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VOL 18—NO 116
ASSOCIATED PRESS-NÉA SERVICE
BORGER, TEXAS, THURSDAY. APRIL 6. 1939
SIX PAGES TODAY
PRIC
RESOLUTION IS
ENGROSSED BY
VOTE OF 21-5
Same Final Passage
Margin "Would
Submit It
AUSTIN. Tux.. April 0 ~(/P)
A constitutional resolution
submitting to the people the
question ui levying h comhlnn-
lion salcs-scrvlcc-natural resourc-
e« to* to finance aoelal security
mudo u tremendous kuIii In the
Hcuute today.
The senate engrossed the
proposed amendment to the con-
stitution. 21 to &, which wus
by a sufficient margin to submit
It If the mensure obtained as
many voles on final passage.
After passing the resolution to
third reading, the senate luid II
aside. mid leaders among propon
enis said they protmhly would
not press I in mod lately (or a fin-
ul test
Add Aye Vutr
The senate first voted 1 to &
for engrossment!, but Inter Sen-
ator .1. Franklin Spears or Sun
Antonio nqd Allan Shivers of
Port Arthur, who hail been off
the floor, returned and iihked to
be recorded as voting aye.
To submit au amendment a
two-thirds majority of the mem-
bership of both senate and house
of representatives must approve.
In the senate 21 votes Is such
a majority.
These was no debute preced-
ing tlife drive fur engrossment.
iV Weinoii of Be-
giiln, One of the SprtftTHns, mere-
ly c ailed the proposition up. and
It went through without argu-
ment
A eonstltutlonul resolution may
be called up -for consideration
any time. Action therefore was
possible despite the fact It was
a day set aside by the senate
rules to consider only bills pre-
viously passed by the house.
The delay before attempting
final passage was reported to
have been due to the fact a sen-
ator expected to vote aye was
out or town and also to vote on
(Continued on P*g TWO)
Unusually Rare Case Of Baby With Bladder Appended to
Outside Of Its Abdomen Has Been Unearthed In Borger
IIV VAM1A CVI'HHK
The si range and rare story or
how a llorger baby has lived
nearly a year with Its bladder
appended !o the outside of the
abdomen was uufolded ' here to- :
day. following reports of the
birth of a girl in Oregon with the
same affliction.
The baby. Tommy Joe. Is the
20-pounU soli of Mr. and Mrs.
.1 tv Mulanax and will be a yogi-
old on the 17th o i thU mouth.
The child, normal in every
other respect, weighed 7 1-4
pounds at birth and I he attend-
Int; physician believed the babe
couldu't live over three or four
days at the most.
He said this uunaturalness.
described as an ectophic condition
occurs only about once In every
50,iHi0 births among boys.
At the age of three months
doctors in Oklahoma City exam-
ined Tommy Joe and when he
was six months old lie was taken
to ati Amurillo hospital and plac-
id In a pediatric ward for ob-
serva! Ion.
Specialists who conferred told
the parents the baby's only chance
for a normal life will be an
operation, which they believe
can be successfully performed.
However, they udvlse waiting
until the Infant Is three years
Reculllng one or two similar
cuses, local physicians have ud-
vised against an Immediute oper-
ation because of the high fatali-
ty risk. There is a cavity In the
abdomen through which the
I;Iudder protrudes. The bladder
Is complete, has no outside open-
tug and Us workings cun bo seen
by the naked eye.
The attending physician said
the case was I he second he bud
experienced, the first having
been when he was interning.
Another Borger doctor said
he had delivered a baby with
the same deformity In the boom
days, but the parents moved
soon after and he lost truck of
the progress ot the baby. The
same physician suld al the time
he was In school a man with
the Identical peculiarity made his
living traveling about from one
inedtc.nl school to another.
Four other normal children
are in the Mulanax family.
Italian Occupation Of Albania
Feared After Warships Arrive
Hi, Kids!
Local Doctors On
Medical Program
Two Borger physicians, Dr L.
M. Draper and í)r. W. 0. Stephens,
will have nn active part in the
Panhandle District Medical So-
ciety meeting In Amarillo next
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Registration will get underway
ut 9 a. m., April 11. in the Her-
ring Hotel.
Dr. Draper Is chairman of tho
surgery section, scheduled to get
underway at 1:30 p. ra. on Wed-
nesday. and wilt make the Chair-
man's address.
Following Dr. Draper's talk.
Br. Stephens la scheduled to talk
on "Factors Governing Healing
of Abdominal Wounds."
(entertainment for the two-day
convention Includes a banquet and
dance on Tuesday, a luncheon
Wednesday honoring Dr. E. W
Henner, president of the Statit
Medical Association.
Special evonts for visiting wives
will Include a coffee Wednesday
moruing at the home of Mrs.
Ralph Carroll and a luncheon
Wednesday at tho Country club.
TIRANA Arpll </!'( An
! in linn cruiser mid two destroy
<th arrived at Duriizzo, Alhnulu.
this morning as Albania feverish-
ly discussed reports of an Immi-
nent Kalian occupation.
Many Albanian reservists have
been mobilized.
There was some feeling in dip-
lomatic circles that the Albanian j
i o resistí
All the kids enjoy the springtime, but here ore two who are en-
'oying it especially, for they have been selected for a lifetime of
-so in the San Francisco zoo. Ah, well, joy is brief, by summer
they witl be the goats.
Rural School Aid Bill
Is Signed By Governor
Side Glances On
P.-T.A. Meet
1
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rnuup ofwfnii
Participating In
Mutic Festival
Approximately forty seven
members ot the Phillips High
School Imnd loft today to at-
tend thu state musicul festival
\ in Plulnvlow.
Those participating In the
I nolo events today wore Harold
Hopo and Barbara Hagan.
Others making tho trip were
Fern Savage. Mnry llolloman.
Dorothy Williamson, Vlrglnln
Lee MeSpsdden, Cora Lee Web-
aten Stella Lathrop, Blaine Dti-
gone. Hsrlette Dren nan, Ruth
(Continued on Page TWO)
C s doldsmltb, president of
ihe Uotary club, suys;
"The local P.-T.A.'s ambition
in entertaining the district Parent-
Teachor conforence is commend-
able. Closer cooperation or school
patrons and school officials means
better schools In a better com-
munity."
Charge Man With
Drunken Driving
Hoh Nolan, a carbon black
worker, was bound over to tho
grand Jury here last nlgnt after
prollmlnay hearing on a charge
of driving while intoxicated. Ills
bond was set at $750.
Justice of the Peace <J. C.
Knight also flnod him $1 and
costs, n total of $14.Hit. on a
charge of operating a vehicle
without a license
Nolan was arrested here early
last Sunday.
(jiltI, TO CUM'lli WATKKM
A girl, weighing 0 pounds and
16 ounces, was born al 12..10 p.
ui. yesterday In North Plains hos-
pital to Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Wat.
ers,
AUSTIN. April 0 -(>?) After
long study, Gov. W Lee O'Danlcl
today signed a bill to make u sup-
plemental appropriation of ap-
proximately $1,500 000 for rural
school aid.
The allotment was In 'addition
to the regular $11,000,000 appro
prlatlon for the blennlum ending
next Aug. 81. The proposal evok-
ed considerable debate In both
House and Senate.
The money will make up part
of a deficiency In the state fund
for aid In the payment of public
school teachers.
Of the $1.518.045 total, $708,-
255 will supplement teachers' sal-
aries last year, $790,Tf t) will sup-
plement sitiarles tills year and
$10.000 will go to the school cen-
sus division of the state depart-
ment of education.
Pickens Heads
School Board
At the meeting of the Phillips
Independent School hoard Toes-
day evening. A. O. Pickens was
elected president. J. C. Cox vice-
president and W. R. Hayhurst
«■as elected secretary.
WEATHER
West Texas — Partly cloudy
and colder, temperature below
freezing In north portion and
near freeslng In southwest por-
tion tonight; Friday fair, rising
temperature In north portion.
government might try
.my landing of Italians.
There was a distinct possibility
however, that the government
might on the other hand find n
rormula under which Italian oc-
cupation would be accepted.
I'J.me service fisim .-Tirana to
Italy was cancelled. Practically
all ItulkiiiM in Albania had re-
united to Italy.
Negotiations between Albania
and Italy, obstenslbly toward
strengthening the 1 í 27 defensive
alliance between the two coun-
tries, have been going on for sev-
eral days.
King 7,og, after the birth of an
heir to the thrown yesterday,
conferred nearly five hours with
ills cabinet.
King Zog received the Itailun
minister, Francesco Jacomotil in
a private audience that lusted
two hours this morning.
KOMK. April —(/F*>- Premier
Mussolini flew early this morning
lo the military airport of .losi,
near the Adriatic seaport of An-
colia, where he reviewed planes
and new recruits.
The premier piloted a Irl-iuo-
tored bomber to the airport near
% point that ovelooks the sea to-
ward Albania as rumors of an Im-
pending Italian military occupa-
tion Of tho little Biilkun country
ran through Europe.
I Yugoslav officials, who said
they were officially Informed or j
Italy's intentions, declared the
impending military occupation
w s meant as a warning to both
Yugoslavia and Greece not to mix
In the Anglo French project, of a j
"stop Hitler" bloc.)
The Fusclst press proclaimed
Italy was "ready for anything at
any moment" though the uewc.
papers were silent concerning Al-
bania.
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BARUCH FAVORS
ARMS SALE ON
A CASH BASIS
Borah Says Embargo
Against Aggressor
Most Dangerous
WASHINGTON, April « (fl')
Bernard M. Harttch, wall street
financier and advisor ol Presi-
dent Wilson, endorsed today the
proposul of chulrman Plttmau
(l)-Nevl to sell arms to belli
gerent nations on a cash and car-
ry basis.
Testifying before the senate
foreign relations committee, the
financier asserted if this nation
does hot supply weapons lo bel-
ligerents, "other imtlons will."
"We have now an absolute pro-
hibition on export of lethal wea-
pons," llaruch said, referring lo
the ban In the present neutrali-
ty inw on export or arms and
ammunition to nations at war
"Now, on the essential princi-
ples wo are discussing here
the principles or neutrality or
keeping out or war thin has
uothlug to do with either
"It springs from another high
purpose which is to prevent our
country from selling any kind
of weapon with which men kill
each other. It Is a rebuke to wai-
ns an institution. It will not pre-
vent war, take us in. or keep tis
out of war.
"If we want to make a ges
ture let us do so but let us not
do It under uny idea that It aids
either neutrality or pence. If we
do not supply the weapons, oth-
er nations will."
WASHINGTON. April fi (¿p)
Senator Borah t It-Idaho), re-
plying to Henry L. Stimson's ap-
peal to ban munitions sales to
aggressor nations, declared today
sui h discrimination "would In-
eVItubly lead us into war."
Borah suld he interpreted ios-
terdny's testimony before the
senate foreign relations commit-
(Continued on page TWO)
Sadler To Meet
Oil Challenges
HOUSTON, April fl UP) Jer
ry Sadler, member of tho Texas
railroad commission, said todny i
he was prepared to meet all j
challenges of the oil Industry over
new allowables posted by the re- I
gulntory body for Texas fields
Partial restoration of allow- i
ables announced yesterday by
Sadler Is all the commission plans j
to do at this time, Sadler said us !
he headed for federal court to
study an Injunction suit brought
against the commission by ,1. S
Abercrombio and the Harrison Oil
company.
"We have done all we plan lo
do for the present," Sadler said.
The commissioner did not com-
ment on the April 17 heating of
the commission or the many al-
lowables for Texas oil fields.
si ITS KILHD A(«,\l NMT
ItUtl.Ui ASSOCIATIONS
APSTN. Tex., April « (/p)
Suits seeking forfeit^,.j of
the charter of a Houston Mutual
assessment insurance company
and stopping one burial associa-
tion in Corpus Christ I and one In
Arlington from doing business
were filed In district court by at-
torney General Gerald C. Mann
here today.
ANGLO-POLISH
MILITARY PACT
IS ANNOUNCED
Britain Continues Its
"Stop Hitler" Push
With Alliance
LONDON, April 6 -(/P) -The
British government announced to-
day a mutual defense agreement
with Poland, a drive to rid Bri-
tain of German agents and assui-
unces from Albania her Integrity
wus un i mu pul red desptte reports
of British efforts to raise defen-
sive barricades against aggression
In Europe.
Tho "purge" of German agents
and the Albanian problem were
Important side Issues.
Britain's part of the Polish-Bri-
tish alliance was a week old but
Poland's promise to uld Britain
ugiilnst any aggression w.is new
the product or three thiys or con-
versations here between British
statesmen and Poland's foreign
minister Joseph Beck.
Prime Minister Chamberlain
told the house of commons that
"Pending completion of a per-
manent agreement. Colonel Beck
guve assurance the Polish govern-
ment would consider themselves
under obligation to render assls-
tunce to his majesty's govern-
ment."
Chambeiiulii took note of the
arrival of Italian warships at Du-
ruzzo. Albania, but said nil was
quiet there and the Albania had
denied she Uud ueeoptod auy con-
ditions ftjcompniltile with her sov-
eiignty and uatiouul Integrity.
Home Secretary Sir Samuel
Honro told commons the govern-
ment wan taking steps to deport
members of the German secret
police and other Naxl organiza-
tions from Britain.
When Sir Samuel finished Ills
statement the only communist
member, Willie Gallacher, shout-
ed :
"Why don't you close down the
(Continued on Page TWO)
Spearman Gets 4-Inch Fall;
Moisture For North Plains
Area Amounts to 2.90 Inches
Heavy snows rttntjinjf from 3 to 5 inches deep blank-
eted the Panhandle today in the wake of good rains the
previous twenty-four hours.
Together the falls soused wheal and rangelands
thoroughly and brought the moisture level of the soil
''higher than ever.
The snow totalled four
inches at Spearman, in the
heart of the North Plains
wheat section, and extended
on north to Liberal, Kas.
Since Tuesday 2.90 inches
of moisture have been re-
corded at Spearman.
The snow started falling there
about midnight and continuad un-
til mid-morning.
The big precipitation of this
week has led farmers In this sac.
lion to look forward to the beat
wheat crop In many years, pos-
sibly since tho bumper yield of
1880.
Tho fino spray of anow here
amounted to about halt an Inch,
melting fast. Low temperatura
today was 27 degrees ut 6 a. in.
Today's spring snowfall re-
called lo many Borguns that the
Nazi-Fascist
Demonstrators
Are Dispersed
BUENOS AIKKR, April 6 (/P)
—-Swinging police clubs today
broke up a parade of :100 per-
sons marching with posters say-
ing "Viva Hitler, Viva Mussolini,
Viva Franco" Fourteen per
cons were arrested uud one sent
to a hospital with ii scalp wound.
The demonstrators attempted
to march down the brilliant Aven-
ida de Mayo upon the offices of
the liberal newspaper, Critica, af-
ter a German Nazi leader hud
been arraigned and a cabaret
dancer questioned in the govern-
ment's Investigation into charges
or a plot for annexation by Get"
many of Patagonia.
Alfred Mueller, chief Nazi
agent in Argentina, rormally was
charged with exposing the nation
to the threat of war and attempt-
ing to threaten sovereignty or the
nation.
Mueller's arrest came after En-
rique .luerges, a dlsafrected Nasi,
In a letter to the president March
20 charged German political
agents plotted annexation by
Adolf Hitler of the sparsely set-
tled, 2115,000 square mile tip of
South America.
SENATE 0.0
PRICE FIXING
BARBER BILL
Measure Establishes
Minimum Prices
For Hair Cuts
AUSTIN. Tex,, April fl --(¿P)
— The senate, with a minimum
of debate, today returned to the
house with minor amendments a
bill permuting barbers th fix
minimum prices for hair cuts.
By a vote of 19 to 7 and two
pairs the upper chamber passed
finally a bouse approved mea-
sure which would allow S5 per
cent of barbers in u county to
establish minimum charges. The
minimum In cities of l,0U0 or
more population or within two
miles or the llmitu of such cities
could not be less than 10 cents.
The bottom price In rural ureas
could not be less thun HO cents.
Agreements made by members
cf the irude would be subject to
approval or disapproval of the
board of barber examiners, nn
amendment luserled by the sen-
ate The senute also cut from
the hotisp measure authority "for
barbers to establish uniform
opening and closing hours for
shops as part or theJr community
agreements.
The measure was the first
price rixina legislation lo reach
the neur-finnl stage of consider-
ation. The house which mult
concur in senute changes had
given the bill more than 100
voles.
Violations of an agreement
onco It is effected by it group of
barbers, would be subject to fine
or imprisonment or both.
One senate objector to the
measure was Alan Hhlvers of Port
Arthur who uskod Ihe sportsor,
Franklin Spears ot San Antonio,
If he thought the bill had uny
semblnnce of constitutionality.
Spears sold ho thought It did
because It did not arbitrarily es-
talilish maximum or minimum
prices.
"It provides the price shall
not exceed a minimum," Spears
(Continued on page TWO)
Accuse WPA of Hiking
Rolls to Increase Funds
WASHINGTON, April t! </p)
Senator Adams (l>-Colo) was dis-
closed today as believing WPA,
by iiicrmialng Its relief rolls,
sought "utmost deliberately tfl
force congress to accede to an In-
creased appropriation."
Ada rus. a leader of the econo-
my blod, made the remark dur-
ing committee hearings on (lie
supplemental relief hill, now be-
fore the Senate In the amount of
*100,000,000.
Adams said that 'n the face of
"the obvious purpose of congress"
to curtail spending. WPA proceed-
ed to Increase Its rolls by a net
of 78,000 workers subsequent to
January.
"So It results In a situation
now." the Colarudan was shown
l*i the transcript as saying, "that
in order to keep within that
' $7725.000.000) appropriation a
tremendously drastte reduction
iContlaued on page TWO)
Fliers Ask Way,
Led To Airport
PAOUCAII. Ky., April 8-~(/P)
Two Texan , ferrying a new
plane from Clnclnnutl to Austin,
flew low over a filling station here
yesterday to ask directions to the
airport.
Employes of the station hur-
ried to the landing field and il-
luminated u lauding spuco with
auto headlights
The Texans, F. It. Hallo and
J. W. Sun ford, both of Austin,
brought the ship down safely,
Nazi Propaganda
Head Visits Egypt
CAIRO, April « —(/P>— Ger-
many's propaganda minister, Dr.
Paul Joseph Ooehbels. arrived to-
day for a 24-hour visit to Egypt
and promptly was given a request1
from Kgyptiun Prime Minister
Mohained Mahtnoud Pashu that he
would not make press statements
while here.
The request was made through
the Gennnn charge d'affalrs, with
whom the prime minister litad a
long tulk prior to Goebbrls' arrlv-
ill by airplane from the Italian
Island of Hhodes. off the Turkish
coast.
Mahmoud Pasha wus said to
have based his request, ou the
grounds of "the large foreign
communities and complexity of
races In Egypt."
night.
DKNVKlt. April O —(/P)—
Travel oVor snowdrlfted hüllf
ways nnn resumed today la
most of the areas lasliwl by a
poHt-seaaon blixuard last
During Ihe height of
storm, when a
wind was piling drifts
feet «leop, highway travel
blocked between ilenver
Boulder, Denver and ('«
NpringM, and (ireolcy,
and Cheyenne, Wy«*.
' I " " «i i hi immi II
worst bllKard In this sectloi
25 years swept the southwest In
year ago tomorrow. A 60-mlle-
an-hour north wind whipped In a
heavy snow, pressed the temper-
ature to 20 degrees and maroon
ed hundreds of motorists in stnli-
od curs on highways.
By The Associated Press
The Punhundle shivered under
a snow Jlanket of throe to five
Inches today as the predicted
pro-holiday cold wave seised the
upper part of Texas.
No relief was sighted for to-
night. The weatherman forecast
lower temperatures generally over
the state, but said they should
rise tomorrow.
Heavy wind, rain and hall left
minor damage in parts of Texas
yesterday, and today snow took
over the scene.
By mld-mornlng the heavy
cover was still falling and was
oxpectod lo coutinue unl.ll lato In
the day over the Panhandle.
The heaviest fall extended
from Denver, Colo., to the Okla-
homa line In tho east and Sandia
Mountains In New Mexico on the
west. Amarillo reported the mer-
cury there dipped to 23 degrees
last night an'1 was expected to
drop to 20 tonight.
No serious damugo wus record-
ed but the I'unhandle feared á
hard freexe would Injure fruit
flowers and tender crops.
Snow was reported from tho
areas surrouudlng Abilene, lub-
bock, San Augeio, Plalnvlew and
Borger.
Freeilug weather wus expect-
ed lo reach as far south as Dai-
las and Fort Worth tonight. Dai-
lus reported 42.8 last night.
Considerable damage was
done by rain, hall and Itghtñlug
yesterday at Dallas, Tyler, Mc-
Kiiiiiey and Farmersvltle.'
The precipitation at Dallas
wus |.3l inches, and a heavy
hailstorm reached such propor-
tions that in Oak Cliff, a rcsi-
(Conlluutd on page TWO)
First Aid Classes
To Meet Tonight
Two Red Cross first aid cl
will meet tonight.
Mixed classes will be held at
the Baptist Church at 7 p. tu
Another first aid group Is
scheduled to hold its first ses-
sion tonight at Stinnett, meeting
at the courthouse at 7iS0 p, in.
Arnold Bishop is the Instructor.
Anyoue who doelres le
corned to these meetings to
the classes.
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