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Vol. 17—No. 122
NEA Service
Associated Press
THE CARBON BLACK CENTER OF THE WORLD
Borger, Texas, Wednesday, April 14, 1943
Buy War
Bonds And Stamps
(Six Pages Today)
Price Five Cents
Bonds Admit
Buyers To
Big Show
A fast-moving, all-soldier show
will invade Borger tomorrow
night when the "Cl. I Varieties,”
from the Pampa An Base are pre-
sented at Borger High school au-
ditorium
The event will be one of the
highlights of a senes of happen- j
mgs during the current war bond j
campaign. All purchasers of a
war bond during this campaign
will be admitted by presenting
their bond.
Borger newspapermen, who
saw the show at the press conven-
tion in Amarillo last week-end,
have endorsed the show as one of
top notch entertainment.
The show will start at 8:30
o’clock, and those who have seen
it can guarantee two hours of the
best entertainment to invade Bor-
ger in many a moon.
There 11 oe accordion players,
vocalists, Negro quartets whose
harmony is as close as the United
Allies, and many other events.
Outside of the press conven-
tion, the Borger show will be the
Triplets With Mumps
' J0
f
British Reach Rommel’s New
Tunisian Mountain Defenses
'v
Walter W. Keck, Of
Sanford, Decorated
first appearance
Varieties.”
of the "G. I.
Along with spring, mumps came to the Shula family of Paines-
ville, O, giving these triplets three swollen cheeks and their
mother plenty of work taking care ol them. The smiles, of course,
indicate joy at not having to go to school for two weeks.
425,000 Fathers Of
Military Age To Be
Given Deferment
18 Borgans
To Leave For
Fort Sill
By The Associated Press
AUSTIN, April 14—Brig'. Gen. .J. Wat I Page, state selec-
tive sen ice director, said today that the amended selec-
tive service regulations mean for Texas t hat approximate-
ly 125.000 fathers of military age will be granted draft-
deferment for ;is long as possible.
_ Returning from a conference with national selective
Eighteen Borgans will leave the service officials in Washington, Gen. Page said that the
first of next week Pi the Fort : ffe.'t of the new nati dial
Sill induction center. These men policy would he to “enable
Another Hutchinson Countian,
Walter W. Keck, stall sergeant,
of Sanb rd, has been awarded the
Distinguished Flying Crdks, for
outstanding aerial action in the
North African war theater.
S S Keck was one of 83 officers
and enlisted men in North Africa
decc rated for the destruction of
cyemy aircraft and successful
1>< mbing missions, according to
announcement by the war depart-
ment.
S S Keck is the son of W. H.
Keck and entered the army last
July. He also was presented two
oak leaf clusters for 15 sorties and
destruction of one enemy air-
craft.
In a recent letter to local rela-
tives Keck wrote that he had un-
dergone a tonsilectomy.
Bond Sales
Near Score
$100,080
mm
1
■M
Hutchinson County’s bond
drive today was well over the
$100,000 mark and had a good
start on the quota of $219,000.
Bonds which have been or-
dered include: From the Bor-
ger post office, $3,695.75; from
the Phillips post office, $6,-
!«7 50’ the Stinnett p, L t office,
$2,181.25; the bank, "$60,218.94!
a total of $72,283.44,
This, added to those an-
nounced yesterday from Phil-
lips, the school and the war
bond auction and victory con-
cert, boost the total to well over
the half-way mark.
Swedish Gunners
Drive Off Two
German Planes
have already been accepted at the’*
Lubbock induction office and j
have been sworn into the U. S
arms.
The list includes:
Louie Everett Hamilton, Bus-
sell Marion Wingo, Walter Eu-
gene Carlson, Guy Harrison Gari-
opy, Bernie Stephens, Garth Elmo
Massinglll, Raymond C a 1 v i n
Prescott, Evert Lealon Warden,
Hair} LaUov Colwell.
Wayne Clark Neal, George Ru-
fus Scott, Frank Rinehart Wilson,
Ernest Hubert Miller, Johnnie
Bennett. Jr.. John Herbert Hal-
tin' selective service system
to continue to meet the man-
pow< r requirements of the
armed forces, war production,
agriculture and other essential
civilian activities, and, at the
same time, protect as long as pos-
sible homes where there are chil-
dren."
Local boards have been direct-
ed to continue “insofar ns pos-
sible” to induct men finally clas-
sified in I-A categorically as fol-
lows:
1 Single men with no depen-
Borgans Warned
Now Is Time For
Posl-War Plans
Meredith Points
Out Local Needs
Requiring Labor
field. Homer Andrew Shipley, j dents.
Harold Franklin Hooper and 2. Single men with collateral
James Overton Teal.
Tuberculin Test
Taken By 490 Of
700 Local Pupils
In an effort to educate the high
school student body un the li-
abilities of tuberculosis, a play-
let, ‘ Hero An The Home Front",
was presented in assembly recent-
ly.
To date, out of 700 students in
the school, 490 have taken the
tuberculin skin tests, which are
being sponsored and made possi-
ble by the citizens working in
cooperation with the Hutchinson
County Tuberculosis association.
In the playlet were Paul Post,
Billy June Connelly, Ruth Fen-
no, Joanna Nix, Joan Risher, Pat-
sy Roberts and Gene Morris.
In vears to come the tuberculo-
sis association plans to be in a po-
sition to do more extensive test-
ing and follow-up work. Their
purpose is to bring tuberculosis
under control in this county.
The public is asked to please
remember that the testing pro-
gram is made possible through the
local tuberculosis association.
"Call on the association if they
can help you in any way,” a rep-
resentative said this morning.
, dependents.
3. Married
wives
William Jeffers
Plans To Visit
Borger Soon
Announcement that William M.
Jeffers, federal rubber director,
would visit in Borger sometime
the latter part of this month,
was made in a special story from
Washington today.
The rubber chief will inspect
plants in Texas and Louisiana
which already are or will soon
will produce synthetic rubber or
its ingredients. He is reported to
be leaving Washington April 23
Exact itinerary dates have not
yet been announced.
In addition to Borger, Jeffers
will visit Houston, Texas City,
Amarillo and Port Neches, in this
state.
men with
only
4. Men with children.
Local boards have been in-
structed to classify as fathers
and retain or place in class 3-A
all registrants with one or more
children born on or before
Sept. 14. 1942, excepting such
registrants who are engaged in
farming—who now go in class
3 C—and those engaged in cer-
tain non-deferrable activities.
Gen Page said approximately
50,(100 Texans would be affected
by the elimination of Class III R.
which heretofore has covered
married men in essential activi-
ties This group will be reclassi-
fied in accordance with their in
dividual status under the reviser!
regulations
t tndr*T' thn nnu- n-ilinnaj
all childless married men. except
those who are rcgularlv engaged
in farming, those who are per-
i sonally essential to essential ac-
tivities, arid those whose induc-
tion would mean "extreme hard-
shin and privation" to dcncnd'mK
will be shifted to 1-A. Gen Page
estimated that in Texas approxi-
mately 60.000 childless married
men in the 18-to-38 age group
would be added to the lists of
registrants available for service.
Married men. with or without
children, who are regularly en-
gaged in agricultural occupations
1 necessary to the war effort, will
be retained or placed in Class
HI-C for continuance of their do-
ferment, while the II-C classifi-
cations will be maintained for
qualified farmers without depen-
dents. Farm deferments, Gen.
Page explained, continue indef-
(Continued on PAGE TWO)
Memorial Rites
For Frank Berry,
In Borger, Friday
Declaring that Borgans
wore going to have to be-
gin drawing blueprints and
mapping post-war p I a n s
NOW, City Manager A. A.
Meredith yesterday outlin-
ed to the Kotarians some of
the objectives by w hich this
city could profit.
He pointed to the schools, to
the city park, the sewer system,
and a municipal auditorium. He
told the men that unless they
made plans NOW. for a munici-
pal airport that Borger could ex-
pect to become a mere dot on the
map.
"It is evident that Borger, as
an industrial center, is going to
attract more and more air traf-
fic after ibis war and if we don’t
have a big enough airport for ’
them to land on, we’ll certainly i
be out ol the picture." ho empha-
sized.
He told of the splendid work
Ip’ till* WP.A u’bnii i/.L •
created to give “countless mil- i
lions’’^employment and said they
had built roads, parks and erect-
ed great monuments that would i
stand out in the history of man-
kind.
He debunked the idea of wom-
en going back into the homes aft-
er the war, saying that the work
they were doing now was going
to bo just as essential after the
war and that they were going to
(Continued on PAGE TWO)
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, April
| 14. - i/P) - Swedish fighter planes
1 and anti-aircraft batteries drove
flying in the vicinity of Karlskro-
na, Sweden’s major naval base, a
foreign office spokesman an-
| nounced today.
Karlskrona is on the south coast
of Sweden.
This was the second such inci-
I dent reported in the area of the
naval base in recent weeks.
(The Berlin radio said in a
broadcast heard today m London
that Lt. Gen. Ol d Gerhard I’hoer
nell, commander in chief of the
Swedish army, has ordered Swe-
dish authorities to detain the
crew and passengers of any for-
eign plane forced down in Swe-
den, and to impound weapons,
maps and photographic material.*
Thieves 'Shop'
Through Broken
Window Glass
Thieves earlv yesterday morn-
ing broke a plate glass window at
the Diamond Shop and took a di-
amond studded lady's wrist watch
and two men’s wrist watches.
The trio ol watches were valued ;
at $2in.
Strangely, the thief or thieves
passed up five ladies’ lapel watch-
es, valued at $175, and various,
other costly articles.
The lady’s watch was a Balova !
white gold model and was decora- I
ted with 16 small diamonds The
men’s watches were both Sperina
"calendar” watches.
Apparently the window was
broken with a brick, which was
left lying nearby.
The robbery was discovered
about 5:30 o’clock yesterday mor-
ning, by newsboys.
WALTER KECK
Kiska, ~
Munda
Bombed
WASHINGTON, April 14—f/P) i
-American bombers blasted the |
Japanese runway, gun emplace- i
meats, and main camp on Kiska
island in the Aleutians Monday
in six attacks, the navy reported
today, while at Munda in the
South Pacific direct hits on an
ammounition dump started fires
at the enemy spot.
Navy communique number 343,
said:
"Soulh Pacific: (All dales are
cast longitude):
“1. During the night of April
, 12-13, army Liberator heavy
I bombers (Consolidated B-24'
j bombed Munda on New Georgia
I island.
“2. On April 13th, during the
I morning, Avenger Torpedo bomb- j
ers (Grumman TBF>, escorted by
Corsair (Vought F4U> and Lightn-
ing (Lockheed P-38> fighters,
bombed and strafed Munda. j
Bombs were dropped on the run- j
way and dispersal area and fires j
; were started from hits scored on i
(Continued on PAGE TWO)
Francis Re-Elected
Mayor Of Borger
For the first time since being
unanimously elected to serve an-
other term, Borger’s city commis-
sioners met Tuesday night.
Following formal procedure V.
H. Francis was re-elected mayor
and A. A. Meredith was re-ap-
pointed city manager.
The present city personnel was
re-apointed at their present rate
of pay.
Allies Destroy Axis
Airfields In Sicily
By WES GALLAGHER
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA,
April 14—(AP)—The Allied forces in Tunisia have driven
up to Marshal Erwin Rommel’s mountain defenses ringing
Tunis and Bizerte, a communique from Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower’s headquarters announced today, and Ameri-
can and British aircraft have destroyed 84 more Axis
planes.
The mass destruction of Axis aerial strength was led by
American Flying Fortresses which, reconnaissance show-
fed, destroyed 73 planes in
Italian
Base
Blasted
LONDON, April l4.-(/P)-British
home-based bombers heavily at-
tacked Spezia, naval base in nor-
thern Italy last night, and it was
officially disclosed today that RAF
raiders from the Middle East had [ souh of Tunis, upon which Rom-
two raids on Sicilian air-
fields which were thorough-
ly covered with bomb bursts.
One hundred of the enemy’s
aircraft were seen on one
field.
The British Eighth army, con-
tinuing to press the African Corps
to the northward from Sousse,
ran into Rommel’s “prepared
positions between Enfidaville and
Djebel Bou Hadjar,” the commu-
nique said.
This apparently was the moun-
tain defense line running west
from Enfidaville, itself 27 miles
north of Sousse and 50 miles
Philadelphia, Pa.,
Temple Uni versity.
is the site of
Maurice Taylor
Receives His
Armv Commission
Maurice F. W. Taylor, nephew
of Mrs. Violet Smith of Borger,
was graduated this week from the
armv air forces statistical school
at Boston. Mass., as a second lieu-
tenant.
Before entering his final period
of instruction in statistics, Lieut.
Taylor successfully completed a
course at Miami Reach, Fla.
Brazil has two waterfalls which
are higher than Niagara.
j Memorial services for Lieut.
Frank Berry, Jr , will he held
Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock at
the local Episcopalin church,
Third and McGee streets
Lieut Berry was one of Ion
j killed in the crash of a B-24
i bomber in Arizona Tuesday. He
was the co-pilot.
His wife, the former Lucy Ann
Graves, and her mother, Mrs. W.
C. Graves, together with Mr. and
Mrs. J. C. Alexander of Phillips,
have gone to .San Antonio to at-
tend funeral services.
Strong Japanese Force
Raided Milne Bay Today
Hamilton Killed
Trying To Escape
From Alcatraz
DALLAS, April 14—</P)—Floyd
Hamilton, one-time member of
the Clyde Barrow-Raymond Ham-
ilton outlaw gang, was marked
up as dead on local crime records
today after a spectacular attempt
to escape from Alcatraz along
with three other convicts.
Floyd Hamilton was rated Pub-
lic Enemy No, 1 only after his
brother Raymond had died in the
electric chair at Huntsville in
1935. Clyde Harrow and his gun
moll, Bonnie Parker, also West
Dallas products, were shot to
death by officers who ambushed
them on a Louisiana road May
23. 1934.
Floyd Hamilton wound up in
Alcatraz with Ted Walters after
they were convicted of robbing a
bank at Bradley, Ark., in 1938.
Previously they had escaped jail
at Nocona, Tex., in May, 1938,
after which they blazed a trail
oi crime throughout the south-
west before they were captured
:*• the Trinity river bottoms by
city detectives led by Inspector
Will Fritz. This was Aug. 21,
1938, following their escape the
night before when officers tried
to corner them in a house here.
• Hospital Notes
North Plains
1 blasted Palermo and Messina har-
bors in Sicily Monday night.
Spezia is on the Ligurian sea,
1 about 50 miles southeast of Genoa
I on the west coast of Italy. It was
I bombed twice in February by the
I RAF.
| Palermo and Messina have been
I repeated targets for bombers of
I the Middie East command and
also for the North African stra-
J tegic air force as efforts were
! made to knock out the important
I Sicilian harbors helping supply
Marshal Rommel’s forces in Tun-
isia.
Other RAF formations followed
up these assaults by raiding ob-
! jectives in northwestern Germany
| at dawn this morning.
Three bombers were reported
missing from the 1,500-mile round
trip to northern Italy and the raid
on Germany. None were reported
lost in the attacks on Sicily.
The raid on Spezia was the
43rd attack on Italy by Britain-
based RAF bombers since the |
(Continued on PAGE TWO)
L. M. Draper
Visiting Here
Before Sailing
Lieutenant Commander L. M.
Draper is in the city for a short
stay before being sent overseas as
a navy physician.
The officer, a former well-
known doctor, has already bid
his family farewell in Corpus
mel had fixed for his main stand.
Djebel Bou Hadjar is 32 miles
west and south of Enfidaville and
25 miles northwest of Kairouan.
Despite the continued pres-
sure of the Eighth army, how-
ever, the Algiers radio report •
yesterday that Enfidaville had
been captured appeared to be
untrue.
The British First army, exert-
ing steady pressure from the
west upon Rommel’s narrow cor-
ner of Tunisia, also pushed the
Germans back along the Beja
road north of Medjez-EI-Bab to
within three miles of Sidi N.sir,
about 40 miles west of Tunis.
In between the Eighth and
First armies, the French squeezed
the Germans back farther into
their bridgehead with another ad-
vance to the extreme north of the
secondary Tunisian dorsal range
on which the western end of Rom-
mel's southern front apparently is
anchored.
The destruction of 84 German
and Italian aircraft was rated at
headquarters as a crushing1 blow
to Adolf Hitler’s Mediterranean
strategy.
The blow was accomplished
with a loss of three Allied planes.
(The Algiers radio and a
Reuters dispatch from Switzer-
land, where roundabout reports
from Rome and Marseille were
gathered, said Rommel already
was beginning an evacuation oi
at least part of his forces from
Tunisia.
(The Algiers radio said the
forces being removed were a con
siderable number of German
technical personnel. This sug-
Christi, where Mrs. Draper will gested that the Germans might
remain with the family. She is
teaching school.
Lieut.-Commander Draper will
leave Borger tomorrow morning,
en route to an embarkation point.
be removing their air force ground
personnel. The British radio to-
day said Rommel had only three
airfields left in Tunisia, all under
(Continued on PAGE TWO)
Jimmie Flynn and son are med-
ical patients.
Mrs. O. D. Stewart is a medical !
patient.
Arthur Marx is a medical pati-
ent.
New School Building
For Rubber Industry
Mrs. Bert Chandler is a sur-
gery patient.
By MURLING SPENCER
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA. April 14.-(/P)-Head-
quarters of General MacArthur
tonight- announced tersely that
a strong force of Japanese air-
ately 100 against Port Moresby. | whether our planes were able to
The announcement followed by KPt ak)11 to intercept the Japa-
nese force with the same success
a matter of 111 hours General
MacArthur’s special statement is-
sued at the regular noon commun-
ique time, voicing a new winning
Harry Davis underwent a ton-
silectomy.
daylight today. Details were not
immediately received
The raid was believed to have
been on the approximate scale of
other big raids in the Southwest
Pacific recently, which General
MacArthur has termed the be-
ginning of Japanese aerial offen-
sive in this area.
These were raids on Oro bay,
j Tulagi and Port Moresby. Eighty-
I five and forty-five planes were
j used by the Japanese in separate
assaults against Oro bay; 97
i against Tulagi, and approxim-
crait raided Milne bay during of inherent danger of a Japanese
attempt to wrest aerial suprema-
cy from the Allies in the South-
west Pacific.
The raid or Milne bay, which
lies on the southeast tip of Pa-
pua (New Guinea1, was the heav-
iest there since January 17 when
24 medium bombers escorted by
20 Zeros made an attack.
The other raids against Milne
bay have been night sorties in
which nine planes were the most
the enemy used at one time.
The brief headquarters an-
nouncement tonight did not say
as during other raids in recent
days.
In the Port. Moresby raid on
April 12, 37 Japanese planes were
shot nit of action either in dog-
fights over Moresby or by ack-
ack.
Following the Port Moresby
said, General MacArthur s com- !
munique said “it is believed the
enemy's air offensive has been
blunted and his immediate plans
dislocated.”
The general’s warning said the J
Japanese had “complete control j
of the sea lanes in the Western
Pacific and the outer approaches
to Australia."
Jimmie Lacefield is u medical
patient.
Fred Zickrick is a medical pa-
tient.
Mrs. J. H. Boyles is a surgery
patient.
Mrs. E. F. Rakef is confined
with a broken ankle, received
yesterday in her yard.
Pantex
J. L. Stroud is a medical pati-
ent.
Harry Thomas is a medical pa-
tient.
Plans for the construction of a
12-room elementary school build-
ing near the synthetic rubber
plant were announced today by
the Townes Architectural com-
pany of Amarillo.
The building, which will cost
$100,000, will be constructed at
the expense of the federal govern-
ment.
Building of a new school house
will relieve the congested situa-
tion in the local educational sys-
tem, arising from the increase in
population at. the rubber plant.
The school will be built north
of the Pantex school on land own-
ed by the Defense Plant Corpor-
ation. a subsidiary of the United
States government, and will be
a part of the Pantex school dis-
trict.
Actual construction will begin
soon, as the building must be
ready for occupancy by the open-
ing of the fall term, according to
the plans released today.
Mr and Mrs. G E. Cain are the
parents of a 5'^ popund son, born
at 11:15 p. m. yesterday in Pan
tex hospital.
Mr. and Mrs Eli Tooman ai*
the parents of a 74-4 pound son.
bom at 7:45 p. m. yesterday in
Pantex hospital.
Mr. and Mis. Thurman Willi
ams have a 7 pound 15 ounce son,
born at 9 a. m. yesterday in North
Plains hospital.
An automobile’s connecting rods
should be tightened every 20,000
miles.
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