Borger Daily Herald (Borger, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 154, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 22, 1927 Page: 1 of 10
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ÍFFICIAL PUBLICATION, CIT* OF BOROER, TEXAS
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ASSOCIATED, PRESS LEASEÍ) WIRE
BORGER, TEXAS, SUNDAY, MAY 22, 1927.
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TRAGEDY ROADHOUSE BURNS
FIRE DESTROYS
OUTSIDE INN.
AT STINNETT
Incendiary
Blamed as Blaze
House Where
orthy Died
DESCRIBE KILLING
Piper's Companions Say Ac-
cused Was Hit on Head
With Beer Bottle
STINNETT, Texas, May 21—The
Outside Inn, a mile south of here,
scene of the killing Thursday night
of George Norsworthy, proprietor,
was burned to the ground Friday
night. The roadhouse had been pad-
locked by Sheriff Ownbey that morn-
ing, pending action on a request
for an injunction closing it perma-
uetly. After the fire it was discov-
ered that the lock and chain which
were on the back door were missing.
Officers are convinced that the fire
was incendiary, and believe the place
van looted before it was burned.
Friday morning Temple Piper,
who was released on $1,000 bonfl
when he surrendered following the
killing, was rearrested on a chargt.
<óf-jnwtilejrr Bit }—his bond reset at
Í1C80O. He was in Jail when the
lioifse wa(s burned, making bond
this morning.
Chief of Police Turner of Stinnett
and Charles Christian, son of City
Commissioner Bill Christian, were
with Piper at the time of the killing.
The story told to officers by the
three men is as follows:
The three, on their way to a
dance at Plemons, stopped to buy-
cold drinks at the roadhouse.
Norsworthy and his partner were
back of the house shooting at rabbits
with a 38 calibre pistol. Mrs. Nors-
worthy called them in to wait on
the customers, and Norswort'uv.
bringing the gun with him, flourish-
ed it in such a manner that Piper,
alter telling him to be careful or
lie would kill somebody, took the
gun away from him and laid it on
the counter- While the three «ere
facing the countr.r and drinking,
Norsworthy came up behind Piper
und struck him on the head with
v. beer bottle. Piper, falling to his
knees, siezed the gun and shot/
Norsworthy through the heart. He
then went to Stinnett and surrend-
ered to Sheriff Joe Ownbey.
Piper, an orphan, was reared by
Edgar Thompson, a rancher of ne-'.r
lioro. Thompson made the $10,000
bond for the young man today. A
score of ranchers and cow-punchers
crowded the court house seeking
opportunity to sign the bond.
The body of Norsworthy was yes-
terday sent to Joplin, Missouri, for
burial.
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"Well, Here We Are!" Says Flying Fool.
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Charles Lindbergh, known as the "flying fool", who flew from New York to Paris alone, arriving last
night at 10:21 Paris time, 5:21 New York time. "Here we are" he said as he landed at Paris,
"I'm very happy". The crowd was happy too. They tried to carry him away on their shoulders,
and tore strips off his plane for souvenirs. His plane, "Spirit of St. Louis," is also here shown.-
The Plane That Carried Lindbergh
Who Will Give a Man
A Watchman's Job?
Does any firm in Borger need a
competent watchman? Or is there
a job at which a destitute man of
«0 years might earn support for his
vjfe and family?
Miss Madeline Fishbach, charity
worker, is seeking employment for
the head of the stricken family
She may be reached at the city hall.
Forty-seven ponies from India are
to appear In polo matches in tilia
country.
Pope joy is Freed
On Whiskey Charge
J. VV. (Shine) Popejoy was freed
in U. S. Court in Amarillo of
charges of owning the still captured
last weak in Moore county by Texas
rangers and federal officers, and
one of the three men arrested at
the still, which was said to be in
operation, was also freed. The oth-
er two were convicted, fined $500
each, and each given three months
in jail.
Advices from Stinnett are that
Ihe still, reported as being "near
Stinnett," was twenty miles l'rom
that c'ty.
THREAT TO CUT ATCHALALAYA
LEVEE BRINGS HELP TO GRARRS
TAXARLE VALSES OF BORGER
S0H00LRISnHITS20.000.000
Taxable values in the Borger In-
dependent school district are es-
timated by Thomas Y. Pickett, Hal-
las auditor employed by the county
to make this appraisal, at between
$15,000,000 and $20,000„000 and
for the entire county, $40,000,000,
it was announced yesterday after
Mr. Pickett had conferred with coun-
ty officials at Stinnett.
The full report of the appraisal
will be submitted to the board of
equalization and notices will be sent
to property owners whose valuations
have been raised, meetings to b-
held between June 20 and 30, dates
to be definitely announced later, for
ny complaint on the valuation*.
Cuts Price Borger
Gasoline to 15 Cents
The Border Gusollne company an-
nounced yesterday that it had cut
the price of Borger "Pep" gasolmo
to seven gallons for $1.05. This gas
cllne la refined from Borger crude
oil by the Borger Gasoline company,
meets the new navy specifications.
A woman of 80 danced the
Charleston in a contest in Brlghlan,
England, end was awarded the con-
solation prise-
BATON ROUGE, La„ May 21 —
(AP)—Unnamed parties tonight
«ere attempting to cut the levee be-
tween Neita and Simmesport on the
west bank of the Atchafalaya River
opposite McCrea, scene of the p -in-
cipal right to save the east side from
inu^d^tion, according to a naval ra-
se received here tonight
HiE. Pettaway, governr.ent
engTtrcfor.
The cut .affected "would cause
great damage" the message said.
The men there were too exhausted
to prevent the carrking out of the
threat- Immediate aid was request-
ed. In response ten guards were
dispatched from Organza about 15
-.nilos away. The radiogram did not
state whether an attempt to cut the
levees had already been made or
was about to be made. It has been
iiimored that McCrea has been
strongly in favor of cutting the v est
hide in the hope that McCrea would
be saved-
It Was a Hot Show
At The Rex Theatre
MONBY AT WORK
WATERBURY, Conn., —A mem-
ber of the local lawyers' association
who was treasurer of the body In
1909, has discovered that the asso-
ciation has a bank balance of seven
cent-'t. He added 93 cents, in order
that the account might draw inter-
est.
Fifty thousand attended an
oxhifelt Id Cairo recently.
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It was the climax of the play.
The hero, riding a fast ^ teed, was
racing across the prairk^ist a min-
ute Dehfnd the vidian to rescue ihe
1-eroine. The horses hoofg beat
faster and faster, an dthe trail be-
came hotter and hotter. Then all
was dark.
Whether it was the "hotter and
hotter" trail or pust a mechanical
occurence, no one knows- But one
whole reel of motion picture film
was destroyed In a gust of flame It
the fireproof Rex Theatre during a
matinee performance Saturday af-
ternoon-
While the reel of film went up In
a puff of smoke through the vent
covering the projection booth, ¡hí
crowd remuined in their seats await-
ing the climax of the story, little
suspecting what really had happ'.ti-
ed.
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FLYING FOOL" IN
LONE TNIP BLAZES
INTER-CITY TRAIL
FIHGERPRIHTS
HELP POLICE
CAPTgRE PAIR
New Bureau Aids in Recovery
of Man's Automobile
Say Officers
TRAIL LEADS FAR
Man and Woman Arrested in
California Through Rec-
ords of Police
Fingerprints, photographs and tel-
egraph wires from Botfcer figured
yesterday in the apprehension of
a Borger man's wife and the ihiet'
who stole her husbands automobile
here over a w'eek ago, according to
officers.
The man, J. Black, and the wo-
r.rrested at Yreka, Calif., yesterday,
man, Mis. J. M. Clements, were
according to officers, and had Cle-
ments car in their possession at the
time.
Trailing and finding the woman
and the alleged thief was accom-
plished through the new bureau ot
identification, a division of the po-
lice department, over which W. H.
Brashear is in charge.
Brasiiear began working on the
case a week ago with fingerprints,
photos ot the two people, motor
mimbers, and other incidentals.
Yesterday, a week later, they were
found at Yreka, Calif., marking the
second successful case within a per-
iod of three weeks or since the bu-
reau of identification was introduced
Officer Brashear, who was high ¡y
elated yesterday over his second
consecutive success, lias office in a
private room at police headquarters.
His room is an interesting adventure
to the sight-seer. Photographs anu
criminal records and numbers line
the entire four walls.
On various tables in the place may
Le seen equipment for the making
of finger prints and forming other
identification- Prisoners or -crime
charges are taken into Brashear's
bureau for recording of prints, scars,
measurements, etc., before being
released from jail.
PARIS, May 21—(AP)—Captain
Charles Lindberg established a new
world non-stop straight line dis-
tance record in his New York-Paris
flight. In covering 3,600 miles he
broketh e world mark of 3,400 miles
ret by the Frenchmen, Costea and
Rignot in the Paris to Yask, Persia,
flight last October.
WASHINGTON, May 21.— (AP) —
President Domergue of France in
a message of congratulations to
President Coolidge tonight viewed
the successful trans-Atlantic flight
of Captain Lindberg as the dream of
Nungesser and Col!, come true and
as bringing about the aerial union
of the United States and France.
All Frenchmen, he said, "unreserv-
edly admire his courage and rejoice
in his success. I congratulate you
most heartily in the name of the
government and the republic and of
the whole country." In reply, Presi-
dent Coolidge thanked the French
president for his message and said
that while he and the entire coun-
try rejoiced in Lindbergh's success
it had not forgotten to share
France's sorrow in the loss of Nun-
gesser and Coli.
PARIS, May 21—(AP)—Capiain
Charles A. Lindbergh, the young Am-
New York yesterday alone in his
monoulane, arrived in Paris tonight
safe and sound, as every one hoped
he would.
The sandy-haired son of the mid-
dle est, dropped out of the darkness
at Lebrouguet flying field, a few
miles from Paris, at 10:21 o'clock
tonight, (5:21 New York time), only
S3 1-2 hours after leaving Long Is-
land—the first man in history to
go from New York to Paris with-
out changing his seat.
Is A Hero.
To the young American it was
seemingly merely the achievement of
an ambition. To Pari?, to France,
to America, to the world, his landing
tonight made him the greatest oí' he-
roes mankind has produced since the
air became a means of travel. A
crowd of at least 25,000 surrounded
Confesses Robbery
of Bank at Ovalo
ABILENE, Texas, MHy 21—(AP)
—The arrest of Aubrey Ray, 20. of
Stamford, and his formal confes-
sion here today clears upthe rob-
bery of the Ovalo State Bank this
conuty, last March 2G. ArreRted at
Stamford after clues had been ob-
tained in a raid. Ray immediately
admitted his part in the bank rob-
bery and named his cousin, Togo
Ray. nq his companion and fellow
participant.
Lindberg Will Fly
Acros* Pacific Next
Gibson Employees
Gave Flood Money
Yesterday the Gibson Motor Co.
was given credit for a donation ot
$22.00 for the flood fund. This
phould have read "the Employees
of the Gibson Motor Co."
ST LOUIS, May 21—(API-
long flight probably will be from the
U. S. to Australia or the Philli-
pines, Major Albert Bond Lambert,
a backer of the New York-Parle
flight of the "Spirit of St. Louis"
said: "Lindbergh told us before he
left for New York that he wanted
to make a flight across the Pacific
to either Australia or the Philli-
rines," said Lambert. "He'll ase an
entirely new plane for this at
tempt. The ship will be assembled
here in St. Louis as soon as be re-
turns from Europe."
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CHAMBERLIN
WON'T TRY IT
ROOSEVELT FIELD. N. Y.,
May 21 — (AP) —The Paris
flight ot Clarence Chamberlain
was "indefinitely lostponed"
tonight when frk ds persuade '
him not to make the immediate
attempt.
"All right, it's all off," Cham-
berlain said. "It's off indefi-
nitely, and w,hen we do take
off it won't be for Paris in all
probability. That has been
dona. We'll probably fly west
instead of east. Pernaps Hon-
olulu."
PHILLIPS CO. ?
TO BUILD AT
SANFORD POOL
Work on Huge Plant Will
Start in Ten Days, Is
Announcement Made
READY SEPT 1.
Will Recover Approximately
30,0000 Gallons Gas
Per Day
Work will be started within the
next ten days on the eighth natural
gasoline plant of the Phillips Pe-
troleum company, which is to be
constructed in the Sanford-Para-
mount pool, just south of the Cana-
d;an river in South ivest Hutchinson
county.
The new gas plant will cost ap-
proximately $2,000.000 and will be
one of the largaat in the county.
Announcement was made yesterday
by Philips officials that work on
the plant will begin June 1, and that
the plant will be in operation by Sept.
1.
The new plant, which is located
in Section *82.-BloeJk ffi. orH. £ T.
•C. •Purvey. will be "known as the Sin-
ford plant- It will run approxi-
mately 40.000.000 cubic geet of gas
daily and recover around 30,000 sal-
bringing the Philips total recovery
lor its eight plants ,'n the county
to 200,000 gallons a day-
Construction of the large Sanford
gasoline plant mark:; one of the
many new projects of oil field de-
velopment in Hutchinson county
for the present and future.
Amarillo Lawyer
Takes to The Air
TEXARKANA, May 21.—<(AP) —
Catchin gthe spirit of the trans
Atlantic flight, W. M. Lenright,
Amarillo attorney, flew here today
from Amarillo to argue a case in the
sixth court of civil appeals. Leav-
ing Amarillo a t6:45 a. m. he arriv-
ed here at 1:20, having stopped an
hour in Wichita Falls for breakfast.
He started back at 2:30 p. m., and
called the 950 mile journey for the
day a mere jaunt.
Bellanca Plane is
Ignited by Gasoline
ROSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., May
21.— (AP)—Gasoline spilled from
the Bellanca plane as it was be-
ing towed across ' the field caught
fire tonight and for a time threat-
ened the plane with destruction.
The plane was on the way from
Roosevelt Field to Curtiss Field
where Its hangar is, after Clarence
Chamberlin had announced post-
ponement oi' ail attempt to hop off
for Paris. Gasoline that had been
drained off formed a puddle and
was' believed to have been ignited
by n cigarette.
Unmarried women in Germany
between the ages of 20 and 46
number 5,300,000, which is 1,750,-
000 more than the number of men.
the difference being largely due, it
is said, to war losses.
900 GALLONS OF GOOB WHISKEY
GOES TO THE BOGS, LITERALLY
Promise of bumper crops in Aus-
tria is turning the depression to
optimism, and many people are re-
turning to work and placing their
funds in the postal savings panic.
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Cats and dogs, rati, and mice, and
all alley inhabitants were members
of an unusual "drinking party"
Friday night when rangers and po-
lice destroyed 22 barrels of whis-
key, approximately 300 gallons, r.1.
the rear of the police station.
The whiskey was dug up Worn a
secreted spot near Deal Thursday,
afternoon by rangers and police, an 1
was brought to police headquar-
ters on truck. Close guard was kept
during the day and night at. the side
of the jail where the 22 barrels
were stackeed.
Friday night the barrels were
smashed and the whiskey allowed to
run down the alley into a cess pool
at '.he rear of the jail. Several
spectators Insist they saw cats and
dogs staggering down Third street
l t* th t night,
Fractures Knee When
Caught in Machinery
Catching his knee In a speeding
belt at ihe Carbon Plant Saturday,
Haword Hayes was dragged sever-
al yards across the floor h fnr M
could be extracted. L>r. Menea,
who operated on the '.ljured leg.
immediately upon Hayes' arrival lu
the ambulance said the kneecap vm
broken in five places, but the men
sustained no other Injuries.
Believed to be the only ■
vivor In Portsmouth, England,
the American Civil War,
Hoare recently celebrated
wife their diamond wedding.
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Caufield, T. E. Borger Daily Herald (Borger, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 154, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 22, 1927, newspaper, May 22, 1927; Borger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth167084/m1/1/: accessed June 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hutchinson County Library, Borger Branch.