The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County ‘A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week Jesse ADLER Looks at the NEWS | SECOND SECTION dhe Centre Democraf NEWS, FEATURES | se 33. BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1944, wy UMBER RE — ] Random I [tems ruined mas- allied bomber inesda Mursday L ol on a Of and tory leveq crawled ney mortals CHARLEY CHAPLIN'S arrest and| VOLUME ¢ subsequent release reminds me of “A guy who wishes half the ings (0g p d 2 000 iid about him were (rue! ermans enne J JAP authorities in the coastal area! * a Bd of China (where cork comes from), Iv ans in onastery to raise a half acre of popples from . which they extract dope. Probab wait Deat rom bombs to give their troops marfhuanas with TRAFFIC on a has been halted and the Nazi of- ficials suspect sabotage. Reason? Inmates That They Be Allowed To but it 1 : only runs backwards! Leave Doomed Building HENNY YOUNGHMAN writes! The bombing of the famed Monte [blasted un that his brother was just arrested— Cassino Monastery iu Italy by Allied [ont by way annt i Wi THE N. Y. Naval Air Station] But what has just come to| Naz’ Pillboxes Everywhere WAVES, inaugurating a Pin-Up con- [light is the harrowing experiences hey bol Don Gros test may have to give the idea.up— |toki vrvivor men! It always was hard (0 pin any-|0l death thing on a sailor! I'hey | penned that description of a co-respondent: | have decreed that each family must] ark tips. : ¢ i : cerry in Denmark. Naxi Commanders Spurned Plea of Frantic Well, the ferry runs okeh for siphoning a cigarette-lighter {planes is already a ter Tue sfems most of the entries are army [down out of the hill 2000 frantic civilian I'HEN there's the one about the! : ri i enen- mans |g \ in emplacoments dug- inside | gut mnder | arom told how tae Ce death - | the Monastery to await WAC who was promoted to be a sere . : ned at geant—but who turhed it down be- the allied bombardment alr ino cause she didn’t look good in stripe: ¢} Ferman MINATY hstaliation 300 so : | They said the Geraans set up ma- | The: THE Merchant Fun: the monastery gateloun signers Convention Tailors and De- chine at announces thatjand threatened to mow down any) new suits for men will be made with | who tried to escape in answe; expanding waistlines since the aver- | entreaties of Don Gregorio, the 7 howering age man spends of his time in|{year-old abbot, that the civilia arnime the a sitting position. Well-we can use | spared lian ret rr $ i pants for ammuni-{ Those tal tion! Among seve THE name of the designer ma themselve this suggestion, by the way, Raymond Twyeeffort, I'll give a bill for the best gag on that one! SENATOR AIKEN of predicts that after the war we'll have cooked steaks delivered to us through a quick-freeze process all they'll need will be warming up| to You'll have to order thaw, medium well-done to the 85° lext themselves mher tO save ~ad in their ral hy and dashing down the moun-| esc $5 tainside when the machine gun {| They could only conjectu fate of WMG Chili named Mario womer many a Germans nullified sre LU talan with eight told me with the Nazis how the Allied effort to * cel 1 I aren ped dren irae for “their emplacement thi to the W Vermont f other read Lhe still remember Mario After teria, two Truck Drops 40 Feet Over Cliff Mem. ave opt: Truck Only der white 1 pointed a machine : § orde back inside the Germans Spurned White Flag LH | lock ti serve em \nd or mittee a oomnn THE U. S. has printed currency to . be used in the invasion of Europe, Driver of Army including holes punched in the ear| Qi 7 3 n he. lobes, Sounds like (hey're she-sick. | Slightly Injured in Un DONALD LEE SMITH of Arkan- usual Accident sas City, Kan., is attending a sub| : Ar— school in Groton, Conn. So is Don-| Joseph Lou nard ald Lee Smith of Deer Valley Pa Cleveland, Ohio, driver of The Smith a Mighty Man is He {a nine-truck convoy, had a lous escape from death early Fri- DID you hear about the new {day morning on the Cresson road dier who failed to salute a general when hic vehicle slid over a bank! * » . Presidential Aid when he passed him. “Do you know ana dropped 40 feet to be caught by Gets New Wagon what these two stars mean?” thei, huge tree. The driver scrambled a - General demanded. “¥en” replied ,, the hill to find that the other| Appeal to FDR By Lock Hav- the rookie, “it means you 80t WO [truck drivers went not knowing r { boys in the service! his plight. Although he suffered en Youngsters Bring Happy Results Germar Li 4] — About 5 OY In MeChesky of { a truck in| miraou- ued om page Four 1 "Oi - fin on of I JUST realized why mine is such {a Slight bruise of the right hip, Mec- a low built model ear—it has ne!Chesky refused medical attention tires! | The convoy arriving in Bedford Four L 04 k Haven youngster I READ where a Marine was just|discovered that one of their mem. Charles Gottschall, Jr. 11, his bro- i ; - ther 10. and thelr two sisters, Doris decorated for killing ten Japs single. | Des was missing and back-tracked an Sigthr handed, Can you imagine what he'd . : jof the t unusual and inexplic~|0f their scrap-coliecting record but i if he'd used his twoi 0 I ever to neko thought they could do even better hp ! “ | Blair county {i they had a coaster wagon WITH So _inany new lems being wah. accident occurred about half-| Charles took their problem direct rationed that famous old slogan’ .o down the one-way highway, 22, to President Roosevelt with this let- shogld be changed to read: “Some-l,..¢ of Cresson members of the ter thing New Has Been Suvbiracted!” |. nvov h toppe coffee and ALBERT CLUNAN of Ohio, has sandwiches at an it Cresson and just patentéd a gadget, rubber-ispent about a hour wrapping sort of affair that'll per- before starting tht be able to help me mit dealers to sell eggs by the yard. mountain { “1 and my two sisters and my bre Too bad it can't be perfected now-—| McChesky was center of [ther are doing all we can to help win when there's need of stretching food the None of the other drive war, gathering scrap. We as far as possible ers saw his truck skif and disap- no wagon JUST because the 4th War Loan Pear down the embankment at 2:30) “woul 1 please the OPA Drive is over iz no reason to relax 8 mM Friday to help me locate a wagon {t's just another Lip on the Track A traller and r were parked that I would buy that didn't cost to Victor ind the race hasn't even (along the highway but off the road, too much. We just can’t begun! where the accident took place. The now army truck skidded due to the icy,! From the White House, the rutted highway the was channeled through various OPA guard rail, hittis to offices until it reached the Willlams- tear out four district office and finally came The truck took the Lock Haven war price and drop, right side up rationing board, which obtained a end buired its nose against a huge coaster wagon Was presented to tree. The tree was the only object the youngsters after # had been to keep the truck from catapulting displayed at ration headquarters for man was taken to Altoona hospital to few day where it was reported he suffered no Or burn : cr — INJURED IN FALL Mrs. Annie Tripp, 78, Shintown, Clinton county, stumbled on the back porch of her home Thursday, fell six feet to the ground and broke her right hip and shoulder, She was taken .to the Lock Haven Privale Hospital for treatment. Her condi- tion was reported ns good. 1 | 4 Me a) ad d ‘or and ww You are awfully busy I won't take up much of I have a problem I thought your time relaxing Cresson n You down the mig convoy the the have d yo ask strong tract give il 1 witer crashed into OVERCOME BY SMOKE Roy Kounsman, of Altoona, wa unconscious when firemen gained éntrance to his room Friday night and found the mattress of his bed in flames. The flaming mattress was thrown out the window and Koons- g it bard enough 30 to and the Tuard x port to 40-1oot front i It of another 25 8 below, a creek that into the reservoir near there. State police said the driver could gone to sleep nor could any other drivers because of the time that had elapsed ince they left the restaurant Member of the convoy were a* a loss to ac. they mi the the foot the cliff 30 feed Korthous Student Honored at Wilson Mi Lucy Briel, Karthaus, has been cited for academic achievement at Wilson College during the first semester of the current college Year Miss Briel is among the {members of the freshman cla have been named to the honor by Dean Mary B. McElwain. At son such citation js not only a rec- ognition of high scholastic rank but { It also entitles 5 student to the Prive lege of assuming responsibility for her own class attendance Miss Briel was graduated from the Cooper Township High School She was both president and wvaledictor- ian of her class, She Is the daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. James J. Briel feet into wevinns not have of the brief p count seeing accident how wil twenty who list 1. §) ~ Buy Bonds for future needs. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES (By J. THOMAS MITCHELL) OF THE LIVES OF THE MEMBERS OF THE BAR OF CENTRE COUNTY JOHN BLANCHARD Born 1862 in Bellefonte He wis the eldest son of Evan M Blanchard and a grandson of John Blanchard, the elder. He was edu-| cated at the Bellefonte Academy, Haverford College, and the law school of the University of Pennayl- vania. Admitted to the Bar in 1887, he joined in a partnership with his father, in a firm known as “E. M. & | J. Blanchard.” | The Blanchard firms represented | Born | the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. and | its allied interests, since the first admitted to our Bar in 1845. He practiced for a few years with a desk in his preceptor’s office and was elected to the legislature in 1854. His father, George Boal, was one of our associate judges at the time of his son's admittance. At the end of his term in the General Assembly, David retired from active practice Music Section to Meet Here March | Opera will again be the subject of study at the monthly meeting of ‘« one |e Music Department of the Belle- in order to manage his (41heF"s 8 ionte' Woman's Club, whieh wil be {held at the home of Mrs. Mahlon ANDREW BOGGS | Robb on East Curtin street, Wednes- 773 in Cumberland County day, March 1 at 8 o'clock, He was a son of John Boggs, sher- | Musicians who will present selec. ff of Cumberland county, who was tons from the various operas will be a brother-in-law of Col. James Dun. Mrs. Louls Schad, violinist; Ernest lop. He came with his family to|Martin, ‘cellist; Mrs. Musser Gettig, Buffalo Run Valley in 1795, and was Planist; Mrs, Ernest Martin and the first person buried in Bellefonte, Miss Jane Rumberger, sopranos, and in the lot later owned by Judge Dan. Jack Yeager, tenor, the ie! Rhoads. Andrew was admitted to the Bar/Miss Betty Jane Lockington and first in Mifflin county, where he Mrs. Michael Kalzen. represented the Federal Covern- — lc A——— ment In an attempt to prosecute BEQUEST TO HOSPITAL Thomas MceCalmont, of Nittany Val. ley, under the “Alien & Sedition Act” In 1799. This falled to produce results, since the neighbors helped to hide the alleged “seditionist.” Boggs was readmitted In Belle fonte in 1004, but remained for a few years in practice, since he re- tired to conduct a mercantile busi- ness In 1808, Later he moved to Bpringtield, Olzio, and died Shere 8 (To be continued) to find state police investigating one! May, 12, and Shirley, 9, were proud *" Co-hostesses with Mrs, Robb are | ——— Introd uced . - . | New Garden Secd Are Being [SENATOR IAL] CONGRE SSIONAL — A gr \ ’; J 4 Baldwi the World W ve makes his prediction { dream sald thre d of the first would He th at pe | be ov 1918 t hov even | war would be work reqict- would IACY aly It war by Man Found Dead from Rifle Shot Body Discovered hy in Shrubbery Sewage Plant of Jack Elmer Weichel Mr. and Mrs. Prank Wel. of Hollidaysburg, was found shrubbery near the sewage disposal plant about 11:30 o'clock (Bunday night with « billet throught {his heart and a 30-30 rifle at his’ side. Discovery of the body was made’ by his Frank State air « ner Daniel ge that the present New Air Pick-up Effective Monday Will Provide Overnight Ser- viee to All Parts of County Brother Near New Ar Pick. sre expted tO local alr mail and adr vice will go into effect here on Mon- dag, February 28 Boginndug on tha dale. Lhe eves ning fight will be one hour Inter at 5:36 The moming rnd mid-day flights will react t 9:24 10 2:10 pm EE The ip schedules which MIIrOVe mprove boty 2, son of chel. of the materially J eXDIeSs MT ” 0 ' brother, here 8 ounty Cor- Replogle sald one cart Ti police and 4 18 [sy " had misfired, the second dis- the He 11 o'cl dressed tant deat! morning atm, nd he * . nd, he wa mail patror 4 ”n ¥ 3 When he be mace with and Un. patsbureh whic for him night and causing in une Sunday When best clothes brother ing jeft } Tg . aeacune fe LL. 4 inh ar did not retum . cle started out to look Members of hi brothers and Pa Donna rank servis family include ster Ruth Je Donald these Clara and | to make Pitt oon o incoming tu 1 fer Qispats hed point Overseas Soldier Puts Birthday of Family In Verse Gas The postmaste patrons have learned dispatched on the nu other points Pick-up route can, receive an answer th the afternoon flight. The new effective February 28, will vide more time for the recipient reply and dispate tter {1 ich a ¢ aiong many Cas The following poem was written ¢ same day by 8gt. George Walker, whose home is in Milesburg. but is now over- sens. The month of Pebraary is the sirthpiace of his fal three bro. thers and a brother-in-law Is February i hed ule pro- to swerin ‘ ® H n an or 0 Ie as -~ Farm Loan Group In Annual Meeting a gooxl one to remember 1 the Walker clan a good one to remember the stork soared o'er calendar His birthday Jim A the bombs to render he Centre County Loan Association held | annual meeting in the Court House dn Bellefonte, Monday of last week {with a number of local farmer: attendance Speakers were: Dr. Miles H. Cub- bona, of the Soil Conservation office Kyle Alexander, of the Farm Se- curity office; William Rishel chair iman of the War Board Committee; William J. Tucker, supervisor of Vo-Ag Education in Centre and Clearfield counties; Ralph C. Blaney, county agent; Harry A. Corman register and director of the Froduc- ition Credit Association; Robert M —- | Ziegler, assistant secretary-treasur- NET $115.55 FOR PARALYSIS er of the Production Credit Asso. FUND IN MILESBURG AREA ciation; and Colonel Dobbins, repre. | isentative of the Federal Land Bank The campaign for the National of Baltimore Foundation for Infantile Paralysis] ward ©. Krape of Bellefonte, R in Milesburg and vicinity received ny 2 and Morris Burkholder, of {$115.55, it ls reported by Mrs. Mal- Centhe Hall, were re-elected to serve jeokm Lo. Wetzler, Br., chalrman of for anothér three-year term as e ve. i Contributions made by districts! of the association |: Meany oh Mehools, The board of directors met Im- i ’ Ph 3 ‘imediately after the meeting and re- | Pleasant View, $6.30: Central City organized for the year 1044. Ward consolidated schools, includ Cur«{& " Krane lected dent of tin and Wingate, $43.65; Milesburg|yo ~ otation: ¢ pre 3 " ' the association; Gilbert ©, Waite, of Woman's Club, $5; other gifts, $14. |p. "satiida, vice president, and Won Seles thnks teaehites and Robert L. Akers, secretary-treasur- Who comtributed bh the campaign. The Centre County National Farm TYRONE MAN INJURED : The condition of Harry E. Piper, National Farm and to relate ts regular February the the first on wa birthday th Merwyn was enchore, And February date 10 goOTP | Like Washington | 22nd My father had a birthda: And on the 23rd again A birthday for my Wynn On the 26th Jack's bomb did fall 80 happy birthday, one and all the next to take in 15th was his | on February too; brother 42 rity | Old Spruce Creek Inn Had ‘1,000’ Rooms If Folklore Is Believed Q NAIL ON HEAD WW i ked the oon nent Bellefont “or ’ 4d wre CITE, t pont miki thing fy Story of Stranger Who Suggested Giant Sleep- <r ing Hap to Prevent Theft; Landlord Changed Rooms Each Night faculty for Col. H an editor of the publish- ng review inn that once The in tribu- nooa Creek - Was oor Dos the Spruce Creek area from memory ranap aay the rents old Inn at my bovhood day I heard my grandparents said as the biggest any kind between Phil- Pittsburgh Continental h and Allegheny Pittsburgh inside be fetched a you could nel In the ana nid ost: of folklore ha old story OOUrse w iy wns as the teller Some went as Lhousa I far as to KA) naa” one nag hundred ding the stalls in "XARRerating. in people ala At ap- APRETree: with their tory was of room the com- sleeping where iro woodsmen, tramps, wander. emigrants slept, for cost of t} cheapest room One - we WAS sal0 ¥ each i quilt or hap sleeper College Water Case Before PUC Authority Holds Courts Have ® Jurisdiction in Water Rate Dispute The Public Utilits ipheid once before by the State Superior Court—was called upon last We 0 again decide whether it & jurisdiction gver rates charged OT onda by municipal authorities for outside of political sub-division: which created the agencies The right of the PUC to regulate i rates was opposed last Tuesday he State College Borough At a hearing 4 amendment tv law n H. Osman and six others li nitside State College ceiving water ith rity bor service from ciaim they are being and unreasonable are not uniform with * charged within the municipal lant Anjust which is charging two rates—some Ret serviors William W. Litke complainants, told the Commis- he appealed for a decision ling for PUC regulation of rates rd W. Willard, thority, sald It was legislative the 183 amendment i jurisdiction of rates charged customers outside municipal limits in the hands of the Courts of Common Pleas Rep. Ellwood J. Turner Who sald he Was appearing as for the Pennsylvania Authorities Association that “there vas never any on the part of the agen- escape from regulation but counsel for counsel for Boe the rep. resentative Municipal serted attempt cies to added Jurisdiction of remain in the courts Prior to the passage of the 1943 amendment to the municipal auth- ority code, the attorney general and the state superior court had ruled that the commission had jurisdiction over rates charged by authorities for service outside of limits of pol- itical subsdivisions which ineorpor- ated them Willard and Tumer both con- that the new amendment however, strips the PUC of any au- thority it once held over the regu- lation of such rates, A decision will be handed down late: Complaints charged a minimum rate of $4 for 10000 gallons of water Is charged outside the borough while such rates should tended in 83 “Sald authority,” the compiala members of the boari of directors SOntinued, “grants free service to (certain persons and individuals re- (siding outside of the borough limite {while charging the minimum rate of other consumers.” | Asserting it was the intent of the legislature In approving the amend- iment to place jurisdiction of out hands of the ture wanted the Public Utility Com- | it {mission to have jurisdiction {would have written it in the law.’ “The legislature has ‘ISPare service the (R-Dela.).’ the rate for persons in the borough |It bears the name {James Morris MeCliment, Jr + | Sergeant A NOrse “51 blanket diligence quently stolen seated In lobby, wit} ide of Despite the great these One n barroom i one jeg COyer were fre. IDL a 5 chair in tilted over Anger the the the rheard landlord the loss Going couple the much will how to you gis end this thieving You're the gentleman believe’ queried the Ye 00 al il ou Give a ODD AND CURIOUS Cough Does It ne case whers may leave the W {ime Inflationary Native Richard BSchilie Towa relates th I r in Hn west Pacific i an {ising sidelight® An American nol- {der at Tulagi carved a pipe in his time, sold it a native ert mb xoldt fre & ¢ neErernan- ®t to [to a second American bought it—for 875 and who thinks he haz a rare Meee of 1 of win ii $ ive hard Unhwrried Repe ntance P / Tek ome Dack ter returning th tained 20 planation that that worried when noe other thes JG been aime he need Makes 2 Haul to Raleigh them then office. He the last The ca anid Hh all J CHILD SERIOUSLY BURNED A litt) ‘ toona tot will celebrate Al- Ing with matche of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph his bedroom Sunday taking his afternoon nap when SCTCAIS Pposeiil hie sent piercing n older broe- ther dashing up the stairs 10 his ald The youngster's clothin alread: flames The youth unable to extingidsh the flame 0 he clasped brother his arms and ran down the steps to their mother, She threw water over the child's flaming clothing. At the hospital dispensary it was discovered he had suffered first and second de- igree bums of the right leg and ab- |domen and he was admitted to the children’s ward of the hospital | oT WA in in 17-year-old was the little - a Death of Soldier's Wife Mrs. Dorothy Davis McCliment, 18 wife of Staff Sergeant James Mce- Climent, gave birth to a baby son on | Pebruary 2. at a hospital in Texas and died a few minutes later. The | baby was born the day {father's birthday and is doing well after his his father, StafY McCliment and his late wife had been married eclighteen months, She wag the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Davis, whose home state is Texas. Staff Sergeant Mc. Climent is a son of Mr. and Mrs Robert McCliment, of Hawk Run. He has been in the army over two years of SERVES 35 YEARS for jcor $15. The shrewd native displayed it|al jeast who gladly {for the removal of your choloe gar HOW'S YOUR GARBAGE” We i at ihe gar- CONG NEW ET. rk f be. 1 rse hans fy bage You vite, which Bh Tide the arma a defini AR vill & . $i2 and possbly $46 a Year and youll do everything but { out on the curb and dump vourse] | bage owned family old-fashion the times eC CiPDRLY average Maybe we're ut of step with still think Council's set-up smells as outrageonsly which now lies uncoll of home 1 a prop is garbage SOY bg wr COMPLAINT: 1 5 10 serve notice on Whoeve it i Bellefonts re i bility is to take ¢, that prac the day night 1 the North Ward are hea ompaniment of irritating click we DoT radio inter- any Ume ol Programs rd to the ac- fere: radin v is : or regular steady Backgroun minds like which would caused by a nder gaso- » engine. If the borough's radio officials have yuble in sort. this particular click from the of other ade hisse scratch alk which afflict this villa air waves well be glad to offer our services Maybe if each one of you picks out a certain noise which disturbs you i complains ghout it Jond enoug! long enough Council will get out of jow-gear and rea ao me a a8 1M 5 8 noise One «Cy myriac buzze es } - thing PEACE NOW: See where the Dies SJommitiee ha pronounced the Peace Now Move ment as “clearly seditious’ spokesman for the commitiee unfavorable newspaper publicity was responsible for the fact that the movement had so few (about 2000) a ag FBI i= said to have been keeping a close watch on the organization ever since it began op- erations. Dr. George Hartmann, for- mer Penn State faculty member who is acting chairman of the move. ment, attempted to gain followers in Centre county through newspaper advertising, but from what we can learn his experiment locally didn® meet any oustanding succes: LOST & FOUND DEPT. County Auditor James R. Hughes better known as “Mr. James” of the Academy, Jost his wallet containing $20 and valuable papers early last week. He searched his clothing and his rooms, and visited all the stores {he had been in. but couldn't find [the missing wallet. A his woes to Oowrt House janitor Harry Williams, of Scotia. “What's (that bulge In your cont?” Williams asked, A search of the coat revealed the wallet down mit a a £80 (Continued on page Four) i
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