Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 25, 1942 Page: 1 of 4
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Working for the Interests of Mt Pleasant, the center of thv Milk Industry X Northeast Texas, with its Progress!™ Soil ConaervaHou and Diversified Fanning Program
Volume XXIV
Mount Pleasant. T*xas. Wednesday Evening, March 25. 1942
Number 10
Gen. MacArthur is Greeted in Australia
Interscholastic
Kiwanis Club Will
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Japs Trap Chinese
Force in Burma in
Invasion to North
Japanese Soon to
Loss of Life For
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Strike in Siberia
Germans Recently Might Be Limited
which
We have been informed from
the
of
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A total of twelve tons of high
County This Year
The Weather
Egypt,
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Sponsor Drive to
Get Vital Material
Jap Attacks North Navy Reveals Big
Of Australia Are Victory Over Japs
Being Slowed Down On Pacific Islands
Final Report of
Cotton Ginned in
Curtin Says Plans
For Big Offensive
Growing Steadily
Raids Destroy All
Installations on
Wake and Marcus
Fierce Land Battle
is Reported Near
ToungooWednsday
Attack Will Be to
Relieve Pressure
On German Forces
Reported Plans to
Locate Employees
Within Two Miles
Voters Are Asked
To Bring Material
to Voting Places
A report from New Delhi, In-
dia, Wednesday reported a thou-
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CORREGIDOR IS AGAIN HIT
IN JAPANESE AERIAL RAIDS
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Cloudy
Maximum -----
Minimum
. ,Temp. 6:30
Wind from
Sky
League Meet Will Jfe, 1
Begin on Friday
Reds Announce Big Housing Priorities
Around Iron Plant
With exploding mines as a touch of added realism, troops of the
Ninth Division practice landing maneuvers at Fort Bragg, N. C.,
in readiness for the day when they will land on an enemy’s shores.
They use rubber boats to make their way from transports to the
beach.
3,010 Bales Are
Processed Here
From 1941 Crop
INDIAN LEADERS CALLED
TO NEW DELHI WEDNESDAY
High British officials are of
the opinion Japan is preparing
to strike at Russia’s Siberian
territory as soon as the weather
permits, according to a report is-
sued Wednesday in London.
The big base at. Vladivostok is
only a short distance from the big
Japanese cities, and fear that
Russia will allow American
planes to operate from that port
to bomb the flimsy town on the
islands and the big naval bases
will prompt the attack, accord-
ing to British experts. It was
pointed out that the Japs are
using only a small part of their
land forces in the south, and are
reportedly massing millions of
nen in Manchukuc.
weakest ra d yet staged, tut a
reconnaissance pUoo was i
over Rathe ine, sertheejt c? Dar- nn-’inni.r. bc,
win, and it is expect' d the ene- MARRIED TO AUSTIN
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Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Badt of
Dallas arrived Tuesday for a
short visit with Mrs. J. M. Badt.
Mrs. Badt accompanied them
home Wednesday for a visit.
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Admitting Hitler has sent 600,-
000 reserves into the fighting on
th$ Russian front, Moscow claim-
ed Wednesday that the Ger-
mans have lost approximately
one-fourth this number ip killed
Justice of the Peace Charles
W. Robinson performed the cere-
mony at 3:30 o’clock Tuesday af-
ternoon that united in marriage
Miss Thelma Biggs, formerly of
Oklahoma, to Owen R. Metcalf
of Beaumont. The wedding took
place in the office of the Justice
of the Peace in the presence of
only a few witnesses.
Mr. and Ivlis. Meicalx will
make their home in Beaumont
where he has a position as wel-
der in a defense project.
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Mrs. Roy Smith of DeLeon re- '1941. He is now stationed at
turned to her home Wednesday : Camp Wolters, Mineral Wells. Af-
after a visit with her sister. Mrs.
Ed Holcomb, and other relatives.
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Fee It THROUGH In Forty Two!
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Claim 140,000 Are
Slain During Seven
Weeks of Fighting
411WS
The island fortress of Corregi-
dcr was attacked again Wednes-
day by a wave of 27 Japanese
planes, but like other attacks,
little damage was said to have
been inflicted on the huge rock
at tire entrance of Manilla Bay.
General Wainwright reported
there were some activities on the
island of Mindanao, with several
skirmishes taking place between
the Americans and Japs.
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MARRIED AT COURT HOUSE
ON TUESDAY AFTERNOON
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This photo radioed from Melbourne, Australia, to London, thence to the U. S., shows Gen. Douglas
MacArthur being greeted by various officers of the United Nation; :p:r. hi: arrival :r. Au=tr-’!
He made the trip with his wife and son and members of hs staff in a hazardous manner, riding i
speedboats from beleagured Batan Peninsula to a rendezvous with Army bombers which flew them
scheduled to be played at the
l fair grounds, provided permis-
•ns upon his arrival in Australia. si°n may be obtained to use that
in a hn7drrtctic monnn- i-irlinr* 1 place.
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the rest cf the way. In Australia he will assume command of ail United Nations forces in the pacific.
Will Take Some
Time to Complete
All of the Events
| James V. Adams, director-gen-
eral of the Interscholastic League
in Titus County, stated Wednes-
I jday afternoon that the annual
'County meet would begin on Fri-
! j day of this week, but that con-
siderable time would be required
| to complete all the tvents.
According to Adams, only two
(sports events have been sched-
lules for this year. Those being
j softball and volleyball. Other
j sports may be participated in
should individuals desire to qual-
ify for entry in the District, play-
off, but no county credit would
! be given.
( Only softball will be conduct-
led next Friday, with the games
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home
Wednesday after a month’s vis-
it with her sister, Mrs. Lisso
Smith.
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along the fighting front.
The Reds are continuing to ad-
vance slowly in the face of the
fiercest German opposition, the
statement said, and they have
now entered the outskirts of a
“great locality" on the southern
front. This place could be either
Kharkov, where the Russians
have been closing in for some |
time, or Stalino, big steel center I
to the southeast.
Russian forces still hold the
initiative in this campaign, ac-
cording to the Moscow dispatch,
and this is admitted in Berlin,
where it was officially stated
the Nazis have repulsed strong
attacks at a number of places,
with special emphasis being
placed on the fighting in the Cri-
mea.
Russian forces have driven the
Nazis out of a number of strong
positions in the Donets Basin, it
was stated, and new |
occurred . civilian clothes, had infiltrated
1 past the Chinese lines north of
Toungoo in Central Burma, and
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A final report of the num-
ber of bales of cotton ginned in
Titus County from the 1941 crop
was made Wednesday by W. H.
Lee, special agent for the Bureau
of the Census, Department of
Commerce, at Washington, D. C.
His report showed a total of on-
ly 3,019 bales.
In comparing the 1941 harvest
with that of 1940, Mr. Lee stated
that last season’s total was less
than a third of 1940. when a
total of 9,624 bales we e ginned’,
showing a decrease of 6.614 bales.
The shortage of cotton in Ti-
tus County dunag 1941 was at-
tributed to the unusually wet
grt,win" season and the heavy
infestation of the fields by l*oll
j weevils and leaf worms, which
destroyed the crop before it
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The Navy Department on
Wednesday announced two big uiu, ncunesuay reponeu a mou-
victories over the Japs in sep- sand Japanese, some dressed in
<t. PI pr Rant wear nt r eon for tr»
prv'rioa* 24 hour*, takrn at thia morn
i’ll by Charles Cokev. loeal
torrtr. ara fnlJowa
on its location will be made
short while. Directors of the
gains” hive ! °PeratinK corporation are now
been made in the direction* of busv arranging details of fi-
'■’Tiolcnek, chief ■cbjectivA of thei1
Soviet armies.
Moscow also reported desultory |
fighting has broken out between .
the Hungarians and the Rouman- 1
ians in Transylvania. The skir- 1
mishes are a result of a border
dispute which may tax Hitler
heavily to keep down.
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Miss Virginia Goldsby
Mansfield, La., returned
arate actions
some time ago.
All military installations on
Marcus Island, only 960 miles I that a fierce battle was in pro-
from Tokyo, were destroyed on
March 4th, when warships and
planes attacked the fortifications
in a surprise raid. Over two hun-
dred heavy bombs were dropped
in this attack, it was said.
On February 24 th, another
naval squadron struck at Wake
Island, one cf the American bas-
es which was captured by the
Japs soon after the sneak attack
on Pearl Harbor! Ninety-six j
bombs were dropped on Wake, in i
what was . addition to the shells of the
originally expected at this time. (naval units.
The Japs attacked Po:: Mores-
It was reported Wednesday,
from New Delhi that the lead-
ers of the All-lndia Congress
have been called for a session to
hear the proposals of Sir Staf-
ford Cripps for complete coop-
eration in the war effort to re-
sis* a Japanese invasion.
Leaders of the Moslem League
are also in conference for a dis-
cussion of their attitude toward
Britain in the present crisis.
The New Delhi report said
there is every indication a satis-
factory agreement can be reach'
ed.
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■ Pig skin, one cf the more easr
ily identified types of leather, is
Often used for. upholstery and
even for walls.
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The mounting dove is the only
game bird in the United States
that breeds in every state.
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The lamb crop of 1941 was the could mature.
argest on record. . ———V--
________v The Coslem university of AI-
"The spiff bar,’* in army nlang Azhar, in Cairo, Egypt, was
is the local beer garden. founded in 970.
On Thursday, April 2nd, the
volleyball matches will be stag-
ed at the local gymnasium.
On Friday night, at the west
ward school auditorium, contests
will be held in all classes of dec-
lamation. The remainder of the
literary events will take place
the fallowing Saturday at the
high school building.
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Britain Believes
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gress as the Chinese, under com-
mand of the American General
Stilwell, were attempting a
breakthrough.
The railroad running in the ii-
rection of Mandalay has been
cut by the advancing Japs, it
was said.
It was also announced the Jap-
anese have now occupied 'the
Andaman Islands in the Bay cf
Bengal, only 650 miles from Cal-
cutta, and a likely base far an
invasion of India. These islands
were voluntarily evacuated by
the British forces a short while
ago.
United Nations planes were re-
sponsible for the destruction of
forty Jbp planes at an air base
in Thailand Tuesday, according
to British reports.
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Tells of Sinking
7^’ $
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L'apt. Sigmund Schutz
Capt. Sigmund Schulz, above, of
Staten Island, N. Y. is pictured
above as he told in Norfolk, Va.,
of the torpedoing and sinking of
hla merchant vessel off the At-
lantic coast. Sixteen member* of
the crew were lo«t.
At a meeting of the board of
directors of the Kiwanis Club,
held at the conclusion of the reg-
ular session at noon Wednesday,
the members voted to conduct a
drive to secure vital war mater-
ials for use by the government.
The drives will be made in con-
nection with the three principal
elections this year.
Every voter in Titus County
will be asked to cooperate fully
in the plan and to do his or her
part in making the drive as suc-
cessful as possible. The proced-
ure will be very simple, yet many
hundreds of pounds of material
necessary to winning the war can
be secured.
The plan, roughly, is this:
There will be three major elec-
tions in this county this year, as-
well as three others. The first
three included the first and sec-
ond Democratic primaries and the
general state election in Novem-
ber. The minor elections will in-
clude the school elections and
city elections in Mt. Pleasant
and at Talco. On each of those
days the Kiwanis Club will ask
that every voter bring with him
to the polls some articles that
can be used in war production,
notably a piece of scrap iron,
empty shaving cream or tooth-
paste tube, a piece of aluminum,
a wornout automobile tire, a pair
of wornout rubber boots, or any
other article of this nature.
Receptacles will be installed
at each ci the voting places and
the voter has only to place his
article with others that will be
left there.
Since the war that we are
fighting today is far the purpose
of preserving Democracy, and
jsince Titus County has always
been Democratic in every way,
the Kiwanians believe that: no
voter here will object to paying
two sources that there is a plan for the privilege of voting, with
being studied for limitation of something that might bring this
construction of homes for em- war to a quicker end.
ployees of the proposed blast i The above plan will be adver-
furnace at Daingerfield to a lo-pised to the fullest extent before
since February 5th in the battles cation within not more than two each election and all voters are
miles of the structure. One re-; ing publication of this citation once
port is that a bill is to be intro- i appreciation of this effort by
duced in Congress to this effect. ' cooperating in the drive to the
Should this plan be put into fullest extent.
effect, there would be no pri- j
orities on building materials'
available for construction work-
ers living in nearby towns, and
they would receive no benefits
from the new industry until af-
ter the war is over and manuiac-
|ture of automobiles and tires is
resumed.
On the other hand, it has beer
stated reliably that a housing in-
spector is due to arrive in Mt.
Pleasant soon to make a survey
of this city with a view of hav-
ing it included in the defense
area of the Daingerfield plant.
Engineers are now making
tests for foundations of the big
plant, and it is expected a decis-
]ion
| in a
busy arranging details of
nancing the structure, and hope
to have the sale of b«nds vi de-
bentures finished soon.
Construction of the first unit
of the plant, a blast furnace, is
expected to require at least four-
teen months.
Melbourne reported Wednes-
day a cdnsiderable slowing
down of Japanese activities for
control of the approaches to
Australia, and Prime Minister
Curtin announced that although
the danger of an invasion of Aus-
tralia is not yet over, the plans
far throwing back such attacks
are growing steadily and are be-
ing increased far an ultimate of-
fensive from the continent.
Curtin told the Australian Par-
liament that the greatest needs
at present are mere arms and a
partnership in the war councils
of the Un ted Nations. He an-
nounced tha* General MacArthur
and Australiit fcrcps 'in that
country, and *le rrilita*-/ sched-
ule is far ahead of what was . addition to the shells
by in what was raid to be the explosives struck the two islands
in these raids, it was reported.
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n'”'’ LEARON SHANKLE IS
my will sd>:i attack the tailroad oniL ON SATURDAY
’. b'ft whibh this tow’n is loc .ted.
1 Learon R. S'hankle, son of Mr.
and Mrs. N. R. Shankle "of this
city, and Miss Mildred Lorraine
Austin of Austin were married
last Saturday at 5:00 o’clock at
the University Methodist church
with Dr. Edmund Heinsohn, the
pastor, pronouncing the solemn
words of the double ring cere-
mony.
Mrs. Shankle attended the
University of Texas and far the
past six months has been work-
ing in Washington, D. C., for a
defense agency.
Mr. Shankle was employed bv
the Southern Pacific railroad in
I Austin and Ennis until his in-
duction into the service in March,
1941. He is now stationed
V'dlilJJ WUllvld, XVJIIlCLdl it CUD, xx I *
■ter a short training course in San
Antonio, he and his bride wijl
be at home in Mineral Wells.
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Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Chipman
and children spent Wednesday in
I Shreveport, where the farmer
(underwent medical examination.
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i The Stars and Stripes flag was
adopted by the Continental Con-
gress of June 14,1777.
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Mrs. G. W. Anderson and Mrs.
|T. S Grissom spent Tuesday In
Dallas attending the flower show.
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Cross, G. W. Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 25, 1942, newspaper, March 25, 1942; Mount Pleasant, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1373612/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Mount Pleasant Public Library.