Avalanche-Journal (Newspaper) - March 24, 1946, Lubbock, Texas Weather Cloudy See Lower Column 8 First In On The South LUBBOCK Sunrise Edition The Last Word In News Vol 20 No 29 40 Pages Today Lubbock Texas Sunday March 24 1946 Price 5 Cents AP Means Associated Press Soviet Agents Sought Atom Bomb Secrets Br HARRY F MONTGOMERY Stnil Writer MONTREAL March nn the trail ot Canadas energy secrets it Irani five months before the world first heard of the atomic bomb last August according to evidence submitted by the government in Us spv trials today Special Prosecutor E RIBIS submitted for the first time purportedly stolen the Soviet embassy in Otta wa documents which form the backbone of the governments against its employes and oth ers accused of conspiring to give Russia scientific and other war time secrets to the detriment of the safety of their own country Sought Information On Work According to these documents as early as March 2ft knew nf Canadas wore on atomic end gy and were instructing their Canadian co to report on it 2 members of the es network accepted money for their services 3 The Canadians were given orders through the Soviet sy in Ottawa to get specific infor mation on certain phases of Cana das secret research as well as to supply general information Among thf inventions sought was n device for use in the Pa and n new explosive pro in which the Americans are said to be very in In 4 Many of the meetings between the Soviet agents and the Canad ians were held at night on street corners in Ottawa 5 The Russians ordered nnd hart printed In a government pub fin article on the conflict parties in last Hummers dominion rUction 0 The heretofore identified only In this way the guiding hand in Moscow of the spy operations here was the chief of the firs intelligence head quarters in the Soviet capital 7 Fred Rose Communist mem ber of Parliament accused as a conspirator and the man directly nn trial in todays hearing ob data from conversations with officers on the western front The documents submitted today chiefly with Capt Gordon of the Canadian army who was on loan to the government wartime information board and whom Rose Is alleged to have re for the spy ring B H K K UNION CANDIDATES In a filing Friday night names of two candi dates for city offices were placed before voters by the Building nnd Construction Trades council American Federation of Labor ntl unions The candidates were Jake who n grocery nt Avenue H who opposes Clarence A Bestwick auto mobile dealer for mayor and B H Dennison business agent of the local carpenters union who seeks Commis sion Place 1 now held by W B Price wholesale oil and gasoline dealer who is seek ing reelection City elections will be held on Tuesday Apr 2 In a meeting Saturday af Voegeli and Dennison were given endorsement of the Central Labor Union re presenting all AFL unions in the city UNO Set For Showdown In Iran Case By JOHN M HIGHTOWER Associated Pross Writer NEW YORK March Hope of a real break in the crisis ran strong among United Nations officials today and ap the Security Council meet ing Monday might pass without injury its most dangerous test to date UNO speculation based on state ments by Premier Ahmed in Tehran is that in the next few days the Russians may begin pull their troops out of Iran and back into Russia Such a movement would lake the wind put of the Iranian crisis reducing it to a situation the Se curity Council should be able to handle with relative ease Appeal Is Assailed This speculation privately ex pressed by many authorities here was checked however by their fear that nothing might come of the bright prospects raised by heightened by Prime Minister Stalins assurances yesterday of Russian backing for UNO One new clement of uncertain ty is just where the Iranian gov stands at the moment in relation to Russia the United States and Britain termed an appeal to the Security Council by his dor here Hussein Ala quick action on the Iranian case Russia is asking or n delay un til April 10 The United Status has come out for immediate action and so has Britain However if Iran says there is no need to hur ry or iC it actually favors delay in the interest of more direct ne with Russia the props would be knocked from under the HST Calls On Demos To Help World Leadership Unity Within US U S and Britain Both America and Britain of 5olon Hits Delay In State Redistricting AUSTIN March 23 which have disregarded constitutional mandate to re district the state every ten years were accused today of plain unvarnished neglect of duty and of the constitution This accusation was voiced by F G of Tyler in i Inter t Gov Coke li Steven son He suggested reduction of membership in the from 150 to 93 as one means ot remov ing political impediments to re districting He would make House Senate district coincide with nni senator and three representa tives from eich district contended that some House members with senatorial aspirations have voted against re they feared it would remove their districts from senatorial districts in which they hoped to seek higher office lie said he thought his plan would remove this worry Texas his not been for legislative representation since despite constitutional tion that there be a after federal census Stevenson has hinted that a special session after the forth coming Democratic primaries might achieve it but he also has said that election of legislators o the principle nf redis appears to be the only recourse of the public Damage Said High In Tornado In Oklahoma Fat Stock Show To Open Monday First South Plains Junior Fat Stock show since the war will open at the fairgrounds with 270 baby beeves pigs and lambs on exhibit by 4H and FFA club boys of 27 Panhandle snd West Texas and throe New Mexico counties More than in premiums and special awards are offered in the three divisions Baby beef sifting and Judging will be held Monday morning Sifted animals those not eligible to be judged will be sold at oclock that afternoon at the ring of the Lubbock Auction and Com mission company Pigs and lambs ill be judged Tuesday morning Parade Sot A barbecue banquet for exhib county agents vocational ag riculture teachers and officials ot welcomed the possibility however slender thai Russian forces might get ot Iran with out waiting for the Security Coun cil to act The great concern of these authorities to date has been that the Russians might not get out even if the council asked them to U S To Action Whatever the Russians do of said that some sort of Iran ian case would certainly come be fore the Security Council Iran has made two I That Soviet forces are in Iran beyond the March 2 treaty deadline 2 That Soviet agents and officials are interfering in Irans internal affairs Still B third aspect of the case was taken up by Edward R Slet American member of the council who wrote Trygve Lie that he would nsk for Russia and o report on their direct negotiations to seU tie their troubles At Hunter college in the Bronx all appeared to be ready for the opening ceremonies Monday after noon when Secretary of State Byrne Governor Dewey of New York State and Mayor ODwyer of New York City will welcoms the council to the United Nations tcm Turn to Page 15 Column 5 Please in me picture in diu n v Sisson Hubert L Allen American lender A C Jackson another legion worker and Roy Furr president of the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce Staff Regional Veterans Office Is Awarded To Lubbock 700 Persons Will Be Employed Reuther To Seek CIO Post Held By Thomas ATLANTIC CITY March 23 fP Waller P Reuther accusing Presi dent R J Thomas of the CIO United Auto Workers completely of being threw his hat in the ring tonight as a can for the unions top job the show wiil be held Tuesday I Jn manner Reuther leader night jn the livestock judging pa at Texas Tech It will also be the occasion for awarding of checks A companion feature of the show will be a parade through downtown Lubbock at 11 oclock Wednesday morning The parade will be led by high school bands from Denver City and Rails It will include floats and displays prepared by 4H and FFA club boys and various firms in and groups of Lubbock Glenn Woody parade marshal o the bitter Genera Motors strike and a made his expected announcement that he would try to wrest Ihe presidency from his fellow union ist of years standing The Reuther decision climaxed the first day of the tenth convention which earlier had been marked by a blasl by Thomas President Truman and top leaders of the AFL Project To Serve 72County Area By WASHINGTON March of a West Texas regional office of the Veterans ad ministration at Lubbock an today by Rep Mahon The new office will assume dut ies and increase its activities as fast as office space and personnel can be obtained It will serve a 72county area in the South j sections of the j stale Noting that a subregional office had been located at Lubbock last December Mahon declared that the new step would complete the regional office set up in Tex The other offices are at Houston San Antonio Waco and Dallas and all are under the juris diction branch TECH DROPS TO FIFTH PLACE Texas Houston And SMU Largest Of States Colleges ological colleges nt figure of in fifth oC the administrations office at Dallas which college student bodies by The Ava shows Prior lo the outbreak of the war had an enrollment of of summer school Largest enrollment in Techs history was in the 393940 school year when the figure was In surveying current college en The included the major J 1U mv Tech stood in third place topped denominational and endowment in only bv University of Texas and solutions The survey shows Uni Texas A and M college when it of Texas University of covers Louisiana and Mississippi as well as all of Texas The office at Lubbock give complete Mahon staled Veterans can gel socalled patient medical service Red Cross campaign workers In Red Cross Fund Is Near Goal tailing all but care The office also will include a rat ing board for the adjudication and the county were largely inactive yesterday but finishing touches vere being put to plans to wind up servicing of claims and a staff to the finance drive next and Wednesday when booths will throughout help them obtain all educational and other benefits under the G I of CONFIRMATION IS RECEIVED FROM CONGRESSMAN MAHON In a to the Avalanche Journal Saturday from Congress man Mahon representa tive from the 19th Congressional district of Texas announcing the plan to establish a regional Vet erans administration office h c said The Veterans administration Houston Southern Methodist Tex as Christian Baylor El Paso Col lege ot Mines and showing gains in the current se mester as compared with the Fall semester of 1341 Losses are shown by Texas Tech A and which had a Navy insinuation in the Fall ot 1941 Texas Stale Col lege for Women and Rice Institute Tech current enrollment would have been considerably larger than it is had not the semesters open ing found Lubbock crowded to the eaves and college authorities un prepared to absorb at least a ma jor part of the overage through Lubbock including Carver Heights emergency measures Indications the negro section are now that the 1946 Fall semester In the mean will attract or more students lime workers in 0 Tech it housing facilities can be Facilities Will Be Occupied By RANDALL ABERNETHY Staff THE REGIONAL veterans office which has been assured for Lubbock will employ approximate ly 700 persons have n annual payroll and will serve most of West Texas and the entire Pan said Col Thomas G Lan deputy veterans adminis trator for Texas Mississippi and Louisiana when visiting in Lub bock Saturday The office will offer every ser vice that is available to veterans anywhere in the United Col Lanphier said It will be on the same level as those designated for Houston San Antonio Waco and Dallas May Construct Building The hospital area at South Plains i I y 1CII mu Army Air field may be as with the ma temporary quarters Col Congress stated following survey of possible housing in the hff Qur in vicinity which he made in com cooperate whole Party Urged By DOUGLAS B CORNELL Associated Pross Staff Writer WASHINGTON March President Truman bid strong ly tonight for more unity and responsibility in a Democratic party whose enlightened inter nationalism he credited with bringing America to a position of world leadership It is the partys responsibility he said to continue to lead the way toward friendship with all peoples and strengthening of the United Nations To fellow Democrats gathered at some 300 Jackson Day rallies here and around the the President emphasized in his first speech with a definite political lag that I cannot make too strong my plea for party unity and party Demands Party Unity He referred only mildly how ever to a diversity of opinion in Democratic ranks He lef t lo Secretary of Commerce Wallace to swing hard both nt dissident Democrats and the Republican op position Speaking Immediately before the chief executive Wallace de clared great harm had been done in the party by those who have joined in a coalition against who warp themselves with the traditions of Jefforson and Jackson but whose actions added So to keep our own party on the side of progress we must call upon those Democrats who have been harmful to our cause to re turn to the way of Jefferson and to honor our fide of the fence with their mugs its well as their Majority Said Neither the President nor Wal lace mentioned the latters demand earlier this week that congress men who jump over party lines be expelled from the party But the President asserted that under the party system political rest with and help carry out our party platform done the party the various di visions of the drive are urged to round out their will locale at Lubbock lo serve a wide West Texas area The office will offer comprehensive service to veterans and give veterans in West Texas the deserved recognition which we have all STEEL STRIKE ENDS PHILADELPHIA March 23 UP said Saturday that practically all A ot the CIO Lubbock and farm ma United at Baldwin dealers will have their works today accepted lists their and make reports at Cloudy Weather Seen For Most Of State Cloudy but mild weather was expected for Texas Sunday with light showers predicted for both the east and west portions Pleasant temperatures prevailed he knew over the slate Saturday j had been collected various Maximum temperatures included Amarillo 68 Dallas 77 El Paso 58 Tyler 8i Austin 77 Waco 77 San Antonio 80 Houston 79 the pos to headquarters office which has been moved to the Chamber oC Commerce Sewoll chairman of the drive at Slaton reported yester day 1hat total collections there had reached with two teams still No report had boon received there either from theater where plates had been passed at show sions during the week Slaton plans lo set up booths next Fri day and Saturday Aro No definite reports had been re from the rural areas al though Roy Boyd chairman said several hundred dollars ales models in thi march Any i n company 0 an Fort Worth 76 San Angelo accepted and Laredo 80 March 23 homes were unroofed and otherwise damaged many were blown down and con damage was done to at ea one oil plant when a tornado ripped through a south edge of this town la si night There were no casualties report frt wir estimated at half a million dollars nr firm or group is invit od In take part in the said although only club Turn to Page 8 Column 6 Please Blunt Warning Said Needed For Soviets BOSTON March 23 ing Russia the greatest danger ever threatened George H Karle former governor md failed for in Ultimatum to the n sol back tn her own conn try or of the atomic nn them while we have it an before they Earie voiced his opinions in an interview on his return after scv years in Middle East the Balkans and Tune In 1340 Kc Station Official To Probe Disease In Amarillo AMARILLO March 23 A slate health department represen will arrive hero Monday lo investigate a disease which caused the deaths of two packinghouse workers here this week and made 39 others ill Those affected were all handlers of cattie cither in stock yards or in a packing plant The dead were listed as Ed mond Middick and his bro ther D W Middick At Brown wood the of the two victims per hour pay increase ending a j Sun Glasses Ladies strike Kings 1020 schools over the county secured Registrars Give Figures The following enrollment com parisons were secured by The Ava from registrars of the various institutions listed ex cept in the case of Southern Meth odist university whose registrar failed to answer a query figures below are from the col leges reports to The Dallas News Now U of U if Houston Texas A nnd M SMU Tech s pany with Robert W Sisson spec ial representative of the Veterans administration Washington nnd local chamber of commerce and American Legion officials That seems the best location at his the administrator ob served At least square feet of floor space will be he said If ample and adequate quarters are not found or provided in the near future the Veterans adminis tration will own building the colonel stated He was not able to say when the office will commence opera tion pointing out that will be de T L fifar by final decision on I L ters and further authorization from Washington Unless this is program is de Going into discussion of hla housing program at this point the President interpolated in his address the remark that our friends in Congress have got to make up their whether they arc for veterans rights or whether they are going to bow to the real estate For the most part Mr dealt with problems at home But Turn to Page 15 Column 6 Please a HSU 02 J Perons Margin In Election Is Boosted BUENOS AIRES March Juan D Peron elec tion as the 29lh president of Argentina by the greatest mar Thc booth system here gin ever accorded a candidate supervision of Mrs Arthur Jenkins assisted by Mrs Kirk Dean and Mrs Raymond Shook will be worked out so no part oil the city will be far from a location They will bein stores Turn to Page 15 Column 7 Please LETS HOPE THE INDIANS KNEW THEIR STUFF Average Crop Yields Io And Then Some In Jeans Of Areas Farmers By A B SLAGLE Staff Writer IF the Indian gods smile reason ably on the Plains year as they have indicated they will to Judge Chirk M Mullican their modern seer and South Plains farmers will move Mrs J E was informed into next winter wilh more than that her brothers had died of a new type of influenza SMALL BABY CLAIMED HOLLYWOOD March 23 100 million crop dollars jingling in their This is on Ihe basis of the judges i rendezvous with Spring Friday I cations morning when the wind at sun was be I at a of cotlon per acre average the 15 counties generally and grain sorghum at pounds as the South Plains those of which Lubbock is almost Baby who weighed less rise on the first lull day of Spring was from the Northwest indicat ing according to Indian legend than a pound when she was born last Thursday evening three months prematurely died this af after 41 hours of life Its head about the sixe of a tennis bali the child was ounces in weight and inches in length the geographical center will pro duce this year a of bales of cotton valued roughly at 7712 million dollars and tons cf sorghum grain valued also roughly at more than 33 million dollars These values are on Ihe basis of current prices with indi that these will certainly be no lower next fall Basis lor the production figures was suggested by Don L superintendent of the agricultural that crop conditions over the area j experiment station here and these will be i in by other aulh Then the question arose what sources except that is average others felt the figures particularly That in sorghum were ultra con tomes and based on what He placed the average per acre A cotlon acreage in the 15 counties based on a acreage will acres The 15p county average lint proj since the establishment of the college in 1916 The vote count in Ihe federal capital and province of Buenos Aires was Jose P was so much that not even Ihe most op supporters conceded him a chance of victory Observers predicted Peron would win 304 electors to 72 for the Democratic union candidate Indonesians Warned To Evacuate City BATAVIA Java March 23 Wi headquarters warned in habitants of Bandoeng in western Java today that the entire south ern area of the city would be cleared of all armed Indonesians because of grievous recurrence ot incidents which have cost more than 100 casualties in the past two weeks The British headquarters stalc duclion curing that period was ment said 1BI pounds varying from 131 to I In the last few days there has All figures used throughout are for nonirrigated The in come from cotton and grain sor ghum only brings an average of to each county al though actual receipts would of course vary with production For example Lubbock county farmers would derive from the two crops while Crosby wilh Turn to Pase 8 Column 3 Please been a grievous recurrence ofin by armed Indonesian groups in the Bandoeng and Soe areas The northern sec lion ol Bandoeng including a camp for released Allied prisoners of war and has been indiscriminately mortar ed and women and children have been Gents A Only Kings As soon as authority is receiv ed steps will be taken to set up the office he said Number Not Known The Lubbock office will serve the largest area of any veterans office iii Texas Its area will in clude 26 Panhandle counties now served by the Muskogee office and 10 or 12 counties in the El area now accommodated by the Albuquerque office Col Lanphier said he did not know yet how many other West Texas coun ties would be in its jurisdiction but indicated they would make up a vast territory Victim Rites Today T E Crites 62 resident of Lub bock since 1911 and manager of the Borden Co here 19 years died at Lubbock Memorial hospital at 2 oclock Saturday morning Ke had See Picture Page 8 Section 1 been ill only a short time and death was attributed to an asthe matic condition A of 2409 Twentieth he had been with the company since it was established here 21 years ago Funeral service will be conduct oclock this afternoon at state to get their needs cared for Col Lanphier said Waco is now Ihe nearest veterans office for vet erans of this section Every ser vice that the Veterans administra tion offers will be available here Staffed By Civilians Col Lanphier said the office in line wilh a policy of the Veterans administration be staffed completely with civilians Many technicians and pro men will be required And as far as possible the staff will be formed of persons residing in Lubbock nnd this area H was his opinion that this section will not be able to furnish all the per needs One factor behind the intention to employ local people whenever ders Funeral home He is survived by his wife two sons Ed Vivian of Lubbock and L E Buddy in the Navy station ed at university New Or leans one daughter Sue of Lubbock a Mrs L B Henderson of San Francisco and a halfbrother C InKley of Pallbearers will be W I Fittman L Jackson E D Libby Mau rice Cowan Scamon Nelson Luther L Lewallen Pierce Wim and Wayne Pharr The Weather WEST TEXAS Mostly and mild scattered light rains ex suitable is the housing situation n Bend country and Del here the said It is Pass area Sunday fill if we could find housing for Monday partly cloudy inn warmer many people from outside the NKW MEXICO Partly cloudy Sunday fair Sunday night and he said In the beginning the office will Monday warmer south portion and seek use of laboratories nnd tech1 Sunday high Sunday 5565 north facilities of local hospitals and wherever else they are local ly available Thai will be until the time when the office can set up its own laboratory facilities permanent arrangements will bo made with local hospitals and med Turn to Page 15 Column 7 Please THIRTYTWO HURT DALLAS March 23 Iwo persons were injured inost of them slightly in a headon col of two streetcars here today west and 6575 elsewhere ana oy Ex station here oust 2 Roun 4 a Sam 3T S n m 35 7 m 36 a n m 33 fl n m fi 10 n m M 11 m fil 12 N 6C nnd low nxus Experiment Station n 24 tours Di 6 D m Maximum 66 35 n 9 67 fi n m B P n p m fl 3 m 5 p m 10 p tn P in i M
