i | odd and CURIOUS in the NEWS The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week SECOND SECTION dhe Centre Democrat NEWS, FEATURES [tems VOLUME 61. BELLEFONTE, PA., TH URSDAY, APRIL 9, 1942, NUMBER 15. A Random | SIGNALS MIXED For 15 months LL. Walter E. Kelly had been longing for a trip home to Philadelphia from Tampa, Fla, for a visit with his family and his fiance. He finally got a two-day pass and flew to Philadelphia only to learn that his intended bride, Irene Gor- man, was on a train headed for Tampa-—to visit him. His par- ents were enroute to Philadel phia from Ocean City, N. J. Well, It. Kelly finally saw his mom and pop and then boarded an- other airliner for Tampa-—and a girl named Irene, if she's still there, NOT SO POOR Walter Surmack, Uniontown recluse, who was believed to have died penniless, had $2,230 sewed up in his mattress. The money was found by officials of the Salvation Army who received the dead man's possessions. De- puty Coroner J. T. Burhans, ex- ecutor, has instituted suit to col- lect the money. After paying the funeral expenses, he said, he will turn over the balance to the State Department of Public As- sistance in payment for relief money granted for many years. PATRIOTIC FAMILY Ten members of the D'Anton- io family of Red Bank, N. J., are already in the American armed forces. They are Martin, Frank, Rocco, Dominick, James, Peter, Carmine, Vincent, Samuel and Tony. John is awaiting his call and Michael is anxious to join his brothers. Victor, who is only 14, is the only boy in the family who probably won't be able to don a uniform. Also three mar- ried sisters are working in war plants, OUTRACES STORK Informed by telegram that his wife was expecting the arrival of the stork at Kansas City, Md, James K. Parr, Jr, rushed for his motorcycle and began a 1900 mile trek. He made the trip from Los Angeles in sixty-eight hours, stopping only long enough to sleep two hours. Fifteen min- utes after his arrival, his wife gave birth to twins, OPTIMISTIC Dr, Dick Jordon, Indianapolis Dentist, now Lieutenant Jordon of Fort Thomas, Ky, govern- ment hospital, is optimistic over the outcome of the war, On the door of his.office he has left a Cis Sign reading : “T have been called te military service, hoping to re turn about January 1943. ARRANGES FUNERAL Mrs. Mollie Reddick, 72, ar- ranged her funeral to the last detail, visited the mortuary, se- lected her own casket and then invited the undertaker to come to her home to discuss final de- tails. She died as he departed. sp —————— PLAYING AROUND AGAIN Mrs. Mae Warner, of Havi- land, Kans., who admits to more than 70 years, recently has been riding a bicycle around town. The townsfolk were surprised. She has been so busy shingling her house, they don't know how she found time to learn to ride. a Nestlerode Cited for Bravery Private Floyd E. Nestlerode, son of Mr. and Mrs. George E. Nestle- rode, of Tyrone, and a grandson of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Nestle- rode, of Blanchard, has been cited by the U. 8. Army for “splendid at- titude and exceptional bravery ex- hibited under bombing and machine gunning” in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Private Nestlerode © drove a bread truck before entering army service and Is weil known through Bald Eagle and Nittany Valleys. Hurt in 40-Fool Fall Frances Hooley, Jr. 8-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. F. E, Fooley of Renovo, was knocked unconscious and suffered bruises about the body when he fell about 40 feet over an embankment on the Halls Run road near West Renovo. The boy was en- joying a hike with ten companions when he lost hig footing, His injur- les included concussions, bruises, shock and the effects of exposure. It would probably surprise some school teachers to learn how little the average pupil gets out of a school term. a Buy Defense Bonds now! IA | above Diamond va | dangling | at (a .s”8yyul Giant Runaway Balloon | | | Snags In in On Tussey | ton Near Petersburg! The Home Front | | i | / | Big Barrage Balloon Causes Damage In West- ern Part of State Before Ending Flight; Trailed by Workers Over 300 Miles A glant sausage-like barrage val loon ended a runaway flight of sev eral hundred miles from near AK- ron, Ohio, last Thursday night by bumping into the side of towering Tussey mountain, near Petersburg, Huntingdon county, and sagged helplessly among a clump of trees T. Roy Morton, district forester, Petersburg, came upon the balloon as it rested across ¢ path about half way up the desolate mountain ley looked pretty wel among the Morton. “The markings on the side giving the pressure was plain, The long cable was stretched among the trees.” The site was about 30 mi east of Altoona. A crew of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. which had followed the big bag in a bus as it soared act eastern Ohio and western Penns) arrived Thursday night The ballo broke Goodyear's Wingfaot a fir “It damaged, rees.” sald 1 les 5 lvania, from airdocik 100s Lake EVANGELIST WM. WHITMORE now holding religious services at Summit Hill Pilgrim Holiness Church, Marsh Creek. The series of meetings of which began Sun- day, April 5th will continue for two weeks. i ———— Former Tyrone Nurse Captive Miss Louise Riley Reported Held Prisoner by Japanese Miss Louise Ri ley ho and in Tyrone Cleveland, Ohio, is a prisoner of war in China, having been captured by the Japanese Hankow, China, where she was in service as an Epis- copalian nur the past ten years She is x born reared wl later of at e for a daughter of John Riley and her mother will be remembered as Miss Elizabeth Shawley, Tyrone, who died several years ago. Her grandmother was well known in Ty- rone, having resided on Lincoln ave- nue, and having been one of the charter members of the Trinity Episcopal church, the church in , which Miss Riley was confirmed and attended regularly while in Tyrone Miss Riley was a member of Mrs F. K. Lukenbach's Sunday school class while in Tyrone, end visited with Mrs, Lukenbach about six years ago. She attended the grade schools in Tyrone, later graduating from the ireensburg High School, She grad- uated from the 8t. Margaret Hos- pital as a nurse. Following gradua- tion, she left for China, going there as a registered nurse to the hospital Wu Chung, woman physician. This is the second person from yrone known to be a prisoner at ithe hands of the Japanese, Rev, | Karl Eschback, Baguio, Philippines, Jheine the other. All Members Battleship’ s Band Killed | All 21 musicians in the U,L 8. 8. Arizona band were Killed fir the ex. plesion of thet battlesiip’s magazine | while they were passing ammunition | to the guns above during the Pearl! Harbor attack December 7, naval authorities disclosed this week. The Arizona was destroyed in the Japanese sneak attact. The navy issued this statement: “What becomes of the fod in the bund when the guns begin to roar? | | above.” ammunition to the I "Many a civilian has asked that | question X Xxx “The most dramatic answer has been furnished by the incident of | the ship's band of the battleship | Arizona. | “On December 7 they went to | their battle stations, one of the most | hazardous on the ship—down below guns above, To a man the Arizona's band was killed when the battieship's magazine Explogied. Xxx” 40 Rural School # The sudden illness of 40 pupils of the Liberty TON Soros] consolidat- | ers ot oo eng To: Ol= | lowing investigation by Dr. H, J. McGhee, of Kane, McKean medical director, Cause of the ill gounty | and physicians Pupils Poisoned ness was traced to a gelatine food which was prepared and then held a few days before it was served. The pupils were stricken within an | hour after they had eaten lunch who were called gave treatment for food poisoning. under Dr. James, a| at 10:13 a rapidly Breaking from its suffield ings in a high wind, the balloon headed dure east towards Pittsburgh It was traveling fast and twisting in the air The Goodyear Come pany g ‘oadeast warn ws that {4 was “very and ¢ ipl ane pilots ere advised to look Po- lice followed its eastward odyssey with an anxious eye First m., and was angerous out for it damage was caused when the dangling cable struck a utility company distributing circuiy north- east of Pittshurgh Then before & tling on a hill near Vandergrift it snagged and tore - power lines ing homes In several commun Before jt cauld be he hill balloon It : eiore ole RET {Lie anchored on teasingly pped two mor climbing to an at 5.000 [i Util hed out to repair t S08 ed aloft again power line alti ity crews wv Hh ide estim et damage The balloons cable thort-circuited a high tension er line at Northpoint, southwest of Punxsutawney, L ting fire to cdiacent woods and tem sorarily disrupting clectric ser in that area. A crew of men hrou the fire under control before ious damage was The balloon was the third to break loose t the Suffield testis The crew of ti ers who trailed the balloon and fin- ally caught up with it when it snagged on the side of the moun- (Co on Page Siz) done rted to ! me groun rep from ing at 10 Goods Car Works nlinued s given to 520 college » in political It 85 men & swept east moors GIRLS LIKE POKER PARTIES, TOO Not only in war women invadin 8 men’ girls have their ties may be According Indu stries are elds but if stag poke r par- vd we of ; of the past personality test students like to play and engage Just as much universities PORET, see five coeds horse races ampalgns tudents do Clifford R. Adams, assistant hology at the Penn. ola ults ir e ng ma line and fem! the Persor by him and V. M Men students, on the other hand, seem to be vie-struck as the girls, Al ast they have just as Dr these res devised Lepley from much desire lest revealed would and both en to act in movies, the Both men and girls lke to perform n the radio, jon olf and bridge There are still | some differences in the likes and dislikes of men and women, however Men still want to ant role, the expressed preference tivities being master monie ' a domin- answer showed, They test, leading ¢ fiving an airplane, and sales prospects wtill interviewing Adve they expressed ing regions, prize fights, {Ce nture attracts them for in explor- sports, interest polar strenu watching stinged Otis f od A ares, riG- big on Page a2) Move to Complete Airport 5 at Black Moshannon Viewed i | as Renewed Army Maneuver DIRTY WORK: | Bellefonte’s Raymond and Diane, whe run of the area Bouth Water su summer, and who are become the communit near Workmen Start Construction of New Power Line; Seen as Ideal Spot for Interceptor Plane Command; Located in Heart of State The Black Maoshannon the largest emergency fleld United Btates, is to be completed and made ready for use, according to an announcement by the Philips. burg Dally Journal this week Pennsylvania Electric workmen actually started Monday, says the Journal a power line to the. airport the already installed lights up and the airport, in Company wor on to take so that may be hooked field placed in sevice This sudden years of idlene several to indi- move a8 Was after ween cale that the army may have some | plans concerning the field The Black Moshannon airport is situated on the summit of the Al- legheny mountains in an ideal posi- tion of an army interceptor com- mand, It was pointed out was absolutely no official comment on the field but observers pointed out that the field is located in the exact heart of the state in a central point Yo Ingny of she aghony most ter RY Planes port fense of stationed could easily at the nearby support any de- New York, Philadelphia Baltimore, Washington, B u flalo, Pittsburgh, Akron, Cleveland, ana other important manufacturing and defense cities, BStralegically placed the port would offer protection to nation’s important bituminous and anthracite coal fields oll wells trans-continenta] rathoads and highways, including the turnpike, steel . rubber, and other important industrial sections. th we BABY BORN IN ROCKING LIFEBOAT The story of a brave woman giv- ing birth to a son, in a lifeboat fill- ed with survivors of a torpedoed vessel while tossed on the waves of an angry sea, is certain to become an epic of the Battie of the Atlan- tic—a battle which already has re- sulted in almost unbelievable tales of human courage, Torbearatye and endurance, | The woman, Mrs. Desanka Mohor. tovicie, a sturdily built matron 28 years old with blond hair and bright bitie eyes was enroute t§ this coun try to join her husband who is at. tached to the Jugosiavian Consul. ate in New York, when the medium- sized vessel aboard which she was traveling with her two-year-old daughter, Visna, was torpedoed by a | German submarine, Attended by a ship's doctor who was in agony because of two broken birth i lifeboat waves af- Trews oo ” Sunday off ribs to a baby pitched about by 15- ter thelr ship was sunk the Atlantic coast Here is the story of the unusual experience as pieced together from the survivors: The skipper of the vessel hud pre. an eventuality and the sh ips doctor 1 same Mtebont with woman in eve t tacked th vOtIrie we young mother gave boy in a crowd foot pared for such arranged that would go into ti the pregnant vessel was at Thus, when two tory the vessel Sunday, shortly after noon, Mrs. Mohorovivic, her two- year-old daug Dr. LI. H. Conley of Brooklyn, and two other women climbed into No, 4 lifeboat with 17 other passengers and seamen The doctor took with him the sim. ple instruments provided in an em- wie truck wdog rh ghter ergency lifeboat kit tant, gauze i forceps and thesia, About nine hours after boat left the si was born. | Leroy Tate, a seaman lold of the rdifffieuitioy under which the delivery was performed “The sea was rough. The waves were high and water sas constant- i¥ being splashed Into boat. By the time labor pains had begun the boal was practically full of water “The woman had nto shoes - Al- though the paling continued for sev- eral hours she was more than brave 8he did not complain and did every- thing she cot iid to make it as easy as possible for the doctor and those who attended “We rigged . tisdn foe Ome disniec- idages, but no 0 Anes the life- nking vessel the child the up a piece of canvas shield to give her privacy for the ordeal It their vessel as a was not until 40 hours had been torpedoed that U. 8. naval vessels picked them up. | Some of the survivors In the life~| boat were so weak by then that they had to be assisted up the side of the rescue boat. But not Mrs. Mohorovicic, Bhe climbed virtually unassisted up the cargo net which had been lowered over the side, and then walked the fell length of the naval vessel and took a shower before going to bed Jack Roy Rodriguez Boston another survivor, said a school of sharks swam continuously around the water-logged boat “We beat them off with our oars.” he said “Everyone Was good to me.” Continged on Pape Siz) of the Car, Coal Truck Crash On Road Vehicles Go Over Six-Foot! Bank; Power Pole Snapped Off in Collision A serious motor accident in which | miraculously no one was hurt, oc- | curred Wednesday afternoon of last week at Dunnstown, Clinton county. About 1:45 a light coach driven by Walter Hamberger, Jr. of Lock Haven, R. D. 1, and a heavily load. ed coal truck operated by Charles Hahn. of Karthaus, collided, left the highway at the five-way inter- section near the McCloskey Service Center, went over a six-foot em- bankment and snapped off a tele phone pole which was about a foot | in diameter at the base. Hamberger, according to State Motor Police reports, had left the service station where he had obtain. ed gasoline, Facing west, he turned | onto the highway and wag driving east on the right of the road. He attempted to turn left at the five- way intersection to go toward Lock- | port on the old macadam road, Meanwhile the truck, moving east | from Lock Haven, was overtaking the car when the two collided. The car came to rest part way | down the embankment having been | pinned between the snapped pole and a tree which withstood the | shock. The truck crashed onward | into the yard at the home of J. H. police disclosed that Langer and his | | Hitchner, passing the porch and | {coming to a stop within five feet of | the house. The Pennsylvania Power an a scene only to find that the pole broken in the mishap was the prop-| erty of the Bell Telephone Com- pany. However, the men tied a red, cloth, warning to high trucks that | the wires were lower over the high-| way several feet above the ground and the broken end of the top part dropped to earth with the many wires supporting it enough to pre- vent a complete fall, More than half of the and much of It was to be found over the motor of the car, the front end of which was crushed together from both sides. Smart men and women are, even now, preparing themselves against being fooled on the first of next month, Read the Classified sds. | Light Company crew rushed to the| as the pole was snapped off | big load | {of coal was scattered about the lawy | Father Taught Son To Steal Altoona Man “Sentenced Serve 2 to 5 Years in Alle- gheny Workhouse fo Wiillam Bugene Lai wer, Altoona, who allegedly taught his son to en- gage in purse snatching, was sens tenced Monday to serve two to five years in the workhouse and pay a fine of 850 and costs of prosecution. The Blair County judge roundly scored Langer for teaching his boys to steal and permitting them to live in a hovel The judge remarked that it is such parents who are large- ly resnonsible for the growth of juvenile delinquency ceived the proceeds from hall a idozen or more purse snatching | thefts committed by a son, Edward i Langer, now in the Pennsylvania industrial school for boys. | was said to have received $0.90 which {| was the sum stolen by the son when he took a young girl's purse at an | Altoona market March 18. The court stipulated that Langer's ‘term in the workhouse is to be at iseparate and solitary confinement {and at labor, yet he admitted all of the allegations preferred against him. i It is said an investigation by city two boys, as well as another boy, ! lived in squalor in the city. The {family received relief at times but Lanzsr was alleged to have urged! the boys to steal be intelligent rather than popular. Read the Classified ads, The police said the defendant re- Langer | The defense offered by | Langer is that he is in poor health, | { In addition to his parents, Lt. Powell Killed In Bomber Crash Young West Decatur Army Pilot Loses Life When Heavy Plane Falls Elias Powell, 22, of Decatur, near Philipsburg, was one of two U. 8. Army pilots killed when the huge Douglas bomber which he was piloting crashed during a take- off at Romulus Field. near Detroit, Mich, at 3:45 Saturday afternoon Lieutenant Powell was on a rou- tine ferrying duty fiight for trans- port planes when the accident oc- cured. Witnesses stated that the plane had gained an altitude of 300 feet when one motor went dead throwing the ship downward into a nearby clump of trees Lt. Powell, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Powell of West Decatur, was {well known in Philipsburg and near- iby communities, having graduated from the Philipsburg High School in | the Class of 1836. Following gradu- ation he enrolled in a CCC Camp at | | Damascus, Va. for twelve months. | { He was later employed by the Gen- {eral Refractories Company in Blue | Eldon Ball and by the Pennsylvania De- | partment of Highways. Lt. Powell visited in West Decatur with his folks only last week while jon a four-day furlough brothers and two sisters survive. Lt. Powell was a member of the | {West Decatur United Brethren! {church and a member of the Blue! {Ball Troop of the Boy Scouts of | America. A full military funeral was con- | ducted by the John Ashley Dennis | ipsburg at the West Decatur United | Brethren church at 2:30 o'clock with {burial in Mock's cemetery. West | five | Miner Crushed | Nicholas Latz, Jr., Tragic Death in Mine Near Osceola Mills Nichoss Lats, Jr. 27-year-old son of Nicholag Latz of New Liberty, was crushed and killed Tuesday of last week when a large rock weigh- ing several] tons fell on him while he was digging coal in the Beaver No 2 mine near the Osceola Mills PRR roundhouse. Clearfield County Coroner Dr. E '8. Erhard, Curwensville and state officials investigated the accident on Wednesday. Tt was the first mine | fatality of the year in the Moshan- non Valley. | Beaver No. 2 mine is owned by !James Eyerly of Philipsburg, Latz ‘and his buddy were sald to have | been, working together when the ac- | cident occurred. Latz was doing pil- lar work, digging coal from a pillar {when the rock fell from the roof {and crushed him beneath it. Other miners were called to the | scene and helped to pry the rock from the crushed form and he was the | There | after | By Fall of Rock M e e t 5 mediately after the accider rushed to the hospital in the am- | { Located only Atlantic ocean i fer a base for Interceptor head off any raider getting past the coas The airport } runw a last September with state officials ; } gram which a people. At completed administration builc uaa] hooking on the already in: A crew of 18 men + Continued on rage Truck Crashes Service Station pian ceeding al defens was Gel MARTINS: Aarti SAT of electric tall q Hoh te » valied ugn The vere on 1 Siz) Damages Estimated at More Than £4.600 in Accident at Port Matilda Damages $4,600 were cs ing when E. Carper into the several miles on Route 22( Carper just before he } He awoke second truck making # erything in th knocked two steel sig of the phone pole before ed sedan of Blan From there it ther pole Service sis the Pi K~ boun wires from ced in which fire congitions . ind ust to the West Penn lines that would happen users would be that they'd be to delrost their hange thelr washing time, y d Port Matilda were called to fight the flames. Carper emerged {rom his crashing | { hundred-foot ride without a scratch | but too scared to say a word to in- | vestigating officer Pvt John Amick jof the Pleasant Gap motor police | sub-station. new a few hours on pie the demand for cu peak Popson added that Burns Fatal To asers of electricity Mother of Six Can Explodes While Pouring s ¢ Coal Oil on Fire at Farm Home certain rrent VANZANDT ¥XPLAINS: Elsewhere in this statement by Congress VanZandt in regard ington Merry-Go-Rot his experience wit guard at Washi story appeared in this weeks ago. Mr. VanZan 1 is much, much {00 Ww lication in this no surprise WHAT TO DO? ISSLe . Mrs. Elizabeth Erma Knarr | wile of Henry E. Knarr, was fatally | burned while pouring kerosene in ¢ stove at her hom Rauchiown linton county, one morning week. She died at the Jersey | Hospital where she was taken near rtment partm Jn {| Mrs. Knarr, mother of iren, is reported to ia summer kitchen, | preparing to wash, and poured ker. Bellefonte’s policemen iosene from a can into the stove bounced In Council Mr when the explosion occurred. The for escorting women woman rushed from the buildin in the borough ‘with all her clothing burning and rolled in a pile of snow in the yard Her husband and six children sur- vive. The deceased and her family made their home with her hus- band's father, Charles Knarr, on a farm and the husband was at the house when the explosion occurred Burial was made in Nippenose church cemetery. Bix have gone where she was ht night tack scare in Bellefonte Council] instructed police persons home at night | tn wD have never been withdrawn police, consequently, they were told. Council's Monday night forbidding the (Continued on Pope Five) IT'S EASY THIS WAY [%) ROLL HIF FLAT. WITH THE ibulance. Doctors pronounced him | | dead, however, and he was not ad- Imitted. It is believed that he died | instantly. | His body was badly crushed. His i neck, arms, legs, and ribs were frac- tured. Latz was said to be stooped over picking when the rock came loose, It was fore than a foot (Contimued on Page Siz) Furnace Blast Fatal Mrs. Roy L. Guyer, 29, daughter of The only excuse for writing is to Post of the American Legion, Phil- Mr. and Mrs. Dominick Porto, Elk- land, died of burns suffered when a furnace oll burner backfired at her | Newark, N. J. home Sunday. AYROLL SAV NGS PLANS FOR DEFENSE BONDS AND STAMPS (5F YOURE NOT mw ASK YOUR poss” refrigerators, or re oh from using their sweepers for . when late police car. During the purse-snatching and at- last ¥ if they asked for such service Those iI siruetion n were going as action lise ¢ PETER PUBLIC—Hooray!! Corte, HA AA AS CRACY AT ms, BEST. PETER] Bots BX Sa Wd Sp /
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