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IN WAR RONDS
Vol. 16—No. 135
Associated Press
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Borger, Texas, Tuesday, April 28, 1942
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PRYOR, Okia., April 28—(/Pi—
The dead in the disastrous tor-
nado in this area included.
At Claremore Funeral homes:
Howard Wood, 30, Claremore.
Mrs Maud Crow, 60, Pryor.
Sam S. Williams.
R. F. Hayter. Tulsa.
At Vinita Funeral homes:
A man tentatively identified
from papers in his pocket as i ,-jeB ()f Mandalay and
i Lashio in Burma today as
I British dispatches said enemy
I vanguards had advanced to a
I point 85 miles due east Of Man-
Tank-Led Japanese
Columns Threaten
Mandalay, Loshio
By The Associated Press
Tank-led Japanese col-
umns, reinforced by fresh
division., from Malaya, were
reported harplv threaten-
ing the two key Allied-held
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War moves toward the shores of swampy, malarial Madagascar,
hulking French island in the Indian Ocean. Bottom map shows
now Japs might thrust at the Vichy possession, or how allies might
move from Africa to keep the axis from u.-ing Madagascar as u
base for raids on allied supply routes.
Homer Hammond. 36, address un
determined..
Two unidentified men.
One unidehtilied woman.
At Wagoner Funeral homes.
Twenty-four unidentified vic-
tims.
J. Hess, about 50, Salina.
At Fryor Funeral homes.
County Judge J. E. Nicklin,
about 60. Prvor.
Mrs. C D. Burdick, Pryor.
Roihe Hail. Louisville, Ky . Ok-
lahoma Ordnance works employe.
Mrs. Llevd Ball.
Mrs. Dan Trisler, Pryor.
Elinor Ann Trisler, 3, her
daughter.
Red Jenkins, Waco, Tex.. Ok-
lahoma Ordnance Works employe.
Chris Chaoland, 12. Pryor.
Dais' Abbott, about 25. Pryor.
Mrs. Harry March, about 25,
Pryor.
M. L. Pryor, Pryor.
Howard Woods.
Eleven unidentified victims
Victims of the sterm in the Ta-
lala area at Nowata Funeral
hemes:
Mrs. Harold Hewitt, about 40, \
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Estimated 125 Perish
In Pryor Tornado;
More Than 250Hurt
daisy.
Chungking dispatches said the
invaders appeared on the verge
of slamming the Burma back
door t*- China and pinching off
the entire British Chinese de-
fense forces in a grave new cris-
is.
The main Japanese forces were
said to have thrust to within 60
miles of the Mandalay-Lashio
road, imperilling the already dif-
ficult Allied transport between
China and India and threatening
the Allied defenders with disas-
trous entrapment.
Chinese reports declared essen-
tial supplies hud already been
moved out of Lashio. 130 miles
northeast of Mandalay, and that
inhabitants were fleeing.
Lashio is the northeast gate-
way to China on the Burma road,
! once the life-line of China's war
spplies.
| British military quarters said —
the Japanese were only 60 milou , named.
! from Hsipaw, which lies on tue j--
j Burma road, 100 miles northeast _ Uncianpc
1 o| Mandalay and 30 miles south- 1VC UUJtaycs
west of Lashio.
Chinese dispatches said the I >
Japanese honed to conquer Bur- r: filial!
mn before start of the monsoon 1 1 l u 13 M uau
F. D. R.'s Speech
Brings Chorus
0( Complaints
Quarrelsome Blocs
Support And Oppose
Different Suggestions
WASHINGTON, April 28
— (AP) — A chorus of com-
plaints that President Roose-
velt practically had ex-
empted o r jf a n i z e d labor
from his share-the-war pro-
gram spurred new efforts
in congress today to' force sus-
pension of 'he 40-hour week and
a legislative clamp-down on other
| union privileges.
, , ... Legislators generally approved
After8** ‘'nd on*-h,aVea hS ; the objectives set forth in the
uath both the Borger Daily Herald | p1.csif|ont's sevcn point message
LT le.ra‘d: : vesterdav designed to bring about
Mrs. Clvde M. Vanderberg. head ; • t . .. ..
, , , . , . i an equality of privilege in shar-
bookkeeper, this morninq oflered . * , . ... . .
, 1 4. ... , ,, : ing the war burden, but split in*.o
her resignation, efiective May 1:. , , . . . ,
‘ . . ,, . confused and quarrelsome blocs
Mrs Vanderberg will move to 1 . .
opposing and supporting some o!
the methods proposed.
There was sharp criticism in
cr ngross on the fact that Mr.
wi ll"go" to I’ampa I Rfl<Jseveh had asked Cor no ,labor
legislation and bud approved con-
tinuance of over-time wages for
war industry workers while at
the same time proposing legisla-
tive Lowering of price ceilings on
farm products.
Opposition developed also to his
:uggest.ion that drastic measures
Britian's Great Aerial
Offensive Pounds Heart
Of Ruhr Industrial Area
been transferred by the Sinclair-
Prairie Oil and Gas Co. Vander-
berg. who has been with the com
pany since 1925
May 1.
The well-known couple has lived
in Borger since their marriage,
eleven years ago this June. She
is the former Elma Hawkins.
Beginning Jan. 4. 1936 Mrs. Van-
derberg was editor and business
manager of the Hutchinson County
Herald for two and one-half years I be enacted which would level off
and since that time has been head
of the bookkeeping department of
the Borger Herald.
Her successor has not -been
Executed By
PRYOR. Okla., April 28- (AP)- Tim toll of known
dead in the savage tornado that ripped down main street
to this war boom town rose t > 7<i lat< today and state
safety commissioner Walter Johnson said he “wouldn t
be surprised if it went to 125 or 150."
This town of 5.000 to 0,000, nex door i* the multi-
million dollar Oklahoma ordnance works, was ordered
under martial law, and Governor Leon ('. Phillips placed
—-—----,Safety t omnussioner Wal-
ter B. Johnson in command
of state relief agencies.
The martial law was announced
by and is being enforced by the
-tutc highway patrol under John-
son. the state’s national guard
having been mustered into the
army. The booming town has no
sheriff or city marshal force suf-
ficient to cope with such an emer-
gency.
Ordnance Workers Help
• Hundreds of workers and mach-
inery from the ordnance works,
which escaoed serious damage,
were rushed to the scene. Giant
hull-dozers and cranes shoveled
Trade Dealers Must
Register Today For
Sugar Allotments
While students of Borger High
school enjoyed a holiday today,
faculty members busied ‘hem-
selves registering all trade deal-
ers in connection with the Stiga'-
Rationing law.
A comparative!} light morning
was had throughout the county,
but a heavy evening's work was
expected.
At noon today ‘wenty nine
merchants nad registered at Ber-
ger High school, with a minimum
of 100 expected; Phillips had ro-
istered about a dozen and expert
ed 20; Stinnett had registered
and expected 15.
Ex Husband Wounds
Wife's Friend And
Slays His Daughters
LOS ANGELES, April 28.—</Pi
— An enraged auto court owner I
trailed h:s former wife to her I
male friend’s house last night. !
wounded the friend, then went !'
home and killed his three small j
daughters and himself.
Harry A. Fletcher, 52. a .38
caliber bullet in his brain, was |
found dead access the dying bod- j
ies of his children, Arlene, 5, ;
Carolinb. 4. and Rose Marie, 2 !
All three little girls died wi'hin j
a few minutes.
John W. Carder, 26. North j
American Aviation employe, was s
shot *wice in the left shoulder. I
Police Detective Bert Watson !
reconstructed the s'ory from ac-
counts by Joan Bradford. 26. who
said her marriage to Fletcher was
through the wreckage m search ot | anm|)leiJ ias, Nm ember, and by
Dorothy Pate, 25. the children’s
nurse.
I rains and protect their flank for a
! land invasion of India.
Other military informants, how-
j over, believe Japan may strike in-
to China from Burma, in an at-
tempt to wind up the costly 5-
I year-old war with China, before
invading India.
Coincidentally, a Melbourne
broadcast reported that three
French cruisers had arrived at
Madagascar off the east coast
of Africa, the world's fourth
largest island, recalling advices
last week that France's pro-
Nazi Premier Pierre Laval was
planning to turn Madagascar
over to Japan.
The island lies athwart vital
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R. C. Mauldin
Appointed To
Ration Board
VICHY, April 28—(/P)—Ger-
man authorities have ordered the
execution By a firing squad of
five hostages and additional re-
prisals against the city of Rouen
after the shooting of a German
soldier last Friday, it was dis-
closed today.
Another 15 will he executed
and 500 deported to eastern Eur-
ope if two cyclists responsible for
the shooting are not delivered by
May 5, the German army offi-
cials threatened.
Vichy Completes
Purge Of French
On Madagascar
high personal incomes at $25,000
year after payment of taxes.
By The Associated Press
Japanese invasion armadas, apparently transporting
heavy reinforcements for the battle of Burma, were re-
port* d sighted in the Bay of Bengal today as tank-led Jap-
anese troop columns sharply threatened the two key Al-
lied cities of Mandalay and Lashio in northern Burma.
Allied Reconnaissance planes were said to have ob-
served large amounts of Japanese shipping headed toward
---'Burma coastal ports. Con-
ceivably, they might also be
en route to attack India.
British reports said Jap-
anese vanguards, reinforced
by fresh divisions from Ma-
laya, had advanced to a
point 85 miles due east of
M andalay.
Huge tires were left burning in
Cologne, the British said.
Other RAF planes struck in
force at the German-occupied
naval base of Trondheim, Nor-
way, where the Germans are
building an Atlantic battle fleet
base, and bombed the docks at
Dunkerque and Nazi airdromes.
Eighteen planes were acknow-
ledged missing.
Four German warships are
anchored in Trondheim harbor,
including the 35,000-ton battle-
ship Tirpitz and the 10,000-ton
cruised Prinz Eugen.
A British spokesman said the
RAF bombers rained their ex-
plosives chicflv on land installa-
Approximately 1350 men, many
of them with granchildren regis-
tered yesterday in the 44-65 age
group under the Selective Service
law, in Hutchinson county.
Draft hoard officials this morn-
ing were plenty busy sorting the
cards for numbering, and had a
large number on hand to be mailed
to home addresses.
Although few of these men will
see military service, the registra-
Most members agreed with his j lion will enable federal officials
recommendations for drastically to classify them according to po-
int-reused excess profits taxation. 1 tential usefulness in the war ef-
There was general approval of j tort,
an expected order fixing retail! The task of Borger registrars
and wholesale prices and there I became quite complicated when j
men over the age limit insisted on
inscribing their names on the rolls.
By The Associated Press
At Amarillo Bert Lahr, movie
and stage comedian registered
while in that city with .the Santa
Fe railway Star Spangled Victory
special train.
A jovial registrant stuck his
head through the doorway of a
plants, freezing working condi- Dallas Selective Service precinct
tions 'in such plants hut permit- and asked, "Is this where the
t;n“ the adjustment ol wage-- b> grartdpaps are signing up?” An*
a special b I (Continued On Page TWO)
was no objection to a rationing of
essential commodities. Likewise,
the President's proposal Ion wide-
spread voluntary purchases of
War Bonds was applauded.
The labor question was brought
before the Senate today on a
special order permit* ing Senator
Carnally *D-Tex.' to move to take
up his bill authorizing the gov-
ernment to seize strike-bound war
With Chinese Forces in Bur
ma, April 28.—(VP)—The civil
government of Burma, has
evacuated Maymo. 40 miles
northeast of Mandalay on the
railway to Lashio, because of
the approach of Japanese col-
umns.
i/P)
A I
Industries, Civic Clubs
Assist Legion In Paying
Tribute To War Mothers
the
Cooperation of all oil. carbon black and refining com-
Draft Questionnaires
Mav Be Taken To Local
Board For Rechecking
Bob Shuler, local draft desk,
today asked everybody who < an
and will, to fill out their ques
tionnaires as much as possible and
then bring them to the local office
for re-checking.
It is the suggestion of the bon
that this be done to help take the
burden off of men who are earn-
ing a living and at the same time
helping as advisors on the que--
tionnaire.
The draft office will remain
open every night until 8 p.m un-
til the questionnaires are pretty
well thinned out. Shuler said.
Buy Defense Bonds Today!
victims
The tornado struck yesterday
at 4:45 u. m. (Central War Timet.
M* st of the six block business dis-
trict on Main street was reduced
to rubble
Early this morning, a central
relief agency was established in
the ((immunity house under the
direction of Col It H. C*ameron of
th" ordnance works Street pa-
trols were organized to prevent
looting, but three arrests were re-
ported
Two Hospitals Damaged
R C. Mauldin has been ap-
pointed a member of the local Ra-
tioning Board by Judge Norman
Coffee, head of the Defense Coun-
oil, to ‘ake the place vacated by aU's
Roy Broadway, who is going to ^dvd that threeFrench cruises
„ „ under control of the Laval govern-
Wirhita Falls. I ment h;i(i .,rrivcd at Diego-Suar-
Harvey Herbs! To
Receive Recognition
At Denver University
The more
hospitalized i
community I
and the Whi
iuse
jslv injured were
•arhv towns. Th*'
two churches j
State Orhan-
wero being used for first aid
ii emergence stations Pryor’s
r> hospitals were damaged and
icuated
.founded overflowed hospitals
Vinita. Claremore, Tulsa and
Official appointment of Maul-
din is pending legal procedure in
Washington. D. C.
Other members of the hoard are
J. Gordon Burch and Fritz
Ostrom
Because a number of supplies
for the month of .April are yet
available, the boaixl will meet
Thursday of this week, instead
of ‘he usuai Friday, at the Amer-
ican Legion hall.
All persons having claims to
make arc reminded to be sure
and see the board Thursday, the
last day of the month for certain
rations.
After thi week the board will
meet as usual on Fridays.
BOSTON. April 28
broadcast statement that
Vichy government had complet-
ed a purge in Madagascar, in or-
StLtrttii’ | P-nies iu helping to make the Mother's Day Parade on
vvrul. Saturday. May (•, the largest and most patriotic Borgei
ha- ever had, is being solicited, according to Dr. H. H.
Crosby, parade chairman, and J. Gordon Burch, parade
marshal.
The gigantic column of march will be organized at
2 p. m. and start moving at *'
.”> p m., as a highlight of the
district Legion convention
being heid here May 9-10.
It is the parade committee’s
idea that all of the companies, who
have men in service, enter a float
and on the float have a prominent
flag displayed with a service star
to represent each man in the ser-
was reported today b\
| powerful shortwave station.
Station officials said they had
| broadcast this report as coming
I fix m "Free French sources in the
The broadcast
ez from Dakar.
Briiisn.Subs Score
Agains! German SHps
Harvey Raymond Herbst. son
of Mr. and Mrs Fred C Herbst
of Borger will receive recognition
for high scholastic attainment by
the University of Denser at the
annual Honors Convocation at the
university on May 1.
Mr. Herbst will leave for Den-
ser tomorrow to attend the con-
vocation.
Harvey, a junior, recently won
a loving cup for debating and
first place in a speech conference sentatise Patton (D-Tex*. was
for Denver University Before at-1 among the crew members rescued
toss ns. tending the Dens er school he spent w hen the destroyer Sturtesant
.ticaHv es-erv brick building two years at North Texas Agri was sunk off Florida last Sunday,
al • c the main street and on the cultural college at Arlington. the congressman was informed.
principal bus,nek- side streets was - j P-^"1 *as fh,e‘ ?u"r>er'> ™te
flattened or heavily damaged The generous pension system of His wife and two children are here.
Aia-ut one third ',.f the homes New York City costs $29,000,000 i His mother. Mrs Pearl Pattern.
(Continued On Page TWO) annually.
PATTON RESCUED!
WASHINGTON. April 28—046
-H C. Patton cousin of Ropre-
Pi.
lives tn Dal
LONDON April 28—i/P)—Brit-
ish submarines have sunk two
heavily laden enemv supply ships
and a minesweeper and left a
German ras**liiw cayiei burning
fiercely in the Mediterranean, tin-
admiralty announced tonight.
The announcement followed one
of Sundav in which the admiralty-
said four heavily loaded mer-
chant ships had been sunk by-
two British submarines.
SOLDIERS GET PAY INCREASE
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
Australia, April 28—I.-P*—A 20 per
rent increase in the pay of Amer-
ican soldiers serv ing in Au.-tralia erected in the 500 block on Main
was announced today by United street.
States authorities Texas Defense Guards from
_ Amarillo. Pumpa and Dalhart
Kansas City and Chicago are have been invited to participate,
the world’s two largest livestock as well as high school banos from
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Roosevelt To
Speak At Nine
Phillips Petroleum company is
expected to have one of the largest
service flags in the line of march
Additional plans lor the parade
were made at a meeting last night,
and cooperation of all civic organ-
izations, the U. S. O. War Bond
and Stamp Committee and other
patriotic associations was estab-
lished.
The local chapter of the Ameri-
can Red Cross will have fourteen i Java has ordered the abandon-
different branches of their work
represented.
A reviewing stand will bo
WASHINGTON. Apirl 28 ,i‘i
—The radio address in which
President Roosevelt will discuss
with the American people his
plan to control the cost of liv
ing will be delivered at 9 o'clock
tonight. Central War Time.
White Houes officials said the
chief executive planned to speak
half an hour and it is expected
that all major networks will
carry the speech.
JAPS END JAVA’S SIESTA
TOKYO 'From Japanese broad-
casts*. Anril 28—-P—The Jap-
anese military administration of
ment of the three-hour midday
siesta as part of a general pro-
gram "to speed, up establishment
of the greater East Asia co-pros-
perity sphere.’ according to dis-
patches from Bandoeng.
The calendu, a flower, was used
for flavoring soup in the days of
our grandfathers.
tion which “we are trying to
knock down as last as they are
put up,” instead of concentrating
on the warships.
It is vitally important to des-
troy the usefulness of Trondheim
as a naval base," the spokesman
said.
By daylight, swarms of RAF
warplanes roared back across the
channel to blast the Nazi-occupicd
French "invasion coast."
Observers said the thunder of
heavy explosions jarred the Eng-
lish side of Dover strait, with
white exhaust trails streaking the
sky for many miles.
RAF Loses 38 Planes
The magnitude of the RAF's
around-the-clock assaults was in-
dicated by a German high com-
mand assertion that 38 British
planes had been destroyed in 24
hours—19 in daylight yesterday.
12 in night flights over western
Germany, and seven in "a night
attack on the Norwegian coast
The Germans said 12 were shot
down over Cologne alone.
German reports, acknowledg-
ing that the Cologne civil popu-
lation “suffered casualties in dead
and injured,” asserted the raiders
1 concentrated their attack on "res-
idential districts, hospitals and
public buildings."
A British spokesman said the
. RAF struck in considerable force
j and inflicted widespread new
' damage, shifting their attack to
I the Ruhr after blasting four nights
1 in a row at the German Baltic
port Rostock.
Sti ck holm reports said 10,001)
families had been left homeless
there, while the British aerial re-
! connaissance photos showed that
the population was carrying out
a mass exodus from the bomb
wrecked city, the home of the big
Heinkel aircraft works.
A British communique acknow-
ledged ' a good many casualties."
fires and widespread damage in
I the German night raid on Noi
w-ich pop. 125.000*. Nine persons
were missing in the debris of a
bomb-smashed hospital; rescue
! workers were still digging in the
wreckage for trapped victims at
daylight.
Seven Nazi Messerschtmdls alsry
j bombed and machine-gunned an
English southeast coast town this
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