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‘Red Tape’ Had Large Part in Winning
War With Records Vital to all Its Phases
hutdown Threat
’o Houston Water
vstem Called Off
Navy Finds McVay
Guilty in Sinking
Of Indianapolis
Stalin Tells Red
Army Strengthen
Positions It Won
Red Cross Drive
To Get Underway
Friday, March 1
Attempt Will Be
Made to Organize
H. S. Patron’s Club
Flames Wreck Two
Business Houses
Here Friday Night
alias
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Execution Staged
At Los Banos, Near
Scenes of Torture
Negotiations in GMC
Strike Are Recessed
For Rest of Weekend
Meeting Set For
Monday Night At
School Cafeteria
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paper.
“It’s the right idea, sooner or
later, for three-fourths of it,” Mr.
Indian Navy Mutiny
Broken Up But Riots
Continue In Bombay
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Badt and
daughter, Barbara of Dallas, ar-
rived Friday afternoon to spend
the weekend with the former’s
mother, Mrs. J. M. Badt.
Sentence Remitted
Because of Record;
Is Restored to Duty
Entire City Will
Be Contacted By
Fund Committeec
TOKYO, Feb. 23 UP) — General
Douglas MacArthur told the Jap-
anese government today that he
is not satisfied with its measures
for th dissolution of the Zaibatsu,
and ordered the arrest of 27 more
minor suspected war criminals.
MacARTIIUR ORDERS MORE
JAPANESE TO BE ARRESTED
Negress Is Stabbed
Four Times With Ice
Pick at Picture Show
Ladies In Charge
And Entertain Men
By Negro Minstrel
Aged Resident of
Morris County Is
Called By Death
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DETROIT, Feb. 23 (A5) — Nego-
tiation for the settlement of the
GMC strike1 have been recessed
over the weekend, following a
session today from which “no par-
ticular progress’’ was made to end
the 95-day strike.
It had been reported that only
one or two more points remain-
ed to be settled in the dispute.
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members and a visitor present.
The president, Samuel Rushing,
appointed committees for the an-
nual father and son banquet to
be held on the evening of April
19. The chairmen of the program
committees are as follows:
Program—Herbert Banks
Invitations—Jerry Landers
Decorations — Ralph Stephen-
son.
Menu—Doyce Shumate.
Reception—Perry Wright.
W. R. Elder, pasture specialist
of the Soil Conservation Service,
gave a very interesting talk on
pasture development and showed
a number of pictures of pastures
and meadows in this section, giv-
ing details on how they were im-
proved.
zerland dug 226,925 tons of peat
and gathered 17,038 tons of pine
cones during the war,
Switzerland’s fuel shortage.
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FFA Meeting Held
Friday; Plans Are
Made For Banquet
Committees Chosen
To Arrange Annual
Affair on April 19
of our
enemies was witnessed and sym-
bolized in the documents signed
at Rheims and in Tokyo Bay.”
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 UP) —
“Red tape” helped win the war!
So says U.S. Archivist Solon J.
Buck, who gave Congress this re-
port on his job of keeping track ’ Buck conceded, “but no such de-
Efforts Being Made
To Settle Strike
Of City Employees
Military, Economic
Might to Be Kept
Abreast of Times
The Mt. Pleasant chapter of
the Future Farmers held a meet-
ing Friday afternoon with 32
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (iP) —
The Navy announced today that
Captain Charles McVay 3rd had
been found guilty by a court mar-
tial of negligence in the sinking
of the cruiser Indianapolis short-
ly before the end of the war, but
said that because of his previous
record sentence had been remitt-
ed and he has been restored to
duty.
The Navy issued severe repri-
mands against four officers for
failure to act promptly when the
cruiser became overdue.
McVay, commander of the In-
dianapolis, previously had been
cleared by the court martial on
another charge of "culpable in-
feficiency.”
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Yamashita Is Hung
For Crimes During j
Philippines War
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A meeting has been called by
Superintendent B. C. Pierce of
the local schools for 7:30 o’clock
Monday night at which time
plans will be made for an or-
ganization to boost all types of
school activities, such as the band,
athletics and other worthwhile
work.
Invitations for the meeting
were in the form of postal cards
mailed to individuals, interested
in the school systems, Saturday
morning. The meeting will be
held at the school cafeteria and
school officials who will be pres-
ent for the organization attempt
will include Mr. Pierce, E. C.
Brice, principal: J. T. Jackson,
principal of junior high; H. L.
Coody, coach; Wm. Y. Stanford,
assistant coach; F. M. Sponseller,
band director and Ardell E. Ir-
vin, coach at junior high. '
All persons who received the
postal cards are urged to be pres-
ent for the meeting.
BOMBAY, Feb. 23 UP) — The
British announced the breaking
of the Royal Indian Navy mutiny
both ashore and afloat in Bom-
bay today, but rioting and loot-
ing by civilians continued.
As strikes developed here and
in Calcutta, Mohandas K. Gandhi,
Congress Party leader, appealed
to his countrymen to end “this
BERN, (JP) —Internees in Swit- I thoughtless orgy of violence.”
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The organ that gives you your
to ease sense of equilibrium is located in
the inner ear.
will have to be practically re-
built before they can be reopened
for business.
Mrs. George Lilienstern’s dry
goods store, adjoining the burn-
ed building on the east, was
threatened for a time but suffer-
ed only a slight amount of smoke
damage. However, had it not been
for the fact that a ceiling exhaust
fan had been installed in the store
recently much more damage
would have been done. As it was,
firemen were able to locate the
switch that controlled the fan.
and in a few moments practical-
ly all of the smoke was pulled
out of the building before it had
t me to settle on the merchan-
dise.
The volunteer firemen are to
be commended on their effective
work in fighting the fire.
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Two Mt. Pleasant business!
houses in the 100 block of East
Third street suffered considerable
caused a suspension of the show I a3™3#6 Friday night as the re-
for several minutes.
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cooler tonight and Sunday.
Neilson said, “but is convinced
that its attainment is a matter of
gradual evolution far too distant
to be regarded as a means of
meeting the mbnace of the hour.
“If, as agreed, the need is for
immediate provision against the
dangers which threaten the world,
world government cannot meet
this need.”
He said there was “not the
slightest chance of the Govern-
ment of the U. S. S. R., or the
Senate of the United States of
America, to name only the two
most powerful factors involved,
surrendering their sovereignty at
the present time to such a world
government.”
Other difficulties cited by Dr.
Neilson were the illiteracy of a
huge part of the world popula
tion and differences in the con-
cept of freedom.
structivc answer can be made on
an undiscriminating and whole-
sale basis.”
For instance, he said, failure to
preserve records after the first
World War “undoubtedly led to
loss of time and lives" in the re-
cent conflict.
Recalling the situation when
the Allied armies pushing toward
the Rhine found the retreating
Germans had left only the Re-
magen Bridge standing but it was
badly damaged, Mr. Buck told the
lawmakers:
“One officer remembered that
after the World War I a survey
of all Rhine bridges had been
made and that detailed construc-
tion plans of each were included.
A rush call came to Washington
for the Remagen plans.
“A frantic search ensued. Ref-
erence to the volume containing
the plans was found but the vol-
ume itself apparently no longer
existed. Had those plans been
available, perhaps the collapse of
the bridge could have been pre-
vented.”
Right now, Mr. Buck said, his
staff of 350 workers, is toiling, in
co-operation with other agencies,
to cull the colossal accumulation.
But that job, he said, takes time.
Kiwanis Program
At Cafeteria On
Friday Evening
WwlUng /or th« Interests Of Mt. Pleaeant, the Center oj the Milk Industry of North east Texas, with its Progressive Soil Conservation and DiverMfied farming Program
Member Associated Press _____ Mo mt Pleaaant, Texas Sunday Morning, February 24,1946
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School Regulations
Law is Declared to
Be Unconstitutional
Elias Brannon Sosbee, 84, resi-
dent of Omaha, passed away at
his home there at 2:55 o’clock Sat-
urday morning. Deceased was a
native of Georgia but had lived
in Omaha for the past thirty-nine
years.
Surviving are his widow; five
sons, Gordon of Hollywood; Ar-
lin of Dallas; Reinzi of Blythe,
Calif.; Henry of Omaha and E. B.
Sosbee of Dallas: two daughters,
Mrs. B. B. Tisdale and Mrs. Les-
lie G. Shelton of Dallas. Other
survivors include
grandchildren and
grandchildren.
Funeral services were set for
3:00 o’clock Sunday afternoon at
’ the Omaha Baptist Church, with
interment in the city cemetery
there. j
Lilienstern Dry
Goods Store Gets
Smoke Damage
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AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 23 (/P) — Texas’ $60,000,000 farm-to-market
’ road program is rolling along at an increasing pace.
Substantial progress has been made by the Texas Highway De-
partment in the actual construction of the tremendous postwar pro-
gram. Seven months ago the commission, in cooperation with the
county commissioners courts, selected the system of 7,205 miles of
farm-to-market roads the highway department was to improve with
funds that will be available in» ------------------------
the three years following the
war.
Three months after selection of
these roads V-J Day came, and
30 days later the highway de-
partment held its first postwar
letting contracts. It has steadily
moved forward with a letting
each month to place this work
under construction.
Bids have been received on
work involving $2,150,000. This
provides for 258 miles on 28 dif-
ferent roads involving 31 coun-
ties.
All farm-to-market roads will
be dustless two-lane roads with
bridges of adequate strength to
carry the normal amount of traf-
fic that may be involved. Main-
tenance of these roads will be the
responsibility of the highway de-
partment.
Counties furnish the right-of-
way which varies from 70 to 100
feet in width, depending upon
the drainage condition that may
be involved on the prospective
roads. With a favorable summer
construction season, the winter
of 1946 will see many of these
new roads in operation, the high-
way department reports.
AUSTIN, Feb. 23 (A3) — The
Attorney General’s Department
today held that the law passed by
the 49th Legislature, designed to
tighten up regulations in con-
struction of public schools, is un-
constitutional because of the sec-
tion exempting Houston from its
provisions, which makes it a lo-
cal or special law.
The department also ruled that
service men exempt from pay- j
i ment of poll taxes as a pre-
| requisite to voting can guarantee
. their absentee votes will be
counted if they accompany such
uauots with an affidavit.
Holman Lilienstern, County
director of the American Red
Cross announced Saturday morn-
ing that a drive for funds for that
organization will begin in Mt.
Pleasant Friday morning, March
1st. Bird Old, Jr., has been ap-
pointed finance chairman and will
be in charge of a group of com-
mittees already appointed to
make the collections.
According to Mr. Old, every
business house in the county, as
well as rural communities will be
visited. A great amount of money
will be needed by the Red Cross
this year, despite the fact the war
is over. For that reason it is hop-
ed that the individuals contacted
will be generous with their do-
nations. A new supply of buttons
and stickers has been received,
along with cards that will identi-
fy individuals who contribute to
the campaign.
Mr. Old stated Saturday that it
is his desire to have the entire
county worked on Friday so that
the drive can be brought to a
close that afternoon.
j suit of a fire that also threaten-
ed other buildings in the block.
According to local firemen who
answered a rush call to the es-
tablishments, the flames started
in the ceiling of the building oc-
cupied by the Dock McKee bar-
ber shop and the Eatwell Cafe.
They had made considerable
headway by the time the fire-
men arrived but it was not long
until the blaze was brought un-
der control.
The barber shop was almost
completely burned out and -the
gram for the Mt. Pleasant *Ki-Lafe suffered its greatest damage
wanis Club was presented at the' rear °f lhe building. Both
high school cafeteria Friday eve- |
ning with wives of the service
club members in charge of the
program and all details of the
affair.
Aside from the banquet, which
consisted of turkey, dressing,
baked potato, green beans, cock-
tail, salad, ice cream and coffee,
the feature of the evening was a
negro minstrel with Kiwani-Anns
acting out the parts. The black-
faced line was composed of Mrs.
Frank Palmer, Mrs. Everett Red-
fearn, Mrs. Lovice Brown, Mrs.
B. A. Hardaway, Mrs. Forrest
Stephenson and Mrs. J. H. Mc-
Guire. Mrs. Martin Peters acted
the part of the interlucutor and
members of the chorus were Mrs.
Theron Jones, Mrs. Palmore
Currey, Mrs. L. W. Vance, Mrs.
Joe Steed, Mrs. Lloyd Winston
and Mrs. Lewis Riddle. The show
was interesting from start to fin-
ish and the ladies were excellent
in their portrayals.
Mrs. J. O. Milstead acted as
mistress of ceremonies and the
program was as follows:
Song, “America,” group.
Invocation — Rev. Ben K. Ber-
ing.
Welcome — Mrs. Lloyd Adams
Response — Lloyd Adams,
president of the club
Dinner
Group Singing — Directed by
Mrs. J. E. Witt
Minstrel, “Revenge” —Kiwani-
Anns
Benediction — Rev. O. J. Chas-
tain
Accompanist
Irvin.
Roll call of Kiwanis members
was answered by the number of
years each had been married.
United Nations Is Held Best Means For
Dealing With Current World Problems
NEW YORK, Feb. 23 UP) —The
American Association for the
United Nations has issued a
statement prepared by Dr. Wil-
liam Allen Neilson holding it was
much more feasible to seek a so-
lution of pressing world prob-
lems through existing UNO ma-
chinery than to attempt setting
up a world government now.
Dr. Neilson, President Emeri-
tus of Smith College, who passed
on last week, had been Chairman
of the Executive Committee of
the Association’s research affili-
ate, the Commission to Study the
Organization of Peace, as well as
a member of the Association’s
Executive Committee.
"The American Association for
the United Nations sympathizes
with the ideal of a world citizen-
ship which would rise above na-
tionalistic aims and interests,” Dr.
MANILA, Feb. 23 (/P) — Lieut.
Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, so-
called “Tiger of Malaya,” was
hanged in disgrace Saturday as
a war criminal near the scene
of some of the worst atrocities
committed by the Japanese in the
Philippines campaign.
The first big-name figure to be
executed in the Pacific war thea-
ter by the Allies, the 60-year-old
Yamashita died in civilian garb
at the end of a rope instead of
before a firing squad. The latter
form of execution, regarded by
Japanese as “honorable,” awaits
Yamashita’s predecessor in the
Philippines, Lt. Gen. Masaharu
Homma.
Death of the gallows—regard-
ed in Japan as the height of
shame — was meted out for the
stocky officer for condoning
such atrocities by his men In the
later days of the war as the Feb-
ruary, 1945, rape of Manila.
Two other Japanese were exe-
cuted with him.
The hanging of Yamashita,
stripped of all military appurte-
nances on orders of General Mac-
Arthur, who branded his former
foe a disgrace to the military
profession, took place southeast
of Manila, near Los Banos, in
Laguna Province.
The end for Yamashita thus
came not far from the Los Banos
camp where his soldiers had held
and tortured thousands of Allied
prisoners.
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Free education in Australia is
i provided in state primary, sec-
| endary and technical schools.
LNDON, Feb. 23 (IP) — In an
address on the 28th anniversary
of the Red Army, Generalissimo
Stalin called on the Russian arm-
ed forces Friday night to “stren-
gthen the positions we have won
and move forward farther to cre-
ate conditions for a fresh, pow-
erful development of national
economy.”
The Soviet leader told Russia’s
fighting forces, in a radio broad-
cast recorded here by the Soviet
monitor, that they “must not be-
come complacent,” but must keep
abreast of fast developing mili-
tary tecniques.
“The Communist party explain-
ed to our soldiers the meaning
and reasons for the war,” Stalin
said, “and all this was an import-
ant factor in the winning of the
war.”
“The task today,” he said in
his order hailing the Red Army’s
28th anniversary, “is to streng-
then the positions we have won
and move forward farther to cre-
ate conditions for fresh, power-
ful development of national eco-
nomy. We must in the shortest
possible time heal the wounds of
war, achieve the pre-war level
of production and rapidly sur-
pass—still further consolidate —
the military and economic might
of the Soviet state.”
His order directed the firing of
20 artillery salvos as a salute to
the Red Army in Moscow. The
capitals of the other Soviet re-
publics and the “hero cities” of
Leningrad, Stalingrad, Sevasto-
JLpol and Odessa.
of the
work”:
"By the end of the war the
Government had something in
the neighborhood of 18,000,000 to
20,000,000 cubic feet of records.
It is hard to make a figure like
that mean much.
“That many records in four-
drawer file cabinets placed side
by side would line the railroad
tracks solidly from V/ashi.rgton
to Chicago. Dumped out .hey
could cover un acre oil ground
and pile .. early as high as the
Washington Monument.” (The
monument towers 555 feet.)
While thousands of persons
chafed at ‘Ted tape,” the fact re-
mains,” declared Buck, “that
without records the war could
not have been won.”
“From the first ‘greetings’ to
the eagerly-awaited discharge
papers,” he continued, “the mo-
bilizrfti*>n and demobilization of
our citizen army moved on paper.
From contract to delivery, the
mighty flow of guns,
planes, ships and even
bombs were recorded.
“Even the capitulation
L. B. Reynolds, colored, has
been arrested on charges of as-
sault with intent to murder as
the result of his stabbing his wife
four times with an ice pick Fri-
day night.
The stabbing took place in the
balcony of the Texan Theatre,
which is reserved for colored peo-
ple. The screams of the woman
HOUSTON, Feb. 23 UP) — A
ireat to force a complete shut-
own of Houston’s water plants,
nd other vital services by or-
anized labor as an answer to the
ouncil’s refusal to grant wage
icreases to 650 union member
mployees was calld off late Fri-
ay.
The shutdown, set for 5 p. m.
zas called off by D. W. Maxwell
ecretary of the Houston Build-
ig and Trade Council, at a hec-
ic meeting before the city coun-
il.
The labor council had notified
he city council at noon of the
imposed shutdown of the water j
ilants, Magnolia Park gas plant, I
ewage disposal plant, fire and1
>olice alarm systems and traffic
ignal lights in the midst of a
:alled meeting of the city coun-
it
The council hastily instructed
Jayor Otis Massey to ask Gover-
nor Stevenson to alert the Texas
Jefense Guard and Texas Ran-
ker force for duty here if the
shut-down materialized.
At the same time the council
iirected acting City Manager J.
M. Nagle to arrange a meeting
with striking city employes for
2 p. m. Friday. A motion to this
effect by Councilman O'Banion
Williams also included the sug-
gestion to Nagle “to see if you
can get them (the striking em-
ployes) to go back on the job
until we can negotiate with them”
but the suggestion was with-
drawn from' the official motion.
City officials went to court to-
day in an effort to bar the pick-
eting of public service plants.
City attorney Lewis Cutler filed
a petition with District Judge
Ewing Boyd asking an injunction
to keep striking city employees
from picketing the city’s water,
sewage and gas plants and gar-
bage lots.
The city council this morning
voted strikers may return to their
jobs by Monday "with unimpair-
ed seniority and privileges,” but
labor leaders denounced the ac-
tion as “dictatorship.”
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