MAKE EVERY PAY DAY BOND DAY JOIN THE PAY-ROLL SAVINGS PLAN adhe Cenfre Democrat L... FOR VICTORY | ‘Buy UNITED STATES DEFENSE 7 BONDS « STAMPS VOLUME 6* NUMBER 25. BELLEFONTE, PA,, THURSDAY, JUNE 1942, SUBSCRIPTION—$1.50 PER YEAR, —————— Will Train Citizens For Raid Conditions Half-Hour Total Blackout Scheduled Sometime During Test FAMILIES URGED TO | i | {ing made on local stores for Announce New Rules r Business For Canning Sugar | demands be- SUgar Because of the heavy { for canning purposes, the Bellefonte MAKE PREPARATIONS | nounced new Ask Public to Pursue Nor-| mal Activities in Dim-out Rules for the dusk-to-dawn prac- tice blackout to be held in all the central counties of Pennsylvania on Wednesday night, June 24, were an- nounced yesterday by Aaron D. Leit. zell, chairman of the Bellefonte Civ- illan Defense Council The practice blackout has been called at the request of the U. 8 Army Fighter Command, which has the responsibility for protecting this area from enemy attack by air It is quite certain that if and when an enemy sends bombers over this tate, it may be necessary to keen the en- tire area in semi-darkness every night, for night after night—per- haps for weeks at a stretch, Citles within 50 miles of the coast from Maine to Florida are already oper- ating on this basis every naght. Under these circumstances it is necessary for families to learn how to maintain normal life in semi- darkness—to run a home, prepare meals, and care for a family with. out lights showing outside: to run a hotel, to print a newspaper to process and deliver milk, to con- tinue industry, with a minimum of Hghts, and with little or no light showing outside. That is the purpose of the practice dusk-to-dawn practice blackout At some time during the fContinged om Page Siz) Defense Fund Totals $513.71 Commitliee Named to Act on All Purchases From Treasury The Bellefonte Civilian Defen: Fund sponsored by Borough Council to raise funds for the purchase of defense squipment and supplies, now totals $513.71, it was reported yes- terday by Borough Treasurer, Philip Baylor, The goal is $1,500 Earl 8. Orr, George McClellan and Rev. H. C. Stenger, Jr., all of Belle- fonte, have been named as an ad- visory committee in purchases made with the defense fund. All items to be purchased must bear the com- mittee’s approval, officials said Contributors during the past week are as follows: E. B. Bower Penna. Potato Growers Asso C. G. Decker J. 8 Sommerville Bellefonte Trust Co. Worth's Women of The Moose Newell B. Long Guy Lyons Harry Tanney ; First National Bank American Lime & Stone Co Raymond Brooks Dr. William J. Schwartz D. E. Washburn. vo Total Amount Previously Reported $348.71 w Total to date $513.71 BELLEFONTE MEN IN { been exhausted rationing board yesterday an- rules whereby citizens may obtain their quotas of sugar for canning The quotas of local stores and they have Are no { longer able to meet demands until | Those who have been received have certificates but who have been unable to purchase the sugar they need are notified fo turn in the certificate to their gro- cer The grocer will issue a receipt for the certificate, and the order will be filled as soon as new sugar sup- plies have been received, board of- ficials explained new supplies mas A——— Concert Plans Are Announced Bands, Other Musical Groups to Participate in Event, Sunday Preparations for the mammoth Victory Concert to be presented by various local bands and other music groups in the Plaza Theatre at § o'clock Sunday night were announ- ced yesterday by V. H. Pifer, director tof the Bellefonte Banjo Band, which 1s sponsoring the concert night : 4 The program is scheduled to con- WILLIAM H. DOLL William H of East Bis street prominent Bellefonte dent and oldest living charte ber of the Undine Fire Com; was found dead about 3 ¢ ) day af fternoon. June 12, 19 plant he operated at # bout e-half mile south fonte ‘He was found by Fawcett, of Bellefonte, who © the plant on a business mission Mr. Doll had been about fonte as usual earlier in and although he had not been ing well for several days, he went to the plant arriving there s short time before his body was discover- ed Mr of the " Ix i, resi meme Doll, honorary life member Bellefonte Elks lodge, was a former president of the Undine Fire Continged on Pape Six) tinue for one hour and 20 minutes | With Ralston Derr as master of cere gram is being donated free of charge $ 500 and while there will be no charge for admission to the concert, pro. ceeds from a free will offering will be divided equally between the USO and the Bellefonte Civilian Defense Fund. Children will not be admitted unless they are sccompanied by par. ents, this restriction being made to allow ample room for adults Boy Scouts under the direction of Guy Poorman wil lserve as ushers The program follows 1. American Legion Junior Band Star Spangled Banner Over There, Fantasia (Contlinsed on Fage Seven) Claims He Needed Money to Marry Forger Who Used Bellefonte Bank is Sentenced to Penitentiary Frank Byers, 27. of Williamsport, held in the Clinton county jail since his arrest June 5 for forgery which he claimed he committed to secure money to enable him to get married, was ordered to pay the costs, a fine of 81 and serve [rom two and a half to six years in the Western Peni- tentiary. Byers was sentenced in Lock Haven court, Monday Officer E. B. Barney of the Rock- view Detail State Motor Police, told the court that on June 5 Byers rote a check for $4750 on the | Bellefonte Trust Co., payable to him- ACCIDENT AT COLEVILLE! { check for $66, Cars driven by James Baldwin and John Rajamaki both of Belle-| fonte, were Involved In an accident ‘wag the prosecutor, Byers previous-! at Coleville about 7:30 o'clock Sun-| day evening. The crash was the first one investigated by State Motor Po- | lice at Pleasant Gap sub-station since June 8 The Ue ht happened when one | the Stearns department store. Dur- | of the operators attempted to make ing his parole from the latter in-| a left turn at the curve near the | stitution he was charged with the! | self, signing the name of W Hrckman, of Hublersburg, The Mo- tor Police received a second com- plaint June 13, when Byers wrote a using the same bank and signing the same name. According to Officer Barney. who ly served three months for break- | ing, entering and larceny in a shoe shine shop there; was sent to the Huntingdon Industrial School for breaking, entering and larceny at church. Damage was estimated at { larceny of an automobile and break. | $35. Police sald Baldwin would be | ing into a cabin at Harvey's Lake,! charged with misuse of tags, and | Luzerne county. rney told the! B.| Elks Hold Flag monies, i All talent appearing on the pro. Day Ceremonies Dr. Carroll D. © hamplin, Penn State, Delivers Powerful Address Day exercises llefonte Elk: Club ' Sunday the Plaza with Dr. Carroll D. Champlin, of Penn State College. as the principal speak- er. A lar owd was present the ceremony Plag K the Be nda Sponsored were h 1s theatre ge Cr The program included the playing of the “Star Spangled Banner” and other selections by the Bellefonte High School orchestra: introduc exercises by William Yates, past exalted ruler, and other officers; selections by the Elks octette; a his- tory of the flag by Musser W. Gettig: and a roll call of Elks members in the armed services of the nation hy William H. Brouse The program closed with the ing of “"America™ by Members of the Flag Day mittee were William Yates, Joseph P. Kelleher, L. R and George Sheckler Dr. Champlin, in a mas (Continged on Pape Six) A——————— a ——— Su — Gas Units Doubled, Must Last Until 15th Each unused unit ¢ on all gasolihe rationing cards are now good for six gallons, instead of three gallons of gasoline, it was reported this week by the Bellefonte rationing {board officials. The change became effective at midnight, Sunday However, the cards must last through July 15, instead of July 1 | a8 originally planned, Board officials | cautioned. The second gasoline ration regis. tration will be held on July 1. 2 and 3 at which time ration books for the ensuing year will be issued Ory sing the audience com- per. Glenn, terful ad- Complete plans for this registration | are now being prepared No Parking Meter Removal or hooding of all one- Rajamakl with failing to yield the court that Byers had been called hour parking meters on State Col- tl: -Way. No one was injured, A ———— Bellefonte’ s Air-Mail Pick-Up for illiney uty but was deferred. Service Shows Marked F crease, Air-mail pick-up service at ‘Belle- since funds for operation during hat fonte will be continued throughout year already have been provided, in! the 1943 fiscal year, which starts, the treasury-postoffice appropriation next July 1, despite curtailment of bill recently passed. airmail services on various routes | How the air-mail throughout the country, the post- office department sald yesterday. Because the planes used for the | pick-up service are not suitable for | $ passenger transportation, and be- cause the pick-up service has proven unusually succesful and is still grow- ing in popularity, the department has decided its curtailment in sny way will not be necessary for either | War reasons or reasons of economy. In view of this decision, service pieces for 1041 to { has expanded was shown in a recent | { report pick-up service by the department, from which the following figures are cited: | In Bellefonte, the number of pieces | ‘of mail dispatched monthly by the | pick-up service averaged 470 in 1941. Through April of this year, the monthly average was 1416. {lege streets was turned down by a | > { 4e 3 vote of borough council at its | regular meeting Monday night | Introduced by Councilman Charles { Schlow after a report on parking ini other College communities, the mo- | tion provided for one-hour a where meters were removed or hood. Titan Employe Is Injured by Saw Herman Koenig, of North Alle- i gheny street, Bellefonte, suffered in- | { { juries to his left hand Tuesday while | {at his work at the Titan Metal Co, | iplant. He is a patient in the Centre { County hospital. | Mr Koenig, 33, had three fingers | far st 00 81 Changes at College - ‘Milesburg Postoffice Rating Presents Problem of Postmistress’ Status Man Dies ‘Msgr. Downes Flays Criticism, intolerance, In Flag Day Address Before proximately AR Crowg es 1500 persons, Sunday Monsignor William E. Downes, rece tor of! St Catholic Jellefonte, In aking at a Joint flag raising by 8 chool and the Undine Fire ( militant. throug? timated at ap- the certain alse It is of immigrant be on an ernment. As a mn parents raised th gives all men the right to | } uve peace concept he p the right to the wor: and right and daughters hip as they choose to educate th "iy $040 He declared that second In he exhorted his the nation’s flag ang honor ug ite nor only to God iisteners to national emblem and deed, mentally other way show he tho to t ord in every iticized the ™m who mol» up racial y criticize and it efforu ondemn Presi ne arew a OMpari- ident of our woln, who, 5 ent those stir those wh te Wa! os he Lincoln was discord, and poison pen at- caid them- the victim of bitterness, poison tack tongue by | County Exceeds Bond Quofa P urchases For May About $60,000 Over Quota, Aikens Reports and wrsons who Centre county opded d ta of Defense Sav ang t ried men have repos sales during the 178,677.50, with the Spring Snow Shoe and Centre Hall 3 om ita is $1BE500 and the quota for July will be $255000 E resicent of the county must do his utmost Mr Increasing brough month of vet to ne June qi heard fr very if these quotas De met” Alkens commented pressure being wal committees by Treasury Department to reso Bly ll allotments Defense Bonds to not less than 10 per cent of earn- and in order to handle this feature, the following cominittes has been named by Mr. Alkens: SBwengel 8mith, Bellefonte: Clair 1. Hall Snow Shoe. Harold R. Gilbert, State College, and James C. Purst, Belle fonte is N P v On the ro for ings, A meeting of employers and rep- resentatives of employes will be heid at the Nittany Country Club on Tuesday evening, June 23. when plans for increasing payroll allot- ments will be discussed. The meet- ing will be unique in that it will be the first get-together of all maj- or employers and employee repre- sentatives of the county —— aw 72 Selectees to Be Examined, Saturday A group of 72 selectees from Draft Board No. 2. Bellefonte, will leave Bellefonte Baturday ntorning for Altoona to undergo final examina- tion for Army service. Those who pass will be Inducted immediately, but may obtain furloughs upon ar- riving at induction centers. A total of 62 men from Draft Board No. 1, State College, went to ! Altoona yesterday morning, but last i night there was no report as to the number acuepted for service, ss ——— church, hron- History | selves Americans, M Dow iared waker American tie ai peop } i Jeople “Aart Ni poem e nation which | In 1 Legior text i follows ang « First of I” Veterans ritiemy ’ nueinen I wish Forel re ail ) of Wars us with a flag Legit oe kindness in presen the ting also America, donated the flag: We have chosen a very fay for this flag raising, a day the nation peodie ar uitable when ail over called Continged on Page Seven) College Fears Rabies Spread Dogs Ordered Off Streets After Infected Animal are to } State College Boar mended the dogs in the area an the di family pt It is Continued d of Health culation of all where Any persons seane should iysician a on the diseas wy IMCARe exposed the wared consult at once, he sad commentary on Page Siz) Prisoner Killed by Ex- Rockview Iumote): An argument over the war was blamed for the prison-vard fight of two Negro convicts in Western Penitentiary, Pittsburgh. which re- sulted in the death of James Clem- ents, 55, of Pittsburgh knife, Deputy Warden T. H. Gaffney reported John Pie, 57. who was sentenced | to jail originally for breaking and | fOr longevity, entering, and then had another six |AWAYs I to twelve years added on to his term | M0Tal life, but aside from that for a futile escape from Rockview | slat} ticularly penitentiary, was accused of the slaying. Clements was sentenced to serve five to ten years in Pebruary, 1941, for robbery Pie escaped from Rockview in 1926 and was later arrested by Ohio authorities on a new charge. A de- , tainer was lodged against him there ‘and when his tithe was up, Rockview officials brought him back to Belle- fonte for the sentence he was ser- {ving when he fatal Ant ook place § | Milesburg has its own Sword of | of Damocles. It .is hanging over the head of { Mary OC. Adams, postmistress of the | Milesburg Postoines, | The postoffice department right | now is making up its mind whether {the Milesburg postmistress is to be | eploced or given a better job The decision was made necessary | when business at the postoffice in question increased enough during | the calenda. year 1941 to raise the { office to third class from fourth class. Fourth class postmasters are ap- pointed by the postmaster genera! Third class offices are “presidential | i grade.” and postmasters at such of- fices are appointed by the President | “hind ¢ class means a higher salary or the postmaster, but not necess- wrily for the present postmaster If the postoffice department wants “0 keep a fourth class postmaster on he job when the office is promoted t can ask the civil service commis- Jon to give a non-competitive ex- umination for the position, and if the postmaster passes the test, a re. sommendation from the department to the President does the trick. Or the department can recommend an open competitive examination In that case, the incumbent post- ! master is technically eligible to com- pete, but as a practical matter has | very littie chance, because everybody including the civil service commiss- In State College, the increase was of the hand badly lacerated when with the advice and consent of the | jot Enows that the purpose of call. | from a month average of 1998 2.808 pieces this during the 1943 fiscal year is assured, year, | the wounds. (he was working at a revolving saw. | Senate. That is, such appointments ing a competitive examination is to It required several stitches to close . require Senatorial confirmation. {get a new postmaster; The boost in grade from fourth to | if the de- {Continued on Page Seven) His jugular | vein was severed with a hand-made | { perfect {when he reads K-TO-DAWN BLACKOUT, JUNE 24 Local Citizen Frank Wieland, 30 - Nearing 100th Dies in Auto Crash An niiversary Sheriff Warns Parents Machine C rashes Into William Tressler Will Reach Century Mark June 29 SAYS WORLD GROWS Aged Man Would Like a Ride in Airplane; Takes Interest in War WILLIAM TRESSLER The world Ix growing worse in. sind of better he declarsd bell evs ef that als would recreate ir g the main i lively He the Those Japs get he comn Rented Eu irog As The Mr ™ RS ieaciie aged man % remarkably whose nad is clear for one of his age ¢ of war daily through a Harrisburg newspaper We have a radio” he explained ‘but the noise bothers us’ Mr. Tressler's hearing and he wears well preserved and mi unusuass the fortunes is almost glasses only Asked whether he had any formula the aged man said he led a temperate and hie knows of nothing he has done par to prolong his life He doesn't smoke, chew, or use intoxi- cants, although he contended that (Continued on Pape Beven) Uso Drive Is Meeting Success has House- to-House Canvass For $2500 Underway in Belle- fonte Area From the beginning of the Unit- | wd Service Organization: campaign | ‘or the Bellefonte district Monday | morning solicitors have been fre- sorting success. With the drive just | tetting underway workers have! nade a good #tart in collecting funds | for the $2500 quota that has been | wt for the district No definite figures are available ip to this time but persons who have been contacted have been give ng generously fo the campaign 6 ‘help someone you know and bring a touch of the home fires to the. “oye in the service” The Bellefonte district includes Milesburg, Howard, finow Shoe, Slarence. Moshannon, Pleasant Gap, Inionville and Port Matilda, Work- ers are active in all of those com- munities and in the rural areas in’ the district In Bellefonte the Women's Aux- | iliary of the Brooks-Doll Post of (Continued on Pape Seven) | | tions | County Hospital alighting from a bus at the hospital in the of Children’s Actions al week WORSE, NOT BETTER {mr 358 Pass High Pole Near Centre Hall, Early Yesterday PROMINENT BANKER, FORMER MERCHANT Linden Hall Man Meets Death Shortly After Attending Meeting 6 of 20 Highest Turned in Scored by Milesburg Pupils niendent of Schr were held on Although the five turned in for the sreile of Tr TT May 2 3 test the Mi y Af . (Grades who State Motor ) SUb-statior the first to heard - College Board Lists Selectees The ighest follows Margene Bernard Frances James (Continued on Pos Six) Sellers County i” Aiding In Rubber Drive Public Urged to Take Scrap | Rubber to Filling Stations; Will Pay Cent a Pound eo Te $e 55d fens 1g Lente ounty Oki Ofna } station owners rs and Ale 1 n the way for Henry A. Brockerhoff Beliefonte, chairman of the Cou Salvage Waste Commitlee nounced vesterday Acting in accordant ident Roosevelt's plea up of all scrap rubber by Tuesday. June 23 agencics are now serving tion depots for all types rubber.” Brockerhoff said “Il is requested that every citizen g7arch through his home his gare age, and his place of business to ¢ol- lect all scrap items made of rubber no matter how small, or how Iarge” Brockerhoff continued, He added (Continued on Pope Siz) Tap rubber of Bng e with Pres. for a round- midnight the cour a — a — Suffers Fracture of Leg Vrs. James N. Willlams, of Spring Mills, was admitied to the Centre Bunday, for ireat- ment of a fracture of the right jeg suffered that night in a fail after nn to the ambu- Belle Hotel. 8he was taken Widdowson lanoe Anniversary of of C county’ Group of 69 (oes to Altoona For Final Physical Ex- amination Local Board No ! Centre County’s 18th draft Selective Service began offices at State College y morning -~ Those of the group of 68 who pas- sed army physicals at Altoona were sent directly to a reception center for ction into armed foroes the automatic furlough plan has not yet come into effect in Cen- tre County, draft officials announced Local Board No. 2, Bellefonte, will i en for examinations this ble FFE the since * sent from the State College Broderick, State College: Logan Bland, State College Continged om Pope Seven) College Drum Corps Wins At Altoona The State College American Le- gion and Auxiliary Drum and Bugle Corps won itz 14th straight first. place weitory !» the Flag day parade and celebration a! Altoona. Priday afternoon The corps defeated Gallitzin the Drum Corps competition ning a $50 first prize. With the State College unit, Friday, were 11 new members who made their first appearance in competition. After the parade the corps gave a conoert on the stage at Jaffa Mosque as part of the program. Despite bad weather which marred the revent Town Fair at State Col- jege. the Drum and Bugle Corps cleared ion Officine Jepon in win- s : First Iron Furnace to be Observed, June 27th The Centre County Historical Bo {ciety will celebrate the 150th anni- versary of the opening of the “Cen- tre Furbace™ iron plant on Satur. | day, June 27 at 2:30 p. m., by ap- propriate exercises to he held near the old “stack” now standing on the south =ide of the State High. {way sbout one mile east of State College. This was the first iron fur. nace to be built west of the Busque- {hanna River and north of the Jun. fata River, and the first to be erect. (ed In Centre county The meeting will be in charge of {Hon James C. Furst. president of the society, with an address by Bd- ward L. Willard, Esq. on the early history of the land and people who were connected with the operation of the furnace, snd one by J. Thomas Mitchell Esq. on the metl- od and means of iron making in the old days. Music will be furnished by a State College band. Dr. Philip 8. King, of the history department of Stats Oolieze, is the chairman of committee in charge of the celebration, and associated with him are Claude Alkens, John N. Henszey, Dr. BR. BE. Murphy, J. L Holmes Ouy Stover, H A. Leitesll and Miss Alice Thompson, of Ste College. ‘and Mrs. John P. Lyon, Mrs. George B. Thompeon., Thomas H. Mensch, Paul M. Dubbs Jack H Yeager and James B. Craig, Jr. of Bellefonte.
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