A GENERAL NEWSPAPEX DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF ORGANIZED LABOR IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA = UNION Union Press, Established May, 1935 Te AN ATTAINMENT OF THE LARGEST GENERAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA RIER o. Patton Courier, Established Oct., 1893 YOL 49. NO.41. SEY PATTON. PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1943. SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR EBENSBURG BOARD ONE GAR LIGENSE OP A TO LOWER ANNOUNCES LIST OF | PLATE NEXT YEAR PRICES ON LIQUOR AUGUST INDUGTIONS | covernor stort mast were suse pended the first state law under a| broad war powers act to order use| UNDER NEW RULES HOPE TO HAVE NEW | NEHRIG CHOSEN ASHVILLE EDIFICE IN | USE BY GHRISTMAS Harry H. Nehrig was chairman of the Clearfield Branch of the Cambria County Chapter of s Many Married Men Are Included | only one automobile license plate Price Agency Establishes Nation-| Construction Work Progresses to (j, American Red Cross at a meet- in Group Who Passed Final |in 1944. Physical Examinations, | Using legislature granted authori- ity, to set aside war-hampering sta- The Cambria County Draft Board, | tutes, at request of federal officials, wide Fixed Mark-ups for the Wholesaler and Retailer. | on a “An average lowering” of retail li No. 2, has announced the list of in- | the Governor issued a proclamation | quor prices was predicted this week | of St. Thomas Aquinas, Ashville, was Others voted office were Walter Replace Catholic Church De- ing of that organization last Thurs- stroyed by Flames. day night in the Red Cross Head- quarters in Patton. He succeeds Geo -1 The eornerstone of the new Church | Clark of Hastings. ductees for the month of August. suspending for the duration or until | py the office of price administration | blessed and laid on Saturday, July Robbins of Coupon and George Clark These men have passed their iinal|the next session of the general as-|gat Washington, as it established na physical examinations and are now | sembly the law requiring two license | tion-wide fixed mark-ups for whole on the customary furlough. They in- | tags on motor vehicles. ! salers and retailers. clude a number of married men, and| A six-member legislative committ- | OPA said ,however ,it could not es are as foilows: | ace previously approved the Govern-|timate the amount of average reduc - | Hackett, who was delegated by Bish- | Barnard, Patton, executive director | op Guilfoyle to perform the cere- of activities; Mrs. A. J. Houck, Has- - | mony. - | tings, secretary, and Frank Young, -| Father Hackett is very much ple- Patton, treasurer. elected the -| 31, by the pastor, the Rev. John of Hastings, co-chairmen; John I. | COAL TAX GOES RED CROSS HEAD ALSO WITH DEATH OF THE GUFFEY ACT If Economy Was Wanted, House of Representatives Is In for Rather Costly Surprise. When the Bituminous Coal Divis- ion of the Department of the Inter- ior shuts up shop permanently on August 23rd because of Congression- al refusal to renew the Bituminous Coal Stabilization Act, a surprising result will follow: The agency has been lopped off Army. |or's action, requested by U. S. At-| tion because of wide price disparities | ased wih ithe progress of the build-| Named to the Board of Directors | completely, its entire annual appro- George E. Molnar, Barnesboro. ; ! SL Herbert R. Thompson, Ebensburg. |Vital metal. Use of one plate instead |to another and between communities. Gilbert D. Whited, Barnesboro. |of two, Martin estimated, will save| . Here is the general pattern accor- Walter R. Miller, Hastings, R. D.|600 tons of steel a year. ding to OPA: Orville R. Dowey, Carrollitown. | Attorney General James H. Duff| p, instances where prices of dis- Richard M. Taylor, Barnesboro. l commented, “as far as I know” Gov. tilled spirits and wine have risen to James M. Roberts, Colver. | Martin is the first chief executive of unwarrantedly high levels, either by month. Indications are that with the! Ralph Litzinger, Patton, Mrs. Eula ready for occupancy by Christmas. Coupon; and T. C. McGoey, Bland George C. Hoppel, of Patton, is the burg. It was said the board nem contractor, bers are yet to be elected from Dean It is expected that everything will | Dysart and Fallentimber. Thomas J. Sherwood, Spangler. | Pennsylvania to suspend a law by misunderstanding or evasion and Vvio- | he complete when the church is : yl - - Anthony F. Kazmer, Barnesboro. |procClamation. . : lation of price controls there will be| ready for dedication. Plans for the Daniel M. Jones, Ebensburg. | The single plate, which will be pla- |, gpgtantal reduction in prices, but| new “liturgical altar and side altars NATION MUST TURN William H. Young, Barnesboro. | ced in the rear of vehicles, will re- where the sellers have observed the | Francis Shea, Barnesboro. | place the two small metal tabs at- Alfred J. Wagner, Hastings. | tached this year to 1942 plates, the | petition has held down the general Lewis Sposito, Havel Park, Mich. | Governor explaining the tabs Were ( rice level, the new regulation will Charles A. Lieb, Nicktown. {not very satisfactory. | permit some upward adjustments. Joo 0 ter, CRnolionD, ce Sr Tes Abi = The regulation becomes effective Robert G ‘Hoover, Carrolltown R.D ST FRANCIS BUILDING on August 29th. In monopoly states k ; toads. Barncshore. . it will become effective with the is- Ruisser] 31. Woods, Barnemorm, | suance of the first price lists after FUND CAMPAIGN FOR {that date. The flat mark-ups, howev- Joseph Onufro, Barnesboro. er, do nbt apply to monopoiy states; legal price tops, or where the com- Bernard F. McNish, Elizabeth. Michael Singel. Barnesboro. Joseph S. Glasser, Carrolltown. BL Emer ines | over their net costs. Angelo L. Letine, Barnesboro. | Rebuilding Program Would Es-| Still to be issued is a regulation Mario M. Caotti, Bakerton. tablish One of Finest Small establishing flat prices at the distill- Metro Tishok, Ebensburg. | ery level for new brands of liquor. 3 | Peter Wysocki, Spangler. Colleges in Country. | These maximums will be based on Joseph Wojno, Barnesboro. Half a million dollars is the goal | age Dxot, and formula of spirits and Ralph J. Peters, Spangler. that has been set in the campaign | 154eY. Tromasd. Bailey, Detroit, Mich, now being planned for funds to re- ; : A Regis J. Noel, Bbensburg R. D. build St. Francis of Loretto’s college, | March, 1942, will continue to be pri- John Stefko, Spangler. Seminary and monastery. ced under the general maximum price . _ Navy. The campaign had been scheduled regulation at the distillery level. In Sidney L. Shonberg, Barnesboro. to get under way Aug. 23, but will |8eneral these maximums are the Clarence M. Smith, Baltimore. be postponed until sometime after the | highest prices then charged, plus ad- Pale Le Alietmus, C eh current war bond drive. ditional taxes. Jams Ban Ld 0 (AAAET v Michael Checkon, § i ately, in Geo. A. Miller. Jr., aon. O.|cutive committees have been formed stead of waiting for the companion Thomas B. Askew, Marsteller. |or are being formed in Altoona and regulation. The order pricing new Michael Zedek, Patton. Johnstown, and the smaller places in | brands was described as complex, John Sturak, Colver. Cambria, Blair, Somerset, Bedford, | making it impossible to issue at John A. Surgent, Barnesboro R. D.!| Huntingdon and Clinton counties, and | once. Wilfred L. Mallin, Nanty-Glo. {in Cumberland, Md. This form of or- | John Polinsky, Bakerton. | ganization, many separate groups, —eV Henry Montensen, Bakerton. | has been made necessary because o LIEUTENANT CASTNER Maxwell T. Gordon, Spangler. | the travel difficulties which make it | John M. Glinsky, Elmora. {impossible for the formation of one| IS REPORTED AS KILLED Alexander J. Hicks, Barnesboro. | central commttée working from Lo | are being drawn. Already eight stain- ed glass windows have been ordered T0 COAL FOR ITS from the Aurora Art Glass Co., in| Pittsburgh. The contract for pews has been made with the Josephine | St. Thomts’ as d as Ee : by Lams ° ns | Chief of the Bureau of Mines As year. The wooden structure, which| Serts Supply Will Last Three was trated under the Rev. Martin Ry- Thousand Years. an of St. Augustine in 1 | torney General Francis Biddle to save that have prevailed from one store | ng which was started early last were Domenic Demento, Hastings, |priation of approximately two and a - | half million dollars saved, yet: splendid start the new church will be | lia Godfrey, Ashville: Walter Robbins| The Government will lose at least - | three million dollars annually on the - | deal. »| There are two reasons for this, with the principal one the penny per ton tax placed on all coal mined, | a provision of the act, which amounts | to five million dollars yearly, twice the annual appropriation. It will be eliminated. Secondly, the Bituminous Coal age, since ‘“a good many” of the em- i ployes, according to Solid Fuels Ad- =! ministrator Harold L. Ickes, will be | transferred to the Solid Fuels Admin- | istration, thus remaining on the pay roll. | Division's departure from the nation- SYNTHETIC GASOLINE = scene will be somewhat of a mir- Church Furniture Co., Columbus, O. 72 er its first | Washington. — The nation must | Thus no complete change is ex- Rosensteel in September, 1889. It|for manufacturing synthetic oil and|which also are the offices of the Sol- Brands on the market prior toi was enlarged dur the Rev. John J. Lu which tim p ‘were Rt. Rev. Mon-|Synthetic liquid fuels. hnstown, the} he | types | States a ounda- DO] vf Z be LL ant Ul y " Hack- | eXperts believe that under for years to come. holding services in the parish hall, |" 7" . which is large enough to take Carel Of course, more petroleum and nat- of temporary needs of the congrega- ural gas will be discovered, but we fon. A temporary altar was procured do not know how much or how soon immediately after the fire. | they Will be found,” Dr. Fieldner de- clared. Edward A. Delarre, Ebensburg. | retto. | Earl A. Burley, Patton R. D. 1. It is planned, according to a state- | Lieutenant William J. Castner, of | Gilbert N. Natcher, Bakerton. | ment from the reverent director, to Burggettstown, Pa. husband of the] Louis Delattre, Patton, R. D. | gather such funds as will permit, as |former Miss Betty Nehrig, daughter | Walter J. Cantelope, Spangler. |g on as conditions are favorable, the | Of Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Nehrig, of Coast Guard. | erection of a new monastery for the | Patton, has been killed in action in Fred Klegg, Bakerton. | friars in Loretto, a new seminary, | the European war theatre, according Marines. . |and such necessary buildings as will | to a war department communication William J. Sherry, Baltimore, Md. | jevelop the famous Schwab estate in- | received by Mrs. Castner last Thurs- | to the finest small college to be found | 4a¥- I | | here: | The officer was a bombardier on CRESSON BOARD LIST | “This,” says Father Egan, “is real a1 air force plane, and it is believed mes post war planning, for St. Francis |(hat Ae lost his life during a bomb- The August gouta of Cresson Se-|was Just at the peak at resting i awn over Naz-occupied Eu- iv vice d, No. 1, was a| greatest efficiency and o eing able et . : : Jeotis rn. So usual. Two | adequately to serve those who came | He former Miss Nenrig and Lieut. Patton men are listed. The list fol-|to her, when fire so suddenly and | 2% ner were married last February cruelly s , m.” 7, in Sioux City, Iowa, whe lows: asics | cruelly struck hor down. | attics ea ay sn ie arines, seme Fr | : : NoVatt oi { | Castner is now mak h i Arthur E. Costello, Gallitzin. | HASTINGS AVIATOR | Pittsburgh aking her home in Gordon M. Beck, Cassandra. | . | GETS HONOR CITATION ¥ Mentone Cagis wes born on foil : Fo rr | September 17, , and was a grad- Plus &. go Sallitan, | Mrs. Rose Franklin of Hastings Uate of the Burgettstown High Sch- John Slovikosky, Flinton. | has been advised by the War Depart- | 201 and the University of Pittsburgh. Navy. | ment that her son, Lt. Isadore J [He nad gone to England with the Frank S. Lenhart, Lilly. | Franklin of the Army Air Transport | Bighth Air Corps and it is believed George Downs. Fallentimber. | Command, has been awarded the Air he was aboard the Liberty Bell Russell K. Winslow, Patton. |Madal and the Oak Leaf Cluster for | when killed. Surviving, besides his James V. Urgolitis, Hastings. | bravery in action. Lt. Franklin, a ite: are his parents and five sisters. Carl B. Quist, Hastings, R. D. | navigator who received his wings and | The entire local community unites in Robert L. Nagle, Cresson. —V | Dr. Fieldner told the committee ST AUGUSTINE 10 that experiments with the hydrogen- . {ation of coal into liquid fuels by a v | process of intensive heat and high PICNIC ON SUNDAY pressure nave been conducted at a | pilot plant of the Pittsburgh station SEER of the Bureau, but that work should Next Sunday, Aug. 15th, has bee selected as the date for the annual chure icnic St. Augustine’s Ca- ; i on hemi Malls AtlguTlings Os ufacture of synthetic oil and gaso- y nthe grove a * AU" jine was urged on the committee by gustine, and members of the parish | Bruce K. Brown, assistant eputy ad- are leaving no stone unturne 3 d to es- Saiabs. . S Prtwnle ih. tabilsh one of the best outings eer istration ot the Peiroloin admin oid Sess. 1 sta ith Our American civilization has been e aay wi! 8 rt wit a mass at built up on a basis involving adequate 10:30 o clock, following which the an- | supplies of petroleum”, Mr. Brown nial outing will take Place. There | geclared, “but it is a fact that we Will be a chicken dinner and supper, |are faced at present with a situation gates and various amusements. Dan- | wperein our petroleum supplies will ¢ing will be a feature in the evening. | jast only a relatively few years. It All friends of the parish are cordially lis the better part of good judgement invited to attend. [to begin to insure our future supplies y— | of liquid fuels now. Speedy action to insure the man- MINE RESCUE PUMPS produced and consumed at a rate of {more than 1,400,000,000 barrels per Pittsburgh.—John P. Busarello, | Year, whereas our known crude oil president of District 5 of the United | SuPPlies are only approximately 20,- Army. 1 C h William D. Leahey, Lilly. [21, 1942, has been in Africa since last | — Regis J. Johnson, Dean. | May. | INDIANA COAL MAN Clifford J. Willey, Smith Mills. { Lt. Franklin, a graduate of Has-| Joseph W. Krumenacker, Lilly. | tings High School, was a junior stu- | or Cletus W. Thomas, St. Benedict. {dent at St. Francis College, Loretto,| Charles J. Potter of Indiana, offi- John F. Muldoon, Lilly. when he enlisted as an aviation ca-|cial of the Rochester and Pittsburgh Quentin L. Rowland, Patton. | det in Johnstown on April 11, 1942. William J. Lynch, Gallitzin. | He received his preliminary trainin —_ | at Lawson Field, Ft. Benning, Ga. | of Bituminous Coal Research, Ine. it| Churchill-Roosevelt Confab. | Se —— |is announced. | President Roosevelt and Prime] Near End in Sicily. | Julian E. Tobey, of New York City, Minister Winston Churchill of Brit-; The decisive struggle for Sicily ap- | has been reappointed as chairman of ain, will hold a momentous sixth war} pears at hand as British and Ameri- | the committee. conference in Qeubec, with their dis-|can troops battle up steep lava slo-| Asa member of the advisory board cussions taking place in the famous | pes toward the Nazi mountain fort- | Mr. Potter will aid in direction of oal Co., has been named as a mem- | & | ber of the technical advisory board | old walled Citadel. The chiefs of staff | ress of Randazzo. Meanwhile British the coal industry’s research program BARNESBORO PLANS of both countries already are in the | warships, venturing close to the Ital-| aimed at improved and increased use old city awaiting the President’s ar-|ian mainland, have shelled a naval | of the fuel in residential and indus- rival. base only 20 miles from Naples. | trial applications. { | _—_— ( } —V ~ CARD OF THANKS. ; Brighter in Russia. | SATURDAY DEADLINE We wish to thank all those who| The fall of Nazi-occupied Kharkov | FOR REGISTRATIONS helped us in any way during our re-|in Russia seems imminent now. The | cent sorrow, the death of our father, | Russians have cut off one of the last | Next Saturday is the last day in James Fisher; also for the floral of-| escape railways for the Germans in| which you can register to vote at ferings and use of care at the fun-|a sudden wheelng movement. he AX: the primary election on September eral.—The Family. lis is on the defensive everywhere. 14th, and the deadline is set at noon. = | ere If you are not registered you must —James and David Morrison, bro- —Jewish boys and girls in Glas-| have your name on’ file with the thers, of Sheffield, England, have gow, Scotland, will pay for the plan-| Cambria County Commissioners be- donated $40,000 to purchase a life-| ting of 3,000 trees in Palestine in|fore that time. boat to be dedicated in memory of ljmemory of Jewish children killed by their sister. Nazis. > V. —Bonds and stamps buy security use at flooded mines. {bars at Mather Field, Cal, on Nov. | Sympathy for his wife and family. Mine Workers of America, disclosed | 000,000,000 barrels. Our present rate | Sly this week that portable pumping un- | of production exceeds the rate of its, paid for and assembled by the | NeW discoveries several fold and this state, will be set up at stragetic | Situation has existed for the past 5 NAMED TO POSITION points throughout Pennsylvania for Years. For example, last year the rate | | of discovery of new fields and exten- | He said this action was taken to | sion of old fields was only 60 per ‘cent | avoid repetition of the situation re- | Of production during the same per- | cently at Bridgeville when twelve 103 Based on the present rate of hours elapsed before pumping equip- | consumption and production, estim- ment could be borrowed to rescue g | ates with regard to the length of miners trapped by a flash flood. Mr, | time our petroleum products will last Busarello conferred with Governor | 27%, a2 low a iy years, and Martin and Richard Maize, secretary WV!th present techniques of finding Oll| airborne division and took his para- of mines, prior to his announcement, | the life expectancy of our petroleum ! | supplies barely exceeds thirty years.” | [ Mr. Brown also expressed the view {that the present status of the two AMATEUR PROGRAM | better known processes for manufac- FOR THIS EVENING | turing synthetic oil and gasoline from | bituminous coal are such “that both A community sing and amateur | of them can be developed to commer- Nr night program will be held this even- | cial status without a large amount ing (Thursday in the Barnesboro | of development work.” Municipal Stadium under the spon-| Sens. Joseph F. Guffey and James sorship of the Barnesboro Business- | J. Davis both said they would work men’s Association. to secure one of the plants to be W. C. Daryman will serve as the constructed under the terms of the master of ceremonies and Robert | O'Mahoney bill, if it is passed by | McAnulty will conduct the group sin- | Congress, for Western Pennsylvania. cornerstone was laid. | the U. S. Bureau of Mines, receutly | L SA of the old ‘corner. told a join congressional committee | the operators the CMA is expected to stone of the ¢ h revealed sone in. | Which is holding hearings on the O'- continue—for there's no way of pre- ition. The Rev. Phil-| Mahoney bill, under which the Bu-!dicting when they might have to be nstown on that oc-|real would be authorized to con-|taken over again, especially with the a powerful sermon,” | Struct and operate plants to make war time |of two others, ett says it will be simple in style but | conditions, these reserves may be ex- | ers, and produces annually more than substantial in form and up-to-date in | hausted in four or five years. Dr. 88 million tons of coal from 600 large every respect of the liturgy, capable | Fieldner also asserted that the am-|and 1400 minor operations. of caring for the needs of the parish | 0unt of available natural gas from| The problems which will arise which synthetic fuels may be used, | through abolition of the Coal Stabil- Since the fire the pastor has been | Will furnish only a thirty year sup-|ization Act will be numerous. In Nl now be continued at full size plants. | STATE TO PROVIDE | “Crude oil and natural gasoline arel H ALF MILLION PLANNED =: stores are allowed the same pleted and dedicted under its 1 2 han; ; | mark-up they had in March, 1942, | regident fen Thomas W [tum to bituminous coal as the source | pected in the Coal Division offices the pastorate of | gasoline, Dr. A. C. Fieldner, chief of | id Fuels Administration and the Coal dden in 1905 at|the fuels and explosives service of|Mines Administration. | Even if the pits are turned back to miners adamant in their stand that Ld has almost 70,000 mi~ | general, the act has been approved by the operators, coal men say, for lit brought a measure of peace to the industry. The penny per ton tax brough no opposition since, like most | cther hidden taxes, it was passed on to the ultimate consumer anyway. The first such act was passed in 1935 to correct evils in the industry caused by surplus capacity and con- sequent price cutting, which led to | wage cutting, labor trouble and hea- | vy financial losses. | The act was declared unconstitu- | tional but a later version was appro- ved, and the Bituminous Coal divis- |ion was formed. The law never be- | came permanent, and when it came up for renewal this year the House refused to vote the necessary funds i to carry on. | ‘The primary function of the agen- [cy was to establish minimum prices jon a basis of cost. With coal a vital- |ly needed commodity now there is | little worry about minimums. But af- | ter the war—what? | eee \ eee | EBENSBURG LIEUTENANT IS REPORTED WOUNDED | First Lt. Frank J. Myers, Jr., of { Ebensburg, was wounded in action | with the paratroopers in the invasion of Sicily, he notified his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Myers. The offi- | cer wrote he had suffered a stomach j wound and expected to be in the hos- pital for some time. He added that he had been presented the Purple Heart award in the hospital. The officer's company was the first division to land in Sicily. The Ebensburg young man was commiss- | ioned a second lieutenant in 1941 at | the time of his graduation from West { Point. He served with the army in- [fantry but later transferred to an trooper training at Fort Benning, in Georgia. He went to North Africa in early June as the commander of a paratroop company of 100. , BANNER GRANGE INDUCTS SEVERAL NEW MEMBERS Fourteen new members received the third and fourth degrees of the Banner Grange at Carrolltown last week. They are: Mrs. Eddie Randall, Mrs. Faber Farabaugh, Phyllis Eck- enrode, Mrs. Clyde Farabaugh, De- metrius Strittmatter, Claudia Sprin- ging. Mrs. William J. Taylor will be| Both are familiar with the vast coal | ger, Flo Ella Farabaugh, Lucy Man- at the piano. resources of Cambria county. Talent from Spaniger, Barnesboro, ——ee ee Hastings, Marsteller Heilwood and —Invest ten per cent or better of Twin Rocks, is entered. | 8US, John Strittmatter, Janet Fara- | pes Evalene Springer, Mr. and Mrs. Ivo Kirkpatrick and Mary Ruth your pay check in bonds and stamps. | Stoltz.
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