eI dhe Centre Demorral — — VOLUME 62. NUMBER 36. EC ww BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1943 SUBSCRIPTION-—$1.50 PER YEAH I — 3rd War Loan Drive Opens; Slogan Is Aikens Confident County! Can Meet "uge Quota of $2,020 UDE FAS: TO INCLUDE F IN COUNTY CANVA Solicitors to Make House- | to-House Circuit of Bellefonte “Back the Attack,” slogan for the | 3rd War Loan Drive which begins | today, took on a new meaning ves- terday with the unconditional sur- render of Italy “Back the Attack” now means the attack on the very heart of Nazism ~Grermany The long hoped-for attack now is not something which may take place in months or years-—the attack can be expected to fall on Germany $00n as the United Nations prepared the groundwork : Part of that groundwork is the massing of sufficient men, supplies, planes, tanks, guns and other equip- ment to guarantee that the armie can move yteadily forward That's where those of home front are needed at- tack will require billions of dollars worth of materiel and supplies, and the 3rd War Loan is expected to provide $15,000.000.000 of the needed money, Centre county's share of the com- ing attack has been placed at $2.- 549,600. Claude G. Alkens, of State College, chairman of the War Finunce Com- mittee, yesterday declared that in order to meet the county quota every citizen wili have to convert every cent possible Into war bonds To ald in the greatest sales cam- paign ever held in the county, Mr Alkens has named a number of spec- lal committees and has appointed township chairmen of agricultural committees to solicit the farm pop- ulation of the county In Bellefonte, Chairman Horace J. Hartranft has enlisted the ald of Civiliap Defense workers to solicit | us have on the r ti for the ‘up in ‘Back th e Attack’ tre county Today we stand ready to lau Loan The quota for Centre county To meet this quota is a respon portant consideration of the urge At this stage in our country's is great and the hour is desperate our bit, but for our best America has switched from Great and decisive events are abx far-flung battlefronts We at home are going to do « the hour of victory But faith is not enough, for Our faith won't buy guns soldiers But our dollars will buy these Let's resolve at this time to nn We can do it by lending our d¢ in our gallant fighting forces BACK UP YOUR FAITH This Is an open letter to the men, women and children of Cen- The Nation as a whole is asked to lend (not give) $15,000,000.000 The question is not how much we can spare; but the more im- We who are living in peace and comparative comfort are asked to give up some of our luxuries for a short while to match in some small way the sacrifices of our bovs who are fighting our fight on They are giving their lives and we are asked to lend our dollars in a large degree this job we are asked to do will speed the day and That this day is in sight is the faith held by all of us ships, tanks Let's do it promptly and let's nch the third United States War is $2.549 600 sibility which touches all of us nt call for our help stupendous task. when the need Lach one of us is asked not for defensive to offensive Mt to take place warfare aur utmost, knowing full well that faith without work is dead planes, and food for our weapons and they are needed now 1mke Victory our Business allars to back up the faith we hold do It generously! AIR MAL PICKUP GANS IN COUNTY Increasing Demands For Air Delivery Shown in Year's Operation During the fiscal year, July 1942 to July, 1943, the number of pleces of air mall dispatched via Air Plck- Bellefonte increased from 1.425 to 5517. During the same per- | lod State College Pick-up shows an | | Increase from 3.272 pleces to 11784 | | Inc, was disclosed yesterday by Hal- | sey R. Bazley, president of the com- Bellefonte theatres are cooperating fully in the new drive, ang special short films dealing with the War Lean will be presented at every (Contingrd on Page Four) oar - i Wy ——————— Penn State Graduate | pany, in makfhg public official fig- | ures just furnished the company by | the Postoffice Department, showing that at all points in the state a total of 955828 pleces of air mail were dispatched In July as compared with | 264.790 pieces in July, 1042, an in- crease of 501038 pieces or 162 per cent According to Bazley, the figures on | the August dispatch when available i i will undoubtedly show a much great- | Pennsylvania is now in the fifth yes er increase The Air Mall Pick-up serviee in Ar of operation, and in that period the air mail dispatch from the commun | ities on the Air Pick-up routes, Baz- , ley sald, has increased to the point ' the Government. Ro. . w Jane Louise Fry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Fry, of Warriors | Mark, received the degree of Bach- | elor of Science in home economics at the Pennsylvania State College | on Friday, August 27. Miss Fry grad- | uated from the Warriors Mark- Franklin High School in 1940 as an | honor student. i Due to the college accelerated program she has received her degree in three years rather than four un-, der normal schedule. She wag al member of the Home Economics Club and took an active part in sports and extra-curricular active ities. Miss Fry has been elected as the home economics teacher at Wood- | bury Consolidated High School, Woodbury, Pa., and assumed her new position on Tuesday. / - Second Rockview Fugitive Captured Gordon Franks, 32, Rockview pris. oner, who escaped with a compan- jon almost two weeks ago was cap- tured in Fayette county, Monday, Blate police and Assistant Deputy H. R. Johnson of Rockview, yester- day returned him to the county jail. Franks, and Frederick Brown, 26, ! walked away from Rockview August 25 with the latter surrendering to police three days later near Hannah Furnace. H i i -. Announce t , and Mrs. David ©. Gilliland of annou the engagement | daughter, Marjorie, to Lieut. | Johansson, son Rev. . Karl Johansson, of - | : Mr Oak of their David and Mrs port, Conn. Lieut, Johansson is now stationed at Camp Shelby, Miss, where postal receipts are more than paying for the cost of the service to —- A sain —— Mill Hall Couple Learn of Son's Death Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Boob, of Mill Hall, R. D. Monday received a tel- egram from the War Department notifying them of the death of their son, Pvt. Harry G. Boob, July 9th, in the North African area. He is survived by his parents and four brothers and three sisters, in- | cluding Mrs. Lewis G. Kerstetter, of i Centre Hall R. D. Yarnell Farmer Injured Elmer Pownell, wel] known farmer of Yarnell received a fractured breast bone and chest injuries Tues- day of last week when he was trampled by a horse while plowing. Mr. Pownell has been undergoing treatment at home. He is reported to be recovering satisfactorily. m———— —— WE MISSED NURSE KILLED IN AMBULANCE CRASH Service Held at Philips- burg For Girl Who Died in Australia Requiem High Masses were read Tuesday morning at the Sts Peter and Paul Catholic church, Philips- burg; and Monday morning at the Madera Catholic ehurch for Second Lieutenant Cecella M. Perlitch, 23. who wis killed somewhere in the South Pacific. : | Madera High School in 1938 and from the Philipsburg State Hospital School of Nursing in August 1941 She became a Red Cross nurse and Joined the Army Nurse Corps on January 1, 1843. She was sent to the Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D. C. and wag on duty there until late In June when she was sent over- seas. Since that time she has been located in Australia. The family received a telegram from the War Department last Thursday stating that their daugh- ter was killed on August 26. Satur- day a letter was received stating that her death occurred as the result of a fractured skull suffered in an am- bulance accident 8he is survived by her parents, Mr and Mrs. John Perlitch, and the fol- lowing brothers and sisters: Second Lieutenant Veronica Perlitch, sta- jHoned at an Army hospital at But- ler; John, with the Army in Georgia: Carlena, Cleveland: Loretta and Carl, at home. Lieutenant Perlitch was born at Madera July 9. 1920. 8he was a mem- i ber of the Philipsburg Nurses Alum- nae Association and the Madera Catholic church RWNED CHEF ASSESSR | Prederic G. Hoffer, chief clerk to ithe Centre County Commissioners, ' thas been named chief assessor in {the county under the provisions of {a new state law regulating assess ments, | The new assessment law was to | have gone into effect this year, but i since the 1944 assessment books must i be completed by December 15, the | commissioners have ruled that there is insufficient time for the assessors {to make a com of the county this year. HOFFE $ 3 imove in the tall corn, {approximately 100 yards (daughter Bwartz, of Snow Shoe, came to the fonte by her plete re- at | the Allied Nations. LC. HEINEMAN Y SECRETARY QUTH IN FAGE: DIES SUDDENLY Injured Boy Rushed By Succumbs at County Hos- Plane to Pittsburgh pital After Several Hospital Days’ Hliness ACCIDENT HAPPENS ON FARM AT JULIAN Red Sweater Worn By Victim is Mistaken For Red Fox The 11-year-old son f a Pitts burgh physician yesterday wss siven about an even chance for from a severe gunshot wound of the lower jaw received Monday morning when he was struck by a bullet fired by his father while the ‘wo hunting a fox at Julian The youth, James F. Hunter son of Dr. James PF. Hunter. was rushed tw a Pittsburgh hospital by airplane and within two and a half hours after the accident was on the percting table Since that time he ha given blood plasma three times, and while he ls not permitted to talk, mem- bers of the family report his bhear- ing and sight have not been affect ed by the wound The bullet, from 4 30-40 riiie, which is sald to be powerful enough to kill a deer at a range of one mile, missed by less than an inch striking a vital spot, it is reported The accident happened farm of C. M. Myers, Dr. Hunter. The son, and his brother-in-law Edward Myers, went hunting early Monday morning for a red fox which had been stealing chickens from the Myers farm, and which stole nearly 200 chickens from the nearby Alex. ander farm. The men had seen the fox near the chicken house the night before After a time Mr. Myers left the group and father and son continued with the hunt. Pinally they became separated and were hunting on op- posite sides of a field. Consequently when the father saw aomething and saw a regarded be Eb "HEADED “Y” HERE FOR PAST 17 YEARS Active in Community, Church and Fraternal Circles recovery were Jr. teen on the father-in-law physician, his of L. €. Heineman C Helneman generations of Pop, of familiarly Bellefonte . Lidtils known to Youngsters as for the past 17 years secretary Bellefonte YMCA. died at 12:55 o'clock Sunday morning. September 5. 1943, at the Centre County Hospital, two hours after he had been admitiod to institution Mr. Heineman, who recently re- turned ("om a vacation trip. became i at his home early last week and while he was confined to bed for several days, his condition was not as being serious until the the thw a Funeral services were held st 8 Dr. Hunter. upon discovering that o'clock Tuesday night at the Wid- the flash of red was not the fox but dowson Puneral Home in Bellefonte a red sweater his son was wearing, with Rav Willlam C. Thompson carried the boy to the Myers home pastor of the local Presbwierian and arrangements were made im- church, officiating Purther services mediately to take him to Pittsburgh were held at 3 o'clock yesterday by plane (nfternon at the home of his son-in- An airplane from Stultz Seid, Tip- law, Robert Trumbull, Wilkinsburg, | (Continged on Page Four) Continged on Pepe Siz) BROOKS-DOLL POST SPONSORS VICTORY PARADE HERE TONIGHT Brooks-Doll Post American Legion! No. 33. of Bellefonte, will hold a celebration in Bellefonte tonight (Thursday) in observance of the un- conditional serrender of Italy, ves. terday A street parade, with the Legion Band. the Veterans of Foreign Wars Fife and Drum Corps, a few pat- riotic addresses, and possibly some other features will be included in the celebration, Samuel D Rhine smith, chairman, said last night wishing to take part in the parade are urged to assemble on the Dia- mond at 7:30 p. m. The program will begin then. The victory parade prob. ably will follow a brief victory rally on the Diamond. Rhinesmith sald A special invitation is extended to those In this area of Italian birth Or ancestry to take part in the pa- rade. ithe chairman said. Since Italy has been taken into the fold of the Allled Nations, persons of Italian parentage or extraction will be doub- ly welcomed in the victory parade, tonight, he concluded Bands, organizations and others Police Charge Youth With Draft Dodging John Edward Shay. 20, of Miles- burg, an alleged draft delinquent SNOW SHOE ORL DFFERS HER HAIR === emi lo {Board No. 1, State College. was ar- rested at his home last Wednesday | imorning, State Police reported, It was stated that Shay left home | A nine-year-old Snow Shoe girl iast week made an unusual contrib ution to the war effort. The girl, Mary Elizabeth Swartz, | x of Mr. and Mrs. James |2POUt August 1 and went to Wash- lington, D. C. He was lodged in the Centre county jail to await action of fegeral authorities. Shay became a draft delinquent when he failed to report for physical examination, BE — Get More Time to conducted in Belle- aunt, Mrs. Maxine Swartz Kusse, [ast Thursday, and had 17 inches of her long blonde hair cut to contribute to the cause beauty parior Recently Mary Elizabetlf s mother Army, Slightly Clears Soldi Red Faced, er of AWOL A Bnow B8Bhoe soldier, reported, AWOL by the Army on June 28, and subject of a hunt by Btate Police from Rockview sub-station and Mill tary Police from Willlamsport, has been “found The Army AWAY as usual Tennessee, He'd Lime and hadnt commanding officer soldier's mother ways been report ng soldi ring uvers In been there all the been AWOL. His in a eter o We cc.ared he's al- coldier and that AWOL was found him on man L a good the WLS m'stake T™h idler y Or son of Mr irs. Delbert Gil- } of Bnow Shoe He's In the Al Engineers and has Deen serv Mg an armored regiment Camp Campbell, Kentucky T soldier’ first son's “absence from the y 1 in July when State Police to their home to ask When they explained thelr mis. sionn and said T'5 Gillette had been AWOL since June 28, Mri. Gillette ced a saeaf letters she'd re- e 8 vie Gillette 1 21 and N ti» my - with at | iT parents earned their about prodt of ceived from him, Including a num- ber mailed after June 28. “He writes 0 me twice a week Mis. Giliett explained Later Military Police rom Wil a received the Hamsport visited the home Ww check on T/5 Glllette’'s whereabouts, Mr Gillette gave them the same answer “He's writing to me from Tennes- see.” The neighborhood and towne - people soon learned that T'5 Gillette apparently had committed a grave error in his army walking off the lot. “1 was ashamed to walk out of the house” Mrs, Gillette ex- plained Then last he career Oy Gillette form from athit Mrs i weekend Rood news of a slightly red-laced the Captain of T/5 Gillette “He has made very commend. able record--has rmed duties in an excellent manner an excellent and efficient the captain wrote, After apologizing for or inconvenience AWOL may have caused youth ents, the officer added use this letler rectify false reports son's military conduct free do mw 1 in Ft 1 7) the letter OQ a per He wae al Aanxiei) the report the ¢ 11 0 I any concert to 5 Gillette enlisted it June 1941 Knox, Ky maneuvers and was ste mtil being in Tennesse (Continged on Page Two) FARM CREDIT CO-OP BY WAR BONS Harry A. Corman, Direc- tor of Association, An- nounces Plan The Production Credit Association serving farmers in this ares has ranged purchase $25000 In Bonds during the Third War Campaign, according lo announce - ment just made by Harry A. Cor- man, & director of the association This subscription was authorized at a recent meeting the board of directors held at the association headquarters in Hollidayshurg Since organization in 1634 this Farmers’ Credit Cooperative has been serving the shori-tersy credit needs of many farmers In Bedford, | Blair, Cambria, Centre, Clearfield nr- War Loan WO of se sr PIL. Big da pnt ior 'its proportioniite share of the §25.- and Bruce PF. Stahl an inspector for 000. War Bond subscription, based | on the association's membership in) ths respective counties, Mr Corman’ stated, each county to recrive credit as follows Bedford $6000, Blair) $5000, Cambria $2000, Centre $7000, | Clearfield $1000, and Huntingdon | $4000 Mr. Corman said that the Credit | Cooperative is urging the farm peo-| ple in this section of the state to put! some of their farm returng aside in war Bonds to buy replacements and | make improvements after the war. | The association has been acting as! an issuing agent for the sale of War gh, i jocated at Whendover Field, | Bonds in cooperation with Treasury Department — Chester Hill Ranger Wounded in Sicily Mr. and Mrs, William K. Butter- worth, of Chester Hill, have received | word from their son, Sgt the i {furlough to read a letler he ‘ably has received by this time The WOMAN OBSERVES G4TH BIRTHDAY Former Centre Hall Resi- dent Happily Feted at Family Party Mrs Stahl the last four home al 2008 Maple 21 with her daughter, Mrs der, was happily evening of last week will honor Béth birthday Mary party in Sept. 1st Mrs. Stahl has been fe long member of the Centre Hall Luther. an church where she taught a large Bunday school class lor many years, untii she moved Ww Altoona to live near her family oldest son, ©. Asher Stahl, for the shaffer of he a the P. BR R. Co, live near her daughter's home, making it possible for her to visit with them often. She has been iMerested in the progress of the Victory gardens and canning activities in the community and has many friends in the St. Paul's Luth- eran church where she assisted with quilting, who with her friends from {Continued on pope Fiz) FP — LETTER OVER 5 FEET LONG FOR PHILIPSBURG SOLDIER Melvin Robins, Philipsburg soldier Utah, is going to have 10 ask for a prob- letter, written by fellow employes at Lee Metal Products plant and rela {tives and friends, measures fifty feet and seven inches long. Sixty-five different people wrote on it The novelty letter ig the first of a Vincent series of weekly letters the Lee Met- Butterworth a member of the U. 8 |8l Company employes plan to write Rangers, that he has been wounded | in action in Sleily. Sergeant “Vince” told his parents enter the armed forces from the lo- [fonte and £4 4% to boys who have left the plant for the service, Melvin was the first to not to worry as he has nearly recov. | Cal plant. ered from his wounds and expects to! soon be about again. The letter was | in his own handwriting Sergeant Butterworth participated in the invasion of North Africa and | saw lots of action before he was sent | to Sicily | Shoemaker Heads Christmas Seal Sale For the thirteenth time Colonel Henry W. Shoemaker, of Altoona, has been named chairman of the Pennsylvania Christmas Seals sale. | A strong “million dollar” spon- soring committee will soon be an- nounced to begin active work on the $1,000,000 quota assigned to Penne sylvania this year by the National Tuberculosis Society, in charge of the sale, Last fall, Pennsylvania's 4 VICTORY SHOW AT BLOOMSBURG FAR Horticulture Building To Be Devoted To Ex- hibition Bloomsburg Fair is proud to an- nounce that one of its outstanding presentations during the eighty- ninth exhibition, opening September 27, tw continue day and night through that week, will be the “Ord- {nance for Victory” show which will | quota [Occupy the entire horticulture build- Stores Co. WRONG TURN [EADS FARMER TO HIS DEATH Elmer Hough, 60, Rebers- burg, Killed on Private Railroad Crossing BODY FOUND UNDER 9TH CAR OF TRAIN Police Believe Man Lost Way While Enroute Home From Williamsport Elmer wh Hs Police reported je wa shoved : we Lhe 581 from Harrist ir. Hough was Ei long with ie Del 12- rolled i Aa his A farmer occupation, Mr Hough was g member of St. Lukes Lutheran church. near Rebersburg Surviving are three brothers Harry E. of Latrobe; Oscar Hy Lancaster, and Roy MM. of 5 Fy and a sister, Mr, John Walkey of Lock Haven. Funeral services will be held at 19 a m Thursday at the Harris Mor- tuary, Lock Haven with Dr. Jacob Diehl, pastor of St. John's Lutheran church, in charge. Burial will be made in Cedar Hill cemetery —— ———————— ——— Gets Letter Mailed by Mother 45 Years Ago A letler postmarked July 5, 1888 in Bellefonte, was delivered to Captain E. R. “Dick™ Taylor, of East Howard street last week The letter written forty-five years ago by his mother was delivered to him by Philip Garbrick of Kane, sho was in the same company with Dick™ at that time in Chicks- mauga, Georgia. At the time the jet- ter reached the camp, Dick, along with 71 others of the company was confined in the hospital with fever Garbrick forgot about the letter and recently in rummaging through {his possessions came across the un- idelivered letter. He inquired and {learned that Dick was still in Belle- last Thursday delivered ithe letter 10 him in person 00D GLASS 10 BE HELD TODAY Health-for-Victory Club to be Organized at Ses- sion at High School Health-for-Victory Club members to be organized with homemaking of employes of local Industries will meet today (Thursday), at 8 p.m, in the high school auditorium to study the Importance of planning daily meals that include foods from all "seven basic” food groups recom- by i | | | | | | learned that the Army and Navy! needed certain types of human hair! for use In bombsights end other! wartime optical instruments. She (submitted a sample of her daugh- {ter'’s hair and the government re- Potato Digger Is plied that it met the color and tex- ture requirements, and asked for as § ’ » Local Man's Invention mc. of the tresses as could be spared. Of less lofty pretensions but of] Some money which will result { more immediate interest to hungry from the surrender of the hair will {folks is a potato-digging machine go to the Red Cross and USO. As {invented by Ebon Bower, of Belle- for Mary Elizabeth and her mother (fonte, and protected by patent 2. they are relieved of the daily 1327500. A wide, spade-l'ke blade | chore of plaiting and otherwise car- | plows along below the tuber-produc- ing for the long tresses. {ing level, lifting the potatoes out of | ithe soil. They fall to the rear onto) Begins Naval Training i |a kind of grid made of spirally bent| A new recruit at the U. 8. Naval, to gears Next year the assessors will get | their books in Pebruary and will { have until September 1 to complete them, it was explained. THE BUS... Last week we asked candidates and other advertisers to get copy in early. so we could for this week's issue, taking consideration the Labor Day iday. Unfortunately only a few vertisements were scheduled d ing the weekend and we co quently decided upon an eigh page edition. Early this wee advertising came in so fast t even after we'd scrapped man regular features, we still didn have room. It was too late increase the number of pages. As a result we were forced turn down considerable adver tising yesterday. i i irods which are connected Remove Crossings The Public Utility Commission last week granted the request of the Bellefonte Central Railroad Com- pany for an extension of time from | August 1, 1943 to February 1, 1044, in which to complete elimination of 13 grade crossings and two under- ipasses in Centre and Huntingdon counties. The railroad company had advised (the PUC inability to secure labor | and other wartime difficulties had prevented completion of the work within the original time limit, Gets Silver Wings Aviation Cadet James Francis Training Station, Creat Lakes, Til, Kelley, newphew of Charles J. Mo- | mended by the government as being was $800000, and the committee ing. essential 0 good health headed by Colonel Shoemaker, put| This show, arranged by the Ber- it over with $830,000. ! wick sub-office raged Philadelphia Miss Janet Soisson. home econo- -— | Ordnance District in cooperation Mist at the West Penn Power Co, Snow Shoe Girl Joing WAC | with the fair, is in line with the pol- Said today that the seven jasic food Miss Lulu B. Herr, of Snow Shoe, | icy of the exhibition to giving every ETOUPS are as necessary to the health who has been residing with her sis- support possible to the war effort on of people “as good building mater- | ter, Mrs. Prank Caprio in Lock Hav-| the home front. The show will be a lals are to the strength of a house fen, has resigned as an employe of smaller but complete edition of the | The seven basic food groups are the Mill Hall plant of the Sylvania huge “Ordnance for Victory” dis-; (1) green and yellow vegetables, (2) Electric Products, Inc.. and has been play at Wanamaker's, Philadelphia, Oranges, tomatoes and grapefruit, accepted by the WACs. She has re- and which proved the American (3) potatoes and other vegetables | ceived orders report to Miami people genuinely interested in the and fruits, (8) milk and milk pro- { Beach, Pla. . 18, for basic train- | equipment produced for its fighting ducts, (5) meat, poultry, fish or eges, (ing. Miss H a graduate of | Snow Shoe High School, and d in Lock | paign. of the! The flower show, always a popular that keep them constantly rotating. item and much correspondence 4 ue This frees the potatoes of soll and has been omitted, No one regrets such omissions more than do the publishers, After all, we're reasonably sure we won't be caught like this again. It's only once in a life. time, perhaps, that there are 48 candidates for county office procedure, is Clayton Hugh Smith, 17, son of Gowan of Moshannon, was recently | Charles Howell 8mith, of Blanchard. commissioned a Second Lieutenant Now undergoing “boot” training, he In the Army Air Forces at Turner is being indoctrinated into Navy Pield, Albany, Georgia, Colonel John life and Is being Instructed in sea- B. Patrick, commanding officer. Tur- manship, military drill, and naval ber Pield is where Aviation Cadets (Are sent for their final phase of - itraining which culminates in their A writer, with pet notions to de- receiving their much coveted wings fend, goes through some astounding and commission as Second Lieuten- mental concentrations. ant in the Army Air Foroes.
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