p odd end CURIOUS in the + NEWS = A! —— a es A REASON TO PURR A sleepy cat named Tommy scratched at the trailer door of the Charles E. Smith family, his owners, at San Diego, Cal, who said the last time they had seen him was in January more than 3,000 miles away in Buffalo, N. Y. “You've got me how the cat ever followed us,” said Smith. “We've gone everywhere since Tommy left us.” The cat, who left the trailer in Buffalo to chase field mice and failed to return, arrived just six hours before his owners left for their home in Utica, N. Y. “Had he come six hours later Tommy would have had to follow us the 3,000 miles back home again,” Smith said. 500 SMITHS, 250 WILLIAMS If your husband, brother, or sweetheart has the name of Bill Smith and is stationed at Camp Fort Jackson, S. C. please be very explicit in addressing him. There happens to be 500 soldiers named Smith at the Fort at the present time, and nearly half of them answer to the name of Wil- liam. The same goes for the any of the 350 Johnsons and the 300 odd Jones boys. MEET ON TRANSPORT Just as Sgt. R. C. Selbert was boarding a transport, he received a letter from his mother saying his younger brother Richard had enlisted and had been sent to Sheppard Field (Texas). Imag- ine his surprise, then, a day later while stroling en the deck of the transport bound for Australia, to run into his brother, Private Richard Helbert, aboard the same transport. DOG TOOTS HORN Becoming irritated at the con- stant tooting of anv automobile horn on an Atlantic City street, a policeman investigated and found inside a locked automobile a sleek Dachshund, tapping the horn with his front paw. The owner soon arrived and explain- ed to the crowd gathered around, “He gets impatient when we leave him alone too long.” 20 YEARS’ SILENCE After a quarrel over religious indifferences over twenty years ago, Mr. and Mrs. John B. Wag- ner of Newark, N. J, never spoke a word to each other. All mes- sages between the two were re- layed by one or the other of their three children. This unusual situation was revealed when Mrs, Wagner applied for a dit sree. The decree was granted, ALL IN A DAY This is what impatient trav- elers waiting at Parsons, Kan, for the hour-late Katy passenger train didn't know: At San Mar- cos; Tex, the conductor dropped dead on the platform. Outside of town the train struck a motor car, killing three persons. Near- ing Parsons, a Mexican woman passenger gave birth te a baby. - -— Water Line Cleaned Boyd R. Keller, Lock Haven water superintendent, has completed the supervision of the cleaning of 20.823 feet of 12-inch water line extending from Lock Haven patrons to McEl- hattan, six miles distant. While the work was in progress the Suburban Water Company permitted the Lock Haven city to connect the city water line to their line. This was done by fire hose at the Teachers College Superintendent Keller said 15 open- ings had to be cut in the clogged water lines to remove debris. - Gathering of Eggs When the congregation of the St James Lutheran church at Turbot- ville gathered for worship Sunday morning members remembered the children at the Tressler Orphans’ Howe, Loysville, with a donation of eggs for their Easter treat The gathering of eggs for the children at the home has been the custom of St. James church for a number of vears. The pastor asked that each family bring a dozen or more of eggs with them to the Palm Sunday ser- vice, Pedestrian Hurt Thomas B. Moore, 67, of Blooms- burg, was seriously injured when a motorcycle left the highway, went over the pavement on West Main street, and pushed him, feet first, partly through a glass panel in the door at the home of Arthur Sperry. SSSR ing an | course at one of the famous Leath- | erneck training bases. The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County Ir Ra - o SECOND SECTION A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week | Che Centre Democrat F NEWS, | Random EATURES [tems || VOLUME 61. BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 9 -y 1942, NUMBER 14. \ | Lower Bald Eagle Valley Residents U ~~ Complete | ndergo First Blackout Test Coming Out of Hibernation | peFNITELY HEAVIER | [Newspaper Correspondent Describes Trial Air. Raid Precaution as | 00 Per Cent Perfect; Route 64 In Complete Darkness Residents of Beech Creek borough and all the way down the valley { along route 64 to Mill Hall were giv- en thelr first successful blackout test one night last week, which is de- scribed by the Beech Creek corres- pondent to the Lock Haven Expres as being 100 per cent perfect, The reporter that the alr rald wardens are enthusiastic about the cooperation and comments on the event as fol- lows On the split second of Mr. Linquist, chief of fleld opera- tions, West Penn Electric Co, who came down from Bellefonte, turned off the street lights which yk the neighboring of Ce county into whether or no, al The sig: Kephart to blow declare given by the citizen 9 o'clock town nts nire aling James Alfred Kunes, cousin of J. Irvin Graham of Boalsburg, who recently enlisted in the Unitad States Marine Corps, is now receiv- intensive basic training pA ‘State College Air-Raid Signal Is Inadequate After a tryout given last Wednes- night the Old Main chime system as an air raid signal for State College lian defense autharities yf th community pro- nat un- day of Civ nounced the signal “generally satisfactors The varying electrical note sound- the chi system was not utlying districts and faintly in others fire whistle, three minutes later as heard better, but not complete, it was ystem was volume ed over me all « was heard only The State College sounded some an its reported its highest the lest: heard in “all clear” was COYETage was The chi possible ne at during Kiddies Affected The kiddies this year will have op- portunity of making a sacrifice which will contribute to the nation's war effort. Easter chicks, popular for many years, are by thousands usually i ‘loved to death” by their small own- | ers, and since the government has asked for an increase in poultry pro- ducts of 17 to 18 per cent, the prac- tice is being discouraged. Colored , Easter eggs are wasted in large num- bers and this also is frowned upon during war time. Even candy eggs, chicks and rabbits will be less num- erous and smaller, because of the sugar shorfage —- No May Queen For the first time in recent years Bucknell University students will not elect a May Queen this Spring. The Spring Festival, usually featured by the crowning of the queen, was cau- celled by the desire of the students, themselves, who are cutting all so- cial and by 50 per cent may work in order that they Buy Defense Bonds now! Fox Killed by Hurled Axe Fred Niles, farmer living near Mansfield, is making claim for a ci- Up his axe and as the fox attempted | Board of the Trinity Methodist tation as an expert marksman. While hunting wood bn his farm, Mr. Niles heard dogs barking and was surpris- | 84. There's a bounty on fox in Penn- ed to see a large fox run from the Pleading guilty to driving a car while intoxicated, although he told the justice of the peace before whom he was arraigned that he “had only 10 little beers,” Robert Sherman of a. ets ce 0 ii Takes Photo of Homer Grove, of State College | tal salvage program. Before turn- | Mrs. Blowers Woodring, Port Matil- has donated his collection of Penn. sylvania license plates which he has | had a color photograph taken of the | ster, both of Tyrone; and Mrs. W. gathered since 1914 to the local me- woods. He stopped his team, picked to run past, hurled the axe, striking the animal on the head and killing it. Incidently, the throw was worth rylvania now, Too Many Little Beers Berwick, was committed to the coun- ty jail at Bloomsburg in default of $500 bail. ia home on Washington Street and | was badly damaged. 01d Plate ing in all the old plates, Mr. Grove entire lot. the Refractories Company was also a split-second affair Lights went out in homes so promptly at the stroke of 9 that it looked as though the whole busi- Was a single switch, Excep- to this were two; ohe ac! Beech creek one on Falrview street, which wardens quickly sj stood out like "ne darkne Ol per plant of General nes tions the on O8 OL ted as they thumb In The the outer absence on on the in deserted village Anni iid live here more The wardens w patrolling every Tom Kessinger hted cigarette fiom 1} ent boy i car at the bridge Street any the veritable spotted ere everyone on job where a iis garage bicycle i two block it went « » General fs districts showed t} ing qistri 1 blacked out Flagrant Violations Two incidents stood out a: less performances by ists When lights went crossed the bridge y and were going When they reach ‘Thomas P. Dunlap at 1 red flagged them a big trailer truck and pulled over and obeyed putling his lights. Mr. Dunlap went bac flag the second outfit and he s (Continued on Page Siz) in city fashion, reck- STS of nf ry npon-gconiorim and had sounded vehicles alarm out three the from “x hal down dW i NC telease week of March 20, 1012 T-PROPULSION SHELLS Scien first hells weit) wilh ° fashioned i unture, to shoot ( power cannon of the ir own jet propulsion small, a light tube three inches in diameter, feet long. The shells are six long. a little more than two thick wy rit WOR DO This first weapon | 1 i etal experimental but mwrinet wich entirely tart 1 a} ple recognized ound by aviation engineers. The was designed, by Edward F New York engineer, and described in Astronautics journal he American Rocket Soclety on i Andie urpose is to experiment with of burning powder, gaso- line, liquid oxygen and other power to drive shell. Jets which drive an 18-fool jong projec. tile 7 miles have been developed b; sarees the #15505 [4 bh -3 { CEE YU | | ai WV ' | — i Philipsburg Veterans of Foreign Wars Celebrate Debt Clearance on Home COINCIDENCE: Lewis Lenhart, in his Dodge sedan its 1942 license “BD168,"” parked ont of the Lutheran church the He got out oticed Vitmer's Dodge seds ard aii L Speakers In Having completely wiped out all debt on their comfortably furnished home in Phillipsburg, the Louis Jen- king Post No. 3450. Veterans of For- gn Wars celebfated the event last Mu ay evening with a mortgage burning ceremony held in the Hotel Philips James E, VanZandt, national] commander of the and John W. Rankin, present tment commander, highlighted king program which follow- r banquet ( ball- m of the ressman Other distinguished speakers and honor presented by toast- master, Edward Jackson Thompson, cluded Ivan Walker, president of Centre county: M. Ward Fleming, former judge; J. W. Ritch. €) district commander: Clifford department WwW the Pike, Wi ilfe t R i ol judge Cmau Clark Swengal, lalson officer Aspinwall hospital; Lloyd C past departinent commander, Rosenberg, department judge advo- cate; James F. Colly, department militar The historian; and James Leitzel, to ad trict inspector explosive already adjutant; at Ney Dr en Coddaard in x have been tested | sO Robert Les rocket rr ely the " None new experiment information to Power and distance available, But problem ight, cheapness of { these wa BOCK The local honor guests included * John Healey, post commander; George Dawson, first commander of the local post: William Clark, chair- man of the banquet commitlec; An drew Gearhart, American Legion post commander; Roy R. Rowles burgess; Willlam Garis, Bellefonte commander, and Luther Parks, State College commander. Congressman VanZandt, who name appears on the local post's or- iginal charter, made a stirring ap- peal for unity of purpose and effort in winning the war Commander Rankin necessity of the VFW being prepared uction Chandler says Lhe experiments in- dicate that the direction can be fixed gun so that the fire-winger shell flight will take 1 to the tlar- get. Present experiments are with jet shells ranging from one to five- inch calibre Advantage of guns very light weight Some could be carried as easily ] +3 in the ”» include models a ma- these ar stressed the (Continged on Pape Five) The attack on Pearl Harbor d not find the doctors unprepared as were the military commanding of- ficers. They were ready for any ev- entuality, not only by trained per- sonnel, but they had provided them- selves with plenty of medical sup- plies, “In the spring of 1841 when most people thought Hawall safe, and such preparations foolish, Cal. King organized all civilian, navy and army medica] forces to meet possible disaster “When the attack started the first medical man on the line was a ¥ g doctor who, as medical of- ficer of the day, had gone out to Hickham Field at seven o'clock on that fateful Sunday morning, armed with a flit gun and accompanied by the crash-ambulance, he wag on a routine duty to meet and disinfect Retired Posta Employee Dies Former Philipsburg Mail Car- rier Succumbs to Ill- ness at Home County school teacher and retired {mail carrier, died at his home in hilipsburg, Friday evening, follow- ing an illness of five or six weeks | Puneral services were held Monday {afternoon with the Rev. Waller H ! Williams, pastor of Trinity Metho- ‘dist church, officiating, and burial | was made in Philipsburg cemetery. Mr. Harpster was born August 25, | 1867, on a farm near Port Matilda. He was a son of Jeseph 8. and Mary | Williams Harpster. On September 8, 1898, he was married to Pearlah A. Biddle, daughter of the late Mr. and | Mrs. William Biddle, at the home of the bride's parents im Philipsburg. | His widow survives him. Jackson H. Harper, former Centre DOCTORS READY AT PEARL HARBOR ] id 8 fight of U. 8. bombers expected, the badly from the mainland, He noted & flight of planes coming in, and then the bombs dropped. He and the rest : shocked among the wound- Oahy until dusk. on December 7, ed got first attention and those with was 12 hours during which 960 cas a chance to live were ing in the field while of the medical corps were ready Silanes were filled with men who died. Rul so prompt, thorough and The ambulsnees immediately rush. ed out from their parking places and went into action The killers were raining death from the sky. The life savers were on the job below wherever they were need to carry on the fight of mercy to save the wounded, whether civil- ians or soldiers. “The sergeant in charge of medi- cal supplies, when the firsi bomb fell threw open the great ware houses and loaded materials at once oulo trucks. “At Hickman Field Col Frank Lane, surgeon-in-charge, immed- {ately set up an efficient evacuation system with 12 ambulances so that v Marine Is Buried With Full Honors i | of Philipsburg, Was Killed in Action Milton Wallace Flegal, 18, native of Philipsburg, Centre county. was buried Saturday with full military honors at McKeesport Flegal was a member of the United States Marine Corps who was killed in action February 18 while serving at Pedro Miquel in the Panama Ca- nal Zone. Details concerning his {death were not given but the body arrived in McKeesport on Friday and was buried Saturday with military honors. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs Foster E. Flegal. He was born in Philipsburg and his family moved to McKeesport when he was small. He | was the grandson of Mrs. Margaret Flegal and a nephew of Mrs. E. E. extra-curricular activities | would be dead before they reached efficient was the treatment that only the hospital, a very small per cent “When the medical history of this cases succumbed, war is written, ole of the most sUr-1 a, unparalleled results obtained ring chapters will be the story of gere due to "prompt transportation the heroism, Ingenuity, and prepar- .f the wounded io hospitals, gener- edness of American doctors and ... ce of transfusions thorough nurses in caring for the War- debridement, no suturing even of wounded at Pearl Harbor under a y1q,06 wounds, the liberal use of sulfa rain of bombs.” drugs and painstaking post-opera- The newest medical weapons, tive care” against pain and death were im- he use of the sulfa drugs was a mediately available for the doclors new treatment in this war. They are in charge had seen to that As a Te- orantlamide. sulfathiazol. and all sult a remarkable medical victory (ne group that is doing such won- was won In saving the wounded ders modern times. Burns among From the time that the Japanese the wounded were frequent and sc- began dropping deadly missiles on) ee he) (Continued on Page 52) Tyrone R.D. Man Ra Killed By Auto tioning Issues Permits Milton Wallace Flegal, Native Fatally Injured While Walk- Chairman No. 1 Board Sub- ing Along Highway Near His Home mits List of Eligible Tire Purchasers Maurice Baum, chairman of Cen- Andi Gilangi, 65, Ironsville, Tyrone R. D. 1, died Sunday afternoon at tre County Tire Rationing Board 12:15 o'clock at Altoona hospital No. 1, of State College, submits a where he was admitted on Sunday report of tires and tubes allocated morning after he was struck by an for the week ending March 27 automobile while walking on the | 1, the list below appear in order highway near his home [the name of the firm or individual Gilangl, according to state police, | petting tires or tubes, the classifica- | was walking on the highway toward | j,;, and the occupation in which his home when he was hit by an |. person is engaged: Boalsburg jautomobile driven by Arthur Mor-| au, Bus Company, State College, 2 rissey, who lives near the same com- | truck tires, transportation: L. E. munity. | Gladfelter, State College, two pas- {hospital in the Tyrone ambulance, Gap Fire Co, 4 obsolete passenger {where examination revealed possi-|yires and tubes, for ambulance; Lee | ble fractures of the ribs, lacerations | 5 walker, Rebersburg, 2 truck tires | (of the face and contusions of the |,ng tybes, farmer; Palmer C. Bierly, | Death was attributed 10 | pehershurg, 1 truck tire and tube, | {7 re-cap tires, school bus and de- | i shoulders, shock ‘Mortgage Burning Ceremony Held in Ballroom of Hotel Philips; Many Prominent Guest Qls~ pot kept ly- palties were treated. By all past. the ambu- standards many of them would have of hopeless Board | The man was taken to AIOODA |gencer tires, well driller; Pleasant | {eight years in Centre County before Mr. Harpster taught school for pn. and Miss Della Flegal. devote more time to defense ,. was married. He then taught| Flegal had been in service only two Galangl was a native of Italy and i prior to his retirement several years iago was employed as a trackman { fense transportation; Oren T. Meas. | {State College, truck tire and tube, His car had crashed into | school at Allport more than four | months. He quit his job in the | years before moving to Philipsburg | office of the Universal Cement Com- | to accept the position of letter car- | pany following the declaration of | rier in December, 1002. He served in | War in December. He enlisted in the | this capacity until his retirement | Marines and was sent to Parris September 1, 1032, when he was 55; ‘sand, 8. C, for three weeks train- years old. d ing and he was then sent to the | He was a member of the Oficial Suna} Zone. Besides his father and mother he { church, he served as church treas- | urer, and the taught a Sunday school | sisters, | class for the last 27 years. The following seven children sur- | vive: a Read the Classified ads. {on the Middle Division of the Penn- | Iauling coal and produce; isylvania Railroad. Previous to this | {he was employed on the old Tyrone | {division at Mill Hall and Lock Ha- | {ven in a similar capacity. mms si Me —— a ———— | Three Houses Burn | Fire, starting at the home of Allen | Payton of Clearfield, destroyed the i highway maintenance, and W. H. | Seckinger, State College, 2 passenger dwellings last week, causing damage | [which Fire Chief Foster Kerr esti | | Every time you get your pay, buy mated at $3,000. | Bonds and Stamps for the U. 8. A. R. E.| Breon, Rebersburg, 3 truck tires, 2/ tubes, hauling milk; E. C. Vonada, | Aaronsburg, tube for manure spread- | | er, farming; Paul R. Winters, Re- | bersburg, 2 truck tires and tubes, | tires and tubes, plumbing and heat- | | is survived by five brothers and two Payton home and two adjoining ‘D8: THOUGHTS WHILFK DAY -DREAMING Attendance to assist the disabled ar dents of men services Judge Walker urg ganizations as well buy Defense Bond thelr ability Toastmaster the Lie HOW seriousne uation and the sons cooperating and their power to hel tion to The Loul ized in 1936 on West Presquelsie later on West Pine st year the present Was victory street ar rot 5 80 street all community this Car Struck On R. R. Crossing arca Driver in Hospital After Ac- cident at Lock Haven Last Thursday uw? of riots a "ee | 4 ving was at the Water Pennsylvania Railroad at He was sald when admitted Hospital and was “What hit me?” treet crossing en to Teachers College, said Fausey, dr ing at a good rate of speed and west. bound, entered the crossing directly in the path of the westbound freight The car was carried about a mile on the front of the engine but Fau- sey was thrown from the wreck about a hundred feet from the crossing. Officials said J. F. Holtz and R { Hoffman were engineer and fireman respectively, of the train - Falls From Bridge, Dies Falling 30 feet to the tracks of the Reading Raflroad from t it of the Paxinos overhead along the Sunbury-Shamoki way, Russell G. Haupt, resident of Gowen City, His car h a wrecker had from sid rear wheel: whirled rapidly in th Reaching the top of ti ly turned around in maneuvered a bit in now and started a hill. Suddenly he stopped do you get aro so well without chains?” we asked. Pointing to the big knobby treads on his rear he declared NReaAYY sNow hill, he mad- large drift, another pile of a dash wn Lhe OW » Z a lires ould go if he wanted i RUMOR: He abit He abun crossing high- leading met death ad sunk in deep mud and to remove | When he decided get out and look around, he fell in the darkness. His 12-year-old son, who was with him in the car, summoned ald n ey on short t y did before Henry Brockerhe on a sound financial b yrmation of be well fo: that the borough is #1 the iegel limit the present turn boroug terrible mess. SELECTIVE SERVICE: Maybe we won't think so when oy number is called, but just now we see the Selective Service Act a (Continued on Pape Five) " to new them Visits In State College Pierre Boal, United States ambas- sador to Bolivia, and former resident of Boalsburg, was a visitor in State College area last week before departing for Bolivia ta begin his new duties. While in this section he | was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Calude | G. Alkens, of State College on easily the ir as WINNIE WINK NER WINNIE WINKLE Z2p2ag OSS, IP BE GLAD TO ACCEPT PART OF 8 MY SALARY IN DEFENSE BONDS / i+ ALL THE WORKING GIRLS IN THE NATION DO THIS, IT WILL HELP US GREATLY N OUR FIGHT FOR VICTORY / ] = ww be \ + or “ - - RAT ABOUT TERS? HAVE YOU STARTED THE PAYROLL PLAN i / IN YOUR 4 OFFICES E | — Wendell V. Harpster, Tampa, Pla.! | Wilma, Mrs. Charles Wood, Philips- | burg; Grace, Mrs. Robert B. Ive, By F. O. ALEXANDER Mobile, Ala.; Wayne B. Harpster, Philipsburg; Joyce, Mrs. J. B. Fore- | man, Towanda, N. Y.; Helen, Mrs. | Georg 0 orig Re bg ans iss Dorothy , Hollidays- burg. Nine children survive. The following flve brothers and three sisters survive Mr, Harpster: John O., Mt. Lebanon; George W, { Port Matilda; Willlam FP. Wilkins- | burg; Mrs. J. E. Moyer, Homer City: "HOW ida; C. A. Harpster and 8. 8. 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