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The Lampasas Leader
Published Every Friday
J. H. ABNEY & SON
Herbert J. Abney, Publisher
Entered at the postoffice at Lampasas,
Texas, as second class mail matter.
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PRESS
HEAVY LOSSES REPORTED
IN SEVERAL AREAS
AUSTIN, June 16.—Raging flood-
waters that claimed at least a dozen
lives in Texas receded today in the
upper reaches of overflowed rivers
but carried new threats downstream.
Enormous property damage was re-
corded and scores were missing with
fears expressed that as the water
receded permitting a more complete
check there would be additions to the
list of dead.
Hundreds of others were driven
from their homes and crops were
ruined on tremendous stretches of
fertile farm land as half a dozen
rivers in central and southwest Texas
rising to record levels after torren-
tial rains, roared over their banks,
inundated bottom lands and swept
into low-lying sections of several
towns.
The heaviest losses apparently were
suffered by owners of crops and live-
stock although considerable damage
was reported from towns into which
crippled by floods in many sections.
Bridges were washed out on the Colo-
rado at Marble Falls on Highway 66,
and Montopolis ci'ossing near Aus-
tin on Highway 71.
Other bridges reported out were on
the Llano river at Mason on High-
way 9, on the Nueces south of Uvalde
on Highway 4, on a creek near Del
Rio on Highway 85, and on the Llano
river at Llano, on Highway 81.
The Highway 20 bridge over the
Pedernales river near Fredericksburg
was variously described as washed
out or closed by high water.
Highway 14 in Navarro county
near Corsicana, the highway depart-
ment said, was closed shortly after
noon.
Blocked highways in south Texas
caused the highway patrol to route
Austin-to-Corpus Christi traffic by
Seguin, Stockdale and Victoria to
Beeville. The department was in-
formed all highways in San Saba
county were impassable.
A new threat appeared at Gon-
zales on the Gaudalupe river as the
stream, receding from an overflow
three weeks ago, started rising again
with prospects that the crest of the
recent flood would be quickly exceed-
ed by at least five or six feet. The
river stood at 25% feet in mid-after-
noon, rising swiftly toward the 29-
foot level of the eai’lier flood.
Upstream on the San Marcos river,
the gauge showed 29 feet with the
river rising a foot every two hours.
The Gaudalupe was going up two
feet an hour in the lake above a
dam 15 miles northwest of Gon-
zales, and a crew of more than 50
men was working at top speed with
sandbags to save the levees around
the dam.
Water had ci'ossed Highway 3,
closing Gonzales’ outlet to San An-
tonio, and the crest of around 35
feet expected some time tonight
WHARTON MAKING PREPARA-
TIONS TO COPE WITH FLOOD
flood waters rolled. ------ ------ -----
In Austin, the state capital, Mayor j probably would cut off all travel to
Tom Miller estimated the damage I the south and west. That would
would exceed $2,500,000. Waters of
the Colorado river, rising to their
greatest height since 1869, flooded
the municipal power plant, plunged
the city into darkness and resulted
in temporary rationing of the water
supply.
The crest on the Colorado, which
at Austin had attained 41.7 feet,
dropping later to 25 feet, this after-
noon apparently was between Bas-
trop and Smithville, about 50 miles
downstream.
Hundreds fled from their homes as
the river swelled to 52 feet at Bas-
trop and water from several smaller
creeks backed into low areas in the
town. A large number of small
houses were inundated, save for the
leave the town no open route except
that to Luling, and the rising San
Marcos river threatened that road.
Overflow damage in the Gonzales
area had barely begun with the 29-
foot river stage of three weeks ago.
Another six feet of water would put
the river over great stretches of farm
land there.
For the first time since 1932 flood-
waters of the Rio Grands, dividing
Mexico and the United States, were
expected to enter the floodway south
of Mission which will carry them thru
Hidalgo and Willacy counties into the
Laguna Madre, officials of the inter-
national boundary commission said.
Officials of the commission, in
charge of flood control works of
roofs, and a few were swept from Hidalgo and Cameron counties, said
their foundations. \ a considerable rise, almost if not
At the same hour the river gauge : quite equal to the torrents of 1932,
at Smithville registered 40 feet and
the stream was rising rapidly. It
was expected to climb four or five
feet more, but was not expected to
reach the town itself unless it rose
to 50 feet. All inhabitants of dan-
ger areas had been moved out.
At LaGrange, still farther south-
east, the river registered 31 feet and
was beginning to leave the banks.
Unless it reached 54 feet, no fear for
the business section was felt.
City officials, Adjutant General
Carl Nesbitt and Theo Bellmont, di-
rector of the Red Cross in Travis
county, moved swiftly to care for an
estimated 200 persons temporarily
made homeless in Austin.
About 30 persons passed a terror-
stricken night in the Colorado river
bottoms at Hornsby’s Bend, 13 miles
south of Austin. Fear had been felt
for them but all were found to have
survived. Twenty-two, including sev-
eral women and children, huddled in
a small house, praying, while the
raging waters, two miles wide on
either side, rose to the floor.
Everyone living in the area was
accounted for, including Arthur Pan-
nell who stood on a windmill and
waved a white shirt toward rescuers.
Two men who had gone out in skiffs
to effect rescues, and disappeared,
also were found on high ground.
The Austin municipal dam and the
congress avenue bridge, which au-
thorities at the height of the flood
thought might carry away, continued
to hold, although the superstructure
on the dam was destroyed. General
traffic over the bridge, connecting
south Austin with the main city,
still was restricted, however.
Telephone and telegraph communi-
cation with Marble Falls and Llano
was still impossible,.while only par-
tial telegraph service was available
to San Saba and Johnson City.
The Missouri Pacific, Southern Pa-
cific and Missouri-Kansas-Texas rail-
roads operating out of Austin announ-
ced no schedules had been cancelled
today although trains were running
late.
Highway department officials, with
men stationed at bridges on the Colo-
rado river below Austin, reported the
Highway 71 bridge at Bastrop with-
stood the pressure of a 54-foot crest.
Men with trucks and sandbags
awaited the crest at Smithville, La-
Grange and points below.
Reports reaching the highway de-
partment indicated motor travel was
FIND KIDNAPING
LONG PLANNED
TACOMA, Wash., June 18.—Dis-
covery of underground pits, indicat-
ing the George Weyerhaeuser kidnap-
ing had been planned long before it
was carried out, became known to-
day as depai’tment of justice agents
prepared to lay secret evidence be-
fore a federal grand jury tomorrow.
Government agents will seek to
obtain indictments against Mr. and
Mrs. Harmon M. Waley, in custody
on kidnap charges, and William Ma-
han, fugitive ex-convict sought in
the case.
J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the jus-
tice department’s bureau of investi-
gation, announced at Washington that
Mahan, sought as the “brains” of the
$200,000 abduction, had planned a
kidnaping a year ago and built an.
underground pit near Spirit Lake,
Idaho, with chains to fasten his in-
tended victim.
Hoover said the pit had been found
by citizens in June, 1934, and that
a second pit was discovered near
Tacoma.
AAA AMENDMENTS
PASSED BY BIG MA-
JORITY IN HOUSE
would hit the lower valley late to-
night and early tomorrow morning.
At noon today the Hidalgo gauge
stood at 16.4 with the river rising
rapidly. A stage of 21 feet would
throw water into the floodway. At
Brownsville shortly after noon the
gauge showed 19, one-half foot above
flood stage, and river was still go-
ing up. Pressure on the levees near
Brownsville will be somewhat les-
sened when the Rio Grande hits its
mark and the floodways begin to take
some of the water.
Employes of the boundary commis-
sion were patrolling the levees at all
points where danger was expected but
no breaks or threats of breaks had
been reported. On the Mexican side
of the river flood control officials an-
nounced they had abandoned all ef-
forts to keep levees intact between
Matamoros, opposite Brownsville, and
Reynosa, opposite the American town
of Hidalgo. They said they would
concentrate on efforts to keep the
water out of the city of Matamoros.
DETECTIVE’S VACATION
SPOILED AS PICKPOCKET
ATTEMPTS TO ROB HIM
MEXICO CITY, June 18.—Andrew
L. Smith, a detective from Dallas,
just can’t take a vacation.
Smith came to Mexico City as a
delegate to the annual convention of
the International Rotary clubs. He
was out to have a good time.
But Tuesday he had to go to work
again. A pickpocket, one of the few
left at large after a police round-up
just before the convention, selected
Smith as a victim out of the thou-
sands of Rotarians in the city. The
thief attempted to piqk Smith’s .pock-
et while the detective was talking to
other delegates. Smith whirled and
collared the pickpocket and held him
until Mexican officers arrived.
WHARTON, Texas, June 18.—With
the crest of the raging Colorado ex-
pected to pass here Wednesday af-
ternoon, Wharton county residents
on Tuesday prepared to defend life
and property against the ravages of
the swollen river.
Three camps of refugees were es-
tablished in Wharton Tuesday after-
noon and three rolling kitchens bor-
rowed from the National Guard at
Palacios served refugees in army
show style Tuesday night.
About 600 Negroes, gathered from
the bottomland farms, were quarter-
ed in Soxcars on the Southern Pacific
property. Other cars on the Santa
Fe property quartered about 200 Mex-
icans.
The Wharton County Fair gi'ounds
were reserved for white refugees and
about fifty-seven were quartered
there Tuesday night.
With the assistance of trucks fur-
nished by the state highway depart-
ment, refugees in most cases were
able to move their belongings and
furniture from homes that may be
attacked by the waters.
Relief work was being carried for-
ward under direction of the Red
Cross and the Wharton Chamber of
Commerce, with H. C. Coperhaver,
H. E. Wilson and Major C. C. In-
gram in charge.
Truckloads of food supplies were
moved into Wharton Tuesday after-
noon, most of it 'donated by Houston
concerns and through merchants in
cities adjacent to Wharton.
The river stage at 6sj). m. was thir-
ty-three feet and rising about three
inches per hour. The river is about
a mile and a half wide at the cross-
ing on State Highway No. 12.
Sunshine pierced rain-emptied skies
in most sections after a week’s death
march by the elements. Eighteen
were known dead as floodwaters re-
ceded and wreckage was cleared in
the week of windstorms. Lightning
had accounted for two fatalities.
The Colorado smashed improvised
levees near Columbus Tuesday and
flooded some sections of the town at
a stage of 38.5 feet. Ten square
blocks were inundated and all high-
ways into the town were closed when
water from three to seven feet- roll-
ed over fields and across roads. . Train
service over the main lines of the
Southern Pacific was maintained.
Meanwhile the Gaudalupe river had
flooded 20,000 acres of DeWitt coun-
ty farming land and was nearing its
crest in the Cureo area. Engineers
at the Central Power & Light Com-
pany dam said the Gaudalupe prob-
ably would reach a depth of thirty-
one feet.
Three highways into Cureo were
closed and water trickled over the
Cureo-San Antonio highway. Sev-
eral feet of water covered roads
leading from the town.
Rio Grande City watched the crest
of the Rio Grande pass that point
with major levees on both sides of
the river holding. Water surged into
the floodway in Hidalgo county, but
little damage was expected due to
the presence of the $2,000,000 flood
control system rebuilt by the Federal
government.
Scattered farm land below Mata-
moros, Mexico, across the river from
Brownsville, was flooded.
Laredo was practically isolated
when train service southward into
Mexico and northward into San An-
tonio, and bus service was temporari-
ly abandoned. Officials, of the Na-
tional Lines in Mexico said it would
be several days before traffic be-
tween Laredo and Monterrey and Mex-
ico City would be resumed. The La-
redo-Monterrey highway was open.
Communication lines were put back
into service at Llano for the first
time since Friday. The north section
of the town was still without water
and a temporary power line was
swung across the Llano river as the
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runs into money, and we are request-
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WASHINGTON, June 18.—Amend-
ments intended to protect the new
deal’s farm program from a supreme
court death sentence of “uneonstitu-
tionality” today swept through the
house by a 3 to 1 majority. The AAA
amendments which have kicked about
congressional corridors for months
now looked to the senate for final
approval.
Opposition there, which last year
blocked action on similar legislation
governing the handling and distribu-
tion of farm products, had lessened
and leaders planned to push the re-
vamped bill to an early vote.
So listless was the house contest
over the AAA program that a rec-
ord vote was not forced. Speaker
Byrns counted 168 members standing
in favor of passage to 52 against.
Party lines- split.
The long fight against the cotton
processing tax by New England tex-
tile interests ran into an 87 to 17
vote rebuff on Wigglesworth’s, Mass-
achusetts, motion to have cotton pro-
ducers paid benefit's directly out of
the treasury.
Although some republicans and a
few democrats, said they doubted the
constitutionality of the provision au-
horizing Wallace to “order” market-
ing agreements for handlers of a half
dozen commodities, they apparently
were anxious to retain essentials of
the farm adjustment law and willing
to leave debatable points to the
courts.
Under the “order” device which re-
placed the originally proposed licens-
ing power, the secretary may order
marketing agreements—if 50 per cent
of the handlers by volume agree, or
if two-thirds the farmers affected in
the given class wish it—for handlers
of milk, tobacco, fruits (except apples
and fruit for canning), walnuts and
pecans, vegetables (including soy
beans but excepting vegetables for
canning), and naval stores or turpen-
tine. In the case of milk only, pri-
ces to producers may be fixed, and
milk retailers also may be subject to
the “orders.”
Cards of thanks, 5c per line each
insertion with a minimum charge of
25c. Obituaries, 5c per line each in-
sertion. Lodge and church resolu-
tions, 5c per line each insertion. All
church, lodge and notices for charit-
able institutions where admission fees
are charged or any money considera-
tion is involved, 5c per line each in-
sertion.
Try The Leader’s Job Printing!
OKLAHOMAN DIES 15 MIN-
UTES AFTER MYSTERY STING
Preaching at Grundyville
Rev. A. F. Avant, pastor of the
Baptist Church, will preach Satur-
day night at the Grundyville church.
The service will start at 8:15. Ev-
eryone is invited to attend.
Mrs. Charles Stokes, Mrs. Cloyde
Sanders and Miss Helen Northington
were Austin visitors Wednesday.
WANTED: To buy hay bailer and
buckrake. Phone or write Millard
Richmond, Lometa, Texas. (w)
SULPHUR, Okla., June 18.—The
sting of an unidentified insect brought
quick death today to W. R. Meadors
of Davis, near here.
Rushing into his home, Meadors
told his wife a bee stung him on an
ear and asked her to apply medicine
to it. Mrs. Meadors started to ap-
nlv a home remedy, but Meadors
face and body turned black. She
summoned Dr. J. C. Luster, who ar-
rived just as Meadors died, 15 min-
utes after being stung.
Doctor Luster said he did not know
what kind of insect stung Meadors.
Mrs. Charlie Baker and Mrs. W.
E. Yentzen, Misses Jeanette Yent-
zen and Janie Marie Baker spent
Tuesday here with_ relatives. They
were accompanied home by Anna
Charline Baker who has been visit-
ing here for the past two weeks.
For Job Printing—The Leader!
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VOLUNTARY NRA
PLAN PUZZLING
WASHINGTON, June 18.—Sixteen
proposed voluntary codes today pro-
vided the miniature NRA with as
many perplexing problems. Officials
sought.to formulate a governing pol-
icy for such agreements.
At the same time they planned to
give quick effect to a White House
suggestion that an impartial commit-
tee be named to make a careful study
of changes in labor standards and
business ethics resulting from the an-
nulment of the old and more mighty
NRA.
“It should be emphasized,” Presi-
dent Roosevelt wrote to James L.
O’Neill, the new administrator, “that
the purpose of this work is the gath-
ering and publication of reliable in-
formation and to counteract any
propaganda from private sources
which may be designed to promote a
special interest.”
A host of unanswered questions
surrounded the voluntary code pro-
posals.
The legislation under which the
new NRA operates was designed to
permit voluntary codes, but even so
there was some official disposition
to question the authority of the gov-
ernment to sanction or give effect to
such compacts.
The first effort at NRA was a
careful analysis of the provisions of
the proposed agreements, prior to a
meeting of the advisory council,
scheduled for Thursday.
Roosevelt suggested a committee
including a representative of labor,
member designated by the commerce
department and another by the labor
department, with an impartial chair-
man.
Donald R. Richb'crg, chairman of
the old national industrial recovery
board, who withdrew from all con-
nection with NRA a few days ago,
today addressed a letter to all offi-
cials and employes of NRA express-
ing “personal appreciation of faith-
ful, effective public service.”
MAD DOG JUMPS INTO BED ||
WHERE GIRLS ARE SLEEPING
Mrs. C. H. Faires and- Earl left
Wednesday for Oxford, Miss., where
they will visit with relatives and
friends and arrange for Earl to en-
ter college there.
Dr. and Mrs. C. T. Harkey, her
mother, Mrs. Boyd, Kathryn Harkey
and C. T. Jr. left Wednesday morn-
ing for a ten-day visit in Natchez,
Miss., with Dr. and Mrs. Calvin Bing-
ham. Mrs. Bingham was formerly
Miss Gladys Harkey.
Gordon William Scott of Bend un-
derwent an appendectomy Tuesday in
the local hospital. He is doing nicely.
Mr. and Mrs. Cv W. Baker and son
and Mr. and Mrs. Bi’oadhead and
daughter of Huntington Park, Calf?.,
are guests here in the home of Mrs.
Wm. Patton.
Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Ellerd and chil-
dren, Malvern and Patsy Ann, of Dal-
las have been visiting here in the
home of Mrs. Ellerd’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Mark Alexander. They
left Wednesday morning for Merkel
where they will visit in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Moore. Mrs.
Ellerd and Mrs. Moore are sisters.
Mrs. Alexander accompanied them
and will visit her daughter for a
few days.
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Roberts ‘and three
children of Yuma, Ariz., are visit-
ing relatives here and are guests in
the home of Mr. and Mrs. D. Sewell.
Eugene Bounds has gone to Fort
Worth where he entered the Brant-
ley-Drauglion business college.
GONZALES, June 19.—A snarling
mad dog was shot dead here Wed-
nesday after it had awakened Misses
Lillie and Lilda Eckhart by jumping
mto their bed while they were asleep.
Neither of the girls was injured.
The girls fought off the dog witn
pillows until their screams brought
Eugene Obar, who fought the animal
with a broom until the two women**,
escaped.
After the girls escaped, Obar lock-
ed the dog in the room. Deputy
Sheriff Walter Ray shot the animal.;
The dog climbed the outside stairsi
leading to their second-floor apart- ■
ment and entered their quarters thru i
a hole in the screen.
CHAIN TELEGRAM
FAD BRINGS SUIT
TRENTON, N. J., June 19.—The
chain telegram fad, seized upon by j
its participants as a swifter road to
riches than the humbler letter form,
brought a $3,600,900 supreme court <j
suit to the doorstep of the Western
Union Telegraph Company today.
William F. Swirner of Merchant- ..-
ville, suing as a “common informer”
under a rarely invoked state gamb-
ling law, seeks $2,000 for each of
the 1,800 such telegrams he alleges
were sent from Camden in nine days
this month. On each of these tele-
grams, transmitting $2, the company
received 51 cents toll and money
transmission charges, he said.
The court of errors and appeals,
the state’s highest tribunal, recently
upheld the provisions of the statute
under which Swirner sued.
The law provides that the “com-
mon informer” receive half the sum
of the judgment and the county the
other half.
MrS. J. W. Townsen and daughter,
Miss Elizabeth, have returned from a
visit in Temple with relatives. Mrs.
Townsen has been there the past ten
days and Miss Elizabeth since Sun-
day.
Mrs. Kathryn Bowden of Portland,
Ore., and Mr. and Mrs. Ward Bow-
dent of Los Angeles, Calif., are vis-
iting here in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Weldon Pharr. The former is
Mrs. Pharr’s mother.
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Muse and Pete
Ballases have returned to San An-
tonio after several weeks stay in
Lampasas. Mr. Muse has been audit-
ing the county records, assisted by
Mr. Ballases.
The T. E. L. class of the Baptist
Church will have their regular busi-
ness meeting Friday afternoon at
3:30 at the annex. Please notice the
change bf day Friday, June 21. Ev-
ery member is asked to be present.—
Reporter.
FRANCE MOVES TO IN-
CREASE NAVAL POWER
PARIS, June 19.—France tonight
was discussing enlarging her navy in
answer to the Anglo-German naval
agreement which, it was freely as-
serted, wrecked the 1922 Washing-
ton treaty.
A naval race was forecast in quar-
ters close to the chamber of depu-
ties naval committee as result of the
accord allowing the reich naval ton-
nage 35 per cent of Great Britain’s.
Members of the committee, which
met secretly, said its consensus was
that the Washington treaty was dead
and France was fi’ee to build what-
ever warships she chose. The ma-
jority, it was stated, favored build-
ing up the French fleet at once.
PRISON FARM FUGITIVE
CAUGHT NEAR GONZALES
GONZALES, Texas, June 19.—
Constable J. E. Talley Wednesday j
captured Bob Rainey, who escaped
from the Ferguson prison farm at
Midway June 2, at the Leesville relief
farm eighteen miles west of here.
Rainey was sentenced to four year3
in the penitentiary from Cass coun-
ty October 8, 1934.
Virgil Brown, who was serving a
five-year term for burglary, escaped
with Rainey and is still at large.
J. R. Key was a business visitor
Thursday in Austin.
W. R. Matheny of Paige was injur-
ed late Tuesday night when the truck
which he was driving overturned'on
the Austin road on Rocky creek, xle
was taken to the local hospital for
treatment' and at last reports was
resting very well. The truck was
badly wrecked and 'was towed into
Lampasas by the Wolf-McLean
wrecker.
A. T. Mitchell returned Monday
evening from Ryownwood, May _ and
Snyder where he has been visiting
relatives for the past three weeks.
t
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Smith Jr.,
and daughter, Helen Marie, have re-
turned from San Antonio where they
visited relatives.
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per pound for clean cotton rags
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