Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 67, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 31, 1933 Page: 1 of 4
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VOLUME FOURTEEN
MOUNT PLEASANT, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 31, 1933.
NUMBER 67
Chas. McDonald
Dies From Effect
Of Pistol Wound
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Chas. McDonald Jr., who was dis-
covered in his room at the Jeffer-
son Hotel Tuesday afternoon, suffer-
ing from the effects of a self-inlicted
pistol wound over the heart, died in
a hospital at Texarkana about six
o’clock.
He was given first aid treatment
by local physicians before being tak-
en to the hospital, and after his ar-
rival at Texarkana was given a blood
transfusion, but the wound was too
serious, and he failed to recover. His
cousin, Clyde McDonald, furnished
the blood for the transfusion.
Mr. McDonald was 23 years of age,
and had been a resident of this city
for about three years. He is survived
by a wife, four uncles and numerous
other relatives.
Funeral services will take place at
2:30 o’clock Thursday afternoon at
the home of his uncle, Claude McDon-
ald, on North Jefferson Avenue, un-
der the direction of Rev. J. C. Foster
of Palestine, former pastor of the
Church of Christ of this city, assist-
ed by Rev. J. W. Ford, pastor of the
Winfield Methodist Church, with in-
terment following at the Masonic
Cemetery.
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cribing for The Daily Time*.
TODAY
KAY FRANCIS
George Brent
in
THE KEY HOLE'
Thursday
Murder Moves
At Midnight
Death stalks the deck of a pleasure
ship ... A fiendish killer moves
Unknown among the passengers
. . . Murdering victims with an un-
seen hand . . . each in a different
but ghastly fashion.
“TERROR
ABOARD”
with
John Halliday
Charlie Ruggles
Neil Hamilton
SHIRLEY GREY
JACK LARUE
VERREE TEASDALE “
ALSO NOVELTY SHORTS AND
$15.00 FREE
A»k This FOLLOWING
MERCHANTS
Geo. Lilienstern’s Dept. Store
O. A. Thrasher Fine Cleaning
Bullington Drug Store
Pifittly Wiggly
Titus Theatre
Counterfeit Money
Being Circulated
In Titus County
Citizens of Titus County are warn-
ed to closely examine all of the change
they receive in business transactions,
as a number of counterfeit coins are
being circulated throughout the
country. Many of these coins so
closely resemble genuine money, they
are hard to detect as spurious. The
coloring is almost exactly the same
as the regular coins, and there is lit-
tle difference in weight.
Various denominations of counter-
feit coins are being circulated, but
nickels and half dollars are most com-
mon. It is thought that there is a
regular gang of counterfeiters oper-
ating in this section of the State, and
especially in the oil fields.
NEW BANKRUPTCY
BILL IS PREDICTED
Washington, May 30.—After a talk
with President Roosevelt today,
Chairman Sumners of the House Ju-
diciary Committee predicted that a
new municipal-corporation bankrupt-
cy bill would be presented to the
House shortly.
“I’m not prepared to say what the
President thinks of our bills,” Sum-
ners told newspaper men, “but I ex-
pect the Judiciary Committee within
the next two or three days to put to-
gether and approve the corporation
and municipal bankruptcy bills now
pending.
“After all, the Federal Court is the
last resort of heavily indebted munic-
ipalities. We feel there should be
some sort of forum where cities and
their creditor may get together and
work out an agreement.
“This municipal bankruptcy bill
would let an agreement accepted by
three-fourths of the creditors be rat-
ified by the court. That is no more
than we are proposing to do in the
industrial and railroad bills. We just
refuse to let a recalcitrant minority
hold out long enough to harm the ma-
jority.”
TWO SMUGGLING
SUSPECTS KILLED
Laredo, May 30.—A suspected li-
quor smuggler was killed instantly,
another was wounded fatally and a
third was wounded in the leg in an
encounter with two border patrolmen
along the Rio Grande here last night.
A man identified as Jose Hernan-
dez, 26, struck by eight bullets, died
in a hospital today. Officers had been
unable to identify the man killed out-
right.
HUEY P. LONG IS SUED
FOR $250,000 DAMAGES
Baton Rouge, La., May 30.-^Sena-
tui Huey P. Long Tuesday was sued
for $250,000 damages by Mrs. Anne
Ector Pleasant, wife of former Gov.
Ruffin G. Pleasant, who alleged that
Senator Long had defamed her char-
acter and had had her ejected from
the State house during the 1932 ses-
sion of the Legislature.
The suit was entered in East Baton
Rouge District Court.
MT. PLEASANT DOCTOR
IN STATE FEATURE
In today’s Daily Times appears a
feature entitled, “Odd Texas,” which
is used by a large number of papers
over the State. In this feature ref-
erence is made to Dr. J. M. Ellis of
this city, who in making a profes-
sional call at one time used five meth-
ods of transportation, remaining all
of the time in Titus County.
Look for the illustration on another
page of tdoay’s paper.
DO YOU DEMAND
FINE CLEANING
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Suits Cleaned and Pressed
50c, 75c and $1.00
STORAGE FREE
Phone 86
Car Is Wrecked and
Franklin County
Men Pick up Beer
A big coupe, occupied by two Fort
Worth men, was overturned on one of
the sharp turns just east of Mt. Ver-
non Tuesday afternoon with disas-
trous resulls. Both of the occupants
of the car were injured and had to be
taken to a hospital at Mt. Vernon.
When the car was wrecked, the con-
tents were strewn all around, as the
vehicle contained a large quantity of
3.2 beer from Louisiana, farmers liv-
ing nearby availed themselves of the
opportunity and gathered up a good
supply of the bottled beverage before
officers could come and confiscate it.
It is said that several hundred bottles
of the beer were in the automobile.
MT. PLEASANT TO PLAY
GREENVILLE TEAM FRIDAY
The Mt. Pleasant team of the
Northeast Texas League will play a
team from Greenville at the fair park
field Friday afternoon.
This promises to be a hot contest,
as the Greenville team has not been
defeated this year, and the local boys
are now going good.
A league game with Sulphur
Springs will be played here Sunday
afternoon.
Miss Martha Setzer left Tuesday
nigth for West Terre Haute, Ind., to
spend the Summer with her grand-
mother.
Mrs. Marguerite Whittenberg left
Wednesday morning for a visit in
Ardmore, Okla.
Mrs. W. R. Swan, Mrs. T. H. Down-
ing and son, Loyd, left Tuesday night
for a visit in St. Louis. i
USED CARS
1928 Ford Tudor ............ $ 95.00
1928 Ford Coupe ................$ 85.00
1929 Wlyppet Coupe ..........$ 50.00
1930 Whippet Coach _.$ 95.00
1929 Chevrolet Coach ........$145.00
1929 Ford Coupe _______________$125.00
1929 Ford Tudor ..............-$145.00
1931 Chevrolet Coupe ..... $295.00
1931 Chevrolet Sedan ........$295.00
Many more models to choose from.
Come in today for a demonstration
Irvin Chevrolet Co.
Titus County Boy
Rejected in Forest
Work; Another Sent
A. J. Copellar, chairman of the
Titus County R. F. C. Relief Commit-
tee received notification Wednesday
piorning that one of the Titus County
boys sent from this place to Fort Sill,
Okla., for work in the forestry camps
had been rejected because of his phy-
sical condition, and asking that a re-
placement be sent. The name of the
boy rejected was no tgiven.
The committee met again Wednes-
day morning and selected Theron
Ferguson of the Green Hill commun-
ity to take the place of the rejected
applicant. Out of the thirty-three
sent from Titus County, this is the
only rejection reported.
FIND $1,100 WORTH
OF RADIUM CARRIED
IN BANDAGE ON LIP
Oklahoma City, May 30.—Univer-
sity hospital authorities Tuesday in-
structed Dr. M. W. Rogers of Rule,
Texas, how to pack for shipment
$1,100 worth of radium inadvertently
carried away from the hospital by a
patient.
The pin-point of the precious sub-
stance was plastered on the lip of Ed-
gar Miller of Guthrie at the hospital
here last week. Miller left. Physi-
cians ordered a serach for the missing
patient.
Learning the value of his bandage,
Miller went into Dr. Rogers’ office
Monday and gave him the radium
for safe-keeping.
Annual Report of
Local Schools for
Completed Year
Superintendent Wallace of the Mt.
Pleasant school system makes the
following report for the 1932-33 year,
which came to a close with the grad-
uation exercises held Monday night:
Scholastic enumeration for district
1,183.
Total enrollment for year, 1,196.
Belonging at end of year, 1,016.
Average membership, 1,003.
Average daily attendance, 928.
Pex-centage of attendance, 92.5.
Total number promoted, 855.
Total number retained, 162.
Percentage promoted, 84.2.
Value of library books, $4,609.
Number library books purchased,
268.
Total books in school libraries,
3,710.
Number of school desks, 1,501.
So far as attendance is concerned,
the schools had the most successful
year in history, the interest among
the students was the highest, and the
number of diplomas issued, a total of
seventy-three, was the largest of any
year since the school system was
founded.
EARLY PEACHES ARE
BEING GATHERED NOW
VENTERANS’ COMPENSATION
INCREASE TO BE ANNOUNCED
Washington, May 30.—Senator
Byrnes told the Senate today the ad-
ministration would announce in a few
days an increase in the compensation
to veterans with service-connected
disabilities.
Byrnes made the statement after
several Senators had criticized the ad-
ministration for the cuts already
made under the economy act. The
subject came up under discussion of
the independent offices appropriation
bill which carries funds for the vet-
erans administration.
Senator Steiwer said pension funds
for Spanish-American War veterans
had been cut from $124,000,000 for
the expiring fiscal year to $41,000,-
000 for the coming year, a reduction
of approximately $67,000,000.
He reminded colleagues this was
Memorial Day and said “it is fitting
the Senate should be engaged in con-
sidering these items.”
The early peach crop is now ripen-
ise of joy to lovers of Titus County
ing and being gathered, giving prom-
| fruit. W. M. Smith on Wednesday
gathered six bushels from his orchard,
j which he sold at a fancy price. Al-
though the crop of the county was
! damaged by the heavy freezes last
Winter, there will be plenty for home
consumption, with possibly some left
for shipping purposes.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Phillips re-
turned Tuesday night from Dallas,
where the former undemvent exam-
ination at a hospital. The special-
ists said that he is suffering from the
effects of pleuriy, and ordered him
to remain in bed for the next six
weeks, when he will go for another
examination.
j The Weather
1 The weather for the past 24 hours
according to readings mada at 6:30:
I Maximum .................................... 90
Minimum .................................... 61
Temperature 6:30 .................... 62
1 Wind from ................................NW
Sky ..........................................Clear
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Cross, G. W. Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 67, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 31, 1933, newspaper, May 31, 1933; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth784366/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Mount Pleasant Public Library.