The Lampasas Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, August 23, 1929 Page: 2 of 8
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The Lampasas Leader
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:* ACQUITTALS OUT OF
7701 LIQUOR CASES IS
NEW YORKERS RECORD
New York, August 15.—Out of
WSm. prohibition criminal cases dis-
posed of through the office of Unit-
ed States Attorney Charles Tuttle in
the last fiscal year, there were only
eight' acquittals, he stated in his an-
nual report to the attorney general.
There were 6686 convictions and
1107 discontinuances or dismissals,
and the fines totaled $176,733. In
padlock and permit cases, Tuttle won
182 judgments and lost only one, and
ne won all but two of the 16 liquor
./wises that went to the circuit court of
appeals.
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shares. I have a good pasture, never
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ed write me at Burnet. Can give
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‘OVER PARKERS* PUT
IN POUND IN ALAMO
CITY; PLAN WORKS
San Antonio, Texas.—-The best way
to enforce parking ordinances against
thoughtless motorists, in the belief of
San Antopio police is the automobile
pound, system.
The innovation, has spread to many
cities since San Antonio originated
the idea eight years ago. Most mo-
torists here have been educated by
years of trial and chagrin. They
know it doesn’t pay to stop in “no
parking” areas, or park too long.
Wrecking trucks cruise San An-
tonio’s congested downtown district
in search of traffic violators. When
police spot a car whose owner has
overstayed his time, it goes to the
pound. Police say the sight of these
wreckers has a “wonderful psycho-
logical effect” on drivers.
Innumerable car owners, irate at
finding their vehicle “stolen in broad
daylight,” have tried to “get some-
body fired” or eliminate the pound
idea. Instead they pay a $2 fine be-
fore the car is retrieved.
“The pound system is great,” says
Phil Wright, fire and police commis-
sioner who started this means of re-
lieving San Antonio’s traffic problem.
“We will keep it as long as I have
anything to do with it.”
RADIO DROWNS NOISE
OF KNIVES AS PATIENT
WATCHES OPERATION
37,500 REWARD FOR
RUM TIP GOES BEGGING
Washington, August 19.—Despite
Yts lure for most folks, $7,500 is lying
fn the Treasury awaiting a claimant.
That is the amount which can be
paid under the 1922 tariff act to the
person who gave information to the
Federal authorities which led to the
seizure recently at Detroit of the
lyaebt Margo, owned by Bert A. Mas-
see of Chicago and chartered by
Louis Mendelssohn of Detroit.
The Federal authorities alleged that
/diey found 40 cases of choice liquors
.Aboard the craft, which is the largest
pleasure boat on the Great Lakes, and
Massee’s check for $30,000 was re-
quired to redeem it.
Under the tariff act a person giving
information to the Government lead-
ing to the recovery of “any duties
withheld or any fine, penalty, or for-
feiture incurred” is entitled to 25 per
of the amount—in this case $7,-
-5>e)0« But no one has claimed it,
although one account of the seizure
-attributes the “tip” to a disgruntled
member of the crew to whom $7,500
might be considered worth the ask-
ing.
Another story which has official
Banking is that the original informa-
iStask came from a woman who had
1’jfaen. s guest on the yacht and left the
■ mrty at Detroit. In this story, how-
ismVf it has not been made entirely
••..tear whether her “tip” was intention-
at accidental, or whether her fi-
situation is such that $7,500
would he less attractive than the
c;thanae publicity in connection with
sasBch. an incident.
Your tongue
tells when you
need
HOW CAN INSECTS FLY?
(From the Pathfinder)
Flies can fly about in a closed car
while it is moving as readily as when
it is stationary. This is because the
air in which the insects are moving
is going along with the car.
If an insect were to fly above a
fast-moving flat car it would soon
be left behind because of the friction
of ,£ho atmosphere. Likewise, if a
man in a moving Pullman jumps
straight up he will alight in about
the same spot from which he jumped.
His motion through space is the same
as that of the train. He moves with
the car, and since the air in the
closed car moves with it also, there
is no friction to hold him back while
he is in the air. If a man did the
same thing on an open car he would
be held back by the friction of the
air and would alight slightly farther
to the rear of the spot from which he
jumped.
The United States bureau of stand-
ards estimates that if a person jumps
up three feet on an open car traveling
70 miles an hour when there is no nat-
ural wind he will alight about 15
inches farther back. Many people
have the erroneous notion that a bird
or an aviator flying high in the heav-
ens is left behind by the ground be-
low as the earth rotates on its axis.
Such, of course, is not the case. The
atmosphere in which we move is
just as much a part of the earth as
the solid ground upon which we walk.
The entire earth, including the blan-
ket of air around it, is rotating upon
its axis and revolving around the sun.
It is absurd to suppose that the earth
moves through the atmosphere. If
that were the case a terrific gale
would be created as the earth speeds
through space and every unattached
object would be swept off. The at-
mosphere is held to the rest of the
earth by gravity and goes with it be-
cause there is nothing in space to hold
it back.
Honolulu, T. H., August 16.—Dr.
George Norman Pease of Portland,,
Ore., Thursday described to* the Pan-
Pacific surgical conference how mod-
ern surgery makes it possible for a
patient to remain conscious—and en-
joy a radio concert—during a major
operation.
Dr. Pease described the use of spi-
nal anaesthesia to the conference del-
egates assembled under auspices of
the Pan-Pacific union.
“A spinal anaesthesia has a very
definite place in surgery and in many
cases it (is the only anaesthesia that
makes an operation possible and
safe.” the speaker said.
Only Two Fatalities.
He described the method of admin-
istering a spinal anaethetic by intro-
duction into the spine. It leaves the
patient conscious but utterly without
sensation in the lower part of his
body, Dr. Pease said.
“Spinal anaesthesia as we have now
learned to use it, is reasonably safe,”
he continued. He said that, during
his experience with more than 200 pa-
tients in such cases, there were only
two fatalities.
Radio Quiets Nerves.
“We have installed a radio with a
headset for the patient,” he said. “The
radio tends to keep the patient’s mind
off the operation and gives him some-
thing pleasant to hear. It also closes
his ears to other sounds.
“The radio, I believe, is a factor of
importance, especially with women pa-
tients. They are apt to get extreme-
ly nervous if allowed to lie there and
imagine what is happening to them.”
Dr. Pease said spinal anaesthesia is
indicated in cases of bad hearts, kid-
neys or lungs, where there is danger
in general anaesthesia.
There’s Plenty of Wafer
under the ground
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McCormick-Deering Engines
STATION TO STOP RADIO
“WHISTLE” TO BE BUILT SOON
YOUTH WITHOUT CASH
“MANAGES” CREAM FOR GIRL
(San Antonio Express)
alotahs
Coated tongue, drymoutk,
'bad breath, muddy skin,
groggy nerves and sour
Mmrtach suggest its use.
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and. restores the skin to that clearness
desired by well dressed people.
LION DRUG STORE
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Special Attention Given Plate and
Bridge Work
BLOCK ANESTHESIA
aver Mackey A Ransom’s Drag
Store. Lampasas, Texas.
An improverished suitor who appar-
ently wished to “stand treat” for ice
cream for his favored girl but lacked
the necessary cash, secured the frozen
sweet from the Ruiz Street drug
store, Ruiz and Colorado Streets, by
a ruse. For good measure he also got
a package of cigaretts.
The drug store received a call
shortly after 7 o’clock to send a half-
gallon of ice cream and a package of
cigaretts to a West Elmira Street ad-
dress.
When Fernandez Mendosa, delivery
boy, knocked on the front door of the
house a youth about 17 or 18 years
old same to the door. He took the
ice cream and cigaretts and told Men-
dosa to wait while he got some money.
After waiting some time for the
youth to reappear, Mendoza notified
the drug store and an investigation
revealed that the house was vacant.
The youth had apparently gone out
a back door while Mendoza waited
for him at the front.
Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Shipley returned
Tuesday to their home at Wichita
Falls after a visit here in the home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Will
Spittler.
Mrs. J. R. Collier and grand-daugh-
ter, Nancy Cfantham of Waco are
visiting in the home of her brother,
Mr. and Mrs. Hosea Bailey.
Washington, August 15.—Formal
announcement that the constant
frequency radio station authorized by
congress last winter will be erected at
Grand Island, Neb., in December, was
made today b ythe department of
commerce.
The contract for the station, the
first of its kind, will be let within a
short time, and the department ex-
pects it to bring about the elimina-
tion of “whistle” in radio receiving
sets.
W. D. Terrell, chief of the com-
merce department radio division, said
if the operator of any commercial
or broadcasting station finds that
his station is not operating on its
authorized frequency or wave length,
he can communicate with the moni-
toring station and request that his
frequency be checked.
By doing this, Terrell said, the
broadcasting station will be “put
right” on its frequency and will be
able to eliminate the “whistle” from
the receiving set, which will benefit
the users of commercial radio sets.
Construction of the station re-
sulted from an idea developed in the
radio division and is the result of
more than three years planning and
research.
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and up
“They Pull
with a Will”
LAMPASAS WINS THIRD
GAME FROM SAN SABA
Thursday afternoon, August 15 in
the San Saba baseball park, the Lam-
pasas club played the San Saba
team before a record crowd of visitors
to the San Saba County Fair, this
being the third and last game of the
fair series. The final score was
12-7 in favor of Lampasas.
Cross and Jones pitched for Lam-
pasas.
Lampasas won all three games this
year. The game the last day of the
fair, Friday, was played between San
Saba and Llano.
NEGRO EATS CHICKEN
POISONED BY ARSENIC
ON COTTON AND DIES
ROOFING!
28-gauge Corrugated Galvanized Iron
--ALL LENGTHS--
Fox & Mills Hardware Company
Lampasas
CHILD’S THREAT OF
SUICIDE MAY BE HOAX
Brenham, Texas, August 19.—
Thomas Adams, 39, negro, a World
War veteran, died Friday night at his
home in the Cedar Hill community in
Washington County. He died of acute
arsenic poisoning caused by eating
chicken that had eaten cotton worms 1
poisoned with arsenic. This fact was l
established by one of Brenham’s I
physicians.
Adams was a strong, healthy man
and" had picked cotton the day before
his death. After eating the chicken
he became critically ill and his death
followed.
Mrs. David R. Fullerton of Law-
rence, Kansas, is a guest here in the
home of her daughter, Mrs. D. S.
Moore.
Mrs. Carroll Garrett went to San
Antonio Monday evening to accom-
pany her husband to Kerrville where
he will enter a hospital. Mr. Gar
rett has been in a San Antonio hos-
pital for the past several months.
Bryan Reynolds, of the Peoples
National Bank, has gone to Colorado
on a vacation trip.
Fort Worth, August 15.—In their
search for Mary Louise Smith, 8,
missing since Monday, police today
had practically abandoned the pic-
ture of a desperately despondent lit-
tle girl who may have drowned her-
self because her dog was shot for
that of an unusually crafty child who
may have threatened to do so to
throw her mother, friends and police
off the track of her real whereabouts.
Several developments, one of them
and admission of the mother that she
had whipped the child before she left
her home Monday afternoon, led police
to believe that the child is attempting
to follow a well-thumbed road map
that might lead her to her step-fath-
er at San Diego, Texas.
Mary Louise is believed to have
the road map, a check from her step-
father and perhaps an extra dress
with her, wherever she is. The map
had been sent to the Smiths presum-
ably to guide Mrs. Smith on a pro-
posed automobile trip to her husband.
The child, according to the mother
had studied it assiduously. It has
not been seen since the child left.
The missing check is one of the
periodical checks sent to the family
by Smith. Mary Louise had cashed
those sent previously with prompt
regularity at a bank.
WATER SUPPLY LOW;
RESTRICTIONS ARE PUT
ON USE HERE
(Brownwood News)
Because only about twenty-three
day’s water supply remains in the Pe-
can Bayou for consumption here,
members of City Council in special
session at City Hall 10:00 a. m. Wed-
nesday passed an ordinance with
emergency clause forbidding the use
of water here under certain condi-
tions.
Part of the ordinance read:
“Section 1. From and after the pas-
sage and approval of this ordinance
and until the same is repealed, it shall
be unlawful for any person, firm or
corpoi’ation, or the agent or servant
Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Mills left FriT
day morning for a visit in Harlingen
in the home of Mrs. Mill’s sister, Mrs.
Wm. McKinney. Miss Margaret Ab-
ney accompanied them and will visit
in Brownsville in the homes of Mr.
and Mrs. H. L. Faulk and Mr. and
Mrs. Jas. L.Abney.
Miss Alyce Gamel returned Monday
afternoon to San Marcos where she
is attending school, after spending
the week-end here in the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Gamel.
of any person, firm or corporation, to
use or consume, or permit to be used
or consumed, any water whatever
from the City of Brownwood’s water
system, reservoir or source of supply,
for the purpose of watering lawns,
yards, flowers, gardens, irrigate with,
washing of automobiles or any other
kind of vehicle; or to sell water from
the city’s water system except for
domestic purposes, and within city
limits.”
Miss Lucy Bethel went to Gatesville
Monday to spend several days assist-
ing in the Messenger office.
Rev. O. D. Henley and family of
Big Lake spent the week end in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Knight.
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