Louis L.Mastronicola;Jr.;25;of 14 Third street;Charleroi was dead on arrival in the Charleroi-Monessen hospital;August 4;1949;at 12:25 p.m. following a truck crash on Route 71;near Bentleyville. Mr.Mastronicola;driver for Marsh Tire Co.;of Charleroi;was hurled from behind the wheel of the machine;when it struck an embankment and upset near the Gibson road cut-off. He received a skull fracture and multiple head and neck injuries. The truck;enroute to Charleroi;was apparently thrown out of control when it passed over a hump in the road at a driveway. This seemed to have deflected the truck toward the bank where the front nosed in. The machine went for a distance of about 50 feet;rutted into another driveway and overturned. The driver was hurled thru the windshield and struck his head on the highway. The accident occurred about an eighth of a mile;east of Cappy’s Service Station;Gibson road intersection. State ploice received the call to the accident at 12:05 p.m.;indicating it had occurred after 11:30 a.m. Friends will be received at the Francis C.Slezak Funeral Home. Services will be held there Monday;August 8;1949;at 2 p.m.;and interment will follow in Belle Vernon cemetery. American Legion Post 22 will have charge of military rites. Francis C.Slezak is the funeral director.