Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 29, Ed. 1 Monday, April 24, 1950 Page: 1 of 6
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Volume XXXI
NUMBER 29
Berlin Gets
TEXAS GAINS FIRST PLACE AS FARM INCOME STATE
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Strike I n Advance General Walkout
Ready For
Red Attack
Supreme Court Throws
Out Negro Death Case
Install New Officers
In DAV Friday Night
Rescuers Arrive Al
Wreckage Air Force
Transport In Japan
Three More Possible
(lues Found On Fate
Missing Navy Plane
Funeral Services Are
Held Sunday Victim
Bowie County Wreck
Census Enumeration
For Titus County Is
Nearing Completion
All Hainan Handed
Over To Communists
By Chiang's Order
Expansion Veterans
Hospital Program
Is Passed By House
Two Capital Cases
In District Court
Called For Monday
City Mail Delivery
Restrictions Started;
In Effect On Monday
Membership Drive
By Municipal Concert
Association Opened
William John Beck
Found Dead In Room
Friday Afternoon
British Government
Wants U.S. To Accept
Its Burden In Asia
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(P) & INS. PICTURES
Search For Suspects
in Texan's Murder
Two Escaped Lions
Claw Girl To Death
FIVE KILLED BY TRAIN
WELCH, W. Va., April 24 (PP)—
An eastbound Norfolk and Wes-
tern Railway train struck a work
car in a tunnel at Kimball today
and killed five members of the
crew.
Appoints Alexander
Navy Undersecretary
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Elmer Lee, service officer.
Luther M. Cook, chaplain.
L. D. Lawler, adjutant.
TEXAS JUMPED from third in 1048 to first in 1040 in farm income, with $2,151,000,000, says the Bureau
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YULIN Hainan Island, April
24 (fP)—All Hainan was the Chi-
nese Communists’ for the taking
today, handed over by order of
Chiang Kai-Shek.
The generalissimo’s order for
"total evacuation" of the big is-
land gives the reds nearly halt
the remnants of his once vast
Nationalist China.
The decision to give up the 13,-
500 square mile stronghold oft
South China had not been an-
nounced officially here. This in-
formation came from a general,
one of the top officers charged
with Hainan’s defense.
Nationalist military and civil
chiefs pulled out of the capital
city on the north coast Saturday.
New defense headquarters was
Homer Hamilton, crew leader
for Titus County, reports that
the census enumeration, is about
completed, with only a few peo-
ple yet to be contacted.
As it is important that every
person be counted in this census,
Mr. Hamilton urges that if you
are not sure you have been enu-
meraed, notify the district of-
fice in the city hall so you will
be included.
Forms are available at the of-
fice so that all who may have
been missed can give the infor-
mation required.
It appears that those who have
been guessing high at the popu-
lation are going to be badly dis-
appointed, although there will be
a substantial increase over the
1940 census. No definite infor-
mation can be given until all
records are sent to national head-
quarters, but enough has leaked
out to indicate that there are less
than 7,000 persons living in the
city limits.
The annual drive for member-
ship in the Mt. Pleasant Muni-
cipal Concert Association opened
Monday morning with a break-
fast at the Pleasant Hotel. Twen-
ty-tNo persons were present for
the kick-off of the drive.
The association is entirely non-
profit and cooperative, and mem-
berships are open to everyone.
By paying the annual dues, the
member is entitled to attend the
full series of concerts that will
be held next fall and winter.
Members of the membership
committee present for the break-
fast included:
Byron Reaves, president of the
group; Mrs. Sam Wilson, vice
president; Mrs. F. W. Stephenson,
secretary, and Mrs. Frank Mar-
shall, Mrs. J. F. Palmer, Mrs. Gus
Presley, Mrs. A. C. Anderson,
Mrs. Webber Beall, Mrs. C. E.
Gaddis, Mrs. Jim Talley, Mrs. J.
S. Kennedy, Miss Evelyn Tidwell
and Mrs. J. O. Milstead, all of
Mt. Pleasant; Mrs. G. N. Ander-
son and Mrs. H. G. Dyess, Talco;
Mrs. P. H. Swaim and Mrs. Jack
Holman, Pittsburg, and Mrs. Da-
vid S. Giles, Mrs. H. B. Steven .
Mrs. O. D. Smith and Mrs. Jack
Vaughan, all of Omaha.
The membership drive, Reaves
said, will last for only one week
and will come to a close Satur-
day. Headquarters have been set
up at the Chamber of Commerce
office and individuals who may
be missed in the drive, but who
want membership in the associa-
tion, should contact the office
there
Although the root of the dis-
pute is wages, the immediate
cause of the walkout was a minor
grievance that flared into a major
issue over the weekend.
Tn is grew out of a boggy pas-
ture near South Bend, Ind., where
six division iworkers were build-
ing a television tower. They re-
fused to walk though a field they
claimed was deep with mud and
water, and to support them, 104
local members struck.
TOKYO, April 24 (A) — A 23-
man graves registration team late
today arrived at the wreckage
of a U. S. air force transport
plane in which 35 Americans were
killed Friday night on Mt. Hiru-
gatake.
They planned to identify and
bring dawn the bodies, probably
tomorrow.
The U. S. army called for 130
Japanese to help.
There were no survivors. Tne
dead included Frank E. Pickeile,
40, Chicago, chief of General Mac-
Arthur’s foreign trade section,
and Capt. John C. Jones, chief of
staff of U. S. naval forces in the
Philippines.
The Douglas Skymaster plowed
into a massive shoulder of the
4,800-foot mountain, 37 miles to
the southwest of Tokyo, during
a wind and rainstorm. It was en
route from Manila to Tachikawa
Air Base near Tokyo.
the bench. His first action after
convening the session was to call
the dockets of civil, criminal and
misdemeanor cases.
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infantry and armored units here
arc now on a combat efficiency
basis never equalled before in
the city's .occupation.
It is Stumm’s estimate, agreed
to by some high allied authorities
that the Whitsun invasion plan
has been put on the shelf by
communist tacticians. -
"Such a plan requires the ele-
ments of surprise,” he said, “so
why should they' have told us
about it four months in advance?
Whitsun comes and goes with-
otBkierious trouble, as we ex-
pect, we shall not relax our al-
ertness. We stand ready to .break
up an invasion any day in the
WASHINGTON, April 24 (AP)—
The Supreme Court today threw
out the murder conviction and
death sentence of a Texas Negro
who complained that only white
men were on the grand jury
which indicted him.
The Negro, Lee Cassell, was
Convicted of crushing the skull of
a sleeping watchman with a
piece of pipe in order to rob a
store in Dallas.
The Supreme Court, by a vote
of seven to one, found there had
been discrimination against Ne-
groes in the selection of grand
jurors and thus held the indict-
ment against Cassell cannot stand.
The court did not bar a new
indictment so Texas can present
the case to a new grand jury if
it wishes.
Justice Reea announced the
court’s majority judgment and
wrote an opinion in which Chief
Justice Vinson and Justices Black
and Clark concurred. Justice
Frankfurter wrote a concurring
opinion, joined by Justices Bur-
ton and Minton. Justice Clark
also wrote a concurring opinion.
Justice Jackson wrote a dissent-
ing opinion. Justice Douglas took
no part.
Reed summed up the majority’s
decision with these words:
“An accused is entitled to have
charges against him considered
by a jury in the selection of
which there has been neither in-
clusion nor exclusion because of
race ”
Reed said the jury commis-
sioners had said they chose only
perrons they knew and that they
knew no eligible Negroes. He
added that such statements “in
EDCOUCH, Tex., April 24 (P)
—George Henry Stokes Jr., Rio
Grande Valley produce dealer,
was shot to death yesterday.
Deputy Sheriff Tom Weingart
said “we arc searching for sev-
eral suspects.”
FLORIDA LEADER KILLED
ST PETERSBURG, Fla., April
24 (P) — State Rep. Charles J.
Schuh Jr, leader of Gov. Fuller
Warren forces in the 1949 Florida
House of Representatives, was
shot and killed in his downtown
office here this morning,
The local post Disabled A-
merican Veterans met in the
court house Friday night to in-
stall new officers.
Herman Crider, national ser-
vice officer, inducted the follow-
ing:
Pete Irvin, commander.
Walter Jackson, first vice com-
mander.
Gordon Fox, second vice com-
dit. Pleasant Aailg Uimez
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The order to abandon all Hai-
nan was received here yesterday.
One nationalist navy landing
craft and three commercial ves-
sels were standing by to carry
out top militarv and civil officials.
This evacuation was expected
to begin today and the commu-
nists were expected to have com-
plete control of the island with-
in four days to a week.
NEW YORK, April 24 (A)—
Telephone equipment workers
walked off their jobs across tne
nation today.
The public will not be affected
immediately, unless breakdowns
should require repairs.
Headquarters of Division 6 of
the CIO Communications Work-
ers of America ordered their 10,-
000 workers in 43 states and the
District of Columbia off the job
at 6:00 a.m. local time.
in handling minor civil litiga-
tion. The misdemeanor docket
was set for Monday, May 8.
Two important capital cases
figure in the criminal docket for
the term and both are set for
Monday, May 1. A special venire
has been summoned for that date
from which to choose petit jurors.
The cases are those of Robert
Burgess, Negro charged with
murder, and Tobe Wright, charg-
ed with rape.
No grand jury is in session at
this term of court.
Archibald Stevens Alexander to-
day for promotion from assistant
to undersecretary of the navy.
Alexander is a New York
lawyer 'who served 34 months
overseas in the army during the
last world war and became as-
sistant secretary of the army on
August 22 1949. His home is in
Bernardsville, N. J.
During the war, he seived in
army intelligence and was chief
of supply at headquarters of the
Seventh Army and the Sixth
Army Group
WASHINGTON, April 24 (P)—
The British government has pro-
posed the United States take over
a big share of Britain’s economic
burden in India, Pakistan and
Southeast Asia.
Officials disclosed today the
British embassy has put forward
this idea in an “exploratory” pro-
posal now under consideration by
high administration officials.
The British plain would call
for the United States to pay off
in dollars to such countries as
India and Pakistan part of Bri-
tain’s $9,000,000,000 wartime debt
to sterling bloc nations.
The main idea behind the sug-
gested program is to help non-
communist countries in Asia fignt
off communism, While at the same
time ease the huge debt which
is jeopardizing Britain’s economic
comeback.
The British memorandum stems
from last fall’s American-British-
Canadian dollar talks. At that
time, it was decided to examine
the sterling debt and other eco-
nomic problems to determine
what steps could be taken.
The United States long has
been urging Britain to get its
creditors to agree to scale down
these debts, but the countries like
India which need financial aid
have resisted this.
Informed officials said the Bri-
tish paper is the first concrete
proposal of what might be done,
even though it is highly tentative
and intended mainly for discus-
sion.
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WASHINGTON, April 24 (A—
The House today voted a $279,-
000,000 expansion of the veterans’
hospital program.
It passed and sent to the Sen-
ate, by voice vote, a bill directing
the Veterans’ Administration to
proceed with contructio of 24
new hospitals and expansion of
fourteen others.
In effect, this restores a 16,-
000-bed cut in the hospital pro-
gram which President Truman
had ordered in 1948.
There was only an hour of de-
bate, during Which Rep. Davis
(R-Wis) called the bill a “politi-
cal gesteure," and predicted that
Mr. Truman would veto it.
Chairman Rankin (D-Miss) of
the veterans’ affairs committee,
author of the bill, denied that the
bill was “a political gesture” and
said it was intended to help needy
veterans.
The bill does not appropriate
any money for the work, but
merely directs VA to go ahead on
the projects. Separate legisla-
tion providing the money will be
required later.
Nobody asked for a roll-call
vote on which the members iwould
have been required to go on re-
cord
Before passing the bill, the
House amended it to require VA
to make a survey of abandoned
army and navy hospitals to see if
they could be used for veterans.
Most of this week will be spent I President Truman nominated
WASHNIGTON, April 24 (A)—
W. Stuart Sytmington, retiring
secretary of the air force, said
today the combat effectiveness of
the air force has decreased in the
last six months.
He told a news conference the
drop in effectiveness is a result
of cuts in numbers. He said the
forces remaining have increased
in efficiency.
Shortly after the conference,
Thomas K. Finletter, a long time
champion of a larger air force,
was sworn in as secretary of the
air force. Finletter is a New
York lawyer who has been in
government service for the last
several years. Secretary John-
son administered the oath of of-
fice.
Symington’s estimate came on
the heels of a series of reports
from the armed services to Con-
gress. These reports told of cut-
backs as economy moves, but
indicated no concern over present
strength.
Secretary of Defense Johnson
noted in his report that the Unit-
ed States now has weapons that
‘ surpass in destructive power any
arms previously known.”
Symington held his news con-
ference just before leaving the
air force post to become chair-
man of the National Security Re-
sources Board.
He repeated a statement he has
made before, that he believes a
70-group air force is essential
to the military security of tne
country. In his written report
to Congress, he had said the pro-
posed defense budget for the
twelve months beginning July 1
Won’t keep up even a 48-group
air force.
Symington told the reporters
the air force recognizes the
country could be defeated by eco-
nomic disaster, as well as military
disaster. He said he therefore
I MT. PLEASANT >
THE HUB OF 1
NORTHEAST TEXAS
Orders of the Postmaster Gen-
feral to restrict city mail de-
livery service went into effect
in Mt. Pleasant Monday.
Until further notice, there will
be only one delivery each day in-
stead of two. In all sections of
the city except the northeast por-
tion. deliveries will be made dur-
ing the morning hours.
In the afternoon, deliveries
will be made in all territory east
of the Cotton Belt railroad, ex-
cept on East First Street as far
east as Church Street, which will
be served in the morning.
The post office will be closed
Saturday afternoon, but an ef-
fort 'will be made to arrange for
keening the stamp and general
delivery windows open. Such
arrangements will be subject to
change, however, and the best
service possible will be given.
As the time zone moved west
and word was spread to outly-
ing areas, the strike took root. No
picket lines were reported, how-
ever, so the 230,000 other Bell
System employes went to work,
assuring continued telephone ser-
vice
The strike was against the Wes-
tern Electric Co., manufacturing
and equipment subsidiary of the
Bel] System’s parent corporation,
the American Telephone and Tel-
egraph Company.
Threat of a complete national
telephone tie-up was postponed,
though not eliminated, when the
union said it would not picket
before President Truman’s wage
strike truce ends at midnight to-
morrow. The union is striking
over a matter it claims is not cov-
ered by the truce.
Although the CIO union is
striking over a matter it claims
is not covered by the truce, it
had been feared the pickets
would keep the other 230,000
Bell System Workers off their
jobs and paralyze the nation’s
telephone network.
What will happen if the gen-
era] truce expires without an
agreement tomorrow is not
known.
The 10 000 going out today are
all heavy equipment installers
for the Western Electric Co. The
company is the manufacturing
and equipment subsidiary of the
Bell System’s parent corporation,
the American Telephone and Tel-
egraph Company.
BE#hLIN, April 24 (/P)— Police
Chief Johannes Stumm, who
commands West Berlin’s front-
line against communism, looks
for a battle of words in May but
no bloodshed.
“The communists appear over-
awed by the measures we have
already taken, and we are ready
for any eventuality,” he said in
an interview today.
For that reason, I expect no
serious incidents next month.”
Stumm’s force of 9,000 police-
men nceently was increased to
11,000 by the allied commandants,
and his special anti-riot squads
were provided with tear gas, gas
masks, and armed fire-hose
trucks.
“Fear is a bad counselor,” the
police chief assurted. “We face
the future unafraid.”
Official announcement from
Washington during the weekend
that allied garrisons in Berlin
approximately 7,500 troops will
fire, if necessary, on invading
communist mobs was no surprise
to Stumm.
Since January, when leaders
of the communist “free German
youth" recklessly said they would
“storm” West Berlin at Whitsun
(May 27-29), the police chief has
been assured that his force will
be supported by allied soldiers,
William John Beck, employee
of the Alps Cafe and resident of
Mt. Pleasant about two and one-
half years, was found dead in
his room at Jackson Courts Friday
afternoon. An. 1nquest held by
Justice of the Peace Grover Ard
showed that Beck led of natural
causes, probably a heart attack.
He had been dead at least twelve
or fourteen hours.
Beck was a veteran of the first
World War and was a member
of Disabled American Veterans.
The body was taken in charge by
Smith-Bates funeral home. Ser-
vices have not yet been schedul-
ed.
Surviving Beck are his wife,
Mrs. Audrey Beck, Texarkana,
and three sisters, Mrs. Laura
Bell and Mrs. Edith Howe, both
of Wyoming, and Mrs. Ruth
Thompson, Minnesota.
Funeral services were held at
Nevill’s Chapei church at 2:30
p. m. Sunday for William Eugene
Hinson, former resident of Mt.
Pleasant, who was instantly kill-
ed Thursday night in a three-
way automobile accident between
New Boston and Texarkana. Four
other persons were killed, also,
and five were seriously injured.
The rites were under the direc-
tion of Smith-Bates funeral home
and burial was in the Nevill’s
Chapel cemetery.
At- the time of the accident,
Hinson was riding in an auto-
mobile being driven by James P.
Reynolds, also formerly of Mt.
Pleasant, and Clarence Palmer
of New Boston. Palmer was also
killed and Reynolds suffered ex-
tensive bruises and lacerations.
The car in which the three
were riding reportedly struck an-
other driven by Fire Chief W. H.
Avery of New Boston, who was
en route to' a fire in a Red River
Arsenal housing area, and then
careened into one occupied by
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Arthur Smith
of El Dorado, Ark., and other
relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Smith
were killed, as iwas their two-
year-old grandson, Larry Don
Smith. •
supports President Truman’s 48-
group program without any res-
ervation whatever.
In response to a question, ne
said he has no opinion as to how
large an air force the country
can afford economically.
He added: “I don’t see how
you’re going to balance the bud-
get if you face up to the interna-
tional situation.”
Symington said he thinks a
balanced budget may become
possible if differences between
the U. S. and Russia are ironed
out, but that he does not see
how it can be done under pres-
ent conditions.
In response to another ques-
tion, he said that the allocation
of manpower is perhaps the most
important problem faced by the
national security resources board.
Symington said he thinks the
board has stand-by mobilization
legislation in “pretty good
shape.” Asked about presenting
such legislation to Congress, he
said:
“I think the sooner that’s done
the better.”
One of the questions Congress
is now considering is whether the
administration’s thirteen billion
dollar defense budget should be
increased to provide more money
for air force and navy plane pur-
chases.
Defense Secretary Johnson or-
dered the joint chiefs of staff to
re-study this question after Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower told a
congressional committee recent-
ly that he believes $500,000,000
“at the outside” should be added
for aircraft purchases and
strenghening of Alaskan defens-
es.
The joint chiefs have reported
to Johnson and are scheduled to
discuss the problem with the
House armed services committee
on Thursday of this week.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, April
24 (JP) — Three more possible
clues to the fate of the missing
U. S. Navy patrol p lane, an-
other raft, a radio call sign book
and a lettered piece of wood, were
found floating in the Baltic over
the weekend.
The radio book and the un-
painted piece of wood stamped
with black lettering in English
were found Sunday on a Baltic
island beach just off the south-
east coast of Sweden. The raft
was picked up by fishermen Sat-
urday.
Swedish officials said all of
these possibly may belong to the
plane which the United States
Says was shot down with its crew
of ten by Russian fighters over
the Baltic two weeks ago. A
Swedish coast guard official said
the raft “looked as if it had been
hit by bullets.”
The clues, plus another raft
picked up by a British freighter
last week, all were found near
the Swedish coast and some 200
miles away from the Latvian
coast where the Russians claim
their fighters returned the fire
of an American, bomber which
had flown over their territory on
, ax “espionage” mission.
The punctured raft was turn-
ed over to American authorities
for further investigation. The
radio book and the piece of wood
wre to be turned over today.
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an area where Negroes make up
so large a proportion of the pop-
ulation, prove the intentional ex-
clusion that is discrimination in
violation of Cassell’s constitu-
tional rights.” Jackson’s dissent
protested that:
“This court never has explained
how discrimination in the selec-
tion of a grand jury, illegal
though it be, has prejudiced a ae-
fendant whom a trial jury, chosen
with no discrimination, has con-
victed.”
Jackson said the Supreme
Court majority in effect “holds
that the crime of discrimination
offsets the crime of murder and
that the state must start over
again if death of witnesses, loss
of evidence or other conditions
(wrought by time do not prevent.”
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BADEN BADEN, Germany, A
April 24 (P)—Two lions escapy /"
from a circus near here to’ 4
and clawed a twenty-y-
German girl to death.
Police said the vict-
La uber, iwas walk’
circus ground in ‛
lions were cap
later.
The Weather ,
East Texas—Partly cloudy,
a few scattered thunder-
showers east and south por-
tions tonigh and near the
coast early Tuesday. Cooler
Tuesday and in north and
west central portions tonight.
Local temveratures for the
past 24 hours:
Maximum __________ 83
-Minimum ................... 60 ...
Temp. 6:30 ....... I 61
Wind from __________ SW
Sky —........... Partly Cloudy
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