Will Even Block Choir Singers to Probe “Absurdity’’ of Blue Laws.

By the Associated Press.

JOHNSTOWN. Pa January 20 —A much perturbed and a little defiant citizenry tonight faced a Sunday without movies, sodas or gasoline as Mayor Eddie McCloskey prepared to show the people just how “ridiculous’’ blue laws are anyway.

Every business house got orders from policemen today to “pull down your blinds tomorrow and keep them down” under an edict of the mayor that a blue law of 1913 will be enforced to the last letter.

The mayor said he will back up the old law so well “that the paid choir singers will not be permitted to appear in the churches.”