A GENERAL NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF ORGANIZED LABOR IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA = UNION Union Press, Established May, 1935 VOL 49. NO. 5. CAMPAIGN UNDERWAY TO INSURE EARLIER DIRECRT U. S. 0. DRIVE CHRISTMAS MAILING Wartime Postal Demands Will Delay Parcels and Letters If Not Mailed Soon The bulk of Christmas mail must | be in the postoffices by December 1 | this year if deliveries on time are to be assured, according to Smith W. Purdum, 2nd Asgistant Postmaster General. Mr. Purdum is responsible | to Postmaster General Frank C. Wal- ker for smooth and efficient air and | railway mail service. Unprecedented wartime demands | on the postal and transportation sys- tems, plus a prospective record vol- | ume of Christmas mailings, have been cited by Mr. Purdum as necessitat- ing earlier mailings than ever before. “It is physically impossible for the railroads and air lines, burdened with vitally important war materials, to handle the Christmas mailings as rap- idly as in normal times,” he stated. “If the bulk of parcels and greeting cards are held back until the usual time the period of about December | 15 to 23— they simply cannot be dis-| tributed in time, and thousands of gifts will reach their destinations af- ter Christmas,” | In 1941, about 21,950 mail cars were required between December 12 | and 24 to deliver Christmas mails enough cars to make a train about 270 mils long, This year, the extra JUDGEA. A. NELSON TO ensburg has been named chairman of {the United | appointment was made by Walter J. Stinson, county defense chairman, The jurist will have charge of a touched in the recent United War Chest drives, Mr. Stinson has been | tentatively directing USO activities in the county, but state officials re- | quested that he appoint a permanent chairman for the forthcoming cam- as the treasurer, | county into seven districts for the I drive, A director and treasurer will | be appointed for each one. It is hoped [to launch the drive within the next few weeks, Headquarters probably ' | will be established in Ebenshburg. ‘SIMPLIFY SETUP IN COUNTY BOND SALE | County-Wide Group to Handle ‘E’ Sales; Victory Committees Taking Series F and G | In order to simplify government i war finances under a treasury plan Judge A. A, (Jimmy) Nelson of Eb- | Service Organizations’ |g campaign in Cambria County. The |§ drive in districts of the county not | paign, D. Sherman Griffith, cashier | of the Ebensburg First National Bank | of Ebensburg, will continue to serve Present plans call for dividing the i 7s ATT i ™ Mag EER AS Seiad PATTON. PENNSYLVANIA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1942 ~~ When one considers the plight of so many countries over the giobe and reviews the misery and suf- fering that endures, we can be truly thankful on this Thanksgiv- ing Day, that we in this land of liberty do not experience this chaos. Not since Pearl Harbo has the outlook been so bright for the Un- ited Nations as it is at the pres- ent time, On all fronts we arc cars needed to move holiday mails | that involves borrowing of unprece- | are largely being used by the armed services, and a severe shortage is in prospect, The postal service usually borrows about 2,500 trucks from the Army and other Government agencies, and rents about 10,000 from private own- ers, to handle the Christmas mails, This year, it will be extremely diffi- cult to obtain enough of these vehi- cles to meet even a substantial part of the need, The Army needs its own trucks and private owners are re- luctant to let someone else use their tires. Railroads are cooperating by con- verting some hundreds of steel box cars and similar equipment for mail transportation, and Jos, B. Eastman, ODT director, has ordered that un- necessary travel be curtailed to the limit during the holiday season. But these measures cannot assure deliver- ies of gifts on time unless the public cooperates by mailing early and thus spreading the transportation load over a longer period of time than us- | ual during December. Mr. Purdum calls attention to the task of the Postoffice Department in moving millions of pieces of mail each day to and from soldiers throughout the world. This extraordinary job | must be kept current, even while the | holiday rush of mailings is handled. Also, he points out, the postal estab- lishment is operating with many in- experienced personnel, employed to take the place of men in the armed services. The new employes natural- ly cannot handle the holiday mail jam with the smoothness and speed of the postal veterans whom they replace. In view of all these handicaps to the service, Mr, Purdum adds, postal patrons should mail their gifts by De- cember 1 if they wish to insure that their friends will not be disappointed at Christmas, ee te M’DEVITT SUGGEST LABOR MAN BE PLACED ON EACH OF LOCAL DRAFT BOARDS Appointment of labor representa- tives to Pennsylvania's 422 draft boards would help solve the common- wealth’s manpower problem, accord- ing to James L. McDevitt, State La- bor Federation president, “Draft boards must supply men to the armed forces without draining so many vital workers from war in- dustries as to cripple production,” he says. “So far they have not done very well.” McDevitt says that many “really essential” workers had been drafter while less vital employes had been de- ferred. Thousands of young single men took jobs in war factories and were deferred even though they weer replaceable by older, more experinced men. Labor members could offer con- structive help in allocating men be- tween the Army and industry, Mc- Devitt says, “Labor representatives would be especially qualified because of their practical experience and con- tacts with persons cognizant of a reg- istrant’s importance to his job. iN mins VARNISH AUTO TAGS, CAR OWNERS ADVISED Revenue Secretary Edward B. Lo- gan has urged Pennsylvania car own- ers to varnish their 1942 license pla- tes, which must last at least another 16 months, The plates will be brought up to date when the current registration period ends next March 31 by attach- ment of two-inch-square metal tabs to their upper righthand corners. The Legislature decreed this at the spe- cial session last spring to save metal. | dented billions of dollars within the | next rew months, government offici- {als have announced that in the fu- | ture county War Bond committees | will promote the sale of “E” Bonds only and that victory fund commit- tees will handle the sales of Series F and G. E., R, Metzner, Jr., heads the Cam bria County War Bond committee which functions under the United States Treasury Department, Frank Martin heads the Victory Fund com- mittee which operates under the Fed- eral Reserve System. Most popular of the bonds is the Series Ei, which has an interest rate of 29 per cent and matures in 10 years, The cost is 75 per cent of the face value, starting at $18.75 for the $25 Bonds. This is the type of oBnd which will be sold under the county War Bond committees after Decem- ber 1 exclusively, { Both the “F’’ and “G" issues ma- | ture in 12 years. Interest on the “F” | Bond is cumulative at the rate of 2.53 {and the price is 74 per cent of the face value, beginning with $75 bonds. The smallest denomination of the “G"” | Series is $100 and the bonds call for | 2.5 per cent interest payable every | ix months. Unlike Liberty Bonds of | World War I, current War Bonds are | redeemable by the government and | cash value is guaranteed, Liberty Bonds were sold in the market, | is conducting a payroll deduction | campaign throughout the county in| which the response is said to be far | above expectations, a a SUGAR STAMP 21 FIRST FOR COFFEE The 27th stamp in the official gov- ernment sugar ration book, and not the 28th, is the first to be used in coffee rationing, it has been announc- ed by Wilbur Wright, county admin- istrator. | The change was made for the sake | of convenience, in view of the fact that No, 27 is a corner stamp, | No, 27 stamp will be good for one { pound of coffee and is valid from the 1 29th of this month until January 3. The length of validity of No, 28, the second to be used, has not been announced, No. 28 also will be good for one pound of coffee, Wright also announced that the en- tire procedure of making application for rubber boots may be carried out by mail, NY GOVERNOR FINDS WARTIME CAUSE FOR THANKSGIVING Governor Arthur H. James Friday last proclaimed November 26th as Thanksgiving Day and urged Penn- sylvanians to rededicate themselves to God, liberty and humanity, “There are those among us who, soft of soul and body, feel there is lit- tle for whith to be thankful,” he de- | clared. “To the contrary, we have so | much that words of gratitude should pour from our lips.” James said Pennsylvanians should give thanks because ‘‘our people have not broken faith with their forefath- ers and are carrying the torch of freedom on land, sea and air.” —Help the boys in Africa, and the ones in the Solomons—Buy U, 8S. War Bonds and Stamps every payday, vc Two Service stars Shing for Us FEW OF OUR READERS MAY have been aware of it, but it is, nevertheless, fact, that for the past two years, particularly at those periods when the Editor's duties as an Assemblyman kept him at Har- risburg, the news and much of the editorial direction of the Union Press-Courier has been entrusted to our Linotype Operator, the writer's son, Thomas A. Owens, Jr., who has the title of Associate Editor. This week we are losing him—temporar- ily—for the war’s duration, Pride intermingled with sadness comes from the writer's heart in making this annecuncement. THOMAS A, OWENS, JR. TUES- day of this week, enlisted in the Signal Corps of the United States Army at the Recruiting Station in Altoona. He will leave Friday of this week to take up his Army as- signment. The feelings of his par- ents are like those of the millions of other parents, wives, and sweet- hearts whose loved ones are an- swering the call of duty—sympathy Leaders of both local committees the more deepened by the personal are intensifying efforts to sell bonds. | feelings we now experience. May The county war bond committee now | God Bless ALL our boys! * ¥ 3» THIS ENLISTMENT MARKS THE second “Service Star” for the or- iginal Press-Courier Staff of Pearl Harbor days. The brother of the Business Manager, is also enlisted in the country’s service, Sandy Cammarata has been in the Navy for several months. ——. V- INDUCTION CENTERS WILL CLOSED ON TWO HOLIDAYS | Each month will bring an increase in Cc Pennsylvania's induction will be closed today and Christmas centers | n the offensive instead of the de- fensive—for which we, too, can be sincerely thankful. The day when oppression and brutality comes fo an end is fast approaching and may God grant that when another Thanksgiving rolls around, the World will be purged of international bandits and gangsters, and a just and lasting peace for all peoples, be in the making. LOCAL BOARDS ORDERED NOT TO INDUCT NEN OVER 45 YEARS OF AGE Registrants Who Pass Age Before Time of Induction Will Not Be Called Under Draft Law Local draft boards have been in- structed by state selective service headquarters not to induct men of 45 or over, postponing their induction for 30 days or more. Col B. F. Evans ordered the postponement effective at once in view of the proposed congres- sional legislation amending the Selec- tive Service Act providing that reg- istrants who have attained 45 years of age may be relieved from service under the act. A registrant who was of an age liable for military service at the time | of his registration but who subse- quently attains the age of 45 prior to the time scheduled for his induction shall not be ordered for induction, the state director advised all local board officials, | 7.04 of Males in High School Eligible | Only 7.04 per cent of the male en- | rollment and 3.2 per cent of the total | { enrollment of boys and girls in the Cambria County high schools will be | affected by the new act making 18| and 19-year-old boys eligible for mili- | tary service, according to a survey by | { Dr, A, M. Stull, county superinten- | dent of schools. Out of 3,623 students in the 26 high | | schools of the county, outside Johns- | town and Nanty-Glo, 225 are 18 years | | of age or over, Included in this group | | are 179 boys in 12th grade, 53 in the | {11th grade, 15 in 10th grade, and 8 lin the 9th grade. | | These figures were computed as of | | November 1, 1942, Stull points out, | | the number of boys 18 or over, | Youths called for selective service | during the second semester may be COURIER = AN ATTAINMENT OF THE LARGEST GENERAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA Patton Courier, Established Oct., 1893 SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR PATTON MOOSE PLAN GETSEIGHTY LETTERS GLASS INITIATION IN ONE MAIL FROM Patton Lodge 488, Loyal Order of Moose, are planning for a gala class initiation to be held in their home on Lang Ave., Patton, next Sunday, No- vember 29, to which members of the fraternity are invited, At 2 p. m. ap- proximately 100 candidates will be in- | itiated into the order, with the initia- tory work being conducted by the crack degree team from the Du Bois Lodge. Principal address of the occasion is to be made by Edward Schofield of Pittsburgh, a representative of the Supreme Lodge, A free chicken supper will be served at 6 p m,, Moose members and one lady guest being welcome. There will be entertainment and dancing both in the afternoon and evening, Admission will be by paid-up receipt only. All members are invited to at- DECEMBER SET FOR YOUTH REGISTRATION Last Three Weeks of Month Will See 18-Year-Olds Sign for Active War Duty President Roosevelt has fixed three separate registration periods for the youths who reached their 18th birth- days since June, and those who will reach them before the end of the year, in a proclamation issued last week, He set the week peginning Decem- | | ENGINEER DIES ON ber 11 and ending December 17 for | draft registration of those who be- | came 18 in July and August. Young men who reached that age in September and October will regis- ter in the following week and those who became 18 in November and De- cember will register in the week be- ginning December 26 and ending on December 31. Mr. Roosevelt also provided for the continuous registration on their bir- thdays of youths who become 18 on or after next January 1. If the bir- thday falls on a Sunday or a holiday, they must register the next day. This will be the sixth registration period, The last, on June 30, covered young men who already were 18 or 19 and those who had become 20 since the preceding registration, The President's proclamation said the new registrations and the others which has been held were “advisable to insure victory, final and complete, over the enemies of the United States of America,” The new registration will take | place simultaneously in the United States, Alaska, Hawaii and Porto | Rico, with daily registration hours fixed for 9 a, m, to 5 p. m, (local time). Late registrations will be permitted for those unable to present themsel- ves during the stated periods because of circumstances beyond their con- trol, The Chief Executive asked that all | employers give their workers suffici- trations. — v.- NORTH COUNTY LOOP | ent time off to complete their regis-' THE FOLKS AT HOME Mr. and Mrs, William F. Nagle of Chest Springs Are So Advised by Seaman Son. Mr, and Mrs, William F. Nagle of Chest Springs, who have three sons serving Uncle Sam, last week had the story of how their Seaman son, Earl received an exceptionally heavy mail all at one time. The young man, a first-class seaman, had been on active duty with his ship for many months, and had heard nothing from the folks at home. However, according to the letter to his parents, one day mail did come along and with it, an accu- mulation of eighty letters for him. It goes without saying, that was a happy day for him. A recent visitor at the Nagle home was another son, Master and First Serenus W, Nagle, who ening with his parents, and then left for Camp Dix, N, J. Sgt, Nagle has been in the Army for the past 26 months. Returning with him from Chest Springs, also on leave was a friend Pvt. William F. Little, the pair hav- ing not seen one another from the time of their entry into uniform, The third son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm Nagle, better known as “Vince”, is a Corporal on duty in the Canal Zone, and has served one three year enlistment, entering the army service on September &, 1939. Loy Vv EE Sergeant = spent an e TRAIN OF HEART ATTACK As the west bound passenger train 21 pounded its way around the horse shoe curve shortly before midnight last Thursday night and was roaring its way on into Gallitzin, Special Duty Engineer Charles L. Tubbs, 35. of Cresson ,was stricken with a heart attack. Tubbs was promptly removed to the baggage car and an army doctor, a passenger, responded to a call through the train. He was removed from the train when it pulled inte Cresson, but was dead. An investigation was held by Cor- oner Patrick McDermott who said an inquest would not be necessary. IC was said Tubbs had not complained of any illness previous to the time he was stricken. The passenger train left Altoona at 12:08 with Tubbs breaking in a fire- man on the route. The deceased was born May 15th, 1907, a son of Charles B, and Nancy Tubbs. His father died in 1937. His mother, living in Sankertown, sur- vives, together with his widow, two children and several brothers and sis- ters. — No ROOSEVELT SUGGESTS DECEMBER SEVENTH BE DAY OF SILENCE FOR US Washingion.-— President Roosevelt and the government will observe the | first anniversary of the Jap sneak at- | tack on Pearl Harbor “as a day of | silence in remembrance of the great infamy.” R | The chief executive, still reacting with cold fury to the Jap duplicity t Reorganization of the coming season took place | that plunged the United States into Northern | war—a stab in the back at Hawaii ambria Basketball Conference for | While Tokyo's envoys talked “peace” at a dinner | With the state department had the meeting held at the Adam Linitz res- | White House issue this statement: idence in Ebensburg last Thursday | Eve and Christmas Day, December! given the privilege of complting the |night, The Northern Section is com- | | term, if they so desire. However, it | prised of Patton, Carrolitown, Has- | ficial notice of that anniversary. The 24 and 25, giving recruits now on | furlough an extra week's holiday, On advice from the Army Third Corps Area officials at Baltimore Col, Benjamin F, Evans, acting state draft chief, says the holiday induction sta- tion closing affect only those draft- ees granted 14-day furloughs from November 12, and those given seven- day furloughs from November 19 un- der the new rule reducing leaves, In each case, those draftees would have had to report on Thanksgiving Day. They will, instead, end their furloughs a week later, reporting for duty on December 3, 1t was explained. In the meantime, local boards have mailed selective service questionnair- es to 140,00 of the 215,000 youths be- tween 18 and 20 who registered last June. Of that number, 42,000 were | immediately eligible for classification and 33,000 others (at the rate of 7 thousand a month) became of draft age since July 1, December manpower quotas of the local boards will include a few mar- ried men without children. SOLDIERS UNDER 20 About 500,00 men in the Army at present are under 20 years of age. More than 200 of them have been commissioned and 200 others are in Officer Candidate Schools. More than 10 per cent of the teen-aged soldiers | are non-commissioned officers, | it understood that students called for | service during the first semester will | report immediately, Drafting of the 18-19 group prob- ably will not begin until January, and in view of the fact that the first sem- | ester ends in the county schools in | the end of January, it is considered | as doubtful that many of the eligible boys will be called before the second semester begins. Therefore, they will | have an opportunity to complete their | scholastic courses. A greater reduction in high school | enrollment is expected in the 1943-44 | term because of the draft act, { NATIONAL THANKSGIVING | FIRST SUGGESTED IN STATE | A Pennsylvania woman is credited | tings, and Barnesboro, “The President will not deliver an ! address on December 7, nor take of- while the | President does not feel that this at- southern Section includes Lilly, Cres- | titude on the part of the government {son and Gallitzin. | need interfere with the carrying out All league officers were reelected | of programs already arranged under at the meeting. Gordon F. Gallaschun | private auspices. But insofar as notice of Barnesboro taking over the presi- | of December 7 by the President is dent’s chair for the third straight |concerned, he feels that it should be year, Jack Green of Carrolltown being | observed as a day of silence in re- year and F, Cosgrove, Gallitzin, se- lected to handle the secretary-treas-|cal observances of the day urer’'s duties for the third time, | named vice president for the second | membrance of a great infamy.” There are expected to be many lo- programs | already arranged—and the Army and That the league will make every |Navy may issue a review of Ameri- effort to carry out its full schedule |can military progress since last De- was voiced by the member schools, | cember 7, but the President made it ules due to transportation restriction, The conference will not begin play until after the Christmas holidays, Cresson announces that it may be forced to play all its home games in with making the first suggestion that | gt. Francis College’s Doyle Hall be- | | which may also place a limit of 12 to | plain that he cherishes only one ob- | 14 games on their respective sched- | jective, the utter and complete de- feat of Japan and her Axis partners. | HOSPITALS MAY REQUEST DRAFT OBJECTORS’ HELP AS WORKERS ON STAFFS Thanksgiving Day be made a nation-! cause of a lack of suitable playing ——— | : : | {al holiday, according to the state de- | partment of commerce, ! | ous “Godey’s Lady's Book,” is said to | | have called attention to the fact that | Thanksgiving should be observed all] | through the Nation, | | Miss Hale was the author of sev-| eral books and poems and an advo- | cate of women’s rights. She was born | lin 1788 and died in 1879. { Sree Nii —In San Jose, Calif., 40 women have taken jobs as lumber mill work- —Advertise in the Union Press-|ers and are receiving the same rate Courier columns. It pays—ask the|of pay as the men who preceded them merchant who does! on the jobs. floors in Cresson, State hospitals in need of laborers I Sarah J Hi ie of the fami) Clair Urich of Hastings, a district | May apply to selective service head- | Sarah J, Hale, editor of the fam- |g representatives of the P. I. A. A., | quarters in Washington for conscien- gave a short address on the rule tious objectors, it has been disclosed. changes for the coming season, Vo WATERFOWL FEATHERS According to Government estimates the seasonal kill of waterfowl would provide enough down and feathers to produce 300,000 aviators’ pants and|in Pennsylvania. State selective ser~ parkas and more than 10,000 sleeping | vi idials dis tar DE os a ap 2 vice officials disclose that out of ap-« hunters plucked and turned in the down and small body feathers of all age youths, there are only approxi« birds they kill, The Philadelphia state hospital has | already employed conscientious ob- | jectors on its staff. A similar appli- | cation has ben made by a hospital at | Norristown. | Conscientious objectors do not nec | essarily have to be taken from camps | proximately 2,200,000 eligible regis- trants in the state, including ’teen= mately 1,135 conscientious objectors,
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