A GENE RAL NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF ORGANIZED LABOR IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. Recognized and Endors- ed by More Than Fifty Local Unions and Cen- tral Bodies Over Cam- bria County and Ad- jacent Mining Areas. El — ., Union Press, Established May, UNION 1935. AN ATTAINMENT OF THE LARGEST GENERAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER CIRC Tl a rev . i) A 2 4 Patton Courier, LATION IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. Is Equipped Printing of Nothing Too Too Small Especially to Printing. Our Shop to De Job All Kinds Large or 'e Cater Union Established Oct., 1893. VOL. 45. NO. 39. CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA AREA. THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1939 3 South {th PATTON E Ave PA. SUBSCRIFTION, $2.00 PER YEAR COUNCIL TO PRINT [SOME FACTS ON EXONERATED LIST OF BORO TAXABLES Press-Courier to (: Notice of the Full List. Notice of the Ful List. At a sp of the Patton orough Coun ing, June 30 taken by members, with the approval of the Burgess, John J. Haluska, to publish in full the list of names in which per- sonal, or per capita, taxes have been granted exonerations by the lector. In order any who can pay gess and council have requested Press-Courier to advise all such, in the event they minke payment on or before Monday evenin July 10th, 1939, the office ¢ Good Builc appear The day, July 13th, E. D. Ren nedy, mort 1 held c id embarrassment for such taxes, the bur- to avo their will not s list. names list and copy of the printed in the book, 7 11th. SPANGL E R M AN “STIC KS. UP” GAS STATION IMPER- SONATING old miner of ils of the law ittempted on tax col- | | Royal Oak | ballot thi { than | | | | | | | | wry Legal Friday even- | the | [ | | | | | | | the | | | { { | at | € e ed Secretary in | 7ill be published on Thurs- | same | = BLACK-FACE | PRIMARY AND ELECTION DATA An How One Goes About Being Independent Explained. “andidates for P me and Superior c« le it out in the Septembe for Democratic or Repub without the aid of t maries nominations— party vote. Last of the the smaller parties being dropped from year because it polled the required two per cent of highest vote cast last November. Socialist and Prohibit ion so failed in previo =nough votes races. The Royal Oak part; inations in the 1938 p tic State Committee canc Mundy independent ’e a ticket in ne preempti altho have remainec nd have made for ca the is 0 remain cra -Earle, The Jones, S DY nar n papers Bureau. Man unday. | v, his face and arms coated him the a red the nd de » of "SC to according hael Whalen. to Police Mi c i half per ch said he had noticed the man | near the station during evening, and, for the night, called his son, Ke 22 year y, Chief Whalen said he was in- formed, entered the establishment and inquired wher: he might. find a plece to sleep. Kirsch told him to contact borough police. The “blackened” visi- tor then demanded that he be given ey, which Kirsch handed over. t amounted to about fif , mostly in change, and Kelly nanded “the rest of it,” Kirsch | at point the son entered, and | + grappled with the 1 as he both of > scuffle and Joe 1 d pass by, saw lding later of Chief Whal- rsch father and son Kelly after wiped off. 1 him for 1939 ST ATE MAP PRINTED: TU RNPIKE K ized id be have 1} id they recogr some f the they "ROAD HAS A { OUTLINE | purg.—The first shipmen ot al 1939 road map of Pen | vania has been received from the i printers, I. Lamont Hughes, secretary | of highways, announces. Distribution | of the maps will begin as soon as ad- | Benedict Local Union, ditional copies have been obtained by the department. Several new features are contained in the 1939 edition, Secretary Hughes pointed out. For the first time all ma- jor routes that are wide enough to ac- commodate three or more lanes of traffic have been marked for the in- formation of the motorists. The route of the toll road between Harrisburg and Pittsburghh, under construction by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission of which Sec- retary Hughes is a member, is design- ated with broken lines. Location of the seven tunnels on this road is also shown, The street lay-out of twenty-nine cities showing the connections with major state highway routes is also in- cluded in the new map. The location of sub-stations of the Pennsylvania Motor Police and the va- rious county seats also are designated on the list of the major cities and bor- oughs of the commonwealth, A digest of safety rules, together with pictures of route markers and signs showing intersections, curves, “stop” streets railroad crossings, hill, safety zones, and schools are contain- ed in the map. The front of the 1939 road guide | shows an outline of Pennsylvania at the top. Immediately below is the pic- ture of a Quaker welcoming motorists to the Keystone state, and in the back- ground is a wide concrete highway skirting along a river and showing the rolling hills of which Pennsylvania is famous. Near the highway is shown laurel in bloom, the official state flow- er. Beneath this picture are the names of Governor Arthur H. James, Secre- tary Hughes and T. C. Frame, chief the | as he prepared to close | old | William, from their nearby home. | | parties skip the | | | | 13th, | rowed t engineer of the department, LL | with | al? 11,000 v Is, cent A cor 1 aiso three Nover ( required five + 1v to The independent - 1lated for signature g July 4th, which also is the last day for iling petitions of candidates seeking a | emocratic or Republican nomination at the primaries. Candidates so chosen by primary and enter the general elect CL 2 f the ‘min 7e up hi Ss 7 October € must r 18th. the and choose a substitute by Octok Tne procedure and ® t > for parties v place Kelly until ar- | tk The field may be year still further judicial can- both Republican nominations nar- obt cratic didates and Dem ie] SP. BENEDIC T LOCAL ELECTS ITS OFFICERS At the regular election held by St. | No. 2008, last | Friday evening, Joseph Jones was re- | elected checkweighman. Officers of | the local chosen were: President, Ri- | chard Bradford; Vice President, John Harvey, Recording Secretary, Joseph | Jones; Financial secretary, Walter Pavlock; Treasurer, Metro Karol; Jan- ito rand Door Keeper, Charles V. H. Ream; Auditors, Frank Lesnock, Chas. Stickler and Stanley Karol: Trustees, Chas. V. H. Ream, Frank Romett and Charles Stickler, Jr.; Delegates to Trades and Labor Council, Joseph Jones and Metro Karol; Flower Com- mittee, Joe ones and Richard Brad- ford; Mine Committee, No. 8 Mine, John Harvey; Mine Committee, No. 10 Mine, Metro Karol and Patrick Malloy. INJURIES FATAL | Daniel Bailey, aged 63 years, of Cherry Tree, R. D., was fatally injur- ed shortly before noon last Friday in an automobile accident in North Bar- nesboro. The man died in the Miners’ hospital three hours later. The car in which he was riding sideswiped a parked truck. Mr. Bailey died of shock and hemorrhages resulting from a trumatic amputation of the right arm. According to motor police the vie- tim was resting his arm on a window of the car yhen it sideswiped the | truck. The arm was virtually amputa- ted when caught between the automo- bile and the truck. Police said Raymond Sharp, 21, of Cherry Tree R. D., was driving the ma- chine at the time of the accident, and said he was crowded off the road by an automobile traveling in the oppos- ite direction. Furniture Polish. A good furniture polish can be made of one part vinegar, with equal parts of linseed oil and turpentine, 4 4 Yon districs PRIZES AND PROG RAM FOR BOARD APPROVED WAGE AND HOUR SECTIONAL FIRST- AID CONTEST FOR DISTRICT ONE | ENFORCEMENT Candidate Also is |" 1ia Departmen States held at Memoria July 29th, follov ompete: eighteenth, and of Mines and tl of Mines, to be Philip Pa, M. Teams fr ireau Field, 1:30 P Xr’. inspec- Bu 1 1 at m the 18 Sis xth, twenty- h, tenth, rth, Prizes 25 to each as follows: First second prize are man; prize —$20 t tor of the meet will b Kna ; Assistant director i x the general chair chairmen gements are: and nc g g and awards. FAGAN, GHIZZONI, SPEAKERS AT 2,000 mine 1SS meeting Ju cn urday, Day f Rimersburg foll n, as ial Celebration ing a huge ¢g parade of men, floats, and ba union was the band c The Err ize for local > for listance. Pr the most > Workers almost compared it with the country , including the Centennial cel- of Rimersburg Mark DuBois, early ption at 1 ebration President of District reviewed the history of the mir James No. 2 of of the struggles 1ers MARK, ARE CENTENNIAL MEET mechan place. Mr. P . frict No. 5, Pit speaker of the day, dress he reviewed the he coal mine In ¢ yolicie All miner gan to affilia bor’s Non-P to vote of pan La- learn instead nd Co an L own indy, Pew voting m- v TRI-COUNTY FIREMEN APPROVE EXHIBITION PLANS AT THE FAIR; . Chief Jack of Indian James Public Service In setting up the tentative gram announcement was made that two men prominent in state fire fighting, will be speakers at the program to be held at the fair grounds. They are Fire Mar- shall William F. Treager and Chief Ni- cholas Phelan of the Pittsburgh Fire Department. Other speakers also will be engaged for the program that will start promptly at eight o'clock Thurs- day evening, July 27th. Volunteer firemen from counties are expected to attend the three the | | TWO STATES WITH COAL TO LAST FIVE HUNDRED YEARS has their total c recoverable us coal as of Jan 1923, were estimated at 34 tons. Substraeting the 1,854 million tons mined to December 31, 1938, left this state on that date woth 33,065 mill- | ion tons of recoverable reserves. West Virginia's bituminous reserv- es are figured nearly twice as large as Pennsylvania. The West Virginia re- | small der Penns sylvani of bitumino ini coverable reserves stood at 66.540 mil- | exhibition that will also include pre- | lion tons at the beginning of 1923, and | senting of certificates to approximately | 84.718 tons at the end of 1938. 160 men, who successfully complted | the 15 weeks’ fire fighting courses that | were conducted in Barnesboro, Indiana Conemaugh, Portge and Somerset. OLD HOME WEEK OBSERVANCE IS SET FOR CHERRY TREE FOLKS SCALP LEVEL LOCAL SELECTS OFFICERS Scalp Level Local 5229, United Mine | Workers of America, has elected following officers who will be install- | ed at the first meeting in July: Arrangements are well under was for the annual old home week obser- vance at Cherry Tree, sponsored by the Cherry Tree Volunteer Fire Com- | pany. The celebration will open Mon- day, July 17, and continue through Saturday, July 22. A mummers’ parade will feature ac- tivities on Monday when prizes will be awarded. The parade is in charge of Hileman and Lewis. The Civic Club also will sponsor a parade on Tuesday evening when more prizes will be awarded., Get State Jobs. Among thirty persons appointed to | positions last week in the Pennsylva- nia department of revenue were: Al- | ton A. MacDonald, Ebensburg, janitor, $1020; and Edward F. Peduzzi, Eb- ensburg, janitor, $1020. | [ Approve Bond Issue. The state Department of Internal Af- fairs has approved a bond issue of $10,000 for Gallitzin Borough. The money will be used for retiring and paying bonds. 1 Phillips, | tary, Samuel Perry, president, re-elected; | Thomas Bunk, vice president; Russell Foltz, secretary, re-elected; E. C. Kal- tenbaugh, treasurer, re-elected; Stan- | ley Popinchak, door keeper, re-elect- ed; Sam Perry checkweighman at No. 37 mine; John Sebor and Mike Totsky, checkweighmen at Mine 40; Peter Steffish, Thomas Bunk and William Parks, Jr., Mine 40 committee; Oliver Pauley, Mike Gladis and Steve Popin- chak, Mine 37 committee, and Charles Gubete, Oliver Trevorrow and Henry Mine 37 Upper committee, ELECTION HELD BY HASTINGS MINERS At the regular meeting on June 26th, by Hastings Local Union, No. 393, the following officers were elected to serve for the ensuing term: President John Stewart, Vice Presi- | dent, Frank Cann; Recording secre- Walter Lumadue; Treasurer, Jo- seph Galinis; Financial secretary, Ed- ward Rhue; Trustees, Fred Price, Jno. Milchak, Sr., and William Sullivan; Auditors, John Kaminsky, Philip Gray and Frank Simon; Checkweighman at Lanark: Ellis Maines; at Rich Hill, Ira Hughill; at Hastings Fuel Company, John Stewart, .920 million | the | UNDER COAL LAW Results of Election Early in June Gets O. K. of National! Bitum- inous Coal Commission. > board ‘held in hey wers two year terms. ted Mine Work- 1e Work- the on the board Vashington. was na- "a two mpany, Philipsburg: Morrisdale Coal \ Phil ladelphia. oards empowered act to propose min- Cc de- between produced at other du- are m iginal ntials ake or differe f coals Half of the chosen on nd the ALL RESERVATIONS TAKEN FOR INITIAL LAY MEN’ S ~ RETREAT taken for held by ator been the i 939 reat to I the Laymen’s Re League of the Al Catholic diocese starting on Friday evening of this week and con- tinuing through till next Monday mor- retreat will be held ! treat toona ning. A second the following week end, July 14 to 16, and a large number of reservations | ! have already been made for this spir- itual gathering. The league also plans | to hold a retreat for boys from the age of 12 to 17, on July 21-24. Rev. Father Xavier Crowley TOR, | of St. Francis College will serve as re- | treat master this year. It was announ- | ced that an executive committee, com- i posed of three electees from each par- | ish will elect the league officers for | the ensuing year in conjunction with | the retreats, EMEIGH MINE WORKERS SELECT NEW OFFICERS The members of Local Union No, 1855, United Mine Workers of Amer- ica, at Emeigh, Pa., have elected the following officers for the ensuing term; Lisle Westover, president; Dave Rhoades, vice president; Roy C. Breth, recording secretary; John Palmer, fi- nancial secretary; Olaf Price, treasur- er and Andy Janisko, door keeper Married Fifty Years. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Campbell of Carrolltown, observed their fiftieth wedding anniversary recently with a high mass in St. Benedict's Catholic church and a family dinner and supper at the Campbell home. Mrs. Frank Short of Patton is a daughter of the couple. Other children are Mrs. Thom- as Haley of Carrollitown, and Maurice Campbell of Washington, Pa. Miner Injured. William Woods, 47, of Barnesboro R. D., is in a serious condition at the Spangler hospital suffering from a fracture of the skull sustained on Wednesday afternoon of last week when he was caught under a fall of rock in the Derringer Coal Company mine at Barnesboro. DRIVE LAUNCHED Sixteen Regions Are Set UP. A Crack-Down on All Violators Is Now Planned. Washington.—Administrator Elmer Andrews has announced an inten- sive drive against violators of the Na- tional Wage and Hours Act. Armed with a two and one-half mii- lion dollar approp: on to start the new fiscal year, he disclosed plans for a 16-region administrative set-up and the establishment of 11 branch offices. The wage-hour division is prepar now to “move promptly tors,” he said. The proposed regional staffed as rapidly budget will permit, ed. Plans also have been completed for a mobile of inspectors to cover the entire country, he said. “Through this new set-up and limited decentralization to be put into effect gradually, we will be able to speed up disposition ft compl aints and entorcement of the law. “The new plan will include adequate servicing of all regional offices with attorneys prepared to move promptly for court action to st lement our en- ment ac vhe this dad.” F. against will as the division’s Ir. Andrews add- affices be n iv force the tivities re is in- headquarters of the Pennsylva- New Jersey ai vare district at Ph GLEN WHITE MINES MAY REOPEN IN SHORT TIME at the ear 0s 11- 1D, sii 1 White reor- a com- White a re- force Coal and Lumber Com 1) ganization of the concern into pany to be known as the Glen Coal Corporation will terminate | ceivership which has been in December of 1937 Many miners in the ection of Cambria c ployed in the mine. The northeastern unty were em- EBENSBI gr KF JRE N TO HAVE CE Plans are less Volunteer ensburg for one i ver held by 1 be staged in 2 and 13. Fir corps from all /ill participate > held both r given on the wing a parade will be furni and His S the Fire Companie be Chief John A. Cartwright of the S being r F of th the Eber 1ade Cor Vil £ shed by Bruce Ro- 3 's. Judges of i 1e parade will Moran and George Johnstown Fire ber (CRESSON COUPLE WED SIXTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Declaring “it seems but a few years ago that we were married,” Mr. and Mrs. Amos E. Roland, of Cresson, last Thursday observed their 65th wedding | anniversary. Roland, a retired opera- | tor, is 82, two years older than his | wife. Both were born in Blair county. | Friends say they believe the two have been married longer than any | couple in the state. pL ANNING FOR D ANC E AT NICKTOWN JULY STH A square and round dance will be held in the St. Nicholas’ hall at Nick- town on Saturday evening, July 8th, from 9 to 12 o'clock. The music will be furnished by Gus and His Ramb- lers. Admission will be Gents, 35 cts, and Ladies, 15 cts. Dancing will be a feature every other Saturday in the Nicktown hall, and the general public is cordially invited to come. Motorist Freed. A coroner's jury last week absolved Charles Brewer of Summerhill of all blame in connection with the death of Peter Shimano, six year old Ehrenfeld lad, who died June 22, the result of injuries sustained when struck an automobile driven by Brewer. The lad was injured on June 20, while playing on the street in Ehren- feld and died later in a h )spital. Wit- nesses declared the lad darted into the path of the car. by One Pitch; Two Hits. Hastings, Neb.—Pitcher Junior Gas- ton of a Hastings baseball team wound up and tossed his “high, hard one” to- ward the plate. The pitch was wild. The ball hit batter Cliff Soucheck on the nose, glanced off and broke the middle finger of Catcher Bob Thoe- sen’s throwing hand. The game was called then and there.
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