LB EAR EEE INWAR SAVING IN WAR BONDS EVERYBODY EVERY PAYDAY adhe Centre Democraf BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1942, (OLLEGENAN, Trapped in Theatre, WAR VETERAN, Asks Heavy Damage | | 3 suit Filed on Behalf of “Pee-Wee” Martin, | 9-Year-Old Peanut Vender. Claims Per- | SUBSCRIPTION—$1.50 PER YEAR Youth Killed, 2 Hurt As Car Hits Freight Donald Carson, 20, of Osceola Mills, Dies of Fractured Skull. William Frantz and VOLUME 61. NUMBER 18. | Local Soldier Dies in Crash of Bomber LeRoy Confer, 2 3. ., RN One of Seven to Die in Ohio Accdent. ¢ Graduate of Belle- | JOINS WAVES EE fonte High. Fonere “old ‘uesday. Staff Sergeant LeRoy Confer, aged | ican 23, son of Mr. and Mrs, Delbert L.|bugler Confer, residing on the Andrews Mor farm three miles east of Bellefonte, | jg, was killed Friday when an Army k medium bomber of which he was| crew chief crashed near Versailles, | Ohio. Six other members of the crew also were killed. Members of the had been informed i the bomber was en route a high | altitude from Baer Field, near Ft.| Wayne, Ind., to Florida when one of | the two motors stalled. The ship] was being brought down a forced landing in a farm field and tl trols were trimmed to fly i one motor when, at a Hohe about 20 20 feet, the stalled motor Junior Band was to be nbef of wars were salute at the grave » Veterans For- engaged to fire a Sgt. Confer was a son of Delbert and Ruth Woodring Confer and w tborn in Snyder township family said (Continued on Page Three) unofficially at for 1¢ CON Before the sh ] read justed the big plane went into a dive, it wag said. Had the motor mained off the plane would have landed safely, according to reports Confer's body was shipped to Bellefonte by rail, arriving here at 12:22 p. m.,, Sunday. Funeral ser- vices were to be held at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the home mile west of Zion, and burial was be made in Schenck's cemeter Howard. Because fire resulted after the crash, the casket was not opened here. Plans called for military at the grave, in charge of the Amer- ican Legion and the Veter ans of Foreign Wars, both of Bellefonte. Legion members were to act as pall- bearers and a member of the Amer- ——— en GRAND JURY TO HIT-RUN DRNER Ie- services STAFF SGT. LEROY CONFER ONSDEROCAES SEVERED HER = Jury to Convene Here Events Move Swiftly For” November 30; Only 2 Summary Cases Nine-eriminal eases are scheduled | for presentation to the Grand Jury! for the regular December court when |: that body meets here Monday, Nov- ember 30, according to a lst leased by District Attorney Musser W. Gettig All the cases are listed for presen tation Monday. Only two summary cases are on the docket for consideration by the! The defendant court at the usual session after tha! rr VET Grand Jury meeting. This session rested h will be held Wednesday, December 2 the st ata ed by Following are the cases to be pre-| ant Gap sub-stat sented to the Grand Jury Wilbur O. Quick, Moshannon, F and B. According to Milford Lawrence Stine, State Coi- Smith, Wagner lege, morals charge route to Mill Joseph Soukup, Jr. Pittsburgh, A and B. by auto. James D. Hall, Howard, A. and B Bernard Hockman, Brooklyn, N Y.. morals charge Edwin Gustafson, Philipsburg, A. and B. Mary K forgery. David L. Tressler, suing worthless check Helen Burns, Philipsburg, larceny : Summary cases listed for Wednes- machine day, December 2, are: Police Wallace C. Gates, Tyrone, D. and hit-run N. 8. cident ard « Frank Kress, Philadelphia, D. and tody. N. 8. In nes started for Mil ir to & af low. r did see him.’ Reuben Jaffe, of Philipsburg, sen enced ts Lock Haven Man After Ride on Flat Tire Cenlre county ually speedy in un pre clearing accident in Rebers ht. By Monday HEN the hit-run ip Aa burg Sat aS noon, the driver re- of car had been neded = pra and nded, had confessed, |} Appre- wad pleaded Dobald empl Wagner, ion, after a beers ride on a flat fiat tire through t eastern part of Centre county the story related by . before and en sim Katurdavy 1 1st nec Ag ¥ 5 Kleckner, State nage of abou Stuart, College Bellefonte, is an embankment g : Rebersburg learned of the other ac- are wand Waon ivy Mire on had Wagner in cus sald he | Relief Grants Lower Direct Relief funds distributed in Centre county during the week end- ing Friday, totaled $519.20, accord- cution and a fin $100 on a charge ing to G. Harold Wagner, State of fail ing to carry workmen's coms Treasurer. This amount was paid to| pensation 137 cases. Last week, 130 cases re-| Jaffe was tried and conv ceived a total of $541.40. } was y DAY Wr of icted by a (Continued on Page Four) — re cn is mi 160 Pass Examination Paul william Foresman David Britton Delong Samuel Horace Conrad John Willard Dolan Charles W. Horse A total of 160 Centre county Selec- tees, 83 from Local Board No. 2 Bellefonte, and 77 from Local Board | No. 1, State College, passed physical examinations at Altoona early last week and were accepted for service. | Earl Robert Craig. | Clair William Brower The first group of Board No. 2| waiter Earl Nyman Selectees, numbering 34, will leave a Nyman. - November 30 for the reception cen-| gra .oi4 Chaney Confer ter at New Cumberland, and 49 more 1 actor Thomas Burd from Bellefonte will leave December | 50.1.1 Kenhart. 1, and 77 from Board No. 1, State | i. College, will leave November 28. | The 49 Bellefonte led last Tuesday Those from Bellefonte who passed |... examinations last Monday were: aes A mel owers James Ken. Reasnér Baltimore, Md. | Btephen Praskovich Merril FP. Holter Marcus Hook Paul D. Lose Roy Heaton... . Lock Haven Franklin E Hillard. Alexander O. Morrison. Bellefonte | Lloyd Oswald Ernest J, Torsell “Bellefonte | | William M. Mauck Robert M. Dixon... Snow Shoe | Joseph G. Reed Benjamin Lupton ne MuRISON | George 1. Purnell, Jr Bellefonte Frank Earl Rodgers... Howard | Francis GG. Plozner Bellefonte Elmer Elsworth Bickel. . Bellefonte Earl Milton Bellefonte R. D. 3 Victor Emanuel Smith Beech Creek {John R. Oarbrick Hayes McQ. Cassidy... Tyrone | Vincent M. Lucas Fred Dail Meckley... Bellefonte | Pred Dobson William Robert Bloom... Bellefonte | John Q. Adams Thomas Hardeshell —. Howard | John Truhan Frederick David McKean Howard | Joseph Andrus Leo Francis Gunsallus... 8now Shoe | Joseph K. McDonald Norman L, Bowersox... Mifflinburg | Afidy Wozniak Paul Homer Musser... Fleming | Prank L. S8hutica Allison Leo Watson... Wingate | Paul W. McCloskey - Emery Ed. Gunsallus.... Snow Shoe | Joseph J. Spillia Harry Edgar Bathurst... Bellefonte Howard Orviston yrone Meadville | Julian} Bellefonte Bellefonte | Philipsburg | Selectees accepts | were Bellefonte Bellefonte Bellefonte Bellefonte Bellefonte Bellefonte Bellefonte Bellefonte R. D. 3 Philipsburg R. D. Philipsburg | Philipsburg Phillipsburg Clarence Clarence Clarence (Continued on Page Seven) justice was unus- | the south i chs : Co n|Old Tyme Bakery, ripe 5 & | FACS, the costs of prose- | Howard | Julian | Howard | Howard | .. Bellefonte | Bellefonte | Philipsburg i Clarence | Cyrus M. Walker Becomes County's Second Centenarian SHOWS INTEREST IN PRESE NT WAR Aged Man is I, ast Surviv- ing Member of County Gi. A. R. Post man e age of "1 4 $ tered n 18 yea: » major bs » LO Injur 23, 1842. He enliste n avalrs vith th most After ne area and | (Continued on Page Seven) Local Business On Apparent Upswing that business in the Belle! there were of $346 - included year and payrolls industries " In October 1941 the j corresponding figures were: 1583 em- 7 i ployes, and $256.583 in payrolls In October 1941 carloadings were ‘as follows: inbound 337, and out- bound 1263. In October this year the totals were: inbound 204, and out- bound 1324. In comparing carload- t must be borne in min 5 Are to capacity and it has been estimated that wdise hauled in five cars | carried in three cars this the average Industries included in Titan Metal Manufacturing C. Y. Wagner & Co., Universal Match Co. Sutton Engineering Co. Whiterock Quar- Lime and Stone Co. Gypsum Co A ——— Two-Year-0ld Girl [Fatally Burned Two-year-old Kay Carol Vallala died in the Philipsburg hospital last Tuesday evening from burns suffer- ed while she was playing with fire The little twin daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Vallala, of Graham i Station, stuck a stick in the kitchen stove when her mother stepped out of the house for a minute. When the {mother re-entered the home, the 1713 pias 069 in the eight in the survey d that toda 8Y on ina dd / ioaded the survey were American and National {girl's hair and clothing was flam-| ling It was the second time that fire played havoc with the Vallala fam- lily. Last August 31, Billy, the eldest son was seriously burned. He washed {his hands in gasoline and was build- ing a fire on the hill to roast apples {caught fire. He had been a hospital | « patient for three months. Surviving Kay Carol, in addition | Kenneth, is a 55-year-old sister, Shir- | ley. The young victim was born April | 15, 1040 Funeral services were held Friday | {afternoon with burial In the Wal- {laceton cemetery, a————— SWARTZ NOW FORMING NEW DEFENSE CLASS Clyde G. Swartz, Bellefonte ma- chinist, invites boys and men from in a new class he is forming. The tuition-free course includes instruction in the operation of lathes, drill presses, shapers, milling machines, use of precision instru- ments and in blueprint reading. Scores of former graduates of the i Swartz training school are now hold. {ing responsible job8 In war indus- tries. One young man Is now aver. ‘aging $70 a week, Mr. Swartz re- ports. ~Everitt’s Drug Store will be closed Thanksgiving Day until 6 p. m. Ev.aing hours, 8 to 10 o'clock. {destination before Christions, Hf the destinatibn & a neighboring | Aedes are Taond With the additional! iprobiem of a Christmas -oenti pr ; iwith a companion when his clothing | to the parents, brothers Billy and | manent Injury When Locked in Local | Th ine-year-old atre, Bellefonte boy's dark theatre nizi | vorth $25,050.00, ad to a damage suit filed this week against the Mid-State Thea- tres, Inc, Howard J. Thompson and Elizabeth B. Thompson, of Curwens- ville owner The suit is bre An imprisonment RR . rt} in a for one cording ht on behalf of Lynn “Pes How ard by his par. Joseph L. and Alice R. How- Bellefonte » damages itemized ¢ WwW ~e of bet d phy . is sched December Civil Dale Ema a wet uled t« Court represents the Arthur C intiffs 19442, when “Pee Wee 10, 19442, when “Pee Wee’ well known youth! ful peanut vendor, bought a went to late show at Theatr. He fell as he awakened weatre dark and deserted id he imself locked inside In the language of the statement of claim filed Howard, Howard and State ticket the leep and when the th Was found h con in wction with the | aamnage his fered ana wi movec pital : ie legedly res ' al Ff ¢ veal Oi iif le (Colls and defl- ies of the {i of the | weakness statement in the to be ifered occurred or employes on Page Siz) when or Continued Bellefonte to Get ( Inly One Mail Deliv ery Daily Mail irtalled sh $4 8 day be given that or other ever aller Decesr aber 19 will ed reach its town Christma postage n bearing 1 be delivered -and maybe not Normally there ¢ iar carriers and 2 substitutes Carriers and subs in Belle- fonte require much time than is normally the case to learn their jobs because houses in town are not numbered, and postal clerks must remember where patrons live. This the primary reas for the to one 6 regi Mites more factor ls forthe “nr oming change qelivery iil be —— ea Plan Aw ards To (xroups in Bond Drive George B. Thompson, of Bellefonte, newly appointed woman's chairman of the Centre County War Savings Staff, announced yesterday that awards are being planned for all organizations and lodges whose membership is pledged at least 90 per cent to the purchase of War Bonds and Stamps to the extent of ten per cent of income Mrs The new awards are designed to greater activity in organi-| 1 used in the plant zations in the War Bond campaign. scious when they were | about encourage g Mrs. Thompson declared that the Centre county woman's tion is progressing rapidly and that! 33 sub-chairmen named last week to | act as leaders in their home com- | munities have accepted the appoint. ments and are now forming local | committees “The women of Centre county exert a powerful influence on War Saving drive,” said yesterday. “We need Lhat in- fluence in the sale of Bonds and! can | the | | Stamps to help win the war and to} guarantee Security. after the war’ ‘Tyrone Officer Struck By Train John “Jack” Olles, a member of ithe Tyrone police department, {injured last Wednesday morning when a P. R. R. freight train struck him and hurled him against the station at Tyrone, while he was try- ing to keep back the crowds that had collected to see a gathering of selec | tees off to camp Rushed to Altoona hospital ture of the shoulder, along with nu- merous body bruises. Eye-witnesses said that the cylin. der of the locomotive had struck him as he was struggling to Keep the crowds back. Sergeant Fred Giles, father of Fred, who was on duty further up the track, is reported to have fainted when he saw his son struck by the freight. Blanchard Hunters Shoot Beat. Walter Davy and William del, of Blanchard, while hun oven i rerouted and care i {and organiza- | Mrs. Thompson | in a! fire company ambulance, Mr. Giles] | was admitted for observation. It was 17 to 70 to enroll before December 1} reported he suffered a possible frac- rou g one week what | i mail post." hort of hel tage that exists at the Jocai postoffice, of - rush which OITiiney 3 $ io be items malied aft virtually vy in Ume Becau s¢ of the shortage all inbound and | outbor und en bearing 1's-cent stamps arriving at the Bellefonte " postoffice will be packed away in baskets and will be set aside unt] first class mall, news. apers, and | mall is hand here's any time left i work on t ‘oniinued on Page Fight) no of help ioyes w il Brother And Sister Overcome By Fumes Overcome by gas while working in their father's dry cleaning pliant on Howard street last Thursday a boy and gis escaped pos g'ble death by suffocats 1 when they were discovered by their or other Jack Port. 19 walked into the plant owned by his father, W. Blain Port. to find his brother, James 17 his sister, Joanna, 8, overcome by the fumes from clean‘ng fluid They were unoon- discovered 10 o'clock The older Poit boy summoned neighbors who carried the boy and {girl from the building. A phytician was called and after administering | treatment they recovered conscious { Ness It is believed that the brother and ster neglected to start the ventil- | ating system which clears the build- ling of the dangerous fumes. - | FIRST FUNERAL AT NEW MEMORIAL PARK The first funeral in the | County Memorial Park, Inc, {cemetery being developed along the | | Bellefonte -State College Highway | | opposite the Shiloh church, will be | held Wednesday afternoon of this | Centre was | week when the remains of the in- | fant son of Jay Schlegel, of Belle | fonte, will be interred with Rung | ceremonies, Officers of the Memorial Park re- | port that about 130 lots have been | | sold to date, | Motorists Will Use Same License Tags Over Coming Year The Department of Revenue warns all motorists in the State that they must save and preserve their 1942 lteense plates for the next year. The department explained that the 1042 two-inch square tags will be attached to the 1042 issues and suggested a coat of varnish will help preserve the life of the present ates, The small tags are being substi , {tuted to save metal. ‘Falls Asleep; Car They | suffered no permanent ill effects | new | 3 31 | { Joseph O'Neill Were on § Severely Injured. ‘ay to Clearfield When Acci- Trio dent Occurred at Woodland Crossing. wr vy Mary Eleanor Leathers wy” WW) Damage When Cars Ram Into Bus Dr. E. H. Coleman Now at Naval Station COUNTY 15 ElGR TH Bainlyidge U ¥ 3 Station at Port Deposit, Md. where | he has taken up duties in the Med- ical Corp Lieutenant Commendation From State Director ail Pennsyivania WPB roll of honor SCTAP, accoralr by R. J. Kent from Colley s retary Pennsy of Rams Into Tree ‘State Colle sf DAL damaged of about £75, HE ge, fered his car of for ri and nia to the extent CLASSES 10 fense joins with me In tending to you and to the members of th salvage committees of Centre coun ty our warmest congratulations “You have don epiendid for our country last months, but, like our fighting men throughout the worid, we have 1st begun to fight Please impress upon the members of your committees and { the people of your county that ol ur | salvage activities, which are for the | duration of the war, are really just getiing under way.” - [ ~ the i un Final Registration For Courses to be Held Wed- nesday Night registration for the new tuition-free war train- ing classes which the Pennsylvania | State College is offering in Belle- fonte this winter will be held this Wednesday night, November 28, in the local high school, 7 to 9:30 0'~ | clock, according to Henry Fraser, | administrative head for the class center { hatted hunters—and hosts of others Seven different courses are being | from adjoining counties will take to {offered under the (ederally-sponsor-|the deer trails | ed programm that is carried outitry at the fleet-footed whitetalils | through the College Extension Sere {with the expectation that the sea- vices. All of the courses, Mr, Fraser | son will be an exceptionally good isaid, are appropriate for women, one and advance inquiries prior to regis- Customarily, the seasons opens on tration indicate that a large peri December 1. but this year the State {centage of enrollees will be women | Game Commission decreed the seas and older men. “President Roosevelt's recentivember statement that new workers in war Coming on Monday, industries must be drawn largely | will be able over the weekend to get | from these two ciasses seems 10 have | to thelr favorite hunting grounds (Continued on Page Seven) [and camps and be “all set” for the) initial hunting of deer on Monday ‘nlian R. D. Hunters morning. The season continues through Saturday, December 12 . Bag 200-Pound Bear A group of eight hunters from Last season approximately 19.000 jegal male deer were brought down by hunters in the Pennsylvania hills. {Julian R. D. 1, Priday while hunt. | ing on Rattlesnake mountain bagged ia black bear which weighed more Final program of Deer Season To Open Next Monday Centre county's red-coated, red- Officials Receive Letter of Those t Ru November 30 for a MARRIED MEN T0 ONSCRAPROSTER BE RE-CLASSIFIED Ww ithout Children Being Listed as 1-A, Subject to Call FUTURE FARMERS MEET IN BUFFALO RUN VALLEY ire Farm. Wed. The members of the Fut {f America held a party on sday night. November 18 yome of Robert Houtz in in Valley Those present Louise Benner, Paul Justice jorie Teaman, Ken Teaman, Justice. Dick Fetterolf, Jun Willis Yarnell, Mary May, Sampsel, Jean Witmer, Budd Smit Mary Krape, Paul Grove § Mar- tha Geers. Games were played and refreshments were served - Cars Collide At Milesburg Monument Cars operated by Fred Bonchack Buffalo Ho Mare Sarah May, James th were: Robert ite, son should open the last day in No- { of Bellefonte and Orlando R. Car- son the hunters | of Wellsboro, crashed at the monument in Milesburg about six o'clock Sunday night, causing ap- { proximately $150 damage and slight {injuries to one person Bonchack was traveling west {rom Howard and the other car was furn- | ing left on to the Howard road when { they met at the intersection. George Neagle. a passenger in Carson's se- dan, suffered a slight laceration of the nose. Hunt Safely-—Return Bately. This season, as last, only male deer [than 200 pounds. with two or more points to each ant- Members of the group were Al- jer are legal in the State. bert and Clair Hall, sons of J. T. Hall; Leroy Hall, Ellis Hall, Fred | Coffee Rationing fo Start November 21 Th Tice, A. Y. Williams, Lester Tice and Stellard White. When they posed The sale of coflee was frosen with the bear for photographs they | gaturday midnight, November 21, insisted that J. T. Hall, who hunted | until the following Saturday mid- with them for many years but who | night, and during this time no sales was not on Friday's hunt, join them | oi} pe permitted, according to an- for the pictures. nouncements by rationing boards. The bear was killed after a drive. When coffee is placed on sale] Clair, it, again, November 30, it will be ma tioned. The present rationing books, | now being used for sugar, will be used also for coffee. The consumers will not need to register for coffee rationing. Stamp No. 27 in the rationing books will entitle persons 15 years of age and older to one pound of cof fee. This will be the first stamp in [he book which may be used for cof- oe
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