: . Jesse | ADLER ;) Looks at s the NEWS ————— FIELD MARSHALL SUGIYAMA and Admiral Nagane, Jap “brains” behind the Jap defeat at Truk are expected to commit hara kari for weakening Japan's war effort. May- be that ll give some of our isoln- tionist Congressmen an idea. THERE'S a decline of almost 50 in the number of prisoners guesting at Sing Sing since the start of World war No. 2. With salaries at their present sky-high levels I guess that Crime Doesn't Pay as highly as hon esty these days. LATEST G. I. Communique from the house-to-house battling in Cas- gino: “We captured five living rooms three dining rooms and have ad- vanced patrols in two-kitehens That's one way to find a maid ONE of the camp papers runs this complaint: “A soldier here eats broken razor blades, broken light bulbs and smashed dishes—washing them down with water:, Is he ab- normal? ® No-we know lots of people who like water REMINDING us about the drunk who, after each drink broke the glass and ate the top of it. “Wottsa matter with vou,” sneered a fellow- drunk, “throwing away the stems theyre the best part. PVT. Sebastian B. Forette, former pants cutter of Brooklyn, killed 12] Japs with 12 bullets. He wore a custom-made shoot -suit, INCIDENTALLY Howard Bru- baker in the New Yorker looks for- | ward to the day we can have “pleats | in our trousers.” Some of us will settle just for the trousers. SGT. Gene Autry is at working at the Post dump, Ft Dix But it's not THE Gene Autry, it's his cousin. | A BROOKLYN draftee asked for deferment for this reason: “Conva- | lescing from & traumatic perisyho- vitis of the flexer digitorum sublimis in profundus muscle at the metacar- phophalangeal joint.” He was ac- cepted—the army deciding a sore finger wasn't enough reason to make him a 4F. AN UNIDENTIFIED sergeants wife wrote the War Dept urging’ that | her 6 ft. 190 Ib. husband be trans- ferred to the infantry where he can do some real fighting—and not to let him be a company clerk. Wonder whose blonde hair she found on his Gi. I. shoulders, ANOTHER new type of club has developed out of the war—the Fra- ternity of Waker-Uppers, shortage of alarm clocks Waker-Uppers pool one clock ‘'mongst members, change “bugler’ each week-—the “bugler's’ job being to wake up the other members by phone, doorbell or horn-honking ADD Descriptions: A Political Platform: . Something pbliticlans | stand on and the public stands for. M. J. COPP of Spiinghed, 3. calied. the to_report t $2700 in cash he had hidden under hie auto seat before the car was washed washed out with it. What's he expect these days, fo have his car wathed for nothing? ? ? “NO SYNTHETIC Rubber for Wo- men's. Girdles” news item reads Personally we don't like ersats-seats either. LIFE IS IRONICAL. In the old days we used to scream at Charley Chaplin's funny little mustache, then we made fun of Hitler's mustache Both men are now in the most criti- cal peried of their lives where even those tiny hairs won'e be able to hide a fast droobing stiff upper lip ACCOUNTANT NOTE: If you said your gal was 90 pounds overweight would that be a round figure? 2? EPIDEMIC OF OPERATIONS Appendicitis afflicted three mem- bers of the family of Mr, and Mrs Ernest F. Bailey, of Snyder County last week. Their little daughter Helen was the first of the group to be operated upon. Two days after she was brought home from the Sun bury Community Hospital her father was admitted for a similar operation, and two days later the daughter Bet. ty was treated there for the same condition mss MP — PAUL SUNDAY KILLED Four civilian fliers, ineluding Paul T. Sunday, 36, son of the late evange- | list, Billy Sunday, were killed Thurs day when a Navy patrol bomber on a test flight crashed into a moun- tain, 10 miles west of Palmdale, California. With the | these | | The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Bach Week SECOND | SECTION dhe Centre Democrat NEWS, FEATURES VOLUME 9 LINN | | BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1944 NUMBER 9 Random [tems Step-Father Is Child In Said to Have Nearly Bed Clothing to Smother Her Screams; Feeling Ran High at Hearing A Juniata stepfatler with a fam- ily of seven children, charged by the Blair county humane office with ex- treme cruelty to his nine-year-old stepdaughter, whom he almost smothered beneathh bedclothing to quiet her screams after a severe beating, was fined $200 and costs at a hearing In Alderman William Stev- ens’ office in Altoona, last Wednes- day evening i Williams, alias Wilbur, Matthews, j was the defendant, and his step - | daughter, Elaine Puleino, 9, was the { Vietim, { The beating was administered esm————— 13 Clinton Area Soldiers Missing ‘Lock Haven, Renovo and Flemington Sons Are Listed | A Lock Haven soldier and a Ren- ‘ovo soldier, serving in the same {chemical warfare unit in Italy, and {a Flemington soldier, who received ithe Purple Heart for wounds re feceived In the Sicilian campaign, {have been reported by the War De- {partment to be missing wn Jan lag { of The soldiers are T/5 Nevin L | Glossner, 23-year-old son of Mr, and Mrs. Clyde M. Glossner, 925 Belle- fonte avenue, and Pvt. Fred Brooks, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Brooks, of {Drurys Run, and Pfc. Elmer E. Put- iman, grandson of Mr. and Mrs. J William Miller of Flemington Glossner was inducted in October 1942. and has been overseas rbout 10 months. He worked at the Renovo shops hefore beginning training Camp Gordon, Ga A brother, A C Ardell Glossner, is {training as a navigator at Selman { Field, Va {| Brooks entered the army at the same time, trained at the sane camp and apparently the jeounty boys went overseas together. | Brooks’ two brothers, pre. Jimes land Pvt. Richard, are In the ser. Putman, who was 24 had entered the army at the same time, but it believed he was serving unit. However, he and Glossner had met in the and it may have been that were serving in the same the missing in faction 1 of the sam day Putman has a brother, Freeman who is training to an Army Air Fhree gunner at Denver, Colo iS in a mortar sarvice all three area sin wis are " rep 1! | GIVEN LONG SENTENCE. George Albert Balley, 28, South Williamsport, was given a 20-year to life prison sentence in Attica Prison N. Y.. after pleading guilty to a charge’ of second degree murder in the death of Mrs. Ruth Butler, 23, also of South Williamsport, on Jan 24. Bailey was charged with fatally stabbing Mrs. Butler with a jack knife during an argument over an- other man. Bailey surrendered to Elmira police the same day - NAMED PEACE JUSTICE. Governor Martin appointed F. R Aumilfer, Jersey Shore, justice of the peace for Crawford Township, Clinton County, until the first Mon- day in January, 1946 to fill a va- cancy il — SKIER FRACTURES SKULL Richard Crawford, 7, of near Bloomsburg, suffered a fractured skull when he crashed into a tree in a skling accident. He is a patient at the Geisinger Hospital. : - By Harry HISTORY OF SCOTIA M. Williams Beating Nine- Year-Old two Clinton’ Fined For Cruel Manner Suffocated Girl Under Sunday, Pebruary 8, and the child is to have been kept in the house that time. Matthews was ar- after the humane society had notified of the circumstances According information, the faia since rested been to the child two man hit the across the face, knocking out front teeth and then beat her over the head with the sharp edge of a vard stick. Elaine contended that her stepfather hit her across the mouth with his fist knocking out a tooth and breaking her nose. It was further said that to quiet her screams, he threw the child in bed, holding the bed clothes over her head until she was near the point of suffocation. Additional cruelty included kicking the little girl on the legs until she was black and blue. Feeling ran high in the crowded alderman’s court room Wednesday evening, with witnesses and specta- tors demanding to take issue with the defendant's attorney, Nevin Di- ively, as the case was heard Attorney Dively asked that all tes. timony of one of the witnesses be stricken from the record when he began to tell of incidents of cruelty over a two-year period; later ridi- culed information printed in local newspapers and finally drew the wrathful negative cries of both men and women in the room when he mage the statement that all parents sued ’ on page Ti —————————— Man Stabbed In Club Card Fight Three Participants Arrested and Fined After Al toona Affray In Car Four Hours Warn Parents a Repeat Per: formance Would Land Them in Jail Sunday afternoon at an East Church resident called police headquarters to report that a small boy had been left in a car parked nearby gince 11 o'clock that morning The police went to the found the boy very ful attempt by phone, the him to headquarters the windshield wl of Mock 2:40 © Conti and an th car After locate the officers took placing a nots inform the oungster's where. cold unsucees parents to on 0 parent the ab When the Flemington quarters at it {ather ond mother, a couple. went to head. 3:40 o'clock, more than four hours after they had left the ‘hoy in car were informed in no uncertain terms that a repeat performance of the offense would land them in jall on charges of lecting their minor child the they As the result of an argument dur- ing a card game Saturday night in John Steinbaur's cafe, Altoona, one man received two stab wounds in the abdomen in a three-man fight staged in the rest room of the cafe. t city police court Monday morme- ing. Louis Glashauser, the stabbing victim, was fined $25.80, and Samuel Lee. become involved in war, thus follow - } street, Lock Haven, Bang ing the example of the United States. | William Heath Death While in Com- bat Duty sgl. ' dr Lambert Heath, of received { M 3 Ridge, word last Thursday from the adjutant general that thelr soll, Sgt 2 In Italy No particular received regarding OOrure staung 8. Heat 1 ¥ r trea has mve death January been other nat 1 20 William his i On Sheldon Heath was born I Sandy Ridge on October 24 1820 He was graduated from the Philip: burg High School, atiended 8 College and was graduated from the Eckels School of Embalming., Phil adeiphin. He had compisted no vear cl his appr 3 taker with Harry Weber, of Philipe- bwug, before enlisting in arm? He enlisted on October 5, received his training at Camp Gor don, Ga, and Lawson General Hoe pital, Oerorgin. He had been ove segs for nine month: He North Africa snd ‘ook part invasion of Sicily and Italy i is survived by his parents only § itireship a8 an under- t bye Bat, Te nnded in f Weaver and John Bihndlder were ™ mmm — pa — P Pa — lench fined SI580 Glashatser's iwounds are not considered of | ous LT nature Acocrdin reports curred about 11:45 » to the fight oc- m It nid Recent Weddings { Police Find Boy Sandy Ridge Boy = Killed In Italy "000 Meets © Williem 1 killed In ac- dered to drive back for it and the ; » . Cc ‘Driver Injured as Car late 1842, and down 4 1 3 | "cows in the dairy herd of the Penn- wr’ 1 that CGlashauser went where Weaver ip to a table and Bchneider were pilaving cards and revived an ment that had taken place two weeks earlier and which had ended in a fight, Weaver is rald to have I he still wanted got up from the table and walked to the rest room with Glas- hauser following Schneider is sald 0 have report- ed that he followed the two men to the rest room. having stopped to ship off the end of his cigar with a pen knife, When he entered the rest room, the two men were engaged in a terrific fight and he intervened It is reported that he sald he did not realize that the pen knife was still in his hand when he struck at Glashauser. hitting him in the ab- domen | Mathewson-—Barner, Cpl. Esther Barner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Krape, of Aarons burg, and Cpl. Raymond Mathewson, of Providence, R. I, were married {after the moming chapel services of the Protestant Church at Camp | Shelby, Miss, on Sunday, Perbuary 6. Chaplain A. B. Dorough of Atlan- ta, Ga, officiated at the ceremony Cpl. Barner, who was attended by Cpl. Maxine Hock of Long Beach (Calif, is a member of the Woman's Army Corps and is stationed at Camp Shelby Miss. The bride. groom, a nephew of the famous \WChristy Mathewson, of baseball { fame, is also stationed at Camp Shel- (by, Sgt. H. 8. Putman, of Guilford, Conn, served as best man. A wed- ding dinner was served immediately following the ceremony at the WAC Detachment. The newlyweds, who were on furlough at the home of the i bride’s parents, returned to camp early this week pla argu-! asked Glashauser to fight - PLAN SHORT COURSE FOR DAIRY HERDSMEN | Herdamen will be given an oppor- tunity to “brush up” on dairy farm management by attending the dairy herdsmen’s short course at the Penn | sylvania State College, March 6 to 11. A. L. Beam, director of short courses, has announced. : During the week, emphasis will be placed upon diseases prevention, feeding, breeding, and management problems. Also included in the course will be practice in judging, fitting and showing dairy cattle, handling milking machines, and test ing dairy products. Of special in- | terest this year when grain feeds are scarce, will be the lectures on soils and pasture management GrafMus—Patton Miss Eleanor B. Patton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Patton, of South Allen street, and William E Graffius, son of Mrs. Nora M. Graf- fius of the Heatherbloom apart- ments, both of State College, were married at 2:30 Sunday afternoon in the Faith Reformed church, State College, by the pastor, Rev. A 8. Asendorf. An organ recital by Betty Hartswick Plummer, preceded the ceremony, followed by the tradi-| tional] wedding marches, The bride | Was given in marriage by her fath-| fer. Miss Lois Weichans of Lancas-| iter, was the bride's only attendant. ALMOST TWINS {Miss Ethel VanTine and Miss Betty | Mrs. Anna Parsons, of Wileox, | Miesse of Lancaster, were the ush- families The bride was graduated {from the State College High Schon and is a senior at the College, She i= a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. The bridegroom i= a grad- uate of Lehigh Univertity, ha pleted a course at the Annapolis Naval Academy and the Pennsyl- vania State Colirge Deisel Scho and on active duty statinnhed in Newport. R 1 1 Yi of Dress—Runkle Mr. and Mrs. Earl H. Runkle Howard, announce the marriage their daughter. Dorothy Marie Sgt. Harold A. Dress, son of Mr, and Mrs. William A. Dress. of Salona The double ring ceremony took place in the Baptist parsonage at Phoenix City, Alabama, ut 8 o'clock January 22. with the Rev. Carl 8. Miller of- ficiating. Staff Sgl. Woodrow Carr served as best man, while Mrs Woodrow Carr was matron of hon. or. The bride wore a street length dress of light blue with black ac- cessories and a corsage of talisman roses. Miss Runkle was graduated from Howard High Schoo] in the class of 194] ang is now employed at the Sylvania plant at Mill Hall Sgt. Dress enlisted In October 1941 to com.’ [lege township: $1. [tract in Unionville: $6 and is stationed at Pt. Benning, Ga. ! Monicca—Seprish Miss Verna Seprish, daughter of Mrs. Verna Seprish of North Spring street, Bellefonte and Sgt. Charles Monicea were united In marriage at {3, tract In Boges township; $1550. | 10 a. m. Saturday, February 19 in| the post chapel, Father Gerber, Sgt of Port Dix, N. J., served as best man, | and Miss Agnes Seprish was her sis. | Hess, Ph Two Bandits Hold Up and Rob Two Troopers After Luring Them to Hide-Out Gunmen Later Captured After Furious Gun Battle in Fulton County; One of the Men Wounded Trying to Escape nds At ft of 0 helo pa We rooming hots Policemen we men when the followed the oy bandit ook th thie mm slePPed U pulled a gun of ~ police with rope While the bandit Merle Mercer lecemen, proprietor farm af] Nile C Goodfellow I WeRpo to hreak them re penned vere Mr house af- Bhenefelt anda ented ha . wi up wi mountain appeda hi the r the capt : room antomobi le all were dentimiea « nari nen fled in fleeing from an eft ted le Cond man i t Felker, 52 d | woodland 10 87) Vi y eight { walking ar while ho i the policemen er alt 1 Circe nd untied the ¢ Following ire of tl Bai- barrack I 10 Biver and Huntingdon automobile perators’ I miles west a California ODD AND CURIOUS Meant What He Said When a full-blooded Sioux appeared nt Denver | duecti station, offi kip fighting talk and n But,” replied is my name Kill Enemy squirrels in His Hood followed in their car t could topping K ¢ three witine che {f oper Ld EE 1 A point wh up with two men in | show in the Trooper Balley, incidentally formerly stationed at the Pleasant Gap barracks and is well known in Boeliefonte and vicinity) As CAr came 10 n troopers’ command, th a driver's license and were it had been left behind in a room Huntingdon, The two men 1 CAr Arove ana small dom rear - | ’ ‘ the v on er th ston at the he the Wp i Lae asked told the draftee Charl ame to 4 “Tat Jona fy 1 P or : The wert happen only u book. W. Wy went to the car, which ’ '. amyer officer > § iriver Lie TX h A if Wynoote, ake his wilh an nes garage 1« hadn't been driven for a week. He stepped on starter Nothing happened Tomes lifted the hood and went to work. On top of linder head he found litter of squir- rel: ¢ » out Crashes Into Pole Glen A. Harback, of Loganton, R D.. suffered minor lacerations about the head and legs at 12:50 a. m. Pri- day when his car crashed into a tele. phone pole after breaking a stop rign at the Potters Mills intersection. | Harback told police he was driving the mountain when he was forced to swerve from the road by another machine which pulled out the highway at the intersection Damage to his car was estimated at about $200 the acy tiny Fras n Understanding Cop A young man, explaining he had got religion” stepped up to Tral-| fic Officer Michael Loftus at Omaha admitted he had cominitted several traffic violations but had never been caught. He pulled out a ibilifold and added “1 would like to {settle up any charges and square jmyselt™ Loftus declined the offer, PENN STATE COWS REACH told the young man: “Go, and sin HIGH PRODUCTION MARKS (no more"? Two registered Holstein. Priesian | Meet My Dependents | pet hen spent several i from home Chicago an and into week at filling vas given somebody's her owner, hg A syivania State College have complet. ‘awa ed official production records of station more than 600 pounds of butterfat Hp as Higheg producer of the two Pen. (GU state Inka Hazel with a record df however only by ning but 918 pounds of butterfat and 23260 by bringing along 10 chicks. “Bidd: pounds of milk. This is more than (is just a young hen and these are five times the production of the aver. | her first chickens, 1 guess she didn" age dairy cow of the nation The | know she was rushing season.” record was made in 365 days on four | her owner said he fixed her nest milkings daily and at the age of 5 in a large to accomodaie the vears § months, family The other high producer was Pen- state Inka Betsy with 852 pounds of butterfat and 23.288 pounds of milk in 365 days on four milkings dail at the age of 4 years § months her a rT A ontrivution to Biddy ’ no mer surprised ret the ar box — ns Mss ——— DIES IN BURNING TRUCK. Trapped in the cab of his truck when it caught fire after an accident six miles from Kittanning, a man tentatively identified as Earl Sauer, 28, of Miflinburg., Union county, was burned to death Friday, State Po- | ioe sald the driver Jost control of the truck after it struck a large hog iat the foot of a grade. It sheered | off ten guardrail posts and a utility | pole before plunging down a 20-foot {embankment and catching firle —————— | COSTLY FLORIDA TRIP A trip to Florida by Antonio Za nella, Lock Haven, cost him all his {A and supplementary gasoline ra- {tions until May 9 according to a { penalty imposed Friday by the Lock Haven War Price and Rationing ! Board. Charges against Zanella were { based on his use of critically needed REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Real Estate Transfers. Preston A, Prost, et ux, to Alfred L. Bowersox, State College, tract State College; $1 Elizabeth B. Wasson, et al. to C. O Weaver, ol ux, Lemont, tract in Col Centre County Commissioners, to James B. Holtsworth, Unionville Fleming Poorman, hy admin. to to Florida by automobile Lee Johnson, et ux, Bellefonte R. D { fuel for an alleged unauthorized trip ~- CENBORED? i thas broadons Vas talking Wonder Fhomas while he . ; a : : newspaper Only Proaceasting PUBLIC RELATIONS are Are Writie: £11 grtiieys VaAnNCs The ently from wher one writ. LY fre £0 © to explain, for ex. fit innetion mean: fo5r achieved 1 really Such let. trea ROME ured Years i yo feel that bulwark agains SOME quarters that we an impersonal PIANIST One of the magazine kh which house, In addition Industrial Age, The Digest Court Decisions, The Journal of Philosophic Science, am Grood's Weekly Review of Litera ture Jack and Jill.” which, believe, is somewhat of a lighter nature than the other periodicals mentioned. The current issue, how. ever, carries an interview with Alec Templeton, who is this department's favorite pianist. Alec, blind since his birth in Cardiff, Wales, In 1810 doesn't know a note of music, and plays entirely by ear and memory To learn a new naunber, whether it { be a popular tune or a classic, he has { someone play it for him slowly while the memorizes it. One in ga while {this process Fas 10 be répeatsd the second time, He's on the air regu. larly at 10:30 Wednesday nights REPORT: We haven't heard of any new de. velopments in the garbage situstion but from comments heard the streets, the system proposed by Council has absolutely no support from the public, insofar as we've been able to determine. Council will meet Monday night. If any of you have any suggestions, you're entitled to attend the session snd offer them We believe that eventually a satis. factory and workable garbage and ash collection system will come about, but its up the public voice disapproval of any plan with as many weak points az the proposed ast week CUSTOMER No. 1 Friend John M serving aboard a Pacific writes that publish, after the war, a book about the ship on which he is serving costs of publication to be under. written by the ship's crew. While censorship prevents any comment on what might be in the book, we've heard enough to know that it should be No. 1 reading for public con- sumption. As a result we hereby file an order for a copy of the book when it comes off the press DEEP WATER: We suppose we are not alone in s feeling of uneasiness over the Comtinyed Tue OOPS Wk The COITIeT S tr } Supreme om 0 ne Fleming, who is warship the expects to fy in he oR Pape United BSiates of America, to | Charles R. Korman, et ux, Bellefonte R. D. 1; tract In Benner township; | $3,900, John T. Watson, by heirs, to John Middletown, by | T. Watson, et ux, Bellefonte R. D. 3, | James Dolan | tract in township; $1. ot ux, to C. Horner , tract in Burnside | Clyde ter's maid of honor. Organ music township: celebrated her 100th birthday anni. ers. Following the wedding the brid |versary last week, just three days al party received the guests in the before Jones Township, in which church, and a reception to the im- Wilcox is located, observes ita 100th mediate families was held later at | was played throughout the ceremony | Sarah B. Simler, to Sarah B. Sim. {by Cpl. Arthur Brown and Miss Ar- | ler, Philipsburg, tract in Philipsburg; | lena Moore of Harrisburg sang “Ave ‘$1. Marfa.” The bride was dressed in| James A. Kling, et ux, to Evelyn One winter evening just after dark [the fellow a little story of how an- 8 rough looking man walked Into other vagrant had stayed there and the boller room and asked the night | had slept on the bench and a couple fireman for a night's lodging, com. | days later the workmen were infest. plaining that he was very tired and led with lice. The bench and all had had just completed a hard day's to be thrown into the fire box, The! anniversary. She is reported in fair- the home of the bride. Mr. and Mrs. | {ly good health, able to move about Graffius both are students at the | {a Navy blue street length dress with King, [to plant seed. For tomatoes, the center, tear out enough travel. The fireman informed him majority that he could stay If he cleaned himself up a Mtle, to which the of these night lodgers! woulld always come on a bad and! stormy night just when there! wouldn't be anybody around oe The early plans of Scotia were re- | lated to me about five years ago by | . an old resident as we sat at his home - = » ; : : | 52 a H 3 EK 8 1 2 : id : : g : i : i ii 3 E g 3 5 Fi ] i 25 4H : H i § il I ¥ 5 8 ou ) 1 i 2 I EE
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