The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 37, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 18, 1939 Page: 4 of 4
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can increase your sales by using it regularly.
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SHOUT IT
COMMISSION CHAIRMAN
FLAYS MOVE TO CRIPPLE
SAFETY WORK
Entered at the postoffice at Lampasas
March 7, 1904, as second-class mail.
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DEMANDS THAT AMERICA
KEEP OUT OF WAR GROW
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Mr. and Mrs. Carl Boies and son,
Carl David, and Clayton Watson
visited this week end in Del Rio in
the home of Mr. Boies* parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. Leslie Boies. They
were accompanied by Mrs. Earl Hor-
ton who visited with Mrs. Willard
Smith.
Austin, April 17.—W. H. Richard-
son, Jr., public safety commission
chairman, charged today the senate
finance committee’s action in slashing
>650,000 from annual department of
public safety appropriation would
deal highway safety and law enforce-
ment a staggering blow.
The highway patrol, rangers, in-
vestigators, narcotics agents, crime
laboratory and drivers’ license divis-
ions would be severely crippled and
in some instances eliminated should 1
Miss Phoebe Oliver and her bro-
ther, Donald, returned Monday night
to their home in Port Arthur after
■pending some time here in the homes
of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Alexander
and Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hetherly.
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- The Rev., and Mrs. George Brown
Jr., and daughter, Jeanette, of Fort
Worth visited here during the week
end in the home of his mother, Mrs.
George Brown.
TWINS MAKE SCIENTISTS
LOOK FOOLISH
Father Louis A. LeBlanc visited
Tuesday in San Antonio on business.
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“Oh, I can play almost anything,
and I can raasle. I can catch. I can
throw a ball over the roof.”
“Baloney/’ interrupted practical
Jimmy. “You can’t even throw over
a garage roof.”
Jimmy said that school was swell
because “you have spelling and words,
and numbers, and stories.”
“I have a higher reader than John-
ny,” he added. “I have the Toy
Elephant and he has Happy Said Bow
Wow.”
we believe that you
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POPPIES RECEIVED BY
LEGION AUXILIARY
David Mitchell who has spent the
past three months here in the home
of Mt. and Mrs. Joe Wegener left
Thursday to make his home in Goldth-
THEY’RE a typical fam-
Uy of Leader ad readers.
They know what they
want . . . and they know
just where to look for it!
They’re a happy family, for
they read the Leader ads
that always serve them
well! Get the habit . . .
let the ads that appear in
The Leader guide you as
they have this happy fam-
ily. They have saved lots
of time and money for them
and they can do the same
for you.
LAMPASAS LEADER
Lampasas, Texas
From Housetops . . .
LEADER ADS
DO IT BETTER
Leader ads get INSIDE
each house in this trade
territory . . . and they al-
ways attract attention!
Let them do the shouting
and direct you to the many
bargains our merchants
have to offer you.
LAMPASAS LEADER
Lampaaaa, Texas ‘
Copy furnished to tbo printer
should bo written only on ons side of
the paper, otherwise a part of it ta
likely to be overlooked. PLEASE re-
member thia.
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The Lampasas Daily Leader
J. H. ABNEY & SON
Herbert J. Abney, Publisher
THE LAMPASAS DAILY LEADER
(Payable in Advance)
One month______
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Our advertising rates are reasonable and
New York, April 17.—The varied
training given the identical Wood
twins, principals in an unusual educa-
tional experiment, already has shown
an unexpected result.
‘ -The boys, 7 year old Tuesday, have
developed contracting attitudes to-
ward school, and—
Surprisingly, it is Johnny, scienti-
fically conditioned since birth, who
dislikes his studies, while Jimmy, who
had an untutored infancy and ‘“just
growed,” thinks that school is swell.
Their older sister, Ellen, a high
school student, said scientific John-
ny was only slightly better than av-
erage but that unscientific Jimmy
got report cards that were almost
perfect.
The blond, blue-eyed brothers are
in the second grade. Both are rest-
less, fond of yelling at peak voice
and addicted to telling tall tales of
their ability.
“I hate school,” explained Johnny,
“because you have to learn and read.
I like to draw and color. I like to
play.”
Asked what he could play, he said:
Little Rock, April 17.—Flood
warnings stirred fresh anxiety Mon-
iay on the heels of tornadoes that
killed at least 45 and injured 336
in six Southern States.
Arksansas, hardest hit area in the
storm belt, received notice from the
United States Weather Bureau that
hundreds of lowland families might
have to be evacuated before the rap-
idly rising waters of six major
streams.
The week end series of rapid-fire
twisters left 24 dead and 223 hurt
in Arkansas, seven dead and 33 in-
jured in Oklahoma, seven dead and
- 24 other casualties in Louisiana, six
fatalities and 36 injuries in Texas,
one dead and at least 20 injured in
Alabama. Tennessee reported torna-
do damage in one community but no
casualties.
Property damage was estimated at
close to a million dollars.
Major disaster scene was the lit-
tle community of Center Point in
Southeastern Arkansas where 17 were
killed and more than 60 injured. Eight
of the injured were reported near
death.
Eleven died when the twister whirl-
ed away the Center Point communi-
ty church in which they and others
took refuge just after the close of
an outdoor funeral. Others were kill-
ed when 25 homes in the section were
leveled. Among the dead at the
church was the Baptist pastor, the
Rev. Thomas West, 52.
Other deaths in Arkansas includ-
ed three at Tillar, one at Texar-
kana, one at Calmer and two near
Dumas. Two negro children, dump-
ed into flooded Bayou Barthalomew
when a twister tossed their cabin
across the stream near Ladd, were
missing.
The Weather Bureau at Little Rock
forecast flood stages on the Arkan-
sas, Quachita, Saline, Petit Jean,
White and Black rivers. Torrential
rains, as heavy as 10:04 inches along
the Petit Jean, accompanied the week
end storms. Mountain creeks were
out of banks and many roads and
bridges were washed out. A reservoir
dam broke at Paris, and two minor
levees broke at Paragold.
Flood threats did not appear se-
rious in other win-struck States.
Alabama felt the tornadoes Mon-
day. Mrs. Wfndooi Hatchcock, 25,
was killed at Boligee, 100 miles
southwest of Birmingham. Others
were injured near Tuscaloose, and
at Ranburne on the Georgia-Ala-
bama line.
Haynesville bore the brunt of the
blow in Louisiana, seven persons dy-
ing in the wreckage of residential
and business property here.
Texas storms struck in scattered
places, killing three at Pipe Creek,
two at Gladewater, one at Athens and
two in Bandera County.
Mrs. Felix Clay, 64, whose hus-
band was one of three killed in-
stantly in a twister at Pipe Creek,
Bandera .County, Texas, died in a
San Antonio hospital and W. C. Bled-
soe, 38, one of 49 persons injured
in the Texarkana storm area, died
of pneumonia aggravated by expis-
ure and shock.
Mr. and Mrs. George Ashwander
of Lometa and Mrs. Homer West-
brook and son, John Frank, of Eden
were week end guests here in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Mc-
Cann, Jr.
tin business man declared.
Reduced funds, the official assert-
ed, would mean elimination of 46
highway patrol stations now main-
tained in every part of the state,
remove any probability of reissuing
drivers’ licenses to more than 2,000,-
000 drivers and “break the back” of
the criminal identification bureau.
It also would eliminate present is-
suances, halt suspension and revoca-
tion proceedings and deprive local
officers of the facilities of the fire-
arms division of the crime labora-
tory, said Richardson.
“We can hardly expect law en-
forcement and traffic safety to be
set back over a decade in effective-
ness if this appropriations decrease
is finally passed,” Richardson de-
clared.
The highway patrol and drivers’
license divisions have been self sus-
taining through fees, Richardson
pointed out
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Washington, April 17.—A swelling
tide of demands that America steer
clear of war regardless of what hap-
pens in Europe swept over Congress
Monday in the aftermath of Presi-
dent Roosevelt’s appeal to Hitler and
Mussolini to pledge themselves to
peace for at least 10 years.
Coincidentally the Administration
reported with presidents of pleas-
ure that the president’s message to
the dictators was developing a world
public opinion for peace.
With the arrival in Washington of
additional replies from Latin Ameri-
can governments, the Western Hem-
isphere stood in a solid phalanx be-
hind the president’s appeal. Favorable
replies came also from dozens of
other capitals in Europe and Asia,
including many of the 31 govern-
ments for whom President Roosevelt
requested assurance of safety from
the European dictators.
Officials hoped this demonstration
of international opinion would induce
Hitler and Mussolini to heed an ap-
peal which they might reject if it
came solely from the United States.
Secretary Hull told his press con-
ference he had received no indica-
tions from Hitler or Rome as to what
the official responses would be, but
he declared the Administration was
much gratified at the reaction else-
where in the world.
“There is evidence a definite feel-
ing,” he said, “that a practcial and
timely contribution has been made
to the cause of peace and that a
public opinion, the most potent of
all forces for peace, is more strong
ly developing throughout the world.”
Hull discussed the peace plan for
20 minutes with the British ambas-
sador, Sir Ronald Lindsay, and it
was presumed to be a topic of con-
versation at his subsequent lunch-
eon meeting at the White House with
Roosevelt and Treasury Secretary
Morgenthau.
Chairman Walsh of Massachu-
setts of the senate naval committee
launched a discussion of the criti-
cal foreign situation in a Speech
advocating creation of complete At-
lantic and Pacific fleets in place of the
single navy this country now has.
“We can no longer defend a two-
ocean Nation with a one-ocean navy,”
Walsh told his colleagues. “In the
light of present conditions we can
not afford to rely on the indulgence
of the pretended friendship of any
nation on earth.”
Maintenance of strict neutrality
bulwarked by a “well-balanced and
efficient navy,” Walsh said, “would
assure the United States of peace
for generations.
“Let us resoluve,” he urged, “to
preserve America for Americans, to
shun foreign wars, to shun foreign
alliances, and to seek humbly, but
insistenly, the cherished ways of
peace.”
Senator Ashurst of Arizona backed
this speech with the assertion “war
is the natural state of Europe and
those in America who believed that
American can make any contribu-
tion in solving the problems of Europe
will look and labor and hope in
vain.”
To this Senator Barbour of New
Jersey added that “everyone of us
knows that by the grace of God
we do not have to fight in a Euro-
pean war unless we choose to.”
"Let us, as soon as it is possible
to do so,” he continued, “make it
absolutely clear that these United
States will not. become involved in
a European war. After that we may
work out what help we can and
will give to those nations with which
we are in sympathy.”
The problem of writing neutrality
legislation that will work confront-
ed both house and senate commit-
tees on foreign affairs.
Norman Thomas, head of the 8o-‘
cialist party, told the house group
America could do nothng “either to
deter Europe from war or to bring
about the victory of righteousness.”
He advocated that in whatever neu-
trality legislation was finally adopted
there should be included a manda-
tory embargo on war materials as
well as an actual arms and muni-
tions, which, in event of war, would
be embargoed by the present act.
He also warned against economic
action against aggressor nations.
“It should be set down as funda-
mental in American foreign policy
that we have no right to plan for
economic warfare unless we expect
military warfare,” he said. “Any
statement to the contrary is born
either of a dangerous optimism or,
in some cases, of ■ deliberate desire
to fool the people into entering war
by easy stages.”
IE <»PY WRITRR8!
Despite the cool weather, bright
red poppies burst into bloom when
the American Legion Auxiliary re-
ceived its supply of the World War
memorial flowers for Poppy Day, Sat-
urday, May 27. The poppies, hundred^
of carefully made replicas of the fam-
ous poppies of France and Belgium,
came from Legion, Texas, near Kerr-
ville, where they were made by dis-
abled war veterans.
The auxiliary’s poppie committee,
under the direction of Mrs. Omar
Brown, chairman, is putting in busy
hours counting and arranging the
flowers in readiness for the women
who will offer them on the streets on
Poppy Day, to be worn in honor of
the World War dead. Preparations
are being made to cover the business
section of the city with the flow-
ers, with the hope that everyone will
join in the observance of the duty
and pay tribute to those v()io gave
their lives in defense of democracy.
“Each poppy has been shaped with
painstaking care by some disabled
veteran,” said Mrs. Brown, “Each
one is slightly different from the
others because they are made en-
tirely by hand. Some are nearer per-
fect than others, due to the varying
skill of the veterans, but all repre-
sent the best efforts of their makers
to reproduce in crepe paper the wild
Flanders poppy which grew and
bloomed along the battle front in
France and Belgium.
“The idea of the poppy as the
memorial flower for the war dead
"sprang naturally to the minds of the
men in France when they saw brave
little bowers blooming on the bare
battle graves, Colonel John McCrea
expressed it in his immortal poem,
and one of the first acts of The
American Legion was the adoption of
the poppy as its memorial flower. The
British Legion also adopted the poppy
and the flower as is worn in every
part of the world to commerorate
the sacrifice of those who fell in the
ranks of the democratic powers.”
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