Pat Shea of Holyoke, member of the world’s champion New York Giants, will leave home this week to report to the McGrawmen.  Shea turned in some first-class work for the Giants in 1921, but this year he hopes to make for himself a regular position on the staff and to take his turn against the other reams around the National circuit.  Last winter Shea was overanxious to make good with the New York club and did too much preparatory work during the winter, with the result that when he had been in the South a while he found that he was overtrained and that his arm wouldn’t respond.  He has taken his training this winter mostly in the form of long walks and short sprints on the road, going out frequently with Jack Hannafin, former Eastern league umpire.  Shea will go to Buffalo for a few days and meet the Giants there, on the way to San Antonio.  The squad is booked to leave New York Sunday.

A 23-year-old Western Mass. Electric Co. employee was injured at 9:30 this morning when a company truck was truck by a car on Route 143 in Peru, state ploice reported.

Eugene Murphy Jr. of 64 Stoddard Ave., who was in the rear of the parked truck, sustained a cut on the forehead when the vehicle recoiled from the impact.  He was treated by a company doctor.

Two of five Holyoke-area teenagers in the car were injured, neither seriously.  The driver, Donald R. Leclair, 17, of Holyoke, suffered a sprained wrist and bruised knee.  Norman Girouard of Aldenville received bruised to the knee and thigh.  There were treated by Dr. Ralph Mosonella of Dalton.

Other passengers who escaped injury were Raymond Provost of Holyoke and Norman Nadeau and Calde Flardeau, both of Willimansett.  The five were going to a funeral in North Adams.

The electric company truck was parked at the side of the road while crewmen were working on lines in the vicinity.  Warning markers had been placed along the road, state police said.

Trooper Francis Reardon investigated the accident.

The Holyoke High School basketball team is ranked No. 1 in Massachusetts, according to the Dunkel ratings, released by the Scholastic Sports institute.  Coach Billy Sullivan’s team has a rating of 64 points.  Somerville High is second with 62.4 and Sacred Heart High, Holyoke, eighth.  Westfield is placed 12th.

Sacred Heart High, Holyoke is rated second for Western Massachusetts, Westfield third, Williston, fourth, Worcester Academy, fifth, Ludlow, sixth, Williams High, Stockbridge, seventh, Adams 12th and Drury 20th.

Mrs. Elizabeth Reardon Prendergast of Holyoke died Saturday morning in Providence Hospital, following a brief illness.  She was the widow of Patrolman Michael J. Prendergast of the Holyoke Police force.

Survivors include a son, Sgt. Edward M. Prendergast, a state policemen stationed at the Lee barracks.

Mrs. Prendergast was born in Florence, educated in Northampton schools and was a graduate of Northampton Commercial College.  She was an original member of Holy Cross parish, Holyoke.

Services will be conducted tomorrow morning at 8:15 at the John B. Shea Funeral Home, 693 Dwight St., Holyoke, followed at 9 by a Solemn High Mass of Requiem at Holy Cross Church.  Burial will be in St. Mary’s Cemetery, Northampton.  Friends may call at the funeral home at their convenience.

Hinsdale.—Mrs. Ella Clark of Main Street received friends and relatives at ther home Sunday in observance of her 85th birthday.  She received flowers and a shower of cards.  Mrs. Clark was born in Holyoke Feb. 14, 1858.  She came to Hinsdale in 1893 with her husband, Wesley Clark, who died in 1920.  Mrs. Clark has a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Sydney Scott of Dalton and two grandchildren, Wesley Clark of Hinsdale and Mrs. Harold Richmond of Dalton.

Great Barrington.—Mrs. Ella Fitzpatrick, 60, died suddenly last night shortly after she was stricken with a heart attack at Val’s Restaurant.  Dr. M. T. Cavanaugh, medical examiner, viewed the body which was removed to the Birches Funeral Home.

Miss Fitzpatrick was born in Holyoke, the daughter of William and Catherine Mogan Fitzpatrick and spent most of her life in that city.  She had been living in this section six months and was employed at the Jug End Barn.  She was an aunt of Mrs. Harry Stannard of Mill River.  There are also several cousins surviving.

The funeral will be at 9 tomorrow morning at St. Peter’s Church and the body will be placed in a vault in St. Peter’s Cemetery until burial in the Catholic Cemetery, Mill River, in the spring.

Mrs. Philemon Barsalou died last night at the home of her daughter, Mrs. George Raymond.  Besides her daughter, with whom she lived, she leaves one son Alvaria of this city, and two other daughters, Mrs. Israel Acoine of Woonsocket, R.I. and Mrs. Fred Fortier of Westfield.  The funeral will be held at the home tomorrow morning at 8 followed by high requiem mass at the Immaculate Conception Church at 9.

The funeral of Judson A. Cleveland was held this afternoon at the home, 62 Taylor Street.  Rev. Dr. J. C. Sycamore officiated and the bearers were Frank and William Shelley, Charles Burnham, Edgar Peck, A. J. Roland and R. W. Sanderson.  Burial was in Forestdale Cemetery.

The funeral of William Thalmann was held this afternoon at Foster’s funeral parlors.  Rev. E. C. Stuebl officiated and burial was in Forestdale Cemetery.

Holyoke, February 14.—George Brown, 17 of 47 View Street and George Moreau, 17, of 2100 Northampton Street were each fined $20 in the district court this morning for driving away an automobile without the consent of the owner, and in addition were given suspended jail sentences of six months each.  Although there have been dozens of cases of automobiles being driven away, this is the first one to come before the court.

Harry Markoski, charged with bastardy, was discharged after a hearing.  Dennis O’Connor was allowed to plead nolo in the case of alleged trespass on the private drivewayof the Holyoke Surgical Hospital at Smiths Ferry, and Judge John Hildreth said that he was giving public notice that the roadway belongs to the hospital authorities and that further infractions of the trespass law would result in penalties.

Liquors seized January 30 on the premises of John Okarnus of 130 High Street were ordered forfeited.  About three quarts of whiskey was taken at the time.

Funeral services for Mrs. Alice Cowan, late resident of 738 S. Mitchell, Arlington Heights, were held February 15 at her residence with Rev. Stuart C. Saul officiating.  Black’s Memorial home was in charge of arrangements.  Interment was in Forestdale Cemetery, Holyoke, Mass.

Mrs. Cowan died February 14 at Sherman hospital, Elgin, at the age of 65.  She was born June 17, 1885 in Concord, NH., and was married to William Arthur Cowan, December 28, 1904. in Hookset, New Hampshire.  She is survived by her children, James T. Cowan of Bellows Falls, N.Y., Mrs. Ruth Riley of Alrington Heights and Mrs. O. Arthur Aslaksen of Brooklyn, N.Y.; 4 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren.

Holyoke, Mass.—The mayor and superintendent of schools today challenged the Civil Liberties Union for its stand against the temporary use of public school facilities for parochial school pupils.

The Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts protested yesterday that free city housing recently provided for Roman Catholic parochial school classes violates the principle of church-state separation in the federal and state constitutions.

Mayor Samuel Resnic, who is of the Jewish faith, declared; “I’d do it again.  We’re just observing Brotherhood Week—and how better?”

School Head Defiant

School Superintendent William R. Peck said Holyoke residents can settle their own problems without “outside dictation.”A letter by the executive committee of the CLU to the Holyoke School Committee yesterday cited the Massachusetts law which provides that “no public money nor property may be used to help any school where denominational doctrine is taught.”

The letter was signed by the Rev. Gardiner M. Day, chairman of the committee and rector of Christ Episcopal Church, Cambridge.

The situation arose last December when the 85-year-old Mater Dolorosa parochial school was closed as unsafe.  Its 800 pupils were dispersed among classes in Immaculate Conception parochial school and in three public schools.

(Of the public schools given in load, one, the Ingleside School, had been withdrawn from public school use and used as a community recreation center.  Space also has been loaned in two currently used public schools, the West Street and the William Whiting schools.)

The parochial school students housed in the city schools are taught by nuns and their classes are separate from those attended by pupils on the rolls of the city schools.

Mayor Resnic admitted that a technical violation of the law might exist, but he added no violation exists in humanitarian terms and ventured the opinion that “the courts will sustain our interpretation of the law.”

He added that the Civil Liberties Union is a well-meaning organization, but nevertheless, “in this city there is an excellent relationship between all peoples.”

Peck said: “Let those people who feel so outraged resort to whatever remedy they believe exists?  Everyone in Holyoke is happy with the situation.  If the CLU is so anxious to protect rights, they’d better apply a few of their fundamental principles to our situation and let us settle it without outside dictation.”

Meanwhile, Catholic church officials yesterday launched a $340,000 fund drive to build a new Mater Dolorosa school.