Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 245, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 8, 1946 Page: 1 of 4
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Appointments Are
Made For United
Nations Meetings
Mrs. Alfred Agan
Succumbs Monday
At Her Home Here
OPA Chief Denies
Increase in Steel
Price to Industry
Truman Expresses
Satisfaction With
Moscow Decisions
Texas Senate Fails
To Secure Quorum
For Tuesday Meet
Patterson Will Go
To Manila to Look
Into Troop Protest
Talco Youth Dies
In Army Hospital
After Long Illness
Conally is* Given
Leading Position
For Conferences
Exhibits to Feature
Labor Saving and
Lasting Equipment
Issue in American
Group About Settled
Has No Information
Russians Develop
New Atomic Bomb
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Employees Western
Union in New York
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At the close of the 19th cen-
tury, only ten per cent of U. S.
foreign commerce was carried in
American ships.
Rob Morris Chapter No. 40 will
hold its regular monthly meeting
at the Masonic Hall tonight and
all members are urged to attend.
H. L. Graham, Sec.
Gilbert C. Wilson
Explains Processes
Used at His Plant
No Precedent For
Unusual Session to
Act on Appointees
Major Portions of
Truce Problems For
China Are Settled
Body of Lieutenant
Tennison Miller
Arrives on Tuesday
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The British took Ceylon from
J Holland in 1796.
RICHMOND, Va. (ZP) — With
the new administration of Wil-
liam M. Tuck as governor, J. P.
(Captain Jack) Pettis, 81-year-
o’d state capitol policeman, counts
15 consecutive Virginia gover-
nors under whom he has served.
Pettis has spent nearly 56 years
as a policeman on the Virginia
capitol hill.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank May an-
nounce the birth of a son at Tay-
lor hospital on Sunday, January
6th, at 6:40 o'clock in the even-
ing. He weighed eight pounds and
eight ounces and has been given
th name of Frank, Jr.
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Temp. 6:30 ________
Wind from ______
Sky _____________
Rainfall _
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Future of Yam As
Industrial Crop is
Told Rotary Club
How Boy and His Dog
Out-Fox Little Foxes
Wait of Six Months
Necessary Under
Present Policies
Her Death Follows
Illness of Several
Months Duration
Hailstones as Big
As Eggs Remained
For Several Hours
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LONDON, January 8 (ZP) —
Secretary of State Byrnes said
tonight there was no doubt
the atomic energy safeguard is-
sue in the American delegation
to the United Nations assembly
would be worked out ratisfactor-
ily. Byrnes arrived here this
morning to attend the session.
Meanwhile, sources close to the
British government expressed a
skepticism of reports that Russia
had developed an atom bomb
making that of the western pow-
ers obsolete.
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PRESIDENI TRUMAN by executive order abolished the four-year-old War Labor board, and erected a
of Sericea lespedeza, or other
hay, • that can be grown easily
and that has greatly increased
feeding possibilities on the farm,
will be acceptable. Anyone hav-
'ing catalpa posts, or other
types of wood posts showing un-
usually long durability, arc urg
ed to place them in the show.
In connection with their dis-
plays, Mr. McCown further stat-
ed, exhibitors are asked to re-
main at the show all day in order
to explain the devices to others
who may be interested.
Heavy property damage was
reported from the Monticello area
Tuesday as a result of a hail
storm which swept across the
county Monday night about 9:30.
Hail to a depth of five and six
inches was said to be on the
ground Tuesday morning. Some
of the hailstones were as large as
eggs and they beat holes in roofs
and otherwise caused damage to
I homes and outbuildings.
Hail also fell at other points in
the country from north of Cook-
ville in a southwesterly direction,
which was the direction the
storm travelled. Oak Grove and
Farmer’s Academy communities
were also hard hit.
There was a hoavy rain fol
lowing the storm, which continu-
d throughout Tuesday morning,
causing all streams to overflow
and putting roads in very bad
condition. Some creeks were so
deep and covered so much of their
bottoms that thy were impassible.
Traffic in some areas was sus-
pended because of conditions of
the roads.
AUSTIN, January 8 (ZP) —The
Texas Senate's extraordinary
session was called to order by
Lieut. Gov. John Lee Smith at
noon today with only nineteen
Senators, two short of a quorum,
present.
But Senator Weaver Moore of
Houston said no quorum was
necessary for him to make a
statement on the purposes of the
session. Moore, answering the
challenge of Penrose Metcalf of
San Angelo, said there are
enough Senators in Austin for a
quorum and more are on their
way.
With no Texas precedent for
the session, members will have
to feel their way along the par-
liamentary route with the Con-
stitution in constant use as the
guiding light. Any authority
must emanate from the document
there being no reference to it in
the statutes.
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Mutilated Body of
Kidnapped Child is
Taken From Sewer
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War Secretary May
Be Able to Placate
Disgruntled Troops
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Chicago Police in
General Search for
Slayer Little Girl
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CHICAGO, January 8 (ZP) _
Chicago police are conducting
their greatest man-hunt today in
an effort to apprehend the kid-
, napper-slayer of 6-year-old Suz-
. , nur). kidnap-
ped from her bed early Monday
WASHINGTON, January 8 (ZP)
— OPA Administrator Chester
Bowles was reported to have held
Monday that full price increase
demands of the steel industry
could not be granted under pres-
ent wage-price policies.
An OPA official, who declined i
to permit use of his name, said
he understood that Bowles told
President Truman no priae. in-
crease could be allowed immedi-
ately to compensate for any wage
increase the industry may grant
in an effort to avert a strike of
800,000 CIO steelworkers Jan. 14.
The steelworkers have demand-
ed wage boosts of $2 a day. The
steel industry was reported to
have asked a price increase of $7
a ton to cover current costs and
any future wage increases.
Bowles was reported to have
stated that under present policies
an industry must wait six months
after granting a wage boost to
seek price increases. The OPA
believes an increase based on cur-
rent costs alone probably would
not exceed $2.50 a ton, and the
OPA probably will propose a
slight increase to cover this,
Bowles was reported to have said.
Philip Murray, CIO president
and head of the steelworkers
union, told the steel fact-finders,
meanwhile, that the union was
willing to resume collective bar-
gaining with the steel companies
on the wage issue. The companies
have not replied to the fact-find-
ers suggestion that wage nego-
tiations be resumed.
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Since 1830, more than 6,000
Glouchester seamen have perish-
ed at the oars of dories swept out
of sight of parent fishipg schoon-
ers. . , ' .....
CHUNGKING, January 8 (ZP)—
Chinese government and Com-
munist representatives here to-
day issued a communique stat-
ing: “Major portions of the truce
problems have been settled and
certain details remain to be dis-
cussed and disposed of.”
The cease-fire agreement in-
cludes plans for restoration of
communications throughout the
country and is expected to be is-
sued in a very short while.
MANILA, January 8 (ZP) —
Secretary of War Robert Patter-
son plans to come to Manila from
Tokyo next week to look into
the cause of the demonstrations Talco high school, where he was
by service men who are protest- , an unusually popular student, and
ing War Department directives before he went into the service
whioh ---- i---- he spent a large part of his time
with friends in Mt. Pleasant. His
untimely death casts a pall of
sadness over all who knew him
Besides his mother, Lt. Miller
is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Janis Miller of Talco; two broth-
ers, Leo Miller of Talco and Sgt.
Anderson Leon Miller, now in
Marseilles, France, and one sis-
ter, Mrs. George L. Bonds of
Miami, Oklahoma.
The body will remain at the
Thomas C.iapel until Thursday
afternoon when it will be taken
to the First Baptist Church here
for the final rites. Interment will
be at the Masonic cemetery.
Workiwj for the Interests Of Mt. Pleasant, the Center of the Milk Industry of North etut rftxM, with its Progressive Soil Conf fixation and Diversified Farming Program
Member Associated Fren Mo • ’«nt Tayhp Tuesday Evening1, January 8, 1946
Farm Devices Show
To Be Held Here on
Saturday, Jan. 19
East Texas—Cloudy, with
showers in northeast portion
tonight; Wednesday partly
The body of Second Lieutenant
Tennison L. Miller of Talco ar-
rived in Mt. Pleasant Tuesday
morning and was taken to Thom-
as Chapel pending funeral serv-
ices set for 2:00 o’clock Thurs-
day afternoon.
ut. Miner passed away at 9:45
o’clock at the Army-Navy Gen-
eral hospital in Hot Springs at
9:45 o clock Saturday evening
m the effects of a long ill-
ness.
Deceased was a son of Mrs.
Bessie Ann Brown of Talco and
had resided in that city from 1936
until he went into the army air
force three years ago. He was
23 years of age and was known
in Talco and by many friends in
■Ji. Pleasant by his nickname"
Siimev.”
Stimey was a graduate of the
Being A Bachelor
Lets Him Retire at 79
LYNN, Mass. (ZP)—Robert Yee,! severedhead and Parts
79, is on the way home to hiMf her body were foutjd last night
native China, boastful that every
customer who patronized his
laundry shop in the past 56 years
got his shirt back whether or
not he had his “checkee.”
Yee left his family in Canton in
1890 to seek his fortune in this
country.
“Time I go home,’ he said as
he closed the door of his tiny
shop for the last time. Otherwise
modest, he claims, “I was best
laundryman in the city. If my
customers lost checks, I never
have argument. Always give
them their clothes.”
With a knowing smile he ex-
plains that he remained a bache-
lor "to save my money,” and
maintains that when he converts
his money to Chinese currency
he will be “practically a million-
aire” (Chinese style).
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WASHINGTON, January 8 (ZP)
— President Truman today ex-
pressed complete satisfaction with
the Atomic energy and other
Moscow agreements reached by
the Big . Four foreign ministers
The President said in a news
conference that he had no in-
formation indicating the Russians
had developed an atomic bomb
which a British scientist said
would make all others out of
date.
Mr. Truman said flatly that the
Romanian, Bulgarian and Yugo-
slav governments are not going
to be recognized finally without
free election guarantees.
The President also said some
price increase in steel would
prabably be granted to offset
higher wages demanded by the
unions, but declined to discuss
figures and the effect on the
anti-inflation program.
Saying he did not know all the
facts, Mr. Truman declined to
discuss demonstrations by armed
force members against slowdowns
in demobilization. He also declin-
ed comment when Columnist
Drew Pearson presented him
with a list of 30,000 service men
in the Philippines protesting the
slowdown. The list was marked
“no boats—no votes.”
He attributed the slowdown in
the Army’s demobilization to a
critical need for troops overseas.
He declared he was convinced
both the Army and Navy demob-
ilization was proceeding with
commendable efficiency and with
justice to all concerned.
six-man national Wage Stabilization board. The new grou|> is shown above, left to right, seated:
Earl N. Cannon, industry; Sylvester Garrett and W. Willard Wirtz (chairman), public; Robert J.
Watt, AFL; Carl J. Shipley, CIO. Standing: James D. Marshall and Colman Barrett, alternate in-
dustry representatives; John H. Leonard and Walter Mason, alternate AFL members, and David R.
Stewart, alternate CIO representative. (lateraatinn^n
Mt. Pleasant weather con-
ditions for the previous 24
hours taken at 6:30 this
morning by Charles Coker,
local weather observer, are
Gilbert C. Wilson, owner of the
sweet potato dhydration plant at
Pittsburg, was speaker at the Ro-
tary Club program Tuesday and
talked on the future of the yam
as a. industrial crop.
Mr. Wilson said that at present
his plant is used exclusively for
procssing’ sweet potatoes as a
food to use by the armed forces
and the government takes all his
products, but that in the future
when this demand is over, sur-
pluses from the edible market
will be used for manufacturing
a variety of products.
East Texas agriculture was very
sick before the war started, said
Mr. Wilson, due to depleted soil
and a fluctuating market for
food products, but various agen-
cies are teaching the farmers how
to build up their soil for better
nroduction. Demand for yams in
the future will probably not be
so great unless other uses than
for food are found, but if this is
done it will affect the econorny of
this entire section for the better,
as this would then become an-
other stable cash crop.
Mr. Wilson gave some details
of the mechanical processes for
extracting sugar, protein, feed
products, starch and plastic ma-
terials from sweet potatoes
which he plans to produce in the
Pittsburg plant as soon as the
government ends its contract for
dehydrated foods. All these pro-
ducts are in great demand, he
stated.
Ed Bergin of the Sulphur
Springs club was a visitor and
Buster McCollum returned to the
club after an absence of more
than two years in naval service.
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which delay their return home
Patterson did not have Manila
on his itiernary, but decided to
visit the Philippines after the
mass demonstrations.
Demonstrating service men in
Manila predicted a renewal of
their protests upon arrival Sat-
urday fo a Senate subcommittee
investigating postwar bases and
surpluses.
The soldiers Monday night
adopted a formal resolution de-
manding a congressional investi-
gation of the slowdown .
GIs booed the reading Monday
night of a written explanation
from their commanding officer.
To an accompaniment of boos,
T-4 Harold Schiffrin of Roches-
ter, N. Y., read a statement which
he and a committee of four others
obtained during the day from
Gen. W. D. Styer, commanding
Army forces in the Western Pa-
cific, after a crowd of 3,000 had
marched on Styer’s headquarters
Monday morning.
Styer denied GI contentions
that War Department promises on
demobilization had been broken
by the new slowdown which
spread over a six-month period
the number of men previously
scneduled to return in three.
Mrs. Elizabeth Agan, wife of
Alfred Agan, passed away at her
home on East Eleventh street in
Mt. Pleasant at 4:25 o’clock Mon-
day afternoon, following an ill-
ness that has extended over a
period of several months.
Deceased was 22 years of age
and was a native of Connecticutt
before moving to Mt. Pleasant.
Her untimely death brings much
sadness to her many friends here.
Mrs. Agan is survived by her
husband, one daughter and two
stepsons. Other survivors include
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Talley of New Briton, Connecti-
cutt; one sister, Mrs. Mabel
Beebe of New Briton and one
brother, Pharamacist’s mate Sec-
ond Class Thomas Tally, Jr., sta-
I tioned with the navy in Japan.
Funeral services were arrang-
The exhibits need not be of the ed for 3:00 o’clock Thursday af-
mechanical nature, Mr. McCown ternoon at Nevill's Chapel church,
said. Such ideas as the showing under the direction of Rev. Eu-
gene McClung, with burial tak-
ing place in the nearby ceme-
tery.
LONDON, January 8 (ZP) —
Appointment of Senator Tom
Connally of Texas as a member
of the United Nations committee
on political and security ques-
tions for the American delega-
tion was announced last night.
Connally’s appointment to the
group which will handle the vital
atomic energy control issue at
the first United Nations assem-
bly opening Thursday was an-
nounced by former Secretary of
State Edward R. Stettinius Jr.,
chief of the American delega-
tion. The two Republicans who
did not attend the conference
were Senator Arthur Vandenburg
and John Foster Dulles, New
York attorney.
Representative Sol Bloom
(Dem.) of New York was placed
on the economic and finance com-
mittee. Blocm is chairman of the
House foreign affairs committee.
Franklin D. Roosevelt and
former Senator John G. Town-
sahd of Delaware, the third Re-
publican member of the delega-
tion, were named to the social,
humanitarian and cultural com-
mittee; Vandenberg was placed
on the administrative and budge-
tary committee; Dulles on the
trusteeship committee and Frank
Walker, former Postmaster Gen-
eral, on the legal committee.
in sewers near her home.
The kidneper had warned that
harm would come to the prettv
golden-haired girl if police were
notified of the abduction, but
Police Captain Sullivan said he
was reasonably convince a “sad-
istic fool—motivated by both lust
and money” was the kidnap-
slaver.
“Jt is my belief that the head
was placed in the catch basin
before daybreak, probably not
long after the child was kidnap-
ed," he said.
The head was found first and
parts of tije torso a short while
later.
Sullivan based his belief on the
fact the nassageway containing
the catch-basin in which the head
was found is heavily traveled by
milkmen, janitors and residents
if the neighborhood in the day-
light hours.
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I Damage From Hail
Reported Heavy in
AwaLTS Monticello Section
employees in New York City be-1
gan at 6:10 a. in. (CST) today,
four hours ahead of schedule,
with twelve hundred pickets sur-
rounding the company’s head-
quarters.
A steward at headquarters said
the strike was advanced because
“the company was shipping in
four carloads of strikebreakers.”
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (ZP) —
Nelson Donohough, 15, trained
his little fox terrier Tippy to go
right into the holes and chase
out Reynard.
Tippy went into one hole,
sounds of a violent struggle were
heard, then a large red fox ran
out so fast the surprised Nelson
didnt have time to level his gun
and shoot.
But Tippy gave his master an-
other chance, for a few minutes
JaW he emerged dragging an-
other fighting fox. This time, Nel-
son was ready, and after the ani-
mals became untangled, the b'oy
bagged his fox with one shot.
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TRUMAN CREATES NEW WAGE STABILIZATION BOARD
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Arrangements have been com-
pleted for a farm labor-saving
device show to be held in Mt.
Pleasant, on the east side of the
court house square, on Saturday,
January 19th, according to .an
announcement made public by
County Agent Jas. W. McCown.
The show is’being promoted by
the various agricultural agencies
of the county and will stress
equipment that has been devel-
oped but that has not been plac-
ed on the open market. Repre-
sentatives of implement compan-
ies have been invited to attend
and inspect new developments,
especially in farm machinery.
Some of the things that will be
on display include a potato slip
planter that was conceived and
developed in Titus County. Also
there will be a sweet potato dig-
ger and slicer, both developed at
Gilmer. The slicer is used in pre-
paring potatoes for dehydration
as livestock feed.
Plans are also underway t^
show several black locust posts
which have been used in Titus
County between fifty and seven-
ty-five years. Posts of this age
will be taken ftom the J. B. Pon-
der farm in the Yancey commun-
ity and the Chalmers Fleming
farm at Marshall Springs. In ad
dition, new posts, taken from
tress planted ten years ago, will
Ms#^Be on display.
All farmers of Titus and ad-
joining counties are urged to
make displays of ideas they have
developed that tend to cut down
labor and labor costs on the farm.
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