Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 251, Ed. 1 Friday, December 13, 1935 Page: 1 of 4
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Titm» County—Center of the Beet Dairy and Poultry Section of Texas
VOLUME SIXTEEN
MOUNT PLEASANT, TEXAS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1935.
NUMBER 251
Expect College
Center to Open
Early Next Year
Two representatives of the Nation-
ill Youth Administration, Messrs.
Roberts and Bardwell are in Titus
County working with 'members of
the County Advisory Board in con-
nection with the establishment of a
Freshman College Center here. As
Alllred Holds
Up Call, Asks
Pension Data
Austin, Texas, Dec.—Date for the
opening of the third special session
of the Forty-Fourth Texas Legisla-
ture remained unsettled today as Gov.
Mssing Man Is
Found Burned To
!
Death in Woods
Round World
Mail Routes
Now Certain
Washington, Dec. 12.—Round-the-
world air mail and passenger service
on regular schedules appeared a vir-
N'ews reached Mt. Pleasant Friday ’ tual certainty today aftetr a British-
James V. Allred awaited definite in- morning of a tragedy that occurred American agreement prepared the
formation on how much money will in the northeast part of the county j way for flights across the Atlantic,
be needed for old-age assistance. ' sometime Wednesday or that night, Diplomatic representatives of the
Possibility that the session might shocking the community in which it United States and Great Britain con-
net be held in January exists, Allred , happened. The scene of the tragedy
said. He told legislators at the end was in the woods on the north side
Lrplicaticfn for this project has al-! of the last session that he would not !' V.hile Oak Creek about two miles
ready been made, and there are about! : cconvene them before January. i west of the Hart’s Bluff road. Gord-
150 young people in the county be- Orville Carpenter, State Auditod, on Vaught was found at that place,
tween the ages of sixteen and twenty-| who will be pension director, today | about eight o’clock Thursday morn-
live years eligible for this training,! is in Washington conferring with na- ; i g, burned to death..
He lived on Guy Franks’ farm and
Cotton Belt Road
Files Petition in
Own Bankruptcy
i: is expected that the center will be
ready for operation some time about
the first of the year.
The NYA embraces a program of
feur points, which includes high j
school aid of $6 pgr month and col-
lege.aid of $15 per month, to work-
on jobs selected by the school au-
thorities.
'.Job training, job placement and
vocational guidance.
Apprenticeships.
Work on WPA ajhd NYA projects
where the family head is eligible for
work on WPA projects.
• The Titus Count advisory board is
lional security administrators. He
will study both New York and Cal-
ifornia administrations and report to
the pension commission and Governor.
Meantime, Allred and K. B. Ander-
summated a reciprocal pact at a con-
ference here whereby American plan-
o« will be permitted to land on Brit-
ish territory and English planes to
land in this country.
'franratlrintic service is the only
remaining gap in an around-the glibe
• transportation s- tern. Pan-Ame-
sen, State Tax
Commissioner, are j ' ay.
erny Wednesday morning he told
M:s. Franks, his sister, that he was
going l'nto the woods to do some
woikr^jiiul hg failed to return that
Thursday morning he still
he is as yet uncertain what will be ; hadn't come home and a search was
studying, the tax problem. Allred said ; started for him. His body was found
recommended to the session. Until a short distance from where he had
Carpenter returns and can give some I been working, burned almost beyond
estimate of funds needed, a decision \ recognition.
cannot be made. j Mr. Vaught built a fire in the
An estimate is madt difficult be- j woods and the evidence showed that
cause tht pension law does not limit! he must have- laid down beside it
support. No present records are avail-: and went to sleep; the fire spread
payments to those entirely without Did caught his clothing. Further
awakened aft-
composed of Delbert Snider, chair- J able of the. number who may qualify. 1 evidence showed he
man, W. R. Whitaker, W. E. McClin-
tock, H. E
Florey Jr., E.
D. M. Witt . ! DESPITE PICTURES FROM
Wilhite, Doyce Davis, T,;
C.jBrica.jiad -Dr. VnLW4£MU'U£U> FLAT
St. Louis, Oct. 12.—The St. Louis
j Southwestern (Cotton Belt) Railway
| filed a voluntary petition in bank-
ruptcy under section 77 of the amend-
ed Bankruptcy Act in Federal Dis-
trict Court Thursday, declaring it
could not meet $24,958,992 in matured
and maturing obligations and stating
its desire to reorganize.
The road petitioned the court to
take jurisdiction over its property
and affairs and to make orders neces-
sary for administration of the busi-
Aiiways recently established ; nprs incidental to financial reorgani-
vice between the United States zatjon
Earlier this month the road an-
nounced it would default certain in-
terest payments.
The petition was signed by F. W.
vice president. The Cotton
Belt is controlled by the Southern
."'•Hie Company.
Past due obligations on which the
road safd it could meet neither inter-
tst nor principal were listed as:
RFC ncte for $3,500,000 to Chase
- National, New York, and one for
I.is Angeles, Dec. 12.—Mrs. Ross $1,000,000 to Mississippi Valley Trust,
Alexander committed suicide, a cor-1 St. Louis both due Dec. 1; balance
->nd the Orient by way of Manila and
Honolulu. At present mail can be
flown from this country to China,
t V". ti Australia and Australia by
' y of India to Europe. Passenger
vice on Pan-American’s transpa-
cific route is expected to be announ-
’ed shortly.
ACTRESS KILLED SELF,
VERDICT INQUEST JURY
--- STRATOSPHERE BALLOON
MARLAND SAVES YOUTH i -
FROM ELECTRIC CHAIR Zion, 111., Dec. 12.—Wilbur Glenn j
- i Voliva will be happy to show the
Oklahoma City, Okla., Dec. 13. stratosphere balloonists where they’re
Robert H. Denton Jr., youthful Ukia- wl-0ng in thinking the world is round,
homa printer and convicted slayer,
er his clothes were on fire and tried- oner’s jury held today in a verdict |0f $239,800.37 due Oct. 27 on note to
to escape, as his body was found returned after an inquest into her1 ‘„he Railroad Credit Corporatiton.
abouLhundred feet from the fire | death. _____L .The petition also JisJed $l,3fi7,875
and there wat; a burned trail from | Death was caused by a wound, self- due the Railroad Credit Corporation
the fire to his body. All his appar- j inflicted, from a .22 calibre rifle but- j March 31, 1936, and the following
el was burned completely off his j let, the verdict started. j accounts due Jan. 1: 'Interest on
body, with the exception of the toe j The story of the death of the well j general and refunding mortgage
on first
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of one shoe, and his flesh was badly | known stage actress, was told from bonds $233,187.50; interest
. brothers and one sister, Monroe, Den
The overseer of the Zion religious) , T u tvt-o
was saved from the electric chair colony deci;ned to give an inch | I Jn°Mn" .X. gpmintv ’ . 1
Thursday night when his death sen- Thursday in his conviction that the|Fll*n ’ y’
tence was reduced to life imprison-
ment by Governor Marland.
Denton was convictted in Oklahoma
la'th is a huge salucer, even in the
face cf the newest evidence.
Told stratosphere fliers of the bal-
County of slaying John Peters, form- ]ocn "Explorer II” took -pictures show-
er Oklahoma City-University athlete jT1[y a curve on the earth’s surxace,
because he resented Peters’ atten- y0iiva sdid this was a mistake,
tions to Denton’s divorced wife. , "it wouldn’t haye a single thing to
---- do with the theory that the world is
a sphere,” he said.
“The bottom of a saucer might show
a curve, but that wouldn’t make a
charred. j the witness stand today at a coro-! terminal and unifying mortgage
The deceased is survived by three | ner’s inquest- by hpr handsome screen i bonds $202,625; intetrest on second
actor ’-usband, Ross Alexander. j mortgage bond certificates, $60,850;
----• | interest on first mortgage bonds of
Brotherhood Meeting j two wholly owned subsidiaries whose
—-- - bonds were guaranteed by Cotton
The Brotherhood Club of the Bap- Belt, $60,575 for the Stephenville
tist Church will meet tonight at the | North and South Texas Railway Corn-
church at 7 o’clock for their regular j pany, and $27,125 for the Central
meeting. Every member is cordially j
invited to be present.
brother and sister in Oklahoma. He
lost his wife and baby in an automo-
bile accident near Clarksville about
two years ago. '
The information that has been re-
ceived here said nothing about fun-
eral arrangements, but that the ser-
vices were held at Cooper’s Chapel.
YOUTH KILLED DAY AFTER
HE WRITES TO SANTA
Carthage, Dec. 12.—Wilmer Young globe.”
Whitaker, 10, whose letter to Santa “These flights all go to show, a.s
Claus was published in a newspaper I’ve always contended, that the world
here Wednesday was killed by an ata- is flat, a plane.
tomobile Thursday as he started “You’ll notice the balloonists said
across a street in the business dis- when they were up 14 miles
trict. The boy was en route from earth and sky appeared to meet on a
Rev. McClung Honored on Birthday
his home to school.
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'till
Christmas
—r
MARTIN THEATER
Friday-Saturday
"FRISCO KID”
With
James Cagney
and
Margaret Lindsay
level with their eyes. That was be-
i causa parallel lines always appear to
meet in the distance.”
j As for photographs, he has some
I of his own.
! “I put a camera just aibove the sur-
i face of a lake,” Volia said, “and took
I pictures of objects on the shore 14
miles away. If the earth curved, I
would halve got a picture of 96 feet
'■ of water.”
I’ ---
f DANCE REVUE
Mrs. J. D. McClung and daughter,
Miss Fairy Lee, entertained friends
and relatives Wednesday evening
with a surprise birthday dinner, hon-
| oring Rev. J. D. McClung on the oc-
casion of his 58th birthday. Rev. Mc-
Clung received a number of beauti-
ful and useful gifts. Those present
were: Grandmother McClung, Mr.
and Mi s. Hal tline, Oweita and Harold
J. B. Newman of Dallas, who is
teaching a dancing class here, pre-
sented his pupils in a dance revue at
the Martin Theatre Wednesday night.
Unique and artistic costumes were
used in the revue, and the pupils all
showed excellent talent and training.
Eight numbers were presented and
the following took part: Bettye Jean
Jones, Novie Sue Cawthon, Ottajean
Thrasher, Grace Evelyn Dale, Jerry
Dajniel, Mary Jane Lide, Geraldine
Montgomery, Bettie Marie Gerhard,
Charlyn Gerhard, Mrs. Claude Rlney,
Nancy Legg, Jerry Huckeba, Gloria
Gibbons, Bettie Harbison, Randolph
Presley, Claude Riney Jr., George
Watts Jr., Jean Legg, Daivid New-
man and Carmen Jordan of Dallas,
Gloria Rosenbleth of Greenville.
i Dean, E. J. McClung and daughters,
! Dorothy, and Gloria Ann, Mr. and
Mrs. George McClung, Bobbie Jack,
Marylyr.' and Joyce -Evelyn Mr «Vid
Mrs. L. D. McClung, Max Jean and
Jerry, Mr. and Mrs. A. O. McClung,
and Robert Dean, Mr. and Mrs. W.
O. McClung and Guy of Sulphur
Springs, Mr. and Mrs, Morris Har-
bour and Virginity Ruth, Mr. and Mrs.
W. M. Henderson, Mr. and Mrs.
M. W. Conkle, Mrs. Ollie Powell,
Mrs. Fred Jackson of Atlanta, Mrs.
Jim Rush, Mr. and rs. O. D. Gools-
by, Velma and Lurlean.
TRADE IN MT. PLEASANT.
The Weather
Hie weather for the past 24 hour*
Recording to readings made at. 6:30:
Maximum .................................... 55
Minimum 27
Temperature 6:30 .................... 31
Wind from ................................SE
Sky ..........................................Cleat-
Barometer ................................29.04
Arkansas and Eastern Railroad Com-
pany.
POST OFFICE WINDOWS
TO OPEN AFTERNOONS
NEXT TWO SATURDAYS
For the two Satturdays before
Christmas, the local post office will
remain open until four o’clock in the
afternoon, instead of closing at one
o’clock as usual. The windows will
be open until this hour in order to al-
low the mailing of Christmas packag-
es, but lifter Christmas, the closing
hour for Saturdays will again be one
o’clock.
Southwestern Life
REGISTERED
INSURANCE
Mrs. Alma Coker
Local Agent
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Gifts, in all ranges of price to suit ev-
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It will pay you to visit our store.
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Cross, G. W. Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 251, Ed. 1 Friday, December 13, 1935, newspaper, December 13, 1935; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth800040/m1/1/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Mount Pleasant Public Library.