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SHAMOKIN NEWS-DISPATCH, SHAMOKIN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1940 PAGE FOUR have taken our advice more serJ Laws Urged to Aid Anthracite lousiy ifian nereiuioie. "Your organization will continue in its efforts and cooperate with our members, with our industry, and with government to bring about stability, employment and comparative prosperity to the Anthracite industry." It is estimated that immediately after the embargo, about worth of French and British aircraft orders were placed in the United States. CANDIDACY OF EARL BROWDER UNDERATTACK Petitions Filed in Congressional Fight Declared to Be Defective away from work in a successful drive to win nation-wide union contracts. The committee on officers' reports also begins its report today, giving the convention delegates an opportunity to express their opinion concerning the official conduct of U. M.

W. President John L. Lewis. Vice-President Philip Murray, and Secretary-Treasurer Thomas Kennedy. The officers jointly presented an 82-page report, including a broad economic and legislative program.

Lewis declined comment on Paul V. McNutt's answer to his attack on McNutt's labor record. factory, the five were ordered sent to jail while satisfactory bail was being sought today. Officers participating in the raids said they had picked up hundreds of numbers slips and about $100 in cash. Some of the persons searched said that part of the money taken from them was personal property and not involved in the numbers business.

Officers who had been watching for Contario as the associate oi Bucci in the numbers racket here, confronted the Mount Carmei and Allentown man when he arrived at the Bucci poolroom, whereupon he threw to the ground a bag he carried containing money and numbers slips. When Contario was ordered to show his driver's license it was found he carried two such permits, one with a Mount Carmei address and the other with an address in Allentown. He is to be arraigned on motor law violation charges in addition to the numbers racket offenses. The fact that Contario had an address in Allentown leads officers to suspect he may be identified with Howard Donald Hottel, alias shown by a recent state census to be responsible for upwards of tons production annually. This so-called "stolen" coal, removed by an estimated 9.000 unhired miners on company-owned coal lands, is marketed at cut-prices.

It is delivered largely by truck, but, according to the state mine inspectors' reports, railroads broke precedent last year by assigning freight cars for hauling the contraband. The "committee of 12'' obtained approval of colliery operators responsible for 9 per cent of Anthracite prduction before turning over the stabilization plans to the governor. It was understood several of the governor's suggestions were embodied in the final draft, possibly including elimination of price-fixing agreements that James forced frcm the Kane bill which he supported unsuccessfully in the last Legislature. The new plan supposedly embodies the better features of the Kane bill which would have given the state domination over Anthracite production and marketing. Also approved by the Republican chief executive, whose predecessors in office the last 12 years had toyed with and dropped schemes to restore prosperity to the Anthracite SHELL OYSTERS OPENED FRESH DAILY CHOWDER CLAMS Ground, Ready to Cook thracite emergency committee" was scheduled to open in Governor James' office at 3:00 p.

m. Thursday. He is empowered to designate the chairman, and seven of the nine members will constitute a quorum. James can remove any member for "inability to act for any reason, inefficiency, neglect of duty or misconduct in office." This "top'' authority in the stabilization plan will delegate its authority to a three-member executive committee, but the larger group can countermand findings of the smaller. The executive committee is to be named Thursday.

Each of the three groups on the emergency committee (spokesmen for the state, the miners' union and the opera-torsi will select one member of the executive committee. All binding decisions of the executive committee must be by majority vote "excluding that of the governor's representative," according to the official outline of the plan. Thus the union and the operators must agree, else the decision will be made by majority vote of the nine-member emergency committee. In addition, administration of the plan calls for an "Anthracite producers' advisory board" of 14 members, half elected on a tonnage basis and the remaining seven by a plurality vote of the producing companies, the majority to be a quorum. It will select its own chairman.

"The board shall advise and make FRESH FISH Cleaned Ready for the Pan SPECIAL (Continued from Page One) sub-cemmittee which negotiated the present contract" with Anthracite operators, the international officers said they "are hopeful that during the period of this contract further progress may be made with relation to some of the acute proo-lems of the industry." "The industry needs stabilization in many of its processes," they added. "It is entitled to prosperity. It needs cooperation. It needs crystallization of viewpoints. We would like to make a distinct contribution in helping to bring about this stability which we all desire to achieve for the industry.

During the period of the contract we ar called upon continuously to live up to it. We are asking all of our members to respect every obligation of the contract, not to take any shortcuts independent of the machinery of the agreement, in relation to any problems that may arise. "During the past two years we find that cut-throat competition as between the operators themselves resulted in the demoralization of the price structure in the industry. This reached its worst period at a time when the industry was on the upgrade and was increasing its markets in many sections of the consuming territory. "The United Mine Workers of America have repeatedly urged the Anthracite cperators to revamp their sales and distributing policies in order that price stability may be maintained in the industry to insure payment of wages provided under the agreement, to maintain working conditions provided thereunder, and give the operating interests a reasonable return on their investments and management.

"At the present time it seems they BUTTEnFISH Ifcs. OCc 2 25c PORGIES board, by sizes, each Thursday night. Production assignments will be made on Mondays. The executive committee will have power to examine records of prcducing companies and, subject to overruling by the board, to alter production assignments necessitated by opening or abandonment of mines. A 15 per cent "tolerance" in observance of quotas was allowed in the plan, but companies that produce less than the quota one week cannot carry over the deficiency to the next, except by sanction of the executive committee after consideration of whether the deficiency was "intentional." Anthracite produced for ground storage in July, August and September would not be subject to the quota assignment system, but would be deducted from the allowable output for the succeeding five months.

The plan would be effective in eight counties: Carbon, Columbia, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Northumberland, Schuylkill, Susquehanna and Wayne. Administrative costs would be prorated on the basis of the percentage quotas for production. It would apply only to "lawfully mined" Anthracite, including output of stripping and culm-bank reclamation operations. At Cleveland, where the U.M.W.A. is holding its annual convention, President John L.

Lewis expressed the hope that stabilization of the Anthracite industry could be accomplished through the plan approved by Jamei "If this cannot be done," Lewis said in a report to the convention, "there is only one recourse And that is for the enactment of federal legislation of the type of the National Bituminous Coal Stabilization bill which should primarily concern itself with stability in price and marketing policy In which some consideration might be given to the question of allocation" of production. MINER BADLY HURT Michael Demmi, 35, of Shaft, near Shenandoah, was seriously injured when he was crushed between mine wagons while engaged in making a coupling. Surgeons in Locust Mountain Hospital report Demmi victim of a fractured pelvis and serious internal injuries. OUR OWN MAKE CHICKEN OH I PIES each CUO WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 U.R White House Secretary Stephen T.

Early today contrasted John L. Lewis" forecast that President Roose-vel: faces "ignominious defeat" if he tries for a third term with a visit paid to the White House by President William Green of the A. F. L. Early said there was no comment on the speech of the C.

I. O. chieftain before the United Mine Workers convention at Columbus. He added, however: "On the other side of tha picture you will see Mr. Green coming in and doing a very nice Green visited the White House today in company with representatives cf the A.

F. L. bakery and confectionery workers union, who presented the President with a huge birthday cake in honor of his birthday January 30 and the infantile paralysis campaign. "That Lewis comment," said Early, "is what might be described as an 'iffy' question if he runs if he is drafted if he wins if he loses. There is no comment." The massive cake taken to the White House by the A.

F. L. bore 58 candles, each wrapped with a photostatic copy of $100 checks contributed by labor unions to the in NEW YORK. Jan. 24 U.R A formal objection to the nomination of Earl Brcwder, general secretary of the Communist party, as Communist candidate for a congressional vacancy was filed with the board of elections today.

Former Alderman Lambert Fair-child asserted in his objection that the nominating petition erred technically in the description of the district and the symbol of the party. "He charged also that the party was not' a political group but a "dues-. paying secret Browder petitions bore the initials instead of the usual and sickle. S. Howard Cohen, president of the board of elections, said earlier that the courts would have to rule on qualification of the candidate in the event objections were filed.

Brow-' der. under sentence of four years imprisonment for passport fraud, entered the congressional race in the Fourteenth New York District where on February 6 a successor will be elected to the laie Representative William I. Sirovich, Democrat. A few hours after he filed a new $7,500 bail bond yesterday, enabling him to remain at liberty pending an appeal, Brcwder's friends filed his congressional nomination at 10:40 p. an hour and 20 minutes before the filing deadline.

S. Howard Cohen, president of the board of elections, said: "The 3 25c Deviled Crabs or Deviled Clams industry, was a schedule of production quotas, in percentage form, for 95 of the 96 colliery companies responsible for the industry's tons production last year. The percentage allocations were Johnnie Carter, former head of the numbers rackets here, who is known to have moved to Allentown following the first raids here last July. First of the succession of raids against the numbers racket here was made last July. At that time officers raided an office on Shamokin street, where they found numbers slips, adding machines and other evidence of a headquarters office of the racket.

They learned at that time that the office had been leased to a man known as "Butch," and immediately suspected Bucci. When they searched for Bucci it was to learn he had fled the community. After the grand jury ignored indictments against persons involved in the initial raids, Bucci returned to Shamokin and has been under surveillance ever since. Recently the officers trailing suspected numbers PADDED OYSTERS Ready to Fry OPEN THURSDAY NIGHT BUEHLER'S VARIETY MARKET Corner Market Walnut Phone 1869 recemmendations to the committee in respect to all matters covered by this emergency program, including ways and means of securing observance of its provisions and adopting rules and regulations consistent therewith," according to the plan outline released by the governor. "In respect to advice and recommendations cn production as related to prespective market requirements, the board shall take into consideration inventories of unsold Anthracite in cars at mines or other points designated for such purposes by railroad companies, at tidewater piers and lake ports, en route to piers or ports, and Anthracite in storage, whenever kvited." An estimate of needed production will be submitted by the board each week to the executive group.

Reports from producers will be due on Mondays. The allocation period will be subject to change by the board. Tonnage of Anthracite in storage will be reported to the based on colliery output the first four months of 1939, a period regarded as "normal" in the industry. All except 24 of the mining companies have accepted the percentage quotas. State Mines Secretary Thomas expressed belief that the dissenters would "fall in line" later.

The largest of these is the Stevens Coal Company, which was not assigned a share of the production to be estimated by the committee in charge of the plan to be necessary for each week in the future. The production total will be based on market demand as determined by accumulated orders for coal. Under the production allocation formula approved by virtually the entire industry, the Glen Alden Ccmpany 'will be assigned to provide 18.84 per cent of the demand for hard coal in any week. This was the top percentage assignment in the schedule, based pn Glen Alden's daily average of production the first four months of last year. P.

R. C. I. will be assigned 12.25 per cent of the market demand in the future, under the schedule approved as a basis for the production allocation system. The ether mining companies as fantile paralysis campaign.

Green gave Mr. Roosevelt a $5,800 check representing the total of the contributions. The presentation was marred by a slight mishap. En route to the White House the truck bearing the five and a half foot cake rolled into a snow bank and the cake was jolted and broken. The confectioners said, however, they would repair the cake before it is exhibited at a banquet tonight in connection with the paralysis drive.

27 Arrested in Numbers Raids THE COUNTRY'S MOST FAMOUS MATRESSES At Precedent-Shattering Prices $15.00 Innerspring Mattress 9.75 $22.00 Innerspring Mattress $14,75 $29.50 Innerspring Mattress $19.75 board will not take the initiative in denying Browder his rights as a candidate, for his conviction could be reversed or in the interim a certificate cf reasonable doubt could be granted which would stay the execution of his sentence." He said if any citizen filed a formal objection, the board would rule, otherwise it wouldn't. Milton Mann, Browder's campaign manager, said Communists had 6,000 disciplined" votes in the district polling 20.000, and had a good chance to win. He said Browder would make his first campaign speech Thursday night. There were 5,440 signatures to Brovtder's filing petition, 2,440 more than required. Browder will be opposed by Dem THRIFT DAY CLEARANCE ON writers found they were reporting to the Bucci poolroom, and the raid of yesterday was planned.

On the occasion of another raid here some weeks ago, nearly a score of persons fell into the police net and indictments were sougnt against a number of the principals. Once again prosecution failed and the racket was revived. For a time the racket prevailed on a small basis after the two big raids, many persons fearing to handle are numbers books, while players feared arrest if caught making purchases or carrying numbers slips. Recently the racket began to pick up and the play is reported by motor officers to have gained increased patronage since shortly before the Christmas1 holidays. Bucci, the officers indicated is the "front" for the racket here, although it is known the real headquarters are in another city, to which slips and money are relayed by local and other runners.

Coal Plan to Be Launched Monday (Continued from Page One) Volpe and Gateway Coal Companies, representing the old-line and inde GERTRUDE'S Hat Shoppe 504 N. 8th St. DRAPERIES AVERAGE LACE TABLE 4 COVERS JLo PRICE CURTAINS 1 Wall Paper signed more than two per cent of the industry's total output are: Hudson Coal company, 9.62 per cent; Lehigh Valley Coal Company, REDUCED TO 1 Croll 7.32; Susquehanna Collieries Com For THRIFT DAY HATS 50 $1 ocratic and Republican candidates, who both scoffed at the Communists' claim to 6 000 votes. Defeat Looms for F. Lewis Says FACTORY CLEARANCE OF 8-3 10-6 and 9x12 39c-59c WINDOW 4 lor (4 SHADES tj 9 I 7c 10c WINDOW $1 Panties 50c pany, 5.44; Lehigh Navigation Coal Company, 5.34; Pennsylvania Coal Company, 2.83; Markle Corporation, 2.753.

The No. 9 Coal Company, and the Volpe Coal Company, were assigned 1.607 per cent of total demand each. Santo Volpe's Gateway Coal Ccmpany got a .347 per cent allocation. The first meeting of the "An mm VALUES UP TO $38.00 VARCRAFT CHINAGLOSS.qt. $1 Gloves 79c pendent operators; Michael J.

Kosik. Hush V. Brown and Martin and all money and numbers slips were confiscated. While the officers were thus engaged a telephone call to the establishment was intercepted by Officer Hochreiter. The man is alleged to have said: "This is Charlie Daniels.

Why doesn't Butch come for the money?" The officer replied: "He'll be there in a few minutes." Hochreiter then assigned J. E. Thompson to apprehend Daniels, who was found with money and number slips. The officer took Daniels to the Bucci poolroom, where he was held with others while the raid was continued and other persons were rounded up. Having previously learned that Bucci resided in the home of Mrs.

Hilda Miller, 500 Oak Street, Officer Thompson and others were sent there to search the residence. They found 260 numbers books in a bureau drawer, much clothing belonging to Btroci and evidence that Mrs. Miller was fully cognizant of the presence of the illeral racket books in her home. She was placed under arrest and taken to the barracks for questioning, fingerprinting and to be photographed. After officers were convinced that all returns had been made for the day, five patrol cars were used to take the 27 prisoners to the Now Is the Time to Make Your Selection While the Stock Is Complete at Wetzel's Floor Covering 545 N.

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(Continued from Page One) success" that led to Democratic victories in 1932 and 1936. and charged that the "Democratic party and its leadership have not preserved this faith" with labor. "In the last three years, labor has not been given representation in cabinet, nor in the administrative or policy-making agencies of government," Lewi.s said in a prepared statement which he read slowly to the convention. "The current administration has not sought nor seriously entertained the advice or views of labor iuon the question of national unemploy THRIFT DAY CLEARANCE! C0RSETTES SUNNS GIRDLES representing the union. The union and operator members were appointed by the governor from nomination panels submitted by the producers and miners.

The six selected served on the "com 20 to 30 Off No Charge for Alterations mittee of 12," which comprised also John L. Lewis. U.M.W.A. tirpsi- VANITY FAIR and MUNSING TUCK STITCH AND BALBRIGGAN PAJAMAS AND GOWNS Ill OFF dent and C.I.O. chairman; Philip Murray.

U.M.W.A. vice-oresident: Former Lieutenant-Governor Thom Bed Jackets 20 Off $1.29 Evening Bags 79c ment or ieer qucf-uuns anevun domestic economy, internal taxation, foreign trade, military and naval expansion, relations with foreign nations, or issues of war or peace. "Labor today has no p3int of contact with the Democratic ad- 3-4-7 THREAD HOSIERY. 69c value 49c 79c value 59c $1.00 value 79c Silk, Satin, Taffeta Colored SLIPS $1.19 value M.95 value $1.49 $1.95 Gowns $1.49 B. V.

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J. Connolly, president cf the Pennsylvania Coal Company, and C. A. Garner, vice-president of the Ridge Coal Company. Union members of the committee said the stabilization svstpm hpirf ministration In power, except for 69c Chiffon Evening Hankies 35c 25r Colored Linen Hankies 19c barracks.

Interrogation of the principals and writers, together with the photographing and fingerprinting of all persons arrested, continued casual and occasional interviews which are granted its individual leaders. In the Congress, the un-' restrained baiting and defaming SAY-DEE of eliminating "bootleg" mining, a depression-born activity 1 1 BETWEEN TOE LIES? ALL WINTER GOODS MUST GO, REGARDLESS OF COST! Full-Fnshioned 79c Silk Hose 2 rrs 88c Hlnrk-R "own Heel Women's Misses Wash Frocks ifl A Square Deal to All- Women's Missei rM Rayon Slips I llfcLni 2 fr 88C I 232 E' Indrprml('nff st- (Elks' BI(K- SHAMOKIN to 44 I until 10:00 last night, when the five principals were taken to Justice Renninger's office for arraignment. Several of held had sent for friends to sign bail bonds, and when preliminary investigation of the bail offered proved it unsatis- WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILE- Without Calomel And You'll Jump Oul el Bed in the Morning Ririn' to Go 1h- liir should jxnir out to pint of li'i'ixl bile inui oui- boKeii dmly. If thii bile i not flowinir firely, jour fonil miy not iliKi-t. It niy jimi deiay in the l.v.

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Does the laxative job for a cold. oi laoor by ne Democratic majority have become a pastime, never subject to rebuke by the titular or actual leaders in the party." The 2,400 delegates to the union's golden jubilee convention listened quietly as Lewis read the statement slowly. There was scattered applause once or twice and it was more noticeable at the part of the station mentioning that the Republican party could be prevented from winning through a Democratic-labor accord. The delegates got down to routine business after hearing Lewis. Auditors of the union reported a treasury balance of as of December 1939.

which doe.s not include about S800.000 raised by special assessments since then. Expenditures during 1939 were es- pecially heavy because of the six-veelc bituminous coal stoppage last spring. Revenue was curtailed sharply while the miners stayed First mutiny 49c Silk Hose 3 88c emi-Fa Monro" STARTING TOMORROW MORNING AT 9 O'CLOCK PAY Between the lines of every advertisement you see, you can imagine these words: "Thousands of people had to believe in this product and buy it before it was ready for advertising!" The fact that a product is advertised regularly means that a lot of people buy it regularly. 1 he fact that a storekeeper or manufacturer will join his name with it in public proves that he thinks it is good, honest value. Time was when the slogan, "Let the buyer beware," governed buying and selling.

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