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4
WEATHER
W*»t Tmu: Fait and continued cold Shis aft-
ernoon and tonight, lownt tonight taro to 6 in
Panhandle and South Plaint. I to 12 upper
Pacoa Valley eastward. and 14 to 24 remainder
ol area. Saturday fair not quit* to cold.
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Vol. 21 —
Borger Newi-HtnU
Circulation Dept. Phono 82
Other Depts.: 6 and 7
No. 33
NEA Service
THE CARBON BLACK CENTER OF THE WORLD
Associated Press Borger, Texas, Friday, January 3, 1946
•Six Pages Today)
Price 5c
Congress Convenes With Senate In Uproar
Borger Legion Reviews
Work of Past Year With
.Pride of Job Well Done
By TROY MARTIN
After the last war the American Legion was in its infancy.
Its membership, for the most part, was comprised of young
veterans of World War I. The young Legion had not. as yet,
had the opportunity of receiving instruction from the great-
est of all teachers, experience.
That the Legion has made mistakes, is admitted, but
a poet once said. It it only by using our dead selves as a
j^talrwry that we are able to climb to the highest pinnacle of
, human achievement." Today
Thursday
Season’s
•Coldest
He Carefully Avoided Traffic Hazards
The w Intel's coldl't west he
tumbled the temperature to one
and a . half degree-, in Borger be-
H re duwn this morning and the
U. S. v mtlier bureau warned t! at
'.he wv>rst I- yet to come, accord
irjg to the Associated Prc
This morning's low was by fa.-
the coldest of this winter.
^ Tour inches lyf snow blanketed
tha Borger area from Wednes-
day night through yasterday
making way fer ,?7 Inches of
moisture *o the delight o' wheal
farmers and ranchers in this
section.
Maximum ten i r t' »• I-
jcjrterday was n>uv IT degi-c-
according to the- meteorological
. iwrl* of r.iul r dUi, ). • 11 s
$ «v*thet r.| I 1
raid that the mercury find climbed
only a half deyrve to i wo above
zero at <T:30 tiliock tils morning
despite u bright sunshiny #im»-
phere.
Borgans bu. led themselves to-
day in shoveling out from under
the heivy snowfall while others
were still applying tire chains
No wriou» traffic accident
hnv-e been reported here Shcr-
. 'if Hugh Anderson, Constabb
w fred Ci n.pton and Chief of V
Ike W. O. OeVVccse asserted that
Borger otlver- have taken the
warning of the Texas highway De-
partment to drive only when
necessary and stay off the hazard
ous highways when possible. No
accidents have ocrured hete dur
big the cold snap that have caused
injury.
Philhoe hrih school officials,
A however, declared that som- of
the school's buses are not mak-
ing their route today. J. Irvin
Kimmins. prtmipa. 01 Ihe high
school, seid that the Sanford
See Number THREE Page S
the American Legion enjoys
the reputation of being one of
the world's foremost humanitar-
ian organizations, slow to strike,
quick to s|>are. and ready to as-
sist in the cause of God, country,
and Community.
According to J. O. Coolbaugh,
post finance officer of Hutchinson
lounty Legion post 412, the local
post will begin the year 1947. in
good tin.inri.il condition. The post.
iW Coolbaugh, owns its building
and several surrounding lots which
are fret- of indebtedness. Harper
Scoggins, veteran's county service
olTieer, stated that tire (Hist also
owns a five acre tract of land jutt
west of the new radio station.
In the opening days of the new
year Hutchinson county Legion
post 412 looks back with satis-
faction on a successful 1946, and
forward with confidence that 1947
will prove even more successful.
The greatest problem con-
fronting Ihe Legion end its aux-
iliary at ihia time last year was
rehabilitation, and to data, no
deserving veteran in distress
Hes been turned away empty
handed.
According to Mrs. H. T. lirin-
ton, secretary and treasurer, of
Hie auxiliary, the legion and mix*
Hairy, during tie- part yettt. pro-
vided subsistence for 15 veterans
until they were able to find cm
Manhunt ior
Nine Escaped
Prisoners
NK.V YORK. Jan. 3 — i.-T)
Tt.e city’s 17.000 police were or-
dered today to be ready to “shoot
to kill" in the manhunt for nine
felons, one a confessed killer and
another a former Alcatraz inmate.
Democrats Organize for
'Extended Debate’ Over
Campaign To Oust Bilbo
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON. Jan. 3 (AP)— The 80th congress— first
controlled by republicans in 15 years—convened today at
who staged a daylight escape from i noon with the senate in an uproar over Senator Bilbo (D-Miss)
lTooklyn ’V StrCOt J“U ln and the house ready for business.
Tv the number of men deliver-1 Last minute «f<orts t0 compromise the Bilbo controversy
to, the br in failed when M democratic senators organised for extended
the city's history, hut it was as- debate" against a republican-led move to bar the Missisaip-
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Other drivers around Los Angeles took awful chances, driving on slippery streets during recent
heavy rainstorms. But not Charles P. Carey. Charles played it safe, parking his car and walking.
He's pictured, at right, above, peering at what's left of the auto after three 50-foot trees, under-
mined by water, smashed car as completely as any traflic crack-up could.
Palestine Violence May Lead
To Stern British Offensive
Professor Fears
Missing Daughter
Has Been Doped'
LONDON, Jan. 3—iA*i— British ‘
government and Jewish agency
sources expressed belief today,
that Lt. Gen. Sir Alan Cunning-
| ham. Palestine high commlsioner, i
would ask the cabinet for author-
ity to launch an offensive to smash |
I Jewish resistance in the Holy |
- Land. t
Camera' Victim
Improving After
Leg Amputation
tonishingly quiet and involved no
violence.
"Everything points to accomplic-
es' on the outside." declared Albert
O. Williams, newly appointed
| commissioner of correction.
Warden Thomas McDonnell at-
‘ tribuicd the escape to an inade-
quate number of guards and to the
prison’s deterioration.
“The jail,"'he said, "is over 100
j years old. Its bars are rotten, its
i windows are rotten."
Brooklyn District Attorney Miles
, F. McDonnell said he believes the
break was masterminded by An-
thony Aiello, 36. who recently
i pleaded guilty to murder in the
| second degree, and Alfred Minu-
| tolo, while serving 15-years on
I Alcatraz was kept in solitary con-
] fiuement as an intractable priso-
! ner, and that while being brought
; here escaped from two detectives
■ ; nd leaped through the window of
I a moving train passing through In-
| diana but was later captured.
Minutolo was awaiting trial on
n year old charges of attempted
j robbery.
The break was discovered when
j the prisoner population was lined
up in preparation for the afternoon
period and Aiello was found miss-
:ng An inspection showed the
eight others also gone.
jdoyment and received paycheck
COLUMBUS. O., Jan. 3 — I*)—
Prof E. E. Kimberly expressed
>Tfs. I rinton stated that it was the I fear today that his 30-year-old J
policy of the organization to pro-'daughter, missing with v 42-year
vide a veteran, who became
stranded in this city, with a bus
was
oscs
ticket to his home and money for
food while en route. Mrs. Brin-
ton declared that $1,015.65
spent for rehabilitation purj
during the last fiscal year.
The Legion has never confined
its activities solely to those affect-
ing only it* members, but has al-
ways worked for the betterment
of the community ns a whole
Leaders and members of the u'*,-
ion realize that a returning veter-
an has the greatest opportunity t
rebuild his life in a stable, de-
cent community. During the past
year post 412 has been very active
m work beneficial to the commun-
ity of Borger. it has furnished of-
fices for the OPA. for the Texas
State Highway department's driv-
ers license buieau, lor the county
Juvenile Officer, and for the coun-
ty service officer, and it has fur-
nished a meeting place lor
defense guard.
ild ex-convict, had beer "doped."!
The Ohio State university in-1
uructor, informed of a report that j
the couple appeared at a Cleve- j
land residence late yesterday and |
Miss Mary Virginia Kimberly de-
clined to part company with her]
notorious companion, remarked
The prediction came at new
violence erupted in Palestine.
An oflicial announcement in
Jerusalem said an underground
threat had been made to kidnap
British soldiers, and that all
rankf had been ordered, lor lheir
personal safeiv. lo r»—- »>mi
at all times, and to venture out
of barracks only in pairs.
NEW YORK, Jan. 3 — (A’i —
Mrs. Olga Rocco, 28, victim of a
bizarre New Year's Eve shotgun
-hooting by a young woman who
thought she was using a camou-
flaged X-ray camera to take a pic-
F.6.I. Discloses
Story of Beating
-The
Stale senior and Robert H Hem-1 Searchers still hunting for the! material witness in the case,
mine, who disappeared Wedties- i men who recently flogged four Immediately after the shooting,
when he called on | British soldiers found a quantity .Miss Lusk toid police that a man,
driving her to a of dynamite in a house in Jerusa- j whom she later ide"tif*«*d from 3
lent, on a route believed taken by i oicture as the victim’s former hus-
ria> afternoon
a pretext of
friend's home
Miss Kimberly on Christmas He j a flame thrower attack in the area
had returned, hi* family said, from It was one of the biggest simul-
Cahtornia when he was idled by; tmeouit operations ever launched
the mm if studio strike. His daugh- i m the Holy lamd by the under-
ter lutz lived for the last 12 years I ground, which used mines, gre
the I with hi, father, Robert N. Hcm-jnactes, automatic weapons and
ming
Infant Year Given
Playmate as City's
First '47 Baby Born
When Father Time called little
1947 before him and gave htm
last minute in-tructions on how
to behave hhn-eli while visiting
'.n earth, the little cherub was
reluctant to come into "an unknown
world without a playmate.
The old man was somewhat un
prepared lor this strange request
Never before had he been faced
with such proiigsltlon. What
would Borgans do if they were
stranded in Umc with no new year
by wh*ch lo mark their calendar! :?
Indeed would they have any cal-
endars a* all?
The sage old fellow opened his
voluminous book of events sched-
uled to take place during the new
sear. A smile wrinkled his fa*-«
as his finger -lopped on the open-
. Ing paragraph of page one
In accordance with supreme de-
'tree, and *n harmony with the
wi»hc» of the infant year, a baby
boy weighing six poiusds, arrived
at North Plain* hospital at 5 a. m
home-made flame fhrowers in at
The Legion sponsored a Ike i Hemming ,s prison record of for-1'past 12 separate attacks in Jeru-
Scout troop, a Junior baseball ‘ gory, grand larceny and auto theft1 sr.lem, Tel Aviv, Tiberias, Hedera
league, and an oratorical contest I: rnt turn to prisons in California. | and Klrviit Haim, thus ending a
during the past year. The Borger)Washington, Kansas. Texas and month-long period of relative
Girl Scouts used the Legion ball | Georgia, plus a couple of Ohio ar- peace in Palestine
her to take a picture of Mrs. Rocco I swollen shut,
nd supplied a package which he Editor C. A. Scott of the At-
aui contained n camouflaged “X-1 lantj World, negro daily new
ray camera." Instead it concealed paper, said federal agent* gut-
's sawed-off shotgun and the full tinned Howard at length,
harped the 12-gaugr shell enter i A E Foltz, agent in charge e.
~d Mrs. Rood's left hip. j he FBI office, said "The matter
Mi s' Lusk said the man repre-1 has been referred to the justice
sen ted himsclt a- an insurance in-1 department in Washington." Ho
declined to elaborate.
•is a meeting place until their I rest* and the list dates back to
| house was completed, and Teen- lfc«7, according to tv* Ohio State
Town continues to use it one night j Bureau of identification.
each week. Legionnaires un-
der the direction of B. T. Brin-
ton and assisted by membet., of the
post’s Auxiliary, compiled a city
directory for the city of Borger
which is a finger-tip guide to the
entire city.
Legionnaires .insisted and par-
ticipated in the Armistice and Me-
morial Day parades and has al-
| u ays been ready to assist at mil-
See Number ONE Page 5
Professor Kimberly described I
his daughter as an accomplished j
pianist, “sharp-witted, keen-mind-
ed and very self sufficient."
Camera Club Meets
Tonight in Library
Foliiical observers predicted
the attacks — which some sour-
ces said presumably were
lounched cooperatively by I'-un
Zvai Leumi and the so-called
Stern gang — would draw strong
reaction from the British in the
form of comb outs, curfews and
othe; measures in an effort to
find ihe persons responsible.
vestjgi.tor on flic trial of a jewel
'heft who carried stolen gems un-
der her clothing and he needed a
picture for evidence.
Mrs. Rocco, 28. has accused her M .... .........^
ormcr husband of engineering the! works about 4:80
story in the
All Army Camps in
Texas, Except Hood,
To Be Sold by WAA
Howard related this
interview:
Two men, whom he knew, Canu-
te the Monroe ice plant where ht
p. m. Wednes
| day. One asked hen what he told
nine-1 th*- grand jury and when he re
j plied. "1 didn't tell ’em nothing
| because 1 didn't know' nothing."
j the man cursed, accused him of
i lying and "started hitting me in
j Ihe face with his fist."
One of tlie men drew a pistol
. ,, v.„ih v (I they marched him into a cov
xouin bctioiarstup
I The Llano Eslacado Camera said al the same time that Pales _ * :ucy -beet me with their fist'
chib will hold iU tint meeting of tine was facing martial law or a I „ver lh j,cad with the nis
1947 tonight at 8 p. m. in the | small-scale war. adding that one TOKYO. Jan. 3 — WPi—A Jaix,-! tol.'■
Federated club room of the lj, > more incident there "might blow nese who once "wanted to kill as, .....
brary. in spite of the heasy snow- j the l:d off. ' Con.erence.s on the fu ! many An-< rlcan* as possible” to
shooting plot.
Rocco is the object of a
state hunt.
Parents of Dead
G. I. Give Japanese
Youth Scholarship
j fall and cold weather, according | turc of Ihe strife-torn Holy Land
| to President Wnlli* Nelson. I up t< now boveotuxi by the Jew
This club is dev oted to better! and Palestine Arabs, are schedule
, 1
WASHINGTON. Jan. 3 — ■ V
I >j I’oage iD-Tex> said today he]
has lrtx.li informed bv the army
that ail wartime installations of
the army ground forces in Tcxa ,,
except Camp liood. have been dc j,.
dared surplu- and turned over to L,
the War Assets udnuniltiatlon fori;.
licture making by amateurs,'
Valin- said, “and nil persons Inter-
■:trd iii pltolograpby should at
I to be
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resumed m London on .Tan
ngi cc s To Mcc
Amorillo on Januory 6
established by the parents of a j — —
| GT killed by a Japanese on Luzon. | J, l, ?eej« tjn' i
rugram this evening will
i talk on * What U u Pic-
denmnstration and expla*
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this picture uf the blaw
by the underground:
At Tiber!a*, on the Sea of Gali
! lee 76 iviilcs ia>rtiica>t of Jerusu
Nun, the attackers used two home
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pian from the chamber.
The White House announced President Truman would
deliver his State of the Union message at . joint session in
the house chamber Monday, at 12 p.m. (CST), if both houses
are organized then. |--
Tht No. 1 measure offered in
•he bouse was the republican plan
10 cut individual income taxes. In-
stead ol foe proposed 20 [>ercent
reduction "across the boards," it
Provides for a 20 percent tax cut
on the first $300,000 of income and
10.5 reduction on income above
that figure.
In tlie house, Ralph Roberts, re-
tirini, doorkeeper, rapped the gav
Wallace Speech
Sparks Merger ol
Progressives'
88K WASHINGTON, Jan. 3—1^>)—
e) "Znamng the^stortof a poten-1 Approximately 150 self-styled
tiailv historic session. A prayer bv j "progressive*." inruding two mem-
the Re\. James Shera Montgomery’ ,x‘rs of ,h<’ D Roo*cve't
----- ‘family, gathered today for a con-
ference hinting at. a two-wav
lure, was reported improving to- ATLANTA, Jan. 3—i.T’i-
j day at Roosevelt hospital. j Federal Bureau of Investigation
Hospital authorities said her j had today the story ot a 19 year
: name had been removed from the i old Walton county negro who -said
Three British soldiers were in- ritical list after amputation of her ! he was beaten by two white men
“It that is true, I am convinced | lured near the coastal village of left leg yesterdav ».>a that her because he would not divulge hi
that my daughter has been doped." I Kfar Sirkin early today when | condition was satisfactory. : testimony before a U. S. grand
Meanwhile, police in Ohio and!their jeep was blown up. evident- Meantime, Miss Peart Lu.-k, 18- j jury probing the bloody lynching
neighboring states intensified their iy by an electrically - detonated j year-old blonde who dH the shoot-1 near his home town lust July 25
search for the red-haired Ohio] mine. j ing, was held in $10,000 bail as a, The youth giving his name a
Lamar Howard of near Monroe
Ga . told of the whipping in an
interview before accompanying
several negro leader* of Atlanf i
lo the FBI 'office. His face wa
Hemming, it was reporled, met, underground force? who attemoted: banc1.. Alphonsse Rocco, engaged cut and battered, his eyes almost
was the first order of business.
Secretary Leslie L. Bufilc bang-
ed the gavel in tlie senate, where
the prayer was said by Chaplain
Frederick Brown Harris.
Southern democrats made it
plain they will resist by talk the
effort ol republicans and some
democrats to prevent Bilbo, who
has been accused by the senate
war investieatins committee of us-
ing Ins office for personal gain in
dealing with war contractors, from
taxing his seat today.
Senator Ferguson 'R-Michl had
a resolution ready which would
bar Bilbo now and set his case
foL-heuring January 6.
Oflicials familiar with senate
rules said a southern talk-test
might prevent the body irom
adopting a resolution for the
join* house-senate session Mon-
day at which the legislators
have planned to hear the pres-
ident deliver his annual mes-
sage.
Such a result would halt the
legislative machinery cold on the
senate side, since the chamber
iraditicnally does not even re-
ceive bills until it has heard
from the chief executive.
Once the Bilbo tie-up i* out of
the way., the senate can join with
I the house in tackling such major
| ■ sues of the new session as revi-
sion of the labor laws, reduction
of taxes and pruning of govern-
ment expenditures to balance the
budget.
The house, its or g ani z a t i o n
i grooved by party conferenees.was
See Number TWO Page S
21 Days oi Prayer
Launched by 1500
Scholars of India
BOMBAY. Jan. 3—I.Vi—Fifteen
hundred Brahmin Pundit* *wUe-
noi and great scholars! today
launched a 21-day- period of pray-
er, sacrifice and fire worship b.
invoke the powers of the Goddess
?.1aha Shaktl to bring peace to
strife-torn India and all tire world
The deeply religious ceremonies
v, ill reach a climax J an. 12 when
the ten-day rite of fire worship
begins with tire casting of ghee
(clarified butter > into the flames
scramble for scattered pieces
the new deal political group.
Officials of the union for demo-
cratic action, the meeting's spon
sor, said the conference Is 'dls.
tlnctly separate" from other lib-
eral movements.
Tht* pur)x>se of the meeting,'
said a formal announcement, "Is
to discuss ways and means of
ilmplementing a program of gen-
uine American progressivism, ex-
plicitly free from totalitarian b *
flucnces both right and toft."
"It is not necessarily a third
party move " J>*''V/. J* Tucker,
UuA regulative
old a i-eportcr.
fppreseft’TWve'
Th# threat of a third party
was rsisrd last M'-ndav in the
wake cf speeches bv Henrv A.
Watlace and others at a New
York meeting which resulted in
the merger of ten groups under
the name of ' Progressive Cit-
izens o* America."
This meeting adopted a declar
ation saying it could not "ride out
the possibility of a new politic*!
parly whose fidelity to our goals
en be relied uix>n."
The conference will begin with
a dinner tonight at which speak-
ers will be Mrs. Franklin D
Roosevelt; Chester Bowles and
oeon Henderson, former price
administrators; and Mayor Hu-
bert Humphrey of Minneapolis.
Among those invited to join
them hi a dosed meeting tomor-
row arc Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.;
it ilson W. Wyatt, recently re-
igned housing, administrator; El-
mer Basis, radio commentator;
Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam. rc
tiring president, federal council
of cnurcn« «: Rep. Helen Gahagau
Douglas <D Calif1; and former
Reps, Jerry Yoorhis pf ('album!)
and air*. Chuse Going it'ood-
house, Connecticut, both defea‘-
ed in November.
shich will not
hroughout the
he sacrifice ol
n 109 brick
snuaj xi'llli'h ‘ir
Only caste
j* having beci:
allowed
■ Ghee v
cd by bi
i e*.*ment
to di-
Eisenhower Denies
He May Seek U. S.
Presidency in 1948
MIAMI. Fla.. Jan. 3- T.
General Dwignt D. Eisenhower
on interview 'aia today that tl
mention of his name »' a pres
dential candidate "is not goo1 to
the great organization with v hh
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