Borger Daily Herald (Borger, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 149, Ed. 1 Monday, May 16, 1927 Page: 1 of 4
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OKLAHOMA MVADES CITY
135 VISITORS ARRIVE IN BORGER
CONSTABLE OF
PRECINCT TWO
HAS RESIGNED
Lee Gilbert Hands in His
Resignation to County
Commission
GARY QUITS JOB
Overson Succeeds to Position
As Borger City At-
torney
Loe A. nilbert, w"io has served
as Constable in Precinct No. 2,
bince January, l!i27, today tendered
to the county commissioners bis res-
ignation, according to reports from
Stinnett.
Ove Overson lias been appointed
city attorney of liorger to replace
V. II. Gary, minutes of a city commis-
sion held last'Saturday revealed.
Mayor (!lenn Pace, questioned
Saturday and again today as to whe-
ther or not Mr. (iary had resigned,
stated on both occasions that no
resignation had been handed in, and
promised to notify the Herald in
case anything was done in reference
to the city attorney's office.
The information as to Overson's
appointment and as to Gary's vacat-
ing the office was obtained from the
city clerk by Hie Herald.
AUTO CRASH
KILLSWOÜIAN
CORSICANA, Texas, May If,
— (API—Mrs. Sarah Bratcher,
22, wife of O. K. Bratcher, em-
ployee of (he Humble Oil Com-
pany at Mildred, was almost in-
stantly killed early Monday
morning four miles south of En-
nis when the car in which she
and her husbaand and three
children were riding overturned.
LONG FLIGHT
STILL HALTED
Mineóla, N. Y., May 1C- (A
P)- -Chances of anyone of the
three New York airplanes get-
ting away from Roosevelt flehl
tomorrow seemed remote today,
as unfavorable weather showed
an obstinacy distressing to tie;
fliers, anxious to be away on the
long trail across the Atlantic.
DOOMED PAIR
ENTER PRISON
OSSININO. N. Y.. May 16—-(A
P)—The gates of Sing Sing pri
son swung open today to admit
Mrs. Ruth Snyder and Henry
Judd (¡ray and clanged shut
behind them. Hairing sncces-
ful appeal the Queens Village
housewife arid her corset sales
man paramour, jointly convict-
ed of the i/lurder of her hus-
band, will never pass through
those gates again alive.
British Explain
Raid on Russians
LONDON, May 16—(AP) --Ques-
itoned in regarding the police raid
cn Soviet house, Sir William .Toy-
nson Hicks, the homo secretary,
told a crowded and animated sess-
ion of tht house of commons today
that information sent to him by the
secretary of war last Wednesday had
satified him that a certain official
document was or had been in Ihe pos
esslon of some one on the premises
occupied by Arcos, Ltd., the Soviet
commercial organization.
In Paris the'
for juep
iverage highest daily
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New York-Paris Airplane Flight Pictures
FRENCHMEN WHO FAILED
Nungcsser and Coli, the French aviators who have been missing since their attempted flight
from I'aris to New York, shown at the start of their flight.
AMERICANS WHO WILL TRY
Chamberlain and Kertaud, the Americans who will shortly undertake the flight from New
York to I'aris, in which Nuligesser and Coli failed.
THE AMERICANS' PLANE
BELLANCAv
ONOPLANE
OLUMeiA" J \§
TRADE TRIPPERS
PARADE STREET,
LED DOT DY DAND
Headed by the gayly comparisoned
band from Central high school in
Oklahoma City, ]:!"> Oklahoma City
trade trippers marched up the main
street of Borger this afternoon, in
two long lines, with shouting Bor-
ger school children running with
them as part of their welcome, and
with a great concourse of Borger
automobiles following, prepared to
pick up the visitors and take them
on a tour of the oil fields after a
program at the corner of Fourth
and Main
The Oklahomans, on their annual
trade trip, arrived here in sixteen
pullman cars at 1:20 p. m. and will
stay here the afternoon and night
Weeping on the train.
In a letter to Secretary Showalter
of the Borger Chamber of Commerce,
the Oklahomans announced in ad-
vance that they did not expect to
find Borger the wild and wooly
town which it lias been painted in
reports, but were confident of find-
ing a civilized community.
The Chamber of Commerce ar-
ranged a welcome which brought all
stores to close from i p. m. to 3
p. in. today and also called forth the
swarm of cars to carry the visitors
on the oil field tour.
After the tour a special rodeo pro-
gram complimentary to the visitors
will be held at Haekberry Slim's park
on the Panhandle highway, and then,
after another short program of ad-
dresses. a dance will be given, also
complimentary to the Oklahomans.
The welcome procession which
marched up Main street shortly al-
ter the arrival of the Oklahomans
included all city officials and the
big lire truck, the latter being load-
ed down with the visiting business
men.
E. A. Evans, editor of the Okla-
homa News, is publishing a trade
trip edition of that paper, daily dur-
ing the five day trip. He is using
a mimeograph. The first -edition
will be published today in Borger.
RANGER SAYS
'BANDITS' WERE
COWPUNCHERS
Travelers Frightened When
Riders Head Them from
Big Herd
"HORRIBLE FACE"
Woman Gives Graphic Story
of Masked and Mounted
Robber Pair
STATE ATTACK ON PURHELL'S
HOUSE OF BAVID IS STARTED
BENTON HARBOR, Mich. May
16—(AP)—Tiie State's move to
bring about dissolution of the house
of David colony, on the grounds that
it is a "haven of vice! and a. nuisance,
operating under the guise of a re-
ligious organization." got under way
in circuit court today, in the form
of receivership proceedings.
More than 100 witnesses were to
testify for the state as to the char-
acter of the institution and its lead-
ers, Benjamin and Mary Purnell, in
whose name, the colony property,
valued at more than a million dol-
lars. is listed.
The witnesses included a number
of former colonists, by whose tes-
timony prosecution attorneys said
an attempt will be made to show
flagrant immorality existed in the
colony, and that members, recruit-
ed from the rural districts of Aus-
tralia and America, were mulcted
of their life savings by Purnell.
The number of defense witnesses
was not announced but counsel for
the colony has been engaged for sev-
eral months in taking depositions
from persons in many sections of
the country and they indicated at
mass of statistical testimony will
he read.
WHITEY WALKER, ED BAILEY GO
TO BELTOK TO FACE CHARGES
Wliitey Walker, recently released
on bonds totalling $21,500 on charg-
es of murder of policeman Coke
Buchanan, and Deputy Sheriffs Ter-
ry and Kenyon, today left for Tem-
ple, Bell county, Texas, to make
bond on charges connected with the
robbery of the Hemphill jewelry-
store in Temple. Ed Bailey, charged
ir. the same case, accompanied Wal-
ker. The two went on their own
recognizance, being accompanied by
no officers.
Accidental Deaths
One Week Total 20
AUSTIN, Texas. May, 16 ÍAP)Ac-
cidental deaths in Texas during the
week of May 1 to 7 totaled 20. with
M injured, the Texas Council ol
Safety reported today.
The week's casualties brought the
total since ,lan. 1 to 4S4 killed and
1,666 injured.
" latió lu ivntcb Chamberlain and Bertuud will attempt to fly from New York to I>rli.
KIKE MORE BEATHS ADBEB TO
TOLL OF MlSSISSiPPI FLOOD
NEW ORLEANS, May 16—(AP)
—Nine more flood deaths, the first
In Louisiana were recorded today
as waters spewed by Ihe Mississippi
Into the lowlands continued their
gradual sweep across South central
Louisiana to the Gulf of Mexico.
A widow and her eight children,
driven by the invading waters to
the attic of the little home she had
refused to atyndon, were the first
victims as the flood widened its path
and inundated Plauchville, below
the Bayou des (liaises, breaks along
Big Bend.
A twenty mile gap had already
•-ad been beaten away In the Bayou
des Glalses levee line and engin-
eers said that they expected the en-
flneers said that tb v °*nected the
mtire fifty mile stretch to crumple'
before the impact of the flood to-
day. Bayou des daises is approxi-!
mately 150 miles northwest of New I
Orleans on the west side of the Mis-|
sisslppi.
Huerta Says 30,000
Fight Against Calles
TtJSCON. Arizona, May 16 (AP)
— The Arizona Daily Star today pub-
lished a statement received from
Adolpho de la Huerta, former pro-
visional president of Mexico in Los
Angeles, slating that "more ti.an
20,000 armen men are now engaged,
in lighting toe Calles government
VexlcV'
Two masked horsemen were ré
ported last night by their alleged vie
tinis as having been operating on the
Amarillo road, a mile west of Pan-
tex. halting care at a gap in the
fence near the ruins of the road
house where Ray Martin was shot to
death last year.
Ranger Captain Frank Hamer, de-
c laring that officers were investigat-
ing the report, said lie believed the
"hi-jackers" were cow-punchers,
heading cars away from a herd near-
by. He said that this belief would
not prevent a complete investigation
of the al'air, however.
Horrible Face "
No actual money los'<.? were re-
ported. but one woman, driving in-
to Borger almost hysterical soon af-
ter midnight, described how she was
slopped by a man with "the most hor
rible face she ever saw," who was
lying near the gap in the fence
through which the road passes, his
horse nearby. When she sped past
him, thinking he was a bandit, an-
(.tiler horseman, stationed nearby,
pursued her, she said, shouting
harsh commands.
(>t her Stories
At Pantex. the story was that a
Borger oil man had been halted by
the bandits, who, it was said, made
an attempt to seize his young daught
ir who was riding with him.He sped
away, also-
Other cars were halted and rumor
was rife in Borger and vicinity of a
new .lesse James, who, as everybody
knows, usi d a horse."
\\ lie re Martin Died
Tin; scene of the holdups was at a
point about a mile west of Pantex
on the Amarillo road, almost the
identical -¡pot on which the shack
"Red" Stiff and Charley Hale once
stood, the notorious roadhouse in
which youthful Ray Martin met his
death with a bullet, through his
brain many months ago. Although
the roadhuose has been destroyed
for soni" time, a wire fence opens
wide enough in the roadway is ex-
ceedinly rough at this point so fhat
motorits are oblidged to bring their
machines almost to a stop in order
to pass.
It was this spot according to the
stories told, that their "holdups"
and terrorize motrists along the high
way for over an hour. One of the
men took bis stand near the fence,
leaving his horse a few feet away
while the other would race across
the prairie on his mount as the cars
drew up to the opening in the fence.
BEAM FALLS «
OK OIL MAR
Struck on the head and shoul-
ders by a falling beam, A. L.
Gallagher, employe for the As-
sociated Producers Gasoline
compan here, was severely in-
jured this morning.
Gallagher was brought from
the oil rig to Malone hospital
in a South Borger ambulance.
He sustained a deep gash on his
head, a number of bumps and
body bruises, and a badly in-
jured right shoulder. He will
recover, physicians believe.
A first edition of "Gulliver's Tra-
vels" recently sold for $2,000.
FIRE CHIKF DIES
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Caufield, T. E. Borger Daily Herald (Borger, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 149, Ed. 1 Monday, May 16, 1927, newspaper, May 16, 1927; Borger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth167079/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hutchinson County Library, Borger Branch.