PAGE EIGHT UNION PRESS-COURIER Thursday, March. 19, 1042 PENN EDISON STRIKE AVERTED BY BOARD Was to Take Place Last Thursday Morning Affecting North Cambria County A threatened strike of members of the Utility Workers Organizing Com- mittee (CIO) employed by the Penn- sylvania Edison Co. which would have PARTY HEADS SEEK TO AVOID POLITICS | For the first time since 1918 United States this year wil hold Con- | gressional elections while the nation |is at war. At stake are 34 seats in the Senate {and all of the 435 seats in the House. |" And for the first time in the en- | tire history of the nation the leaders the GRAND THEATRE PATTON & left more than 20 North Cambria |of both majer parties are on record towns in darkness was cancelled last | i, favor of trying to keep politics out Wednesday night in response to an {pf the campaign. 11th-hour request by the War Labor | Friday and Saturday ER-BUs Tu WS BUST Tuesday, Bax-gainn Night | Board at Washington. In calling the strike the union had charged that the company had violat- ed a contract signed only last Janu- ary 26 by reclassifying 31 worke go their pay was cut and by laying off two men. The threatened strike was called off by Harold J. Straub, national dir- ector of the union after the dispute between the U. W. O. C. and the elec- trict power company has been certi- rs tion President Roosevelt last week war- | ned the Nation that it was time for a | great many persons to forget politics | and wake up to the fact that the na- was engaged in a war which | would tax its united efforts to the | utmost. ; Representative Joseph W. Martin, Jr., Republican, of Massachusetts, the | chairman of the Republican National | Committee, and other Republican le- | aders already had announced their opposition to the injection of partisan Broadway's biggest musical hit comes to the screen! | 1SIANA fied in Washington by Secretary of Jositio r Labor Perkins to the War Labor ( politics into the war effort. Board. ! m | SAYS INEFFIENCY IS I telegram, the board asked both | i a k aoial 'oavsivg A BACEILOG IN BIRTH CERTIFICATES up the walkout and maintain the | status quo until the board could act. | . Approximately 550 employes were | Inefficiency in the conduct of the Scheduled to walk off their jobs at 8! s¢fairs of the Bureau of Vital Statis- a. m. Thursday. The walkout origin-| tics at Harisburg is believed by Dr. ally was scheduled for midnight on Wednesday but was postponed for a period of eight hours, the union exec- utive board asking President Roose- velt to have the Army take over the operation of the company. Amang the towns Pennsylvania Ed- ison supplies with power in Northern Cambria County are: Gallitzin, Lor- etto, Portage, Ebensburg, Barnesboro, St. Benedist, Carrolltown, Patton, St. Boniface, Bakerton, Ashville, Revloc, Cherry Tree and Hastings. YOUNG NANTY.GLO FATHER A 20-year-old Nanty-Glo father of two young children took his own life Monday afternoon by firing a bullet through his head. The suicide victim was Frank D. Radel, 20, whose body was found at 6:30 p. m. in an eng ty boxcar stand- ing on the Heisley mine siding of the P. R. R. Beside the body lay a .38- caliber revolver. Coroner McDermott said the man died of a bullet wound in the left temple. He said he could learn of no apparent motive for the deed. Mem- bers of the family said the young man appeared in good spirits when he jeft home in the morning. However, McDermott found written on the side of the boxcar a farewell note reading: “Only I, myself, am to blame for this. I ended my life at 4:30. I came in here because it was raining.” Only identification on the bedy was a card bearing the man’s name and address. Officials expressed the op- jnion that the young man had placed the card in his pocket to establish identification in the event the box- car was moved from Nanty-Glo and his body not discovered for several days. Defense Control Center Is Viewed at Ebensburg A demonstration of the control center of the Ebensburg Council De- fense was given Monday evening for chairmen of numerous defense coun- cils in Cambria County. The control ¢enter, one of the first established and equipped in the state, has been set up in conformity with instructions issued by the State Coun- cil of Defense. The state council rec- ommends that similar centers be es- tablished in all communities. Winners: S John Pysz, Mary Hollewa, floor lamp. Rocco Pompa, B ful end table. Barnesboro—$25 De- fense Savings Bond. WOLF’S ARE OFFERING $25.00 Defense Bond 7-Way Floor Lamp Beautiful End Table | Emlyn Jones of Johnstown to be re- | sponsible for the present backlog of | thousands of requests to the office | | for birth certificates. Dr. Jones served | ! nine years as head of the department | in Harrisburg. Dr. Jones’ ire was aroused after he {read articles in the press that the! | state was considering a plan to have | DONA DRAKE . THOSE LOUISIANA LOVELIES -THE CREAM OF THE CROP! Music and Lyrics by {RVING BERLIN Directed by IRVING CUMMINGS « Screen Play by Jerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields LETC RRC TET RT PRL CRS EL RAYMOND WALBURN ;From a Story by B. CTR RT TLS |local registrars throughout the state lissue birth certificates. Such an ac-| | tion in the opinion of the Cambria | Sunday and Monday {County Treasurer, would wreck the | entire system. i Governor James last week asked { the State Department of Justice for | {a ruling on whether or not local reg- | |istrars could issue certificates legally {on the basis of their records without {a special act of the assembly. Dr. | Jones said the Bureau needs efficien- |cy and not additional Jaws. {| The Johnstown man also charged | | that the trouble in the Bureau at | | Harrisburg started when the Bureau was not permitted to function with- | out political interference. | Dr. Jones said a birth certificate is “nothing to play ball with. It's { | serious business and the state owes it to every child born in Pennsylvania | to maintain and guard the accuracy | of such records.” | | STATEWIDE PROGRAM MEN FOUND HER EXCITING... Breathlessly she met each love . . . recklessly she faced each romance! You'll find the story of her endlessly fas- cinating life a screen experience to remember! DESIGNED TO ASSURE | FARM LABOR SUPPLY | Harrisburg. The Department of Agriculture last Fri- day laid out a broad statewide pro- gram designed to supply badly need- ed labor on Pennsylvania farms. James E. Walker, chairman of the Department's State War Board, said committees will be set up in each of the Commonwealth’s 67 counties, to: 1—Recruit and train needed work- SH ers. | 2 Utilize the available local labor | supply. 3—Promote employer-employe rela- tionships between farmers and labor- ers. | United States | $ ot 4 .« HER LIFE Conrad Veidt - Dean Jagger Based on a novel by Lady Eleanor Smith * Screen ploy % A GREGORY RATOFF PRODUCTION A COLUMBIA PICTURE Matinee Sunday, 2:30 John Otte Eugenie EPPERD + KRUGER LEONTOYICH by Frederick Kohner, Michael Wilsen, Poul Trivers Directed by GREGORY RATOFF re ions “ with 7 Adele Mira - Victor Jory Fritz Fold - Don Beddoe Lloyd Bridges- Forrest Tucker : A COlUMBIA PICTURE wo ay by Oliver Drake, Karen DeWelf, Francis Mrtis + Dirmeted ly GURLES BARTON « Produced by ROBERT SPARKS Wednesday, Thursday NIGHT Of JANUARY (A night you'll never forget!) 5 5 LU I it Nifs TT Clarence Kol 16° Starring aT 1—Keep a continuous check on the farm labor supply and demand. The program was mapped by 28 re- presentatives of federal, state and pri- vate agencies interested in the farm labor problem. FORESTS PROVIDE roe ——— | MORE GAME FOOD Bonds and Stamps for the U. S. A. Harrisburg-—Improvement cuttings | ___|made on 21,840 acres of the State Forests during 1941 have greatly in- creased food supplies now available to game animals, particularly deer, Dep- uty Secretary Charles E. Baer of the | Department of Forests and Waters, stated today. To date 135,778 acres of State For- ests have been cleared of all inferior trees. Deputy Secretary Baer points out at such thinnings multiplied many umes the deer food producing power | of the woodland areas. The tenderness of the shoots that spring up with the cutting is the main reason why game, especially the deer and rabbits, seek these areas. Maple, aspen, gum, elm and birch sprouts are the preferred food. | at., Mar. 14 Marsteller—7-Way arneshoro—Beautl- tings are made in accordance with sound forestry practice, taking care not to destroy the canopy of the iree crowns, Deputy Secretary Baer be- lieves that local deer herds can be in- creased and be better nourished. THIRD DRAFT LOTTERY HELD TUESDAY NIGHT Secretary of War Henry:-L. Stim- ABSOLUTELY FREE! son Tuesday night, after a brief 90-| second. speech, drew No. 3485 to be- gin the Nation's third draft lottery. | which determined the marching order | for another 9,000,000 potential fight-| ing men between 20 and 44 years old. | The second number drawn was 2850 | 1 If thinnings and improvement cut- | CHURCHES PLAN NEW BOY TROOPS Work of organizing new Boy Scout | troops for Catholic boys of the Al- toona diocese is progressing on sch- edule, C. Lawrence Evans, chairman of the diocesan committee on scout- | ing, disclosed. Already more than 30 parishes have reported that organization measures have been launched, with indications] pointing to approximately fifteen ad- ditional troops in the diocese. Troop committees have reported the follow- ing troops in the process of forma- tion: Johnstown—St. John Gaulbert’s, St. Joseph’s and St. Anthony's. Altoona—St. Mark's, St. Theresa's, and Our Lady of Lourdes. Newry—St. Patricks. Renovo-—St. Joseph's. Conemaugh—=Sacred Heart. Windber——Si. Mary's. Cresson—St. Francis Xavier's. Gallitzin—St. Patrick’s. Summit—St. Aloysius. Cassandra—St. Agnes. Lilly—St. Brigid's. Lloydell—St. Joseph's and St. Ag- nes’. Ebensburg—Holy Name. Portage-——St. Joseph's and Assump- tion. Nanty-Glo St. Mary's — secur troop. Bakerton—Sacred Heart. Barnesboro—St. John the Baptist, [instructors and given a ‘‘refresher” | MINE EXAMS SET FOR BARNESBORO Examinations for applicants {rom the 10th and 15th Bituminous Dist- ricts seeking certificates as mine foremen, assistant foremen, electrici- ans, and fire bosses will be held April 10 and 11 in St. Thomas’ Parish Hall. The board of examiners will con- | sist of Dennis J. Keenan, chairman; William Lamont, Richard Todhunter | Jr., Thomas M. Evans. Assisting the board will be John Howe and James Dinsmore. Keenan presented a petition to the jcourt this week to have Mr. Evans appointed to the board to ARMY WILL COMMISSION | QUALIFIED INSTRUCTORS Qualified civilian airplane pilots will have an opportunity to become | Army instructors at $300 a month, of- |ficials of the Cambria County Civil | Air Patrol have been informed. M. M. Nuss, flying instructor at the | Keystone Airport and squadron com- | {mander of the Cambria County C. A. |P., has disclosed the receipt of an an- inouncement from the Southeast Air | Corps Training Center, Montgomery, |Ala., relative to a War Dept. bulletin | | granting the Air Corps Flying Train- ling Command authority to hire quali- {fied civilians. | According to the announcement ap- plicants will be appointed as trainee succeed | “ |Bernard Collins, who resigned. NOTHING TO BUY! and was picked from the 7,000 cap-| St. Stanislaus, Mt. Carmel and St.|course of about one month, at which | | ILLNESS INSURANCE URGED BY SOCIAL SECURITY BOARD ] The Social Security Board recom- amended this week the expansion of the Federal insurance program to Provide compensation for wage losses due to illness and urged also that “a beginning be made” on a program of assuring adequate medical care for all persons. In its annual report to Congress, transmitted by Federal Security Ad- ministrator Paul V. McNutt, the board said it believed Federal insurance | ;against wage losses due to permanent or temporary disability ‘‘is now fea- sible” State Sanatoria Now Ready for All Emergencies of War The State’s three tuberculosis sana- toria, Mont Alto, Cresson and Ham- burg, and the Hospital for Crippled Children at Elizabethtown are pre- pared with plans for the protection of life and health in the event of war em- ' ergencies. All four institutions are under administration of the Pennsyl- wania Department of Health, The existence of defense industries | in the general vicinity of Mont Alto and the State Hospital for Crippled | Children makes these two institutions | Particularly important. SHOE SALE! MEN'S AND BOYS’ SPRING OXFORDS All you are required to do is the Wolf Furniture Co., Barn next drawing will be Saturday of next week, with drawings to be held every other Saturday. You may be the person that will receive one of the Free Gifts, Registration cards must be filled out between every drawing to be eligible to win. suled numbers by Secretary of the! ‘Navy Frank Knox. 4301 was the third number drawn from the historic goldfish bowl used! first in 1917 for the draft of World | War I. | Drawing of the capsules continued | Tuesday night and Wednesday morn- | ing until the bowl was empty. Completition of the lottery gives| fill out a registration card at esboro, every two weeks. The for military service. Edward's. Carrolltown—St. Benedict's. Colver—Holy Family. Nicktown-—St. Nicholas. Clarence—St. Michael's. Patton—St. George's. Found Not Guilty. Peter Rodomsky of Hastings was the U. S. a reservoir of approximately | found not guilty last week on a char-| He joined the utility firm at the time | 26,000,000 men between the ages of | ge of giving improper weight to min-| of jts founding in 1910 and served as | BARNESBORO 20 and 44 registered and classified | ers employed by him, The jury placed |4 director before becoming vice pres- | ident in 1929. Lay the costs on the county. {time they either will be recommended | {for commissions in the Army with the | {military rating of service pilot or | |their services terminated. | i PS —————— i ———— | Utility President Dies | Altoona--J. Emory Shute, 75, who | | retired last year as a vice president | | of the Pennsylvania Edison Company, ! | died Monday night at his home here. | $2.98 JOE'S (UT-RATE STORE Wax Ee ete
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