The Lampasas Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. [46], No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, July 20, 1934 Page: 5 of 8
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Summer Sale
Electric Fans
8-inch Straight Fan.
No Radio Interference.
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25c Black Draught.......:........................................19c
Charmona Talcum, 1 Pound Can.................. 19c
Bayer Aspirin Tablets, 100’s..................... 69c
Listerine, large size...............................................59c
50c Honey and Almond Cream..............................35c
60c Syrup Pepsin......,..... ...49c
25c Elkay’s White Shoe Cleaner............................19c
Kotex, 2 boxes for..................... 25c
Large Can Body Powder.............................. 25c
Electric Fan, 8-inch.............................................$1.89
FLASH LIGHT
BATTERIES
Electric Fuse Plugs, 3 for......................... 10c
Extension Cord........................... 25c
Electric Toaster................................................$1.19
Weather Thermometer ............... 23c
Shaving Brushes ..................................................39c
RAZOR BLADES
DOUBLE EDGE
25 BLADES FOR 35C
SEE OUR BIG CIRCULAR WITH MANY
OTHER BARGAINS.
MACKEY’S DRUGS
Lion Drug Store
BY THOUGHT KIDNAP-
ED BY DEGENERATE
HARTSDALE, N. Y., July 13.—
arch for an eccentric peddler as
e kidnaper of 18 months old Bobby
nnor, son of Charles H. Connor,
w York mortgage broker, was or-
red today after fruitless search by
ate troopers, police and volunteers
shed hopes he might have strayed
to the underbrush of nearby es-
tes.
Bobby had been missing 18 hours
noon. He disappeared from the
me of his parents last evening
ortly after a drug peddler had
n chased from the neighborhood.
The fact that no ransom demands
d been received by Bobby’s par-
ts nor at the home of his grand-
her, Charles P. Connor of Arling-
, Mass., led Police Captain Phillip
MacQuillan to believe that it was
e work of a degenerate who had
en the boy for revenge.
Possibility that the child—about the
e of Charles A. Lindbergh J*r.,
hen he was kidnaped and killed two
ars ago—had toddled away and be-
me lost became faded today as
ylight searching parties returned
eary, torn by brambles and empty-
nded, as had hundreds of police,
emen and neighbors who beat the
oods all night. A call was sent for
0 Boy Scouts and they joined the
rch.
jDozens of posses had covered miles
ground; a trained police dog had
iced an eliptical route a few yards
ig back to the starting point. The
g was given the scent and ended
e trail a few minutes later at a
eet corner, a block from the Con-
r home, where Ruth Schwagerman,
a neighbor’s child, said she left
bby after a walk last night.
The child’s parents said the only
planation they could give for the
naping was the possibility of a
nsom collection from the boy’s pa-
ial grandfather.
Mrs. Connor became hysterical and
under the care of a physician to-
y. Connor led one of the search-
parties.
Connor returned to Hartsdale from
New York office just after his
’s disappearance. He immediately
tified police. Alarmed when they
re unable to find any trace of the
y, they called in state troopers.
Police said one woman in the neigh-
drove the peddler from her
home with a shotgun after he had
threatened her. The man was selling
patent medicines. Mrs. Connor re-
fused to buy from him.
The Connors have four other chil-
dren, the youngest being 2 months old
Jewel. The other children are visit-
ing their maternal grandmother, Mrs.
Richard H. Murphy, in Bridgeport.
Mrs. Connor’s father was the late
Richard Murphy, wealthy Bridgeport
contractor and police commissioner.
PARALYSIS OF STRIKE
TAKES LARGER TOLL
SAN FRANCISCO, July 12.—Strike
paralysis crept farther along the
channels of Pacific Coast commerce
today and San Francisco began to
take on the aspects of a beleaguered
city in face of a threatened general
walkout.
The crucial situation stretched far
beyond the reach of President Roose-
velt’s labor dispute board as one
union after another made known its
intentions to strike or to follow rec-
ommendations soon to be made by a
strategy committee on the question
on a general walkout.
The federal board worked in a
tense atmosphere, hoping to persuade
the striking maritime unions to sub-
mit to arbitration the issues involv-
ed in the tangled situation.
Ignoring the plea of the president’s
board for delay, the teamsters unions
of San Francisco and Alameda coun-
ty walked out 3,700 strong, stopping
the movement of freight motor ve-
hicles. Wholesale butcher workers
dropped their knives and cleavers,
cutting off fresh meat supplies for
the 1,000,000 residents of the bay
cities.
National guard troops, ending their
first week of occupation of the San
Francisco waterfront prepared for
“any emergencies.”
Marvin Adams, who has been a
guest in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
P. H. Creekmore for the past few
days, returned Sunday to his home
in Del Rio.
Mrs. W. S. Hoover is home from
Brady where dhe has been visiting
with her sister, Mrs. W. H. Adkins.
Judge and Mrs. Adkins accompanied
her home and he spent a short time
here in the interest of his candidacy
for representative from this district
, Lithography Figure* h»
Supply of P. O. Stamps
Lithography, the third division of
I the printing industry, furnishes a large
I share of all stamps printed. To some
j people this kind of printing brings
j to mind only the cheapest kind of
j work, declares a writer in the Chicago
Tribune, but this is tint the fault of
lithography, but is due rather to the
fart that it is used under conditions
where all forms of printing would he
equally poor. Very often a country
will employ an engraving house to de-
sign its stamps and print the first sup-
plies, :and when these are exhausted
turn over samples to a local shop to
duplicate.
The whole process of lithography Is
STRIKE SITUATION SERIOUS
IN SAN FRANCISCO
SAN FRANCISCO, July 16.—Suc-
cumbing to the creeping paralysis of
a progressive general strike, San
F’rancisco today appeared but a
shadow of its bluff, hearty and color-
ful self.
Literally thousands of her three-
quarter million inhabitants had left
the city.
“Closed until the strike is over,”
appeared on the windows of hundreds
of business places.
The hum and clang of street cars
was silenced.
Auto traffic which normally con-
based on the fact that oil and water nested her concentrated downtown
do not mix, and uses for printing ; district dwindled
plates certain kinds of stone or metal,
which retain both the ink and the
water during the printing. Transfer
designs are printed from the die in
special ink and laid down on a litho-
graphic stone or metal plate. This
special ink has an affinity for greasy
ink and is repellant to water. If the
stone is now moistened and an Inking
roller passed over the surface the ink
will adhere to the transferred designs,
and a print may be taken just as if
the designs projected as in typography.
The poor lithography found in some
stamps is due to carelessness in mak-
ing transfers and to worn-out plates.
When properly done it would puzzle
an expert to decide whether a certain
stamp is lithographed or typographed
If he is furnished with a single copy.
Chimpanzee’s Vision Is
as Keen as That of Man
By means of a new method of test-
ing animal vision chimpanzees have
been found to possess about the same
keenness of eyesight as man. The meth-
od of testing the vision of the apes, a
professor of Yale university explained
to members of the American Psycho-
logical association, was to place food
in a box having a circle with black
and white stripes on it and none in a
similar box having a plain clear circle.
The width of the stripes was then va-
ried by the examiner very gradually
until they were so narrow as to be in-
visible to the eyes of the subject. The
keener the eyes, the narrower the
stripes could be made before the sub-
ject would be confused and be unable
to choose the right box. Human be-
ings tested with the same boxes were
allowed to say which had the stripes.
One of the chimpanzees tested in
the course of these experiments was
found to have eyesight about the same
as that of human adults tested, and
definitely better than that of a five-
year-old child. The vision of another
chimpanzee tested did not appear quite
ns good as that of the first one, but
this was thought to be due to the an-
imal’s physiological condition at the
time.
to a mere trickle.
Her teeming wholesale district
where sightseei’s once marveled at
the magnificent array of farm and
orchard products was as silent as a
cemetery.
Not a taxicab cruised the streets.
Parking space normally not to be
had in any downtown section was
open with no takers. A battleship
could have been parked Sunday on
Market Street, main artery of the
city.
Blinds were down on home after
home. “Gone away for the summer,”
their blankness seemed to shout.
“No gasoline due to strike condi-
tions,” read flaming red signs posted
on all of the city’s hundreds of gaso-
line filling stations.
Virtually similar conditions exist-
ed in San Francisco’s sister east bay
cities of Oakland, Alameda and Berke-
ley.
Contrasting reports from Northern
and Central California resort towns
told of a steady ingress of residents
of San Francisco and surrounding
cities. Vacations were set forward
to coincide with the “state of seige”
in San Francisco. Resorts advertis-
ed in San Francisco papers “no food
or gasoline shortage” at their respec-
tive locations, and the lure was ir-
resistible in fun-loving “natives” of
the city by the Golden Gate.
San Francisco papers published as
usual. One carried an admonition to
readers: “Discard rumors—look to
your daily paper for authentic strike
news.”
Circulation figures were “up” indi-
cating the avid interest of the bay
i
SATURDAY SPECIAL
at HIGDON’S
Another shipment of Women’s and Children’s
PANTIES
Made of fine rayon trimmed and tailored. Wo-
men s size, small, medium and large; children’s
from 6 to !6 size.
About two hundred and fifty pair, no limit
set
—the only oases—are selling gasoline
only to doctors and police cars. Mo-
torists have garaged their cars for
the duration of the strike.
Barber Shops—Haircuts and shaves
ended as barbers joined walkout.
Beer—Beverages of all kinds “down
to the last pint.” Bartenders joined
strike today.
Be on hand at Higdon’s dress sale,
beginning Saturday. Price $1.09 or
two for $2.00. Come and bring a
friend. (d-w)
‘SMOOTH TALKERS” ROB
BANK CASHIER
POLICE GUARD HOUSTON MEN
CLINTON, Okla., July 13.—Alfred
Crow, 22 year old cashier of the
First National Bank here, told Sher-
iff G. G. Simpson Friday he had been
robbed of $1,500 by two “smooth
talking” men in a hotel room Thurs-
day night.
Lured by the pair’s story of a
city residents in what one paper de- j chemical “m0ney box” by which they
scribed as the greatest crisis in the cou]d reproduce currency, the sheriff
Setting Egg on End
1 The story of Christopher Oolumbns
setting the egg on end can be fonnd
In any good biography of Columbus
and is as follows: After the discover-
er had returned from his second voy-
age, the honors that he received
aroused the ehvy of the retainers of
the Spanish court. At a dinner given
him, the conversation turned, of
course, upon the wonderful new world
just found. One of the courtiers en-
deavored to depreciate the value of
the discovery, and said that more had
been made of the achievement, in his
opinion, than it deserved. For reply
to these slighting remarks, Columbus
took up an egg and asked If anyone
could make It stand on end. When
the others had tried in vain to ac-
complish the feat, Columbus struck
the egg on the table, breaking its
shell, and thus making it stand up-
right. “Why, anyone can do that,”
cried the courtiers. “Certainly, when I
have shown you the way,” replied Co-
lumbus, and made no further remarks.
Inflation and Deflation
Gold and silver certificates are pro-
tected by an equal amount of gold
and silver In the treasury; federal
reserve notes are protected by 40 per
cent or more of gold and the remain-
der government bonds or commercial
paper; other paper money Is secured
similarly, by gold, the assets of the
federal reserve institutions, or govern-
ment obligations. Inflation Is the ex-
pansion of the volume of money and
credit more rapidly than is needed
by business, tending to decrease the
value of money and therefore to raise
prices. Deflation is a contraction of
the volume of money and credit, even
more swiftly than business is declin-
ing. It tends to Increase the value of
money and to depress prices.
Poppers Contain Vitamin C
That green peppers contain almost
twice as much vitamin C as oranges
is tfie discovery of a professor of
Creighton university. Fie also has
found that cabbage, eaten raw in the
form of cole slaw, contains ten times
as much vitamin C as lettuce and that
sweet potatoes are better than Irish
potatoes for nutritional purposes.
Green peas are better than beans.
Chicken in any cooked form Is only
about one-tenth as nutritious as liver
and hardly one-fourth as nutritious as
ordinary meat.—Popular Mechanics
Magazine.
Trinidad
One of the wonders of the world is
located on the British Island of Trin-
idad, one of the southernmost of the
West Indies group, just off the coast
of Venezuela. This Is the famous Pitch
lake nt La P.roa. not far from Port of
Spain.
history of San Francisco since 1906
—the date of the earthquake and
fire which destroyed the city.
Nineteen restaurants given permis-
sion by strike leaders to remain open
bore small printed placards “Strike
Permit” and were thronged. Other
non-permit restaurants which still
had food on hand remained open in
some* instances.
“We have 3000 chickens on hand
due to a canceled banquet,” one hotel
reported, “so our guests may have
chicken for some time.”
Another stated that laundry had
become a more serious problem than
food, but that steps were being taken
to “handle that situation.”
The “bright” side of the situation
was the continuance of electric ser-
vice, enabling San Francisco and en-
virons to blaze with accustomed bril-
liance at night and the continued
functioning of telephone service.
There was a plentiful supply of food
in most homes. Nearly every one
had stocked up and the menace of
privation, other than for a possible
shortage of green foodstuffs, was
weeks and in some cases months off
in private homes.
Downtown residents faced a less
happy prospect. The 19 “permitted”
restaurants could admittedly feed only
a small portion of the downtown res-
idents dependent upon public food
catering establishments.
Hotels were packed. Large cor-
porations, including the public ser-
vice utilities, had taken blocks of
rooms running from scores into the
hundreds for their employes in order
to meet the virtually complete trans-
portation tieup.
“Come prepared for two months
stay,” one company told its employes.
“We will serve no meals,” most
hotels told new customers.
In most cases where hotels main-
tained dining rooms they closed their
doors to the general public, but an-
nounced that to the best of their
ability and for as long as possible
they would feed their resident guests.
Cigarette and tobacco stores, un-
able to replenish supplies, were sell-
ing only one package of cigarettes
or one tin of tobacco to each cus-
tomer.
Funerals—Strike executivt commit-
tee issuing special permits for union
hack drivers and hearse drivers.
Garbage—Warned by City Health
Director Dir. J. C. Geiger that an
epidemic would result unless debris
was removed as usual, the strike ex-
ecutive committee exempted garbage
trucks from the general walkout.
Ferries—Auto ferries still operat-
ing. Passenger ferries which handle
United States mail between San Fran-
cisco and east bay cities will continue
to carry passengers—and the mail.
Gasoline—Only three service sta-
tions open in the city. These stations
said Crow told him he took the $1,500
to the hotel room. The men opened
up their kit and began working on
one of the bills, with Crow watching
intently. Suddenly the men seized the
sack of money and ran out of the
room, locking the door. By the time
Crow got out, they were gone.
Sheriff Simpson said the men had
been here two days, representing
themselves as business ,men ffrom
Oklahoma City.
The “money box” was found in the
room and the sheriff said he would
send it to the Department of Jus-
tice office in Oklahoma City.
Crow is the son of the bank presi-
dent.
TWO NATIONS HURT BY
TAUK OF NRA CHIEF
WASHINGTON, July 13.—Barely
had the state department assured the
Germany embassy today that Hugh
S. Johnson was not a spokesman for
the American government in inter-
national matters before word spread
in the capital that Mexico, too, was
displeased by remai’ks of the quick
speaking general.
The Mexican embassy declined to
discuss the matter but from other
quarters it was understood that ref-
erences Johnson made to Mexico in
his Waterloo, Iowa, speed had been
transmitted to the Mexican foreign
office for study.
A protest by the German charge
d’affaires today brought from Secre-
tary Hull an explanation that John-
son was speaking as an individual
and not for the government.
Mexican tempers were ruffled by
Johnson’s reference to the Pancho!
Villa epoch of 20 years ago. The j
Mexicans regarded his reference to J
that hectic period as an unfortunate
and gratuitous reminder of condi-
tions no longer existing in Mexico.
Johnson, in his speech, referred to
recent executions in Germany and
declared:
“I have seen something of that sort
in Mexico during the Villa ravages
and among semi-civilized people or
savages half-drunk on Sotol and
Marijuana, but that such a thing
should happen in a country of some
supposed culture passes comprehen-
sion.”
Informed at Omaha of the protest,
Johnson said:
“I meant everything I said.”
HOUSTON, July 17.—Independent
longshoremen worked along the Hous-
ton waterfront Tuesday under police
protection as detectives continued'
their investigation into the rioting -
that took the lives of three negro
workers Sunday, and resulted in the
wounding of three other negroes and,
a white man.
H. J. (Happy) Freeman, C. Q-
Reeves and S. P. Brown, the latter
a negro, stood charged with murder
in connection with the slayings,- and
three cases of assault to murder were
on file against the trio. The shoot-
ing occurred when a small sedan
loaded with negro independent work-
ers di’ew the fire of union longshore-
men. All three of the men held are
members of the International Long-
shoremen’s Association.
Reeves, with a bullet wound in his
neck, was under police guard at a
hospital. Freeman and Brown were
in jail.
A searching probe into the shoot-
ings was under way Tuesday morn-
ing by the Harris county grand jury,
and the district attorney's office had
secured witnesses to provide mem-
bers of the body with a full report
of the incident.
Feeling was running high among
negro independents, it was said.
The I. L. A. was assured of its
right to peaceful picketing with a
visitation of George Wilson, secretary
of the Houston Labor and Trades
Council, and J. Isbell, business man-
ager of the I. L. A., who appeared
before Public Safety Director George
Woods and Police Chief B. W. Payne.
“You have the privilege of peace-
ful picketing,” said Woods, “and we
won’t deprive you of it so long as Si.
is done in an orderly manner.” The
negroes reported- to Woods that po-
lice had ordered them to “break up
and go home” when they picketed the
waterfront Sunday.
“We are not going to-molest peace-
ful picketers,” declared Chief Paynes
“But we will not have men ganging'
up with guns, clubs and stones.”
Miss Wilma and Kenneth Leather-
wood of San Angelo spent the wefek
end in the home of their aunt, Mrs.
Felix Earnest. Miss Leatherwood re-
mained here for a visit..
L. C. McCandless and Dr. M. M.
Landrum spent Sunday with Dr. Lan-
drum’s mother, Mrs. H. L. Edens of.
Bertram. *
Mrs. Roy Walker and daughter,
Miss Mary Kathryn, left Monday
morning for San Antonio to visit
Mrs. Walker’s sister.
Mrs. Eld Easters, Misses Vaughn
Dane Craft and Lila Everett return-
ed to Lampasas Sunday from Den-
ton where the latter two have been
attending summer school.
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