Evening Journal (Newspaper) - September 7, 1948, Lubbock, Texas a Soviet Member EVENING One Detective Slain Another Kidnaped Nightlong Search Had Been Conducted f of of New Means detectives By The Prew a Sent 7 armed men sought for the slaying detective and the abduction of the assistant chief captured today following a nightlong search without a store in La about 60 miles northwest of here on highway 61 Gonzales is a few mUes from Hobart where released John J after abducting him from police headquarters here The officer said State Trooper L E Wright and Town Mar shal Red Burke of Gonzales made the No more details were available The two men are Dale Simpson 28 of Salt Lake City Utah fied by police as the killer of De Nicholas Jacob and H E Miller 23 a native of Monticello Miss Jacob was slain yesterday morning as he Detective Joseph Tardo Miller and Simpson were returning from Gulf port where they had arrested Miller on a theft charge sworn out by Simp son The complaint said Miller had taken in cash and a pistol irom Simpson while they were roommates at a downtown New Orleans hotel last week Tardo said the pistol with which me Jacob was later shot in the neck was returned empty to Simpson just before the quartet Bee KILLERS NABBED 10 c c MCDONALD May Be Temporary Chairman See Story To High TO TESTIFY PUBLICLY former Atom Bomb Director Quizzed Holiday Death Toll Is Near 400 Mark By Tho Press The nations death toll from accidents orer the long Labor day holiday mounted to near the 400 mark today jammed high ways In summers final ex weekend and traffic fatalities exceeded the estl mate of 280 made by iht Na Safety Council Traffic deaths totaled 271 from 8 p m local time Frl tU ii ght p and 52 others lost day until midnight Monday i Fiftyeight arsons were In other el causes The holiday weekend toll In Can was 35 including 15 and 14 ia Schools Here Enroll Enrollment in Lubbock public schools by 2 oclock this afternoon had passed as students at tended their first day of regular classwork of the 194849 school term All schools had reported their enrollment figures representing a total of students Figures By Schools Figures by schools were Senior High O L Slaton Junior High 507 J T Hutchlnson Junior High 690 Carroll Thompson Ju High 817 Roscoe Wilson George RJ Bean 513 Chris Har well 423 Dupre 373 243 Cottage 165 Hunt 375 Guad 101 K Carter 445 Mc 536 School for tional children 15 Sanders 526 East Broadway 449 Overton 136 Central Ward 310 Dunbar 620 R W Matthews superintendent said he had received some re quests for transfers into the Wil son district from other zones and he announced there can be no transfers into the Wilson school because each of the 15 available rooms in the school is already filled to capacity of about 40 students room Since the school al ready is on halfday session he it will not be possible to make any transfers into Roscoe Parents who would like for their children to be transfer red Wilson school into Overton or street schools in order to relieve crowd ed conditions in Wilson school may arrange for the transfers day In O L Slaton Junior High school all students are to report to the school auditorium at 8 a m PUBLIC SCHOOLS Page 10 Weather this afternoon to Not to in this afternoon EAST Generally fair this af tonight and Wednesday Not 10 warm In extreme northwest portion afternoon Moderate southeast windson the coast recorded oy O a Weather Bureau Municipal Airport p m 103 30 p m 100 30 p m 101 30 p m 8 30 p m 30 p m 30 p m p m p m m ao a m a m a m m m m 75 70 70 71 78 79 m m p ra 14 p m p m Sun at 7 p inn at By The Associated WASHINGTON Sept sessional spy investigators have enlisted Maj Gen Leslie R Groves attempt to find out wheth er Russia got away with any atomic bomb Rep McDowell RPa told re porters the man who directed the two billion dollar Abomb project during the war already has been questioned several times behind locked doors McDowell said the retired gen eral publicly after the House Activities committee reopens its spy hearings September A subcommittee began a week door sessions today to get ready for hearings which are sup posed to do in three weeks Alms Are Lilted 1 Uncover evidence that a third perhaps involving atomic scientists operated in 2 Bring into the open formation on which the committee based its six months old charges that Dr Edward Condon was one of the weakest links in Condon head of the Fed eral Bureau of Standards has de nied the charges and has been cleared by a Commerce depart ment loyalty whether Commun ists have made inroads among 4 Clean up odds and ends of the story of Elizabeth T Bentley admitted former she was the Washington New tfork messenger for two wartime SDV rings that got secrets from government employes and and sent them along to Mos cow 5 Clear up more loose ends of the dispute Whit taker Chambers another admitted See GENERAL QUIZZED Pg 10 Man Who Lost Legs Is Awarded MINNEAPOLIS Sept 7 A young railroad who lost his legs trying to prevent a wreck was awarded to day and said he would use the money to launch as an opera singer James Clark 22 El Reno was the money in an settlement with the Rock Island railroad His lawyer Irving Green collected the money and said he would turn it over to the Clinton hos pital where he is recovering Clark lost his legs at Clinton July 13 when he climbed aboard a string of runaway boxcars He was thrown beneath the wheels before he could bring them to a halt Prices Continue Climb In Mexico MEXICO CITY Sept The cost of living continued to climb during August according to national economy dex cited in the business Financial Week in Mexico The index reached last month compared to in July and in June The index as a base 100 in 1939 Angry Man Hits Car And Dies Of Wounds TORONTO Sept 7 gered when his automobile down Gordon Metcalf 29 smash ed his fist through a rear plate glass window and died of wounds today Coroner Fred Ticket said eral arteries were severed in the forearm Of the 200pound man Mans Wittnauer Chairman Strategy Planned j By Loyal Group To Control Conclave By The Associated Today the eyes of Texas poli are centering on Fort Worth And politicians have drawn red circles around Sept 13 and 14 on their calendars On those two days in Cowtown two major questions are expected to be settled 1 The winner of the U S Sen ate race 2 Whether Texas Democratic electors will vote for the regular ticket or the States Rights Thurmond and Wright Winner To Be Certified i The state party executive com and the convention are due to certify the winner of the senate At the last unofficial count by the Texas Election Bu reau vote Lyn don Johnson led Coke Stevenson 162 votes Robert Calvert chairman of the executive committee said yester day for the umpteenth time that the executive committee did not plan to rule on disputes concern ing the votes He said the committee merely would add up the totals certified to it by the states 254 county Democratic committees Calvert said the state not have the power to rule onthe ds putes McDonald Suggested Gov Beauford H Jester today reported that C C McDonald Wichita Falls attorney has been suggested as temporary chairman of the state Calvert and Kennedy chairman and secretary respec of the state Democratic ex committee reported Me Donalds name to him last night Jester He said McDonalds nomination as temporary convention chairman by the executive committee has been urged by J D Dickson of Seymour and Mr Cliff Deaton of Wichita Falls committee mem bers Has Long Been McDonald has long been active in Texas politics He was once secretary of guson administration and has served as chairman of astate con man whose name has been for the See TEXAS DEMOS Page 10 Hotel Rooms looted Here Burglars entered two hotel rooms here in the night and left with a quantity of property law enforcement agencies had been advised W M guest of Hilton hotel said a pair of trousers sus penders his glasses suitcase and approximately in cash was ta ken Foot Locker E H Irvin a guest of St Fran cis hotel was the other victim His foot locker placed near a window was removed by someone who op ened the window officials were in formed It contained mens cloth ing the exact amount of which had not been supplied to investi gators Massey said he and his wife went to their room and went to sleep about 10 p m He said he awakened at 11 p m and saw that his trousers had been removed The money and glasses were in pockets of the clothing Police said they had arrested seven persons in the negro section of Lubbock and charged them with gambling and disturbance Fines Are Assessed Three of six persons charged with drunk driving pleaded guilty and were fined and county court costs each judgments signed this morning by County Judge Walter Davies showed They wereD K Hart 38 John Wesley Seidel 59 and Heese Cur tis Grable 26 of Oklahoma Another of those charged Rich ard Lee innocent and bond was set Davies The others named had not ap to enter pleas County At torney John i Polio Is Fatal bert Fox Mr and Mrs Thomas B Fox of Borger died here last night of polio He was the fifth fatality among 68 cases treated atthe area polio center year Fun era services will be held at Hij gins tomorrow i Todays Cotton Todays prices on spot Middling Lubbock Means By Associated Frew Sicond CUM at UM Poet i Ael slit 0 4 Leaders Consider Moves In German Crisis By The Associated Press i BERLIN Sept 7 The west ern military governors considered today joint protests to the Rus sians against Communistled riots which have disrupted blockaded Berlins civil government A French liaison officer who is protecting 27 German police ot the western zone in the city hali was threatened with death by an unidentified telephone caller as the western powers studied their next step The 27 police remain ed hidden in the city is in sector The three western military gov Gen Lucius D Clay Unit ed States Gen Sir Brian son Britain and Koe met briefly Then they went into their seventh con ference on the Berlin blockade with their Russian counterpart Marshal Vassily D Sokolovsky Western Planned Gen Clay told newsmen he did hot know whether the riots would be taken up with the Russians at The western generals totake up the city with If that were done lift the local German into direct big In London a diplomatic source said the planning a protest Hie said it may Sokolovsky or to This diplomatic source said the British have wave of riots in the last few been organized the deliberate intention of wrecking The acute after a third Communist storming of the city hall yesterday forced the elected city assembly to move to western Berlin for protection Meeting Boycott Threatened The delegates of the Commun Socialist Unity par ty SED refused to move along with Leaders of the SED announced at a news conference they will boycott any further assembly meeting held in west Berlin This appeared to be a prelude to set ting up a separate Red govern ment in the Soviet sector city The German Socialist press ac the western powers of welshing on their here j The Russians served notice the four power Berlin air safety center that Soviet planes will maneuvers over the Berlin areti 1 See RED RIOTING Page 10 Temperature Drops After Sizzling Day Temperature Monday afternoon reached a sizzling 103 degrees but passage of a cool front was result ing in lower temperatures toda y 1 Temperature at a m was 81 degrees to 89 attie same time Monday forto day probably will reach about degrees it was stated at the U i S station The cool front a mild one vras between Lubbock Big Spr fog at Big Spring ed maximum rwas 105 and 105 maximum vras 100 and Amarillo had a 94rdegiree On Grand Staged By U S In Germany By Germany Sept 7 Some American rolled out of their tents at dawn and deployed rough mountain terrain in the biggest mock battle real thing ended n A V Thous ands of jeeps weapon earners and tanks rolled irom soon after sunup first maneuver planned grand scale ever American farmed forces in Ger many C While generals insisted there was no political significance some cognizance of the tense world situation taken For example the Army for the first time discarded the time worn systems It calling two any maneuver the Reds and In the exercise to last two weeks itt was decided to have an force and a defender to be as U S Armed This was done it was explained so that the people would not think the Soviet In the the U S force of occupied Germany plus about two dozen bom and some tanks The were the es parts of the only division the U S has in First infantry Every gun was loaded blank ammunitions By Thursday morning after a day and a half of tactical tricks it should be es by special umpires SM MOCK BATTLE Pago 10 CONFLICTS CONFUSING flavored By i By The Associated Press O HU Sept 7 A complete overhaul of Texas pris on will be asked by the state prise ci board Present laws in the words of boar d member Morgan of Jasper are conflicting cumber i Principal difficulty arises from the ff act that law has been piled on law without repeal of the legislation to eliminate he said board at its bimonthly me feting voted to ar for a of laws for submission to the probably in two years Conies First Morgan offered to pay out of own pocket if its necessary to hi re a couple of lawyers to do this board made clear however the penal code revision is secondary to the 1flr reorganization program under b B Ellis general manager of the Texas prison system i Ellis and Mace Thompson his lieutenant meanwhile planned a Sixmonth tour of the prison sys with H Leon Slaughter 31 year old Edgewood tural specialist named yesterday maximum as assistant to Ellis for prison farm operations Slaughter has been teaching agriculture to trainees at Edgewood while serving as sec reary of the Edgewood Truck Growers association which he helped organize three years ago Other Plans Ellis said Slaughters principal duties wiU be to work for increas ed efficiency and production on in line with the general managers announced program of making the entire system self supporting He is the son of the late Lesley Slaughter who helped organize and was chairman until his death of the VanZandt county Slaugh ter is a Texas A M graduate and a World War H veteran The board decided greater reliance on in the publicize tHe 17th annual prison here each Sunday in budget for the rodeo was to To make escape less inviting the ask the legis lature to make it a a prac tice followed in most other states Duvol County Boss Repudiated Stevenson South Political Leader Says Is Our Friend By The Press SAN DIEGO Duval ty Sept Parr 417 yearold multimillion aire a rustic political of 18 Texas counties today why his Lyndon Johnson senator giving him a 2 to 1 preference in fee runoff primary f At his home here Parr told press Reporter Ben that the 27th senatorial supported cause he is our for Johnson for Coke Stevenson county Duval went gressman Johnson to 40 In four previous tier of South Texas counties composed of a sizeable per centage of went f or Archie was known as the Duke of admitted that a district attorneys race in Laredo had a lot to do with his tion of former enson i We DUVAL BOSS Page II In Judges Book SALISBURY 7 Judge Carl Walter was no expert with the but he Two men wert brought by T fore him for shooting craps to an alley could take your money tome rime one The It orer the said dollars and costs ou Three Die In Chicago Fire CHICAGO Sept 7 persons perished and more than a dozen injured today in a spectacular fire which swept through a west side candy factory Three of the m jured were in critical condition A terrific preceded the fire which nearly destroyed the brick factory of the E J Brach and sons Fire officials estimated damage atmore than Tlie were dead upon arrival at the Garfield Park hospital They were believed to have trapped on floor of the where the explosion occurred There were about 25 persons reported to have been at work on the third floor during morning shift Cotton Seed Price Is Raised At Paris PARIS price of cotton seed was stepped up a ion here today to the first upward turn since the season opened In an Official of a large company which purchase in most of the states larger cotton centers said the increase t was in effect practically He de to be quoted by Seed prices had dropped at Paris f roni August 11 to August to Au gust Cottonseed meal was unchang ed at ton mixed changed af Texan Another Hurt Crash GUYMON sept 7 One Texan was killed and another injured last when their plane crashed during takeoff from municipal air port Instantly was Heywood James Jones a former superintendent of A in Jim Storins of Pampa suffered only injuries v the a bordering area just north of the airport Presidential Race Now In Across Country By The Associated The presidential campaign zip ped into high gear today with Harold ET Stassen ready to deliver the official Republican reply to President Trumans daylong ries of Labor Day addresses From i early late last night Mr Truman away at his of fear and depression may re sult if Republican reactionaries are elected Detroit at 8 p m EST tonight same NBC network carried theO kickoff speech from that Gov Thomas E Dewey already has given his Stassen i address as the result of a confer ence the two held at Albany last week beat form Minnesota governor presidential nomina the speech pt interest to the American Although his utter ances across Michigan and into Ohio covered subjects Truman aimed most frequently at his labor a audience that union members had better gel makes a differ ence between have a job two years from now or not That was after his main speech at Detroit in which the President If you let Republican reaction aries of the only for the wages and living standards of the American workingman but even for our Democratic and free enter Cadallac The gathered n Detroits Square to hear The President advance he had been told it would be irig if failed to appear Law Said Dangerous There and in gan appearances T Rapids Lansing and such digs at the Republicans rf The and the bust They crack down on prices cracked on They acut In taxes and voted you a cut infree Mr Truman called the TalIt Hartley in the hands ofthe In his seventh arid speech at Toledo Ohio last en route back the President said he plans to visit every in the United States during his campaign Mr Truman and the spotlight largely to them selves yesterday This prompted a statement Na tional Chairman J Howard Mc Grath The absence of GOP speakers at Labor Day rallies served to undertone the the Re publican party has declared war on a large and powerful segment of the American New Secretary Speaks Secretary of Labor Tobin spoke toldan REPLY Page 10 Contract To Erect Labor Camp Awarded Contract build ine for itinerant pickers was awarded to W G McMillan on a base bid of special meeting of the city The amount wms lets than the estimated cost Hopes have the building the of picket Oct cainp wiU and sanitation fadl ARE DEAD ROME Sept 7 per sons were to dayin cen tered rich northern farming Date Set For By Employes tin Pressi CHICAGO The CIO Association of Equipment Workers today set a strike which it said cripple telephone service over the of the strike date was made by Portland president of the union Ele said negotiations between he union and the Western Electric company are dead the strike would pull out members of the union working in Bell Telephone company locations in 43 of the 48 The five states where the union does not operate are Maine New Hampshire setts and J Company Stands Pal Harris said the dispute is over wages and working conditions The union is demanding a 15 an hour increase across the he has stood on its eight cents Wages of union members now range from 88 cents to en have been going on intermittently since May 11 Har ap proved a strike to enforce demands on July 1 he said BELL ARE NOT INVOLVED HERE The strike threat of the CIO As sociation of Communication Workers has no connection with the operations branch of the South western Bell Telephone company according to Cecil H Cale man ager here Cale said the workers Involved are employes of the Western Elec tric company not the telephone operations would in any strike only to that equipment installa would be delayed They are workers he said AGREEMENT ON COAIT Hope developed today for of commerce along the West but the truck drivers York City seem Francisco a spokesman 7 STRIKE Page 10 Rally Planned Plans were continued here forthe reception Thursday of Gov J Strom Thurmond of South Caro lina States Rights presidential nominee who is to address a South of States Rights Dem State Senator Joe Hill vice president of tha Texas States Rights campaign committee was working with local committees in formulating plans for the rally starting at 8 oclock Thursday night Arkansas Governor Expected Gov World war 2 served in Italy and Normandy and received the Purple Heart and several other decora to be accompanied by his wife and a group of approximately 18 others including members of the national committee on the South party Whether Gov Ben Laney of Arkansas would be in the party had not been determined Former Texas Lieut Gov John Lee Smith Lubbock attorney who U joining Hill in plans for the rally said he had been advised that Gov Laney would be here but Hill had some doubt that he would attend anticipated that a general reception committee of would be named to act wholly from a civic standpoint and haying no regard to or con with party or political af filiation This list was being for and checked and it was anticipated that announcement would made later Rally Is Planned Torthe rally and the governors address be to block off block of Ave K on the east side of Hotel Lubbock and seats were to be arranged there to accommodate an expected to ior the A 30minute network broadcast win carry part of th address over the Lone Star chain including stations Abilene at Amarillo San Angela Wichita Monahans Alpine arid Pecos the announcement said Hill believes that Gov Thur mond will receive a warm wel come here and that for which he stands will be given IB 1140 Ke
