The Lampasas Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, June 16, 1933 Page: 5 of 8
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FIRST U. S. NEW CROP BALE STATE PRISON PRINTING
IS RECEIVED HERE BILL GETS VETO AX
(Houston Chronicle)
The first bale of the 1933 cotton
crop grown in the United States
reached Houston early Tuesday after
; a race with another “first bale.” It
j was sold to the Houston Cotton Ex-
' change for $150. There was no open
bidding for the bale, as in former
! years.
I The bale was grown by Teofilo
Garcia, a farmer at La Grulla, in the
Lower Rio Grande Valley, and was
AUSTIN, June 13.—Governor Mir-
iam A. Ferguson Tuesday vetoed a
WITT GOES ON RECORD
AS FAVORING REPEAL
AUSTIN, June 8.—Lieutenant Gov-
ernor Edwar E. Witt, a prospective
bill that would have permitted the ; candidate for governor next year, to-
Texas prison board to bid on state; day had put himself on record for
printing, the contracts to be executed j repeal of the prohibition amendment
by prison labor*.
She also vetoed
three other bills.
to the federal constitution.
He also said he would vote to mod-
They would have provided for a non- ify the Texas constitution to permit
residence hunting and fishing license; i legalization of the manufacture and
set the state ad valorem tax rate at ■ saie 0f 3.2 beer.
not to exceed 67 cents on the $100, j Texas voters will express them-
COLEMAN’S FIRST
WHEAT MARKETED
ginned at Mission. H. S. Edwards | a”d establish^ * CentrKl ta' ™.both Propositions at a spe-
of La Joya and H. H. Presnall of
Mission accompanied the bale. Mr.
Edwards, high school principal, drove
—Photos from Wide World Photos.
FROM THE WORLD’S FAIR
Chicago, 111.—Electricity’s wizardry will be unfolded in this semi-circular
building on Northerly Island at a Century of Progress. Embellished with
hanging gardens, electric cascades and fountains, gilded pylons and paved
terraces,, the Electrical Building is the last word in modern architectural
phantasy. It will house exhibits portraying the generation, distribution and
utilization of electricity. In the Communications Building, adjoining it on
the North, will be shown exhibits of telephone and telegraph communication.
reau.
The governor said the bill that
would have permitted prison officials
, , , . . .to enter competition with outside la-
the bale ro Houston, passing en route , . „ ... . . ... ...
,, , f. , . i bor in furnishing state printing, bind-
another ear bearing another bale, . , ,, ...
, . , , , . , _ . ’ I mg and other supplies, would have
which also was being rushed to the \ , , , , ... . .
placed the state in the commercial
The
COLEMAN, June 9.—The first
wheal, from the 1933 crop was mar-
keted in Coleman today by W. EL
Ransberger, farmer living two milee
north of Coleman on the Burkett
highway. It tested 61 pounds to the
bushel and was bought by George
Rhone for 65 cents a bushel.
The first oats were brought ‘
Tuesday by F. L. Mayfield of Burkett
and sold to Wilson Grain Company
! for 21% cents a bushel. The first
barley was sold this morning by
Mayfield to the Wilson Grain Com-
pany for 25 cents a bushel. The
prices are far above what they were
last year.
(Dallas News) j According to records at the WHson.
London conference furnishes Grain Company, the first wheat last
cial election on August 26.
THE WAR DEBT GHOST
Houston market. This latter bale j~ business in competition with another illustration of what happens year sold for from 30 to 31 cents, the
was in charge of Fred i). Guerra, vice j £ree ja^ory» j when the irresistible meets the im- ! first barley for 17 cents and the firsr<r
president of the First State Bank and ^ non_vesidence hunt{ng and fish- i movable. The United States insist- j oats for 13% cents.
ai^K\lanudao^i^’e^l°andaa^«> ^as 1 Hcense biU would have increased ' ed^tbat the war debt question should j The crop this year wifi be about
grown at La Grulla. _ j ernor gaid in’ her ^eto n’0te £ave j the conference, on the ground that j and many farmers expect to retain
The car ^carrying the^ winning^ bale J «pjaced a on ^ose who fish with • agreements in respect to such debts j their oats for farm use, disposing of
natural bait.” The out-of-county
FOREST WORKERS TO GET
WAGES INCREASED JULY 1
WORK COSTING BILLION
WILL BE HURRIED UP
WASHINGTON, June 12.—Director
Robert Feehner of the emergency
corporation today announced wage
increases for competent members of
the civilian conservation corps would
be granted July 1.
The fixed cash allowance of $30 a
month may be raised to $45 a month
averaged 62 miles an hour, and ac
cording to Mr. Edwards, there were |
times when a speed of more than 80 j
miles was recorded. The Guerra car, j
which had a three-hour start, was
passed about 100 miles from Hous-
ton, Mr. Edwards said.
The race settled an old grudge.
Edwards is principal of the La Joya
Last year the Rio Grande
WASHINGTON, June 12.—'Wash-
ington intends to plump $1,000,000,- school.
000 worth of work upon the country City high school team defeated the
so fast that it will electrify trade La Joya team. The winning of the
into new life. race to Houston squares accounts, ae-
As congress wrangles its way to cording* to Mr. Edwards,
t he finish, night-and day work in the When the Garcia bale left Mission
license would have been $1.10 ex-
cept for persons under 17.
j The message stating reasons for
! vetoing the advalorem tax rate reduc-
| tion bill stated the hill “seeks to re-
j duce the advalorem tax rate from 77
cents permitted by the constitution
to 67 cents in the face of the already
: astounding deficit in our state reven-
ues.”
; The message said it would require
j a rate of $1.50 per $100 property
I valuation to meet the obligations of
should be considered as private ar
rangements between debtor and cred- :
it or. Yet, on the other hand, the one
definite belief among the debtor na- ,
lions is that the war debts problem j
is at the heart of the whole Euro- 1
pean situation and must be settled j
along with the problems of finance
and tariffs.
Premier MacDonald, with the date
of June 15 staring him in the face j
and the necessity of a decision for
default or payment, could not refrain
! their bai ley and wheat to meet neces-
sary expenses of harvesting. By next
week there will be a pretty smart
movement of grain, it is thought.
FEWER AND BETTER COWS
for 5 per cent of the members of each.; ofKy •< He«h Johnson, the adminis- .- heavy rain was failing and Part •
company designated by their com- . na.or-des.gnnte oi the industry con- at the time enrouta hei trip was made , „ rate be set that
Ti.i ' 1 1 oml nnr.hn *!tmv w c ic» nnr. mo* l ln*nvi iy-h vorn 1 nn ho tn rim wi’hr.rl w '.. ft '
would be sufficient to yield a per
The dairy industry last year* took
first place as an income producer m
American agriculture, despite the faet-
that dairy prices fell to 50 per cextt
of the 1929 prices. The industry has
from referring in his address “to the PraCl1-‘‘filly reached the saturation
1? St ion of the war debts, which P°int for domestic consumption na-
per cent of the forest workers. The
plan has the approval of President
Roosevelt, Feehner said.
A penalty system was also announ-
ced, providing for admonition, sus
pany commander and the camp sap- }r°l and public -works law, is putting* through, rain. The bale weighed 450
erintendent for responsible camp j together a program for undelayed, pounds and classed strict middling,
positions, Feehner said, and 8 per j simultaneous letting of contracts on a j one-inch staple.
cent of each company may receive i huge share of the program authoriz- > The other Mission bale, it is un-
$36 if so designated. j ed by the new act. j derstood, was carried on to Galveston.
The increased pay will affect 13 i Johnson intends to have at least j While the two Mission bales are
1,000,000 men employed on the gov- reported to be the first two grown
eminent projects bill by fall. He and and ginned in the United States, ad- I
his aides have gone over possible vices from Brownsville indicate that j
projects and have approved nearly the real first bale of 1933 was pro-
a billion’s worth already.. There is duced in Mexico by the Garcia Bro-
V'V“? ^WT*-***^ W*~***VA**W*ViJ., , \ •
pension of privileges, substitution of!to be $50,000,000 of federal buildings | thers of Matamoros, and was ginned
specified duties instead of regular I offered for contracts almost immedi- . and exhibited in Matamoros before
work and deduction of not to exceed s ately the work bill becomes a law. j the American bales were announced,
three days cash allowance for minor I Another equal batch is planned to ! The Cotton Exchange has announ-
offenses. | be ready 90 days later. By July 1, J ced no plans for disposal of the bale.
«I believe these two changes in ! $400,000,000 will be available for j This is the first time in several
the regulations will serve a highly jroad construction and a quarter HI- j seasons that Houston has received
useful uurpose in maintaining mo-! Fon of this is expected to be put out; the first bale. Formerly, for many
right away. years, each first bale was rushed to
Under draft is a whole program ^ Houston and sold at auction on the
of rivers and harbors improvements. ! floor of the local exchange, bids some-
All these enterprises are carefully, times running to more than $2000.
divided regionally under a plan carv- The refusal one year to accept a
s7n^toHo7fi¥edThe^pulpit'TfThe 1 ing the country into 12 districts’ for j “first bale” as commercial cotton and
which engineers who know their land ; the opening of the port at Corpus
must be dealt with before every ob-
stacle to general recovery has been
removed,’’ adding, “Lausanne has to
be completed and this vexed question
settled once fox* all in the light ofj
would require a rate of 73 cents alone, j Presen^ world conditions. j • f d , -
“The bill undertakes to reduce the' Experts in the United States quite j bl0u&bt an ~iciease of 4 per cent in
the bin undertakes to reduce the ; . , , . , n the number of dairy cows, but total
tax rate when provision has not j unanimously admit that a solution | , . , •
been made for navment of oblie-a Tnust be found for the war debts im- , milk production shoved no increase
been made 101 payment ot obiiga- , „ ,. . , ... mo,. 1021 The. nf
to yield a
capita school apportionment of $17.50,
the message stated, and to do this
der present conditions, and its fu-
ture expansion must await greater
per capita use, which in turn depemls-
upon increased urban buying power,
The United States department' of '
agriculture estimates that 1932
tions already incurred,” the message j Passe before world economic and fi- over
rale and discipline in the
Feehner said.
camps,
Rev. J. Leonard Rea, pastor of Los
Angeles Heights Methodist Church,
1931. The number of heifers-
tluIIS u«««ns« i 1_ • , kept for replacement is also slight-
said. “We had just as well face 0ur jnaiKia] situations can be made pios-. , • + T+
perous. It is a questiqp that must! ^ aoove noimal requirements- It 3s
be settled sooner or later and the 1 c^eai that dairy farmers axe milking
sooner the better. ! to° RiaT,y low-producing cows, else
i the total production should have risen
along with the increased number of
condition. We can’t have our cake
and eat it, too. The legislature ought
not attempt to reduce the tax rate
until it has made provision for pay-
ment of the debts of the state.”
So far, President Roosevelt has
been following the precedents laid
Methodist Church here Sunday. Rev.
Rea was accompanied to Lampasas
by Rev. Wilkins, pastor of the Moody
Methodist Church. Rev Rea is a
brother of Mrs. J. Virgil Davis.
are checking* off the jobs that can be
tackled first and that will employ
the most men for the money.
Another recovery step by the ad-
ministration was announced last
night by the Reconstruction Finance
Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Vernor of Waco ’ Corporation—a one-half of 1 per cent
spent the week end here visiting their reduction in interest on all loans it j
mothers, Mrs. J. E. Vernor and Mrs. ’
H. R. Barber.
Christi and establishment there of
an exchange, resulted in the aban-
donment of Houston as a market for
first bales and the choice of Corpus
Christi, which is much nearer the *
valley.
The Forty-second legislature had 1 down bY the Pilous administration,
set a maximum of 69 cents on the! He ^cognizes that congress is in gen-
state advalorem tax rate. The Forty- j °PP°sed to any radical modifica-
third legislature had proposed to low- j0i _war debts and tbat mass P°P‘
er this to 57 cents, but finally agreed jldar °pini°n sides with congress. Un-
to reduce it to 67 cents. ! der the circumstances the president
In vetoing the central mailing bu-1did not dare to ask for Powers to
reau bill, the governor said its cost | determine settlement. Yet, within the
would not offset its advantages. The ; United States, inflationary movements
bill had be^n passed to prevent pri- and Federal policies are steadily aim-
’ ing to cut down domestic debts by
reductions of interest and principal,!
and the gold contract clause, especial- j
vate use of state stamps.
“The mailing bureau would cost
$1500 a year, which would not re-
cows milked. . Poor cows, like poor
land, are a liability rather than an
asset.—Farm and Ranch.
MAN CHARGED WITH
MURDER UNDER GUAEB
suit in any apparent economy,” the ^ as aPPlied to government bonds,
message stated. “There is only a
fractional misuse of stamps which
would not begin to equal the extra
appropriation.”
has a repudiation aspect. There is
also the possibility that the presi-
dent may use his delegated power
to reduce the gold in the standard
The message pointed out that each j dollar even as much as one-half,
department had porters that could! The indications are that, after the
makes, and a reduction to 5 per cent, MRS. McLEAN TO START NEW i eagiIy carry mai, t0 and jrom the ! adjournment of congress and the war! by
for five years, on the dividend rate
—--- f demanded on peferred stock in bor-
,, , i rowing banks.
Mrs. Maurice Sullivan and daugh-; The reductions are conditi„„ed on
PAPER AT WASHINGTON jcapit0, postoflice.
! WASHINGTON, June 12.—Mrs.
debt pay day Thursday next, Presi-
dent Roosevelt, aided by his “brain
trust” cabinet, will quietly take up
sonable boundo being prescribed by -y7ag;hjngj;0n Post for her sons, today rado river where he and Joe McLean meets next January. Admittedly, the
the R. F. C., and upon all financial
borrowers passing the interest re-
duction to their customers.
announced she would start another
morning* paper in the national capital
to be known as the Enquirer.
Mrs. McLean, who lost out when
the Post was put up at auction re-
established a camp last week and present condition of affairs can not
Mr. McLean spent the time there go on. A moratorium and readjust-
and Mr. Wolf came back and forth ments are the way out. Congress will
to work. Mr. and Mrs. Nolan Ward feel better disposed toward a settle- j
and little daughter and Roy Sewell ment when it next meets and definite I
—Photos from Wide World Photos
THE QUEEN OF WORLD’S FAIR
111.—Pjhotoi shows Miss
Mrs. J. T. Sullivan left Monday *
for Houston where she plans to spend cently through inability to bid high are also at the camp with them. They settlements may be reached,
a week visiting relatives. enough, declared her projected new 1 lia'/e everything fixed in order to real- , The one sure thing is that the Uni-
_ : enterprise would bear the same name j enjoy camp liie and have been -ted States will never collect face
j as the McLean paper in Cincinnati, j catching some fish also. Lehoman value, principal and interest, of the
Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Hebert and chil- ; s]ie wanted it, she said, to give her ; Hester, colored, is doing the cooking debts legally due. The whole world
.....sons_Edward B. Jr. and John R. II ^or tbe camP and it goes without is near bankruptcy, so that debtors
_“something to interest themselves ! sayin8‘ they all have good appetites and creditors must give and take in
in,” 1 j while spending the time in the open, the final arrangement,
“I have had this idea in mind for | air*
several weeks—ever since it appear- <
ed the Post would go,” Mrs. McLean | j^rg
BELTON, June 11.—Frank Hardy,,
25-year-old Waco man, is under close
guard and has the care of an attend-
ant in county jail here following his
arrest in Waco Saturday by Sherd?
George Zivley, Special Officer Jess-
Vannoy, Rangers W. W. Boyle and
F. A. Craven, and Sheriff Mobley oi
Waco on a charge of the murder of
Doyle Johnson of Temple on last.
Christmas day.
A formal charge of murder was-
filed Saturday in Belton. It was
Mrs. Tilda Johnson, wife
of the slain man.
Mrs. Johnson and her sister, Miss
Theresa Krauser, identified Hardy’s'
picture as that of the man who was
| driving the Johnson car away from
the front of the Johnson home when
j Doyle Johnson was shot as he at-
tempted to stop the theft of the ear-
j by two men. Officers are seeking
the scond man in the car.
Mrs. Johnson said Miss Krauser
told officers that Hardy was positive-
ly the man who was driving the car
on the day of the murder.
dren of Lafayette, La., are visiting
here with Mrs. Hebert’s mother, Mrs.
M. F. Brewer, and her sisters, Mrs.
Ross Bailey and Mrs. W. J. Huff-
stutler.
, ------ Callie Wolf of Floydada is
Lieutenant C. A. Miller of March j Eaid\ addm2> however, that she did j visiting with relatives and friends in
Field, Calif., is spending his vacation, ll0^ i^end^to put up the^Hope dia- Lampasas,
in Kempner with his parents, Mr. and
mond this time if it could be avoided.
Mrs. A. B. Miller, and in Lampasas I She has alreadY taken out incor“
, , with his sister, Mrs. Jack Campbell PoraUon papers under the laws ^ of
Chicago, 111.—Pjhoboi shows Miss j n■D.-.i.iir.i.
Lillian Anderson of Racine, Wiscon- i ^ ’__
sin, who was chosen Queen of A j
Century of Progress. She is seated i The freckled-fated criminal may es
atop her throne holding her jeweled ' cape for r time, but he’s sure to be
scepter. j spotted.
Delaware for the ,‘McLean Publish-
ing Company.” The name of the
purchaser of the Post, has never been
disclosed, although an announcement
has been promised for more than a
week.
Mr. and Mrs. George Gartman and
two children George Jr., and Kather-
ine, and Miss Mary Lee Moore left
Monday by automobile for Chicago
to attend the World’s Fair. They will
probably be gone at least ten days or
longer.
Dr. and Mrs. J. D. Dorbandt of
Llano and Miss Frances Murray of
Dallas spent Sunday here visiting
with Mr. and Mrs. W. H. McGuire.
Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Miller had as
guests this week end Mrs. Miller’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Linder,
and her two brothers, all of Gorman.
Mrs. Linder is staying for a longer
visit. They all spent the day Sun-
day visiting in Austin.
Jake D&' Cake
’Coo Coo" is RS
MY NEPHEW,
ALfj AS AN IDEA
TO HiMPROVE TH'
OLD FASHIONED
COO COO CLOCK.
D'YOU THINK
THAT HITS A _
'6000 PLAN ?
§
WELL. F HE
WENT AROUND
SAYIN' THAI THE
WORLD WAS ROUND,
WHY I'D START
THIN KIN' THAT IT
WAS FLAT. THAT'S
HOW MUCH FAITH
I GOT IN HIS
JUD6EMENT.
WHAT'S ALF
GGIN'TO DO,
SUBSTITUTE A
BRASS BAND FOR
TH' COO COO„
INTH' CLOCK?
NO, BUT /E.S
GOT TH' IDEA TO
SAVE THE WEAR
HAND TEAR HON
TH' MACHINERY
HINTH' CLOCK BY
USING TRAINED
CANARIES HINSTEAD
OF TH' REGULAR
'AND CARVED BIRD,
4
V;
/
DIDN'T YOU GO X
INTO TH' RED ONCE
BEFORE BACKING
ONE OF ALF5
PHONEY SCHEMES'
YOU KNOW YOU
CANT LEARN A
CANARY BIRD NOTHIN.
MY NEPHEW
HAS ALREADV
THOUGHT OF
THAT HAND
'ES WORKING
ON A PLAN
TO OVER-COME
THAT OBJECTION.
YEA, HE'S
PROBABLY READ
HICKORY D1CKORY
DOCK AN' IS GOING
TO GET SOME
MICE TO RUN UP
AN' DOWN TH'
CLOCK TO REMIND
TH' BIRDS TO SING
ON SCHEDULE /
WELL, OLD CHAR
YOU JUST HABOi/T
GUESSED HIT
HONLY 'ES BEEN
TO A FLEA CIRCUS!
HAND THERE 'E !
GOT TH' IDEA TO
PUT SOME. FLEAS
IN TH' CLOCK TO
REMIND TH' MICE
TO REMIND THE BIRDS.
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