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BIG COOKING SCHOOL
MARCH 19, 20,21
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U. S. Has Large
Navy Building
Program Going
Lorgait Construction
Schedule In History
Now Underway
WASHINGTON. March 13 —
(A')— Congress laarnad today
that by summer tha navy will
have tha largest combat ship-
building program in the natlon'a
history.
This statement came from Rear
Admiral S. M. Robinson, chief of
tho navy department's Bureau of
Ships during testimony made pub-
lic by the house appropriations
committee on next year's naval
supply bill.
Naval experts gave the commit-
tee those statistics on efforts to
Self Defense,
Insanity Pleas
Fail Defendant
Jury Takes 50 Minutes
To Decide Fate Of Man
Who Murdered Woman
5 Per Cent Tax On Workers'
Weekly Pay Check Proposed
Billions
Earl Odom, unruffled and stoic
j as he had been throughout his
entire trial, yesterday was convict-
ed of murder with malice afore-
thought and received unmoved a
40-year sentence in the state peni-
tentiary for the gun slaying of
May Lee last November.
The jury deliberated the case
lesss than an hour After state's
counsel District Attorney Bill Mc-
Connell had asked the death pen-
alty for Odom.
During argument of the case de-
fense attorneys Hood and Hank-
increase the nations naval forces; in® changed Odom's plea of self
as soon as possible: defense to temporary insanity at
1. Expenditures on construction' the time the shooting occurred,
alone arose from $2.550,000 month-1 Observers, who had witnessed the
Iv in 1032 to $49.000,000 last Dec- entire proceedings, were of the
ember and Robinson said the de- [opinion this course of action had
partment is working to n
Death And Destruction—At King's Door
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WASHINGTON, March 13 ~(/P)
— Congressional fiscal experts,
casting about for new revenue
sources to help pay for the $7.000,-
000 British aid program, were re-
ported considering today the pos-
sibility of imposing a 5 per cent
tax on the weekly pay of most of
the nations workers
If such a 5 per cent "earned
income" tax. should be levied that
amount would be deducted for the
government each week from the
pay envelopes of a large propor-
tion of jobholders, thus a worker
now receiving $40 weekly would
get. instead, $38 and a tax receipt
for $2. Small wage earners — pos-
sibly those receiving $25 weekly
or less-would be exempted.
Although it was emphasized that
this proposal was merely in !he
ly rate in excess of $100,000.000
just as fast as we can."
2. A total expenditure of $9,-
600.257,414 will be required to
complete the fleet to a total of 884
ships, including patrol and district
craft; with $5,553,976,000 remain-
ing to be appropriated.
3. Without exception, every
combatant ship now under con-
struction will be completed
ahead o( schedule.
4. Although experts estimated
last year that $278,000,000 would
be required to complete a certain
this m >ming, were feted last night group of 66B 8hipg, mode up ot Blt-
in their honor n Frit Tho'miiitrin « craft carriers, cruisers, destroyers
in incn honor Ut ri it/ Xnompson __ j stilii
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Albert Daly Clark, a volunteer: changes Bncj the fact "full cogni-
Leo Smithson, George Hampton /ance was not taken" originally of
Boyd, Delbert Garvin Harmon. . changeri condtions."
Departing Draftees
Honored By Upton
Thirteen ¡ocal draftees, who left
for induction centers at 4 o'clock
Sherman Lee
Nelson, Curtis
Dunn, Dale Axel 5 Alterations and improvements
Curtis Henry Kendrick, Opie Ber
nard Ellis, Porter Thomas Nichol-
son, Robert Herman Harris, James
Forrest Larkey, and Neulan Jud-
son Williams.
discuscion stage and might never [ A 'argc crowd attended the
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mature, responsible individuals
William Bucher, to existing ships will cost $488,-
160,000.
6. On Feb. 3, 1941, the Bureau of
Ships had acquired 161 commer-
cial vessels for various purposes
at a cost of $85,483,970 and had
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who have been studying the plan
said they had received estimates
that a 5 per cent levy of this na-
ture would raise $3,500.000,000
yearly.
Acknowledging that the propos-
al might arouse a storm of protest
from wage earners, advocates said
it would have to be accompanied
by commensurate Increases in tax-
es upon incomes from investments,
rentals and other sources so that
there could be no discrimination.
It would entail, they pointed
out altfo. a reversal of previous ad-
ministration policy of easi. g taxes
on wage earners as much as pos-
sible and for that reason was ex-
pected to elicit little support at
the treasury or white house.
Against this suggestion for an
invasion of a new field of revenue,
chairman Harrison CD-Miss' of the
senate finance committee told re-
porters that he personally felt thut
present taxes should be revised
upward without attempting to
bring in untried levios.
Estimating that congress might
be asked to provide an additional
$1,500,000.000 in new revenue this
session, Harrison said he felt
there might be some justificable
increases in excess profits levies
and normal corporation tax, as
long as rates were not boosted so
high that they would hurt busi-
ness and result in reduced, rather
than boosted, revenues.
feed'1 in which just plain eating
was the principal part of the pro-
gram The test of the time was
spent in getting acquainted with
Uncle Sam's future armed sons.
BIG PAL HELPS
"LITTLE FELLOW"
Delegates For
Session Elected
Three delegates to the North-
west Conference for Education and
three alternates were elected by
the Hutchinson county unit of the
Texas State Teachers Association
in a meeting held in the local high
school auditorium last night. The
■onferences will be held tomor-
row and Saturday in Canyon.
Delegates:
Miss Margaret Elliott, Borger;
John Turpln, principal of Phillips
Elementary School: Homer Frank-
lin, superintendent of Stinnett
schools.
Alternates:
Oeorge Parham, Plemons; Miss
Mildred McGee, Borger; J. W. Dll-
lard, Spring Creek.
ROME. March 13 — W)~ The
Italian air force, aided by German
bombers, attacked British naval
and air bases in Eastern Libya
again yesterday, the Italian high
command reported today.
COMMMUNISTS CELEBRATE
RAPE OF TINY FINLAND
MOSCOW, March 13—i/P)—The
fendant's sentence from an ex-
pected life imprisonment penalty.
The Jury retired at 2:35 p. m.
and 50 minutes later Odom was
standing before the court calmly
taking the sentence without blink-
ing an eye, as a ripple of mur-
muring swept throughout the spec-
tators in the packed courtroom.
The court's charges to the jury,
listing five possible verdicts in the
case, were read by Judge Jack
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Damage to Buckingham palace, home of the Britiah royal family, when that historic building again
became tha target for German bombs as shown in the above radio-photo. A wall and a porter's
lodge were partly demolished and a soldier standing guard at the gate was killed In the raid.
(NEA Radio-Telephoto)
Tuberculosis Group
Moves To Hospital
The Hutchinson County Tuber-
culosis Association, a county-wide
Allen at 11:30 o'clock yesterday organization, has moved its of-
morning. j fices from the city hall to the
Court was then adjourned until North Plains hospital in Borger.
1:15 p, m. when the prosecuting' Mrs. Russell Brown, secretary,
and defense attorneys presented aalts that all persons having occa-
their arguments of the charges to «ton to pay tha office a visit, en- g
the jury. A little more than an lei' "W south door at the extreme P w
hour later the jury had retired to end of the hospital. Visitors are
deliberate the verdict. asked to please observe this re-
The courtroom was packed for ¡ quest.
the afternoon's proceeding, with 1 Anyone desiring information s<"'n had given his generals un-
many persons standing in the bal-1 about the Association may tele- tn^aturda_y_ to^do ™Mthing.';
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cases. i
Italy's "Little Caesar" Said
To Be At Front With Troops;
However They Continue To Lose
hnÉRttii Today
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ATHENS, March 13—Dis-
patches from the Albanian front
today said that the large scale of-
ve
rentier
field headquarters had failed be-
fore powerful Greek resistance.
An earlier report said that Miis
The Italians, dispatches from the
front said, have been unable to
Throughout the appeal to the I . gain a single inch of ground and
jury defense attorneys played on ll/alflivifv QcIiAaI ys ir osses
the fact that the defendant wasn't VfcIQlliy dCIlUOl unofficially have been placed at
in his right mind when he shot • ■ •* more than 10,000, including 2,000
his victim. This point was empha- PlanflPfl l.nCallV !dcad' These tiBUres do not cover
sized again and again. Í lOIIIIwII AiUwOII J the 3,500 prisoners listed by the
Counsel for defense also work j ! Greeks.
eri on the theory that there was no A welding school for lnc Bor- ^ Greek spokesman said cap-
malice aforethought connected ger area, under the sponsorship of tured Italian officers reported
i with the slaying otherwise Odom the Borger Public Schools, will be Premier Mussolini had been in Al-
residents of Viborg iViipuri' and would have killed May Lee imme- organized at 7:30 p. m. next Wed- bania almost a week to bolster the
Leningrad, rival headquarters diately as she entered the door nesday in the high school audi- morale of his troops and himself
during the Russian-Finnish war, of her home with another man. torium, C. M. Davis, area coor- had ordered the recent ferocious
joined today in observance of the instead of becoming embroiled in dinator of industrial education, an- «eries of attacks on the central
first anniversary of the peace that j an argument with her. nounced today. front, attacks which the Greeks re-
ended that conflict. Prosecuting attorneys McDon- Ail interested persons are urg- P«ted smashed over a 12-mile sec-
Worker delegations went from nell and Dully emphasized facts ed to attend this meeting at which tor in four days of bloody fight-
Leningrad to Vibory to celebrate that all evidence pointed against | time class schedule, depending up-
capture of that major Finnish city the defendant, that the incident on the employment schedule of The captives, the spokesman
was to have been a murder and the workers enrolled, will be de- added, said Mussolini had told
a year ago today.
Knitting Classes For Red Cross
Being Oi
Rackitofrs Art
Warned Against
Exploiting Labor
"Make l7l00%, Don't
Suibble Over Percent "
overnor Tells Texans
AUSTIN. Tex.. March 19 JL
Asserting that any labor
violence dtiring the current na-
tional defense emergency was
entirely out of plaee. Governor
W. Lee O'Daniel asked the leg-
islature today for quick enact-
ment of a law prohibiting strik-
es or lockouts in defense indus-
tries without 00 days advance
notice.
The governor, who had been in
Corpus Chrlsti yesterday for de-
dication of the large new naval air
base there, went before the leg-
islature personally to deliver the
message.
The recommended bill also
would prohibit the use of more
than two pickets at any one time,
and make unlawful "the use of
force and violence, or threats
thereof, to prevent any person
from engaging in any lawful vo-
cation."
"I am wholly opposed." O'
Daniel declared, "to those aca-
demic 'alibiers' who seek to
show by scientific percentages
that only a small percentage of
our national defense factories
are idle on account of strikes.
I am reminded of the old saying
that!
"For the want of a nail the
shoe was leal
"For the want of a shoe the
horse was lest.
"For the want of a horse the
rider was lost.
"For the want of a rider the
battle waa lost"
The address won a
ovation when the
eluded. Houae
bers i
Funeral services for Lelan Mc
Dunkin, 11-year-old son of Mr,
and Mrs. E. W. McDunkin of Mc
Dunkin community, southwest of
Spearman, were held this morning
in Union Church at Spearman.
M. W. Graves, pastor of the
Church of Christ, at Spearman of-
ficiated. Burial will be in the Pam-
pa cemetery this afternoon.
Lelan, an only child, was killed
Tuesday afternoon on the fomily
farm when he fell into the mech-
anism of a wheat drill his father
was pulling with a tractor.
He was riding the drill Just to
be with his father, according to
reports from Spearman, and top-
pled accidentally into the gears
behind the drill.
The father continued his work
for about five minutes after Lelan
fell, the report stated without
knowing anything about the accl
Over County
Women who can knit or sew arc
asked to volunteer their services
to the Hutchinson County Red
Cross chapter to assist with the
war relief quota assigned the chap-
ter to be ready for shipment May
I.
Mrs. J. O. Coolbaugh, chairman
of the war production commit-
tee, is calling a meeting of all key
women to meet at the chapter of-
fices in the city hall tomorrow af-
ternoon at 2 p. m. Others who wish
to volunteer their services are
asked to meet with the chairman
ut this time.
Enthusiastic women of the coun-
ty are knitting garments for Red
Cross war relief grogram, accord-
ing to chapter officials. Classes In
San ford and Frltch are producing
sweaters, scarfs and socks.
Mrs. Nelle Obcnhaus and Mrs.
Julia Michener arc :n cliarge of
the work at Sanford, with the co-
operation of the following women:
Mesdames L. J. Brinkley, S. M.
Jordan, 11. L. Palmer. Ralph
Suiter, J. W. Louy, F. T. Moore,
Geo. Rea, C. N. Smith, H. A. Mil-
ler, Jack Stone Cora Spraggins,
N. C. Barnes, F. T. Scarbrough,
Frank Strech, Ray Parham,
Charles Viner, J. T. Fisher, Edle
Zanders, Landry, Opal Leonard
Edith Taylor, Ora Morris, Hough
and J. F Allen.
The work at Frltch is under
the direction of Mrs. Clem Richard-
son and Mrs. E. G. Hammer-
schmidt with the following women
participating:
Mesdames Ed Hudson, V. V.
Bell, C. R. Moore, G. A. Vogan,
Blander D a v i a,
Downs, Tompkins, H. Jackbeen,
John Newby, Carl Andis, A. M.
Hall, Williams, Lannagan, J. F.
Swisher, Jewell Cutsinger, Dellis,
Wilkerson, Hill, Newby, W. D.
Orr, Altendorf, Bickers.
Pringle community is now be-
ing orgunized. Names of the work-
ers there will be released later.
W. P. A. Paving
Project Okeyed
Official confirmation of federal
approval of the $103,000 W. P. A.
street, sidewalk and gutter pro-
ject was received yesterday by
city officials, City Manager L. M.
Davis announced this morning.
A federal grant of $63,063 for
the project has been appropriated,
Davis said, which includes ail la-
bor costs. The city will furnish
the materials.
The project contains 44 blocks
of street paving and throe blocks
of alleys.
Any property owner who de-
sires the street In front of his
home to be paved should report to
the city manager's office and se-
cure an official blank petition.
A street block can be paved on-
ly after every property owner in
the block signs the petition and
agrees to pay a small paving fee.
Work on the new project is ex-
pected to begin as soon as the
Cummings, weather permits, Davis said
suicide, and that there was no in-
sanity charge in the court's
charges to the Jury.
"The defense counsel has aban-
doned the self defense theory . . .
and has switched to the 'state of
mind' theory . . ." said McConnell,
"but bear in mind there is no in-
sanity charge in this case . . ."
Time and again McConnell
pointed an accusing finger at the
defendant, who eyed him uncon-
cernedly, and boomed: "He
'Odom) realized he had no right to
live when he aimed the gun ot
his heart after he had killed May
Lee ... he realized he had forfeit-
ed his right to live . . ."
Througout the arguments Odom
sat quietly in his chair, hardly
moving, and invariably flinching
his gaze as he was pointed out as
the "killer with murder in his
heart."
The vordict brought in by the
jury at 3:25 p. m. brought an
abrupt close to the case which had
started Monday. Only one day of
testimony — Tuesday — was
heard in the case.
termined.
The instruction will be supple- Saturday, by which date he ex-
mental to the daily employment of pects they will do something." Tho
the class and may be vocational, penalty of failure was not given,
industrial, or pertaining to relnt- A high command communique
ed vocational industrial subjects issued last night said 200 more
Class will be held during non- Italian prisoners had been taken,
working hours of the enrollees. The Greek marine ministry1
Cost of a 48-hour course in prnc- charged last night that an Italian
Ileal welding will cost about $35 bomber had attacked a loaded hos-
it was soid. All types of welding pital ship.
processes will be taught. A communique said the plane
Qualifications for class en- dropped three bombs near the
trance:
Members must be
dent. The boy was dead before
his gonerols he would be leaving j he got to the doctor's office.
He suffered a broken neck,
caved-in chest and broken left
arm.
Archery To Head List
Of Local Sport Events
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Text of McConnell's argument
of the case will be found on an
Inside page of today's Herald.
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Phillips Students Will
Hold Play Contest
Five groups of students, com-
prising the speech class at Phil-
lips High School, will engage in
an assembly contest featurng one-
act plays next week Miss Esther
Rudolph, speech instructor, said
today.
The winners of this contest will
represent Phillips the Inter-
scholastic League one-act play
contest which will be held at Pam-
pa sometime next month.
age or over and be employed in
welding, general machine shop
work or maintenance and repair
work in which welding is requir-
ed: persons must have been em-
ployed for a six months' period, or
who arc now temporarily unem-
ployed.
ship Socrates off the islet of Ses-
years of soulo, near Levkas. The bombs,
the Greek said, fell less than 60
yards astern.
Nay Have Labor
Mediation Board
Local Students
Vacation Friday
Students of Borger and Phillips
schools, and throughout the coun-
ty, will enjoy a one-day holiday
from books and classes tomorrow.
Schools arc being dismissed so
that teachers may atteitti the
Northwest Conference for Educa-
tion which will be held in Can-
WASHINGTON, March 13—WP)
—President Roosevelt received to-
day from Secretary Perkins and j yon tomorrow and Saturday.
Defense Directors Knudsen and The Hutchinson county delc-
Hillman a specific recommcnda-! «ates and olternates to the con-
tion for a mediation bourd to ference were elected In a meeting
handle labor problems related to the local high school auditorium
the defense program
No details of what they had
suggested were announced but
Miss Perkins told reporters that
the idea of a mediation board was
taking "definite" shaps.
Hi liman said several proposi-
tions were under consideration, In-
cluding boards with 11, seven or
five members. He added that no
names of prospective members had
been brought into the conference
with the president, which he des-
cribed as "Just a discussion of prin-
ciples."
last night.
Congratulations To
Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Dunn, upon
the arrival of a 9 pound 4 ounce
daughter, Alice Marie, born at 4:37
yesterday afternoon in North
Plains hospital.
Archery, a Bport that has been
sweeping the country, soon will
have its debut in Borger and sur-
rounding vicinity if plans of local
"bow and arrow" enthusiasts ma-
terialize.
An organizational meeting for
an archery club in this vicinity
will be held at 7:30 p. m. Mon-
day in Troop Six scout house it
was announced this morning. The
meeting place is locaed one block
west of the Baptist church.
Local archery fans have polled
opinion of various persons in the
immediate vicinity and found that
organization of an archery club
for this locality would be Justified.
Requests concerning formation of
such a club also have been in-
creasing lately.
Archery clubs already are in ex-
istence in Pampa and Amarillo.
Everyone is invited to attend the
meeting and help in the organiza-
tion of the club. Anyone desiring
to display equipment at Monday's
meeting is urged to do so. Any-
one with information concerning
other clubs and activities is urged
to attend the meeting and take a
leading part in the organisation
of the club, local sources said.
The following archery fana are
behind the move to organize •
club here:
H. H. Beavers, O M. Reich,
Royce Hutchinson, T. H
ton, Tom Cubbage, J. I
E. R. Runyon, I^roy Dodge, H.
V. White, T. E. Rhoton, L. C. Gil-
bert, and Wallis Nelson,
duty to
Texas
sens «ra steadily advancing to-
ward the front"
"I do not intend," he stated,
"that they shall be short a gun or
a drop of oil for that gun, or any-
thing they need, be it large or
small, and be it only one one-
thousandth or less of our whole na-
tional defense production. If this
is an all-out-aid defense prograr
let us quit quibbling about per-
centages, let us make it 100 per
cent, with no industries shut
down which are directly or indl-
(Continuad en PAGE TWO)
Chamber Honors
Mrs. Nary Frey
01 xne
n with
years,
ia thia
Mrs. Mary Hembree Frey, de-
parting assistant secretary of the
Borger Chamber of Commerce,
was honored today by the cham-
ber at its weekly meeting In the
Black Hotel.
Dick Mauldln presented her
with a traveling bag and gave a
short speech on behalf of the
chamber. Mrs. Frey has been
the local chapter for five
She will leave for California
Saturday.
Two motions were paused during
the regular business session fol-
lowing the luncheon. One author-
ized the painting of a sign to be
' placed near the entrance of Huber
Park before the 1841 baseball sc*«
son opens.
The sign will read, "Huber
Park, home of the Bcrger Gassers,
1040 pennant winners of the West
Texas-New Mexico League."
The group also moved to draw
up a resolution thanking J. C.
Phillips and member* ot individ-
ual committees for their "fine
work on the Bbrger birthday cele-
bration." It was agreed that the
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