A GENERAL NEWSPAPEX DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF ORGANIZED LABOR IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA ( “Ly , \ << = Ij. of % I. Wf EN MTT Patton Courier, Established AN ATTAINMENT OF THE LARGEST GENERAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA URIER Oct., 1893 VOL. 51. NO. 29. SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR STATE'S SOLDIER VOTE CALENDAR IS MEMORIAL RITES FOR SENT TO BOARDS LAST SUNDAY IN MAY May Twenty-third Is Date for Conference on Can- vass for Names, The state’s “GI” election calendar! LEGION SETS ANNUAL Probable Will Be Held in Ebensburg-Cam- bria High School, and Will Be Colorful Event, A colorful patriotic pageant will PATTON HIGH SCHOOL TO GRUDUATE SENIORS Commencement exercises for sixty-, Loretta Agnes Christoff, John Ed- atre. Commencement speaker will be! Ann Dietrick, Myron Irvin Dietrick, Donald V. Hock, and diplomas will be | {felen Dobransky, Barbara Ann Fog- . Dr. BE. : y €l, James Augustus Fogel, Theresa awarded by Dr. B. J. Overberger, Juliana Gelermino, Maxine Elizabeth five seniors of Patton High Schooi gar Cooper. have been scheduled for Wednesday | Louise Frances Mary Cossitor, | evening, May 31, in the Grand The-| Woodrow Joseph Dandrea, Dolores | MINE LEADERS IN SAFETY MEETINGS IN NORTH COUNTY Emeigh Had Meeting Wednesday and Hastings Friday, Barnes- boro Later in Month, Safety rallies to stress the import- | HASTINGS FATHER OF THREE CHILDREN DIES IN CAR CRASH Clair M. Pierce Is Victim; Wife and Children Escape When Vehicle Overturns. Clair Melvin Pierce, 26 year old provided by the new absentee voting |be presented in conjunction with laws was drafted last Saturday by|the annual memorial services of the Bureau of Elections at Harris- | the Cambria Co. American Legion burg. Committee to be held Sunday, May Commonwealth officials prepared | 28. in the auditorium of the Ebens- to notify the counties and put the burg-Cambria High School, it was measures into effect with speed mat- | announced Sunday by Walter J. Stin- ching that of the special legislature, | Son. Ebensburg, general chairman of which enacted the bills finally last|the affair. Friday to compete the task in the Members of posts throughout the shortest possible time, five days. county will take part in the pageant. The Bureau outlined this “GI” ve-| Each year the Legion conducts mem- ting time table under the new laws: Orial services fcr deceased veterans fay 23-—This is the probable date for & meeting of county defense | council chairmen at Harrisburg to |Special tribute will be paid deceased receive details from the State Coun- | Velerans of the present war. cil of Defense and Election Bureau | Arrangements are being made to on the canvass for names and ad-|bave a nationally known speaker for dresses of Pennsylvanians of voting | the program, possibly a high ranking age in the armed forces, Merchant Legion official. Marine, Red Cross, Society of Friends| A parade will precede the services. women’s auxiliary service pilots and |The Legionnaires, together with the tes participated. This year, however, of all wars in which the United Sta-| president of the school board. Six members of the 1944 graduat- | ing class now are in the armed for-| ces and several others will enter ser- | vice immediately after the close of | the school term. Those now in uni- | form are Patrick Demetrius Bort- man, Mark Howard Brown, Jr., John | Ernest Gelemino, Albert Gene Lapen- | na, Anthony Francis Vescovi and| Charles Wellwood Winstlow. The junior-senior prom, social high- ight of the school term, will be held | Monday, May 29th. | Members of the graduating class are: Bernardine Agatha Airhart, Mary Leocadia Albright, Mark Richard | Arnold, Anthony Martin Bender, { Grace Delillius Annette Bender, | Rene Desire Beunier, Jr., Barbara | | Mary Bloom, Eugene Paul Boyle, | Anthony Richard Brasko, Julia | Pusha, Andrew William Callahan, | | truynak, | ill, Albert George Gobert. Helen Delrose Gooderham, Loret- ta Theresa Gresko, Alverna Cather- ine Hoover, Joseph Paul Ianiello, Raymond Harold Karlheim, Lee Har- old Kirk, Thelma Elizabeth Krug, Frederick Louis Laurito, Wilma June Leaper, Dorothy Jean Leary, Ann Cecelia Lehman, Leo Lesnak. Viola Marie Link, Mary Eleanor Long, Rose Marie Macalus, Elizabeth | Jean McNulty, Daniel Bernard Ott, George Michael Patrick, George Wil- liam Pettorini, Dorothy Louise Pe- William Pinali, Donald Thomas Resko, Emma Mae Riley, Mary Francis Ryan. Dorothy Elizabeth Sheehan, Edwin Singel, Bernard Clair Smale, Ellen Jane Thomas, Mary Eleanor Thomas, | Genevive Margaret Trexler, Henry Lcuis Vezza, Mildred Louise Warner, Dolores Marie Weakland, Helen Mar- garet Wyland, Mary Emily Yahner, Josephine Virginia Zungali. ance of accident prevention in mines | Hastings father of three children, who as a major factor in maintaining vi-| Monday passed his pre-induction ex- tal coal production are being held | amination for service in the Navy, this week in three Northern Cambria | was killed instanty on Monday night | coal producing communities. and his family miraculously escaped Dennis J. Keenan, state mine in-| Serious injury when their car over- spector for the Fifteenth Bituminous, turned on the Hastings and Westover District and chairman of the safety | read. | committee of the district, and John Coroner Patrick McDermott said J. Dougherty, federal mine inspector | Pierce, who was driving the car, was and secretary of the committee, are crushed to death when he was pinned completing plans for two rallies to-| under the machine when it turned ov- gether with union and company offi- | er after crashing into an embank- cials. One rally was held on Wednes- | ment. day evening of this week at Emeigh, The man’s wife and his three young another will be held in the Hastings | .hiidren escaped with body bruises union hall, Friday tvening, and will| ,, 4 chock. His wife was forced to start at 7:30. break two windows in the car and Plans for a big safety rally in Bar- | crawl from the wreckage and to ex- nesboro at 2:30 o'clock Sunday af-|tricate her children. ternoon at 2:30 o'clock, Sunday, May | jpfps. Pierce was treated by a Has- 21st, at which high ranking coal of-| tings physician for a laceration of ficials will be present, are HOW being | the jeft hand, and shock. Jeanette, the United Service organizations, the June 14—This date was tentatively set to start the canvass. July 4—Independence Day will he designated ‘military ballot day” if Governor Edward Martin follows suggestions that this date be set as- ide as the time when the judges and inspectors of election in the state's §,195 voting precincts will sit to re- c2ive the names and addresses from civilian defense workers, other or- ganizations and individuals. July 25—-This is the last day for candidates for state offices in the Nov. 7 election to withdraw. Aug. 4—This is the last day Jor substitutions for candidates who withdraw. Sept. 2—Ballots must be mailed by this date to all persons whose names | were received on “military ballot day.” These may be marked by the elector at any time on or before No- vember 7 and returned to the county election board. Sept. 23—County ElectionBo ards are required to post names of these electors. Ballots must be mailed within 24 hours to soldiers whose names and addresses are submitted | after Sept. 2 and their names posted | on a supplementary military file by | Nov. 2, Nov. 22—Counting of military bal- lcts will begin at ten a. m. Nov. 27—Returns must be certi- fied along with the official civilian count by this day to the State Elec-| tions Bureau so that certificates of election may be issued on Dec. 1 to successful candidates for the Senate and House. The Bureau is printed forms: Canvassing cards—Civilian defense workers will enter on these forms the name, address and age of the el- ector, the length of time he has been preparing these a U. S. citizen, resident of Pennsyl- | vania and his home election district, names of the informant and canvass- er. The soldier's serial number is desired but not mandatory. These cards will be returned to the pre- cinct the county commissioners’ office. Military ballot—This will be sim-| ilar to the usual type but names of | substituted candidates for state #18] FRANCIS for | fices and Democratic nominees President and Vice President will be color guards of each post in | county and the Ebensburg-Cambria' election boards and filed in| high school band will form at the] . . | Court House and march to the school. Three Patton Soldiers Receive | The procession will move promptly tat 2 p. m. Committee in charge of the affair is composed of Chairman Stinson, S. T Cawley, Cresson; county chairman; Louis A. Sheehan, Clay D. Harsh- | berger, Joseph T. Straub, and Earl | S Keedy, all of Johnstown; Gerald | Mears and Charles Meisel, of Ebens- | burg; Francis Green, Carrolltown; {Dr. H. M. Dunegan, Ebensburg; Fritz Morley, Earnesboro; and J. L. | Soisson, Cresson. Three veterans of [World War II also are committee | members. They are John Rose, Gall- |itzin; Frank Domonic, Carrolltown, | and Newton Miller, Johnstown. Further plans for the servces will | be cutlined at a committee meeting next Sunday. f V "PREPARE PLANS FOR MINE EXAMINATIONS Inspectors of the State Department of Mines are completing plans for conducting examinations in four dis- trict towns to qualify applicants for positions of mine foremen, assistant foremen, electricians and fire bosses. Examinations will be held in Bar- neshoro, Johnstown, Indiana and in Wincéber on June 1 and 2. Applicants {for second grade mine foremen and | electrician certificates will be requir- ied to attend the examination June 1. | Applicants for first grade mine | foreman certificates will be required | to attend the June 1 and 2 sessions, | while applicants for fire hoss certi- | ficates will be required to attend the | | examination June 2. | Dennis J. Keenan, inspector for he Fifteenth District, is chairman | of the following board which will su- | pervise the Barnesboro examinations | ---Wendell Young, Marsteller, repre- | senting the miners; Richard Todhun- {ter, Barnes and Tucker Coal Com- | pany, operators’ representative, and Samuel Cortis of Ebensburg, inspec- | tor for the Tenth district, secretary. T0 HONOR typewritten so that printing will not | TWO NATIONAL LEADERS be delayed. The voter may erase mis- takes in marking, but must do so | neatly. Instructions and envelopes—Envel- | opes will be printed in red for free aic mailing by special federal gov- ernment permission. The return en-| velope will also contain the elector’s affidavit of eligibility. The instruc- | tions direct the elector to appear be- | fore any person qualified to give an| oath, display the blank ballot, mark | it secretly in the officer's presence, | make affidavit and mail. | ROAD DEATHS DOWN IN CAMBRIA COUNTY Cambria County led other counties | of Pennsylvania in reduction of] highway deaths during the first quar- | ter of 1944, it was disclosed in a com- | parative analysis of traffic fatalities prepared by the state bureau of high- | way safety for the first three months | of this year and 1943. | The report shows that Cambria | i war.” Roy Honorary degrees will be conferred upon two high ranking national bus- iness leaders at the 97th annual com- mencement exercises of St. Francis College Saturday. Postmaster Gen- eral Frank C., Walker, former Dem- ati Hes he ; | paper, paper bags, cracker or cereal ocratic National chairman, will be | Cartons, old books and catalogs. presented with the doctor of letters d2gree for ‘directing the gigantic task of directing the mail to every part of the world during this global B. White, president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, will be honored with the degree of doc- tor of laws “in appreciation of the part bting played by America’s sys- tem of railroad transportation.” Guest speaker at the commence- ment will be Attorney Charles J. Mar- giotti. The exercises will be held in the reception room of the mansion of the late Charles M. Schwab, Religious portion of the program will be conducted in the Chapel of Christ the King. Relief rolls in Pennsylvania have dropped 76 per cent since the de- pression days of 1939, the Depart- completed. | four, and Clair, three, who were in Speakers at the Barnesboro meet- | thie back seat of the machine, sus- ing will include Richard Maize, sec-| tained slight body bruises and shock. “Purple Heart” Medal Awards Three Patton young men were re- tion was for wounds in action cently given Purple Heart Awards. |aly February 17th. He entered s ! Mre. Ed Dietrick, was decorated with | ceived his basic training at Fort the Purple Heart for wounds receiv- Bragg, N. C. He left ior ed in action against the enemy at the |in October, 1943. Another son, Sea- Anzio beachhead in Italy. Mr. and man second cass John Gelormino, is Mrs. Dietrick received the medal on |stationed at Bainbridge, Md | Tuesday, and additional decorations| Ffc. Frank Yannitelli, 21, son of jor battle engagements. Cpl. Dietrick | Purple Heart Award in recognition entered service on May 2, 1941, and |of wounds suffered while battling the received his basic training at Camp | Nazis in Italy. Shelby, Miss. He was sent overseas Ffc, Yannitelli was wounded Feb. in August, 1943. .. and Mrs. Die-| 8th of this year. He entered the Ar- trick have two other sons in service |my Service Mar. 12th, 1943, and re- --Pfc. Walter, with the Marines, sta-| ceived his basic training at Fort tioned at Hawaii, and Pvt. August, | Sackson, S. C. He was transferred ov- who is stationed somewhere in the!erseas in September, 1943, first be- Southwest Pacific, ing shipped to North Africa. | Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Gelormino| He is a patient at a base hospital | received the Purple Heart for their | and in a letter to his parents stated | son, Pvt. Louis C. Gelermino, on|he is improving rapidly. | Monday. This is the second time in| He was graduated from the Patton | four months Pvt. Gelermino was | High School in 1942. Abrother, Pvt. | wounded in action. The latest cita-|Joseph, is stationed in New Guinea. | { | DICK MCANN NOW ‘THE BOY SCOUTS | ARE THANKFUL FIRST LIEUTENANT of 410 Lincoln Street, Johnstown, and a former well known Patton young man, has been promoted to first lieutenant, it was announced The Boy Scouts of Northern Cam- {bria County say “Thanks” to the | public of all the surrounding towns i for their splendid cooperation in the | salvaging of waste paper. The pick-up, which started Friday, May 5th, and ended Sunday, May 7, netted over 53 tons, or 3 solid rail- | road cars. | They also want to thank the bus- | manding officer of the New York Civilian Schools Area of the A. A. F. Training Command. | Cpl. Frank Dietrick, son of Mr. and | vice on March 13th, 1943, ana re-| overseas | atiached included three silver stars,| Mr. and Mrs. Angelo Yannitelli, of | dent prevention program of the Na- signifying participation in three ma- | Patton, has been decorated with the tional Safety Council. last week by Col. M. 1. Carter, com- | Lt. McCann supervises the classi-| retary of the State Department of! Mines; James Mark, president of District No. 2 of the United Mine Workers of America; Thomas Moses, retired vice president of the U. S. Steel Corporotion, and chairman of the Coal Mining Division of the Na- tional Safety Council, and represen- tative of the U. S. Dept. of Mines. The safety rallies will make five conducted in the Fifteenth Bitumin- ous District during the past several | months in conjunction with the acci- | The council is striving to cut down | lost time accidents in mines in order to keep up production of coal which now looms as one of the most essen- tial materials in the Nation's war effort. OUTPUT OF GOAL IN AREA HIGH | BE | Coal production in the Central Pennsylvania region during the first twa months of the year reached more than 8,000,000 tons—nearly 1,000,000 tons over the output for the corres- { ponding period in 1943. |" Mines included in the 11 bitumin- ous districts in the regional coal ds produced 8,038,604 tons of the sital fuel, it was announced by | | Secretary of Mines Richard Maize. | | No compiliations have been complet- lea for the months of March and of | April. | During the first two months of] | 1645, more than 7,073,000 tons of {ccal were produced by the mines in| the districts included in the report of | the state mines secretary. { The district last year set an ali-| fie] war-vital {time coal production high and, barr- | ganist, | garet Young, Rebecca Young, Lou- An infant Mrs. Pierce was holding on her lap was not injured. State police from Ebensburg sub- station were informed by Mrs, Pierce that the family was enroute from Hastings to Westover and that Mr. Pierce was traveling at a rather fast rate of speed when the machine ap- proached a sharp curve about two and one-half miles north of Hastings. Police said the car left the road and crashed into an embankment and then turned over. Time of the fatal accident was listed as 9:15 p. m. Cor- one: McDermott said an inquest will not be necessary. Pierce, who Sunday observed his 26th birthday anniversary, passed his preinduction examination for en- trance into the Navy Monday in the Armed Forces Induction Center at Altoona. —— —— OFFICERS ELECTED BY C. D. OF A, UNIT Court Our Lady of Victory No. 722, Catholic Daughters of America, elected officers for the ensuing year al a meeting last week. Miss Loret- to E. Prindible was re-elected Grand Regent. Other officers elected are Mrs. Mary Harvey, vice regent; Mrs. Marguerite Sharbaugh, prophetess; Miss Rose Farabaugh, monitor: Miss Marie Garrity, lecturer; Mrs. Rose Mulvehill, treasurer; Miss Marie Ho- gue, historian; Mrs. Esther Krug, centinal; Mrs. Mary Hipps, financial secretary, Mrs. Mary Shannon, or- Mesdames Rose Arble, Mar- se Shissler, Winifred Owens, Amel- ia Binder and Nellie Morey, trustees. The new officers will be installed at a meeting in the near future. The members of the Court discussed plans for a reception for new mem- pers in June. |iness firms and others who used their | trucks for the pick-up and the rep- | resentatives of the Quaker Oats Co., | and National Biscuit Co., for their | assistance in loading of the paper. This paper will go to the Quaker Oais Company for use in making bomb casings for Berlin and Tokio. | Flease save all your waste paper for the next drive which will be in | about 60 days. | The Quaker Oats Company has al- [ready placed an order for all we can | get on our next drive. Following is the types of papers needed: Newspapers, magazines, cor- rugated and cardboard boxes and cor- | tons, wastebasket paper, wrapping You'll keep it for the Boy Scouts, won't you? iN an LIEUT. DAUGHERTY IS LISTED WAR PRISONER Second Lieutenant Joseph W. Dau- gherty, Barnesboro, reported lost fol- lowing a bombing mission over Ger- many last month, is now a war pris- oner of the Nazis, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Daugherty, were no- tified on Sunday. Lt Daugherty is one of four mem- bers of his family serving in the arm- ed forces. He joined the Army Air orce in July, 1942, and was com- missioned at Selman Field, La. He was assigntd to overseas duty last February and made his first raid ov- er enemy territory last March. fication of enlisted men and officers Vv in the New York area of the A. A. FF. | ing unforseen major work stoppages, | Training Command | miners should be able to point above | He is the husband of Mrs. Rosella | the mark for this year. SCHOOL SAFETY RALLY McCann, Johnstown, and the son of| A total of 24,520,994 tons of coal | IS SET FOR S Mrs. Mary A. McCann of Patton and | were produced in the bituminous re- | Carrolltow.n {gions of the state during the first] Entering the service February 24, ve months of fis year it was re- | = emtesraas 1942, Lt. McCann was graduated from | vealed by Secretary Maize. | Appealing to the pride of every the Adjutant General's Officer Can - | citizen of this territory, W. Winston Ny didate School, and commissioned a PATTON MINER | Davis, president of the Johnstown second lieutenant Feb. 24, 1943, | Motor Club, stated that for this year He is a graduate of St. Francis| | oc} Sua bag bees hiles > re College, Loretto, and formerly was] HELD IN THEF i at ; er 0 or from school | at an intersection protected by a { School Safety Patrol Member. Mr. Mike Dobransky, 43 year old Pat-| Davis added that one way in which an employment interviewer for the | United States Employment Service. | | | was committed to | this community can express its ap- y i ton coal miner, O MINE WORKERS VOID | the Cambria County jail without bail | preciation to the boys and girls on |to await court action following | school safety patrols for the splend- | charges of larceny lodged last week |id job they are doing is to help as- AFL APPLICATION =: the office of justice of the peace | sure the success of School Safety | David Westover of Barnesboro. | Patrol Rally Day on Saturday of : = tive | Dobransky confessed to stealing | this week. oe oF th Breese Counc su Tun Wwe sige law | ‘Tn omer years” the AAA Cu to take a definite “Yes or “No' ote | HETEN and Julia Buscha, both of Pat- | official reminds, “hundreds of School the application of the United Mine | ton Information was filed against | Safety Patrol Members participated Workers of ~iacrica [oc reaftilintion th: man by Pvt. Joseph Mannion of |in a national rally and gigantic pa- With the 4 FL. Ma 5th which. the Ebensburg sub-station of State |rade arranged by school, police and Yad Door Ponditiz or %y OE rome] Police, and County Detective Charles | AAA officials in Washington, D. C,, ted John L. Lovis Ry a ox Cowan. | but due to the war this is out of the thority voted tv he a The defendant told officers that he | question, It is up to this community Excotaive Board of the U, M. W. of had taken the money from an old| to let these youngsters know that A to official Terucst . Fre id of | cedar chest in the home of his two | this town is solidly behind them in Yo a y q sident | sisters-in-law, He hid part of the |protecting our children at school illiam Green of the A. F. L. Mon- | currency in a manger under straw, | crossings. Ry Tenn of he $60.000 check | placed $600 in a fruit jar and placed | —_— st year’s per cap- | jt yu . { QR 7 > iy wl 5 a tax. This action *swomatonky | but he stmec. oto pore | "I VANTZY COMMISSIONED. n : : 3 tion recovered. | Mr. and Mrs. Norbert F. Lantzy of : emer] oir mtn | Cresson, who was commissioned an EQUIPMENT QUOTAS. | ensign upon enlisting in the Navy — y... CARD OF THANKS, County had only three motor vehicle | nent of Public Assistance reports. fatalities this year—a decrease of | At the peak of the pre-war period of five from the eight recorded in the | public dependency 18 out of every same period of 1943—and only one |100 residents of the state were re- pedestrian death in the first quarter | ceiving some sort of aid from the of 1944—a decrease of four from the commonwealth compared to two out cf every 100 at the present time, the The flier is a graduate of Barnes- bero high school and Syracuse Uni- versity. He is married to the former Dorothy Kellogg, of Battle Creek, Mich., who resides in New York City. V. We wish to thank all those who | assisted us in any way during our| recent bereavement, the death of our father, John P. Baker; also for the floral offerings, spiritual bouquets, and the use of automobiles. — The Nurse Corps, has completed her in- Through the Barn and Barnyard |doctrination course in Norfolk Naval Equipment Industry Advisory Com- Hospital, Portsmouth, Va., and has mittee, WPB has been advised that | been assigned to duty at the Jack- despite some shortages in the availa- sonville, Fla., Naval Hospital. She is ble supply, 1944 production quotas of | a graduate of Cresson High School five reported in the initial three mon- ths of 1943. department added. —Buy bonds and stamps regularly! Children. bam and barnyard equipment will |and Allegheny General Hospital Nur- e realized. ses’ Training School, Pittsburgh.
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