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NEGRO TAKEN FROM | COUNTY PRISONERS BILL PROVIDES 40 MORE
OFFICERS AND BURNED; HIRE JOBLESS MEN TO | DRY AGENTS FOR DISTRICT
- DIG DITCH FOR THEM -•
ir
MARYVILLE, Mo., Jan. 12.—Chain- | -
ed to the roof of the Garrett rural j VAN BUREN, Ark., Jan. 13.—Two
school in which he was alleged to j prisoners in the county jail here, both
have assaulted and murdered Miss | trusties, apparently believe in doing
Velma Colter, 19-year-old teacher, j their bit toward alleviating unemploy-
Raymond Gunn, negro, was burned to i r.ienfc, but the city doesn't exactly ap-
death by a mob which made a funeral j prove their plan.
pyre of the building today. j The two were put to work digging
Gunn was marched into the school a ditch yesterday by officers, who deft
house and to the spot where the ! them. Two hours later the officers re-
bruised body of the young teacher was ; turned and found seven more men
discovered. Those of the throng about | at work.
him who were closest said the negro j The extra seven said the prisoners
confessed his guilt. j had told them they represented the
He was then taken to the roof of 1 city, and offered work at 30 cents an iana, Texas and Mississippi, 40.
WASHINGTON, 'Jan. 13.—This is
how Prohibition Director Woodcock
proposes to distribute the 500 addi-
tional prohibition agents provided by
the justice department appropriation
bill for the next fiscal year:
New England states, 20.
New York, 90.
• Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Dela-
ware, 70.
Maryland, District of Columbia, the
two Virginias and the two Carolinas,
40.
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louis-
§10.00 PER DAY PAY
IS STILL IN DOUBT
s-'K-y/••• Wxt
the building. He was placed across
the ridgepole. Holes were chopped in
the roof and gasoline poured over the
floors and on the walls. A member of
the mob applied a match.
Gunn was calm throughout. Those
close to him said he was not injured
during the Inarch to the school, al-
though his clothing was stripped to
the waist.
At least 2,000 persons stood around
the small school building.
jFace down across thiei ridgepole,
Gunn pushed himself upand waved at
the crowd, which contained hundreds
of women. Then he sank against the
roof.
One long, piercing shriek arose
above the crackling of the flames as
they played about his head.
The crowd, orderly throughout, stood
about the four corners where the
school was located until the white,
one-room frame building was reduced
to ashes.
The prisoner was taken by the mob
despite the fact that a detachment
of Missouri national guardsmen had
been placed on duty to. preserve order
and the sheriff’s force had been aug-
mented.
The negro, an ex-conviet who had
served a prison term for an assault
on another girl a few years ago, was
seized from sheriff’s officers at the
entrance to. the courthouse this morn-
ing as he was being brought from the
county jail for arraignment on a
charge of slaying Miss Colter.
No attempt was made to stop the
lynching and the mob met little re-
sistance in taking the negro from of-
ficers.
A detachment of Battery C, 128th
Field Artillery, local Missouri nation-
al guard unit, had been ordered mobi-
lized early today to cope with pos-
sible mob action. The guardsmen were
reported to have been gathered at
their armory at the time Gunn was
seized by the mob. It was understood
they were waiting for an official re-
quest from .Sheriff Harve England
for assistance. Early reports errone-
ously stated that the guardsmen were
on duty about the courthouse when
Gunn was taken.
Sheriff Harve England .was confin-
ed to his bed by a sprained arm and
back, suffered when a member of the
mob wrested his handcuffs from him.
He said he “was very sorry it all hap-
pened,” but withheld furthr comment.
Virgil Rathbun, prosecuting attor-
ney said:
“For the sake of law, order and
good citizenship, it was a most re-
grettable incident.”
No one was inijured in the clash
between the crowd and the officers so
far as could be learned immediately.
A rope was placed about the ne-
gro’s body as the group of 50 men
on foot began the march toward Miss
Colter’s rural school.
Behind the group on foot followed
several hundred persons in automo-
biles.
No firearms were in evidence. Spec-
tators near the negro when he was
seized! said no. resistance was offered
by his guards.
When the mob approached within
a quarter of a mile of the schoolhouse
Gunn’s clothing had been stripped
from the upper part of his body. He
was being dragged by handcuffs.
The furniture had been removed
from the school bulding and heaped
about the grounds.
The negro residents of Maryville
began leaving late last night. The
exodus continued early today.
The road leading to the1 pyre which
once was Miss Colter’s school room
was thronged with automobiles and
pedestrians throughout the morning.
Those close to the negro as he was
dragged along his three-mile death
march said Gunn told them another
negro, “Shike Smith,” was present
when Miss Colter was assaulted and
killed.
Smith was a hunting and trapping
companion of Gunn.
As spectators returned from the
scene of violence they said members
of the mob made no attempt to con-
ceal their identity.
hour. They told others, the extra crew Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennes-
said, to report for work the next see, 40.
morning. j Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana, 80.
The seven were paid for the hour i Minnesota, the Dakotas, Iowa and
they worked, and the two prisoners Nebraska, 40.
warned that henceforth the city would
do its own hiring.'
SOUTH TEXAS IN NEED
OF COLLEGE
KINGSVILLE, Tex., Jan. 11.—De-
claring Texas to be an empire com-
posed of North Texas, with climate
and natural resources similar to Okla:
homa; East Texas, similar in natural
resources to Louisiana; West Texas,
akin in climatic and soil conditions
to Kansas and New Mexico on which
it borders; and South Texas which
might in the same measure be likened
unto, Florida or California, Porter
Whaley, manager of the San Antonio
Chamber of Commerce, at a ban-
quet of the Kingsville Chamber last
night urged the people of South Texas
to think and act in the interest of
this section in all matters pertain-
ing to public welfare.
“I would not seek to divide the great
State of Texas, and I believe that
the best assurance against the politi-
cal division of the State, as has been
suggested, would be for each ^nd every
portion of it to receive fair and just
Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri and
Oklahoma, 25.
Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New
Mexico, 15.
Washington, G'regon, Idaho and
Montana, 20.
California, Nevada and Hawaii, 20.
This addition will bring the force
to 1900 agents on July 1, 1931. •
MUST ANSWER QUESTIONNAIRE
TO GET $2.50 WEEK RELIEF
FOR FAMILY OF FIVE
LITTLE ROCK. Ark., Jan. 13,
Here’s how a drouth stricken Ark-
ansas farmer gets food for his family.
On a Friday he goes to the school
house where the district committee
of the R-ed Cross distributes food and
supplies to the needy.
“My family is starving,” he tells
the committee. “I must have food,
have no money, no work, nothing.” If
he is known to the committee, mat-
ters are simplified, but in any case
he is asked to answer a questionnaire
The first question reveals he is
“John Smith,” 49 years old. His wife
is Mary, 35. Children? Seven. - (There
treatment at the hands of the ®Legis-j are seldom less than three children,
lature and the officials of the State,”
Whaley said.
Pointing out that the area com-
monly called South Texas contained
a population of one and one-quarter
million and is the most rapihly de-
veioping section of the State, the
speaker(urged the civic leaders of all
South Texas to work to make their
people South Texas “conscious.” South
Texas people, he said, should not go
to Austin as pleaders or mendicants,
but should demand the same facilities
for development that the State has
provided for other sections.
Particular reference was made to
the advantages that would accrue to
all South Texas through the develop-
ment of a great technological college
at the Texas College of Arts and In-
dustries in this city. Whaley pointed
out the vast undeveloped resouces pe-
culiar to this section of Texas, and
usually more, the questionnaires
show.4 The next questions have to do
with the health of the family and
whether he owns his farm or is a
renter or “share cropper.”
“How many acres did you culti-
vate in 1930?”
“Forty-two. Forty in cotton and
two in corn.”
“What was the yield?”
“No corn, three bales of cotton.”
The cotton went to pay part of a
debt.
After a check on his resources to
find out if he owns any real or per-
sonal property, which he usually‘does
not, it is revealed he owns no horses,
mules, hogs or cows but perhaps has
five chickens.
“Have you any food?”
44A little. We could make out today
and tomorrow maybe,” he says. He
owes the grocer $5 for this, but the
stated that at no other college in the grocer cannot sell him any more on
state could trained leadership for their credit.
development be prepared. The San An- j He gives three references in the
tonio Chamber of Commerce had pas- neighborhood.
sed a strong resolution calling upon , The destitute man then is issued a
4-USTTN, Tex., Jan. 13,—No opin-
ion or intimation has been given by
■Attorney General James V. Allred as I
to the application of the new constitu-
tional amendment raising the pay of ;
legislators to §10 per day with a 120- ;
•dtfy session.
First Assistant Attorney General
Bruce W. Bryant said he had been
consulted by Senator Beck, author of
the §10 a day measure, and helped
draw the bill as desired by the Sena-
tor, but said he explicitly said the de-
partment was not passing on the ques-
tion of pay. The preceding Attorney
General held that the increased pay
does not apply.
Judge Bryant said he formally dis-
cussed the legal phases with Mr. Beck
and told him he was not clear as to
whether the increased pay was now
effective, whether it could be included
in the appropriation bill to pay mem-
bers without an act repealing the $5
a day statute and whether the mem-
bers would not continue to receive §5
a day until some kind of an act was
passed repealing the old- law and de-
creeing that §10 shall be the com-
pensation.
It has been suggested that the Con-
stitution will not permit an apprapria-
tion bill to carry other legislation,
such as repealing a law and fixing a
new salary basis, as was1 done in the
Beck bill which passed the Senate
Tuesday. This question may be sent
to the Attorney General with the
others as to when and how the new
amendment becomes effective.
Cali mUs
Before Buying os
Chicken market the same-
like it may hold up.
-better and looks
Eggs holding the same—market weak.
Cull your flocks and take care of the producers.
All feeds are cheaper—even laying mash.
Give us a chance to buy your offerings and to
sell you feed.
We sell the best worm tablets on the market—•
ask.about it.
Millican Produce Co.
E. B. MILLI€AN, Owner
S. W. Telephone 13 Rural Telephone 134
HOUSE SENDS DROUTH
RELIEF TO CONFERENCE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—T h e
SIX SUSPECTS BEING
HELD IN BANK ROBBERY
HOUSTON, Tex., Jan. 12.—Six sus-
pects, five men and a woman, were
held late Monday in connection with
tod 1awrapriHUon1bil/fe^the ‘leg" the blU'gIal'y °f the FirSt State Bank
islative bog in which it has floun-
dered for days and sent it on to con-
ference still burdened with dissension.
Almost simultaneously, President
Hoover issued a proclamation calling
upon the public for §10,000,000 to be
expended by the Red Cross in buying
food and clothing for the sufferers of
the drouth area.
Sharp spoken conflict surrounded
the action of the House. This pivoted
on the Senate amendment increasing
the bill’s total from §45,000,000 to §60,-
000,000 by the addition of a fund with
which farmers* would be authorized
at Montgomery. Cashier C. L. Wilcox
of the bank, who arrived during the
afternoon, said he had identified
“mo'ney and other items” confiscated
by the police when the six were ar-
rested in a bungalow here, as prop-
erty of the bank.
Meanwhile, Sheriff Ben Hicks of
Montgomery County, here to take the
prisoners in custody, would not say
definitely when he would take them
back. No charges had been filed, so
fax’ as could be leaimed, though the I shotgun were seized at the bungalow.
Sheriff said they would be lodged.; Five of the suspects, including the
The County Attorney, Sheriff’s office j woman, gave Houston addresses. The
time.
The tip which actually led police
there, however, came from a neigh-
boring house by telephone.
No resistance was met by the offi-
cers, one of the men voicing the gen-
eral attitude: “You needn’t bother,
pardner. I’m not going to try to get
away.”
It was the third time the bank had
fallen victim to thieves. The burglars
bi*oke in through the same section of
the wall others entered six months
ago.
The safe was cut with an acetylene
toi’ch and water then was forced in,
either to float out the cuiTency or to
keep the safe from becoming over-
heated.
An acetylene torch, a pistol and a
to buy food for themselves and their and Justiee of the Peace at Conroe, j sixth said he was from “any wherq in
the Montgomery County seat, said ] Galveston.”
they knew of no complaints. | Immediately after police from Cen-
The bank lost between §4,000 and j tral Station, supplemented by a squad
§5,000 and headquarters here imported from a West End substation, had made
the Legislating to provide more gen-
erously for A. and I., the only college
located in South Texas, Whaley said.
MENTALLY DEFICIENT
MILLIONAIRE TO HAVE
NEW §450,000 HOME
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.,. Jan. 12.
—Stanley McCormick, mentally incom-
petent member of the famous har-
vester manufacturing company, will
have a new §450,000 home and Riven
Rock, the surburban Monteciyo estate
where he lived 23 years attended by
guards and nurses, will be razed. It
was learned today the multimillion-
aire’s board of guardians had approv-
ed' the plans.
McCormick and his attendants will
be removed to the Meadow House,
formerljf the home of his resident phy-
sician on the estate, dui’ing the con-
struction. The new house will be of
Normandie architecture, mostly built
of stone, and will contain 12 rooms.
The building will cost §300,000, with
the balance of §150,000 to be spent on
furnishings.
OFFICERS INSTALLED
IN K. OF P. LODGE
Light fast color wall paper, lower
in price than ever before. Call us
when in need of paper, paper hanger
or painter. See our advertisement else-
where in this paper.—Seale Lumber
Company. (w)
Lampasas Weekly Leader 1 year $1.50
The Knights of Pythias of this city
met Monday evening in -'regular ses-
sion in the lodge rooms and installed
the following officers to serve for the
ensuing term:
R. L. Northington, Chancellor Com-
mander.
D. R. Fitch, Vice Chancellor.
C. A. Northington, Master of Work.
Fred Wolf, Keeper of Records and
Seal.
L. B. Gunter, Master of Finance.
Ed Hocker, Master of Exchequer.
B. C. Greeson, Master of Arms.
Fulton Brown, Inner Guard.
C. M. Seale, Outer Guard.
Robert R. McLean, Trustee 3 years.
There was a large attendance at
this, meeting which was held with
much enthusiasm for the work of the
new term. A delicious .turkey supper
was served to the members upon this
occasion.
food ordei\ The amount is fixed on
the basis of §2.50 a week for a fam-
ily of five (average). It is made ojit
on any merchant the applicant names.
The farmer if his circumstances
have not improved, may return the
following Friday and obtain another
food oi’der.
His is’ typical and the procedure is
the same all over Pulaski County,
where drouth relief is administered
by the Red Cross.
AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY
MET ON TUESDAY EVENING
The American Legion Auxiliary met
Tuesday evening in regular session
at the courthouse. There were only
five membei’s in attendance, Mesdames
Josph Allan, .M. M. Landrum, John
LaBounty, J. E. Wilson and E. Matt-
hews.
The president, Mrs. Allan presided
and read a letter of thanks to the aux-
iliary from Mrs. J. F. White for
flowers that the auxiliary sent to her
while in the hospital. The members
are glad that Mrs. White is at home
again and hope that she will be able
to meet with them soon.
No special matters of business were
discussed on account of the small at-
tendance at the meeting.
FIRST STRAWBERRIES
MARKETED IN VALLEY
families.
By a vote of 215 to 134, a motion
that the House conferees be instruct-
ed to accept the Senate amendment
was defeated. Another vote, 215 to
143 kept the food loan question from
being bi-ought up for general debate.
The issue of loans for human food,
as opposed to loans for the purchase
of seed, fertilizer and feed for live
stock for which the measui'.e is in-
tended to pi’ovide a revolving fund,
has been a soui-ce of dispute almost
since the session began. «
The Senate amendment is stei’nly
opposed by administration spokesmen,
fully capable of relieving all human
suffering resulting from the drouth.
The issue now rests with the con-
ferees of the two branches of Con-
gress. They are expected to reach a
compromise and report back to the
House and Senate. Then their action
must be approved by each house be-
fore the measure can be sent to the
White House.
MAN IS CHARGED AFTER
FIVE PEOPLE IS SHOT
that cuiTency and silver correspond-
ing to the amount stolen was recov-
ered from the -bungalow. Money, a
police Lieutenant said, was “ail over
the arrests, they said they believed
one of the men taken in custody was
Tommy Reis, Galveston jail breaker
whose escape cosh the life of the jail-
the place” when he and his compan-! er, shot down by a Reis confederate
ions entei’ed the house, which had j recently. That theory was abandoned
been undei* surveillance for some ! shortly afterward.
BROWNSVILLE, Tex., Jan. 13.—
Fresh strawberries, t'he first of the
1931 season, appeai'ed in considei*able
quantities in the local groceries last
week. Ordinarily a few beiTies ai’e of-
fered for sale before Christmas, but
those last week are believed to be the
first put on the market in this area
this year. Production will continue un-
til the latter part of March.
C. C. Donnell of the Fox & Mills
Hardware company, left Sunday morn-
ing for Dallas where he will spend
four days this week in attendance at
the International Farm-all Tractor
School.
LUBBOCK, Tex., yan. 11.—Alvis
Graves is in the Lubbock County jail
charged with assault with intent to
kill, in connection! with a shooting af-
fray at the home of E. D. Chadwick
Saturday nivht about midnight as a
dance broke up.
Horace L. Smith is in a Lubbock
sanitarium with little hope of recov-
ery as a result of the shooting and
Robert Averett is also in a serious
conditioix at a hospital, with a better
chance for recovery.
Other injured include: Helen Louis
Smith, 8-year-old daughter of Smith,
minor flesh wound in right thigh;
Mi’s. Charles H. Hamilton, shot in calf
of leg; O. L. Bates, bullet through left
leg.
Smith and Graves are reported to
have had an argument which resulted
in the shooting, which injured othei's
as the guests at the dance were leav-
ing for home.
Graves was ai'i’ested at Post after
he had telephoned officers he would
return to Lubbock in a day or two.
Mi*, and Mrs. W. E. Mooi’e and
Mrs. Walter Mai’tin were in Burnet
Tuesday evening whei’e they attended
a meeting of the Burnet Chapter of
the Oi’der of the Eastern Star. Mrs.
Martin is Deputy Grand Matron of
this district and this was her official
Visit to the Burnet Chapter, jthat
chapter giving a banquet in her honor
Tuesday evening.
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