Recognized and Endors- ed by More Than Fifty Local Unions and Cen- tral Bedies Over Cam- bria County and Ad- jacent Mining Areas. A GENERAL NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF ORGANIZED LABOR IN CENTRAL PENNSYL UNION VANIA. Union Press, Established May, 1935. ein a > ? VOL. 46. NO. 8. Patton: Courier, Established —— CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA AREA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1939 y 723 South Fifth Ave. PATTON. Po AN ATTAINMEN1 OF THE LARGEST GENERAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. Our Shop Is Equipped to Do Job Printing of All Kinds. Nothing Too Large or Too Small. We Cater Especially to Local Union, Printing. Oct., 1893. SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR FEWER FATALITIES VERY LOW INTEREST Nazi Beau Brummells Face Horrible Fate EXEMPT CATHOLICS FEDERAL - STATE IN SMALL GAME SEASON THIS YEAR Commission Asks That Same Care Be Exercised in the Deer Shooting. Harrisburg—The state game com- mission on Tuesday reported a ‘‘decid- ed” reduction in number of fatalities and injuries during the current small game season and urged continued safe- ty by 150,000 hunters expected to seek deer December 1 to 15. Only eleven small game hunting deaths were recorded up to Novemoer 27, compared with 28 last year, Com- mission Secretary Seth Gordon said. Non-fatal accidents dropped from 384 in 1938 to 249 for the current month- lon gseasan ending November 30. The commission was particularly pleased with the perfect safety record established during the recent four-day | bear season. While three persons lost their lives stalking Pennsylvania's big, black bear in 1938, not a single death securred with 40,000 sportsmen shoot- ing at the bruin this month. “Hunters have shown the proper co- operation,” Gordon said. “Fatalities and injuries can be cut down further if sportsmen continue to ‘handle firearms carefully.” He emphasized that glars guilty of carelessness during the small game and deer seasons will be subject to loss of licenses for one to five years. Gordon was confident the deer sea- son opening next month would reflect the commission's safety policy. During bur- | Is Secured by the County on Op- | erating Bond Issue. At a net interest of 1.15 per cent, | the lowest ever obtained by the coun- | ty, County Commissioners John Thom- | as, Jr., and Frank P. Hollern Monday | {authorized the sale of $300,000 worth | sof county operating bonds to C. C. | Collins of Philadelphia. The Collins | | bid was one of 15 opened Monday mor- | {ning by Controller Henry L. Cannon. | The successful bid on the $300,000 worth of bonds was at an interest rate of 1.25 per cent with a premium of $771, bringing the net interest down to 1.15 per cent. MUST PAY BACK ALL {Court Orders Patton Man's Im- personator on Probation. Admitting he had obtained money by posing as Emory Haluska, a broth- er of Senator John J. Haluska, Joe Ma- sinka, alias Joe Whitey formerly of Dunlo, was ordered by Judge Greer on Monday to make restitution to his victims, to pay the costs and to be pla- ced on probation for one year. Masinka admitted obtaining $4 from P. R. Appleyard, Stonycreek township, justice of the peace; $4 from J. P. Pu- ma of Johnstown; $2 from G. R. Miller of Johnstown and $2 from Herman Sedloff, of Nanty-Glo. It was also re- vealed that Former Judge John E. Evans had given Masinka a check for $10 when he appeared at the former jurist’s office in Pittsburgh, and pos- i 9 4 O & S/R [ef E [L/D &/5/ETE 55 TWO ‘PAIRS OF SOCKS AY TWO HANDKERCHIEEFS ONE MUFFLER ONE PAIR GLOVES ONE SUIT OF UNDERWEAR Diagram demonstrates how the new Nazi clothes ration plan will work from December 1, 1939, to September 1, 1940. Ration cards permit of 100 units of clothing purchase during that period. Thus, between December 1 and April 1, a man can purchase two pairs of socks, two handkerchiefs, a muffler and one pair of gloves. Between April 1 and September 1 he can purchase one shirt, two collars and a suit of underwear. Purchase of a suit would cost 60 units, Mine Workers and Operator Both Protest Tr rade Pact all I can say now,” Kennedy S “Abo Soft coal producers and the United Get Privilege to Eat Meat on Feast, Friday, December 8. Catholics of the Altoona diocese | ! will be permitted to eat meat Friday, December 8th—Feast of the Immacu- | lae Conception, according to annunce- ment by Mast Rev. Bishop Richard T. | Guilfoyle. | Under the canon law of the church | all Sundays and holy days of obligation | are exempt from rules of fasting and | abstinence. The Feast of the Immacu- | late Conception is a holy day of ob- | ligation for Catholics. | | { THREE FOUND DEAD In Abandoned Coke Oven at Tun- | nelhill on Tuesday Night. | Mystery shrouds the finding of the | bodies of three Gallitzin men in an | abandoned Coke Oven near Tunnel- hill. The bodies of the men were dis- | covered at 8 o'clock on Tuesday night | in an, abandoned coke oven the Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Corpora- | tion's Bird's Eye Mine in Blair County | just a few feet from the Cambria County line. The n were identi- fied as Jack Woodlin, 62; William My- ers, 46, and Chris Sloan, 65, Gallitzin, Disc ry by men cause for r work on | | £ of ail 01 ine who we Woodlin’s a WPA in on Tuesday n Offic the me carbon monoxide. also w expressed that acute alcohl- fo zi been ti ywever the opinic the last deer season in 1937, there were | ing as Emory Haluska, asserted he Mine Workers of America joined han- | s53iq, “is that the report will not be ST y have been the cause of one 11 sportsmen killed and 43 hurt. needed $10 to get his car from a gar- ds last week in opposing the adminis- 2b hot for tha agrecmonls Brogvams of the victim's death and the others With buc hshooting prohibited last age. Masinka, according to County De- | trations reciprocal trade program. ii el : : hy . $ may have died of suffocation as ihe year, Gordon expressed belief that the | tective John P. McGowan, had also Spokesmen for both groups disclo- He indicated the union's eriuciem result of poor ventilation in the coke deer will be plentiful and the “take” as | posed as Joe Mihalko of Dunlo and | Sed they planned intensive efforts to Was not so much against the principle oven. : high as in 1937 when 39,000 animals | obtained several small sums of mon- modify, if not terminate, the law au- of the trade program as against spe- The men had been dead at least 12 were removed from the woods. Last|ey by that pretense. thorizing the trade pacts if its ex- | cific effects which he considered ag- hours before discovery of the bodies. tension is considered at the coming | ainst the interests of domestic indus- — = year only antlerless deer were legal. During the fifteen day season, bucks | may be hunted in all counties except | during the last two days when antler- | less deer may be killed in Forest and WILL REOPEN MINE session of Congress. The law expires June 12 unless renewed. The coal men were incensed par- ticularly by the new trade agreement Warren counties and in parts of Pat- ter and efferson counties. The commission reminded that single hunters are entitled to one deer and six to a part yof a half dozen ormore sportsmen. Every party of five or over must carry a personnel register to show at request of game wardens. Gordan said he expected final re- ports of the bear bag to sho wnearly 400 of the big fellows killed between | November 15 and 18. Last year 381 were shot. No reports are yet availa- ble on the small game kill. RECOUNT ENDED, Mc- KENRICK WINS JUDGE- SHIP BY 867 BALLOTS Judge Ivan J McKenrick, Democrat, has been. re-elected judge of the court of common pleas by a majority of 867 votes over his Republican opponent At- ! torney Harry A. Englehart according | to revised official returns of the No- vember Tth election which were certi- fied last week by President Judge John H. McCann and Judge Charles C. | Greer. The certification was made af- ter the ballot boxes of four districts in the county had been opened and the votes cast for judge recounted. On the recount, which was conducted on pe- tition of Attorneys Clarence Davis and Marlin B. Stephens ,counsel for Mr. Englehart a net gain of one vote | was recorded in favor of McKen- rick over his opponent. Attorney Ed- ward Harkins represented Judge Mc- Kenrick. SPANGLER HUNTER WOUNDED IN LEG william F. Gordon, 57, prominent Cambria County Sportsman from Nor- th Barnesboro, was injured Saturday afternoon when he was shot in the leg while hunting in a wooded area near Emeigh Run. Gordon suffered shot gun wounds of the right leg, between the knee and thigh. He was admitted to the Miners’ hospital and his condition is regarded ag fair. He told hospital attaches that the shot gun in the hands of a com- panion was accidently discharged and a portion of the charge struck him in the leg. T0 GET BACK YOUR LETTER NOTIFY P. O. Did you ever mail a letter and then wish you hadn't? Don’t expect to wait at the corner box and ask the mail collector to hand it over. He won't. Postmaster Albert Goldman of New York .ex- plains that the proper method is to notify the local postoffice, and it will take the proper steps, even intercept the letter at the railroad station. In New York such crises are refer- Logan Operation at Beaverdale May Again Resume. Reopening of the Logan Coal Com- | pany mine at Beaverdale, closed since | last February, was assured last week | by Andrew B. Crichton of Johnstown, | after President Judge John H. McCann | issued an order giving permission to {the county commissioners and the school board apd supervisors of Sum- merhill Township to accept Mr. Crich- ton’s offer to pay one-third of the amount of the face of the taxes due on the properties for 1937, 1938 1939. Mr. Crichton purchased the proper- ties of the Logan Coal Company and the Fauxhall Coal Company at a bond- | and ed to pay one-third of the amount of the face of the taxes due the com- | | missioners, the supervisors and the school board. Following the court's order Mr. | Crichton said he hopes to open the | mines of the Logan Coal Company at Beaverdale soon. | when Yoperations will resume,” Mr. | Crichton said, “but I trust it will be without delay.” Operations at Beaverdale, which were closed in February, formerly em- ployed more than 600 miners. holders’ sale some time ago and offer- | “Naturally I cannot tell at this time | with Venezuela, provisionally effect- ive December 16, which cut the ex- cise tax on crude petroleum and fuel oil from one-half cent a gallon to one- quarter cent. The reduction will ap- ply to ymports not in excess of 5 per cent of the United States’ pro- duction in the preceding calendar year Asserting the practical effect of the reduction was to give the importers of the oil “a gift” of ten cents a bar- rell, John D. Battle, executive secre- tary of the National ‘Coal Association, declared the bituminous coal mdustry would try to stop “this policy of dele- gating to the executive branch of the government law-making and treaty- making functions, which policy has in practice proved so destructive.” Thomas Kennedy, international sec- retary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers, said the first step being taken by the union was the preparation of a report to its forthcoming “golden | anniversary” convention at Columbus, Ohio., next January 23, on the effect of the trade agreement on the coal industry. tries. Questioned about reports in con- HERO gressional circles that the union plan- ned to augment its legislative force for (CWAR NURSE Formerly of Ashville, Expires in MINE OFFICIALS INSPECT BLAZE Confer With Patton Borough Council on Priblem of Burning Mine Near Clay Works. Federal and state mining authorities inspected the disastrous underground mine fire at Patton last week and took samples of the gases being em- | itted from the burning inferno. Mining engineers from the United States Bureau of Mines and the Penn- cylvania Department of Mines and the State National Youth Administration officials conferred with Patton Bor- ough Council and State Senator John J. Haluska in the Municipal building. The officials discussed the possibility of arranging for some special project { to combat the fire which already has resulted in two cave-ins on the Pat- ton and Flannagan road, a short dis- tance from the Patton borough line. Harry Berdelsky, M. V. Hansen and P. M. Linderman of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, took several samples of the gases emitting from the craters and will make an analysis some time this week. State Mine Inspectors Dennis Keen- an of Barnesboro and George B. Stein- hauser of Indiana also inspected the burned area with state and federal mining engineers. S. H. Sword and J. F. Russell of the Harrisburg office of the NYA and Ja- mes Z. McClune, Cambria County NYA director, conferred with Patton coun- cil relative to the possibility of se- curing an NYA project to combat the fire Reports on the findings of the mi- ning engineers will be presented to council members some time this. week, it was announced. However, it was learned last week that the mining en- gineers were of the opinion that the underground mine fire is not burning toward Patton Borough, but in the general direction of St. Boniface. The entire burned area is in Elder town- ship, it is believed. the battle, Kennedy said the practice was to call in district officers of the organization to make representations to Congress exactly as to how specific laws affect their territories. Denouncing the Statee Depart- ment’s contention the the Venezue- lan past would serve to conserve this country’s feul oil supply, the Coal Association said in a recent bulletin to its members that the large oil im- porting companies ‘exercise tremen- douse influence here.” “The conservation idea was no doubt sold to the administration, as it is being said that this action is in line with the policy of the administraton to conserve petroleum. However, the State Department itself points out that while we imported 52,213,000 barrels of crude and fuel oil in 1938 from Ven- | all countries | ezuela, we exported to 111,204,000 barrels, so we are sending out of this country twice as much oil as we are bringing in and certainly no one can argue the conservation question as long as this condition ex- ists.” | | CI0 MAKES DEMAND er plant employees in the FOR WAGE INCREASES | |RIVAL MINE UNIONS | PLAN COOPERATION Harrisburg.—A conference of pow-| Officials of the United Mine Workers eastern | of America (C.I.O.) and the Progres- Mr. Crichton will now pay $6,374 | Plants of the Bethlehem Steel Corpor- | sive Mine Workers of America (A.F.L.) of the Logan Coal Company taxes and $5,33.08 of the Fauxhall Coal Com- pany taxes to the county commission- ers, the supervisors and school board in Summerhill Township. The amount of taxes due by the Lo- gan Coal Company in the township was $19,121.99, and by the Fauxhill Coal Company $15,999.22. Taxes for years prior to 1937 had been paid be- fore Mr. Crichton bought the proper- ties for $10,500. FARABAUGH HEADS COUNTY FARM UNIT E. J. Farabaugh of Loretto R. D., was retained as chairman of the Cambria County Agricultural Association at a meeting held Saturday evening in the courthouse. Mr. Farabaugh served as chairman of the organization during the past year. W. H. Fyock of Johns- town, R. D. 2 was reelected vice chair- man, and C. J. Bearer of Hastings, R. D., was named a member of the com- mittee. The association will hold a meeting at its headquarters in Ebensburg on Friday evening of this week, at which time the 1940 agriculaural conservation program for Cambria county will be discussed. The program is administer- e dby. the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. Delegates from Wilmore, Ebensburg, Hastings, Geistown, Patton, Johnstown and Loretto were in attendance Sat- urday evening and participated in the red to the Classification section which gets from one to five requests a day. ation adopted a resolution over week end demanding a 25 per combustion, steam plant operators. | | ganizing Committee, Bethlehem cam- | paign, said 99 delegates were present from plants in Johnstown, Steelton, Lebanon, Pottstown, wanna, N. Y. After the meeting Lever issued statement recalling a statement made | last week by Eugene Grace of the steel | corporation “praising conditions Bethlehem’s plants before submitting | it to the employees for comment or | criticism.” Lever’s statement added: “The published statements of Grace have little or no relation to the | actual facts x x x Stacks of grievances | remain unanswered. Wages and other conditions of labor continue to be a disgrace to the good name of America.” WHEELER OPPOSED TO THIRD TERM Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Mon- tana Democrat, told a service club, in Iowa the other day he was opposed to a third term in principle, open forum discussion in which he referred to his support of the senate resolution against a third term for President Coolidge in 1928. He added election. No other business was trans- acted at the meeting. that the same should hold good for Roosevelt in 1940. and Bethlehem, | (ha Pa., Sparrows Point, Md., and Lacka- | Mr | “does not intend to be used as an in- His remarks were made during an| the surly, picayunish attitude of the the | announced last Thursday cooperation cen wage increase in Bethlehem plants for | the P. M. W. A. and the Gillespie (Ill) and gas POWET | Superior Coal Company. of the rival unions in a dispute between The P. M. W. A. charged that the E. J. Lever, who identified himself | company closed its mines recently to as director of the Steel Workers Or-| enforce a change in a division of work | system which the miners had rejected. David Reed, president of district 6, PMWA, said the cooperation between unions was effected because “the time has ended when companies can ! play one labor organization against a | the other to their own advantage. “From mow on,” he said, “what is one union’s fight will be taken up by | the other union.” Ray Edmundson, president of Dis- trict 12, UMWA, said that his unior strument for breaking down conditions of employment prevailing in the mines of the state.” ROOSEVELT’S SON HITS C. I. O., A. F. L. Fort Worth, Tex. — Elliott Roose- velt, son of the President, sharply cri- ticized both the nation’s rival labor organizations in-a radio broadcast on Wednesday of last week. He said: “The nation is out of patience with American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organiza- tions that has split labor in two. Af- ter four bitter, economically tragic Pittsburgh Recently. | — —_— READY FOR GAME TRAPPING SEASON Harrisburg. — The Game Commiss- sion made preparations last week for another extensive state wide trapping and trasfer campaign this the hope of “doubling” the 1 birds and animals trapped du 1938 season. A similar program last ye 22,980 rabbits, 1,820 ringne ants, 862 gray squirrels and number of quail and racco Many sportsmen’s associat assured the commission of co Trapping will be done pagating ereas, city parks sheds, private nurseries, eas, orchards, state and fed Miss Minette de Lozier, World War nurse, decorated for valor in war ser- | vice, who died in Pittsburgh on Nov. | 15th, was a native of the Ashville community. Funeral services were in St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Nov. 18, and the remains were taken to Wash- ington, D. C. ,and interred in Arling- ton cemetery Miss Minette de Lozier was a grad- uate of the nurses training school of Mercy Hospital Pittsburgh. She was a member of bast unit No. 17 of the American Red Cross, one of the most active medical contingents overseas. Except for her war service Miss de Lozier had been a member of the nur- sing staff of Mercy hospital, Pittsburgh since her graduation. ing the ir netted mn The Red Cross Nurse was cited sev- tutional grounds or reservatior and eral times for valor under fire and | other areas not open to public hunt- was decorated with the distinguished ing. service cross by the U. S. government The game snared will be released on for devotion to duty at the front. The public hunting grounds. Wo with | French government after the war, | the National Younth Adn ration the Commission will provide the traps and crates. Meantime, the commission asked ci- der producers to help wildlife by scat- tering pressed apples or puminies over the woods, | sought for 17 years to locate her to| | bestow the Croix de Guerre, and fi- i nally located her in 1936 through tra- | cing her bonus check. She was award- | ed the United States Medal of honor and the victory medal with five bars for service at Mont Dider-Noyan, | Sp ——————————— Aisne-Marne, St. Mihiel ,Meuse-Ar-| CONSUMING PUBLIC'S gonne, and various other sectors. She | INTEREST AT HEART received three Shguony fiom die Am Representative Bolles (R.-Wis.) was groan government and two irom the advised by the Bituminous Coal Divi- . | glom jan Wess that prices established CTT rT To 5 { by the division under the 1 0% ROOSEVELT PLANS | Act would have “due en ECONOMY PROGRAM | interest of the consuming public.” ——— The coal division letter, over the Washington — Presidential Secre- | signature of H. A. Gray, director, was tary Stephen T. Early indicated last!in reply to a protest by Bolles that | week that President Roosevelt is con- | a proposed 50-cent per ton mine price | sidering a budget for the next fiscal advantage for coal shipped on the year calling for sharp economies in| Great Lakes would be injurious to co- government outlays exclusive of na- | operatives and dealers who bring their tional defense. { coal into Wisconsin via rail routes. Early said that reports circulated to! Gray answered that the matter still that effect are just about right. He ad- | was the subject of hearings and that | ded that Chairman Pat Harrison, Dem- | no final decision would be made until ocrat, Mississippi, of the Senate Fi-|a mass of evidence had been studied. nance Committee gave a pretty good Gray also called attention to the picture of the tax outlook. | Consumers Council Division of the In- After a conference with Mr. Roo- | terior Department as an agency “avail- sevelt, Harrison said that revenues [able to assist consumers in connection were increasing very satisfactorily and with such matters.” that, if they hold up, and if govern- 3 SHOPPING ment sosts can be trimmed, it a WEEKS LEFT not be necessary for the next Con- gress to overhaul the tax structure. PRIMARY TEACHERS TO MEET SATURDAY Miss Jane McGrath, director of Ele- mentary Education at the Indiana State Teachers College, and Miss Lil- lian McLean, teacher of methods of reading at the same institution, will be the principal speakers at a meeting to be held at 1:30 o'clock Saturday af- ternoon at the Ebensburg court house @ a SMOKING A Swe 5X2 ot 2 AR Packet —— years, they are right back where they started.” by the rimary Teachers’ Association of Cambria County,
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