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THE EVENING NEWS AND THE MORNING TELEGRAM CONSOLIDATED IN 1915. ABSORBED THE DAILY GAZETTE IN 1924.
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VOL. 48.—NO. 197.
SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 1946.
Fourteen Pages—Three Sections
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
BRITAIN ANXIOUSLY WATCHES PALESTINE
250 Dead, 1,600 Injured In Calcutta
Heavily Armed British
Troops Seek To Quell
Angry Hindus, Moslems
(By Associated Press)
Calcutta, August 17..— A
pitched battle is raging in
Calcutta between mobs of
Hindus and Moslems. The
entire day was marked by
riots and the total dead in
the two-day fracas has been
estimated at 250 killed and
1,600 injured.
(By Associated Press)
Calcutta, August 17.—Casualty
figures in yesterday’s wild rioting
at Calcutta continue to mount to-
day as reports of new distur-
bances are received from outly-
Great Lakes
Strike Talks
Set Monday
(Bv Associated fy~etis>
A spokesman for the CIO
Maritime Union has an-
nounced that negotiations
Will be resumed Monday be-
tween the union and two of
tbie 17 operators of ships in-
volved in the Great Lakes
strike. Union President
Joseph Curran is scheduled
Xx? leave strike headquarters
at Detroit for New York
where he will resume discus-
sions with the Bethlehem
Transportation Corporation.
A union committee will also
confer in Chicago with the
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana. Bethlehem oper-
ates 12 ore carriers, and
Standard Oil has six tank-
ers.
(By Associated Press)
Detroit, Aug. 17—An official
of the CIO Maritime Union claims
that an increasing number of ves-
sels have been tied up in the third
day of the strike on the Great
Lakes. The CIO leader, Vice-Presi-
dent Joseph Stack, declined to
give any new figures. Yesterday
the union said that 98 of the near-
ly 400 American ships on the five
lages had been held in port be-
cause of the walkout. This figure
did not match up with the one
issued by the Lake Carriers’ Asso-
ciation at Cleveland, which claim-
ed that as of last night only 25
vessels operated by its members
were idle.
It stated that more than 91 per
(Continued on page four)
ing sections of the city.
One responsible police official
now has boosted the estimate of
dead to 100, and the number of
casualties to more than 1,000. A
British dispatch has quoted the
New Delhi radio, however, and
placing the death toll at 200 and
the injured at 1,500.
Meanwhile, in an attempt to
prevent further strife, Calcutta
police have forbidden the assem-
bly of five or more persons, and
they have decreed that no person
shall carry dangerous weapons.
Some sources claim that despite
all precautions it will be at least
a week before Calcutta again is
normally quiet.
British troops are being used to
a limited extent in seeking to
quell the disorders, but the main
responsibility is being left with
the harassed Indian police. The
British soldiers are wearing steel
helmets and are heavily armed.
Their job for the most part is
to patrol the streets in a display
of force. For their protection,
wire mesh has been strewn oVer
their vehicles to protect the Brit-
ishers from hurled objects.
Determined to restore order,
Indian police are said to have fir-
ed guns in some instances to
break up new Hindu-Moslem
slashes. The rioters appear equal-
ly determined, however, and have
armed themselves with clubs and
other weapons despite police ord-
ers.
There has been no mention of
renewed looting, but the estimat-
ed loss from this source yesterday
exceeds three - million dollars.
Frenzied mobsters set fire to a
number of stores and homes.
Bus and street car service is at
a standstill for the present, forc-
ing many Europeans to reach
their offices on foot. One Euro-
pean worker was seen en route to
his job with a rifle slung over his
shoulder..
Heavy Rains Flood East St. Louis
Budget Hearing
Public Schools
Tuesday Evening
Supt. Ercell W. Brooks, of the
Sulphur Springs schools, announ-
ces that a public hearing on the
proposed budget for the school
year, 1946-47 will be held Tues-
day evening, August 20 at 7:30.
The meeting will be held in the
office of the superintendent, and
the public is cordially invited to
attend.
Riot Full Attention
Of Government
Given Problem
War Probe Chief
Raps Disposal
Overseas Goods
Record rains followed by a flash flood inundate a section of U. S. Highway 40 between East St.
Louis and Collinsville, Illinois. Property damage mounted as the surging water isolated homes and
swept away sections of the railroads in the area. Rainfall in the St. Louis area for August has brok-
en a 109-year record. (NEA Telephoto).
Said Near End
100,000 Chinese *”18*
Reds Mass For Workers Slnke
Vast Offensive
Bascom Kenney
Makes Profit
On Fine Pigs
Austria And Iran To
Air View On Italy Peace
Russians Said
Massing Troops
On Iran Border
(By Associated Press)
Teheran, Iran, Aug. 17—New
trouble may be in the making
along the northern Iranish-Rus-
sian frontier. An official from an-
other country declares that the
Russians have massed between 15
and 25 divisions of troops along I
the boundary between Iran and
Russia. That would amount to as
many as 150,000 men.
This official describes the Rus-
sian troops- as typical Red Army
Mountain units, and he says that
they are deployed for an extent
of 38 miles along the border.
A few days ago, Iran protested
to Britain against the presence of
British Indian troops along the
south Iranian border near the all-
important British-Iranian oil
fields. Britain rejected this com-
plaint and said that the presence
of these troops was justified.
(By Associated Pressi
Paris, August 17.—The peace
conference has voted to permit
both Austria and Iran to express
their views on the Italian peace
treaty.
The invitation to Iran was
adopted unanimously, but Russia
and the other Slav countries vig-
orously opposed allowing Austria
to appear. Soviet Delegate Vish-
insky contended it was clear that
Austria’s only object in asking to
be heard was to press her claim
to the South Tyrol—a claim al-
ready turned down by the Coun-
cil of Foreign* Ministers.
The American delegates joined
France an,d Britain in support of
the Austrian invitation, and when
the vote came, it was 15-to-6 in
favor of Austria, with Russia and
her satellite countries on the los-
ing side.
The proposal that Iran be al-
lowed to state her views came
from the Soviet delegate. Vish-
insky declared that Iran had con-
tributed to the victory over Ger-
many through co-operation in
moving supplies through Iran ter-
ritory. After his proposal was
adopted the conference adjourn-
ed until Monday.
(By Associated Press)
Nanking, August 17. —
Chinese dispatches from
Northern Kiangsu Province
say Chinese Communists
have massed 100,000 re-in-
forcemence ttiere for a
j counter - offensive against
Kiangtu and Jukai. Posses-
sion of the cities is import-
ant for control of the north
bank of the Yangtze River
from Nanking to Shanghai.
The Nationalist Central News
Agency announces that National-
ist troops have reached the be-
sieged town of Tatung, in Shansi
Province, with reinforcements.
The garrison there is said to have
repulsed several Communist at-
tacks.
At Kuling, the government
summer capital, General Marshall
has resumed conferences with
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek.
The Communist Commissioner at
truce headquarters, returned to
Peiping from a Nanking confer-
ence with General Marshall, says
he’s convinced that last week’s
statement by the American peace
envoys was an expression of dif-
ficulties, but not one of failure.
The Communist general also
declared that Marshall will not
return to America next month, as
rumored, and that truce head-
quarters will continue operations.
Three nice-sized gold mines are
walking around in the bermuda
and clover pasture at the Bascom
Kenney farm at Arbala. The
three gold mines are in the form
of some ambitious and promising
3-months-old OIC pigs which are
gaining weight fast enough to
make the question of their waist-
lines a serious one.
When they were two months
old, Mr. Kenney weighed one of
the three, and chalked up 57
pounds on the barn door; when
they were three months
ole, he weighed the same pig and
and chalked up 91 pounds, or a
one month gain of 34 pounds.
Mr. Kenney states that he
feeds them about two quarts of
barley each per day, mixed with
swill and garbage, and about two
ears of corn apiece. They range
at will on the pasture, where they
have plenty of shade and cool,
fresh water.
With bacon and ham and pork
chops, not to mention lard, selling
at their present sky-high prices,
is it any wonder that the Kenney
family is proud of the young mar-
ket walking around looking wise?
Mr. Kenney explained that nine
pigs were in the litter, but that
he kept only the three to furnish
meat for the family dinner table;
the other six pigs were sold to
neighbors who last year bought
pigs from Mr. Kenney. Of last
year’s litter, one dressed out at
better than 400 pounds, and Mrs.
Kenney is still using the lard she mer in the Brinker community
A. R. Pipkin
Believer In
Yellow Dent Corn
A. R. Pipkin, well known far-
rendered at that time. The Ken-
neys sugar-cured all their pork,
and the flavor of their bacon and
hams is almost traditional over
this section of East Texas.
Mr. Kenney believes that the
three pigs will provide the year’s
supply of pork and lard for the
family of four, including himself
and Mrs. Kenney and Joe and La-
velle, with maybe a piece or two
for grandson Johnny Dan Jen-
kins, husky two-year-old who ac-
companied granddad to town Sat-
urday and paid a short visit to
The Echo office.
W eath
(By Associated Press>
West Texas: Fair Sunday.
East Texas : Partly cloudy Sun-
day. Scattered afternoon thun-
dershowers.
out on Sulphur Springs route 5,
is a firm believer in the qualities
of Yellow Dent corn for this sec-
tion of the state.
Mr. Pipkin has 20 acres of land
planted to this variety, and des-
pite too much rain too early and
not enough later, the yield is av-
eraging 35 bushels to the acre.
This yield for the present year
is all the more remarkable be-
cause, even in the best of years,
30 bushels to the acre is consider-
ed a good crop.
Mr. Pipkin, who brought three
ears of the corn in for display in
The Echo window, explained that
he usually plants his corn around
February 15, but this year the
fields were too wet until almost
the middle of March. Nevertheless
he believed so strongly in the
making-qualities of Yellow Dent
that he went ahead and planted,
and now feels that his faith was
justified.
(By Associated Pressi ■
Waco, Aug. 17 — The eight-
weeks-dld strike of the -rubber
workers at the General Tire and
Rubber Company plant appeared
close to settlement today with the
union local and the company
awiting ratification of their
agreement by the international
union.
The agreement, announced last
night, calls for a 14-cent an hour
wage increase retroactive to
March 1, 1946, and the 4 1-2
cents difference between the
company offer and the union de-
mand will be negotiated after the
plant opens. A production rate
difference now is being arbitrat-
ed.
The agreement was approved at
a mass meeting of members of
CIO United Rubber Workers by a
vote of 278 to 45.
(By Associated Press)
New York, Aug. 17—The chair-
man of the Senate war investigat-
ing committee, Senator James
Mead, has sharply criticized the
government’s procedure in dis-
posing of surplus war goods now
stored overseas.
Senator Mead declared today
that critically needed materials
should be taken from surplus war
stocks abroad, and he expressed
disappointment that this policy is
not being followed. He said ma-
terials badly needed for recon-
version could readily be obtained
from government property now in
foreign lands and he said he had
expected some attempt would be
made to procure it.
The New York Democrat ex-
pressed his opinions after inspect-
ing a cargo ship, the Michael Ed-
elstein, just arrived in New York
with a cargo of surplus war goods
from the Philippines. He said the
ship had not brought home mater-
ials which had been requested as
vitally essential to the nation’s
reconversion effort.
In his blast at the government’s
disposal agencies, Mead asserted
that the agencies are keeping val-
uable surplus stores overseas so
they can be used in tie-in sales
of less desirable goods to foreign
governments. There is no excuse
for this policy, the Senate war
investigating chief added.
(By Associated Press)
London, August 17.—The British Government is de-
voting its full attention to the troubled Palestine situation.
Britain’s Colonial Secretary, George Hall, recently dis-
cussed the problem with Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin
in Paris, and Hall is expected to return to London today
or tomorrow.
Building Tie-Up
In Houston May
End Monday
i ay Associated Press)
Houston, August 17.—The A.E.
of L. Building* Trades Council
leaders have gone into session at
Houston to consider the propos-
ed settlement of the two-months-
old dispute that has tied-up com-
mercial construction in the Gulf
metropolis.
The other party in the contro-
versy, the Associated General
Contractors, are said to be in an
accepting mood, if the union is.
The compromise was drafted by
the Council of Veterans Organi-
zations. If an agreement is reach-
ed today, it is believed that back-
to-work whistles will toot in Hous-
ton on Monday morning for work-
ers on commercial building proj-
ects.
Rock Avalanche
Blocks Railway,
Road In Canada
(By Associated Press)
Banff, Alberta, Canada, Aug.
17—An avalanche of rock has
tumbled 5,000 feet down Cathe-
dral Mountain, blocking the rail-
road tracks of the Canadian Pa-
cific Railroad and the Trans-Can-
ada Highway. The slide appar-
ently started at the top of the
peak and went on for about two
and one-half hours. One hundred
men with bulldozers and ditching
machines are working to clear
the Trans-Continental tracks, and
the roadway.
City Equalization
Tax Board Opens
Hearning Monday
The City Dads of Sulphur
Springs, composed of Mayor W. Z.
Kitts, and Commissioners Dike
Moore and T. C. Brashear, will
open hearings Monday morning,
sitting as a tax equalization board
for the city.
The session will open at eight
o’clock and will be held at the
City Hall, to give local tax pay-
ers an opportunity to discuss with
the board their tax renditions for
this year. The board plans to be
in session two days, Monday and
Tuesday, with another day if
needed.
Indications are that the
Colonial Secretary will in-
form the British Cabinet of
the latest developments in
the Palestine crisis. While
in Paris, he presumably
sounded out the American
viewpoint, as his talk with
Secretary Bevin followed a
conference between Bevin
and Secretary of State
James Byrnes.
So far there has been no offi-
cial reaction from the London
government on President Tru-
man’s suggestion for easing the
refugee problem. Mr. Truman nad
urged that displaced persons from
Europe, including Jews, be ad-
mitted to the United States in
greater numbers. But while offi-
cial London sources have been
silent, off-the-record comment in
the British capital has had a tone
of disappointment.
One government spokesman,
who declined to permit the use of
his name, summed up his views
(his way. He said that even if
some miracle should bring about
a generally satisfactory plan for
Palestine at the forthcoming
talks with Jews and Arabs in Lon-
don, the British still would have
no way of knowing whether the
United States would h61p make
the plan worL
Over at 10 Downing St., a for-
eign office spokesman observed
that only a formal acknowledge-
ment has been received to Brit-
ain’s protest of June 28 to the
State Department. In that pro-
test, the British registered a
formal complaint against full-
page ads appearing in American
newspapers, advertisements solic-
iting donations to help finance il-
legal immigration to the Holy
Land.
The foreign office refused to
comment today on a cablegram
to Prime Minister Clement Attlee
from the New York political ac-
tion committee. The New York
PAC had protested the death sen-
tences imposed on 18 convicted
Jews in Palestine. The cablegram
said the Jews were sentenced in
complete disregard of their status
as prisoners of war.
GOP Chief Threatens
Probe Of Truman Rule
(By Associatea Press)
While President Truman
—the top chieftain of the
Democratic Party — drops
politics for his ' 18 - day
cruise, the issues of the No-
vember elections are being
fought out on the main-
land.
The verbal battle started
yesterday when both the
Democratic and Republican
National chairmen opened
up. GOP Leader B. Carroll
Reece fired the first gun.
He said that if the Republi-
cans win control of Congress they
will launch an investigation of the
Truman Administration. which
would make the recent war prof-
its exposes seem—as he put it—
“like a popgun next to the atomic
30 Injured In
Bus Accident
At
(By Associated t*ress)
Madison, Mis., Aug. 17
least 30 persons were injured to-
day, some of them seriously) when
a bus left the road 15 miles east
of Madison. The bus careened off
Highway 12, struck a culvert, and
landed on its side. There were 37
passengers in the bus in all—the
30 injured were taken to Madison
hospitals.
The bus was enroute from Chi-
cago to Madison.
bomb.” Reece pledged that the
Republicans would end controls
upon production and distribution
and would make sharp cuts in the
income tax.
To this, Democratic Chairman:
Robert Hannegan replied with the
party slogan for the fall cam-
paign. It is:.“We are going to
hold the line against reaction.”
Hannegan said the GOP wants
to go back to what he termed the
“old fashioned conservatism that
ended in hardship and hopeless-
ness for 130 million people.” The
Postmaster General went on to
say that the Republicans fought
the OPA, the full employment and
minimum wage bills and the vet-
erans housing program.
Then two Senators entered the
fray.
Senator Arthur Capper answer-
ed Hannegan. The Kansas Re-
publican said the Democrats were
just trying to deceive the voters
by accusing the GOP of attempt-
ing to block the reconversion pro-
gram.
Senator Glen Taylor of Idaho
took on the Republican National
Chairman. Taylor that if the war
profits investigation uncovered
any irregularities in obtaining
money from the government, “it
was stolen by the big industrial-
ists who had the contracts and
they all are Republicans.”
As for Reece’s prediction that
the GOP would win a majority in
Congress, Taylor had this to say:
“He’s just talking through his
hat.”
Haifa Jews
Warned To
Re Ready
(By Associated Press)
Haifa, August 17.—Thou-
sands of Jews gathered to-
day for a protest . meeting
held behind barbed wire
barricades erected to pre-
vent police or military'inter-
ference. A spokesman told
the Jews to be prepared for
anything and to stand by
during the next few hours.
A Jewish underground radio
began broadcasting an appeal ev-
ery fifteen minutes for all Jew-
ish residents to leave their homes
and join a demonstration in the
center of Haifa in protest against
the deportation of European Jew-
ish refugees from Palestine to the
Island of Cyprus.
The speaker who told the Jews,
to stand by for any development
was not seen; his voice was heard
over an amplifier. He said that
the British were carrying* out the
deportation with the help of a
whole army using full equipment,
tanks and five battleships. The
spokesman declared that nearly
1,500 Jewish refugees aboard two
immigrant ships now are being
deported to Cyprus.
Jewish guards diverted all civ-
ilian traffic from the scene of
the protest meeting. No military
or police forces approached the
crowd.
The British, meantime, are
maintaining their barricade of
tanks and troops in the Haifa
Harbor. Authorities are fear-
ful of a violent Jewish outbreak
at any moment.
Dr. Rainey To
Speak Here
Thursday Nigh!
DR. HOMER P. RAINEY
Dr. Homer P. Rainey, candi-
date for Governor of the State of
Texas, will speak in Sulphur
Springs Thursday night, August
22*id. The speaking will be held
on the public square, starting at
eight o’clock, according to an an-
nouncement made Saturday morn-
ing by supporters of Dr. Rainey.
In the first primary, held in
July, Dr. Rainey was second in
a field of 14 candidates, and re-
ceived probably as much or more
publicity than any of his oppo-
nents. He is said to be an excel-
lent speaker and no doubt will
greet a large crowd when he steps
to the platform for his discussion
of the present torrid campaign for
the office of chief executive of
I the Lone Star State.
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