The Lampasas Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, December 16, 1932 Page: 3 of 8
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Opcjo Friday—Every Suit and Overcoat together
with thousands of' dollars worth of quality merchan-
dise—absolutely cut to rock bottom for quick selling.
COME AND FEAST ON THESE BEST BARGAINS.
RIDE MURDER DENIED
BY BOY SUSPECT
RICHMOND, Dec. 10.—A cringing-
six-foot boy, homesick and weary, sat
in the old Fort Bend county jail here
Friday afternoon and told of the
death of Carl G. Genter of Houston,
for whose murder he stands indicted.
The boy, 'Arthur James Cobleigh,
22, down at heel and a long way from
home, was placed in the jail at 2
p. m. He was returned here from
Piedras Negras, Mexico, by Sheriff
Rusk Roane, who, with Houston offi-
cers, trailed him to the border after
the ride slaying of Genter Sunday.
Cobleigh was arrested in S'abinas,
Mexico, Tuesday night.
Shooting Detailed.
Cobleigh obviously was frightened
as he talked with a reporter in his
jail cell—a cell directly opposite the
old steel trapdoor used as a part of
the gallows years ago. He squirmed
and cringed as he gave details of
Genter’s shooting and subsequent rob-
bery of his watch, automobile and
$35 in cash.
“I was scared to death,” he shud-
dered. “I didn’t know what to do.
All I could think of was to get away
and hide. I did, and they caught me.
“God knows I didn’t mean to do
anybody any harm—I never have,”
he said. “I’m telling the truth, even
if it is hard. I didn’t lay a finger on
that gun or that man.
“He Shot Himself.”
“It was an accident—he shot him-
seld—I don’t know just how, it hap-
pened so quick.”
MAN MADE PRISONER
BY BANDIT FORCED TO
WRITE $400 IN CHECKS
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Dec. 11.—
A grand jury, of which the victim
himself happens to be a member, will
investigate the sensational robbery of
Herbert Wallace, district manager of
the Magnolia Petroleum company,
who with his wife afid daughter, Mrs.
Chester B. Kilpatrick, were left tied
in the Wallace home here. -
The Wallaces were held captive all
Wednesday night by an armed mask-
ed man who waylaid the couple in
their garage, officers learned, but the
affair did not become public until
Saturday. Wallace kept silent, it was
said, because the bandit ordered him
to do so under threats.
The oil man was forced to write
two checks of $200 each, to telephone
the banks that they were authentic
and to call a taxi for the bandit, po-
lice were informed. When Mrs. Kil-
patrick, who heard her mother cry-
ing over the telephone, rushed to the
Wallace residence, it was said the
bandit met her at the door and left
her as well as her parents bound.
Wallace was made to tie his wife, it
was said.
At the bank it was reported the
man gave an Austin address.
With a $2.00 purchase at Hooper’s
Store, you can buy a beautiful flow-
ered cup and saucer or dinner plate
for lc. (w)
TWO SCHOOL GIRLS
FREEZE TO DEATH
CHOTEAU, Mont., Dec. 9.—Froz-
en to death as they walked from
their home to a schoolhouse less than
a mile away, the bodies of Irene Lin-
jatie, 15, and her sister, Sylvia, 8,
were brought to Choteau Friday.
The children were the first reported
victims of the 20 below zero weather
which has gripped Montana this week.
Their bodies were foiind huddled to-
gether near a wire fence.
Two brothers had preceded the sis-
ters to school. When Irene and Syl-
via failed to arrive, the brothers as-
sumed the girls had returned to their
home.
The father, Victor Linjatie, a ranch-
er, accompanied by friends, covered
the trail from the ranch to the
schoolhouse and found the bodies.
Major and Mrs. W. W. Carr ar-
rived Monday night from Indian^,
apolis, Ind., to spend the holidays
here in the home of Mrs. Carr’s par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. M. Y. Stokes.
SPEAKER ATTACKS
JAZZ GOSPEL HYMNS
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 8.—T o o
many churches are using jazz gospel
hymns that appeal only to the feet,
declared John Finley Williamson, di-
rector of the Westminster Choir
School of Princeton, N. J.; at the
closing session here today of the
Council of Churches of Christ in
America.
Music, he said, has the power that
religion needs. It speaks the same
language as religion but it also
speaks in other languages.
“We must define the kind of
rhythm we use in our churches,” he
added.
SENATOR WOODRUF j GREAT BRITAIN AGREES
MAY BE GOVERNOR j TO PAY AMERICA DEC. 15
FOR SEVERAL DAYS -
-- j LONDON, Dec. 11.—Great Britain
AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 10.—Senator j notified the United States govern-
H. Grady Woodruff of Decatur, presi-
( dent pro tern of the senate, probably
1 will be Acting Governor for several
1 days starting December 19, when
: Gov. Ross S. Sterling goes to Mississ-
ippi to study the operation of the
sales tax law of that state.
Lieut. Gov. Edgar E. Witt is ill in
Washington and his condition is said
to preclude an early return to Texas.
In fact, he is not expected to be back
for the opening of the legislature
January 10.
This possibility brings up the ques-
tion of who will be the Acting Gov-
ernor if Sterling resigns, as has been
rumored, or absents himself from the
inauguration of Miriam A. Fergu-
son January 17. Sterling and James
E. Ferguson have said many bitter
things of each other, even making
criminal charges, and it is not con-
i sidered possible that they would meet
| peaceably at the inauguration. That
has prompted the suggestion that
Sterling will resign before the inaug-
uration or stay away from the cere-
mony.
Woodruff will become the Acting
Governor by virtue of having been
elected president pro tern of the sen-
ate on the last day of the recent ses-
. sion. A new president pro tern will
| be elected the first day of the com-
| ing session and he will become acting
Lieutenant Governor in Witt’s ab-
sence and Governor if Sterling should
resign or be away. In such an event
j the senate would elect a president
| pro tern ad interim,
j Woodruff is 39 years of age and
j his temporary incumbency would he
one of the few times in the history
of Texas that a president pro tem-
pore has served as governor. State
house statisticians say both the late
Q. U. Watson and R. M. Johnson of
Houston so served.
Aladdin Lamps burn ordinary kero-
sene oil. Give a pure, white light
equal to ten ordinary lamps. Price
$5.75.—Culver Hardware Co., Lam-
pasas. (w)
DRYS’ ATTACK ON BEER
MOVE STARTS MONDAY
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Dry or-
ganizations will throw their full
strength Monday against the house
move to legalize beer while the sen-
ate judiciary committee breaks into
the explosive question of repealing
the eighteenth amendment.
Two full days have been given by
Chairman Collier for the oi'ganized
prohibitionists to present their argu-
ment against his beer measure be-
fore the house ways and means com-
mittee. Moving swiftly, the group
plans to conclude seven days of hear-
ings with the testimony of Secretary
Mills of the treasury Wednesday.
Widely divided on the question of
banning the saloon, but generally
agreed on a proposal to provide pro-
tection for dry states, a group of
senate lawyers will tackle Monday
behind closed doors the problem of
drafting a repeal resolution.
Saloon Issue Imminent.
A prolonged controversy over the
saloon issue is imminent. Despite
the rejection by the house of Speaker
Garner’s .leaders plan to give quick
consideration to the measure report-
ed by the judiciary committee.
Five members of the woman’s na-
tional committee for law enforce-
ment, including Mrs. Henry W. Pea-
body of New York, chairman, and
Tom Love, dry political leader of
Dallas, are the witnesses set to voice
opposition to the beer bill before the
ways and means committee Monday.
WALKER’S BROTHER IS
REMOVED FROM POST
NEW YORK, Dec. 9.—By unani-
mous decision the appellate division
Friday removed Dr. William H. Wal-
ker, brother of former Mayor Wal-
ker, as medical consultant of the
board of education.
In an opinion given with the de-
cision, the appellate division declar-
ed that the fitness of Dr. Walker to
“discharge properly the duties of that
position is not questioned; indeed it is
conceded.”
The court pointed< out, however,
that despite the fact that the muni-
cipal civil service commission twice
had exempted Dr. Walker from ex-
amination for the position, the state
civil service commission twice dis-
approved the exemption.
NORMA STERLING TO WED
AUSTIN, Dec. 10.—Governor and
Mrs. Ross S. Sterling Friday announ-
ced the engagement of their daugh-
ter, Norma, to Cleo Miller of Corsi-
cana. Miss Sterling is the youngest
daughter of Governor and Mrs. Ster-
ling and was reared in Houston. Mr.
Miller is district attorney at Corsi-
cana. The wedding date will be an-
nounced later.
| ment today that it will pay in gold
j the $95,550,000 due next Thursday but
that the money was not to be re-
garded as the resumption of payments
on the scale used before President
Hoover’s moratorium.
Instead, the note note, dispatched
to 'Washington this evening, says the
remittance is to be treated as “a cap-
ital payment of which account should
be taken in any final settlement.”
The decision to pay in gold was
taken, it was stated, since “under the
circumstances this would be the least
prejudicial of methods now open.
In its first paragraph the document
expresses the pleasure of the British
government that “the United States
government welcomes the suggestion
for close examination” of the war
debts problem.
Further, the note urges “the im-
' portance of an early exchange of
| views with the object of concluding
| the prophsed discussion before June
i 15 next in order to obviate the risk
! of a general breakdown of existing j
; intergovernmental agreements.”
Today’s note was never passed up- i
on formally by the cabinet in full |
session, but its contents were decid-
ed upon a week or so ago when ac-
! count was taken of the position which
| would arise if America insisted upon
j full payments.
The memorandum itself has been
considered by ail the ministers, hoAv-
ever, and all have approved it.
No Higher Tax at Present.
In making the note public tonight,
officials in high circles stressed the
point that payment was not to come >
out of revenue, at least at present,
and therefore the question of increas-
es in taxation to raise the amount of
the.payment does not yet arise.
The actual means of transferring
gold to the Washington account will
be gone into during the next day
also, with the probability it will be
earmarked for the account of some
American bank, which will, in turn,
pay actual gold into Washington cof-
fers.
(The French cabinet unanimously
resolved Sunday to pay the $20,000,-
000 installment due from France
next Thursday. This measure how-
ever is still to be ratified by the'
French Chamber of Deputies.)
The note makes no attempt to an-
swer figures for argument set forth
in Secretary of State Stimson’s note
of last Thursday.
Rather, it merely states that these
points will be answered when the na-
tions get together and great Britain’s
demand for scaling down war debts
is presented.
Sterling Makes Gain.
High governmental circles, asked
if they had considered that congress
might be unwilling to accept pay-
ment if accompanied by the stipula-
tions of the character outlined in to-
day’s note, answered that they did
not believe the situation would arise.
J. M. Green, who has been getting
his mail on Kempner rural route, was
in Lampasas Monday and called at
this office to advance his subscrip-
tion and have us change his address
to Lampasas Star route. Thanks,
Mr. Green.
JONES WOULD TURN OYER
COTTON TO RED CROSS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—Legisla-
tion to devote the last of the govern-
ment’s stabilization cotton to distress
relief was introduced Saturday by
Chairman Jones of the house agri-
culture committee.
His bill would turn over to the Red
Cross 329,000 bales for distribution
to the needy in the form of clothing.
“That’s all the stabilization cotton
left,” Jones explained. “There is no
more stabilization wheat left.”
John Barton Payne, chairman of
the Red Cross, advises Jones that
commitments have been made or are
being made for all the 500,000 bales
of cotton allotted the Red Cross last
year. Of the 85,000,000 bushels of
wheat that organization received, he
said 56,000,000 bushels had been as-
signed up to December 3.
DEMOCRTTIC VOTE OF TEXAS
REACHES ALL-TIME RECORD
AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 8.—With six
counties missing, Texas cast 855,441
votes for president in the November
8 election, of which Roosevelt and
Garner electors received 753,304 and
Hoover and Curtis 97,148, giving the
democrats a record majority of 656,-
156 as contrasted with the republican
majority in 1928 of 26,000. Counties
whose returns have not been received
are Bowie, Callahan, Carson, Hopkins,
Pecos and Sherman. The majority
would have been larger with com-
plete returns.
Dan Gentry witht 753,304 votes was
high man of the democratic electors
and H. P. Hornby of Uvalde, Gar-
ner’s home town, was low with 736,-
572. C. L. Long led the republican
electors with 97,148.
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EARLY
WOMAN IS BEATEN
AND SAVINGS TAKEN BY
ROUGH INTRUDER
THREAT TO KIDNAP WIFE
OF MICHIGAN GOVERNOR
COLDWATER, Mich., Dec. 10.—
Arrest of a 17-year-old Coldwater
high school student Saturday disclos-
ed that for a month state and federal
detectives have been investigating a
threat to kidnap Mrs. Wilbur M„
Brucker, wife of Michigan’s governor*
The boy held was Richard Glares,
According to Lieut. Dan A. Loomis
of the state police, Oldren confessed
writing a letter to the governor say-
ing:
“We must have $10,000 by Monday
or your wife will be kidnaped and
DENISON, Texas, Dec. 10.—Left
for dead with a pair of old pajamas
tied around her neck, Mrs. Jane Tins-
ley, 76, with one hand worked the
knot loose, crawled to a telephone,
notified police she has been robbed,
then fainted.
Mrs. Tinsley was robbed of $1,100
by an intruder. The money, her life-
time savings, was sewed in a piece
of domestic placed on a sock and sew-
ed to undergarments. Included in the
money were quite a few $20 bills of
the old size and three postoffice mon- held for ransom.”
ey orders written from Bonham. J The boy also confessed sending ex-
The aged woman resided at the tortion letters to two other Michigan
Alex Acheson home with her daugh- residents. In each case, police and
ter, Mrs. M. Harris. Mr. Harris with postal inspectoi’s believed, he was ac-
several children was skating on snow tuated only by a romantic imagina-
a block from the home. j tion. He is not suspected of plotting
Mrs. Tinsley said a man came from any actual harm to the recipients of
a closet in the house, struck her in the notes.
the face, knocking her to the floor, Governor Brucker turned the note
then dragged her to a room on the he received over to state police, im-
second floor, where pajamas were tied mediately, and no furthr communi-
about her neck. She was strangled cation from the “kidnapers” was re-
while the man tore clothing from her ceived.
body until the money was secured. | The boy admitted, Lieutenant
The aged woman was left for dead, Loomis said, that he sent a series of
according to police who investigated, extortion notes to Allen J. Pratt,
An accurate description of the man wealthy Coldwater manufacturer,
was given police. Mrs. Tinsley came causing Pratt to throw an armed
here from Bonham and had saved guard around the nursery of his 3-
the money for many years, believing year-old son.
it safe sewed to her clothing. Another letter was written, Lieu-
tenant Loomis said the boy confes-
sed, to the sheriff of Branch county.
The writer asked the sheriff to meet
him in a cemetery at midnight to re-
During the debate in congress on ’ceive Momation ,about the “kidnap-
the repeal of the eighteenth amend- , Tnpp.
ment, Representative Blanton of Tex-
as, was given only two minutes to
address the house, but he “said a
plenty,” as the following will show:
‘Mr. Speakei', it took over a hund-
red years for the mothers and fa- Gordon Mackey of Temple, came up
thers of America to banish the sa-; Monday morning to spend a few days
loon. You are proposing here today, j looking after business and to visit
in only 20 minutes of debate against; his mother, Mrs. A. J. Mackey. _
it, without a chance of amendment, to |
BLANTON’S SPEECH
The Tripp child has been missing
for three weeks, but detectives do
not believe Oldren had anything to
do with hr disappearance.
NACOGDOCHES CITY
WORKERS ASK AND
OBTAIN SALARY CUT
legalize the existence of the saloon
and undo the work of a hundred years
for prohibition. I am not willing to
be thus stampeded. I can yet re-
member the evils of the saloon. NACOGDOCHES, Dec. 9.—Salaries
“I know something about conven- and wages o( a], city employes here
tions, where a specially selected chair- wm be reduced 10 per cent January
man, if you please, with a bang of as a Mslflt of a ation from the
the gavel can declare a motion car- , aski for the redl,ction.
ried when three-fourths of the dele-
gates present are against it. They
say that the recent elections were wet
in their complexion. I can not forget
that there will -not be in the next
senate of the United States such out-
The petition was delivered to the
city council at its regular monthly
The petition was signed by the
city manager, city judge, city attor-
. ney, city secretary, all firemen, all
standing wet leaders as a Blame, a ,. , „ , , ,,
, 6 , ’ policemen and all employes of the
Bingham, a Moses, if you please, and , .
, & u, . street and water department.
I can see around me casualties o± ,, cu. n- , .t,
. , . . . , | City Manager Stallings hopes the
political warfare here m this house, , , . , ,.
1 .. „ .T ,, , voluntary salary reduction will en-
such as LaGuardia, of New York, , . ,,
, , , .. ’ . able the city to operate on less than
the outstanding wet leader; I can see <s,on AAA ... ., , , ,
a former distiller here (Mr Hull of $30’000 thlS year’ whlle the budget
T„. . . . ... , . . T provides for an expenditure of $33,-
Illmois), who will not come back; I Ariri , , , , <Pr7-,~r, AA
. . , ’ 000. The budget was cut $7167.90.
can see the great wet advocate from
Milwaukee (Mr. Schafer) who will. MEX1C0 BANS U. S.
not come back; and I see before me
the great wet advocate from Detroit,
the gentleman from Michigan (Mr.
Clancy), who can not come back;
and yet you talk to me about a wet
election. Every dry democrat here
BILLS AND COINS FROM
MAIL TO THAT NATION
(Houston Chronicle)
Sending of American banknotes
. , , ,. , , , . and coins, except gold, through the
supported the national ticket, and vie- .. . ^ ’ , : .■ ’ .
, , ,. , ,. ., J mails into Mexico has been prohibit-
tory came to the democratic side be- . . ... . _ T ...
„ . ,. , . ■ , ed and, until February 1, they will
of issues of far more import- . ’ . a ;
be returned to the senders, it was an-
nounced Friday by Postmaster Roy
_ Nichols on receipt of advice from the
! postoffice department.
Sunday afternoon as Ed Young was The only exception will be the
returning to town from the Colorado notes imported into that country by
river his car struck some loose gravel the Bank of Mexico for the purpose
in the road bed, causing the car to of exchange.
cause
ance than beer. I shalk never vote
for a return of the saloon.”
skid into a ditch. Mr. Young was
thrown into the windshield and suf-
After February 1, all banknotes
and coins sent into Mexico will he
fered several cuts and was bruised confiscated by the Mexican govern-
and shaken up considerable. Mr. ment and the addresses will be sub-
Young is at home but is reported to ject to penalties imposed under the
be getting along nicely. Mexican customs laws.
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