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JUST WHAT WE ORDERED LAST SPRING! NOW WANT OMETHIN 1 Killed, 28 Hurt in Rail Crash JACKSONVILLE, Aug. ID (XP)--A railway mail clerk was killed and at least 28 trainmen and passengers were injured here today when a Memphis-bound Missouri Pacific passenger, train crashed into the rear of one bound Tor St. Louis. Of the first 23 injured taken to Little Ilock hospitals, only seven remained after treatment. Hospital attendants said none believed critically hurt.

Aridi- tional victims, however, were received at the Missouri Pacific Hospital later in the morning. The accident occurred at 4:26 AM when the Memphis train, No. 22G, struck tiie rear of the St. Louis passenger No. ZB, which had been flagged following an earlier mishap at the Jacksonville crossing.

The -mail clerk, Armin II. Emich, about 48, St. Louis, was crushed fatally in his car when the steel underbcams of the only wooden car in the Memphis train. telescoped the mail coach. The wooden car, a baggage coach, was immediately behind the mail car.

1 The locomotives and coaches were not derailed and tracks were cleared quickly. Many passengers were asleep. Mrs. Hiilcne Johnson, Longview, and Mrs. llattic Stone, Dallas, sisters, were In rear berths on the St.

Louis train. Both said there was a "deafening noise and heavy impact" which threw them against the ends of their berths. Mrs. Johnson, whose husband was killed in an automobile wreck about six months ago, said bedlam broke out. "People started screaming.

I looked out and saw people sprawled In the aisle along with baggage. Water was coming down." Death of Borger Woman Studied Hutchinson County authorities City Without Water Four Critical Hours Current dog days were underscored with uncomfort- last ni i investigate the able emphasis yesterday, when Amarillo folk endured years' of 'Borger! four critical hours i technicians sweated to unseat a the North Plains 'iiospitai at iammed valve in the citv's main water supply line. yesterday morning. T. -i i i 1 1 1 Attendants a the hospital said Described as a 24-inch, hydrauhcally-operated gate; Mrs.

Cator was brought to the vaive on a 30-inch line at the city pump station, 801 Bon-j hospital about 1:15 o'clock the ham. the stubborn gadget about 8:30 o'clock ves-j Aug. 7. At that time morninir i WIIS follml suffered x- vr hottest dny in these parts! undetermined Injuries In what If) A. V.

MOSS, a Super- ce weather bureau records a described as an automobile intendent a acting citvi started in 1802. I accident. The cooling air mass from the! Puncrnl services, for Mrs. Cator Mrs. Stone said she stepped out --into warm water, apparently from the locomotives, the front of which was only a few feet away.

One of the coaches of the Memphis train caught fire from an acetylene torch being used on the wreckage and Jacksonville's volunteer fire department was called to, quench the blaze. Three trainmen on the Memphis bound train were among the Injured who required hosnitallza- tlon. The St. Louis train was halted by the flagman of a southbound freight which had struck a stalled truck at the Jacksonville crossing. The truck driver, was.

unhurt. The i train, which leaves the Little Roek sla- ,11011 12 miles south of here a few minutes after the departure of the St. Louis train, struck the halted cars as It rounded cunt at tile approach of the crossing here. The railroad district superintendent's office at Little Rock said determination of the failure of the McmpJils train to get signals in time to stop before the crash would await a formal Investlga- TRI-StATE MORNING NEWSPAPER I A I I I AMARILLO DAILY NEWS LEASED WIRES: THREE ASSOCIATED PRESS. UNITED PRESS NBA, ACME.

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MONDAY MORNING. AUGUST II. 1947 10 PAGES PRICE 5 CENTS Makes Loop Around Globe manager. An" appeal to conserve water was northwest was moving soulhcast- broadcast immediately by the city's war radio stations as mechanics toiled to clear the jammed line. Repairs were completed by 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon, averting a potentially serious situation.

Moss said. The jammed valve was on the main input line from the well field, he across the nation Sunday to bake with no immediate pros-; pects of "the good soaking rain" needed for parched corn areas. Light scattered showers were and the city's U'i million- TM tc1 cilstern Montana anil simniv rfl North Dakota where Sunday's gallon reserve supply was subjected orln wnerc sumlay to heavy drain before the line was temperature readings of 65 to 70 opened. contrasted sharply to the 95 to of citizens "excellent," Moss said. tinuetl fair and warm weather was predicted over most of this area until Tuesday, "but no real was "Sidings from Kansas, Nc! hraska and South Dakota.

Con- Specifically, however, orchids are herewith 'voted to the unidentified man who called the office of The Daily News, inquired cautiously into the stale of the water supply itnd then asked, "I guess I can shave now, can't Firemen battling a rash of grass fires reported that water pressure had been maintained, but took a dim view of the city's overhead storage facilities. for the dry corn" prospect. was in i be held at 2:30 o'clock Tues-S day afternoon in the Baptist Church' Companion on Pilgrimage to Ireland SHANNON AIRPORT, Eire, Aug. 10 times, in the 32 years'since he left Ireland, Felix jbolan dreamed of revisiting his native Donegal. Today his dreams died with him.

Dolan, a lieutenant in the New York City fire department, was found slumped in his seat, dead, when a Pan American Airways Constellation arrived from New York. He was 53 years old, a widower with three daughters and one son, and lived at St. Albans, Queens, NY. He was traveling with his cousin, Terence Munday of Brooklyn, and planned to visit relatives on his first visit Ireland since lie left In Dolan had complained of feeling bad and hud reported to physician when the plane landed at Gander, Newfoundland, Munday said. Two hours later he appeared to be in "very.deep sleep" and later, when Munday shook him as the plane ncarcd Shannon, he could not be awakened.

Ciipt. Bernard Suyrc, Uir. pilot, siilil only four others nmoiie passengers aboard were aware of the death. Munday reported quietly In the crew and then remained at the dead man's side until the others had disembarked- ut the airport. An inquest is scheduled for tomorrow.

Interment will be in Fail-view fire in the Herring Hotel at 6 o'clock, firemen answered calls to grass fires at Thirtieth and Lipscomb, Fourteenth and Grant, and 901 North West First. A grease fire in a cafe at 2704 West Sixth was extinguished at 3:43 o'clock yesterday afternoon, after the jammed water line had been cleared. the weather man reported a near-record thermometer of 07' degrees at 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, with no immediate sign of a break in the torrid front extending over most of the nation, "There's a little cool air up in Wyoming and the Dakotas," he said, "but it's cool only in comparison with the superheat everywhere else. It won't get down to I'm afraid." A preview of a new Midwest hot spell was felt in Chicago where the' mercui-y went to 91. cmnecc One hundred-degree heat, with southwest winds bringing more humidity, was in store for the Midwest Monday.

Cooler weather is due Tuesday night. Iowa went rainless Sunday with Sioux City. Des Moines and Council Bluffs reporting 98 degrees, Atlantic 97, and Mason City 95. Cities reporting 100-degree readings or higher included: Pierre, SD. 106; Kansas City and Omaha.

100; Lincoln, 104; St. Cloud, 100; Minneapolis and St. Paul. 100; Watertown. SD, 103; Waco.

107; Dallas. 106; Fort Worth- and Wichita Falls, 105; San Antonio and Austin, 104; La Junta, 100. was reported Sunday in Southeast Texas, but the temperatures were still rising. A few scattered thundershowcrs fell in the Colorado mountain regions. A wind and dust storm hit Hous- tion of Home.

Mrs. Cator was the daughter Mr. and Mrs. N. D.

Cambern of Pampa. 1. Besides the parents, survivors include two daughters, Betty Jqyce and Bertie Louise Cator, both of Stinnett; three sisters, V. Shawgo of Amarillo; Mrs. R.

E. Maddox, Stinnett; Mrs. C. Marsh. Washington.

DC; and four brothers, W. D. Cambern of Borger, D. D. and K.

H. Cambern New Disclosures Dae in Hearing WASHINGTON, Aug. 10- OP) AnswersAwaited Aug. 10 UP)--Secretary of State and other government officials will begin a new series of i a i a conferences this week i some authorities here i may be decisive in i i or i i i the At some point in these conferences the ndministration limy fucc decision on whether to siwuhil scission nf Congross to emergency ncLlon on Europe's crisis. There is sl.111 considerable uncertainly here whether key IJIuropcnn countries nctunlly will be nble to survive economically without outside assistance pending congressional notion on the Marshall plan in Hie regular session beginning next The Miirshal) plan US financial aid to Kui'opc tniscd on an inventory of how much Europe help herself.

Fresh information on Britain's ability to hold out is expected to be lorthcoming in an Anglo' American conference due to begin A promise Of "addi-j thls week. meeting, probably I A 10 P. Odom, 27-year- veteran airman, today completed the fastest trip ever made around the world. When i and silver 4,000 horsepower former Army bomber, the Reynolds Bombshell, flashed the control tower of Douglas airport at 12:58 PM CST he ended a solo global circuit trip he had started just 73 hours and five minutes earlier. Three minutes iater, TT pa and of Largest Bomb Misses Target ABOARD A US ARMY SUPER- FORTRESS OVER FARGO, GERMANY, Aug.

10 m--After six days of waiting for favorable weather, United States Army fliers experimentally dropped world's largest bomb over the heavily- reinforced Farge submarine plant today--and missed the target. The Amcrican- made. pound "Amazon" bomb, which reached supersonic speed in its drop from this high-flying B-29, landed several yards from the underground U-boat factory which the Nazis covered with ceilings of steel and concrete 24 feet thick. Today's was the third test of the ton at 4:30 PM alter the temper-i Amazon bomb on the factory re- ature had gone to 100 degrees ongarded. as the sternest penetration more for the fifth successive day.

test for bombs. The first two were The temperature here yesterday i A small private plane made a j.dropped last week and scored direct moderate, however, in compari- forced landing in a city park but the results have been kept lo (Continued on Page 5) i secret. The bombs used in the test are i a Chairman Ferguson of- Michigan of the Wai 1 Investigating subcommittee staging the stormy public hearings told a reporter that "several additional are I sss jrs i advance. Other committee sources said some of them will be persons listed on the $104,000 of expense i accounts of John W. Meyer, party- throwing publicity man lor Hughes, i Meyer did a sudden fadeout shortly i after his boss appeared to testify last Wednesday.

Meyer has been sought by United States marshals anil committee investigators are armed with a subpoena issued Friday by Ferguson after Hughes bluntly refused to produce his free-spending aide. To date Elliott Roosevelt, son of the late President who rose to brigadier general in the air forces during the war, has been the only recipient of Meyer's expense accounts called to testify. Roosevelt testified that he recommended, as the best available, a photo-reconnaissance plane designed by Hughes. This resulted in a 22 million dollar contract for the son -ft-ith readings! in other calities, the weather man said. The Amarillo record of 103 -de- established Aue 10 1OT7 som esiapnsnea Aug.

10. 1937 card from Mnke somconc nnpy wlth stationery Co designed only to test their penetration power. Cub Pilots in Labrador PRESQCE ISLE, Aug. 10 (fPr--Two former Army pilots attempting a round-the-world flight by easy stages in two light planes landed at Goose Bay. Labrador, four minutes apart today after a COO-mile flight from Presquc Isle.

The Army operations office hers reported Clifford V. Evans, 26 years old, of Washington. I)C, and George Truman, 39, of Los Angeles, came down at Goose Bay at 11:54 AM (KST). They had taken off on the second leg of their global tour at 5:15 AM. Army Set.

Jerry Henry satd a radio mcssa'gc from Goose Hay over an Army channel neglected to say which flier landed first. Evans and Truman, beginning a flight expected to carry them 21,350 miles around the world in 30 to 45 days, left on their first leg yesterday from Tctersboro. NJ, and made an unscheduled stop at Prcsque Isle last night to gather weather data. Each plane took off this morn- Ins with 104 gallons of gasoline, 34 less than the capacity of each Cob. The fliers said beforehand they were in "no hurry." William Strohmeier, i manager, said he had been advised by the Civil Aeronautics Authority's communications station at New York's La Gunrclia Fit-Id that the pair Intended to take off from Gousr nay nt 2 AM tomorrow.

They will attempt to fly'direct to Iceland if weather permits, Strohmeier salt! the CAA had hern informed by ihe fliers. Thn pair prrviouMj' scheduled a stop in Greenland. good citizen." Pepper said it seemed an "unusual coincidence" that the current hearing has pinpointed contracts with which Elliott Roosevelt and the late President Roosevelt were connected directly or Indirectly. This was in reply as to whether the hearing might seem to be designed to embarrass the Democrats in 1948. "There is considerable doubt," he said, as to whether the six Republicans and four Democrats will return unanimous findings in their final report on the Hughes contracts.

Pepper recalled that when President Truman headed the committee, it brought 'in reports all members signed. Pepper suggested that the committee might find a much more fertile field in aluminum and steel. He said he had heard of cases in which Steel companies during wartime submitted bids identical down to the fourth decimal point. Also the United. Stales.

Secretary of State Marshall is Hollywood film producer and air-1 he CIted reports of steel and ammi- rtpsiirnpr num industry leaders trying to prc- cralt designer. serve their even Elliott openly accused Meyer ot misusing his name on countless hotel, night club and party vouchers which the committee said totaled above $5.000. Roosevelt insisted that he more than "paid my share" ot the party checks but said he had allowed Hughes and Jack Frye, of Hughes' Trans World Airline, to pay some of- his wedding expenses when Roosevelt married Faye Emerson, Hollywood actress he met through Meyer. More than $150.000 worth of ing the war. dur- Attlee Calls for Survival Battle LONDO.V, Aug.

10 (ff)--Prime Minister Attlcc told the British people tonight -they must fight a-Ionc for economic survival, as George W. Truman of Los Angeles and Clifford V. Evans of Washington, DC, study charts for their globe-girdling trip before their take-off. Meyer's entertainment vouchers re-! thc fought against Hitlerite Ger' 1S10. He called for "a effort comparable to that which we developed during the war." Promising the burden of work and sacrifice In the dark days ahead would rest equally on all classes, the prime minister declared in a broadcast.

"We cannot rest upon the help which our fellow members of the Commonwealth have been and arc giving so generously, and even though plans may be put forward by our friends in America to help bring prosperity back to Europe, we must stand on our own feet. main unexplained although many, in Hughes publicity man identified a I national number in behalf of a "Col. James; Hall." identified as Roosevelt's sue-; cessor in Air Force photo recon-: naissance activities. Secretary of the Interior Julius Krug was among others listed by Meyer. But even before the hearing licgan Krug disputed as untrue a stack of entertainment vouchers from Meyer that listed wartime entertainment for Krug at the time he was a War Production Board official.

Before his disappearing act, Meyer had been grilled by Ferguson about various guests he listed with the expense items. Several times Ferguson asked him to look at long lists of names and identify them without reading the names aloud. It is this list that is expected due to leave by plane Tuesday or Wednesday for Rio De Janeiro where he will head the American delegation at an Inter-American Defense Conference. While the Rio meeting is essentially a Pan American affair it will be held against a background of world portical conflict centered around the differences between the US and Russia." In fact, every important interna-i tional meeting between now a i the end of the year will influence I or be influenced by this fundamental condition of Here are the main meetings in prospect: 1. The Anglo-American Conference opening here Tuesday.

2. The Inter-American Defense Conference opening in Rio on Friday. 3. The Anglo-American loan revision meeting, the time and place for which have not been exactly fixed. 4.

A meeting of American and British representatives i French officials to discuss French views on raising the level of industry in Germany. '5. A preliminary 11-nation parley (10 nations if the Soviets fail to attend) to begin work on -a Japanese peace treaty. 6. The United Nations General Assembly meetings in New York Sept.

11. 7. A possible Council of Foreign Ministers meeting in New York simultaneously with the assembly sessions. This will depend on whether Soviet Foreign Minister Molptov, British Foreign Minister Bcvin anil French, Foreign Minister Bidault as well as Secretary Marshall all go to New York for the assembly gathering. 5.

A council of Foreign Ministers meeting at London in November. The main purpose of this session will be to try once more to reach some agreement on a German treaty and a German economic and political organization. "We must regain our economic I Negro Apartment House Destroyed by Fire Fire yesterday afternoon gutted 1'ive-npartment stucco house at 612 West Third, which was occu- freedom and get into a position in pied by several Negro families. Tiie which we pay for all we need by! fire was reported at 4:13 o'clock, our own exertions '-K 1 to provide some of the new characters In the congressional drama as staged by the Senate committee. Senator Pepper of Florida, who has been generally critical of the committee's tactics in the inquiry, said in a radio talk today that "some good has come out of the exposure ot expense nccounts by big business, corporations." But he contended there has been no showing of fraud or corruption on Hughes' part.

He said Hughes, in his bristling arguments with Sonatorr. Ferguson and Committee Chairman Brcwster of Maine was our own Broadcasting officials estimated that well over ten million persons were Jmied in for the address, in which Attlee put to the nation his arguments for his new "crisis bill' --assailed by Winston Churchill as "a black check far totalitarianism. "I believe," Attlee said, "that nearly all will willingly put their shoulder to the wheel, hut there may be some, who will not. "It is for this reason that the government have introduced i which, while it gives lio greater powers than were given to the present government in enables them to be applied to the present crisis. "The government is thiil nnlliing shnll stand in thu way of our Four trucks from Central Fire Station responded to the call.

Firemen were hindered In fighting the blaze by thick, black smoke from burning tar paper which lined the building. The fire started nt the north end of the apartment house which ran in a. north-south direction and burned to the other end. Firemen returned to the station at 5:59 o'clock. at 1:01 PM he glided to earth.

at the Chicago municipal air- port, 22 miles farther south, and climbed from his cockpit before a shouting crowd i showing visible signs of. fatigue. Odom wns pilot on the previous record flight which he made In the Bombshell with Milton Reynolds, Chicago manufacturer, and Flight Engineer T. Carrol Sallee last April in 78 hours 55 minutes. Thn former solo record was established liy the late YVIIry Post when he flow the singlr-cnirined monoplane Winnie Mac around the globe In 186 hours and 49 minutes in 1933.

Odom's wife, Dorothy, 26 years old. among the first to greet the tall blond flyer cried: "Bill! Yen look wonderful." A moment later, he embraced her and their two children, Ronnie, 3, and Rochclle, I Clonn-shaven. nnd nntty in a gray business suit as he grinned at his milling wclcomers, Odom did not look as though he had gone nearly sleepless for more than three days. Yet a few hours earlier while over the mountains northwestern Canada, he related, fatigue nearly cost him his life. He snld he dozed nn hour and 40 minutes while using the manual controls of the plane--his automatic pilot was disabled--and awakened ito find his altitude had dropped 20.000 to 16,000 feet and he was heading directly toward a Ifl.OOO-foot mountain peak.

"It. made me sick to my stomach I for a few minutes," lie told a reporter. Odom snid that during his nearly disastrous imp the plane apparently flow in a circle, and "I found niy- self flying nearly due north at practically the same place I dozed off." It was this experience and icing conditions north of Edmonton, Alberta, which prevented a nonstop flight from Anchorage, Alaska, to Chicago, he said. He landed at Fargo, ND, at 10:45 AM and replenished his fuel supply. Odom's average speed for the flight, including his 9 hours 50 minutes on the ground, was approximately 269 miles an hour.

During' ihe 83' hours and 15 minutes of flying time, he averaged 310.59 miles per hour. 'Bill Just Kid Wanting Wings Bill Odom wrote his name in the annals of sky achievement yesterday through his Interest in aviation while living in Ahiarillo. He was mil William P. Odom in those days. He was 'just plain Bill, a kid who wanted to fly.

He used to hang around English Field because he was interested in radio. He got a job with Transcontinental Western A i Lines as a radio mechanic. But he wanted to fly. So, on his off time he hung around Municipal Airport, helping service the planes and once in a while he flew with some of the instructors. At that time Charley Boyd was manager nt Municipal.and he probably gave Bill Odom his first ride and his first instruction.

George Christopher and Paul Milner olsoi gave Odom instruction. A News reporter called Boyd in Odom took off on his flight Irom Santa Fe last night and Boyd said Chicago's Douglas airport at 11:53 he remembered the kid quite well. AM Thursday. His first stop was "He was an aviation enthusiast if jGander. Newfoundland.

From there, I ever saw one," Boyd said. "I didn't" 16 ew to Paris. Cairo, Karachi, connect him with the Amarillo Tokyo, Anchorage, Fargo, when I rend about his recent trips, i a Chicago though." Questioned while he ate a dish of Boyd now manages the Municipal'' 0 0 cream and a sandwich In the Airport nt Santa Fe. He left Ama-i Cnica Municipal Airport head- rillo in 193S. (quarters, Odom said most of the Glenn Hall, manager of Trans- fl'Bht wns "routine." World Airlines here, said he vaguely Tnc worst purl was flying the remembers kid by the name o'l'j Hun1 5 Burma," he said.

"I flew Odom who was In the radio division lmo a monsoon there and the plane when he cnme here with old Transcontinental-Western Air in 1037. Plywood for cnblncts. Olver Wlg- Lumber Company. J200 W. Gtli.

The WEATHER -U. a. Weutner Biiram- A A AND V1C1NJTY' Partly cloudy Monthly nnd TuoBdiiy: little chaiiKc in tenmcniiurc: scnm-rccl ers Monclny nlicht. WEST TEXAS: Pnrtly cloudy, continued lilitli temperatures Monthly nnd Tuesday; widely scattered thundcrnhow- evs Montifly nlRht. Tempcrnlui-cs by 7 AM 70 8.

AM 711 I) AM 10 AM 1)0 Mnx. yefit 1)7 Max. '46 fl.1 AM hmu-8 yesterday: Noon 1 PM 2 I'M 3 PM PM Mln, ycst. Mln.yost. "ltd Sunset 7:40 BO; Dli bumped so badly my chair rolled buck off its track and cut -a cable, knocking out the automatic pilot.

Odom got his first steady job in the air industry at 16 years of asc. He started with Transcontinental and Western Air (now Trans World'Airline) at Amarillo. as an airport radio operator in 1936. While at he earned a private pilot's license. Later, he was sent to Pittsburgh, where he worked his way from airport radio operator up to TWA's staff of meteorologists by off duty study.

"I had a good nap between Ka- and Calcutta," he said. "I (Continued on Page 5) .02 7 0 Wallace Heath. Auto' Loans. 821 West I 6th Street. PM Cupid in.

Blue Costume Rides Sea From England SHOP IN AMARILLO -Mr. nnd Mrs. J. W. Klein Smidth of Canyon' and Mrs.

W. M. Ted of Dallas shopped in Amarillo Friday. HERE FROM WOODWAR.D Recent guest of Mr. nnri Mrs i John Smith, 3805 Tyler included i Mr.

uncl Mrs. Bill Smith of Woodward. OkU. I WEYMOUTII, England; Aug. 10 OT-- Shicla Hyncs, 19 years old, hopes the blue costume she will be wearing when she steps off the Queen Elixabelh at New York this week will identify her, and introduce lijr to romance and happiness.

SliB hopes the dress will be recognized by Harold Conlev St. NV, and, all going well, that they i marry in September Miss Hyncs said that for a lime she had been engaged to a Brooklyn They changed their plans, and Miss Ilynes began correspondence with the Brnoklynitc's good friend. Conley "We exchanged so much Information and so many photographs I feel I have known him all my life." 'she said. "We have spoken of marriage, and I said I'd he willing if, after personal acquaintance we seem suited to nllicr." Thiil blue iMistiiinc? Conley should reciiRiiixe it. He sent it tn her from the US..