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NUMBER 206
VOLUME XXVIII
MOUNT PLEASANT, TEXAS, Wednesday Evening December, 4 1946
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•Cub Scouts Are
Reorganized
Tuesday Night
Hint At Plans Businesses In
For Slopping City Change To
Coal Walkouts New Location
BigAttendana
Is Expected Fo
C. of C. Meet int
County Judges
Favor Increase
Gasoline Taxes
Declares China Is
Not Getting Relie!
Weather Cause of
Shipping Losses
Cuba and Florida
Soviet Speculates
American Troops
Will Go fo Greece
Union and Swill
Reach Agreement
Greece Declares
Borders Violated
Drastic Cutbacks
In Steel Industry
Being Predicted
Patman Will Offer
Bill For Veterans
To Cash Payments
Texas Marshal Is
Found Dead and
Prisoner Missing
Communist Bid to
Control France is
Being Challenged
Economic Life of
Nation Strangled
By Miner’s Strike
American Warships
Have Left Beyrouth
After Goodwill Trip
Speculation Rife
As to Sentence
Lewis May Receive
Train Derailed At
Miami Ties Texas
Traffic Wednesday
Hunter Should
Have Stood on Job
Two Good Speaker!
Will Be Present
For Discussion
Tom B. Coker and
George Gilpin to
Head the Work
An animal nursery is being
opened in the Melbourne Zoo to
teach children to care for ani-
mals.
LONDON, Dec. 4 VP)—An
ternational
To clean black or dark 1
felt, use a teaspoon of ammi
mixed with half a cup of cold
THE WILLIAM WILBUR family looks over the Blue prints of the "con-
science home" being erected by 60 carpenters and scores of volun-
teer laborers with funds donated by Terre Haute, Ind., neighbors of
the Wilburs, who lost n ha by in the Ore which destroyed their subur-
ban home. Although there was a tire station only 10 blocks away,
Terre Haute firemen, acting under official orders, refused to tight
the blaze because it was outside the city limits—reason for the new
home’s name (International Soundphoto)
Marshall Branch, chairman
the
$225.50 Received
But Much More
Will Be Needed
were
that
the
A coating or two of clear shel-
lac preserves pictures. They may
then be framed without glass.
1929.
Iron Age says the coal strike “is
dealing a nasty blow to the met-
al-working industry. It adds that
"the loss of more than a million
tens of steel will find many fab-
ricators with unbalanced inven-
tories.” The publication empha-
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y„ Dec. 4 t
(ZP)—Greece has complained for- 1 s[zes” also ”that the freight em-
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Chickens lay about 20 percent
more eggs during their first year
of production than during their
second year.
Union agreed to lay aside its own
blueprint in favor of the Ameri-
can plans, although Russia des-
cribed the United States proposal
as insufficiently clear and some-
what one-sided.
The Weather
East Texas—Fair and war-
mer this afternoon and to-
night, and in the southeast
portion Thursday.
had purchased the Hill Billy Cafe
from (Dick Redfearn. Coker as-
sumed 'operation of the cafe Wed-
nesday.
“CONSCIENCE HOME’’ IS FOR THEM
For Community
ChestCampaign
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 VP)
—The United Mine Workers
Union was fined three and
one half million dollars today
And John L. Lewis was fined
$10,000 personally for con-
tempt of court. However,
Lewis escaped a jail sentence.
nia have violated Greek borders.
Greek Envoy Vassili Dendramis
said that Greece wants a UN com-
mittee to go to Greece and see
the situation for itself.
wants the United Nations securi-
ty council to discuss the Greek
case.
In another United Nations de-
velopment, Russia has agreed to
traint now in its wage demands.” | cated' to China reach that coun-
The Manufacturers’ Association try.
Timperly is UNRRA liaison of-
ficer with the China National Re-
lief and Rehabilitation Adminis-
tration. He said that he would
see British officials on the mat-
ter and then carry his appeal to
Washington. According to Tim-
perly, 1,800,000 tons of goods are
still to be sent to China.
DENVER, (/P)— R. T. McClus-
key, a flower shop operator, said
goodby to his partner, Adolph
Geisert, and set off to hunt pheas- j
ants far from the city. A few min-
utes after he left, a pheasant
crashed through a front windov^
of the shop. Geisert retrieved it.
The Manufacturers’ Association
president, Robert Wason, follow-
ed Harriman’s speech with a
i charge that "the power of the
government supports Lewis.” He
claimed such government support
has made the mine union boss
“more powerful than the 140,000,-
000 people represented by their
government.”
WASHINGTON, 'Dec. 4 (ZP) —
The coal strike is tightening its
stranglehold 'on the economic life
of the nation and its grip is being
felt in vital industries—automo-
biles, railroads, construction and
steel. In addition to the 400,000
soft coal miners, more than 165,-
000 persons are idle and by Friday
the number may be over 2,000,000.
A freight embargo will go into
effect at 12:01 a.m. Friday and
at the same time the automobile
industry will come to a virtual
halt. The Ford Motor Company
predicted a complete shutdown
within a few days after the em-
bargo is clamped on and General
Motors bluntly said there was no
use operating without shipping
facilities for materials and fin-
ished products. The Chicago As-
sociation of Commerce claimed
that the freight embargo would
result in the gradual closing of
more than 10,000 industrial plants
in the Chicago area.
“KEEP UN VETO”—SHAWCROSS
CHICAGO, Dec. 4 (ZP) — AFL
meat cutters and butchers unions
today announced an agreement
had been signed with Swift &
Company. Earl Jimerson, union
head, said the agreement granted
workers in nine Swift & Company
plants an average wage boost of
9c an hour.
Plants involved are in San
Francisco, (Portland, Ore., Water-
town, S. D., East St. Louis, Ill.,
Columbus, O., Baltimore, Lake
Charles, La, Montgomery, Ala.,
and Nashville, Tenn.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 4 VP)—The
steel trade publication, Iron Age,
I says that further gradual shut-
downs are scheduled in the steel
industry this week. It predicted
drastic cutbacks in the steel in-
dustry will occur next week un-
less signs of a coal strike settle-
ment appear.
The metal-working trades jour-
nal says operations this week are
estimated at about 61 per cent of ans
rated capacity—off about three . —
points from last week. It was
noted, however, that this j
tion figure is equal on an annual
basis to 63,000,000 tons, or more
steel than was produced in any ] desire,
year prior to the war, except in |
Congress that would prevent na-
tional chain stores from selling at
a loss in any particular location
in order to farce a competitor
out of business.
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SIR HARTLEY SHAWCROSS, right, British delegate to the UN, is shown
with U. S. Senator Tom Connally as the two adjust their earphones
at a Security Council meeting at Lake Suci s. N Y., for discussion
on the controversial veto question. Shawcross argues that the major
powers "must retain the veto because a combination of smaller
powers might form a voting block to outvote one of the Big Five
on a vital issue.” (International Soundphoto)
The Texas Congressman also
said he would offer legislation in
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PARIS, Dec. 4 (ZP)—The French
Communist bid to head the in-
terim government of France has
been challenged.
The moderate Popular Repub-
lican Movement (MRP) and the
radical Socialist Party announced
today they would abstain from
voting for Maurice Thorez for the
Premiership. Thorez is the sec-
retary-general of the French Com-
munist Party.
Thorez would require an abso-
lute majority of the 310 votes in
the balloting of the new National
Assembly to win the Premier-
ship. The Assembly is voting to-
day and it seems unilkely that
the Communist leader will win
the required number of votes.
The MRP said that if Thorez
does fall to get the necessary
number of votes, it will put forth
its own candidate on the next
ballot. The MRP said its candi-
date would be either Georges Bi-
dault, who surrendered the reins
of the provisional government
last week, or former finance min-
ister Robert Schur^an.
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BEYROUTH, Lebanon, Dec. 4
VP)—A United States naval de-
tachment of nine ships has left
Beyrouth after a three-day good
will visit. The total of the com-
plements of the nine American
warships it 3,000 officers and men.
It was the biggest naval show the
Lebanese capital has ever wit-
nessed.
Fleet Commander Vice Admiral
Bernard Bieri expressed his ap-
preciation for Lebanon’s cordial
hospitality at a banquet last night
at the Navy Ministry.
SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 4 (ZP)—
The Texas County Judges’ and
Commissioners’ Association con-
vention closed today at noon.
This morning several resolutions
were read to the group by the
chairman of the organization’s
resolutions committee, County
Judge William W. Ellison of Gon-
zales. One of the resolutions
suggested that the Texas Legis-
lature levy an additional gasolene
tax, not to exceed 2c per gallon,
to provide funds for farm-to-
market road construction.
Another resolution read to the
meeting asked that counties not
be bound by legislative acts call-
ing for expenditures from county
funds.
A third resolution submitted
would call upon the legislature to
take steps to secure disposal by
the federal government of large
tracts of federal-owned land. It
said the wartime properties of
the U. S. government should once
again be privately owned.
LONDON, Dec. 4 (ZP)—Mtoscow
radio dealt today with specula-
tion over the possibility of Am-
erican troops being sent to Greek
territory. A Soviet broadcast has
quoted what it referred to as
“well informed Greek circles” in
discussing the subject.
The Greek circles are alleged to
have asserted “that at present the
British are negotiating for the
dispatch of at least a small token
force to Northern Greece.”
The Moscow radio took note of
recent American denials that U.
S. troops 'would be sent to Greece.
But the Soviet broadcast quoted
a Russian dispatch from Ankara,
Turkey, stating that the possibil-
ity that the United States might
send troops to Greece “is not pre-
cluded” despite recent denials.
TEXARKANA, Dec.4 VP)—Rep-
resentative Wright Patman an-
1 nounced today that he will offer
legislation in Congress authoriz-
ing the payment of war veterans’
terminal leave payments in cash.
Patman said he believes veter-
—s should be paid in cash or un-
der terms of their own choosing.
„ I Patman said veterans who have
produc- i received their terminal leave pay
in U. S. bonds should be allowed
to surrender them for cash if they
PAMPA, Dee. 4 (ZP)— Pan-
handle railload traffic was tied
| tip for eight hours today by the
derailment of a fast Santa Fe
freight train at Miami, Texas,
twenty miles east of Pampa. No
one was reported injured in the
Panhandle rail wreck, but ap-
proximately forty of seven hun-
dred cattle on the ’ train were
killed or crippled. The Santa Fe
lines of Pampa were cleared
shortly after noon. Eight freight
cars were reported demolished
in the derailment.
of
Titus County Community
Chest, stated Wednesday morning
that a drive for funds is in full
swing and that at the present
time $225.50 have been received
thus far.
Contributors are reminded
again that the one drive is con-
ducted each year for the Com-
munity Chest and the money that
is received is for the assistance
of local people. None of it is
sent out of the county. Those
who wish to make contributions
can send the money to Mr.
Branch, or to Virgil Johnson
manager of the Chamber of Com-
merce. No personal solicitations
will be made.
Contributors so far include:
Carstairs Bros. Distilling Co.,
Inc., Buena Page, Talco Asphalt
and Refining Division, George
Lilienstern Department Store,
Magnolia Petroleum Co., South-
■ western Gas & Electric Co.,
Mrs. Bessie Caldwell, Irvin-Sand-
lin Chevorlet Co., C. L. Duncan
Insurance Agency, G. A. Mount,
Driggers Lumber Co., R. L. Jur-
ney, Safeway Stores, W. M. Tabb
(Work $3.50), Mrs. Alma Coker,
Hunt Plumbing Supply, W.
Burton.
Mt PleRsan’. weather for
the past 24 hours recorded
by Bill Lyle at the filter
plant is as follows: >
Maximum ----------- i s/
Minimum — *
Temp. 7:00
Wind frond
Sky ..........f
A re-organization of Cub Scout
Pack 5 was held Tuesday night
at the West Ward school at which
time Tom B. Coker was selected
as Cubmaster, with George Gil-
pin to serve as his assistant. The
Pack Committee is composed of
H. A. Green, Byron Reaves and
E. W. McClinton.
The Pack will hold its first
meeting Monday night December
16th at the West Ward school at
7:00 p. m. and Cub badges will
be presented at this time.
Three Cub Dens were organiz-
ed at the meeting. Den 1 will be
headed by Mrs. R. L. Martin
as Den Mother and Larry Mc-
Guire as Den Chief. Cubs in Den
1 are Shelton Sdmpson, Charles
Sinclair, Kenneth Bradley, David
Cook, Larry Harris, Charles
Wright, Donald Lee Brown,
Russell Martin, Sammy Reeves
and Charles Robinson. The Den
will meet at Mrs. Martin’s home
Tuesdays after school.
Den 2 will be headed by Mrs.
T. R. Florey, Jr., and Mrs. Morris
Smith as Den Mothers. The Den
Chief has not been selected.
Cubs in Den 2 are Billy Hen-
dricks, Charles Smith, Thurman
Fearin Jr., T. R. Florey III,
Milton Redfearn, Steve Wallace
and Jerry Woffard. The Den will
meet Wednesdays at Mrs. Flor-
ey’s home on North Jefferson
after school.
Den 3 will have Mrs. H. B.
Christensen and Mrs. Buck
Howell as Den Mothers. Alvis
Redfearn, Jr., will serve as Den
Chief. Cubs include Carles Ray
Kidwell, Jimmie McGuire, Ben
Green Harold B. Christensen,
Bobby Howell, Bobby Wayne
McClinton, Bob Cameron,
Thomas E. Redfearn, Carr Den-
man, Jr., and Tom Barton Coker.
The Den will meet Wednesdays
after school at Mrs. Christen-
sen’s home, 208 West 8th Street.
Nam Opens Meet
With Blasis For
Labor, Government
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NEW YORK, Dec. 4 (ZP)—The
big guns of both government and
industry seemed pointed today at
John L. Lewis as the National As-
sociation of Manufacturers open-
ed its 51st annual congress of Am-
erican industry. But the gov-
ernment also came in for a bit of
blasting.
Commerce Secretary W. Aver-
ell Harriman opened the indus-
try congress with the charge that
the power of labor leaders has
grown to a point where we find
one man defying the government
and the nation.” But Harriman
predicted that Congress will soon
‘‘clarify the relationship between
the rights of labor unions in rep-
resenting their members and
their responsibility to the public."
The administration leader urged,
however, that congressional leg-
islation “be not unfairly restrict-
ive of labor.”
The Commerce Secretary took
cognizance of the rising cost of
living during the last six months.
Considerable shifting of loca-
tions for Mt. Pleasant business
houses took place this week, with
at least six concerns taking part
in the moving.
Starting off the relocation pro-
to ' an announcement sev-
ago that Lack’s Auto
Store, under the management of
Joe Miller, had takm a lease on
the Hess building adjacent to
Swint Brothers drug store on
the north side of the square, ef-
fective this week. Other factors
also contributed to the changes.
I As the moving got under way
bn Monday the Contact Repre-
sentive’s office of the Veteran’s
Administration, formerly locat-
ed at 104 West Fourth street, was
moved accross the street into the
newly completed Clayton build-
ing. A beauty shop owned an
Mrs. Annie Mae
were not giving any official con- I Rogers in the Hess building
firmation that such an under-, moved to the former VA location,
standing might be reached. But
one justice department attorney
suggested to newsmen that an
eleven hour effort to end the
walkout may be in the works.
However, the unidentified gov-
ernment lawyer said he had no
specific knowledge that such was
the case.
Originally, Lewis was suppos-
ed to be sentenced at 10:00 a.m.,
but for two hours federal law-
yers and council for Lewis con-
ferred behind the closed doors
of the judge’s chambers, some-
times together and sometimes
separately. When Goldsborough
finally convened court at noon
it wks to have the bailiff an-
nounce a three-hour recess.
There was a gasp of surprise
from the courtroom at this news.
And perhaps it was significant
that Goldsborough was smiling
broadly as he left the courtroom.
One Justice Department of-
ficail said the delay had been
requested by Lewis’ chief attor-
ney, Joseph Padway.
At any rate the delay gave
rise to a wave of speculation. In
some unofficial quarters it was
suggested that court might pass
sentence, then suspend its execu-
tion while the contempt convic-
tion is appealed to the Supreme
Court. The suspension execution,
it was believed, might be grant-
ed, with the proviso that the
United Mine Workers return to
work. That would bring the en-
tire situation back to where it
was two weeks ago before the
strike started.
There was speculation, too,
over the possible penalties the
court might invoke. Both gov-
ernment and union attorneys had
been asked to make recommend-
ations on that score. One gov-
ernment source hinted that the
federal lawyers might seek to
have a $200,000 a day fine im-
posed on Lewis and his union for
as long as the stoppage continued.
the bottom of a dry creek north
of Henrietta.
Deputy Sheriff R. W. Bray,
who investigated the case, said
Earley had been shot twice, in
the neck and through the fore-
head. A iwatch and about thirty
nesday morning, at which time it, dollars in cash were found on
was stated that Murray Coker Earley’s body.
Bray said Earley left Bellvue
at noon yesterday bound for
Wichita Falls with a prisoner.
The prisoner was wanted on a
forgery complaint. Missing to-
day, as a widespread search was
instigated, are Earley’s car and
the prisoner.
in-
relief 'official, H. J.
Timperly, said today that China
Thus, he said, real wages have has received only one-third of the
fallen. Harriman then declared: supplies allocated to her. He
that labor can help to prevent a | urged that at least a nucleus of
- farther spiral of prices and ev- | the International Relief and Re-
entually “gain a firm increase in.) habilitaiion Administration be re-
real (wages if labor will show res- tained until all the supplies allo-
MASONIC NOTICE
Temple Lodge No, 70 will con
accept American proposals on fer the Fellow Craft degree on
world arms limitations as a ba- three candidates at the Masonic
sis for discussions. The Soviet i Hall Thursday night, beginning
at 7:00 o’cleok. J. D. Sawyer,
W. M.
MIAMI, Florida, Dec. 4 (ZP)—
One ship is believed to have sunk
off Cuba, and a second vessel is
adrift in heavy weather off the
coast of Jacksonville, Fla. Blus-
tery weather has hampered ship-
ping off the coast of Florida and
Cuba. A third vessel in distress
was towed into Miami harbor.
The Coast Guard believes that
the converted navy ship Truxton,
now being used in the banana
trade, was abandoned and sunk
off the most westerly point of
Cuba. It is believed that the crew
made shore safely, although de-
tails are lacking. It is said, how-
ever that the Cuban Navy sent
aid to the stricken vessel.
The Coast Guard at Tampa has
towed a fishing boat into Miami
today, and then steamed toward
Jacksonville to search for the
Cecil. This vessel broke away
from a tug during the night and
is adrift. According to the Coast
Guard, no one is aboard
drifting ship.
mally to the United Nations that barg0 will practically halt ship-
Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Alba-1 ments from the nation’s finishing
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Iron Age claims that “higher]
prices for steel products now are
regarded as almost inevitable, and i
And it j jt is saj(1 tbc price boosts arc due [
soon in the opinion of several in-
dustry sources.”
HENRIETTA, Tex., Dec. 4
—A pipeline company walker
Co., which was moved one door made a grisly discovery south-
The Smith barber shop, east of Wichita Falls today. When
formerly in the Hess building, he stepped to the side of the
took this concern’s vacated place, highway near Henrietta to let
and Tuesday night Lack’s Auto a bus pass, he discovered the
Store made their move. body of a dead man. The body
Announcement has now been was that of City Marshal D. C.
made that the Collegiate Dress Earley of Bellvue, in Clay Coun-
Shop of Paris has leased the ty. Early’s lifeless body lay in
building on East Third street,
vacated by Lack’s, and merch-
andise will be moved in as
quickly as possible.
Another change in business, in
management rather than in lo-
cation, was also announced Wed-
One of the most importai
Chamber of Commerce meeting
of the year has been set fc
Thursday night, at 7:30 o’clocl
and it is hoped that a good a
tendance will be registered f<
discussions that are slated fc
the evening. The meeting wi
be in the district courtroom.
According to Holman Lilier
stern and Virgil Johnson, pres
dent and manager of the Cham
ber of Commerce, two prominer
Texas speakers have promised t
address the gathering on suk
jects that are of vital importanc
to every citizen of Titus Cuuutj
They are Victor H. Schoffe]
meyer, science and agricultur
editor of the Dallas Mornin
News, and H. H. Spraggins, in
dustrial agent for the southen
division of the Cotton Belt.
Schoffelmeyer will talk
farm resources and the possibi
lities of greater development o
this vast source of Texas wealth
Spraggins will explain method
that are being used by Texa:
cities in offering inducement!
for the location of new indus
tries.
Because of the importance oi
th" s ibiei'ts th’t w:ll be d:scuss-
’ ' "mstern and Johnson are
urging every person in the
county who can possibly do so
to attend the meeting Thursday
night. It will begin promptly
'nd will not last very long and
those who do attend will be as-
sured that their lime will be well
spent.
Several Concerns
Are Shifted In
Moves This Week
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (Z1
There will be more waiting until
John L. Lewis learns the sen-
tence imposed upon him for con-
waaw • mill AVI
tempt of court. Sentencing has
been postponed at least until'
3:00 p. m. today. As the tense |
minutes ticked by there
glowing unofficial talk
some formula for ending
crippling soft coal stoppage is
being sought.
The top figures in the historic
trial, Lewis, federal attorneys
and Judge T. Alan Goldsborough operated by
i Rogers
mnunri
On the south side of the square
the Square Deal garage was mov-
ed to the home of the owner,
Jake Tieszen, and his location in
the Witt building was taken by
the Russell-Jackson Aplliance
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