Borger Daily Herald (Borger, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 133, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 24, 1938 Page: 1 of 8
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Blankets daily except Saturdajra the
oil, gas, and carbon black commua*
itieg, and the great North Plain*
farm region. A home
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Stand behind every movement
improvement of Borger and the
( trade territory. Contain! all ifis
I while it ia newa.
'BORGER. THE WONDER CITY—CARBON BLACK CENTER OF THE WORLD"
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BOBGER, TEXAS, SUNDAY, APRIL 21. !! :;>
SIXTKKN PACKS T(i|i.\\
PRICE FIVE CENTS
«MS
How to Trap
a Cockroach
RESCUE SQUADS
Compromise On Tax Speeds Adjournment remove all of
■■ "T'" ^HlttM nf
Borger, Phillips
Bands Rate High
Arnutfo Morn Of Et Huso, Tex,
HOW offers 'he world his patent-
ed "Automutic Roach Trap." U
works this way: the cockroach
smells the bait tn the center o£
the tiap and starts up the hide
a above .
That climb was thin big fellow's
first mistake With the food in
sight, he tries a jump for it and
instead slides down the slippery
Incline around the top of the
trap and fails into the "moat"
surrounding the bait . , .
HKNDKRKON TO M.VVMiK
I'll I!,1,1 |*s NKItVM'K HTATION
C. L. "Rlackle" Bant lian ills,
posed of IiIh nervine huh Ion unil
residential property at Phillip*,
ac Ot'dllU', 10 atlllouileRment yes.
terduy. The tmle of the station
Included n garage mid three
houses.
Doyle Henderson líos assumed
mnnuvement of i)• «• Service Hia-
Molt. Henderson romes here from
Kusteni Oklahoma where he lias
had hi-voi'¡il years' experience In
the operation ol fill lux stations.
ORDER BIDS FOR
SURFACING LINK
ON HIGHWAY 117
uaHMM . mmmm
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Horner High School Hand yen
terduy won second or superior!
ruling In ('lass R concert compet-
ition at the North Texas Kami
Association's annual convention j
this week-end. according to ttic
Associated Press.
The band tanked highly mi-1
perior ill marching also.
in the Class (' division Phillips
wiih ruled superior in concert and
superior In inarching.
Director J, K. Walker conducts
the Merger band, and Director
Robert L. Newton Is the leader
of the three.year-old, ¡17-piece
i Phillips hand
Margaret Mctlee Is drum major I
at Uorger. while Margaret Salot ¡
and Gladys Markeo direct the
¡ Phillips Rand afield,
Spearman and Htlnnett recelv-
LEADERS HOPE
TO END WORK
ABOUT JUNE 1
Heavy Program For
This Week Faces
Congress
WASHINGTON, April 23
l/P) Leaders today arranged
it heavy program for congress
next week and set June 1 as an
approximate adjournment date.
President Roosevelt Intends to
complete his legislative recom-
mendations during the week and
leave Washington Friday for a
fishlnr trip. MeSHugoH ure ex-
pected from the executive on j
monopoly, removal of tax exemp-
tions on Rularles of public em-
ploves and Income from federal
and state securities.
Hope for Naval Hill OK
Administration leaders on ('ap-
ed tiiird class or excellent rating jitol Hill hoped to send the tax
ill the Class C. j revision measure to the White
j Twenty-two hundred students ( House next week, obtain seiiat ■
participated in the three.day eon.,'approval of the naval expansión >
bill and clean up a hnlf-do/en
odds and ends of legislation ill
the house.
The president's ntuitl-hilllon
Riots Mark Hitler Birthday Party in New York
v
The State Highway Commission i tests.
has ordered bids for grading,! Complete results follow
bridges, and surfacing on High-1 Class A concert: Amarillo,
way 117 from Stinnett north six | highly superior; Plalnvlew, Paiu-
inlles. pa, and Wichita Fails, superior.
The project will cost an estim-
ated t* 4.011(1.
Closing of this gap by hard
surfacing was one of the projects
Other concert rankluK :
Class R: Vernon. Spur, Sham-
rock and Sam Houston Junior 'lee,
High of Amarillo, top rankings: Drafting of a compromise tax
A brown-shifted Nazi storm
trooper is shown above rushing to
dollar «pending-lending program ¡ ti|t, uW Ilf NuZ| during
will continue its Journey through
he house appropriations commit
i
' j a riot bet wet a 100 American
"¡war veH ra¡té and inore Hum t,-
(too members of the German-
American Riiiiil at Vorkvllle Cu-
Kino In New York City The Nimit
were celebrating the JJIth btrth-
rtf Atolf ft tiler Seven vet Mtalrs.
Mountain Mine Scene
Of Fiery Pit Of
Death
GRUNDY. Va-, April 31 i/P)
Korty.fivi' charred and broken
l odles of miners were taken from
the snared depths of the Ke'
Mountain mine, of the Red Jack-
! et Coal Com,iany today, vlcilms
of vOlcano-IIke explosions which
«reeled the night shift as It en-
tered the mine yesterday.
Til.' United States Rureau of
Mines officials said no further
bodies were In the "drifts" which
extended far under tbo moun-
i a i ti. . . ■
Rescuers Toll In H<
Sweating, sooty.faced members
of mine rescue squads, worked Hi
! thirty-mittlit.- relays In Ihe fttr
mice like atmosphere until tljey
■had i \pb>re<! every avenue of the
big in lite. Two mem bora were
over-come by bad air which hod
be blown out before the final
group of bodies oonid be removed.
No word of cheer came from
sorrowing chlldwn. sweetheart ,
Only bodies cunte up from the
1 mine.
¡ A sooty.faced miner named
plain Hill Smith, who had been
which took County Judise Nor- Rorger. McLann and Bowie. No. j jnw ,|1(1 fnl.m i( probably will BORGAN FIRST
HHHHfiHHHHHHATCANYON in
DECLAMATION
Thus the roach finds himself
Imprisoned uniil the keeper of
the trap slides back one of the
little doors around the bottom
of the box, at which time the
roach timorously pushes his
feelers out the small opening . . .
Sticking his chin out in that
manner is the roach's final
error A heavy-heeled boot
knocks him over on his back
and in another second will
mercilessly end his life. Mr.
Mora I* willing to sell hia in-
vention for $25,000.
Find Insulation
In Electrocution
Machinery Faulty
HCNTSVILLB, Tex.. April 2.'l
- (VP) Faulty Insulation has
beon discovered ill the stnte's
electrocution machinery which
failed early Friday aa two men
awaited their doom, prison mana-
gar O. J. K. Rllingm-ii sale here
today,
John W. Vaughn, convicted of
a San Antonio aluying, who was
making a Inst minute protest of
Innocence In ihe bleak eurly hours
before dawn Wtien the generator
spluttered and stopped a second
time since midnight, had called
the failure an act of providence.
Johnnie Hanks, Negro, alan was
awaiting Ihe ratal electric shock.
Banks and Vaughn were given n
week i reprieve.
Prison officials ««It! there
would be no "accident" next Fri-
day.
A Houston electrle company re.
pairing Ihe generator Raid the In-
aulatlon allowed a resilience of
only ROO volts when It should
iiave been 8.800.
At Austin. 0«v. Jamen V. All-
rnd said the breakdown wis nei-
ther "au act of Ood" uor a result
of sabotage, but due to a wornout
man Coffee and County Commis-
sioner Flit* Thompson to Aus.
(In last week to appear before
the highway commission.
Contract was let Thursday to
Atlhands ,« Davis, the firm now
doing grading and drainage work
on the Borger.Pampa road, for
a mile of mad improvement be-
tween Rorger and Stinnett The
low bid was $4 0,9 77.
Mayor La Guardia
Draws Throng*
To WTCC Meet
WICHITA PAL. Tex , April 23
| t/P) From over the rolling
plains of West Texas nnd beyond
thousands turned toward Wichita
Pnlls for the annual convention
of the greatest regional chamber
of commerce in the world.
They were drawn by the pros-
pect of hearing and seeing New
York's dynamic mayor. Florello
II. l.ngunrdtu, United States Sen.
tttor Tom Connolly and other
notable speakers, as well as for
the purpose of formulating a
fresh program of progress for the
vast area served by the West
- Texas Chamber.
j Laguardla came to Wichita
Fails from Oklahoma City nnd
other points in that state where
ho had uttended pioneer celebra-
tions and was slated to addresi
the convention Tuesday after-
noon. possibly on relief problems.
Connnlly was to speak Wednes-
day.
2: Tulla, No. Klectru. No. 4.
Class C Panhandle and Can-
yon. No. 1: White Deer, No. 2:
Phillips. Morse, Canadian. I.efoiS,
Spearman and Stinnett. NfgS
Class D: Dumas, No 1; Child-
reBS, No. 2; Seymour, No.
Class K: Pampa Junior, No. 1;
Plalnvlew, No. 2.
Marching:
Class A Plalnvlew: Class R:
Vernon, Shamrock. Borger and
McLean; Class C: Canyon and
Panhandle.
Dry Leaders Will
Talk Here Today
The Rev. Jeff Davis, Dallas,
executive secretary ant! treasurer
Dr. Parcells To
Speak At Rotary
Dr. Rue Parcells, a past dis-
trict governor of the Rotary Club,
will be the guest speaker ut the
regular luncheon of the Rorger
Rotuiians next Tuesday.
Dr. Parcells, p.esldeni of the
Amarillo School Hoard, has con-
sented to speak on some pJiaae
of Rotary work.
KKVH ARK KOI ND
Polic have found several Kiose
keys ill the alley near the station,
including several for doors and
one for u car. The owner may
claim them by Identifying them
at the station.
go on the statute books hinged
only on action of a senate.house
conference committee in recon-
ciling numerous details of sep.
*rate bills passed by the cham-
bers.
Senator Harrison (D-Mlss. >, a
member, forecast the joint com-
mittee would complete lis work
Monday. Yesterday, the confer-
ence group agreed on a modified
form of the house-approved un-
distributed profits tax which has
been endorsed by Mr Roosevelt.
It also accepted wit it slight
change a capitul gains levy vot-
ed by the senate and approved
by business spokesmen.
Speaker Rank head asserted he
was "greatly pleased" that the
agreement had been reached and
predicted that the house would
approve the compromise.
Predictions of senate approv.
chamber.
WEATHER
Oklahoma: Cloudy Sunday;
Monday unsettled and cooler with
showers.
West Texas: Partly cloudy
Sunday and Monday, probably
scattered showers in southeast
portion; cooler tn north portion
Monday.
Up unit! latí' lii'-t nlglK only
ene first place had been won by
Borger entrants at the Regional
Interscholustic League meet in
Canyon, according to Jack Ad-
kins. principal of Borger High
School.
The first place nwnrd wont to
Charlene Williams, in the blub
school junior girl's declamation
contests.
I.aura .lean Kltnore won third
I place ill the senior girl's declmua.
Hon, and Zena Ma. Mnsstttgiii
third in essay writing.
The boy's debate leant
scheduled for the finals hist night
competing against the Amarillo
team.
In track Rob Sickles won third
place In the 100 and 2 20.y aril
dnslK'S.
Reports of the shorthand and
typing results were not available
lust night.
The People's Choice!
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Brans, badly beaten, needed bos- , , . .
pi ta i 11 cut men i ..fon- the f|t,hl. ¡'Idlng with bodies down the lour,
lug. In the nienire the storm m"° ,mn'"w
> many hours, paused long
t * -,
Of tha. I
fifty feel fr
mine when
troopers are throwing an unwel-
come spectator nl^wn the Casino
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Don't Buy From Jews,"
Read Signs Jews Forced
To Bear At Own Stores
V •
Baby Entries
Break Record
The American Legion Grand
Prise Baby Show and "Million
Dollar baby parade entries closed
of the United Texas Drys. statu nt o p. m. last night at Legion
prohibition organisation with na.
tioual affiliation, will speak In
two Borger churches today.
At the II o'clock worship hour
Davis will speak at Ihe First Me.
thodlsi Church. Me will speak at
the First Buptlst Church at 8
o'clock in the evening. Kvenlng
services at the First Presbyterian
Church will he concluded in time
for those present, who care to do
so, to attend the service at the
Baptist Church.
The United Texas Drys Is ren-
dering a very valuable service
throughout the state In the pro-
Joel Ion of an educational program
presenting the effects of alchol-
Ism and t) « resulta of the liquor
traffic. Rvetyone Interested In the
physical, moral am' spiritual wel.
fare of the cltlsenahlp of Texas Is
luvited to hear the Rev. .dr. Da-
vis'
Headquarters with a record
breaking entry of 206 babies
from It cities und towns In the
Panhandle, said General Chair,
man Kd Ralston. No more entries
can lie taken In the show that Is
cresting widespread Interest for
beginning Tuesday nt 12:30 p. tu
the little tots will be checked over
on their physique nnd beauty at
the special clinics that will be
held in the Legion Hall. The sec.
ond and last clinic will be con- >
ducted on Wednesday, stated
Tom Duval, post commander and
chairman of the Clinic Committee.
Additional entries in the show
are Marinadwpnn 40-months-old
daughter and Maxiord Ulynn, 28.
months-old son of Mr. nnd Mrs.
H. C. Haddock of White Deer:
Hugh Pruett, 14-months-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Pruett.
(Continued (rum Pac* TWO)
Louis Takes His
Good Luck Derby
Along — And Wins
Maybe It was Louie Cohn's
battered hat that helped him
win highly superior at the
Vernon Musical Festival, an
honor that will send him to the
National Contests.
Wherever Louie goes. so
goes tin old tinvy felt hat he
calls it hia good luck derby.
When he departed for the Ver-
non contents last week the hat
went with the saxophone play-
er despite protests from
friends nnd parents.
When It came tline for Iconic
to play M requested his leach-
er. Mra, M, L. Creel to hold the
headgear in her lap during his
performance.
She did and I^nule looted his
aax to the winning degree.
V1KNNA. April 2.\ </pj
Jews In Vienna were forced to.
day io picket their own stores.
Jewish shopkeepers were mud •
to hold upwards at arm's length
sU'iis reading "don't buy from
.lews."
Draped abonl the necks of nine
persons found III Jewish esuib
llsbments were placards proclaim-
ing:
"This stupid, common person
still purchases at Jewish stores": lo(jllv n(|(|
Hundreds of SA (Rrownshlrtl
HIHi*r youth dlfi'ted the mass
anti-Jewish boycott while (¡crinan
officials began a punco of the
tamed \uNlrnln National Library.
••Non-Ai'.vnti" Itook Burned
Tie chief librarian was sup-
plied with a lisi of proscribed
"noti-aryan" works i<> be remov-
ed and burned iron the l.HOe.tMlO
Volumes in the magnificent col-
lection.
Destroyed or relegated to cel-
lars were tile works of Tliotua <
Mann, Siefan üWeig, Jacob Was
IContinued oti page TWO)
McCRAW OPENS
RACE, FAVORING
NO NEW TAXES
ARLINGTON, rev. April 2.1
l/P' Attorney (¡eticr.il William
Mtjf'ruw came to h< birthplace
Hie formal piling'
Él *
of
duration
rn tlu- mount W the
In heard the roar
and saw flume belched from the
mountain.
"The biasi was away from me.
and that's wily I didn't i;ct hurt"
he said. "1 saw coa I-carrying
motora, slate und timber
as if from a cannon."
All Dtcii Instantly
"All evidence Indicates the un-
derground crew died instantly,"
said C, P. Kelly, chief mine In-
spector of the state department
of labor. He said federal, stale
and mine officials would maki
a full investigation after the res-
cue work. The mine was a new
one, opened last November, ant:
was described as up-to-date tn
every respect.
Mingo Keadle. vice president
of the Red Jacket company, an-
renounced thai air had been dr.
into the governor's with "a ' Ulai-d through u!i passages but
pb a for nil.'¡ilion of tut • workers foun slower in
government and a declaration niulu shaft than in the B
fnvóHiitf no new laxos. ¡ "hah where i 7 bodies were
lie Chose Ibis spot once the f'"""1 before It was fully explor-
mecca of horse rare mus in north i Three of the Ü-' bodies came
(Continued on Page 1WO)
3-Cornered Race
In'40 Possible
ra
Te,vas to affirm opposition loj
l<'K lixcd ganibllii!- "in any form",
and pleitee insistence upon en-
forcement of local I it| inn- laws:
by local officers to 'relieve the j
state or a substantial portion of
the heavy expense ii now incurs;
n practically taking over this
phase of law enforcement.
A rllne i on cltueiis and friends ,
of the vttorney (Jp.fierul from all
purls of the stale crmnaetl an
old t ash toned political rally to
buck-ground red headed Mc-
t'wnvV hmiieiown approach to
Hh campaign.
In liis nummary of bis platform
McCruw emphasi/.eil modernisa-
tion ot the slate government and
tirr.ed that taxation be "system-
ii11/oil rather than Increased,"
Carefully explaining thai the
experience dtd not i|iinH*v him
foj the governorship, but had
hen him valunble cpnin'i wit'i
I the i-omnion fo'k McCraw t dd
I how lie sold newspaper* on ihe
i aired.- of Dall.'S as ti boy. He out-
I lined iiis world war service Willi
(Continúen on Page TWO)
Man Mountain Dean
Man Moult tit ill Dean, chin foil
age and all. has decided to run
for the (ii nriibt state legislature.
The gigantic veteran of III"
wrest'lng wars figures he can d >
the "peepul" some good by toss,
lug out any In members of the
body ai the same time, ahould
they start a fUUbuster.
SULPHUR «PRINCS, Tex.
April 23 (4*1 Krnest Thompson.
, candidate for governor, carried
bis campuign Into Kaat. Texas to-
day.
WASHINGTON, April 2:i i/P)
Definite progress P i e s i d e n i
Roosevelt ban made in the past
two weeks toward regaining lead-
ership of his own party III Con
gress is of more Immediate con
sequence to ibe udmlnlstratton
than outcome of the liberal con
fereitce jusi colled by (iovernor
Philip LaFollcile of Wisconsin.
(Iovernor LnFoHette's call for
II meeting of Liberals ii' \l Thllrs
day raises IMjssibillty of a three
cornered presidential race in
IÜ40. Rut this III rent is u third
party candidacy is still a matter
of speculation rather than fact.
and 1140 is two years ttway
On the other liiiutl, Mr. Uuose
veitrecent iioibs may have
prompt political results. : Nine more prisons had present.
Direct white House pressure ed thenlSetviiH 111 l(MWi ! tOStllll-
forced upon rebeiliotm Semite nions for overpn>kii;ig on Main
Japs Push Deep
Into New Area
SHANGHAI. April 24 (Sun-
day) (,P) A Japanese army
spokesman said today the Rising
Sun banner hud been carried
across the border into Klangau
province when the reorganised
Japanese offensive drove a deep
wedge into Chínese lines tn sou-
thern Shantung.
The Japanese salient, he said,
was a few miles east of Tuiereh-
w.tng where the invaders suffered
u smashing defeat April 6 after
they hud occupied the city and
cros.sed the border into Kiangeu
for the fli^t time from the north.
Tsveuty thousand Chinese were
reported retreating in thw itlree.
don of Pihftien, aliout eight miles
l.iiiu'ltui runway, Vital
9 More Warned
On Overparking
from the
east-west line
cse have been
months.
which the
trying to remch
J, -
Teruel
Democrats n tax revision compro-
mise providing Ihe hti*iuoMi<.crit.
Iclsed undistributed profit, tax
should be retained In u great 1}
modified form. This gives the
president at least a tactical ad
vantage In his apparent effort to
make this yoar'v Democratic pel-
rttr< ■ t yesterday afternoon lute
As In the case with the first
group of len offenders against
the ordinance prohibiting over
two-hour parklin between Fourth
and Hbventb Street from S a m
to 7 p. ,n , they were wiuttfltl and
told "to sin no more "
Diaries and general elect toils a ' Two persons forfeited bonds of
test of the admttthitrnUuu's pop.'11 each for driving with dead
ularity with the voters j headlights.
H K.N DA Y B. France i at the
Spanish frontier!, April S3 <*«)
' Spanish InsurgentM annonnced to.
night they had broken th
government lines in thrae
in a new drive on the
front, I
They reported citptum of the
j highway city of Aliaga. In
1 Just mountains 32
oast of Teruel, on the
I I lin miles east of Madrid.
hy capturing Aliaga,
gents said, and br
no\ci anient Hues near
ios to the northwest
i<> tin northeast.
iimns bar' encircled
¡of (cnvernmeni
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