Amarillo Daily News from Amarillo, Texas • Page 1

From A to Izzard Notes From Napkins And Match Covers Yesterday was the sort of day lhat discourages Cleanup WCOK had lo look neal and tidy, Papers and trash appeared as il by i i in gutters and settling jn store entrances. Where does all that come anyway? Here's a job for Homer Earl Altmand, the flag-minded chamber of commerce whiz, would like to see North East Eighth Ave- nue blossom out with Hags Friday. That's the main horou fare be ce down tow and the- air base, and it's also entrance to Amarilto for all tourist from the Kast. We nominate llomir Rice to head (tag nut there. The ami i a restaura- teur con (he hlg hand when President Knosevclt visited Ania- rlllr) hack in the thirties, anrl as patriot It 1 a as we have in these parls.

Also he's a sales- man tie lave. How about selling the 'la? Idea out on your street, if- -f- Maybe the Republicans should he a in attacking Truman and Marshall for their opposition to MacArthur's tactics. It was Copl- idge and Pcrshing who pilloried Billy Mitchell for Ins outspoken Icica.s on air power. -Y- XOTK TO CITY MANAGER MOSS: We hate to keep bringing this up, but Monday night a carload of sailors, headed for the Naval lie- serve Training Center, almost missed the curve on Line Avenue just, west of new Eighth Ave- nue overpass. They were late, and were traveling about 40 miles nn hour.

We tremble to i what would have happened, not only to the sailors, but also to the people iii the house just off the curve, it the driver hadn't been nhle to whip his car back onto the pavement in time. Some sort of guard rail protected by a reflector sign is badly needed there. A Klwanlan handed us a piece from KLwaiiis Magazine writ- ten by Orcn Arnold, president of the 1'iioenix club. It ftls so many occasions we'd like lo pass It alone: "The shy member giving- our Invocation fast Tuesday got all tongue-tied, blushed, said only and sat down. Yet some- how u'c liked it better limn all those Instructions another mem- ber to God the week before." Another Arnold gem: "Took up a little capitalistic col- lection at clnb yesterday to help ft destitute family whose man has spent- 20 years lecturing- for Com- munism and the welfare state." JACK KING BROUGHT us a couple of pages of bright sayings he collected here and there.

Among them are these; Speaking of women's fashions, seldom has so Httle been worn by so many for ,10 much. If you want a. Jolt, write down everything you accomplished today. There's a bigger fool than the fellow who knows it all. It's the fellow who will argue with him.

-Y- Pockefeller In New York lias 15 buildings, 50 thousand rooms to which there arc 5 mil- lion keys, scores of shops and restaurants, lo say nothing of Rimlens, an apiary, a skat- ing rink, and a golf school. Thirty-two thousand people work there. But ll's not as Important as the lowliest home in the land, he- cause nobody lives In Rockefeller Center. Practically everyone who a mink coat these days is under sus- picion, except possibly the mink himself. ff.

A SAUJTK TO Dclbert Dalby as new boss of the Tri-State Fair. iMr. Dalby is a fighter, mid man o( vast energy. Right now he is using- his energy in the battle over truck laws for Texas. If all truck operators were forthright as Mr.

Dalby, it wouldn't be hard to settle these legiil squab- bles. We hurnen to know lhat one ilny recently, in checking on a neir driver, he found his man wheeling a truck beyond the speed down the highway. Mr. Dalby ran the man dmvn In his own car forced him to slop, pulled him out of the "au, and fired him (in tho spot. Then he drove the truck back to town him- self.

That's ihe sort of truck opera- tor we like. And that's the sort of man who will make a good Fair president And how nbout a fanfare for Chief Sid Harper, who has cleaner house down at (he police station Few police officials anywhere de- mand the standards that Harper insists on. Contrast this to what happened In Florida the other day, Gov. Fulle Warren reinstated a sheriff whi suspended during the Kefauve: gambling probe, on the ground that the grand couldn't flm any specific crime for which to in dJct the man. Apparently it's busi ness as usual once more down there How quickly public indignallon cools! Heartf a fellow of our genera- tion remark the other day that there's nothing wrong wllh his past except there 1 too much of It.

Some peopls still IhJnk Santa Clan I Ivcs 1 Wash! ngton. They think the red tape is for gift wrap- ping. --WES IXZTARD. Worst Foe Is Panic ST. LOUIS.

Apri! JO hidden danew In A-bombs Is undue public tear about its radiation effects, an Army medical officer aaiJ This fear could help dangerous panic, said Lt. Colin F. Vorder Brucgge of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Wash- ington, DC. Radiation caused about 15 per cent of the deaths in Japan. Blast and hums tailed 85 per rent, anil aie the greatest dangers, he said.

TRI-STATE MORNING NEWSPAPER- I A I I I AMARILLO DAILY NEWS LJEASEn WIRES THRK2: ASSOCIATED PRESS. UNITED A ACM, CD PICTURE 8EKVIC1C WASHINOTON Ssl'Arr VOL. XLII, NO. 129 (kMARlLLO. TEXAS, WEDNESDAY Federated Club District Leaders Elected HERE'S A SHELL GAME WITH A REAL PAYOFF! ttfure From Snow Slight as -ligh Gale Roars ll huffed and it pulled yes- erday, but about all il blew own were a few power serv- ce lines, a sprinkling tele- hone lines and occasional igns.

Little property damage ras reported. Moisture over tie area was negligible from now flurries during the afler- oon. All highways remained open, al- hough on stretch south or Happy Highway 87 was hazardous be- ause visibility had been reduced to by blowing dust. One person uffered minor injuries in a head- in collision. Commercial airlines continued normal or near normal News Photo.

fs at yesieraay morning session of Seventh District Texas Federation Women's Clubs are, from lelt, Mrs. John AmariHo, second vice-presideni; Mrs. O. M. McGinty, Spur, president; Mrs.

W. V. Tezry, Sudan, firsi vice-president. (See story on Page 13.) By KOLANDER Residents living outside the Arnarilio area soon will have their opportu- nity to win a i to Hawaii when the fish bowls of the "Let's Go To Hawaii" contest go on display In their towns. Arrangements are mode to lave initial showings this week at Oswald's Firestone Hereford, Smith western Public Service Company in Panhandle and tho "acksou Drug Store in Guytnon, Okln.

Other sltowings this week will be leld at the Southwestern Public Service Company at Dim mitt Plainview, the Gray Drug Store Hooker, and the Barber Daily News Index 3rng Store in Dumas. The object of the contest Is to njess the number of sea-shells in iish bowl. To the person guess- ng nearest to the exact number, The Globe-News will award on all- xnciise-paifi trip to Hawaii. That person, who must be at iea-st fi years old, cnu take any jerson he or she desires. All entries lowcvcr, must be made through a carrier boy.

The official scaled ts on I.rttetJs ti ttir, Kriiio Horecr cnolr tn sins Dress, Mcl.cmnre Tlie Gnimn ronhfnc Alicatf Comics Uncle lias's Corner Wheat eslhmte ann Movies Snorts pictured Pake Page 10, I I 211-22 Pace ccd I 1 IRC 15 16 Page 19 Pace 20 Page 22-25 Pace 26 Even Economic Laws Upset by High Winds A dollar bUI won't go far any- more except when a lusty gale Is blowing Jn the Panhandle. Yesterday "morning Mrs. C. Holinan, 800 Prospect, drove west of town to home of Dave Dammier, Route 1, to get her weekly supply of eggs. Ai she got out of her car, thr.

wind whipped a greenback out of her hand. Mrs, llolman gave It up for lost as it sailed otit of the yard, past the barn and off into a wheat field. But yesterday afternoon Dammier plotting wind drift and relwrity to A nicety, recovered the hill almut a mile away from a bar ditch. Today in Amarillo AL-1 DAY Final day. 30th annual con venUon ot District Seven, TexM ct Clubs.

Wo rteshOD bif afcf ast at 7 AM, Kerrintf KoicJ: Gen eral session. AM. Pol Street MethodUt Church XhM AM Chnmber or mem- NOON Chamber ol Commerce board rrf meeti. Room 201 Herring Hotel, NOON Amarillo Credit Manners An. soclallon meets.

Binckstont Hotel, 7.00 PM Associated Plumbinc Con- IracLora of Ammrtpo PM DM3rd Air Hewm display in the main lobby of Tin Globe-News business oricc. Bowl: which will bo on display at thi -Scrvif-o Tom Artiarillo, i and Polk and in other towns of the area, be identical in weight and size nm vill contnin exactly the samp num ber of shells as the official bowl. Monday night, Globe-News car- rier boys learned how they too may make the Tret trl: to and from early reports a Int of the youngsters already have piled up points towards the coveted prize. The top point-getter In Amarillo (Continued on Page 17) Panhandle Doctors Headed by Woman (See picture on Page 8.) For the first time in the 52-year history of the organization, the Pan handle District Medical Society has a woman president- She's a bright-eyed brunette, with maybe a few gray ones--Dr. Paulin.

Miller of Lubbock. Her main practice is In obstetrics and gynccolog' (diseases of women). Dr. Miller was named president- elect at the meeting last year and loci; over yesterday, afternoon as head of the society. Dr.

James Oclotn of Memphis was named prcsiii.eni-e!ecl; he will lake over at the annual meet- Ing next year. Dr. William Gordon of Lubbock is the vice-president Dr. James T. Halt of Lubbock was re-elected secretary.

Dr. Allen T. Stewart nf Lnhbock Is the retiring president. The society was organized In 1899 with 25 members. It was affiliated with the Texas State Medical Association in 1900, Now the society has scores of members.

But yester- day's roupb weather kept down the attendance. It Is always difficult Etr a doctor to get away to any kind of convention, for nearly all doctors have ill patients. The meeting continues through today and ends with the annup.l banquet in VFW Hall at 7:30 o'clock tonight. Dr. A.

W. Traweek Matador will he the honor guest the banquet. He is the oldest docto in the Panhandle District Medic a Society. Dr. E.

W. Jones of Welling ton will be the speaker. At a dinner last night, approxi rnntcly 150 doctcri and their wive were entertained by a group singers from Amarillo High Schoo Don O'Neal, Ann Harrison and Nancj 1 Coffee, who plnyeA the leads in IhR recent school pre- sentation, "Naiijrhty Marietta," sanft several numbers from the operetta- Other musical selections were pre sented by a male Quartet, compose of Bob Davis. Kenneth Box. Wa Foster and Adam Ortiz.

Their appearance was arranged Dr. David Pp-tton, cntcrlainmen chairman. Dr. Howard Piickttt served a. master of ceremonies.

Far East Army Boss Relieved by Truman; Ridgway Takes Over WASHINGTON, April 11 (AP)--President Truman early today forced Gen. Douglas MacArthur irom all his commands. The President said he had concluded that MacArthur "is unable to give his wholehearted support" to United States and United Na- although private craft were grounded by the high winds, M'lilch averaged to 2R mttw an liaur, with pusts as i as 62 miles, at (he US liurcau here. A section in the west part if Amarillo was without jHwur 30 or 40 minutes yesterday when ma in ti fuse was blown, a. spokesman for Southwestern Public Service Company said.

disruptions were of a minor nature. Somfi toll line trouble was en- countered between Amarillo and Clarendon but was cleared up later the day. Here, too, troubles gen- erally wore minor In most instances. Visibility here dipped, to miles 'esterdixy afternoon, caused by Mowing snow. By early vision had risen to 8 miles.

Yester- day morning, blowing dust, which i receded the snow, downed sight to "i an hour. Winds were expected to dimin- ish during last said Aaron Stern, of the Bureau, hut shcmtri lie nround 25 miles an hour tixtey, wllh occasional gusts. Some preclpitaliun was looked lor during last niRlit, although only In light quantities. Low last night was as 25 degrees, (lie high today, 51. Perryton received the Inrgpst re- ported although this was not considered too accurate, due to the high winds.

Visibility, vhich had fallen to to 3 A of a mile around noon, had climbed to miles by late afternoon, as biow- ng snow and winds eased. Snow flurries were intermixed vith some dust at Dumas. Winds )lew the porch from one home and loose some wooden signs and merchants battened down neon signs to prevent damage to them. As nightfall approached, the winds were slackening. Winds were down tn 15 to 2D niies an hour by late afternoon at Dalhart.

Even at peak inures, estimated; at around 50 miles an not much dust was stirred up. Snow was intermittent and had nearly ceased before nightfall. Some blowing dusl was reported at Stratford before snow started. Starling: about 10 o'clock yester- day morning, by 11:30 snow had considerably thkkcr. Snow hart slopped and winds were dying; by mld-affemoon.

Snow, which melted as it fell, amounted, to only a trace at all reported poi nts, wit th excep Ion of Perryton and Gage, which also had .05 of an inch, ac- cording to information received oy the Weather Bureau here. Sewing dust slowed traffic to a crawl and was to blame for one head-on collision yesterday after- noon on stretch of Highway 87 about 3 miles south of Happy, Involved i the collision were a Transport Company of Texas truck, driven by George William Bun- drick, 35 years old, of 705 Birmlng- liaiii, Aniarillo, snd a Sate miidcl passenger car driven by Dob Pat rick, Mccarty, 23, of Norman, Okla. McCarty suffered a broken nose, minor cuts on the head and arm. Bund rick wns uninjured. Hfshway patrolmen said neither Tcliiele was traveling more than 15 miles an hour and blamed crash On poor visibility caused sheets of dust whipped across the highway by hljjh north wlnrl, Patrolmen were stationed at both ends of an .8 of a mile strip on the highway south of Happy to warn motorists to proceed with caution Visibility in the dusty blackout strip was estimated at from 25 feet 10 zero.

Best sa ly rul according to drivers who ventured into the dust (Continued on Page IT) tions policies. Mr. Truman immediately i a Lt. Gen. Matthew B.

Ridgway as MacArthur's successor as Commander, Allied Powers; Commander in Chief, United Na- i a a in- Far East; and Commanding n- eral, US Army, Far East. In a statement, Mr, Truman assarted a "military com- manders must be go veined" by policies and directives ol the government and "in lime of crisis, this consideration is particularly compelling." The President appointed Lt. Gen. James A. Van Fleet to succeed i a to take over active command of the Eighth Army.

Mr. Truman's announcement was made at a rare news conference at the White House at midnight, Tox- ns time. The time was fixed to coincide as nearly as possible with the delivery to MacArthur at Tokyo of the order relieving him of his commands, "effective at once." The White House released, with the President's statement, a memo- randum purporting to show differ- ences between MacArthur's state- ments and action and presidential policy. The President's order, telegraphed to McArthur over the Army net- work, was brief and pointed; "I deeply regret thai it becomes my as President and cotn- manHc r-i n- the Unl ted (Continued on Page 8) Yanks Battling For Control of Red-Held Dam TOKYO, April I I Wednes- day (AP)--Allied planes and artillery were reported today lo have wiped out Chorwon, the rallying center of three Chinese Red armies in west- central Korea. The ruined western hase of the big Communist assembly triangle is 17 miles north of the 38th parallel.

Chinese defenders of the huge Hwachon power dam, at the eastern base of the triangle, clung to that electric plant today. The Reds opened some of its flood gates Mon- day in a futile attempt to swamp advancing forces. GEN. DOUGLAS MacARTHUR ally News Almanac A VICINITY: Partly cloudy Wednesday morning. clearing a allcrnoon- Continued i a c-aremes: 25-51.

TEXAS: Wrrfncsday partly cloudy. Colder ex- In the ran handle, NEW MEXICO: Partly cloudy Wedncs- Widely scattered thi Jurrlcs and colder south Bugs on Mars Would Be Quite Nosy If They Could; Fear Not, Earthmen, It Is All for Your Own Good! By ALTON BLAKESLEE Press Science Reporter NEW YORK, April 10 A new book speculates that pilots of flying saucers are super-bees from Mars, two Indies long and quite beautiful. super-smart bees are Gerald Heard's contribution to flying saucer discussion in "Is Another World Watching?" (Harper). He thinks Heard doesn't whether the Martian bees have stingers. They've maybe me bees are worried tfiat man will blow up Earth or the sun with atomic energy, hurting Mars In the process.

Heard, EngHsh-born, lives In California and is a writer and lecturer. He once was editor of the London Realist, a monthly on scientific human is en. Author books on feligion and social behavior. Heard accepts a lot of about the saucers as true. He tries to digest these "facts" Into theory.

For example, one report was that flying saucers travel 18,000 mites an hour, with sudden stops and. turns. Heard says no pilot shaped like a human being could withstand the force and pressure of such move- ment; But insects might--and so nuy-ue the Martians are bees "'A eyes brilliant cut diamonds, with ft head'of sap- phire, a thorax of emerald, abdomen of ruby, wings like opal legs Jilce topax--such body would be wsrthy of super-mind." rV existed on Mars so long that it's presumed they have no enemies, in a world "where intellegence has won total freedom from brutal, repruslvi iorcc," where "life is free to be as beautiful as it- cares," The super-bees have been real gentlemen so far taking care not to crash into man's airplanes, Tn fact, "They have behaved with a de- portment which shows not merely savoir-faire, but ren! era teness. 1 Why are they spying on us? The "only sensible answer" Is that we're a peril to a risk bwausc of the atom bomb with which man may be like "a badboy with matches." Heard says perhaps the super-bees are worried that mnn will blow up Earth, creating cosmic dust which would reduce Mars 1 precious sunshine. Or, he says, maybe they're worried that stem on Earth wil' somehow trigger off an explosion of the sun, ending life in all plamts Earth scientists don't foresee either of these dngers, but Heard says the Martian bees know a tot more about science than we do.

They know that earthmen have atomic energy because-, says Heard, dent they saw the mushroom cloup of the the way fmm MATS, that west. 7 AM AM 9 AM 0 AM 1 AM lax. yest northeast, lo 55 to C5. hours yesterday; Nnon ....37 1 I'M ..37 2 r-M .36 3 PM .34 PM 33 yesi '50 MU ycst. ...32 PrEclnLiattiv PM: Trace, utilise ..6:21 AM Hunfiet, ..7:16 EXTENDED FORECAST TO APRIL 1..

west ol Gulf Plnlns: Tempcra- 2-6 degrees fcslow nlnlmutn 40 extreme oxith. Cooler Tuesday night and Wednesday. Warmer Friday and SrUur- tlay. precipitation Ught to moderate except little cr none 1 PJO area and Bend Country, Showers Tuesday nluhl and Wednesday. A I3AY on which you should be able lo lull advantage of roue many ON THIS DAY 30 years a BO.

Toa-a heated Us unique a prohlblt- iv. the sale ol cigarette. But to dle- mriiRn anv u-holesale smoklne dc- uichery. the slapped on the first cigarette per thou- sand. THE MOON sets at 12:43 AM Trmrs- tiny and Is now Its greatest rils- ance a this i 251.600 ANrilVERSAHIES: The Invention or a mechanical a hit years axo, the credit.

TODAYS THOUGHT: tnm men roo much In general and loo little In particular. PLAQUE HONORS PULITZER NEW YORK, April 10 A bronze plaque in memory of Joseph Pulitzer, newspaper editor, was un- veiled in the Coyer ol the Columbia Graduate School or Journalism to- day on his 104bh birtli anniversary. Price Control 'Mess' Flayed WASHINGTON, April' 10 U.R) Former Gov. M. FT.

Thompson of Georgia resigned from a top price control Job tonight with an angry charge that the Truman administration and the Democratic national committee have put the country in a 1 "Conditions existing in the notional administration are so deplorable fo st nlj patriotism to country constitute a conflict," Thompson said in an- nouncing his resignation as co- director of price controls from the United States' territories and posses, slons. He said his specific reason for luitting the prtcc Job was that he nad been on the Job for 12 weeks, at a temporary consultant's pay of $53.48 a day, "without doing a Hcfc of work." He said Price Stabilizer Michael V. never gave him anything to do and that he refused lo be a "parasite" on the public any longer. refused la comment on Thompson's resignation or his charges. The House likewise had no comment.

Thompson, a bitter political foe of Georgia's present Democratic Gov. Herman Talmadge, backed Mr. Truman against the State's Rfghters In 1EHB and helped keep the Presi- dent's name on the Georgia ballot In that year. 4, 34 Per Cent Population Gain for Potter County By GlENN M. GREEN Of The Dally News WaghlaKton Staff WASHINGTON.

10--Potter Comity was credited today with 73,366 residents In the Census Bureau's final tabulation for 1950--an Increase of more than 34 per cent above the county's 1940 population of Allied troops last nljrht pusher! closer to the dam-- third largest In Korea. Powerful Red resistance slow going. East of the Kwachon power site, the Reds were reporte to have abandoned 4 miles north of tbo 38th In a sector where the Heds have been putting up a stiff fight. Allied destruction of Chorwon de- prived the Reds of one of their most important supply and assembly centers. Artillery began pounding Chorwon three days ago.

General MacArLhur's officers esti- mated last week that the Reds were massing up io 500.COO incn Jn the Chorwon Xumhwa Hwnchon trl angle for an expected counter-of- fensive. But MacArthur's mid moining (Continued on Page fl) 64,265. The county, with Its Amarillo metropoUtan area plcVed tip an ad- ditional 515 residents In the bu- reau's revision of its preliminary count released last November which gave Potter County at that time a population of 72,851. Preliminary figures released last June gave Amarillo 73,737 residents, 371 more than the i a Potter County total. Texas marked up a state total of more than a million above the 6.4H.824 residents It had In ISM.

The final tabulation represents the Inclusion of not at home during the IniUjU head count tUJ 1 and revision ftnrt correction of Ihs preliminary estimates. The figures pot 13 Texas counties in the population 1: Harris (Hous- ton) Dalian, 6H.7W; (San Antonio), Tarrant (Fort Worth), Cameron, Paw. 968; flalveslon, HldalEC, JM.4+6; Jefferson (CcaumonO, 195.WJ; Lubbock, Ifll.W*; McLen- nan, Nuetes, and Travii (Austin), The bureau also reported final (Continued on Pace.