Sa Odd ond 1- The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week | an | curious | sie Ghee Cendre Democraf ory BELLEFONTE, I A. THURSDAY, AUGUST | ’ + NEWS | Random [tems ——— | VOLUME 61, MONEY WAS DAMP AEs tt | Tyrone Girl Killed As wr the ret or we aeieniens | Ride Cable Breaks In Accident at Bland Park store she operated. Then one day a9 NYP 1942, NUMEER Altoone Husband Kills "Rival He Found With His Wife; Returns Home to Bed \ [| CURFEW: This corner tries not tw be old- fogy~ish, but we still can't see why | youngsters lately out of their cribs should be permitted to vend peanuts and candy at all hours of the night {in Bellefonte’s beer gardens. It's {bad enough for youngsters of that [nge Ww be on the streets late at night last week the small bag contain- ing the rent money dropped into the bathroom plumbing. She made 13 cally before locating a plumber to dig up pipe in her basement to look for the money, “I'll be back in a flash with the cash,” the plumber said oonfi- dentally-<but he failed, At the suggestion of = neighbor boy, the woman next called the fire department to turn © hose inte the plumbing. That did the trick. These waiting at a nearby man - hole saw the money foating down the stream-—seven $10 bills, 12 $1 bills and one $5 bill—all but $5 of the $92. V FOR EVERYBODY The Mclaughlin Bat Factory at Ralston, Lycoming county, re- ceived a piece of timber recently on which mature had stamped her patriotic insignia, It was an ash log, which was found to bear ingrained in its heart a distinet letter V. As a result it has been sliced into numerous circular V- for-Victory curios. Henry Reger, sawyer, intercepted the timber, which he described as being about 15 inches in diameter with an 8-inch wide, dark gray V cen- tered in its grain for a distance of about § feet from its base, NO LAUGHING MATTER Ernest Pershing Rasberry of Columbus, Ohio, has petitioned the Superior Court to change his surname to “Berry.” His pe- tition said the change was de- sired because “when petitioner is introduced socially or his name called in public or in pri- vate, he is instantly looked upon in the spirit of puns, jibes, jokes and jests all to his humiliation and embarrassment and annoy - ance.” COIL TROUBLE John Wilkes, of Sharon, 8. C,, didn't pay much attention to it when his radio suddenly went silent early one night recently, but he decided to investigate when it suddenly blared forth about midnight when everyone was asleep. The trouble proved to be a big black snake which was leisurely crawling out of the set, RATION’S END Pulling up under a shed during a heavy rainstorm, Ration, the horse which C. H. Calhound, vocational teacher of Nahunta, Ga., used to replace his automeo- bile, became interested in an electric light bulb, reached up and bit inte it. That was the end of Ration. He was electro- cuted. GOT THE ‘BREAKS’ Thomas Grumbling, 20, of near Johnstown, yawned in bed and dislocated his jaw. On the way | home from the hospital after having the jaw set, Grumbling became ll and leaned out the automobile window. His jaw dislocated again. { sc — - a We might point out to Americans | who despise the Soviet Union, that | without the fighting of the Red army, the soldiers of the United States would face a casualty list rulining into miilions. | asking the { AS Evelyn Edmondson Fatally Injured and Three | Other Young People Injured When Speed- | ing Airplane Ride Goes Wrong — ——— Miss Evelyn Edmondson, 17, daugh- ter of Clair Edmondson, was fatally injured and three other young Ty- rone people injured last Thursday | afternoon at Bland Park, Tipton, when the rear cable supporting a speeding car of the airplane swing snapped, the car being thrown some distance and crashing into a nearby ticket booth, throwing the occupants to the ground Miss Edmondson, a well known Ty- rone young lady, died at 520 o'clock in the Altoona hospital from head injuries. She was seated in the rear seat of the airplane car and was hurled through space after hitting the ticket booth, striking the ground Man FallsOnR.R, Tracks; Stop Train Aged Vietim, Crippled By Rheumatism, Escapes Injury atl Lock would have bee: train No § i nn Is predicament he track alter [7 train Allen to start toward the tation from Hanne slong {TACKS sidewalk. When fell at a a few feet west of the Hanna watching the not some men Se Wp the The Streck, wa PRR walking man identified as ee treet tl of he instead on the he point the men safety in time and the berth at city and released Sat- and th The police called man wa Jalil Ton urday Posting Land | Stirs League . Deibler Property Near Fisher- man’s Paradise Again in Limelight were given a @ the night moming Melvin Merritts, of Altoona, presi- dent of the Pennsylvania Federa- tion of Sportsmen's Clubs, sald he is “not worrying about” the demand af Allegheny county sportsmen that resign Member clubs of Allegheny county Sportsmen's League adopted by a 16- ne [side of the miniature railway track. | the track may find a response in the ut a point 60 feet away on the north It is believed that Miss Edmondson's forehead struck one of the rails on about 4:30 o'clock Injured in the accident were Eliza - beth Getz, 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry 1. Getz, Tyrone, who re- ceived brush burns of the body Donald Hubert, burns of the back, brush burns of the legs Robert Hughes, 18, of Tyrone ceived brush burns on the back According to hospital authorities the young people were admitted to the institution from the Tyrone am- bulance, with the exception of Rob ert Hughes, who was taken from the scene In a private car Motor police investigating the ac- cident reported that the ride, an airplane swing concession owned by Joseph Burket, of Roaring Spring was originally built for the chair plane ride Contained in the makeup of the concession was the original stand ard with six airplanes about 11 feet long and 32 inches wide, with two seats and a capacity of two persons each, motor police sald. Police sald the concession was operated by Rob- ert Potts, 28, of Tipton, at the time of the accident. Potts told police he stopped the movement of the ride as soon as he heard the crash caused by the demolition of the ticket booth The ride made about two and one (Continued received brush left hip, and face, arms and re- on Page Five) | The accident occurred at UNCLE SAM NEEDS NURSES 1942, in the beautiful garden of Americen Red Cro Headquarters in Washington, D. € six Army Nurses were decorated for outstanding service at Bataan and |, Franklin D. Roose sing hese nurses ons in OU SIVICe my boys what every that they nursir when they have vol- You must not have it in thelr some Who other- return on July 1 f the Corregidor velit in addres stated he had four M and sald, “1 ask for mother has a right to ask adequate come es wil given full and 8 me 114 [3177 Only nul tx should the 1 need | WO unteered can give that power Lo wi forget NUrses back will not Oring « ures Every graduate nurse in the Unit & Lu Wre d States war. Bolu front while the Armed Fore the increase of our i ving tw help wig the serving on the home are serving with However with Military | the tremendous need for registered nurses. Pennsyl- 5.126 nurses by To date 1201 Penne have volunteered Ww untry. For for military duty the community must be re. The nurses who have ve during peacetime ome the opportunity wo get ba other | orees reali roduate vania alone Oclober, 1942 UTS needs every nurse volunteers her place in be - will k country placed come inact weld ink solive service WO our (Continued om Page Sip) Victim Found On Porch of Nearby Resident / Dies Later In Hospital; Slayer Gives Him- self Up at Motor Police Barracks Enraged at finding his pretty blonde second wife In the company of another man when he for the weekend from a defense job at Chambersburg, Andrew M. Hile- man, 04, of Altoona, shot and killed Laurence E. Hemcher, a produce dealer of that city {The shooting occurred between 11 and 12 o'clock Saturday night near a barn located between the homes of Oscar Boyles and his sister, Elsie Fister, 520 Mountain ave, on whose back porch Hemcher was found bleeding profusely from a wound in the chest, just above Lhe heart, Sat- urday morning sbout 8 o'clock When Hemcher was found, he was conscious, Boyles and his sister re- ported, but sald he would not ex- plain how he received his injury He died in the Altoona hospital about three hours later from internal hem- orrhages Following «a search which police put out for the slayer, Hileman walked into the motor police barracks at Ant Hills early Saturday and surrendered himself Mrs. Willa Hileman, 43, wife of the accused slayer was reported being held under technical charges as a material withess She testified to avthorities she re turned home from the city Saturday night with Hemcher and after leav- ing his car was accosted by her hus- band who was brandishing a shot- gun Mrs. Hileman sald her fired 3 shots moment them felling Hemcher husband at the ne of o— Editor's Note—The following peared as an editorial in a issue of the Lock Haven Express It is copied here in the hope that it minds ap recent of many of our readers.) | working A local young man, John E. Bress- ler of Flemington, who has been in Birmingham, Ala. for {the past year, has roomed with and Iman, Carle K. Wells 14 vote Thursday night a resolution | Altoona man They said he had as- former in posting throvgh Deibler’s Fisherman's Para- president isted Oliver Deibler fish ommissioner tream running property below dise to resign; state | a Merritt explained that the Deibler property was posted so Centre coun- | ty Boy Scouts could use it for a jam- | j boree, including some fishing Any Bats or Blacksnakes for Sale? John Ricks, Berks county orchard- ist, in an effort to protect his fruit trees from ravaging mice, last week advertised in a Reading newspaper that he would pay five cents each for: bats (the flying Kind). and 25 cents aplece for blacksnakes In his unique plan for an “all out” defense of his property, Rick ex- plained that field mice create havoc | 10th Annual Ho YT TW » OLD EAGLE CHAPEL The 10th annual homecoming of the former congregation of Old Eagle Chapel Methodist church above) at Curtin, will be held at the church on Sunday, August 16th, when the following program will be observed: 9:30 a. m., Sunday school session, John Bryan, superintendent; 10:30 a m. morning worship with sermon by the r, Rev, Wallace Cuin- mings, wusle, 12:30 p. m., basket dinner, 1:45 p. m., song service led by Moward Nef; 2:30 p. m., address by in ap orchard. They girdle the trees Their worst enemy is the ordinary blacksnake. By releasing a number of the snakes in his orchard he hoped to extinguish the mice Rick said he wanted 100 live bats, “in good flying condition,” to cope with the coddling moths, known during the larval stage as apple worms. He hopes the bats will de- vour the insects e Co m ming METHODIST CHURCH { p. m., memorial service; 3:15 p. m., {afternoon vorship with sermon by ‘the Rev. M. 8 Q. Mellott, of Bea- ver Meadows, pastor at Curtip 1919- 122. Bpecial music by Neff quartette, 5:00 p. m., basket luncheon, 7:00 p. m., evening worship with sermon by Rev. Foster Piper of Milesburg. Members of the congregation core dially invite all formor members and friends to participate in the home- coming been friends with another young of Babula, Ia As both boys were on the eve of their departure for service in the U. 8. Navy. Bressler to Norfolk, Va and Wells to the Great Lakes Naval Training Base, the latter's father wrote “Jack” 8 letter expressing his hope for hla son's friend's welfare and an appreciation of his friend- ship Sending the letter to The Express, Jack says “This letter may give llefonte Mon In 3-Car Crash Forrest Flick Has Car Dam- aged in Collision at Lock Haven Three cars figured in a collision Friday evening at the corner of Jay { and Church streets, Lock Haven, re- sulting in a charge of driving too fast for one of the operators, Forrest M. Flick of Bellefonte According to the police, Daniel T Hamlin of Mill Hall R D. 2 was (driving east on Church street, after i i i | ! {a Penn Stal f Rev. C. C. Shuey, Bellefonte: 3:00(8ld Hay making a left turn from Jay street, when his car was struck from the rear Ly the Flick machine, which was also east on Church street. The oollision forced the Ham- | lin automobile into the car belong-' ese ce | INE to Aaron P. Johnson, parked | headed east on Church street Resulting damages amounted son automobile. oo THREE STUDENT PILOTS RECEIVE PRIVATE PERMITS State College man, Dr. Floyd Car- | nahan, and two others recently re-| licenses after ceived private pilot instruction under S8herm Lutz at the | State College Air Depot. The other two are Jerry Hartman, syrup salesman who frequently vis- its State College, and Richard Barr, who recently enlisted in the Army Alr Cadets but has not yet been called. STATE COLLEGE WINDOW PEEPER IS ARRESTED A State College window peeper was fined $50 and costs on two charges of disorderly conduct at a hearing before Burgess A. E. Yougel, last Wednesday. The man was rt Zimmerman, n. Officer Don- Zimmerman on South Atherton street on July 31. Unable to Fill Posts Because of présent war conditions and the demand for physicians and other trained instructors, three va- cant posts on the staff at Laurelton to | $40 for the Flick machine, $15 for the Hamlin car and $5 for the John- ig fellow more cour- him with more seriou: he goes into the such a hope in ming we letter youl some othe: age and fill thoughts a: vice." With present wr the Sabula, lows, July 28, 1842 Dear Jack This ls a letter strictly written on the of tion into the service of your coun- try and it Is prompted-—in a meas. by the fact of your going. But in the final analysis it is also an old man's sincere effort to thank for the fine friendship you have given his boy. and what that friend. ship has meant to him and us Just once in a while, Jack, on our journey through Ii we meet, and make regular friends with some fel- jow who meets with our idea, or ideal, of a regular fellow. As your hair turns gray, as mine is doing for you eve your induce Nis aie You to fe Jury Exonerates State College Man Driver of Truck That Killed Cambria County Resi- dent is Freed A five-man Cambria county cor- oner's jury Monday returned a2 ver- dict exonerating Earl Corl, 28, of State College, of all blame in the death of 42-year-old A. D. Barley of | Roaring Spring, who died instantly July 10, of a fractured skull re- ceived at Cresson intersection of route 53 and 22, when the car driven by him was struck by a tractor-trail- er operated by Corl “We, the jury, find Earl Corl, truck driver, not zuilty of criminal (Continued om Page Siz) w er ———— an LETTER TO A BOY IN UNIFOR) to know the of a man who can "mea up As you meet and discard the many in your effort to find the pure gold of the regular fellow, you come to realize, more and more, what it takes Wo make man measure up and assay Oui 24 carat fine, you know, the fellow that throws his all in the jack-pot and says “there she is pal” and with a giad feeling of sincerity means it that one is Aces 80 true ure Fria, You vaiuse come @ will know later, for as 1 say you both and realize, more of that the present your friendship as a prized possession, treasure it as a thing that can te treasured and keep it inviolate accept I sincerely hope that as you two Wr separate ways 0 with 8 fine assurance what may, you will keep part that that ang go You go Coie ¥( Negro Youth Dies In Electric Chair Pavs With His Life For Purse- Snatching Slaying of Girl William Wilson, 22 Negro, pald with his life in the elec. tric chair at Rockview, Monday morning, for the slaying of Rose Haber in a purse-snatching that netted only 83 Wilson spent a guiet day Sunday, apparently unconcerned about his tapproaching death. He slept soundly most of the afternoon and ate three hearty meals during the day Accompanied by C. FP. Lauer, the prison chaplain, Wilson walked | at , Farm Advisor | : FARM QUESTION BOX ED W. MITCHELL General Electric Station WGY | Q Is there and basis of fact to i the theory that phases of the moon affect crop planting and butchering? A. There are no reliable scientific {data to indicate that the phases of the moon have any effect on farm- ing or butchering. Q. Are green oats good for silage, A. Oats make good grass silage, either alone or mixed with grass or legumes and, as a rule, keep all right without the addition of any preser- vative. The main objection to put- ting anything in the silo now and A . Try oxalic acid think either one will do the job. do it. The medicine necessary to rid a horse of worms has to be so strong it is not safe for any but a competent veterinary to administer. Besides that, there are a dozen or more kinds of worms that infest horses, and the vet may be able to kill two or more kinds with one treatment. Q. 1 have two pigs, two weeks old, They are doing well but have some- thing like ring worms on their stom- achs, What treatment should I give them? A. Maybe it is ringworm, a fun. gus disease found mostly on cattle. A little iodine salve or a strong solu- tion of bluestone applied daily should clear it up in a few days, Q. Do pollywogs poison goslings? A. No. They can eat all they can catch without harm; pollywogs are one of their natural foods. Q How can I get rid of moles that are ruining my lawn? A. You should set one-inch mesh galvanized wire around the 11 inches deep and one inch e above the soll level to keep out new intruders. Then fumigate the bur rows (with cyanogas or carbon bis- ulphide) or get some regular mole traps. Pittsburgh | alive the flame that you have fos- tered and fanned into life, as the months and the years go by you will keep contact with one another so that twenty years from now--which is a short span after all-you can meet and know the unalioyed joy of wringing the hand of an old rue friend Recently 1 lost such g friend. That | was a friendship of 25 years stand- value to | This man | feeling debt due to a! in and it was of more ‘me than gold or jewels went through those years that he was In my favor 1 had done him, but as I told his condolence, 1 had cheated him in jetting him feel so all these years, | because hig friendship and admira- | tion had meant more to me than 1 | scales | tell and certainly the (Continued on Pape Five) could Pai ' Accused of Tire Theft | - — Tyrone Men Plead Guilty Be- | fore Squire and Are Held For Court Two Tyrone young men who were arrested by State Police from the Rockview barracks Sunday, plead {gulity before Squire Harold D. Cow- | her, Bellefonte, to charges of lar- {ceny of a Ure and Wheel | The men, Willis W. Walk, 25, and {Charles OO. Dunlap, 21, stole a tire jand wheel from {garage, at his home | College and Pine Grove Mills | According to statements made by |the police, Walk had helped Strouse ito jack-up his automobile in a gar- age belonging to Strouse’s father, and since Dunlap needed a tire for his car, the two men then proceed- ed to the garage and stripped the auto of a tire and wheel. car and rolled it down the side of Skytop mountain where police found it later The burglary is reported to have occurred on July 18. MAN WHO SELECTED FAMED CASKET DIES The American soldier in the last World War who was assigned to pick a caskel from one of four resting in a little chapel in a French hamlet, and thus selected America’s Un- known Soldier, died Friday in Chi- Cago. He was Edward F. Younger, #4. He was policing a small town on the Rhine when the historic assighment conse in 1921. Plans were made for his burial in Arlington National returned | widowed wife. in my letter of | Luther Strouse’s between State Having no need for the wheel, the two young men took it in the Dunlap | [ Although no information was re- | leased by police or the district at- torney, It was implied that charges of first degree would be filled against Hileman. The probe, however, has not been completed, authorities re- ported Had Hileman not given himself up it was reported his hunt would have been difficult since he is de- scribed as an experienced mountain. eer Hileman is employed as a carpen ter atl a defense plant in Chambers- burg Hemcher was born Pebruary 12 1900, He made a living by hawking produce on the streets of Altoona and was also employed at the P. R R. freight station - County Schools Receive $125,418 | Fourth Class Districts to night Share in Payment of State-Aid Fund Payrents totalling approved last Friday | General Clair Ross payments of State ald In port of pt Blic schools in fc districts of Centre county by Auditor F the up~ op Aa 5a urth la disbursement Benner Boggs Twp Burnside Twp Centre Hall Boro College Twp Curtin Twp Ferguson Twp Gregg Twp Haines Twp Hof Moon Twp Harris Twp Howard Boro Howard Twp Huston Twp Liberty Twp. Marion Twp Miles Twp Milesburg Boro Millhelm Poro Patton Twp Penn Twp Philipsburg Boro Potter Twp ush Tp Snow Shoe Boro Snow Shoe TWP. So. Philipsburg Boro Spring Twp Taylor Twp Union Twp Unidonville Boro Wilker Twp Worth Twp § 278456 331740 Total $125 418 36 Twing Break Arms Tommy and Eddy Barrett, 13- | year-old twin sons of Mr. and Mrs | Edward Barrett, of Towanda, {broke thelr arms while spending a two-woeks’ vacation at Camp St Andrew, near Tunkhannock. Tommy broke his left arm playing basketball at camp and was taken to a Pitts- ton hospital. On the same day his twin brother broke his arm in a game of baseball Another brother, Joe, who was in camp with them, declared he would not move as he | was afraid of getting hurt Killed in Crash ¢ Ernest Thompson, 33, was almost instantly killed, and four compan- ions were Injured, Saturday at | Bloomsburg, when the car in which | they were riding | highway and crashed into a tele | phone pole. Thompson's skull fractured and he suffered internal injuries. | Buys Liberty Twp. Home | Mrs. Bertha Rupert has sold her home in Liberty township, just - | across the Beech Creek station on the B. E 'V. R. R., to Samuel M. Tressler of i $125418 were covering the both {let alone mingling among the beery and bleary in the town's hot spots DAMAGES: The Bellefonte Behool Board, which | paid a Pittsburgh bank $400 & month {12 months a year for several years for the use of the Academy bullding, asked the bank ww pay $600 for the boiler which the board installed in the broken-down heating plant tw furnish heat to the buildings. The | bank claims that it wants the boller { plus $300 extra for damage allegedly done the bulldings while the schools occupied the property. If the matter goes to court the jurors will have fun trying Ww distinguish damage caused by the schools from damage resulting from age. To us it looks like the height something or other WAR NOTE: War has dealt the toy industry a foul blow. Toys operated by spring motors are becoming notoriously poor, probably because of inability Ww obtain good quality metals for the motors. Celluloid, wood, and plastics are being substituted for metals in many other toys | POSTOFFICE: If the war keeps making inroads on the employes of the Bellefonte postoffice, some drastic changes may be made-—such as the discontinuance of one of the two daily deliveries in Bellefonte borough. The postoffice not only is losing regular employes but the substitute list is dwindling away as those on the list find regular employment REPORT: The “cross corn” reported by this corner last week, is being in- vestigated by proper authorities. In other parts of the east according to Monday's newspapers, federal agents have found that peculiarly planted or plowed fields, grain bags strewn {on fields and other distinctive mark - ings are being placed by saboteurs to point the way to vital centers, as an aid to enemy bombers. Accord- ing to our information, the field in question in Centre County is planted s0 that in the center of a corn field {is a large unplanted section in the {form of & cross. | MISCELLANEOUS : Sign over Plazas theatre marquee of Qa ¥ in {us to ask whether they mean James, {8r., or James, Jr When Uncle ‘Sam gets so he's really hard up for scrap fron, Bellefonte can always rip out the unused meter posts along the streets and contributee them to the cause. Of course, there's always the possibility we'll need them for hitch- ing posts, but we've got 10 make some | sacrifices . . . A local physician Mon- | day night predicted that Bellefonte | may lose one more physician to the | war, but he doesn't look for any more 110 be called into service. The town inow has six “full time” physicians | {including surgeons). With one gone, [the towh would have five full time men, &nd at least one who devotes | part time to Bellefonte practice. We | should be able to get along. PROSPERITY: | After many years during which {there were scores of applicants for { every available job, it is pleasant for a change to hear of vacant jobs for { which there are no applicants. With. in a day we heard of an opening for ‘an elderly man and another for a | girl who would like office work. | the line in Centre county at {Mill Hall, R. D. The latter's son will | occupy it this week until the elder | Mr. Tressler and wife move into it | permanently in the fall. complaints that are based solely upon the pecuniary effects of @ problem. We haven't much sympathy with your advertising money; (son is inevitable that | smart business man.
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