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Vol. 15—No. 132 NKA Service
Associated Pratt
THE CARBON BLACK CENTER OF THE WORLD
Borger, Texas, Friday, April 25, 1941
West Tikii: Mostly cloudy tonight
urdsy. with occtttlorul reine in south _
and partly cloudy in north portion; slowly
riding temperatura .
(Eight Paget Today)
frica Five Canta
FDR Declares U. S. Patrol To Roam Seven
Seas In Safeguarding American Hemisphere
Senator Demands
President Replace
Secretary Perkins
WASHINGTON, April 28 —</P)
— Senator Byrd (D-Vai demand-
ed today that Frances Perkins be
replaced as secretary of labor by
"a two-fisted man who will have
the Intestinal fortitude to say to
both labor und capital that strikes
in preparedness industries can not
be tolerated."
In a senate speech, Byrd said
that Miss Perkins, the only woman
cabinet member, "has made of
herself one of the most serious
bottlenecks in the on lire defense
program."
Byrd said that the cabinet of-
ficer has demonstrated "incptness,
weakness und inability to meet her
responsibility in the settlement of
strikes."
He said he had heard that Miss
Perkins' resignation now is on the
president's desk, and added:
"If it is, the president should ac-
cept it. If it is not, he should re-
quest her resignation."
Byrd renewed his criticism of
Miss Perkins for failing to certify
various strikes to the national
Mediation Board sooner, and sug-
gested congress should give the
board original jurisdiction over
strikes. Then, he said, the board
should be granted authority to en-
force its decisions and to forbid
work stoppages while labor dis-
putes were being considered.
Byrd said that if the coal mine
Shutdowns continue a "complete
stoppage" of lomé Industries was
only a few days off.
The senator charged that Miss
Perkins' "fumbling and lack of
courage" in the coal strike had
"«^tributad" to the situation.
"It la reported," he said, "that
Mrs. Perkins' failure to certify the
coal strike to the National Media
tion Board was because she did not
desire to offend John L. Lewis. Is
Mr. Lewis the secretary of labor?"
NaztfSmasy wougkffhennopylae
Pass To Open The Road To Athens
Axis Breaks About Even With Napoleon On Conquests
THE AXIS -1941
GIRMANY
ITALY
COUNTS*
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Ciachotlovokio
Albania
Poland
Denmark
Noraai
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March. IMS
March, 1939
April. 1939
S«pr„ 1939
April, 1940
April, 1940
May, 1940
May, 1940
May, 1940
Juna, 1940
Nov., 1940
No ., 1940
March, 1941
April, 1941
April, 1941
182,471 sq. mi.
119,800 tq'. mi.
ASCA
(S4I Nl.l
34,064
33,000
10,«29
70,000
16,575
«24,586
999
12.704
11,775
127.596
59.830
72.425
42,806
95.558
50,257
GtANO TOTAL 1,065,077 >q. mi.
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Junior Had Crott Clott
To Bo MeMAt Hi School
Junior Red Cross first aid class-
es will be held tonight at 7 o'
clock in Room 2 of the Borger High
school, instead of the city hall
auditorium as previously announc-
ed.
Students 12 years of age or
those of that age having com-
pleted the sixth grade require-
ments, are eligible for the course,
which wii'. be taught by LeRoy
Dodge, qualified Red Cross lay
instructor.
Boy Scouts arc reminded the
course will entitle them to credit
on their merit badges if success-
fully completed and all Boy Scouts
are invited to take the course.
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North 5M
Luxembourg
Netherlands
■clgium
Franca
Hungary
Rumania
Bulgaria
Yugoslavia
Greece
RUSSIA
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Black Sea
Medittrrantan Sea
British Retreat
From Bloody Gate
After Bitter Fight
London Admits British
Withdrawal To Result
From Nazi Victoria!
By tha Associated Press
British rearguard troops, hope-
lessly outnumbered, fell back from
the bloody "hot gates" of Ther-
mopylae pass today as Adolf Hit-
ler's invasion armies lunged for-
ward in a final drive toward Ath-
ens, less than 100 miles away.
Hitler's high command said
bluntly that Nazi units had
"thrown the enemy out" of the his-
toric pass, overcoming strongly
fortified defenses where the Brit-
ish and a handful of Greek allies
had held out for more than two
days.
The German break - through
came 48 hours after Nazi qubr-
terr, in Berlin prematurly declared
Wednesday morning tnat the pass
had already been taken and that
the British rearguard had been
"annihilated."
With the overrunning of Yugoslavia and extensive advances In Greece, the Hitler-Mussolini con-
quest combination has passed tha million square miles mark to reach a point about equal of that
of Napoleon, though Axis holdings in Africa push the current mark even higher. Map illustrates
the extent of occupations in Uw last three periods of European conquest.
LONDON. April Reu-
ters, British news agency, report-
ed from Athens that German
troops landed early today on the
Greek island of Lemnos, near the
Dardanelles.
The small Greek garrison of in-
fantrymen and police fought the
invaders more than four hours, the
agency said.
German forces previously had
occupied Samothrace, another
i Greek island 30 mile* northeast of
Lemnos and about 50 miles from
; the Dardanelles.
| Lemnos is about 40 miles from
the mouth of the straits.
Seven Gulf Men
Receive Trophies
At Safety Meeting
For their fine record of only 10
lost-time accidents in 2,200,580 man
hours in 1940, seven foremen of
the Gulf Oil company were award-
ed trophies for their achievements
at, the company's Panhandle dis-
trict safety meeting held in the
American Legion building lust
night with an estimated attend-
ance of 11)0 company employes and
officials.
The award - winning foremen
were J. H. Fish, E. L. Henson, O.
L. Lester, F. M Parker. W. H.
Pyle, H H. Threatt, and Ralph
Willis.
The company points proudly to
the fact that they have reduced
lost-time and minor accidents 60
per cent in the last three years.
Three employes who will be in-
ducted into the army soon were in-
troduced to the assemblage. They
were Cecil Darden, R. B. Jones
i and Bobby Decker.
Congratulotory remarks were
made by the following company
officials: O. C. Needham, zone su-
perintendent; Henry L. Rankin,
president of the Gulf Casualty
company; T. G. Hollingsworth,
clerk; W. E. Mosher, safety en-
gineer; R. B. Saxe and T. A. Wat-
kins, field foremen; and C. M.
Pyron, truck foreman. Al Rior-
dan was in charge of the meeting.
Music was presented by Buster
Kent and his "Scintillating Troub-
adours." A niekleodeon dance was
held at the concluuslon of the
meeting.
• Hospital News
Towanna McCurley underwent
an appendectomy in Pantex hos-
pital yesterday afternoon.
Jack Heston underwent an ep-
pendectomy in Pantex hospital
yesterday afternoon.
Ouy Mileham underwent a ton-
sllectomy In Pantex hospital this
morning.
Gerald Mann Starts
Senatorial Campaign
Tomorrow Night
By the Associated Press
Attorney General Gerald C.
Mann takes to the hustings tomor-
row night in an attempt to win the
United States senatorial seat va-
cated by the death of Morris C.
Sheppard of Texarkana.
He has chosen his native city of
Sulphur Springs as the spring-
board from which to launch his
campaign. The youthful attorney
general's followers claimed that
1S.OOO persons would assemble in
the courthouse square to hear
Mann's opening bid for the senate
vacancy.
Representative Martin Dies, the
first active campaigner in the
field, appealed to a Brenham au-
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Senior Play Opens To Large Crowd;
Second Performance Slated Tonight
Chills and thrills were the order i sor, was uncovered, and makes for
of the evening as members of the more thrills.
senior class of the Borger high
school presented the first perfor-
mance of "Mystery In the Library"
list night to a large responsive au-
dience. The performance will be
repeated «gain tonight for those
who were unable to attend last
night.
The story takes on a mysterious
air from the moment the first
characters appear in the library
of an old college, Where the staff
members of the Bugle, college
newspaper are to meet. Then It
goes on to higher and higher pit-
ches of Interest as there is a mur-
der, kidnaping and two attempted
murders performed. A spy sys-
tem, using the now-mad professor
who formerly was connected with
the college as chemistry profesé
Outstanding among the charac-
ters, though he had only one scene
and one small port to say, and
this composed of only 155 words,
was Dick Bulger, who did a fine
piece of character acting in this
part. Though he had only a little
to say, his actions as Herman
Helnrich, the mad scientist, domin-
ate the action of the play from
the rise of the first curtain to the
final drop.
The leading characters, Evelyn
McKlnney as Beth, the assistant
editor, and J. N. Trotter as Dick
Martin, football captain and hero
of the play, were especially well
done as was the part of college-
president Hartman which was
played by Otto Sample, who Is
(Continued on Pago THREE)
Kansans Visit Here
To Boost Celebration
A 25 -car booster caravan from
Elkhart, Kans., visited Borger at
noon today and put on a show
and parade to odvertisc their
mamouth Coronado Day celebra-
tion which is to be held at Elk-
hart Sunday.
With a 34-piece band, conquis-
tadores, cowboys and make-believe
Indians included on the tour, the
Kansans invited Borgans to be
with them Sunday.
Scouti' Parent Atkad To
Plan For Sumntar Camp
Parents of Boy Scouts are urged
to determine if they want their
sons to attend summer camp this
summer and see H. H. Beavers,
scoutmaster.
The camp will be held at Camp
Kl-O-Wnh at Luke Marvin near
Canadian with the first section re-
porting May 25. The Borger scouts
will wait until Borger schools dis-
miss before attending.
The cost will be six dollars per
week per boy. The Borger district
will stay one week as a group but
individuals may stay longer.
Nineteen Students To
Attend Business Show
At Lubbock Tomorrow
British Middle Bust headquar-
ters acknowledged that B. E. F,
troops made a further withdrawal,
"inflicting severe losses on the
enemy" as they fell back toward
Athens.
Earlier dispatches from the Hel-
lenic capital itself declared that
grey-green waves of Nazi infan-
try storming the pass had been
driven off and that, the Germans
had brought up heavy 6-inch
Nineteen Borger high school
commercial and secretarial stu-
dents and two teachers will attend
the business show to be held at . S""s to she" the Allied defenders.
Texas Tech at Lubbock tomor- Ambulance drivers arriving in
vow. Athens from the battlefront said
Si"SKJ¡£ iftff«toSS
es Helen Williams and Elliee Hud- ¡^£1,"íeV^Víbed^a H "ex"
son. commerce instructors, will be ,?escrlbed 08 «*"
in charge of the group. tremeiy light.
In London, no attempt was made
S.A.L. MEETS TONIGHT AT
AMERICAN LEGION HALL
All members of the Sons of the
American Legion are urged to at-
tend their regular meeting tonight
in the Legion hall by Charles Wil-
liamson. chairman.
Johnie Pitman, Evelyn McKin- tu conceal that withdrawal of the
ney, Frances Watson, Pauline Tay- British expeditionary force was "in
or, Foldlne Martin, Mayme Jon the card8 ; but the British radio
Dunnway, Maxine Carroll, Twyla declared last night that so far "not
Stottlemyrc, Grace Adams and one British soldier has re-em-
Chrystene Boylan of the secretar-; barked from Greece."
ial training class will go. Typing Tho German high command pic-
students who made the highest
grades for the last six weeks will
training class. They are Jack Hood,
Owen Ware, Bcrnice Brooks, Mavn
Lay, Frankle Walters, Corinc Gra
(Continued on Page TWO))
Congratulations To
BRITISH ADMIT PLANES
DESTROYED ON GROUND
CAIRO. Egypt, April 25 —•WP)—
The RAF middle east command
today acknowledged damage to
British aircraft dispersed on an
airdrome in Greece In a German
air raid, but claimed destruction
of Axis planes in Libya.
tured chaotic destruction umonp
, , ¡,: p« waiting in Greek "escape"
make the trip as guests of the ports to remove surviving B. E.
F. troops. Stuka dive-bombers
were reported to have sent six ves-
sels to the bottom and damaged
14 others in the past 24 hours.
"These wore so severely dam-
aged they would hardly be usable
for embarkation of the British ex-
peditionary corps," the German
communique said.
While conceding another m.;jor
setback, London officials insisted
the climax of the 20-day-old bat-
tle of the Balkans wife less ser-
ious than the episode at Dun-
kerque. in the Allied escape rrom
the bloody fields of Flanders last
spring.
The number of troops and the
quantity of material endangered
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Fitzgerald, by the German drive in France
upon the arrival of a 7 pound 2 I was far greater, the British said.
ounce son, Roy Glenn, born at I ——
4:15 yesterday afternoon in North CUB PIPER MEETING TO BE
British Bombers
Lash Continent
LONDON, April 25 —(ÁP)—RAF
bombers attacked an important
iron and steel works at Ijmuidcn
in the Netherlands today and loads
of bombs were seen to strike the
blast furnaces and buildings, the
air ministry news service report-
ed.
The attack followed raids last
night in which the British smush-
ed through heavy antiaircraft
blankets to dump heavy cargoes of
explosives on Kiel and Wilhelm-
shaven shipyards, largest centers
of submarine and warship build-
ing in the Reich, and hit at ob-
jectives all along the coast from
Norway to France.
The first piones to reach Ijmui-
den dumped their loads ut the base
(Continued on Page TWO))
Greenland May Be Partly
Occupied By Axis Forces
WASHINGTON, April 25—(AP)—President
Rootevelt declarad today that American neutrality
patrol vettelt would operate as far into tha watart
of the Seven Seas as may ba necessary for the de-
fense of the American hemisphere.
He told a press conference, however, that Hie
administration was not thinking of ascoiting convoys
at this time.
Also, the chief executive said there was a possi-
bility that Greenland was partly occupiad by Axis
forces. He said that he did not know about this, but
agreed this statement wot
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Harkins, up-
on the arrival of an 8 pound 7 1-4
ounce son, Horrell Wayne, born at
3:45 yesterday afternoon In North
Plains hospital.
Plains hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. M. K. "Pete" El-
ler, t pon the birth or a 7 1-2
pound daughter, Bonnie June, born
at 12:10 p. m. Tuesday in Pan-
tex hospital.
HELD AT WEATHERLY SCHOOL
The Cub Piper meeting will be
held tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the
Weotherly auditorium.
All cub parents, as well as ¿he
new pipe committee, are request-
ed to be In attendance.
Stinnett Kiwanis To Buy
P. A. System For School
Plans to buy a public address
system for the Stinnett school
were completed by directors of the
Stinnett Kiwanis club last night
following a regular weekly ses-
sion.
During the business conclave, It
was also decided to attend the
Stinnett Baptist revival next Mon-
day, in a body.
The civic club also voted to give
its hundred per cent support to
the Canyon-Stinnett boxing tour-
nament.
D. B Altmun, Jr., of Pampa, was
present as u visitor.
Soft Coal Wage
Dispute Up Today
For Mediation
By the Associated Press
The soft coal wage dispute
which has set back production an
estimated 30,000,000 tons since Ap-
ril 1 came up today before a me-
diation panel intent on quick re-
opening of the mines.
Some coal men predicted that
the three-man panel would bring
the reopening issue to the fore at
once by making a direct request
to the miners and operators to re-
sume digging an0 remove the
threat of a serious fuel shortage
from national defense industries.
While President Roosevelt's
board got down to business on the
coal controversy, CIO officials de-
clared a strike at the big Glenn
L. Martin airplane factory at Bal-
timore, and another CIO group
completed balloting on a strike
call against General Motors Cor-
poration's 61 widely scattered pro-
duction units.
The disagreement involves 400,-
000 miners and 7,000 coal produc-
ers in eight Appalachian states
and in outlying mining areas
where wage contracts are based on
the general Appalachian agree-
ment.
The CIO United Mine Work-
ers, headed by John L. Lewis, de-
manded a general wage increase
to $7 a day, compared with $8 a
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surprising.
WASHINGTON, April 3 —
W— Tho Houao Merchant Mar-
ine committee approved legisla-
tion today giving tho president
authority to take over foreign
flag vessels lying idle in Unit-
ed States porta and put them
to any use.
Committee members said the
bill's language was sufficiently
broad to permit turning the ves-
sels over to the British if this
was desired.
Phillips Civic Club
Will Send Youth To
Boys' State In June
Some Phillips High School jun-
ior boy will attend Boys' State
from June 9 to 14 under the spon-
sorship of the Phillips C'ivic club,
it was disclosed today. Boys' State
is held at Austin under sponsor-
ship of the American Lesion.
The boy will be chosen from his
class by the votes of the junior
class teachers. .
Judge Poster of Amarillo was a
guest at the Wednesday night
meeting.
The next meeting will be held
In the Phillips High School audi-
torium as a public affair Col. E
A. Simpson of Amarillo will be
guest speaker on that occasion.
F. D. R. Places Lindbergh In Same
Class As Civil War 'Copperheads'
WASHINGTON, a.^'11 25 —(/PI j was arrested by the union military
President Roosevelt places Col-
onel Charles A. Lindbergh today
in catagory of Civil war "copper-
heads."
The president was asked at a
press conference why the arrpy
had not taken up Lindbergh's
commission. The famous aviator,
who frequently has criticized the
administration's 'oreign policy, is
a reserve colonel.
The President remarked that In
the Cival war, both the Confeder-
ates and the Northerners took on
liberty-loving people from other
countries, and both let certain
people go.
The latter, he said, where the
Vallandighams.
(Clement L. Vallandighams was
a representative from Ohio whoquittlng.
authoritative In 1863 for "trea-
sonable utterances" and was ban-
ished to the com" «iterate states.
• He was known as a leader of
the "Copperheads."
When reporters did not react to
the name, Mr. Roosevelt said that
Vallandigham was an appeaser
who wanted to make peace in 1883
because he felt the Northerns
could not win.
Still replying to the question
about Lindbergh, Mr. Roosevelt
said there also were an awful lot
of appeasers at Valley Forge who
urged George Washington to quU
because he could not win against
the British. He advised reporters
to read what Thomas Paine had
written on the advisability of
Mr. Roosevelt declined to be
drawn into specific comments de-
signed to amplify his views on the
convoy situation.
But he said that for a year and
a half vessels of the neutrality pa-
trol had been operating as far as
a thousand miles into the Atlan-
tic from the eastern shore of
Maryland. He said there were er-
roneous reports and assumptions
at the time that the patrol was
operating approximately 300 mil-
es from the American coast.
He repeated several times tho
thought of hemispheric defense in
response to questions about tha
functions of the patrol. What it
would do If it encountered a belli-
gerent vessel, and whether it
would be allowed to use belliger-
ent means was not made clear.
The president did say a patrol
would not necessarily be confined
to the Atlantic. The president was
asked exactly what was the differ-
ence between a convoy and a pa-
trol. In the first instance, he said,
it is the escorting of merchant
ships In a group to prevent an act
of aggression against those mer-
chant vessels.
A patrol, he explained, is a re-
connaissance of certain areas of
the ocean to find out whether
there is any possible aggressor
ship in the area, or in the whole
of the ocean, that might be com-
ing into the western hemisphere.
As a matter of common sense,
Mr. Roosevelt said, back in 1S3S
the area of patrol in the Atlantic
was closer in because there seem-
ed to be little danger of attack
on such places as Bermuda, New-
foundland, Greenland, or Trini-
dad.
Since then, he continued, events
have shown an attack is more pos-
sible today than it was then, fur-
thermore, the president said, the
United States has valuable
lean lives and property
where It did not have
1030.
The concerted demand by
cabinet members for
tion in the present war
generally interpreted here
pointed forewarning that a
opment of top
near.
Secretary of State
tary of Navy, Knox
of Agriculture Wlcli___
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all spoke in unusually i
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