A GENERAL NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF ORGANIZED LABOR IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA UNION Union Press, Established May, 1935 AN ATTAINMENT OF THE LARGEST & / a if NS dl a 2X ~— phy Na EET er Tf, 11d ied A; bog U Z GENERAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA RIER Patton Courier, Established Oct., 1893 VOL 49. No.12. NO AGTION YET ON SIX DAY WEEK FOR MINERS OF DISTRICT Union Officials and Operators Do Not Broach Subject at Con- ference Last Week Prospects of coal miners in this ar- ea following in the footsteps of those | comprised within Districts 3, 4 and 5 of Western Pennsylvania in the ad- option of the six-day work week re- main but a matter of speculation for the future, both operators and miners announced last Friday night. No conference relating to the ex-| tension of the work week for approx- imately 50,000 miners in District 2 | has yet been held or is contemplated | it was announced by both the Cen- | tral Pennsylvania Coal Producers As- | sociation and officials of the United Mine Workers of America. Representatives of the coal produc- | ers’ association and union officials of | the district, meeting in routine sess- ion last week in Altoona, did not bro- ach the subject of the added work day for the miner. Mine operators and union officials had been conferring on the question of the six-day work week for the en- | tire Appalachian bituminous field but | sessions have been adjourned due to | the walk out in the anhracite fields. | Earlier last week in Districts 3, 4 and 5 completed negotiations for the | six day week which gives the miner | time and a half for a voluntary sixth | day of work. Reports from the Victory Produc- tion Committee were submitted at the joint meeting of the operaors and un- | ion officials and the question of fur-| nishing gasoline to workers who live | a considerable distance from the scene | of their employment was discussed. | Plans for the maintenance of the high production peak set this year were made by the two groups. Representing the operators at the conference were President Charles O’- Neill, Secretary-Treasurer Walter A.' Jones, "Together "With “other members| of the Central Pennsylvania Coal] Producers’ Association, while Miners | were represented by President James! Mark, Vice President Clarence Don- | aldson and Secretary-Treasurer Ed-| ward Sweeney, together with district | organizers and board members. | Union officials of District 2 stated | that the miners would welcome the | opportunity to speed up production of | much needed coal by increasing the present 35 hour work week. nA en PENNSYLVANIA GAME COMMISSION OREDRS A QUERY TO BE STARTED| — | Harisburg. The Pennsylvania | Game Commission last week ordered | an investigation into what it describ- ed as accusations ‘‘concerning the ac- tivities or certain members of the | commission using and appropriating | fund, property and labor of the com- monwealth.” “A review of certain trial board | hearings and activities reveal certain | irregularities,” said a resolution set- | ting up a committee to investigate | the charges. | The group was empowered to order Executive Director Seth Gordon “to suspend such employees and officers | guilty of such irregularities pending a hearing before the commission's | trial board.” | drafting men for the NEW DEPUTY CORONER John Strank of Franklin Borough, deputy Coroner of Cambria County, has resigned his position to enter pri- vate business and *Coroner Patrick McDermott has named as his success- or Joseph J. Govekar, who was sworn in on Monday afternoon by Prothon- otary John L. Hite. A member of the Franklin Borough police force for six years and chief of the force for two years, Govekar is considered very well qualified for the deputy coroner's po- sition. For the past five years he has | served as secretary of the Franklin school board. Strank was an outstand- ing public official. DRAFT TO TAKE MEN FOR NAVY IN MONTH The Nation's 6,5 boards have been notified to Le Navy a: rine Corps about February 1st > now at work on their id in Washington. This means, it was pointed out, that the February draft call Navy and Marines will be much hea vier than at present. Some of the lo- cal boards, it is said, are to call up twice as many men nionth as for January. Some controversy between the dif- ferent branches exists. Navy and Ma- rines, so far, have had higher physi- cal standard than the Army. Proba- start Ma- ana lists, L 18 for Army, next bly the selectee will have a chance to | state preference of branch of service he wants. = —V LORETTO COLLEGE HAS RECEIVED MANY BOOKS| St. Francis College, at Loretto, has | received more than 4,000 books as a| result of an appeal issued by school | officials after the fire which destroy- | 00 local draft! preparing "PATTON, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1943 NEW ORDER ISSUED ON OVERSEAS MAIL WILL HAVE DIRECT AFFECT ON MAILING OF PAPER TO MANY OF PATTON AND VIGINITY SOLDIERS | 3s Newspapers cannot henceforth| rust be discontinued at once un- Senor Sa ey Rev. John 2 : itoffices } pee - ullivan, T, O. R., college president, 2 SC AT / st f1ces out- | less ¢ } 2S as 2C it : : be sent to Army bos offices SS a written request has been | geclared it inadvisable to continue the | side the United States unless an|{ made by the service man. | j ak ; | Plans for the affair “St. Francis,” Fa- | order for the paper has been re-| That means relatives or friends | ther Sullivan stated, ‘has always] received, in writing, from | | | The annual St. Francis College sen- jor ball scheduled for January 22nd, as been cancelled as the result of | recent OPA bans placed on pleasure | | | | | | the| of the service man cannot sub-|maintained the strictest feeling of pa- | member of the armed service who | subscribe for the paper for him. |triotism. I know we will continue to | desires it sent to him, according to| The order must come from the sol- | make i Sa0rirens for the v |: . Pe . war effort. \rrangements are un- {an order from the Postmasterjier himself. This new ruling, now : : Be a pe }: 4 y ore 4 | der way for an event to replace the | { General. {In force, will affect scores of lo- ball. The order also provides that|cal service men overseas who have iL {the papers can be accepted for|been receiving the Press-Courier.| | here is nothing we can do about | REGISTRANTS MUST it. Nor can relatives of the soldier provis-| overseas mail copies of the paper nning February 1st, men of 18 who have been registered with fol-| service for months must carry both cl from publishers of each wrapper at the have be mailing only newspapers and be ns of must marked th of their own accord. At the same time the Postmaster General ordered that matter of the third class shall be AT LA the order en wed Where a ay subser to the pa no circular I the apply, but on its expira-| accepted for mailing to ptron . rp 1 1S In erlect ect Se tive six cation and re- gistration cards or f $10,000 fine and 10 years imprisonment, I jamin F. acting state draft director, warns. He urged all registrants who have not received their initial classifica- tions or who have lost their cards to order ny ace ( WANY IN COUNTY T0 GET TAX FORMS WITHIN FEW DAYS More Than Six Thousand Cam- brians Will or Have Receiv- ed Their Forms, Evans, Pn Ein dd ff the paper | postotfices overseas. F it i ic GROSS PLANS DRIVE FOR FUNDS | IN COUNTY SOON o ptly. tually “only a handful” of men in the state who can be linquent for failure to keep in touch with their local boards. Chapter Qoutas Not Yet Announ- ced; McEldowney Named County Chairman. More than 6,000 Cambria Countians will soon receive forms for return of National Red Cross headquarters in Washington advised the Cambria Co. BORO GIRL | BARNES REGISTERED NURSE | despite current notify their local draft boards prom- | Colonel Evans said there were ac- | considered as de- | ‘SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR ST FRANCIS PLANS "GRADUATION LATER IN THIS MONTH | Twenty-two Seniors Will Partici- pate in War-Time Exercises January Twenty-sixth, Twenty-two be-robed seniors will participate in the third war-time gra- duation exercises at St. Francis Col- lege, Loretto, and will be conferred degrees by the Most Rev. Bishop Ri- chard T. Guilfoyle, bishop of Altoona, at exercises on January 26th. The semester graduation services, mandatory curtail- ments, will embrace a complete pro- gram of activities highlighted by the commencement which will have the Most Rev. Richard J. Cushing, auxil- iary Bishop of the Archdioce of Boston and head of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, as ora- tor. The graduation exercises will be ld jointly with the baccalaureate inn St, Michael's Church, Loretto, and a special mass and sermon will be of fered. Of the 22 to be graduated, 15 will € bachelor of arts degrees and seven will be awarded the degree of bachlor of Included in the former group, with majors in educa- tion, social sciences, philosophy and business administration, are five of the members of the Third Order Reg- uiar of St. Francis, aspiring to the priesthood, as follows: Robert Neg- | herbon, Shamokin; Francis Postek, | Millvale; Francis Dunegan, Audubon, | N. J.; John Driesch, Ambridge; and i John Yacinko, Scranton. Others to receive the B. A. degree Thomas A Daley, president of k ( 1VE science. | Chapter and other units throughout the country last Thursday that the goal of he 1943 war fund campaign will be $125,000,000 and that Walter S. Gifford, president of the American the four mill personal property tax | {re to the county. Clerks in the county commissioners’ office at Ebensburg have started the mailing of forms. Returns must be made by Febru- Miss Anna Marie Byrnes, daughter | the student council; Griardville; Ste- {of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Byrnes | phen Alex, Windber; George Magulick | of Barnesboro, has received word that |of Spangler; Howard Adams, Cress- | she has successfully passed the state |on; Edward Brennan, Shamokin; Wal- | board examination for registered nur- | ter Janik and John Yermack, Shen- ed Old Main last October. The sch-|1clephone and Telegraph Company, ool’s library of 18,000 volumes was {will be chairman, lost in the blaze. A new library has | Chapter quotas have not yet been | At the same time returns of per- been set up in the former garage of | announced. The county chairman 1S | sonal property must be made to the the late Charles M. Schwab. It wil | Robert McEldowney. The drive will | state by February 15th. Payment of have a capacity. of.10,000 volumes... Pe held in March and will combing! the foprsmill tax to theistate must he {the annual Red Cross roll call and a | made when the returfis are sent to | special appeal for funds to carry on | Harrisburg. | the war work of the organization. No { membership effort was staged last fall. ary 15th, but payment is not due un- | til the county taxes become due. FATAL ACCIDENTS IN CAMBRIA SHOW BIG DROP IN YEAR enty-four Died As Result of Mishaps; Forty-three Num- bered Previous Year, - | Collection of the tax by the county | during 1942 showed a decrease of $6,- | 599.95, as compared with 1941. This | According to Norman H. Davis, was due, it is said, to the lower av- | Red Cross chairman, the goal is bas-| erage prices of stocks last year as | ed on “realistic estimates which care- | compared with the average for 1941. | | ful study reveals actually are needed | During 1942, the county collected | to meet the heavy war time obliga-| $43 741.14 of a duplicate of $50.530.39 | tions of the Red Cross.” The sum is | while in 1941 the collection was $50. | expected to cover local, national and | 341.09 of the duplicate of $57,831.62. international needs for one year. i | was established after a central com- | mittee examined budget estimates of | the national organization and 3,750 Tw rlelurns must pe maae lwiders of the following securities: sortgag- es, promissory notes or bonds given by individuals, judgments, leaned or invested in other states, ter- ritories or the District of Columbia or foreign countries; public loans or | Dy The effect of tire and gasoline ra- tioning on the movement of traffic TR in roo Bn County in 1942 was re- | thaptors and 6 151 branches. : flected last week in the annual re- | ot the total goal,” said : Davis, | port of Corp. E. A. Munson of the] $45,000,000 is the sum required by | Ebensburg substation of the State’s|t¢ Red Cross chapters to finance’ ponds jssued by any state or terri- Motor Police. | their indispensible needs and their, tory, the District of Columbia, any | A reduction of almost fifty per cent | €Ver increasing local work work on | fereign country, any political subdiv- | in the number of fatal accidents was behest of Famili of men Jn the ser-| sion of it (these securities issued by shown Corporal Munson, who is in| Vice. The remainedr or $80,000,000, | the United States or the State of charge of the highway detail at the |V/!ll 80 to the national organization.| pennsylvania or any political subdiv- Ebensburg substation, said 43 fatal Which, however, requires $100,000,000 | jsion of the state are exempt); bonds, accidents occurred on county high- | to finance its national and interna-| hotes or any other form of certifi- | moneys ses. Miss Byrnes is a graduate of the School, Johnstown, in the Class of 1942, and is now employed at the Mi- ners hospital in Spangler. gai Sng ALL TAXPAYERS WILL HAVE TO FILE THEIR INGOME TAX REPORTS At Least Fir Will Have to Be Mede Re- gardless of Other Action Pay-as-you-go income tax propos- als have instilled a false belief among | the army of 27,000,000 income tax- payers that many would escape the | tax collector on March 15th and wor- ried government officials have acted | to prevent a possible “tax strike”. To guard against any such devel- opment Representative South Carolina, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Senator George of Georgia, chair- man of the Senate Finance Commit- tee, issued a joint statement warning | st Quarter Payment Dougton, of | ways in 1941 and only 24 in 1942. These fatalities, however, are only the ones occurring on highways out- | side of boroughs and the Johnstown. Officials of these politi- cal subdivisions investigated the mis- haps which occurred within the bor- ough and municipality limits. Corporal Munson reported 340 ac- | { cidents in 1941 and 130 in 1942; 123 | city of | tional program. The difference will be | | met by a balance of $20,000,000 from | | applied to the 1943 budget.” | ount required by the national organ- ization has been budgeted for direct national services to the armed forces, | Davis said. | | | t | { Vb | the war fund of 1642 which will be | jimite | of any corporation More than 65 per cent of the am- | banks. | personal property, owned by any res- ; ident where the legal title is vested cate of indebtedness issued by any | corporation, association, company or d partnership; shares of stock | except national | returns and pay ‘at least” the first installment on their 1942 taxes. The joint statement, is was disclos- 2G, was issued at the request of Others include all articles of agree-| Bureau of Internal Revenue ment bearing interest; annuities, and | interest in any of these classes of taxpayers that they must file their! the | whose | task it is to collect taxes levied by | Congress. Bureau officials were said | to be concerned over publicity which | the Ruml pay-as-yao-go plan has re- | President Ross L. Leffler of Pitts-| Persons injured in 1942 as compared {in the person living in another state. | ceived. COUNTY LEGION MEET burg, absent from the session, charg- ed some of his fellow commissioners | were practicing “political subterfuge in trying to get rid of” Director Gor- don. | 1 | { In recognition of outstanding sch- | olastic and military achievement dur- | ing the first phases of his navigation | training, Cadet E. F. Routch has been | appointed lieutenant colonel of the A. | A. F. Navigation School cadet detach- ment. ! Son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Routch, | Hastings, Cadet Routch will win na- vigator Wings and a commission in! the army air force upon the success-| ful completion of his training Janu- | ary 28th. —— | JOBLESS BENEFITS DROP IN THE KEYSTONE STATE | | Pennsylvania's unemployment com- pensation activities are declining, re- ports “Trends and Tag als”, the mon- thly statistical bulleun of the State Bureau of Employment and. Unem-| this week in the Ccirt House at Eb-| French North Africa with the army. | retto, has been prom sted to the rank | Friday afternoon in an ployment Compensation, as a result | of “the acceleration of labor demand | due to the war effort. | “October applications for benefits | dropped 10 per cent below the total | for the previous month.” In Septem-; ber there was a 37 per cent decline, and in August a 30 per cent drop. | SERGEANT BUNCH OF MOTOR J POLICE, LEAVES EBENSBURG | to 342 injured in the preceding year. | Property damage in 1941 amounted | to $78,154 The total in 1942 was $32,- aq 332. CANCELLED—NO GAS | Because of gasoline rationing | | and ban on pleasure driving a meet- | Seen | ing the Cambria County Committee| Sergt. V. F. Bunch, who has been in | of the American Legion scheduled for | charge of the Ebensburg substation week was | of the Pennsylvania Motor Police for | | cancelled. | the last four years, last week was County Commander Fritz Morley | transfered to Troop A headquarters of Barnesboro, in cancelling the ga-|at Greensburg. thering, notified commanders of all| He was replaced in the important posts in the county and stated that| position by Sergt. L. R. Feloni who the next meeting will be held Tuesday | had been located at the Greensburg evening, February 16th, in Ebensburg. | barracks. Sergeant Feloni previously a ‘ | commanded the substations in Indi- {ana and Somerset. He was transferred to the Somer- | Ee] set substation last September to re- Paul Linsky, son of Mr. and place Sergt. J. A, Blair who was sent | y to Indiana, Sergeant Feloni has com- | LN TY MERCANTILE APPRAISER SUCCUMBS | Tuesday evening of this | COUN | John Lawrence McMonagle, 44 years, Cambria County Mercantile Appraiser, died last Thursday morn- | ing at the home of his mother in Westmont. He had been taken ser- iously ill only two days before his death, although he had been in poor | health for some time. He was active | for years in Democratic politics in| the County, and served two terms as mercantile appraiser. He was well known to many people throughout the county with whom he came in| contact in the course of his duties. ! recently spent a furlough at his home NT ji Spengler, ie hat been m ine ar- station was consolidated with the COUNTY SPORTSMEN jy air force Sines Japuary 36: 1942.1 Jennerstown substation, Sergt. Feloni w The soldier received his basic train- = ai a Dw HAVE A MEETING | ing at Kessler Field, Miss., and spent | W283 transferred to Greensburg. | the past nine months in Avstraliv) The January meeting of the Cam-| Private Linsky has two brothers in | bria County Sportsmen’s Association |service—Victor with the air force at was held on Wednesday evenin~ of | ilearns, Utah, and Steve, on duty in| ©f Mr. and Mrs. SPANGLER SOLDIER REURNS TO THE U. S. | Pvt, irs. Steve Linsky of Spangler, has > returned from duty in Australia and manded the Indiana station for about . | eight years. { In October when the Somerset sub- | —— pee GIVEN PROMOTION. Secu :d Lieut. Robert . McCoy, son | ay McCoy of Lo-| tL of first lieutenant at Camy Livings- | ton, La., where he is serving with an | He | 1941. | | ensburg. Plans for 1943 were made eV and resolutions to be presented to the COAL OUTPUT RISING, state federation were discussed. The Bituminous Coal Division of | ordinance ammunition company. Election of officers for the ensuing | the Bureau of Mines has announced | enlisted in the army in March, year also took place. The sportsmen | that progress is being made toward Vr discussed plans to obtain a larger | stepping up the 1943 coal production —There is a time for all things. A supply of fish for stocking purposes|by 80,000,000 tons to meet increased time for investing in War Bonds in in this section during the year, needs in war time industry. on your pay days! | tinents | So, you had better prepare to file your 1942 tax return, and also be pre- pared to least the first stallment. pay at in- . Vv YOUTHS BADLY HURT RIDING ON SLEDS Two north county children are pa- in the Miners’ at Spangler and one is in a critical con- dition, as the result of sledding acci- aents last Friday evening John Kutsor, 11 year old Spangler youth, was injured when his sled col- lided with automobile and is suf- fering a possible fracture of the skull as well as lacerations of the face and fracture of the right leg. James Bennett, eight year old son of Mr, and Mrs. John Bennett, Mar- steller, was admitted to the hospital Hospital | after he toppled from his sled while | coasting down a steep hill. He suffer- | ed a fracture of the ——V : Miner Is Injured, George Finet, 47, of Hastings, suf- fered a fracture of the right leg on accident at lich Hill Coal Company mine at astings. He was removed to Spang- right arm. the I H ler hospital where his condition is re- | parted as good. Ny —Women will make up 30 per cent of the labor force in war industries next year, it is estimated. | andoah; Michael Kesslack, Johns- [ Memorial Hospital Nurses Training |town; Paul Myers, Ebensburg, Will- {iam Frank, Altoona; and Robert Han- nigan, Elmora. The St. Francis school of science | will confer B. 5. degrees un Jos. Ca-~ / I nole, Altoona: George Bezilla, Phil- | lipsburg, Renato Feretti, Hastings; | William Kimball, Ebensburg; Cyril R { Myers, Ebensburg, and Bert Williams, | Patton. The honary degree of Doctor of | Letters will be bestowed upon Rev. RE. J. Cushing, commencement speak- | er, during the exercises Vv. SEER OF GOBBLER'’S KNOB SUFFERS LOSS OF FAME DUE 10 WAR Punxsutawney.—The very famous groundhog of Gobbler's who boasts such titles as the Seer of Seers or the Peer of Prognosticators, and the world’s greatest weather forecas- ter, is suffering great loss of distinc- tion due to the war. Last year censorship restricted his prediction of whether there'll be six more weeks of winter or an early spring. Now the 25 members of the Cham- ber of Commerce have voted unani- | meusly to cancel the groundhog day { banquet scheduled February 2 in hon- or of the seer’s emergence from hi- | bernation, an occasion of much fan- fare here for more than half a cen- tury. knob, 2 & sere os sme VINTONDALE HAS COSTLY FIRE LAST THURSDAY Offcials of Vinton Collieries Com- pany has set up temporary offices in the old Vintondale Inn to replace | those destroyed when fire of an un- determined origin gutted the large company building Thursday night, entailin gdam estimated at over £15,000. Threat of : 450 mine tondale operation which totalled {lars is was reve ficials. The pay the men « the pay day their 3 wl Flames broke stone cased bt 11 o'clock and sj the structure. The floor was us- ed as a community hall while the coal company and telephone exchange occupied the second floor. V apt f he part of 1in the Vin- pay roll thousand dol- | some employe saved the several Cor out in the rear of ilding shortly ead rapidly t » first | CARROLLTOWN BANK OFFICERS ELECTED Shareholders of the First National Bank, C: rolltown, met recently and elected th lowing d tors: Chas RF. Sharbaugh, I I ulty, A. A. Lieb, Edwin H. Binder, Demetriug {| George and Leo Pfeister. The directors elected Charles R., { St arbaugh, president; Blair McAnul« | ty, vice president; A. A. Lieb, vices | { + M4 president; and M. D. Connell, cashier, | and Charles R. Sharbaugh, assistang } cashier, i
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