u A GENERAL NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF ORGANIZED LABOR IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA UNION Union Press, Established May, 1985. Vee M7} A NW ; oct | =o J D4 i) ny rin) W - A Nec rl ye? Ege § 2 a NEN oR AN ATTAINMENT OF THE LARGEST GENERAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA Patton Courier, Established Oct., 1893. VOL. 48. NO. 19. PATTON, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1902 CIVILIAN DEFENSE ROOSEVELT SUGGESTS ASSIGNMENTS FOR ~~ AND SECURES SIX MAN PATTON ANNOUNGED COMMITTEE ON LABOR Names of Those to Work on Var-| Proposition of John Lewis Calling ious Committees With Duties | for AFL-CIO Merger Stymied Are Framed for Boro by Chief Executive BY LICKIN ENOUGH DEFENSE STAMPS — Announcement has been made wl Last week, as noted in these col- the various chairmen of the Patton | ums, John L. Lewis, President of the Civilian Defense Committee of the U. M. W. of A., sent letters to William assignment of citizens to duties that|Green and Philip Murray suggesting will befall them under the set-up. In|the AFL and CIO again resume their not all cases have all appointments peace negotiations. According to been made, and additions will be made | newspaper stories, President Roose- from time to time. Following is the|velt is understood to have opposed list to date: | the suggestion on the ground that a | POLICE—V. J. Bender, chief, tel- | merger of the two organizations at | ephone, residence 3291; business 3141; | this time would lead to a scramble Assistants—Milton A. Stoltz, Joseph | for union jobs and to subsequent dis- Haluska, Joseph Cammarata; Auxil- | traction of workers on vital defense iary—Irvin Shuss, Harry Deschamps, | Production. Knute Forsberg, Oscar Sura, Frank| It is said that instead the President Rogers, Chas. F. Kruise, Robert For- | conferred secretly with CIO President sythe, John Thomas Jr., Joseph Skur- | Murray and AFL President Green, ky, Theodore Ott and Albert Thomas, 2nd won their approval on a substi- Sr. tute plan. It called for the creation Air Raid Warden Assignments. of a six-man CIO-AFL committee to | North and East of Palmer House |adjust jurisdictional and other differ- Corner; John Stevens, chief. Assign-|¢eS between the organizations for ed Districts: Section 1—-Magee ave- | the duration of the war. The Presi- {dent will sit as the seventh man on nue, North 4th to 5th—Wardens: HE eo 3 Savin | Frank Fregly, Walter Jenkins, Robert | {the ‘board when his services are | Burkey. Fifth Avenue, east, Magee to | 2¢€ded. : vd Beech, Gerald Fisher, Irvin Dietrick. | Both organizations named their | Fifth avenue, east, Beech to Terra repressntaiives to the committee dur- { Cotta—Horace Ifert, Dr. B. J. OV | ng the past week-end. The AFL | “chose Green, George Eany and Daniel | [4 Tobin. The executive board of the | ClO at a meeting selected Murray, | J. Thomas and Julius Emspack. | trio, according to Mr. Murray, | erberger. Beech, 4th to 5th avenue- Francis Huber, W. V. Airhart, Gust Anderson. Fourth avenue, west, Ma- | gee to MacIntyre, Palmer 4th to 5th | 2 il Fi . p _ {The “Cyril Fisher, Ruel Burkhart, Vern.) supersedes the old CIO peace com-' (GOUNTY'S BONDED DEBT GUT GREATLY on Swedeburg. Fourth avenue, east, Tiitice. of which Mi. Le 8 y | Magee to MaclIntrye, Hermon and al Be ie x. Se Was 2) Falmer, east of Fourth—Wm. Jones, Member. ¢ new comnyilee is no a peace committee in the sense that it will draft a formula under which the organizations could be merged. Vince Gaeto, Join Berdosky. South and East of Drug Store Cor- ner, Bert Douglas, Chief. So a i Gd dd Magee Avenue (South) to Bridge , Stories suggest there is a possibil- > - itv Ar wis mav a i 5 { John Thomas, Elmer Smith, Eq it Mr. Lewis may ood His 500.000 - : ers f z : Kelly. Fifth, east, to Magee Avenue mine oul 0 the CIO as a result of Leroy McDermott, Charles Doi the week's developments. Neither Mr. hue Fourth South of Magee Ave- Lewis nor his closest associates would ' confirm or deny presistent reports of nue, Lang east of Fifth-—Joe Ru- the United Mi y : : dolph, Ray Karlheim. Fifth, east, 1€ nited Mine Workers of America Bridge to Park— Bert Dietrick, Fred bolting and becoming an unaffiliated | Morey. Mellon, east, Park to Cauia- vigen, han’s—Daniel Link, E. W. Winslow, Frank Callahan. Clay Works: Plant—Martin Yah-| ner, Dan Jenkins, and Gus McNulty. | Terra Cotta Avenue—Martin Yahner, ! Pete Furlage. Back of Plant—John | Homyak. Section beyond bridge Increased Expenditures Cause of Cut in Reduction Over That of the Previous Year 18- The bonded | report of Controller Dennis Westrick, CRESSON BOARD LISTS NAMES FOR ARMY CALL Cambria County Selective Service ifith by Attorney riup Lopreswa, uw Qs | ed filed in the office of Prothonotary John L. Hite. The dent reduction for the past year fell $20,000 below that of 1940, when the debt was reduced by $289,- toward St.! (00. The bonded debt of the county Lawrence; Geo. Masnica, chief. Mc- Board No. 1, with headquarters at! as of January 5 was $3,579,446.24. Intyre Avenue, Fourth Avenue to Cresson, have announced the list of! In the couniy treasury as of Jan- Creek, and Mrs. Schwab's Section— men to be inducted early next month |yary 5 was $268,851 in various funds Albert Baker. Highland Avenue at an undisclosed camp. Date of in-| ag compared to $262,669.27 in funds Eniery Haluska, Jr. | duction and destination are no longer | on January 5, 1941. Of the total am- North and West of McCormick Ho- | published in accordance with the War | punt, $173,473.05 is in the general tel Corner: John I. Barnard, chief. Department regulations. fund, $90,378.76 in the sinking funds Fifth Avenue, west, Beech to Terra Cotta—Ken Rhody, Frank Cammara-| ta, Rudy Huber. Fifth Avenue, west, | Magee to Beech-—James Leon, John! Churella, Angelo Laurito. Beech Av- enue, 5th to 6th—Fred McCann, Rev. Henry Thornauer, Harry Buck, Jr., | Rev. J. A. Turner. { Palmer Avenue, 5th to 6th—Quen-, end $5,000 in a special bond fund set | up to redeem county bonds, payment { of which is due, but which have not been presented for payment. The county’s financial position has lalso been increased since January The following names from this sec- tion were published: | Edgar A. Vincent, Dysart. { Andrew Senita Jr., Patton. | Paul G. Montgomery, Ashville R. D Michael George Pavia, Patton. Clair Lewis Endler, Patton. Isaac Michael Bosar, Patton. Michael John Pipas, Hastings. | fund. This amount is not included in| tin Rowland, E. Donahue, Richard| john James Sottile, Patton. { Mr. Westrick’s report. Dillon, Mark Malkin. Magee, north,| Ajpert Perron Thomas Jr. Patton.| County tax collections during 1941 | 3th to Bridge —Mike Lecava, Ben A.| Henry K. Barnett, Flinton R. D. 1. | were $984,584.20, a reduction of $6,- Christoff, Fred Maurer. Beech Ave-] Jolin Vasil, Hestings B. D: 1, [33848 as compared to collections in nue, 6th to Ross, and side streets— | Fred Rogers, Clarence Williams, Ed | Jenkins. Magee, north, Bridge to] Mill—Claire Smale, Melvin Scott, Ben | Sperry. Palmer Avenue, 6th to 8th, | 6th, and Brown avenue—Mac Denlin- | George E. Semelsberger, Hastings. | Curtis Lester Fisher, Patton. James Gates, Mountaindale. Thaddeus T. Tomcheck, Flinton. Adrian Earl Kibler, St. Boniface. Albert Petrunyak, Patton. 1940, when $990,992.68 was paid into | the county treasury from tax sources. | A portion of the lessened collections led valuations in the county. | ation purposes, the valuations in 1941 ger, Wm. Sally, Raymond Bauman.| Joseph Alonza Long, Patton R. D. 1.|y ere $159,330,153 as compared to Mages, north, Mill to Ross and Ross | Daniel Little, Chest Springs R. D, 1. [$160,186,932 in 1940, a reduction of Mr. | Ross to High- Avenue—Eli — Gerald Hoover, John Petrusky, Kirk. Beech Avenue, land Grove and Lincoln “aul Walter Conrad, Ashville. Ralph G. Weakland, Hastings. Stanley J. Parzatka, Hastings. | $856,799. Total receipts showed an increase of $82,845.17 last year as compared to Steir, Albert Welshire, Orville Ivory.| Gerald Francis Kane, Patton. GAs fv : Sully Palmer Avenue, 8th to Highland Av-| Thomas P. Bradley, Hastings. | 1940. , The increase was due princi- (Continued on Page 9.) John A. Nedimyer, Ffinton RB. D, 1.{D2HY 10 ths receipt by the eounty ren Frederick J Hertzog Dysart from the state last year of $114, Louis J. Kielbewick, Patton R. D, 1. Louis Paul Shutty, Hastings. William A. Stoneberg, Hastings. John Psioda, Patton R. D. 1. Charles Richard Churella, Patton. Walter K. Gates, Flinton R. D. 1. Earl E. Gregory, Patton. Paul L. Kirkpatrick, Patton. Leonard Francis Sumper ,Patton. | During 1940 no payment was made | to the county by the state out of the | fund as the money was withheld so {it could be used for relief purposes. | County receipts for 1941 were $2,- | 094,672. 33 as compared to receipts of | $2,011,827.16 in 1940. TWOMINUTE BLAST WILL SIGNIFY RAID Air-raid alarms in Pennsylvania ! will be two minutes long and may be County expenditures in 1941 show- sounded either with a siren or a horn, | led an increase of $10,649.97 as com-| fhe Sigie Council of Defense has an- | pared to 1940. Total expenditures last . ear were $2,008,489.79, while in 1940 | This uniform plan has been adopted 'Substa ntial Anericans, | they Were au to $2 5.077, 839.82. Dur-| NO GREATER EXAMPLE of true by the Third Civilian Defense Region | lin , id | {ing the past year the county paid —Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, | ¢ ; Virginia and the District of Colum- | patriotism is shown anywhere in the | | $30,000 into the food stamp fund and/ bia. | Nation than the practice of practi- | $14,144.92 was paid towards the new Here's how the sirens will sound: | cally every local union of the United gh charges last year on the| “A flustuating or warbling note of | Mine Workers of America in this sec- bonded debt amounted 4 $163,272. 50! two minutes’ duration with varying tion of the state, in the purchase of as compared to $188,815 paid in 1940, | intervals between cycles to conform |Defense Bonds and in support given a reduction of $25,542.50. This was | with the mechanical limitations of to the Red Cross and other patriotic due to reductions made in the vonded| the particular Wstrument.” and charitable causes. These mine debt during 1940 | The “all-clear” will be “a continu- | locals, if the treasury warrants, pur- * { out sound” with out break in the tone [chase Bonds from their treasuries, | for two minutes. { but more than that, practically all of | PRICE OF GASOLINE If air horns are used, the alarm them, too, make their greatest con- RISES ONE-HALF CENT will be a series of short blasts of five tributions, as individuals, purchasing nn seconds’ duration, with three second Bends, and contributing to war work intervals between blasts for a two | through the check-off system. So far minute period. The “all-clear” will | mining has not been listed as a de- be a long blast if it is possible with |fense industry, and all over the north the partcular horn used. If not, then | of the county the rolls of enlistments as long a blast as the horn will per-|and draftees into the armed services mit, repeated at 20-second intervals |of the Nation show a vast majority : for two minutes. of miners. Effective in this territory at 7 a. m. last Monday, motorists in this sec- tion who still have tires to drive on, have had to pay one-half cent more per gallon for gasoline. The increas- ed prices include taxes—four cents for Pennsylvania and one and one- half cents federal. DURING PAST YEAR indebtedie ss of Cam-, bria County was reduced $269,000 during 1941, according to the annual | which nas been submitted to Judge icitor to the controller, and order-/ {by the payment by the state to the | | county of $68,425.41 out the gas tax| | was due to the reduction in the asses | For tax- 1924.91 from the gas fuel tax fund. 5 MINERS BONDS WILL BUY BY PAYROLL DEDUCTION PLAN: Estimate Large Buying of Securities Monthly Heartily endorsed by James Mark President of District No. 2. U. MW. M. W. A. and Coal Gperators of A. and other mine union officials, and with the cooperation of the op- erators, a plan of voluntary payroll QEQUCUIUITS TUT UIE PUrcnase Ur UIiey | States Defense Stamps and Bonds, will be inaugurated among the 55,000 cosa! miners in Central Pennsylvania. | It is estimated that under the plan $250,000 worth of De- approximately fense month. Arrangements call for com- niittees of two union members and two representatives of the operators to solicit subscribers to the plan at mine. more per mon each miner. I )0 from the $3.25 fror cacn 1 However, instead of the employer | deducting the money and retaining it | og is accumulated the amount deducted will be |; >» the worker in Defense |. A Stamp Album will | | deduction. | When the individual miner has accu- | mulated Stamps amounting to $18.75 | postoffice | Defense until enough a bond, 5! paid directly tc Saving Stamps. accompany t Ihe can go to and exchange Bond. Deductions of authorized by ined to deduct pay in the month $6.25 th to be t is plar first mn the second. he initial his nearest them for a PATTON RED CROSS DRIVE IS NOW ON, Chairman Harry H. i Patton Red C hat in the War Relif conjunction cormnmitios throughout the nation, | organiza- | announces all other ross Drive with Drive of the or to buy Bonds will be purchased each Nehrig of the |p, q. tion has started this week in Patton | r The need to give, and | is known to all. vicinity. give ess concern to profits or to contribute wages. X until it hurts, The general plan is for each busin- | more, No ge collection will be | tributions will be accepted by Francis .Young at the First National Bank. contribute one day's and for each worker one-half to one day’s neral house to house made, although con- Committees appointed for the drive are as follows! Fublicity— | Buck, and ir . P. Cammarata, R. D. ‘A. Haluska. Schools—W. M. Bosserman, Loretto E. Prindible, Y vonne Yerger. Clubs—R. A. Litzinger, L. S. Yer- ger, T. C. Gill, Mark Brown, Frank ab. Second Ward—H. O. Stoltz, F. X. Young, D. J. Li | Maykovich. First Ward—George C. Hoppel, nk, R. J. Little, Frank T { C. Yahner, C. A. Snyder, Mark Arnold and F. Raymond J. J. Blankerhorn. Ryan, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Ryan, of Dysart, has been selected as a member of the Franklin and Marshall College Varsity basket- ball team by Coach J. Shober Barr. This is Ryan’s ber of the va member of the graduate of th where he played basketball, first year as a mem- rsity squad. Ryan, a Sophomore class, is a e Patton High School football ana was on the track team. 4 SUBSnoy $2.00 PER YEAR EXECUTIVE BODY OF PATRIOTIC MEMBERSHIP ~NEW CHURCH GOING DRIVE BEING MADE BY ~~ MOVE HAS MEETING LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE Patton Lodge Taking Taking Part in the Nation-Wide Obesrevance of Two Great Patriots. | Committees Formulate Plans for Drive to Open With First Week of Lent { The executive committee of the | “America Goes to Church” movement, sponsored by laymen of all churches lof every denomination, in the North {of Cambria County, held a meeting {in the K. of C. Hall in Barnesboro on | Friday evening in preparation for a | general open meeting of the entire group, and of all persons interested in this worthy movement, to be held in the same hall on Thursday even- ing of this week at 8 o'clock. The meeting, with executive com- mittee chairmen Ralph Greenwood of Barnesboro and William J. Blatt of Patton and co-chairman George Clark of Barnesboro all presiding, proved to be one of total harmony and enthu- siasm. | Various committee chairmen re- ported tentative plans of procedure to carry the movement to all the people, rand it was decided to open the cam- paign on February 18. As noted in the papers last week, | | Patton Lodge, No. 488, of the Loyal Order of Moose, has consented to join their district in one of the lar- gest campaigns in the history of the state, a mass initiation to be held throughout Pennsylvania, February 22nd in memory of two of our coun- try’s outstanding patriots, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. Patton’s quota tor this gala initia- tion is 100 new members, and for ev=- ery candidate signed, 20 per cent of the initiation fee will be used for the purchase of defense bonds. The su- preme lodge has set the National | quota at 50,000 members with the purpose in mind to buy defense bonds so that the children and the aged of our fraternity have the protection that the members have given them for the past thirty years. District No. 7 sponsors Patton, Cresson, Gallitzin, Johnstown, Nan- ty-Glo and Windber, who have band- ed themselves together to reach their | the movement is one sponsored by |quota of 1,000 new members until the ‘laymen members of the churches. |42nd of February, set by the supreme {lodge as their part in this great move- { ment. The district has chosen United Sta- | tes Senator James J. Davis as the Their plan is naturally one only of advertising and endeavoring to make {the public “church conscious.” The | | movement then naturally falls upon the membership of the individual | Sponsor of the class, his great work churches themselves to carry on the |in guiding the destinies of our coun- work. | try, plus the untiring work in build- As the weeks go by, various meth- | ing the great fraternity as Director ods will be utilized to carry the cam- | General, has been an incentive for paign to everybody. It will include | | many lodges throughout this great newspaper and bill board advertising, | 1¢nd in making Moosehaven and Moo- newspaper articles, lapel buttons, | seheart monuments that will live for- window cards, slips inserted in pack- ever. ages bought in stores, and other| Mooseheart with its hundreds of methods. acres of well kept land and buildings, The campaign really will hit its |its schools, shops and churches, has stride with the meeting in Barnesboro | for years housed and fed the Mothers Thursday evening. All members of the | and children of the members who | original movement, together with all | have passed away. church laymen of all denominations | Mooseliaver ), situated at Jackson- {who are interested in this cause, are | Ville, Florida, has been a refuge for urged and invited to be present. The | the aged mernbers who have reached ring will Stare a IUUTY. 21AC | VAY wy | place? Knights of a ernts Hall in | Barnesboro. PATTONITE MISSING AFTER SUB ATTACK The lccal lodge members in the next five weeks will ask many of their friends to join their lodge, where the fellowships and friendly feelings help make the United States a safe place to live. The many forms of protection of: fered by the Moose fraternity makes it one of the finest in the country, the boatswain on | Silt and death benefits, the protec- rier Venore, tor- | tion of the children, mother nd the oft aged, gives the member a feeling that submarine was listed enemy Se a os er 2 3 : ne nas been able to give his dear on h Carolina Saturday, HE d give h Ar ones A : , the protecti 2 he vlanne as missing from the ili-fated vessel | 2% I rotection he had planned for : HRI , them. gfter iis sinking. The officers of the local lodge a : vs: dl L ( Relatives of Batulis reside at Eb- ® 8) 00s are | un itiringly devoting their time in ma- { King this drive a huge success, and hope to be one of the many lodges througho t the United States to re- ceive the honor Jusily due them. - and Windber. According to s » the man, reared at Patton, s employed on the Venore for the] { ten years, during which time he | not visited here in person but | bad sent frequent letters. Batulis' mother, Mrs. Veronica Bat- HIGH SCHOOL ESSAY { ulis, left Patton some time ago to| make her home with her son-in-law | |and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph | CONTEST ANNOUNGED [F Dobronski of Ebensburg. At the| | present time she is in Washington, | — ID. C. The father of Sanley Batulis,| All students in the junior and sen- | Fre ink Batulis, died some years ago |ior high schools in Cambria County in Patton. communities where American Legion | Auxiliary units have been established are eligible to participate in an essay contest being sponsored by the County Council of the American Legion Aux- iliary, Mrs. Thomas A. Owens of Car- rolitown, president, has announced. In announc ements forwarded to the ciliary units throughout . Owens reported that Stu Il, county superinten- Brothers and sisters of the missing boatswain are Frank Batulis, Phila- | a elphia; Mrs. Rose Dobronski, Ebens- Mrs. Betty Delchamp, Washing- S|ton, D. C.; Mrs. Helen Midjetti, Green- (belt, Md, and Mrs. Ann Watyka, Windber. | Mrs. Dobronski disclosed that she ruailed her brother a letter Sunday in 3 she enclosed a certified copy f hi virth certificate requested by Joatswain Batis, In one of his re- cent letters the man had announced plans for a visit to the county at the first opportunity when the Venore| would dock at New York. the coun Dr. A. ) M. dent of schools, has consenced to ap- en point a board of judges to rewiew the entries which must be received by Mrs. Owens prior to April 1, | First prize in the county contest is | $2.50 worth of defense stamps, to be presented by the council. In addition, | the winning essay will be entered in CARROLLTOWN COAL CO. | the state contest and the state win- THANKS ALL HELPING TO |ners will be judged for the $100.00 EXTINGUISH MINE FIRE national award. | Essays must be on the subject, “On behalf of the Carrolltown Coal | Company, Mr. David Davidson, Gen-| eral Superintendent, wishes to thank all of the men who participated in| helping to extinguish the fire inside the Victor No. 9 Mine Monday even-| “These essays,” Mrs. Owens de- ing of last week. | sc hools have been asked to invite the The work performed stands out in |our children have been taught loyal- mining history as being 100 per cent|ty¥ and patriotism.” successful, due to the fact that no — Te serious injury was suffered by any-| PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL one while the work was in progress; TO CONTINUE NEXT YEAR and the fire was extinguished without The National Professional Football unnecessary delay, considering the|League wil operate next season as fact that the very extensive mine had | usual, Elmer Layden told persons who to be completely covered to make| attended the annual St. Francis foot- certain that the safety of all had been| ball banquet at Venetian Gardens in taken care of before ventilation could | Altoona Monday night. be interupted. Layden, former head coach at Notre — Dame University, was the principal —The priorities board is quoted as| speaker at the banquet held in honor saying that women’s dresses will be|of members of the St. Francis football shorter next year. If so they can nc | team which went through 1941 with- longer be classified as dresses. out a defeat. “The Characteristics of a Good American,” and must not be more than 500 words in length. Principals of all secondary schoos have been asked to invite their students to compete.
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