Odd and CURIOUS in the NEWS The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County SAA SECOND SECTION VOLUME 61 he Cr nfre Democral ———————— —— ——— ‘A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1942, — NEWS, FEATURES NU ME E K Fa KILLS 1,141 JAPS Post B, civilian air raid spot. ting service of Sunbury, reported in its first communique Friday that sneak raid in force had been repulsed and the enemy annih- ilated. “I found the place sur- rounded,” former City Commis- sioner Harvey E. Miller reported to headquarters. “There were no planes in sight. In 15 minutes 1 accounted for 14M of the en emy single-handed.” The foe were Japanese beetles, TOUGH FOR KITT EN A young housewife, of Eugene, Ore., doing the family washing, noticed a small mound in the clothes kept buckling the blades of the electric washer. After re- peated efforts with a stick failed to level the mound she decided the machine was too full, and started to remove some of the clothes. A bruised and waler- soaked kitten emerged from one of the garments. HE'S PLENTY MEAN Magistrate Peter Horn called George Sherry. 46, of New York, “the lowest thing I ever saw or heard of.” Sherry, who, Brook- Iyn police said, dismantled and sold his 78-year-old mother’s bed to get money for liquor, was sent to the workhouse for three months on his plea of guilty to disorderly conduct charges TRUE FISH STORY The fish caught Junior Van Bibber, 13, but Junior gol away He was swinuning in the coun try club lake at Brookfield, Mo, A fish tackled him. Twice he was pulled under before . compan- ion rescued him, the 12';-pound catfish still clinging to his hand. They killed it before its grip loosened. MISPLACED LENIENCY Judge Matthew J. Troy of New York is sorry now that five years ago, he dismissed a charge of car theft against John Wadsworth. Wadsworth is now under indict ment charged with stealing the Judge's own car. ALTERED it was a rather peculiar sort of letter which a Sebring, Fla girl received from her boy friend on duty in the Pacific war zone. Upon opening the letter a slip of paper was found on which was written: “Your bey friend still loves you but he talks toe much.” The slip was signed, “Censor.” USES ALL THE SUGAR Farmer Henry Shackleford, of Ibevia, Mo., spread salt for his cattle to ent, then was puzzied to see them ignore it—while his dogs devoured it eagerly. There'd been an error. He'd used the family’s entire supply of canning Sugar. ——— —— co—— LONG-TERM FARM LOANS STILL AVAILABLE TO FARMERS Land Bank Commissioner long- term, farm mortgage loans are still available to farmers in this section ander terms of legislation recently passed by Congress, Robert L. Akers, gecretary-treasurer of the Centre County National Farm Loan Asso- ciation has announced. Authoriza- tion to continue making such loans which expired June 30, was extended for twelve months Land Bank Commissioner loans usually are written as second mort- gage loans in connection with Fed- eral Land Bank loans, thus permit- ting loans to farms where that much credit is needed and is justified by the security Under certain condi- tions they may also be written as first mortgage loans The usual term of the loan is 30 years, and semi-annual payments on the principal retire the loans by the end of that period. Such loans are made through he Federal Land Bank of Baltimore and are serviced by the Centre County National Farm Loan Association serving this section Barn Barned A large barn on tie farm of John Taylor of Folks township, Sullivan county, was struck hy lightning and burned during this week. About forty tons of hay wcre stored in the barn. During the same storm light- ning struck a barn on the Howard Kinsley farm in Cherry township, deafening the team in the stable The barn was not burned RE — py a. Buy Defense ‘Ronds. now! | merly Clinton County Coroner's Jury Finds Truck Driver at Fault In McCloskey Death George F. Faudie of DuBois May Be Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter; At Liberty Under $2, 000 Bail Bond The first official of finding of re- sponsibility for the highway accident in which Donald Leroy 18. of Howard R. D. 1, was fatally injured was announced by a Clinton county Coroner's jury after an quest held at the Court House Lock Haven last Tuesday The jury, after hearing of witnesse and deliberating for nearly a half hour, presented the following verdict: “We, the coroners jury, find that George Faudie, of DuBois, driver of a traller-truck was at fault in a collision on June 27. 1942, about 1020 a. m.,, when, as a result of the occurrence, Donald McCloskey, passenger in the car op- erated by Herbert Haines, was fat ally injured on the highway between Flemingt and Mill Hall Me jury was comprised of John P. Wynne, foreman, Mrs. Lewis L Heimer, Miss Elizabeth I McCloskey David L. Wilson, 8. G Williamson and Paul H Welch According the Witnesses numb Faudie Col. Ben C. Jones Heads 110th Inf. Regiment Was Commanded by (Gen. Edw. Martin Dur- ing World War | in a number on to who red eight Was driving Colonel Benjamin C. Jones, T) News own chiel rone Spa pe er weveral years of nas been assigned of the 110th Infantry faking over Weer tran of the the division mand last With the AS cominander special duty assignment General Bradley as the new division commander, Colonel George V. Pope becomes the new chief of staff the 28th division, having held similar assignment in the 82nd division un- der General Bradley who was for- commander of that division before his transfer to the 28th in- fantry This regiment was commanded by General Edward Martin during the Pirst World War and a number of Tyrone men served with the unit J. Howard Gardner, after whom the Tyrone Post of the American Legion is named. was a member of that reg- iment when he was killed in France At the present time there are sev- eral Ty men the regiment and Colonel Jones that his new assignment places him close home.” The 110th Infantry has the same numerical designation as did the regiment which Col. Jones’ grand- father, the late Colonel David M Jones, commanded in the Civil War, the 110th Pennsylvania Volunteer infantry. And it is a coincident that the Grand Army of the Republic post No. 172, which was very in Tyrone for many years ed after Col. D M. Jones One Killed, One Hurt In Collision of er 28th division fer weral Ord to ’ and of of rone in feels to active Was nam State College Truck Involved! in Accident With Car Near (Cresson One man was killed and another seriously injured In Cresson early last Saturday morning when one of the Shoemaker Brothers trucks and an auto collided at the intersection of route 43 and route 22 Identification of the dead man was established by the operator's card in his wallet which bore the names of A. D. Barley. Abraham D. Barley, and Charles Barley, of Roaring Spring The injured man was reported at Mercy Hospital, Altoona, to be Rob- ert Albright of Roaring Spring. Al- bright suffered possible skull frac- ture and lacerations The truck was driven by Earl Corl | of State College. Mr. Corl, who es- caped injury, reported that the car drifted out from a stop sign at the intersection of the rainstorm C igarette Ads Called So Much Bunk Millions of dollars are spent year- ly by cigarette manufacturers in peddling bunk to the public through newspaper and magazine advertising and over the radio. That charge was made by the cur- rent issue of the “Reader's Digest,” and is backed up by findings of im- partial researchers who are said to| have applied laboratory tests to all leading brands of cigarettes and found practically no difference be- tween them. EERE less harmful, smokes longer, or con- tains costlier and finer tobaccos are K ch cyewash, the Digest article] So much cy in, the Dig i {dollars to defray the cost of hiring { Benny Goodman's declared, and added: “It makes no earthly difference which of the leading cigarettes you) buy. That's why the poor ‘ad’ writ- ers, when they scratch their heads in search of selling points, so often | hit the bump in their skulls marked | ‘fiction.’ That's a polite way of saying they {are lying Twin Brothers Active at 85 Jacob O. Rine, Sunbury, and Wilk | reside lam H. Rine, of Northumberland, probably tthe oldest twins in tnli section of the state, last week mark. ed the 85th anniversary of thei: hale and hearty and go abou! in Northumberland. They have spent practically their entire lives in thelr home section and have | n wide circle of friends. Both are a pirth. Jacob O. Rine is residing with daily routine which includes work his daughter, Mrs. Burt H. Schaef- in their gardens and homes where fer, and William H. Ring ghd Wile they are continually busy, Ia McCloskey, | in- | {the routes during a I Navy {students of the Pennsylvania State! i College for July 31 and August 1 Claims that this or that brand is! | State traller- truck west between Flem- ington and Mill Hall and was fol- lowing a Susquehanna Transit Com- pany bus and another traller-truck The bus stopped at Agar's Lane near where the Stonehouse Barbecue is located and Faudie, being unable to stop without striking the other trall- truck driven by Samuel Spicher of Rockton, turned into the left traf. lane front of the east bound passenger car in which McCloskey wn wenger and Haines was Iriver f al in llided head-on with the of the truck and spun around heading back to- Hall. The trailer con- toward the barbecue house the coupe McCloskey admitted U I'he car ce right completely ward Mill on fy ' irom inued and turned over squashing of wreckage after being Hospital into a ma hortl) Lock Haven Pictures taken by Pvt Rice, motor policeman ted by Pvt. Burkhart Witnesss included the Dn that died the th Charle Albert Rudy Edward Hob- McCloskey bu wid iriver ol eran death Mon Joseph boy who traller- Burk- wrecked her; Pvt Robert O of the t Mi Spic Mrs » MAnKger saw th mrbecue from accident alderman Faudie to th Uncle Sam's Victory Garden WHY Servic entre County art lovers have con art for a exhibition which Mineral In- at the Pennsyl ited over BO pleces of WO Week wrt tarted Monday in the Art Gallery ate College until August 1 water colors by Centre County art consist of works by 1 60 artists, of whom are 25 ian Thirteen of paintings by State au rai gt ia « Lasting tl the exhi~ Olis and sculp- ture, owned connoisseurs more thai Pennsyivan 8 Are raider ts the Col- be the llections wit painting in 350-year-old to Gh aluable of he oldest of Is attributed aA Ie upon the es- Other Im Burch Mi Clack a MGT P Weber nortant partant fiedd Jatne Childe Hobson Jolin § most ens Cheorgs land Albert Ryder I Max hu ROWERS are famous MA na Cran Lt vear. Thre “Nazis Spurred In Drive By Fear of Spending 2nd Winter In Icy Russia: Many Prefer Death on Battlefront Rather’ Than Slow Torture of Freezing in Icy Coun- try; ‘Away trom Russia’ is the Cry g. International New re ndent frontier rman returning travel vernments the ex ates is » ted St piecing together the pled Europe's her stance the Nazi invader an incomplete story that must wait unti} victory its full ing. countless tory of occu ne re- to for tell when heroic names can be known and honored But In meantime the Office of War In- formation has We Ee the avail- able information to date count of this brave reg The Uncong ins Struggle i People titied the ontier Mn Norway to the story reveals re. growing Inhuman re- with but Europe's people persist their struggle. They are re- m the stunned surprise top of the Fr Creek LU We |} prisals grow unconquered ret in quiet, sec covering fro | of conquest. Then it was enough to | keep alive, to find food and a place It is © lit the French movie, Nazi screen rebellion appeared form of a i contempt rbidden to boo when were the clearing throats hing loudly Norwegians tumed their backs us Nagi columns march- ed down the street An industrial parade in Holland turned into demonstration by 20000 patriot defiled th querorsg to Unkno Day g ah Ne shown on and to their COs 1] n Armistice new Out on the ; ugrle against bolshevism sader, People and Fatherland itors were showered with clip- Across them such inscriptions as Hearty congratulations” were written “Bplendid,’ or “A [ Mikailoviteh Fights On the an land has mare than 100 underground | a. tithe. Belgium has #0 They pick up news from Bri shortwave Paper 2 4 14 publi “ta- Lion small The of § of course, in Yugoslavia Draja Mihallovitch and trained soldiers, sistance There Gen his army ol guerrilas, and even’ ti ling, burning king, and keeping many div of Axis troops from the Rus- front. Mihallovitch: is said to hree- ~quarters of old Serbla, as as her parts of Yugoslavia And since April a band of 5000 Greek guerrillas have been cooperat- with him the B WT along ulgarian unconguered | NOoOWever, is sat greats 1 weapon * ang in Gustrial French th tian soldiers hoslovakia t sidewalks, and pos- ters has been augmented by another Continued on page Four) First Hero of War Gets Commission Young Williamsport Soldier Gave First Warning of Jap Invasion Joseph Loc kard, the young who gave the first warning that the Japanese had launched war against the United States, completed his transition from private to commis- sioned officer Bunday when he re- ceived the gold bar of a second lieu- tenant in the army's signal corps at Fort Monmouth, N. J The Williamsport soldier who man. ned an aircraft detection system at Pearl Harbor December 7 and repor- ted his observation of approaching planes, was commissioned Sunday in a special ceremony at Ft. Monmouth replacement training center theatre during a radio program broadcast on 2 nation-wide network by the Col- umbia Broadcasting System Brigadier General George L. Van Deusen, post commandant, presen- ted the 20-year-old Lockard with his diploma from the officers’ training school. Lockard began in March a three-month course that was inter- rupted several weeks by illness VICTORY WEEKEND PLANNED FOR ARMY-NAVY RELIEF A unique Victory Waekend bration which Is expected to net thousands of dollars for Army and Relief has been planned by’, soldier cele; Sponsored by the student govern-| ment and aided by an unidentified undergraduate who has personally! contributed more than a thousand orchestra, the weekend festival will get underway! with a variety show Friday night! Iproduced by the locas] Penn Btate | Thespians and Glee Club. i On Saturday afternoon a parade, athletic events, and the crowning of | the “Coud of Today” will be held. | officials from Harrisburg, | prominent radio and stage enter-| ‘talners, and Army and Navy Relief | |officials have been invited. | ——— : License Suspended The State Liquor Control Board | has announced suspension of the! taproom permit of John C. and Min- | nie M. Bhoemaker, Mountain Trail | ‘Inn, Lock Haven Star Route, for 60 days i a ——— i ~-Buy United States War Stamps i Nace | William Bloomsburg, | Bloomsburg Hospital, suffering from Williamsburg Man Takes Own Life Coroner Ascribes Hl Health as Motive Behind Act of Self Destruction Harold Theodore Stayner, 39 an employe the West Virginia Pulp and Paper company at williamsburg, shot and killed himself at his home Friday afternoon Coroner Rothrock of Altoona blamed ill health for the motive behind the act Stayner had been a of patient of {Altoona doctor for some time According to a statement made by Kathryn Stayner, the man's wife Stayner had gone across the high- way near his home to get groceries | upon his return | for supper. and found the house to be damp. upon which he made a fire in the fur- Missing him at supper time his wife their home and found him lying on the floor in a little-used room He is survived by his wife; father, Stayner, and one brother, Webster Stayner, His father and brother reside at Newton Hamilton Child Badly Hurt Samuel Silvettl, aged 23, is patient of near a in the a fracture of the left leg between the (knee and hip, numerous brush burns and a possible fracture of the He was injured when car near his home a mu skull Ie GO ANCAD SHOOT i ‘uel T. Gayman | of i stating that | an | {of Man Falls Dead In Sunday School Heart Attack in Altoona Church Sun- day Morning Overcome by While services were the Altoona day school in progress at Methodist church Sun- Sunday morning, Sam- well known resident that city, fell over dead. Death was attributed by doctors who at- tended him at the church to a heart ailment Gayman the a traveling representative Tilow-8chuler company of | Reading, was quite active in church i 1 jaffairs since coming to Altoona in 1900 He was Juniata in Oakland March 31, Mills, 1879, a born county {son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Kurtz) went to the second floor of | i man, | Magnon Gearhart in December, 1921. | one brother | partment of Public struck by a | the Gayman He was twice married His first wife, Edith (Kipple) Gay- died in 1918. He married Miss Two daughters and survive t——————— Four Schools Close Coal Township school board in the Shamokin district, has officially an- nounced the closing of four schools, bringing the number of closed nn a; two-year period to nine. The action was recommended by the State De- will entail dismissal of 20 teachers, ones dismissed being the last {ones hired i Instruction, and | Mill Hall R. D. Man Held In Accident Driver of Truck Which Alleg- edly Struck and Killed Pedestrian Believed to have been on his way fo Brush Mountain to pick berries Sherman Snyder of Altoona was in- istantly killed last Friday morning when struck by a truck at Pleasant Valley boulevard in that city Shortly following the accident po- lice took into custody Clifford Hoff- man, 20, of Mill Hall R. D.. driver of the posted $500 bail for his release pend - ing a hearing In Hoffman's statement at the s0ene the accident, it was report- ed, he said a truck had been parked on the south side of the highway and he first saw Snyder as he was crossing the boulevard, apparently intending to board the truck “Without looking for oncoming traffic.” sali Hoffman “the man stepped directly into the path of my {truck which I swerved to keep from {hitting him, But I was unsuccess- { ful “1 applied the brakes but I was too close to keep from hitting him, of sald Hoffman — MY cori Three Youths Under Arrest State Police have arrested Harry LeRoy Perry, 21, from | alleged death truck. Hoffman Them Accident Victim Taken to Hospital Man Injured by Falling Flue Found to Have Had Sev- eral Ribs Fractured without struck by and wa bolt Warning tioning during ARhining durin aith 4 likely Faces Reckless Driving Charge Mill Hall Man Driver of Car Which Crashed Into Tree at Lockport Raymond J face charges of reckless driving s an automobile accident at 515 a. m Sunday on Route 664, in Lock Port Pvt. C. B. Benson, St Motor Police announcoea Purl was jeft the crashed into of Ellery King policeman said property were $100, he added Tracy A. Lerch, Mill Hall of the car, was 4 passenger as was Edward Bitner, same address, who suffered lacerations of the forehead ichest and hands and was admitted to the Lock Haven Hospital in good conditions. Furl and Lerch each were treated for lacerations Aen Double Fracture in a fail from a tractor, Belles, 14, of Berwick, R fered a dic ture of der, a dislocated ankle lacerations of the face. The lacerations came rom conlitact the wheel of the tractor but the shoulder and ankle injuries are be- lieved to have resulted from strik- ing stones as he fell ale the dri f a car which and pert) the motor CUrve ( the pre Locks Damages $100 and Ww | the Car owner Elden D. 1, sul- the shoul several facial with uble fra and of Lock Haven, | { Charles Myers, 18, of Mill Hall, and | | Harold Laubscher, 17, of Lockport, {in the belief that they will be able | : {to clear up a series of forgeries and { burglaries in Lock Haven. Perry was icharged with two forgeries. It was [Hinged he took a pay check from the | {porch of his neighbor, Samuel vill- | | ello, forged Villelio's name and! ieashed the check at a hardware store. | 1 On another occasion it was charged, | Perry took a check from the Lock! | Haven Bowling Club, forged a name | {after changing the name of the payee and cashed it, Syrone Railraader Dies at 82 John K. Johnston, 82. who became | {a painter after 54 years as superin- | tenident of the maintenance division | | Pennsylvania Railroad, died Priday | iat the Philipsburg State Hospital | | Johnston painted numerous por-. { traits, one of them of his father, the late Attorney Joseph J. Johnston, of | | : Greensburg. He presented this pore trait to the Tyrone Libra | other to the Greensburg High school. i a —————— ——— { ‘The miliaris i& the man who put | {the “fist” ry and an- | "| temper LT Random [tems \ HKABIENS: Bellefonte areas may be in for an other rables epidemic. Last Friday morning while firemen were search for the body of Mervin Fisher In abandoned quarry north of town mall white dog appeared on the ET inning about madly with } coming from its mouth. It ig nored hreats alike napped objects and of residing hot the rolled down was infected probably bit other anl- wanderings, and if of the disey ing the rot} and men and howe Indications CORXINE al Wise Finally a youth a gun aie and If it ard ana i 50 a an be BRE ADD ON WATER | disheartenin } Hook rough Wire anc jung 4 Was In Fisher around QUIT) Lat Lhe 1 casier way cording tw was Throw i It would rest di Al NeCeREATY the story bread wouldn't 1 mace In the went ao home well with but ! no screen millers, moths what-have-you Miss Helen Bee- who serves regularly as one of spotters, reports that she has a or she'll donate to the cause if that one doesn't fit, this cor- one we'll give to save the and poGd spirits of spotters who might detest flies as much as we do GERRRR! Al gical de- al beetle and are simply terrific F731 the screen oo anc ner nas anonymous NE over Lhe resder, apparently fact that we didn’t cture of the Flying Fort- that crashed at the airport re- writes following catty bet T did better than YOU rnir from the cook ng Fortress—given to like a brunette—or a blonde, doesn't 11? INVENTION: A Bellefonte man has invented a device which shows all indications becoming universally used throughout the land in a short time To date two of the devices have been used in Bellefonte, with most satis- actory results. Publicity on the gad- is evpected 10 be released in the future DELIGHTFUL: The other day at a public sale we ran across an item which we never knew existed. It is a small earthen- ware cuspidor, about 5 inches in dia- meter, complete with handle and an opening for emptying. Oldsters say you use the thing beside your arm- chair. A most pleasant and esthetic gadget! That's why we bought it DOUBTS: As this column went to press Tues- day morning, the body of Mervin Fisher had not been found, and of- ficials were vOiCing doubts that he drowned in the green cold waters of the old quarry. You can sit down and build a good circumstantial case to show that he didnt drown but always there is the possibility thst the body will be discovered and the theory smashed to bits, 1 a ph #3 the tid me possibly ¢ of near THAT THOSE WHO FIGHT MAY EAT
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