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House Passes
Bill fo Reduce
Income Taxes
Bevin Declares Marshall Plan
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The Weather
Mt. Pleasant, Texas, Tuesday Evening, July 8, 1941
GARDEN IN SHADOW OF REICHSTAG
Eleven High
Nazi Officers
Belgium Says
Europe Trade
Is Hindered
Senate Expected To
Take Prompt Action
On Bond Redemption
Russian Satellites
May Participate In
Conference At Paris
Czechoslovakia To
Take Part In Aid To
Europe Conference
Courts Martial Are
Flayed By Senator
More Colton Being
Cultivated This Year
Rotarians Are Given
Talk On Necessity
Raising School Tax
Amazing Results In
Rat Campaign Here
Reported Tuseday
Russia Revives Plan
For Arms Reduction
In United Nations
Increased Violence
Flares At Calcutta
District Softball
Tournament Will Be
Here July 24-25-26
Kiwanis Wins Over
Ford In First Of
Championship Games
Socialist Leader
Wants Italian Peace
Ratifying Delayed
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sh'p, and the public. The public
would get its cut through lowered
prices. A voluntary program of
this sort, Goss contended, would
be much more effective than cur.
rent efforts to regulate monoply
and profiteering through punitive
measures.
Goss also criticized the present
formula for government price sup
RED ORGANIZATION IS
FOUND IN GREEK FORCE
MAN LOST IN TENNESSEE
CAVERNS STILL MISSING
ROME, July 8 (ZP)—Italian So-
cialist leader Pietro Ncnni sug-
gests that ratification of the Ital-
ian peace treaty in Rome be de-
ferred until the Soviet Union
has acted upon it. Under Nenn:’s
leadership, the Italian Socialist
party has been pro-Comunist.
Nenni agreed that the docu-
ment technically does not become
a treaty until the Big Four have
ratified it. Several other mem-
bers of the constituent assembly
committee on treaties took the
same: view, including the World
War One Premier Vittorip Eman.
ueile Orland^. Italian Fore gn
Minister Carlo Sforza defended
the government decision to sign,
saying that any document is good
if it restores Italy to a normal
place in world affairs.
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., July 8
UP)—Russia has renewed her ef-
forts to place American aid to
Greece under United Nations su-
pervision and at a meeting of
the security council today, de-
CALCUTTA, July 8 (/P)—Re-
ligious hatred was fanned into
violence and bloodshed as Hindus
and Moslems battled in the streets
today, bringing the number kill-
ed in the last 24 hours to 28 and
at least 140 have been injured.
Those are the official figures,
but unofficial estimates run much
East Texas—Partly cloudy
tonight and Wednesday with
little change in temperatures.
Mt. Pleasant weather for
the past 24 hours recorded
by Bill Lyle at the filter
plant is as follows:
Maximum ........
Minimum ________
Temp. 7:00----
Wind from___
Sky ...........Partly Cloudy
AUSTIN, July 8 (ZP)—The U. S.
Department of Agriculture re-
ported today that Texas had 8,-
365,000 acres of cotton in cultiva-
tion July 1. This is about 39
per cent of the national total of
21,389,000 acres.
Last year at this time, Texas
had 6,283.000 acres planted in
cotton, or two m Ilion acres less
than this year. The USDA said
it would issue its first cotton crop
estimate August 8.
The national figure on cotton
acreage in cultivation is 17.6 per
cent greater than last year, but
less than the ten-year average.
er of the national grange, Albert
S Goss, and AFL Vice President
Woll. :
These two men differed, how-
ever, on the means for achieving
price reductions. Goss told the
committee that a ceiling on both
wages and profits would do the
trick. All margins above these
ceilings, the master of the grange
explained, would be divided be-
tween labor, industrial owner-
SHELLMOUND, Tenn., July 8
(IP)—State Saftey Commissioner
Lynn Bomar has arrived in Shell,
mound to participate in the
search for John Hurn, who has
been missing in a cave for one
week. He entered the cave to
look for a second exit, according
to his brother, Hollins, who owns
a farm where the cave is located.
George R. Biackburn
Succumbs Tuesday
At Jefferson Home
WASHINGTON, July 8 (IP)—
The Senate is expected to lose no
time in acting on the terminal pay
bond-redemption bill.
The armed forces committ.ee
said today that a subcommittee
would take-up the measure to-
morrow and the Republican whip,
Senator Kenneth Wherry of Ne-
braska. pledged prompt Senate
action.
The bill sailed through the
House yesterday by unanimous
vote to permit about 9,000.000
former GIs and several thousand
ex-officers to cash their terminal
pay bonds if they wish after Sep-
tember 1. At present, they must
hold the bonds until five years
after the date of issue.
The House aimed service com-
mittee estimates that about one
billion dollars of the bonds will
cashed promptly if the bill
•becomes law. All told, about one
billion and 800 million dollars
in bonds have been issued. Under
a 1946 law, the bonds are in pay.
• ment of accrued leave which had
Rdf been received at the time of
discharge from the armed forces.
at the refinery field tonight.
Also tonight the Pepsi Cola and
Refinery teams will play to de-
' c de the third and fourth places
Presidium of the Czechoslovakia in the league standings.
The Kiwanis CUib defeated
Ford Motors Monday night by a
score of 10 to 2, in the first game
of a five-game series to deter-
mine the championship of the
city softball league.
PARISI. Juty P (ZP)—Strong
indications have appeared that
i at least some nations within the
oviet orbit will attend the Par's
Soviet orbit will attend the Paris
habilitation program.
A Sofia dispatch quotes an au-
thoritative source as saying prob-
ably Bulgaria will participate
in the conference opening Satur-
day. Observers in Belgrade say
that Yugoslavia still has not re-
plied to the Franco-British in-
vitation, although Radio Moscow
previously reported that Yugosla-
via already had rejected the in-
vitation.
Previously, only Czechoslova-
kia within the Soviet sphere had
accepted the offer. Now, how-
ever, word from Prague suggests
that even the Soviet Union it-
self may try to return to the
international discussions.
The French foreign ministry
says ten countries now have ac-
cented invitations to attend the
Paris talks on the economic pro-
gram. :
ATHENS, 'July fi (ZP)—The Con-
servative party newspaper Em-
bros says a Communist organ za,
tion has been discovered within
the Greek armed forces now en-
gaged in operations in Thrace
against left wing guerrilla bands.
Labor And Farm Spokesmen Say
Lowered Prices Are Necessary
WASHINGTON, Jiuly 8 (ZP)—
Labor and farm spokesmen
agreed today that lowered nrices
are essential if the country's eco-
nomy is to be stabilized and an-
other boom and bust cycle avert-
ed. The joint Congressional com-
mittee, which is studying plans
for economic stabilzation, heard
these views today from the mast- port of farm products. He argued
that the prices for certain food-
stuffs are being held too high,
while others are being left with-
out any support whatever.
Woll colled for continued mod-
erate wage increases during 1947
accompanies by price reductions
by industry to restore buying
power. He arged particularly for
reduction of food prices, to head
off rank and file worker demand
for large wage increases,
PARIS, Uuty 8 (ZP)—(British
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin
believes the Marshall program
for European reconstruction may
yet make the greatest contribu-
tion to international amity He in.
dicated also in an address in Lon.
don that the door still is open to
the Soviet Union to join in put-
ting the Marshall proposals into
action. Bevin described the pro-
gram as purely an economic one
and added that prejudices, “ei-
ther religious or ideological,”
should be ruled out of the dis-
cuss ons. Cried the British For-
eign Secretary: “Europe is bleed,
ing to death. It must be stopped.”
Meanwhile, the indications are
that all but one of the nations in
the Soviet orbit w 11 remain away
from the Paris conference on the
Marshall program. That one is
Czechoslovakia which has ac-
cepted formally the Franco-Bri-
tish offer to attend. The Soviet
Union itself is boycott ng the
talks, of course, and Romania,
Poland and Yugoslavia are said
to be planning to avoid the meet-
WASIIINGTON .July 8 (ZT)—
I he House has passed the bill to
cut income taxes by four billion
dollars a year and it now goes
to the Senate, where passage is
forecast
The House okayed the measure
after Speaker Joseph Martin
made a personal appeal for pass,
age, calling approval of the mea-
sure by such a decisive vote “as
to persuade the president that
the people should have this de-
layed justice.”
The measure passed today by
the House is identical with a tax
reduction bill vetoed last month
by President 'Jcuman, except
that the effective date is changed
from July 1,1947, to January 1,
1948. The new bill, often called
the “carbon copy” bill would
cut income taxes by four billion
dollars annually for some 49,000,.
000 taxpayers.
The vote was 302 to 112, or 26
more than the two-thirds majori-
ty needed to override a presi-
dential veto.
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LAKE SUCCESS, N. J., July 8
(ZP) — Russia has made a new bid
to revive the Soviet working plan
for arms regulation by the
United Nations. In a statement
before the security council to-1
day, Soviet Deputy Foreign Texarkana, Maud
Minister Andrei Gromyko de-1 clubs, with more expected later
on, it was said.
The District 25 tournament of
the Texas Amateur Softball As-
sociation will be held in Mt.
Pleasant on July 24, 25 and 26,
according to information releas-
ed by a local committee Tuesday
morning. The district is compos-
ed of Titus, Franklin, Camp,
Morri^, Cass, Ried River and
Bowie counties.
Since the tournament is strict-
ly amateur play, the commit-
tee members said, teams entered
must use regular players who
have participated during the
current season. An exception is
made, however, for towns under
2,000, where all-star teams may
be selected for entrance in the
meet.
Clubs entering the tournament
are required to pay $10.00 dues
to the association which also
takes care of the entrance fees,
and the winner of the final brac-
ket will represent this district at
the state tournament at Wichita
Falls on August 15, 16 and 17.
At least three Mt. Pleasant
teams are expected to enter, in-
cluding the Refinery, Ford and,
Kiwanis groups. Other probable
entries at present include Hooks,
Texarkana, Maud and Atlanta
or let the system continue as in
Russia flatly denied |
the charges that her satellite
countries, Albania, Bulgaria, and
Yugoslavia, were primarily re-
sponsible for the disorders along
the Greek border. The Soviet
delegate to the security council,
Andrei Gromyko, bitterly assail,
ej the report of the UN Balkans
Investigating Commission which
had pinned the blame for the
border troubles on the three
countries. On the contrary, Gro-
myko contended, the minority
report of the commision was cor.
rect in blaming Greece for the
disorders. This view had been
expressed by Soviet and Polish
members of the commission.
The Russian spokesman went
on to declare that delegates who
upheld the majority report were
attempting to distort the mean-
ing of the material gathered or
were ignoring It.
Gromyko also found himself
at odds with other members of
the council on another issue.
After the council had voted nine
to nothing in favor of the Ameri-
can plan for reducing armaments,
Gromyko declared that Russia
would not feel herself bound by
the vote. Both the Soviet and
the Polish delegates had abstain,
ed from the balloting. Gromyko
made it clear that he would con-
tinue to support the plan advo-
cated by the Soviet Union, which
links arms reduction with a ban
on atomic weapons.
claredi that no plan for world
arms reduction can succeed un-
less the plan is directly linked
with an absolute prohibition
against atomic weapons.
Gromyko said that the United
States plan approved by the com-
mission did not link the problem
of arms reduction and the ban-
ning of atomic weapons. For this
reason, said the Russian delegate,
it offered no basis for a solution.
Gromyko opened debate on the
arms question as-delegates await-
ed another major declaration
from him later in the day. He is
expected to reply to United
States and British demands for; higher. The latest guess is that
action to restore order in the j 50 have been killed and more than
critical Balkin situation. 200 hurt in the riots.
May Save European Economy
ing. Albania, Bulgaria and Hun-
gary also are expected to stay
away, in the op nion of their
circles in London. Finland indi-
cated that geographical and poli-
tical considerations might fore-
stall Finnish representation but
cabinet discuss'ons are still un-
derU ay on the point in Helsinki.
Meanwhile, Switzerland’s Fed-
eral Council has accepted the
invitation in principle. Norway,
Denmark and Sweden will confer
tomorrow in Copenhagen to de-
termine their joint attitude to-
ward the Marshall proposals.
In Rome, Italian Foreign Min-
ister Carlo Sforza is sa d to have
estimated at 350 million the num.
ber of Europeans who would need
help under the Marshall plan.
Europe’s population outside of
the Soviet Union is estimated by
the best available source to num.
ber 404 m llions. Sforza is said
to have told an inter-ministerial
committee that Italy’s most val-
uable contribution to the re-
covery program could be Italian
labor.
BEFORE THE SHATTERED Reichstag Building in Berlin, which once echoed
to Hitler’s hysterical ranting, a resident of the German capital carefully
rakes his vegetable garden. With food rationed tightly, Berliners have
resorted to growing it in tiny plots in the bomb-blasted streets to
round out scant menus. News of the Day Newsreel photo.(International)
government dealt during its Mon-1
jqy soeqinn with the ’nvitfltinn to
the European economic confer-
ence which Will be opened in
Paris the 12th of July.
The government decided to ac-
cept the invitation and authorize ;
the Czechoslovak ambassador in
Pans, Jindrich Nosek, to partici-
pate in sessions of the conference.
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The Titus County Rodent Con-
trol Project, which got under-
way in Mt. Pleasant Monday, is
meeting with amaz ng results,
according to evidence offered for
public inspection Tuesday.
Acording to J. E. Kenedy, of
the Fish and Wildlife Div sion of
the Department of Interior, who
is working with the local com-
mittee, about seven hundred poi-
soned baits were placed in the
var ous buildings at the oil mill,
and in a few outlying places,
Monday morning. Tuesday morn-
ing the crew returned to the lo-
cation to examine results and
over five hundred very dead rats
were piled into a truck to be
hauled away.
Before they were disposed of,
however, the grhn rema ns were
placed on display at the court
house square, where
were made of them.
Tuesday’s haul, Mr. Kennedy
stated, is merely a sample of re-
sults obtaind from campaigns
carried on where rats thrive; and
according to Fred Schuman, man-
ager of the oil mill, if there is any
truth to government estimates
that one rat will eat two dollars
(worth of feed a year and will
ruin $20.00 during the same
period the 500 dead varmints
meant a saving of at least. $10,000
to his company.
Work in other sections of Mt.
Pleasant is already underway,
Mr. Kenndy reported, and since
the rodent control project has
been incorporated on a perma-
nent basis, it will be only a mat-
ter of a short time unt l the city
can expect to be entirely free of
rats and mice. 4
NUERNBERG, Germany, July
8 (IP) — Eleven high ranking
German army officers pleaded
innocent today when arraigned
before a United States military
court on war crimes charges. Two
field marshals and nine generals
were accused of mass executions
and tortures of civilians.
The indictment charged that at
least 13,000 persons were execut-
ed by their order because of res-
istance attacks against the war-
time German occupation of the
Balkans. The bill also accused
them of deporting civilians for
forced labor, plundering proper-
ty and destroying cities need-
lessly. ;
Those arranged were Field
Marshal Wilhelm List, command-
er of the German Twelth Army;
Field Marshal Maximilian Von
Weichs, commander of the Ger-
man Second Army; Col. Gen.
Lothar Rendulic, commander of
the Norwegian campaign; and
Generals Walter Kuntze, Her-
mann Forertsch, Wilhelm Speidel
Kurt Von Getner, Helmut Selmy,
Hubert Lanz, Ernest Demner
and Ernst Von Leyser.
Gen. Franz Boehme, who ’was
to have been a defendant, com-
mitted suicide soon after the in-
dictment of May 10.
Russia Renews Effort To Put
Greek Aid Under UN Direction
maned UN action to get all for-
eign military personnel out of
Greece.
Earlier,
operators. representing about
one-fourth of the soft coal out-
put in the United States, are
outside the fold. Even they ap-
pear res:gned to follow up and
sign with Lewis. Although they
have called a meeting among
themselves to restudy the new
pact before officially signing on
the dotted line.
The miners are now idle, but a
word from John L. Lewis will
send them back to work in pits
operated by owners who gi<n the
new pact. The union strategy
board ratified the agreement last
night, but the formal signing by
both sides was delayed until to-
day. :
The new contract is underst jd
to give miners $13.05 for an eight-
hour day as compared with their
former $11.85 for a nine-hour
day. ;
Speaking at a news conference
after the signing of an agreement
that averted a nation-w de soft
coal strike, Lewis described the
pact as “interesting.” He said it
would be interesting to watch it
m operat on because it is the first
negotiated since passage of what
he described as the “Taft slave
law,” a reference to the bill which
puts new restrictions on unions.
Lewis also accused the Repub-
lican party of “selling out to fi-
nance and industry” in return for
contributions to the 1946 Con-
gressional campaign which gave
it control of CongretUs, Said
Lews:
“One thing about a Republican
Congress, they stay bought.”
The leader of the United Mine
Workers told newsmen he would
be the chairman of the three-man
board of trustees which will ad-
minister the huge welfare fund of
the miners under tne new con-
tract. The royalty to finance the
fund will go up from 5c on a ton
of coal to 10c. Other members
of the board will be Ezra Hom,
Cleveland, Ohio, operator, and
Thomas Murray of Net*- York the
neutral member.
Lewis told newsmen with un-
mistakeable pride that the new
contract has “more real value
for the individual mine workers
than has been hitherto negoti-
ated in this or any other industry
through collective bargaining and
he added: “We hope it is the be.
ginning of a new era in the in-
dustry.” \
be
Among these the
memorandum mentioned the ab-
sence of a rate of exchange for
' the Reichsmark.
German exports, it added, are
priced by British and American
authorities in American dollars
at so-called world market prices.
International prices, said the
Belgians, remain in accordance
with the gold German price pat-
tern. :
The note called this an artifi-
cial price structure and asserted
that in fact, if not in name, it
amounts to multiple currency
prices and is contrary to the
Bretton Woods agreement.
PRAGUE, July 8 (IP)---The
government of Czechoslovakia
announced today that it would game of tne series will be played
take part in a European confer-
ence on the Marshall recovery
plan to start in Paris Saturday.
The anoun cement said that the
Agreement Is Signed To Return
150,000 Coal Miners To Work
WASHINGTON, July 8 UP) —
An agreement sending 150,000
coal miners back to the pits after
a ten-day vacation was signed
today by a segment of the in-
dustry and John L. Lewis’ United
Mine Workers. The pact provides
that the miners will work when
willing and able at the highest
wages in history.
On hand at Lewis’ headquar-
ters to sign the new record-
breaking wage contract were
negotiators for Northe-n and
Western Commerical and Steel
Company captive mines. All told,
these mines employ about 75
pe. ,‘ont of the nation’s 400,000
soft coal miners.
Only tne southern group of
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GENEVA, Switzerland, July 8
- (fP) — A memorandum sharply
critical of British and American
policies was circulated by Bel-
gium today among delagates at
the economic commission for
Europe, a United Nations body.
It agreed yesterday to hear a
Belgium expert present his
country’s case on commercial re-
lations with Germany. The Bel-
gian memorandum was circulat-
ed as a preliminary note to the
statement by the expert next
Thursday. Previously the Soviet
bloc of countries had abandoned
strenuous efforts to prevent or
delay discussion of the German
problem.
The Belgium note blamed the
British-American policies for the
modest level of trade with Ger-
many. It said Germany was
traditionally for Belgium both a
market and a supplier of first
rate importance. A chief hin-
drance to trade, said the Bel-
gians, was the number and com-
petition of formalities which
have to be undergone before a
commercial transaction can
concluded. Among these
George R. Blackburn, former
resident of Mt. Pleasant, passed
away at 3:00 o’clock Tuesdayi
morning at his ’home in Jeffer-
son, following a stroke he suffer, j
ed on July 3rd, while en route
WASHINGTON, July 8 (ZP)—
Senator William Jenner of Indi-
ana has asked for an investiga-
tion of the way in which courts
martial are being conducted in
Europe. Jenner has made the
request in a letter to Wlar Sec-
retary Patterson.
The Senator said in part that I
he can offer proof that some
prisoners are not allowed to em-
ploy legal counsel of their own
choice.
Jenner himself is a veteran,
serving overseas as a captain in
the air force.
salaries and maintenance and
this is insufficient. The capita
appropriation from the state
brings in approximately $38,000,
but operating costs amount to
$59,000 if the minimum wage of
$2,000, leaving $21,000 to be rais-
ed in some way.
The Mt Pleasant school may
i be penalized by losing its affilia-
tion credits later on unless it
complies with state require-
ments, Mr. Brown predicted, and
, it is up to the citizens whether
I or not they vote the tax increase
Mrs. C. E. Capel of Littlefield,
and T. J., G. W., A C. and M ss
Lizzie Blackburn, all of Jeffer-
son. Other surv vors include two
sisters, Mrs. Riddle of this city
and Mrs. J. W. Vest of Gilmer; '
twelve grandchildren and several
great-grandchildren.
Funcra*! services were set for
2:00 o’clock Wlednesday after-
noon at Marshall Spr ngs church
in Titus County, with burial fol-
lowing in the Barrett cemetery.
Superintendent Ray D. Brown
addressed the Rotary Club Tues-
day on the problems facing the
local school system as a result of
the recent law passed by the Leg-
islature setting minimum salaries
for teachers.
According to Mr. Brown, Mt.
Pleasant is in an unfortunate po-
sition because there are more
thnn 1,500 scholastics registered
arid therefore the school system
will not come under the provi-
sions for rural aid by which
smaller schools can secure ap-
propriations for operation. This
school must either finance its
budget by an increased tax rate
or by raising renditions by at
least 50 per cent. The former is
the more • democratic way, he
| said. :
Out of every dollar taken in
by taxation, the local system
•to visit his sister here, Mrs. D. A. must pay 45c on its bonds and in-
R ddle. • ' terest, leaving the remainder for
Mr. Blackburn was born in
Harrison County on August 14,
1859, but moved with his parents
to Titus County in 1876. He lived
here until 1918, when he moved
to Cass County and several years
later to his present home in Jeff,
erson.
Deceased was a devout mem-
ber of the Baptist Church and
served as min ster of that faith
until he was forced to retire be-
cause of failing health. He is sur.
vived by six children, as follows: j
W. C. Blackburn of San Antonio, j
I the past and lose all the nest
teachers to other schools which
will pay them more. However,
regardless of the result, ever-
1 thing possible will be done to
maintain efficiency, Mr. Brown
i stated, but added that since the
I schools are necessary, lot’s have
the best.
H. D. Vickers and Leroy Stone
were introduced as new mem-
bers and visitors were A. W.
Bridges of the Shreveport club,
Howard Lien of Omaha, K. O.
Hayes of Tyler, Rev. T. P. Ball
of Athens and Rev II. L. Fuller-
ton of Dallas.
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