Borger Daily Herald (Borger, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 144, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 10, 1927 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL. 1—NO. 144.
ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE
BORGER, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1927
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PACE, NEW MAYOR, CORN AND
HIGGINS ARE COMMISSIONERS
SOFT WATER
IS TURNED ON!
Soft water from the Plains well
15 miles southwest of Borger was
this afternoon turned into the mains
of the city of Borger by the Pan-
handle Power anil Light company
under arrangements made by the city
today with the company- Within 21
hours the "gyp" water which has
been running in the city mains will
have ben forced out and only good
drinkable water will be flowing in
the mains, according to Mayor Glenn
Pace.
The mayor issued the following
statement today:
"At a meeting this morning of the
mayor and city commissioners and
the Panhandle Power and Lig'r.
company, arrangements were made
for the supplying of Plains water in
flie city of Borger. The Plains water
comes from weils 400 feet deep and
located about 15 miles south and
west of Borger. It is of good qual-
ity and very soft. The fact that it
comes from deep wells eliminates any
possibilities of contamination from
surface water and insures it to be
perfectly pure. This water has been
developed by the Phillips Petroleum
company and they have installed a
very large plant and pipeline sys-
tem leading into Borger.
"We city officialc believe that
Borger is indeed fortunate in be-
ing able to secure this water, not
only from the standpoint of health,
but also due to the fact that the
size of the development and the ca-
pacity of the lines supplying the
city are completely developed and
have sufficient capacity to supply
good wholesome water to Borger for
many years to come. This also in-
sures Borger an adequate water
supply for fire protection purposes,
which will be eventually reflected
to the advantage of each property
owner in insurance rates.
"We city officials felt the urge
of the people for a better water
supply and took immediate steps
to arrange for this by calling in
the Panhandle Power & Light Com-
pany with a view to securing bet-
ter water. The Panhandle Power &
Light Company were very respon-
sive to our request and have agreed
to supply this water beginning this
afternoon. Their willingness to co-
operate with us to the fullest ex-
tent in our efforts to give Borger a
Clyt Government, which will result
in the growth and development of
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Doomed to Die!
Known Dead is 72
In Mine Explosion
FAIRMONT, W. Va„ May 10! (AP)
—The ill-fated Rverettville mine,
wrecked by an explosion ten days
ago, surrendered additional bodies
of the 97 victims today. The known
dead with the recovery of a dozen
bodies last night and this morning,
stood at 72, with 25 miners still
missing. Many of these, it was be-
lieved, will be found in flooded parts
of the workings and in the area seal-
ed up hecause of fire.
Order Two Held as
Murder Accessories
ST. LOUIS, May 10. (AP).—A
Coroner's Jury today ordered Glenn
Hicks, 23, and William Davis, 29,
an ex-convict, held as accessories to
the murder of Clifford M. Hicks, 28,
an attorney shot to death the night
of April 30. Glenn Hicks was a bro-
ther and a business associate of the
slain man.
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Perry Childs Describes Events
Leading Up To Tragic
Occurence
EMPTIED GUN
Four Shots Said to Have Been
Fired After Hays F1I to
the Ground
O. (¡. Lilly was today ordered
li«'l<! without bond on a charge
of murdering W. C. Hays early
Sunday morning at IMiiUi|>s
camp. Preliminary hearing was
in Justice court here.
"Honey, I'm dying" said W. C.
Hays, as he lifted himself on his
elbow after having been shot by
O. (>. Lilly .tac Sunday morning
at. Phillips camp, according to ""i-
timony of Perry Cliilds, night watch-
man of the Skelly company, at
Lilly's preliminary hearing this af-
ternoon in justice court here.
Child's testimony is included in the
following running story of the trial
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NEW BOARD
PLANS FOR
WATER &
STARTS
SEWER,
FINANCE
Glenn Pace is mayor of Borger,
W. E. Corn and C. E. Higgins, com-
missioners, as a result of the meet-
ing last night when John R. Miller
resigned as mayor and Dr. W. T.
Malone as commissioner.
The new board was sworn in at
oince, and today announced plans
for immediate action looking to con-
struction of a sewer system, refin-
ancing the city and obtaining a bet-
ter water supply.
Mayor Pace issued a statement
asking the sincere cooperation of the
citizenship as a whole, pledging the
new administration to a program of
law enforcement and development.
AH Central Textins
Pace has been serving as com-
missioner since his appointment after
the resignation of I Fleig. from that
ctfice, some weeks ago. Corn operates
the Central Garage. Higgins is pro-
prietor of the Hotel Inn. All three
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LEADS GOLFERS
FORT WORTH, May 10. (AP).—
Miss Kathryn Alln of Honey Grove,
turning in 98, was low score among
the early finishers in the Texas Oolt
association.
Nearly all metal beds used in Costa
Ate are from America.
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Mrs. Ruth Brown Snyder and Henry Judd Gray, her corset
salesman parumour, aro to pay with their lives for the crime
that snatched them from obscurity and made them Internation-
ally known. Deliberating less than two hours, a jury Monday
convicted them of the murder of Mrs. Snyder's husband, Albert
Snyder, magazine art editor. Death sentence is mandatory for
first degree murder, hilt the formality of sentence was post-
poned until next Monday morning. Cheers greeted the verdict
when it was flashed to the crowd outside Long Island city's
supreme court.
bar association scores
illegal police methods
navy combs
atlantic for
lost flyers
Frenchmen, 19 Hours Past
Due, Sought by U. S.
War Vessels
SEA (IS FOGGY
U. S. Planes Cannot Join
Search for Missing
Aviators
In
The Hutchinson county bar asso-
ciation meeting last night at the
Baptist church, passed a resolution
deploring some methods used by lo-
cal peace officers in making arrests
and securing convictions, and recom-
mending that the officers keep with-
in their bounds of their duty as pre-
scribed by law.
Assistant attorney general Gallo-
way Calhoun was present and made
an address urging the attorneys to
assist in the enforcement ol' all laws.
The resolution l'olowe:
Prosecuting attorneys of Hutch-
inson county and the members of the
Bar association being assembled at
the First Baptist Church, at Borger,
Texas, in response to a call issued b;.
the Hon. G. G. McBdire, chairman
of the Bar association, the follow-
ing resolution was offered:
RESOLVED: That we, the practis-
ing attorneys, residing in Hutchin-
son county, do hereby pledge our un-
qualified approval of all lawful
means that are being put forth by
the local peace officers as well us
the Justice of the Peace court of
(Continued on Page Two).
NEW YORK, May 10.— (AP) —
Mrs. Ruth Snyder, statuesque
blonde, who with her corset. sales-
man paramour, Henry Judd Gray
is scheduled to be sentenced Mon-
day to die in the electric chair for
the murder of her husband, to-
day was In a state of collapse.
The iron nerve that supported
her through the 3 weeks' ordeal
of the trial and which did not fail
her Inst night when she heard the
jury's verdict, cracked when she
reached her cell in the county jail.
After attendants had worked ov-
er her for half un hour in an un-
lContinued Ob Page Two),
Legion Dance Will
Be Staged Tonight
The American Legion's ' weekly
dance will he held tonight, at the
Jim-Jo club, Commander Gilbert
Fraser announced today.
Telephone booths in British streets
now number 2,716-
An English comedian Is tne owner
of a race horse, and his colors aro
rolice-jnan'# blue.
legislature
hears word
fr0mm00dy
Wants Ample Provision For
Elementary Schools to
Be Made
Association of God
Meets In New House
Services are now being conduct-
ed every night at the newly com-
pleted Association of God church,
one block south and two hrdlueta
one bloc ksouth and one block east
of the water tower, by Mrs. Ethel
Musick, evangelist. Sunday school
will be held every Sunday at 10 a.
m.
BOSTON May lit. (AP)—The
start of the American navy's search
for Captain Charles N'ungresser and
Francis Coli, missing French trans-
Atlantic flyiers, began at (i:35 a. m.
today, when the naval tugs Wandak
and Mohave cleared the Charleston
navy yard for a hunt that will take
them as far north as Sable Island.
There was little prospect this
morning that any airplanes would
join the search until weather condi-
tions should improve as the thick
log along the New England coast
made flying extremely hazardous.
II Hours Late
The bleak stretches of the stormy
Atlantic are nof being (tombed for
the missing aviators, Captains .N'un-
gresser and Coli, now nineteen hours
overdue at. New York on their flight
ironi Paris.
Fifty-eight hours had passed at
eleven o'clock this morning since the
(Continued on Page Two)
Height states
are swept by
fatal winds
Vlore Than 800 Severely Hurt
In Series of Hurricanes
Over Three Days
TEXAS LOSES 35
Arkansas Leads in Loss of 93
Lives, With 350 Being
Injured
(By The Associated Press)
Casualty lists in a three day
seige of tornadoes and storms In
Western states today showed 231
known dead and more than 800
injured, many severely.
Reports by States:
Missouri
Arkansas
Texas
Kansas
Illinois
Wyoming
Iowa
Louisiana ::
Several persons v, ire :.naccount-
ed for in Arkansas. Tli :.ree deaths
in Wyoming occurred a blizzard,
while a woman was drowned near
Sioux City, Iowa.
DALLAS, May 10.— (AP)—Two
deaths today of persons injured in
the tornado Monday placed the to-
tal due to the storm at 3 5 in Tex-
as. Greta Smiley, It years old of
Garland died in a hospital today
At McKinney Mrs. J. M. Wilson,
of Nevada died.
Dead
Injured
73
300
93
350
35
100
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student of crime finds this
ntt cohparitively quiet
AUSTIN, May 10. (AP).—Appro-
priations, highway legislation and a
state civil service were elaborated
upon in a message to the legislature
by Governor Moody today. He also
mentioned tho need of a "savings
clause," for the law eliminating the
ctfense of manslaughter, passed at
the recent regular session.
The message, read in both houses
of the special session, said the exe-
cutive did not believe the lawmakers
could afford to "undertake by legis-
lative enactment to fix the general
polity of the highway department."
but recommended some specific pol-
icies to be observed, Including clas-
sification of all state highways and
delegation of more authority to
counties in road construction.
The governor counselled the leg-
islature to make ample provision fui
(Continued on Page 2)
Borger is a nice, quiet town, oc-
rording to Thomas Donald, traveling
for a tobacco company.
Mr. Donald states he has worked
for an armored car company and
has studied crime for commercial
purposes. "I have traveled over the
east and in all large cities crime is
much more common than In Borger.
"You can't park a car in Kansa:
City without having it stripped in a
tew minutes.
"Pickpockets in the cities are
found even in the churches and the
few killings in Borger could not
compáre with tho cold blooded mur-
ders that occur every day in a large
city."
Mr. Donald says "It's a shame
such lies about Horger are being
continuously broadcast."
In all, he thinks it ig one of the
quietest towns for having such a rep-
utation that he ever visited.
Postpone Flight
Across the Ocean
Spanish War Leader
To Visit Post Here
Adjutant Lee Brooks of the Span-
ish war veterans' today issued the
following call lor a meeting of the
Borger post:
"W. R Duke, state commander of
the Spanish-American war veterans,
of the department of Texas, will be
here to institute the camp and instal
the officers at the city hall tonight
at 8 o'clock. All those who hav<
signed up to join should come and
also bring with them any others who
are eligible.
LEE BROOKS.
Adjutant."
POPULAR BLUFFS .Mo., May 10.
— (AP)-—A jagged line of ruins
against the sky and sixty bodies in
improvised morgues was the toll
early today of a tornado which
swept through the main business
sectil n here late yesterday. Sixty
persons were seriously injured and
20n others suffered minor injuries.
The storm devasted an area four
blocks wide and ten blocks Ions
in the heart of town. Fire broke
out immediately afterward, but was
soon quenched by the torrential
rain that followed the twister.
(Continued on Pasre Two).
Labor Temple
Completes Flooring
Work has just been completed on
the installation of 2.500 square
feet of the best grade of mapie
flooring in the Labor Temple, East.
Third Street. The big room will be
used as the main meeting room
for the unions and for dances
which are held every Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday evenings.
11. A. Pace lias been in charge of
the flooring and the improvement of
the temple in general. The new-
floor is the best grade of Maplo
obtainable for dancing purposes, ac-
cording to Mr. Pace.
Seven charters are now hanging
in the temjle and three other char-
ters are organizing. All of the or-
ganizations are expressing them-
selves as having faith in the fu-
ture of Borger.
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NEW YORK, May 10, (AP).—
The Bellanca monoplane Columbia,
will nol hop off tomorrow on its
proposed flight from New York to
Paris. Announcement that the start
of the trans-Atlantic flight would be
deferred was made by Lloyd W.
Bertaud, co-pilot with Clarence
Chamberlain, after a conference with
the weather bureau officials, who.
who reported a storm area in mid-
ocean, noted since Sunday, contin-
uing.
With the completion of proposed
agricultural schemes in Arabia, a la-
bor ihoruge is (eared.
toll dridge over canadian to
deopen for traffic thursday
STINNKTT. May 10.—County
commissioneds meeting today grant-
ed a franchise to the Rock Island
lailroad for the operation of the new
toll bridge over the Canadian river
thrown open to traffice Thursday,
at Oil City, and this bridge will be
The commissioners further accept-
ed the resignation of W. M. Hedge-
coke as county treasurer. Mr. Hedge-
coke is to move to Amarillo. His
successor will be named in a few
days.
Action is expected this afternoon
calling an election early ne\! month
<>n the issuance of approximately
$ 1,000,000 in bonds for surfacing
ct county roads.
Bainbridge Colby
Is Seeking Divorce
PARIS, May 10. CAP).—Bain-
bridge. former American secretary
of state, is seeking a divorce in Par-
is. He has authorized his attorney*
to institute proceedings, and a peti-
tion will be filed as soon as certain
formalities are fulfilled.
Mr. Colby has taken an apartment
in the Aventt |Niel, establishing n
residence, ; npliance with the
French law. Mrs. Colby who before
her marriage in 1895 was Natalie
Sedgwick of Stock Bridge, Mass., is
now n New York.
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Caufield, T. E. Borger Daily Herald (Borger, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 144, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 10, 1927, newspaper, May 10, 1927; Borger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth167074/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hutchinson County Library, Borger Branch.