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M.U. REVOKES CHARTER
OF A FRATERNITY CHAPTER
Dallas, Tex., Feb. 16.—Officials at
outhern Methodist University today
voiced the charter of Sigma Alpha
psilon fraternity and ordered all
apter activities suspended for one
dar because it was charged, the var-
ity’s taboo against student dances
ad been violated.
IDALGO FACTION
PICKS CANDIDATE
Austin, Tex., Feb. 14.—Representa-
ive S. E. Barnett of Greenville, who
esterday led the fight on the floor of
he house for reopening the contest
f the seat of W. R. Montgomery of
^dinburg, today was invited to become
candidate for governor in 1930.
He was advised in a letter by Gor-
on Griffin of McAllen, leader of the
‘invasion” of Hidalgo county citizens
etitioning the legislature to recon-
ider its dismissal of the contest filed
y E. M. Smith, that “500 men and
omen from Hidalgo county, with one
iccjord, by rising vote on the steps
f the capitol, declared that Texas
eeds a man of your qualifications for
overnor and said they would vote
or you.”
‘They also promised you the solid
egally qualified, uncontrolled vote of
idalgo county, amounting to at least
7,000,” he said.
RESIGNATION OF DEAN
OF WOMEN SOUGHT
San Marcos, Tex., Feb. 15.—Two
hundred students of Southwest Texas
State Teachers College demanded the
resignation of Miss Mary C. Brogden,
dean of women, in a mass meeting
here last night.
Nineteen charges were preferred
against the dean, who has been at
the school for a number of years.
These, accompanied by a petition, will
be presented to Dr. C. E. Evans, pres-
ident of the college.
Among the complaints are that
Miss Brogden will not permit girls
to walk through town on Sunday
afternoons, too rigid regulations with
regard to date slips for first year
girls, refusal to allow girls to talk
with boys except during date hours,
holding girls responsible for conduct
of their visitors, prohibiting girls
from meeting their brothers, prohibit-
ing clubs from meeting afer 6 p. m.
Co-eds Will Lose Fight.
The students who demanded the
resignation of Miss Brogden lost their
j fight—though they did win a partial
victory, in that the statement of the
president this afternoon gave them
the hope of “reasonable modification”
of rules the students believed were
too strict.
The statement of the president, Dr.
Evans, issued after a long conference
with a faculty committee, said the
trouble grew out of a “misunder-
standing.” He said he and the com-
Texas needs a fighting governor,
ne uncontrolled and with the couiage j w|jL<& would confer with students and
f his convictions to enforce the law
.vithout fear or favor.
“Yesterday, in the house of repre-
entatives, you made a courageous
iglrt for the constitutional rights of
citizen of Texas against a power-
ully organized political machine, rep-
resented by one of the most astute
awyers in th's state.
“The people of Hidalgo county will
ote for no man bearing the impress
of corruption and machine domination,
hence, our desire to vote for you.’ ’
student representatives on modifica-
tion of the rules.
Is a Third Party Needed?
Decision of the Anti-Smith demo-
crats to retain their separate iden-
tity, and to put their own ticket in
the field for governor and other state
offices, seems to overlook three fac-
tors:
1. That many believers in prohibi-
ition remained loyal to the demo-
cratic party despite their repudiation
of the personally expressed views of
the party candidate.
2. In a three-cornered fight there
is a real danger that the dry vote may
be divided, and that victory may go
to a candidate not friendly to the
rohibition ideal.
3. Important as it seems to many
people, prohibition is not the only
issue, nor can it be held to be the par-
amount issue in a state that has gone
"ry by its own vote, and in which both
major parties are pledged to prohi-
bition enforcement. The need for a
third prohibition party in the field
nder such circumstances, may well be
questioned.
Probably 50,000 Virginia democrats
voted for the electors of the republi-
can party last November, including
many men and women not ordinarily
active in politics, who were genuinely
disturbed .at the suggestion that
changes were needed in the prohibition
status in those areas that did not go
dry by their own vote. Ambitious as
they may be to form a party of their
own, those who met at Lynchburg
will find that the great body of these
people will not follow their leadership
if the democratic party brings out a
really able and forward-looking cham-
pion, who will conserve the gains al-
ready made, both in prohibition and
in governmental reform, and press
forward to even better things in the
future. Should the democrats nomi-
nate a weakling and a reactionary,
the trend will not be to the anti-Smith
movement, but toward the republican
party.—Roanoke World-News.
RADIO LIBEL BILL
KILLED BY SOLONS
Austin, Tex., Feb. 14.—An attempt
to amend existing criminal statutes
regarding libel so as to include radio
addresses, failed last night in the
house committee on criminal juris-
prudence when the Duvall bill fell
under the ax.
Under its terms, slander or libel
over the air would have been punish-
able by a fine ranging from $200 to
$2,000 or confinement in jail for not
less than three months nor more than
a year, or both.
The committee held that the bill
would interfere with constitutional
rights of free speech now extended
platform speakers.
B. F. t Seals of Kempner was in
town Saturday. He reports a fine
season in the ground and all branches
and gullies are now running.
Miss Hattie Howard, who is teach-
ing school in Paint Rock, came in
Friday night to spend the week-end
with homefolks.
Notice of Election.
By virtue of the power vested in
me as Mayor of the City of Lampas-
as, notice is hereby given that there
will- be held in the City of Lampasas
in the Court House of Lampasas a
general election for the purpose of
electing city officers for said city,
said election to be held on the first
Tuesday in April, 1929, it being the
2nd, day of April, 1929, and at said
election the following officers are to
be elected, namely: Mayor of Lam-
pasas, City Attorney for Lampasas,
City Secretary and. Assessor and Col-
lector of Taxes, City Marshal, City
Treasurer, and Two Aldermen; and
said officers are to be elected for a
term of two years next ensuring.
M. J. Stacy is hereby appointed as
the Presiding officer to hold said
election, and he is hereby authorized
to select two Judges and two Clerks
to assist him in the holding of said
election.
This Order is duly made and pro-
claimed at the Mayor’s Office in the
City of Lampasas, Texas, on this the
15th day of February, A. D., 1929.
H. V. CAMPBELL, Mayor City of
Lampasas, Texas.
Attest: J. H. H. BERRY, City Sec-
retary. (dw)
Miss Ozella Griffin left Saturday
morning for Belton where she will be
with her brother and wife, Mr. and
Mrs. John Griffin, who have the fiu.
Two Held For Car Theft.
Sheriff W. M. Faubion has two
boys, about 17 years of age, in the
county jail, charged with theft of
the Jim Millsap car v/hich was stolen
here on February 5th. The car was
found at Hall, near Brady, a few days
after it disappeared and the trail
of the boys was followed to Abilene
where they were arrested by officers
who were on the lookout for them.
One of the boys had been in Lam-
pasas for about thirty days and the
other gives his home as Oklahoma.
They attempted to burglarize a store
at Abilene and one was caught by the
owner of the store and the other later
picked up by Abilene officers. Sheriff
Faubion says the two boys admit tak-
ing the car and also the burglary of
O. E. Donovan’s lunch stand in Lam-
pasas. The car was out of gasoline
when found but had not been dam-
aged.
BAPTISTS FLAY SCHOOLS
AND RAP EVOLUTION
Dallas, Tex., Feb. 14.—Believing it
“dangerous to educate our children
in tax-supported schools at the pres-
ent time,” the executive board of the
Baptist Missionary Association of
Texas has voted approval of an anti-
evolution statute for Texas, Dr. H. B.
Pender of Greenville said Wednes-
day after a meeting of the board here.
Members of the board also went
on record as opposing the bill pending
i nthe legislature which would legal-
ize horse racing in Texas through the
“contribution” system, he said.
Fifty-five members from every part
of Texas attended Wednesday’s ses-
sion of the executive board. Rev. A.
O. Hinkle, Lockhart, chairman, pre-
sided.
Big Sum Paid As Bounty.
San Saba, Tex., Feb. 15.—The San
Saba Wolf Club paid $12,827.50 for
pelts of predatory animals captured in
this county during 1928.
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'IpHE search for books, old and new,
-i- carried Ralph Gordon into many
strange byways. • He had an inde-
pendent income, and as he was a
young man with ambitions he set out
to make himself an authority on Eng-
lish literature, particularly that of the
later Elizabethan period. He even
went so far as to write a little on the
subject.
One day when he was cataloguing
his treasures he found that his edi-
tion of Ben Jonson was incomplete—
that it lacked a small and compara-
tively obscure volume of the writer’s
early days, one not included in the
standard sets. He immediately set
about to remedy this omission.
But the small book eluded him. His
agents were certain that there was a
copy in America—in fact, right in New
York, where Ralph Gordon lived; but
their efforts were unavailing. After a
thorough combing of the larger book
'stores, Gordon announced that lie him-
self was going to take up the trail.
Ilis search led him one day to a
small shop on the West side. He en-
PURPORTED DEALER IN
TEXAS LANDS ARRESTED
St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 17.—William
F. Beard, “real estate salesman,” who
held out to prospective buyers of land
in the Texas Rio Grande Valley the
lure of an excursion there in charter-
ed Pullmans, with a $50 all-expense
rate, was returned to St. Louis today
by postoffice inspectors who arrested
him in Detroit, Mich., on charges cf
using the Mails to defraud.
The charges against him were pre-
ferred in a warrant by two Texas
land owners who advanced him $760
against commissions they expected to
pay him for selling their land. None
of Beard’s prospects got as far as
Texas, they charge.
CIGARETTE CAUSES HIS
HAIR TONIC TO EXPLODE
PENSIONS TO RANGERS OF
60’S GIVEN APPROVAL
Washington, Feb. 15.—Nearly 400
veteran Texans who fought to protect
the southern and western frontier of
the United States with the famous
Texas rangers, during the years from
1861 to 1865, when Texas was out of
the union, may soon be given pensions
by the federal government.
In a personal conference today,
Secretary cl the Interior West told
Representative Claude Hudspeth of
ly was the booklover’s instinct that
prompted him to overlook no possible
source. In the dim, dusty light of the
shop he saAv a girl come forward to
wait on him.
“Have you—” he began and then
stopped. The absurdity of the ques-
tion he was about to ask dawned on
him.
“No, we haven't—but we can get it
for you."
“What?” he ejaculated stupidly.
“Oh, I know you, Mr. Ralph Gor-
don,” she said with a smile. “And
I know all about the book you’re look-
ing for. I said we could get it for you
because all good book stores say that
when you ask them for what they
haven’t. Isn’t that so?”
Ralph Gordon looked more' closely
at her, and suddenly forgot all about
his quest. lie leaned on the counter
and began to talk to her. To his
amazement he found that she knew
almost as much- about Elizabethan lit-
erature as he did.
The incident had seemed so nat-
ural that it did not occur to him to
wonder why the girl clerk in a cheap
book store knew so much, no? to be
amazed that one with her evident
breeding and good looks should work
there. He wTent back in a few days
and -renewed his acquaintance. He
demanded her name, but she refused
to give it to him, though he begged
hard. Almost every week he found
opportunity to go down to the little
shop, and it was not long till he was
sure that he had fallen in love with
the adorable little saleswoman. And
he did not even know her name!
Business took him away from New
York for a month. On his return he
hastened to the book store. It was
late in the afternoon when he got
there, and he was surprised to see a
sign announcing a closing-out sale,
and several hard-looking persons just
leaving with their arms full of books.
He entered. In a far corner he saw
the familiar figure of the girl. At his
step she looked at him, and then, see-
ing who he wras, ran to greet him with
a little sob. Her relief at his appear-
ance w7as so great that in a moment
she was weeping frankly, while he was
clumsily patting her arm.
When she could speak again, he in-
quired, “What’s the matter?”
But instead of replying to his ques-
tion she suddenly dried her eyes and
exclaimed: “Oh! I almost forgot!
Wait just a moment.” And she darted
off to a room behind the shop.
In an instant she was back, carry-
ing something in her hand; and before
he could speak she shoAved him, to his
utter amazement, the long-sought-after
copy of Ben Jonson’s little-known
work.
“How—why—” he was beginning,
when she silenced him.
“I’ll tell you,” she began. “This
book was dad’s chief treasure. I knew
all about your Avanting it, and urged
him to let you have it, but he wouldn’t,
and insisted that I keep it from you—
not even tell you that he had it.”
“I see,” he replied. He was turning
the leaves absently when a letter fell
out. He picked it up, and his eye
caught the name of the flyleaf.
“What’s this?” he exclaimed. “Was
your father Stephen Farwell?”
“Yes,” she replied in a low voice.
Ralph Gordon knew Stephen Far-
well as every other book collector did,
as an eccentric old man whose chief
passion, books, had impoverished him,
and who had disappeared some years
ago. And he had been keeping a shop
all this timel And this beautiful girl,
his daughter, had hidden herself with
him! Tears came to Ralph Gordon’s
eyes.
“But will he want to part with it
noAV?” he asked gently.
“He—he died last week,” said the
girl in a barely audible whisper. “I
must get rid of these old books and
things—but I wanted you to have this
one.”
Ralph Gordon hesitated no longer.
“I want it,” he said, “but I want
you, too. Won’t you let me take you
and show you all my books and things
—and love you a little when you aren’t
.looking at them?”
She smiled up at him through her
tears.
! “Of course I will,” she whispered.
From the floor the forgotten Ben
Jonson started up at the pair of them
and seemed to say philosophically,
i “Well, they did such things in my day,
Texas that he Avas entirely in sym-
pathy with the matter and would per-
sonally take it before Pension Com-
missioner Scott.
In his efforts to obtain pensions for
the rangers, denied in the past be-
cause Texas was not a state at the
time, Hudspeth has attempted to
bring it before congress, but the bill
Avas killed in committee and referred
to the pension commissioner.
Commissioner Scott reecntly com-
municated with Hudspeth stating that
the decision had been placed in the
hands of the secretary of interior,
whose favorable statement in the case
would probably create the pension
fund.
At the close of the conference Huds-
peth stated that he firmly believed
that West would make such a report.
MINORITY FIGHT FOR FOUR-
YEAR TERMS PROMISED
Wichita Falls, Tex., Feb. 18.—The
condition of a cigarette smoker who
used hair tonic on his hair was seri-
ous Sunday night.
Claude Lovell, 28, was dressing his
own hair late Saturday night with
hair tonic. He lighted a cigarette.
The tonic exploded, searing his face
and hands.
Austin, Tex., Feb. 15.—If the house
backs up its committee on constitu-
tional amendments, the move to make
elective and appointive offices in Texas
for a term of four years will be de-
feated. For the commmittee Friday
turned in a report unfavorable to sub-
mitting the proposed amendment, and
since a two-thirds vote is necessary,
it stands little chance of passage, al-
though it already has passed the sen-
ate.
Senator Archie Parr cf Benavides
proposed the amendment in the sen-
ate, while Representative B. E. Quinn
of Beaumont offered it in the house.
The house committee fight against
the amendment was led by A. H. King
of Throckmorton, who spoke against
it.
“Giving office holders of Texas four-
year terms will cause them to become
too arrogant,” he informed the com-
mittee. “Besides, there is no public
demand anywhere in Texas for this
amendment. Sometimes, even two
years is too long, and if this is adopt-
ed it will cause trouble. Citizens hold-
ing office are too likely to become
indifferent to what the people want.”
No one replied to King, although
several asked questions.
Quinn succeeded in Imving one of
the committeemen join him in a min-
ority report, so a floor fight on the
amendment is probable.
Penny Fuses Cause Blaze.
Beaumont, Tex., Feb. 15.—Shortly
after 8 a. m. Thursday, three fire
alarms were answered by the Beau-
mont fire department, the damage in
one instance amounting to $1,000. A
five-room house, occupied by negroes,
was almost entirely destroyed, and
the blaze had made considerable head-
way before the alarm was given. It
is believed an overturned oil stove
caused the fire. Pennies used instead
of fuses caused a short in an electric
wire at another place, where an alarm
was sent in, and a small roof fire, Avith
little damage, was the third occur-
PROFESSOR BELIEVES X-RAYS
CAN IDENTIFY CROOKS
Chicago, Feb. 15.—X-rays will be
used in the future to identify crim-
inals. instead of fingerprints, Prof.
G. L. Clark of the University of Illi-
nois told delegates attending the Mid-
west engineering conference here.
“Radiographs will soon supplant
fingerprints for identification, for
X-ray photographs of the skull are
more individualistic,” he explained.
Professor Clark also told of the
Z-ray’s use for examination of mys-
terious packages suspected of infernal
machines.
Electric Chdir For a Ravisher.
Thomas Benjamin Aldridge of
Dallas is on his Avay to the electric
chair. He was sentenced to death for
criminal assault on a 17-year-old
school girl on the fringe of Dallas on
the night of December 9. His jury
deliberated only 30 minutes. Leroy
Merriman, his companion in crime, it
is predicted, will be sent to trial with-
out delay and a jury will return a
verdict of guilty and sentence him to
death in the electric chair.
There has been a wave of crime in
the city of Dallas. Murderers and
hijackers and ravishers of women are
behind the bars. Public opinion de-
mands drastic punishment for these
outlaAvs. There has been an excellent
start. There should be a dramatic
finish.
Life should be protected under the
skies of Texas; property and prop-
erty rights should be protected. Those
who trample the laws of society under
foot, avIio rob and slay and ravish
without remorse of conscience should
be made to pay the penalty.—Waco
News-Tribune.
BETTER LAW ENFORCEMENT
DEMANDED IN WINDY CITY
Miss Alla Mae Cagle spent the
week-end in Temple in the home of
her sister, Mrs. H. L. Baggett.
Chicago, 111., Feb. 15.—Clean up
Chicago or let the United States gov-
ernment do it.
This was the ultimatum laid down
to the city administration tonight by
the Chicago association of commerce
in the name of “6,500 business and
professional institutions and the law-
abiding citizens of the city.”
An immediate and comprehensive
reorganization of all law enforcing
agencies was demanded.
This was scheduled to include the
courts, prosecutors and police, state,
county and city.
The ultimatum closed, saying:
“If the facts are found to justify
it, prompt application for effective
co-operation with the law enforcing
agencies of the United States govern-
ment should be made.”
A coroner’s jury opened an inquest
into the death of the gangsters this
morning. A recess was taken this
evening until February 23.
Tonight state’s attorney Jno. oAvan-
on ordered all saloons and gambling
houses closed at the same time charg-
ing that yesterday’s massacre was due
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FIND BODIES OF MEN
ASPHYXIATED IN BARN
Wichita Falls, Tex., Feb. 15.—Offi-
cers here are attempting to recon-
struct the manner in which two men
apparently were asphyxiated near a
to the failure of the police to sup- j under a barn fourteen miles from
press unlawful sources of revenue.
His ultimatum was delivered to
the heads of the city, county and
state law enforcement bodies.
Earlier in the day Major F. D. Sill-
oway, deputy federal prohibition ad-
ministrator, declared:
“Chicago policemen murdered the
seven Moran gangsters.”
This raised a storm of protest in
official circles and brought Silloway’s
superior officer, Administrator E. C.
Yellowley several telegrams from
Washington. Following a conference
Silloway denied making the state-
ment, saying:
“Some reporter Avent off half-cock-
ed.”
Despite his retraction, however,
Silloway held to his belief that “there
is an alliance between politics and
crime and certain Chicago police know
the facts of this massacre.”
The association of commerce de-
mands on the city administration re-
cites “the abhorent criminal outburst
has had shocking effects upon' the city
and upon the civilized Avorld as a
Avhole.”
WOMAN 100 YEARS
OLD DETESTS MEN
Boston, Eng., Feb. 15.—Miss Wil-
helmina Robinson has reached the
age of 100 years.
“I detest men,” she avowed on
reaching the century mark, “and I
put down my1 long and happy life to
the fact that I was never foolish
Wichita Falls.
The bodies of the two, J. I. Wil-
liams, 40, and L. B. Gross, 35, were
found in the basement, which housed
was suspended a gas mask, indicat-
the still Friday. From Gross’ neck
ing, officers said, that Gross had died
while attempting to aid Williams. The
mask did not cover the nose.
BILL TO PENALIZE SCHOOLS
BREACHING CONTRACTS
Austin, Tex., Feb. 15.—Tom Pollard
of Tyler has introduced in the senate
a measure that would place a penalty
on business colleges that do not carry
out in full the promises made in ad-
vertising and in accepting tuition of
students in regards to securing them,
employment after they ha\7e finished
the prescribed courses.
The students would be allowed to
sue for the entire amount of tuition
plus 10 per cent in the event the col-
leges failed to comply with the con-
tracts.
STAMPS TO BEAR STATE
NAMES TO THWART THIEVES
Washington, Feb. 15.—An experi-
ment announced today by the post-
office department calls for postage
stamps to bear the names of states
in which they are to be sold. The
object is to find a method of thwart-
ing “organized” fences which dispose
of loot from postoffice robberies.
The experiment will be undertaken
enough to marry one.
Miss Wilhelmina wears a frilly cap j in Kansas and Nebraska about April
and shares her rooms with two milk- and the practice will be extended if it
white cats—both ladies.
“Single women have a far better
life than any wife,” said the white
haired little spinster. “The girls of
today are a scandal. It is men, men,
men, all the time.”
Courting and the technique of pro-
posing—leap years or any years—•
never concerned her at any time, Miss
Robinson declared emphatically.
“I never asked any man to marry
me—and no one ever asked me to
marry him,” she said. “I always hated
men.”
Miss Llorraine Cagle of Temple
spent the week-end in Lampasas.
is successful.
News has been received here of
the death of the eighteen-months-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Sparks at
Marshall, Saturday, February 16th.
The little boy was named R. B. Jr.,
and his death was caused by scarlet
fever. The many friends here of
Mr. and Mrs. Sparks extended their
sympathy to the bereaved parents. He
was a grandson of L. R. Sparks of
this place.
If it is real estate you want to buy
or sell, Avrite Jeff Spivey, Lampasas
Texas. (wp)
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