The Lampasas Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, March 16, 1934 Page: 3 of 8
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HIGDON’S
WHITEY WALKER AND PAIR
GET 99 YEARS IN HOLDUP
YELLOW JACKETS SCORE | MISSION STUDY INSTITUE
OVER SOUTHWESTERN STARS' HELD AT BAPTIST CHURGK
BRYAN, March 12.—Three mem-
bers of the notorious “Walker gang”
of Oklahoma outlaws Sunday night
faced 99 year terms in the state
penitentiary.
Indications were their sentence to-
tals will be greatly increased be-
fore Texas justice is through with
them.
A district court jury found the
men, W. J. (Whitey) Walker, Irvin
(Blackie) Thompson and Roy A. John-
son guilty of robbery with firearms
in connection with the $10,000 hold-
up of the J. S. Caldwell jewelry store
here last December 14.
The defendants, who escaped from
the Oklahoma prison two years ago,
when guards granted them leave to
go fishing, smiled when the verdict
was read before Judge W. C. Davis
Sunday. The state had asked the
death penalty for them.
I It was expected Judge Davis would
! formally pronounce sentence early on
Monday, after which the Oklahomans
will be turned over to Falls county
; officers for trial at Marlin on a bank
holdup charge. They are accused of
robbing the Robinson State bank at
Marlin of $41,000 the latter part of
last December.
The Marlin bandits kidnaped three
bank officials and, as in rhe Bryan
holdup, left them wired to trees.
Sunday’s sentence came after al-
most 24 hours of deliberation by tne
jury, which received the case Satur-
day afternpon. Mr. and Mrs. Cald-
well had positively identified the trio
as the men who held them up, threat-
ened them with torture and death,
and left them wired to a tree 12
miles from Bryan.
The outlaws, returned to Texas
from Florida more than a month ago,
also are wanted on bank robbery
charges at Palestine and Buckholts.
In what was said by all the fans to j The Mission Study Institute of the
be the best played polo game of the Lampasas Association was held at tbe-
season, the Lampasas Yellow Jackets ' First Baptist Church, Lampasas,,
won by a score of 4-3 over a polo
team made up of stars from George-
town, Austin and Goldthwaite, Sun-
day. Yellow Jackets participating in
the game were: No. 1, Patterson; No.
2, Gillen; No. 3, O’Neal; and No. 4,
Smith.
SCOUT NEWS
March 8. Mrs. J. C. Griffin, presi-
dent of the association was in charge-
of the program. The opening song,.
“All Hail the Power” was followed!
by the devotional which was led by
the pastor, Rev. A. F. Avant. Mrs..
J. B. Tidwell, state mission study
chairman, was the speaker of the day..
In her open class she explained the-
need of mission study and the quali-
fications of a successful mission study-
teacher. During the next period, she
of woman’s-
What-Not Box.
Troop 103 of Eastland comes with
a report that they are going to build , developed the history
a cabinet for their troop room which 1 work as Siven in “Texas Baptist Wo-
will house their merit badge library, rnen> 1830-1930.” Her inspirational
which is composed of all of the merit address, “A New Deal in Religion,”1
badge pamphlets. The place will be pointed out the fact that Christ is the
set apart for signaling flags, volley on]y Panacea for the modern age of
balls, boxing gloves and other equip- ireeligion, restlessness and com-
ment. The slogan for 103 is “All munism. A deeper consecration and
Scouts in uniform between now and a more devout prayer life are ne—
camp.” They have selected to use cessary»
the long, sleeve shirt but have gone Her messages expressed deep con-
in for shorts for the year-round uni- victions and caused her hearers to
form. This sounds like a little bit think- They were an inspiration for
English scouting. Bare knees the us strive harder and to do mere:
year round. - j for the Master. Her posters were1
Father and Son Banquet. sermons in themselves.
The scribe has just received some
complimentary tickets to a Boy Scout
Some of the ladies who heard her,.
but had not been taking an active-
banquet which will be held in Lometa Part> can now be enlisted for service.
March 22. The program is in charge A special message in song, “How Long-
of Scoutmaster C. W. Biggs. The Must We Wait?” was brought by
banquet is in charge of Mrs. Bohn-
ing, one of the scouts’ mothers. A
court of honor will be. held in con-
nection with the banquet. This prom-
ises to be a great time; for the scouts
in Lometa.
“Still Going.’
Miss Lois Turner and Mrs. Elliott
of Copperas Cove, with Mrs. D. R.
Fitch of Lampasas playing the ac-
companiment. In spite of a cold,,
blustery day there were forty-three-
registered. Every one was enthus-
iastic over the meeting and some ex-
We were happy to have a report pressed the opinion that the Instituf®
from Troop 28 in Zephyr of which was the best ever held in Lampasas
PLANE INSTRUMENTS
AWAITED FOR ROUTE
HS INVITED TO BAYLOR JOHN DILLINGER NEW SCHEDULE TO BE
COLLEGE MAY 5-6 ELUDES RAIDERS MAPPED FOR SERVICE
SAN ANTONIO, March 9.—Every-
thing is ready for resumption of the
Dallas-San Antonio-Brownsville air
mail line as soon as necessary blind
flying and radio instruments can be
obtained by the Army, Lieut. Col.
Horace M. Hickal, director of the
central air mail zone, said here to-
day.
Colonel Hickam, who flew here
from his headquarters at Chicago,
could give no indication as to when
the instruments will be available.*
“All the ships and all the pilots
are ready,” Colonel Hickam said.
“All we need now are the instru-
ments.”
Phillip Locks is scoutmaster, that
their troop is going strong and will
have a number of scouts ready for
second class in the near future.
Charles Elliott is scribe of this troop
and sent the report in.
Troop 2.
Scoutmaster Dan Gill of Troop 2
Association.—Repoi’ter.
JOHNSTON SERVICES MONDAY
SAN ANTONIO, March 11.—A for-
mal service with full military hon-
ors was conducted at Fort Sam Hous-
ton Monday for Col. Gordon John-
held his first Dad and Scout banquet j ston, chief of staff of the Second
and get-together last Friday night j Division, who died Thursday of in—
and at troop headquarters in the city ! juries suffered in a polo game Wed-
hall in Brownwood. Herschel Newby nesday afternoon. Chaplain Ora
who is father of two of the scouts Cohee, division chaplain, conducted th®
served as toastmaster. The meal was j services in the post chapel. All
served by the scouts. Five scouts fleers of the post attended and rpenx—
presented a theme on a competitive bers of the garrison and friends gC
basis, the subject being, “What is a Colonel Johnston were invited. Jun-
Scout?” Earl Baker, junior assist- ior officers of the Third Infantry and
ant scoutmaster of the troop took Second Field Artillery Brigades were:
first place. The story is given be- the ushers,
low. Nerlin Achor, scribe of the -
The prizes MR. AND MRS. JOHN B. DAVIS^
ENTERTAIN HAPPY HOUR
FORTY-TWO CLUBT
EVIDENCE IN BRYAN
TRIAL CONCLUDED
BELTON, March 9.— (Spl.)—'The
epartment of education at Baylor
ollege has extended an invitation
Lampasas high school and eighty-
ve others to attend on May 4-5 the
econd annual high school play day.
Representatives from high schools
hroughout the state will meet here
o join in playing for play’s sake,
here will be no inter-school com-
etition, but color teams will com-
ete. This system makes getting ac-
uainted easier and a more definite
eeling that play is the main factor.
Miss Margaret McCall, director of
he department of physical education,
as already worked out a tentative
rogram for the two days., Includ-
d in this program are activities vary-
g in interests as broad as that of
hysical education.
Events such as water pageants,
umbling exhibitions, baseball and
ennis are listed for the days’ activi-
ies. Schools are now responding to
he invitation, and registrations for
he students and their sponsors are
eing received daily to prepare for
he two days of fun Baylor has to
ffer to high school girls of Texas.
Bill Shirley Standard left Mon-
ay for Rochelle where he will visit
ith his aunt, Mrs. D. C. Blauvelt.
Ross Ramsey and sons were Tem-
le visitors Sunday. Their wife and
other was improving nicely but was
ot expected to return for some time
et.
Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Cloud spent
unday in Fort Worth where they
ttended the Fat Stock Show.
CHICAGO, March 12.—Detective
squads armed with machine guns raid-
ed eight apartment houses on the
northwest side Sunday in search of
John Dillinger.
Acting on a tip that the phantom
fugitive had rented flats in the neigh-
borhood to use as hideouts until the
intensity of the search for him died
out, the officers swept into the apart-
ments, but found no trace of Dillin-
ger.
Officials said they believed the In-
diana bad man, reported en route to
Northern Wisconsin Saturday, had
doubled back to the bailiwick of the
old Touhy gang, where he hid him-
self for several months last fall. They
added that Dillinger had obtained a
number of flats in order to be able to
move from one to the other as po-
lice grew warm on his trail,
i At the same time Chicago authori-
| ties warned Lima, O., officials to rush
j Harry Pierpont to the state peniten-
tiary. This action was prompted by
belief that the desperado would lead
his gang to the Lima jail in an at-
tempt to free Pierpont, who was con-
victed last night of slaying Sheriff
Jess Sarber while delivering Dillin-
ger from the same lockup last October.
Police and banking officials at the
same time advised extra precautions
throughout the Midwest against sor-
ties by Dillinger’s crew, who, ‘they
believe, may resort to daring feats
of banditry in oi’der to raise funds
to fight Pierpont’s case in a higher
court.
Dillinger has been sought through-
out the country since his farcial
break from the Crown Point, Ind., jail
on March 3.
WASHINGTON, March 11.—Maj.
Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois, chief of
air corps, Sunday suspended flying
on all army air mail routes for two
or three days until a new, modified
mail schedule—in acdordanc^ with
President Roosevelt’s instructions—
has been drafted and approved.
Under a revised plan tentatively
approved by Foulois, 12 of the 18
routes, now flown by the army, in-
cluding the main transcontinental
routes, will be maintained when op-
erations are resumed.
Orders were dispatched to zone
commanders in Newark, Chicago and
Salt Lake City to cancel immediate-
ly all scheduled flights until a final
decision has been reached.
Foulois and Brig. Gen. Oscar West-
over, chief of air mail operations,
worked late Sunday night and all
day Sunday with postoffice depart-
ment officials drawing up the new
air mail map and schedules.
It was expected that the new plan
would be ready and that men and
planes again would take the air with
the mail within three days.
BRYAN, March 9.—Testimony was
concluded today in the trial of three
escaped Oklahoma convicts charged
with the $10,000 robbery of Caldwell’s
jewelry store here Dec. 14.
State’s attorneys said they would
demand the death penalty for all
three defendants—W. J. (Whitey)
Walker, Irvin (Blackie) Thompson
and Roy A. Johnson.
Arguments in the case were to be-
gin tomorrow ‘morning and it was in-
dicated the jury would begin consid-
eration of testimony around noon.
The defense closed its case with
testimony intended to establish an
alibi for Walker and Johnson. No
effort was made to produce an alibi
for Thompson.
Mrs. John Seeley Caldwell, wife of
the jewelry store owner, identified
the defendants as the men who forced
herself and her husband to open the
store. She said after obtaining cash,
diamonds and watches from the store,
she and her husband were taken into
the country and left tied to trees.
Her testimony corroborated that of
her husband.
troop took second place,
were five year diaries. A number
of talks from the dads, stunts, and
songs composed the rest of the pro-
£ram* _ The Happy Hour Forty-Two clul*
Foye Jayroe was introduced as new meb £be g Davis home Friday/
assistant scoutmaster of the troop. evenjng5 March 9. Following a numv
It was suggested by one of the dads ber of interesting games, Mrs. D. R.
that they hold another such meeting Fitch was declared champion of the
some time in the near future and evenjng> The hostess served a tempt-
invite the mothers to attend. | mg plate consisting of congealed*
“What is a Scout?”
ing plate consisting
salad, wafers, cake and tea to the:
What is a Scout ? This question is following members and guests^
asked and discussed by many peo- Messrs, and Mesdames D. R. Fitch^
pie every day and very few know p H> Yarbrough, W. E. Moore, CL-
the real meaning. A scout is not a ^ T_ Harkey> Tilford Bean, Joe McLean
member of a gang but a brother to and Mrs Dan Cornett.
the troop boys who stand for the j The next meeting will be with Mr-
same ideals and morale as their fore- j and Mrg< w> E Moore on March 24L
fathers who were scouts of yester- j _
day. Yesterday—in the birth of our
nation, the scout stood for courage,
bravery and reverence. Today in the
growing of our nation, a scout stands
for even more. He is an enlargement
of the scout of the past by being
trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly,
LAMPASAS DEFEATS
RICHLAND SPRINGS IN
IN TRACK MEET HERE
In a dual track meet Saturday af-
ternoon, Lampasas defeated -Rich-
land Springs by the score of 34 to-
courteous, kind, obedient cheerful,! 27< Buster Smith of LampasaSjt was.
thrifty, brave, clean and reverent., Mgh point man with 14% points.
In the 100 yard dash, Smith, Lam-
pasas, ran first, and Childers, also-
CROWDS INDORSE
RATTLESNAKE DIET
These, the twelve scout laws are the
principal factors upon which his life
is based, fashioned and modeled. The ; Lampasas> ran second; time 11:2.
scout oath and scout laws are taught j The junior relay> 44Q yards> was
when a boy enters scouting and takes W(m by Lampasas.
his tenderfoot test but in all of his , piper> Lampasas. came in first ^
advancement through second class, the Qne mile run> whne CockraiV
first class, star, life and eagle, he
is reminded of these. It is not the
larger things of life that count so
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wolf took their
baby daughter to Temple Sunday
where she will undergo an ear opera-
tion. Mrs. Wolf remained in Temple
with the baby and Mr. Wolf returned
to Lampasas Monday morning.
Misses Gladys McGuire and John-
nie Brandon, and William Lee Lock-
hart attended the Fat Stock show in
Fort Worth, Sunday.
Miss Lucile Bell was a week end
visitor in Austin.
SAN ANTONIO, March 11.—One
pound of choice, cooked rattlesnake
was fed in small tidbits to more than
150 of the 500 persons attending the
Spring opening of the reptile garden
at Witte Memorial Museum Sunday.
Led by Harvey Dunbar, veteran
snake eater, and Jack Davenport and
John Dowdle, whose business it is to
feed snakes, the audience allowed
curiosity to overrule prejudice and
Richland Springs, ran second.
In the 880 yard dash Wilson, Rich—
. . , land Springs, came in first; Berry^
much, but it is the small things that Lampasas? came in seCond; time 2:23L
Kent was first in the 440 dash, ancf
Taylor, second, both of Richland
amount to the real glory of life. To
be a man, a person must first be a
typical boy, to be a sure-enough boy brings; time 1:56.
he must be a boy scout. A true
scout is one who takes a keen in-
In the 220 dash, Smith, Lampasas*
, , . . came in first, and Wilson, Richland
terest m life and is respected and gprings> seconcl. time 2;46.
admired by every one. The genuine | ghot Pat was won by Cowan rf
American boy is an active boy scout Lampasas with a distance of 38 feet
and the successful man of tomorrow.
9 inches.
Richland Springs won the discus*
declared delicious.
Mrs. Albert Pierce and sons, Tor-
bett and Eugene, and Steve Hagan,
visited in Gatesville with the for-
mer’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Torbett,
Sunday.
The following friends and relatives ,, Th '
ate snake, which they unanimously j from out of town were here to at- by Lampasas- time 4-03
J*? f/™? 1J°r “H 'According to Dudley Moore, eoaefc,
Marshall Wells held Saturday: Mr. a]1 ^ ^ al.e getting in conditian
and Mrs. W. R. Alexander of Gal-|(or the Colmty Meet {0 heW here
March 23.
M. W. Crider returned Monday
from Temple and brought Mrs. Cri-
der with him. Mrs. Crider under-
went an operation some time ago but
is now doing as well as could be ex-
pected.
Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Gibson left
Sunday for Austin where they will
be employed by the Kelly-Smith Tail-
or Shop of that place.
veston; Mrs. Betty McCauley and
Mrs. David Williams and son Ray, of
Houston; Mrs. R. A. King, Georgia
Brittain, and little son, Mrs. Hugh
Espy, Mrs. Bert Page, Mr. and Mrs.
Sam E. Jones and son of Eldorado;
Mr. and Mrs. Sid Espy, Mrs. V. B.
Deaton of Brady; Mrs. Andy Stock-
ton and Miss Elucide Stockton of
Temple; Mrs. Gary Wren and Miss
Ortez Wren of Fort Worth; Mrs. Sam
Littlepage of Dublin; Mrs. Robert
Littlepage of Goldthwaite; Mr. and
Mrs. Lee Knight of Lometa; and Mr.
and Mrs. Hugh Barnett of Burnet.
Mrs. William Morris and daughter,
Miss Nancy, and Mrs. Annie Ramsey
of Dallas, visited J. H. Andrew and
Mrs. W. R. Williamson the past week
end. Mrs. Williamson returned to
Dallas with them for a short visit.
Mrs. J. R. Key and Mrs. Harry
Key of Corpus Christi, visited in Aus-
tin Tuesday. Mrs. Harry Key will
remain there for a short time before
she returns to her home in Corpus;
Christi.
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