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Volume XXVIII
Mount Pleasant, Texas, Tuesday Evening, July 9,1946
Member Associated Press
(TP) & International News Photos
Number 94
Boat Rams Piling; Sinks
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m: eting of the directors
twice each week. Ordinarily it
returns are expected to be
an-
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made
At Meeting Rotary Home Building Is
Club Held Tuesday
Approved By City
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Pa-
May Investigation
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Many Freed After
BOY SCOUT NOTICE
Phone us your news items
•top the strife.
AMERICAN LEGION NOTICE
Jack Jessup Post 210, Ameri-
Administrations,
cers for the ensuing year at the
The U. S. Public Health Service
is
Damaged U. S. currency
The
s.
East Texas—Partly cloudy
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Phone us your news items.
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ReVeals Profits of
Concern Reduced
Aleman Leads In
Early Counts For
President Mexico
British Troops in
Trieste Stage Riot
Mrs. Harbour Adds
Air Deliveries To
er Floral Service
Few Americans in
Demonstration to
Avenge Indignities
Gamble Place Will
Be Restricted Area
On New Residences
Three Lines Begin
Use of Building on
Monday Afternoon
able business will be transacted
and a !•••••••«•-■> —— — v
tend.
Congressman Was
Connected With
Profiteering, Said
Complete Returns
National Election
Are Due Thursday
be based on sentences as I
fixed, rather than upon punish-
ment imposed by <
Dr. G. C. Bayliss is
Guest of Club and
Talk Is Interesting
listing m.n between the ages of
17 and 30, who have not reached
can
ord
The U. S. ten-cent piece is
called a dime after the Latin
word decima, meaning one-tenth.
JOINT INSTALLATION ODD
FELLOWS AND REBEKAHS
barns
for
pos-
June Awards Total
$39,955,302, With
Most for Industry
included awards of $50,000 N R. O’Neal, former Mt. Pleas-
. American College of Hos- I ant resident. Mr. O’Neal is now
Chicago, in a hospital at Fayetteville but
$78~65o" to the National Organiza-1 >3 reported to be improved but
meeting Monday afternoon gave Coaches, and the management of
approval for a new addition for, Southwestern Greyhound Lines,
I and at present is accomodating
‘ a third line, Dixie Trail-
"'•ther
Sgt. John A. Kowalko, recruit-
ing officer for the Marine Corps,
Vv in uc if} ivxt. i icaoaiu uuuug ii
July 12th for the purpose of en-
Mt. Pleasant’s
Bus Terminal Is
Now In Operation
instruction for physicians, nhysi- with District Deputy H. R. Porter
cal therapists and nurses in the “ ‘
Trainmen Have Big
Fund For Defeating
President Truman
ing of public health personnel;
Harvard Medical School was giv-
en $204,000 for a five-year study
MARINE RECRUITER VISITS
MT. PLEASANT THIS WEEK
Dallas and Texarkana.
For the time being the building
will be operated without the cafe
and coffee shop, because of short-
age of fixtures for those facili-
ties. They are expected in the
near future, however. Seats for
the waiting rooms have not ar-
rived, yet, either, but will be in-
stalled as soon as they arrive. In
i the meantime, benches are being
I used to accomodate the patrons.
The union terminal is some-
today, tonight and Wednes-
day. with scattered thunder-
showers near the upper coast.
I M ’-phy as mediator.
The Philippine Army’s provost
use the
Capt. and Mrs. Durward L.
Brown and daughter, Betty Ant>
of Dallas, are visiting the for
mer’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C.
Brown. Capt. Brown returned to
the states two weeks ago after
having served with the ordnance
department of the 15th Army at
| Stuttgart Germany, for the past
year and a half.
are for two, three or four years,
and men accepted will be given
their choice of service at the
, time of enlistment.
The recruiting office has been
established in the postoffice lob-
by and Sgt. Kowalko will be
there between the hours of 8:00
a. m. to 4:30 p. m. daily.
Recent action by the United
States Congress raises pay for the
their 30th birthdays, and who are |
in good physical condition and i
are without dependents.
1 must be of brick, stucco, tile or '
stone.
Mr. Gamble agreed to grade
the streets and oil them and will
maintain those outside the cor-
porate limits. He also asked and
received permission to tie on to
the City’s water and sewer lines
adjacent to the property and the
City agreed to furnish connec-
tions when it is possible to do so
after present extensions are com-
pleted and funds are available for
financing the work, but no time
limit was set.
Gamble Place offers some of
the best locations in the entire
city for homes, as part of the
property is a beautifully wooded
section, while the remainder is
open. All is practically level.
ana its suburbs, gave
13,558 votes to 11,613 for his
strongest rival, Ezequiel Padilla,
candidate of the Mexican Demo-
cratic Party (PDM).
The newspaper, Excelsion, said
Monday night that unofficial
tabulations from seven of Mexi-
co’s twenty-eight states gave A'e-
man 285,701 and Padilla 24,298.
Padilla and his supporters call-
ed the election a “fraud” but im-
partial Mexicans of some politi-
cal expe’-’ence generally regard-
ed the balloting as fair.
^^£leman has pledged a program
“ofindustrial and agricultural ef-
forts in Mexico. In an interview
by telephone’ with William Pres-:
cott Allen, publisher of the Lare- ■
do Times, he also promised great-1
er cooperation with the United
States and other New World na-
tions. Closer relations with the
United States is one of the prin-
cipal objects of his government,
Aleman told Allen.
* Padilla’s supporters claim he
led in 90 per cent of the boxes
“counted legally” and he is still
charging fraud in the election.
Scattered reports indicate
dilla made a strong showing.
the rodeo, the latter to have re-
served seats at a higher price
than for general admission.
Work Is Under W
On Fair Buildings
George O’Neal returned Mon-
day night from Mena, Ark.,
where he had been called due to
the grave illness of his father,
1 N R O'Neal fnrmer Mt Pln.ns-
of Gilmer and
treatment of infantile paralysis; staff in charge,
and $91,035 to the New York'
University college of medicine
for a study of interactions be-
tween viruses and host cells.
Grants for education and sur-
veys
tified today that they trimmed
war profits of the Illinois muni-
tions combine, with which Con-
gressman Andrew J. May is ac-'
cused of aiding during the war,
from 26.4 per cent to 9.3 per cent
partly by refusing to okay big
Washington entertainment bills,
1 Sentences Reduced
By Special Board
first seven grades to such an ex-
nt that Marine enlistments
have become more inviting than
ever before. The increase now
means that a private will draw
$75.00 per month and other
grades accordingly with a master
sergeant receiving $165.00 per
month.
AUSTIN, Texas, July 9 UP)
Construction awards in Texas
during the first six months of 1946
included residences to house 11,-
13 families, costing $56,704,880,
the Texas Contractor, trade pub-
ication, reported Monday.
The group included $46,868,796
of one-family dwellings to cost
under $7,000 each. This compares
... • con-
struction during the first half of
1945.
Contract, awards for all types
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WASHINGTON, July 9 (TP) —
Army contract renegotiators tes- ,
Clemency Is Given
.20,000 Soldiers
Under Conviction
At a
of the '
tion Monday afternoon,
decided to r~----- ‘
ble. for the dairy show,
ers of herds r
their fine cattle
which now are
Planning For Use
Of lents For Dairy
Cattle During Fair
I Much Improvement
ay
Arthur Hooks, resident of the
, Green Hill community, was treat-1
. cd at Taylor hospital Monday
' evening for injuries sustained'
an
I all-time record, the magazine de-
| dared. Principal sum was $99,-
1472,053 for non-residential con-
I struction including $43,155,993
1 for business buildings, $21,030,427
I for industrial buildings and $20,-
' oon Rit? c__i____
A meeting of the American
Legion and the Legion Auxiliary
Vvm UV HC1U av vaaw “““ — - - — -— ( -- —
Mt. Pleasant tonight. Consider- ( next year.
UB1HCBB will Mfc >. — ——
members are urged to at-1 A damaged bill must be
The local lodges of the Odd
names io. a ( Fell°ws and Rebekahs will hold
child health services; $100,000 I a joint installation of officers at
to the Children’s Hospital, Bos- ’ their hall on East Second Street
ton, for a five-year program of tonight, beginning at 8:00 o’clock,
• at
least three-fifths intact in order j
Ito be redeemed by the U.
Miss Jeanna Talley left Sun- Treasury at its face value.
day for Equality, Ill., for a visit,
with relatives.
MEXICO CITY, July 9 (TP) —
First official returns of the na-
tional election held Sunday give
Miguel Aleman a lead for Presi-
dent over Ezequiel Padillo. Full1 from that distance, but now they |
returns are expected to be an- I ai c au
nounced Thursday for the most ars delivered
peaceful election yet held in this within about twenty-four hours,
country.
Newspapers and officials said
I Resident of Green
' Is Gored By
Jersey Bull Monday
which the entire public may well with $4,438,400 for similar
be proud. Besides adding a’
great deal to the Appearance of
the city it also means much in
che way of convenience to pass- of building totaled $198,950,657
engers coming into and through during the first half of 1946,
the town.
I when he was gored by a Jersey
I bull. |
According to information furn-
ished this p^per, one of the bull’s
horns struck Mr. Hooks in the
back part of the th’igh leaving an
eight-inch gash that laid the
fles i open to the bone. He was
reported to be not in a critical
condition, however, unless in-
i fection sets in, as the muscles
were not torn in two.
'Roberts’ report disclosed that Fled New Officers
almost a third of 22,500 prisoners ; ^t Meeting Tonight
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Theatre, a motion pic-, listen to someone else, but they
. —_ are gratjuajiy iearning to do their
| own thinking. Most of our be-
Joined by troops leaving the ( Hefs are inherited, said Dr. Bay-
------ , , j liss, and are not changed, be-
: causa we do not give them suffi-
| cient thought. The time to be in-
dividuals has come, he said, and
when we do our own thinking,
the world will change consider-
ably.
Men should also learn self-
control, accordini to Dr. Bayliss,
because they can then live saner
lives. The old principles of losing
one’s life to gain it was never
more evident than at present, and
because of this the church mem-
'■>rr is no longer on the defensive,
as he is sustained by a greater
power.
Visitors were Judge R. T. Wil-
kinson and Roger Davis of the
Mt. Vernon club, Royce L. Wil-
son of the Jefferson club, Dr. O.
J. Chastain, Joe Trussell, singer
for the revival, W. N. Glover and
J. W. Batson. Vannoy Stewart
was introduced as a new mem-
ber.
Dr. C. Gordon Bayliss, who is lne lnlerlor °i me ouiiaing
conducting a revival at the First' was so badly damaSed that the
Baptist Church, was guest speak-' roof fel1 in and Poetically all of |
. T-, , —, onntantc urarn vniv»z-»z4 TVin 1
er at the Rotary Club meeting
Tuesday, and the subject of his
address was “When Life Begins.”
Dr. Bayliss said man first be-
gins to live when he learns to
There is no silver in the five-
cent piece. It consists of 75 per-
| cent copper and 25 per cent
.nickel.
Titus County Fair Associa-
—, it was
secure tents, if possi-
, as own-
are afraid to bring
to the
being used
I auction sales, because of the
| sibility of Bang’s disease.
O. L. Colley, who is using
boosted rent fees and claims for
abandoned machinery.
George Knutson, member of
the War Department price ad-
justment board, told the Senate
war investigating committee of
the cut in profits for the Erie
Basin Metal Products Company,
one of the group built up in the
war years by Henry Garsson and
associates, accused of war profit-
eering
The investigation has disclosed
powerful Washington backing for
the firm. I
A Kentucky lumberman gave a
number of details of a business
venture of Congressman May in
connection with the Cumberland
Lumber Company, also accused
of profiteering. ,
,*May accused the Senate com-
mittee of using what he called
“Gestapo” tactics in bringing his
name into an investigation of the
activities of the war contracting
firms.
Construction In
Texas Hits New
thTeei High During 1946
its. ! to Atlanta and five each toward
A total of 73 lots have been
i surveyed, about half of which are
n s ujuvei tui uie .ua.mc k-uip.-, 75x135 feet, most of the others
will be in Mt. Pleasant through wjjj be ioox135, while a few are
I larger. The property is along
South Jefferson Avenue and will i
have four east-west streets and
one north-south street.
Restrictions will be placed on
EnHstme“nts7sgt.‘ Kowalko said, | construction for at least 1,200 I
» m, thrno nr M..r I stluare feet for each building, ex-
clusive of porches. The houses
l-»x» nf ♦ilo z-eY' '
i thing entirely new for Mt. Pleas-
, ant and is an improvement for
j home building.
The addition Will be known as
i Gamble Place and is a subdivis-
ion in the Herbert Gamble pro-
ruin w
The 50-foot excursion boat Rosadel rests on the bottom of Corpus Christi (Texas) Bay at the
site where she rammed a submerged piling and sank July 5. Twen y-five passengers were rescued.
Tied to the Rosadale is a small salvage boat as workmen began the job of raising the larger craft.
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Evangelist Speaks ■ Rubbish From Fire ' New Addition For
tion for Public Health Nursing,1 still not out of danger,
received $228,400 for the train- New York: $83,000 to the Ameri-1
-r Association of Medical Rec-
L”-a”iar.s, Chicago; $50,000 worth only half its face value
. | to the U. S. Public Health Serv- if only two-fifths and no m:re
of filterable viruses, and Stan- ice, Washington; and $45,000 to than three-fifths remains.
* ‘ ■' the National League of Nursing i f----—:------
j tinued development of physical Education, New York. | Phon^1 us your news items.
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WASHINGTON, July 9 (/P) —
The sentences of almost 20,000
soldiers convicted of serious of-
fenses, mostly in wartime, have
been reduced by a L
Department clemency
board.
Former Supreme Court Justice' halahap Leader Luis Taruc
Owen J. Roberts, head of the ad- serted today his armed peasants
! visory board, reported the clem- are the victims, not the aggres-
nncy action to Undersecretary of ' sors, in Central- Luzon’s latest
War Royal. | bloody fighting resulting in 159
itoberts asserted that “clem- deaths. Taruc urged an impar-
ency is and always has been the tial investigation, suggesting U.
capstone of the whole system of S. Supreme Court Justice Frank
military justice.”
1 He added that judgment of the
Army’s system of justice should marshal threatened to
finally “full force of the military” to
upon punish- .-top the strife.
courts-martial. I ----------------
Congress has been critical of the American Legion to
^RoLHs’Teport disclosed that Fled New Officers
At • i £ nn cnA 1 4 4 > • m • V a
whose cases were reviewed up to I ____
Juns 30 already have been freed
—- --------------- and that another third is sched- can Legjonj wm eject new offi-
will be held at the hall in North uled to be released within the . .. ■ — . -
an installation
u. u. Colley, who is using the
barns, agreed to give up one of
them so it could be cleaned and
disinfected if the tents could not
be secured.
President Sam Williams
a report on the improvement
work which has been going on
for the past few weeks. About
$5,000 has already been expend-
ed in enlarging the rodeo arena,
painting the other buildings, con-
structing a new fence on proper-
ty acquired last year and for
- grading and drainage. Another
$2,000 will also be spent for im-
provements.
Mr. Williams also gave an out-
line of the rodeo attractions,
which are certain to make this
an outstanding show this year.
The directors also decided on
Mrs. Roger Harbour, operator
of the Mt. Pleasant Floral Com-
pany, has announced the addition
of air delivery of flowers to her '
service.
In the announcement Mrs. Har- i
bour stated that flowers are re-
ceived from California by plane i
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takes four days to get flowers I i
■ xAviii uiav uisLctiiut:, uut now mey I
| are placed aboard the plane and
I in Mt. Pleasant j j
within about twenty-four nours. I ’
j This service means a great deal
' to the life of cut flowers during j
it was fairly certain that Aleman I summer weather, Mrs. Harbour
would be Mexico’s next President' continued-
although his party was losing in j--
many congressional races;
Returns from twentv-fire of
194 precincts in the Federal dis-1
trict. which includes Mexico City! . .
and its suburbs, gave Aleman, Against Italians
Mt. Pleasant’s new and modern
union bus terminal, located one
block south of the square on Jef-'
• fei son avenue, was officially'
placed in service ■ Monday after-
noon and all bus traffic in and
through the city will be handled
from there in the future.
The building was erected for
I the purpose by Gus Presley, in' . . ------ -—
| cooperation with O. W. Hubbard adt™ssion prices to the fair and
The City Council at a special, owner and operator of Hub Motor th“ *_ i
TRIESTE, Italy, July 9 UP) —
British occupation troops—smart-
ing under the indignities their
comrades suffered from Italian
rioters last Saturday—turried on
the Italians Monday night in a
violent counter-demonstration.
Show windows were smashed
and heads were cracked during
! the one-hour fracas in downtown
| Trieste before club-swinging Brit-
I ish military police drove the
I angry troops back to their bar-
racks.
The disorder began when a
group of British soldiers accom-
panied by a handful of American
soldiers congregated in the Piazza [ think. Thinking is at a low ebb
Goldoni, which had been a con-' at present, he said, but it is com-
centration point for the Italian ing back Most persons do not
rioters. * | like to think, according to the
Tne soldiers then went to tne speaker, preferring to read
Excelsior npl1—~ .. . . . .
..-v „uuse tor British servicemen
, and awaited reinforcements.
| joinea ay u uups icavuig me (
1 theatre the angry Britons march-
| ed down the broad thoroughfare I
’ rolling up their sleeves, swinging I
their belts and shouting insults
to Italian bystanders. There were
approximately 1,000 British dem-
onstrators.
Once they charged en masse up
a steep hill striking out at fleeing
civilians in the path and shatter-
ing windows.
British military police rushed
into the fray and drew some blood
i with their clubs.
------ 229,516 for hotels, hospitals and
WASHINGTON, July 9 (TP)— dormitories.
President A. F. Whitney said to-' June construction awards to-
day that the Brotherhood of Rail- taled $39,955,302. This included
way trainmen have $2,500,000 “to $22,295,694 for non-residential
go out after President Truman,” principally hospitals and dormi-
but “we won’t have to spend any tories; $8,930,903 for residences
money to defeat President Tru- and $7,728,705 for engineering,
man if he becomes a candidate.” |
Whitney testified before the
House labor subcommittee study-
ing a possible revision of labor
laws to remove labor-manage-
ment disputes.
NEW YORK, July 9, (TP)—The
National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis announced Monday
grants amounting to $1,648,559
I for research and education on
1 poliomyelitis and related fields
have been awarded to 28 institu-
1 tions and health services.
The largest single grant, $292,-
000, went to the University of
Rochester school of medicine and
dentistry for continued research
and other forms of neuro-muscu-
lar into the effect of drugs in
treatment of infantile spastic
paralysis disorders. The money is I to the American College of Hos-
to be spent over a five-year per- pital
' iod.
regular meeting of that organiza-,
I tion tonight. The officers will be
i installed next month.
Besides the election, the Le-
gion has some other important
business to transact, and a large
attendance is expected to be pre-' ford University $150,000 for con-
sent. I
' still
I ways.
| Eighteen schedules per day are'
perty in the south part of town, | operating out of Mt. Pleasant: i
extending also past the city lim-j three to Tyler, two to Paris, 1
The great amount of rubbisn'
resulting from the fire which de- i
stroyed the Q & Q grocery Mon-1
day of last week is being haul-
ed away, following adjustments
1 of losses by insurance companies.
■ The interior of the building
conducting a revival at the First ’was so badly damaSed that the
i the contents were ruined. The
i owner, W. C. Jones, announces he
plans to rebuild and return to
business as quickly as possible.
Troop No. 201 will meet at the
high school gymnasium Wednes-
day night at-7:30 o’clock to com-
plete plans for going to camp at
Lake Texhoma. All troop mem-
bers are urged to attend.
Because of the inability to se-
cure adequate leadership and
transportation, the proposed
Scout trip to New Mexico will be
called off. All Scouts who had
planned to make this trip are
urged to attend the Scout camp
at Lake Texhoma with their
troops next week.
I
Leader Philippine
Peasants Claiming
special War| Arq Not Aggressors
advisory .
I manila, July 9 TP) - Huk- j National Foundation Grants $1,648,559
, halahap Leader Luis Taruc as- « • j* tw !•
For Research Work in Preventing Polio
therapy instructional programs.
• Other grants included $116,000 ;
to the American Academy of i
Philatrics for a nationwide study I
of (
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