The Lampasas Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, January 22, 1932 Page: 7 of 8
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LAST SURVIVOR OF CLASS OF
1858 OF BAYLOR, THEN LOCATED
AT INDEPENDENCE, DIES AT
SAN SABA
PARTNERSHIP
(Houston Chronicle)
Married life is a partnership—part-
ner comes first.
With this in mind there should be
mutual understanding and definite
principles decided upon before mar-
riage.
Man should be the head of the
household to keep his self-respect.
Woman should be the queen of the
home to preserve its ideals.
Each with the interests of the oth-
ers first in mind it is easier to come
to a perfect unity of purpose and its
fulfillment.
Children sanctify the home and
keep the atmosphere sweeter, make
sacrifce easier and hearts younger.
Children mean a threefold interest
in home, church and civic life.
Home life is more perfectly bal-
anced when full responsibility is rec-
ognized from the start.
Young persons before they marry
should have set aside enough to pay
for more than the bare necessities.
Through insurance or some other
method of saving, young couples
.should provide against the time when
there is likely to be unusual demands
upon the family purse.
Such periods should not have the
extra worry which comes with the
realization of having bills that can
not be met when due.
JAPANESE ARMY AVENGES
RECENT LOSS OF TROOPS
SHORT SELLING BAN
DRIVE IS OPENED
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—A group
of house members opened their cam-
paign for the abolishment of short
selling on cotton and grain exchanges
with criticism of the grain futures
act.
Before the house agriculture com-
mittee Chairman Jones said the grain
futures administration “has been of
no benefit whatever.”
Representative Cross, Democrat,
Texas, added that “the grain law has
been absolutely worthless,” and Chair-
man Vinson of the house naval com-
mittee held the administration of
grain futures transactions “has not
been up to expectation.”
He has proposed two methods, one
prohibiting short selling and the oth-
er placing it under the jurisdiction
of the department of agriculture. He
said, however, he thought a regula-
tory bill would be more beneficial
than a prohibitory one.
“Here is this great commodity—cot-
ton—and we have no regulatory laws
of any kind dealing with exchanges,”
e said.
MUKDEN, Manchuria, Jan. 18.—
The Japanese army has avenged its
dead.
Official communiques said today
hundreds of Chinese have been killed
in a series of offensives undertaken
in retaliation for the Chinese victor-
ies of last week, in which the Japan-
ese casualties were heavy.
Supported by heavy artillery and
airplanes, the avenging columns of
Japan killed at least 220 Chinese in
engagements at Qantai and Tungliao,
the communiques said, and near
Yingkow, where a force of 500 Chin-
ese was encountered “a considerable
number” of casualties was inflicted.
These were the three major en-
gagements, but there were many oth-
ers. Larger units were employed than
in previous activities of this sort, and
more imposing auxiliary arms.
While the Japanese pressed on with
their work of revenge, new groups of
Chinese war lords arrived in Muk-
den to take part in negotiations look-
ing toward the establishment of
new Manchurian state, wholly free of
Chinese control.
General Shigeru Honjo, Japanese
high commander, explained the fierce-
ness of his new offensives by saying
it was necessary to rid south Man-
churia of “the curse of banditry” in
order to permit the Chinese farmers
to sow their spring crops “in assur-
ance of safety and peace.”
SAN SABA, Jan. 16.—Mi*s. Frances
Rogers Harris, last surviving mem-
ber of the graduating class of 1858
of Baylor University, then located at
Old Independence, died here Wednes-
day. Mrs. Bettie Carter Davis of
Houston, who died a few years ago,
was the second last survivor of the
class. Mrs. Harris died at the home
of her son, W. R. Harris, following
an illness of a few weeks.
Mrs. Harris was born in Mississ-
ippi in 1842, and came to Texas with
her parents. In 1863 she was mar-
ried to Lieut. George H. Harris, who
had served with her father, Capt. Wil-
liam P. Rogers, in the Confederate
army. They came to San Saba in
1885, living here continuously after-
wards.
At the seventy-fifth jubilee of Bay-
lor University, held at Waco in 1920,
Mrs. Harris received the bachelor of
arts degree. At the time of her grad-
uation 74 years ago, the institution
did not confer degrees. Mrs. Harris’
father was at that time connected
with Baylor University, and an ad-
dress by him in 1852 on “Female Edu-
cation,” which appears in the records
of that institution, was presented by
the daughter to Baylor University.
The class roll at the time of the
graduation of Frances Rogers is an
interesting one, and is recorded as
follows: Emmeline Allcom, Mary All-
corn, Mary Eddins, Sallie Chambers,
Bebbie Carter, Kate Clark, Sallie Mc-
Neal, Mary McKeller, Dora Pettus,
Rachel Barry, Mary Whiteside, Julia
Robertson, Rebecca Skelton.
Some of these women have been
the wives and mothers of men prom-
inent in the history of Texas. Dora
Pettus Hobby was the mother of
Gov. William Pettus Hobby; Mary
McKeller was wife of Congressman
Hinndon, and Rachel Barry the wife
of Capt. Charles Stuart.
Mrs. Harris had until the past few
years taken an active part in the
church and social life of the city and
county. She has been a favorite in
the receiving line at church receptions
and other social affairs. She has
stood staunchly for female education,
as did her father.
Mrs. Harris taught in the San Saba
schools for many years.
GIRL’S NECK IS BROKEN
BUT SHE STILL LIVES
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Jan. 16.—
Miss Katherine McGlothing, 17, San
Marcos Teachers’ College co-ed, suf-
fered a broken neck in a fall from an
eleventh-story fire escape at the Plaza
Hotel into the San Antonio River.
X-ray examination Saturday, coun-
ty hospital authorities said, revealed
a fracture of the second vertebra, but
there was no pressure on Miss Mc-
Glothing’s spinal cord and she was
reported doing as well as might be
expected, with chances for recovery,
The girl’s father, A. V. McGlothing
of Buda, came to her bedside.
Miss McGlothing was rescued by
the Rev. P. B. Hill and Detective L.
W. Jackson. The three feet of water
in the river apparently broke the fall
to prevent instant death.
JURY FAILS TO INDICT
IN MERCY DEATH
ALONG 15-MILE FRONT
WATERS OF FLOOD EXTENDING
GLENDORA, Miss., Jan. 18.—An
inland sea extending over thousands
of acres of fertile farm land stretch-
ed along a 125-mile front today and
threatened to invade other northwest-
ern Mississippi territory before it
subsides.
Relief workers surveyed the situa-
tion and said approximately 45,000
persons had been affected thus far by
the flood, but not all to a serious de-
gree.
The water has invaded eight coun-
ties and threatens to enter two
others.
In the Tippo basin area, 2,000 to
3,000 persons were reported as “mak-
ing the best of it,” although ma-
rooned in their homes.
NOTE GINNED INTO BALE
OF COTTON BRINGS LET-
TERS FROM MAN IN ENGLAND
HOUSE COMMITTEE
MAY ASK MELLON
TO BE WITNESS
OFFICERS READY TO MEET
BORDER HORSE RUSTLERS
Among the out of town relatives
here Thursday, Jan. 14, to attend the
meral of T. N. Stevens were: R. F.
tes and his daughter, Mrs. John
^nnor of Coryell County; Mrs. Q.
Wilson and daughter, Mrs. W. D.
?gs of Lometa; Mr. and Mrs.
iett Gibson of Hico; Mr. and Mrs,
M. McGehee of Abilene.
M’ALLEN, Jan. 18.—Border patrol-
men from half a dozen points were
ready to move to this section today
as reports flew thick and fast that
Mexican horse rustlers were planning
retaliation for the slaying Saturday
night of one of their comrades and
the wounding of two others.
Border “grapevine” telegraph hum-
med Sunday with news that the band
of rustlers, who ^ur nights ago shot
up the border town of Tabasco, were
planning (an attack on border ipa-
trolmen who slew Toribio Gonzales
near Devils Crossing, 20 miles south-
west of here.
It was reported that one of the two
rustlers who were shot died near
Reynosa, opposite here, Sunday.
LAKE VICTOR NEWS
(By Reporter)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—Secre-
tary Mellon may be asked to tell the
House Judiciary Committee in person
about some of his business affairs
which Representative Patman of Tex-
as claims make it illegal for him to
continue in office.
While hearings continued Monday
on Mr. Patman’s resolution of im-
peachment, it was learned several
members of the committee are con-
sidering making such a request. Thus
far in the hearings, Mr. Mellon’s side
of the controversy has been upheld
by two specially chosen representa-
tives.
Mr. Patman Monday reiterated his
charge Mr. Mellon was influential in
securing valuable concessions for the
Gulf Oil Company from the Republic
of Colombia. Although he said he
was without definite proof, the Texan
contended Mr. Mellon had exerted
pressure upon the South American
country by opposing credit extensions
to It in the United States.
“FOUL-BALL SUIT” FOR
$1,000,000 DROPPED BY
BEAUMONT WOMAN
BEAUMONT, Jan. 18.—Announcing
that the spirit of the occasion prompt-
ed her to abandon a hostility of 20
years toward the game of baseball,
Mrs. Sol Elisha, Beaumont woman,
who last month sued owners of the
Beaumont Texas League club for $1,-
000,000 for injuries allegedly suffered
by foul balls knocked from the park
into her house, placed a ball in the
cornerstone of the new Jefferson
County court house that was dedi-
cated here Sunday.
The gesture, Mrs. Elisha said, was
to indicate she was . “burying her
grudge” against the game. Her suit
will be withdrawn.
(Rockdale Reporter)
Back in the fall of 1915, Louis
Lewis, Rockdale citizen and farmer,
was waiting in a local gin for a bale
of cotton. As his bale was being
pressed he dropped a note in the
press. The note was addressed to
whoever might find it, and requested
a report on the final destination of
that particular bale, together with the
price paid for same.
The following summer he received
a letter from William Glover, an op-
erative in a fcotton mill at Lancashire,
England. The letter stated that Glo-
ver found the note in a bale of cot-
ton going through his machine, and
that the mill had paid four cents
more for the cotton than Lewis had
received for it in Rockdale.
Since that time Lewis and Glover
have carried on a desultory coiTes-
pondence, and last week another let-
ter from Glover gave some interest-
ing information concerning financial
conditions in England. Glover stated
that the cotton mill for which he
worked had just resumed operations
after a shut-down of more than a
year. He stated they were using cot-
ton from various countries, including
India and Russia. He sent along a
sample of the Russian cotton, which
local buyers classed as “middling,”
with a sample of 7-8 to 1 inch, but
which had apparently been poorly
ginned. The letter stated that about
ten per cent of the cotton used in
that mill was from Russia.
The English government takes care
of the unemployment situation in that
country through the “dole system,”
according to Glover, worthy men in
the ranks of the unemployed receiv-
ing a weekly allowance from govern-
ment funds. This dole amounts to
about $3.60 per week for married
men, and about $2.50 for unmarried.
Conditions are improving slowly, if
at all, the letter stated.
MILLERSBURG, Ohio, Jan. 15.—A
grand jury today refused to indict a
father who killed his baby because it
was incurably ill.
Fifteen men and women who have
pondered the case since Monday rec-
ommended that James Stenhouse, a
stone cutter of Killbuck, near here,
be given a sanity test and if found
insane be committed to an asylum.
He had confessed to slaying his 2-
year-old son, David Oscar.
The “merciful killer” maintained “I
know I did right.” He said the baby
was suffering with a brain disease
which the doctor said was incurable.
He chloroformed the child two
years ago to spare his wife the agony
of her brief, he said in a confession
as related by Sheriff John A. Stev-
ens. Mrs. Stenhouse, standing firm
with her husband, was the chief wit-
ness before the grand, jury which took
up his case today.
Driven by the fear of being found
out despite his clear conscience, the
stone cutter walked into the sheriff’s
office last week and confessed, Sheriff
Stevens said.
Stenhouse, according to his story,
was unable to forget the deed and fre-
quently went on drinking sprees to
bolster himself up to keep his secret.
In his confession Stenhouse said he
came home intoxicated one night to
find the child in a stupor. Three
weeks before he had purchased the
drug, but did not have sufficient cour-
age to use it.
This night, he said, his wife was ill
in another room, and, stimulated by
liquor, he decided to end the child’s
life. He saturated a cloth and placed
it over the boy’s face. Then, he said
he called the family physician. The
doctor having attended the youth nu-
merous times, issued a death certifi-
cate that the child died with a brain
infection.
Stenhouse said he told his story to
his wife and she advised him to keep
quiet, because she felt the boy was
better off.
Last week Stenhouse confided to
his daughter Ellen, 13, that he killed
her brother. He said he then be-
came alarmed because he did not feel
the child understood his motive.
Fear that some day the child or
himself might make an unintentional
remark caused him to go to the
sheriff.
“My daughter was all broken up.
I don’t know what made me tell her,”
Stenhouse said.
Habitual drinking, he said, often
caused his wife to threaten to tell of-
ficers the story. He doubted she
would ever do this because of the
fear he might commit suicide.
MORPHINE ADDICT CURED IN
SIX DAYS AS CORNELL MEDICS
“WASH BRAIN” WITH SODIUM
HOUSE APPROVES FINANCE BILL
FRAUD ORDER HITS
XED RADIO STATION
DISABLED VETS MEET
IN AUSTIN NEXT YEAR
Mrs. A. A. Feild has been visiting
her son at Sage this week end.
Mrs. Ethel Adams has been visit-
ing her aunt, Mrs. Harry Easters.
Miss Wilbur Barrett has been visit-
ing friends in Lampasas this week.
Mrs. A. V. Feild has returned from
Dallas where she has been visiting
her daughter, Mrs. R. V. Peirpont.
Mrs. Laura Piper has been visiting
her mother in Austin, this week.
WACO, Jan. 18.—Disabled world
war veterans have chosen Austin as
the site for their next state conven-
tion.
Lourence Melton of Dallas was re-
elected president. Other officers chos-
en were Fred L. Cone of Wichita
Falls, senior vice councilor; Benjamin
W. Pfister of Austin, first junior vice
councilor; C. F. Searles of San An-
tonio, second junior vice councilor;
S. M. Billing of Dallas, treasurer, re-
elected, and E. H. Gideon of Bonham,
chaplain, re-elected.
(Houston Chronicle)
A fraud order, withholding all mail
addressed to Radio Station XED at
Reynosa, Mexico, has been issued by
the postoffice department, it was an-
nounced Friday by Postmaster Roy
Nichols.
The station, he said, has been con-
ducting a lottery, which is in viola-
tion of federal laws.
All mail addressed to that station
or to B. Ramos and M. Saya, Mexican
officials, will be returned to the send-
ers, he said. Also, no money orders
will be issued for or paid to the per-
sons named in the order, he said.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—Presi-
dent Hoover’s $2,000,000,000 recon-
struction finance corporation proposal
was approved today by the House.
The vote was 335 to 55.
It now goes to conference, where
differences between the House and
Senate bills will be composed.. Final
Congressional action is expected ^next
week.
The corporation will be set up soon
thereafter by President Hoover, and
will be governed by a board of di-
rectors consisting of seven members.
A provision setting aside $200,000,
000 for loans to farmers through in-
termediate credit banks and similar
institutions was inserted by the House.
It also adopted an amendment to pre-
vent any applicant for loans to the
relief corporation from paying a com-
mission to anyone for obtaining finan-
cial assistance.
The House struck out a provision
that Speaker Garner appoint two of
the four appointive members of the
hoard of (directors, and gave that
authority to the chief executive.
It limited the terms of the direc-
tors to two years each. Secretary
Mellon, Secretary Hyde and Governor
Eugene Meyer of the Federal Farm
Board, would be directors ex-officio.
ITHACA, N. Y., Jan. 16.—Complete
breaking of a morphine drug habit
in six days by a treatment new to
medicine was reported Friday at
Cornell university.
The narcotic patient apparently was
completely cured and with little dis-
comfort.
The treatment is administration of
a compound designed to wash the
brain and nervous system clean of the
“habit.” This habit, under the Cor-
nell interpretation, is a thickening of
proteins in brain cells, a condition
which persists after the narcotic is
stopped and which accounts for con-
tinuance of the craving. The new
antidote, sodium rhodanate, is a pep-
tizer, or thinner, of the thickened pro-
teins.
The hospital story of this case is
to appear in the January number of
the proceedings of the National Acad-
emy of Sciences. It is told by Wilder
D. Bancroft, Ph. Di.; Robert S. Gutsell,
M. D., and John E. Rutzler Jr.
It records the first application to a
human being suffering from narcotic
habit of discoveries at Cornell about
a year ago that anesthesia, uncon-
sciousness from a blow on the head,
insanity, alcoholic intoxication and
narcotic habits [all have a similar
physical basis, a change in the brain
proteins. This research was done
with the aid of the Heckscher! Foun-
dation for Advancement of Science.
The morphine patient was a male
nurse, an addict for 16 years. Cures
had been attempted six times pre-
viously and he had been recorded as
a “mean case.” The treatment con-
sisted in reducing him in six days
from 12 grains of morphine daily to
none, and substituting sodium rhoda-
nate for the morphine cuts.
Narcotic reduction bepan his third
day in Ithaca Memorial hospital.
On the ninth day, the report says,
the patient was “depressed for the
last time.” He was incredulous to
know he received no morphine that
day.
Tenth day—“Completely relaxed
and comfortable.”
Sodium rhodanate was piven for
two more days and then reduced
slowly. December 9, last, all mor-
phine stopped and the report says the
patient has had no desire and felt no
need for the narcotic since.
The report also says this first hu-
man case substantiates similar re-
sults in previously treating narcotic
habits in dogs.
PIONEER TEXAS COW MAN DIES
RUTH REFUSES TO SIGN
CONTRACT ON 1-YEAR BASIS
EMPLOYMENT AGENCY ES-
TABLISHED IN ABILENE
The Leader is in receipt of a mes-
sage from Congressman Thomas L.
Blanton, at Washington, in which he
states [that an employment agency
was established Saturday at Abilene
by the department of labor. This
agency will exhaust every possible
means to find jobs for the unemploy-
ed. Roy Savage is manager of this
agency at Abilene.
NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—“I think
I’m worth the other $10,000,” Babe
Ruth said after he had received his
new contract, “and I’m sending the
contract back. I think they’re carry-
ing this cutting business too far and
making a joke of it.”
Babe 'was asked what he would
consider a fair contract.
“Well, I think $70,000 for two years
would be all right,” he said. He said
he did not plan to communicate with
Colonel Ruppert and that the next
move was up to the Yankee owner.
He left the inference that a one-
year contract for $80,000 would be
all right.
DALLAS, Jan. 16.—Geo. Samuel
White, 77, pioneer Texas cattleman,
died here. His body will be sent to
Weatherford, where he resided for
the past 50 years, for burial.
White came to Texas from Missouri
in 1872. His first ranch was near
Brady. Later he operated ranches in
other parts of the state. His partner
for many years was D. D. Swearin-
gen of Quanah.
Relatives said funeral services
would be conducted either Saturday
or Sunday. He was survived by one
son, W. S. White, of Crane, and three
daughters, Mrs. R. W. Semple of Dal-
las, at whose home he died; Mrs. O.
L. Barnes and Mrs. C. H. Sewell of
Houston.
CONVICTS WILL TESTIFY ON FEE
Emanuel Tumlinson returned Mon-
day morning to his duties with the
Andrew-Wright Grocery iCo., after
having been confined to his home for
several weeks on account of illness,
AUSTIN, Jan. 16.—Five convicts of
the Texas penitentiary and a man
now held in jail have been served with
bench warrants as witnesses in the
case of Sheriff A. J. Remmert of
Austin county, who is charged with
extortion in connection with the col-
lection of fees of office. The trial
is set for February 1.
Convicts who will testify for the
state are Lee Gordon and Gene Moore
of the Harlem state farm, Andrew
Gay of the Clements state farm and
Charles Mosley and Arnold Streicher
of the Raimsey state farm. A man
held in the Reagan county pail at Big
Lake will be brought here to testify.
The indictment alleges extortion in
connection with collections of $258 in
fees for mileage in transporting five
prisoners on separate trips from the
penitentiary or prison farms to Bell-
ville in 1929. The state claims Sher-
iff Remmert made only one round trip
between Bellville and Huntsville,
transpoi’ting all five prisoners at the
same time, and in the same convey-
ance. The indictment alleges Rem-
mert claimed fees for traveling 1080
miles. I
CHILD ATTACKED BY
FIVE DOGS IS KILLED
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Jan. 18.-^
Pete Pesenti, 6-year-old son of An-
tone Pesenti, Happy Valley rancher,
was killed Sunday by five dogs which
attacked him near his home, eleven
miles north of here. The dogs are
said to be owned by a neighbor. An
inquest will be held. t______; _
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