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VOLUME XXV1I1
NUMBER 279
Member Associated Press
Friday Evening, March 21, 1917
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Training Course For
Cub Scout Leaders
Acheson Declares
Security of U. S. Is
Threatened By Reds
Committee Approves
Knutson Bill To Cut
Down Income Taxes
Conference In El
Paso On Laborers
From Mexico In U. S.
Philippines and U. S
Sign 5-Year Military
Assistance Treaty
Stalin and Bidault
Differ Over Kind ot
Chiang Kai-Shek Has
Reply For Criticism
Policy With Russia
Lives Too Long,
Leses Large Income
Seal of Approval
Marks This Pool
Program Consists
Of Address; Songs
By Choral Singers
LONDON, March 21 (ZP)—Storm
warnings are displayed through-
out Britain today. The airminis-
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Aulo Workers Ask Pay Raises,
Other Benefits General Motors
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Mount Vernon And
Winfield Entered
In Relay Tourney
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STILL of dire importance to the populace which finds food and cloth-
ing almost nonexistent at the shops, th? black market scourge in
Romania has become a real problem. Even public officials have be-
come contaminated by their association with black marketeers. One
of them, Inspector Patrascu of the Bucharest municipality, is being
led through the streets with citizens demanding punishment for him.
Patrascu was entrusted with the administration of foodstuffs for all
city employes and is accused of selling one wagon of sodium, neces-
sary to workers and employes, on the black market. (International)
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DEATH has closed the career of
one of the nation’s automobile pi-
oneers, William C. Durant, who
built a fortune of $90,000,000 and
then lost nearly all of it. Twice
Durant controlled General Mo-
tors. He succumbed in New York
at the age of 85. (International)
Mt. Pleasant weather for
the past 24 hours recorded
by Bill Lyle at the filter
plant is as lollows:
Maximum .........
Minimum ........
Temp. 7:30 ......
‘ Wind from .........
Sky ..................
Regime For Germany (on|jnua|jon Worst
Weather Many Years
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retary Ernest iBevin. jfnformed
sources said Bevin would ask the
other members of the big four to
set up a post-war government in
the Reich similar to the present
governments of the United States
and Canada.
This would involve a Legis-
lature nr Parliament with an up-
per and lower house, with repre-
sentatives to be elected from the
separate German states. The in-
dividual states would wield the
same influence as the 48 states in
the American system.
But there’s one important diff-
ererence in the Bevin plan. The
president of postwar Germany, to
be chosen by popular vote, would
have little or no executive pow-
er.
Bevin’s plan for post-war Ger-
many may further divide the big
four powers. The Un ted States
and France are expected to rally
behind it, but chances are that
Russia will fight it tooth and nail.
Th? Soviet has consistently
championed the idea of a strong,
central government for the Ger-
mans, rather than a loosely knit
federation of states.
Lone Star Slock Sales Growing;
Company Asks Time Extension
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Jack Thomas Badly
Cut Plate Glass
Window Being Set
NANKING, March 21 UP)—
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek
has replied to charges by right
wing members of his government
that Chinese policy toward Russ-
ia is week-kneed and impotent.
A high government party of-
ficial declared that Chiang had
told his IKuomintang executive
committee that it was desirable
to maintain friendly relations
with other countries and that the
policy toward the Soviet Union
was perfectly correct.
This official gave the Associ-
ated Press a summary af Chiang’s
address in which he reviewed
his government’s work in the dip-
lomatic and other fields. The
Generalissimo said that China's
economy no longer is in danger
of collapse, and that he Is looking
forward confidently to Ameri-
can finiancial aid. He also stat-
ed that the Communists had been
preparing for 'war against the
government for eight years, but
that recent events had proved
that the reds could be beaten.
By this he apparently referred
to the capture of the Communist
capital of Yenan.
federalized rather
centralized.
Bidault is the only one of the
three visiting foreign ministers
to confer with Stalin. Secretary
of State George Marshall and
British Foreign Secretary Ernest I
Bevin have been in Moscow al-
most two weeks, but so far they
have not been invited to the
Kremlin to talk with Stalin.
East Texas--Fair and war-
mer in northwest, extreme
west and near lower coast,
with little change tonight
and Saturday.
Orphanage cares for baby.
SHEDDING tears of remorse, Mrs.
Irene Cox sits in Chicago's St.
Vincent's, orphanage where she
hopes to get back the baby she
left on the orphanage doorstep
seven months ago. Mrs. Cox aban-
doned the baby hoping she could
I hold the love of her common law
j husband. (I met national)
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MUNICH, March 21 UP) —
The so-called "democratic” par-
ties in Germany’s four occupation
zones have laid the groundwork
for formation into a single or-
ganization.
This has been announced after
a conference of party representa-
tives at Rothenburg, Bavaiia.
However, the allied military gov-
ernment has not yet authorized
the organization of political
parties on a nationwide basis.
The conference acted in anti-
cipation. It planned a coordinat-
ing committee for liaison among
all the factions pending ultimate
nationalization, if possible. The
regional parties represented
were Right-Wing groups opposed
to Socialism and favoring free
enterprise. The political groups,
in most cases, rank third or
fourth in strength in their res-
pective districts.
Plan of Bringing Democracy To
Germans Shaping Up in Moscow
MOSCOW; March 21 (ZP)—The
Foreign Ministers of the big four
opened the 11th session of their
historic meeting at 8:00 o’clock,
this morning. Shaping up at the
conference table was a detailed
plan for bringing democracy to
the German people.
Authorship of the plan was as-
cribed to Britain’s Foreign Sec-
SINGAPORE. (ZP)—Mrs. Lee
Choon Guan, holder of the British
M.B.E. and one of Singapore’*
most popular Chinese socialites,
will lose a monthly income equiv-
alent to $943 because she outlived
her millionaire husband by more
than 21 years.
The highest Singapore court
overruled her appeal against a
provision in her husband’s will
saying the part of the estate from
which the annuity has been paid
should be divided among his
grandchildren 21 years after his
death. ~
Mrs. Lee is well known through-
out Maldya for her numerous
charitable activities. During the
war she took part in welfare
work among British troops in
southern India. She has been dec-
orated by the British for charita-
ble work in Malaya during World
War 1.
Democratic Parties
In Germany Prepare
To Become One Unit
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WASHINGTON, March 21 (ZP)
—Undersecretary of State Dean
Acheson has bluntly stated that
the existence of Communist-dom-
inated governments any place in
the world is dangerous to the se-
curity of the United States. Ache-
son made this declaration as he
testified for the second day be-
fore the House foreign affairs
cJrnmittee on President ^Truman’s
proposal for help to Greece and
Turkey to enable them to ward
off Communist aggression.
As Acheson testified before the
Hqgise group, the Senate agricul-
ture committee heard a proposal
for a ban on shipments to Russ-
ia of all export goods still control-
led by the government. The pro-
posal was advanced by Repub-
lican Senator James Kem of Miss-
ouri. Kem raised the question of
whether farm machinery needed
by American farmers could be
shipped to Russia under an ex-
tension of presidental wartime
powers. The committee is con-
sidering the extension of such
powers to allocate domestic pro-
duction and imports.
Communism also was under
discussion in the House commit-
tee on un-American activities
Two former Communist and a
committee investigator testified
that Leon Josephson of New York
is an agent of the Soviet secret
police and the leader of a ring of
passport forgers.
Two more teams, Mt. Vernon
and Wi nfield, have been entered
in the Mt. Pleasant relay tourna-
ment set for April 4th. according
to an announcement Friday morn-
ing by W. F. (Buster) Holcomb,
chairman of a committee of lo-
cal business men who are pro-
moting the affair in cooperation
with the sponsors, the local Key
Club. This brings to ten the num-
ber of teams that will part ci-
pate in the meet.
The Mt. Pleasant Relays, in-
cludnig other track and f eld
events also, is planned as nn an-
nual affair, and an unusual amou-
nt of interest is being manifested
by nearly all the schools in this
vicinity.
“very severe” gales are expected.
The first day of spring offers
opposition to France’s desire the no immediate signs of a letup in
future German nation be loosely one of the worst weather periods
than highly ever to be suffered by England.
I In fact, even worse conditions
arc reported in the two most
critical Hood areas, the fenland
region n the east and the nqjth-
ern mining section of Bentley.
Bentley police say the water is
falling in some places, but ris-
ing in othdrs as it finds the low-
est level. In fenlands, British!
soldiers and civilian workers con-
tinue to stack more sandbags on a
dyke built to stem the swollen
Wissey river. |
However, in other areas, most
rivers are edging slowly back in-
to their channels.
Meanwhile, snows lingering
from Britain’s worst winter still
block numerous highways in the
north and in Scotland. Some
branch lines remain out of ser-
vice.
On the Square!
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (ZP).—Danc-
ers turned out in such numbers
for an old - fashioned square
dance festival that 300 applicants
were turned away and the city
recreation department, sponsor-
ing the event, had to. continue
the festival through an extra
week.
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An unusally fine program was
given at the regular meeting of
the Kiwanis Club Friday. It was
brought to the club by Coach
Homer Coody, program chair-
man of the day, and consisted of
selections by the choral club of
Booker T. Washington colored
high school, and an address by
Professor I. W. Millsap, principal
of the school.
The singers, four boys and two
girls, with another girl at the
piano, gave three spirituals:
“When I Have Done the Best I
Can”; “Hush” and “He Knows
How Much We Can Bear” and as
a result of continuous applause
they came back with “He Knows
My Heart” as an encore. The
songs showed the excellent tal-
ent and training available at the
school.
Following the music Professor
Millsap spoke on “Education of
the Negro in Mt. Pleasant,” and
in his talk he recognized a re-
cent survey that has been com-
pleted in which it was shown
that the critical age for school
children is between the ages of
7 and 11, and to combat the exist-
ing conditions in Mt. Pleasant his
school has begun a campaign
which he hopes will aid students
of that age both mentally and
physsically.
A fund-raising campaign was
started sometime ago to raise
money for the construction of an
auditorium-gymnasium for use
in connection wjith this school
activities.
Professor Millsap is recogniz-
ed as an outstanding school man,
interested in a better education
for members of his race, and
statistics shbw that fifty per cent
cf the 1946 graduates of his
school continued their education
by going to college.
EL PASO, March 21 (ZP)—There
is a conference under way today
concerning migatory farm 'work-
ers from Mexico. Up for discuss-
ion are proposed changes in a
contract, under which m gatory
farm workers from south of the
border are employed in this coun-
try. The meeting brought togeth-
er committeemen for American
employers with the U. S. im-
migration commissioner, Ugo
Carusi.
It was reported authoritatively
that individual members of farm
groups along the international
border had protested at terms
submitted by the Mexican gov-
ernment. These proposals would
regulate the employment of some
119,000 Mexican laborers, who
Carusi sa d must be returned to
Mexico for re-entry, because
they entered the United States
illegally.
Employers’ committeemen, rep-
resenting Texas, New Mexico,
Arizona and California, were
named at a closed session of farm
and livestock organization dele-
gates yesterday. They included a
representative from the lower
R o Grande Valley, A. L. Cramer
and Roland Harwell of El Paso,
Mexico.
The agreement with Mexico to
legalize the status of so-called
“wetbacks” becomes effective on
April 11th. In approving the
agreement, the Mexican govern-
ment was reported also to have
proposed certain restrictions on
pay and (working conditions for
the migatory workers.
was the highlight of committee
action on a bill for more than
one and one halt billion dollars
to finance the Labor Department
and the Federal Security Agency
for the fiscal year starting July 1.
Keefe is chairman^ of the sub-
committee which drafted the ap-
propriation bill. The Wisconsin
Republican has accused Warren
of being tied up in the past with
Communist-inspired fronts. Also
he accused the director of hav-
ing advocated the right of gov-
ernment employes to strike.
Since Keefe first made his
charges, Warren has denied ac-
knowledge of Communist spon-
sorship of the groups when he
joined them. Also, he has told
the House appropriations com-
mittee that he has changed his
mind about the right of govern-
ment workers to strike.
In addition to knocking the
financial props from under the
conciliation service, the commit-
tee reduced by almost 50 per
cent the funds asked by Presi-
dent Truman for the national
labor relations board.
The president had asked al-
most $8,000,000 for the NLRB but
the committe granted only a little
more than four million. It ex-
plained that the committee was
split over a proposal to abolish
the board on the grounds that it
had made no real contribution
to industrial peace.
Today’s bill as voted by the
committee is almost $78,000,000,
or less than five per cent, under
Mr. Trumans budget estimates.
However, the measure carries
about $366,000,000 more than
comparable appropriations for
the current fiscal year.
The fpnds recommended for
next year generally are far be-
low those for the current year,
with one outstanding exception.
The exception is an increase of
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EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (ZP).—
Standard Oil of California oper
ates at its refinery here a special
swimming pool—for fish and
seals.
The company had to build the
pool, it explained, to keep fish
which are drawn into its big sea-
water intake “from gumming up
our works.’ They’re parked in
the pond and eventually chased
back to sea.
One baby seal has been up
three times now. “He just loved
our swimming pool, or else he
hated the ocean,” Standard ex-
plained.
WASHINGTON, March 21 (ZP)
—The House ways and means
committee has approved the
Knutson bill to cut income taxes
by 30 per cent for small taxpay-
ers and toy 20 per cent for most
others. The vote was 16 to 9, one
Democrat joining the 15 commit-
tee Republicans in supporting the
legislation.
The bill is now headed for a
showdown on the House floor
next Thursday.
Before approving the measure,
the committee rejected a motion
to postpone consideration of tax-
es until Congress has a better i-
dea of our Foreign commitments.
This motion by Democratic Rep-
resentative Robert Doughton of
North Carolina was voted down.
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Jack Thomas was seriously
cut late Thursday afternoon
while assisting in the installation
of a new plate glass window at
the Titus Food Store. The large
pane suddenly collapsed and a
jagged piece struck Mr. Thomas
on the leg.
It required fourteen stitches
to close the wound.
Appropriations Committee Cuts
Heavily In Finances of Various
Functions of Labor Department
WASHINGTON, March 21 (ZP) fused to pay Warren and a num-
— The House appropriations. ber of his top aides. The decision
committee struck a financial
blow at the United States con-
ciliation service today as the
climax to a long feud between
its director, Edgar Warren, and
Representative Frank Keefe of
Wisconsin. The committee re-
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DALLAS, March 21 (ZP)—Lone
Star Steel Company officials an-
nounced today in Dallas that they
expect to ask for an extension of
time in obtaining funds with
which to purchase the vast Dain-
gerfield pig iron plant and three
Oklahoma coal mines. While ex-
presing confidence that the re-
4 quired one million dollars will be
raisyd. the Lone Star officials
said that additional time would
be needed to obtain final reports
and tabulate the results of a stock
sale.
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Lone Star’s recent $7,500,000
offer had been set at midnight
Sunday and the stock sale is con-
tinuing. The company released no
figures on the sale today.
Meanwhile, company officials
said the response to the stock sale
ha.', been gratifying. In Dallas, it
was reported, the sale progress
was described as tremendous,
Longv.ew claimed to lead in the
drive in East Text s, claiming $80,-
000 had been subscribed there,
$62,000 in Tyler, $31,000 in Dain-
gerfield and $6,500 in Marshall.
MOSCOW, March 21 (ZP) —
French Foreign Minister Georges
Bidault has disclosed in a talk
w'ith French newsmen that his
90-minute talk with Soviet
Premier Stalin last Monday dealt
with differences between France try forecast sporadic rains
and Russia concerning Ger- mOst ot the hat on, and it says
many’s future.
Bidault says Stalin expressed
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J. Travis Jackson, chairman of
the training committee for Boy
Scouts of Titus County, an-
nounces a training course for
Cub Scouts will start Monday
night, March 31. This course will
be conducted for cubmasters and
assistants, pack committeemen,
den mothers, den chiefs and par-
ents of the cubs.
The course will include train-
ing for conducting den and pack
meetings, games and activities,
handicraft, advancement and
other subjects relating to pack
operations.
Officers who will take part in
this training course are Tom B.
Coker, Allen Wilhite, J. A. Petty,
B. M. Sandlin, Dr. L. C. Mc-
Cauley, Paul Harbour, George
Gilpin, Adrian Green, Bryan
Reeves, Ewell McClinton, Mrs.
T. R. Florey Jr., Mrs. H. B. Chris-
tensen, Mrs. R. L. Martin, Mrs.
Cecil Campbell, Mrs.—Allen Wil-
hite, Mrs. Claude Patterson, Mrs.
Louise Williams, Mrs. Bob Con-
roy, Charles Henry Meyer, Larry
McGuire, Charles Dan Coker,
Charles Smith, Claude Alexan-
der, Jimmy Reaves and Jimmy
Austin.
Location for the course will be
announced later.
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Reduction German
Steel Shipments To
Russia Is Ordered
BERLIN, Marcl 21 (ZP)—Au-
thorities in the Britisn and
American zones in Germany have
ordered a sharp ^auction in the
shipments of .German iron and
Steel to tbs-'Russian zone and are
considering a total embargo. A
Jnnt British-American announce-
^ment says this step has been tak-
en because Soviet zone has fail-
ed to fulfill the terms of a trade
agreement.
The Russian zone is lagging far
behind its commitments under the
agreement with the combined
American-British zone to deliver
foodstuffs and various other ma-
terials in exchange for steel and
iron. The statement adds that on
the other hand deliveries of steel
and iron have fulfilled 85 percent
of' the British-American com-
mitment.
There is a report from Minden,
Germany, that an embargo alrea-
dy has been placed on all ship-
ments of iron and steel and their
products to the Russian zone.
But this report could not be con-
firmed officially at once.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky., March 21
(ZP) — The CIO Auto Workers
Union formally has asked Gen-
eral Motors for a pay paise of
23 ‘/ic an hour for about 225,000
GM production workers. Accord-
ing to the union, the proposed in-
crease would bring the average
wage of production workers to
$1.56'4i an hour and it would cost
the corporation about $2,115,000
a week.
The union asked General Mo-
tors to grant the increase effec-
tive as of March 19th, although
the present contract provides
that no wage increase can be
put into effect before May 31,
with out the consent of both
parties.
fn addition to the request for
a wage bobst, the union also de-
manded equal pay for equal
work, which involves an equal-
ization fund to adjust wage rates.
Another demand was for a re-
tirement fund to be financed by
the employer, which would in-
clude death and survivor bene-
fits, and provide for sickness,
disability, etc. The union futher
asked that General Motors fin-
ance a retirement program which
would supplement federal social
security provisions. Also includ-
ed were demands for a guaran-
teed 40-hotir week and the ad-
justment of vacation clauses in
the present contract.
Mt. Pleasant, Texas,
Fine Program Given
I Al Kiwanis luncheon I
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MANILA, March 21 (ZP)—A
five-year military assistance
pact has been signed between the
Philippine government and the
United States. The agreement
makes U. S. arms, munitions, tech
nical advice and training avail-
able to the Philippines and com-
pletes a recent pact providing
American bases in the islands.
In effect, the military agreement
makes the new republ c an in-
tegral pert of United States’ de-
fense plans in the western Pacific.
The document was signed to-
day by Philippine President Man-
uel Roxas and American Ambass-
ador Paul McNutt. McNutt says
the pact binds America to aid
and assist national dafensp for-
ces of the Ph lippines without
exacting a single obligation on
the part of the Philippine govern-
ment. He explained: “The agree-
ment completes the framework
of intimate cooperation between
our two countries and establish-
es a pattern unprecedented in
h story.”
Signing of the treaty is the last
official act McNutt will proform
as Ambasador to the island gov-
ernment. He will leave for the
United States tomorrow by 'way
of Europe.
However, there still is work to
be done in regards to the mili-
tary pact. A series of conferences
is expected to be held between
Filipino officials and an Ameri-
can military mission. Their Job
will be to coordinate the Philip-
pine plan with the overall Paci-
fic pattern.
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