mph.
Where the F ued Goss
A HEAVY BOMBER
cruising at a speed of 2
Ions of gasoline an hour,
50
may use 200 gal-
dhe Ce ir ¢ Democrat
WHERE THE ¥UEL GOES
An Army Trans. p
port burns 33.000
gallons of fuel oll
wu day.
VOLUME 63. NUMBER 13.
BELLEFONTE, | Th
IU RSDAY, MARCH 30, 1944,
SUBSCRIPTION-$1.50 PER YEAR.
116 Men in April (QIN
—~ E
all to
Sy,
sellefon
34 Front.
April 13.
el
82 From
April
ter Navy,
total ¢f 116 mu irom
Promoted to Major
- - nsrsmmsnannassnen.
Major Ernest Burghduff
Burghdufl :
Bellefonte
moted to the rar
capla
at Lhe
Alr Service
Field. Ohio
Assigned
afte:
ing Course ni
Beach, Fla Ma j«
rehduff now he bom-
bardment branch of the Air Service|
Command's maintenance ‘division. |
In this capacits Is TeSDons hie
for the maintenance of all airplanes |
that are used as bombers-——light, |
niedit im and heavy Jl part
hie rl
Comm
Er
treet
in
Offi
AAT
1943
f of ¢
wr
ho
i»
iu
be bn
of |
F HEART ATTACK
Charles
Suddenly at Home in
Port Matilda
from the
suffered th
nome
tack
Woodring had been in hi
tack, Mr
usual good
Mr. Woodring
tilda’s outst
promine part i
ties. was past mmander of the
Port Matilda American Legion Post
and was president of the Port Matil-
da school time of hi
death
He was a member
terisn church
Lodge, both at
Decensed, a Harry C
Maude Chaney Woodring, wa
Continued on page Fowr)
La BM 3
took
Civic activi-
anding tizens a
board at
Presby -
Fellow
of the
Odd
Matilda
and the
Port
on of and
born
®
E. Woodring Dies
Services
Le Army,
to En-
ave For
2 i
yy College
i | Walker, Mile
J. Tamminen
(Bellefonts
Smead
Lewis, Philipsburg
Confer, Bellefonte
Neff, Howard RD 2
Faust, Philipsburg
Peters, Howard RD 2
A. Casher Snow Shoe
Hass Bellefonte
Pennsylvania Fur-
Matilda)
Walker, Orvisic
Paul N. Jones, Port Matilda
Jahn P. Davis, Reynoldsvillie
Lewis L. Willlams, DuBois, (Mun-
sony
Carl R. Jones
Matilda)
John 8. Spangler,
Orrin M. Bedell
fonte)
Elmer L. Schnars,
Richard J. Behmer,
(Philipsburg?
H L. McCamie
is, Bel
Ohio
Joseph
Fdward
F Orvi
I
on
on
K
inger
wld iN
C
Dot
John Rudy
nace, (Port
McDowell P
Hi
Lock Haven, (Port
Howard RD 2
DuBois, (Belle-
Philipsburg
Huntingdon,
Phill
lefonte
psbursg
1th
util
« 8 Philips-
] liefonte
uste: Mil esburg
Leathers, Howard
Nikita Newport
Jellefonte)
1 W. Stull, Blanchard
31 isnak, Philipsburg
J. Symmonds, Bellefonte
Wenrick, Snow Shoe
D. Rhodes, Fleming
Geor ge Socash, Osceola Mills RD 1
ym G. Stover, Monument
ry Gardner Binet d
ne C. Miller, Mtleats
Herman FP. Koenig, Bellefonte RD
Burwell F. Brungard Bellet onte
RD 2
Boyd A. Gensa
RD |
Earl L. Diehl
tussell J. Nelson,
{ Bellefonte).
Ellsworth B. Hutton,
RD
Johan R. Gingher, Bellefonte.
Elwood © Derr. Bellefonte
William B. Howell, Curwensville,
(Clarence)
WwW. Calhoun, Rocky
J. (Port Matilda RD)
niinaned on pape Four)
100F Plans to Build
New Bowling Center |
RD 2
ph O
J
New
Theodore
mer, Port Matiica
Il
College,
Rockford
State
Philipsburg
»
nN
Hill
(Co
Lodge 100F, on
; on West High
rmer Claster Hardware
have decided to
modern
nel
street In
5
located
h into a
Net
CAL
bowling
The room, an unusually | one,
is to be equipped with three bowling
| amd two in the rear
The alleys will be
ngth and expectations
a modern
ng
GE
.
in fron
Me)
of
the jocation
THEATRE KATES
EFFECTIVE APRIL
NEW
|
t of the local the-
price in-
Magemen
attention to
will become
call
which
1 in
al Excise
the HA
ill be: evenings, #4 cents
and 18 cents for children,
s for adults and 14 cents
at matinees. The State
will be 44 cents for adults
in the evenings, and 35 cents for
matinee. Children’s rates will be 14
cents, afternoon or evening
Alie
CIreass
April
Feder
At
April 1
for aduits
35 cent
ch
4}
Tax Increase
and
for
chedule
aren
Betty Shuey Engaged
and Mrs. Willis F. Shuey,
Addition, Bellefonte, announce
engagement of their daughter
Ann, to Elmer E. Rockey, Jr.,
gon of Mr, and Mrs, Elmer
8r.. of East Lamb street,
Mi of
Bush
the
Betty
8 1/¢
E. Rockey,
Bellefonte
Police Still Hope for “Break” In
effective |
compliance with the new |
acmissions effective |,
[Srosetne of the
TY YOUTH
[£0
PACIFIC
Seaman George Meckley,
19, of State College, RD,
Buried at Sea
NO DETAILS OF
DEATH ARE GIVEN
Left For Sea Duty After
Thanksgiving Fur-
lough at Home
William
Mi
College
while
Cc (George
Mr
{ State
acuion
Nav)
wCifie,
Seaman
ley, 18
E. Meckie)
3 killed
the U
South Pri
Department
rent
ana
8 nnewher
accordl
telegram re
nh Inst week
The message stated th
Meckiey had been burle
full military hon but
no further detalls concerning the
death of the youl Me area
which he was serving the exa
date of his death
tances surrounding it
name and type of shiv on
was stationed are
hs family
Seaman Meckiey entered th
on September 13, 1943 and
boot training at the Great
Training Station at
Til After spending
nksgiving holidays at hom
he Was pieced on
Pacific December
attended chools
Mills at Boalsbur
the State
ool at the time
the Navy last fall
Leslie E. Meokley
the U. 8. Army
depot
Seaman
ea with
contained
the circum
and th
whieh bh
Lake
Creal
ee
Naval
Lakes
his parents
the
“
auty in
The
Pine
on 10
youth
Grove
WAS a Juno:
High Sch
try Into
Pi
Serving in
Chamber org ig supply depo
$000,000 GATT
at College
of his en
A Oro-
Her,
“TO OPEN ORE MINE ==
| Government Authorizes 1
[bertang to begin training. He is mars
Contract With Scotia
Scotia Mining Co.
Plant
ne
Corporation, a
aul ized
$500,000
£
3 Yor
for with
Mining Company to re-
abanc Scot
once Wie 80
terda)
scotia
Oey the ue floned
Ore mins
r Can
bY
ontr
n
Pittsburgh steel mills
poration announ the
at Washington for plant
| to include construction
a processing plant, a power line
a four-mile spur rallroad Ir
Scotia nv State College
The old ore holdings abandoned
in 1920, were taken over two 3
ago by the Scotia Mining Company
with H. M. Wallace of Sunbury as
president and Leo Moerschbacher
of Port Matilda a8 manager
Carmegie operated the
at the Barrens near Stale College
from 1881 until W11 when he tur
the Lake Superior ore deposit
Loc al interests kept the mine
i1 1920 when it was closed
Truck Damaged at
Milesburg Crossing
®ie's
" COT ed
Ret at
ana
om
HON mits
‘
ned
’
{to
|
going
p—
int
When a tow chain between
rucks broke near the Weaver grade
Pennsylvania Rall-
road west of Central City at 11:15
o'clock Friday morning, the towed
truck went out of control and nar-
rowly escaped plunging over a 10-
foot embankment intg Bald Eagle
Creek. No one was injured
The two trucks, both owned by |
L. Auman, Bellefonte coal dealer,
were enroute to Bellefonte, the ma-
chine ahead being driven by Walter
8. Perryman, of State College. The
other truck, driven by David E
Perryman, of Centre Hall, was load-
ed with coal and was being towed
to Bellefonte because of a broken
axle,
The two drivers told State Police
of the Pleasant Cap sub-station
who investigated the accident that
the stop signal at the crossing flash- |
ed red Just as they approached from
the west on Route 220. They said
"0
2 wit
ears Wal
Six Sons wr One Daughter in Service
James Wallace
Edgar Wallace
He
He oO
Prank, who was
oswoumeat bustriese
ursday of Ast week
engaged in the
at Howard. eit
‘or New Cums
the father of four ¢
ried
aren
and i
One
Tw
Pays
ia earl
Wallace
of C
ma
departs |
roe of Pag ron on
ww a M
For of i »
He oper
7
before
Med a
Water
being
; oh July 22. 1941
alled wa
Jr., who in }
a member of the
tn treet
Lt
ay
Air
eoond one
James CG. Wallace
1942 became
Richard Wallace Phil Wallace
Thomas Wallace
Pitist
In sddition
vice Mr. and Mrs
two other som and two daughiler
Robert BB. Wallace and Mis Mar
garet Wallace both of Everett,
Mass © Winfield, of Lock Haven, and
Mix set t the
Beliefont
Ig
to those In Loe 8er-
Wallace have
Nancy, who is a 1
Jean Wallace
ir Sam
Wallace
113)
11vt Ia
MyLn 16 nept
¥
erating vice station
T0 DEMONSTRATE
HOME BAKED BREAD
Health Club to Meet To-
night in High School
Auditorium
Outhi-watering
homemade
new Sova
i the Belie-
litori im LO-
He alth «for-Vi
The
ler Fi
High
when th
Wor will
fonte
night
Club hold
sion will be a
during which
o
its meeting
bread
OCCHR~
baking session
Miss Louise Smith
home economist, Westinghouse Elec.
tri & Manufacturing Company
hiladeiphia, will explain and dem -
onstrate how to make golden-brown
loaves that are tastier and more
healthful, too, “than grandma used
to bake!
To help homemakers of Bellefonte
turn out delicious, nutritious meal:
the home economist will distribute
to every Health-for-Victory Jub
member a copy of the March and
ED CRISS DRVE
FAR UNDER TT
S12.800
Fund Only $5. 775; South
Ward Total £1,106
MAJOR HOFFMAN
RECEIVES HONOR
Cited For Meritorious Ser-
vice, Extraordinary In-
itiative and Ability
jor Richards H. Hoffman
Ivsician whi with the
"Med ical C
mmended
ous service as
during the Tunis
Sicilian and Malian cam-
from November 12, 10M2, to
9. 1084. it was announced
week by the headqua of the
Fighter Group
e commendation made
E. Bates, Jr
of the Toth group
Belie.
Air
orps in Italy, has
exceptionally
a Rroup sure
iar Pantel.
ast hE 8 :
¢. the Belle-
» American Red
wa en
To date 86
The South Ward
plendi howing with a
of $1,106 turned ub and the
Ward total is 81.050. All other
solicitors are urged to do their ut.
most lo complete their collection
and turn their money in as
possible
850 far
ployes h
mately $350
made a dot
roe
¥
ind been for
yl
a {it nT
5 | if till
{f $12.800
sllected
menritori
a8 Deen « ROO
werian
Pp . Sl
January
this
Toth
™h
Earl
ficer
Jows
“Major Hoffman has been directly
responsible for the maintenance of
the excellent medical record of the
9th Fighter Oroup, while operating
under the desert and semi-desert
conditions for the first eight months |
has made
total
Nort
:
a
riers
N
SOON A by Col
commanding of
the is as fol-
ave
Warner Company em-
contributed aApproxi-
The Moose Club has
ation of 8100, and the
(Continued on pape Three)
a cm —
3 Local Airmen
issing in Action
William MeNichols
Lost March Mis-
sion Over Italy
FAIL GUNNER ON
FLYING FORTRESS
T-Sgt. Charles W. Risan,
Radio-Gunner, lost
Over Jugoslavia
MISSING YOUTH
BELLEFONTE NATIVE
S-Sgt. Melvin J. Houtz, of Had Completed 37
Pleasant Gap, Was in
South Pacific Are:
Ne Set.
‘3
Mis-
Planned to Come
After 50th
I'wo Cenu ounty airm a“ ¢- 3
sions:
Home
ported
Mrs. E. M. Grove to
Head Cancer Drive
£ pla v aul
April, U
officer
Robison are Mi
Jtant: Mrs. WW. O
jchaliman, and Mr
son, eutenant.
————————
RALPH HARTSOCK
DIES AT HOSPITAL
Former Centre County
Auditor Suffered Stroke
on March 13
Ralph R. Har
fan, for four
Centre Counts
died at 6:40
March 23
Hospital
stroke suffered
He had been a patient at
pital since suffering
Mr. Hartsock
itor expire
was a son of
Williams Hartsock
Clearfield county
1870, making his
death 74 year
¢ Caplan
Other
WOMAN'S CLUB IN
REGULAR MEETING
Music And Play Feature
Entertainment; New
Members Introduced
CK
CAT a mem
Board
o'clock 1
1944
ner
ing
i
Ig
County
of
at
on Marc!
the
a
win
aq
’
days
(Contin 5 Page Fowr
MS ————
Local Organizations
Aid School Milk Fund :
Bellefonte organizations have con-
tributed an additional $240 1
Bellefonte Parent-Teacher
tion to continue U
gram in the grade s hools
announced Tuesday nig!
ular meeting of the PTA §
schoo] auditoriug
ued
the an
The business session
Mrs Edward
sident, who calle
allegiance to
Christian
nging of
was led by
Mrs
ist
ship
OCIA -
Dro- hn
WAS
PEND
reg
Ie penny
pire
atl a
y the high
Lhe fi
Harman Ga
America 1 Beautifu
Mrs. Ernest Mart
Harry N. Meye a
Miss Winifred
chairman introdu
Marie Nelo and Susanne
new members of the club
The board voted to contribu
to the jocal cancer fund
and $15 to the Red Cros
cision was reached to hold
annual dinner in May as has been
the custom for some time. Depart.
ment chairmen announced the time
and ge of April meetings
ak
As ICAGETr
f
The new contribution
lows Veterans Foreign
$100; American Legion $80 Elks
Lodge, $50, and Logan Fire Com-
pany, $10. The penny-milk fund en-
ables every child In the grade
schools to have a hall-pint of milk
dally in school at a cost of one penny
a day
The auditorium was filled 10 ca-
pacity for the meeting, and enter.
tainment consisted of a program of
songs, dances and playlets presented
by the pupils of the grade schools
nt
as
Wars
Are
of
(&
ir
»
CAMDAIET
drive. De-
the club's
4-Year-Old Faylor Murder Mystery
—————
they believed a signal repairman!April Meal Planning Guide, In ad- Swans Continue
| flashed the light just as they neared | dition, the guide contains recipes
from Egypt to Cape Bon, which in-
dicated an exceptioanlly low loss of |
March 28
rocked by
the most
county
Early
1M0 Centre county
the discovery of one
brutal murders in
crime annals
taal morning the mutilated |
Was
of
the
and beaten body of Rachel H. Tay- |
lor, 17-year-old Penn State fresh-
man, of Wildwood, N. J. was found |
in the driveway of the Lemont
school.
Discovery of the body by Marold |
Leightley, of Oak Hall, janitor of |
the school, when he reported for!
work about 6:30 a. m., launched one |
of the most intensive police Investi-
gations ever held in Central Penne
sylvania<an investigation which has |
comtinued uninterrupted ever since.
But today, Just four years later,
police admit ‘that they seem no near- |
er a solution of the baffling crime |
than they were the day the body
was discovered
It lsn't that investigators have)
been lax in their duty, or that they |
at Rockview sub-station, headquar-
tery for the probe, there is one en~
tire steel fling cabinet containing
nothing but reports and records of
the investigation
In the eabinet are reports of no
{less than 5.000 interviews with per-
sons in every walk of life in towns
and cities throughout the entire
eastern part of the United States,
There are more than 2.000 other re-
ports filled by police Investigators,
There are countless other sundry
records, all carefully gathered and
filed against the day vhen the case
finally Is “broken.”
When will that day come?
Carl E. Hartman, of the State Po-
lice Detective Squadron, Harrisburg,
who has been specially assigned to
[the Taylor case for the past two
years and four months, makes no
rash promises,
Neither does Corp, Samuel Mol
lenkof, in charge of Rockview sub-
haven't been putting plenty of ef- station, who keeps a close watch on
fort and thought into the task, for (Continued on page Four)
the crossing.
+The driver of the second truck, |
seeing the signal, believed a train
was approaching and tried to stop
(Continued on Page Four) |
Boalsburg Firemen |
Aid Red Cross Drive
Twenty-five dollars was given l
the American Red Cross by the |
Boalsburg Pire ny in honor
of ench member In service, ofM- |
cers of the organization announced.
A dollar was donated for each man
serving his country.
Ofcers of the fire company for
land menus for every meal in the
month; hints that will be helpful in
meeting food shgriages and rations
ing. suggestions Tor using cereals to ®
make a little meat go a long Way, |
and other valuable Rr lormation or
To Idle; Ignore
Advent of Spring
According to latest reports, the
(Ume due to sickness
His interest in the medical probe |
lems of each squadron resulted in|
:iwho has three sons,
ap i lig
NEW PHARMAC AST AT
PARRISH DRUG STORE
H. Franklin Staub, of State Col-
lege, on Saturday began his hew
{duties as pharmacist ut the Parrish
{Drug store in Bellefonte in the post
made vacant by the recent death of
James Fox, of Bellefonte,
Mr. Staub, who is married and
two of them
serving in the Navy, came here from
Altoona.
A native of Lock Haven he was
Pharmacy and since, that
0 swans above the falls on South his monthly medical reports, He has |
Water street, Bellefonte, are contin- | the confidence of all personnel, in-|
uing to be carefree jitterbugs and cluding the squadron surgeons and |
so far have shown no inclination to was of greal assistance to them all.
settle down to family life “Due to the scarcity of medical |
10 other words, even though Spring | { supplies, he acted as the group med-
is here. the two swans apparently | ical officer for all units, He Main |
are giving no thought to the future,’ (Continued on page Four)
and are idling their time away float. ffi
ing about on the water, foraging In| May Move Offices
the moss for succulent bits of food! The Centre County Commissioners
and cavorting and splashing about | who have been seeking office quar-
for the entertainment of the spec- ters for the ay indian Superintendent's
tators along the sidewalk bordering | stafl, yesterday
the stream. | office
To the serious side of life es rs, bon
have given no Shougit, There is no street,
je of Me hankh
RE Anat the day of # por |fic8 now
the
College things
Hon nit, bows been employed by large sible increase In the family, and for
House,
drug stores
(Continued an Pape Four)
i
ed for
Little News, Plenty of Views In
Ancient C opy of Centre Democrat
The oldest copy of The Centre| [scription was “two dollars
{Democrat known to be In existence annum. Ane in advance, and ad
was discovered recently in the of- dollars and twenty-five cents will be
[fices of Register Harry A. Corman {charged if not paid until the expir-
The discovery was made by Mrs. | ation of the year; subscribers subject
{N. B. Spangler, of East High street, {to postage.”
| well known Bellefonte historian and! Page 1 of the paper is devoted en-
(genealogist, who came upon the tirely to political articles, with the
| newspaper in ancient files of legal exeeplion of the top of column one
| papers, The newspaper Is serving as, which carries a poem “Love Vindi-
the cover for a “list of goods and | cated.” Most of the political articles
chattels sold March 17, 1838, which are trades against Gen. Harrison,
were of John Schlegel, late of Gregg the Bank Federal candidate for
and the list is carefully President, who was reported to be in
the folded newspaper. favor of selling poor white men into
issue is dated October 24, 1836, slavery. Other articles are entitled
{complete coordination and effective
medication, which was reflected in