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THE WEATHEB
WEST TEXAS—Partly eJouWy Sunday tnd
Monday. Hot »o warm In Panhandla Sun.
gtofgrf Patio
+ THE CAMON HACK CENTER OF THI WORLD
Associated Frost Borgor, Tokos, Friday, April 26, 1946
Borgtr Daily
Circulation Dipt. Phono: 12
Othor Depii.: 8 aai 7
(Twenty-Eight Poges Today)
Vol 10-No. 131 NEA Sorvico Associotod rross_P°r^^K —---~ — ~j ~
Italy To Have Basic Naval Fleet
Elaborate Plans for U. S.
Coastal Defense Revealed
Chinese
Armistice
Negotiated
Eleven Registered Cocker Spaniels in One Litter
s .J*
WASHINGTON. Api il 27 —'/V'
__Official plana for an elaborate
off-shore system <>f American de-
tenses tied into the international
security system being developed:
within the United Nations came1
to light today.
CHUNGKING. April 27—id’.—
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek
v“ took a personal hand today in
negotiations to end urmed conflict
in Manchuria, and « Communist
spokesman said a truce mtgni
come by Monday.
REYKJAVIK. Iceland. April
27__,pt — Olaiur Thori. prime
miniiter of Iceland, in a broad-
cast to the nation, said tonight
his country could not grant a
United Stales reauest lor mili-
tary bases in Iceland.
They were revealed in connec-
.me by Monday. (ion with official disclosure that
The Generalissimo hurried hack th united States started negotia-
4 4~ rhonitll). - ........
Grand Jury Probe
Ordered tor Rail
Crash Killing 44
CHICAGO. April 27—'Vi—A
grand jury investigation was cr-
dcred today of a Burlington rail-
road wreck that killed 44 pei'-
sons at nearby Naperville as the
railroad opened its own inquiry
into the worst disaster in the
line's history.
Midnight Pistol Duel
Results in Death lor
Present Past Husbands
The Generalissimo burned oaoc thc Untu?d states started negot.a- nfS7n^fS^‘bathU-ekvcn .meTco^ . ’ ver. ^ J^Uroup“i believed
from a flying vised to Chcngtu, Uons months ago for a permanent registcrcd cocker spaniels. six litter, was just a little bit camera | tm^excepuma#
and conferred at once with Gen- ili(a,.y uir base in Iceland. weeks old puppies owned by Mr. i shy. male i mantel
era. Marshall. U-S envo> to have been re- and Mr,. A. C. White. 415 Lee I The two femajes_and one maJe l P.mlcl.--- -----
Marshal1 met at >jngth^ w.u. ^ M both the A .
Gen. Chou En laf-.'"'sentatives lean and Icelandic governments
the*Dem^craUc Lea^e. which evidently regard as an enforced |
i’ irvingTo medtate the dispute, premature revelation of these d,s-,
S Marshall’s headquarter* said it cussions. The talks are now
bad nil information on anv pro- stalled but presumably will be re-
1)r{.s uut a Communist spokesman turned after Iceland s general elec-
dcclared leaders of his Parly wore tions June 30.
•‘hopeful” an agreement would Meanwhile an American mili-
be reached before Marshall's de- tarv njr base still operates on the
parture for Nanking. strategic Atlantic island under an
“We understand,’ the spoKcs- Alncr|can . Icelandic agreement
man added, "that MM'ShaU s (r,ct jroopS need not he with-
scheduled to go to Nanking Wion- dravvn untij formai conclusion of
day. ... the end of the war. This is pre-
"1/ he goes at that time \ sumed here t0 mean the making
d"ine-ins "there C^mI Rtle°immethate of peace treaties,
hope of halting conflict. But if Inquiry brought this pattern o
delays his departure longer, arrangements aimed primarily at
it ic an ‘indication that progress is security for thc United States:
being made toward settlement.' | j. Leases are now being nego-
(Maj Gen. Pao C'hing-an. Iicad tjated or are projected for a num-
of China’s supreme army head- ber of bases at critical positions
quarters foreign affairs depart- jn the world, ranging from Iceland
merit, told the Associated Press m the North Atlantic to Manus is-
in an interview at Nanking tit at ]and the Australian section of
the quit Harbin rhurs- Southwest Pacific. The state
day on schedule and the C oni- department declined for the time
muntsts seized control of tl’at | b>eins to name all.the ba.ses desir-
North Manchurian city |ed for lease.
(This was the most oflicial v *- I ,, jjases are to be developed
finnalion that HArM* had pass l, foj. pCrmanent peacetime use on
into communist ll,lnf 1 mandated Pacific islands captured
Chunekim- had conceded its loss.) from tlie Japancsc. Thc eventual
Air Minded Kittens .
Make Home in Plane
At Borger Airport
Remainder To Be Split
Among 4 Major Powers
Yugoslavia and Greece
R. d lfopson of Amarillo rins-
ed u surprised eyebrow as he
looked with amazement at the
front seat of his Vultcc BT-I3
airplane Friday afternoon at Bur-
ger Airport. __
eiJr"wh« o*ov e rltau hog The PA HIS. April 27 T The foreign ministers conference
plane here. Hopson asked: ! agreed tonight to leave Italy a basic naval fleet and to divide
How did thev get into my ' the remainder among the four major powers after satisfying
airplane?’’ claims of Yugoslavia and Greece for warships, authoritative
reports said.
The ministers of (he Untied |
States. Britain. France and Russia :
reached an accord on broad gen-
eral proportions of the division.
in a three-hour meeting in which
Russia retreated from a previous
demand for a third of the fleet,
these reports said.
Precise details were not settled
at the meeting.
Part of tile session was given
oven ;o a discussion of the French-
Italian frontier modifications, but j
no agreement was reached on any
of the proposals. The trouble- _
some Trie-to and Italian Colonial NEW YORK April 27 —(/Pi—
question had been sidestepped 'Australia's peppery delegate, Lt.
Coupl d with the announce-j Co, william R. Hodgson, «n-
rnent in Rome that Russia had not' . ,
only acceded to thc United States,
proposals for relaxing Italian!
armistice terms, hut had proposed
even further modifications, the
Soviet action augured well for fu-
ture dealings on thc Italian prob-
lem.
“Your guecs is us good as
mine,” drawled the blushing me-
chanic.
Lying in the seat of the plane
were three Persian kittens, about
a week old. The mother of the
trio apeared on the scene shortly
afterward and eyed the two men
suspiciously as thev looked at thc
kittens.
Hopson claimed that despite the
fact that the kittens’ mother was
an airport mascot, one of the
kitens should he taken by him to
his small daughter.
“After all. thev were horn> In
my propertty. weren’t they?" he
asked.
Hopson is now the owner of a
kitten.
Hodgson
Leaves
Council
HOUSTON. April 27—^’i—The present and past husbands
of an attractive brunette were shot to death here today in
what police said was a midnight pistol duel.
......._ ...... - The traeedy was described bv Mrs. Eula Orelia Winkelman
ne’s history. as the climax to a long series of “interferences with my mar-
JT-JSSS lied life" by her former husband, identified aS an ex-convict
Lou Daniels after railroad offic- kv Edward J. Moellerint;, Houston police supirintindc ,
—j nr.mrhmu na«. identification.
IIIIU VUtlllllOlMCl ----- -
Chungking had conceded
Secrecy Removed
From AAF Bomber
___________ . ials and train crew members pas-
critical positions sed up his scheduled inquiry at
Naperville to attend ttie railroad’s
hearing here.
Daniels, describing the railroad
Inquiry as “a rehearsal of evi-
dence” interrupted the Chicago
hearing to serve subpoenas dir-
ecting railroad officials and crev.-
men to appear hetulM the Du Page
county grand jury at t\ he,ton
Tuesday.
The prosecutor said earlier at
Naperville lie was “not entirely
satisfied” that W. W. Blaine. 68
year old engineer on the Burling-
ton’s Exposition Flyer, “is to bear
I niyliro lll'iUlP **
American policy is to put these
under an American-controlled
United Nations trusteeship.
3. In still another category the -
United States holds 99-year leases . the entire blame,
on eight key Atlantic positions on j “I believe other •tingles
Seven Deaths Laid
At Dcor of Entire
Girl Scout Leader
Course To Be Held
Monday and Tuesday
Leaders’ training course, for girl,
scout workers, will he held in Bor-
ger, Monday and Tuesday, under
the direction of Norma Jean Ew-
ing, national field representative.
The course is open to the pub-
lic and anyone interested in girl
scouting in any capacity in invited
to attend. It is not necessary to be
a worker now, the announcement
aid, nor are those taking the
course obligated to work in thc
luture. Borger council is offering
the service to promote interest in
scouting, and there is no charge
for the course
n me: i.uuim .
At thc -conclusion of the so: . '^‘Tnm'oviu^t
might
UI1 UI^IIl At7 rvilciniui PUBIUUIO Mil j * ------- I r th
LOS ANGELES. April “"““.IT “ “id. *
_The Army Air Forces removed
official secrecy today Rom ds
living wing bomber, the
a radical design which dwarfs the
B-29 and has an announced range
about one-fourth greater than the
world’s distance iccord.
The bomber was designed and
built by Northrop Airfract, Inc.,
at Hawthorne, Calif. It is expect-
ed to fly in a short time.
The XB-35 is shaped like a co-
lossal boomerang, with no fuse
New Foundland, Bermuda, Ba
hamas, Jamaica, Antigua, St. Lu-
cia, Trinidad and British Guiana.
4. Ba.ses developed on the soil
of Latin American nations dur-
ing the war are now being turned
hack to those countries rapidly
The Galapagos islands off the Pa-
cific entrance of the Panama Ca-
nal, are going back to Ecuador,
bases in Cuba arc being relinquish-
engineer's operation," he said.
The Exposition Flyer crashed
into the rear of the line's advance
flyer, when the lead train made
an unscheduled stop at Naper-
ville, 30 miles west of here, at I
p. in. Thursday.
Blaine, who suffered a possible
skull fracture, has been charged
with manslaughter.
Thc railroad continued its in-
quiry. with representatives of the
Interstate and Illinois Commerce
ed. and the same policy. Ameri • , uuersiaie u!lu imiivu
iteKSir
are housed inside the wing. Crew
quarters arc pressurized.
The plane spans 172 feet and
Iras a center width of 37 feet 6
inches.
Although its norma! gross load
is 163.00 pounds, it is designed to
fly with an overload up to 209-
000 pounds.
(By comparison, the B-29 Su-
perfortress has a wingspan of 141
feet and is 99 feet long. Its nor-
mal gross weight is around 135.-
000 pounds and its overload weight
140.00 pounds.i
The only performance data on
the XB-35 which the AAF releas-
ed was its range of more than 10,-
000 miles. This compares with
the world distance record of 8,198
miles set with a B-29 last Novem-
ber.
• John K. Northrop, president
of the aircraft company, describ-
ed the XB-35 in a statement as
one of a “new family" of airplanes
adaptable to civilian as well as
military uses.
He said that the wing design of-
fers a tremendous advantage in
Girl Scout Carnival
To Be in Legion Hall
Dead are Arnold Gus W inket-
mun, 32, who had served three
years overseas witli the navy and
Frank Cutler, 30, the former hus-1
b™,,h„story».old by M„.|Tel Aviv Community
Winkelman in a signed statement i * --
to homicide detectives L. L.| JERUSALEM, April 27 l/P) t Vl^e”»nrfic^ti»iV ViII "re
Watts and W. P. Brown, who >n- j A top-ranking Bntnh «u- • • • (!t l,lfu‘.n,ef; .signifying that
vesttgated. thonty^said tonight hr w.is holding thrv havp gatisfactc>riiv compieted
The Winkelmans had visited j the entire community ot 1 el Auv
Mrs Winkelman’s mother, and had responsible for the “willful and
returned home late, about 12:501 brutal murder” of seven British
.x m | soldiers in a raid on a British null-
1 Thev entered the front door and I fury installation there Thursday.
£it;:
winKeimun ne sixth airborne division, sum-
hving room . ;t w a s | moned the acting mayor of the
Frank” she said “We had had so j Jewish city, Elicser Per:,Ion, to
Hank sne sam c fust I his headquarters and said he had
much trouble with him I jdKj £ “rcstri(.t thc whole com-
"'S'™ C btdroom ........ ..................
nnd closed iL Her j^°in^ ' I hold the whole community to
pistol and^wt , ... blame.” C’asseLs said,
room. ^1S- ' ' The general ordered an knmedi-
th“NoworTwcrc spoken between ate curfew closing Tel A iv’s
Ari and Frank. I think they , ^fes.Jf^au^nts^ and_ entertain-
j began shooting on sight.’
She said after the shooting, her
l husband called to her, telling her
! he was shot and asking her to call
an ambulance. He had been hit
'.live limes, and died later in thc
position and allocation.
'The greater part of (lie Ital-
ian fleet came under Allied con-
trol after the Italian surrender
in September, 1943, while the
battle tor Italy itscli continued.
The Italian fleet which made it-
way to Allied ports included six
battleshins, eight cruisers, one
seaplane carrier, between 40 and
45 (test wers and torpedo boats,
__wu*r, 50 and 40 submarines,
and approximately so auxiliary
vessels Other ship: under Ger-
man control in Northern Italy ^
water- were recovered subse-11()
they have satisfactorily completed
the leaders’ training sessions, it C|Ucn,|v )
was pointed out, any one or two The Russians were said to be
will prove helpful. | willing to permit Italy to have a
Meetings will be held in the navv wj)h possibly loui crmseis
Federated club rooms as follows. (()f t|u> ticaviets category. The
Monday afternoon from 1 30 until redint:on in their demands ap-
4:30 p. m.; Tuesday morning from j parcntlv was in return fora tactic
9:30 a. m. until 11 a. m.: Tuesday j agreement to forget about ships
afternoon from 1:30 until 5 p. m. j that the United States and Brit-
All leaders, co-leaders and com-1 ..in .. \e Russia 'n anticipation
ment places from 8 p. m to 5 a m.
“until further notice.”
He banned motor traffic in two
principal districts of Tel Aviv dur-
ing the curfew hour
SAN ANGELO, Tex., April 27
—i/p)—The three-year-old son of
_ Sgt. and Mrs. Blaine Taylor of
Teen Town, with the consent of I Goodfellow Field here slept thru
the American Legion will donate a ride across town with a man
the use of the Ixigion Hall to the [who stole his parents car this at-
gir! scouts for their carnival on ternoon.
Friday night. May 3, it was an- The Taylor car, with the baoy
nounced today bv Joe Rakes, pres-, asleep in the back seat, was stoi-
irient of the council, who says he en from in front ot a grocery
expects all members to attend the | store here. Police found the ve-
carnival and help scouts in their hide abandoned shoitly latei on
t'roject toward building the Scout the other side of town, with the
Little House. child safe and still asleep.
Anderson Confident Thai
Wheat Will 'Flood' Markets
WASHINGTON, April 27—UP)
_Secretary of Agriculture Ander-
son expressed confidence todav
that there will be a “springtime
flood” of wheat from farm- to
iers» »« iiemfijuuus v*•* flood oi wnc*«u i<inii'' 1
"lift” or useful action of the air j e)eVators for shipment to the hun-
when compared with conventional j,,-,. abroad once spring planting
types. I chores are over.
The result, he said, is that the j Reporting on Ids trip to ....
flying wing can carry one-fourth | wheat belt with UNRRA director
more useful load, can travel one- j general Fiorello H. I^iGuardia.
fourth farther with an identical Anderson 'old a national farm and
fuel load, and can fly at least one- j home hour radio audience^that Ik
fifth faster than a conventional i believed the government s of*1'1
plane of similar weight and horse- of a bonus of 30 cents a bushel 1
f it.'Eniil rll'l 1 \ HI'IW I Ilf*
hospital.
Cutler had been hit three times
and died instantly.
Officers said the room was rid-
dled witii bullets. They said they
found a .32 Spanish make auto-
matic near Winkelman and a .15
automatic near Cutler.
“Frank could have killed me
when we went through thc living
room," Mrs. Winkelman said. 1
don’t understand why he didn’t
I always felt he would like to kill
me or Arnold or both of us.”
She said ever since Cutler “got
out of the penitentiary he has mo-
lested me and interfered with my
married life.”
“He tried to separate us and get
! me to divorce Arnold and remarry
him. I told him that I would not
j do that, and he once told me that
| if I didn't he would kill me.”
mittee members are urged
tend.
Research Director
Speaks at Amarillo
Phillips Garden Club
Called Meeting Monday
A called meeting of the Phillips
Garden club will be held 11 2:30]
p.in. Mondav in Phillips < "mmun- j
ity hall, according to Mrs. Fred
Hutli. president of the club The
meeting is called for thc purpo-c of
discussing plans lor the clubs an- |
niial spring luncheon, the announ- ,
cement said.
Announces
Doctor Reports Venn
Improving in Hospitol
Thomas R- Vann. 23-year old
I veteran who was shot April 7
power.
Toxos WAC Lott From
New York Bound Ship
NEW
3 F.ri
City
YORK,
itii \’u t
April 27 —<4*
.ofay, 24, of T«
kite identified
a* the WA< I
the Nav Y,
»«d«lia Vu-u
wheat delivered before May 25
will result in a 1(10.000,000 bush-
els being made available f«r ex-
port during the critical period
from now until Julv I.
Thi is uppioximutely the gout
for that period
But Ander on said ”W» an b<
bind "ur goal" run*, it wilt take
th.. coouiiuUmi ot main ■ leva
ed its most critical stage, with
starvation evident in Vienna and
industrialized Austria.
Anderson, in what his associ-
ates described as an indirect ref- _____
erence to -i statement yesterday j during a disturbance at a local
bv Ac,in. S.v rc,.rv of J*”" j Z^
Acheson, said the government has v
no intention of requisitioning! • ”
wheat from tanners.
He made no direct reference to
the possibility of requsitioning
I wheat now being held in ele-
......W. Edahl, officer of t.ie
ilay at Amarillo veteran’s hospi-
tal to which Vann was trans-
ferred recently, said that the in-
jured man was “in good shape
, at this particular time and ha‘
vators, which it Is within the ta definite turn for the bet-
I power <J1 tHc dt
| ha id:
“And 1 want to ^
that then- i> no tlx
j |jart of the departtnei
i siioold bs rexjuisit
rtment to do. but
Vi
right her
tin on th
Ed
Ft
but
nounced late today he was with-
drawing from thc United Nations
Security Council because of the
illne. in Paris of his wife and
that his successor at the council
table would carry on his policies
without any change.
Hodgson, thc prime mover for
There was no clear picture a unanimous solution of the Span-
here of the present strength of ] ish deadlock in the council and
the Italian navy, and a four ' Jong a proponent of full documen-
man committee of experts was nation on every case before the
appointed to determine its com- j council, said lie would leave by
•—, --J -n—— plane for Paris Monday morning.
Hogdson will be succeeded by
Paul Hasluck, counsellor in charge
of Australia's permanent mission
at the United Nations headquar-
ters.
The departure of CoL Hodgson
was not expected to change the
picture at Hunter College when
the council convenes Mondav at
3 p. rr ster •*. light. 'Tit, to
take up t <■ case w • Ich
ha deadlocked the delegates.
The Australian's announcement
v. a made as Mexico took the lead
in seeking a solution of the Span-
ish crisis in the council — but
every move ran against the stem
Russian opposition to any inves-
tigation of Franco Spain.
Thc council lias shelved the
Iranian case at least until May 6,
with Russia on record as boycot-
ting any further discussion of that
matter. In thc Spanish case,
llodj on has proposed that a sub-
'committee of five members of the
council study the evidence sub-nut-
ted. make such inquiries as it de-
sires .in report back to the coun-
cil.
Sf" ict delegate Andrei A.
Gromyko, insisting that there is
enough evidence already before
the council to bolster Poland’s
charges that Franco Spain is a
m(, menace to world peace and is har-
s bor ing Nazis and war criminals,
v.a- reported unchanged in his
the tard for immediate action by the
tl1PiU. N. He has informed the coun-
I(.- j cil in plain terms that investiga-
tions do not produce results and
— ! 'hat Rus' ia wants results now.
There was a possibility that the
j council might become snarled
Monday on the question of
i whether the Hodgson resolution
was a procedural or substantive
matter. If procedural, a vote of
.even of the 11 members of the
council would carry it. If sub-
stantive, Russia by a veto could
to at- of dividing up the fleet.
It was agreed that all but a
I lew Italian submarines would
be sunk, with the remainedr to
be kept for experimental pur-
; poses.
i British Foreign Secretary Er-
; nes! Bevin was said to have
i insisted upon having the sub-
marines sunk.
tin
Dr. Henry Eyring will speak ,it
a dinner meeting Monday, April
29, at fi:3o p. m. at the Capitol
Hotel, Amarillo.
Dr. Eyring, director of the Fun I
damcntal Research program ol Th< <■ vvas no •lisen-sion !|t
the Textile Foundation, Princeton I ti 1 !,,n >•: Franci - pi ei"
University, is to speak on the sub- j to add internationalization of
ject "The Structure and Mecli- Ruhr and detachment "i^
anical Properties of Natural and Rhineland from Germany to
Man-made Fibres.” The meeting conference agenda, reliable ■ -
is open to thc public. ports raid.
New Fireproof Rex Theatre
Will Open Next Friday Nigh!
------ | stantive, Russia by a
The new Rex Theatre—one of the most modern and ore ; d it, for the charter gives the
of the finest theatres in the entire Southwest-win have its tve^on ggfg. mat-
grand opening n6xt Friday night at 7 o clock, according to .. ,, r^.:
Tom Davidson, local theatre manager.
Borger's new fireproof, sta-
dium type theatre will be op- So I d »C r Killed When
ened amid a colorful cere- gj-19 Crashes Info
Va,d o. El Paso H„c
Theatre officials, including L. ( ,,AS , . , A|,td
C. Griffith, owner. < »ir.« Wad, Ru.....il. >
The opening attraction will be edly of Fort Stockton, was
“Too Youns To Know," featuring instantly late Saturday aftc
the BT 19 plane he
and Robert
rt for beauty ;
evicted b\ G.
tractor. Uu
in
Hutton. , whet
id safety ! ftym
E James, i of tt
new K
Russia, Britain. France, Chi-
, and the United States.
De La Colina professed opti-
Sce Number TWO Page 5
Contest To Select
Most Popular Girl
Scout and Brownie
Mi
Plullii
El Pa-
irs PI
Mi
Fr
Property Owners Ask
Truman Impeochmcnt
: arnival, sponsored bv local
scouts, will be held Friday
3. in the Legion hall, Mrs.
Thompson, general chair
has announced.
pioceed* wUl be used in the
ruction of thc Girl Scout
House. Events will begin at
i.m and last until ti pm
tc
vest*
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Hospital Notes
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