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INTERNATIONAL NEWS PICTURES
Mt. Pleasant, Texas, Monday Evening, May 2, 1949
NUMBER 33
EVERYBODY’S WAITING TO HEAR FROM MOSCOW
Western Ambassadors Hold
Meet On Situation In Berlin
At a meeting of contributors to
In discussing the proposal prior I expected to be on a common plan
Weekend Tornadoes — it
Southwestern Areas Hard
ADMINISTRATION MAKES CONCESSIONS ON
LABOR LAW IN HOPE OF GAINING PASSING
NEW YORK, May 2 (P)—The (A) — Blue-shirted f a la n g i s t s
i To Announce Plan
American Consul is
Arrested In Prague For Rent Ceilings
LOVETT SAYS RUSSIA'S SAVAGE REACTION
TO E. R. P. CAUSED NEED OF ATLANTIC PACT
ter an hour.
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Physician Reports
Effective Drug For
Controlling Colds
Jews, Arabs Battle
Near Jerusalem
Old City Lake Area
Accepted As Site Of
New Municipal Park
Atlanta Feeling
Transport Strike
UN Membership
For Israel Urged
Vandenberg States
Air Force Can Only
Prevent Early Defeat
Hester Accepts
50-Year Sentence
GE Opposes Fourth
Round Pay Increases
In Electric Industry
Assault To Murder
Trial Requires Jury
In District Court
Sloop Attack Said
Not To Be Deliberate
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, May
2 (A5)—An American consul and
his wife were arrested yesterday
for photographing the May Day
parade. Police released them af-
port that administration leaders
are readying a number of con-
cessions in an effort to win sup-
port for the administration bill,
sponsored by Rep. Lesinski (D-
The
night.
The
ATLANTA. May 2 (P) — At-
lantans felt the full force of a
strike of street transportation em-
ployes today. Thousands of bus
and trolley riders had to turn
to overburdened taxi companies
and share-the-ride motorists to
get to work.
SINGAPORE, May 2 (P) — A
high British naval authority said
here today he is convinced the
Chinese communist attack on the
British sloop Amethyst April 22
was not deliberate.
The informant told a news con-
ference he believes the attack was
caused by lack of discipline in
the communists troops lining the
They were Mr. and Mrs. Martin
Bowe, of Holyoke, Mass.
tion on the Wilson tract of land
just north of the fair grounds,
and to accept an offer from the
of the old city lake as a park
site.
workers and company failed to
agree on a new contract, includ-
ing union demands for a 15c-an-
hour wage increase and a revised
pension plan. The wage rate now
is $1.30 an hour.
SPEEDUP CAUSES STRIKE
ELIZABETH, N. J., May 2 (PP)
—The Singer Manufacturing Co.,
plant closed down today as 7,000
CIO workers struck over what
they charge is a “speedup” sys-
tem of incentive payment.
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Mt. Pleasant
The Hub ot
Northeast Texas.
I tries of Western Europe.
“This general sense of insecuri-
Spanish Falangists
Honor Mussolini
BARCELONA, Spain, May 2
EXCITEMENT IS APPARENT at Russian UN delegation headquarters on lower Park avenue, New York,
as smiling Dr. Philip Jessup leaves after talking with Soviet Delegates Andrei Gromyko and Yakov
Malik on lifting the Berlin blockade. Gromyko (inset) leaves the same address with his usual deadpan
“no comment" to reporters. Now word from Moscow is being awaited on proposals. ("Internationa/)
Mt. Pleasant
Site America's Biggest
Asphalt Plant
Body T-Sgt. Billy J.
Wilmurth Is On Way
Home For Reburial
Gypsies Ask Britain
To Close Consulates
ter of the state for about 200 1 but contributors felt that more
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WASHINGTON, May 2 (A)—
The official word is due tonight
on what the government plans
to do about rent ceilings on some
14,000,000 dwellings.
Housing Expediter Tighe E.
Woods set that approximate time
for detailing his methods of de-
currencies crashed even harder.
The U. S. dollar, which brought
9,500,000 yuan in bank vouchers
Kat 10:00 a. m., fell to 5,500,000 in
fen minutes.
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could be done at the Wilson tract,
and that the people of Mt. Pleas-
ant could have a park much soon-
er.
nouse a new cleaning concern.
A number of other structures,
both business and residential, are
being considered for the next
few weeks.
AFL strike came after
NEW YORK, May 2(P) — U.
S. Ambassador-at-large Philip C.
Jessup arranged to meet today
with British and French repre-
sentatives for talks on the Berlin
blockade. No meeting with Rus-
sia’s Jakob A. Malik has been set.
Jessup left Washington by plane
after a weekend of conferences
with State Department officials
CLEBURNE, Tex., May 2 (P)—
Arthur Clayton Hester, convict-
ed of murdering Dr. John Lord,
could serve his prison sentence
of 50 years in a third of that
time.
BUCHAREST, May 2 (P) —
Romania today asked Britain to
close both consulates she main-
tains in Romania outside this
capital city.
There were indications similar
requests soon might be made to
Italy and Turkey, the only other
non-Soviet bloc powers with pro-
vincial consulates in Romania.
of procedure for the three pow-
ers.
A meeting between Jessup and
Malik, or a meeting of all four
big power representatives may
be arranged after today’s session.
Malik said no date for his next
meeting with Jessup had been
set.
One point to be discussed this
afternoon is a date for lifting the
Berlin blockade. Another is the
setting of a date for a meeting of
the four-power council of foreign
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STUTTGART, Germany, May
2 (P)—The judge advocate sec-
tion of the American military
post at Stuttgart today said a
charge of premeditated murder
be sure the Russians haven't a
gimmick hidden away with which
they might try to prevent forma-
tion of a western German state.
There is no indication mean-
while when Britain and France
may be expected to join the New
York talks. Jessup has been
keeping representatives of both
nations informed on his talks with
Malik..
By Associated Press
A two-day series of tornadoes
lashed parts of the south and
southwest Saturday and Sunday,
killing nine persons and injuring
almost 100.
Damage was roughly estimated
at $2,000,000.
Mississippi and Louisiana were
hit by tornadic winds yesterday.
Twisters struck in Oklahoma and
Texas Saturday. Western Kansas
also received minor damage Sat-
urday.
Oklahoma took the worst beat-
POLES HOLDING CATHOLICS
WARSAW, Poland May 2 (/PI—
, The Rev. Msgr. Zygmunt Kaczyn-
ski, a spokesman for the Roman
Catholic hierarchy, is being held
in prison On charges of "anti-
state activity," government sour-
ces said today.
parently suffered a heart attack.
The Texas tornado caused dam-
age estimated at about $50,000.
a tornado w high slashed through The estimate was made by Bob
an oil field and three plantations I Cantrell, editor of the. Bonham
INDIANAPOLIS, May 2. (/Fl-
Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg told
500 members of the American
Legion last night that a 48-group
air force “can guarantee no more
than prevention of early defeat
and hope of eventual victory in
event of war.”
The air force chief of staff re-
ferred to President Truman’s
budget recommendations for the
1950 fiscal year, under which the
air force must cut its strength
.from 59 groups to 48 by July 1.
“The cheapest defense force is
the one that can achieve the
cheapest victory,” Gen. Vanden-
berg said. “No victory today
could be really cheap, either in
lives or treasure.”
Air force leaders have said
they considered a 70-group air
force an absolute minimum for
safety and strength.
-
I due until Monday evening.
Hester was convicted last Sat- ! ’ ____
ministers.
A date for a meeting of the
council is one of Russia’s condi-
tions for lifting the blockade. A
date for lifting the blockade may
be set this week.
Jessup has been carrying on
closed door discussions with Malik
on the Berlin blockade for more
than two months.
A British foreign office spokes-
man said “certain tentative dates
have been mentioned” in the Jes-
sup-Malik conversations here.
The London Daily Herald, or-
gan of Britain’s ruling Labor
party, said today Malik suggested
to Jessup at Friday’s meeting that
the blockades be lifted at the end
of the first week in June. The
story gave no source for its in-
formation.
One of the reasons for the
length of the negotiations is a de-
sire by U. S. officials to be abso-
lutely certain the Russian offer
to lift the blockade has no strings
attached.
That offer was to lift the block-
ade if the western powers would
give up their counter-blockade
and set a date acceptable to the
Soviet for a big four meeting on
Germany.
The western powers want to
United States urged the U. N.
general assembly today to speed
up action on Israeli’s application
to join the United Nations.
Before the assembly was a U.
S. proposal to take Israel’s mem-
bership bid from the political
committee where it has been side-
tracked by debate over disposal
of Italy’s prewar colonies.
American officials fear action
may be postponed until fall if
the assembly adjourns its special
spring session soon. The U. S.
has asked that the Israel petition
be transferred to the assembly’s
special political committee, 'where
hearings could begin tomorrow.
A
ing. Sixteen tornadoes struck in
widely scattered parts of the
state, causing five deaths. Ap-
crowded into Santana parish
church today and paid tribute
to Mussolini, father of Fascism,
at a mass.
It was just four days past the
fourth anniversary of the day
when Italian partisans executed
their one-time master.
strike began Saturday
near Homer in northwestern Lou-
isiana. Of the nine, all negroes,
two were in serious condition.
Five homes and four barns were
demolished.
In central and northeastern
Mississippi, high winds damaged
buildings, uprooted trees and cut
power lines. No casualties were
reported, however Water River,
Miss., was hardest hit. The winds
also whipped through Houlka,
Okokona and Houston.
In Texas. Bryant Wade, 60,
his wife, Myrtle, and their eight-
year-old grandson, Malcolm, were
killed when their home was de-
molished. They lived about four
and on-half miles northeast of
Telephon#, a small town near the
Oklahoma border.
Another Texan, J. E. Miller,
49, died as he crouched in a ditch
to escape the twister. He ap-
to voting upon it, two reasons for
accepting the city’s offer were
uppermost in the group’s reac-
tions.
The first of these was the fact
that the property could be made
available without cost, whereas
the Wilson tract would have to
be bought at a price of approx-
imately $2,400, and improve-
dliit. pleasant Haily Cimes
KING FEATURES
ciding what is a fair net income
to landlords and how to see that say.
TEL AVIV, Israel, May 2 (P)—
Israeli troops battled Arabs in
a short, but sharp, encounter last
night between Jersualem and
Bethlehem.
Sirens blacked out the holy
city.
The reason for the blackout
was not made clear. The only
firing heard was of mortars and
small arms.
Jewish sources said the skirm-
ish began 'when some Arabs re-
fused to get out of a strategic
position under terms of the ar-
mistice agreement with Trans-
Jordan. How the blackout or-
WASHINGTON, May 2 (P)—
Robert Lovett, former undersec-
retary of state, said today the
North Atlantic treaty grew out
of Russia’s “savage reaction” to
the European Recovery Plan.
Lovett came before the Senate
foreign relations committee to
tell them of the reasons behind
the security alliance. Opening
the second 'week of hearings on
the proposed twelve-nation pact,
Lovett declared:
“The policies and practices pur-
sued by the Soviet government
and the Communist parties sub-
servient to it since the end of
Daily Favorite, who said about
fifteen houses and a number of
farm buildings were destroyed or
damaged. Homes were hit in the
vicinity of Edhube and Lamasco,
both near Bonham.
In Oklahoma, the main group
of tornadoes moved from south-
west to northeast across the cen-
Building permits in Mt. Pleas-
ant showed a considerable gain
during the month of April, ac-
cording to Collector Joe Embrey,
who reports a total of $39,350 in
permits.
Ten new residences were in-
cluded to the amount of $11,000,
but seven were two-room struc-
tures, valued at $3,600. Residence
repairs and additions amounted
to $7,750. They include a new
roof for Dr. Jas. E. Ball’s clinic,
recently damaged by' fire, and
remodeling the old Roper home
on North Madison, which is be-
ing converted into a clinic by Dr.
E. L. Fender.
New business is represnted by
a $20,000 structure for A. B. An-
CHICAGO, May 2 (AP) — An
industrial physician reported to-
day that an anti-allergy drug has
been found effective in control-
ling common cold symptoms.
Dr. Halstead G. Murray, writ-
ing in the May issue of Industrial
Medicine, said that 75 per cent
of 494 persons treated during
early stages of colds reported
they “were cured or had their
symptoms alleviated by the
treatment.”
The drug, pyribenzamine hy-
drochloride, was administered in
50 milligram tablets at four-hour
intervals at the onset of a cold.
Pyribenzamine hydrochloride is
used extensively in treatment of
hay fever. It is classed as an anti-
histamine, because it neutralizes
histamine, an irritant substance
released by body in allergic re-
actions.
NEW YORK, May 2 (/PI—The
General Electri? Company says
that fourth-round wage increases
and other benefits sought by the
CIO would stimulate layoffs and
unemployment in the electrical
manufacturing industry.
G-E, 'which traditionally sets
the wage policy in the industry,
labelled the CIO program infla-
tionary.
G-E had indicated opposition
to wage cost increases even be-
fore the CIO United Electrical,
Radio and Machine Workers of
America announced its proposals
late Wednesday. The union rep-
resents 100,000 G-E employees.
Lemuel R. Boulware, vice
president in charge of employee
relations, said yesterday G-E will
resist the union demands "un-
der current conditions.”
The union had said it would
seek combinations of pay rises,
pension improvements, shorter
hours and other benefits equiva-
lent to a total of $500 a year more
for each of 600,000 members in
the industry.
The British and French dele-
gates have 'been kept informed
of Jessup’s talks with Malik about
lifting the ten-month-old block-
ade. Today’s discussions were
Philco Workers
Are Out On Strike
PHILADELPHIA, May 2 (P)—-
The 6,500 Philco Corp, workers
in the Philadelphia area struck
for higher wages today.
Massed picket lines immediate-
ly were thrown around most of
the plants. The company was
I making no attempt to operate and
no disorders were reported.
The contract between Philco
and the CIO’s United Electrical
Workers union expired last Sat-
urday. The CIO workers de-
manded a 15c-an-hour wage hike
and a pension plan.
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ming can be indulgde in this year.
A vast amount of work will be
necessary before the park site
can be brought into good shape,
ment would have to come above
that. All of the money the park
group has on hand at present
could be spent on improvements
at the city lake.
tance to the discussions centered Permits Show Local I
is being prepared against Recruit
Russell Jones, 22, of Fall River,
Mass., for the killing of three
Germans.
Military Police headquarters
said the soldier ran amok yes-
terday and killed a German mo-
tor pool guard, a German girl and
a German passerby.
they get it.
Congress has extended rent
controls until July 1, 1950. It
laid down the rule, however, that
rent regulations must allow the
landlord a fair net income.
WASHINGTON, May 2 (A) —
House Speaker Rayburn (D-
Tex.) said today 'he favors
changing the administration’s la-
bor bill to let the President ask
for court orders to block nation-
al emengcncy strikes.
Rayburn also predicted after a
meeting of congressional leaders
with President Truman that the
House tomorrow will reject the
Wood labor bill, offered as sub-
stitute for the administration’s
measure.
Rayburn also said he would
support a “free speech” amend-
ment giving employers the same
right to discuss labor issues with
their employes' that unions have.
The speaker made it clear to
reporters he was talking for him-
self and not for the President,
the city park project, held at the | and was to meet at 2:00 p. m.
Chamber of Commerce Friday | with Sir Alexander Cadogan of
afternoon, a decision was made Britain and Jean Chauvel of
not to exercise the group’s op- ' France.
PARIS. May 2 (A) — French
Foreign Minister Robert Schuman
said today that it “seems more
and more probable” that a four-
power foreign ministers’ confer-
ence on Germany will be held
this spring
He predicted the date will be
determined later this week, dur-
ing four-power conversations at
New York.
(This was the first indication
that France and Britain might
join directly in the talks which
have been held in New York be-
tween Dr. Philip Jessup, U. S.
ambassador-at-large, and Jakob
Malik, Soviet deputy foreign min-
ister).
Schuman told a news confer-
ence he is “optimistic enough”
that a four-power foreign minis-
tecs' meeting would be held.
Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Wilmurth
received a telegram Monday
morning from the Chicago office
of the American Graves Regis-
tration Service announcing that
the body of their son, T/Sgt.
Billy J. Wilmurth, is en route
home for reburial.
Sgt. Wilmurth was killed on
February 28, 1944, when the plane
in which he was • on duty was
shot down at St. Pio, France.
Since the war, he had been bur-
ied in the American cemetery
at St. Ondre, France.
ty had been intensified by the .
savage reaction of the Soviet j Recruit To Be Tried
government to the (Marshall - — —
drews on North Jefferson, to I but his words lent support to re-
miles.
The twisters hit in or near
Norman, Lawton area, Agawam,
Marlow, Shawnee Lake, Holly-
wood, Meeker, McCloud, Sterling,
Utica, Dale, Bennington, Spen-
cerville, Wayne and a small com-
munity southwest of Norman.
Most of the Norman injured
were on the north campus, about
three miles from the university
proper. Thirty-six of 47 Nation-’
al Guardsmen, practicing marks-
manship on the campus range,
suffered injuries.
The storm demolished a uni-
versity hangar and a National
Guard headquarters building.
Tornadoes in Kansas hit Oak-
ley and near Garden City.
urday for the March 8 bludgeon
slaying of Dr. Lord, his bene-
factor, who was dean of the grad-
uate school at Texas Christian
University in Fort Worth. He
accepted sentence almost immed-
iately. :
After the trial Judge Penn
Jackson said Hester, 18, would
be eligible for parole after serv-
ing sixteen years and eight
months. “Good behavior could
reduce the maximum sentence
materially,” Judge Jackson said.
anava
6.
With the opening of the second
week of spring term of District
Court Monday morning a petit
jury panel was sworn in and
charged by Judge Sam Williams
in preparation for the beginning
of criminal work.
Shortly after the session was
called back to order a jury was
selected to hear the case of Ber-
tie Jones, charged with assault
with intent to murder as the re-
sult of a recent affray in which
Grissom Hays was stabbed with
a knife.
Testimony in the case began
before noon and continued on in
the afternoon, with no verdict
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derstanding.”
Lovett said it became obvious
that recovery in Europe could
not be fully achieved without
restoring a “sense of security”
against aggression.
“It seemed hardly logical,” he
said, “to make the effort requir-
ed under this (recovery) pro-
gram and to ignore the possibility
that if this great enerprise was
not given the protection that it
Mich). As it now stands, the Le-
sinski bill would repeal the Taft-
Hartley law and restore the old
Wagner act with some changes.
Rayburn said the President did
not commit himself on any
“softening” amendments to the
Lesinski bill.
Rayburn told reporters hes
thinks the power of the adminis-
tration to seek court injunctions
when strike s threaten the na-
tion’s economy should be spelled
out in the new law.
The Taft-Hartley law provides
for court injunctions in national
emergency strikes, but the Le-
sinski bill would knock that out.
The House resumes the labor
debate tomorrow, with action due
first on the Republican-backed
Wood bill. GOP leaders said they
expect to add at least two, and
possibly more, “softening”
amendments of their own to that
measure. The Wood measure
would retain the Taft-Hartley
law with some amendents.
hostilities had created a sense I needed, its whole aim could be
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The Weather
Desperate
» SHANGHAI, May 2 (P— Traf-
fic was reported suspended to-
day on the last railway escape
from communist-menaced Shang-
hai to South China.
Inside the city, the chaotic
money market crashed at mid-
day after garrison headquarters
outlawed free trading in prewar
silver dollars on threat of death,
obviously a measure of great des-
peration. :
The red radio last night said
eight Chinese government armies
were “wiped out” and parts of
four other armies “routed” in
the Nanking-Shanghai-Hangchow
area. (A Chinese army is usual-
ly 20,000 men). The red broad-
cast’s claim of a "great victory”
was not confirmed by govern-
ment sources.
The semi-official Chinese Cen-
tral News Agency said rail ser-
vice had been suspended between
Hangchow and Nanchang. Hang-
chow is a seaport and communi-
cations center 100 air miles south-
west of Shanghai. Nanchang,
capital of Kiangsi province, is
about 280 miles farther south-
west.
A Shanghai garrison commun-
ique said nationalist forces still
were holding Kunshan, 32 miles
west of Shanghai, despite heavy
red bombardment.
In Shanghai, there was no un-
due amount of military activity
and no sign of any impending red
attack.
The Shanghai garrison’s new
money market decree prohibited
trading in silver dollars except
at the official rate of four million
yuan to one silver dollar. The
previous open rate had soared
, as high as nine million.
$ The value of siver coins crash-
ed. With it the value of foreign
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proximately 75 persons were in-
jured, with at least 50 being hurt
in the vicinity of Norman, Okla.,
site of the University of Okla-
homa.
) Four persons died in Texas.
The tornado hit in the north-
east part of the state.
Nine persons were injured in
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East Texas—Partly cloudy
tonight and Tuesday, a little
• warmer in extreme south to-
night.
The Mt. Pleasant weather
for the past 24 hours ending
at 7:00 a. m. is reported by
Mrs. Bill Lyle at the filter-
plant and is as follows:
Maximum .............. 86
Minimum ......... 59
Temp. 7:00 ... . 61
Wind from ................ E
Sky......................... Clear
Barometer, 29.75 in., steady.
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