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Vol. 15—No. 308
Associated Press
NEA Service
Borger, Texas, Monday, November 17, 1941
6 Pages Toda
Price Piv# Cents
Impatient Japs Want U. S. To “Lay Off" As They Conclude China Incident, Consolidating Their Gains
Labor Defies Roosevelt By Closing Captive Nines
Peace Depends
On Americans,
Tokyo Asserts
Soft-Talking Slayers
Of Chinese Hurt That
Others Distrust Them
MEDITERRANEAN MAELSTROM
CAUCASUS—Pos
' siblc need for Brit
ish troops Here keeps
[them from striking at
By The Associated Press
The destiny of the Pacific
stood at a crisis today,
Japan stated her demands j
for understanding — in ef-
fect calling for reversal of
the United States’ major
policies in the Orient — and
on their satisfaction may i
depend peace or war.
With them went a blunt warn-
ing that Japan's patience is reach-
ing its end.
While these declarations were
being made in Tokyo, a special
Japanese envoy in the United
States arranged to see Secretary
of State Hull for what he called
a “fighting chance” to avoid war.
But in Washington and else-
where, on both sides of the world,
there was pessimism.
Roosevelt Receives Kurusu
By MAX HILL
TOKYO, Nov. 17—UP>—.Japan's
premier. General Hideki Tojo,
informed a grave and hushed Diet
today of the empire's minimum
requirements for peace in the Pa-
cific — chiefly, such measures
of hostile character as economic
blixtkade,” a halt to what he
called military encirclement and
hands off Japan’s conflict with
China.
H* spoke after Foreign Minister
Shigenori Togo had warned blunt-
ly that little time was left for
negotiations to satisfy those
terms.
The House of Peers, to which 1
tlje ministerial messages were
delivered, gave thm unanimous, ;
standing votes of approval.
These were the salient points
set forth by the premier before
the special extraordinary session
of the Diet which in an atmosphere
of ominous tension, is expected j
quickly to vote an extraordinary
war fund of 3.800.000,000 yen
(nominally $874,000,000u
"The Japanese government,"
he said, "expects:
"1. Third powers to refrain
fom obstructing successful con-
clusion of the China affair
which Japan has in view;
"2. Countries surrounding
our empire will not only re-
frain from presenting a direct
military menace but nullify
such measures of hostile char-
acter as economic blockade and
restore economic relations with
Japan;
"3. That utmost efforts will
be exerted to prevent extension
of the European war and
spread of disturbances in East
Asia."
Tojo charged specifically that
the United States, Britain
Training Speeds
Up Al Texas
Air Corps Post
CORPUS CHRISTI (Secial) —
Beginning immediately the avia-
tion training department at the
‘‘University of the Air" will step
up its operations to a full six-
day flying week so that it may
make maximum use of day and
night flying hours, it was an-
nounced at the naval air station
today.
The move was made with three
objects in mind: the heightened
pace of the national defense ef-
fort, the increased burden of in-
coming cadets at the expanding
station, and the anticipation of a
lowering of possible flying hours
due to winter weather conditions, i What
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 —UP)
— A formal conference brought
President Roosevelt and Japan’s
envoy, Saburo Kurusu, together
for more than an hour tocay to
talk of “many things" Centering
around the explosive far eastern
situation.
But there was no indication im-
mediately whether any satisfac-
tory progress had been made to-
ward achieving a better under-
standing on Pacific problems be-
tween this country and Japan or
whether any decisions were ap-
proached which might lead to as-
surance of continued peace in the
Pacific.
Kurusu wns accompanied to the
White House by the Japanese
Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura,
and secretary of state Hull.
The two Japanese dodged ques-
tions about the conversation al-
though the ambassador reported
that “many things" were said,
they were was something
It is one more move of the
World's newest and largest naval
air station to carry out a bal-
anced program of superiority in
skill, speed, and saletv. and it fol-
lows only two weeks upon the
record set November 1 when it
graduated its first class of 45
cadets and dramatized the fact
(Continued on Page THREE)
Red Cross Worker
On Jaycee Program
A talk by Ted Albee, repres-
entative of the national Red Cross
organization who is in Borger to
help organize first aid classes,
featured today's program of the i
Junior chamber of commerce
luncheon meeting.
Albee put in a word for the
Red Cross drive which is under- j
way here new and cited figures
revealing the large service the
China, organization really does.
which he did not care to discuss.
As they entered a waiting lipio-
sine, reporters pressed them for
information.
“Was a satisfactory beginning
made?" the ambassador was ask-
ed.
Saburo dug an elbow’ in Nom-
ura's ribs and admonished against
answering. The special envoy
merely laughed when he was ask-
ed if he was "near a touchdown.”
He had suggested, upon his ar-
rival in this country Saturday,
that he might score a touchdown
in his conversations with Amcri-
I can officials.
Before their reception by Mr
Nazi Ship, Flying U. S. Flag,
Captured By U. S. Navy When
Attempting To Pierce Blockade
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Nov. 17 —(AP)— The
German motorship Odenvvald, seized in the South Atlantic
by units of the U S. Navy, arrived here this afternoon un-
der American escort.
She was traveling under her own power.
It was understood that prompt action would he
brought in United States courts to forfeit the ship, a 5,098-
tonner listed as owned by the Hamburg-American line,
for disguising herself illegally as a U. S. Merchantman.
She was en route to Germany from Japan when she
was seized. Much of her
cargo was understood to
have been rubber, metals
and other essential war ma-
terials.
Roosevelt in the White House Red j Hrd,,rpd her to heave )o, the
and the Netherlands East Indies
were responsible for what he
called "military encirclement" of
Japan which, he said, had risen as
a major barrier to Far Eastern
amity.
And, he asserted, "the econ-
omic blockade resorted by non-
belligerent powers constitutes a
measure little less hostile than
(Continued on Page THREE)
A report on securing a possible
highway patrol substation here
revealed that Borger will be giv-
en "due consideration when sel-
ections are made. Announcement
of selections will be made next
week.
Mrs. K. A. Yarbrough present-
ed a musical program. Dr.
lewis M. Pittman was a guest 1
at today's meeting.
Stinnett Gets Set For
Benefit Amateur Show
Room the Japanese had met with
Hull at the state department.
Like Kurusu, who told report-
ers on his arrival in Washington
Saturday that he thought he had
a “fighting chance” to lessen
Japanese-American tension, Togo
also said that an amicable con-
clusion of the negotiations is by
no means impossible.
But Togo emphasized that
such a happy result would de-
pend (1) on whether the United
States is "genuinely solicitous
for world peace," as he said Ja-
pan was; that (2) whether the
United States is willing to view
the far eastern situation "in
the light of realities."
There was no comment from
the State Department on the lat-
est official utterances in Tokyo, i
but in diplomatic quarters here |
it was noted that both Premier !
and foreign minister suggested it !
was up to the United States to i
make concessions.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 17 —UP)
— A navy escort steamed slowly
toward port today with a badly-
damaged Axis merchantman, cap-
tured in the south Atlantic mas-
querading as an American cargo
vessel, with the stars and stripes
at her masthead.
The blockade runner was
caught by an unnamed U. S.
Cruiser in equatorial waters cm
Nov. C, but the navy department
withheld news of the seizure un-
til last night — a fact which led
to the belief that the ship was
within a few hours of port.
The crew of the ship tried to
scuttle her as soon as the cruiser
navy
Scoggins And
Allgood Slay
In Hutchinson
If you want to make music on
i comb or on the floor or what
lave you or just want to win $5
>r $10.00 you should plan
0 enter the amateur show put on
iv the Stinnett Kiwanis club for
he under privileged child fund in
he Stinnett High School Audi-
orium Friday night at 8 o’clock.
Each contestant will choose his
wn act and several competent
coompamsts will be on h.fnd. Last
ear Jack Cope of Stinnett won
irst prize with his imitations,
nd Drummer Jack Reynolds
rom Phillips won second prize
1 the club’s first annual show.
Other divisional winners were
dancers and singers. Admission
price will be 35 cents for adults
and 15 cents for children. There
will be a third place award of
$2.00.
Those wishing to enter the con-
tent should get in touch with Coy
Palmer at Box 52 before Friday
night. Entries may be made at
the door Friday night if it is not
possible to get them in before
hand.
Palmer already has entihes from
Pampa, Phillips. Borger, Amarillo,
and from Stinnett and a full two
hour show is promised. Any kind
of musical, dance, or comic num-
ber may be entered.
Army Plane Crashes
In Utah Blizzard
PARK CITY, Utah, Nov. 17—
| (>P)—Two armv airmen, one of
! them Major R. E. L Pirtle. 88th
reconnaissance squadron com-
| mander, were killed today when
a blizzard spun a two-motored
bomber onto a wooded Wasatch
j mountain ridge.
Five fliers parachuted to safe-
I ty-
One body, tentatively identi-
fied as that of Major Pirtle, a
native of Council Grove, Kans.,
i was found two miles from the
plane wreckage. Attached to his
(Continued on Page THREE)
: reported, but quick action by a
, salvage party of bluejackets kept
the vessel afloat, although badly
damaged and unseaworthy.
The navy announcement had
nothing to say regarding the exact
nationality of the vessel and her
crew, or about her destination.
Neither did it identify the port to
which the ship was now being
taken, except that it was one
"within jurisdiction of a United
States court.”
The navy gave this account of
the ten-day-old incident.
The cruiser — presumably on
a patrol mission-came upon the
merchantman at dawn and de-
cided there was something sus-
picious about her. although she
was decked out as a United
States ship. She flew the Am-
erican flag, displayed it on eith-
er side of her hull and on deck,
carried the name of a known
U. S. merchant ship on the
sides of her pilot house and on
the stern, and also showed Phil-
drlphia as her home port.
The cruiser ordered her to-
heave to and then lowered a boat
with an investigating party.
Almost immediately, the crew
of the merchantman began aban-
doning ship and he broke out sig-
nal flags that said: “Send boats
for passengers; I am sinking "
Before the cruiser's boat reach-
ed the ship, to explosions occurred
in the merchantman's hull — ap-
parently an effort to sliced her
scuttling
The ship's use of the Ameri-
can flag violates one of the re-
maining provisions of the re-
ccntly revised neutrality act.
but the only penalty provided
prohibits offenders from enter-
ing U. S. ports or territorial
(Continued cn Page SIX)
The two local Methodist pas-
tors, the Rev. Harold Scoggins
of Borger, and the Rev. S. Y.
Allgood of Phillips, will remain
in their respective pastorates for
the next year, according to Bish-
op Ivan Lee Holt, who last night
announced his district appoint-
ments.
The Rev J. B. McRcynolds,
who has been in Levelland and
is an ex-Borger pastor, has been
appointed district superintendent
of the Perryton district, in which
Borger and Phillips are classed.
District appointments follow:
Perryton District
Booker, R. M. McAnnally; Bor-
ger, H. G. Scoggins; Channing-
Heartley, J. N. Hester; Dalhart,
Pine Street, R. H. Campbell; Dar-
rouzett, J. A. Wheeler; Dumas,
P. H. Gates; Follett, Don Culbert-
son; Gruver, I. E. Biggs; Perry-
ton, W. E. Fisher; Phillips, S. Y.
Allgood; Sanford, I. T. Hueka-
bee; Spearman, W. B. Hicks;
Stinnett, C. D. Morehead; Strat-
ford. J. B Thompson; Sunray,
C. R. Gates; Texhoma, E. B.
: Thompson; Texline, S. J. Man-
j ning; Missionary Secretary, P. H.
! Gates; director of evangelism, j
I district superintendent.
Amarillo District
Will C. House, superintendent: j
| Adrian - Wilerado, Allen Forbis;
| Buchanan Street, L B Jones;
; Polk Street, Earl G. Hammett;
I San Jacinto. W. C. Hinds; Tenth
Avenue, Hubert Thompson: Bo-
| vina-Oklahoma-Lane, M. R. Pike;
i Canadian. Uel D. Crosby; Canyon, !
C. C. Armstrong; Claude, J. F
(Continued on Page SIX)
PILOTS MEET TOMORROW
NIGHT FOR DISCUSSION
AND MOVING PICTURES
All pilots and members are re- !
i minded of the regular monthly
I dinner meeting of the Hutchin-
i son County Pilots' association.
! Time is eight o’clock and place
J June's Cavern.
Moving pictures will be shown
and further improvements at the
airport will be discussed. Visit- |
ing pilots and any aviation en- |
thusiasts desiring to attend are
cordially invited to this particular
meeting. Reservations should be
in before tomorrow noon.
Coal Strike
Not Popular
With Workers
Some Miners And
Their Wives Wont
To Back Roosevelt
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 17—
I (AP)— Complying with or-
ders of UMW chieftain
John L. Lewis, most of West-
ern Pennsylvania’s 28,000
“captive” coal miners stayed
from the bituminous pits to-
day, cutting off fuel supplies
to steel mills for the third
time in ten weeks.
A survey of strategic areas
showed fewer than 1,000 reported
for the 7 a. m shifts, the first
full shifts scheduled since Lewis
called for renewal of the strike
that had twice been terminated
by p uces.
The CIO United Mine Workers
are demanding a union shop in
the “captive” mines owned by the
steel companies and supplying
coal to steel mills exclusively.
The Union shop requires a miner
to become a LfMW member with-
in a specified period of employ-
ment.
UMW leaders said if troops
were called out. the UMW
would strengthen its picket lin-
es.
William J. Hynes, President of
UMW District 4, which includes
Fayette county, asserted that 95
per cent of the miners there are
UMW members. One CIO spokes-
man in he county — world’s larg-
est Coke-producing area — said
howeve'- he believed “from 80 to
85 per cent, of the captive miners
in our district are willing to go
back to work if the operators keep
the mines open.”
Some of the Fayette county
miners said in interviews last
week they opposed a strike at
this time because of a desire to
cooperate with President Roose-
velt and the defense program.
Their wives shared this feeling
— and added they were "tired"
of getting small paychecks"
which followed the strikes in
September and October.
Companry officials said unani-
mously “we are willing to oper-
ate —it all depends on the men.”
The management of the crucible
coal company, operated by the
steel concern of that name, said
“at least 98 per cent of the men
want to work and will report if
there is no picketing.”
Pickets appeared at some min-
es. Thirty of them turned away
| emptoyes*of the Buckeye mine of
Youngstown Sheet & Tube last
night. In other sections union
leaders considered picketing un-
necessary and merely sent out
Pit committees to notify the men
not to appear at the coal pits to-
day.
Steel fabricating concerns face
(Continued on Page THREE)
Recreation Project To
Conduct Social Hour
A social recreation hour was
conducted for the Epworth league
of the Methodist church yester-
day, Homer Poole, recreation pro-
ject director said today.
Next Friday the project will
give a demonstration of magic for
the cub scouters of the Weath-
erly school at the school auditor-
ium. Last Friday a program was
given for the Weatherly P.-T. A.
Wednesday night a folk danc-
ing class will be in session in
the Moose Hall.
Attendance is growing with
every meeting of the regular folk
dancing classes in the city hall
auditorium, Poole said. These
classes meet Monday and Wed-
nesday nights at 8 o’clock, with
a beginners' instruction period
the hour preceding.
Legislation To
Curb Defense
Strikes Studied
Lewis Fails To Accept
President's Request
For Last Minute Talk
Conflict In Aims
At CIO Convention
DETROIT, Nov. 17 —UP)— The
CIO's annual convention opened
today amid a conflict of the aims
of leaders who called for full-
speed defense production and at
the same time pledged support to
miners who have stopped work
in the defense-vital captive coal
pits.
The 600 delegates and officials
gathered in the small, square au-
ditorium of the Moose Temple
to consider these proposals:
1. A resolution of their execu-
tive board pledging unqualified
support to John L. Lewis’ United
Mine Workers Union “in its logi-
cal effort to stabilize the mining
industry on the basis of a union
shop” for captive mines operat-
ed by major steel companies.
2. The stewardship report of
CIO President Philip Murray,
which endorsed President Roose-
velt’s policy of giving all possible
economic and material aid to foes
of Nazi Germany, hailed the Un-
ion shop as the “fundamental bar-
gaining pattern” of future labor
negotiations, defend the right of
labor to strike and criticized the
handling of the defense program.
Other convention issues — a
host of them sketched by Murray
in his president's report — re-
mained to be drafted formally by
the resolutions committee and by
the committee on officers’ reports
Mass Meeting For
Phillips Men Tonight
A mass meeting of Phillips
Petroleum employes and citizens
of Phillips will be held tonight
at 7:39 o'clock in the Phillips
high school auditorium to discuss
whether or not steps will be tak-
en to prevent the organization of
industries in Phillips. A commit-
tee of sixteen issued the call
for the meeting.
Col. E. A. Simpson. Amarillo
Borger To Play
Host To Legion
Spring Convention
Hutchinson county Legionnair-
es attending the joint meeting of
the Panhandle Plains Association
of Legion Posts and the 18th dis-
trict of the American Legion held
in Dalhart Saturday and Sunday,
returned home today with “every-
thing but the Legion hall" accord-
ing to Charlie Williamson, local
delegate.
Members of the 18th District
voted to hold their spring meet-
ing in Borger, accepting invita-
tion tendered by Roy Broadway,
Commander of Hutchinson Coun-
ty Post No. 412.
Roy Broadway was elected
commander and Charlie William-
son was given the position of Ad-
jutant of the Panhandle Plains
Association of Legion Posts.
The convention went on record
thanking the Panhandle Power
and Light Company of Borger for
cooperating with the American
Legion of Texas by making it pos-
sible for Lou Roberts to serve as
Department Commander.
Members of the local post who
attorney, will be the principal ■ attended the convention are: Roy
speaker Ray Franklin of the ; Broadway, Lou Roberts, Charlie
company's Panhandle warehouse Maisel, Charlie Williamson, Jack
was chosen temporary chairman ; Katsh. Erby Noblett, Jeff Wilson
by the committee. | and J C Phillips.
At a prliminarv meeting held j William Odell. S. A. L. officer,
last Tuesday night a group of j also attended and made the nut-
Phillips company employes adopt- i standing speech of the conven-
ed a series uf resolutions to the | tion.
effect that possible unrest and Members of the Legion Auxil-
possible loss of special consider- j iarv who attended were: Mes-
ation might result from organiza- dames Charlie Maisel. Jeff Wil-
tion efforts.
At the meeting tonight em-
ployes of the Alamo department
will be admitted at the south en-
trance of the building.
Gasnlin department employes
will be admitted at the not thwest
entrance and all other depart-
ments and citizens will be admit-
ted at the northeast entrance Men
son and Charlie Williamson.
U. S. ENVOY SAFE IN IRAN
TEHERAN. Iran. Nov. 17—(/Pi
—A plane bearing Maxim Lit-
vinoff. Soviet ambassador to the
United States, and U. S. Ambas-
sador Laurence Stenhardt land-
ed here safely at noon today, five
days after departing from Kuiby-
onlv have been invited to attend, j shev, Russia, in a snowstorm.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17
— (AP)— John L. Lewis in-
formed President Roosevelt
by letter today that the
United Mine Workers had
refused to accept an open
shop agreement in the cap-
tive coal mines because it
would “invalidate” other
agreements in operation
throughout the soft coal
mining industry.
He told the President that of-
ficers of the union had no auth-
ority to execute an open shop
agreement, “thereby destroying
the assets of the membership re-
presented by existing collective
bargaining agreements.”
The union shop was the sole
issue in the dispute which cul-
minated in a work stoppage to-
day in the captive mines.
Lewis Snubs FDR
Lewis did not call at the White
•House, as he had been requested
To do when Mr. Roosevelt asked
last Friday that negotiations be
extended over the weekend in an
eleventh-hour attempt to halt the
threatened shutdowns in captive
mines which supply coal to steel
• mills.
Commercial coal mines, which
unlike the captives, sell their pro-
duct in the open market, are op-
erating under a union shop agree-
ment.
Lewis told reporters after a
UMW policy committee meet-
ing that the body had taken no
action toward calling out the
330,000 UMW workers in com-
mercial mines in support of the
miners in the captive pits.
There was an indication that
Lewis expected further rapid-
fire developments in Washington,
for he told questioners that he
would remain in the capital in-
stead of going to Detroit, where
the National CIO convention
opened today.
The policy committee, after a
brief closed session in which they
were addressed by Lewis, broke
up remained within call, to be
ready for any developments which
might necessitate convening.
At the capitol, meanwhile,
speaker Sam Rayburn said flat
ly that the house of representa-
tives would be given an oppor-
tunity to pass on labor legis-
lation "at the earliest date con-
sistent with proper considera-
tion."
He declined to specify definite
ly whether a bill designed to pre-
vent strikes in defense industry
would be called up for action
this week, saying that it “might
take some time" because v.e "cer-
tainly want to pass considered
legislation.”
The UMW members halted
nearly all production today in
the captive mines which supply
the nation's largest steel com-
panies — openly defying Pres-
ident Roosevelt's injunction that
coal "must" be mined.
UMW’s decision brought the
current labor crisis to a break-
ing point. Storm signals were
flying in congress and the cap-
ital waited momentariU for the
president to order decisive count-
ermeasures.
The White House was silent,
pending formal notification of the
collapse of settlement negotia-
tions, but Mr. Roosevelt already
has given his pledge to congress
that "the government proposes
to see this thing through” and
keep the mines operating, re-
gardless of the negotiations out-
come.
Thar* was a widespread be-
lief that the Dresident was rea-
dy to order the armv to take
over the captive mines. His
weekend conferences with War
Secretary Stimson and staff
officers were looked on as in-
dications of this intention, but
the war department refused to
discuss tha matter.
At least 15 mines not covered
by he strike call weie closed by
sympathy . walkouts of UMW
members in Pennsylvania and
West Virginia.
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