Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 138, Ed. 1 Monday, August 30, 1937 Page: 1 of 4
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Titus County
1 FAIR
Sept. 14-18
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Titus County—Center of Best Dairy, Poultry and Oil Section of Texas
VOLUME EIGHTEEN
More Mt. Pleasant and Titus County News than all other Papers Combined.
MOUNT PLEASANT, TEXAS, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 30, 1937
NUMBER 138
LISTEN
HERE!
By HUGH C. CROSS
iNew Enrollments
jot C. C C. Boys To
Be Called For Here
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Legless Swimmer Reaches Goal
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BOMBING OF AMERICAN SHIP MONDAY
CAUSES INTERNATIONAL COMPLICATIONS
I have been asked several times
by citizens of Mt. Pleasant to
urge the automobile drivers to
exercise extra caution at one
particular place in the business
section of town, with the hope
that a plea on my part might help
in some way to prevent a serious
accident, or toward saving the
life of a man, woman or child.
It is also hoped that city of-
ficials will take notice of this
plea and instruct traffic officers
to enforce more strictly the traf-
fic regulations at the place in
question, which, by the way, is
on North Madison street be-
tween Second and Third Streets
(the street in front of the post-
office) .
For several months, now,
speeding has been the greatest
trouble at this place. Drivers of
automobiles seemingly forget that
About Seventy-Five
Are Expected In
This County
A call for approximately 11,-
!000 whites and 1,200 colored boys
to be enrolled into the Civilian
Conservation Corps during Oc-
tober has been issued by Adam
R. Johnson, director of the Texas
Relief Commission, to the various
County Welfare Boards.
This number far exceeds any
former enrollment and will give
almost all boys in the State an
opportunity to enroll if they are
unemployed, 17 to 23 years of
age, in need, and whose parents
or themselves, due to financial
limitations, are not in a position
to secure or provide comparable
training. Full strength of the
| Texas quota is 16,000 whites and
1,700 colored, and due to dis-
charge of enrollees reaching the
age of 24 or have completed the
maximum enrollment of two
years, replacements will be nec-
essary.
Heretofore, rules did not allow
boys from other than groups re-
Brakeman Cotton
Belt Killed in Fall Could Be Improved
From Moving Train
the street is narrow; that cars
are parked on both sides of the ceivin« or eligible to receive pub-
street at practically all times ofilic assistance be accepted, but
the day, and that some person is jthese have now been modified,
liable to step out from behind one Such boys who have no depen*
of those cars at any moment. Inldents may allow tw°-thirds of
the event this should happen the *b®ir. pay on _depo,sit
person who did the stepping
might be knocked down and
kzued. Even though part of the
p, blame may be on the person who
stepped out into the street with-
out looking carefully to see if
cars were coming his way, a
whole lot of the blame would also
be on the part of the driver of
the car that struck him for not
e#ercising proper caution toward
the upholding of the traffic rules.
Another thing that may cause
an accident in this section of the
city, and still a thing that is con-
nected with too great amount of
speed is this: I have noticed late-
ly that the drivers of cars head-
ing north on Madison avenue
seem to take it for granted that
other cars coming from both
ways on Third street are going
to stop at the intersection, and
so speed on without thought of a
possible smash-up. It is of course
the duty of the drivers of autos
on Third street to stop at the
Madison intersection, but lota
of them uphold that duty about
as well as others hold down their
speed while on Madison avenue,
so anything is liable to happen.
This article is not a “gripe” but
is merely a plea for safety in the
locality mentioned. If more cau-
Charles Zimmy, legless swimmer, on Sunday night ended his Albany-
New York endurance swim, when he arrived at Ninety-Eighth
Street at 10:15 o’clock. He swam the 147 miles in 148 hours, but
lost 37 pounds in weight in making the trip in the water. Zimmy’s
remarkable floating powers, attributed to the fact that he is legless,
enables him to drift with the tide, and even sleep while in the water.
The above picture shows him pausing for represhments near Pough-
keepsie. He was accompanied on the trip by a rowboat, which
served as a floating commissary.
and upon discharge, or comple-
tion of their enrollment, receive
the full accrued amount Where
there are dependents, an allot-
ment will be made each month di-
rect.
Over $500,000.00 each month is
brought to Texas through these
allotment checks to dependents,
which materially relieves the bur-
den that would otherwise be car-
ried by the communilies.
Mrs. Jessie Johnson, of the local
relief office, who will be iq
charge of enrollments here, stat-
ed that about 75 boys could be
selected from Titus County.
Warning On Rabid
Dogs Issued Again
By City Marshal
Two of Three Rabid
Animals Killed;
One Escapes
Court Docket For Oil Mill Opens 1937
Justice Cases, The
Heaviest In Months on Monday Morning
Brought To Trial On
Monday Before
H. E. Wilhite
H. E. Wilhite, Justice of the
Peace of Precinct 1, opened his
court Monday morning at ten
o’clock with the heaviest docket
of cases in many months. Thirty-
four cases were on the book,
latter, most of them had been
with drunkedness and fighting
and some of them dated as far
back as December, 1936. of the
latter, most o fthem had been
carried over from time to time
because of non appearance of
principals or witnesses.
Since the first of the year the
county jail has been practically
loaded to capacity at all times.
Season Operations
Expects Biggest Crop
Of Seed in Many
Years
The Mt. Pleasant Oil Mill open-
ed its 1937 season of operations
on Monday morning, giving fall
employment to a large force of
men.
The oil mill expects an unusual
heavy season this year, owing
to the big cotton crop in this
section, and because feed has
dropped in price to where the
exchange of meal and hulls for
seed is expected to be higher and
create a bigger demand for these
products in Titus County, where
they are extensively used by
dairy farmers.
Products of the local mill are aj|
good as can be found anywhere;
Body Supposedly In
River Near Big
Sandy
Cullen Tye brakeman on the
Cotton Belt, was killed at an
early hour Monday morning,
when it is thought that he fell
from a moving freight train near
Big Sandy.
Tye was head brakeman on
extra Train No. 785, which left
Tyler about 1 o’clock Monday
morning. When the train reach-
ed Big Sandy and stopped to set
out some cars, Tye was missed,
and when other members of the
crew searched for him, they found
some blood and part of Tye’s shirt
on the second car back of the
engine. The general office at Ty-
ler was notified, and sent investi-
gators on a switch engine. On the
bridge over Sabine River, one of
Tye’s hands and other proportions
of his flesh were found. Later
his body was found between
Winona and Big Sandy.
Tye was last seen on the ten-
der of the engine, where the head
brakeman usually stays on runs
during the warm months, and it
is thought that he in some way
fell from the tank under the mov-
ing train, which was coming to
Mt. Pleasant on a turn-around
run.
Condition Of Water
By Moving of Pipes
If Nearer Center Of
Lake Would Be
Clearer
Seven Members Crew
Dollar Liner
Injured
The quality of water being
used in Mt. Pleasant could be
vastly improved with little ex-
pense if the pipes through which
it is pumped were moved nearer
the middle of th elake than at
present.
They are now located only
about sixty feet from the south
bank, and with the addition of
another length of pipe, adding
about twenty feet, they would
be in deeper water and further
from the bottom of the lake,
thereby lessening the volume of
sediment that is being sucked
into the pipe when the pumps
are operating.
Inquiring about the situation,
the Times has discovered that
the light company claims it is
the duty of the city to lengthen
the pipe, while the city claims
that the light company should
do the work, as it has the pump-
ing contract. Just whose job it
it, makes little difference, be-
cause anything that will improve
the water we are forced to drink
should be arranged for as quick-
The majority of the cases dealt
places over the city, the water
in the mains is simply nasty, and
through several layers of cloth
sometime, and see what the inner
fold of the cloth will look like
after being in use a few hours.
Shanghai Closed By
U. S. To American
Shipping Monday jjeaf| 0f Highway
WASHINGTON, August 30 (INS) U- *KT
-The United States today offi- DOUY dlKl rdlUliy
cailly closed the port of Shang-
hai to American merchant chip- Jj, ^
The navy was ordered to press
into service warships of the U. S.
Asiatic squadron to evacuate
Americans from the war-torn
Chinese Metropolis.
JAMES WILLIAMS IS
REPORTED IMPROVING
IN PARIS SANITARIUM
Still anothed warning against
mad dogs was issued Mondav
.ion results from the advertising ££* * **
of the above facts then a good
purpose has been served. No one
wants to hurt someone alse when
there are ways of preventing that
person from getting hurt.
In the past City Marshal has
warned the citizens of Mt. Pleas-
ant in a general way against rabid
dogs on numerous occasions and
since the beginning of the ex-
tremely hot season he has killed
a large number • of stray dogs
that possibly were mad, or were
in danger of going mad.
Monday morning, though, a
specific warning was issued
aginst one dog in particular.
About two weeks ago a small
dog belonging to Mrs. Earl Lide
was reported to have gone mad
R. G. McClinton returned to|a°d *>. have bitten practically
his home in Texarkana Sunday ''everythin? “ lte way whlle on a
following a visit during the week rampage m the south part o£ the
end with his sons, R. B., Millard
and Ewell.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stephens of
Los Angeles, Calif., arrived here
during the weekend for a visit
with Misses Faye and Bess
Rogers pending arrival of her
daughter Miss Barbra Beth, who
has been attending an exclusive
girl’s camp at Kerrville, Texas,
the past month.
R. E. Williams, who has been in
Paris since his son, James, was
taken to the Sanitarium there
last Thursday night, was here for
a short while Sunday and re-
ported his son’s condition much
improved.
James was carried to the sani*
tarium following the automobile-
truck collision that occurred on
the Pope hill, west of town, last
week. He was the most seriously
injured of the survivors. In ad-
dition to a broken and fractured
jaw, it was feared he has a slight
fracture of the skull, but re-
ports are to effect that his con-
dition has improved to the ex-
tent the fracture was not con-
sidered dangerous.
Japan Believes
Britain-U. S. Will
Plan Reprisals
Britain Sees All
Far East Rampant
With Lawlessness
The Weather
East Texas—Partly cloudy, pro-
bably local showers on upper
coast tonight and Tuesday and
in north portion Tuesday.
Maximum ........ ioo
Minimum _________________________________ 69
Temp. 6:30 ................................ 70
Wind from ------------------------------- W
Sky ..........................Partly clouly
Barometer ------------- 28.92
city, until it was finally killed Mr- and Mrs. W. O. Willson re-
by a Negro who lives in the turned to their home in Fort
southeast part. Before being
killed, though, the animal bit
three dogs belonging to the Negro.
Sunday afternoon the Negro
man reported that all three of
his dogs went mad at the same
time and that he succeeded in
killing two of them but the third
one escaped and is reported to be
still at large. It is a mixed breed
of police dog and bulldog, and
everyone is asked to be on the
lookout for it. It should be killed
immediately upon sight.
Worth Monday afternoon follow
ing a week end visit here with
relatives. They were accompanied
home by their daughter Evelyn
Lou, who has been visiting her
aunt, Mrs. D. W. White the past
few weeks.
J. H. Goates, Jr., who has
been attending the summer ses-
sion of A. & M. College, at College
Station, is home on a short va-
cation before the beginning of
the fall term.
TOKYO, August 30 (INS)—High-
est army authorities today open-
ly bared the fear that the com-
bination of Britain's sharp pro-
test and the new Russo-Chinese
non-agression pact means align-
ment of western nations, includ-
ing the U. S., against Japan.
Stern oriental silence, both of-
ficial and public, greeted Brit-
ain’s thundering note, but the
Kokumin Shimbun, official organ
of the Japanese army, declared
authoriatively:
“The way is now being pre-
pared for traditional Anglo-
American action.
“It will soon be recognized be-
yond any doubt that these powers
are attempting to exert political
pressure on Japan.”
Miss Christene Ward, who has
been attending E. T. S. T. C. at
Commerce for the past term, is
spending a few weeks with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Ward
between terms.
Rubber yielding plants include
trees, vines, shrubs and herbs.
LONDON, August 30 (INS)—
Shocked by the apparently de-
liberate attack'on a great ocean
liner of a friendly power, British
observers today saw in the
President Hoover incident, further
proof of the British contention
that international lawlessness is
becoming rampant in the far
East.
News of the bombing of the
liner strengthened British feel-
ing that both China and Japan
must be called to sharp account
before they overstep all bounds.
FATHER MT. PLEASANT
WOMEN BURIED MONDAY
AFTERNOON AT AVINGER
sssasga?^
Funeral services were held at
Avinger Monday at 2:30 for R.
o’clock Monday afternoon for R.
F. Pyland, prominent Cass Coun-
ty farmer and stockman, who died
at his home near Avinger Sun-
day morning following a brief
illness.
Mr. Pyland was the father of
Mrs. E. A. Stark and Mrs. Roger
Brown of Mt. Pleasant. He is
survived by a widow and thirteen
children.
IF
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By M. C. FORD
International Newt Service Special
Correspondent
SHANGHAI, August 30 (INS)—
Bound on a mission of mercy to
war-torn Shanghai, the 21,936-
ton American Dollar Liner, Pres.
Hoover, was struck by three
aerial bombs off Woosung today.
Seven members of her crew of
320 and three of the 257 pass-
engers aboard were injured when
four huge bombing planes, after
circling overhead, went into a
power dive and dropped their
death-dealing missiles on her
decks.
One version of the incident
stated that the planes were en-
gaged in attacking a Japanese
troop transport lying near the
President Hoover which was on
its way from Manila to Shang-
hai to pick up additional refu-
gees.
The theory that the President
Hoover was hit by mistake was
doubted in authoritiative quar-
ters as she flew oversize Amer-
ican flags from her mast-heads
as proff of her identity and neu-
trality.
In addition to the injured sea-
men, three passengers required
medical tratment for concussion
and shock.
i The liner itself was seriously
damaged, with several holes tom
in her superstructure above the
water-line.
The attack occurred on the
high seas while the liner was
s even unfit for bathing.
Just try filtering the water 20 miles from shore and 50 miles
SAN ANTONIO, August 30 (INS)
—Robert Lee Bobbitt, chairman
of the State Highway Commiss-
ion and former Attorney General,
Mrs. Bobbitt and their son, Rob-
ert Lee, Jr., were injured when
their automobile overturned near
Lytle today.
The Bobbitts were returning
from a Laredo funeral at the
time of the accident, caused when
the Highway Commission Chair-
man’s car struck the soft dirt
shoulder on the road upon meet-
ing another machine and over-
turning. None were seriously in-
jured.
JAIL BREAKER CHASED
SUNDAY MORNING BUT
MAKES GOOD ESCAPE
Constable Aubrey Redfearn
on Sunday morning barely missed
capturing Golden Harris, who re-
cently broke jail at Longview.
Mr. Redfearn was notified that
Harris had just filled his car with
gas at the Brock service station
and had gone west on Highway
One. He gave chase in his car,
following the highway for several
miles, but failed to see the car
he was after. Returning, he was
told that Harris had turned off
the highway at the Charley Al-
len home west of Farmers’ Acad-
emy, going south on a country
road.
There is a reward of $200 for
Harris’ capture.
Mrs. Ida Williams returned
Sunday from a two weeks’ visit
with her son, Millard, who re-
sides at Snyder, and Dean at
Lubbock.
from Woosung. The ship was
nearing Shanghai harbor from
Manila, where she had deposited
several hundred refugees.
With relations between Japan
and Great Britain already strain-
ed as the result of the shooting
of the British Ambassador to
China by a Japanese machine-
gunner, the incident threatened
to involve the U. S. in another
grave international crisis.
CHINESE CLAIM ACCIDENT
NANKING, August 30 (INS)—
Insisting th incident was “acci-
dental,” Chinese Nationalist au-
thorities tonight admitted a fleet
of their airplanes had bombed
the American liner President
Hoover on the high seas off
Shanghai.
The Chinese admission was
made after U. S. Ambassador
Nelson T. Johnson had called
at the Chinese Foreign office and
called attention of officials to
the incident.
-■ China To Make Redress
SHANGHAI, August 30 (INS)——
Full responsibility for the air-
plane bombing attack on the Dol-
lar Liner President Hoover off-.
Woosung was accepted today by
the Chinese government.
Chinese officials said that their
government stood ready to make
redress for damages and for in-
juries to passengers and members
of the crew.
CAR IS TOTALLY BURNED
EARLY SUNDAY MORNING
An automobile with a Dallas
license plate was totally des-
troyed by fire about 2 o’clock
Sunday morning at the railroad
crossing three miles west of town.
The driver, going towards Dq^--
las, ran into a ditch by the r
of the road. He called a wrec
to get the car out of the di
and the driver of the wr**'
struck a match to see how
fasten his chain on the autoi
bile. When the car went
the ditch, it caused the gas
to break, and when the m
was ignited, the gasoline cir
on fire, and in a few minut
car was a mass of charred
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