le
Jesse
ADLER
n Looks at
the NEWS
GENERAL MacARTHUR,
ding Major Bong from accepting
that Scotch from Eddie Ricken-
backer, probably looked up Bong's
record and decided it's easier
a dozen Japs than a dozen bottles
Scotch!
THE A. AF
helped Hitler
birthday by lighting birthday
candles on his cake from 10,000 feet
in the air. But that's a bomb-sight
petter than no celebration
HERMANN GOERRING
Order of the Day (or In
a DIsOrder of tu
Nazi Hitley
birthday gift Mat
not to lay down thelr
bodies?
to get
Of
A
AS
the
F
th
R
hi
and
celebrate
the
t
at all
in
Germany
an
is e
the
one
se
thelr
PENCILLED
42nd Street Th
and Charley Ch
Our Children’?
NIC
bein
na wanieq
IRO?!
LEWIS
the
JOE [|
We heard
hailed to jail for
Th
cent
BUT that
dent that hs
Seem table
cent and
wy Amusement
planation
waiter wh
INCIDENTAL
what a Wolf say
tight spot? “Let
THE British
theyre using a
ors ride cowbow
teresting. It'll
hitchhiking
THE f{reezin
wards met wit
but in Brooklvt
“kid” on the Dodgers
undoubtedly wind up as
for the House of David
IT 18 reported that Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt washed out her own
Ings every t on her recent Car-
ibbean jaunt didn’t I
remained
jet them dry
HARRY HERSHFIELD has
best story the week-—U
about the German general
ed patriot why the Swis
admiral when {id
navy. “It:
Swiss in
minister of justice
SEEMS the tailors are going to re-|
duce the number of pockets in ihe
new suits oy fifty per cent. John L.
Lewis will probably have to reor- |
ganize the nickporkets.
wondaers
about gun
)
€ judge ned nO
for
1
{
00 bad
im
} )
n
Intelligence
wien
. ray |
L Prey
announcement
torpedo which
fashion
new
very
f
art a arm
n, whe
is 35
econd team
tock -
think
of
Win
o
t
this
nis
Way
Germany
don't
you?
A MARINE in the Pacific wrote | using more fresh eggs in daily meals had made some lemonade
both his wife and girl friend a let-
ter but made the mistake of switch |
g¢ envelopes. Fortunately the cen-|
sor caught the mistake and t
ed it—writing t marine
careful with your correspondence
vou'll have co-respondents!
INCIDENTALLY do you know
what a co-respondent is? It's a fel
low who wishes that only half
things him were tr
ANOTHER good American
mula for humor dies with the
vent of the female iceman
the species is Virginia Zeroth
New York. She probably got the idea
from the Zer ne.
ly not from
fy
in
Corre
he ge more
said about
for-
ad-
First of
of
cert
Viz
$2 to her husband wit
tion that he spend i buy en
rope to hang himsel What
priorities, no noose is good new
1 the su
to
f
i
a ———————
CHILD'S NECK BROKEN
William Ira Loss, 7, Was
dead by his mother, hanging (rom a
tree in yard at his home in Mil-
flinburg. He had been playing wit
a short chain wi was attached
to the limb, with noose of
rope tied on one end of the ¢
When he whi attempting
climb the noose
over his head, which was broken
the sudden jerk he
four
fr
vd
a
0
Heh
tree ft .
Dain
’
le
the
fell
tree slipped
bw
fall
x, itl
forbid-!
{wh
| had
| The Most Widel
A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week ||
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SECOND
SECTION
y' Read Newspaper Ii Centre County
dhe Cenfre Democrat
i
Random
NEWS,
FEATURES
Items
VOLUME 63.
BELLEFONTE, PA. THI
'RSDAY, APRIL 27, 1944
AY
.
UMEER 17.
L
Former Beech
Creek High
School Principal Takes
Own Life
During lllness
Members of Family Find Despondent Man
Dead on Second Flo
Formerly
Aged Man Found
Dead on Highway
'wo Little Girls
Lifeless Body of Harry
J. Clapper
80, of Holliday
‘
retired employe of
apper,
the
wy od
mad«
nedy
were
time
the
It was learned tha
¢
i
owing his
ago. He had
d !
time { retirement
been to Hollic
weekend
~y :
at
IAYS~-
to shopping
ome when
Irvive
Ham
Mo
Hollid
Robinsor
Be
Wr gig
Housewives Urged
To Use More Eggs
Housewives in this area can make!
an important contribution to the
i
war offort and save ration points by
an official of the nation’s largest
food distributor said last week
Our company is glad to cooperate
ilers and governmen-
the nation-wide cam-
in egg:
avoid waste of
ential | aid Mr. Wein-
A & P Food Stores General Sup-
House -
entif
to move surpluses in
mers’ hands to
's ood
itendent for thi
area
wives Ip or
{foods
Can he cons ve 8 pl
by more of
nonrationed sh eggs
The company official
seasonal ] 1s had
sponse
wing ’
SINE
fre
thi
reported
resulted
at time
a
from
{ poultrymen
manpower
the patrioti of
who despite and feed
shortages stepped up egg production
alitime The company
aiding the egg merchandising di:
through news
poster
to record is
store w
to the fs that egg wbundant
f and
ir of
upply
fine
nomical food
ar
oOC
—————
Predominate
traditionally
fe
{
t tl
Pennsylvanians
vani
nt 50 per
s ONT
» Colleg
nns; \n
cent
iment
rep-\
he undergrad
Pent
) r Yar
n
GOVERNOR SERVED COLLEGE
A. Beaver
State Col-
1906-07
mor James
Ania
ng president
HSYIV
n
Bellwood Woman Elected
State Mother For 1944
of Bellwood, |
State Mother of |
Mrs. Jacob R. Miller
has been selected
Pennsylvania for 1944, It was an-
nounced Sunday by the American |
Mothers’ Committee of the Golden |
Rule Poundation, which annually se- |
jected the outstanding American |
mothers '
Mrs. Miller was completely taken |
by surprise when called by a report-
er of the Altoona Tribune, Sunday |
night, as she had known nothing of
her election previously
When told that her youngest son,
Rev. John Homer Miller, of the Hope |
Congregational church, Springfield,
Mass., nominated her for this hon-
or, she exclaimed, “He ought to be
spanked.”
When asked for her picture, Mrs
Miller laughed and sald, “Oh, 1
haven't had one taken for 50 years
TI only had two children at the time.”
She declared she is “too old to have
her picture taken now.”
Mrs. Miller who was 74 In March,
| and
the Altoona Senjor High School
Mary (Mrs. Paul E. LeVan), married
is living in Philadelphia, and
has been very active in Red Cross
work: Dolly (Mrs. John Otley) Is
married and her husband is in the
armed forces; Norman is superin-
| tendent of the Tyrone schools: Don
is the personnel director of the Ket.
tell Alreraft Company in Philadel
Discover A
to,
nutritious |,
or of Father's Barn;
In Navy
nell Univer
ig musi
He nl
Male Chor
e 114
shoemaker, depu
Hier | | health ca
* by
vices
nangin
I were held
1a Be
the
' Al
i he Rev Md. 8
Interment wa
the Christian emeten
DRIVERS PASS TEST
I'welve of
out thirty applicants
ed automobile
ist week at Lock Have
John Deitrich, Belle-
Richard L. Musser AQrons-
Richard Miller, Mack:
C. Kulka and Joel
Renovo: Rich
SLICCeSNIN NL
driver ls
I"
nte
ey are
yvile
— —-
Fall Down Stairs
Fatal to Woman
Vietim Mistakes Cellar Door
For Hall Door at Al-
toona Home
Death stalked the footsteps
Mary Weamer sho after 8 o'clock
Saturday night, when she mistook
a celiar door for a hall door going
upstairs and fell down a flight of |
stairs at her home in Altoona, kill
ing herself almost instantly.
She had been in the kitchen and
an WAAR
her custom just before retiring. The
door leading upstairs and the door
leading to the cellar are side by
Somehow she opened Lhe
instead Lhe
of Mrs
wi 14
rsdy
tide
eliar door
other door but did
difference. She
rward in the cellarway and
plunged down the stairs head-
80 unexpected was
and sustained
ull and laceration:
She lived only a few min-
was dead when tl ambu-
¢
Ol
tice the Look
’
she
+ head
utes and
lance 3
is
counts
John
widow
1 Cambria
r daughter of
the
May 28 ¥
and Mary Kn
of Adam Weamer
Surviving are (wo sons
the following
Wiley, Mrs
Eva Hoff, Mr
Julia Ream
30 grandchildren
randchildren She
Sts. Peter
)
She was
f Frank and
daughters
Margaret
Cecelia
of
20
all
and
Was
Paul
and
Lieut. Jess Hudson
Missing In Action
ne
ana
Mr Jess Hudson
Front Philipsburg
word from the War Depariment
Thursday of last week that their son
1st Lieut, Jess Hudson, is reported
missing In action in the Mediter-
ranean theatre of operations
Je was the pliot of a P47, a
MMunderboit fighter plane. He has
been overseas since October and it
is known that he had 20 missions to
his credit gver a month ago: This
wound indicate that he has been
awarded the Air Medal ann Oak
Leaf Clusters
After graduating from high school
he was employed at Brown's Boot
Shop. He enlisted in the Army Alr
Forces in January 1042 and was
called for cadet training three
months later
Son
received
Mrs th
street
:
on
’
|
y fo
“Always
LAP
aA SA
RV
hk
On The J
ob”
RS ——
w
U. S$. Marine Corps Photo
“In the snow of far-off northern lands,” a line of the famous Ma-
rines’ Hymn, is illustrated by in
guarding a remote spot of Alas
is Leatherneck machine-gun crew
ka's mountainous shoreline, Ma-
rines today are serving and fighting in all paris of the world,
A ! }
man Romanians
and French--were
{ batch
Cie
Pole
batch
3
ners
Slovak
up
cobbles
worker
lined
tis
on
y
1} 4 I
a
street of Slobodka
QuUArters
One by
Allied
a
0
‘
Ie
Le
ur-
wd drab
First
were
prisingly
in appearance
The largest was Master Sgt. Hans
Goebel, 27. who sald he wag a jun-
or doctor in the German army. He
ai ne staved fy 5 private ig
-
snail if
a
«.. Stories of Despair Told by
: Captured Nazi Prisoners
front. He
er
mat r™
vex { the
ov die
114 More
ripted
ft
Russ
said they came with the sole
tion of deserting and joining Gen
“Harles de Gaulle's Fighting French
E7%%s first ppariunity
anc roed RY
inlen-
Young Girl Held at
Jail in Check Case
Miss Dorothy
of Wililamsburg
ing
following her
ientown by
heck forgery
The girl a former employ
Piper Ailrcralit Corp
amount of Piper check from
to $83.20, made purchases am
to about $25 Lubelle
Lock Haver March 4
the balance cash, and
town
After dis
compiaint was
And a quiet In
the State Police, wix
in Allentown. At
Alderman M J
rt
coll
Leonard
Blair county
Clinton eon
apprehension
State Police
charge
shout
14 }
held in the
the
e of t
raised
a
0 al
on
overy of the forgery
the
tarted b
made by
stigation s
Anally | ’
ANALY OCA TH
her
nel
f
y hearing
Lig
w
ro Ww Iie
1A for
held |
Music Department
To Hold Banquet v
final {
The { the yea: :
Music Department of the Belle
fonte Woman's Club will be
the form of a banquet at the Pem
Belle Hotel, Thursday, May 4, at 6:45
lock Members are permitted te
bring guests. Reservations must Us
made with Mrs. Harry Myer or Mrs
Wallace Ward before noon, Mi
day May 1
Table decorations will be in charge
of Mrs. John Covey, chairman, Mr
Bdward Miller, and Mrs. Donald
Knisely. Musical numbers by several
members of the club and the 1
ticipation of all In a Kkinder-sym-
phony program will be the enter.
tainment., There will also be a brief
business meeting, including the elec
tion of officers under the direction
of the following nominating com-
mittee: Mrs. W. C. Thompson, chair.
man, Miss Mary Forbes and Mrs
meeting
the
held
-
0
Dare
phia: Paul is an investment director Ghosts Are Not What They Seem | Mahlon Robb
in Clifton, N,. J.; John is pastor of
the Hope Congregational church in!
Springfield, Mass, and William, de-
ceased, was president of the Practi-
eal Alreraft and Diesel training
school in Detroit, Mich
Each child is a university gradu.
ate and a total of 17 degrees have
been conferred upon them. The ad-
vancement of each in his or her
chosen career has to a large extent
been due to the Influence of their
mother
Mrs. Miller managed, planned and
financed the college educations for
her children on the income of a
small farm. The children them-
selves cooperated and faithfully met
their obligations to her and to each
other to the extent that thelr names
are on the honor rolls of the lead.
ing colleges of our time from Leland
Stanford in the west to Oxford uni.
versity in the east. Today, her
children are
To Be
You only think you know what a
spook looks like. At least that Is the
opinion of a noted stlentist, who
has something interesting
about apparitions and how our
thoughts run away with us. Read
this absorbing feature in the May]
th issue of The American Weekly, |
favorite magazine with the Balti. |
more Sunday American, Order from
[your newsdealer
ila
SCALDED BY STEAM
Melvin Mann, Salona, an employe
of the American Aniline Products,
Inc, was scalded on the right side
Inst Thursday afternoon when a
steam pipe burst in his department,
Bullding 28. He was admitted to the
Lock Haven Hospital where his con.
dition was reported as good.
a —— a ——
]
i
:
CAR SNAPS OFF POLE
A coach owned and operated by
Gordon Condo, of Mill Hall, R. D. |
10 8aY was demolished but Mr. Condo es)
caped® with lacerations shortly after
midnight Thursday night when the
car ran off Pennsylvania avenue, in
the lower end of Mill Hall snapped
off a utility pole of the Pennsylvania
Power and Light Co. then rolled
over several times into a field Mr
steering mechanism of the car fall
ed, causing the car to swerve to the
left of the street. Damage to the
pole amounted to about $125
ENCOURAGE AERONAUTICS
Two scholarships and a fellowship
have beefi established at the Penn-
sylvania State College by a major
alreraft company to encourage the
study of aeronautical engineering,
IT'S STILL THE NAVY
The Navy is first in the affections
of Putinylvasts Susts etd.
n the
Nursing Activities
Committee Meets
5
OOM ing con.
1 eastern area
Irters 1!
Alexandria
meeting
da
resent at the
interesting
th
and
ana
i
ry Li] 1 on
problem
XDial
alt}
"
what th
will mean an
rk that will
1 program
nootl-w
ned
blic he vice ‘|
wt 4
amount of
to make
praperly i
Public
large
wy
ho
’
NeCeSSAry is
the
work
funct nr
world {
cup)
Vroom
healt
field
O
M
§
, oi
i :
1
a
{
Al —
o Nature Set Off Vesuvias
What awakened Mount Ve
from its slumber bring terror
again fo the people of Italy? Did
man or nature set off the volcano?
A noted geologist tells how
bombs may have activated the re-
cht flow of Java from the mountain
monster. Read this revealing story
in the May 7th issue of The Ameri-
vall Weekly, favorite magazine with
the Baltimore Sunday American
Order from your newsdealer
Did Man
HViIus
to
——— i
THEIR INTEREST IS PERSONAL
Nearly 80 per cent of Pennsyl-
vania’s 4-H Club members have
close relatives in the armed services,
according to A. L. Baker, professor
of agricultural education at the
Pennsylvania State College and
State 4-H Club leader
Ca — I ————
| GATHER HISTORICAL DATA
The Pennsylvania State Co
established a Pennsylvania hist
ory
lcondo told the State Police the collection 30 years ago, and already
[it contains more than 10000 bound
volumes, and many thousands of
:
| uments
| THEY'RE IN UNIFORM NOW
| Alumni Association officials esti-
mate that nearly one-third of the
[Pennsylvania State Oollege’s 30,000
iving alumni are now serving in the
armed forces.
Returns to Camp
Arthur Hartle, A's, son of Mr. and
Mrs. F. BE. Hartle of Dri , bas
‘returned td Bainbridge, Md, follow
Red
war
manuscripts, letters, and other doc. ;
Veteran Railr
Native of Unionville,
is Killed Accidentally
oad Worker
FRISONER OF WAR
A i
‘
ins
' 4
Fy
OF pov ios
)
“w
Fir }
Carl S. Ammerman, Conductor on Shifting En- i
gine, Fatally Injured When He Walks
Into Path of Another Engine
Philpsburg Girl
Victim of Poison
t Fe
Can Reduce Costs |
| With 4-Way Jeeps
Farmers Will Find Many Uses
Seout Cars When
War Ends
For
Dies in Hospital After Drink.
ing Half Bottle of
ght
of P {
Wednesda,
i according
Coroner Charles
Milesburg. who
girl 5 death
Miss Dainey Is reported
sen Monday morning
members of the family to go «
8 tewear
clock
to Centre County
G. Bheckler
investigated
ari
£ thes
re 8 Spor
Cardin "
bi ory d
before ink
companion u
DCs use ¢
Rk Eiri
iodine was m
She was taken 10 the State hospital
died at 4:55 o'clock after-
The coroner stated that by the
she had arrived at
pump and flus
because the
rough }
deceased Was born at Kyler.
December 8B. 1824 i
father and
owing
aken he
3 - 4
and a
ts
¥
noc
Une Whe tai
stome-
hos
W
1 her
atind Pods Nac
: th . She n
f 4) her 4 Mw
She
i bv her a a ryt evr
: ol a mo Lit
he § isters and
Mages Ww
Karashing
thy Dames
Mrs. 1
Doro
conn
Mr
Mr
Vioietta
vey Maines
Maines, Meadville
Niagara Fall:
PTA] Services were
Thursday afternoor
ome. Burial
Friown cemeter
| —_—
Employers Must Make
Report by April 30th
Employers are reminded that
ports and contributions required by
the Pennsylvania Unemployment
{Compensation Law for the first
quarter of 1844 are due on or before
{April 30, 1944,
For the purpose of assisting em-
ployers in preparing their returns
{and receiving reports and contribu
tions, a field representative will be
{at the following places
| Tuesday, April 25, at the Undine
Fire House, Bellefonte, between §
and 11 a.m
Tuesday, April 25, at the postof-
Rac!
burg
Jesse
Maine
Pur
o'clock
Dames
the K
al
held at
frou
WAS m
1s
!
re.
fice, Miliheim, between | and 3 p.|
m
Wednesday, April 26, at the office
of Robert ¥Y. Edwards, Glennland
building, State College, between |
and 5 p.m
| This will be the last opportunity
{to receive assistance before becom-
{ing delinquent,
1
llege| STUDENTS DO THEIR PART |
| Nearly 80 per cent of the persons
recruited for seasonal work on
STUDYING IN FOXHOLES
“Foxholes University,” the name
Ss correspon-
i “
spa CPRY head of the Parm Equipment |
to have! ing. harrowing and other field work
ahead of
can be
* TSE
UT ~- Purpose
the tractor
4
nthe l
depart
445
ment of Agr
recent
ture tests
on
the vehicle
report
with
experiments
by R B
{ee ike contrd r. Carts
ur aid
the little booklet
servicemen
WSUeC be glad to accept
n out 2488 of
tre Counts
BANK CHARGE:
The new system of service charges
(and research division
{described as
the Jeep was
highly useful in plow
pr
4
First findings in the continuing
Jeep studies being made by the ag-
1 CNEINMeTINE CGepariment:
and
gemonstrats
ate College
Ohio
PENN STATE SUMMER
SCHOOL DATES ANNOUNCED
Ea | adulterated «
he Posi- | CARTOONIST
gust 2
August
from August
———
SUFFERS HEART ATTACK
E Hall
he rt or M was
will
danas (Continund on pape Fowr)
‘What a Night That Was
In Town of Selinsgrove’
Editor Marion
4
f¢
Schnure Schoch
the Selinsgrove Times, ast week
thook from versatile “Pepper the airport «
Box” the recollection of a fifteen nors storm
year-old incident of the unexpected | in the east. Moreover
visit at that time 10 Snyder county | pher there informed
jof a distinguished guest Isin people of his advice
1 The writer resorts 10 the memory oF was wreatening in
of an early spring evening of 1820, hanna Valley
{when the Governor of Wisconsin But the Badger
wes the unsnnounced Saturday ed to see Brondway that
night guest of Selinsgrove, as he they 100k off despite the
jand his party were enroute to New| By the time they reached Wood
[York to invite the Bremen fiers to! ward, the wind was high. When
[Madison. The German aviators had they crossed ever Laurelton, the
{just made their memorable firstirain began to fall 80 they veered
non-stop westward flight across the | south from the Jack's Mountain
Atlantic {sector toward Shade Mountain.
Editor Schoch continues his in- hoping 10 skirt around the storm
{teresting story In his own inimita-| “But in a few moments, the tem-
{ble style (pests Jet Joose, Torrents of rain re-
“The big metropolis was doing lis duced visibility, Bolts of lightning
best to entertain the crew, but the! flashed and peal of thunder roar-
good people of Wisconsin wanted ed. The gale tossed the craft about
to add their measure of hospitality The lifebelts, holding the men In
to the welcome A majority of the) their chairs, stretched under the
| population of that State traces its swaying strain.
ancestry direct to what was rever-| “Any in storm has ever been
ently known then as the Pather- a travele rule, and those men
land, despite World War I. and!decided it was high time for them
left
was
the "Town
CIOs Wey
they Bel
bw
ol unt wionte
While
od
Cn
q
the fue
ane { =
ver.
billowing
the Telegra-
the Wiscon
the weath
Susque
14
W nf
US oi
iw
bounders want.
night, So
cautions