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Blanket* daily except Saturdays tha
oil, gas and carbon black commun-
ities, and the great North Plains
farm region. A home newspaper
itorgrr Paito
1
Stands behind every movement for
improvement of Burger and the efty*«
trade territory. Contains all the
while it is news.
'BORGER, THE WONDER CITY—«CARI ON BLACK CENTER OF THE WORLD"
VOL 12—NO 182
(ASSOCIATED PRESS—NEA SERVICE)
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BOKGEK. TKXA8, MONDAY, JUNK 20, 1938
SIX PAGES TODAY
PRICE
IN YEARS KILLS NEARLY
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ '
U.S. Indicts Eighteen
GERMANS ARE
LISTED AMONG
THOSE NAMED
Claim Espionage Ring
Operated Through
Agents In U. S.
>.BW YORK, Juno 20 (A1)
Three Indictments naming IK
peruana were returned today by
the Federal Gruitd Jury which huti
been engaged in *ht* government's
first Intensive espionage in vent I.
Biitlon finca the world war
The indictments were bused on
four weeks of cloned hearings,
during which scores of men and
women were questioned and nev-
erul month* of Inquiry.
HurprlNr WltnnwiK Held
Two surprise witnesses Joh-j
amiu Hofmann. 2«, red-haired;
hairdresser on the North German j
Lloyd liner Buropeu and Private!
Erich tilusser, attached to the
urmy air corpa at Mltchel Field 1
— were called before the (5rand
Jury shortly before the Indict,
menta were raturned. Bach Ik now
held In $25,000 ball oil complaints
alleging espionage ncMVItteii.
Neither had previously appeared
before the Grand Jury.
The jury filed a conspiracy In-
dictment miming IR Individúala,
soma of them German officials
residing In Germany. and two sub-
atatitlve Indictments, aettlng forth
activities allegedly engaged in by
the various deiejidifnu.
Operate Ttirongh Ageoi*
Where Two Died When Train Plunged Through Bridge
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mm
eged Spy Activities
Weakened by torrential flood waters of the Salt fork of the Red river, the lofty bridge pictured above
collapsed under the weight of a Fort Worth & Denver freight locomotive, allowing the train to plunge
60 feet into the murky water below. Engineer M. V. Griggs and Fireman C. E. Burton were drowned.
Brnkeman Dick Brown lumped as the bridge gave way, grasped a floating log and reached shore flva
mlies downstream. He was in critical condition. The huge locomotive was buried in quicksand and
completely submerged near the right of the picture. The accident occurred near Shamrock, Tex, aa
the train was en route from Childress to Pampa.
DECLARE TRUST
INQUIRY NOT TO
HURT BUSINESS
Relief Rioters
Wreck Stores
NEW YORK. Juno 20 i/Pi
Forty policemen and 1 DO pic.
WASHINGTON, June 20 (# )
— Senators O'Muhanuy tD.-Wyo.l
and Borah (II.-Idaho) declared
Lamar Hardy, Federal District I today that hilaturas has nothing
Attorney, said the directing heuds, to fear frotn the federal Investí. • «'< fought for twenty minute*
of the alleged uaplonege ring live'gallon of monopolistic practice*, j today outside the plant of tlx
In German and are connected with j They took Issue with a state-! Pencil ( onipuny and Its
the «overmen! of that country,1 „ient of Hap. Snell tR.-NY.i that' aulifcidlary, the Niagara Paper
He said they operated through j he was concerned lest the inquiry """ Company.
agents living here and also be "made an instrument for fur-
through crew members of ships ther unjustified attacks on legl-
plylng between Germuny and the tímate business."
Uattad States. | • My bel lei Is," said O'Mahonny,
Those named Included: ¡"that thi* can be a co-operative¡
Mrs. Jessie Jordan, recently objective study of the Inestimable
sentenced In England to a four value to business I have seen
year jail term. 1 nothing to Indicate any intent
Johanna Hofmann. hairdresser except to find a solution of a
on the German liner Kurop.u. difficult economic problem.
■who Is in custody. j "This I* a task for men o' in-
Theodor Griebl, telll«anoe. tolerance and ftood will
In business and government.
O'Mahoney probHbly will be
chairman of the 12-man commit.
Dr. 1 gnats
American clttien who fled to Ger-
many on the eVts of the spy In.
1u,r>' tee und Borah is one of the mem-
Werner Hermann Vos*, avia- |)<}f,g
tlon mechanic, who I* In custody snell had said that If the In-
Krlch Glaser, U. 8. Army prl- vestlgatlon were turned Into "an-
vate stationed at Mltchel. Field, othPr w)u>h hunl rtgB|nl„ bust.
The policemen were pelted with
eggs and vegetables when ihey
went lo the defense of several
automobile loads of employes who
wanted to go to work.
VANCOUVER, R. 0., June 20
— (#>i ..._ Three downtown riots
In which crowd* of unemployed
shattered store windows, fought Dally, local attorney.
police and besiged police head- Yarborough began his law prac
quarters, brought provincial uu- ln p., ,
thorltles hurrying here today for
an Investigation.
LEADERS PLEDGE
QUICK START ON
RELIEF PROGRAM
Only FDR's Signature
Of Spending Bill
Awaited
WASHINGTON, June 20 i/p)
Heuils of five government
spending agencies pledged today
qulk start on the administra-
tion's *3.763.000,000 relief und
public works program
Their detailed outlines for
j hundreds of bridges, sewers, and
I roads, schools, airport*, low-coal
! housing developments, dams, liar,
j bors, and flood control units
awaited only ihe president's sign-
ing of the bill
In addition, the Agriculture
j Depart men i studied disbursement
■ of parity payment* to farmers
I growing wheal, corn, cotton, to.
I bneco and rice. Uian* for farm-
! ers unable to get credit und sub-
I sintetice grants for tow.Income
farmers ^lso are líela# arranged.
Cnigruill IHnciíshciI
The five federul officials dis-
cussed their programs lust night
In a radio forum. Here is u sum-
mary of what they said:
' Harry L. Hopkins. Works
Progress Administrator: The $1,-
«26,000,000 paid to WPA work-
er* will flow into trade channels
ln their IIVIiik costa $616,000,.
000 for food, $220,000,000 for
rent, 1150.000,000 for houHohold
e*pen*e* and the rest for medic-
al cure transportation mid other
items.
Howard A. Gruv. assistant ad-
ministrator of public works: "It
1* our firm purpose to employ all
I speed so thut large orders for
Ralph >iii borough of 'ruv,B i materials and supplies will be
County, candidate for the Deino. placed without deluy and so that
Debate Increase
Of J uly Output
It A It V I.IVHH AFTER
MOTHER'S DEATH
NEW OK1.KANH, June an
— </Pi _ A mule child was
delivered It < 'aeturiaii oper-
ation today from u Mrs. Rosa
Muy Womuck, ¡17, KciiIwoimI,
I ill., ulio luiil died h few min-
utes earlier of a heart ail-
inent.
The liifalil was reported liv-
ing several hour- after the
operation.
The live lilrtli III mill liles
nfler Ihe mother's dentil was
considered exceptional, said
llr. A. .1. Hockett, infirmar)
sii|>erintendent.
Austin, Te\„ .lime 311—(TP)-—
BODIES OF 23
TAKEN FROM
TRAIN WRECK
Seven Cars Dive Into
Creek As Bridge
Collapses
MILES CITY. Mont., June 10
- (A3) — The bodies of seven
m, , „ S , . persous were recovered today
Ihe Slate Railroad « omuils. fro|n W1.nckage (>f ,1(Mipw. #
si,... heard arKimmnt* Imlay oil of Milwolfkee Hallroad's
how itii'Hl a production increas,
should lie grunted Texas oil op-
erators In ,lul.v.
Speakers at the monthly pro.
ration meeting o I the cotnnils.
hIoii, while voicing gratification
over the recently aunoiiiiceil de-
cision to lift Ihe statewide Sat-
unlay and Sunday closings of
Tcxu* oil fields, wuriicd against
making the increase loo lurge.
"Olympan," bringing to >8 the
number of bodies recovered from
the train which early yesterday
plunged Into a creek near here •
causing the death of nearly 46
i persons.
The wreck wa* the natlon'a
j worst train tragedy In years.
Railroad officials said the se**
1 on bodies were all that were In
the submerged car, but that they
The market demand for Texus ; believed there were two or three
oil In July wuB estimated by the j more bodies pinned under the
United StntcH Bureau of Mines at wreckage.
1,360,900 barrels dully, compared Bodies to Miles City
with 1,¡129,000 thl* mouth. The bodies were brought to
Purchasers' nominations for M,le8 Glty by rescue train# short-
FDR DIGS INTO
PILE OF WORK
AWAITING HIM
Yarborough Will
Talk Here Tonight
July were reported as l,6fl3, B8
barrels dally, u gain of 60,723
barrel* over June.
Railroad Commission engineers
estimated the current dally allow- j
able, not considering the Sunday „
shutdowns, was 1,588,786 bu£tfltajj|
but the two.day closing* reduce"
the average lo around i,ISO.000.
I Dewey Lawrence of Tyler, an
HYDE PARK, N. Y.. June 20 a,,,,rn7 wh" "«'« ht> represented
. more than H.600 East Texas resi-
- WP> aud ln ««y ,nood deuts over 21 years old. congrat.-
from a week-etiil cruise down the uluied the majority of the Com-
New England coa*t and up the mission for Its decision to lift
ly after noon.
With them were four other bod-
ies which had lain all nlgfct on
the bank or Custer Creek. 26
miles east of here, where
Saturday and Bunday restrictions
The majority is composed óf :
Chairman V. Terrell and metn-
(Continued or. page SIX)
crutic nomination for attorney,
general, will npenk here at 8
o'clock tonight on the Panhandle
Power A Light Company corner
in the interest of his candidacy.
He will be Introduced by K. H.
benefit becomes to private Indns-
(Continued on page SIX)
who Is in custody.
Phillips Youth
Project Starts
The Phillips Summer Project,
backed by the Phillips Civic Club,
got underway today, with the.boys
meeting for the first time. Their
activities are being directed by
John Byrnes, a student In Texas
A. * M., and meetings will be
held near the Phillips High
School.
The girls* club will be launched
tomorrow morning at • o'clock In I
the grade school. Miss Mary
Lockett arrived in Phillips last!
night to take charge of this dlvl.
slon.
news," It would be a "further do.
trlment to business confidence
and recovery."
Borah declared, on (,Jie other
hand:
"I venture the belief that the
committee is not proposing any
witch hunting program. We have
a great problem and It Is our
business to do what we can to ad-
vance a wise and Just solution
for It.
"I do not believe that k>gltlm-
tContinued on page SIX)
700 Fight 6-Day
Blaze bi Forest
Two officers and 36 Jobless re-
quired hospital treatment after
the disorders yesterday. A trail
of broken windows, involving 39
stores and the postoffice, lay in
the wake of the riots.
The latest disturbance came
following departure of it delega-
tlon of 100 for Victoria to In.
tcrvlew government officials.
Scores of those left behind storm-
ed the post orflce building, hurl-
ing rocks and smashing six win-
dows. They dispersed at request
of their leaders.
Premier T. D. Pal tullo was en
route here from Victoria, pro-
vincial capital, «n Investigate the
tense situation. Mayor G. C. Mill-
er warned he would permit no
Mrs. Black Freed
In Cliff Slaying
ALPINE). Texas. June 20 —f/Pi
While attending ihe Unlversiiy s,"to'8 attorneys today absolv-
„ _ , , . ed Mr*. Francis Marion Black,
of Texas when, he wag graduated ^ (jf b|a„|p „,,, mountaln
with hlp,he*t honor* In the law
school In 1927, he worked as a
lank builder In (he Borger oil
field during Ihe summer, cleaned
ruliwsy couches In Amarillo work-
ed In a Dallas lumber yard, and in
Texas wheat field*.
He bi'gaii his law practice In
K1 Paso. He was appointed as.
sistunt attorney-general In 1931
and served four yeurs, during
which time he filed and handled
the Mid Kansas suit ln which the
state collected (1,073.600— the
second lurgest Judgment ever won
by Texas.
Yarborough rs now presiding
Judge of the Third Administra-
tive District of Tcxu*. embracing
plunge death of Marvin Dale
Noblltt, 13, at the opening of
Hudson RiVer, President Roose-
velt plunged today Into mas* of
work mostly concerned with
bills passed by Congress in Its
closing duys.
The president called immedi-!
ately for secretaries upon hi* re-
turn to his family home here.
He *uld he would see Jo*eph
P. Kennedy, Ambassador to Lon-
don, either here or In Washing-
ton before the latter returns to
111* post, but gave no hint of the
subject of their conversation. Ken-
nedy arrived in New York to-1 candidates for district Judge
,,, .. i on the ballot In the Democratic
< • <l«" Q ee„ Mary. 1 primary July 23.
The president was not decided The vote wa* eight
whether he will leave here for
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Mile* UDvJUU, fw
►— —•BMMÍFIGNWÍ > |>W
Miles City, division civil e««t-
noer for the Milwaukee mtt.
road, notified of the Dim.
Ian" «wek and told to atwrt
salvage work, cried:
"My (tod, my wife's on that
trata!"
Mrs. Johnson's body
covered und Identified.
wreck occurred shortly after mid-
night Sunday morning.
Sixteen bodies wer« recovered
yesterday and last atght.
Train porters said "five or six"
other persons were swept away.
When the train plungod tato
the creek in the midnight dark
,. , ,,, . i ness the creek was at an ustlmaU
muriatic omm tee. m-,.ttag ttIs P(J fB„t d from a .,f|„h
afternoon at Stinnett voted not'
to certify i ither of the nfines of
Joseph A y nee worth or B. J. Pic-
Demo Body Rules
Names Off Ballot
The Hutchinson County De-
Washington Wednesday or Thurs-
day night. t
Mr. Roosevelt hud been In New
lOngland for the wedding in Nuh-
court for trial of her liusliund on n | ant, Mass., on Saturday of Ills
state accusation he shoved the soil, John, to Anne Lindsay Clark.
youngster off a 400.foot bluff. Tlt,e chief executive cruised
State Prosecutor Roy Jackson from Salem, Mass., to Pough-
flled a motion for release of Mrs.; keepsle over the week-end in the
Black, citing lack of evidence government yacht Potomac. He
as the cause. The 23-year-old was accompanied all of the way ^vent the case b<
brunette showed no emotion when by his son und duughier.ln-Iuw, high state court.
the court freed her. Mr. and Mrs John Hoettlger. The Canadian Record Informed
Two Jurors hud been chosen Mr. und Mrs. Klilott Roosevelt,; 'he Daily Herald today that Jep
when noon recess was taken. | another son and daughter-in-law, i Todd, chairman of Hemphill
to two,
with one not. voting.
In the discussion today tin at-
torney for Judge Pickens stated
that in -vent the case was tafc >n
to the ¡ítHie Supreme Court for
uu Immediate ruling their side
would waive formalities.
Judge Pickens was uppolnted
to fill uu unexpired term. Whether
or not Ills term expiren In 1938
or 1040 would be the opinion In
tnken to the
resulting from a cloud-
flood"
burst.
Torrent Weakens Bridge
The bridge, weakened by tha
rushing torrent, gave way when
the engine was nearly across the
creek. It fell into the raging waU
ers and dragged the tender, a mail
car, baggage ear, two chair cara
and three tourist sleepers In aft.
er It.
The deep waters and silt pre-
vented workers from reaching
sleeper R until today, because tha
car, which was the middle sleeper
wns more deeply submerged than
the others. , i
The receding water enabled
rescue workers to get Into Sleep-
er B today. Plans were made to
cut through the steel walla of the
car with torches, but the flow
of the creek was so reduced the?
Prosecutor Jackson said first | lift the Potomac at Buzzards Bay, i County Democratic Com ml Wee, : were R(,|e t0 gujn entry through
windows.
A* the muddy water fell bank
more unemployed sit-down strikes I 32 Centra! Texas counties. Is prea- fl|u, n t0 ndopt
I il.>M a ..t lit 1 > ii lniii.aiil ti . >r Tnvnu . . . .
witnesses to be called by ihe Mass., Sunday morning en route M¡iid that the Hemphill body also
state would be Harllngen real- to their home In Fort Worth, Tex.! did not certify any names for
dents who will be asked to des- The presidential party was de-jJudge of the s41li Judicial dls. f,.om t¿e windows of tha half
cribe the efforts of the Rlack layed Saturday night and Suuduy, trlct. overturned car. witneasea
couple. Sun Antonio residents, to; by fog over the Atlantic but those, Communications today with they could see the bodies of
such as led to yesterday's riots.;'/"'" "[ < «>
Scores of downtown store fronts ! '"IW Hi 1,001 '**■' u"'( nlR Al *
were hoarded up last night be- ««• . «' « member of the fcd.
cause of the window smashing
orgy by 300 unemployed after
(Conttnued on page SIX)
SILVER CITY, N. M., June 20
(/P) Fresh crows were" sent
Mlas Lockatt !• a graduate to the fire lines In Gila forest
of Oklahoma University and has today as 700 men deaperately
worked under L«rnn Rohrbaugh, | battling a raging fire in the Black
a national recreation leader. Last range again looked to a dying
(Continued on page SIX)
| who made the cruise said I hat other counties indicate that other aongers, some still In their seats.
Black, 26-year-old former fill- otherwise the weather was good. County Democratic committees Lighta In the sleeper had burned
ing station operator, wa* to be Mr. Roosevelt motored from the will take the same action in re- eerily almost until duwn y ester,
examined by a psychiatrist, de- Poughkeepsle dock to his home garda to omitting the names from day.
fense attorney A. R. Owens, said, at Hyde Park.
I the ballot.
winter ahe aarved as Y. W. C. A.
secretary in a teachera college at
San Marcos and her work requir.
ed much activity in field recrea-
tion.
Last summer ahe directed a
stay-at-home camp for high achool
girls in Norman. Okla., and with
theae many activities behind her.
comes to thla locality wall recom-
mended In working with young
people.
Club houra for both bnya and
glria will be from until 11:30
a. m.. and from .1 until :80 p. m.
Deudora are anrtoua to stress
that not only phyaical activities
will be prevalent, but alio hand-
work, folk dancing, games and
numerous other actlvltlea.
The club la similar to Borgar a
Y P. O.. but will not ha operated
on a* lsoge a scale as thla la the
flrtt jw«c Mw
Wln4 to aid them In bringing the
6-day blase under control.
The fire slowed appreciably
during the night and early this
morning, when there was no wind
to fan the flamea, foreat rangers
said.
Many minqr casualties have
been suffered by members of the
fire crews, rangers declared.
Forest Supervisor L. R. 1-es-
se 1 said that volunteer workers
and men drafted from GCC camps,
the reclamation aervice and the
atate Highway department might
anon total 1,000 if crewa already
on the fire linea could not check
the blase.
HON IN BORN
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Parnell
are tha parents of an 8 pound 10
ounce son, born at 8 o'clock In
North Plains hospital.
Daily Herald To
Print Political
Edition Sunday
Candidates who have not al-
ready placed their copy with
the DAILY HKRALD for the
big WHO'S WHO IN HUTCH-
INSON COUNTRY POLITDC8
edition to be published Sun-
day. June 88, should d<? so by
Friday night of this week.'*
A1I candldataa who ha*e fil-
ed for the Democratic primary,
to be held July 23rd, are invit-
ed to ahare In the benefits
of this edition which la ea.
peelolly designed to give the
voters a more Intimate knowl-
edge of each Individual seek-
ing their favor at the polls.
Copy will be accepted up to
Friday night; regular display
advairtUing ratea apply—no
Increase In rate. Phone 8 tor
advertising solicitor.
Jtt
II
it Warns Neutral Powers
War Zone To Be Expanded
TOKYO, June 20 -
Japan today notified neutral
powers that the China war sone
i probably would be considerably
j expanded and warned thein to
! take precautionary measures In
{a vast area extending some 700
¡ miles Inland from China's coasts
Oenera! Kasushige Ugaki.
; foreign minister, conveyed the
1 warning In u circular statement
i to al! foreign embassies and leg-
ations In Tokyo which flald:
"Japan sincerely desires to
avoid possible damage to the lives
| and property of foreign national*
* and advises taking adequate mea-
sure* alohg the following lines:
"First, foreign nationals and
] foreign vessels should evacuate
, the area south of the Yellow riv-
er and east of a line linking Blan,
Ichang and llangyang.
"Second, aerial and landmarks
should be placed on foreign prop,
erty In the aforesaid urea and Im-
mediate information should be
given the Japanese authorities
concerning such property."
The line Indicated would In.
elude, besides north China nnd
central China areas already con-
quered by Japan, most of Shensi
Hupeh. Hunan and Kwangtung
province* and all of *ueh province*
lying east of these us Anhwel,
Klangsi and Fukten.
Ygakl's statement declared that
the Japanese might find It nece*.
sary for the Japanese to attack
the Chinese even outside the out-
lined aren and therefore naked
all foreign nationals likely to be
affected to communicate their
Whereabouts to Japaneae author!.
ties immediately.
By Thi' AMsociated Press
Renewed Nnxi persecution and
a new Communist purge — the
former apparently designed to
drive Jews completely out of
Germany's business life and the
latter to enforce llolsheviKutlon of
the Soviet ttiiKHtun array - - fi-
gured prominently iu today's
world new*
III the world * two wars. ,!ap
atiese air and land forces sought
to smash a Ynnglxc river barrier
to the drive on Hankow while
the Spanish ln*urgents paid a high
coat in lives for slight gain* In
their drive on Valencia.
After a Sunday virtually in-
dlsi urhed by nnt!.samitic mani-
festations, Jews found that In at
least one part of Adolph Hitler's
capital they were forbidden to
buy food In Aryan shops.
On the other hand. Jews ar-
riving at their places of business
-- those that dared to open —
found (hat night vandals invad-
ing the center of Berlin had left
no Jewish shop or numcplatc un-
touched by red paint to designate
non.Aryan concerns
It was.probably the worst wave
or antl-semltlsin since Hitler came
to power five years ago.
Russia's army organ. Red Star,
reported Moscow wns "cleaning
out despised hangers.On of ene-
mies. politically doubtful people
and those Incapable of solving
the disk bf RolshevUlng the army
. . . . "the disclosure followed
reports of a purge of Communist
leaders In the Ukraine
A train walker had reported
fuster Creek. 26 mltea eaat of
Mile* City, almost dry Juat a tew
minutes before the train arrived.
ed.
Seven Car* Follow ttagtae
But the flood water waa run-
ning almost at track levef whin
the racing locomotive pltchad Into
the creek. Seven of the 18 can
behind It piled np In a Jacket raw
heap of rent steel.
Milwaukee officials said tha
train carried at leaat 185
Iters and a crew of ten.
With 88 known dead, 44 in hoa-
pltala, 37 treated for minor In.
Juries, and 41 others reportad
unharmed, reacue workera war*
hopeful tha total dead would not
exceed 40. J. J Oslte, assistant
general paaaenger agent for tha
Milwaukee railroad at 8t. Paul,
was at tha acene and aiUmatad
(Continued on page BIX)
Arkansas, Oklahoma
as: Partly cloudy ton
Tuesday. Oantle to
and southeaat winda on
coast.
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