The Lampasas Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, July 26, 1940 Page: 2 of 4
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POLITICAL ANNOUNCBM®s’TS
Railroad
Commissioner
Time Trials Start 1:45
Races 2:30
For County
Lampasas, Texas
UNFRIENDLY WARNING
Admission 36c, Tax 4c, total
J. TOM HIGGINS
For County Commissioner Precinct 4: ment sa-Vs it's
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use it effectively.—Dallas News.
weeks. Others will join them
i“ ■’ ■■Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Webb and Mrs.
Re-
■Mary Ellen McKenzie of Christo-
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SENATE GROUP OKAYS
•MUST MILITARY DUTY
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L. Feather-
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Jesse Webb attended the Jackson
union Sunday at Buchanan Dam.
Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Willeraon
Austin were visitors Wednesday
Lampasas.Mrs. D. R. Fitch and Mrs. Alma
Johftston left Saturday for Pecos to
attend the funeral of Gus Bowles, ne-
phew of Mrs. Fitch. Mr. Bowles was
buried Sunday. He was working in
Denver City, Texas, and was acci-
dentally electrocuted.an-
be
for
be-Mrs. J. E. Flannigan and daughter.
Miss Maggie Jo, spent the week end
in Waco with Mrs. Flannigan’s dau-
ghter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. C.
E. Davis.■
Helot
here
The bro
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in ri
Frank
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trend
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Mr. and Mrs. Fulton Brown and
children are spending a few days in
San Antonio. Mr. Brown is taking his
i Dakota
■nounced
i mend
sei vice.
precinct
;■ more U.
on
Mr and Mrs. C. A. Northington,
Jr., and daughter are visiting with
relatives in Waco.
Mrs Dora Moore of San Saba un-
derwent an appendectomy Saturday
night at the local hospital.Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Goodson spent
Sunday and Monday in Marlin with
Mr. Goodson’s sister and brother-in-
Publiahed Every Friday
J. H. ABNEY A SON
Harbert J. Abney, PublisherMr. and Mrs. Ray Fuller have re-
turned from a vacation trip, to South
Dakota and other places of interest
in Northwest United States.
that ! J-^A. Tittle and daughter,
those Lt*0 Pales, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
won’t li1
old me y
nd you’vt
rifle, b
• nm the
hat gun!
■,g can be
sets. Now
> Ed Batt
PRESIDENT ASKS HALF BILLION
TO HELP PAN-AMERICANS
Washington, July 22.—President
I Roosevelt asked congress today to
■ provide $500.00C,000 prop for the
{falling, war-distiessed foreign trade
I of all the American nations.
lie requested that the capital and
i lending power of the export-import
I bank be increased by that amount
as well
re-
a
in
ex-
.basis, his message
hope “that before
world trade can
COURTHOUSE NEWS
Real Estate Transfers
Mrs. M|.Y- Stokes to Chas.
Stokes, lots 1 and 2 in Blk. 68, L.
Co’s.
Ed Hocker and son, T
Hocker, left Monday forMrs. J. T. Rather, .Jr., of Houston
is visiting here in the home of her
mother, Mrs. M. Y. Stokes.
should be of vital concern to all
Americans to know just how these
steps will be be taken and if the
navy is capable of such a job.
These questions and many more are
answered and discussed in this latest
March Of Time, as well as pictures
of the fleet in action.J. C. Walton of Moline was a busi-
ness visitor in Lampasas, Thursday.
requirements in farm
domestic and
met with
1st.
D. Culver, Jr., to A- L. Culver
acres of W. S. Hatchkiss Survey.
Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Gulledge left
Thursday afternoon for Austin where
they will attend a dinner given by
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Covert-. This
dinner is honoring Mr. and Mrs. A.
J. Wirtz of Washington.
in 'deferred classes.
Men between 18 ami 21 and those
between 45 and 64 Would be avail-
able for service in homo defense
units or similar organizations, butthe war department asked that this
service depend upon later action by
Congress in separate legislation.
General Shedd said it probaldy-
would be necessary to mobolize the
entire national guard to help with
training men drafted nnd that separ-
ate legislation would be required to
call out the guard.
Proposals for compulsory military
O. Z. HIGGINS
L. D. EUBANKS
For State Senator. 20th Dist.:
RICHARD YETT
HOMER C. DeWOLFE
HOUGHTON BROWNLEE
rural births over death!
offset losses through
to urban areas. Births
7,361,000 and --deaths
with War Department proposals for
mobolizing the National Guard’s
235,U00 men if conscription is voted.
Mobilizing the militia for a year’s
training, said Vandenberg, might
cause a “very cruel dislocation” in
the homes of many guardsmen who
did not expect “whole time service’
with the regular land forces during
peacetime.
However, two members of the
i military committee, Gurney of South
and Minton qf Indiana, an-
they would vote to recom-
enactment of compulsory
Minton, Democratic whip,
announced:
“I’m for it
Mrs.
Tit-
would Mr. anf' Mrs., Bill Tittle were in
if the War De part-
necessary.”
anticipated military
training controversy shaping up, a
• House committee pursued its study
; of the navy share in President
Roosevelt’s new $4,848,171,957 rec-
! omniendation for supplementary
I preparedness expenditures.
| After the first day’s closed
; ing. Chairman Woodrum said
I day it was apparent the navy
| “going ahead full speed” on
F«r County Treasurer:
MRS. JOHN B. TAYLOR
For County Commissioner Precinct 1
HOSEA BAILEY
G. WORD SMITH
FLOYD ASHER
For County Judge:
SYLVESTER LEWIS
This Advertisement voluntarily
carried by LOCAL Supporters
Ethridge of Kempner was a
visitor Thursday in
voting Boxes will
DISPLAY FLAGS
T)>e State Democratic
ommittee i,« urging all
chairmen to display one o;
S. Flags about their voting plac
[election day. It is .always
.■ to display our flag and it
, this request will be complied
Mr. and Mi s. A. N. Johns >n -uvl
I children, formerly Of San Marcos,
fare now living here, where Mr. John’
J son will be employed in the L. C. R.
A. office..
Washington, Ju|y 23.—The Senate
Military Committee gave its approval
Tuesday to comprehensive compul-
sory military training calling
registration of 42,000,000 men
tween 18 and 64 years.
Chairman Sheppard of Texas
the committee expected to work
all details of the training legislation
Wednesday and have the bill ready
- for Senate action next week.
*-------------War Department spokesmen said
the system contemplated actual mil-
itary training to be limited to about
I, 500,600 men between 21 ami 30
years during the first year, selected
from a group estimated to number
II, 500.000.
Later those drafted would come
from the 21-tp-45 age groups, esti-
mated at 24,000,000, including those f
who had already been registered in !
the first call. |
The Senate C'mmittee approved
a training period of one year for
those drafted and a base pay equal
to that of the lower grades in the
army, navy ami other armed forces.!
This base pay starts at $21 a month. |
Brig. Gen. W. E. Shedd, assistant I
chief of staff, told reporters
local draft boards, similar to
used during the World War,
classify all men between 21 nnd 45 ;B«»»trop Friday to attend the funeral
years for exemptions. He said men 'of th( ir uncle, Joe Watterson, who
with families, or men with jobs im-away Thursday in the Bastrop
portant to national defense would be (hospital after an illness of several
The Tenant Purchase Program which
is to buy homes for the tenant farm- I
ers is now in operation here. Appli- >
cations can be made at the Farm I
! Security Administration office, lo- ‘
•.cated in the county courthouse. Ap-j
! plications can be made from now un- j
til August 31. The money for these,
j farms is loaned at 3% for forty'
(years. There will be no down pay-
ments required. It will hot be neces-
sary for the applicants to have a
place located or in view to buy until
after the applicants have been se-
lected.
Fair Park Race Track
v ■
Lieut. Lloyd Smith of San
is visiting here with friends
atives. Mrs. Smith and son,
have been here for the past few days, j ' ’
-----THE U. S. NAVY—1910
G. C. Barnett and Roy Springer i Opening today at the Leroy Thea-
spent Sunday in Goldthwaite visiting tre is thc latest March of TitnV( „The
Mr. Barnett’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. ! U.S. Navy 1940.
D. G. Barnett.
Were criticized Tuesday
Vandenberg of Mich-
said he questioned the
peacetime
expanding raffks of the
don disarmament pacts,
noted, the United States today would |
“nave a more powerful
than we can hope to have in the
be glad indeed of an end to war in
|which losses are suffered, an end to
'blockade, an end to the whole miser-
able business.
And it may be. too, that the Reich
is hard pressed for supplies, • for ■
; food, for fuel, especially high octane '
■gasoline, and that the Reich wants I
’peace because peace is a dire netal.
| That is certainly the hope of British
democracy, bucklered for a finish'
fight with a sinster and remorseless
| adversary. For if it is a correct ana- ;
lysis of the situation in that lies the 1
, hope of British victory, a victory ;
encesxaiy because Britain knows that ;
it can trust no promise, no pledge,
no guarantee Of a faithless nation
that has kept none. But in that ana-
lysis lies, top, the crucial danger for
Britain because it means that once
{more Hitler must win a quick war.
I To do that he must loose every force
With the
^3rd Di,t-
For State Repres*<*tfr*
EVAXS J- A?Srt«flTT
REUBEN E.
ellis r>rC^St ------—
WALTER X /■--
mer Precinct 2:
CENSUS SHOWS GAIN
IN FARM POPULATION
Washington, July 21.—Farm j>0]
ulation in America on Jan. 1 was e
timated by the Agriculture Depar
ment this week at 32,245,000, larges
in twenty-four years, 186,000 moi
tha a year ago and an increase c
2,076,000 for the decade, 1930-3*.
Highest farm population figure eve
reported was 32,530,000 in 1916.
Increase during the . 1930's fol
lowed a decrease of 1,445,000 durini
the 1920's and a net loss of 463,00
between 1910 and 1920.
According to the report, farm
: lost 2,179,000 persons through mi
[gration during the 1930’s, but at
1 excess of
' more than
I
j movement
numbered „„„
j 3,313,000 during the past decade. |
Lack of opportunity in cities may
add 2,000,000 more persons to
rural population of 1950, the
partment pointed out.
“Increase in farm population
' this time means growing pressure of!
J population on natural, resources, es-J
s pecially in the poorer agriculture!
{areas,” the Department of Agricul-J
ture Stated. “Technological changes!
in agriculture have kept pace with!
those in industry, and labor require-!
ments for agricultural production!
have been decreased,” '
Normal
production for both
i foreign outlets new can be
{ approximately 1,600,000 fewer work-j
! ers on iai-ms than 4n 1929—which, |
with their dependents, means 3,500,-
000 fewer persons, it was pointed out|
I by the Department. Farm employ-i
ment was said to have decreased
more than 300.000 between 1930 and I
1940.
I Largest increases in farm popula-l
tion during the last ten years were
in Kentuckv, Tennessee, Alabama and
Mississippi. The South Atlantic
i States, from Maryland and Delaware
Ito Florida, showed the next largest
gain. Areas most severely affected
by drouths of 1914 and 1936 reported
increases before 1935 and decreases
I thereafter.
•ORPHAN- GETS BIG FAMILY
Shirley Temple, who more than
once has been a part or total orphan
on the screen, gets her full share of
family in Maurice Maeterlinck’s “The
I; D’ue Bird,” 20th Century-Fox pic-
JJhue in the new Technicolor now
the Leroy Theatre.
In this screen masterpiece she
{a mother, father, brother, grandfa-
ther and grandmother—played re-
spectively by Spring Byington, Rus-
sell Hicks, Johnny Russell,
Shean and Cecilia Loftus. To top it
off Maeterlinck’s famous play also
gives Shirley an unborn baby sister,;
whom she meets in “The Land of the
Future,” and two faster parents—
Nigel Bruce and Laura Hope Crews!
irith a b
irocess of
id not hi
tlnyw»y.
• Sash Cam
.nere was
filed a m
[®ve come
! Plainly i
Lett was c
k Battle
on!'
satis!
I
hear-
Mon-
was
its
I construction program, cutting many
I corners in the interests of speed.
He quoted Secretary of the Navy
Knox as testifying that the program
was planned to such p nicety that
aaval officials had a schedule of
the days the new s^iips are to be laid
down and the days they are to go
down the ways.”
The navy, meanwhile, issued a
detailed statement designed to ex-
plain why a more powerful fleet is
not now in being.
• The documint, entitled, "The De-
Icl.ine and Rise of United States
jNavy Power 1921-1940,” said that
the country’s naval strength had
’■T niped from first to fourth placce
{tuneng wot Id powers in the years be
'tween 1921 and 1933. Since
j the statement recorded, the
jhas been reversed,
' If 237 capital ships had not
iscrapped or demilitarized under the
1921 Washington and the 1930 Len-
the report
K. L. LIN^
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For Tax Assessor and Col-
lector •*
T jt GHOLSON
pg, feanty Attorney:
CORDON C. CASS
We are authorized to n»ak» ;
lowing political aimounceto**^^^
ject to the action of tht ***
primary election in Jult;
very grave peril to its territoiral
integrity, peace on the status quo
would be welcome. There would bi
nothing very glorious about it. No
ends which Britain honorably enter-
ed the struggle to attain would be
■achieved. But at the moment acccm-
' plishment of those aims seems very
i distant indeed. It is quite probable
|that if Britain dealt today with a
I nation and a leader whose faith could
be respected, the Hitler offer would
be accepted. It is the moral bankrup-
tcy of the Nhzi Government thai
stands in the way. Britain cannot
.safely tiust Hitler. No one can.
As to the reasons behind the Fueh-
rer’s offer, the world can only con-
jecture. Ostensibly Hitler proffeis
peace because he is weary of slaugh-
ter, because he has no wish to injure
the British Empire and his other
aims are all accomplished. He may
mean what ho says. He has extended
German rule or influence oxer an
area triple the size of the Reich with
• which he began. Consolidating his ;
position will require time and ener- ,
gy. This may be what Hitler means |
when he says that he hates war be- I
order ;cause it interferes With his ‘work”. I
hoped The present German leadership might
with
|e
U
I - .
ou're wa-
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gi
1
One difficulty with the public ut-
teiances of Adolf Hitler lies of
course in interpretation. You know
what the Reichsfuehrer says but you
do not know what he means. That is
.the penalty attached to a sustained
reputation for lack of truth and ver-
lacity. You know where you stand with
ja truthteller. You never know wherd
you stand with a confirmed liar, ,
On the surface Hitler offered Bri-
{tian Friday a very desirable peace.'
In a situation in which the rest of
{Euiope is either in alliance with or
under the heel of the Nazis and at
a time when Britain recognizes the I that it might be of gieatet assist-
ance to our neighbors south ofi
Rio' Grande, including financing
handling and orderly marketing
I some part of their surpluses.”
i His message said that it was in
i interests of the United States ]
I ducers of whyat, cotton, beef, metals
, and other export products,
as producers in other American
j publics “that there shall not be
disorganized or cutthroat market
those, commodities which we all
: port.”
, The president’s message was sent
to congress coincidentally with the
I second session of the Havana confer-
! ence of foreign ministers of the 21
j Amerian republics which Secretary
■ Hull addressed.
I ‘The president indicated that the
I assistance was contemplated only on
a temporary
pressing the
I other year
j established.”
The authority of the export-import
hank, which was set up originally in
1934 to^foster trade with Russia, will
1 expire next year unless congress re-
news it.
The hank's present capita! is $200,-
<♦00.(910. Tile additional $500,000,-
000 probably would be made available
to latin American government and
central banks for loans to export
producers wither than for outright
purchses of export surpluses in an
effort to keep them off the market.
Puzzled,
was beginr
warfare tl
BmjLAKSi
Igrazmg in
»n importi
Snost ever;
L-ontrol a b
■forest gra
■lumber of
L rub. W
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towel 1 w
Privileges
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■he boy.
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Ikin’t that
“I tolc
Bgreed.
■he whole
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[lhe boy.
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link. Th
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Lke I said
I “And th
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■tared at
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■ “Did you
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■ For the
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Boss; and
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l^'V.. I’.. ■
1 A fightir
■ace. Thi
Battle.
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I’ameron s
■hat calf I
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JR'alt Gam
■he room I
Bould have
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Subscription Prie«
. 1® Months .......... fl.00,
® Months — I.
• Months
"l Ed Hocker et al to H. H. Earnest,
" lot 5, blk. 33 L. S. Co’s. 1st.
| J. C. Abney, receiver of Vernor
i Estate to Ervin Williams, lots 2, 3, 4
i blk. 6, L. S. Co’s 1st.
H. B. Rollis to W. W. Wilson, lots
! 3-4, blk. 107 L. S. Co’s. 1st.
j George Bryant to J. T. Humphries,
fraction of acre in Lometa. .
A. L. Culver, trustee of American
Legion Post, No. 277 to Elton Cas-
beer, lot 6, blk. 12, L. S. Co%. 1st.
Mrs. Ruth E. Matthews to
Matthews, lots 10-11, 12, blk.
, Lonieta.
Flank Matthews to C.
kton, lots 10, 11, 12. bll«.
Frank Matthews to C.
I ston, lots 10, 11, 12, blk.
W. F. Moore to
| several acres of C. R. Cox survey.
D. W. Wright to Mrs. Ethel Carri-
: gan, lots 4, 5, 6, blk. 8, G. -C. & S. F.
Frances Georgia Curtin to Harley
[ Tittle, lot 5, blk. 39 L. S. Co’s 1st..
Cars Registered Since July 10:
Robei t Lee McKee, f940 Stude-
i baker.
G. A. Morgan, 1940 Ford
John A. Goodwin. 1940 Chev. pick:
up.
C. F. Klose, 1940 Dodge pickup.
1 W. E.
up. -
by Senator
igan, who
necessity of
to fill the
Nation's armed forces.
President Roosevelt and the
army high command have indorsed
selective service as an essentiaLele-
ment in the defense drive, but Van-
denberg told reporters he was not
vlneed that “our ordinary reliance on
volunteers” would fail to supply the
necessary manpower.
As the Senate Military Commit-
tee was called into closed session
on the Burke-Wadaworth compul-
* bill, Vandenberg also
Sunday, July 28
-Iw
■fcl-r
As the navy seems
■ \ th0 only dividing line between
oui* shores and war torn Europe, and
Rev. Lamar j jf invasion should come the navy
—’ Gorman In^ust be our first line of defense* it
conscription Tails where they will camp for two
later.
I Mr. and Mrs. Dan ■ McLean of
•Crockett and Mr. and Mis. Gail
■Oliver, Jr., of RefugioTvere guests ,
; i here Wednesday in the home of their |cf at his command nnd
Antonio gI!ln(]parents j|r !U)(| Leon vr
and rel- • Oliver, They were returning • home
Richard, ■ from a vacation trip to Colorado.
ELECT
JOHNHORNSBY
AS YOUR
STATE SENATOR
■A Voters placed his name, by petitions, on 1940 ballot!
it He served you well as Senator 1929-36! -
-A Put through Colorado River .Authority bill. . . amendment
combining offices Tax Asseasor & Collector. . . numerous other
legislative achievements!
\ o ’
FAVORS. .. increased taxes on oil, gas, salphur. . . payment
constitutional social security obligations. . . reduction aotomobile
•isaasi fete. . . email homes completely tax exempt. . . adequate
defense measures!
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