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NUMBER 297
VOLUME xxvm
Member Associated Press
Mt. Pleasant, Texas, Tuesday Evening, April 15, 1947
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Show Reds Dominate Balkans
Texarkana Girl Is
Found Fatally Shot
With Gun Nearby
Greyhound Expected
To Recruit Workers
To Replace Strikers
Budget Drastically
(ut For Fiscal Year
Daingerfield Road
To Be Resurfaced
With Asphalt (oat
Rebukes Germans On
Methods of Handling
Current Food Crisis
2,700 Uncertified
Immigrants to Holy
Land Are Detained
Work Will Start As
Soon As Weather Is
Considered Right
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STATE APPROPRIATIONS
APPROVED BY SENATE
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the neutrality act, the govern-
ment is required to treat aggres-
sors and victims aliks. Every ap-
plication for a license to export
arms must be granted, he said,
unlsess such action on would be
in violation of a treaty. The pre-
sent law, Mr. Truman continued,
ROTARY
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PARIS JUNIOR COLLEGE
BUS IN ROAD ACCIDENT
swift action today, the Senate
voted more than $43,000,000 to
state agencies to spend for the
next two fiscal years. This is $15,-
000,000 more than the current
biennium appropriation.
AUSTIN, April 15 </P) — The
Texas Senate has approved the
UN ANTONIO *
Telegraph Company.
Schwellenbach wants to hear
from both sides by 5:00 o’clock
tratnrs would have three months
PARIS, Tex., April 15 (ZP) —
A bus carrying 25 members of
the Palis Junior College choral
club met with an accident last
night and three poisons suffered
slight injuries. The school bus
overturned in a ditch two miles
west of Detroit, Texas. The chor-
al club was to have performed
there last night hut the accident
caused the event to be cancelled.
pleasant Jailg Barnes
(which might later attack us.
Along with this message, Mr.
Truman submitted to Congress
proposed legislation to give the
administration controls over
export licenses, not only for arms
PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 15
(ZP) — State police have joined
the search today
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HUNDREDS of Red Cross workers
fan out through the wide path of
destruction left in the wake of
the tornado which ripped through
the Texas panhandle and north-
western Oklahoma leaving thou
sands homeless and a death toll
expected to reach 200. More than
600 persons were Injured In
Woodward, Okla., hardest hit of
four towns in the course of the
storm. (International),
Government Takes
No Official Notice ol
Remarks By Wallace
Search For Second
Child To Disappear
In Same Community
Lee Soward, resident engine-
er for the State Highway Depart-
ment, announced that work is
expected to begin soon on
improvement to the Daingerifeld
highway, from Mt. Pleasant to
the county line. A large per-
centage of the material for the
purpose 13 already on hand.
In his announcement Soward
said that the entire roadbed will
be reworked and leveled. All
holes and sunken places will be
filled with asphaltic concrete,
and as soon as the (weather be-
comes warm, probably by the
early part of June, he stated, a
new seal coat will be put down.
Th s will consist of a new top-
ping of asphalt upon which pea
gravel will be applied and rolled
in.
At the present time the High-
way Department crew is rework-
ing the highway from Omaha to
DeKalb, and it is expected they
w 11 finish their job th :re before
taking up the Titus County pro-
ject.
Another Deadlock Looming For
Peace Conference At Moscow
MOSCOW, April 15 (ZP) — It’s ♦-------—--
Austin Is Formally
Nominated to Next
General Assembly
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Truman Requests Congress To
Make Revision Neutrality Law
WASHINGTON, April 15 (ZP)—
President Truman called today
for a drastic1 revision of the neu-
trality law. In a message to Cong-
ress, the President said the neu-
trality law must be changed to
embargo shipments of grins to
give the government authority to
unfriendly countries.
Mr. Truman said he must be
free to act “in accordance with
our position in the United Na-
tions.” The chief executive point-
ed out that under section 12 of
Decision On Ending Telephone
Strike May Be Known Tonight
WASHINGTON April 14 (ZP)—
The answer to whether the
telephone strike will be over by
I Thursday night now is being
spelled out in secret meetings.
The high command of the Na-
i tional Federation of Telephone
. Workers is debating Secretary
I of Labor Schwellenbach’s com-
| bination negotiation and arbitra-
tion plan.
The same thing is happening
in New York, among officials of
tie-up supposedly will end at
5:00 p. m. Thursday.
Briefly, the labor secretary’s
plan calls for a five-man arbi-
ti alien board to decide the finan-
c al issues in the strike, includ-
ing the union's demand for a
raise of $12 a week. The arbi-
trtors would have three months
in which to reach a decision, then
between tonight and Thursday
night, the remaining issues would
be subjected to negotiations.
In New York City, by the
way, a spokesman for A. T. & T.
says that there is no reason to
suppose that there will not be an
answer to Schwellenbach’s pro-
posal by the deadline.
LONDON, April 15 (ZP) — So-
viet Prime Minister Stalin was
quoted in the British Parliment
today as saying Russia and Bri- '
tain can do business together.
The statement was relayed to the
I House of Commons by Sir Staf-
ford Cripps, i
British board of trade.
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DALLAS, April 15 (ZP) — The
Southwestern Greyhound Bus
lines may seek to recruit work-
ers to supplant striking union
mechanics. This was indicated in
Dallas by the Greyhound’s per-
sonnel diiector, Olva Massey,
He said: “I’m sure we will start
advertising for new employes
within the next few days. We’ve
told striking workers their joos
are waiting for them and that
the company holds no grudge.”
Nine Hundred AFL Machinists
Union employes of the South-
western Greyhound Bus System
struck nearly two weeks ago for
a wage increase and other de-
mands. Since then, the bus line
has been servicing and repairing
its busses at private garages.
A spokesman for the Dallas
local of the union said the me-
chanics would take no action to
prevent non-union workers from
crossing picket lines. “Our men,”
said E. S. Dixon, “have been
clearly instructed that there is
to be no violence in picketing.”
Former Nazi Puppet
LONDON, April 15 (zP) — Bri-
tons are learning today how
much it will cost them to run
their government in the 1947-48
fiscal year.
Chancellor of the exchequer
Hugh Dalton is presenting his an-
nual budget message to the
House of Commons. He estimates
that the British budget will be
slashed almost three billion dol-
lars and that the final figure for
expenditures will be 19 per cent
below the cost of running the
government during the twelve
months that ended on March 31.
Dalton also revealed that Bri-
tain intends to cut her military | major state appropriation bill. In
expenses on the army, navy and
air forces, by 46 per cent, and he
added that the Labor cabinet is
counting on a further substantial
reduction in defense expendi-
tures next year.
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TEXARKANA, April 15 (ZP)—
A shotgun death has revived the
year-old mystery of the so-call-
ed phantom killer in the Texark-
ana area.
The body of 16-year-old Gloria
Donaldson was found in her
home yesterday and . Coroner
Cooper returned a verdict of su-
icide. He said a shotgun lay near
the body.
The death of the girl came on
the first anniversary of the fatal
shooting of a friend, 15-year-old
Betty Joe Booker. She and a
companion were found slain on
April 14th, 1946, and their violent
deaths, as well as those of three
others, all arc attributed to the
mysterious gunman who kept
Northeast Texas in a uproar for
a time last year. The killings are
still unsolved
Coroner Cooper said a note
was found in Gloria Cooper’s
room. It’s contents were not re-
vealed, but the corner added it
gave no explanation.
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The Weather
AUSTIN, April 15 (ZP)—A pro-
posal aimed at preventing a two-
governor mixup, such as occur-
I red in Georgia, has been approv-
ed by the House committee on
constitutidnal amendments in
Austin.
The measure provides that
should the governor-elect die or
is unable to take office, the lieu
tenant-governor-elect will be the
legal successor. If the lieutenant
governor-elect is unable to serve,
the speaker of the House shall act
as governor until the next gene-
ral election .
Athens. Hs bill declared that
Vance Muse of Houston, who
obtained the charter for the j
Christain American, Inc., is
“Known fascist.” Spencer also
charged that the organization “is
nothing more than a name under
which Muse is spreading facist
propaganda with the purpose to
break down and destroy Demo-
cratic institutions.”
The Christain American or-
ganization was the subject of a
bi lie i attack in the Texas House
recently. The attack came after
distribution of a pamphlet con-
taining pictures of state repre-
sentatives who voted against the
so-called right-to work bill and
an admitted Communist, Ruth
Koen’g of Houston.-
STUTTGART, April 15 (ZP) —
German leaders in the American
zone of occupation got a sharp
rebuke today from General
Lucius Clay, the United States
commander. Clay denounced
German methods of handling
their own food crisis and he said
riots, strikes and disturbances
over the lack of food only hurt
the Germans themselves.
Clay addressed the German
leaders upon his return rom the
Moscow foreign ministers’ con-
' fcrcncc. About that meeting, he
warned the Germans that they
must not expect too much. Clay
pointed that the problems of a
peace treaty for Germany are
complicated and difficult, and
that they cannot be solved in a
few weeks.
The American general declared
that solving the food problem is
up to Germany. He said the Ger-
Worlds' Largest Ship May Be
Grounded For Several Days
SOUTHAMPTON, England, Ap
ril 15 (ZP)—Th giant liner Queen
Elizabeth, stuck firmly on a sand-
bar eight miles off the English
coast, today began transferring
her passengers, cargo and oil to
other vessels.
The world’s largest passenger
vessel went aground in a fog
last night while nosing her way
into home port with 2,400 pas-
sengers aboard.
The liner’s own mighty en-
gines and twelve tugs failed to
budge her at high tide this morn-
ing. Officials of the Cunard
White Star Line, operators of
the liner, say another effort
would be made at high tide to-
night after the vessel has been
lightened.
First t.lass travellers were
among the (first persons sent
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WHILE MRS. EILEEN STANOWSKI, 27, does duty In the Chicago picket
line of telephone workers, her husband, Howard, takes their 11-
month-old daughter, Arlee Joy, for a buggy ride. (International)
ashore. Approximately one thou-
sand crew men will be the last
to leave the vessel.
Divers and agents for Lloyds
of London, which carries much
of the liner’s insurance, are
standing by to examine the bow
when she shakes loose from the
sand. If her plates have been
strained, the vessel may be out
of service for a long time. The
only drydock large enough for
her repairs, at Southampton, is
occupied with putting a
stern on the Queen Mary.
Harbor men are pessimstic
about chances of floating the
Queen Elizabeth tonight. One tug
master predicts the ship (would
not be moved for three days.
Another tug master says it
may be impossible to remove
the liner until the next big t de,
sometime in June.
HAIFA, Palestine, April 15 (ZP)
—Some 2,700 uncertified Jewish
immigrants have been landed
from the steamer Guardian and
will be sent to detention camps
on Cyprus by British naval
authorities.
The refugees shouted slogans
like, “down with the Bevin gov-
ernment.” When their ship was
boarded Sunday night eight
miles off Tel Aviv.
Earlier, an official announce-
ment said that six of the passen-
gers were hospitalized for bull'.'',
wounds.. The announcement said
that the refugees were injured
in a skirmish which took place
when the passengers tried to
fight off a British boarding
party.
British and Russians
To Hold Meeting On
Trade Agreements
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OKLAHOMA
beginning to look like another
deadline in Moscow, this time
over the big four anti-German
aggression pact suggested by
Secretary of State George Mar-
shall.
Yesterday, when the foreign
ministers took up the proposed
40-year mutual assistance treaty,
there were signs that they might
at least agree in principle. Then,
. Russia’s Molotov came up with a
v string of amendments. He want-
ed the anti-aggression pact to in-
clude provisions for political and
other reforms in the Reich. All
told, he recommended half a
dozen amendments, and today
charges proposed by Molotov are
described as unacceptable to
Secretary Marshall as a basis of
negotiation.
The best information is that
Marshall still wants a straight
“yes” or “no” from Molotov
on the suggested treaty. Sources
close to the conference are admit-
ting privately that Russia pro-
bably doesn’t want a disarm-
ament trAty at all, at least along
the lines proposed by Marshall.
Communist leaders are describ-
ed as objecting to the treaty be-
cause it would keep Uncle Sam
in Europe too long, perhaps for
as much as 40 or 50 years.
There was another word of
gloom on the conference today,
this time from the American
military governor for Germany.
• General Lucius Clay told a group
of German political leaders in
Stuttgart that the’d do well not
to expect too much from the
Moscow parley.
Back in Moscow,
technical questions
with the conference are getting
as much attention as the parley
itself, they are:
“When arc wc going home?"
and “When is Secretary Marshall
going to see Stalin?”
They’re already making book
on the firs question. One friend
offered to bet Marshall 100 rubles
that the ministers still would
be in Moscow in May. Marshall
declared, but said that if he were
a beting man, he’d offer five-to-
one against the proposition.
On question number two, about
seeing Stalin, Marshall is as sil-
ent as the sphinx, and his silence
is causing some worry in other
quarters which are not Ameri-
can.
The nrevailine attitude was
summed up today by one Moscow
observer who said:
“The conference seems to be
dead, but there’s nobody around
to bury it.”
Yugoslav foreign ministry. The
| Yugoslav foreign office set up
an organization called the anti-
Fascist Congress for the libera-
tion of Macedonia.
WASHINGTON, April 15 (ZP)—
President Truman today formal-
ly nominated Warren E. Austin
to be the United States Repre-
sentative at the next special ses-
sion of the UN General Assemb
ly-
Herschel V. Johnson was nom-
inated alternative representa-
live. Presidential Secretary
Charles G. Ross says that he un-
derstands the nominations must
be made for each session of the
assembly.
WASHINGTON, April 15 (ZPl—
The White House today made its
first public statement on Henry
Wallace’s speeches in England.
Presidential Secretary Charles
Ross 'old newsmer that the gov-
ernment ha.' *' ’ en no official
notice of Wallace’s remarks.
Newsmen asked whether the
United States Government would
notify the British Government
that Wallace is speaking for him-
self. Ross replied: “It is an ob-
vious fact, is it not. that Mr.
Wallace is speaking as a private
citizen? I have no comment on
that.”
The questioning was started
with a query as to whether Pres-
ident Truman has been asked by
Congress members for a state-
ment on Wallace. Ross answered:
“Not to my knowledge.”
A somewhat different view
was offered, however, by the
Commander in Chief of the Vet-
erans of Foreign Wars, Louis
Starr. He told newsmen after a
call on Mr. Truman that he got
the impression something is go-
ing to be done.
Starr said Mr. Truman had a
stack of telegrams on his besk
regarding Wallace. He said that
in his talk with the president he
had urged revocation of Wallace’s
passport. This would force Wal-
lace to return home.
Wifh Territorial Agreements
ATHENS, April 15 (ZP) — Con-J cow-trained men and women. It
fidential allied reports say that receives orders from
a super-administration of the
Balkans decides territorial ques
tions, supervises military opera-
tions across the Greek border,
and directs political thought in
Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia
and Albania.
The reports declare that this
organization is composed of Mos-
BRATISLAVA, April 15 (ZP)—
The president of the Nazi puppet
state of Slovakia during the war,
Dr. Josef Tiso, has been sentenc-
ed to die on the gallows. lie
was charged j with committing
crimes against the state. The
verdict was handed down by a
special Czech national court.
Tiso was known before the
war as a distinguished Roman
Catholic leader in a predomi-
nently Cathol c land. He was
charged with 111 counts in a
213 page indictment. Any one of
these counts could have brought
the death penalty.
Tiso heard the reading of the
sentence without comment. If the
sentence is carried out without
commutation, the priest probab-
ly will be hanged within the
next two or three days. Many
persons speculated, however, that
President Eduard Benes might
commute the sentence at the
last minute to lift long confine-
ment in some monastery.
president of the
of trade. Cripps
said a British trade mission will
leave for Mqpcow on Friday.
According to Sir Stattord, For-
eign Secretary Ernest Bevin pro-
posed the trade talks when with
Stalin last month and Stalin in-
dicated he believes a basis for
mutually advantageous trade
can be found.
Sir Stafford informed the
House that the talks will not be
aimed at reaching any formal
agreement at this stage.
A comment on the meaning
of a possible Anglo-Russian pact
has come from a British inform-
ant at the international trade the American Telephone and
conference in Geneva. This
spokesman said that such an
agreement would decrease Bri-
tish economic dependence on the. ...........-
United States. ; they accept, the communications
orders from Moscow
and uses the Compiunist-domi-
nated regimes of the four Balkan
states to carry out its agreements.
These agreements are said to
have been drawn up at three
meetings at Prague in October
1945, February, 1946, and April,
1946.
The reports say the Prague
meetings were held on orders
from the Moscow pulilbui'u to
straighten out Balkan problems.
The Prague meetings are said
to have made allocations of ter-
ritory among the Balkan states.
Under the agreements Yugo-
slavia is to acquire all of Greek
Macedonia and the Macedonian
area in Southwestern Bulgaria.
In return, Bulgaria eventually is
to get all of Thrace up to the
Dardanelles. That would include
Turkish territory on the Europ-
eon side of the strait.
The confidential reports say
that a declaration of an auto-
monous Macedonia was schedul-
ed for this spring, with the pro-
visional government petitioning
for attachment to the federative
peoples republics of Yugoslav’a.
However, the creation of the
United Nations’ Balkan Com-
mission, and the United States
program for aid to Greece, threw
this program off schedule.
According to the allied reports,
the entire program is directed
from Belgrade.
Execution of the agreement on
Macedonia is said to have been
entrusted to Marshal Tito.
The Allied reports give this
account of the operations:
After the October. 1945, meet-
ing, Marshal Tito instructed his
chief of staff (General Koca Pro-
vic) to organize the general pro-
gram.
This included the establish-
ment of military, political, trans-
portation, communications and
assembly centers for some ten-
thousand members of the left
wing Greek insurgent forces. The
Gree insurgents were scattered
throughout Bulgaria, Yugoslavia
and Albania. Greek testimony
before the United Nations com-
| mission said that guerillas were
I trained by Yugoslavs for fight-
' ing in Greece.
I5.w’»r-old I Political staff work was done
Violet Wilson, missing from the | >n the Macedonian section oi, uw
home of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond
Goss since last Friday. I
Violet is the second juvenile
to disappear in that central Penn,
area since Easter. Four-year-old
Jimmy Senser wandered off
from his home at Loch Lomond
Easter morning. Thousands have
combed an area of six square
miles without finding the doy.
Violet has been staying with
the Goss family since the death
of her mother in Buffalo, N. Y.,
four months ago. When her dis-
appearance was reported, a des-
cription of the girl went out over
a state police teletype.
The Gosses say Violet appar-
ently vanished from her bed in
the middle of the night. They
say the girl was sitting up, comb-
ing her hair, when they last saw
her before they retired.
(East Texas—Cloudy to
partly cloudy with scattered
thundershowers tonight and
in the extreme south por-
tion Wednesday. Cooler
Wednesday, ___
Wants Cancellation
Charter For Alleged
Group of Fascists
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AUSTIN, April 15 (ZP)—A
state representative has pro-
posed legislative cancellation of
the Texas charter issued to the
Christain American, Jnc.
The move was started today by1
Representative James Spencer of PfQJ|QQ|)| |J vIVCII
Sentence of Death
---------, ----- ---------------------- The program at the Rotary
makes no distinction between ag- j Club Tuesday consisted of com-
gressors and aggreived, between plaints and defense talks in re-
peacemaker and trouble maker, gard to the nominations which
We have committed ourselves, resulted in the election of offic-
said the president, to interna- ers for the club last week, in
tional cooperation through the which several members took part. ’ mans have failed to collect all
United Nations and if this parti- In spite of the charges made of j
cipation is to be fully effective, collusion, the election was held 1
the government must have con- valid. The group got considerable
trol over traffic in weapons. fun out of the trurriped-up
Then the president warned of charge and the responses.
a possible dilemma in which this Mike Gilpin expressed appreci-
Committee Approves
Measure to Prevent
anA Mixup In Governors
exported for use by foreign mili-
tary establishments.
possible production from their
own farms. He warned that the
United States and Britain can-
not be expected to continue im-
porting food to Germany unless
all possible German output
country could find itself under ation on behalf of the American made available,
the present neutrality setup. If Legion for the club’s donation to
war should ever again become that organization’s building fund,
imminent, he said, it would be Dr. C. D. Ogilvie requested as
intollerable to find ourselvesin many members as possible to
our present position of being have cars at the airport Sunday
bound by our laws to give morning to convey visitors to
aid and support to any power town for the breakfast at the
hotel.
Visitors were A. R. Earhart of
the Mineola club, who is trans-
ferring here, George Burnett of
the Tylel club, Lee Dowell of the
Sherman club and A. J. Tippett
but also for other njaterials de- of Shreveport,
signed for military use. Specifi-
cally, he mentnioned articles es-
pecially designed for or custo-
marily used only in.the manu-
facture of arms, ammunition <
implements of war, and articles
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