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Blankets daily except Saturdays the
oil, gag and carbon black commun-
ities, and the great North Plaint
farm region. A home newspaper
íBoíijcí Pailg Jlcralíi
"BORGER, THE WONDER CITY—CARBON BLACK CENTER OF THE WORLD"
Standi* behind every movement for
improvement of Borger and the city's
trade territory. Contains all the new*
while it is news.
VOL 12—NO 188
(associated press—nea service)
BORCJER, TEXAS, MONDAY, JUNK 27. 1938
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Outlaw Slain, Pal Wounded In Gun Battle
Capone's Enemies Would
Do Anything To Prevent
His Release From Prison
ALMtKIl TO ATTKNI)
ownovs' jtiiiMiiv
Al'HTIfi, Te*., ,lun« 27—
OPMIovrnor •limn* V.
.tilled nmIiI today lit- would
n«t«>ti«I ii cowboys' reunion ut
Slumlord .Inly 4.
Tliw In- will miH'i c¿i*iii*
.tutry. cowboy movie actio
from Tiojcn. .tutry will diill-
cali' ii noiik lo Will
mIionc lust rodeo participa-
tion v iix al Siaiiifonl July I,
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LOS ANliEI.EH, .lull 27
iA') MHll.nÍBhm broke the mind
of Al Capone on Aluatrtu Island,
but ItIh enemies within Un muy
«tone walls of "the rock" would
do iinythlnu lo prevent bin relean",
it former Inmute Huid today.
■toy (lurduer. white-thatched,
former I rata robber, recalled life
in the Federal Penitentiary In
Sun Fruiichieo Hay us he Hi.nrl.od
anew uh Halemnan for u Oallfor-
niu motion picture diHtrlbutor.
llell-nlKhts. he explained, ure
the tortured. sleeplc hourH ihut
prisoners spent in their cell , im-
agining HiltiKs going oil "out-
GREAT MANHUNT
FOR McCORMICK
HEIR CONTINUES
nlde."
Grim discipline made no ex-
ception for Capone. Gardner suid.
.Mir did it lull to sup the "blus-
ter" from Alvin KurpiH. convict-
ed kidnaper, when lie lieguJf a
life term.
"Cupime ban plenty of onetniftB.
lie Ik undoubtedly the most hal-
ed and moil hutitiK man In Alcn-
truy. prison," Gardner Hald.
"Men who were his enemies in
v'hlcago are there and their feud
od«y oii" thT rnIn.washed ¡Süi wldoned. Any of them would
...i li,.!, I ilo anything lo see that Cu
alione
'The food ut Alcatraz is the
AIíMJQl KRQUK, N. M., June
27 </f- i All army of weary
men iuunchod a fresh iiHsault
t
und flankiiiK canyons of mile-hlKh
Kulidia I'eak. hoping somehow to | ' ?
break the five-day mystery #ur-; 11
rounding the fate of mountain- '1"8,"'8 1 waB "«
climbing Med III McCormlck. *i0K ,h«re >* ,h« "f 1,11
wealthy publishing family scion Yo" < " 'he «treet cars and
As the fourth day of intensive ««««moWlw en downtown «truel
search dawned increuslnK pe*."' rt"" francisco. A fellow like
Him ism was evident umong lhe ¡ J«st stts thcr®, «Uring at
fool-hore, muscle weury soaruh-1 ?.'^fl" .«"'l
er«, who battb. d heWhls. scorch-! ?' th\,«r > T ,
Inn sun. and mountain lightning j 10 lluV'' **0W hl> ,,,<lcre<l
storm over the sabbath In futile! PoWMcIwm around. The money he
}|||nt ¡ spent and iiiu parties he «uve.
The body of It leba rd Whltmer. ! "A' f,rl" ht> '■" «"U"" "¿'J*
Mccormick's climbing companion bm ,b" h" ,n «
on an Ill-fated expedition start- Xa *'r h" 8,m*B "w"kf„ ,lf
i d last VV' tlnehday. was found < «pone docs come out, he will I*
Friday on the rocks under the' (Continued on page SIX)
Ü,00.foot sheer face of the peak's ———————————————————
topmost cliff, known as "The
Shield."
Since i:ien. an arinv of search-,
ers utigunicnted to 360 men, huvv
found no truce of younK McCor-!
nilck.
Although she has been i.t the
sci to of the Kearch continuously i
since lust Thursday, Mm. Ruth 1
Manna McCormlck Sltinns. tt>-
dlll'fi mother, was uituln with the
learclilns force today.
100-PassengerAir
Liner Is Planned
HTKI'-FATHKH OIKS
Funeral senicoa were con-
ducted today in Ft. Worth for
(iarner VV. Henderson, 59-year-
oi i Frisco Hallway switchman ¡
and step-father of Joe W llrown.
circulation mun««er of the Horner
I tally Heralif.
Henderson died early Stttur- Í
day tif Injuries received when an
automobile collided ut a street
crossing wllh the engine oil which
he was riding, pinning him he-;
tween the engine and car and:
(uusing internal Injuries.
SBATTLK. June 27 — (fí>)
A bullet shaped, six.motored "HU-
per-ciipper" has reached the blue-
print stage at the Hoeing Air-
craft Co., plant.
The flying ocean liner will be
so hl« Jtoeing will have to en-
large the plan to accommodate
construction under one roof
Us wlngspreud will be about
'too feci. Thin "Queen Mary of
the air" with have staterooms for
Its I no passengers and roomy ac-
comodations (or Its crow of Iti.
Passengers will cat lu ft dining
room, Instead of "off the lap."
as is customary on present trans,
port planes.
There will be room for dancing
while flying through the sub-
BtratoKphere ut 300 miles an hour.
The plane will Include u richly
appointed cocktail lounge.
FUGITIVES ARE
TRAPPED ON AN
ILLINOIS FARM
Pair Had Terrorized
Area With Gunfire,
Kidnapings
JOMET, III., June 27 Uh
Two outlaws who terrorised
parts of Indiana und Illinois with
gunfire and kidnapings reach,
ed dead end In a Deselm, ill., farm
yard today, one slain and the
other wounded.
Approximately 100 peace offI-
cers of the two stuten were ill on
the kill which climaxed a 20 min-
ute flurry of sharp fighting.
Sheriff Jolwi StHck of Kanka-
kee. HI., said the wounded man
identified himself us Oreile J.
h'uston, 27.
Previously. Illinois State Pa.
trolmun Joseph Gromaiin identi.
fled the slain man its Ray I,each
and the wounded desperado as
James Mekke, or Hrekko.
Kidnaping'., Shootings
Pence officers chalked up this
score ugulnst them since Sunday
night: The wounding of an In.
dlunu slate trooper near (¿aporte;
wanton firing at a newspaper pho.
togrupher who escaped unscath-
ed: the kidnaping of two La Porte
deputy sheriffs who were releas,
ed eight hours Inter; it dawn
blush with a piiiHUlng squad of
Illinois officers; the kidnaping of
a Wilmington farmer and his 4-
yeur-Old son. and sporadic other
fights with pursuers before they
met nltimate apprehension,
Illinois and Indiana authorities
had been searching for the doH.
perndoi'M since Sunday night.
State Policeman Joseph Oro-
man *«id his squad sighted und
pursued the fugitives' car near
Heseiin
Run Into Cornfield
The desperadoes' car became
'Hired In mud. Oromann said, and
they abandoned !' to hunt ref-
uge In a corn field.
(ii'omann said he and his twn
companions pursued the men
across the field, firing several
time , and drove them Into thi
range of another posse of officers.
The second squad brought the
gunmen down, (Iromann said.
Gromann Maid that in the mired
car they found James Novy, 3H
and his 4 year-old son. who had
been abducted by the gunmen
near Wilmington even us a force
of some 100 officers searched for
them.
A bullet proof vest was also
found ill the car. Gromann said.
Nations Warn Japan To
Stay Off Hainan Island
Trust Inquiry Shadows
May Stretch Across '40
Presidential Campaign
FDR WELCOMES!
SWEDISH ROYAL
FAMD.Y TO U.S.
WASHINGTON, June 27 </P)
- The purposes of the Anti-
Trust Inquiry bulk so large that
the Nhudows muy easily stretch
across the 11)40 presidential cam-
paign.
Many of the elements that go
into the making of business op-
pression. or even of good or bad
busilieHS. lire bound up In the
package of Information wanted
by the committee of Congressmen
and federal officials.
The first hints of the acope of
(he inquiry indicate it will try to
find out:
Whether the present anti-trust
laws can be made effective and
how much more uuthorily the.
Justice Department and Trade
Commission would need.
Whether u federal licensing luw
should be put on to supplement
or roplace the preeenl anii-truHl
InwH.
Obviously, before any such de-
cision is made, the committee
will try to mensure the cxlent of
monopolistic practices
This will tuke the committee
Into a study of inorffers and in-
ter-locking relationships of vari,
ous companies. Into the financial
controls back of thein, investment
trusts, bank holding companies,
the work of trade associations,
patent laws and taxi's. These are
collateral to the questions that
will be asked about price fix-
ing und similar evidences of prac-
tices which squeeze out competi-
tion.
The trust laws and those to re-
gulate business have furnished
some of the hottest disputes the
nation has heard. N'o new change
is likely to be Installed without
a vast outpouring of words, writ-
ten und oral. Throughout the lat-
ter years of the 19th century und
(Continued on page SIX)
Barbecue To Be
Held Tomorrow
It TRAFFIC VlOli.VTORM
Klevon persons paid or forfeit,
ed tl bonds on traffic counts to.
day In corporation court, as fol-
lows: Dead headlight 1. dead tail-
light 1. overtime parking 7, Im-
proper parking 2.
Harmony will ring lu ii full
chord tomorrow evening among
.laycees, Rotorluns, and I,tons
gathering for un Inter-club bar-
becue to cement fellowship among
the luncheon groups. It will be
held nt Skla-Tex camp, cast of
town, at 6:30 p. m.
Rep. Marvin Jones will be the
guest of honor at the outing and
probably will speak.
WILMINGTON Del.. June 27
(VP) President Hoove volt, stand,
lilt: under a ruin-drenched canopy,
welcomed in "true friendship" to-
day a Prince und Princess of
Sweden.
And from them Prince Rer-
tIIl and Crown Princess Louise
the Chláf executive accepted
with "profound gratitude" a mon-
ument raised by the Swedish
people on the spot where the first
of their countrymen landed in
the new world.
Speaking nt the 300th anni-
versary celebration of the urrlvul
of those colonists ut. "The RockH"
here, Mr. Roosevelt expressed
"keen sorrow" that Crown Prince
tiustaf Adolf, father of Bertll,
could not «orne ashore.
The Crown Prince, stricken
with ii kidney ailment, remained
on the Swedish liner Kungsholm
which brought the royal party
across the Atlantic for Swedlsb-
Americun festivities which ex-
(Conllnueo on Page SIXi
Farm Income To
Fall Below Goal
WASHINGTON, June 27 </P)
American farmers open theti
1938 marketing season for major
crops this week with prospect of
a cash Income 25 per cent below
tile goal set up by the new farm
law.
The goal Is nil income of at
least $10,000,000.000. (Ill the ba-
sis of present relationships lie
i ween farm and Industrial prices,
farmers would require that much
money, agriculture department
economists said today, to givi
them buying power equal to that
of urban residents
As movement of the wheat crop
to market got into full swing
TIiohc officials estimated the cash
farm income, including govern-
ment benefit payments, from Jan.
nary to June would be at leas'
f 160.000,000 below that of I hi
comparable period of 1! .I7.
LONDON. .Inn" 27 (A') Bri-
tain and Kranee have warned Ju-
pun to Htay off Hainan Island, off
the South China coast, and will
act to support curb other lit case
"complication " arlne, like KOV-
eriuMcnt Informed the House of
Commons today.
Mulnau, Chinese territory, i
separated by the 1 50-mile-wide
gulf of Ton king from French In-
do-China and com manda the east-
ern approaches to that colony
Answering a question whether
the British government would
support France lu regard to lie
security of Indo-China, Butler re.
plied:
"Ills majesty's government and
the French government, through
their amhussiidors at Tokyo have
made clear to the Japanese for.
ce and government thai they
would regard any occupation of
Hainan by the Japanese force as
calculated to give rise to unde-
sirable complications.
"Should any cam plication h un-
fortunately arise, bis majesty's
government and the French gov-
ernment would no doubt afford
each other such support, us ap-
pear warranted by the circum-
stance ,"
Soil Work Enters
New Phase July 1
AMARILLO, Tex., June 27 -
(VP) Soil conservation work In
the wind erosion area of the Texas
Panhandle will enter into a now j
phase July I, when nil demonstra- '
tion projects change from an op- '
era!Ions to a maintenance basis,
II. II. Flnnell. director of the
soli conservation service in this
region, said today.
This change Is in conformity to
the original plan adopted when
i roslon control demonstration
project were established, farmers
entered into five-year agreement."
with tin soil conservation service
to cooperate lu setting up n com-
plete conservation program on
their farms.
During the first two years of
the life of each project an oper-
ations progrum has been under
(Continued on page TWO)
AMARILLO FI.IKK KILLFD
AMARILLO, Tex., June 27
Í/Q ) David Jackson, 2,'l, auto
purl sulcHinun. was killed near
I here yesterday when his rebuilt
¡ airplane fell In a field. He was
flying alone.
. NON IS HORN
, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Anderson
are the parent of an S pound 7i
ounce son. born at N:25 last
night in North Plains hospital
2 MORE BRITISH
SHIPS ATTACKED
BY INSURGENTS
Foes Of Chamberlain
Seek Anti-Aircraft
Guns For Boats
By The \HHociated Press
Prime Minister Chamberlain's
opponents in the House of Com-
mons. enraged by two more at-
tacks on British ships tn Spanish;
porls, Houghi vainly toduy to have
bun arm British merchantmen
with utif >.u!rcruft guns
Chamberlain tried to stem a
Hood of hostile question with a
declaration that "a good many
difficulties" Htaud lu the way of
such a move.
Reply ing lo Luborite Philip .1.4
Noel.Raker, Chamberlain first
sulci that "further consideration'
of the suggestion has revealed
additional difficult!? ,"
Policy Severely Tested
Bombing of two British freight-
ers toduy by airmen in the service
of the Spanish Insurgents, added
to a long ll«t of Huch assault ,
severely testad ChumherlulnTJ
policy of mietlng such Incidents
with only protcHts and negotia-
tions.
Filen C, Wilkinson and other
Lalio'li. s Iterated the government
for what they termed Its part
In having the French frontier
closed to arms for the Barcelona
government while the frontier of
Portugal, friendly to the Insur-
gents, remained open.
Richard Austin Butler. Parlia-
mentary Undersecretary for For-
tlgii affair , admitted there were
no non-intervention observer on
the Portuguese frontier but re-
fused to accept Mi Wilkinson's
suggestion that St was wide open
to arms shipment Into adjoin-
ing Insurgent territory.
Op|ioMitioii Mounts
Attack on the freighter Ar-
lon at Valetuia und the Farijjfam
at Alicante fetl the flames of
mounting opposition and ire grow-1
ing out of tiie Prime Minister's
refusal to protect such ships, and j
placed the government in a grave'
quandary.
Today's bombings brought to j
It! the attacks on British regist-
ered vessels during June n«tl
made 5H such attacks since the
Spanish war started nearly (wo
years ago.
Bold continuance of attack
on lbe red ensign forced Cham-
berlain to face a clamorous House
of Commons demand that lie do
something and do It quickly.
So for he bus refused to take
economic, political or military x$
prisuts either ugulnst, Insurgent
Generalissimo Francisco Franco
or bis German and Italian back-
er .
Meanwhile, the Spanish gov-
ernment 'h threat to bomb llullun
and German cities lu reprisal for
Insurgent air raids was Viewed
In informed quarters us a desper-
ate "trial balloon" which swift,
ominous reaction in Great Britain
and France effectively hod punc-
tured.
Some diplomatic quarter ex-
(Continued or. page SIX i
Denies Romantic
Link With "Bab "
3
Prince Frederick of Prussia,
above, emphatically denied Eu-
ropean rumor which linked his
name romantically with that of
the Count* # Haugwits-Revent-
low. the former American heir-
ens Barbara Hutt,oji, who Is cur.
rentiy involved fh raarÚÉU diftl-
rultlc wish her Danish count
hUBhund over custody of their
child. Lance. Prince Frederick—
grandson of the former Kaiser -
said he knew the Count and
Countess only oJlghtly.
"Funeral" Success,
He Resumes Work
KINGSTON, Teiui., June 27 —
t,'p> tíñele Felix (Bush) Breuze-
ale resumed today the Job of
tending his hillside farm with
the aid of a 17-year-old mule,
happy in the knowledge that his
"fuuerill" had been a great sue.
(!« .
Yesterday the kindly 73-year-
old Roane coUtltlftll, hi groy
whiskers ruffled by the breese,
(Continued on Page TWO)
Weather
Oklahoma: Partly cloudy, war-
met In went portion tonight;
Tuesday partly cloudy, wanner In
en t and south portion .
West Texas: Partly cloudy,
probably local thuniiershower In
south portion tonight and Tues-
day. warmer In north portion to-
nlght.
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How Uncle Sam's Secret Service Agents Uncovered Nazi Spy Ring
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In January of this yenr, British ecr*t service «enU tNWrtinij
with U S. operatives, arrested Mrs. Jessie Wallace Jotd.in in her
ZLn .lv nmlnr in Dundee.' Scotland. Letters between Mrs. Jordan
and three suspected German spies In the United States Indicated
that she was the funnel through which information passed to Oer-
mnny She pleuded guilty, and in May was sentenced to four
years in prison. Meanwhile evidence given in her case, trans-
mitted to the United States, helped to Implicate In the plot those
with whom she luid been corresponding. It was the key-log in the
complicated jam of interlocking intrigues.
On Feb. 15, Guenther Guslavo
Rumrich. 37, deserter from the
U. S. Army, called the Passport
Bureau in New York, and in the
phony name of an undersecre-
tary of stale asked for n package
of passport blanks. Suspicious,
officials sent A dummy package
nad arreted Rumrich a they
delivered the package
mmm
A few days later, army officers
nt Mitchel Field. Long Island,
important flying base, put nn
end to the long surveillance of
F.rich Closer, German-born pri-
vate soldier, who had served in
the Canal Zone, and who had
been watched for six months.
In bis papers were found let-
ftom Mrs. Jordan.
Red-haired, 20-year-old Johan-
na Hoffman was next to full into
lhe net. Posing as a hair-
dresser on the German liner
Europo. she was arrested when
the ship docked She had a let-
ter offering $1000 reward for
certain information on the air-
craft carriers Enterpriite and
Yorktown, also a code key.
The growins mass of informa-
tion pointed al^o to William
l.onkowski. German political
and mechanical genius, who had
photographed stolen blueprints
id an army Uombcr and who
was caught trying to smuggle
them out of lh( country in n
violin cate. Lonlíowaki himself
escaped to Canada.
Dr. Igncilx Griabl. Werner
Gudi-libera, who stole the air-
plane plan-, for I.onkowski, and
a dozen others implicated nt the
spy ring made good their escape,
mo, t of them by pretending to
be friendly \vltru"^e< in the Ct<s>
and then jumping ball and
boarding German ship who:o
jffk'crs eo-oocraícd.
Eighteen men and
eluding two high officers
German Air ministry on duty
in iieilin, were indicted hy
special federal Grand Jury In
New York in n solemn
u nial proceeding which
)>• hud (lie approval of
department. Four remain
country to face trioL
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