Borger Daily Herald (Borger, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 127, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 19, 1928 Page: 1 of 6
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OFFICIAL PUBLICATION CITY OF UOIMiFIt, TEXAS
VOL. 2—NO. 127.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BORGER, TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1928.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
PANHANDLE POWER & LIGHT GETS FRANCHISE
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$250,000 HIGHUNE THROUGH OIL FIELD IS COMPLETED
HULL FURNISH
MUCH POWER
TO COMPANIES
Line Has Capacity of 6,000
Horsepower; Up to 66,-
000 Volts
COST $250,000
Embraces Territory Through
Roxana and Into Gray
County
Vosterday morning at !i o'clock
witnessed completion of the Panhan-
dle Power Ac Light company cutover
ol their new 51-mile Gray county
ltransmission line from a capacity of
13.200 to 66.000 volts. The line lias
a capacity of 6,000 horsepower and
the substation* a capacity of 3,000
horsepower. Construction of the line,
ritibstations and the 13.L'tiii volt dis-
tribution lines have required an ex-
penditure of ?250,00<>.
The newly completed cutover line
serve;' oil camps in the vicinity of
Skcllylown, Itoxana and extends 011
into (Iray county. The original line
r.'as completed early in February and
has been in operation since at 13,200
\oils, completion of the cutover has)
been due to delay
station equipment
H. E. Castleberry
New Manager For
Stinnett Paper
SCHOOL BOARD
ELECTION FAIR.
JUDGE CLAIMS
READY FOR AIR DASH ACROSS NORTH POLE
11. E. Castleberry, formerly with j
the Nunn-AVarren Publishing <-0111-}
pany as manager of the Burger j
Herald and recently of Sayre, Okla.,i
has accepted a position as editor j Spencer
and manager of the Hutchinson I zen to Accuse H,m of
County Herald at Stinnet t and is j
assuming his duties with tile paper|
this week.
Mr. Castleberry, a man of long
experience in the newspaper busi-
ness. succeeds Ben F. Smith, who
lias been in charge of the paper
since its organization more than a
year ago. Mr. and Mrs. Smith _
have moved to Lubbock. Mr. Cast-1
leberry will move to Stinnett with
his wife and two daughters as soon
as school ends in Sayre.
Challenges Any Citi- !
Accuse
Fraud
j WELCOMES PROBE
Wants Thorough Investigation
Made
in Court
Week
Next
Policeman Is Shot
to Death by Negro
In Chicago Today
CIIICAOO. April 1!I. 1 AIM U'S.i
than an hour after he began a tour
of duty at midnight Policeman Hmil
Shogran. 84. was shot dead by one
of two negroes whom he and Serg.
John Shortall. sought to question.
As Shogran fell Shortall drew aj
in receiving sub-1 pistol and engaged in a running fire
required for 66,-1 buttle with the negroes. The ser-
"Anyonc who will sign a statement
to the effect that 1 am guilty of
fraudulently conducting the April T i
sclioo' trustee election is invited to
j do so, and T will prove to them that
j they are wrong in every detail," Leo
1 S. Spencer, secretary of the charn-
I her of commerce and acting judge I
, ol the recent school trustee election
• at which W. It. White. Haywood
I Moore and John R. Miller were eleet-
! ed as members of the hoard of school
j directors, said today.
| In a petition for contest filed with :
tlu district clerk a week ago by C. (
Coffee and <i C. Harney, contestees
and defeated candidates for the!
j school trusteeship, it was set out that
the election judge (Spencer) had re-,
! fused to appoint two election super-i
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GIWENIH.ND
000 volt operation.
Nine transfovmers were required
fov these substations, six of which
art seven feet square and .13 1-2
foet high, weighing more than 10
toil!.' each; three are four feet square
and twelve feet high weighing five
Ions euclv. All of these have been
transpdiHed several miles from the
railroad to substation locations.
Power is taken from the 13,200
volt generator buss, the voltage in-
creased to 66,000 volts through 3
lOOOKVA transformers situated ad-
jacent to the generating station, then
Uansniitted 23 miles to the Itoxana
i.'iib.'tution, where a tap off is made
to 3 200KVA transformers, which
reduce.' the voltage to 13,200 volts
for distribution in Roxana and ter-
ritory. From Roxana the service is
continued 2S miles into Gray coun-
ts substation where 3, lOOOKVA
tram formers reduce the voltage to
13,200 volts: lor distribution in the
(rfaj county oil field.
I11 the opinion of the towns served
and power company officials, com-
pletion of the line marks an impor-
visors a" prescribed by law, further
j geant mortally wounded Robert Nash!" stated that adequate facilities and
I .ir>, and later shot and probably fatal-
ity . wounded Joseph Oopps, 32. two
ot lie
r negroes.
the
ap-
lee-
MAN ASKS TO
BE PLACED IN
JAIL FOR TIME
Confessed Drug Adict's Re-
quest Granted; Given
30 Days
At the request
be an addict of 1
rested yesterday
lips by Sheriff's
of a mail, said to
1 drug, he was ar-
afternoon at Phil-
Deputy Jim Crane,
to Borger and lodged
tant step in expansion of the Pan-; n would
and brought
i in jail.
! When the man was hailed before
Justice Alonzo Turner this morning
he begged the justice to sentence him
j to several days in jail saying that i
handle Power Light company serv-
ice and means much to the develop-
ment ol the Panhandle oil field in
Graj count> and around Roxana,
s'nc*; it makes immediately avail-
able 3,uoo horse power of electric
power for use in the fields at a
rate which means a considerable sav-
in;; for oil field operators in drilling
and refining work
Agan Succeeded by
J. H. Morris on
Force of Herald
tin
ena ble
drug
him
until
keep away
could re-
.1 II. Morris, who for the past
year lias been associated with tile
Panhandle Bank in Panhandle, is
starting his duties as auditor of
the Herald beginning today. Mr.
■xperlence j
irom
' cover.
' "I am not a drug addict of the
j nature that most people become. The
i medicine I buy without difficulty
tat any drug store and they do not
| suspect its results or they would not
'sell it." he said. "I wish to : con-
; fined long enough to become cured
j ol the luibit."
According to Deputy Crane, the
1 man. while under flifluonee of the
medicine is never unruly or quarrel-
some. lie is always gentlemanly aud
'polite and only appears to be iutoxl-
j cated.
j 'fin man was sentenced to 30 days
j in jail by Justice Turner and will be
1 taken >0 Stinnett this afternoon.
(booths were not provided by
| judge and that clerks were not
j pointed by him to conduct the
, 1 ion
Mr. Spencer returned from Fort.
Worth yesterday where lie has been
I for more than week oil business. He
1 said that numerous reports had been
I circulated during his absence, of mis-
| conduct and that, lie challenges any
] man or woman to sign a statement
| showing where lie entered into a
licnspirac.v or fraudulently prohibit-
ed anything that was prescribed by
! election laws. i
"II is frequently the case that;
1 when a candidate gets defeated they
| immediately start the rumor that
I there was fraud. These men were de-
feated honestly and it is my wish
that when the case receives a hearing
next week before Judge Newton P.
Willis that every ballot be counted
land a thorough investigation of the
election made," Spencer declared.
I Mi. Spencer said that although
I some oil companies were opposed to
! the three elected candidates, sev-
eral companies voted without excep-
tion for White. Miller and Moore.
RELEASE MAN
FROM OREGON
With moderating weather at Point Barrow, Alaska,
pected to begin their attem.ut to cross the North Pol
way. ('apt Wilkins 1 left t and Lieut. Eilson fin eiivl
plane in which they were to trust their destiny. The n:
apt. George Wilkins and Lieut Ben Li 1 soil were ex-
r- b> airplane, from Point Barrow lo Spitsbergen. Nor-
• 1 are shown above with the Loek-heed-Vega Mono-
ip shows how flyers would cross the pole and go on
to London.
BONE DRAGGED
IN BY DOG IS
BEING DEBATED
gained
Lock to
a hole
money
deposit
Sinclair Defense
Rests Suddenly at
11 O'clock Today
WASHINGTON,
The defense rested
the trial of Harry
• cut introducing a
' for the oil operator
April I!). 1 AIM
suddenly today in
F. Sinclair with-
deposition made
by Albert fi. Fall.
Morris lias had years of
In keeping accounts and comes to
the Herald highly recommended.
Mr. Morris succeeds W Max
Agan. who has held the position
here for more than a year, and who
l.j leaving In the next few days for
Wink to take charge of the Win It
Tribune, of which lie is part owner.
Mr. Agan married Miss Lela Trim- Moving swiftly today witli succession
ble 011 March 8 at a public wedding i ol witnesses including those who tes-
at the Hex theatre, and since that I tilled 11s to the reputation of the
time has been living at Hie Carnes j lessee of the Teapot Dome. Sinclair's
apartments. He Is well known in , lawyers decided to c all their case
Horgei and leaves this city with j completely after 11 o'clock Sinclair
the best wishes of many friends in
his new venture.
Mr. Morris will move his family
from Panhandle to Borger when
his daughter finishes I lie school
term in that city-
did not take the stand
Burglars Get $62 at
Motor Company Here
Birger Hanged at
9:52 This Morning
UJSNTON. 111.. April 1!'. <AP)
Charles Birger, notorious southern
Illinois gang leader, was hanged this
nyjrn.ug t 9:52 o'i'luck for the
murder of Mayor Joe Adams of West ' desk.
CltJ. Birger was pronounced dead have
Burglars secured $62 from the
Hutchinson County Motor company
last ninht after having gained en-
trance through a rear window of the
garage shop.
The burglars broke flic real- win-
dow and had easy access to the office
when the money hail been left in a
drawer of Manager K. O. Sheets'
Nothing else was reported to
been missing.
\
four minutes later Five hundred
spectators crowded into the stockade
to witness the execution.
Jti|idn i; having farm-labor strikes
Many new auto bus lines are be
ing opened in Germany.
Japan has an auti-gambling drive
Word From Authorities Refus-
es Transportation For
Prisoner
1.. W. Travis, alias I,. I.. West, ar-
rested more than a week ago on a
fugitive warrant by Deputy Sheriff
Charlie' Smith for Oregon authorit-
' ieti was released today when the
sheriff of that state informed Slier-
Ifl Joe Ownliey tlmt the state of
Oregon di<l nol furnish transporta-
tion for returning prisoners from
oilier slates and that he could not
j afford to make the trip and return
the mun. ,
According to Information from
Oregon. Travis was alleged to have.
I broken out of the penitentiary in
I that state two years ago while serv-
ing what was termed as an alleged!
1 liquor sentence.
Deputy Smith, seeing an automo-
bile bearing all Oregon license bc-
! rami suspicious and wired Oregon
; authorities for information conaern-
I ing the man.-He was immediately in
i structed to arrest Travis.
Travis, Smith said, had been liv-
ing in Borger several weeks and had
! been known under the name of L. I.
West.
Will Investigate
El Reno Confession
SOMICKVILLH. N .1.. April 19.
(API Although disinclined to be-
lieve the confession of a prisoner
held in I he 101 Reno. Okla., jail who
| Paid Hint lie was the slayer of Rev.
' Kdward Hall and Mrs. Kleanor Mills
here in 11)20, two authorities today
prepared to make a thorough inv'es-
; ligation
i til win Allen is the prisoner held
| in F.I Reno on a charge of burglary
Bank Robbed Last
Night of $6,000
GRL'ENVILLE. April ID. I API
Robbers some time last night looted
the First State bank of Campbell. 10
! miles east of here, of about $6,00o.
I Entrance to the building wa
through the back window
flu vault was broken and
burned in the safe where th
I was kept. About 25 private
I boxes were also rifled.
The robbery was discovered when
i bank employees opened for business
this morning No clues have been
; found.
BORGER READY
FOR DELIVERY
Streets Marked and Houses
Numbered For Inspector's
Survey
j With completion of double street
intersection nia king work in die
j free mail delivery zone this week,
; with two markers plated diagonally
| on each intersection setting out the
; number of the street and markers
| indicating roads leading to adjoining
[oil camps and towns, everything is
' in. readiness for an inspection for
j free mail carrier service Harry Roth-
Mystery Surrounds Arm or
Foot Found This
Morning
Physicians were mystified when G
\\ . Henderson, living near the Tulsa
Pipeline company fli Isom. brought
to town the lowed- end of an animal
or man's 'arm, which his dog had
dragged to the home this morning,
from a nearhj canyon.
The bone was still intact except
for the fingers or foes which had
been torn from file bones believed lo
be the hand or fool. A thumb was
still intact and clung to ligaments
ol the wrist. The bones had been
torn from the person or animal at
the elbow.
Several physicians said that iliey
■ were sure the bone was that of a
i person while others expressed the
| belief that the bone was that of an
ape or monkey, although skepticism
was expressed for this theory, be-
cause no death of n monkey has been
reported here.
According lo the physicians if is
.believed the person or animal had
been about two weeks. > , , . . ... . ,
, . ... child, postmaster, informed Leo S.
■No definite conclusion %could be;
| reached by physicians and Mr. Hen-!
1 derson said that lie would make a!
; diligent search for the body and Irv
>r tin
•liamber
lo solve the mystery
Officers Seize 200
Gallons of Whiskey
In Corsicana Hani
CORSICANA. April I« (AIM
One of the largest liquor hauls in
recent years was made here today
when the sheriff's department con-
fiscated more than 200 gallons of
corn wiliskv on the highway after a
truck in which it was being trans-
ported. broke down
Virgin Williamson was released on
bond following filing of charges in
violation of the prohibition laws
Father of Bobby
Franks Died After
Illness at Hotel
Spencer, secretary
of commerce today
Although the city purchased mark-
ers aud numbers for homes several
months ago which were to be posted
in conformity with the new street,
designation as required by the postal
department at Washington, number-
ing and marking work has jifrt been
completed through efforts of Mr
Rothehild. the chamber of commerce
and the city administration
•The house numbers were distrib-
uted free lo property owners bui
; their co-operation v. as not received
and the chamber of commerce em-
; ployed a mail who posted number's
wherever the owner had failed to do
so.
A postal inspector is expected in
Borger within the next few weeks
Mi Rothehild informed Mr. Spencer
and after his report has been made
to the free mail delivery deportment
| at Fort Worth and Washington, car-
jiier service it is believed, will be
granted Borger
KIMES TAKEN
TO KANSAS BY
SHERIFF TODAY
Prisoner Claims Innocence and
Says He Will Prove the
Charge False
John 15. Kimes .arrested Tuesday
on a fugitive warrant charging bank
robbery in connection with the al-
leged robbery of a Niotage, Kansas,
i bank after waiving extradition pro-
| reeding!' was taken to Kansas yester-
day afternoon by Sheriff Frank Du-
gan of Sedan. Kansas.
Kimes told police of Borger that
he was a cousin of the notorious
Oklahoma outlaw. Matthew Kimes,
j who was apprehended after breaking
out of the Oklahoma penitentiary a
few months ago in Arizona Matthew
I is now serving a life senfen
Okl'homa penitentiary.
John Kimes told officer*
had iiad nothing to do with
tage robbery and that he
ployed at a local gasoline
tiie time the alleged robl
to have occurred and kn
•about it iiniil his arrest
| "Just because I lwipp<
cousin lo Matthew Kinit
attempting to push me
throughout my life lias
llj employer lien will ie
I effpel that I was in Boi
REDUCTION ON
ALL UTILITIES
REPRESENTED
Action Taken After Final
Reading and Open Forum
Discussion
FAVOR ADOPTION
More Than 75 Percent Argue
For Proposed Rate
Schedule
A proposed schedule of gas. water
and electric service rates has been
;occ-pt6d by the city commission and
i he Panhandle Power Light com-
pany granted a franchise for the
three commodities.
After six months deliberation on
tile utility question the paramount
issue of the day was settled yester-
day when more than '< 5 persons at-
tended an open meeting and without,
exception expressed the opinion that
ilie city should accept the rates
proposed and grant a franchise.
Group Favors Action.
Some of the most prominent men
1 in the city spoke in favor of the pro
; posed schedule and urged the city lo
take immediate steps for adoption of
ihe rates and grant file power com-
pany a franchise that service might
be extended by the power company
ti many sections of the city not here-
tofore embraced
Among those who spoke in favor
in file ordinance were: G. G. Mc-
Bride, Claude Ruby, F E. Wilson.
Leo S. Spencer, G. G. Granville, Moe
Steinberg, Grady Thompson. G. W.
Cain. Tom Blair. I M. Smiser. T. E
Wilson. K. G. Pipkin, J. C. Carroll.
J E. Brain and others.
Under provisions of the new: rate
schedule every commodity will be'
reduced at an average of from 10 to
60 per cent, th • city buildings will
receive water at 25 cents per 1.000
gallons gas and electric service for
two cents per kilowatt haur and an
indebtedness of the city of
crned for the past several
cancelled
Left With
Mayor Glenn A.
had been opposed
ules of the power
last concessions
weeks ago. but that lit
the question before the
?2,000 ac-
moiuhs is
Tii\|wt > ccs.
Pace said thai he
to several sched-
•onipany until the
were made two
Was putting
people for
ce in tlie |
thai he
111" Nio-
was em-i
plant a<
?ry is said
v nothing
n to be a
< i hey are
M v record
teen clean,
uify to the
ger at the
rurred.
given
if Kimes.
the man
have had
time lhe Niolage robbe
Kimes declared.
Contrary lo the desc
b> the Kansas authorities i
h< has dark red hair while
wanted in Kansas is said lo
black or dark brown hair
Kimes was arrested at his home
'near Phillips camp where his wife
and three vear old daughter live
When members of the police force
went lo his home he admitted that
hi was John Kime- and willingly
accompanied them to the city jail
where he was held pending arrival
ol the Kansas sheriff
Bill Gassowuy police desk -te r-
(reant. said that Kimes was one of
thu besi behaved prisoners that li<
had ever had in the city
frankly believe the Kansa:
'ties are mistaken in the man
waul." lie said.
jail "I
their approval. Commissioner J. E.
Higgins said that he still contended
tin rates were too high Inn was tak
ing advice of those present apd
would act upon their recommenda-
tion. •*,
Leo s Spencer, secretary ol 4ho
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Contestants For
District Meet To
Leave Tomorrow
Borger girls and boys athletic
teams as well as contest winners foi
the county at a recent scholastic
ineet will leave tomorrow morning at
s o'clock for file district athletic
met t in Canyon.
Supl. J. A. Dickson, of the Borger
schools, announced this morning thai
■ he Safety First Bus company would
furnish transportation to anyone
wishing to attend the meet tomor-
row for sl.50 for the round trip,
while t hos* who wish to drive Iheir
own automobiles are urged to con-
fer with him.
At the exceptionally low figure
given by the Safety-First Bus com-
iiany practically every student who
can go should ' attend the meet.
Superintendent Dickson said. Auto-
mobiles for transporting the contes-
tants are being donated and anyone
having a car for students to use, is
allied to liotlt'.v Mr. Dickson. The
return trip will be made Saturday
they
Baptist Women In
Conference Today
$25 Damage From
Small Hotel Fire
Late News
A
U tllf St.
last night
ir> da magi
by u Mr
the lii'
the fire
Louis rooms at
caused approxi-
Uefore it >vas
nf ( hcinicals by
department,
could not he d«'
i
Colombia lias a new air scrvice
CHICAGO. April 1!' lAIM Jacob
Pranks, father ol Hobby Franks. V^OnfCrCnCf© 1 Oday tl o'clock
kidnaped and slain in 1924 by N'a- mately
than Leopold and Richard Loeb, died The Amarillo district ot the Map- extinguished
toda> in th«' Drake hotel where tin Women's Mission Cnion went in member- ol
Franks family moved after their soi P° two-day conference at Panban- Oripin oJ
was slain. 1 die yesterday afternoon, with Mrs. termined It originated in ;i bed
Franks had been ill many months. l-; A. Grundy of Memphis president room
! Doctors attributed his illness in part • « ' the district presiding \ delav in reaching tlu scene of
to grief over the death of his son Mr*. \\'x K. Corn, president of the 1 •"* minutes was caused tie fire do
i Borger W. y\. 1\ has urged every j part nient because au inefinlte ad
| Parisiennes are wearing bright i metnBer of the Borger organi/ation 1 dress wa^ iii\ -n them when 1«■ call
combs in their shingled haii 1 that can to attend the convention | way turned in
Peking—Collapse of the Shan-
tung defense before onslaught of
the nationalist* who recently open-
ed a drive
retreat ol
fronts.
on Peking Ims
northern nrmic<
ca UMtl
on all
Shanghai— I lent ruction
northern artn> of iStl.tMNt
iimi*tialljt fierce fighting
tin' past Icm day* near
b h'lMirletl In dlspatclte
king.
of tl «a
men in
during
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