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RANGERS BACK SANITATION
CITY REQUIRES
DISINFECTION
ALL NUISANCES
HERALD STYLE
SHOW PACKS
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Both Performances Draw Big
Crowds To See New
Fashions.
Dame Mode swung open the silken
lined Kates of fashion at the Rex
Theatre last night to reveal to the
eager public of Borger, the spring
styles of 1927, offering a stupendous
array of costume typifying objects of
Milady's discriminating eye.
The style show, produced in a mag-
nificent. manner through the efforts
of four leading stores, Lovu's, the A.
& S. Store, Carpenter's and Stein-
berg's the Ilex Theatre and The Bor-
ger Daily Herald, proven a success-
ful achievement in the way of ac-
quainting Borger with the latest
word in dresa for both men and wo-
men.
•lams Theatre
With the theatre Jammed beyond
capacity and crowds surging the
doorways for a glimpse at the pretty
models and fashion array, the style
show was presented at two different
performances. Throngs lined Main
street for nearly a block, at one time
Stoppoing traff'c when the crowd
swung out into the street for a
chance at the ticket window.
Spring frocks, coats, dresses, hats,
footwear and even a generous show-
ing of negligee greeted tile happy
eye of every woman in the house,
while men attending the performance
were pleased with the revelation 'of
spring suits, hats and neckwear as
worn by the male models.
Dozens of men and women models
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Rangers, in charge of the city
police force, will aid in enforce-
ment. of all sanitary laws of the
state and the city, they told City
Plumbing Inspector Arthur Savard
yesterday, after Savard announced
that he would require under state
and city laws already in force, reg-
ular disinfection of surface toilets
and bringing of cess pools and other
sanitary contrivances up to stand-
ard. Mayor John R. Miller has said
that he will back Mr. Savard.
To Start At Once
Savard said that beginning to-
day, he would require disinfection
with chloride of lime or some other
substance approved by him, once a
week or oftener, at entervals short
enough to insure sanitary conditions
The lime is now available at 20
cents a pound at the Thompson
Hardware company. One pound is
sufficient to disinfect the ordinary
toilet tor a week, Savard said.
If toilets are not properly disin-
fected he will declare them nuis-
ances, and have them torn down,
and fines may follow, he declared,
the rangers promising to bring the
law enforcement officers to his aid
here.
Garbage must be kept in covered
metal containers, he said, until it
is burned.
(.'nil Mass Mooting
This action followed a meeting
of the city commission Tuesday
night with the Chamber of Com-
merce in charge of cleanup week,
at. which meeting it was decided to
set. the city engineer to work at
once making estimates for construc-
tion of thirty-two blocks of sewer,
sixteen blocks down the alleys on
each side of Main street, for which
city warrants may be issued and
sold to citizfens. A mass meeting will
be called to urge public backing
of the sewer construction, and
Chamber of Commerce committees
will undertake the sale of the war-
rants, which it is estimated will
approximate $30,000.
WILL RECALL
RESIGNATION
POLICE JUDGE
This Act Has Been Accepted
By Mayor Miller, How-
ever, Is Shown.
RANGERS7 WISH
Stale Officers Suggested Both
Offices Be Vacated By
Local Man.
FIVE ARE KIILE IIOKLAHOHA
STORMS, SCORES BADLY IU0RED
OKLAHOMA CITY. April 18.—
(AP)—Twice smitten with as many
days with tornadoes, Oklahoma to-
day faced floods again in its cen-
tral and northern rivers.
A tornado, dipping to rip ii swath
some ten miles long through Has-
kell and Leflore counties late yes-
terday and then striking at Fort
Smith, Arkansas, was believed to
have claimed five Uvea and danger-
ously Injured a score of persons.
Monday uiglit a tornado hurled
itself upon several communities In
Canadian and Grady counties almost
in tell center of the state southwest
of Oklahoma CltV, taking pne Ufe
and critically injuring several oth-
ers.
Making its first disastrous ap-
pearance near McCurtain, Okla.,
late yesterday, a tornado plowed
eastward through Milton, the farm
region near Bokoshe, and the Lib-
erty community, apparently leaped
into the air and pounced upon Fort
Smith. Near McCurtain It took two
lives, at Milton a third and two
more at Port Smith.
It left the wreckage of dosens
of farmhomes In a devastated belt
about a mile wide. From these
homes crawled many injured per-
sons, several believed to have been
fatally hurt. About fifty houses
were demolished In Fort Smith.
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The known dead in Oklahoma
were:
A Mr. Putnam, a Mr. Dozier and
Mrs. John Ross.
The dead in Kort Smith: Mrs. T.
L. Fuller and Mrs. S. T. Hester.
George I). AVebb, who yesterday
tendered .his resignation as city
judge to Mayor Millier and city
commissioners, and his. resignation
as justice of the |H)a*'e to county
commissioners ut Stinnett, today
announced he would recall his
resignation as city judge. The
resignation as justice of the | eace
will stand, he said.
Official records today, however,
revealed the former judge's resig-
nation as city judge was accepted
last night following the filing with
City Clerk Sam Little by Mayor
Miller a d bears the mayor's sig-
ture-
The resignation to both offices
by Judge Webb was suggested by
state rangers Tuesday.
Moody Will Attend
4>States Festival
AUSTIN, April 13.—-(AP)—Gov-
ernor Moody made it known Tuesday
that he would attend the four states
celebration of a highway opening at
Texarkana April 19, sponsored by
the American Legion.
LATE NEWS
(By The Associated Press)
DKL RIO, Texas, .April 18—
(AP)—Tile derrick of the Kast
Side Oil well at the edge of I>el
Kio was blown down, all buildings
about the well were scattered for
miles, and n Mexican employee is
missing as a result of the sixty-
mile gale wliirh blew through hero
last night.
Quits Jobs
STORM NEWS
FROM OVER
WIDEAREA
Ballinger, Belton, Kennedale,
Swept By Twisting
Wind.
INFANT DEAD
George Webb resigned yes-
terday as city judge of lior-
ger, and today, after this res-
ignation was accepted, an-
nounced lie wished to with-
draw it, and filed his resigna-
tion as justice of peace, which
office he retained after being
elected city judge.
MORE BASEBALL
NEWSJONIGHT
The baseball edition, In which
The Herald Is offering the only
news in this section of results of
games on the day they are played,
will carry fuller reports of league
baseball than appeared in the first
issue of the pink sheet Tuesday.
In addition, the local sport, news
will be carried daily. The Herald
desires to give service to its read-
ers in Borger and adjacent com-
munities, welcomes any segges-
lions from these readers ,and
hopes to Improve Its service daily.
SHANGHAI, April lit—(AP)
—One hundred Chinese were
¡killed and two hundred and
fifty wounded in fighting re-
sulting from further raids in
the native suburbs of Shanghai
this afternoon by General
t'lilting Kai-Slieks' troojis en-
gaged in routing out the reds.
OKLAHOMA
WRECK FATAL
MUSKOGEE, Okla., April 18—
(AP)—J. M. Williams of Musko-
gee, brakoman on a Midland Val-
ley freight train, was killed in a
cattle train wreck near Myers, 112
miles northwest of here, today.
The engine was derailed due to
soft track, acording to reports to
the gererai offices of the road
here.
Pennsylvania Crude
Oil Cut 25 Cents
PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 13—
(AP)—Six grades of Pennsylvania
crude oil were cut 26 cents a barrel
by purchasing agencies here today.
Keyster crude in aditlon, was cut
15 cents to $1.10 a barrel.
Screen Factory Will
Aid In Cleanup
The Ideal Screen Factory, operat-
ed by C- B. Wegs and J. E. Court-
r.oy, with offices opposite the Pick-
ering Lumber Company in Isom, is
ready to serve the citizens of this
city during the clean-up campaign
next week. Mr. Wegs said yesterday
In addition, to all sorts of screen-
ing, mill work of any kind ean be
done, he declares.
NEW ORLEANS, April 13.—
— (AP)—United States District
Attorney Henry JSweifel of Fort
Worth, Texas, today applied to
the United States circuit court
of appeals here to set aside an
order releasing Dr. Frederick
A. fook, who claimed to have
discovered the North Pole, from
Loavonwortli prison tin a five
year probation period.
McNees Hospital
Has Changed Hands
Change of management, of the
McNees Emergency Hospital was an
nounced today with the purchase of
the place by Dr. B. O- Lewis, Dr
Robinson and C. J. Coons, labora-
tory technician. Dr. McNees Is leav
lug Borger because of ill health.
The hospital in the future will be
known as the Central Emergency
hospital with C. J. Coons In active
charge of the laboratory and man
agement of the hospital. Dr. Lewis
and Dr. Robinson will maintain of
flees at the hospital.
Floods Continue Menace
Lives And Property in
Oklahoma.
DALLAS, April l;V—(AP*)—A
tornado struck the small town of
Kennedale, eleven miles southeast
of Fort Worth, about 0:30 o'clock
this morning, demolishing two
i-esidences, a dairy barn, and the
school house. No one was injured,
telephone reports said.
A windstorm also struck near
Hebron, 30 miles northwest of Dal-
las early today- Reports from the
telephone ojiorator at Hebron
stated members of a Mexican fann-
er's family had been Injured and
their house destroyed.
TALES OF HORROR
IN SOUTH TEXAS,
BLASTED BY GALE
ROCK SPRINGS, Texas, April 13.— (AP)—Improvised
morgues and emergency hospitals today held 62 dead and
170 wounded, victims of an insane snout of horror which
whipped and twisted this isolated southwest Texas county
seat town into wreckage last night during the worst tornado
in the section's history.
FORT WORTH, April 13—
(AP)—A baby was killed, sever-
al persons injured and a number
of houses and out-lying buildings
were destroyed or damaged when a
storm struck the Watson commu-
nity, five miles northeast of Ar-
lington early today, according to
telephone reports here.
BELTON, Texas, April 13—
(AP) A twister damaged proper
t-y in the rural districts northwest
of Belton early today- The extent
of the damage was unknown here
as wires were down.
BALLINGER, Texas, April 13—
(AP)——Trees were uprooted, plate
glass windows smashed and signs
demolished here early today by a
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Baptists Also Plan
Easter Egg Hunting
The First Baptist church plans,
not only special Easter services, but
will hold an Easter egg hunt on the
prairie and resrve lunch at the
church next Sunday, the pastor. Rev.
Rolfe Barnard, announced today.
COLLAPSES OK
MY
GREENVILLE, S. C„ April 13—
AP)—Earl Cairoll, theatrical pro-
ducer enroute to the federal peni-
tentiary at Atlanta today collaps-
ed on the rtaln shortly before
reaching here and was removed to
a Greenville hospital.
Cantonese Troops
Reported Iq Flight
SHANGHAI. April 13—(AP,
Northern troops of the tenth division
have crossed the Yangtse river to
the south bank, landing at Hsaioho-
lcu, Kiangyin. Offical advices say
that General Chang Chung-Li, whose
troops were defeated by the north
cners has fled toward Shanghai.
Twenty of the wounded are ex-
pected to die before night. Only
thirty-three of the dead had been
identified. Most of the others are
Mexicans. Swollen streams and bad
roads hampered efforts at relief
measures already made difficult by
Rock Springs' situation, thirty-sev-
en miles from the nearest railroad,
a narrow gauge lumber affair, ter-
minating at Campwood, where a
theatre has been urned into a hos-
pital.
Relief Train
A Southern Pacific relief train
at noon was still at Uvalde, seven-
ty-five miles south of Rock Springs.
Ambulances plied back and forth
between the two towns while the
branch track up to Campwood was
being sounded out with a view to
running the train up within mini-
mum distance.
Every hospital in San Antonio
that sent nurses and doctors last
Mrs. B. D- Thomas, with the
Dixon Creek Oil company here,
said that her mother and sister,
Mrs. T. J. Bailey and Mrs. I. S.
Foley, live in Rock Springs. They
are not among those listed as cas-
altles. Site knows many of the
victims.
GIRL GAVE
FIRST NEWS
OF TORNADO
School Teacher Drives
Miles to Get Aid For
Rock Springs.
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PHONES TIDINGS
night, sent more today, bringing the
total to nearly 100, counting those
sent from the American Legion hus-
pital at Kerrville, 38 miles east
of Rock Springs.
Four-Mile Area
Struck by a violent blast early
laBt night, Rock Springs suffered
the brunt of a vicious twister cov-
ering a space about four miles
pquare. Less than ten buildings in
the town of about 900 population
were left standing.
Rain doused fires this morning
that threatened to add misery to
the situation.
Last night's story of horror was
carried to the outside world by
Gladys Lowery, telephone operator,
who stuck by an improvised tele-
phone hooked into a broken line
near town.
The Dead
Following is a revised list of the
dead:
J. T. Crowder and wife.
Emory Willis and liis mother.
Mrs. William Phelts.
(Continued on page four)
Commandeers Car To Get To
Telephone and Bring
Rescuers.
ROCK SPRINGS, Ap:il 13.—
■f AP)—Crawling througl ;• ndow
of the Valen (¿re lio: . which
though partially wrecked uave ref-
uge to sixty persons, and com-
mandeering an automobile, Miss
Amanda Eastland of Sonora, a
teacher in the public school at
Rock Springs, drove twenty miles
Tuesday night to the Ruby Davis
ranch and telephoned to Sonora the
first news of the storm disaster in
the Edwards county seat. A youth
named Bartlev accompanied her on
the drive over rain-drenched roads,
being the only person Miss Eastland
could find whose automobile would
operate.
Post Wrizzos By
Miss Eastland was standing in the
door of the frame part of the hotel
when the tornado suddenly descend-
ed, a post whizzing by being the
first warning of danger. Other
guests dragged Miss Eastland in-
side the new concrete part of the
hotel ah the original frame build-
ing collapsed. The heavier build-
ing withstood the storm.
Dead and injured lay scattered
among the debris and cries for
help came fro mall directions when
Miss Eastland emerged after the
tornado. Its duration was timed by
one of the survivors in the hotel
at exactly fi'-e minutes.
J. W. House, cafe proprietor, dis-
covered the tornado- a black, fun-
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SERGEANT NEWER OF MTI-REt
FAME SPEAKMC IN B0R6ER
Willacy Officers
Will Be Arraigned
BROWNSVILLE, Texas. April 13
— (AP)—Jesse Rose, former chief
deputy sheriff of Willacy county;
John Swanner, former deputy, Lee
Calloway, farmer, and Archie Clark,
also a farmer, charged with intimi-
dation of federal witnesses following
the recent trial of peonage cases in
Willacy county, well be arraigned
before United States Gommiraioner
E. K. Goodrich.
Chinese Strikers
Slain At Shanghai
SHANGHAI. April 13— (API-
Twenty pickets of the Shanghai gen-
eral labor union were killed this
morning when they attacked the
headquarters of General Chiang Kai-
Shek's Cantonese troops in the Cha-
pel district, north of the interna
tional settlement. The attackers ap-
parently were angered by yesterday's
raids on the red labor unions, order-
ed by Chiang.
WOULD LET WOMEN IN
ENGLAND VOTE AT 21
LONDON, April 13—,{AP)—Pre
mier Baldwin announced In the
house of commons toda? that the
government will introducé a bill at
tlys next session of paltmriM to give
women the vote at twenty-éne, thus
equalising their franchise #th that
of the men-
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After dodging bullets and laugh-
ing at death all over the country Tor
many years while anti-red orator.
Sergeant William F. Webber, guest
of the American Legion here, lias
come to Borger to contiue his fight
against radicalism.
Sgt. Webber will speak tonight
at 7:30 o'clock at the corner of
Fourth and Main streets, near the
First National bank.
Hailing originally from Chicago.
Sgt. Webber has toured the country
for years in a wide speaking cam
palgn, denouncing and exposing the
I. W. W. and "reds." Through these
oratorical drives he has gained na-
tion-wide fame, and his coming to
Borger Is welcomed by ex-service
men and legionaires as well as citi-
zens.
At one time, it is recalled, Sgt.
Webber received death threat letter
at San Pedro, Calif., while conduct-
ing a series of lectures there. He was
closely guarded by police who comb-
ed the city for perpetrators of (he
plot to kill Webber. Another time
at Mexia, Texas, Webber received a
note to "carry on" accompanied by
a <10 bill from the Mexia clan while
speaking on a street corner. At an-
other place two policemen escorting
Webber were shot at, but escaped
death.
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Riots have resulted on several oc-
casions when mobs attempted to rush
the soldier-speaker while he was
speaking. He was threatened with
bombs while speaking at Little 1
Ark., where he was dubbed i
box or>tor."8MfagpiMHfe
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