Union press-courier. (Patton, Pa.) 1936-current, September 07, 1939, Image 1

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    A GENERAL NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS
OF ORGANIZED LABOR IN CENTRAL PENN
Recognized and Endors-
ed by More Than Fifty
Local Unions and Cen-
tral Bodies Over Cam-
bria County and Ad-
jacent Mining Areas.
Srmm——————————o.
Union
VOL. 45. NO.
35 TEAMS WILL
PARTICIPATE
FIRST-AID MEET
unty Fair on
Week—Are
At the Cambria Co
Saturday of This
tate's Crack Teams.
five crack
‘nnsylvania will
meet
annual { id
j Pen:
unction with
minous M ?
ember 9, at t
The
the
Cambria
cn Labor
The
sored by
first
feature
County
Day.
Miner’
states of
Mine Worke
1d
Bureau
ited f
the National ar
Associations.
and
Coal
Many of the 1
the sate,
secretary
eading mining auth
ities in includ John Ira
Thomas, of
tend and participate
meet.
The aff:
and co
meet Ww
on
will commence at 10
throughout the day.
the lar
tinue
pe
held in rge
tr
3 1+
as. il
t P. Bradley, Cresson
1 ‘hes and Company; Matthev
iia, Pa., Vesta Coal Com-
McCe Pittsbur
John W.
and I
McKer
mpany;
ctor;
Rochester
John
Pittsburgh Coal C
DuBois, Northwes
Exchange Company;
Mine 1
John Burl
tor; Cecil 1]
sylvania Co al a nd Cok
William Merrits, Revloc,
> inspec-
, Penn-
> Company, and
Monroe Coal
Keenan,
inspector;
rnes Coal
nest,
3a
C. P.
Com-
‘hes.
nes
Dennis
mine
, Barnesbaoro
A. Galla Roe
gh Coal Company; William
Monroe Coal Company;
Ebensburg Coal
Company; y. ancourt, Port:
Sonmar Coal Company;
Vichols irnesboro,
Revloc,
Chick
T. L
last
Phi
and
crack
sectione
trained
ning
tion; will
winning first place.
Richard Ma
mine inspector,
chairman of
Ebensbur state
assistant
burgh,
division
yud
Other n
Recorders
mining engine
‘W. Ho
spector,
mining
Examining
Pittsburgh,
ard E. George,
suector, and Dr.
burgh, surgecn,
Indiana
Timekeeper
Indiana, state mine ir
mas Lowther, Indiana,
mine inspector.
istribution — H. R.
Score card di
Burdelsky, Pittsburgh, principal safety
instructor, Bureau of Mines.
Secretary — C. P. Brinton, Barnes-
boro, and treasurer, Bart C. Leonard,
South Fork.
Committees for the affair have been
announced as follows:
Finance—Francis Feehan, Pitsburgh,
Unitted States
C. Leonard, South Fork, Adams Fuel
Corporation; P. J. Callaghan, Bridge-
ville, state mine inspecior; W. P. Vance, |
Wildwood, Butler Consolidated Coal
Company; C. E. Wissinger, McClelland-
Whiteman & ('o.; John Foreman,
3 1 Compauy; R
mine in-|
mine
rarth,
and
engineer,
judge
ate mine
Altoona, state
A. L. Murray,
Department of
r; Rich-
mine in-
Pitts-
Mines
st
William B. Wardrop,
spector, and Tho-
retired state
heiser, In-
M.: 1.
Bitumi-
Stein
ctor;
Coulter, Indi field
ana,
Press, Established May,
Bureau of Mines; Bart | D
| lidated Coal Corporation;
| Johnstown,
NSYLV
1935.
> @
~
ANIA.
“
AN ATTAINMENT OF THE LARGEST GENERAL WEEKLY
NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA.
Patton Courier,
WAR MARS U. S.
CELEBRATION OF
ITS LABOR DAY
Both Lewis and Green Express
Hope Our Nation (Can Keep
Qut of Foreign Conflict.
over the
bor Day celebrat
Apprehension
war marred the La
Monday of the nation’s toiling
In most every city and ham
coast to coast, workmen
their tools and poined
parades, but kept alert
war abroad.
President William Green
and President John L. Lew
ClO, devoted much of their
broadcast messages to the conflict.
Both emphas the
who follow
not America stay 1
concentrate on solving problems
especially the finding of
ten million unemployed.
speech, delivered at Ogden
laid
picnics
Wi
in
for
1at1o
their leadershiy
out o1
jobs
for the
Lew
U
Roose velt
tah, S a blistering attack
anita He
upor €
declared
executed
alway
e to beguile a suffering people,
I “many of our statesmen
more concerned and agitated over
the p litical I quarrels in Europe”
home.
d,
will not
on
are
continue
> device of
ng and
men.”
CIO’s said
li n 1940 whe
for |
members
submit the guestioin of peace
war t secret vote of the Gern
and denou D
nd Commun
There must be no Europe %
giement and no involvement in Euroc-
pean wars,” he added. ‘We call on
ir government scrupuously to avoid
the commission of any overt act, to
maintain a strictly neutral attitude and
thus avoid the tragic and unhappy ex-
periences through which our people
r d during the great rld War.”
FRANKL IN FIREMEN
HAST o NGS WINNERS
ople
w
e company,
mpany 1 )
traveling
County;
w Company,
best apparatus other than
Portage; best appearing ladies
Neptune, Tyrone; ladies aux-
longest distance, Sandy
S County; best ap-
Houtadale; best ladies
corps, Neptune, Ty-
pumper
Ty
y cam
Township,
bearing {
Arum
on
HOM. AS HARRIS, GALLIT-
ZIN TOWNSHIP, EXPIRES
Thomas H. Harris, 81, of the best
kKnewn residents of Northern Cambria
county, died on Sunday evening at
his home in Gallitzin township of a
omplication of diseases in the house
where he was born and had spent his
entire life. He was born in 1858 He
survived by a brother, Joseph Harris,
Altoona, Funeral services were held
one
of
| on Wednesday morning in St. Thomas’
Catholic church, Ashville, with inter-
ment in the church cemetery.
nous Coal Corporation; Frank Dunbar,
Mather, Mather Colleries; W. C. Fan-
cou Portage, Sonman Shaft Coal
Company, and G. A. Shoemaker, Ren-
ton, Union Colleries Company.
Registration J. V. Berry, Johns-
town, Industrial Colleries Corporation;
James Gatehouse, Seward Pennsylva-
nia Electric Company; B. J. Murphy
Scottdale, H. C. Frick Coke Company;
an Walker, Wildwood, Butler Conso-
Roy Joseph,
state mine inspector.
Program -— C. E. Wissinger, Indiana
Whiteman & Co.; Paul Gill, Indiana
Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corpor-
ation; H. E. Mason, McClellandtown, H.
C. Frick Coal Company; Thomas J
South Fork, Pennsylvania Coal
Coke Company; James Traux,
Springdale, Allegheny-Pittsburgh Coal
Company, and Ben Auld, Portage,
Johnstown Coal and Coke Corporation
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA ARFA. T!
Polish infantry awaiting the attack of German troops on the Polish
Corridor border. President Moscicki emphasized the fact that Poland's
first battles were purely defensive to
many is the aggressor nation. Germany’s initial land attacks were from
East Prussia against Dzialdowo and Mlawa;
Chojnice at the narrowest part of the disputed Corridor, and from Bres-
law against Katowice.
GLEN WHITE MINE
AGAIN RESUMED
WORK TUESDAY
Operation Had Been
SSince Decembe rof
RFC Loan Grant
1097
1Jo
0
ed.
Decemp
at
resum
af coal
miners
of 100 t
Closed since
large coal mine
Kittaning Point
and the shipment
A total of 42
pits and a total
were produ
ed
proximate }
~
Glen
Whilte Ce
retary
Silliman,
ensburg,
vice r, Gal-
litzin
Mean
Baltimc
STATE TO REFUND CHAIN
STORE TAX PAYMENTS
arrisburg—=Secr
Villiam J. Hamilton, Jr
warning persons
pai Chain and The
to the Department of Revenu
the act recently declared uncar
tional by the State Supreme Court, ag-
ainst entering into a contracts with
pers: representing themselves a
able to obtain funds.
“It has recently been brought
my attention,” the secretary said,,
certain persons have recently been
liciting Pennsylvania business men, 3
presenting that they will obtain
funds of store and theatre taxes on
those lave
Store
to
stitu-
e
ms S
that
SO~
| fee basis.
“In order to obtain refunds of the
moneys paid into the state treasury |
under the provisions of the act of the
5th of June, 1937, all that is necessary
is for the petitioner to file a written
application with the Board of Finance
and revenue, of the State Treas-
ury Department, State Capitol, upon
request. The petition may be execut-
ed by any principal officer of the
claimant, if a corporation, or by the
cwner or partner, if not.
“The Board of Finance
will act upon such petitions as soon
as possible. Refunds in cash will be
made whenever the Legislature makes
appropriation the The
procedure has been made by
the Board in these cases
wholly unnecessa
to seek outside he
care
nd Revenue
an for purpose.
£0 simple
that it
taxpay
for
Ip
ry
Press-Courier
ads bring results,
the
tricts
In
TUR
§
K AY
Y, SEPTEMBER 7, 1939
Se
Our Shop Is Equipped
to Do Job Printing of
All Kinds, Nothing Too
Large or Too Small
We Cater Especially to
Local Union Printing.
Established Oct., 1893.
SUBSCRIPTION $2 00 PER yn
POLICE CONTINUE THE LABOR DAY
ENFORCEMENT OF
AUTO SPEED LAW
New Motor (
Effect Since Sept. 1st, Not to
Affect Limit of Speed.
Pennsylvania
rigid enfor-
speed
open
tinue
50-mile-an-hour
the
ext
ES on
and
tationed
show Vv
licy, Col.
of Pennsylv-
wil
r sole function
information which will
ne where extra de-
required to pro-
f the speedi
establish beyond all doubt that Ger- : ‘
the enforce-
motor police
headquarter
random
Aug
by
at their
“Selecting
from Pomerania against
at
ending
report
of
violation
peed
NA
ois LABOR
S PRAISED
ROOSEVELT
‘
The average
f out of State
per hour.”
ER SLAIN DURING
QUARREL AT MARSTEI
LAR AS CHILD LOOES ON
igedehis Laboris an a eto er STHE
Ameri
prenens
gram,
r movem
150,000 QU OTA IS MINI-
MUM GOAL FOR WPA IN
STATE THROUGH OCT.
f
iring
seph Ge od
a press
can’t predict beyond t
Asked whether Penns;
projects absorb
uficient approved
a quota of 150,000 September, Hun-
ter said he was “not sure they had.” ANTE
Employment on WPA pr jjects EN1 ERED BY PAIR
Pennsylvan f August 23 was 136 IN POISONING CASE
061, a reduction of 1: one week, — ee
Hunter said. Gordon Fultz, 23 year old WPA wor-
He added he believed the consolida- | ker, of Cresson township, and his 22
tion of districts in Pennsylvania had year old wife, M Margaret
been completed and that sav gs of | Fultz, are being held f al
more than $700,000 a month in admin- | December term of court on a charge
istration expenses, largely because of | attempting murder their seven-
the consolidations, had been indicated. | weeks’ old baby, William Charles
The administrative expenses for the | Fultz. The couple were given a pre-
state in July was $5,329,010. This was | liminary hearing befo Squire John
cut to $5,205,782 in Aug bud- Thompson in ensburg
get for September is $4,60¢ | ed pleas of not guilty. The
Hunter remarked that one of them, re cha
comptroiler general poisonous su
rganiz sing bottle
who may
confere wee! ald, "11 4. r, Josephine
Raymo
home,
A NOT GUILTY PLEAS
215 in
S (Bost)
for the
of
to
re
at least
placing
child’s
the
i bstance
under which
the federal ing
ition plans
made a part of
job printn
aequately
the cq
ng the
and equent
atu personell
am
MESSAGE OF CIO
LEADER LEWIS
Code Regulations in Says Oraaniced Labor Is Most
Important Bulwark of Demo-
cracy—0Other Features.
Following is he Labor Day message
of President John L. Lev of the
Congress of Industrial Organizations:
“With the passing of each year the
ificance of Labor Day grows great-
Each year it becomes clearer, for
this nation and for other nations, that
organized labor is the mc important
bulkward of democracy. Organized
Labor's program tions em-
body the faith in a
democracy such se-
curity and well-being wi
to dictatorship.
When labor
bargaining
hours and to better
it strengthens at the
orderly democratic
procedure there
plant and company
1ighout the nat
practice of peaceful,
cratic settlement of
ween men.
The day is grow
hopes not only o
all progressive men and w
where center more and
forward-looking labor
exemplified by CIO.
growing realiz that the
very nature seeks I
of the people
laboring people,
farmers have broad
that transcend
need for securit]
nity, for even 1
f the products
join the great m
in one common cause
The CIO is moving The in-
herent rightness of its structure and of
its program has carried the CIO thro-
ugh unprecedented attacks It has
whethered a terrific depression, main-
taining as never 1e wage rates
of American w
It has embr
employed work
and challen
their probl
CIO is
to more
to
Inaustr
1S
sign
er.
ana aspira
that
as
the people
urs can gain
thout resort
ough collective
se shorten
working conditions,
the whole
process. By this
tablished, plant by
company, thro-
mic life, a
d demo-
bet-
seeks thre
to rai wages,
roots
is €
by
econc
honest an
differences
n’s
ng clo hen the
wage earne but of
men every-
in the
n
its
Iare as
con
any differen
for equal
ndu
inaus
iry
people
be
of un-
g them leader-
ship
solv
The
offering
nation’s
unionism
program
men and
to then
ready
E PEOPLE KNOW!
"ALLY ARE INJURED
N HEAD-ON COL LISION
head-on
Sunday morning
Penn highway, t
three Car
were injured,
resson,
Pearl 3
of
7. Her Z0ns
} too-
the
dition
na hospital.
n Crooks,
rat
the
severe
fracture
25 stained
and a
condi-
the
cer
of
severe
ated at
mald Gill,
itton res-
bensburg
an
autom obile
in
vestig
driven
Cl
pass
gation
by
2velanc
a truck
lided head-on
Both drivers
tomobil
ues w 2 eXxlens
was
when the
ith the G
:scaped
tomobile,
Both
aamag-
FORMER EDITOR OF TH E
PATTON COU RIE R DEAD
We
f last
printer
anty-
note by the .
week
In
N
that A
the Journal
-Glo Journal
McConnell,
ior receil d
a message death his
broth J
announcing the
Edward McC
about 55, a printer
cperator, which occ
following
a nat
sided in
of
also
urred
Ss