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FORECAST FOR TODAY
WfiSi'TEXAS: Partly cloudy tonight
and Wednesday.
EAST TEXAS: Cloudy, occasional
ralnii tonight and Wednesday.
OKLAHOMA: Cloudy, probably light
rains tonight uii'< Wednesday.
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION C1TT OJ! BORGER, flUTCHINgON COUNTY, tit.taw
The Borger Daily Herald has
more paid circulation than all
other Hutchinson county newt-
papers combined.
VOL. 3—No. 63 ASSOCIATED PRESS DAY LEASED WIRE
BORGER, TEXAS. TUESDAY FEBRUARY 5, 1929
FULL NEA SERVICE
PRICE FIVE CENTS
NEW YORK CURB MARKET IN FRENZY
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House—Senate Conferees Fail To Agree On Prohibition Fund
CART. HAWKS BEATS ART GOEBEL'S RECORD
FLIGHT MADE
IN 40 MINUTES
SHORTER TIME
Two Flying Fields In New
York Had Things In Read-
iness at 1 p. m.
SIGHTED AT 2:55
Goebel's Record For Trans-
Continental Flight Is 18 Hours
and 40 Seconds
Terre Haute Girl 'Gov. Moody Asked To
Feared Kidnaped Name Board Thinks
i Should be Consolidated
AUSTIN. Fob. fi (AP)—Governor
Moody was requested today in a res-
olution adopted b> the house to name
boar 's wire!' be said in his message
might be eliminated, and to make re-
cotmndation tor what consolidations
ot state offices the chief executive
deened expedient.
Ti e resolution was signed by Rep-
resentatives 0. C. Mines of Linden,
J. C. Kennedy 01 Koese and J. C. Al-
britlon of Yorktown.
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Ind., and is
kidnappers.
CURTIS® FIELD, N. V., Feb. 5 i
(AP)—Captain Frank M. Hawks ar-i
mod at 2-5!': 29 p. m., today after aj
non-stop, flight t-om Lob Angeles.
Capt. fiawks' time was 35 minutes I
and 31 seconds better than the rec- j
ord of IS hours and 5X minutes set j ,{ere 10.vear-old Edith Mae Diei-
b> Col. Art Goehel hist summer in
f. similar Lockheed plane. ,lorf- who disappeared from the
— j strt| ts while delivering newspapers
CVRTISS FIELD. N. V.. Feb. 6 Weat Terre
(AP) —Captain Fra ik M. Hawks,;
transcontinental flier, was reported | teare(' a victim of
over Curtiss Field ;'.t 2:55 p. m.. Search throughout western Indiana J
aft?!1 his flight f om Los Angeles. j has been instituted, with hundreds)^
When the plane came over tlie ' <<f people hunting in the woods,
field 40. minutes less time had j creeks and cities for her body. Her
"ks took to the air
| stains, found on
! seron creek the day after she dis-
appeared, is the only clue thus far.
U. S. MARSHALL
APPOINTMENT
COST SI ,500
Postmasterships in Mississippi
Cost As High as $2,000
Is Charge
| in West
feared a victim
WASHINGTON', Feb. 5 (AP)—A.
Russell, former postmaster at j
Magee, Miss., told a senate commit-j
tee investigating patronage today j
i _ ,, „ li.irl*t- t„,.b <, iti ..ir' , , 'hat he had paid $1,500 to obtain ap-
elapsed since Ha .vkk took to tlie air , pjiper bap, covered with blood * ¥. .. , . .. _ v
• t * ..i 11 ,,a... (.n(llw| #nnk 1 poin ment as United States Marshal
in Los Antelcs than Ait Goebe took I „tains found on Ulc. banks of Bu 1
to mrke the record (light Hawks set
'oft'C'fS *B8£C Goelk-l's record was IS
hour.- anr1 58 minutes.
SENATE WROTE
AMENDMENT TO
CRUISER BILL
Favors Treaty With Principal
Naval Powers to Belligerents-
Neutrals
BIG TAX REFUNDS
Bill Provides Huge Sum For
Presidential Inauiry Into
Prohibition Enforcement
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5, (IP)— The j
house and senate conferees on the ■
deficienry bill failed to agree today j
on the senate amendment to provide j
$2*1,000,000 for dry law euforce-j
ment.
The $24,000,000 item was placed !
in the bill against the wishes of i
Secretary Mellon, who argued a plan <
for expending it should first be for- j
mulated. A move to have the house i
vote directly upon it failed several |
days ago.
J After today's conference the sen-
ate conferees prepared to return the
litem to the senate for reconsidera-
tion.
| The majority of the spokesmen for [
LINDY TO PANAMA
T
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh will blaze still another
He's pictured here at Curtiss Field, L. I while- a
his plane for the hop to Miami, where he will fl>
aero
tnechann
tirsi
5 I he .skie«.
warms up
plane over
a new international air ma
Several passengers and a
him on the flight.
1 route between the United State^
co-pilot and a radio operator w
and Panama, and
11 accompany !
DEMAND FOR
STANDARD OIL
STOCK CAUSE
First Transaction Of Day Was
Not Completed Until
Afternoon
$3.00 IS GAIN
Announcement of Stock and
Cash Dividend Came With-
out Warning
NEW YORK, Feb. o (AP)—The
i New York curb market was thrown
| into such a tumult, by a rush to buy
I the common stoc k of the Standard
j Oil company of Indiana that the first,
{transaction was not straightened out
I until after 1 o'clock, when a sale of
! 70,000 shares at $1 00.25 a share, an
j overnight k~ in of $4.25, was finally
j arranged. Tile feverish demand for
| the if.sue resulted from the declara-
| tion yesterday of i 5') per cent stock
in e\tru cash dividend.
NEW YO?lK. Feb. 5 (AP)—Cur-
tiso tmd Roosevelt flying fields were!
waiting at 1 o'clock this afternoon |
tor Captain Frank M. Hawks who j
left l/os Angeles late yesterday on an
attempted non-stop transcontinental
hope which lie hoped would be a
record breaker.
The last definite word from the!
aviy to.\ whe had planned to reach |
Ilia soal before neon, came last eve-1
ning from Tjcson, Ari?.
Ho was sighted there at !):0S p. m.
She is one of nine children of Fred j a) committeeman lor Mississippi who |the
Dierdorf, a mail carrier.
HOIISTOII POLICE
ARREST 412 III
VICE DRIVE
in Mississippi
The money. h° said, was given to!lhe house refused to consider the
Pen- .' W. Howard, republican nation- I increase in funds for enforcement of
dry law. The senate conferees
! hat; been acquittce! of one charge and I again demanded that, the house be
j face; another accusation growing out|given an opportunity to vote direct-
of alleged payments for postmaster- jly on the measure.
[ shi,) appointment. j Chairman Warren of the senate ap-
After serving five months, Russell jpropriations committee indicated he
| said, he resigned because he could jmight g() before the senate again to
HOUSTON Fell. 5 (AP) - Police
[ today had arrested 412 persons since
| Saturday nignt in an effort to rid
I Houston of undesirable characters,
j Forty-seven persons were sent to
ith< city prison farm Monday after
i trial for vagrancy. Thirty other per-
j sons suspected o£ eimes were held
for nvestigaf ior. and the jail was
crannied with men and women while
I thee' criminal records In other cities
Iwer checked
(Continued on Page 2 1
C. OF C. HEADS
WILL HOLD HEX!
MEETING HERE
Borger to Get Next Meeting
Of Panhandle Association; Asked Court Detain
Date to be Announced ,
Mrs. Northcott For
Borger was selected as the next ,
meeting place for the PafihanJIle
Commercial Secretaries' association!
at the final session of the organiza-
tion hold in Amarillo Tuesday after-
noon according to Information given .
out today by O. (I. Cranville, secre- j
tary of the Borger chamber of com- mu.-der.
merce, following his return here. j Northcott .uis declared he will re-
Date for the next meeting was not j call Mrs. Sarah l.ouisa Northcott and
set, but will be announced later by j Cyrus Northcott. bis father.
the new program committee com-1 He asked Hie court <o detain Mrs.
posed of Granville, Guy Hill and ! Northcott, v.no i; serving lite in San
Bob Anglin. The next convention was i Quentin prison for murder, until the
brought to Borger through the el' -; 'dose of the .rial
l'orts of Granville. | "ev ;,Rain t0 ™n">at "ny l10" . „ in Mar(.,.
the stale may develop in rebuttal. in March.
iv i
i not agree ' vith Howard's lieu ten-
! ants and could not name his depu- j
I tie.',. .1. Ci. Buchanan, who succeed-
i ed b jn as nn rshal, Russell said, paid
! $2,000 to get the job.
I Russell also testified that D. W.
I Duckworth, postmaster at Menden-
' hall. Miss, paid S. D. Redmond, a
ask for new instructions but senate
j leaders doubted whether any ma-
5 terial change could be made ill the
I overwhelming vote by which the in-
| crease was first ordered.
The bill in dispute also carries
($75,000,000 for tax refunds and
Bill Lessening Restriction
Of Search And Seizure Law
Now Facing Final Passage
I member of Howard's executive com-} ?260,000 for a presidential inquiry
(Continued on Page Two).
CHINA-JAPAN
IN AGREEMENT
ON DISORDERS
i into prohibition.
J. C. Rothwell Joins
The Herald Staff
SENATE VOTES
DOWN REDDEST
OF COOLIBGE
Bill Now Before Senate
| AUSTIN, I rb 5 (APi Two bills
I held attention ir the legislature to-
day.
The Crave., bill lessening the re-
strictions on se::rch and seizure of
liquor was facing final passage in the
I house.
Suporters of the measure failed
j yesterday to muster the necessary
two-thirds majority to suspend the;
rules, after they had won the ap-1
Cai - plause of a group of W ('. T. ('
J. ('. Rothwell, a young newspa-
j per man from Waiters, Oklahoma,
j arrived in Borger yesterday after-
: noon to become a member of The
| Herald staff and will work in the
j capacity of city editor and report-
| er.
SHANGHAI, Feb. 5. (/P)—Repre- j Mr Rothwell is an Oklahoma
i sen tat Ives of the Chinese Nationalist j university man having taken a course
Further Questioning Covernmon. and Japan succeeded to-1'" JoUrnl;"1sm( addition to
Ulav in reaching an agreement on the |hi" tra:mn* he has har
. , , ,. . . ,r ■„ practical experience on some of
i subiect ot the disorders at Tsinan- t * . ... , . ,.
" J the leading dailies and weeklies of
I I''u lilKt jhis native state and a as also at
Terms of the settlement were not j on<j Ume on ,h(; 8(aff of u
I divulged, but it is believed each na
tion agreed to compensate the oth-
er for losses sustained by their Na-
tionals pt Tsinan-Fu attlie out-
break ot the disorders and subse-
quent Japanese bombardment.
Apologies were waived by both
nations, it is understood, and there
so that I may call is a likelihood that Japanese troops
facts will be withdrawn fro mtlie district
ries Provision Voted By
House on Construction
WASHINGTON, Feb. o (/}')—
Although Piv.siflrnt ( oolid^r dors
not approve of the cruiser con-
striirtion hill willi the time restric-
tion .< lause included, he doeK not
wish to be understood as saying
positively that lie will \eto the
measure.
I mem hers in 'he qullery hy engrossing
! J i
The senate wa; ready to consider
(Continued on page five)
Baker To Oklahoma
Teachers' Meeting
NEW YORK, Feb. 5 (AP)—Trad-
! mg in the common stock of the Stan-
dard oil i-onipa'H of Indiana was
t completely demoralized on the New
j York curb n.arket today by the tre-
| ineiuiotts volume of buying orders
! placed overniirh' ar result of the de-
claration after the close of the mar-
: ket yesterday of a GO per cent stock
and an extra cash dividend. No open-
ing price hH<; been decided upon at 1
o'clock this afternoon, with the ses-
sion more than half over.
The stock mounted yesterday to
$96, a gain rf $•'! for the day. It has
recently sold on * he curb as high as
$10 '. which gave rise to reports that
the Rockefeller ued Stew.irt interests
were contesting for control of the
(Continued on Page 2)
CONSUL'S WIFE
AMONG THOSE
HELD BY SNOW
RIVERSIDE. Cal., Feb. 5 (AP) —
His major Jefev-ie apparently ex-
hausted, Gordon Stewart Northcott
todav relied upor "minor witnesses"
in nis tight iga'tist charges of boy
settlement wei< ,lr" ion(, time on the staff of a Wichita
Falls newspaper.
Mr. Rothwell has done feature
work, and is also well known in
Oklahoma newspaper circles as a
sports writer. He comes to Borger
after being offered places on other
larger newspapers and states that
he felt he would like to work in
this city and state.
Rejection of a proposal to secur.
(Continued from page 12)
BE EDITOR
A WHILE
If you think the editor of The
Herald lino n cinch, just ti\v\vonr
hand n> only one of his daily du-
ties—that of picking a suitable
title to the editorial cartoon.
Beginning today The Herald Is
printing a dailj automotive car-
toon. Itut the editor lias derided
to leave the title to Ills readers.
Turn to pag- two, look over the
cartoon there and send in what
title you think would fit it best.
For the most appropriate title The
Herald will i^lve you $1.00.
At the end of the series there
will be « grand prize for the best
Of all titles submitted. So don't
slo| at the first one. Try your
hand at nil. You may heat the ed-
itor at Ills owr game.
LINDBERGH LEAVES BELIZE
ON SECOND LAP OF AIRMAIL
FLIGHT FROM U. S. PANAMA
Despite His Desire To Make His Landing A
Purely Business Affair He
Was Feted
Dan Baket, principal of the Borger
high school, cxepets to depart Wed-
j nesday afternoon for Oklahoma City,
WASHINGTON, Feb. f>. (fl') The. j okl t . where lie •.rill attend the an-
senate wrote into the Cruiser Bill i nual meeting of Oklahoma peda-
today a statement that it favors a ; gogues. He will spend the entire
treaty with the principal naval pow- i we *k-end there
ers to regulate the condui t ot bel- Baker is a formt r Oklahoma si liool
Iigerents and neutrals at sea. man, and still n aiutaite an interest
Sooner I how the passengers are faring has
' been cut otf.
CONSTAN
Mrs Charles I''
I A me i lean consul
j is among hut dree
1 have been strand
! pean t ra i'ls whic
]bound in the Thi
i past live days.
The trains are
! mil
I I in<
INOPLE. Feb 5 (AP)
Allen, wife of the
at Constantinople,
of passengers who
1 ajn various Euro-
have been suow-
eiatt wilds for 'lie
blocked about 100
from Constantinople. Telegraph
hav broken down and news of
MIAMI. Fla., Feb. 5. (/p) Pan-
American Airways. Inc., reported at
1:15 o'clock the receipt of a mes-
sage announcing Col. Lli^dhergh's
departure from Tela for San Maren-
ko bay at 10:40 o'clock Central
time, after a stop of !>7 minutes.
The ship was making good time and
the weather was continuing clear,
the message said. The distance from
Tela lo San Mrenr.o hay is 18i> air
miles.
i'1,k;ht i,og
(My The Associated Press)
FEBRUARY I
Departed Miami, Fla., fi OS a. ni.
E. S. T.
Arrivod Havjna, Cuba, S: 21 p
in., E. S. t.
Departed Havana. Cuba, 9:25
m., E. s. t.
Arrived Belize, British Honduras,
Chamber of Commerce
Directors Meeting For
Tonight Is Postponed
Announcement is made today of
the postponement of the Chamber
of Commerce directors, meeting
scheduled for tonight on account of
the inclement weather.
The regular meeting night falls
on the first and third Tuesdays in
each month and unless there is a
call for a special meeting there will
be no meeting until the next regular
date on the third Tuesday night of
Ibis month.
Medical Association
In Meeting Tonight
Dr. L. C. Hansen, secretary of
the Hutchinson Count Medical As-
sociation, announces a meeting of
the association tonight at 8 o'clock
at the city hall.
Dr. Hansen urges a full attend-
ance at the meeting tonight statin-',
that business of importance is to
come before the body.
Washington. Feb. 3 (api—The
sensie today neared a vote on the j
cruiser ionstruciion bill after side-;
tracking by an overwhelming ma-|
joritv yesterday the request of Pres-.
idea;, Coolidge to have eliminated!
the time clause in the measure re-
quiring construction of the ships
called for to begin before July 1.
19,11.
Tlve bill now curries the provision
voted by the house that five of the-1
fifteen cruis«-rs - hall be put under- j
school
sai
(Continued On Page Two)
TROOPS CALLED
TO BLOCK .
KIDNAPPERS I
BOMBAY, India. Feb. r> (AP)
Tro( |.s were called out. today toj
maintain order in the mill district!:
here where reports of kidnaping of <
chil(*rcn tor sacrificial purposes by :
Pathms, or Indian Mohammedans, |
hav led to disorders.
Tiie stories current said the Pa-
thaf." had kidnaped a number of In-
dian children, intending to sacrifice
them in connection with the construc-
tion of a new bridge. A general
strike was declared yesterday, but |
wot' was resum d today at. some'
railway workshops and some of the!
mills.
CHANCE FOR THE
WISE-CRACKERS!
Many an incident that caught our attention and
caused a fleeting comment would have made a good
cartoon had it been remembered and put down on
paper. Better still, that crisp observation the incident
aroused might have mad
a good title for the
toon. But nine times
of ten, these are
gone and forgotten.
Now, however, Th<
Herald will give you aj
chance to lest your critic-!
al abilities in a series of
daily sketches showing
.just such incidents lhat,
happening unexpectedly,
might have aroused a
particularly appropriate
comment from you.
Each day a prize of
$1.00 will be awarded
to the person submitting
the best title 1o the sketch
the week a grand prize
title of all.
I he first of these sketches will
Herald today. Turn to page two.
.'
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printed, and at the end of
awarded for the best
found
The
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Castleberry, H. E. Borger Daily Herald (Borger, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 63, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 5, 1929, newspaper, February 5, 1929; Borger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth209666/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hutchinson County Library, Borger Branch.