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ROUSES GOP STREET Ihoir household posttosiilonK pllod behind ihom, Mr. nnd Mrs. Clyde Burko, accompanied by their faithful dog, sinnd on a Chicago sireol after being evicted from an apnrlmonl house condemned by the city lor a highway project. Burke, who was put out for non-payment of rent, said he had been told he could stay if he caught up on arrears. The couple has three children.

Methodists To Gather "WE WILL NOT BE STAMPEbED" U.S. Food Supplies Will Be Surveyed 0 (By Tho Associated f'reiu) WSHINGTON, Nov. 18 The Senate appropriations committee called today for an inventory of American food supplies before Congress acts on President Truman's request for $957,000,000 emergency aid to France, Italy and Austria. Chairman Bridges (U-NH) tuld a news conference the committee had decided unanimously to make an exhaustive inquiry into domestic supplies to learn how much can be spared for export. Complaining thai tne adminis tration is demanding speedy action on a stop-gap program without laying down detailed cslimates, Bridges said: "There is an effort here to Ihe counlry and our 42 Claimed In Store Flames CHRISTCHURCH, Now Zealand, Nov.

18 (fP) Forty-two persons were counted dead or missing today in a spectacular fire which destroyed the four-story Ballan- lyne Bros, department store, largest rcUill establishment in this south island city. The bodies of 28, including shoppers and employes, were recovered, mostly from the area about the doors. A 29th person died in a hospital. Thirteen others were listed as missing. The cause of the fire was not determined.

Firemen, who made numerous dramatic rescues, brought the blaze under control within two hours, but it still was burning MS darkness descended and the search for victims was suspended. Eye-witnesses said' they could see the bodies of additional victims scattered among the charred debris. Select your crystal china at King's Jewelry 1020 bdwy. Adv. WEST TEXAS Mostly cloudy tliln afternoon.

ionium nnd Wednesday; slightly wuritirr Wednesday, EAST TEXAS 4 Moslly cloudy Ihld afternoon, tonight nnd Wednesdiiy; occn- Monul licht ruin this afternoon nnd tonipht: illKlilly warmer Wednesday; moderate to fresh north nnd northeast, on the const this afternoon becomliiK ftcn- tle to moderate' vnrlnblo toninht nnd Wednesday, EXTENDED FORECAST: For tho period 6:30 P. m. today to 6:30 m. Saturday. Texas.

Gulf Plains, Northeast TCXM, and wfMern Louisiana: will nvtrace nbout 4 dc- Htjovc norrnnl the const and In ini- imiith, clsf.wlu-ro ipmiHtrnUirrn iinrimil. Wiumcr WcdncMlny, colder wnriiirr ililny it nit odUIci' Itnl- liidas. fret Hilliil hi'i'Vj, nlunv- rriv mid I'iKlity, Trxns wrM Gulf 1'lnlisn; will nvrrasc 10 (I degrees below normal, Kislnn trend Wrdne.Mliiy, colder Thursday, continued cokl Friday nnd Stiturday. Pro- ripitstlon heavy occurrtnc chiefly Thursday, r. ..10 HI 11:30 a 1 r.lO 2:30 a 1:30 2 a Sun in.

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in. m. in Uetidlnvi Keconloa (1 mini Municipal Airport) 1 in II 41 41 41 'IB Indus' ill. a 7:30 it 11:30 n. 311 Wednesday at 7:23 a.

m. in sun 40 4:1 43 rises 'C'ornmlUec into action llic proper background of 'We are not going to be stampeded into action 'without knowing what is available; in.this c'ountry, We don't want to deliberately short change the American people." The Now Hampshire senator said thut the committee's, action should not be considered as indicating opposition to the emergency aid proposal, He said the Senate group simply wants to know all of the facts before it acts. Anderson To Bo Questioned He said Secretary of Agriculture Anderson will be asked at hearings beginning Thursday to bring in all available on crop prospects. Secretary of Commerce Harriman and Secretary of Interioi Krug will be asked later to supply information on supplies of other commodities such as coal petroleum and fertilizer, he said. Before hearings are concluded, Bridges said, the committee will hear from representatives of farm organizations and grain marketers from Minneapolis, Omaha, City, Chicago and Sioux City, and from major grain users.

Senator Reed (R-Kans) a com- milloo member, told reporters that it has become obvious that the present rale of wheat export cannot be maintained after June 30. Auto-Plane Crashes During Test Today SAN DIE-GO, Nov. 18 (fJ.R)—Con- solidated Vultce's new experimental auto-plane crashed today in Chula Vista, Cal. The pilot was Lawrence Phillips, 31, San Diego, First reports said ho was not seriously injured but was "shaken up" and taken to Paradise Valley hospital. The automobile section of the plane was badly crushed but the foot wing and the 190 horsepower engine section were not seriously damaged.

The four-place combination automobile and airplane has a complete auto engine under the hood in the lower section which is built like a small car and equipped with shock absorbers to absorb landing shock. Bilbo's Successor Seated In Senate WASHINGTON, Nov. 18. John C. Stcnnis, was given Ihe senate seat denied a year ago to the late Senator Theodore O.

Bilbo. iSlonillH Wllll HllCOOHflOl' 1.0 Hllbo Jiuit NovornlHM 1 'I, lie will servo the roniHlnlny I'ivc years ol! uncxpircd term, Bilbo died lost Aijg, 21. Accompanied lo the clias by Mississippi's senior senator, James Eastland, Stcnnis was administered the oath of office by Prcsidonl Pro Temporo Vmulonborg (R- PIONEER IS CLAIMED BIG SPRING, Nov. 18, James ,1, McJSInith, 72, died at his lomo in Forsnn, mi I ON south of. toclny.

Ho had boon a resident o-f Howard county for 41 years. 1,000 Persons Are Expected The last phase of the world wide. Crusade' for Christ i 3ta rted foux 1 years primary 'interest at a special session, here Wednesday of tne Northwest conference of the Methodist church, two bishops and other, chiirch. dignitaries expected to be present along with probably 1,000 pastors and laymen from all parts oC the Plains and Panhandle, The two-day conference is lo be held at First Methodist '-church, starting at 10 a. m.

and features a banquet at 6 o'clock and an address by Bishop W. Angle Smith of Oklahoma City in the church auditorium at 8 o'clock tomorrow night. Dr. Smith is presiding bishop in Oklahoma and New Mexico, Bishop To Preside Bishop Charles C. Selecman of Dallas, presiding bishop for this and other Texas conferences, is to preside at.

a short session of the conference at the closing session of two-clay -meeting Thursday afternoon, The meeting centers around the fourth-year and final phase of the Crusade program, through which increased church school attendance is sought, according to Dr. H. I. Robinson, host pastor, The two-day program as announced by Dr. Robinson opens at 10 a.

m. Wednesday with a devotional service, followed-at 10:30 by an address by Rev. Bernard Hutch, executive aecrotnry ol! the Texas conierenco board of evangelism. Dr, Gastbn Foote, pastor of First Methodist church at Day who served in this conference sev-. eral years ago, is to speak at o'clock, and at 1:45 p.

group meetings are to be held. These include board of lay activities, Women's Society of Christian Service, board of evangelism, workers with youth, workers with children, workers with adults, camp committees and other groups. Editor Will Speak At 2:30 o'clock Dr, Edwin A. Hunter, editor of Southwestern Christian Advocate, a church pub- licatiqn, is to speak on "The Rural Church," At 0 o'clock a banquet is to be held at Hotel Lubbock for preachers and laymen, and more than 350 reservations have been made, Dr. Robinson said today.

Bishop Smith's night address concludes the day's After a Thursday morning devotional at 10 o'clock, Rev, Uel D. Crosby, secretary of the board of education of the Nrthwest Texas conference, is to lead a discussion on the last phase of the Crusade, Layman's hour has been set for 11 a. with Ray Nichols, of Vernon, conference lay leader, in charge, and at 11:30 an address lo be made by Dr. H. Bascom Watts, pastor of the Boston Avenue Methodist church at Tulsa.

The sowdciu ol! tho (jiico, Dr, pruKldliip; starts lit 2:30 o'clock as the final jcsison of the meeting, Hughes Expecting No More Army Contracts LOS ANGELES, Nov. .18 (U.R>— mild today Hint "ila IcHlimony on Air CorpK dealings before a Senate investigating committee probably finished him as a military plane builder. "The Army probably wouldn't icoopl plane ol! mine now if It rad gold wings," In; dared to attack Wright field brass, and that's fatal." Truman Appeal For New Power Met Defiantly Rationing, Price And Wage Curbs Marked For Death (By Tlin Annodnlnd WASHINGTON, Nov. Angry Republicans today mm 1 Iced Cor almost certain death in Congress President Truman's plea for standby power t'o invoice limited price- wage controls' and rationing, Led by Senator Taft of Ohio, an avowed presidential aspirant, and House Speaker Martin of! Massachusetts, GOP legislators launched such a bitter attack on these two of the President's 10 cost of. living proposals that they appeared certain to become top issues in the 1948 political campaign.

Replies By Radio Taft, replying to the President by radio eight and one-hall! hours after Mr, Truman addressed a joint session of Congress yesterday, sounded this' Republican battle cry; "This is the police state condemned by the President himself only a month ago, This is the end of empnomlc freedom." In his message to the lawmakers Mr. Truman summoned back into special session to vote aid for Europe and try to check rising prices at home, the President asked for immediate 'authority to allocate scarce, commodities, control export's, tighten credit and impose other inflation curbs. Powers Are Asked Buck of. these he 'asked for power to clamp clown with "KQ- locllvc" price and wage controls, together with rationing, if he found such steps necessary to keep essential living costs in check, Taft said there "will never be a time when an emergency cannot be summed up" nnd demanded to know whether this country should abandon its philosophy of freedom" for the police state methods which have brought the rest of the world as seekers for charily at our door," Even before Taft, who heads the Senate Republican policy committee as well as the Senate-House economic committee tore into the President's program, other GOP leaders voiced their own sharp criticisms, More Colossal OPA Martin told reporters Mr, Tru- mnn more Ibssa). and added the economic prpjgram hag little, chance for enactment during, the special session.

House Republican Leader Hal- leek of Indiana said the President had asked Congress "to grant him dictatorial pow'ovs." Democratic Senators Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma and Byre! of Virginia said the program speils "regimentation." Taft charged that "political strategy" was involved in Truman's speech. Declaring that the President's proposals repre-- sent a surrender to the left wing," the Ohio senator added: "We stand at the crossroads today between a free America and a planned economy; This is the (Turn to Page 10, Column 5, Please) -9 More Rain Forecast For Area LUBB Means "By Associated Press" ofJZssocJated and TWgAt JLeased Wj're Service EVENING RNAL Means "By Uniteo Prc VOL. 24, NO. 50 LUBBOCK, TEXAS, "The Hub Of The TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18,1947 U. S.

Tariffs Seven Dead As Plane Crashes WILMINGTON, Nov. 18 Constellation plane crashed and burned at New Castle airport today and state police.said 1 at least seven persons we're killed, The big piano WHK, identified by the airport telephone operator as a Trans-World Airline plane, It reportedly was carrying only seven persons on a test flight prior to being placed into service for overseas service. Bursts Into Flame The plane came in for a landing at about 12:15 rn, (CST) and crashed, exploding and bursting into flames on the edge of the DuPpnt highway leading south to Baltimore, State police said apparently there were no survivors, At New York Trans-World Airline said no passengers were aboard on the training flight, TWA spokesman at the airport said the plane had left New Castle airport this morning and presumably had been in the neighborhood throughout the day. There was no immediate explanation ol: why the plane cracked up but the spokesman said the wings were ripped from the plane and the gas tanks ruptured in the crash, causing the.fire. Light Drizzles Are Recorded This Morning Moisture Genera! For Stare During Past Few Days llnin hud slowed to nn occasional drizzle on the South Plains this morning, but more was forecast for this week, The total recorded at the U.

S. Wonthor 1.1 ronu north of Lubbock slnco Thursday morning was 1,32, Only .01 of an inch was measured at the weather station midnight to 9:30 today, but slightly more fell in some places in the area. The highest precipitation in West Texas since midnight as reported "to the weather station was .12 at Childress. The total five-day precipitation included some moisture each day except Saturday. Forecast Is Given The forecast was for occasional light rain and drizzle today; mostly cloudy today and tonight; partly cloudy Wednesday and slightly warmer; colder Thursday, and continued cold weather Friday and Saturday, Precipitation during remainder oC the week is expected bo chiefly on Thi.irsdny, the weather station, announced.

Approximately hul.1! an inch of the entire South Plains, giving new hope to wheat growers and ranchers, but putting a damper on harvest of the area's big cotton crop. Rains have fallen generally over Texas during the last few days, Low Pressure Area The United Press reported this morning that a low pressure area that caused the precipitation moved eastward along the Louisiana Gull! coast, The low pressure area centered over the weekend in Old Mexico, pulling moisture laden east winds from the Gulf over the state. Forecasters ot the U. S. Weather bureau at Dallas said, however, that the front now had moved o'ff the Louisiana coast and that clem ing weather, with the exception of spotty showers, WHS expected In West Texas by this afternoon.

Temperature Unchanged There was 'little change in temperature during the past 24 hours, weather bureau spokesmen said, with Brownsville registering 84 degrees yesterday for the state's warmest spot. Pampa, with 37 degrees, was the coldest. Temperatures early today ranged from 56 degrees at Brownsville to 33 at, Pampn, Lul'kin, in the heart ol! the Texas timber belt, received 1.02 inches of rain for the largest amount reported to the Dallas weather bureau. Other precipitation included: Junction, Fr'edericksburg, Big Spring, Austin, Corpus Christi, Wichita Falls, (Turn to Page 10, Column 7, Please; Badly Hurt In Crash, Man Shoots Himself ROCKY MOUNT, Nov. 18 Police Chief Thomas, painfully hurt when his automobile cracked into a stone wall, ended h'is life by firing bullet into his head, a coroner's jury reported, Browne, who said lie was the first person to reach the scene of the accident, testified that when he went to summon aid, the- chiei! bore no gunshot wound.

Browne's wife testified that she meanwhile went to the wrecked car and found that Thomas had been wounded in the head, 'Prisons Not Supposed To Be Exemplary" Hollywood Version Of Prison Life Gets Blast From Judge my Tim tiulinci WOTtTM, Nov, 111 A Hollywood vor.slcm of prliion Ill'o in state prisons in the United the ire today of a federal district judge. Federal District Judge T. Whitfield Davidson, in sentencing a two-time loser to tho fcclornl prison Tor vlolntlon of Lite Mann act, snid from the bench that "it Is a bad atmosphere when an audience applauds convicts and hisses officers of the. Jaw," "There is an example of tho morale of country whoti such a thing happens," the jurist said, The prisoner, James Vernon Al- len, 27-ycnr-old Fort Worth man, wifit HoriUiticod I'or Ihrun for I rn i LSI )or! Ing woman from Fort Worth to Texarkona, in He also served a term in the Massachusetts prison for assault and beating, and previously had drawn a prison sentence in Texas, Referring to the picture show, Davidson Hiiid Hint "sinto prisons nre not oxornplnry liu'tll- tutions, They aren't supposed to be," "I have been in nearly £)11 of them in.this state," lie the men provoko RiinrdK to such null cm no hna boon clu.Hcribcd hurc." Allen claimed that he hod been "bull-whipped" the first clay he was in the Texas prison. "Imperialist Marshall Plan" Draws Fire American Crew Joins French In Port Of Marseille Strike Reduced Import Duties In 23 Nations I (By The Unitod PARIS, Nov.

American crew of a U. merchant vessel joined the paralyzing Communist- bred strike of French seamen and dock workers at Marseille today and took advantage of. the occns- Gets 1918 Woges Memory Recovers $13.45 For Man MASSENA, N. Nov. 18 Cole's memory recovered $13,45 for him today.

He asked ihe payroll department of the Aluminum Company of America to check to see if he didn't have some back pay coming. The dusiy records proved the company owed Cote $13.45 for the week of Aug. 28, 1918. "I just happened to remember that I missed my pay check that week," Cote said. "I enlisted in the army that, pay day." ion to issue a blnst at the Marshall plan" and the Taft-Hartley labor act.

As the Americans joined the strike in France's "red capital," Premier Paul Rnmadier stepped up his search for a stronger cabinet to stop the Communist-inspired crisis of. agitation and strike and informed sources said a new middle-of-the-road govern would bo in office by the end of this week, Force Said Threatened The Americans who struck at Mnrsclllo nro members of the Nn- Uonnl MnrlUmo Union (CIO). They cabled their president, Joe Curran, who is anti-Communist, that the French government had threatened to use force against the strikers "with danger to the security and life of crew members o'f the NMU." They nsked Curran to inform the New York membership of their action. The ship the American strikers were on was the Henry Gilbert Costin. They also issued statement, telling their French colleagues that they had walked out "because (Turn to Page 10, Column 7, Please) NEW MILITARY PLAN IS BARED S.

Army en To Serve With Greeks The United Prom) ATHENS, Nov. Griswold, supervisor ol! American aid to Greece, announced today that under now p'lim U. S. military men would servo as advisers and liaison officers with the Greek forces fighting the guerrillas. He said Maj, Gen.

William G. Livesay, ranking American officer in Greece, would be in command of. the new advisory staff. "We arc not going to command the Greek Army," Livesay said. "As soon as we get proper authority, we will advise it.

But if we advise an attack which fails, it is Pay Increase To Be Asked NEW YORK, Nov. 18 Three CIO maritime unions will ask a 25 per cent wage increase when their contracts come up for review Dec. 15, Union officials meeting at joint conference snld today. Leaders of the National. Maritime Union, National Union of Marine Cooks and Stewards, and the American Communications association said they would seek national arbitration oi! the wage increase demand if necessary.

System Threatened The three unions were joined by the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's union and the Marine and Industrial Shipbuilders of America in voting to seek the assistance ol! the World Federation of Tritclo Unionists in an effort to "protect and maintain hiring halls." The conference said the hiring hall system was threatened by the Tuft-Hartley labor bill on expiration of the unions' present contracts next June 15 and proposed a general strike if the privilege is not contained in the new contracts. 18 Man Facing Charge Of Murder Escapes NEVADA Nov. Hardy, 24-year-old Maine itinerant, escaped from the Nevada county jail sometime during the night, tho HhcrilT's office iodu.y, Hardy nnd his Loin, (ire charged with luring W. Mt. 1 Clain, 48, Burbank, to his death in a roadside forest glen last spring, Hardy and his wife, Lois, were scheduled to have gone on (rial lore next Monday on nhnrgcs of inirdor, cx- lo ex- the Greeks' responsibility." He said Americans would enter combnt areas as observers of operations.

"The whole of Greece is more or less a combat area anyway," he said. Griswold said he had recommended a broadened authority 10 weeks 'ago "for Ihe help of the success of the mission." He peeled American personnel move in "rapidly." He said liaison men would tend as low as the division level and that whether they could be considered in combat depended on "dofiniliona." Directive Not Received As yet, he snlri, vhe directive hart not been received and only the general outline of (ho new plan was -known here But he said Greek army morale had been a factor behind his recommendation of its adoption. The Griswold announcement followed an announcement in the British House of Commons ycsler- day that the British military mission in Greece had cost $8,000,000 since April, lO-Jfl. lloporls from WiishliiRlpn had mid tho British would withdraw Ihoir troops by July 1. Child Falls In Sewer Manhole, Disappears SEATTLE, Nov.

18. five- year-old girl, accompanying her father and an aunt on nn evening walk, plummeted into an open sewer manhole last night and was swept away by the swift waters 12 feet below. A tortuous night-long search, through miles of winding underground tunnels uncovered no trace of Ihe youngster. Harbor patrolmen and firemen were posted along the waterfront where Ihe sewers empty into Elliott bay. 'The victim was Sherron Irene Rothrock, only child of Mr.

and Mrs. Dean Rothrock. Today's Cotton on tho Lubbock cotton market today: Middling 29.CJ5; middling 30,25. Embezzlinq Suspect Taken In Colorado DENVER, Nov. 16.

(U.R)—Agents today held Philip Wendel Shinn, 43, a former S. maritime service officer who was arrested on embezzlement charges at a luxurious cabin hidden away in Colorado's mountains, Fpclornl Shlnn jiinl rllHiippoimid from Homilon, TOXIIK, with ship 1 payroll of $29,000 last Murch. Shinn iiad $1,022 when he was arrested, the FBI The rest was spent on a trip to New York, across the south to California and to Colorado, where ho bought a nnnr Confior nnd modern- ised II. for EIGHT ARE INJURED PORT ALBERN1, B. Nov, 18, persons wore Injured mul dnniiiKo oHt'imiilofl nt more limn $100,000 cmiMcd mirly lo- clny when fire iotully destroyed Ihe King Edward hotel here.

There were no known.fatalities. Cut By Pad 1 State Department. Awaits Reaction To Trade Treaty (By The United WASHINGTON, Nov. Stale deparlment today awaited the nation's reaction to the general tariff and trade agreement under which the United Stales nnd 22 other countries agreed to slash their import duties on thousands items hold present rates oh many others. -The general agreement, characterized as "the most comprchcq- sive international instrument over negotiated for the reduction of barriers to world trade," was public last night in and the other signatory capitals.

Many of the changes go into effect Jan. 1. Tariff Cut For the United States, the agreement meant the widest tariff reduction ever mode at a single timi, amounting in many cases to this full 50 per cent reduction permitted by law. The cuts bring the pattern of American duties almost lo tho level of the Underwood tariff of 1.913, the lowest In modern times. Today the Slolc department wondered what the Congress and particularly what the people who grow wheat, wool, cotton and Jo- bacco; distill whisky, make furniture, refine gasoline, and produce thousands of other types of goods, are going to soy about the new agreement.

For while it embraces about 45,000 different items, or about half the goods moving in world trade, it commits the: United States to cutting or "freezing" its import tariffs on 4,000 items which affect many sectors of American life. Liberalised For example, and this is drop in the general agreement bucket, the United 'States gnye (Turn lo Page 10, Column 6, Ploaae) Area Roads To Be Lengthened Extension of two important South Plains farm Hale and Lamb afi. nounced to The Evening Journal this afternoon from Austin. They were: 1. Designnlion of farm- highway 5-1 from U.

S. highway 87 east toward Petersburg was extended lo Petersburg, 4,5 miles, to connect with the easterly designation, of farm highway 54, on condition that right of way toe furnished of cost to Ihe state. Maintained By State Designation of farm high- 54 from Littlefield to Spade- was extended easterly to Ihe Hale county line to connect with the dpsignation of farm highway 54 in Hale county, subject to the condition. Maintenance on each road would be assumed by the Jan. 1, the Associated Press The announcements were mow in connection with a news release saying 17 Texas highway construction and maintenance projects costing $759,700 had been authorized today by the State Highway commission, none of the others ix this section, free 2.

way "Braille Romdnce" Ends In Marriage NOV. in (U.R) The "magazine ad" romance of a South Carolina blind man and a woman from Texas who is almost blind climaxed in thoir honeymoon today. Miss Erin Gorlruda Scott, of Gorslcanii, imd I'knuwo Knl- l'H, 'III, of Columbia, we! rifo yunis ntfo wlion ho ndvurlis'Hi a magazine for the blind about his course in braille. Miss Scott answered, They started off talking irr braille and went from there to long telephone conversations. H- wns only few mnro steps to allnr here yeslerday.

Ladies' 2 diamond Gruen 14K caar $139.50. King's, 1020 bdwy. Adv. FYO Tunt in 1340 Kc..

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