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CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA AREA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5. 1939
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PA
MINE WORKERS
_ CONTINUE FIGHT
ON DRIVERS UNIT
Northern Cambria Beer Distri-
butors Form Alliance With C.
I. 0. Groups.
United Mine Workers of America of
District No. 2, particularly in the min-
ing towns embraced by the Johnstown
trade area, announced renewal of the
“war” against at Johnstown AFL or-
ganization, which they charge with
having aided the Progressive Miners’
Union in attempting to launch a cam-
paign of organization in the county.
Organizers of the UMWA made no
secret of the fact that with the mines |
working at full capacity in a majority
of places the union plans to battle the |
Johnstown Drivers Union 110( AFL)
to a finish fight.
Two methods of attack were reveal-
ed: '
Miners in a wide radius of Johns-
town will be encouraged to refuse to
deal at stores accepting wholesale de-
liveries from firms employing AFL
truck drivers affiliated with H. D.
Lehman's Johnstown Drivers’ Union,
No. 110.
The UMWA will launch a counter
attack by setting up chartered United
Mine Worker Union locals in various
places. These locals will be for truck
drivers with special invitations to join
extended to members of “Whitey” Leh-
man’s drivers union.
Announcement of the organization a
few days ago of the Northern Cambria
Beer Distributors’ Assoviation was in-
terpreted as being directly related to
the issue. The newly organized assecia-
tion of beer distributors announced
one regulation which was seen us a
blow to the AFL truck drivers. Before
a beer distributor is admitted to mem-
bership in the Northern Cambria as-
sociation his truck drivers must carry
union cards of Barnesboro Local 7587,
United Mine Workers—the special U.
M. W. A. union local set up for truck
drivers in this area
With the announcement that “we are
affiliated with the United Mine Work-
ers of America and employ urion dri-
vers only, the following were an-
nounced as the original membership of
the Northern Cambria Association:
Hastings Bottling Works, represented
by Fred Soisson, Hastings; Gunther
Beverage Company, represented by Ed
Gunther, Hastings: Joe Fork, Colver;,
Blair Pawlowski, Barnesboro: John
Barnesboro; Carl Falchini,
Ed Englehart, Ebe nsburg,
h, Carrolltown.
Soissan presi-
president;
nd Carl
> method
t ed Mine
with miners now
1 the coal s
en in the 1 towns have
ructed to notify store
gers that retail purchases will
not be made where wholesale deliver-
les are made by members of “Whitey”
Lehman's union.
disclosed that the “heat” al-
ready has been applied in a number of
instances at Vintondale, Colver, Revloc,
and in the Dunlo and Beaverdale sec-
tions.
Advent of organizers for the Pro-
gressive Miners’ Union (AFL) in
Johnstown last year was the the signal
for the retaliation by the UMWA, it is
admitted. Arrival of the Progressives
has beer laid to the door of Lehman's
union by UMW leaders, and “bust the
Drivers Union 110” has been made the
first order of business.
Organization of the Northern Cam-
bria Beer Distributors Association
was announced as a move to stabilize
the beer business for the betterment
and protection of its members and to
“clean house and eliminate the viola-
tors of law laid down by the Pennsyl-
vania Liquor Control Board.
Announcement has been made by |
the beer distributors that a contract |
already has been negotiated between |
the Association and UMWA Local 7587 |
of Barnesboro. |
United Mine Workers Union organ- |
izers explained that the Barnesboro |
Branch for truckers was similar to the
Johnstown branch for truckers en- |
gaged in hauling house coal.
bus
HOLLIDAYSBURG FLYER
HAS NARROW ESCAPE |
Altoona.—Running out of gas while |
trying desperately to reach a landing |
field, State Motor Police Sergeant E. |
F. McGill of Hollidaysburg, crashed |
his airplane into the side of fog bound |
Brush Mountain and lived to tell the
story.
The sergeant flew blind over the|
mountain in coming from Johnstown |
last Wednesday night, but was unable |
to land because of low hanging clouds. |
He turned back, ran out of gas and hit |
the mountain.
McGill walked several miles,
though dazed.
|
al-'
| Years ago. Damage to the building
NEW INDUSTRIES
NEEDED TO USE
RAW MATERIALS
Result of War In Europe May be
Factor in New Enterprises in
Pennsylvania.
A ready made opportunity to devel- |
Oop new types of industries in Penn-
sylvania through industrial research
has been envisioned by Secretary of
Commerce Richard Brown as one re-
sult of the war in Europe.
“The war is upsetting international
trade,” Secretary Brown said. “It has
shut off the supply of many imported
products upon which North and Sou-
th America relied.
“Substitute sources of supply can be
‘developed in Pennsylvania.
“The last war gave great impetus
to the dye and chemical industry in
America. The conversion of the manu-
facturing facilities of European nations
to war goods, offers the opportunity
now for Pennsylvania to develop many
similar peace time industries which
can promote lasting prosperity.
“There are many fields in which re-
search can develop new uses for our
raw materials both mineral and agri-
cultural. Chemicals and plastics, ard
the creation of new synthetics, are ex-
amples.
“Pennsylvania’s coal fields and oth-
er mineral deposits contain huge res-
ervoirs of materials ‘which already are
Leing converted to new uses and new
products. We make textiles from coal
and fabrics from glass.
“Our rich farming lands are capa-
ble of producing vegetable products
which, in addition to supplying adequ-
ate quantities of foods, can also fur-
nish the materials for new manufac-
tured products. The varied uses of soy
beans in recent years are examples.
“Cn relatively small farms, such as
common in Pennsylvania, the pro-
duction of agricultural materials for
industrial uses is made easier by the
recent models of improved and more
simple farm machinery adaptable to
small acre farming,
“Attention to tne industrial applica-
tions of research by chemists, biole- |
| gists, and ‘metallurgists not only can
develop new products which will give
lasting employment to thousands of
Pennsylvanians but alco can offer a
field of useful activity with an attrac-
tive future for the yeung people who
are in school today.
“From the disruption of normal
commerce resulting from the war to-
day Pennsylvania can profit for ‘the
future, as well as the present, by ‘tak-
Ing the lead in research which will
develop mew industrial processes and
products which will continue to keep
Pennsylvania ci employed
after the war h ended.”
HASTINGS ELECTRIC
SUB-STATION BURNS IN
FRIDAY NIGHT STORM
is ong
owners |
A brief, but severe electrical
struck ferociously at this section of
the county last Friday evening abaut 7
o'clock, and did considerable damage.
Telephone and electric lines in some
sections were blown down At the
height of the storm lightning struck
the Hastings electric sub-station and
the building was burned to the ground
resulting in a loss of approximately
$5,000. Hastings was plunged into dark-
ness at an early heur. The bolt ®
believed to have struek a high ten-
sionline outside the building and fol-
lowed into a transformer in the pPOow-
er house.
Hastings Volunteer Fire Company
was summoned to the seene, but the
fire had gained considerably headway
before its arrival and firemen were un-
able to save the building. However
firemen succeeded in savirg the Has-
tings Electric Company's sub-station
which is located only a few feet from
the burned building.
The Hastings Electric Company
building, which houses hundreds of
dollars worth of electrical equipment,
caught fire from sparks from the oth-
er building, but firemen were able to
starm
serious damage resulted.
Firemen were obliged to lay 2,000 |
feet of hose to the nearest fire hy- |
drant. Scorching heat, emitting from |
| the blazing building kept firemen at a |
| distance for nearly half an hour. Gre- |
| atest damage to equipment resulted |
| when the roof of the building fell in. |
|
|
Several large transformers were com- |
pletely destroyed.
Sparks resulting from burning wire |
insulation and short circuits in the |
electrical equipment shot high into the
air and attracted hundreds of people |
to the scene. The blaze could be seen |
in Patton, five miles away.
The building was owned by the Oak |
Ridge Coal Company and for a num- |
ber of years was used as a power |
house for the local coal concern. The |
Pennsylvania Edison Company leased |
the building and equipment several |
was |
estimated at $2,500 and to equipment, !
$1,000.
|
|
bring the blaze under control Before |
ANAFLAND CIO
PEACE APPEAL
ganizations to Come to Agree-
ment for Emergency.
President Roosevelt Tuesday appeal-
ed to the American Federation of La-
kor to resume peace negotiations with
the rival Congress of Industrial Or-
ganizations to promote peace at home
auring a world emergency.
Mr. Roosevelt's message, dated Sept.
30, was read to the 59th annual AFL
convention by President William
Green, who replied in a telegram to
the President with a quotation from
the AFL executive council report
which said the AFL committee stands
ready to resume peace negotiations
when it is accorded an opportunity.
“H we desire peace and good will
in the world we must learn to practice
these in the small and large things of
cur own life,” Mr. Roosevelt said.
“The coniinued conflict and separa-
tion in the labor movement can hard-
ly be overlooked in these days when
discord in any group is so harmful to
, world peace.
“Peace, like charity, begins at home.
A world emergency, such as at pres-
ent, gives us new realization of the
blessings of democracy and liberty. In
the presence of these blessings and in
the face of this world necessity we
must adjourn our small grudges, our
differences, and find the way to peace
and good will within eur borders in
every department of life.
“So we become a free
nation with people of all shades
opinion and walks of life, united in
common purpose to maintain and to
practice and to protect this American
way of life.”
Mr. Roosevelt said he would send a
similar message to the CIO conven.
ton in San Francisco on October 10.
MOTOR POLICE HEADS
PUSH DRIVE TO LOWER
AUTO TOLL IN STATE
and fearless
High officials of tne Femnnsylvaniz
Motor Police are continuing their ef-
[forts to enlist the aid of every police
officer in the state in a @rive to fur-
ther reduce the toll of motor vehicle
accidents
| In a message sent out last week over | bria @ounty towns, including Cr
the police teletype system, Maj. C. M.
Wikelm, depuly commissioner of the
state force, called upon all police to
co-operate In curbing lesses in death
three months of the year. T
eded a short ti 3
1 from Maj. Ly Adam
Y police comm oner, for a
certed drive to reduce the pede
leath toll
J. Wilhelm reported
tics furnished by the state department
of revenue show the state’s automobile
death toll for the seven months’ period
from January to July inclusive, has
been cut from 1,357 in 1937 to 932 in
1938 and 807 .in 1939.
“Reductions in the number of :acci-
dents and persons injured also ‘has
been indicated Hut not in such a man-
ner as may be regarded as satisfac-
tory” his message said.
| Major Wilhelm pointed out that the
remaming three months of the year
| give Pennsylvamia’s police an oppor-
| tunity to further reduce #he toll and
| make a real record for the year. He
warned, however, that efforts alang
this lime will be seriously handicapped
| by snow, sleet, ice, rain and falling
| leaves, which create additiomal hazords
for traffic.
Pointing out that the state's auto
death toll in each of the last four
{ months of 1938 was cut below the 1937
| figures, he added:
| “All police should make every effort
not only to maintain the reduction in
| aceidents and fatalities reported during
[the first seven months (of 1988) but
also to improve conditions.”
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NORTHERN CAMBRIA
CLUB REORGANIZED
The Northern Cambria Literary
Club, which has been reorganized un- |
der the direction of Mrs. Richard
Bradley of Carrolltown, met last week
at the home of Miss Marion Myers al-
so of Carrolitown. Recent books and
topics of interest were discussed dur-
ing the business session. A social hour
followed.
THE FIRE CHIEF SAYS :— |
. |
Clean up and inspect your |
buildings before winter sets in. |
Be careful of fire hazards. In re- |
cent inspections, ashes were dis-
covered in pasteboard cartons, |
as well as electric wires impro- |
perly fastened to the walls by
nails driven through the insula- |
tion. Correct these conditions.
Patronize onr advertisers,
| to the state institution.
|
lth
| Stroyka was taken to Torrance,
| police found it
| page at his home Monday afternoon.
jail.
~ CANDIDATES SEEK CIO UNIONS BACK MINES
CHANGE OF NAMES
VOICED BY FDR INCOURTAPPEALS ANOTHER TERM 0
President Urges Rival Labor Or. Corrections Are Sought By Sev-
eral With Minor Party Nom-
inations in County.
Several candidates who were nomin-
ated by minor parties in the primary
on Tuesday, September 12, Tuesday
petitioned the court to have their
names corrected so that they may ap-
pear on the general election ballot the
same as their names for the major par-
ties which gave them nominations.
Under the law a candidate cannot
accumulate votes unless his name ap-
pears the same for each party nomina-
tion. Four candidates for county of-
fice were among those who filed their
Petitions with. Prothonotary John L.
Hite to have their names changed.
Judge Ivan J. McKenrick, who has
the Democratic nomination for Judge
of the Court of Common Pleas, has
asked the court to have his name chan-
ged from “Ivan J. McKendrick” to Iv-
an J. McKenrick as the candidate for
the Socialist party.
Under the law a candidate must no-
tify all other candidates for the same
office of his intention of having his
name changed. The court has set Oc-
tober 7th as the time for the return on
McKenrick’s petition.
Stephens Mayer, Republican candi-
date for District Attorney, has peti-
tioned the court to have his name
changed from “Stephen Mayer’ to
Stephens Mayer for a Prohibition par-
ty nomination.
Returns on his petition as well
of all others will be made on October 9.
James M. (Jimmy) Jones won the
Prohibition and Socialist party nom-
inations as “James M. Jones” for coun.
ty commissioner. He has asked it be
changed to James M. (Jimmy) Jones.
William H. Heslop, who won the Re-
publican nomination for clerk of the
tourts, also has asked the court to
Change his name from “William Hes-
lop” to William H. Heslop zs the Pro-
hibition party candidate.
GREENHOUSES, CARS
BEAR STORM BRUNT
IN CAMBRIA TOWNS
Eb-
Can
Greehouses and automobiles in
ensburg and a number of other
Galli
the
torn
zin, bore
and rain =
S a narrow strip
Wednesday
and
freak hail
path acre
br
1 WI
storm w ) i
pour which lasted a half h
The hail storm cut a path
Blacklick township and continue
Ebensburg 1 township
. f
for 1
a
Ebensburg propap:y
greatest damage as the result
hailstones, although scores of autc 1
bile and home owners in other sections
of the storm’s path also reported un-
usually heavy damage as ult
hail stones peppering large holes thrt
roofs of cars and houses.
Automobile tops were literally rid-
dled by the stones in Ebensburg, the
suffered th
of the
(
shingles on roofs were splintered and |
practically every outdoor neon
in the county seat was broken.
Balsinger and Luther, Ebensburg
florists, reported the greatest single
damage. The hailstones smashed 3,200
of the 3.500 panes in the firm’s green-
houses. The firm's showrooms in Eb-
ensburg was also damaged. No insur-
ance was carried on the glass. Their
loss is in the neighborhood of $7,000.
TAFE BARR TOWNSHIP
MAN, TIED TO BED, TO
TORRANCE INSTITUTION
sign
State motor police at the Ebensburg
barracks and Cambria County officials |
were able to breathe a little easier on
Tuesday because Michael Stroyka, 25 |
of Barr township, who went berserk
at his home Monday afternoon, was
in the Torrance state hospital. |
Stroyka caused the officers and of- |
| ficials plenty of worry and inconven-
lence before they could remove him
|
In fact he displayed such strength |
at officials were obliged to tie him
to a bed at the Cambria County Home.
| The bed, with Stroyka securely strap-
ped to it, was loaded on a truck and |
after
impossible to handle |
the man in any other manner. |
Stroyka suddenly went on a ram- |
|
|
He jumped into his father’s automobile |
| and broke down three fences with the
vehicle before he went to the home of
his sister, Mrs. Mary Wolf, and created
a disturbance there. Mrs. Wolf com-
| municated with the state motor police
at Ebensburg and Stroyka was placed
| under arrest. Much difficulty was en- |
countered in getting him to the county
| evening during a
. : the $17,000,0 Jeners > me
| storm, when he was caught under the $ 00,000 general equibme
| vered in half when struck by the truck
| been playing with a group of boys on
I of
N COUNTY
AGAIN AS
RDERS ARE UP
Feeling Is “Virtually Unanim- Men Are Given Temporary Cer-
Sus shitoing lo Jus, Larey, tificates; Condition Best Since
® ~valiong Pecretary, 1922, One Offical States.
ROOSEVELT FOR =~ BOOM
Resoultions submitted by C. 1. O.
unions in all parts of the country for
consideration at the organization's
convention opening October 9th in
San Francisco reflect “virtually unan-
imous” sentiment for continuation of
the New Deal through the re-election
of President Roosevelt in 1940, accord-
ing to James B. Carey, national sec-
retary of the CIO.
With coal operators stepping up pro-
duction in order to meet growing de-
mands on their industry, hundreds of
miners are being called back to em-
ployment after long lay-offs, it was
indicated throughout Cambria County
this week and last.
In order to facilitate the speed up
of production, caused by the influence
Mr. Carey, who is preseident of the | of the war boom and the usual season-
United Electrical, Radio and Machine | 5] demands, state mine inspectors over
Workers of America, said that similar | the bituminous fields of Pennsylvania
unamity was indicated on the desira- | have been instructed to conduct ex-
bility of peace with the American Fed. | aminations for certificates of compe-
eration of Labor, provided that the tency and qualification.
terms of agreement did not sacrifice Such certificates are required of
“any of the gains of the last four | miners under a law sponsored in the
years.” 1937 session of the legislature by Sen-
Despite their endorsement of a| ator John J. Haluska of Patton. The
third term, the unions represented in law was a move to insure greater
the advance resolutions show no de- safety in the mines by not permitting
sire to surrender their political bar- inexperienced men—those without the
gaining power by giving the Presi- certificates—to dig coal.
dent a “blank check,” Mr. Carey said. On September 1 ,examining boards
Most emphasize the necessity for car- | created under the Haluska bill, were
rying forward the New Deal and warn | abolished. To continue part of the
against concessions to “reactionary | work of the examining groups, John
forces.” Ira Thomas, secretary of mines, last
The decision of President Roosevelt | week directed state inspectors to ex-
to disband the War Resources Board amine applicants and issue temporary
after its report is presented, was attri- | certificates, :
buted by Mr. Carey to CIO complaints| Thomas directed that, if posible,
against the lack of labor representa-| ‘not one ton of coal” be held up for
tives on the board. To insure that the | lack of certified miners. The inspect-
United States will stay out of the Eu-| Ors were told to examine applicants
ropean war, spokesmen for labor, far- | orally in their (the inspector's) homes.
mers and consumers must receive a Tests consist of “eight practical mining
voice in the conduct of our foreign questions” with only those persons
relations, the CIO official declared. who show a satisfactory knowledge
He declined to comment on Pres- | of mining conditions eligible to re-
ident Roosevelt's program for revision | ceive even the temporary certificates,
of the Neutrality Act but warned that Dennis J. Keenan of Barnesboro, in-
the nation must not neglect its do- spector for the 15th district, has been
mestic problems because of the con- €Xamining men in great numbers, in-
flict abroad. dicating the local extent to which men
——— are being called back to work.
Fy yo N . " Kennan announced that h rill -
SCHWARB'S ESTATE IS duct eg at his Be vo
GIVEN RELATIVES AND
| afternoon from 3 to 5:30 o'clock. all
SOME TO EMPLOYEES | of this week.
——en i Labor organizers and coal operators
Charles M. Schwab, last of the steel alike said a real boom is now in effect
barons, left his entire estate to rela- in the coal industry, with production
tives and employees, making no be- increasing the county every day. Con-
quests to charity, will in | ditions have not reflected higher com-
Ne y, week, mercial fuel prices yet, but there was
not much doubt in some quarters that
es up if ord would
firms start
3 of his
i WoO )
begin
bidding
With
t and hard-
slowly
de-
pros-
quit
Rail-
I $ state
individuals
effects of
vab. Smalle
the two children of
ther, Edward E. S
In expla n
ble beque
1 26, 1937,
“Having made
during my life f
perity
relief
roads, re
contributions | could not help but feel the
1 ble and ed- the long-delayed trend.
ucational purpose I © no bequests The pick-up in the mining industry
for such purposes herein, but which “looks better right now than it
that the beneficiaries herein named | has since 1922,” according to J. W. Ste-
continue to make such contributions phenson of ‘the Compensation Depart-
according to their respective means, ment of the United Mine Workers at
The will also stated: Johnstown, still has a long way to go
“I make no provision herein for my | and probably will not operate at full
sister, Mary Schwab, because other ar. capacity for any length of time.
rangements have been made for her —_—
during my lifetime.
| As Sister Cecelia, Mary Schwab is a
cloistered nun in the Carmelite Con-
vent at Loretto, Pa. The convent was
built and endowed by her brother.
suggest
900 TO GET WORK IN
THE ALTOONA YARDS
Approximately 900 additional
will be put to work in the Altoona
shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad to
remodel 85 all steel coaches, it was
announced Friday.
The remodeled cars will su
| men
CRESSON LAD IS
KILLED BY TRAIN
Seles lis 9 sii : pplement
Pg gin 2.0 poe > the three new streamlined and 15 mod-
sovere electric ernized passenger cars authorized in
nt and
property improvement program ap-
proved by the directors September 13.
Remodeling work is scheduled to
begin well before the close of the pres-
an | €0t year. The last of the finished cars
investigation, learned that the lad had Will leave the Shops by June 1, 1940.
The framework and structural part
a baseball field and when it started to | of the present cars will be retained,
rain the lads dashed to coer | while the interiors will be entirely
In order to reach his home, Popelish new, embodying the most modern tra-
took a short cut across the main line | vel features.
tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad, |
A west bound freight train was stop- | _ S 3
ped on No. 4 track and in his hurry | led Range. Inquire of Ed Kuhnley,
to get out of the rain the lad crawl- | 207 Palmer Avenue, Patton, Pa;
ed under one of the cars. | HELP THE FIRE COMPANY
While he was under the car, the | BY GENEROUS SUPPORT
train started to move and the wheels | — ee i >
of the car, about the middle of the | The Patton Fire Company is in
train, passed over his body. Several | need of some necessary equi meni
cars passed over the body before the | with the winter seas or rn
train was brought to a stop. | A = Season soming on
Playmates of the victim said that | $ they have bo means of raising
just before the lad crawled under the | Teyenue excepting by contribution,
train he said: “I am not going to stay | during the week of October 8th, they
out in the rain and get drenched, I'm | Will call at exery home and leave
taking a short cut home.” an envelope, in which you can place
The lad, a student in Cresson schools | your contribution. These envelopes
was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael | will he collected on October 16, 1939.
Popelish. Besides his parents, he leaves | All contributions, large or small. will
a brother and a sister. | be gratefully accepted Contribu-
tors’ names will not be published un-
less hv reauest, Help support the
Fire Company!
wheels of a moving freight car
The lad’s body was completely se-
of a heavy freight car.
Coroner Patrick McDermott, in
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