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VOLUME XXVIII
Member Associated Press
Monday Evening, August 12, 1946
MOUNT PLEASANT, TEXAS,
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State Democratic
Committee Denies
Siding In Primary
Texas Has Twelve
Deaths by Violence
For Past Weekend
Labor Trouble Is
Brewing in China
Association Says
Army’s System of
Court Martial Is
Under Fire Again
Automobile Prices
Boosted Again and
Another Due Soon
New Air Transport
Terminal in Japan
Opens Wednesday
LaGuardia States
No Funds Left To
Continue UNRRA
Four Air Accidents
In Eastern States
Cause Nine Deaths
Revealed Men Are
Held in Prison For
No Known Reasons
Cookville Baptists
Will Begin Revival
Wednesday Evening
Is Fourth Time to
Be Increased Since
November Last Year
Situation Becomes
Explosive as Jews
Attempting Entry
Should Recommend
Plans For United
Nations Operation
SOCIAL SECURITY MAN
WILL BE HERE THURSDAY
to price control on August 21st
unless the decontrol board rules
otherwise.
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LEAVE FOR TEXAS HOME
DEMONSTRATION ANNUAL
MEETING AT AMARILLO
Mrs. Raymond Brown, chair-
man of the Titus County Home
Demonstration Council and Mrs.
Marvin Crow left Monday morn-
ing for Amarillo, where they will
represent Titus County at the
annual state convention of the
Texas Home Demonstration As-
sociation, Wednesday and Thurs-
day of this week. Mrs. Brown will
serve on the election committee.
On their return, they will report
to the clubs of the county.
SHANGHAI, August 12 (A>) —
There’s labor trouble brewing in
China. The President of the
Chinese Association of Labor has
charged that police have seized
sortie of the organization’s build-
ings which were financed by the
CIO and the AF of L.
Declared Chu Hsueh-Fan: “The
forces of- reaction in China have
turned against us.” He asserted
that Chinese police had seized
the Association’^ office, workers
hospital and two welfare centers
at Chungking and had arrested
staff members. The hospital and
welfare centers were built and
maintained mainly through dona-
tions from the American Federa-
tion of Labor and the Congress
of Industrial Organizations.
The Chinese labor leader was
one of the sponsors of the World
Federation of Trade Unions and
was elected a vice president at its
Paris conference last September.
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WASHINGTON, August 12 (AP)
MEMBER LOST BATTALION
FIRST WORLD WAR IS DEAD
HOUSTON. August 12 (A5) — A
member of the famed lost battal-
ion of World War One is dead in
Houston. He was Harvey Francis
Spinner, who died in Houston
yesterday. Spinner had lived in
Houston for twenty years, and
h?d been employed as a clerk by
the post office for 17 years.
They predicted a return of black
markets if ceilings on grain are
restored.
Policies for the new decontrol
agency were outlined in a brief
opening talk by Board Chairman
Roy Thompson. He promised a
fresh, unbiased viewpoint — a
viewpoint which, he said, will re-
sult in decisions free from the in-
fluence of any other government
agency.
Twenty witnesses are on tap
for today’s hearing on the grain
question. Tomorrow, 23 other wit-
nesses will take up the questluu
of price ceiling-s on livestock and
meat. Wednesday will be devoted
to soybean and cottonseed prices,
and the subject of dajry products
will come before the decontrol
board on Thursday.
All of these products—grains,
meats, cottonseed, soybeans and
dairy products—were temporar-
ily removed from price control
when Congress revived the OP A.
German Generals
Outside Politics
Says Von Runstedt
Immigrant Ships
Anchored at Haifa
Stir up Palestine
Baptist Church Is
BrokenInto Sunday
Night By Thieves
A representative of the social
security administration will be at
the U. S. Employment Service
office here Thursday at 10:00 a.
m„ and all persons desiring any
information regarding their so-
security problems should
toe Pai is & Mt. Pleasant tracks.
The fire department went to
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The Cookville Baptist Church
will begin a revival Wednesday
night, with Rev. Clyde G. Holl-
J ingsworth pastor of the Leary
church near Texarkana, doing
the preaching. „Rev. Cleo Pate
will be in charge of the song serv-
ice, with Morris Barrier, pianist.
Song service will begin at 10:30
for the day service and at 8:00
o’clock for the evening services.
Rev. M. M. Pate is pastor of the
Cookville church.
burned down
time the truck arrived.
Find Little Money
But Damage Edifice
By Forcing Entry
Thieves broke into the First
Baptist Church building some-
time after the evening services
Sunday night and obtained a
small amount of money, but
caused some damage to the struc-
ture.
Entrance was gained by break-
ing a panel of a stained glass
window on the north side of the
church and reaching inside and
loosening the latch.
A pinch bar or similar instru-
ment was used in trying to pry
the moulding off a door to the
office, but another door was pried
open and the inside latch pulled
out.
Desk and cabinet drawers were
pulled out and papers scattered
around the office in the search,
for valuables, but the thieves ob-
tained only a small amount of
money, as the day's offerings had
been placed in the safe of a busi-
ness house.
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JERUSALEM, August 12 (A>) —
Additional tension was added to
the explosive Palestine situation
today when two more immigrant
ships crowded with Jewish re-
fugees anchored just outside
Haifa ^arbor. That makes about
3,900 refugees who are aboard
ship at Haifa or enroute there,
yet who will not be allowed to
land because they are without
immigration certificates.
Jewish circles believe that the
British plan to load the newcom-
ers on two British troop trans-
ports and take them to the Island
of Cypius in the Eastern Medit-
erranean.
London dispatches said Britain
is expected to announce tonight
its immediate Palestine program.
Government informants have said
this program will include an iron-
clad sea blockade to halt the flow
of unauthorized immigration,
and land operations to halt at its ;
source in the displaced persons
camps of Europe the tide of Jews
seeking a home in the Holy Land..
Other developments in tense>
Palestine included a recess until
tomorrow in the trial by a mili-
tary court of 22 young Jewish
men and women members of the
Stern Gang, underground organ-
ization, on charges of attacking
the Haifa railway shops on June
17. The prisoners sang in Hebrew
for 10 minutes when the trial
opened this morning behind a
heavy guard of British and Arab
Legion troops The General Sec-
retary of the Jewish Agency
Executive, Shlomo Eisenberg, an-
nounced h“ had asked Jerusal-
em’s Postmaster General to in-
vestigate alleged tampering with
Agency mail. Declaring many let-
ters to the Agency staff had been
torn open in the past two weeks,
he said he suspected “secret un-
official censorship.”
Fire Destroys Home
North City Limits
Saturday_Afternoon
Fire of undetermined origin
destroyed the home of a family
; named Bishop late Saturday af-
ternoon, together with all its con-
tents. The house was located on
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Of July 27 Voting |
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chairman of the Texas Demo-
cratic executive committee denied '
today that the committee had |
participated in the first primary
races.
In a report to the committee in
Austin, Chairman Harry Seay de-
clared that “more slanderous
statements,” to use his words,
were made in the first primary
than he had ever heard. Seay
added that the committee was not
exempt in this respect. However,
Seay contended that he and Sec-
retary William Kittrell had been
neutral and that the “two men
who respected our neutrality are
now in the run-off for Governor.”
Seay also denied that the execu
tive committee had fought the
return of the Texas Regulars to
the Democratic fold. He put it
this way—“we invited the Regu-
lars to return as members of the
ranks, but not as leaders because
they had demonstrated they had
no leadership.”
The committee met to canvass
returns of the July 27th primary
and to certify winners of candi-
dates for the second primary on
August 24th. The titular head of
the party in Texas, Governor '
Coke Stevenson, isn’t attending
the meeting. He explained that
pressure of duties would keep
him at his desk. The Governor ‘
also told his news conference
that he had no suggestions to of-
fer the committee, with which
he had been at odds since 1944
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ATTIRED IN THE NEW, BLUE ARMY uniforms, this group of service personnel plans a nation-wide tour
to display the new gear for Mr. and Mrs. G. I., who will make the choice as to adoption of the new
blues cr retention of the old khakis. Left to right are Pfc. Paul E. Pizzo, Scranton, Pa.; Pvt Frank
Hasil, Chicago; CpL Jeanette Wise, Richwood, W. Va.; Pvt William Duffy, Washington. D. C., and
Master Sg- Dick Henderson. Rushville, IU. (International Souudpboto)
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ROYAL ARCH NOTICE
Rob Morris Chapter No.
Royal Arch Masons will hold its
regular monthly meeting at the
Masonic Hall Tuesday night, with
some important business. C. T.
Holcomb, H. P.
GENEVA, Switzerland, August
12 (Ab — UNRRA Director F. H.
LaGuardia today told the UNRRA
policy committee that there are
no funds to prolong the life of the
international relief agency, and
he declared that UNRRA should
make specific recommendations
to the United Nations for relief
and rehabilitation.
1 With this declaration, LaGuar-
dia intervened in a committee de-
bate—a debate in which Ameri-
can and British members and a
Russian group had become lock-
ed in an argument over continu-
ing UNRRA beyond the present
program.
The Polish delegation had sug-
gested another UNRRA session
in November. The Russian dele-
gation urged that UNRRA aid be
continued through 1947. Then a
Canadian resolution urged that
responsibility for supply opera-
tions next year be handed to
the United Nations, and that the
committee submit definite recom-
mendations to UN for carrying
on the UNRRA program.
This Canadian resolution won
the support of the United States,
which carries the greater part of
UNRRA expenditures. It also
won support from Great Britain,
Cuba, Holland and New Zealand.
But Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia,
the Soviet Ukraine, Poland and
China voiced their opposition.
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Control Board Hearing
On Ceilings Is Opened
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Program Arranged
For Celebration
Wednesday Night
Commemoration Of
Victory Day To Be
County-Wide Affair
Practically all of the arrange-1
ments have been completed for j
the big celebration Wednesday
night commemorating the anni-
versary of final victory in the»
last great war, according to an
official announcement made Mon-
day morning by the local com-
mittee in charge of preparations,
of activities have
an dis tenta-
| for farmers and the grain trade.
TOKYO, August 12 (Ab — A
new principal air transport term-
inal for Japan will be opened
on Wednesday. It will replace
Atsugi Airstrip, where General
MacArthur’s first occupation
troops landed.
The new field is Haneda Air-
port, only twenty minutes’ drive
from the heart of Tokyo. It has
a seven-thousand-foot landing
strip, capable of handling any-
thing the United States can now
put into the air.
The Eighth Army commander
—Lieutenant General Robert L.
Eichelberger—will open the field.
Commendation awards will be
presented to the Eighteenth
Engineers and construction unit
------ I the scene but the Jiome was prac-
AUSTIN, August 12 (A*) The : tjcaiiy burned down by ' 1
East Texas—Partly cloudy
this afternoon, tonight and
Tuesday, warmer in the
northeast portion this after-
noon, with scattered thunder-
showers in the northeast and
near the upper coast this af-
ternoon and in the northeast
tonight.
Mt. Pleasant weather for
tl • past 24 hours was as fol-
lows from readings by Bill
Lyle at the filter plant:
Maximum____________94
Minimum ______________ 53
Temp. 7:00 81
Wind from ................ S. W.
Sky ......... Clear
Rainfall Sun. ------ 0.72 in.
NURNBERG, Germany August
12 (Ab — Field Marshal Karl
Gerd von Rundstedt has told the
war crimes court that “generals
of the German Army did not con-
cern themselves with politics.”
Von Rundstedt testified also that
members of the high command
and general staff rejected such
Hitler theories as that of the
“master race.”
The tight lipped Prussian was
the last witness in defense of the
general staff and high command,
on trial with 22 ranking Germans
as war criminals. Conviction of
the organizations might result in
conviction of those belonging to
them.
Field Marshal Fritz von Man-
stein preceded Rundstedt to the
stand and denied Russian accusa-
tions that food was withheld
from Russian war prisoners as a
reprisal. Manstein disclaimed all
knowledge of mass shootings of
Russian Jews. He admtted there
was some starvation but asserted '
it was a misfortune of war re-
sulting—as ne put i.t—when “half
a million prisoners suddenly are
thrust upon you.”
Rhode
Navy officer
thrown through an escape hatch
of a twin-engine trainer, and he
fell six thousand feet to his death
in the sea. In West Virginia, four
persons were killed in the mid-
air collision of two planes—one
of them a Navy craft carrying
three persons.
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made of a union Vesper service at1 - . ° .
the Presbyterian Church. This I
program will begin promptly atI
7:00 o’clock in the evening, and j
an invitation has been accorded I
the entire public to take part, ac-
cording to the pastor, Rev. George
C. Moore.
Arrangements have also been
made for free cold drinks and ice
water, it was said Monday. Part
of these will be furnished by
Local 902 of the Titus County
carpenters union, who have ar-
ranged for several barrels
lemonade and other drinks.
One of the largest crowds in
many months is expected to come
to Mt. Pleasant Wednesday eve-
ning to take part in this big Vic-
tory festival.
A program
been worked out,
tively as follows:
8:00 p.m. — General get-to-
gether at the court house, with
the first block of West Second
street roped off for the evening.
“America,” group singing led
by Theron Jones.
Invocation — Rev. Ben K. Ber-
ing, Jr., pastor of the Methodist
Church.
Appropriate comments — Dave
Merzbacher, District Commander
of the American Legion.
Principal address — Name of
speaker to be announced later.
Band music and showing of
patriotic pictures “True Glory.”
Mock Negro Sermon — Coy
Coker.
9:5 4p. m. — Square dancing.
A dance to popular music will
be held at the refinery recreation
hall, with the doors opening at
9:00 o’clock, to music by a
nickelodeon. A good orchestra
has been arranged for appearance
at 10:00 o’clock and will play un-
til 1:00 o’clock in the morning.__
Announcement has also been
WASHINGTON, August 12 (A5)
I — President Truman’s new de- (
control board has opened its first
I public hearing on the question
of whether or not to restore
I price ceilings on scores of food
and other items. The all-powerful
agency has been given authority
to eliminate ceilings which were
temporarily suspended with the
signing of the new OPA bill.
Ninety-nine witnesses are clam-
oring to testify before the board,
and the first witness already has
given his testimony. He is Presi-
----i Edward O’Neal of the Am-
erican Farm Bureau Federation,
who was allotted half an hour to
tell why farmers want a speedy
end to price controls. At issue in
today's hearing is the future of
OPA ceilings on grain.
Even before today’s formal
hearing got underway, there was
a clamor from other spokesmen
five percent
granted soon
the dealers’
charges.
Today’s increase marks the
fourth general price hike above
1942 auto ceilings since last Nov-
ember. And one official says the
total average increase over 1942
ceilings probably is more than 15
percent.
—Another boost in car prices has
been authorized by the OPA and
still another hike is expected to
be granted very soon.
The OPA today raised retail
ceilings on new automobiles an
average of seven and three-tenths
percent. This is to meet the re-
quirements of the new OPA law
that peacetime profit margins be
restored for auto dealers. Until
now, the dealers had been requir-
ed to absorb some of the increas-
ed prices previously granted to
manufacturers.
The OPA says that for four-
door sedans, this new increase
means a price hike ranging
from $63 on a Chevrolet to $293
on a Cadillac.
Another price boost of about
is expected to be
in order to restore
pre-war handling
FRANKFURT, Germany, Aug.
12 (A5) — 'Hie Army’s court mar-
tial system came under fire again
today following assertions that
the Army has been holding Am-
erican GIs and civilians in its
jails in Germany for as long as
two months without formal charg-
es. The Army’s legal system was
denounced by a Captain who re-
ceived a smuggled appeal for
help from one of the GI prison-
ers. The officer, Captain Earl
Carroll, of San Bruno, California,
blasted the Army court martial
system as “neither military nor
justice.”
Captain Carroll had received a
note from Private First Class
Daniel Walczak of Detroit, who
was locked up on June 11th for |
investigation in the killing of a
German girl. The note was smug-
gled out of the guardhouse and
addressed to one of the prosecu-
to-s in the Lichfield brutality
trials. The prosecutor then re-
ferred the letter to Carroll.
An investigation immediately
followed, and here are some of
the facts which came to light. It
was disclosed that a civilian from
Chicago, Lawrence F. Benson,
had been held in an Army jail
since June 23rd without having
been told why he was arrested.
Army officials said they were not
able to find any record on the
Chicago civilian's ease.
In criticizing this procedure,
Captain Carroll declared: “If an
American citizen at home were
placed in confinement without
counsel and kept there for sixty
days, the whole nation would rise
in protest.”
The Army officer added that
under the court martial system a
man is not entitled to the services
of a lawyer until the case is re-
ferred to a court for trial, and
that in the European theatre
some prisoners have been con-
fined for as long as eight or nine
months before such referral.
Carroll formerly served as pros-
ecutor at the Litchfield trials, but
he quit the prosecution staff last
February after complaining that
efforts were being made to white-
wash high-ranking officers.
Four air accidents in three
eastern states have resulted in the
death of nine persons and injur-
ies to six others. Two war vet-
erans were killed and three per-
sons received minor injuries
Sunday in a headon crash at an
airport in Waynesboro, Virginia.
Elsewhere in that state, two
Navy officers were killed and
three other Navy men were in-
jured when their two-engined
plane crashed near Gate City.
Off Rhode Island, another
was accidentally
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The weekend toll of violent
death in Texas over the weekend
has risen to twelve with the re-
port of three more deaths—two
from the heat.
Two laborers died in Dallas af-
ter suffering bent. strokes on Sat-
urday. This makes four heat fa-
talities in Dallas this year.
A Hallsville man, Simon E.
Lacy, 33, died in Marshall yes-
terday of injuries suffered in an
automobile accident.
Of the twelve deaths, eight re-
sulted from traffic mishaps.
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Cross, G. W. Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 123, Ed. 1 Monday, August 12, 1946, newspaper, August 12, 1946; Mount Pleasant, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1367323/m1/1/?q=music: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mount Pleasant Public Library.