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Borger Daily Hcrali
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THE CARBON BLACK CENTER OF THE WORLD
Vol. 20— No. 64
NEA Service
Associated Press
Borger, Texas, Thursday, February 7, 1946
(Ten Pages Today)
Price 5c
HIE
Truman Says Nomination
Will Not Be Withdrawn
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7—(AP)—President Truman said
flatly today he will not withdraw Edwin W. Pauley's nomina-
tion as navy undersecretary.
The president said that Interior Secretary Harold L.
Ickes had not consulted him in advance concerning his tes-
timony criticizing Pauley but that he did not believe this
__ would change his relationship
Navy Moves wlth Icke"
I He told a news conference ho
V\V ■ was backing up Mr. Pauley and
PfAtn U|nn| thought lie was an honest man
Jk 1 Ulll A let III and a very capable administra-
tor who did a magnificent job
*0 - as Reparations Administrator.
.!! ^ n Pff 11 P^f Ickes can very well be mistaken
as ^i] ns tjje resj 0j USi Tru.
man added.
The interior secretary has told
the Senate Naval Committee,
which is considering Pauley's
nomination, that Pauley had ad-
vised him he could raise $300,000
in Democratic campaign funds
Petroleum Company, effective-at} from California oil men if they
BARTLESVILLE, Feb.7—'Spec-
ial to the Herald) —The Navy De-
partment has released all posses-
sion and operation of the Okmul-
gee, Oklahoma, refinery of Phillips
12:01 a. m. today.
This withdrawal is in response
to a joint request made by Local
498, Oil Workers International
Union of the CIO and the com-
pany. The Navy seized the plant
oji October 5, 1945, six days after
a shutdown of all maintenance
and operating equipment occured
as a result of strike and picketing
by union employees.
The new working agreement
signed by both union and manage-
ment will go into effect on Febru-
ary 24. It reduces working hours
from 48 to 40 per week and in
got assurance that the government
would not file a suit seeking title
to ticlelands oil reserves.
?-Meanwhile Senate Republi-
cans called today for a look at
tho qualifications of George E.
Allen, President Truman's friend
and personal adviser, lo serve
as a director of the vast Re-
construction Finance Corpora-
tion.
Senator Tobey <R-NH>, who
asked the Banking Committee to
conduct hearings on Allen's nom-
creases basic wage rates of hourly I ination, entered the new fight di-
paid employees 18 percent plus a
four cent and six cent shift differ-
ential for evening and night shifts,
respectively.
Ken Benneii Band
To Be Feature Of
** .• f *71 -j, .m* ' •
Veterans' Dance
Sponsored by returned veterans,
the Sweetheart Valentine Ball on
February 14, at the American Le-
gion Hall, will feature the music
of the popular Ken Bennett and
his radio recording orchestra.
Open to the public, the dance
hall will be decorated in typical
valentine setting and will be
formal.
"Every one is invited to the
fiance who loves the smooth music
of the popular orchestra and the
Sweetheart a man brings to the
dance can either be his wife, rel-
ative, or a real sweetheart." said
rectly from a still unsettled dis-
pute over Edwin W. Pauley's ap-
pointment as undersecretary of the
Navy.
Allen has been a White House
intimate during both the Roosevelt
and Truman administrations. A
native of Mississippi, he is a fab-
ulous story spinner.
Tobey has given no advance
notice of the trend of his ques-
tioning, but othev Republicans in-
dicated they wanted to know more
about the directorships Allen is
reported to hold in a number of
large corporations.
Still another recent Truman
nomination awaits hearings be-
fore a Senate Banking Subcom-
mittee — that of Commodore
James K. Vardaman, Jr., the
President's Naval aide, for a
14-year term on the Federal Re-
serve Board. The subcommittee
has not yet been named.
The Pauley hearings had been
slated to resume today, but a de-
cision to postpone them until next
week was made at a meeting of
one of the veterans on the com Democratic members of the Na-
mittee.
Tickets are available fit $2.20
per couple at the following places:
Tom Hoodenpyle at the American
Legion Hall; Barney's No. 1 and
2 Pharmacy; Znle's Jewelry Store;
City Drug Store; and in Phillips
at the Acme Lumber Company.
Decorations have been obtained
by the entertainment committee
of the local Legion post and will
be installed prior to dance time.
Horns and other assorted noise
makers will be given to the at-
tendants at the door.
Mary E. Jackson, 28,
And Infant Son Die
In Local Hospital
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Jackson,
28, and her infant' son, died at a
local hospital early this morn-
ing.
Mrs. Jackson, wife of D. A.
Jackson, Jr., prominent rancher
of Spearman, had been a resident
of that community all her life. She
graduated from the Spearman
schools and attended West Texas
State. She was a member of the
Baptist church.
Besides her husband, she is
survived by one son, Frederick
Alvin Jackson. h£r parents. Mr.
and Mrs. F. W. Brandt of Spear-
man, one sister, Jewell.-Bradt and
one brother, William Brandt.
Funeral services will be con-
ducted ot the Union Church at
Spearman at 2:30 p.m. Friday with
the Rev. Samuel Malone offici-
ating. Interment in the Hansford
cemetery will be under the direc-
tion of Blackburn-Shaw.
Union, Employers Agree
To Settle Tug Dispute
NEW YORK. Feb. 7—f/P)—Rep-
resentatives of the union and em-
ployers involved in the throe-day
old tugboat striRe in New York
harbor announced early today
they had agreed to a proposal for
settlement of the dispute which
the union will submit to a refer-
endum meeting tomorrow.
Details of the proposal were not
disclosed.
The announcement came alter
an all-night conference with city
Officials.
val Committee last night.
Wife Testifies
To 'Gentleness'
Of Jap General
MANILA, Feb. 7—</P)—Lt. Gen.
Masaharu Homma, who has ac-
cepted full moral responsibility
for the Bataan march of
death, was described today by his
wife as so gentle that he shunned
hunting as a sport.
Homma, charged with responsi-
bility for the horible deaths of
67,000 Americans and Filipinos in
his short tenure as commander of
the Philippines, bent and convuls-
ed with tears as his pretty wife
testified.
"I am proud of the fact that I
am the wife of General Homma. I
have one daughter and my one
wish is that some day she will
marry a man like the general."
A tear glistening in her own eye,
the tiny kimona-clad Japanese
woman animatedly and earnestly
testified that Homma thrice tried
"to make peace"—-after the fall of
Nanking, after Hankow fell, and
again when the Kuniako Koiso
cabinet was formed after the loss
of Saipan.
Homma, admittedly in disfavor
with the war-making Hideki Tojo
party, was removed as Philippines
commander "much sooner than he
expected and never was given any
other position," she added.
Earlier today, Homma tried to
shift the blame for atrocities com-
mitted by Japanese soldiers in
Manila to the man who command-
ed military police and civil af-
fairs there.
Concluding two days on the
stand in.his own defense against
war crimes charges, Homma said
he believed he was "absolved
from responsibility" for atrocities
that occured in Manila during the
time he was on Bataan, March 1
to May 9, 1942.
A General Hayashi was in charge
of I lie military government in
Manila and consequently was re-
sponsible for military police and
civil affairs, the general testified.
DAV Commander
Improving After
Injured Tuesday
Injured Tuesday afternoon when
a loaded 55 gallon steel barrel
fell across his body, the eondition
of Tom J- Davis, commander of
the Jackson Tietz Chapter No. 30,
Disabled American Veterans, was
reported to be improved today by
local hospital attendants.
An employee of the Phillips
Alamo Refinery, Mr. Davis was
helping to unload the barrels from
a freight car when one slipped
from the crewmen's clutches and
struck him.
He received bruises and lacer-
ations, according to hospital at-
tendants, and the results of X-rays
taken of the injured commander
were not revealed today.
A veteran of World War I,
Davis is also quartermaster of
Adobe Walls Post No. 1789. Vet-
erans of Foreign Wars and has
been active in numerous veterans
affairs. ;
He attended the first annivers-
ary and auxiliary chapter presen-
tation banquet of the J. E. Pret-
zsch Chapter No. 26, DAV, at the
Capitol Hotel on Feb. 1, with
Burt Ryder, senior vice-com-
mander of the local DAV post, and
a guest, Bernard Calhoun of Bor-
ger.
The trio took with them 19 car-
tons of cigarettes i>>r delivery to
the Veterans Hospital in Amarillo.
The cigarettes were donated by
the local chapter, and by both
the white and colored posts of the
local VFW, Briggs Pharmacy, and
Ostrom and Fite at Phillips.
32 Unaccounted
For As Last Of
Survivors Land
KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Feb. 7—
(/P)—Thirty-two persons were un-
accounted for when rescue vessels
brought to Seward the last known
load of survivors from the wreck-
ed liner Yukon last night, and
today the crew and passenger
lists were being checked and re-
checked to learn the names of the
missing.
The rescuers had found no bod-
ies and had removed the last of
the Yukon's crew and passengers
from the grounded, broken vessel
and from the nearby shore.
The passengers and crew, ac-
cording to lists announced by the
Alaska Steamship Company and
the Army, numbered 497.
The Coast Guard report from
Seward said it was not known as
yet whether all the crewmen and
passengers listed actually had been
aboard when the Yukon sailed
Sunday night from Seward, seven
hours before she ran aground on
the storm-beaten rocks in John-
stone Bay.
The cutter Onondaga messaged
late yesterday that all survivors
had been rescued and the Yukon
abandoned. There had been re-
ports from rescued passengers and
crewmen that casualties had been
seen, but none of these could be
verified.
Three crewmen pulled from the
water by a tug after the Yukon
broke in two Monday night said
they thought several were lost,
one man estimating the number at
20 or more. One passenger said he
had been told three bodies were
recovered.
Homma Asks Court
To Halt Trial In
Military Tribunal
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 —(A')—
Lt. Gen. Masaharu Homma, Jap-
anese war leader charged with
Condoning the Bataan death
march, today asked the supreme
court to halt his trial before on
American military commission in
Manila.
Homma also asked the high tri-
bunal, by airmail^ that he be
taken out of the hands of the mil-
itary and that the supreme court
review a refusal by the Philip-
pine court to grant him a writ of
habeas corpus.
The general petitions were
placed in the mail in Manila late
In January, while the supreme
court was considering similar
petitions filed by Japanese Gen-
eral Tomoyuki Yamashita, who
is under death sentence as a war
criminal.
The high tribunal last Monday
rejected all of Yamashita's con-
tentions.
Homma'i petitions were placed
before the justices immediately
after their arrival today, but the
court is expected to announce
later whether It will hear argu-
ment on them or reject them.
If the petitions arc rejected,
the court may base its action on
the decision reached in Yam-
ashita's case.
Oh, Yes, the Turmoil Will Subside, Eventually
, HidHER
meet
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Passes ..
Case Bill
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 — W)—
The house today passed 257 to 155
the hotly-disputed Case bill to
curb and seek settlements of labor
strife.
Final action came on a roll
call vote, sending the far-reach-
ing strike control legislation to
the senate. There, its foes pre-
dict it will meet tough sledding.
Just before the conclusive bal-
lot. members shouted down a mo-
tion by Rep. Baldwin (R-NY1 to
send the bill back to the labor com-
mittee for further study.
The measure, by Rep. Case <R-
SD), won tentative approval late
yesterday, 197-115.
But the clinching vote was de-
layed until today when Rep.
Hoffman (R-Mich) insisted thai
the lengthy, much-amended bill
be read to the house in its en-
tirety.
The Case proposal, as it now
stands, would:
1. Create a federal mediation
board with authority to step into
major labor disputes and forbid
strikes or lockouts for 30 days.
2. Permit wide use of court in-
junctions in enforcing the cooling
off period, preventing violence or
insuring movement of perishable
goods.
3. Provide for civii suits against
either labor or management for
breaking contracts.
4. Outlaw violence in picketing
by either side.
5. Ban boycotts used to force
disputants to come to terms Spon-
sors said this would prevent many
jurisdictional controversies.
6. Deny employe status to
unions of supervisory workers.
Case's backers—a powerful coal-
ition of republicans and southern
democrats—were clearly in con-
trol of the voting on more than a
score of suggested modifications
and substitutes.
Opponents—mainly close friends
of organized labor — fought the
plan bitterly.
But when the test votes came,
about all they accomplished was
slight modification of the provis-
ions applying to court Injunctions.
Case told a reporter he believ-
ed the many amendments adopted
improved the bill without chang-
ing its basiq* policy.
Motive Told
FORMER PRESIDENT OF
STOCK EXCHANGE DIES
NEW YORK, Feb. 7—(/P)—Hen-
ry G. S. Noble, 80, president of the
New York Stock Exchange In the
First World War, died yesterday.
A member of the exchange for
56 years before his retirement in
1938, Noble was a member of •
family that held a membership
for more than 100 years.
NUERNBERG, Feb. 7—UPi—1The
British government disclosed to
the international military tribunal
today that Rudolf Hess flew to
Scotland in 1941 with proposals to
unseat the Churchill government
and make peace with a new cabi-
net which would assure the Nazis
a free hand in Europe.
Reports of i n t e rrogation of
Hess, obtained after he parachut-
ed into Scotland on May 12, 1941,
disclosed that the Nazi leader
came to convince the British that
"Hitler would sincerely regret the
collapse of the British Empire."
He also sought to show the Brit-
ish that "avaricious Americans"had
evil designs on the empire and that
"Canada would certainly be in-
corporated in the United States."
Hess, a scarecrow figure in a
second hand suit, clutched his
hands on the prisoner's dock rail
as <a British army officer demand-
ed his punishment as one of the 22
Nazi defendants here.
Captured minutes of a conversa-
tion between former foreign minis-
ter Joachim Von Ribbentrop and
Benito Mussolini in Rome three
days after the flight said Hess had
sent a farewell letter to Hitler
promising to "use Great Britain
Fascist circles to persuade the
British to give in."
Ribbentrop told Mussolini, how-
ever, that Hitler became very an-
gry and declared he "would have
Hess shot immediately if he re-
turned to Germany."
Charg
English Dean Denies
Derogatory Statements
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7—~
President Truman made public to-
day a letter from the Dean of Can-
terbury in England, categorically
denying he had ever said that the
United States was 100 years be-
hind the rest of the world in
everything but religion and 150
years behind in that.
The president read the letter
from Dean Hewlett Johnson at his
news conference and called it most
interesting. It was under date of
January 31.
The Dean praised American
achievement and said Europe could
learn many things from this coun-
try.
* Hospital Notes
Hospital reports today include
the following medical and surgical
petftais:
NOTH PLAINS
Medical
Mrs. B. A. Jackson, Mrs. Lela
Oedell Philan, Daniel McQueen,
Ralph Upson.
Surgical •
Leon Kern, Mrs. J. C. Martin,
Mrs. Zetta Schrimsher, Ruby C.
Joplln.
PANTEX
Stanley Barksdale
LONDON, Feb. 7 — (/P)— The
United Nations Security Council,
its first crisis passed with the so-
lution of the Russian-British dis-
pute over Greece, moved on to-
day to consideration of the Soviet
Ukraine charge that British troops
in Indonesia were endangering the
peace.
High officials said privately
that this controversy might be
"an even tougher diplomatic nut
to crack" than was Russia's al-
legation that the British were
jeopardising world security by
maintaining forces in Greece.
The 11-nation council was call-
ed into session at 5 p- in. (11 a. m.
CST) and the first item on the
agenda was the Ukrainian com-
plaint.
In the background of the Indo-
nesian controversy, however, was
the Soviet Union's polity calling
for the Independence of colonial
peoples. Opponents of British
action in Java have charged that
British forces were being used to
keep the Indonesians under Dutch
domination.
The British, on the other hand,
have insisted that their forces
were in Indonesia to preserve or-
der while Japanese troops were
removed and allied internees and
prisoners of war were rescued.
Tho British case had the back-
ing of the Netherlands govern-
ment. The unrecognised Indo-
nesian government also has de-
clared that British troops should
remain In Java until all Japa-
nese troops are disarmed and
removed.
Despite the difficulties of the
Indonesian ease, the council faced
it with one distinct advantage, and
that was the experience they had
gained in settling the Greek dis-
pute without splitting the unity
of the big powers.
The Russians yielded on every
major charge against Britain as
the council rttolved the Greek
crisis last night.
British Foreign Secretary Ern-
est Bevin gave ground, too, in not
pressing for formal council action
to exonerate Britain of the charge.
METHODIST MENS* SOCIAL
POSTPONED UNTIL FEB. IS
Methodist Men's Fellowship
banquet, originally scheduled
for tomorrow night, has been
postponed one week until Fri-
day, Feb. 15, at 7 p.m. in the
basement of the Borger Metho-
dist church, Jimmle Hill, presi-
dent, announced today.
Union Heads Decline To
Commit Acceptance Until
Consulted By President
WASHINGTON. Feb. 7—(AP)—President Truman said
today he hoped to have a formula ready in a day or two to
halt the steel ?nd other big strikes.
Responding to questions at a news conference, the presi-
dent said the formula under consideration is not a completely
new wage-price plan, but rather one for meeting the situation
the nation is faced with now. "— —
Two Men Burn
To Death In
Houston Fire
He added he believed it can be
worked out in the next few days.
Asked by a reporter if it is a
"big steel formula," Mr. Truman
said he had not heard of that.
The president said the whole
question is one of production. All
the people are aware, he added,
of the need for production.
If we get mass production now,
he said, the situation will adjust
itself. There will be no reason for
a new wage-price formula then,
he stated.
Mr. Truman will confer at 3:30
p. m. 'EST) today with Philip
Murray, president of the CIO and
the Steelworkers Union.
Top men of both the CIO and
AFL said today they must see
the government's new price-
wage declaration before they
can commit their striking union-
ists to accept it.
As announcement of the relax-
ed hpld-the-lirie policy ran into
still further delay, CIO President
Philip Murray and AFL Chief
William Green told a reporter in
separate interviews they had not
been consulted by the administra-
tion.*; Hence, they added, they
can make no pledges for their
members.
Murray at the same time de-
clined any comment on repoi
that W has been meeting private*!
ly with steel executives in an ef-
fort to arrive at some basis for
settling the strike of 750,000 CIO
Steelworkers which began Janu-
ary 21.
Although officials close to t h e
administration said no basic dis-
agreements remained over the
new wage-price decree, OPA chief
Chester Bowles told newsmen yes-
terday it might not be ready be-
fore the end of the week.
Mr. Truman scheduled a news
conference for 9:30 a. rn: (CST),
but few expected him to break
the details of his plan at that time.
One official who has been in
on the talks said that a tenta-
tive draft continued a provision
calling for an agreement by la-
bor cn a wage increase ceiling
comparable to the 17 per cent
represented by the 18 1-2-cent-
an-hour hike which Mr. Tru-
man recommended for steel—
or some figure in that neighbor-
hood.
Labor's reaction to any such
plan is likely to be divided. Mur-
ray agreed to the steel figure.
The ClO-Packinghouse Work-
ers, who also struck over wage
demands but are working under
government seizure at present, dis-
like percentage increases. They
say the low-paid workers who
most need the raise get the least
out of percentage boosts.
Condron To Speak
On Interests Of
Nation In Forum
HOUSTON, Feb. 7—</P) — Two
men burned to death and 17 suf-
fered severe burns when a dredge
boat caught fire following a terrif-
ie explosion at the General Amer-
ican tank storage and terminal
docks on the ship channel last
night.
Of those burned, two are in a
critical condition and seven others
are in a serious condition in a hos-
pital. Eight men were treated at
the hospital for burns and releas-
ed.
All of the injured men were
aboard the Cartagena, according to
|E. M. Wennberg, superintendent
of the craft. *3%
The dead were tentatively iden-
tified as A, J. Tircuit of Plaque
mine, La.. captain of the tug, May,
one of- the three owned by the
dredging firm; and Rube Coleman,
deckhand on the May.
Wctmbi i g said he wou.l i attempt
Suffering severe burns and in a
critical condition in the hospital
are Anthony Crugerias, 52, Hous-
ton, and Willie Reed Duncan, 44,
Galveston.
Wennberg said he had investi-
gated the fire and It must have
started either from a spark .from
a welder's torch on a nearby
barge, or from a cigarette thrown
on the water.
Many of the seriously burned
men jumped overboard and fought
the channel waters for several
minutes before being picked up by
tugs in the vicinity.
Borgan Killed In
Molorcycle-Aulo
Crash Near Gulf
Robert Wells, 26, Borgan, was
killed instantly last night near
Galveston, Texas an a motorcycle
when hit by an auto on the high-
way.
A former employee of the Pow-
ell Funeral Home and the South-
western Public Service Company,
he is survived by his wife and two
children, Port Arthur; Newman
Wells, father, Borger: grandpar-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Wells,
Borger; Albert Wells, an uncle,
Borger, and brother-in-law, Or-
ville Watkins, Borger.
According to a telephone con-
versation between the Minton Fun-
eral Home here and a funeral
home in Port Arthur, the body
might be sent to Borger for funer-
al services. .
f)r. S. H. Condron, of the de-
partment of economics and govern-
ment. at West Texas State college,
Canyon, will be the principal
speaker at the open forum Friday
night at 8 o'clock in the county
library. As an introduction to the
discussion, Dr. Condon will give a
survey of the present national in-
terests.
This will be the fifth in series
of lectures on post-war world and
community building given under
the auspices of the U. S. O. The
meetings are open to the public.
On Friday, February 15, Dr.
Hayes A. Richardson, head of the
department of welfare at Kansas
City, Missouri, will be guest speak-
er at the forum. Dr. Richardson
will also be a guest of the KI-
wanis club at their noon meeting,
and a banquet in his honor will be
given at 6 p. m. at the Black hotel
preceding the lecture. A program
schedule for the day will be an-
nounced at a later date,
a,. 7' •
13 YEAR-OLD PRIVATE
AWAITS ARMY RELEASE
WICHITA FALLS. Tex., Feb. 7
—Pvt. Ralph Lindsey, Tex-
arkana, today awaited formal dis-
charge from the Armv after offi-
cers at Sheppard Field learned he
was 13 years old.
"I wanted to carrv on the Texas
war tradition," Lindsey said, "but
I gues« I'll have to go back to
school now." *■
R. G. Sweetland, 62,
Dies At Residence;
Last Rites Pending
Roy G. Sweetland, 62, passed
away at his home at 712 Monroe
at 11 p. m. yesterday following n
sudden illne«s.
A former bookkeeper for Jeff
Wilson's garage, he is survived by
a sister in Riverside, California^
The body is resting at the Min-
ton Funeral Home pending notifi-
cation of the sister for funeral ar-
rangements.
Youth and Wife Sent
To Prison for Thefts
DALLAS, Feb. 7—</P>— Lester
Wayne Nelson, 21. charged with
numerous cases of robbery in
. . ■ . . ci cie \< ster-
day to 35 years in prison after
pleading guilty to robbery of two
Dallas liquor stores.
His wife, Lurline Patsy Nelson,
also charged with the robberies,
w.i; "ntcticed to five years.
The sentences imposed here will
run concurrently with sentences
already against the pair at Tex-
arkana. Longview and Mount
Pleasant,
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