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Blanket* daily except Saturday* the
oil, gas and carbon black commun-
ities, and the great North Plain*
farm region. A home newspaper
gcr Paila itcMb
"BORGER, THE WONDER CITY—CARBON BLACK CENTER OF THE WORLD"
Stands behind every movement for
improvement of Borger and the city's
trade territory. Contains all the new*
while it is news.
VOL 12—NO 180
(ASSOCIATED PRESS—NBA SERVICE)
BORGER, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1938
EIGHT PAGES TODAY
PRICE PI
E
500,006 CHINESE
PEASANTS FLEE
FLOOD, CHOLERA
Yellow River Stalls
Japs' Northern
Campaign
By (he Associated Press
Nut tire, as though In imitation
of mun-mude destruction and
death In Spain and China, today
wuh putting 600,000 Chiuese pea-
sant to night with map-changing
flood aud spreading u cholera
piague in India.
About 90 per cent of the Yel-
low river's water* were rolling
across central China, ruining
well.laid military plans In a rush
to join a tributary of China's oth-
er mighty waterway, the Yangtze.
Ilattlc River Together
Half-naked Japanese engineers,
confronted by u new roe, strug-
gled desperately alongside Chi-
nese coolies, trying to mend bro-
ken dikes, but the river was cut-
ting u new channel.
Japanese staff officers held .lit-
tle hope the flood could be bri-
died until next, fall or winter
brought a lowering of the river.
"This % the worst thing thai*
ever happened to China — the
combination of war and flood."
said John Karl Baker, head of in-
ternational Red Cross relief work
at Shanghai.
The flood brushed aside the
Japanese drive on Chengchow
and shifted, virtually all military
pressure to the Yangtxe valley.
A Japanese column attacked n
town 86 miles northeast of Kin-
kluug. expecting to ftan>< thut
river port where the Chinese have
formidable brooms -protecting
Hankow from approach by gun-
bout and transport.
The government of the United
Provinces, a British subdlviHion
of India, ordered 11,000.000
doses of anti-cholera vaccine to.
day and at the same time report,
ed 16.600 were killed, 56 Injur-
ed. 3 5 abducted and one town
looted.
Bare dispatches to the war de-
partment said the fighting last,
night In southeastern mountain
village in Oaxncs State was the
result of a Iqpig feud between
some residents of Yodohlno and
a group from Chilapa.
Women and children were
among the victims of the street
battle, fought mostly with "ma-
chetas," long, hroad-b laded
knives.
It was feared the kidnaped vil.
lagers had been killed.
Roosevelts Ready For Big Wedding
HMÍ
■
i'HK WHIIlnNu
N'AHANT ('III R( II
MCKXK
N AH ANT, Mush , June 17—(/! >
The entire ltoosevelt family,
beaded by the president and First
Lady, took up temporary real-
donee in or not far from Nahant
to attend tomorrow's wedding of
the family's youngest son. John,
and in so doing gave Oils old
town something of the air of a
national capital.
The Chief KxecUtive rested
aboard the government yacht Po-
tomac, not far from Nahant, af-
ter concluding an all-night trip
from Washington by debarking
al Sulem shortly before 11:30 a.
in. (Hustern Standard Time.)
The mother of the prospective
bridegroom, who will marry Anne
Lindsay Clark at noon tomorrow,
meanwhile reached Boston by
train.
CONGRESS ENDS,
S0L0NS WAR UP
TO LAST MINUTE
Filibuster And Kill
Funds For Lobby
Inquiry
WASHINGTON, June 17 (/P,
Five hundred-odd members of
the 7f.tb Congrnss, who had beg.
.114. YOl WANT
FOR .V CKNTH
A picnic, cliuck wagon
style, Mill In- nerved to all
tliohc who cure to gather
round next Hunilay at Palo
lluro Park, an official at thu
canyon an noun con.
l-'ood will be nervwl at thn
fll^t crossing at lo a. ill.,
mill on the resit. of the day.
You itm> eat all you want at
•111 cent* u plate, the official
Huill,
FAMILY OFT
AND ENGINEE
Mitt Miami, 1938
J
STILL SOUGHT
Hail, Lightning Kill
New Mexico Sheep
And Cattle
ged for weeks to (|Uit work, fin-
ally went home loday to ask
(he voters lo return them iiuxt;
January.
Until the gavels whacked out
adjournment Iuhi night they
) wrangled over Roosevelt propos-
als Just us they bad done ever'
since the court reorganization bill
was submitted 16 months ago.
C. 0FC. LISTS Mr. Garner Drops Dignity
Of Being Vice President
to Become 'Cactus Jack'
NORMAN COFFEE
ANNOUNCES FOR
JUDGESHIP POST
THOSE NAMED ON
11 COMMITTEES
Members of eleven committees1
thut will carry oil the work of the
Borger Chamber of Commerce in ' ... ,, . , ... ...
the new year beginning July "I\M: "'TT
duties and dignity, of being vice
WASHINGTON, June 17 t/P)
John Nance tiurner, with a hap-
So That's Where
the ForceDS Went
were announced
luncheon.
ut
yisurday «. preij<|eint todny to return to the
region where he is plain "Cactus
These groups follow, with the j (i^ .,
first named being chairman: ¡ "j>ni going straight home," the
Membership and finance: Fly jNj0 2 man of the government an-
Fonvllle, II. S. Benjamin. Jack m)um.e(| iaU. y,.Bt< rday. And he
( abbcll, J. H. Appling, *. Wir ne (j({j ,wo hou(„ Congress
O K- efe. Cecil Itentfrow, J. II.
° . _ , .. , . „ ., 1 "Home" is the small city oí
Good roads: K. L Keith, T « | Texrfs. where Mrs (lar.
Uavlson, 8 M. Clayton. Boy Beav-
ers. George Finger, J. A. Robin
son.
Slain Gunman Is
Policeman's Son
CHICAGO, June 17—(>* )—'The
"I)awn Phantom" gunman accus-
ed of 28 early morning holdups
during the pan two months was
revealed in death today as a po.
llceman's son.
Policeman Krnest L. Keen bus.
pected from victims' descriptions,
the robber was his aon, Harold,
33. an ex-convlct. He went on ex-
tra duty In an effort to catch
him.
Seven detectives trapped young
Koen last night aa he approached
the home of a friend. They said he
Publicity: J. C. Phillips. Joe
Sargent, C E. House. Bob Lind-
sey. C. D. Gilbert,
C I v l <• improvement: Frits
Thompson. Bob Rradshaw, C R.
Stahl. Victor Shawgo, Bob Grim-1
es. Boy Bradshaw.
Health K K. "Pete" Schneid- 1
er. (\ S Goldsmith. Dr. W G.
Stephens, Dr H. O. Wallace. Wal- ¡
lace Hooks
County fair: Sol Morgenstern,
C. W. Byrns, Byron A,u dress,
Bill Sercomh, Buy Armstrong.
Trade relations: A Bvln. R.
E. Peters. Neil Yows. R. C. Maul,
din. Eusle Turner, Weldou Jolly,
Jack Katsh, Jimmy Kurokl, W
E. Nicholson. B. H. Anderson.
Ralph Johnson. L. M. Davis, J.
A. Meek, Don Dllley.
Entertainment: Carl Barber.
HftrVey Sparks, Perry Powell,
Cecil Dees, Herb Wilklson.
Agricultural: Clyde Cari'Uth.
E. C. Carver, Quint Taylor, Miss
Lucile Chance
nor, the vico president's wife and
official secretary, has bean busy
for several duys getting things in
shu|>e for a period of plain liv-
ing fishing, hunting, and "taking
it easy."
Gainer's blue eyes twinkled
beneath his shugRy-cotton eye.
brows uh he said he did not ex-
pect to return to the capital un-
til January, Just before the next
Congress, "unless there is impor-
tant official bu !ne«s." He has
| been coming to sessions for 35
years.
At Uvalde he can "get away
from" jamming important legisla-
tion through a flghtlnx Senate:
from accounts of differences with
President Roosevelt (later denied
at the White House) over admin-
istration policies; and from re-
ports that a bloc of senators al-
ready is booming him for the
presidential nomination jn 1940.
Garner is silent on all these
matters.
"Since I becutne vice president
I've given out nothing for direct
Education: A. 8. Megert. Wade Quotation." he said us hi* eyes
Purr, Jack Adkins, W. A. Mc. «napped. "At the same time I've
lntosh. Mrs. Julia Riley ¡denied nothing that' been print.
Good will: Joseph Aynesworth. • " H Kot lo 'M! """ w#y.'
C. F Haggard. R. V. Latimer, A. I Visitors to the Senate chamber
L Morrison. Slg Anlsman. ee ,h" ' hunky. white-haired vice
The membership and finance P«"®*ident circulating about the
committee will meet Tuesday floor. stopping to chat with Re-
night to plnn a membership drive publicans us well us Democrats,
and it dues collecting campaign. " ><> frequently being called down
by the presiding officer for laugh-
Ing at a whispered Joke.
ears And
Falls On Youth
Tho Dally Herald 1 authorliMld
Tho Somite und House in tholrj^ minotiiK'f* (.hi* cfiiidldftcy of
lust meeting approved the proal- Norman Coffee for the office of
dent' $3.753,000,000 relief and ,County Judge, subject to the Deli,
public works program, hut enact- !u((. pri,nHly j„|y <53.
ed oVer his veto a bill coutlnu- jn asking for re-election to the
ing low interest rates on govern-in which he is now aerv-
nient loans to farmers. ing Coffee states**
Rill- Itobe Funds ^ I „(n |noklnK th|„ my formH| un
1 " I' " hiii ""1 * ° a 0l ' nouncement as a candidate for
dependence, filibuster ng Senators ... ,. J .
, , , . , . . the Democrat !* nomlnutlon to
shelved a proposal to furnish
$12,500 to the Senate Lobby ("0411
mlttee. Senator Burke (D-Neb) 1
contended the money would be
lly the AnnocIuIimI 1'resn
The Texas storm area had
I Panhandle to Oklahoma today j
shirt ed from the eastern Tenas
j but. the search went on for bodies
i of four persons believed to have
I perished in swirling stream
I waters.
The body of E .Burton, fire.
Í man on 11 Fort Worth & Denver
freight truin which plunged 00
feet Into the Salt Fork of the
Red River near Wellington, had
been recovered, but that of M. V.
Griggs, the engineer, had not
been found as rescue workers
the Democratic/ nomlnutlon
1 the office of County Judge of
^ i Hutchinson County, und In solicit,
jitig your support, I Invito your
used to abridge freedom of the | Investigation of my past
press, « statement which Chair- l* "
man Mlntou to-lnd* of the com-
mittee hotly denied.
The lobby argument kept the
Senate in session until 8:22 p
m„ (EST) while members grew
noiser and notser. Occasionally
applause rang out in the crowded
galleries In violation of the rules.
The House, alwuys hilarious
Just before adjournment, llnten-
¡* ronnd-roHii
ed to
e for
lie official.
"The County Governmental af-
fairs should be operated and con-
ducted as economically us possi-
ble consistent with a proper
maintenance and upkeep of coun.
ty properties, Institutions and
governmental departments; und
with the assistance of those with
whom it has been my pleasure to
serve It has been my continued
Rain beginning about 11
o'clock lust night showered the
west end of this county north
und west of Gruvcr to a depth
of 1.11 Inches.
Spearman reported .4 5 Inch.
Rain here beginning about 11
p. m. amounted to less thuti a
quarter Inch.
At least four combines were
expected to move out from
Hpearmun next week into the
wheat fields for harvesting,
which Is expected to be well
under way by u week or so.
majority and minority members'aim to keep expenditures of coun.
alike. It was 9:08 p. m., before 'y funds within reasonable
Speaker Bankhead could stop the bounds.
oratory.
Toward the end, both chambers
paused to henr weary clerks read
some kind words from Presidont
Roosevelt. On green nolepaper.
the Chief Executive wrote Vice
President Garner and Speaker
Bankhead that the session had
brought "much constructive le-
gislation for the benefit of the
people."
An- Making Progress
"Definitely, we are muklng pro-
gress in meeting the many new
problems which confront us," the
president lidded.
"Although he didn't get all the
legislation he wanted Mr. Roose-
velt hud reason to send his letter
of appreciation to the first Con-
(Continued on Page FIVB)
. "
Mrs. Mae Shaffer
Succumbs At 42
"From Jan. 1, 1931 to Jan 1,
1938, the combined public indebt-
edness of Hutchinson County was
reduced approximately forty-one
nnd one-half 141,1) per cent;
while during the same time the
pushed their search among the
usually dry strvum.
Three Other* Missing
Neither had the bodies of a
family of thro. , Identified as Mr.
and Mrs. Bert. Freeman and their
small sou of Wichita Falls, who
apparently were swept, to their
death from a bridge over east
Leila Lake Creek near Clarendon.
Their automobile was found.
mm
Judges In tne «anual Miami,
Fin., beauty contest agreed that
Mary Joyce Walsh, 1 , was the
Highway bridges were washed most beautiful of over one hun>
out, rull lines swept aside and ! died contestants, and so sha
cash balance of funds on hand, roads damaged hi torrential rains poses here with the trophy cm.
(Continued on Page FIVE)
Officers Elected
By Isom Masons
At a regular meeting of
along the Texas-Oklahoma bal-
der.
Burton's body was found late
blematlc of her title, "Misa Mi-
ami of 1938". Singer, musician
and college student, she will com
yesterday on a sand bar In Salt |M!,G for ^ ot "Miss Amar.
Fork, 13 miles northeast of Hoi- ¡'ou ' September.
lis. Okia.
Auloist* Believed Safe
It wn.-t first feared three auto,
the mob"e8' reported seen going In
Isom Masonic Lodge last night, ,'h«df,'e<'Mon (>f " washed out.
the following officers were elect- ' Jet*e^u Wellington and
reached for his weapon, so they
fired pistols and a machine gun recovering from a blow received
Eighteen bullets killed him. yesterday afternoon on the Tur-
Harold's wife, Angelina, SI, an key Truck Ranch when the horse
expectant mother, was told of the he tried to mount reared nnd
Garner usually opens sessions
uní' then turns over the presiding
gsvel to someone else. When he
does resume command, things are
usually popping or his years of
Robert Statin of Holt today Is "Mil «'e needed to
(Continued on Page FIVE)
shooting at the detective bureau
where ahe had been detained.
"I expected it," ahe aald.
Policeman Keen was telephon-
ed.
"The work la done," he said,
"aa I know it must be."
atruck him on the head. Statin
was knocked unconscious sever,
al minutes.
The horse became frightened
when Statin put a half hitch over
the animal's nose. The ncldeni oc-
curred as Statin started lo ride
KIDNAPPUn AWAITS CHAIR
"DHATH HOW
IN
('KM,
RAIFORD, Fla., June 1,7 -VP)
— Franklin Pierce McCall, SI.
year-old laborer who confessed
he kidnapped Jimmy Cash. Jr., of
Princeton. Fla., for $10,000 ran-
som, waa locked In a "death row"
cell at atate prison here today
In await execution In the electric
chair.
West Tesaa; Partly cloudy to
night and Saturday, warmer In the
Negro Rapists
Put To Death
HUNTSVILLE, Tex.. June 17
•— (/P) Two convicted negro
_ , . rapists whose last words were
frotn the branding pens^ to the given In prayer died In the elec-
tric chair at the state peniten-
tiary early today.
Tommle Welle, 25, of Monroe,
Ln.. was executed for criminal as-
sault on a Tesarkana white wo*
mah He entered the death chain-
ranch house with W. T. Coble of
Amarillo, owner of the ranch, and
aeveral ranch hands, who had
juat finished branding several
hundred head of cattle.
Mrs. Esther t-ornet t ot Brum-
ley, Mo., never could under-
stand why she didn't get any
better after having her appendix
removed three years ago. Now
she knows, because an X-ray
picture taken by Kansas City
surgeons revealed that a seven-
inch pair of forceps had been
left ln the abdominal cavity.
Mrs. Cornett is shown in the (op
photo after an operation to re-
tho Instrument, shown Ui
the X-ray picture below
1'. H. IIKMANDN GERMANY
iter at 18:01 a. m.. recited a short blocks.
Visitors Free Of
OverparkingFine
Chief of Police Bill Rates today
said that out.of-town motorists
trading here are not fined for
overparklng beyond the two.hour
limit set up for three Main Street
AHMt'MJC ACNTRIAN DHBTH prayer which ended "may the He made thin statement In re.
WASHINGTON, June 17 —(¿P) Lord have mercy on my soul," ference to a decision of the Cham.
The United States demanded waa atrapped In the chair and pro¿ her of Commerce yesterday to ask
ihnllniiMlit Influu i tti. aA/i ' <lm. J uá 1 a . AA flirt . 11 u #■> nvnuiHi fin /m
emphatically today for the sec.
ond time that Germany assume
Austria's debta to thta government
nnd American citlaens.
Hugh Wilson, the American
Ambaasador lit Berlin delivered
a formal note to the German
government, on Instruction from
Secretary Hull.
nounced dead at IS:00. <he city to exempt from fines out-
Mark Hanry Calhoun, 18, of .of-town visitors.
Dallas, died for criminal assault ( Lotinie Story, trafilo patrolman,
on a llt.year.old Dallaa County does not Issue tickets to cars
white girl. He recited a long pray.' with license numbers from out
er, ending with "may God hleaslof this county and non.Borger
yon." The first charge struck him : drivers are not fined for exceed-
at 1,8:16 a. m., and he was pro-; Ing the two-hour limit, Bates
nounced dend at IS: 18. i aald.
Death claimed Mrs. Mae Shaf-
fer. 48, early this morning In an
Amarillo hospital, following an
operation performed two weeks
ago.
Mrs. Shaffer had been a pop. jJune 24
ular Borger woman for the last
ten years and Is former operator
of Shaffer's Dining Room, now !
known ag the Borger Dining i
Room.
She was preceded in death by
her husband. Bill Shaffer, in
March. 1936.
Mcb. Shaffer was a member of
the Methodist church here and of
the local O. E. S. chapter.
Funeral services will be held j
tomorrow afternoon at 8:30
o'clock in the Carver Funeral
Chapel, With the Rev. J. B. Mc-
Ke.vnolds of the Methodist church
officiating.
The body will be then taken to
Panhandle and from there sent
to l.ebo. Kits., her former home
and birthplace, where laat rites
will be Sunday.
Pnllbenrcrs here will be F. E.
Perry. Hugh Cypher. Wade Furr.
George Turner, Dr. C. L. Hopper
nnd Lawrence Geary.
Survivors Include a sister. Mrs
George Canariy of Borger; and
two brothers. Llcwllyn Jone of
Hartford. Kas.. and Joe Jones or
Emporia. Kas.
ed for the ensuing year:
W. R. Wyatte, Worshipful Mas-
ter; C. R. Swearlngen, Senior
Warden; J. T. Bobo, Junior War.
den: Paul Rlcherson, treasurer;
s. M. Watson, secretary, und E.
D. Parker, tiler.
Appointed officers Include-
J. D. Rut ledge. Chaplain; E. M.
Hardin, senior deacon; Ray Par-
ker, junior deacon; F. O. Holder,
senior steward; and E. R. Hat.
ley, Junior steward.
Installation of officers is sche-
duled for the night of Friday,
Shamrock had plunged through
but highway department workers
and volunteers later said they be-
lieved the occupants of the mach-
ines had driven to safety.
Dick Brown, brakeman on the
wrecked train, managed to swim
to safety, and H. L. McKenzie,
another brakeman, and Joe Harp-
er, conductor, escaped Injury.
A Inches ut Waco
Poultry Meat
Unaffected By
Poison Mixture
Rumors that chickens sold in
local meat market are not fit to
1 eat because they may have eaten
poison mixture spread to kill
grasshoppers were spiked thla
week.
George Self, manager of the
Furr Food market here, talked
with County Agent Clyde L. Car-
ruth and has his word and posi-
tion or the state brought 518 in-
ches precipitation at Waco, and
4-14 ut Mexla, tho Dallas weath-
(Contlnued on Page FIVE)
Hague Explains
"War On Reds"
t,lve proof that there is not the
Heav* rainfall In slightest trace of any ill affect.
from eating poultry meat at thin
time.
In the first place, Carruth told
Self, chickens will not «at the
poison mixture couslstlng of bran,
cottonseed hulls, syrup and pol«
sonuns chemicals.
Even If they should happen to
eat some, no harm would result
as chemical analysis tests of thn
fowls' meat have showed It un-
affected by the poison and con.
sequetttly no harm would come to
pei sons eating It.
N TRAFFIC VIOLATORS
Eight persons were arrested for
traffic violations yesterday and
last night on these charges: over,
time parking, three; dead tail
lighta, four; and dead heud light,
one. All hut one forfeited bonds,
and he will appear at, 1 o'clock
tonight for n trial.
Here's A Fellow
That Really Knows
His Watermelons
DALLAS, Juno IT — (/P) —
If the sound la "plunk!" the mel.
on's ripe; If It goes "kerplunk!"
put It aside for awhile because as
sure us shooting It's green.
Thus spoke James Davidson,
Negro, employe of n Gallas deal-
er, who has been thumping water-
melons all his life and he says
he's seldom fooled.
NEWARK. Nf. J.. June 17--</P)
Alleged tie-ups between the so.
called Grand Fund and the
American Civil Liberties Union
with communistic groups ln the
United States wore qlted in the
Jersey City "free speech" trial
today by Mayor Frank Hague as
reasons for his seir-Htyled "war
ou reds and radicals."
Hague and his counsel Intro,
duced over objections or attorneys
tor the CIO and ACLU excerpts
from a sen veil-year-old report of
a congressional Investigation com-
18 Billions For
Relief AimKPWA
WASHINGTON, June IT —
The $3,TK0.000.000 Which
Congress provided for rail*
"pump priming" will bring to
approximately 118,000, 000,000
the government's expenditures
since 1933 for unomptoyaMMt nld
and emergency public works.
Only a prosit! 'Hint pen
was required to place thn
"If It has a ring to II when beaded by Rep. Hamilton 750.0«0.000 bill on the
I thump." aald Davidson. "It's K,"1\ 01 To,k ., , ,„JA books Congrew approved
not too ripe and it's not too green; 1 he f '"h .T. shortly before adjourning
it's just right. If It sound hoi. A( Ll7 c.rtu,1*el SPauldlttg Frater niRhti
« Just right H. ■ . . „ ,
low It s too ripe. If It sounds firm remarked was "snowed under In
like hitting a solid board It's ^. H°use and n«v ¡r adopted,
loo green.
said the ACLU was "closely af-
'1 have other ways. I can scrape
The money will be
the 114,200,000,000
special Senate
committee calculated
filiated with the communist move.
a melon with my finger nail and m,,nt ,n the Unl'ed Sutes" and I oi rellef ttW) pub„c
g-t away the skin. If It fuels ;ih t "9« P*' «•«" uf 1,11 grams from 1#M
grainy lik>! s fresh laid egg it's,wwrB ln behalf of commuulsts.
ripe. If It's slick like Iron it's too I The report also declared the
ripe. If It's soft you can bet It's' American Fund ror Public Ser-
green." I (Continued on Page FIVB)
The House
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would put I
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