A GENERAL NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF ORGANIZED LABOR IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA = UNION a { Union Press, Established May, 1935 tr 1 Ea i oo SN i AT No a AN ATTAINMENT OF THE LARGEST GENERAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA URIER Patton Courier, Established Oct., 1893 PATTON. PENNSYLVANIA, VOL. 49. NO. 24. THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1943. COSTLY FIRE VISITS ~~ SOUTH FORK AREA Nine persons were made homeless and damage estimated at more than OF GOVERNMENT IS AGAIN REJECTED -vs i resulted Sunday morning Ftr——— | when fire destroyed two dwellings Proposal Submitted by Secretary and a garage in Rockville, Just out- kins Is Rejected |side South Fork Borough limits. op Oras South Fork Firemen said the fire {started in an automobile which was New York—Northern and Southern | housed in a garage between the Abe Coal Operators again rejected on Cury and Puny Bourdes homes. Both ; | dwellings were burned to the ground id = Pr Jesubmiien \ as firemen were unable to obtain suf- Tht : a | ficient water to combat the blaze. ces Perkins calling for 20 a Greatest damage was to the six- day work week guar ntact | room frame dwelling of the Abe Cur- ag Foe gotistion oe acta “of | TY Jemily Sys louse oe ou the fur- : oe | nishings, together wi e garage Labor was accepted in pine "| ana car were destroyed completely M. w. > tp i Tig wage | With damage estimated at approxi- wis, in lieu o -a- : increase, in that it would boost | SIX-DAY WEEK PLAN mately $9,000. There are four mem- ; “| bers of the family. the annual wage of miners by add- | eM i ing 77 days to the 1942 work sche- | dule, Under the plan submitted by | the government, Lewis said, “The eq-| MINERS RESORT 10 uity for the miners as against 231, a ! working days in 1942 would be $2.25 NEWSPAPER ADS 10 a day in increased earnings.” PROVE PAY JUSTICE In turniny down the proposal, Cite Need of Portal to Portal De- Charles O'Neill, president of the nor- thern operators, said his group in- mand in Appeal to Nation in Tuesday ’s Papers. terpreted it to mean “that we guar- antee six days’ work a week except The United Mine Workers of Am- erica on Tuesday of this week ask- where for good cause a mine must ed in full five column newspaper ad- itd Po & 100s PsT-onAE Money" | | A SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR TROUT FISHING SEASON OPENS THIS THURSDAY Perfect Cnditions Are in Pros- pect for Expected Army of Pennsylvania Anglers. 'SCOUTERS PREPARE TRAINING PROGRAM Plans for Scout leadership training | | courses to be conducted in Patton, | { Hastings and Barnesboro, were out- {lined last Thursday night at a meet- |ing of Scouters from the North and | Central Cambria districts, in Carroll- | Lown. | Attending the session were thirty | Scout leaders who conferred with {Harry K. Eby, national director ot | volunteer training for the Boy Scouts | of America. In an address at the sess- ion Mr, Eby emphasized the need of Harrisburg. — Perfect conditions |are the prospect for an army of some 200,000 fishermen who are expected lto invade Pennsylvania's mountain land meadow streams with the start of the trout season today, Thursday. | training more adult leaders in the | «Conditions are general throughout { Scout movement. | the state,” Commissioner C. A. Fren- The training courses will begin as | cp said, adding “an abundance of | soon as instructors are selected and | water during the fall and winter mon- [ will be open to all scoutmasters, as- | thg along with a large number of | sistants, commissioners, troop com-| trout left over from last season have { mittee members and fathers of the made streams the most favorable in | Scouts. | recent years, and weather conditions re Ye es {today will count for a big or little OVER TWO THOUSAND are in the streams. | He asserted streams in the North- by the Clearfield Branch of the Am-| catch them.” erican Red Cross for the organiza-| The commissioner expects a large | | | | cipally because of lack of trucks, but he assured anglers at least 700,000 {v 5 to Red Cross Coffers | In summing up prospects for the | season, French declared, “The fish legal sized trout, six inches or more, A total of $8,069 has been collected | wi] be there, it’s up to the people to be idle, with the additional sugges- tion that if the mine workers work vertisement over the nation that the 450,000 soft coal miners be paid three, four or five days, time and onahalf be paid for one day in that week.” He said Miss Perkins had sug- gested to him that if gondilions shou closed durin, J aus 8 2igs (o De Clie get ne vfor the ‘most dangerous part of our day of time and one-half even thougn| Work,” time of entry to time of de- parture from the mines. The UMW announced that its ad- vertisement, second of a series ex- plaining its case to the American public, claims that portal to portal a six day week was not worked. pay has been allowed miners in the “On the basis of six days 52 weeks a year, the operators, of course, can- Nation's metal mines and in other in- dustries. not give it consideration and have re- jected it on the basis that we under- No mention was made of other de- mands in the advertisement. stand it, he added. Claiming they ask for ‘only sim- PRESIDENT OF WOLF FURNITURE COMPANY standing in Church Work in Diocese of Altoona Mark Scores Operators James Marck, president of District Ne. 2, U. M. W. of A. who has had a prominent role in bituminous con- tract Regotiations in New York, yes- terday s d ref ple justice,” the miners said in the| president of the Wolf Furniture Co., ng bs usal of uperators ta adv isement. that tmo of passage, which oR LOR go pie ; Hal de i ’ n.d underground was often e most | sylva: pse ont Ap ough lac vad : : ¥ C week. , : ye been receivéd and more probably will ——— eFC Mr. Mark backed up the attitude dangerous part of their day's work, | night. of time for action on pending exten- |, contribiited. Reports from Dean BILL 10 DROP JEFFERSON expressed by John L. Lewis in sig- but that coal miners paid for a seven | nalling willingness to accept the six- day week guarantee as a basis for the mine agreement. . First report of the six-day work | week was made in a “white paper” |. ‘prepared and distributed by the op-| erators, President Mark stated. In| the “white paper” which was address- | ed to members of the various associa- | tions, it wes stated that the mines ,,. gis T's the same thing com- | que as the outstandin were assured a full Work week in |ing out. The minute a man leaves the | woman in Altoona. 1943 to continue peak production re-| fans where he actually digs, his| A graduate of St. Xavier College, quired by the throbbing war tempo,| ,5y stops and he risks the dangers | Mark stated. lof un | The full work week would be assu-| gia» ming an annual wage of $2,360 the | below ground. known Catholic lay-woman in | | check in, take his turn on the cage | retto conferred an honorary doctor and go down into the deep recesses|of laws degree upon her in 1940 and g Catholic lay- . . x rer | The advertisement said that min- | The company is operated by her two paper is said to have shown. When | epg ar doing their part in the war sons, George and Herbert Wolf, both President John L. Lewis said he WOU- | ofort, although “we know we could | of ‘Altoona. Id accept the terms as set forth in| eo to war plants and get a lot more | the “white paper” operators refused money for much easier work.” It de- [Quota Club, the Business and Pro- to consider the proposal. |clared the miners, because of long |fessional Women’s Club, Catholic Mark said the paper was then for-| experience in the coal industry, | Daughters of America and Blairmont warded to President Roosevelt and |pnow they are “serving our country | Country Club, to members of the War Labor Board. | pegt by remaining there,” and “are; Members of her family include four Contract proceedings have been at proud of our war time production |children—Mrs, James A, Sloan, of little more than a standstill, dis-|yrecord.” Johnstown; Mrs. Paul R. Kuhn and trict president Mark stated. “We are asking that an injustice | George and Herbert, all of Altoona. President Mark and Edw. Sweeney, j be corrected,” the advertisement as-| George Wolf is president of the Al- #ec’y-treas. of District No. 2 returned | gerts. “We are not asking to be paid toona Diocese Retreat League. Mrs. this week from the New York confer- [for the time we spend getting our | Wolf also leaves a sister, Miss Mag- ences together. They are clearing up [tools and necessary equipment. We |dalen Anderson of Altoona, and 17 back work in the District Office in!gre not asking that the company |grandchildren. Clearfield before returning to the|give us the powder we now pay for, Funeral services were held at the conference. They expect to return nor to stand the other charges which | Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament soon; Vice President Clarence Don-|are rightfully theirs. We do ask that|on Saturday morning at nine o'clock aldson is attending the sessions. we be paid for the most dangerous | With interment in St, John’s ceme- Arnold Gabelli, Nanty-Glo; ‘Mike part of our work, the time we spend | tery. Punchak, Tire Hill; William Derabos- fin travel into the mine in the morn- _— NV ky, Earnest; and Sam Burns, Sykes-|ing and coming out at night.” i ————— BARNESBORO HERO ville; the policy committee repres- | — enting District 2 has been sent home | Marine Cpl. Carmen C. Panar of Barnesboro who was struck by bul- but may be calied back into session. | lets in fierce Guadalcanal fighting as BOND BOOTH IS LOCATED | K | he carried a mortally wounded home- IN HALUSKA BUILDING | . i town pal to safety, has arrived back building on Magee Avenue, Patton.| The success of this movement, of CLEAN-UP WEEK IN PATTON BOROUGH SET FOR WEEK OF MAY 3rd | As posted on placards about town, The headquarters of Patton War- | Patton's annual spring clean-up per- | Savings Staff for the second war(iod has been designated for the wee loan drive is located in the Haluska | beginning May 3rd. PLAN TO EXTEND BITUMINOUS COAL EXPIRESIN ALTOONA, ACT TEMPORARILY Mrs. Annie ¢. Wolf .Was Out-| President Roosevelt Said to Have Requested Resolution to Dis- courage Competition. The daughter of the late Albert J. | siok bills has been decided by House hour day actually spent an average | Anderson, one of the pioneer settlers | administration leaders. | of at least eight and one-half hours|of Cambria county, she was a well- | “In no other industry in the world | state. In 1930 Pope Pius XI awarded | extension should b provided for the | oes a man report for work, stand in | her the papal cross for her religious |act, passed in 1937 to establish min- | ne and gets his tools and equipment, | activities. St, Francis College at Lo- [imum prices for soft coal and dis-| l | courage ruinous competition. Rep. Robertson (D-Va.), would b | deadline and Chairman derground travel on his own/|ident of the furniture company after |a simple stopgap extension will be { the death of her husband in 1918. | sought to allow time for adefuate | | and | | hearings on more permanent | modifying legislation later. | The subcommittee had tentatively Mrs. Wolf was a member of the] planned to start consideration of ex- | tension bills last Thursday, but Rob- which is administered by the bitum- inous coal division of the Interior de- partment, include the Coal Producers Committee, claiming to represent the producers of 330,000,000 tons, or 73 per cent of the commercial produc- tion. Unless the act is extended, they see an “unregulated” market with many producers facing the alterna- tive of shutting down or resorting tn price cutting. LAWRENCE, FIVE STATE SENATORS TO VISIT IN JOHNSTOWN TONIGHT David L. Lawrence, chairman of the State Democratic Committee, and five state senators will pay a visit to Johnstown on Thursday evening. The visit is being made as a tribute to Senator John J. Haluska. The party is expected to arrive in Johnstown at 7 p. m. Thursday eve- | | home, It is open for business from 7:00 P j course, rests with the property own-| Cpl. Panar, a son of Mr. and Mrs. M. to 10:00 P. M. every night, except | ners or tenants, | John Panar, was by the side of Pvt. | Sunday, at which time War Bonds| The Board of Health calls upon all | Jack Maguire when the latter fell, and Stamps may be purchsed. | property owners and renters to have | While carrying his friend back from Local ladiss are urged to partici- | yards and premises cleared of all tin | the front he was wounded severely pate in this drive and volunteer to|cans, bottles, or other forms of rub. |when bullets crashed into the bones sell stamps and bonds at the booth |bish prior to the week of May 3rd; |of his left shoulder. any night they can possibly do so. All| to place all such rubbish in suitable Pvt. Maguire, a former Patton lad, volunteers should call or contact Mrs, | containers at the rear of their pro-|died a short time later in a Marine Kenneth Rhody, chairman of the Wo- | perties so that it may be readily | hospital, while Cpl. Panar’s wounds men’s War Savings Staff in Patton. | loaded into trucks and hauled away. | confined him to the base hospital un- Ladies, do your part by assisting|The hauling will begin on Monday, |til a short time ago when he was in this drive. | May 3rd. granted his honorable discharge. The following are on duty at the| The_ health board also asks that Cpl. Panar has been in the service booth this week: Monday, Betty You “do not delay in getting yards | for three years, having joined the Greene; Tuesday, Mrs. C. Derringer; | and premises cleared and by so doing | Marine Corps after having been grad- Wednesday, Marnetta Kutruff; keep your premises in a sanitary con- | uated from Barnesboro high school. Thursday, Anna Mary Bortman; Fn- | dition and preserve the health of all V- day; “Angie” Bianco; Saturday, | the residents of Patton.” Grace Bearer, . | An inspection of properties will be i Ne made, following Clean-Up Week, —Alaska’s population of 72,524 in- -—_—V—_— cludes 39,170 whites, 15.576 Eskimos, —Of the 51,827 residents of the Pennsylvania turkey raisers have | reported in the Federal-State Crop Reporting Survey, intentions to raise 15 per cent more turkeys this year, ning, following which Mr. Lawrence | and other members of the party will | meet with Cambria County Democra- | tic leaders at a lunch to be held in the Central Cafe, Franklin St. Fol- lowing the lunch, Senator Haluska will be host to the party at the Goe- nner & Co. Erewery, Johnstown. of which Senator Haluska is general manager. Besides Mr. Lawrence the party will include the following: Senators Bernard B. McGinnis, Democratic floor leader in the Senate; Eimer J. Holland, John F. Cox, and Joseph M Barr, all of Allegheny Co., and John H., Dent, Westmoreland Co. | Requests for literature about Pennsylvania while not equal to that of last year are surprisingly beyond the State Department of Commerce which would indicate a crop of 1,-73,- 000 birds compared with 1,020,000 birds last year, 11,283 Indian, 5599 Aleuts, 263 Jap- | Panama zone in 1940 there were 18,- anese and 633 of unknown racial or-' 524 of Negro ancestry. expectations, it has been reported by the Departmnt. Most of the requests come from adjoining states. President Roosevelt is reported to the | have informed the leaders that some | chair- of the mine, then walk long distan-|last year the Columbian Squires aw-| man of the Ways and Means sub- ces to his working place, before his|arded her the Blessed Mother pla-| committee on the problem, said it { e impossible to pass any of | i the pending bills before the April 26 Doughton | Beatty, Pa., Mrs. Wolf became pres- | (DN, C.) of the full committee said | ertson said this was abandoned in favor of full committee hearings la- | ter, Advocates of extending the act “take.” French said the commission is be- hind in its stocking program, prin- cn senile {ern Tier counties are not yet entirely And More Than Eight Thousand |stocked, but work there will be com- . | on F, a & i ' il ad- e pleted before the season is wel from Clearfield Branch Goes P Si tion's War Fund, it was announced | number of fishermen but admitted at a meeting last Thursday night in| there will be less than in former sea- the headquarters in the Masonic! gons because of the men in the ser- Building, Patton. vice and those working in war George Clark, Hastings, branch|plants. chairman, announced the appoint-| Limit for the day's catch is ten ment of Mrs, R. J. Little, Patton, as chairman of the volunteer services... Ralph Litzinger, chairman of the War Fund drive in Patton, announc- ed that $2,105 had been collected by his workers, T. C. McGoey reported the collection of $1,100 in the Bland- burg section while J. L, Marks said trout of the various species includ- ing brook, brown and rainbow. The brook trout are also known as moun- tain trout and vary in length from six to fourteen inches, brown trout or German trout, were imported from Europe when American streams were stocked, trout | and Dysart showed a total of $161 | taken in while Harold J. Luther re- ported the collection of $400 in the { Coupon district. Mrs. Robert Forsythe, Patton, an- {nounced that 460 garments | CO. FROM 27th DISTRICT | | IS PASSED BY SENATORS | month of March, It also was announ- | Passage of Bill by House Appears [ced that branch leaders made 114 Assured; Signature of Gover- home service calls during the month, | nor Martin Is Certainty The next meeting will be held on es | Thursday evening, May 6th. Harrisburg Senator John J, Ha- | — Vor em | luska yesterday won the first step {in his fight to have the 27th Con- Tony Pastor to Open | ressional district reduced by the eli- mination of Jefferson Co. The Senafe Sunset Easter Monday passed the congressional reapportion- | ment bill by a vote of 28 to 12. all { Democrats excepting Senator Halus- | ka voting against the measure. { The Senator in explaining his vote [to the Senate declared he was voting | with the Republican majority so that {the 27th district would be ‘relieved { of Jefferson Co. and bring it more in- {to line with the population of other | district in the state.” | “The 27th District with a popula- | tion of 428,490 according to the last | census, is the second largest in the | state,” Senator Haluska said. “And | the people of the district are entitled [of fairer representation which can be | secured only by reducing the size of { the district.” ( The bill has been sent to the House jand as it is an administration mea- | sure, it. is beleved that it will pass. | Signature of Gov. Martin is assured. . Senator Haluska has been assurea | that the new setup as regards the Tony Pastor [27th District will not be eliminated Tony Pastor and his Orchestra, | from the measure when it is passed [nineteen artists and entertainers, fea- | °" by the House. | turing Eugenie Baird, Stubby Pastor,| Under the reapportionment meas- | the ever famous Johnny (Paradiddle |ure, the Cambria-Indina-Armstrong Joe) Morris and many others, will | district will be known as the 26th. i play for the annual Easter Monday | The only district in the state, under | dance at Sunset on April 26th. | the present apportionment, having a Tony Pastor is coming direct tio [greater population than the 27th Dis- Sunset from the Roosevelt Hotel, | trict is the 12th, (Luzerne Co.) which Washington, D. C., from which spot has a population, according to the he broadcasts nightly. last census of 441,518. Dancing will start at nine o’clock| What Senator Haluska did not tell and continue to one-thirty. | the Senate was that under the re- — - { districting measure, the Democrats LAUDS C, A. P, HEROES. | of the district will have an improved | opportunity to elect a congressman High praise for the “heroic” ser-| iy von ; vice being performed by the Perm. 20, Sucased So gressman Harve Tib- sylvania Civil Air Patrol volunteers | h y, OF 0 defeat other Republicans on Atlantic coast anti-submarine pa- | Who may be nominated next year. trol was voiced recently by Dr. Ral- | ETERS ph Cooper Hutchinson, Executive Di- | FIRST SLATE QUARRY rector of the State Council of De-| The first slate quarry in Pennsyl- fense. More than 200 Pennsylvania | Vania was opened in Northampton CAP officers and men, out of a state | county about 1812 and in 1845 many wide membership of 3,500, are on the | Slate miners came from Wales to coastal patrol duty. {work these deposits, the State De- {partment of Commerce reports. To- day both Northampton and Lehigh County rank high in the production of slate. | | | | | | | 1 LIVE ONES. Long Beach, Cel—It wasn't any| hangover, after all. Motorists saw | two huge elephants lumbering along | igre) the highway. They fell from a circus Slow motion movies are taken at a truck that went out of control on a |rapil speed, while fast action movies curve, | are taken at a very slow speed.
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