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BalUtt Warns "If Britain Falls, Invasion 01 Western Hemisphere Is Almost
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 29—(i* )—
Declaring that the United States is
faced with a "terrible, terrible ur-
gency," William C. Bullitt told the
bouae foreign affairs committee to-
day that if this country stepped up
ita production of military equip-
ment to war-time levels Great
Britain could defeat Germany,
But If Britain falls, the tanned,
baldlsh format ambassador to
Franca said, invasion of the west-
ern hemisphere is "almost certain"
and encirclement of the United
States by totalitarian powers is as-
sured.
The foremost of a half dozen
witnesses to testify today in be-
half of the administration's Brit-
ish aid bill, Bullitt read a pre-
pared statement and then settled
himself in a chair for nearly four
hours to answer searching ques-
tions covering almost every aspect
of the diplomatic world.
As his testimony ended, Bullitt
picked up the leather brief case
from which he had drawn innum-
erable papers—including a letter
from former Premier of France
Daladier to President Roosevelt—
| arose, faced the committee and
' declared solemnly:
"I leal this is a terrible, terrible
i urgency. ! feel that the skipper
i has sat the course of our ship. All
of you gentlemen are officers and
| those of us who are out of office
! are the crew—and the cargo is
America."
Chairman Bloom <D-N. Y >,
standing with gavel raised, beamed
as a prolonged burst of applause
rollen! from the spectators packed
in the large hearing room. Com-
mittee members joined in the ap-
plause, and Bloom, observing that
it was Bullitt's fiftiett. birthday,
remarked he bet the former diplo-
mat never had had such an ex-
pression of approval on his birth-
day before.
The day's witnesses developed
in general the theme that the
United States was acting in self
defense in aiding Britain, and for
its own protection should increase
that aid.
Ona, Major Ganaral John F.
O'Ryan. Now York lawyer and
World War officer, advocated that
the United Sutes enter the war at
once on the side of Britain,
though he added that the final de-
cision should be left to the war
department.
"The most effective way to fight
aggression is by offensive action at
the source," O'Ryan said at one
j point.
¡ "Looking ahead, it is conceivable
that in our own interest we should
; enter the wur now in order to pre-
j vent u stalemate," he said.
I Dorothy Thompson, the column-
I ist, told the committee that Ger-
! many intended to eliminate the
I United States "us a world power",
i partly by fomenting civil war in
¡ this country as soon lit it could be
isolated from Britain.
Mrs. Daisy Harriman, minister
j to Norway, told the committee
I that modern invention was elimin-
ating space "and an ocean is no
longer a barrier, especially if con-
trolled by a hostile power." Urg-
ing speedy enactment of the bill,
she said "freedom of action and
mobility are crucial" in the deter-
mination of where the nation's de-
fense materials car best be used.
President William Green said
! the American Federation of Labor
favored the basic principles' of
. the legislation, but wou<<! like to
see a two-year limit on the grant
of powers to the piesiderit. and
also assurances of protection of
labor's rights in any grant of pow-
er to commandeer production.
See "Hitler could *ake Brazil
by phone," on page six.
Plan To Attend President's
Birthday Celebrations Jan. 29-30
Stofger ¿Baila
WEATHER
Wast Texas: Considerable cloudiness Sunday
with light snow north portion Sunday morning.
Colder north portion Sunday and south portion
Monday.
VOL. 15 — NO. 55
NEA Service
Associated Press
BORGER, TEXAS, SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 1941
(EIGHTEEN PAGES TODAY)
PRICE FIVE CENTS
HaliahiP^eMOt«g(MlMTOpg(|nBMOT
Only 572 Citizens Pay Poll Taxes
Out Of 4000 Qualified In County
Moves To Tyler
Up until yesterday morning,
only 572 persons had paid their
poll tax at the branch tax collec-
tor's office, Paul Richerson, coun-
ty tax assessor and collector, re-
vealed yesterday .
The branch office, located in the
former Jacobson store building,
opened laot Monday morning and
will remain open until Feb. 1. Of-
fice hours arc from 9 a. m. to 6
p. m
Richerson said there were about
4,000 persons taxable for the poll
tax and complained that the num
ber already paid "wasn't a very
good" percentage.
He emphasized again that all
persons who reached the age of
60 after Jan. 1, 1940, and who are
living within the city limits of
Borger are required to pay the
tax In order to vote in the city el-
ection. Those who reached the age
of 60 before Jan. I, 1940. need not
pay the tax but they must file ex-
emption receipts.
Also, everyone in Hutchinson
county who became 21 years old
after Jan. 1, 1940, and those in
the city who will reach that age
before the city election must file
exemption receipts. Those in the
city must file receipts in order
to vote.
Richerson has u staff of four(
persons, including himself, at the
office to handle business. He es-
timated that this staff could reg-
ister us many as 500 persons a day
if the demand required it.
Snow Predicted
For Panhandle
The weatherman was predicting
snow again last night for the
Panhandle, but local patrons arc
in the "doubting Thomas" class
following similar predictions for
the better part of last week that
never materialized.
The mercury took a sharp drop
last night, however, as colder
weather poured this way follow-
ing a cr-s-p but pleasant day yes-
terday Colder weather io in atore
for this area with—you guessed
;t—-snow again predicted.
While the Panhandle has had
convo stivHy little winter weath-
er since the icc storm late in No-
vember, other parts of the country
have not been faring so well.
Arvotdiftt to the Associated
Press 12 deaths were attributed
last night to a snowstorm which
late Friday swept over most of
the nation east of the Rockies.
Airline schedules north out of
Texas and Oklahoma were can-
celed. the Associated Press re-
port said, and in Kansas City all
flights wore cancelled. Some sec-
tiott5 of the country reported as
much as 14 inches of snow since
Friday. In New York, 7,000 men
were put at work to rid that city
of three inches of snow.
The forecast for this part of the
state is snow acompanied by a
mild cold wive.
Have Abandoned Derna, As
British Destroy Tank Column
By the Associated Press
CAIRO. Egypt Jan. 26—l/l'i—
British armored ears, naving fall-
an upon and broken an Italian
tank column, were reported to-
night to have resetted Dorna. Lib-
ya, 175 miles beyond the Egyptian
frontier, under circumstances
suggesting that i: fead been aban-
doned by the Fascists.
During the clay they met no re-
sistance so far as could be learned.
The Italian tanks were dispersed
yesterday.
While troops and guns were be-
ing advanced along the coast
road west of Tobruk as fast as
trucks could carry them, armored
cars and light mechanized units
swept past Martuba airdrome,
which the Italians liad been oc-
cupying only three nights ago.
I3eyond stating that operations
were "proceeding satisfactorily"
the British command gave little in-
formation of what had happened
at Derna, but the fact that RAF
reconnaissance planes reported
spotting eight Italian planes burn-*
ing on the landing ground there
was considered significant.
It appeared that the Italians
had fired the planes before re-
treating.
New British and Allied success-
es across half the continent of Af-
rica, to the south, also were re-
ported.
Pursuing Italians into the Eri-
trean foothills, the British were re-
ported over 100 miles inside that
East African colony yesterday,
nearly half-way to the Red Sea
port of Massawa.
In the southwest sector of the
East African offensive, the Brit-
ish were pushing into Ethiopia
pr< per opposite Gallnbat.
In aerial support of both spurs
of the British offensive, the RAF
reported damaging aircraft on a
field at Magrum, 48 miles south
of Bengasi. In East Africa, it was
said, hits were scored on rail
lines at Bishia. Agordat and Ker-
en. Italian posts, airplanes and
motor transport also were report-
ed bombed.
"Many bombs" were said to
have been dropped in a raid
Thursday night on the airdrome
ut Maritza, Rhodes, a fortified
Italian base in the Dodecanese.
In Italian Eritrea, which faces
the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, ad-
vancing British troops were de-
clared to have taken 600 Fascist
(Continuad on PAGE SIX)
Paul Verhines, manager of the
local White's Auto Supply store
for more than lour years, is be-
ing transferred to Tyler. Tex., this
week to take over managerial du-
ties of the White store in that city,
it was announced today.
Harold Ormon, who started with
the store here in 1938, will take
Verhines' vacated position.
Verhines and his wife moved
here in August, 1937. They have
two children; Donald Ray, 4, and
Carolyn, 18 months. The family
will leave Borger the last of this
week.
Registration For Commercial
Classes To Continue This Week
■■Will Hold
iocial Meeting
All ex-service men are Invit-
ed to attend tomorrow night's
meeting of the American Legion
which will be held in the Phillips
community hall.
The meeting, which will otart
at 8 o'clock, will be a Joint busi-
ness meeting ant^ social get to-
gether. The business meeting will
procede dancing and visiting by
the members.
Members of the American Le-
gion Auxiliary will serve a cover-
ed dish supper.
Congratulations
Mr and Mrs. B. F. Derr, jr.,
who have named their daughter,
born Jan. 19, at 3:30 a. m., Marcia
Ann. The baby weighed 7
pounds, 3 ounces.
Mr and Mrs H. A. Cochran, up-
on the arrival of a ft pound 13 3-4
ounce son, born at 8:16 p. m. Fri-
day in North Plains hospital.
Mr and Mm. E. A. Roby. upon
the arrival of an 8 pound 3 1-4
ounce daughter, born at 3:54 yes-
terday morning in North Plains
"Registration for part-time
commercial classes," states Supt.
W. A. Mcintosh, "will continue
through this week."
Classes meet in rooms 15 and
16 of the local high school from
4 to 6 p. an. on Monday, Wednes-
day, and Thursday of each week.
Instruction is boing offered in be-
ginning shorthand, shorthand re
view, advanced dictation, type-
writing, and bookkeeping.
To be eligible for enrollment,
students must be employed, eith-
er full or part-time, and must be
at least 15 years of age.
Part-time classes in commer-
cial subjects are designed to im-
part information to office workers
which will enable them better to
perform their present duties, as-
sume additional responsibilities,
or enter employment In closcly
allied commercial pursuits, both
employe and employer benefiting
through increased efficiency of
the worker.
Further Information regarding
these classes may be obtained by
contacting Miss Hazel Williams,
instructor at the high school or
after 6 p. rti. at 111 West Grand
avenue.
Ollio Hare Called To
Bodiido 01 Sister
Ollie Hare was called to Orange,
Texas, last night to be at the bed-
side of his sister, Miss Zimmia
Hare, who is seriously ill and not
expected to live.
Mist; Hare just returned to this
co intry last Dec. 7 after having
cpent 20 years in China as a Bap-
tist missionary. Since her return,
she has been superintendent of the
Compound, a girls' school, in Or-
ange.
The nature of Miss Hare's ill-
ness was not revealed.
SINK MERCHANT SKIP
BERLIN, «'an. 2ft —(M— DNB,
official German news agency, re-
ported tonight u long range Ger-
man bomber had sunk a 4,000 ton
British merchant ship 230 miles
west of Ireland.
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lust as you dreamed of it,
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Moose Lodge
To Stage Second
Birthday Dance
"Dance — that others may
walk"
That will be Hutchinson coun-
ty's objective twice this year in
a double-barrelled attempt to
raise funds for the fight against
infantile paralysis.
Moose Lodge is "accomplice to
the facts" in the second attempt
to raise the county's President's
birthday celebration funds for
paralysis. The lodge will stage the
President's birthday dance the re-
gular night for the celebration
throughout the nation.
Victor Diaz and his orchestra
will play for the dance which will
be held in Moose hall Thursday
night. Regular admission prices
for the dance, starting at 9 p. m.,
will prevail. Lodge officials are
(Continued on PAGE SIX)
Buyeri 01 Airport
Slock Will Receive
Certificates Shortly
Officials of Borger Airport, In-
corporated, issued a statement yes-
terday in regord to purchase of
stock in the concern.
"We felt it necessary to cor-
rect an erronous impression which
we understand had been circulat-
ed about town," said M. T. Sheets,
secretary-treasurer of the com-
pany. "Some people who put
money Into the busihess during
the recent sale of stock have not
received the.r certificates and
they seem to feel that their money
went as a donation." "That" con-
tinued Sheets," Is incorrect."
The certificates he sold arc be-
ing prepared for each purchaser
and will be received within the
next few days.
Improvement will continue to
be made at the airport according
to the officials and security of the
stock is assured.
Next Court Of Honor
For Scouts Thursday
A scout Court of Honor will be
held in the Federated Club rooms
of the local library at 7:30 p. m.
Thursday, It was announced today.
Scouts that were approved for
the recognition at the recent cen-
tral Board of Review session will
be honored at this meeting.
Americans Look Rumanian Rebels
Over England's Told To Suicide
New Battleship
Halifax Says British
Need U. S. Ships And
Industrial Production
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 —Í/P)—
Viscount Halifax, Britain's new
ambassador and member of the
British war cabinet, said today
that the greatest aid the United
States could provide his embattled
homeland was speedy "mobiliza-
tion of your great industrial
strength and its translation into
action in supplying us with the
ships and supplies we need."
The tall envoy's statement was
made to reporters after he had
talked for more tha nan hour with
Cordel! Hull, secretary of state,—
a talk which Halifax said covered
the whole range of international
affairs of vital interest to the two
nations
Viscount Halifax had an oppor-
tunity for an even longer dis-
cussion of the same subject with
President Roosevelt when the
chief executive shattered all pre-
cedent by meeting the incoming
envoy last night on the presiden-
tial 1?acht Poroniac In Chesa-
peake Bay.
The King George V, England's
latest battleship, brought Lord
Halifax to the United States. It
American naval officials were
given opportunity to inspect the
newest British development in
dreadnoughts. Those who went
over the ship last night were sec-
retary of the navy Knox, Admir-
al Harold R. Stark, chief of naval
operations, and Cap. Daniel J.
Callaghan, the President's naval
aide. Major Genera! Edwin M.
Watson, presidential secretary,
also visited the ship.
The George V upped anchor to-
day and headed for the opean sea.
having spent only a little more
than 21 hours of the 24 it might
(Continued on PAGE SIX)
Or Face Judgment
Horia Sima Reported
Under Arrest Or Else
Escaped To Russia
Three Generals Reported Killed
When Germans And Blackshirts
Engage People In Street Battles
NEW YORK, Jon 25—(AP)—Winston Burdett,
CBS correspondent in Belgrade, Yugoslovia, reported
tonight that reports from Italy said three Italian
generals were killed and several hundred persons were
wounded today in rioting in Milan and Turin and
smaller cities in the Italian Po valley.
Burdett's information was cabled to New York
By Robert St. John
BUCHAREST, Rumania. Jan. 25
—MP)—Genera! Ion Antonescu,
Rumania's victorious dictator, of-
fered the leaders of the Iron , , , , , .. , « , ,, ,
Guard rebellion today the bieak1 and broadcast here by CBS. He said foreign diplo-
aiternative of suicide or "mass matic sources in Belgrade were informed the three
Italian officers were slain by intervening German
troops during street riots in Milan.
(About three hours after the broadcast, the
Associated Press had not received any information on
the reports from its correspondents in heavily-cen-
sored Italy or in neighboring countries.)
Burdett said the reports stated the disorders,
rave and far - reaching,
punishment" at the hands of the
state.
Their chief, Vice Premier Horia
Sima, was reported variously as
under arrest or in flight across So-
viet Russia, but he and his asso-
ciates were summoned by the
premier to this strange self-judg-
ment:
"... you rebelsl If you are true
Iron Guardists punish yourself
with true legionary punishment
| (and that by tradition la suicide)
1 or otherwise you may be aure that
I shall apply maaa puniahment
myself."
(First it was understood in Bu-
charest. that Sima had been taken
into custody The subsequent sug-
gestion that he might have found
refuge in Russia was interesting In
the light of Arftonescu's earlier
asser;;on that hold-out rebels had
been under "communist influ-
ence.")
itary control. All save inter nation
Thompson Rates
Home Guard Post
Fritz Thompson, county commis-
sioner, has been appointed second
lieutenant of the Borger home
guard unit by Governor Lee
O'Daniel to take the place of Lou
Roberts, Charles Maisel, captain
of the company, announced yes-
terday.
Roberts was elevated from the
during the day w'.Ch the German 1 posi'ion of first lieutenant of the
minister, Baron Manfred von Kil- local unit to that of major of the
linger, and put every dock, air-
port and railroad depot under mil-
itary control. All sove internation-
al railroad traffic was halted; a
10 p. m, curfew was imposed; sol-
diers were ordered to instantly
shoot any person failing to halt in
response to cnailenge.
Long lines of Jews filed all day
into the morgues to identify rela-
(Continued on PAGE SIX)
Panhandle division of the Texas
defense guard two weeks ago.
Thompson was appointed second
lieutenant after John Oliver, or-
iginal second lieutenant was ad-
vanced to first lieutenant to fill
the vacancy left by Roberts.
The local unit, first to be or-
ganized in the Panhandle division,
has been holding drills for three
weeks
Park Fund Up
To $16,880.01
Contributions of $350 yester-
day swelled the grand total for
the city park fund to $16,880.01,
Walter David, chairman of the
park building committee, an-
nounced today.
A $250 donation by the South-
western Bell Telephone Co. led
the list and a $100 contribution by
the Sonken-Galamba Corp. com-
pleted the roster. David said.
The fund report to date shows
four donations of $500, 23 of $250,
five of $200, five of $150, four of
$125, 42 of 100. 45 of $50, one $30,
and 10 of $25.
The complete list of contribu-
tors and their donations will ap-
penr in tomorrow's edition of the
Borger Daily Herald.
Nazi Pilot Escapes Prison Camp
Hoping To Help In March Attack
9!
.
Sign: "Only German
Officers" Stops Them
BUCHAREST. Rumania, Jan. 25
—<¿P)— Two German officers, bil-
leted in the former home of Aris
tide Blank once a millionaire Jew-
ish banker, got no sleep at all for
several days of the Iron Guard
rebellion.
They were awakened repeotedly
by Iron Guardists searching for
the banker who had fled. Finally
they put this sign on the door:
"This house is inhabited only
by German officers."
They were not bothered any
more.
Man Smothers To Death In Coal Bin
Despite Frantic Efforts At Rescue
NEW YORK, Jan. 2 —i/p)—
Scores of police and firemen
worked frantically ond vainly to-
day to stem an avalanche of
buckwheat coal which trapped and
then suffocated John Secry, 32, a
stoker who stumbled int* the
huge hopper in the sub-basement
of the New York Life Insurance
company building.
For four hours they worked as
the blacktlde inched higher, snap-
ping or Crushing a half-doron de-
vices used in an effort to sustain
life.
Working In relays, #0 firemen
and policemen shoveled coal stead-
ily; but each time they appeared
to be gaining, a new pile came
slithering down
At one time the workers got a
rope beneath Seery's shoulders,
but tons of coal slipped and
•napped it.
I Stripped to the waist and black-
! cued and choked by the dust, they
¡ succeeded once in getting Seery's
head and shoulders into an in-
verted barrel. The buriel snapped
like a matchbox.
The emergency squad shoved up
port of the *.;n and formed a
basket brigade to carry away the
coal. Acetylene torches ate into the
side of the hopper.
Father W. J, Farrickcr, disre-
garding cautions of police and fire-
men, descended into the hopper
and administered extreme unctton.
"I believe he was alive at the
time," said the priest, "but he
was unconscious.
A moment after a hypodermic
was administered to ease the pain,
another pile caacacrei.' (¡own and
Seery was burled deper than ever.
At nightfall the body waa re-
covered.
OGDENBURG, N. Y , Jan. 24—
(/IN—A 26-year-old Gorman pur-
suit pilot, who predicted a "knock-
out blow" against England in
March and British capitulation by
September, left for New York City
tonight after escaping two doys
ai?o from a Canadian prison train.
The slim, light-haired flier,
Baron Franz von Worm, boarded
a train after his release on $5.000
bond posted by the German con-
sulate in New York City. He was
accompanied by an Ogdenburg
attorney.
He was arrested Ta si night on a
downtown Ogdenburg street and
waived examination this afternoon
on a charge of "entering this
country without reporting to a
United States immigration offi-
cer." He is scheduled to appear be-
fore a federal grand jury conven-
ing In Albany Jan. 30.
Von Werra, his ears frozen,
told authorities he previously fled
from two British prison camps af- j
ter bcinjj forced down in England j
Sept. 7. He claimed he entered the !
United States by crossing the St.
Lawrence river in a row boat.
S|H>aking perfect English, the
Messerschmidt squadron leader
told reporters he escaped so that j
he could return to Germany in
i t.me to join in a "knockout blow"
i afalmt England in March.
St mmmgmmmmmmm
egan 24 hours ago and
were continuing tonight.
The information reaching Bel-
grade, Burdett reported, said Ger-
man forces took the main hand in
fighting the disorder*. Italian
soldiers were said to have taken
part in the street fighting though
it was not clear, Burdett added,
whether they were on the side of
the regime or the insurgents or
both.
Burdett's information, cabled to
New York, was broadcast from
here.
German troops, Burdett said hr.
had been informed, have occupied
Milan's railroad station, telephone
central office and post office. He
said they are reported also on
sentry duty at major Milan fac-
tories.
According to diplomatic dis-
patches reaching Belgrade, Bur-
dett added, three high ranking
Italian generala were killed In
the Milan atreet fighting. He
alao relayed the report in
Yugoalavia that German troopa
in northern Italy are elded in
Milan by Italian Fascist black-
ahirta. He aald it waa not clear
whether Italian military casual -
tiea in the reported rioting alto
were aiding or were with the
allied Inaurgents.
Nazi troops, according to these
advices, also have been given
control of all communications on
the Italian island of Sicily and
in the southern Italian region of
Brindisi, Burdett said.
Another CBS correspondent,
Harry W Flannery in Berlin, re-
ported in a broadcast that "endless
trains with units of the German
air force have been going over
the Brenner rass iio Italy carry-
in« materials for air fields, signal
facilities and ammunition sup-
plies." Flannery said he quoted
from the newspaper. Berliner
Boersen Zeitung.
House Is "Scorched"
In Small Blaze
Interior of a two-room hou. •
just north of East Tenth Street
was scorched and furniture slight-
ly damaged in a fire at II o'clock
yesterday morning, city firemen
reported yesterday.
Exterior of the building was not
damaged, the firemen said, and
complete damage was not expect-
ed to be great There was no In-
surance on the house.
County School Pupils
Will Contribute To
March Of Dimes
Hutchinson county achool
children have the opportunity
to do their part la helping raise
fund* for the fight rj-iiat in-
fantile paralysis this year.
J. C. Phillips, chairman of
the Hutchinson county com-
mittee, asks alt school children
to bring dimes for the fund to
thsir teachers. They will re-
ceive mementoes to wear on
their lapels when they pay
their dimes.
The mementoas are
ture reproductions of a
girt who have been
by paralysis, but are
walking along
aid they have bean
result of the
This contribution «I
the school children
march of
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