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Mark's Episcopal
Dallas Degree Team
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Here Saturday Night
Churches Prepare
For Union Services
Week Before Easter
GREEK GUERRILLAS SAID
BUFFER heavy losses
Practically all of the work in
District Court for the week was
suspended Thursday afternoon at
the conclusion of the case of the
state versus C T. Neugent, charg-
ed with possession of whiskey for
the purpose of sale.
A jury in the case returned
a verdict for acquittal after be-
ing in retirement about twenty
minutes. :
Construction work on the new
Darby residential addition, locat-
ed in the southeast part of the
city and fronting on the Dain-
gerfield highway, is scheduled to
get under way immediately, ac-
cording to H. T. Darby and Creed
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A degree team from Landmark
Lodge in Dallas will visit Mt.
Pleasant Saturday night to con-
fer the Master Mason’s degree on
one candidate at the Masonic Hall,
according to the Worshipful Mas-
ter, W. T. Simms.
This team is said to be especial-
ly good and a good attendance is
erpected to witness the work.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (TP)—
The Justice Department today
announced the arrest for depor-
tation of Alexander Bittieman of
Nev/ York, a national commit-
teeman for the communist party
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Says Criticism European Plan Is
Based On Getting Full Value
WASHINGTON, Jan 16 (TP)—
Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich.)
suggested today that “half the
criticism” of the European recove-
ry program would disappear if
means are provided so the United
States “can follow our dollar
abroad and see we are getting
our money’s worth.”
Tile Senate foreign relations
committee chairman made the
comment after John J. McCloy,
president of the International
Bank, recommended that no “fuz-
zy loans” be made under the Mar-
shall Plan “in order to avoid the
consequences of the English loan.”
. McCloy referred to the $3,-
tors are Creed Caldwell and John
4S. Hanes. Grading has been
completed on the first unit and
lumber is already on the ground
for the erection of a suitable sup-
ply house. Work will get under
way as soon as the weather per-
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The accompanying cut is an
engineer’s drawing of the addi-
tion, showing the extensiveness
of the project, and its location
with reference to established
streets.
a number of occasions,
Americans were threatened but
saved by satisfactory identifica-
tion. The Texas Company build-
ing would have been set afire
had not the American flag been
produced.”
Boucher said the British con-
sulate and the chartered Bank of
India, Australia and China' were
“smouldering ruins.”
The riot was reported to have
started soon after noon near the
British consulate. Some demon-
strators wore the uniform of the
Chinese Youth Corps.
HOUSTON, Jan. 16 (TP)—A
spectacular five-alarm fire wreck-
ed a heavily-jstocked five-story
warehouse in the downtown dis-
trict and invaded an adjoining
wool establishment before it was
controlled last night. Owners es-
timated the loss at $2,000,000.
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lend lease account with the Unit-
ed States.
The negotiations were broken
off last July. The envoy said
ATHENS, Jan. 16 (TP)—Press
dispatches form Salonika said to-
day guerrilla forces suffered 110
casualties in an engagement south
of Nigrita. A war ministry com-
munique on other brushes
brought insurgent losses in the
past 24 hours to 300. Sixty-four
were reported killed in ambush
near Lamia.
750 000,000 loan by the United
States to Great Britain as “in-
effective.” He said the loan has
been criticized here and in Eng-
land because there was a “lack
of knowledge” as to “what the
money was used for.”
Vandenberg, apparently agree-
ing, said that if a loan protective
feature can be placed “at the base
of the ERP (European recovery
program)” that this “would do
more to satisfy the American pub-
lic than anything that can be
done.” ;
Hearings on this plan continu-
ed as Secretary of State Marshall
and Senator Taft (R-O.) differ-
ed sharply over how much the
self-heljp program lor sixteen
western European nations should
cost. The administration has ask-
ed $6,800,000,000 for the first fif-
teen months’ operation of the pro-
posed four-year plan.
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Caldwell, developers of the Area.
Recently approval was c;w»ed
from the Federal Housing Ad-
ministration for fifty-nine lots in
the addition, and present plans
call for construction of fifty-nine
moderate priced homes. Contrac-
HONG KONG, Jan. 16 (TP) —
The U.S. Counsul General at
Canton reported by telephone
today that rioting Chinese mobs
j had injured six Britons, burned
the British consulate and threat-
ened American property during
a three-hour demonstration.
The British dispatched a war-
ship to Canton to evacuate Bri-
tons, if necessary. The Chinese
were reported incensed over the
eviction by the British of Chin-
ese from the walled city of Kow-
loon, on the mainland of this
crown colony.
H. A. Boulcher, U.S. consul
general at Canton, said no Am-
ericans were injured, but report-
ed:
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Confirmation was received
Thursday for the selection of new
officials for St. Mark’s Episcopal
Church as follows:
Dr. C. D. Ogilvie, senior war-
den- B. M. Sandlin, junior war-
den; Nat Hoggatt, Roland Green,
George O’Neal, vestrymen; Mrs.
B. M. Sandlin, secretary-treasur-
er. Mr Sandlin is delegate to the
general diocesan convention at
Dallas January 28 and 29.
The program at the regular
meeting of the Kiwanis Club at
noon Friday was a presentation
of over a hundred colored slides
of views taken in New Guinea. •
Australia and in the ’ United
States. The picutres were taken
on 35 mm film by Elburn Crane,
who follows the camera as a hob-
by, and who made his own pre-
sentation Friday.
All of Mr. Crane’s pictures
were takpn with precision lenses
and were professional in charac-
ter. All were unusual shots and
were greatly enjoyed by the club
members. :
Prior to the regular program
an appeal was made for the club’s
support of the March of Dimes
program, now under way, and
Miss Jean Batten of New York,
made announcement of a benefit
show at the American Legion
hall next week, proceeds of which
will go into the Legion’s building
fund.
Guests at the meeting were F.
L. Killebrew of the Paris eluo,
and Dr. J. E. Ball, Mt. Pleasant
physician.
Ruhr Threaten Peace In Europe
BERLIN, Jan. 16 (TP)—Some stoppages are certain when people j
are hungry.
Simultaneously, as Germany’s
sputtering political situation boil-1
ed up, several old line German1
communists rdvealed (they had1
split with Moscow-directed com-
munists and formed an opposition
party. :
The Moscow radio added its
bit by broadcasting a special
program to hungry Ruhr miners
seeking to prove that the way
to more potatoes was through the
communist party. /
The Ruhr, which has remained
comparatively quiet since last
winter’s food riots, sprang sud-
denly into the European picture
when the 1,550 calory subsistence
ration level dropped in many
places to 1,200 arid even 1,100
levels. :
Although British-American food
imports have been on schedule, |
collections from German farmers
have not.
Against the advice of then-
union leaders, Ruhr workers have
launched the protest strikes.
In the midst of these develop-
ments, the “Proctocol M” docu-
ment popped up simultaneously
at several places in Germany.
“Proctocol M” was reported to
be an operation order from the
Cominform, communist “interna-
tional information bureau,” for
a paralyzing strike in the Ruhr
in March, aimed at smashing the
Marshall Plan.
Foreign officials in London
said they believed the document
was “genuine."
Whether it is an actual docu-
men) of the Cominform or not the
plan’s orders closely follow known
German communist aims and i-
appeared that hunger threatened
to touch off the desired general
strike two months ahead of sched-
ule. •
Interviews with known old line
■ communists disclosed that the
difference over the Marshall Plan
have split the Western German
communists.
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NEW DELHI, Jan. 16 (TP)—Mo-
handas K Gandhi, bent on bring-
ing communal harmony to India,
fasted into a fourth day today,
too weak to walk. The Indian
government, sympathetic, acted fo
allay bad feeling in its own coun-
try and in Pakistan.
Gandhi, Hindu spiritual lead-
er and believer in i?on-violence
t0 achieve reforms, started his
fifteenth fast at 11:00 a. m. Tues-
day » :
India, whose population is
mainly Hindu and Sikh, announc-
ed today i« would begin immedi-
ate payment of 40,000,000 pounds,
about $160,000,000, due the pre-
dominantly Moslem dominion of
Pakistan under a financial agree-
ment.
The communique said this was
decided upon last night as “the
government’s contribution to Ma-
hatma Gandhi’s efforts for peace
and good will’ and was intended
“to remove one cause of suspicion
and fridtion between the two
countries,” now at odds over trib-
al raids against Kashmir. The
money represents cash balances
of Pakistan citizens in Delhi.
Auto Workers
Seek Anolher
Wage Increase
DETROIT, Jan. 16 (TP) — The
CIO United Auto Workers an-
nounced today they would seek
a wage of 25c an hour and an
additional 5c for other benefits
in forthcoming negotiations with
the motor car industry.
The demands, approved L</ the
union’s 22-man executive board,
are aimed at obtaining a third
round of cost-of -living adjust-
ments since the war.
Also included are demands for
a guaranteed weekly and a three
weeks vacation for workers with
five years seniority.
A 25c wage increase boost av-
erage pay for the auto workers
to roughly $1.75 an hour.
The additional 5c an
would cover hospitalization,
health, medical and surgical in-
surance.
“A 25c wage increase is neces-
sary,” the board’s statement said,
“to restore the« buying power of
auto workers’ wages to the level
attained in June, 1946, the last
month of effective price control.”
The board said it used the fed-
eral bureau of labor statistics
consumer price index in deter-
mining the 25c figure. .
Either Chysler Corp, or Gen-
eral Motors Corp. Is expected to
be the UAW-CIO’s first 1948
target. Ford Motor Go., other
members of the big three, has a
contract that expires later in the
year.
East Texas—^Partly cloudy
in north, mostly cloudy in
south portions tonght. Partly
cloudy Saturday. Colder to-
night and Saturday. Lowest
temperatures tonight .8 to
24 in north and 25 to 32 in
the interior of south portion.
Mt Pleasant weather for
the past 24 hours recorded
by Bill Lyle at the filter
plant is as follows:
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AUSTTIN, Tex., Jan. 16 (TP)—
Dr. W. R. Newton’s two year pris-
on sentence has been reduced to
60 days because he has given two
blood transfusions to fellew pri-
soners.
Gov. Beauford H. Jester yes-
terday approved the recommenda-
tion of the Board of Pardons and
Paroles for 'the .reduction fol-
lowing an investigation which
he had said was to determine if
the Newton request for reduction
was an equitable one.
The Cameron physician is serv-
ing a two‘year sentence on con-
viction of assault to murder on
the late Dr. Roy Hunt of Little-
field. He had requested the com-
mutation credit more than
month ago.
Jester approved the Newton
commutation along with 20 oth-
ers, the twenty for 30-day com-
mu'ations for other prisoners
each of whom was credited for
one transfusion.
75,000 German workers were idle
today in four Ruhr Valley cities
in strikes protesting food short-
ages. Authorities feared the strike
movement would spread swiftly
in Germany's industrial heart
where hunger grips 4,000,000
workers. Many of them are liv-
ing on starvation diets.
German newspapers in the
western occupation zones linked
the labor crisis with what they
call a communist master scheme,
“Proctocol M,” to wreck the Mar-
shall Plan.
Coal miners and most workers
in essential services remained
on their jobs.
Strikes and possible riots were
predicted last night by Hans
Boeckler, head of the German
federation of trade unions, after a
conference of German and Brit-
ish officials on the food crisis,
which ended without any action
to relieve the shortages.
Boeckler, a moderate, said he
is opposed to the strikes, but that
WASHINGTON. Jan. 1ft (TP) —
Democrats moved to shore up
their defenses against raiejs by
Henry A. Wallace today as Sen-
ator Taft (R-Ohio) hammered at
what he called President Tru- •
man’s “war spending” budget.
Taft, who is seeking the GOP
presidential nomination, told the
Providence, R. I., Republican
club last night that $3,000,000,-
000 ..'an be cut off the president’s
$39,669,000,000 budget for the
year beginning July 1.
Taft proposed an increase in
air corps funds as an alterative
to universal military training and
a one billion dollar cut in foreign
aid spending plans. He accused
the treasury of juggling figures
to prevent a tax cut last year and
demanded a cut now in individu-
al income levies.
Meanwhile James A. Farley,
Democratic national chairman
during the first two terms of
Franklin-D. Roosevelt, lashed out
at Wallace in a speech at Lynch-
burg, Va.
He said the third party can-
didate had failed to find “hap-
iness” “now that he has a party
of his own, he can be happy in
it and loyal to it.”
Farley said it “seems to be a
one-man party” and may "end as
a one-man party.”
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. .. . .land veal prices wilb be fixed at
A meeting of the Ministerial ces ,.moderatel above„ ceil.
Aihance wUl be held at the par- I abolished last October,
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city during the week
Easter.
A number of activities in
nection with the services will'
also be planned
meeting.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (TP)—
Senator Bricker (R-Ohio) urged
today that Congress open the way
for landlords to increase rents
of millions of tenants who have
falied t0 sign leases permitting
“voluntary hikes” of up. to fifteen
per cent. :
At the same time, Senator My-
ers (DPa.) said he is going to
“fight like hell” to strengthen
rent controls in line with Presi-
dent Truman’s request in his anti-
inflation program.
The present lent control law
is scheduled to expire February
29. A Senate banking subcom-
mittee starts hearings tomorrow
on legislation to extend it.
Under the existing law, land-
lords, up to the start of this year,
could raise rents by as much as
fifteen per cent in cases where
tenants had agreed to an increase
in exchange for a lease running
through 1948.
Congress wrote in this pro-
vision last June on the assump-
tion that rent controls probably
would not be extended beyond
February 29. If they did expire
then, tenants :who signed leases
would have ten months more
protection against uncontrolled
rents than those who did not.
But most Congress members
predict now that controls, in one
form or another, will be extended.
Bricker, a member of the rent
subcommittee, told a reporter it
would be “unconscionable” for
-Congress “to be in the position of
having lured some tenants into
paying more rent with the prom-
ise of added protection, and then
find they need not have paid
more.” •
The Ohio Senator said “there
will have to be some equilization
if rent controls are continued,
and it seems to me the only fair
way would be to permit land-
lords to raise the rents of those
who did not sign leases.”
Bricker added that he did not
want to say “until the evidence
is in” whether the increase should
be as much as fifteen per cent.
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to the common effort
against Nazi Germany.
Agreements wi.h France, Bri-
tain and other governments have
been on the basis of a few cent.
on the dollar of original cost.
The United States lias followed
the policy of writing oil arms
and supplies used up in ar,
asking settlement only for those
remaining for peacetime civilian
use. ;
Belated negotiations with Rus - ‘
sia opened last May and had
made little progress when they
were broken off by the return to.
Moscow of former Ambassador
N. V. Novik’ov. American offi-
cials have indicated Russia’s re-
presentative failed to produce ad-
equate records of the civilian-
type supplies left over in Russia
after V-J Day.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (TP) —
President Truman today describ-
ed as a “disservice” to the coun-
try a Senate committee’s rejec-
tion of legislation to let Maj.
Gen. Laurence S. Kuter serve as
chairman of the civil aeronautics
board while getting military pay.
Mr. Truman expressed his
views in a letter to chairman
Gurney (R-S.D.) of the Stnate
armed services committee which
voted unanimously against the
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The»White House made public
the president’s letter.
"I am somewhat surprised at
the action by your committee on
Kuter,” the president wrote.
“The Congress had made
special arrangement for the gen-
eral to hold his present job and
I supposed that there would be
no objections to a man. of ability
and efficiency and lack of poli-
cal contacts becoming chairman
of the civil aeronautics board be-
cause his present experience im-
minently fits him for that job.
“Of course if the committee
does not care to act on my re-
quest, the general will remain on
his present job in Canada, but it
seems to me that a disservice has
been done to the air policy of the
United States in the present
emergency.” ;
Kuter is now United States
representative of the interna-
tional civil aviation organization
at Montreal.
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Strikes By German Workers In Construction Work To Start Immediately On Darby Addition ' Russia Ready To Negotiate For
Payment Lend-Lease Accounts
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 —(TP) resumed in the "near future.”
Soviet Ambassador Alexander S. 1 The ambassador made his an-
Panyushkin said today Russia is nouncement in response to re-
ready to resume negotiations to [ porters question aftci a brief
settle her $11,200,000,000 wartime j conference at the State Depart-'
lend lease account with the Unit- men with Undersecretary Roi-ert
A. Lovett. He declined to say
what was discussed.
Only Russia among the major
he hopes the discussions will be wartime allies has yet
I agre£.ment on terms
repayment for the arm
plies contributed by t
I States
Be Given Relief I
On High Prices
( soaring living costs, looked for
at least partial relief today in
I the government’s reimposition
I last night of price controls on
1 meat and butter.
In addition, government
said it will ask Parliament to ex-
tend rent controls until March 31,
1949.
Controls on meat and butter
were lifted last fall, and since
that time prices have climbed.
In Ottawa, butter is currently
I selling for 73c a pound wholesale,
' and beefsteak is priced at 60e
I to 65c. ;
(Butter costs consumers around
’ 95c a pound in New York City
and steak costs them from 65c to
•90c a pound.)
’ Finance Minister Douglas Ab-
' bott, who announced the re-impo-
sition of controls on the two prime
staples last night, said a ceiling
price would be fixed on but-
ter in a day or two, pegged on a
wholesale price per pound in Mon-
treal of 67 cents. It will take
about two weeks to envolve a
meat ceiling, he said.
Although Abbott said meat ceil-
ings will mean Canadian whole-
sale and retail prices for pork
will be cqjisiderably above those
of a month ago, they will be less
than any prices reported during
the past fortnight.
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