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VOL. 45. NO. 17.
ENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA AREA. T
HURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2. 1939
723 Snnth Vifth Aye.
PATTON. PA.
SUBSCRIPTION, $2.00 PER YEAR
WPABILLISCUT
BY SINGLE VOTE
IN SENATE POLL
Amendment to Limit Firings,
However, Is Gaining Support
of Upper Branch.
Washington.—The McKellar amend-
ment, which would have restored the
President's demand for $875,000,000 to
the WPA deficiency appropriation bill,
was defeated by a 47 to 46 vote in the
United States Senate last Saturday.
Labor pressure during recent weeks
cut into the conservative majority, and
almost resulted in a rout of the oppo-
sition forces on Capitol Hill.
Though the $875,000,000 bill was de-
feated, the Senate, it was predicted, is
sure to pass a bill limiting the firing
of workers on WPA'’s rolls to only five
per cent of the number during Feb-
ruary and March. As a result, the an-
ti-New Deal victory which conserva-
tive forces have been hopefully pre-
dicting, proved to be a dud.
The CIO battle against slicing of
the WPA fund was led by vice presi-
dent Sidney Hillman, who warned that
“now is not the time to gamble on re-
covery.” He called the $875,000,000 ask-
ed by President Roosevelt the “abso-
lute minimum necessary to sustain the
current recovery.”
Unemployment Director Ralph Het-
zel, encouraged by labor's fights ag-
ainst the cuts, declared late last week
that the “tide now seems to be turn-
ing in Congress.”
Calling upon union members to le
their congressmen know of the opposi
tion to carrying out Tory policies on
the unemployed, he warned, that the]
fight is not over.
Since the senate has voted 125 mil-
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OLD AGE ASSISTANCE
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i Whenever “Dynamite,” a London,
England, bulldog, wants a spot of |
fresh air he is loaded aboard a |
wheelbarrow by his master, an east |
coast resident, and is taken for his
constitutional,
POPULATION OF
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COUNTY |
JAIL GAINED IN 1938, 1S |
REPORT OF THE WARDEN |
The population of the Cambria coun- |
ty jail showed an increase during 1938 |
as compared to the previous year, ac- |
| cording to the annual report submit-|
ted by Warden Ed H. Knee to the]
| county prison board at a meeting held
| on Monday afternoon. The total num- |
| ber of inmates during 1938 was 1,647 |
| as compared to 1,500 during 1937. Dur- |
ling 1938 1,523 men and women were |
discharged, leaving a population on|
December 31st last of 124.
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| standing manufacturer in the radio and | )
Standing manu | ted between $50,000 and $100,000, the
n : listricts receive 50 per cent state aid, |
| under a closed shop contract. The wage | #15! 4 s
| under a clos p 8 | ana under $50,000 the proportion is 75
| per cent. In no instance may a school
| district receive more than 80 per cent
NOTES OF NORTH
CAMBRIA INDUS-
TRIAL COUNCIL
Secretary John Frank Sends the
Press-Courier A Number of
Interesting Matters.
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The Italian Swiss Colony, operating |
a winery in Asti, California, has re-
peatedly refused to employ union €00- |
pers. The Northern Cambria Industrial
Union Council has placed the products |
of the Italian Swiss Colony on the |
“We don not patronize” list. We
spectfully ask all members of organ-
ized labor not to buy any of the pro- |
ducts of this winery while it is on the |
unfair list. We would appreciate it if
you would notify the Italian Swiss |
Colony, Asti, ,California, as to your |
feelings of unfair employers. |
We appeal to organized labor, their |
families and friends, to help’ us com- |
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| bat the most vicious anti-union drive
ever conducted in America. We urge |
.! you not to buy Endicott-Johnson shoes. |
| Buy shoes bearing the union label.
The Crosby Corporation is one out- |
refrigeration industry that operates
scale is among the highest in the in-
dustry and working conditions are
excellent. The Crosby Corporation has
been very cooperative in placing the
union label of the I. B. E. W. on all
radios and refrigeration units and we |
feel that great material benefit will |
inure to labor generally if we are suc- |
cessful in making this appeal to organ- |
ized labor for support. |
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SCHOOLS TO GET
BIG AMOUNTS AS
"AID FROM STATE
| Auditor General Approves Pay-
ments in Fourth Class
tricts in Cambria Area.
Dis-
Reimbursements in the sum of $271 -
| ©65.20 for part payment of teachers’
salaries in fourth class public school
districts of Cambria county, were ap-
rrcved last week by Auditor General
| Warren R. Roberts at Harrisburg.
Largest amount in the county is to
be paid East Canemaugh Borough, to
receive $14,563.80. Portage Borough and
Barnesboro Borough receive the next
largest amounts, with payments of $12.
523.61 and $12,398.06 respectively.
Schools in fourth class districts re-
ceive 50 per cent aid from the state.
First class districts receive 35 per cent
and second and third class districts
receive thirty five per cent. A total of
seven million dollars is to be distri-
buted in the state among fourth class
school districts.
Where the teacher valuation is ra-
aid from the commonwealth.
The appropriation for the 1937-39
biennium for reimbursement to school
districts under the Edmonds Act, and
amandments, was 60 million dollars,
leaving a deficit of approximately one
million dollars to be provided for by
subsequent appropriation. The current
payment is the second half of the total
| allotment for this purpose and ends
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JOHN FRANK, Secretary.
VOLUNTEER FIREMEN
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lion dollars less than the President had a, os poiey Iearceral, |
asked fr Wea ams garolghon | parison to 1937. During 1938, 79 wom- |
sida a A aging 9 | en, four of whom were negresses, were
a bi ‘in the institution as compared to 108,
C Bus ie ban on Foliites n WDA Nas lone a Negress, during the previous |
Sas ° te. It ue Dpro ti Y | year. Last year 1,418 men including 115
© senate places Severe penalties | negroes, were incarcerated as compar- |
upon any one seeking to influence the | ed to 1387, including 95 negroes, in|
vote of WPA workers and ban solicita- Dp € »
tion of political contributions of any |
kind from federal employees. 4
GUFFEY, DAVIS 23D.
TBBOTT ARE URGED TO
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The average daily popoulation of
the jail last year was 160.3 as compar-
ed to 143 in 1937. The average term
per inmate last year was 35.5 days, |
while in 1937 it was 34.5 days. |
AID COUNTY SCHOOLS
Urging that Congress act to assure
a PWA allocation of $100,000,000 to
Pennsylvania to be utilized to carry
out the provisions of the Thompson |
act to provide new school buildings |
and declaring that unless action is ta-
ken thousands of Cambria county chil-
dren will be forced to attend school
half-day sessions, a committee repre-
senting Cambria County School direc- |
tors on Monday night sent the fol- |
lowing telegram to Senators Joseph F.|
Guffey and James J. Davis and Con-
gressman Harve Tibbott:
“We, the undersigned, representing |
school districts in Cambria County in
which 160,000 parents are vitally in- |
terested, urgently request you to sup-
port a new allocation of PWA funds to |
Pennsylvania in the amount of $100,- |
000,000 for the construction of school |
buildings. General State Authority in
Pennsylvania has already approved |
school building construction in Cam- |
bria county to the extent of $6,000,000, !
but these funds cannot be utilized |
without favorable action on the part |
OL congress on the grant as herein re- |
quested.
Unless favorable action is taken by
Congress to grant further PWA funds |
thousands of children in this county |
will be forced to attend school half-
day sessions. Parents in this county
are insistent upon favorable action.
Thanking you for your continued co-
operation.”
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The telegram was sent as the re-|
sult of action taken at a meeting held |
on Monday night in the court house |
of school directors from districts which
have made application for school con-
struction funds under the Thompson
law. Although only ten of the 26 dis-
tricts which had made application for
the funds were represented at the
meeting, it was pointed out by Dr. Ar-
thur M. Stull, county superintendent,
who presided, that all the districts af-
fected were desirous of having action
taken to obtain the funds.
A committee composed of Otto T.
Strittmatter, Hastings-Elder Township
Joint Board; V. S. Harvey, Barnesboro
Susquehanna Twp. Joint Board; M.
F. Doran, Barr Township and Herman
C. Ribblett, East Conemaugh Board,
was named by the directors to Imme-
diately wire Senators Guffey and Da-
vis and Congressman Tibbott urging |
their support for further allocation of
PWA funds.
Mr. Doran declared that the con-
struction of new buildings is a vital
necessity unless the school children are
to suffer from being forced to attend
only part time,
To enable Jewish settlers in Pales-
tine to find a common form of speech,
the Hebrew language has been brought
up to date to fit modern industries and
interests.
A reduction in the cost of feeding
ORGANIZE SCHOOLS
IN CAMBRIA COUNTY
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Organization of volunteer firemen’s |
training schools in Cambria county |
was completed at a meeting of the |
Volunteer Firemen'’s Association of |
Cambria County and Vicinity held on |
Thursday evening of last week in the |
Hastings Fire Hall. {
The schools, with George Cartwright
of the Johnstown Fire Department, as
instructor, will be held in Barnesboro,
Portage and Conemaugh in Zone 1.
Northern Cambria will attend classes
| with the close of the school ye:
| in 1938. The man was brought to the] will be held February 23, in Patton.
| Juvenile Home.
lis one of the best conducted in the | lish a national planning board of rep-
| are Harry Peach, deputy warden and
prisoners was shown for 1938 by War-| in Barnesboro, while classes in Zone
den Knee. The per capita cost last| 2, Central Cambria county, will be
year was 10.3 cents compared to 13! taught at classes in Portage, and the |
cents in 1937. The per capita cost per | companies of Zone 3 will assemble at |
day of maintenance was also reduced Conemaugh. |
in 1938. Last year the maintenance | The classes will begin this week |
cost, which includes all jail charges, {
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was 44.6 cents. In 1937 it was 49.5 | cutive weeks. Proper methods of fire |
cents, | fighting and salvage work will be |
Receipts also decreased last year. |taught at the classes. i
Mr. Knee received a total of $9,642.44, The firemen adopted a resolution
of which $8,959.74 was paid in by par- | asking for the revision of the act of |
oled inmates and $692.70 as board for | the assembly which abolished payment |
federal prisoners and jail fees. In 1937 | for polling places in fire halls owned |
Mr. Knee received $14,608.09, of which | by fire companies. Assemblyman Denis |
$13.642.19 was paid by those on parole | L. Westrick promised firemen | he
| bill revised. i
oners and jail fees. : ssid
The next meeting of the association |
Only one prisoner died in the jail |
DEPRESSION IN 1940 IN i
OFFING, AFL BUSINESS |
SURVEY PREDICTS |
jail having a temperature of 104 de- |
grees. As he was pronounced ill with |
pneumonia it was not feasible to re-|
move him to a hospital. Three men |
were designated to act as nurses and |
he was given medical care by Dr. H.’ Tashi Tova: Ta |
i : : Ne ashington.—The Atherican Feder- |
M. Bennett, the jail physician. He died | Washiugio f 2
despite efforts to save him (ation of Labor's monthly survey of |
¥ ee po es Cad un crease business suggested that some means of |
icrease
of bread being baked compared to 51. | UP to forestall another depression in |
Hn : won o_ | 1940.
i Pon o! ns Iam hansd, or; “A very real danger lies ahead for !
5 nile Home. During last year 175 | 1940,” the publication said. “By 1940 |
3 ox iii SE Jeet ang | the present wave of government spen-
[ di i large xha i
1,80¢ biscuits were also baked, a por- | ding will have larg ly exhausted its |
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tion of which was also delivered to the | stimulating effect on business and un {
| less plans are devised to set private |
i industry to work producing goods and |
i Jurgen Knee recommended that the raising living standards, we shall eith- |
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er face another depression or put a
blankets and mattresses be purchased.
He also thanked the prison beard for | greater armament program to put men
its cooperation to work.
Mr Knees administzation of the fai |, Excesive armaments Tower lving|
was commended by President Judge | Ty
John H. McCann, who presided at the | Also, government cannot forever go on
necting, ? p | piling deficit upon deficit.
“Mr. Knee is to be congratulated onl In this critical outlook, which liter-
the excellent work he has done at the Ny may Je 2 plier ote - bis
jail and there is no doubt but that it |
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state,” the Judge said, | resentatives from business, labor, agri-
The members of the board voted to culture, consumers, government with)
ah : > te os ry provisions for experts to assist them |
reappoint Mr. Knee and his aides. They | and a mandate to stimulate the Produc. |
the following keepers: Robert Treese, | Hos Joods by private indus. :
Villiam Banford, William Muhlenberg, | The survey presented an optimistic
Fred Black, George Cunningham, and | "icfure of the outlook for 1939, barring |
the matron, Miss Katherine Miller. war, :
Despite his protests, County Con- | = .
troller Henry L. Cannon, on motion | JAMES GROUNDS SIX OF
of Judge McCann, was elected presi- THE STATE’S AIRPLANES
dent of the board, [ me
“I believe that Mr. Cannon has ear- Harrisburg.—The six airplanes own-
ned the honor,” Judge McCann said ed by the commonwealth were groun-
after Mr. Cannon had made a motion | ded for an indefinite period on Mon-
to reelect Judge McCann president of day by Governor Arthur H. James.
the board. Commissioner John Thom- | The chief executive's secretary, J.
as was reelected vice president and Paul Pedigo made the announcement
Frank Doorr secretary. Present at the | in a two line note which did not con-
meeting besides Judge McCann and tain an explanation. The fleet, five
under the revenue department ana
one for the motor police, was built up
Controller Cannon were Sheriff Cy-
rus W. Davis, Commissioner Lillian
under the administration of Governar
Earle.
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D. Keller and First Assistant District
Attorney, Fred J, Fees.
ar, July
18638.
Payments approved in some of the
fourth class districts, of interest to our
readers, follow:
Allegheny township _.
Ashville Borough
Barnesboro Borough
Earr township .
Carrollitown Borough .
Chest township ohiart
Clearfield township
Dean township... ~~
East Carroll Township
Ebensburg borough
Elder township -
Hastings borough ..
Patton Borough ..
Spangler Borough
Susquehanna township
West Carroll township
White township
$ 1,395.00
744.00
12,398.06
4,278:00
2,473.33
762.60
2,790.00
1,392.00
2,678.40
5,622.54
3,069.00
8,380.46
10,703.13
10,012.61
7,728.30
7,405.12
1,302.00
RABBIT REARING
AREAS ARE SOUGHT
At a special meeting of the Cambria
County Sportsmen's Association held
at the court house in Ebensburg re-
cently plans for mapping Cambria
; 4 | county and for a study of the wild life
| and $965.90 as board for federal pris-| would do all in his power to have the
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conditions in the county were adopted.
The purpose is to designate the areas
{ best suited for ringneck pheasants and
rabbits,
The association recommended that
three additional wild rabbit propaga-
tion areas be established. One is in op-
eration on the Samuel Edwards farm.
Cambria township, where the rabbits
bred prolifically last year and when
trapped furnished several hundred an-
imals for stocking in areas where they
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. ¢ | 1 planning for indust t { had been shot out.
[ in production last year, 55,827 loaves | Pationa Danning lor industry be so
John McFadden, newly elected pres-
ident, presided at the meeting attend-
ance at which was small because of
the severity of the weather. The next
meeting of the county association will
be held at the court house on Thurs-
, February 23rd.
EBENSBURGER GETS
HORSE TRADE VERDICT
Pittsburgh.—An Ebensburg riding
academy proprietor who claimed he
got the worst of a horse trade was
awarded $230 by a county court jury
and ordered to return the horses.
Fred Brickley, the academy owner,
sued for $285 claiming he had paid
that amount and pitched in a pony
“to boot” for two mares owned by J. G.
Malsch, North Side, Pittsburgh, horse |
trader.
Brickley charged that one of the
mares was an ‘ outlaw” horse and un-
fit for a woman to ride and the other
was blind in one eye. He said he
pent $25 trucking one of the mares
back to Pittsburgh but that Malsch
| cefused to make a settlement.
Malsch denied the one horse was
lind and contended that Brickley
nade the deal after he had seen the
horses.
MINER FOUND IN
SHANTY, EXPIRES
Milan Stoyanovich, 56, of Vinton-
dale, died on Saturday evening in the
Memorial hospital, Johnstown, where
he had been admitted only a few min-
utes before. He was found unconsci-
ous in a shanty at Vintondale and
rushed to the hospital.
FROM THE RANKS
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Starting as a messenger boy at
the age of 13, John G. McCarthy,
50, who served seven consecutive
years as a director of the Chicago
Board of Trade, was recently elect-
{is an honorary post in that he serves
without pay.
URGES THAT UNITED
STATES SEEK VARIOUS
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Washington.—Representative Fries,
luminous coal maustry by setting up
cxperumnental stguons 10 tind new uses |
40f Coal and its by-products. |
He sala ne wouia introauce a bill to |
provide iourteen million to sixteen mii-
aon aollars ior two researcn labora-
wories in Southern lilinois with a view
0 establishing ouiners elsewhere at a
laler time.
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| to create electrical energy from coal
at a cost which would enable thous-
ands of farmers to use it. {
This alone would spur manufacture
and sale of electrical appliances, fur- |
mish work for millions of unemployed
and eventually pay for itself and re-
turn profit to the treasury, Fries
said.
Authoritative information has been |
given me that the by-products of coal
for use in road building are far Swi
perior to the by-products of any other
source. Such use of coal would in |
turn put people to work on roads built
al mmimum cost. There are a dozen
major by-products of coal and out of |
this dozen there dre several hundred |
by-products, valuable from an econom-
ic and social viewpoint.
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ALLOCATE FUNDS TO
GALLITZIN PROJECT
Presidential approval of an alloca-
tion of $107,402 was given Saturday
for a modern water distribution Sys-
tem In Gallitzin Borough. The project
1s sponsored by the borough council,
which will provide the sum of $37,-
072.72 as the borough's share of the
work. Word of the approval was re-
ceived Saturday.
New water lines, house connections
and a 200,000 gallon steel storage tank
are included. Work is expected to get
| under way in the near future. More
| than 3,000 consumers in Gallitzin will
be benefitted by the new system.
PATTON MAN NAMED
DPA SENIOR TYPIST;
APPOINT '*WO OTHERS
Paul L. Thomas, of Patton, was ap-
pointed a senior typist for the Johns-
town office of the Department of Pub-
lic Assistance over the last week end.
) i 1101s, sessed last week 3
VEHICIAY $n 10010, SUSESSWE : | weekly earning dropped from $20.97 to
ulat Congress attack wie ills of the bi- |
ed president of the organization. It |
JOBS-PAYROLLS
REACH NEW HIGH
IN CLOSE OF YEAR
December Proved Best Month
of 1938 According to Depart-
ment of Labor and Industry.
Harrisburg. — Industrial employment
and pay rolis hit new highs for 1938
during the last month of the year, ac-
cording to compiliations by the Bu-
reau of Research and Information of
thc Department of Labor and Indus-
try.
Indices, ,based on 1933 averages, re-
ached 106.8 for employment and 149
for payrolls. In other words, for every
$100 paid in wages during an average
month of 1933, almost 107 men were
at work and $149 were paid during
December, 1938.
The number of wage earners incre-
ased 4.1 per cent; and working time
6.2 per cent.
The dominant factor in these gains
was the exceptionally large increase
reported by more than 2,000 retail
stores. The 66,800 clerks, etc., employed
by these stores during the middle week
of December represented a 26.1 per
| cent increase over the November per-
NEW USES FOR COAL |
sonnel, the highest gain reported since
the begmning of the series in 1923.
Weekly payrolls for the same firms
were $1,372,000, 23.5 per cent higher
thar November. The average Decem-
ber work week consisted of 42.2 hours;
| total man hours worked increased 33.6
| ber cent. Because temporary holiday
| -01 per cent each. But, all in all
| entire increase in employment in the
clerks received lower wages, average
| $20.53 and average hourly earnings de-
creased from 51.2 cents to 48.3 cents.
Only three other non-manufactur-
| ing groups reported November-Decem-
ber gains in employment, and all of
these were less than one per cent. Bi-
tuminous coal mines and the street
railway, bus and taxi group were up
the
month of December may be attributed
to the holiday seasonal upswing.
MAY DROP 100,000
WPA WORKERS NOW
ON THY STATE ROLLS
Harrisburg.—The WPA in Pennsyl-
vania is preparing to drop approxima-
tely 100,000 WPA workers and 3,000
supervisory officials from its work
relief rolls.
The almost 42 per cent reduction in
the state’s WPA enrollment was being
made from orders from Washington, it
was learned, and will be spread over
the next five months. The cut, it is
said, is in line with the reduced ap-
propriation of 725 million dollars vo-
ted by congress, i150 million dollars less
than the amouni asked by the Presi-
dent.
The slash in WPA rolls will affect
approximately 500,000 persons in this
state if carried out. It threatened to
confront the state with one of the most
serious relief crisises in years unless
| there is a business Improvement or an
additional WPA appropriation by Con-
gress. The state's relief rolls today are
the highest since the WPA was organ-
ized in July, 1935, with approximately
125,000 persons receiving direct relief
from the state.
JAMES SEES BUDGET
BALANCE BY JUNE 1
Harrisburg.—Governor Arthur H.
James announced last week that re-
ports from his eabinet led him to be-
lieve he could balance the budget by
June 1st ,end of the biennium fiscal
period.
James estimated the deficit he in-
herited from the Earle administration
at some $50,000,000.
The bulk of the deficiency, he de-
clared, is in unemployment relief. He
His salary is in the $1,020-$1,140 range.
Two other appointments listed for
Cambria county are Emmatine Straf-
ford of Harrisburg and Sarah E. Leh-
man of Millersburg, also named senior
typists at the same salary.
A check of local DPA officials |
found no ready explanation for the |
| latter two appointments, since neither
| name is on civil service lists acted up- |
| on by the county assistance board.
ARE THEY HAPPY? |
The high command of the American
Federation of Labor must feel very
proud of its newest pet, the Progress- |
ive Miners, when it reads that the
United States Circuit Court of Ap- |
peals convicted that sour-smelling out-
fit of bombing and dynamiting mines,
railroads, trains and bridges in Illi-
nois. But we doubt whether the rank |
and file members of the American
Federation of Labor are so happy over
it. There are many decent unions in
the American Federation of Labor that
believe in law and order. They do not
like to be associated with a gang of
dynamiters and bombers, How do the
printers, for instance, like it ?—United
Mine Workers Journal.
Whooping cough has been known to
occur in babies a day old, and in in-
dividuals of 80 years.
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| ers announced that the sales t:
| to meet the municipal defici
estimated savings to be effected in
payrolls alone by June 1 at $1,750,000.
He added that approximately $4,000,-
000 could be obtained from the balance
of the 1937 legislature appropriation
I for flood control,
UNIONS HAD MUCH TO DO
WITH DEFEAT OF PHILA. TAX
Forces of organized labor mobilized
to fight the proposed wage and three
per cent sales tax and won an impress-
ive victory when both measures were
withdrawn by the Philadelphia City
Council, The Philadelphia CIO In
dustrial Union Council with
Joined
| other labor groups and business
| 2anizations in planning ct
the city council. But 24 hour
It was scheduled to start, the
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off and other means would be found
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INDUCT NEW SCOUT
TROOP AT WATKINS
Installation of the newls zed
Boy Scout Troop at Watkins. near Ba-
kerton, sponsored by the community
took place Thursday evening, an
apropriate ceremony conducted in the
school building there
oroani