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VOLUME XXVIII
Mt. Pleasant, Texas, Wednesday Evening, March, 19, 1947
Member Associated Press
NUMBER 277
(ZP) & International News Photos
Council Finds Bids
Plants Are Too High
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No Relief In Sigh!
For British As Rain
Brings Destruction
British Government
Gives Approval To
Plan Io Aid Greece
Guerillas Strike
Two Towns in Greece
School Elections To
Be Held In County
Saturday, April 5
Nationalists Enter
Chinese Communist
Capital City, Yenan
French Premier Is
Given Confidence
Vote By Assembly
Senate Will Work
Overtime To Ouflow
Portal Pay Demands
Dutch Commission
Members Resign In
Protest to Treaty
Georgia's Supreme
Court Says Thompson
Is legal Governar
Congress Demands
Administration Tell
Plan to Aid Greece
Construction Work
Will Probably Be
Done By City Crew
war
are
Three Trustees To
Be Named to Places
On Local Board
WASHINGTON, March 19 UP)
—There apparently won’t be any
soft coal strike at the end of this
month. John L. Lewis has backed
down before the supreme court.
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Lewis Withdraws Coal Strike
Notice In Face of Court Order
The leader of the United Mine
Russians In Hungary Four Destructive
Rejects U. S. Protest Fires Reported In
About Interference
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Mt. Pleasant weather for
the past 24 hours recorded
by Bill Lyle at the filter
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It required only a few minutes
at a meeting Wednesday morning
for Mt. Pleasant business and
professional men to raise practic-
ally all the quota assigned to this
city for additional stock purch-
ases for the Lone Star Steel
Company, which agreed Tuesday
at Dallas to raise $1,000,000 for
operating expenses as required
by the War Assets Administra-
tion for the sale of the plant near
Daingerfield.
The meeting was presided over
by B. M. Sandlin, who explained
the requirements for putting the
plant into operation for the pro-
duction of pig iron. Mr. Sandlin
made no sales talk, but told of
the plans as outlined at the
stockholders meeting Tuesday.
He stated that the company has
competent officials to direct
operations and it is believed that
a substantial profit can be real-
ized from the sale of pig iron and
from by-products of the coke
ovens.
Mr. Sandlin said that an an-
swer must be given by Friday as
to whether the company will
take over the plant and that Mt.
Pleastnt’s quota in the campaign
was $10,000. Blanks were furn-
ished those present and checks
to A. G. Daniel as trustee were
soon written to the amount of
$7,440, and Mr. Sandlin was in-
structed to notify W. O. Irvin of
Daingerfield, one of the direc-
tors, that Mt. Pleasant would
guarantee the remainder.
Because operation of the plant
means the industrial revolution
of this entire section, it is believ-
ed that every other town in this
area will also secure its quota,
thereby insuring production in a
few months.
It now seems that it is almost
Molotov Says Still
Believes Allies Can
Reach Agreement
WASHINGTON, March 19 (ZP)
— There a rising demand in Con-
gress for the administration to
explain how the plan for aid to
and Turkey can be reconciled
with America’s obligations to the
United Nations.
This question was raised today
by Senator H. Alexander Smith
of New Jersey, who wants the
State Department to clear up the
point. The other New Jersey
Senator, Albert Hawkes, wants
to know whether the UN could
perhaps take over in Greece and
Turkey when it is able to do so.
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ATHENS, March 19 *(ZP) —
Press dispatches said today that
four hundred guerrillas have
attacked the town of Daphne,
45 miles northeast of Salonika.
According to the dispatches, the
insurgents burned the police sta-
tion, town hall and several
houses, and abducted forty wom-
en and children.
Dispatches say the insurgents
also lanuched
Skra, where a
field team has been investigat-
ing. However, the attack
beaten off and the guerrillas fled
northward.
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BUDAPEST, March 19 (ZP>—
The Russian military command in
'Budapest today rejected a United
States protest against Soviet in-
terference in the internal affairs
of Hungary. For the second t'me,
the Russians rejected an Ameri-
can request for a three-power in-
vestigation of the situation.
The United States *has contend-
ed that the Russians interfered in
Hungarian domestic affairs in or-
der to aid the cause of Hungarian
Comm un sts. Today’s note from
the Russian Commander, Lieu-
tenant General V. P. Sviridov,
bluntly rejected the American
contention that Russian troops
had arrested Anti-Communist
Parliamentarian leader Bela Ko-
vacs only after Hungarian Comm-
unists had been unable to effect
Kovacs’ arrest. The Russians as-
serted flatly that Kovacs had ad
mitted crimes against the Soviet
army.
The Soviet note 'warned Ameri-
can Commander Brigadier Gen-
eral George Weems from making
“any further mistake” in the Ko-
vacs case.
an attack near
United Nations
BATAVIA. March 19 (ZP)— An
authratative source said today
that two members of the Dutch
Commision General have resigned
The informant says the resigna-
tions were in protest against the
Netherlands government’s decis-
ion to sign the Cheibon Ageement
ending the 19-month Indonesian
revolution.
The two who resigned are iden-
tified as Professor S. O. Post-
huma, a financial and economic
adviser, and Professor J. H. W.
Verzijl, a political-legal adviser.
It was expected, the informant
says, that Posth uma would be
appointed Commision General.
The Cheribon Agreement pro-
vides for Dutch recognition of the
Indonesian Republic’s sovier-
eignty over Java, Sumatra, and
Madoera. The pact, negotiated
last November, also would make
the Republic an equal partner
with the Netherlands under the
Dutch crown.
AUSTIN, March 19 (ZP)—The
advocates of increased natural re-
source levies to finance higher
teachers’ salaries are in Austin
today for another -round in their
all-out battle. A state Senate fi-
nance subcommittee was report-
ed ready to hear both sides of the
X.achers pay question tonight.
East Texas—Partly cloudy
tonight and Thursday, with
no important temperature
change.
tice which Lewis had given Krug
last November 15th, is hereby un-
conditionally withdrawn. It was
this notice of contract terminat-
ion that touched off a 17-day
coal strike last fall but when he
called the one off, Lewis added
the proviso that the union’s con-
tract with the government would
run only until the end of this
month.
So on the face of things, today’s
action eliminates the possibility
of an organ'zed stoppage after
March 31st.
By the withdrawl notice. Lewis
also saved his union $2,750 000.
The supreme court decision fined
the United Mine Workers $700,-
000, but it contained the provi-
sion that unless he cancelled his
contract termination notice with-
in a set time, the union would
I have to pay the balance of a $3,-
1500,000 fine.
Austrian treaty and Clark reject-
ed it. He said the United States
was talking about breaking up
Nazism in Austria, and that
Fascism was the system in Italy.
Gousev contended that Fascism
is a more general term than
Nazism and could be used pro-
perly. After considerable debate,
the Russian agreed that the dep-
uties should try to work up a
clause using the word “Nazi”
rather than “Fascist”
There also was a reaction in
Moscow today to Secretary of
State Marshall’s discussion of the
meaning of the word “Democ-
racy” before the foreign minis-
ters last Friday. A Soviet com-
mentator gave Marshall an edi-
torial larruping on that in the
columns of Pravda. The writer
brought up the negro question in
the United States and current
proposals in Congress to outlaw
the Communist party. He re-
marked that Marshall’s theoreti-
cal generalization of Democracy
therefore does not seem to have
any place in the American scene.
The big four ministers now are
in session, but on the sidelines
there seems to be more interest
in when, or if, Prime Minister
Stalin will receive Marshall and
British Foreign Secretary Bevin.
Some of the western diplomats
apparently feel that these meet-
ings are overdue, although Stalin
already has talked with French
Foreign Minister Bidault. There
is a feeling that if Marshall or
Bevin don’t get a call from the
Kremlin tonight, that it will look
as though Stalin is giving them
the silent treatment.
Quota For Lone Star Steel
|n|erej| |s pu||jng
on sewage Disposal Daingerfield Plant Operating
By Increasing Slock Structure
B.&P.W. Club Hears
Discussion (barter
Form Government
ATLANTA, March 19 (ZP)—The
state supreme court decided to-
day that M. E. Thompson is the le-
gal Governor of Georgia.
By a vote of 5 to 2 the state’s
highest court rejected the claims
of Herman Talmadge. The court
also held that Talmadge’s elec-
tion by the Georgia Legislature
was unconstitutional.
In handing down iU ruling to-
day the state supreme court thus
moved to end nine weeks of po-
litical turmoil in Georgia. Dur-
ing this period, the rival gover-
nors occupied the capitol and con-
tended for control of state agen-
cies and departments.
Talmadge, however operated
from the executive suite, and a
great majority of the state de-
partments recognized him as gov-
ernor.
Talmadge has announced that
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Four destructive school fires
were reported today in Texas
and one of them is still raging
out of control. By noon today, a
fir at the Greenville high school
gymnasium had wiped out four
departments at the school, and
was still burning in the band
hall adjoining the Gym.
The fire apparently broke out
in the boys’ dressing room at the
gym, which was built in 1936 at
a cost of $30,000. The structure
wag said to be practically des-
troyed.
Flames from a gas heater were
blamed for a fire which swept a
schoolgirls’ rooming house near
the campus of the Texas A. & I.
College campus in Kingsville.
Several girls lost their belong-
ings.
Two other school fires were re-
ported this morning. One des-
troyed the agriculture and home
economics building at Clarendon
Junior College, while the school
building at Oakwood burned
the ground last night.
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LONDON, March 19 (ZP) —
high British government source
said today the government has
approved in all aspects Presi-
don t Truman's proposed program
to*aid Greece and Turkey.
The source adds that no mini-
ster fears the new United States
foreign policy in Europe would
lead to war with Communist
Russia. Some labor members of
Parliament have claimed that too-
close political alignment between
Britain and America would in-
volve Britain in a Russian-Ameri-
can conflict.
It is recognized, the informant
says, that a revamped American
approach to Middle Eastern of-
fairs likely would emerge from
Mr. Truman’s program. The gov-
ernment source adds that this
approach ultimately may affect
Palestine.
In this connection, he says,
Britain has ruled Palestine out of
all her long-term stragetic im-
peral planning. The source con-
cludes military planners have re-
signed themselves to the fact that
Britain would have to withdraw
its nearly 100,000 troops from Pal-
estine.
ADMITS HANGING PLAYMATE
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Mt. Pleasant Raises
Bids were opened by the City
Council at its meeting Tuesday
afternoon for the construction of
a new sewage disposal plant, but
they were all much higher than
the amount the city has available
for the project, so they were
taken under advisement and may
be reconsidered later.
There were 4 bids on the work,
the lowest of which was some
$20,000 above the amount figured
on, so it was decided not to take
any action until after the city
election on April 1, when the
new officials will be called on
to consider the matter. It is be-
lieved that eventually the city
will do the job with its own
crew. Concrete work being the
principal item, the city is cap-
able of handling the project
much cheaper than by contract,
as was proven in putting down
the foundation for the new water
tower.
WASHINGTON, March 19 (ZP)
— Republican leaders have de-
clared the portal pay issue is
urgent enough to require over-
time for the Senate. Chairman
Taft of the GOP policy commit-
tee says today’s session will run
right on through the evening.
Taft hopes to get a vote on the
current bill to wipe out the pend-
ing portal-to-portal pay suits
which now amount to nearly six
billion dollars. However, a num-
ber of Democrats plan to speak
on the issue at length and some
Republicans say there is not
much chance for a vote tonight.
One of the reasons the Dem-
ocrates want to talk is that they
hope to put through a somewhat
milder measure aimed at limit-
ing the portal suits, but not at
outlawing the whole principle.
PARIS, March 19 (ZP)—The
French National Assembly has
given Premier Paul Ramadier a
421-to-nothing vote of confidence
on his policies in Indo-Cbina.
The vote came after a stormy
debate on France’s relations with
the Vict-Namese regime in Indo-
China. Communist deputies ab-
stained from voting, despite a
challenge from Ramadier.
Communist leader 'Jacques Du-
clos said before the vote was tak-
en the the Communist party, lar-
gest in the assembli, would nei-
ther support nor oppose the con-
fidence motion. Ramadier retort-
ed that he wanted his pol cy
becked by the entire nation, not
merely by a majority.
Premier Ramadier may demand
resignation of Communists.
“Our Present Form of City Gov-
ernment Compared With the pro-
posed Charter Form of Govern-
ment” 'was the subject of an in-
teresting discussion led by Hir-
am G. Brown at the meeting of
the Business and (Professional
Women’s Club at the Pleasant Ho-
tel Tuesday evening. Mr. Brown
explained the difference between
the two forms of local govern-
ment and their advantages.
Before the discussion, the group
was enterta ned with a humorous
reading by Miss Janet Allen.
Mrs. Letha Willis was welcom-
ed as a new member and the
following were guests: Mmes:
Jennie Vaughan and W. A. Ford,
representing the Kroweldeen
Club, Mrs. W ,E. Wilkinson of the
Fine Arts Club Mrs. J. C. Brown
of the Garden Club, Mmes. G. K.
Cartwright, Fred Kolander, O. L.
Holley, Jack Dwyer and H. E.
Riddle of the Wednesday Sewing
Club, Mrs. Connie Short of the
Presbyertian Business Women’s
C rcle, Mmes. Hiram G. Brown,
T. M. Gilpin, Josh Hodge, D. E.
Porter, D. C. Munden and Dell
Hess.
Workers Union today withdrew
his notice to the gevernment that
the miners’ contract 'would be
ended on March 31st. JJhe su-
preme court had ordered him to
do so, and he obeyed this morn-
ing in a terse letter to secretary
of the Interior Krug.
That letter was just 20 words
long. It said simply that the no- he will vacate the executive off-
ice and mansion as soon as he can
get his files out and personal ef-
fects packed. Talmadge also said
he will not ask the state supreme
cmourt to reconsider its decision
holding tha,t Thompson is
Georgia’s governor.
NANKING, March 19 (ZP) —
A 200-mile forced march brought
Chinese nationlist troops to the
Chinese Communist capital of
Yenan today and when the gov-
ernment forces took over, Yenan
was like a ghost city. The Com-
munists had gone, and taken
with them almost everything that
could be carried away.
Dispatches announcing the
capture of Yenan mentioned no
fighting and it is presumed that
the Communist defense forces
have withdrawn in to the moun-
tains of Shensi Province. The
Communists earlier had planned
to evacuate the city, and not to
defend it.
Communist leaders were said
some time ago to have left Yen-
an.
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MOSCOW, March 19 (ZP)
Soviet Foreign Minister V.
Molotov says he still believes
the big four foreign ministers
will reach agreement on the
highly important issue of Ger-
man reparations.
Molotov made a statement to
this effect to the conference of
foreign ministers. He spoke after
Britain’s foreign secretary, Ern-
est Bevin, rejected Soviet repara-
tions demands on Germany.
Molotov said it did not follow
from the disputes thus far over
reparations that the four powers
would not be able to find a com-
mon point of view. State Secre-
tary Marshall agreed with him.
LONDON, March 19 (ZP)— No
immediate relief from rains is in
sight today as floods spread new
destruction throughout large
areas of England and Wales. The
British Air Ministry predicts
heavy and prolonged showers,
followed by continous rain.
Thousands of additional
sons have been driven from their
homes by murky waters. In some
places, rising waters edged past
record peaks established in the
d sastrous floods of 1894.
British troops, German
prisoners and volunteers
working furiously to save water'
purifying stations and gas and
electricity plants. At the same
time, others are placing sandbags
on sagging river banks and flood
walls.
Community kitchens have been
set up in many spots to feed re-
fugees, while troops in amphib-
ious tanks and waterborne jeeps
// rescue hundreds marooned in the
upper floors of their homes.
The flood waters have engulf-
ed part of 34 counties in England,
while five of the remaining six
counties still are clogged with
snow. Thousands of acres of farm
lands have (been flooded, and the
water has destroyed much df
Britain's vitally needed winter
wheat crop and killed many
cattle and sheep.
1 On the continent, there also
are heavy floods in the Russian
occupation zone of Germany. An
Associated Press dispatch from
Berlin says 12 towns are inundat-
ed along with a third of the city of
Stassfurt. In addition, railway
and highway traffic is seriously
impaired in Saxony.
The Board of Trustees of the
Mt. Pleasant Independent School
D strict has called a trustee elec-
tion for Saturday, April 5th, sec-
retary of the board, J. A. Petty,
announced Wednesday. The elec-
tion will be held on the same
date as balloting for trustees for
all other schools in the county.
In the local election three pla-
ces are to be filled on the seven
man board, one for a one-year
term to fill the place left vacant
by the recent resignation of Dr.
Williams A. Ferguson. The other
two places are for three-year
terms which are now held by By-
ron Reaves, chairman of the
board, and D. C. Munden.
A petition has already been re-
ceived by the secretary listing
Reaves and Munden as candi-
dates for reelection. Other candi-
dates must file with the secre-
tary not later than March 31 if
their names are to appear on the
ballot, Petty said.
Voting in the local district will
be at the County Superinten-
dent’s office in the courthouse.
Moscow Conference Is Marked
By Argument Over Use Words
MOSCOW, March 19 (ZP) — An
argument over the meaning of
words marked today’s session of
the foreign ministers’ deputies
in Moscow. The quarrel was over
the words “Fascist” and “Nazi.”
General Mark Clark threw
back at Feodor Gousev, the
Soviet deputy, Russian news-
paper references to John Foster
Dulles as a Fascist. Dulles is one
of Secretary of State Marshall’s
advisors. Clark argued in effect
that the Russians are likely to
call almost anybody a Fascist.
That this was one reason why
the United States opposed that
term and wished to use the word
“Nazi” in the Austrian peace
treaty.
The Soviets had used their
term in the draft clause for the
ALBANY, N. Y., authorities bring Carl De Flumer, 14, Into court
where he admitted killing his 8-year-old playmate, Robert Wahrman
(Inset). The victim's nude body was found hanging from a tree.
Police report De Flumer, who is charged with first degree murder,
gives no reason for the slaying. (International Soundphoto)
Nighl Session of Legislature
To Consider Teacher Pay Bills;
Other Measures Are Approved
Several hundred teachers were
expected to appear to push a bill
by State Representative Dallas
Blankenship of Dallas. This mea-
sure would raise the state per
capita apportionment for all
schools to 55 dollars annually.
Also to be heard is the legis-
lation by State Senator Jim Tay-
lor of Kerens, providing a formula
for raising teacher’s pay to a mini-
mum of two thousand dollars
yearly, on the basis of need for
state a'd to various school dis-
tricts. The committee will also lay
out 'another bill by Blankenship,
making the minimum salary two
thousand dollars annually.
Meanwhile, in a four-hour ses-
sion last night, the House Reve-
nue and Taxation Committee vo-
ted 12 to 2 that a natural resour-
ces tax bill by Representative Jim
Weight of Weatherford, not be
passed by the House. The Wright
bill was earmarked to also give
teachers a two thousand dollar
annual minimum salary and pro-
vided for additional funds for
rural roads.
A bill setting up a $5,000 ann-
ual license fee on persons handl-
ing placement of agricultural and
common laborers rests in a House
subcommittee today, after meet-
ing determined opposition from a
strong minority bloc of the House
Labor Committee.
Three bills, which would in-
crease the amount of workmen’s
compensation, were sent to the
House sub-committee last night
in Austin. The gub-cominittee
was asked to consol date the three
workmen’s compensation bills in-
to one measure and report back
within one week.
At the same time, the House
State Affairs committee last night
recommended for passage a mea-
sure by Representative Jim Hef-
lin of Houston taking manage-
ment of the State School for the
Deaf from the Board of Control
and putting it in the hands of the
State Board of Education.
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