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Oct., 1893
VOL 49. NO. 7.
SENATOR JIM DAVIS
LAUDS OUR PAPER
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GOLDEN WEDDING ANNI.
VERSARY OF WHITEDS
Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Whited of Bar-
'nesboro, observed their golden wed- |
PATTON. PENNSYLVANIA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1942
ENLISTMENTS ARE
BANNED IN FUTURE
PRESIDENT ORDERS |™**SYBMisarmaRss, case
WPA'S LIQUIDATION we
Washington. President Roosevelt |
| said during the week he may take oc- |
some
{during the afternoon and evening.
| ding anniversary on Sunday and held |
| | “open house” to their many friends
os ) | Both Mr, and Mrs. Whited are in ex-
Unsolicited Message from Penn-| 0,0 "16 “Mr and Mrs. Whited
sylvania’s Senior Member IS | were both born and reared in Sus-
Much Appreciated. quehanna township, this county, and
——r were married in Hastings by the Rev.
The following letter from United Clawson in 1892. Mr. Whited was a
States Senator James J. Davis, un-|carpenter by trade, but gave up this
solicited, which reached us last Sat-| occupation later to manage a restau-
urday morning, is much appreciated. | rant. He is best known throughout
It is self-explanatory: | the county for his duties as chief
Washington, D. C., Dec. 3, 1942, | county detective, having served under
Mr. Thomas A. Owens, Editor, | ex-District Attorney D. P. Weimer
Union Press-Courier, {from 1919 to 1932. He is active in
Patton, Pa. church and civic organizations,
My dear Mr. Owens:
Mr. | cruit and transfer labor,
{and Mrs. Whited are parents of Mrs. |
IN EXECUTIVE ORDER
— |
And Paul McNutt Given Full Says That Workers Still on Re-|
Authority Over All Manpower lief May Find Jobs on Farm |
in Co-ordination Move. and in Industry. |
President Roosevelt in an executive| President Roosevelt last week or- |
order on Saturday transferred the Se-| dered complete liquidation of the|
lective Service System to the War | Works Projects Relief Program.
Manpower Commission under Chair-| The President, in a letter to Maj.
man Paul V. McNutt, treminated en-| Gen. Philip B. Fleming, federal works
listments in the armed forces of men! administrator, said the WPA rolls
18 to 38, and gave the WMC virtu- | had greatly decreased through the]
ally unlimited authority to hire, re-| “tremendous increase in private em-
ployment, assisted by the training
The order made McNutt the na-| and reemployment efforts of its own |
I have before me your Thanksgiv- | John Moore, residing in Nanty-Glo, | tion's manpower boss subordinate on- | organization, to a point where the na- |
ing edition of the Union Press-Cour-|and chief-of-police J. Dean Whited, |iy to the President himself. It made | tional work relief program is no lon- |
|
The Interior Department is report-
ed prepari.ng to resist this change ot
administration and to make its view
known either through another legis-
lative proposel or inrough testimony
>I
both the War and Navy Departments | ger necessary. |
completely dependent upon Mr. Mc- Mr. Roosevelt ordered the closing |
Nutt in meeting their manpower com- | out of all project operations in many |
mittments and placed every agency | states by February 1, 1943, and in|
|of the government at Mr. McNutt's| other states as soon thereafter as is|
disposal in all matters involving man- | feasible.
casion in his next fireside chat
RLY | time this month-—to clarify public
— |
misunderstanding over the $25,000 net
salary ceiling.
He told his press conference there
seems to be a widespread and erron-
eous impression that all a man can
earn is $25,000 a year out of which
he must pay taxes. Actually, he de-
clared, the ceiling permits a man to
earn a gross income of $67,200 of
which a clear $25,000 would remain
te him after payment of taxes and
certain fixed obligations.
He also acknowledged widespread
dissatisfaction over lack of controls
on income from investments and said
he is curious as to what Congress will
do toward limiting such earnings. |
— Ny —
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR
STABILIZATION OF
WAGES EXPLAINED
BY RADIO SPEAKER
McCutcheon Says Primary Pur.
pose of Order Is to Combat
Inflation Trends.
President Roosevelt's executive or-
der giving the War Labor Board jur-
isdiction over adjustment of wage8
and salaries does not ‘freeze’ the pay
of working men and women. The pri-~
mary purpose of the order is to com-
bat inflation, Wage stabilization is a
wartime economic measure calling for
equality of sacrifice to speed victory
| to our nation.
These assertions were made last
| Thursday night by John B. McCutch-
| eon, senior inspector for the Wage-
| Hour and Public Contracts Division,
| U. 8S. Department of Labor, during a
| broadcast over Station WJAC. He
| was interviewed by Elmer E. Meadley
AFL AND C10 ARE
SOMEWHAT CLOSER
ier which I find both interesting and !living in Barnesboro.
enlightening. | >= ree Vf eee
Particularly impressive to me was
the Thanksgiving feature expressed SOFT COAL BILL
on your front page. It is well to jig
to mind the terrible nature of the en-
emies against whom we are pitted in|
this struggle to the death. It is well!
to point out the woe and misery that! UNTIL JANUARY
have befallen those who did not re- |
sist with every fiber and every —————
thought. But it is even more fitting,| Washington.—Efforts to re-enact
I believe, that we stress—as you have | the Bituminous Coal Stabilization law
so well done—the noble and humane / Wir will expire April 26, are off
purposes for which we Americans/ until after the new Congress opens
continue the ‘unrelenting struggle”, in January, Representative Thomas
and to give thanks that now, at last, | A. Jenkins (R., Ohio) says.
the tide of battle has turned to our| Mr Jenkins, the House sponsor of
advantage, and we are now treading!a bill which would continue the gen-
that long but difficult road to vic-|eral system of setting minimum mine
tory. prices for soft coal, but would trans-
With ine coniinued expression offer administration back to a commis-
such thoughts as these, the Union sion, said it would be impossible to
Press-Courier is making a necessary get consideration from the House
and valuable contribution to the war| Ways and Means Committee before
effort. ! January.
As a long-time friend of Labor, and| The Jenkins bill is a duplicate of
as one who has himself labored in|, Senate measure introduced by Sen-
many fields, I am impressed at the tor Joseph F. Guffey (D., Pa.) It
content of your paper, and I feel that! follows the general regulatory lines
it can be read from end to end with of the present law, but makes the im-
great benefit to the reader. | portant change that administration
Very sincerely yours, {would be taken from a division of the
JAMES J. DAVIS. | Interior department and placed in a
eee {commission composed of three mem-
LACK OF PARTS AND bers one each representing the pub-
MECHANICS IS ANOTHER fe, fhe Tires Mine Workers and the
CURB TO CAR DRIVING| The legislative language embody-
: EE ing this change was prepared by the
A growing Scarcity of auto parts |g lived Mine Sr legal Start. It
and mechanics is fast becoming asig 14 give to John L. Lewis, head of
effective a check on driving as 83S" the miners’ union, a voice which he
oline and tire shortages. ‘has lacked in administration of the
The car owner unlucky enough to|.,.) jaw since the former commiss-
smash up faces the possibility of hav- ;,. wa abolished.
ing his vehicle laid up for the dura-
tion of the war. Even now it is im-
possible to get such ‘appearance’
parts as fenders for some makes of
cars.
Normal wear and tear on working
parts presents an increasingly ser-
ious problem-—in view of the fact that
the greater number of cars on the
road are more than three years old,
auto men report.
“Seriousness of this situation has]
been overlooked in the endeavor tol
conserve gasoline and rubber,” one
official commented. The stockpile of |
parts for cars is running low and all
plans to replace them are inadequate. |
Service stations have been instruct-
ed by factories to repair worn out
parts, if possible, rather than seek!
new parts. |
Even more critical to most garage
operators is a shortage of skilled me- |
chanics, As fast as a man is trained, |
they complain, he is taken away by |
the war industry or drafted. |
Dealers of one large auto manufac- |
turer in the Pittsburgh zone have lost |
566 mechanics thus far this year. Of |
this total 276 tok jobs in war indus- |
tries, 206 went into the armed forces |
and 86 moved to miscellaneous jobs. |
Some means of correcting this la-|
bor and part problem will be neces-|
sary auto men believe, if the Govern-
ment proposes to keep motor trans-
portation in operation throughout the |
war. |
Especially irksome to motor deal-!
ers and truck operators is a public |
impression that the industry is not |
directly essential to the war effort.
|
COFFEE ADULTERATION
IS CHECKED BY AGENTS
As a result of coiree rationing food
agents of the Bureau of Foods and|
Chemistry of the Department of Ag-
riculture have been directed to inten-
sify their efforts to prevent the mix-
ing of substitutes with coffee in vi-|
olation of the State Food laws. |
During the past few weeks six pro-
secutions were entered in the west-
ern section of the state and convic-
tions were procured in each case.
Under the law it is permissible to
add chicory to coffee up to 15 per
cent of the volume but if that is done
it is required that it be made known
through the pasting of placards where
such a beverage is served and by ha-
ving it printed on the containers in|
which the mixture is sold. |
Cereals |
may be mixed with coffee to any am-
ount but where that practice s follow-
ed it also must be made known by
posting placards where the beverage
is served, If cereals constitute more
than 50 per cent of the total volume,
the word cereal, must be printed on
the containers in predominating size.
before the Congressional committees
that will deal with the subject,
Coal operators are said to be divi-
ded on the change of administration
but likely to be inclined toward re-
taining he present system. The for-
mer coal commission was dropped as
a result of patronage troubles and
disagreements between members re-
presenting the public, operator and
union representatives.
The'coal operators who would speak |
for the industry on this question have
been busy in recent weeks in the ef-|
fort to work out arrangements with
the United Mine Workers by which
the present 35-hour working week in
coal mines can be increased to meet
war conditions. The union has offer-
ed to work six days a week instead of
five seven hour days if the contract
provision of pay-and-one-half for ex-
tria time is carried out.
The operators assert this will ne-
cessitate an upward revision of the |
minimum prices for coal, under the
| coal law, and their present effort is
to get approval for such an increase
from the government agencies that
deal with the coal problem.
: Ve
COLVER MINER TAKES
LIFE BY SHOOTING SELF
Funeral services for Alfredo Mor-
etti, 50 year old Colver miner, who
committed suicide early last Wednes-
day by firing a shot gun charge in-
to his neck, were held on Saturday,
with burial at Ebensburg.
Coroner Patrick McDermott was
informed that the man had been in
failing health for some time and that
he was despondent the night before
the act, although he had worked as
usual during the day in the Colver
mine of the Ebensburg Coal Company.
Moretti arose at 4 a. m. last Wed-
nesday, made a fire in the furace at
his home and then assisted in pre-
paring breakfast for two of his sons
prior to their departure for work.
Some time later he went to an out-
building, tied a string to the trigger
of a shot gun and attached the other
end of the string to his right shoe.
He pulled the trigger by kicking his
foot.
The coroner listed death as due to
gun shot wounds of the head with sui-
cidal intent. He said an inquest will
be unnecessary.
The victim leaves his widow and
two sons.
NY
—Britain has a plan to modernize
its country villages after the war.
| power.
Release of the order by the White
House ended weeks of speculation as
to how the President would meet the
nation’s steadily growing manpower |
problem. In its scope it matched ev-|
en the most daring guesses of obser- |
vers who have been watehing for |
signs of how Mr. Roosevelt would;
In transferring the Selective
| vice System to the WMC, the Pres-
ident directed that the functions, pow- |
ers and duties of Maj.-Gen. Lewis B.|
vice—including all authority previo- |
usly delegated to him by the Presi-|
dent—be transferred to Mr. McNutt!
and henceforth be exercised by Gen. |
Hershey “and such other officers, ag-|
ents, and persons and in such man-|
ner as the chairman may determine.
The order directed the Secretaries |
of War and Navy to determine the|
number of men needed by the Army!
and Navy each month to fulfill their]
total requirements. When they have
done that, the order continued, the]
WMC ‘‘chairman shallMurnish the re-
quired number of men through se-!
| lective service system. i
Under the order no men over 38]
years will hereafter be inducted into
the armed forces, and some now in
service may be reieased to enter war
production work.
| Inductees now may be sent to the
army, navy or marine corps.
McNutt said that since voluntary |
enlistments in the armed forces have
been banned, selectees will be allow-
ed to say which branch of military |
| service they prefer, but that the indi-
' viduals preference will not necessar-
lity be controlling as to whetehr he
will be put in the Army, Navy, Ma- |
i rines or Coast Guard.
| If a man expresses a preference for
the Navy and ‘is unable to meet the
| physical requirements for that branch |
for example, he will be placed in the
“By taking this action the Presi- |
dent said, “there will be no need to!
provide project funds for the Works |
Projects Administration in the bud-|
get for the next fiscal year.”
Mr. Roosevelt said certain groups |
of workers still on relief rolls may
have to be given relief by states and |
localities; others would be able to
act. | find work on farms or in industry at| t5 the approval of the A. F. L. exe-
Ser- | prevailing rates of pay as private em-| cutive council and C, I. O. executive
| board and with the understanding
ployment continues to increase.
“Some of the present certified war |
projects,” he added, “may have to be
Hershey, director of the Selective Ser-| taken over by other units of the Fed- | for later this month.
eral Works Agency or by other de- |
partments of the federal government. f
State or local projects should be clo- |
sed out by completing useful units of |
such projects or by arranging for the!
sponsors to carry on the work. |
“With these considerations in mind, |
I agree that you should direct the!
prompt liquidation of the affairs of
the Works Progress Administration, |
thereby conserving a large amount of
executive secretary of the Johnstown
T0 HARMONY MOVE Chamber of Commerce.
“The object of Congress and the
Washington.—A. F. L. and C, I. O.
peace committees reached an agree-
ment last Wednesday providing in
substance for arbitration of jurisdic-
tional differences pending full reun-
ion of the two organizations.
The agreement was made subject
that unity negotiations would be con-
tinued. Another nieeting was planned
Both sides hailed the agreement as
a great step toward complete labor
peace and the removal of impedi-
ments to war production, C. I. O.
President Philip Murray said it was
the first agreement reached between
the A. F. L. and the C. I. O. since the
split in the American labor movement
in 1935. It was reached in a day and
a half of conferences. |
Under its terms, a joint committee |
President is to keep down the cost of
living,” Mr. McCutcheon said in ex-
plaining the purpose of the stabiliza-
tion plan. “Inflation is the enemy of
all of us and is one of the deadliest
enemies of a nation at war. This was
one of the major production and liv-
ing problems in the last war.”
Questioned as to the procedure in
obtaining wage changes, the inspect-
or said wage-hour field offices have
been established as contact points for
employers and employees. Application
for wage changes are made at these
field offices and forwarded to the War
Labor Board's regional office in Phil-
adelphia for action.
Wage increases can be made as a
result of individual promotions or re-
classifications, individual merit incre-
ases with established rate changes,
for increased productivity, under an
apprentice or trainee system, or under
a plan for providing increase of pay
the funds appropriated to this organi- | will be set up. It will attempt to re-| based on length of service, Mr. Mc-
zation.”
mr Ns |
|
WITHOUT UNIFORM
|
SS — i
Pennsylvanians have been asked
not to snub the man without a uni- |
form chances are the army would |
not accept him if he tried to enlist. |
“Big, strapping 200 pound men,
who look big enough to handle 18 or
20 Japs, may have weak ‘hearts or
other physical defects which cause
rejection by ine armed forces,” said
Col. Benj. F. Evans, acting state se-!
lective service director,
solve jurisdictional differences and, |
failing that, will try to agree upon |
Cutcheon answered in response to a
question, Wage changes under other
| an arbiter whose decision will be bin- | conditions must be approved, he add-
’
DON T SNUB MAN | ding. If it cannot agree on an arbiter | d
| within five days the President of the |
ed.
Collective bargaining agreements
United States shall be requested to |calling for wage changes effective af-
name one,
The framework of the agreement
itself left many questions unanswer-
ed as to its application to specific
cases. Conferees meeting with news-
men later declined to discuss it in}
specific relation to any of the current |
inter-union difficulties, outstanding
among which is the Kaiser shipyard
case, A. F. L. unions have closed shop
contracts with three yards in the
West and is fighting bitterly the at-
tempts of the C. I, O. Marine and
2! > i it. are Dar { Shipbuilders’ Union, through the Na-
Other men, physically fit, are bar-, 4,5) | ahor Relations Board, to have
red from enlisting because selective |. i validated and a collective bar-
Service officials believe they are nore gaining election held.
valuable in the country working at | ! vo.
defense jobs or highly-skilled agricul- |
ter October 3 must be approved by
the War Labor Board, it was pointed
out during the interview, although
the agreement might have been sign-
ed before that date. Mr. McCutcheon
advised employers and employees in
doubt on the wage stabilization pro-
gram to consull a division represen-
tative at the Field Office of the U. S.
Employment office, in Johnstown.
—_—V
DATA ON YOUR TIRES
MUST BE KEPT ACCURA-
TELY. DAVIS CAUTIONS
Unless tire inspection records are
kept up-to-date, motorists will not be
cligible for gasoline rationing renew-
LESS LIQUOR FOR
HOLIDAYS AND NEW BO ven under Dns 1 :
PRICES EFFECTIVE ng Progen) W. Winston Davis,
president the Johnstown Motor
| Club, warned car owners this week.
| Army if he can pass the army's phy-' tyra] employment.”
| sical examination. Neighbors should first find out|
| rnd why the man has been deferred be-|
{ EXPLOSIVE PERMITS fore making disparging remarks ab- |
i out him, Evans asserted. lew Drices iquor went into ef- rhs )
{ REQUIRE NEW FORMS, i." Although state - headauarters te. New prices on liquor went into ef-| mires on all vehicles must be in-
INCLUDING AFFIDAVIT £ Bh § acq tect in Pennsylvania on Monday with |g rected at official > ive: i
ceive a lot of letters from persons be-|, warning from the Liquor Control | Dacted ot omncinl OPA tite inspec
” : lievihng a draft board has treated a!|pgap : ss 1 v +p | tion stations before January 31, 1943,
Additional restrictions have been oi ; o : Board that less liquor and gin will| yng after this date “A” c dh
2 : ; : neighbor favorably, Evans said most | he available for the holiday season { S date "A" card holders
placed on the issuance of explosives | ae? 1 3 € available I1o0r ay SUM. are to have tires inspected ev c
| : ; of the people are fair once they dis- . “ spected every four
{ permits, according to an announce-{ ..e. the reason for deferment | The board said, however, that “the months while others must have tires
iment of Prothonotary John L. Hite, Mott of the Teltors ove anonymous, overall supply of whiskies should be inspected every two months, it was
licensing agent for Cambria County. | to writers being too ashamed to sign | SULfiC ient to meet requirements dur- | pointed out by the Johnstown A. A.
[ Mr. Hite has just received a copy Of | {pair names. Evans said. Each of tne 18 tiie approaching holidays if con- | A. official, Mr, Davis said that Wil-
| the new instructions to agents sent causes. is exomined. however. and in) Summers do not buy beyond their cur- | bur Wright, county rationing admin-
y y a en p ag 3 Wach-!| vp ’ 2 sede ict ye . c . n
| ut by the Bureau of Mines in Wash-| j;., «+ every instance deferment is| rent needs. istrator, had announced the names of
absolutely proper, Evans concluded. | Philadelphia, however, aiready fell | numerous inspection stations over the
- —V
als or for tires under the mileage ra-
| ington.
{ These new requirements provide {the pinch with many state stores re-|county so that motorists would not
| that every individual and every part- porting stocks almost exhausted. Ex- | have to go far to have their tires in-
| cept for high priced bonded whiskies, | pected.
| the shelves in some stores there were| Motorists were
CHRISTMAS GIFTS
AT MARCH PRICES,
| ner, where a partnership applies, is
| required to file affidavits supporting warned that the
| the application executed by at least
| two responsible citizens, neither of
{ whom is a blood relative,
These affidavits are required even
if the licensing agent. is personally |
acquainted with the applicant, and re- |
gardless of the age and citizenship |
of the applicant. The form of support- |
ing affidavit on the back of the ap-|
plication is not sufficient.
New forms covering these affida- |
vits are being prepared by the Bu-
future. All licenses are good for one |
year from the date of issuance. Ap-|
plicants whose licenses expire during |
March and April should not wait un-|
til the last day or two to make appli- |
cation, as several hundred licenses!
expire during these two months. |
ere {eee |
|
NAME CRESSON MAN |
FOREMAN OF JURY
serving, the Cambria County Decem- |
OPA OFFICE STATES bare and a similar shortage was re- | deadline for selling extra tires to the
i ported on gins.
Harrisburg. Christmas shoppers! The new price list carries OPA ceil-
will continue to pay March prices for |ing prices and federal taxes imposed |
gifts despite reduced overhead costs |last November 1.
enjoyed by retail stores eliminating | ‘Prices are the same or slightly
consumer services, the Central Penn- | higher than those shown on the sup-
sylvania branch of the Office of Price | plementary price list issued on No-
administration said. | vember 2,” the board said.
OPA explained that the order per-| Chairman Frederick T. Gelder said
mitting stores to curtail deliveries |there would be a shortage of low-pri-
and other customer services was de-|ced whiskey since the board is “able
reau of Mines and will be in the hands | signed to save gasoline and tires. Al-|to get only 25 per cent as much as |ing out
of the licensing agents in the near |though it permits a reduction of many | heretofore” and that gins were be- | passenger cars on highways has been
overhead costs it does not direct.a| coming increasingly scarce.
similar reduction in prices, fixed to| }
March levels. ling an unusual quantity of liquor and
Ceiling prices were not lowered, that he imagined many of those who
OPA said, because ‘we expect a ter-iy,,ont liquor before the new govern-
rific drop-off” in retail sales in Jan-| pont tay went into effect are keeping
uary. Christmas business will be good, | $t IN TeseTVe
an official said, but volume will fall | > v
off after that because of a scarcity |
of goods and buyers withdrawing mo- |
ney for income tax purposes.
“This reduced volume of goods will
Former Veteran Dead.
Harry S. Lafferty, aged 44 years,
a former resident of Coupon and a
income in at the
proportion of overhead | on Wednesday of last week
He reported that people are buy- |
| government has been extended to De-
cember 12.
“After this date it will be illegal
| to drive an automobile if the owner
{has more than five tires in his pos-
session,” Mr. Davis said.
| As a result of the government's
! program to reduce speeds as a tire
| conservation measure, there has been
|& very definite reduction in pace of
traffic on highways, Mr. Davis point-
that the average speed of
| reduced to 37 miles per hour.
| “Although the average is only sli-
{ ghtly above the 35-mile federal speed
{ limit,” the Motor Club official stated.
| “there are still many cars that are
going in excess of this speed.”
“It should be remembered that a
j motorist’s eligibility for rationed tires
and gasoline can well be jeopardized
| bY repeated or flagrant violations of
| the speed limit. A tire purchase cer-
With eight women and seven men |mean retailers are paying a higher | veteran of the first World War, died | tificate can be refused if the tires
| show evidence of abuse.”
—N
ber grand jury is on its deliberations | costs,” OPA said. “The other elimin- | Veterans’ Hospital in Perryville, Md. |
this week. Edward Morrisey of Cress- | ating services recognized this princi- | where he had been a patient for 23|
on, an insurance agent, was
foreman of the body. Forty-two cases |
are scheduled for consideration dur- |
ing the week. {
Wa iri |
—The shortage of lubricating oil is
becoming critical for the Germans
Norway. In the near future railway |
locomitives and coastal ships will be- |
gin using wood as fuel, and Germans
are ravaging Norwegian forests.
be increased.
v | memory as the result of shell shock
—A 66-day average time from keel | covered, A son of Robert and Rose
laying to delivery was attained dur- | (Cochrane) Lafferty, he enlisted in
ing October by yards engaged solely | the army when he was only 16 years
in construction of Liberty ships. Nine | old. He is survived by five brothers
of these 11 yards are under the orig- | and five sisters.
inal goal of 105 days, while the oth- | renee We
er two are rapidly reducing their —Towels of all kinds are now ra-
time, tioned in Britain,
{in the first World War and never re- |
Following the recent request by
named | Ple. If it didn’t, prices would have to | years. He suffered a complete loss of | Philip Murray, president of the CIO
| that every able-bodied CIO member
donate blood for the American Red
| Cross blood bank, 15 workers of the
national office of the labor organiza-
tion at Washington visited the blood
{ donor center there. The group was
| headed by James B. Carey, secretary
of the CIO and a members of the Un=
ited Electrical, Radio and Maching
Workers of America.