-_ Jesse ADLER Looks at SECOND SECTION the NEWS | PR. KARL SOLLNER of the Uni- versity of Minnesota has invented a gadget that makes drinking water out of a salty sea water. Maybe when the war's over the good Doctor will invent something to make Coney Is- land water fit to bathe in MODERN Version you can fuel some of the people some of the time but not today there's not enough fuel to go "round A BROOKLYN dry cleaner, find- ing a roll of $2,100 in a customer's pants, returned both. In the old days they'd keep the pants and roil the customer TALKING pants, fan is a guy who, when vou ask him whether PANTS is singular or plur- al answers: Singular above the waist and plural bel INCIDENTALLY Harry Her the ARree on should contribute to JACK MARSHALL comes uj the fishiest 3 he caught a piano tunas! nhout a politic w liked that an one always ition politicians ¢ I sinficld’'s ob two mi third $e i cnal story of the flock REMINDS hap who, when asked wh he helped his [ather your fat do?” “Oh he)” the bum!” THE new very handy bookmarks! BUT reading brother, you're the me of at he did said And what does the question “he's work her Was was reply, A are it SUIS them ladies bathing You can use concentrate on ions, dead! mn those yOu ( under ondit old—ynu're about no auto you can't sce ONLY thing I miss this yea 3 that in advance which hit vou next season! ADD Biting Descriptions: She p figure like a million Too bad most money is places show Cars aie ROIDE has of the the wrong THE 5-cent cigar to 8 cents no longer factuied-—but what one scent makes posited In wont which is being Al Farr PY difference Two Injured As Truck is Burned Damage to Tractor and Cargo Estimated at Over £3.500 The tractor of a tractor-trailer type truck wos completely destroyed by fire, after an accident one mile east of Canoe Creek, Blair county, on Route 22 early Saturday morning, and one man, a passenger was ad- mitted to the Mercy Hospital, Al- toons. Damage to the tractor was es- timated by State Police at between $31.500 and $4.000 The truck was loaded with lum- ber and driven by Herman B. Shear- er. East waterfo 4 8 Juniata county pnd bound for Johnstown. In round- ing a Shearer old state lice he fell asleep momen*arily trurk hit an embankment ] mediately took fire Donald Cowan, 27 Huntingdon county. a passenger, w riding in the cab of the truck He is a patient in the Mercy Hospital st fering from second degree burns © the face, neck, both shoulders and hands, also deep lacerations of the left eve lid and left temple that re- quired seven sutures to close. Shear- er suffered second degree burns both hands and left hip. He return- ed to the scene of the accident Sharer got out of the burning truck and removed Cowan and then called Hollidaysburg for aid. The Phoenix fire company responded as did the Legion ambulance. The fire- men extinguished the fire and the gmbulance brought Cowan and Shearer to the hospital " Nearly three-fourths of the lum- ber was thrown clear of the burning truck and the balance was saved by the firemen The driver ssid there was no insurance curve po- The im- of Orbisonia a if- of of HOUTZDALE MAN APPOINTED william BR. Gallagher, of Houtz- dale. has been appointed secretary of the workmen's compensation board by William H. Chestnut, sec- retary of labor and industry, and Thomas J. Quigley of Bloomsburg, was named director of the depart ment's bureau of inspection. Quig- Jey succeeds Harry D. Immel of York. now in military service, while Gallagher's appointment filled a va- cancy. Both jobs pay $5,000 a year HURT BY NAZI RELIC A German shell he broight back from the battlefields as a souvenir put Seaman First Class Fred M. Jeffords, 18, in the hospital at Kane As Jeffords was taking out the de-| tonator of a German 20-mm. can- non shell at the home of his par- ents, the shell exploded. Three fin-! gers and the thumb of Jefford's left hand were ripped off and his right eye was badly lacerated, i VOLUME 62. Many Cou nty Fairs To The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County —- A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes ¢ Uenfre Democrat Each Week MEWS, FEATURES Still Carry On Despite g Restrictions Drivin Huntingdon County Exhibition Scheduled for Next Week. Bloomsburg Fair Nearest Big Event for Traditions of the county fair will be upheld in Pennsylvania this fall by nearly fifty organizations, the State Department of Commerce an- Normally 125 of these [al It has been diffic agements this vear avs Floyd Commerce for ult for {air man- to plan for these Chalfont offici Sec als ith many prob- largely because of the transpor- They cur- avel would cut attend- a financial events.’ retary of have been troubled wv lems tation situation taiiment of tr ance and create feel that burden nould However, given termination of problems cf that encouragement fairs tO carry « be to the de- + face mfronting For the reason Huntingdon Co. Ag: Union County West Greene-Dreher Com The Great Stoneboro Falr Tioga Valley Fal Big Armstrong County Ligonier Valley Jenner Fal Junirta County t Alexande; itz Fal Allentown Bloomsbu Hollida Lititz Send Packages Aug. 27 to Jap Prisoners Christmas packages for prisoners of war and civilian internees in the Far East must be in New York not Inter than midnight, August 27. of ficials announced Saturday Deadline for the packages to reach New York sailing ox change ship OG has been nged from Sept. 15 to Aug. 27 be- of vance in t for on the im” cause aL SiH date The Provost » Athy wha ’ DISTRICT FIREMEN ELECT NEW OFFICERS mntrol of the Cen THe nr, i Ne i board District Firemen's ociation at -day se Kane sel its next meeting Harry Thompson, oN” NP we nrect was elected presi As week at Ad on last { Clearfield of Curwensville, Other officers I wiand, of Phil- ; Biause, Barnesboro, k. of Clearfield, vice A Myers, of Clear- and M. Ward Flem- " field ng secretary of Bellefonte, treasurer PLANT IS EXPANDED More than 100 are now at work at Cherokee Ordnance Works, Inc. at Riverside, Danville the 8500000 ex- pansion program to increase pro- duction. It was said at the plant by the Army official in charge of con- struction that this week more than 200 men will be employed. Work has already begun on the construction of a warehouse which is to be 80 by 250 The project is to include necessary adjuncts to the plant in.’ cluding roads, railroad tracks, small supply stations, extension of the walter system and other utilities, construction men th the near in feet al m— RATS RAID GARDENS With dozens of big brown rats in- vading victory gardens at St. Marys, health board officials took steps to exterminate the rodents through the use of poison gas and powder. The rats migrated from the borough dump and one of them was seen to climb a bean pole to help himself to the vegetables BNE i.e... TAKE FLYING LESSONS Fifteen Pennsylvania school teach. ‘ers took flying lessons this summer as part of a course in pre-flight aeronautics offered by the Pennsyl- vania State College. Eight of the 15 were women Reg Nationwide registration for war] ration book No. 4 will take place be- tween Oct. 20 and Nov. 1, it has been announced. Ration Book No. 4 will not be used | to replace War Book 3, but will be i used briefly in conjunction with it. | tion will be handled cannot be dis- closed at this time. ister For Ration Book 4 Between October 20th and November Ist Blue Stamps in Book No. 2, its use will have to begin as soon as possible, Stegen said. War Book No. 3 carries point val- ue stamps equivalent to Stampd of Book No. 2, and unit stamps like the stamps in Book No, {1, Its Brown Stamps will be used in The method by which the registra. | purchasing meats, fats, oils and on the farm of Bamuel Stuck, Milton! Bgt. Roger J. Kramer, has written | Gharet of Castanea, is a surgical {Road, near Northumberland, was to his family at Galeton but dairy producta. War Book No. 4 is in print, {lice have not as the Red! i : This Locality ne continued management neel their ready SON formed pension of ti and Centre Army Sergeant Held In Robbery Returned From California To Answer Charge of Money Theft The return from California of Sgt Frankiin J. Moyer, 238. formerly of New Berlin. one of the principals in a $40000 Mifflinburg May 31. was ann by State Police Dis- trict howera of Ary ounced and Union Co Attorney William I Lewisburg Coupled the alread with ire that Announcement was has of 5.000 disclo investigation resulted in recovery of the amount reported stolen Miss Jane I. Herr Mifflin- burg resident, who was in the Evan- gelical Hospital at Lewisburg, ill with pneumonia when unoccy - pied home was entered elderly her entrance Rudy in that Lena G being held coming county jail women's quar- ters because Union county prison does not have adequate facilities for women, and Sergeant Moyer who until last week was in Camp Cooke Calif. He is a cousin of Mrs. Rudy's husband, who 8 also held in this case, Corp. John L. Hochreiter and Pvt J. E. Sacriste, State Police, who broke the case, and District Attor- ney Showers who left two weeks ago for Camp Cooke to take custody of the soldier after securing the au- thority from the War Department, arrived back in Williamsport Sun- day morning Police said the trip by train was uneventful and that Sergeant Moy- er admits to them his part in the burglary. Entrance to the Herr home was gained by means of Sergeant Moyer prying open a window and then un- locking a door from the inside to let Mrs. Rudy in, police said charge Mrs Police WAS made by Mitt 4 the of Ly- » ilF RECOVERING FROM INJURY. Samuel Goldstein of Mill Hall, R. D. is still a patient at the Lock Haven Hospital receiving treatment for serious injuries received several days ago when his club coupe was demolished in a headon collision with a bus of the Susquehanna Transit Co. at the highway intersec- tion east of Mill Hall. The State Po- yet placed any chage against him, they said. His brother, Charles, also injured in the crash, has returned home from the hospital. WOMAN LOST IN WOODS Lost in the woods overnight when Ra (she went to pick backberries, Mrs. Ida Wililam, 63, was found by {searching parties, badly cut by briar thickets and suffering from shock and exposure. She was taken to the Community Hospital, plement members of the state guard ;unit and the fire department who combed the forest west of Kane throughout the night. DOG KILLS 143 CHICKENS A five day wave of chicken killing | ended with the shooting by * Fire alarmsi ‘summoned searching crews to sup- BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1943. Victory!!! Army Student Dies At College Expires of Heart Attack After Attending Physical Edu- cation Class Pvt. Harvey L ASTP trainee C | Baldwin 2» atl Penn State, died | the i Thursda attack before y heart Campu allel 58 In Recre- 1 Was born on Newark. Del n Erma P. Bald- the University Alabama for three years. On Ju 1942, he was married to Dorothy Dawsor Before his en on August 8, 1M1. he by the Hercules in Wilmington After entering the Army the de. Febru- attended He ’ the 1 Newark into the Arms was employed Powder Compan: 20 mer Dei OF « of consed served al PL Dix, N. J. and PL Jay. N. J. and was a hbord- tory technician at an Army dispen- Bary in York City immediate iy before being State Col- ge Now pent io & Tas Pert paren his wife ive brothers and Moose Official Dies Suddenly Wilkes governor of organization, died of a heart attack in Bellefonte early Friday morning, August 20. 1943 Mr. Morgan was guest speaker at an initiation in which 200 members were taken into the Bellefonte Moose Lodge the preceding night, and died at the apartment of Mr. and Mrs James F. McKeone on East Curtin street, only a few hours after he had spoken to the class. He was a guest of Mr. McKeone who has been in Bellefonte for a number of weeks in charge of a membership cam- paign at the Bellefonte Lodge Mr. Morgan, who was about 60 vears of age, died at 3:56 a. m. A physician was summoned and ar- rived before death occurred. It is understood that he had not been in good health recently Well known as a figure in the Moose Lodge for over 30 years, Mr Morgan was secretary of the Lodge in Wilkes-Barre for most of tnai time. He was register of wills in Lu- gerne county a number of years ago Mr. Morgan is survived by his wife and a son, William E, Morgan, Jr. The body was taken to Wilkes Barre Friday afternoon —————— _ BERRY PICKERS LOST Mrs. Nellie Nelson and two child. ren of Kane, who became lost while picking blackberries were {ound iate at night 12 miles from their home by searching parties, Mrs Nelson said she and Gertrude Tompkins, 10, and Willard Tompkins, 9, became confused and walked in the wrong direction when they started home. b deputy State Wililam Morgan of general Moose Ba the NONAGENARIAN Probably the oldest hunter to in- vade Elk county woods this fall will be Henry Cole, of Wilcox, who at the age of 94 will shoulder his rifle in quest of deer. He secured his hunt- ing license Inst week at the Court : House, - LOW BID ON ROAD The Department of Highways has received from P. D. Kessler, Inc. of Northumberland, a low bid of $51.754 for construction of 60 of a mile of access road in Oearhart Township iand Riverside Borough, Northum- berland county. Gass WE pA PARTICIPATES IN RAIDS that he of a dog! participated in the first hombing of suffering from ‘Lost’ Girl Only Having Good Time 12-Year-Old Lassie Gives Two Communities Bad Scare rack missing ran at 5 o'clock thint unfe wit} iri Firemen assembled down local #, and Was evening IT was discovered ile Obert of the search was in 3 ta 2 ang 5 Beoseiy wit - they remained Lh Sunday morning = ting and searcd { home me home kt On web started meone elise nd town, the VFW a UUme home bY an Point Lookout daughters about After wanger young girl ended home where and was then empioyve who and has ¢ SAMS age she slept for taken lives at two small staved all night riends and ahie new f unaware that a wide-spread of Yesterday afternoon, after the fire siren sounded to call out more voi- aid search fire men heard of a missing gir] turming up in the wee hours of the morning at the Vets home, but inquiries there were of no avail since the employe working at that time was not there and a call at his home disclosed that the family was out for the af- ternoon. It seems that they had gone for a visit to Hawk Run and had taken the girl with them At 5 o'clock. when the VFW em- plove again came on duty, the mys- v was solved-—and so was the re- givers by a local Boy Scout a few hours earlier—"yes, the girl has been found. Hut ghe hasn't been lo- cated yet.” Now we know just exact. ly what he meant —— unteers to the in te POIs ——“—“— GIRLR ARE TCEMEN' Delivery of ice in LaPorte and Due shore has been taken over by” two girls, since the young man who had perved as iceman has been called into service the United States. Miss Monita Kast and Miss Ruth Trautwein will drive the truck, de- ver the ioe and make collections, INJURED BY COW While Dayton Heuse, 83, was puts ting cows in their stanchions on his farm near Monroetown (Towanda R. D. 3), a cow charged him and knock- ed him down, severely injuring him The animal was driven away by the hired man. Mr. House is a patient in the Robert Packer Hospital, Sayre, with a fractured right hip. YOUTH KICKED BY COW Robert Gharet, 10, son of of Ted | patient at the Lock Haven Hospital {AWAY NUMBER 34 Young Fugitive Who Fled Sunbury Jail Caught At Carlisle After Long Chase Police Pursue Him Over Backyard Fences and Through Alleys. Traced Through Search For Stolen Auto. 1 ‘ ar 4 ype t Find Loaded Pistol eturnin TR throug! back yarcGs ang puraied the {enoes yard t other with police in pursuit until they « Fifth Added To Accident Victims from one Son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Horsefield Becomes Lat- est Casualty victims az Horsefied father, sister and recovering from an ¢ accident a few week: g been and in- overturned after al the Centre hospitals when having County They were their Car rainstorm the latest victim Ac companying a delivery boy into a home one day last week. when a dog made a lunge toward him. Tommy jumped over a porch railing to es- cape the dog and injured his leg An X-ray examination the Ber- wick Hospital showed a bone in the foot to be broken. The 1 ix at his home where there are Now five accident victims being cared for iE A Wax at HAWK CAPTURES CHICKENS While George Breitmeier, who lives near Sonestown, was working in his garden plot a short distance from his home a few days ago, a iarge hawk paptured and carried eight of his prize chickens Last summer a large hawk which carried off his chickens was cap- tured. It measured more than five feet wingspread “ nat A SL — CAR BADLY DAMAGED When wind snatched her hat and she grabbed for it, Mrs. C. M. Ben- der of Towanda. lost control of the car near the Ward farm in South Towanda, The machine went plung- ed through a fence and down a bank, rolling completely over but Mrs { Bender escaped injury. The car was considerably damaged a —_.aoo CALLED BY WAC Miss Helen F. Baron, daughter of | Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Baron of Lock Haven. and Miss Ruthue O'Brian, both recently accepted by the WAC, have been called for active duty and {will report Sept. 9 to Daytona Beach, Fla. - ALTOONA BOY DIES Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. McDonough, of Altoona, have received word of the death of their son, Pfc. Joseph C. McDonough, 22. in an army hos pital at Camp Seibert, Ala, from in. juries suffered in an auto mishap, TO GET 21-DAY FURLOUGH All men hereafter examined at the injuries to the back Altoona armed forces induction sta- | Police Fire in Air S138 fring (Continued on Pape Five) Used Sweeper Latest Racket 0. P. A. Establishes Ceiling Prices to Quash Money- Making Scheme JCal men men tee a ia operatied ities whe buy by $15 to $28 to §4f 0 $48 is from $22 to {| Ceiling pri 3 im bsle Dier, son of Mr of Ansonia Deen a t rs and Sallors Memori where been for a rattlesnake bite on one of his legs. He was going f to the home snaxe ick him patie? at ih al Hos- treated he has the station ad when the stir — THREATENING FIRE fire which presented a danger to Berwick Gas pany was discovered tar pit, holding tar, a by-product of the plant which is sold for road and roofing work. Tt was extinguished by employes A grave Com- the plant, in the Random Items ——————————— —— DEAFT HEAD SPEAKS / I per inst 0 OWS week quote Poard No fn art “ pad ¢ SOLDIER LEARNS ok RUSSIA BRAINS ¢ ist left a session he other if jo- views on and we wers Practically right a Pues gired thelr matters of dit Ha vernment oon fused it seo: g t i yaar ne VISION litical ac. few hun- street of iy ober ares street s throw are for r tu Fred V Ti Treasure "+ i ey late from each Pletcher Merrill 4 didate {fo Weber and for idate A. Holt it rand Commissioner David er, candidate for Continged on pope Twn) FARM QUESTIO ED W. MITCHELL Porm Adviser Bonoral Bectric Stotioa N BOX wey Q~8hould a colt be placed In a pasture with shod horses? A~No. The colt is likely to get hurt from Kicking when put in a lot with strange horses that are shod It may also become timid @ yellow and dry up before pods fil] out? A~That may be due to One or more of several things--bacterial blight carried on seed or in soil, root aphis, and a few less common ene emies of the pea. There is no rem- edy. However, a prevention is to buy seed grown in the arid West where these diseases do not flourish, rotate -What causes pea vines to turn the first (to clean soil each year, and mix to-| bacco dust with the soil around the! (weed to repel aphis | Q~~How can I pet rid of poison ivy vines? | A~Keep the tops burned off till {the roots starve to death. 8 1 Q~~What can 1 do to prevent woodchucks from eating beans? A ~-8hoot or gas them. The sim- plest plan is to get calchgn cyanide {cyanogas), put a tablespoonfu] in each burrow entrance, and close the entrance to hold in the cyanide gas. Q ~What is the usual to measure an acre of land? A Hire a surveyor: measure with the clock on a grain drill: or lay off one side the desired length (say 100 feet) and then the other side at a right angle to get a sum total of 43.« 560 square feet. That is roughly 100 by 435, or 150 by 200, or 200 by 217, or 250 by 174 oto. Q--Do cabbages and beets pro- duce seed? A-~Yes. Both beet and cabbage | produce a seed stalk, flower and seed during the sccond year. The beets {are usually left in the ground over winter, but the cabbages are dug (and stored. California grows a large way The new No. 3 book will become a description of its composition has which had killed 143 chickens. The Rome and was with the group of of his head, and a possible skull tion and acoepted for the enlisted Q-~When does a heifer become 8 part of our domestic beet seed, since effective on Sept. 12. Because it has not yet been made public beyond the dog, a beagle hound, ignored numer- | Liberators on Aug. 1, which bombed | fracture, the result of being kicked reserves of the army, will receive an COW? {war has cut off the foreign supply: only 4 pages of point value stamps, statement that it contains stamps of jous rabbits, to kill the chickens, oll fields in Rumania. He enlisted in | by a cow whiie he wag visiting in automatic twenty-one day furlough, A-—When it has its first calf and and Wisconsin produces most of the and no stamps equivalent to the both point and unit values. | whien it left lying about the farm. | January. gy Logs End, Nittany Valley. instead of the usual two-week leave. | starts to produce milk. | ortimge seed. . a #
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