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A GREENVILLE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1941 MAN DIES CRASH Killed, Four Injured. R. 64. West Mid- was kflled almost instantly men injwed Thurs- cjfiy "-afternoon in a two-car col- Hslon on Route 18, a short dis- 91006 dutside West Middlesex Garrett, driver- of one the cars, died from a crushed chest. Dr.

James Bicler, Mercer Cotmty (Jbroner, and Pennsylvania state police said no 'inquest is planned. Andrew Hollabaugh, 39, and E. Thompson, 31. also of West Middlesex, who Were return- tag home with Garrett from work Sharon plant of Westinghouse Electric Corporation, treated iy a West Middlesex physician. Theodore Vadala, 26.

of 927 Street, Sharpsville, and a Joseph Jafery, 23, of SMtlisPenn Avenue, Sharon, returning ifr'om hunting, were taken to born in Pu- Sept. 28, 1885, a son of David and Emma Reed Garrett antf-had spent all his life in the Welt Middlesex community. He- operated a grocery store for 80 years and also was employed at Westinghouse plant. Mr. Garrett was a member of West Mid- ttlesex Presbyterian Church, Shar- 8n jLo'dge ot Elks, Westinghouse "Veterans' Association and Clerks' Aslofciatlon.

his wife, the former HattJp Miller; three brothers, feoDe'rtTCharles and Benjamin, Pu- and. a sister, Mrs; Charles -Williams, Youngstown. Funeral services will be held at home, West at 2 p. m. Sunday.

1 family will be at -the funeral home from 7 to 9 o'clock tonight and from 2, to 4 and to 9 p. m. Saturday. PRIZE HIRf FORD Auctioned at I ''Pittsburgh Show. Pittsburgh, Nov.

4 A 4-H Club boy is richer today. SpoBrid Hereford won the grand Championship at the 17th annual junior livestock show here. 11 The happy youngster is William, Hogue, Croton, Ohio: His steer brought a 'pound on the hoof at the show's Auction yesterday. The A. P.

food stores paid v-jor the animal. but. about of this sum is 'apportioned Jarijohg the show's other.young ex- They'll get $7.33 apiece. Including toe money paid for the -top prize winners the 268 steers exhibited- torough 5104,146.65 for an of 40.36 cents a pound. A Future Farmer of America won the individaul lamb grand saw his entry, a 90- pound purebred Southdown, sell for $3 a pound, Bradley Eisminger, Waynesburg, was the winner.

The 135 sheep exhibited brought an average of 30.85 cents Faye tte County, won first prize in beef for the second time. He a gold medal. Second place went to Peter Fenchak, Cambria County. Show boxes- were awarded to Rittenhouse Fenchak and Albert Griffin, BujJer, will was judged top Pennsylvania boys who won beef and sheep fitting awards were: Beef: Carl Logan, Irwin, first; Wylie Rittenhpus.e, Smock, third. Sheep: Bradley Eisminger and James Stephenson, Waynesburg, first and second; and Paul Baxter, Jackson Center, Mercer County, third.

BUY SAVINGS BONDS TODAY! ATTENTION, BUILDERS' We have in stock: WME, PLASTER, ROOK LATH, BRICK FIRE BRICK Phone 595 BRITTON GOAL CO. State and GanaJ Streets Greenville Carl F. Carl F. Werger, 55, West Salem Township, died at p. m.

Thursday, Nov. 3, 19.49, in Bash-. line-Rossman after a five months': Born March 19 1894, in Cattur- agus County, N. Mr. Werger! was a son of Jacob and Anna Holmes Werger.

He had been a resident of the Greenville area for the past 32 years. Employed by the Greenville Steel Car Company, Mr. Werger was a member of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, NewlGalilee. Surviving arc four brothers, Louis J. P.

Werger, Greenville R. D. Arthur F. Werger, Greenville R. D.

William H. Wergcr, Greenville R. D. 5,. and Jacob P.

Werger, Greenville R. 2'. Also surviving arc two sisterj, Mrs. Harold Whitman, R. D.

1, and Hazel Mae Werger, at home, Funeral services will be held at 10 a. m. Monday at the late home in charge of Dr. Charles E. Schweikert.

Interment be made in Rocky Spring Cemetery, New Galilee. Friends will be received late home after 7 Saturday. Arrangements are of the Loutzenhiser funeral home. Mrs. Mary D.

Frost Mrs. Mary E. Dunn' Frost, 76, Stoneboro, died at 4:30 a. Nov. 4, 1949, at the home of a daughter, Mrs.

Helen Minner, Mercer. Born April 19, 1873, in Centertown, Mrs. Frost was a daughter of Edward S. and Sarah Carmichael Dunn. On May, 11, 1893, she was married to.

Elmer R. Frost, who preceded her in death Nov. 11, 1947. 'Mrs. Frost attended the, Stoneboro Presbyterian Church and was a member of the Whatsoever Bible Class of the church, The Stoneboro Water Lily Rebekah Lodge arid the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Rural Letter Carriers' Association.

Surviving are a son, Clair L. Frost, five daughters, Mrs. Frances Corll, Stoneboro; Mrs. Dorothy Jackson Center; Mrs; Sarah cer; Mrs. Gertrude Peters, boro, and Mrs.

Helen Minner, Mercer; a brother, Rev. D. Ralph Dunn, Wheeling, W. two sisters, Dr. Rose M.

Dunn, Franklin, and Mrs. Mabel. Trevitt, Stoneboro R. also nine grandchildren. Funeral services-will'be held at 2:30 p.

m. Sunday atj, the Waters funeral home, Stoneboro, in charge of Rev. Ralph I. McConnell. Interment will be made in Oak' Hill Cemetery.

Friends be received Saturday only at the funeral home from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p. m. William Friends have received word of the death of Ride, 80, a former Mercer resident, in Harrisburg Hospital, Oct. 29, 1949, after a brief illness. Born in Mercer, he was of Benjamin Ride.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary Armstrong Ride, also a resident of Mercer, and two daughters, Mrs. R. Bruce Dunlap, Camp Hill, and Mrs. Robert Lees, Md.

Mrs. Minnette Miller Ayers, Mercer and California, is a stepsister. Interment was Miss Margaret McCullough Miss Margaret McCullough, 69, West Middlesex, died in Jameson Memorial Hospital, New Castle, at 3 p. m. Thursday, Nov.

3, following a lingering illness. She had been at the Kotschish Nursing Home, New Castle', for the past two years. Born Jan. 2 1880, in Sandy Lake, Miss McCullough was a daughter of Hugh and Matilda Baird McCullough. She had been a lifelong resident of Sandy Lake until 15 years ago when she went to West Middlesex to make her home with a niece, Mrs.

Ralph Gilkey. Miss McCullough was a member of the Sandy Lake Presbyterian Church. Surviving are a brother, Marshall McCullough, Joplin, an aunt, Mrs. Emma Greenlee, Pittsburgh; and three nephews, Dale and Duane McCullough, Joplin. and Edward Parshall, Cleveland.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p. in. Saturday at the Moore funeral home, Sandy Lake. Interment will be made in Oak Hill Cemetery. Friends will be received at the funeral home this evening.

Mrs. Mary M. Roberts Mrs. Mary M. Roberts, 74, widow of Thomas 'c.

Roberts 'at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Carl Duckworth, New Castle, at '1 a. m. Friday, Nov. 4, 19-19, following a long illness.

A daughter of Jesse and Fannie DuMars Stevenson, Mrs. Roberts was born in Kennard, Jan. PICTURE picture, published by the New York Sun, has touched barrage" of -political charges; and counter-charges. It shows Frank Erickson (bald- man, at extreme gambler and once target of LaGuardia city administration, at a dinner at the National Democratic Club in New York. Oct.

27. In same picture is former Gov. Herbert H. Lehman (right, walking toward camera). Headquarters for Lehman, who seeks election to U.

S. Senate, stated Lehman 'did not know Erickson when he saw him. Mayor William O'Dwyer, also present at dinner, charged Republicans with "trying to frame Governor Lehman with a bookmaker." The New York mayor called it a "puny attempt to frame-up Gov. Lehman," and told reporters he "didn't know how Erickson happened to be there." (AP Photo, Copyright, 1949, by New York 0, 1876. On-May 25, 1899, she was married to Thomas C.

Roberts, who preceded her in death July 14, 1948. Roberts was a lifelong member.of Methodist ihurch-and of the Kennard W.C.- T.UT. are a daughter, Mrs. Carl-Duckworth, New Castle; a Roberts; Kennard; a foster son, John Carlson, Franklin; a sister, Mrs. James Nickerson, New Castle; 15 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Roberts will be removed tomorrow, to her late home in Kennard, where friends may call at anytime. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p. Sunday in the Kennard Methodist Church, with interment following in Stevenson Cemetery. George TJezika George Uezika, 77, East Butler Street, Mercer, died Wednesday, 1949, in Buhl Hospital, Sharon, after an extended illness.

He was Jan. 24, 1872, and had been a resident of Mercer for several years. He was a member of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Farrell, and the Romanian Club, New Castle. He is survived by his wife, So- phta. Funeral services will be held at Miller funeral home, Mercer, Saturday at 1 p.

m. Friends will be received 1 from. 7 to 9 p. m. tonight, at the funeral home.

Alexander E. Klinger Alexander E. Klinger, 84, Cochranton, died early this morning, Friday, Nov." 1949, at Spencer Hospital, Meadville. Born Feb. 13.

1865, Mr. Klinger was. a son of Mr. and Mrs. George He a retired.

mail carrier. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Adda Klinger; a son, Ralph Columbus, a sister, Mrs. J. A.

LUb'pld, grandson, Ernest-Klinger, an versity student, and a granddaughter, Jean Klinger, Carbondale, 111. A daughter, Jenny, died in 1909. Funeral services will be held at 3 p. m. Sunday at the late home in charge of Rev.

H. L. Merchant. Interment will be in Cochranton Cemetery. Friends may call at the late home in Cochranton.

Arrangements are in charge of the Graham funeral homo, Shcakleyville. SAILORS BECOME MAST Greek sailors who climbed a mast to resist deportation are shown (above) on their second day of "mast sitting" at Baltimore. They utilize a large tarpaulin (center) for their sleeping shelter. Immigration officials said the sailors had been found, to be "nullified seamen," and were ordered removed from the United States. (AP Wirephoto).

COUNTY SEAT W. S. Moftatt manager, Record-Argue Mercer Bureau Office In Elliott Block, southeast corner of Diamond Telephone office 100: residence, 13U-J, Subscrlp-, tlons classified advertising or news Hems may be left at this office. MERCER COUNCIL AGREES Card of Thanks We wish to thank our many friends and neighbors for their kindness and sympathy expressed during our recent bereavement, Mercer Borough Council has tentatively agreed to take over maintenance of the World War II honor roll which stands at the First National Bank corner. Mercer Post 159, American Lc- also -to ones who sent-flow- I ion voted Iasfc ni ht a its ers or helped in any way.

We I lar meeting to write a formal let- I ft rf 4- Mrt fin especially thank Rev. F. Russell Schillinger for his words of comfort. REALVAllIES! 1948 CHRYSLER 4-door sedan, heater, and radio, Tip: shift transmission. 1947 BeSOTO 4-door sedan, heater, radio and Tip-Toe shift transmission.

1947 PLYMOUTH 4-door sedan, heater and radio. 1941 PLYMOUTH coupe, very good. 1939 PLYMOUTH coupe, a little honey. 1039 CHEVROLET 2-door sedan, beautiful. 1987 DeSOTO 4-door sedan, very good mechanically.

cars are priced to sen and we will give you top dollar ou trade. All post-war cars, 50-50 guarantee. J. W.WOLFE MOTOR SALE NORTH RACE STREET PHONE 158 Mrs. Cora Humphrey arid family.

COAL TALKS (Continued from Page 10) changed, the company said, because of stepped up operations at Ford's own steel plant and "encouraging news" on the steel situation. Steel firms were being slow to accept the pension-insurance terms with.which Bethlehem Steel Corp. settled last Monday with Philip Murray, head of the CIO and its striking steelworkers union. The Newport (Ky.) Steel which employs about 7,000, signed a strike-ending agreement "last night, but nearly a half-million steelworkers were still idle for the 35th day in the remainder of the industry. Murray's signing- up of a few more big steelmakers could spur a settlement in coal since, once the steel mills resume operations, steelmea will bo wanting an assured supply.

Talks on adopting the Bethlehem settlement terms have been going on between Murray's union and Republic and two other big steel producers, Inland and Youngstown Sheet and Tube, have agreed to resume negotiations. Murray also reported new talks with the Wheeling (W. Va.) Steel Corp. tcr to council asking them to do so. Any money which remains in the maintenance fund will be turned over to the council.

It is thought that tho honor roll may be moved and a permanent memorial for World War II dead I may bo placed in courthouse park. County commissioners have ready been approached and have agreed that such a memorial may be erected there. The present. honor i-oll, erected by citizens of Mercer has been maintained since the war by the local Legion post. Since it is only a temporary structure and will require constant upkeep, it is i'elt that a permanent memorial is the bost answer.

The permanent memorial will probably be in the form oE a stone, with a bronze plaque inscribed with the names of this district's war dead. Mercer Legion to Buy Television Equipment Purchase of a television set for Mercer Legion club room was authorized last night by a majority vote of the membership. A anvill set had been installed on a trial basis last month and proved to be very popular with members. Tho club room, recently redecorated, has proved a termehdous drawing card for the Legion. Members may go there at any time and play shuffleboard, pool or relax with a magazine.

Commander T. N. Clayton reports 58 paid-up memberships for the coming year. It is hoped to have three times that number by the first of the year. A membership drive will get underway this month.

Armistice Day Program Is Scheduled in Mercer William M. Pollard, chairman of the Mercer Armistice Day Committee, has completed plans for an Armistice Day program, at 10:40 a. Nov. 11. The program will be as follows: Processional, March, High School band; Scripture reading, Post Chaplain Sam Dillon; Pledge of Allegiance assemhly; "Star Spangled Banner," high school band; speaker, Dr.

E. Jones: "Flanders Richard Strosser; Taps; "God Bless America," assembly; prayer, post chaplain; and recessional, high school band. Dr. Jones, pastor of tho First Presbyterian Church, Grove City, will be introduced by B. W.

Crawshaw, High School principal. Legion members are urged to appear at the school in uniform. American Legion Post will have a display of World War 1 and II souvenirs in Langdon's Department Store windows next week in conjunction with the Armistice Day program. Wayne Stormer, chairman of the display, asks that all veterans who have trophies to display take them to the store by Saturday. bo slight.

The fire companies had blaze under control by 12 Mr. Patterson said there was several thousand dollars worth of finished lumber in the biulding. VIercer Council, School Board Meetings Planned November meeting of Mercer Borough Council will be at 7:30 Tuesday, when, there will be -considerable business to clean up the season's activities. Mercer Joint 'consolidated School will hold its November meeting Wednesday evening at 8 p. when routine business will be transacted.

Attend Erie Ceremonies District Attorney John R. Boland, Assistant District Attorney Hiram Drake and Judge George H. Rowley were in Eric yesterday. They attended swearing in ceremonies for Judge Owen M. Burns, who was appointed to the United States District Court bench for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

HOSPITAL NOTES Admitted: Peter Thomas, East Market Street, Mercer; and Lillie Sue Wuertle, Pittsburgh. Discharged: Mary K. Patterson, East Market Street, Mercer; and Gloria Jean Hoovler. Yesterday was bad luck day for the Hodge Family. East Market Street, Mercer.

Two members of the family landed in the hospital. Connie Jean, 6, fell from a bed and fractured her collar bone. She was discharged from the hospital this morning. Ronald, her 12-year-old brother, was admitted for an appendectomy. ORGANIZE SAFETY PATROL Junior Safety Patrol, recently organized by Mercer Joint Consolidated School, has been on duty at intersections near the school this week.

The boys, with their white Sam Brown belts, will be a familiar sight at the crossings from now on. MERCER BANKS TO CLOSE Mercer Banks report they will be closed Tuesday, Election Day, Nov. 8, and Armistice Day, Friday, Nov. 11. MERCER CHURCHES First Methodist Rev.

Paul Hogg, minister. 11 a. worship, "Let Us Have Methodist congregational dinner Tuesday, Nov. 15, speaker will be Rev. harles Hagadorn, pastor of Elurlburt Memorial Church, Chautauqua, N.

Y. United Fer- dimore E. Vogan, minister. 11 a. morning worship, "Motive Power for the Christian Life," 7:30, evening worship, "Made Right With God;" a brass trio from Westminster College will furnish special music.

W. Malcolm Brown, minister. 11 a. worship; 12:05, joint meeting of session and trustees for the purpose of adopting budget for year. Free Elton F.

Fox, minister. 11 a. morning worship; 7:45 p. m. evening worship.

Church of the Wayne Acton, minister. 11 a. morning worship; p. m. evening, worship.

Reformed Presbyterian Rev. W. M. Martin, minister. 10 a.

worship. Zion Holiness Rev. Joanne Bissile, minister. 11 a. morning worship; 7:30 evening worship.

All Saints Roman Catholic- Rev Fr. John Thomas Gallagher, minister. Mass at All Saints and Pardoe. DEEDS RECORDED Afcostino Colicchio by adminis- tratrix to Charlotte Bestwick et RADIO DAY BY DAY All times listed are those supplied by networks. Changes in programs as listed are due to corrections by networks made too late to incorporate.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4 Evening Report 15 Newscast Every Silent Kiddles Hour Network Silent (45 Kiddies Hour Music Discussion by News Sinatra Boulah'a News and News and Smith Daily Dinner About nick Haymea Lone Hanger News News I Love a Morgan The Kat Man Riisa Morgan the (also NBC-TV) My Favorite This Is P.B.I., Eddy Diichln mbs of Leave It to Ozzle and Air Force Breakfast With The Sheriff, Mast the Minutes I. Q. Young Love Friday (also NBC Television) Comment; Capitol The Sports Dance Band and Variety .2 News and Dance News, Dance Band 2 Variety to i ibsoii FURNITURE CQ. 'if it cornet, from good" al, Mercer R. D.

1, property in Pine Township. Wishart et ux to Andrew Malenky et ux, Pymatuning Township, property in Hickory Town- Geraldine A. Weldon et al to Marion M. Sutley, West Salem Township, property in West Salem. X.

Irvine Reaney et al to LeRoy A. Kerr, Sharon, property in Hickorv Township, MARRIAGE APPLICATIONS Steve Nitch, Sharpsville R. 1 and Mary Elizabeth Ross, 42 North Main Street, Sharpsville DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS Anna Bonekovic versus Frank Bonekovic, Hickory Township indiginities to the person charged Harry M. Dreyer, Grove City, versus Kathryn M. Dreyer, Sharon R.

2, indignities to the person charged. Mary Jean Porter, a minor, by Viola Magner, mother and guardian, 501 Hull Avenue, Sharon, versus Frank R. Porter, 118 Reno Street, Sharon, indignities to the person charged. Minor Lumber Company Blaze Is Fought Today A minor blaze at the Patterson Lumber Company in Mercer called out both Mercer fire companies at 11:40 a. m.

today. The fire Was discovered by Stanley Patterson when he looked out an office window and saw smoke coming from a concrete block building where finished doors and OWS ILINKSS IS Marblehead, Nov. A nei-vous disorder apparently has closed the writing career of Eugene O'Neil, Nobel prize-winning dramatist and 'author of several Broadway hits. His wife, Carlotta, said last night that he is suffering from Parkinson's disease and that it is "getting progressively worse." She said his hands tremble so badly he is unable to write in customary form of efforts to dictate have not been too successful. The disease also has affected pre on his seaside estate here.

He bough has the 61 year-old speech, his wife said, fers to stay in secluHti windows are stored. Damage could the place about a year ago. not. be estimated but was judged to I His last play, "The Ice Man WANTED DEAD HORSES COWS HOGS AND SHEEP SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3 Morning Breakfast on Are Shoppers Waring Joe DIMagglo Slgmund Lee Music for Children's Let's U. 3.

Navy Coast Guard Ed unlor Miss, To Be Man on the Afternoon and Theater of The Girls' Man on Farm Grand Central American Dance Half and Stars Over American News Half Give and Take Campus Campus Dame-Mich. County via Make Way For Tea and Puerto Rico Flaher TOBIAS PLAY IS SENIOR VEHICLE GHS Class to Present "Damsels in "Damsels in Distress," by Jay Tobias, is the play which has been selected for presentation by this year's Senior Class at Penn High School. The production will be staged at the high school auditorium on Thursday and Friday, Nov. 17 and 18. Rehearsals are progressing satisfactorily under the direction of Paul M.

Sherwood, dramatics instructor at the school. The cast of the farce Includes Catherine Foglla, Joanna Stone, Nancy Freeland, Marlene Gruver, LaVonne Adams, Lewis Meeker, Patricia McMillen, Harley Cloud, Bernhard Stoeber, Richard Miller, Delbert Leonard and Glen Keene. FAIR Princesses of the Court of Agriculture greet visitors to the Los Angeles County Fair in Pomona, Cal. Top to bottom arc: Nell Murphy, Louise Lewison, Prudy Ricca, Gvven DcVall, Ethel Dovey and Jeanne Gaekle. Cometh," was produced on Broadway in 1946.

THE GRANGES Stony Stony Point Point Grange has arranged an open meeting at 8 p. m. Friday, Nov. 11, for the purpose of seeing several health movies and hearing a talk by Mrs. Florence Teare of the Tuberculosis and Public Health Society.

After the program those attending will have an opportunity to have a chest X-ray the society's mobile unit. "Lady bananas, which are one of! the most popular varieties in countries where they can be eaten soon after being picked, but which are virtually unknown in the United States because they do not ship well, may soon enter U. S. markets via air shipments. CIO SESSIONS TO ADJOURNTONIGHT Executive Board's Selection Is Big Test.

Cleveland, Nov. (IP) of an executive board provided the big test today of the new right-wing controls over the CIO. In sharp contrast to the predictions of a week ago, there were few delegates to the CIO llth convention who would say that all leftist-controlled unions would be purged by the time delegates adjourned tonight. Some of the reasons for the shift in opinion were rooted in the sudden realization that left-wing unions like Harry Bridges' longshoremen on the West Coast and Ben Gold's fur and leather workers would be hard to cast even to riddle in membership raids. At least four unions were certain to get the heave-ho if the executive board could be satisfied that the membership loss was worth risking before the convention adjourned.

The unions were the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, United Public Workers, Office and Professional Workers, and Food, Tobacco and Agricultural Workers. A widespread merger of weak unions with strong ones was almost they remained in the CIO or banded together in a third labor federation devoted to left-wing objectives. Cleveland, Nov. CIO opened today what promised to be a lone: bitter fight for control over 450.000 electrical unionists by appealing to their employers for help. The 1200 electrical manufacturers holding contracts with the United Electrical Workers were urged not to recognize the old left- wing leadership agent.

The request was made in telegrams dispatched to each firm by CIO Secretary-Treasurer James B. Carey, administrative chairman of a newly chartered, right wing electric union. as bargaining Steam engines now in railroad service outnumber Diesels 19 tol. PHONE: MEADVILLE, 27884 SHARON, 5624 PAY AUL TELEPHONE! CHARGES Products Company tf6t7NGSTOWN, OHIO ftp to 7 Pounds per week EATING KYRON FOOD TABLETS START LOSING FAT FIRST OAf without starvation, harmful or massago Yes, here at last is the safe way to not with harmful with condensed food tablets. Kyron is designed to help appease your hunger.

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