Borger Daily Herald (Borger, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 262, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 23, 1942 Page: 1 of 6
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WEATHER
WEST TEXAS — Temperatures this after-
noon and tonight about the same as yesterday
afternoon and last night, except cooler and
windy in Panhandle tonight.
af0cf Itaite SUtdb
Keep Your Eye On
War Bond Sales Thermometer
THE CARBON BLACK CENTER OF THE WORLD
Vol. 16—No. 262
Associated Press
NEA Service
Borgcr, Texas, Wednesday, September 23, 1942
(Six Pages Today)
Price Five Cents
Fierce Hand-To-Hand Fighting Rages In City
War Action bpotlights the Dark Continent
Africa—mystery continent of sand ; nd jungle— lonm.i ■ ' * ‘t :<na in the 194:’. fall and
winter war picture. Map spot-, new action fi.^rn i ; t t > - ' '!! ; 0 C to iVIoiocco,
and shows where American ti ■ . ..re stationc-J <. ii. Uing
Bond Sa
Seven Day
Roiarians Told
Of Impedance
Of Our Youihs
Tho mercury on the \Y ir llmul I horn mu • i in i......
of 1 he I’.'i llhantl !o Slain I la • , ’ ni M •' .
only seven days remaining t" pn-h • i ■ 1 lit.- ■> er *:,e
$!»7.10i» mark, which is II nU h : • i; < i ' n-"’. ! 'in
month ni' September.
“The *77,1)00 in ■! n 111j 'k, casi. -.tie . ami n : '
roll deduct i< ns," ( nmmaniInr I: < '!i n f K I.. (I !ol 11 < , nun-
.-! at mi “Ho\ve\ er, u e would •
like to drive over the top
with cash sales alone."
Commander Grimes is send
ing out letters to 103 compame'
in the field in an effort to have
the payroll deductions made by
these companies credited to
Hutchinson county.
Only two reports fr in Gener-
als have been turned into Para-
troop headquarters Th Saul :n
and Frilch b aht- under General
W Ii. Severs reported a cash
sales of si 33 i 25 and $2,921 pay-
roll ded ir' a a re| h a t Tin Sjc :n
Creek I ",, apu -in sue • the ■
report (m’ Ih in the rnoutk.
Work:nr n the drive1 In m S
ford-FfUrh area are Flight A
C. A Se:pl. G 1. Ran. ami
Frank Sb eti Ii FI ,:h! H Vei h 1
Noland. T >m Sa.a l a -ah at d
.lohnnie Mille-a Fl.glit t !)<■■
Moore. Weld Sams a, HI ■ N.
bv. Albert Banos and B Hale
Two Texans
Awarded Kavy
Service Cross
Tin
Air Force To
Be Installed A!
Camp Barkeky
C- -n aimed on 1 AGE TWO
Texes Odd Fellows
Oversubscribe O.uola
In Bond Purchases
Siocke* Employes
Ail Oul For Bo ;ds
British Pcruoy
Inland Capita?
01 Madouascai
Junkmen Imporlani To Nation
With Steel Mills Closing For
Lack Of Vitally Needed Scrap
By HUDSON PHILLIPS
NKW YORK. Sept. 23—i/Pl—
Wait a minute before you get
r re at the junkman for not com-
ing around Id vour 25 pounds of
rrnp ci not giving vnu the price
>di tin-light i! was worth.
Maybe the ,-ight <'i scrap piled
high in his yard discouraged >011
I min realizing lolly that then* was
real at uk -01 a *u - >hd t. i;e ■
Mayl ■ the junkman w < old h.r e
. • - i\ an.- a its !■> vi ui \\ < uuiering
It you don't knnv th answers or
don't, understand them and Hutu-
lore stop eolkvting (lap, the
\\ ar j<ib suffers.
Because thr junkman is doing
important work in the war. the
government is taking the trou-
ble to set oublic thinking
straight about the role he’s
playing.
Mi 1 rt than evei he’ll be valuable
a I be next three* weeks a Amei
•<-an newspaper.- spearhead serap
i <‘ilectidi- I' 1 tlu mills whiclt
are producing •> million tons les,,
steel titan t to v -!i< 1 Id I*-t*eat 1 -e
• •I scrap lack.
:\I' tv t ban I 100 nr., papet s are
m the dri-e vain Ii olfieially runs
11. in Sept t*> < let. 1V. but in
•onu* 1 :t!» . already' is under way.
File war pf' dintion board w;n
ne< 1 t ins v. eek 1 hat unit - there
i an “( xt vpt 'dial job’ of iron
and ■'(•* ! m i an eelleetion this lull
the •'■tintry - blast luniaee.- would
lia vo to ci it do vi/n 1 lee I output, tins
v. inlet .
Y» u ma\ dump your scrap
a”.*, thing I'n‘in ■ Id la winnowers t<*
ii 1 11 ];. t - in the t' ’ah spuaiv
t (.lh tier, bin, but e\ entually d.
will move to the mills through
the junkman who bu it.
On the subject of junkman's
pi ices, the institute of scrap iron
and steel sa^'s: "Figuring his
various expenses, the junkman
can't aiford to pay more than
5>S , ton for the be .1 scrap.''
The pi ■( e the nulls pay him
V at .*• i rt m s 13 t<. $2(1 a ton, rie-
pt’itoitig ‘lit the 1< teat if n. It costs
In ni tn 111 55 cent' t<. s a a ton to
move it t- • the mil ;- it i■ t•<st.- turn
tn pre
Th'
;;; 50 t. • s i .•<) a
d into it n 1 • v< .
WPB . ■ iiMdei
niontlil;
n; > • n 111 s
the junk -
that now
o| merit —
; 1 \ y merit
lobs by in-
i' 1 ills ( er
m tin
WPB eh
"Mr. Dcolitile"
Is Missing From
The Home Front
Enrollement Open
In Nursing Classes
Pi i‘d 1. who dal ni't register
Monday for tin* Home Nursing
rla.-Mw being field Mondays and
Ttiuisday:- are invited to enroll
when classes meet for the second
time tomorrow night.
The Thm -dav class will be held
at. 7:3d p, tn. at Phillips High
mIiooI in the Home F.e depait-
rnent.
Mrs. lapse ini) is the teacher.
Ad ult Classes
Open Today In
High School
Fr !' i b! vi'inmvi vial vki^svs
llm. 1 hi.Minv, vitlivr u hull’ rr part
I i 1 n■ ■ a 1 w ill v.i'l imiivrwav M
tun ililfvrint hi'Urs bn lay in 'la
hi;;h M'hooi buikiiin;.
i mv via . w ill lu‘ oriianiwsd al
a p in. in > " >m - i a and Ui. v. I ale
Ihe np'h! via.- will p, 1 underway
, ■ v, . , |,>vk. m the sanu- n«>ni .
F, I the alb a ir t. via: -v.- Ihe
schedule bdlows; Tyriine frorn 4
mil d a b"i la i naif: I rein 5 lint .1
v iluii ! fr. m :> until (i Fee.-
an ii I ,e eaid uni’ innnlh m a !-
\ aiirv Teavliers will be Miss An
vlviseii. Mis Mvlfull and Mr. Mr
Keel.
Kii-niiu: vl.ssv will vunsist of
(Continued on PAGE TWO)
Ration
Hearings
Public
Beginning this Friday, and con-
tinimmg each Friday in the fut-
uie. .ill persons making applic-
ation hel> re the local board for
rationed rubber, bicycles, cars or
typewriters are rev|uested t<« ap-
peal bi'fciv the board at 1:30 p.
ni . no later, and they will be
d nn ed 1 >\ 2:00 p ni. The public
is also invited whether they have
an aoplicat-ien coming before the
boa»d nor not. in order to enlight-
en themselves on all rationing re-
gu la lions and inblenis All (p.ie
lions will be answered.
This meeting will be held in
the form of a public hearing.
Immediately after all applicants
have tated their case, and all
questions; have been answered
they will he dismissed and the
bi ard will take under careful eon-
sideratii n each and every ap-
plication. CYmtilicat.es will then be
issued: the < being weighed by
tiu' applicants direct work and
the nci cs ilv < i same to the war
et lol '
The board has deemed it nec-
v -ai> to handle applications in
this manner in order to save the
applicants valuable* time, and also
1- enlighten the public as a whole
a to the seriousness of the short •
age -l all rationed products.
Tho-e t: inlic ants coming late
cannot he disappointed if there are
no rationed articles left to be
I i >.:ied <n that week's allowance,
explains. ,J. Gordon Burch, dirt-
I man of tho board.
Russians Yield Several More
i Streets Under Terrific Blows
From Massed Tanks, Bombers
By HENRY CASSIDY
MOSCOW, Sept. 2.H.—(A!*)—Under terrific, coor-
dinated attack of nia.v-ed tanks and waves of divebombers,
tin Russians yielded several more streets in one section of
Stalingrad 1< day, but beat off tho Germans in hand-. >•
hand battles elsewhere in the city where the invade
were aid to hav, paid a toll of almost 6,000 men in three
days for pains measured in yards.
Rattlefi'.mt dispatches said Red Army forces which
crossed the surging Volfira
Special Exams
For Teachers
Will Re Given
State Attempts To
Relieve Shortage
Register By Oct. 1
under cover of darkness fell
upon one flank of the Ger-
man penetration of the dev-
astated city and drove them
from their positions. An im-
portant road was reported
rec aptured in house - to - house
lighting in another sector, while
svuthwest of the city the Hus -
sains were said to.have retaken a
village
Pravda said the sky over the
In an attempt to relieve vitv .was a cloud-flecked battle-
Trial Marriage May Be Solution
Of Fantastic Marital Dilemma Of
Preliy Blond And Sfranger-Husband
RiSch Hiker Held
In Slaying Of
Man And Wile
Hi)LI A'V\'i >()!), Sept. 23. - G’’
|' i * •! t; Mr- Glory Weller Mil
h r and the hu.sbaiwl she says is
■-1afigci .<• h*T alter nearly
r;i‘ tilth rf man ft life will
•: i * md I;appim'a m the bi- |
yd i ia! a in inti* which a ca
P , | a * < • I:. i - ft them.
By mean- »d a trial marriage,
the. ap»a'iui(cd last niaht. Iticy
|| attempt L : 1 in a permanent
relationship c*ut “t what was tc
him i normal fiomt'Stic life hut
to he* was mereh a fiiatus in
-tordav pre
I I V
A p.-yt haltrisl
dietcti a cumplc1
M: Main from tlic
which gripped her Up ui the
■ Hath of tier 1 ii■ .->t tmsi>and. H
p . , . W'-ilc. . li'imc: Biig- !nni
to’ N Y cdit* ' and under the
y j h■! | of which he .'s.nd she mar
i ied iirnn Mi’det. a c< nimcrcial
Ido dochh d to -ta\ and give
SPHINOFIFLI). HI. Sept 23.
P A hitch Inker, reported by
police to be wearing bloody over-
all.-. was seized early today h»r
ijia• tioi 'ig about the flaying of
a St Louis federal *»ft i« ial and
hi- wile, whe.se hacked bodies
w v re loi.ind t rammed in their au-
\t rneliilc on the main higbuay
n rth of here las’
I ,
id mght
: • '!i*•.i horn«*
lU.i wa> believed
, -ht>rt autonio-
the tvacbi'r sh >rtage situa-'
lion that has become acute.
State Superintendent I.. A.
Wood has a n 1 lionized a
special examination for sec-
ond v in ce,,t it it ales to be
given in October.
C'evt ifivatvs of Ihe second class
may be < bl.iuu’cl by examinations
only. Tho applicant for an ex-
amination lor a certificate must
register with the county superin-
tendent oi the i: unty in which he
resides not taler than October
1st. Her t ut . n may be made
lav letter nr in person. An affi-
davit of American citizenship is
required.
Subjects For Examinations
I ELEMENTARY C ERTI Fi-
le AT ES OF T ft E SECOND
I (’LANS:
Prescribed Subjects: A: ' 11 rrs*
tic, (Vie-Mulion.- ot the United
State and Texas Engl sh C1 ram-
I mar, Dtvsriptlve Geography. Tex-
as Histmy. United Slates History,
Phvsicl' gy and Hygiene. Read-
j ing, Scliuol Methods. Texas School
Line.-, relating 1" Pupils and
Teachers, Spelling, and Writing.
Optional Subjects: Any two of
I he loll' u mg Agi multure. Ele-
mentary (.'■ imposition. Music, or
1 )rau ing
2, HIGH SCHOOL CERTIFI-
CATES OF THE SECOND
CLASS
The applicant must meet all of ;
t tin ; ’i]i; u omen' . : r an c omen -
tar.v certificate of the second
ija oh:: ttm f* illowmg
Inscribed Subjects: Coal Gov-
Continued on PAGE TWO?
field with the Nazis making more
than 1,000 bombing flights in a
single day against reinforced
Soviet lighter plane defenses.
Tanks brought tin to bolster
Hitter's desperate bid for a Sep-
tember victory one the Volga
were declared hurled at the de-
fenders of the city of Stalin in
massed hundreds.
In a single sector attacking in-
trymen were reported led bv
more than 100 tanks — perhaps
the greatest armored shock force
ever used in street fighting.
Recounting the price the
price the Nazis paid for their
limited gains, the Russian mid-
day communique said more
than 1,000 Germans were killed
in fierce fighting northwest of
the city: 400 more in the north-
ern part of Stalingrad and two
companies of perhaps 300 men
wiped out elsewhere in the city
area by Russian tanks.
The midnight communique said
more than 3.000 Germans had
been killed or wounded in the
preceding two days northwest of
the city alone, with 300 slain in
another single salient and a bat-
talion of about 600 men wiped
out south of the city.
The army newspaper Red Star
said street booths and even oxer-
turned automobiles were used as
firing points. Hard fighting for
street intersections developed,
with the Germans in some cases
(Continued on PAGE TWO)
Seven Die In
Aircraft Crash
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II
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Barracks Beauty
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with rr
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Hutchinson Sends
Fiiieen To Navy
(Continued on PACK TWO)
Phillips Lions Name
New Committee Heads
PRESQUE ISLE. Maine. Sept.
23 1’?—The death of an army
olane's entire crew ot seven left
( investigators today with only
wreckage to help them seek the
on: -t* of the craft's crash in a
wi ded grove six miles northeast
i t here yesterday.
The victim were identified by
air base headquarters a.c 2nd
I.ieuts. R. L, Dregula, pilot, and
J Q. Crocker, co-pilot.
statl Sergt. William H Finch.
Hilly J Hill. George F. Simmons.
Lawrence A Robinson and Jo
eph Mertino.
The home addresses and age
we: e riot available
Cameron Officer,
Reporied Missing,
Is Prisoner
WASHINGTON. Sept 23—*-P- -
l- ■ • I. w.u nant K? ank M Sv\ -
l' :i • the* air foivos. ptt'vicnis’v
rt^wrted mrss.ng m action, is a
t - < f tiu* Gentian*, the vk.»i
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Phillips, J. C. Borger Daily Herald (Borger, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 262, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 23, 1942, newspaper, September 23, 1942; Borger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth738712/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hutchinson County Library, Borger Branch.