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VOLUME XXVIII
Member Associated Press
NUMBER 291
Mt. Pleasant, Texas, Monday Evening, Apr-il 7, 1947
(>P) & International News Photos
TOY FACTORY EXPLOSION KILLS 11
Body of Unidentified Man Found
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De Gaulle Calls For New French
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Japanese Election
Called Endorsement
MacArthur's Plans
Texas Senate Passes
Bill For Outlawing
Secondary Strikes
Trustee Election
Saturday Creates
Unusual Interest
Green Hill Woman
Passes Al Taylor
Hospital Monday
Texas Grain Prices
During March Show
Marked Increases
Four Children Burn
To Death As Phone
Alarm Not Answered
East Texas—Partly cloudy
to cloudy and mild; scattered
showers in the north and
central portions tonight and
in the extreme east Tuesday.
came upon a
track one of tt
York lanes a
switch onto tri
bia City.
ort Wayne,
s account of
ps kilkd.
tvere tik-
pitals ind
four were
ill w»uld
Wigwam Drive-In
Cafe Opens For
Business Monday
morning,
service
market price report showed sub-
stantially higher prices for most
crop and livestock products.
but
not
Mr. and Mrs. James Ard and
children, left Monday morning
for their home in Roswell, N .M.
who did more than anyone else
toward making the event a suc-
W. F. (Buster) Hol-
of Arknsas Louisiana Gas
COLUMBIA CITY,
JLW—Forty persons a
I
In Woods East of Town Sunday
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Preliminary Draft
General Labor Bill
Is Revealed By Tall
jArently just
■said Berkin,
erturn was a
I the inj ured
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| railroad
ladelphia said
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ELMSFORD, New York, April 7
(JP)—Four children were burned
to death today in a fire which
destroyed their home here.
Mrs. George Brown, mother of
three of tne victims, was awak-
ened by the f're shortly after 6:00
a. m. Patrolman John Me Mahon
said Mrs. Brown did not receive
an answer from the telephone
operator when she tried to' call
the fire department. He said the
woman rusned outside and sent
in an alarm from a firebox.
Committee Agrees
Jewish Properties
Must Be Returned
Russia Continues
Demands In U. N. For
Scrapping ot Bombs
Rob Morris Chapter No. 40 will
hold its stated meeting Tuesday
night at the Masonic Hall, begin-
ning at 7:30 o’clock. C. T. Hol-
eumb, II. r.
leen of the
Chicagj to
'train were
Mrs. Hugh S. Watson, has. re-
turned to her home in Columbia,
Tennessee, after a months visit'
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and Munden were
to succeed themselves,
while Johnson was elected for an
unexpired term.
SMOKE BILLOWS from a fireworks and explosive toy manufacturing
plant at Clinton, Mo., where an explosion brought death to 11
persons and Injured four others. Twenty-eight workers were in
the factory at the time of the blast and fire, which burned the
building to the ground. (International Soundphoto)
Mrs. Leo Wray and Mrs. An-
thony Raradzeij look Johnnie and
Martha -Jane Whitecotton to Dal-
las Sunday to visit their mother,
who
Bevin Enperafed
By Failie Foreign
Minidffio Agree
Seed Potatoes Due
From Brownsville To
Germany Few Days
——
BROWNSVILLE, April 7, (IP)
—Seven thaousand tons of seed
potatoes are to be shipped this
week from Brownsville to Ger-
many. The shipment, destined for
Bremen, will be brought to
Brownsville from the Mid-West
in 305 refrigerator cars.
The arrival of the refrigerator
cars in the lower Rio Grande val-
ley is expected to alleviate the
shortage of this type of rolling
stock. The 305 cars, when enr-
tied, will be shuttled to variou.,
valley cities, where they will be
loaded with fresh vegetables and
citrus fruits.
MOSCOW, April 7, (A5)—Bri-
tish Foreign Secretary Ernest
Bevin appeared exasperated at
today’s sess on of the Foreign
Ministers council. Bevin declared
that “absolutely nothing” has been
accomplished in the four weeks
that the ministers have been in
Moscow.
The foreign secretary’s deject-
ed statement came after three
hours and fifteen minutes of fruit-
less meeting deal ng with a pro-
visional government for Ger-
many. Said Bevin:
“I have read all the reports
and there has not been a single
item of agreement in the commit-
tee reports of any importance,
nor any agreement in the fore-
ign ministers’ council itself.”
Bevin pointed out that the for-
eign ministers still are deliberat-
ing the first item on their agenda.
He said tha tthis one item has
grown into seven separate items
and that in addition the foreign
ministers have asked for a num-
ber of reports not originally list-
ed on the agenda.
Jilt, ■pleasant Jhrih States
The nation-wide strike of tele-
phone company employees began
in Mt. Pleasant at 6:00 o’clock
Monday morning, completely
disrupting service except
calls of emergency nature.
Supervisory workers remain-
ed in the office to handle these
emergency calls, and to look af-
ter the property, with employees
who would normally be on duty
gathering upstairs in the Connor
building on the southeast corner
of the square awaiting possible
calls to return to work. Instruc-
tions would come through tele-
grams, as the telephone lines
Party For Preventing Anarchy
STRASBOURG, France, April
7, (TP)—France’s General Charles
De Gaulle has declared, in effect,
now is the time for all good men
to come to the aid of their party.
The general has called on the
French people to organize them-
selves into what would amount
tn a political party supporting De
Gaulle and Jhis Ideas. In his
frankest bid for a return to pow-
er, De Gaulle declared in a speech
here today that the organization
of such a group would prevent a
throw ot wnat he termed the in-
dependence of the state.
De Gaulle’s appeal came one
day aftor he declared th.et if a
new tyranny should menace the
world, a tyranny which he did
not name, the United States and
France will stand together in op-
posing it.
His'speech today was made be-
The confused situation in the
coal fiqjds has arisen from the de-
termination of John L. Lewis not
to send the miners into pits which
he has declared to be unsafe. The
United Mine Workers pres dent
has demanded that all but two of
the 2,531 soft coal mines be clos-
ed until passed upon by federal
inspectors. Interior Secretary
Krug has rejected Lewis’ demand.
Krug’s refusal apparently has
halted Hie orderly process by
which the 518 mines which the
government called unsafe were
to be inspected by a joint agree-
ment of operators and union safe-
ty committees. Union district lead-
ers have taken the position that
only federal inspectors can pro-
nounce the pits safe.
Meanwhile, Secretary Krug has
called on the governors of fifteen
coal producing states to correct
dangerous conditions in 162 mines
which are not under government
control.
-«9> The Talco high school track
Ind field team took first honors
Lt the first running of the Mt.
Pleasant Relays Friday evening
with a total of 57 points, and
with the local boys walking away
. with second honors with a total
of 40 points. Third place honors
were given to Pittsburg and fourth
to Winnsboro.
In
which
Part,
Nation-Wide Telephone Strike
Cuts Off Service in Ml. Pleasant
! cannot be used for this purpose.
There was no picketing the '
telephone office, and probably I
will not be any, and except there '
are no calls being put through,
the public would not know any-
thing unusual was going on, the
strike was being conducted so j
quietly.
The walkout began in New'
York at 6:00 a. m. and spread
westward. Workers left their jobs
in the f rst nationwide telephone
strike in American history.
The waikout started even be-
fore President Joseph Beirne of Eaw
1
The body of an unidentified an investigation conducted by
man, estimated to be between 60 | the sheriff’s department, and by
and 70 years of age, was found
about five miles east of Mt.
Pleasant about 9:30 o’clock Sun-
day morning. He had been shot
through the heart by a blast
from a 12-gauge, sawed off shot-
gun.
The body wag discovered in
what is commonly referred to as
the coal mine woods on the Fred
Stoehr farm just east of the H.
L. Hess farm in the Old Union
community. It was found by
Claude Pfeiffer who was report-
ed to have been looking for a
bee tree.
The man had been dead appar-
ently since the night before, and
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y.. April 7,
(IP)—Russia has renewed her de-
mand that the United States scrap
its atomic bombs immediately.
The Soviet Deputy Foreign Min-
ister, Andrei Gromyko, declared
today that such a step plus a
general slash in armaments would
-emove what he termed 'mutual
suspicion and lack of confidence”
throughout the world.
Gromyko delivered today his
long-awaited Soviet pol cy speech
to the United Nations commission
on conventional armament. He
attacked assertions of the western
powers that strong international
security measures must precede
actual dis: ming.
Gromyko also rejected Ameri-
can and Brit sh contentions that
disarming must be conditioned
on establishment of safeguards.
He asked again for a convention
to outlaw atomic weapons now.
Said Gromyko:
“The conclusion of such a con-
vention would present a serious
contribution to the strengthing
of international peace and se-
curity.”
The Soviet delegate indicated
that Russia is not ready to com-
promise on the long-fought atomic
issue. He said the outlawing of
atomic weapons must precede
establishment of international
control of atomic energy.
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Mrs. Charles E. Perkins, resi-
dent of the Green Hill commun-
ity, passed away at Taylor hos-
I pital here at 11:50 o’clock Mon-
1 day morning at the age of 40
years. Her death resulted from
an illness that had continued for
approximately a month.
Mrs. Perkins is survived by her
husband and eight children, as
follows:
Mrs. Billy PaPrtridge of Mt.
Pleasant, and Georgia Elizabeth,
Charline, William Lee, Joyce
Kathleen, Daraline, and Charles
Edwin, Jr. Other survivors in-
clude three brothers, C. W.
Clark of Phoenix, Ariz., Eli
Clark of Maud and Tim Clark of
Talco, and three sisters, Mrs.
Howard Morris of Talco; Mrs.
Troy Laden of Green Hill and
Mrs. L. H. Wilson of Mt. Pleasant.
The body was taken in charge
by Thomas undertakers,
funeral arrangements have
been completed.
MOSCOW, April 7, (A>)—The
four powers committee working
on the Austrain peace treaty has
agreed that Austria must restore
property taken from Jews dur-
ing the German control period.
It also was agreed that property
taken from any other persons
for racial or religious reasons
must be restored to the rightful
owner. In cases where restoration
is impossible, compensation iwill
be paid.
Word is spreading among west-
ern diplomats, meanwhile, that
Russian Foreign Minister Molo-
tov is preparing a new blast. The
outburst is said to be directed
against British-American repara-
tions policies in Germany. It is
said that Molotov will make his
announcement when the inter-
allied reparations agency report
comes up in the Foreign Min s-
ters council.
Authorative circles say that
Secretary of State Marshall will
urge the council to restore east-
ern farm lands to German con-
trol. The land now is under the
jurisdiction of Polish offic als.
Mrs Win Whitecotton,
is in Baylor hospital.
the Independent National Fede-|
ration of Telephone Workers said
the strike was on. Beirne iwas in
Wash'ngton, where officials had
spent the night in vain effort to
settle the contract dispute. With-
in an hour a federal conciliator in
Chicago said the strike was on in
Illinois. The walkout became ef-
fect ve in Los Angeles and Seat-
tle at 9:00 a. m., eastern time.
In New York City, the nerve
center of the communication
world, a spokesman for the Amer-
ican Telephone and Telegraph
Company said the strike was 100
per cent effective. He was speak-
ing of the long lines division of
the firm’s service.
The f'rst state to announce seiz-
ure of a telephone company was
New Jersey. There the state
seized 204 plants of the New Jer-
sey Bell Telephone Company
within twelve minutes after the,
strike went into effect.
It is expected that 340,000 iwork-'
ers will join the strike call. Most;
of the workers are women, who.
are striking in support of their |
demands for $12 a week more
wages and nine other contract
rev'sions.
Dial systems have not been af-
fected by the walkout. Company
officials say such phones can be
operated for a long time without
maintenance work.
Thousands of Soft Coal Miners
Fail Io Return to Work Monday
PITTSBURGH, April 7, (JP)—
Thousands of the natton’s coal
miners stayed out of the mines
today in support of their union
demands that the soft coal pits
be made safe. The stay-home de-
cision, in effect, extended indefi-
nitely the six-day mourning
Justice of the Peace Grover Ard,
resulted in a verdict of suicide.
The investigation, however, was
being continued Monday.
The man was wearing a khaki
shirt, khaki trousers black hat,
navy blue zipper jacket and
gold-rimmed glasses. All laundry
marks had been freshly cut from
clothing, as well as the label aijd
other identification marks from
his hat. AU papers had evi-
dently been carrying in his pock-
ets had been torn up and thrown
into the water of a nearby creek.
Beside the body was a blue army
barracks bag with laundry marks
either WNE oi WUE. In the bag
were found several empty paper
bags, coil of rope, two 12-gauge
shotgun sheets, a towel, piece of
soap and a few unimportant ar-
ticles, such as small pieces of
string.
^The man’s jacket was zipped
up about three fourths of the
way and the charge from the
gun had not penetrated it. In-
stead the blast had entered
through the left shirt pocket
which contained matches and a
package of chewing gum. The
gun was found about ten feet
away from the body, where it
was believed to have been hurl-
ed by the recoil.
A $5 bill, two $1 bills and
$1.62 in change wero found in
the man’s pocket.
Following the investigation at
the scene of the tragedy the
body was removed to the Thomas
funeral home where it is being
held until identification can be
established. A description of the
man is as follows:
Height about five,' eleven
inches; weight about 190 pounds;
gray hair, blue eyes; gold upper
front tooth with vacancy adja-
cent to it, and tattoo on left fore-
arm showing a closed horseshoe
with initials JHU in the style of
a cattle brand.
Among the papers found in the
creek and pieced together at
the sheriff’s office, was a pink
handbill announcing the appear-
ance of the Eveready Gospel
Singers of Sheveport, La., at the
Morris County courthouse,
Daingerfield, April 28, 1947.
more interest than usual with |
nearly 400 votes cast.
There were six candidates,
with three to be elected, and the
results were as follows:
Byron Reaves ..........
D. C. Munden--------
Lee Johnson .....—
G. L. Brogoitti ........
Dr. L. C. McCauley
Virgil Copeland ....
Reaves and Munden
chosen
MOSCOW, April7, WP)—■The
Foreign Ministers conference re
ce'.ved a Russian suggestion today
that the Germans be allowed to
choose in a plebiscite between
centralized and federal govern-
ments. But the demand met stiff
opposition from Britain, the Unit-
ed States and France.
Also, Soviet Foreign Minister
Molotov blocked a proposal to
discuss item number two on the
conference agenda, the question
of German reparations. The sug-
gestion was made by Secretary of
State Marshall.
Earlier at today’s session in
Moscow, British Foreign Secre-
tary Bevin said that the fore-
ign min sters had accomplished
absolutely nothing in their four
weeks of meetings.
| The election Saturday for trus-
tees for the Mt. Pleasant Tnde- I _ . ,
' pendent School District created ■ To Hold Plebiscite on
Kind ot Government
TOKYO, April 7, (/P)—The un-
expectedly good showing put up
by ’Japanese Conservatives in
Saturday’s election is viewed by
observers as an indication of two
important trends.
For one thing, they, say, it shows
a strong vote of confidence for
General MacArthur and it is also
a distnet reprimand to left wing
Japanese labor leaders.
The election was for the gov-
ernorship of Tokyo prefecture. In
casting their ballots the voters
snubbed the Communists, en-
couraged the Socialists and
obediently supported strong local
conservative political machines
Analysts of Japanese politics
view the results of the election
as an endorsement by the Japa-
nese of MacArthur’s action in
halting a general strike which
leftwing laborites had scheduled
for February.
fore a crowd of 60,000 massed in
front of the city hall. In urging
the formation of a party to back
his political ideas, De Gaulle re-
peated his assertion that the new
French Constitution should be
revised to provide for a strong
executive branch of government.
Al one point in his address, De
Gaulle declared-
“America am Russia are auto-
matically rivals, although one has
the right to hope they will not
become enemies.” He said that
one solution was for France to
take the lead in setting up a bloc
of Western European nations in
order to have what he called “an
element of equilibrium at th«
side of the two masses.”
iDe Gaulle backed his bid for a
return of self-imposed retire-
ment with a program of economic .
and social' as iwell as foreign. ing Skelly products, as well
policies. | tires, tubes, accessories, etc.
Forty Are Injure!
When Pennsylania
Train Jumps Tick
I., Apr!
injurd
r when the Pennsylvanlailroat's
Gotham limited leffhe rjls
early today. No om
Fifteen of the injun
en to Fort Wayne 1
doctors said three
j hurt Seriously, b:
probably recover.
The engine and t
fifteen cars of th
New York passeng
detailed.
K. E. Berkins ci
a brakeman, gave*
the wreck:
“The train a]
jumped the traci
“the only car tol
Pullman. Most J
were taken froij
A PennsylvJ
spokesman in ■
the Gotham lifd apparently
upon a fight train on
jhicago to New
' attempted to
(two at Colum-
cess, was
comb
Company.
Results of the meet were as
follows:
Shot put—Gene Legg, distance
40 feet, 9% inches, Jones of Talco,
Trice of Mt. Pleasant and Chas-
tain of Mt. Pleasant.
100-yard dash—Dixon, Talco,
time 10.3 seconds; Chastain of Mt.
Pleasant; Warren, Atlanta, and |
Duhon, Gilmer.
120-yard high hurdles—Pitt-
man, Talco, 17.5 seconds; Trice,
Mt. Pleasant; Barger Talco and
Keeling, Pittsburg.
880-yard relays—Pittsburg, one
minute, 43.7 seconds; Talco,
Winnsboro and Gilmer.
440-yard dash—Efurd,
burg, 58.4 seconds; Bockman,
Daingerfield; Coppedge, Winns-
boro and Clark, Mt. Pleasant.
200-yard low hurdles—Bar-
i germ, Talco, 26.6 seconds; Trice
Mt. Pleasant; Andrews, Mt. Pleas-
ant, and Morris, Winnsboro.
440-relays—Mt. Pleasant 49.9
seconds; Winnsboro, Pittsburg
and Talco.
. 880-yard run . Bailey, Pittsburg,
2 minutes, 7% seconds; Welborn,
Talco; Davis, Mt. Pleasant, and
Bledsoe, Gilmer.
Broad jump—Dixon, Talco, 18
feet, 11 inches; Spencer, Pitts-
burg; Wright, Naples, and An-
drews, Mt. Pleasant.
Mile relays—Daingerfield, Na-
ples, Gilmer, Mt. Pleasant.
220-yard dash—Chastain, Mt.
See TALCO WINS Page 4
WASHINGTON, April 7 (A») —
Senator Robert Taft has given
the public a peek at the prelimi-
nary draft of a general labor bill
his Senate Labor committee is
writing.
The measure, as it now stands,
is highlighted by a provision de-
signed to avert “national paral-
ysis” strikes by court injunction.
It also would outlaw the closed
shop, restrict union shop agree-
ments ban secondary boycotts
amd jurisdictional strikes, and
curtail industry-wide bargaining
in some cases.
Taft discussed the b ll at a news
conference. The Ohio Senator des-
cribed the measure as “literally
and completely tentative.”
Here is how that section aim-
ed at national paralysis strikes
would iwork.
When the' attorney general I
( decided a threatened strike would .
| imperil the national health or
I safety, he could petition for a
i 6(J-day injunction to block the
strike.
If there were still no settle-
I ment at the end of that time, the
workers would hold a secret elec-
| tion to determine whether to go
I on strike. If they decided to
strike, the injunct on would be
dissolved and the president
would report to Congress on the
situation.
It then would be up to Con-
gress to take whatever action
the Queen’s contest, in
eleven princesses took
Miss Louise Nance of
AUSTIN, April 1 (JP) — The
Texas Senate today passed a bill
outlawing secondary strikes,
picketing and boycotting. The
author of the measure, Senator
Ben Ramsey of San Augustine,
said the bill would not affect the
current strike of telephone work-1
ers and was not prompted by it. |
The Senate passed the bill
without a dissenting vote. After
reaching far down in its order of
business to bring the matter up
for a vote. It now goes to the
House.
The Senate declined to con-
cur in House amendments to a
1 traffic code bill and it willl have
to go to a conference committee.
A new bill was introduced in
the Senate. Rogers Kelley would
convert into the Port Isabell light-
house Into a state shrine and he
proposed a $13,000 appropriation
to accomplish the plan.
AUSTIN, April 7,(A»)—The de-
partment of agriculture in Aus-
tin has reported on Texas farm
products prices. The USDA an-
nouced that Texas farmers re-
ceived 51c more per bushel for
wheat and 40c per hundred more
for grain sorghums on March 15 period for victims of the Cen-
than they did on February 15. tralia mine tragedy that ended
Hhe March mid-month local officially this morning.
-nnn.i etinurA/i sub. Some mines are operating in
Pennsylvania and West Virginia,
but all Eastern Ohio pits are said
to be closed. Early reports give
no accurate account of the num-
ber of the 400,000 soft coal dig-
gers who continued the work stop-
page. Some of the mines shut
down in Eastern Pennsylvania
normally don’t operate on East-
er Monday.
Among the Eastern Ohio mines
were tiAo at St. Clairsville which
were certified as safe yesterday
with her brother, Jim Kimberlin.' by a federal mine inspector.
r
Relays A/trait Big Attendance To
Witness Events at Stadium Friday i
Naples captured the decision of |
the judges to cany off the $100
engraved wrist watch presented |
by Irvin-Sandlin Chevrolet. Run-1
ners up were Miss Ruby Odom
of Atlanta and Miss Paula Jane
Walker of Daingerfield. Other
candidates included Miss Mamie
Jean Smith of Winfield; Miss
Faye Gilbert of Mt. Vernon;
Miss Carol Manly of Clarksville;
Miss Wanda Westbrook of Talco;
Miss Lou Ethel Darnell of Gilmer
Miss Dixie Douglass of Winns-
boro, Miss Barbara Taylor of
Pittsburg and Miss Janet Martin
of Mt. Pleasant.
Miss Nance, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Louis Nance of Naples,
is a junior in the Naples high
school.
Prior to the running of the
final events Friday evening, cor-
onation ceremonies were held
before the packed grandstand,
with presentation of the
and award by Mayor Ben L. Pa-
trick. Shortly before that lunch-
eon had been held at the Pleas-
ant Hotel for coaches and news-
papermen.
Judges in the queen’s contest
were Robert M. Hayes, manager
of the East Texas bureau of the
Dallas News, and Tony Zoppa of
the Longview Daily News.
Presentation of the awards in
the track and field events was
made by Roy Trice, president of
the Key Club, sponsors of the re-
lays. Field manager, and the man
Formal opening was held Mon-
dag morning of Hie Wigwam
drive-in cafe, located on Highway
67 near the overpass in North Mt.
Pleasant. The cafe is opeyated by
Mrs. Bessie Ann Brawn and son,
Leon, and features curb service
on fond nn/i drinks
The Wigwam service station,
adjacent to the cafe, was opened
several weeks ago. This is manag-
ed by Smith and Swann, featur-
I tires, tubes, accessories, etc.
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