Jesse ADLER | Looks at the NEWS JAN MURRAY wonders whether The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week SECOND SECTION dhe Centre Democrat =) Random | NEWS, FEATURES VOLUME 63. you've heard about the Naxi para- chuter who wanted to be home In Berlin for Easter—so he joined the Russion Army. THE ARMY K-8 has decreed that 18 different bueddls of dogs are okeh | for army service. Setters and 7 other | breeds are listed 4F--because the Army can't break them of the habit of chasing birds. | MY brother-in-law’s 4F Same reason -— excepting type of birds he chases. THAT Russian story about En- | gland wanting to make a separate | peace with Germany was about as] plausible as a guy wanting to divorce | the the for for his wife so his best friend could |geath and her 7Tl-year-old brother home marry her { BEFORE an auto owner could answer a summons for parking over- | time in New York he was shipped | overseas by the army. Notified po- | lice: “There's a slight bit of incon- | venience involved, making it im- BELLEFONTE, PA. THUR SDAY, JANUARY 27, 1944. [tems NUMBER 4. Aged Altoona Woman ls Found Beaten To Death; Brother Held As Slayer a Mrs. Ada Grimes, 81, Retired School Teacher, Is Victim of Brutal Murder; Chair Used in Killing Woman An Bl-year-old woman beaten to held on suspicion of her murder, is Blair County's latest crime sensa- tion. The victim is Miss Ada Grimes who resides with her brother, John Charles Grimes, at 1023 Seventh ave nue, Altoona The aged woman's battered body it 1:30 p. m. in the bedroom of her Death was caused by severe head and chest injuries It was learned that a chair had been used in killing the woman The murder came to light through the strange actions of the brother, John Grimes Sometime between noon and 12:30 Saturday, Grimes possible for me to be law-abiding." | Vas found shortly after noon Satur- called at the door of a neighbor and Result: The police as well as the culprit are all at sea! A MAID walked into The Miami | police headquarters and said that) eight months previous she had stol- | en a $3,500 ring from her employer | and her conscience bothered her. | After investigation it was discovered | that the ring was never missed. Now | the maid's conscience is REALLY | bothering her. COL. ROMULO, the last men to] leave Bataan before its surrendeér | says there's a Philippine proverb to | prove that the greater a person be- | comes the more humble he is. Amer- | ican equivalent to “The taller alond Mrs. H. E. Stover, of Lewisburg. the floor with blood everywhere you | blade of grass grows, the lower it bends.” A STORE in Boston advertised a sale of girdles. So great was the mob the reserves had to be called out to handle the crowd. In fact, | one executive explained, it was so crowded the 2-way girdles only streached one way. SCREEN ACTRESS Ann Sheri- dan visited the local income tax office in Hollywood--but left in a rage. Seems she was told to go home and fill out her form. THE Peunsylvania Railroad has a sign in ‘adl its trains saying “"Amer- | jcans Will Understand and goes on to explain that because no new cars will be built. and travel is so great, iM they have to stand they'll | understand. Well, the idea is fine, | but In the five cars we saw some | wag took off the “under” part so) that now it read: “For the duration | Americans will Stand,” etc. i BUT no matter which way the | wind blows, it will be the Allied blows whichll win thewar. E. B. Terhune says that Joe Stal- | Pullman named after him. THE OPA fined a New York deli- catessen man $00, for charging over celling prices for a pound of bol- he od Moral: When youre full of y--keep quiet about it YANK aviators, harrassed by mice iu Britain and unable to get G. 1 traps, solve their problem by bal- acing a piece of cheese on a ruler projecting from a table. Underneath is a bucket of water. And you know (so does Hitler) what happens to a drowning rat! IT IS reported Henry J. Kaiser feeds nuts, boits and scrap metal to Sos: Guess he thinks they'll lay HOORAY lor the 4th-—Help it go | over with a Bang by buying a Bond! STRIKES GIRL, GOES TO JAIL Accused of striking a 15-year-old neighbor girl in an argument over the closing of a transom, and later refusing to pay the costs in an as- sault and battery action brought by the girl's mother, Mrs. Jean Moore, 37, Jersey Shore, was committed to the Lycoming county jail for 20 days by Justice of the Peace E. Q. Crane, Jersey Shore, Friday. ! ! {his draft call { school, Millheim report consisted of drawings, photo- | at the brother's and sister's res- The time of death has been day idence. | placed at approximately 9:30 a. m. call his doctor at the hospital Saturday. The body was discovered Youth Killed In Highway Accident 'Vietim Was Son of Former Principal Loek Haven High School Donald Stover, 18, son of Prof. was killed last Wednesday evening lin a highway accident between Sun- | bury and Shamokin when a coal truck he was driving hit a pole and overturned. The young man, a graduate of the Lewisburg High School, was working temporarily while awaiting His father was for- merly principal of the Lock Haven High School and his mother was the former Miss Elva Kyler of Lock Haven Surviving are also two Funeral services were held Sat- urday at 10 a. m. in Sunbury and the body was brought to Lock Ha- ven for interment in the Dunns- | town cemetery East Penns Valley Awarded 2nd Place The East Penns Valley Chapter of the Future Farmers of America has Just been awarded second place in and the Departments of Agricultur- al Engineering and Rural Education of Penn State College The prize of $25 In and Stamps provided by the as- sociation, was awarded to the local chapter on the merits of a report submitted by its members on their individual and group activities in various phase rural electrifica- tion Prepared under direction of Ray Bright, supervisor of vocational agriculture in the East Penns Valley the prize-winning of the graphs and descriptions of different types electric farm equipment projects This is the year that the sored such a contest among FAA Chapters, and an anncuncement for 1944 activities is expected soon —— of weond FIRE DAMAGE 57.000 Fire caused by an overturned oil stove caused damage estimated age Plant, near Bloomsburg. The stove exploded when it fell from a small board, as two men were re. moving it from the building. The plant was just being completed. History J. Thomas Mitchell Writes Of Bar 1804-1994; Term of John Gray Love | In 1809 Thomas J. Sexton and few years of died In 1900. Lichten- sisters, | {Anna Jane and Marjorie, at home. : th : “Coroner War Bonds | consecutive | association has spon- | at $7.000 to the Columbia Locker Stor- | Spent 14 years in a business in Miss-|thaler confined his practice to Pbil- Issippl, and then returned to Belle- ipsburg and its surroundings, and fente. There were four admittances | during the last years of his life Ae- in the following year, those of W. voted his attention to the Jnsurance Harrison Walker, J. Kennedy John- | business. He died in 1918. ston, Willlam D. Crosby and James | The new century opened with a A. B. Miller. X | carefully planned celebration for 1896 Walker formed a partner- the centennal of our county's exist. David P. Fortney, which | ence. General Beaver acted as head for wiih years, since when | of the committee In charge of this had own offices in Belle- | matter, and it was carried throt spent a few iwith much eclat, AL that time gE. fh gs i : it Bed “3 4; asked if he could use the phone, saying he was sick and wanted to The man seemed to be in bad shape and {it was thought he might collapse. | Grimes, holding a dollar bill his hand, began to talk and is quot- — TURN IN USED FATS -— in| ed as saying: “I've needed attention | long ago. I've got to get out of that joint where I live. There are terri- {ble people in that house. They talk- ‘ed me into living there but I've got to get out. The other night there was a burglary there. They came in and robbed all of us. One was thurt, two were killed and there is still one body laying down there on look.” door to the Grimes couple sald that Thursday night about 10 p. m. she { heard a terrible noise as though {someone were banging her house | She went out to inVestigate but see- ting nothing, returned She was | (Continued on Pepe Siz) Worker Fatally Injured In Fall Tumbled Forty Feet Top of Ventilating Shaft i From Hudson, 22 Walter le - OF nesday afternoon while working in the Pennsylvania Edison company power plant at Williamsburg Hudson, an employe of the Burns and Roe company, was helping to install fumaces and ventilators at the plant. He tumbled 40 feet from {& contest sponsored by the Betiest. he top of a ventilating shaft to his vania Electric Association, in ¢o- after making a thorough investiga tion, ordered the remaing tumed over to the Bechiel funeral home Hudson was born January 21, 1820 He had been employed by the Burns and Roe company al various per- liods during the past five years. He lis survived by his wife and two chil. {dren residing in Glétilyn BECOMES ILL AT SCRANTON C. E. Walt, of Lock Haven, became {ill while serving as a jurior at Scran- iton last week and underwent an emergency operation for appendici- tis in a Scranton Hospital. His (son, George Walt, is at his father’s | bedside ! ODD AND CURIOUS A Sure Thing. | The Phoenix, Ariz, police depart- ment is offering a bargain in bonds | “Buy a $25 one and they'll tear up your parking ticket.” | | Surrender, When Don Finch falled to appear in court at San Pedro, Calif, on an illegal parking charge, police got a bench warrant and wrote that if he didn't come in within five days, they'd come and get him. Finch re- i Hd ff : g g i : if £8 I be | 3 : 3 it ~ Borden day Pek 4 i Mrs. J. D. Shadle, who lives next | Gilenlyn, ! Va. was instantly killed last Wed-| ruasy Of las were tose of November was summoned and. pn. onber the salvage head pointed Ralph Dale and Mrs. John Covey Two Injured E Rockview Prison When iii: Tire on Car Blows Out "= "> WHY WORRY g Bell n Route to YO elon who are ge removal may he following news WerE UDGCr ar ateling The Ge yor of a Victims Admitted to Altoona Hospital After rubbish Accident West of Duncansville; Dri- ver Escapes Injury Aliquippa wepital suffering left forearm {of the elbow ' David Lee, | Aliquippa, was als [hospital Sunday 1 } wa Lhe the and a disloc 35, of 206 Todd str ) admitted a { u conaiticn War shyt Bil | nounced that the of both admitted Suffers Fractured Skull in Accident Woolrich Man Seriously jured When His Motor- cvele Skids In- Lawrence Best, 41, of Woolrich, was admitted to Lock Haven Hospital last Thursday night for treatment for a skull fracture, sus- tained shortly before 8 o'clock when his motorcycle skidded and tumed over at the intersection of Route 220 and the Woolrich road Mr. Best's injuries are apparently of & serious nature cover consciousness until] the next day. hospital attendants reporied He is an employe of the Woolrich Woolen Mills ie ‘County Scrap Paper Quota Is Doubled Collections of scrap paper in Cen | tre County must be doubled at once ‘0 ald In Keeping Pennsylvania's {paper mills operating full time on {war orders, R. 1 Kennard of State { College, chairman for the CeQlre County Salvage Committee announ- {ced this week. Por this reason col- | flection goals for January and Peb- havg been sel (wice as | out In order to reach this goal, more thorough waste paper collections must be made, it was sald. By waste paper is meant not only newspapers and magazines, bul cartons, wrap- {ping paper, bags, and waste-basket | paper i Reports have come (0 salvage of. | ficials that waste paper—paper vit- 1ally needed for war purposes-—is ‘being burned. All Centre County | residents should be careful to see {that all paper salvage is saved for the periodic collection drives, as fall- ure to collect enough waste paper may be a contributing factor to a {delay of the coming invasion of { Europe, salvage officials pointed out | The shipment of vitally needed {supplies from the United States to {the invasion forces has been delayed by the inability of the paperboard mills to supply the Army with a mil- lion containers which are long over (due, according to reports from i abroad. | Therefore it is essential that all | the Waste paper in Centre County is {collected as soon as possible and {sold to waste material dealers, Mr | Kennard concluded ] Reed Re-Elected Labor Union Head Orvis W. Reed, of Local No, 92, Bellefonte, was re-elected president 3 i : : J | {Union for 1044 at a recent organiza- tion meeting of that group, it was announced this week Other officers elected, all of them {trom Bellefonte, are as follows: | Claude Poorman, He did not re-| fa of the Centre County Central Labor Loca) 19981, vice president; George Kellerman, Local 5 good and that they were for observation Mrs, Ella Hughey treet, Aliquippa the dispensary ghe Coal Stripper Is Accident Victim Injured at Osceola Stripping By Fall of Frozen Earth of 700 Davis examined ¢ nd 1 J0UnNG Wa 4“ Wis at ¢ { Was numerou and had received body bruise John Robinson driver, was not r tire blew out and the the highway to the reened into a deep ditch over several time Uppery at the time ¢ car to skid thie i" iv of Alquippa The ar Croas- 1 Lets 4 eis Ang turning ed SiGe Wihik sl10ve) the F ping wi clhgaged In greasing a steam Thursday morning “unan ang Green coal near I Pint injured SLO plece frozen nn the side of the canyon and struck him on the back, injuring his hip, right eg, and possibly the pelvis Fellow workers placodt the injured man on a pick-up truck and hauled {him into Osceola Mills where they jwere met by the Hope ambulance land taken to the Philipsburg State { Hospital, He was suffering greatls iat the time, from shock | Physicians stated would be takén to of Lhe Injuries Music Club to Meet at Gettig Residence of the The highway gd caused U way last on rip- 21 “i as the Ure gave Osceoin, lay Bus Loses Wheel Near Philipsburg No when a arge or of dirt came dow Bis One Hurt But 50 Girls Compelled to Walk to Work that x-ra) learn the extent mormiag waen I a bus at Troy & bus Ulted few feet on i : The Dus Was packed with m ; 50 girls who work in the Phil- ipsburg clothing factories when the ! front wheel flew off tu us was coming from Hawk Run two Philipsburg Girls, not knowing what was STOLE, screamed and were frightens led until they Were reassured by the ldriver, Merrel Voyzey. | The accident happened near the Operas.” Papers will be read by Miss {| Troy Tavern about a mile and a half Mary Porbes, Miss Betty Jane Lock. | [rom Philipsburg, at 6:30 o'clock ington and Miss Kathryn Burket | Thursday morning | Records to illustrate the discussions | The girls walked ‘will Include Lily Pons, Gladys | he way to work |Bwnrthoutl, Lawritz Melchoir, Kir] ECS «ns Ea Ti isten Plagstad, Giovanni Martinelli | pe Iori election, oy Verdi, Health Club To Discuss Food Fads “Alda” "Rigaletto,.: Wagner, “Tris- tan and Isolde”: Thomas, “Mignon and Mozart, “Magic Piute.” Fads, fallacies and superstition: Mrs. Lenore M. Martin is program | onout foods will be exposed at the next Health for Victory meeting to be heid Feb, 3 at 7:30 m., at the chairman for Februar asta o— Bellefonte High School auditorium it wag announced today by Mis Altoonan Indicted For Draft Violation Janet Soisson, home economist for the West Penn Power Co | James A. McMullen. of Altoona aye are going to discus: {was one of the 15 men in this state OlGtime beliefs that indicted last week by a federal MANY people from eating {grand jury at Lewisbugg on charges '00ds that are essential lof violating the selective service act. health Miss Solsson Eight other men, earlier in the | “AlN, we are going to point out how day, had been sentenced to a federal {penitentiary for varying terms after {their conviction on charges of selec tive service law violations. Each ex- jeept one got two and a half years | though they pleaded innocent. They had walved trial by jury. All were | charged with failure to report for | induction except the man who got three yehraifor refusing ‘to report to a work camp ! A MILLHEIM BANK IN ORGANIZATION MEETING han The monthly | Bellefonte Music Club will be held |, ‘ad the home of Mrs. Musser W iCOettig. East Bishop street, at 8 p ednesday, February 2. Co-host- with Mrs. Getty “ill be Mrz welling meeting as I~ The subject of study will be Favorite Selections From Favorite ’ t balance of [#40] i Pp | a jot of prevent certain to good +411 Sul of food.” As an exampie the amist referred 0 the “milk sours whenever cracks.” This belief, the explained could lead a housewife to throw, away all the milk she had in a re- frigerator if she subscribed to this ancient superstitition Miss Solsson also pointed out that at the next Health for Victory nu- trition meeting she would explode certain false rumors about present- | day food conditions in America “One is the rumor that we have! large surpluses of food and there is A no need to ractice wartime food al Bank and Trust Company, held SOBIOY. he is completely false, recently at the banking house In “ balan | Millheim, all directors and officers *0d the fact Is that only if we| civilians practice strict food econ- | were re-elected for another year | bers _ {omy will there be enough to satisfy | Mam of the bond. of direc {our food needs for good nutrition.” which home econ- idea that thunder At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Farmers Nation. | | really need all the food we are) i {man explained. | these same false theories cause waste | Uniontown, George Serilla interrup- — - - BOY BADLY INJURED Elwin Summitt the Bayre 4 Mattocks, 4 Tr i Granville in BET VOW Packer wn at Robert He was of hay which his father, Edwin Mat socks, was removis from fell on him, fracturing his and inf a skull Dies After Car Breaks His Leg Houtzdale Man Fatally jured on Way Home From Work injured wi WEATHER Work ig atl y rs AN In- As a result of ox ing from a broken } an accident, Edw: year-old Houtzdale died Saturday State hospital wnplicat Lpiacall wt al Centre County OC Sheckler, of Milesburg gated the death § death was caused bolism-- blood heart or brain oroner Unda) the celling of = . Wing weather gr nt i 10 bring th {rigerator before they Opening door of . re that this : the pclure Ire The ack nesday alternoon of Houtzdale his way stepped from ¢ Vokin, topped to Jet hb home As the truck pulled thie viciim started Ww cross the road whe: {he was struck by a car coming th opposite direcliol £ w ir i ! en by John Higgins dale Aer! 01 Neighborhood discocery earlier on a few bones AMAZEMENT £h 19 ay, ON “wna ’ We Car was driv 45, of Houtz- u 0 ask Lhe clecloraile UW another p WEEK'S GAG: y Friend Weaver, the painter remarking about the lack of clean- liness on the part of a local man declared: “Why he ought 10 be ar rested for fragrancy!™ WARMING UP: . % ” AD0C OIRO, 4 Coroner Sheckier stated that 1 driver testified that the truck ob- | {scured his view of Bolton and that ‘when he saw him he applied his breakes and hit a patch of ice and slid“ into the man. Bolton suffered a fractured leg. The coroner stated (that no inquest would be held. Smeltzer Re-Elected President of Bank ae } | aM Jin ing up nicely for vement. Walter broa i incompli- about the George W. Hart { Penn State his colutnn Peace up of many x Lhe Wir Now his Peace M wchell Suncay night me ary wo Dn ting up, of which , formerly faculty, i Monday, Al annus ing the Parmer: Bellelonut W I y : i Neel ¢ dank he $ chairmal It Winchell ; said mace , nea eGliesga Hwa re-ejecled the resident Other Vear president 4 i M. Smith M. Bottord V Matter: re-elected Mr. § Edwin F Sinle H "~ : OLE Harry rd L«80-1100. Were a pPro- Willis wed SOME ‘ ang Has and cashier. Directors to Mr. Smeltzer, Mr. Bottor{ A. D. Smeitzer and Lewis R. Lenhart AM ——— PRISONER ATTEMPTS ESCAPE Granted a respite from his term in Western Penitentiary to attend funeral services for a brother near ar " dition : PUZZLED: This department wrong, occasionally : some of the time we're were Gar- Ho anc Alt still trying : whether Miss Grace : Wetzler's at Milesburg kind or nasty ther she offered to of GREETING: knit nm rites for ORES ted the 8 quarter hour Thursday with an ill-timed break for liberty. Deputy Sheriff George | Zemo pursued the prisoner 200 yards and brought him down with a flying tackie. The prisoner did not remain for the rest of the services. The brother, John Serilla. was killed in an accident in an Idaho zine mine —————— BUTTERFLY APPEARS, Winter appears to be over in East Towanda. Edward White, of Towan. da. who has been doing some bulld- greeting is in the ! of a one- ing there, found caterpillars crawl page newspaper, which he distrib ing along on the top of the ground, uted at New Years time to Iriends and states that a butterfly was seen and relatives. Because he chronicles flying about (Continued on Pape Sta) EER a IN mes HISTORY OF SCOTIA By Harry M. Williams item } very early which New Year it Anyhow the January “The Daly Greeting New Year greeting i Jay Daly and family ton, D. C. Is worthy of menti Mr Daly, a writer of national reputs tion, is a brother of Frank Daly West Bishop street, Bellefonte vert from ue of figured 1. 1944 is interesting John Washing - ol "1 of His orm CR - = = SET EXECUTION DATE Governor Edward Martin on Sat- urday set the week of March 10 for the execution at Rockview peniten- tiary of Michael Musto, Altoona, i! fi ; i : i Fil 2 4 £39 : f ii : 2 g g 44 i H 5 i! i g At the Health for! “Even though most of our lend- jease food is going to England and Russia, this amount of food is only total supply,” : H F i 3 : : if ] i 3 5 3 E : Fes fall oF San i : i | Ld : g i 32 il Harry M. Williams continues his) ithe day's production would have shovel in poor stock and others In good stock 50 a8 10 remove worthless stock and 1 ; : HHH : g i HA We Six
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