Centre Democrat. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, October 22, 1942, Image 9
Odd and CURIOUS in the The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week ‘SECOND SECTION @he Cenire Democral F NEWS, EATURES ~ NEWS VOLUME 61. BELLEFONTE, PA.,, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1942. NUMBER 45. Random [tems — SO SORRY, PLEASE Tip to the Japs—don't thumb noses at Uncle Sam's gunners. That proved the death warrant for one Jap pilot in the Battle of Midway, but Jet Sgt. Francis E. Hall, of Baltimore, a gunner on the ill-fated carrier York. town, tell the story. “Bombs and shrapnel were falling all around us, but the gun crews were firing as cooly as if it were target prac- tice. One Japanese torpedo plane came roaring by, not more than 50 feet ever the water, and the pilot thumbed his nose at us. Every gunner who could do so swung his weapon on the plane and it flew to pieces like a clay pigeon.” ( t HANDS OFF, MEN Sorry men, but those wedding gifts that are given to all mar- ried couples in reality belong to your wife. An Allegheny coun- ty court jury so ruled when eight men and four women awarded Mrs. Marie Perchy, of McKees Rocks, $114, plus $2 interest, the value of wedding gifts which she said her husband refused to sur- | render when they separated. Perchy maintained that some of the gifts of course, were for his estranged wife, but that, after all, some were meant for both of them. The jury disagreed, NOTHING TO IT An Atlanta, Georgia, woman, riding home on a bus, suddenly realized she had left a “piggy” bank at the post office while mailing letters, She hurried back to the post office, found the bank on the counter, and then no- ticed it was heavy. Between the time she'd left the post office and returned, generous Atlantans, thinking it was there for aiding some worthy cause, had put many coins in it. ( t I k } | I I 14 ] torcycle Clifford H. Hill, 18, of Duncansville OST GRINDERS Corporal Bernie Abrahams of the Royal Regiment of Toronto, who has returned from Britain, tells of an air raid warden trying to hustle an English woman out of her home into a shelter dur- ing a bombing: “Wait till I find | me teeth,” the woman said. “What do you think they're dropping, lady, sandwiches?” HIT THE JACK POT Repairman Frank Holser, of New York, went to the pit of an ‘ { He found $1,117 in cash. | I'll be his if no one claims it in six months. 15-MILE SPEED LIMIT SAVES LIFE AND AUTOS Savings in life and vital equip- ment, besides rubber, gas, and oil, will be brought about by the na- tion-wide adoption of the 35-mile- an-hour speed limit, says Amos E Neghatt, administrative head of the Pennsylvania State College Institute of Public Safety. The Penn State expert believes that “only a fool” would drive faster than 35 miles an hour on recap tires. He said that accidents are fewer at a lower rate of speed with a consequent drop in the number of fatalities, “Moreover, at 50 miles an hour or over an automobile usually winds up on a junk pile,” he observed, “where. as at a lesser rate of speed the dam- | age to equipment is held to a mini- mum.” There may have been a time when modesty was an asset to a man try- ing to get along in the world but that time ended when modern pub- licity came into being. | —— eee i » Altoona over the weekend, one In a| | motoreycle-auto Johnson | while attempting to board a freight i street. Police report that | journal box on the { which he was boarding when hurled forty feet after northwest Wednesday morning wa road in front of one i car. | noon, bringing a long apron or other | Two Altoona Boys Meet Death In Railroad And Motorcycle Accidents Charles H. Johnson, 12, Found Dead Along Tracks; Willard M. Nash, 14, Dies From Motorcycle-Auto Collision Two youths met tragic deaths in ¢ collision and the |g ther while trying to board a freight rain Twelve-year-old was killed lay afternoon about Charles Henry instantly Sun- 4:40 o'clock Twenty-ninth | ¢ from alll appearances young Johnson, aged 12, | ad attempted to board an east- ound oi] train and presumably lost us footing, striking his head on the | ide of the car! There were 100 witnesses to the accident Willlard M. Nash, 14, of Reservoir war Newry died of a fractured | rain just west of ( skull at the Altoona hospital Satur- jay night at 10:45 o'clock, received | the mo- riding tandem with he wi Squirrel Causes Three-Car Crash Two Women Suffer Minor In- the juries in Automobile Accident Responsibility for a three-car ac- ‘ident Route 322 two miles Port Matilda last on of placed on a squirrel which walked across the of the machines estimated at $275 and were slightly injured when Rev Bodtorf, of Morrisdale, re- duced speed to avoid hitting the squirrel. A car operated by Claude Shankland, of Danville, R. D., struck the rear of the minister's machine, | Damage was two women The Roy C pile-up occurred land a third car, operated by Mat-| of Port Matilda, | the Shankland | thew McMonigal, struck the rear of Mrs. William Fowler and Mrs i James Weaver, of Morrisdale, two of { the four women in the Botdorf ma- | minor lacerations bruises and underwent treat- ment in the offices of a Philipsburg | physician. State Motor Police [rom Pleasant Gap sub-station who inves- tigated the crash said the cars were! traveling at a slow rate of speed | at the time of the accident The squirrel escaped injury a — chine, suffered and Red Cross Receives | Quota of Dressings The Bellefonte Chapter Red Cross has received its new quota of surgi- cal dressings and work on the as- signment is to begin next week, with Mrs. Charles Mensch and Mrs. John! G. Love in charge | Any person interested in the work | is urged to report to the Masonic building, North Allegheny street, ! from 2 to 5 o'clock Tuesday after- | suitable garment and some type of | head covering for use while work- | ing on the surgical dressings | — ! The individual should support the | churches in order that the churches | may help support the individual - [FARM QU , Farm Advisor General Electric Station WGY ESTION BOX | ED W. MITCHELL the face toona enfelt been taken to Mercy he I brush fractures side son ! Friday morning Swedish newspaper day to the Great Lakes Naval Train- ling Station, Illinois | Heaven though holding | Snyder counties, rashed into the rear end of an tutomobile at the trolley crossing at Ward avenue and Logan boule- | vard, three hours previous Hill, driver of the motorcycle, was admitted to the institution suffering from a severe laceration of the body bruises about report. and minor cuts and His condition was *d to be good Police reported the automobile was iriven by Herbert FP. Shoenfelt, Al- and that Mrs. Blanche S8ho- 50, wife of the driver, had spital in the patrol ear and treated for burns the forehead and of several ribs ont right | discharged yolice of he na i — Osceola Mills Editor a Bride The marriage of Miss Esther John. and Anderson Gay, prominent esidents of Osceola Mills, took place October 9th Bethel Lutheran utzdale at Hiag the pars H Following the guiet Ire ti newsy MAITIREe 4 nony, 1 NAPPY eds pent among friends in Johnstown Mrs. Gay is editor and manager of Osceola Mills Leader, a weekly Mr. Gay reported Tues everal day relative ana He has the United States service since 31st beer: In Au- gust NO new £5) Know it | men made paper has enough ng that to individuals «pi ind the Le yih happen tip off News mas evel up to in order known that the to other WZ. Quiltin g Bee | HOPE JOHN Q PUBLIC APPRECIATES WHAT wk RE DOING FOR HIM Note to Ni they fresh help of farmer SW ve come up miik COW with a plan to make without the Immediate ip a i to put the mi f Of oe original | aemonsty New nvarated iK, & Miysician emy of Medicine Old Bossy down on the ’ ent part in t removed in U far ial Wh enty- Dr hree-year at P process, has 3 ) milk fat se together and water months milk a demonstration in a Long add maybe later ’ {resh At 1 ZION’S Wilbur Glenn Voliva, prophet and religious sect who once pictured the world =a a giant pancake that was doomed to a sudden and drastic end, died In Billings Memorial Hospital, Chicago. the other day after a short illness He was 72 vears old Although Vollva confined hi: ac- tvity principally to the church col- ony village of Zion, a community of 6000 north of Chicago, his fame became nationwide through his per- lodic forecasts of the world and his persistent preachment that the world was flat He believed a person might reach the worl round but banished such hought from the Zion school sys- em when no scientist accepted his $5000 challenge to prove the Coper- nician theory Strict Beliefs The religious beliefs of his sect he once described as similar to those was t t self-styled leader end of the: | Abandoning of Passenger Train Service Breaks | NOW IT’S SYNTHETIC FRESH MILK | land ream MN. Y : { pound ichydrated which pouna 1 | Philipsburg, Once Busy Railroad Town, Without Passenger Train Service 78 Years of Continued Performance by the Pennsylvania Railroad Philipsburg, once stop of many without train of any kind morrow (Tuesday), the Philipsburg Dally Journal announced Mon- aay Railroad was first brought *hilipsburg 78 years ago. says the Journal, and the town has been ser- ved steadily and faithfully ever since but the last remaining wenger train will make its last tomorrow and the only pass through will be service trains passenger after to- on service 10 pas appearance remaining trains to town will be freights The train arrives in Philipsburg at 9.38 AM from then proceeds to Curwens few ‘4 i to Grampian bu Altoona and ville, Until Was sup- was eli- 5 ago. The return Altoona dally vears ago the service this nsville u reach at 454 PM Ver year ago, $12,000 th of tickets were ugh the Lickel windows in i the st which I better wrmal but $10,000 ed town IT: id One raliroad KOA wor thre the * est alon is Do Vear busines time BOT used [4 a sual Year train ut to the n average of only seven tomers a day have been during the past several months Autamobiies buses, and train service are blamed for the ra- poorer pid decline of the train service trains branch no longer well-cared for coaches that used 10 operate and i that operating on the the modern was such ie of Presbyterians led literal construction of the Bible co and rugs. Prayer alone healed held In 1934 he announced sional pork sandwich or an after ox ain- ner cigar wouldn't keep anyone out of Heaven but warned he would tol- | liglous life of the community gum | rected employment of his followers erate no “beer guzzling and whisky soaking.” use of cosmetics, of short skirts or other finseemly conduct Voliva was less tolerant with those the who contested his authority at polls. The municipal elections went against him one time and he an- nounced from his pulpit all hell.” It was these opponents who weak- (ened the authority which Voliva "held over his religious empire “old fashioned Methodists or blue more thay twenty years * The church demand. | fedted Aeinctions, obedience 10 the old Mosaic law and ints bankruptcy total abstinence from liquor, tobac- a= chewing by young women, wearing who voted for his opponent “will go to far 107 LE They de- iis political candidates In stiempted lo throw him and brought about the reorganization of the industria al system of and } hig git a ERLE & LA ™ Master of Zion of the Christ Voliva re As lan Catholic was master of the general overseer church in Zion siness anc He di- i» Ju iin the city’s industries and each i Bunday he preached to them in col- orful language and with stentorian delivery from the pulpit of Zion Tabermacie He was distinguished appearing in the claw-hammer frock coat and starched linen he wore in public. He lived an ascetic life, worked hard and supported his family on a level that belied his wealth of a Newport, Ind a preacher at 16, Voliva, farmer son became PROPHET OF DOOM DIES and a follower of John Alexander Dowie, founder of the Zion church at 10. By the time he was 37 he was Dowie's SUCCPSSOr as Overseer When Dowie died in 1807 fight arose over control arch, Voliva, depuly overseer, up a tent on a farm Dear who gr: ahd a * court Of Lhe set He 80 Ca Zion found many supporters AVE generously that he began to buy and property from He won compiete control in the village its the court 1811 Looking Back to America 2.000 Years Ago A cavern discovered in Arizona re- veals the presence of a strange tribe which may solve the mystery of the Folsam man of America’s ancient past. Dont miss this interesting ar- ticle in the October 25th issue of The American Weekly, the big mag- azine distributed with the Baltimore Sunday American. On | newsstands sale at all Soy Bean Plant Gets Big Order Jersey Shore Industry to Han-| Body Discovered in Auto- dle Product From Cen- tre County Year around operation of the soy bean processing plant at was announced Priday The Commodity Credit Corpora- | tion, an agency of the Department of Agriculture, has process all the beans in Clinton, { Centre, Lycoming, Montour, Colum- bia, Northumberland, Union The contract assures farmers a guaranteed price of $1.60 per bushel | ‘Man Found Shot Near Emporium i mobile; Told Wife He Was ‘Going Hunting’ {| The body of Everet A. Johnson, 31 Jersey | manager of a nut shop in Punxsu- Shore has been assured by a govern- | tawney, was found In his automobile | ment contract for 150,000 bushels, it | 10 miles west of Emporium, Thurs- | day night with a bullet hole through { the head i Anthony J. Grimone, iin the weapon had been exploded. } Dr, W football contracted to | coach of the Emporium High School, i who made the discoverey, said a gun i fell from Johnson's hand as he op- and | ened the car door. One cartridge Other circumstances, however, led H. Bush, Cameron county Helps to Prepare Former County Resident En- jovs Happy Occasion With Children their 91st birthday, but it is even more rare to help prepare the family dinner with which the occasion is celebrated. However, that is what Mrs. Hanna Harry of Mill Hall, did Sunday. All of her four children were present to enjoy the chicken dinner at the home of her son, Irvin Harry, where ishe has lived for many years. She of her husband, Robert Myers, Civil | {was originally from Centre County. Her two sons and two daughters, as follows, were there: Irvin Harry, Ernest Harry and Mrs, Margaret It isn't often that folks live to see Flemington Has Dedication Day Service Men Honored at Im- pressive Ceremony Sun- day Afternoon Several thousand residents of Clinton county witnessed the dedi- | Flemington boys in cation of the service roll gf honor Sunday after. inoon following a parade in which ‘more than a score of organizations {marched to the site of the marker, | this | Robert | Myers, for the duration, in memory | located on ground given for {purpose on her lawn by Mrs | War veteran. {| The parade included the icolors, four small boys dressed to (represent the four branches of ser. massed | Up until 10 year: trains were operating here on the PRR In addition to the number running in and out on the NYC and the Alley Popper. Then a person could make connections and make a trip to Phil adelphia or Pittsburgh and come home the same day. Ten years ago however wi cut four H1 BETVIOR ago, six BETVIOe v0 trains and four years ago the (Continued on Page Five) Millmont Man Is Killed In Action Second Navy Casualty From Union County Reported Last Week William bug. RD, on day of the ¥« father, . iim" Relics Turned in For Scrap Among urned in at Lock Haven {or scrap are sabre used in the Civil War by Henry Yearick, a member. of Company FE sylvania Caval ys helmet worn ny Horace Robinso member of the 6h Regiment tillery in the A EF wd brought back {rom World Was Mr. Robinson, which had en from a German s dier. The relics were the property of Mrs. Elizabeth Yearick Robinson, and who feels that her husband and father would rather the helmet, spurs and sabre were returned to Germany in ammunition than bw kept as souvenirs venire t venirs { "4 iui the late n as a of Ar- al been tak ttre boots of to Sell 4-H Livestock Cambria county 4-H Club mem- bers recently sold more than 12 tons baby beeve and lambs value of $4218.14. reports atukleat assistant of hogs lor a total sak J. K. Keim leader the College 11 hogs, Sate club Pennsylvania State ‘hey sold 22 baby beeves and 10 lambs - Announces Engagement Mrs, Eva Wenrick of Snow Shoe, has announced the engagement of | her daughter, Miss Kathryn, to Ken- jneth E. Drake, son of Mr. and Mrs | Howard Drake, of North Bend. Miss | Wenrick is acting postmistress at Gleasontown while Mr. Drake is of {employed in Renovo by the P. R. R | Ee —_. i | Crap Penn- | GREETING Comes a birthday greeting from friend Helen Schaeffer, of the Com- mise office The card ads Extending the deepest sym to you at this time Tek Helen! Will It be congratuls when shuffle ofl? loners staf ¢ pathy Tsk Lions we BRING IT IN, BOYS: Farmers up around Rockview pen itentiary report there's metal lying grounds of the prison It claimed that Penn State College hasn't been combed thoroughly of t possi / a bit of on the also | quite arounac its scrap tie The scrap campaign October 3 more rounduj INSTITUTE: A school offic th fal i whether he rt believed Junty institute was annus two-day ox | wort! * time It Look from the school plomatic v is interes et ir ian i n her work able help and 14 WeREMOTIN the work WANTED: One reveal d neu hment CANDIDATES: being ay be the electorate n whether the m and » seeks honest efficient The best way to stop Congressman James E. VanZandt from up and down this Congressional district and elsewhere spilling e lot of war secrets that newspapers would { be jailed for revealing. is to vote him out of office next month SCHOOL ART: The Bellefonte school board would like art pi the new school aski: to runnt runnin cures sculpture for building, but individuals and organi- zations ntribute such items for fear of what might happen For example that moth-eaten old picture of great-aunt Hannah which been in the family for years and vears, is not considered work Neither is the handsome portrait of a bowl of fruit, even though some tantique dealers That ana hesi- tales bas ort ar like them slightly suggestive statue of Venus, put on the attic some years ago, pos- sibly Is no more suitable for the school than it is for your livingroom That's the reason school officials aren't conducting drive i work and sculpture YARN: A story is told about a Bellefonte ward heeler, who is currently mend- ing fences for a favorite candidate. A down-and-outer approached him the other morning, and related in a conversational fone of voice that he'd like to go hunting but had no money for a license. The ward heel- { er handed him $2 with a bit of poli- {tical advice. Then the down-and- (Continued on Page Three) a ar 4 pes Ex Libris... By William Sharp for No. 2 yellow beans and the as- sociation will receive a government | guaranteed price of 11 7-8 cents per | pound for the ofl which will be used | lin the war Industry. { Q—What should be put in sweet!buy the best seed you can and ex- cider to keep it from turning into! periment with various fertilizer com- vinegar? { binations until you find the one that A ~—Bengoate of soda, The custom gives you the best results coroner, the sheriff's office and State Motor Police to thoroughly investi- gate the case Dr. Bush said he was told John- [Musser of State College, and Mrs, | vice in the U. 8 Armed Forces; the | | Harry Stoner of Altoona. Husbands, | St. Joseph's High School Band, of (wives and children were present, as | Renovo, of 45 pieces, the Spanish | well as a few friends. Mrs. Harry | American War veterans, the Home | is to use 1-10 of 1 per cent, or 6) ounces to 50 gallons of cider i Q.—~Please tell me how prunes, A.~Lay them out in the sun three or four days, bringing them in at! night. Then diy them six to eight | hours in a slow oven around 150 Fahrenheit, Q Can you tell me how to build | a filter to clean the water coming from the roof of a dwelling house and going into a concrete cistern in| the basement? i A —Billd a woodén box about 2 by | to dry 4 feet deep; fill with sharp sand and | run the water through that into the cistern. Inside the Cistérn one may build a brick partition and refilter | the water through ths". Q. Poison ivy is plentiful in many meadows. Is this harmful to horses and cattle when cut and dried with the hay? A. Apparently not. 1 find no rec- ord of its hurting them, and we have always had some in hay and fed it without any bad results, How can I prevent a bitter in turnips? A.—~Turnip flavor is a combination of variety, soll, weather, stage of maturity, and perhaps some other fnotors, ‘About all you can db is to | should get seedlings Q~—What makes my turkeys die when they get up to two or three pounds? A~~Black head. There is no cure once birds are infected with the or- ganism. The prevention is to raise poults on a wire floor and then clean range where no chickens run for five years Dairy farmers and stock feeders will benefit by the oil meal used as a feed concentrate. The association reports the average cost of bulk meal will be about $40 per ton in the Jersey Shore area, To handle the {son had eaten lunch about 3 p. m., {| Thursday, and left his home an hou { later, telling his out shooting.” ri wife he was going is able {has nine grandchildren and four | great-grandchildren, Mrs, to read without glasses, and helps with the housework at the { The discovery was made about 8! Harry home. ip. m, at a spot seven-tenths of a \ large amount of | mile inside the Cameron county line. have | heans, special storage arrangements |The car, with the gear in high and | { will be made. The Commodity Cred- | the ignition still on, had ploughed | >. Called to Renovo Church The First Presbyterian church of | Veterans, the Flemington Borough | Band, iford Post, American Legion, the Emerald Hose Company. Renovo; ithe Renovo ambulance, the West | Branch Hose Company, Renovo; the | Lock Haven Drum and Bugle Corps; {the Veterans of Foreign Wars from {Lock Haven; Avis and Lock Haven | Q Please tell me how to raise it Corporation will lend the co-op- through about 150 feet of soft shoul- | Renovo has issued a call to the Rev. firemen: Mill Hall Drum and Bugle peach trees from pits. A Plant your pits inches deep in a sandy soil. wire guards to keep rats, mice and | squirrels from eating them, and you| next spring. In| in their first summer; but up north, | figure on budding when the seed- lings are one year old. Cut a shield bud from the variety you desire to propagate, anc set it into your seed- ling: otherwies your seedling will probably be a wild, worthless sort Q-~How can [ keep rutabagas and kohl-rabi for winter use? + A~Kohl-rabi does not keep very well, but rutabagas and turnips do. The common pradtice Is to store them In moist sawdust in a cool cellar or in a covered pit. Immersing them in melted paraffin or one of the special waxes designated for this fasgone will increase their to {erative portable storage bins, capable | about two | Of holding 7,000 bushels. Present ca- | = Use | Pacity of the co-operative is 5,000! bushels. The farmer will receive seven cents per bushel if the beans are {the south, they are usually budded | stored until next June. Beans deliv- ered prior to that date will be on a protracted storage rate The new contract greatly expands the of of the Jersey Shore plant which heretofore ran for about two months out of the year. W. W. Hayes Is dent of the co- operative and ry Mohn is su- perintendent of the plant, nil Hospital Patients Mrs. Fae Piedmont of Howard was admitted last Thursday morning as a medical Jeti, and Mrs, Ella Col- yer of Mill Hall, and Dean Richard Confer of Howard, R. D., were ad- BARTER (Continued on Page Four) David Searfoss of Lambertville, N. J. ‘A’ Card The Office of Price Administration has authorized tire inspectors to charge a fee of from 25 cents to $2.50 for examination of passenger car tires and instructed motorists to submit their tires for an initial in- spection between December 1 and January 31. The regular commercial i vehicle tire inspection starts Novem. ! ber 15, the OPA points out. OPA authorized its ultimate 100,- ready have been appointed, charge not more than 25 cents vehicle for inspection where tires are removed from wheels or Auto Tires to Every 4 Months; Others Two Months 000 inspectors, 35,000 of whom al-| be Inspected ta tire for ! purposes of thorough in- | spection, the maximum charge al- ‘if all four tires a {to be demounted. | The inspectors may charge [cents for truck tires or size 7:50%20 jor smaller; $100 for those larger [than 750x20 and an additional 50 {cents for removing inside dual truck {tires of this large size. { he! ynder the program, OPA said, risither | kesh {lowed is 50 cents per tire or $250, nd the spare have | | Corps, Flemington P. O. of A., Flem- {ington Drum and Bugle Corps, La- | {dies Auxiliary to the Flemington | Pire Company, Cub Scouts and the | Flemington firemen. Auxiliary police ‘of Lock Haven and the Lock Haven | Detail of State Police aided in hand. ling traffic. | J. Forrest a veteran of i ar, was master of the Renovo High School] Harry is in very good health, | Band. the William Marshall Craw- | RY ] i i