Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 136, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 17, 1941 Page: 1 of 4
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jMt JHeasant jBailg 'ATimes
Volume XXIII
Number 136
First Photo of Marines at Iceland
Hijacking Averted
Airman’s View of RAF Mass Raid
Germany
on
At Service Station
By Quick Thinking
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Manchukuo Closed President Returns
British Claim Big
Successes in Air
To All Foreigners From Momentous
In Extensive Raids
By Japanese Order Cruise Saturday
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Dispatches from Shanghai
Nazi Offer Pass
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So Flier Can Get
Artificial Legs
of
LONDON—Gei mans have
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Defendant Spends
Must Swear Petain
Allegiance Only
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The earliest type
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until
Roman
emperor,
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When
North Carolina leads in sweet
on
from two to five years.
ready on its way.
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Day Listening to
Court’s Sentence
Destroyed to Keep
Russians to West
Sicilian Port of
Catania is Given
Terrible Pounding
Totalitarianism
Is Now in Effect
Over All Country
Two Women Suffer
Injuries When Car
Goes Into Ditch
flown
past
Insists Nation Is
No Nearer Conflict
Than Heretofore
in
courts
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French Officials
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Nazi Offensives
Have Been Halted [
Except in South
Trying to Bottle
UpBudyenny’sMen
For Big Victory
leges was oral. The written ex-
amination was unknown
around 1702.
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trained in observation of var-
ious kinds of airplanes, and if
the necessity arises for their ser-
vice in this work would be in
position to give notification to
la central point of hostile planes.
I No arrangements have yet been
planned for the construction of
lookouts, because it is not be-
lieved they are necessary at this :
time.
Working for the Interests of Mt. Pleasant, the center of the Milk Industry of Northeast Texas, with its Progressive Soil Conservation and Diversified Farming Program
Mount Pleasant, Texas, Sunday Morning, August 17, 1941
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Reds Battling Hard
Against Nazis and
Say Lines Holding
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united States Marine,
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Thousands of Soviet troops have
been put out of commission dur-
ing the past few days, and the
invaders are concentrating their
positions for complete control of
the rich Ukraine.
A lock in the Stalin Canal has
been destroyed by the Nazi air
force, cutting off water commun-
ication between the Baltic and
White Seas, according to a Ber-
lin report.
Ambassador Franz Von Paper*
is returning to Berlin for cons^j-
tation with the Foreign Off- ,
Berlin saying he is to reportWn
the effect of the Russo-British
assurances and their effect or*
the Turkish government, while
other sources say he has been re-
called because of failure to put
through a new trade treaty.
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Sheriff W. E. Albright spent
Saturday in Terrell, where he
went' to convey a man who had
been adjudged insane.
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Miss Chattie Slayton of Hous-
ton arrived Saturday morning
for a short visit with her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Slayton.
C. P. Cablephoto
This remarkable photo, flashed by radio from London to New York, was taken from a Blenheim bomber
taking part in one of the mass raids on Germany by the British Royal Air Force. The bomber has just
dropped its lethal load on the Cologne power stations at Knapsack, Germany, and clouds of smoke rise
from the burning structures.
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Mrs. Eula Griggs of Dallas,
who was visiting her brothers,
Quick thinking on the part of
J. W. Payne, employed at the
Bowden Service Station on South
Jefferson, averted a hijacking
Friday night, but two men es-
caped in a car without paying
for the gasoline which was put
in their car.
Two men drove up to the sta-
tion in a coupe and had their gas
tank filled. One of them kept
the car running and the other
went into the office, ostensibly
to pay his bill, then ordered Mr.
Payne to open the cash register.
When asked what he meant, the
man pulled a pistol from his
shirt and again gave the order.
Instead of obeying, Mr. Payne,
who was standing by a door,
stepped cutside and began to run
up the street, calling O. B. Gools-
by to come to his assistance. Mr.
Goolsby stepped from his garage
near the station, and when the
hijacker saw him, he jumped in-
to the car and he and the other
man sped west on Arkansas
Street and disappeared around
the corner.
The first part of tfie license
number of the car was obtained
and it was revealed the car wax
registered in Bexar County. The
Sheriffs department called to
San Antonio Saturday morning;
and as there were only ten num-
bers from which to check on the
license numbers, it is believed
the ownership of the car can be
traced, because it is not likely
there will be two Chevrolet
coupes among the ten numbers*.
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Dnieper Bridges
DALLAS—Friday was a busy
day for George Ivy.
Ivy was charged
criminal district
ians, while the Briti h claim
heavy damage was inflicted on
port facilities.
A few German
over
but London said little
was done. Less than 300
* planes have been
Britain during the
weeks,
the
a i _ _
casions in attacking German ob- which will not be tolerated. How-
jectives. [ever, it is noticeable that since
London also reports intercep- . the United States, Great Britain,
tion of two Axis supply ships by (China and the Dutch East Indies
British patrols, and the sinking have applied trade restrictions
of a number of Italian vessels in against Japan and issued warn-
the Mediterranean during the ings not to extend aggressive
past week. ....
been conquered by the dictators.
I Mr. Roosevelt intimated that
| there had been discussions of
plans to bring about the defeat
of Hitler, and it is believed ac-
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i action, the Nipponese have quiet- tjng more supplies to Britain by
led down considerably.
The liner Tatuta Maru, which
left the United States two weeks
ago, fearing confiscation, was
met some distance from Yoka-
hama Saturday by fast vessels
carrying surgeons, physicians and
medical supplies because 120 per-
sons on board were victims of
ptomaine poisoning from the
dinner they ate Friday night.
Seven of the number had already
died and others were in critical
condition. The Tatuta Maru left
San Francisco hurriedly and did
a new supply of
Two Men Get Away
With Quantity Of
Gasoline in Car
Tunis Quick
Arraigned in Montclair, N. J., Tunis
Quick, 20, a grocery clerk, denied
murdering his 14-year-old sweet-
heart, Rosemary Abbott, who was
shot to death in Quick’s Montclair
home as ahe-saVon the sofa with a
rival for her affections. Quick said
he pointed his sawed-off .22 calibre
rifle at the girl "as a joke” and it
went off although, "I didn’t know it
was loaded.” gnaui
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• is 1 ummcr castle, after three
attempts have been made to take
his life.
There is little hope that an
organized revolt will be started,
because there is no unity of lead-
ership anywhei’e, and the Nazis
are using severe measures against
the conquered people on the
France, the' slightest provocation.
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Fir*
Wing ’ aircraft, and although the coun-
Douglas R. Bader,' try is not now in war and there
' seems to be no need for such
service, the plan is to have an
organization perfected before
there is a possibility of foreign
planes flying over this section.
n?vt. Robert Fowler of Venice, Cal., as he arrived with the U.
Troops at Reykjavik, Iceland's capital city
Aircraft Warning Victim of Wreck
Service to Be Set Placed in Dallas
Up in Titus County Hospital Friday
Will Be Seventeen
Districts Placed
Into Operation
tions regarding the conference. 1 fly
said the country is no nearer
i war that heretofore. He said he
i and Mr. Churchill had talked of
practically everything pertaining
to the present situation, and had
■ touched on affairs of every con-
tinent. In speaking of the eight
points of the proposed peace
iaims after the war is over, Mr.
in given five years.
‘ | After that he went across the
light, which was mistaken for a hall to Criminal District Court'
house on fire. An attempt was No. 1, where he pleaded guilty
made to notify the fire station of to entering the City Salvage
potMo’producUon 7n the United the error, but the truck was al- Company, and was sentenced to
States ready on its way. from two to five years. j
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The Soviet troops ate giving
their utmost in the attempt to
hold back the invading Germans,
a Moscow dispatch uaid Satur-
day, and have succeeded in
holding back the Nazi advance
everywhere except in the South,
but no admission was made of
defeat in the Ukraine.
All drives have been halted in
their tracks everywhere north
of Uman, it is said, and in the
Ukraine the Soviet troops are in-
flicting tremendous losses in dead
and wounded on the enemy while
falling back to prepared petitions
east of the Dnieper River. Mar-
shal Budyenny is said to be con-
ducting a magnificient defense
of the Ukraine, and neither
Odessa nor Nikolaev have yet
been taken by the Germans, ac-
cording to the Russian high
command. I.
premier Stalin has accepted j
the American and British offers '
for a joint conference of high
officials and arrangements are j
being made for important meet-
ings to be held in Moscow soon
for the pooling of the resources
of the three countries for de-
feat of Hitler. He has also agreed
to a plan for stopping Japan’s
expansion in the Orient, the au-
tonomous army of Siberia to re-
main intact to fight off Japanese
attempts to gain territory in that
region.
Members of the Titus County
Defense Council will hold a
meeting Tuesday morning at 10:00 Luther and Roland Allen, in this
o’clock for the purpose of form- county this week was taken back
ing an aircraft warning organi- to Dallas Friday night and placed
1 ration for Titus County.
of- i The Federal government has
filial fuse used by railroad men
liberality and his back yard, and it made a big
1
and it
a ditch,
a badly
Preparations Are
Under Way to Hit,
At Reds in Siberia |
Dispatches from Shanghai are
to the effect that the borders of ,
Manchukuo have been closed to I
all foreigners by the Japanese,
and no one will be permitted in
the Jap-controlled country in the
future. The railroads have been
barred from carrying any traffic
except that pertaining to troop
movements, with thousands
soldiers being sent to the border*
Ninety houses were of Siberia, where Tokyo admits
the extension of the convoy sys- I
tern since there had been no sink- i
ings of ships between the United .
States and Iceland since this I
, country sent troops to that is-
land.
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■eks it was reported, while [ill war arranged primarily for Roosevelt said the commentators I Cross. If accepted, it was said i vice, as they already have or-
rXf has used that many in [ the purpose of discussing plans hava overlooked calling attention here the new metal legs would ganizations perfected, and there
single night on several oc-[ for the encirclement of Nippon, to th« conditions which now pre- be dropped by parachute. [are active groups in all parts of
inns in attacking German ob- | which will not be tolerated. How- vail in every country which has--- the county. These boys can be
Held in Slaying
Berlin reported Saturday that
the Luftwaffe is devoting its
attention to the destruction of
bridges acro:S the Dnieper River
to prevent the Russians from
crossing that wide stream. If the
Reds can be kept to the west their
forces will be destroyed, which,
is the aim of Hitler’s campaign.
A complete victory in the
Ukraine is but a matter of days,
according to the high command,
as the Germans and their allies,
are continuing their successes
wherever they meet the Reds.
I Here's the first photo of the U. S. occupation cf Iceland to be
leased. It shows a British soldier greeting a United States Mar
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British sources laid claim to
big successes in the air Satur-
day, in widespread raids which
occurred Friday night, although
bad weathar prevented long
range bombing.
The Sicilian port of Catania
was said to have been the hard-
est hit, naval planes making the
attack in which Rome admitted
many persons were killed and
wounded. 1*'
said to have been destroyed in there have been a number of
the raids, according to the Ital- clashes with Soviet troops lately.
It is believed the Japs will al-
o make every effort to prevent
American supplies reaching
planes were Vladivostok since Stalin has
Britain during the night, agreed to accept aid from the
damage United States and Great Britain.
Nazi Japanese papers insist the con-
over J ference between President Roose-
four I velt and Prime Minister Chuich-
Misses Lois Couch and Bertha
Simms returned Friday night
from a week’s stay in Fayette-
ville, Ark., where the former at-
tended the annual school
building and loan company
ficials.
FACTOGRAPHS
Electric light is produced by-
heating a filament white hot.
When the secret of cold light-
such a; that of the firefly—has
been scientifically solved, electric not take on
bills should be greatly dimin- , food.
ished. . ■ -----------V------------
* * • | FIRE DEPARTMENT MAKES
The earliest type of exami- run FRIDAY NIGHT WHEN
nations given in schools and col- ' FALSE ALARM TURNED IN
The fire department made a burglary and was tried twice in
■ run to the home of Ernest Sin- the same day by the same judge.
. clair Friday night when a neigh- | He pleaded guilty in Criminal
vrncn me ____ lx>r turne<* *n an alarm *or a District Court to entering the
Nero'was"young *he was “justly Mr. Sinclair had lighted a home of S. D. Jordon, and was
praised for his modesty,
feeling, clemency, ill----"
affability."
in a hospital there for treatment
of injuries sustained in an auto-
mobile accident.
According to information fur-
nished this paper, Mrs. Griggs
and Mr. and Mrs. Luther Allen ,
I were on their way to attend 1
I church services at Green Hill ;
Friday evening. Mr. Allen was
driving and on their way there
he was blinded by an approach-
It is planned to select FFA ^8 car- As a resuh he pulled
and 4-H Club boys for the ser- his own automobile too close to<
._ the side of the road
I plunged headlong into
Mrs. Griggs sustained
crushed knee-cap and other in-
juries and Mis. Allen suffered
numerous lacerations about the
face and body. They were both
treated at the office of Dr. T. S.
Grissom here, Mrs. Allen was
sent home and Mrs. Griggs was
taken to Dallas.
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CHILD DIES FRIDAY
Allen Ray Bradshaw, ten-
; month old son of Mr. and Mrs.
| Charles W. Bradshaw, passed
'away at the home of his parents,
on North Church Street, at 2:30
[o’clock Friday afternoon. He is
survived by his parents.
’ Funeral services were held at
Nevill’s Chapel Church at 3:00
o’clock Saturday afternoon, and
burial was in the nearby ceme-
’ tery.___________________
(Low Countries, Yugoslavia and
[Crete. Guerilla warfare has brok-
] en out in the hills of Yugoslavia,
where the natives are armed with
machine guns and other weapons,
with plenty of ammunition. The
According to dispatches from i same conditions prevail in Crete,
Vicfiy what is left of France I it is said. King Boris of Bulgaria
has now become entirely totali- is now virtually a P^ia°netU‘2
tarian in every respect. Officials
all over the country must now
swear allegiance, not to France,
but to Marshal Petain personally,
making him complete dictator.
More evidences of dissatisfac-
tion have been reported through-
out France, and the British For-
eign Office hears rumors of re-
volt from Norway, F-----, '' .
President Roosevelt returned*
| Saturday afternoon from his mo-
mentous cruise in the Atlantic,
where he met Prime Minister
Churchill and other high British
officials, and boarded a private
train at Rockland, Maine, to re-
turn to Washington.
The President granted an in- ■
terview to newsmen on board the i
Potomac soon after his arrival,
and in answer to numerou- ques- I fered to allow an RAF plane to i divided Titus County into seven-
fi., a new pajr of artificial legs teen districts for observation of'
across the channel for
Commander T ~
legless' RAF pilot who broke
those he was wearing when he
was forced down in occupied ter-
ritory, it was reported unoffic-
ially Friday night.
The German offer was
through the International
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Cross, G. W. Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 136, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 17, 1941, newspaper, August 17, 1941; Mount Pleasant, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1366562/m1/1/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Mount Pleasant Public Library.