WEE
Jesse
ADLER
Looks at
the NEWS |
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THE JAPS are conducting a War
Bond drive too. Their bonds sell for
$25 and when they reach maturity,
if still alive the purchaser gets back |
$18.75!
NURSES at the Murgaret Hague |
Hospital, Jersey @Qity, where Frank
Sinatra, Jr, was just born, say J
already has a better voice than Sr,
~-you can hear him all over the
hospital-—without a microphone
WITH the shortage of material
and things, and the tremendous in-
come Papa Sinatra Is drawing to-
day, Junior will probably be the
first baby on record diapered with
greenbacks
THE ARMY has
want to remember thelr overseas
Valentines to send their greetings
now. It's getting so a gal has to put
her sentiments in writing so far in
advance she can't be fickle any-
more
STEVE DUTTON,
est crook died in N. Y this week at
the age of 103. To prove Crime
Doesn't Pay, Dutton was buried in
Potter's Field
SCIENTISTS predict se a-weed
may take the place of spinach as a |
table delicacy. Hope Superman |
doesn’t hear about thus.
|
FLORIDA hairdressers want wo-|
men to “Leave the Lid Off,” claim-|
ing hair-do's look better than bou-y
nets. A lot of politicians will be ‘in
style this season-—with their hats!
in the ring too!
KING CHRISTIAN of Denmark, |
confined to his palace by illness, was
approached by a Copenhagen Quis-|
ling with the suggestion he form a|
pro-Nazi puppet gov't, “No—" snap-|
ped the king, “I've only got some- |
thing wrong with my leg, not with]
my head!” |
A FRIEND of mine, running a de-|
fense plant, has an uncanny meth-
od of detecting the workers from|
the shirkers. He distributes free
copies of a morning tabloid and]
when he collects them at the end of |
a work-day immediately scans the
crossword puzzle feature. If it's un-|
marred—he knows he's got an hon-/
est-to-injun worker on his hands,
CLEVELAND police have gather-
ed several hundred guns formerly
used by the, underworld and will
ship them to the underground over-|
seas for use against the Nazi mob-|
sters. The rod is mightier than th
pen. |
asked gals who
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dhe Cenfre Democrat
SECOND
SECTION
NEWS,
FEATURES
VOLUME 63.
BELLEFONTE, PA, THUR
SDAY, JANUARY 20, 1944.
9
3.
NUMBER
Clinton County Court
Reverses Re
Hall Elec
sult of Mill
tion Recount
Judge Rules First Count of Vote on Council
men Must Stand, Because Petitioners
Failed to Act Within Time
Express
sequel to
Mill Hall's
a recount
Saturday's Lock Haven
contained the following
last week's account of
borough council upset by
of the vole
Although “manifest error” wa:
found in the recount of the Mill
Hall Borough Council election, Judge
Henry Hipple ruled this morning
that the returns as originally made
would have to stand since those who |
{ petitioned for the recount failed to |
| act within five days after the official |
count by the County Election Board
and that no contest was instituted
Tyrone Flier
Dies In Crash
Killed at Texas Train-
ing Field
Sergeant Dorsey F. Decker, son of
Mrs. Olive Decker, Tyrone, R. D, 3,
was one of ten men killed when a
Flying Fortress from Hendricks field
crashed last Thursday while circling
for a landing at the Fort Worth,
Texas, army air field.
The announcement was made by
Colonel Warren W. Higgins, com-
manding officer of Hendricks field
Seven of the dead were officers
and three were enlisted men The
plane was on a training flight
At Fort Worth, persons living near |
Ht
#41
the field said one motor and
right wing section of the plane were
ablaze as it roared over thelr houses
shortly before the crash
The big ship barely missed the
roof of a residence, passed under
high tension wires and plowed into
ia pasture
GERMANY'S announcement that
Count Ciano, Mussy's son-in-law,
has been shot to death may and may
not be just a rumor. Both he and]
Mussy have been reported dead 50)
often they sound 9-lived cats—|
though we know they're rats. |
WEEK'S Favorite Gag: “1d like’
to see the man who robbed our
house last t* “Why, want to
beat him yp?” “Hell no, 1 want to
find out how he got into the house
without waking up my wile!”
WITH priorities and scarcitics of
merchandise, next summer ought to
be a great season for the Nudist
Colonies. They need only bare ne-
cessities
I VISITED nudist camp once
and woirdered why a certain chap
was wearing a blue suit. That's no
“blue sult.” I was tokd, that guy's
Just freezing to death
FOOD prices ate s0 high in Mi-
ami even the restaurant owners
have to go to Tampa-—they can't af-
ford to eat in thelr own establish-
ments
a
Mine Accident
Results Fatally
Houtzdale Citizen Dies in the
Philipsburg Hospital
From Injuries
Gallo, of Houtzdale, died
Saturday momming about 10 o'clock
at the Philipsburg State hospital
Just one hour after being admitted
for an injury he received in a coal
mine owned by the Gulbranson Coal
Company
The accident happened when Mr
Gallo was turning off the ignition
on a coal cutting machine. His arm
was caught the mechanism, se-
George
in
in
lately rushed to the hospital.
Born in North Philipsburg, Mr
Gallo was the son of Paul Gallo,
Sr. He followed mining as an oc-
cupation and two years ago moved
to Houtzdale
AGAIN 1 repeat—Buy A Bond and
Let's make This a Grand and Glor-
lous 4th!
a——
MERCANTILE TAX ouT
Pennsylvania merchants were re-
minded by Revenue Secretary David
W. Harris the 1943 Legislature ahol-
ished the state mercantile license
tax and none will be collected for
1944. He added, however, delinguent
taxes are still due and can be paid
through county treasurers
LOCK HAVEN PLANT RULING
The Regional War Labor Board
last week granted standard volun-
tary maintenance of membership to
the Dye and Chemical Workers
Federal Union (AFL) for 115 em-
ployes at the Lock Haven plant of
the American Aniline Products, Inc
Besides his wife, whose maiden
name was Margaret Rowland, and
three small children, Mary, Bertha
and George, Jr, he is survived by
the following brothers and sisters:
Sue Gallo, at home with the father,
North Philipsburg; Mrs. John Shet-
okey, Cleveland: Mrs, Steve Bun-
yak, Grassflat; John Gallo, North
Philipsburg: Michael and Andrew,
of Buffalo, N. Y
Services were held Wednesday af-
ternoon from the Lutheran church
at Houtzdale. Burial was made in
the family plot, Houtzdale.
i — i ——
Is Made Captain.
Promotion of George Thomas Wil.
son, of Lock Haven, from first leu-
tenant to captain in the field ar-
| tillery, has been announced by the
[War Department
——
HISTORY OF SCOTIA
By Harry M. Williams
Harry M. Williaans' history of old,
Scotia continues with a review of!
the type of ores found in this lo-!
cality.
For many years after the begin-
ning of this century Centre county
was one of the principal fron pro-
ducing districts in the county, Pitts- |
burgh and eastern cities manufac
the iron whica it produced. |
of the lttle char
its valleys. A
early enter
of the iron industry of Centre
5
thE
Hi
tral Rallroad. Had this road been
bullt a few years sooner some of
these old ore mines may have been
In operation much longer, and could
and would have furnished a cone
siderable amount of ore to the fur-
neces in Bellefonte and probably
many other places. The various {ron
ore mines and blast furnaces of the
county represented an important in.
dustrial interest but yee not what
they should have been with the
many advantages the industry
portunity in the early days of iron
making.
Many ways and methods were
used In getting ore to the furnaces
in the early days of the
|
| As the car Conductor Sliffer was!
tridie
{left the rail and smashed into an-|
within 20 days after municipal
election
(#31
Money Returned.
The opinion delivered by the ‘court
goes on to say "there was no fraud
of any Kind committed in the com- |
putation of votes by the Election |
Board of Mill Hall Borough, al-|
though there was manifest error
Since the petitioners deposited cash
in the sum of $50 and it was shown |
that substantial error was commit-
{ted In the computation of the votes,
the petitioners are entitled to the
of the money deposited by
[|
| return
| them .
The petitioners are Bruce Fryer,
{Charles J. DeHaas and George J
| Yarnell
| As a result of the court's decision
| those originally certified as clected
| will take their seats on the council
| Victim Was One of Ten Men | They are EM. Archey, D, M. C
{Glock, D., Melvin Maurer, D., and
{C. 8. Beck, R. When the official
returns were counted, they gave |
{ Archey 171 votes, Glock 165. Maur- |
ier 169, A. N. Wolfe, D., 154, Beck |
| 166, John W. Leonard, R., 155, Clf- |
{ ford A. Miller, R., 154 and Lewis E. |
Straub. R., 161. |
As a result of the recount on Jan.
7. Archey received 167, Glock 164,
Maurer 157, Wolfe 153, Beck 177,
| Leopard 161, Miller 165, Straub 170,
Continged on page Two)
‘Conductor Dies
Under His Train
Crushed by Wheels After He
is Jolted From Empty
Car
Charles PF. Bliffer, 64. of Juniata,
a conductor for the Pennsylvania
Railroad company, was killed Wed-
inesday morning of last week when!
the was jolted from a car and run
over while making up a train of
empty cars at the Riley shalt, Bam
esboro
WwW went over a switch the trucks!
other car, jolting the man from his|
post i
{ He was a conduetor un ti
son branch of the Pittsburgh
ision, his
toona to
home Tu
He wa
28. 1879. a
Cres-|
div.
train operating from Al-
Barnesboro. He left his
escay evelllng for his run.)
born at Lock Haven, May
on of Fred and Catherine |
{Anthony Slffer. He was married!
1908 to Miss Ante Blanch
Dickey of Gien Hope, the family re-|
siding in Juniata for many years, |
Surviving are the widow, one bro-
ry |
in i
two sisters, Miss Emma Sliffer,
| Washington, D. C., and Mrs
Sykes, of Endicott, N. Y
ODD AND
CURIOUS
Poor Insurance.
| Three prisoners escaped from the
(Joliet, TIL, county Jail by sawing
through steel bars, smashing a plate
glass window, running across the
prison yard and sealing an 18-foot
| wall. Two German shepherd dogs,
kept in the yard as insurance, slept
{ through it all
of
Lillie
|
i
i
!
—
| Hint, or an Order?
{ New signs posted on advertising
| placards of Savannah buses advise
riders: “The rear end of this bus
| should arrive at your destination
| simultaneously with the forward
| section. (They are hitched together)
| please move to the rear now.”
| Sr —— DD ——————
Ripping Good Time
Henry Butler of Jacksonville, Fla.
[Was eating breakfast the other)
imoming when a busz saw ripped |
through the side of his house, sliced
{the breakfast table In two and then
whirled out the other side of the!
house. The saw broke loose from a
saw mill near Butier’'s home, ripped |
through the first New Zealand Bap- |
tist church and then plowed through |
Butler's house,
Christmas Gift Year Late
Christmas, 1042, was a little late
fing E $0 Miia Corporal William
. t but It finally caught up
with him at a Philadelphia Army
| gomery
{Daniel O'Leary, of Penn
The Knockout Blow
|
|
tho
f
Lure
{at the
In Motor Crash
Montgomery Woman, Enroute
to Loganton, Hurt When
Car Upsets
Glenn L. Klobe, 34, of Mont-
R. D. former Loganton re
ident, received a fractured vertebrae
of the neck Wednesday mormning of
last week when the car in which she
wis riding with her husband upset
the icy highway the Lime-
stone church below Rauchtown,
about ten miles from Loganton
Mr. and Mrs. Kiobe were travel.
ing toward Loganton to visit her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Snook,
when the accident occurred Mr
Kiobe was driving utomobile
when it struck a stretch of ice, skid-
ded and rolled over on its right side
into an embankment
Mr. Kiobe, an employe of the
Pennsylvania Ordnance Works, left
the soene for Loagnton to get help
returned promptly and the injured
woman was taken to the Williams-
port hospital for treatment
M:
on at
[
“ie
Pvt. Joseph O'Leary
Returns from Africa
PyL. Joseph O'Leary, who last Oc-
tober wag reported missing in action
lin the North African ares, and who
subsequently was located
Red Cross in a North African bos-
pital, has arrived al Ashford Gen-
eral Hospital White Sulphur
Springs, West Virginia, according to
a War Department telegram re-
ceived Friday by his mother, Mr:
treet
by the
Pvt. Oleary. who has three bro-
thers in the service, is believed to
be recovering from wounds received
| verely injuring him. He was immed- ther, George Sliffer, of Davton O.- in battle
-
NAB PAIR IN STOLEN CAR
Two Wilkes-Barre youths were ar-
rested on Cresson mountain last
Tuesday night by state police on
charges of stealing a motor vehicle
The two, William Cromley, 22, and
his brother, Nicholas, a soldier, said
to have been AWOL since Christ.
mas, were driving a sedan owned by
the Rev. J M. Pheasant of Thomp-
wontown, when they were captured
while enroute west. Police said the
brothers were hitch-hiking near
Thompsontown when they were
picked up by Rev. Pheasant, who
took them into Lewistown, and ssk-
ed them 0 wait In his car while he
visited a parishioner patient in a
hospital. While the minister was in
the hospital the two drove away In
his car
REFUND ORDERED
Ihe State College Borough Water
Authority has been directed by the
Public Utility Commission to refund
$1414 0 out-of-borough consumers
who complained charges were ex.
cessive
Neck Is Injured Lock Haven Has
$20,000 Fire Loss
Worker in Auto Repair Shop
Has Narrow Escape
From Death
A mid-afternoon fire, Tuesday
st week, supposedly started by
overheated furrince at 39 Bellefonte
ayenure
entire block as three business build
Ings, a rear warehouse, garage and
three second-story homes were ser-
ously damaged by fire Tuesday. Es-
timated loss will amount to at least
$20,000
Bulldings which were damaged by
the biaze were the Anthony Reit-
ano fruit market and warehouse: E
L. Stein's fumiture a
storage room full of canned good:
retited by Ernest Plerce; a garage of
the owner, W. M. Bickford
homes of Mr. and
Toole, Mr. and Mp
land, and Mr. ad Mr
Three Lock Haven
fought the blaze
from setting fire
bulldings which
gan hardware store
Reformed church parish
in the rear. the Reformed and
{Ey lical churches
! Fr onty eats reported was
dog owned by W. M. Bickford burn-
‘ed to death when he vas trapped in
his master's office
i Although no one was
Floyd Embick, one of Bickford's em-
ploye Was trapped for a time In
the basement of the buliding. Em-
bick had discovered the fire in
cellar and attempted to
When he tried to leave
3
’
ol
ot HH
’
warehous
and the
Irvin ©O'-
George High-
R. F. Duffy
ire companies
kept Dames
to surrounding
include the Gru-
the Bt. Luke's
rishi house. and
“rr,
wll
ang
fight it
the cell
he found he was unable to open t
the head of the
to the corliar but by
electric Hght was
the room was full of smoke
He crawled on his hand and
knees to the front part of the cel-
lar. He was 830 weak this time
that he was unable a large
steel door which opens onto the
sidewalk In front of the building
He found a piece of wood and beat
on the door, sucoeeding in attract-
ing attention. Several bystanders
lifted the door and released him
il
HELD FOR STABBING GIRL
George Balley, 20. of Willlams-
port, was held on a charge of sec-
ond degree murder ‘n the death of
Miss Ruth Butler. 23. Elmira
Butler was stabbed about 15 times
with a jackknife in what police de-
scribed as a “lovers' quarrel” The
Butier woman also formerly resided
in Williamsport
mn MP ————
TO GET GOODRICH PLANT
The State Departhient of Com-
merce has disclosed that the B. F
Goodrich Company Is planning for
the establishment of manufacturing
operations at DuBois, to make pro-
‘ducts In which rubber and textiles
| are used
ar
hr
He
that
out and,
door at
returned
tine the
tai
wa
by
lift
History
J. Thomas Mitchell Writes
Of Bar
IBR3-180-Terms of Judge Adam
Hoy and Judge Austin O, Furst
Jin Centre, hence Austin ©. Purst
| Ing personality and a good voice,
and was elected as District. Attor-
ney, Burgess of Bellefonte, and spent
than the Demoeratic majority
was the first elected president.
the new district.
men were admitted
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Lock Haven, threatened an -
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allege,
injured, !
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Brisbin School Burns To
Ground; No Confusion as
Teachers Order Evacuation
Fire Occurs While County Medical Examiner
Is Present; Janitor’
a Time; No
Excitement
Brisbin
Bri
reigned supreme
area on Frida
school
when the
bin
burned
sclhioo]l hours
Worried parents
MCHOOL and
frantic when they
thelr children
that t children
in the flames
Houtzdale firemen
but were unable to che
of the raging fre and
burned to the ground
The County Medical
arrived at the schoo]
L starting his examination
wer, Miss Velma Lobb
tected the first whiff of smoke
ent word to the other teachers
then announced
Children we
weekls
’
frame struc-
ground during
a jarge
lo the
QUICKLY gathered
Ceca
were
nearly
mnable to lo-
Many believed
had been
Cale
he caught
were
Kk
Lie
called out
pread
building
the
Examiner
and was
when
ee
had
ju
the teac!
She
and
are going tw have
drill earlie;
we are going to have it right
announced The doctor
protested saying that it was too cold
end the children out but the
teacher stated that It was some-
thing which had to be done. After
were safels ge, she sent
our fire today
in fact,
now.” she
w
Lney outs
them Ww nearby homes
The climax of excilement
hen the roof collapsed shortly
1 puplls had afet)y
nd it was feared the janitor wa
Gi
Iu reached
Scout Chairman
State College Scoutmaster Re-
ceives Award For Work
in 1943
heodore J. Gates, of Blate Col-
was re-elected president of the
Valley Council of
3 America at annual
ecting held last Wednesday night
in the cafeteria of the Bellefonte
High 8choo] bullding. More than 100
Scouters and thelr guests attended
the dinner
the
0
nn
Beaver award for outstanding cone
tribution to Scouting in the Ooun- |
cil throughout last year. Principal
speaker at the program held in the
auditorium was Thomas M. Stock-
ham of Hartsburg, chairman of the
regional senior Beouting committer
Other speakers were Clyde M
Stewart of Bellefonte, chairman of
the Muncy district: Join R. Wald,
Huntingdon, Council Scout Commis
sioner, and Robert Smith, of
istown, Scout executive
Members of the Pleasant Gap
troop under the Jeadership of their
Scoutmaster, James Biddle pre-
sented a tableau showing the impor-,
tance that Soouting plays on the
activities of men in their business
and professional careers. Rev. Fran-
cis P. Davis, rector of St John's
Episcopal church, Bellefonte, and a
member of the Muncy district com-
Imittee, was reader for the tableau
Officers elected for the year are
as follows
Mr. Gates, president Mr
Lewistown, and John A
{| Huntingdon, viee presidents; D.C
Bowman, Lewistown, treasurer: W
H. Passmore, Blate College, Scout
commissioner; 0. I. Phillips, Alex-
jandria;: 8. M. Short, Juniata; Ches-
iter Rupp, State College Rabbi
IMannin H. Bleich, Lewistown. Ray-
{mond Brooks, Bellefonte: F. H. Dut-
Hinger, Huntingdon,
Nationa] Oounci] representatives
{are Mr. Gates and Mr. Wald
Mr. Smith Jed singing at last
{week's dinner which was presided
{over by the Council president. The
idinner wag prepared and served by
| the Red Cross Canteen Corps of
| Bellefonte
Wald
Kunz,
.
! DRIVER DIES IN CRASH
| James Rohrbaugh, 32. of Mt. Woll,
York county, driver of an Alko Fx-
press lines truck, died Wednesday
night of last week, during the test
blackout in the flaming cab of his
ged down traffic at the start of the
blackout. His truck
burst into flames,
Mrs, Irene Rbine, wife of Harry
. Rhine, of Cleveland, and the sis
in the
flaming
was presented with the Sliver,
s Safety Feared for
One Injured
trapped in the ascinent
truct
A firemar
in
building
cue and
he wat
Lime
un
brought out
howe
climbed o
sil
The fire st
believe [4] to
overheated fur
flue. The
old, having
er thie
it a basement
wi
arted o 1
been cs
ace
Ave
14
bu
Woman, 20, Held
For Court Trial
[tems
B
Random
"or
SUA
1%
KERS
COrii
Defendant and 13-Year-Oid' ; 4
Accomplice Arrested
For Burglary
$500 }
Clinton
Shirk
being held
hie next
criminal court
iy before Alc
st Thursday
Bhe wi
tering 1)
enlerin
unaer
tern of
erin of
HA FH
and
apartment of
Chief Police
Lock Haven
13-year-old
accompanied
of la
’
hye
Tuesday
into u
fessed
st week wt
apartment
Mr Shirk
3
that
crew
cit 'K
locked ou
he 13-vear-oid
they opened th
bathroom window
Boy 58
Was
gave hersel!
the police « ing for i
She called and revealed her resi-
idence. At the hearing Thursday
reported
fn wi
-1
ui :
hief was jook
latth the case
Mri. Probst confirmed the
{that $10 was missing from her home
’ '
Lad
-
RAILROADER SUFY
Lioyd Irwin. 33 § Tyrone
laborer 1
house
R
8
Bine
“
HILDE and treats
4 ALT TLR 1%
WAL CISPETIS 5
coal in t
Ng Dex
Lew. log {
ceived first and
bio
of Jower abdom
thigh
th
we
en ana f
po.
FRANK FP. SALEME
Frank P. Salem father of Mr
Harry Delogier Bellefonte
Friday moming at the home
soni, Lewis Saleme Altoona. He
was a retired emplove of the P. R
R. Mr. Saleme was born in Itals
nearly 84 years ago. Ie was married
to Miss Marian Carr, who died
years ago. Five children survive
¢ Hone
of died
of &
10
Bible Prevents Injury
The War Department tells how a
Bible In the shirt pocket of Pvt
Franklin Rammell, Schuylkill Haven
saved him from serious injury when
shell and mortars dropped near “us
position on the 36th “Texas Dive
ision front in Italy. Rarnell wag
among those hit but the shrapnel
spent itself In the leaves of the
Bible with only fragment pene.
trating the last scratching his
chest
a
page
nest Gackenbach of State Coi- [DOWever, she denled any connection |
STILL AT 1
47 wear
CELERY
A
nb
¢
ve Yor or
through a stalk of
Gay we got 10 thinking
vast change whicl
anciing
Aa
that vegetable in recent years
WAS onty
when the
sh "
nn markets wa
two Inch
sidered
re
alk f
a
oriery
celery
Today
our Wa
the other
about the
oOme Oves
Time
you ever
white and
diameter Was
4
the
grees
hemical, or to
ALK
(Continged on Pape Five)
cm —— s— -
from the
the stalk
DOOLS,
KILLED ON WAY TO FUNERAL
wl
ow
Murs
Ohi
Charles Naw
enroute to the
Mis
f ¥
mother
killed last Thursday at
when she jumped or fel
skidding car of
police said they
of the Naugle car
Mrs
side of
her
were
flew
mers
Emma Beam
Ebensburg
husband
told
Akron
’ her
MM wa
from the
State
door
and
the
WY
A .
Naugle tumbled out against the
#2 track which was
PRSSINE
The Naugles were going to Bedford
2is0
mother
for
where Mrs. Naugle
for burial. Her
living with her
YEArs
the
Was
taker
had been
Bb Porm Adviesr |
A
"FARM QUESTION BOX °
ED W. MITCHELL
Sesarsl Beckie Station WT
{than one year?
A ~~That depends on
[rotate to new land each season, but
that is not always practical
Q~~How does sodium fluoride af-
mild poison and is the ingredient in
many of the commercial poisons
Ee
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3
i
way to work
theatre, 1
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BE Ei
gd
sideswiped a] Q-Is it advisable to grow to-| A—Yes unless the eyes have been
light truck, crashed Into a cliff and ;Mmatoes on the same ground more damaged or the Injury is suliclent
{to make them spoil in storage be-
i
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