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JMt. pleasant Jtatlg ^imes
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Volume XXIX
Member Associated Pre*
Wednesday Evening, November 5, 1917
Mt Pleasant, Texas,
NUMBER 172
(ZP> & International News Photos
[ HUGHES MEETS PRESS AFTER SURPRISE ‘BOAT’ HOP
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Predicts Tax
Slash Certain
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Newsmen and friends surround Hughes after unannounced Hight.
Other survivors
giant Hughes flying ieflJwingers> observers
CHICAGO, Nov. 5 (ZP)—Three
market
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (ZP)—A
The Weather
Washington
Booker
T.
The
day at a farm outlook conference ng grain.
dollars.
scheduled
refuting those charges.
large
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losing
MASONIC NOTICE
Shoe
leader Hungarian
Independent Party
Flees From Country
Churchill Opposes
Burmalndependence
Russia Is Defeated
On Proposal Troops
Be Taken From Korea
House Subcommittee
Cancels Visits For
Building Code Checks
Belter Prospects For
Trade Agreement By
British And Russians
Smaller Wheat Crop
Predicted Hext Year
Because DryWeather
Grain Exchanges Ask
Investigation Into
Trading Operations
Grain Experts Say
Farmers Will Save
Large Amount Wheat
Frank Steelman Dies
East Part of County
On Tuesday Evening
B. & P. W. Club Holds
Business Meeting
On Tuesday Evening
W. S. Moody Dies of
Stroke Wednesday
Morning at Yorktown
French Cabinet May
Be Strengthened By
Three Ex-Premiers
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East Texas—Fair and cool-
er in the east and south to-
-night. Warmer in the north-
west portion Thursday.
posal to send gold abroad say the
administration would ask Con-
1946. when the Houston negro
sought to enter the state universi-
ty to study law. He was refused
admission on the basis of his race,
and two months later he filed
suit against the state.
The case has gone to the civil
appeals court from a Travis Coun-
ty district court and Sweatt says
he will carry the matter to the
supreme court in Washington if
necessary.
DANISH PREMIER HANDS
RESIGNATION IN TO KING
kick-off
7:30 o'clock.
Center
County
games
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (ZP)—
Government grain experts pre-
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19,306 Labor Union
Officers Swear They
Are Not Communists
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---------------—
78
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48
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Clear
' ganizations of laborers, peasant
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AUSTIN, Nov. 5 (TP)—Another
chapter in the Hernan Marion
Sweatt case is slated to be writ-
ten next January.
The case of the Houston negro
Gaulle’s postman seeking to force his en-
try into the University of Texas
law school was scheduled today
for submission In the Third Court
of Civil Appeals January 4, when
oral arguments will be given.
The case attracted national at-
been a popular figure in French Mention, beginning Jn February,
politics.
It is understood that conversa-
tions are under way even now
among party representatives in-1
terested n building a strong cabi-
net. under Ramadier.
Declares Pressure
CabinelI faces
Party Spill
re- ____
Local Negro Team
Plays Center Point
On Thursday Night
Byron Reaves, president of the
school board, stated Wednesday
morning that the board preferred
to sell the property to the city
rather than to outside inerests,
and unless the city agreed t>
meet the $25,000 offer the board
would again advertise for bids
from individuals.
Nevertheless, lie believes
of one billion bushels is
possible next year compared with
one billion 4u6 million this year.
A billion bushel crop, he' said,
would permit export of 200 mil-
lion bushels compared with an
export goal of half a billion bush-
els from this year's crop.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (ZP)—
Democratic Representative Ro-
bert Doughton of North Carolina
predicts that the renewed re-
publican attempt to slash income
taxes four billion dollars a year
will run into another killing pres-
idential veto.
The House veteran, who man-
aged tax legislation when the de-
mocrats were in control of Con-
gress, says flatly the new GOP
tax proposal will fail.
Doughton adds, ‘ unless the re-
publicans can show that we can
meet our domestic needs, pay for
foreign relief commitments and
pay on the debt, it is my opinion
that they cannot override an-
other presidential veto of their
tax bill.”
Doughton says also that there
is no way of knowing now the
amount to be needed eventually
for European relief.
Two attempts to override tax
cut vetoes failed earlier this year.
The House sustained the first
one, making Senate action un-
necessary. The House voted to
override the veto of the second
revised measure, but its sponsors
were unable to muster the neces-
sary two-thirds vote in the Sen-
ate :
Temple Lodge No. 70 wll con-
fer the Fellow Craft degree on
three candidates at the Masonic
Hall Thursday night, beginning
at 7:30. W. T. Simms, W. M.
The Business and Professional
Women’s Club held its regular
business meeting at the Pleasant
Hotel Tuesday night with iki at-
tendance of 37 members.
Mrs. Ruth Russell, Miss Nadine
Massey and Miss Mary Reeves
were introduced as new members.
“Primary ballots" for choosing
topics for the programs for 19-*<3
were distributed. After the vot-
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changes have challenged accus-
aations that they are riddled with
so-called gambling.
dents of the Chicago, Kansas City
and Minneapolis grain markets
have called for a congressional
investigation o|j trading and the
grain situation in general.
They sent their request in a let-
City Declines $25,000
Proposal From School
The city council, in its regular
meeting Tuesday afternoon, de-
clined an offer by the board of
trustees of the Mt. Pleasant In-
1 dependent School District for the
sale of the west ward school pro-
perty at $25,000, and at the same
time renewed their offer to pur-
chase it at $20,000. The council
also voted against a proposition
to submit the $25,000 offer to a
vote of the people. •
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (ZPi—
A nineteen man special House
committe on foreign aid wrestl-
ed today with a proposal to set
up a new- government agency to
rule distribution of food and fuel
under the Marshall Plan.
Such an emergency foreign re-
construction authority has been
suggested in a tentative report
by the group’s acting chairman,
Representative Christian Herter
of Massachusetts, but no decision
was reached today.
Members of the special House
committee studied Europe’s needs
during the summer, and what
they decide may be the basis for
the handling of the Marshall Plan
in the House. »
In the special committee, there
is””considerable difference of opin-
ion over whether assistance shall
be granted witout political strings
attached. \
PRAGUE, Nov. 5 (TP)—Czechos-
lovakia’s coalition cabinet has
been summoned to a special ses-
sion in an effort to reach a com-
promise between rightists and
— ---------3 in Prague
predict ^hat President Edouard
Benes wiFJ appear before the
cabinet to make a personal appeal
for a settlement of the differ-
ences. ;
The crisis was instigated by
Slovakian communists insisting
on a larger share of influence in
the government. It was the first
serious break in Czech politics in
more than two years of postwar
jaffairs.
The crisis has brought about
I a drastic split in the eight-party
| coalition of Czectis and Slovaks
’ which forms the national front
steering committee for th<? nation
| Specifically, it was brought about
I by a communist demand that or-.
I rfQtlOzdlAtSn 1 n m m *-» 4 1
and resistance veterans be given
seats at coalition council tables >
in the semi-autonomous state of I
Slovak and in the nation itself.
These demands last night re-
sulted in the walkout of three
parties from a national front
meeting in Prague. The Slovak
democrats, the Catholic people's of the naton’s leading grain ex’-
party and the powerful Czech
national socialist party left the
conference and an authoritative
in Lon- jsource sayS the social democrats
. Only the communists
and their sympathizers remained
to the end. ,
er
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (ZP) —
It has been disclosed that 19,306
nawvn wvui aon. uu-' un‘on officers have filed affida-
gress***to* “authorize** a European j vits disavowing communism. The
1 figure was released by the na-
tional labor relations board which
had set last Friday as a deadline
for receiving such oaths. The af-
fidavits came from 66 AFL un-
ions, fourteeh CIO unions and 30
AIRPLANE MAGNATE Howard
Hughes takes his $25,000,000 con-
troversial flying boat on her
maiden flight 70 feet above the
choppy sea of Los Angeles-Long
Beach harbor. Piloting the big
ship, which has been under con-
struction for five years and sub-
ject of a Senate war investigating
committee probe, on what was to
have been a taxi test. Hughes
gunned the eight 3,000-horse-
power engines and kept the giant
plane airborne for approximately
one mile. , (Jaternationsl)
LAKE SUCCESS, Nov. 5 (ZP) —
Russia has been handed another
setback in the discussions on
Korea before the United Nations
assembly political committee.
The 57-nation group rejected to-
day a projosal by Russia that
American and Russian troops be
withdrawn from Korea by Jan-
uary 1.
Immediately after this defeat,
Soviet Delegate Andrei Gromy-
ko announced that Russia would
not participate in voting on an
American plan for UN supervis-
ed elections in Korea before
March 31.
a donation to
Considering Plan To Send Gold
To Assist European Recovery I
WASHINGTON. Nov. 5 (A1)— nosal to send sold abroad sav the I
Plans Under Way For
Building Home For
Negro Legion Post
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (ZP)—
Top administration officials are
seriously considering a proposal
to send some of the United States’
huge gold hoard to Europe in
connection with the Marshall Re-
covery Plan.
If the plan is approved by the
White House, it probably will be
presented to the special session
of Congress as part of Secretary
of State Marshall’s program for
helping Europe regain its econ-
omic health. This program is
no.v being prepared by State,
Treasury and Commerce Depart-
ment officials for consideration
by President Truman next week-
*Xjid. :
Officials familiar with the pro-
Frank Steelman, resident of the
Concord community in the east
part of the county, passed away
at his home there late Tuesday
evening.
■Decease^ was 59 years of age
and had resided in Concod for the
past eighteen years, where he
held the respect and esteem of
a zW ide circle of friends. He is
survived by his widow, Mrs. Eth-
el Steelman, and three daughters,
Misses Marlone, Frankie and Oi-
lcan Steelman, all of whom live
at home. Other survivors in-
clude five brothers and four sis-
ters. :
Funeral services were held at
I Concord at 2:30 o’clock Wednes-
I day afternoon, under the direc-
tion of Rev. J. O. Jolley. Burial
took pladFIh the nearby cemetery.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (ZP)—
The calling of Congress for an
emergency session has interfer-
ed with the plans of a House labor
subcommittee. This group had
planned to visit several large
cities in the United States to
check on 'complaints involving
municipal building codes and lo-
cal union labor regulations. A
members of the subcommittee,
Representative Wingate Lucas of
Texas, says the trip has been
called off because of the congres-
sional meeting.
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stabilization fund of approximate-
ly three billion dollars to be ad-
ministered by the treasury. This
fund would be in addition to the
six to seven billion dollars in gifts
and loans which will probably I
be recommended to feed Europe J independents,
and revive lagging production.
The stabilization fund would
not be used until the Marshall Re-
covery Plan is well under way,
perhaps late next year. At that
time the treasury might dip into
the proposed three billion dollar
fund to finance supplements of
gold and dollars to various coun-
tries for use as reserves to back
up their own local currencies.
Officials most familiar with the
plan say that once Europe starts
to regain her economic footing,
local currencies will start to re-
gain their real value, although
this may not be apparent to the
people. Therefore, great advan-
tage could be derived from mak-
ing available certain amounts of
gold as currency reserves to re-
place those that have been drain-
ed off both by the war and post-
war imports of essentials. .------- ----------=-
British Foreign Secretary Er-1 The complaints about the build-
nest Bevin suggested several mg codes were that many mu-
weeks ago that the United States nicipalities had unreasonable reg-
should redistribute its gold at ulations which increased build-
Fort Knox to increase purchas- ing costs and indirectly retarded
ing \power of other countries, the building program. The other
However, official^ backing the complaints were tfcit labor cos's
current plan say their proposal had risen amazingly high becaus”
is not tied to Bevin’s suggestion, of so-called “featherbedding
because none of the gold or dol- tactics,
iars could be spent in
transactions.
Warplane Contract
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (ZP) —
Senators investigating the How-
ard Hughes wartime airplane
contracts have been told that out-
side pressure was brought on the
war production board in 1943 to
prevent cancellation of the con-
tract for the i
boat. The witness was Charles E.
Wilson who headed the wartime
aircraft production board.
Under questioning by the Sen-
ate war investigating committee,
Wilson said that one of those who
brought pressure to keep the
flying boat contract alive was
Henry J. Kaiser.
Before Wilson took the stand,
committee chairman Homer Fer-
guson of Michigan outlined the
objectives of the renewed hear- |
ings, saying the committee seeks
to determine any deficiences in
certain procurement procedures
that brought about failure to
produce flyable planes for use
during the war.
LONDON, Nov. 5 (ZP) — Win-
ston Churchill said today that he
is opposed to giving independ-
ence to Burma for fear that it
then may be bathed in blood. He
made known his stand in the
House of Commons where the
government has introduced a
bill for the independence of
Burma.
Churchill said that about 12,-
000 murders are reported to have
occurred in Burma in the first
seven months of this year, and
expressed the view that was only
a prelude to greater violence and
compared the situation to that of
India.
Earlier today, Prime Minister
Attlee admitted that he was dis-
appointed that Burma had decid-
ed against becoming a British
Dominion. Attlee, however, urg-
ed Commons to pass the bill
granting her freedom.
LONDON, Nov. 5 (ZP) — Pros-
pects for a British-Russian trade
agreement have taken a turn for
the better.
A government source 1
don says Harold Wilson, presi- I a]so |cft
dent of Britain’s board of trade, \ ... ■
probably will return to Moscow I
this month to resume negotia- |
tions. Wilson had tried to work i
out a trade pact with the Soviets
last summer, but the talks broke
down when Russia demanded a
sealing down in her wartime debt
to Britain.
Now there are signs that both
countries will make consessions
they could not agree to last sum-
mer. Britain is in a better posi-
tion to meet Russia’s demands •
for guaranteed deliveries on
manufactured goods and it is un-
derstood Russia will not call for
part payment for her goods in
The presi-1 price to feed to animals,
felt to be particularly the case i
with animals which will not be
ready for market for several
months . :
These farmers arc said to fear
that something may happen to I
ter to’ Ohio’s Republican Senator j bring down livestock prices in the i
Robert Taft and Michigan’s Re-1 meantime. In that event, the
publican Representative Jesse farmer would not get his wheat ,
Wolcott, co-chairman of the joint money back,
committee on the economic
port.
The letter asks the committee
to set a hearing at the earliest
government expert thinks next possible date. It says that in the
year's wheat crop is likely to be j past month, President Truman,
Clark have
of $30,000, at which time the city
offered their present bid. Later
the school came clown to $25,000,
and refused to go lower because
officials stated that was the low-
est figure they could accep* and
still carry on their current plans
for a new building.
The city's refusal to meet the,
school’s second offer, accord ng
to Mayor Williams A. Ferguson,
was for the same reason . . . that
The school board and city coun- lit would leave the city in th? red
cil have been attempting to get on construction of a new city hall
together on the sale of the pro- | and auditorium.
party for several weeks. Original-
ly the school offered it at a price
William Samuel Moody, form-
er Mt. Pleasant resident, passed
away at an early hour Wednes-
day morning at Yorktown from
the effects of a stroke which he
suffered two days earlier. This
was the second attack, as he had
also been stricken earlier this
year.
A Thomas funeral car left
Wednesday to return with the
body, with 'funeral services ar-
ranged for 4:00 o’clock Thursday
at Commerce, his birthplace.
Deceased was 63 years of age
and is survived by his former
wife, Mrs. Alm'S Keith Moodyt
and two daughters, Mrs. Gordon
Brock of this city and Mrs. R. F.
French of Shreveport. He also
leaves two brothers and three
sisters, as follows: J. C. Moody
of Dallas, B. D. Moody of Fort.
Worth, Mrs. Emory Wood of
j Commerce, Ga., Mrs. Neal Bar-
ker of Houston and Mrs. Mayme
Jordan of Commerce.
diets that the nation’s livestock !
farmers will save at least 75 mil-
lion bushels of wheat, three-
quarters of the food conservation
target.
Brewers, distillers, bakers and
public eating places have promis-
ed the citizens committee to,cut:
down by 25 million bushels or
more to help meet the administra"
tion’s export goal of one hundred
million bushels.
Six weeks ago, agriculture de-
partment authorities estimated
that livestock farmers would feed
at least three hundred and fifty
million bushels of wheat this
crop year because of the short
Last year they fed
million bushels of
ill
VIENNA, Austria, Nov. 5 (ZP)—
The leader of the Hungarian in-
dependent party. Zoltati Pfeiffer,
is said to have fled from Budapest
with his wife and daughter. The
information is contained in a dis-
patch in the American-sponsored
Vienna newspaper Wiener Kurier.
The dispatch says the Hungarian
political leader is staying with
friends in Vienna.
A well-informed Hungarian
spokesman was quoted in Buda-
pest dispatches last week as say-
ing the arrest of Pittsburgh-born
Elizabeth Pallos was connected
with Pfeiffer party affairs. Miss
Pallos, a secretary for the As-
sociated Press in Berlin, has been
held incommunicado for the past
eigly days.
The Hungarian people’s attor-
ney last Friday asked Parliament
to waive Pfeiffer’s parliamentary
immunity for his provisional ar-
rest. because his party has oppos-
ed the communists.
At the installation of officers
for the colored Legion members
by Jessup-Reed Post 210 Tues-
day night, conducted by white
I Legionnaires, ft was ,announced
that plans are under way for the
construction within 90 days of
a meeting place for the Negroes.
Installing officers were Past
District Commander D. L. Merz-
bacher, Marshall Branch. Dan
I for Latimer and H. L. O'Briant.
; Sammie Justis® was inducted as
Point, large Camp commander for the Negroes, who
school, has played two | have been meeting at Rutherford
games this season, losing to I Hall. They will meet agnif next
Pittsburg 34 to 0, and winning | Monday night to prepare for the
from Gilmer, 6 to 0. Booker T. J Armistice Day celebration.
Washington has also played two Colors for the Negro division
games, losing to Clarksville 19, were presented at the meeting,
to 0- and winning from Sulphur ' compliments of Latimer’s Shoe
i Springs 19 ,o 12. i Store.
corn crop,
about 185
wheat.
These officials now have re- ing, the results will be sent to the
vised their feeding estimate to i national organization, which will
around 275 million bushels. I compile them and later formu-
Information from the farms in- j late the topics.
dicate that many farmers who ' The club made
own both wheat and livestock | the Chinese nursing fund, which
feel that the grain is too high in i will be applied to the rehabih-
. This is ' tation of that country.
World’s largest plane takes surprise experimental hop with Designer Hughes at the controls.
Czechoslovak sPecial tommillse
Studies New Agency
Under Marshall Plan
PARIS, Nov. 5 (ZP)—Usually
reliable French informants say
Premier Paul Ramadier is con-
sidering adding Eduard Herriot
to the cabinet. Herriot is presi-
dent of the national assembly.
In addition, Ramadier and his
Appeals Court Will
i Hear Negro Sludent
Case Next January
so-called
. Lucas says that the sub-
trade committee received word ’that
workers in some building areas
were counting khe number of
•bricks placed down each day and
the exact space covered by paint-
ers. The information supplied
the House group was that these
1 workers refused to go past a
I specified number of bricks or a
specified space to be painted, con-
tending that they had done a
day’s work.
Whatever the merit of the
charges, legislation affecting them
probably will not be drawn up
for many months, because of the
I cancellation of the House sub-
committee’s trip.
socialist party advisors also have'
under consideration the addition
of two other former French pre-
miers, Leon Blum and Paul Rey-
naud, to the cabinet.
These sources say the general
belief is that the present stream-
lined Ramadier cabinet does not
have sufficient support in the
national assembly to lead France |
through the perilous winter
months ahead. Ramadier recent- j
ly streamlined his cabinet to elim-1
inate ministers sympathetic to |
General Charles de C—
powerful new Rally of the French
People.
The informant asserts that Her-
riot. especially, would give the
cabinet the confidence it needs
from the deputies, as he has long
much smaller because of dry wea- Attorney General Clark have The Booker T. Washington
: ther in the Great Plains. % I charged that’ rising food costs high school football team will
The opinion was expressed to- can be blamed on sp-ealled gambl- play Center Point, at Tiger Sta-
7 '...'.I. ' . . The exchanges say i dium Thursday night, with the
by Robert E. Post, wheat special- j they want a hearing so they can : initial
ist of the Department of Agricul- produce facts, figures and records
lure.
I a crop
COPENHAGEN, Denmark,
Nov. 5 (ZP) — Danish Premier
Knud Kristensen handed his res-
ignation to King Frederick today,
but agreed to keep his coalition
government in office until a new
cabinet iB approved by the king.
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