PAGE FOUR Patton Courier, Estab.,, Oct. 1893. Union Press, Bstab. May 1935. UNION PRESS-GOURIER Published every Thursday by Thos. A. Owens, 452 Magee Avenue, Pat- ton, Pa. and entered as second class mail matter May 7, 1936, at the postoffice at Patton, Pa., under the Act of March 3, 1879. F. P. Cammarata .... Business Mgr. Thos. A. Owens cu... Editor Thos. Owens, Jr., Associate Editor (In Overseas Military Service) Subscription, $2 a Year in Advance Advertising Rates on Application The endeavor of the Union Press- Courier is to sincerely represent Union Workers in their efforts to abtain economic freedom, particu- larly as advocated by the United Mine Workers of America. We so- licit the support of All Unions. Material for publication must be autherized by the organization it represents, signed by the Presi- dent and Secretary, and bear the seal of the Local The Union Press-Courier gives its advertisers the. advantage of the combined circulation of the two largest circulated weeklies in Cam- bria County and has a reader cov- erage that blankets Patfon and the remains to be seen. With the gossip going the rounds that the legislature will adjourn on Saturday of next week, the slaughter—if there is any slaughter—of the measure is soon to come. And if it does come, teachers can be assured it has been on order of the Governors office. Skok kk WHILE THE WAR IN EUROPE IS undoubtedly in its last stages, the wishful thinker that the war there will be over most any hour, already has been given a let-down. Some or the ablest analyists seem to think that in the light of the tactics of the fanatical Nazis, the final mopping up of all pockets of resistance may take many weeks and perhaps a number of months. It all devolves on the policy apparantly adopted by Hitler and his gangsters of “saving their necks’ as long as possible. The Nazi mind has still the thought that maybe there will be some miracle happen to delay the punishment that surely and even- tually is coming to them. { oe oe oe ok ke | WE NOTE THAT THE CAMBRIA County Body of the Amercian Le- gion asks that there be no wild cel- ebrations of V-E Day, and that it be a day of prayer instead. And they are | SO eternally right about that. When | Victory in Europe comes, only one | phase of our global conflict has been eliminated. The other may prove a much more costly and a far tougher major mining towns. Fe LAST WEEK THE STATE HOUSE of Representatives by a vote of 199 to 0 passed a revised version of the teachers’ salary raising and equali- zation bill, and has sent the same to the State Senate. Because the bill will need considerable more money to make these pay raises than Governor Martin cares to spend on teachers, he has voiced opposition to the mea- sure. What will happen the bill in the State Senate, and whether the mem- bers of the House will recognize their measure or not, when and if the Sen- ate makes some amendments, re- mains to be seen. Hkkkk THE TEACHERS’ BILL IS A “HOT Potato,” to the Republican Admin- istration, and legislative members of both parties are fully aware of the import adverse voting would have on their “political hides” back home. While the Republicans in the House naturally are loath to thwart the wishes of the Governor, they voted to the last man, along with the solid Democratic bloc, to support the bill, bua did turn down more liberalizing amendments to the measure, which a few Republicans and all Democrats supported. Whether the teachers are really going to get “much” from their long over-due and justifiable demands PROPERTY FO FORMERLY OCCUPIED BY GENERAL HARDWARE AND SUPPLY CO. On Fifth Avenue, PATTON. For Information write Gen- eral Hardware and Supply Co., Attention A, 0, Curtis, Philipsburg, Pa. SeodeodocleeooioetocteSocioctoatectoctecoclonte deal 0.0.0. 0.0. 0. 0. proposition—although we all hope it will not. Fanactical as the Nazis have been, recent weeks and months have shown that they pretty willingly sur- render when in a hole. Not so with the Japanese. Practically every vic- tory we attain over the Nipponese is a victory of extermination. HEREE WHILE WE ARE SLOWLY BUT surely getting down to the means of devastating the homelands of Ja- pan, from the air, the Japanese foot soldier is spread over China and in other parts of Asia and the Orient in numbers of millions. So long as he has ammunition, weapons and can rustle a little rice to eat, he will, if ordered by his superiors, carry on the fight indefinitely. We are fighting a nation whose soldiers have a mental- ity much different from: what we can fathom. They “die for their emperor.” To the Japs the “Emperor is God.” Thus we have a religious fanaticism with which to contend that is not ex- actly to be fully comprehended. But they do die—our victories, some of them rather costly ones, demonstrate that. The Japanese prisoner problem with us is no problem at all, for we take so few prisoners. With the Ger- mans, we now have so many prisoners they form the biggest problem of all for our victorious armies within the Reich. *kkrk THE FOLLY OF CELEBRATING A “Victory” day when final and com- plete victory may be still far off, has no sense. To the parents, wives and sweethearts of the men and boys in the Pacific theatre, it has no real means, and to the same loved one of the millions of boys now in Europe, who may yet wind up in the exter- mination of Japs, plus additional mis- ery and loss of life, there can be no real meaning of complete victory. We can well afford to make V-E day a day of prayer. There will be lots of time for celebration when we have the final victory become fact. HERE PRESIDENT TRUMAN SEEMS TO be starting out with the confidence of the nation behind him, and is as- sured of a highly successful adminis- tration if all his actions are as sound and serviceable as his refusal to life the ban on horse racing and other re- strictions appropriate to a nation up to its ears in war. No reading was more disagreeable, up to the Presi- dent’s announcement, than the gos- sip, probably the propaganda of the race track and gambling interests, that the new President would relax the embargo on the race track and encourage the public to waste gaso- line, line, rubber tires, other means Keeping Your IS VITAL operating with you in every to go wrong: preventative pairs easily . . if you're doing any kind of a wartime job—if you transport any kind of wartime materials—if you must have auto transportation because of health or handicap. We're co- road, with our excellent auto repair and tire repair ser- vice, Drive right in for a checkup—don’t wait for something . inexpensively. . . . MAIN STREET GARAGE CARROLLTOWN, PA. Car Running effort to keep your car on the car care can avoid costly re- oN PRESS.COURIE® DONT CHEER YEN of communication and dissipate into gambling channels the money better spent in War Bonds. kkkkk PRESIDENT TRUMAN CAN AF- ford to lose, if need be, the support of those elements which insist that despite the war the night clubs, the race tracks and other frippery even of peace times must remain undistur- bed. Americans in the overwhelming majority side with the President on such an issue. That action has. com- mended itself to all patriotic citizens. One hopes that all his actions will be as sound and wholesome. WILLIAM PLATT ON ROE AT BATTLE FOR IWO JIMA Aboard the United States De- stroyer Roe in the Pacific, William Platt, seaman, third class, of 225 Magee Ave., was a member of the crew of this valiant ship when she stood toward Iowa Jima with four other destroyers and three cruisers in an historic engagement. With the conquest of bloody Iwo by U. S. forces, it is now possible to reveal that the little fighting ship celebrated last Christmas Eve by sinking a Jap trawler in the waters off Iwo and on the same day an en- emy destroyer escort vessel after a dramatic chase almost to the Jap’s home harbor. The range was closed and bombard- ment of Iwo begun when a Jap traw- ler was seen close inshore. The Roe opened fire. The trawler burst into flames. Then, with challenging sud- denness, a Navy plane, spotting an enemy destroyer escort fleeing north- ward, relayed the information to the task group. The Roe and another de- stroyer were ordered in pursuit. The Roe raced at full speed, and the ac- companying destroyer gradually fell behind. This was to be a battle of ship against ship—the Roe against the Jap. The Roe opened fire, alone now that Navy planes had turned back for lack of fuel. Her guns roared, sent a burst of flame halfway up the enemy’s mast. They kept roaring, sent a steady stream of hot steel pouring into the ship, crippling it with mortal wounds. The fight was done. The Jap set- tled slowly, bow first, her guns firing until silenced by the waves. The next day found the Roe prepar- ing for another bombardment. T.-SGT. AWARDED PLAQUE FOR MERITORIOUS SERVICE Ninth Air Force Headquarters, France— T. Sgt. Thomas F. Paran- ish, Patton, is a member of the 40th Mobile Communication Squardon of the Ninth Air Force which recently was awarded the Meritorious Service Placque for superior performance of duty in connection with the tactical operations of both the Air and Ground forces prior to and during the inva- sion of the continent. Sgt. Paranish,-a radio operator, who is charged with transmitting weather information, works in a team with members of the 21st Weather Squadron, supplying weather reports to all the Armies. The citation covered the period from January 1, 1944, to July 1, 1944, when the squadron—with Detach- ments working in England, France, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, and Germany—furnished weather commu- nications to all commands of the Ninth Air Force, in addition to the U. S. First, Third, Seventh, and Ninth Armies, and the First Tactical Air Force and First Allied Airborne Army. Completely mobile and operating under combat conditions, often under fire, each of the squadron's detach- ments is capable of setting up and opertaing an hour after arriving at a new location. Sgt. Paranish has been overseas 21 months. He served in England be- fore going to the continent. Vo Joseph J, DePetro Wounded Pvt. Joseph J. DePetro, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank DePetro of Madera Hill, Barnesboro, was wounded while serving with the Army in the Pa- cific theater of war, according to a government casualty list made pub- lic Monday. The soldier trained with the para- troopers in Ft. Benning, Ga., before being assigned to combat duty in the Pacific. TIGHT- LIPPED MR. BOGART REVEALS ‘PARTY SECRETS’|. Humphrey Bogart, now starring in Warners’ “To Have And Havc Not,” a Howard Hawks production at the Grand Sunday and Monday, April 29 and 30—matinee Sunday at 2:30 p. m.—was never much of an enthusiast for parlor games either on or off the screen. But he has a couple to sug- gest when any party shows signs of unravelling. The first, explains Bogart, he called | “hide the hat.” Someone is selected to hide some other guest’s hat. (He could hide his own but almost never does.) Then, hours later, when it is timc to go home, everybody forgets about the hidden hat. “It's a good game to suggest at your own house,” explains Bogart. “Through it a host, willing or un- willing though he may have been when the party started, usually ac- quires a new or at least a different hat. Hollywood people who wear hats usually wear good ones. If it doesn’t fit the host on the ‘morning after’ it may fit him after a week has passed. “I have a chest full of excellent hats—some of which fit,” he con- cludes. “It can be played with other articles of clothing, too. That makes it a bit more complicated.” ree NELSON'S NAME FIRST ON G. 0. P. JUDGE BALLOT The name of Judge A. A. Nelson, who is seeking reelection to the Or- phans’ Court of Cambria County, will appear first on the Republican bal- lot at the June primary as a result of drawings held last week in Har- risburg. Attorney Morgan V. Jones, who is serving in the Navy, drew sec- ond place on the G. O. P. ballot. Judge Nelson, who is seeking the nomination on both tickets, is unop- posed for the Democratic nomination. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE In the Estate of Cyril J. Hanlin, Late of the Township of Gallitzin, County of Cambria and State of Pen- nsylvania. Notice is hereby given that Letters of Administration in the Estate of said decedent have been granted to the undersigned. All persons indebted to said Estate are requested to make payment and those having claims or demands against the same will make them known without delay to PATRICK G. HANLIN Administrator Ashville, Pa., R. D. C. 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