A GENERAL NEWSPAPEX DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF ORGANIZED LABOR IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA 2 UNINN t 4 Union Press, Established May, 1935 1“ COURIER AN ATTAINMENT OF THE LARGEST GENERAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA VOL. 51. NO. 33. PATTON, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1944. SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR GOUNTY DEMOCRATS RE-ELECT TORQUATO AS PARTY CHAIRMAN Mrs, Helen Beattie of Ebensburg Is New Vice Chairman, Fol- lowing Committee Meet. John R. Torquato Friday night in the court house Ebensburg. Miss Helen Beattie of Ebebnsburg was elected vice chairman succeed- ing Mrs. Rosella Diamond of Sum- merhill, who was not a condidate for re-election, The election of both Mr. Torquato and Mrs. Beattie was by acclamation. Mrs. Beattie haa been active in merhill, who was not a candidate for many years, having served as party cimmitteewoman from the East Ward, Ebensburg since 1928. husband, Ed Beattie, also has been active in party councils for a good | many years, having served as com- mitteeman since 1924. A plea for harmony was made by Mr. Torquato following his election. “It has been my tndeavor since I have been the county chairman to cooperate with everyone,” Mr. Tor- quato said. “There is no reason why we should not have party harmony.” “We must nave narmony and ert every effort to reelect Franklin D. Roosevelt as President and also to reelect the entire county ticket and our candidates for the assembly in Johnstown.” Mr, Torquato lauded the record of Senator John J. Haluska, Assembly- men Tom Owens, Michael C. Cherve- nak, Jr., and Albert L. O'Connor. He also urged that workers do every-| thing in their power to elect Hiram G. Andrews and Frank J. Pentrack ‘as assemblymen in the city district. Mr. Torquato in urging the elec- tion of the Democrat nominee for cutting of any candidate.” In a short address Mrs. Beattie ur- tee do everything possible to pro- mote harmony in the party and pro- mised to cooperate n every possible manner with the chairman. Prior to the election Judge Ivan | the | committee to do everything possible | McKenrick urged members of in support of the forthcoming Fifth | War loan drive. He asked that the| members in entering and obtaining | subscriptions indicate the desire that | the amount subscribed be credited to | the committee. Nien FATHER MADDEN IS BACK IN THE STATES Captain Thomas E. Madden, chap- | lain with the artillery forces in Italy, | who was wounded in action in Janu- ary, has been evacuated to a hospital in the States, according to word re- ceived by his mother in Pittsburgh. Father Madden, former editor of the Altoona Register, was regorted wounded in the front line of battle. His left leg was reported broken by shrapnel. Since that time he has been in an Italian base hospital and in two hospitals in North Africa. He is re- poried to be progressing but is still confined to a cast. The chaplain reported to the Har- vard chaplain school Jan. 1, 1943. He was assigned to Fort Bragg, N. C,, upon completion of his training. He was sent to the North African theatre of war almost a year ago. TECH. SGT. JOS. GONAS, BARNESBORO, IS MISSING Tech. Sgt. Joseph Gonas, of Bar- nesboro, has been missing in action since last May 8th, following a bomb- ing mission over Nazi-occupied Eu- rope, the flier's mother, Mrs. Pearl Ganos, was informed by the War De- partment. Sgt. Gonas was a gunner on a fly- ing fortress and had been flying for several months from an American Air Force base somewhere in Eng- land, He was known to have partici- pated in numerous bombing missions over enemy territory before he was lost. The flier holds the Air Medal with two Oak Leaf clusters. The flier was graduated from the Barnesboro high school and entered | the army Sept. 21, 1942. He received | his basic training in St. Petersburg, Fla., and was later located in Clear- waler, Fla, t I's | Vs State Police from the Ebensburg | sub-station have taken nine youths | home. into custody in connection with a se- ries of robberies in Nanty-Glo, Eb- | ensburg and Mundy’s Corner. The | ycuths are said to have admitted im- | | county detectives assisted state police | sisted us in our recent bercavement, to have suffered a 8 in probing the series of robberies and | the illness and death of our wife and | of the right arm and" in the subsequent arrest of the youths. All the defendants are resi- | spiritual bouquets, dents of Nanty-Glo, Twin Rocks and | a Mundy’s Corner. of Johnstown war reelected chairman of the Cam- bria County Democratic Committee at ‘a meeting of the organization last at Her ex- | { Congress, declared, “there can be no | informed by the er France, C for the Carrolltown Coal Company. He has four brothers Cpl. Vincent, overseas; Earold, who recently | seas as a gunner; George, | Orleans; and Marlin, | Charles Shuss and Family. OVER FIVE MILLION MEN NOW SERVING ABROAD OR AT SEA Armed Might of Nation is Now I'remendous. More than 5,200,000 men of the U. S. Armed Forces are now on duty abroad or at sea, official announce- ments revealed on June 1st. The Navy disclosed that as of Ap- Guard and Marine Corps personnel were serving afloat or at foreign posts. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson announced earlier that 3,- 657,000 U, S. soldiers now are over- seas and that by the end of the year more than 5,000,000 will be in the battle theatres on every continent. Stimson also said .that the Allied master plan to overwhelm. Hitler's Furopean fortress is in its final stage and that the “period of decisive action is now at hand.” He said that over- seas deployment of U. S. air and ser- vice forces is almost completed and that the movement if battle-girded land armies is ‘rapidly nearing the | peak.” The Navy announcement also said (that an additional 900,000 Navy per- sonnel currently are either enroute overseas or are in training for sea or foreign duty. These men, added to those already abroad would give the United St-tes an overseas military | force of more than 6,000,000 trained jand equipped to crack Japan and | Germany. Stimson revealed that the Army | Air Forces possess 75,000 planes, in- | cluding 34,000 combat craft and is | operating 923 bases in foreign soil, including 750 air fields. Assistant | Secretary of the Navy Artemus Gates recently announced that the | Navy soon would have 37,700 planes | of all types. A combnation of these | figures shows that the armed forces | will have a total air strength of 112,- 700 planes. Stimson also disclosed U. S. cas- | nalti in Ital umber 55,150 from ged that the members of the commit- | ualies in llaly B x : the time of the initial landing last September, to May 27, 16 days afi the current offensive started: The to- tal includes 9,686 killed, 39,910 woun- ded and 8,554 missing. SERGEANT WILLIAMS MISSING IN ACTION Sgt. John W. Williams, known to | | his many local friends as “Jack,”, a|ty. He exp son of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Williams of | cer should be Patton, has been missing in action! since April 22nd, according to word | received by his parents. The soldier, | a tail gunner on a Flying Fortress, | was listed missing when his plane | failed to return after a bombing mis- | sion over Germany. The flier entered the Air Force in March of 1943, and was assigned to| overstas duty early in April. A bro- ther, Cpl. Bert A. is with the Army in Montana, and another brother, | Pvt. Robert is with the Army in Miss- issippi. TED REAM MISSING OVER FRENCH AREA Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ream, of St.! to Ebensburg and pe Benedict, the former a well known! Elmo Gray, also of Wi official of the L. U. 2008, Mine Workers of America, have been | issued. Perkins was Department | Gray's wife, in who that their son, First Lieutenant The- | is registered. odore R. Ream, 22, has been missing in action since May 27 when he fail-| ted impersonation ed to return from a bombing raid ov- kins, Gray and the la! | kins and Gray each The flier was sent overseas eleven |to pay fines of $50 months ago and was first based in|Mrs. Gray was ord North Africa and later, Italy. | 2) joined the Army Air Forces on Apr. |ént Gray was co 11,1942, and was commissioned in De- | county jail. cember of that year at Tucson, Ari-| zona, He was elevated to the rank of |€d by the Dravo first lieutenant four moths ago. War Lt. Ream graduated in 1940 from arrolltown High School and worked in service- 1 Staff Sgt. | returned to he States after many missions over- seaman, econd class, with the Navy at New S | a — ay CARD OF THANKS. | We wish in this manner to thank { mother, Mrs. Evelyn Shuss, for the | loss of blood before gs, | The lad was taken floral offerin nd use of cars at the funeral |p Official Announcements Display ril 1 some 1,566,000 Navy, Coast tomcbile operato: friend. x United | name the learner's He [of $25 and costs. Im | pany which is sinking in the Wilmore basin | Whte Coal Mning Co: — Te SPANGLER BAY pharmacist’s | was injured severel mate second class, with the Navy. |weck The lad was Two sisters, Mary and Chloe, are at|in the rain for some | family, alarmed by h | ted a search that led® of the youth near : : r | started to run down plication in the robberies. Cambria fa] our friends who so generously as- | stumbled on a glass ing. tlefields that will be created—and home to help! ing of this imperative drive! || bria county has its quota to meet. 1 | the interest of OUR boys! INVASION---AND YOU! The Army of Humanity is on the march! The hour of Liberation has struck! The flower of the youth of the United States and her Allies are on the soil of France, starting a bloody task that will not be easy—a task that may require weeks, and months, and possibly even much long- er, a task that, too, will bring many anxious hours, and days, and weeks, and months, to so many of us right here at home who have family mem- ber—loved ones—now fighting, or later to be fighting, on the vast bat- there is much we CAN do here at Next Monday, June 12th, the campaign for the Fifth War Loan will begin. There could be no more appropriate time than now for the open- Now, when the dollars of we folks here at home will keep flowing freely all the needed supplies and materials that this great army of Invasion of Hitlerism will require. The next time you write to that fighing man on the front in France— or on any of our world-wide fronts—will you be able tc tell him what you have done about the Fifth War Loan? Every community in Cam- Will you do your share? Will you help “back the attack?” You can do no less than invest your money in COUNTY DEFENSE HEADS INSTRUCTED | Prepare for C Send Ballots to Absentee Service Folks, | Cambria county for the general elec- tion in November were given to div- conferences held Sunday town and Ebensburg. All homes from which one or more in Johns- their country will be canvassed be- tween June 14 and 28 by civilian de- fense workers to obtain the informa- | tion needed to mail out ballots to CORPUS CHRISTI AT ST. LAWRENGE The feast of Corpus Christi, in honor of the Institution of the Bless- ed Sacrament will be solemnized in St. Lawrence church, next Sun- | day morning, June 11th. The services will begin with a high mass at nine o'clock. Special music for the occasion, rendered by the St. Lawrence choir, will consist of the “Missa Exultet,” by Witt, with the “Gor Jesu” by Shultes, as the Offer- | tory motet. | Iramediately after the Mass the | entire congregation will join in the | outdoor procession of the Blessed | Sacrament. Two special altars will | be erected in the cemetery, where | Benediction will be given. The services will close with Bene- | diction in church, and the singing of | the “Holy God.” { —eien NEED FOR SERVICE OFFICER. STRESSED 0h The need for a service offi -COUDLY.- Was, SiresSeL care of ve war was hi the responsi ers and all © to politics and. terans’ organ After the the several vet present made a missioners set u ployment of suc officials took thi sideration and gestion in the n in CAMBRIA MEN T0 ENTER NAVY | Riblett, No. 1; John Kimball, No. 2; | | absentee voters. { Walter J. Stinson, county defense {chairman for the canvass. His as- | sistants will be Walter Anderson, Judge A. A. Nelson and Harry Zie- me. Zone supervisors will be Herman The following men, registered with | and Ralph Greenwood, No. 3. Cambria Co. Selective Board No. 1,| have | been ordered to report this month to| the Armed Forces Induction Center|; na] leaders with headquarters in Cresson, in Altoona to be sworn into the Navy: Gerald Charles Harvey, Gallitzin. Chester Paul Hartline, Cassandra. | Thomas Raymond Bradley, Loret- to, R. D. Albert Edward Zakowsky, Patton D cil will be in charge of the canvass in his respective district. His divis- ,in turn, will direct the | canvass by members of the various! units such as air raid wardens, aux- iliary firemen, etc. | The Pennsylvania Council of De- | fense was asked to make the canvass under authority of Act No. 4, Special anvass Required to Instructions on the important task | | of registering every absentee voter in | tory pressing the industry, coal mines isional leaders of civilian defense at | stimulate members have gone forth to serve The chairman of each defense coun- ! MINES TO LAUNGH DRIVE TO BOOST ~~ COAL PRODUCTION | Both United Mine Workers and Coal Operators in District Behind the Move, | | — With the heaviest demands in hig- | of the district within the next week | will launch a concerted effort to increased production, it | was announced on Monday. Production committees will be re- | organized at all mines in the Johns- | town region under the program map- | ped out at a meeting of officials of | the Central Pennsylvania Coal Pro- | ducers’ Association and District No. 2 of the United Mine Workers of America. i B. W. Deringer, prcduction mana- | ger for the operators, and Clarence Donaldson, U. M, W. vice president, | of District 2, will head the drive. | The two ce-chairman of the pro- duction committee of the Central i Pennsylvania fields will go to Wash- ington Monday to meet with various agencies, including the War Manpow- er Commission and the War Produc- tion Board, it was announced. The new production movement will be in- | augurated immediately following their return. Letters are being prepared jointly | by the Central Pennsylvania Produc- | ers and the mine union to be forward- "Robert James Judd, Ashville, R. D.| Session of the Assembly of 944, and, | ed tc all mines of the region advis- Lewis Earl Eberhart, Cresson. Pete Lewis Polly, Lilly. William F. Palovsky, Altoona R. D. John Ellis Gates, Flinton, R. D. Joseph acob Skura, Lilly R. D. Robert John Nagle, Dysart, R. D. Eenry George Betlow, Patton. Francis Henry Henderson, Gallitzin. SAYS MANY COAL MINERS NEEDED _ manpower oot is to get an ade- ime machinery run- “least 30,000 more immediately. He gperators regard this imum and would be airman explained that deficit for the coal pril 1, 1945, is 39,000,- out a 20-day supply. ‘both bituminous and for a more stragetic labor in order to assure that they will have imperative that ct enforcement of area GGCOD SAMA Three persons fines totaling $12 day last after a take a state es John R. Perkins, 2i When police discov: h ‘programs and a better | to| “production quotas in the| ty | PRESENTED | PATTON GRADUATES itation of awards to outstan- | ers of the graduating class | High school, featured the | ent exercises on Wednes- ming of last week in Grand Ad nds were presented by the | x gion to Anna Lehman § W. Winslow. Winslow, “the Navy, was presented | absentia. Rene Beunier, | the science award. Legion | | for. outstanding eight grade | 5 went to Lewis Resko and Dietrick. LS famencement speaker was Don- | Both Perkins and | IN FAL While hurrying ho torm, Irvin Sheriff, {} nd Mrs, Wilbert. Si Young Sheriff wi ita] where his ¢ ond o¢k of Allentown. Diplomas | resented the 66 students by . Bosserman, supervising pe AUGH NAMED AS HAIRMAN, WFC GROUP| es A. Farabaugh of Bradley | m, has been reappointed head | sagricultural division of the | Finance Committee, Rudolph G.| mann, Cambria county chair- has announced. ome of the vice chairman in the | prthof the county, are: E. S. Dil-| Victor Kline, Hastings; arer, Susquehanna Nedimyer, Chest Township; | Gooderham, East Carroll; Bede | Vo oo ttempt will be made to con- uly 8. needed to keep; could get 50,000 miore | s necessary that we [rence Grove (day, June 18th, for the benefit of the St. Lawrence church. C.1 us township; | ments also will be | : M et every rural home in Cambria ly, ty: either personally or by mail, | War Theatre i anseffort to sell extra War Bonds | received by the soldier’ the 5th War Loan drive June |the War Department. | of the commonwealth as required in { this act, promulgated rules and reg- | ulations for the absentee voter can- | vass. Under the setup, the civilian feise workers will carry identifica- | ton cards which they will present i when seeking information. No infor- mution beyond that required for fill-| ing out the official card is to be sou- | ght. As a move to guarantee that the absentee voter's correct address will | be cn hand when the ballots are mail- | ed out, the canvasser’s will leave a change of address card at each home received after the canvass has been made. BITUMINOUS MINES RETURNED TO OWNERS | Secretary of the Interior Harold L. | Iickes last Wednesday night announ- ced the return of all bituminous mines | held by the government, except pro- | perties of the Southern Coal Produc- | ers’ Association, to private possess- {ion and operation. Ickes returned the mines after be-' {ing notified that the operators will | put into effect immediately a new wage contract. The mines were taken over by the gevernment thirteen months ago. Ickes pointed out that the South- ern group of operators had not then signed a wage contract. Vee PATTON MOOSE INITIATES CLASS Initiation of 113 candidates featur-| ed a gathering of the Patton Lodge 0. 488, Loyal Order of Moose, last Sunday afternoon, June 4th. The Bar-' nesboro Degree Team performed the initiatory work of the ritual. Region- al Director, J. Jack Stoehr, P. S. G,, was the principal speaker of the af- ternoon. Visiting lodge members present in- clued Barnesboro, Cresson, Gallitzin, Coalport and Clearfield, A supper was prepared and served by the Ladies of the Moise, to mem- bers and their friends. Music for the evening was furnished by the Fara- | baugh Orchestra of Carrolltown. | Membership in the Patton Moose Lodge has been growing by leaps and! bounds, and will soon reach the 500 | mark. EV i | CRICKEN AND NOODLE | SUPPER SCHEDULED A chicken and noodle supper is| scheduled to be held in the St. Law- | on Father's Day, Sun- The public is cordially invited. There will also be games and am-! ements and an enjoyable outing can e looked forward to. Supper will be served from 4:30 to 6:30. Refresh- served on the general @wley, Wes Carroll; T. R. Krug, | avotnas 3 1d: Township; Ray Meloy, Al-| ———l Np Township. | Pfc. Robert B. Mason, a son of] rs. Rosa Mason of Barnesboro, was | led in action in the Mediterranean | , according to dispatch | s mother from | No details of his death were received,’ ! de- ‘| with the approval of the secretary | ing them of the new program and ur- | ging full cooperation in the campaign | for greater production of war vital { fuel. Committees have been functioning at mines of the district but the drive | bogged down during the difficulties encountered by the industry over a new contract last year. Plans for a revival of all commit- tecs was made at a conference of Charles O'Neill, president, and Wal- ter Jones, secretary, of the produc- ers’ Association and James Mark, president of the miners’ union. Ral- lies will be conducted in communi- ties to ties to stress the vital necessity ‘maintaining peak production, accor- ding to present plans. Slashes in ‘the working personnel of the coal mines has added to. the production woes of the operations with the War Manpower Commission promising high priority to the indus- try in recruitment of miners. Letters have been forwarded by the Central Pennsylvania producers’ group to members informing them to make payment of the $40 retroactive amount according to terms of the contract negotiated with the union and approved recently by the War Labor Board. A question of whether ‘‘day” wor- kers, those not actually producing the coal, would share in the payment, has been cleared up with announcement that all mine workers will receive re- troactive pay. Miners in the employ of the com- puny from April 1 to June 19, inclu- sive, during the past year, will re- ceive the $40 and others will be paid pro rata for the period they worked, according to the letter. Another concession made by the Central Pennsylvania producers is the payment of the retroactive money to employes who were sick or injur- ed. These are considered on the pay- roll, the producers explained. Terms of the agreement call for payment of $5 per week to the min- ers until the $40. is paid. GERALDINE BENDER, OF PATTON, IS BRIDE Miss Geraldine Bender, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vincent A. Bender of Patton, became the bride of Germaine Niebauer, son of Mr. and Mrs. An- thony Niebauer of St. Lawrence, at a ceremony performed last Thursday ia St. Lawrence Catholic Church by Rev. Father -Flavian YeMlnko, O. S. B., pastor. Miss Loretta Bender, a sister of the bride ,and Leonard Bender, her cousin, were the attendants. A wed- ding breakfast was served in the Eb- enshurg Inn, The couple will reside in Patton where the bridegroom is employed. ——ee Xr COUNTY ADOPTS RULE ON TAX COMPROMISES The Cambria County Commission- ers last week passed a resolution in the matter of compromise of taxes with the owners of the properties. No compromise will be accepted by the county commissioners at less than face value of all taxes unless the of- fer or compromise is accompanied by resolutions from the other taxing au- thorities concerned agreeing to the compromise. This rule does not ap- piy to the sale or properties after the right of redemption has expired. In that case any one is privileged to make a higher offer. of.
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