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VOL. 45. NO. 47. 23 South Fifth Ave.
EBENSBURG FAIR
PLANS COMPLETE
FOR NEXT WEEK
Entertainment of Many Kinds to |
Highlight Annual Event at
County Seat Grounds.
One of the outste anding of the myriad |
of attractions which have been book-
ed for the Cambria County Fair which
opens at the Ebensburg Fair Grounds |
on Labor Day, Monday, September 4th, |
and continues to Saturday night, the
9th of September, is the California |
Varsity Eight, singing stars, who have
won acclaim throughout the nation.
The eight singers will be heard every
afternoon in front of the grandstand |
and will top the bill of vaudeville |
headliners. The combination is led by |
the internationally known maestro,
Ben Yost.
It was through the genius of Yost |
that the Varsity Eight was organized |
and in endeavoring to create the war-
ld’s greatest singing group of ma
voices, he surely has succeeded. Pick-
ing the cream of the country’s youth-
ful solosits from the leading univessi-
ties, Ben organized and trained that
which is now the finest male singing
organization the world has ever
known. Not only are the members vo-
cally capable but they possess an in-
dividual and group appearance sec-
ond to none.
A graduate of
So them
ity “of
, direc-
lifornia Var-
of some note;
I York City
fficial state musical society,
to represent the youth of the United
States in song at the Municipal Ban-
n Col. Linder shortly
af-
life story of Yost, wh ) has lived thirty
average careers in his twenty-eight
years. Left an orphan in Chicago, he
was taken West to Portland, Oregon.
At thirteen years of age he had or-
ganized the newsboys of that city so
well that he was netting $460 a week.
At 16 he was in Hollywood doing
the thrilling 85 foot leap in “Old Iron-
sides” as a stunt man in Hollywood.
The wanderlust seized him, and the
youngster traveled east, wroking as a
steel riviter, doubling in medicine
shows and organizing boys’ choirs al-
ong the route. Back he went to the
coast and organized 20 of the best
young male singers available and they
were used in many motion picture pro-
ductions. Then came the depression
and the act was cut to what' is now
known as the “California Varsity
Eight.”
The human body is something like
a violin string—if taut both break eas-
ily. Flash Williams, motion picture
stunt star and air ace, brings his thrill
drivers to the Ebensburg Fair Grounds.
He has learned how to wreck cars
—as that's his business.
“Don’t sit tight at the wheel if you
feel something about to go wrong,” he
warns. “I know that the natural reac-
tion is to tense the body and brace
yourself—but that’s all wrong.”
“Hold tight to the wheel and at the
same time relax. A violin string is
just like your muscles. Try to break a
string that is loose. And see how quick-
ly it will snap when it is tight. Brok-
en limbs and broken ribs in auto accl-
dents can be avoided in many cases.”
Williams rather ruefully said that
the first time he had soared more than
150 feet in the air from a ramp in
leaping over eight parked cars, he had
braced his body with the result that
he had cascaded through the wind-
shield and the car was wrecked, and
Flash said, ‘Good morning nurse,’ in a
hospital.
Most common failing of the average
motorist, he thinks, is the misuse of
the brake. Never brake on a curve.
Use the brake ahead of time. In danger
use the accelerator, not the brake. Al-
ways try to go around the obstruct-
ion, be it another car or a truck.
If you go in the ditch, chances are
that you will mess up a panel of the
car or a fender and have a few bruises,
But you will save your life and those
of persons in the other car. You will
also save your automobile,
If you are learning to drive, Will-
iams says, drive with the motor off.
By that, he means, practice at a stand- |
still with the clutch and brake. Im- |
agine the accident and then practice
what you would do.
Keep the best tires in the rear. You |
can control the front wheels. Don't |
turn your ignition off if you feel that
you will crash. That clogsg the motor
with too much fuel and there is liable |
be fire
Flash Willia mms asks: “What do you
¢€ on the street if you bump a per-
4
apologize. But on the road with
a tiny ratched fender often you use
bad uage, worse conduct and no
Colden Rule
rOiaen WULe,
A thrill and stunt driver who courts
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA AREA.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1939
PATTON. PA.
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR
[PLAN FORMATION OF
| ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
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| day evening, August 28th, for the pur-
pose of organizing an Alumni Associa-
| tion of the Patton High School.
By permission, a meeting has been |
| called in the High School for Tuesday, |
September 5th, at 7:30 P. M.,
ganize the Association,
and plan future activities.
| elect officers
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promised by Mr. William Bosserman,
principal.
| To succeed in this undertaking, each
| graduate should feel it his duty to
| support this association, and, therefore,
| you are g Urged to 9 to attend this lend this meating.
EBENSBURG FIRM
TO HAVE SECOND
~ HEARING ON CASE
New Ar Wiration Board Will
Sift Evidence in Home Baking
Company Tangle.
The second arbitration proceeding
in this district in a labor dispute was
announced Tuesday following a meet-
ing at Clearfield Sunday with Presi-
dent James Mark of District No. 2, U
M. W. of A. The Home Baking Com-
pany, Ebensburg, and Edward Haley,
oyee, are parties to the
involved the abolition
job as a motor vehicle me-
s arbitration pro-
the result of which was a
ndation that Haley be re-
i The company having a
ve employment to Haley, bu
1is former capacity as a
and Haley refusing other em-
the case presented compli-
ch have now resolved in-
roceedings.
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According to the announcement a
boycott of the Home Baking Com-
pany had been declared by the United
Mine Workers of Colver and Nanty-
Glo, which was lifted Sunday by
President Mark in view of the new
proceedings.
Haley claims he was dismissed by
the company, while the representa-
tives of the baking company claim he
quit his job. A member of the United
Retail Employees Union, CIO, Haley
appealed for friendly arbitration and
a hearing was held recently. The arbi-
trators were Meade Retallick of the
Ebensburg local; Kenneth M. Grazier,
and Burgess John Thompson of Eb-
ensburg. The recommendation merely
was that the Home Baking Company
reinstate Haley as an employee. The
work formerly done by Haley the
company claims, is now done by gar-
age contract and while willing to em-
ploy Haley the firm says it cannot
restore his old job. The boycott fol-
lowed. The United Mine Workers and
the company have agreed upon Ber-
nard Timms of Moss Creek, and J. J.
ine of Johnstown as arbitrators
e new proceedings and these two
to pick a third membe
Clarence Moser, of the Board of
iation, Harrisburg, will be asked
to name the third member of the
Board.
BURNSIDE MAN DIES
AFTER CAR CRASHES
William Costo, aged 30, of Burnside,
Clearfield county, was fatally injured
early on Sunday morning when the
automobile he was driving crashed in-
to a bridge abutment on Route 219
near Burnside. The accident was wit-
nessed by the victim's brother, John
Costo, who was following at a short
distance. The brother extricated the
victim from the wreckage and rushed
him to the office of a Glen Campbell
physician, who ordered the man to the
hospital. The man apparantly had fall-
en asleep at the wheel.
death but has never had an accident on
the highway, Williams preached cour-
tesy among drivers. And he knocks
wood as he proudly states that his
drivers never have had an accident on
the highway—because they drive al-
| ways at less than the legal speed lim-
if,
Workers have now completed the
| construction of the special stage in the
arena where the “Cheer Up Revue”
will be seen every night during Fair
week. The management of the Fair, al- |
ways endeavoring to please their pat-
rons, have decided to stage the revue
i ors so as to assure visitors of wit-
the show in comfort regard-
weather conditions
Entries continue to come in for the
stock and hc shows and icultu-
ral exhibits,
which will be held
; 7, Thursday and
S¢ 1turday
FOR PATTON SCHOOL
An informal meeting was held Mon-
r. Failing in |
to or- |
Whole-hearted co-operation has been {
LABOR WAR HAS
NO INDICATION
|AFL and CIO Try Try to Extend
Conventions.
Instead of peace between the warring
wings of labor, further strife may be
expected in the coming months.
Both the American Federation of
Labor and the Congress of Industrial
Organizations are preparing for their |
annual conventions in October and
these meetings will mark the widening
breach between the organizations
Charges and counter charges will fly
between the AFL meeting in Cincin-
natti and the CIO convention in San
r rancisco.
The féderation will center much of
its attack on the Construction Work-
ers Organizing Council, which was set
up to gain recruits in the building
trades industries. In forming this coun-
cil recently the CIO turned for the
first time to skilled crafts. If the CIO
can break this backbone it will deal a
staggering blow to the AFL. Already
some thirty charters have been issued.
Both bodies claim about 4,000,000 mem-
bers.
The CIO has formed a large bloc of
local unions in the nation’s packing
house plants. In this field the AFL has
made scant gains, limiting itself largely
i cher shops.
internal struggle among
1 the theatre industry
the CIO is waiting on the
expecting t a few “ripe
yo
offer a hav-
en to tl pographical
Union if the
“COAST GUARD” FILM
SPECTACULAR STORY
OF NAVY OF MERCY
Packed with drama and romance un-
der tropic skies, “Lady of the Tropics”
will be the screen attraction at the
Grand Theatre, Patton next Sunday
and Monday. With two stars of the
calibre of Robert Taylor and the much
talked about Hedy Lamarr in the
icture soars to new heights
ry.
leads, thi
of film ar
The new production is distinguished
in every way: cast, settings, locale and
story. The latter concerns a young
American, Robert Taylor, who falls
madly in love with the beautiful Man-
on, Hedy Lamarr, while visiting in
Saigon, Indo-China. They are married
in this the East ” but then
the boy unable to obtain a passport
out of the country for his wife. For
Pierre Delaroch, a half-caste, played
brilliantly by Academy Award win-
ner Joseph Schildkraut, is also in love
with Miss Lamarr and exerts all his
powerful influence to keep her in the
country. To reveal the ending of the
picture would be to detract from its
pleasure in the seeing, but it is a con-
clusion that comes as a fitting climax
to a wholly absorbing story.
Both Taylor and Miss Lamarr are
superb in their roles. Indeed, a new ro-
mantic team has taken its place along
with the famous ones of the past.
WATER USE URGED
IN COAL DUST FIGHT
“Pr
Washington.—Smothering coal dust
with a wet blanket has increased indi-
vidual efficiency of miners as much as
10 pe rcent the Bureau of Mines re-
ported here this week urging wider
use of water to allay coal dust.
Not only does regular ‘“sprinkli
of coal mines increase the workers’ af-
ficiency, the Bureau of Mines report-
ed, but the wet mine is the safer mine
because it “holds down” coal dust
which is believed detrimental to heal-
th.
Water to allay dust has been used
in Pennsylvania and West Virginia bi-
tuminous coal mines for more than a
quarter century, the report said, add-
ing:
“The concensus of numerous miners
working in mines where water is used
to allay dust is that they are more
comfortable during loading; that the
water helps to clear the smoke from
the air after blasting, making it easier
on their throats and ears, and that
would rather work in such a
mine than in one where no water is
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VE RS B ATHE TO JAZZ
At some collieries in Wales, grimy
5, come up from the
1 the j va-
one iel as S growing owers
adorn the bath house or locker rooms
OF ANY ANY EASING
Their Activities Before Their |
PROGRESSIVE
MINERS WERE A
WEAK OUTFIT
| In Fact Men At the Sheets Mine
Declare At Hearing They Pre-
fer Good Old U. M. W. of A.
Of the z1 men employed in the E. E
Sheets mine in Johnstown when the
strike was called last March 10, ten
appeared as witnesses last week in the
State Labor Relations Board hearing
at Johnstown and testified that they
preferred the “old” union, United Mine
Workers of America, Local 1040, to the
“new. union, Progressive Miners Un-
ion, Local 902.
The hearing was the result of a pe-
tition by Sheets for a state labor re-
lations board election to determine the
employee bargain agency between the
two rival unions.
The hearing disclosed that the Pro-
gressive Miners Union has only one
unit in this district—Local 902, at
the Sheets mine—and that the the A.
F. of L. Affiliated union allegedly has
been using the Shetts mine as a spring-
board to jump into the unionization
of bituminous miners in this territory
which has been served for years by the
United Mine Workers of Americ:
Fred D. Thomas, UMWA intern:
tional representative, and his superic
President J:
2, told of t
of difficult
the Sheets mine.
of calling the
last March was to resume contr:
tions.
actions
ies in union
Mark
riKe a
oyed at tl
The ten men emp
vy, Lud-
2k, John 1 C , Andrew
jonski, Blaze Twar John Rwik,
Tony Units, Tony Frachick, and Frank
Bedrick .
Bedrick testified that affer he had
gone on strike, Sheets offered him a
bonus of $1 daily to return to work as
a Progressive miner. He also stated
that on Thursday Sheets, in company
with Carmelo Liberatore, came to the
Bedrick home and asked him not to
testify at the hearing.
The hearing was held before Trial
Examiner John P. Harrington in the
C. of C. Assembly Room. So ends the
Progressive miners in this district.
CHERRY TREE MAN IS
FATALLY INJURED
Thrown from an automobile when
the door was acciden jolted open,
Thomas Holt, 71, of Cherry Tree, was
fatally injured on Sunday morning
He was removed to the Miners hospitai
at Spangler where he died on Sunday
afternoon, the result of a fractured
sei and several injuries to the face.
. Elmo Erhard of Clearfield coun-
Te coroner, in an investigation learned
‘that Holt was riding in an automobile
driven by Frank Heaton of Cherry
Tree R. D., at the time of the acci-
dent. Heaton told the coroner
were driving over a country road n
Cherry Tree when the car struck
large stone an dthe door on the right
side of the car accidently jolted open.
The driver told investigating officers
that Holt was apparantly leaning ag-
ainst the door and fell out when
was thrown open .Heaton
stopped the car within a s
and immediately rushed
the hospital.
said
HASTINGS FIREMEN HAVE
CELEBRATION THIS WEEK
The Hastings Volunteer Fire Com-
pany will hold a three day jubiless ob-
servance this week Thursday, Friday
and Saturday. Firemen’'s day will be
observed on Thursday with a street pa-
rade at 7 o'clock. The committee in
charge have received acceptances from
over 40 organizations for the parade.
A reunion and banquet wit be held
at 5:30 o'clock Thursday eve in
the Municipal Building
“Kiddies’ Day”’ will be observed on
Friday. A parade for children ,includ-
ing pets, bicycles, wagons and floats,
will be held Friday evening at seven
o'clock. Prizes will be awarded the
winners.
“Home day’
Saturday, September 2 in the Munici-
pal Building. A street parade will also
featuure,
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SP ANG y ER RH OSPIT AL
WILL GET $5,000.00
rvices rendered for the s al
lotted the Miners’ Hospita er
last week by E. Arthur § th
ry of welfare.
will be observed on
[EMPLOYMENT BOARD
| SPEEDS IT PLANS FOR
| NEW EXAMINATIONS
Harrisburg.—The employment board
—preparing examinations for new civ-
il service lists for appointments in the
Department of Public Assistance, pre-
pared this week to set up work sche-
dules to meet an increasing flood of
thousands of applications.
First examinations for eligibility for
stenographic and clerical jobs in the
department will be held September 30;
the last on October 7. The board ruled
that applicants must take their tests
at the centers specified on the appli-
cations. All applicants must have le-
gal residence in counties in which they
seek appointment and must be citi-
zens.
TIME RACE RUN
T0 GET PRICES
ON COAL READY
Rates Must Be In Effect When
Congress Reopens Within But
Four More Months.
itious and de-
Interior De-
n is moving to-
of minimum pric-
1us coal division of
ally is a race against
* months
1 division offi-
who favor reg-
lize that
if the long
and coal oj
n for their
is probable tr
is not finished and if prices are
the beginnir
ion ol congress,
of
in January.
Congress, and especially the
already has shown impatience
at the failure of the bituminous regu-
lation law to show some tangible re-
sults.
This displeasure was seen in the last
session in a powerful move to cut the
| appropriations of ‘the National Bitum-
ous Coal Commission and in the abol-
ition of the Commission and transfer
of its function to the Interior Depart-
ment.
Besides the House received a bill
sponsored by Representative Robert G.
Allen, Democrat, of Greensburg, Pa.
to amend the law by ting out some
of its most vital features including the
price fitting provisions.
The present effort to fix minimum
prices, intended to stop price cutting
in the industry, began soon after the
second coal law was ned by the
President April 26, 1937. The fi sch-
edule of quotations set up eight
months later, but lasted only a few
weeks until three federal judges decid-
ed they had not been arrived at pro-
. The new attempt at prices has
) in progress about 18 months, and
Jan. 1 is regarded as probably the ear-
liest on which they could be made ef-
fective.
Jearings now going on are expected
to last several wee and there are
other hearings in prospect.
Admittedly an experiment, the coal
law’s life is limited by its own provis-
ion to four years, and thus it will ex-
pire April 26, 1941.
HUNTING LICENSES
LARGER AND REDDER
s will be
larger 1d redder—the bett to catch
you with, Mr. Nimrod if you shoot
too near some farmer's barn.
The game commission announced the
new numerals will be one and one-half
incl high in on a red back-
ground for resident licenses. Non-res-
ident plates wil lhave a green back-
ground.
The larger numerals will permit ex.
forcement officers to get a better view
in case of violations, and help the far-
mer see the license.
The licenses are now available in
county treasurer's offices and other ag-
ents will shortly be supplied.
Liquor Profits High.
Harrisburg.—The profit rate of the
Pennsylvania Liquor monopoly, the na-
| tion's largest, reached the all time high
of 20.87 per cent for the last fiscal
year, the State Liquor Control Board's
current report of sales at the 580 state
stores stores shows.
J AMES Ww. NEWTON.
James W. Newton, aged 78 years, of
Utahville, near Blandburg, died Satur-
day at the home of his son, Robert
n. The deccased was born in
and and came 10 this country
young monn
iving are widow and a num-
l'ens Mayer has been notified, Hearings
ASSAULTER GIVEN
HEAVY SENTENCE
ATTACKING OF BOY
Jess Ford Tucker Is Unconcern-
ed When He Draws Seven and
One-Half Years in Pen.
Denounced as a moral pervert, Jess
Ford Tucker, 22, of Nanty-Glo, was
sentenced on Monday afternoon by
Judge Ivan J. McKenrick to serve T%
to 15 years in the Western Penitentiary
after pleading guilty to three moral-
ity counts.
Judge McKenrick first imposed a
sentence of from 5 to 10 years but on
request of District Attorney Mayer the
term was increased. Tucker appeared
unconcerned during the hearing,
while Corporal F. J. Hanley of the Eb-
ensbrug sub-station told the Judge
how Tucker had assaulted Oliver Mil-
ler, 14, of St. Benedict, in Pine Town-
ship, Indiana county, within 500 yards
of the Cambria county line. Tucker
did not change his expression during
the time the police officer recited the
sordid details. Tucker admitted he
had previously served a year term in
the county jail on a similar charge.
Tucker had picked the Miller boy
up in Spangler while the latter was at-
tempting to hitch’ hike a ride to his
home in St. Benedict. Entering the car
the boy was taken to Indiana county
where the crime was committed.
Judge McKenrick warned parents to
instruct their children not to ask for
rides. The Miller boy had been a hos-
pital patient some time as a result
of the attack.
HENDERSON M AKES
FIFTEENTH MOVE TO
OBTAIN HIS FREEDOM
Two inmates of the Western Peni-
tentiary, George Henderson and Char-
les Daisy, both have applied to the
State Pardon Board for commutation
of sentence, District Attorney Steph-
on the appeal will be held in Harris-
burg next month.
Henderson, who on May 8, 1912, kill-
ed Fern Davis at her home in Cone-
maugh, is making his 15th attempt to
escape from a life sentence. At his
trial before former Judge Marlin B.
Stephens in 1912, Hende n was con-
victed of murder in first degree
and sentenced to be hanged. This la-
ter was commuted to life imprison-
ment.
In his appeal for a ps:
these reasons for making the applica=
tion: “Because I have suffered greatly
during all the long years I have been
in prison; I have a job to go to and I
have alwanys been an honest work-
ing man.”
All of the previous
of Henderson to gain
airdon he gives
fourteen efforts
1 s freedom have
been vigoro opposed by Judge
Charles C. Greer, who was district at-
torney at the time of Henderson’s con-
viction, and his successors in the pros-
ecutor’s office. D ney Mayer
stated that he will cc we to fight
Henderson's efforts to his free-
dom.
Daisy, whose home is in Brooklyn,
N. Y, in company with James Gowen,
of Nanty-Glo, on Sept. 19, 1935, held up
and robbed E. F. Dunmire, cashier of
the Salix State Bank in a sensational
stick-up. They obtained $3,050. Follow-
ing the robbery, the men fled and were
captured the following day by Motor
Police near Hanover, Pa. Daisy was
sentenced by President Judge John H.
McCann to serve 10 to 20 rs in the
Western Penitentiary, while Gowen,
who had a previous record, was sen-
tenced to serve 20 to 40 years in the
same institution.
Daisy declared in his application
for a commutation of his sentence that
he is suffering from tuberculosis, be-
ing confined in a tuberculosis ward in
the hospital prison. He asserted that
if released he will become a patient
in a tuberculosis hospital in New York
State. District Attorney Mz yer said
he also would oppose Daisy’s applica-
tion.
FOUR PARTIES WILL
ENTER PRIMARIES FOR
OFFICES IN COUNTY
The only parties which will be rep-
resented on the county wide ballot for
county offices at the November elec-
tion are the Democratic, Republican,
Socialist and Prohibition. When the
deadline for filing independent nomin
ation petitions expired last week
the following actions had been tal
by indepe nde ent candidat ] I
County to obtain places on tl
ber b: allot:
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I five re
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