The Lampasas Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, September 16, 1932 Page: 7 of 8
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DEATHS OF BOYS
LAID TO SCUFFLE
SAN MARCOS, Sept. 10.—Investi-
gation of the fatal shooting- of Ai’-
thur and Harry Morton, sons of a
wealthy rancher, was at a standstill
Friday night after a verdict by Jus-
tice of the Peace A. M. Ramsay that
the youths were mortally wounded
during a scuffle over a hair-trigger-
ed pistol.
Texas rangers, called into the case
at request of a San Marcos newspa-
per, were noncommittal as to their
findings. Whether the district attor-
ney’s office would pursue the investi-
gation further was not made public.
The boys were shot at a little stone
house near their parents' $300,000
ranch house in the hills 10 miles north
of San Marcos, where they had been
spending the summer.
Harry, 14, was found on the grofirid
about 25 yards from the stone house.
He was rushed to a hospital, but
died immediately after arrival with-
out being qble to make a statement.
The body of Arthur, 15, was in the
sleeping room of the house.
Justice Ramsay said there were no
eyewitnesses to the shooting.
“The younger boy had loaned his
brother an automatic pistol and want-
ed to take it back and give it to his
father,” Justice Ramsay said. “The
pistol had a hair-trigger which caus-
ed it to continue firing so long as
there was pressure on the trigger.
“One bullet struck the younger boy
in the right side. Another hit him in
the neck, severing the jugular vein.
The gun apparently was turned in
the scuffle and the third shot went
between the younger boy’s fingers
and struck Arthur in the head.”
GERMANS TO ASK
DELAY IN PAYING
ON AMERICAN DEBT
PRO HI CHIEFS REFUSE
TO FORM NEW PARTY
BERLIN, Sept. 11.—Germany has
decided to ask the United States to
postpone the semi-annual payment of
33,000,000 marks ($7,854„000) due
Sept. 30 for arrears on costs of the
American army of occupation and
mixed claims.
Official announcement of the deci-
sion was withheld pending further
conversations between the German
Embassy and the State Department.
It was understood Germany at
first intended to ask for a postpone-
ment of two and one-half years, but
now a shorter time may be named.
If an agreement is reached with
the United States, Germany is ex-
pected to open negotiations with
other creditor nations, such as Bel-
gium, seeking to postpone payments
for the restitution of the Belgian
mark. The government, in all its
negotiations, has carefully avoidefd
using the word moratorium.
Germany’s action gave further evi-
dence of her cleavage from the other
nations of Europe and determination
to fight her national battle more or
less single-handed.
Britain and France already have
indicated their intention of not ask-
ing a debt postponement from the
United States and other nations were
expected to follow their example.
The extent of the debt movement
was not certain, but it looked to
American ^ observers suspiciously as
though, even if there were not a
united front, that the European na-
tions, except Germany, were acting-
more or less along the same lines,
hoping to mark time until after the
presidential election in the United
States, when they will look for re-
vision.
TWENTY PER CENT CUT IN
RAILROAD WAGES ORDERED
MAN HUNTED 11 YEARS IN
$388,000 HOLDUP ARRESTED
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—1The
national prohibition board of strat-
egy Friday night declined to partici-
pate in the organization of a third
party and decided to concentrate its
efforts ni this year’s campaign on j
the election of dry members of cong- |
ress.
A proposal that organizations sup- j
porting the prohibition amendment
unite and form a third party was
placed before the group by Canon
William S. Case, of New York, but
his resolution did not receive a sec-
ond, although it was discussed at
some length.
Dr. Ernest G. Cherrington, a mem-
ber of the board, said the group had !
reaffirmed its previously announced :
position that it would not give pref- j
erence in its recommendations to any '
of the candidates for president, in- I
eluding William Upshaw, of Georgia, i
the candidate of the prohibition j
party.
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GANDHI WILL STARVE SELF
TO DEATH IF ENGLAND
ENFORCES NEW CASTE LAW
“SUNSHINE MAN”, INVALID
FOR 20 YEARS, EXPIRES
LONDON, Sept. 13.—Mahatma
Gandhi’s intention to starve himself
to death by a hunger strike which
he. plans to begin on September 20
wTas revealed Monday night by pub-
lication of correspondence between
Ghandi, Prime Minister MacDonald
and Sir Samuel Hoare, secretary for
India.
The Mahatmla's decision resulted
from his objections to the govern-
ment’s plan to provide a modified
form of separate electorates for the
untouchable caste.
It was impossible to learn from of-
ficial sources what steps the govern-
ment might take to prevent the real-
ization of his plan, but it appeared
probable that Gandhi would be re-
leased from prison when he starts
the hunger strike. Meantime the
government was understood to have
offered no compromise.
In one o fthe series of letters, the
first of which was written last
March and the last on September 9,
Gandhi recalled his assertion at the
round table conference in London
that he would resist f<with his life”
the grant of a separate electorate
to the depressed classes.
“This was not said in the heat of
the moment, nor by way of rhetoric,”
Gandhi wrote. “It was meant to be a
serious statement.”
The Mahatma has been in prison
at Poona since January 4, when he
renewed his campaign of civil dis-
obedience.
PASSAIC, N. Y., Sept. 12.—Thom-
as Shinners, 50, a patient at St.
Mary’s Hospital for over 20 years
and widely known as “The Sunshine
Man,” died today. The cause of
death was given as a complication of
internal troubles.
Shinners was taken to St. Mary’s
on the afternoon of December 11,
1911. The boom of a derrick snap-
ped from its base and fell on the
sturdy ironworker, breaking his back,
arms, legs, fingers and toes. At the
hospital they said Tom probably
would die within a few hours.
He was 29 years old at the time
and weighed 185 pounds. He had
been famed as a swimmer and skater
in the vicinity of Newburgh, N. Y.
He regained consciousness and
prayed for death. For seven years
he could not move. Then slowly he
regained the use of his fingers and
a few of his joints.
He resigned himself to living and
because time hung heavily on his
hands began to read and to corre-
sopnd with people in all parts of the
woi’ld. He had his own telephone
and a typewriter. He wrote as many
as 4000 letters a year, and his read-
ing embraced everything from Zane
Grey to the dialogue of Plato.
In 20 years, it was estimated, he
read about 3000 volumes. He began
taking an interest in politics and
in 1928 campaigned on the typewrit-,
er for A1 Smith.
He became ill a month ago.
WOMAN IGNORES
FUGITIVE’S THREATS
CHICAGO, 111, Sept. 9.—The Amer-
ican railroads set the machinery in
motion Friday to cut the basic wages
of their employes 20 per cent.
A bitter fight, against the reduc-
tion was anticipated from organized
labor and the nine railway execu-
tives who decided upon the step ex-
pected that the wage adjustment
would go the whole route from con-
ference table to United States Board
of Mediation and dually to arbitra-
tion.
Nevei'theless the railways hope to
trim their pay rolls next February 1
to a figure 10 per cent lower than
the current rates promulgated as a
voluntary 10 per cent reduction for
one year last February.
Statement Issued.
W. F. Thiehoff, general manager of
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
railroad, was chosen chairman of the
committee on railway wages and is-
sued this statement as the transpor-
tation leaders adjourned, “it was de-
cided to recommend to the individual
roads that notices be served on all
classes of railway employes of the
carriers’ intention to reduce all basic
rates of pay 20 per cent effective
February 1, 1933.”
Although this -was but a committee
recommendation, it was considered a
foregone conclusion that every rail-
road would sei've notice on its broth-
erhood and union workers in accord-
ance with the joint decision.
Demand Carried Through.
The brotherhood delegates at last
winter’s wage conference endeavored,
in agreeing to a year’s 10 per cent
cut, to insert a stipulation that no
further cuts would be resorted to at
the end of the year and that basic
rates would be restored. But the
railroad presidents, adamant, carried
through their demand for an uncon-
ditional twelve-month reduction.
A committee of nine was selected
to carry through the wage program
of the railroads, under Mr. Thiehoff’s
chairmanship.
CHICAGO, Sept. 9.—Hunted for 11
years for the $388,000 mail robbery
at the Dearborn Street railway sta-
tion, Harold Watkins was under ar-
rest today.
Long ago he was indicted with the
late “Big Tim” Murphy, Vincenzo
Cosmano, “Handsome Jack” Barry
and Peter Gusenbei’g, but Watkins
was never apprehended, and in the
intervening years the indictment was
dismissed. Yesterday, however, he
was found living on the South Side,
and Benjamin Landis, assistant Uni-
ted States district attorney, said he
would ask the grand jury to rein-
dict him.
It was on April 6, 1921, that ban-
dits staged a sensational raid on the
postal section of the Dearborn Street
depot and escaped with $59,000 cash
and Liberty Bonds worth $329,000.
The rest of the robbers indicted
were convicted and sent to prison.
“Big Tim” Murphy, erstwhile labor
leader and one of the first big rack-
eteers, since has been assassinated,
and Gusenberg was one of the seven
Moran gangsters shot down by ma-
chine gunners in the St. Valentine
Day massacre of 1929.
Postoffice inspectors arrested Wat-
kins after receiving a tip where he
could be found.
INJUNCTION RESTRAINS
NOMINEE CERTIFICATION
AUSTIN, Sept. 12.—District Judge
Charles A. Wheeler issued a tempo-
rary injunction late today restrain-
ing Mrs. Jane Y. McCallum, secre-
tary of state, from certifying three
Hidalgo \county “Good Government
Party” members as nominees for dis-
trict offices.
The injunction was granted on pe-
tition of the democratic nominees for
two district judgeships and represen-
tative in the state legislature. They
alleged that the Good Government
party existed only in Hidalgo county
and that it therefore was unauthor-
ized to make nominations for district
officers.
FERGUSON DENIED
MANDAMUS
HIGHWAY PATROLMAN POSTS
BOND ON CONTEMPT CHARGE
NEW HUMAN METER
DEVELOPED TO ‘READ’
CURRENTS IN BODY
Austin Long ame in Tuesday after-
noon from Waco to look after busi-
ness interests here and visit for a
short time with relatives.
BANDITS MAKE DARING
RAIDS IN MANCHURIA
Mi's. Minet Hallmark of Kempner
is visiting here in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. J. A. Hallmark.
An Unpleasant Subject
All of the functions of life are not
pleasant to consider. Perhaps this ia
why some mothers refuse to think that
such symptoms as restless sleep, loss of
flesh, lack of appetite or itching nose
■and fingers in their children, can be
caused by round or pin worms. Many
mothers have proven, however, that a
few doses of White’s Cream Vermi-
fuge, that sure and harmless worm
expellant, will make these symptoms
disappear. You can get White's Cream
Vermifuge for 3o cents per bottle from
Wilson Drug Co., Lampasas, Texas
E. L. Trussell, Kempner, Texas
DALLAS, Sept. 12.—Death threats
did not silence Mrs. Seborn Davis
Sunday night when Raymond Hamil-
ton, wanted in Oklahoma and Texas
on murder and robbery charges, ap-
peared at her suburban Dallas home
to ask for a night’s lodging.
Hamilton came to the Davis h^ome
about midnight and rapped on the t
door with the butt of a pistol. Mrs. {
Davis, who had known him since he
was a boy, refused his request for a
place to sleep and ordered him to
leave.
As Hamilton departed, he told Mrs.
Davis if she notified police he was in
Dallas, she would not live long
enough to tell any one else about it.”
Disregarding the threat, she im-
mediately informed her husband, em-
ployed at a nearby cement plant, of
the incident. He called police and
an intensive search for Hamilton
was conducted, but it was unsuccess-
ful.
BURGLARS STEAL GASOLINE
FROM STATION AT BELTON
BELTON, Sept. 9.—Breaking five
locks to effect entrance to the Mag-
nolia warehouse on the Katy Hacks
in east Belton, burglars last night
sole 100 gallons of gasoline from the
warehouse, escaping apparently with-
out leaving any clues to their iden-
tity.
Officers were working on the case
today, but with little success. The
Magnolia agency in Belton is run by
Ed Bigham.
SHWANGCHENGPU, Manchuria,
Sept. 12.—At least twenty-six per-
sons were killed in four train wrecks
over the week-end, all caused by
Chinese bandits. Hundreds of per-
sons were reported kidnaped in dar-
ing bandit raids all over Northern
Manchuria, from the disabled trains
as well as from various cities.
More than 2000 others were report-
ed killed in a battle between Jap-
anese troops and Chinese bandits
near Thasing. The wrecking of the
trains and blowing up of a bridge
were laid to a retaliation against
Japanese occupation in Manchuria.
At least twelve persons were
killed, thirty were missing, fdrty-six
were injured and forty were' kidnap-
ed in the wreck and holdup Saturday
night of the Harbin-Changchun ex-
press about forty miles southwest of
Harbin.
Two persons were killed, seven in-
jured and about 100 kidnaped when
fifty bandits attacked and robbed 150
passengers on the Harbin-Lmienpo
train early Sunday near Harbin.
Six passengers 'were killed, four-
teen, injured and 100 kidnaped in a
wreck of another train bound for
Harbin in the neighborhood of
Chengkaotze.
Six were killed, several wounded
and several others were missing after
bandits derailed a Japanese hospital
train near here.
Meanwhile other bandit bands blew
up a bridge on the Changehun-Kirin
line, crippling that service, and raid-
ed a train between Mukden and
Dairen.
Scores of kidnapings were report-
ed in larger cities. The most not-
able was that of the 2-year-old son
of the Russian manager of the Gen-
eral Motors automobile agency in
Harbin. The bandits threw pepper
in the eyes of the child’s nurse and
carried off the baby.
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ARMSTRONG’S PARTY
WILL CHANGE NAME
ITHACA, N. Y., Sept. 12.—A new
| human electrical meter, which reads
the fugitive currents induced in the
skin by emotion and disease, was de-
scribed to the American Psychologi-
cal association Sunday.
The new feature is ability to read
simultaneously the currents in sev-
eral different parts of the body, in-
stead of only one at a time. The
meter shows these currents are not
the same. If the body is thought of
as a house, this meter shows the
“light” on, in one room sometimes
and very dim in another.
The device was reported by Ches-
ter W. Darrow, of the Institute for
Juvenile Research, Chicago. He said
it was offered as a new method of
clinical investigation, that is, of
diagnosing human ills.
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If genius is a disease, but few
people have any cause for alarm.
CORSICANA, jSept. 12. —Roste
Dickey, state highway patrolman,
posted $1,000 bond today to appear
before District Judge H. F. Kirby of
Groesbeck in district court here Sept.
16 to answer a charge of contempt of
court.
Dickey was cited for allegedly dis-
regarding an injunction granted by
Judge Kirby restraining officers
from interfering with Navarro coun-
ty truck operators hauling loads
greater than 7,000 pounds over the
state highways. The injunction was
to hold until constitutionality of the
load limit law could be determined.
OKLAMOMA REFUSES
TO BUY CO-EDS COPY
OF MURRAY BIOGRAPHY
OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 11.—
Students at the Oklahoma college for
women, at Chickasha, will not read
the biography of Gov. William Henry
Murray at the expense of the state.
State Auditor Frank Carter Satur-
day rejected a $1.50 claim presented
by President M. A. Nash of the col-
lege for a copy of “Alfalfa Bill,” by
Gordon Hines. An attached receipt
was signed by C. J. Hagerling on
stationery of the Murray-for-presi-
dent headquarters.
“I don’t think the state should be
expected to pay for presidential cam-
paign literature,” said Carter.
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Mrs. R. E. Davis and son, R. E.,
Jr., of Goldthwaite are visiting in the
home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. B. Hensley.
AUSTIN, Sept. 10.—Mrs. Miriam.
A. Ferguson, claimant of the Demo-
cratic nomination for governor of
Texas, lost her effort in the State
Supreme Coui't today to mandamus
the party managers to certify her
name as the nominee.
The woman ex-governor, however,
obtained by her action a definition
of lawful rules that guide the can-
vassing board which vii'tually pre-
cludes any contest of the tight race
before the party executive commit-
tee or the convention.
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LAMPASAS DEFEATS AUSTIN
IN POLO GAME SUNDAY
The Austin E?lues and Lampasas
polo club played here Sunday after-
noon in Fair Park and Lampasas
won from the visitors by a score of
ten to two. Lampasas outplayed the
visitors in every respect as the score
would indicate. The goals for the
local club were made by the fol-
lowing. Gillen, five; Belk, two;
O’Neal, one; Smith, one; Patterson,
one. They will have a return game
some time in October and at that
time they wil play in Austin.
Mrs. Lee Brown returned to Mexia
Sunday, after spending several weeks
here in the home of Mrs. Mankin.
Miss Maud Brown and Claude Brown
and Jeanette Simpson of Mexia spent
the week-end here and returned with
Mrs. Brown.
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DR. W. C. ROUNTREE, Pellagra
Specialist, 3122 Travis Avenne,
Port Worth, Texas.
Sufferers from Pellagra should com-
municate with me for a remedy
which has proven successful for more
than fifteen years.
FORT WORTH, Sept. 13.—The
Gfood Government party, of which
George W. Armstrong of Fort
Worth is a candidate for governor in
the November general election, will
change its name either to the Inde-
pendent Democratic party or to the
Jacksonian Democratic party.
Armstrong said the Good Govern-
ment party of Hidalgo county had
protested against the use of its name
by the state oi’ganization.
“Our Dallas convention,” he said,
“preferred the name ‘Independent
Democratic,’ but the secretary of
state would not permit its use. We
have again requested use of it and if
denied the right, we shall use the
other name, ‘Jacksonian Democratic
party’.”
HOW MUCH
is a dollar ?
Dave Harum said, “When you get hold of ten dollars get it into
you or onto you as soon as you can, for there am t no pocket in a
shroud and you’re a long time dead.”
If you had nothing but money you would be poor indeed. It is
the things for which you can exchange the money you earn that set
the standards of your living comforts and conveniences.
You know this. But do you know that it is you who largely
determines the value of your dollars ?
Many- things contribute to the distance a dollar will go, but the
greatest agent in “value received’’ is Advertising.
The advertisements in this paper tell you about the best grades
of merchandise. They tell you where they can be had and for
how much.
They tell you of the new things that manufacturers are produc-
ing to make your dollars of real worth to you in greater comforts,
better living, more enjoyment.
Read the advertisements. TaLe time to save time. Take
trouble to save trouble. Read to save walking. Search the ads to
save searching the stores. And to make the dollar go farther!
—IMPORTANT—
When you ask for a product by name, as a result of
advertising-, do not accept a substitute—substitutes are
offered not as a service to you, but for other reasons.
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