A GENERAL NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO
OF ORGANIZED LABOR IN CENTRAL
THE INTERESTS
PENNSYLVANIA
or 86. 2 Tt
AN ATTAINMENT OF THE LARCEST GENERAL WEEKLY
NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION
PENNSYLVANIA
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VOL. 48.
LARGE NUMBER OF
DRAFTEES IS CALLED
BY CRESSON BOARD
butor, Will Supply E:ightee: Age Will Be Included
Youths In the Quota. Coming War Work
NO. 31.
OEM SETS LABOR
consecutive month
third
Col
or the
north
ambria
oard No. 1,
n, nas been
Fc Washington
by
SETVICE
the 1 served
ty ive S
headquarters at Cress or
vianagemel
y
( Coun ),000,000 Ameri
B 5 wil be needed b
quota
nands
xXpan
including mothers
ft og
The (
16
of
sion
9,800,000
3 Of reserves Wi
nurseries to
children.”
The OEM estimated t
more war workers will
year on top of
men necded by the armec
agency reported that the
power commission believed
ers could be obtained
lowing sources:
Peacetime industries
7,900,000.
Farms
Self employed
ete.), 400,000.
Unemployed—1,500,600
Housewives, youths,
and others not listed as pe
labor forces—-2,000,000.
“To appreciate fully the
total manpower monbilizati
OEM stated, ‘we must re:
Le . : | war industry continues
Braneis Augustus Hammond, Cres- | with explosive force
explosively if we are
sident’s goals of the 1
half, if we are to del
jand the weapons whic
f Axis.”
To get the apons
to the OEM,
will be
Shipbuilding
ing the period
1944.
factories
four times the nun
1944 as they wer
ve
Henry Heverly Glasgow, Glasgow.
Ludden J Conrad, Coupon.
gan Wilfred McGonigle, Cresson.
Clarence Andrew Lytle, Glasgow.
John Stephen Novak, Hastings.
Regis Henry Dillon, Hastings.
Patrick Lawrence Mulligan, Dysart
D.
Donald Butler Ball, Gallitzin.
Ronald S. Huey, Gallitzin.
Louis John Reilly, Gallitzin.
Roy H. Zimmerman, Blandburg.
Ordell Raymond Yeckley, Patton.
*aul Thomas Hmel, Gallitzin.
Robertus James Leap, Lilly.
Alfred Joseph Santoni, Gallitzin.
Florian Edward Hyduga, Gallitzin,
Michael John Misko, Cresson.
Luther Lewis Mazer, Cresson.
Earl Anthony Bender, Patton.
Patrick Joseph Grogan, Gallitzin.
Gerald Cyril Mulhollen, Fallentim-
ber.
alone
rR
from
400,000 to 600,000
(Profes
a
John Halerz, Gallitzin. nls
Leon Thomas Miesko, Lilly.
Lloyd Francis Nagle, Gallitzin.
John Thomas Beck, Gallitzin.
Thomas Joseph Kroskie, Lilly.
rence Leo Johnston, Dean.
rthur Joseph Schenk, Loretto
illiam Edward Price, Gallitzin.
hn James Masnica, Patton.
David Clossin, Cres
irvin Albinus Springer, Cres
Charles Partel Blake, Patton I
Marion Edwin Mulhollen, Fallen-
R.D.
larry Clair Gibson, Cresson.
John Arthur Matthews, Blandburg
Hastings
th
the
necessa
Janu
Donald
lance
timber
I ar.
Ordinance produc
pled during the same
“7 the
| “that to win the w
| more than 20,000,000
rect military productic
that
numbers of those enga
rect war production bef
It was emphasized t
power mobilization pr
ions the employment of
ands of women
dustrial wark—:s
men who are neede
“Women,” the OE
ready have demonstrated
England—that i: f
ses of war manufacture
ual—even definitely
men.”
Albe James Angelo,
I i Gionfriddo, Dysart.
John Carl ollman, Gallitzin.
1S means,”
Y 4 ar
(Continued on Pag
GLENN MILLER AT
SUNSET BALLROOM
MONDAY EVENING
we must vastly
to replace
such as
d for hea
COUNTY AIR PATROL
Seven planes carry
the
represented the cou
Saturday at the nd
300 planes of the Per
Air Patrol at Blac]
port ar Philipsbur
Maj. Earl Jot t
mander of the Civil A ’a
dressed appro tel fl
attended the meet,
+ Patton, squadron com
he has Cambria County unit
detail in the thirty
the Moshannon field.
While reviewing the
mobilization the
Cambria County (
N¢
GLENN MILLER
Manager Fred Luther of
Auditorium, announces that
secured Glenn Miller and Hi
tra for dancing Mor
next, June 8th. This excellent music:
organization no A-
tion to dance and
elsewhere in the nation
“tops’’ in radio; makers of
Victor Records, and comm:
patronages wherever they
They are coming to Sunset
arrangements with the General
usement Corporation of New
City. Dancing will be fr
Admission will $1.25
Sunse
on
of P
needs recommen
music
ns he
use civilian fliers in reasi
perform missi
var effort.”
to
the
bers
large
in
LPPE <
throu
ON 18 AND 19 YEAR DF
Congress, dopesters say
draft of 18 and 19
ident Roosevelt
bers like
popular ach | given assurance
be
Saturday evening dances don’t
set grow increasingly
week. This coming Saturday, .
Gray and his d
¢. On Saturday
diers will get at
11 furnish ing and se:
15th
wl
ban
Buy
7,000,000
raft
here
ARMY TO REACH
TWENTY MILLIONS
HA
ON,
PATTON. PENNSYLVANIA.
Reinforcements for
5
#.
er Drait
1n tie
ers
WOrk-
victory,
200
eded this
E 00
he
nan-
he ‘ucele
tle Work
the fol-
men,
|
workers
t the
of
need for
on,” the
1lize that
expand
expand
t the pre-
and a
tools
the
1Vis-
thous-
light in-
the
jobs.
“al-
as in
vier
the proces-
J are
to the
eq-
ATTENDS STATE MEET
trol
ers who
Nuss,
of
of
the
county
rnght to
general
lIvania
sed
ng num-
valuable
RAFT
vill vote
Pres-
if
sol-
train-
|
Lo
for publication by U. S. censors.
NEW MOVE SEEN
FOR INCREASED
GRANTS IN RELIEF
A new move for increased relief
grants has developed at Harrisburg and Somerset counties last Thursday | bow! and every time sufficient
on the heels of Governor James’ an-| night declared unanimously that the | ey is saved from the local dues nar
nouncement that Pennsylvania end-
ed its fiscal year with a cash balance
of $12,760,000.
“The Governor said several months
ago he wouidn't aiscuss the matter
until the state’s financial picture was
clarified,” declared Assistant Secre-
tary Howard L. Russell. “I expect to
discuss with him some time during
Ju the possibility of boosting the
grants.’
H
the
increased
ne
o costs
prompted
to urge
r of living
> Board o
paj 1
The legislature
A
week under
Assistance
relief
joined the
is allowed $11.90
sche
nts to clients.
in request.
far Y OI 1I1Ve¢ da
the minimum dule of
food, clothing
and $1. The
ropolitan area
receive a $13.40
with clothiz
lowances, $225 for shelter
for fuel.
$7 for $1.90
same
1
1c
weekly
0 shelter 1 50 fuel.
ily in a met cou
Ximum
food
of
the and
show a
being
the
to
cases
continue
1,23
week en 12
f Jrolls
trend,
removed dui I
23rd of May.
{CHANGE IN ITINERANT
SCHEDULE OF STATION
The Social Security Board field of-
in Johnstown, which services
Cambria, Indiana and Somerset,
nounces a slight change in the sched-
ule of its itinerant station which is
maintained in the Fire Hall, Barnes-
Doro.
fice
an-
Comimen with Monday, June
15, 1942, this itinerant service will be
naintained only semi-monthly; on the
and 3rd Mondays of each month,
10:00 a. m.
n line
that
much
ploy-
nent
I governmen reques
all forms of travel be reduced
Also, the board's ¢
conserve, for
, their tires and cars,
they not issued any
obtain new
1S possible
must necess
11 1 as
priorities to
are
OFFER MINERS BONUS
IN LIEU CF VACATION
Representatives of the U. M. W. A.
and the
report “some progress”
an for
mines in operation during
27-July 6 vacation period.
The operators have suggested cash
bonuses 520 per miner in lieu
the 10-day vacation provided in the
contract. Normally the mines do not
operate on five of hte days, two Sat-
urdays, two Sundays and July 4.
Appalachian coal operators
in discussions
the
June
keeping
the
on agreement
of
WESTOVER WORKER
HURT IN FALL INTO VAT
Irvin Westover, 24, of Westover,
Clearfield County, suffered a fracture
sible internal in
of the pelvis and po -
ries Thursday of last week when hq
1 while at work
factory at
11
a large
Armour
place
of |
uv
y
£y
General MacArihur
THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1942
In this seundphoto U. S. troeps are shown arriving by transport at the mine
an unnamed port somewhere in Australia, to reinforce the large contingent B. Gal
of American troops that has already arrived in the land “down under.” | tional
The boys ail seem to be in the very best of spirits. This photo was passed | Priefly,
WPA FARM LABOR
PLAN UNWORKABLE
IN LOCAL SECTION
Farm agents in Cambria, Indiana,
present plans of the Works Progress
Administration to furnish farm 1la-
bor will not funetion satisfactorily in
this area.
Experts in the three counties were
the opinion that the plan will not
workable until the
es definite wage and hour scales for
the proposed workers
It also was revealed that the acute
shortage in the three
result in a heavy reduc-
of vital
of
be
farm labor
counties w
tion in pre foodstuffs
Cambria County
the labor
larly ute in
the county.
of the farmers
usual amount
= v ac
northern part
that a majorit
to plant the
manpower 1S ex-
of
| said
were able
I lack of
pected to curtail the harvest.
Similar conditions were reported
Somerset County by Agent C. C. Mc-
Dowell and in Indiana county by
net John Warner.
f crops but
in
AR
1
an offic statement issued last
week in Harrisburg by Richard Irvin,
| WPA administrator, the prompt re-
f WPA workers for farm la-
bor when the need arises was ordered.
| He ruled WPA enrollee will
be permitted to refuse to take a farm
| job when he is referred for such em
{ ployment 1 is offered in compen
tions the equivalent of the prevailing
rate > Kind,
| District ’ the WPA ov-
| er the state ordered to
{ keep with the var-
U. S. Depart-
County
finding men for
of ial
iease oO
that no
for w
touch
the
riculture
in cor
ious « rmen of
ment
Board
| farm
Howeve
trict
unable to pa:
dis-
be
wage
with
one-
Lhe
would
nt WPA
operate
in
report ers
winds wi
111
It
or «
was :
pay between
n board,
and is n ¢ I 1at of the
WPA scale Iso reported that
1sh nd
and
gents
in ri farm
1 and 14
their
hands m
hours
1 work
The
date
from
per
on time
it to
requests
but had
for ex
reported the
they he received no
farmers for WPA labor
ped with requests
been swan -
perienced farm hands.
Acute shortage farm labor has
| resulted the draft and by hun-
dreds of young men leaving the farm
for high g jobs in defense
dustries and
It
number of small
counties h abandoned
of
from
payin in-
in the coal mines.
out that a
in the three
their
also pointed
farmers
completely
industr
Cambria
d that
WPA establish- |
War |
0 pr
QIDCORID
SUBSCRIP UU Ib
S MINERS DEFER BREAK
BURN MORTGAGE ~~ WITH CIO AND STATE
ON FINE NEW HOME ~~ CONDITIONS OF PEACE
Dollars Is Liquidated by the mal
Local in Four 3
R YEAR
NANTY-GLO RAINE
But
Be
Avoided,
‘Debts
Years
f per capi L Le
ng tax payment from
to the
rs of America on the I
1X
ny I
ey duc nd
Mine Worl
the CIO.”
While both
the
es-Bari 1
organizer of the UMWA, spoke
lauding the excellent we
ty-Glo local. He said it
largest and active
Western Pennsylvania. He also
vealed that the UMWA making a
| concentrated effort in Washington to
win blanket army defernment for
| miners.
| James Simasek, local president, a:
nounced that the local will repay the
men in full the amount they subscri
| bed for the hall. Names of every 1
{ cal member will be placed in a large
yayabl
of
X es acknowledged re-
lations were badly strained, the
threads of nominal affiliation still ex
isted in view of the miners ’'decision
to refrain from any affirmative with:
drawal action.
A spokesman
eight members of
tee of about 235
adoption of the
tionship.
There were substantial indications
the CIO leadership would acknowled-
ge the cash debt but a further condi-
tion which the miners placed on re-
payment endangered the possibility
of settling that issue. The policy
committee report rejected “with con-
tempt” sueggestions that the CIQ
raise the y by levying a special
? assessment on all members of CIQ
TON OF COAL A TRIP unions. That would include the min
IS MINIMUM URGED | rs themselves.
the N
of the
most
re-
the UMW
> policy commit-
sented from the
report on CIO rela
for said
O-
non-
11€e8
will be drawn and the funds turnec
over to the men. It is expected that
lin four or five years cach of the mi-
| ners will be reimbursed fully.
mor
|
School.
Hanson of
nitted to the
In Officers’
Verner W
The national waz
tail
mended
liver no
truck tri
tires
At the
solid
B:
fuels
that
1€SS
solid
industry
retail coal
tt
to «
1an
P
same
of fuels
that, ur
ment’s
the
sumers
611.000
221,000 ¢
on May 1
This rej
to 43
storage
der
‘buy
stock
soft
dealers
Ol
ncre
April,
st to 61,8
and
tons during
m Apri
Hilda
RANDOLPH MYERS
CHOSEN TO HEAD
COUNTY LAWYERS
from
32,000 ton
resented an increas
n
38 1
e fror
es held
days
EBENSBURG BAKERY
IS DAMAGED BY FIRE
Fire of
day afternoon
the inter of
pany, on Eas
undetermined origi:
dan 1
10r
{ burg.
Firemen
i p.m the
| The interior of
damaged
1 the blaze started
back 1e |
the
Dy fire
In uilding
ablishment
, and
chiner
said. The;
be $2.000
Spangler Soldjer Missing
Jai
among
tates
1942, w
April 1, C. Rand
: At the
bria County
the court he
afternoon
Emeigh Man Promoted, e
Pfc. Jack E. Kopp, son Mrs
Bertha Richards, of E has
advanced to the rank of corpor-
al at Indiantewn Gap Military Res-
ervation, lo announcement
by the commanding officer.
pl
meet 1
Bar Asso
house in El}
Attorney C
secretary
elected presiden
ceeds Attorney Philip N
Ebensburg y :
Other «
ney
annual
of the associ:
vas
of s
Y
4
¢
neig
been
Russel
according tornev
retary
Treasur
For
Myers
Seyn
experienced
that
quires
They
operate.
mers
the
) said are