§ Odd and CURIOUS in the The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County A Visitor In Seven Thousand ‘Homes Each Week SECOND SECTION dhe Cenire Democraf NEWS, FEATURES VOLUME 61. BELLEFONTE, PA., THI 21, 1942. “ IRSDAY, MAY NUMBER 21 = NEWS = HORSE DELIVERY The New York Daily News put 70 horses and wagons into service Monday delivering papers in sec- tions of Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens. Motor deliveries were continued on Sta- ten Island. The paper said it was co-operating with the onfee of Defense Transportation to | save tires and gasoline in sup- | port of the war effort. FAVORITE HIDING PLACE | Wells Logan, of Kennett, Mo, forgot the money he had hidden under the rug during a recent stay at a Poplar Bluff, Mo., hotel. Anxiously he telephoned the ho- tel: “I doubt if the money is still there,” he said, “but if it is please send it to me.” Last week Logan received three five-dollar bills in the mail. He'd only put two under the rug. EMERGENCY OPERATION | Firemen Stanley Osik and Howard Ludlow, Norwich, Conn, responding to an emergency call proved they were good mechan- ies by dismantling and reassem- bling Mrs. William C. Thorp's washing machine in Jig time. They had to do it to free Mrs. Thorp's angora cat which had caught its tail in the machine's gears. MOTHER AT 13 Thirteen - year - old Elizabeth Kreiser of Elizabethtown, gave birth to a six-pound son Satur- day. Her husband, Calvin G. Kreiser, a shoe worker, is 17. Dr. Dorsey G. Butterbaugh said the mother and son were “doing very nicely.” REWARD FOR LOAFING E. M. Getts, Delta, Colo, a weather forecaster, got tired of digging in his garden and spraw- led on the ground to rest. His outstretched fingers touched 2 piece of metal. It was the wed- ding ring his wife lost in 1937. OH! OH! A woman helper at a town rummage sale at Parsons, Kan, laid her purse aside while she waited on a customer. Return- ing a few minutes later, she dis- covered another woman had sold the purse for a nickle. MEET THE JAPS A World War Navy veteran and his wife are air raid wardens in the Belmont Heights district in Chicago. Their names are Arthur and Jeanette Japs. -. Few workers retain their stolid indifference when the clock says it's time to stop work ann Things were buzzing in the New Kensington, Cumberland County post office, bit it was not business The postmistress, Mrs. Susie Mar- tin, was in a quandary. It all began when a cardboard box sent to the post office by mistake, for Kingston, began giving off ominous sounds. Careful investigation dis- closed the sound to be that of indus- trious bees So carefully, Mrs. Martin deposited the box in a bucket. But the indus- try for which the bees are famous, was put to use on a weakened cor- ner of the carton, and before long, the bees managed to make an open- ing sufficiently large to escape from their dark receptacle and buzz around in the post office Residents of the community call- ing at the post office were amazed to discover the place had suddenly been transformed into an apiary, p_ West Penn Power Company Discusses Power Consumption In War Times To answer customers’ questions relating to the adequacy of power supply in the territory served by West Penn Power Company, an of- ficial statement is made In the cur- rent issue of West Penn News, the employe publication of the Company Some of the questions which have arisen are: Is there a power short- age in the territory served by West Penn? Is it the patriotic thing for the customer to reduce his use of electric service to make more elec- tricity available to help win the war? These and other questions are par- ticularly interesting in the light of the limitation order issued by the War Production Board on May 1, which set up machinery for war- time rationing of electric power any- where in the United States in the event that a power shortage threat- | School students | death Four Yeagertown Junior High School Students Burn To Death In Auto Crash Driver of Fated Car Reported to Have Run Through Stop Sign Into Path of Tractor- Trailer Driven by McVeytown Man at the end of the bridge, and then plunged over a ten-foot embank- ment, the trailer landing on top of Junior High were burned to last Wednesday night after Four Yeagertown { the automobile in which they were | riding collided with a tractor-trail- ler five miles west of Lewistown on route 22. near Strodes Mills The automobile, driven by Harold the car Richwine said that Alice Patricia Wright, 15, of Yeagertown, a pas- senger in the car, was thrown clear of the wreckage but died on the way at { by Harry Harshbarger | piece of the bridge out | along the full | Receives la | Coalport last Wednesday afternoon, { old {an automobile driven by James M | jaw, lacerated leg and face, and had | his left ear almost torn off | Thursday morning in {burg State Hospital | Mrs {occurred at the intersection of Wo ung the long offensives of BEES UPSET PEACEFUL ROUTINE OF VILLAGE POST MISTRESS i that in his twenty-five years’ experi- to the hospital of a fractured skull The girl died without regaining con- sciousness Mitchell, 16, of Lewistown, R. D. 3 reported to have failed to stop an intersection at the scene of the accident and ran directly into The wreckage caught on fire, said the path of a tractor-trailer driven Private Ric hwine and trailer of McVey- and the automobile were compiete- consumed before the of According to the motor police, the companies that were sum- force of the tractor-trailer pushed moned from Lewistown the car 127 feet, knocking it into the Pinned In autcmobile side of a bridge about 85 feet from driver Mitchell, 16 the point impact, tore a large Lewistown, R. D. 3; David 8. Bake! slid the car 18, of Lewistown Heights, and Mary bridge Margaret Wear, 16 Yeagertowr All were hurned beyond recogni ! Police in order to get the from the wreckage were use acetviene torches to tomobile apart B Hy Life Police estimated the damage don» oy IS to the trailer alone to be $4,000 S————————— the damage to the bridge was sald Skull to amount to $250 Harshbarger succeeded in himself by kicking the door trailer cab open and crawling out before the fire had gained headwa) police said. Taken | Harshbarger was treated {or mino injuries and discharged - Read the Classified ads is + we town iy t! the fire the Harold the of n length of the of and Fractured When Wagon Collides With Automobile 1 i ’ the hosnit ing t to the hospital ing street down in Rid side heir coaster wagon onto Spruce street Jimmie Peacock and his three-year- - brother, Richard collided with The Oldtimer "| PEMEMBER WHEN THE WRIGHT BROTHERS MADE THEIR FIRST FLIGHT, ABOUT FORTY YEARS AGO AT KITTY HAWK 4 WITH CAROLINA THEY | & WT THE FIRST POWER. DRIVEN MAN (ARPYIN( Vi ANE WE (AN TELL A BOMBER FROM A DIVER OR A (OMBAT [oad ANE ANE WHEN WE SEE A Mo IN THE, Centre county fa opport to put their mers an next week in good nt County f f ten 1m neth Wert Farmers Centr Supply ay 28 6°00 Gap May 20 Matilda cman, Rebersl 800 a Falls From Horse wilt} ¢ ‘Government's Plan to Halt JAIL THEM! Rise In Cost of Living Now Affects All Retail Prices Prices of All Staple Goods Must Be Displayed In Stores for Public to See; Commodities of Seasonal Natures Exempted rnment most sweeping rises in t of liv- nto effect 1 f Ne CoO Monday itd ¢ f rigid +t i0on Oi rigig re- morn- 130 HEgs on thousand How It Will Work how Lhe Cook of Johnstown. Jimmie suffered a badly fractured skull, fractured He died the Philips- The younger brother was badly Injured. Physic- fans state that he probably has a fractured skull as well as fractured right leg, and contusions the body The children Robert There could be no better time talk about saving rubber, about mak- the tires on America’s automo- Ww when f season of to ing biles last, than right nc are entering upon warm weather over all of we are sons of Mr. and Peacock. The accident’ prom now until autumn, from now spring concluded Came and this great war has entered upon at his right, botieg another Stage, trelds on the they were hidden behind a 4-100 yir0e or our automoblles wili be embankment until the wagon shot wearing out twice as fast as during out onto the street and into the car. tha winter months Police sald no charges would be . “ - f— Heat and friction are brought against Mr. Cook enemies of rubber. Tire treads wear Sopot . out five times as fast in a tempera ture of 100 degrees as when the ther- mometer registers 40 degrees Friction is always with and out of season. But patriotic Ameri- can drivers, anxious to save rubber in tires which is est civilian reserve of rubber, can do something about friction According to the Rubber Manu- facturers’ Association, tire are worn out twice as rapidly at 70 miles streets. Mr. Cook was traveling on and summer have been Spruce street and the boys Runt? a down the grade the great Buy coal now or be cold later us, in that the great- and Postmistress Martin was unable to conduct business. The bees mis- took New Kensington's populace for blossoms as they visited the place for mail and stamps treads irreplacable rub- is torn from the treads of ol ares To anyone aware that our life and death + pends on st these move ton few people brakes tha wasted rub at too gr section motoring as usual foolish because the wheels of all ti themselves off they ti hour—when they any But this drive more refusal In desperation, Postmistress Mar- tin telephoned to Harvey Heagy, vet- eran postal worker at Carlisle, who Is acting postmaster there. Between swishes of her arms at the buzzing bees near her face, Mrs. Martin ex- plained her plight. After a few min- utes deliberation, Heagy admitted Man Arrested In College Robbery £3,000 Cache of Merchandise Discovered on Hotel Man's Property Lawrence A. Stubler, 41-year-old proprietor of the Richelieu Hotel, ence in the post office he never was confronted with such a problem, and he suggested that Mrs. Martin get “a bee man” to put the bees back into the box so they could be for- warded again Altoona, was arrested last Thursday Intrepid residents of the commun- on a charge of receiving $3,000 worth ity managed to carry the bucket, box of jewelry stolen February 13, 1941. and bees onto the porch of the post from the Schomberg Jewelry store office, and the bees were visiting all at State College parts of the town during the night State Policeman 8. R. Richardson = mem of Rockview barracks and R. J Daly of the Ant Hill sub-station nabbed Stubler Thursday morning and took him to Ebensburg for pre- liminary hearing. In lieu of 81.500 ball, Stubler was remanded to Eb- ons ens or occurs, This order is broad- Te as eu reported Stubler ly divided into two parts. One leaves had cached about $3,000 worth of to the utility operators the job of jewelry watches and other mer- seeing that everything possibie 15 | chandise stolen from the State Col- done in each area to assure the jo. ore in 1941 by Edgar A Swartz maximum supply of power at all .ny william 1. Kelley, both of Al- times; the other part contains re- toon. stubler was handed the loot strictive provisions on the use of { cambria county police declared electric service which become oper- | guid to have beer: friends of Stub- ative only after the War Production ler. Swartz and Kelley were each Board defines “power shortage ar-| ...tenced last year to 2-4 year terms eas” in which such provisions woud in Western Penitentiary at be effective. The War Production pop tor participating in the Clear- Board policy will be to invoke the gf. rr robbery prior to the State order only where it is absolutely College case and received similar necessary, and then only to the ex- sentences after pleading guilty to tent and for the duration that is re- the latter in Centre pon Ts ot quired by the war effort, Police sald Stubler'’s arrest grew West Penn welcomes this War 0 continued investigation of Production Board order because, in the jewelry case. Stubler, a native the event a power shortage should oll City was held tor Cambria develop in this area, it will be pos- county's next grand jury after a (Continusd on Page Pios) prima facie case was established. “Some Things He Woul With a fine appreciation of new: values in times like these, the Yale Alumni News has been collecting the opinions of former students now in the armed services as to what they would have done with their college courses could they select them now. The views of most of these men have changed tremendously. Virtual- ly all of them would have done dif- ferently had they known what was ahead. Here is a typical expression: Here's what I would have done In 1935 if I had known then what I know now, and here's what I would advise my successors on the campus to do: Take as many engineering | na Sm { Signal Tower Ruined Have Done *ourses as possible—whether you damaged when struck by a large feem yourselves scientifically or me- | truck owned by the Kenmar Manu- thanically inclined or not. The work facturing Company, of Bast Pales- | »f the war and the work of the tine, Ohio. The driver of the truck | world of tomorrow will require men suffered minor injuries and the dam- | and women who know their mathe- age to the truck was estimated at | matics, physics and chemistry. If 1 8150. The tower, erected In 1929, is | had acquired a working knowledge said to have proved a traffic hazard, of those subjects in college, I and to have resulted In two fatal. wouldn't have been the poor bewil- ities, injury to several persons and dered dud that I am today. 1 can considerable property damage, pilot a plane, yes. but piloting rep- | a resents a very minor factor in the To Dedicate Gym aviation game. Engines, navigation,| Gov, Arthur H James will partici. and aerodynamics are much bIgger pate in the dedication of Blooms. | factors; and 1 am picking them up | burg State Teachers College's new (Continued on Page Five) | $300,000 gymnasium May 23. Pitts- | The traffic signal at a street inter- | section in Ridgway was extensively | Mt. Union Youth Killed by Truck Dashed Out From Behind Parked Car in Path of Heavy Truck John Martin Saulen, 5. of Mount Union, was fatally struck by a truck Thursday moming of last week the vicinity of Mount Uni High School The child had been playing on the sidewalk with several friends and suddenly dashed out from behind a parked car directly into the path of a large truck owned by C. Crouse, and operated by Henry Vaughan, both of Mount Union Police said Vaughan swerved to miss the lad but the right whee] of the truck struck the boy Rushed immediately to the office of Dr. C R, McCiain, of Mount Union, the lad was administered first aid treat- ment and then was taken to Blair Memorial Hospital at Huntingdon Hospital authorities stated that the lad received a fracture of the skull. bruises of the right side. and brush burns of the right side of his face. The lad died st 11 a. m. with- out regaining consciousness the Fire Destroys Meat Meat valued at approximately £200 was destroyed by fire at about 11 o'clock Wednesday morning at the farm of Raymond Diesher. located about one mile from Turbolville The Turbotville fire company re- sponded to an alarm but the smoke. house was practically destroyed be- fore firemen could reach the scene. Firemen saved nearby buildings. For Victory: Buy Bonds. ; for it These Are us are fighting in the kn thers 18 leas than one 1pply of rubber is men who in these circ on the wheels red Lieut. Bear Inju In Motor Collision Husband of Bellefonte Girl Suffers Fractured Right Arm and Left Leg It. W.C. A. Be tor Police formerly ar of the State Mo- stationed Harrisburg stationed in Bellefonte, was Thursday in an auto collision near Liverpool Motor police at the barracks said Bear wns in an automobile at t accident bury he st injured lost Duncannon riding alone he time of the He wag removed to a Sun- hospital] where attendants said suffered a fractured right arm and left leg Lt. Bear ix married to the former Evelyn Aikey of Bellefonte, who has been with her husband in Harris. burg. The three children, Colletta, Thomas and Marcella, attending the Bellefonte schools, are living with their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs Thomas Mosier, on North Spring street Cars Crash at Lock Haven Cars driven by William G. Hoy, of Lock Haven, and George E. Carlton, of Hampton, Va. the latter vehicle owned by Ellen B. Heverly of How- ‘ard R. D. 1, figured in a crash Sun- day afternoon at the Monument in Lock Haven, resulting in $7 damage to the former automobile and 81 to the latter. Hoy was traveling west on Main street, making a left turn onto Bellefonte avenue, when the other car, which had stopped at the stop sign while traveling east on Main street, started If you want to flatter ysur girl, | | call her “Sugar.” i HOW TO SAVE RUBBER-AND WHY malt riding on about rubber and there yut fAfty-nine additional ¢ of rubber visrwhere on his in fan belt other ie inds of crud in engine window mounts ye ling Chants and agency : rotten Lous America it hould this be hecess: the American people that they are ice Loward mment-—as ¥ i whic ing rubber is th ing a civilian ecofiomy geares Time Page Five) on wheels rubber (Conlinged on Prominent Pastor Dies Suddenly Rev. H. F. Rector Passes Away at Parsonage Home in Lock Haven The Rev. Harry F. Rector leading churchman in civic state and national circles, died un- expectedly at his home In Lock Havep at 10 o'tlock Friday morning May 14, 1042. The Rev. Mr. Rector had suffered an embolism whil mowing the lawn on Monday, but was believed to have been recuper- ating Pastor of First Church in Lock Haven for more than 20 years. the Rev. Mr. Rector was one of the organizers of the Brotherhood of the Tenth District, Church of Christ. Williamsport is included in the district He was a past president of both Lock Haven and Clinton county ministeriums. He was active {n state missionary board work of his church as well as in civic and temperance work Surviving are his wife; a son, By- ron, Lansdowne, and a daughter Mrs. Wade Harpster, State College 65 county © of Christ Appointed Inspector George A. Tidlow, Lock Haven contractor, has been appointed an inspector in the Department of La- bor and Industry, replacing Harry Taylor, of Salona. The appointment was announced by Dr. John Davies, of Lock Haven, chairman of the Re- publican County Committee, Satur- day. >» It's simply a choice of Bonds or Bondage. they will not be higher highest he charged commodity in Mar TRAFFIC LIGHT " Couple Jump As Train Hits Truck Mr. and Mrs. J. LL. Shank of Salona, Have Miraculous Escape PRIVATE STOCK A ¢ gine of the passenger GAS RATIONING ing the vehicle agalr t CTOssiT This corner sabi standard East ¢ breaking the gate the Near Broker truck were scattered of -way engine } CLEARFIELD GIRL WINS LEGION ESSAY CONTEST Shoulder Injured Albert K. Wood fell {rom of his electric repair suffered a she admitted t and was pital (Continued om Pape Siz) < r ar 4 T™S MONEY, HENRY 2 L MAKE EVERY Pay-DaY A BOND DRY, We CAN DOIT, 2 ~Courtesy Washington, D. C., Star THERE HE 16,CAPN]- | | \ PETER PUBLIC—The Mair Squeezes By F. O. ALEXANDER
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