A GENERAL NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF ORGANIZED LABOR IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA \ Sh Union Press, Established May, 1935 PATTON, PENNSYLVANIA, 48. NO. 37. — VOL. "THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1942 AN ATTAINMENT OF THE LARGEST GENERAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA Patton Courier, Established SUBSCRIPTION Oct., 1893 $2.00 PER YEAR Et? LAYMEN’S RETREAT IS WELL ATTENDED pe ——— i | | | 10 Percent of Y Approximately 100 district men at- | Let Everybody Know You're Investing our Income in War B y | onds MRS. WHALEN | tended sessions of the second lay-| | men’s retreat held by the Laymen'’s | 4 etreat League of the Altoona Dio- | | Ri | cese over the week end at St. Fran- re | cis College. A conference with Rev. Spangler Resident Succeeds Mrs. | Father William Sheedy, retreat mas-| Owens as President of the | ter, opened the retreat on Friday, and the Papal Benediction marked County Council - rm Sunday's services. Flag raising cere-| monies on the college campus and the | procession to Our Lady of Lourdes | were highlights of the retreat meet- ing. The third and last of the men’s re- | treats is scheduled to begin this Fri- day evening. WAR WILL CHANGE HOURS OF SCHOOL Students Will Wait While State’s | Workers Get Right-of-Way on Bus Transportation Mrs. John Whalen of Spangler was elected president of the Cambria County Council, American Legion Auxiliary, at the regular meeting of the group held last Thursday in Bea- verdale. Mrs. Whalen succeeds Mrs. Thomas A. Owens, of Carrolltown, as council president. During the session in Beaverdale the county Legion Auxiliary was in- formed that an essay by Robert Hinks of Johnstown, which won first | prize in the county contest, has been | awarded third place in the state de- partment competition. Hinks will re- ceive the award for his essay at the Department convention in Pittsburgh in August. Mrs. Harison Smith of Philadelphia department president of the auxiliary, Harrisburg.—School hours in many sections of the state will ur ergo ex- T LEAST / Hh to a £ 3 il- : fold menihers Sf he grou. Yat push tensive revisions next fall, cause lary units in the state expended v4,” | ne right of way In transportation 000 this year for rehabilitation. The must be given to defense workers units also spent $51,000 on child wel- : ® a ahr i . ; a is . : Sore and Pr $30,000 worth of In rural sections, grade School The attractive red, white and blue window sticker, pictured above, 1s wt RTS 3 : : ag | children who use the school bus may| the new yardstick of patriotism in the War. Bond drive throughout the war savings bonds. A total of 1,139... ait while the | is used , eT 3 1 have to wait while the I 1S USt nation. With the slogan, Everybody every pay day, ten percent,”’ sweep- school medal awards were purchased by the auxiliaries in the state this gpring, Mrs. Smith reported. Mrs. Sadie Reese, of Johnstown, was named first vice president of the to haul their fathers to and from | work. i { In the cities, pupils using street { | [ cars and buses to get to school may | ing the country, patriotic Ame Government's appeal for funds with Victory for America and the United C t il. Other officers elected | find that their school hours have county counct'. Aer officers eleCled|poan changed to avoid adding peak | — — are Mrs. Maude Sheehan, Cresson, loads g { second vice president; Mrs, Jerome Sheehan, Patton, secretary; Mrs. A. P. Strolio, Barnesboro, treasurer Mrs. Susanne Olson, Gallitzin, his- torian; Mrs. C. O. Diamond, South es trie Fork, chaplain, and Mrs. Emma Kays by school officials now studying Beaverdale, sergeant at arms "| schedules for the coming year. New directors are Mrs. Elizabeth The transportauon problem didn’t Dawson, Conemaugh; Mrs. Anna Mat- hit the schools during the Das? year, thews, Blandburg; Mrs. George Thom- pecause defense workers using their bley, Portage; Mrs. Oscar Van Kok- own cars stil had (ires ang gasghuns elberg, Carrolltown; and Mrs. Fran- Intensive surveys showed, nOWeVer, is Bon : : that the average life of tires then in DISTRICT UMW HE DELIVER ADDRESSES AT ANNIVERSARY RITE | This development is foreseen b by officials of the State Tre | visory Committee, now workin oth! Ad with o 5 [local transportation committees, and new Mines at Sonman Close Wednes- day in Memory of Tragedy; No Production Lost and gasoline. cis Bender, Lilly. Mrs. Thomas A. Ow- : i) Voir em ens was elected delegate to the de- service was about six and one-half} james Mark of DuBois and Edward partment convention in Pittsburgh, months. Sweeny of Lilly, president and secre- while Mrs. Gretta Koons of Cresson | According to Surveys, tary respectively of District No. 2 nia has 6,600 buses In United Mine Workers of America, was named alternate. were scheduled to be the guest spea- kers at Memorial Services on Wednes- day afternoon of this week for the 63 miners from the Jamestown dis- trict who lost their lives In the dis- astrous explosion in the Sonman mine on July 15th, 1940. » services were cra ; : i transportation lines, the Officers of the county organization ity of which, at any ope tim rere installed by Mrs. Oscar Sutliffe | 555 500 passengers : 3 z : 3251 ass Ss, Somerset, Western Director. Mrs. School X Gi 5 Sutliffe also inducted recently elect- Sehool: buses now RULDIIE Bib ay te per about 4,200 and their fficers of the Dunlo unit. Mrs. Ella B. Black, state president of lhe Women's Chris-|]ly wil furnish a a « : cao most entirely restricted Beaverdale, | pupils and teachers. ’ trans calle rt . Dont arranged by of- tian Temperence Union, extended | serve whic /ill be : : 4 Glas pe the Legion Auxiliary serve Wich in or t icials of Jamestown Loc al 1318, and E > = L > “€ n - X at ce 3 nee Di u « v . = : MY lvice af needed, were conducted at 2 p. m. at a mem- them were antiquated and duled to be replaced by 1, until war restrictions br pians. Dr. Francis B. Haas, stat of instruct Women. ¢ at orial erected in memory of the explo- sion victims. The monument is’ locat- ed the Jamestown local hall. Another speaker scheduled at the services was Ernest Yenssens, Cress- Legion Auxiliary members sold 1,- 140,450 poppies during tne past year, Mrs. Matthew Collins of Pittsburgh, department poppy chairman, report- beside e superin- said ed. Units in the state sent the De- | tendent public y i i i 3 3 TJ 2 oraniz Invitations par > $ welfare work i ha hanges in the school calendar on, U. M. W. A, organi . partment $44,000 for welfare work in | that changes choo ¢ a also were sent to President Judge may be expected in many agricultural sections, in order to make services of n work. the year, she said. Mrs. Robert Russell of Custer City, John H. McCann and to District At- torney W. Stephens Mayer. western vice president, discussed the older pupils available for fz place of women in defense work and ———— — Mrs. Thomas Leap, who lost her urged further cooperation in the de- FORMER JAMESTOWN husband and two sons in the acident fense drive of the nation. MINE LEADER ADMITS which was one of the Dot 1 Soft Mrs. A. C. Sundry of Blairsville, TAKING A LARGE SUM coal mines in the country, 120 fe sub-chairman of poppies in the de- honor of placing the wreath on the partment, also spoke. It was report- A story of how a os ‘or officer of monument. ed that eight units in the county are Jamestown I eal 1318 1 cs ted Mine Similar services conducted last over their membership quota. | Workers ated % fallow 2 $400 to] Yoo" were attended by several hun- The Conemaugh unit won the pop-| 1... ITS of vor ands of dred miners and their Iriends. py award given by Mrs. Frank Ling the union following the Sonman mine 30th the Sonman Shaft and Slope of Johnstown, council poppy chair-| ico ctar i Yuly 15 1910. w unfol- | was closed down Wednesday to en- able the 1,100 miners to participate | in the services. No production will be lost, however, as the men will work on Saturday to make up the time. The color guard was provided by John R. Moyer Post, American Le- Portage. Brief services also 1bria man, to the unit turning in the mos : V . C i RC : St! 4ed on Monday before the: ( money ror poppies. Mrs. Clara Bos- | ~ y " F Barnes County Court. trom, of Barnesboro, awarded Mrs. pe Wid rasidon Willi 5 : : James Hess, former presiden William Whalen of Spangler a prize ;. y,cal; Albert Novotny, f : 3 : Local; A rt ny, m for turning in the highest number of A . . ia treasurer, and John Mro former Tedesmable goupons, financial secretary st befor ancia secretary s efore Mrs. John Whalen, subchairmse 2 < 5 5? : , subchairman of | p .gident Judge John H. McCann and gion, of hews Jetters in he county, gave an Judges Ivan J. McKenrick and Geo. | Were conducted by members of Boy award to Mrs. Frank Ling of Johns- |v “Grirfith to explain t action | Scout Troop 61 which is sopnsored oy the Jamestown Local unit. Short sermons were delivered by Rev. E. A. Miles, pastor of Portage Evangelical Church; Rev. G. 1. Uh- ler, pastor of the Portage Lutheran Church, and Rev. Father Stephen Loya, pastor of SS. Peter and Paul's Catholic church. Music was furnished by the Portage and High and Portage Township High School Bands. 2ev. George R. Strayer, D. D., pas- tor of Portage United Brethren Chur- town, subscription chairman of the local unit, which sent in the most 0 each to the local = subscriptions. Mrs. Oscar Van Kokel- Hess explained that he had paid berg was in charge of a shoower t0| i. share. i ee dled er money to purchase wah his share. Noyony declared Be Jad for the veterans at Aspinwall Veter- paid $30, wile Mrosait explained fat ans’ Hospital. he had not paid anything as he had Mrs. Thomas A. Owens was in given Novotny 3:00 pror to their ar charge of the business session. Mrs. ress He naserieg gant fie Poy es Emma Kays, president of Beaverdale bo Je pau 3 0 Ane an 0 ia Unit, was in charge of the luncheon, obtained a Mickey and Glenn Siberts sang sever- Novotny admitted that r had taken to make I itution of nat Mro- al duets. : x a zak had said was true, but that he |cn, pronounced the invocation, and had used the money. The judges ex- | Rev. Father A. M. Habrowski, rector plained to Mrozak that they regret- | of Sacred Heart Catholic church ted that he had paid the money to pe Novotny but payment must be made Joseph C. Dolan, former Gallitzin by him (Mrozak) to the local. school teacher and chairman of the | The court gave Novotny and Mro- | Democratic County Committee for|zak until July 18 to arrange to make | two years, was promoted to the rank | some payment to the local. Meantime | of Lieutenant-Colonel in the United | the three men also must arange to | States Army according to word re-| pay a bonding company $1,500 to cov- ceived by relatives at South Fork. |er the remainder of the shortage | In active service since he was call-| which totalled $2,287.55. The com- ed in November, 1940, with the grade | pany has paid the local. of Captain, Dolan was promoted to| Sentence probably will be suspend- the rank of major nine months ago.| ed on Hess when the three men ap- | His advancement to Lieutenant-Col-| pear before the court on July 18. onel took place on July 1. Colonel Dolan, graduate of St. Francis College, Loretto, taught sch- DOLAN NOW LIEUT.- COL. said the Benediction, : DEAN COAL, TIMBER LAND ORDERED SOLD BY COURT The Cambria County Court this missioners hold a sale Monday, July 27, of 2,810 acres of coal and timber lands in Dean Township, which are owned by the county. An offer of George C. Dietrich, Dysart, for the propertiees, which had been taken over by the county for taxes in 1925. Harry Kenner, aged 28, of Coupon was treated in the Altoona hospital | oll at Gallitzin prior to being called dispensary the other day for a lecers | to active duty. His first assignment | ation and fracture of the right index was at Fort Monroe, Va., from where | finger suffered while working in his | he was transferred to Fort Eustis, own mine, the member being caught Va. Col. Dolan is an instructor at|in a chain. Two sutures were requir- Fort Eustis. | ed to close the laceration. the court, Attorneys Shettig & Swope offered $3,200 on behalf of Latrobe Trust Co., former owner of the prop- erties. It also indicated that another | firm will bid $3,500 for the lands. ricans on the home fron home which displays the ‘ten percent” tributed through local War Savings Chairmen. ADS RU | way week ordered that the county com- | $3,000 has been made by Urban H.| | Crooks, Coalport coal operator, and | When the offer was submitted to] t are rallying to their which to help finance the war. The sticker is doing its share toward | Nations. The stickers are being dis- | U. S. Treasury Department | LE REVEALED INDUCTION OF MEN INTO ARMED FORGES Dependents and Contribution to War Effort Will Be Main Factors Considered Selectees with dependents are not to be called for Army service py the local draft boards until all other sources of manpower at the disposal of selective service officials have been exhausted. This statement of policy, issued this week by Brig.-Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, selective service director, will soon reach all local boards in the form of a lear- oraer. Her s statement established the orde ich seven cl ifications were to be utilized for filling draft quotas and also contained a list of 34 essential we activities compiled by the War Manpower Commission. Based on recent amendments to the Selective Training and Service Act, the statement was designed to guide local boards, Hershey said, but in no altered the statutory ban on group deferments. Its purpose, he explained, was to protect bona fide family relationships as long as pos- sible. The order in which local poards were instructed to consider regis- trants for induction as follows: 1—Single men with no dependents. 2- Single men with dependents. 3— Single men with dependents, and who contribute to the war effort. 4. Married men, not engaged in the war effort, but living with their wives. 5. Married men, engaged in war effort, but living with their wives. 6 Married men, not engaged in the war effort, living with wife and children, or children only. 7-_Married men, engaged in the war effort, and living with wife and shildren, or children only. In all cases, Hershey informed the local boards, the dependency must date from before December 8, 1941. SMOKES’ DANGE Help the Patton and community boys in the armed services have some enjoyment! Help them out by getting them ** You can do tnis and enjoy yourself as well by buying a ticket and attend- ing the Smokes’ Dance to be held on | Friday night of this week. The affair is under the auspices of Aerie 1244, | Fraternal Order of Eagles, and will be | staged | music by Jane Phoenice and her all- | girl band. smokes.” | day night dances to be held for this | purpose. T PARENTS. SOLDIERS VISI { Three St. Lawrence soldiers spent | the Fourth of July holiday week end at their homes. They are: Corp. Ro- pert Nedimyer, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Nedimyer, stationed at Fort Benning, Ga., Pfc. Raymond Cronau- er, son of Mr, and Mrs. Albin Cro- { nauer, and Pvt. Gerald Niebauer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Niebauer, | both stationed at Fort Meade, Md. at the Eagles’ home, with the | This is the first of a series of Fri-| ARMY AGE LIMIT UP FOR EX-SERVICEME N Ex-servicemen who have not yet reached their 55th birthday may en- list in the Army unassigned, it is an- nounced at the Johnstown Recruiting office. While the age limit for enlist- ments is 44, men who have had pre- vious service may be accepted up to 55, if they are in good physical con- | dition and were discharged from the army in the grade of private first class or higher. Youths 18 and years of age may select their branch of service, put all applicants 20 years of age and over are enlisted unassign- ed. C10 DEMANDS EARLY ACTION ON INFLATION Challenges All Who Fail to Accept President Roosevelt's Seven- Point Plan for Action Washington—The Congress of In- dustrial Organizations has called for immediate action to effectuate Pre ident Roosevelt's seven-point program which it said was ‘lost, strayed or stolen while being taken for a ride down Pennsylvania Ave. “This program has been punched full of holes,” it asserted. Déclaring that the CIO and labor generally nave accepted Mr. Roose- | velt’s program, it said: “We challenge all who have not accepted it, to do likewise.’ Steel Challenged “We challenge the executives of the Little Steel companies and of the great industries of America growing fat on war contracts, the commercial. ized and boulevard farms and the congressional spokesmen of all these groups,” the statement added. “Seventy priceless days have passed since the President made his proposal. Seeds of inflation and of distrust and disunity have been sown. We. . . say: We will toe the line. Let those who have laughed off limitation of income and pressured the House Ways and Means Committee into going easy on war profits now join up or be induct ed. It's very late to check inflation. It’s not too late!” Tax Program ‘Twisted’ The CIO called for an end of “the ‘you-go-first’ tactics that have been duck soup for the do-nothings, the di- visionists and the defeatists.” Discussing the President's program point by point, the CIO charged that the program “has been twisted and distorted beyond recognition.’ The Administartion’s program “would nave spread the burden with degree of fairness based upon ability to pay,” the CIO said, and added that “it is now a soak the poor and spare the rich” program, in addition to being far below the figure asked by the administration. The $25,000 limitation on individ- ual incomes “as treated as a burp in a church, something to be overlooked and forgotten as quickly as possible,” it asserted. The CIO said rent and price ceil- ings “have finally been fixed,” tax some prevented, will lift others.” Rationing—*"A twin of ings” generated d on,” it charged. checked “unless quiekly by a 19 | but warned that Price Administrator Le- on Henderson ‘has now lifted ceilings on some living necessities and, unless price ceil- has been carried out on a tid- bit basis with a clumsiness that has tisfaction and suspici- Assailing Mrs. Henderson's policies in this respect, the CIO declared that firm | VICTORY GROUPS ~~ FOR COAL MINES ORDERED SET UP | Mine Worker Leaders Ask That Men Stay on the Job At All Times for War Effort. | President John L. Lewis and other | national officers of the United Mine Workers of America have toid local U. M. A. officers and members that absences of miners from work “should pe reduced to the lowest possible min- imum.” In a circular letter signed by Lew- is. Vice-President John O'Leary and Secretary Thomas Kennedy, the mi- ners were urged also to set up dis- trict “victory production committees” to boost coal production. “With a lessened labor supply, due to war conditions, it is necessary that employes remaining in the in- | dustry contribute every hour of wor- | king time possible and consistent with the needs and requirements of the situation,” the three leaders said. The circular made no mention of strikes or miners’ “holidays.” At Clearfield headquarters of Dis- trict No. 2, James Mark, veteran pres- |ident of the district, announced that “victory production committees” were lin process of formation at all mines in the Central Pennsylvania area em- praced py the district. “Officers ot every local have been directed to have their committees set up not later than July 15th,” Mr, Mark said. | In addition to establishing com- i mittees at each pit, it was disclosed |that a joint committee, representing the miners and operators has been named. With headquarters at Altoo- na, this central committee consists of President Mark, and Secretary Ed- ward Sweeney, representing the Un- ited Mine Workers, and Charles O'- Neill and Waiter Jones, President and Secretary, respectively, of the Cen- tral Pennsylvania Operators’ Associ- ation. *This cer committee will act as a steering group for the committees ach mine,’ Mark explained. “In- structions the district office to the 1 the bituminous field are absent from a at men cut io n on days work. W e a condition is found calling for “special treatment” the joint committee will endeavor to find a CAMBRIA COLLECTS MANY TONS SCRAP RUBBER IN DRIVE The chairman of the industrial sal- vage committee for Cambria County, B. F. Faunce, has notified state sal- vage headquarters in Harrisburg the amount of scrap rubber collected in this county during the drive ended on July 10 will total approximately 775 ons. rems the Cambria County (Ot Results drive comp favorably with the re- warns other parts of Pennsyl- vania. A survey showed the 511 tons of rubber were turned in at the iilling \tions, which served as col- lection iis under a nationwide plan dev by the fuel industry. More 30 cons were purchased from collectors by scrap aealers in the county. policy and sensible system of adminis- tration and enforcement, and black markets will develop.” bootlegging Hartnett Elected Head of State Association Monday The statement said wages are be- ing stabilized in accordance with the President's program, but chided ‘the 3 Wills Michael C. Hart- oe nett n elected presidenc of the steel companie s, Henderson, and much | penng Registers of Wills As- of the press’ for drawing ‘the red |g, ciation at the annual conventi herring of wage inflation” - into the 1.13 Mc iain pit onyenIon pending Little Steel case in which Seid Monday in -Philade Iphia: My, the CIO's United Steel Workers seek Hartnett is now serving his second a $1 a day wage increase. term as re ter of wills of Cambria County. The registers urged that the con- “BUFFER ZONE’ TAKEN I trol of birth certificate records be re- OUT OF GAS PLANS| + th Ts | turned to the proper authorities in in- Cambria county will not be a ‘buf fer’ area when the permanent gas ra tioning plan goes into effect on the {22nd of July. The 50-mile-wide twilight zone al ong the western border of the gaso line rationing area, in which sale oO | gasoline to motorists residing in ra tioned counties was to have been re stricted, was eliminated from the new | coupon rationing plan in a revision Phi : : >hiladelphia Avenue, Be 5 of the regulations made Monday by pia. le, Barnesboro. the Office of Price Administration. The OPA said that “an alternativ | plan to meet the border problem i | being developed” | ea. week was to have been a 50-mile stri running the length of the western | ey Associa Under the orig- | dents during June, it was Somerset | at a meeting counties would have been “twilight” | rationing boundary. |inal plan, Cambria and areas. and would be an-| nounced before the new system goes | into effect in the 17 state eastern ar- | The border zone as announced last | won the Class A safety Banner | dividual counties so as to prevent a | prolonged delay in the issuance of | these certificates at Harrisburg. MURPHY'S SALE DAYS On page seven of this issue of the Press-Courier, appears an advertise- ment of the G. C. Murphy Company, f| | i} | Values of an exceptional nature will be found at the Murphy Store e s| during the ‘Assistant Manager's | Sale.” Don't pass up the opportunity | to visit the store during the sale. 2 at Cassandra r aw- es Safe- Hughes No. mine p | arded by the Joseph A. Holm tion for no lost time acci- announced re- association Ebe of the cently in Spruce Cabin nea burg.
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