The Lampasas Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, July 21, 1933 Page: 4 of 8
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prices.
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money in home town.
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LAMPASAS WINS TWO SOFT
BALL GAMES; LOSES ONE
The Lampasas Firemen played the
$an Saba Firemen Friday night and
defeated them by a score of 11 to 8.
This was an interesting game but
the local boys just proved too strong
for the visitors.
The Producers Produce played a
team from Gatesville and lost by the
£eore of 22 to 13. The Producers
were minus the services of one or
two of their best players and were
unable to compete on even terms
with the Gatesville group.
Another group of Lampasas play-
ers went to Lometa for a game Fri-
*SIGN FROM HEAVEN”
CONVINCES NEGRO HE
SHOULD PLOW COTTON
ANDERSON, S. C., July 13.—It
took a "sign from heaven” to con-
vince a negro preacher he should
plow up his cotton in accordance with
the government acreage reduction
campaign.
R. W. Hamilton, Clemson College
extension worker, said the parson,
who operates a small farm in addi-
tion to preaching, declined to destroy
his cotton because “it would be a sin
to plow it up arter it had started
growing.”
“A few days later,” Hamilton said,
KANSAS CASHIER
SHOOTS DOWN CON-
VICT BANK ROBBERS
day night and ran up such a score. “the parson sent word he was ready
♦hat they couldn’t keep count. We to sign up. The committee went out
understand that when the Lampasas j and soon discovered why the sudden
hoys scored! 29 runs they started bat- change of mind.
ting left handed. The final score
was somewhere in the neighborhood
u# 30 to 10.
WARRANTS ARE CALLED
BY STATE TREASURER
AUSTIN, Texas, July 16.—Charley
JUpckhart, state treasurer, Saturday
failed general revenue warrants up
♦o and including No. 147010, repre-
senting $882,806 and constituting. 70
per cent of the April warrants. The
warrants approximately are three
months behind.
Confederate pension warrants are
being paid up to and including the
June, 1329, issues regardless of wheth-
er they have been discounted.
The treasurer is purchasing pen-
sion warrants up to and including
♦hose of April, 1932, provided they
have not been discounted.
“Lightning had struck in the mid-
dle of the parson’s prized cotton
patch, killing a large area of his
best stand.”
TEXAS OFFICE FOR
LOANS IS OPENED
ELLIOTT ROOSEVELT
DIVORCED IN NEVADA
MINDEN, Nev., July 17.—Elliott
and Elizabeth, Donner Roosevelt were
.divorced in the District Court here
Jlonday. j
Doors were barred to all except
the president’s son, court officials and
attorneys during the brief hearing,
which ended with awarding of the
decree to Mrs. Roosevelt on her cross-
fOmplaint charging extreme cruelty.
Mrs. Roosevelt, daughter of a mil-
lionaire steel executive, was not in
fourt for the trial. Her testimony |
was read into the record from a de-
position that arrived here by air mail
from Philadelphia Monday morning.
DiALLAS, July 13.—James Shaw,
former state banking commissioner,
today formally opened the Texas
headquarters of the Home Owners’
Loan Corporation, a new federal
agency for relief of the home owner.
Faced with about 10,000 applica-
tions for employment in the office,
Shaw said that the impression that
the Dallas office would employ “some
200 or 300 persons is erroneous.”
“Since the bulk of the clerical and
collection work is to be handled at
Washington,” he said, “the office per-
sonnel here will be relatively small.”
Shaw explained that jobs of ap-
praiser and attorney would be avail-
able in each county, payment to be
made on a fee basis, and added that
cooperation “on the part of the job-
seeking public” would facilitate the
earliest possible opening of the bank
to relieve home owners.
Shaw announced that! Brady Steele,
Houston real estate man, would be
manager of the Houston branch of
the Texas office. That office, along
with those at San Antonio and Ama-
rillo, for whom managers will be
named later, should be in operation
within t a week. He announced that
F. C. Branson of Burleson would be
assistant manager of the bank.
Shaw said that tomorrow he would
explain in detail the workings of the
new corporation and methods of pro-
cedure.
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PARSONS, Kan., July 14.—Cooly
and with deadly marksmanship, Cash-
ier Isaac McCarty, 35, shot down two
bank robbers in the Labette County
State Bank at Altamont Friday and
saved his wife from being kidnaped
or slain.
As one of the holdup 4nen, Ken-
neth Conn, escaped convict, crouched
behind a counter using Mrs. McCar-
ty as a shield, the 35-year-old cashier
leveled a rifle from a concealed posi-
tion above the bank vault and shot
Conn under the heart, killing him in-
stantly.
A moment before McCarty had
fired a charge from a shotgun which
brought down Conn’s companion, Al-
vin Payton, with wounds in the head
which may prove fatal.
Both of the men were among the
eleven who escaped from the Kansas
penitentiary Memorial Day by kid-
naping the warden, Kirk Prather.
The robbers had planned to kidnap
Mrs. McCarty in making their escape,
and Conn threatened to kill her un-
less the firing ceased after Payton
was shot. She was uninjured.
“My husband always said he would
shoot to kill if he got a chance at a
bandit in our bank,” said Mrs. Mc-
Carty, attractive 27-year-oki brunett.
“But I didn’t believe he would do it.
Now I know he would and I am proud
of him.”
Suspected Robbers’ Intentions.
The suspicions of the cashier and
his wife, also an employe of the bank,
were aroused when they arrived to
open the institution Friday morning
and saw two men driving down the
street.
“There’s just a 100 to 1 chance that
those fellows are bandits,” McCarty
said. “I’ll go back and get ready
for them.”
'McCarty went, to the rear where he
had prepared a curtained hiding place
containing the shotgun and rifle.
Mrs. McCarty remained in front of
the bank and the men approached
saying they wanted to make a de-
posit. 0 She fumbled With the door
before opening it to admit the men,
in order to give her husband time
to reach his post.
“When I walked around behind the
cage I expected the men to order me
to hold up my hands,” she related,
“so I was not surprised when, one of
them did. He shouted, ‘hands up,’ but
I answered, ‘I’ve already got them
up.’ I saw the gun he pulled and
raised my hands before he gave the
command.
“I was not frightened but I did be-
come excited later when my husband
shot so cldse to me.”
Intended to Take Woman.
Payton went to a rear room of the
bank and forced A. F. McCarty, fa-
ther of the cashier; W. H. Drum-
heller, president of the bank, and E.
A. Sachs, a mail carrier to go to the
cage in the front of the bank and
lie on the floor. The robbers scoop-
ed up the money and Conn remarked:
“I guess we will take the girl along
with us.”
Mrs. McCarty agreed to accompany
them.
Just then McCarty fired from his
concealed position and a shotgun
charge struck Payton in the face.
Outside the bank, Robert Schooley,
telephone manager, saw- a robbery
was in progress and shot the tires
from the robbers’ car.
Conn seized Mrs. McCarty and
shoved her behind a counter with
him, apparently believing that the
shot that struck Payton was fired
from outside.
“He made Mr. McCarty’s father
get up off the floor,” Mrs. McCarty
said, “and shouted at him, ‘Tell them
to stop that shooting or I’ll kill this
girl and maybe some more of them
in here.’
“Conn said, ‘I want you to stay
right beside me. When I go, you go
too,’ I told him I would.
Is Given Reward.
"Then we crouched down behind
the counter and my husband shot at
him. I was afraid he would hit me
so I shouted to Ike, ‘Don’t shoot, I’m
here.’
“But right after I warned him, my
husband shot again, and that time the
bandit slumped over.”
McCarty was working in a bank
at Valeda in this county when it was
held up sixteen years ago, but has
had no other experience with rob-
bers. Town folks expressed great
sui-prise that he had such a deadly
aim and. was so cool under the cir-
cumstances.
The Kansas State Bankers’ Asso-
ciation mailed a $500 check to Mc-
Carty as a reward.
Four of the eleven convicts in the
Memorial Day prison break previous-
ly had been captured, leaving five at
large.
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* Ever Stop To Think? *
* * * *> _ * * * *
(By Edson R. Waite, Shawnee, Okla.)
Many cities have arrived at the
forking of the great, highway leading
into the future. They will choose one i
fork or the other. They must lead!
or be led.
One fork of the road may be little I
used, and this is the one chosen by;
the city leaders—the successful men. j
The other fork of the road in many ;
cases will be chosen by those who j
should be led and v„ho ignore leaders.!
So now in each city the citizens
have reached a point where they
must either lead or be led. One way
will lead them to building a bigger
brighter, busier and more prosper-
ous city. The other way will lead
them to “no one knows where.”
Today is a day of high competi- ,
tion. Cities compete wit h each oth-! { 3$
er the same as business. Each city j j
must fight for business if it intends j
to keep marching ahead. J j
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Our store buys the best groceries the market affords
and we mark them to our customers at the lowest pos-
sible price consistent with the quality of the goods.
In fact, the whole foundation of our business is quality
and right prices. We have the same price each day in
the week and they are always the same for everyone.
The fact that we are satisfied with a low margin of
profit accounts for our consistently low prices.
WE CARRY A COMPLETE LINE
You can always depend on us to carry a full line of
produce, staple groceries, dressed poultry,., fresh fruits
and vegetables. We also pay top prices for your pro-
duce.
When you want the very best goods at the lowest
possible prices, come to- our store.
illioan Produce Go.
HI
E. B. Millican, Owner
Both Phones
WAR DECLARED ON
GANGS AND RACKETEERSiy
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WASHINGTON, J u1 y 13.-To j
strengthen the power of the federal1 ----------------------- -----------------------------
government in irs attempt to ....
terminate racketeers and kidnapers, j ajmff HUTTON IS
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the administration is drawing up a i
comprehensive legislative program!
for enactment by the next session j
of congress.
In making ti
SUED FOR DIVORCE
j FERGUSON TELLS OF PLEDG-
ES TO ADMINISTRATION
AUSTIN, July 18.—Texas stands
cated that relatives- and friends of
kidnaped persons make available im-
mediately to federal authorities all
the information at their disposal.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., July 17.
• : Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton, ready to give its fullest support to
_ , . ,‘rn.vl1 i0( e'y’ • l" evangelist, was sued for divorce Mon- President Roosevelt’s “new deal” pro-
toiney genera^ ^mnnngo a so^ a< \ day by David Hutton, her third mate, gram, James E. Ferguson, former
who listed as a cardinal complaint governor, said Monday upon his re-
tire baby hoax which he alleged she ; turn from Washington, where he rep-
perpetrated in Paris a few weeks ago. : resentcjl Governor Miriam A. Fergu-
_ ,, . ... The first venture of the portly bari- ! son in a series of conferences,
escri mg m again £one g:nger ynto married life, began! “I told President Roosevelt that an
racre eerh am ......-pe-s auci oc ; September 13, 1931, in an airplane j army could have only one general,”
criminals as ' almost like a limitary j ej0pement with the CTange)ist to ' said Mr. Ferguson. “I promised him
engagement between the forces of;.r . . . , , . . L, , _ .,
- , , ... , , , i Yuma, Anz., was transformed mto ] that Texas would give him anything
law and order and the underworld ... .' ., t „ , , , , „ , , , ,
ridicule, he said* by a cablegram from
Europe announcing the birth of a
son to Sister Aimee;
The cry of impossible, which Hut-
ton set up then, was followed sev-
eral days later by an explanation that
he asked. All he has to do is to ad-
vise that he wants something. We
will not ask his reasons for wanting
it. We will give it to him without
question.”
Mr. Ferguson said that he is con-
establishment of a federal police
force. The barring of machine gun
shipments across state lines also has
been proposed, but no decision reach-
ed.
armed with deadly weapons of of-
fense,” the attorney general said the
government’s efforts would “continue
until they succeeded, no matter how
long it tabes.”
One °f the niciny things under con Mrs. McPherson Hutton had struck j vinced the national government will
slderat10"’ Cummn.es-Mri, was the upon ^ sensational message as ajbe „ju8t M-good to Texai as Texas
means of running down the source js to the federal authorities.”
by which her cablegrams to Angelus j “We intend to be just as good, and
Temple were becoming public prop- ' probably a little better, to the na~
erty. j tibnal government as it is to us,”
The suit was filed in Superior Court: Mr. Ferguson said,
as the evangelist was speeding home- j Mr. Ferguson said he found that
ward across the Atlantic from a trip there had been considerable effort on
to Europe which started last Jan- j the part of certain Texans, who had
' J uary. j been visiting Washington, to “dis-
WASHINGTON, July 13.—A dec- jje for a divorce on the gen- j possess the governor.”
laration that Texas would join the eraj charge of mental cruelty. j “There isn’t any truth to all this
list of states voting to expel prohi- Before she left for Europe, he said,' talk that has been going around about
bition from the constitution was made defendant told various persons the Ferguson administration being m
to President Roosevelt today by For- she wjshed to sever her marital re- j disfavor in Washington,” Mr. Fergu-
mer Governor “Jim ’ Ferguson. jNations with the plaintiff and to elim- SOn said. “True they have been work-
Almost simultaneously Gov. Dave | }nate him from the business of the ing overtime with their extended pre-'
Sholz of Florida was arranging for temple,” where he presumably had
been general manager after she sail-
ed to the Continent.
TEXAS WILL JOIN
WETS “JIM’
SAYS
Mrs. F. E. Rogers and two chil-
dren of Bertram were guests here
Sunday in the home of Mrs. Rogers’
mother, Mrs. J. W. Campbell. Miss
Merddith Campbell accompanied
them home for a visit.
a special election to be held in his
state on i*epeal on October 10.
This brought to 35 states—one less
than the total necessary to complete
ratification of a constitutional amend-
ment—the number in which ballots
already have been assured for this
year.
“The president is hopeful we’ll put
repeal over and we told him we will,”
the husband of Governor “Ma” Fer-
guson said after meeting the chief
executive.
Sixteen states already have voted
to ratify the repeal amendment in
addition to Florida, at least one of
five other states—Colorado, Montana,
Oklahoma, Utah and Virginia—was
considered by anti-prohibitionists cer-
tain to fix a date to vote on the ques-
tion this year. Postmaster Genera!
Farley has predicted that the neces-
sary three fourths of the states would
ratify repeal before the end of the
year.
Ferguson said Texas—which four
times has elected to the senate Mor-
ris Sheppard, co-author of the 18t’n
amendment—-would vote on August
26. He and his repeal manager,
Charley MacDonald, said they were
confident of the outcome but expect-
ed a stiff fight from prohibitionists
led by Sheppard.
varications, but they have not suc-
ceeded in getting Washington to ig-
nore the constituted authority of this
state.”
Mr. Ferguson said that the national
Mesdames Frank Litten and W. R. authorities had refused to listen to
Chapline and A. J. Buck, of Austin,! talk that the Texas rehabilitation and
were guests here Friday night in j relief commission was incapable of'
the home of Mrs. B. C. Greenwood.! functioning fairly.
They returned Saturday morning to
their homes..
BLANKET ORDER ON
WAGES IS SEEN
“Washington knows that the Texas
relief commission was set up by an
act of the legislature,” he said. “Those
fellows in Washington are as smart
MAN SLAIN IN BANK ag we are_ They refuse to rebel
ROBBERY ATTEMPT j aggjnst the constituted authority. The
! governor appointed a minority to the
LOS ANGELES, July 14. In a re- | C0mmissi0n membership. She had the
volver fight staged along the length designation of two members. The
of a city block a suspected bank rob-; lieuteriant governor and the speaker
her was. shot and killed today and his | of the house each appointed two mem-
companion seriously Avounded as three ^
police detectives, tipped off to a pos-! * ___
sible holdtip at a branch bank, sur-:
prised two men who tried to commit; Jack Townsen of Temple spent Sun-
a robbery. j day visiting here in the home of his
The wounded man said his name mother, Mrs. J. W. Townsen. He was
was Morris Gray, 27, of Anderson, accompanied home by his wife, who
Ind. The dead man had been identi- has been visiting here for several
fied only as Kelly.” days.
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WASHINGTON, July 14.—Presi-
dent Roosevelt will take up with Hugh
S. Johnson, the industrial adminis-
trator, on Sunday the need for a
blanket order fixing minimum wages
and maximum hours pending estab-
lishment of industrial codes.
Roosevelt expects then to receive
from Johnson a report on the neces-
sity for broad federal action and
the means for accomplishing it.
He is uncertain, however, whether
this action can be made compulsory,
although realizing that a mandatory
order would be more effective.
Secretary Roper, after today’s cab-
inet meeting, said he was working on
a plan of federal action to cope with
those industries which are lagging in
bringing their codes into operation.
Mr. and Mrs. Woodson B. Matthews
and little daughter of Austin are
spending their vacation here with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ferd J. Matt-
hews.
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