Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 231, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 7, 1950 Page: 1 of 4
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Volume XXX
NUMBER 231
Mt. Pleasant, Texas, Tuesday Evening, February 7, 1950
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Unemployment Makes
Big Increase In January
Fear Atomic Spies May
Escape As Forewarned
Fact Finders Rushing
Work As Coal Is Low
Telephone Walkout Is
Postponed Two Weeks
Two Airmen Killed In
AuloWagon Collision
Riles For Millard W.
Cheney Al Methodist
Church Wednesday
Scout Troop Gives
Program At Rotary
Club Meet Tuesday
Final Report Given
On March 01 Dimes
Campaign In County
Mother Two Children
Hopes To See Them II
Operation Is Success
Rifle Shot Fails To
Hit Dallas Gambler
each brought in
The report is as follows:
Shivers Builds Up
Shepperd As Possible
Secretary Appointee
Carden Plot Falls
Off Cliff Into Sea
‘I still want the special session
to clean up the hospital situation
first. I think they can and will
get through in 30 days,” Shivers
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (/P)—
Lawmakers today blamed pon-
derous British legal procedure
Howard Leftwich, Titus Coun-
ty chairman for the annual March
of Dimes drive, has made a com-
plete report on the amount. oP
money raised by the l5cal chap-
ter this year. His report also lists
the various activities incorporat-
ed in the drive, and the amount
() LEASED WIRE
KING FEATURES
() as INS. PICTURES
SOUTHBOURNE, Eng, Feb 7
(PP) — Victor A. Hunt heard a
“tearing sound” at midnight, got
out of bd, and found his garden
was missing.
The plot, 30 feet long, had split
away and fallen down a 100-foot
cliff into the sea,
on the operation of a troop and
Claud Alexander told of the func-
tions of a patrol.
The boys gave a demonstration
of knot tying, a pantomine on
flint and steel fire making and
sending semaphore messages by
flag signals.
Ross Morris announced the re-
cent organization of the Order
of the Arrow in the troop, ex-
plaining it is to recognize the
best members.
The program ended with repe-
tition of the scout oath.
Visitors were J. R. McLemore
and R. G Stockey of the Paris
club and Bill Farmer of the Gil-
mer club.
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East Texas—Partly cloudy
tonight and Wednesday. Not
• much change in temperature.
MT. PLEASANT
THE HUB OF
NORTHEAST TEXAS !
Attend Dainger field
C.-C. Annual Meeting
President Howard Leftwich and
Manager Bob Boyd of the local
Chamber of Commerce attended
the annual meeting and banquet
of the Daingerfield Chamber of
Commerce at the cafeteria of the
Lone Star Steel Company plant
Monday night.
The speaker for the occasion
was Dr. Charles P. Boner, direc-
tor of the defense research lab-
oratory of the University of Tex-
as.
Resigns As Commissioner
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 UP)—
Lewis L. Strauss resigned today
as a member of the Atomic Energy
Commission.
Troop 201 of the Boy Scouts or-
ganization in Mt. Pleasant gave
the program at the Rotary Club
meeting Tuesday as part of the
observance of Scout Week.
Taking part were 24 scouts and
cubs, with Ross Morris, Eagle
Scout, directing the program.
After giving the pledge to the
flag, different boys recited each
of the twelve scout laws.
Bi’ly Buford gave a short talk |
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AUSTIN, Tex. Feb. 7 (A) —
Gov. Allen Shivers said today he
thought the Legislature “can and
will” get its job done within the
30-day special session limit.
The governor told his press
conference he does not now know
of anything important enough to
warrant calling a second special
session if this one winds up its
work with a few days to spare.
Shivers said he would like for
the lawmakers to dispose of the
hospital problem in time for sub-
mission of the matter of tight-
ening up sex crimes laws.
His general attitude, in the face
of the signs of rebellion against
his “hospitals first” and new tax
plan in the House, was optimis-
tic.
State Closes Case In
Paight Murder Trial
BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Feb. 7
(P)—The state summed up its
mercy murder case against blonde
Carol Ann Paight today and in-
sisted she was sane when she
shot her father, Police Sgt. Carl
Paight.
ShiversThinks Legislature
• Can Finish Work On Time
“I think the Legislature recog-
nizes the obligation and they will
discharge it.”
Shivers commended the atti-
tude of representatives of indus-
try who appeared before the
House revenue and taxation com-
mittee yesterday at its hearings
on one of the major bills to pro-
vide the money needed for main-
taining state hospitals. It was the
omnibus tax increase measure.
“Appearance of the leaders of
industry and what they said in-
dicated their recognition of the
need of now revenue. They should
son, Walker V. Cheney,
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Dr. J. W. Edgar of Austin, Tex. (above), was named state
commissioner of education by the State Board of Education
February 4. He is the first to hold the job under the new
school set up. (AP Wirephoto)
feet on the embittered miners.
They have termed this a show-
down fight in their battle with
the coal operators for more pay
and an increase in welfare fund
payments.
In West Virginia there was an
indication miners would be ask-
ed by leaders to obey the expect-
ed federal court order to return
to work Monday.
A miner source, who asked that
he not be identified, said that dis-
trict 29 United Mine Workers
Leader George J. Titler told a
union group to be prepared to
return to the pits Monday.
Titler was quoted as advising
the men to “save your money, be-
cause you will need it 80 days
after that." Titler could not bo
reached for comment.
Pennsylvania miners appeared
ready to defy the expected in-
junction.
“Let ’em put us in jail,” declar-
ed a Uniontown digger.
"Now if the government puts
us to work for Uncle Sam and
gives us a contract, we’ll dig coal,
but not under this Taft-Hartley
stuff."
A mine leader declared: “No
contract, no work, regardless of
Taft-Hartley or anybody else. Wu
feel the same as John L. Lewis.
“If they want coal dug, let Taft
and Hartley and Truman come
dig it.”
AUSTIN, Tex., Feb. 7(A)—
Governor Allan Shivers today
gave John Ben Shepperd of
Gladewater a big build-up as a
prospect for appointment aa sec-
retary of state, but he didn't an-
nounce the expected appointment.
Shivers said he wanted to con-
fer with Shepperd again. Shep-
perd has been widely mentioned
as the best prospect for succes-
sion to former State Senator Ben
Ramsey of San Augustine, whose
resignation as secretary of state
becomes effective February 9.
Ramsey is expected to formally
announce his candidacy for lieu-
tenant governor soon.
Shepperd, the governor said, is
“admirably fitted” for the job.
“The secretary of state should
be close to the governor and do
a lot of work that would ordinari-
ly fall to him," Shivers said.
“Because of his activity in
civic affairs, John Ben Shepperd’s
knowledge of the state econo-
my, industry and government is
wide, he would be a big help, be-
cause of his national connections,
in bringing new industries to
Texas."
SHREVEPORT, La., Feb. 7 (P)
—Two airmen were killed and
three others injured last night in
a collision between their auto-
mobile and a wagon loaded with
railroad crossties near Ida, La.
The dead were identified as
Sgt. Edwin Adams, 22, and CpI.
Floyd Ross. 20
Injured were Sgt. Johnny Diez,
Sgt Harold Sistron and William
Littlejohn. All five were attach-
ed to the Barksdale Field Air
Force Base here.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (P) —
The number of job openings
across the nation took a 1,609,-
000 dive last month and sent un-
employment soaring to 4,480,000
highest since prewar September
1941.
Although largely seasonal, re-
flecting the onset of winter, the
development had the effect of
putting out of work seven of each
100 persons in the labor force.
That left 56,947,000 civilian
jobholders, plus another 1,408,-
000 in the armed forces, the cen-
sus bureau said yesterday in a
survey taken the second week of
January.
Secretary of Commerce Saw-
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 7 OP) —
Coal production plummeted to-
day in the wake of the soft coal
miners’ nationwide strike. All
signs point to rising unemploy-
ment in coal-using industries.
About 372,800 bitter diggers are
on strike in fourteen states. They
insist they won’t be “blackjack-
ed" into heeding the Taft-Hart-
ley act. The strikers can produce
about 2,220,000 tons of coal a day.
Nearly 20,000 workers in steel
mills and on railroads were laid
Republicans Elect
Congressman In New
Jersey Special Vole
HACKENSACK, N J., Feb 7
(P)—Republicans staved off re-
percussions of the J. Parnell
Thomas jailing and elected a GOP
successor to his vacated congres-
sional post yesterday.
William B. Widnall, 43-yrar-
old state assemblyman, scored an
easy victory in a special election
in New Jersey's Seventh Con-
gressional District.
It was the nation's first such
vote in 1950 and boosted Repub-
lican strength in the House of
Representatives to 170 again, as
compared to 261 for the Demo-
crats.
Widnall defeated Democrat G.
T. English by a better than two-
to-one margin in the traditionally
Republican district. The unof-
ficial tally was 32.226 votes for
Widnall and 15,791 for English, a
former Mayor of East Paterson,
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seekers, and that 1950‘s start
wasn’t as bad as 1949‘s.
Sawyer stressed these facts.
1. Bad weather in many parts
of the country cut sharply into
construction work and farm ac-
tivity. The rise in unemployment
was primarily due to “curtail-
ment in seasonal industries."
2. Factory employment “did
not appear to be materialls
affected," in contrast to a year
earlier, when “industrial layoffs
(due to production cutbacks)
were an importans factor.”
3. Many jobs that disappeared
were an important factor."
and efforts of holiday workers to
secure other jobs in January
swelled the unemployment fig-
ures.
Government officials have been
predicting for some time that un-
employment would rise in Jan-
uary and February, but have pin-
ned hopes on an expansion of job
opportunities when spring comes.
Millard W. Cheney, former resi-
dent of Mt. Pleasant, passed away
at Ccok’s Memorial Hospital. Fort
Worth, at 12:30 p.m., Tuesday.
He was a son of the late Mr. and
Mrs H. W. Cheney and moved
to Fort Worth in 1920. For many
years, while he lived in Mt. Pleas-
ant, he was Chief clerk of the Cot-
ton Belt Rail1*ay. After retir-
ing from that office he was dis-
tributor and then district agent
fo rthe Gulf Oil Corporation.
Mr. Cheney is survived bv a
Many, however, have shown
frank concern over the fact that
the number of job openings has
been declining more than a year,
although the number of job-scek-
ers has grown with the popula-
tion.
The census bureau’s report
showed unemployment last month
nearly 70 per cent higher than in
January, 1949. The number of
jobs declined 467,000 in that per-
iod while the number of job
seekers increased by 1,349,000,
thus putting an additional 1,816,-
00 Oout of work. *
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Farm Organization
yer ‘promptly pointed out that An Al
January and February are al- pposesNewUuOld
ways the worst months for job “I”'*'
On Cotton Acreage
Hog Hill Address is
No Longer Pleasing
OXFORD, England, Feb. 7
UP) — Tenants got the rural dis-
trict council to change the name
of a new housing project to
"Strickland Manor Hill.”
They didn’t like to get mail ad-
dressed to “Hog Hill.”
ATLANTA, Feb. 7 (P) — The
mother two small children
hopes to see them and her hus-
band soon for the first time.
Mrs. Mary Ella Sams, 33-year-
old wife of a textile worker, was
the willing subject yesterday for
an operation color-televised for
1,000 doctors attending a South-
eastern graduate assembly.
As they watched a screen mag-
nifying details five times, a sur-
geon painstakingly replaced the
cloudy white film over the pupil
of Mrs. Sams' left eye with a
healthy cornea from a stillborn
baby.
Mrs. Sams, almost totally blind
since infancy, waited hopefully
until a few hours before the ope-
ration to learn if it could be per-
formed.
Doctors had made an unsuccess-
ful nationwide search for a cor-
nea. the stillborn baby arrived
at Grady hospital and the par-
ents consented to the use of one
of its undamaged cornea.
time to bring about a peaceable
solution to the telephone wage
dispute, CWA-CIO is postponing
its strike.
"Mr. Ching, through his per-
sonal intervention and his grave
concern for the interests of the
public may be successful in get-
ting the Bell System to do some
real collective bargaining.
"We, too, have grave concern
for the interests of the public.
We think we have demonstrated
that in these months of fruitless
bargaining.
"We want to avoid a strike.”
Worth; two sisters, Mrs. Earl
Calloway of Corpus Christi, and
Mrs. Hiram G Brown. Mt Pleas-
ant. Two grandchildren, Miss
Corbelia and Courtney Cheney of
Fort Worth, also survive.
The body will be brought to
Mt. Pleasant Wednesday morn-
ing and ’W ill be at the home of
his sister, Mrs. Brown, 316 East
Third Street, until funeral ser-
vices which will be held at Ten-
nison Memorial Methodist Church
at 3 00 o’clock in the afternoon,
under direction of the pastor. Rev.
Ed Mathison.
be commended for their general
willingness to accept a fair share
of it,” the governor said.
Shivers was reserved in his
comments on the House opposi-
tion to his plan for the session,
led by Rep. Jim Heflin of Hous-
ton and other big city lawmak-
ers. They are urging that exist-
ing appropriation bills be cut be-
fore action is taken on proposed
new taxes for state hospitals.
Doing anything about those
bills, which are already law, is
as much a legal question as a fis-
cal question, the governor said,
because of the threatened 26-mil-
lion-dollar deficit.
Asked about Heflin’s statement
that there had been a promise of
submission of the matter of build-
ings for state institutions there,
Shivers told reporters: “Ask the
other members of the Houston
delegation about that.”
“I conferred with all of them
last Tuesday,” He added.
Speaker Durwood Manford up-
held a point of order that a bill
seeking repeal of last session’s
30 million dollar rural road act
could not be introduced.
He said it did not come within
Governor Allan Shivers’ special
session call.
Rep. H. A. (Salty) Hull of
Fort Worth, co-signer of the re-
peal bill which Rep. Joe Shan-
non sought to introduce, told the
House:
“We are not going to appeal
from the ruling. An appeal cre-
ates resentment and usually does
not do much good, but ‘we may
make another try further down
the road.”
DALLAS, Feb 7 (P) — A rifle
shot smashed the hospital win-
dow of wounded gambler Herbert
Noble last night in a seventh at-
tempt on his life.
Detective Captain Will Fritz
said the shot was fired from the
ground and that the bullet tore
through the screened window
and splattered against the ceil-
ing.
Noble, seriously wounded by a
rifle shot as he stepped onto his
front porch December 31, said he
was walking around the room
when the shot was fired.
off in past months because of
the three-day work week ordered
July 1 by President John L.
Lewis of the United Mine Work-
ers.
Now, railroads say more thous-
ands of furloughs are in the
cards.
Duquesne Light Company, a
big Pittsburgh utility, said it has
only enough coal to insure elec-
trical power for another week.
Over the nation, less than two
week’s coal reserves remain above
ground.
Through the coal fields, the
miners are out for a showdown
in their struggle for a new con-
tract and the five day week.
“The Taft-Hartley law cannot
dig coal," declared Althronia
Brown, a committeeman of the
Maxwell local near Uniontown,
Pa. “We won’t be blackjacked
into the mines.”
The sporadic walkouts that
idled 100,000 soft coal diggers last
week spread to nearly all of the
400,000 United Mine Workers yes-
terday.
The only UMW members work-
ing are 80,000 hard coal miners
in eastern Pennsylvania and
about 30,000 soft coal miners are
covered by new contracts.
Word that President Truman
reluctantly had invoked the Taft-
Hartley act in the ten-month-old
coal dispute had little ef-
for hampering FBI pursuit of
further atomic leaks in the Klaus
Fuchs case.
They expressed fear the delay
may enable some suspects to skip
the country.
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
was reported to have told sena-
tors that thus far he has been
unable to get from the British
full details of any confession that
may have been made by Fuchs.
Fuchs, 38-year-old German-
born scientist accused of passing
along top atomic and some hydro-
gen bomb information to the Rus-
sians, is believed to have had
accomplices in this country.
Lawmakers said they were told
that until the British justice de-
partment releases its records, the
FBI may have to wait for leads,
with the result that some suspects
might get out of this country un-
molested.
Hover again went to Capitol
Hill today to talk behind closed
doors with* the Senate appropria-
tions sub-committee.
Hoover was quoted by lawmak-
ers as having told the atomic
committee yesterday it was un-
fortunate the British arrested
Fuchs as early as they did.
It was the FBI director’s posi-
tion. these legislators said, that
others might have been drawn
into the net more easily, if the
arrest had been delayed.
Hoover made it plain, it was
said that the British had not re-
fused to give additional informa-
tion about the Fuchs case, but
just hadn't got around to it, yet.
The full story of how Fucns
operated so successfully in this
country hasn’t yet begun to be
unfolded.
What has been disclosed caus-
ed one committee member, who
asked anonymity, to term it “the
most incredible story I've ever
heard" The seriousness of the
situation, he said “cannot be over-
emphasized."
Mile of Dimes Stand $461.83. ’
Wishing Well $38.91.
Square and Round Dancing
$120 18
Special and Individual Gifts
$951.29. a
White Elephant Sale $140.86.
Coin Collectors $168 08, „
Citv of Talco $118.85.
Radio $68 93.
Schools $395.61.
The total amount of money re-
ceived came to $2,464.54, Left-
wich said, and after expenses of
$192 40 were deducted, a net of
$2,272.14 was obtained in the
polio campaign.
support for non-communist coun-
tries “within the total limits
which the American economy can
afford."
With an eye on the Alger Hiss
and Klaus Fuchs cases, the Re-
publicans deplored “the danger-
ous degree to which communists
and their fellow travelers have
been employed in important gov-
ernment posts and the fact that
information vital to our security
has been made available to alien
agents and persons of question-
able loyalty.”
The policy declaration, approv-
ed in the Senate and House by
members of the party’s national
committee, bore down on the Tru-
man administration’s “Fair Deal”
with these words:
“Basic American principles are
threatened by the administra-
tion’s program for a planned
economy modeled on the socialist
governments of Europe, including
price and wage control, rationing,
socialized medicine, regional au-
thorities and the Brannan plan
with its controls, penalties, fines
and jail sentences.
Bosh, Democrats replied gen-
erally, with Senator Humphrey
(D-Minn), accusing the Repub-
licans flatly of trying to steal the
administration's program.
He said this was proved by the
GOP policy declaration which
Mid:
“We hold that government can
use its just powers to foster na-
tional health, promote real se-
curity for the aged, develop sound
agricultural and labor-manage-
ment policies and advance civil
rights."
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (A)—
A presidential board worked a
"speeded up” schedule under the
Taft-Hartley act today in a race
to end the coal strike before a
pressing fuel shortage paralyzes
the country.
The job of the three-man board
is to determine the facts in the
dispute between John L. Lewis’
United Mine Workers and the
soft coal industry.
When he declared a national
emergency and appointed the
board yesterday, President Tru-
man asked it to report by next
Monday. Ordinarily, boards of
that kind are given at least ten
days to investigate.
Once the board reports, the
government can turn to the courts
and ask for a “stop strike" order
good for 80 days.
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Whistling At Girl
Is Okay Unless
She Says ‘Scram’
- NEWARK, N. J.,Feb. 7 UPJ
—A fellow may whistle at a
girl and stay, within the law in
Newark but only as long as
she likes it.
When she says “scram," the
law agrees it's time to do just
that; otherwise it comes under
the head of molesting.
City Magistrate Samuel
Cooper defined the law yes-
terday at a pre-spring confer-
ence with Newark’s nineteen
policewomen.
Policewoman Martha Brent
said that was exactly the 'Way
Newark’s plainclothes female
cops handled it. “We always
give them a chance to go
away," she said, “but, if they
bother us after we’ve said
'scram,' it's a different story."
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (P)—
Republicans picked liberty vs.
socialism as their top 1950 cam-
paign issue today in a platform
which Democrats promptly ac-
cused them of stealing from the
administration.
In a 2,000-word statement of
party policy for the congressional
campaigns, the Republicans held
themselves up as the last hope of
those who oppose “an. all-power-
ful federal government with un-
limited power to tax and spend."
On the domestic front, they
called for a balanced budget, re-
duction in spending repeal or
wartime excise taxes, “improve-
ment” of the Taft-Hartley act,
continuation of farm price props
and expansion af social security
benefits.
In the international field, they
promised cooperation on foreign
policy, if they are consulted in
advance on major decisions.
They denounced “secret agree-
ments” at Yalta and Potsdam, de-
manded congressional checks on
foreign commitments and pledged
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (P—
, The American Farm Bureau Fed-
. eration favors raising the legal
limit on this year's cotton acre-
age. but not by the 1,400,000
acres voted by the House.
Walter L Randolph, bureau
spokesman, said the House Dili
would let too many extra acres
be planted to cotton. increasing
production and boosting, the cost
of the government's price sup-
port program.
He told the Senate agriculture
committee yesterday he favors a
proposed Senate bill he said it
would cut about in half the
amount of additional acreage vot-
ed by the House.
It also would require fewer ad-
ditional acres to be alloted for
hardship cases because of the
formulae it uses to fix the mini-
mum acreage to which a grower
shall be entitled, Randolph said.
Cotton quotas for 1950 were
cut about 23 per cent below 1949
under the national cotton acreage
allotment act last year. Com-
plaints that some growers would
be forced to make drastic acreage
cuts led to House passage last
week of a bill raising the 21,000,-
000 quota by 1,400,000 acres.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (A1)—
The CIO-Communications Work-
ers today postponed until Febru-
ary 24 a nationwide telephone
strike it had called for tomor-
row at 6:00 a.m.
Mediation Director Cyrus S.
Ching had asked for the post-
ponement to permit more time for
conciliators to try to settle the
dispute.
Union President Joseph A.
Beirne said the nine-man execu-
tive board had voted to postpone
the strike in the hope a settle-
ment could be brought about in
the meantime.
Along with asking a postpone-
ment of the strike call. Ching
called for "intensified bargain-
ing." >
Bicrne said a postponement or-
der was sent to the unions whose
100,000 workers were to walk out
tomorrow in the first wave of
strikes aimed at shutting down
the entire Bell Telephone System.
The new strike deadline is 6:00
a.m. local time, on Friday, Feb-
ruary 24.
Ching based his plea for a post-
ponement on the public interest.
Beirne said: “In accordance
with Mr. Ching's request for more
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