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THE WEATHER
Temperature, high Friday, 7«
degrees; low Ritapgf morning,
SO. Barometer, SQJS4, stetady.
Slightly cloudy, not much
change la temperature.
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Cotton Outlook Good So*®' Pe3ce
Bid Motives
Are Derided
"Weather To Count
A-Bomb Race Is On
Fall Ginning Time
Here—Yields From
Third To Half Bale
Are Being Reported
Kali of the year, the hum of
cotton gins, and arrival of pull-
ers from east Texas, central
Texas and Mexican families
from South Texas Saturday
heralded- the arrival of cotton
season all over 'he area.
More pullers are needed for
the big acreage but hundreds
are here.
Depending on the weather
"from here on out, the plains will
have one of the biggest crops in
history and this immediate area
will have one of the best crops
in several years, it is said.
Cotton grades are improving
materially with fair weather.
The cotton harvest will be a
"weather proposition" for the
rest of the season, everyone
agreed. With favorable weather
one of the best crops in man,)*
years is in prospect, running
* into millions of dollars.
EXPENSIVE CROP
P'or many farmers this has
been an expensive crop because
of as high as four plantings and
now the labor shortage.
Those who get cotton up even
on the second planting seem to
have better cotton crops.
Oins and farmers are cooper-
ating in a general effort to buy
cotton on government grades
,< this fall in most localities.
BUYING ON GRADE
The Planters Gin organization
has taken the lead in encourag-
ing farmers to sell on grade be-
cause of the benefits of better
prices for good cotton.
Gins are assembling samples
daily and rushing them by truck
to the classers where possible.
Planters Gin is pointing out
that paying for cotton on grade
is a fairer method for the farm-
,g er and will encourage planting
*■" better seed, better care of cot-
ton and better ginning. This
section once had premium type
cotton and this year results of
better breeding are showing up
with much high quality cotton
in spots.
Grade on cotton is paying a
wide differential in the early
season buying, reports from over
the territory show.
GOOD YIELDS
County Agent M. B. Temple-
ton of Nolan County reported
Saturday that harvest is well
under way with yields running
from a third to a'half bale. Vol-
unteer and early sown grain are
growing with prospect of more
small grain to be sown in Octob-
er. Livestock and ranges are
in good condition. Stocker lambs
and calves are being marketed
in large numbers.
Scurry County Agent O. M.
Fowler reported cotton is open-
' ing fast after wet weather drove
pullers out of the field for
several days recently. A limited
acreage of small grain is being
sowed. Livestock are doing well,
spraying for the horn fly having
started.
6 KILLED IN CRASH
TOKYO, Sept. 24 (UP>—Eight
crewmen of an Air Force B-29
were killed and six injured yes-
- terday when their plane crashed
011 the airstrip at Guam after
an engine failed on the takeoff.
Far East Air Forces headquar-
ters said today.
I
SHE BENEFITED FROM "BONE BANK"—Mary Robins, 6,
is all smiles at the Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
She will be able to walk and play again following a spine
fusion operation. Mary was one of the first to benefit from
new "Bone Bank" arrangement between Chicago hospitals.
The nurse is Betty Ann Armstrong. (NEA Tclephoto).
70 Combat Group Air Force
Will Get New Consideration
WASHINGTON. Sept. 2-1 (UP)
David E. Lilienthal believes that
Russia's possession of the a-bomb
means this country must do
everything and anything neces-
sary to "estabilsh unquestioned
and unmistakable leadership" in
the atomic armaments race be-
tween the east and west.
The Atomic Energy Commis-
sion chairman on vacation in
Massachusetts said he felt pre-
cisely now as he felt, before he
knew Russia had the bomb.
He believes that it is the com-
mission's job to concentrate on
weapon production and to refuse
"to be distracted by the thou-
sand and one useful things that
in a normal enterprise and un-
der normal conditions one's at-
tention might well have gone
to."
Because the commission has
spent the great bulk of its ener-
gy and appropriations on jacking
up the a-bomb stockpile, officials
doubted that President Truman's
disclosure of Russia's atomic
progress would force any great
revamping of the U. S. program.
There was no doubt, however,
that the President's announce-
ment would have considerable
impact on both congressional
and military thinking.
Today both military and con-
gressional sources called for an-
other look at the U. S. atomic
program to make certain the $3.-
500,000,000 is ticking properly.
Air Force Size?
Congressional sentiment grew
for expanding the U. S. Ait-
Force to 70 combat groups. In-
formed sources said Russia may
have more than 300 bombers of
the B-29 type capable of carry-
ing atomic bombs 2,000 miles—
4,000 miles on one-way missions.
This country now has turned out
about 60 of an order of 170 B-
.'ifi's. the world's biggest bomber
and about the same number of
B-50s', an improved version of
the B-29. On top of that it has
2,500 B-29's — the longrrange
work horse that dropped two
a-bombs on Japan.
Defense officials called for
quick congressional action on
measures to build up the coun-
try's Alaskan bastion and to
start erection of a North Ameri-
can radar network to warn of hos-
tiV) aiplans. Congress has ap-
proved expenditure of $161,000,-
000 to this end but has not yet
acted on a $50,000,000 appropra-
tion to kick the project off.
LONDON, Sept. 24 (UP) —
Russia's achievement of an at-
See AI R FORCE On Page Eight
Western Powers
See No Relation
In Words, Action
FLUSHING, N. Y., Sept. 24,—
(UP)— Chile, in the first west-
ern reaction from the floor of
the United Nations to Rus-
sia's five-power peace bid, to-
day derided the proposal made
yesterday by Soviet Foreign
Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky as
'profoundly ironic."
Chilean condemnation of the
Russian peace pact proposal
came after Poland had welcom-
ed the Vishinsky treaty sugges-
tion as a "concrete contribu-
tion to the work of peace."
Herman Santa Cruz, Chile's
chief delegate, told the UN's
General Assembly:
"The Soviet Union speaks to
us of peace while calling for ag-
gression against Yugoslavia and
demanding the installation of a
government subservient to its
wishes. The Soviet Union
speaks to us of peace at the very
moment when she is concluding
her task in China.
The Chilean position corre-
sponded with that of high Amer-
ican and British sources, who
were inclined to dismiss the Rus-
sian proposal for a five-power
treaty "for the strengthening of
peace" as another of Vishin-
sky's propaganda gestures.
"While the charter of San
Francisco promises a world of
peaceful intercourse," Santa
Cruz said, "the Soviet Union
promotes a Red crusade to sub-
mit to its will the domestic and
foreign conduct of the sovereign
nation of Yugoslavia.
Santa Cruz said the "partici-
pation of the Soviet Union" in
the communist conquest of China
"proves the tragic gravity of
!he situation."
Hurricane Bears
Down Upon Coast
North Of Tampico
TAMPICO, Mexico, Sept. 24,
(UP)— Torrential rains beat
down on this port city today
and authorities suspended all
shipping as a hurricane ap-
proached from the Gulf of Mex-
ico.
The hurricane, reported mov-
ing slowly in a northwesterly
direction, was expected to hit
the coast alxiut 4 p. m. Weather
observers said it probably will
strike north of Tampico, but city
officials took no chances.
Hundreds of persons began
taking refuge in churches, hotels
and public buildings, and radio
warnings were broadcast up and
down the Mexican Gulf coast.
SENATOR WORKS FROM WHEEL CHAIR—Senator Wayne
Morse, Republican from Oregon, chats with Senator Brian Mc-
M.ihon on way from his office in the Senate building in Wash-
ington to the Senate Chamber. There the Senator voted on
the Arms Aid Bill. Senator Morse is recuperating from a fall
suffered in Oregon while he was riding his prize-winning
stallion. (NEA Telephoto).
Governor To Be In
Snyder Celebration
U. S. To Keep In
Front—Truman
Withholds Most Of
What He 'Knew'
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 (UP)
—History's ninth atomic explo-
sion — this time in Russia —
kicked into the open today an
atomic arms race in which Am-
erican experts said this country
is so far ahead the Russians
may never catch up.
The race for a-bombs, be-
tween the cold war champions of
the West and the East, pitted
the United States and the U. S.
S. R. in a contest in which the
future of civilization may be at
stake.
Atomic scientists said the So-
viets now are about where the
United States was at the time
of the first U. S. atomic bomb
test explosion at Alamagordo,
N. Mex., in 1945. The U. S. has
come a long way since then.
With growing realization that
this country was not caught
napping, the capital today be-
gan to share the calm with
which President Truman dis-
closed that America's atomic
monopoly had been shattered.
Top diplomats said it is pos-
sible, but not probable, that
Russia wants war. They said our
j aim, in any event, continues to
| be establishment of a lasting
; world peace.
Military men conceded it was
| oossible for Russia—once she
has a stock of A-bombs—to de-
liver them to points on Ameri-
I ca's Pacific northwest coast.
But they said this country could
hit a more powerful blow, strik-
ing targets anywhere in Russia.
Physicists pointed out that
the big question is not of mak-
ing the first bomb. The real
test is, what sort of production
rate can be established to back
it up? '
As th^ president pointed out
tti his ,aref't"y worded an-
nouncement, ifiis country had
figured all along that Russia
eventually would learn the se-
cret of man's most destructive
weapon.
The president withheld most
of what he knows about the
Russian blast. He said only that
"we have evidence that within
recent weeks at atomic explo-
sion occurred in the USSR."
Informed sources said:
It was the first atomic explo-
sion achieved by Russia—al- j
Gilt Show Of
Top Pigs Is
Staged Here
Prize Stock From
Six Counties Enter
Sears Competition
The annual Sears Foundation
fall gilt show for six counties in
this area brought a large crowd
ar.d some fine pigs here Satur-
day. Some of the February pigs
weighed up to 250 pounds.
"This is one of the best shows
and interest is increasing," said
County Agent M. B. Templeton.
"As a direct result of the pro-
gram the swine quality and
swine numbers in this territory
have certainly climbed. It has
been a real addition to the eco-
nomy of each of these six coun-
ties."
H. C. Stanley Jr., Taylor
County agricultural agent judg-
ed the show and E. R. Atkin-
son of the local Sears Roebuck
store represented the Sears
Foundation.
Sears Foundation contributed
$774 in prizes for the s! coun-
ty and the district shov. . i ad-
dition' to annual replacements
where needed in the pig contest.
Top winners in the district
show Saturdav were:
Gilts
The grand champion gilt hon-
ors were won by Dale Geiger of
Mitchell County. Reserve cham-
pion winner was Harold Hender-
son from Fisher County. Third
place gilt, Jimmy Parks of Kent.
County: fourth, Carroll Milhol-
lin of Nolan County: fifth, Don-
ald Stewart of Scurry: sixth,
Henry Djckerson of Stonewall.
Boar
Grand champion, Nickie
Cleckler of Nolan County: re
«erve, Terry Spradling of Ken! :
third. Biiy Green pf Scurry,
fourth, John Kidd of Fisher:
fifth: Grady Norris of Mitchell:
sixth, Ronny McNutt of Stone-
wall.
Pen of 3 Barrows
First, Donald Marth of Nolan ;
second, Earl Neves of Fisher;
third. Mardell Stephens of Scur-
ry: fourth, Billy Gene Baum-
bach of Stonewall; fifth, Alec K.
Long of Kent.
Nolan County Gilt Show
First, Carol Milhollin; sec-
ond. Morgan Lilies; third. Jim-
4 Secret Fortresses
Work For Red A-Bomb
Need For Plumbing License
Bringing Controversy Here
Enforcement of the state law
requiring that those who do
plumbing work have a state
license has been the subject of
heated controversy in Sweet-
water recently.
Possibility of the matter go-
ing before the city commission
was mentioned by several who
oppose the city ordinance, in-
corporating the state law. Under
the law, it is understood, one
can work on his own plumbing
or on the plumbing of a concern
from whom he works, but he
may not hire out to do plumbing
work for pay without state lic-
ense and bond.
One case was filed here in
county court recently on com-
plaint signed locally. Another
case was filed in Justice court.
The latter case was the result of
not knowing about the law and
a minimum fine was assessed,
authorities said Saturday. Fine
and costs were $18.
The county court case may be
changed to Justice court. Coun-
ty Attorney Clyde Boose said.
"We are not prosecuting anyone
but this complaint was brought
to me and It was my duty to
accept it." he said. The defen-
dant in this case is said to have
been employed as a helper b,v
a man who was doing his own
work oil his own property.
Elmer Stevenson, in a lengthy
letter to the Reporter, declared
"this involves the liberty of
every citizen when a man can
be brought in court for doing
an honest day's work."
A representative of the state
plumbing board was sent here
in interest of enforcement of
the law. He said that his onlv
interest was compliance with
the law and seeing that licenses
were obtained.
Stevenson pointed out that
"before any plumbing job can
lie begun, a permit must be ob-
tained from the city secretary,
specifying the location of the
job and what the job will con-
sist of. The property owner
must pay for his permit and he
must pay for the city inspector
to be sure that the plumbing job
meets the established standards
of safety. Since the city inspec-
tor has to pass on this before the
plumbing can be put in use, why
should the property owner not
be able to have the work done
by anyone who can do It so as
to meet safety requirements as
certified by the inspector?"
Offenses charger I here are
misdemeanors alleging viola-
tion of state laws regulating
plumbing work.
By LEON OKNNEN
I N FA Special Correspondent
NEW YORK. (NEA)— Rus-
sia is working on atomic energy
projects in at least four huge
| plants, known as ' atomic fort-
| resses." according to information
I given me by an escaped Soviet
| industrial official.
In these areas are concentrat-
ed the efforts of hundreds of
I captured German scientists, key
I Russian atomic experts and
thousands of forced laborers.
Latest information from spies
in the United States, Canada,
and Great Britain, and the find-
ings of Frederick .loliot-Curie,
French Atomic Energy Commis-
sioner and high-ranking Com-
munist. are communicated quick-
ly to these centers, according
to my informant.
I am able to state from per-
sonal knowledge that United
States intelligence authorities
have knowledge of the fortress
locations. They consist of com-
plicated plants surrounded by
hundreds of miles of no-man's
land, patrolled by the MVD se-
curity police.
Information is lacking as to
the location of the atomic blast
inside Russia, which was an-
nounced by President Truman,
but it could have taken place at
any one of the following experi-
mental centers:
At Sukhum, in southern Trans-
Caucasia, on the Black Sea. my
informant said he worked on
the construction of an atomic
fortress at Sukhum as far back
as September 1939. at the time
of the invasion of Poland.)
In central Asian desert of
Kara-Kum, south of Lake Aral,
In Turkmenistan, and in the
southern zone of the Urals. This
fortress is not far from the bor-
der of Iran.
Near Zlatoust, south of Chella-
binsk. The Ural atomic labora-
tories here are served by high
power lines drawn from the most
powerful generators in the Urals
industrial network. Zlatoust is
the site of the oldest arms manu-
facturing center in Russia, found-
ed by Peter the Great.
At Tashkent, in Uzbekistan.
This is headquarters for the lead-
ing Russian atomic physicist.
Professor Joffe. who has been
conducting experiments in har-
nessing solar energy. The Sov-
iet Academy of Science was said
to have received a secret report
that Professor Joffe succeeded
in smashing the atom in 1937.
Local Mother
Didn't Speak
Of Operation
Convalescence of Mrs. T. R.
Bailey, 1009 East 13th, from
her major surgery of Monday is
being helped along by the fact
that she talked long-distar.ce
with her son, Tommye, in Ger-
many last week. But Tommye
never knew she was talking
from a wheel chair in the Sweet-
water Hospital office.
Tommye placed the call on
Wednesday to tell his family
that he was going on maneuvers
and couldn't write for five
weeks. At the time arranged for
the call to be put through, Mrs.
Bailey was wheeled Into the
hospital office and did her talk-
ing from there.
Contrary to the usual proced-
ure of most post-operative pa-
tients, Mrs. Bailey said not one
word about "my operation."
SNYDER Governor Shivers, i The governor will be the prin-
escorted bv Snyder's 124th Cav-! eipal speaker at the program in
airy Mechanized Squadron, Tex-! Sn>'der TiSer stadium. The pro-
' . ,. _ *ni , 'gram is sponsored by the Shar-
as National Guard, will lead the ; on Rj(ige Producers and Royalty
parade here Oct. 10, to open j Owners Association.
the "Welcome Newcomer" fes-! Major William J. Schiebel,
tival. Texas National Guard, who is
Big Spring's famous "Sheriff's j Chamber of Commerce manager,
Posse" of 30 members and the j said that because of the crowds
internationally famous Hardin- expected it will be necessary fori .nmrpnMv . -s— -
Simmons Cowboy Band will join all to have a ticket to the west- 1 ®!*5^®'The bomb si^e my Don Fea^an : fourth- Teddie
the Sr.yder Tiger band in the pa- j ern barbecue ar.d the program | ! qXP® develop the bomb since j Lu^her Smith; fifth, Than Rich-
radp line-un | at the stadium. ! ~V" , . , , burg: sixth, Kendall Cleckler;
:, explosion took place ear- sev^th. charles oliver.
ly this month—not last July as
European sources have suggest-
I ed.
The United States knows
) where the detonation was staged,
| how effective it was, and wheth-
i er it was an air, surface, or un-
|der water burst. lai * ■■■ ■ .
U. S. authorities know wheth- HPffi Ufl WCtin6SU<3V
er the atomic explosive was iivwiiv. ««i|
uranium-235—like that produc- , ... c .
noi. ^ I An attendance of around 150
ed at Oak Ridge, Tenn. -or man-1 f Christian Churchps at Col-
made plutonium such as is mar.- V ~ . j . J
' orado City. Snvder, Odessa, San
ufactured from uranium in the . . ^ .
Angelo. Big Spring. Midland.
rade line-up.
Tickets for the festival are
now in the hands of all busi-
ness men, reported President C.
T. McLaughlin of the Chamber
of Commerce today.
A dual party — welcoming
newcomers to Snyder and wel-
coming all phases of the oil in-
dustry, plus a program recog-
nizing the pioneer citizens
Scurry County — is planned
of
Red Bomb Blast Is
Perhaps Evidence
Of Some Weakness
Christian Churches
Of District Meet
Men In Gray Will
Hold Reunion For
59th Gathering
LITTLE ROCK. Ark.. Sept. 24
(UP)—A group of seven or eight
tired but proud old men will
gather here Sunday to rekindle
the memories of a glorious army
which whote into history some
of its model military campaigns.
For the 59th and possibly last
time, the surviving "Boys in
Gray" will hold their Confeder-
ate reunion.
Another has been scheduled
for next year at Charleston. S.
C. But an ever-increasing mor-
tality rate already has cut the
last remnants of Lee's legions
dow nto 3 Omen, the great major-
ity of whom are centurians.
Only about a squad of these
survivors will be able to answer
the muster call this year.
Gold Star Mothers
Over Texas Honored
AUSTIN, Sept. 2-1 (UP)— Go
Allan Shivers today issued
memorandum
morrow as
Day" in Texas.
He suggested that "our people
throughout the expanse of this
state join devoutly in services
of the church and pay tribute to
those mothers of Texas who de-
serve so well this recognition
and respect."
CAMBRIDGE. Mass.. Sept. 24
I (UP)—The recent atomic explo-
jsion may be a "a sign of weak-
| ness," according to a scientist
who worked on the American
A-bomb.
I "If the Russian scientists and
j engineers are as capable now
as our own were in 1945. they
would not have to make a test
of their bomb unless war was
very close," said Dr. Charles D.
Coryell. Massachusetts Institute
of Technology Chemistry profes-
sor and wartime head of the fis-
sion products division at Oak
Ridge, Tenn.
"If it was necessary to make
a test to Drove to the commis-
sars that the scientists and engi-
neers are competent." he said,
"then Russian scientists and en-
gineers would be censured for
being so incompetent to let the
United States find out about the
test "
American atomic plant at Han-
ford. Wash.
U. S. military authorities be-
lieve they know the sites of
Soviet atomic cities. They lie
within the range of the B-3fi
atomic bomber.
Belief that Russia is lagging
far behind this country's $3,-
500,000,000 atomic project ap-
parently is based on more than
guesswork.
Nevertheless demands mount-
ed ir. Congress for a view of Am-
erica's atomic program with an
eye to speeding it up. Congress
appeared in a mood also to bol-
ster the U. S. air arm—the ve-
hicle for delivery of the A-bomb.
Word Battle On Devaluing
Pound Is Waging Intensely
LLANDUDNO, Wales. Sept. j Lord Woolton. chairman of
124 (UP)—Prime Minister Cle- j the conservative party, de-
| ment Attlee appealed to the, n°ur]ced the devaluation as an
„ ... . , . . .i . i admission of failure of the gov-
j British people to support their ernmenfs financial program.
i socialist government today and! Attlee defended the
Sweetwater, and possibly other
points is expected at the annual
District Four convention of
Christian Churches ir; First
Christian Church here Wednes-
day .
The convention will open at
10 o'clock. The Rev. Nimo Col-
ston of San Angelo is district
president. Lawrence Fugit of
Odessa vice-president; Mrs. C.
B. Deen of Sweetwater, district
secretary of women's work.
The host church pastor is the
Rev. Wm. H. Shropshire.
Climaxing the day will be the
annual district Laymen's Lea-
gue dinner in the Sky Room of
the Blue Bonnet Hotel at 6:30.
Wm. H. McKinney of Indian-
apolis, Ind.. is to be speaker. Ar-
rangements for the dinner are
in charge of the First Christian
Lavmen's League, headed by E.
C. Ford.
Mrs. Arnold Ford, president
of the Women's Council, and her
committees, are assisting.
j avoid returning to "the miseries I ment's devaluation
, i and injustices of capitalism.
"Gold Star Mothers I .. . '
Attlee spoke to a regional la-
bor party rally less than a week
after devaluation of the pound.
Most of his remarks were de-
voted to urging the people to
forego wage increases and ac-
cept small increases in price.
The conservatives as well as
the laborltes sought to make
hay before the special session of
day. It will debate devaluation,
parliament opening next Tues-
and the labor government will
stake its life on a vote of con-
fidence.
WOULD OUTLAW BOMB
VATICAN CITY. Sept. 24 —
(UP) — The Vatican newspaper
Osservatore Romano today call-
ed for the abolition of the atom
bomb, " a terrible and inhuman
weapon which has placed hu-
manity near suicide."
govern- j
policy but i
appealed for all-out efforts to
avoid inflation.
ALLEGES PLOT
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Sept.
2424, (UP)— Marshal Tito per-
sonally handed Hungarian Am-
bassador Sandor Kerests a note
tonight accusing Hungary and
Russia of organizing "a base
plot" to overthrow Tito's gov-
ernment.
The note said Hungary and
Russia wanted to replace Tito's
regime with another "Servile
Satellite."
Grand Jury Is Mum
On Senator's Race
ALICE. Sept. 24 (UP) — The
long-standing controversy over
voting in the Aug. 28 Democratic
run-olf primary last year at Jim
Wells County Box 13 apparently
was back where it started today.
A special grand jury which
had been investigating charges
of election fraud brought by
Coke Stevenson, a U. S. senator-
ial candidate in the election, was
dismissed by Judge Paul Man-
tineau without making any re-
port of its finding* regarding
the balloting.
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