Where the Fuel Goes
A HEAVY BOMBER
cruising at a speed of 250
m.p.h, may use 269 gal-
lons of gasoline an hour,
.
ghe Centre Democraf
FE
WHERE THE
An Army Trans
port burns 33,000
gallons of fuel oil
a day.
FUEL GOES
VOLUME
62.
NUMBER 49.
BELLEFONTE, PA
, THURSDAY,
DECEMBER 9,
1943.
SUBSCRIPTION—$1.50 PER YEAR.
Gels 10-20
On A
Aaronsburg Native
Years Behind Bars,
to Two Barns:
spent about
prison ba
tern ol
Western ni
Tuesday m
before Jn
al CR510T
a charge
Blanchar
Jackson
1940
The man
V, DALY ol
ai50 a
They" re In the WAC
A (81
wr
W
As
nald
the Navy civilian,
J ;
ears
SON Charge
ho Spent 18 of 38
2 mits Setting Fire
Inv esti igation Continues,
1 Haine
on t of the I ICA
1 1940, but
lodged against
bd Darn
he
Wi ignin will
When the man answered in the af-
firmative, the Court
threatened
asked No one
the indictment
fleated ¢
KNIGELY NAMED
POLICE OFFICER
Council Hears Report
Lime Dust is “Worse
Than Ever
KE Sr
Wa
police
Lnisel
nie
eed Sherif
a mesting
igh
I-elect John Galaida
of Borough Council on
Monday night. The appointment be-
at
she was radio inspector for the Pil | cape effective the following day.
f
OUTS, |
A ARE IN
Natrona
N
Heart
NTING TOLL
AD
URED
Hunter
ar Snow Shoe After
Attack
Dies
GAME WARDEN IS
SERIOUS
Officer, Believed
to
SLY HURT
Have
Fallen on Gun, Shot
Through Face
attaches believe that he
nm so—
Conlinged on Page Eeven)
SURVIVES
JAP TORPEDOING |
1]
BLANEY HEADS
SCHOOL BOARD
New Member
Stop Rumors
Board
Seeks
About
Activities
Ralph
pregident
| Board, wi
To
WAR FUND DRIVE
AGEEDS QUOTA
Bellefonte Passes Alloca-
tion by More Than $500:
2.000 For Welfare
Comn its War
goal of $20,000
seg Ma quota
eg i
EX Ped
- ARMYG
~ WIRE TELLING
OF SON'S DEATH
Axemann Couples’ Mourn-
ing Is Turned Into Re-
joicing For Son
SGT. JACK SAMPSELL
WOUNDED, NOT DEAD
Wound Slight, Message to
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Sampsell, Reveals
ged once before
his outfit
hence he was
Saompsell was
and had returned
Italy about October 1
AOL
10
in action about a month sand a half |
before receiving the second wound
RECT
in
Fl eming
oun IY y
Rev. A. GG. Herr to Bec
Home; Other Court
Are Rumored.
Appointn
Wit erie
wiltme!
ce
KIWANIS LEADERS
VISIT BELLEFONTE
District Governor Princi-
pal Speaker; Training
School for Officers
Ki
wakan
Divicion
District
| Among
ficials, prese
Named
Solicitor
ome Head County
House Appointments
W DIRECTORIES
IN WAIL TODAY
Jook
Sent to Telephone Users
This Area
7400 Copies of New
Me was born at Axe Mann on No. !
vember 14, 1918. shortly after the
Armistice of World War Signed
adelvhia Signal Depot, Philad lelphia fain. Pitts
the Pennsyl
Fry Blate
Kn lsely
wl #4
{ that group. Manday nig in the: e than §5 ove
‘About $450 in Cash
was chosen
tae
lidates for
F'Bosrd L £20857 52, + 3
£2 got
from a feild of
he offt ind
Olhce
two
erm of Col
eile ’
Pfc. Gayle L.
Palme
Blain
Palmer
Private {
and Mrs
Mills,
bar for
Women
tioned
Center
where
the Officers
is Plc. Gay
WAC, Det
Training
Florida
Mess
ie 1
D
Ce Dayton
Edna M. Viehdorfer Joins SPARS
Miss Edna Marion Viehdorfer
daughter of Mrs. Bernice Elizabeth
Viehdorfer, of Pine Glen, last Thurs-
day was sworn to the Woman's Re-
serve, U st Guard Reserve as
an apprent eaman in the enlist-
ed quota the SPARS. She will
start her training on Friday of next
week at the U Coast Guard
Training Station Palm Beach, Flori-
da. Miss Viehdorfer was a member
of the Cooper Township High School
class of 194] before enlisting
was employed as an operator at the
Slyvania plant in Mill Hall. She has
two brothers in the service: Sgt
Merril Viehdorfer of the Army Alr
Corps stationed in Wisconsin, and
Corp. Max B. Viehdorier U A
new serving overseas
ice
of
q
rl
Ana
8
Two Injured When
Car And Truck Meet
Two persons were injured and
damage totalling $150 resulted from!
a car-truck collision on Route 322]
about five miles east of Martha Pur-!
nace at 10:45 a. m. Saturday
The accident involved a truck
operated by Raymond W. Winter of
Osceola Mills, R. D, and a sedan
driven by Samuel Burns, of Sykes-
ville,
koske, 37, passengers in Burns’ car
suffered a bruised chest and a bruis- |
ithe same direction and scraped to-|
gether when one attempted to pass’
ed right ankle respectively, in the
wreck which resulted when Burns
attempted to pass another car, The
accident was investigated by Pvt
Bartholomew Kilraine of the Pleas-|
ant Gap State Police sub-station.
Lar.
John Kokoske, 50, and Mike Ko-!
| Boalsburg
Mr. Eber-
Summit
“he ard di
the
been
on Page Seven)
- -
ollector
Coniinsed
Former Local Man
Dies In Germany
Joh Jack
win of the Iate Mi:
ap M. Montgomery. of Belle-
for nte, and first cousin of W. Hassell
Mo ntgomery, of East Linn street, re-
| missing in action on a4 bomb-
misrion over German territory.
reported to have died, November
according to a messaze received
the German government
the International Red Cross
his death came in a War
Department teicgram to his brother
Gordon Montgomery, Chief Machin-
ist's Mate in the Navy, who is sta-
tiot Nre Yarv City. The tele-
to Bellefonte dur-
Monigom-
wand Mrs
f Sgt
port
i
3.
from
tiarough
Word of
wd in
as relayed
He weekend
gt. Montgomery is
have been a tall gunner
t the time he was lost
November 3
During
paign B8gt
wounded
treatment
in England
reported to
in a bomber
a n action
frican cam-
was badly
the North
Montgomery
and underwent hospital
for some time afterwards
He is belleved to have
returned to active duty only a short)
time before the mission on which
he was lost
Car Awd Track Meet;
Damage Ab About $150
Damage estimated at about $150
resulied about 3:30 o'clock Monday
atfernon when a car driven by W
H. Stewart. of Boalsburg, and a;
truck driven by Lawrence Womer,
of State College, sideswiped on
the road between Old Fort and
Both machines were traveling in|
the other. No one was injured. The
road was wet at the time of the mis- |
hap. Motor Police at Pleasant Gap!
| investigated the accident.
Stolen at VFW Home =
DS i) BLAS
OF GIANT
Pfe. Nevin D.
County Native,
INE
“Commands S Sub
Rhine,
} Others
" Killed at Columbus, O.
Nevin D. Rhin
and Mrs. Orvis Rhin
Pl
Mr
12
"
e, Oi
son of
Mack~
eyville and native of Centre county,
was killed about
8:30 o'clock Mon-
day morning wnen a mysterious ex-
plosion shat tered a
Flying Fortress
which was being warmed for a take-
off at the Lockbourne Ais
umbus, Ohio
Three officers and Pvt
the blast
big ship Into shreds
of the wings and
remained intact
as
the
sembly
relations
the army
‘very unusual”
but would not
Pvt
Army
was
origin of
elaborate
Air Force for
Rhine had served
more
Ba
Col-
ow
Rhine died
1ipped the [{uselage of
Only
mo
por -
tor aa-
The public
office at the base said that
investigating the
the biast,
with
than a
year and was in training as a mem-
ber
overseas
of the Fortress crew
for
duty
Deceased was born in Nittany on
1921,
the
February 25.
uated from
9,
and after undergoing
(Continged on page
and was
Walker Township
| High School in 1930. On September
1042, he enlisted in the Alr Corps,
training
Siz)
‘Unionville Youth Is
Missing In Action
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hall of near |
grad-
at
the
LT. RICHARD E. ROBB
Lt. Robb. son of Mrs. C. Edward
Robb, of South Allegheny street
Bellefonte, this week vas named
commander of a U, 8 submarine,
cording to word received here
Lt. Robb. graduate of the
Academy at Annapolis, Md. in 19839,
served aboard a submarine in the
Pacific area {cr
' before being assigned to the New|
London submarine base for special
| instruction
has been undergoing additiona:
training in Philadelphia, where he
iis now stationed
He is expecied to be assigned to
Alfa
| Unionville, have been notified by **% duty in the near future.
the War Departinetit that their son!
Ellis, has been missing
since November 10.
The
in
action
Ee. ——— a
Gels Big Buck
i One of the largest bucks reported |
Missing sarviceman was ir shot by a Centre county hunter this)
the Marine Corps and is understood season Is a 10-point,
190-poting Creet
to have been stationed on an afr-| | bagged by E. J. Loesch of Circleville,
ieraft carrier in the South Pacific] at the head of Clenndenning, Clin- {he home found that although no
area.
| years
He was 22 years old and had | ton county,
{been in the service for almost two | Wednesday. Mr. Loesch was en route | suffered
about 12:30 p. m. last
{to a camp in that area in company .
Naval
a number of months |
For several months he!
Yes
Belle.
hye
ufinged on Pape Siz)
R. H. Lightner Joins
Titan Sales Force
mounting
¥ post-was
NE 1x to meet
the competitis t ws which will
fo development of many
add ional brass facilities in the in-
the broadening use of alum-
num and magnesium alloys, plastics
wood products of many Kinds and
glass
Mr
tan
a rich
£,)
arise glue
prea
Lightner will bring to the Ti-
Meta] Manufacturing Company
experience made up of 25
Years of contact with industry in
Wesiern Pennsylvania, West Vir.
ginia, and Marviand, as a represen-
tative of the West Penn Prywer Com-
pany and their subsidiaries
As divigion sales manager of the
[ Keystone Division of the West Penn
| Power Company for the past fifteen
years, Mr. Lightner has
sponsible for the sale of electric
pawer to many varied industries of
McKean. Potter, Cameron, Elk and
Centre counties
There is a possibility the Lightner
family may move {0 Bellefonte from
| Ridgway
———————
1101-Year-Old Man
‘William Tressler, who will be 102
vears old next June suffered painful
lacerations and bruises of the head, |
stairway at his home on West How-
ard Street.
In falling Mr. Tressler struck a
radiator, which caused most of the
injuries. A physician summoned to |
bones were broken, the aged man
from shock and
lose of blood. While he was still
Mr. and Mrs. Hall have five other of Landis Lightner, also of Circle- confined to bed, yesterday, his con
jon in tic service.
|e, when he shot the deer,
| dition was reported as being good.
beers re-|
Injured In Accident,
i was
i was graduated n the Sprin
High 8«
"Or {Wo years §
SGT. JOHN 8S. SAMPSELL
Sampsell received his preliminary
training at FL. George Meade, Md,
(Continged on Pops Three)
———— s———
Two Injured In Crash
On Jacksonville Road |
Two persons were slightly injured
and two cars involved were damaged |
to the extent of about $150 about 5
y'clock Saturday afternoon im a col-(°
lision on the Jacksonville east
of Jacksonville
Earl Yearick,
road
of Penn street
Bellefonte, was traveling « «t on the
road and Irvin Blerly, ¢ Lyons
town, was proceeding west when the
machines met on a curve. Mrs. Year-
ick suffered a painful bruise of the!
head when she was thrown against)
the windshield, Mrs. Bierly also was
bruised
| Damage to the Yearick machine |
{was placed at about 850 and 0 the |
| Bierly car, about $100
Postoffice To Be
Open In Evenings,
Beginning next Wednesday, De-
{comber 15, and continuing through
' December 23, the Bellefonte postof-
fice will remain open until 7:30 each
j evening, except Bunday. Postmaster
{George R. Meek said yesterday.
| ‘The office will remain closed on
Sundays—that is, there will be no
window service.
Packages aml other ems which
jaren’t mailed before December 19
‘have a film chance of reaching their
{destination before Christinas Be-
cause of shortage of bags and train
facilities, and because of the heavy
soldier traffic expected during the
holidays, Mr. Meek urges promptnoss
in mailing this year as never before.
Mc
ver
Meen n
A Raipt h
terial >
Res
(Continued on B Page Three)
SIBBATH SCHOO
WORKERS M
| Discus Immediate
Future Activities at
iness Session
stn:
A nd
Bus-
SS
A reviewing of recent events
| forward look into a program
{ mediate and 1 activities
{ pled leaders of the Sabbath School
Association of Centre County as they
met in their final regular monthly
meeting of the current year on Sun-
{day afternoon December 5. The
Methodist Church of Bellefonte was
the scene of the sessions presided
{ over by Mr. Roy Decker first vice-
{ president. The chief topic for con-
sideration was the formulation of a
set of plans for making the county
kno.n
of
uture oCcu-
| organization's program betler
{and more effective in each of iis
twelve districts. The final results
| of all deliberations on the topic were
that (1) the county work can best be
promoted by working through the
districts and (2) a series of month-
| ly meetings with district officers on
! methods and objectives would be ar.
ranged culminating in the Spring
i
with a rally or convention for each |
in a central place in that
Conlinued on Pape Seven)
-
$800 Damage As
Truck Hits Tree
Charles K. Crowell, 43. of Pontiac, |
Mich. escaped serious injury, but the
truck he was driving was damaged to
the extent of about $800 at 2:30
o'clock Tuesday afternoon when the
machine ran into a tree at the side
of the road In Howard Borough.
The accident happened
| district
jeep at the wheel The truck hit
the tree a shattering blow
the Centre County Hospital where
he remained overnight. He
bruises of the body. but no bones
were broken.
Crowell said he was driving west
through Howard when he doped at
the wheel
accord. |
ing to police, when Crowell feil as-
Theodore Leathers, of Howard.
R. D. brought the injured driver to
had |
sass scans A" an—
Fire Companies Send
Gifts To Servicemen
ph Voerschiecher
The Logan Fire Comp
packed
0 Eh wo
Frod- Hayes
he Hyon an committee
lof ihe viond Amm
and Herbert Aum
The Logan Fire Compan;
hold the usual Christmas
and proceeds will
{pay for sending the
members, it wax said
Michael Baker, Jr.
Gets Big Contract
Michael Baker, Jr. {ormes
Colicge borough engineer and a
graduate of the College, has been
awarded the engineering contract
for the 20-millim-doliar Pitt Park-
way. a super-highway to Pittsburgh's
“Golden Triangle,” announcement
from the office of State Highway
Secrelary John U. Schroyer, Harris.
(burg, revealed this week
Award of these contracts will make
possible preliminary work with act
ual construction awaiting the wars
end
After jeaving State College, Baker
went to Rochester, Pa. He supervised
housing developments in
Beaver couniy. work on a Curtiss.
Wright propeller plant there, and a
i highway project in Paducah, Ky. He
then worked on the Alcan Highway
in Alaska and is al present engaged
{in highway enginsering in Bolivia,
man
Jt
will not
arty this
used
year to
presents
0
State
Federal