Odd d The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week | oa an “ cumous | iv The Confre Democvaf i |" 3 5 [tems "NEWS ~ |voLuME 61. BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1942, © NUMBER 23 ee ——————————————————— i - . pa I ————— —-=— \ - re — DOG ADOPTS CHICKS “Mitzi,” a poodle dog owned by Bellefonte Academy Has Class of 42 290 Planes Take Port In “or: i te tote 15. E ngler, driver of the Holli- . ® . . word sentence for the study of Eng- awsnure mini us nas snes | Long, Honorable Career | | Civil Air Patrol Meeting ome comme: ies a family of five chicks, The 18 peeps were bought for a son, | . a Le : . but upon the arrival of the new In Ed ucational Annals 4 , : At Moshannon Airport pets they were in turn taken over | y fo J » by a pet. Mitzi cries until she | 2 : { : ] . . ’ . : - gs . y is near them, neighbors’ does | Many Prominent Men Received Their Scholas- ¥ ) Organization's First General Mobilization 2 ™ a y the throaty grow Sh 8 ‘ i std 4 pet Cat Is 1abov In thei tic Training at This School; Won Distinc- Q b Drew 627 Flyers and Record Crowd of vicinity. Attest in their care Is | i y a new one brought up by the tion n Sports and Athletics SN ’ : : Spectators to Centre County Resort chicks themselves, Going to bed \ ' ' —— one night the family was par- Nuch | on written and much {support { an Academy or public ) ticular to see that they were in |, = sn Belle. 1 school it the SOURLY. By. unt Set in VW ; A - dronning diein WwW pars their box made for them and a fonts Acade mv and its long and corporating the “Bellefonte Acad- / y ONS ' along with dummy bomb cover thrown over. In the morn- hon rable COI'BOY 1 ¢ the emy.” approved January 8, 1805, the Wir it y ing they were surprised to find State's foremost ducation Lia it designated {for educational pur- all five chicks outside their box tution oses and occupied by the Academy and snuggled in the protecting harass h Ce mrannete | Was transferred to the control of its warmth of Mitzi's body. Mitzi, Because the Asa eS a former circus performer, knows Sine : M5 nresentative men of the county quite a few tricks but this newest De ech a rains +b On January 9. 1806. a sum of $2.- one astounded everyone. 2 ntw al Ee * tus —- ; ; tha 000 was granted to the Academy © HE FOOLED EM “I'm satisfied with my present employment, I do not care to be drafted and just what are you going to do about it?” That's what John D. Vincent wrote to 2 : ) his draft board in Belton, Mont. ; lel Hastings was the principal after receiving his questionnaire. fw = hool at that time : ’ Iie { ] wit R { ta n tron tl ' And he got away with it. But : i It was in the year 1868 that the ha or ; pid Bly ana. oI : Car Inspector BIRD NEWS te, Br toe : tai a whoo destined lo pre Conined that ents” fev, cone belies that st present. tre vest ang. moor pce comues) Killed In Yards seni ex and wed the war 1 n book or books of the $i members of the f ried ’ i Ie board of trustees, composed of 24 ys OTe nigh I £500,000 ‘hool bullding, whicl ‘Beat of new and more wuilding erected. Ex-Govern listing his residence as Camp Roberts: his occupation as buck ™ ; ' . Sree Rass ah h : private, U. S. Army: his duties ar oy eo : vicinity for entrunce into col-| ers ar UPPED Ye a i A IATL is Wn foi Programs ana were about 1500 cars parked on the roan. A ( 59 A KP and marching; his average F © ge. Fr y ! n the Acad- tors in either square di rr throughout Industrial nmunit n the it of the " " A. Corby d DE . Run Over pay $21 a month, minus deduc- A : oy A) ind Yip rp hg i ! / Jv Locomotive in Jun- tions. Vincent had enlisted. TE Jes, PDBIpWEY Rhu I eslecea Stain rflann whl elie] Co more cars to enter the port, stating jata Yards pare the Improvements and additions to a > TE A STAMP-LICKER HE te made {rors Nicodemus, a two-year-old Fh BN vear to year and in 1813 the then rin dachshund, is doing his bit by gl he admaster James R. Hughe 0 will be place 11 early American licking war savings stamps. His i of the Rev James P. Hughes, pur- squai ing. repidly growing pop of : master Charles Gallenkamp, of chased the school buildings and the ylar in this community. Students n ily fi amental steps Los Angeles, trained him for the | _ two Beezer properties along South attending the regular summer ses- of ancing also will get job and says scores of his school- J Spring street, tripled the size of the gon as well as school teachers and instruction in group management mates are buying all the stamps 4 main ding and Dre d for a others enrolled in t i" wl py Ye dan oi Bom) nla they can just to see Nick per- A i large in se in the school attend ssions ai " d 1 Alling" sauste dances. and i form. “He's sold several hund- : ' y A 4 , pi Hu Wall red dollars worth,” says Charley. GOVERNOR GIVES RIDE ; tudent-body. Bell 1d vicin A limousine stopped at Center- The Bellefonte Academy will never ty profited tiv by thorough - ville to pick up Private Dennis be dead as long as its former head- ness the haracterized the Acad Coyle, hiteh-hiking back to master James R. Hughes (above) Camp Meade after a furlough. is in town, for “Mr. James” has oo ee “ ed id th tleman ir never ceased to believe that some - " a. — ; Lr . uy tu _— Coyle Pr me day, somehow, tive famed old school A | | | 3 iE Y 4 Y 2 7 CY rode as far AS Harrisburg with will be granted a new lease on life | 1R/ X 4 AY / Governor Arthur H. James. If wishing and working toward an w | vi i 1 4 1 - TA hy efforts most certainly will produce Hess, Altoona WG ars. Frances , g ough &DOt aim is a guarantee of success, his SOME PUSH results : ia} — tal Yo ’ not ew . Z ' Shaft Wel vi Fin erasable ms ouncil is in a gh spo With Answering an advertisement Seated by a glowing stove, In un-| was Call obi go . irom histori lublersburg. wher {. Sharp liked t alk With 4 caveral brothers and saere alo. Fcarcely enough funds this year to announcing 300 pairs of stock- na ; ideas.’ survi operations of ings for sale, 500 women pushed Le ” fy SHG [a1 ireets, we | cabin of the vintage of 1804 but _ m ats od tow " ata ol T™ "i. val { his st would say. Speak- orby was a member of the ye perately into a store at Vancouver so : h dnely to review tne stil] sturdy and strong, John Bas- 7 1iovd in the Lycoming Hise SI ing of ploughs, Brungart., of Brush | First Methodist Church, Juniata. for strenuously that a plate glass tory of the Academy inger, Clinton county retired. 0. “00: ng. Williamaw , Opeaking of Peter Haunts, W., Valley wasn't the only He served window was crushed. None of Our search for material wa woodsman, told of old days n the port but perhaps y yrto} i help Him Hownrd Woife, also a retired lum- maker ry pul out a wooden- school 25 years as general s the women was injured and the | fresh view on Academy history was Black Forest, when Jumber was king. o "0 1g of BAG dd be required 2CTIDAN. born in 1857, said, “A ougly called the IXL which tendent and was also presid stockings were sold in less than ready-made, for at the recent third (“My first job” he } E di have often res ked Peter Hauntz was a great favo! with Central the trustee board a half hour. annual reunion of th ellefont he C. P. L. Co } { p n ¢ th farm “ cL nn Academy Alumni Association {.! resort, Eagles Mere, Sullivan cot ber 1 helj it wa st across the mo istinguished looking men hot r furns worked with 2 . 92 YEARS ON LIQUIDS Jumes R. Hughes, former headmas- | then surrounded by primeval for- bill from Alloana, pear Cresson. a ever saw. Til like descriptions of team of horses. In those days th Held in Death of Although Mrs. Charlotte Mec- P00 Whe SCHON, TEVEA OF Sop Ye O98 aa i A i eas Yb at a a. Jel | (0a lantom, Wh A. super! I IH H Kay, of Plainview, Neb,, has lived gaye Deen A py ot ig TS, i leas BE Al fi ine il ard, longer h in Fat er Al | county a tw h rse tear ped outzdale Woman on liquid foods since she was 3 1a Ans be growth thus white Din “tn” his" niin To eri Peon Tiina ini pr jae 0 «iE DE he JOUSRS, CF ARLE Tua . if 25 00g 2 — De F ars ’ tor 3} “is wasonable May weather, in a A ad 2 " 3% Soa ‘ 0 X a4 il kinds of poopie. ‘to get new ideas local PICURL~ & S55 o . Ee in desperation. council is appealing to ir ies, clubs, organizations r ’ fr pomty years old, she is in excellent ad to f weg oi “me ons. But the tr n that tract n ir George Cleveland, Negro, Held N adding to flood danger Nore n tion i ) of ot } gic’ would attract at in anv ine matches ducts at th lin re 'Vels s AYE . < health at the age of 95. Mrs. the feu alga refutn. Mv work . anh idea of the fot BOD - | COMDARY Bomatimyem 1 ha win ton eounte tale or DY ame i : ' ‘ ETO . McKay's throat was burned in er dling the tack-sHp. b A wt aoversd the \ 11 rl Werkas or iat WASTE: $a o 13 - He Wad n BY Gnily OF 3 34M in Connection With an accident when she was a tot ion ppose many today know tershed in the d when the d him at Berry's plough we Kk: or sland rvaml : Haven “Towel Slaving” of three years. what such a thing was, or wha . NO WONDER BY heln i ve in unloading logs, and 4 A 4 ¥ stting then started down the slide Complaining of a severe ear- which was kept greased with what ache for several days, Donnie i —— - Cook, ir. 1. Was taken to the i - A = me a Ee I ET - = Tr fo Pa oe le | bls Youth Saved Robert Moore, 60, kernel from the boy's ear. | From Drowning Dies In Crash Days In Forest Graduates Twelve Army Deserter The Academy bell, pictured above, | po io After Being Pulled Native of Bald Eagle Fatally Found Crying But Unhurt Exercises Held Last Thursday 0d that testimony identified the 0 00 boo was reduced to a mass of molten ; . 2 near Held In Crash metal when the main building was From River at Lock Injured When Automo- Two Miles From His in Beech Creek Metho- scene as This corner has solved the problem | destroyed by fire in 1904. For Haven bile Skids Farm Home dist Church cide detectives disagreed with f how to obtain acurate and un- O ww . ” to | many years the bell, mounted in a jury's findings. contending the biased war bulletins When & 8 Homicide Charge Filed in Case | cup01a atop the building, had sum- w———— er. —— isha ier gen Buprbowiin Fema Sulteling. 00 the wat Involving Death of Year. | moned students to classes and had Prompt use of artificial respira-' Robert Moore, 60 perator of A two-day search for little Alvin Commencement exercises for the causes ti; iv on Dewsbaper Pn bat ; 3 been used in giving other signals tion revived Frank Lachat, 17, after gasoline static n at wan avenue Diggan in a Lycoming county forest, | Beech Creek High School were con- She was found dead with as time went oF: vo developed 8 ven Old Child at the school. After the fire head- he was pulled out of the river at Fiank Road : lied at during which bloodhounds from the ducted Thursday night, May 28. at stuffed in her throat fos. ASE 5 Hh ; RURRIRUREIR | master Hughes sent the metal from | Lock Haven, on the Lockport side, | the Mercy Hospital Mo after- Rockview prison took part. ended the Beech Creek Methodist church An open charge of homicide has! the bell to a smelter where it was Monday afternoon. He had been in noon, one hour after his ¢ i Monday when the child was found and diplomas were awarded 12 stu- been field against Charles Brigham,| converted into 300 miniature re- the water about five minutes. The skidded on the road near Duncans- ory and bewildered two miles dents by H A. Robb, principal : ’ pending the outcome of a coroner's | plicas of the original bell. These boy tumbled into the river, appar- ville and crashed into a telephone from his home Partciipating in the program based “Doolittle and Do It Now” inquest, according to State police of | miniatures were distributed among ently in a dive from the Lockport pole The boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tre- on the virtues of Democracy, were ; the Clearfield barracks : students and teachers as souvenirs. end of the dam after he and a com- Bert R. McCaul of Hollidays- vor Diggan, had been missing two five pupils, Clair Glock, Bernadine = fliers skimmed over the house. Brigham, an army deserter, fs| wie | Palion had waded across the river burd, RD, a passing motorist, saw days. The Diggan farm is on the | DiNicola. Ross Bitner. Robert Kitch- ” ¢ tops of Tokio and dropped bombs being held as a result of the death | HIS! Teri many new and - } To on the crest of the dam the mishap and stopping his car Lycoming-Nsithumberland counties en and Dorothy Hevner y Sie on Japanese docks, ships and mu of the 1 year old daughter of Frank | Unpuiished LACS With his remarks| poeos Caprio and Bill D'Ercole, succeeded in getting Moore from the line. Alvin was found not far from Orations given were: Joe Clark ; ; 4 iti lants th lm Libreatori, of Woodland. in an auto- | at the banquet as a beginnih®, We wh, were sitting on the Lockport wreckage and to the hospital. There the Susquehanna river where hills “The Job Ahead " Isabel Shilling. y 2 BO a ug lr mula den] mobile crash near West Decatur, | preval eg pen Mr James 10) bank. pulled Lachat out of the river Were no witnesses to the accident. rise like cliffs from the shore. Sun- “Grumbling Soldier.” and Richard | ; % Sunday morning of last week | ean through the records of the |yafore he had been under water more | Robert R. Moore was born in Bald day volunteers were lowered over Dickey. “American Creed” Mrs. Jean | , 1 erous attack on Pearl Harbor. Brigham has been removed to the school. and thie igh the ey than five minutes. He had gone un- Eagle February 8. 1882. a son of the precipice by ropes, fearing the HH Anderson. Lock Haven directed | . 2 For two days the fires from Doo- Clearfield hospital from the Philips- | nis phenomenal memory, for addi- | 4er the surface east of the dam and David and Ellen (Poole) Moore, and boy might have fallen over the edge. | the girls’ chorus in several selections | littie's bombs devastated Tokio's burg hospital, where he is suffering | "ional Racts, was lying on the bed of the stream, | is survived by his wife, Mrs, Nan-| Bloodhounds from Rockview were | music was furnished by an orchestra | | . i . industri jan tos from a fractured jaw received in the! The Bellefonte Academy had Is |yhe current having turned him over nie (Askey) Moore, one daughter, brought on the scene Sunday. Over. of students and N. L. Bartges, coun-| | f WA* isdusiial giants and those accident. Police are keeping a con-! sirth in 1800 when James Dunlop as he came dOWN. Mis. Rebecca Wilson. ' of Philips. Ou a the we ie Sane ay, Over. 11 Rudemtp and §. L. Bastges, soun- L . stant guard over the man to prevent | nC James Hassis ancestors Of the | poward T. Reynolds, who was In burg, and the following sons: Theo- found in the wild strawberry patch buted 20 eighth-grade diplomas and ly oo | propagandists attempted in vain further recurrence of the escapes he McCoys ang Siugeris of Bellelonte, the office of Roy L. Schuyler at dors and Maurice, at home; Rus- from where he disappeared while his four certificates The Rev. John 8. | ow “a to stem the panic of the people has io dase executed on several og aul as organized “certain lots Lockpot, Wj Yue Snr Was ra ised sell, Norwich, Conn.; William, Of parents worked, were given to the Lonsinger, Presbyterian pastor. of- 5 | by trying to belittle the impor- B, ia : and sds i and adivining the town that a boy allen into the r A Greenwood, and Frederick, in the dogs for a scent fered the invocation and bendiction 2 tance of the attack. But the war THaS nm applied artificial respiration for a army at Port Knox. Ky Mrs. June Reed. of ; Other members of the graduating | i : What was become of the prophet Mn EClicionie i coeds from | JuArter of an hour until the boy be- | ne following brothers survive and two nS ged, of louigomery. class were Betty Lindsay, Bertha | lords of Tokio know that attack ; i ET ror 8 p yrtion ot the proceeds Ir rw s : : dd Oy i e . A tan) who 3a Japan Would never attack ti ihe LO os Oct gran gan to revive ME. Réynoias was Ax Orin. Altoona; Hiram and Harris, sontown, and Nyle Rupert of Mont. | Lingle, who gave the farewell, Ger- | : | will be repeated—that American Le tates? sisted by his wife. ter receiving philipsburg: Maurice and Forest, gomery, came across the boy, sitting | 8ld Holter, Junior Wagner, Clair | 4 A i bombers will return again and secioal siienbion the hoy ip Im- | pfeKeasport: Edwerd, Cleveland, O.; in a pine grove, sobbing. They bun. | Miller, Edward Scantlin, Bernadine | |S ih | again and the day of vengeance ee - ono where ara und pny, Willamsbort, She St. bed hom 3p and Jook him to the | Miller, A | for Pearl Harbor is in sight. to be recovering. indy es bd > if. DSDNA ! i The Med=] of Honor for Gen- - - patches and thick under- | A nted to Board ; ] | —— : a . brush through which the blond- conn ated has appointed the | : h. eral Doolittle and the Distin. Scotland Yard Has “Perfect Crime” | pr john pn Rocco, U. 8. Coast haired boy wandered had ripped off | Rev. Charles W Maclay, Philips-| | : = guished Service Cross for each of England's super-siueths knew that Guard, at Fort Mills, Manila Bay, all his clothing. Scratches covered pure a member of the Centre Coun- Brig. Gen. James his intrepid aviators, bestowed by someone had administered several in the Philippines, has been report- his arms and legs but he was other- to poard of Assistance to fill a va-| | H. Doolittle « President Roosevelt, represent {fatal doses of poison —but they ed missing in a letter written his Wise uninjured cancy 0] every loyal American citizen's © couldn't find who or how or why. father, Constantino Rocco, Lock ———————— ] AT | | When Brigadier General James gratitude ESI : [Don’t miles this revealing article In Haven, by the War Department Read the Classified ada Buy Defense Bonds now! | H. Doolittle and his 79 American Weekiy, the big magazine distributed m= : EE ——— EE — I —— a —————————————————— _- ——— fl | with the Baltimore Sunday Ameri- ALEXANDER (Continued on Page Five) was paid in avenging the treach- of other Nipponese cities, Tojo's RERRMR i ——- EE Ae can. On sale at all newsstands. i By F. 0. | ——— - - oe pres stn bt Phone Worker Hurt i . - ; Nos 5 WHAT CAN i THREA - +, - 3 ? Th, Miss Claire Bachinger, 19, em- | ’ . iT J = 2A TANED WHY. TLL J fi 1.00 1 bes Tig i ployed by the Bell Telephone Com- | : " | pany at Bloomsburg, suffered a con- | cussion of the brain, and facial and | 1 leg injuries when she fell down a portion of a flight of stairs between > ithe first and second floors of the é : . = so P | telephone building there. She is a! e i patient at Bloomsburg Hospital, | Here is the main building of the historic old Academy as it ap- | »- | today, atop a cliff overlooking the Big Spring and the Gamble Commencement oratory is one of | Island. The rolling campus in the foreground provides an attractive | the evils that has not been eliminat- | setting for the snow-white building. ed by the necessities of warfare, | TL Ba
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