Odd and CURIOUS in the NEWS A TT mr ——— - NATURE'S BA PIL E The tennis players at Dysart park, Hollidaysburg, witnessed an inleresting nature drama the other evening. A red squirrel was observed attacking the nest of a robin placed in the forks of an elm tree, The plucky moth- er bird, bravely defended the eggs, flying viciously at the hun- gry rodent, and pecking it pain- fully with its sharp beak. Not being able to withstand this sharp assault, the squirrel beat a hasty retreat, ieaving the val- lant bird master of the situation. HE NEEDED HELP When H. J. Meeks started pul- ling in his trout line with which he was fishing in the Little Kan- awha river at Parkersburg, W. Va, he couldn't budge it and thought it had become tangled up with a log. He called for help and he and George Crowder pulled up a mudcat, that weigh- ed 51 pounds. The catfish's head was ten inches in width, six and a half inches between the eyes. LITTLE JIMMY'S JOKE “There's a man under my bed,” Mrs. James Mead frantically tel- ephoned, police at San Rafeal, Cal. Officer Joe satori, ar- riving en the double guick, saw boots protruding under the bed and jerked them, He and a boot sprawled across the roam just as 4.-year-old Jimmy Mead ap- peared. “I knew I'd fool Mom- my with these boots, but I didn't think I'd food the police, too.” said Jimmy. UNWELCOME VISITOR When what Miss Resa Meduf- fie, 82, almest blind, thougt, was a piece of garden hose on the flav of her kitchen at Hamlet, . C., began to crawl, she seized a he and emptied its boiling contents en it, hit it with a sho- vel and ended by placing a heavy wash tub over if. Her brother found a five-fool ten-inch coach whip=—plenty 4 dead. GETTING THE ‘BREAKS’ The left arm of Maurice Car- ter, 25, of London, has been dis- located nearly 300 times since he was 16, an average of twice a week. Carter who has been an invalid for eight years cannot wear an overcoat for fear the weight of the coat will dislocate his arm. | HE ASKED FOR IT Pvt. Leon E33. of Kan: sas, was Bh _ for home- town gossip. He wrote to his girl friend at Wichita, Kas. say- ing, “Let's have some town dirt.” The return envelope contained a handful of Kansas’ richest top soil. SYMPATHETIC VISITOR While visiting her husband, J. H. Schrimsher, in a hospital with a broken leg, Mrs. Sehrim- sher of Oklahoma City, fell and broke her leg. She joined him in the hospital, WAR BABY Mr. and Mrs. Carl ¥. Harber, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, are the parents of a new daughter. Her name is Pearl a MP —— Toe Launch Saurel Season Wellsboro will launch its annual Laurel Ball, Priday evening, June 19 Miss Grace Hartsock of Bellefonte, who was selected Laurel Queen last year will reign over the 1942 festi- Vig, up to the Mills The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week SECOND SECTION dhe Cenlre Democraf F NEWS, EATURES ———— | VOLUME 61. UME 61. 1 ,000 ,000 Spectators Attend Flag Raising Ceremony at Sn Mills on Sunday Former Judge M. Ward Fleming and Burgess H John Redding of Osceola Mills, Are Prin- cipal Speakers at Patriotic Gathering surrounding w Sun- in the at the plant, proudly 55-foot Osceola Mill and population turned out en mass day afternoon to take part flag raising ceremony held Silica Fire Brick Company where “Old Glory” was hoisted to the peak of a new pole M. Ward dent judge Fleming, former presi- of Centre high- lighted the speaking program as he reviewed the colorful history of the United States and brought his talk present conflict and re- minded the Osceola Mills residents to remember that two O ceola young men are known to be prisoners of war at the present time John Redding, burgess of Osceola and superintendent the Lock Haven Girl Saved From River county of | Ten-Year- Old Miss Resuscit - ated Through Artificial Respiration action by Cletus Russell Piper Aircraft employee, and Miss Eleanor Leathers, of Howard, mem- ber of the Lock Haven High School faculty, probably saved the life of ten-year-old Mary Lou Winters, daughter of Mrs. Nelle Winters, of Lock Haven, who was pulled from the Susquehanna River just east of the Lock Haven-Lockport bridge on Friday afternoon when she sank while swimming and failed to come to the surface Cletus Russell was spot when: he was one on the bank could not swim, and plunged into the water the aid of the child who was about 20 feet from shore when Russell and Robert Walker, of Flemington brought her to shore She quickly responded to first aid measures given by Miss Leathers and was taken to her home in the police Prompt driving past the called by some who evidently to {car alter being examined by a phy- sician wisi GROVE FAMILY REUNION SATURDAY AT CENTRE HALL The Mth annual Grove reunion will be held at Grange Park, Centre Hall, on Saturday, June 20, it was announced sterday by Chester W Grove, of Centre Hall, president of the clan A fine program ha for the day. Mr all members and ily are cordially Ve arranged Grove reports, and friends of the fam- invited to attend - % been Attention, Emerick Claimants There will be a meeting Sunday afternoon, June 21, at 1:30 o'clock in the I. O. O. P. Hall in Centre Hall Wilson E. Carr, president of the Rochester group, will be present. All heirs are invited to attend. Respect fully, C. D. Frazier, Coburn, Pa _— Annual Picnic Called Off The officers of the Centre County Association of Philadelphia have de- cided to omit the annual basket pic- nic this year, according to Informa- tion received from Dr. Beale, secre- tary-treasurer of the association Ran 8 Father, Son ard Sonsin-Law Enlist A father and his son and son-in- law, all of Montgomery, were this week inducted into the Army. This is believed to be the first case in this section in which a father and son will be inducted together Ira E. Kuntz, Montgomery, who is a veteran of the World War, having served with the 107th Field Artillery in Prance and Belgium, volunteered at his local draft board, passed tho preliminary physical examination and left Wednesday for Harrisburg for Induetion. oe ——tr— His son, Thomas E. Kuntz, 21, also of Montgomery, is in the group of draftees notified to appear on Wed- nesday Donald C. Irwin, a son-in-law of Mr. Ira Kuntz, is also one of the draftees notified to report June 17 to the Montgomery board The elder Mr. Kuntz, employed in the J. C. Decker plant at Montgorm- ery, registered under the third drat, and last week gave notice that he wished to volunteer Soldier, Sweetheart Married by Proxy It required the services of a news- papérman to complete the first proxy marriage since American soldiers bade sweethearts goodbye and head- ed for foreign lands, Last Saturday Lieut. Paul J. Spitx- miller cabeled from Australia to his hametown sweetheart, Mary E. Fos- ter, back in Cape Giraddeau, Mo, that “today 1 take you Mary Foster to be my lawful wife" That cable duly attested to by an | army chaplain, completed the first hat: of the proxy matting. The pretty 22-year-old proxy bride to be received Pauls cable and she promptly dispatched this response: “Today 1 take you, Paul Spitzmiller, to be my lawful husband.” But Paul never received the reply S80 a news service came to Marys aid and through its correspondent at Melbourne conveyed to Paul the glad tidings that he was married to Mary. Mary's answer was attested to by | the Rev. G. C. Fain, a Methodist minister of Cape Gireaden. a "Workmen Cc apture 11-Pound Turtle An 11-pound turtle was disetvered by employees at the Catawissa Cen- tral Forging Company, making its way towards the swimming hole at | the Catawiss creek dam. James E. Smith, an employee, waded into the creek and captured the turtle. A crate was obtained and the turtle was kept crated for the day and is now in possession of David Breech, foreman of the Yin. TREE Ty a. Ambitious Rooster Starts Early Alex Cllvie, of Sugar Hill, Sullivan county, had a thrill when one of a hour after it had left the shell. The , young rooster seems to enjoy the no- brick plant pointed to the fag flies over some of our former possessions and declared that “there is no question but that Old Glory will again wave over those bases when this war Is Redding ceremonies, sj Fars fn th stressed the erie life tors which no longer over.’ of We He who served as master ke on “The Crisis World Today differences in the Am- of life and the way of dictator countries Dicta- he said, rule regimentation and oppression and are unable to understand the American political setup where factions fight each other before an then bury the hatchet the rest of the time reatne of the nati Je Red - pointe flag and de- that emblem of uu way in the by e¢lection and and are [lends Stressing Mm and nN ad WW Ule the g pole ng clared Ei earth Fleming spoke on th defense we eatest nati conciudinig hl talk wity of wa! outlined the d ities ¢f each and citizen to cooperate with the ian Defense Councils and ins equate on t against possible C. W. Bickford, secretary and general manager of the plant, pre- ented the new flag to Pat Gorman and John Dempsey, commander and adjutant of the Osceola Mills Am- erican Legion Post, for raising The crowd of 1.000 sons Stoo bareheaded and at attenti IIRSSY fore the fice ¢ flag was need on Page Five) nece complete fare as he every Clvii- ad ) Rg total ire home | Axis raiders defense he t i ie] n on Lhe plot COMPAn while th the raised Ly (Conli VICTORY CRY IS HE ARD ON FL he were of COIOrs broken the globe of the United Nations out on every continent Sunday in a martial demonstration of unity in the common fight against tyranny and oppression In both hemispheres, above and below the equator, millions of freedom loving people took America’s flag day " for their own in reded- cating themselves to the task smashing the Axis President Roosevelt Mexico and the of welcoming Philippines to the family of nations, which now number 48, declared the united were taking the sword fire presors’ hands and with it destroy those tyrants.’ The President countries m the op- “they will whose words Boy Killed by Runaway Cow 8-Year-Old Son of Chambers- burg Farmer Dragged to Death were Nathan K. Eby, 8-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Amos E. Eby, of Cham- bersburg, R. D, was dragged to death by a cow on his father's farm one day last week The boy had fastened a rope around the cow's neck and the other end about his own waist. Accom- panied by his 4-year-old sister he had gone to the field to drive the cows to the barn for watering Apparently frightened by the rope, the cow dashed toward the farm house, with the boy dangling behind The cow stopped at the gate to the yard and Mrs. Eby called to one of their daughters to bring a knife to cut the rope. The cow again dashed off, dragging the boy and finally stopped at the wagonshed where the mother succeeded in removing the ivpe. The father summoned from a nearby cornfield rushed the injur- ed boy to the hospital where he died FS, Runs BELLEFONTE ¥, T. C. INSTALLS NEW OFFICERS At a candlelight installation cere- mony held duriig the regular meet- ing of the Youth Temperance Coun- cil of Bellefonte, in the Petrikin building here last Thursday evening, the following officers were installed: Arthur Dale, Jr, president; Char- les Miller, vice-president; Elva Pen- ny, secretary and Betty Vonada, treasurer. retiring president, During the ceremony solos were’ sung by Flora Stenger and Pl ‘ip ‘Jodon. Miss Anne Penny rean a | poem entitled: “Are You Awake” A round table discussion took place and plans were made for the coming year's work. EE — EE —— Teaches 54 Years When Miss Kate Bogle closed her desk and walked out of the Curtin building at Milton, after the final session of school, she completed 54 | years of devoted service to the youth of Milton, it was revealed when her retirement was announced officially | 'by the Milton Board of Education. The teachers of the Curtin building entertained recently in honor of Miss Bogle, and presented her with a gift Miss Anne Penny is the BELLEFONTE, PA, T HURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1942 NUMBER 25 “o~ Summer's Defense Work oe Motorists wh of thei 8 belcre when JT ration July 1 will not be “} fo! Lhe apply f under the permanent vantage when card intended tha 4s : nd broaden Af SEE 1 tony We pledge our hearts and lives today to the cause of all free man- kind. Grant us victory Tumultous, Rag- waving crowds in London cheered and paraded before King George and Queen Elizabeth and the rulers of European govern- n exik Addressing all th empire, Prime Minister Churchhill vid in thi t we pledge WO support and comes but that wider understanding, that quick- ened sense of human sympathy, that recognition of common purpose of humanity without which the suffer- CETemon each other not merely uyocor till victory Held for Theft of Bag of Beans Clinton County Farmer Claims He Has Suffered Numer- ous Losses William CC. Letterman and son, Melvin, of Staverstown, and Leonard and Harvey Eisenhower, brothers, of Dunnstable township, Clinton county, are under $300 bond each for court, on charges of stealing beans The four are charged with theft of a bag of beans, valued at $15 from the J. J Kohberger farm on the Island, which is tenanted by Ellery Eisenhower, father of two of the defendants Mr. Kohiberger testified at the hearing before an alderman that he had given the Elsenhowers permis- sion to take beans for their own table use but that he had granted no ove authority to remove anything from the farm. He also stated that in his judgement about ten bushels of beans have disappeared from the the ‘barn since the Eisenha ors went on the farm about a month ago The four defendants had no legal counsel at the hearing. They all denied having anything to do with the disappearance of the beans Later the charges were cancelled by Mr. Kohberger after the defen- dants agreed to pay the costs in the case and to reimburse him $5 for the beans. Young Letterman and Leonard Eisenhower, it was learned, are both in the draft, have received their questionnaires and undoubtedly will be taken in the army soon a ————— Sunbury Pilot Killed Lieut, Berton Payson Marcley, Jr. son of Mrs. Bessie Kauffman Marcley of Sunbury, was killed in an airplane crash in Alabama, according to mes- sages received by Sunbury relatives from the accident victim's mother, at present located at Orange N. J Lieut, Marcley graduated from Sun- {bury high school and Swarthmore College before he entered the Army Air Corps, in which he was a pilot attached to the bomber squadron. No details of the accident in which the 23-year-old pilot was Killed were revealed in the message. CC herry Picker Hurt : James Rush, 72, of Bloomsburg, | fractured his Signs leg just above the ankle, when he fell from a ladder while picking cherries. This is the Lightning Kills Bull ing bull on the Roy W OW r Middleburg, was kil- led when hit by a of Ughtn HED The bull was stand ersox farm nea bolt ide a fence South of Amer ry fe Are IMAss- al Russell P. Harte ad We shall oppressed Chunking a big moved Chinese we where Maj -Gener ocmnmand relief! Ww AWH)Y lantern the ing field CRITY find night hirough hanted ain ter the 44] procession streets as the fight, united far united we from ail publi ings in Mos we Soviet news. paper Izvestia pointed oul the date the demonstration was chosen in cotinection with the fact that {or many i4 has been an- nuaily observed by the United States of America as the day the American flag was consecrated by the tradit- wns and struggle of the American Tyrone Man Held On Rape Charge sixteen-Year-Old Girl's Story Leads to Arrest of Thomas Gray flew buiic- Flags OW ang [4 r sin years June 25, of Tyrone, is In jail at Hollidays- been arrested Friday Thomas Gray the Blair County burg, having evening by Lieut Tyrone police force, and Constable Bernard J. Oberly, on charges of aggravated assault and battery and attempt to rape Charges against Gray were made by A L. Carper, Janesville Pike, Tyrone, on behalf of his daughter, Maxine Carper, 16, and a sister of Mrs. Gray According to evidence given at a hearing before Justice of the Peace Westley B. Robinson, Gray | had gone to the Carper home along | the Janesville Pike where the girl was alone with a younger sister Gray, it was charged, attacked the | 16-year-old girl who suffered severe | bruises about her face and body The attack was alleged to have taken place Thursday returned home the girl told her story of the attack and Carper immediate ly reported (he matter to the police who secured 4 warrant and effected Oray’s arrest Gray made no defense when given a hearing before Justice of the Peace Robinson. Unable to secure bail of $1,000 he was taken to the county jail at Hollideysburg to await court action RS Wit That Kept The “Great Profile” Young How John Barzymore's jests all his life, challenged illness and stem- med the ravages of time and trouble, The story of one of America’s great actors. Read it in the June 28th is- sue of The American Weekly, the big magazine distributed with the Bal- timore Sunday American. On sale at ail Rewstiangb A db Ee A Berwick junk — has done his part to aid the scrap iron supply for steel mills by scrapping and ship- ping 368 old automobiles from his {old car lot. Child Has yo Broken Miss Helen Confer, 6, daughter of | Mr. and Mrs. James Confer, Beech | Creek, is a patient at the Lock Haven | Hospital, suffering with a fracture Jahn Gilles of the When the father Altoona Man Convicted for Second Time of Criminally Assaulting 18- Year-Old Girl : Eugene Stoltz, Defendant, Hears Verdict of Guilty Pronounced at Second Trial in Blair County Court; May Ask Third Trial Lime since he wa Assauiuing 1 Lovett, an 18-year-old girl, the night of September 28, 1840, Eugen Stoltz, 28, of Altoona, heard a jury ce him gulity in second charged with criminally Om nour alr county Miss Lovelt's Story 1 her testi nome of East ACL nd Columbus, Ohlo, wit- “bre aking parades and New _¥o a door-10-800r cam- paign siariad to obtain war bond Mm Re —— pledges - ~ Farmer's Back Broken Andrews, who resides on his farm near Columbus Columbia County. is ering from a broken back following a fall through a bh hole while feeding some Mr An ye at the time ang inable to move. He lay in the barm- til he Was misses M1 ndrews Coughlin barn sae record Harold suff By ~ Cattle drews Was al i and search some which while Yard un instituted at the adjoins his there he fell has cattle barn ana WH Loganton Man Hot: Car Upsets Flat Tire Causes Driver to Lose Control, Resulting in Wreck Lester Heffler, of Loganton, recel- ved scalp lacerations and injuries to the left leg early Sunday morming went over the bank along route 120 near Glen Union, and was practi- cally demolished Gordon A Bletz, of Loganton, the | driver, told the Motor Police that the left front tire went flat, and that he Jost control. Bletz was not in- jured Heffler was treated at the Lock Haven Hospital and allowed to go | home later in the day. He and Blatt {were en mute to their home from Niagara Falls, where they are em | ployed when the car in which he was riding shopping trip through ection. leaving the Miss Lovett monther coming out of about 1045 p m Walking Lhe DOSE o'clock 11 the F Gi het le ana Ver theatre down Green saig noticed a gre ¥ OU Vy Child Dies After Taking Medicine Two-Year-Old Tot Unwitting- Eats Tablets Left For Grandfather Iy PRUNING DEMONSTRATIONS TO BE HELD IN COUNTY The pruning of oh rubbery will be | demonstrated at Centre Hall and Joalsburg on Friday afternoon and evening. June 1 These demonstra- are direction of R Extension i] ral Agent Al Cer will be William tre Hall th nei at Gethonsiratlion hone clock P Aiged lhirough ih of the Centre Hall Lhe Cron and has been cooperation Club the Lar fen in evening the al Boalsburg will be church at 7:30 o | arranged of the church pe Gemonstration at the Reformed clock has been the cooperation and thro In both cases Mr these demonstrations been ar- ranged for the benefit of the com- munity. and those in charge are anx- for yone interested in the flowering shrubbery Blaney Lave stale: an attend - w Methodist Sesquicentennial The three Methodist congregations of Berwick joined in i tion of the 150th anniversary of the entrance of Methodism into Berwick which took place June 10, 1792, when the Rev the first sermon under the Methodist auspices. The Rev. Mark Dawber of New York City, executive secre- tary of the Home Missions Council of North America opened the cele- bration and used the same text used by Mr. Colbert at that time: “Ace quaint now thyself with him and be | at peace; therely unto thee good shall come Buy Defense Bonds nowi the celebra- | William Colbert preached | Random] [tems " LIME DUNT Despite the sums of money 4 local lime company In its ef- is Ww rid 1 of lime dust read in has been sance, the in the ealing Belle ii ure eal fv spent the Lie Council don f1 roof of the pudding |i goodly number of UE nn the oom ng Ww re Ceabie at HOLLYHOCK Between Curt Ann reels Is & known oliyhock Alley if wn ol holly - beers ides of the of the r burned employe Wwwn Lhe y HIOCKS DOoIn it “a iN ndered Lhe High working Borough Woe ntain on of the Lhe ntain nialns which HAW Hee-Haw sting station ing the Fall ACIrOoss 8 vy Lord Hee- Hee-Haw WH f Lord Rome wt ex- 1 hews bulletins he news by a few The programs are the news re- Vague and un- thie oon on ersally biased ‘that be believed, After wif hour of Axis is like TUSIvels mments on PETSONS { devoid of imagine iE are ext ang oo ! | chosen ren ; and the news is 50 univ none of it can listening istener fee naGet sh i pola i CONGRATULATIONS Congratulation } E. Downes, of Bellefonte jess and timely addn atl the Belle- fonte Flag Day ceremonies, Sunday The Rt Rev. Downes pulled no whes in denouncing those who foster ial and religious Read the text of his speech elsewhere in this ue, and rememe- first aim was to Nazism 's promote racial and ralig bigotry TR CZ1Y' ULNY? A Bellefonte resident who visited Trezivulny cemetery at Miles | burg on Flag Day was surprised to {find that on a tombstone the name is written Tr cziy’ ulny. So are we (Please note the breaks in the name at the apostrophes’) Are the apos- trophes accent marks or do they indicate abbreviations in spelling? | We'd be glad to hear from anyone who can explain the oddity atreds I85 ber that FIFE thie ‘LETTER: Resident of a nearby town writes this department to complain about parking on both sides of West Linn street, He qualifies himself as being nititled 10 complain on the grounds that he has paid fines in Bellefonte for overtime parking as well as for {parking In an alley Sunday. he writes, he was driving into town and Continued on Page Three) Se —— ai om —————— Your Dime's in The Army Now! We WwW GIVE A Os mows TRATION OF FHICIENCY OF \ * GREAT NOW mes | EXNolive BEnG MARVIACTORED batch of chicks, stretched its neck tice which it receives and continues as a token of the high esteem in and started to crow Tess than an to spend much time In crowing. which she is held by her associates. first serious accident reported in the of the right leg. below the hip, the i | 1942 cherry picking season. | result of an accident
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