Avalanche-Journal (Newspaper) - July 13, 1947, Lubbock, Texas Weather In First On The South Plains LUBBOCK Sunrise Edition The Last Word In News Vol 21 No 45 40 Pages Today Lubbock Texas Sunday July 13 1947 Price 5 Cents AP Means Associated Press Two Men Arrested In Atom Bomb Probe Senate Vote On Tax Set Monday WASHINGTON July 12 Re publican sponsors failed in an effort to ram the non income tax cul through al a night Senate session tonight and final action put off Morr d a y A vote as arranged in an mal gentlemens be tween leaders of Democratic and Republican parties The GOP leadership once turn ed down such an accepted it later after Democratic Loader Barkley of Kentucky told them he believed President Tru man will veto Ihe measure prompt ly without wail ins usual ten nay 5 Demo Leader HiU Barkley in giving his ideas of what will do shout ed that he was astonished that some Republicans apparently fear ed thai either Senate Democrats or Mr Truman would in some kind of chicanery 1o de lay adjournment of Congress July 26 That adjournment goal is bound up in the action on the tax meas ure The President can if ho de sire wait len count ing the lime he the and the time ho gives it his promised veto Delay in acting on the would cut the time for a vole to override close it the President took the full ten days With the Informal agreement accepted the Senate recessed si p m C S Tj till noon Mon riny Are Debated The decision came after nearly ien hours of debate during which eight amendments by Senator Morse including one to postpone the effect of the tax cut for al least a year past next Jan j were turned down Si ill lo be acted upon was the amendment by Sen ator McClellan DArk to extend socalled community properly ben m taxpayers of all the McClellan claimed support of at least 26 senators for his amendment to give taxpayers in all slates the benefits now enjoy ed in community properly states He read 1hc names of all states that would benefit listed the Turn to Page 12 Column 5 Please EUROPEAN AID MEETING Foreign Minister Carola Sforza right addresses the opening session of the economic conference in Paris attended by 16 European nations to discuss the Marshall plan Britains Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin left and Ambassador to France Alfred Duff Cooper second from left listen to address fAP Wirephoto via radio from K Truman To Ask Control Program WASHINGTON July 12 Thr White House to i floor control in unruly waters from Iho to tho Appa President iil Charles O President Truman recommend the visl program m ft special to Congress next week Senator Murray told a reporter if we want to do a ft pro pram be Advocates of the proposed Mis 5n Valley Authority voiced con lot the presidential sell erne this power flood and despite Mr Trumans assurance at a Thurs Mrv news conference that he still MVA Murray said he While Mouse assurances however the new plan will MVA MR ihc way i tho problems of a river Thr Presidents will linos recognize that terrible cannot lie led by levees Iho main he lie European Aid Talks Opened By JOSEPH E DYNAN Associated Pros Staff Writer PARIS July France and Italy lold the opening ses sion of the Marshall plan confer ence today that Russia and the absent Eastern European nations still would be welcome to help in a effort to rebuild a economy Moreover British Foreign Sec Ernest Bevin declared the conference was not intended to set up a permanent organization rival ling Ihe United Nations He said the conference members remained loyal to the and wanted to work in the fullest cooperation with appropriate organs Bevin also pledged the resources i held right now Demos Moke Impressive Gains In Voting Demos Retain Lead Over GOPs In Poll EDITORS NOTE Thin In thr third of n of on It lo IlT nf PRINCETON N July L The Democratic party has made impressive gains in voting strength in recent months While Alf M Landon recently declared that Republicans stand a better than 2tol chance to elect the next president a survey by Ihe Institute finds that a sizable majority of voters say they would cast their ballots for the Demo cratic parly not the Republican if a presidential election were Plains Among Worlds Top Cotton Areas By H I KIEFER Staff Writer AN unchallenged position year as one of the worlds great cotton producing areas was indicated for the South Plains Sat by an analysis Ihe latest cotton acreage estimates of the U S Department ot Agriculture Although the 18 Caprock coun ties in this section have an aggre gate area less than square which only about are planted in cot the prospects are that they wiil produce approximately onefourth of the Texas cotton crop approximately 30 per cent of the nations crop and about per cent oC the world crop These estimates probably are conserva tive Final figures could be even higher According to the Agriculture de estimate approximately acres in Texas and acres in the United Stales are planted in cotton this year Acres Planted The federal department did not report a breakdown as to acreage in the Caprock counties but the latest Co es timate is somewhat more than 2 per cent of the slate total rind nearly 10 per cent oC the area reported for the nation The departments estimate of the was bales no figures being shown for the However the long range record control of Congress to the licans has been something of major political feat The question j stale or this area now is whether the gains will However the k The partys course is traced in i shows that the average Ihe following lable showing the ot cotton per acre on Ihe Caprock trend of sentiment on the substantially above that for lion i Texas as a whole and If a presidential election were larger than the national average The acreage and produc ot the British commonwealth in sofar as Ihe government can influence the task oC European rehabilitation Bovin President Statesmen from IB European na tions met for an hour in the gilded grand banquet hall of the French foreign ministry They elected Bevin presiding officer and named a working committee which im mediately began a study of Ihe draft for European recovery American aid The conference was called by Brilain and France after Russia declined to have to do with Ihc Marshal plan enunciated by Ihc United Stales Secretary of Stale at Harvard university June 5 i The plan briefly envisions i American aid In Europe after the nf have decided i how farthey can help themselves land just what help they will need j from the United States Soviet Russia charged Ihal this would moan interference in the I independence of the European countries and she held aloof with neighbors However the red hammer and flag of the Soviet and Ihc banners nf the absent countries flew in Iho con ference hall wilh those of the dele gates present Observers saw this as emphasis on the lo Page 12 Column n Please I The Irene of events in the next twelve months may substantially alter the situation But as of this dale the Democratic party runs about as strongly as it did in the last presidential election Its come back from the low point of last November when the parly lost being held today which party would you vote for the Demo cratic or Republican Majority Vole Dem T RiD lull Ml W 47 1IM7 BO fin 51 May 57 The latest compares with British Warn Search To Start For Men Missing In Palestine July 12 uil rs announced 1o thai martial law and an m nvh in the area around town of Natanya it daun un Ur kid iml today arc re tiv by time A source said Mayor ed Ben Am of Natanya had notified by underground Jewish fight ihc two men taken is for throe Irgun members held under drain sen not be returned Ami conferred wilh J V H Moore British military reported that y derided lo srl AII I i1 rings JM up Kings Adv per cent in lection the 1944 presi when the late Tune In 1340 Kc Station Two Men Are Held After Wild Chase Ends In Wreck In City Two men were placed in counly jail about 1 a m today after nn rmn nf them was driv ing crashed into a Irce at the end of street nl Avenue X The car just prior to the final hurl an mobile on Nineteenth siren while lho mrm from officers who hail chased them from the Y on South Avenue H Neither of Ihc pair was injur ed said J D Robertson and A H nf the constables depart ment whn made the Charges probably will be filed lo lay The automobile was heavily Britain Assails Egyptian Stand LAKE SUCCESS July British officials charged today that was attempting to break a legal treaty in H move ensure complete dominance over the Sudan The disclosed this would be Ihe principal argument to the demand for United Nations Security Council action to force total and im mediate withdrawal of British from and the Sudan To Answer Charges These sources said Sir Alex ander Britains chief delegate was prepared to answer Ihr Egyptian complaint with a counterdemand that it be tossed out of Ihe council on the grounds that it is not justified The Egyptian complaint which grew out of failure to revise the 193fi AngloEgyptian treaty which expires in is not expected to be taken up by the Security Council for at least one and pos sibly two weeks because of a heavy crush of work including the Balkan establishment of an international police force dis armament and control of atomic energy President Roosevelt defeated Thomas Dewey and with per cent in 1940 when Roosevelt beat Wendell Willkie In analyzing the Democrats to day two factors must be taken into the basic strength of the party and C2 the popularity of President Truman The presidential popularity index based on the you approve or disapprove of the way Mr Truman is handling his job as a widely fluctu ating almost mercurial index re changes oC opinion on daytoday events or state ments In a short period of two years for example Mr Trumans persona popularity as measured by Hint index has gone from 87 per cent down to 32 per cent and back up to 54 per cent which is tion records are the basis for the expectations that the ratio oC yield on the South Plains will be higher than for acreage in both the state and nation World Crop of 25 Million Cotton authorities here said they were without definite in formation as to world ever records recent years indi cate a world crop of around bales including that of the United States Authorities emphasize that noth ing is more uncertain than to try lo a probable cotton crop this far in advance Conditions Turn to Page 12 Column 3 Please the figure today The Institutes Index of party Rep Mansfield Is Death Victim WASHINGTON July 12 Rep Joseph Jefferson Mansfield Texas Democrat and at Sfi the old est member of Congress died I early today He will be buried nt take j after services in Columbus at 3 p m Tuesday Brief services probably will be held in Voters Approve Measures to 1 School Bond Issue Tax Boost Okayed BY majorities of almost three to one voters of Lubbock Inde pendent School district stamped approval on propositions to the school tax rain limit to and to issue in bonds Cor buildings equipment and im to the school system The results For the tax rule against the tax rate increase 60 For the issuance of bonds 43fl against the issuance of bonds Mil The unofficial returns released at the school district business of fice last night showed that ap proximately 615 persons voted in were the election A few ballots voided The Board oC Trustees will meet Tuesday night if a quorum of members can be present to can the votes Chairman H L Allen said last night If a quorum be present Tuesday then the meeting will be Wednesday night Several members are out of town and it is it known ex when will Al len explained on Iho official can vass generally only n formality are boosts in teachers salaries here for the term The hoard al a meeting approved the increases subject to approval by ihc voters of the rate increase The board al ils next meeting also plans to take steps toward early issuance and sale of the bonds at an interest rate not ex three per cent Allen said Voting during the day at Ihe throe polling places was generally iTurn to Page 12 Column ti Please SUSPECT HELD IN CASE Sen Bricker Unharmed In Shooting Affray In Capital w By EDWIN B HAAKINSON Associated Staff Inly 12 Two pistol shots missed Senator Bricker today on Capitol Hill and police arrested a dis charged c a p i t o 1 policeman on charges of assault with intent to kill the senator The accused William L Kaiser calmly and cryptically toid police and newspapermen I did it to refresh his inem Explode With Everything But Long Filibuster In Game FOREST SAID DESTROYED LONDON July 12 for rest o cedars van ished without a trace in the ex plosion of the SikhoteAlin me fell in Ihe Siberian mountains northeast of Vladivostok early Ibis year Tass tonight from Alma Ata Soviet republic AID PLAN MAY YET SUCCEED Say Soviets Are Failing In Effort To Block Aid By JOHN M Associated Press Staff WASHINGTON July 32 with ity once Kril veto power in world affairs much js it in trying lo split pm for recovery of Thr will BO through to the fullest possible without nnd in spite of threats and protests it was said here There is speculation even in ihn run will bo unable to huid their own eastern bloc in line The Russians appear to have won an empty said one official Surprising new evidence that the Soviels FIS well as may be be In way seen in an of reports Ihal Russia bloc coun tries would like to share in Ameri can assistance to Europe despite their boycott of the Marshall plan at Paris This sudden and very significant turn of events found to Page it Column i Please to 12 Column 4 Please Washington tomorrow 1 For the past 25 years was serving his 16th term oC office in the been confined to a wheelchair by para lysis But the illness which ultimately caused his never kepi him from work Until a few days afio when he was taken to Naval hos W R Spencer Dies Late Saturday Mrs W Sixteenth R Spencer of 2121 resident of Lubbock pital he showed up regularly at his office Death resulted from a circula tory ailment Known to his friends as the the Texas congressman served for 60 years in public of oC that time as a rep in Congress His dis included the city oC ton Between 1931 and 1947 while the Democratic party controlled Congress he served as chairman oC the House Rivers and Harbors committee He was considered an expert on to Page 12 Column 7 Please J A Barton Pioneer Resident Is Claimed 35 years died in West Texas hos pital at p m Saturday She had been a patient in the hospital about three weeks Funeral services are to be con ducted at 4 p m Monday in the First Presbyterian church Dr J M Lewis officiat ing Burial will be in cemetery in the family plot Rix Funeral home has charge of ar Mrs Spencer was the widow of I he W R Spencer who was appointed in 1912 as first judge of the 72nd district court here by Goy Jim Hogg They came to and Mr Spencer look over tho of the newly created district Survivors include a sister Mrs 1 H Gambrell of Dallas four nieces Mrs Holloway and Mrs C M Henry oC Dallas Mrs Jim Bone of Fort Worth and Mrs Percy Spencer nf 1643 Thir four nephews Roderick J A Barton 73 of Avenue and Gumbrel of retired former and operator of Butler and Howard the Barton House and pioneer ens hoh of Temple two great resident of this county died nt nieces Mrs Martha Lingle and oclock last night in West Mrs Caroline Nichols of Austin Texas hospital where he had been and a John William j a patient a week He became ill about 30 days ago Mr Barton came to Lubbock county in 1908 Oklahoma settling in the Groves ville community in the northwest part ofthe county He moved to Lubbock in 1922 and about six months Inter opened the Barton House a hole nt 1304 Avenue L He was a member of Ihc First church here Survivors include Iho widow sons Raymond nl Sulphur Springs and of Lubbock Iwo brothers Mark Barton bock and Will Barton o Winter haven and four grand children Plans for funeral services are incomplete Sanders Funeral home has charge of arrangements BY ARTHUR Stuff WASHINGTON July Sparked by a 200foot homerun by Bop Glenn Davis publicans won the Congres Baseball Game today 1613 The Republican landslide came in Ihe fifth They went into that inning trailing 711 But Rep Donald Jackson P whacked out a single that brought in a couple of runs Then Davis who has been a congressman for only three months strode to the plate with two men on The fellow on the loud speaker reminded the crowd that whoever got the longest blow in this inning would win a washing machine gift of a local electrical firm Solon Cots Hit Undoubtedly nf Mondays wash Davis laid in to one As it floated over sec ond in came Rep Cooley D NC who had been stationed in Cooley and the ball passed each other without so much as a nod of tion about ISO feet from home plate Davis puffed around as If he had that washer tied to one foot but he mode it The Republicans were ahead for keeps and the fans contributing to a local police boys fund had their biggest thrill Just lo show you what kind of it was twice runners stole bases only to find them occupied already And any one who gently lapped Ihe ball was quite likely lo be second base The umpires had the right ides Rep Albert DOkla who is 5 feet ft and weighs Turn lo Page 12 Column H Please ory Tho shooting set Ihr capital in i during Ihe midst of an unusual Saturday session of Ihc It took placo in lhr sub way linking Ihe wilh the Semite office building Carried To Safely Bricker was carried to safely by the little monorail subway car as it rounded a bend of the shooters range The lican vice presidential candidate and a companion crouched behind one of the cars seats as it slowly got underway Bricker apparently told reporters that Knisfr blamed him for losses in a building and loan association at Columbus about Ifi years ago Records show that was a police of his predecessor Huffman D Bricker lold a questioner that he had nothing to do with Kaiser losing this job last April Kaiser was arrested by metro police several hours after Ihe shooting and many blocks from the capital at a setts avenue address Police at Precinct No 1 booked him on charges of assault with intent to kill Thought Shoin Wero and two others who were in Ihe line of gunfire at first thought the shots were blanks but Semite Sergeant at Arms Edward F McGinnis said after Kaisers ar rest that the gun contained live ammunition Bricker said he believed the shots were blanks because he did not hoar any bullets ulrike Later capital police found nicks in Ihe wall nnd on a pipe may have been caused by The Ohioan said it was Ihe first lime had boon under firo He i served as a Chaplain in World War 1 I Kaisor was quickly identified j by Bricker and 1 H Macomber of Ihn slaff of the Senate I and Jerry Al Turn 1o Page 12 Column 2 Please Spencer of Lubbock Philip Murray Openly Defies Section Of Law WASHINGTON July 12 President Philip Murray of the CIO personally defied the act by endorsing Ed ward A nl Baltimore lor Congress in a Maryland district elcc lion Tuesday Seeking court test of Ihe act Murray directed that his state ment be printed on page 1 of the CtO News Monday The law for bids expenditures including comment in news connection with federal elections PLANE FLIGHT SET WASHINGTON July 12 President Trumans new plane the Independence will leave here at a m EST tomorrow on its first official flight Inking Dwight and half a doz en members of his mis sion lo Athens BRICKER PROJECT NOT ABANDONED Highway Project For Lubbock County Threatened By Delays THF city and county are allowed for Ihal purpose The ened wilh the loss of two years ended last June 3D Charges Filed After Missing Data Is Found BY EUGENE B DODSON Associated Press Staff July VV agents late today two former Army sergeants ne of taking atomic bomb dor of them said to be lop the lji Va mos N M The FBI making Ihc told recovering the docu ments and photographs of he various phases of the Abomb from a variety of dents room at Princeton univer sity a wall safe in Pennsylvania and a photography studio m en go Two Men Identified The two men were identified of as Alexander von rier Luft 23 at his home in Mt Lebanon Pa Earnest D 34 of Cli cago He was arrested at his Photography stu dio Chicago While FBI agents reserved com ment on this phase informed gov officials said no was uncovered thai any of the documents were by besides Ihe two Lou Nichols KB public lions officer told reporters that information uncovered by invest indicated no connection between these boys and foreign agents or foreign Charge Said He said the FBI agents this in a preliminary in before Ihe two men interviewed After it was established to Yne satisfaction of the agents that there were no foreign connec Nichols said the mer questioned directly and searches disclosing ihc notes files and photographs were marie In Santa Fe N U S Com missioner Albert complaints were filed before him this afternoon p m EST charging von dor Luft and with wilfully and moving and concealing records and documents in violation of SAC tion 23 Title 13 U S criminal code This seel ion covers removal and concealment of classified ments The offense upon a penally of a of not more than or not more ran three years imprisonment or both Von rier Luft will be before the U S commissioner at Pittsburgh the Wallis will be arraigned before the U S commissioner at The FBI explained that no charged could be filed under hi atomic energy act since the of fenses occurred prior to it The Justice department said Turn o Page 12 Column 1 And Idalou Youths Die in Crash OLNEY July 13 Special Two South Plains youths killed and two injured here a m this morning when 1941 Ford convertible coupe in which they were riding crashed headon into a Bowen bound for Lubbock The accident oc curred about five miles past c Olney Reported killed were Beverly Biff Brown about 21 son of Mr and Clyde Brown of Level land and Deward Kimbrill about 20 of Route 1 Injured and in Hamilton hos pital here for treatment were Bob Fowler about 20 son of Mr and Mrs John Fowler of Memphis and Loeper 2 son of Mr L S Evil I of Lorenzo All were reported to be former Tech students Brown having worked in the college book store Jast semester Kimbrill was reported hive been killed instantly having uf feied a crushed chest who was reported to have had head and neck injuries died rouli to the hospital in an amoux lance The bodies Mc Cracken Funeral Home early to day The car in which the young rion were riding was said to bo toward Fort Worth the bus toward Lubbock None of the passenger in Ihe bus were said hurt by the im pact which demolished the car Highway officials were inves Lady Elgin 19J 24 din piat rase Kings 1020 with the loss of of the money allocated by the State Highway department Iwo years ago for the high way dispersal system it was dis closed Saturday Actually uncording lo District Highway Engineer S McCarty lie money already has been wilh Hrawn from the Lubbock pro and has been reallocated elsewhere in the slate The funds were withdrawn it was explained because way tar the various projects were not secured within the two years two years ended last June 30 The district engineer was of the opinion however thai funds lor the work will lie restored if and the city and have obtained lor tho various projects include work or Avenues A and Q for obtaining a res of Ihe funds were be to have been brightened considerably as tho result of a conference of city county and dis highway officials sponsored by the committee of to Pasc 12 Column G The Weather LUBBOCK AND VICINITY Partly cloudy lodny nnd nnt chango in temperatures t O r to n m 10 n in n in s in n m n ni n ni 31 if in in 96 minimum
