PAGE FOUR ———— —— Patton Courier, Estab., Oct. 1893. Union Press, Estab, May 1935 UNION PRESS-GOURIER A. Owens, 723 Fifth Avenue, Pat- ton, Pa. and entered as sec class mail matter May 7, 19 the postoffice at Patton, Pa,, the Act of March 3, 1879. 36, at under Thos. A. Owens .. Editor Thos. Owens, Jr., Associate Editor (In Overseas Military Service) Subscription, $2 a Year in Advance Advertising Rates on Application The endeavor of the Union Press- Courier is to sincerely represent Union Workers in their efforts to obtain economic freedom, particu- larly as advocated by the United Mine Workers of America. We so- licit the support of All Unions. Material for publication must be authcrized by the organization it represents, signed by the Presi- dent and Secretary, and bear the seal of the Local. The Union Press-Courier gives its advertisers the advantage of the combined circulation of the two largest circulated weeklies in Cam- bria County and has a reader cov- erage that blankets Patton and the major mining towns. EE WITH THE DEADLINE FOR HE filing of nominating petitions past, the line up of candidates for the host of well paying jobs in the court house at Ebensburg, most all of which are | to be filled at the fall election, is | now complete. Despite the war, and | a likely lack of interest by many in | any politics, the candidates will do their best to interest everyone in the interests of themselves. And voters should be interested. Perhaps no time is more important than now to show a lively interest. There are lots of candidates. It should be the duty ——— SPORT COATS Save on these cool, long wearing attract- ive Sport Coats. Close out price $4.75 MEN'S COAT SWEATERS A good selection to choose from. 50 pct. wyol, 50 pct. cotton, regular price $6.95, at $5.75 MILITARY KITS For that boy in the Army, Navy, or Mar- ines. A useful gift. At 25 pct. OFF regular ngrked prees. UNION PRESS-COURIER [of citizens to pick the best-—as they see them. So, regardless of party, or political belief, turn out at the pri- maries, and the election, and do your part as a member of a nation that is . still free, and will continue free, so long as the people exercise the right of governing themselves. WITHOUT COMMENT ON THE AS- pirations particular didate 1 glance at the list of them, published clsewhere in this newspa- per, will disclose that there are some lively contests brewing in both party primaries. The county court house offers a good, healthy remuneration ot can- to the chaps who land behind the department desks at Ebensburg, and no one can be blamed for attempting | to gain that ambition. For the most part, the work isn’t hard, the pres- tige is nice, and the salary check lu- crative, HERE FROM ALL APPEARANCES NO indication is shown by most of the present office-holders to relinquish their posts. That's natural. Why give up something good, if you don’t have | to. And if the most people show that they want some of the present of- fice-holders continued on, that is still democracy at work, and that is the i rule of the majority. 5% 3 DESPITE ALL THE INTEREST IN the war, for the next six weeks the candidates are going to endeavs | or to interest voters in county af- fairs, and likely in most boroughs and townships there'll be added in- terest, for this year, too, a number of municipal offices will be filled. kk IN A WAR NEWS, GENERAL sense, constantly becomes more en- | couraging in Europe, and also in the Pacific theatre. With the ousting of the bombastic Mussolini in Italy, ev- ery reason is afforded to the Allies to rejoice. However, Hitler isn't going to crack up so easily, and despite the fact the war hasn't been going SO | well for them, the Germans, in des-| peration, now may put up the hard- | they | est and most bitter fighting have put forth in this entire conflict. Desperate men, cornered, will do any- | thing. If they don’t do something— | something, may be done to them, by their own followers. It is a fact that Hitler and his Nazis well know. Ax- is press agents warn the Allies to watch out for surprises. But nothing would exactly surprise the Allies. | WASHINGTON AND LONDON ARE | aware that a trapped rat may try to bite a lion. Hitler may be planning a last do or die blow at England. Ex- | ing men and material, including | planes, tanks, U-boats, for the past ten months, for just such a gamble. He knows that as matters now stand he's sunk. If he throws in everything he may reason he might win. At the least he might expect the chances of obtaining a negotiated peace. It would be worth five million men to him. IF EVER THERE WAS A TIME when we must not let optimism let us shirk in our war work on « home front it is now. Now that we've | started delivering the blows in Europe, those initial punch- | es won't be much good if we don’t keep up our own ever harder aggres- sion. And when we've finished in the European area, we still have the big- gest job of all ahead—that of pound- ing down the Japs. And that's going to take a long time. The Jap is an entirely different enemy. Experience | has taught us that he won't surren-| der. He has to be completely wiped lout, before we can feel secure. *¥ kkk THE ARMY DOESN'T WANT TO| be responsible for government in the occupied areas for more than | four months after conquest. This { means, in Sicily, that our civilian ag- | encies, headed by the new OFEC, will soon be in operation; that United Na- tions Relief and Rehabilitation Ad- ministration, still the subject of a Senate controversy, might be func- tioning by Christmas. It also means that by the first of the year Sicilians who have been screened by AMGOT should be running their own local governments, under direction of the | other agencies. ok kg [REVISION OF RATIONING RULES to permit service men and womer | to obtain special gasoline rations | | while on furlough or other periods of leave is being advocated by both | automobile associations and the gen- eral public. Since May 20th, when the OPA started its drive against non-essential motoring, an earlier privilege of special gasoline rationing | has been denied service men and wo- men. Surely, with more gasoline com- ing into Pennsylvania, service folk should be entitled to some of it for their own use while on leave between | tours of duty at home and abroad.” wo THE OFFICE OF PRICE ADMINIS- tration was set up to stem the | mounting spiral of living costs, but it has been a conspicucys failure. For | example, since Aug., 1939, there has been an increase of 22 per cent in the | overall cost of living, a 42 per cent | LADIES’ SWEATERS Close-out value, these sweaters in new Wonderful now chie colors. and for fall, too. Reg- ular $2.95 values, for “¢2.19 | POLO SHIRTS Light weight, long wearing polo shirts, all sizes for men and boys formerly priced $1.19 now on sale at 7%¢ perts say he may have been conserv-| he | knock-out | iy Pittsburgh; Thursday, July 29th, 1943, | | | | | U. S. Signal Corps Radiophoto. raw materials and a 94 per cent hike in wholesale prices of farm products. | turing wage rates have climbed 43 | with the leaps prices have Armed with these facts, labor has served an ultimatum the Washington administration. Ei- | ther slash prices, as has been prom- | ised repeatedly, or we will withdraw | cur support from the wage stabiliza- tion program generally and the Lit-| tle Steel Formula specifically. J. REGENT DEATHS Mrs. Clara Rieg. Funeral services were conducted cn Wednesday morning in St. Bene- | dict’s Catholic Churcn, Carrolitown, | for Mrs. Clara Rieg, widow of Frank Rieg, who died on Sunday morning | at tae home of her daughter, Mrs. | Emil Harvey, New Brighton. A for-| mer resident of Carrolitown, Mrs. Rieg had in recent years resided in| New Castle. She became ill while vis- | iting her daughter. Born in Carroll- | town, the deceased was a daughter] of Henry and Barbara (Schroth) | Blum. Her husband died fourteen years ago. Survivors include four | children—Mrs. arvey, mentioned; { rancis, Uniontown; and Edgar, at home. She was a sister of Henry Blum, Ebensburg; Edward ‘and Aloysius Blym, both of Carroll- town; Mrs. Regina Sloan and Mrs. ‘Mary McAuliff, both of Washington, D. C.,, and Mrs. Otto Glasser, Carr- | olltown. Interment was made in St.| Benedict's church cemetery. | Patsy Molino. Patsy Mbolino, ‘aged 57 years, of] Hastings, died at 1:30 p. m. Thurs-| | | | day last, in the Alleghehy General | Hospital, Pittsburgh. A coal miner, | Mr. Marino was a member of Has- tings Local Union, No. 392, United Mine Workers of America. Surviving | are his widow, Mrs. Rose (Rivellni) | Molino, and eleven children—Cpl. Ad- | am, with the army in Missouri; Mrs. ridget Difalco, Altoona; Ann, wife of Sgt. George Goodwill, Jackson, S. C.; | Joseph, a member of the Navy, sta- | tioned in Norfolk, Va.; and Madel- ine, Caroline, Emma, Elvetta, Elean- or, Louis, and Louise, all at home. Also surviving are one grandchild; a brother, Orazio Molino, Brooklyn, N. | | Y., and a sister, Mrs. Emma Difalco, | Altoona. The deceased was a member of St. Bernard's Catholic church at Hastings, where funeral services were held on Monday morning, with | interment in the church cemetery. John H. Eckenrod. John H. Eckenrod, 88, a native of Loretto, died Saturday afternoon at 3 PARTY SLACKS Prettiest for company, for rele ng They are reg. $4.95 ilues, now values, $3.95 | | Slim rayon poplin | i | | nette Rodgers in Johnstown, after an | illness of pneumonia. Mr. Eckenrod 1 | son of Jessie and Susan (Malloy) | Eckenrod. Funeral services and | lace in Moxham. burial took George Vincent. served his 58th birthday anniversary | this war at one trillion dollars. HERE IS THE OFFICIAL Army air Force insignia that will now be used on all planes. The present white star on a field of blue is retained. A white rectangle has been added on either side of the field of blue, and the whole design is enclosed in a red border. was born May 31, 1855, in Loretto, a | | | | George Vincent of Dysart, who ob- | U. S. ANTI-MINE PLATOON AT WORK MEMBERS OF A U. S. anti-tank mine platoon are cautiously uncover ing and immobilizing land mines in the vicinity of Palma, Sicily, to clear the way for the advancing Allied troops. This is an official rise in retail prices of foods, a 63|in the Altoona hospital where he had per cent boost in wholesale prices of peen a patient only a few days. Mr. On the other had, hourly manufac-| Son of George per cent. Average this with the small | ployed as a coal miner. Surviving are increase in non-manufacturing, fixed | a sister, Mary Vincent, Dysart, an? incomes and the overall raise in fam-|&a brother, ily income is dwarfed in comparison | burg, W. Va. The funeral services taken. | were conducted on Wednesday after- organized | noon at the Vincent home. Interment on | was made in Pleasant Hill Cemetery the home of his daughter, Mrs. An-| NEW ARMY PLANE INSIGNIA 5 (International Soundphoto) Vincent was born on July 23, 1885, a W. and Catherine He had been em- (Sharp) Vincent. Samuel Vincent, Wells- —— Prisoner Back in Jail Ten Years After Escape PHOENIX, ARIZ.—Kenneth Jess- mon, 38, was back in the Caricopa | county jail from which he escaped with five others 10 years ago. Jess- mon, who tuld police he had gone straight since his escape, was ar- | rested as a result of a routine check- up of fingerprints when he went to work for the Excello corporation of Detroit. Originally sentenced on a burglary charge, he was awaiting transfer to Arizona State prison at the time of his escape. Jessmon is married and father of a seven-year-old boy. His wife and son, he said, knew nothing of his Phoenix record until he was arrested at the request of Sheriff Lon Jordon of Phoenix. Jessmon will be transferred to state prison to serve a term of two to five years. Traffic Violator Has Plenty to Beef About PITTSBURGH.—Magistrate P. J. Sullivan lent a sympathetic ear: to the tale of Mrs. Roy T. Pifer, charged with a traffic violation. Mrs. Pifer, it seems, parked her car, put a nickel in the meter and joined a line before a meat market. She needed a roast for Sunday din- ner. An hour passed. The nickel ran out. But Mrs. Pifer didn’t budge. “The people were like a bunch of wolves and I just had to stay there or lose my chance to get a roast,” | she lamented. Said Magistrate Sullivan: dismissed.” “Case Audience Runs Amuck When Moviz Lights Fail CITY OF MEXICO.—When the electric lights failed in a motion pic- ture theater here the audience | smashed furniture and glassware in | the place, then swarmed into the | street and broke the cinema’s mar- | quee lights and windows of adjoining | stores and houses until a police riot | squad arrested 15. Pigeons Save Gas for Numbers Racket Writers WILMINGTON, DEL.—City detec- tives, cracking down on numbers writers, picked up three carrier pi- geons and theorized that gasoline ra- tioning had caused ‘pickup men” to switch from automobiles to the pi- eon casrier system, Two of the birds carried slips for 285 numbers but the third bore the cryptic message: ‘Nothing Doing.” The pigeons and their alleged own- er were held by police. —London estimates total cost of Oh, everybody's tired of billions. (International), Here it is! been abe t pearance ¢ its bit in n find just t As quantit Strikin from t grace New b ously choice ury back t ULTF IN A hedroc comfort . beauty! C grained b wood, wit drawers w tures. Incl ity or Dre CREDEN If you’re furnis room, and want a little better . . miss this August stunning combina with other wood: Table, Host Chai: (China Cabine
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