The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week Jesse ADLER . Looks at SECOND SECTION dhe Cenire Democraf 1 Random NEWS, FEATURES [tems the NEWS | T——— vr] IME 6! Threatens To! » be BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1944, NUMBER 10. HEADLINE: "N. Close Any Night By Girls Under make homebodies Manville and Flynn! THERE'S s0 much Interest wayne Lonergan murder trial only seat the speculators didn't was the hot seat. But that's tenta- tively reserved for the sinis tan MAYOR LAGUARDIA comes oul again and admits he doesn't like the idea of eating Lorse-meat. Which ain't news. Whoever heard of a Lit tle Flower eating a horse? SINCE writing this column week the Russians recaptured close to a thousand cities. And it look us almost that long to find a cab from Brooklyn to the Bronx MATTER of fact cabs scarce in New York Henny man is working on an idea to attach a meter to a hacky’s ankle carries you piggy Just saw 1 hewsreel next season's fashions in hats. They're really something exactly what something is nobody stems to know IT'S DIFFEREN bathing They something! THOUGH the War Dep't. officially reported that Pvt. Fred Judge been wounded in action in Italy Fred wrote his parents that he broke an ankle rushing for chow. No pur- ple heart—just a stained shirt! A NAZI cowrt In has fined a Polish marks for owning deg. Seems the dog barked at Getman colonel The charge “Bringing up her dog in a Spirit of Hatred for everything German Suggestion: That the dog's mistre teach her pup to raise his leg an “heil” when he sees n Nazi officer CHAS. A. JOPLING of Wilkes-Barre (Pa, and now we know why they call it Pa) will $240 monthly as a private in army, ‘cause he's got ten childrer Guess he never heard of Ovaltine! LT. W. KENNEALLY bemb and came up with a plece of metal in his mouth. First aid diag- nosed it as a filling oosened by the blast. THE special guard at the Railroad at Ft. Dix Is nameg Private Pull- man. I thought you had be at least the President one those! CHICAGO polke have been asked by the Chief of Police of Milwaukee to find a stolen car. It's a pretty personal request—since the stolen car belonged to the latter SGT. GEQ. JENSEN, who para- chuted to earth from a burning Fortress (old reporters. “The kisses given me by a pretty English girl when 1 came to mad: me think I had dropped into heaven.” He'll Joy” just the oppcsite reaction + he falls into the arm land fiancee TIP. Next you order a Mar- tini make sure you get a full-sized drink by watching whether the bar- tender tosses in a smaller or a large olive, Tossing in the larger olive gives the saloon one extra drink of seven. Mr. Ripley C. W. KITCHEN, a member War Food Adm. warns “We'll less food in our kitche: this Does that hold true Kitchens too, sir? GIVE to the Red Cross to get rid of the sign of the Cross v Club 15." out Frequented That oughta of Jessel, in the th buy terno; Daughter Receives Burns last are 0 when ame Tid Young- home on the Fi to Lakemont |} © ne ix anks Blair who ere burned to M KR ina v, 10, PRul, 12 mothe ana around <back are the ni with ii the Te SR ali are Grego James, 17. The COrci LRL preview of women: 3%] au Ww and was Y rd accon ically to return to the Regina, 16 ¥ home, unm Hospital dispen- th ! and Lad t trained from plunging roaring, crackling flame Another son, Thoma homie ter Li badly daughter, Mercy , hal t v he Dy her treated © corel re 19 uit HLS x t Ml Parents and Son Hurt in Accident {f a window and out over t Her back was badly burned Captain of Fire Police Js Neal of the Lakemont Valu company, said that when arrived the fire had § much headway for U oot save the children, the 1 inferno, The three the low-cellinged the home. Orig known Effort tact the Regina blazing hom Renovo Couple Treated in Hospital After Car Skids Off Road Plock, Poland housewife 1000 an unpatrioti pany i Svkes wer ry a novo 1 Were father not reside d of with tn the chile ward Lock Haven ' did e ch the icy i i 35-year-old ... r and * road ued page ——— ——— 4 ducked accident pital. Mr son 1 Manges took Not So Bad ———— — ——— ~ Accepts Position ation’ love of « Li of hepeat io get 154 ical music is shburn at { cia I department State College Rhythm professor everyone Pen Peun explained, even bables he ap do well to recognise this, 9 sical musk its appeal Pr by stressing I tinting NAN and t likewise or | WML mans JAS enjoy popul shburn cont can be to types of Young ’ LJ Lane and i 4 . sa Fa He 00k who atiriout aell | 4 sue with the e much of « Jive musi isnt the music that inqu but the envir which It sometimes The jiviest jive possible ented in the proper involves ine ing 0 nguency ency 1 the of th is Mary Catherine Walizer Walizer of Mr. and Glenn H of East 0p Street 2 Inember Millersvill Mis Mrs Bisl ie al Hel Doub "ry y Brahms,” he added mm— I ——— ANNOUNCE CONFEREN( - — iiss Mm —— ——— SUNBURY SOLDIER TO DIE. Frank H. Martz, a soldier from Sunbury, who has been stationed at Port Logan, Colo.. was sentenced to | For the die In the state's lethal gas cham- |= 3 . | conference ber for murdering a 3-year-old girl | whom he kidnaped and ravished TO MEET IN HARRISBURG Judge Osmer Smith set the execu- Ti 1044 of tion for the week of June 18. Martz Americar lon will be held was convicted of murdering Kath. Harrisburg, Aur. 16 ‘o 19, instead of leen Ann Geist, a 33-year-old girl at Uniontown. The change was made whom he saw at a tavern in Engle- at the request of Uniontown and wood, where the child had been tak- Harrisburg post No. 27 began mak- en by her mother ing plans to handle 2.200 delegates ' Lancaster librarian Hig! third consecutis on agricultural oheduled at the State College June 5 nounces M. E oclologist and chairman The mutual ang inte of Industry, labor, and agri a post-war world will be by nationally-known spe number of methods whict uals and groups can use {the improvement of the BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES |". Bey (By J. THOMAS MITCHELL) OF THE LIVES OF THE MEMBERS OF THE BAR OF CENTRE COUNTY is Ang We tate convention Lhe general a - - ons agricultural problems JUDGE KELLER WON'T | SEEK FOURT CALVIN M. BOWER Born 1542 near Woodward With his education completed at the Union Seminary ir New Berlin he read law with Alexander & Orvis and was admitted to the Bar in 1873 After the elevation of Orvis to the bench, a firm was formed known as Alexander & Bower. With Bower's intimate knowledge of the “Pennsyl. vania Dutch” dialect, he gained large following among the inhabi- tants of Penn's Valley When Orvis resigned his judicial firm of Orvis & Bower In 1884, and a year lat- Orvis was taken into Bower & Orvis. this was, without the leading aw firm of the personal interest In ‘1874. At that time, on account of ers, came Gettig & Bower, He member of Co. B. NGP ways had a deep interest In ing contests. What principally at- tracted his attention outside of his prattice was the Bellefonte Fire De- partment, of which for several years he acted as Chief Marshal. He died in 1938 WILLIAM HH, BROWN Born 1824 in Bellefonte He was educated at the Pellefonte Academy, read law with James H Rankin, nd was admiited to our Bar In 1853. He became assistant. editor of the “Centre Democrat” in 1854, and was elected County Treas urer in 1859 and aga'n in 1862, In| 1870 he, with A. Boyd Hutchinson, | ran the “Bellefonte Ads “ wd sport - President Judge Willlam die announced Thursday nig expiration of his present may be for an executive 1 do not believe In It for . lat the end of my third {years from now." dinner i — ———— HERE'S A MEAN ™H In line for place as the Republican” | thief” for the year ls the id 70-year-old i dence to Kansas. He revisited Belle {fonte In 1881 and died here In that with $25 In payment for £ a= 2 ] WILLIAM BRYSON Born 1548 in Columbia County Educated at local sclools, he read law and was admitted mn his home vin M. county, He attained a good practice bis education in Columbia and represenied the ipsburg In 1886 and was he assisted to our Bar in the following year, but, after ¥32 : Three Sons Burn to Death As Mother and Daughter | = @ ie Escape in Blair County Fire | Screams of Frantic Mother Arouses Neighbor Who Finds Log Home a Burning In- home boys Three betier 3 head State and respond to ft. Music educator deavor to interest jitterbugs in cl ang BAUR Cs when SUTTOWIK no more harm than liste AGRICULTURAL PROBLEMS Penn John, extensio FOCKINg life will be ruggested of the conference will be open to anyone interested in current of the Pennsylvania Superior Court! testimonial dinner in his honor that he would not seek re-election at the! “However desirable a fourth term | treatment in the hospital. sald Judge Keller, "and 1 will retire | More than 500 attorneys from alli rested last week and is being held parts of Pennsylvania attended the under $1000 bail on a charge of which he continued to publish until [took a watch from Abraham L. Sty- falling health, he moved his resi- man, stating that he would return two weeks, Mr, Btyers walted until Winter Harvest Is Started HOU py pa BOYS! ANT SEEN YOO 77% SINCE LAST UL (Reto) Lien | AST Wi RESHIN ree 51 Ie rool ing TT i inferno tha Of indful 0 be re- the into wa at the time of the mad ¢ Her e DY wa) New Auto License Voc. Junior Wins Plates Ready Soon Project Awards Motorist Required to Exhibit Spring Mills Boy Takes First Only One Tag Dur- Places in 3-County ing Period District porch ait ames Mc- nteer fir the com- alned too npany Dein lept Moy Cree nt 8m ho Miller Tow ing Mill wl rtage, Peunsyl- hicle use ong 1 Wn Vix Hoerse y Lp i De - isan, who [0 he April ildren Jones og t 1 dead] 29 deputy Secretary of We [Ts nig delivered Teacher Defends Hep-Cat Music Head of Penn State Music De- partment Thinks Jive Hard-to-get mi best ) Melvin sl contest Lo supply Ue rucks, mo- wlorboa ts | it vol He State I ¢- background and advanced numes of the ewent If the | shortag next year Statd plans to revert small metal tabs used in 1943 J bring 12 standard-size plates up to date. That required 115 ton of sheet metal. sn sess A ————— ODD AND CURIOUS HE 4 ered Thu LAE sho musi o et Dew ave a | } Orange versed from Jue appr hip and Boyd oll $5 is teat we oon were Wa Lie C0l~ ared al : ' dese Shook. a MOT Ivan Car Donald enor, received second place In the Blate swine cone / While Marlyn Wolle received firet place in the junlor wwine cone . : It ia vivant hI ylvania continues Un 3 A LM ee m peal FLW 0 Lx Ww Wolfe AYRES would one 10 : " wd rhythm Robert 1. Aker OCTEAALY ~ LPCAS- rer of the Hollidaysburg Credit As- expects visit Gregg township this week and present the awards to Melvin Miller mn ———-—» To Delve For Ore In Blair County fire inion oe rson ar nu Hen Sets Fire, Felix Polasik, farmer, of Dunkirk Y. believes that the heal gener- ated bY A sitting out of season on & nest of eges, created spontan- tion which ignited has destroying the bulld- hen : Iron Deposits Found Suffi- cient to Warrant De- velopment mnt ba tb oOUs ( AASETUNE Be in ALSES NE ent in ya " his m Gr. pres nied Doubling Humiliating While visiting in New York, James A Watson, of Nearby Yornkers, had his automobile stolen. After report- ing the loss to police, Watson start- ed hitch-hiking home. The first car or 1 w win pre- I'ribune hunting county have warrant According to the Altoona War department prospector for iro: in Blas discovered enough ore development The largest discovered is the farm near Warriors Mark. At the present time adverse weather con- ditions especially snow, have obliged the prospectors to cease their opera- tion for the time being but in the near future they will resume their search considerable area The iron ore will be shipped to the Riddiesburg furnace where it will be converted into pig iron and then shipped to various steel mills The war department intends to ulld a plant somewhere in that section and it will be owned by the pt Ing he ore fo E ON deposit of iron yet Cox Johnson ar fy in His Fault, When the truck arrived to deliver 200 gallons of fuel oll to his new house, Parker Rutherford. of Cher- okee, lows, showed the driver where to put it. Rutherford was surprised however, later to find that he has 200 gallon {f oll in his cistern ! Car problems yivania 1 6 “ an- Tr ON Urai program over a alums 0 culture In - presented Planned Economy. akers. A State officials of DesMoines, lowa 1 individ | discovered a man and his wife only, in aiding! the social welfare assistance rolls American | had $2800. Both were in their nine- | co department. They are now re- ties. “Why didn't you spend the | ceiving from the Scotia officials de- money to support yourselves?” they | were asked. “We were saving it for talled Information including the our old age,” was the reply. {will need. The government will then " arrange to have this equipment Came For Treatment {moved to the place of operation con- Its the same old story—about a|ceivably on the outskirts of Altoons man and a dog. But here's a new twist: Dr. Monte M. Trimble, veter- The Reconstruction Pinance Cor- inarian at a small animal hospital poration 1s expected to grant a $450. at Galesburg. Ill, was honored re- cently by the visit of a stray dog The animal, which turned out to {have rables, was promptly given H TERM H, Keller ht at a capital will add $100,000 for the con- Istruction of a plant, four-mile rail. | road spur and power lines. The pros. | pecting is being done by bureau of | mines men The old Scotia ore mines property term — officer a Judge,” | term six! Paul E Sanger, of Myerstown, Le- | bapon county auctioneer, was leannot at present be calculated. selling two farm tractors above cell [ing prices at a farm sale February IEF “meanest man who RD, It within | number and type of equipment they | 000 loan for the project and local | F.D.R. Top-H | \: MYSTERY Here eavy Choice Over Best G. O. P. Rival, Fortune Survey Reveals . President Polls 60.2 Percent Against 28.4 for Dewey; Strong Feeling Shown Against Making Chan Roosevelt ) i ria OL Ix A preponderance viewed indicated the Democratic ticket a balance-of-pos indecided In answer 0 Lh Lt. Col. Gates of Tyrone, Is Killed Engineering Officer Meets Ae- cidental Death at Camp Pickett Colonel of Mr Ga 3 Cates, of Tyrone the corps of engineer Pickett, Va. w= is Saturday morning at Cam while engaged in Complete detalls cident were nol made Licutenant Colonel Gates was son of Samuel C. and Else (Niewiz Gales and was born in Tyrone on (December §, 1011. On March 31 1934, at Bedford, he was to Miss Prancis Bmith of Tyrone He is survived by his wife and two children: Samuel and Richard Holt Gates ers, First Lieutenant Gates, stationed in Captain Mahlon E in India He was an honor graduat rone High School, class jentered United States ademy, West Point, in 'uating in 1933 Puneral services were day afternoon at West Point followed by burial honors in the cemetery Liculeimnt Crates C to son al ah Tr a al v PD fis testing Fa An of the tra rie Lragi avauaw Ww parents Cc Cates Er Cats i held with: full mil wilh id mil ar West Point post — A TRIBUTE following tribut late Hon. Ji ran, of Lancaster, a lead work and in dedicated to the belts kind The ’ ‘ f many ment Under-Estimated " greater than we He was kinder All his life he sought And was betler Some admired hn, He was human like us all But look backward since hi Memories of him we re Oh, we ktew his faults and virty And =¢ knew the Jife he taugh Was the one which Christ on vary ith His bought {Countless times we heard him tell. ing A | Of the glories “overthere {When the saints of all the age | Free from sorrow, {ree from care Wait to welcome all believers To that home beyond the skies Where all heartaches are forgotten When its betuty meets our eyes {He had studied Bible history | And he knew Jt through through: Bcanned Mg depths and learned Ms mea y fe was wiser than we knew He wa » : Wy ‘M and all Ww od preciou feb l« and few, {And was greater than we knew {One among us walked in beauty, | And the long, hard pathway trod i married ge In Wartime furing wartime Preferred to ‘Best Republican thie 1 Europ * nag the Pa- —— cs —— A ——————— Farm Deferments To Be Discussed iL ( n . C . " ini Jill ( ‘re ‘ounty Hearing Held QUESTION This Week at Har- \ risburg We'd lke York Blais ssdbie that CICATI across Liu : WATCH SPAIN One of Bellet been brough weeks by Ru In Wp procuction or ol w J} iferen wk a {0 of 5 shi tity defer . ee Cot es of counts rd chairmen and seoretari ty AAA office rei Blair Huntingdon the conference tals r . ‘ pod ou Thursda Mi “ Centr Cambri Somersetl, Bedford ‘Bellwood Youth Lost In Collision at Sea i8, son of Mr Trego. of Bell at ACOOra- on Maritime Was “ ible purpose of of Pacis up a way " {it - 1 the vast lorub- prepared along thw ning wo Op hula } catd JAS hie Las French Coast SOLDIER DIES: The death on the Italian battle fields of 14. Howard O'Donnell. for. mer Bellefonte police officer, brought the war home 1 We had know: 14. O'Donnell for years 8 Al i friend wa Harvey Carl Trego and Mrs J Elliott wood reported lost telegram is sOA just received he War He marge OLvoy as a police- ity a 1 aut 5 Lass e We “ yerving t be He last June, § ¢ transport- ; f he salled for North Africa, No details | talked about war, and his 1 Were given ex | of What War means a soldier n had t hate he the war ) sary at that we'd nit iH re if 0 a car anyone, but C ered as LE | X we and we we gel int eve uncer Ver like 0 Amana ideas of war him and the real & toid went d was ¢ We " know tl tory of his | will be wn fighting ir ides . realistic Laura Bellwood aaence we and when day on earth vealed that he the last. He soldier HISTORY thi residents ————————— FENN STATE SELECTS 5 ROSE VARIETIES good 184 var-| app; ial Pennsylvania e lest flower garden last In 1944 magazines wrote polite subscribers asking them not to new their subscriptions because the shortage of paper. Cream puffs which used to sell for a nickel, drop- d entirely off the market-—at least Fife } 4 n ¢ Fi iG fa ee hi DEPT ned jeties on t State Colles year have been put on Dr. E. 1. Wilde Masviat § Aturist in TT LJ wrt! rm . of performance yr » nappe a selected list ornamental hor- r . re- ‘ charge « hese oO Ives - os 4 Oo were hosel Dr . iw 10 0 } ally . HABERDASHERY NOTE | Never knew until week | you could buy paper collars a mal dress shirt fronts made of You wear the Cont INSTALLS LARGE INCUBATOR A large incubator, with a capacity of 15000 eggs, has been installed bs Lee Rossman of Salona at "nel nd for. paper urs last collars ones ’ nued on pop wr HISTORY OF SCOTIA By Harry M. Williams Andrew Carnegie once visiting Scotia when a forest fire was raging In the Barrens, “Man alive we will all be bummed up In a place like this!” For this reason we be- evening and our family thought we lieve he lost all hope of making it (were burned. We were all brown and A great mining town as he planned smoked-up and it took us several to do days 10 get cleaned up and get the One Sunday in 1917 shortly after (smoke odor off of us the noon hour a fire broke out In There hadnt been man fire {the vicinity of Red Bank and spread around the place up until 1884 but in the direction of Scotia. It Jooked [In the summer of 1884 there was pretty bad for a short while but fire which had started for some un- {George B. Thompson and a crew of known reason in the engine house (fire fighters started a counter fire of No. § well, This fire started early but their fire got out of control and in the evening just after dark And it too headed for Scotia. This was it wasn't long until the whole en- the closest the little town ever came gine house was 10 being burned out. The fire went was sounded up pear the houses and the gathered south side of the superin swell house. Weather-boarding had start- shop ed to burn but with good help Mr. en to preven Thompson and his crew waded right | in and prevented the house from sald while: ful experience get in touch Thomas Stine, now ving at College and ask him about It didnt get home untl) late the in 58 i 57 5 : E i H 3k E : fe5d ih: Ef 3 » FE a PT SAE
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