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¡Paving Campaign
Plished; 9 Blocks
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EARNS
I ON!
INSURANCE
í Year's Covered Loss
Amounts To Only
15,020
Borger earned h 20 per cent
(Ire lutj-ranee drodlt the past
year, report* on 89 uddltlonal
Texas oil let, released today by
Fire Insurance Commissioner
Marvin Hall, «howed today .
An Associated Proas dispatch
from Austin reported 4 cltlca
Improved their records last year,
¿8 dropped off. and the remaind-
er were unchanged.
Amarillo and Brownsville re-
ceived 25 per ceut credit, tho
maximum.
Fire Chief J. I). Miller, pleas-
ed with the report, based on the
city's good fire record, said that
fire Insured loss for the past year
amouuted to 5,02o compared to
between ¡1(1,000 and S'.OOO pro-
perty owners here paid In on In-
surance.
Two members of the fire de-
Íartment will attend a two weeks
Iranian's school at College Sta-
tion this spring, further better-
ing tho city's fire standing.
with
ttg-
rola-
SOFIA, Feb. 16 The
of Premier George Klos-
noff resigned today and
iris called professor Hog*
toff, Minister or Educa-
ro , ¡HB'nwv'Knifli
Kit
caused by his bitter fight
Iran Bogranoff, minister of
rlculture. reportedly over
lions with Soviet Russia
Bogranoff, a popular member
of the Klqssalvanoff government,
waa said to favor further tigh-
tening of relations with Moscow.
The two men were known to
have quarreled also over domes-
tic policy which Bogranoff de-
manding a return to democratic
Virilamnntary rule which Klos-
seivanoff opposed.
m
School Walks
To Putt, Putt
A MM aasAai*
voncraw niixtri
A concrete mixer putt-putted,
and tho high 4-'hoo1 grounds
buiscd with activity today as W.
P. A. workers wont forward
Kith their sldowalk construction
at the alte.
Workers today worts nearing
completion of an eight foot walk
along Hcdgocoko street from
the High tahool to the band
house
A six-foot walk be con-
structed from the end of tho
Hedgecoko walk running west In
froht of (he band house and man-
ual training building.
the eight-foot walk from West
Ward to tho east entrance of the
gym to the band house
About n dosen men arc work-
ing on tho recently approved
eonatruetlou project, which
through uao or tho government-
employed labor will cost the
aebgol system only about $800.
y nun ■ i
Paving leaders have marked
off nine blocks of Borger streets
for WPA workers to top.
With Hie severe cold wuve over
and good weather apparently re-
turned for what the paving lead-
ers and workers hope will be a
long visit, the street Improvmeut
campaign Is speeding up again.
Property owners on these
streets, for which WPA approval
of paving Is promised, are asked
to expect leaders In the move-
ment to call on them within the
next few days to collect the prop-
erty owners triare on tho city-
sponsored project.
This announcement is made so
that these residents may be pre-
pared to receive the callers and
have iheir money ready us soou
as possible.
Joseph H. Ay lies worth, working
both in his capacity of city at-
torney and also as an interosted
oltlsen. and H. N. Pruott, Cham-
ber of Commerce secretary, ere
devoting much of their time to
collecting paving funds. Blocks
are to be paved as soon as money
is advanced from owners and as
soon as WPA workers can got
to the paid up blocks.
The property owner's «hare In
the expense Is $1.25 u front foot,
except on tho wider streets where
the cost runs slightly higher.
The nlue blocks scheduled for
pavlug iu the new unit or work
are:
One block on Wlxtli street from
Hedgecoko (the high school cor-
ner) to Maple Road
Two blocks on Fifth street, west
from Hedgecoko. Curb and gut-
ter already have boon laid on the
first block west on Hedgecokc.
Two blocks on Adams street
from Main to the hospital on Maple
Road.
One block on Jefferson, west
from Main.
Throe blocks on Hedgecoke,
from Grand Avenue to Main or
Front streat.
Ayneswortb and Pruett already
have collected some or the money
was due ror topping on these streets
and will seek the remainder in
the next row days.
Meanwhile, construction Is go-
ing forward rapidly on the mid-
dle section of Hedgecoke, from
the high school n Sixth street
toward the north end or the strip
laid berore the cotd weather, stop-
ping nt Adams.
Worker* hope to complete the
street from the high school to the
churches within u short time.
About 70 Or 80 men now «re
working on paving. Supt. Don
Perrln said today.
Curb and gutter have been
laid and caliche base material
unloaded on Hedgecoke rrom
Sixth to Fifth end workers are
completing curb-gutter work and
caliche dumping from Fifth to
Fourth.
5tofge r Paib Herald
VOL 14
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NEA Service
BORGER, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1940 Associated Press PRICE FIVE CENTS
Etfvmgr mwwfwiiT
Hospital Business
Manager Selected
W. C. Thompson has lioen
named superintending business
manager of tho North Plains
hospital by tho hospital board.
Thompson will have charge
of the business affairs or tho in-
stitution and will keep Its ro-
cords.
He came bore about a year
ago from Pnragould, Ark., whore
he was In the banking business
about five years, also formerly
In mercantile business, and serv-
ed ss county treasurer.
Miss Olga Cypher retains her
poMtlon as supertntoudotH of
nurses. „ t
FORMAL OPENING
SET FOR SUNDAY
FEBRUARY 18TH
Interesting Program
Arranged For The
Entire Day
An occasion which should bo
of interest to the entire citizen-
ship of Rorger and the sur-
rounding communities is the
completion of the new education-
al uult of the First Baptist
Church building. The rortnai open-
ing and dedication or this unit is
scheduled ror Sunday. Feb 18.
An Interesting and attractive pro-
gram for the entire day's activi-
ties hus been arranged
For the Sunday school hour
an attendance goal of K00 hus
been sot and department lead-
ers are making special prepara-
tion to roach their quota. At
10:25 a. m. a group picture of
the entire Sunday school will Imb
mude. Pupils, visitors and friends
are urged to attend. The formal
presentation and dedication will
be u reature of the morning wor-
ship.
The church will hold "open
house" Sunday afternoon from
2: do to 5:00 o'clock. Represen-
tatives of tho various depart-
ments and classes will be pres-
ent to welcome visitors and di-
rect them through their quar-
ters. From 3:00 to 4:00 o'clock
there will be a mil-ileal program
In tho main auditorium. Fea-
tured on this program Will
Director Clyde Rowo and
Borger High School Orchestra.
A|so John Jose?, organist ut the
First baptist Church. Amurillo,
will preside at the Everett Orga-
tron, aud will present hla choir
In several selections.
At 7:00 p .m. Mr. Josey will
(Continued on Page THREE)
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Leader Of Peasants
Would Have Rumania
Openly Favor Allies
ItlCV. ,1. V. Ill NT
liuptM Pastor
IK A M. PCW KM.
Ktlucuttoiuil Director
Baptist Chruch and Annex
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i
Expectant Mother
Held "Not Guilty"
Of Killing Husband
LITTLETON, Colo . Feb, 15
</P) A district court jury (lull-
berated less ;han un hour and a
liuif before deciding that Mrs.
Mildred Brown, 22-year-old ex-
pectant mother, was Innocent of
the ' laying of her husband. Lewit
Brown, $.1-year-old odd Job work-
er, last Nov. la.
Brown was shot, bis widow
testified yesterday, during a Quar-
rel tlrat urase when he refused
to give her collection money for
his three children by a former
marriage to take to Sunday school.
Hn was an assistant Sunday
school superintendent.
Engineer Charged
É
Navy Department
js
Hollywood s Communism
To Face Dies' Probing
1M8M ''"7i 1 ||HHHH
WASHINGTON, fob. ID ~ (/P)
Chairman Dies (D-Tax) of the
House Committee Investigating un-
Americanism declarad today .lia
was looking Into a report thai
"the Hollywood fllln Industry"
had obtained mysteriously a con-
fidential committee report on sub-
varalve activities" In the movie
colony. ¡.Jg^ ; ,
The chairman, Just returned
the capital after a two months
Tesas, amid the report
graphed It and even know who
tho wltnosses are going to be."
The report laid the groundwork
for a committee Investigation on
llio Pacific coast which Dies said
he hoped would be started soon
with "no pussyfooting, no back
tracking, no crawling."
"I can't speak for the com-
mittee,' Dies said. "It has been
charged that I have been speak-
ing far the committee. But the
bill of rights doesn't prohibit me
from saying that I will recom-
mend to the committee that we
to the West Coast and expose
od thoroughly, Investígate
consumer organisations further
Communists In
•
Big Crowd Enjoys
Skellytown Party
Borgans and Skollytowners
made new acquaintances among
each either and ranewod their
friendships In a Valentine Party
at the Skellytown 'scluiol last
night, Everybody bud u glorious-
ly grand lime.
The Borgans enjoyed themselv-
es so much that more visits to
neighbor towns are planned.
Drexel Chupman, chairman of
the Chamber of Commerce good
will commit lee .today said part-
ies soon will be held at Sanford.
Frltch. aud North Plains towns.
About 35 Borgans, represent-
ing about 15 local firms, attend-
ed tho meeting. Some forty or
fifty pies wero auctioned off.
Borger merchants turned Into
auctioneers to sell about f.15
worth o. merchandise from their
own stores to the highest bidders.
Proceeds rrom these Hales were
turned over lo the Skellytown
P.-T. A., which cleared alioujt
1100 on the parly.
D. O. Palmer, Borger Dally
Herald advertising salesmuu aujJ
maglJluii. "stole tho show" with
his clever sleight-of-hand lileks
and other teats of mystlral magic
Ho staged some HWly enter-
tainment. enjoyed by children
and ndulls alike.
A good crowd all ended the
Valentine parly desplto sickness
among some of the Borger peo-
ple and conflict with othor events
at Skellytown. ,
WASHINGTON, Fob. 15 --(/P)
Quiet efforts by the navy de-
partment to restore part <>f the '
$111,8 ,000 slashes from its bud-
get by ilic house appropriations
committee appeared today to
have netted only polite rebuffs
from congressional leaders.
Admiral Harold H. Stark,
chief of naval operations, dis-
closed the reductions yesterday
with chairman Vinson (D-Gh )
and two other members of the
house naval committee.
Stark emphasised that tho
$988,772,87s outlay recommend-
ed by the appropriations commit-
tee would be insufficient to rin-
nnc.e the navy for the year start-
ing July I. but be apparently K"i
little out of the conference be-
yond a promise of help to re-
store some of Ihe 221 air planes
(Continued on Pago SIX)
rs. John H. Hoff
Of 3-Day Illness
'TATFIWR" SMITH
IMPROVING
Coach "Catfish" Smith, who
underwent an appendectomy yes
torday afternoon at North Plains
Hospital, is recovering iteadlly
and doing as woll as can bo ex-
pected. M, m I
BONN OF IjHUION
TO MKHT SATURDAY
A masting of the Sons or tbe
Legion has bean called for Sat-
urday afternoon at
the America
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V.F.W. Sponsors
"Hello America"
"Hello America"
"Hello America," two words
that have rti different meaning
aud bring memories to the minds
or every eligible man to the Vet-
erans of Foreign Wars. Because
Ihe man who Is eligible for V.
F W. membership, lias been in
foreign lands or seas to up hold
the honor -and respect due the
American Flag; In face of hazard
and danger To that man who Is
reluming again to shores of the
U. S. A., "Hello America," Is
a moment or joy ond sadness Me
Is Joyful because lie is again able
lo sny "Hollo America." Sad lie-
causo lie thinks of those contends
who gave the all fat from the
homo shores
Buck iu Mill the V.F.W. start
ed annual nationwide radio pro-
gram called "Hello America," A
program tilled with cnlorloitt-
taluinon.l education and hispir
wtIon for veterans and every pat-
rio He citizen who la concerned
witli the safe guarding or Amer-
ica's security. The ninth annuel
Hello America hour will lie from
10:80 l>. ill to 11 ¡30 p. tit.. CST
Friday. 10th.
Along with the best musical
organisations to be heard will be
the V.F.W. National Champion-
ship Band of Chicago. Also to
ho heard will bo Commander-ln
Chief, Otis N. Brown, will give the
Impressive membership obligation,
to a class of recruits In Washing-
o'clock in
Mrs. John H. 1-loff, til, of Pie-
mons. died at 4:65 this morning
In a local hospital, following a
three deys' Illness.
Í tlRfJ ' Mvi t1, ^ . tibiS _
Mrs. Hoff came to Hutchinson
county from Manguin. Oknhomn,
and is survived by 11 children.
Mr. Hoff Is custodian of the
Plemons school, n position lie haB
maintained the last 13 years.
Tentative funeral arrangements
are set for Sa!unlay morning nt
10 o'clock in the Borger Baptist
church, with Ihe Rev. J. N. Hunt
officiating. I nter men I will be ui
Alanrccd
Survivors include seven sons,
Tom of Piernona. Henry of the
Siekoli lease, Dial Ted of Slieily-
tOWti, tieorge nnd Klitior of Bor-
ger, Jack and Clyde of plemons;
and four daughters, Mrs. Newt
Holt of Bakersfleld, t'ullf., Mrs.
Otis Wilson of Dal hart , Mrs. Plrcsn
Wilson of Sunray, Mrs. Don Mc-
Coiiry of Sunford.
Also surviving are five sisters,
Miss Nona Davis or Clinton, Okla.,
Mrs. Ellen Metleitdrj of Vega.
Mrs. Nettle Reed of Miami. Mrs.
Ludio Reud of Mobeetie, aud Miss
Mattle Davis of Krlek. Okla.; and
one brother, Hartley Davis of
A lanreed.
Ponv ii Funeral Home in in
elJiirge of •.irrangemenlK.
V
Pioneer Woman
Dies Following
Short Illness
Death came to one of Hutchin-
son comity's foremost pioneer wo.
men Mrs H-ally W Prilchard. tilt,
al I o'clock yesterday afternoon
in a local hnxpliul, following a
mIioi'I illness.
Holder of extensive oil prop-
erty around Stinnett. Mrs. Pril
chard cattle lo tills county itt 1007
from Washlla county, Oklahoma
She Is survived by three sous,
Joe Ownbey of Stinnett Jim Own-
boy of Spearman and John Own
bey of Stinnett, two sisters, Mrs.
Carrie Shaw of Cheyenne. Okl«.,
Mrs. Larua Jones of Freedom.
Ipa. ¿ t ♦
Also mourning the deutli of
Mrs. Prilchard. airectlonately
known to her many friends w*
"Aunt Sally" Is John Holsey*
whom she i-dUed since he was
0 years old.
Funeral services will be held
tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock
In the Holt school house, with
the Rev. L. A. Sartaln. Baptist
(Continued on Paga TWO),
D8NVMR, Feb. IB —</p>— J.
B. Kuliemeyn, CO. the engineer
of a locomotive Involved in a
faiul crash with a gasoline truck,
ha* been charged with speed-
ing.
A little-used 1027 ordinance
restricts locomotlvotV l*> u 10-
milc speed lit the district where
the accident occurred Monday
Dotootlve Sergeant Charles J.
mlted the engine was travelling
15 miles an hour.
Kstle Hogue, 21, or Alamosa,
f'oloi, was burned to death when
his truck skidded broadside In
to the locomotive, exploding t
3,000-gallon load or gasoline.
New Presbyterian
Pastor Due Today
Expected to arrive. In Borger
this afternoon is the Rev. James
<!• Glenn, who will assume du-
ties us pustor of the First Pres-
byterian church filling the vu
coney eretsted by the resignation
of the Rev Victor K. Aubrey,
who has gone to Breckonridge.
A graduate or Princeton Theo-
logical Seminary In Princeton, N.
M., the Rev. Glenn for the last
four years has been stationed at
Clifton, Arl*.
lie will he accompanied to
Borger by his wife and :i-year-old
son. and will fill tho pulpit for
the first time next Sunday.
P. P. AND L. COM PAN V
DON.VIKH TO FAIR BODY
The Prtthandle Power & Light
Company today wiped off its
books a debt of $01.11 which the
Hitlchlnaon County Fair Asso-
ciation owed the firm.
This sum was tile balance due
from the fair association for
company consim-iion cost on the
original fair site south of the
city .
In v'lew or Ihe fair associa-
tion's Inability to complete tills
iitiproveinonl, the utility com-
pany marked off the debt.
ffitiCIIARKST, Fob, 15 (/ ')
Former Premier .luliu Man In,
leader of millions of Itumaniuu
peasants before King Carol abo-
lished all political parties except
his own party of national rebirth
said today Rumania categorically
must come out in favor of the
British French allies if the nation
Is to rind salvation.
In un Interview he attacked
what he colled the king's present
policy of iitiompting to strike a
balance between economic de-
mands or (1 crinen y and the allies.
Rumania s only salvation, he
contended, wns for her to be open-
ly in favor of f I rest r.rltuln and
Frauce It) the European conflict
and to return to democratic parl-
iament ry life.
Maiilii. whose now dissolved pea-
sant party formerly drew as much
as 10 par cent of the votes in
national elections, declared there
were only two alternatives to u
return to free Institutions:
1. Bolshevism.
2. Pa rti Hon or
foreign powers
The bluff peasant leader, whose
at tucks on Magda Lupescu l^d
to constant clashes with King
Carol, said "the great majority
of Rumanians certainly hope for
an allied war victory."
BRITISH SINK
FOUR U-BOATS
WITHIN WEEK
Nazis Deny Plans To
Sink U.S. Ships And
Not Warn Them
BERLIN. Feb. 15 — <&>--The
high command today reported
58,000 tons of shipping were sunk
yesterday In u "particularly suc-
cessful day for German sea war "
Authorized sources at the same
—time sought to dispel some
fears precipitated by yesterday's
references to American shipping
submitting to British contraband
control by saying no suggestion
hud been made that Amerlcati
ships under certain circumstanc-
es might be sunk without notice.
A spirit or optimism over the
German counter-blockade against
Britain pervaded govcrnmeut
quarters ortir tho reports of suc-
cesses in tho sea war, particular-
ly by supbmurlnes.
Rumania by
Miss Bobbie Bledfsoe
State
LONDON. Feb. 15 —
Welcoming home victors in tho
great sen bottle, Britain today
counted rour more German sub-
marines as victims or the past six
days or warfare and. turned at-
tention toward speeding volun-
teers on their way to Finland.
First Lord or the Admiralty
Winston Churchill voiced the na-
tion's welcome to the cruiser B*-
eter which steamed Into Ply-
mouth scarred by her victorious
right with the German
Admiral Graf Spee off Mow
Dec. 13.
The Exeter's crew was congra-
tulated especially for flghti
battle In "the old stylo
ot the long and Intricate struggle
with mine# and U-boats."
An Admiralty statement said
two more German submarinos
had been sunk, making four in
six days and unofficial total near
50 for the war.
Authoritative sources reported
the British wer« prepared to of-
fer Convoy protection to all n
tral shipping, whether
through contraband
point* or not, because of
Insistence yesterday
Ship
hting a
Irmf «o*!
DENTON, Feb. 15 —• Playing
with the Texas State College for j GeriTiailS Project
Women 70 piece symphony or-'
chest ra, Miss Bobble Bledsoe of
Stinnett will visit the musical
centers ol' East Texas on a tour
to begin February 22 In Long
view.
Following the appearance at
Longvlew, the orchestra will play
at Pert Arthur Friday, February
2!l, at Beaumont the Billowing
day. and at Tyler on February 25.
March 1 the ensemble will appear
In concert in Bowie.
Miss Bledsoe who plays the
trumpet in this only all-girl sytn-
pin-tiy with complete lnstruiuentu-
Hon in the SotttInvest and one
of the few in the nation, Is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. It.
Bledsoe. She is e freshman stu
dent at TSCW muJOrlng in library
science.
Official orchestra for the Siale
Federation of Women's Clubs, the
organization Is composed almost
entirely of nativo Southwestern
musicians from nearly 50 Texas
lilies as well as three neighbor-
ing states, Oklahoma, Arkansas,
and New Mexico. North Carolina
West Virginia, and Missouri uro
all represented in the personnel.
a THE WEATHER
Wpsi Texas: Ruin in south por-
tion and snow in north portion
tonight Friday partly cloudy iu
south portion and snow in north
port ion. Colder In south port-
lion tonight and in north portion
Friday
Image Of Virgin
Mary Over Lines
PAB18, Feb. 16 Press
accounts from the front sector
occupied by the British today re-
ported that Tommies manning an
outpost during the night sud-
denly saw an image of the Virgin
Mary appear in the clouds with
her arms outstretched in en-
treaty.
The commander sent out a
patrol which returned with tho
information that the Germans
were projecting the linage from
a machine on the ground.
Three Children
Killed By Train
As Father Watches
THATCHKR. Colo.. Feb. l&—
(#>) — While the father of one
or them wuved frantically to at-
tract their attention, three That-
cher school boys drove Into the
path of the streamlined Bantu
Chief and were killed instantly
ut u crossing here.
WIIIImiii Tuition, It); Ills hrtitli-
or. Bob, II, ami Brace Smoot
is, were killed in ihe crash late
yesterday.
I NDFItOOI S OI'KKATION
Mrs. Paul King underwent uu
operation In ¿forth Plains ftospl
tal this monting und is reported
to lie "doing nicely''
Women earing
In Many European Families
lly The Associated Pre *
Women literally are wearing
the pants In many European ram
llies by doing everything from
motorcycle dispatch riding to
flying bombing planes and
dying In ban in.
Since the wars started they
have knitted to the tune of
bursting bombs, fought in the
front lines. scrubbed floors,
worked in munitions plants and
performed a thousuud dreary hut
necessary tasks.
Tbelr rewards have varied
from grim war front burials lo
the I8.U00 a year paid some sup-
erintendents In Great
auxiliary fighting services.
Willi husbands and fathers
away at war and children reutov'-
ed to safe country havens, many
homes liara iiocomi- drab places
for hurried meals and snatches
or sleep.
Women Help Finns
Among European belligerents
Britain and Finland are mnkinc
the maximum use or their fen/
Inlne reserve .
Approximately 7Mt>0 women
titillated in Flniund's Lottn Svurd,
an auxiliary organisation, when
Soviet Russia Invaded the Iltti i
country, Slue.- then it number
have bee nkilled in performing
air duties and hav« bean de-
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Wearing trim gray uniforms,
I bey work dose to the front lln-
'■* ooklng. laundering, operat-
ing caul ecus and doing elerelal
work. ;fv'i H®;,-
With almost
man enrolled for
1*0. the Lotta Svs
over all types of civil
Hind tho lines und mana «Ir t
observation posts. Whenever
members have a
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