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Vol. 17—No. 100
NEA Service
Associated Press
Borger, Texas, Friday, March 19, 1943
(Six Pages Today'
Price Five Cents
War Boosts Baby Births
Allies Drive 12-Miles Past
Gafsa On Road To Gabes
Roosevelt Opposes
Drafting Of Labor
Borger Hero Missing
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More bubies were born in wartime 1942 than in any other year in
the nation’s history, although the birth rate of 21 per 1000 is
still below World War I’s 25 per 1000 &)me 2,800,000 babies were
born last year while infant and maternal mortality rates hit
all-time lows.
Pvt. Knapp, Slayer,
Hangs For Murder
Of 8-Year Old Girl
By BRACK CURRY
LEON SPRINGS MIL1-
T A R V RESERVATION,
Tex., March 19—(AP) —
Private George Schubert
Knapp, once a St. Paul,
Minn., gunsmith, was hang-
ed at 7 :52 a. m., here today |
for murdering Lucy Rivers
Maynard near Bastrop last
Oct. 6.
“God bless my mother,” were
his last words
Addressing a small group of
05th division officers and news-
papermen. 39-year-old Knapp
said a few minutes before the
noose was placed around his neck:
"I didn’t rape that girl."
The soldier in civil life had
once been confined to a Minne-
sota hospital for the insane, and
arms ime tigat.i.n disclosed
twice wn: convicted of larceny
Lucy Maynard was ft when she
was fatally attacked.
T\vent> nine minutes elapsed
from the time Knapp reached the
gallows a few hundred yard*
from the base camp of this reser-
vation until he was pronounced
dead by the division surgeon at
8:03 a m.
Knapp arrived at the execution
point in a command car escorted
by two j<H'ps. With him on the
rear seat was the chaplain, who
cannot be identified under army
regulations in 1he front seat
were two armed military police-
men. The provost marshal of the
division and other armed MP’s
rode in Iho accompanying jeeps.
Wearing a field jacket, olive
drab trousers, regulation service
cap and no blouse. Knapp step-
ped briskly from the command
car, glanced at the small specta-
tor group and said “Good morn-
ing. lieutenant."
The division public relations of-
ficer said Knapp mistook an offi-
cer for the lieutenant in charge of
his guardhouse at Fort Sam Hous-
ton.
Mounted on the gallows were
fbur military policemen, including
a captain. Eleven1 other MP’s sur-
rounded the scaffold.
Knapp paused before the first
of the 13 steps of the gallows,
chatted briefly with the guards,
permitted himself to be handcuff-
ed and impassively mounted the
stairs.
For four minutes he talked with
the chaplain, asking permission
to address a final word to the
spectators.
In a clear voice that never wa-
vered. he said: "Say, folks, I didn't
rape that girl — I want you to j
know that."
Then he repeated after the
ehaplain the Lord’s Prayer and
the 23rd Psalm.
Over Knapp’s heart was placed
a black hood. His feet were man- j
acted. The rope, specially toughen- !
(Continued on PAGE TWO)
Germans Report
Successful Drive
LONDON. March 19.-uP)- The
German high command in a com-
munique broadcast today by the
Berlin r.ulio and recorded by the
Associated Press reported tlie cap-
ture of Belgorod. 50 miles north-
east of Kharkov, and said further
successiul attacks had been made
northwest of Kursk.
The Russians had taken Belgor-
od, military base and rail center,
Feb. 9.
Heavy Red army attacks were
declared to have been repulsed
both south <.( Orel, itself 80 miles
north of Kursk, and near Staraya
Russa, which lies south of Lake
Ilmen on the northwest front.
Joan Risher,
Oratory Winner
Going To Abilene
—
Miss Joan Risher, Borger repre-
sentative <u the Hutchinson coun-
ty Post, American Legion, will
del end her district championship
in the l#egion Oratorical Contest
in Abilene Monday night, it has
been announced.
Miss Risher won over a field of
speakers in Amarillo last week at !
Legion Home to win the right of
representing the Hth Congression-
al District at the Abilene division-
al contest.
The winner in Abilene will go
to the state finals in Austin
March 27-28, it was said.
Hardin-Simmons university will
have the orators as their guests
at a banquet Monday night prior
to the contest, Prof. W. A. Steph-
enson, director of the meet, has
advised local Ix'ginn officers.
Winners at the state contests
will gather later for the national
contest where he winner will be
awarded the annual American
Legion $-4.0011 scholarship award
in tlie university or school of the
winner’s choice.
WASHINGTON, March 19—(/Pi
— President Roosevelt told a
press conference today he wanted
to avoid national service legisla-
tion just as long as he possibly
could.
No decision has been reached
on the question of drafting of
workers for war industries, Mr.
Roosevelt said, and he added that
it might be unnecessary to have
it, or that eventuallv it would
have to be put into effect.
Questioned as to why he wanted
to avoid such legislation, he said
he thought it would create a lot
more machinery, make things a
lot more complicated in a lot of
ways, and people would complain
of regimentation.
Of course, he remarked, you
can't win a war without regimen- j
tation.
A special committee headed by
Economic Director James F.
Byrnes has been studying all
angles of the manpower problem j
and submitted a report to the
president. Asked about some of
the general conclusions and find-
ings of fact in the report, Mr.
Roosevelt said there weren't any.
He said there had been various
memoranda submitted on various
things, not only by the special
committee but also by quite a l"t
d) -ither peopl** Pm
"Is something in the works?”
a reporter wanted to know.
"Oh. my. yes,” the chief execu-
tive responded.
Declaring that many American
industries still are operating on a
“share-the-work depression’’ bas-
is. Capt. Eddie Rlckenbacker said
the nation has more manpower
than it needs “if properly util-
ized.”
Testifying before the senate
military committee inquiring into
the Austin-Wadsworth bill to
draft men and women civilians
into war production jobs, the
flying ace of World War I de-
clared that “It’s not a case of
manpower problems but of pro-
duction problems.”
Reading from a page of notes.
Rickenbacker said that from
many discussions with able pro-
duction men he is convinced that
about 5.500,000 men could be sal-
vaged from present war indus-
tries by adoption in all war plants
of the incentive or piece work
plan.
The flier expressed a belief
that former farm workers now in
industry should be instructed to
“go back to the farms” or be
drafted.
"They certainly should be in i
uniform.” lie added, “prior to i
those babies of 17 to 18. Their
places in industry could he taken !
by plenty of persons oxer 18 to
anxious to get into war work."
38 age group who are willing and
British Subs
Sink Six Nazi
Supply Ships
LONDON, March 19,-(/P)- Two
British submarines sank six sup-
ply ships, a tanker, and a naval
auxiliary in a recent te-nday pa-
trol in the Mediterranean, the ad-
miralty announced today.
“Within ten days two of His
Majesty’s submarines operating
in the Mediterranean have sunk
four large enemy supply ships, a
tanker of medium size and a small
supply ship,” the admiralty said
in a communique. “In addition,
they destroyed a naval auxiliary
and another small supply ship.”
COURT CHANGE
LUFKIN, March 19.-(^-Gover-
nor Stevenson today signed into
law a bill changing the time and
terms of holding district court in
the second judicial district, inclu-
ding Angelina, Cherokee and Nac-
ogdoches counties.
Telephone lines of the United
State., .if strung in a continuous
lute, would reach to the moon
and back 105 times.
CAPT. BILLY BALDWIN
One of the heroes of a recent
bombing raid in Burma, Captain
Billy Baldwin yesterday was re-
ported "missing in action" by
the war department.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. T.
E. Baldwin of near Stinnett re-
ceived the following telegram:
The War Department regrets to
inform vou that Captain J. W.
Baldwin is reported missing in
the Asiatic area, since March
13.
On March 8 the Borger Her-
ald carried the story telling of
Captain Baldwin's heroism.
Last letter the Baldwins had
from their son was Feb. 28.
Gunner Falls From Turret
And Almost Lands On Sub
Rattlesnakes require about five
seconds to coil and strike.
J. A. Fahle, 66,
Dies Suddenly
A sudden heart attack about 10
o’clock last night brought death
to John Adam Fahle, 66, at his
home at 423 Whittenburg.
A tool dresser connected with
many companies and well known three enemy planes destroyed.
AT A U. S. BOMBER STA-
TION IN BRITAIN, March 19.—
(/P)-—Staff Sgt. Albert Carroll of
Marshall, Texas, was one of a
number of Texans who took part
in the American bombing raid
over Germany yesterday.
Sergeant Carroll, a turret gun-
ner, almost landed on the sub
base target himself. He fell out
of his plane when the door of the
ball turret opened accidentally
but managed to grab hold by one
hand.
For a time he dangled in the
air . . . then he managed to pull
himself back into the turret. None
the worse for the excitement, he
got back to his gun just in time
to fire a burst at a German fight-
er plane passing by.
Capt. Dexter Hodge of Pledger.
Texas, was co-pilot of a Liberator
bomber, “Fascinating Witch”
which took part in the raid. The
crew of the bomber bagged pos-
sibly two bombers, and Lt. Rob-
ert Miller of Pleasant Ridge,
Mich., pilot of the craft said he
had never seen Nazi planes come
so close before.
“One came in upside down at
me so close I had to tip up my
wing to miss him." be said.
First Lt. C. L. Phillips of
Greenville. Texas, pilot of the
Liberator “Little Beaver” said:
“It was one of our best raids.
“We plastered hell out of the
target and not too many enemy
aircraft were inclined to close
with us. Visibility was good and
we could see our bombs hitting
the submarine slips.”
The Little Beaver crew claimed
among the local oil fraternity,
Fahle is survived by his wife,
daughter, Mrs. Carl Harber and
son, Lieut. Mark Fahle of Camp
Luis Obispo, Calif., who is cn
route home.
Additional survivors include
two brothers, Mark and Lou of
Toledo, O., who are en route to
Borger and two sisters, Mrs, Jo-
seph Sweeney and Mrs. Kay Bish-
op of Cleveland. Ohio.
The body is at Powell Funeral
Home, pending arrival of rela-
tives.
Sgt. Edward Phillips of Fort
Worth said he bagged a Focke
Wulf 190. “I saw my tracers go- i
ing into him,” he said. “His j
motor stopped and he fell off go- !
ing into two spins.”
Second Lt. T. D. Tartmess of
Houston, who was manning the
nose gun, said he saw the plane
w’hich Phillips claimed “col- j
lapsed.”
Tartness and Phillips made a J
joint claim of a ME 110 which :
was seen by the top turret gun-
ner flaming as it fell.
Nazis Push New
Air Units Into
Kharkov Fight
Russians Report
Additional Gains
Smolensk Area
Last Rites For
Mrs. Dellis, 39,
Held Yesterday
Last rites for Mrs. Nolan Dellis,
39, of Fl itch, were held yesterday
afternoon at 3 o’clock, in the Bap-
tist church in Panhandle.
Mrs. Dellis was killed instantly
in a head-on automobile collision
last Saturday morning on the Am-
arillo-Fritch highway.
Her husband, who has been in
St. Anthony’s hospital, this morn-
ing was reported as having been
slowly improving since Tuesday
night. However, this morning he
was iust informed of his wile’s
death .uid was reported suffering
considerably from shock. His re-
covery was still an uncertainty,
attendants at the hospital told a
Herald : eperter.
Born May 31. 1903, in Ringling,
Oklil.. Mrs. Dellis is the former
Annette McMurty and was marri-
ed to Mr. Dellis Now 16, 1931, at
Port ales, N. M.
She is survived by her husband,
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Mc-
Murty of Lindsay, Okla., two sis-
ters, Mrs. L. T. Sinclair of Lind-
say and Mrs. M. S. Stidham of
Muleshoe, who were at the funer-
al.
Officiating were the Rev. A. D.
Foreman. Jr., of Amarillo, assisted
by K. M Weathers ot Panhandle.
Fasti rn Star rites were also
conducted, Mrs. Dellis having
been a member ot the Lindsay
chapter.
Pallbearers were J. C. Wilkin- :
.sen, Everett Dison, Roy Howard,
W. M. Ball, Therein Smith and
Raymond Downs, all Texoma em-
ployes. Interment was in Panhan-
dle. by Mr. Dellis’ lather and j
bi other.
INDUCTEES’ NAMES
TO BE WITHHELD
Police Arrest Man
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Braddock, S
upon arrival of a 6 pound 11 i
ounce son, at 8:03 p. m. yesterday j
in North Plains hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Sprad-
ling, whose 7 pound 10 ounce son
was born at 5:35 a. m. todav in
North Plains hospital.
WASHINGTON, March 19—(/P) ri Aeeaiil* fkarno
—Selective service headquarters ' UR ASSaUlI Undigc
said today a ban on release of -
names of men called for induc-
tion was imposed to avoid embar-
rassment to those rejected.
The names of those accepted at
the induction stations for military
service, headquarters said, may
be given out by local boards for
publication.
L. T. Gordon is being held in
city jail after having been charg-
ed with robbery by assault, ac-
cording to Chief of Police Jack
Julian.
Chief Julian said Gordon would
probably be turned over to coun-
ty officials today.
A. W. Nelson Named
President Of Water,
Sewage Association
A. W. Nelson, superintendent of
gas and water of the Southwest-
ern Public Service company, has
just been elected president of the
Panhandle Water and Sewage as-
sociation, which meets monthly in
Amarillo’s city hall.
Pete Fullbright of McLean is
the retiring president.
Nelson is also chairman of the
current Red Cross War Fund
drive.
By EDDY GILMORE
MOSCOW, March 19—
(AP)—Dispatches from the
front today said the Ger-
mans had thrown new air
units, motorized infantry
outfits and tank detach-
ments into the battle for
mastery of the upper Don-
ets River 15 miles east of
Kharkov, and that the tre-
mendous pressure of the
new forces in the last few
hours had caused the Rus-
sian line to yield slightly in
the Chuguev sector.
The Nazis succeeded in throw-
ing infantrymen across the river
in some sectors, but ultimately
they were hurled back, while
tanks attempting the crossing
crashed through the thinning ice,
Russian dispatches said.
“In the district of Chuguev
fierce battle.'- continued,” the So-
viet noon communique declared.
"The enemy brought up fresh
forces of infantry and tanks in
attacks on our positions.
400 Killed
“The lighters of ‘X’ unit repul-
sed the attacks of the Hitlerites,
damaged five tanks and killed up
; to 400 German soldiers and offi-
cers.
“As a result of the battles in
only one sector were enemy
tanks able slightly to press back
our detachments.”
Russian fliers, however, .smash-
ed at German transport, the com-
munique said, destroying about
100 trucks hauling men and sup-
plies.
Nazis Depend On Roads
This furnished an indication
here that the Germans were de-
pending in this sector on highway
travel rather than by rail, al-
tnough west of Kharkov they are
supposed to hax-e railroads in
operation.
The dispatches did not saj how
heavy the German reinforcements
wore, but the Nazis’ continued as-
saults on the Russian lints both
from the air and on land are per-
haps as furious as anything ’hev
have attempted in Russia since
they tried to take Stalingrad and
Voronezh.
New gains in the drive for
Smolensk xx-ere reported, with a
Red army column smashing west-
ward along the Vyazma-Smolensk
iitiivwtv in seize muie towns west
of Izdeshkovo, 25 miles west of
Vyazma, capture of which was
announced last night.
About 800 German officers and
men were slain by Marshal Tim-
■ xhenko's legions boating their
way forward toward Staraya Rus-
sa. south of Lake Ilmen, it was
announced, with several more
villages taken in the advance.
Llano Estacado
Camera Club To
Hold Meeiing
Easter will be the theme of the
prints shown by members of Lla-
no Estacado Camera club at a
meeting tonight at 7:30 o'clock, in
the Federated Club rooms.
E. G. Hamraerschmidt will
speak briefly on "Composition of
Pictures.”
Another colorful exhibit of the
Photographic Society ol' America
has been received and will be
shown.
Everyone interested in better
pictures is cordially invited.
American Troops
Occupy El Guetar
Despite Heavy Rains
By EDWARD KENNEDY
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA,
March 1.9—(AP)—United States troops have aecupied El
Guetar, 12 miles southeast of Gafsa on the road to Gabes,
in a pursuit maintained despite torrential rains and floor
conditions, it was announced today.
$ (A dispatch from the
Tunisian front from Noland
U. S. Bombers
Attack Naples
CAIRO, March 19.-(/P)-Libera-
tor bombers of the Ninth United
States Air Force attacked Naples
twice yesterday, once during day-
light and again after darkness fell,
an American communique an-
nounced today.
“Results of both attacks were
unobserved due to solid cloud cov-
er over the target,” the war bulle-
tin said.
The Italian high command said
“enemy planes dropped bombs on
the outskirts and on the neighbor-
hood of Naples and in Syracuse
province without causing casual-
1 ies>."
Sanford Kiwanis
Sponsor Minstrel
Program Monday
Blackface comedians of old will
have nothing on the darkies who
perform in Smoky’s Dixieland
minstrel next Monday night at 8
o’clock, in the Sanford Commun-
ity hull, under auspices of the
Sanford Kiwanis club.
A blackface quartet including
C. A. Sieple, Moble Wilkins, R. D. j
Cooper and the Rev. Ira T. Huck- |
abee are guaranteed to launch
the evening in fine fettle.
The popular Johnny West, ac- 1
companied by Dennis Comer on j
the piano, will stage a tap danc- i
ing routine; Gene Reno and Billy
Williams will give a jitterbug
version.
R. J. Box, billed as the “man !
without a bone in his body,” will j
be on hand wit ha shimmy dance
unequalled.
Milton Means will act as inter- |
locuter.
The minstrel cast is composed I
of J. II. Agee. Noble Wilkins, ;
Smoky Lanham, Jack Robinson,
Leonard Rae, Gene Reno.
Miss Ada Marie Easley, sweet-
heart of the Kiwanis club, will
furnish piano accompaniment for
the show.
Admission will be 17 and 35
cents.
Sanford Resident
Suffers Serious
Injuries In Fall
W. H. Eldridge of Sanford re-
ceived serious injuries this morn-
ing, when he fell from a fifteen-
foot platform at a carbon black
plant.
The attending physician said
Eldridge suffered a fracture of
both arms and possible internal
injuries.
The patient was not to be x-
rayed until late this afternoon.
Norgaard, Associated Press
vv a r correspondent, said
United States infantry re-
qccupied positions east of
Ed Guetar, thus restoring their
position to a rough approxima-
tion of that of two months agod
Forward elements from the
command of Lieut. Gen George
S. Patton, Jr., entered the town
after its abandonment by the
enemy, a communique said.
Wade Through Water
The soldiers often were wading
through water in the muddy gul-
lies to press the advantage gained
in the reconquest of the Gafsa
area.
In the northern sector British
First Army troop-- 1 itlvlrv* >••* -
terday nieht from the mining vil-
lage of Tamera to new positions
three miles to the southwest,
where they resulsed two German
infanrty attacks. Tamera itself
: lies seven miles west of a former
British base at Sedjennne and 45
1 miles southwest of RDerte, the
! Axis-held naval base.
(Of this action the German high
command communique, broadcast,
from Berlin and recorded by the
Associated Press, sr.id that on the
“Northwestern Tunisian front an
Axis local offensive enterprise is
progressing fax-orably >.”
Renewed Activity
The renexval of activities of the
force under General Patton,
which includes the first U. S.
armored division and the first and
34th infantry divisions, xx^as ac-
cepted by military observers here
as new evidence of the Allied de-
termination to clean up enemy
holdings in Tunisia.
The communique said the Brit-
ish Eighth army continued nor-
mal patrol activity which resulted
in slight local adjustments in the
Mareth line zone while Allied
forces withdrexv slightly on the
northern Tunisian front in the
Tamera area xx-est of Sedjenane
United States armored patrols
thrust on from recaptured Gafsa
toward the Gulf of Gabes by two
roads to squeeze the C.-ii id.-i be-
tween the forces of Marshal Er-
win Rommel and f’nl flmi Jin
gen von Arnim.
El Guetar Evacuated
The communique said E! Guetar
had been ex-acuated by the enemy
before the arrival of the Allied
vanguards. Tli Mareth line ad-
justments—their nature not offi-
cially announced—also were said
to hax-o been made “with little
interference by the enemy.”
Bad weather curtailed a< rial
operations on the northern front,
but fighters and bombers attacked’
Axis-occupied buildings and start-
ed a fire, the bulletin reported.
(Continued on PAGE TWO)
A change in the methods of crat-
ing propellers permit a load of
154 per cent more three-way pro-
pellers to be nut in a standard-
sized freight car.
Scout Executive
To Speak Tonight
Dr. Elbert K. Fretwell, chief
scout executive, will be guest
speaker during the Cities’ Service
broadcast tonight at tt o’clock eas-
tern war time, over statiiei WEAK.
New York and the National
Broadcasting company network.
• Hospital Notes
North Plains
Harold Welch underwent a ton-
si lectomy today.
Mrs. R. D. McClellan is a sur-
gery patient.
Mrs. Rov Engle is a surgery
patient.
Joan Ajiderson is a tonsilectomy
pat'ent.
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