The Lampasas Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, January 9, 1931 Page: 3 of 8
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B STAND AGAINST WAR IS
TAKEN BY MUSSOLINI
NEW YORK, Jan. 1.—Italy will not
'’ take the offensive in starting another
war, Premier Mussolini declared
Thursday in a transatlantic broadcast
from Rome. Speaking in English for
P fifteen minutes, he sent his greet-
ings to the United States and prom-
ised America the lasting friendship of
Italy.
Several million Italians have be-
come citizens of the United States,
he said, and it is the natural duty
and the pleasure of our country to
mother those sons of ours who have
► ^ gone to America.
The broadcast was carried to the
Pacific Coast over a Nationwide hook-
up. M. V. Aylesworth, president of
the National Broadcasting Company,
introduced the Italian Premier, whose
name and accomplishments, he said,
are known-throughout the world.
Speaks in English.
The Italian Premier spoke in Eng-
lish, Mr. Aylesworth pointed out that
eight years ago when he became chief
of the Italian government Mussolini '
knew nothing of the language.
Ttaly never will take the offen-!
sive in starting another war,” the j
forceful Italian leader said, “Italy!
needs peace. A new war would be even
more dreadful than the last.
“Peace and quiet prevail in our
country now and no other regime in
Italy has enjoyed such* sound con-
ditions.
Million Unemployed.
“There are a million unemployed
in Italy now, but we are starting pub-
lic works by which we hope to alle-
viate the national economic depres-
sion.”
The Premier expressed his cordial
regard for the President of the Uni-
ted States. His speech lasted fifteen
minutes and listeners-in here describ-
ed the reception as the best of any
recent Trans-Atlantic broadcasts.
MORE THAN 300 ALABAMA STATE
PRISONERS, PAROLED FOR
CHRISTMAS, RETURNING TO
PRISON AND CAMPS
BODY OF OLD SOLDIER
RESTS ON ARMY COT:
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COURAGE AND CONFIDENCE
It is not typically American to whine
and become despondent in the face
of difficulties or temporary reverses.
This country, from the earliest colo-
nial days, has “come up through great
tribulation.” The pioneers had no easy
life.
The generation preceding this one
did not have its lines laid along chan-
nels so smooth as those accessible to
the present generation. Think of the
turmoil and strife just' before the
Civil War. Contemplate the terrible
devastation appertaining to and result-
ing from that internacine strife. Pon-
der upon the problems of reconstruc-
tion and the economic difficulties
which arose after the Civil War. Con-
sider the distress and hardship and
misfortune attendant upon the panics
of 1873, 1893 and 1907. Then com-
pare the hurtful results of the de-
gression which began late in 1929 and
^nas persisted through the year. [
The American people are coming
through this period of arrested pros-
perity in good shape, as compared1
with depression periods and panics of
the past. The American people- of the
past went through periods of eco-
nomic distress with courage, fortitude
and confidence in the future. Those
who live today may look back and
see that the courage and confidence
of the past was justified. For, after
y each period of a few lean years, there
•were many prosperously fat years.
■ History repeats itself. There will
I be many prosperous years following
the depression which is now moving
I toward its end.—Pasadena Star-News.
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Jan. 5.—
Keeping faith -with Governor Bibb
Graves, more than 300 State prison-
ers were returning today over roads
that led to home and freedom two
weeks ago.
Already a few have entered the
prisons at Kilby, Speigner, Atmore
and the road camps, although their
Christmas paroles do not end official-
ly until 6 p. m. tomorrow.
“Things ain’t like .they used to be,”
said one negro lifer who has been in
prison more than a decade. He came
back to Kilby after only a few days
of freedom.
“Folks all changed; towns all chang-
ed; friends all gone,” he said as he
appeared for admission. Prison offi-
cials had made up a purse for him
to visit home.
In previous years more than 99 per
cent of the convicts paroled have re-
turned on time and Hamp Draper,
head of the State convict department,
said he expected that ratio to be
maintained this year.
The group released included many
convicts serving life terms for mur-
der, some of them with more than 20
years in prison behind them.
Those returning today checked in
their “outside clothes,” donned the
prison duck uniforms and went back
to prison routine.
PARIS, Jan. 3.—Death came today
to Marshal Joffre, last of the chief
French military leaders of the great
war, after a fortnight’s illness in
Ever Stop To Think? *
(By Edson R. Waite, Shawnee, Okla.)
The editor of the Daily Times of
Cordova, Alaska, tells in a recent edi-
which it was necessary to amputate | torial of a menace to legitimate busi-
his left leg. The marshal would have
been 79 years old tomorrow.
The end was peaceful. Three mem-
bers of his family, Mme. Joffre, his
son-in-law, M. Lafile, and his brother,
Ferninand; General Issaly, his chief
of staff; Colonel Desmazes of his staff;
ness. In part he says:
“During the past few months there
has been a large influx of so-called
itinerant merchants, otherwise known
as peddlers, into Alaska, much to the
financial loss of local business insti-
tutions, which are conducted here the
his doctors and a few others were j year round,
present. He died without coming out j “These local business institutions
from the coma which closed over him : are owned by reputable concerns who
at noon Thursday, his life gradually pay municipal taxes and otherwise
ebbing since.
The announcement Avas made at
8:30 a. m. A member of his military
household, Capt. Saint Cernin, pale
with emotion, emerged from the hos-
pital and in a husky voice telling
newspapermen:
“The marshal is dead, gentlemen.”
contribute to the maintenance and up-
building of the community and are
certainly entitled to the trade of its
residents.
“For years the peddler has been a
menace to legitimate business and
the curbing of his activities is fre-
quently a matter of serious consider-
He displayed a bulletin signed by j ation by almost every town in Alaska,
the physicians, Professor Leriche and j “That something should be done is
Drs. Boulin and Fontaine, which set admitted by all, and it may be pos-
the end at 8:23 a. m.
Long State of Coma.
Shox-tly afterward Professor Le-
sible that it is nearing a solution.
At the last meeting of the city coun-
cil a representative of numerous local
riche, Strassbourg specialist, Avho business men appeared and submitted
came to Paris to treat the ailment j a proposed ordinance covering the
which finally cut the marshal’s life ; situation, with a request that it be
short, appeared and, informing the adopted.”
NELLIE WHO WAS SEEN HOME
‘HONEST’ CONVICT
AWARDED PARDON
OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 5.—Jack-
son Triplett, who escaped from the
Oklahoma penitentiary and became a
•rejspected Stockton, Calif., business
man, only to be recaptured 12 years
later and sent back to prison, was
pardoned today.
Governor W. J. Holloway announ-
ced the pardon.
Triplett served four years on con-
viction in 1912 for manslaughter
charges for the killing of Colonel
Star, deputy sheriff at Collinsville.
Then he escaped.
He went at once to California and
it was not until 1928 that officers
learned he was in Stockton. They
found he had remarried and was well
established in the restaurant business.
Triplett admitted his identity and
returned to prison at McAlester, Aug.
1, 1928, over the protest of the mayor,
city officials and leadinig citizens of
Stockton, who urged clemency be
shown.
Triplett had been absent from the
prison on leave for the last year.
(C. G. in New Bedford Standard)
I don’t suppose that any girl in
history has been seen home by so
many young men as Nelly. I don’t
know Avhen the song about her was
written, but I can remember the time
when in my innocence I thought that
Home was the young lady’s last name,
and Nelly Home one of the great hero-
ines of balladry.
Somehow I associate the song with
the one about Clementine, and “The
Spanish Cavalier” and “There Is a
Tavern in the Town,” several years
before Bonnie Thornton discovered
that her sweetheart was the man in
the moon. And from that time until
the other day I never even suspected
that Nellie was a real personage. I
supposed she Avas just a name that
fitted the meter—that she might as
easily have been Molly or Mary or
Hattie.
Now it appears she was born Ellen
O’Neill in the city of Lowell, and that
she became the wife of the composer
of the famous song, Patrick Sarsfield
Gilmore. She was his Nellie, but he
allowed millions of young men, exer-
cising their vocal accomplishments
around the pianos in thousands of
homes, to take her home from the
quilting party. The Salem News, which
is running a series of articles on Gil-
more and his songs, has been trying
to find a picture of Nellie, but has
not yet succeeded in turning, one up.
Perhaps, if no true likeness is avail-
able, the oldsters who as boys used
to sing her praises, might be induced
to reveal how she appeared to them,
and from these visualizations a com-
posite picture could be made.
DISMISS POSTMASTERS
AFTER GRAFT CHARGE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—The Post-
office Department Monday announced
immediate dismissal of four Indiana
postmasters and suspension of one
rural carrier on charges which the
department said involved money paid
to an Indiana member of the House
in exchange for the appointments. The
Representative was not named.
All evidence on the alleged pur-
chase of postmasterships was turned
over to the Department of Justice,
Avith possibility that prosecution of
the Indiana Representative might fol-
low.
The postmasters dismissed were
Otto A. Weilbrenner, Mount Vernon,
Ind.; William E. Davisson, Peters-
burg, Ind.; McKinley Ayres, Christ-
ney, Ind.; and Mrs. Helen Roetzel,
Boonville, Ind.
Ros Wibbeler, rural carrier at Dale,
Ind., was suspended.
Acting postmasters were appointed
in their places, effective immediately.
DeWitt Cox has returned *to Texas
A. & M. College, after spending the
Christmas and New Year holidays here
in the home of his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. E. Cox.
Olan Gamel returned Sunday night
to Waco to resume his studies in
Baylor University.
INFANT DIES AT IZORO
Doia Dee Higgins, infant daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Higgins of
Izoro died Tuesday morning, January
6, at 3 o’clock. The little baby who
was six days old had not been well
since birth.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at 3:30 o’clock and the little
body was laid to rest in the Hills-
dale Cemetery, Rev. Jasper Chambers,
Baptist minister, conducting the ser-
vice.
Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Higgins
extend sympathy to them in the loss
of their only child.
Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Townsen and
little son, Billy Joe, of Temple spent
Sunday here in the home of his par-
ents, Dr. and Mrs. Joe B. Townsen.
neAvspaper men of the circumstances
of death, added that the marshal had
been in a state of coma practically
all this week except for rare inter-
vals of five or ten minutes lucidity.
Despite the early hour a crowd al-
ready had assembled outside the Hos-
pital Saint Jean De Dieu, where the
marshal has been confined for two
weeks. When information of the death
was passed to the nexvspaper men, the
word “mort”—death—passed through
the crowd. Men bared their heads and
women made the sign of the cross.
The news spread rapidly through
Paris, where death had been expec-
ted for more than a Aveek. Bells tolled
and official circles made preparations
for honors in death due the man who
in 1914 turned the invaders back from
the very gates of Paris in the epic
battle of the Marne.
His death removes from the world
stage all save three of the great
military leaders of the world war,
Field Marshal Von Hindenburg and
Gen. Eris Ludendorff of Germany and
Gen. John J. Pershing of the United
Let us hope that they may be able
to find a legal way of ridding the
country of this class of unfair com- j
petition.
HOW INDIANS GOT HERE
(Houston Post-Dispatch)
That the American Indian is a rela-
tive of the Mongolian or Malayan
races in Asia has long been believed,
but the puzzling point has been how
the people we know as Indians got
to the American continent. Until a
comparatively recent time, there were
no boats capable of negotiating the
seas between the Asiatic and Ameri-
can continents.
Scientists have come to the con-
clusion that the answer to the ques-
tion of how the Indians got to Amer-
ica is found in the probability that
in prehistoric times that these two
continents were connected by a bridge
of land. The Carnegie Institution of
Washington has just recently announ-
ced that Dr. Ralph W. Chaney, pale-
States. Of the French leaders of note j obotanist of the institution, in co-
only Marshal Petain, defender of Ver- j operation with the Smithsonian Insti-
dun, still lives, but, unlike Foch or j tution, and the coast guard cutter
Joffre, he neArer was in supreme com- j Northland, has found fossil remains
mand of the French armies. One by I from the period known to geologists
one, Haig, Cadoima, Foch and others
have passed from the scene.
Premier Steeg was the first to ar-
rive at the hospital after announce-
ment of the marshals’ death. He was
followed by Colonel Fabry, former
Joffre aide, and Jean Chiappe, prefect
of police. Ambassador Edge, accom-
panied by Norman D. Armour, first
secretary of the embassy, called short-
ly before the arrival of President Dou-
mergue, General Gouraud and Mar-
shal Petain.
MANHUNT FOR KILLER FUTILE
NEWKIRK, Okla., Jan. 5.—The
manhunt for Earl Quinn went on Sun-
day wi’t(h (little apparent result, a
week after Jessie and Zexia Griffith,
BlackAveil school teachers, were found
shot to death on a highAvay near Ton-
kaAva. Officers returned from Iola,
Kansas, after running into a blank
wall in their search for the former
convict accused of the slayings.
County Attorney Potter was be-
lieved to have carried out his announ-
ced intention of taking the man’s
wife, Mrs. Jean Quinn, to Wichita in
an effort to trace the suspect’s re-
ported movements there.
Deputy Prosecutor Ralph G. Har-
der said he had interviewed an Iola
barber named Coe after a motor car
stolen in Arkansas City, Kan., near
here, Sunday was recovered in Iola
the next day. Coe, Harder said, told
him he cut the hair of a man re-
sembling a picture of Quinn last
Monday. The trail apparently ended
there, Harder said.
Potter could not be reached Sunday
afternoon, and was said to have left
word he was leaving town. Tis asso-
ciates believed he had gone to Wichita.
Mrs. Quinn had told officers of meet-
ing her husband later Sunday at a
Wichita hotel. They quarreled and
parted, she said.
Officers here believe the Griffith
sisters were halted early Sunday on
the highway by Quinn. They believe
Quinn attacked Jessie, the younger
sister, and then killed both.
Miss Dorothy Cox has returned to
Brantley Draughon Business College,
Fort Worth, after spending the holi-
days here in the home of her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Cox.
Miss Helen Willerson returned'Sun-
day to Waco to resume her studies
in Baylor University after spending
the holidays here in the home of her
parents, Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Willer^n.
as the tertiary, which go far toward
confirming the belief that the two
continents were at one time joined by
a neck of land.
Commenting on the discovery, the
Pathfinder, a magazine published in
Washington, D. C., says: “This ma-
terial proof that the land bridge once
existed was discovered on barren St.
LaAvrence island, south of Bering
Straits. It consists of slabs of heavy
gray shale which are covered with
impressions of leafy twigs of sequoia
or redAvood. Dr. Chaney had previous-
ly found redwood fossils in both Alas-
ka and China. The finding of such
fossils at the midway point is pretty
good indication, scientists say, that
some 50,000,000 years ago the red-
wood 'forest was Continuous from
North America to Asia and that the
present barren St. Lawrence island
was no doubt the high spot in the
highway between the two continents.”
RESOLUTION
“I resolve that I shall during the
coming year think more of the wel-
fare of my neighbor and the progress
of my community by seeing to it that
the distribution of the money Avhich I
earn shall be among my own people—
people who are living in my communi-
ty, who are helping me in my busi-
ness, who are helping to educate my
children, who are helping to protect
my property, who are associated with
me fraternally and in civic affairs, and
lastly, though by no means least, who
join with me at this time in thanking
the Supreme Being Avhom we all wor-
ship for the blessings Avhich He con-
tinues to shower upon us and of which
by our future acts we pray to be con-
sidered worthy.”—Swiped.
WOOD BEING MISSED
BY LOCAL PEOPLE
Several local citizens stated that
their wood piles are being visited dur-
ing the night time by some unknoAvn
parties. There is some talk of load-
ing the wood with gun powder in
order to put a stop to the “taking
ways” of some people. This would
probably stop it all right but might
result in serious injury to some home
and the family using such loaded wood.
The best way we think would be for
a party to' let their wants be knoAvn
and they could get help from local
citizens to buy wood necessary to
protect their families from the winter
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to Fort Worth to resume her schol
Avork after spending the holidays he|
in the home of her father, W.
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