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VOLUME XXXII
NUMBER 10
Eisenhower Plugs For No Cuts
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Defense Can Slop World War III
Red Supply Depot At Suan is
Destroyed B. U. N. War Planes
Government Lifts
Ban On Shipments
Warehouse Steel
Parole Granted
Iowa Farm Boy
Government To Pay
Millions To Midwest
Trucking Company
President and do
embarrass him.
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Lions Club Names
New Officers At
Meeting Thursday
Lone Star Steel
Request Refused
Gen.
Eighth
pounds of crimson and 75 pounds ■
of yellow hop. He grazed from
31 to 35 head of milch cows from
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to
Tyler. The attack took place be-
fore the Pleasant Hotel, at the
corner of Wiest First Street and
Madison Avenue in Mt. Pleasant.
Charges have been filed against
May 15, according to an announ-
cement released today. The com-
mittee is composed of Lee Thomp-
son, chairman; Lenton Roach, L.
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President, Joe
vice president,
WASHINGTON, May 8 (P) —
The Justice Department announ-
ced today the government will
pay 8% million dollars in damage
claism arising fro federal seizure
of the Mid Western Trucking in-
dustry during World War II.
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and reduced hay consumption 8'
bales per day. By increasing milk
production and saving feed his I
income was increased better than
$20.00 per day for 90 days.
designed to increase production
of gasoline at the plant.
command because of
there.
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FIVE INJURED AS OIL TANKER EXPLODES—The dockside area in Chelsea, Mass., is littered with
wreckage following an explosion aboard the oil tanker Harold Reinaur. No crewmen were believed
to be on the tanker during the explosion but five men working in a shed nearby were critically in-
jured. Mid-section of the tanker (left) has sunk beneath the surface, stern. relatively undamaged, is
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Judge Denies Local Refinery
Injunction Against Union
are interested are urged to meet
at the home of Lee Thompson in
the Chapel Hill community.
Mr Thompson has 6 acres "of
vetch which will be harvested
for seed. He fertilized with 600
pounds of 0-14-7 per acre and
seeded 35 pounds per acre on Nov.
was that there
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The next pasture to be visit-1 from receivers of the Merchants
and Farmers National Bank a
brick building located at the
pounds of 0-14-7 the last week
in October and seeded with crim-
son clover, vetch and Abruzzi
Rye. Mr. Harris grazed 17 head
Oil Company of
dt. Aleasant Hailg Uimes
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Given Approval
WASHINGTON, May 8 (/P) —
Two compromise bills boosting
veterans’ benefits payments an
estimated 202 million dollars an-
nually were passed by the House
today and sent to the Senate.
Passage was by voice vote.
The bills previously had been
approved by both the Senate and
the House, but differences resul-
ted in the compromise version.
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Alford Flanagan, two members
of the union. Jack Blackburn and
Emerson Cecil, have been bound
ever for action of the grand
jury, reportedly for attacking the
driver of a transport truck own-
Arion Earhart;
I Blackburn and Cecil under the
O’Daniel “right to work" law
that prohibits violence during a
strike.
The American Liberty Oil Com-
pany, which has just been grant-
ed two certificates of necessity
for a wide expansion program,
will continue to operate the
plant, officials said. This action
is necessary, they continued, due
to the fact that its capacity at
the present time is 12,000 barrels
of crude oil daily, and a long
shutdown would result in the loss
of all pipeline connections in the
fields that furnish the crude be-
ing used.
The oil is at a premium today,
officials said, and once these pipe-
line connections are taken over
by other companies they would
be lost forever to the refinery,
and it would thereby have to re-
l main closed permanently.
j The certificates of necessity
granted American Liberty repres-
ent investments of $2,125,000 with
a 65% quick tax write-off, and
program was
who has vetch and
Army commander, said the Reds
“take advantage of our good
treatment.”
Only a month ago Dodd said
steps had been taken to prevent
further disorders and that all
political signs had been removed
from the Reds’ camps.
The shift of non-Communist
prisoners to the mainland follow-
ed a “rescreening” of those who
did and those who did not wish
to return to Comunism in the
event of a Korean truce.
Following is the official text
of the Eighth Army announce-
ment on Dodd’s seizure:
“Brig. Gen. Francis T. Dodd,
United Nations Commanding Gen-
500 pounds 0-14-7 per acre, flat-
broke the land and seeded the
crimson clover the first week in
October. This field also had 250
pounds 0-14-7 in the Spring of
1951 and was sown to sericea.
The next field of crimson
clover will be that of John Hall.
Mi. Hull applied 100 sacks of raw
rock phosphate in the Spring of
1951 and 5 tons in August of
1951. He applied 40 sacks of
0-14-7 in September 1951 and it
was seeded to crimson clover the
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The Mt. Pleasant Lions Club,
in its regular eeting at noon
Thursdav. selected new officers
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year. They include:
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■ WASHINGTON, May 8 (A) —
President Truman, reflecting on
world conditions on his 68th
birthday, said today the interna-
tional situation still is very grave
and some people here at home
don't seem to realize it.
The President, in an often
philosophical mood, ranged over
the general situation in a news
conference discussion.
Despite the difficulties he saw,
he said, as he often has before,
that he is still hopeful of ultimate
peace.
And as for himself and the fact
it was his birthday, he com-
mented that he has had a most
happy, and he guessed as full a
life as any man of his age.
Once he leaves the White
House, Truman said with a grin,
he is going to spend the next 10
years having a good time and
doing just as he damn pleases.
He suggested he might do a
good bit of traveling abroad.
In a scolding turn, Truman re-
peated what he had told the na-
tional housing conference earlier
in the week—that some oppon-
■ ents of his defense program are
playing right down the alley Rus-
sian Premier Stalin would like to
lead them.
He said the attitude of Con-
gress toward economic and mili-
tary aid and other defense legis-
lation recently has been such as
to imply that the necessity for
those things no longer exists.
Truman went on to say if we
could maintain our industry on
an even keel and continue the
buildup of our own defenses and
those of our Allies there would
be no third World War.
He is still hopeful of getting
all this program brought to its
conclusion in which case, he said,
we will have a lasting and uni-
versal peace.
Asked whether inflation or de-
flation offered the worst domes-
tic threat to the country oday,
might be some embarrassment
if he visited Stalin.
Truman went on to say he
would like to travel around the
world after retiring; that he has
a desire to see parts of the world
he has not seen.
CIO, to restrain the union from
interference with operations at
the Mt. Pleasant refinery, other
than legal picket lines, rendered
i verdict about noon Wednesday
denying the company’s request
for the injunction.
In announcing his verdict,
Judge Sheehy said that he could
not grant the injunction under
federal law, since it was shown
the “the employer” (the com-
pany) had not exhausted all
legal actions in connection with
the strike, one requirement being
that the issue between the union
an dthe company be taken be-
ore the Wage Stabilization Board
for recommendations. The union
agreed to take the dispute before
the WSB, but the company, so far,
has not consented to this.
Union officials said late Wed-
nesday, following the judge’s
decision, that the strike settle-
ment has been postponed now
until a later date, pending fur-
ther negotiations.. Another meet-
ing between the refinery officials
and the union has been called for
next Monday morning.
In the meantime, P. A. Thomas,
Jr.., president of Local 471, said
that all members of the union
have been directed to refrain
from further violence in connc-
tion with the srike. Last week
viloence broke out, and as a
result of a court inquiry conduc-
ted by District Attorney Morris
Rolston and County Attorney
at 1:30 P. M. and all people who ’ belongs to Ross McElhaney, This
clover is to be harvested for
seed. Mr. McElhaney applied
field until
POLICE SEIZE KING-SIZE SLTNGSHOTS Police Lt. Walter
Broderick tests one of two slingshots confiscated in Salem.
Mass., after boys had broken 60 windows in two local factories.
Police said the giant weapons could be stuck in the ground and
would hurl a five-pound rock more than 200 yards.
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State Pardon Board today re-
commended conditional pardon of
Herbert Fletcher, the 15-year-
old Iowa farm boy sent to prison
because officials thought he was
17.
Gov. Allan Shiver’s signature
is necessary to make the action
final.
The board’s vote was 2-to-l
with member R. A. (Smoot)
Schmid dissenting. Schmid said he
thought the sentence should be
commuted as an illegal sentence
and the boy returned to the
jurisdiction of the court where
he was convicted.
The board recommended that
young Fletcher be paroled to the
custody of Iowa officials who
have offered to take jurisdiction.
D Harris, J. O. Freeman, John of heifers on this
Hall, Ross McElhaney and W. J. March 15, 1952. This field had a
WASHINGTON, May 8 (AP) —
The government today lifted its
ban on shipment of steel from
warehouses.
The freeze was clamped on
April 22 to preserve steel sup-
plies for vital defense projects.
The order went out a few hours
after CIO president Philip Murray
called a strike against the steel
industry.
Production was halted for three
days and then the workers re-
turned to their jobs after an ap-
peal from President Truman. The
strike started immediately after
a district court ruling that gov-
ernment seizure of the steel mills
was illegal. The ruling has been
stayed pending a supreme court
review.
23, 1951. He grazed this vetch
from Jan. 1, 1952 until April 1,
1952. He also has 20 acres of
Austrian winter peas on which
he has grazed 22 head of heifers
since Feb. 1 without any feed.
These heifers are in good shape
now.
peas and kobe lespedeza which
are all reseeding. He also has a
field of crimson clover in combi-
nation with yellow hop that is
a good demonstration in this
field on land preparation and
fertilization.
Jan. 10, until April 14. During
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Congress today any cut in Presi-
dent Truman’s $7,900,000 foreign
aid plan “would inevitably tend
to curtail or retard” this nation’s
defense program.
The message from Eisenhower
was made publicly by Sen Con-
nally (D-Tex), chairman of the
Senate Foreign Relations com-
mittee.
The retiring head of the wes-
tern defense forces did not sueci-
fically ask Congress to retain the
full amount of funds Truman re-
quested for foreign aid. But he
did say that any cut “would be
heavily and seriously felt.”
The foreign relations committee
has voted to cut a billion Dollars
from Truman's requests. The
House foreign affairs* committee
chopped off another 100 million.
Eisenhower said in his cable to
Connally “any cut materially
greater” than the billion dollar
reduction voted by his committee
"would create such difficulties
that a drastic revision of the
whole program might well be in-
dicated and might therefore en-
aanger the proposed military
build-up now visualized and
which I consider essential in the
interest of U. S. security.”
Only an hour before Connally
released the Eisenhower message,
Sen. Russell (D-Ga), chairman of
the Senate Armed Services com-
mittee sent a message to Eisen-
hower asking him whether he
thinks the $6,900,000 voted by the
Connally committee would be
adequate for this nation’s de-
fenses.
Russell is a candidate for the
the President said there is always
a chance of danger from both.
That, he said, is why the gov-
ernment needs authority to act
quick’v as the economic situa-
tion changes from time to time.
He said he was consulted and
approved the action of the fed-
eral reserve board yesterday in
suspending its restraints on in-
stallment credit. He expressed
hope Congress would not take
from the board the authority to
put the restraints back on if the
board should decide they are
needed again.
. In response to other questions,
he said he is not yet ready to
name a defense mobilization di-
rector to succeed Charles E. Wil-
son who resigned because of dif-
ferences with the President over
handling of the steel dispute.
The President was reminded
he had once said that after he is
no longer President he would
like to visit Russia and see what
it looks like.
He was asked whether, since he
has decided not to run again, he
ntends to travel abroad and visit
Russia after he has left the
White House.
The President replied that he
The next pasture to be visited 1 first week in October.
will be that of Lenton Roach. The next field will be that of
Mr. Roach applied 400 pounds 0-j Aubrey C. (Shorty) Blackburn's.
14-7 per acre on 20 acres and seed- । This field is seeded to Abruzzi
ed with 700 pounds of vetch, i ye and vetch which will be har-
700 pounds Abruzzi rye, 100 (vested for seed.
ident Eisenhower is a candidate
for the Republican nomination.
Russell told reporters he had
sent Eisenhower this message.
“The Senate Armed Services
committee is holding hearings on
the $6,900,000 mutual assistance
bill. It would be of great value
to the committee if you could
inform us as soon as possible
whether in your opinion this
sum is adequate to the job of
building up the defense of the
free world against aggression.”
The House committee cut voted
yesterday was in foreign aid funds
for the fiscal year beginning next
July 1.
WASHINGTON, May 8 (A) —
An application by the Lone Star
Steel Company of Dallas for $50,-
650,000 for developing produc-
tion of pig iron and coke has
been turned down by the Defense
Production Administration.
It was one of five which were
reported rejected yesterday.
DPA deputy administrator
John H. Martin said in a letter
that DPA would not approve the
loans because “defense funds
should not be used where ex-
pansion can be obtained by other
means.” Martin’s letter was to
the Reconstruction Finance Cor-
poration (RFC). Martin said
DPA’s refusal to make the loans
“should in no way prejudice” any
action RFC might want to take.
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in Truman Foreign Aid Program
WASHINGTON, May 8 (JP) — Democratic nomination for pres-
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS:
Partly cloudy and continued
warm tonight and Friday.
WEST TEXAS: Partly cloudy
tonight and Friday. Widely scat-
tered thundershowers in Pan-
handle tonight, not much change
in temperature.
EAST AND SOUTH CENTRAL
TEXAS: Clear to partly cloudy
and continued warm tonight and
Friday. Moderale to locally fresh
southerly winds on the coast.
LOUISIANA: Partly cloudy
and continued warm tonight and
Friday with widely scattered
efternoon thundershowers. Gen-
tle to moderate mostly south
winds on the coast.
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oral of prisoners of war camp
No. 1 on Koje island, was forci-
bly seized by Communist prison-
ers of war and is being held in
the camp against his will. The
demand for his immediate release-
ed unharmed has been ignored
by the Communists.
“Gen. Dodd, with another of-
ficer, was conferring with Com-
nunist leaders at the gate of
one of the compounds at about
1515 hours (3:15 'P.M.) local
time. May 7 (1 A. M. EST Tues-
day). Without warning, the two
officers were seized and forced
within the inclosure by the
prisoners. The second officer
managed to escape and make his
way to freedom,
"Gen. Dodd of Tallahassee,
Fla., was overpowered and held
by the Communists. The Eighth
Army said that a note has been
reveived in Gen. Dodd’s hand-
writin?, indicating that he is un-
harmed.
“The Eighth Army said efforts
aie being made to effect the re-
lease of Gen. Dodd. There are no
other details available at this
time."
damage claims amounting to a-
bout 50 million dollars filed by
91 motor carriers seized by order
of President Roosevelt in August,
1944.
Attorneys handling the case
noted that this was a statutory
seizure carried out under a num-
ber of wartime laws, as contrast-
ed to the current seizure of the
stee lindustry under claimed
“inherent powers” of the Presi-
dent under the construction.
SEOUL, Korea, May 8 (TP) —
Day-long waves of American
planes, in the biggest air raid of
the Korean war, turned a major
Communist supply base “into bil-
lowing flames and smoke” to-
day, the U. S. Fifth Air Force
reported.
The air force said the dawn
to dusk rain of high explosives,
rockets, jellied gasoline fire
bombs and machinegun bullets
destroyed 165 supply buildings
and damaged 81.
American and Australian jet
planes screening the raiders shot
down two MIG-QT jets and damg-
ed another, the Air Force add-
ed.
Target of mass raid was Suan,
35 miles southeast of Pyongyang,
North Korean capital. Suan is a
feeder point to Chinese troops on
the western front. Air Force
photos had shown the area literal-
ly loaded with trucks and mili-
tary supplies heavily guarded by
antiaircraft guns.
Jets and propeller driven planes
drawn from four wings made
well over 300 individual attacks,
the Air Force said.
They "tore the Communist sup-
plies to shreds,” a communique
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The tour will begin promptly j The next field of crimson clover
Gen. Dwight Fisenhower told
second vice president, Billy Bon-
ner third vice preside.nt, H. E.
Richardson; secretary, Charles
Brock; treasurer, Connie Short:
tail twister, Manley Moore; lion
tamer, Leon Grissom; new direc-
tors, N. A. Mattingly and Coy
Barber, and carry-over directors,
Gail Phillips and H. F. Cross.
Additional business brought be-
fore the club consisted of a dis-
cussion on the club’s minstrel
show set for next Monday and
luesday at the high school gym-
nasium, beginning each evening
at 8:00 o’clock. An announcement
was made that rehearsals have
been attended regularly and
everything about the show is
ready to go.
70,000 die-hard Reds on. Koje.
Whether the move had been com-
pleted was not disclosed.
Dodd, born in Indiana Oct. 5,
1899, and a resident of Tallahas-
see, Fla., was named Deputy
Chief of Staff of the Eighth Army
on Feb. 6, but only one week
later was sent to Koje to take
Annual (. 01C. Paslure Tour Set
For Thursday p.m. Of Next Week
A Chamber of Commerce pas-1 The next pasture will be Lee
ture tour will begin Thursday, D. Harris’s, who applied 500
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"completely discharge"
northwest corner of the square;
since that time this has been the
home of Southwestern's Mt.
Pleasant offices.
In 1935 the Mt. Pleasant Div-
ision was formed, thus creating a
division office in Mt. Pleasant,
which serves as a provision point
for several East Texas towns.
From the time the division of-
fice was set up personnel has
been increasing steadily, making
it necessary to expand office
space and facilities.
Southwestern’s building has
been completely remodeled and
modernized into a two story
structure, with the first floor
dropped to street level. On the
first floor is the local office,
division manager’s office and di-
vision accounting department; on
the second floor is the engineer-
ing department and commercial
department.
A complete heating and cool-
ing system has been installed,
providing for air-conditioning in
the summer and uniform heat
during the winter. The office
lighting is up to date and pro-
vides lighting of 100 foot candles
throughout the building.
Southwestern will be open for
business at the above location on
Monday, May 12. Open house for
the general public is being
planned for the immediate future.
Federal Judge Joe Sheehy, fol-
lowing a two-day hearing at
Jefferson on a request by the
American Liberty Oil Comany
for a temporary injunction against
the members of Local 471, Oil
PUSAN, Korea, Friday, May
9 (TP) — The army announced to-
day Red prisoners one Koje Is-
land had seized the Allied camp
commandant, Brig Gen. Francis
T. Dodd, and a fellow-officer on
Wednesday and still are holding
Dodd as a hostage.
The other officer managed to
escape, but General Dodd was
dragged inside the Red prison-
ers’ stockade. The other officer’s
name was not available.
A report from the island pris-
on off the South Korean coast
said a note had been passed from
the stockade, but its contents were,
not disclosed. This report said
that Codd had not been harm-
ed. It was several hours old,
however.
Koje Island has been the scene
of two violent prison disorders
this year. On Feb. 12, 179 persons
were killed in an uprising by Red
prisoners in notorious “compound
62.”
On March 13, 12 prisoners were
killed when anti-Comunist and
Communist prisoners engaged in
a rock-fight.
Dodd, who was Deputy Chief
of Staff of the U. S. Eighth Army,
took command at Koje after the
February riot.
The fact that the General had
been captured by prisoners was
known in thjs provisional South
Korean capital several’hours be-
fore it was announced.
Correspondents were not al-
lowed to go to Koje to investigate,
and a tight censorship was
clamped on the island.
Soldiers (not otherwise iden-
tified in this dispatch) said Dodd
and his companion were walking
near the stockade when prison-
ers suddenly seized them.
On April 25, the army announ-
ced that it was moving all anti-
Communist or non-tommunist
prisoners to six new camps on the
mainland, leaving only about
said. “Thousands of gallons of
fiery napalm (jellied gasoline)
were spread over the target,
turning piles of supplies into
billowing flames and smoke.”
F-80 Shooting Stars opened the
attack at dawn.
"We hit the enemy flak (anti-
aircraft) positions and hit them
hard,” said Lt. William N. Wright
of Sebring, Fla. "We just walked
right down their lines of targets
with our machinegun bullets to
score hits first. A lot of their
guns suddenly quit.”
Then came waves of F-84
Thunderjets, more Shooting Stars,
propeller driven Mustangs, and
Marine Panther jets, Sky Raiders
and Corsairs.
“The lead flight set roaring
fires and smoke really poured
up.” said Lt. Thomas B. Ingras-
sia, a thunderjet pilot from New
Orleans. “We followed that
flight in and plowed right through
the smoke columns to get at our
target.”
Lt. Col. Gordon F. Blood of
212 Upshur St., North Washing-
ton, D. C., “saw an incendiary
bomb plunk right through the
top of a warehouse and the whole
thing erupted in flame.”
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