The Lampasas Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. [43], No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, October 16, 1931 Page: 3 of 8
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Our Prices I
INJUNCTION WILL TEST
POWERS OF COMMISSION
No. 3 Tub................89c
| No. 2 Tub................75c
No. 1 Tub................65c |
No. A Tub................39c $
These Tubs are hot dipped, and a good heavy grade.
Large galvanized Granite bucket...............
.............50c
Wash Boards................................-.........
............50c
Large white Combinets ...........................
-....... ...98c
8-quart Enamel Milk pan.........................
.............25c
We have a large assortment of Chocolate
Candy, per pound................................
..15c to 40c
| Don’t Forget Our Big Line of School Supplies
| Tablets from..............................2 for 5c to 3 for 10c
if Note Book Binders for........................10c, 15c & 25c |
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WOMAN ALLOWED
WASH BILL SET OFF
MADISON, Wis., Oct. 13.—The
State Supreme Court today handed
down a decision in a case involving
$2.62 worth of groceries.
The tribunal upheld the right of
Mary Leslie to sue Oscar Knudson,
both of Cobb, for $10,000 damages.
She charged that Knudson, a restau-
rant owner, maliciously caused her
prosecution by swearing out a war-
rant accusing her of stealing $2.50
worth of butter, olives, soap, pump-
kin, pineapple and sauerkraut.
The tangle had its origin in the
woman’s claim that Knudson refused
to pay her $2.50 for washing she had
done, telling her to “try and get it.”
She ordered staples in his restaurant
amounting to $2.62 and paid 12 cents,
telling the clerk the balance was the
amount Knudson owed her.
Knudson swore out a warrant
against her in a justice court. The
case was dismissed and Mary sued
for $10,000 damages to her reputa-
tion and the courts dismissed that
action.
Boys’ blue chambray work shirts
all sizes 6 to 14, priced 34c each at
Hooper’s Store. (w)
C. M. S.
The Christian missionary society
met in the church annex with 10 mem-
bers present. The president presid-
ed over the busieess session. The
secretary read a letter from the Uni-
ted Christian missionary society urg-
ing its members to attend tbe one
day convention which meets in Aus-
tin November 13.
The mission study for the afternoon
was “Prayer.” Mrs. J. R. Frank the
leader of, the mission study read Luke
18-9-14. She also gave an interest-
ing paper on the two kinds of prayer.
Mrs. Frank Baker gave an article on
a Mexican and American farmer
daughter. “The church seeks the Jap-
anese American farmer” in a playlet
was presented by the following char-
acters: Mrs. Clinton Perry, Mrs. Ro-
land, chairman of the program com-
mittee of the missionary society.
Mrs. Roy Walker, Mrs. Goiter, a com-
mittee member recently returned from
California. Mrs. Guss Word, Mrs.
Hrfpwn, another committee member
just returned from California. The
society was glad to have Mrs. Oma
Smith as a visitor.—Reporter.
STERLING TO VETO BROOKS
MEASURE ON COUNTY BONDS
AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 13.—Gov. R.
S. Sterling made it clear Tuesday that
he will veto the bill by Representative
Ben F. Brooks of Bagwell, enacted by
the second called session of the Leg-
islature, which seeks to divert lc of
the 4c gasoline tax for retirement of
county and district road bonds, pro-
ceeds of which were used in State
highway construction.
The Governor said the principle in-
volved in the bill is one that he first
espoused when chairman of the High-
way Commission, but that the method
by which the bill seeks to accomplish
the end is wrong. He urged a State-
wide bond issue for highway con-
struction and retirement of county
bonds, while this bill seeks to take
one-fourth of the gasoline, tax reve-
nue from the Highway Department.
Larger Counties Would Benefit.
Governor Sterling said that by the
Brooks bill, the bulk of the refunds
would go to the larger counties of
Dallas, Tarrant, Hands, Bexar and
others.
The diversion proposed in the bill
would take $7,000,000 annually
from the highway fund, the Governor
said, which either would cut off all
Federal aid for Texas or would ne-
cessitate all State funds being used
to match federal funds, which would
cut off all construction of State and
county roads.
Will Aid Unemployment.
“It is more important for this $7,-
000,000 to be used in the construc-
tion of roads, which will give many
thousand men employment, rather
than to hoard it and pay it back to
the counties, many of which would
not get enough to give them any tax
relief,” Governor Sterling said. “Be
sides, if the refunds should be made,
the taxpayers could not get any relief
until 1933, as the tax rolls already are
made up and that would mean that
the $7,000,000 for the first year would
be hoarded until 1933, when it should
be giving employment to workers.”
He said also that he had no doubt
the bill is unconstitutional.
Miss Avis Rainwater, who was hur-
ried to a local hospital from Lam-
pasas Sunday is reported to be rest-
ing well. Miss Rainwater was acci-
dentally shot through the chest while
handling a .22 calibre gun.—Temple
Telegram.
Leader Want Ads Always Get Results. Leader Want Ads Always Get Results.
TYLER, Oct. 13.—A test of the
constitutionality of the oil and gas
prorative powers of the state railroad
commission was assured today when a
federal injunction temporarily re-
straining the commission, the militia
and the attorney general from inter-
fering with increased pi’oduction of
five wells in Rusk county was issued
and a hearing in equity ordered for
October 29.
In defiance of the recent conserva-
tion order which limited the output
of wells in the East Texas field to
165 barrels of . oil a day, the five wells
of the Brock-Lee company will begin
taking 5,000 barrels a day from each
well under federal protection.
The plaintiff’s petition charged pro-
ration laws were in controvention to
the national constitution in that they
interfered with the liberty and prop-’
erty clause of the 14th amendment
and with the obligation of contracts.
WARDEN ASKS STAY OF DEATH
SPRINGFIELD, 111., Oct. 14.—War-
den David Moneypenny of the Cook
county jail and his deputy Tuesday-
appeared before the state board of
pardons and paroles to ask clemency
for Frank Bell, sentenced to die in
the electric chair for murder Friday.
Bell was credited with tipping au-
thorities on an attempted jail break
planned by William Lenhart, of Ohio,
since electrocuted for the murder of
a restauranteur. Lenhart made three
attempts to break jail and his mother
was once tried for aiding him.
“He saved my life,” the warden
said. “He saved the life of George
J. Gibson, my assistant, and he saved
the lives of perhaps 10 others when,
on October 4, a year ago, he aided us
in stopping the jail break planned by
the killer, Lenhart.”
Warden Moneypenny told the board
that they captured Lenhart and dis-
armed him 15 minutes before the time
set for the break.
SEVEN MILLION BALES
OF COTTON TO BE
HELD FOR A YEAR
COWBOY HURT IN
FALL IS RESCUED
ALAMOGORDO, N. M., Oct. 13.—
How Pete Henson, a cowboy, had his
leg broken when he was thrown from
his horse, crawled five miles to a camp
and lay there three days waiting res-
cue became known here.
Henson, employed on the Baird
ranch, was thrown from his horse in
a remote part of the ranch, west of
the White Sands. During his lone
wait at the isolated camp, he had
water but no food except a little dried
beef.
Word of his predicament was
brought to Alamogordo by a fellow
cowboy who had discovered Henson.
The cowboy came here for medical aid.
Boys’ leatherette helmets, black and
tan for 25c each at Hooper’s
Store. (w)
ONLY MINOR DISORDERS
v MARK GALVESTON STRIKE
GALVESTON, Texas, Oct. 13.—
With approximately 1,000 nonunion
men replacing striking longshoremen
along the water front, the strike has
been marked by only minor disorders
here so fax'. In the last few days two
white men were beaten and a negro
beaten and fired on, but none was
seriously hurt. Seven negro union
longshoremen have been arrested by
city police for carrying weapons in
automobiles.
Added precautions are being taken
by city and maritime police here. The
special maritime force, organized
when the nonunion men went to work,
was augmented during the day by six
men, bringing their number to about
thirty. In addition sixty-five wharf
police are being kept on duty. Every
available city policeman not needed on
other duty is used to patrol parts of
the city near the wharves at night.
Daily Leader 3 Months for $1.00
NEW ORLEANS, La., Oct. 13.—A
plan to keep at least 7,000,000 bales
of cotton off the market for at least
a year as a stabilizing influence on
price was perfected by leading bank-
ers of the South, members of the
Federal Farm Board and officials of
the American Cotton Co-operative As-
sociation at an all-day conference
Monday.
The plan is based on granting new
credits and the extension of old ob-
ligations.
Salient features of the program,
agreed on by^ nearly two score con-
ferees, include:
Pledges by the banks of the cotton
producing States to make or renew
loans to mature not earlier than July
31, 1932, to be secured by cotton to-
taling 3,500,000 bales.
If that baleage is financed by Oct.
25, the Federal Farm Board agrees
to extend the obligations of the
American Cotton Cooperative Asso-
ciation, covering approximately 2,-
000,000 bales, to July 31, 1932, unless
such cotton can be sold at more than
12^2 cents a pound in the meantime.
Farm Board Cotton.
If the various Southern Legisla-
tures secure substantial reduction in
acreage for next year, the Federal
Farm Board will further agree to
hold its cotton off the market for an
additional year, that is, for» the year
ending July 31, 1933.
Action of the Southern banks is
contingent on ratification by the va-
rious State conventions, and the full
memberships of the various conven-
tions will be asked to meet in their
respective States October 20, to in-
dorse the action ”of their leaders at
Monday’s conference.
The proposal was made public after
a lengthy executive conference by
James C. Stone, chairman of the Fed-
eral Farm Board; Nathan Adams of
Dallas, representing the Southern
bankers, and E. F. Creekmore, vice
president of the American Cotton Co-
operative Association. Carl Williams,
cotton member of the Farm Board,
was among the conferees.
Mr. Adams announced the appoint-
ment of the following bankers to car-
ry the plan before the respective State
banking associations: Moorehead
Wright, for Arkansas; R. L. Thornton
for Texas, Leroy Ward for Louisiana,
J. W. Slaughter for Mississippi, D.
W. Hogan for Oklahoma, W. L. Alex-
ander for Tennessee, W. E. Hanley
for Alabama and L. L. Gullestedt for
Georgia. Mr. Adams will make ap-
pointments later for North and South
Carolina.
The cotton already financed, and
which will be withheld from the mar-
ket for at least a year, consists of 2,-
100.000 bales owned by the American
Cooperative, 1,300,000 bales held by
the Cotton Stabilization Corporation,
and 290,000 bales held by the Staple
Cotton Growers’ Association of the
Mississippi Delta. The latter organi-
zation was not represented Monday
but will be invited to join in the move-
ment. This would make a total of
3.690.000 bales to be withheld. The
bankers’ financing of an additional
3.500.000 bales would bring the total
above 7,000,000.
Mr. Adams said the bankers might
come in for an even larger share.
Mr. Wright recalled that similar
action by the banks in 1914 had pre-
vented cotton from dropping to 6c a
pound.
Chairman Stone of the Farm Board
said after the meeting that “the co-
operative arrangement and under-
standing reached between the South-
ern bankers, the cotton co-operatives
and the Farm Board makes the out-
look most encouraging.”
Mr. Adams revealed that he had
discussed the proposal at the White
House with Mi*. Stone, and that it was
through a suggestion made at that
time that the bankers’ meeting here
was decided on.
—Photos from Wide World Photos
SUCH FAME MUST BE DESERVED
London, England.—Members of the new National Cabinet arriv-
ing at 10 Downing Street, pose on the steps for the eyes of the world.
NOTED LIQUOR LAW
CASE IS SETTLED;
DEFENDANTS FINED
TRENTON, N. J., Oct. 13.—The
liquor law violation case which form-
ed the basis of the opinion on which
Federal Judge William Clark last
December held the eighteenth amend-
ment unconstitutional, was settled
quietly Monday.
The defendants, William Sprague
and William H. Howey' of Sussex, N.
J., paid a joint fine of $750 on a plea
of guilty to transporting beer.
Their attorney, Frederic M. P.
Pearce, who argued the case in the
Supreme Court when the government
appealed Judge Clark’s decision, ask-
ed only that they not be penalized
for the long litigation.
Federal Judge George Bourquin of
Butte, Mont., replied that an appeal
was their prerogative.
Judge Clark in a 51,000-word opin-
ion on December 16, 1930, held the
eighteenth amendment to be invalid
because it had been ratified by state
legislatures and not by constitutional
convention. He cited nearly 100 au-
thorities to support his contention
and quashed the indictment against
the men.
The United States Supreme Court
on February 24 reversed his opinion.
COURT DECISION MAY
AFFECT HANDLING
VALLEY VEGETABLES
HARLINGEN, Oct. 13.—A decis-
ion that may have far-reaching ef-
fects in the handling of valley veg-
etables was given in county court at
law at Raymondville in the suit of
G. H. Sutherland of Lyford vs. L. E.
Snavely of Harlingen and the Ameri-
can Fruit Growers, Inc., of Illinois.
The decision awarded Sutherland
$229.64.
About 150 other Willacy County
growers signed similar contracts with
this association.
Sutherland sought damages for the
difference between the price his pro-
duce brought when handled by Snave-
ly and the market price at the time,
claiming that Snavely did not get
the best price for the produce, as
called for in the contract.
The case, although involving a small
amount of money, was followed with
interest by shippers throughout the
valley, and scores of bankers, shippers
and others testified.
SPANISH ASSEMBLY
OUSTS CATHOLICISM
AS STATE RELIGION
MADRID, Oct. 13.—The Spanish
national assembly, by a vote of 267
to 41, tonight approved article 3 of
the new republican constitution re-
jecting the Catholic religion as tire
religion of the state.
Shortly after the assembly’s vote
was made known, special police guards
charged a large meeting of labor
groups in the Puerta Del Sol, in the
center of Madrid, who were beginning
a demonstration and crying “down
with the church!”
The action of the assembly today
breaks a tradition of centuries during
which church authority has been of-
ficially recognized in state affairs. It
also carries out the promises of re-
publican leaders, made before the de-
thronement of King Alfonso XIII,
that under a republic church and state
would be separated completely.
CARS TAKE HEAVY
TOLL OF ANIMALS
AND SMALL BIRDS
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—With
paved roads and fast automobiles in-
creasing, the number of birds and ani-
mals killed on the highways is larger
each year, says the United States
Department of Agriculture. Few
small birds can fly faster than twenty-
five miles per hour and small animals
move much more slowly, so that they
can not escape a fast automobile. In
the prairie regions rabbits and ground
squirrels suffer most, while in the
East box tortoise probably is the chief
victim.
LIGHT RAINS HELP
COOL ATMOSPHERE
Lampasas Weekly Leader 1 Year $1.50
The government rain gauge regis-
tered .12 of an inch here Sunday and
.27 of an inch on Monday. The rain
was much heavier west of here and
will help to cool the atmosphere. We
have had no rain in some time and a
good general rain would be quite a
help to those sowing grain and also
help the ranges. Some places near
Lampasas are in need of stock water
also.
JUDGE WILL FINE
SLEEPY DRIVERS
KANSAS CITY, Kan., Oct. 12.--
For the first time in this city’s his-
tory, the slow driver will take his
place beside the speeder in police
court.
Commenting on the new code which
demands a speed of at least 30 miles
an hour on the intercity viaduct,
Judge Lee Judy said he would fine
the slow driver as severely as the
speeder.
The viaduct connects downtown
Kansas City, Kan., with the main
business section of Kansas City,
Missouri.
HER CONSCIENCE
(From Stray Bits)
Two golfers who had sliced their
drives into the rough searched for a
long time without success, a kindly
old lady watching them with sympa-
thetic interest.
Finally, after a search had lasted
half an hour, the dear old lady spoke
to them.
“I don’t want to bother you, gen-
telemen,” she said, “but would it be
cheating if I told you where they
are?”
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