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The Lampasas Daily Leader
J. H. Abney Herbert Abney
J. H. ABNEY & SON
Owners and Publishers
Entered at the postoffice at Lampasas
March -7, 1904, as second-class mail.
THE LAMPASAS DAILY LEADER
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(Payable in Advance)
One month .......................-.........—-$ -40
Three months .........................-........$1.00
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POLICE PLANT MACHINE
GUNS, HARVEST FQUR
ALLEGED BANDITS
CARTHAGE, Panola, Co., Texas,
Feb. 2.—Jack Peddy, convicted Shel-
by County bank robber, who escaped
from the state penitentiary at Hunts-
ville on a forged parole pass last No-
vember, was captured, with two com-
panions, in a negro house in the
Deadwood community, near Carthage,
early Thursday. The trio were tak-
en by a posse of eight officers, in-
cluding Sheriff Jess Samples of Shel-
by County, Sheriff J. S. Gholston of
Panola County and State Ranger A.
E. Bennett. The prisoners were tak-
en to Center and placed in the Shel-
by County jail.
Capture of Peddy, who. was serving
a 20-year sentence for robbery of a
bank at Elysian Fields, Texas, at the
time of his escape, came as the vre-
sult of a chase of men who wounded
and kidnaped a night watchman at
Tenaha, Shelby County, Wednesday
night. Officers of the two counties
joined in tracing the fugitives, who
were located in a negro house, which
was surrounded.
Officers Fire on House.
After demanding surrender, ,the of-
ficers opened fire on the house, when
the men emerged, leaving their arms,
two pistols and a rifle, behind. An
abandoned car was found, containing
burglar’s tools, said to have been
part of the equipment of 'the three.
Peddy denied connection with the
shooting and kidnaping of Watchman
John Caswell at Tenaha, but one of
the other men was said to have ad-
mitted a part in this^crime.
Peddy with three others got out of
the Huntsville prison through the use
of forged release papers. Two of
the men subsequently were recap-
tured.
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SNAP SHOTS
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WICHITA, Kan., Feb. 3.—Four
mep, said1 by officers to be wanted at
various places for bank robbery and
other major crimes, were arrested
Friday at Eldorado and brought to
jail here for safekeeping.
They were identified by police as:
Johnnie Poe, 32, a lieutenant of
Charles (Pretty Boy) . Floyd.
Joe Milan, 28, member of the once
notorious Kimes gang which operated
in Oklahoma.
Jack Turley, 23, sought for a month
in connection with the robbery of a
Herrington bank.
Bennie Young, 19, alias Joe Welch,
who sawed his way out of the New-
ton jail a month ago and is wanted
for highway robbery.
W. O. Lyle, chitef of defectives
here, said Poe is reported to be an
uncle of Mat and George Kimes.
Lyle said he had no information
on whifch to connect any member of
the four with the holdup early this
week of a North Kansas City bank
messenger, who was x’obbed of $14,-
500.
Seven Wichita police led by Chief
D. W. Wilson, joined three Winfield
and two Eldorado officers in .plant-
ing sixteen machine guns around the
home of George Ford at Eldorado.
As Ford emerged from the house,
presumably to go to a store, Chief
Wilson informed him he knew the
four men were inside and instructed
Ford to advise them to come out
peacefully.
Ford agreed and first carried out
a number of weapons to turn over to
the officers. The four prisoners then
marched out with their hands up-
raised.
Eldorado officers said Milan and
Poe had been at the place for some
time, but that Turley and Young ar-
rived only Thursday night.
Lyle said the raid also effected re-
covery of a number of guns and small
ammunition that had been stored in
an Oklahoma City armory recently.
(Dallas News) ■
The trouble with the beer bill is
that its liquidity is such that it can
not run up Capitol Hill after running
down Pennsylvania avenue.
* How can they deport Miss O’Sulli-
van from Hollywood for ovei'staying
her alien permit when everybody
knows stars shine for all nations?
The present congress is disinclined
to vote a $5,000 pension for Mrs.
Coolidge, yet the lame duck session
has been abused for dawdling.
That Pittsburgh 5-year-old who
smokes cigars may have acquired the
taste for nicotine at his mother’s
breast.
If the rooster knew how to count
the eggs he might crow even more
lustily than he does now.
If it’s true that this country was
dollar drunk in 1929, it’s too bad we
have got dollar prohibition now.
If you do not train up a child in
the way Tie should go he may go in
somebody else’s car.
UNJUST AND UNFAIR
WOMAN CALLS CUT
IN NEGROES’ WAGE
RAMROD RAMBLINGS
RULING ON SALARY IS
GIVEN BY ALLRED
ASK COMMITTEE
BRIBERY PROBE
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hallmark and
two children of Leander spent Sun-
day in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
J. A. Hallmark.
—
Mrs. McGill of Killeen visited her
parents here, Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
Hallmark, Monday.'
JULIAN ASSAILS U. S.
COURTS IN FLEEING TRIAL
OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 4.—When
the mail fraud trial of Courtney C.
Julian and more than 50 other de-
fendants comes up in federal court
here Monday, the debonair oil pro-
moter will not appear, he informed
Walter M. Harrison, managing edi-
tor of the Oklahoma City Times, in
a letter received Friday.
Although postmarked from Chi-
cago, the letter was dated Vancouver,
B. C.
Explaining he believed he could
“get a fairer trial in Russia than in
the United States of America,” the
little Irish-Canadian wrote Harrison
he had decided to jump his $25,000
bond and remain in Canada.
The letter attacked bitterly »the
methods Julian said were used by fed-
eral investigators in delving into ac-
tivities of the C. C. Julian Oil and
Royalties company, now in receiver-
ship. The case involves stock sales
of approximately $3,500,000.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.—The sen-
ate judiciary committee, meeting to-
morrow to recommend punishment for
the senate’s magazine-writing ser-
geant-at-arms, David S. Barry, faces
a demand from several members for
a full investigation of Barry’s state-
ment that some congressmen “sell
their votes for money.”
Barry,- called before the senate bar
in a spectacular trial last week, said
he believed the story was true, but
acknowledged he could not prove it.
Some members of the committee now
propose to ask the magazine pub-
lishers for proof.
The Barry case was referred to the
judiciary committee by the senate
without instructions. But also pend-
ing is a proposal for libel proceed-
ings which would force the magazine
publishers to produce any evidence in
their possession.
This is in the form of a resolution
by Senator Walsh, democrat, Mon-
tana, that the evidence be certified
for criminal prosecution.
Walsh said this would apply not
only to Barry, but to publishers of
the magazine, The New Outlook. F.
A. Tichenor of New .York is publish-
er, while Alfred E. Smith and Fran-
cis Walton are editors.
Another member of the committee,
Senator Blaine, republican, Wisconsin,
has proposed-the committee itself in-
quire into the truth of the statement
by calling the magazine’s publishers
and others.
Barry, the 73-year-old official, is
now under suspension; the senate has
agreed to dispose of his case at 4
p. m. Tuesday, whether the judiciary
committee reaches a decision or not.
Members of^ the committee predict-
ed today it would speedily reach an
agreement tomorrow to recommend
his outright removal.
Chairman Norris, who sought to
remove him at the public trial in the
senate chamber last week, opposes
taking any further testimony in the
case, except from Barry, who plang
to appear.
Meanwhile some members of the
committee, inclined to sympathy to-
ward the official with whom they have
associated for years, are making ar-
rangements for a physical examina-
tion of him before the case comes up
in the senate again Tuesday.
“What do you know?” Tell me
something that you can’t put in the
paper.” Thus was r. r. approached
by Oscar Shultz Monday. Oscar
didn’t know how nearly he came to
touching one of the biggest problems
that faces an editor. The most in-
teresting news, unfortunately, is the
type that can’t be published by a
self-respecting paper. It is unfor-
tunate because we Americans relish
smut and unpleasant details *of the
misfortune of others. Any editor who
has been in the game very long has
been criticized for omitting an item
that • would have been embarrassing
to a neighbor—an item that, had the
situation been reversed, the critic
would have appreciated being omit-
ted. Delicate situations arise fre-
quently in any community. Some of
them must, be reported. TfTany case
the question arises as to the most
tactful manner to handle the report
that the least of unnecessary em-
barrassment may result. Some edi-
tors pride themselves in reporting
everything within the limitsof the
libel law. They owe it to their read-
ers, they say. We don’t believe in-
creasing the unhappiness of a few of
our readers can be compensated by
feeding the morbid curiosity of the
balance of them. Mr. Shultz realiz-
ed that this paper does not report
all of the “news” nor tell the whole
truth concerning all of its reports
when he jokingly asked that question.
He also realized that the country edi-
tor hears a great ^eal more abdut his
neighbors than he ever repeats, even
by word 'of mouth. Possibly the rea-
son lies in the fact that he has learn-
ed to discredit rumors. Experience
has taught him that chaff spreads
more rapidly than the grain.—Robs-
town Record.
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 4.—Consider-
ation of the first appropriation bill
by the house began Friday, the meas-
ure relating to salaries and mainten-
ance of the judiciary. The item rela-
tive to salaries for porters resulted
in a debate of more than an hour, the
committee amendment having fixed
their salaries at $360 a year, which
was changed by amendment tp $540.
O. F. Chastain succeeded in having
reduced, by amendment, the salaries
of the clerks of the supreme court and
the court of criminal appeals from
$3,000 to $2,000. The change rela-
tive to the salary of tfie clerk of the
supreme court was adopted, 106 to 15,
while that affecting the clerk of the
court of criminal appeals prevailed,
101 to 17.
Mrs. Sarah T. Hughes endeavored
to have the deputy clerk of the Dallas
court of civil appeals retained, her
amendment providing a salary of $1,-
395. E. B. Camp offered a substi-
tute amendment, to include a deputy
for all courts of civil appeals, fixing
the salary at $1,300. This lost, 107
to 22, and Mrs. Hughes’ amendment
was defeated, 114 to 8.
An amendment by R. W. Calvert,
providing tha^ the stenographer to
the court of civil appeals also shall
carry the title of deputy clerk was
adopted, 104 to 16.
Committee Called Unjust.
After submitting her amendment
to increase the salary of the negro
porters' from $360 to $600, Mrs.
Hughes accused the appropriations
committee of cutting the ‘ compensa-
tion 50 per cent “because they’re
negroes and can’t holler. You talk
about fairness and right! You don’t
know what right is! This cut is un-
fair and unjust,” she said.
Harold Kayton offered a substitute
amendment for Mrs. Hughes’ amend-
ment,. fixing the porters’ salaries at
$540, which was accepted by her.
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 5.—An act of
1929 fixing the compensation of dis-
trict attorneys in districts of two or
more counties at $10 a day for 350
days was unconstitutional, but an act
of 1927, which the 1929 act amended,
providing for compensation of $20 a
day for not more than 175 days was
constitutional, Attorney General
James V. Allred held Saturday in an
opinion to Comptroller George H.
Sheppard.
“The effect of the opinion, there-
fore,” the Attorney General said, “is
that while district attorneys may not
be paid a salary of $10 a day for 350
days under the act of 1929, they may
be paid twice the amount for half as
many days, provided they earn this
compensation by necessary attendance
on the court and the actual discharge
of their duties.”
The' opinion said that the 1929 act
“was, in effect, nothing more than a
fiat salary, and the constitution had
only authorized the payment of addi-
tional compensation to district attor-
neys by way of fees, commissions or
perquisites.” An allowance of $500
annually for district attorneys is pro-
vided for by the constitution. The
1927 act, however, conditioned the
payment of the $20 a day for not
more than 175 days “on the number
of days they attended the sessions of
the district court in the necessary dis-
charge bf their duties, and a like sum
for each day spent in representing
the state at examining trials, habeas
corpus proceedings, etc.”
COUNTESS TOLSTOY CHARGES
‘PARLOR BOLSHEVIKS’ DON’T
UNDERSTAND TRUTH
SEAGRAVES BANK ROBBERS
GIVEN PRISON SENTENCES
BROWNFIELD, Texas, Feb. 5.—
Four men convicted of robbery of
the Seagraves First State Bank last
May, Saturday night faced a total of
sixty-nine years in the penitentiary,
a jury in 106th district court having
found Oscar M. Herring, an attor-
ney, guilty during the day.
Herring’s punishment was set at
fourteen years in the penitentiary.
Jodie Edwards, the convicted gunman
in the robbery, received the longest
term, twenty-five years; James W.
Baker, a former Seagraves school
teacher, drew twenty years; Elmer
Slaughter, -Terry county farmer, ten
years.
Herring pleaded guilty Friday af-
ternoon before Judge Gordon B. Mc-
Guire. District Attorney G. H. Nel-
son of Tahoka prosecuted the cases,
all tried during last week.
QUESTION, “WHAT IS A HOME-
STEAD?” PROVES STUMPER
ELECTRIFIED GARBAGE
CANS STOP COLLECTION
AT KANSAS CITY HOMES
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 5.—Three
housewives who attached electric
wires to garbage cans to keep away
dogs have succeeded in keeping away
the garbage collectors, too.
H. F. McElroy, city manager, said
he had received reports of city work-
men experiencing electrical shocks at
the three homes and had ordered col-
lections there to be discontinued in-
definitely. f
NEWTON SQUARE, Pa., Feb. 5.—
Parlor Bolsheviks, in the opinion of
Countess Alexandra Tolstoy, simply
“don’t understand” when they refer
to Soviet Russia as a paradise for
workers.
On a rundown Pennsylvania farm
which she occupies rent-free, the
countess lives in striking contrast to
the Russian estate on which her fath
er, Count Leo Tolstoy, did much of
his writing.
Sandwiched between hours on the
lecture platform and others spent in
writing, she finds time for many sim-
ple farm tasks—milking, churning,
feeding chickens and even chopping-
wood.
“This,” she said “is so different
from Russia today. In Russia we
could not raise food to eat or sell.
The government would take;the food,
tell us how much we might have and
then not give us that much. And the
worst 'of it all is that everyone be-
lieves the working class in Russia is
going up and getting better.
“I won’t cry if your capitalist has
it worse. He has had this day. But
your workers, if they believe that, I
will cry. It is your parlor Bolshe-
viks, they do not understand. Russia
has drifted away from Socialism, even
from Bolshevism. Russian workers
are( in worse slavery now than ever
before.”
AUSTIN, Feb. 2.—If you saw a
homestead, would you recognize it?
Well, George Sheppard, the state
comptroller, wouldn’t. Neither does
Attorney General James V. Allred
know what a homestead is. In fact,
since the adopting of that $3,000
homestead exemption there is great
confusion among tax officials all
over Texas.
Mr. Allred has been appealed to
in an effort to clear things up. Mr.
Allred declined, pointing out there
are too many conflicting decisions.
He advised county attorneys to ad-
vise their officials. Senator W. R.
Cousins pointed out to the senate fi-
nance committee Thursday afternoon
that most county attorneys did not
care to get mixed up in this because
the whole thing involves only state
ad valorem taxes, and that if they
did get in there probably would be
254 different opinions.
Chairman T. J. Holbrook appoint-
ed a subcommittee headed by Sena-
tor Clint Small to draw up a resolu-
tion or statute clearly defining for all
taxation authorities just what the
legislature means by a homestead.
BABY WHALE, LASSOED
BY SHIP CARPENTER, IS
NOW WHITE ELEPHANT
SAN PEDRO, Calif., Feb. 5.—Carl
Leonard, ship’s carpenter, vouches for
this story and he has the whale to
support it.
While riding through the channel
in a rowboat Sunday Leonard said he
saw a baby whale, about twelve feet
long and weighing about 1,000 pounds,
blow as it fed upon a school of fish
which it apparently had followed into
the channel from the sea.
Fashioning a lasso out of a rope,
Leonard said he let go in. true cow-
boy style and. succeeded in snaring
the mammal by the tail.
Anyway, Leonard has the whale
tied up to a dock here and is trying
to figure out what to do with it.
S. E. J. COX TO GO
TO PRISON THIS WEEK
OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 4.—With
receipt Saturday of the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals (Denver),
mandate dismissing the appeal of S.
E. J. Cox, convicted of mail fraud in
connection with promotion of the
Universal Oil and Gas company, fed-
eral court attaches said the promot-
er would be taken to the federal pen-
itentiary at Leavenworth next week
to begin a 10-year sentence.
Cox has been in the county jail
here for nearly two months since his
bond was raised from $10,000 to $25,-
000 after he was returned from 'Mex-
ico, where he was accused by the
United States district attorney of
violating terms of the original bond.
His wife, also convicted in the mail
fraud case and sentenced to 18 months
in prison, is at liberty on bond. Her
attorneys recently asked that her
sentence be suspended but no action
has been announced.
Cox, who served part of a term
for mail fraud at the Leavenworth
prison some years ago with Dr. Fred-
erick A. Cook, will be taken to the
penitentiary with a number of pris-
oners who pleaded guilty.
ALL CABINET WILL
BE NAMED AT ONCE
ATTORNEY IN CELL
AS JAILER FISHES
DALLAS, Feb. 2.—Oren Parmeter,
Dallas attorney, had his “private con-
ference” with a client in jail but at
a price.
Informed by the jailer at a small
town nearby that there was no “con-
ference room,” Parmeter took the
only alternative and entered the tier
of cells. For two hours lawyer and
prisoner talked. Then Parmeter de-
cided to leave. Not until supper time
was there a response to his banging
on the door leading to freedom.
“Wal, I’ll jes’ declare,” said the
jailer. “I forgot about you bein’ here.
I got word the fish was biting good,
so I jes’ went down to the lake and
catched me a fine long sti’ing of
perch. Sorry, ole partner.”
GRANT PARDON FOR SMEEMAN
JEFFERSON CITY, M'o., Feb. 2.—
Glenn Smeeman, who became a suc-
cessful Cleveland business man while
a fugitive from justice from two
states, today was granted a pardon
by Governor Guy B. Park, releasing
him from serving any part of a two-
year sentence for automobile theft
in St. Louis in 1916.
After a hearing lasting more than
half an hour, Governor Park told
Smeeman: “I’m going to let you go
home. It would serve no useful pur-
pose to keep you here.”
Only a few days ago Smeeman was
granted a commutation of Sentence
by Governor Edwin C. Johnson of
Colorado, his 3%-year sentence being
reduced to the six months he had
served previous to his escape from
a road gang in 1918.
WARM SPRINGS, Ga., Feb. 2.—
President-elect Roosevelt said today
he would announce his cabinet selec-
tions all at once and probably about
i day or two before inauguration on
March 4.
He also stated that a great num-
ber of vacancies in federal bureaus
and commissions would be filled
promptly after March 4 in order to
assure the functioning of their nor-
mal operations.
With Robert Dunham of Chicago
waiting to see him and Judge Rob-
ert W. Bingham, Louisville publish-
er, en route here, speculation again
brought in their names as ambassa-
dors to Berlin and Paris, respective-
ly. However, Roosevelt said he had
not yet considered the diplomatic ap-
pointments.
Daily Leader 3 Months for $1.00
We’re Opposed
to
Mail Order Concerns
Because—
They have never contributed
a cent to furthering the interests
of our town—
Every cent received by theta
from this community is a direct
loss to our merchants—
NEWSPAPERS AND ILLITERACY
FORMER SCHOOL HEAD
CONVICTED OF SLAYING
PLAINVIEW, Texas, Feb. 5.—L. P.
Shaw, formerly Abernathy school
superintendent, Sunday was convicted
by a jury in district court here of
murder without malice for the shoot-
ing of Joe Ramsey.
His punishment was fixed at three
years’ imprisonment. District Judge
Charles Clements permitted the jury
to return the verdict Sunday and dis-
charged the jurors, but deferred judg-
ment and committed Shaw to the cus-
tody of the sheriff. Defense attor-
neys indicated they would file a mo-
tion for a new trial.
Ramsey was shot to death on an
Abernathy street last September 29.
Shaw claimed self-defense.
For the most widely circulated
newspaper in the world we must look
not here in the United States or in
Great Britain, where two papers, the
Daily Mail and the Daily Express,
sell close to 2,000,000 copies each, or
to France, where some of the most
popular journals have a vast reading
public. The leadership is held by
Japan, where the Osaka Mainichi and
the Tokyo Nichi Nichi are credited
with a joint circulation of 4,000,000.
The Osaka paper is said to sell 2,-
500,000 copies.
In 1927 the percentage of illiter-
acy in Japan was seven-tenths of 1
per cent. Japan, is almost on a level
with Great Britain and with Ger-
many, where illiteracy is virtually
nonexistent. Alas! The United States
has more than 4,000,000 illiterates.
This is about 3 per cent, or five times
as high as the Japanese rate.—The
New York Times.
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