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VOLUME XXVIII
NUMBER 280
Member Associated Press
Mt. Pleasant, Texas, Monday Evening, March 24, 194*
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Death Comes To Mrs.
Ella Rosalee Moss
On Friday Evening
Mounfbatten Takes
Over Interim Dufies
As Viceroy of India
American Proposal
British Cede Cyprus
To Greece Rejected
In Conspiracy Case
Acquittal By Jury
Mrs. Lizzie Marfin
Succumbs Friday Al
Home of Daughter
Resident of Maple
Springs Is Buried
Saturday Afternoon
April Oil Proration
Order Will Permit
Supplying Demands
Final Rites Held
At Center Grove
Church on Sunday
To Begin Soliciting
Contributions Soon
For Such Purpose
Services Concord
Cemetery in Morris
County Saturday
seized
early
East Texas—Fair and cool-
er tonight. Tuesday fair and
cooler in extreme south por-
tion.
Lone Star Agrees
To Terms Eg WAA
To Lease Plant
Mt. Pleasant weather for
the past 24 hours recorded /
by Bill Lyle at the filter
plant is as follows:
Maximum .
Minimum
Temp. 7:30
Sky ------------
Rainfall .....
Construction Nylon
Plant At Orange Is—
Held Up By Strikers
ORANGE, March 24 UP) — An-
other cloud has dakened the la-
bor scene at the huge Dupont
nylon plant being built in the
jUt pleasant Jailjr
that members of non-striking raised in a short while to finance;
unions at the Dupont nylon plant
construction job would be in-
structed to disregard the pickets.
Senate Democrats
May Block Income
Tax Cuts For While
Twenty Boys Named Federal Judge Gels
On Track Team For
Relay Tournament
the question of American aid to
the Balkans would figure at the
parley.
The invitations went out to the
foOr Republicans and Two Demo-
crats who comprise the "big six”
on Capitol Hill. They are Sena-
tors Arthur Vandenburg and
Wallace White and Representa-
tives Joe Martin and Charles
Halleck in the Republican Camp
and Senator Alben Barkley and
Representative Sam Rayburn of
of the Democratic party.
It was also disclosed at the
White House today that Mr. Tru-
man will hold a news conference
at 10:30 a. m. on Wednesday.
Legion To Conduct
Campaign to Raise
Money For Building
East Indian Court
Uphold Confiscation
Cargo of U. S. Vessel
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Temple Lodge No. 70 will hold
its stated meeting at the Masonic
Hall Tuesday night, with con-
siderable business scheduled. J.!
D. Sawyer, W. M.
WASHINGTON, March 24 UP)
—Senate Democrats may try to
block any <*ut in income taxes
until Congress learns how much
it will cost to run the government
for the fiscal year beginning July
1st.
The ranking Democrats on the
Senate finance committee. Sena-
tor Walter George of Georgia,
has expected that if the House ap-
proves a tax reduction measure
as expected this week, the bill
will face delay in the Senate.
House Republ cans are backing
a measure to cut income taxes
thirty per cent for persons in law
income groups and twenty per
ent for almost everyone else.
There is some doubt whether
the minority Democrats in the
Senate can win enough Republi-
can support to carry out their
plan to delay action of the tax
reduction measure.
the main power plant for the
London underground, or subway,
and the electricity was cut off
along some 40 miles of track.
Hundreds of subway trains stop-
ped running. The tie-up came at
the start of the morning rush
hour.
The possibility of applying for
another dollar loan was a lively
topic of discussion in labor party
circles, but so far the govern-
ment itself hasn’t had a word to
say on the subject.
The American loan to Britain,
negotiated last year, totaled near-
ly four billion dollars. Of this
sum, almost one billion dollars
has been spent.
of the International Office of
Boiler Makers.
A members of the Sabine area 1 ing was too good for.our boys and
building trades council express- girls in service, and it is hoped
ed the opinion that the strike this spirit has not departed from
may be declared an <
late this week.
The head of the New York
shipping firm, Hans Isbandtsen,
is said to have rejected a Dutch
offer to let the Martin Behrman
leave Batavia with a duplicate
cargo. Isbandtsen is quoted as
saying the offer steeles nothing.
Coach Homer Coody announc-
ed Monday morning that twenty
boys have signed up for partici-
pation in th track meet and re-
lay tournament scheduled at the
high school stadium on April 4th.
They have been in training for
several days but have not gotten
in perfect shape, yet, because of
the recent bad weather.
Coody stated that he does not
expect to have individual sprint
and weight stars, but is pinning
his hopes on a well-rounded track
team. Nine other teams have al-
ready been entered in the tourna-
ment, which will begin at 2:30 o’-
clock in the afternoon, with finals
taking place that night under te
lights.
Members of Coody’s squad in-
clude:
Roy Trice, Sam Willson, Billy
Jeff Petty, Gene Legg, ID. S.
Lunsford, Buell Andrews, Bobby
Camp, Larry Lamb, Bob Brown,
Calvin Rains, Norman Harrell,
Billy Clark, Gene White, Paul
Davis, Donald Blackstone, Burt
Rust, Jack Chastain, Charles Hen-
ry Meyer, Tommy Stone and Jack
Cooper.
gatherings. Activities of the focal
National Guard unit and the Le-
ac-
commodated under the plans now
Funeral services were held at
Center Gjove church, east of Mt.
Pleasant, at 2:00 o’clock Sunday
afternoon, for Mrs. Ella Rosalee
Moss, elderly resident of that
community, who passed away at
8:20 Friday evening. Her death
was attributed to the infirmities
of age, as she had recently cele-
brated her 84th birthday.
Deceased had lived in Titus
County for the past 26 years, and
during that time had endeared
herself to a wide circle of devot-
ed friends.
Mrs. Moss' is survived by one
son, J. B. Moss of Mt. Pleasant,
and eight grandchildren, as well
ts a number of.neices and nep-
hews.
The services were under the di-
rection of Rev. M. M. Pate, and
the body (was laid to rest in the
Roper cemetery, southwest of Mt.
Pleasant, with the following act-
ing as pallbearers:
Vester Derrick, Tommie Rey-
nolds, Floyd Lunsford, Marcus
Moss, John Moss, Virgil Moss
and Bertie Moss.
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Mrs. Lizzie McCord Martin,
resident of this county for 42
years, but lately of Omaha, pass-
ed away at the home of a daugh-
ter, Mrs. Pearl Dale, at Omaha,
Friday. Death came at the age of
82.
Mrs. Martin moved to the home
of her daughter about two years
ago. She was widely known
throughout the eastern part of
Titus County, and enjoyed the
respect and esteem of a wide
circle of friends.
Survnig are one son, Jim Mar-
tin of Cookville; four daughters,
Mrs. Dale, Mrs. Joe Taylor and
Mrs. Mattie Moore of Omaha, and
Mrs. M. S. Smelser of Tahoka, and
two sisters, Mrs. Allie Jarnagin of
Corinth, Miss., and Mrs. Katie
Jarnagin of Scottsboro, Ala. Four-
teen grandchildren and six great-
grandchildren also survive.
Funeral services were held Sat-
urday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock at
Concord church, in Morris Coun-
ty, under the direction of Rev. J;
D. Weaver and Rev. A. J. Find-
ley, both of Omaha. Burial was
in the nearby cemetery.
NANKING, March 24 (>P) —
A week-long session of the Chin-
ese Kuomintang ended today
with the issuance of a manifesto
aimed at the Chinese Commu-
nists. The party of Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-Shek reiterated its
determination to stamp out Com-
munists as what it called ‘the
greatest obstacle to national
unity and enforcement of the
Constitution.”
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AUSTIN, March 24 UP)—April
proration order designed to fill an
“all thne-high demand” for Tex-
as crude oil has been issued by
the Texas Railroad Commission.
The order would permit the pro-
duction of 2,186,000 barrels of
Texas crude oil per day next
month.
The production figure for all
petroleum 1 quids, including dis-
tillates and natural gasoline, was
set at 2,374,000 barrels per day.
In announcing the April pro-
ration order, railroad commis-
sion chairman Ernest Thompson
issued this statement: "Luckily,
by reason of Texas’ wise legis-
lation the past 15 or 16 years,
Texas can eas ly fill this all time
high demand for crude oil.”
Thompson said the railroad
commission had taken cogniz-
ance of the fact that there will be
less oil produced in the Seelig-
son field because of the recent
restrictive order on that field.
Accordingly, Thompson said, the
commission made other oil avail-
able to meet the market demand
for Texas crude.
WASHINGTON, March 24
UP) — The Lone Star Steel
Company notified the War
Assets Administration today
that it has agreed to the
agency’s terms for taking over
the Daingerfield pig iron
plant and related coal mines
in Oklahoma. The company
said it expects to have the
necessary funds to comply
with WAA’S terms within ten
days.
Under the agreement, Lone
Star is to lease the plant for
five years
Mrs. Millie Wilson
Passes Away From
Lingering Illness
HARRISBURG, Penn. March
24 (ZP) — A jury of nine men and
three women acquitted formeY
Federal Judge Albert W. John-
son today on a conspiracy
charge. Johnson was acquitted in
the same court over which he
presided for more than 20 years.
The jury also acquitted the ex-
judge’s son, Captain Albert John-
son, Jr., and convicted two other
sons, Donald M. and Miller A.
Johnson. Two other persons,
John Memolo and Jacob Greenes,
both of Scranton, also were
acquited.
The jury returned its verdict
this morning almost 44 hours af-
„er receiving the case.
Truman Calls Congress Leaders
To Unprecedented Night Meet
WASHINGTON, March 24 (/P)'
— Rumors were a dime a dozen
in the capital today as President
Truman summoned the so-called
“big six’’ leaders in Congress to
a night meeting at the White
house. They’ll confer with the
president in the executive man-
sion tonight at 8.00 o'clock,
No reason has been given for
the unprecedented night confer-
ence. ^Vhite House Secretary
Charles Ross explained that the
meeting had originally been set
for this morning, But that this
time the six Congressmen pre-
ferred to meet at night. Ross de-
clined to confirm or deny that
Additional Floods Threatening
Food Shortage To British People
LONDON, March 24 (TP) —
Floods continued to rise in Eng-
land today, and there was talk
about • the possibility of another
American loan to save the Brit-
ish from starvation.
The question of borrowing
more from Uncle Sam was raised
as harried Britishers surveyed
the latest flood damage.” Thous-
ands cf acres of prime farm
land were under water in Eng-
land and Wales and everything’
pointed to the likelihood of a
serious food shortage.
The flood menace came home”
with vivid reality to Londoners
this morning. Water inundated
struction of a building that wilL
be a credit to the community.
Plans call for an auditorium 60x
80, with a 20-foot stage, which'
| would be available for public
Details Proposed Cash Advance
Greece, Turkey Given Congress
WASHINGTON, March 24 (?P)4>----------------------------
■—Undersecretary of State Will
Clayton went to Capitol hill to-
day to give details of the pro-
posed American loan to Greece
and Turkey.
Clayton, in prepared testimony
for the House foreign affairs com-
mittee, said that practically all of
the proposed $400,000 000 cre-
dit will go into military expendi-
tures in the two Mediterranean
countries. Only $150,000,000 in the
program to ward off Communist
domination, says Clayton, will go
into other items.
The State Department official
explained that such a ratio was
necessary because the national
independence and military effect-
iveness of Greece and Turkey
must be assured before they can
achieve economic rehabilitation
and financial stability.
Clayton, who is in charge of the
department’s economic affairs,
broke down the loan this way:
Three hundred million dollars
will go to the Greeks. Of that
sum, $150,000,000 will be used for
strictly military purposes, $130,-
000,000 will go into reconstruc-
tion of the country’s communica-
tions and the stabilization of its
foreign exchange costs and $20,-
000,000 will be put into its deplet-
ed agriculture.
Turkey, according to Clayton,
is slated for $100,600,000 all of it
to go into equipment for the
Turkish railway system, which
is essential to maintaining secur-
ity.
Incidentally, Clacton reveal-
ed for the first time the amount
of another wad of money which
has been earmarked for Greece
in a separate spending measure
before Congress. That measure is
the $350,000,000 foreign relief bill
under which, Clayton disclosed,
Greece would get $50,000,000. The
House foreign relations commit-
tee last week approved this post-
UNRRA program in which Italy,
Hungary, Austria, Poland and
China also will share. .The mea-
sure may reach the House floor
within a few days.
BATAVIA, Java, March 24 UP)
- A judge of the Dutch land
court today confirmed confisca-
tion by the Netherlands East
i Indies government of the cargo
of the United States liberty ship
Martin Behrman.
The government
$300,000,000 cargo
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Acheson Says Plans For Aiding
Greece, Turkey Do Nof Include
Use of American Armed Forces
WASHINGTON, March 24 (ZF*>
— Acting Secretary of State
Dean Acheson told the Senate
foreeign relations committee to-
day that American plans for
bulwarking Greece and Turkey
against Communism do not in-
clude the dispatch of American
troops to those two nations.
Acheson said firmly and flatly
in the statement prepared for the
Senators that the United States
has not been asked to send troops,
and he added:
“We do not foresee any need to *
do so, and we do not intend to do>
so.”
Acheson repeated a statement
he made last week before the
House foreign affairs committee,
that he did not believe the Greek-
Turkish aid program would lead
to war. Said Acheson: •
“I think that quite the opposite
is true. These proposals are de-
signed to increase the stability of
two countries most important to
the world community. These are
not acts which lead to war. they
lead in the other direction.”
Acheson emphasized to the
Senators that there are no un-
derstandings ’ with Greece and
Turkey, oral or otherwise, that
any United States Troops will be
sent to either of those two coun-
tries.
In fact, said the feting secre-
tary of State, the military mis-*
sions to Greece and Turkey will
be small ones. Acheson said the
task of these missions probably «.
will be to find out what kind o?
iniliatry equipment is needed by
the Greeks tnd Turks.
The mission will consist only
of observers and advisers. Ache-
son said their mission will be to
see that whatever military equip-
ment the United States sends to
Greece and Turkey is delivered
into the hands of proper authori-
ties.
Acheson did not attempt in his
prepared statement to answer
the more than 125 questions
which Republican Senator Arth-
U. S. AMBASSADOR to Turkey.
Edwin Wilson, arrives at LaGuar-
dia Field, N. Y., on his way to
Washington and conferences with
the State department and Presi-
dent Truman on proposed aid for
Middle East. (International)
LONDON, March 24 (/P)—Bri-
tish spokesmen have reacted with
“surprise and disappointment” to
an American proposal that Bri-
tain cede the island of Cyprus jo
Greece.
One official who refused to be
identified, made th s comment:
“It wil be a relief to all of us
when some people in the United
States overcome their tendency
to be so liberal with territory
that does not belong to them.”
A foreign office spokesman in
London asserted: “British policy
in regard to Cyprus is plain. It
has been stated previously.”
Many times in the past Britain
has refused to change the island’s
status—saying that it 'aas an im-
portant guardian of her imperial
lifeline. Originally, Cyprus was
colonized by the ancient Greeks.
It first came into British hands
when King Richard the L on-
hearted conquered it in the year
1191. Cyprus passed from one na-
tion to another after that until in
1941 it was formally annexed to
the British empire.
The Greek government, says a
London official, is known to fav-
or a union with the island but has
never requested the British to
cons’der the move. Not*’ that the
United States has urged that the
island be given to Greece the
British have expressed mild in-
dignation. However, the foreign
office says that any American
views on the matter conveyed to
London will receive normal con-
sideration.
The focal post of the American
Legion plans to start a campaign 1
in the near future to raise funds
for the erection of a nelA build ngi
on their site adjacent to the fair:
grounds in the north part of town, j
The building committee has de- ■
cided to solicit contributions
from Mt Pleasant citizens to raise I
| approximately $12,500, to be add-
led to a similar amount the Legion __
I now has on hand, for the con- ‘
Orange area of Southeast Texas, j
Members of the AFL boiler
makers local threw up , picket
lines around the construction ■
work this morning and the rpem- ‘
bers of the other unions honored
the picket lines, halting work at gjon Auxiliary would also be
the
this
month on grounds that it had
been loaded at the Indonesian
Republican port of Cheribon in
defiance of Dutch export regula-
tions. The cargo included rubber,
cinchona bark and sisal fiber.
Judge M. L. Swaab ordered the
master of the Martin Behrman,
Captain Rudy Gray, to pay the
costs of the legal proceedings.
The ship is operated be the Is-
brandtsen Company of New
York.
The court clerk says the judg-
ment directs Gray to hand over
I the vessel’s cargo to the N. E. I.
outlaw I those who made such assertions government at
MOSCOW, March 24 (ZP) —
Secreatry of State George Mar-
shall is quoted to day as urging
a cut in the number of allied
forces in Germany.
It’s understood that Marshall’s
views are now being circulated
among the other top statesmen
of the big four in Moscow. His
proposal is to reduce the number
of occupation troops in the Reich
to the minimum required for
carrying out allied policies.
Under Marshall’s plans, the
allied control council in Berlin
would be directed to report by
next June what forces it con-
sidered necessary for each of the
four occupation zones. A similar
estimate would be made for the
following year.
Marshall argues that a reduc-
tion of forces and occupation
costs is necessary to make the
German economy self-support-
ing as soon as possible.
NEW DELHI, India. March 24
(ZP)—Admiral Lord Louis Mount-
batten was sworn in today as
viceroy of India, a post he is ex-
pected to hold for just little more
than a year.
Moun'^iatten himslelf pointed
up the "interim” nature of his
office by urging cooperation to
solve India’s problems in the
shortest possible time. The Bri-
tish plan t pull out of India in
June, 1948..
Attempts so far to establish an
Indian government have been
marked by bitter warfare between
the subcontinent’s Hindus and
Moslems. Mountbatten urged to-
day that everyone in India avoid
words or actions which might
lead to further bitterness and vio-
lence. r A
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FROM FILM installed in a V-2 rocket launched at White Sands, N. M.,
this photo shows appearance of the earth from an altitude of 100
miles. More than 200,000 square miles of the United States and
Mexico are included in the picture. (International Soundphoto)
U. S., Britain Promise To Reveal
Agreements At Yalta, Potsdam
■---❖ LONDON, Marqh 24 UP)—Bri-
tain has joined the United,States
n promising to give me world
the full story of what happened
at the big three meetings at
Potsdam and Yalta. ________ ____ _______,
British Minister of State HW*| and Leonard Banks,
tor McNeil said today that his
government will publish the com-
plete Yalta and Potsdam agree-
ments. He said the text will in-
clude the big three decis on on
the use of German labor as re-
parations.
Laborites in the House of Com-
mons immediately protested that
they have been under the impres-
sion there were no secret agree-
ments at Yalta. McNeil replied
that he couid speak only for the
British government, and not for
the government of Winston
Churchill, who attended the Yal-
ta parley.
Mrs. Millie Ann Wilson, widow
of the late John Wilson, passed
away at her home near Maple
Springs at 3:00 o’clock Friday
afternoon from the effects of an
illness that had continued over
a period of several weeks.
Mrs. Wilson was 63 years of
age and had made her home in
the north part of the county for
many years, during which time
she held the respect of all who
knew her. She was a native of
the county.
Her survivors include one son,
Clifford Wilson of this county;
. two sisters, Mrs. Ulman Brown of
Waco and Mrs. Barber Alien, and
l*o brothers, Rev. Don Rogers
l»*and Ad S. Rogers, all of Titus
County.
Funeral services were held at
Gladewater church at 2:30 o’-
clock Saturday afteroon under the
direction of Rev. I. E. Driggers
and Rev. M .M. Pate. Burial was
in the adjoining cemetery.
Pallbearers included Burx Red-
fearn, Paul Rogers, Charles Rob-
ertson, Leo Wilson, Louis Wilson
plant. They’re waiting the out-
come of the meeting this morn-; country during the 1
ing between representatives of wars and also furnish a meeting
the boiler makers union, two place and recreation for those
building trades councils, the who gained the great victories
Sabine Area Council and officials over our enemies.
It was frequently said while
the war was in progress that noth-
the huge construction project.
An estimated two thousand! outlined.
men are idle and milling in an, Such a building would be ebn-
orderly fashion at the gate of the sidere<j as a memorial to the men
who gave their lives for their
two world
Marshall Is Urging
Reduction of Allied
Forces In Germany
once. Unloading
strike. This would mean, he said, and that enough money will be ‘of the Eh;p began ten days ago
of pnn-strikine raised in a short while to finance1 an^ i® expected to be finished
the construction of this new build-
ing for the benefit of those whe
came back home.
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