Evening Journal (Newspaper) - March 12, 1948, Lubbock, Texas WESTERN ALLIES OKAY TREATY Senate Tax Plan Is Drafted n GOP Leaders Hope To Gain Demo Backing Amount Of House Cut Is Trimmed About 2 Billion IBT TW WASHINGTON March 12 Senate Republican leaders lined up today behind s income tax cut hoped for strong Democratic support The Senate finance committee voted 10 to 1 last night for a tax slash of that size In so it whittled from the lax passed overwhelmingly by the House February 2 Demo Support The purpose of the Senate strat egy is to try to win enough Demo cratic votes to pass a over the presidential veto the Republicans expect That would take a two thirds majority in both the Sen ate and House Except for one major change which trimmed the amount of the rut the Senate measure is prac the same as the House The Senate provides for per centage tax cuts ranging from per cent for those with net in comes of up to per cent on incomes of from to 719 and 5 per cent on incomes over HOUM Reductions The range of House reduc tions is 30 per cent on incomes up to 30 to 20 per cent be tween and 20 per cent between to and per cent on the first and 10 per cent on the rest In all cases these cuts are ap plied to income after deductions and exemptions Chairman of the Senate finance committee said per cent of the tax relief pre vided by the Senate would go to persons making or less deductions but before per sonal exemptions The House would five 7 LSI cent of the cut to those earning less than Of Billi Under both the Senate and j House bills j 1 The cut would be effective as of last January 1 2 The personal exemption for each taxpayer and each dependent would be increased from to 3 Husbands and wives in all states could split their income for tax purposes This now can be done only in the 12 socalled com TAX 0 of Associated and Leased Wire Service URNAL JP Means By Associated Press By United Press VOL 24 NO 132 LUBBOCK TEXAS The Hub The FRIDAY MARCH 12 1948 Teachers Gather In Schools Place In Building Of Defenses Told IV Texas Voting Record Looms By The Associated Texans apparently intend to give polling places a stiff workout this election year A check of 16 counties reveals at least qualified maybe more Some did not report exemptions claimed and other esti mated the country vote might arid 1300 to to the known total Records Are Set Dallas Harris and Hundreds Present As Meeting Opens This Afternoon By OPAL DIXON Journal Writer Schools can help build defense for an abiding peace and con help students to live in a world which even without war has its complex aspects of modern living Dr A J Stoddard superintendent of Philadelphia and widely known educator told West Texas Teachers association this after noon Dr Sloddard spoke at the open ing general session of the annual meeting of the association n Senior High school auditorium Willard E Goslin president of the American Association of School Administrators and dent of Minneapolis schools is to speak at tonights concluding gen cral at oclock in the school auditorium Sectional meet ings were being held this after noon Charles Tennyson repre senting the Texas State Teachers association is to speak on Texas Tidelands tonight Floyd Honey Presides The auditorium was packed to overflowing for this afternoons general session An estimated persons were seated and stand ing in the auditorium and outside in halls Floyd Honey Lubbock High IK of Ihe association are meeting in Lubbock today in their annual Pictured above are leaden of the association with Dr A J Stoddard superintendent of schools Philadelphia who ii one of the principal Bi ihe convention In ihe lefl to right are Frank Monroe Midland superintendent im mediate past president Floyd Honey Lubbock president Dr Stoddard and Roy Boyd Lubbock county school superintendent and state executive committee member Staff Military Pad For 50 Years To Be Signed Five Notions Will Act For Defense If One Attacked By The Press BRUSSELS March 12 Five western European powers headed by Britain and France approved today an unprecedented 50year draft treaty ol military alliance designed to halt the westward march of Communism Radio Moscow immediately at tacked the treaty asserting it either legal force or authority because the people of the countries con cerned were not The pact binds Britain France Belgium the Netherlands and Lux embourg to throw ail their mili tary power in battle if any one of the countries Is attacked oy an outside force May Join The pact is looked upon as the foundation of an eventual western Council of Churches declared European union stretching from flatly that the world is in the u Truman Says Faith In World Peace Is Receiving Beating Administration Plan Drafted For Coming To Grips With Worlds Crisis WASHINGTON March Truman today pit ted this full political power and prestige against the spread of Communism China At the same time a administration plan began to emerge a plan for coming to grips with what Secretary of State Marshall considers a great crisis in the world Within a few hours of each otter both the President and his Secretary of State spoke out with extraordinary frankness on the state of affairs from the bitter conflict between Russia and western powers For the publicly the chief executive admitted that his faith in the attainment of a real world peace has been somewhat shaken He said so at a White House news conference late yes Marshall appearing last night before a meeting of the Federal school principal and president of the association presided Dr Stoddard discussing plans for his address this morning said the function of the schools these days more than in ordinary to do everything pos sible to help strengthen the de fenses of a Democracy Because of world condition which have fol lowed the war there is consider able uncertainty as to whether an abiding peace can be built I Schools are one of the agencies that can help answer that ques tion Can Slep Up Teaching In the first he said we can step up our teaching of the American way of life and help our people young and old under stand and treasure that He See TEACHERS MEET Page 6 Grandmother Suing Hubby For Divorce LOS ANGELES March 12 Katherine Devin 66 ana a Lubbock I grandmother was granted a di Jury Deciding Meyers Fate WASHINGTON March 12 federal court jury today be gan deliberating the fate of Maj Gen is subordination of per jury The jury received the case at a m EST an hourlong charge from Federal Judge Alexander Holtzoff The retired 52yearold officer is charged with persuading Bleriot H Lamarre to lie to a congres committee in order to con ceal the generals alleged profits from a wartime subcontracting SPEEDY PASSAGE IS FORECAST Marshall Plan Up For Final Battles firm Jury Instructed Boy Prisoner Years Says He Was Kept Tied Up Holtzoff instructed the jury of LOS ANGELES March 12 A 60yearold woman admitted today she kept an abandoned boy a prisoner for 11 years but said she was trying to protect him from counties reported record strength voting The other 13 counties reported high totals In Harris the states big gest population center with Hous ton as the hub there are at least people who can vote this year Of these paid poll taxes claimed exemptions Harris countys previous record was set in 1944 when there were eligible voters There are Dallas county people who can enter the election See TEXAS VOTING Page 8 vorce after telling the judge hei husband kept dates grandmother one with seven grandchildren She related in superior court yesterday how she listened in over an extension on a telephone conversation between her hus band Walter 51 and the other woman referred to in testimony only as She said she heard her husband say Kit hasnt caught on Then Mrs Devin added she in and said Youre mistaken I have caught Weath er WEST TEXAS Fair 1101 quite sn cold thb and Temper atures 3C 10 28 Panhandle tad South Plains and 28 to 32 elsewhere Saturday lair and warmer TEXAS not suite bo cold and sn and west IB 21 in Ut to j In M 10 In Kin vnl f on ruArt in afternoon Mod 10 northerly winds on Liu and variable by Saturday EXTENDED FORECAST Gull Northeast Texas Temperatures will 3 to 5 below normal Cold Friday with trend SatI Sunday and In western Louisi ana Cooler Wednesday Precipita tion in and north ern Louisiana and moderate elsewhere Sunday In South Texas Fri day and Saturday coast and southwest Louisiana Mon day Texas west of the Gull Plains Tem will average 2 to 4 decrees normal trend Friday nicht Saturday and Sunday cooler Monday or Little or no precipita tion Indicated readings recorded 0 8 Bunau Municipal D p m 9 p p p p p m n a m 16 a m 15 a m 11 Sun Bride Of Two Days Is Facing Execution ATHENS March 12 ff He was a guard at the Tripolis prison She was a guerrilla who was to be executed two days ago Gendarme N eloped with Helen Nicolaou They were captured by the army yesterday Greek officials said he prob ably will be She will be executed 10 men and two women they must not draw any unfavorable infer ence from the defendants fail ure to take the witness stand During the trial the former air force procurement officer did not testify in his own defense or call any witness in his behalf Holtzoff told the jurors that a defendant has the privilege of taking the But the judge continued he is under no obli gation to Quick Expected A verdict was expected by night fall The court reviewed the indict ment which charges in three counts that Lamarre falsely testi See MEYERS FATE Page 6 Trips To Dentist Become Pleasure LOS ANGELES Marcl 12 harmless pill will take away all your iear to that trip to the dentist Two dentists promised to day that if you take the pijl a mild barbiturate when you leave the house you can walk fearlessly into the of fice Drs Milton Levine and Rob ert Hoyt of While Memorial hospitals institute of experi mental medicine said the pill prevents fear and eliminates cf the pain of having filled They said they had eliminated the rest of the pain through a new painless technique of injecting anes thetic Ths new treatment was tast ed successfully on more than 200 patients in the last two years Trips to the be came a pleasure instead of a horror for both adults and children Iho said John Jos eph was found collapsed on a curb Wednesday He weigh ed only 48 pounds Kept Him Starved He told police that two wo men had kept him starved beaten and tied to a chair for years only corn meal and potato peelings to eat he said Miss Marie Clavey nurse and former nursery school op denied she mistreated John She said she and her companion Josephine Vella 58 fed him all he ould I never sent him to school nor allowed him to play with other children because he is mentally retarded and I was trying to protect him from so she told police Tied Him To Bed He tried to run away many we tied him to his bed at night He has been ill ever since he was left with She said she got John from his unmarried mother in 1937 when she was operating a nur sery never saw the mother again she said Juvenile authorities said John WES severely from malnutrition They said he seemed bright for a child who had been to school Several Reported As Injured In Plenties HOUSTON March 12 Several persons were reported in jured in a fire that broke out a a m today in the northwest section of the Humble Oil and Re fining companys Baytown plant The injured were taken to the oil companys hospital inside their plant and it could not be learned 1 iBy Tlic United WASHINGTON March Sen James P Kenri told the Senate today that the Marshall plan means permanent price con trol and high Americans He spoke as Republican revis ionists opened a fight to trim the plan Even their lead ers predicted the effort would fail Senate leaders aimed for pas sage of the European recovery program tonight or tomorrow Barrage Of Speeches Kem led off a barrage of losu minute speeches mainly in oppo sition to the self help program for western Europe He said ERP would lull the American people into a false sense of and would not stop the westward march of Commu nism Meanwhile Sen Robert A Taft said after a meeting of his Senate Republican policy committee he hopes the House will not insist on tacking military aid lor China to the recovery program the Arctic to the Mediterranean It is hoped that many of the 16 Marshall plan nations meeting in Paris next Monday will subscribe to the treaty Exact provisions of the new pact were not disclosed A communi que said only that it would in elude clauses covering economic social cultural and mutual assist ance The pieL will be signed by the foreign ministers of the five coun tries next week in Brussels and each government will make pub lic the substance of the treaty Ihc communique said Record Believed Set The conference speeded by the Communist coup in Czechoslovak ia and events in Finland agreed on the treaty in which was believed to set a record for a pact of such farreaching import ance Delegates met first on March 4 and finished their work today af ter a few final iron ed out The conference ended at a m and the delegates emerged from the conference room in a gay mood laughing and chatting ai they stepped outside into the brilliant sunshine of a warm spring day v British Delegate Jebb said he was leaving by air today for London Other delegates said they too were speeding tarie sometime during the day to pre sent the treaty draft to their gov To Sign Wednesday Twenty photographers filed in tothe conference room just before the session ended to take pictures of the delegates at work on their historic task It was generally believed the See MILITARY PACT Unified Policy To Be Sought KEY WEST March 32 Secretary James For sign affairs committee voted yes to do just that against ad ministration Make No Difference But Taft said even if the House should uphold this action it would riot make much difference in the timetable of the ERP The policy committee laid out a schedule today to complete ac tion on all aid including economic and military aid to The of the armed forces met in Presi dent Trumans Little White House here today to work out a unified policy on air power Three plane loads of the na tions top military leaders arrived at p m yesterday from Wash ington The conferees will enjoy the same seclusion which has made the naval base here Mr Trumans favorite vacation spot The Little White House was off and marine of a great by propaganda misunderstanding anger and The President was in the audi ence and heard Marshall couple with his pronouncement of crisis and appeal for moderation calm thinking and cool judgment on the part of the American people Mr Truman himself had said earlier that Americans should be careful not to let their passions get the better of them before they know ail the facts Out of the Presidents news con ference comments and Marshalls brief speech came the pattern of administration policy for meeting the crisis Officials expect that crisis to reach a climax first and most di in the Italian political cam See TRUMAN Page 6 SEVERAL TOWNS IN AREA SHAKEN Doors And Windows Rattle As Quake Hits Texas Panhandle By The Associated Press BORGER March 12 A shock described by an E Paso seismo graph operator as the strongest near earthquake ever recorded in El Paso shook the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles last night The earthquake began at and lasted for 10 minutes the Rev A J the El Paso seismograph operator reported The tremor was felt in Dalhart Borger Clarendon Adrian Mem phis and Amarillo It rattled doors and windows and shook the bars in the Potter county jail at Amarillo Jack Roberts of radio station here said Sheriff Hugh An derson reported the tremor rattled bottles ol photographic fluid in his office Anderson said no explosion had been reported No injuries were known to have resulted from the quake Roberts said Mrs O K Pollack in Electric City telephoned him and reported the tremor came in two distinctive waves there She said it caused the her home to tremble back Wayne Phelps station manager said he and his wife ran from their Borger residence for tear the building would collapse The tremor apparently lasted only a few seconds and Roberts said Mrs Pollack was the only reporting two shocks CROP LIVESTOCK DAMAGE CAUSED Sun Chases Frigid Wave Out Of State Relief Is Due n Cold Wave By The Texas snapped back rapidly to day from a recordbreaking March cold wave which left a yet un counted toll of damage to live stock and crops Temperatures were from 10 to 18 degrees higher last night in the Panhandle first to feel the frigid alast out of the Rocky mountain states early this week Sunshine was general this morning except By The Pressi Residents over most of the na proved before the April Ital ian elections There were these other develop ments 1 Democratic Leader Alben Barkley said he was confi dent that ERP would be approved with As Forrestal put it the purpose of the meeting was to decide who does what with what The session was held away from Washington he said so the of could get away from tele phones roll up their sleeves and without in said he was ready for a night ses sion to pass the or clear the See MARSHALL PLAN Page 6 Film Agreement In Britain Is LONDON March 12 agreement was signed today end ins Hollywoods ban on movie shipments to Britain the United States film industrys main for eign market The effective for four years beginning June 14 pro vides for the lifting of the 75 per cent lax that Britain clamped on Forrestal made it clear that he would do the settling himself if the army navy and air force of themselves were unable to agree The meeting was held on the heels of a statement by Rep Carl Hinshaw that the coun try would be amazed and horri fied to know that the military chiefs have no unified plan for in the extreme south and wanner tion east of the Rocky mountains weather was forecast I today were forced to look at then Low Of 10 Here I calendars rather than their ther Last nights low temperature of for that 10 degrees higher spring is only a few days away than Wednesdays low at Pampa and recorded at The calenders said March 12 but the thermometers reflected Jan Childress Wichita Falls and temperatures from the 33 de I gree recording at Lake Charles Pampa was 18 degrees warmer the 15 reading at with a reading of 12 above Fair and wanner was the forecast for today in Lubbock and vicinity and the temperature was rising rapidly this morning From to a the tempera ture rose and from the 1 at Dodge to the 35 at Atlanta Share Dubious Honors Cadillac and Iowa City la dubious honors of hav 30 a m the tempera ing the coldest temperatures in the from 12 degrees to 24 it was 12 at Burlington degrees Temperature was vt n at Findlay 9 at Grand ed to go above freezing for the first time since Tuesday night Damage Is Unknown This mornings minimum in Lubbock of 10 degrees higher Forks N 8 at St Joseph and Quincy and 7 at Erie Binghamton N and Syracuse N Y The weather said the iWi li JJU defense Ho said military leaders I Clouds last night saved the were frittering away the time lower Rio Grande valley from a j instead of preparing for the great forecast hard low of 32 than the expected minimum of temperatures would rise rapidly near zero was recorded at in the western a m and a m The extent of damage to bud ding fruit trees livestock field and vegetable crops by the hard freeze remained to be assessed but it was expected to be consid erable Texan Remembers His Promise In Will Hospital Kindness To Patient Worth a n n m 10 a ni 10 a a a a a p 48 p ni p i today at p sun at a m WASHINGTON March hospital kindness to a patient 13 years ago was worth to him today Richard N Dawson 62 now a handyman at a hos pital here took good care of Bound of Delaware Brown when was a patient in a Baltimore hospital in 1935 Yesterday Dawson learned from a Texas lawyer that had died leaving him Dawson who has worked in here arm elsewhere for 46 years was on the job as usual today at Providence hospital He was running a polishing ma chinc in a hall when a reporter found him But he calmly brushed aside questions until ho finished the work When this machine slops work ing so will he said Yes he said he remembered was a patient at Union Memorial hospital in Baltimore for two months Just before left he recalled the told him You have been very kind to the exact number injured nor the extent of their Iho of movies An employe Inside he lust UN that the fire broke out as a I measure new dewaxing unit was being put In return Hollywood agrees to into operation for the first time limit its dollar takings from Brit He said that a ground line ain whose economy is threatened tion broke spreading oil which was ignited Anderson Undecided About His Future WASHINGTON March 12 by a shortage of TO DEMAND INQUIRY LAKE SUCCESS N March 12 was reported ready today to demand formally n Unit ed Nations security council inves March 12 of the Czech communist f of Agriculture Clin coup Russias alleged role in ton P Anderson said today hehad j it not yet made up his mind whether to remain in the cabinet as Pres ident Truman desires or run for the Senate In his home state of New Mexico Anderson made the statement after a White House meeting with President Truman Anderson has announced earlier that he was considering making the Senate race The President Todays Collon Prices on the Lubbock spot col ton market today Middling middling me I will remember you in my I said that he hoped An See KINDNESS PAYS Page S derson would stay in tbe cabinet Pattern Kings adv 100 pc service 1847 Remembrance Gents Automatic Gruen watch Kings 1020 adv the freezing point was recorded at Brownsville in the extreme south Laredo higher up in the WEATHER 6 Victim Soys She Wos Subdued With Ether Negro Kidnaper Jailed After 22YearOld Girl Is Rescued By The United Press NEW YORK March 12 The pretty blonde daughter a Mc Keesport hotel owner was rescued today from a Brooklyn furnished room where police said she had been held captive by a negro kidnaper Wilfred Jenkins 23 the negro was arrested on charges ol kid diminutive Irene Papp 22 on March 10 in McKeesport The girl told police that Jen kins subdued her with ether then brought her to New York in her own expensive blue Her father Andrew Papp own er of the Third Avenue hotel in McKeesport notified New York police who found the couple Miss Papp told police Jenkins had not molested her Police said that Jenkins a sales man had confessed the abduc tion Miss Papp although unnerved by the ordeal was unharmed po lice said They would not allow her to talk to reporters In McKeesport the girls broth er Joseph said the kidnaping took place about 4 a m Wednesday Papp said he heard his sister screaming in front of the small hotel which the family operates GIRL RESCUED cold and higher tem prevail over the entire nation by tomorrow night The conditions which brought heavy snow to most of the middle west during the past few days has moved out to sea after dis highway rail and air trav el over a wide area Men Battle Elements The air force sent a helicopter to rescue six inen isolated in a oil field southeast of Great Bend See RELIEF DUE Page 6 One Pilot Is Killed As Planes Collide SANTA Ana March 12 Pilot Paul Haute to day nursed minor injuries from a plane crash on the ground teat killed one man and injured three others Mantz movie stunt pilot and 1947 Bendix trophy race winner was taxiing down the runway at Orange county airport last night when his plane collided with one coming in for a landing The other pilot Ernest L Me was killed Two women in his plane were hurt seriously Mantz 19yearold son Roy also was injured slightly la 1340 Kc
