Jesse ADLER Looks at the NEWS | rd The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County Centre Democraf SECOND SECTION he Reds are smash | looks like Anot THE way those ing into Germany it don't want to go through Russian Winter either WITH our forces lands only 650 mile Cayler says dt won't Nippon will be rele Land of the Writhing IF Presidential Candidate Dewey comes through with the youthful | cabinet he's been talking about, we'll probably see Frank Sinatra, Tommy Dorsey Bing Crosby in Wash ington least it'll give Man With Mustache THE Army to adopt olive drab ts purposes Well, that's get rid of red tape HITLER with the absentee problem iin. Every a few nore fail to show up for work they rajding Jay from Tokyo, Joy be before as the long red to Sun! and At the the harmony announces frantic Ber factorie really getting 114] aay who biggest from Earl Wilson Know the two the world are Chase and they ry TAKE ought to wolves in Sanborn it date eve Dag about the dog in the asked his sergeant } (Okeh, 80 this dogs) DID you hear K-89 Corps who for a tree-day column is OFFICIAL bulletin posted at an Advanced Army Base in New Gul- Hereafter no member of this personnel on or off duty thie frult juice HIS pas going to the Lea mess hall curse Als 4 battery acid do not receipt of a pan Waterbury I'm between in etter addressed Ww the Conn.) Democrat It sure if Was a cholic you and Frank Sinatra crow, the farmers who are gent would choose a fate like y and make ceatn”? column is reads there « fOr & scare- I \ atelll } 8 mun trespasser SPEAKING of pan letters A urst of Arizona on etter from a rit ¥ ator Senator « pos ibility Fraternally FOR Your doesn’t watch the boys THE National Peanut Council an nounces it has developed a new type of fabric for men’s suits peanuts! Sounds game to me IF t greasier solution wear vellow gla PROBABLY stream in the country is in Ver- mont where a Sign reads No Fish ing Aloud!” J A TACOMA (Wash) private who! fought througn the Sellen and Italian invasions unscathed, was in- jured in Normandy when ga cow landed on top of him in a foxhole Medium itside nsid inside IN Chicago r d vorce, ciaimin wife was kissed by his best friend who then away with The fact that he away with h myvinces me it best friend made Ir butter Henny S67 situation Youngman SNAVINg ' Pr ae Ve the quietest Ashing rare O burned a guy if suing fi i nis : ran ran his her Ld} Road Being Oiled The State Highway Department centre headquarters ing and treating the road from Hut bard Bridee to Orviston, wl in Centre county, and the Clint county division the State ! way Department is treating the road from its intersection with the Or viston road to the Peter farm, known as Route 18009, in the same man- ner ounty ii- is uch les of If fighting men War Bonds " t Ig you want capaci Rosie green VOLUME 683, 4 Four-Year-Old Boy Drowns As Motor Boat Capsizes | Paddle Craft at Lakemont Tragedy Occurs Sunday Night at Altoona Re- sort; Four Others Hurled Into Water are Rescued by James Locher Ite on A Lakemont pool evening LOating party Altoona, was turned night when year-old son of No tragedy Sunday Lloyd J. Baxter, 4 Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd J. Baxter of El- dorado, was drowned after he had been hurled into the lake along with two adults two children when the paddle boat in which they were rowing capsized I'he little fellow had g along with Mr. and Mrs. James Locher and their two children Gallen and Shar who is celebrating her fifth birth in honor of his little play - natal day accident and thelr Hie on day today mate s I'he t 50 happened abou Lad, 4, Killed By Automobile Vietim Dashes Into Street in Path of Tyrone Man's Car Edgar Mills, 4, son of Mr Edgar E. Mill of Altoona y afternoon was killed nto the street “tt hort notice | He made a ¢ Sciortino Brothers Write From Sicily Sciortino brothers Prank and Joe who conducted = § State College for years ang returned to Sicily apparently through the invasion afely Mr The on then ge ToCery M 4 them Nave received He doesn at Real Monte in Sicily, where fighting centered. He from Fran wiilitie province mention Agr me of igento © When Sewing brick padding venience in article with "yt and the for pinni Any tightly while the room mst be bein held g done CENTRE COUNTY HOS PITAL IN THE WEEK'S NEWS Monday of Last Week Discharged: Mrs. Fred Waltz, Jr and infant daughter, Spring Mills R. D 2. Mrs. Russell McClintic and infant son, Lemont: Mrs. Lester Gill Pleatant Cap Admitted Monday and discharged Tuesday: Henry Yeager, Bellefonte Vance Demmick, Jr, Bellefonte Tuesday of Last Week Admitted Russell Yearick, Belle- fonte, R. D 2: Mrs. Cyrus Shafler Bellefonte, R. D. 2 Discharged Mrs R A Harter Millheim Mrs. Eleanor Miller, of Bellefonte Mrs. Lee WW. Dobson State College BR. D 1} Mrs. Har rison Tressler and Infant son, Belle fonte. R D 2 Admitted Tuesday, discharged on Wednesday Nancy Tanney, Belle fonte Mrs. Boyd Musser, Spring Mills. R. D 2 Births: a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Long, Centre Hall R.D 1. a daughter to Mr. and Mrs William Whalte, Pleasant Gap. =» daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Hoy, Btate College, R. D Wednesday of Last Week Admitted Boalsburg | College y Mill Lindsey Whitehead of | Bellefonte Homer R D 2: Mrs Bellefonte, R Mi Discharged laughte and Infant Thurs verly K. Ross Admitted Friday He Harry Thomas iurley Ann lege Mrs D1 Me ase Haro D1 Nevin Struble Pleasant Gap discharged State Col- State Sprirg Belle- fonte Shire- man 14 Wi r ny st Cirove R Friday Mrs. Bertha Pine Grove Mills Philip Julian, R. D 1 Mrs. Philip Bmith. Centre Hall Discharged: Mrs. Clair Tice infant daughter, State College D.. Gladys Shawver, Aaronsburg Admitted Friday and discharged Saturday. Larry Smith, State Col- lege. Marion Petzer, State College; Meodore Petzer, State College Birth: a daughter to Mr. and Mrs Robert Grace, State College | Saturday Admitted: John Albright Bpring | Mills: Lucille Emery, Centre Hall Discharged: Mrs. Clifford Quick, ! Milesburg;, Mrs. Carl W. Johnson, | Bellefonte, Miss Grace Hoy, Belle- | toute, R. D. 2 | Admitted Saturday and discharged | Sunday: Mrs. Irving C. Boerlin, of Admitted Weaver, Spotis L and R Discharged: Mrs. Robert Ebeling | go 1e College and infant son, Bellefonte, R. D | Belle- '} Mrs. Ernest Wagner, Centre Hall Admitted Wednesday, discharged Thursday: Betty Lou Price, Belle- fonte, R. D 1. Ammon Horner, Spring Mills, R. D. 2; Harry Hock- enberry, Bellefonte, R. D. 3 Births: a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wilkinson, Bellefonte, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Riordan, Bellefonte, R D. |; = daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Laird W. Alkey, Bellefonte, Thursday of Last Week Admitted: Mrs, John MeCulley, Expired fonte Herman Harju, Sunday Births: a daughter to Mr. and Mra. Gerald Schreffier, Bellefonte, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs Walter | Perrynmn, State College, R. D. 1, a! son to Mr. and Mrs. John W. HA, Julian, R D; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Waite, Bellefonte ! Admitted Bunday and discharged Monday: Arthur M. Pivirotto, Jr, of | Pittsburgh. h There were 55 patients at the be- ginning of the week. feet fron Shu diniuel two of the members He nu party told State Police they that the paddle boat appeared to be top- thie | call W of tl nor boast noticed heavy and i pi it hey were about 20 feet past the boat when of the of thelr boat capsize and the OC hey unloaded thelr was Hsting they od one members SAW Lhe upants thrown into the water immediately returned to shore famille went of those in party and to the rescue the water At Mercy cued that Hospital Lh wa where party it wa ald Mr. Locher suffered from ex- tion well as shock for he had his wife and two children from the water tried to find the little Baxter was taken from the water Me Baxter about four res. taken i mtien and boy when he found man He wa tren to child ’ Wi in water 12 ites after the accident happened » the hospital where un efforts were made ir ir wn Only ast week little Baxter tot spent half a day packing his suit case He tugged it down the stair and said Mama, I'm leaving now I'm going to join the arm) He walked out of ti and returned ttie while t the 1 house Arel Her? nis mother Oh, 1 re Bid DRCK § Gis naa ing replies al a NONOrabise harge 3 Escape Death In Plane Crash Forced Landing in Corn Field Causes $2,000 Damage to Plane : the Waco which Tw and nu “iN~lAW Were an Washington, D. « to pilot, Major Elm Devore officer, waa forced down We B50 OU De Dros private hi wife a Lin BRITDALE ther traveling fr Erie a CAP the on i Baturday afternoon The plane landed in a cornfield on the A F. Baker farm, Lincoln town ilp. Blair county, 3 miles south- west Huntingdon, and bounced over I wheat field and flopped ing $2000 damage Nobody hurt of Ho A over, od wa eriously Major Devore the Congress) with AeTOo- Lhe Nal SChool Rockville, Md. He members of his family were headed weekend Every ing fine the trip Major Peeve re noticed showed which | db line had broken. At was better than half a up in the alr, 3000 feet. and 1 his engine frose on him. There nothing to do but come down as rently as he could. He picked out a likely looking spot, & cornfield. After the plane had bounced from the cornfield to the wheat fleld and turn. ed over, those inside crawled out Me women continued their jour- to Erie by auto and the Major took a train back to Washington - nauti and on Fauge ol the ne Por IW ney ‘Home Nursing to Be Taught in High School Mr Mary C. Heverly, chairman {f Home Nursing of the Red Cross Activities Committee at the meet f that committee held Thur day of last week reported a con- ference with EK. Btock, principal of the Bellefonte schools, in regard to Including Home Nursing on the high school curriculum, and ar- rangements will be made for several classes during the fall and winter Mrs. John Lambert has tempor. arlly accepted the chairmanship of the Red Cross Loan Closet Com- mittee in the absence of Miss Alice Fox Miss Rimmey, chapter nurse, re- ported 89 visits for the month of May. A diphtheria Immunization clinde was held at Milesburg for Milesburg and Central City school children, at which time 104 children were inoculated. This project was sponsored by the Mileshurg Wom- an's Club Miss Rimmey instructed three classes of new and prospective mo- thers, under the Emergency Ma- ng {ternity and Child Care program of the State Department of Health She also attended an institute held at State College, June 19 0 23, for school psychologists and school nurses, and gave an interesting re- port on same ! The Pleasant Gap Woman's Club purchased a pair of glasses for a school child - : : DO YOU LIKE TO READ ABOUT THE STARS? Astronomy is always an interest. ing subject. You'll enjoy an tie ‘about a newly discovered planet which Is velled in considerable mys- | tery. Look for this educational ar ticle in the July 10th issue of The! American Weekly, favorite magazine | with the Baltimore Sunday Ameri. ean. Order from your . A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week NEWS, FEATURES BELLEFONTE, 1 ’y PA., THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1944, WAR'S NEWEST WEAPON Produced in secret for two years at the Studebaker auto mobile factory, this newly revealed Army vehicle is declared capable of negotiating terrain conditions impassable to others, Doughboys call it the “Weasel” because of its ability to strike stealthily and silently out of snowy backgrounds, | Questions and Answers for Used Car Buyers OPA Ceili On J F Ds i the hi I price go into efect 8! that any eller who ¢ palr shop Ban nese are the | Rationing Bu used Car? / wir War Pri aiid Ra- Pri and tioning Board. Your car desler also buy has a copy of the official price list Q — What the facts 1 need to TWO ry know to Ning EXACT Ovlitng price Pri 5 jy Ag Old 3 i oel © ard 4 War The wd eG obtsined from your and Ratwning Board from whom you buy a car mist Gl it out in full It rec th the oiling price and the actual Both certificate LF > re “- the ang by srdd information Oy Lye healer IE Cling price you ana the certificate with ! Rationing Bosrd for your Willi » eruif Nas & gn iP Bala sighed verdrive Price lssion a . Kano wait ats Ls You apps difference I» al board a War ha GIVE FARM WORKERS INSIGNIA AS ESSENTIAL WORKERS at should be fol lowed without delay came recently from Miles Horst, Pennsylvania Sec- retary of Agriculture It is in the form of appreciation and recognition « fob that our farm boys are oe fig the | oduction would th Qe ves That boy and must have some concrete form of recognition 80 that he may be encouraged to keep his chin up he goes on producing {ood real war Job hurting the men on the nt by giving up his de- ferment status and further crippling effort becoming a are facing shortage In A suggestion a pubii f the instead of fr splendid ’ f " it his shitting ing ara food of 3 the ng Horst would table lapel badge or arm vided for ed blood fear Common do far arm } many ME front when them the war by oon line ~ sumer when our farms some serious abo have history | the Lest form of band pre ed American boys to firht but whee nse them more toward winning the war by thelr ancompiaining to 16 hours work each day in producing food for war than by shouldering a rifle, He points to a military axiom that in a military is of first im- portance with transportation and of ond and third impor But in a jong war food comes first, transportation second, and the military third After more than two years al war, many of our fine American farm boys hesitate to go Into town to mingle at social gatherings, go Ww movies or even Ww church, where they still may be subjected to un- called for qriticism because they are not in military uniform. Even their best girls” have been known to fall for the glamor of the uniform, add- ing to the boys discomfort and sinking their morale to jower depths As the Becretary points out, there are many youths and men of draft age deliberately hiding out from Selective Service on our farms. He had no time for them and hopes all will be weeded out and drafted these I who do own f our knowledge, the Federal Government to date has made recognize these forgotten youths on our farm fronts But that same Federal Government continues to give fancy certificates for “outstanding sccomplisment™ to former fallures who “participate” by DOrTOwing money 10 cover previous inability to make a success of farm- ing. and it continues to favor thgee who eagerly grab subsidies and in- centive payments. Perhaps the boys in Washington need some enlighten. | ment not no move £4] tells they can short war the food a tance thing that ought to be finished We hope the State, through our De- partment of Agriculture, or in co- operation with the State Council of Defense, can provide for proper recognition of our boys on the fighting farm front thing as an official lapel button would do it In addition, we offer this sugges tion: Most small town and rural communities throughout the Nation and women in the service them on the public square or in a prominent position in the town. Is without delay It wo much to ask that on each For the honest, bona fide, hard there be added a separate panel or working farm boy duly and properly section containing the names of the deferred under the Tydings amend-| boys of the community who have ment to the Selective Service act, been approved as farm workers or the thinking public has and will for other occupational deferment by continue to have due respect and| their local draft boards? What do admiration. But that is not snough. | you think? . a i Begins Alr Training Missing in France Pvt. Malcoltn Lingle Wetzler, Jr,! A War Department telegram tw son of Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm LL. Mrs. Martha M. Hunter of Lock — Se — a pre-aviation cadet. Upon ful completion of medical tests, clamifiontion Sid he will be sent to a col. lege or university for five of further study. A A Blank certificate of Uransler | But Miles Horst has started some- | As simple al | History's Greatest Circus i; Tragedy Places Number of d NUMEER 2¢ | i Random [tems NOE i Dead at 157 to This Date ..... Burning of Ringling Brothers’ “Big Top’ Dur- ing Afternoon Performance Causes Panic and Disaster Clearfield Men Circus Escape Tragedy an have inf Brown I disaster In Amery ry killed al least 127 resting deaths runnly 158, last Thursday (8 1] Luge wy § alter main tent { nd Barn ive spectator; 1 Li men screaming Boys Available For Farm Labor 4] I'y Cillnax 1rible 4 { performer Lal Performers High in Air H w fan (Continued om Pope - 27 on Dean's List a) i YOUNGSTER ar At State College State College Girl, Lock Ha- ven Bov Accorded High- est Grade | Emergency Farm Loan Office to Supply 14 to 18-Year- old Youths Ly the day through Farm Loan Office in Farmers National Bank bullding. Bellefonte, The help avail- able is made up mostly of boys from 14 10 16 years of age. who are will y work on nearby farms and in cases may be obtained by the 14 of lant school In Ae RING a nNUmMber ; and profe have enrolled at UU after working hours on nearby farnns Othe ich WOrks men wi sudiag w office and are svaliable ale urged 10 enroll Per travel 0 ting H who the farms have through the rationing board ugh lhe reconunendation f the Farm Labor Office Person neeg EAA been get are asked to continue register for work The harvesting Of wheat and oats will make the de mands even greater than they have been The Bellefonte office under the supervision of the College Agricultural Extension Service | urging farmers to contact the office whenever such labor Is needed Arrest Girl In Mail Box Theft Charged With Taking Letter Containing Money From Box 1 f M conducted A 16-year-old Pnion county girl was apprehended over the weekend on charges of taking a letter con- taining money from the mall box (of a Mifflinburg R. D 2 woman | State Police report Pvt. Howard Kisner and Joh | Ricketts, State police, were assigned to the case at the request of postal authorities. The girl has been re. jenna in the clistody of her parents pending action of Unjon county ! Juvenile Court Jersey Shore Soldier Dies in Anzio Area | I ——————— Plc |beachhend, the War disclosed Just week lin Spring Twp Eimer EB. Putman, 24. son of | have erected “Honor Rolls” of men Mrs. W. T. Panning, Jersey Shore, ux, of Ferguson Twp, tract in Per- placing | was killed in aetion on the Angio guson Twp, $1 Department! Joseph Keith Thornton, et ux to 1G. Guy Miller, et ux, of State Col State College South Patterson street, third ester inCustrial engineering Gall Twichell, East Fairmount nue ter O JO LE. ¢ ave fventy sen Architecture - Leg Injury “ 4 foproving FLLUpsY Grounds Being Mil Improved The nt of bell, of Burnside Burnside Twp. $200 rm B Viehdorie Fire Company of Sr tract in Snow Shox William L Bly, et al. of Miles Twp. 81 James Good AcNeal. #t ux Uract in Mile 'wp Lehigh Valley Coal Rogus, of Clarence Shoe Twp. $225 United States of America, 10 Har- vey F. Yearick, et ux of Bellefonte D 2 tract In Walker, Twp. $8 - Borg Wittmer, 1 Watsont David 1 wh, tract i to Pulton D Baltimore, Md $1.000 Cx tract ai of 10 Peter in Snow R 300 Centre County Commissioners Clifford Jodon, 1 ux. of Bellefonte tract in Bellefonte, $21.13 Robert E Saylor et al, to Titan etal Mfg. Co. of Bellefonte, tract $600 0 George Barto, ot to Cieorge Barto | The young soldier had been pre. | '8®. tract in College Twp, #1 viously reported ton since Jan. 26. Inducted In Oetober, 1942, Private 1943. He saw aotive service in Af rica, Sicily and Italy. He was as missing In ac Putman was sent overseas in May! John D. Cox, et ux, Taylor Twp. $350 Allen W. Quick, ot ux, non, tract in Snow Shoe Twp, $25 wounded in action last October in Biglly and been awarded the Purple Heart hon. He leaves his mother, a half-bro- her, Theodore Panning, of Jersey MS Wl ar 3 arr ‘ | a mister, Er- ma, and » brother, Max, all of guson Twp, $1 of Port Matilda, tract 2.78; DO} Lt GCLGES TION PL > “i of be ftling Ww for the Bounds have a special panel here who lost their lives a worthwhile suggestion FREE THE SLAVES We'd like like t LEE 0 Bee he enlighten - nalcipatio i they wear I LANE ba by law are neckties mons made Je: Bonds Redeemed Lhe Bes fem Borough $4.00 which $2000 was bal velem Creek i Creek 4 req Water iA NN Worih Bonas, of feineg waler and u ut waier Beech VUATY iw ux, to Herman df Moshannon wp, $l ux Ww Potter George Twp, n Potter Twp. $1 Wilbur L. Dodd, ¢t ux to Wilson N. Hen el ux, of Pine Grove Mills, tract in Ferguson Twp SO Fredetick Pehl. et ux, tw Brungart, of Smullton Mile wp, $100 State Coliege School Pilgrim Holiness church College, tract In State 500 Centre County Treasurer. to Phil- ip H Johnston, of Beliefonte, tract in Philipsburg. $31.96 Philip H. Johnston, ¢t ux, to Nell Gill Creighton, ¢t al. of Pasadena. Cal, tract In Philipsburg, $1 Joseph M. Ol et ux. to Nell OM} Creighton, of Pasadena, Oal, tract in Philipsburg, $i A D Smith et ux, to Helen M Grenoble, of Spring Mills, tract in I's District to State College, $1. NM ol {Gregg Twp, 8 James [| Petterol!l, ot ux to Sarah to Karl N. McClenahan, et al of Centre Hall, Davis, trustee, of Tyrone, tract in tract in Centre Hall, $1 C. Clyde Lucas, et al, execrs, to to Frank George T. Walker, of Moshannon, R. Hockenberry, et ux, of Moshan- | tract in Snow Shoe Twp. $330. Margaret L. Balley, 10 Russell J. Sara Dannley, to John D. Dannley, Lambert et ux, of Bellefonte, tract et ux, of Medina. Ohio, tract in Per- in Bellefonte, $1 JW. Bhook, et ux, to Gertrude W. L. Rhule, to W. Scott Crain, Mulberger, of State College, tract In in Worth Boggs Twp. $17
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