Odd and CURIOUS in the = NEWS COSTLY SLAP | During a traffic argument with a California motorist, Mrs. Bes- sie Pevantlos of Albuquerque. Il The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County SECOND SECTION dhe Cenfre Democrat | /p— A Visitor In Seven Thousa nd Homes Eac Ar —— h Week NEWS, FEATURES tems VOLUME 61. BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSI JAY, SEPTEMBER 24. 1942, NUMBER 29 N. M., slapped at the driver of the other car. The force of the slap detached her diamond- studded wrist watch and hurled in into his car. The unknown driver drove off, not knowing that he was taking the watch westward with him. MONEY TALKS Harold Stewart, of Seattle, Wash.,, Republican nominee for Congress, tried a new election- eering angle. Listed in his $483 outlay for campaign expendi- tures was a $67 item for taking boys and girls to the berry fields to relieve a labor shortage, Stew- art won without making a single speech. ONE A SWING SHIFT? Susie, a white sow owned by Herbert E. Athey, of Hagers- town, had such a large family she didn’t know how to feed them. Realizing all ninetteen of the piglets couldn't eat at one time, farmer Athey divided them into two shifts. Everybody's happy now, apparently. AGAINST BROTHERS German-born Fred Korte, of Denver, said it didn't make any difference to him that he had six brothers in the Nazi Army. He enlisted in the U. 5S. Army Air Corps. He said: “1 believe America is fighting for the right thing, so I'm just fighting for Ameriea and against Hitler.” NEVER SPENDS A DIME Dr. 8. L. Bechtel, of Chanute, Kan. hasn't spent a dime in the past nine years. He saves them. placing them in a depository. Altogether he has saved about $2,000 in dimes, out of which he has parchased $550 worth of War Bonds. A FRUITY ORDER Imagine the surprise of Milo Gartrell of Memphis, Tenn, wo on raflroad waybills, to read that a carload of peaches was to go to Pearland, Texas, addfessed to W. A. Fig and Co. GENEROUS BEES Three tibs of wild honey, found by church painters be. tween the ‘walls of the church at Ellsworth, Tl, were sold and the procesds used to pay for the paint. To Serve in North Dr. Elizabeth Hayes, daugitter of Dr Leo Z. Hayes, of Force, near Du- Bois. expects to leave in the near future for 8t. Anthony, Newfound- land, where she will become resi- dent physician at the Grenfel Hos- pital. At the location of the hospital in the frozen north, from Nov. 1 to May 1, the only connection with the outside world is by plane or dog- team. The hospital serves an area covering southern Labrador and Northern Newfoundland Veteran Dies John Perry King, last survivor of Union county who answered Presi- dent Lincoln's call for volunteers to defend the Union during the Civil War, died last week in Wilkes-Barre, at the home of a sister-in-law. A native of White Deer, he was 14 when the war started. Direct Relief Report Direct Relief funds distributed in Centre county during the past week totalled $617.10, according to G. Har- old Wagner, State Treasurer. This amount waz paid to 156 cases. Last week, 156 cases rectived a total of $631.70 Mill Hall R. D. Resident Fatally Injured by Auto FHINGH No Six Farm Hands Pick More Driven by Snow Shoe Man Victim Reported to Have Stepped in Front of Car While Walking Along Route 220 In Mill Hall; Dies in Hospital Danel H. Delaney, 59, well known | Mill Hall R. D. resident died at the | Lock Haven Hospital at 1:45 o'clock | Saturday morning from injuries re- | celved early Friday morning when struck by a car Joe Kaye of Snow Shoe, driver of { the car, told the motor police that Delaney was walking along Route 220 in Mill Hall with his back to traffic. As Kaye approached, he told | police, Delaney seemed to walk into the path of the car. The driver swerved to the left to try and avold | hitting the man Rendered unconscious by the acci- dent, Delaney was removed at once by ambulance to the hospital, where an examination revealed his injur- les to consist of fractures of both legs, fracture the skull and fracture of the elbow Deceased Is survived by four bro- of a Native Osceola Boy Fatally Hurt Dies of Injuries Received While at Work in a De- fense Plant Fatally injured while at work in a defense plant at Niagara Falls, N | Y. Gerald B. Mostyn, 27, of Osceola Mills, died Monday of last week in the Memorial Hospital. that city The deceased, a a Mr Mrs. John Mostyn, of Osceola Mills was born there December 14, 1014 | He attended the Osceola Mills school He had been employed at Niagara Falls for the past eleven months Surviving, along with his father {and mother, are the following bro- | thers and sisters: James, Louis, and | Eugene, at home: Mary, Thomas and | Robert, of Niagara Palls; Mrs. Mel- {vin Caatham, of Bellefonte: Charles {of Camp Shelby, Miss. Raymond of Camp Belvoir. Va.. Paul of the U. 8. Naval Training Base at Great Lakes, TII. Gerald was to have been inducted into the U Army on Thursday Funeral services were held Friday morning at Immaculate Con- ception church, Osceola Mills, with burial in the church cemetery - Six Brothers in Army The sixth of seven Mrs Margaret Rodgers of Johnstown, a widow, has joined the armed forces Mrs. Rodgers feels her sons will be lucky in war 3 uncles in the Civil War and they back without a scratch” enth son, 17 mother on and 8 | the sons of A as had five all came The is helping support his SY Lodge Member 50 Years Joseph M. Wolfe. a member Charity Lodge No. 144. F and A. M., of Lewisburg, since 1880, and a past master of the lodge. was presented with a fifty-year emblem in recogni- tion of his long continuous service The presentation was made at his home by Paul M. Showalter, master of the chapter and Harry E. Stein, secretary. ad — ————— Lineman Electrocuted Edward C. Tuttle, 35 Northern Pennsylvania Power Co. lineman of Bayre, was of pole on which he was working broke, throwing him to the ground and dropping high tension wires on his body FARM QU ED W. MITCHE Farm Advisor General Electric Station WGY ESTION BOX ———— a —— — ——. A— LL Q. Should salt be put on aspara- gus beds? A. No. Experiments indicate salt does not kill enough weeds to pay for the bother get 500 pounds of 5-10-65 per acre after she last cutting, so that it can bufid up a good reserve of food in the roots for the following year. It should «giso get manure each fall if it is possible. Q Will millet make grass silage? A. Yes. You can make silage out of almost anything. The legumes need grass or grain or mo- lasses or acid to help preserve will be better if it. But it can be used alone and other things go with without any preservative if the grain is almost ripe. Q. What is the best thing to use to kill cabbage worms? Asparagus should | grass | on the subject. Fit galvanized wire fly screen trays in any sort of a box ‘or oven you can set over a burner on the stove. Slice, dice or mash the product so that it will dry out readily. and dry it with moderate {heat till it is thoroughly dry. Then ‘pack into an airtight container Q. I have a plum tree that blos- soms freely but bears no fruit. Can I do anything to make it produce i fruit? A. Probably Next year cut a bouquet of bloom from some other | variety of plum and hang it in your | {tree in a pail of water. This pro- \vides pollen for cross pollination to the millet silage fertilize your bloom. Many varie. ities of plum are self sterile. Q. Please tell me how to raise (and feed turkeys A. Most growers are using the Bronze breed of turkeys, but Bour- Q. Please explain a simple process for dehydrating fruit in an oven. scheduled killed by an electric {shock near here yesterday when a! John of Hall R. D., Mrs. Louise | thers and three sisters Howard, James of Mill Joseph, Vincent and Mevers of Lock Haven; Mrs. Kath- ryn Furl of Bellefonte, R. D., and Miss Mary Delaney, of Mill Hall, R D | A requiem mass was celebrated for Mr. Delaney at St. Agnes Catholic | church, Lock Haven, Tuesday morn- | ing by the Rev. John J. Crowley. The remains were brought to Howard for burial . ou . Protest High Freight Rates The Public Utility Commission on | Friday reported that M. Glossner and sons, of Johnstown, have filed a complaint against the Pennsylvania | Railroad alleging that the [freight for transportation of scrap iron and steel between Johnstown and Snow Shoe, Centre County, is unjust, un- reasonable and excessive. The com- plaint contended that the present rate of $3.68 per gross ton should be 10 $2 57 The labor shortage will ¢ | sylvania's war-needed fi 1043 with mm proguc- Qe olution 34 tion in iniess the 8 in Light warn 0) " 2 SOCTeLArY reduced b asl ed todas $525,000 Presses Bring $14,000 The defunct Philadelphia Evening there Ledger's two presses, instalied among 1025 at a cost of $325.000, have been | Years sold for scrap. They brought only !can handle $14.000. The sale was made y | clared, adding auction of tne Ledger's assets Reports we is 1 the farme rot Crog a “The farmer LABOR SHORTAGEMAY CUT YIELD Tomatoes from Hammocks As Truck Goes Rollin" On | Lancaster County Man Perfects Machine That Allows Farmhands to Listen to Radio As They Boost Production pick tomatoes rear, slide tadio Entertains Picker “SUGGESTION I't BN ABOUT 4 or War » Fruck “wet voor. ESCapes Unhurt Under Trolley Altoona Motore Yi Parked Car. Trolley Paid $16 for 4 list Hit J ands on T Fac ks BOOK REVIEW : OUR SURPRISE te The Digest rey 22114 "nt magniiioen Liberator a sSurpris 1943 death on % according October Reader's Digest, and due for production by early 1043 aircraft which wholly outclass the best enemy planes Now being incubated in the Ar- senal of Democracy, according to the Digest, are fighter planes with a eelling of 50,000 feet, a range of 2.- 000 miles—much more than enough to accompany bombers from Eng- | sibly double land to Berlin and back—and speeds! or Liberator over 400 miles per hour Beside | will haw fighters, Britain's Spit- Bpeed Hurricanes, Germany's| per hour Mes#rschmittsa and Fock ~-Viulf 1900's and even our own P-47 Thun- derbolt will become but pallid fore- runners ha e America at the Axl Virt in ually ready quantity are American firepower as wy Our sky Gargantua sige of © Its Your to the 1s six ena; to 18000 horses 400 mil Ris well 78) thes fires er i [§ : Q ‘reach Berlin 80 n Its t e new and ( Als 443 SRY - ing London quarters will hay cubic capacity as a ley Driver of Death Car Exonerated Liquor Control Men Visit Inn Investigate Estab lishment Conducted by Sid Bern- stein at Mill Hall Coroner's Jury Declares Jas. Akely Guiltless in Fatal Crash James B. Akely, 21. port, owner and driver of the auto mobile in which Nan Conway, 20, of Grassfiat, and Clyde Tucker, 21. of Panchatoula, La, were fatally in- jured near the Lock Hmven Teachers College during the early morning of Sept. 14, was exonerated in an in- quest held Priday at Lock Haven J. P. Wynne, jury chairman, pre- sented the verdict which said that Miss Conway was “fatally injured as the result of an accident at 1:30 a. m. Sept 14, when a car owned and operated by James B. Akely went out of control for some unestablish- ed reason,” throwing Miss Conway | from the car. Purther, the jury found James Akely not criminally negligent Testifying were Akely, Dr. Henry G. Hagar, who examined the in- jured at the hospital, Officer Harry G. Clark, who Investigated the ac- cident, Ray and Merrill Rauch, me- chanics at the garage to which the car was taken, and the four other occupants of the car at the time of the crash Dr. W. J. Shoemaker, Clinton County Coroner, conducted the in- quest, assisted by District Attorney Burritt L. Haag and Officer Clark Jurors were Wynne, William M Fredericks, 8, G. Williamson, John Whiting. Martha B. Ziegler and Elizabeth McCloskey. wma liiltuliiins To Reopen Church The interior of the First Metho-| dist church at Renovo has under. Miller : gone extensive repairs during the | Betty had been dismissed with the Summer and was reopened with | Other first graders by their teacher, public worship sefvices Sunday. One {of the items of improvement was the installation of apn altar cross, presented by a former member of the church. of Six’ enforcement agents State Liquor Control Board Williamsport aided by two officers the Lock Haven Motor Police, made an inspection of Clintonian at Mill Hall Saturday night. As a result the establishment of which Sid Bernstein is proprie- | tor, will have a hearing before the board, although the has no been set The officers spent over an hour the taproom., during which time they questioned patrons ang secured evidence. They are continuing their investigation regard to formal charges against the licensee and the employees, it is reported of Couders- the frets irom of detail State ¥ tH thr date ¢ ey in n No other piace was visited by the group - It is just possible, brother, that enemy propaganda is behind much of the nonsense that you hear whis- pered around 5 A five-foot blackshake, curled up on the stone steps leading into the | front entrance at the Castanes i schoo! in Clinton county. was dis- | patched with a shovel last Wednes- i day afternoon by the janitor, Wil- | Ham 8mith, after the reptile was y discovered by six-year-old Betty Lou rn i ™ Dumplete por: Trip {bred German shepherd dog. owned { Mr. and Mrs. C. Gibson Wise and | hy Mr. and Mrs. Arthur B. Johnston i their three-year-old son have re- | turned to their home in Dunnstown, | °f Allegheny Purnace, is reported | Clinton county, after completing an | '0 be the first dog enlisted in the | interesting trip through the west by | Coast guard, in response to a recent motorcycle and sidecar. They left apPeal from the navy for canine | Lock Haven, August 31 and traveled | Partners to assist coast guardsmen 118 days, covering a distance of 4. in keeping their lonely vigils along 554 miles, through nine states. {our vast shoreline, -Foot Blacksnak ueenie’’ Enlist Quennie, the 122-pound thorough- FOR AXIS IN “43 FIRST THINGS i C Onargantus wil bis wie oxveen Bellefonte R. D. Coal age, gua) Trucker In Crash “Tor LioHTs: 85 From County — Enroll at State ricer a Record Freshman Class To P22 Altoona Sailor Takes Own Life Body Found in Cellar of Home With Bullet Wound Through Heart Fall Semester at Penn State Start Kenneth Robertaor wha had been st INDOOR SPORT adelp Y some cellar toona a wound 12-gaug ¢ y 3) od A. Beay id be 3 ned for the ivision: Mildred 8 Har Kell b notes of an no reason act visibly enlistment Smeltzer ago he had Boalsburg © Robert W. Bailey again er division. #Centre Hall: Pear] _, | Way, lower division: Glenn I "agricultural education. Oak Dean 8 Zong, lower division syivania Furnace lower Philipsburg: Harriet Hewitt, lower Eleanor J Jones, chemistry Herman J. Pez- alski, ceramics: Augusta H. Schwab, lower division: Leila E Thompson lower division: Lois D. Walton, low- sr division the December term of Pine Grove Mills: Albert K. Hen- - ry. agriculture. Pleasant Gap: Shel- Burned When Fuse Blew Out don G. Shuey. dairy manufacturing Phin ' al Rebersburg: 8ara J. Reish, lower di- W Nba a Bee h . fr vision Shingletown Lester E. Glad- yas pan RAL WH i felter. agricultural education y's oo the State College: Dorothy MM. Al. [use biew bright, lower division: Russ B. Alvis Working chemical engineering: Barbara J. Haven Ap Anderson, lower division. George P fu duis ih Amold, chemistry: Ruth N. Bamer, of serious lower division: Robert E. Beam, ag- ricultural economics: Donald W Carruthers, Jo. physical education; Eleanor B. Casselberry, lower divi- gion; Helen K. Corre, iower division; Dorothy Dale, physical education Albert N. Daugherty. dairy hus- bandry, Paul R. Daugherty. lower division; Ann L. Decker, lower divi- sion. Mary J. Doerner. lower divi. sion; James F. Donahoe, pre-med- ical: Sally E Duffy, lower division; Mary J. Elder, lower division. Helen P. Ferrari, lower division; Betsy Fleming, lower division; Robert Gardner, chemicai engineering. Gayle Gearhart. chemical engin. eering; Mary E. Glenn, lower divi- ision; Josephine M. Goode, lower division, Frank P. Graham, archi- tecture: John Wes Graves, mechani. cal engineering; John D. Haley, bac- teriology: Blair H. Harman, lower division; David A. Hess, mechani- except that Robertson h something two joined the seers worried over first ran out lower division and a DRAB GRAY Robertson hea icitnre $ his mother Hall R Penn- Stella A. Kepler the sole suppport Mrs. Emma Roberts a widow, was discovered in the cel- lar of the home by a boarder, Wil Ham McClain, alleged to be the only person in the home between 4 and 5 o'clock when Robertson was last seen in good health by his mother who was visiting next door neigh- bors n on Kul verdict Ita Slee Ro Xa GIVISAUI missed Saturday Cummings at 8 the outeoome of a which five houses, i onitti home case will be tried agair aivision were des GOOD DEED court Tam " Continued on Page Siz) ™ S R R pg pint _ a — a ry e on School Steps Miss Kathryn Harvey, leaving the bullding by the side door. Betty went for an older sister and it was then that she noticed the snake curled up on the fourth step from the bottom It was time for the higher grades to be dismissed so Betty calmly went back into the bullding., found the janitor and informed him that there was a snake out front. Mr Sriith attended to the rest burned head ar out near at the a few dave ago ries are consequence HERE'S A PINCER MOVEMEN WE CAN ALL USE ON THE AXIS Queenie was accepted for service at the “recruiting station.” Widener | Estate, Elkins Park, and wiil under- go intensive schooling in intelligence | stamina and viclousness, In giving up the dog for the duration, for which they will receive no reim- bursement if Queenie is injured or killed in line of duty, Mr. and Mrs. | Johnston sald, “We feel it is a pat- 'riotic duty.” , dha The Case of the Gifts of Death Sunday Ameri. : Baltimore the basement of [enn On sale at git ing on floor of the o {the Prank Horvat home, where he Lighted Cigar in Pocket Fatal to Man cal engineering: Mary M. Hensi, lower division: Ernest W. Hess ani- mal husbandry; Mary A. Higgins, fower division. Margaret K. Hussey, | sion; Martha R. Irvin, chemistry; | Marcia R. Jones, lower division; large por- Ammon W. Kerstetter, mechanical | engineering; Marjorie B. Lambert, leather belt was so badly burned it | lower division; Beverly J. MoNaul, fell apart when a physician, called! lower division: Rose. E. Merckle, low to the home, began to cut it, | (Continued on pape Sig) lower divi - Random
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