, John Kelle- cher, George Kellerman, A. G. Kna- pik, Russell I. Lucas Pred Lose, Ed- ward Maloy, James McNichol, Alex- ander G. Morris, 81, Calvin C. Pur- nell, Jay I. Schlegel, Jay A. Smith, | John W. Smith, Bligene Stine and Robert Thomas, All are employes of the American Lime Company. Preformanship taught also by Mr Seashore: Bryson T. Baird, Mac Bathurst, Benjamin E. Baughman, Taylor Blllett, Wilbur FP. Breon, Joseph H. Confer Harold E. Dock, Fred E. Fisher, James D. Funk, Paul F. Justice, Thomas M, Miller, Charles D. Monsell, Edwin B. Peters, Donald P. Ray, John E. Riter, Samuel G Rockey, Charles O. Witherite, and William Yates, All sre employes of Titan Metal Company. A RA — Lesson in Unity 4-FOOT TREE, 200 YEARS OLD —— on — A tree four approximately 200 years old 1s grows ing In private woodiot In Green wood township, Juniata county HY Research forester Albert B. Mick. | titls, of the Department of Forests {and Waters, has identified this tree as a prostrate variety of the com- mon juniper. It is locally called the “Indian tree,” has a spread of fifty feet, and is circular in its habit of growth The prostrate juniper is a native of the northwoods but occasionally specimens are found in several coun- ties the Commonwealth. The fam- juniper of Dauphin of prostrate feet In heighth and County, before its death several years ago, was located several miles east of Middletown. It grew in the most southern known outpost in the tree's entire natural range and averaged forty-five feet in spread and three {feet In height It is believed that these unique plants originated from seeds brought from the far north by migratory birds - Discovering a wreck Coast Guard burns red light meaning “You are assistance will be given soon as possible.” At night the a see” as | Japanese Commander In |” ' Philippines Kills Self For |:m ov ric wea wb Failure to Beat MacArthur Lieut. General Masaharu Said to Have Com- mitted Hara Kari Over His Defeat; Ameri- can Guns Smash Jap Troop Convoy A MY, OH MY: The difficulties of reporting the in one Centre County town at State College one day recently {there was a fire in the upper story lof a puliding. A Btate College re- { porter who has been in State Col- | lege Yur several years and who should {be known to most of the officials of {that town, went to the fire, but was | Halted some distance away by a re- | cently-elected borough officer, who {allegedly refused to give the news. {man any information about the fire According to information reaching Washington from General Douglas MacArthur, the War Department an- nounces that the Japanese committed suicide because of invaders failure to overcome American-Filipino defenders The reports “from various sources hitherto regarded as reliable,” were detailed in 8 communique which said MacArthur's artillery on the Bataan fighting front had inflicted heavy losses on an enemy regiment in ano- ther surprise attack Guns firing fvom hidden positions destroyed 20 of 0 motor trucks which were moving an estimated 2.500 en- emy troops {0 the front line north of Abucay, The reports concerning the Jap- anese commander, Lieut. Gen. Mas- sharu Homma, sald he committed hara-kari last month. While the re. ports lacked complete verification, it was sald the funeral rites were held February 28 in Manila with personal representatives of Emperor Hirohito the in attendance, after which Homma's ashes were flown to Japan Ironically the reports were that the suicide and funeral rites occur- red in the Manila hotel suite oocu- pied by MacArthur prior to the ev- ‘acuation of Manila General Homma, commander of the Japanese l4th army and com- mander-in-chief of all enemy forces in the occupied Philippines, was iknown as a fully Europeanized Jap- A short time ago, Japanese Pre- | mier Tojo described, in part, what the Nipponese war lords have in mind in the way of conquest. The present program, he sald involves |. © situation in Burms. where Affi taking Burma, China, India the Dutch East Indies and Australia into Japan's so-called “Co-prosper- ity Sphere.” To Americans thal pro. {and zt Bingapore, it has Dot been! fered alr attacks at Darwin {vival gram May seem gmbitioys and vain. | we : el an . : | glorious {possible to supply the al What chance would we and owl In this connestion, it should be, ro ha eh fick vo with eattpient Fhe ix 4 Allies have Lo hold that all-¥mpor-| Pojated pit: thet the lack of age<) pron time toward feaching her goal! Comparable to that of the invader’ | fant continent? There are certain ‘quate war oqu t of The Unided of absolute dominance of everything in the Pacifie, and the United Na- tions have 50 far been able only to slow her down. Bhe haz not been | stopped anywhere. The fall of Singapore has added immensely to our military problem | | Japanese submarines are operating in the Indian Ocean, across one of the United Nations vital oil sup- - PROGRAM OF AP CONQUEST ply lines, and this undersean fleet is expected So receive suwisee ship support. 18 8s possible that Japan will soon mgke physical contact fwith her principal ally, Germany. erican supplies go to the aid of the seasoned, hard-fighting Chinese forees, is bad. There, as in Msalsya, The situation further eoompil- cated by the fact that Japan has or- ganized a great deal of activity in Burma precisely a did so successfully in Malaya The natives are controlled by a rich, corrupt clique of priests who have ttle love for either the Chinese or the white races. So the defending a he {forces must fight a war within, even as they fight one without {cific {10 Australia, which has already suf- fifth column’ The possibility of the loss of Bure ma, the Indies and other points, In cluding existing United Nations’ sea and ai bases, must be faced. It may not happen, bul there is no room In this grim war for false optimism. If it does happen. the center of Pa. warfare will undoubtedly shift al definite assets on our side. The Aus- trallans are magnificent fighters. | of production tn this country There Foi They have done remarkably well in bulldng up sizable air and armament mdustries. The continent 48 divided by a vast desert which is a’ geo- graphical advantage. Both the Brit. ish and the Gefans have lesirhed, in Libya, how difficult it is to fight, on the desert wastes and hold gains On the debt side is the Tact that! To Retain Plant In Mill Hall Area Sheffield Farms Company An- nounces No Move to Be Made For Present The Sheffield Farms Co. intends t6 maintain a milk plant at Mill Hall the company has Informed the man- ager, G. Altenderfer, there. While arrangements have been made be. Hygrade-8ylvania Corp. for the lat- ter to take over that part of the old condensary bullding in Mill Hall which the dairy products firm is now using, that transfer will not be made for six months, Both the Hygrs Ivania Com- i pany and the New City Health | Department have ed a plan ‘for the Sheffield to . retain i their present quarters for § months during which new quarters in Mill Hall will be sought. Mr. Altenderfer {sald that producers in the Mill Hall | area could be assured that operations | would not be transferred to the How- {ard plant as has been reported. | & TOWN BURIED TWO DAYS | UNDER NEAR 4-FOOT SNOW | Cut off from the rest of the world | for more than two days, the town |of Jenkins, Ky, near the Virginia jand West Virginia borders, dug out last weekend from stow that rang- ed tn g depth of #4 inches, The fall began Mi y and con- tinued almost ly for 36 hours, The coal g city of Jenkins itself had 36 inches of snow, and the measured fal] was 44 inches Cumberland mountain. A bus and eight passengers re- out of Jenkins for 23 hours. The driver kept the motor running -part of the time and thug fupplied heat, but there was no food. Among the passengers was a soldier who will he long overdus at 4 Texas army post, 80 far as coulg be ascertained, no lives were lost, Hurt by Falling Tree Ralph Page, Milton R. D., suffered fractures of both | mishap liam LeVan, Milton hijury was treated by clan, For Victory: Buy Bonds. mained in a soowdrift six miles | Woman, 60, Goes to Prison for Fraud Convicted of Conspiracy in the 220,000,000 Garrett Snuff Case Miss Grace L. Shaeffer, 80-year old spinster of Philadelphia, was sentenced to an indeterminate per- od in the State Industrial School for Women at Muncy as the “brains” of a conspiracy to obtain the $20.000.- «000 Henrietta E. Garrett snuff for- tune through a fake claim Her sister, Mrs. Ellen Shaeffer Taylor of Glenside, was fined $1000 and placed on probation for 5 vears, The two women and four other members of their family, who have already been sentenced, were con- victed of conspiracy and forgery in their attempts to prove that Miss Shaeffer's brother, Isaac Newton Shaefler, 68, a Newark, Del. mer- Australia, gigantic in area, has a population of only 7.000000 It is not self-contained and must import to live. And the bulk of its fighting equipment, if it Is to have enough, will have to be sent from this coun- | try. Today, Australia looks to the U 8. more than to Britain for the mili- | Beeln m ring out an 1 (anese who learned to speak English Seeing 3 man. Deering out an upper army | | commander in the Philippines has the | fluently during long service in Lon- ‘don and India — High Water Closes Road High water in two northern coun- | ties forced closing of Route 40 be- tween Osceola and Academy Cor- {ners in Tioga County and threaten- ed traffic on two others in Bradford County, the highway department re- ported. Four inches of water wat reported on U. 8, Route 6 in North | Towanda. Department officials fear- ed it might be necessary to close this | window of the building in which the fire was located, the reporter shout- ed to him: “Where's the fire?” The official, the story goes, shouted to the man at the window, “Don't you tell him! Don't you tell him!” As a result the newspaper by whom the reporter is employed is having made gilt-edged, signed, sealed and at- tested-to identification cards, bear- ing the photograph of NEW COUNCIL: the holder At the latest meeting of Bellefonte Borough Council, spectators learned rond since waters there were still thal there are two elements in that rising body. One might be called the “Old ——————— Guard.” The other might be termed . The Missourians,’ who want to Mill Hall Man know the why and wherefore of Was Born Here T. J. Hickoff, Prominent Citi- zen Dies at Age of Eighty-Nine things which have transpired as a matter of course at Council in the past. There were a couple of sharp words between the two groups at the last session, and from what we hear there will be more and more as | time goes on. A difference of opin- ty On | kéep the fun clean is 2 healthy thing But let's We don’t want any more sessions such as the School Thomas Jefferson Hickoff, native of Bellefonte. died at his home in Board held a year or 50 ago. Or do ‘ al ’ . » “an — “a Mill Hall, Thursday morning of last week after a year's {liness. He was 89 years of age | Leaving Bellefonte as a boy, Mr Hickof! located in Mill Hall where he was employed for many years at the axe factory. He was a member of the Methodist church, a charter we? NO EXCUSE On December 5, 1841, two days be- fore Pearl Harbor, Vincent Bheean, foreign correspondent for a New York newspaper, addressed the an- nual meeting of the National Asso- ciation of Manufacturers in New member of the Kngihts of the Gol- | you City. He had just returned - it) had just return den Eagle, served as secretary of the ch 0 tour of the South Pacific “i . . “e . Aaa a] school board and also served as tax collector for several years, resigning { from this position only three months | ago because of ill health Surving him are three daughters, Mrs. ET. Snyder of Mill Hall, and Mrs. H T. Cole, Woolrich, and Mrs H R. Cramer, Monument, twins also by one half-sister Mrs. Lena Gross, Williamsport, ten grandchil- dren apd five great grandchildren Funeral services were held at the McCloskey funeral home, Saturday, tary aid which she needs for sure Parks officiating Burial was made {Nations is hol entirely a is a shipping problems also. That is why an effort“is being made to im- mensely seeelerate our merchant ship oulput, “The success of that ef- | fort may. in the long run, prove the key to the winning of the Pacific War, The experts are saving today that) Claims Blasts Ruined Spring Owners of Land Bring Dam-| Birds Shot Out of Season ereble damaged, age Suit Against Road Contractor that two springs on their farm were ruined by the construction of a highway through it, B. F,'8. N., Charles F. and 8, N. Burnham, of Tyrone and War- riors Mark, have entered a treapass suit in Blalr county court for the Claiming recovery of damages in the sum of Brungard in Look Haven, Saturday | ‘$6000 against RC. Burket, of Pottsville, 3 contractor employed {in building a highway for the state department of highways, The plaintiffs contend that on or ling 8 pheasant out of season and | jabout August 4, the defendant did certain blasting to loosen the rock in order that a base for the road could be properly. formed, and in $0 doing, discharged an extra-or- 2 Pheasants Cost Hunters Heavily Bring Heavy Fines, Costs to Violators |. Two of the hundred ringneck pheasants re in the Bald Eagle , Valley by Game Protector Miles L Reeder early last week proved to be lexpansive for two Flemington brothers who were heavily fined at a hearing before Alderman T. Mark , afternoon, | William Fred Powell, who shot one of the birds and caught another, was | fined $25 and costs of $7.50 for shoot- | given a like penalty of fine and costs for shooting within {cupled buildings. {| His brother Paul, was penalized ‘$25 fine and $7.50 costs for aiding in | chant was an illegitimate son of Mrs. (dihary heavy blast of dynamite and {the concealment of one of the birds, Garrett, ssi ———— FIVE COUNTY STUDENTS {ruined the two springs from which | whose carcass was found in a stump | {water was obtained for drinking land domestic purposes, by causing UN DEAN'S HONOR LIST them to go dry, on account of the Five Centre County students in ‘the school of engineering at Penn State College were named on the | Bchool’s honor list for the first sem- ester, Dean H. P. Hammond announ- ced today. These students, who at- tained a scholastic average of 25 or better out of a possible 3, are: | Jack Mentzer, Bellefonte, electri-| ical engineering senior; Frank Goss, | Philipsburg electrochemical engin- {eering senior; Harry Baker, mech- ianieal engineering senior! {Coheis;, mechanical | fresmman ; | State College. i tii {caps when passing through | crew's quarters at meal time as a i mark of courtesy.” George engineering and Earl Staviey, Jr, i electrical engineering senior, all of Many Naval officers remove their y the | forms is to show quickly {change of the course of the water, {| Tt is charged that the blast be- sides being too heavy, was put off [too close fo the springs by an in-, {experienced person and after warn. (ing had been given that the springs may be destroyed, > | Loses Hand in Mest Grinder. | Charles W. Beashaitz, 24, pf Lock Haven, got his right hand ocaugh' in the meat grinder while at work ‘at the Morrison abbatoir at Salona last week and suffered injuries # serious that nearly all of the hand ‘had to be amputated, He is a pa- {tient at the Lock Haven Hospital A primary purpose of Navy uni- rank and corps, hence authority imposed by | law upon those wedring them. 'of a tree back of the Powell home. { They were arrested Priday night by | Game Protector Reeder i i Bovine Champion is Dead Winnie Ormshy Pontiac Finderne, |a national ch is dead. Winnie, | registered Holstein No. 10270092, died loti Roy Bowen's farm; Covington, | near Wellsboro, at the age of 17 years. Her glalm to fame was pro- [duction of 253.304 | with a butterfat rating of 1,701.8 Ibs, during & 14syetr test conducted by {the dairy. herd dmproviment associa- | tion. Bowen Bufied her rather than ship thé remiins to tannets abd. | glyemakers. | pT —_——— ! Has Foot Fractured : {+ Joseph Kisko of Bitumen, suffers ed a fractured left foot near Renovo, | {The Injury was received when a |mipe car jumped the tracks, 150 yards of oc-| el pounds of milk. {in Cedar Hill cemetery. - on Man Fractures Fool Guy Brubaker, Selinsgrove R. D., ed as & laborer in the Hoover Coal Company operation, was treated in the Mary M. Packer Hos- pital for a fracture of the left foot (due to it being caught on a chain hoist while he was at work. The foot was examined by x-rays and placed in a cast | ¥ and predicted that war between the U. 8. and Japan was unevitable, ‘maybe in a week or two—probably before the end of the winter” We have just read the text of Sheean's address, and his predictions of what Japan would do, and how easily the Land of the Rising Sun would score vast initial successes, have come 10 pass with amazing accuracy. What irks us Is thet If a newspaperman on a quick trip could make such an at 2 p. m., with the Rev. Ezra L. | on, ot ya of Wii wal gute Kimmels and the Shorts whose sole business in life is to keep informed on an Rises Abd be SAP io | PIPE North Ward father last week made 2 giant snow man for the entertain- ment of the neighborhood children For a realistic touch he put a hat on the Image and stuck his best briar in its snow mouth. Came eve- ning and “pappy” thought he'd have & smoke. Dashing out to the yard to recover his forgotten pipe he y Car Mounts Porch found that someone had beat him | Three porch posts and the balus- | to it. trade of the front porch of a double PRHOUGHTS WHILE dwelling at Bloomsburg were torn DAY -DREAMING: away when a car driven by Robert williams, Millville, went into a spin as a front tire blew oul, and landed on the porch. The car was consid- Naval officers and men stand at attention facing ship or person sal- uted during the firing of a salute. For Victory: Buy Bonds, __ ... Wonder why it is that every time someone has sought to bring us as a newspaperman to their way of thinking they have always, without exception, offered to pay $50 for the favor Never more, never less Wonder if they'd have paid off? Had our first glimpse the other day of the youth who is classed as the No. 1 ned-raiser of the first grade Continusd on Pope Siz) am i pe A TRIPLE PLAY i | 1 i i i - ds! of Od Fe nh apipme S17 30)
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