Borger Daily Herald (Borger, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, November 25, 1938 Page: 1 of 8
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tunds lj«>l)iud t'Ví'iy movement for
improvement of Burger and the city'
trad - territory. C'ontaiiiM all the now
while it in news.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS—NEA SBRVlTK
"BORGER, THE WONDER CITY-—CARBON BLACK CENTER OF THE WORLD"
TSoROKSTrRxTT?^^
Blankets daily except Saturdays
oil, tr«R and carbon black
it ¡es, and the great
farm region. A home
KÍGHT PAGES TODAY
Beauty, Brains and Brawn
NEAR 2 SCORE
LEFT DEAD BY
WORST STORM
Snow Over Holiday
Partly Paralyses
Transportation
lty the Associated Press
EMI MNIHMK W INK
Wind whs received here yester-
day uf i In' death ly drowning
Wednesday of George .VI llodgln,
well-known runner Borger tnsur-
iiiKui agent, In North Carolina.
Telegrams received Inri' by
friends yesterday from Georg'' r'vp'
hiother, Bill llodgln. hi Itaeford, Hqdgln arrived at Itaeford Hat-
s'. C. Hiato llodgln drowned urda* Ills brother telegraph" d
Sliowplows and a bit vol brigade! j while duck hunting and that the He closed his Insurance business
mopped np in Hile ¡nú! i urn I funeral will scheduled for today bare a wrk ago luu Thursday
Modula was limitInit ducks on a on the retirement of their father,
hody ot wiiiet 114-111 Itaeford lila Hodglll was horn 111 Hed
boat overturned, and Hud In hip
hooth and heavy Hotbl'.ip, h<-
! drowned lu f >r« nelp eould «(*-
ci>ttiiniiiiiiU'h arrow* the nation to-
day in the wake of the worst
Thanksgiving Day s;orm In many
y oa ra
llieomplft" repot I. Hill) wed
rearly two score (norm fatalities,
with shipping and nlr transports
lion partially parnlyxed along the
Atlantic count and elsewhere.
Train unil buses ran behind
schedule
Automobile 'lulls received
thousands ol culls from dlI vers
needing help uh their cura were
In Haeford, home ot llodgln and and left then for Muelord. where
hi relative . he platine- t. assist his brother
It wiih report! ii thut while j In managing a mercantile «lore
springs. N c., I tec. is. lvol, and
ho would hare been 37 year old
next month. His parents. several
brothers, and, It Is believed, a
slitter, survive him,
lie started work In |he ac-
•'onntlng department of the Pan-
handle Power & Light Company
here lu February. 1027, and li ft
'hat employment In 1034.
llodgln was u member of the
! Klks Club.
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BRITISH POLICY
DOESN'T PLEASE
CHINA'S CHIANG
Pope Pius Suffers A
Second Heart Attack
'I lie cold nave iliat swept
iVvus and hit tile I'll II Ilil III lie
hardest, nipping football falls
here yesfenlnj. relenteil today
as the sun boosted I lie tiler•
cnr.v to tit degree at 1 o'clock
this afternoon.
i .oh reading for todas was
2.1 degrees at II u. in.
_n, 21. who scored highest in recent examina-
policewomen, is art honor high school student,
a Latin tutor. Also, her jiu-jitsu skill makes
recalcitrant prisoners a toss-over.
i l-
Thompson Sees 1939 As
A "Crackerjack Year"
For The Oil Industry
SHANGHAI, Nov. 35 (/Pi
(¡nneralisslmo Chiang Kai-Shek
waa said by Chinese sources to.
day to have expressed dlssusls-
fnctlon to the British ambassa-
dor over Great Britain's Far
Knstcrn policies and to have hint-
ed that the time for a showdown
had arrived.
This was disclosed as the Hell-
ish Amhassudor, Sir Archibald
Clark Kerr, returned to Shang-
nm rootled in heavy nowdrlfts lial from a con ft rence with Chl-
und Itn ipurli.ii' d by (reeling ang "somewhere in Hunan" pro-
temperatures vinco. Informed quarters said the
Mix Iturncii to lit atli conference might be the turning
The worst -Ingl. tragedy grow- I o1i t In Anglo-Chinese relations,
lug out of the storm was report- .sir Archibald declined to dls-
■ d at Amsterdam. N. Y.. where u ,.UHM his talks with the genernlts-
■7-yenr old mother and her five ,)thwi. ,hM)l ,w „ay (>hiang
St. all children, huddled r,round "well, fit and optimum -."
■a in. '# !! utjMf* itoi - «tui-iMi '
Chinese soli ices H.iid. however.
LONOON, Nov. 26—(AP)—An Exchange Telegraph
(British N::wh Agency dispatch from Home today said that
Pope Piu hud suffered a second stroke at 5:50 p. m.
(10:50 a. in;, r.S.T.) following his heart attack this morn-
' fing.
The dispatch said the Holy
Father was unconscious for
about 15 minutes.
CRESTLINE AND
PINECREST ARE
NOW IMPERILED
Women And Children
Evacuated From
Danger Area
IUMJ0T1N
l.()S AN(i KLKS, Nov. 26—f/P)
•Fire fighters in the Halt Ber-
nardino and Santa Monica moun-
tains appeared to have Knitted the
upper hand again loday in their
hitter battle against devastating
brush and timber fires which
threatened to gel out of control
in the early morning hours.
"Miracle" Girl
hOS ANO KLKS, Nov. 25 -</P)
Kvacuatlon of women utid chil-
dren from Crestline, in the San
Bernardino mountuins, was be-
gun this morning when the for-
est fire began sweeping toward
the little town.
Meanwhile, on another
Reputable people of Joneav'.lle,
Ij . declare they have "seen"
Alice Bell Klrhy. 1.1, a seventh
child, make tables rise off the
floor, move around the roo*t at
fire hftr command, and perform slmi-
Evening Dress?
ai ktin. Tex, Nov an (/p>
Ki lies' (> Thompson, chairman of
the InterstUe oil Compin' Com-
mlhsloil and the Texas Railroad
t'ouuiilsslon, snid today It ap-
peared 10.1 II won HI be a "cruckcr-
Jack year" for the oil Industry.
He ventured ih« prediction
while outlining plans.for a high
ly linporliiiit statewide proralltm
IumiIiik Here Iteceiltbei li He
said le'ilinoliv Witt I'I lie sought
lii ascerli.t), . In 'hei ;he slash-
tnv of ' rude oil , ud gasoline
aloi Its tfhouhi lie halted
"We've cut crude atocks
throtigli lío nation ;¡i,o(in,oiio
h;;i i elu." he wild. "tJasollue
stocks have llow been pulled
down In low what they were a
year ano I i tuny lie tint at the
start ol I«.'!! we should stop these
withdrawals from storage. At any
Heads Suspended,
"Black Shirts" In
St. Louis Disband
an oil stuv* for warmth, werir
tinted in death when the Sliivt;
exploded,
Urenkdowns or delays in air,
laud and coastal shipping traffle
murred iinf holiday by prevent!lie
' lull old numbers of scheduled
: family reunions
j Swift-freezing sleet ■ esulted In
! hundred' of highway accidents
• and slowed traffic to a turtle's
; pace
Washington. I). recorded
' seven Inches of Know In 24 hours
more than Icll throughout last
| winter
New Viil'k lllankele.t
that Chiang told the ambassador
HrtUla had failed to carry on
the traditional Anglo-Chinese re-
lat''iushlp
He was suid to have told Sir
Archibald tlmt unless British
policies were changed and aid
was forthcoming China would be
forced to turn elsewhere, in that
event, Chiang was reported I o
have said. Itrltaiu's dominance in
China would fade away and thft
power that provides the needed
i help would become the paramount
i influence lu Chinóse foreign uf-
KÍglit Inches of snow blanketed ,
metropolitan New York follow-; Tl"1 Koomlntatig Is scheduled
ST LOCIS. Nov 36 iM'i
Twenty young men and woman, I
inenibers of a St Louis branch ing n freak thunder and lightning 1,11 Important session at
of the secret black-uniformed storm, utmost without precedent Chungking, temporary capital,
"CHY which was organised to « cold weifther Weather bureau , a,|y ,
pioiiiote "II new «octal and icon- officials said It was the city's China's foreign policy lor the fu-
oin|t older," have disbanded worst November snowstorm In In "ire Chlsitg was said lo have
temporarily because their "com-
mlKKur" and "assiatanl i;omtnls-
sar" In tiklulunna ('lty have
been suspended from school.
The ass talan i commtisaur. Man-
ftird Ishmael. lh-year old high
school Kophomore of Oklahotnu
City, told the Post-lilsputch to-
day lie formed the st Louis
brunch lust June when he wits
here looking for u job as ii gro-
(Continued on page i-'i
VKl
Pail Face
II
m
rale We want heads of the big (.,,ly (.|<M.ki ,|,auffeur or airplane
refining companies it me Uere r>||(t,
fioin all over the country at otirj iahiu.tel said the ' or Cu-
rcrtula ' hei.i iJ'f December 12 and ,)„Hity Club had 12f. members
tell u.« v.lrat they think about tt|| •
the situation." I'hf. primary purpose of the
The Kallroad Comnilsslon oruunUatloti was to study pollt-
Chalrmun said he could se«i leal science. Ishmael said He
"nothing but Improvement" for denlwl II was In favor of a revo-
the ol) business Consumption of lutlon but said It believed some
oil producís next year, he predict-!communistic form of government
ell. would be about four per cent; would be an Improvement on the
above that of Ibis year. He an- j present one
sorted IIKIH demand Is running "The district attorney here In
about the same as In I :i7. which Oklahoma City thinks we aro
wis the record year up to that; trying <« overthrow the govcrn-
tlme. .moni, but that'a ridiculous," he
"The automobile maiiufuctur- deelured.
ol*." lie said, "expert to sell far — '
-more cars within the next few
mouths than a year ago Millions
of people will be motoring lo the
two worlds ralrs at New York
and San Francisco Business gen
orally seems to be getting bet-
i ConMwa«<i "o t> Ke I'TVffi)
ivelt Sees
hri) cnW ( ((M ituiniov
I
WABIM SPIIINC18. t!a.. Nov 25
(fl*i President Roosevelt said
today business conditions general-
ly were showing Increasing Im-
provement He told u press con-
however, that while
II
na
y
The congregation which yes-
terday morning worshlpptd in a
Thanksgiving service at ;lte r r*t¡ fenwoe.
Methodist Church here co.drlb- there was no question that em-
uted *17.81 in a collection foi-jPloyment had picked up. this did
the tied Cross. The money was not neccMrarlly mean relief rolls
turned in to "he chapter office would drop In proportion Imnted-
today.
— i ii,, pointed out that last spring
tmrnammmmmmmmmtrnmammmrnam ,, KOtMj mH11y ou( ()f work
m VUI V^C^THSR and there waa no work for them
" ^ i because the relief appropriations
(did not employ at lite low^ point
in December to determine
r ill
j urged Britain to provide nssiir-
' alteas of positive assistance
I Britain thus was placed on th(3
: horns of a dilemma, since .lapau
| frequently Iras asserted that
. Britain must change her Kar
Kas'ern policies to meet .lupiin-
¡ (Continued on page 1*1 VB)
Holiday Toll In
Texas Only Six
front, In Los Angeles county, a
new menace arose on the ridge
of a thickly populated canyon
when an extensive backfire was
whipped up suddenly by udverae
winds It threatened lo «end the
fire down the main slope of Man-
VATlCAN CITY. Nov. 2 (/P) deville Canyon, where there are
Pope Plus suffered a serious i many pretentious homes.
heart attack this morning nnd ¡ Mrs. John Hay Whitney, noted
oxygen wus administered lmnte« i sportswoman, was among those
dtately after his collapse to over.
come a difficulty in breathln .
This treatment was suspended,
lar supernatural "mlraclua."
UNDELEGATES
OFF TODAY FOR
LIMA
howev'er. after the difficulty had
WA8HINÜTON, Nov. 2B
who left Mandevllle as the flames
crept ever closer. ¡ . ,
Waller 8chulti. who led a car-, to the last minute today he fore
avan of three autos containing leaving with other American d l-
been remedied and the Vatican 15 wom«n and children Into Ban ««ates on a l.'t-day trip to the
announced officially that tho Bernardino, said that at 0:30 a. Pan.:AmorUs*n conference ¡ at
I
w
B
llo|y Father's condition was Im-
proving this afternoon.
The 81-year-old Pontiff waa
stricken siiddeul/us he was about
to leave his private apartmeut for
1111 official at>te-chamber for his
dally round of private audiences.
A Vatican medical bulletin
in. the flamea were within a mile 1 P® - -
of Crestline. 1 A special car was
• ¡ a New York train tor
LOS ANilKLKS, Nov 25 (yP) his party. Moat of the delegation.
Defying all efforts to control Including Alfred M. Lanelon, al-
lí. a forest fire raced across the ready were In New York.
rim of (lie San Bernardino moult- The group will sail at 4 p. in.
tains today toward the highly- (C8T) on the Grace liner Santa
described his Illness as cardiac doVeloped Crest forest district Clara.
asthma. Another informant said |ttn(1 (tH ^ f)00 j-abins, residences, Hull had a long
conference
with Under-8ecretury Simmer
brisk wind, the Welles, a latin American expert
lines eatab- who will be In charge of the stuto
likely to ^ rise during ■
wlth"the*holy"faUler Vate íti ^ /w" l0^ " orc few weeks. One of these concerns
!lflpopulous village of Crestline. , relations with Germany, abo$t
Charles M, Plutnmer. chief dls- which Ambassador Hugh It. \Vtl-
patcher for the 17. 8. forest ser- son oí Berlin will report to Prt -
vioe at San Bernardino, descrlb- ident Roosevelt this week-«nd at
Ing the situation as "extremely Warm Springs, Oa. Wllaon was
serious," salt; men had been sta- due In New York late today. Itsiv-
¡ tloned throughout the endanger- ing been summoned home at the
advance
By the Associated Press
Six persons died In aylomoblle
accidents In Ttxai- yesterday
one of the smallest tolls for
Thanksgiving Day In years
1 One other person was wounded
fatally In a hunting accident and'
another died from burda.
Raymond llollitigswortb. 21, of,
the Italotgh community near'
Blooming (irove, was killed In an:
aiitomobllu collision near Corsi-
ca na.
I (I. It. Barren, is, of Carlisle','
Many onlookers at a recent
New York fashion show thought
this stately garment was an eve-
ning gown, n Is reully the latest
>ln nightgowns, ol sutlti trimmed 1
■ with lace.
Proclaim Martial
Law For Bolivia
It was myocarditis (Inflammation lstot.e(i „n(J j,0t„i8
¡ of the muscular part of the wall Fanned
of the heart . I flames Jumped fire
Secretaries who saw the Hope 1(shcd a, high-gear state department In the secretary' -
overcome by d'/Eineas Immediate- „lf{hw(iy und heade(J f . th(J com_ gcJce
put' Muí to'bed "physicians1 were mim4ty of p,nwre8t- Two hours Their discussion revolved In
Lnlino,tad and hi, personal phy- Pfi nr0U"d 'h" 1°''^
alelan, Dr Atnhrta Mflat.l, still "'e "«"e hud trav- Hkelv to arise during the ne*t
waa
the ufternuon.
Cardinals and prelates, Includ-
ing George Cardinal Mundelehi,
archbishop tif Chicago, who were
to have be< n received In audience
were informed of his lllneBa when *
they arrived at the Vatlcam^MH ... . , , .. .. ^ ...
Cardinal Mundeleln later left ?,d t0 nB8,B' Ration If Prcaldenfa request,
by automobile Tor Naples. In-, i '"ecomes nec.esBary. j oermany's economic
tending to sail for the United wt ForiH, ' eomprlalng a dos- Ju gouth America will receive in-
stut et< tomorrow on the Con to 1)1 <-0«nn unltle«, and honeycomb- dlrtM,t ,.on8ideratlon at the Uma
Sil vola. This was taken to indi- y 'wiHtlnf "n,1<1 "N" «onforence, which state depart-
en te that the Pope's condition was «""«es. is a major center of a roc- mot)t officials consider the most
not considered cause for tmmedl- rpHll°""1 *r,>" w, ' ,'.n important meeting of the 21
H,„ alarlh y,,rtl'H l,ftH h<"'n v,Bi,,nd by a,°00'* Pan - American republics ev>#p
The Pontiff apse,I and sank «00 persons annually. held
,0 the floor When he was strlck- ,A" "Vnllable men many of
en. but members of his household whom had i.ssls ed In partially' ,
said he remained conscious. As controlling the m.two lower
i-oon as he was In bed Dr. Flllppo\t™*> '"'0 the dls- V^y4-U [^^0^
Koechl gave him an Injection of lrteí- "nd«r d m!t,on of ufede1r,t', VHUI Vltftl gWi
adrenalin and digitalis. supervisors and rangers who flew
_ lo San Bernardino from all parts
of the state Karly this morning.i
DAItiHTKIt HtHl.N recruiting of 200 fighters began,
lu the valley cities of San Bar-j
nardlno and Coltou.
P! line rest Is In the center of a1
I Continued on page FIVK)
With Car Theft
An X pound I 1 ounce daugh-
ter was born 'to Mr. and Mrs. S.
II White at :t: 1 5 tills morning In
North Plains hospital
LA I' A /, Nov 25 Iff') The
government loday proclaimed a
was killed I11 a highway collision f0„n of marital
at Houston wlicre 10 others were ,ltw throughout Bolivia and at
critically injured In truffle aecl- n,,. M1iine lime announced sup-
dents. KlovVn more were hurt, j prcsslon of a rebellion anil cap
nolle soHoualy. I lure of 11 nil ruber of rebels
U. C A very, «7 was struck by A <i|)( |()(.
11.1 automobile and kllletl Instant
Socialists to Demand
Daladier Resignation
J, M. Kctchnm, Borger youth,
wus held In Jail at Pampa and
was charged here today with lh«
theft of «ir belonging to Jiin-
! my McCarvlle of Borger.
I The ( barge wus filed here by
I count j offlcus when Pampa ar-
ticéis loformeü them by tale-
' phone Kate hum was arrested last
j night and the car recovered. Of-
' fleers (lore planned to re.am
KOI Hi tun h to for arraignment.
the strike roll approached 100,-
000 and ki-ow hourly.
ly ut Fort Worth
Three Negroes Kulle Bran-
ford. Sarah Price and Delia
Price were killed 111 an automo-
hlle-truck collision near Temple.
Another Nigro was seriously In-
jured
PAItlS, Nov 25 (fP) The So-
Hullat party, most powerful in
l|ce said a party of conspirators j the Fide *h Chamber of Deputies,
made an Incursion esrly today In-{decided today to demand Premier mined to cruah the movement, ev. Btrbara
Destroy Maya
Daladier was said to bo deter- Containing Story
to the bat racks of a carabineer Daladlor's resignation un:ld en
regimen/; In |<a Pax and tried to apreadlng agitation agalnat the state of siege slmllur to martial!
Induce thu soldiers, with promises Government.
to be planning to decreo a
law -and to be considering the J<<>NDON. Nov. 2 (<q i Bilt-
H 1 lab newsdealer* today destroyed
of large sums 01 money, to join The Socialist chiefs conferred arrest of former Socialist Prem-1
a revolutionary movement. i under the leadership of former ler Leon Blum and leaders of r <op *" °* t C mt>ei s-
Ve«r FrederickKbuwr Hem v Th" soldl',,•,, «""alned loyal, | premier Leon Blnm and after-' French labor.
, isald the statement, and tlieir or- wnrd ,nBl with left-wing radlenl- Meanwhile Daladier and Brit-¡
(Continued On Pago FIVK) ; Socialists forming b dissident' ish Prime Minister Chamberlain 1"uu . .
group of Daladlor's own party ¡ together warned Poland ugalnat " ''
sue of Cosmopolitan Magaitto to
avoid possible legal action by
Haitgwlta-Bavent-
Japanese troops capturing ('an-
, Texas: Fair tonight and nnythlng like the number of per- ton ware bothered more by buten-
Dietrich, 29, Brownwood rosl
dent, was wounded fatally in aj
At KNirt Worth, Mrs. V. L. Lo-' FOIIMHH IM>Rt¿.V\ ItKI'tíH TKD They were understood to be ut- Invading C*echtmlovaklu's "wt" Ir
30, died from burns recelv-! IN ( BITIt AL (UNDITKiN tempting to form a new chain- em territory. France and BrIU The count raWod obj«
' ber majority tin agreed at Munich to guaran-,8,1 H"1( 16 tailed The
1 the uaw frontiers of Ciecho- • About Barbara Hhitton."
serio by Elsa
ety' notad party
workers in metal fac- The
torlee, textile mills and chemical
gan,
ed when her bathrobe
fin from a small heater
! Verlei Hlncli yesterday was
Called to the bed-Idc of a brother,:
tons to
Mi
mix is hohv
and Mrs, Claude Best are
By The Associated Press slovakl uloiiy wtth Oermany and 8
ilerschel Hindi of Crane, a for-j A mounting wave of atrikea Italy
mer Borgan Herschel. who wus threatened Intensified discord In French
Sat ui dav: 110I uulte- so cold In sons who needed assistance. .ing mosquitoes than by whining the parent of a 5 pound lil ¡M badly burned 1. an explonion! France today. ..L H
erftríme soulh«a t portion to- The president talked to re- Chinese bullW This soldier don- ounce son. born at 1:50 Weditea- about three weeks ago. I report-1 Premier Daladier called out planta of l.llle votad to quit to-
night colder In west mid north peiters as he sat behind the wheel ned a canvas water-pall aa an day afternoon In North Pinina ed In a critical condition, and 1B0,000 mobile guarde and 10,000 morrow, refusing to do a hai
portion Saturday. • (Continued on page FIVK) . anll-moaqulto maaJt. ¡hospital. ¡suffering escrndnHng pain. jgendntmas to afflicted cantora aa ¡ (Continued on page FIVB)
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