Amarillo Daily News from Amarillo, Texas • Page 2

TWO THE AMARILLO DAILY NEWS. AMARILLO, TEXAS WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 21. 1947 11 Per Cent Cut in Naval Funds Voted WASHINGTON, May 20 UP)--The House passed a $3,469,761,100 Navy appropriation bill today, overriding Democratic protests that the 11 per cent cut it makes in President Truman's request will shrink Navy and and Marine Corps strength by 82,000. Only a token fight was made to restore some of the $377,519,200 cut from Budget Bureau estimates by the Appropriations Committee. Advocates of more money are resting! COMPULSORY HEALTH INSURANCE, under the guise of broadening Social Security, would make "wage more and more subservient to an already top-heavy Federal bureaucracy.

Every individual would pay the full price of his medical care, through deductions and additional taxes--and would further pay in lowered quality, less freedom of choice, and snarls red tape. In a nation-wide survey by Opinion Research Corporation, three-fourths of the people stated their Doctor's bills were fair and reasonable. For and unexpected medical and hospital bills, 87 2 preferred VOLUNTARY pre-payment plans. NOTHING is free about a COMPULSORY Health Tax don't allow it to become a compulsory tax burden. Tell your Congressmen and Senators you do not want it, and have your clubs act.

their hopes chiefly on the Senate 'added 8126,171,000 for Navy pay where the bill now goes. The money is to run the Navy during the 12 months beginning July 1. A voice vote, with only about 100 members on the floor, sent the bill to the Senate after four hours of de- to the Senate after four hours of de- brary. bate highlighted by insistence of Re- Thorn nllUlinnn 1n vr. V.V.

4- 4 rt I I 1 J.HU111 and subsistence and $54,500,000 for maintenance of naval aviation. A third, by Representative Van Zandt of Pennsylvania, would have boosted by 542,000 the fund for operation of the Office of Naval Records and Li- tion by Bill Sansing of the chamber of commerce with the assistance of Rock Island trainmen. Recall Range Riders The delegation was also met by R. C. Daughtery, editor of the Hooker Advance, and Jess Parham, secretary of chamber of commerce.

Liberal people are still talking of the Amarillo's Range Riders trip to their city last March for the premiere showing of "Trail Street." The trade trippers and the Buffalo Band staged their second parade of the day at Liberal. Mayor Joe Pittman, walked with Mason King in the parade to the Warren Hotel, where the Amarillo delegation was met by the city's officials family, including Mayor Pittman; C. C. Jones, president of the chamber of commerce; E. R.

Zook, manager of publican fiscal leaders that the bill would not impair the efficiency of tile Navy. "We have appropriated all the nas made little effort to have his amendments adopted after Rep-innate 1011111111166 resentative Plumley told him: ro JJff a r0 Deal can kick and holler about it as you money the Navy can presently but you're sunk." said Representative Plumley of Ver-! The Texan did tell the House that rr.ont, in charge of the bill on the high naval officials informed him floor. "We have not jeopardized In the slightest degree the supremacy the committee cuts, coupled with! previous reductions applied of the "United States Navy "nor the! Budget Bureau, would mean a re- adequate maintenance of Navy to do duction next year of 70,000 in the the job." I If need for more money arises, he "added, Congress can act then. Three amendments to restore funds were offered and were shouted 'down in rapid order. Two, by Rep.

Albert Thomas of Texas, would have planned enlisted strength of the Navy from 425,000 to 355,000 and 1 12.000 in the Marine Corps, from 500 l.o 85,500. Thomas said he fears the House is gambling with national security "during these troubled times." Bathtub Death Puzzles City NEW YORK, May 20 53- year-old woman physician was found dead today In the bathtub of her -Manhanttan penthouse by police who said they were led to the apartment by the mpmbllngs of a New Jersey manufacturer about a dead woman. The pajama-clad body of the woman, Dr. Gertrude Be'hrens, a German-born gynecologist, was lying on damp bed clothes, police said, adding that'there had been water in the tub. The medical examiner's office turned over investigation of the case to police detectives late today, reporting an autopsy that death was caused by "asphyxia by submersion; circumstances undetermined." Dr.

Milton Helpern, deputy chief medical examiner, said such a report could indicate death was suicidal or homicidal. He said Dr. Behrens had been dead since yesterday afternoon and that there were no marks of violence on her body. Detective Capt. Thomas Hannigan said he believed death was accidental, adding that the district attorney's office had be'en notified.

Police sa'd they went to the apartment after a telephone call in which a a reported her nephew, Victor Johnston, 49 years Trade Trippers (Continued Prom Page 1) the chamber of commerce; and James Cinnamon, publisher of the Southwest Daily Times. The goodwill trippers were invited to attend the regular Tuesday luncheon of the Rotary Club. "Center of America" Charlie Gibson spoke in behalf of the visitors, in response to Mayor Pittman's welcoming address. The Kansas town is described as an agricultural, milling and railroad cenicr. It is also headquarters for natural sas companies.

Many of the brick buildings on its main thoroughfare are 30 or 40 years old. Its many paved streets are wide and clean. To imagine Liberal as one of the center-of-America towns in Kansas that Roger Babson likes to about, is not difficult. Like most of the towns visited in the past two days, it has enjoyed great growth in the past six years. In 1940 its census was 4010 people, its population Is better than 10,000, according to local estimates.

disembarked from the train, the band had started marching up Guymon's main street to the center of town where Mayor Ralph Mathewson extended the hospitality of the growing Sooner city to the Texas business men. Bustling, energetic Stanley Tyler, manager of the chamber of commerce, also spoke. The "thrive together" theme of the trip was re- WASHINGTON, May 20 (VP)--The Senate Banking Committee agreed today to continue its investigation of dealings between the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the Baltimore Ohio Railroad. Chairman Tobey of New Hampshire named a seven-man subcommittee to pursue the inquiry Into an 80 million dollar loan to the railroad by RFC. The committee will meet again tomorrow.

9 One more thing! are youadsoMefy sure youfe Phillips 66 Motor PROVED BY 66 BILLION MILES OF SATISFACTORY SERVICE "IT'S A FINER COLA" Quality old, the manufacturer, was babbling emphasized by Ted Lokoy in his about a dead woman. response, to the welcoming address. Johnston, a resident of Montclair, 1 NJ, and president of the Broadway Tool and Machine Co. of Elizabeth, NJ, is being held by police for questioning. No charges have been placed against him.

Game Condition! Good In Eastern New Mexico SANTA FE, May 50 (U.R)--Paul Russell, director of wildlife restoration work for the state, said today Souvenirs for Youngsters Mrs. Henderson was invited to di-. rect the Buffalo and Guymon bands in a joint concert. A splitting rain served to dampen neither the en-, thusiasm of the visitors nor the citi- zens of the host city. Practically every school child in 1 Guymon was present to witness the.

parade. Souvenirs were lavished on 1 them. Amarillo skullcaps will be on the heads of hundreds of youngsters, not only in Guymon but in that conditions for quail, prairie; 16 other cities on the route of the chicken and antelope in Eastern New Mexico were brighter this season than for several years. Russell returned today after mak- ing a trip around the state with trade trippers for months to come. Vern Hickerson's sure-fire magician's act, performed from a truck in the middle of the street, drew its customary applause.

I Sam Jorgensen of the US Fish and; His best stunt was what he dei Wildlife Service. They inspected; scribed as his "two-ends-and-one- Pittman-Robertson projects in trick." state. i Washout Near Stinnett Russell said tilers had been Guymon is situated in the very rains, and that cover and middle of rich agricultural Texas feed for the quail and prairie! County, Okla. Since 1940 its popula- chickens was adequate in Eastern tion has more than doubled The New Mexico. postal estimate now gives the' town 5,200 people.

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