Borger Daily Herald (Borger, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 106, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 23, 1938 Page: 1 of 8
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Blankets daily except Saturdays the
oil, gas, and carbon black coramun
¡ties, and the irreat North Plain
farm region. A home newspaper.
The Last Word in Strato-Flying
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'BORGER, THE WONDER CITY—CARBON BLACK CENTER OF THE WORLD"
Stand* behind every movement lor
improvement of Borger and the city's
trade territory. Contains all tha
while it is news.
Vol. 12.—No. IOC. (ASSOCIATED PRESS — NEA SERVICE)
BOHCiBR, TEXAS. WEDNESDAY, MAKCH 23. 1938
EICHT PAGES' TODAY
PRICE FIVE CENTS
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FDR Asks South To Boost Wages
toy Scout Hut is
19
If you think strain sphere Hying would be fun, you may get a
chuncc to try it this summw', for the Boeing Aircraft'Company in
Seattle is ready to start tuning out "Stratoliner#" such as pictured
above. Built for Pan-American Airways and Transcontinental it
Western Air*the «hips Will Imj the first large transport planes to be
equipped with nettled and "altitude conditioned" cnbirus for travel
Ifc the TubstfHtosphci' The top picture is an artist's conception of
how the plane will look in the air. Below is a cutaway view show-
ing Interior of the plune. which will entry 33 passengers al 240
miles an hour at an altitude of 20,000 feet. Up front, right behind
the control cabin, is a mo, dressing room Next are four pas-
senger compartment , one with berths made up for night travel.
At the rear is the women's dressing room arid the cooking galley.
Single seals along the side will be used for short trip passengers.
Chinese Farmers
Stalk Japanese
Willi ihe Chinese lied Army in
Central Hnpoh Province, March
Ü3 (A*) An arm, oí it00,HOT.
Chínete farmers, with Bolshevist
leninism for Us dally gospel, is
making Increasingly hansrdotts
the Japanese push Into central
China.
Manufacturing their own rough
armaments In la small iirseiiui*
or capturing them in battle, the
troops are directed by Bed lead-
ers who have fashioned u social
1st slate or 7,000,n«n Chinese fli
till* province nominally in Japan-
ese hands.
Htrlke* Suddenly
The army «frlk suddenly ¡11
guerrilla warfare, and In the past
four months repeatedly has cut
Japanese communications lines in
the North Central China area.
Ai'Oilt a I lion Hand Japanese in
36 garrisons have been wiped out.
the Communists say, by sudden
(Continued on Page THREE)
Madrid Receives
Heavy Shelling
MADRID. March The
heaviest shelling since early Kelt-
ruary raked downtown Madrid for
mi horn* today, delving thousands
of persons to cover In subways
and tindeiwroiinil refuges.
About 200 projectile* exploded
In the city, most of them In the
central business section, Karly re-
ports from hospitals indicated
about 25 persons were wounded
but there were no deaths,
IIAIUHTHIt IIOHX
W:
An 8 pound I ounce daughter
was born to Mr. and Mrs. Way
laud Ratigh at 7:10 this morning
In North Plains hospital.
i. o. o. K. MKKT toni«HT
ft Is Important that all mem.
hern in good standing attend the
regular meeting of the I. O. O. P.
tonight at 7:30 In the city hall.
At that time the annual travel,
pas* word will (te given.
State Wins Case
On Well Spacing
ACHTIN. Tex., March 23 (/?)
The mute finally was victor today
In the famous Brown versus Mum- i
ble case involving the fight of j
1 In- Railroad Commlsalon to per.
mil ilrlllinu of oil wells on ■ ertain
sub-divided tracts of land.
The NUpretne court dlsmiHHcd
application for writ, of error fcy
'he (fumble Oil mid Refining
Company, which claimed the com-
mission. administrator of oil and
gie- conservation in Texas, should
not have authorised a well on n
nile and one-half acre liuet In
Qrcgg county.
Rebels Capture
Strategic Hills
With the Insurgents in Eastern
Spain, March 23 (/P) Cleneral
Francisco Franco's infantry cross,
ed the Bbro river on pontoon
bridges ne.u (juInto today and
captured strategic Aragón Hill
dominating the main Zarugosa-
l.erlda highway.
The crossing wan effected un-
der cover of 1111 artillery barrage.
(Hitherto, Franco's gieat cen-
tral Aragón offensive had been
restricted to the area south of the
IShro river, using the river to pro.
toct til north flank. •
WEATHER
Oklahoma: Fair, warmer In
west and noi'th.centrul portions
tonight: Thursday fair and warm-
er.
West Texas: Fair, wanner In
the Panhandle, cooler In extreme
southeast portion tonight; Thura.
day fair and warmer.
MHOtt MOTNKn.lK.UW K1MI
Showing today only, at the Rig
Theater, Is a lengthy feature of
the recent Mother-in-law cela,
biatlon In Amurillo.
SAYS "SELFISH
FEW" HOLDING
UP PROSPERITY
President Dedicates
Center In City Hit
By Tornado
(lAINKSVIl.l.K, (¡a . March ::.'l.
(/Pi I'resident Roosevelt, In a
speech thut Biirpriricd many of hln
hearers, called on the Industrial
south today to increase wages
and Inlying power and asserted
nalitHi I progress and prosperity
w< re being retarded chiefly by
"selfishlii'S* on the part of a
lev, "
Tli" president «poke to a large
crowd In dedicating "Roosevelt
Square" a elvle center of new
buildings and parkways that rose
I rom the ruins of a tornado two
years ago with Hi" help of Inderal
fllllliw.
< 'oiiiiiicikIs Rebuilding
Where the city's business dis.
triet and some of Its residential
area lay in wreckage two years
ago wh a Hi. president passed
through here, today there were
gllS'enlliL* new buildings and res.
i dunces.
Th" tornado killed more than
200 iu I In city of 10,00a popula-
tion
Gainesville's cooperation In the
rebuilding. he said, presented n
principle which If applied to na-
tional problems would "amply
solve our national needs."
Few Retard I'mupcrlt)
Mr Roosevelt then declared
prosperity was being retarded by
a "selfish" ni I noil ty who believe
In a "different theory of govern-
ment." give little thought to the
"one third III led. III cliid and ill
housed." and regard balancing
the budget os more important
than appropriating for relief.
"Rut this nation." lie said In
taking Ills audience hack to the
Harding. Coolidge and Hoover re-
gimes. "will never permanently
gel on the road to fVcovery If we
leave the methods and the pro.
corses ol recovery to those who
oWiied the government of the
l ulled Slatr from H 2I to 1933."
(lining at in erlttttg in Con-
cress, h" said the "selflBll" few
had th "same type of mind'' as
those who "vote against legisla-
tion to help social and economic
conditions, proclaiming loudly
that they are for the objectives
but do not like the methods and
(Continued on Page THREE)
Scouters Open
Fund Campaign
Borger's boy.minded business-
men left (heir offices, shops and
stores today and roved over the
town this first day in the drive
to raise *2,000 for Hoy Scouts in
Border district or the Adobe
Walls Council Area.
"The advance work Is more
than halfway complete, and ev-
eryihlng in ready now for 11 speedy
march toward our goal," Area
Scout Kxecu 1 ¡ve Fred M. Roberts-
stild today.
He asked the full co-operation
of all Morgans, Including those
colifjting «tul those solicited, in
the effort to raise money With
which to finance Scouting activity
for the year in tills district.
Open With Hrenkfa*!
The drive opened this morning
when Scouters look the first Slop
in ot'ganl/.iiiu their soliciting for-
ces at a breakfast at the Borger
Diniric Room.
Roberts and Adobe Walls Colin- ■
ell President c It. Stahl outlined
the procedure the canvasser*
Hhouid follow In raising the mo- 1
n cy.
Cards beatliu: the names of
prospects were distributed to the
two campaign captains. Cliff Hag-
gard of the Dions Club, and H. 8.
Benjamin <>*"'" Stokary c.luh.
(•rouped In o District*
The town Is grouped Into nine
di-tilcts. Two.man teams, work-
iiii- under ill" direction of their
captains, will operate in thes"
(Continued on Page THREE)
Pampa Rotarians
Lose To Borgans
The Pampa Rota r y club,
1 through Its president. Han Orlb-
j lion, yesterday admitted defeat in
;ihe perfect attendance contest
MIST DIE FOIt SI,AVINO
AI'STIN, 'I'ex., March 8 {AJ)
The court of criminal appeals to.
day made final its decision Cluir- ;
lie Hdwards, Brazoria county Ne-
gro must die in the electric chilli
for slaying ills wife.
'I In court affirmed the sentence
several weeks ago. rejecting du.
fense exceptions to trial proced-
ure in which Edwards had claimed
he was sometlines subject to i
strange actions because a "hoo- permitting
doo" man once pui 'dust" on htm. the army,
In a second review it found noth-
ing in warrant a rehearing.
HEAD GENERAL
STATES ARMY
NEEDS BILLION
Sum Necessary For
Emergency, He
Testifies
Nearly Finished
A troop house for Itoy Seoul
Troop No. <i is in the stages of
completion today, thanks to about
20 union carpenters, who began
the work early tilia morning.
The carpenters congregated at
the Knight Lumber company this
morntni; to make plans for the
building. and soon after began
their work on a lot Just north of
the First HaptlNt church
THREE TO SEEK
RE-ELECTION TO
SCHOOL BOARD
feORGER C. of C.
IS NOTIFIED BY
ROADENGINEESR
Act Is Step Toward
Eventual Paving
Of Route
MORGAN OUSTER
PAVES WAY FOR
PROBE INTO TVA
WASHINGTON. March T.\ ({p,
President Roosevelt, advising '
congress today thai he had ousted
Arthur E Morgan from TVA, said
it was 'clearly the right" of the
legist at lire to make "any fair ill -
ciniry' luto TV.V's administration
ur policies,
"Htlt 1 cannot in the mean. |
while," he said, "abdicate my con-1
stiluHonal duly to lake cure that
tie- laws he faithfully executed." I
Believe Fly In
Mr. Roosevelt ordered Morgan's (Wo f|,.|d
removal from the Tennessee Val-iea(.|,
WASHINGTON, March 211 t/l'i
Oone ra I Mallti Craig, army
chief of staff, lias advised the
house appropriations committee
•hat an expenditure of $1,000,-
000,nan will be necessary to bring
the army into position <0 respond
effectively to an emergency "
"Bolstering" the navy while
weakness to exist In
lie said, "will not be
effective" In a defense system
where holh forces are vital.
Provide foe Short age
Testifying at hearings on the they
military appropriation hill, ap-' Saturday,
proved today by the upproprla- .1. H. Walker, president,
lions committee, Craig said the (fever, vice-president and
$1.000,000,000 would he needed JR. .lennings.
to "provide for the shortage in Dr. Walker feels that his ex-
siandard essential Items of equip? j parlance 011 the Borger school
1110,ttl, Including clothing, weapons, j hoard and other hoards In Texas
transportation and ammunition has equipped him to render a val-
for a force of l.ooo.Otio men." 'liable service to the people of this
By lining wartime substitutes school district.
and by eliminating many semi- Coyer has served 011 the local
necessary Items, he declared the . hoard for several years and feels
("critical Items" obtainable only that he understands the problems
by slow manufacturing processes confronting this school district#1
Tlii'ee members of the Borger
School Board today announced
would seek re-election on
April 2, They are Dr.
could be purrhaMod for $440,000,.
000.
Has Mobilizing Plan
Craig explained the war de-
partment has a "protective mo.
hi ll/.a Hon plan" which involves
the accumulation of essential
Items to meet requirements of
armies of 600,000 men
Highway boosters lu four Texua
Panhandle counties and in two
adjoining states today rejoiced
over the announcement that the
United States Bureau of Public
Roads has designated as u federal
aid highway the road from Pumpa
to Hartley.
Promise of federal aid moans
that the United States govern,
ment will inutch the State High,
way Department dollar for dollar
¡in meeting Hie paving cost of this
j road, which Includes about 6
' uiiles.
Notified by Vim London
11. N. Pruett, secretary of the
Borger Chamber of Commerce, to-
|day made public a letter received
from W. J. Van London, stato
highway division engineer at Ama-
rlllo. Copies of the letter also
went to Carnet Reeves, utaua-
K. B. ger of the Pampa Chamber ot
Prank j Commerce and Board of City Do.
veloptneiit and County Judge Noel
McDale. president of Highway tl
Association.
The letter follows:
"1 am In receipt of a letter
from our Austin office which
states that the Bureau of Public
Roads has designated route No.
9 from a point of federal aid
No. 32 in Pampa by way of
:er md i&liMioit, to a poUit
on federal aid
JenulugH recently succeed* !
Robert l.lndsey by appointment
as a member of the board. This >
Is the fiixt time he lias offered '' route
himself as a candidate for the po- Hartley is
'sillón.
tyit «ett, to
I road No. 5
in Hurt.
Entertains Employes
Peastlng and being entertained
in kingly fashion last night were
employes of the Keith Appliance
Store, who were hnnoO'd at the
annual employes' banquet by Mr.
and Mrs. K I,. Keith lu their
home ou Pourth and lledgecoke
streets.
Dlnln* on huge T-hone steaks,
the group enjoyed n feast fit for
any royal highness, prepared un-
der the capable direction of Mrs.
Keith.
Pollowlng the meal, the crowd
adjourned to the recreation
moms, where a "do as you please"
atmosphere prevailed with varied
diversions. There were pussies,
billiards. "84", bean-bag con.
(Cortlnned on pnt 1 THRF5B)
with the Borger Rotary.
We're ready to pay off. drib- j
boll fold President H S. Renja. I
mln and club members at the
luncheon meeting, because one of j
our members didn't attend tin
regular meeting and failed to
make up during the week.
The losers are now obligated
to treat th.• Borger Rotary club
to a dinner. However, a sng-
gestlotl made by Rotarían Bob
Llndsey that the Pampa club
make It double or nothing Is be.
lug considered by President (¡rib-
bon and the Parnpa club may re.
new the contest on such basis.
President (¡ribbon congratulat-
ed the Borger club for its splen.
did attendance record as lie con-
fessed that Ills club had gone
down to defeat. The local club is
still leading the IJTth district in
attendance, having II perfect at-
tendances to Its credit.
During the meetl ig yesterday
Secretary ESmmet Kills read a let-
ter from Kdllor Paul Teeter of
The Rotarían, the club's maga-
zine. thanking the Borger club
for Its rec< lit program on The
Rotarían. Another letter sent in
lit halt of International Rotary
(Continued on Page TURKS)
ley Authority chairmanship yes-
terday, to become effective today.,
.Simultaneously the president an-
nounced the elevation of liar-
court A. Morgan, now vice-chair-
man, to tin chairmanship.
His manage on TVA made no
recommendation for filling the
vacancy on the hoard, but some
lutormed persons believed ho
would nominate James I,. Fly,
TVA general counsel.
With his message, Mr. Ruóse,
veli sent to the cupltol a letter
from Robert II Jackson, the act-
ing attorney general, upholding
the president's rlglii to remove
TVA board members from office.
Agree Probe Certain
Administration leaders agreed
a legislative inquiry Into the feud
between Arthur Morgan and the
other two TVA directors was in-
evitable.
Mr. Roosevelt, iu reporting to
congress on Morgan's removal,
transmitted a voluminous tran-
scrlpt of three days of hearings
?>n the TVA feud iu the White
House inner office.
Evidence brought out at those
hearings before the president, Mr.
Roosevelt asserted, showed that
"(al Arthur li, Morgan pub
licly made gr«ive anil libelous
The lirst objective of the plan
Is the Immediate mobilization of
t(K),000 men.. They would include
the regular army, now 162.000
men, and national guard, titus a
(Continued on page THitKE)
2 Charged With
Kidnap Extortion
N'KW ItOCHKI.LR, N. Y..
March 'J'l (A1) Federal agents
today arrested two North Pel ham,
N. V., youths and booked them on
charges of attempted extortion In
seeking to collect the $30,000
Levtne kidnap ransom.
Agents said the suspects had
no knowledge) of the ncrual ab-
duction of 18-year-old Peter Le.
vine, missing from his home since
WASHINGTON, March 2H 1/P1 February ill.
Senate leaders, buoyed by their i The pH(r, handcuffed together
success in defeating a score of and guarded by (¡.men and de-
nmendmetits to the government! tectlves. were described as lid-
reorganixation bill, endeavored ward John Penn. 18, a student at'
Quick Approval
Of Reorganization
Measure Sought
to win passage of the mea-
virtually Intact, by night-
today
sure,
full
DemocratIc. Deader llarkley of
Kentucky predicted the Senate
would override a motion by op-
ponents to send the bill back to
committee. Such action would
shelve the subject for this session.
Before considering the rec.om-
; mltal proposal, the Senate had to
vote on all amendment by Sena-
tor Byrrl (D.Val to prevent abo-
lition of the comptroller general's
office. The bill would substitute
an auditor general.
Pellium high school, alud Krner
Bred Duck, ü.'l, unemployed, fa-
ther of a small child.
Race Tip Group
Hit; 23 Indicted
between Stinnett
by way of Dumas.
It was believed that the letter
should have read road No. .13 In-
stead of 32 since Is the high,
way going through Pampa north-
cast wnrd.
Already on Aid List
Pruett said the Borger-Punipu,
strip had already been placed on
the federal uld list before tho
beginning of grading and drain,
age work between the two j-o.-.ts.
now well under way. He was ftt
u loss to explain why this stretch
was included In the extended
designation.
Approving the Pampa-Hartley
route marks a triumph for tho
Borger Chamber of Commerce
which for about a year and a
half has worked first for paving
of the rough road from Borger to
Ithe Cray County line and, sec-
| ond, for hard surfacing of un-
paved strips from Stinnett north
and west. The Borger body has
worked in close co-operation with
the Pampa Chamber of Com merco
and the Board of City Develop-
ment and the Highway 11 AfcSo-
elation.
The Pampa-tn-Hartley highway
going through Borger Is but ono
link, some of which Is paved, In
the Oklahoma City-Denver arte-
rial highway which is being filled
1
charges of dishonesty and want of j opponents have declared that
Integrity against his fellow dlrec. I provision is one of the most far-
tors, and when called upon to ; reaching In the measure, which
sustain Hn 111 repeatedly refused i would give the president ex len-
to do ho; stve powers t'> rearrange federal
"(hi Oil the face of lh"> record
charges of the other directors that
Arthur K. Morgan has obstructed
(Continued on page THRKB.
bureaus.
The Senati' refused yesterday to
exempt 10 government agencies
from the bill's operation.
NKW YORK. March 23- (/P>
¡Federal authorities smashed at aj
I nationwide race horse tip syndl-1
I Cale today lu all Indictment (litar- j
glng ü.'l persons with using tho
mails in defraud and conspiracy.
Offices of it alleged tipster
¡sheets were raided hy postoffice
, inspectors, city detectives and
! men working under United States
Attorney Lamar llurdy.
j He asserted the indicted group' WASHINGTON March 23- (A'>
made profits of approximately New proposals to elimínale over.
; $750.000 u year from horse play, lapping federal-state taxation re.
|ers, and thai, among other "sure eeived the endorsement today of
thing'' methods, tipped customers both treasury and congressional
(Continued on page THREE)
Seek To Wipe (hit
Tax Duplications
Suggest Taxes To Pay
Mexico Oil Operators
MEXICO CITY, March 23 (,P> -
The Confederation of Mexican
Workers suggested today n spe.
clal series of taxes to pay foreign
oil operators for loss of ihelr
$400,000,000 industry, exproprl.
ated by the government.
An labor throughout the nation
held 11 jubilee to celebrate the
exproprlntlon, the Confederation
suggested the taxes be placed on
real estate, Industry, securities
and wages 1 above 100 pesos
monthly (about $2K).
Won f'oiH'CNwion
Representatives of the 17 Brit-
ish and American oil companies
hnv/ not jret acted upon
nil invitation to discuss Indemnity
with the treasury department.
They have, however, won one
concession- tax accounts against
the companies were closed as of
last Saturday, the day on which
the decree expropriating the prop-
erties was published.
The oil companies still are con-
sldering what legal steps they
mny lake to void or modify the
decree,
Evacuation of American and
other foreign oil workers from
Isolated areas. 11 precaution
against possible disorder, virtu-
ally wss compete today. Thirty.
three persons, including eight chil-
dren, were flown last night from
Tux pan. Veracru*.
rr ii«|>oriHtioti Halted
Today's demonstration w a «
called by the CTM but. other and
; rival labor organisations partici-
pated in the celebration of the
'declaration of economic Indc.
pendenco."
Thousands of persons were on
1 the streets of Mexico City early
today, and regular transportation
facilities were baited. RusinesM
houses, even restaurants, closed.
I The 18.000 oil workers them.
(Continued on Page FOPR
on inore than one horse In a race,
mak ItiK profit corta!., for tne or-
gs nidation,
A NTI- > \ZI fJHOI'P OPPOSES
MEI.II M S \I,E TO liKRMAXY
PtTTHBPRCH, March 23 (fl )
1 The Anti.Niixl Federation of
j Pittsburgh opposed today in a lot.
I t r to the secretary of state the
¡ proposed sale of hellsrt gas to
(formally Director Joseph Kahit
wrote;
"It must be clear" that dor-
many wishes to purchase this hel-
' 11'. 111 for use In aircraft In Its ne-
farious work of destroying the
democracies of Europe.
on To okIiAhom.% < rrv
R. t . Crimes and Bob Dlndsey
lefi this afternoon for Oklahoma
City (o attend the American
Bankers' Assoc la i loll meeting
They were accompanied by Carl
Barber.
, authorities.
Under secretary Roswell Magllt
disclosed the treasury was con
sldering calling a conferenoo ot
federal and state tax administra
1 tors on how to wipe out tn* du-
plications
Simultaneously, Senator King
CD-Utah), a member of the San-
ate finance commit *, said ho
would introduce a resolution di-
recting the president to convene
such s conference.
Both Maglll and King said a
conference might be hold during
the summer, after the present lux
! revision hill Is out of the
¡ Support for tho proposal
also from Senator floorge (D-Ha
a finance committee member.
HON M DORR
Mr and Mrs. Roy
lire the parents of e «I
ounce son, born at 0:15
day evening tn North
pltal.
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