OF ORGANIZED = A GENERAL NEWSPAPEX DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS UNINN Union Press, Established May, 19356 LABOR IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA AN ATTAINMENT OF THE LARGEST GENERAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA VOL. 51. NO. 47. PATTON, PENNSYLVANIA. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1944. SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR REGISTRATION DAYS SET FOR VOTERS IN COUNTY NEXT WEEK or os oo ir ge 1 2 Persons Not Registered or Those ch, Bakerton, who was injured fatal- Who Have Changed Address May Correct Status, The Cambria ers have designated approximately | 80 places in the county at which per- | sons may register to become eligiole al election. tc vote during the November sine LADY PRISONER OF JAPS Registration on a county-wide ba- | sis will take place on Sept. 21 and | 22. Registrars will sit in the estab- lished places between 10 a. m. and 3 | Pp. m. and 7 to 10 p. m. on specified | days. Persons not registered or the past two years may register at the designated places. Voters the registrars appear in their respec- | tive communities. Registrars will be selected by the | chairmen of both the Democratic and | Republican parties, each to name one. Their names will be submitted to the county commissioners for fi- nal approval. Both major parties in the county have laid the groundwork for exten- sive campaigns to register all of the persons now unable to cast ballots. List of registration places in the northern section of the county are: September 21st, Allegheny Township, Townstip buil- ding; Gallitzin, Miners’ Hall; Patton, Slovak Building; Hastings, Munici- pal Building; Flinton, Alpine Hotel; Ashville, Y. M. 1. Building; Tunnel- hill, Municipal Building; Cresson, Municipal Building; Bakerton, Nixon Theatre; Barnesbcro, McMillan and Killen Building; Carrolltown, Munici- pal Building. September 22. Blandburg, Community Hall; Cou- pon, Miners’ Hall; Gallitzin, Muni- cipal Building; Sankertown, Munici- pal Building; Cresson Township, in Township building; Patton, Munici- pal Building; Spangler. Municipal Building; Elder Township, in Y. M. I. hall at St. Boniface; Barnesboro, Fire Hall; St. Benedict, Miners’ Hall; Marsteller, Community Building; Col- county commission- | PRIEST'S DEATH © WILL BE PROBED citizens of whatever political f vote at the General Eleetion in An inquest into the death of Rev. | tor of Sacred Heart Catholic Chux |1ly on Aug. 28, whenghis car was hit | by a Pennsylvania Railroad Freight convenient your home. ARE YOU QUALIFIED TO VOTE? This is not a partisan political appeal. tion—and it can be done easily on week, when registrars will sit on one or both days, at some point 3p Mm EPISCOPAL BISHOP COMING ON SUNDAY Bishop Pardue of the Pittsburgh Diocese of the Episcopal Church will | visit Patton on Sunday, Sept. 17th. | Services wiil be in Trinity Church at It is an appeal to all aith, who now are not eligible to Noven.ber, to correct that condi- I'hursday or Friday of next All are invited to attend. This is [oe a De tc oe ay You are not eligible to vote if you are not registered; if you | the Bishop's first visit to Patton and] oroner ratrick McbLermo wi } : if v y hav ved | it is hoped that a coridal welcome 1n : av , y » rears . av ave moved empane! a jury at the Stevens Funer- have not voted in the past two years, or if you may have moved | the tor, of 8 larse vongregation willl al Home, Carrolltown. from one voting precinet to another. . be present to Erect him. Elsewhere in this issue of the Press-Courier is a news story as ee ee well as an advertisement by the County Commissioners advising of the time, day and plaees of r If you are among the inelgible at this time, BILLY’ MELLON IS egistration. Read of it. set yourself rig FIRST-AID MEET OF ~ MINERS SATURDAY FOR BARNESBORO Four Bituminous Di Districts Will | Enter Teams in Competition at Municipal Stadium. | Plans for the annual first-aid con~ test to be held on Saturday of this | week in the Barnesboro Municipal Stadium under sponsorship of four | groups of the Mining industry are now practically ccmpleted, it has beem announced by general chairman Riche T0 SPEAK HERE FRIDAY = 3 MISSING IN AUSTRIA ard Todhunter, Jr. ou First-aid teams from Be an American in the truest sense of the word. See to it that 3 the eighth, Vs5. Pals] oe have YOu R duty accomplished by exercising your right of fran- | : el | tenth, fifteenth and eighteenth bitu- Frigg Sori g Soonratt Tee chise. You would be denied that privilege were you an inhabitant Fa jmp gily ) Me On minous districts will participate in y > ; | “ « . ‘ i Mr, Mrs. A ’ a i 1di ki » Sr i Te i oo {| of a totalitarian government, such as Germany and Japan, So I Te Gh Pat the event. A program, including ad- speak in the Presbyterian Church, in | . : |Green St, Harrisburg, former Patl-|g..q505 py high ranking officials, those i who have changed their addresses, or | persons who have not voted during | week, September also | may change party affiliations when | Patton, on Friday evening of puis | ton residents, has been missing in acs 15th, at eight | | cock, Mrs. Coonradt has lived in Chi. na for more than twenty years. She and her husband have both | | been in Japanese Concentration camps | | and came home on the second trip of | the Gripsholm, This meeting is for in the commu- | {nity who are interested in hearing ese occupation of China. A collection | | will be taken. | Mr. Coonradt has been returned by |buard, as well as representatives of |.firmative declaration for the Repub- and commission last the Presbyterian Board of Missions practically every mine union local in to Free China, and is now in Kun- | the area, are attending the interna- ming. | tional convention of the U. M. W. of me Ne | A. in Cincinnatti. SPANGLER HOSPITAL | ber of delegates allotted to it. The : | convention sessions opened on Tues- ADMITS 5 NURSE CLASS! day of this week and will last = ten days. : The sessions give all promise of being spirited. In his opening address President John L. Lewis of the U. M. W., severely criticized the Roosevelt administration the CIO Political Ac- Ten applican of surrounding towns have been accepted into the fall class of the Miners’ Hospital School of Nursing. They enrolled at g Indiana State Teachers’ College on |tion Committee and Ray Edmundson, September 11, 1644. There they will | insurgent leader in the Mine Work- complete the preliminary portion of | ers, but, however, did not mention their training career. their names. Lewis emphasized the The Miners’ Hospital School of | theme that the miners asked ne spe- |: Nursing is a member of the United |Cial privilege but only equality ~of States Cadet Nurse program. The | treatment. International Convention of Mine Workers In Session This Week at Cincinatti, ORO coe’ vee coming vo James Mark, president of District, first-hand information of the Japan-|n, 9 of the United Mine Workers of | lation the question whether he would | America, and members of the district tion's political temper with an af.|March of 1942. He received his wings Total membership | pro-Roosevelt resolutions, and five op-| | of a local union determines the num- | posed, according to press reports. TIGHTENS | RULE ULE ON tion over Austria since August 24th, | according to a war department tele- { gram received by his wife, Mrs. Hel- en Lantzy Mellon, of Hastings. Overseas since July 4th, the Har- pilot of a Flying Fortress. He was a | graduate of the Patton high school, However, Mr. Lewis left to mpecu- | and a former employee of the Her- shey Creamery Company at Harris-| take a further test of the conven- | burg prior to entering the service in| February at; lican presidential candidate. | Marfa, Texas, after training in Cal-| The printed booklet of resolutions | ifornia and Toman introduced by local unions showed 15 | Back here in Cambria County last | week, preceding the convention, four | r SALES mine locals in the county appointed | officers and members as representa- | ee emm—— tives to the labor committee of the| (Control by the OPA over used car Cambria county Democratic Commit- | transactions has been tightened by a tee, and in addition to appointing a| new decree under which dealers as committee, St. Michael Local Union |yell as all other sellers must file a Ne. S648, also Be ie gen sestiticgte o Sensis Witi tee Joes; ation board. Tae ruling be e ef- TS ited support toward his re-el- | | oitee on Tuesday. Dealers are re- | guired to file not later than Sep- In addition to St. Michael, locals | tember 21 an inventory report of all 1aming committee members were | used cars in their stock as of Mon- Elmora Local 1269, Barnesboro, 7201, : £ thi k. and Dean, 7018. Oy ys oe school has an enrollment of 34 stu- dents. The students of the new class are: Miss Freda Ross, Ebensburg; Miss Eleanor Thomas, St. Boniface; Eo) a i i EMEIGH : SOLDIER IN SUPREME SACRIFICE ver, Ebensburg Coal Co. Building; |Miss Betty Jane Nevill, Washington, Revloc, Miners’ Hall; Emeigh, Miners’ | Pa.; Miss Rita Kline, Marsteller; Hall. Eg Miss Pauline Venesky, Bakerton; Pfc. Sane 1 Homady, 23 Year od Residents of the Patton Communi: | Miss Ruth’ Gressius,” Barnesboro; | Son Of MF. and Mss, George iy | Miss LaVaugin Baker, Hastings; | of Emeigh Run, was killed August ty will notice that the registrars will sit here both Thursday and Friday of next week. Thursday they will be at the second ward voting place, and on Friday at the Municipal building. Re- gardless of where your residence now is, you can register with any board, anywhere, in the county. V CARROLLTOWN SOLDIER SERIOUSLY WOUNDED Cpl. Mark A. Buck, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Buck, of Carrolltown, was seriously wounded in France on August 21, according to a message] received by his parents from the War Department. He had been in France less than three weeks. Cpl. Buck was inducted in July, 1942, and spent 13 moths at Camp Phillips, Kan., and in Arizona. He went overseas on the while fighting in Burma, his mother was informed by the War Depart- rient. Ae The soldier entered the service ab- out two years ago and had been ov- erseas several months when he lost BOCK NEW HIGHWAY his life. He was born in Emeigh Run, in August 1921, a son of George and HEAD IN CAMBRIA Julia (Felicky) Homady. John and Pfe. Two brothers—Cpl. a, broil in the armed forces, He jalso leaves his parents and a brother, th at] perintendent of maintenance for mel Avert, and a sister, Helen, bo % State Highway Department at Ebens- | A requiem high mass for the re-| burg en Monday of tais wesk. Me. | pose of the soldier's soul will be cel- | Bock succeeds Leroy C. Edkins, of | tee ot Oa ne Saturday in St. Uber Yoder Towngy. John’s Greek Catholic Church, Bar. Announcement also was made that nesboro. Mr. Edkins has been transferred of the office of the Department of High- | ways in Harrisburg. It has not been Miss Marion Young, Hastings; Miss |W Wanda King, Westover, and Miss Ru- by Shovestull, Spirglen Henry T. Bock, of k, of Southmont Bor- | ough, became Cambria County's su- 4th of last July. Cpl. Buck was a graduate of the Carrolltown High School and work- ed as a carpenter prior to his icin tion. He has two brothers in the Sor! vice—Sgt. Robert J. Buck, who has been overseas for two years, and Pfc. | Thomas, who is stationed at a camp in Texas. tne A tid. HERHEI TWINS, AMSBRY, BOTH SUFFER WOUNDS Twin brothers from the Northern Cambria community of Amsbry have been wounded in the fighting in France according to information re- ceived by relatives. Sgt. George Herhei, 26, was woun- ded on June 27 in the vicinity of Cherbourg and his twin brother Sgt. Paul, was wounded on July 7th. Both are infantrymen. George entered the army in June of 1939, and his twin joined the follow- ing September. They have two bro- | thers in service—Frank and John. Two others, Stephen and Andrew, have been given medical discharges. George is married and his wife lives at Cresson. mV SOME BARNESBORO STORES CLOSED FOR HOLIDAYS Because of the Jewish Holidays, some of the Barnesboro stores will be closed next Monday and Tuesday, September 18 and 19, as well as on Wednesday, September 27th. Carrolltown Tops Spangler Carrolltown High School scored a fourth period touch down and extra point to edge out Spangler, 7 to 6, in the opening game on the Carroll- town field under the lights last Fri- day night. revealed what his new duites will be. | LIEB “APPOINTED TED AS Mr. Edkins became superintendent | Hil DEMS’ SECRETARY of the Cambria county aintenarice | John R. Torquato, 0, chairman of the office in July, 1943, succeeding Bay- | ard T. Skilling, who was dismissed. | Prior to his appointment as Super- | campria County Democratic Commit- intendent in Cambria County, Mr. Ed- [tee, has announced the appointment kins was a junior construction engin-| + George Lieb of Nicktown as secre- eer of the state highway district of- tary of the county committee. fice at ia Mr. Lieb was appointed to serve Mr. Bock is a native of Johnstown during the coming two year term. and graduated from Washington and Lee University in 1923 with a B. A.|)e4horo, who held the position for degree. He has currently been traffic | ;pout six months. manager for the Somerset Bus Com- Th y : v > wit] i i e new county secretary, who is Dany, With offices in Somerset, a po- supervising principal of the Barr sition he has held the past two years. T hi hools has been active in He is married to the former Mary ownsnip Sehoals, B t of Johnst d is the fa Democratic circles in the north or Brn. i 0 Si ang J3 Le the county for the past 20 years. He ther © 700 oh en has served as committeeman and district chairman in Barr TownAlip MONASTERY IN FRANCE at various times during the last 14 NOT DAMAGED BY WAR) years. v CRESSON BOARD LISTS The Carmelite Nuns of Loretto, have received word that the Carmel- ite Monastery at Lisieux, France, has QUOTA OF SELECTEES not been damaged as a result of the Cresson Draft Board, No. 1, cover- hug 8 sph 5 ay , eto Car i COUNTY [Al EAGIVES [Ortite ni resulted in ome dealers offering to buy used He succeeds Thomas Kortz of Bar- |in Camp Blanding, Fla. He was as- | ve not. A SO Son above ceiling prices. FREELY OF BLOOD oer the new regulation, price erks at local pnoards will be able to After com loti } oSS- es all sales. Certificates must be ful ; » oe 2 nighly ea | filed not later than five days after ul canvass in the north county areas| pe transaction is made. The form for blood for the U. 8. Army Elood calls for a complete description of Bank, the mobile unit of the Red | the car, the selling price and certifi- | Cross now is located in Johnstown, | ¢2tion by both buyer and seller that [the finishing period in the north be- {the price is not in violation of the |ing at Barneshoro the last three day gj entenlinied avin. |of last week. Verein | | Susquehanna chapter, Barnesboro, | | joa a surplus of 10 pints over their | NEW COUNTY LEGION | | 575 pint quota. Black Lick alley do- HEADS ARE INDUCTED 568, and Clearfield 410, a total for | | the north county of 3,360 pints, 35 | mittee of the American Legion fea- | ber asked for, and on the last day of tured the September meeting Tues- | | Inated 610 pints; Mountain, 560; All | | legheny Ridge, 610; Beaver Valley, | Installation of the of the newly elected | | over the quota. In most of the dis- | officers of the Cambria County Com- | tricts volunteers surpassed the num- | BE urchases of Uses cars| has been arranged. The meet is being sponsored throu- gh cooperation of the State Depart- ment of Mines, United States Bureau of Mines, Mine Operators and the Un ited Mine Workers of America. Dennis J. Keenan of Barnesboro, state mine inspector for thé fifteenth district, is serving as president of the general committee, with John J. Dou~ gherty, vice president; J. G. Nichol~ son, treasurer, and Thomas J. Lamont | secretary. The advisory committee is compos=~ ed of William Lamont, R. T. Todhun- er, Sr.; Bernard Tanme, John Ma- heltz, Patrick McDermott, David Millward, W. Garfield Thomas, depu= ty secretary of mines, and State Mine Inspectors Richard George and Sam Cortis. Members of the general committee as announced the other day by Pres- ident Keenan are A. J. Bengston, Dan LeGars, Bernard Collins, E. B. Confer, John Polites, Robert Simms, J. B. Stadart, Alex Davidson, Joseph Paydock, Robert Thompson, Walter Myers, Michael Ward, Paul Strong, Michael Christoff, John McIndoe, Frank Mulvehill, Elmer Harris, John Maguire, Charles Hannigan, John J. Brazill, George Dumchak, Michael Mehal, John Stewart, Frank Tinkins, ry Ream, John “MeComk Owen HASTINGS SOLDIER FALLS IN FRANCE Pfc. Joseph Legross, 24, made the supreme sacrifice on Aug. 15th, in: France, according to a war depart- ment message received by his moth- er, Mrs. Malina Legross DeSonant of Hastings. He was a air-borne division. The soldier joined the years ago and was sta years in Panama. He retu army Six ned for 3 rned to the | states for special training and was | sent overseas last March. Pfc. Legross founght in Italy and until the middle of July when he was brunsfered to duty in France. He t his life less than two weeks af- [io going into combat there. While in | Italy he met his brother, Edward, on duty with the infantry. nV unit’s visit in the com-|day night in Portage. | COLVER SOLDIER HURT | the mobile | : | munities many people had to be turn- | Francis Green, Carrolitown, was | led away. installed as chairman and J. F. Ber- | SECOND TIME IN WAR | nard, Gallitzin, is the new vice chair- | eo Mr. and Mrs. John Vizzini, Colver | man. Martin Fry, Barneshoro, 2E5UM- |), ve been informed that their 20- | ed the position of treasurer. year old son, Pfc. Charles J, was | | | { The meeting was moved ahead one | BARNESBORO KILLED week in order that the delegates to| | fe vations) convention could attena. | ational conventio will be in ses- | Pte, Tugenie G. Wa; G. Wagner, 22 year- | [ane Tae Tuesday, the regular date | [01d son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Wag- | of the county committee meeting. | ner, Barnesboro, was killed August| During the meeting brief talks | 14th while fighting with an infantry | were given by Joseph A. Straub, the | unit in France. newly elected western vice comman- | The soldier entered the service on | der, and Herman Riblett, newly otsee/ Oct. 9, 1942, and received his training | ted district commander, : | Representatives of* the various signed to overseas duty June 6, 1943, | Posts in the county gave both men and was located in North Africa be- | 'SIng votes of confidence and pledg- fore participating in the invasion of | d complete cooperation with them Southern France. during the coming year. Born in Barnesboro April 7th, 1922,| Due to the fact that the meeting he was a son of Lester and Tillie | Was moved ahead one week the Cam- (Dailey) Wagner. He was graduated | bria County Commissioners were un- from the Barnesboro High School |able to attend to discuss the estab- with the class of 1939 and was work- | lishment of a service ifficer in the ing for the Barnes and Tucker Coal |county. They were invited to attend Cempany when he entered the ser-| | the next meeting on Tuesday even- vice. 3 | ing, October 17, in Ebensburg Legion A brother, Lt. Donald, is with the ees Home. : army in Camp Forrest, Tenn. The program of entertainment was deceased soldier also leaves these oth- | FREER ed by the host post and re- er brothers and sisters: Clarence, of | {Yéshments were served. ar. All the nuns at the MOnSLery i ing this section, nas announced the ie hi following list of inductees for the zuthentic report received at Loretto. | ant onthe Although there was a great deal of Michacl Joseph Pabian. destruction in the town of Lisieux, R. 1. the monastery escaped. The large Ba- Ashville | La Francis Russian, Lilly. silica of St. Therese was slightly] A,grew william Callahan, Chest damaged, but can be repaired. Springs. ? ———— Larry George Hershel, Lilly. Gunner Gets Medal, Daniel Bernard Ott, Patton R. D. Arthur Eugene Gromley, Hastings. | PRISONER OF GERMANS Ann Arbor, Mich.; Arthur, Detroit, ioe Yoont Mich.; Rev. Father Wagner, Amar-| PVT FRANCIS WEILAND, illo, Texas; Mrs. Ruth Hooley. Ak- OF NICKTOWN. WOUNDED ron, Ohio; and Mrs. Hazel Everett. Pvt. Francis Weiland, son of Mr. and Mrs. Urban Weiland, Nicktown, was wounded last month in France. His parents were informed that he WINS FLYING CROSS | was wounded in the shoulder. Tech. Sgt. Dwight H. McCracken,| Cpl. Fred Weiland, a brother of Barnesboro, night superintendent of Miners’ Hospital, Spangler. YV.— wounded the second time in France. The soldier returned to active duty August 13th after recovering from {his first wounds and had been in |combat only a short time when he [fell a casualty the second time. He has three brothers in the arm- ed forces—Sgt. James, with the A. A. F. in Texas; Pvt. Alfonso, with the Army Engineers in France, and John J., Jr, an apprentice seaman in the Navy ad stationed in Virginia. -V “SHORT” POTATO CROP IS EXPECTED Prospects point toward a “short” potato crop in Pennsylvania due to drought conditions, the state depart- ment of agriculture has announced. Hills of late potatoes showed tu- bers running small in all potato gro- wing sections ll i Potter County. Married Fifty Years. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wills, Ash- ville, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary last Sunday at their home. Mr, Wills is 71 and his wife is 70. They are the parents of seven children. Seven of their grandchild- ren are in the armed forces. — Np Missing in France, Mrs. Ross Morealle, Hastings, has been informed by the government that her son, Sgt. Andrew Skitha, Sgt. Robert E. Naylor, 26, son of of Ebensburg, a prisoner of the Ger- mans since March 4, has been award- | {the wounded soldier, was killed in| has been missing in action in France Robert Carl Mainhart, Portage R. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Naylor of Dy-|D. 1. sart, who is a waist gunner on a B-17 ee Yn ER Flying Fortress has been given the The parents of Pvt. Philip A. air medal for meritorious achieve-|Jchnston of Clearfield Township, ment during bombing attacks on the |near Ashville, have been notified by Nazi war industries and on military | the government that he was wound- targets in France in support of the ed while fighting somewhere in the Allied Ground forces, European theatre of war, ed the Distinguished Flying Cross |army on Sept. 28th, 1943, and receiv- for extraordinary achievement as an |ed his training engineer and top-turret gunner on a Texas. B-17 Flying Fortress on 20 missions over enemy occupied Europe. Word |ed forces—Cpl. Russell, with the ar- of the presentation has been receiv-|my in Oklahoma, and Kearney, with ed by the flier’s sister, Mrs. Geoffrey | the paratroops somewhere in the Pa- White in Ebensburg, cific, France. Pvt. Weiland entered the |since August 20th. | Soi iiss dies in Camp Barkley, CARD OF THANKS. I wish, in this manner to thank all Two other brothers are in the arm- | those who assisted me in my recent bereavement. the illness and death of my wife, Mary Gelormino; for the floral offerings, and use of cars at the funeral.—Ralrh Gelormino. os HE
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