Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 117, Ed. 1 Monday, August 5, 1946 Page: 1 of 4
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Earthquake, Tidal
Waves Cause Much
Damage, Kill Two
United Nations to
Probably Be Given
Palestine Problem
Mrs. Ida Boyd Dies
Local Hospital On
Sunday Afternoon
and American partition plan for
Palestine.
Peace Conference
Is Marking Time
On Compromises
Eleven Dominican
Towns Again Feel
Effects of Tremors
Attlee Preparing
To Ask Cabinet to
Transfer Question
New Insurance Co.,
Organized Here; To
Committee Meets
This Afternoon to
Consider Requests
under any obligation to vote to-
gether.
Byrnes declared that if the
other big powers make the same
Nearly 2,009 species of plants
yield fibers useful to man.
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Smith and
son, Charles spent the weekend
with Mr. and Mrs. Walter thiele
in Denison.
Taken In Custody By
Yugoslav Soldiers
CARL BOES IS GIVEN
MERITORIOUS AWARD
FOR HIGHWAY WORK
with interment following at the
nearby cemetery.
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dren, besides numerous other rel-
atives.
Funeral services will be held at
East Texas—Partly cloudy
this afternoon, tonight and
Tuesday. Scattered afternoon
thundershowers near the up-
per coast. Gentle to moderate
southerly winds on the coast.
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VOLUME XXVIII
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Several Nations
Ask Membership
In United Nations
vides that the Government pay
approximately a dollar a week to
parents of each child under 10
except the eldest.
The so-called baby bonuses
constitute the first phase of a
comprehensive Government pro-
gram for Social Security which
will include insurance benefits
for sickness, unemployment, re-
tirement, maternity, widowhood
and health benefits.
Minister of National Insurance
James Giffiths says that Britain
already has had two and a quar-
ter million applications for baby
bonuses and only two percent
have been rejected. Applications
still are coming in al the rate of
United States and
China Endorse Plan
For Majority Vote
Three Americans Are Jester Will Speak
In Mt. Pleasant
Thursday Morning
EGYPT OFFERS SECURITY
COUNCIL POST TO FORMER
PRIME MINISTER PASHA
in the
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PARIS, August 5 (JP) — The
Jewish Agency executive has re-
jected the semi-partition recom-
mended for Palestine by Ameri-
can and British experts. Follow'
ing a meeting today, the leading
Zionist organization described the
plan as “unacceptable as a basis
for discussion.”
JEWISH AGENCY REJECTS
PARTITION OF PALESTINE
TRIESTE, August 5 (A5) —
Military sources today revealed
that three Americans were taken
into custody yesterday by Yugo-
slav troops in disputed Venezia
Giulia. The Americans have been
identified as Major George
Woods, his wife and child. Hie
Wood’s home address was not
immleriiately available. Alt last
word, the family still was being
held.
The three were said to have
been stopped by Yugoslav soldi-
ers while touring the areas near
the demarcation line in Venezia
Giulia. That’s, the place where
two Yugoslavs recently were
killed in a skirmish with Ameri- (
can patrols.
L. Thompson, long-time resi-
dent of Titus County, passed
away at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. W. H. Dean, at Dallas Mon-
day morning at 7:00 o’clock from
the effects of a heart attack, to-
gether with the infirmities of
age.
Deceased was born at Osgood,
Tenn., October 20, 1858, and was
nearly 83 years of age at the time
of his passing. He moved to Titus
County in 1896 and lived there
until the death of his wife six
years ago, when he moved to Dal-
las to live with children. He was
a member of the Methodist
Church and was one of the most
prominent citizens of the county,
having a host of friends to mourn
his loss.
Surviving are the following
children: Mrs. Elmer Bridges,
Mrs. Delton Chapman, and Mrs.
J. E. Coburn of Mt. Pleasant, Mrs.
W. H. Dean, Mrs. Ben Bean, Mrs.
J. T. Combs, Hugh Thompson,
Henry Thompson and Miss Avis
Thompson of Dallas and Leon
(Pete) Thompson of Paris. He
also leaves seventeen grandchil-
Th heme of E. J. Mitchell,
colored family, on West Sixth
Street in the new Colley addi-
tion, was totally destroyed by fire
late Saturday afternoon, together
with all its contents.
It was a practically new three-
room structure in which the blaze
had gained such headway before
ths alarm was turned in that it
was practically destroyed by the
time the fire truck reached the
scene.
Col. and Mrs. H. Saunders and
daughters, Sue and Sallie, of
Roswell, N. M., visited Coy
Coker and family Saturday.
the next six weeks.
The cabinet also will consider
releasing from detention all Jew-
ish Agency and trade union lead-
not accused of terrorist activi-
ties. Palestine Jews have declar-
ed that their taking part in any
more talks with the British is
conditional upon these releases.
Meanwhile, the whole question
of illegal immigration of Jews
from Central and Southern Eu-
rope into Palestine is being con- 1
sidered by British departmental
chiefs.
The
Prime
A teletype machine has been installed in our office, oper-
ating at the rate of 69 words a minute for eight hours daily.
This gives us a choice of all the latest international, naional,
and state happenings as they take place. Wc lill also receive
numerous feature, articles in addition to the regular news
service.
Fire Destroys Home
Of Colored Family
Saturday Afternoon
Carl L. Boes, asphalt inspec-
tor for the state highway depart-
ment, has been presented an
award for meritorious service for
fifteen years outstanding work
in that department. The award
was signed by John S. Redditt,
Reuben Williams and Fred Reut-
sch of the Highway Commission,
and by D. C. Greer, department
engineer. It was accompanied by
a gold lapel button.
Actually, Mr. Boes has been
with the service for better than
nineteen years, but as awards
are presented on the basis of five
year periods, he still has some
time to go before he will receive
the 20-year citation. He and Mrs.
Boes have just returned from a
week’s stay in Austin.
NEW YORK, August 5 (A5)—The
United Nations membership com-
mittee will convene later today
to consider the applications of
seven countries for admission into
the new world organization. Ice-
i land is the latest among the seven
I to submit a formal application for
membership. But the most con-
troversial probably will be the
bid from Albania, which has
been on file for many months.
Greece is putting up a fight
against allowing Albania to join
the United Nations family, prin-
! cipally because of a dispute be-
tween Greece and Albania over
possession of northern Epirus.
Greek demands for the return
of Northern Epirus already have
been placed before the peace con-
ference in Paris. The Greeks de-
clare that Albania is not a peace-
loving nation, and they accuse
her of staging numerous frontier
incidents. In reply, the Albanians
say the Greeks provoked the
incidents.
Besides Iceland and Albania,
the other nations applying for
membership are Portugal, Ire-
land, Outer Mongolia, Afghani-
stan and Transjordan.
The payroll of the United Na-
tions now lists more than 15
hundred persona from 34 nations
—and that figure is expected to
increase to two thousand by the
end of this year and maybe three
thousand eventually.
About one-third of the present
staff receives salaries ranging
from three thousand to 11 thous-
and dollars, and the others are
below three thousand. Nine offi-
cials get more than the staff top,
with Secretary-General Trygve
Lie receiving twenty thousand
and his eight assistant Secretaries
General earning 12 thousand
apiece, hese salaries are free of
taxes.
Mrs. Hamp Blythe has receiv-
de word from her son, Billy,
stationed with the army in
Kuiea, to the effect he has re-
cently been appointed to the rat-
ing of sergeant.
I the Bridges’ Chapel Methodist
■ Church Tuesday afternoon at
I 3:00 o’clock under the direction
can towns. The earth tremors felt
today ware less severe than the
made by a two-thirds majority j quake yeserday, but some addi-
tional damage was done, and
communications with remote
parts of the Dominican Republic
have not yet been restored.
The tidal waves that followed
yeserday’s quake completely
flooded, and at Puerto Plata some
other port cities were partially
flooded, and at Puero Plata some
In the
Funeral Service At
Sulphur Springs;
Burial at Weaver
Pioneer Resident
Of Titus County
Passes at Dallas
as well as a two-thirds vote at
the Paris Peace conference.
British Prime Minister Attlee
will ask his cabinet on Wednes-
day whether the Palestine Ques-
tion should be turned over to the
United Nations.
The Paris peace conference
is marking time while its rules
the Palestine problem up to the committee argues the question
United Nations—unless the Unit-I of voting procedure. The United
ed States and Britain could co-1 States and China have endorced
operate in wbffcing <r.rt a plan for 1 n British compromise that would
the country. 1 provide for recommendations to'
AN OVERTURNED COACH that wit, torn from Its trucks lies on its side in Bayonne, N.J. after being struck by
another commuter train of the New Jersey Central during the rush hour peak. The fireman of the overturned
locomotive was killed instantly and 133 others injured. Many passengers were badly burned by the explo-
sion of the engine's boiler, which sp ayed a large area with scalding steam. (International)
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into power. The act pro-' and claimants may be reached. |
At present we will be limited by space in presenting tills
service, but we hope to be able to secure roll paper in about a
month, whn we will put our new automatic press in operation
and give our readers a newspaper of which they will be proud.
All this is in line yith our policy of constant improvement
to keep pace with the progress of Mt. Pleasant and Titus
County.
A new insurance agency, to be
known in the future as the Mt.
Pleasant Insurance Agency, has
been organized here and will
begin regular business operations
in the near future, an announce-
ment released for publication
stated Monday morning.
According to the release the
business is owned jointly by
Frank Henderson and J. H.
McGuire and all kinds of insur-
ance will be handled with the
exception of life insurance. Ser-
eral old-line companies have
been lined up, it was said, and
the local business office will be
maintained in the Lilenstem
building.
NUMBER 117
'MTiSSife K ThompsonDie?
ConventionSaturday Monday MOHling at
The County Democratic con- IIan,,, Fl—„
vention met at the court house 110010 01 113,11211161^
Saturday afternoon to choose ~
I delegates to the state convention,
i with the following being elected:
Fred Witt, Hiram G. Brown,
Traylor Russell, P. D. Thornton
Jr., Holman Lilienslern, Bird Old
Jr., Joe Steed, Felix Jones, Chas.
L. Brantley, T. C. Walker, O. M.
Tabb, Bascom Perkins, and Dean
Neugent. The county has nine
I votes in the convention.
Big Transport Sailed Thousands of Miles
I With Maiden Voyage Delayed Six Years
j SOUTHAMPTON, E n g la n d rying eight-hundred thousand
troops — mostly American —to
and from Europe. She was clad
in wartime gray and Bristled
with guns.
Virtually every town
United States has at least
veteran who slept in a-- canvas
bunk in the hold of the Queen
Elizabeth and lined up in the
passage ways for “chow” on the
five-day Atlantic crossing.
The Queen Eliabeth got all of
her soldiers saftfljy to Europe
without convoy, relying on her
32-kont speed to outdistance
submarines.
The Queen Elizabath’s wartime
mission ended last March sixth
and she was stripped of her war
trappings. After heavy .work at
the shipyards in the first of
Clyde in Scotland — where she
was built—the Queen Elizabeth
returned to Southhampton to
don her luxury fittings.
When she steams into New
York harbor in October, the
PARIS, August 5 (IP)—The
United States and China have
Russian opinion, I endorsed
LONDON, August 5 (A*) — The
United Nations may soon find it-
self with the Palestine problem
on its hands. British government
sources declare that Prime Min-
ister Attlee will ask the British
cabinet this Wednesday if the
Palestine issue should be submit-
ted to the international organiza-
tion. However, these same sources
say the British won’t refer the
question to the U-N unless Pres-
ident Truman flatly rejects pro-
posals to partition Palestine.
The announcement concerning
Prime Minister Attlee came only
a few hours after Russia attack-
ed the British and American pro-
posals for semi-partition of Pal-
estine. A Moscow broadcast de-
clared that attempts to solve the
Holy Land problem without U-N
help was, in Russian opinion, I endorsed a compromise British
leading nowhere. plan that would allow recom-
In Paris, the leading Zionist' mendations by a simple majority
organization has flatly rejected
the partition plan. In a statement
today, the Jewish executive de-
scribed the proposal as wholly
unacceptable as a basis for dis-
cussion.
A few days ago, Winston Chur-
chill declared that Britain should
surrender her mandate and put'
Pfc. Marvin E. (Red) Taylor
left Saturday for Fort Lawton,
Wash., after a ten-day v:::4
with parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gene
Taylor. I
CIUDAD TRUJILLO, Domini-
can Republic, August 5, (A5) —
Earthquakes and high waves yes-
le country. | provide for recommendations to' terday and today have left at
The British cabinet also will !be mtide by both a simple major-1 ]east two persons dead in the
. —*_ ---s— k„.4. ity and a two-thirds vote of the , Dominician Republic. Heavy
! conference. j damage was caused in 11 D.omini-
As explained by a British.
authority, recommendations I
Vxer o ♦ vrl c mninrifv j
j would be considered very seri-
| cusly by the Big Four Foreign
. Ministers when they write the
Mrs. Ida Boyd, wife of John
Boyd, and resident of Latson
Heights, passed away at Taylor
Hospital at 2:45 o’clock Sunday
afternoon, from the effects of an
illness from which she had suf-
fered for several monhs.
Mrs. Boyd was past seventy
years of age and moved to Mt.
Pleasant with her family about
I seven or eight years ago, accord-
ing to information furnished this
office Monday morning. She be-
came critically ill and was taken
to the hospital on July 23rd. i
Deceased is survived by her j
husband, two sons and six daugh-
ters, as well as numerous other
relatives. ,
Funeral services were held at' ofpastor' Rpv;, S.’,B’
Sulphur Springs, Mrs. Boyd’s for-
mer home, at 19:00 o’clock Mon-
day morning, and later the body
was conveyed to Weaver, where
another service was held at the
grave where interment occurred.
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____MOUNT PLEASANT, TEXAS, Monday Evening, AugRst 5, 1946 “’ ~
WRECKAGE OF CRASH THAT KILLED 1, INJURED 133
British Mothers to Form Happy Lines to
Get Money Authorized to Support Babies
LONDON, August 5 (A”) —
Britian has had lines for just
about everything since the .war
started.
And housewives still have to
queue up for many things.
Tomorrow there’ll be more
lines, long ones and this time
happy ones.
Some two-million British
mothers are expected to line up
at post offices throughout the
United Kingdom tomorrow to re-
ceive initial payments averaging
two dollars each under Britain’s
four million dollars a week baby
bonus program.
The grants are being made
under the family allowance act 12-thousand a day and Govern-
passed a little over a year before > ment sources estimate a total of
the British labor Government ' two-million six-hundred
came i
This office has been informed
that Beauford Jester, candidate
for Governor in the second pri-
mary, is due in Mt. Pleasant
Thursday morning at 11:00
o’clock.
Mr. Jester will make an address
in the interest of his campaign,
probably from the northeast cor-
ner of the court house. He Will
have a public address system for
this purpose.
Mr. Jester led his opponent, Dr.
Homer P. Rainey, by more than
150,000 votes in the first primary.
CAIRO, August 5 (A* The |
Egyptian government is said to
have offered its security council
post to former Prime Minister Ali
Maher Pasha. He is the man who
war interned during the war af-
ter a member of Winston Chur- j
chill’s cabinet accused him of
tel...ng with the Italian enemy
Mahmoud Hassan Pasha — the
Egyptian minister to the United
Slates—now holds the U-N post.
If the current treaty talks
break down, the Security Council
may be given the whole problem
of British and Egyptian relations.
a i
block any action by the confer-'
ence, assuming, of course, that
the Big Four vote together.
However Secretary of . State
Byrnes doesn’t see it that way.
He told the rules committee that
Russian criticism and ' there «re= 20 points on which the
Minister Attlee’s move' great powers are not in agree-
came as new tension grew in the ment. On any one of those points,
Holy Land. The illegal Jewish re-I belaid, the^ Big Four are not
sisUnce group, Irgun Zvai Leumi,
has threatened new and heavy
blows against what it calls its
British enemies. In a broadcast,
the group threatened mob vio-
lence if the British impose an-
other curfew like the one in Tel
Aviv last week.
Meanwhile, the American le-
gation and British consulate in
Beyrouth, Lebanon were bomb-
ed almost simultaneously last j
night. No casualties were report-1 A g (/p} _ This ,g the gome.
ed in the explosion that may have . paradoxical
story of a ship
been a protest against the Bntish j tMt thougandg of
miles but never has made her
maiden voyage, at least not the
maiden voyage intended.
She is the eworld’s largest
liner—the 85-thousand-ton Cun-
ard White Star Liner Queen
Elizabeth.
The Elizabeth is the sister of
the Queen Mary. The new giant
cf the seas will make her maiden
voyage as a civilian luxury liner
on October 16th when she sails
for New York.
That maiden voyage has been
delayed six years by the war.
The Queen Elizabeth was al-
most finished when the war
started in September, 1939. The
[ huge liner was converted into a
troopship after a secret voyage
from Britain to New York.
.Thus, the Queen Elizabeth be-
came o veteran of the seven seas
before being converted to the, * *.. ^v.v«.x, .....
civilian job for which she was Queen Elizabeth will be on her
visit | built. | maiden voyage—after almost
During the war years, the six full years of service well
huge liner made sixty trips car-| done.
be asked to determine the basis
on which world Jewry is to be
i^presefrted at any coming con-j
ferences concerning Palestine’s ■
future. Colonial Secretary George
Jiall is expected to recommend
Yhet representatives of Interna-
tional Jewish groups be invited ___________
along with Palestine Jews to the | fjn£d peace treaties. Suggestions
London talks to be held within vo(ed by a simple majority would
not carry as much weight. At
“the rules practical thing to do.”
The small nations at the Confer-
ence have been extremely criti-
cal of two-thirds rule proposed docks were destroyed,
by the Big Four. They say it is town of San Francisco de Macdris,
undemocratic, and would permit more than 25 private homes were
small group of countries to j wrecked and many other build-
----—xi— i— .I. —*— I ings were damaged. One person
was killed1 there, and another in
the Dominican town of Santiago.
Damage totalling thousands of
dollars was caused in Ciabo, the
country’s richest agricultural
a-ea.
Elsewhere in the Caribbean,
yesterday’s quake at the bottom
of a deep hole in the ocean pro-
duced a fluctuation of several
inches in the tide at Puerto Rico,
but there was only slight damage.
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