The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 111, Ed. 2 Monday, November 24, 1947 Page: 11 of 16
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Of 'Glib' Use of Statistics
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 -
(UP)— The American Bankers as-
sociation accused the Truman ad-
ministration today of making
"glib" use of statistics in asking
congress to revive installment buy-
ing controls to help check infla-
tion.
The association opposed restora-
tion of the curbs and challenged
the figures cited by President Tru-
man and other administration of-
ficials to show the rise in con-
sumer credit.
The bankers’ position was out-
lined in a statement prepared for
NEAR ODESSA
3 Big Spring Trainmen
Killed as Boiler Explodes
• ODESSA, Nov. 24 —(UP)—The in the wrecked cab, which
5 - blasted off the tracks. Wilkerson's
was
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Abilene. Texes, Monday Evening, November 24, 1947
blinding explosion of s bojler on a,
Texas & Pacific freight train near
here Sunday afternoon took the
lives of three Big Spring men, all
employes of the railroad.
Instantly killed were B 0. Bunn,
♦9, the engineer; P. A. O'Brien, 29.
fireman: and N. R. Wilkerson, 21.
the brakeman
Bunn and O'Brien were trapped
Scarlet Fever Cases
Increasing in State;
Symptoms Described
Scarlet fever cases are Increas-
ing throughout Texas, .with ap-
proach of the winter season.
4 warned Dr. David M. Cowgill, di-
rector of the city-county health
unit, who urged residents of Tay-
lor county to guard against the
acutely infectious disease.
No cases have been reported
from Taylor county this season
to date, but 55 new cases were re-
ported in the state during the
week ending Nov. 15, bringing the
year’s total to 1,242.
Scarlet fever usually strike# in
a the winter season, with a major
2 portion of the case# breaking out
in late December, Dr. Cowgill
said.
Considered one of the most dis-
abling and dangerous of the dis-
eases usually associated with child-
hood, it actually is confined to no
age limit, the director pointed out.
First symptoms, he pointed out,
include sore throat, vomiting, fe-
ver and headache, followed by the
distinctive scarlet rash which
A gives this disease its name Com-
plications can result in prolonged
disability or death.
"A child with any kind of sore
throat should be seen by the fam-
ily physician promptly,” he ad-
vised. "The treatment he pre-
scribes will reduce the possibili-
ty of dangerous complications”
body was thrown 40 yards clear of
the wreckage.
Witnesses riding in automobiles
about a mile from the tracks said
the boiler suddenly shot straight
up into the air, and hurtled end
over end. Residents of West Texas
oilfield camps, living nearby, said
the ground shivered as though dy-
namite had been set off.
The train was westbound, with
Toyah, Tex, its next stop
Conductor J. E. Hendrick and
Rear Brakeman J. W Parmley, in
the caboose at the time of the
explosion, were not injured.----•—
submission at Senate Banking com-
mittee hearings on legislation to
restore controls on “easy credit.”
That is one of the proposals in
Mr Truman’s 10-point anti-infla-
tion program.
R M. Evans, a governor of the
Federal Reserve board, was call-
ed to present the government’s
case. He will tell the committee
that the board wants to set up
the curbs as they existed on their
Nov. 1 expiration date and not
return to the tougher rules in ef-
fect during the war.
The wartime regulations called
for one-half down payments and
12 months to pay the balance The
more recent regulation called for
one-third down with 15 montha to
complete payments.
Kenton R. Cravens of St. Louis
served as spokesman for the bank-
ers association. He said reimposi-
tion of consumer credit controls
"will not deter inflationary forces
now at work” but would force con-
sumers to cash their savings to
get goods they need.
Attacking the administration's
statistical case for the -controls.
Cravens' statement said:
"Statistics are used glibly. It
is commonly said, and indeed was
stated by the President. In his
address to congress on Nov. 17,
that the amount of consumer cre-
dit outstanding has risen rapidly
during the past year and a half,
from $6,500,000,000 in 1945 to more
than $11,000,000,000.
"The fact of the matter is that
less than one-half of this figure
of 511.000.000,000 represents the
kind of credit we are talking about
when we speak of consumer cre-
-dit.”---------------.--------------------------
}uam Poses Problem as
U. S. Bastion of Defense
” New French Cabinet Faces
| Spreading Wave of Strikes.
■ PARIS. Nov 24 - A Premier one Moderate Independent Repub-
Robert Schuman announced today
lican
Retained as foreign minister in
the formation of a new coalition
cabinet and immediately plunged the new government was George,
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spreading wave of strikes that
threatened the nation with econo-
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WHO’LL BUY THESE PUPPIES?—Curious spectators watch
two Italian boys trying to peddle their pups on a street in
Rome. They asked 8,000 lire ($16) for the animals. (Photo
by NEA-Acme staff correspondent1 Albert Blasetti)
Too Much Inflation
NEW YORK —UP - A pledge
to keep the price of a glass of
draft-beer down to 10 cents despite
an increase of $1.24 a barrel at
the brewery was made by 1,400
members of the United Restaurant
Liquor Dealers of Manhattan. They
said they believed "inflation has
gone far enough "
Wrong Track
CAMDEN, N. J. —UP - Rac-
ing is Jockey Henri Mora’s career.
The faster he goes the more money
he makes but not off the race
track. He was arrested by Cam-
den Bridge police on a charge of
driving 60-miles an hour over the
span without a license He was fin-
ed 525
mic disaster.
Already tied up by walkouts
were nine out of every 10 rail-
roads in France. All the country !
harbors and most of her coal mines
were idle, and all grade schools
in the capital were closed
The situation was further com-
plicated by the threat of distur-
bances arising from a one-franc
increase in subway fares in Paris,
which went into effect at 6 a m
today
To meet the threat several thous-
and mobile guardsmen were rush-
ed into the city last night and
reservists of the 1947 class, who
recently were recalled to duty,
were assembled in readiness at
Fontainbleau, 40 miles south of
the capital.
Schuman announced the forma-
tion of his new government at 12.15
a m after 36 hours of negotiating
with the leaders of all major poli-
tical parties except the Commu-
nist and Gen. Charles DeGaultes
Rally of the French People RPF'
The cabinet—France’s seventh
since her liberation from German
domination-is composed of six
members of Schuman’s Popular
Republican Movement (MRP), five
members of the Socialist party’s
radical right wing, three middle-
of-the road Radical Socialists and
who is scheduled to depart for
London tonight to participate in
the Big Four Foreign Ministers
conference, which opens there to-
morrow
in political complexion the new
government does not differ radi-
cally from that of Schuman's pre-
decessor, Socialist Paul Ramadier, ,
who resigned last Wednesday.
One new angle was added, how-
ever, with the inclusion of a minis-
ter who openly supports DeGaulle
Rene Mayer, finance minister.
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• To Stay in Bed
MARSHALL, Nov. 24 — My-
ron G Blalock, Democratic na-
tional committeeman from Texas,
must remain in bed for two months
as the result of a heart attack
last Friday, relatives have quoted
the attending physician as saying
Blalock was reported still in a
critical condition today, but was
said to be much improved A
member of the family said he
o spent a restful night Saturday and
a ‘‘good day” yesterday.
Final Gesture
PHILADELPHIA - UP - Fire
Box 2295 collapsed from old age.
—But—it turned, in its own false
alarm to notify firemen The box
fell to the ground when the pillar
supporting it snapped from corro-
sion. The box landed flat on its
aface. breaking the glass and turn-
ing in the alarm.
By MILES W. VAUOHN
GUAM— (UP) —The United
States has laid the foundation for
a key structure in its projected
military domination of the western
Pacific Ocean. Actual construction
of a great military baae here still
lies in the future, however, this
correspondent found during a tour
of the island
Security prevents a complete in-
spection of Guam but visiting cor-
respondents are able to see enough
to reach these conclusions:
1. An early and final decision is
needed on whether Guam will be
permanently under the adminis-
tration of the Navy Department or
whether It shall be under some
civilian organization such as the
Department of Interior Every,
thing here indicates that the pres-
ent naval administration will be
continued as a permanent policy.
The island primarily is useful as a
naval base and stationary aircraft
carrier—a strategic area for the
domination of the western Pacific
Ocean and Eastern Asia.
SPEED-UP NEEDED
2. Military development, which
has been retarded by lack of
funds, should be speeded up not
only for reasons of national de-
fense but also long-range economy.
Funds are needed immediately",
for example, to build a new gas-
oline distribution system for the
army air forces stationed on the
islands. The present "temporary"
system, hurriedly laid down dur-
ing the war, is literally falling
apart Wastage from leaking dur-
ing the past six months is esti-
mated to have been equal to the
coat of building a new permanent
system.
1 Improved permanent housing
for both military and civilian per-
sonnel on the island la badly need-
ed The present temporary huts in
some areas are not only uncom-
fortable but in some cases danger-
oua in thia region of terrific ty-
phoons.: 7---
4. Allegations by some Ameri-
can commentators that the Guam
administration has been negligent
in returning farm lands to the
Guamanian people are false. The
great bulk of land of all kinds on
the island is in the hands of Gua-
can be obtained by working for
the government.
J. 5. TOO GENEROUS?
Americans here generally feel
that "New Dealism" has been ex-
tended to Guam without much
consideration for the realities and
that the economy of the island
has been thrown entirely out of
gear by Washingtons’ generosity.
Thus farmers raise no crops be-
cause they can make more from
“Uncle—Sugar": fishermen have
cast aside their nets for the same
reason Household servants are
difficult to get and demand wages
which are entirely out of the reach
of most American housewives.
One gets the impression here
that both military and civilian per-
sonnel on the island feel they are
being harassed by detailed instruc-
tions of all kinds from Wash-
ington The instructions have little
to do with what presumably is the
great and immediate American ob-
jective on this island—the early
development of a powerful sea and
air base which can play a deciding
factor in event of war in this part
of the world.
Rites Incomplete for
James H. Wall, 81
Funeral arrangements for James
IT Wall. 81, who died at his resi-
dence.* 774 Sycamore, Sunday even-
ing. "were incomplete this morning
They will be announced by Kiker-
Warren Funeral Home.
Mr Wall's death followed a
week s illness He had been in ill
health about two years.
Born near Mount View, Ark., on
Aug. 22. UM. Mr. WaU was mar-
ried on Nov. 6, 1888, to Josephine
Guinn at Batesville, Ark They
moved to Ballinger in 1906 and to
Abilene in 1916.
Mr. Wall is survived by his
widow, three sons, M A Wall,
774 Sycamore. S A Wall of San
Angelo, and G R Wall of Albu-
querque N My one daughter, Mrs
Curley Covington of Fort Worth:
21 grandchildren, 19 great-grand-
children and one great-great-grand-
child
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Offer the Hi
Trade-In Allowances
'I hope that’s true of our dealers
everywhere!” says Josep!
I don’t know that all of the more
than 4,000 Kaiser-Frazer dealers
are offering “highest trade-in allow-
ances," as reported by the press, but
I sincerely hope so. For personally,
I feel that the used-car allowances
being made by many automobile
dealers today are far too low.
We have constantly urged our
dealers to offer fair trade-in allow-
ances, based on what cars will bring
when they are re-sold, leas the cost
of handling and reconditioning.
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Such fair practices, we tell our deal-
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continuing business.
Before you come to a decision on
your next car, I hope you will find
out what your Kaiser-Frazer dealer
will allow you on your old car.
Dealing with him, you’ll not only
receive fair treatment on both sales
and service, but you’ll get the most
modern automobile built today.
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