WEE——— Jesse ADLER Looks at » i. « a OQ the NEWS EE ————_——, MOSCOW'S announcement ti 381.000 Nazi soliders were killed the onsweeping Russians must been some consolation to Adolf that means 381,000 less guns pointed at his reat ONE thing we do know rear is where he'll eventually get THAT rumpus in dicated Hitler's use of anyway-—-at least he THEM! IT PROVED that Prussian tocracy, know Germany is ed, Isn't spelled “Aristocraz;"! it by have that the it! Germany vin Robot bomb can control Ars. doom in ing 5 88th ciated AND George birthday interview Press— which hand suggesting treated gently about as little sense {1 did in shorthand SPEAKING of standards for army simple these days the oniy way disqualified has a double Bernard Shaw the AS he rendered in short that til t ] Ciermany be made 1 England as it ured health physical nduction are told us one medic OFFICIAL figure that ott of every six American marriages ends up on the rocks—proving again the wisdo bachelorhood bachelor make the OF COURSE it's unfair to coin- plain about women. After all arent half our parents women? THOUGH Nick the Greek is al- leged to be the biggest hoss gambler in history. this crown really belongs to Lady Godiva erything she had on one horge! DESCRIPTION ladies’ bathing suits (via Hutton): “Baiting Suits me Ss reveal i ¢ of man who doesn't mistake once! same She put ev of this summer's Ina Ray IN the Nile Valley the Normandic native pays $30 for his first bride; $15 for his second. No rates quoted en Daily Double! A MAJOR who's been in the reg. ular army for 35 vears was asked to fill out a form, on which one of the guestions was Civilian Oc Child” he wrote an flier, lost dropped down He upa - tion" e AN Americ in Kansas to get f church ‘Go to what somewnere to 500 [eet most a sign reading That's exactly n doing ever ince Mi bearings with Church he's bes his tower IN man on a suaded his on same A f one-track mind, huh Minneapolis the trolley THE Japanese Tea Drinking So- has presented Hitler with rare tea drink advising him to drink it to soothe his nerves. He's now busy reading the handwriting on the teq leaves! A FLYING Fortress fire while APNE over the Marshalls I's crew put out the flames with eanned juices For a chaser they used a P-29! THE mr hushed riety n fruit re of oat dir accord opped 5c the OPA. In- Mares Fat the hit pa nas d » dicating, n Oats I rade INCIDENTALLY Scope definition echo is that last w - aturally. that longer is or I like Reader's an Echo-an the only thing in world deprive of the he A Woman wd Iron Worker at Titan Injured By Crane Charles Crum ironworke em ployed at the Titan Metal Company building narrowly death last irsday mor he was truck by an iron while working height of 60 feet Crum when the tarily worker pro ject ‘Th escaped ung when beam at about Was engaged in rigging work beam on a got out of hoist momen control and hit the who managed to avoid fall- ing from the top of the structure He was treated by a physiclan and taken to the Centre County Hospital where an x-ray examina- tion revealed no broken bones He was not admitted for treatment For Vietory: Buy Bonds caught om' | The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County | | SECOND | SECTION \ Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week ————— Che Centre Democral VOLUME ¢ » 33. BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY, AUGUST ‘9 oy 1944. NEWS, FEATURES NUMBER Blair County Girl Walks Behind Bus Into Path of Automobile and Is Killed | Accident Occurs Late Saturday Night in Front of Victim's Home. Sister Kiiled Near Same Spot Eight Years Ago IS im tragedy by hans Mrs Kevs ago their Irene, was an automobile idence Last daughter was In her home Foi under «ft the md time gt an older sister H coming home from Hidaysburg in a Gildea bus which falled t the usual stopping place 100 feet beyond before the bus stopped two in back of it. but pulled out from around and car did not As stepped Was ircumstances of Mr. and Cross of Years similar « ruck the home Warren Dods Blair coun small daughter, and killed in front of their Saturday night Catherine, 0 stop at but went halted, A dropped immediately and went The second m Eight Gertrude by re it CArs struck one behind way AWAY another aged 13 ’ f1 1 front of on its Sarah move stantly in wecident » an account Sarah Lille . killed alighted, Sarah of bus and street. Just then the passenger to started to cross the a car coming toward the bus from - Altoona and driven by Robert L Searlon, of Ebensburg truck the girl with much force She was LJ » Injuries Prove knocked backward against the car Fatal to Woman of George LL. Wertmer of McKee, which stopped behind the bus. The girl's head crashed against the door with that a made in Then bounced onto the concrete killed Sarah Catherine was a member of Mrs Beam Carver, 238 First Mennonite church of Al- of C Monday of last She Is survived by her par- week at the Philipsburg State Hos- ents and 13 brothers and sisters pital as a result of internal injuries suffered in automobile-truck crash on July The accident oc. Son 0 curred on Route 53, a mile and a quarter north of Coalport Mrs. Carver fracture of in an unusual A ROC the rear the the of ident ittle accompanied force dent was the body The child Dies in Philipsburg Hospital such Following Automobile the door (Collision Was instantly Margaret the oalport died toona f Former an 20 useless and piles up the salvage. suffered a to remove the warning signs in their mine fields 77 Bellefonte Native Gains Notoriety For Growing Unusual Climbing Roses DEMOBLIZING GERMAN MINES 80 fast were Nazi soldiers chased from some sectors in Normandy that they did not have time Here an American Engineer officer calmly locates the hidden explosives, renders them Failure of the enemy to conceal the death's hand insignia probably saved many American lives, the pelvis bladder. Uremia d pelvic injury Mrs. Carv daugiter, Cor- and George Quick, a member of U. 8 Ma were enroute to Philipsburg Mr patient driving on into ine suffered bruises and Quick suffered ex- ms of the All hospital. Mr, an operation “0 was taken 11 Hier 1935 ery ruptured from and a eveloped the Animals Freed During Storm (Gault Was Native of Bellefonte er, her ines spital to see who is a Carver mobile crashed head Harry Gault Gault, former was killed ir June 24 ~~ ved by Second Lieutenant son the late Jame resident of Bellefonte action in France cording to a telegram his wife in Tyr last Lieut. Gault rd enlistment He wry Fort ond hand. . Beasts Cause Hughesville "ot Ewan ol . > . : ol Scare When Carnival i" A Tent Blows Down 0 reo ne week face was serving in in th enl removed onast Dee with the coast ar Hancock, N. J His period with the army Corregidor in wderwent first isted and - 7? . weeks ARO ed two and at He re. at ago ana He again 4 ture ool in : » in tut AL entire on | held a : present Hughieavill Mrs. Cs here Was spent on the y her husband and two children, Corine. mention. Philippine Islands before the Pearl { above, and James, with the Army Harbor attack Jn Australia. She was = daughter of! During his current enlistment he IiMr. and Mrs Willlam Beam. who served In Ieeland, and returned to reside at Coslport {the United States to receive offioery’ Puneral services were held Friday training He was commissioned =a afternoon with interment in the second lHeutenant st Port Benning Utahville cemetery Oa. In June 1943 He arrived in - England In April of this year Titan Workers Get Hy Vacation Checks was recently in iw overty monkeys broke ioose from m cages but were captured by the crew of the show before they got far ftom ihe grounds. Six members of the crew worked all night to age done by th | og the Li +] the dam- rm, so t its performar Ht wit} repals " al the show v ™ tid present recday nis fe her, Philip Maceno in Italy Al- and wife's tion Mill Hall Dwelling Damaged by Fire killed In action born May 17 toona son of the ‘late James Lyda Johnsonbaughy Gault Graglerville. On October 14 1941 Buffalo. N Y he was united marriage with Virginia Maceno He by daug! his mother nd these and sisters. Mr Al~ bert Baltimore Samuel B Gault Ben Osult Bell wood Edwin Cherry, Gragier ville Mrs. Mac Jackson Miami Florida: Plc James Gault, now maintenance France Clinton Gault, at home Pyt Nelson Gault stationed t Keesler Field, Miss He was 1917. In the Vacat 676 eligible June Announce cks ws k were malled Metal employe ne on Pit the company The total amo $28 241.76 his ide YRCatio ’ \ nt of the Mai HRY WeCKs is survis his wife and a wer, Judy brothers Matz Ty Mrs he re Triple Frame House on “Is- land” Was Owned By J. B. Strunk Fire of undetermined origin Sun- day noon extensively damaged a tripie frame dwelling house on the Island Mill Hall, owned by Joseph Strunk. The Mil! Hall Fire Co. responded to the alarm Lieut. Gault was a member of the oii.h sounded at remaining Grazierville Methodist church and on until fire was ox. of the Tyrone High tinguished wa a given Ss who the armed sir 1044 Althou all {checks at for several hi main work which it down vices o official ald rone employes received WAS NPCesSsary of them to re- this time jt n inddred 4 job for neat : ork jepartments » n shin LAR their impossible to will Was These men noon a later receive vacations at date the the Employes received either 40 or 56 a graduate hours for vac according | School f service - Slight Fire in Truck A truck owned by the Cherry Coal Company of 8now Shoe lightly damaged about | Thursday when an electric wire in the motor compartment caught fire on Diamond in Bellefonte. The driver was able to extinguish the fire just as members of company arrived on soene pay ations length to by start on the defective The blaze seemed to — thei heir roof, caused either a flue or a spark from a passing freight train, In winion of Mr. Strunk He sald that repairs will be made to the As Ar. rmngementa No New Veterans’ Hospitals In State the Run later wan on buliding as soor t . aks Al can be made p.m The Altoona Tribune has been in ) formed by Congressman D Emmert Brumbaugh that there will be ne new veterans’ hospital in the state except the one to be bulit the Undine fire philadelphia the scene One end of the building, occupied by William Berry family fered of the damage, the en- near tire upper story being burned. Only a portion of the roof over the middle house, tenanted by the Nelson Allen family burned and the Allen the suf - the most Congressman Brumbaugh stated that he has discussed the matter WAS om amily, were able to move back In twith the veterans’ administration SOCIAL SECURITY WHAT IT MEANS TO YOU after the fire had been extingdhed The other end, In which Cleve Bar- ner and family reside. suffered little damage, Mr. Strunk reported All three families had practically all thelr furniture out of the bulld- ing. Although fire damage was con. fined almost entirely to the building officials and their decision was final as to the future The big hospital now being bulit al LeBanon will be completed as soon as possible. The only new one in Pennsylvania to be built will be the one near Philadelphia If requirements from central and INo. 2 of a Series of Six) Continuing his explanation of the benefits pavable under the Old-Age and Burvivors Insurance provisions of the Social Security Act, John D Teasdale, manager af the Willlama- port office of the Social Security Board points out that “men and women 65 years old or older may quality for monthly old-age Insur- ance payments under the Social Security Act” In order to qualify.” Mr. Teas dale explained, “you must have worked on a job or jobs in a factory, itself, there was damage from water MP ———— — western Pennsylvania force more bed space, the Aspinwall hospital, | just outside Pittsburgh, will be en- | just outside pittsburgh. will be n- | Clarence Gunner On Japanese Raid To Register Applicants Sgt. Paul R Rogus of Clarence, was gunner on one of the long-range B-29 Superfortresses of the XX Bomber Command which staged the historic raid on the Imperial Steel Works on the Japanese homeland in June To qualify for monthly old-age insurance payments you must have a number of quarters of coverage equal to at least half the number of calendar quarters between Decem- ber 31. 1936 and the beginning of the quarter in which you become 65. In Any case, however, you must have for Nurses Aid Course at least six quarters of coverage to receive benefits. Once you have 40 quarters of coverage, you are quali.’ fied as long as you live “You may not receive an old-age Insurance payment for any month in which you work in employment Miss Margaret Brockerhof!f and Miss Lillian Garbrick, co-chairman | of Nurses Aldes for the Centre Coun- ty Hospital have announced that registration for the next class will be held in the State Oollege and Belle- | (he target during the mission Beech Creek May Get Landing Strip Plans Submitted By Exchange Club May Be Adopted in Near Future According to Express Friday's Clinton county ita first Lock Haven will prob- AlrpiRne anading Express says that Mr uneasy named as his commities E I. Stein, Anthony A Torsell, Ridge ty Helier ang 1. WW. Hunt, This po 2 motored a the nefghbering nmunity Thursday and viewed proposed From munenGed by rset * ingGi- A» “i Rea "ii Lions rex bs the mno betwen 1 strip wi directly be on prepared } ind ¢ railroad field bel! he high the tracks sing the baseball he proposed strip oximate 1000 to 1.0 wih and width sufficient to CITES Inrger present however RIVER AT ap feet In allow At there are a and electric er the strip made with the hope rground i ' vol & #3 ’ of plane he time at imbey ght telephone directly of wires Tr Are companies in hese “ Yarious ’ aving placed Seeks Candidates for Legion Bond Medals Medals Post, American to youngsters imber bends during War Loan campmign awarded In the near | A. Eckenroth, commander al post nounced In ners yTered 4 Lesion wih Brooks-Doll Bellefonte greatest 5th ale to be Charles of the lo- sid Lhe of the ture an vesterday order to determine the Commander Eckenroth youngsters who sold ing the campaign to call or tele phone newspaper office, giving their name and address and the to- tal amount of bonds they sold dur. ng the campaign. The figures are to be based on the actual purchase value of the bonds, instead of ma- turity value After all names are in, a board of judges from the Legion Post will consider the applicants and will designate the winners was fx. plained Saturday. August 12. is the clos ing time for receiving naines of ap- plicants win. invites all bonds dur 0 this it Women of Moose Name Chairmen Bellefonte Chapter No. 151. Wom- en of the Moose, named ~ommittes chairmen last Wednesday at a reg. ular meeting in the 100F hall They are. ritual, Elizabeth Mar- shall; academy of friendship, Livica 60 Martin: child care, : His ship. among the last to go over college of homemaking. Rella Jones; hospital Cultivates Climber That Has Attract- ed Country-Wide Attention Now more than 80 years old, Wal- given away all of ton W. Bavard, former well Bellefonte citizen and son late Col. George P. Bayard considerable fame for his home In California, where he has re e more than forty of the ha: Brows Sierra gained ing roses Madre sided for Years Mr. Bayard's particular notoriety in rose culture comes from a 30-year-old climber which is producing in such profusion as to attract the attention of trade publications “A hundred dogen roses on a sin gle climbing rose attracting at- tention throughout the countr; Current issues of nursery and horti- cultural trade papers carry a picture the 30-year-old climber on the property of Walton Bayard at 305 East Laurel avenue, along with de- scriptions of the huge plant ‘It ig in full bloom now. The roses a with pink as the buds open, become snow white and are huge Mr. Bayard is not ating when he says that there are a hundred dozen blooms, and he has G.O.P. Gather at Basket Picnic at ast Pasi bid for of Three-County Political Meet- ing Held at Black Mo- shannon Park | known leading exagger- | 10 admiring visitor al his home feast tl The climber { than 2000 square ARO Mr. Bayard cut Will Rogers bush h friend in Ban Jose. He bye Slerra Madre and uck ground at his Laure] It rooted at once ; and to bea; During the last two or been much writl 0 now {eet a at the - almost 0 nas Lightning Burns Barn, Contents $2450 Estimated Guyer Farm Near Philipsburg Damage at Heavy damage Thursday evening {farm at Mocks burg, when fire lo the @ Hill holt MMrge | a bar: | plete destr | and oontents ction ™ ine Two thousand enthusiastic Repub- | licans from Centre, Blair and Clear- field counties attended a basket pic- Black Moshannon Park, near Philipsburg, last Wednesday after- noon and evening and met all the outstanding Republican leaders of the three counties and the state and heard addresses assalling New Deal operations of the past 12 years nae at The principal speakers were United State Senator James J. Davis. Con- gresaman DD. Emmert Brumbaugh, Mr: Edna Carmil of Philadelphia viee chairman of the third fire on by lightnin home was burned down ago destroy It was barn bur dation in iburned in XK wty Several ick bn the ~ reporied ned from the 1913 1829 and that The wt ary u Republican | burned down Thursday was reported state committee. Justice Hughes, of hit twice by cold bolts of lightning | Washington county. of the state|in recent years without damage re- supreme court, and State Senator Harold Watkins, of Schuy’kill coun- ty. candidate for auditor general Various speakers were introduced by Thomas B. Beaver, Centre counts Republican chairman, and by Mrs Nancy Pryberger, county vice-chair man Committee members in various arrangements tivities were thanked forta hy Mrs. Balser Weber dent of the Centre County Counci of Republican Women which gored the plenie jointly with the Re. publican Committees and Republican Club the and for their wr Throws Lye Water In Burglar’s Face Suflering severe burns of both eyes from lye water that was throws in his face, Clarence Hensen, 30, of Williamsport, is in the with the possibility that he will lose his sight In connection with the atiack. po- lice arrested Marion Murdock, 26 who huried 8 bowl containing ten cans of lye at Hensen. According to police reports, she heatadly capped the lye attack on Hensen with the statement “There you -- you will never see again Miss Murdock charged that Hen. sen had broken into her home eight times, once raping her invalid sis. ter Takes Overdose Of Sleeping Tablets Sarah Werte, 38, wife of Merril Wertz, of Altoona, was admitted to | Mercy hospital last week in an un- conscious condition, having taken an unknown Quantity of sleeping pills. At the dispensary a stomach pump was used. When she regained consciousness, she sald she took 10 {pills but no reason was given for ther action. mit City ale Banks Te Cash Bonds Treasury Secretary Morgenthau (announced last week that banks hospital. | | sulting ‘Howard Youth Injured at Renovo R. R. Yard Wall reoently train station He Ki where he stood He was ren hospital in the Co. ambulance Lg mebody ar Compliment s get smiles for at least » J- Pi-——| Sh ——— Random STUPIDITY Thi NORMAL LIFF anything veteran of the Hes 3 talking f ulus ning faced aA he adds quist and (2 an PROPAGANDA ( K Heare from Ger- With tears at Fe y explain t t all it rid War y keed on i Canada heard it) and Atlantic and He yt “a We ie Dases the We've opened America, ic wre BUTTER Picking one of vir ground, he exhibited a stem covered with the jaggiest thorns yo Aw here are even aggers of teclared the vey Ta Tv erary iverson Are ica ted deve of t bomb is going 1 of all nation: for "n . pmen fo give a headache vears 1 ry goodly 1 Contissed on Pape Nis) = | CENTRE COUNTY HOSPITAL IN THE WEEK'S NEWS Monday of Last Week Admitted Mrs William W teron of State College Discharged Mrs Dean | infant daughter of Pleasant Mrs. Baptist Shank and daughter of Centre Hall Mr: M. Miller of Beliefonte George E | Young of Bellefonte, Mrs. John L Summers and infant son of Wingat« Admitted Monday and discharged Tuesday: John P. Lonberger of Ar- lington, Va. Miss lols Saxion of State College. R. D Tuesday of Last Week Admitted: Mrs. Wayne R. Rishel Ct Nall and Ong infant Robert of Oak Hall Station. Mrs. Robert | Lockhart of State College R. D 1 Mrs. Howard Swank of Baltimore IMd., Wiliam H. Lingle of Centre Hall R D Discharged: Mrs. Joseph Weller and infant daughter of Julian. Mrs Robert B. Sarago and infant daugh | ter of State College Admitted Tuesday and discharged Wednesday Paul W. Dubbe of onte Births: A daughter to Mr. and Mrs Blair Smith of Bellefonte, a son | to Mr. and Mrs. Elllot D. Whitager | Baird of Belle. of Rellefonts Mr. and Mrs Bellefonte. a Andrew Myers to Mr. and Mrs. John Johnstonbaugh of Bellefonte R D faughter to Mr. and Mrs. Roger Poorman of Bellefonte Friday ’ RuOp nnett of 10 Mr. and Mrs Julian, & son " Mrs, Carrie Lakens of ove Mills. Mrs Margaret Tracy and infant daughter of State College Mrs. Myrtle Shaffer of Bellefonte R. D 2 Admitted Friday and discharged Saturday. Mahlon H. Poorman of State College. Robert Dreese Jr. of Lemont, Barbara McGhee of Port Matilda Births: A daughter to Mr and Mrs | Jack Woomer of Bellefonte R. D 8 a daughter to Mr. and Mrz William ¥ Brachbill of Bellefonte Saturday Discharged: larry L. Auman of | Bellefonte Admitted Saturday and discharged Sunday: Joan Letterman of Miles. sivered by the Social Soeutity Ast longest In history and first by land- "You are considered to ‘working’ based planes on Japan-—encountered other place of business or Industry. |r vou earn more than $400 » NO Tushdng morning. Jugust heavy anti-aircraft fire but returned These jobs ure covered by the law. nonin in a job that comés under Wednesday evening A oth 1 to its base undamaged Not covered by the law are, In gen- |i. jaw haf pid ugust TOI | ™1t was the second combat mission eral, jobs in agriculture, domestic| 4, explained previously, wives of | ; for Sergeant ROgUs As A crew mem- service in private homes, QOVEIN- | ..ireq workers who are receiving Bank 16 Increase Stock ber of a Superfortress. He also took ment service, and religious, char- {old-age insurance payments, when go holders of the Besch Creek Part in an earlier raid on Bangkok, Itable, or certain other NoN-profit | yey ore 65, may receive payments National Bank anand ly to Siam, which served as a “warm-up” organizations \ (also. Dependent children, under 18,’ oer the capital stock from $35. mission for the attack on the Jap “You must have been paid, on Jobs [of retired beneficiaries may also 1-000 10 $50,000 at a special meeting Industrial center Igulld, Stella Martin: lprary, Mary McSuley: membership, Dora Mere. dith, Moosehaven, Sadie Confer; I Mooseheart, Hazel Kling: Moose heart alumni, Lucy Keller; publicity, ! Helen Torrey, social service, Sena Confer; war relief, Harriet MeClel- lan burg Births a daughter to Mr. and Mrs | Bdgar J. Grove of Port Matiida, R {D. 1, a daughter to Captain and Mrs | Benedict ©. Housdor! of State Ooi | lege. shop, mine, mill, store, office or fonte American Red Cross Chapter Wednesday of Last Week Discharged : Mrs. Lee W. Dobson of { State College R. D. 1, T Sgt. Orrin © | Tubbs of Akron, Ohio | Admitted Wednesday and dis. much the banks would receive ‘ners at a Race The meeting was presided over by Friday sveninig 34 #n opening Grace Ha PREG at he u Noll's rove State Oollege, Mrs. Bertha W of i! * carnival at . [State ig saver of covered by the law, at Shak $50 In ceive monthly payments, | held Jan. 21. Three hundred shares A son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul G. would be absent for a month's vaca- cub scouts took part in the ROR 48 Sind Mm RAY | Pine Grove Mills: Mrs. William Chut- each of a certain number of calen-| Mr. Teasdale will explain the | wil} be sold at $50 each to make this | Rogus of Clarence, (ton and Mary MoSuley was named which was under the direction of : Arietta Abrams of | /method by which the amount of the change, which was recommended by nia filer graduated from Snow Shoe to carry on het duties as recorder scoutmasters. retirement benefit is computed In d her absence. Ann Markle the third article of this series, It’ f {of Milheim, Miriam Mark of Spring | of January, April, July, and October of any year. Quarters In which an
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