Avalanche-Journal (Newspaper) - May 12, 1946, Lubbock, Texas Honor Your Attending Services At The Church Of Your Choice T On The South Plains Weather Warmer See Lower Column 8 First In On The South LUBBOCK Sunrise Edition The Last Word In News Lubbock Texas Sunday May 12 1946 Price 5 Cents AP Means Associated Press Soviets Again Block Plan For Peace Meet Agreement Sought On Italian Pact Before Date Set For Big Session By JOSEPH DYNAN May 11Russia making it clear that the only stum to accord apparently lay in the snarled Ital ian treaty insisted apain today before the deadlock four power foreign ministers council that agreement on an treaties with former Axis satellites must general European peace conference American sources said following todays second meeting of the ministers of the United States Great Britain France and Russia that V M Molotov Russian foreign minister regarded the Italian treaty as an obstacle and that he did not think the ministers harbored fundamental differences concerning the Balkan For Session Sought j Russia still was at variance with the United Great Bri tain the sources said over Italian reparations and colonies and the disputed port of Trieste sought by both Italy and Yugoslavia Secretary of State James F Byrnes urged Molotov once more today the American informants said to agree upon a specific date for convoking the 21nation peace conference When Molotov declared that the ministers first should agree on all Byrnes replied that it the Russian thesis were accepted then anyone could block the peace con ference simply by disagreeing on any one point After an sive exchange of arguments on this point the until Monday morning Soriot Changed Molotov pointed out that the Russians reversed their stand yes by agreeing to a French proposal that Italy be named sole trustee under the United Nations of all her colonies It remains to be seen the Bus Man added what could be done about Trieste and Italian repara tions During the morning session Byrnes said the United States would accept the French plan for Italian reparations giving the Russians provided payments were restricted to Italian assets In Balkan countries now occupied by the Russian army Italian Naval and merchant ves and excess industrial equip ment in former war factories Molotov then disputed Byrnes evaluation of the ships and of Italian assets in the Balkans the sources said He claimed also that naval vessels were war booty apportioned among the victorious powers as such and did not con reparations Byrnes was said to have replied Turn to Page 11 Column 3 Please Texas Blanketed By Cold Wave Br Thf Texas mild spring weather turned a somersault Saturday as thermometers fell to the near mark in several sections Little relief was expected for Sunday The U S reau prediction was for continued cloudiness and cooler weather over most of the state The thunderstorms lightning and high winds that have hit north and northeast Texas were the re s It of a battle between the north er and warm moist air from the gulf the weather bureau reported WARMER 1IKRE Thu and iht thr only nt lo Official fnr cloudy warmer In Mon and warmer Weatherman A M Hamrick said he expected the norther to move again through the area Saturday night and the disturbances to be repeated again Sunday afternoon Wldo Section Hit More than a thunder storms occurred simultaneously Into yesterday along n line from Sulphur Springs to Dallas and Fort Worth Hail one to onehalf inch In thickness h i t northeast Laredo Saturday Windows and doors un protected by screens at the Laredo Army Air Field were damaged One airplane had IB holes cut In Us fabric by the hall Minimums of 33 degrees in Pam pa and 34 degrees in Amarillo were reported yesterday morning Dallas recorded 49 degrees to the record for the date Wichita Kails 42 was the coldest on record for May 11 Dallas and Fort Worth reported light hail storms The weather bureau reported small craft warnings displayed yesterday along the Texas and Louisiana coasts from Browns ville to Burrwood La 1 J Ambassador Kings Jewelry 1020 Adv Kc Tuno In Station State Politics Warming Up By DAVE CHEAVENS Associated Press Staff Writer Attorney General Sel lers goes gunning for votes on his first campaign tour of the 194G governors race this week Travelling by automobile he will make appearances Monday in Johnson City Fredericksburg Junction Ozona Fort Stockton Tuesday he will be in Kent Van Horn Sierra Blanca and El Paso Wednesday he will stop in Alpine Sanderson Lang try and Del Rio and Thursday in Rock Springs and Kerrville Nor Out Meanwhile the war of nerves by possible candidates continued Still neither in nor out of the race were Gov Coke R Steven son former Governor James V Allred and Sen W Lee ODaniel Some observers felt Stevenson was showing signs of weakening under the pressure of that he run He so far as to re mark casually at a press confer ence on how he might conduct his campaign and ho threw one direct punch at Allred Taking cognizance of statement that the poll indicated Stevenson had lost 45 per cent of his political support Stevenson quipped We should draw the sweet mantle of charity over the The State Democratic Executive committee announced plans for its meeting in Austin June 10 at which time it is required by law to certify the names of candidates to appear on the July 27 ballot A Lulu Of A Meet Stevenson and Dr Homer P Rainey are already on the ballot by virtue of applications filed by their friends and their names will stay there unless they formally withdraw They have until the day of the committee session to take this action All applications for place on the ticket must be filed by June 3 however committee also will select a site for the Sept 10 party convention That is the affair at which the new titular head of the party in the over the reins Anybodys guess at this distance was not only good on who would be the next governor but on who would run And no matter what that convention should be a lulu Former Lubbock Man Dies In Accident L B Wright of 1502 Avenue N received word Saturday afternoon that his brother C Wright 51 was killed in a machinery ac cident at N at 1 Saturday The victim formerly of Lub bock was employed by a construc tion company engaged in road building The body will be brought to Lubbock by Sanders Funeral home and funeral arrangements will be announced later Lovers Lanes Used As Lure For Phantom By Tho Associated May JL kana was a city of day but officers warned that some ot the younger generation were going too far in trying to catch the phantom killer believed responsi ble for five deaths here Some were reported to be actu ally trailing persons thcy suspect ed and others planted themselves as decoys to killer into another attack In a statement tonight Ranger Captain M T Gonzaullas said Someone is likely to got killed the amateur sleuthing by some of the younger generation here continues Its a good way to get Jack Runnels Texarkana chief of police stated The investiga tion is only hampered by young sters who go out on their own in an attempt to capture this Sheriff W H Pressley of Bowie county and Sheriff W E Davis of Miller county to night asked that rewards for the capture of the phantom killer be increased to a total The reward fund is now more than Commenting on widespread re ports concerning the Phantom said Its a cinch this man cant be in Lufkin Corsicana Oklahoma and Texar kann at the same Sheriff W H Presley and Chief of Police Jack Runnels in a joint statement yesterday told citizens here that somebody was out of pocket in Bowie and Miller coun ties the nights of the killings and urged them to recall whether any one they knew was missing on those dates Chased Police said today several per sons had telephoned Major incident last Anight in volved a prominent high school athlete officers said seemed to be trailing a bus Special Officer W A McAllis ter ordered him to halt but the boy lied He was caught after a chase when police shot the tires on his automobile The boy said he had been watch ing someone who had left a pri vate car and boarded the bus It was reported that armed members genera tion were deliberately using them selves as decoys to catch the phan tom They park on dark country roads scene of two double mur ders and wait for the phantom to try another attack Teenagers were incensed after the second of the series slayings when two of their num Turn to Page 11 Column 3 Please Government To Control Coal Output During Strike Truce Bans Lubbock Plans Quiet Observance Area Joins Nation In Tribute To Mothers AS THE nation pauses to day in its dizzy postwar rush to pay tribute and re spect to mothers young and old on Mothers day resi dents of Lubbock and the South Plains by thousands will observe the day quietly by attending church services this morning Many churches have plan ned special services paying honor in sermon and music to the achievements strug gles and sacrifices of women throughout the world Churches which have an services in honor of mothers include the First Christian Broadway Church of Christ St Johns Method ist First Methodist First Bap list Cumberland Presbyter ian First Presbyterian Locust Street chapel Foursquare church and Tabernacle Bap tist Mothers will be honored in various ways in other churches which did not make public announcement of plans Methodist Mens club will pay tribute to mothers as spe cial guests at the Monday noon luncheon Texas cities planning spe cial Mothers day programs as announced by the Associated Press include San Angelo and Dal las At Hillsboro special cere monies will be held at the home of Mrs Ella S Watson chosen recently as the Texas Mother of 1946 DEFENSE AGAINST ATOM BOMB Urges Understanding Among Peoples Of World Less Meat For U Planned By OVID United Press Staif Writer WASHINGTON May Choosing between moat lor this country and grain for starving lands Secretary of Agriculture Anderson tonight asked farmers to produce 10 per cent fewer pigs next fall than a year ago The action he said is dictated by the fact that grain supplies will not be large enough to con hog production at present levels and supply famine areas abroad It was taken as Stabilization Di rector Chester Bowles served no tice to the public that the meat supply pinch is really going to be felt next winter and Meat will be more plentiful within the next few months he reported but then will become scarcer as n result of higher grain prices au in the hope of getting more grain for export A 10 per cent smaller fall pig crop will be reflected in pork supplies moving into meat coun ters next spring and summer The in total pork supplies will be considerably more than 10 per cent however because the coming fall pigs will be fed to weights than the 1345 fall pigs BEGINNING NEXT SUNDAY Poll Reports Will Appear Weekly In Beginning next Sunday The will pre sent as a regular weekly feature the reports of the Texas Poll The Texas Poll is toall intents and purposes a Gallup in that it tests public opinion within the borders o this state upon all matters of public interest Surveys arc made separately on all questions People in every section of the stale and of all shades of political belief social and economic status arc personally interviewed and their views faithfully recorded and t on a scientific basis the Texas Poll is supported by a score of important Texas newspapers among which in addition to The are the Dallas News Austin Ameri can Galveston Tcws Houston Post San Antonio Light Amarillo Corpus Christ leading papers in Abilene San Angelo Waco and Wichita Falls The each Sunday will present the polls findings in order that in this area can keep appraised of the thinking ot people the state over on all questions of the cay Watch for the Texas Polls first report next Sunday May 19 By DOUGLAS B CORNELL Associated Press Slaff NEW YORK May Truman declared today that until the world learns the science of human relationships the atomic bomb will remain a frightful wea pon which threatens to destroy all of a crowd which overflowed seats on the campus of Fordham university cel the 100th anniversary of its charier the President declared New York Monkeys Escape For Look At hours today Scampering Hy Tho Associated Pressl NEW YORK May monkeys and more some 100 fugitives froma pet a jungle playground out of lower Manhattan for several Simians climbed into open windows frightening office workers dashed over roof tops and squealed in delight as they barged into stores In a firehouse the monkeys had a field from ap paratus sliding down poles and generally tormenting frustrated firemen unaccustomed to chasing such wild life Midday tipplers in a tavern received unexpected stimulation some the animals entered sampled some beer then turned to more potent libations Ten patrons left with checks unpaid A cage in the fifth monkey house was left open briefly The animals scurried out opening the doors ot other cages to allow their companions to greet the new world en masse Ten squirming monkeys were captured in the 30 in historic St Pauls chapel ceme tery a grocer trapped 40 in his store and two were nabbed in n laundry bag It is up to education to bring about that deeper international un which is so vital to world Defense Against Atom Mr Truman whose address was broadcast over all networks said there was at least one defense against the atomic bomb That defense lies in our master ing this science of human relation ships all over he said It is the defense of tolerance and of understanding of intelligence and The studied law in the early 1920s a cap and a gown to receive honorary degree as Doctor of Law Education faces the greatest challenge in its the Pres ident said in preparing veterans and other young men and women to live in the new atomic to live in the new men do age not hate Miners Prolong Strike If Necessary CHICAGO May 11 executive board of the CIO In Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers voted to day to extend if the strike of of its members The board n resolution authorizing the union to broaden the strike in such areas where it will aid those unions now on About unionists are on strike the Dodge the Copper American Smelting and Refining and the U S Smelling Re fining and Mining Co The board denounced the McFarland which would raise ceilings on metals and continue certain premium payments for copper load and Tho board said a march on Washington would be organized by the union Wreckage Of Plane From Air GREAT FALLS Mny 11 wreckage of a plane believed to be an Army missing with six aboard since Sunday was sighted from the air late today in the rugged Crazy mountains of south central Mon tana Maj Charles H Lowell of and Capl Amos Little famed army paradoctor spotted the wreck age about feet up the north west slope but said they saw no signs of life nearby other because their re ligion different because their habits and language may be different or because their national origin may be he said Mr Truman reading to the con vocation on the Fordham campus a last message from the late President Roosevelt said In a speech which he wrote just before he died but which he never delivered he said We are faced with the pre eminent fact that if civilization is to survive we must cultivate the science oC human relationships the ability of all peoples of all kinds to live and work together in the same world at Until citizens of America and citizens of the other nations of the world learn of human relationships of which President Roosevelt spoke the atomic bomb will remain a frightful weapon which threatens to destroy all of Green Assails CIO Policies By MAX HALL Associated Press Staff Writer SHEVILLE N May A shouting speech by AFL President William Green opening the southern organizing drive was cut Off the air tonight under mysterious circumstances George L Googe AFL southern representative told reporters it was it must have been done by an enemy of the American Federation of John Hurley NBC announcer said an investigation showed that the wires carrying the broadcast had been snipped basement of the city auditorium where Green spoke Wires Said Cut T C McManus plant manager for the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph com pany confirmed Hurleys state ment McManus said three wires were cut and in his opinion it could not have been accidental Green when told about the snipped wires about three hours after his speech declined to com ment An aide however the matter would be thoroughly in The speech was from to oclock The broadcast went dead about 15 it started while Announced Hurley was intro ducing the AFL president Green then made his speech cheered at intervals by southern AFL lenders Green and the audience believed the speech was being heard throughout the country over the NBC CIO Is Assailed Green struck the keynote of the AFL southern campaign arid his He attacked the CIO as Communistic and urged southern NEW 11 The United Nations subcommittee in Franco Spain will re KING OF ITALY Crown Prince Umberto uses the tele phone after the ab dication of his father Emanuele III who sailed to ward voluntary exile in Egypt after n 45ycnr reign as King or Italy The Italian cabinet approved ss Um berto II King of AP Wirephoto by Radio from Spain Facing New Charge By MAX Associated Press Staff Writer AFL instead Let me give southern industry this and cooperate with us or fight for your life against Communist Green in a speech prepared for delivery before the meeting late today declared I say employers here and now that the time has come them to be realistic and show good business sense They can no longer stem the tide organization Whether they like it or not the workers of the to Page 11 Column 4 Please Smelter Workers End Walkout Early Today WATERBURY May 12 Sunday S Conciliator Walter Maggiolo announced this morning settlement of the 97day labor dispute between the Inter national Union of Mine Mill and Smaller Workers CIO and the American Brass company Maggiolo said agreement was reached shortly after 1 a cul nine consecutive days of negotiations to end a strike of ap proximately workers at the companys plants at Waterbury Ansonia and Lubbock Driver Hijacked E G Abbott Lubbock taxicab drver was hijacked and his cab taken about p m Saturday by an armed man who left Abbott on foot about 10 miles south ol Lubbock Police and the Texas Highway early today sought the white man who told Abbott If you dont want to driv and enforced the order by firing three shots across Abbotts face leaving three holes in the left front window glass The taxicab was found aban about midnight on the Plainview cutoff north of Lub bock just west of the Lubbock Plainview highway Suspect It Described Abbott who was two hours get ting back to Lubbock told police he picked up the man about p m at a dine and dance spot in the Canyon north of Lubbock and the man wanted to go to another dance spot on the Slaton highway Near the cemetery curve Abbott slowed down the man drew the gun and fired the shots in front of Abbotts face He had Abbott drive south on a dirt road about 10 miles forced him from the car took 30 to 540 his billfold and watch then ordered Abbott to Abbott said after Turn to Page 11 Column 7 Please documents within the next few days purporting to show that agents of the Franco regime have been active in Latin America Mexican informants said Mexi co would submit evidence next week that the Spanish Falange had engaged in subversive ac in some Latin American countries New Planned At the same time Spanish Re publican sources said tives of the Spanish inexile had received important documents on falangist activi ties inthe western hemisphere and were at work on a memorandum for the The U S State department is expected to present a sive report to the committee about the middle of the week in response to the request for information on Franco Spain a U S spokesman said It could not be learned whether this report would contain any evi dence of Falangist activities in Latin America U S To Make Report The spokesman indicated the U To Be Lifted BT HAROLD W WARD Associated Writer WASHINGTON May 11 fP Ths government today ordered the railroad freight embargo lifted Monday but slapped controls on the entire soft coal output expect ed during the strike The action covers captive mines as well as others and may withhold coal from industry im mediately But it provides the government with an expected to tons Of coal for emergency users without re sorting to seizure of the pits John L Lewis and the mina owners met meanwhile in what Edward F McGrady federal con called a very friendly verv cooperative atmosphere to seek the settlement President Tru man requested by Wednesday Session Set Today After morning and afternoon sessions which brought no specific word of progress the conferees adjourned until 11 n m EST tomorrow The stumbling block appeared to be Lewis demand for in back holiday pay With miners generally ready to go back to work Monday morn ing except in several scattered locals officials not only took con trol of the coal to be mined dur ing the truce but called dimouts and other electric power ures in view of the ed contract negotiations The order by the Solid Fuels administration set up priorities by which the accumulating coal will be doled out by the government The first preference will go to utilities railroads laundries hos and the like Only after these needs are filled may fac tories get coal Must Supplies Secretary of the Interior Kruj who heads the Solid Fuels admin said in a statement that ihe need for rigid regulation of coal distribution is as necessary now as it was at the beginning of the The nationwide freight embargo which took effect Thursday will end at a m Eastern Stand ard Time Monday With it will go the express embargo and the ban on parcel post shipments weighing more than 11 pounds The 25 per cent reduction In passenger travel on trains is being kept in force for the present An additional 25 per cent cut slated to start day however was called off Dimouts and state and local measures 10 save electric power are to be continued The Civil Production administration decided to keep in force the order requiring the rationing of manu and mixed gas when utility coal stocks fall before three weeks supply and the require ment that electric companies pool Turn to Page 11 Column 4 Please S report would contain documents I intended to show that Generalis simo Francisco Franco collaborat ed actively with the Axis powers during the war Some of the docu ments already have been publish ed in the State departments white book on Spain but the new report was expected to contain additional information A Paris dispatch said Dr Jose premier of the Spanish by plane this afternoon with evidence to be submitted to the subcommit tee He was to arrive in Now York tomorrow ACTRESS TO WED NEW YORK May 11 Louise Albritton 25 motion pic ture actress and Charles C Col lingwood 28 radio commentator of Washington D obtained a marriage license today They said they plan to be married Monday at the Little Church Around the Corner Miss Albritton lives in Wichita Falls Womans Life Said Is womans life harder than mans Women have always said so and now apparently theyve men into thinking so too accord ing to a nationwide Gallup poll completed just before Mothers question asked Generally speaking whose life is more dif a mans or a womans The national vote showed 54 per cent saying womans life was harder 24 per cent believing men had the most difficult life and 22 per cent with no opinion A breakdown of the poll show ed that 61 per cent of the women questioned believed they had the worse lot only 16 per cent said mans life was more difficult and 1 per cent had no opinion Of men reporting 47 per cent said womans life was harder 30 per cent mans and 23 per cent no opinion HOLDS MASS INITIATION the barren slopes of Stone Mountain near c7 Members of the Ku Klux Klan initiated approximately new members according and Atlanta physician who heads the Klan A fiery cross rir amnn r buins atop the granite mount and four smaller crosses lighted the ceremony Several thousand spec tators lined the mountainside to watch LAP Expert watch repair one service Kings Jewelry The Weather WEST TEXAS Partly cloudy warmer in Panhandle and South Plains Sunday Monday partly cloudy and warmer NEW Partly cloudy Sunday and Monday scattered showers north colder northwest Sunday high Sunday 5565 north 7080 south recorded On during U 1 m 2 W 3 m 4 R ro m 38 38 39 38 38 6 a m 7 a m S m 38 40 42 9 m 10 m 11 IL m 6 12 N 53 low t p m 2 m 3 p m 4 n 5 p m 6 p m 7 P m fi p a P m 10 p m II 56 58 63 83 63 60 s 54 W 50 12 M clal Texas Experiment station In 24 3re 6 p m
