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WEATHER
W*«t Texas — Mostly cloudy, colder in Pan-
handl* this afternoon; lowest temperature to-
night 16-20 in Panhandle. 20-28 in South
Plains and 21 32 in upper portion ol Pecos
Valley eastward.
THE CARBON BLACK CENTER OF THE WORLD
Vol. 21—No. 81
NEA Service
Associated Press
Borger, Texos, Friday, February 28, 1947
'Ten Pages Today)
Price 5c
KIDNAPING CHARGES DROPPED
Britain Said To Have Asked
U. S. To Take Over in Greece
FILE SATURDAY
AN EDITORIAL
After being freed of charges of kidnaping Donnie Waltman, Mrs. Robert Humbarger holds Donnie at
the Waltman home in Neosho. Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Humbarger, Toledo. Ohio, were freed
when Mrs. Virginia Waltman. right, mother of Donne, admitted giving permission to the couple to
take the child. Donnie and three other Waltman children's custody has been placed in hands of
juvenile court. (NEA Telephoto)
Defense Counsel Seeks
To Bar Testimony Of
Welch's Former Wife
By TROY MARTIN
Alvis Welch. charged with the murder of Henry Fields,
sat nervously in the 84th district court room yesterday and
ground out cigarette after cigarette as he heard his former
wife, Adonna Welch, repeatedly deny that any marital bonds
—now exist between them.
Slabbing Is
Followed by
Murder Charge
In today's paper is a story released by Mayor Fred Herbst
to the effect that under a recent ruling handed down by the
court of civil appeals, it is mandatory that the citizens of
Borger file their nominating petitions, naming their nominee
for the position of city commissioner, by midnight tomorrow
night, March first. This will place the nominating petitions
on file, as now legally reguired, 30 days prior to the opening
of the poll*, which in the case of Borger will be 7 a.m., April
first.
With over half a million dollars bond money lying in
the bank to be spent on city improvements in the immediate
future, it is especially important that those citizens of Bor-
ger who are interested in the continued progress and well
22 Students Are
Named Members
In Honor Society
In the high school assembly held
Thursday morning, 12 seniors and
10 juniors were elected to the
National Honor society. Qualifi-
cations for membership rest upon
the following attributes: scholar-
ship, character, service and lead-
ership. The students fortunate en-
ough to be elected to this society
excel in each of the qualities men-
tioned previously.
Borgans Leave
For Convention
At Atlantic City
The jury was retired during!
the testimony of Mrs. Welch as
the court attempted to determine
her eligibility to testify before
the jury. Detense counsel parried ]
and thrust for almost on hour in!
an effort to prove that a state
of common law matrimony exists!
between the defendant and Adon-;
na Welch, and thereby to bar her
Delegates of the Panhandle and] testimony before the jury,
south plains left Pampa In a At Wednesday’s hearing a de-i
- ■<—-hI mi i-4- V >. sent» Ve tail-1 cree of divorce dated June 5. 1945'
‘ , , ,,l was presented bv the district at-
W*y Thu:sd«y n rmng to at., mi (orm£ M eviden;e that all matri-
the annual convention of Amen-j rations had ceased be-j
can A. sociation of School Admin-; tween the pair, but under the.
istrators to be held in Atlantic questioning of defense counsel. I
City, New Jersey the fiist week I H , M «ood yesterday, Mrs ;
" ’ 1 , Welch admitted having spent a
in March. Among the party were part 0^ a occupying a room;
C. A. Cryer, guperlntendent of! with the defendant in an Ama-|
Borger public school*, Mrs. Lois! riilo hotel since the divorce de- j
Sublett, president of the Borgflfs'ree was Issued
Defense counsel presented as
evidence three letters dated Aug-
ust 14, 15, and 16. 1946 and num-
bered exhibits 1, 2, and 3 respect-
ively Mrs Welch admitted hav-
ing written the letters and hav-
ing mailed them to the defendant,
who was at that time in Colorado,
on the above mentioned dates
Quoting from page three of ex-
unit of the Classroom Teachegr
association, and Lee Johnson, su,*
erintendent of public schools,
Phillips.
While there Supt C A Cryer
will serve as u judge on the school
exhibits committee. These edu-
cational exhibits ate an annual
pan of the convention and occupy
80,000 square feet of space There - ,"
will be about 1,000 different ex- i hlblt thrt‘e Hood read. hasent
hibitt to be judged by the com- , feeling any too good. I hope
it isn t w hat 1 think it is. I won-
_ . .. . ... . oer what is the matter."
Exhibits will coniltt of ma- Further questioned by Hood,
lerials from the physical plant ^jrs y,eich admitted having told
itcelf, such as lighting, ventila- j defendant that she would live
tion, heating etc. They will also w him m Colorado u he were
include curriculum a udies and able to {lnd a place there Mrs.
integration of materials and de-
vices used as teaching aids tsuch
as radio, and visual education)
into the modern school. There will
also be exhibits from foreign
countries. According to Supt
Cryer, they will be judged on the
following points: first, value;
second, presentation.
Cryer received this assignment
shortly before departing for At-
lantic City, in a letter from Mr
H. A Alien, business manager of
exhibits, Atlantic City, New Jer-
sey.
Jack Neely, 38-year-old negro,
was dead and David Butcher, 24,
also a negro, was charged with
murder as a result of a fatal stab-
bing which occurred in a resi-
dence at the corner of 11th and
P.rain streets here at 1:20 p. m.
yesterday.
The argument which terminated
ir. the knife slaying began over
twenty-five cents allegedly owed
to Neely by Butcher, according to
Deputy Sheriff Troy Renfroe, in-
vestigating officer. According to j
sheriff department reports, Neely j
demanded payment, starting the
the controversy. After a heated I
dispute Butcher threw a quarter
at Neely who was sitting at the
time Neely threw the money back
at Butcher and arose from his
chair whereupon Butcher plung-
ed o knife into an artery in the |
lower region of Neely’s neck, the
report said.
In a statement to officers.
Neely’s wife declared that at the
time of the stabbing she was un-
der the impression that Butcher J
had only struck her husband with
his fist, but that Jite*).'- staggered
a few steps toward an adjoining'
room of the dwelling and fell in
a pool of blood.
Investigating officers. Renfroe
and H. D. Loller, arrived on the
scene of the stabbing at about 1 30
p m Neely was rushed to North
Plains hospital here but dead up-
on arrival, according to hospital
it ports.
Butcher was apprehended short-
ly after the slaying and is now
lodged in jail here charged with
murder pending a grand jury hear-
ing His bond was set at $5,000,
authorities said.
Neely’s body will be sent by
Minton funeral home to Vernon
for funeral services and interment.
being of the city should take the necessa'ry Meps to legally! n Ju"lors, ‘'iff** f?!dliey
<ii« __i x- ,•,> , , , . , 1 K Brooks, Jo Ann Cantrell, Donna
file their nominating petitions by midnight, tomorrow night. Dunham, patty Edwards, Peggy
Unfortunately, the ruling of the court has invalidated Edwards, Dean Hay, Nettie Lou
portions of the city's charter that would have made it pos- Lindsey, Jeannette Higgins, Bob
sible to file these petitions up to March 20. Under the cir- l:>earson aad LeRoy Pilcher,
cumstances which make it necessary to file the petitions by Seniors consist of Bobby Joyce
£» rsirat’srzjns? £»«£
tures of the required number to legalize their petition.
Owing to the fact that Borger has now become a per-
manent town and all doubt as to its future has been dis-
pelled by the very heavy industrial investments around the
city that are destined to have permanent life and give per-
Bill Finger, Lois McDonald, Betty
Jo MaUcoate, Jay Morris, Mary
Frances Phillips, Gene Roberts,
Johnny Warren. Harold White,
Charlene Hammons, Jean Wake-
field, and Mabel Miller.
Officers of the society are; Bill
Subject Understood One
Discussed in Secretive
White House Conference
By ALEX H. SINGLETON
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28—(AP) Britain, her domestic
economy near the breaking point, was reported in congres-
sional and diplomatic quarters today to have proposed that
the United States take over her commitments in Greece
on a large scale.
Although there was no White House confirmation, this
was understood to have been the subject—at least in part—
of a hiqhly secretive White House conference yesterday
among President Truman, his diplomatic advisers, and key
legislators. , •---
One source said that the United
States would issue a statement1
soon on what part, if any, it j
would assume in helping bolster)
the shaky Greek government. 1
(In London, a foreign spokes-1
man said British and United |
States discussions were under way
in Washington on the problem of
continuing the economic and mil-
manent employment to a large number of peoples, the city Ruess, president, Betha Fowler, £ary obligations in strife-tom
is no longer in the position of calculating a temporary po- j vice president, Molly Berrien, sec-
sition. retary, and Betty Cofer, treasur-
Interested citizens and property owners of the city of 1__
Borger should become thoroughly awakened to the fact that
Youih, 11, Held Here
After Stolen Auto
Wrecked Thursday
An 11-year-old boy caused the
local police department and the
highway patrol considerable trou-
ble yesterday.
The youth, temporarily held in:
the county jail, took an automo-
bile from 316 S Harvey street and ]
overturned it eight miles west of (
Pampa on highway 152, causing |
approximately $700 damage, police j
said Alter the accident, (he youth
caught a ride into Pampa with an j
insurance salesman.
Pampa police receiver! a call
from local police about (he theft]
and the Pampa department con
gacted (he accident with the theft
Radio cere were on the lookout
ft r a iad answering the dew rlp-
tu rt of the boy, Md he was appro
tinned at a drive-in stand in
PempM and was pilfering #ul"
paiked there when tangio accord
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I'lie lr»a« high*M* pallid wild
pit t ed 111* tap up, turned l|pn
oval U> fioUtoheMn imrul# *lindi
Hugh An,itr*.at who to J.oi. |.
I, •»* I furii h iin c latudy of joy,
ini, Movie* offnet 6ft* fichu h
I ale A h« iing U tin MAP will
l, hi«,) if) fjticr ■ifwu tfe),
Welch repeatedly denied that she
had at any time lived with Welch
regularly or in any manner held
herself out publicly or otherwise
to be his wife since the date on
which the divorce decree was is-
sued.
Detente counsel affirmed that
Adonna Welch is now the com-
mon law wife of the defendant
and moved that she not be al-
lowed by the court to testify
before the jury. No decision had
been handed down from the
bench as the court retired last
night.
Earlier in the day, Arthur Bar-
ron, alleged to have been the
partner of Fields in a construc-
tion venture, testified before the
court that he was present in the
Post Exchange building, 625 N
Main, at the time of the fatal
shooting oi Fields there on Oc-
tober 30, and declared that no
weapon was on or near the per-
son of Fields at the time of the
slaying:
Barron’s statement was in con-
flict with a statement made Wed-
nesday by Deputy Sheriff Jess
Love in which the deputy declared
that he thought he had seen a
black pistol on the floor but was
unable to icll the court the exact
position at which the gun was
lying in reference to the body of
Fields
laive asserted in Wednesday's
testimony tit,it lie went to investi-
gate a noise in a bark room of
the building and w ben fie re-
turned the gun was giaie The
deputy ih-« l.iii-,l that a thorough
huh ii |,iihd to it ,eul the missing
H Ml n*'dll fuig II,a fitly at
a struggle with Uu deitnusnl
in <■ back ruem »l Mia build tig
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gemlng gut mg Il,g sheetINf
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Colder Weather Is
Predicted Tonight
For Panhandle Area
By The Associated Press
A heavy, rain-laden fog ground-
ed planes and impeded automobil-
es and bus traffic at Houston this
morning and CAA officials said
seven air liners remained on the
ground at mid-morning.
Colder weather for some por-
tions of Texas was forecast for
this afternoon and tonight by
weather bureau.
The northern portion of East
Texas was expected to have a
mirimum of 25-32 degrees tonight
the Panhandle was due to have
minimum* of 15-20 degrees to-
night with the cold moving into
the Del Rio- Eagle Pass area Sat-
urday.
Most*of Texas was cloudy this
morning except in the extreme
southern portion,where almost fair
weiutiei was reported in the El
Paso section.
In Borger. temperature* drop-
pad trom a high of 35 degrees
yesterday to 21 degrees lest
right. The mercury registered at
29 degrees at 1:30 this morn
ing according lo the local
weathermen, Paul Potter.
the next two years of governmental administration of the
affairs of the city will mean much towards its proaress and
development into the building of the kind of a city people
will want to live in.
This is a serious matter and should be treated accord-
ingly.
City Ballot To Ber
Closed on March 1
Calvary Baptist
To Dedicate New
Building Sunday
Greece now borne by Britain.
(Other government sources said
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin
was planning to withdraw Brit-
ain’s remaining 10.000 troops from
Greece within the next three
! months.)
j It was learned from diplomats
j in Washington that the whole
I problem of Greece, together with
j a report on Britain’s waning re-
sources, was laid before Secre-
! tary of State Marshall by Lord
: Inverchapel, British ambassador
i to this country, at a recent con-
ference.
Should the United States decide
I to take over a large share of
British commitments in Greece,
Calvary Baptist church will ob-
serve its second anniversary with
dedication of its new debt-free
meeting house Sunday at 11 a. in.,
the Rev. J. N. Hunt, pastor, an-! and perhaps elsew'here, to help re-
! store Europe’s stability, it could
Nominating petitions for can-
didates to the office of city com-^
misriuner must be filed with thtSf
citv clerk by midnight tomorrow-, r
March 1. according to information
from Mayor Fred C. Herbst.
Recent rulings of the courts have
invalidated sections of the city i
charter which provided that nomi-
nating petitions need contain only,
five per cent of the number of*
votes cast in the last general mu-
nciprl election, as provided by
the city charter. The new law on 1
a net it ion now is 5 per cent of the
total number of votes cast at the j
Dolling places within the city at;
th° last general state election, ac-1
cording to Mayor Herbst.
The provision in the city char-1
tei stating that petitions mvminat-
ing candidates may be filed ten; no01’
days before the election date has;
also been invalidated by the court
of civil appeals.
“The court* have held that laws
governing state lections must pre-
vail in city elections; and the pro- j
vision that absentee voting may j
begin 20 days prior to the date j
the polls are opened, and further
that the names of the candidates
qualified for a place on the elec- j
tion ballot must be posted ten!
days prior to the date absentee
balloting begins, will necessitate:
all nominating petitions being fil-
ed with the city clerk of the city j
ft Borger before midnight, March
first, 1947," said the mayor.
second Performance
Of Senior Play Is
Scheduled Tonight
Before a capacity houi
1
the
pre-
nounced today.
The pastor said that an approp-1
riate program has been planned
for this occasion.
On March 1, 1945, the church j
was formally founded with 34
members, meeting in the Amen-
can Legion hall. The church had :
access to the building only on ]
Sundays.
The present building, not yet j
completed, was occupied 16 j
months ago. Approximately $20,-
000 has been invested in recondi- j
tioning and brick veneering the
building, exclusive of the lots, j
Rev. Hunt said.
A total of 326 members has
well force a complete redrafting
of this nation's plans for foreign
relief expenditures.
This in turn might force an
upward revision oi both Presi-
dent Truman's budget estimates,
a problem which in turn would
affect the current congressional
drive for trimming his $37,500,-
000,000 figure, tax cuts and debt
reduction.
One key phase of relief costs,
the problem of feeding occupied
sen ors of Borger high school pre-1 I Germany, has brought a report to
sen.ed "Best Foot Forward”, one! ' ' Mr. Truman from former Presi-
of the most hilarious comedies j A total of 326 members has dent Herbert Hoover. After a
ever presented in Borger schools, j been received into the church, and. gonal rtnlew abroad Hoover
Clever acting and amazing dia- a complete organization, embrac- , eported to the White House yes-
logue kept the audience enter- '"8 every feature sponsored by
tained. There is to be a repeat I atly Baptist church, is function-
pertormance tonight at 8. ln8 splendidly,” he said.
The scene is laid m the boys’ j The Sunday program will in-
dormitory of Winsocki Prep, j c!ilde a brief resume of the church
■ 1 history from its beginning by
and the action centers
around Gale Joy. a publicity seek-
ing movie star, and Bud Hooper, a
student of Winsocki who has in-
vited her to the annual prom,
never dreaming she will accept
Complications start 'and continue>
when both Gale and Helen Schles-
singer, Bud's real girl, arrive.
Mrs. Fred Herbst; dedicatory
prayer by Earl E, Carley, chair-1
man of the board of deacons; spe- j
cial music by Mrs. Virginia Propst; i
and sermon by the pastor.
"A most cordial invitation is'
extended the public to attend this
special service,” Rev. Hunt said.'
terday and went before the House
Foreign Affairs committee today.
The Greek and related Middle
East problems, as well as the Eur-
opean relief picture, could have
constituted a situation serious en-
ough for such a conference as
that held at the White House yes-
terday. It brought together Mar-
shall, the leaders of both parties
on Capitol hill, and the chairmen
and ranking minority members of
the House and Senate Foreign
See Number TWO Page 6
In the central and eastern (Kir
ivarcast continued with
I'ght rain and drizzle in moot of
that , ,d front the Red river vai
it'* *outhw*rd to the gulf
Minimum tainiiaratura* ever
tea#• l ,»t ntgld writ ut the mid
: iUHi
re-
Dendy Returned to
Borger From Tucson
On Burglary Charge
Constable Fred Compton
turned from Tucson, Ariz., Thurs-
day afternoon with Billy Dendy.
19. of Amarillo, who is charged
with burglary of the Finger Mo-
tor company and of the Houston
Lumber company on January 27
Dtyuiy'* statements implicated
Robert L Jone* of Tucson, and
an unidentified youth known as
Buddy." According to Dandy's
statement Jones acted us look
out while tie 'Dendy' and Ruddy
carried out the act of but glut y
Charges were filed on Dendy
February 17.
Pullman Car Plunges Down
Mountainside, Kills Porter
Old Timers To
Attend Borger s
Birthday Dinner
Citizens who were in Borger
March 8, 1926. ut opening of town-
site, are in the Old Timer class,
and these Old Timers are urged
to attend a lunch for them at the
Black hotel cafe at 1 p. m. Sat-
urday March 8. All those people
interested in attending, contact
C. C. McClelland at 101 East 6
s‘- «bi
Anyone wishing to enter any
type of a float in the birthday pa-
rade may do so without cost or
obligation. The parade is to com-
mence at 11 a. m. Saturday,
March 6, at the Black hotel and
march north on Main st. to 10th
street.
Among the Borgans listed in the
Old Timers up to this date are;
Walter Allen, Dock Alexander,
Newt Alexander, Bill Cunning-
ham, Jess Cunningham, Nig Cun-
ningham, Frank Crafford, F. D.
Crawford, Red Sox, Charlie Case,
Hugh Cypher, Sy Clayton, Mat
Curvin, Bill Coppock, C. D. Davis,
Art Emersect, Hugh Emersect,
John Farmer, Oscar Farmer, Otis
Hilderbrandt, Ollie Hare.
Lcrry Hansen, W. R. Harding,
O B Hunt, Enar Hansen, Eph
Hinds. Buffalo Hinds, H. M. Hood,
Homer Hardman, Arthur Han-
sen, Colonel Knight, Jack Knight,
Ku k. Kirkpatrick, Ed Gilbert, J,
W. Gikas, George Gaiser, O. L.
Green. H. G. Gilliam, E. L. Lan-
tron, Floyd Layton. Bob Lindsey,
C. C McClelland, J T. McNellis,
Harvey McNellis, Chester Myers.
Bill Masterson, J. D. Miller, Bill
Miller, Jim Mix’, Pat Mixon, J. I).
Pitman. Adolph Powers, Bill Rail,
Ike Rogers. M. Ross, J. A. Rob-
inson. Claude Ruby, M. G. Single-
ton, C. E. Staack, D. M. Specter,
C. H. Seaman, Ben Stokes, Fritz
Thompson, Bill Monroe, Bert Mill-
er, Neill Yows, John H. White,
E. L Butts, Paul Kelly, G H.
Whitlock, George Ward, Charlie
Keech, Henderson O'Neal, and
Reece Warren.
Those who are eligible for the
Old Timers list and whose names
do not appear here, should con-
tact Judge McClelland in his of-
fices.
* Births
Hospital Notei
GAI.LATZIN, Pa , Feb. 28 —(VP)
—Careening wildly down moun-
tainside tracks while the remain-
der of the train continued on its
journey, the last car of the Penn-
sylvania railroad’s New York-to-
Texas "Sunshine Special” carried
a pullman porter to his death und
injured 10 passengers and one
erw man today.
The car. tearing loose from the
train at the nest of the Alle-
gheny mountains while one of its
two engines were being rut off,
took off in a tbree and utie-hulf
Gathering spaed a* if want, if
sipped p».t Bennington curve
shut |l day* ago the wreck of
the Red Arrow” claimed 24
live* and injured nearly 169
oilier*.
started an investigation.
Flngman-Edward J Mulvihill of
Bellevue, who was among the in
jured taken to Altoona by the
Wiilroad's Jeffersonian., was given
It for reducing the extent ot
injuries by telling passengers
c down in the aisle to avoid
ig gists
wengers in the other sleepers
coaches of the 13-cai train
't know the "Hunshme Sjiec
cr«
the
guards at the scene of the Red
Arrow wreck where its two big
engines still lie at the bottom of
;i 150-foot embankment, were
among the first to raach the socn^.
They said the car was travelling
at anpr s; natch 50 miles an hour
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At North Plains hospital: A 8
j pound 9 ounce girl bom to Mr.
! and Mr*. H. B Gilbert at 5'03 pm.
j February 27.
A 6 pound 1-2 ounce boy bom
to Mr and Mrs. W. R Rounsaville
| at 4:06 a .m. February 28
A 7 pound 9 ounce bo* bom to
1 Mr. i nd Mrs. H W. Keck at 7:40
I a m. February 28.
An 8 pound 3 ounce boy bora
j to ftr and Mrs F V. Jones, }r.,
| at 7 25 p. m. February 24.
At Casa Kerens hospital A 6
id 14 ounce boy boro to Mr,
Mr* M C Abbott at 8 03 a m,
uarv 28.
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